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 BEIEF MEMOIES 
 
 ilEMBERS OF THE CLASS 
 
 GRADUATED AT YALE. COLLEGE IN SEPTEMBER, 1802. 
 
 BY DAYID D. FIELD, D.D, 
 
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 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION 
 1863. 
 
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The memoirs of a whole class may be of small concern to the public, 
 but they are of very great interest to its members. It is sixty years ago 
 since we parted from this spot, a company of fifty-six young men. As we 
 look back through that long period, we see them now as they came up that 
 day to receive their degrees from our venerable President, Dr. Dwight. Of 
 all these but sev^n remain. Some fell in the prime of manhood ; others 
 lived to a green old age. We do not claim that all were remarkable for 
 talent, but as a body they were highly respectable, and their pure lives 
 ought not to be forgotten. Some perhaps least known have been most 
 useful. A third of all our number became ministers of the Gospel, of 
 whom the greater part settled down in quiet country parishes, where their 
 lives glided away in tranquillity and peace. Others of the Class became 
 more conspicuous. Our valedictorian, Isaac C. Bates, was afterward an 
 United States Senator from Massachusetts. So was Tomlinson from 
 Connecticut, of which State both he and Pond became Governors. 
 Jeremiah Evarts was very eminent among the founders of the great 
 Religious Societies. Junius Smith was the author of Transatlantic 
 Steam Navigation. Perit was for nearly half a century one of the first 
 merchants in New- York, and for many years President of its Chamber 
 of Commerce. Others became Judges of Courts, Doctors of Divinity, 
 and Professors and Presidents of Colleges. Not one has left a dishon- 
 ored name. Hence it has been to me an unalloyed pleasure to look 
 back over their lives and recall their peaceful and happy careers. Twenty 
 years ago, in 1842, I was requested, by a vote of the surviving members, 
 to act as "historian" of the Class ; and in pursuance of this object I have 
 gathered up such reminiscences as I could. It has been a pleasant task. 
 As their names were passed in review I recalled their once familiar forms ; 
 I heard their voices once more. Would that I had materials to pay a bet- 
 ter tribute to their memory ! 
 
 DAVID D. FIELD. 
 
 New-Haven, Commencement 1862. 
 
INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 There were connected with this Class in all, seventy-six mem- 
 bers. But three died during the College course, and seventeen 
 took dismissions. Only fifty-six were graduated. Their names, 
 as they stand on the Catalogue of 1801-2, are as follows : 
 
 TRUJIAN BALDWIN, GranTille, Mass. 
 ISAAC C. BATES, Granville, Mass. 
 HENRY BIGELOW, Colchester. 
 WILLIAM F. BRAINARD, New-London. 
 RALPH I. BUSH, Greenwich. 
 LEVI H. CLARKE, Sunderland, Mass. 
 LEVI COLLINS, Somers. 
 JE3UP N. COUCH, Reading. 
 JOHN A. DA\T:nP0RT, Stamford. 
 
 JOHN DWIGHT, New-Haven. 
 ACHILLlfs ELLIOTT, Killingworfh. 
 
 JERE:MIAH EVARTS, Georgia, Vt. 
 
 DAVID D. FIELD, Guilford. 
 
 THOMAS FORD, Georgetown, S. C. 
 
 ELEAZER FOSTER, Union. 
 
 HEZEKIAH FROST, Canterbury. 
 
 JOHN HALL, Ellington. 
 
 ELISHA HAMMOND, Hampton. 
 
 DANIEL HASKELL, Canaan. 
 
 SIMEON HECOCK, Southbury. 
 
 SILAS HIGLEY, Granby. 
 
 JOHN HOUGH, Canterbury. 
 
 SAMUEL HUBBARD, Colchester. 
 
 NATHAN JOHNSON, Southborough, Mass. 
 
 SHERMAN JOHNSON, Southborough, Mass. 
 
 JOHN KEEP, Longmeadow, Mass. 
 
 SHELDON C. LEAVITT, Bethlem. 
 
 ROSWELL W. LEWIS, Greenwich. 
 
 JOHN N. LLOYD, Huntington, L. I. 
 JONATHAN H. LYMAN, Hatfield, Mass. 
 WILLIAM MAXWELL, Norfolk, Va. 
 MARK MEAD, Greenwich, 
 SAMUEL MERWIN, Milford. 
 HOWARD MITCHELSON, Simsbury. 
 EBENEZER MOSELEY, Hampton. 
 CYRUS PEARCE, Southbury. 
 PELATIAH PERIT, Norwich. 
 CHARLES H. POND, Milford. 
 CHARLES PRENTICE, Bethlem. 
 AARON B. REEVE, Litchfield. 
 ERASTUS SCRANTON, East-Guilford. 
 ULYSSES SELDEN, Lyme. 
 CHARLES SHELTON, Huntington. 
 NATHAN SHELTON, Huntington. 
 DAVID A. SHERMAN, New-Haven. 
 JUNIUS SMITH, Plymouth. 
 WILLIAM SMITH, Lyme. 
 EPHRAIM STARR, Goshen. 
 WILLIAM L. STRONG, SaUsbury. 
 ROSWELL R. SWAN, Stonington. 
 CHRISTOPHER TAPPAN, Kingston, N. Y. 
 GIDEON TOMLINSON, Stratford. 
 WILLIAM TRESCOTT, Charleston, S. C. 
 IRA WEBSTER, Hartford. 
 RICHARD WILLIAMS, Lebanon. 
 SELAH S. WOODHULL, New-York. 
 
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 About forty were examined and admitted on the day preced- 
 ing the jDublic Commencement in 1V98. Others were examined 
 dm-ing the vacation, or at the beginning of the first term Fresh- 
 man year. Xathan Johnson was examined Oct. 25, 1798 ; Sher- 
 man Johnson at the beginning of the second term that year. I 
 think Maxwell did not join College mitil about that time. The 
 whole number of those who became members of the Class during 
 JFreshman year was sixty-three. At the beginning of Sophomore 
 year nine new members joined the Class, namely, Levi H. Clal'ke, 
 Hezekiah Frost, EHsha Hammond, Daniel Haskell, John Hough, 
 David Austin Sherman, Junius Smith, Christopher 'Tappan, and 
 William Trescott. Achilles Elliott, who from sickness left the pre- 
 ceding Class, united with ours in the summer term of this year. 
 Three entered Junior year, namely, Jesup Couch, Larkin Newton, 
 and Cyrus Pearce. 
 
 The three who died while in College were Walter Wheeler, 
 who died Dec. 1, 1799; Daniel Strong, who died August 13, 1801, 
 and Charles Judson, who died in the spring or summer of 1802. 
 The seventeen who took dismissions were, Elias Beers, John P. 
 Judson, Thomas Loomis, Russell Stow, and Ephron Webster, 
 Freshman year j Robert H. D. M. Burrall, William B. Clarke, 
 Daniel R. Elliot, Andrew L. Halstead, Wyllys Hubbard, Eleazer 
 A. Hutchinson, and Hezekiah Marks, Sophomore year ; Samuel 
 M. Fitch, Ezekiel W. Morse, Larkin Newton, John Trumbull, 
 Junior year y and Samuel Griswold, Senior year. 
 
 Place in the History of the College. — The Class was 
 graduated just one hundred years from the time of the first Com- 
 mencement, a fact of which Bates, the valedictory orator, took 
 due notice. Up to the year 1802, the College had sent out 2622 
 graduates. Our Class made the number 2678. Within the sixty 
 years since, there have been graduated 4438, making the whole 
 number up to the present year, (1862,) 7116. Of all that num- 
 ber, not more than 24 regular graduates date back their connec- 
 
tion with Yale College farther than we. Of all who graduated 
 within the first ninety years, but two survive, Joshua Dewey, of 
 the class of 1787*, and Daniel Waldo, of 1788. Of the class of 
 1792 there is but one left, William Botsford; and of 1793 one, 
 David Sherman Boardman. Of the class of 1794 there are two ; 
 of 1795 two, one of whom is President Day, and the other John 
 Adams, LL.D., long Principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, 
 Mass. ;f of 1796 five, including Professor Silliman; of 1797 three, 
 including Lyman Beecher;J of 1798 and '99 one each; and of 
 1800 and 1801 each three. In all 24. 
 
 Our Insteuctoes. — ^This was the first Class in Yale College 
 which had two tutors assigned to its instruction on account of its 
 numbers. The Class was accordingly divided into two divisions. 
 The first division was assigned to Jeremiah Day, afterward 
 Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the College, 
 and then President for about thirty years, "fhe second division 
 was placed under the instruction of Henry Davis, afterward 
 Professor of Greek in Union College, then President of Middle- 
 buify, and afterward qf Hamilton College. From these two ex- 
 cellent men, and from Josiah Meigs, Professor of Mathematics 
 and Natural Philosophy until he Was elected President of a Col- 
 lege in Georgia, we received all our instruction in the recitation- 
 rooms until Senior year, when the whole Class received lessons 
 from President D wight. He also was Professor of Theology 
 while we were in College, and preached on the Sabbath. 
 
 If our Class excelled others in some respects, (and President 
 Dwight was wont to speak of it as the best Class he had till then 
 instructed, with one exception, that of 1797,) we are bound to 
 ascribe it to the distinguished teachers under whom we were 
 thus placed, to their ripe scholarship, great fidelity and excellent 
 examples. 
 
 * Since died. \ Died April 24, 1863. X ^^^^ January 10, 1863. 
 
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 The following members of our Class fell under the instruction of 
 Mr. Day until Senior year, namely, Baldwin, Brain ard, Bush, 
 Clarke, Davenport, Elliott, Field, Ford, Hecock, Hough, Sherman 
 Johnson, Leavitt, Maxwell, Merwin, Moseley, Pearce, Pond, 
 Reeve, Selden, Nathan Shelton, Sherman, Swan, Tappan, Williams, 
 and WoodhuU — twenty-four in number. 
 
 Those who came under Mr. Davis were Bates, Bigelow, Collins, 
 Couch, D wight, Evarts, Foster, Frost, Hall, Hammond, Haskell, 
 Higley, Hubbard, N". Johnson, Keep, Lewis, Lloyd, Lyman, 
 Mead, Mitchelson, Perit, Prentice, Scranton, Charles Shelton, 
 Junius Smith, William Smith, Tomlinson, Trescott, Strong, and 
 Webster — thirty in number. 
 
 To which of these divisions belonged the three who died during 
 our College Course, and those who took dismissions, I can not 
 ascertain now, after the lapse of sixty years. 
 
 Societies. — ^There had long been two Societies in College : the 
 Linonian, and the Brothers in Unity, which were expected to in- 
 clude all the members. Between these our Class was divided thus : 
 
 Linonians. — Baldwin, Bates, Bigelow, Brainard, Clarke, Collins, 
 Ford, Hall, Hecock, Higley, Hubbard, IST. Johnson, S. Johnson, 
 Keep, Leavitt, Lyman, Merwm, Mitchelson, Pearce, Pond, Pren- 
 tice, Reeve, Swan, Junius Smith, Trescott, Strong, Webster, and 
 Williams. 
 
 Brothers in Unity. — Bush, Couch, Davenport, Dwight, Elliott, 
 Evarts, Field, Foster, Frost, Hammond, Haskell, Hecock, Hough, 
 Lewis, Lloyd, Maxwell, Mead, Moseley, Perit, Scranton, Sel<Jen, 
 Charles Shelton, Nathan Shelton, Sherman, William Smith, Starr, 
 Tappan, and Tomlinson. 
 
 Moral and Religious Character. — That the Class was a 
 very regular one is evident from several facts. No individual was 
 detected in any thing, which led to his expulsion, rustication, or pub- 
 lic adnaonition. Thirty-six were members of the Moral Society, and 
 others who were not members were moral youth. They entered 
 
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 College generally with a view of learning and qualifying them- 
 selves for usefulness and respectability. Their tutors were men of 
 uncommon judgment and scholarship, who were beloved and re- 
 spected by them, and they were their instructors for three years, 
 so that they were saved from the disadvantage of being placed 
 under different teachers of inferior standing and qualifications. To 
 these causes, and to the good influence of the Faculty generally, 
 the Class were much indebted, not only for advancement in litera- 
 ture and science, but for being kept from any foolish conduct such 
 as too often disgraces classes in College. These good influences 
 were greatly enforced by the excellent counsel, the paternal ad- 
 monitions, and eloquent preaching of President D wight, whom 
 we all loved and revered. 
 
 But notwithstanding this general good character, only one of 
 the Class was a professor of rehgion when we joined College. 
 That was Daniel Strong, a most excellent young man, who died 
 near the close of Junior year. For the greater part of our entire 
 four years' course, indeed until within six months of our gradua- 
 tion, very few undergraduates belonged to the Church. At the 
 administration of the Lord's Supper, in Sept. 1801, there was not 
 an uMergraduate among the communicants, though a few were 
 absent teaching school. But before the next Collegiate year ex- 
 pired a wonderful work of grace transpired in the College. On 
 the Sabbath preceding our own graduation, twenty-five of our 
 Class sat down at the table of the Lord, and a large number from 
 the three under classes. Seven of our Class made a profession of 
 religion soon after, and six more are known to have made a pro- 
 fession since. Besides these there may be others of whom I hare 
 not heard. Several also who made no profession, it is believed, 
 became truly rehgious near the close of life, and " died in faith." 
 
 This great Revival, which changed so much the aspect of our 
 Class, and of the under classes, gave to the College a higher reli- 
 gious character than it had sustained for a long time before, and 
 one which, by repeated Revivals since, it has preserved until the 
 present time, now sixty years. 
 
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 Class-Meetixgs. — ^At all the commencements since our gradua- 
 tion i^robably some of our Class have been present, and have con- 
 ferred together about the members. In 1822, twenty years after 
 our graduation, fifteen are believed to have been present; in 1830, 
 twenty-eight years after graduation, eleven were present, and met 
 at the house of Webster, then livmg in New-Haven. 
 
 By an understanding among some of the members a class-meet- 
 ing was invited at the public commencement in 1842, and at that 
 time thirteen appeared, namely, Davenport, Field, Hecock, Hub- 
 bard, N. Johnson, Mead, Merwin, Moseley, Pond, Scranton, N. 
 Shelton, Strong, and Tomlinson. From three others letters were 
 received, namely, Hall, Perit, and Webster, so that we had»direct 
 communication from sixteen, one half of the thirty-two then liv- 
 ing. From the other half more or less information was obtained 
 in some form. At that time three votes were i3assed : 
 
 1. That Field be the historian of the Class, and that he be re- 
 quested to incorporate with the statistical information before pos- 
 sessed by him, the information given at this meeting. 
 
 3. That the document, when prepared, be kept in his hands as 
 committee with Merwin and Tomlinson, for the future use of the 
 Class. 
 
 3. That should God spare our lives, we agree to make a special 
 efibrt to meet again ten years hence at the commencement in 
 1852, and that Field be requested to address the Class on that 
 occasion. 
 
 In accordance with this resolution, a number of the surviving 
 members of the Class met in New-Haven, in 1852. We had now 
 got to be among the Fathers, and Merwin informed us that ours 
 would be the oldest class formally represented at the meeting of 
 the Alumni. 
 
 On Wednesday morning, the day before Commencement, we - 
 met at the Trumbull Gallery. Present, Davenport, Field, Leavitt, 
 Mead, Merwin, Perit, Pond, Scranton, N. Shelton, Tomlinson, and 
 Webster. 
 
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 After joining together in* prayer, letters were read from the fol- 
 lowing absent classmates — Baldwin, Collins, N". Johnson, Keep, 
 Maxwell, and Moseley, exj)ressmg affectionate regards for the 
 Class, but assigning reasons for absence. Field delivered an 
 address, according to an appointment made the preceding year. 
 
 Voted, to go in a body and call on Pres. Day, the venerated 
 surviving Tutor of one division of our Class. — ^Adjourned to attend 
 the general meeting of the Alumni ; but in the afternoon met 
 again by ourselves, and listened to accounts of the deaths of 
 eight class-mates, who had died since our meeting in 1842, namely, 
 Sherman, Brainard, Wilhams, Bates, Hall, Hubbard, Haskell, and 
 Hecock. Hammond also had died in May, 1851, though his death 
 was not, at the time we met, known to us. At this time a letter 
 was handed in to us from Elliott, assigning the sickness of his wife 
 as a reason for his absence from our meet^g.* 
 
 It was resolved, that "should the Lord spare our lives until Com- 
 mencement, 1856, we will endeavor to meet again at that time." 
 
 On Commencement-day we walked together in the procession to 
 the Centre Church, sat together during the exercises, and in the 
 intermission sat together at the public dinner* . 
 
 AsHhe years went on, our numbers kept growing fewer, and at 
 the appointed time, in 1856, we could muster only five, namely. Pond, 
 Mead, Scranton, IS: . Shelton, and Field. Still we met on the day 
 before Commencement, and communicated information one to an- 
 other, both concerning ourselves and other members of our Glass. 
 Merwin was confined to his house in New-Haven, and so unwell 
 as to be unable to receive visits from us. Maxwell was too feeble 
 to venture upon a journey at that season of the year from his • 
 home in Richmond ; and Collins, the oldest member of the Class 
 only lived through the succeeding winter, and was unfit to venture 
 upon a long journey from his residence in Belvidere, 111. ; Keep, 
 living at Oberlin, Ohio, sent us a letter, saying that the infirm 
 health of his wife, " with whom he had lived in this relation over 
 
 * Though Elliott's wife was then sick and he apparently in usual health, he died 
 the twenty-ninth of September following, and she survived him. 
 
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 fifty years," would prevent his being nrith us, but added these 
 cheering words with which I may fitly close this Introduction : 
 
 " Yesterday I decided I can not go to the New-Haven gather- 
 ing. It is self-denying not to be one of the surviving members of 
 the Class who may be at the proposed meeting. My thoughts 
 and my heart will be with you ; my prayer, that God's blessing 
 may be with you. Please say on my behalf to the aged company 
 — All hail^ beloved I Let the furrowed cheeks and the wrinkled 
 brows be radiant with faith and hope, in truth, in God, in Christ 
 our ransom. Study to be buoyant in spirit, although you may be 
 bowed do^ under gray hairs on feeble knees. Let the flash of your 
 eye indiqate to the standard-bearer, both in Church and State, that 
 the experience of age has not checked, but rather quickened your 
 sympathies with the Lord Jesus, as the Reformer of earth, and 
 that you are still on hind, available in any movement for the 
 honor of God and the good of our race. Leading the van as to 
 age, cheer on the ranks in the rear, as you see them in the conflict 
 with the wrong-doer. The old men of 1856 should not be 
 hinderers of the progress of the age. This is a good time to 
 he old ; it is a good time to die.'*'* 
 
 Commencement, 1862. — We made one more feeble efibrt to get 
 together. Field came from his home in Stockbridge, Mass., but 
 found only Davenport and Perit, who live in Kew-Haven, and 
 Mead, who lives near by in Greenwich, the place in which he was 
 born. But three others survive : Xathan Shelton, who lives at 
 Jamaica, L. I. ; Baldwin, at Cicero, N. Y., and Keep at Oberlin, 
 • Ohio. Probably we shaU never meet again. 
 
BRIEF I MEMOIRS OF THE CLASS. 
 
 Ix arranging these sketches, there are two methods which may 
 be followed ; one, the alphabetical order, in which the names stand 
 on the College catalogue ; the other, the order of deaths placing 
 those first who died first. The latter is the order adopted 
 here. Thus arranged, the names stand as follows : 
 
 PEARCi; died in 1802 HUBBARD, died in 1847 
 
 DWIGHT, " 
 
 S. JOHNSOX, " 
 
 REEVE, " 
 
 SELDEX, " 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH, " 
 
 MITCHELSON, " 
 
 TRESCOTT, " 
 
 SWAN, " 
 
 FOSTER,.. " 
 
 coui:^,.. " 
 
 FROST, " 
 
 LYMAX,. " 
 
 WOODHULL, " 
 
 STARR, " 
 
 TAPPAN, " 
 
 LEWIS, " 
 
 EVARTS,.... " 
 
 BIGELOW, " 
 
 CHARLES SHELTOX, ... " 
 
 PRENTICE, " 
 
 CLARKE, " 
 
 FORD, " 
 
 LLOYD, " 
 
 SHERMAN, " 
 
 BRAINARD, " 
 
 WILLIAMS, " 
 
 BATES, " 
 
 HALL, " 
 
 1803 HASKELL, " 1848 
 
 1806 HECOCK, " 1849 
 
 1809 HAMMOND, " 1851 
 
 1812 NATHAN JOHNSON,.... " 1852 
 
 1813 HIGLEY, " 1853 
 
 1817 JUNIUS SMITH, " 1853 
 
 1817 MOSELEY, " 1854 
 
 1819 TOMLINSON, " 1854 
 
 1819 MERWIN, " 1856 
 
 1821 ELLIOTT, " 1856 
 
 1825 MAXWELL, " 1857 
 
 1825 WEBSTER, " 1859 
 
 1826 COLLINS, " 1859 
 
 1828 STRONG, " 1859 
 
 1828 BUSH, " 1860 
 
 1829 LEAVITT, " 1860 
 
 1831 HOUGH, " 1861 
 
 1832 SCRANTON, " 1861 
 
 1832 POND, " 1861 
 
 1838 Died, 49. 
 
 1840 Seven living, as follows : 
 
 1840 BALDWIN, 
 
 1841 DAVENPORT, 
 
 1843 FIELD, 
 
 1844 KEEP, 
 
 1844 MEAD, 
 
 1845 PERIT, 
 
 1847 NATHAN SHELTON. 
 
DECEASED MEMBEES. 
 
 CYRUS PEARCE, 
 The first of our number who was borne to the grave, was from 
 Southbury, Ct. He was prepared for College, in part at least, 
 at an academy under the instruction of that distinguished scholar, 
 Moses Stuart, but did not enter College until the beginning of 
 Junior year. He was rather above ordinary size, hard-featured, 
 and of uncultivated manners, but possessed of a mind of more 
 than common versatility and power. His standing as a scholar 
 was respectable, and he had much poetical genius ; from the fre- 
 quent exercise of which he had the honor of being the poet- 
 laureate of his Class. His poetry was usually of a comic or satiri- 
 cal cast, and in writings of this description there was no one in 
 the Class equal to him. At a meeting of the Class in the latter 
 part of 1801, he amused the members exceedingly by the exhibi- 
 tion of a poem styled The Yalead, in which he undertook to de- 
 scribe the members as they had been somewhat fancifully placed 
 on a muster-roll. I quote a few of the first lines : 
 
 *' The names, the numbers, and the force of Yale 
 I sing: an arduous but delightful tale. 
 What chiefs, what sages, these fair walls inclose ! . 
 
 Whom fraud nor force nor envy dare oppose ; 
 And posterity will their names revere 
 So long as virtue charms the patriot's ear. 
 What more than this can rouse the poet's fire? 
 What nobler theme did ever bard inspire ? 
 To sing of heroes, and their actions trace ; 
 Whose fajne no time can move, nor years efface. 
 Ye tuneful sisters of Mnemosyne's train, 
 Who love to visit Tempe's flowing plain, 
 
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 Or on Parnassus' consecrated hill 
 
 Delighted hear the warbling Philomil, 
 
 Second my wishes, and regard my prayer; 
 
 A rising Iliad claims your guardian care. 
 
 Wide o'er the fields the thick battalions spread — 
 
 How quick their movements ! how august their tread !— 
 
 A spear each warrior bears, the flowing bays, 
 
 Moved by the winds, his swelling temples grace; 
 
 Marshaled in front, the cavalry advance, 
 
 Each bears a swoi-d, and each a missile lance. 
 
 Impatient of control, the mettled steed 
 
 Snuffs at the wind, and emulates his breed; 
 
 Not fleeter coursers ever skimmed the plain 
 
 Or learned submission to the pliant rein. 
 
 Whilst these on land the proper posts attend, 
 
 The rest on sea the common cause defend: 
 
 Such are the sons of Yale;" .... 
 
 His mind took a more sober tone during a revival in College, in 
 the latter part of our Senior year, when he became deeply im- 
 pressed with religion. A consumption, commencing in the spring 
 of 180^2^ resulted in his death, November 3d of the same year, 
 aged twenty-two. 
 
 JOHN DWIGHT, 
 
 A twin son of President Dwight, probably studied much in his 
 childhood in the school of his father, at Greenfield. He fitted for 
 College in part under Rev. Enoch Huntington, of Middletown,' 
 who had been in early life the teacher of his father. Like Pearce, 
 he had a taste for poetry, and like him also, in the same revival, 
 his mind was turned to religious subjects, and he died in a 
 Christian hope. His death occurred among the friends of the 
 family, at Hadley, Mass., July 23d, 1803, aged nineteen. 
 
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 SHERMAN JOHNSON, 
 Of Southboroiigh, Mass., was fitted for College principally at 
 Leicester Academy. After graduating, he studied theology in 
 part with Rev. Charles Backus, D.D., of Somers, Ct., but com- 
 pleted his course with Dr. Emmons, of Franklin, in his native 
 State. He was ordained pastor of the Second Church, in Mil- 
 ford, Ct, February 6th, 1805, where he died. May 21st, 1806, 
 aged nearly thirty, having sustained the character of a pious and 
 good man. His wife was Sarah Daggett, of Xew-Haven, by 
 whom he had one child, Richard Sherman Johnson, born at Mil- 
 ford, August 18th, 1805. Mrs. Johnson survived her husband for 
 a time ; but the last I heard of her, she was supposed to be in a 
 consumption, at the house of her sister, Mary (Daggett) Bronson, 
 widow of Judge Bronson, of Waterbury. She has probably been 
 dead many years. 
 
 Richard S. Johnson became a tailor, and lived several years in 
 William stown, Mass., and then in Xew-Haven, where he died, 
 November 4th, 1849. In the latter place, he is said to have been 
 a very useful member of the [N'orth Congregational Church. His 
 wife was Catharine Woodman, of N'ewburyport. They had two 
 children, Sherman D. Johnson, born at Williamstown, February 
 '7th, 1833, and Sarah S. Johnson, born at New-Haven, May 15th, 
 1838. 
 
 AARON BURR REEVE, 
 Only child of the Hon. Tapping Reeve and Mrs. Sally (Burr) 
 Reeve, of Litchfield, possessed unusual advantages for education 
 in his youth. He was fitted for College by Rev. Azel Backus, 
 D.D., of Bethlem, afterward President of Hamilton College, 
 N. Y. In those branches of study to which he had before at- 
 tended he appeared well in CoUege ; but his application was not 
 thorough enough to make him a good general scholar. The ex- 
 pectation of patronage from distinguished relatives probably was 
 unfavorable to him. His mother was a sister of Aaron Burr, at 
 
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 that time a prominent candidate for President of the United 
 States, and the country was greatly agitated about the election. 
 This may have turned young Reeve for a time from his profes- 
 sion. He studied law, however, and commenced practice in Troy, 
 N. Y., with flattering prospects of success," but died September 
 1st, 1809, aged twenty-nine. His wife was Arabella Sheldon, of 
 New- York, by whom he had one child. Tapping Burr Reeve, who 
 died August 28th, 1829, as he was about to take his degree at 
 Yale College, aged twenty ; the last, as the valedictory orator of 
 his Class observed, the last of a noble line. He is said to have 
 been amiable, gentlemanly, and promising ; and his name is 
 enrolled in his Class. The mother, at the time wife of a Mr. , 
 Burr, of Richmond, Ya., was coming on to see him graduate. 
 She saw him a week before his death, but saw him sick and de- 
 lirious. 
 
 ULYSSES SELDEN 
 
 Was bom at North-Lyme. His father, Ezra Selden, was a cap- 
 tain in the army of the United States, in the Revolutionary War ; 
 a gentleman who sustained the character of a good officer, and 
 who die4 some time after the war was over, from a wound which 
 he received while in the service of his country. His mother was 
 Lois Ely, daughter of Samuel Ely, Esq. Beside Ulysses, they 
 had a daughter, Abigail, who died at the age of eighteen or 
 twenty. Mrs. Selden was married to a Mr. Hallock, of Long 
 Island, as a second husband, by whom she had other children. 
 Ulysses and Abbey were brought up chiefly by their grandfather, 
 Ezra Selden, Esq., in North-Lyme. He was fitted for College at 
 Saybrook, by Rev. Frederic William Hotchkiss. 
 
 After studyiiMj law in Litchfield, Selden opened an office and 
 
 began practice at Norwich Landing. A pulmonary consumption 
 
 becoming seated upon him, he retired to his friends in North- 
 
 Lynie, where he died in March, 1812, aged thirty-one. His body 
 
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 rests in the Ely graveyard, a mile east of Essex Ferry ; the spot 
 being designated by an upright marble slab with a simple in- 
 scription. 
 
 •-•-• 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH 
 
 Was the son of Seth Smith, Esq., of North-Lyme, and a half- 
 brother of Rev. James Murdock, D.D., formerly a professor in 
 the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass., afterward living in 
 Xew-Haven. The maiden name of their mother was Lay, out of 
 regard to whom, some time after graduating, William Smith took 
 tlie name of Lay as a middle name. Having studied medicine 
 with Dr. William B. Hall, of Middletown, he first settled as a 
 physician at Pitch Landing, Hertford County, N. C, where he 
 married Nancy Harwell ; thence he moved to Murfreesborough 
 in the same county, where he died, September 1st, 1813, aged 
 thirty-one. His practice was somewhat extensive, and he was fast 
 rising to eminence in his profession. Though he never formally 
 united himself with the Church of Christ, yet he found religion 
 his consolation in his last sickness. He left one child, a son, Wil- 
 liam Nathan Harwell Smith, who was graduated at Yale College, 
 in 1834, and is now a lawyer in Murfreesborough. He has been a 
 representative to the General Assembly and a member of the 
 North-Carolina Senate. He is married, and has had two sons, the 
 oldest of whom is dead. 
 
 HOWARD MITCHELSON, 
 
 A native of Simsbury, was above the ordinary stature, and hard- 
 featured. He studied medicine and surgery in Cheshire, and was 
 licensed by the Medical Society of Connecticut to practice in both. 
 He opened a druggist's store in New-Haven, where he remained 
 until 1807, when he went to England, for the purpose of pur- 
 chasing medicine in London, but the embargo coming on, he went 
 into business as a druggist in that city. He returned to the 
 
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 United States in 1813, and went to Charleston, S. C. In 1814 he 
 went to Gottenberg, in Sweden, chartered a vessel, loaded her 
 with silks, and sailed for Amelia Island ; but in crossing the At- 
 lantic the ship encountered violent storms, was driven from her 
 course, kept at sea four months, and all on board were brought 
 into straits for lack of bread and water, but finally succeeded in 
 getting into Georgetown, S. C. Here new troubles awaited 
 them; for the revenue officers came on board, and seized the 
 vessel and cargo under the embargo law. The vessel they re- 
 leased, but held on to the cargo, which was appraised at about 
 seventy thousand dollars. IVIitchelson procured a bondsman, took 
 it into his possession, and sold it for about one hundred thousand 
 dollars. The matter was brought before the Supreme Court of 
 the United States ; but before a decision was obtained, Mitchelson 
 died, in August, 1817, aged thirty-eight. Judgment was after- 
 ward given, and the seventy thousand doUars^at which the cargo 
 was valued, were given to the United States. Like Pearce, 
 Dwight^nd Selden, Mitchelson died unmarried. 
 
 "WILLIAM TRESCOTT 
 
 Was born in Charleston, S. C, and belonged to a respectable and 
 wealthy family in that city. He studied some four or five years at 
 the Academy in Cheshire, and entered College Sophomore year. 
 He was short, thickset, and of a dark complexion. He studied 
 law and settled as a la^vyer in his native place, where he died, 
 in October, 1817, aged thirty-three. His disease was a fever, in- 
 duced by exposure to the night-air. He is said to have been 
 " a friendly man," and fond of military afiairs. He left a wife 
 and two young children, Edward A. Trescott and Elizabeth C. 
 Trescott. The children fell under the care of a guardian, who, it 
 is said, ruined them as to property. The son, however, became a 
 physician, married, and had two children — a son and a daughter. 
 
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 ROSWELL RANDALL SWAN 
 
 Was a native of that part of the original township of Stonington 
 which now constitutes North-Stonington, but was fitted for Col- 
 lege by Rev. Hezekiah ^. Woodruff, of Stonington. He had a 
 tall, bending form, and was distinguished in College for sound 
 scholarship, great energy, and decision of character ; and after his 
 conversion, which was in the early part of Sophomore year, for the 
 most exemplary piety. In the revival of 1802 he labored among 
 the students like an apostle, and greatly promoted that blessed 
 work. After graduation he resided for some time in New-Haven 
 and read theology with President Dwight ; afterward he studied 
 with Dr. Emmons, of Franklin, Mass. In January, 1807, he was 
 settled over the Congregational Church and Society in ISTorwalk, 
 where he was uncommonly laborious until disease impaired his 
 strength. Though possessing neither the graces of style nor elo- 
 cution, his sermons were full of instruction, and admirably adapted, 
 while enlightening the understanding, to move the conscience and 
 the heart. Mr. S. G. Goodrich, better known as Peter Parley, in 
 his " Recollections of a Life-Time," thus speaks of him : 
 
 " Mr. Swan was one of the most eloquent men of the day. I 
 shall never forget a certain passage in one of his addresses at an 
 evening meeting. He had taken as a motto for his discourse : 
 ' Choose you this day whom ye will serve."* (Joshua 24 : 15.) 
 Having pressed upon the audience the necessity of deciding whe- 
 ther they would serve God or the adversary, he adverted to an 
 anecdote in ancient history, in which an ambassador to some 
 foreign state — demanding a decision of the government in a ques- 
 tion under discussion— drew a line upon the earth with his staff, 
 and said : ' Tell me — here — ^this very hour — now — where will you 
 stand, on this side or that ? for us or against us ? Shall it be 
 peace, or shall it be war ?' Mr. Swan was a tall man, and as he 
 said this, he seemed to mark the line .upon the ground with a 
 solemn sweep of his long arm. He then added, addressing the 
 audience in tones that thrilled and awed every heart: 'Tell me — 
 
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 here — this very hour — now — where will you stand ? Where will 
 you stand to-night — where at the day of judgment — on this side 
 or that — for God or against him? Shall it be peace or war? 
 peace forever, or war through the measureless ages of eternity V 
 I can recall no eloquence — and I have heard the most celebrated 
 orators of my time — which produced a more deep, fearful, and 
 startling emotion than this." 
 
 As he was thus energetic and faithful, the Lord blessed his 
 labors, and the church, which consisted of 142 members at his 
 ordination, was almost continually increased. In 1807 he ad- 
 mitted 25 new members ; in 1808, 30 ; in 1809, 25 ; in 1810, 37 ; 
 and in 1811, 13 ; but in 1812, '13, '14, and '15, the years of the 
 war, only 12; in 1816, when there was a general revival, 117 ; and 
 in 1818, 2: total, 268. For some years he was afflicted with a Uver 
 complaint, as was supposed ; suffered much from dyspepsia, and at 
 last sunk into a consumption. The church and society in Xorwalk 
 have erected a monument over his grave with this inscription : 
 
 " Here lies a faithful and successful minister of Jesus, Rev. 
 Roswell R. Swan, A.M. He was ordained minister of the Gospel, 
 and installed pastor of the Congregational Church and Society in 
 Norwalk Jan. 14th, 1807, and died March 22d, 1819, in the forty- 
 first year of his age, and thirteenth of his ministry." 
 
 Mr. Swan married, not far from the time at which he was settled 
 in the ministry in Norwalk, Harriet Palmer, daughter of Captain 
 Amos Palmer, a very prominent man in Stonington Borough, by 
 whom he had one son and four daughters. The son was some 
 time clerk in a store in New-Orleans, but while young was 
 drowned at sea. Two of the daughters died in infancy. Phebe 
 Ann Swan, one of the surviving daughters, was married to Benja- 
 min F. Babcock, and accompanied him to Glasgow in Scotland, 
 where she died in 1841, a pious and excellent woman, leaving two 
 children, who are now residing in Liverpool, to which place Mr. 
 Babcock removed in 1852. The other daughter, Harriet Palmer 
 Swan, was married to the Hon. N. F. Dixon, son of Senator 
 Dixon of Rhode Island, and who has been himself a Representa- 
 
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 tive in Congress, and lives in Westerly, in that State. She has had 
 five children, three sons and two daughters ; but the oldest child, 
 a son, is dead. She is a member of the Congregational church in 
 Westerly ; and her mother Swan lives in the family with her. 
 
 ELEAZER FOSTER, 
 
 A native of Union, had a tall, erect, and large frame. He was 
 fitted for college at Leicester Academy, Mass., where he was an 
 assistant teacher after he took his degree. He ranked well as a 
 scholar, and was greatly esteemed as a man. He settled as a law- 
 yer in New-Haven, and had a large practice, especially in the 
 Court of Probate. He was intrusted probably beyond any other 
 man in the city with the management of the property of widows 
 and fatherless children. He held a commission in the company 
 styled the Governor's Guards, was a justice of the peace, and in 
 1817 a representative of the town, in the Legislature of the State, 
 in the two sessions then held annually. 
 
 He was married January 12th, 1806, to Mrs. Mary O'Brien, a 
 widow, who had two children. She was the daughter of John 
 and Sarah (Beers) Pierpont. They had seven children, namely, 
 Maiy Ann, Pierpont Beers, Jane N., Eleazer Kingsbury, Harriet S., 
 Caroline, and Edward William Foster ; the last born a few weeks 
 before his father's death. 
 
 Mr. Foster died May 1st, 1819, aged forty-one, and his widow 
 in January, 1852, aged seventy-four. 
 
 Pierpont B. Foster, the oldest son, was for a time a merchant in 
 New-Haven, and afterward engaged in the real estate business. 
 He married, first, Stella L., daughter of Abraham Bishop, July 
 16th, 1838, who died April 11th, 1845, leaving one child, WilUam 
 Law, born April 20th, 1841. He then married Cornelia Miller, 
 December 20th, 1849, who has no children. 
 
 Eleazer Kingsbury Foster was graduated at Yale College in 
 1834, and is a lawyer in New-Haven ; he has been a justice of the 
 
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 peace and a Judge of Probate for New-Haven district. Recently 
 he has devoted himself more entirely to his profession, and has an 
 extensive practice. 
 
 He married Mary Codrington, formerly of Jamaica, West-Indies, 
 January 2d, 1838. They have had five children : Wm. E. Foster, 
 born July 4th, 1839 ; Eleazer, born October 31st, 1841 ; Mary T., 
 March 9th, 1844 ; John Pierpont Codrington, March 2d, 1847, and 
 Margaret C, born September 24th, 1853, died July 19th, 1855. 
 
 Edward W. Foster lives in Potsdam, !N". Y., and is engaged 
 there in real estate and general business. He married Harriet 
 Partridge, of that place, about 1842, and has two children, Henry 
 E. and Mary. 
 
 V^^ JESUP NASH COUCH 
 Was a native of Reading, and was probably fitted for College by 
 Rev. Nathaniel Bartlett, pastor of the church in that town. He 
 held a respectable standing as a scholar, and was a successful can- 
 didate for the Berkleian prize.' He taught school for a time in 
 New-Haven, in company with Clarke, studying law at the same 
 time with Judge Chauncey. He settled as a lawyer at Chillicothe 
 in Ohio ; in which State he became a judge of the Superior Court, 
 an office which he held until his death, in or about June, 1821, 
 when he was forty-one years of age. He never married. He was 
 amiable and moral and much esteemed for his uprightness and his 
 
 legal abihty. 
 
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 HEZEKIAH FROST 
 Was the son of Deacon Daniel Frost of Canterbury. He was 
 fitted for College by John Adams, then teacher of a school in that 
 town, along with Hammond, Haskell, Hough, and IV^seley, who 
 all entered College Sophomore year. After graduatin^I think he 
 taught school for a time in Woodstock. He studied law with 
 Asa Bacon, Esq., then of Canterbury, afterward of Litchfield ; 
 and was admitted to the bar about March, 1805. He then went 
 
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 to Guildhall, Vt., to make himsQlf familiar with the statutes and 
 practice in that State, with the expectation of settling there, as he 
 did for a time in the town of Derby; but in March, 1807, he 
 moved to Windham, in Maine, sixteen miles north-west of Port- 
 kind, w^here he resided until his death, of consumption. May 2'7th, 
 1 825, aged forty-nine. His business was large for a country law- 
 yer ; he was respected in hi^ profession^ and was in the commission 
 of the peace. For some years he dierished a Christian hope, 
 though he did not make a profession of religion. 
 
 Mr. Frost married twice. His first wife was a daughter of Dea- 
 con Daniel Clarke, of Plymouth, Vt., whom he married in 1808, 
 and by whom he had three sons and three daughters. She died 
 in June, 1819. His second wife was Hannah Brown, of Wind- 
 ham, whom he married in 1821, and by whom he had three child- 
 ren, tw^o sons and a daughter. This lady has been married since 
 his death to John Harmon,' of Otisfield, in Cumberland county, 
 and is supposed to be still living there. 
 
 All Mr. Frost's children by the first marriage are dead. One of 
 the sons died while a Sophomore in Middlebury College. None of 
 them were married excepting the oldest daughter ; she married a 
 Mr. Brown, moved to Kalamazoo, died there, and left children. 
 One of the sons by the second marriage died before the father, 
 and another has died since. The daughter is married, lives in 
 Windham, and is the only child of Mr. Frost now living. 
 
 JONATHAN HUNTINGTON LYMAN 
 Was the only son of Rev. Josej^h Lyman, D.D., and Mrs. Hannah 
 Huntington Lyman, of Hatfield, Mass. His middle name he 
 assumed himself out of regard to the family name of his mother 
 before heMnarriage. He was remarkably well fitted for College 
 by his fatnCT ; dnd was a sound and good scholar throughout his 
 collegiate course. He was of about the ordinary stature, and 
 well-proportioned, having a fair and interesting countenance. 
 Having read law with Judge Chauncey of New-Haven, he com- 
 
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 raenced practice in 1ms native town, but removed to Northampton 
 about the close of 1808, where he spent the rest of his days. He 
 stood well at the bar, was a useful citizen, strongly attached to 
 religious institutions and evangelical sentiments. He was elected 
 many years to represent his fellow-citizens either in the Senate or 
 House of Representatives of the Commonwealth. He was also 
 frequently called by his fellow-townsmen to the performance of 
 important trusts ; and the ability and fidelity with which he uni- 
 formly conducted himself in his public stations secured to him, in 
 an unusual degree, general confidence and respect. 
 
 At the time of his death, (November 3d, 1825, aged forty-two,) 
 he held the office of Chief-Justice of the Court of Sessions, County 
 Attorney for the county of Hampshire, and Representative of the 
 town in the Legislature of the State. 
 
 Mr. Lyman was married October 10th, 1808, to Sophia Hinckley, 
 only daughter of Hon. Samuel H. Hinckley, of Northampton, 
 always called Judge Hinckley, having been Judge of Probate 
 forty-eight years, when a part of the time Hampshire county 
 included the now three counties of Hampshire, Hamj^den, and 
 Franklin. She was born September 22d, 1787, and died April 
 6th, 1839. They had thirteen children, (the last of whom was 
 born three weeks after the father's death,) namely, Joseph Lyman, 
 born July 14th, 1809; Samuel Hinckley, born August 11th, 1810; 
 Sally Outram, born May 19th, 1812; John Chester,* born May 
 8th, 1813; Sophianne Hinckley, born March 14th, 1815; Jona- 
 than Huntington, bom August 18th, 1816 ; George Hinckley, born 
 February 1st, 1818, died February 11th, 1819 ; George Hinckley, 
 ^d, born July 18th, 1819; David Hinckley, born November 21st, 
 1820 ; Hnnnah Huntington, born December 15th, 1821 ; Martha 
 Prince, born March 13th, 1823; Frances Sophia, born March 12th, 
 1824 ; Ellen Dorothy Strong, born November 28th, 1825. 
 
 Though Judge Hinckley had other children, yet they all died 
 before him, and none were married and left children to inherit his 
 large estate but Mrs. Lyman. « 
 
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 Joseph Lyman, the eldest of her children, was graduated at 
 Yale College in 1828. He studied law one year with the Hon. 
 Lewis Strong, of Northampton, and then with the Hon. Jonathan 
 Sloane, a member of Congress, living at Ravenna, Ohio, where he 
 practiced some years, but afterward lived in Cleveland and was a 
 general commission merchant and land agent. He married Mary 
 A. Clarke, daughter of Oliver Clarke, of Atwater, Ohio, May 25th, 
 1836, and has had four children, three of whom are living. 
 
 Samuel Hinckley Lyman was graduated at Williams College in 
 1830. He has since had his name changed by act of the Legisla- 
 ture to that of Samuel Lyman Hinckley. He studied law at Cam- 
 bridge Law-School, and was admitted to the bar in Northampton 
 in 1833, and practiced until 1845, when he was appointed Sheriff 
 of Hampshire county, an office which he held until July, 1851. 
 He was first married to Henrietta Elizabeth Rose, daughter of 
 Daniel Rose, of Sumterville, S. C, March 15th, 1838, who died 
 December 30th the following winter, leaving an infant son, Henry 
 Rose Hinckley. He was married a second time to Anne C. 
 Parker, daughter of Samuel D. Parker, of Boston, District At- 
 torney for the county of Suffolk, by whom he has had four child- 
 ren — two sons and two daughters. 
 
 Sally Outram Lyman was married to Richard L. Allen, who was 
 for some time a merchant in Buffalo, and is now a merchant and 
 manufacturer in New- York. He was the son of Samuel Allen, a 
 devoted elder of the Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church in New- 
 York, and for many years connected wdth the commission business 
 in that city. They have had four children — three sons and one 
 daughter. • 
 
 John Chester Lyman was graduated at Harvard College in 1833, 
 and studied law at the Law-School connected with that institu- 
 tion. He practiced a short time in Boston, and has since traveled 
 much. He married Mary Morris, of Doylestown, Pa., daughter 
 of a Member of Congress from that State. They have had four 
 sons and one daughter. * 
 
 Sophianne Hinckley Lyman was married to George W. Phipps, 
 
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 son of Robert F. Phipps, of Portsmouth, N. H., October 1st, 
 1835. He has lived in Philadelphia, but is now in New-York; 
 he has been a merchant. They have a son and daughter. 
 
 Jonathan Huntington Lyman was educated a physician at the 
 Medical University in Philadelphia ; he practiced medicine a year 
 or two at Enfield, Mass., and then in California. He now lives in 
 Northampton. His wife was the youngest daughter of the late 
 Timothy D wight, oldest son of President D wight. They have 
 had three childrdj^ one is dead, the others bear the name of 
 John Chester Lyman, and Frank Huntington Lyman. 
 
 George Hinckley Lyman, the second of that name, studied 
 medicine abroad at the Universities of Paris and of Dublin. He 
 is a physician in Boston. His wife was Maria C. R. Austin, 
 daughter of James T. Austin, formerly Attorney General of Mas- 
 sachusetts. They have had three sons and two daughters. The 
 oldest son died aged two or three years. 
 
 David H. Lyman graduated at Cambridge in 1839, and studied 
 law in that place. He settled at Zanesville, Ohio, where for a 
 time he was editor and owner of the Zanesville Courier. He 
 married Sophia Doty, daughter of James Doty, of Ravenna, No- 
 vember 21st, 1842. They have had seven children, but one of 
 whom is living. 
 
 Hannah Huntington Lyman was married to Rev. Charles Mason 
 August 9th, 1849, an Episcopal clergyman in Boston, youngest son 
 of the late Hon. Jeremiah Mason, of that city ; one of the most 
 eminent men of the Boston bar when it boasted of Daniel Webster 
 and Rufus Choate. The father was a graduate of our own Alma 
 Mater, where he took his degree in 1788. Three colleges, Bow- 
 doin, Harvard, and Dartmouth, conferred upon him the degree of 
 LL.D. He was a Senator in the Congress of the United States ; 
 and died in 1848. His son was Rector of Grace Church. He 
 died in Boston in 1862. 
 
 Martha Prince Lyman was married October 4th, 1860, to the 
 Hon. La Fayette S. Foster, a distinguished lawyer of Connecticut, 
 and for many years a Senator of the United States. He is still a 
 
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 member of that body, having been lately reelected for six years 
 more. 
 
 Frances Sophia L. married Dr. W. W. Morland, of Boston. 
 
 Ellen D. S. married Thomas Jefferson Trist, who was born at 
 Monticello, the seat of his great-grandfather, Thomas Jefferson. 
 
 SELAH STRONG WOOI^ULL 
 
 Was a son of James and Keturah Strong Woodhull, of the city of 
 New- York, where his father was a merchant. His mother died 
 when he was four years old, leaving him and a sister, whose name 
 was EHzabeth. His father died of the yellow fever in 1798, when 
 he was twelve years old. But young as he then was, he was 
 already prepared for college. He first entered Columbia College 
 in New-York, but at the close of Freshman or beginning of Sopho- 
 more year he transferred his relationship to Yale, where he was 
 the youngest in his Class ; but, young as he was, he always ap- 
 peared well in the recitation-room, showing in all branches of 
 study that he had a, mind capable of great acquirements. Had he 
 been sixteen or eighteen years of age when he first entered, in- 
 stead of being twelve, he would have been among the very best 
 and ripest scholars in his Class. In after-life he regretted that 
 he was sent to College so early. After graduating he applied 
 himself thoroughly to study, and became a learned and able 
 divine. He was settled as Pastor of a Reformed Dutch Church 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he remained nineteen years, preaching 
 with very great acceptance. 
 
 He was a man of singular industry. In Brooklyn, some of his 
 people lived miles from him in the surrounding country. But he 
 maintained faithfully Bible-classes, lectures, and other means of 
 grace among them. In the war with Great Britain, conunencing 
 in 1812, he became chaplain to the brigade stationed in Brooklyn, 
 and was very active in attending to the duties of his appointment. 
 
 Seldom was a minister more diligent in improving his time. 
 
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 Even when he went from home for a few days, to visit his friends, 
 he almost invariably took with him preparations from which to 
 write sermons. He uniformly wrote his discourses, and with 
 much care. He had a wonderful faculty of impressing his thoughts 
 very correctly ; so much so, that very few of his manuscrij)ts are 
 defaced by erasures or interhneations, although the first drafts. 
 His sermons, while specimens of neatness, are rich in matter, 
 judiciously arranged. Three of his manuscript sermons I have 
 read through, one from Proverbs 4 : 7, another from Matthew 
 11:5, and the third from Hebrews 4 : 14, 15. These, I suppose, 
 are fair si^ecimens of his sermons generally, and they show that he 
 was in the habit of reasoning out of the Scriptures with clearness, 
 and with kind and faithful appeals to the understanding and 
 hearts of his hearers. His sermons he committed to memory ; 
 and yet he xjarried his manuscripts into the desk and spread 
 them out before him, so that, in case his memory should fail 
 him, he might by a glance catch his written language. But not- 
 withstanding the care and taste with which his sermons were pre- 
 pared, he never would consent to have one of them printed ; and 
 since his death, his family, out of respect to his feelings while 
 living, have refused to have any of them given to the j)ublic. His 
 modesty appears to have been excessive ; and it is to be lamented 
 that the literary and religious public were precluded, by him and 
 those who loved and esteemed him, from any benefit from the cir- 
 culation of his compositions in a printed form. 
 
 He was active in every good cause, especially that of the Bible ; 
 and when Rev. Dr. James Milnor was appointed Secretary of the 
 Bible Society for Foreign Correspondence, he was appointed his 
 successor for American Correspondence. In 1822 he received the 
 degree of Doctor of Divinity from Uniop College. 
 
 In 1825 he was elected Prof(5ssor of Mental Philosophy in 
 Rutgers College, IsT. J., and also Professor of Ecclesiastical His- 
 tory in the Theological Seminary. He removed to New-Bruns- 
 wick, and was inaugurated into office on the 25th of November. 
 His zeal and application in this new field of labor, it is supposed. 
 
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 were too much for Mm. Though he had been in office but a few 
 months, it is said he had prepared almost a complete course of 
 lectures on one of the great branches of his department. He 
 became diseased, at first rather shghtly, and then with a violent 
 inflammation of the chest and brain, w^hich deprived him of the 
 regular exercise of his reason. In the early stages of his disorder 
 it was impressed upon him that he should not live, and he bowed 
 in humble submission to the divine will. He died February 27th, 
 1826, in the fortieth year of his age. He was buried in the 
 cemetery of the Reformed Dutch Church in New-Brunswick, and 
 a monument is erected over his grave, by the order and at the 
 expense of the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church, 
 with an inscription, testifying to his learning, piety, industry, and 
 zeal, and deeply lamenting his early death. 
 
 Dr. Woodhull married Cornelia Van Cleve, daughter of Mr. 
 Aaron Van Cleve, of Lawrenceville, N. J. They had six children, 
 one son and five daughters, namely, George Griswold Woodhull, 
 born in 1808, died October, 1809 ; Eliza K., bom June 30th, 1811 ; 
 Matilda Griswold, born January 11th, 1814 ; Sarah Strong, born 
 
 January 15th, 1815; Jane Griswold, ; Cornelia Van Cleve, 
 
 born July 20th, 1824. The reason that Griswold appears in three 
 of these names is, that Mr. George Griswold, a merchant in the 
 city of New-York, married Elizabeth Woodhull, Dr. Woodhull's 
 sister. 
 
 Eliza K. Woodhull was married to Rev. Jonathan B. Condit, 
 D.D., who was for some time pastor of the Church in Long 
 Meadow, Mass. ; Professor in Amherst College ; pastor of the 
 Second Congregational Church, in Portland, Me., and then of the 
 Second Presbyterian Church, in Newark, N. J. He is now Pro- 
 fessor of Sacred Rhetoric, Pastoral Theology, and Church Gov- 
 ernment in Auburn Seminary,* New- York. Mrs. Condit died 
 January 7th, 1835. She had two children, a son and daughter, 
 both of whom died in infancy. Dr. Condit married Sarah Strong 
 Woodhull as a second wife. May 6th, 1836. They have four 
 children, all daughters : Eliza Maria, Anna Louisa Pay son, Sara 
 Jane, and Alice Mary. 
 
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 Matilda Griswold Woodhull was married to James G. Nuttman, 
 of Elizabeth, N. J., where he is the Principal of the High School. 
 They have had six children : Cornelia Dayton, born February 4th, 
 1838 ; Oliver Craig, born September 24th, 1839— dead; Matilda 
 Griswold, born March 20th, 1841 — dead ; James Gardiner, born 
 April 15th, 1842 — dead; Matilda Woodhull, born March 31st, 
 1844; and Sarah Lavinia Strong, born November 11th, 1845 — 
 dead. 
 
 Jane Griswold "Woodhull died September, 1840, mimarried. 
 
 Cornelia Van Cleve Woodhull was married to Josiah L. Pick- 
 ard, Principal of Plattville Academy, at Plattville, Grant Co., 
 Wisconsin. Their children are Alice Electa, Fanny Matilda, and 
 Frederick William. ^ 
 
 Mrs. Woodhull, widow of Dr. Woodhull, died at the house of 
 her daughter Nuttman, January 3d, 1845, aged fifty-four. 
 
 EPHRAIM STARR 
 
 Was the son of a wealthy merchant of Goshen, whose name he 
 bore. He was fitted for College by Rev. Ammi R. Robbins, of 
 Norfolk. He was young, short, and stout in his person. He was 
 fond of music, particularly of the violin, and had a taste for fine 
 writing and for poetry. After leaving College, he studied law 
 one year in Litchfield, in order to understand its general" prin- 
 ciples, but without any design of entering the legal profession. 
 After that, he took what was then a very long journey down the 
 Ohio and Mississippi, when the banks of those rivers were 
 covered with dense forests, and into the Southern States. Re- 
 turning, he first settled in business in Albany, in 1809, as a whole-' 
 sale dry-goods merchant, in connection with Frederic Sheldon, 
 son of Dr. Sheldon, of Litchfield. In August of this year his 
 father died, from whose estate he received sixty thousand dollars. 
 During this partnership Mr. Sheldon went to England, purchased 
 a large amount of goods, an^ shipped them to Canada, which 
 was thought to be inconsistent with the laws of England ; and 
 
before this matter was adjusted Mr. Starr sold his interest in the 
 goods, even at a loss, and their connection in business was dis- 
 solved. After remaining about two years and a half in Albany, 
 Mr. Starr became a shipping-merchant in New- York, trading to 
 the East-Indies. This was at a time when the business of the 
 country was greatly deranged, and our commerce on the high seas 
 was much exposed ; and in this he was not successful. His fine 
 business talents were however not to be lost, and for about six 
 years before his death he held the office of Deputy-Comptroller 
 of the State of New-York, and lived again in Albany. The 
 duties of this office he discharged with eminent ability and in- 
 tegrity. The late Governor Marcy was at that time Comptroller, 
 and he leaned greatly on Mr. Starr. Seldom has the State had a 
 more popular or more useful public officer. 
 
 In the summer of 1828 he took a journey to the West, as far 
 as Cleveland, Ohio ; and while crossing Lake Erie, in returning, 
 he took what was called the lake-fever, and died suddenly at 
 Buffiilo, on the iVth of August, aged forty-four. Though in- 
 formed of his sickness, his family did not hear of his death until 
 after his burial, so slow was communication at that day. 
 
 His wife was Sarah Goodwin, daughter of Mr. Joseph Good- 
 win, a native of Boston, but who spent much of his life in Lenox, 
 Mass., where he was first a clerk at the Lenox Furnace, then a 
 partner, and finally sole owner of the establishment ; a promi- 
 nent man in that town, a justice of the peace, and often a Repre- 
 sentative in the Legislature. They were married November 26th, 
 1810, and had four children : Sarah Goodwin, born September 8th, 
 1811 ; William, born October 18th, 1813 ; Juliette, born July 20th, 
 1816; Mary, born August 17th, 1818. 
 
 Sarah Goodwin Starr was married to Mr. George Lee, an 
 English merchant in New-Orleans, in March, 1838. They had 
 five children : Goodwin, (since died,) Haywood, Yirgmia, Doug- 
 lass, and Georgiana Rosa. Mr. Lee died in October, 1849. 
 Mrs. Lee now resides in Roxbury^lass. 
 
 William Starr, the only son of his parents, died Sept. 28th, 1815. 
 
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 Juliette Starr was married to Eichard P. Dana, son of Rev. 
 Samuel W. Dana, of Marblehead, Mass., July 19th, 1835. A 
 number of years since he went to Calcutta in the employment 
 of his uncle, Israel Thorndyke, of Boston, and has since been much 
 engaged in the China trade. His family reside in !N"ew-York. 
 They have three children : Richard Starr Dana, bom May 2 2d, 
 1836; Juliette Henrietta, born January 27th, 1838; William 
 Starr, bom April 15th, 1841. The oldest son is now a partner in 
 the house of Russell & Co., in Canton. The youngest son is in 
 the Naval School at Newport, R. I. 
 
 Mary Starr was married to Frederic Camerden, of New- York, 
 in October, 1842. He has been a merchant in New-Orleans. 
 They have had six children : Mary Emma, Frederic, Anna, Frank, 
 (\Vho has died,) Helen, and Walter. 
 
 The widow of Mr. Starr is st^U living. She resides with her 
 children. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER TAPPAN 
 Was born in Kingston, N. Y. After leaving College he studied 
 law and returned to practice in his native place. Once, and per- 
 haps oftener, he represented the town in the Legislature. 
 
 November 9th, 1809, he married Cornelia Kiersted, daughter of 
 Dr. Luke Kiersted. They had five children ; of whom two died 
 in infancy. The other three were sons i Theodore,, born August 
 25th, 1810; Kiersted, born May 12.th, 1813; James Cockburn, 
 born January 3d, 1821. The last of these sons died August 3d, 
 1851, aged thirty. The mother died August 21st, 1821, aged 
 thirty-five, and the father, February 22d, 1828, aged forty-fom\ 
 
 Of the two sons living, Theodore learned the trade of a carpen- 
 ter, and Kiersted is a farmer and has a wife and three children : 
 Hiram, William, and Cornelia. These three are the only grand 
 children of Christopher Tappan. 
 
 Mr. Tappan became a professor of reUgion while in College, and 
 lived and died a Christian, and beloved by all who knew him, 
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 ROSWELL WILLIAM LEWIS , 
 
 Was a son of Rev. Isaac Lewis, D.D., of Greenwich, Ct., under \ 
 whose instructions he was fitted for College. Though young, he ' 
 was tall in his person. He became a lawyer and settled in New- | 
 York, where he was for a year or two Judge of the Marine \ 
 Court. He died suddenly of apoplexy December I7th, 1829, i 
 aged forty-six. His body is interred among his relatives in Green- 
 wich. I 
 
 He married Sarah Rooke, daughter of Captain John Rooke, of j 
 New-York, March 29th, 1814. They had four children: Maria ' 
 Louisa, born January 23d, 1815 ; Roswell Augustus, born Febru- : 
 ary 17th, 1816; Beal Nathaniel, born August 1st, 1817; and John , 
 Rooke, born June 7th, 1822. 
 
 Maria Louisa was married to Hubert G. Wagenen, of New- | 
 York, November 26th, 1834. He was a hardware merchant for i 
 several years in New- York, and then in Alton, 111., where he died | 
 July 30th, 1844, in his thirty-second year. They had five children, | 
 three born in New- York and two in Alton ; one died in infancy, i 
 The others were : Hubert G., bom February 9th, 1836, died July | 
 7th, 1851 ; Roswell Lewis, born May 10th, 1840 ; Brittain Wool- ^ 
 ley, born December 8th, 1841 ; and Mary Louisa. 
 
 Roswell Augustus Lewis became a seaman, and has repeatedly 
 commanded a ship. 
 
 Beal Nathaniel Lewis was a grocery merchant, in New-York. ; 
 He died unmarried December 11th, 1842. i 
 
 John Rooke Lewis resides in New- York. He married Martha 
 Quay Smith, daughter of Ebenezer Smith, in November, 1846, ^ 
 and had a son, Hobart Lewis, bom December 4th, 1847. His 
 wife died February 3d, 1850, in the twenty-third year of her age. 
 
 The widow of Mr. Lewis is still Hving in New- York, with her j 
 children. ' 
 
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 JEREMIAH EYARTS, 
 
 The eldest son of James and Sarah (Todd) Evarts, was born in 
 Sunderland, Vt., February 3d, 1781, whence his parents moved to 
 Georgia, in the same State, when he was six years old. The Todd 
 family, to which his mother belonged, lived in East-Guilford, Ct., 
 now the first parish in Madison, and were distinguished for their 
 love of reading. In January, 1798, Evarts came to East-Guilford 
 and was placed under the instruction of Rev. John Elliot, D.D., 
 pastor of the church, with whom Field and Scranton were then 
 fitting for College. He had acquii-ed a knowledge of the English 
 branches then taught in schools and had commenced the study of 
 he languages, but had not progressed far, and the time was very 
 short for him to prepare to enter College, by the succeeding Sep- 
 temlier, limited as the terms of admission then were. He, how- 
 ever, made such proficiency that he entered at commencement 
 without difficulty, and was probably better fitted than half his 
 Class. During his College course he exhibited many of those 
 attributes which appeared so conspicuously in after-life. 
 
 As he was my room-mate for three years, I knew him perhaps 
 better than any other member of the Class, and can testify to his 
 great intellectual and moral worth. He was methodical, punctual, 
 and accurate in every thing. His lessons were always well studied 
 and understood, and it is saying nothing against his associates to 
 affirm that he was among the very best scholars in his Class. 
 Whenever it came his turn to read a composition, to declaim, or 
 to perform any other exercise, he was always found prepared. 
 Though his reading was rather select than extensive, he read with 
 much attention and profit. As a student it would be difficult to 
 find one more deserving imitation. His morals were most correct. 
 His respect for the Bible and the Sabbath was unusual, and at re- 
 ligious services in the chapel his manner was always serious and 
 devout. Even then he told me that he hoped he was a Christian. 
 However, in February, 1802, his mind became more deeply im- 
 pressed than ever before. His distress was great, as was evident 
 
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 from his countenance and his manner and conversation ; but he 
 soon found peace and joy in believing. Having been akeady well 
 instructed in the truths of religion, he became almost at once a 
 confirmed as well as a humble Christian. He was one of the first 
 converts in the great revival in 1802 ; and his influence was felt 
 upon the whole Class and throughout the College. This revival 
 had a greater efiect in transforming the whole character of the 
 College than any other which it ever witnessed. There have been 
 revivals since in which there were more conversions, but the whole 
 number of students was much greater. On the fourth of April 
 Evarts made a profession of religion, and became a member of the 
 College church. 
 
 In the appointments for commencement he had an English ora- 
 tion, and was to speak at the close of the forenoon exercise. 
 When called upon the stage, some of the audience, wearied bv the 
 length of the preceding performances, were retiring, and there 
 was a rustling in the assembly. In his slender figure there was 
 nothing to arrest the eye. But scarcely had he begun to speak 
 when those about the stage began to listen, and soon the silence 
 spread over the house. His subject was the execution of law. 
 This was illustrated with such clearness of statement, and with 
 such eloquence and solemnity of appeal as awakened universal 
 admiration. Many at that time probably anticipated his future 
 career of honor and usefulness. 
 
 After graduating he taught an Academy in Peacham, Vt., for 
 some time, perhaps a year. He then studied law with Judge 
 Chauncey in I^ew-Haven. President D wight wished to have him 
 for a tutor in the College, but it was the custom then not to ap- 
 point a graduate until he had taken his Master's degree, and be- 
 fore that time arrived he had been admitted to the bar and been 
 married. He commenced the practice of law in New-Haven in 
 July, 1806. In May, 1810, be removed to Charlestown, near 
 Boston, in order to edit the Panoplist, a literary and religious 
 publication, issued monthly, which had been conducted by Dr. 
 Jedediah Morse and others four or five years ; and he superin- 
 
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 tended that work, writing for it a large proportion of the original 
 articles, till the close of 1820, when it was discontinued, and the 
 Missionary Herald was pubhshed in its stead, under the authority 
 of the American Board. This work was also committed to him. 
 He had been chosen Treasurer of the Board in 1812, and the next 
 year one of the Prudential Committee. He served as Treasurer 
 till 1822. In 1821 he succeeded Dr. Worcester as Corresponding 
 Secretary, in which office he continued nearly ten ' years, till his 
 death. Thus he toiled ten years as the Editor of the Panoplist 
 ten years as Treasurer of the Board ^ Missions, and ten years as 
 Corresponding Secretary. In feeble health he took a voyage to 
 the Island of Cuba in February, 1831, and thence in Apjil to 
 Charleston, where, in the house of Rev. Dr. Palmer, he died May 
 10th, 1831, aged fifty years. 
 
 While on his voyage to Cuba, fully aware of the uncertain con- 
 tinuance of his life, he wrote as follows : " Here, in this sea, I 
 consecrate myself to God as my chief good ; to him as my heaven- 
 ly Father, infinitely kind and tender of his children ; to him as my 
 kind and merciful Redeemer, by whose blood and merits alone I 
 do hope for salvatjon ; to him as the beneficent Renewer and 
 Sanctifier of the saved. I implore the forgiveness of my numerous 
 and aggravated transgressions ; and I ask that my remaining time 
 and strength may be employed to the glory of God, my portion, 
 and for the good of his creatures." 
 
 In his last hours his hope of forgiveness and salvation was un- 
 diminished and unshaken. He said: "I wish in these dying 
 words to recognize the great Redeemer as the Saviour from sin 
 and hell ; and recognize the great Spirit of God as the Renovator 
 of God's elect." When it was said to him, " You will soon see 
 Jesus," he exclaimed : " Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful glory ! 
 We can not understand — we can not comprehend — wonderful 
 glory ! I will praise, I will praise Him ! Jesus reigns !" This was 
 no feverish excitement, nor dream of enthusiasm ; but the vision 
 of a dying believer. 
 
 Mr. Evarts' character has been delineated in printed discourses 
 
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 by Dr. Woods and Dr. Spring. In the management of the im- 
 portant interests with which he was entrusted, he manifested scru- 
 pulous integrity. He combined with a sound judgment the ardoi 
 requisite for the accomplishment of great designs. His piety and 
 extensive knowledge of theology, and his accordance with the 
 settled orthodoxy of New-England, secured to him the confidence 
 of the churches in a degree seldom obtained by one not especially 
 trained for the ministry of the Gospel. Free from self-sufficiency 
 and pride, he sought the counsel of his associates ; and especially, 
 with habitual devotion, he sought the guidance and blessing oi 
 God. Though humble, he was yet resolute, determined, and per- 
 severing. Having enlarged views and a vigorous mind, he was 
 not disheartened by difficulties and opposition. Feeble in health, 
 with a thin, slender frame, and destitute of oratorical action, he 
 yet, in his public addresses, arrested attention and produced effect 
 for his conceptions were clear, and his language perspicuous and 
 forcible. His industry was untiring. Besides his labors in editing 
 the Panoplist, he wrote the ten annual reports of the Americar 
 Board from 1821 to 1830, the last of which contains a most 
 weighty and valuable discussion on the fujpre growth of this 
 country and the means of preserving it from ruin. His essays, 
 twenty-four in number, on the rights and claims of the Indians, 
 under the signature of William Penn, were published in 1829 ; and 
 he subsequently wrote other pieces on the same subject, one oj 
 which is an article in the North-American Review. He edited 
 the volume of speeches on the Indian bill, and wrote the introduc- 
 tion.* 
 
 The body of Mr. Evarts, at his request, was examined by his 
 attending physician, and the result proved that his disease was a 
 chronic pulmonary consumption. AH the organs except the lungs 
 were perfectly sound. The lungs were almost completely decayed 
 
 His funeral-ser\dce was attended the following afternoon, and 
 addresses were delivered by Drs. Palmer and McDowell. The 
 remains were conveyed to his family in Boston. ; 
 
 See Allen's Biographical Dictionary. 1 
 
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 About the 1st of September, 1804, Mr. Evarts married Mrs. 
 Mehetable Barnes, of New-Haven, widow of Mr. Daniel Barnes, 
 and daughter of the Hon. Roger Sherman. She had two child- 
 ren by Mr. Barnes — a daughter, who died in infancy, and a 
 son, Daniel, who is still living — and five children by Mr. Evarts, 
 namely^ary Evarts, born December 2d, 1806 ; Martha Sherman, 
 born July 31st, 1809 ; John Jay, born December 6th, 1812 ; Sarah 
 Sherman, born February 26th, 1815 ; William Maxwell, bom 
 February 6th, 1818. 
 
 Mary Evarts was married in 1829 to Rev. David Greene, for 
 many years one of the Secretaries of the American Board. She 
 died at Westborough, Mass., October 25th, 1850, leaving twelve 
 children — seven sons and five daughters, namely, David Braiuerd, 
 Mary Evarts, Anna, Jeremiah Evarts, Samuel, Sarah Elizabeth, 
 Martha Sherman, Roger Sherman, Daniel Crosby, Jane Heriing, 
 William John, and Henry Hill. 
 
 David B. Greene, the eldest of these children, was graduated 
 at Williams College, in 1852, Jeremiah Evarts Greene at Yale 
 College, in 1853, and Roger Sherman Greene at Dartmouth 
 College, in 1859. David B. Greene was tilled in the attack on 
 Arkansas Post, January 11th, 1863. He was then Captain in the 
 Third Missouri Regiment of Volunteers. 
 
 Martha Sherman Evarts was married to E. C. Tracy, one of the 
 editors of the Vermont Chronicle, in 1832, and has had six sons 
 and two daughters, namely, Martha Day Tracy, born October 1st, 
 1833, died November 2d, 1852; Jeremiah Evarts, born January 
 31st, 1835 ; Anna, born October 23d, 1836 ; William Carter, 
 July 14th, 1838; Roger Sherman, born August 10th, 1840, 
 died October 21st, 1841 ; Roger Sherman, born December 9th, 
 1841; John Jay, bom December 23d, 1843; Charles Walker, 
 bom June 28th, 1847. 
 
 Mr. E. C. Tracy died May 15th, 1862. 
 
 Roger Sherman Tracy was graduated at Yale College, in 1 862. 
 
 John Jay Evarts was graduated at Yale College, in 1832, be- 
 came pious in College, and was a young man of great promise. 
 
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 The news of his conversion rejoiced his father, when on his dying 
 bed, and he probably hoped that this son would live many years, 
 and accomplish great good in the Church, when he was gone ; 
 but he was not suffered to continue long on earth. He died in the 
 summer of 1833, and thus soon joined his father in a better world. 
 
 Sarah Sherman Evarts died in 1826, in her eleventh ye*. 
 
 WilHam Maxwell Evarts, thus named from regard to his 
 father's beloved classmate, Hon. William Maxwell, of Virginia, 
 was graduated at Yale College, in 1837, and began the practice of 
 law in the city of New- York, where he soon rose to eminence in 
 his profession. He is now one of the foremost lawyers at the bar 
 of that city. He was married to Helen M. Wardnej", August 
 30th, 1843, and has had twelve children, seven sons and five 
 daughters, as follows : Charles Butler, born February I7th, 1845 ; 
 Roger Sherman, born January 29th, 1847, died February 4tb, 
 1849 ; Allen Wardner, bom December 10th, 1848 ; William, bom 
 March 3d, 1851 ; Hettie Sherman, born November 28th, 1852 ; 
 Mary, born July 16th, 1854; Helen Minerva, bom March 8th, 
 1856; Elizabeth Hoar, born January 4th, 1858; Sherman and 
 Prescott, twins, born October 10th, 1859 ; Louisa Wardner, born 
 June 10th, 1861; Maxwell, born November 15th, 1862. All are 
 still living, excepting Roger Sherman. 
 
 Mrs. Evarts, the widow of Jeremiah Evarts, died at the house 
 of this son, March 5th, 1851, aged seventy-seven* 
 
 HENRY BIGELOW 
 
 Was a son of Azariah and Margaret (Foote) Bigelow, and born 
 in that part of the town of Colchester which at present forms 
 a portion of Marlborough. He was fitted for College by Rev. 
 Ichabod Lord Skinner, minister in Coventry. He was a subject 
 of the revival in College in 1802, and studied theology with Dr. 
 Charles Backus, of Somers. He became pastor of the Church in 
 Middletown, a small town in Rutland County, Yt., in September, 
 1805, where he remained until his death, June 25th, 1832, when 
 
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 he was in tbe fifty-fifth year of his age. He admitted about one 
 hundred and fifty persons to his Church. 
 
 In 1803 he married Abigail Clarke, a niece by marriage of his 
 theological instructor, in whose family she had lived many years. 
 They had seven children, Margardpfroote, Abigail Clarke, Nancy 
 Hill, Aaron Henry, Philip Doddridge, Lucia Lorain, EHza Jane. 
 
 Margaret Foote Bigelow married Aiden H. Green, of Danby, 
 Vt. She had two children, Henry Bigelow and Horace Clarke. 
 She died in Middletown, December 10th, 1840, and sleeps by the 
 side of her father in the graveyard in that place. 
 
 In June, 1840, Mrs. Bigelow, with several children, moved to 
 Royalton, Fairfield County, Ohio, and thence to Finley, Hancock 
 County, in the same State, where she died, April 10th, 1852. 
 
 Abigail Clarke Bigelow married Amos Frisbie, a physician, and 
 had two children, Celestia and Angelicia. She died in Ohio, in 
 February, 1846. 
 
 Nancy Hill Bigelow married Alva Paul, a physician. She has 
 four children living, Henry Bigelow, Horace, Leroy and Helen. 
 
 Aaron Henry Bigelow was graduated at Middlebury College, 
 in 1836. He married Eliza Ann Green, of Danby, Vt., and moved 
 to Finley, Hancock County, where he is a practicing lawyer. He 
 has four children, Margaret Foote, Clarinda Adelaide, Edwin 
 Green, and Nelhe Vermont. 
 
 JPhilip Doddridge Bigelow married Harriet H. Frisbie, of Ohio, 
 formerly of Vermont. He has three children living, Frank Frisbie, 
 Charhe Henry, and Ellen Jane, and has buried one, Effie Lorain. 
 
 Lucia Lorain Bigelow married Elijah Williams, a lawyer, and 
 moved to Salem, Oregon. She has tw^o children, Helen Lorain 
 and Emmet Bigelow. 
 
 Eliza Jane Bigelow married Ezra Brown, a lawyer, and has one 
 child living, a daughter. She had a son, Clarke W. Brown, who 
 died in the service of his country, at Memphis, Tenn., April 13th, 
 1863. He was a member of the 57th Regiment of Ohio Volun. 
 teers. 
 
 All the children of Mr. Bigelow were professors of religion. 
 
CHARLES SHELTON, 
 
 A native of Huntington, Ct., was fitted for College by Rev. 
 David Ely, D.D., of that town, along with his cousin, Nathan 
 Shelton, Gideon Tomlinson, J<4|i B. Judson, Charles Judson, and 
 Hezekiah Marks, the three last of whom did not graduate. His 
 relatives state that he read theology for a time, which was pro- 
 bably done with some expectation and design of becoming a min- 
 ister of the Gospel in the Episcopal Church. He did not, how- 
 ever, take orders, but turned his attention to medicine. He 
 studied with Dr. William Shelton, an eminent practitioner and 
 teacher of medicine in Huntington. He settled as a physician 
 in Cheshire, and had a large practice. Beside attending to the 
 duties of his profession, he was several years a selectman and 
 justice of the peace in the town, repeatedly a Representative to 
 the General Assembly of the State, and one year a State Senator. 
 He was a member of the Episcopal Church. He died August 
 28th, 1832, aged fifty. His widow has since lived with her 
 daughter. 
 
 Dr. Shelton married May 9th, 1813, Lucinda Cornwall, daugh- 
 ter of Dr. Thomas T. Cornwall, of Cheshire, and had three child- 
 ren, Charles, Grace A., and William Roderic. 
 
 Charles Shelton, the oldest son, in 1838 married Caroline 
 Casilier, daughter of John Casilier, of New- York. They lived 
 for a time in Cheshire, but now live in New-Haven, where he has 
 been a wholesale grocer. They have no children. 
 
 Grace A. Shelton was married to E. W. Budington, formerly 
 of New-Haven, afterward of Rosendale, Ulster County, N. Y., 
 and now resides in Kingston, N. Y. They have had nine child- 
 ren — three sons and six daughters — ^but only six of the children 
 are living, namely, Mary Lucinda, Edward Augustus, Inez 
 Augusta, and three who are younger. Mr. Budington has been 
 engaged successfully in manufacturing hydraulic cement. 
 
 William Roderic Shelton for some four years was a wholesale 
 grocery dealer in Wilmington, N. C. ; but the climate being un- 
 
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 favorable to health, he returned to the Xorth, and for about three 
 years was a paper manufacturer in the firm of Shelton and Mal- 
 lory, in Westville, in the town of New-Haven. He has since been 
 a partner with his brother, in New-Haven. 
 
 In October, 1846, he married Anna L. Casilier, a sister of 
 his brother's wife. They have one child, Charles WilUam Shel- 
 ton, born March 28th, 1849. ^ 
 
 For the last six years Charles and Wm. R. Shelton have been 
 engaged, separately, as brokers. 
 
 CHARLES PRENTICE, 
 
 Son of John and Martha (Clement) Prentice, of Bethlem, Ct., was 
 fitted for College by his pastor. Rev. Azel Backus. He studied 
 theology with Dr. Charles Backus, of Somers, uncle of Azel 
 Backus, and was ordained over the Church in South-Canaan, 
 September 20th, 1804, where he remained in the pastoral office 
 through life, which was closed after a year of great sufiering and 
 gradual wasting away, induced by a chronic disease of the 
 stomach. May 29th, 1838, when he was sixty years of age. 
 
 The character which he bore in College he sustained through 
 life. He was diligent, pious, and was beloved and esteemed hy 
 his classmates, his clerical brethren, his people, and all his ac- 
 quaintances. He loved his sacred work, and made it his great 
 object, after entering the ministry, to discharge its duties with 
 fidelity. He watched for souls as one that must give account, 
 and was permitted to rejoice in the hopeful conversion of a large 
 number through his instrumentaUty. The Gospel he preached to 
 others sustained him in his labors and in his trials, particularly in 
 his last sickness. Rev. Mr. Beach, who was settled in the min- 
 istry about the same time, and knew him intimately, preached at 
 his funeral, and did justice to his worth. Devout men carried 
 him to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. 
 
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 Mr. Prentice married twice. His first wife was Clarissa Kas- 
 son, of Bethlem, whom he married June 5th, 1804, and who 
 died in the triumphs of faith on the 25th of May, the next year. 
 An interesting memoir of her was given in the Connecticut 
 Evangelical Magazine for November, 1805. It is too long for in- 
 sertion here. The tenor of the whole, however, may be seen from 
 a single paragraph, which is as follows : 
 
 "Mrs. Prentice's natural powers of mind were much above 
 mediocrity. She had an uncommon taste for human and divine 
 knowledge, which she assiduously cultivated. Her conduct in 
 the various relations which she sustained was highly commend- 
 able. She was dutiful, affectionate, benevolent, and faithful, as a 
 child, sister, neighbor and wife. She was peculiarly successful in 
 conciliating the affections of all within the circle of her acquaint- 
 ance. But her greatest excellence w^as her attachment to the 
 Redeemer and his glorious Gospel. As a Christian, she shone 
 with uncommon brightness for several years ; and on the bed of 
 death, and at the closing scene her exercises and prospects were 
 such as few have experienced or witnessed in this vale of tears." 
 
 This excellent woman left one child, for whom her chief desire 
 was that, if found worthy, he might become a minister of the 
 Gospel. This child was Charles Theron Prentice, who was 
 graduated at Yale College, in 1832, and afterward settled in the 
 ministry in Easton, Ct., where he still resides, though impaired 
 health, some time since, led him to take a dismission ; but he still 
 preaches occasionally. He is the Preceptor of the Academy. 
 
 Mr. Prentice married his second wife in Goshen, November 
 24th, 1807, Miss Clarinda Parmalee, by whom he had nine 
 children, two of whom died in infancy. The others were : Cla- 
 rinda Prentice, born October 2d, 1810 ; Eliza Alma, bom No- 
 vember 15th, 1812; Theodore Parmalee, born June 23d, 1815; 
 Martha Clemens, born April 15th, 1817; Henry Hudson, born 
 August 27th, 1819; Edwin Dwight, born December 17th, 1821 ; 
 Mary Keziah, bom October 10th, 1824. 
 
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 Charles Theron Prentice married Harriet Ensign, of South- 
 Canaan, April 28th, 1835. They have no children. 
 
 Clarinda Prentice was married to Sidney Ensign, of South- 
 Canaan, January 13th, 1833. They have had five children — four 
 sons and one daughter: Sidney Prentice, bom March 1st, 1833; 
 Charles Lee, born January 11th, 1839 ; Ely, born December 19th, 
 1841; Martha Clemens, born January 11th, 1845; Theodore 
 James, born January 9th, 1848. 
 
 Mr. Ensign is brother of C. T. Prentice's wife. He has been a 
 manufacturer. His wife died July 15th, 1857, greatly beloved 
 and lamented. 
 
 Eliza Alma Prentice was married to Dr. Lucius S. Adams, of 
 New-Marlborough, January 1st, 1835, a physician for a time in 
 Canaan, Ct., but who has been for some years since in Stock- 
 bridge, Mass., where he is still practicing. They have three 
 children: John Quincy Adams, born April 19th, 1837; Sarah 
 Williams, born September 21st, 1839 ; Charles Prentice, born Oc- 
 tober 12th, 1844, and now in the army in Louisiana. 
 
 Theodore Parmalee Prentice married Sarah Hoskins, of South- 
 Canaan, September 1st, 1841, and had one child, a daughter. 
 The father died in 1848, greatly lamented. 
 
 Martha Clemens Prentice, a very promising young woman, 
 died about 1835, aged sixteen, in the exercise of a joyful Christ- 
 ian hope. 
 
 Henry Hudson Prentice is a printer. He formerly lived in 
 Hartford, Ct., but now lives in Cambridge, Mass. Li October, 
 1844, he married Frances D. King, of Hartford, and has had four 
 sons and three daughters. His wife died September, 1860, and he 
 is now in the army in Louisiana, in the Forty-first Regiment Mas- 
 sachusetts Volunteers. 
 
 Mary Keziah Prentice was raari'ied to Rev. Charles B. Sheldon, 
 of Stockbridge, May 13th, 1847. He is laboring in the ministry, 
 in the town of Excelsior, Minnesota. They have had eight child- 
 ren, one that died in infancy, and was not named, Clara, Harriet, 
 Eliza, Mary, Henry, Charles, Martha, and Frank. 
 
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 r. Edwin Dwight Prentice was a merchant in South-Canaan, and 
 afterward in Sacramento, Cal., where he died in March, 1862. He 
 married Clarissa Stoddard, of Elizabeth, N. J., June 23d, 1851. 
 They have had five children — two daughters and three sons — 
 one of whom, a fine little boy of four years, died in September, 
 1862. 
 
 All the surviving children of Mr. Prentice, with one exception, 
 are professors of religion. 
 
 His widow is still living, is in good health, and spends her time 
 with her children. 
 
 LEVI HUBBARD CLARKE 
 
 Was bom in the town of Sunderland, Mass., though the family 
 to which he belonged were from Northampton. He was fitted 
 for College by Dr. Lyman, of Hatfield, and entered the beginning 
 of Sophomore year. He held a respectable standing in his class, 
 and was very ready in composition, as he was also a rapid penman. 
 After being graduated, he was associated with Couch for a time in 
 teaching school in New-Haven, pursuing in the mean while the 
 study of law with Judge Chauncey. He studied law afterward 
 with Asa Bacon, Esq., at Canterbury. In the spring of 1805 he 
 commenced practice in Haddam, whence he removed to Mid- 
 town in 1807 or '8, in both which places he had considerable 
 practice. About 1816 he removed to Carthage, N". Y., invested 
 property in that village, and engaged in the building of the 
 famous Carthage Bridge, which was completed in 1819, which 
 Colonel Brainerd, the architect, insured for a year, and which 
 stood one year and one day, and then fell, exempting him from 
 damage, and throwing the entire loss on those for whom it was 
 built. In the destruction of this bridge much of the property of 
 Mr. Clarke was lost, and more in the lowering of the value of 
 the lots in the contemplated village adjoining it, which depended 
 very much for its growth, business, and respectability, upon its 
 
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 standing^ for many years, and on which great expectations were 
 built* 
 
 The village, at the time, was in his hands and the hands of 
 Elisha B. Strong ; a previous owner, Elisha Beach, having sold 
 out. Upon these calamities, Mr. Clarke did not give himself up 
 to useless regrets, but resorted to the use of his pen for support. 
 He reported the proceedings of the IS^ew-York Legislature for 
 the New- York American, soon after the estabhshment of that 
 paper. In 1821 he reported the proceedings of the Convention, 
 which prepared a new Constitution for the State, partly in con- 
 nection with Colonel William L. Stone. Finally his Reports 
 were published in an octavo volume, called Clarke's Reports, 
 while Colonel Stone and a Mr. Carter published their Reports by 
 themselves. Upon the creation of the County of Monroe in that 
 year, Mr. Clarke was appointed a Judge of the County Court, 
 but did not long act in that capacity. Removing to New- York 
 City, he became an assistant editor of the American, then con- 
 ducted by Johnson and Verplanck, Mr. King being at that time 
 in England. For a year he was Secretary of the Greenwich In- 
 surance Company. In 1825 and '6 he traveled in Europe, visiting 
 England, Ireland, France, and the Netherlands ; his letters being 
 published in the Commercial Advertiser. While abroad, he was 
 solicited by Mr. Carter, editor of the Statesman, to return and 
 take charge of that paper, or purchase it ; and he afterward pur- 
 chased it, and edited it for some years. This paper was discon- 
 tinued, and he purchased the Morning Herald — an enterprise 
 which proved unsuccessful. In 1832 he was Secretary of the 
 Colonization Society in New- York; and in 1833 he took the 
 place of Robert Sands, as an editor of the Commercial Ad- 
 vertiser, and edited that paper, in connection with Colonel Stone, 
 until he was appointed a Justice of the Seventh, Tenth, and Fif- 
 
 * This bridge was of one arch, the chord 352 feet, the versed sine 54, the 
 entire length 718, width 30, summit of the arch 196 feet above the water. 
 The most lofty arch in Europe then was 116 feet less in length than this, 
 and the arch not as high by 96 feet. 
 
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 teenth Wards of the city of New- York in 1835 — an office which 
 he held until the June previous to his death. 
 
 In the autumn of 1838, while residing temporarily in New- 
 Haven, he was taken with a paralysis at the house of Mr. Timothy 
 Dwight, which threatened his life. He recovered, however, so far 
 that he performed the duties o*f his office through the following 
 winter, though his understanding hardly regained its former vigor. 
 In March, 1839, he had another stroke, after which his mind was 
 evidently more impaired; and from that time shocks occurred 
 about once ^ month as long as he lived. In July of this year he 
 was moved to the house of a brother in Feeding Hills in West- 
 Springfield, where he died February 6th, 1840, aged fifty-seven. 
 His body was conveyed to Middletown and buried by the side of 
 his wife, Mary Ann (Griswold) Clarke, who had died in that city 
 twenty-eight years before, namely, January 30th, 1812, aged 
 twenty-six. 
 
 She was a daughter of Deacon John Griswold, of Lyme, eldest 
 son of Governor Matthew Griswold, and brother of Governor 
 Roger Griswold, and Senator Matthew Griswold. They were 
 married in November, 1809, and had one child, a daughter whom 
 they called Elizabeth Brainerd Clarke, in remembrance of Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Brainerd, widow of Dr. Hezekiah Brainerd, of Haddam, 
 a venerable maternal aunt of Mrs. Clarke, and a special friend of 
 Mr. Clarke himself, in whose family he boarded, and to whose 
 daughter Mary there is some reason to believe he was engaged, 
 though the marriage was prevented by her sickness and early 
 death. 
 
 The daughter of Mr. Clarke was married to Bushnell White, 
 Esq., a native of Franklin county, Mass., and a graduate of Wil- 
 liams College in 1836. He has been for many years a lawyer in 
 Cleveland, Ohio, where they still reside. They have two children : 
 John Griswold White, bom August 10th, 1845 ; Mary Noyes, 
 born February 22d, 1849. 
 
 In the spring of 1838, before Mr. Clarke's first attack of para- 
 lysis, he united with the Presbyterian Church in Murray street, 
 
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 ]^ew-York, under the care of Rev. Dr. Macaulay. Sooiuiifter this 
 he wrote me a letter speaking freely of his own experience. 
 
 Religion had a happy influence on his heart and life, and served 
 to comfort and sustain him during his long illness. His friend, 
 Colonel Stone, in an obituary notice, speaks of him as having 
 warm, affectionate feelings, and tender sensibility ; as retiring and 
 diffident, but possessing sterling probity and honor, unusual re- 
 gard to truth, and as being very religious in the last two years of 
 his life. 
 
 THOMAS FORD 
 
 Was from Georgetown, South-Carolina. He was rather below 
 the ordinary size of his classmates, but well formed and gentle- 
 manly in his appearance. His preparatory course was pursuedi 
 in New-London, Ct., perhaps with Rev. Henry Channing, theni 
 pastor of the Congregational Church in that city. He became 
 pious while in College, and a member of the College Church. 
 After graduation he did not study a profession, but retired to his. 
 valuable rice plantation on Black River, seven or eight miles from 
 Georgetown. He was a humane and kind master to his servants.. 
 As there was no Congregational nor Presbyterian Church near 
 him, he worshipped with the Episcopal Church in Georgetown* 
 He married and had eight children — seven sons and one daughter. 
 But his wife and all these children died before him. He himself 
 died November 15th, 1840, in his fifty-eighth year; so that this 
 large family is extinct. He was a man of unimpeachable char- 
 acter and high respectability, and his death was lamented by the* 
 whole community around him., 
 
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 JOHN NELSON LLOYD 
 
 Was born at Lloyd's Neck, a valuable tract of land of three 
 thousand acres, pertaining to the town of Oyster Bay, Queen's 
 County, L L ; a tract which had belonged to the Lloyd family 
 from the time ©f the first English settlements at that place, and 
 which was once erected into a manor called Queen's Village. 
 This is said to be the scene of a poem, written by William 
 Livingston, of New-Jersey, and who afterward became Governor 
 of that State,, styled " Philo60j)hic Solitude ; or, The Choice of 
 Rural Life," puWished in 1747. As he was heir to a part of this 
 large property, Lloyd was perhaps the wealthiest member of our 
 class, w^hich, however, could not boast of many who had a large 
 share of this world's goods. This, indeed, was no great loss, 
 since poverty may liave stimulated them to greater effort, and 
 thus in the end have contributed to tlieir respectability and 
 success. 
 
 Though small in size, Lloyd was well proportioned, and gen- 
 tlemanly in his manners. He excelled very much in declamation. 
 His speaking was admirable. After taking his degree, he retired 
 to his estate and took the general oversight of it ; while its more 
 particular management was intrusted to an overseer. There he 
 lived generally, though he spent much of his time in the city of 
 New-York, where he was for a while connected with George 
 Fitch in the fur-trade, Avhich it is understood was profitable to 
 him. 
 
 He married Phebe T. Coles, daughter of General Nathaniel 
 Coles, of Dosoris, and had four children, John Nelson, Ange- 
 lina, Phebe, and Henry Lloyd. His wife died June 20th, 1823, 
 aged thirty-four ; and it is a remarkable fact that she became 
 pious in her last sickness by the study of the Bible alone. A 
 remark made in her hearing led her to a careful examination 
 of the sacred volume, which became to her the power of God and 
 the wisdom of God unto salvation. 
 
 Mr. Lloyd survived his wife until his children were of age. He 
 
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 became a professor of religion in College. For a time afterward 
 he attended public worship at Huntington, L. I. At another 
 period he had a religious teacher on the ISTeck, and was careful to 
 have all the inhabitants attend upon the means of grace. But at 
 length he omitted attendance on public worship, probably from 
 mental depression, as he gradually sunk into a deep melancholy, 
 in which state he continued for about four months before his 
 death, which took place in the city of New- York, May 31st, 1841, 
 in the fifty-eighth year of his age. His body was interred at 
 Lloyd's Neck. 
 
 His oldest son, bearing his father's name, is unmarried. 
 
 Angelina Lloyd was married to Joseph Milnor Higbie, of 
 Trenton, N. J. He died some years since, leaving one child, 
 a daughter. The widow and daughter reside in New-York. 
 
 Phebe Lloyd is the wife of Dr. Alexander H. Stevens, an emi- 
 nent physician and surgeon of New- York, who has been Pres- 
 ident of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. They have 
 had five children — three sons, who are living, and two daughters, 
 who are dead. 
 
 Henry Lloyd lives on the old homestead at Lloyd's Neck. He 
 married Caroline Brandigee, of New- York City, and has one 
 child, Henry Lloyd, Jr. 
 
 DAVID AUSTIN SHERMAN, 
 
 Of New-Haven, was a son of John Sherman and grandson of 
 the celebrated Roger Sherman. After graduating, he spent two 
 years in New-Haven, in the pursuit of general literature. From 
 1804 to 1810 he was a tutor in Yale College. Whether for the 
 next two years he was engaged in teaching I do not know, but 
 probably he was chiefly occupied in the study of theology ; for in 
 the Minutes of the General Association of Connecticut for June, 
 1813, he is named among the licentiates for preaching the Gospel. 
 From the autumn of 1815 to the autumn of 1816 he was pre- 
 ceptor of Bacon Academy in Colchester, preaching more or less 
 
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 on the Sabbatb in the vicinity. From this situation he was called 
 to the Presidency of a College in East-Tennessee, over which he 
 presided nine or ten years, and then left the institution in con- 
 sequence of impaired health. Afterward he was Professor of 
 Belles Lettres and Philology in the Polytechnic School at Chitte- 
 nango, IS". Y. After leaving that institution he made his home for 
 some time with his brother, Deacon Charles Sherman, at Suffield, 
 preaching in different places. On the 8th of May, 1 840, he was 
 ordained at New-Haven, and then proceeded to Wisconsin, under 
 the patronage of the American Home Missionary Society. He 
 was stationed at East-Troy, about thirty miles south-west of Mil- 
 waukee. He was useful as a missionary, particularly as a 
 counsellor to his younger brethren. In the latter part of 1843 he 
 became feeble : " he had a little of the fever and ague, and his 
 system ran down too low to be restored." He died in peace at 
 Racine. December 16th, aged sixty-two. In remarking upon his 
 death, the editor of the Home Missionary observes.: "Few 
 clergymen have sought the "West with equal maturity of mind, 
 intellectual discipline and furniture, and a simpler aim to be spent 
 in the service of his Master. The summons to a higher sphere 
 found him busy at his work, down to the latest practicable 
 hour." 
 
 It pleased the Lord to make Mr. Sherman the subject of great 
 domestic affliction. His wife, who was Miss Mary Ann Babcock, 
 of Stonington, and to whom he was married in September, 1813, 
 became deranged, and died in less than two years after their mar- 
 riage, leaving an only son, who bore the name of David Sherman. 
 This son was classically educated at Chittenango, and legally at 
 Xew-Haven. He read and remembered much, and was regarded 
 as a young man of good attainments. He went to the South, and 
 it is supposed was admitted to the bar at Columbia, Ga. Here 
 he became deranged, as he had been at times before. Recovering 
 in a measure, he set out to return home. On his way, it is under- 
 stood somewhere in South-Carolina, he went into a house where 
 there were some females, and by his appearance and actions 
 alarmed them, being himself armed. In their agitation they ral- 
 
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 lied men, who went in pursuit of him and followed him into the 
 woods. He was on horseback and turned upon them, 8(n^ they 
 shot him. He fell, but did not expire instantly ; and it is very 
 possible that the loss of blood in a measure restored his reason. 
 He told his pursuers who he was, and soon breathed his last. This 
 sad event occurred in 1840, when he was at the age of twenty- 
 five. 
 
 WILLIAM FOWLER BRAINARD 
 
 Was a son of Jeremiah Gates Brainard, a lawyer of New-London 
 and for many years a judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut. 
 He was fitted for College by Jacob B. Gurley, entered Yale in 
 1798, and throughout his College course was one of the best 
 scholars in his Class. He studied law with his father, and prac- 
 ticed through life in his native place ; was an able advocate, often 
 very humorous, and not unfrequently brilliant. The members of 
 the New-London bar still recall his memorable sayings, while his 
 opinions on matters of law are quoted as a kind of authority. 
 They often refer to him and say, Brainard used to say so and so. 
 He was also a fine writer. Two addresses of his — one delivered 
 before a Masonic Lodge, and the other at the laying of the corner- 
 stone of the Groton Monument — have been published, and excited 
 much attention. The former passed through three editions. The 
 latter displays much genius and great care and felicity of composi- 
 tion. When the distinguished Roger Griswold became Governor 
 of Connecticut, Mr. Brainard was appointed one of his aids ; he 
 was also a justice of the peace, a notary public, and a representa- 
 tive to the General Assembly. 
 
 He was a constant attendant upon public worship, and for years 
 before his death he maintained worship in his house from a convic- 
 tion that it was a duty he owed to his family. In January, 1843, 
 he became a member of the First Congregational Church in New- 
 London, and died April 27th, 1844, aged sixty years. 
 
 He married twice, first Ann Learned, daughter of Hon. Amasa 
 
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 Learned, for some years a representative in the Congress of the ^ 
 United States, and by her had one child, a daughter, which lived \ 
 only one or two days. This wife died, it is believed, in 1816. He ^ 
 remained single after her death until March 18th, 1832, when he i 
 married Sarah A. Prentis, daughter of John Prentis, by whom j 
 he had four children: Lucretia Brainard, born November 11th, j 
 1833; Sarah Prentis, born July 13th, 1835; Mary, bora June ■ 
 19th, 1837 ; John, born June 11th, 1841, died June 8th, 1843. i 
 
 Lucretia Brainard, the eldest daughter, was married August ; 
 1st, 1854, to Robert Coit, Jr., of New-London, an attorney-at- | 
 law. They have had two children, Mary Gardiner, born January, '\ 
 1857, died January, 1860, and William Brainard, born July, 1862. 
 
 The other two daughters are unmarried. They are living with \ 
 their mother, in the old family mansion. ' 
 
 RICHARD WILLIAMS , j 
 
 Was born April 17th, 1780. He was the son of Nathaniel and ; 
 Lois Williams, of the first society in Lebanon, Ct., and w^as proba- ] 
 bly fitted for College either by Rev. Zebulon Ely, Pastor of the 
 Congregational Society, or by a Mr. Hinckley, a noted teacher of ] 
 youth in that place. He studied theology with Dr. Joseph Strong, i 
 of Norwich Town, and it is understood professed religion in his \ 
 church while under his instruction. He was ordained in Brook- i 
 field, Ct., in the summer of 1807, and dismissed in 1811. In 1812 ^ 
 he was installed in the first week in January at Cairo, N. Y., by the \ 
 Presbytery of Columbia county, and dismissed from that charge '. 
 in January, 1816. He afterward labored as a missionary three 1 
 months among the scattered people on the Catskill Mountains. In i 
 1817 he removed to Connecticut and supplied the church in Salem i 
 one year. In 1818 he labored as a missionary in the parish of^ 
 Chaplin, (town of Mansfield,) in the same State, three months. I 
 In 1819 he acted as a supply in Salisbury, and in 1820, until June, ' 
 in North-Coventry. He then went to Penn Yan, N. Y., and in ^ 
 September of that year was installed there by the Presbytery of 
 
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 Geneva, and though dismissed from that charge in September, 
 1825, he remained through life a member of that body. In 1826 
 he removed to Horseheads, now Fairport, in the same State, sup- 
 plied there, and at Southport, opposite Elmira, four years, then in 
 Tioga county, and afterward in Chenango. In 1830 he supplied 
 at Reading, in Steuben county ; he then removed to Springfield 
 and supplied there two years. Afterward he engaged in the Bible 
 cause and continued in that employment until 1842, distributing 
 Bibles during that period in the counties of Cayuga, Onondaga, 
 Seneca, Ontario, Wayne, Yates, Madison, Oneida, Cortland, Che- 
 nango, Broome, and Tompkins, N. Y. He Avent from house to 
 house, supplying every needy family. He was a warm friend of 
 the New-School Presbyterian Church, and an earnest advocate of 
 the cause of Temperance and Anti-Slavery. 
 
 After this, by a mysterious Providence, he had one or two fits 
 which affected his reason so that he became insane, and was in- 
 capable of performing any kind of labor as long as he lived. He 
 died at Union Springs, N. Y., November 15th, 1844, aged sixty- 
 six years. 
 
 The wife of Mr. Williams was Electa White, daughter of Daniel 
 and Sarah Hale White of Andover, Ct., and was born February 
 SOth, 1783. They were married May 18th, 1808. She suffered 
 much from sickness after his death, but bore her affliction witii 
 submission to the Divine will. She died at Union Springs, March 
 25th, 1851, aged sixty-eight years. They had nine children, 
 namely, Samuel W. Williams, born April 1st, 1809 ; Sophia, born 
 August 10th, 1810; Justin, born May 1st, 1813; Electa, born 
 January 15th, 1816 ; Charles C, and Caroline C, born January 
 16th, 1818; Elizabeth H., born August 27th, 1820; Harriet Allen, 
 born April 12th, 1825 ; Richard, born July 28th, 1828. 
 
 Samuel W. Williams married Mary Marsh, January 26th, 1834. 
 They reside in Norwich, N. Y., where he is a deacon in the Con- 
 gregational Church. They have had seven children, three sons 
 and four daughters, all of whom are living. One son, George, 
 married Eliza Davis, April 2d, 1863, and lives at Oxford, N. Y. 
 
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 Sophia Williams was married to Joshua Davis September 12th, 
 1833. They lived some time at Union Springs, X. Y., but now 
 live at Hudson, Mich., sixteen miles west of Adrian. They have 
 had seven children, five sons and two daughters, all living except- 
 ing two of the sons. One daughter, Emma, is married, and is 
 living near Hudson. Two sons are graduates of a College in 
 Michigan, and are both in the army. 
 
 Justin Williams resides at Seneca Falls. 
 . Electa Williams was married to Benjamin F. Davis August 
 13th, 1844. They resided at Phenixville, Pa., some time, but 
 now at West-Whiteland, Chester county, Pa. They have three 
 sons and one daughter. 
 
 Caroline C. and Charles C. Williams were twins. Caroline was 
 married to William Anthony September 22d, 1842. They lived at 
 Union Springs for a time, but now reside at Santa Cruz, California, 
 where he is largely engaged in the tin and iron business. He is a 
 deacon in a Congregational church. They have had nine children, 
 two of whom are dead. 
 
 Charles C. Williams married Catharine Everts in 1853, at Hud- 
 son, N. Y., where he lived from boyhood with Dr. White. Has 
 resided in Western New- York, at Auburn, Seneca Falls, Medina, 
 and Union Springs. His health was poor, and he is now in Santa 
 Cruz to recruit it. His family are at Stockbridge, Mass. They 
 have had three children, of whom but one is living. 
 
 Elizabeth H. Williams removed to Santa Cruz, Cal., where, in 
 1855, she was married to Charles Rufiher, who was from Massa- 
 chusetts, but is now a farmer in Santa Cruz. They have two 
 children. 
 
 Harriet A. Williams was married to Isaac W. Allen May Vth, 
 1850. They lived in Aurelius about seven yeai-s, then at Seneca 
 Falls. Recently they removed to Chicago. They have had seven 
 children, six of whom are living. 
 
 Richard Williams resided for some time at Wellsborough, Tioga 
 county, Pa., but afterward removed to Santa Cruz, Cal., where he 
 married Isabella Pollard, a lady from New-England. They have 
 one child. 
 
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 ISAAC CHAPMAN BATES 
 
 "Was a son of Colonel Jacob Bates, a lieutenant in the Revolution- 
 ary War, and Ruth Robinson Bates, of Granville, Mass. The 
 family moved to that place from the east part of Durham, Ct., 
 which had previously belonged to Haddam. He was borii Jan- 
 uary 23d, 1779, and was fitted for College by Rev. Timothy M. 
 Cooley, D.D., of East-Granville, with two or three others of the 
 Class, and entered Freshman year. He was. tall, well propor- 
 tioned, and athletic. He was a diligent and excellent scholar, a 
 fine writer and speaker. An 'oration which he delivered in Junior 
 year on the destructive tendency of novels was much applauded. 
 When the Class was graduated he was our valedictorian, and he 
 acquitted himself so as to receive the admiration of the vast 
 assembly before him. 
 
 After leaving College he studied law with Seth P. Staples, Esq., 
 of New-Haven, afterward of New- York, in whose family he board- 
 ed. He settled in Northampton, and was admitted to plead be- 
 fore the County Court at the May term in 1805, and before the 
 Supreme Court in 1808, and soon took a prominent rank among 
 the members of the bar in Western Massachusetts. One thing 
 which brought him into favorable notice, almost immediately upon 
 his coming to Northampton, was an oration which he delivered on 
 the fourth of July, 1805. The occasion was suited to his taste and 
 talents, and he prepared himself thoroughly for it. It made .him 
 known, and drew the hearts of the people toward him. Very few 
 • could interest a large assembly more. His commanding form, his 
 clear and forcible elocution, and large views of truth and of duty, 
 for one of his years, were presented with unusual felicity and force. 
 Of this, not only is the oration now mentioned a proof, but his 
 address before the Washington Benevolent Society in 1812, and 
 his spsech before, the National Bible Society in New- York in 1825. 
 The Rev. Mr. Williams, of Northampton, not long after the de- 
 livery of the oration, spoke of him m my hearing as having " the 
 style of the prophet Isaiah." In his profession he did not seek so 
 
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 much to be a strictly technical lawyer as to give a fair construc- 
 tion of law, and then to defend and secure the rights of his clients 
 by lucid and manly argument. 
 
 He was not only much employed in professional, but in civil life. 
 In 1808-9 he was a representative in the Legislature of Massa- 
 chusetts and once afterward, but in December, 1817, he took his 
 seat as a representative in Congress, where he was continued by 
 successive elections for eight years, and then declined a reelection. 
 Subsequently to these honors, he was a representative one year to 
 the Legislature of the State, and for two years a member of the 
 Governor's Council. In one instance he was an elector of the 
 President and Vice-President of the United States. In 1841 he 
 was chosen United States Senator for the unexpired term of the 
 Hon. John Davis, who had been elected Governor of Massa- 
 chusetts. When this term had expired Mr. Bates was reelected 
 Senator for six years. But this appointment, in the righteous Pro- 
 vidence of God, he was not permitted wholly to fulfil. He died 
 in the city of Washington, on Sunday, March 16th, 1845, aged 
 sixty-six years. 
 
 Seldom has a public man been more truly mourned. The 
 highest testimony to his worth was given in the body of which 
 he was a member. The next morning the Senate w^as crowded 
 with a large concourse, including many of the Foreign Ministers. 
 As soon as the Minutes were read, and a new member had been 
 sworn in, the Hon. Daniel Webster arose, amid the profoundest 
 silence, and in a voice which penetrated every heart, and drew 
 tears from many a manly eye, and which more than once embar-^ 
 rassed and suspended his own utterance, addressed the Senate as 
 follows : 
 
 " While we are hastening to bring our session to a close, a 
 melancholy event, the forecoming shadow of which, growing 
 every hour deeper and darker, has hung over us for some days, 
 at length arrests our attention. One of our number is no more. 
 Isaac Chapman Bates, a Senator from Massachusetts, departed 
 this life, at his lodgings in this city, yesterday, at twenty minutes 
 
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 past six o'clock in the afternoon, in the sixty-sixth year of his 
 age. At the moment when we are about to separate for our re- 
 spective homes, to meet the circles of affection and friendship 
 which are ready to welcome us, it has pleased Heaven that he 
 should pass * that bourne whence no traveler returns.' 
 
 "Mr. Bates had been undoubtedly much overworked in the 
 discharge of the duties of his station during the late session of 
 Congress. Already fatigued and exhausted, he yet felt it to be 
 his duty, on one of the last nights of that session, to make an 
 effort which severely taxed his remaining strength, and seemed to 
 prostrate his powers. He appeared in his seat, for the last time, 
 on the last day of the last month. Though then ill, no such ca- 
 tastrophe as has since happened was at that time apprehended. 
 But after that day he did not leave his house, nor hardly his bed. 
 His dangerous situation soon becoming apparent, his family were 
 sent for, and his wife and son were shortly at his bedside. 
 
 " All that the highest degree of medical skill could do, all that 
 could be attempted by the solicitude of anxious friends, all that 
 could be suggested by conjugal and filial affection, was done to 
 the utmost, to save his life. But all was in vain. The will of 
 Heaven was otherwise. He had touched on his last hour. He 
 had reached the end of his earthly career; and his Maker called 
 him to another world. 
 
 " Mr. Bates was born at Granville, in the State of Massachusetts, 
 and was educated at Yale College. Adopting the law as his pro- 
 fession, he prosecuted his studies for a time under eminent in- 
 structors, first at New-Haven, and afterward wdth the late Judge 
 Hinckley, of Northampton. 
 
 " His ability and learning, and his high and honorable character, 
 soon led to professional distinction, and in due time placed him in 
 the ranks of the most eminent lawyers and advocates in the part 
 of the country in which he resided. 
 
 " But the bar was not long his only sphere, of action. The con- 
 fidence of the community in his ability and fidelity, and its appro- 
 bation of his principles summoned him early into public life. He 
 
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 rendered long and valuable services in both branches of the 
 Legislature of his State and its Executive Council. But a larger 
 field opened to him, and nearly twenty years ago he became a 
 member of the House of Representatives in Congress. In that 
 body he remained eight years, sustaining his character, through 
 the whole period, as a gentleman of probity and honor, of a de- 
 portment at once manly and courteous, and as much distinguished 
 for the firmness with which he maintained his own opinions and 
 principles, as for the liberality and candor which he always mani- 
 fested to those who differed from him. 
 
 " His subsequent election to the Senate shows the sense which 
 his native State entertained of the value of his public services, 
 and her confidence in his further usefulness. 
 
 " Of this body he was a member for five years. I may not 
 now and here speak of his political principles or opinions — the 
 measures he espoused, or the measures w^hich he opposed ; but I 
 may speak of him, I am sure, with the concurrence of every one 
 who hears me, as a gentleman of uprightness and talent, of manly 
 and honorable bearing, worthy to fill a seat here, by his intelli- 
 gence and character, his just conception of the duties of his situ- 
 ation, and his conscientious devotion to the discharge of those 
 duties. In this chamber I am sure he had not an enemy. The 
 morning salutations of all of us were given to no one with more 
 hearty good-will. While his intelligence commanded respect, his 
 social virtues and his eminent kindness and good feeling won uni- 
 versal esteem. The interest felt "in him by his associates in this 
 body could in no way have been more strongly manifested than 
 by their daily and hourly and most solicitous inquiries during the 
 progress of his illness ; and all feel that his decease has left a void 
 in our circle, as men and as Senators, not easy to be filled. 
 
 " Mr. Bates was not over ambitious to attract attention as a 
 public debater. In that respect he was far more distinguished for 
 abstinence and retirement than for obtrusiveness. He left occa- 
 sion to find him out and call him out. 
 
 "Yet he was an able speaker and an eloquent man. His 
 
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 thoughts were clear, his topics well chosen, and his illustrations 
 often happy and convincing. His manner was natural, simple, 
 earnest. These qualities rendered him quite eminent and success- 
 ful in addresses to the jury. To the hour of his death he had no 
 superior for such efforts among thoSe with whom he practiced. 
 
 " He spoke with so much manifest fairness of purpose, dealt so 
 ingenuously with opposing arguments, and put so much of his 
 heart into his acts and into his words, that those who listened to 
 him were apt to find themselves persuaded and convinced, with- 
 out once thinking that there had been any exhibition of oratory 
 or rhetoric. It was his case w^hich he put forth, and not himself. 
 With no studied forms of speech, no artistieal preparation, he ap- 
 pealed at once, with singular feeling, to the good sense and the 
 right feeling of those whom he addressed. 
 
 " In this body, while not neglectful of more prominent and con- 
 spicuous subjects, he gave steady attention to the duties of the 
 Committee on Pensions, of which he was Chairman. All know 
 that the application to j^articular cases of the general piinciples 
 which the Government has adopted on these subjects, is difficult 
 and delicate in no inconsiderable degree. Carefully abstaining 
 from going beyond established rules, he spared no pains in the in- 
 A^estigation of cases in which parties appeared to have a claim on 
 the bounty of the country. Many a Revolutionary veteran yet 
 lives to bless his memory ; many an aged widow owes her daily 
 bread to his benevolent, patient, and assiduous labors. 
 
 "Mr. Bates's death will sorely wound many hearts among 
 family, domestic, and social friends. 
 
 " There is the partner of his life, now soon to follow his re- 
 mains to his family vault. There are sons and daughters, and 
 kindred of various degrees. I will not invade the sanctity of 
 their sorrow by empty words of attempted consolation. They 
 will look for solace to resignation and religious faith, and bow 
 humbly to the will of God. 
 
 " When information of his death shall reach the beautiful vil- 
 lage in which he lived, it will be a day of general grief. I see 
 
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 many an aged and venerable form, known to me, and better 
 known to him, leaning tremulously on his staff and shedding 
 copious tears at the sad intelligence. I see the middle-aged pause 
 in their pursuits, to regret the death of a neighbor, an adviser, 
 and a friend. I see the youth "of both sexes lamenting that the 
 mansion, always open to their innocent associations, always made 
 instructive by the conversation and kindness of its head, now 
 closed against its accustomed visitors by the stroke of death ; and 
 I hear the solemn tones ^vhich shall call afflicted families and an 
 afflicted neighborhood into the house of God, to pay respect to 
 his memory, and suppUcate the consolations of religion. 
 
 " Mr. Presidesit, I have spoken of my deceased colleague in hi» 
 professional and public character, and in his social and domestic 
 relations ; but Mr. Bates w^as conscious of a relation higher than 
 all these. He felt, deeply and reverently, that there was a 
 Supreme Author of his being, and of all beings, and that he had 
 a connection with a world to come. 
 
 " He was a believer in Christianity, and devoutly thankful for 
 the revelation of the New Testament. Several years ago, and be- 
 fore he entered on public life, he united himself with a church in 
 the town in which he lived, and continued a member to his death. 
 There is reason to believe that his last hours w^ere cheered by the 
 light of Christian hope. He uttered no repining, but expressed 
 his willingness to depart, if such were the will of his Maker. 
 Not that he did not desire life ; for he enjoyed life, and had 
 much to live for. Domestic love, general respect, public honor, 
 and a consciousness of usefulness — all these conspired to render 
 his life happy and its continuance desirable. Nor was it that he 
 looked with indifference on death ; for who has such icy stoicism, 
 or rather who has such blunted sensibilities, such a stupefied mind, 
 as to contemplate with indifference a change of being and a 
 change of Avorlds ? But he regarded death, with all its terrors, 
 only as a passage to another state of existence — a state in which 
 ' this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall 
 put on immortality.' 
 
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 " ' True, 'tis an awful thing to die ; 
 'Twas even so to him* but the dark vale once trod, 
 
 Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, 
 And bids the pure in heart behold their God.' 
 
 "Mr. President, when one of us rises here to announce the 
 death of a colleague, he can not but reflect that, if he stay here, 
 the time must come — and he knows not how soon — when another 
 colleague shall perform that sad office toward himself. We all 
 know that we must follow our departed associate, and no one of 
 us can tell how few steps he may even now be behmd him. 
 
 " I hope this reflection may chastise us in our too heated pur- 
 suit of worldly objects ; may teach us to hold the world but as 
 the world ; may inspire us with kindness, forbearance, and mutual 
 good-will, and lead us, while we serve with all our powers the 
 country which honors us, to recollect still that we are not here 
 always, and that scenes not yet beheld nor comprehended, nor 
 capable of being fully conceived, are before us all." 
 
 During the delivery of these remarks, Mr. Webster was him- 
 self much aflfected, and seemed to feel deeply the force of every 
 word he uttered. Several of the Senators wept while he spdke, 
 and the audience in the galleries joined in this touching tribute to 
 the power of the speaker and the character of the deceased. 
 
 When Mr. Webster had taken his seat, Mr. Huger, of South- 
 Carolina arose, and added a few remarks, which were the more 
 honorable tribute, as coming from one of a different section of 
 the country, and different political opinions. He said : 
 
 " I have had, sir, but little social mtercourse with Mr. Bates. 
 He was principally known to me as a member of this body ; 
 but not having participated in the more agitating business of the 
 §enate, I have been afforded time and opportunity to observe and 
 scrutinize the conduct and character of those who have been ac- 
 tively employed. No one in this little busy world has attracted 
 more of my attention and respect than the lamented subject of 
 my remarks. As chairman of one of the most important com- 
 
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 mittees of this chamber, he always exhibited industry, fidelity, 
 and ability. Such was the confidence he had excited 'in my 
 bosom by his wise adherence to principles^ that I do not recollect 
 one amendment to his reports which did not appear to me to de- 
 face them. Massachusetts, sir, may send us a successor to this 
 most excellent man ; but it will be fiappy for her, and thrice 
 happy for this body, if he shall prove to possess in an equal 
 degree with Mr. Bates the senatorial graces, honor, intelligence, 
 and urbanity. 
 
 " With the family of the deceased I am entirely unacquainted ; 
 but with them I most sincerely sympathize, for I can well under- 
 stand how desolate must be their hearts, how forlorn their feel- 
 ings, on this melancholy occasion. Such a man can never die, 
 "without producing a void in his domestic circle which can no 
 more be filled. To each I would offer, with unaffected sincerity, 
 this consolation : that he must be happy in heaven, who, when on 
 earth, had loved his God, served his country, and was at peace 
 and charity wnth all men." 
 
 Mr. Huger was very much moved during the delivery of his 
 short but touching speech. 
 
 Mr. Evans then moved the customary resolutions, that the 
 Senate attend the funeral of the deceased to-morrow^ at tw^elve 
 o'clock, that they appoint a Committee to superintend' the funeral 
 ceremonies, that they wear a badge of mourning for one month, 
 and that they do now adjourn. These were passed unanimously. 
 
 The Chair appointed Messrs. Evans, Mangum, Woodbury, Bar- 
 row, Sevier, and Cass as said Committee. The Senate then ad- 
 journed. 
 
 The funeral was attended in the Senate Chamber on Tuesday, 
 the eighteenth of March, with great solemnity. Mr. Tustin, 
 chaplain of the Senate, preached a short funeral sermon from the 
 text : " Thy sun shall no more go down j neither shall thy moon 
 withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and 
 the days of thy mourning shall be ended." (Isa. 60 : 20.) 
 
 The funeral procession was then formed and moved to the rail- 
 
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 road depot, where the body was delivered to his friends to be con- 
 veyed to Northampton. It is interred in the large and beautiful 
 cemetery in that town, where a monument of dark red sandstone 
 is placed over his grave, on which is a brief inscription, with the 
 words : " The righteous hath hope in his death." 
 
 Mr. Bates was married to Martha Henshaw, daughter of Samuel 
 Hen':haw, of !N"orthampton, usually called Judge Henshaw, and 
 Mrs. Martha (Hunt) Henshaw, September 21st, 1807. Miss Hunt 
 was a daughter of Mr. John Hunt, of Northampton, and sister of 
 Rev. John Hunt, Pastor of the old Soulh Church, Boston. Mrs. 
 Bates was born in Boston, June 9th, 1783, from which her father 
 removed his family to Northampton. She still survives her hus- 
 band. They had eight children : Martha Henshaw, born October 
 10th, 1808; Mehetable Sumner, June 6th, 1810; Theresa Hunt, 
 February 25th, 1812; Samuel Henshaw, January 10th, 1814; 
 Catherine Staples, November 25th, 1815 ; Isaac Chapman, Octo- 
 ber 22d, 1817; Eliza Henshaw, September 29th, 1820; Francis 
 Dewey, August 20th, 1823, died July 21st, 1825. 
 
 Martha Henshaw Bates was married to Fordyce M. Hubbard, 
 of Cummington, graduate of Williams College in 1828, and after- 
 ward a tutor. He then taught a private school in Boston, but 
 became an Episcopal clergyman. He was first Rector of a church 
 in Newbern, N. C, and then Professor of Languages in the Uni- 
 versity at Chapel Hill in that State. They have one child,l^Iartha 
 Henshaw Bates Hubbard, born November 13th, 1840. 
 
 Mehetable Sumner Bates was married to Samuel Hurd Walley 
 October 14th, 1829. He is a native of Boston, and was graduated 
 at Harvard University in 1826. He was formerly a lawyer in 
 Boston, but now is President of the Revere Bank. He has been 
 repeatedly a representative in the Legislature, and for several 
 years was Speaker of the House of Representatives. He has also 
 been a member of Congress. They have had ten children, six 
 of whom are living, four sons and two daughters. 
 
 Mrs. Walley died December 2d, 1853. 
 
Theresa Hunt Bates was married to Lewis J. Dudley, May 
 7tb, 1851. He is a native of Guilford, Ct., was graduated at Yale 
 College in 1838, w^as tutor for six years, studied law at the Yale 
 Law School, and with Messrs. Hungerford and Cone, of Hartford, 
 was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1848, and to the Massa- 
 chusetts bar in 1849. He preferred the school-room to the court- 
 room, and established the Northampton Collegiate Institute in 
 1849, of which he is now the Principal and proprietor. His first 
 child, Theresa Bates, was born April 27th, 1852, and lived only 
 sixteen months. His second child, Etta Theresa Bates, was born 
 March 20th, 1854. 
 
 Samuel Henshaw Bates was graduated at Yale College in 1833. 
 He studied law with his father, was admitted to the bar, and was 
 in his father's office a year or two ; but having a passionate fond- 
 ness for farming, he relinquished the profession of law and en- 
 gaged in agriculture. At the breaking out of the rebellion he en- 
 listed, as a private, in the Twenty-fourth regiment Massachusetts 
 volunteers, but was soon promoted. He was engaged in all the 
 early battles in North-Carolina under General Foster, and he is 
 now serving in the vicinity of Charleston. 
 
 Catherine Staples Bates was married November 27th, 1851, to 
 Haynes Hanford Chilson, a native of Charlemont, but brought up 
 in Buckland, graduate of Amherst College in 1843. He studied 
 law with Grenell and Aiken, of Greenfield, and is now a lawyer in 
 Northampton. They have two sons, Henshaw Bates, born May 
 6th, 1854, and Haynes Hanford, born April 1st, 1858. 
 
 Isaac Chapman Bates was educated a merchant in Boston ; but 
 while a clerk, was sent by his employers to France, where he acted 
 for them for years, principally in Paris. He was afterward a mer- 
 chant himself in Boston ; but becoming feeble in health he with- 
 drew from business, and travelled much. In 1850 he was appoint- 
 ed Consul at Aix La Chapelle. He was married to Fanny Atwell, 
 of Boston, May 14th, 1851. Tliey have one son, Arthur Edward. 
 Eliza Henshaw Bates was married to Charles Fuller Smith, of 
 Hartford, May 26th, 1841. He was graduated at Amherst in 
 
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 1838, studied law with Mr. Bates and at the Law-School in Cam- 
 bridge. He commenced practice in ^Northampton, and afterward 
 removed to California. They have had four children : Alfred 
 FuUer, Isaac Chapman Bates, dead, Charles Henshaw, and Isaac 
 Chapman Bates, 2d. 
 
 She was married a second time November 26th, 1860, to John 
 Adams Dana, a lawyer residing in Worcester, Mass. He gradu- 
 ated at Yale College in 1844. 
 
 JOHN HALL 
 
 Was the son of Deacon John and Eunice (Dorchester) Hall,* of 
 Ellington, whose grandfather, Thom^ Hall, moved to that town 
 from Lyme. He was fitted for College by Rev. Nehemiah Prud- 
 den, of Enfield, and throughout his four years' course was distin- 
 guished for studious habits, correct scholarship, and good moral 
 conduct. The first two years after graduating he spent chiefly in 
 New-Haven, in the pursuit of general literature. From 1804 to 
 1807 he was a tutor in his Alma Mater. He then returned to 
 Ellington, and being in feeble health he gave up the idea of study- 
 ing a profession. For a short time he was in business with Mr. 
 Levi Wells, his brother-in-law, a merchant in Ellington. He 
 then purchased a large farm about half a mile from the center 
 of Ellington, and took the oversight of it himself for thirty years, 
 from 1808 to 1838, pursuing agriculture on scientific principles, 
 and succeeding, by large expenditures, in raising it from a poor 
 condition to a very productive state. On this he erected a large 
 and beautiful house, made gardens and walks about it, and planted 
 shrubbery and trees. He also lined the street against his premises 
 with shade-trees. Thus he set an example which was soon fol- 
 lowed by the surrounding farmers. Thus he did more than any 
 other man to improve the agriculture and the general appearance 
 of the place. Now there is scarcely a country town in Connecticut 
 which strikes the eye of the traveler with so much deUght ; where 
 
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 the houses and buildings, the courtyards, gardens and farms, ex- 
 hibit so much neatness and taste, and indicate so much thrift and 
 happiness ; or where shade-trees are so common along the roads. 
 
 Kor was it only in such ways that Mr. Hall was useful. He 
 accomplished still more good, and on a wider scale, in the cause of 
 Education. 
 
 For a time he was tempted strongly to enter into political life. 
 In 1811 he was a justice of the peace, and the next year an asso- 
 ciate of the County Court for the county of Tolland ; offices which 
 he held many years. In 1817 he was a candidate for member of 
 Congress ; but the party to which he was attached was unsuccess- 
 ful throughout the State; and though m 1819 he was elected a 
 representative to the Legislature of Connecticut from Ellington, 
 as he was before in 1815, yet^in 1820 he retired, from choice, from 
 public life, and thenceforward took no active part in political 
 affairs. He sought a quiet life and quiet ways of usefulness. 
 
 The great work of his life was in the impulse he gave to the 
 cause of Educatiox. In 1825 he opened a classical school, mainly 
 for the benefit of his own children. He employed a graduate of 
 Yale College as a teacher, admitting to the school youths of both 
 sexes, limiting the number to twenty-five. 
 
 In 1829 the "Ellington School" was incorporated, (a school 
 which had no connection with the previous one,) and after this 
 the supervision of his farm, though continued, received less of 
 his attention. Of this he was Principal from its establishment 
 until 1840, and employed from two to four assistants. In the 
 instruction of this, a prominent place was assigned to the classics. 
 Boys only were admitted, and their number ranged from twenty 
 to fifty-five. Thoroughly instructed, the school acquired great 
 celebrity, and gentlemen of high standing in literature were its 
 patrons. 
 
 The main building is fifty-two feet long, three stories high, on 
 each side of which is a wing thirty-eight feet long, two stories 
 high, the whole presenting a front of one hundred and twenty- 
 eight feet. There is also a basement-room under the whole build- 
 
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 ing. In the building there are accommodations for the Principal 
 and his family, for forty or fifty boarders, and for the school. 
 
 While at the head of this institution Mr. Hall educated a large 
 number of pupils, among whom are many that have since become 
 eminent in different walks of life. Besides w^hat he did himself as 
 a teacher, he w^rote and published, in 1836, a treatise on the 
 " Education . of Children," an 18mo of 190 pages. He also pre. 
 pared several school-books, namely: in 1836, Reader's Guide, a 
 12mo of 333 pages ; in 1839, Reader's Manual, 12mo, 300 pages, 
 and the Primary Reader, 18mo, 143 pages. Several of these re- 
 ceived a liberal patronage. He also sjjent portions of more than 
 twenty years of his life in preparing a work on Mental Philosophy, 
 w^hich he did not complete. In his last sickness, he expressed no 
 desire for life, except to finish this work. 
 
 Mr. Hall wrote in a clear, lucid style, so desirable in school- 
 books. He was also capable of writing good poetry. There is a 
 hymn in existence, which he wrote on the question of Christ to 
 Peter, '•^ Lovest thou me^'' which is superior to many of those 
 which are sung in public assemblies. But it is especially remark- 
 able for the spirit of devotion which it breathes. 
 
 Through life Mr. Hall was an exemplary Christian. He was a 
 student of the Bible, regulating his faith and life by its teachings ; 
 a friend and patron of benevolent institutions. In the early part 
 of life, he wrote for political papers, but in the latter part of his 
 life he wrote only for religious publications. He addressed audi- 
 ences frequently on literary subjects and objects of benevolence. 
 
 His more arduous labors ceased upon his leaving the care of the 
 Ellington school, though for a time he discharged the duties of 
 postmaster in the village. His health was feeble some time before 
 his death. But he never ceased to care for the welfare of the 
 Church and the spread and prosperity of religion in the world. 
 On the Sabbath, a w^eek preceding his death, he spoke of the 
 then recent meeting of the American Board with great interest 
 and expressed an earnest desire for the success of their labors. 
 In his conversation he spoke of his classmate Samuel Hubbard, 
 
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 an efficient member of the Board, with much warmth of feeling, 
 and commended his effi)rts in all good entei-prises, little thinking 
 that he would so soon follow him to the heavenly world. Of 
 prayer he said it was a blessed privilege, and in this he found 
 rehef, comfort, and hope in all his trials, weakness and sorrow. 
 To a remark of his son, Junius, since dead, that in his prostration 
 he had the strength which faith gives, he replied : " Yes, yes, this 
 is my strength, and what could I do without it !" On the morn- 
 ing of his death, October 2d, 1847, "his countenance," says the 
 son, " seemed brightened with a remarkably radiant expression, 
 and there was a calm, constant upward look, as if already he was 
 in communion with his God. He died, saying at one time, 
 ''Death has no terrors to me,' and at another: *-! Jcnow that I 
 love Christ.'* " 
 
 Mr. Hall labored very successfully for the instruction and happi- 
 ness of his family, and had much domestic enjoyment. He was 
 twice married: first to Sophia Kingsbury, June 5th, 1808, daugh- 
 ter of Dr. Joseph Kingsbury and Mrs. Roxanna (Allyn) Kingsbury, 
 of Ellington. She was born February 13th, 1789, and died May 
 19th, 1829, leaving eleven children. His second wife was Harriet 
 Smith Reed, to whom he was married September 6th, 1830. 
 She was a daughter of Dr. Elijah Fitch Reed and Mrs. Hannah 
 (McLean) Reed, of East-Windsor, and was born February 12th, 
 1806, and died February 14, 1859. The children by these mar- 
 riages were as follows : Edward, born August 10th, 1809 ; Junius, 
 June 8th, 1811 ; John, August 22d, 1813 ; Sophia, July 4th, 1815 ; 
 Eliza, February 16th, 1817; Levi Wells, December 25th, 1818; 
 Maria, February 15th, 1821 ; Francis, October 27th, 1822 ; Wm. 
 Maxwell, October 7th, 1824; Frederic, September 5th, 1827; Ar- 
 thur, May 7th, 1829, died March 23d, 1830 ; Robert, October 5th, 
 1831, died August 2d, 1832 ; Harriet Reed, December 2 2d, 1833, 
 died June 25th, 1846 ; Charles Crocker, June 6th, 1836 ; Alfred 
 Reed, April 29th, 1838 ; Robert Arthur, September 11th, 1839. 
 
 Edward Hall, the eldest of these children, was thoroughly in- 
 structed by his father, under whom he taught in the Ellington 
 
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 School from 1831 to 1833. After this he changed his occupation 
 for some years, in the hope of enjoying better health. In 1841 he 
 resumed teaching in a select school in South-Coventry, where he 
 remained three years. In August, 1844, he opened a Family 
 School in his own house, at Ellington, which he has continued up 
 to this time. It is a flourishing school. In 1845 the Corporation 
 of Yale College conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master 
 of Arts. 
 
 He was married to Mary A. Dolbeare, of MontviUe, March 23d » 
 1840. She died April 23d, 1852. They had two children, Mary, 
 born August 20th, 1847, who died September 25th, 1849, and 
 Sophia, born August 19, 1851. He was married a second time to 
 Mrs. Abby Brown (Field) Simonds, of Shelburne, Yt., April 24, 
 1862. She takes to his family two daughters, Sarah Melissa, born 
 June 20, 1842, and Mary Esther, born April 22, 1850. 
 
 Junius Hall was graduated at Yale College, in 1831, studied 
 law with his cousin, Hon. John H. Brockway, and at the Law 
 School in New-Haven. He was admitted to the bar in Tolland, 
 Ct., but commenced practice in Alton, 111., in partnership with 
 I^ewton D. Strong, whence he moved to St. Louis, Mo., and 
 thence, in 1846, to Boston, where he rose high at the bar, excel- 
 ling particularly as an advocate. In 1851 he was a representa- 
 tive in the Legislature, and was appointed to revise the practice 
 of the Courts. He was married to Emily Baldwin, daughter of 
 Aaron Baldwin, Esq., of Boston, in Kovember, 1849. He died 
 August 14th, 1851, greatly lamented by the members of the bar 
 and by his acquaintances. His widow died May, 1860. 
 
 John Hall died October 19th, 1836. He had just commenced 
 business as a bookseller in New- York, and was a very energetic 
 and promising young man. 
 
 Sophia Hall taught school several years. She was married to 
 William A. Delano, a merchant in St. Louis, in October, 1839. 
 After residing in St. Louis several years, they removed to Ironton, 
 Mo. They have had eight children : William Hall, John Hall, and 
 Ellen Sophia, who still live ; then, Junius, Charles, and Mary, who 
 
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 all died of scarlatina ; and since, Francis Hall and Harriet Eliza, 
 making five now living. 
 
 Eliza Hall was formerly engaged in teaching, but resided with 
 her brother Edward from 1852 to 1859. She married John G. 
 Baird, of Centre Brook, June 15, 1859. 
 
 Levi Wells Hall settled in Syracuse, N". Y., as a bookseller and 
 publisher, and was a very enterprising business man. But his 
 taste was for the profession of law, and, having studied, he en- 
 tered on practice, in Syracuse, in 1858. He married Antoinette 
 Bangs in April, 1843, who died in January, 1848. As a second 
 wife, he married EHzabeth Clark, in February, 1851, and has a son, 
 Arthur Clark, born January, 1853. 
 
 Maria Hall, who had been a teacher, died in Ellington, October 
 21st, 1848. 
 
 Francis Hall settled at Elmira, !N". Y., in 1842, as a bookseller. 
 He was prosperous and popular. In 1858 he was chosen Mayor of 
 Elmira. The next year, yielding to a strong desire for travel, he 
 sailed for Japan, and is now settled at Yokohama as a member of 
 the house of Walsh, Hall and Co. He has written many letters for 
 American papers, and is the regular correspondent of the New- 
 York Tribune. He married Sarah Covell, in October, 1846. She 
 died in August, 1848. 
 
 William Maxwell Hall, having just completed his clerkship, and 
 about to commence business, died on a visit at home, August 8th, 
 1847. 
 
 Frederic and Charles C. Hall purchased the stock of their 
 brother Francis in 1858, and are now booksellers at Elmira. 
 Robert Arthur has lately joined the firm, which is known as Hall 
 Brothers. Frederic Hall married Mrs. Caroline (Andrus) Herrick, 
 January, 1861. 
 
 Alfred Reed Hall is in business in Hartford, Ct. 
 
 All the children of Mr. Hall, who passed their childhood, pur- 
 sued a classical course to some extent, the sons studying Latin 
 and Greek. The daughter Harriet Avas pursuing th,e study of Latin 
 with her brother Edward at the time of her death. 
 
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 SAMUEL HUBBARD 
 
 Was born in Boston ; but his father removing to Colchester, in 
 Connecticut, his early youth was spent in that town. He was 
 fitted for College at Plainfield Academy, and entered when he was 
 very young. During his College course, he did not. apply himself 
 as closely to study as in after years, though he gave evidence of 
 possessing a superior mind. After taking his degree, he studied 
 law one year with Judge Chauncey, in New-Haven, and two years 
 with Judge Jackson, in Boston. In 1806 he settled as a lawyer, 
 in Maine, in the town of Biddeford, on Saco River, where he re- 
 mained until 1810 or '11, and took a high stand in his profession. 
 He then removed to Boston, and soon commenced an extensive 
 practice at the bar. He was also honored with civil trusts, as a 
 representative in the Legislature from Boston, and as a Senator 
 from Suffolk County. In 1820 he was a member of the Conven- 
 tion for revising the Constitution of Massachusetts. Friends de- 
 sired him to consent to be a candidate for higher positions ; but 
 he preferred to remain in his profession. In February, 1842, 
 however, he accepted the appointment of Associate Judge of the 
 Supreme Judicial Court of the State — a station which he held 
 with honor to himself, and usefulness to the public, until death. 
 
 As early as 1818 he became deeply interested in religion, 
 though he did not make a public profession of his faith, until the 
 4th of March, 1821, when he united himself with the Park-Street 
 Church. From that time onward he adorned the doctrine of 
 God his Saviour, and exerted a wide-spread and most happy in- 
 fluence. Young men instructed by him in legal science he sought 
 to bring to the knowledge of a higher wisdom, and not without 
 success. Several of these are now exerting the same blessed in- 
 fluence in society which shone along his path, and are honored 
 with some of the highest stations, in the commonwealth. He in- 
 structed a class of young men in the vestry of Park Street 
 Church, and also a class in his own ho\ise. In connection with 
 other gentlemen, he maintained a Sabbath-school for years among 
 
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 the convicts of the State Prison in Charlestown. In Houses of 
 Correction he raised his voice in warning to those who had been 
 led astray, and in calling them back to a better life. He had 
 prayer-meetings at his own house, and was always ready to unite 
 with other denominations in supplicating the grace of God for the 
 churches and people around him, and for the whole world. " He 
 did not hesitate himself to become a tract distributor, to go 
 through the streets and lanes of Boston, and to carry into the 
 hovels of vice and wretchedness the messages of forgiveness and 
 salvation. At home and abroad, on the Sabbath and on week- 
 days, he sought to bring his fellow-creatures into the kingdom of 
 Christ. For more than twenty years he was a member of the 
 Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and for a consider- 
 able time Chairman of the Prudential Committee. He was early 
 elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the And over Theo- 
 logical Seminary, and he soon became President of that body, and 
 presided over its deliberations with the highest Christian dignity 
 and courtesy." 
 
 Mr. Hubbard died December 24th, 1847, aged sixty-two years 
 and a half, and his death produced deep mourning, not only 
 among his relatives and near friends, but among his fellow-citizens 
 in Boston and throughout the commonwealth and wherever he 
 was known. 
 
 The Court, of which he was a member, being then in session in 
 Boston, the members of the Suffolk bar passed resolutions in 
 honor of his character. 
 
 The Legislature of the State coming together a few days later, 
 Governor Brioro^s thus recoocnized his eminent worth : 
 '•^Gentlemen of the Senate and of the Souse of Mepresentatives : 
 
 " Before leaving your homes, you heard the sad news of the 
 death of Samuel Hubbard, one of the Justices of the Supreme 
 Court of Massachusetts. 
 
 "Judge Hubbard was the youngest official member of the 
 Court. His brief period of service in the Supreme Judicial 
 tribunal of his native State was one of signal honor to himself, 
 and of eminent usefulness to the public. 
 
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 " His profound, clear, discriminating, judicial mind commanded 
 the undivided respect of the legal profession, and secured the con- 
 fidence of all who had official intercourse with him. The happy 
 combination of magisterial dignity with a remarkable affability 
 and gentleness of manner, won the esteem and respect of all who 
 approached him. 
 
 "He was the model of a Christian Judge, a scholar, and a 
 gentleman. Whoever knew him in society loved him. In the 
 Church he was ' a brother beloved.' With a heart full of 
 benevolence, he was interested in all the concerns of humanity. 
 The beauty and loveliness of his parental and domestic character 
 could only be fully known by that large, crushed, and broken- 
 hearted family circle, to whom he was all the world. His* death 
 has spread a pall of sorrow over his surviving brethren of the 
 bench, and is lamented and deplored as an irreparable loss by the 
 whole people of the commonwealth.' " 
 
 " The name of Samuel Hubbard will long be held in grateful 
 remembrance : 
 
 'And to add greater honors to his age 
 Than man could give him, he died fearing God.' 
 
 " The death of such a man, and such a magistrate, in the vigor 
 of his intellect, and in the midst of his usefulness, impressively 
 illustrates the truth of an inspired prophet's declaration, that ' all 
 flesh is grass, and the goodness thereof is as the flower of the 
 field.' " 
 
 His pastor, Rev. Silas Aiken, D.D., of the Park-Street Church, 
 Boston, preached a sermon on the occasion of his death, in 
 which he paid an exalted but just tribute to his character. 
 
 Judge Hubbard was married twice, and had a large family. 
 Many of his children are still living, and occupy highly respectable 
 positions in society. 
 
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 DANIEL HASKELL, 
 Son of Roger and Anna Haskell, was born in Preston, Ct., in that 
 part of the town known as the Long Society, originally a part of 
 Norwich. After the death of his father, his mother was married 
 to Rev. Solomon Morgan, of Xorth-Canaan. He was fitted for 
 College by Mr. John Adams, in Canterbury, and while in College 
 held a very respectable standing in his class. He was lovely in 
 his temper, and regular in all his habits. The winter after his 
 graduation he taught a school in Norwich Town. He was after- 
 ward assistant to his old preceptor, Mr. Adams, who had removed 
 from Canterbury, and taken charge of Bacon Academy in Col- 
 chester. After this, he taught for two years in Newcastle, Maine. 
 He studied theology one year in Princeton, N.. J., and then pur- 
 sued his studies by himself, reading the sermons which he pre- 
 pared before Rev. Joseph W. Crossman, of Salisbury, and Rev. 
 Ephraim Judson, of the adjoining town of Sheffield, Mass. After 
 being Hcensed, he preached at Litchfield, Middleto^\^l, and pro- 
 bably in other places. On the 10th of April, 1810, he was or- 
 dained pastor of the Congregational Church in Burlington, Vt., 
 in which position he remained until about 1822, when he was 
 elected President of the University of Vermont, establisjied in 
 that town. In accepting this appointment he undertook a great 
 labor. There were then but twenty students connected with the 
 University, and upon him it devolved to elevate its position and 
 character. It soon felt his influence; for in October, 1823, it in- 
 cluded fifty-five medical and fifty-three classical students — one 
 hundred and eight in all. His labors became very great, and at 
 the same time he had the care of a rising family. While in these 
 circumstances he was attacked violently with the inflammatory 
 rheumatism. These things united were too much for him, especi- 
 ally as his mind, in some previous years, had suffered long and 
 severely from religious melancholy. They brought on a partial 
 derangement or monomania in Aj^ril or May, 1824, which ren- 
 dered it impossible that he should continue his duties at the head 
 of the College. His monomania was this : he believed he had 
 
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 passed out of a material state, and was not in the flesh. He was 
 spon taken to Cambridgeport, Mass., and placed under the care of 
 Dr. Chapman, in his private establishment for the treatment of 
 the insane, where he remained ten months without benefit. He 
 Avas then placed in the Retreat at Hartford, but no effectual 
 remedy was found for his disorder ; and yet while there, Dr. 
 Todd, the distinguished physician of the institution, and Oliver 
 Wolcott, then Governor of Connecticut, who had interviews with 
 him, found that, on other subjects than that of his malady, he was 
 shrewd and powerful in argument. He spent some time with his 
 friends in Bethlem, and with a brother in Geneva. Many years 
 he lived with his family in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he had two 
 brothers-in-law, Mr. David Leavitt, a distinguished banKer in 
 Kew-York, and Sfceldon C. Leavitt, who was also a classmate. 
 His monomania remained to the last, though it abated in.force. 
 But notwithstanding the existence of this peculiar malady, he 
 conversed on general subjects with much good sense, and was a 
 very laborious and a useful man in many ways. He gave instruc- 
 tion in literature, and delivered lectures, and made apparatus for 
 schools. One year he was a book-keeper in the American Ex- 
 change Bank. He also, in connection with J. Calvin Smith, pre- 
 pared, and in 1843 published, a Descriptive and Statistical Gazet- 
 teer of the United States. The preparation of this required a 
 vast amount of labor and very great care. He was obliged to 
 consult many volumes, particularly the census of the United 
 States, and to maintain a correspondence with intelligent persons 
 in all parts of the country. He also prepared for the Harpers an 
 edition of McCuUough's Universal Gazetteer, in which the articles 
 relating to the United States were greatly multiplied and ex- 
 tended. For doing this he was qualified by his preparation of the 
 former work ; but still it kept him closely occupied fifteen months. 
 This was published in 1844 and '5. 
 
 The Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States 
 is one octavo volume. The Universal Gazetteer is in two v.olumes 
 octavo, much larger. The first volume has 1148 pages and the 
 
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 second 1118, and it is in rather fine type. That a man suffering 
 from disease should have prepared such works as these is a re- 
 markable proof of his industry and his ability. He loved liter- 
 ature and science, and while his own happiness was promoted by 
 these labors, he was glad, by these means, to diffuse knowledge 
 and happiness among his fellow-creatures. His example strikingly 
 illustrates the fact that a man may be erratic on some subjects, 
 and yet sound, energetic, and useful on others. 
 
 For some time before his death he read the Scriptures in the 
 family, and regularly attended public worship, though he would 
 not lead in prayer himself, on the ground, it is supposed-, that he 
 did not think himself to be in a state of probation, as were others 
 around him. 
 
 A decline of many months preceded his d^th. At length a 
 paralysis occurred, and for a few days he was perfectly uncon- 
 scious, never spoke, nor recognized any one about him. He ex- 
 pired August 9th, 1848, aged sixty-four, and is buried in the 
 Greenwood cemetery. 
 
 Mr. Haskell was married October 17th, 1810, to Elizabeth 
 Leavitt, sister of one of his classmates, who was born April 7th, 
 1786, ""and who still survives him. They had seven children, 
 aU bom in Burlington : Elizabeth Leavitt Haskell, born August 
 2d, 1811; Mary Ann, born December 31st, 1813, died Septem- 
 ber 21st, 1814 ; Henry, born March 25th, 1816, died August 2d, 
 1821; David Leavitt, bom August 20th, 1818; Cornelia, born 
 February 5th, 1821, died April 7th, 1823; Cornelia Yan Ness 
 and Henry, twins, born March 11th, 1824. 
 
 David L. HaskeU is in business in ]S"ew-York. He married Re- 
 becca Beers, and has three children : Fannie Evelyn, born May 
 28th, 1849; Bertha, bom October 28th, 1858; Herbert Clinton, 
 born June 6th, 1860. 
 
 Cornelia Van Ness HaskeU is the wife of William Whitlock, late 
 of New-Orleans. They have three children, daughters : Lucy Lea- 
 vitt, born September 2d, 1852 ; Blanche Isabel, bom August 23d, 
 1857 ; and Mary Ursula, born January 6th, 1860. 
 
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 SIMEON HECOCK 
 
 was from Southbury, Ct., where his father was a wealthy farmer. 
 He was born November 17th, 1780. Aftet leaving College he 
 did not study a profession, but retired to his father's estate, a 
 part of which at least he inherited, and where he passed his life 
 in rural tranquillity. 
 
 In January, 1809, he married Anna Lucy Wakeley, daughter 
 of James 'Wakeley, of Huntington, Ct., by whom he had four 
 children, who are all living, namely : Charles B. Hecock, born 
 April 13th, 1810 ; Laura M., born November 1st, 1812 ; David, born 
 April 12th, 1815 ; Mary, born January 12th, 1820. 
 
 Charles B. Hecock married, in April, 1851, Fanny B. Scott, of 
 Southbury, and has three children, all sons : Charles Willard, born 
 January 8th, 1852 ; Jesse, born May 28th, 1853 ; and Nelson, bom 
 March 27th, 1856. 
 
 David Hecock married, December 25th, 1846, Hannah E. SheL 
 ton, of Huntington, Ct., and has had four children : Benjamin, 
 born September 28th, 1848; Mary, born June 15th, 1850; and 
 Anna L., born May 28th, 1852. These two daughters died of diph- 
 theria within a few days of each other ; Mary, October 27th ; and 
 Anna, November 9th, 1861, leaving but one child living ; but there 
 is now an infant son, born January 4th, 1863. 
 
 Mr. Hecock died July 9th, 1849, aged sixty-eight. His daugh- 
 ter Mary says, concerning her father's last sickness, " that he en- 
 dured much bodily suffering, through several months, with forti- 
 tude and patience, and with perfect resignation to His will who 
 governs all things ; that the disease of which he died the physi- 
 cians called an affection of the heart." She adds that "many 
 early friendships which he formed he respected through life, and 
 that for his classmates he ever retained a kind remembrance." 
 
 The family still reside in Southbury : the widow and two daugh- 
 ters on the old homestead, and the two sons, with then* families, at 
 a short distance. 
 
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 ELISHA HAMMOND, 
 
 A native of Hampton, was fitted for an advanced standing at 
 College, in the school of Mr. John Adams, in Canterbury, enter- 
 ing at the beginning of Sophomore year. He was tacitm-n be- 
 yond any other in his class, conversing but little on any subject, 
 and this characteristic attended him through life. Still he was 
 fond of reading and study. After taking his degree, he began to 
 prepare for the profession of the law with Judge Chauncey, in 
 Kew-Haven, but in a few months went to Canterbury and pursued 
 his studies with Asa Bacon, Esq., then a lawyer in that town. At 
 the expiration of two years, he was admitted to the bar in "Wind- 
 ham, then the shire-town of Windham county. Immediately after 
 this, he went to West-Brookfield, and studied another year in the 
 office of Jabez XJpham, Esq., the laws of Massachusetts requiring 
 candidates for the bar to study law three years before being ad- 
 mitted to practice. He remained several years in the office of Mr. 
 Upham, who being a member of Congress, was obliged to leave a 
 large part of his business to others. After his death in 1811 Mr. 
 Hammond opened an office by himself, in the same town, and re- 
 mained there until 1830. Though not distinguished as an ad- 
 vocate, he was regarded as a sound and upright lawyer. During 
 this period he generally held the office of Justice of the Peace, 
 ^nd twice represented the town in the Legislature of the State. 
 But his circumstances becoming embarrassed, in consequence of 
 engaging in manufactures, he removed, in 1830, to the city of 
 New- York. He designed at first to establish a law periodical, but 
 instead of this he engaged in editing law-books for the press, 
 which he prosecuted until 1837. He then spent a year in Sara- 
 toga, employed by a bookseller in New- York to assist in finishing 
 a large law-work, which Cowen, of Saratoga, had commenced, 
 but was unable to finish by reason of official engagements. After 
 this, he returned to New-York, but soon went to "Worcester, 
 Mass., where he spent about a year in editing law- works. He 
 then returned to Brookfield, opened an office, and resumed his 
 
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 profession ; he also compiled a book for the direction of justices 
 of the peace in their duties, which was published. 
 
 For some months before his death he had a severe cough, and 
 complained of great debility ; about four weeks he was confined 
 to the house, and sank rapidly. He died May 12th, 1851, aged 
 almost seventy-one years. 
 
 In October, 1811, Mr. Hammond was married to Phebe P. 
 Hitchcock, daughter of Captain David Hitchcock, who belonged 
 to one of the ancient families in Brookfield. She was a well- 
 educated and beautiful woman, and made him an excellent wife. 
 By her he had five children : Catharine Maria Hammond, born 
 October 4th, 1814 ; Phebe Parsons, born March 4th, 181Y ; Fran- 
 ces Pitkin, September 3d, 1819 ; Elisha Griffin, bom July 21st, 
 1822; Enos Hitchcock, born November 9th, 1824; died of 
 cholera, in New- York, after a sickness of one day, aged ten years. 
 
 The eldest daughter, Catharine, died in New- York, March 22d, 
 1832. Phebe died in West-Brookfield, October 5th, 1829. She 
 was a deaf mute, and was educated at the Asylum in Hartford ; a 
 memoir of her was written by Mrs. Sigourney. The third daugh- 
 ter, Frances Pitkin, is also a deaf mute. She, too, was placed at 
 the Asylum in Hartford, about 1831, where she remained six 
 years. She was also for a year and a half at the Institution for 
 the Deaf and Dumb in New- York. In the autumn of 1843 she 
 was married to Eldad A. Prescott, a deaf mute of East-Jaffrey, 
 N. H., where they live. He is an intelligent and industrious man, 
 and she is a very interesting woman. They have had four child- 
 ren, three of whom died young. Neither of these children was 
 deaf and dumb. 
 
 Elisha G. Hammond studied law one year in his father's office, 
 but did not pursue legal studies any farther. He married Sarah 
 Oakes ; and they have two sons, whose names are Clarence and 
 Frank. The family lived for a time in Blinois, but afterward re- 
 turned to West-Brookfield. Seven or eight years since, he re- 
 moved to California. His wife and children are living in Meriden, 
 Connecticut. 
 
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 NATHAN JOHNSON, 
 
 A native of Southboroiigh, Mass., was fitted for College by Rev. 
 Samuel Austin, D.D., then of "Worcester, afterward President of 
 the University of Vermont. He entered College October 25th, 
 1V98, about the commencement of the first term. Freshman year, 
 and was a good scholar. For two years after he was graduated 
 he taught the school, or academy, in East- Windsor, reading the- 
 ology in the mean while with Rev. David McClure, D.D., Pastor 
 of the Congregational Church in that place. He then went to 
 Windsor, and resided in the family of the late Hon. Oliver Ells- 
 worth, who had been Chief-Justice in the Supreme Court of the 
 United States, instructing two of his sons in their studies prepara- 
 tory to admission into College, namely, William W. Ellsworth, 
 since Governor of Connecticut and afterward a Judge of the 
 Supreme Court in that State, and Henry L. Ellsworth, late Com- 
 missioner of Patents in Washington. While residing in this family 
 he was licensed to preach, in February, 1805, and preached once 
 or twice. But bleeding at his lungs, he gave up the idea of pur- 
 suing the ministry, and studied law with Judge Ellsworth. In 
 1806 he was admitted to the bar, and the next year settled in 
 Hartford, where he held various civil and military appointments. 
 He was chosen an alderman of the city ; was repeatedly elected 
 a Representative to the General Assembly, and in two ses- 
 sions was Clerk of that body; he was also several years a State 
 Senator, and was a member of the Corporation of Yale College. 
 Having been a teacher of youth himself, he took a deep interest in 
 th^ cause of education, and was active in promoting the success 
 of public schools. He was of great service to the large public 
 school in the center district of Hartford. In the second war with 
 Great Britain he was in the service of his country, and, in the 
 capacity of Captain, stationed on the seaboard in Connecticut. 
 From this he was raised to the station of a Quartermaster- Gen- 
 eral, wliich he held a number of years, from which he afterward 
 bore the title of General Johnson. 
 
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 He was married August I7th, 1818, to Sarah B. Merrell, 
 daughter of Dr. Hezekiah Merrell, of Hartford. They had eight 
 children : Elizabeth, Sarah B., Harriet, Emily M., Nathan P., 
 Laura, Charles "W., and Catharine. 
 
 Elizabeth Johnson was married to Rev. William E. Dixon, of 
 Enfield, June 30th, 1846, and had one child — William J. Dixon, 
 born July 22d, 1848. Mr. Dixon w^as installed pastor of the Con- 
 gregational Church in East Long-Meadow, October 24th, 1852. 
 Mrs. Dixon died several years since. 
 
 Emily M. Johnson was married to James H. Holcomb, of Hart- 
 ford, April 23d, 1844. They have had three children: James 
 W. Holcomb, born February 3d, 1846 ; John M., born June 20th, 
 1848 ; William H., born January 3d, 1851, died July 3d, 1852. 
 
 General Johnson attended the meeting of his Class at Com- 
 mencement, 1842, but was soon after confined to his home. Hav- 
 ing had a fall, by which one of his hips was broken, he ^svas ever 
 after embarrassed in walking, even about his house. Some time 
 before his death his voice w^as afiTected, and he spoke in a whisper. 
 StiU at another meeting of the Class, held ten years later, he was 
 able to dictate a letter, in which he says : 
 
 " We have nearly all of us numbered the allotted days of man's 
 sojourn here, and are fast hastening to that bourne from whence 
 there is no return. We have done with the busy scenes of life. 
 Eternity is fast drawing near. God grant that we may spend the 
 remainder of our days, be they few or many, in preparation for 
 another world. May we be enabled to look backward without 
 regret, that our days are so nearly numbered, and forward with 
 the blessed hope of a glorious resurrection." 
 
 These we may receive as his parting words, for in three months 
 from that time he had ended his earthly course. He remained as 
 he had been until about the end of September, and he rode out 
 frequently. But on Sabbath evening, October 10th, he had a 
 severe attack, and was thought to be dying. But he revived and 
 was comfortable on Monday. About eleven in the evening he 
 went to sleep and slept until one o'clock — ^then he slept again — 
 
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 but never awoke. He ceased to breathe about half-past six Tues- 
 day morning, October 12th, 1852. 
 
 During his last illness he suffered but little, retained his faculties 
 to the last, expressed strong faith in the Saviour, and a readiness 
 to depart and be with him forever. 
 
 All General Johnson's children and grand-children were present 
 at his funeral, and all followed him to the grave, but one son, who 
 was prevented by sickness. 
 
 SILAS HIG-LEY 
 
 Was a native of Granby, Ct. He was fitted for College by Dr. 
 Cooley, of Granville, Mass., and after taking his degree he studied 
 theology with Dr. Perkins, of West-Hartford, and was licensed to 
 preach by Hartford North Association, February 5th, 1805, with 
 Nathan Johnson and Roswell R. Swan. He preached four years, 
 and had three calls for settlement at Fair Haven and Fairfax, Vt., 
 and at Whitehall, N. Y. But being feeble, and unable to speak 
 in public without danger, he gave up the ministry and studied law, 
 partly with John Langdon, Esq., in Castleton, Vt., and partly with 
 Jonathan W. Edwards in Hartford, Ct. He had for a long time 
 an office in Granby, his native town, but did not practice exten- 
 sively. He died in 1853, aged about seventy-six. 
 
 His wife was Melissa Hayes, of Granby, by whom he had five 
 children, all of whom died young, except one daughter, who 
 became the wife of Dr. Case, a physician who lives in that neigh- 
 borhood, and who has two sons, John H. and William C. Case, 
 both graduates of Yale College, and both lawyers-- -the former in 
 Faribault, Rice Co., Minnesota, and the latter in Tariffville, Ct. 
 
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 JUNIUS SMITH 
 
 Was a son of General David Smith, of Plymouth, Ct., where he 
 was born October 2d, 1780. He was fitted for College by Rev. 
 Azel Backus, of Bethlem. He studied some time at Williams- 
 town, Mass., though whether he ever became a member of the 
 College in that place, I do not know. He came to New-Haven 
 and entered Yale at the beginning of the first or second term* 
 Sophomore year. After leaving College he studied law at Litch- 
 field, where he was a fellow-student with the late John C. Cal- 
 houn, under the instructions of the celebrated jurist, Judge Reeve. 
 Finishing his studies he commenced practice at the bar at J^ew- 
 Haven with considerable success until 1805, when ^he was em- 
 ployed by the owners of the ship Mohawk, which had been seized 
 and condemned as a prize, to prosecute an appeal before the Court 
 of Admiralty in London, which involved a claim against the 
 British government for a large amount. This took him to Eng- 
 land, and, upon the successful termination of his appeal, he deter- 
 mined upon locating in London, where he entered upon commer- 
 cial pursuits with this country, conducting a prosperous business 
 for many years, until overwhelmed with one of those revulsions 
 which sweep over the commercial world.^ Following up his mer- 
 cantile pursuits we find him in the year 1832 engaged in the pro- 
 ject of endeavoring to secure the navigation of the Atlantic 
 Ocean with steamships. Against the opposition, abuse, and de- 
 rision of the multitude — for almost every body believed it imprac- 
 ticable but himself — ^he published a prospectus arguing that the 
 enterprise was both practical and would yield ample returns, and 
 urging it upon the British government and people. Associating 
 with himself the eminent ship-builder, McGregor Laird, Esq., they 
 together pressed the enterprise upon the public mind until the 
 year 1836, when they succeeded in establishing a company with a 
 Board of Directors, under the title of the British and American 
 Steam Navigation Company. Its capital was a million pounds 
 sterling. This being done, a contract was made for building a 
 
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 steamer of two thousand tons, and after much difficulty, arising 
 from the failure of the contracting engineer — by which the ship 
 was delayed over eighteen months — the ship British Queen was 
 completed. During this delay and disappointment Mr. Smith was 
 not inactive, but impressed with the feasibility of his project and 
 the necessity of giving assurance to the public mind, urged upon 
 the Board of Directors the great advantage of sending out a 
 steamer to be chartered for the purpose, which was done by send- 
 ing out the small steamer Sirius in the spring of 1838. 
 
 Thus to our Classmate, Junius Smith, belongs the honor of 
 being the projector of Transatlantic Steam Navigation, an under- 
 taking which has met with such glorious success that now all the 
 seas and oceans of the world are traversed by steamships. This 
 achievement alone will transmit his name with honor to future 
 ages. But as is often the case with great dis'coverers and in- 
 ventors, the profit is reaped by those who come after, rather than 
 by the projectors themselves. Thus Junius Smith gained little 
 except honor from these years of toil in a great enterprise. Find- 
 ing himself foiled in anticipated advantage from this project, he 
 abandoned the commercial arena, and returning to America, he 
 turned his attention to what had always been a source of pure 
 enjoyment — agricultural pursuits — in pursuance of which he aimed 
 to introduce the culture of the tea-plant into the United States. 
 This he believed not only practicable, but that it might be so 
 easily and successfully cultivated as to save millions annually to 
 our country. For the purpose of testing the experiment he set- 
 tled for a time in North-Carolina, and it was while engaged in this 
 enterprise that he received an assault and fracture of the skull, 
 from which he never recovered. After this he returned North, 
 and spent his last days at Astoria, Long Island, opposite the city 
 of New- York, where he died January 22d, 1853, aged seventy-two 
 years. He is buried in the grounds of the Episcopal church. His 
 strongest traits of character were great energy of purpose, indom- 
 itable perseverance, a remarkable regard for the feelings of others, 
 a kind and generous manner, and an open-hearted hospitality. He 
 
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 was also a sincere and devout Christian, and honored religion in 
 his life and in his death. 
 
 While resident in England, Mr. Smith married Sarah Allen, of 
 Haddonfield, in Yorkshire, April 9th, 1812, by whom he had one 
 child — a daughter — Lucinda, born in London July 18th, 1814. 
 His wife died June 5th, 1836. His daughter was married July 
 7th, i840, to Rev. Edward Knight Maddock, a clergjTnan of the 
 Church of England. Mr. Maddock went out to Calcutta as a 
 chaplain in the British army. He was some time at Mussorie, and 
 then stationed upon the Himmalayeh Mountains in the north-west 
 provinces of India, until transferred to Penang, where he was a few 
 years since. Mrs. Maddock had three sons born in India during 
 an absence of ten years, the eldest of whom died there, and is 
 buried " on the steep mountain side of the Himmalayeh, second 
 range, under the spreading boughs of a mountain oak." The two 
 living sons accompanied her to London some years since, where a 
 daughter was born to her. Mr. Smith never saw any. of these 
 children. Mrs. Maddock expected to remain in England two 
 years, and perhaps leave her sons there to be educated, while she 
 returned with the dau^rhter to her husband. 
 
 EBENEZER MOSELEY 
 
 Was born at Hampton, Ct., November 21st, 1781. He was very 
 regular in his habits when in College, was moral and amiable, and 
 ranked well as a scholar. He studied law one year with Judge 
 Chauncey in New-Haven, another year with Judge Clarke, of 
 Windham, and a third with Judge Hinckley, of Northampton. 
 In 1805 he settled in New.buryport, Mass., where he entered 
 upon a large and lucrative practice, the fruits of which enabled 
 him to retire from the active duties of his profession some years 
 before his death. Taking a high rank at the bar, many students 
 sought admission to his office, some of whom have become dis- 
 tinguished in after-life ; among them Governor Dunlap, of Maine, 
 
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 Hon. Caleb Cusbing, and Rev. Jobn Pierpoint, (in early life a 
 lawyer.) He was a master in cbancery for Essex county, and 
 was for a number of years a Representative and Senator in the 
 Legislature of Massachusetts, and in one instance or more a 
 Presidential Elector. He took an interest in agricultural pursuits, 
 and was for many years President of the Essex Agricultural 
 Society, one of the earliest incorporated in the commonwealth. 
 He was also a Colonel of militia. For nearly thirty years he was 
 a communicant; latterly attending the Episcopal Church. He 
 died August. 28th, 1854, aged nearly seventy-three years. At a 
 meeting of the Essex bar, soon after, resolutions were passed ex- 
 pressing their deep regret at the loss of " one of their most dis- 
 tinguished members ;" their " testimony to his eminent worth and 
 long professional services," and " gratefully cherishing his mem- 
 ory," they hope that they may long feel "the influence of his 
 example." 
 
 In 1810 he married Mary Ann Oxnard, of Portland, Me., who 
 died in March, 1840. They had the following children: Edward 
 Strong Moseley, born June 22d, 1813 ; William Oxnard, born 
 April 2'7th, 1815; Lucy Jones, born July 5th, 1817; George 
 Hinckley, born December 6th, 1819, died November 12th, 1826 ; 
 Mary Ann, born October 12th, 1824 ; Charles, born October 31st, 
 1828. 
 
 Edward S. Moseley entered Yale College in 1829, and was a 
 member about three years. Some time after he went to the East- 
 Indies, and afterward he became a merchant in the East-India 
 trade. He now resides in Newburyport, where he is President of 
 the Mechanics' Bank. He married, February 5th, 1839, Charlotte 
 Augusta Chapman, eldest daughter of Rev. George T. Chapman, 
 D.D. They have had eight children: George Chapman Moseley, 
 born May 19th, 1841, who died December 6th, 1848; Edward 
 Augustus, born March 23d, 1846 ; Charles William, born Decem- 
 ber 24th, 1847; Mary Alice, born March 14th, 1850; Fred- 
 eric Strong, born March 19th, 1852; Arthur Chapman, born 
 March 19th, 1854, died one montli, after, April 19th, 1854; 
 
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 Charlotte Augusta, born March 26th, 1856 ; and Georgiana Ox- 
 nard, born April 22d, 1858. 
 
 William O. Moseley was graduated at Harvard College in 1836, 
 and is a Unitarian clergyman; preached awhile in Burlington, 
 Vt. ; was settled at South-Scituate, but now resides in Boston. 
 He married Caroline Louisa Fairbanks, only daughter of Hon. 
 Stephen Fairbanks, of Boston, October 26th, 1847. They have 
 one child, Wm. Oxnard Moseley, born October 30th, 1848. 
 
 Lucy J. Moseley was married October 23d, 1860, to Rev. A. B. 
 Muzzey, Pastor of the first Religious Society in Newburyport. 
 
 Mary Ann Moseley was married, March 3d, 1849, to Oliver 
 Hazard Perry, son of the late Commodore Perry. They have 
 one son, Oliver H. Perry, born June 15th, 1851. They reside at 
 Andover, Mass. 
 
 Charles Moseley made a number of voyages to the East-Indies 
 as supercargo. On the eve of embarking again for India he was 
 drowned. May 20th, 1853. He was a young man of great pro- 
 mise of usefulness. 
 
 GIDEON TOMLINSON, 
 
 Of Stratford, was fitted for CoUege by Rev. David Ely, D.D., of 
 Huntington, along with Charles Shelton and other members of his 
 Class. He spent about a year after graduating in Northampton 
 county, Ya., in the family of Mr. Upshur, father of the late Secre- 
 tary of the Navy, who was killed by the bursting of a cannon on 
 board the ship Princeton, and while teaching there he also studied 
 law. In November, 1803, he returned to Connecticut and prose- 
 cuted the study of his profession with Judge Chauncey in New- 
 Haven, where he was admitted to the bar. In 1807 he settled in 
 that part of the town of Fairfield called Greenfield, famed as hav- 
 ing been the scene of the pastoral labors of Rev. Timothy D wight, 
 D.D., and of a school which he taught there, previously to his 
 election as President of Yale College, and who during his resi- 
 dence there wrote the poem which bears the name of Greenfield 
 
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 Hill. There he practiced law a number of years, until he was 
 taken from his profession to enter public life. After having been 
 a Representative from the town of Fairfield to the State Legisla- 
 ture and successively Clerk and Speaker of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives, in 1818 he was chosen a member of Congress, in which 
 position he was continued by successive elections until March, 
 1827, when he was raised still higher by being chosen Governor 
 of Connecticut, and remained in that station until he was elected 
 a Senator of the United States. He was a member of the Senate 
 six years, which closed his public life. After this long and honor- 
 able career of public service he retired to private life, and thus 
 spent the rest of his days. 
 
 December 15th, 1807, Mr. Tomlinson married Sarah Bradley, 
 daughter of Mr. Walter Bradley, of Fairfield, and grand-daughter 
 by her mother of Dudley Baldwin, a very prominent member of 
 the church and society of Greenfield during the pastorate of Dr. 
 D wight, as well as an important member of the Fairfield county 
 bar. They had one child only, Jabez Huntington Tomlinson, who 
 was their rising hope. He entered Yale College, and was a pro- 
 mising and honored member of the Class to which he belonged ; 
 but in consequence of impaired health, reluctantly took a dismis- 
 sion and went to the South, accompanied by his mother, in hope 
 of recovery, but returned without gaining the object. After a 
 long, lingering illness, he died April 21st, 1838, in his twentieth 
 year. This was a sore bereavement to his parents, who, however, 
 found consolation in the assurance that he died in the Lord. 
 
 Mrs. Tomlinson died December 25th, 1842, in her fifty-sixth 
 year. Gov. Tomlinson afterward married the widow of WUliam 
 Wright, of Bridgeport, by whom he had no children. He died in 
 1 854, in his seventy-fourth year. 
 
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 SAMUEL MERWIN, 
 Of Milford, was fitted for College by his pastor, Rev. Bezalaal 
 Pinneo, and immediately after graduation began the study of 
 theology with Dr. Backus, of Somers, where he remained until 
 some time in the next year, when he pursued his studies with 
 President D wight, at New-Haven. In February, 1804, he was 
 licensed, together with Scranton and Strong, at North-Branford, 
 by a committee of New-Haven East Association, and February 
 13th, 1805, he was installed pastor of the North Church of New- 
 Haven, where he remained pastor until January 1st, 1832, during 
 which time many were added to his church. Between January 
 3d, 1808, and his dismission, he received eight hundred and thirty, 
 averaging thirty-four a year, exactly corresponding with the aver- 
 age number admitted to the Centre Church for that period. He 
 was installed over the church in Wilton, Ct., February 22d, 1832, 
 where he remained pastor until September 2 1st, 1839, when ill- 
 health led him to resign his charge, whereupon he returned to 
 New-Haven, where he spent the remaining years of his life. 
 Here, for a time, he gave instruction to young men in his own 
 house, often preaching also, for he desired to be useful to the close 
 of life. 
 
 In October, 1805, Mr. Merwin married Clarina Bradley Taylor, 
 daughter of Colonel Timothy Taylor, of Danbury, a Revolution- 
 ary officer. They had seven children, all of whom are professors 
 of religion, namely, Timothy Taylor Merwin, born August, 1807 ; 
 Elizabeth Cook, born July, 1810 ; Susan Townsend, born Novem- 
 ber, 1812; Clarina, January, 1815; Mary Daggett, July, 1817; 
 Samuel John Mills, November, 1819 ; Emily Baldwin, November, 
 1821. 
 
 The eldest of these, Timothy Taylor Merwin, was graduated at 
 Yale College in 1828, studied law in New-Haven, settled as a law- 
 yer in Norwalk, and was for a time Clerk of the Courts in Fair- 
 field county. He afterward became a merchant in the city of 
 New- York. He married first, in 1830, Hannah B. "White, daugh- 
 
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 ter of Colonel Moss White, of Danbury, who died some time 
 since, and he is now living with his second wife. 
 
 Elizabeth Cooke Merwin was married, as a second wife, to Rev. 
 Joseph Dresser Wickham, in October, 1834. Mr. "Wickham was 
 a graduate and tutor of Yale College, and afterward pastor of the 
 Presbyterian Church at Matteawan, near Fishkill, N. Y., and later 
 still. Principal of the Burr Seminary in Manchester, Vt. In 1861 
 he received the degree of D.D. from Middlebury College. 
 
 Susan Townsend Merwin was married to Rev. George Ingersoll 
 Wood, son of Hon. Joseph Wood, Judge of New-Haven County 
 Court, in April, 1839. Mr. Wood was some time pastor of the 
 Second Presbyterian Church in the city of Washington, and then 
 of the church in West-Hartford ; was stated supply a few years in 
 North-Branford ; then pastor of the church in Ellington, and now 
 of the Second Church in Guilford. 
 
 Clarina Merwin was married to Charles Marvin, Esq., of Wil- 
 ton, in Nov^ember, 1836, who has been a State Senator. 
 
 Mary Dagget Merwin was married, in September, 1851, to Rev. 
 Clinton Clark, a graduate and tutor of Amherst College, and now 
 pastor of the Congregational Church in Ridgefield, Ct. 
 
 Samuel J. M. Merwin was for a time pastor of the Congrega- 
 tional Church in Southport, but is now settled in South-Hadley 
 Falls, Mass. He married [Mary Frances Buckley, daughter of 
 Jonathan Buckley, Esq., who is dead. He is now married to Miss 
 Arethusa Salisbury, of Northampton. 
 
 Emily Baldwin Merwin was married to Rev. Gordon Hall, 
 graduate and tutor of Yale College, some time pastor of the 
 church in Wilton, and now of the Edwards Church, Northamp- 
 ton, Mass. 
 
 Mr. Merwin's sons and sons-in-law, with one exception, are 
 all graduates of Yale College. He had, when this was written, 
 seventeen grandchildren — nine grandsons and eight granddaugh- 
 ters — all living but one grandson. 
 
 Mr. Merwin died September 3d, 1856, aged seventy-five. His 
 wife survived him but a little over two years. She died February 
 15th, 1859, aged seventy. 
 
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 ACHILLES ELLIOT, 
 
 A native of Killingworth, now Clinton, Ct., was a direct de- 
 scendant of the Rev. John Elliot, of Roxbury, Mass., the vene- 
 rable Indian apostle. He was fitted for College by his pastor, 
 Rev. Achilles Mansfield, and entered a freshman, in 1797. A 
 long illness, in the second year of his course, induced him to leave 
 the class which he first joined, and to connect himself with ours, 
 in the summer term of our Sophomore year. He was still feeble, 
 and unable to apply himself closely to his studies, though he held 
 a respectable standing in our class. 
 
 After graduating, he taught an academy one year in Windham, 
 and the winter following in South-Glastenbury, and then returned 
 to his native town, where he afterward lived, and cultivated his 
 patrimonial estate. For some years he was postmaster. 
 
 Beside being generally feeble, Mr. Elliot was especially exposed 
 to death in 1821. The main artery of his left leg had become 
 swoUen to such a 'degree as to excite the apprehension of an 
 aneurism, and of course of sudden death. This terrible danger 
 was averted only by submitting to an unusual and critical ope- 
 ration. Dr. Knight, of New-Haven, made an incision in the ab- 
 domen, just above the groin, six inches long, baring the body to 
 the spine, along which this artery lies, passed a ligature around it, 
 which at length parted the artery, nature capping the ends, and 
 the blood flowed off through the other vessels. By this perilous 
 operation, his life was prolonged thirty-five years. His health be- 
 came comfortable, and remained so through life. He limped a 
 little, and when he walked too much, the pressure of blood into 
 the other vessels occasioned a degree of pain. Still he was able 
 to attend to business. He died September 29th, 1856, at the good 
 old age of seventy-six years. 
 
 In 1811 Mr. Elliot married Polly Stannard, of Westbrook, by 
 whom he had three children : Miriam Elliot, who died early ; 
 Miriam Jerusha, bom December 29th, 1816; and John Henry, 
 born January 31st, 1819. 
 
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 Miriam Jerusha Elliot taught school five years in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. She was married January 30th, 1850, to Justin A. Bliss, 
 of West-Springfield, Mass., and died December 13th of the same 
 year, aged thirty-five. 
 
 John Henry Elliot resides in the city of New- York. He mar- 
 ried Margaretta Hornung, of that city, March 1st, 1839. They 
 have had three children ; Henry Achilles Elliot, born November 
 29th, 1839; George Francis, born February 14th, 1842; and 
 Theodore, born June 1st, 1844, died June 8th, 1844. 
 
 WILLIAM MAXWELL 
 Was a native of the city of Norfolk, Va., He was fitted for 
 College by Rev. Israel B. Woodward, of Wolcott, Ct., with whom 
 he made rapid progress in his studies, and gave promise of the 
 high scholarship which he afterward attained. After leaving Col- 
 lege he studied law, and commenced practice in his native place, 
 where he soon rose to eminence. He afterward removed to Rich- 
 mond. He was a member both of the House of Representatives 
 in^ the Virginia Legislature, and also of the Senate. He was the 
 first editor of the Journal of Commerce, published m New-York, 
 after which he was for a number of years President of Hampden 
 Sidney College, in Virginia. He also instructed a law-school. 
 He early published a small volume of poetry, some of the pieces 
 in which he Avrote about the time of his connection with College. 
 At an after period he published the Life of Rev. John H. Rice, 
 D.D. After 1847 he was engaged in reviving and Establishing the 
 Virginia Historical Society, in which he took great interest, and 
 of which he was at once secretary, librarian, and general agent. 
 In this congenial employment he spent the last years of his life, 
 In addition to other labors, he edited a small Quarterly Regis- 
 ter, of which he published four volumes, one annually, containing 
 . a variety of matter relating to the history of Virginia, with some 
 things of a miscellaneous character, to make them more accejDt- 
 able to the popular taste. 
 
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 In 1856 a few of our Class, who lived at the North, endeavored 
 to secure a meeting at Commencement. Mr. Merwin, of New- 
 Haven, wrote to Mr. Maxwell, and desired him to be present. 
 Mr. Maxwell felt himself too feeble to undertake so long a jour- 
 ney, but sent the following letter : 
 
 "Richmond, July, 1856. 
 
 "My Dear Sir: On my return to town, after an absence of 
 some weeks, I have received your letter of the llih ult., and 
 deeply regret that I shall not be able to attend the meeting of our 
 surviving classmates on the thirtieth of this month ; but my 
 health is too delicate and uncertain to allow me to think of under- 
 taking so long a journey from home. I need not say it would 
 give me great pleasure to be with you, if I could. Nor would I 
 shrink from making a response to any call that might be made 
 upon me at the time. Indeed, I earnestly wish to say some 
 things to my friends of New-England, which I flatter myself they 
 would take kindly from me. But I can not think of writing, as 
 you suggest, because I am sure, beforehand, that I could not do 
 any thing like justice to my feelings in that way. I must, there- 
 fore, decline even making the attempt, and pray you to excuse me 
 from the task. Instead of any formal, then, I beg you to present 
 my most affectionate regards to all the brethren who may be 
 present on the occasion, and assure them of the cordial esteem 
 which I fondly indulge, that if I can not meet them in the classic 
 shades of Yale, endeared to me by so many recollections, I shall 
 yet embrace them all before long in another and better world. 
 Brethren, pray for me, and accept my final farewell. 
 
 " I am, dear sir, very truly, your friend and servant, 
 
 "William Maxwell." 
 
 This was indeed his "final farewell." He died January 15th, 
 1857, aged nearly seventy-two years. 
 
 Mr. Maxwell professed religion in CoUege, and sustained a 
 Christian character through life in the various and important situ- 
 ations in which he was placed. 
 
 Though Mr. Maxwell had, it is believed, always ample means 
 
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 for the support of a family, he did not marry until late in life. 
 His wife was a Miss Robertson, daughter of Thomas Robertson, 
 a merchant in Norfolk. She survives him. They had no children. 
 
 IRA "WEBSTER 
 
 Was born in West-Hartford, Ct., January 22d, 1781, and was 
 fitted for College by his pastor, the Rev. Nathan Perkins, D.D. 
 He studied theology with Dr. Charles Backus, of Somers, and 
 was licensed to preach ; but at the earnest request of his parents, 
 being an only child, he was induced to give up the ministry, and 
 settle down upon his father's estate as a farmer, where he re- 
 mained until 1830, when, his parents having died, he removed 
 his family to New-Haven, for the better education of his children, 
 and there resided for a few years. In 1836 he returned to Hart- 
 ford, but afterward lived in East-Hartford, and in Wallingford. 
 Wishing to be useful, he engaged for a number of years in the 
 publication and sale of religious books. 
 
 He died at Wallingford on the morning of February 4th, 1859, 
 in full assurance of a blessed immortality. His widow survived 
 him three years, and died in the same place, rejoicing in hope, on 
 the morning of January 6th, 1862. The remains of both were 
 taken to Hartford, and laid side by side in the burial-ground in 
 that city. 
 
 This excellent lady, who was his companion for fifty years, 
 was Ann Lockwood Francis, of Hartford, a descendant of Miles 
 Standish. They were married September 11th, 1809, and had ten 
 children : William Francis Webster, born September 12th, 1810 ; 
 Sarah Ann, born June 8th, 1812 ; Emeline, born February 26th, 
 1814; John, born February 19th, 1816, died March 18th, 1816 ; 
 John Keep, born March 11th, 1817 ; George, born February 21st, 
 1819, died March 25th, 1829; Martha, born March 13th, 1820; 
 Lucy Dyer, born March 22d, 1822 ; George Gideon, born March 
 14th, 1824 ; Daniel, bora June 18th, 1828. 
 
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 William Francis was a merchant in Hartford, where he died of 
 consumption March 14th, 1838. Lucy Dyer also died of con- 
 sumption, in Hartford, September 22d, 1840 ; and Daniel Webster, 
 of the same disease, in St. Louis, December 13th, 1844. 
 
 Sarah Ann Webster was married to Henry Lewis Miller in Sep- 
 tember, 1833, formerly a merchant in Hartford, but afterward in 
 the legal profession. They had one child, a son, who soon died. 
 She died of fever September 4th, 1834. After her death, in Feb- 
 ruary, 1837, Mr. Miller married her sister, Martha Webster, by 
 whom he had five children, two sons and three daughters, of 
 whom two daughters only are living. Mr. Miller died December 
 30th, 1861. 
 
 John Keep Webster — so named from his father's classmate, 
 John Keep — settled as a banker and broker in Quincy, 111., where 
 he now resides. He married Keturah Strong Wood, June 14th, 
 1843, and has had four sons and one daughter, who are all living, 
 excepting one son. 
 
 George Gideon Webster, the younger of the two surviving sons, 
 graduated at Yale College in 1847, and studied law at the Law 
 School in New-Haven; after which he removed to California, 
 which State is still his home. 
 
 But six grandchildren of our classmate, Ira Webster, are now 
 living, four only of whom bear the name of Webster. 
 
 LEVI COLLINS 
 
 Was a native of Somers, Ct., son of Joseph Collins, a respectable 
 inhabitant of that town, a Justice of the Peace, and repeatedly a 
 Representative in the Legislature of that State. 
 
 Levi learned the hatter's trade before he began to study with a 
 view of entering a profession. He was fitted for College by 
 Henry Davis, afterward President of Hamilton College, 'New- 
 York. He was of a tall, spare, and slightly bending form. 
 
 Soon after graduating, he united with the church in his native 
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 town, and studied theology with his pastor, Kev. Dr. Backus, 
 being joined there for various periods by some of his classmates : 
 Baldwin, Bigelow, Sherman Johnson, Mead, Merwin, Prentice, 
 Webster, Field, etc. . He was licensed to preach by the Tolland 
 Association in 1804, and preached afterward at East-Windsor, 
 Stonington Point, and West-Stafford, Ct., at Chicopee and Panton, 
 Mass., Vergennes, Yt., and a few other places — ^in all about two 
 years and a half. But on account of w^eakness of lungs, and his 
 voice having failed him, he abstained almost wholly from preach- 
 ing for a considerable time. In 1807 he took charge of the 
 Academy in Munson, Mass., where he remained about seven years. 
 In 1814 he took the agency of a cotton manufactory in Amherst, 
 where his health became somewhat restored. Resigning his 
 agency in 1817, he preached in that vicinity for a short period, 
 and in April of that year removed to Otsego county, in the State 
 of New- York, where he spent four years in teaching and in 
 preaching, as opportunities offered, which were then numerous. 
 He then removed to Chenango county, N, Y., where he remained 
 four years more, occupied in a similar manner, but was never 
 settled as a pastor. The confinements of a school, which, as a 
 teacher, had occupied most of his time for several years, had 
 again impaired his health ; and for the purpose of regaining his 
 exhausted strength, he determined to devote himself to the busi- 
 ness of agriculture, and in 1825 settled himself upon a farm in 
 Fabius, from whence, in 1832, he removed to Smyrna, N". Y., 
 where he continued thus employed until 1846. During the latter 
 year he removed to Belvidere, in the State of Illinois, where he 
 purchased a farm, upon which he continued to reside to the time 
 of his death. He died December 11th, 1859, in the eighty-third 
 year of his age. 
 
 In 1818, w^hile residing in Otsego county, N. Y., he was married 
 to Miss Alice Allen, by whom he had five children, namely, Joseph 
 D. Collins, Mary Collins, Emily Collins, all of whom died at an 
 early age, and Mary Ann Collins and Levi D. Colhns, both of 
 whom are living. 
 
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 Maiy Ann was married to Erastus S. Foote in 1843 ; tbey have 
 two children, Emily Sophia and Frank Foote. Mr. Foote removed 
 to Belvidere, III, where he now resides, in 1845 ; and Mr. Collins 
 purchased a farm on the opposite side of the road from the resi- 
 dence of Mr. Foote the next year, and removed thence with his 
 wife and son Levi. 
 
 Levi D. Collins was married to Sarah E. Nichols in 1857 ; they 
 have no children. They too live in Belvidere ; so that the whole 
 family of our classmate Collins have the same pleasant Western 
 town as their home. 
 
 WILLIAM LIGHTBOURN STRONG 
 Was a native of Salisbury, Ct., where he was born, October 18th, 
 1782. He was fitted for College in part by Rev. Dr. Cooley, of 
 Granville, Mass., and in part by Rev. Amos Chase, of Litchfield, 
 South-Farms, Ct. He was a sound scholar, and received the 
 Berkleian prize, along with Couch, who was afterward a Judge of 
 the Superior Court in the State of Ohio. He studied theology a 
 year and a half with President Dwight, and was licensed to 
 preach in the beginning of 1804. The year following he preached 
 in different places, about three months of the time in Vergennes, 
 Vermont. On the 3d of April, 1805, he was ordained pastor of 
 the church in Somers, Ct., where he remained until July 1st, 
 1829 — more than twenty-four years. During this long pastorate, 
 of nearly a quarter of a century, he labored with great fidelity and 
 success, and was universally respected and beloved, both by his 
 ministerial brethren and by the churches in all that region. After 
 leaving Somers he w^as installed at Redding, in th^e same State, 
 June 23d, 1830, and dismissed March 1st, 1835, after a ministry 
 of nearly five years. Three months after, June 3d, he was settled 
 again, for the third and last time, at Vienna, Ontario county, N. Y., 
 where he continued pastor about five years. After this he spent a 
 year at Auburn, and then removed to Fayetteville, in Onondaga 
 county, where he spent the last years of his life. Here he died 
 
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 August 31st, 1859, at the age of nearly seventy-seven years, 
 closing a long and useful life by a death of perfect peace. 
 
 Early in 1807 Mr. Strong was married to Miss Harriet Deming, 
 daughter of Henry Deming, of Wethersfield, Ct., a lady of great 
 worth, who still survives him, by whom he had eleven children : 
 William Strong, born May 6th, 1808; Newton Deming, born 
 October 17th, 1809; Harriet Williams, born November 14th, 
 1811; Edward, bora October 25th, 1813; Mary, born August 
 27th, 1815; Sarah Elizabeth, born July 29th, 1817; Theodore, 
 born January 25th, 1820; Samuel Worcester, born December 
 4th, 1821 ; Abigail Bates, born September 13th, 1823 ; Julia, born 
 March 3d, 1826 ; Helen Maria, born May 30th, 1830. 
 
 William Strong graduated at Yale College in 1828, and settled 
 as a lawyer in Reading, Pa., where he rose to eminence at the bar, 
 and was twice chosen a member of Congress. In 1857 he was elect- 
 ed one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and 
 removed to Philadelphia, where he still resides. He does honor 
 to the bench by his high character as well as his acknowledged 
 legal ability. Judge Strong has been twice married, first to Pris- 
 cilla Lee Mallory, of Easton, Pa., November 28th, 1836, who died 
 April 8th, 1844, aged twenty-eight, leaving two daughters and one 
 son, (who survived his mother but four years ;) and afterward, in 
 November, 1849, to Mrs. Rachel Bull, of Churchtown, Pa., by 
 whom he has two daughters and one son. 
 
 Newton D. Strong was graduated at Yale, and afterward was a 
 tutor in that institution. He has been a lawyer in Alton, 111., and 
 St. Louis, Mo. While in Alton he was a member of the Legisla- 
 ture of Illinois. For a time he was in partnership with a brother 
 in Pennsylvania, but afterward returned to St. Louis. He has 
 lately opened an office again in Reading, Pa. He married Ma- 
 tilda R. Edwards, of Alton, in September, 1846, who died Feb- 
 ruary 7th, 1851, aged twenty-seven. 
 
 Harriet Williams Strong was married to Frederic Pratt, a 
 farmer of Fayetteville, N. Y., April 2 2d, 1852, and still resides 
 there. 
 
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 Edward Strong was graduated at Yale College in 1838, and 
 was a tutor there for several years. Studying theology, he was 
 settled as pastor of the College-street Church in New-Haven, in 
 
 1842, where he remained nearly twenty years, when he was compell- 
 ed by ill-health, and that of his wife, to ask a dismission. He has 
 since preached for some months at Kalamazoo, Mich., but, though 
 urgently invited to settle, does not feel yet quite strong enough to 
 accept a pastoral charge. He is, however, far restored, and hopes 
 soon to resume the duties to which his heart and his life are 
 devoted. He married Margaret Sherman, of New-Haven, in 
 March, 1843, by whom he has three children, two sons and a 
 daughter. 
 
 Mary Strong was married February 20th, 1838, to Rev. Robert 
 E. Willson, a Presbyterian clergyman. He was then minister of 
 Hamraondsport, N. Y., and afterw^ard of Corning, in Steuben 
 county. He is now settled in Clyde, Wayne county. They have 
 one son and two daughters. 
 
 Sarah Elizabeth Strong was married to Henry M. Cooley, a 
 merchant of Auburn, N. Y., but now residing in Pittston, Luzerne 
 county. Pa. They have had five children, but have lost two sons 
 and two daughters. One son only is living. 
 
 Theodore Strong was prepared to enter the Sophomore class in 
 Yale CoUege, having the ministry in view ; but the weakness of 
 his eyes obliged him to give up the study of a profession. He 
 therefore settled in business in Pittston, Pa., where he is a very 
 prosperous man, and very useful in the Church, He married 
 Mary E. Benedict, of Hudson, N. Y., and has three daughters 
 and two sons. 
 
 Samuel "Worcester Strong was graduated at Yale College, in 
 
 1843. He studied for the ministry, and was settled over a Con- 
 gregational Church in Springfield, Mass. But failing health 
 obliged him to give up the ministry, and he entered on the study 
 of law, and finally became a partner with his brother William at 
 Reading, Pa., but died in about four months, of typhoid pneu- 
 monia, April 16th, 1856. He had been married, but little over a 
 
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 year before, to Abiah Palmer Root, of Feeding Hills, Mass., a 
 village near Si^ringfield. He left one child, a daughter, then but 
 three months old. His widow now lives in Westfield, Mass. 
 
 Abigail Bates Strong was married, October 31st, 1850, as a 
 second Avife, to Nelson H. Gaston, of New-Haven, a shipping 
 merchant engaged in the West-India trade. They had three child- 
 ren, but one daughter and one son died. One daughter only is 
 living. Mr. Gaston died December 23d, 1856. 
 
 Julia Strong was married to Rev. Henry Darling, September 
 1st, 1845, who was for some years pastor of the Presbyterian 
 Church in Hudson, N. Y., and afterward was settled in Philadel- 
 phia. She died in great peace of mind, June 26th, 1851, at a 
 time when her husband was in Europe. 
 
 Helen Maria Strong was married, March 14th, 1860, to John 
 Loveland, a merchant of Pittston, Pa., and now resides in that 
 place. 
 
 BALPH ISAACS BUSH, 
 
 Of Greenwich, was fitted for College by Rev. Dr. Lewis, minister 
 in that town, in company with his classmates, Lewis and Mead, 
 and two others who joined the class, but took dismissions. Im- 
 mediately after graduating he began the study of medicine with 
 Dr. Clark Sanford, a physician in Greenwich, and then attended a 
 course of medical lectures in Philadelphia. He afterward studied 
 in the office of Dr. Burch, of New- York, and attended medical 
 lectures in that city. About fourteen years he practiced medicine 
 in Hampstead, New- York, and then for six or seven years in the 
 city of New- York. After this he entered into business as a drug- 
 gist, in which he was very successful, and in which he remained 
 till the close of his life, which was August 3d, 1860. 
 
 His wife was Elizabeth Van Valen, of New- York City, by 
 whom he had eisfht children — four sons and four dancjhters. One 
 child died in infancy, and another aged five years. Two sons died 
 
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 of cholera in 1845 or 1846, namely, William K., aged twenty-six 
 years, and John A., aged twenty-one. William was married to 
 Miss Margaret Andres, by whom he left two children, Ralph I. 
 and John A. By these deaths only one son of Mr. Bush survived 
 his father. This was the eldest, Henry, who married Mary Jen- 
 nings, and has four children, one son and three daughters. 
 
 Of the daughters of Mr. Bush, three are living. Of these, 'the 
 eldest, Sarah, married P. IT. Morgan, of New- York, and has one 
 son ; the second, Mary, married A. G. Morgan, and has two sons 
 and one daughter ; the youngest, Fannie E., is married to Edward 
 Spooner, but has no children. 
 
 SHELDON CLARK LEAVITT, 
 
 A brother of Mrs. Haskell and Mrs. Hough, was a native of 
 Bethlem, Ct., and was the son of a very wealthy country mer- 
 chant. He was fitted for College by his pastor, Rev. Azel 
 Backus, D.D., afterward President of Hamilton College, along 
 with Prentice, Reeve, and others. He was one of the youngest 
 members of the Class. After graduating he returned to Bethlem, 
 and lived there many years, being occupied chiefly in the manage- 
 ment of the large estate left by his father. He was also en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits. While here, he was repeatedly 
 chosen representative of the town in the Legislature of Connecti- 
 cut. In 1837 he removed to Brooklyn, L. I., where resided his 
 brother, David Leavitt, Esq., an eminent banker of New- York, 
 and also his mother and his sister, Mrs. Haskell, with whom he 
 made his home for the rest of his life, having never married. He 
 did not enter into any business, but lived the life of a retired 
 gentleman, finding sufficient occupation in the management of 
 his large property. 
 
 In the autumn of 1860 he took a journey to the West, and on 
 his return was taken ill at the houseu^yiis nephew, John Hough, 
 
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 Esq., of Fort Wayne, where he died, November 4th, aged 
 seventy-five years. 
 
 The mother of Mr. Leavitt is still living in Brooklyn, at the 
 age of ninety" seven. She lives with her daughter, Mrs. Haskell. 
 
 JOHN HOUGH 
 Was the son of Dr. Walter Hough, of Canterbury, who was a 
 surgeon in the army during the Revolutionary War, and was 
 stationed at Stamford, where this son was born August iTth, 1783. 
 He was fitted for College by Mr. John Adams, who was then 
 teaching a school of a high order in Canterbury, and entered the 
 Sophomore Class in Yale College at the age of seventeen. He 
 was a superior scholar. The winter after his graduation he taught 
 the grammar school in Westchester, a part of the town of Col- 
 chester. In 1804 he commenced the study of theology with Rev. 
 Moses C. Welch, D.D., of Mansfield, Ct., with whom he remained 
 several months ; after which he studied with Rev. Joel Benedict, 
 of Plainfield, and Rev. Levi Hart, D.D., of Preston, till the spring 
 of 1805, when he joined a theological class under the instruction of 
 President Dwight at New-Haven. This was soon dispersed by 
 an alarm of yellow fever, and he concluded his studies with his 
 former teachers. In October, 1805, he was licensed by the Wind- 
 ham County Association. 
 
 In the summer of 1806 he went to Vermont, as a Missionary of 
 the Connecticut Missionary Society. He commenced preaching at 
 Vergennes, so much to the edification of the people that in a few 
 weeks he was invited to become their pastor. He accepted the 
 call, and was ordained March 12th, 1807. The church was 
 small, but gradually gained strength, and in 1810 experienced a 
 revival which brought in a number of new members. After a 
 pastorate of a little more than five years he was dismissed, August 
 25th, 1812, to accept a Professorship in the College at Middlebury. 
 In November following he entered on his duties as Professor of 
 the Greek and Latin languages, and was connected with the Col- 
 
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 lege, in that and other professorships, for twenty-seven years. 
 For eight years, from 1817 to 1825, he was Professor of Theology, 
 the first and only one who has held that position in Middlebury. 
 He was eminently successful and popular as an instructor. Saxe, 
 in his poem at the Middlebury Semi-Centennial, thus speaks of 
 him : 
 
 " And well I remember another, whose praise 
 Were a suitable theme for more elegant lays, •> 
 
 But even in numbers ungainly and rough, 
 I must mention the name of our glorious Hough. 
 Who does not remember — for who can forget 
 Till memory's star shall forever have set — 
 How he sat in his place unaffected and bold, 
 And taught us more truths than the lesson had told — 
 Gave a lift to ' Old Noll' for the love of the right. 
 And a slap at the Stuarts with cordial spite — 
 And, quite in the teeth of conventional rules. 
 Hurled his adjectives down upon tyrants and fools ? 
 But chief he excelled in his proper vocation, 
 Of giving the classics a classic translation. 
 In Latin and Greek he was almost oracular. 
 And what was more to his praise understood the vernacular. 
 Oh ! it was pleasant to hear him make English from Greek, 
 Till you felt that no tongue was inherently weak ; 
 While Horace, in Latin, seemed quite underrated. 
 And joyed, like old Enoch, in being translated." 
 
 While at Middlebury he was one of the Editors of the Vermont 
 Evangelical Magazine in 1814, and sole Editor in 1815. He also 
 published three sermons: one at the ordination of Rev. Daniel 
 Haskell, at Burlington, April 10th, 1810 ; one at the ordination of 
 Rev. Beriah Green, at Brandon, April 16th, 1823 ; and one before 
 the Vermont Colonization Society, at Montpelier, October 18th, 
 1826. Many years later he published in the American Quarterly 
 Register, Vol. HL, *' Mechanical Labor combined with Study," 
 an address at Middlebury, August 18th, 1850. 
 
 In 1839 he resigned the Professor's chair and retired from the 
 
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 College ; but that he retained its high respect was proved by its 
 conferring upon him in 1845 the degree of Doctor of Divinity. 
 After leaving Middlebury he was for a few months agent of the 
 American Colonization Society in Western New- York. A year or 
 two after he removed to Ohio, and was installed, June 24th, 1841, 
 pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Windham, Portage county. 
 This was a township purchased and settled by families from Massa- 
 chusetts, who took in only such emigrants as were congenial to 
 their new community. Here he had a large congregation, and 
 labored with great fidelity and success for nine years. In 1843 a 
 revival added thirty-six members to the church. A healthy state 
 of religion continued during his whole pastorate. His sight failing 
 him so that he could not read, he was dismissed in 1850, and 
 resided for the rest of his life with one or the other of his sons ; 
 his blindness becoming, in a few years, almost total. 
 
 The last eight years of his life he spent with his son John, 
 at Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he died July l7th, 1861, aged 
 seventy-eight. His wife had died at the same place two years 
 before, February 11th, 1859. 
 
 He married, ISTovember 19th, 1812, Lucy Leavitt, daughter of 
 David Leavitt, of Bethlem, Ct., and sister of his classmateT, 
 Sheldon C. Leavitt, and also of Mrs. Haskell, by whom he had 
 six children, three sons and three daughters. One son and two 
 daughters died in infancy. The three surviving children are 
 Martha Lockwood, John, and David Leavitt. 
 
 John Hough, Jr., was graduated at Middlebury College in 1838, 
 and is a lawyer at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is married and has 
 two children, a son and a daughter. 
 
 David L. Hough also graduated at Middlebury in 1839, and is 
 also a lawyer. He practiced for some time at Quincy, 111., but is 
 now settled at Lasalle, where he is attorney for the Trustees of 
 the Illinois and Michigan Canal. He married Eliza Martin, of 
 Middlebury, Yt., and has had five children. Two died young — a 
 son and a daughter. Three are living — all sons. 
 
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 ERASTUS SCRANTON 
 
 Was a native of East-Guilford, now Madison, Ct. He was fitted 
 for College, along with Field, who was from the same town, by 
 their minister. Rev. John Elliott, D.D., who was a superior 
 scholar as well as an able divine. Jeremiah Evarts was also their 
 fellow-student here, as he was their classmate in College. After 
 graduating, Scranton taught a grammar-school in Rocky Hill for 
 six months, and then returned to Madison and studied theology 
 with Dr. Elliott. Being licensed to preach, he received a unani- 
 mous call to become the first pastor of the Congregational Church 
 in North-Milford, afterward Orange, Ct., where he was ordained 
 and installed July 4th, 1805. Here he remained pastor over 
 twenty years, and proved himself a faithful and useful minister of 
 the Gospel. January 2d, 1827, he was dismissed at his own re- 
 quest, after which he preached in Wolcott as stated supply about 
 two years. He then received a unanimous call to the Congrega- 
 tional Church in Burhngton, Ct., which he accepted, and was in- 
 stalled January 2d, 1830. Here he remained pastor ten years, 
 being dismissed May 27th, 1840. After this he continued to 
 reside in Burlington, without charge, preaching occasionally to 
 neighboring congregations. He also labored as an agent of the 
 Connecticut Bible Society, about four years, in the Northern 
 counties of Connecticut. It was while enjoying the comparative 
 leisure of his old age, that he prepared a Genealogical Register of 
 the Scranton Family, a work of great labor, and admirably exe- 
 cuted. 
 
 Mr. Scranton was married, April 10th, 1806, to Mary Elizabeth 
 Prudden, of Milford, a daughter of Newton and Elizabeth (North- 
 rup) Prudden. She was a descendant of Rev. Peter Prudden, 
 the first minister of Milford, (1639,) and of Rev. Roger Newton, 
 second minister of the same church. She was born February 3d, 
 1785. They had no children, but adopted, as their only child, 
 Mary Elizabeth Prudden, of Milford, who was born February 
 27th, 1819. She w^as married to Rev. Gardner S. Browne, A.M., 
 
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 September 30th, 1838. He was then pastor of the Church in 
 Hinsdale, N. H., but has since been a homeopathic physician in 
 Hartford. They have one daughter, Mary Scranton, born August 
 23d, 1839. 
 
 Mr. Sci'anton died in 1861. At the approach of death he ex- 
 pressed a wish to be buried in his native place, and there his 
 remains now rest beside those of his kindred. 
 
 CHABLES HOBBY POND 
 
 Son of Captain Charles and Martha (Miles) Pond, was born in 
 Milford, Ct., April 26th, 1781. He Avas fitted for College, in part, 
 by his pastor, Rev. Bezaliel Pinneo, but completed his studies 
 with Rev. Azel Backus, of Bethlem, afterward President of Ham- 
 ilton College. 
 
 Though young when he entered College, he was distinguished 
 for great muscular strength and for an uncommon vein of wit. 
 He was a good general scholar. After graduation he studied law 
 two years with Hon. Roger Minot Sherman, of Fairfield, and was 
 admitted to the bar in Fairfield county, though I believe he never 
 entered on the practice of law. About this time his health was 
 impaired, and he took a voyage to restore it. Having made this 
 beginning, he followed the seas several years ; first as supercargo 
 and then as captain. In 1819 he was a Judge of the Court for 
 New-Haven county, and the year following Sherifi" of the same 
 county, an office which he held fifteen years. In 1836 and 1837 
 he was again appointed Associate Judge of the County Court. 
 In 1850 he was chosen Lieutenant-Governor of the State. He was 
 reelected to the same office, and while holding it, by the appoint- 
 ment of Governor Seymour as Minister to Russia, he became, for 
 the remainder of his term. Governor of the State. After that he 
 spent the rest of his days in private life. He died April 28th, 1861, 
 in the month that witnessed the bombardment of Fort Sumter, 
 but as he had been ill several weeks and confined to his room, he 
 
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 was happily spared the knowledge of that event, and of the Great 
 Civil War which was then just beginning to cast its shadow over 
 the land. 
 
 He married Catharine Dickinson, and had seven children — one 
 son and six daughters — ^namely, Charles Pond, born October 13th, 
 1809 ; Martha Miles, born July 23d, 1814; Catharine Wales, born 
 January 1st, 1816 ; Mary Franklin, born February 18th, 1818; 
 Maria Letitia, born May 5th, 1820 ; Charlotte, born February ITth, 
 1822 ; Susan Augusta, born September 16th, 1826. 
 
 Charles Pond entered Yale College in 1826, and rose very high 
 as a scholar in his class, and at the same time was distinguished 
 for a most pleasant disposition and for agreeable manners. The 
 next year he became pious and gave great promise of usefulness ; 
 but in the mysterious Providence of God he was arrested by sick- 
 ness, was obliged to suspend his studies, and died suddenly, but 
 peacefully and triumphantly, at his father's house, June 9th, 1828. 
 Memoirs and Select Remains of him were compiled by a classmate 
 and have long been before the public. They make a small volume 
 of one hundred and forty pages, a fifth edition of which was issued 
 by the Massachusetts Sabbath-School Society in 1836. 
 
 Martha Miles Pond died of consumption, at her father's house, 
 March 29th, 1853. 
 
 Catharine Wales Pond was married, June 13th, 1836, to Rev. 
 Cyrus L. Watson, a minister laboring in Illinois. She accom- 
 panied him to that State, and died there, in the town of Blooming- 
 ton, April 5th, 1837, four days after the birth of a son, whom she 
 was permitted to unite with her husband in dedicating to God in 
 baptism, calling him Charles Pond Watson. But the child died 
 soon, and mother and child were buried in the same grave. A 
 memoir of Mrs. Watson, a small volume of two hundred and forty 
 pages, was compiled by the same friend who performed this of- 
 fice for her brother, and was published by Whipple and Damrell, 
 Boston, in 1839. Mr. Watson is now pastor of a church at Rich- 
 land, Illinois. 
 
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 Maiy Franklin Pond accompanied Mrs. Watson to the West, and 
 after a brief illness died at Louisiana, Mo., Oct. 30th, 1836. 
 
 Maria Letitia Pond was married to Robert A. Ramsey, of New- 
 York, in 1849, who died in 1850. In 1851 she was married to 
 Jonas G. Glenney, of Milwaukee, Wis., who died in 1852. A pro- 
 mising son, Charles Pond Glenney, was removed from them when 
 only a few months old. Mrs. Glenney died in Milford in 1854. 
 
 Charlotte Pond was married, June 2d, 1856, to the Rev. J. 
 Dixon Carder, then Rector of St. Peter's Church, Milford, and now 
 Secretary of the Domestic Department of the Board of Missions 
 of the Episcopal Church, Of their four children, two sons, James 
 Dixon Carder and Charles Hobby Carder, died, the first in his sec- 
 ond year, and the second in his first year. The two remaining are 
 daughters. 
 
 Susan Augusta Pond was married in 1852 to the Rev. Phineas 
 Stowe, Pastor of the Baptist Mariner's Church, Boston, Mass., 
 where he fills a post of much usefulness. Of their several children, 
 but one, a daughter, survives. Their oldest, Charles Hobby Stowe, 
 died in 1860. 
 
 Mrs. Pond did not long survive her eldest daughter Martha. 
 She died November 25th, 1853, aged sixty-eight. 
 
LIYING MEMBEES. 
 
 TRUMAN BALDWIN 
 
 Was born at Granville, Mass., September 27th, 1780. He was 
 the son of Amos Baldwin, one of the younger emigrants to that 
 town from Durham, Ct. He was fitted for College by Rev. 
 Timothy M. Cooley, D.D., of East-Granville, along with Bates 
 and Higley, and in part with Strong. He was of more than 
 middle stature, thin and slender ; very correct in his habits, and 
 industrious throughout his entire College course. In the revival 
 of 1802 he became hopefully pious, though he did not make a 
 profession of religion until he left College. After graduating he 
 was an assistant teacher six months at the Academy in Westfield, 
 Mass., and then studied theology with Rev. Charles Backus, D.D., 
 of Somers, Ct. He was first settled in the ministry in Charlotte, 
 Vt., from November 4th, 1807, to March 21st, 1815 ; afterward a 
 number of years in Pompey, N. Y., and then about three years in 
 Cicero, during which time more than seventy persons were added 
 to the Presbyterian Church under his care. He then labored in 
 various places. About 1835, his health having declined, at the 
 suggestion of friends, he removed to Middleport, twelve miles 
 east of Lockport, where a son-in-law. Rev. Mr. Sherwood, was 
 then laboring in the ministry. Here he established a school for 
 the instruction of youth of both sexes, employing a graduate to 
 teach in the male department, while two of his daughters in- 
 structed in the department for young ladies. In the autumn of 
 1845 he returned to a homestead in Cicero which he had retained, 
 and where he now lives. In a letter just received he says : **I am 
 comfortable, though quite feeble. Am able to attend church half 
 of the day most of the time." 
 
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 In 1808 Mr. Baldwin was married to a daughter of Joel Lmsley, 
 Esq., of Cornwall, Vt., for some time Chief-Justice of the Court 
 of Common Pleas for Addison county, and sister of Rev. Joel 
 Linsley, D.D., now pastor of the church in Greenwich, Ct. They 
 have had. three children — all daughters — two of whom were born 
 in Charlotte, Vt., in 1810 and 1813, and the third in Pompey in 
 1819. The eldest was married to Rev. T. B. Sherwood, and 
 resides in Cassopolis, Mich., and has three children, one son and 
 two daughters. The second daughter, Mrs. Tiipp, resides in 
 Cicero, N. Y., and her fathej lives Avith her. She has no children. 
 The youngest is the wife of Mr. D. M. Linsley, and resides at 
 Kalamazoo, Mich. She has four children, one son and three 
 daughters. 
 
 JOHN ALFRED DAVENPORT 
 
 Was son of the Hon. John Davenport, of Stamford, who was for 
 about eighteen years a member of Congress ; grandson of Colonel 
 Abraham Davenport, who objected to the adjournment of the 
 Council on the dark day^ April 19th, 1780, under the idea that 
 it was the Day of Judgment, and, through these venerable men, a 
 descendant of the patriarch of IN'ew-Haven. By his mother he 
 w^as a grandson of the Rev. Noah Wells, a former pastor in liis 
 native place. He was living in the family of the Rev. Timothy 
 Dwight, D.D., at the time he w^as elected President of Yale 
 College. He afterward studied w^ith his pastor, the Rev. Daniel 
 Smith, and with Dr. Lewis, of Greenwich, and then with Dr. 
 Burnet, of Norwalk. He entered College Freshman year. Be- 
 tween senior examination and Commencement he entered a count- 
 ing-house in New- York, and for more than half a century he was 
 a merchant in that city, though for a part of the time his family- 
 residence was in Brooklyn, where for about thirteen years he was 
 an elder in one of the Presbyterian churches. Beside being a 
 merchant he was also for a time engaged in manufactures. A few 
 
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 years since he retired to New-Haven, where he still lives enjoying 
 a tranquil old age. 
 
 In February, 1806, Mr. Davenport was mamed to Eliza Maria 
 Wheeler, daughter of Dr. William Wheeler, of Red Hook, N. Y., 
 and by her mother granddaughter of Rev. Cotton Mather 
 Smith, of Sharon, Ct. They have had six children — two sons and 
 ibur daughters — who are all living excepting the eldest, a daugh- 
 ter, who died in June, 1836, aged nearly thirty. They have had 
 the happiness of seeing their children all gathered into the Church 
 of Christ. The two sons have been educated at Yale College and 
 are both Episcopal clergymen. The elder, John Sidney Daven- 
 port, graduated in 1833 ; he is married and has five children, three 
 daughters and two sons. The younger, James Radclifi", gradu- 
 ated in 1830, and was a tutor two years at Yale College. He 
 studied divinity and settled in the ministry, first at Rye, N. Y., 
 then at Francistown, N. H., and afterward removed to Chitte- 
 nango, in the State of New- York. Is married and has four child- 
 ren, two daughters and two sons. 
 
 Mr. Davenport has three daughters who are living, one of 
 whom is married to Russel Canfield Wheeler, and the other to 
 J. W. Wheeler, sons of Rev. J. Wheeler, of Great Barrington, 
 Mass., and both lawyers in New- York City. Of these Russel C. 
 is deceased, leaving two sons — both of whom are officers in the 
 army — and two daughters, living with their mother in New- 
 Haven. The younger, J. W. Wheeler, has three daughters liv- 
 ing. One married a physician, and resides in NcAV-York City. 
 
 One daughter of Mr. Davenport is unmarried, and lives with her 
 father in Npw-Haven. 
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 DAVID D. FIELD 
 
 Was born in East-Guilford, now Madison, Ct,, May 20th, 1781. 
 He was the son of Captain Timothy Field, a Revolutionary officer. 
 He was fitted fox College by the minister of the town, Rev. John 
 Elliott, D.D,, along with his classmates Scranton and Jeremiah 
 Evarts. The latter was his room-mate in College. After gradu- 
 ating he went to Somers, to study theology with Dr. Charles 
 Backus. It was here he first met his wife, who was a native of 
 that town. He was licensed to preach by the New-Haven East 
 Association, in September, 1803, and soon after went to Haddam, 
 on the Connecticut River, where he prea<)hed a few montlis as a 
 candidate, after the custom of those times, -and was settled April 
 11th, 1804. Here he remained exactly fourteen years, being dis- 
 missed at his own request, the same month and the same day, in 
 
 1818. After this he spent five months on a missionary tour in 
 Western New- York, along the shores of Lake Ontario. The 
 country was then a wilderness, and he preached in log-houses and 
 under the shade of trees. Rochester had scarcely a name, and 
 Bufialo, which was burnt by the British in the war of 1812, was 
 but a small straggling village. Returning from this tour, Mr. 
 Field was next settled in Stockbridge, Mass., where he succeeded 
 the venerable Stephen West. He was installed August 25th, 
 
 1819. Here he remained nearly eighteen years, when, by a sin- 
 gular coincidence, he was called back again to his old parish in 
 Haddam, Ct. Here he was installed the second time, April 11th, 
 1837, just thirty-three years from the date of his first settlement 
 in the same church. That year he received the degree of Doctor 
 of Divinity from Williams College. He remained at Haddam 
 seven years, when the parish, which was spread over a large town- 
 ship, was divided, and he took charge of the new society formed 
 at Higganum, two miles north of the old church, where he con- 
 tinued to preach seven years longer. It was while here, in 1848, 
 that he took a voyage to Europe with his son Stephen, and spent 
 several months in France and Great Britain. 
 
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 Being always much interested in historical researches, he pre- 
 pared several local histories. During his first settlement at Had- 
 dam, he published a History of Middlesex County. When at 
 Stockbridge he prepared, with the help of others, a History of 
 Berkshire County, a volume of nearly five hundred pages. This 
 was published in 1829. Some years after, a Historical Address, 
 delivered at Middletown, Ct., on the Second Centennial Anniver- 
 sary of the settlement of that town, grew into a book of three 
 hundred pages. Still later, he published a Genealogy of the* 
 Brainerd Family, a volume of three hundred pages octavo. 
 Many of his sermons also have been published. 
 
 As he had now reached the age of seventy years, his children 
 desired him to relinquish the care of a parish, and to return to 
 Stockbridge, which they regarded as the family home. Accord- 
 ingly, in the spring of 1851, he removed once more to Stock- 
 bridge, and reentered the old homestead, -where he has continued 
 to reside for twelve years. 
 
 Dr. Field was married October 31st, 1-803, to Submit Dickin- 
 son, of Somers, Mass., a daughter of Captain iNToah Dickinson, 
 who had served as an officer under General Putnam in the old 
 French war, and who served also in the war of the Revolution. 
 As several of his classmates studied theology with him at Somers, 
 they may remember his wife at the time of her marriage. And 
 those who in after years shared her hospitality will not forget 
 what brightness and simshine she shed around her in the circle of 
 her home. The heart of her husband safely trusted in her. She 
 was his faithful companion for fifty-seven years. 
 
 They had ten children, of whom seven were born in Haddam 
 and three in Stockbridge: David Dudley, born February 13th, 
 1805; Emiha Ann, February 22d, 1807; Timothy Beals, May 
 21st, 1809 ; Matthew Dickinson, June 26th, 1811 ; Jonathan Ed- 
 wards, July 11th, 1813 J Stephen Johnson, 1st, July 11th, 1815, 
 died December 25th the same year ; Stephen Johnson, 2d, No- 
 vember 4th, 1816; Cyrus West, November 30th, 1819; Henry 
 
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 Martyn, April 3cl, 1822 ; and Mary Elizabeth, September Tth, 
 1823. Of these ten children, nine lived to grow up, namely : 
 
 Pavid Dudley Field, the eldest son, was graduated at Williams 
 College, in the Class of 1825, and immediately began the study of 
 law. In 1828 he commenced practice in the city of New- York, 
 where he has continued to reside ever since. Besides a large 
 practice, he has been engaged for a quarter of a century in the 
 work of Law Reform, having been the chief agent in preparing 
 •the Codes of Civil and Criminal Procedure for New- York, which 
 have been adopted in many other States of the Union, and is now 
 engaged in preparing codes of the rest of the law. He has been 
 twice married — first to Jane Lucinda Hopkins, of Stockbridge, 
 October 26th, 1829. They had three children, Dudley, Jeanie, 
 and Isabella. Their mother died January 21st, 1836, and the 
 youngest child in March following. Five years after, September 
 2d, 1841, Mr. Field was married to Mrs. Harriet Davidson. His 
 son Dudley graduated at Williams College in 1850, studied law 
 with his father, and is now his partner in New- York. He is mar- 
 ried, and has one child. 
 
 Emilia Ann Field was married to Rev. Josiah Brewer, a mis- 
 sionary in the East, December 1st, 1829. They had seven child- 
 ren : Henrietta Whitney, Fisk Parsons, Emilia Field, and David 
 Josiah, who were bom at Smyrna, in Asia Minor, and Marshall 
 Bidwell, Mary Adele, and Elizabeth Hale, born in this country. 
 The eldest daughter is married to L. B. Bidwell, of Stockbridge, 
 and has two children. Fisk P. Brewer is a graduate of Yale Col- 
 lege, and was a tutor there several years ; then travelled in the 
 East, spending some months at Athens, to study modern Greek ; 
 now lives at New-Haven, is married, and has had two children. 
 David J. Brewer graduated at Yale in 1856, studied law in New- 
 York, and removed to Kansas, where he is a Judge of Probate, 
 is married, and has one child. Marshall B. Brewer was for some 
 years a clerk in the store of his uncle, Cyrus W. Field, in New- 
 York. In 1862 he enlisted in the army, was made lieutenant, and 
 afterward promoted to Captain ; but took a fever in camp, and 
 
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 returned to Stockbridge only to die. Mrs. Brewer died a few 
 months before, December 16th, 1861. 
 
 Timothy B. Field entered the United States navy as a midship- 
 man in 1825, and spent four yeaVs in the Mediterranean on board 
 the Warren and the Java. He was an officer of great jDro- 
 raise, but on his return he resigned his commission. He afterward 
 made a voyage to the Pacific. Supposed to have been lost at sea, 
 in the Gulf of Mexico, in 1836. 
 
 Matthew D. Field has been a manufacturer and a civil engineer, 
 having been much engaged in building railroads and bridges 
 at the South and West. He built the wire Suspension Bridge at 
 Nashville, Tenn., which was destroyed by the rebels when they 
 evacuated that city in February, 1862. He now lives in South- 
 wiq^, Mass. In 1856 he was a member of the Senate of Massa- 
 chusetts from Hampden county. He married Clarissa Laflin, of 
 Southwick, October 6th, 1836, and has had seven children ; one 
 of whom died in infancy. The others are : Heman Laflin, Catha- 
 rine S., Henry Martyn, WeUs Laflin, Clara, and Matthew Dickin- 
 son. The eldest son is a merchant in New-York, and partner of 
 his uncle Cyi'us ; Henry is in the army of the Potomac ; and Wells 
 is in the Naval School at Newport, Rhode-Island. 
 
 Jonathan E. Field graduated at Williams College in 1832 and 
 studied law with his brother in New- York. Removed to Michi- 
 gan, where he practiced a few years, and then returned to Stock- 
 bridge, Mass., where he has been settled more than twenty years. 
 In 1854 he was a member of the Senate of Massachusetts for Berk- 
 shire county. In 1862 he was in the Senate again, and was chosen 
 almost unanimously President of that body. He has been married 
 twice. First to Mary Ann Stuart, of Stockbridge, May 18th, 1835, 
 by whom he had five children : Emilia Field, Jonathan E., Mary 
 Stuart, Stephen Dudley, and Sarah Adele, who died in childhood. 
 Mrs. Field died October 14th, 1849, and Mr. Field was married 
 to Mrs. Huldah Fellowes Pomeroy, of Stockbridge, October 17th, 
 1850. The eldest daughter, Emilia, is married to William Ash- 
 burner, of Stockbridge, a chemist, educated in Paris, and now 
 
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 associated with the corps engaged in the mineralogical survey of 
 California. The eldest son, Jonathan, is also married and has one 
 child. 
 
 Stephen J. Field graduated at Willianis College in 1837, with 
 the highest honors of his class. Studied law with his brother in 
 New- York, and practiced there for a few years. In 1848 he went 
 to Europe. Returaing the next year, he went to California, and 
 was the first Alcalde of Marysville. In 1857 h^was elected one 
 of the Judges of the Supreme Court, and soon became Chief- 
 Justice of the State. In 1863 a tenth judge was added to the 
 Supreme Court of the United States, and a tenth circuit created 
 for the Pacific coast, and on the unanimous recommendation of 
 the delegations of California and Oregon, he was appointed to 
 that place. He was married in San Francisco, June 2d, 185t, to 
 Sue Virginia Swearingen. While he was Chief-Justice of Califor- 
 nia, he resided at the capital of the State, Sacramento, but since 
 his appointment to the Supreme Bench of the United States, he 
 has removed to San Francisco. 
 
 Cyrus W. Field went to New- York at the age of fifteen, to be 
 bred to the calling of a merchant. He was a clerk for several 
 years, and then went into business for himself, and has ever since 
 lived in that city. Nearly ten years ago he became interested in 
 the project of an Atlantic Telegraph, which he has prosecuted 
 with constant faith ever since. He has made twenty^or thirty 
 voyages to Newfoundland and to Europe on this business, and 
 enlisted capitahsts in it both here and abroad. In 1856 a com- 
 pany was formed in London, and a cable made, and three times an 
 expedition sailed to stretch Jt across the Atlantic. The last one 
 proved successful, and in August, 1858, telegraphic communicatioil 
 was established between the Old World and the New. Four 
 hundred messages were sent from shore to shore. This, how- 
 ever, was soon interrupted, owing to defects in the construc- 
 tion of the cable. But the principle was established, and the final 
 success of the enterprise is only a question of time. Mr. Field is 
 now in London to arrange for a new cable, which he hopes to see 
 
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 laid successfully in the summer of 1864. He was married to Mary 
 Bryan Stone, of Guilford, Deceniber 2d, 1840, and has had seven 
 children : Mary Grace, Alice Durand, Isabella, Fannj- Griswold 
 Arthur Stone, who died August 20th, 1854, aged four years, 
 Edward Morse, and Cyrus William. 
 
 Henry M. Field entered Williams College in 1834, when but 
 twelve years old, and graduated at sixteen. Studied theology 
 four years at East- Windsor and New-Haven, Ct., and went to 
 St. Louis in 1842 to become pastor of the Third Presbyterian 
 Church. Remained five years, when he resigned his charge to go 
 to Europe. Spent the summer of 1847 in Great Britain, and the 
 winter following in Paris, where he was a witness of the Revolu- 
 tion of February, 1848. The spring and summ,er following he 
 travelled in Italy and Switzerland. Returning to America, he was 
 settled again as a pastor at West-Springfield, Mass., where he 
 remained till November, 1854, when he removed to New- York, to 
 become one of the editors and proprietors of " The Evangelist," 
 where he still resides. In 1858 he made a second visit to Europe, 
 wjiich he described in a volume entitled, " Summer Pictures from 
 Copenhagen to Venice." He has also published a volume on 
 "The Irish Rebellion of 1798." He was married in New- York, 
 May 20th, 1851, to Henriette des Portes, a native of Paris. 
 
 Mary E. Field was educated at the Female Academy in Albany. 
 The year 1849 she spent chiefly in travelling in EurojDe. Many 
 of her letters written at this time were published in the New- York 
 Observer. She was married to Joseph F. Stone, the partner in 
 business of her brother Cyrus, June 16th, 1852. They had one 
 son, which bears his father's name. Mr. Stone died May 17th, 
 1854, and his wife, who had taken a voyage to Europe, with the 
 family of her brother Cyrus, died in Paris, October 22d, 1856. 
 Her remains were brought to America, and laid beside those of 
 her husband at Stockbridge. 
 
 Thus this family, which was long preserved almost unbroken, 
 grows smaller. For many years there was not a death of an 
 adult member. In October, 1853, the parents were permitted to 
 
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 celebrate their Golden "Wedding, and then they gathered around 
 them nearly forty children and grandchildren. But this large 
 circle was soon broken. Within one year two were borne to the 
 village graveyard, and others have since followed. Mrs. Field, 
 the mother of these children, died August 16th, 1861. Both 
 her daughters are dead. Two sons are dead — one in infancy 
 and one in manhood. Six sons are living. Dr. Field is now 
 eighty-two years old, but is still in vigorous health, and but for 
 the great sorrow sustained in the recent death of his wife and 
 daughters, would find nothing to mar the peace and serenity of 
 his old age. But he will go to them ; they will not return to him. 
 Thankful for all God's goodness to him, and to his children, he is 
 calmly waiting till his change come. 
 
 JOHN Kif^EP, 
 
 A native of Long-Meadow, Mass., was probably fitted for College 
 by his pastor. Rev. R. S. Storrs. A year or more after he was 
 graduated he taught a school at Bethlem, reading theology at the 
 same time with Rev. Azel Backus, then 23astor in that town, after- 
 ward President of Hamilton College. He continued his theolog- 
 ical course under Rev. Asahel Hooker, of Goshen. He began to 
 preach in Blanford, Mass., on the sixteenth of June, 1805, and was 
 pastor in that town sixteen years. When the Massachusetts 
 Home Missionary Society was formed he was elected its Secretary, 
 and held that office while he remained in the State. He also gave 
 instruction to lads in his own house. He was much respected 
 both by the ministers and people of the country around, and 
 wherever he was known. In 1821 he removed to Homer, N. Y., 
 where he was pastor of the Congregational Church twelve years. 
 In 1833 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and for a time supplied the 
 Presbyterian Church in that place ; and afterward the Congrega- 
 tional Church, Mansfield, Ohio. In 1836 he engaged as agent 
 of the Oberlin Institute ; the year 1838 he spent in supplying the 
 Presbyterian churches in Lockport and Albion, in Western New- 
 
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 York. In May, 1839, he went to England on an agency for the 
 Oberlin Institute, and was absent, with an associate eighteen 
 months ; and as the result of their effort thirty thousand dollars 
 were paid into the treasury of the Institution, by which it was 
 saved from bankruptcy. After his return Mr. Keep supplied the 
 church in Hartford, Trumbull county, Ohio, over four years, 
 beside preaching occasionally elsewhere. He was also deejily 
 interested in the anti-slavery cause and delivered lectures on the 
 subject in different places in Ohio. In 1846 he was engaged in 
 preaching in Lake county. In the autumn of 1851 he removed to 
 Oberlin to act as permanent agent for the Institution, and there 
 he hopes to spend his last days. 
 
 Mr. Keep was blessed with a good constitution and has enjoyed 
 very uncommon health. In a letter to the writer, dated July 
 20th, 1852, he says : " From my birth I have had no day, or even 
 hour, in which I have been severely sick — no hour from my 
 earliest recollections in which I could not walk out, either for 
 recreation or business ; no day since I have been a preacher in 
 which I have not had strength enough to perform the ordinary 
 pulpit services." 
 
 In the fall of 1860 he came East to attend the Semi-Centennial 
 Anniversary of the American Board at Boston, being one of the 
 only two survivors of the original founders of that Institution. 
 
 About the time of his settlement in Blanford Mr. Keep married 
 a Miss Hale, daughter of Adino Hale, Esq., of Goshen, Ct. They 
 have one child, a son. Rev. Theodore J. Keep, who has long been in 
 the ministry, is married and has two children. Many years since 
 he was pastor of the Congregational Church in Yernon, Ohio. 
 He now resides at Oberlin. 
 
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 MARK MEAD 
 
 Was born ia Greenwich, Ct., November 6th, 1782, on a farm 
 which is called Indian Field, because the Indians reserved it for 
 their homes during the lives of three men whom they selected 
 when they sold the rest of the town to the white men. He pre- 
 pared for College under the instruction of Dr. Lewds, of Green- 
 wich. After graduating he studied theology with Dr. Charles 
 Backus, of Somers, and with Dr. John Smalley, of Berlin. He 
 was licensed to preach in the summer of 1804, and ordained 
 pastor of the church in Middlebury, Ct., in I^ovember, 1809, from 
 which he took a dismission in March, 1830. After this he preached 
 in several places. He was stated supply in Grassy Hill, in the 
 north part of Lyme, fi'om July, 1833, to July, 1836 ; and then for 
 some time in Northfield, a parish in the town of Weston. In 
 1839 he returned to his native place, where he is now living, and 
 expects to die in the same town in which he was born. 
 
 He married Hannah Mead, of West-Greenwich, November 14th, 
 1804.' They have had two children : Jonas, born November 15th, 
 1805, and Sylvester, born February 16th, 1807. 
 
 The elder of these sons is a mechanic and lives with his par- 
 ents in West-Greenwich. He married Abigail Mead, August 13th, 
 1832, and they have had three children : Isaac Tryon, born April 
 13th, 1834 ; Emilia, born November 16th, 1836 ; and Lucretia, born 
 November 31st, 1845. 
 
 Sylvester Mead is a physician in Wilton. He has never married. 
 
 PELATIAH PERIT 
 
 Was the son of John Perit, a merchant in Norwich, Ct., and was 
 born in that town. He fitted for College, in part, at the Pennsyl- 
 vania Academy in Philadelphia, and in part with Hart Lynde and 
 Stephen Twining, Esq., in New-Haven. He was a good scholar 
 and stood high in his Class. After graduating he spent a year in 
 the instruction of a school in Norwich-Town. He w^as then de- 
 
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 bating with himself whether it was his duty to become a minister 
 of the Gospel or a merchant. Having decided in favor of the 
 latter, he entered a counting-room in Philadelphia. While there, 
 in the house of Rhodes & Co., he made several voyages to the 
 West-Indies and to South-America. In 1-809 he removed to New- 
 York, where he continued to reside for half a century. In 1817 
 he became a partner in the large firm of Goodhue & Co., in which 
 he remained for over forty years, until he w^as the oldest partner 
 in the house. His standing as a merchant soon became widely 
 known, and wherever known he was respected for his integrity 
 and ability and large knowledge of commercial affairs. For many 
 years he was President of the Chamber of Commerce until on 
 removing from the city he resigned the office. While thus en- 
 gaged in very extensive business, he was greatly interested in 
 objects of benevolence, and active in every good work. Finding 
 the air of the city not favorable to health, he removed many years 
 ago to a beautiful spot on the banks of the Hudson, three or four 
 miles above the thickly-settled portion of the city. Here his 
 grounds adjoined those of a large asylum for orphans, and having 
 no children of his own, it was his happiness to be a father to the 
 hundreds of fatherless children that were gathered there. He was 
 also one of the Trustees of the Sailors' Snug Harbor, and w^as for 
 many years President of the Seamen's Friend Society. 
 
 Mr. Perit has been married twice. His first wife was Jerusha 
 Lathrop, of Korwich-Town. His second and present wife was 
 Maria Coit, daughter of Daniel Coit, of Norwich, and sister of 
 Mrs. Kingsley, widow of James L. Kingsley, late Professor of 
 Languages in Yale College. He has had no children. 
 
 In 1858 he retired to New-Haven, where he has erected a beau- 
 tiful residence on Hillhouse Avenue, and where he is passing the 
 evening of his days in tranquillity, surrounded with universal 
 respect. He is engaged in preparing materials for the Commer- 
 cial History 6f the United States. 
 
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 NATHAN SHELTON 
 
 Was born at Huntington, Ct., June 6th, 1784. He was the son 
 of Andrew and Sarah (Booth) Shelton, and grandson of Samuel 
 and Abigail Shelton. In his father's family there were ten child- 
 ren, and in his grandfather's, fourteen. He was fitted for College 
 by Rev. David Ely, D.D., along Avith his cousin Charles Shelton, 
 and two or three others of the Class. He studied medicine about 
 a year at the Medical School at Newtown, under the care 'of 
 Dr. Gideon Shepherd, and then with Dr. William Shelton, a 
 physician in his native place, and was authorized to practice by 
 a Committee of the Medical Society of Connecticut, though after- 
 ward he repaired to New- York and attended medical lectures 
 in 1805 and 1806. A few years after, the degree of M.D. was 
 conferred upon him by Yale College. In the autumn of 1806 he 
 settled in Jamaica, on Long-Island, where he has resided for more 
 than half a century, and has had an extensive practice as a physi- 
 cian. 
 
 Dr. Shelton has been twice married. His first wife was Eliza 
 Henrietta Starman, whom he married July 1st, 1812, by whom he 
 had nine children ; but four of whom died almost at their birth, 
 and two others in their infancy. The three who lived to grow up 
 were : Frederic William, born May 20th, 1814 ; John Dundas, 
 born July 11th, 1816 ; and Mary Starman, born March 1st, 1819. 
 The mother died February 23d, 1828, aged thirty-eight years. 
 
 On the twenty-eighth of October, 1831, Dr. Shelton married 
 Mary Ann Sophia Starman, sister of his first wife, by whom he 
 had one child, James Dundas Shelton, born July 24th, 1832, died 
 January 3d, 1838. The mother died October 11th, 1839, aged 
 forty-five years. 
 
 Frederic William Shelton was graduated at Princeton Cpllege 
 in 1834. He studied theology at the Episcopal Seminary in New- 
 York, and was admitted to orders there. He settled first at 
 Huntington, L. I., where he spent about two years, and then at 
 
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 Pislikill, on the Hudson river. His residence for some years 
 past has been at Montpelier, Vt. He married Rebecca Conkling 
 of Huntington, February 19th, 1852, by whom he has had six 
 children. The two first of these, Frederic William and John, 
 died in July, 1857, of malignant scarlet fever, within one week 
 of each other. 
 
 John Dundas Shelton was graduated at Princeton the year after 
 his brother. He studied medicine one year at the Medical College 
 in New-York, and after that attended medical lectures two years 
 in Philadelphia. He settled in Jamaica, and lived in the same 
 house with his father, and took his large practice. He died De- 
 cember 10th, 1862, aged forty-six. He married Fanny Peck 
 Gardiner, at Eaton's Neck, town of Huntington, L. I., June 21st, 
 1843. They had the following children; Eliza Starman Shel- 
 ton, born August 31st, 1844, died August 25th, 1845 ; Nathan, 
 born October 12th, 1846 ; Eliza Henrietta, born April 30th, 
 1848; John Dundas, born August 12th, 1850; Fanny Gardiner, 
 born July 11th, 1853, died July 8th, 1854; Mary Anna, born 
 January 11th, 1856 ; Fanny Gardiner, 2d, born June 20th, 1857. 
 
 The parents of Dr. Shelton were Episcopalians, but his own 
 views were changed during the revival in Yale College. Soon 
 after going to Jamaica he united with the Presbyterian Church, 
 in which he has been an elder for over forty years. He has a 
 right, therefore, to glory in being a "true blue Presbyterian." 
 He still resides in Jamaica, living with his daughter-in-law, Mrs. 
 John Dundas Shelton, and her children. His only daughter, 
 Mary Starman Shelton, also lives with them. He is infirm, and 
 speaks of himself calmly as near the end of his course. His sun is 
 going down in peace. 
 
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