THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES / \ ^ •% ^^^^"^^ WILLIAMS BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY REV. S. IREN.EUS PRIME, D. D. BY REV. CALVIX DURFEE, D. D. •YOCR FATIIEti.^, KIlEnE ARE TIlEVr TUB GOOD XEVER DIE." BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. XKW YORK: LEE, SHEPAKD AND DILLINGHAM. 1871. Entered, accorrtingf to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, By lee and SIlEl'ARD, In the Oflice of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, 19 Spring Lane. TO THE PRESIDENT, TRUSTEES, AND ALUMNI OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE, W'ITU EVEEY SENTIMENT OF RESPECT AND GRATITUDE, STbis 0olunt£ is ^cbkatcii BY THEIR FRIEND AND SERVANT, THE AITHOR. 15£^3311 PREFACE. It is more than a quarter of a century since I began to collect tlie materials which are now incorporated into these College Annals. But it was not till I had nearly reached the allotted age of man, that I was led to form the purpose of pre- paring for publication sketches of the living and departed Alumni. And I doubt whether I should ever have ventured on such a task but for the following, to me wholly unexpected, resolution, adopted at a meeting of the branch society of the Alumni, held at the residence of the Hon. E. C. Benedict, New York : — " Resolved, That the Rev. Calvin Durfee be requested to pre- pare and publish a volume containing sketches of the Alumni of Williams College, and other matters of interest in connec- tion with the institution." And even this resolution would unquestionably have been without effect but for the proffered pecuniary aid of the Hon. William E. Dodge, one of our trustees, and of my own class- mate, the Hon. David Dudley Field. No one need be informed of the labor and difficulty of col- lecting, at this late day, the history of our more than two thousand alumni, scattered as they have been through various 5 6 PREFACE. parts of the world. The reader of this volume, then, will not be disappointed if he finds but little or no information respect- ing some few of our graduates. No reasonal)le pains have been spared to record the history of every one. >Still, after the most careful research and inquiry, I feel constrained to admit that there are deficiencies which living graduates or surviving friends could, no doubt, have prevented, while those who have neglected to respond cannot with propriety com- plain of omissions or inaccuracies. The hundreds who have so cheerfully responded to my circulars and letters, and aided me in other ways, will accept my warmest thanks. In this connection it will not, I trust, be thought invidious to mention my indebtedness to the Hon. C. F. Sedgwick, 1813, Sharon, Conn. ; to the Hon. Lucius M. Boltwood, son of Hon. Lucius Boltwood, 1814, Hartford, Conn. ; to the Hon. Abner Hazeltine, 1815, Jamestown, N. Y. ; to Dr. Gardner Dorrance, 1820, Attica, N. Y. ; to the Rev. Dr. Prime, 1829, New York ; to the Rev. Dr. Hale, 1832, Philadelphia, Pa. ; to the Rev. Dr. Sheldon, 1835, Princeton, N. J. ; to Mr. Kidder, 1836, Boston ; to Hon. F. H. Dewey, 1840, Worcester; to Mr. Demond, 1844, Boston ; to Mr. Kellogg, 1846, Vernon, Conn. ; to the Rev. Mr. Fowler, 1847, Auburn, N. Y., for his sketches of President Hopkins and Professor Dewey; to Mr. Marvin, 1854, Boston ; to Mr. C. H. Hill, 1856, Boston; Rev. L Magee, 1857, Dayton, 0.; Mr. H. E. Scudder, 1858, Boston; Rev. E. B. Parsons, 1859, Baldwinsville, N. Y. ; Rev. C. L. Hutchins, 1861, Buflalo. It is but an act of justice to mention my obligations to Miss Frances A. Snyder, whose ready pen has rendered me essen- tial service in preparing this work for the press. In drawing up these brief College Annals, it has been, my constant desire and aim to give a simple and reliable history of the patrons and of each alumnus of the college. While thus performing the office of compiler, editor, and author, I have PREFACE. 7 had no point to cany, no rebuke to inflict. 1 have wished to do justice to all, to give offence to none. Thanks are due to Messrs. Lee & Shepard, of Boston, for the hberal terms on which they were willing to assume the pecuniary responsibility of the publication of this volume. Nor can I withhold my grateful acknowledgments from Mr. Samuel Burnham, of the class of 1855, for his careful inspec- tion and supervision of the work. This, however, is said with- out making him responsible for any historical errors which the careful reader may detect. Grateful to Him who has preserved my life amid the ap- proaching infirmities of age, and furnished me with the facili- ties for bringing this work to a close, I now commit it to the press, earnestly requesting all who may discover errors in it which they can correct, or omissions which they can supply, to inform me by letter, or Professor N. H. Griffin, Williams- town, so that, whether I survive to see a second edition or not, the materials may be preserved for a more finished pra^ duction. Calvin Durfee. Willi AMSTOWN, September 1, 1870. CONTENTS. PACK INTRODUCTION 11 CHAPTER I. SKETCHES OF THE PliESIDENTS 23 CHAPTER II. SKETCHES OF THE VICE-PRESIDENTS 36 CHAPTER III. SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES 5G CHAPTER IV. SKETCHES OF THE PRINCIPAL DONORS. . . . . 98 CHAPTER V. THE MEN OF THE HAYSTACK. — NOTICE OF MR. RICE. — DEDICATION OF MISSIONAliV IMONUMENT. . . 117 CHAPTER Vr. SKETCHES OF THE PIK>FE.SSOi;.S 1.37 (K) 10 CONTENTS. CHAPTER VII. NAMES AND SKETCHES OF WILLIAMS'S FALLEN HE- ROES Pace ICO CHAPTER VIII. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 20G Class of 1795 i7;)(; 17'J7 171)8 17'J'J 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 180G 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813: 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825, 182G, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830. Page 20G Class of 1831, 207 i( " 1832, 208 i( " 1833, 213 ti " 1834, 221 07. The Rev. Mr. Collins, of Lanesboro', preached his funeral sermon from the text, " Ho was a burning and shining light, and yc were willing for a season to rejoice in his light." • H. Van Sciiaack (1793-181G), son of Cornelius Van Schaack, was born at Kinderhook, in 1733. His education was received in the common school and in a merchant's count- ing-house in New York. lie was an officer in the French war of 1755-G, and was in tlirec sanguinary conflicts in a single day. Mr. Van Schaack was a man of great enterprise and fearlessness. In the early part of his life he engaged in the i'ur trade at Niagara and Detroit ; at the latter place he resided a number of years. He became possessed of great wealth. About 1770 he removed to Berkshire County, and took up his residence in Pittsfield, where he remained some twenty years. He was chosen a trustee of the college in the hope and expectation, as he had no children, that he would bestow a portion of his property on the college ; but in this they were disappointed. In 1806 he returned to Kinderhook, and died in his native village, July 18, 1823, aged ninety years and five months. President Van Buren, from whom most of the above facts were obtained, said that Mr. Van Schaack was possessed of a strong mind and extraordinary physical endurance. William Williams (1793-1808) was born in Hatfield, June 10, 1734. He was cousin of the founder of the college. After graduating at Yale in 1754:, he returned to his native town, studied law, and, shortly after being admitted to the bar, was appointed clerk of the court in Hampshire County, and held the office for about twenty years. At the commencement of SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 51 the war "^ith Great Britain, not coinciding with the majority of the people respecting the propriety of the revolution, he was left out of ofl5ce. Yet such was the general esteem in which he was held, that he met with but few trials and little opposi- tion on this account. But, deprived of the employment which afforded him a comfortable support, he left his native place, and removed to the west part of Dalton, where he passed the remainder of his days. He married Miss Dorothy Ashley, of Deerfield, and when he died left nine surviving children. He held many civil offices of trust, was deacon of the church in Hatfield, and also in Dalton, and was one of the original trus- tees of Williams College, and was efficient in the organiza- tion of the free school and the college. He died, greatly lamented, March 1, 1808, and was interred in the cemetery in Pittsfield. The Rev. Mr. Jennings preached a sermon at his funeral in Dalton ; Dr. Shepard preached a sermon in Pitts- field, where it was expected Dr. West would preach ; and Dr. West preached a sermon in commemoration of his life and character in Dalton, rn the 15th of May following, which was published. In this discourse he gives Mr. Williams a very high character as a citizen and as a Christian, and an officer of the church. " He was a leader and guide to the people for many years, an ornament and glory of the town as a wise citizen and an active Christian." Elijah Williams (1793-1802) was born at Newton, No- vember 15, 1732, and was a half-brother of the founder of the college. In 1737, his father, with his numerous family, took up his residence in Stockbridge, chiefly for the pur- pose of aiding the Rev. Mr. Sargeant in his missionary labors among the Indians, to furnish them with a practical and con- stant exhibition of the influence of civilization and Christian- ity on the common duties of life and godliness. About the year 1775, the management of the farm having fallen into the hands of the subject of this notice, he sold his farm in Stock- bridge, and made a large purchase of land in what is now West Stockbridge village, and became an enterprising farmer, and acquired a large property. He was known as Colonel 52 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNAI.S. Williams. For many years he was sheriff of the county, held several important civil offices, and was a much respected and useful citizen and Christian gentleman. ]n tho latter part of his life he married Miss Sophia Partridge, of Dalton, by whom he had one son. About 1804 ho returned to Stockhrid^e, and took up his residence on the hill about half a mile west of tiie present meeting-house, chiefly for the purpose of enjoying the ministry of his brother-in-law, the excellent Dr. Stephen West. Colonel Williams died in 1815, aged eighty-three years. Stephen Van Rensselaer (1794-1819) was known as the " Patroon," also as a statesman and patron of learning. He was born in New York, November 1, 1764, and died in Albany, January 26, 1839. His mother was a daughter of Philip Livingston. He entered Princeton College in 1778, but afterwards removed to Cambridge, where he was gradu- ated, 1782. The next year he married a daughter of Philip Schuyler. In 1789, he was elected a member of the state Assembly, and the next year a member of the Senate, to which he w^as annually reelected till 1795, when he was elected lieutenant-governor, which office he filled for six years. In 1810-11, he was a commissioner to examine the route for the Erie Canal. He was a distinguished military officer in the war of 1812. After the war he was called to fill important civil offices, but was better known as the patron of learning. In 1821-2, Professor Amos Eaton, at General Van Rensselaer's expense, made a geological survey of the counties of Albany and Rensselaer, including an analy- sis of their soils. He published Mr. Eaton's report at his own expense, and employed Mr. Eaton to deliver familiar lectures in different parts of the state. And, for a time, full one half of the expense of the scientific school which was established at Troy was paid by General Van Rensselaer. In 1823 he was elected a member of Congress, and was re- elected for three successive terms. In 1825 Yale College conferred on him the degree of LL. D. Says Dr. Sprague, " He could claim, on the score of earthly rank, perhaps, as SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 53 much as any individual in the land. He was not only rich, but, unlike most others in this country, he had never known what it was to be poor. He was high in office, both civil and military." He was equally distinguished for his piety and active benevolence. Job Swift (1794-1802) was born in Sandwich, June 17, 1 743 ; but in his early youth his father moved to Kent, Conn. He graduated, in 1765, at Yale College. He became hopefully pious during his college life, and was quickly re- solved to devote himself to the work of the ministry. He pursued the study of theology under Dr. Bellamy, and in 1767 became pastor of the Congregational Church in Rich- mond. Here, for a time, he had every prospect of being useful ; but a dissatisfaction finally sprang up among the people in consequence of the pungency and earnestness of his reasoning and appeals : in about seven years his connec- tion with that people was dissolved. He next settled in Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y. ; but in the spring of 1783 he removed to Manchester, Vt., where he preached between two and three years. On the 31st of May, 1786, he was installed pastor of the Congregational Church in Bennington, Vt. With such a wide, uncultivated field before him, and with a benevo- lence which gave him no rest, it is not surprising that he tasked himself to the full extent of his physical and moral power. He made frequent missionary tours in the northern part of the state, confirming feeble churches and organizing new ones. Circumstances adverse to his further usefulness in Bennington finally occurred, which led him to resign his pastoral relation over that people June 7, 1801. He then moved to Addison, on Lake Champlain, where he purchased a farm. Here he organized a church, and preached a portion of the time. He lived with this people in the utmost harmony, and died while on a mission to the town of Enosburg, Vt., October 20, 1811, aged sixty-eight. He was a patron of learning as well as religion. He was trustee of Williams, Middlebury, and Dartmouth Colleges. Dr. Swift, says President Dwight, " was one of the best and 64 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. most useful men whom we knew ; good men loved him and delighted in his society, and the worst men acknowledged his worth. To the churches and ministers of Vermont he was a patriarch." Ammi Ruhamah Robbins (1794-1810) was born in Branford, Conn., September, 1740, fitted for college with his father, entered Nassau Hall, and remained one year. He then entered Yale, and was graduated in 17G0, after which he taught school for a short time in Plymouth, Mass. He studied theology with Dr. Bellamy, and Avas ordained in Norfolk, Conn,, October 28, 1761. In March, 1776, he entered the army as chaplain, — for he was thoroughly -awake to the interest of his country, — went to Albany, from there to Canada, and returned in an impaired state of health at the end of a year and a half. Under his ministry at Norfolk the church became one of the largest and most prosperous in the state. He con- tinued to labor among his people with great fidelity and suc- cess. There were four considerable revivals of religion among his people during his ministry. With the duties of the ministry he connected those of teaching, having almost constantly w^ith him a number of students fitting for college. He died in peace, October 30, 1813, after a ministry of fifty- two years. He was married, shortly after his settlement in Norfolk, to Elizabeth, daughter of Lazarus Le Barron, of Plymouth, Mass. They had thirteen children, five of whom died in infancy. Three of his sons were educated at Williams College. In person Mr. Robbins was thick and rather short ; in his man- ners afiable and courteous. He had a fine loud and mellow voice, and could make himself heard with ease in the largest congregations. He had a happy talent of extemporizing, and preached without notes a large portion of the time. His religious views were substantially those which he imbibed when under the instruction of Dr. Bellamy. In the year 1811 he preached a half-century sermon, which was deeply interesting to himself and his people. SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 55 Samuel Hexshaw (1802-1809) was born in Milton, Febru- ary 14, 1744. He was by occupation, when a youth, a me- chanic ; but by his own eflfort he fitted for college, and was graduated at Harvard University, 1773, studied theology, and became at once an acceptable and popular preacher. He loved the ministry ; but his voice failed him, and he was com- pelled, with great reluctance, to relinquish it. He now en- tered the legal profession. In 1788 he went to Northampton to reside, where he became first judge of Probate, and after- wards judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He ever sus- tained a most excellent character, and died March 11, 1809, aged sixty-five. Daxiel Dewey (1803-1815) was born in Sheffield, January 29,1766. He was two years a member of Yale College. He came to Williamstown and settled in the practice of law in 1787. He was early connected with the college, holding fur a time the office of secretary, subsequently that of treasurer, and also that of professor of law. He was among its most devoted friends, an active agent in procuring the earlier grants from the state, and was much resorted to by President Fitch for counsel and advice in relation to the affairs of the college in all times of trial. He was a distinguished lawyer, and held various offices of honor and public trust. He was a member of the executive council of Massachusetts in the years 1809 and 1812, a member of Congress in 1813, and was appointed to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court by Governor Strong in 1814. His death occurred May 26, 1815. John Williams (1804-1814) was born in Deerfield, January 6, 1751, and was grandson of the Rev. John Williams, the redeemed captive. He was graduated at Harvard University in 1769. He was extensively known and appreciated in his native town and through the commonwealth. Always fore- most in projecting plans of roads and bridges, he was by many at the time considered visionary in his projects, and met with much opposition. Time, however, proved them to be wise, 56 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. and he was aided in carryiuf; most of them into operation, to the great benefit of tliu public. lie was an able magistrate, sustaining the offices of justice of the peace, representative, state senator, and a member of the executive council. Ho was one of the founders of Deerfield Academy, and for many years one of its most efficient trustees. At his death he be- queathed several thousand dollars to that institution, and by his liberality he placed it on a permanent footing. In private hfe he was pleasant, and rather facetious in conversation, lie married Miss Pyncheon, of Springfield, in 1770. JosEPU WooDBiiiDGE (180G-1829) was born in Stockbridge, July 22, 1771 ; fitted for college with the Rev. Dr. Catlin, of New Marlboro'; was graduated at Dartmouth, in 1792; studied law with the Hon. Judge .Sedgwick, and settled as a lawyer in his native town. He was married. May 25, 1800, to Louisa, daughter of Colonel Mark Hopkins. He succeeded the Hon. II. W. Dwight, as clerk of the court, in 1803, which office he acceptably filled till near the close of his life. Ho was once chosen presidential elector. He was a finished gentleman of the old school, dignified and courteous in his manners. He had an uncommon reverence for the Bilde and the Sabbath. His house was the resc>rt of many eminent persons, especially of ministers of the gospel. President Dwight, Professor Stuart, Chief Justice Parker, Dr. West, Dr. Hyde, were among those often found there. He was punctil- ious in his manners, and careful and conscientious in training up his household in the fear and service of the Lord. No profane language was ever tolerated in his presence or office. He was a good scholar in Greek and Latin. His wife died February 9, 1819. He died April 23, 1829, greatly lamented on account of his many distinguished virtues and excellences. Nathaniel Bishop was born at Guilford, Conn., June 13, 1751. In 1777, when at the age of twenty-six, he removed to Richmond. He soon became an important inhabitant of this newly-settled town, was early appointed a magistrate, and was consulted as '= counsellor in all important concerns, and SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 57 remained until his declining years and multiplied infirmities deprived him of the power of actively serving the community. He was often chosen to represent the town in the state legi.2) was born at Northampton, October 22, 1767; was graduated at Yale College, 1783; studied law, and settled in his native town ; was for a num- ber of years judge of Probate for Hampshire County. He died in Northampton, after a very gradual decline, Decem- ber 11, 1847, aged eighty. Thomas Sxell (1817-1825) was born in Cummington, Mass., November 21, 1774. He was the youngest child of Ebenezer Snell, Es({., and Sarah Packard. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1795, and studied theology with Dr. Backus, of Somers, Conn. He was settled in the North Parish of Brookfield, June 27, 1798, where he continued pastor till his deuti), a period of nearly sixty-four years. In 1800, September 11, ho was married to Miss Tirzah Strong, of Bolton, Conn. They had ten children, eight of whom lived to adult age. The first born of these was Professor E. S. Snell, of Amherst College. He occasionally took stu- dents to instruct, some in studies preparatory for college, others for the ministry. Among the former was his sister's son, William Cullen Bryant, who studied a year in his fomily, before entering Williams College. He received the degree of D. D., in 1828, from Amherst College. Dr. Snell's ministry was faithful and laborious. He was for many years secretary of the General Association of Ministers in Massachusetts, whose annual meetings he at- tended almost without an exception. His ministry was blessed with many revivals of religion, and the churcli grew and was strengthened under his wise and earnest culture. He Avas among the earliest and most zealous advocates of total absti- nence from alcoholic drinks. During the last few years of his life, Dr. Snell was, in a 64 BlUGlLVrilJL'AL ANNALS. degree, disabled for active labor by a }>aralyHi« of ono side. Ho died May 4, 18G2, aged eiglity-seveu years. George Bliss (1820-182.3) was bom in Springfield, De- cember 13, 17G4; was graduated at Valu College, 1784. He read law in the office of his father, aud, after being admitted to the bar, opened an office in his native town. He became eminent in his profession, and was ch^teunied one of the best lawyers in the state. As a Christian layman, perhaps no per- son in the commonwealth occupied a higher position. He was in early life chosen a deacon in the First Church in Spring- field, which office he held till the time of his death. He was re- peatedly a representative and senator in the state legislature, and also one of the executive council. For some years ho was one of the visitors of the Theological Seminary at Ando- ver. He died, greatly luiiented, ilarch 8, 1830. Heman Humphrey (isiiu-lsii.l) was born at West Sims- bury, Conn., on the 2ljth of March, 1779. He wrought on his father's farm, enjoying only the advantages of the common school, till qualified to bo a teacher. He became hopefully pious in the winter of 1789. He never seriously thought, however, of obtaining a liberal education. He had made a partial engagement to labor as a hired man for the summer; but a sudden spring freshet in the Connecticut River pre- vented his crossing over on a certain day to complete the engagement, and that providence was the means of changing all the plans and the whole course of his life. He now en- tered upon a course of study, having received an unexpected promise of assistance, and was graduated at Yale College in 1805. He then studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Hooker, of Goshen, Conn., and was licensed to preach by the Litchfield North Association, at Salisbury, Conn., October, 1806. The following spring he was ordained at Fairfield, Conn., at the age of twenty-eight. Here he remained ten years. In Novem- ber, 1817, be was installed pastor of the church in Pittsfield. Here he remained six \ea.Ts ; and they were years of great spiritual prosperity to the church and town. Two extensive SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES, 65 revivals were enjoyed, one of which was a wonder such as was never witnessed in the churches of Berkshire before. In October, 1S23, Dr. Humphrey was inaugurated president of Amherst College. Leaving Amherst, he returned to Pittsfield, worn down and feeble, where he was warmly welcomed by a people who ever felt that it was an honor and a blessing to have such a man reside among them. Here he died, April 2, ISGl. Dr. Humphrey published six volumes of about four hundred pages each ; Discourses and Reviews, published in 1834 ; Let- ters from Europe, 1838 ; Letters to a Son in the Ministry, 1842; Memoir of Professor X. W. Fisk, 1850; Memoir of Rev. T. II. Gallaudett, 1858; Revival Sketches, 1859: these volumes by no means include all that he published. Isaac Knapp (1822-1826) was born at Norfolk, Coim., Sep- tember 2, 1774; was fitted for college by his minister, thu Rev. Mr. Robbins ; was graduated at Williiims College in 1800. He studied theology with thu Rev. Dr. Backus, of Somers, Conn. From 1802 to 1803 he was a tutor in Wil- liams College. Ho was ordained at Westfield, November 3, 1803, and died there July 6, 1847, aged seventy-three. Mr. Knapp filled up a long and peaceful pastorate of forty-tour years. Ezra Fisk (1823-1833) was born at Sholburne, Mass. January 10, 1785 ; he was graduated at Williams College in 1809 ; studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Packard ; was or- dained at Goshen, N. Y., in 1813, where his ministry was greatly blessed. In 1833 he was offered the presidency of the University of Vermont., and about the same time was elected professor of ecclesiastical history and church govern- ment in tlie Theological Seminary near Pittsburg. 'I'liis appointment he accepted; and while on his way to this new field of labor, he died at Philadelphia, December 5, 1833, in the forty-ninth year of his age, and only two months alter his dismission from the church in Goshen. His remains were 5 66 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. conveyed to Goshen for interment. He loft a widow, but no children. William Perrin "Walker (1824-184G) was born at Lenox, October 8, 1778, where he resided during life, and where he died, Xovember 11, 1858. He was graduated at Williams College in 1798, and entered upon the practice of the law in 1803. He was a member of every branch of the state govern- ment at diftcrent periods, and chief justice of the Court of Sessions for Berkshire County. In 1824 he was appointed judge of Probate, which office he held twenty-four years, till his resignation, in 1848. In this office he succeeded his father, the Hon. William Walker, who had performed its duties from 1795 to 1824. The fact that father and son held this office to the entire acceptance of the people of Berkshire County for more than half a century made the name of Judge Walker a familiar household word in every family. Few appeals were ever taken from their decis- ions. His sense of his usefulness in this office was one of the reasons why he declined many political offices which were, from time to time, tendered to him. He was a ripe scholar and a learned lawyer, of undoubted capacity and integrity, and a model citizen. He understood better than most men one of the sources of extensive influ- ence for good, for he was content with the influence, without claiming credit for it. He was a member of the Congrega- tional Church in Lenox. His personal appearance was pre- possessing and dignified. The maiden name of his mother was Sarah Woodruff, from Farmington, Conn. Judge Walker was a true son of Williams College. The rep- utation of his Alma Mater was dear to him, and he discharged his duties as a trustee with an anxious and active fidelity. Charles A. Dewey (1824—1866) was born in Williamstown, March 13, 1793. His father, the Hon. Daniel Dewey, was a distinguished lawyer, and at the time of his decease, in 1815, a justice of the Supreme Court. His mother was a daughter of the Hon. David Noble, a judge of the Court of Common SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 67 Pleas. From both lines he inherited Puritan blood and prin- ciples. From early life young Dewey devoted himself to classical studies, and completed his college course at the early age of eighteen. Mr. Dewey, from the time of his grad- uation, devoted himself with characteristic singleness and energy of purpose to the study of the law, under the direction of his father ; and in 1814 he was admitted to the bar. Dur- ing the next twelve years he was engaged in professional practice in his native town, where he gained a high reputa- tion for ability and intense application to business. In 1826 he became a citizen of Northampton, and entered into part- nership with his brother-in-law, the late Isaac C. Bates, after- wards senator of the United States. In 1830 Mr. Dewey was appointed district attorney for the western district of Massachusetts, which office he held until 1837. In that year Governor Everett, after careful inquiry, appointed Mr. Dewey to be a justice of the Supreme Court. He served the com- monwealth in this office till the time of his death — a period of nearly thirty years. He was twice married. His first wife was Frances A. Henshaw, daughter of Hon. Samuel Hen- shaw, who lived only one year after her marriage. In 1825 Mr. Dewey was married to Caroline H., daughter of General James Clinton, and sister of the illustrious statesman of New York, Governor De Witt Clinton. In the year 1836 Judge Dewey made a public profession of faith in Christ, and became a member of the First Church in Northamp- ton. The blameless purity, or rather strictness, of his life, his regular and devoted attendance on public worship, his conscientious observance of the Lord's day, his evident love of evangelical truth, his scrupulous attention to family reli- gion, his frank expression of Christian views and feelings, — all attested the earnest sincerity of his religious profession. As a Christian, he loved to walk in the " old paths ; " and though no man was freer from sectarian bigotry, or party zeal, he felt a strong repugnance to innovations on the ancient faith and order of the New England churches. He was deeply inter- ested in education ; but here, again, his leading characteristic of concentrating his energy and influence on a particular ob- 68 BIOGIlArillCAL ANNALS. joct was strikin^^ly inaiiifostcd. What he did for education was done for Williiinis ('olli-^^o — an inslitutiuii to which lio was bound hy hereditary as well as personal attachment. Ho was an active and intluential trustee of tlie college for forty- two years, and during that lont; pcritwl he was rarely absent from a nicetin;:: of the Hoard, lie was iilways ready to g^ive his time and influence to the eorvico of his Alma Mater. One of the last deeds of his life was to present to the college a thousand dollars. lie had been active and efficient in pre- venting the removal of the college in 1811» and 1820. He at^ tendeil the aMiiuul commencement the first week in August, 18()G, where he contracted a cold, which brought on a disease which terminated his life. lie died August *J*J. 18GG. RuFUS W. Bailey (1825-1827) was born at rortlaud, Maine, April 13, 1793; was graduated at Dartmouth College, 1813; studied law with the Hon. Daniel Webster, in Portsmouth, N. H. ; turned his attention to theology, and passed one year in Andover. In 1810-17 he was a tutor in Dartmouth College ; was ordained at Norwich, Vt., and appointed professor of moral philosophy in the Military Academy there. In 1823 he was installed at Pittsfiuld. Mass. ; was dismissed in 1827 ; went south to be in a warmer climate. For twelve years he was a teacher in South Carolina, preaching occasionally. He next moved to Virginia, and passed five years there, '' verging, as his health improved, towards New England, preferring, if Provi- dence should permit, to repose, in the second childhood and death, in her peaceful bosom, where his ancestry, the Pilgrims, consecrated a land till now preserved to liberty and religion." From 1848 to 1854 he was agent of the American Colonization Society. From 1854 to 185G he was professor of languages in Austin College, Texas. In 1858 he was elected president of that institution, and died April 25, 18G3, aged seventy, at the residence of his son, Francis B. Bailey, in Huntsvillc, Texas. Nathaniel Scuddee Prime (1826-1831) was born in Hunt- ington, Long Island, State of Xew York, April 21, 1785 ; bap- tized February 7, 1787: received into the communion of the SKETCHES OF TILE TRUSTEES. G9 church June 28, 1801 ; graduated at Nassau Hall, Princeton, X. J., September 26, 1804 ; was licensed to preach the gospel at ITuntington, Long Island, by the Presbytery of Long Island, October 10, 1805, and ordained in the same place October 24, 1809, He was baptized, admitted to the communion, licensed, and ordained in the same church, and in his native town, and the minister who baptized him preached his ordi- nation sermon, and the pastor who admitted him to the church made the ordaining prayer. After preaching at Patchogue, on Long Island, hu took charge of the church at Sag Harbor. Here he married Julia Ann Jermain. The church consisted of only sixteen mem- bers ; but a great revival of religion attending Mr. Prime's labors, one hundred and fifty were added, and the influence of that work of grace is felt to this day in that place. Mr. Prime rrnioved to Smithtown, and was settled July 14, 1813, in Cambridge, Washington County, N. Y, Ho resigned iiis charge in 1828. Having a large family of children, — five sons and two daughters, — and wishing to give them a liberal educa- tion, he became the principal of Cambridge Washington Academy, mainly with the design of educating his own chil- dren. He was from 1822 to 1826 a trustee of Middlel)ury Col- lege, and uj)on resigning that position, he was elected, in 1826, a trustee of Williams. The same year his two oldest sons en- tered the Sophomore class, and were graduated in 1820. In the year 1830 Mr. Prime removed to Sing Sing, N. Y., and took charge of the Mount Pleasant Academy ; and in 1835 he established a Female Seminary in Newburg, N. Y. His daughters were associated with him in this institution, as his sons had been in the Academy at Sing Sing. The degree of S. T. D. was conferred on Mr. Prime by Princeton College in 1848. He was the author (tf several published sermons, of a volume on " The Mode and Subjects of Baptism," and " The History of Long Island." He died at Mamaronech, X. Y., March 27, 1856. James McKown (1826-1845) was born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., 1780 ; was fitted for college at Albany, under the tui- 70 BlOGieAMIICAL AX.NALS. tion of tlio Uuv, Juliii Mrlhiiiald ; and was ;:ra«iuaieci ui Wil- liams rollogo in 1H()7 ; Htuflifil law with J. V, Ilunry, E^4,, an ciiiiiR'nt lawyer in All»any. and was urtcTWurdu, for a niirn- bor of yearn, asHociatod with him in tho |>ruftice of IiIh pro- fession. For Bonio years Mr. MrKown held the office of judge. Ho was an influential memlK-r «if the IIuuho of the Assomhly in tho legislature of New York ; waM a regent of tho New York I'niversity ; wan recorder of the city of Al- bany for nineteen years ; an8 he removed, with his parents, to Worcester, which has been the residenco of Igs family to the present time. There was nothing niiirked in tlio history of his childhood. He was favtire-1837) was born in S^haron, Conn., May 28, 1780, and was fitted for college under the pri- vate tuition of tliu Rev, David L. I'arry, pastor of the Con- gregational Church In that place. He joined the Sophomore class in Williams College in 1S07, where ho remained one year, or until tiio great difliiMilty of the Junior class with Pro- fessor Olds, In 1809 Mr. Bennet joined the Junior class in Yale College, where he was graduated in 1811. He studied law mainly with B. .^losson, Kscp, and Cyrus Swan, Ksi|., of Sharon, and was admitted to the practice of law at Litclilifld, Conn., in September, 1813. He then settled in his profession in Bennington, Vt. In ISl 1 lie remove. He afterwards attended one course of lectures in New York. lie entered on the practice of his profession in Chatham, N. Y., but on tho 1st of January, 1828, commenced his professional life in Williamstown, where he has continued to the present time. He united with the church in Chatham in April, 1827, under the ministry of Rev. Joel T. Benedict. He was chosen a deacon of the church, 1834. He has represented the town in the state legislature, and in 1857 was state senator. Dr. Sabin has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Lucy Whitman, and his second was Miss Abby Benjamin. He was elected a trustee of the college in 1838, and is now the senior member of tho Board. Tho>l\J3 E. Vermilye (1838-1845) was born in the city of New York, February 27, 1803 ; was a member of the class of 1822, at Yale College, but left at the middle of tho Senior year; studied at Princeton from 1822 to 1825; received tho honorary degree of D. D. at Union and Rutgers the same year ; was ordained and settled in New York city, January, 182C; removed to West Springfield, and was installed there 80 BIOGRAPHICAL ANXALS. May, 1830; removed to tlic North Dutcli Church, in Albany, May, 183.5 ; removed to tlie Collc^Mate Dutch Church, in New York, 1839, where he still remains, IbG'J. Charlks Stoddard (1839) was horn at Nortlianipton, Juno 27, 1802. Ilis ancestors were amon^ the earliest settlers in Boston, and held high dHIccs ol' trust and honor untler the colonial and state governments. One ol' them, Rev. tSolouion Stoildard, the grandfather of Jonathan Edwards, was j)at-lt»r of the cliurcli in Northampton lor fifty-seven years. For lilfy years he has Iicen engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston, and during this long period has received the respect and con- fidence of the connuunity. lie has been an oflicer in the city government, and a prominent and useful member of many of our benevolent associations. In ISlil he became a member of the Old South Church, and was elected deacon of the same in IblO. Of this church he has also been treasurer for many years. In 1832 he was elected a member of the prudential committee of the Ameri- can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and became chairman of that body in 1859. In the year 1832 he was united in marriage with Mary A. Porter, widow of Rev. Wil- liam A. Porter, ])rofcssor of rhetoric and moral jdiilosophy in Williams College. By this marriage he had two children, Charles A. Stoddard, pastor of the Washington Ileights Pres- byterian Church, in New York city, and Mary, wife of Sam- uel Johnson, Jr., Esq., of Boston. Mr. Stoddard's connection with this college, as trustee, began in 1839. Since assuming the trust, he has been faith- ful in the discharge of its duties, has regularly attended the meetings of the Board, contributed to the funds and the li- brary of the institution, directed many young men to Wil- liams College for their education, and used his influence in behalf of the college in public and in private. His foremost desire and endeavor for Williams College has been that it should be devoted to the honor of God, and to the education of young men for the service of Christ ; that it should be SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 81 identified with Christian progress, and especially ^yith Chris- tian missionary operations. Thomas Robbixs (1842-1853) was born at Norfolk, Conn., August 11, 1777. He was a son of an excellent clergyman. He entered Yale College, ^September, 1792; was dismissed, and entered Williams College, Senior class, November, 1795. lie was graduated at Williams and at Yale, September, 179G — at Williams one week, at Yale the next. lie studied di- vinity under the care of Rev. Dr. West, of Stockbridge. lie was licensed to preach, September, 1799 ; was ordained at Norfolk, as a missionary, July, 1803; went to Ohio, in the service of the Congregational Missionary Society ; and re- turned, in low health, July, 180G. He was installed at East Windsor, Conn., May, 1809 ; and at Rochester, Mass., 1833; and was appointed librarian of the Connecticut Ilistt)rical Society in 1844. Ho began to collect a permanent library, the same year, to be consecrated to the interests of the church of Christ, adding to it one hundred volumes a year. When Dr. Robbins commenced his professional life, the question came distinctly before him, whether he should surround him- self with a family or a good library ; and he deliberately chose the library. George Nixon Driggs (1845-18G1) was born at Adams, Mass., April 12, 179G ; in 1803, removed to Manchester, Vt. ; in 1805, removed to White Creek, N. Y. ; in October, 1809, went to live with John Allen, at White Creek, to learn the hatter's trade, and remained there till 1812; united with the Baptist Church, in that place, in 1810; in September, 1813, entered the law oflBce of Ambrose Kapen, Esq., at Adams ; in December, 1814, entered the law office of Luther AVashburnc, Esq., at Lanesboro' ; was admitted to the practice of law at Lenox, October, 1818; commenced the practice of law in Adams ; removed to Lanesboro' in December, 1823 ; ad- mitted as attorney to the Supreme Court, September, 1821, and as counsellor in 1823 ; was elected to Congress in 1830 ; and was a member from that time to March, 1843 ; removed 6 82 BIOORAIMUf Ah ANNALS. to PittsficM in April, 1842; candidate for governor in 1843; no chuico l)y the people; wu8 elected Ity the legiiilature in Jamiarv, 1S44. Tlic ahove is an exact transcript of what Governor Brigj^ wrote, ill March, 1847, in one of my hooks of auto^rapliK. Covernor 13rigj^8 was a'lx tiniL-s elected to CongrcHB from the Berkshire district, and seven times chosen governor of Massachusetts; and, at the clone of hiH i>olitical career, he could gay, *• He never askiMl a man to vote for iiini for either of these oflices, or asked a man to attend a [xditical conven- tion w IicK' he was nominated, or to use any iniluence, in any way, to promote his eh'ction to cither of thesi* ofIice«." In the month of August, 185!J, (Jovernor Brings was appointed by Governor Cliiford one of the judges of the Court of Com- mon Pleas — an honor which was gnitifving to the recipient and acceptahlo to the puhlic. In 1858, under the administra- tion of Governor Banks, the Court of Common Pleas was aholished, and the Superior Court was organized in its Btead. The end of his judicial service was the end als(i of his puhlic life,excej)t in th«)se services which were jmrely philanthropic. At the time of his death, he was president of several impor- tant orgjini/.ations, among which were the American Tract Society, Boston ; the Baptist Foreign Missionary Union ; the National Temperance Alliance; and the State Sabbath School Union. On the moniing oi .--fpii'mhcr 4, 18G1, he arose in his u-ual health. At his family devotions, that morning, he read the eighty-fourth Psalm — a portion of it with peculiar emphasis, as one of his sons had just before left home to enter the field of contlict, and to aid in suppressing the terrible rebellion which bad broken out in the South but a few months before : " Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee. . . . They go from strength to strength. Every one of them in Zion appeareth before God."' Pie then took his usual walk to the village — something over half a mile. On his return, be en- tered a closet to take down a light overcoat. While reaching out his hand to do this, he threw down a loaded gun, which had been moved from its wonted comer into what was con- SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 83 sidered a safer place. While he was picking it up from the floor, it was in some unaccountable manner discharged with fatal eflfect. The contents were lodged in one side of his face. He soon exclaimed, *' It is all gone ; I shall die." He lingered, however, till Thursday morning, September 12, in a state of great suflering, then died in peace, ** great in goodness," aged sixty-five years. Emory Washburn (1845-1848) was born in Leicester, Feb- ruary 14, 1800; prepared for college at Leicester Academy; entered Dartmouth College in 1813; removed to Williams in 1815 ; graduati'd in 1817 ; was admitted to the bar in Berk- shire County, March, IS'Jl ; opened an office in Charlemont on admission to the bar, and remained there till September, 1821 ; then removed to Leicester, where he practised his profession until 1828, when he removed to Worcester, and continued to pursue his profession until July 2, 1844, when he was ap- pointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas ; resigned the office of judge in 1847; represented Leicester in the General Court from 1825 to 1827, and Worcester in 1838; represented the County of Worcester in the Senate during the years 1841 and 1842; in 1854 was chosen governor of Massachusetts, and held the office one year; in 185G was appointed profess- or of law in Harvard University, and removed to Cambridge ; received the degrees of A. B. and A, M. in course at Williams, and in 1854 received the honorary degree of LL. D. from Harvard and Williams. He is a member of the American Antiquarian Society, of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. John Todd, D. D. (1845), son of Timothy Todd, M. D., was born in Rutland, Vt., October 9, 1800; fitted for college in Boston ; was graduated at Yale College, 1822; at Andover, 1825 — one year more at Andover on scholarship; was ordained at Groton, Mass., Januar)' 3, 1827 — ministry at Groton six years ; was installed at Northampton, Edwards Churcli, 1833 — min- istry at Northampton three years; installed at Pliiladeli>liia, November, 1836 — ministry at Philadelphia six years ; installed 84 BioGitArmcAL annals. at Pittsfiekl February, 1842 — miiii8try hero nearly twenly- 80VCI1 yeair.s. Dr. 'I'odd wan married, March 11, 1827, to Mary S. J5raeo, daughter of Itev. Dr. Brace, (»f Newington, Conn, fie has had nine childnn — nix now livin^^ ; has ono »on and one Kon-in-law in tlie ministry. He received the degree of D. D. from WiHiams College; travelled in Europe, 1855; ap- pointed to preach before the American B, 1T!I.>. and was graduated at Dartmouth College in 181(j. lie studied theology in the seminary at Princeton, N. J., and was licensed to preach the gospel by the First Presbytery of New York ; was ordained pastor of the Congregational Cliurch in Bennington, Vt., July 4, 1820, and remained there until December, 1825, when he was ap- pointed corresponding secretary of the United Domestic Missionary Society, and removed to New York, where he became the secretary of the American ITome Missionary Society, at its orgjinization in 182G. He remained iu that office till 1837, when, owing to unpropitious circumstanced, ho was induced to resign, and then became editor of the American Biblical Repository, and continued in charge of that work, and also of the American Eclectic (which he established in 1841), until 1842, when he was appointed professor of pastoral theology and homiletics in the Union Theological Seminary in New York. He remained here about two years. Shortly after leaving this position he accepted a call to the First Congregational Church in Williamstown, and was in- stalled November 10, 1844. In 1852 Dr. Peters was ap- pointed financial agent of Williams College, and continued in that agency three years, when he resigned, and returned to New York. Dr. Peters died in New York May 18, 1869, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. Henry Walker Bishop (1847-1869) was born at Richmond, April 12, 1796. His father, a former trustee of the college, was esteemed as a most worthy citizen of that town. Heniy SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 85 fitted for college at Lenox Academy, and was graduated at Wil- liams in ISIT, when be pronounced the valedictory oration, •• On the Influence of the Association of Ideas," and Emory Washburn the salutatory. Mr. Bishop studied law with the Hon. William P. Walker, of Lenox, and was admitted to the bar in 1821. He was oflered a tutorship in college, but declined it. He entered on the duties of his profession in Richmond, where he remained usefully devoting himself to various pri- vate and public services till 182G, when he was appointed register of Probate, and removed to Lenox. In the fall of 1846 he was nominated as a candidate for the office of lieu- tenant governor, but declined the nomination. In the fall of 1850 he was the democratic candidate for governor, and his classmate, Washburn, was the opposing and successful can- didate. In 18,01 Mr. Bishop was appointed to the office of judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Massachusetts by Governor Boutwell, and held the office till that court was abolished. In April, 1868, in a familiar letter to the compiler of these Annals respecting a subject of great pubhc interest, Judge Bishop writes, '* Personally, I have but very little interest in the controversy. Ago points out for me another place, more intimately connected with my future, than earth. I have no time to bestow on purely terrestrial interests. I can say with Horace, not, however, in the sense in which he uses the words, Carpe diem, qxiam minimum credula pos- tero^ Will the judge accept this translation : *' Improve the present day, trusting as little as may be to the future " ? In 1865 he received the degree of LL. D. from his Alma Mater. He was married to Miss Sarah Bulkley, of Williamstown, in 1822. Adam Reid (1847-1869) was born January 4, 1808, in Wish- awtowu, a village in the parish of Cambussnethan, Lanark- ehiro, Scotland. His preparatory studies were pursued prin- cipally at the parish school, and ho entered the University of Glasgow in the autumn of 1823, where he remained two years. His third year was spent at the University of St. Andrew's, Fifeshire, under the tuition of the Rev. Dr. Chalmers, then 86 BlOGIlAl'lIICAL ANNALS. professor of moral ijliilosopliy and its cognate branchea in that institution. lie next returned to Glasgow University, where he spent his fourth and coneiudln^; year, and wliere he was graduated in 1827. Dr. Reid studied theology at the llelief Theological ITall, in Paisley, under the tuition of the Rev. James Th(jmson, i). D., and was licensed to preach the gospel by the Relief Presbytery of (Jlasgow, October 4, 1831. Ou the 2Tth of May, 1835, ho sailed from Greenock for New York, and arrived there on the 11th of July. lie preached, the first year after his arrival, in Aineniaville, Dutchess Co., N. Y., and then removed to Salisbury, Conn., where ho was installed September 27, 1837. Joseph White (1848) was born at Charlemont, Franklin Co., Mass., November 18, 1811. He was employed on his father's farm till the beginning of his eighteenth year, when he com- menced the double tapk of teaching a district school and pre- paring for college. Mr. White pursued his preparatory studies at tlie Academy in Bennington, Vt., entered Wil- liams College in 1832, and was graduated in 183G, with one of the highest honors of the class. He then passed nearly a year as a teacher in Bennington Academy, and next commenced the study of law in Troy, N. Y. At the commencement of 1839 he returned to Williams College, and entered on the duties of a tutorship, which position he occupied with credit and acceptance for nearly two years. In May, 1841, he re- turned to Troy, was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of his profession there. He was married to Miss Hannah Danforth, of Williamstown. In 1848 he was elected a trustee of the college. In the autumn of the same year he removed to Lowell, where he had the charge of a large manu- facturing corporation for some years. He represented the County of Middlesex in the Senate during the session of 1857. In April, 1858, he was appointed bank commissioner, and served in that capacity till September, 1860. In March, 1859, he was elected treasurer of the college, and removed to Williamstown, January, 1860. In July of that year he received the appointment of secretary of the Massachusetts SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 87 Board of Education, and entered upon the duties of his office January 1, 18G1, which office he still holds. Bradford R. Wood (1848-1865) was born in the town of Westport, — furmerly a part of Fairfield, — Conn., September 30, 1800. He was prepared for college at Fairfield Academy, and was graduated at Union College, July 1824. He studied law in Albany, and commenced the duties of his profession there in the summer of 1827. He has been successful and popular. In the spring of 1844 he was brought forward by the democratic party as one of the supervisors of the county, and was elected. In the fall of tlie same year he was nomi- nated for Congress, without his knowledge or consent, — as he was from home at the time, — and though his political party was in the minority, he was elected. He was subse- quently defeated for the same position because lie belonged to the free-soil and anti-slavery party. His political life has been somewhat stormy, as Mr. Wood has always been identi- fied with the reformers. lie has been known as a philanthro- pist and a Christian gentleman. He was married in 1834, and now has six children living : one son is an alumnus of Williams. Charles A. Thompson (1853-1870) was born in Goshen, Conn., April 30, 1812. He entered Yale College in 1832, but, from the failure of his health, quitted it before completing his collegiate course. In 1838 he completed his studies at the Congregational Theological Seminary at East Windsor Hill, Conn., subsequently visited Europe, and spent a year at the University of Berlin, and in July, 1842, became pastor of the Eliot Congregational Church, Roxbury, Mass., where he still remains. In 1854-5 he accompanied the Rev. Dr. Anderson as a committee to the missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in India. He has pub- lished the following works: Songs in the Night (Boston, 1845, several times reprinted) ; Tlie Lambs Fed, which has been translated into the Mahratta language ; The Young Martyrs ; Last Hours, or Words and Acts of the Dying 88 BIOGRAI'UICAL ANNALS. (1851); The Poor Widow, a Memorial of Mrs. Anna F. Waters (1854, translated into Tiimil) ; The Bettor Land, or Believers' Journey and Future Homo (1855) ; The Yoke in Youth, a Memorial of II. M. Hill (185G); Gath- ered Lilies, or Little Children in Heaven (1858); Feed- ing the Lambs (1850); ]Mi)rning Hours in I'atmos; 'i'ho Mercy Scat ; Seeds and Sheaves, and Lyra Celestis. CiiAULES BuTLKR (1853-1858), of New York, was elected a member of the Board of Trustees in 1853 ; but as he never attended a meeting of the Board, no history of him is hero given. Erastus Cornelius Benedict (1855) was born at Branford, Conn., March 10, 1800. His father was the Kcv. Joel T. Benedict, who removed to the State of New York in 1803. He entered the Sophomore class in Williams College, Sep- tember, 1818, and was graduated in 1821. He j)ursued tho study of law at Johnstown and at Newburg, and was admitted to the bar in 1824. In early life he had some experience in teaching; commencing in a common school in 181G, and end- ing as a tutor in college in 1824, where he taught the class of 1825, while Juniors ; and the writer of this sketch, who was a member of that class, is happy to testify to his uniform urbanity, ability, and fidelity. He also taught the class of 1826, when Sophomores, for a portion of the time. Mr. Benedict officiated as a tutor but part of a year, supph-ing the vacancy occasioned by the retirement of his classmate, the Rev. Emerson Davis, who left to take charge of Westfield Academ3\ As he was ready to enter upon the practice of his profession when he commenced his tutorship, he chose not to remain another year. When the common-school sys- tem was first extended to the city of New York, in 1842, Mr. Benedict was elected a trustee of common schools, and subsequently, in 1850, a member of the Board of Education for that city, and was president of the Board for several years, leaving by resignation in 1863. In 1855 he was elected by the legislature of the state one of the regents of the SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 89 University of the State of New York, which office he still liolds. In 1840 he was elected a member of the Common Council of the city of New York, and in 1848, and again in 18G4, he was a member of the state legislature. He received the degree of LL. D. from Rutgers College in 18G5. Mr. Benedict is the author of the American Admiralty, published in 1850 ; A Run througli Europe, published in 18G0; The Hymn of Ilildebert, and other Median-al Hymns, witli Translations, published in 18G8; and various pamphlets, reviews, speeches, and addresses, published at difterent times during the last thirty years, including "The Beginning of America," the anniversary discourse before the New York Historical Society in 18G3. In 1840 he delivered the address before the Society of the Alumni of Williams College. He has established in the college several prizes for excellence in ancient and modern languages, mathematics, and rhetoric. Homer Bartlett (1858-18G9) is a native of Granby, and was born July 10, 1705. He was fitted for college at West- field Academy, and with Rev. Nathan Perkins, of Amherst. Ho was graduated at Williams College in 1818. He studied law with the Hon. Daniel Noble, of Williamstown, and opened a law ollice in that town. In 1824 he removed to Ware Vil- lage, and became connected with a bank, as cashier. In 1832 he resigned his position as cashier, and accepted an agency of a manufacturing company there. In 1837 he removed to Lowell, and became an agent for a manufacturing company. In 18G0 he removed to Boston. Mr. Bartlett was a member of the legis- lature from Ware in 1832, and in 1849 from Lowell. In 1854 he was one of the governor's councillors. He has been twice married — first, in 1823, to Miss Mary Starkweather, of Wil- liamstown, and, second, to !Mrs. Louisa F. Hubbell, of Albany, N. Y. Mr. Bartlett is a member of the Old South Church, Boston. William Hyde (1850), son of Rev. Alvan and Lucy Fessen- den Hyde, was born at Lcc, August 16, 180G. He was mainly fitted for college by liis father, though he was some time at Lenox Academy, under the instruction of Levi Glezen, and 1)0 BIOCJRAI'IIICAL ANNALS. was two or thrco teiujs iit Ilopkiiis Acadt'iiiy, in Iladley. It ■was (liiriuf^ his Hcnior year,undor the powurrul preuthinj^of Dr. (irilliii, that lio trusts liu became a fullowt-r of ('hrist, thouj^h he did imt make a profession of religion until November, 1831, when lie uiiitfd with Dr. Osgood's cliurch, in Spring- held. Alter graduation, he taught a select Hchool in CatHkill, N. Y., for one year, when he returned to Lee, and wan one year a law student with Hon. William l*<»rter. In October, 1828, he went into the ollice of Hon. Cieerge BlisH, of Spring- field, and was there atlmitteeth/' "Preachers and Preaching," and " The Happy Home." With exuberant spirits, of warm an()oth was married to Miss Emma L. Lathrop, of Auburn, in October, 1853. During his pastorate in New York, ho lias visited Euroi)o three times, travelling in Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Spain, Russia, and in all the more frequented parts. IIo has published several pamphlets and discourses upon religious topics. He is connected with vari- ous enterprises of the church catholic, is chairman of tho General Assembly's committee on foreign missions, member of the prudential committee of tho American Board, of tho education committee, of the executive committee of tho Evangelical Alliance, and a director of the Union Theological Seminary. Giles Bacon Kellogg (18G8), son of Samuel Kellogg, was born in "Williamstown, at the old Kellogg homestead, about a mile cast of the college, March 28, 1808. lie was taught the alphabet by Jonas King. lie was fitted for college partly by undergraduates, and partly, at Stockbridge, by Rev. Jared Cur- tis. He studied law at Salem, N. Y., with Allen & Blair. He settled in Troy in 1830, and was admitted to the bar in 1832, and has continued to reside in Troy till the present time. Dur- ing the administrations of Jackson and Van Buren, he was for ten years, while pursuing his profession, the principal editor of the Northern Budget, the oldest and the leading whig paper in this part of the state. Before the Court of Chan- cery was abolished, he was for a number of years a master and examiner in that court, — an important and responsible office, — and he has held several other prominent places of trust under the judiciary system. In 1836 he was married to Ade- line, daughter of Justin Kellogg, of Troy : has had six chil- dren, four of whom, two sons and two daughters, are now living. One son is a graduate of Williams College. Mr. Kel- SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 95 logg is an elder in the First Presbyterian Churcli, Troy, a prosperous, useful, and honored man. Samuel Iren^us Prime (18G9) was born in Ballston, Sara- toga Co., N. Y., November 4, 1812. Before he was a year old. his parents removed to Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y., where his father was then settled as pastor in the "Old White Meeting House," of which the son afterwards wrote the chroni- cles. Here the son received his early education, being fitted for college by his father, who was a trustee of Williams, and his two sons, Alanson J. and Saniuel I., entered in 1826 and gradu- ated in 1829. Samnel Irenieus delivered the Greek oration at his graduation, being at that time less than seventeen years old, having entered Sophomore before ho was fourteen. The morning after his graduation, at nine o'clock, he was in charge of the Academy at Cambridge. He continued to teach and to study divinity for two years, and in 1832 entered the The- ological Seminary at Princeton, N. J. He was compelled to leave tiie next year on account of severe sickness, and resum- ing his labors as a teacher, was licensed in 1823, by the Pres- bytery of Bedford, to preach the gospel. He was settled, first at Ballston Spa, N. Y., and, resigning his charge because of ill health, he was afterwards (1837) settled at Matteawan, Dutchess Co., N. Y., where he preached three years, and again broke down in health. In April, 1840, he became connected, as editor, with the New York Observer. In 1849 lie was elected secretary of the American Bible Society; but his physical strength was not adequate to tlie work, and in 1851 he returned to liis post on the New York Observer, of which he is now senior editor and proprietor. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by Hampden Sidney College. He has been invited to professorships and presidencies of many insti- tutions, but the work in which he is engaged being more con- genial to his health and his views of usefulness than any other, he has declined all invitations to leave it. In addition to his immense contributions to his own paper, he has Avritten and published about thirty volumes, mostly anonymous, and his whole writings would fill seventy-five or a hundred volumes 96 UIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. of five hundred pages each. Dr. Prime has been abroad twice, travelling in ev^ery country in Europe, and visiting also Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey in Asia. He has one son in the ministry, and his eldest daughter is the wife of Rev. Ciiarles A. Stoddard, W. C. Francis Hensiiaw Dewky (18G9), born in Williamstown, July 12, 1821, was son of Hon. Charles A. Dewuy (W.C. 1811) and Frances A., daughter of Hon. Samuel IJcnshaw (trustee W. C. 1802-1809). After graduation he attended the Yale and Harvard Law School ; was a student in the office of Hon. C. P. Huntijigton, at Northampton, and of Hon. Emory Wash- burn (W. C. 1817), at Worcester; admitted to the bar June, 1843, and formed a connection in business with Mr. (since Gov- ernor) Washburn, which was terminated by Mr. Washburn's appointment as judge, June, 1844. From that time Mr. Dewey continued business alone till 1850, when he associated with him Hartley Williams (now judge of Municipal Court of Wor- cester), which connection continued till 18G3. From Decem- ber, 1866, F. P. Goulding was associated with him, till Mr. Dewey's acceptance of the office of judge of the Superior Court, February, 1869. Mr. Dewey's residence has been in Worcester since May, 1842. During the whole of his profes- sional life his practice was large and successful. In 1856 and 1869 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate ; during both years he held the position of chairman of the judiciary committee. He has held various offices of trust in the direc- tion of railway, banking, savings, and insurance corporations, also in literary and benevolent institutions ; has been for sev- eral years president of the Worcester County Horticultural Society. In 1869 he was chosen a trustee of Williams Col- lege, an office held by his father, Judge Charles A. Dewey, his uncle. Judge D. N. Dewey, his grandfathers, Judge Dan- iel Dewey, and Judge Samuel Hcnshaw, and his great grand- father, Judge David Noble. Judge Dewey was the same year elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. He married, November 2, 1846, Frances A., daughter of John Clarke, Esq., of Northampton. She deceased March 13, 1851 j SKETCHES OF THE TRUSTEES. 97 and on April 26, 1853, he married Sarah B., daughter of Hon. George A. Tufts, of Dudley. He has had eight children, and there are now surviving three sons and two daughters. Thomas Xelson (1869), a native of Peekskill, N. Y., was born in 1819; graduated at Williams in 1836; studied law in the office of his father, and then became his law partner ; in 1851 was appointed chief justice of Oregon Territory, and remained there three years. He then returned and opened a law office in New York city, where he still remains. His residence, however, is in Peekskill. In 1844 he married a daughter of David L. Seymour, of Troy, X. Y. He has had four children, three of whom survive. 7 98 BIOGRAPICAL ANNALS. CHAPTER IV. SKETCHES OF THE PRINCIPAL DONORS. Our sketches of the principal donors of the college must conimcnce with Eimiraim Williams, its founder. He was bom at Newton, near JJoston, February 24, 1715. He was the eldest son of Colonel Ephraim Williams, who became one of the first settlers of Stockbridge. The son in early life fol lowed the seas, but afterwards devoted himself to a military life. In the war against Spain and France, which began in 1740, and was terminated by the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1748, he distinguished himself as the commander of a com- pany in the Canada service. After the peace he retired a wliilo to Hatfield, and also resided a portion of his time in Stockbridge. In 1750 the General Court granted him two hundred acres of land in East Hoosack — now Adams, Mass., — on condition of his erecting, and keeping in repair for twenty years, a grist-mill and saw-mill for the use of the set- tlers. On this grant Fort Massachusetts arose, and Colonel Williams, having been appointed to command the line of forts west of the Connecticut River, made Fort 31assachusetts his principal residence. He commanded also a small fort at what is now the west end of the village of Williamstown. Under the protection of these forts, the first settlers began their improvements, and, amidst their hardships and dangers, were encouraged, not only by the enterprise and sympathy of the kind-hearted Williams, but by some intimations of his purpose respecting a free school. Upon the breaking out of the new war between England and France, in 1755, Colonel Williams took the command of a regi- ment, and was ordered to join General Johnson, at the north. On his way to. that station, at Albany, his will — which had SKETCHES OF THE PRI^XIPAL DONORS. 99 previously been written — was signed and witnessed on the 22d day of July, 1755. On the morning of the 8th of Sep- tember he was ordered out at the head of a scouting party, twelve hundred strong, and was shot through the head by an ambush party of French and Indians, near the southern ex- tremity of Lake George, in the forty-first year of his age. His property, which was not large, consisted of bonds and notes, and wild lands in the two western counties of the state. In his will, after making some small bequests to friends, — he never had a family, — he devised the residue of his prop- erty for the support of a free school in West Hoosack, pro- vided it should fall within the Colony of Massachusetts, and be called after his name. The lands were to be sold within five years after the peace. The peace was concluded in 1763, and the town was incorporated under its present name in 1705. The executors, Israel Williams, Esq., of Hatfield, and John Worthington, Esq., of Springfield, sold the lands, and by a faith- ful and prudent management of the fund, augmented it until the year 1785, when, on their application, a board of trust was incorporated, under the visitorial direction of the Supreme Ju- dicial Court, to support a free school in Williamstown. To this board the executors paid over nearly eleven thousand dollars. In 1788 the trustees voted to erect a three-story brick build- ing, and in 1790 the building — the present old West College, — was erected. As early as September, 1790, Mr. Ebeuezer Fitch, then a tutor in Yale College, was invited to the station, and in September, 1791, thirty-six years after the death of Colonel Williams, the free school was opened. In June, 1793, the legislature incorporated Williams College, appointing all the old trustees, and transferring to them all the property of the free school. The brief history of Williams has been gathered from some scanty notices of the times, and the traditions which still lin- ger among us. In person he was above the ordinary size, and well proportioned. His countenance was benignant, his pres- ence commanding. His address was easy, his manners simple and conciliating. He loved books, and the society of literary men, and often lamented the want of a liberal education. His 100 BIOORAPHICAL ANNALS. perceptions were clear nud quick, his judirFnent solid, his couraf^o lofty. His military j^oiiius iiocdcd only n i\ttm^ op- ])ortuiiity to place him in the liifrhost rank of hi« |in»l"eHKi(tn. Il(! know both how to command and how to conciliate. Hu- manity was a most Btrikinc^ trait in his character, and uni- versal boncvolonco was his ruling' passion. lie was greatly beloved while livinfr, ioid deeply lamented when dead. IIo was greatly in advan(;e of the age in which he lived, and his memory will always bo dear. WooDBRiDGR LiTTLE. As the donation of Mr. Little was the first that the institution received after it commenced its corpo rate existence, it is entitled to an honorable mention. And if the gift was not as largo as some since received, it was most timely and acceptable. lie was a native of Colchester, Cenevolent purposes. But this not proving entirely satisfactory, his j>lan, lor the last part of his life, was to give one tenth of all that he received from every source. He had a drawer in his desk which he called the Lord's Treasury, in which he deposited all these tithes. If he had occasion to use any of the money thus accumulated, he would always give his note for it, and pay that note at his earliest convenience. Applicants for charitable aid always received a hearty welcome, and were rarely sent empty away. And it is well to state, as showing the benefit of systematic benevolence, that this tithe, or tenth part, of Dr. Morris's income, which he gave to religious or benevolent purposes, amounted, during the last twenty years of his life, to over ten thousand dollars. In 1856 Dr. Morris was applied to for a donation to Williams College. He cheerfully subscribed one hundred dollars. A little more than a year after, he raised his subscription to five hundred dollars. In 1859 Dr. Morris was consulted about making a donation to the college of ten thousand dollars, and in a short time cheerfully engaged to give that amount, and paid it. All his various donations, for the last twent}' years of his life, amounted to more than SKETCHES OF THE PRINCIPAL DONORS. 107 twenty-five thousand dollars; probably to nearly thirty thou- sand. One of the last acts of his life was to send a donation of three thousand dollars to the Foreig:n Missionary Society, and five hundred to the Home Missionary Society of the Dutch Refurnied Church, to which he was greatly attached. lie left five hundred dollars *to the Christian Commission, one thou- sand dollars to his own church, and one thousand dollars to be disbursed by his executor. He felt and indulged the holy pleasure of giving. In the death of Dr. PhiUp Van Ness Morris, the community in which he lived, the cause of educa- tion, the cause of Christ, lost a most valued friend and patron. Alfred Smith. TTon. Alfred Smith was born at South Iladley, Mass., July 10, 1789. He studied with private teach- ers and at Deerfield and Westfield Academies, entered Wil- liams College in 1S06, and was graduated in 1810. He was admitted to the bar in Hartford, Conn., in 1812, and practised law there about twelve years. He was afterwards chielly occupied in forwarding or directing in sundry corporate and private undertakings. He was the founder of the Connecticut River Banking Company, and for a number of years its presi- dent. The Wadsworth Atlienieum, of which he was a life trustee, was mainly due to his influence with Daniel Wads- worth. He was also largely interested in the fine arts de- partment of the Athemeum, the Historical Society, and the Watkinson Library, and a warm and liberal iriend of the Young Men's Institute. He was a trustee of the Hartford Grammar School, a trustee of the Connecticut Branch of tho American Tract Society, a director in the Retreat for tho Insane, also a trustee of the Wooster Street Chapel Associa- tion. He was formerly the business partner of Governor Joseph Trumbull in the law business. He was twice a repre- sentative from Hartford to the General Assembly of Connecti- cut ; was one year a member of the State Senate, and ono year chief justice of the County Court. Mr. Smith's influence was always favorable to morality and good order. He was a constant attendant on the ministry of Dr. Hawes, and was always identified with the success of 108 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. rclij^ioiiH, cluiritaMo, find refonniitory enterpriKes, nnd lilKTuIly aided tliem by his contributiorin and cirortH. In 1^03 ho wrote to Dr. Hopkins to visit him at Hartford ; and while Dr. Hopkins was there, ho presented him with an untwlicitcd check of ten tlionsand dollars for the rolloge. Mr. Smith died of lieart disea.se at his residence in Hartford, Auj^ust, 18G8, In his will he thus dispoHed of two hundred and fifty thousaml dollars. His piiMie heqnests were as follows: Hart- ford Orphan Asylum, thirty-six thcjusanci dollars ; Hartford Hospital, eip^hteen thousand dollars; American Home Mis- sionary Society, eighteen thousand m active employment for fifteen months. Thrown upon his own resources, ho spent about a year at Lenox Academy, support- ing himself by labor out of school hours. At length he entered upon the study of law with Judge 11. W, Rishop, then in Richmond, and with the judge removed to Lenox, and touk charge of the probate ollice a few years. Here also he became the editor, and, in part, proprietor of a village news- paper. Reing admitted to the liar, he sold out his newspaper interest, anreat zeal and energy into the struggle on tlic Kansas (jnestioii anil shivery extension, ami liis spct'cli on the Nebraska bill has been pronounced one of tlie best on the subject in Con- gress. He served as lieutenant governor of* Massac husettm in 18G0. Early under President Lincoln's administration, Mr. Goodrich was aj»puinted collector of the jMjrt of Boston, which ollico he held about lour years. A firm and consistent temperance man, ho has pnmioted this great cause by iiis personal eflbrt and example. Mr. Goodrich takes a lively interest in the cause ot edncur tion, and the beautii'ul stone edifice known as '' Goodrich Hall," designed especially for a gymnasium, and, at the same time, furnishing a laboratory and chemical lecture-room, is a monument of his enlightened liberality to this institution. At the meeting of the alumni in August, 1864, the president, Dr. Hopkins, informed the audience that he had just received a letter from 3Ir. Goodrich announcing his purpose to make a donation to the college of twenty-five thousand dollars ; but subsequent financial reverses prevented the accomplishment of this generous purpose. William E. Dodge, of the firm of Phelps, Dodge, & Co., in New York, a son of the late David Dodge, an old merchant of the highest standing, was born in Hartford, Conn., Sep- tember 4, 1805. When a young man, he entered the dry goods store of a Quaker, named Merritt, at a salary of fifty dollars a year. It was one of his duties to go with the son of his employer to the auction houses, where goods had been bought, and bring them home on their backs, to save the cost of the porters' carts of that day. His employer kept the keys of his store at his house, and the clerk had to go there for them in the morning, waking up the servants for the purpose of receiving them, and had also to return them in the evening. At that period there was much ambition to see whose store should be opened first in the morning. lu this school of careful discipline, order, and SKETCHES OF THE PRI^■CIPAL DONORS. 115 punctuality, young Dodge grew up to manhood. At home he found a sjclect pious family circle, and at the store the rigid duties of a strict and honorable life. He was a young man without vices, of an exemplary character, had uncommon aptitude for business, was frugal and ambitious to succeed. Among the persons who evinced an interest in his career was that distinguished merchant, Anson G. Phelps, the founder of the house of Phelps, Dodge, & Co., who took him into his employment, and finally advanced him into a partnership. Mr. Phelps was a man of ardent religious principles, and de- voted a liberal share of his means to the support of missions and other benevolent enterprises. Mr. Dodge married a daughter of Mr. Phelps, and now resides at Murray Hill, in one of the finest houses in the city. Mr. Dodge has been president of the New York Chamber of Commerce, a member of Congress, president of the National Temperance Society, of the American Evangelical Alliance, director of more banks, railroad and insurance companies than almost any other man in New York. He is constantly called upon to preside over religious and other public meetings, is an eloquent speaker, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, a liberal contributor to benevolent objects, and a large-hearted Christian philanthro- pist. He has given largely to other institutions of learning ; but a donation of thirty thousand dollars, paid at one time, places him high among the donors of this college. Mr. Dodge has at all times a number of young men, whose expenses, in whole or in part, he bears while they are pursuing their studies preparatory to the Christian ministry. Orrin Sage was born in Middletown, Conn., January 17, 1701. He was the youngest son of William Sage, a native of the same place, a revolutionary soldier. The family is of Welsh extraction. His mother died when he was but seven months old. At the age of thirteen he went into the family of an older brother, wlio was a merchant in Middletown. His education was acquired in the common schools, with such little help as he had in the store of his brother. When nine- teen years of age, John and Daniel Hinsdale, extensive mer- IIG BIOGRAPniCAL ANXALS. chai)ts in Middletown, took him into their service, and in a year furnished him with a stock of goods, with which he com- menced trade in 1811, in lilandford, Mass. In 1814 the Hinsdales became embarrassed, and soM to liiin their interest in tlie business. The ])eace of 1815 caused great depression in mercliandise ; but his etforts were successful, and lie was able to pay his notes to the Hinsdales, and establish a character for integrity. Mr. Sage continued in business in Blandford until 1848. He pursued the same course with several of his clerks that the Hinsdales did with him, starting them in trade with capi- tal which brought profitable results. One such partnership was continued for thirty years. He represented the town of Blandford in the legislatures of 1831, 1832, and 1834, and was senator from Hampden County in the years 1836 and 1837. Mr. Sage removed to Ware in 1848, and was elected presi- dent of the bank, which office he held until the change of the bank from a state to a national institution, January, 1865. His taste for agriculture and horticulture affords him an agreeable employment in the evening of life. He early connected him- self with the Congregational Church in Blandford, and took a leading part in the erection of a new church building, and the support of the gospel, and in the various benevolent ob- jects. When he left Blandford he gave a fund of one thou- sand dollars to the Congregational Society, and has since purchased and presented them a parsonage. He has also pre- sented the town of Ware a beautiful lot of twenty-five acres for a cemetery. To Williams College he gave, nine years since, five hundred dollars to establish a scholarship, and he has since increased the gift to one thousand dollars. To aid in securing the second twenty-five thousand dollars granted by the state, he has given ten thousand dollars, and has signifie^i to the president his intention to give enough more to endow a professorship. THE MEN OF THE HAYSTACK. 117 CHAPTER V. THE MEN OF THE HAYSTACK. NOTICE OF HARVEY RICE. DEDICATION OF JIISSIONARY MONUMENT. The college bad been in existence but thirteen years. A few pious young men were wont to meet every Saturday afternoon for prayer and religious conference in a secluded grove. In the summer of 1806, on one of these afternoons, so hot and sultry that only five of the number were assembled, a thunder storm came on, and they retired from the grove to the shelter of a haystack near at hand, and there continued in conversation and prayer. The burden of a world perish- ing in sin was on their hearts. One of them said that he believed the time had come for them to go to the heathen with the word of life. Then and there they took counsel one of another, and sought direction of Him who said, " Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel." Then and there was conceived the thought that resulted in American Christian missions to the heathen. Thus the great foreign missionary movement in this country can be traced for its origin to the haystack prayer-meeting as easily as the Hoosac or Housa- tonic Rivers can be traced for their origin to the central and lofty hills of Berkshire. Of the men of the haystack we have gathered up the following reminiscences: — * Samuel J. Mills. The Rev. Samuel J. Mills, Jr., son of a venerable clergyman, was born in Torringford, Conn., April 21, 1783. Under the influence of an excellent Christian edu- cation, he became in early childhood the subject of deep re- ligious impressions, but did not allow himself to hope that he was a Christian till he was about nineteen years of age. His convictions about this time were deep and pungent ; but 118 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. when ho did pass from darkness to light, the scene was alto<;c'ther new. The change was wonderful. Everything around him seemed gilded with light and glory. Though but a vouth, he now began to evince a zeal in the cause of missions. He put his secular affairs into other hands, united with his father's church, and having gone through a short course of preparatory stuhilanthropist. were such as these : lie was sagacious to see what could be done and what could not lie done. He emharked in no mere theoretic or impracticable enterprises. He had more than ordinary knowledge of human nature. He did not attempt to do him- self any work for which he was incompetent ; but he had the wisdom to solicit the able writer, the effective preacher, the noble statesman, the liberal merchant, to do each his appro- priate work ; and then he was willing they should enjoy all the reputation of it, while he was himself unseen. He was sincere and zealous in his philanthropy. He expended the little patrimony of his maternal grandfather. He did not con- sult his own wealth, ease, or honor. His compassion to man was tender and large. His love to the kingdom of Christ was a flame of fire, enkindling his prayers, and warming hira to action amid the coldness of others. He wasted no time in despondence or complaints. He was prudent in the use of his tongue. He did not rail about the popular errors or vices, whether of nations or individuals. Slavery and war, drunk- enness and sensuality, were almost never topics of remark. Intent on making the world better in the use of appropriate meanS; he did not expend his energies in ridicule or in tears. He was no bigot. He silently communed with the Baptist, prayed with the Methodist, loved the Moravian, and praised the Friend, His prayers were short ; often saying, ' We praise thee that we belong to a race of beings who were made THE MEN OF THE HAYSTACK. 121 by Jesus Christ, and for liim, and who are redeemed by his blood.' " James Richards. James Richards was born in Abington, February 22, 1784. While very young his parents removed to Plainiield, where he received his early education. He became hopefully pious when about thirteen years old, but did not make a profession of religion until he M'as about nine- teen. He early evinced a strong desire to devote himself to the ministry ; but the circumstances of his father's family rendered it difficult for him to be spared from the farm. When about twenty years old, his preparation for college was commenced under the tuition of his excellent pastor, the Rev. Moses Hallock. While in college he maintained a highly respectable standing in his class, particularly in mathemati- cal studies; but he was especially known for his active piety. After his graduation, in 1800, he entered Andover Theological Seminary, where he was much engaged in awak- ening and diflusing a missionary spirit among his felloAV- students. He and Mills belonged to the little company who presented to the General Association of Congregational Min- isters, in 1810, at Bradford, the Memorial on the subject of missions, although his name was afterwards withdrawn, be- cause it was thought that four names were enough, and because he said he could work his passage to India. Leav- ing Andover in the fall of 1812, he repaired to Philadelphia, and entered a medical school, where he remained nearly two years. In May, 1815, he was married to Miss Sarah Bardwell, of Goshen, and on the 21st day of June following was or- dained at Newburyport, in company with Mills, Warren, Meigs, and Bardwell. He embarked for Ceylon, in company with eight missionary brethren and sisters, on the 22d of October, 1815. On leaving his native land he said, "I have been waiting with anxiety almost eight years for an oppor- tunity to go and preach Christ among the heathen. I have often wept at the long delay. But the day on wliich I now bid farewell to my native land, is the happiest day of my life." Soon after Mr. Richards arrived in Ceylon, he was attacked llJ2 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Avitli an inflammation in the eyes, wliicli greatly interfered with hJH prosecuting his missionary labors for a season. In November, 1818, he visited Soutliern ln^t and devoted spirit, rather than any remarkable talents ; still it should be remembered that he attained a good degree of respectability in two pro- fessions — theological and medicaL But it was in imparting counsel and encouragement to his associates that he most ex- celled, and for which he was sincerely loved while living, and deeply lamented when dead. Harvey Loomis. The Rev. Harvey Loomis was born in Torringford, Conn., in 1785. His early years were passed on his father's farm ; but his personal interest in religion awa- kened in him an earnest desire to become a preacher of the gospel. After a brief preparation he entered Williams Col- lege, and was graduated there with reputation in 1809. He studied theology j)artly with tijc Rev. Mr. Mills, of his native town, and partly with the Rev. Dr. Purtur. of Washington, altcrwards professor at Andover. He was licensed t(j preach the gospel in 1811, and went directly as a home missionary to Bangor, Me., which was then a difficult and highly impor- tant field of ministerial lubt)r. On the 27th of November, 1811, he was ordained pastor over a church there, which was organized the day before, consisting of four members, and em- bracing at that time all the male professors of religion in the place. During one year he preached in an unfinished hall over a store ; but in 1812 a court-house was built for the double purpose of administering law and the gospel. In 1821 a meeting-house was erected ; the first one that was erected in what is now the flourishing city of Bangor. In his preaching and intercourse with his people, he always showed himself to be a Christian gentleman, but was an un- compromising Puritan in his principles. His practice was to preach twice on the Sabbath, and attend but one conference meeting in the week, but no meeting Sabbath evening. He had no more meetings, not even in times of special religious interest in his congregation. During the first three years of his ministry, comparatively few united with the church. At the close of this period the cause of the Redeemer received 124 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. a fresh impulse, and considerable numbers were added to the church ; and from that time to the close of his ministry there was scarcely a communion season which did not witness ad- ditions, so that the church soon became strong and influential ; not so much from its large numbers, as from the fact that it embraced nearly all the prominent men in the place. But the most striking event in Mr. Loomis's life was the manner in which it was closed. On the morning of the first Sabbath in the year 1825, — it was an inclement day, — Mr. Loomis walked to the church, about a third of a mile, facing a severe snow storm. lie walked into the church in his usual manner, and took his scat in the pulpit. He was soon seen to be falling from his seat. lie was immediately raised up : but his appearance was frightfull}- deatli-like. Every effort to promote the circulation of the blood and increase warmth failed. Every effort to resuscitate him proved unavaihng. Within half an hour it became evident that life was nearly extinct ; and it was soon announced. He is dead. It was a remarkable circumstance that the sermon, which he had in his pocket, prepared to preach that morning, was from the text, " This year thou shalt die." In 1811 Mr. Loomis married Miss Anna Battell,of Torringford. They had six children, only two of whom lived to maturity. Few ministers have ever been loved and revered by their parishioners more than Mr. Loomis ; and few have been more eminently successful in their labors than he. He had the advantage of a fine person and a natural grace of manner. He was rather tall, his form was commanding, his countenance noble, his expression full, his eye brilliant, his voice clear, and his utterance fluent. His enunciation was remarkable for its distinctness. He was a man of great firmness and de- cision, of uncommon moral courage, and of rare self-posses- sion. No assaults of opposers ever found him off his guard, or unprepared for the emergency. A young lawyer wished for his minister's views respecting his favorite amusement of dancing. Mr. Loomis replied, " I think that all things are not equally important. Some things have a claim prior to others. Now, it seems to me the most important thing for you is to THE MEN OF THE HAYSTACK. 125 become a true Christian; afterwards you can dance just as much as will be for your enjoyment and usefulness." Here the discussion ended. Mr. Loomis was greatly distinguished for his usefulness in his Wednesday evening conference. Here he wished every man present, whether professor of religion or not, to take part. All who had a word for the Master were requested to speak. If any had objections to the system of Christianity, they were encouraged to present them ; and they were met and fairly answered. After his death no one, for a long time, was willing to occupy his vacant chair in one corner of the room. When Mills first proposed to send the gospel to the heathen, under tlie haystack, all agreed with the suggestion but Loomis, who argued that the time liad not come ; that home missions had a prior claim. In reply, it was said that God was always willing to have the gospel preached in all the world and to every creature, and that the efforts for the foreign field need not interfere with efforts for the spread of Christianity at home. True to his early convictions, as soon as Mr. Loomis was qualified to enter on the work of the ministry, he directed his steps to a most difficult and self-denying field of home missionary labor, where he remained most usefully and ac- ceptably employed till the summons came. Francis Le Barron Robbins. Rev. Francis Le Barron Rob- bins, son of Rev. Ammi Ruhamah Robbins, was a native of Norfolk, Conn., and was born in 1787. He was graduated at Williams College in 1808, and prepared for the ministry at Worcester under the tuition of Dr. Austin, and at Lee, Mass., under the direction of Rev. Alvan Hyde. He was en- gaged in missionary work in New Hampshire, and perhaps Vermont for a few years, and at the age of twenty-nine was ordained pastor over the church and people of Enfield, Conn., on the 24th of April, 1816. Soon after (probably within two years) he married Mrs. Priscilla Alden, from New Bedford, Mass., or vicinity. Mrs. Robbins died December 25, 1846, aged sixty-four years. On January 1, 1848, Mr. Robbins was 12C BIOGUAPHICAL ANNALS. manit'd to Miss Ilimiiiili Cook, of DanvorH (now living at South Danvers), Mass. Ho died at Enlield, April G, 1850, where he had been pastor thirty-four years, less eighteen days, agi.'d sixty-three years. He never iiad any children. As a Christian minister he was highly HUecessful. While his sermons could not bo considered of the highest order, in his services at prayer and other occasional meetings, in his social and every-day intercourse with his people, whether on occasions of joy and rejoicing or of sorrow and mourning, be was t'luiiiciit. Whether as chaplain at a military review, or before tlie legislature or judicial bodies, or at a wedding or a funeral of some loved meml»er ol" his people, he always said the pro[)cr word at the proper time and place. In his daily walk and conversation he was uniformly courteous, affable, and polite ; never gave cause of oflence to any one, nor low- ered himself to any vulgar familiarity, but ever maintained a due self-respect. He gained and always maintained the love of his own church and people, while he was held in high respect, esteem, and conlidence by all others with whom he came in contact, though they might not care for any of those things which he held and taught as of the highest impor- tance for time and eternity. In his conversation ho was always agreeable, useful, and instructive, and with all his suavity and urbanity he uniformly maintained and enforced sound doctrine. lie mainly strove for those things that make for peace, healed dissensions, and reconciled differences. In prayer he wonderfully excelled in adapting his petitions to the precise needs of the particular object in mind. During bis ministry the church and society were uniformly prosper- ous, and he died at an advanced age, leaving them in a flourishing and sound condition. He was emphatically a Christian and a gentleman. Byram Geeex. The Hon. Byram Green was born in "Wind- sor, Mass., but in his early days his father removed to Wil- liamstown, probably for the educational advantages of his family. Young Green made a profession of religion in 1806, and was graduated at Williams College in 1808. THE ME^' OF THE HAYSTACK. 127 For more than thirty years the precise spot where the hay- stack prayer-meeting was held was not known by any one in TVilliamstown. In the spring of 1854 Mr. Green visited the place, identified the spot where the prayer-mectinp: wa^; held, and where the haystack stood, and placed the stake with his own hand. All the recollections of the meeting, the five indi- viduals who were present, the particular circumstances under which they were compelled to take shelter under the haystack, the conversation of Mills, tlie reply of Loomis, and the pray- ers ofiered by each of the young men, with the hymn that was sung, were all clear and vivid in his memory, and arc published in the history of the college. After his graduation, Mr. Green studied theology with Rev. Dr. Packard, of j^helburne, and preached for a short time ; but being affected with asthma, he felt called on to abandon a student's life. In May, 1811, he settled in Sodus, N. Y., which was an outpost of civilization. Tllat part of the country was then very sparsely settled. During the first summer he slept in a hollow lug on straw. In 1817 he went as member to the legislature, and was chosen to that position for three following years. In 1822 he was elected state senator, and was chairman of the committee on colleges, academies, and common schools. He introduced and carried through the legislature some very important bills. He held the office of judge of the County Courts for a few years, and was collector and inspector at Pultneyville, N, Y., eight years. In 1843 he was elected a member of Congress: while there he usually voted with the democratic party, but voted against the annexation of Texas and against the extension of slavery. He was usually an anti-bank man ; and yet, in view of the great want of his part of the state, he was active in secui'ing the charter of two banks. Subsequently the president of one of them, in view of Judge Green's valuable services, proposed to make him a present of five hundred dollars ; but he refused its acceptance on the ground that he would not receive any remuneration as a legislator, except what was allowed him by law. Many instances might be named to show his honesty and benevolence. In 1815 there was a general failure of the 128 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. corn crop in that region ; his farm was larj^e, umJ his corn har- vest that year was more than usually ahundant. The dealers at Sodus Point ofiered him one dollar and a half per bushel for all that he had for sale ; this offer was unhi'sitatin^dy refused, and the corn was sold to his needy li'llow-t(jwnsmen for one dollar per Inishcl, lie was liberal and active in promoting all the interests of civil and religious enterprises. It is known that he gave over three thousand dollars f"r ejiaritable pur- poses. The following sketch of the IIon. Harvey Rice, at whose suggestion, and by whose liberality the monument in Mission Park was erected, will be truthfully, but too briefly drawn. Mr. Rice is a native of Conway, Mass., and was born June 11, 1800. Ilis earliest years were passed on his father's farm. He was fitted for college by the Rev. Moses Hallock, of Plain- field. In college ho ranked among the best scholars in his class, and was always gentlemanly in his deportment. His dialogue at Commencement was much admired. He was graduated in 1824, and among his classmates were President Hopkins, President Yeomans, William Harvey, and Governor Robinson. Leaving college, he started for the West, and stopped at Cleveland, Ohio. He now found himself destitute of means, and a total stranger to every one, with only his clothes on his back, and three dollars in his pocket. Making no disclosures as to his pecuniary circumstances, or his dull prospects for the future, he took lodgings in the best public house in the place, at the rate of two dollars and a half per week. At the expiration of one week he paid his board bill, and removed to a private boarding-house, with but fifty cents left, and commenced teaching school in the Old Academy in St. Clair Street. At the same time he commenced the study of the law under the direction of Reuben Wood, Esq., then a prominent member of the Cleveland bar. At the expira- tion of two years he was admitted to practice, and entered into a copartnership with him, which continued till Mr. Wood was elected to the bench. NOTICE OF MR. RICE. 129 In 1829 he was elected a justice of the peace. In 1830 he was chosen to represent his district in the state legishiture. Soon after, without soHcitation on his part, he was appointed an agent for the sale of the Western Reserve School Lands, a tract of fifty-six thousand acres, situated in the Virginia Military District. He opened an office there for the sales, and in the course of three years sold all the lands, and paid the avails, — nearly one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, — into the state treasury as a school fund, for the exclusive benefit of educating the children of the Western Reserve. In 1833 Mr. Rice returned to Cleveland, and was appointed clerk of the Common Pleas and Supreme Court; and, in 1834:, and again in 183G, was nominated by the Democratic conven- tion as a candidate for Congress. But his political party were in the minority. The first Democratic paper established in Cleveland was commenced by Mr. Rice, for the purpose of advocating the claims of General Jackson to the presidency. In the fall of 1851 he was put in nomination for the state Senate, and was elected by a large majority over both the whig and freesoil candidates united. His course in the legia- lature on the subject of common schools attracted public attention throughout the state, and called forth the highest commendations. Mr. Rice was chairman of the committee for reorganizing the schools throughout the state, and provid- ing for their supervision. The bill which he prepared was passed, with very slight modifications, and now stands on the statute book, with scarcely any changes. The bill provided for a state commissioner of common schools, and Mr. Rice would no doubt have been the candidate for the office, had it not been that, being a member of the legislature, he was in- eligible, nntil one year after his office as senator expired. The natural abilities of Mr. Rice are of a high order. His mind is thorouglily disciplined and cultivated, and for the comparatively short time he practised at the bar he obtained an enviable re])utation for legal ability, discriminating judg- ment, and gentlemanly deportment. He has an extensive and well-selected library. Mr. Rice is well known as an able contributor to some of 9 130 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. tlio best periodicals of the day. Ho is a f,^racoful, accom- plislied, and vigorous writer. In college, lie was kn tained advise me, and I will put you in possession of impor- tant information respecting this whole subject. All I desire is, to have the monument well made, placed on a firm founda- tion, and secured from injury by placing around it a good iron fence, with gravelled walks. The expense of the walks and railing I presume the citizens of Williamstown, and other friends of the college, will be disposed to contribute. The entire expense of the monumemt itself I have concluded to assume." It was on the Sabbath, July 28, 1867, at half past four, P. M., after having listened to the Baccalaureate Discourse in Goodrich Hall, that a large audience assembled in Mission Park, to attend the services connected with the dedication of the Missionary Monument. It was a fair afternoon, with scat- tered clouds casting beautiful shadows upon the hill-sides. The heat was tempered by a slight breeze. The monument had been put in its place on the 11th of July. The dedica- tion services were opened with singing the hymn, " Ye Christian heroes, go proclaim," ut in consequence of some misunderstanding be- tween himself and Dr. Davis, then j)resident of the college, he never entered on the duties of that professorship. From 1819 to 1821 he was professor of mathematics and natural philosoj)hy in the University of Vermont. From 1821 to 1825 ho was prolessor of the same branches in Amherst College. During several succeeding years, )ie held the same office in the University of Georgia. Then returning to the north, he resided for a time at Saratoga Springs. In 1841 he re- moved to Circleville, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his days. He was for some years the subject of some bodily infirmi- ties ; though he preached in vacant pulpits a considerable portion of the time. His death was the result of a distress- ing casualty. On Saturday, June 2, 1848, he left home for the purpose of supplying two vacant pulpits in the town of Bloomfiold, about twelve miles from Circleville : there he passed the Sabbath, preaching with more than common vigor and fervor. He started for home on Monday morning, and when he had gone about a quarter of a mile, his horse took fright, and starting to the side of the road, threw him from his carriage down a precipitous bank, a distance of ten or twelve feet. Two of his ribs were broken, and he received other bodily injuries. Unable to be carried home, he was taken to a public house near by, where he lingered in great pain till the 13th, when, in tranquility and submission, he expired. His library was given to the Alleghany Theological Sem- inary. Mr. Olds was married, in 1812, to Julia, daughter of Deacon Jonas Whitnc}^, of Marlboro", Vt. They had four chil- dren, three of whom died in infancy, and one in the prime of manhood. Mrs. Olds died in 1851. SKETCHES OF THE PROFESSORS. 139 Mr. Olds published an inaugural oration, delivered when he entered on his professorship in Williams College ; the sub- stance of some sermons preached in Greenfield, on Episco- pacy ; and a pamphlet relative to his appointment as Profes- sor of chemistry in Middlebury College, in 1818. Professor Olds was a superior scholar, but he was too sensitive. He was often, perhaps hastily, led to adopt con- clusions so much at variance with others, that a large portion of his life was sadly embittered. lie met with a series of disappointments. His relations to three or four colleges were suddenly and unhappily terminated. Chester Dewey was born October 25, 1784, in Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass. His father was a man of strong mind and superior judgment, who exercised a leading and right influence in the town. Ilis mother was a woman of remarka- ble graces of personal and Christian character, and died a saint, at the age of ninety-two. She is supposed to have or- ganized the first Female Bible Society in the United States, antedating the American Bible Society. Chester Dewey, as a boy, was distinguished for early and harmonious development of both body and mind, with perfect health and buoyant spirits. He manifested unusual quickness of perception, with facility in executing business, and method in fulfilling appointed duties. He felt a hearty interest in whatever he undertook, and in the school-room, on the cricket-ground, and at the wrestling-match, he was first. Mr. Dewey entered Williams College in 1802, in his eigh- teenth year, taking the full course, and ranking among the first in the class in mathematics and classics, while he evinced a decided partiality for natural sciences. His manly disposition, gallant sentiments, and warm afiections won the regard of his college mates. He became a Christian during the revival of his Senior year, and consecrated himself to the ministry. He studied theology in Stockbridge, with Stephen West, D. D., preached in Tyringham from July to November of 1808, when he accepted a tutorship at Williams. In two years he became 1 10 BIOGRAPHICAL ANXALS, prol't'ssor f)f niiitlicinatics and natural jdiilosophy, which post ho occupied for Hcvcntccn years, till he was ftirty-three. Dur- ing this time he held a prominent position in the management of the college, and during a portion of the time waK acting prosidoiit. Ilis facility and success in the government of young men brouglit upon him special responsibilities, anointel BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. and buried from tlic patcriiiil dwelling' on Sunday afternoon, at four o'clock. The many friciidn of the entimable family, and a large number of the young ac(iuaintance8 of the de- ceased, assembled on tiiis mournful occasion : and tlio w^irrow visible on the countenances of all afforded evidence of the grief wliicli this affliction caused, and the 8ymi»atliy through- out the city for the family in whi'h the deceased was an only Bon of high promise. " George A. Parker was twenty-three years of ago, and had become prepared, by academical, collegiate, and medical edu- cation, for the duties of life ; and his sudden departure is one of those occurrences which cause wide-sj)read sorrow." Captain Edwarp Kirk Wilcox, son of O. \V. and Mary Ann Coml)s Wilcox, was born at Springfield, Ma.ss., August 24, 1841. At the age of fourteen, he was sent to Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, where he remained about two years, and was then removed to the family school of Alexan- der Hyde, Esq., of Lee. After a year's residence there, be entered Williams College in the fall of 1858. He was two years a member of this college, when he decided to choose a business rather than a professi(»nal life, and, leaving college in 18G0, he remained at home until the following spring, when the war commenced. Young Wilcox was one of the first to enlist. lie went into camp May 1, 18G1, as sergeant of the Sixteenth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. In October of the same year he was promoted to be first lieutenant in the Twenty-Seventh Regiment, and, February 13, 1862, was commissioned as cap- tain in the same regiment, which position he held at the time of his death. His regiment formed a part of the original Burnside expedition, which lefl Annapolis for North Carolina January 1, 1862. Left in command of his company by the sickness of Cap- tain Hubbard, his immediate superior. Lieutenant Wilcox had the honor to lead his men to their first battle and their first victory at the taking of Roanoke Island. His charge to his men, on the eve of the battle, was characteristic of the man SKETCHES OF WILLIAMS'S FALLEN HEROES. 195 and the ofEcer : '' Keep cool, boys ! Take care in loading ! Take deliberate aim ! Remember Old Massachusetts, and follow me ! I'll ask no man to go where I will not myself lead ! " Captain "Wilcox participated in every engagement that oc- curred in that department of the army, and always with honor to himself In the winter of 1865 he was ordered with his regiment to Norfolk, Va., where, for the first time, the hard- worked Twenty-Seventh were released from the more ardu- ous duties of soldier life. Early in the spring of 1864, Captain Wilcox was aj)puinted acting assistant adjutant general on the staff of General Hick- man, but soon after was transferred to the staff of General Weitzel, as aid-de-camp, and as such took part in the disas- trous engagement at Bermuda Hundred, when his regiment, as ho writes under date of May 17, was " all cut to pieces — two hundreual term of preparation, established himself as a lawyer in his adopted town. In 1804 he married Harriette, daughter of Joseph Blake, Esq., a prominent merchant of Boston. Eminently fitted by nature for the sphere of labor he had chosen, his success at the bar was at once conspicuous, and for many years he stood high among the most distinguished lawyers of his state, and was repeatedly sent to her legis- lature. In 1815 his services were demanded in a wider field, and he represented his district in the Congress of the United 212 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. States from that date until ho became HennUjr, in 1820. Ho was an active and pnnuinent inembor of that body, and was elected to his second term of office, but was forced, by faihng health, to resign his seat in 1827. lie died May 5, 1829. 1'he close of his life was peaceful, while all that sustained him in the near approach of death was a humble and trem- bling hope, through the merits of the Savior, of a blessed immortality. David Robinson was grnndsiju of General Samuel Robin- son, and son of General David Robinson, and was born in Bennington, Vt., in 1777. lie studied law with the Hon. Nathan Rol)inson, and was admitted to the bar in 1800, and continued in the successful practice of his profession in hip native town about fifty years. He was public spirited, and - liberal in his support of literary and religious institution.^, bequeathing, at the time of his death, to the religious society with which he was connected, his valuable homestead for a parsonage. He died March 15, 1858^ being, at the time of his death, the oldest surviving graduate of the college. Jonathan Edwards Robinson was Ijorn in Bennington, Vt., August 4, 1777. His father, Hon. Jonathan Robinson, was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont, and from 1807 to 1815 United States senator — an influential politician of the Jefferson school. The subject of this notice was a lawyer by profession, for some years was town clerk, and a judge of the County Court. He resided a few years in New York, but passed most of his life in his native town. He was twice married ; he was first married to Miss Alice Skinner, of Williamstown ; his second marriage was to Miss Anna Storm, of New York. Judge Robinson united with the Congrega- tional Church in Bennington, in 1803, and for many years was the leader of the choir, and conducted this part of religious worship Avitli distinguished ability. He was highly esteemed for his many virtues. He died in Bennington, April 27, 1831, ■ aged fifty-four. SKETCHES OF THE ALUM^^. 213 Thomas Skdtn'er, son of Greneral Thompson J. Skinner, was born in Williamstown. After his graduation he studied law, and settled in Utica, N. Y., where he lived usefully employed, and sustained a good reputation till his death, which occurred in 1848, aged seventy-two. He married Miss Fanny Smith, of Litchfield, Conn., but left no children. Homer Towner's history is involved in some obscurity. General William Towner, a native of New Fairfield, Conn., and born in 1755, resided some years in Cheshire, Berkshire Co., and removed to Williamstown in 1790 ; he was a physi- cian and distinguished practitioner. He died January, 1813, aged fifty-eight. Homer Towner, of the class of 1797, ac- cording to the best information obtained, was a brother of William, and studied medicine with him, and settled in the northern part of Vermont. Remaining there for a few years, he then emigrated to Ohio, where he died in 1817, aged forty-six. Class of 1798. William Billings was born in Conway, Mass., January 23, 1797. After his graduation he studied law with his father. In early life he passed a few years in Northampton. He settled in his native town, and continued there in the practice of his profession some fifteen or twenty years. He then relin- quished the practice of law, and became an agriculturist. In 1837 he removed to Newburg, some eight miles south of Cleveland, Ohio, where he continued his favorite pursuit, on a well-conducted farm, the remainder of his days. He died September 29, 1864, aged sixty-seven, highly esteemed as a useful citizen. Gideon Burt was born in Longmeadow, in 1773. After his graduation at Williams College, I have the impression that he studied theology with Dr. Backus, of Somers, Conn., but am not positive on this point. He was settled in the ministry in Effingham, N. H., three years. He afterwards preached as a supply in difi'erent places. In March, 1816, he married Mrs. 214 BIOGHAPIIICAL ANNALS. Auno G. Colton, of Longnieadow, and pursued the busincBS of agriculture. He held the office of deacon for many years. His health failed him early, and he remained an invalid to the time of his death, which occurred in August, 1845, &ged sev- enty-two years. Samuel Cowles was born in Norfolk, Conn., son of Joseph; was a lawyer; removed to Farmington, where he practised in his profession till 1815 or 181G. lie then removed to Hartford, where he continued his practice till 1818, when ho removed to Cleveland, Ohio, and became one of the first men of the city. He died there, November 24, 1837, aged sixty. Moses Sheldon Curtis came to Williams College from Paw- let, Vt. Ho studied law, and was for a time a resident in Rupert, Vt., He likewise lived in Salem, N. Y. It is reported that he died in Granville, N. Y., but was buried in Rupert. The inscription on his tombstone in Rupert is, " Moses S. Cur- tis, of Salem, N. Y., died July 1, 1808, aged thirty-four." Elijah Pomeroy Cutter, son of Dr. Robert and Esther Pome- roy Cutter, was born in Pelham, October 18, 1780. After his graduation he first became principal of Deerfield Acade- my. He then studied law and settled in Hardwick. He soon after removed to North Yarmouth, Me., and died there Au- gust 29, 1813, aged thirty-two. He was a man of much prom- ise. He was married, July, 1811, to Miss Betsey Delano. Amos Douglas was born in Stephentown, N. Y., 1780 ; studied law at Albany, and was admitted to the practice of his profession in Franklin, N. Y., in 1802. Here he passed a long and useful life. He held many ofl5ces of usefulness and trust. He was surrogate and judge of the County Court, and prominent in all educational and moral movements for the good of society. He was a man of the strictest integrity, and greatly esteemed in the community where he lived. He died March 18, 1857, aged seventy-seven years. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMXT. 215 .fosEPH Dewey Fay was born in Bennington, Vt., though he hailed from New York when in college. His father, Colo- nel Joseph Fay, lived many years in Bennington, and was somewhat conspicuous in the early history of the state. The son studied law and settled in New York, where he died in 1825, aged forty-five. Martin Field, son of Seth, was a native of Leverett. After he left college he became principal of the Academy in Newfane, Yt., and subsequently became a lawyer of considerable distinction. He married, February 22, 1802, Miss Esther Smith Kellogg, of Amherst. He died in 1833, aged sixty. Thomas Fitch was a native of Salisbury, and was born in 1778. He was a grandson of Hon. Thomas Fitch, who was for ten years governor of Connecticut. Thomas, the subject of this notice, never studied a profession. He became a mer- chant, first in Yermont, afterwards in Schoharie Co., N. Y., whence he removed to Yernon, Oneida Co., N. Y., and he died May 18, 1862, aged eighty-four. Simeon Ford, son of James and Rachel Backus Ford, was born in Richmond, March 2G, 177G. He studied law in Herki- mer, N. Y. He settled there, and became very prominent in his profession. For a time he w^as employed by the state to superintend the salt works at Salina. In 183G he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, and was elected prosecuting attorney for the County of Cuyahoga. He was twice married ; first, to Miss Sophia Loyed, of Hartford, Conn. ; second, to Miss Sarah Kingman, of Bridge water, Me. Mr. Ford died October 12, .1841. Nathan Gillett was from Granby, Conn. ; studied theology and was settled in Gilead, Conn., and in Hebron, Conn., where he continued till about 1824, and was not settled afterwards. He died at Ellington, Conn., July, 1845, aged seventy-three. Levi Glezen. See Chapter HI. p. 61. 216 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Silas HuBnELL was burn in Lanesboro', 177G, studied law at Troy, N. Y., and on being admitted to the bar, removed to Champlain, N. Y. His legal acquirements and industry Boon secured liini a largi^ proressioiial bu!>iness, while his strict integrity and uprightness gained him the confidence of the community. He had no political aspirations. He was dili- gent in business, and hajjpy in his domestic relations. In 1809, tlie death of a beloved son was the means of his con- version. He united with the Presbyterian Church, and con- tinued to maintain a life of consistent piety. Ho died April 9, 1859, at the age of eighty-three. TnoMAS Huntington, son of T)r. Tliomas Huntington, was born in Canaan. He was a lawyer in Hartford, find was much employed in the office of the secretary of state, while Mr. Day held the office. He died in Hartford, November 8, 1833, aged sixty. Amasa Jerome was born in Stockbridge, May 10, 1775. He fitted for college with the Rev. Dr. West, and studied the- ology with the Rev. Dr. Backus, of Somdrs. After he was licensed he labored as a j>ioneer missionary in "Western New York several years. Poon after his return to New "England, he was brought to the borders of the grave by severe sick- ness. As soon as he recovered, he was installed at New Hart- ford, Conn., as successor to Dr. Griffin, August, 1802, and remained there till December, 1813. During eleven years' ministry in this place, he was blessed with two extensive re- vivals of religion. After his dismission, he labored for some years in neighboring towns. He again, in 1824, engaged in missionary labor in Ohio. For a period of three years, he was pastor of the church in Wadsworth, Ohio. At this time his health began to fail, and he returned to New Hartford, Conn., where he died in 1832, ajred fiftv-seven. Mr. Jerome was twice married. His first wife was Miss Lucy Treadwell, daughter of Governor Treadwell. His second wife was Miss Roxy Hodges, of Torrington, Conn. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMXI. 217 Gordon Johnson was born iu Farrington, August, 1776, studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Emmons, and after preach- ing a while went to Killingly, Conn., and was ordained pastor there December 12, 1804. From this charge he was dis- missed January 18, 1809. After this time he preached in different places for longer or shorter periods, but was never settled again. He died at his residence in West Killingly, Conn., April 25, 1823. He was a man of good cliaracter and fair abilit3\ He was married, first, to Miss Elizabeth Raw- son, of Milford, and second, to Miss Luna Gillett. Two of his sons became ministers of the gospel. Daniel Jones, son of Israel Jones, Esq., was born in Adams, in 1778. He read law and settled in Troy, and became a law partner of Mr. Starr. Mr. Jones was a man of high attain- ments and of very great promise. He died in 1807, aged twenty-eight. Philip Leach was born iu Easton, in 1771 ; studied law and settled in his native town. He was familiarly called " the honest lawyer." He died May 30, 1833, aged sixty-two. David Lord Perry, son of Rev. David Perry, was born at Harwinton, Conn., January 21, 1777. When very young his father removed to Richmond, Mass. After his graduation ho was for three years a tutor in the institution. He studied divinity with the Rev. Dr. Backus, of Somers, and upon the unanimous invitation of the church and society in Sharon, Conn., was ordained and installed there the 6th day of June, 1804. Shortly after his settlement, he was married to tho only daughter of the Rev. Dr. Strong, of Hartford. Mr. Per- ry continued in the ministry in Sharon until his death, which occurred October 25, 1835. He was suddenly cut off by a stroke of apoplexy. He was a man of very pure character, of respectable talents, was highly esteemed, and deeply la- mented by the people of his pastoral charge, and by his breth- ren in the ministry. 218 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. John limn Vktkuh was hoiu in Ilcbron, Couii., May 11, 177G. He liad two brothcrrt older than hiin8elf, John Thomp- son and Samuel Andrew Peters, both graduates of Yale, and all were lawyers. John llu^di PctcrH, the youngest brother, jirobably studied law in hin oldest brother's oflice, and when ready to practise, took up his abode in the village of Middle lladdiiin, in flu; town of f'hatham, Middlesex Co., Conn, lie was somewhat sinj^^ular in manners, yet a man of superior intellect, and skillul in unravelling knotty law ques- tions, lie was upright and honorable in all his dealings. Ho was never married. lie died (Jetober 7, 1811, aged thirty-fivo years. Olivki: rAi!Tini)(;K Seroeant, sou of Pr. Krastus Sergeant, and grandson of the missionary Sergeant, was born in Stork- bridge in 1771) ; studied divinity, was licensed to preach, but was never ordained. He was never married. He jjreached a little here and there, as his feeble health permitted. Ho was .able to accomplish but little. He died in Stockbridge in 1839, aged sixty. Benjamin Skinner was born in Williamstown, September 11, 1777, and was the eldest son of Deacon Benjamin Skin- ner, one of the earliest settlers of the town. He studied law at Utica, N. Y. He was admitted to the bar in 1802, and settled in Brownville, N. Y., and was early appointed surro- gate of the county. In 1811 he was appointed clerk of the county, and removed to Watertow^u. He was successful in the acquisition of property, and in 1820 retired to a farm, •where he passed the remainder of his days. Mr. Skinner was a sound lawyer, and sustained an irreproachable character for integrity and consistent piety. He exerted a widely ex- tended influence for good. For more than twenty years he was an exemplary member of the Presbyterian Church. He was married to Miss Hannah Brown, of B^o^vnville, and died November 8, 1856, aged seventy-nine. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMM. 219 John Strong, son of Hon. Simeon and Sarah Wright Strong, was born at Amherst, August 4, 1777. lie fitted for college with Rev. Jesse Olds, at Amherst. After graduation he studied law, but very soon relinquished legal for agricul- tural pursuits. Amherst was always his place of residence. He died July 5, 1849, aged seventy. (Solomon Strong, W. C, r798, was his brother.) He married, December 3, 1809, Rebecca, daughter of Noah and Mary Elmer Smith, of Am- herst. She was born January 2, 1779, and still lives (18G9), at the age of ninety years. Solomon Strong was son of Judge Simeon Strong, and was born in 1780, at Amherst. He was but eighteen years of age when he was graduated. He married Sally Sweetser, of Leom- inster, and settled in that town. He commenced the study of law with his father ; went into practice in Westminster, Mass. ; went to Congress as a representative ; was apppointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas ; resigned about six years before his death ; he was also chosen state senator. He was confined three or four years to his house, before he died, with paralysis. He took a deep interest in the growth of the town; the railroad enterprise; subscribed lib- erally to the stock, saying if he ever realized fifty per cent, on the investment, he should be perfectly satisfied. He kept his heart young till he died. All his children died young, except Adelia, who married Rev. "William M. Rogers, of tlio Central Church, Boston. The children of Mr. Rogers are all dead, with no relative of the Strong or Rogers fixmily in Leom- inster. David Tomlixson is believed, not without some reasons for it, to be a brother of Daniel Tomlinson, of the class of 1801. It is supposed that he was born in Brookfield, Conn., in 1772. He studied medicine, and settled in New York city, where he died in 1841, aged sixty-nine. Nathaniel Turner was born in Norfolk, Conn., in 1771 ; studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Catlin, and was ordained 220 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. and iii>itiillo(] over tlio South Church in New MurUxjro', July 10, 1709. He was cheerful, sociul, prompt, and active, un- commonly easy in utterance, and always prepared to meet emergencies. Few of his sermons were written, but many of them were engraven on the memories and hearts of his hearers. lie died May 25, 1812, aged forty -one. William Picrrin Walker, .^ee Chapter HI. p. C6. Henry WniTLOCK was born in Reading, Conn., November 29, 1777 ; was graduated at Williams College, September, 1798 ; received deacon's orders in Trinity Church, New York, from Bishop Provost, October 12, 1800, and priest's orders from Bishop Jarvis, at Huntington, Conn., June 2, 1802. He began to officiate in St. Paul's Church, Nor walk, November, 1800, and was made rector of the parish on his reception of priest's orders. In 1811 he obtained a regular dismission from St. Paul's, Nor- walk, and was instituted assistant minister in Trinity Church, New Haven. He died at Fayetteville, N. C, on Christmas Day, 1814. William Williams, sou of Hon. William Williams, of Dal- ton, settled in Washington Co., N. Y., where, for some years, he was engaged in the practice of the law. Relinquishing that, he was for some time principal of the Academy in Salem, and, subsequent to the year 1831, and up to 1836, held a like position in Greenwich, both in Washington Co. In 1836 he removed to Hadley, Williams Co., 111., where he was engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits up to the time of his death, September 26, 1839. His age was sixty- seven years and about eight months. William Henry Williams was a son of Colonel Elijah Williams, who resided many years in West Stockbridge, but passed his last days in Stockbridge. William Henry studied medicine, and went to Raleigh, North Carolina. He relin- quished the practice of his profession many years before his death, and acted as agent and collector for numerous publish- SKETCHES OF THE ALUALNI. 221 ers at the Xortli. He was somewhat eccentric, but was always regarded as a man of strict integrity. He died June 19, 1841, aged sixty, leaving no family. Class of 1799. Samuel Ashley Bascom, son of Rev. Aaron Bascom, of Chester, was born in 1780. He was graduated at the early age of nineteen. He chose a mercantile instead of a literary or professional life, and early opened a bookstore in Hartford, Conn. He was a man of good abilities, and of uncommon social endowments ; but he became too convivial in his habits. He died at the age of fifty. William Boardman was born in Williamstown, October 12, 1781. For three years he was principal of an Academy in Redhook, N. Y. He then studied tlieology in Albany, with the Rev. Dr. Xott, afterwards president of Union College. He was first settled in Duanesburg, N. Y., where he re- mained about six years. He then accepted a call from the Presbyterian Church in Newtown, L. I., where he died March 4, 1818. Mr. Boardman was a man of talents, and an eloquent preacher. He was married, in 1804, to Miss Rachel Blood- good, of Albany. Amos Eaton, son of Abel and Azuba Hurd Eaton, was born in Chatham, Columbia Co., N. Y., May, 1776. His father was a highly respected farmer and a deacon of the church. Young Eaton early manifested superior abihties, and his aspirations were for a wide field of action. At the age of fourteen he was selected to deliver an oration on the 4th of July, which was considered a creditable performance. Be- fore he was sixteen years old he was in the field, with his home-made instruments, doing little jobs of surveying. He fitted for college with the Rev. Dr. Porter, then of Spencer- town, N. Y. After his graduation, he studied law with the Hon. Elisha Williams, then of Spencertowu, but afterwards of Hudson, and completed his studies in New York, with the Hon. Josiah 0. Hoffman. He then took up his residence in 222 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Catskill, N. Y., whore he became greatly interested in botany aiifl geology, to which studies he afterwards devoted his life, and ill the prosecution of which he was greatly useful. Flo died at Troy, N. Y., May G, 1842, aged sixty-six. An ex- tended sketch of the life of Professor Eaton is recorded in the History of Williams College. Levi Field was born in Leverett, about 1780. It is uncer- tain where he studied theology. He was licensed by the Hampshire Association, May 4, 1802. For some unknown cause his license was revoked by the Association November 6, 1804. He then studied law, and settled in Wilmington, Vt. While here, he was in the habit of reading sermons on the Sabbath, and aiding in public worship, when there was no preaching. He died July 12, 1820, aged forty. Samuel Fisher was born in Sunderland, June 3, 1777. His fiither. an officer in the army of the revolution, died at Morristown, N. J., three months before the birth of this son. He studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Hyde, of Lee, and was ordained to the work of the ministry in Milton, Conn., No- vember 1, 1805. He resigned, and was installed in Morris- town, August 9, 1809, where he remained five years. In July, 1814, he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Paterson. Here he remained twenty years. Beginning now to feel the infirmities of age, he was dismissed, and labored as an evangelist in different places. In 1837 he was elected moderator of the New School General Assembly. He next re- moved to Albany, to reside with his son, the Rev. S. W. Fisher, and preached five or six years in Greeubush. In 1827 he re- ceived the degree of D. D. from Princeton College. He died at Suckasunny, N. J., December 27, 1856, aged seventy-nine. Myron Holley was a native of Salisbury, Conn., studied law in the State of New York, and commenced the practice of his profession in Canandaigua ; afterwards was canal com- missioner for many years. Here he was associated with such men as Clinton, Van Rensselaer, and Young. For a time he SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 223 resided in Lyons, and next became an editor of a paper in Rochester, N. Y. He died in 18-41, aged sixty-two. Noah Judson was a native of Woodbury, Conn. After he had honorably closed his course at college, he went south, — to Baltimore, or some place near there, — and engaged in teaching, and died within two or three years. JuDAH Alden Lee was a native of Sheffield. Soon after his graduation, he went south, and taught a flourishing school for some time in Charleston, S. C. Later in life he came to New York, and engaged in keeping a boarding-house, and, for a time, kept a bookstore. He was a man of good abilities, and it was said of him at one time, that he was the best pen- man in the United States. He wrote some very creditable poetry. In the latter part of his life he was subject to low spirits, and, occasionally, to partial derangement. Some thought it constitutional, others religious melancholy. He died in the Insane Retreat at Hartford, Conn., in April, 1839, aged fifty-nine. Joseph Miller was a native of Torrington, Conn., and was born in 1773. After his graduation, he studied law, and be- came prominent in his profession in Litchfield County, until 1834, when he removed to Richland, Michigan, where he died June 29, 1863. William Patrick was born in Warren, July 4, 1773, studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Backus, of Somers, Conn., and was licensed to preach by the Tolland Association. He then spent a year or more in the State of Maine, but returning to his native town, he received a call to settle in Canterbury, N. II., which he accepted, and was ordained October 26, 1803. In accordance with a long-cherished purpose, he resigned his pastoral charge in November, 1840. He, however, continued to preach in vacant churches for some years. In 1860 Dana and Hutchins, then ilaembers of college, met him at Concord, N. II., and knowing that he was an early graduate of the 224 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. college, introduced themselves to liiiii. His first qucKtioii was, " Gentlemen, are you Philulogians or Fljilotecliniaus?" The early graduates highly valued those literary societies. Mr. Patrick died, greatly beloved, October 25, 18G2, aged ninety. Petfr Ptarr was born at Warren, Conn., June 11, 177s,and fitted lor college partly with President I>ay, and partly with his uncle, Rev. Mr. Robbins, of Norl'olk. After his gradua- tion, he taught the Academy at Wcstfield one year. He then officiated as tutor two years. He next studied law at Middlebury, Vt., and also with Judge Dewey, of Wil- liamstown. He commenced the practice of law in Middle- bury, Vt., and continued there till near the close of his life. He held many imjtortant civil offices : for many years he was a trustee and treasurer of Middlebury College, and received, in 1809, from that institution, the degree of LL. D. He was a man of established principles, of social, political, and reli- gious integrity, and was greatly respected and honored for his worth in all the relations of life. He was twice married; first, in 1808, to Miss Jones, of Middlebury, and second, in 1812, to a Miss iSergeant, of Stockbridge. He died at Stamford, Conn., September 1, 18G0, aged eighty-two. Tertics Strong, son of John and Thankful Clark Strong, was a native of Westhampton ; was bom August 16, 1778. He was a distinguished scholar. Leaving college, he became preceptor of an Academy in Catskill, X. Y. He died May 9, 1802, aged twenty-three. Egbert Ten Eyck was born in Rensselaer Co., X. Y., April 18, 1779 ; studied law in Albany ; was a member of the as- sembly in 1812, and in 1813 was speaker ; member also of the Constitutional Convention in 1822, and a representative in Congress, from New York, from 182.S to 1825. He also held the office of judge of the Jefterson County Court, and was likewise president of the Agricultural Society. He died at SKETCHES OF THE ALUMKI. 225 TTatertown, N. Y., April 11, 1S44, aged sixtj-five, a most worthy and highly-esteemed citizen. Ebenezer "Walden was a native of Becket ; studied law, and resided in Buffalo. He was judge of one of the courts, and a man of distinction in the region of his residence. The latest years of his life were passed at North Evans, Erie Co., X. Y., where he died November 10, 1837. Thomas Hough "Wood was from Ilawlcy. He pursued his theological studies with the Rev. Dr. Lyman, of Ilattield, and was ordained as an evangelist at Amherst, May 2, 1804. For two years he labored in different portions of New England. Ho was installed at Halifax, Vt., l^eptember 17, ISOG. His ministry in this place was, for thirty-four years, characterized by great wisdom and fidelity. The cause of benevolence, in its various departments, lay near his heart. The education of pious youth for the ministry received his special attention, some of whom were among the first missionaries to foreign climes. At his death he lell a wife and five children, to all of whom he was greatly endeared. Mr. Wood died at Halifax, December 26, 1842, aged seventy-one. Class of 1800. Henry Bago was a native of Lanesboro', studied medicine, and settled in Princeton. He joined the Massachusetts Med- i<-:il Society in 1813, and died in Princeton in 1818. Joseph Barnes was from Lanesboro', studied law, and re- moved to Philadelphia, and became a judge of a court of high order. He died in 1839, aged sixty. Eli Burrit, it is said, was from Williamstown. He studied medicine, married a daughter of Deacon Stratton, of Williams- town, and settled in Troy, N. Y., where he died in 1823, aged fifty-one. Soon after his graduation at L'nion College, in 1813, the late President Wayland commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Burrit. " He was a man," writes Dr. Wayland, '* of 15 '■7 226 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. romuikiiljlc logical power, of entbusiastic love of liis jjrofes- sion, and of great and deserved confidence in his own judg- ment. He stood at the head of his profession in Troy, and in the neighboring region, and was a person of a high moral character.'' David Wells Childs was a native of Pittsfield, and son of Dr. Timothy Childs, who educated four sons at Williams College. David was born in 17S1. In 1804 he established himself in the profession of law in Utiea, N. Y. lie was dili- gent and successful, and soon secured for himself a competent fortune. By his integrity and fidelity, he attained a high standing in the community ; but in the midst of these bright and flattering prospects, he became the victim of a lingering disease, — consumption, — which forced him to retire from the active pursuits of life. He finally returned to his native toAvn. Here he had ample opportunity to prove the blessed- ness of that religion which he had before this time heartily embraced. He was patient and resigned ; and while he prayed, " Thy kingdom come," he contributed liberally to- Avards the support of the benevolent and reformatory enter- prises of the day. He Avas not unmindful of the wants of the Avorld he was noAv about to leaA'e. To the Theological Seminary, Auburn, he gaA'c five hundred drJlars ; to the Western Education Society, five hundred dollars ; to the American Bible Society, five hundred dollars ; and to the Utica Sabbath School Society, two hundred and fifty dollars. He died at Pittsfield, July 27, 1826, aged forty-five. I 7,t) Perry Green Childs was a native of Pittsfield, son of Dr. Timothy Childs, and was born in 1780. After graduation he studied laAv, and settled in CazenoA*ia, X. Y. He was early elected state senator, president of the Madison Bank, and a judge of one of the high courts. He was a man of great personal worth — a most estimable and valuable citizen. In whatever position his fellow-citizens placed him, their confi- dence in him was entire. They were sure it had not been SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 227 misplaced. He died at Cazenovia, X. Y., March 27, 1835, aged fifty-five. Aaeon M. Church .was born in Hartland, and was a son of Rev. Aaron Church, minister of that town. He removed to ^ i^ Hartford about 1806, where he practised his profession as a lawyer a few years, afterwards removed to Ohio, and died at Coshocton, February 19, 1815, aged thirty-four. Eliphalet Beecher Coleman, son of Dr. Seth Coleman, was born at Amherst, August 30, 1779. He studied theology with the Rev. David Parsons, of Amherst, and was for some time tutor in the Vermont University. He was subsequently appointed professor of theology in Middlebury College, but declined the appointment. In 1808 he entered upon mission- ary work in "Western New York. In February, 1812, he was installed pastor of the church in Hampden, Conn., where he remained till 1826, when he was dismissed, and removed to Onondaga County, N. Y., and relinquished preaching, except occasionally, on account of the failure of his health. After a period of rest and recovery, he labored much, and most suc- cessfully, at the West. He was twice married : first, to Miss Alice Fitch, of Vergennes, Yt., and afterwards to Miss Sarah Thomas, of Bethany, Conn. He died at Olivet, Mich., June 25, 1856, aged seventy-six. Daniel Collins, son of the Rev. Daniel Collins, was born in Lanesboro', in 1781. He studied medicine, and settled in Williamsburg, where he continued for fifty years in the un- interrupted and active practice of his profession. He was devoted to his calling. He was regarded as a most skilful physician ; and his practice was extensive. He was remarka- bly kind in his feelings towards the poor and destitute, and of unflinching adherence to truth and right. He evinced his benevolence by making a large donation to the town of Wil- liamsburg. He died November 6, 1857, aged seventy-six, leaving no family. 20 228 BIOGEAPHICAL ANNALS. Luke Collins was a native of Lenox, and was born in 1779. After liis graduation, he commenced the study of medicine, and, before completing his professional course, went to Ken- tuck}^, for the benefit of his health, where he died in 1803, aged twenty-three. One of his classmates has left the follow- ing testimony : " Luke Collins was the flower of his class. At his graduation, though the youngest member of the class, yet he pronounced the valedictory oration." Jared Curtis was born in Stockbridge, October 6, 1777. He was destined by his parents for the ministry. After his graduation he was employed for two years as a tutor in the college. He next studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Backus, of Somers, Conn. ; but entertaining doubts as to his spiritual qualifications for the ministry, he engaged for ten years in mercantile pursuits. He next became principal of Stock- bridge Academy. In 1821 he became decidedly pious, and, after studying for a short time with the Rev. Dr. Field, was licensed to preach the gospel, and was soon appointed chap- lain in the state prison at Anburn, N. Y. Subsequently he was appointed to the same position in Charlestown state prison. Here he passed about thirty years of his life, most usefully employed in self-denying labors for the spiritual good of prisoners. The changes wrought through his instrumental- ity were in some instances wonderful. Mr. Curtis enjoys the honor of having been the first state prison chaplain in this country. He died July 14, 1862, aged eighty-five years. y, John Dickinson was a native of Amherst, and fitted for college in his native town. He completed the stud}" of law in Belfast, Maine, where he settled in his profession. He was repeatedly a member of the legislature. He was an active member of the Constitutional Convention that decided upon the separation of Maine from Massachusetts. Soon after the separation he was appointed judge of Probate for the County of Washington, which office he held for seventeen years. He was a man of energy and perseverance, and exerted a wide and happy influence ; and during all the latter part of his hfe SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 229 it was a Christian influence. He returned to his native town about 1837, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died at Amherst, December 3, 1863. Mr. Dickinson married Re- becca Ellis, October 12, 1807. She died March 25, 1846. January 5, 1848, he married Olive S., widow of Rev. Samuel Shepard, of Lenox. Moses Dickinson, the eldest son of Colonel Elijah and Jeru- sha Dickinson, and a brother of John Dickinson, of the class of 1800, was born at Amherst, June 15, 1781. He settled in his native town, and engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits. He was never married. He died August 4, 1841, aged sixty. Festus Foster was born in Canterbury, Conn., September 30, 1776. At the age of seven his parents removed to Rowe, Mass., where he pursued the usual routine of a farmer's son until eighteen, when he began to prepare for college under the tuition of Rev. Preserved Smith. He taught a grammar school in Pittsfield after taking his degree. He prepared for the ministry under the instruction of the Rev. Dr. Lathrop, of West Springfield. He was ordained January 13, 1802, in Petersham, with a salary of four hundred dollars. During his ministry he qualified young men to teach. He was dis- missed November 26, 1817. In the spring of 1818 he re- moved to Brimfield, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits, wliich he followed until 1823, when he turned his attention to farming. His death occurred April 30, 1845, at the age of sixty-nine and a half years. During the last ten or twelve years of his life he was an invalid. Still he took a keen interest in public affairs. He filled many of the principal town ofiices, and for two sessions was a representative in the legislature, where he proved him- self a useful member, and a ready and efficient debater. His published writings, which are somewhat numerous, consist of sermons, occasional addresses, and contributions to the press, on many of the exciting political topics of the day. Mr. Foster was twice married : first, to ]\Iiss Patience Wells, of \^ 230 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Pctcrsliam, They became the parents of six cliildren, born in Petersham. Mary Wells, Fisher Ames, and John Wells Foster are still living. The last named occupies a conspicuous place among the American scientific corps, is president of the asso- ciation, and author of the lately-published volume entitled The Mississippi Valley. Mr. Foster was married, a second time, to Miss Elizabeth Tiifany, of Boston, October 23, 1823, who survived him about six years. Hiram Fay was from New York. His father, Joseph Fay, was engaged in mercantile pursuits, and sent his son Hiram, after his graduation, as supercargo in one of his vessels, to Sovith America ; and the captain of the vessel reported that Hiram died in Berbice, South America. His father, fearing there had been some foul play, sent an agent to inquire into the circumstances of Hiram's death, but obtained no satisfac- tory information. Josiah Hawes was a native of Warren, Conn. He was Congregational pastor, first at Cornwall, Conn., and afterwards at Lyme, Conn., where he died in 1851, at the age of seventy- two. James Harvey Hotchkin, second son of Rev. Beriah and Thankful Dickinson Hotchkin, was born in Cornwall, Conn., February 23, 1781. His father entered upon manhood a mechanic, with a plain but good common school education. These qualities, united to an unblemished Christian character, and uncommon attainments in theological knowledge for one in his circumstances, led to his being called from his worldly occupations to the work of the ministry over the church in which he was born and baptized. Soon after his settlement in Guilford, there was a considerable emigration from his church to the then primitive settlement in Greenville, Green Co., N. Y. ; and the pastor was induced to accompany them ; and there he lived and labored forty-four years. James's re- ligious experience was early, and his college education was with reference to the sacred office. President Fitch pro- SKETCHES OF THE ALUMXI. 231 nounced him among the best scholars in the class. His theo- logical instruction was under the Rev. David Porter, of Cats- kill, N. Y. His entrance on the work of the ministry must have been early, for in 1801 we find him preaching in West Bloomfield, N. Y. In 1802 he returned to Greenville, and was ordained as an evangelist, Dr. Porter preaching the ser- mon from the text, " Let no man despise thy youth." May 19, 1803, he was installed over the church in West Bloom- field, N. Y., and the next year was married to Miss Rebecca Hull, of that place. The church, under his ministry, was greatly prospered and enlarged. In 1809 Mr. Hotchkin was called to Prattsburg, N. Y., where he was installed, and re- mained, greatly beloved and useful, about twenty-one years. For the first four years a room in his small dwelling was oc- cupied by a few students. This was the germ of what was afterwards Franklin Academy. At the close of his Prattsburg pastorate, he performed shorter ministerial engagements in Hector, Campbell, Putney, and Wheeler, and then returned to reside with one of his sons, through whose pecuniary aid he was enabled to prepare and bring out, as the crowning work of his life, a volume of six hundred octavo pages, bearing the title of The History and Settlement of Western New York, and of the Rise and Progress of the Presbyterian Church in that Section — a work of great value. Mr. Hotchkin celebrated his seventieth birth- day by preaching in the church in Prattsburg from the text, " Our end is near." This was on February 23, 1851. He died September 21 of that year, leaving a most precious record. His companion survived him a few years. Six sons constituted the whole family — Rev. Beriah Bishop Hotchkin, Marple, Pa. ; James Harvey, a business man in Prattsburg ; Augustine Hall, an enterprising farmer in Salina, Mich. ; John Niles, deceased ; Samuel, in prosperous business in Elmira, N. Y. ; and William Henry, deceased. Ebenezer Jennings was a native of Windham, Conn., and was born September, 1778. He studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Lathrop, of West Springfield, and was ordained at l-i. L 232 BiOGRArmcAL annals. Dalton, September, 1802, and continued in tlie pastoral office here till 1836. He was never settled again. As a scholar, his rank was considerably above mediocrity. He possessed a large share of good sense, was somewhat witty, was a man of quick perceptions, and singularly original in style and man- ner as a preacher. He was a successful minister, and was fa- vored with repeated revivals. It was ascertained, in 1827, that nearly one half of the people of Dalton were professors of religion. Mr. Jennings died in Dalton, in February, 1859. Bela Kellogg, son of Martin and Hannah Crocker Kel- logg, was born in Amherst, August 24, 1780. He fitted for college in his native town, under the tuition of Jesse Olds, and pursued his theological studies with the Rev. Dr. Emmons, of Franklin. In consequence of feeble health, he was not licensed to preach till June, 1808. In 1813 he was ordained over the Congregational Church in Brookfield, Conn., and was dismissed in 1817. He was next installed over the church in Avon, Conn., in 1819, and dismissed in 1830, on account of the failure of his health. He died at Avon, of consumption, April 30, 1831, aged fifty-one. He was married, June 6, 1805, to Miss Lydia Candee. She died December 3. 184:3, aged sixty-five. Isaac Knapp. See Chapter III. p. 65. Caleb Knight was born in Lewiston, Conn., October, 1771. About this time his father removed to Monson, where the son remained till he was twenty-one, working on a farm, and acquir- ing a good common school education. Having become hope- fully pious, his heart was fixed on the ministry. He fitted for college with the Rev. Mr. Blodgett, of Greenwich. He studied theology with Rev. Dr. Backus, of Somers, and was licensed by the Tolland Association, June 2, 1801. He was ordained in Hinsdale, April, 1802. He remained there fourteen years. He was then engaged as a domestic missionary for two or three years, when he was installed pastor of the church in Franklin, N. Y., where he remained five vears. He was SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 233 next employed as a missionary in the valley of the Mohawk. Tn 1826 he was installed in Washington, Mass., where he remained ten years. He next labored lor a while in Mont- gomery. He passed his last days in Hatfield, where he died in the faith, October 25, 1854, aged eighty-four years. He married Miss Anna Alden, January, 1801. Lewis Long was from Wilmington, Vt. He belonged to a highh' respectable family, and was considered a young man of much promise. He died just after his graduation, in 1800, aged twenty-two — too young to have a history as a literary or professional man. Henry C. Martindale was born at Lenox, Mass., December 7, 1779, and died at Sandy Hill, Washington Co., N. Y., March 28, 18G0. After graduating, he studied law with Hon. Zebu- Ion R. Shephard, at Granville, Washington Co., N. Y. He commenced the practice of the law at Glen's Falls, Warren Co., N. Y., and removed to Sandy Hill, Washington Co., N. Y., in the year 1812, and continued to reside there until his death. He held the office of district attorney, surrogate, and county judge of Washington County. In 1822 he was elected to Con- gress, and continued a member of that body, with the inter- mission of one term, until 1835. He was twice married, first, in 1804, to Minerva Hitchcock, daughter of John Hitchcock, Esq., at Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y., who died in June, 1825 ; second, in November, 1826, to Olivia F. Ewell, daugh- ter of Dr. James Ewell, of Washington, D. C. He was a man of large influence in the community where he lived, and was esteemed for his learning, his eloquence, and his ability as a WTiter. His life was without reproach. He Avas a professor of the religion of Christ, and died in communion with the Protestant Episcopal Church. Joel Parsons was from Conway, and was born March 31, ^ ^ 1778. He was employed as a teacher in Genoa, N. Y., and died there March 2, 1802, aged twenty-four. '7 I 234 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Joel B. Potter was a native of Sherman, Conn. His father was a skilful physician, and a highly respected and useiul man. The son studied law and settled in Cherry Valley, N. Y. lie commenced business with a good reputation and flattering prospects, but died in 1806, at the early age of twenty-eight. Sereno Pettebone was from Norfolk, Conn., and was ad- mitted to the practice of law in 1802, and resided in Nt)rfolk, Conn., for several years. He then removed to Simsbury, Conn., and was a very respectable practitioner. In 1812 he received a captain's commission, raised a company, and was stati(med at New London. Afterwards he returned to Sims- bury, and from there he removed' to Norfolk. His habits of life were not good. He died the 16th of November, 1826, aged forty-eight years. Levi Rumsey w^as from Hubbardton, Vt. He studied law in the State of New York, and was an attorney and counsellor of law in Troy, N. Y., for some years. He was distinguished as a man of talents, and was eminent in his profession. He was a member of the state legislature, and a judge of the County Court. He removed to Batavia, N. Y., where he was district attorney, and died in 1830, aged fifty-four. James H. Russell. Of his origin and history nothing has been obtained ; not even any traditional opinion. Ebenezer William Walbridge was born in Bennington, Yt., in 1780. After his graduation he taught the Academy at Lansingburg, N. Y., one year. He studied law, and settled in that place. He was able, judicious, and successful in his profession. In 1806 he was elected a trustee of the village, and for many years was active in promoting its best interests. In 1819 he represented his district in the state legislature with great credit to himself, and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. For some years he was president of the bank of Lansingburg. In 1813 he united with the Presby- terian Church in that place, and soon after was elected an SKETCHES OF THE ALUM>;i. 235 oflScer of the church ; and in both of these relations he was consistent, earnest, and faithful. During the closing period of his life, his mental and physical energies began to fail him. He bore his afflictions, however, with Christian resignation, and died in peace, March 23, 1856, aged seventy-six. Charles Kilborn Williams was born at Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, on the 2-l:th day of Janu- ary, 1782. He was the youngest son of that eminent philoso- pher and historian, Rev. Samuel Williams. LL. D., by Jane, daughter of Eliphalet Kilborn. He went to Vermont with his father, in 1790, and continued to reside in Rutland from that time till his death. He studied law with Cephas Smith, Jr., Esq., of Rutland, then clerk of the United States Courts for the district of Vermont. 'He was admitted to the bar in Rutland County in March, 1803. He was appointed tutor in Williams College in 1802, and about the same time received a similar appointment from Middlebury College, both of which he declined. He represented the town of Rutland in the General Assem- bly of Vermont for the years 1809, 1811, 1814, 1815, 1820, 1821, and again, in 1819, after his retirement from the bench, by the general concurrence of all p€>litical parties in town. He was state's attorney for the County of Rutland in 181-4 and 1815. He was elected judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont in 1822, 1823, and 1824, and held the office for the two former years, but declined the last election. He was appointed col- lector of customs for the district of Vermont, in 1825, and held that office till October, 1829, when he resigned, being again elected one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Ver- mont. To this office he received seventeen successive annual elections. He retired from the bench in 1846, having per- emptorily declined a reelection. In 1850 and 1851 he was elected governor of the State of Vermont, by a majority of the popular vote. He was in 182T appointed one of the state commissioners for common schools — a board appointed to select and recommend suitable text- 236 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. books for tho use of the common schools, and to have a gen- eral supervision over the educational ail'airs of the state. He was a member of the corporation of Middlebury College from 1825 to 1843, and at the time of his death was president of the Society of the Alumni of Williams College. He re- ceived the degree of Master of Arts from Middlebury and Wil- liams Colleges in 1803, and that of Doctor of Laws from the former college in 183-4. Governor Williams died very suddenly at his residence in Rutland, March 9, 1853, in the seventy-first year of his age. Appropriate notice was taken of his death by the Supreme Court of Vermont, then in session, and by the bars of Rutland, Bennington, Windsor, and Washington Counties. Class of 1801. William Boies, son of David Boies, was born in Blandford, in 1780. Leaving college, he studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Backus, of Somers, Conn., and was settled in Tinmouth, Vt., February 28, 1804. His ministry in that place was powerful and prosperous. Repeated revivals were the joyful result of his labors. In 1817 he resigned his pastorate there, and became an early pioneer missionary in the wilds of Ohio. He settled in Waterfordy. on the banks of the Muskingum Riv- er. Here he was cut down in the prime of his manhood, and in the height of his usefulness, by a- fever, brought on by over- exertion and exposure, leaving an accomplished wife, — for- merly Miss Cogswell, — and children, to mourn his loss. He died in 1823, aged forty-three. David Bishop Cuetis, a native of Granville, was born in 1781. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1806, and set- tled in Sandisfield. How long he continued there is uncer- tain. He died at Black Rock, N. Y., in 1812, during the war, aged thirty-three. Isaac Gurnsey Cutler, brother of E. P. Cutler, of the class of 1798, was born in Pelham, November 18, 1782. He studied medicine with his father, and became highly respecta- SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 237 ble in his profession in Amherst, where he lived, and where he died November 29, 1834, aged jSfty-two. Hexey Pell Hicock was a native of Sheffield, and was born in 1781. After graduation, he studied medicine with Dr. Buell, of his native town, and for a few years was in the prac- tice of his profession with him. In 1804 he removed to East Bloomfield, N. Y., where he passed his days as a successful and honored physician, in the midst of an intelligent people, and surrounded by a happy family. But he was not with- out affliction. He lived to see all the members of a large family but two laid in the grave. With a daughter he passed the last two years of his life in Washington. When his health failed, and he felt that his days were few, he returned to On- tario County, where his son resided, and where he died March 8, 1854, aged seventy-three. Stephen Mitchell was from Peterboro', N. H. He studied law, and settled in Durham, N. H,, and died there in 1833, aged fifty-three. Olivee Bliss Morris was born in Wilbraham, September 22, 1782. He studied law in Springfield, in the office of the Hon. George Bliss. In 1804 he was admitted to the bar, and opened an office in Springfield ; in 1809 represented Spring- field in the legislature, and repeatedly afterwards ; in 1811 was appointed justice of the peace by Governor Gore ; in 1812 was appointed register of Probate by Governor Strong. He was county attorney by appointment of Governor Brooks. He was appointed judge of Probate by Governor Lincoln. He was married to Caroline Bliss, daughter of Hon. George Bliss, September 15, 1813. She died February 9, 1842, leav- ing her husband and two sons. Judge Morris has always resided in Springfield since his graduation in 1801. LoNSON Nash was a native of Great Barrington, and born in 1781. Leaving college, he studied law, and settled in Egre- mont, but soon left, and went to Gloucester, Essex Co., while .\ iX 238 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. quite a young man. Here he continued in the successful practice of his profession for more than fifty years. He was, at different times, a member of both branches of the state legislature. In his earlier years he took an active part in politi- cal matters, connecting himself with the Federal party. He was an influential citizen in the community where he resided, and in public and private life was above reproach. For many years he was an exemplary member of the Congregational Church. He passed some three or four of the last years of his life in his native town, where he died March 1, 1863, aged eighty-two. Gamaliel Smith Olds. See Chapter VI. p. 137. ^j C . Levi Parsons was born in Northampton, August 20, 1779. After his graduation, he officiated two years as tutor. He studied theology wath the Rev. Dr. Hyde, of Lee. After he was licensed to preach the gospel, he went to Marcellus, N. Y., in the fall of 1806, eleven j^ears after the settlement of the town, and only five years after the formation of the church. He was ordained and installed in 1807, the church then consisting of only eighteen members. He continued in the pastoral relation till 1833, faithfully serving the church for twenty-five years. Then, after a respite of two years, he was again employed as a stated supply, in which capacity he continued, preaching to his old flock, for six years longer ; and there he continued to live beloved and respected, till, after only two days' sickness, his warfare was suddenly ended, on Sunday, November 20, 1864. Ashbel Strong, son of Solomon and Mindwell Clapp Strong, was born in Southampton, July 20, 1779. About the time Ashbel entered college, his father removed to Waltham, Vt. He was a good scholar, and gentlemanly in his deportment. When he left college he was expecting to enter the ministry ; but he was never ordained. He resided in Lewis, Del., the last twenty-five years of his life, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Lewis. He had charge of a classical school there, and was successful in his vocation. Among his SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 239 pupils were the late Hon. John M. Clayton and the Rev. J. H. Mcllvaine, D. D., of Princeton. He married Mrs. Rebecca Stiles, and was buried at Lewis October 19, 1839. Daniel Tomlinson was born in Brookfield, Conn., October 17, 1776. He studied law in Hudson, N. Y., in the same office with Martin Van Buren, but never practised in that pro- fession. He settled in his native town, and engaged in me- chanical pursuits, and acquired a large property. He served his town in both branches of the legislature, and was highly respected by all who knew him. His many acts of unostenta- tious benevolence will never be known in this world, A scientific gentleman writes thus concerning Mr. Tom- linson : " Sixty years ago the only knife used among curriers for shaving leather was the Cox knife, of England, manufac- tured and stamped with the crown and arms of Great Britain. It was made of one piece of iron, with steel welded on each edge, and, of course, after wear and repeated sharpening, the steel wore away, and the whole tool was thrown aside as use- less. Mr. Tomlinson's invention consisted in making the body of the knife in two pieces of iron screwed together. Between the lips of the two edges was inserted a thin blade of steel, forming the cutting edge : as these wore away, new ones could be obtained at a small price, so that the body of the knife, with ordinary care, will last a century. It is appre- ciated among the trade, as simple, cheap, and so perfect, that it has never been improved upon, and is the only knife used, except splitting machines, in the United States, Great Britain, and on the continent." Mr. Tomlinson was married, at the ripe age of sixty, to the widow of Dr. Thomas Holman, one of the pioneer mis- sionaries to the Sandwich Islands. He died at Brookfield, Conn., December 11, 1863, aged eighty-seven years and two months. Edwaeds Whipple, a native of New Braintree, was born in 1778. The three most distinguished scholars in the class were Morris, Olds, and Whipple ; but no valedictory was 240 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. assigned. Whipple studied theology, and was first installed at Charlton, January 25, 1804, and continued there seventeen years. He was dismissed March, 1821. He was an able and faithful pastor, a man of decided talents and undoubted piety. After his resignation he was installed colleague pastor at Shrewsbury, where he continued to preach a year, wanting one Sabbath. He was then seized with a malignant fever, which terminated his earthly existence September 17, 1822, at the age of forty-four. His early death was deeply lamented by all his acquaintance. Class of 1802. William Fitch Backus, a nephew of Mrs. President Fitch, was a native of Windham, Conn. He was a tutor in college one year from 1807, studied law, but his subsequent history is not known. He died in 1818. Stewart Beebe was from Wilbraham. After graduation he studied law in Hebron, Conn., with Judge Gilbert, whose daughter he married ; and he remained in that place some years. He then removed to Stafford, Conn. ; but in the latter part of his life returned to Wilbraham, where he died in 1852, aged seventy-two. Cornelius Beeckman was born in Schodack, N. Y. ; was by profession a lawyer. He died in March, 1828, aged forty-six. Henry Halsey Childs was born at the Childs Homestead, on Jubilee Hill, in Pittsfield, June 7, 1783. His father. Dr. Timothy Childs, was one of the leading patriots of Pittsfield in the revolution. Dr. Childs studied medicine with his father, who was as eminent in his profession as in politics, and commenced and carried on practice in connection Avith him as long as the elder physician lived. While thus connected, they introduced into town tlio practice of vaccination, as the father had, against much opposition, that of inoculation. For some time previous to 1822, Dr. Childs had pressed upon the Berkshire Medical SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 241 Society the importance of establishing a medical college in the county, and the advantages of PittsjSeld for its site. In that year he acted with Daniel Collins and Asa Burbank, as a committee of the society in petitioning the legislature for an act of incorporation, which was granted after consider- able opposition ; and the institution went into operation on the 18th of September, 1823, Dr. Childs taking the chair of the " Theory and Practice of Medicine." He was the soul of the enterprise, and performed a large share of the work need- ful for obtaining an endowment, erecting buildings, and col- lecting a cabinet and library. Dr. Childs administered its affairs until 1863, when, having been connected with it forty- one years, he resigned his active duties on account of his advancing years. The annual average number of students during his administration was over one hundred. During all this time he continued in a large medical prac- tice ; and for many years was a member of the Faculty of the Medical Colleges at Woodstock, Vt., and Willoughby and Columbus, Ohio, where he annually gave courses of lectures. As a politician of the school of Jefferson and Madison, Dr. Childs was no less earnest, zealous, and consistent than as a medical man. At his graduation, his oration was a defence of Democratic principles. To the same doctrines he remained devotedly true to the end of his life. By their supporters he was elected to represent the town in the legislatures of 1816 and 1827, and the Constitutional Convention of 1820, to the state Senate of 1837, and as lieutenant governor in 1843. His course as a Christian was marked by the same earnest- ness, liberality, and warmth of feeling as characterized him in other respects. In 1821 he became a member of the First Congregational Church, then under the pastorate of Rev. Dr. Humphrey ; in 1850 he was made one of its deacons ; from 1862 to 1864 he was president of the Berkshire Bible Society. In the private walks of life Dr. Childs was a fond and devoted husband and father, the truest of friends, the most genial of companions. 16 9 242 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. During his last illness he greatly regretted that he could not be taken home, and die among his own native hills in Berk- shire. He departed this life, in great peace and composure, on Sabbath morning, March 22, 1868, at Boston, at the residence of his son-in-law, Elias Merwin, Esq., where he had gone to pass the winter, and where he was soothed by the kindest attendance from those with whom he had often knelt in prayer, and who anxiously watched his cheerful progress up to the gate of heaven. He was in the eighty-fifth year of his age. Henry Fellows was a native of Sheffield. He studied law, and settled in Plainfield, N. Y. He was a fair and honor- able member of society ; he had no ambition for any civil ofiice, or to be in public life. He preferred a life of retire- ment. For many years he was a successful agriculturist, and found great enjoyment in this calling and in his large family circle. 1/ '^O Thomas Fitch was a native of New Marlboro' ; studied law, and settled in Georgia. He early rose to be a man of distinction, holding, for a time, the office of United States judge. His weight, when in college, was two hundred and ten pounds. He died at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1822, aged forty-five. Frederic Perry, son of Rev. David Perry, was born in \^. \ Harwinton, Conn., November 21, 1778. When he was six years old his father removed to Richmond, Mass. Rev. Mr. Perry guided the studies of his three sons in their preparation for college. After Frederic was graduated, he commenced the study of theology with his father, and was, for a time, under the instruction of Dr. Hyde, of Lee, but was never licensed to preach. In 1804 he became principal of the Academy at Williamstown, and in 1805 became a tutor in the college. In 1807 h3 became a merchant in Richmond, where he continued four years ; was for the next three years in trade in Lenox. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 243 In 1815 he went to Stockbridge, and engaged in the manufac- ture of cotton goods. He is still living in Stockbridge. James Watson Robbins, son of the Rev. Ammi R. Robbins, was born in Norfolk, Conn., April, 1782. He fitted for college with his father. In his seventeenth year he became hopefully pious, while a member of college, during a vacation at home. He was graduated with honor. The first year after his gradu- ation he spent in teaching the Academy in Williamstown. The next year was devoted to the study of theology with the Rev. Dr. Hooker, of Goshen, Conn., and he was licensed to preach in the autumn of 1804. Shortly after he was licensed, he was elected a tutor in college, and remained in that situa- tion two years. Leaving college in the autumn of 1806, he was occupied about a year in preaching, and received a call to settle in Windham, which he declined on account of his want of health. In the fall of 1807 he took charge of the Academy in Clinton, N. Y. After he had been here a year, he was strongly urged by Dr. Fitch to return to Williams College and resume the duties of a tutor. He did so, and remained a little more than a year. At this time his poor health compelled him to abandon all hope of the ministry — the cherished object of his heart. By the advice and assist- ance of some friend, he was induced to commence a mercan- tile life in Lenox, in 1810. In 1812 he was married to Miss Maria Eggleston, daughter of Hon. Azariah Eggleston, of that place. In that quiet town all his subsequent life was peace- fully and prosperously passed. He enjoyed the respect and confidence of that community for about forty years. He died March 27, 1847, aged sixty-five. Alvan Sandeeson was born in Whately, Mass., December 13, 1780 ; studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Hyde, of Lee, and, for a short time, with Dr. Lyman, of Hatfield ; was licensed by the Berkshire Association, October 17, 1804. He was ordained as an evangelist at Westhampton, February 4, 1807, and fulfilled several important missions in Vermont and Maine. He was installed as colleague with the Rev. Mr. Por- t^'' 244 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. ter, at Ashfield, June 22, 1808. He filled up a peaceful and prosperous pastorate of eight years. He died June 22, 1817, on the ninth anniversary of his settlement in Ashfield, and in the thirty-seventh year of his age. Mr. Sanderson was never married. His salary was small ; still, by economy, he accumu- lated some property. To the church in Ashfield he left twenty dollars, for the purchase of a Bible ; to the society for the support of the ministry, four hundred dollars ,' to the Hampshire Missionary Society, two hundred dollars ; to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, three hundred dollars ; and the remainder of his property, about fifteen hundred dollars, for the support of a public school, which had just been commenced under encouraging aus- pices. James Sherman was from Williamstown. He studied law, / and settled in Rome, N. Y. He is said to have been a man of fair ability, and eflScient in his profession. He died in 1823, at the early age of forty-two. ^ Nathan Strong, son of Rev. Dr. Nathan Strong, was borQ '2-- ' ' in Hartford. He first studied for the ministry, and preached for a short time, then studied medicine, and practised his profession in Hartford for many years. In 1810 he published a Dissertation on the Spotted Fever. He died in Hartford, August 2, 1837, aged fifty-six. Lyman Strong was a native of Southampton, and was born \^ in 1782. After graduating, he oiSciated one year as tutor in college. He then studied medicine in New Haven, and prac- tised for a time in Guilford, Conn, [t was not long before he was invited to take charge of a Female Seminary in Beaufort, S. C. After teaching successfully for a few years, he felt called by Providence to enter the ministry. After studying theology, he was first settled in Hebron, Conn., and was next called to Colchester, Conn., where he remained five years. He was a faithful and affectionate pastor. His social life was SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 245 marked by geniality and high Christian courtesy. For the last seven years of his life he was entirely helpless and con- fined to his bed by a paralysis which deprived him in a great measure of the use of his mental powers. He died Decem- ber 31, 1861, aged seventy-nine. John Wadsworth was a native of Durham, Conn. ; was born in 1781. Leaving college, he returned to his native town, and commenced the study of law. For a time he was in the practice of his profession in New York, but returned to his home in Durham, and devoted much of his time to lit- erary pursuits. He was considered the best classical scholar in his class. " I visited him once in Durham," says his class- mate. Rev. Lyman Strong, " and found him poring over his Latin classics." He ever maintained a high and honorable character, and was greatly esteemed. He died of consump- tion, in 1815, aged thirty-four. William Brigham Wesson was born in Hopkinton, May 29, 1777, but removed in early life with his parents to Athol. After his graduation he studied theology, and was ordained and installed in Hardwick, October 30, 1805, and continued in the ministry there till June 30, 1824, when he was dismissed. He was never settled in the ministry again, but remained in Hardwick till his death, which occurred May 9, 1836, at the age of fifty-nine. He was married to Miss Azubah M. Graves, of Athol. He left a worthy widow, with a respectable family of children. Class of 1803. Daniel Bigelow was a native of Petersham. He studied medicine, went west, and settled in Columbus, Ohio. He died there (1826), aged forty-two — a useful and beloved physician. Lewis Bigelow, a brother of Daniel, and son of Daniel Big- elow, Esq., of Petersham, was born in 1785. He studied law. ifG ^> 246 BIOGEAPHICAL ANNALS. and settled in Worcester. He rose to so much distinction, that he was early elected a representative in Congress. He died at Peoria, 111., in 1838, aged fifty-three. 15? Calvin Beiggs was born at Cummington, on the 10th of May, 1785. His father was minister of the Congregational Church and Society in that town, and died in 1825, aged eighty years. Calvin studied medicine with Peter Bry- ant, M. D., of his native town, took his medical degree at Harvard University in the autumn of 1806, and became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1811. He commenced the practice of physic, in 1806, at Lancaster, but removed to Marblehead in 1808, where he resided all his sub- sequent days. He rose to eminence in his profession, and died in 1852, aged sixty-six. David Buttolph was born in the town of Northeast, Dutch- ess Co., N. y., October 28, 1779, and was fitted for college by Vinson Gould, in Sharon, Conn. He taught one year after leaving college, and then studied law in Poughkeepsie, N, Y. In 1808 he removed to Norwich, N. Y. The place was then new, and sparsely settled. Here he continued in the practice of his profession for about thirty years, when he gradually withdrew, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1816 he made a public profession of religion. In the fall of 1867 he went to Marietta, Cobb Co., Ga., to pass the winter with his son, D. L. Buttolph, and died there, July 27, 1868, at the ripe age of eighty-eight years and eight months. JosiAH Weeks Canning was born in the town of New Brain- tree, February 27, 1780. His father was a farmer, and, soon after the birth of this son, removed to Greenwich, in the same county. At the age of sixteen, and then by his own exer- tions, he was fitted for college, entering the Sophomore class in 1 800. After his graduation, he taught for one year the Aciulomy in C(jrnwull, Conn., then studied theology Avith Rev. Asahci Hooker, of Goshen, in the same state, and commenced SKETCHES OF THE ALUMXI. 247 his ministerial labors in South Britain. He then preached to the Congregational Church and Society in Gill, and was or- dained over them in June, 1806 ; remained there until 1827 ; then took charge of the Academy at Williamstown for four years. He then returned to his former parish, over which he was installed in 1832. Here he remained until his sudden death, October 4, 1854, aged seventy-four years and seven months. During his ministry two or three revivals occurred, by which large accessions were made to the church. His talents were of the sound and useful, rather than of the brilliant, order, and he was greatly beloved and respected by all who knew him. Phixeas Cooke was born in Hadley, October 9, 1781. He fitted for college at the Academy in his native town. He studied law at Keene, N. H., but in a short time turned his attention to theology, and was licensed to preach the gospel in 1812. He was settled in the ministry in Acworth, N. H., September 7, 1814, and, after a prosperous and happy minis- try, was dismissed in March, 1829, and was installed in the following May in Lebanon, N. H., where he enjoyed a pros- perous pastorate of nineteen years. He was dismissed May 13, 1848, and removed to Amherst, where he passed the re- mainder of his days in the family of his son, preaching occa- sionally. He died in 1853, aged seventy-one. Nathan Metcalp Hale was from Goshen, Conn. He was a brilliant scholar. At his graduation he was regarded as at the head of his class. He studied law with Judge Gold, of Whitesboro', N. Y. He then went south, and opened a law oflSce for a short time in Georgia, but lived a wandering life. It was finally ascertained, beyond any serious doubt, that he had in some way connected himself with the Miranda Expedi- tion. Our Triennial states the time of his death to be 1813, and his age to be thirty-two ; but some of his friends think he must have died a little earlier than that. 248 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Alfred Perry was born April 2G, 1780, at Harwinton, Conn., where his father was then pastor, but in 1784 removed to Richmond, Mass., with his parents. In 1803 he was grad- uated at WilHams College. For several years he was in fee- ble health, but taught for a time in Westfield Academy, and for a few years in South Carolina, whither he had gone for his health. He completed his medical studies at the Philadel- phia Institution, then under the care of Dr. Rush, and com- menced practice in Williamstown. November 1, 1814, he was married to Miss Lucy Benjamin, of that town, and in No- vember, 1815, he removed to Stockbridge. In 1837 he went to Illinois, and, having fixed upon a location, removed his family in June, 1838, but died September 10, of the same year. As a Christian, and a deacon in the church, Dr. Perry was peculiarly active, and as a physician fervently beloved by his patients, and trusted with a fearlessness which was sometimes denominated idolatry. He was a man of great patience and firmness, and differed from many of his day in both his reli- gious and his medical views : but this, even to many who dif- fered from him, was but the means of raising their esteem for his forgiving spirit. It was very rare that he spoke of the practice of other physicians, unless it met his own views ; and in religious matters, though he steadfastly adhered to what he believed to be right, still he maintained an unusual degree of quietness and self-possession, and when convinced of an error, no man was more prompt to acknowledge it and seek forgiveness. Robert Hubbard was a native of Shelburn, and was born in 1783. In college he was not distinguished as a scholar. He would try to recite with as little study as possible. After his graduation, he studied law in Greenfield. He soon, how- ever, relinquished the study of law, and became decidedly pious. The change was wonderful. He now studied theolo- gy with the Rev. Dr. Packard, was licensed to preach, and went to Angelica and Alfred, N. Y., and was settled over two societies, August 20, 1812, and filled up a ministry there of distinguished usefulness. He died May 24, 1840, at Canisteo, SKETCHES OF THE ALUMXI. 249 N. Y., aged fifty-seven. " He was unwearied in his labors, and distinguished for a devotional spirit." Philip P. Van Rensselaer was from Albany. After his graduation he returned to Albany, and became a merchant, , and engaged to some extent in agriculture. He died in 1827, ' aged forty-five. Douglas Wheeler Sloan was a native of Williamstown, /I 'ti and was born in 1784. After graduating, he studied law, and entered upon the practice of his profession in Williamstown. He was likewise somewhat extensively engaged in agricul- ture, and was a large landholder. About 1830 he removed to New Alban}', Ind., where he died in 1839, aged fifty-five. He married Miss Cogswell, the daughter of Mrs. President Fitch by her first husband. Jacob A. Ten Eyck was from Schodack, N. Y. After his graduation he settled on a farm in his native town, and passed ' his life in agricultural pursuits, having no special relish for literary or professional labors. He died suddenly, at Scho- dack, just as he had returned from a journey, August 27, 1859, aged seventy-eight. Eussell Wheeler was from Brookfield, Conn., and was or- ^»- 0_ I dained deacon in the Episcopal Church in 1805, and priest in 1807. He was settled in Watertown, Conn., from 1805 to 1814, when he removed to Butternuts, N. Y., where he died in 1861, aged seventy-nine. James W. Whitney was born in Connecticut, but passed ,--, ertsville, Otsego Co., N. Y., October 17, ls3.j. After gradua- tion he studied medicine, and graduated at the Homccopatliic College of Medi- cine at Piiiladelpliia in 1858, and practised at Oswego until the breaking out of the late war. In October, 18G1, he was appointed aide-de-camp to General Buel, and so continued till 18G3. He M-as then employed on the staff, and until lately was attached to the war office at Wasiiington. He has tiie brevet rank of lieutenant colonel. He was married. 18C2, to Henrietta Kerr, eldest daughter of the late Captain Henry Donnell Hunter, United States navy, and has two cliildren. Lestek Courtland Rogers, son of Rev. Lester T. and Susan H. Crandall Rogers, was born at Watcrford, Conn., December 11, 1S2'J. He entered col- lege in the S()i)homore class. He studied tlieology at the seminary of tlie Re- formed Protestant Dutch Church, at New Brunswick, N. J., and in 18G0 was ordained minister of a church of that denomination, at Newmarket, N. J., where he still remains. He is likewise superintendent of schools. He was chaplain of the Twenty-ninth N. J. Volunteers during the late war. He was married, 1857, to Miss Josephine Wilcox, of Westerly, R. I., and has children. Henky Root, son of the late Dr. Leonard and Caroline E. Dayton Root, was born at North Granville, Wasiiington Co., N. Y., April 5, 1835. He entered college at the beginning of the Sophomore year. He studied medicine in New York, and graduated M. D. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1859, and afterwards studied in London and Paris. He was a surgeon in the army during the late war, and was wounded at the battle of Chancellors- ville. He afterwards spent much time in travelling in Europe. He is now at Whitehall, N. Y. Frank Shepard, son of Isaac and J. M. Phillips Shepard, was born in Ashficld, Mass., July 7, 1831. Since graduation he has devoted himself to teaching, and when last heard from was principal of Greenwich Academy, Con- necticut. He was married, 1860, to Caroline, daughter of Lyman Thompson, of Port Chester, N. Y. Oren Cornelius Sikes, son of the Rev. Oren Sikes, was born at Bedford, Mass., October 12, 1834. He taught school at Fishkill, N. Y., after leaving college. He now resides at Lynn, Mass. He was married, 1857, to Miss Ade- line W. Spinney, of Lynn. Edward Clarence Smith, son of the late Rev. Charles Adams Smith, D. D. (originally Schmidt) and Matilda Lasell Smith, and nephew of Professor SKETCHES OF THE ALUIIXI. 629 Edward Lasell, was born at Palatine, ^Muntgoiiiery County, N. Y.. May 13, 1835. He entered Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., and removed to Williams at the beginning of Sophomore year. He graduated with a brilliant reputation for scholarship. After leaving college he studied law, and afterwards theology at the Union Theological Seminary, but has never been ordained. He is prin- cipal of a private school, called Bugby Academy, for boys, in Philadelphia. He was married, 1865, to Miss Virginia A. Toadvine, of Salisbury, Md. John Thompson Stonkman was born Feb. 24, 1832, and came to college from Jamestown, N. Y. He studied law, and practises at McGregor, Iowa. He has been mayor of McGregor. He is married. John Tatlock, son of James Tatlock, of Liverpool, England, and nephew of Professor John Tatlock, was born at Liverpool, January 29, 1835. He studied theology at Auburn Theological Seminary, and was for several years pastor of the Congregational Church at South Adams ; he is now settled over a Congregational Church at Troy, N. Y. He married Lucy, daughter of Sey- mour Whitman, Esq.. of Williamstown, and has several children. Lemuel Peterson Webber, son of Henry Webber, was born at Salem, N. J., June 8, 1832. He entered college Junior year. He is a Presbyterian minister, but his present residence is not known. Charles Whittier was born at Haverhill, August 3, 1830. He studied the- ology at the Bangor Theological Seminary, and is pastor of a Congregational Church at Dennysville, Me. He married a daughter of the Rev. Enoch Pond, D. D., of Bangor. Charles Dana AVilber, son of George Wilber, was born at Auburn, Ohio, in 1831. He entered college Junior year. He resides at Bloomington, 111., and has been much engaged in the geological survey of the State of Illinois. John Henry Wilhelm, son of Benjamin Wilhelm, was born at Butler, Montgomery Co., Ohio, May 12, 1831. He entered Oberlin College, and came to Williams during Junior year. After leaving college he taught in the West. He studied theology at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and is now a minister, but his present address is not known. Samcel Williams, youngest son of Hon. Charles Kilborn Williams (of the class of 1800), was born at Kutland, Vt., January 8, 1837, being the second youngest member of the class. He studied law at Rutland. He was military secretary to the governor of Vermont during the war, and is now treasurer of the Vermont Central Railroad, at St. Albans, Vt. Lavalette Wilson was born June 25, 1827. He entered college in the Sophomore year. Since he left college he has been principal of a private school at Haverstraw, N. Y. He has been married, but has since lost his wife. George Yeomans, son of Rev. John William Yeomans, D. D. (of the class of 1824), was born February 25, 1833. His present residence is not known. 630 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Class of 1857. Henry Mills Aldkn, son of Ira Aldcn, from Iloosac Falls, was born November 11, 183(5, at Mt. Tabor, Vt. He is one of tlie editors of Harper's periodicals. He helped to edit Harper's Tietorial History of the War. He is married; lives in New York city, and has children. Henky Clay Allen, a native of New York city. A lawyer, and resides in New York. RuFUS Aptiioup, from Hinsdale, Mass., was born February 8, 1828. A clergyman. He graduated at Auburn, 18G1 ; was immediately settled in Cooper, Mich. May, 18G1, he was married to Louisa Fay, of liochester, Ohio. Now pastor at Aipena, Mich. Merritt Andrews Barber, son of Benjamin Barber, from Pownal, Vt. He is brevet major United States army ; was born July 31, 1830. He practised law at Pownal, Vt. Was married, fir.«t, June 20, 18G8, to Miss C. E. Roberts, who died August 10, 185G; second, May 15, 18G7, to Miss D. W. Fowler, at Troy, N. Y. ; he has one child, the daughter of his first wife. He won honor- able distinction in the war of the rebellion. He is now stationed at Grenada, Miss. Nathaniel Jabez Bartlett, son of Nathaniel and Hannah D. Bartlett, of Lowell, Mass., was born April 23, 1834. He married Ellen M. Higgins, of Andover, Mass. A bookseller in Boston. Frederick William Beecoer, son of Dr. Edward Beecher, of Galesburg, HI., was born February 4, 1835, at Jacksonville, 111. In 18G2 he became pas- tor, and still remains at Kankakee, 111. He is married, and has children. Lyman Beecher, son of W. H. Beecher, from Reading, Mass., was born March 7, 1836. He has spent much time in travel ; now engaged in the life insurance business, Boston, Mass. George Blodgett, son of B. Blodgett, from Bucksport, Me., was bom April 6, 1833. He resides at Bucksport, Me. ; is married, and has children. Lysander Tower Burbank, son of John and Hannah Burbank, from Fitz- ■william, N. H., was born November 24, 1828. He graduated at the Union Theological Seminary, New Y^ork, 1860. He is a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, in Bitlis, Asia Minor. He married Sarah S. Van Vleck, May 14, 1860. In 1867 they had four children. Simeon Howard Calhoun, son of Charles Calhoun, from Boston, Mass., was born May 27, 1836. He was married August 20, 1864, to Matilda Mc- Mecham. They have two children. He is a lawyer, and mayor of Nebraska City, Nebraska. Israel Carleton, son of John Carleton, from Haverhill, Mass. He is a clergyman at Utica, Livingston Co., Mo. He was married to Miss Phoebe SKETCHES OF THE ALUMXI. 631 Miller, of Brooklyn, N. Y., September, 18(53. They have had four children, of whom three are living. Valentine Burt Chamberlain, son of Abraham Chamberlain, from Cole- brook River, Conn., was born April 13, 1833. He is judge of the Borough Court at New Britain, Conn. He was admitted to the bar in 1859, and assist- ant clerk of Connecticut House of Representatives, 1861. He served with credit in the war of the rebellion ; after which he was engaged in planting, at Laurel Grove, Fla. He returned on account of ill health. He was delegate to the Chicago Convention, 18G8. Not married. Benton Wilson Cole, son of Almon B. Cole, from South Adams, Mass., was born January 22, 1834. Ho taught during 1858; was admitted to the bar in December, 1859; died April 11, 18G0, the first of the class. No mem- ber of the class died during the college course. Fredkrick Wadsworth Cole, son of D. Cole, from Rochester, N. Y., was born March 8, 1837. He was a lawyer at Virginia City, Nevada, and married Miss Ida Tuttle, of that place, November 7, 1867. He practised law at St. Louis, Mo., until 1861, and San Francisco one year. He then returned to Virginia City, where he still remains. James Deane, from Salisbury, Conn., was born April 21, 1830. He served with credit during the war, and helped to capture Lee. He was a clergyman, married, and had three children in 1807. He was settled in Sandisfleld, Mass., ^and is now preaching in Westmoreland, N. Y. John Jacob Doughty, son of Joseph C. Doughty, from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was born July 10, 1837. After graduation he studied law, and was ad- mitted to the bar. He was for a time in Chicago, 111., afterwards was in busi- ness at Hudson, N. Y., and more recently at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Samuel Edwards Elmore, son of Harvey Elmore, from South Windsor, Conn., was born November 3, 1833. He was a member of the General Assem- bly in 1800 and 1804. He is secretary of the Continental Life Insurance Com- pany, of Hartford, Conn. He was married November 1, 1804, to Mary A. Burnham. , They have two children. George Whitefield Fay, son of James Fay, from Westboro', Mass., was born July 27, 1832. He taught in Alabama one year. At present is a physi- cian in Baltimore, Md. He was married June 1, 1807, to Miss Eliza J. Reed. He was surgeon in the army during the war. Bentley Stephens Foster, son of Walter and Maria Bentley Foster, from Montrose, Pa., was born March 23, 1832. He taught the academy at Greenville and Poestenkill, N. Y. He graduated at Union Theological Seminary, New York, 18C2. He settled at Franklinville, L. I. He resided in Brooklyn, and now settled at Duninore, Pa. He was married in February, 18G7, to Phoebe Jane Baldwin, of Newark, N. J. George Dickinson Goodrich, son of Horace Goodrich, M. D., from East Windsor Hill, Conn., was born April 29, 1834. He was a clergyman at Denver, Colorado, in 1807. 632 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. James Gutiikie, son of B. J. Guthrie, from York, N. Y., was born Febru- ary 14, 1830 ; now at Bellefontaino, Ohio. FiuiDEKicK SouTiiMAYD IIaigiit, from Lowell, Mass., was born Octobers, 183G. Now teaching in Montreal. William Gkeenougii Hakding, son of Sewall Harding, from Auburndale, Mass., was born August 5, 1834. A manufacturer of glass at Pittsfield, Mass. Had a wife and three children in 18G7. James Mallory JIawley, from Troy, N. Y., was born at Troy, June 14, 1838, where he is now a wholesale drug merchant. Was married January 12, 18G9, to Miss Anna Boiler, of Philadelphia. Henry Richard IIoisington, son of Rev. H. R. Hoisington, from Williams- town, Mass., was born October 4, 1830, at Batticotta, a village of Ceylon, in Jaffna. Is a clergyman, graduated at Union Theological Seminary, New York. Now at Circleville, Ohio. Was married October 19, 18G5, to Miss Marion Fen- ton, of Mansfield Centre. They have two sons. Elias Cornelius Hooker, son of Edward W. Hooker, D. D., from South Windsor, Conn., was born in Bennington, Vt., July 9, 1832. He studied the- ology at Princeton, N. J., and became pastor of the North Congregational Church, Newburyport, Mass., December 11, 18G0. September 13, 18G5, he became pastor of the First Congregational Church in Nashua, N. H., where he now is. Has been twice married; first, to Miss Margaret Cecilia De Bevoise, at West Boxford, Mass., June 19, 18G1, who died April 25, 18C2; second, to Miss Sarah B. Mo Williams, at Newburyport, December 20, 1865. Alexander Hutchins, from Peeksville, N. Y., was born January 22, 1835. Graduated at the Medical College in New York. Surgeon in the navy during the war. Now a physician in Brooklyn, N. Y. Is married ; had two children in 18G7. Edward Swift Isham, son of Pierpont Isham, from Bennington, Vt., was born January 15, 1836. A lawyer at Chicago, 111. Was a member of the Bal- timore Convention which nominated Lincoln. Is married, and has children. David Sumner Johnson, son of James Johnson, from Albany, N. Y., was born at Waterford, N. Y., June 4, 1834. Graduated at Auburn Theological Seminary in 18G0. Pastor for seven years of Presbyterian Church at Waver- ley, N. Y. Now settled at Hyde Park, 111. Married to Helen L. Willard, of Cayuga, N. Y., June, 18G0. Edward Payson Kimball, son of Charles Kimball, from Ipswich, Mass., was born March 22, 1836. Resides at Ipswich, and practises law at Salem. William Lansing, son of C. T. Lansing, from Albany, N. Y., was born March 20, 1837. A lawyer at Albany, N. Y. Married to Miss McClellan, daughter of Hon. Robert McClellan, of Hudson, N. Y. Irving Magee, son of William I. and Gertrude Moore Magee, of Living- ston, N. Y., was born at Red Hook, N. Y., July 24, 1831. Was principal of Spencertown Academy, N. Y., for one year. Graduated at Union The- SKETCirES OF THE ALUMXI. 633 ologlcal Seminary, New York, in May, 1860. Was immediately settled as pastor at Valatie, N. Y. Remained there until September, 1865. when he was called to Baltimore, Md. ; in 1868, to Chambersburg, Pa., and in 1869 was called to Dayton, Ohio, pastor of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he is now settled. Not married. Gilbert Bcrbiage Manley, from Potsdam, N. Y., was born at Johnstown, N. Y., December, 1829, son of Rev. George and Esther Smith Manley. Has been engaged in teaching at Conway and Northampton, Mass., and at Malone, N. Y., where he still is. Was married (the first of his class, and during Senior year in college) to Miss Martha L. Hyde, daughter of Ephraim and Harriet Hyde, of Massena, N. Y. Have had four children; three are living. Robert Emmet McMath, son of Allan McMath, from Rochester, N. Y., was born April 28, 1833. Is a civil engineer in the employ of the United States. Was married December 29, 1859, to Frances E. Brodle, who died February 12, 1867. Has four children. Home at St. Louii?, Mo. Francis Le Baron Munroe, son of Alexander Le Baron Munroe, from Medway, Mass., was born March 20, 1836. Was, during the war, and still is a surgeon in the United States army. Robert Murray, Jr., son of Robert Murray, of Waltham, Mass., was born January 17, 1837. Graduated at the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va. Was rector of St. John's Church, Barrington, R. I., and has for four years been settled over St. James's Church, Woonsocket, R. I. Not married. James Moses Nichols, son of Moses Nichols, from Haverhill, Mass., was born July 23, 1835. Was in the army three or four years during the war; was breveted colonel for eminent service. Is now a merchant in New York city. Was married to Miss Marsh, of New York, June 3, 1865. Daniel Nolton, son of Daniel Nolton, from Holland Patent, N. Y., was born June 26, 1836. Was admitted to the bar September 7, 1859. Served in the Southern army during the war. December 12, 1866, was married to Miss Jennie Howell, of Byhalia, Miss. Practised law with marked success at Mem- phis, Tenn., until his death, which occurred from yellow fever, October 25, 1868. Andrew Parsons, son of James Parsons, from Sharon Springs, was born August 15, 1830. Graduated at Auburn Theological Seminary. For six years was settled at Richfield Springs, N. Y. In 1866 he organized a church in Ottawa, Kansas, where he still is. Was married, in 1861, to Miss Salona White, of Auburn, N. Y. Charles Morgan Pierce, son of Erastus Pierce, from Hinsdale, Slass., was born October 18, 1835. Taught at Topsfield, Mass. Was tutor at Wil- liams College for two years. Studied theology at Andover, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in West Boxford, September 2, 1863 ; re- mained till 1867. Again called to Williams as instructor in mathematics. Re- signed, April, 1868, and accepted call to Congregational Church at Middlefield, G34 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Mass., whcTo lie now is. Was married to Elizaljeth M. Tcaljody, of Salem, Ma.sH., August 12, 1863. John Piikntick, son of John H. Prentice, from Brooklyn, N. Y., was born May 22, 1835. Merchant in New York. Married, and resides in Brooklyn, N. Y. Edwin Qlackenbusu, son of G. V. S. Quackenbush, from Troy, N. Y., was born November 17, 18i58. A lawyer in New York city, and now in Troy. Samlkl IIubbaud Scuddkk, son of Charles Scudder, from Roxbury, Mass., was born April 13, 1837. Studied for several years in the Lawrence Scien- tific School of Harvard Collcfje. Assistant in Museum, in department of zotJlogy. Was made recording secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History in 18G2; now has general charge of its library and museum. June 25, 18G7, was married to Miss Jcannie Blatchford, and since that time has resided in Cambridge, Mass. Nelson Boynton Siikkwin, son of John Sherwin, from Perkinsville, Vt., was born at Weathersfield, Vt., May 21, 1832. Graduated at the Ohio State Law School, July, 1858. Represented the Cleveland district in the General Assembly of Ohio for two years. Is at present United States assessor at Cleve- land. Was married to Lizzie M. Kidder, in July, 18G0. Has four children. Martin IIenuy Smith, son of Henry and Lydia Smith, from Suffield, Conn., was born August 5, 1833. Has been professor of mathematics in the Connecticut Literary Institute, and principal of Maysville Literary Institute, Ky. Resigned tlie latter in 18GG, and went into the drug trade at Maysville. Deacon of Baptist Church, superintendent of Sunday school, member of the board of education, one of the grand officers of the grand commandery of the Knight Templars of Kentucky. August 13, 18G0, married Miss Annie Thomp- son. Has two daughters. Homer Bemis Stevens, son of Washington Stevens, from Norwich, Mass., was born September 9, 1835. Taught after graduating. Is now a lawyer at Westfield, Mass. Married. Charles Acgcstcs Stork, son of Rev. Theophilus Stork, D. D., and Mary Jane, daughter of William Lynch, Esq., from Pliiladelphia, Pa., was born near Frederick City, Md., September 4, 1838. Entered Andover Theological Semi- nary September, 1857, and remained there two years. Elected professor of Greek in Newberry College, S. C, 1859. Went to Europe in 1861. Ordained to the gospel ministry in the Lutheran Church in Baltimore in 1862. Married to Miss Maria Holbrook, of Andover, Mass., January 1, 1863. Assistant to his father in St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Baltimore, from ordina- tion till 1865, when he was elected sole pastor, which position he continues to fill. Has children. William Tatlock, son of James Tatlock, of Liverpool. England, was born May 26, 1833. Studied theology at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York. In 1861 officiated as rector of St. John's Church, North Adams, Mass. Associate rector of St. Peter's Church, SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 635 Albany. N. Y., 1862-6. Rector of St. John's Church, Stamford, Conn., since May, 1866. Married, September 10, 1868. James Ethekington Trimble, son of Samuel T. Trimble, from Alleghany City, Pa., was born February 22, 1836. Studied law in Iowa. In 1857 was associate principal of Washington Academy, Arkansas. During this year he married Miss Laura C. Bartlett. In 1858 he was principal of Union Institute, 1859; 1862 he was president of Farmcrsville Female College, La. He was then compelled to go into the military service, and was appointed engi- neer. In May, 1864, he was on the staff of General S. Price, acting assistant adjutant general. Was nominated as adjutant general with rank of major. " Not confirmed because sympathies were with the Yankees." ** A Union man before, throughout, and since the war, and cast the only republican vote in his parish last November for General U. S. Grant." Republican candidate for district attorney. Is mayor of the town of Farmcrsville. First wife died October 23, 1860. In November 15, 1861, he married Miss Isabella Munger. They have four sons. Alexander Walker, son of Gilbert Walker, from Caledonia, N. Y., was born June 18, 1831. Is a lawyer at Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co., West Virginia. Horace Herman Wells, son of Herman Wells, from Upper Aquebogue, N. Y., was born at Northville, L. I., April 22, 1835. Was married to Miss Frances E. Wells, December 31, 1857. Studied law at New Haven, Conn., and began practice at Huntington, L. I., in 1861, and continued until his death, which occurred August 23, 1863. One son. James Raynor Whiting, son of James R. Whiting, from New York city, was born June 30, 1835. Was admitted to the bar, but is now engaged in ship-building at New York. Present residence at Spuytcn Duyvil, N. Y. Edwin Mather Wight, son of Daniel Wight, from Troy, N. Y.,was born at Brimfigid, Mass., October 31, 1836. Studied law with Judge Whiting, New York ; graduated at the Albany Law School, 1859. Practised with Judge Whiting for some time, but is now in practice alone. Was married, February 9, 1869, in Baltimore, Md., to a daughter of John W. Ball. Samcel Wood, son of Bradford R. Wood, from Albany, N. Y., was born November 20, 1836. Graduated at the Albany Law School. Practised for a time with his father in Albany. Thereafter, and at present, in New York. He was married April 5, 1861. Class of 1858. Robert Emmet Adams, son of Robert Adams, from Whitehall, N. Y., was born March 8, 1834, and after graduation practised law in Louisiana, but left the state at the beginning of the war, and settled in Crescent City, California. James McKinney Alexander, son of William C. Alexander, from Lahaina, Hawaiian Islands, was born January 29, 1835. In consequence of failure in health he returned to tiie Islands in 1«62, but afterwards moved to California, and engaged in misj^iunary labors there. C36 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. .ToiiK Griffith Amks, son of Benjamin Amcp, from East Dorset, Vt., was born December 11, 1834. He took orders in the Episcopal Church, and in 18G4 accepted a charge as rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Morristown, N. J. He was married in Ohio. George Henry Beckwitii, son of George Mather Beckwith, from Platts- burg, N. Y., was born July 20, 1835, and entered college Sophomore year. He returned to Plattshurg after graduation, married, and is a lawyer there. Charles Henry Bissell, from South Windsor, Conn., entered the ministry, and marrying, settled in Poquonnock, Conn., over the Congregational Church. Charles Hendrick Bixby, son of Levi Bixby, from Surinam, South America, was born March 2G, 1839. He spent much of the first ten years after graduation in travel, and in 1870, was studying to take orders in the Episcopal Church. JosEi-n Perky Bixby, son of Joscpli P. Bixby, from Thompson, Conn., was born January 28, 1833. He entered the ministry of the Congregational Church, and was settled, first, in Boston, and tlien in Dedham, Mass. He is married. Oliver Bronsos, son of Dr. Oliver Bronson, of New York city, was born April 30, 1837. He is residing in St. Augustine, Fla. Charles Henry Brown, son of Randall A. Brown, from Stephentown, N. Y., was born April 12, 1834. He studied law in Troy, N. Y. In 1860 he went to Omaha, Nebraska, and was elected prosecuting attorney. In 18C4 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention. The same year he was elected an alderman of Omaha, and a member of the House of Representatives. In 1867 he was elected mayor of Omaha. Truman Tyrrell Buck, son of Asahel Buck, from Lanesboro', Mass., was born April 2, 1838. He engaged in teaching at the South, and remained there the early part of the war; afterwards in Memphis, Tenn., in business. Samuel Oliver BcnNiiAM, of Haverhill, Mass., was born April 6, 1834. He taught in several Tcacliers' Institutes, served with distinction in the re- bellion, and is now at the West. Samuel Russell Butler, son of Mr. J. H. Butler, from Northampton, Mass., was born July 21, 1837. He entered the ministry, and for three last years has been a missionary on the Labrador coast. George William Carlton, son of George S. Carlton, from Lowell, Mass., March 5, 1836, whither he returned to practise medicine. Samuel Wheeler Carpenter, son of Jeremiah Carpenter, from Kinder- hook, N. Y., was born June 24, 1838. He engaged in business and law, and was a member of the Assembly, New York. Died in Valatie, November 30, 1868, leaving a family. Samuel McCoskey Cleveland, son of Professor Charles Dexter Cleveland, from Philadelphia, Pa., was born December, 1837, and has, since graduation, lived in Philadelphia, engaged in teaching and journalism. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 637 Martin De Los Cole, of South Adams, Mass. He married tlie sister of his classmate Buck, and is living at Dalton, Mass. John Eaton Darby, of South Williarastown, Mass., was born August 20, 1834. He studied medicine, and served in the war as surgeon. He married Miss J. F. Wright, of Cleveland, Ohio, where he is a practising physician. Joshua Bctts Davis, son of Munn Davis, from Baldwinsville, N. Y., was born March 19, 1833. He married just before graduation, and after entering the ministry, was engaged as chaplain in the army, and afterwards exchanged his chaplainship for a captaincy. Justin Dewey, son of Justin Dewey, from Great Barrington, Mass., was born June 12, 183G. He married Miss Stanley, of the same town, and is estab- lished there as lawyer. Has served in the state legislature. John Henry Doughty, from Cornwall Hollow, Conn., married Miss Eliza- beth Woodin, of Dutchess County, N. Y. He served as examining surgeon in the war, and now practises medicine in West Winsted, Conn. Edward Hubbard Fitch, from Ashtabula, Ohio, was born May 26, 1837, and lives in his native town, practising law. Henry Thornton Ford, son of Rev. Marcus Ford, from Newark Valley, N. Y., was born May 12, 1832. He entered the ministry, and settled as pastor in Binghamton, N. Y. Arthur Brown Graves, son of Rufus R. Graves, from Brooklyn, N. Y., was born November 22, 1836. He is engaged in business with his father, un- der style of R. R. Graves & Co., wool brokers. James "Winchell Grcsh, son of Job T. Grush, from Fall River, Mass., was born April 12, 1831. He was married, and settled in the ministry, in St. Lawrence County, N. Y. Edward Payson Hammond, son of Elijah Hammond, from Vernon, Conn., was born September 1, 1831. Entered the ministry, and labors as an evange- list in different parts of the country. Married. Henry Herrick, son of Justus T. Herrick, from Twinsburg, Ohio, was born January 20, 1833. He practised medicine, and was surgeon in Sherman's army. He is married, and settled at Cleveland, Ohio. Matthew La Rue Perrine Hill, son of Rev. R. W. Hill, from Rochester, N. Y., was born March 11, 1834. He entered the ministry, and is settled over the Presbyterian Churcli, Little Falls, N. J. William Fahs Hopkins, son of William S. Hopkins, from Baltimore, Md., was born December 27, 1836. Practising law in Baltimore. Henry Hopkins, son of Mark and Mary Hubbel Hopkins, was born in Wil- liamstown, November 30, 1837. He was chaplain of the One Hundred and Twentieth New York Regiment, and afterwards settled, in 1S(JG, over the Con- gregational Cimrch in WestfiL-ld, Mass. C38 BIOGRAPHICAL ANXALS. Edward Payson Humphrey, son of Sarah D. De Forrest, of Rochester, N. Y., was born November 1, 1833. He went to Minnesota for his health, and apparently recovered; but returning to Rochester, he died, leaving a widow. Benjamin Franklin Lee, son of Benjamin F. Lee, from New York city, was born January 7, 1839. He is a lawyer in New York city. William Artemas Lloyd, son of Artemas W. Lloyd, from Washington, Mass., was born December 2, 1832 ; preached in Wisconsin ; is now in Chicago. Henry Munson Lyman, son of Rev. David B. Lyman, from Hilo, Hawaiian Islands, was born November 2G, 1835. He was married in 18C3, and settled as physician in Chicago, 111. William Richard Lyon, son of Moses Lyon, from King's Ferry, N. Y., was born May G, 1834. In 18G2 he was teaching in St. Joseph, Mich. Curtis Jerre Lyons, son of Rev. L. Lyons, from the Hawaiian Islands, was born June 27, 1833. He returned to the Islands. Henry Brainard McClellan, from Philadelphia, Pa., was born October 17, 1840. He married Miss Kate Mattiiews, of Cumberland County, Va., and served as major on General Lee's staff in the southern army. Egbert Meech, son of Henry T. Meech, from Albany, N. Y., was born October 20, 1833. After being admitted to the bar, he studied theology, and is rector of Christ's Church, Hartford, Conn. Robert Hazard Morey, son of Robert Morey, from Nashua, N. Y., was born March 3, 1835 ; a physician, practising in Perry City, Schuyler Co., N. Y. Cornelius Sammons Onderdonk, son of Rev. John Onderdonk, from Wil- son, N. Y., was born October 2, 1834. He was admitted to the bar, and prac- tised law in Lockport, N. Y. Is dead. Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter, son of Rev. George Painter, from Draper's Valley, Va., was born March 21, 1833. He entered the ministry, and for a while was settled in New Marlboro,' Mass., married, and went west. Benjamin Franklin Parsons, son of Willard Parsons, from Goshen, Mass., was born November G, 1826. He was married, and was in charge of the acade- my at New Marlboro', Mass. Edward Arthur Pierce, ward of Willis Lambert, from Woodbury, Conn., was born September 15, 1835. The family early removed to Tallmadge, Ohio. After graduation he taught for a year, and entered the Theological Seminary at East Windsor Hill, Conn., in 1859. In 18G0 he was licensed to preach, and during the remaining years of his theological course he preached in several towns in Connecticut. He visited Chicago soon after his graduation. After preaching a few Sabbaths in Westminster Presbyterian Church in that city, he received a call to become its pastor. He was ordained and installed, and labored with that church for four years. At the end of that time he accepted a call to the Calvary Presbyterian Church, in the same city, where he remained SKETCHES OF THE ALUMXI. 639 till the Master called him higher. Mr. Pierce died at Tallahassee, Fla., Feb- ruary 26, 1868. Thomas Post, son of Ladd Post, from Lenox, Mass., was born August 16, 1834. He returned to his native town to reside. He was a member of the state legislature at one time. Joseph Robie Putxam, son of S. Putuam, from Groton, Mass., was born September 29, 1835. He taught, and afterwards served in the army, in the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Forty-second United States Colored Infantry. He engaged in business, and now is a publisher in New York. Charles Dcrand Sanford. See Chapter VII. Horace Elisha Scudder, son of Charles Scudder, from Boston, Mass., was born October 16, 1838. He engaged in literary pursuits; is editor of the Riverside Magazine for young people. He resides in Boston. William Phillips Strickland, son of L. R. Strickland, from Sandisfield, Mass., was born January 12, 1835. He was admitted to the bar, and practises law in Ware, Mass. Elias Fitch Tanner, from Gouverncur, N. Y., was born October 22, 1833. He studied theology at the Union Seminary, N. Y. ; was married to Miss Maria Beckwith, of Great Barrington; is now a home missionary in Michigan. Stephen Higginson Tyng, son of Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, from New York city, was born June 28, 1839. He took orders in the Episcopal Church, and is rector of a church in New York city. RiCHABD Halsted Ward, SOU of Israel C. Ward, from Bloomfield, N. J., was born June 17, 1837. He was married June 10, 1862, and is a practising physician in Troy, N. Y. William White, son of William A. White, from Roxbury, Mass., was born February 28, 1837. He lived for some time in the Hawaiian Islands, and is now teacher in Oakland, Cal. John Phillips Payson White, son of Rev. Morris C. White, from North- ampton, Mass., was born July 4, 1838. A practising physician in New York city. He was an army surgeon during the war. Edward Payson Willard, son of Henry Willard, from Cayuga, N. Y., was born May 27, 1835. He is a minister of the Presbyterian Church. Robert Preston Wilson, from Clinton, N. Y., was born June 13, 1839. He served in the war, and was admitted to the bar. He is married. Class of 1859. Alonzo Alden was born at Westport, Essex County, N. Y., July 18, 1834. After leaving college, he studied the profession of law with Gale & Alden, Troy, N. Y., and was admitted to practice at the bar of the Supreme Court May 14, 1861, and on the same day received his commission of second lieuten- 640 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. ant in the volunteer army. Augusts, 18C5, lie was mustered out of service in Kalcigh, N. C, with rank of colonel and brigadier general by brevet, after having particii)ated in twenty-nine battles. He resides in Troy, N. Y., and is postmaster ; left the law because of disabilities received in the war. He was married April 5, 18GG, to Charlotte Dauchy, of Troy, N. Y. Humphrey Stevenson Andekson, son of James Anderson, from Thomp- sonville. Conn., was born October 22, 1838, in Glover, Vt. He studied law in New York, and remained there. He was married, October 22, 1868, to Kath- arine Anna Dennler. Daniel James Barber, son of Elijah Barber, from Pownal, Vt., was born July 25, 1836. He is married, and in l)usiness at Pownal. Joseph Dana Bautley, son of John M. C Bartley, from Ilampstead, N. H., was born September 17, 1838. He studied theology at Princeton. He is mar- ried, and has charge of the High School at Concord, N. H. Samuel Green Wheeler Benjamin was born at Argos, Greece, February 13, 1837. He was married October 20, 1803, to Clara Stowell. Is in literary pursuits in Brookfield, Mass. Martin Luther Bergeb, son of Mrs. Catharine Berger, from Mellenville, N. Y., was born August 12, 1839. He studied theology at Union. He is mar- ried, and settled at Syracuse, N. Y. Timothy Manning Brown, from Williamstown, Mass., was born May 8, 1838. He studied law in Springfield and Cambridge. He married Lizzie, daughter of Chief Justice Chapman, and is now United States assessor of the tenth Massachusetts district. Thomas Eldred Brownell, from Pownal, Vt. ; is married, and in business at Pownal. Oliver Prince Buel, son of Judge Buel, from Troy, N. Y., was born January 22, 1838. He studied law in Troy, and is practising in New York city. Jonathan Hunt Butler, son of Jonathan H. Butler, from Northampton, Mass., was born November 19, 1839. He entered the firm of E. H. Butler & Co., Philadelphia, and remains there. Leonard John Cole, son of Truman Cole, from South Adams, Mass, was born December 6, 1834. He went south, teaching, and was accidentally killed February 28, 1861, at Wetumpka, Ala. Hiram Burr Crandall, son of Hiram T. Crandall, from South Adams, Mass., was born October 22, 1835. He is a lawyer in Boston. Edwin Harris Darling, from Nassau, Bahama Islands, was born January 28, 1838. He studied law; was married; is now practising law in Chicago. Walter De Forest Day, son of Samuel S. Day, from Catskill, N. Y., was born October 2G, 1S35. He studied at the College of Physicians and Sur- SKETCHES OF THE ALUMM. 641 geons, New York. He was married September 9, 1869, to Miss S. E. Wheeler, of New York ; is now physician and professor of Materia Medica in the Medi- cal College of Pharmacy, New York city. Charles Austin Devendorf, son of Charles Devendorf, from Amsterdam, N. Y., was born May 15, 1839. He studied medicine ; was surgeon in the army ; was married in Albany, April 30, 1867, and settled in Amsterdam, N. Y. Hiram Madison Dickinson, son of Madison Dickinson, from Wilmington, Vt., was born July 13, 1836. He studied law at Ann Arbor; removed to Ne- braska. Was Probate judge, and died at Omaha, July 20, 1865. Charles Hall Everest, son of Fred. W. Everest, from New Lebanon Centre, N. Y., was born February 14, 1837. He studied theology at Union; was married, and settled at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1865. Charles Rollin Foote, son of Asahel Foote, from Williamstown, Mass. He resides in Williamstown. Washington Gladden, from Oswego, N. Y., was born February 11, 1836, at Pittsgrove, Pa. He studied theology; was married to Jennie Cahoon, December 5, 1860, and settled at North Adams, in 1867. John Thomas Gulick, son of Rev. P. J. Gulick, from Waialua, Hawaiian Islands, was born March 13, 1832. He studied theology at Union ; was mar- ried, and settled as missionary in Kalgan, China. Charles Fowlek Hand, from Madison, Conn., was born May 18, 1837. He studied theology at Andover. Henry Charles Haskell, son of William Haskell, from Hinsdale, Mass., was born December 28, 1835. He studied theology at Andover; was married to Margaret H. Bell, August 13, 1862, and is a missionary in Turkey. William Sage Hyde, son of William Hj'de, from Ware, Mass., was born June 20, 1838. He was married December, 1859, to Susan E. Pitt, of Adams, and lives at Ware, Mass. John Wells James, son of L. L. James, from Brooklyn, N. Y., was born January, 1839. He studied medicine in New York, and remains there in trade. James Anderson Laurie, son of John Laurie, from Jacksonville, 111., was born March 4, 1835. He studied theology at Andover; was married May 19, 1864, and settled at Poynette, Wis. John Elbert Long, from Unity, Ohio, was born September 7, 1832. He studied theology at Union, and settled at Hublersburg, Pa. David Hyde Mather, son of Hiram F. Mather, from Chicago, 111., was born October, 2, 1837, and lives in Chicago. Jacob F. Miller, son of Samuel M. Miller, from Claverack, N. Y., was born November 25, 1837. He studied law in New York, and remains there. Was married October 31, 1861, to Laura Augusta Chace, of Claverack. 41 642 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Horace Hills Morgan, from New Orleans, La., was born January 22, 1839, at Auburn, N. Y. After graduation he became principal of the High School in St. Louis, Mo. He was married June, 1808, to Miss M. E. Smith. Samuel Murdock, from New York city, was born April 2, 1828. He studied theology at Union. He was married and settled at Felton, Del. Henry Franklin Clocgh Nichols, son of Nicholas Nichols, from Haver- hill, Mass., was born February 9, 1833. He studied theology at Andover; was married May 12, 18G8, to Nettie Williams, of Concord, N. H., and is in trade at New Lisbon, Wis. £ben Burt Parsons, eon of O. Parsons, from Pittsficld, Mass., was born March 8, 1835. He studied theology at Union and Auburn; was married June 15, 18G9, to Clara Bigelow, and settled at Baldwinsville, N. Y. Marcus North Preston, from Berlin, Wis., was born July 1, 1835, in Lodi, N. Y. He studied theology at Union and Auburn ; was married in Ches- ter, N. H., May, 1862, and settled at Skaneateles, N. Y. James Harriman Rhoades, son of Jacob Rhoades, from Massillon, Ohio, was born July 7, 1836. He taught school ; was married, and is now at Wash- ington, D. C. Justin Gamaliel Riley, from Rochester, N. Y. He was married, and is teaching school at Schralenburg, N. J. Clark Esek King Royce, from New Lebanon Springs, N. Y. He studied law; entered the array as lieutenant, and became colonel of his regiment. Married Harriet B. Mitchell, of Sag Harbor, February 4, 1864. Is now practis- ing law at Scranton, Pa. Henry Albert Schauffler, from Constantinople, Turkey. He studied theology at Andover and law at Harvard. Married, November, 1862, to Clara Gray, of Springfield. Is now missionary of the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions, at Constantinople. John Wesley Virgin, from Wilbraham, Mass., was born April 20, 1833, and went south to teach. Robert Weeks, son of Mrs. Harriet Weeks, from New York city, was bom October 26, 1838. He studied theology, married, and settled at Catskill, N. Y. William White Williams, son of William H. Williams, from Keokuk, Iowa, was born January 1, 1838 ; studied theology, and was married in 1862. Daniel D. Willsea, son of Warner Willsea. from Tarrytown, N. Y., was born June 12, 1837. He is married, and in trade at Tarrytown. George Albert Wiswall, son of Ebenezer Wiswall, from West Troy, N. Y., was born July 16, 1839, and died in Port Austin, Mich., July 16, 1862. Joseph Parker Wiswall, son of E. Wiswall, from West Troy, N. Y., was born November 1, 1837. He is married, and in New York city. Solomon Wright, son of Solomon Wright, from Pownal, Vt., married, and in business in Pownal, Vt. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 643 Class of 1860. Henkt Tatlor Antes, son of William Antes, from Canandaigua, N. Y., was born July 9, 1837. He studied medicine, and is now living in Geneseo, 111. Giles Babcock, son of Giles Babcock, from New York city, was born Sep- tember 3, 1840. He studied law in New York city; was admitted to the bar in New York in 1861, and in Connecticut in 1864 ; second lieutenant in " Haine's Light Cavalry " in 18G2; a member of the House of Representatives in Connecticut in 18G8; was married January 30, 18G8, to Miss Sara L. Smith, of Stonington, Conn. ; present residence, Stonington, Conn. James Madison Barker, son of John P. Barker, from Pittsfield, Mass., was born October 23, 1840. He studied law at Bath, N. Y., and Cambridge, Mass. ; admitted to the bar in 1803 ; was married, in 1864, to Miss Helena Whiting, of Bath, N. Y. Present residence, Pittsfield, Mass.' Egbert Edes Beecher, son of Rev. William Beecher, from Reading, Mass., was born December 7, 1837. He studied law in North Brookfield and Boston ; entered the army, in 1862, as private in the Seventy-third Ohio Infantry; was in Pope's campaign in Virginia, and second Bull Run, at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; was in the battles for the relief of Chatta- nooga ; went with Sherman to Atlanta, and thence in the march to the sea ; never asked leave of absence, nor was off duty a day from sickness or wounds ; left the army in 1866, as major, ami lieutenant colonel by brevet, and is now practising law at North Brookfield. William Childs Blackburn, son of Henry C. Blackburn, from Rock Island, 111., was born June 4, 1839. He is in business in Rock Island, 111. He was lieutenant colonel of cavalry volunteers, and severely wounded in the war. William Allen Briggs, from Pittsfield, Mass., was born July 12, 1834. He taught one year in Pittsfield ; studied theology at Hamilton, N. Y. ; was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church, South Adams, Mass., September 10, 1863; was married. May 18, 1864, to Miss Frances A. Reed, of Cassville, N. Y. Present residence. South Adams. John Edward Bush, from Whitehall, N. Y. He entered into business as grain dealer in Joliet, 111., where he now resides ; was married, in 1863, to Miss Marion M. Woodruff, of Joliet, 111. William Wilberforce Cuapin, son of Oliver Chapin (of the class of 1805), was born at Soracrs, Conn., December 2, 1836. He fitted for college at Munson Academy. He was noticeable in college for the fidelity and assiduity with which he applied himself to all his studies, and for his conscientious de- votion to duty. He studied theology at Andover. He early resolved to enter the foreign field. He was ordained at Somers, September 24, 1863, and mar- ried Miss K. J. Hayes, of Derry, N. H., September 26, and sailed from Bos- ton January 7, 1864. He arrived at Ahmednuggur, India, June 4, and died at that place, of diphtheria, March 22, 1865, aged twenty-eight. 644 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. SiDNKY Wood Cooper, son of Conrad Cooper, from Stillwater, N. Y., wa8 born Mareh 4, 1838. lie studied liiw in Albany; served in tbe army during the war. Present residence, New York. WiM-iAM Conway Cuktis, son of Stiles Curtis, from Newark, Conn., was born May 10, 1857. He studied iheolosy at Auburn, N. Y., and was ordained in Titusville, Pa. Bknjamin Lockwooi) Dk Forkst, son of George B. I)e Forest, from New York city, was born February 23, 1840. lie is a broker in New York. George Clinton Dewey, son of C. A. Dewey (of the class of 1811), was born at Nortliampton, December 6, 1840. He studied medicine in New York, and was one of the medical staff at the Bellevue Hospital at the time of his death. It was there he contracted the disease which terminated his life, at Northampton, April 17, 18G4, aged twenty-three. He was not married. William Francis Dimmick, was born at Falmouth, September 2C, 1838, and was fitted for college at liast Windsor Hill. After leaving college he studied medicine for a time, relinquished it on account of his health, and went into mercantile business in his native town. He was appointed a director of the Falmouth Bank, was a member of the sciiool committee, and was in a posi- tion to acquire much influence in town. But his failing health compelled him to give up business, and hoping to be l)enefited by the change, lie went to Min- neapolis, Minn., where he died of consumption, January 1, 1805, aged twenty- six. Mr. Dimmick was never married. William Gaston Donaldson, son of Robert Donaldson, from Tarrytown. N. Y., was born April 3, 1840. He studied law in New York. Julius Augdstus Fat, son of J. A. Fay, of Elizabeth, N. J., was born November 26, 1840. He studied law, and served in the army during the war. Present residence, Elizabeth, N. J. William Harrison Gest, from Pleasant Ridge, 111., was born Januar)' 7, 1838. He studied law, and is now practising his profession in Rock Island, 111. James Carruthers Greenough, son of Thomas Greenough, from Deerfield, Mass., was born August 15, 1829. He studied law in Westfield. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1865. He studied theology, and was licensed to preach in 1867. First assistant principal of the State Normal School in Westfield, Mass. In 1869 he was appointed principal of the State Normal School in New Britain, Conn. He was married, in November, 1860, to Miss Jennie A. Bates, of West- field, Mass. Byron John Hall, from South Adams, Mass. He taught in Troy, N. Y., two years. He studied theologj" in the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York; was ordained, July, 1864, and settled in Delhi, N. Y. ; was married, in September, 1859, to Miss Mary A. Snyder. Present residence, Lansingburg, N. Y. James Haswell Harwood, son of Hiram Harwood, from Bennington, Vt., SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 645 was born September 9, 1837. He studied theology at Chicago, and is now in Springfield, Mo. Lewis Hayward Hazeltine, son of Hon. Abner Hazeltine, from James- town, N. Y., was born December 7, 1838. He taught in Stockbridge, and attended a course of medical lectures at Pittsfield, Mass. He entered the army as hospital steward and assistant surgeon ; served till the close of the war, most of the time at Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated at the Ohio Medical Col- lege, and settled in McGregor, Iowa, where he at present resides. Edward Hooker, son of Rev. C. W. Hooker, D. D., from Fairhaven, Conn. He served in Company A, Eighth Regiment Vermont Veteran Volun- teers, fronj January, 18(34, to the close of the war. He studied theology at Chicago, and was ordained at Broad Brook, Conn., in June, 1868. He was married, December 21, 18G9, to Mrs. S. Atwater, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Present residence, Middletown, Conn. Chauncey Thompson Htde, son of Stephen Hyde, from Palmyra, N. Y., was born August 8, 1832. From 1863 to 18G6 he was assistant professor of ethics and Englisli studies in the United States Naval Academy, at Newport, R. I., and Annapolis, Md. He is now assistant cashier of the First National Bank, Palmyra, N. Y. He was married, November 23, 1864, to Miss Sarah I. Hitchcock, of Ware, Mass. Joseph William Htde, son of Joseph Hyde, from Sheffield, Mass., was born December 4, 1839. He studied theology, and settled in Stamford, Conn. Stephen Htde, son of Stephen Hyde, of Palmyra, N. Y., was born Octo- ber 15, 1838. Charles Weston Jenkins, son of John Jenkins, from Falmouth, Mass., was born February 14, 1838. He was in the service of the Christian Commis- sion in the South one year. He studied theology at Bangor. In 1865 he was settled in Lewiston, Me. He is now on the editorial staff of the Christian Union, N. Y. Unmarried. David Wright Judd, ward of Augustus E. Raymond, from Lockport, N. Y., was born September 1, 1838. He was for a time correspondent of the New York Times, and on tiie editorial staff of the Commercial Advertiser. Present residence. New York. Joseph Huntlet Knox, son of Joseph Knox, from Rock Island, 111., was born March 7, 1839. He studied law, and practised in Stirling, 111. Joseph Brown Ladd, son of William G. Ladd, from Watertown, Mass., was born March 7, 1838. Is a Congregational clergyman at the West. Jonathan Leavitt I/ane Lambert, son of Rev. A. B. Lambert, D. D., of Salem, N. Y., was born November 14, 1838. He studied medicine, and served in the array as hospital steward, assistant surgeon, and surgeon. He is at pres- ent in mercantile business in Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 646 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. "William Stevens Langdon, son of Wilber C. Langdon, from Monterey, Mass., was born July 4, 1840. He studied law, was admitted to the Berkshire bar, and practised in Monterey, Mass. He is at present in the custom-house in New York. George Roswell Leavitt, son of E. D. Leavitt, from Lowell, Mass., was born June 7, 1838. He was a tutor in college for a time; studied theology at Andover; was ordained at Lancaster in 18G5, and dismissed early in 1870. He was married, October 2, 18GG, to Miss Henrietta Kendrick. Henry Leavitt, son of R. H. Leavitt, from East Charlemont, Mass., was born August 8, 183G; studied law in Chicago; died in Yazoo, Miss., in 18C6. George Howard Marvin, son of Charles R. Marvin, from Brooklyn, N. Y., was born October 15, 1839. He studied medicine, and was surgeon in the United States navy. Is a broker in New York. Edward Williams Mokley, son of Rev. S. B. Morlcy, from Williamstown, Mass., was born January 29, 1838. He studied theology at Andover. He was in the service of the United States Sanitary Commission at Hampton, Va. He taught in New Marlboro'. He is now professor of chemistry in Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio. He was married, December 24, 18G8, to Miss Isa- bella E. Birdsall, of Hillsdale, N. Y. Leonidas William Morss, son of Burton G. Morss, from Red Falls, N. Y., was born January 17, 1838. He is in business in Red Hook, N. Y. Frederick James Nash, ward of Hiram Morrison, from Hudson, N. Y., was born June 16, 1839. John Crosbt Olmsted, son of John Olmsted from Yonkers, N. Y., was born March 12, 1839. He resides in San Francisco, Cal., and is connected with the Overland Monthly. Jahes Marshall Paul, son of Dr. J. Rodman Paul, from Philadelphia, Pa., was born September 11, 1840. He studied law, and is practising his pro- fession in Colorado. Is married. He served a short time in the army. Dcane Seneca Phillips, son of Seneca Phillips, from Stamford, Vt., was born September 8, 1834. He studied theology, and settled in Bennington, Vt. Samuel Wheeler Pratt, son of George F. Pratt, from Livonia, N. Y., was born September 9, 1838. He studied theologj' at Auburn, and was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Brasher's Falls, N. Y., July 16, 1863, and is at present pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Hammonton, N. J. He was mar- ried, August 12, 1863, to Miss Luciila B. Field, of Canandaigua, N. Y. Abram J. Quick, son of Mrs. Ann Quick, from Centreville, N. J., was born March 11, 1832. He studied theology in New York, and preached in Rich- mond, Mass. Albert Chester Reed, son of William Reed, from Albany, N. Y., was bom August 31, 1832. He studied theology at Auburn; was ordained, in 1863, at Elbridge, N. Y. ; is at present pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Port Byron, SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 647 N. Y. He was married March 8, 1865, to INIiss Sarah M. Merriman, of El- bridge, N. y. William Dixon Spalding, son of A. L. Spalding, from Enfield, Conn., was born October 7, 1836. He is connected with the treasury department at Washington, D. C. Stephen Miller Van Wtck, son of S. M. Van Wyck, from Claverack, N. Y., was born November 18, 183i). He studied law, and practises in Claver- ack, N. y. Theophilcs Benson Wood, son of Thomas W. Wood, from Smithtown, N. y., was born February 26, 1836. Charles Eleazer Wright, son of Mrs. Almira Wright, from Rodman, N. y., was born September 30, 1836. He studied and practised law in Chicago, and died in 1866. Lewis Monroe youNG, son of Lewis H. Young, from River Head, N. Y., was born November 17, 1836. He was principal of the Academy in Hinsdale, Mass., for a time ; after this he followed the sea most of his time till his death, February 19, 1869. He was mate of the schooner John T. Farland, from which he was lost during a gale. He was married, March 17, 1863, to Miss Amelia Hallock, of Franklin villa, N. Y. Class of 1861. William Penn Alcott, son of William A. Alcott, of Aubumdale, Mass., was born July 11, 1831. He studied theology at Andover; was minister at Cohasset, Mass., 1866; installed pastor of Congregational Society in North Greenwich, Conn., 1868. He married Miss S. J. Merrill, of Peacham, Vt. Copley Amory, son of Charles Amory, from Boston, Mass., was born May 10, 1841. He was commissioned second lieutenant Fourth United States Cavalry, August, 1861; resigned, 1863; became a stock broker in Boston, 18C6. He married Miss Fay, of Boston. Henry James Arnold, son of E. Arnold, from Somerset, N. Y., was born October 31, 1834. He was first lieutenant in the New York Mounted Rifles, 1864, and a teacher in Cicero, Cook Co., 111., 1867. Orris Clapp Atwater, son of Darwin Atwater, from Mantua Station, Ohio, was born September 6, 1833. He was a teacher in 1862, and a farmer at Mantua Station, Ohio, 1866. He is married. James Seymour Ayres, son of F. S. Ayres, from West Troy, N. Y., was born August 30, 1838. He was a lawyer at Chicago, 1864, and a merchant at Port Austin, Huron Co., Mich., 1866. Edward Newton Beale, son of M. K. Beale, from Spencertown, N. Y., was born November 1, 1834. He was a physician at Schaghticoke, N. Y., 1865 ; married Miss Maggie E. Blinn, of Pittsfield, Mass. 648 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Alpheus Whitney Billings, son of T. D. Billings, from Lansing, Mich., was born April 29, 183«. lie studied theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York city, was agent for tiie American Tract Society in the north-west in 18GG, and now resides in Ottawa, 111. TuoMAS Edwin Brastow, son of Brazier Brastow, from Brewer Village, Maine, was born August 14, 18.35. lie studied theohigy at Bangor Theological Seminary, and was ordained pastor of a Congregational Society in Brooks, Me., 1865. He married Miss Fannie E. Carleton, of Kockport, Me. WiLLETT Beonson, 8on of Dr. Oliver Bronson, from New York city, was born August 21, 1840. He studied law at Columbia College Law School, and was a lawyer in New York city, 18C3. Augustus Cleveland Brown, son of Silas C. Brown, from West Bloom- field, N.-Y., was born October 23, 1839. He was captain in a New York regiment, 1802, and lawyer in New York city, 18C5. George Marsh Carrington, son of Mrs. C. M. Carrington, from Win- chester Centre, Conn., was born April 11, 183C; was a farmer at Colebrook, Conn., 18C2; married Mi>s Julia P. Mitchel, of West Hartford, Conn. William Edgau Chukcii, son of Joiin R. Church, from Morristown, N. J., was born December 7, 1841 ; was a private in the Eleventh New York Cavalry from 1802 to 1805; and lawyer in New York city, 18G6. Willaku Sylvester Cooke, son of D. S. Cooke, from Amherst, Mass., was born December 12, 1838, and was a private in the Thirty-first Massa- chusetts Kegimcnt, 1862. LuRAi) Heath Crook, son of Samuel Crook, from Brooklyn, N. Y., wa« born January 13, 1839. He studied medicine at Bellevue College, New York city ; was a physician in Brookljii, 1805 ; married Miss M. F. Davis, of New York city ; deceased, 1869. Stephen AVinchester Dana, son of Rev. J. J. Dana, from South Adams. Mass., was born November 17, 1840. He was principal of Hinsdale Academy, Mass., 1861 to 1863; studied theology in Union Theological Seminary, New York city ; was pastor of a Presbyterian Society, Belvidere, N. J., 1806 ; and pastor of Walnut Street Presbyterian Society. West Philadelphia, 1868. He married Miss Rebecca Paul, of Belvidere, N. J. Joseph Danielson, son of Hezekiah Danielson, from West Killingly, Conn., was born April 20, 1835. He studied theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York city ; was pastor of Congregational Society, Saccarappa, Me., 1865; married to Miss H. F. Weld, November 1, 1865. Philemon Rockwell Day, ward of C. C. Day, from West Avon, Conn., was born January 11, 1838. He studied theology at Auburn Theological Seminary; was chaplain of 1'. M. C. Association, Troy, N. Y., 1864; married to Miss Nettie M. Woodford, of West Avon, Conn. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 649 Edward Dewet, son of Hon. Daniel N. De^ey, from Williamsto-wn, Mass., was born Oct. '6, 1842. He was a merchant in Milwaukie, Wis., 1867, Hexrt Maktyn Dcffield, son of Rev. George DuflSeld, D. D., from Detroit, Mich., was born May 15, 1842. He was adjutant Ninth Regiment Michigan Infantry, 1861; was a lawyer in Detroit, Mich., 1865. Married. Henry M. Duffieid, Jr., son of the above, is the class-boy. Zenas Rogers Farkington, son of John Farrington, from Holden, Me., was born March 31, 1833. He is now a farmer in Holden, Me. Edgar John Farwell, son of George W. Farwell, from Dorset, Vt., was born August 24, 1839. He was a surgeon in the United States army, 1861, and a physician in Dorset, Vt., 1865. He married Miss Norman, of North Adams, Mass. Alfred Francis Gage, son of Alfred Gage, from Haverhill, Mass., was born May 11, 1836. He was a private in the army, 1862; a merchant in Boston, Mass., 1867. Married. Chauncey Goodrich, son of E. H. Goodrich, from Hinsdaie, Mass., was born June 4, 1836. He studied theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York city ; was a missionary in Pekin, China, 1865 ; married Miss Abbie Ambler, of Spencertown, N, Y. Benjamin Franklin Hastings, son of Mrs. R. S. Hastings, from Lenox, Mass., was born August 23, 1836, He was assistant surgeon in the Eighteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1863, and physician in South Abington, Mass., 1864. Married. William Weaver Hatden, son of Daniel Hayden, from Deerfield, Ohio, was born October 21, 1833. He was a teacher at Williamsville, N. Y., 1861 ; a preacher at Tompcy. N. Y., 1864; at West Rupert, Vt., 1866. Married. Wabren Luke Hayden, son of Daniel Hayden, from Deerfield, Ohio, was born May 20, 1835. He was a preacher at West Rupert, Vt., 1861; at Danbury, Conn., 1866; married Miss Anna F. Sherman, of Salem, N. Y. Frederick Hicks, son of U. Hicks, from Bennington, Vt., was born September 27, 1834 ; was a missionary at Panama, Centra! America, 1861 ; married Miss Mary J. Waters, of Bennington, Vt. William Myers Hoes, son of Peter S. Hoes, from Kinderhook, N. Y., was born June 19, 1840. He studied law at Columbia College Law School, and was a lawyer in New York city, in 1863. Charles Lewis Hdtchins, son of George Hutchins, from Concord, N. H., was born August 5, 1838. He studied theology at the General Theological Seminary, New York city; ordained deacon, July, 1865; priest, October, 1865; rector of St. John's Church, Lowell. Mass., 1865; assistant minister of St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, N, Y., 1869. He married Miss Mary Groom, of Dorchester, Mass. 650 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Henry Mahtyn James, son of Marvin James, from Welshfield, Ohio, was born March 3, 1837, and was a teacher at Cleveland, Ohio, 18G4. Married. Lewis Melvin Johnson, son of Mrs. Mary Johnson, from Haverhill, Mass., was born November 19, 1837, and is now a teacher. Charles IIddi) King, son of John G. King, from Homulusville, N. Y., was born May 4, 1838, and was a lawyer in Penn Yan, N. Y., 18G6. Joseph Ezekiel Lockwood, son of E. Lockwood, from Warsaw, La., was born June 11, 1841. In 18C3 he was a captain in the United States army, and a lawyer in Chicago, 111., 18G7. Gavin Longmcir, son of Alexander Longmuir, from Rochester, N. Y., was born November 1, 1840. He studied theology at Princeton Seminary; was pastor of a Presbyterian Society at Morristown, N. J., 18GG ; married Miss Laura I. Baker, of Elizabeth, N. J. James Harrison Lyon, son of James Lyon, from Woodstock, Conn., was born December 28, 1839 ; studied theology at West Theological Seminary, Alleghany, Pa. ; was pastor of the Congregational Society, Pittsburg, Pa., 1864 ; pastor of the Congregational Society, Pawtucket, R. I., 18GG ; married Miss Smith, of Pittsburg, Pa. Charles Stewart Maurice, son of C. F. Maurice, from Sing Sing, N. Y., was born June 29, 1840 ; was assistant engineer in the United States navy, 1862, and a manufacturer at Athens, Pa., 18G6. Married. William Warriner Merriam, son of Charles Merriam, from Springfield, Mass., was born February 12, 1837; studied law at Albany, and theology at Hamilton, N. Y. ; was for a time teacher of the freedmen in North Carolina. Edward Payson Nichols, son of N. Nichols, of Haverhill, Mass., was bom March 8, 1835 ; was a teacher at Plattsburg, N. Y., 1861 ; Homer, N. Y., 1863; Watertown, N. Y., 1868. Matthias Nicoll, son of Samuel B. Nicoll, from Shelter Island, N. Y., was born October 5, 1841. He was an insurance agent, in 1861, in New York city. Married. William Farley Peck was from Rochester, N. Y., and was editor there in 1864. George Cook Raynolds, son of Mrs. M. C Raynolds, from East Windsor Hill, Conn., was born Feb. 25, 1839; studied medicine at University School, New York city ; was assistant surgeon in the United States navy, 1864 ; physician at Chicago, 111., 1865; and missionary in Eastern Turkey in 1869. Married. William Rumsey, son of David Rumsey, from Bath, N. Y., was bom October 18, 1841 ; was a major in the United States army, 1864; secretary of legation in Japan, 1865; lawyer in Bath, N. Y., 1867. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 651 George Anthoxt Sanders, from 'Williamstown, Mass., was born July 4, 1836; was a lawyer in Centralia, 111., 1862; deputy state treasurer, 111., 1868. Married. William Henry Shepard, son of William Shepard, from Albany, N. Y., was born March 16, 1839; was a lawyer in Bath, N. Y., 186-1:; a merchant in Albany, N. Y., 1866. George Gardner Smith, son of Charles S. Smith, from Pittsburg, Pa., was born November 22, 1838. He was second lieutenant of United States Colored Troops, 1863; studied theology at West Theological Seminary, Alleghany City, Pa., and was pastor of a Presbyterian Society at Williams- port, Ind., 1868. James Farbar Stone, son of Cyrus Stone, from Melrose, Mass., was bom November 6, 1840; studied medicine at Bellevue Medical College, N. Y. city; was a physician in Manchester, Vt., 1866, and in Philadelphia, Pa., 1867. James Dewev Tucker, son of Samuel Tucker, from Franklin, N. Y., was born March .•>, 1837 ; studied theology at the Baptist Theological Seminary, Hamilton, N. Y. ; was pastor of the Baptist Society at Mount Granville, N. Y., -1864; at Vernon, N. Y., 1865; chaplain of Y. M. C. Association, Troy, N. Y., 1867; married Miss E. S.Tallmadge, of West Haven, Conn. James Brainard Taylor Tcpper, son of Rev. Martin Tupper, from Hard- wick, Mass., was born November 8, 1839; was a private in the Thirty-first Keginient Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861; studied law; was clerk in the Internal Kevenue Department, Washington, D. C, 1864. Morris Ashurst Tyng, son of Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, J). D., from New York city, was born December 29, 1841 ; studied law at Columbia College Law School ; was a lawyer in New York city, 1863 ; studied theology in New York; was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1868. Married. James Gilbert Van Marter, son of Gilbert Van Marter, from Lyons, N. Y., was born April 10, 1835 ; was captain in the Twenty-second New York Cavalry, 1863; studied medicine; was a dentist, at Basle, Switzerland, 1867; married Miss Sophie Albus, of Warsaw, 111. Ja3ies Socthart Van Wyck, son of Stephen M. VanWyck, from Claver- ack, N. Y., was born February 9, 1836. He was a lawyer at Hudson, N. Y., 1863, and in New York city, 1865. Married. George White, son of John White, from Huntingdon, Canada East, was born January 29, 1834. He studied theology at Auburn Theological Semi- nary, and was pastor of the Reformed Dutch Society at Schaghticoke, N. Y., 1864, at which place he died of consumption, March 14, 1870. James Henry Wickes, son of Thomas S. Wickes, from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was born June 25, 1841. He studied civil engineering in Harvard 652 BIOGRAPHICAJL ANNALS. University, 1801 ; was captain of the Fourth Regiment United States Colored Troops, 1803; manufacturer, New York city, 18C5. Married. Frank Porter Woodbury, son of Francis Woodbury, from Jackson, Mich., was born March 18, 1839. He studied theoh>gy at Union Theological Seminary, New York city ; was pastor of the Congregational Society at Meri- den, N. H., 1800, and at Flint, Mich., 1807. He married Miss Abby L. Richards, of Meriden, N. H. Silas Pratt Wright from Blandford, Mass., was born June 8, 1839. He studied medicine at Albany Medical School, and was a physician at Albany, 1803. Class of 1862. Henry Anstice entered college from Yonkers, N. Y. ; was born October 7, 1841; graduated from the Theological Seminary, June, 1805; was ordained presbyter in October of the same year, and is now rector of St. Luke's Church, Kochester. Samuel Chapman Armstrong, born March 24, 1840, entered from Hono- lulu. He entered the army immediately after graduation ; was captain in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth New York Volunteers; was promoted to brigadier general ; after Lee'.< surrender, became superintendent of the Freed- raan's Bureau. He is now Principal of tlie Hampton Institute, Norfolk, Va. RoswELL Bottum Bacon, born September 28, 1838, entered college from Medina, N. Y. He studied law, and is at present practising in Chicago. George Franklin Bemis, born August 12, 1838, entered college from Boston. He is now assistant paymaster in the United States navy. WiLj-iAM Parmentee Bennett, born November 0, 1836, entered college from Groton, Mass. Is engaged in teaching. James Bigelow, born February 25, 1840, entered college from New York, and is now practising medicine in Brooklyn. Samcel Phillips Blagden, born October 3, 1840, entered college from Boston, and is now in the insurance business, firm of White, Allj'n, & Co., New York city. Joseph Albert Blake, born March 1, 1840, entered college from Swan- ton, Vt. James Robinson Campbell, born February 28, 1840, entered college from Saharunpur, North India, and is now teacher in a deaf and dumb college, New York city. Patrick Garden, born in the spring of 1835, entered college from Ballena, Ireland. Was lieutenant in Armstrong's regiment; resigned, and went as a missionary to Siam. Franklin Carter. See Chapter VI. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 653 Walter Condict, born March 21, 1841, entered college from Newark, N. J. He graduated at Princeton Seminary in 1867, and is at present preach- ing in Newark. Julius Henry Cone, born March 9, 1840, entered college from Fort Hamilton, L. I. Has been engaged in teaching. RoBLET DuNGLisoN CooK, bom March 12, 1839, entered college from Troy, and is at present practising law in that city. Abel Crook, born July 6, 1842, entered college from Brooklyn, and is now practising law in New York city. Henry B. Crossett, born December 17, 1836, entered college from South Adams. He was married, September 19, 1862, to Miss Stratton, of Hudson, and is now engaged in business in New York city. John Burton Cuyler, born August 5, 1840, entered college from Palmyra, N. Y. He has practised law in Chicago, but at present is travelling for his health on the Pacific slope. John Mason Davison, born in December, 1840, entered college from Saratoga, N. Y. Is in the banking business in Detroit. John Henry Denison, born March 3, 1841, entered college from Boston. He was married in April, 18C9, to Miss Hopkins, of Williamstown, and is at present preaching in South Williamstown. John Gordon Frazer, born June 3, 1837, entered college from Haverstraw, N. Y.. and is at present practising medicine in New York city. John Abbott French entered college from Nashua, N. H., and is now settled in Morristown, N. J., over a large Presbyterian Church. Theodore Oilman, born January 2, 1841, entered college from New York city, and is at present a banker in that city, of the firm of Gilman & Sons. Edward Herrick Griffin, born November 18, 1843, entered college from Williamstown, was tutor in the college the year of 1864-5, and is at present settled over the First Congregational Church of Burlington, Vt. Archibald Hopkins was born in Williamstown, February 20, 1842; served in the army with great distinction, and was promoted to a brevet colonelcy for bravery ; is at present of the firm of Fowler & Hopkins, lawyers, at 31 and 33, Pine Street, New York. William Albert James, bom March 4, 1833, entered college from West Killingly, Conn., and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Chelsea, Vt., May 1, 1867. Everett Edvi^ard Lewis, born June 4, 1837, entered college from Bristol, Conn. He graduated at the Theological Seminary in 1867, and for the past year has been preaching in Bethel, Vt. 654 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. Jacob Betts Metcalf, born May 13, 1843, entered college from Westfield. He was married, in tlic spring of 1869, to Miss Cutting, of New York city, and is at present practising law in that citj-, of the firm of Kafallo &, Spencer. Geougk Fkanklin Mills, born August 25, 1839, entered college from South Williamstown. He was married, in April, 18G8, to Miss Ilubbell, of Fort Edward, N. Y., arid is at present teaching in his father's school in South Williamstown. Nicholas Rhees Mdrkat born September C, 1842, entered college from Elizabeth, N. J., and is at present practising law in New York. Charles Pinckney Holhrook Nason, born February 21, 1840, entered college from Natick, and is now agent of the Atlantic Life Insurance Company in Cincinnati. Edward Beecher Nims, born April 20, 1888, entered college from Sul- livan, N. H. Mason Noble, born September 12, 1832, entered college from Washington, and graduated at the Union Theological Seminary in 1805. He was married at Canaan, and is at present pastor of the Congregational Church in Sheffield. George A. Parker. See Chapter VII. William Parker, born December 17, 1837, entered college from Lenox. He has taught in the Military Academy in Eagleswood, at Mr. Reed's school in Stockbridge, and is now engaged in business in New York city. Henry Thomas Perry, born May 6, 1838, entered college from Ashfield, and is now missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Central Turkey. George Lansing Raymond, born September 3, 1839, entered college from Chicago. Homer Rogers, born October 11, 1840, entered college from Sudbury. Joseph Edward Simmons, born September 9, 1841, entered college from Troy. Francis Huntington Snow, born June 27, 1840, entered college from Fitchburg; graduated at Andover Theological Seminary in 186G ; was ap- pointed professor of mathematics and natural sciences the same fall in Kansas University, at Lawrence, which position he still holds. He was married, July 8, 1868, to Miss Aiken, of Andover. James Field Spalding, born December 5, 1839, entered college from Enfield, Conn., and was tutor in the college in the year of 1863-4. He has been associate principal of Round Hill School, Northampton, ever since, and has recently been ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church. Henry Bradish Stoddard, born September 2S, 1840, entered college from Northampton. Studied medicine. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 655 Theodore Strong Thompson, born April 23, 1842, entered college from Roxbury. He was commissioned assistant paymaster July, 1866, in the United States navy, which position he still holds. Eugene Henry Titus, born November 16, 1834, entered college from Bos- ton ; has been pastor of a church in Beverly, Mass. Albert True, born October 30, 1839, entered college from Owego, N. Y., and is now preaching. Henry Beman Underwood, born December 25, 1839, entered college from Newark, N. J. He was installed August, 1868, pastor of a church in Marl- boro', N. H. Samuel Edgar Wells, born March 21, 1837, entered college from Port Gibson, N. Y ; married Miss Bulkley, of Pittsfield, June 19, 1867 ; is in the flour business in Albany, N. Y. Charles Ezra White entered college from New York city ; at present a partner in the firm of White, Allyn, &, Co., insurance agents in New York. Class of 1863. Francis Spaulding Abbott, son of Charles Edwards Abbott, from Pitts- field, Mass., was born September 13, 1842; studied medicine. Residence, Norwich, Conn. Edward Stanley Atwood, from Nashua, N. H., was born December 5, 1842 ; practising law in Boston. Charles Hume Baldwin, son of Chauncey Baldwin, from Windsor, Mass., was born March 11, 1838; studied theology, and is preaching in Peekskill, N. Y. George Center Brown, son of George Brown, from Pittsfield, Mass., was born February 15, 1842. Studied law, and is practising in St. Louis, Mo. Stephen Brewer Butler, son of J. H. Butler, was born in Northampton, January 22, 1843. He prepared for college at the Collegiate Institute of his native place. Immediately after graduation he went to Philadelphia, and en- tered the publishing house of E. H. Butler & Co. His stay there was short, ill health compelling him to return to Northampton in May, 1865, where, for a short time, he was engaged in the bank of which his father was president. He died, May 27, 18GG, at the age of twenty-three. He was buried from the Episcopal Church of his native town, of which he was a member at the time of his death. John Cairns, son of Thomas Cairns, from Colchester, N. Y., was born November 11, 1833. Residence, Wliitney's Point, N. Y. Is a clergyman. 656 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. WiLBDH FisK Corliss, son of John M. Corliss, from Troy, N. Y., was born October Tj, 1841. Married Miss Wickes, December, 24, 18G7; is in business in New Yorlc. John Gaylord Davknport, son of Charles A. Davenport, from Wilton, Conn., was born November 24, 1840; married in 18GG, to Miss Alice Westcot, of Wilton, Conn. Tutor two years in Williams College; pastor at East Bridgeport, Conn. Samcel Warren Dike, son of George Dike, from Thompson, Conn., was born February 13, 1839; studied theology at Andover; is preaching at West Randolph. Hugh Dohertt, son of Ross Doherty, of Boston, Mass., was born June 7, 1842 ; studied medicine at Harvard Medical School ; practising his pro- fession in Boston. VoLCKERT Pierre Douw, son of Volckert P. Douw, from Albany, N. Y., born August 15, 1842; is in business in Albany. Mtron Samuel Dudley, son of Stephen Dudley, from Chester, Vt., was born February 20, 1837; taught in Manchester, Vt., and studied at Union The- ological Seminary. William Arnette Dunning, son of Henry Dunning, from Middletown, N. Y., was born March 24, 1840. Joseph Haskell Feltch, son of Joseph Feltch, from Newburyport, Mass., was born May 20, 1837. He studied theology, and is settled at Cummington. Addison Pinneo Foster, son of Rev. E. B. Foster, from Lowell, Mass., was born September 25, 1841 ; studied theology, and preached two years in Lowell, Mass. James Clark Foye, son of John M. Foye, from Great Falls, N. H., was born March 1, 1841; is professor of chemistry and physics at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis. John Clark Goodrich, son of John C. Goodrich, from Pittsfield, Mass., was born September 29, 1841 ; is now practising medicine in Brooklyn, N. Y. Selden Elias Graves, son of Nelson A. Graves, from Albion, N. Y., was born November 11, 1S41. Address, Albion, N. Y. Samuel Webster Hazlewood, son of S. Hazlewood, from West Roxbury, Mass., was born December 10, 1839; studied theology; preached at North- bridge, and afterwards at Slatersville, R. I. Thomas Hoxie Hall, native of Pownal, Vt., was connected with this class during its four years' course, and took part in the class day exercises. He next became principal of Drury Academy, North Adams ; then of Warrens- burg Academy. N. Y., and subsequently of Oak Grove Seminary, in Pownal. He is mentioned in all the class reports. Since his fiither's recent death he has resided at home. SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI. 657 Amos L. Hopkixs, son of President Hopkins, left college to join the army. Was major of the Fourth Mass. Cavalry. He received his degree in 186G. Augustus Thompson Jenkins, from Falmouth, Mass., was born May 19, 1843. Is engaged in mercantile pursuits. Seth Benjamin Jones, son of S. B. Jones, from Bridgeport, Conn., was born July 3, 1841. He is preaching in Bennington Centre, Vt. Smith Gurney Lapham, son of William G. Lapham, from Canandaigua, N. Y., Avas born Julj-^ 19, 1847. He is editor of the Syracuse Courier. JouN Conrad Mallery, son of Garrick Mallery, from Philadelphia, Pa., was born October 21, 1843. After leaving college he received a cadetship at West Point, and graduated with high rank. He is now in the regular army. Royal Marshall, son of Thomas M. Marshall, from Leominster, Mass., was born October 6, 1836; settled over an Episcopal Church at Northampton. James Gilbert Mason, son of A. G. Mason, was born in Jonesboro', Tenn., October 31, 1841 ; is now preaching in his native place. Daniel Merriman, son of Addison Merriman, from Chicago, 111., was born December 3. 1838 ; studied theology at Andover, and is pastor of tlie Broad- way Church, Norwich, Conn. Alexander Moss Merwin, son of T. T. Mcrwin, from New York city, was born September 3, 1839 ; is engaged in mission work in Chili, South America. Joseph Sidney IMitchell, son of Joseph Mitchell, from Nantucket, Mass., was born December 9, 1839. Is practising medicine in Chicago. Samuel Swain Mitchell, son of Matthew Jlitchell, from Hudson, N. Y., was born September S, 1840; was married, April, 1867, to Miss Wright; Sailed fur Tripoli under care of tlie American Board of Commissioners for For- eign Itissions. Health failed, and he returned to the United States in 1868. \ JonyvHENRY Morley, son of Rev. S. B. Morley, from Willianistown, Mass., was born January 3, 1840 ; graduated at Andover, August, 18G6, and became pn^tor of the Congregational Church at Centralia, Iowa. Henky Denton Nicoll, from New Windsor, N. Y., was born July 13, 1844; studied medicine ; engaged in Children's Hospital, Randall's Island, N. Y. E»,WAKD Long Perkins, son of Henry Perkins, from Philadelphia, Pa., was Voi'u May 28, 1843 ; is practising law in Philadelphia, Pa. *^ ^ Daniel Pickett, son of J. B. Fickett, from Edwards, N. Y., was born No- vember 22, 1840. Residence, Henderson. Minn. William Bement Putney, son of Xahum Putney, from Shelburne Falls, Mass., was born June 3, 1837. He is jjractising law in New York. 42 658 BIOGRAPHICAL ANNALS. John Anprkw Rkynoi.ds, son of Nathan Reynolds, from Elmira, N. Y., was Ijorn November 11, 1841. Kesidence, Elmira, N. Y. Thomas Lucinuuh lloniiiiM, son of Uev. T. S. Hof,'erK, from Clifton Park. N. Y., was born Auf^ust 3, 1841 ; is settled over a Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio. Married, Au(j;ust, 1H08, IClla S. Nickerson, of Boston. CiiAULEs Walton Sktmour, son of W. N. Seymour, from Yonkers, N. Y., was born March I'J, 1843; practising law in New York citj. Leveuett Wilson Si'Hinc;, son of Edward Spring, from Factory Point, Vt was born January 5, 1H40; is jfreacliing at Cabtleton. Vt. CiiAiM.Ks WAiutKN Stone, from Groton, Mass., was ijorn June 29, 184:'. Was marrie. *.!' UCLA-Young Research Library LD6072.4 .D934W "lllfl'T 'III L 009 517 678