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Class of 1847 
 
 THE CENTENNIAL CLASS 
 
 College of New Jersey 
 
 PRINCETON, N.J. 
 Now Princeton University 
 
 Consisting of Brief Biographies of its 
 Members from 1847 to 1907 
 
 Compiled by its Historian and Secretary 
 HENRY B. MUNN and ALFRED MARTIEN 
 
 With Portraits of the Faculty and the Class 
 
 Printed for the Class 
 
 PATTERSON & WHITE CO. 
 
 518 Ludlow St., Philadelphia 
 
 1907 
 

 Gift 
 Autho! 
 
Contents 
 
 PAGH 
 
 View of College Grounds and Buildings in 1847. . .Frontispiece 
 
 Title Page 1 
 
 Contents 3 
 
 Preface 5 
 
 Faculty, 1843-1847 15 
 
 Portraits of Professors, 1843-1847 16 
 
 Junior Orators — Class of 1847 17 
 
 Editors of the Nassau Monthly. — Class of 1847 18 
 
 Class of 1847 — ^Commencement Exercises 19 
 
 Members of Class, 1843-1847 21 
 
 Biographies of the Members 24 
 
 Classmates Who Were Present at the Reunion of the Class 
 
 on June 10, 1902 89 
 
 Finis 91 
 
A 
 
 Preface 
 
 S only the salient facts in the history of 
 each member of the class, subsequent to 
 leaving college, are given, a brief de- 
 scription of the Faculty, the college grounds 
 and buildings, and the customs, habits and man- 
 ner of life during its undergraduate course is 
 here given as an introduction. 
 
 This period embraced what has been fitly 
 termed a portion of the Golden Era of the Col- 
 lege. The class commenced with its Freshman 
 year in 1843, and closed with its Senior in 1847, 
 in the midst of the college centennial celebra- 
 tion, and was therefore called the Centennial 
 Class. 
 
 Its membership during the Freshman year 
 was nine, and during its Sophomore, fifty-two; 
 during its Junior, seventy-five, and during its 
 Senior, sixty-five, of which number sixty-three 
 received the degree of A.B. at the Commence- 
 ment. 
 
 When the class started, the Faculty consisted 
 
of Dr. James Carnahan, President; Dr. John 
 Maclean, Vice President and professor of 
 Greek; Joseph Henry, of natural philosophy; 
 Albert B. Dod, of mathematics; Stephen A\ex- 
 ander, of astronomy; John Torrej^, of chemis- 
 try and botany; James W. Alexander, of helles- 
 letfres; Evert M. Topping, of ancient languages. 
 In 1846 Matthew B. Hope was appointed pro- 
 fessor of rhetoric, and in 1844 and 1845 
 George M. Giger, Nathan M. Owen and John T. 
 Dufifield were tutors. Charles S. Olden was the 
 treasurer and William CMow the steward. 
 
 Of the foregoing-named professors, James W, 
 Alexander resigned during the Sophomore, and 
 Professor Albert B. Dod died during the first 
 term of the Junior year of the class. The loss of 
 these professors was much regretted. Both 
 were very popular with the students because of 
 their culture and eloquent lectures on belles- 
 lettres and architecture. Professor Topping 
 resigned during the Senior year. Though in ill 
 health, he was much esteemed for his knowledge 
 of the classics. The remainder of those named 
 except Professor Hope, were members of the 
 Faculty during the whole college life of class. 
 
 President Carnahan graduated in 1800; in 
 1801 was made tutor and in 1823 elected presi- 
 dent. He was now in his forty-seventh year, in 
 appearance and manner a type of the old- 
 school Presbvterian minister as well as that of 
 
the old-school country gentleman. He was of 
 stalwart build and inclined to be portly ; wore a 
 snow-white cravat and dressed in plain dark 
 clothes. His enunciation was always clear and 
 precise, and his expression mild and benevolent. 
 With cane in hand he walked about the college 
 grounds or to his lecture room with a quiet, dig- 
 nified step. By the students he was called ''Old 
 Boss," not in any disrespect, but as a tribute to 
 his personality. His natural modesty, even 
 temper, firmness and patience under exasperat- 
 ing provocation, his cordial, kindly greeting, his 
 earnest teaching in the lecture room and his 
 pleadings for the adoption of sound principles 
 for life's government are among the cherished 
 memories of the class. He resigned in 1854 on 
 account of old age. 
 
 Professor John Maclean graduated in 1811. 
 After serving as tutor and professor in various 
 branches, was elected vice president in 1829, 
 and on the resignation of Dr. Carnahan in 1854, 
 was made president. He was in the prime of 
 life during the career of the class. While not 
 distinguished in any branch of learning, he was 
 an all-round scholar and often supplied the 
 place of a sick or absent professor. His ac- 
 tivity, energy, kindness, enthusiasm and over- 
 sight pervaded the whole college. He seemed 
 to have personal knowledge of the condition and 
 characteristics of every student and to have all 
 
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and each under his special supervision. Being 
 a bachelor, he seemed to look upon the college 
 as his better half, and all its students as mem- 
 bers of his family, as he seemed able to call 
 them by name even in the dark. The slightest 
 indication of a frolic, revelry or escapade, 
 whether in the college buildings or in the cam- 
 pus, or in the streets of the village, would find 
 him on the alert. After dark he carried a 
 lantern, wore rubber shoes, and at most times 
 a beaver hat of the Archaic type. The cry, 
 "there comes Johnnie," promptly silenced 
 any boisterous grou}) or sent its members fly- 
 ing to their rooms. His tap! tap! tap! on the 
 door was instantly recognized, and all forbidden 
 things were promptly concealed before he was 
 invited to enter. Often, instead of having a 
 student he had caught violating the rules sum- 
 moned before the Faculty, he would administer 
 a rebuke, and he seldom rebuked without mak- 
 ing a friend. He alone, of all the Faculty, 
 seemed to be the closest in touch with the stu- 
 dent life. Dear "old Johnnie," loved and be- 
 loved. Because of the infirmities that come 
 with old age, he was obliged in 1868 to lay aside 
 the strenuousness of his college life. The re- 
 mainder of it was spent in writing a history of 
 the Alma Mater he had loved so well and so long. 
 Professors Joseph Henry, Stephen Alexander 
 and John Torrey were all scientists of inter- 
 
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national reputation in their lines of thought and 
 study, and seldom mingled with the students in 
 their outdoor life. In their lecture rooms they 
 attracted and interested and instructed all with 
 their learning. 
 
 The college grounds consisted of about four 
 and one-half acres, oblong in shape, with a 
 frontage of about 300 feet on the south side of 
 Nassau Street, upon which the buildings were 
 arranged as shown in the frontispiece. The 
 principal one, Nassau Hall, or ''Old North," as 
 it was usually called, was three stories above 
 the basement, with a cupola, in which hung the 
 college bell. The chapel, a room about forty 
 feet square, was in this building. Its only orna- 
 ment was an oil painting of Washington, re- 
 calling the battle of Princeton in 1777. The 
 pulpit, the platform about it and the seats for 
 the students were all of Puritan plainness. 
 Here, morning and evening, during week days 
 and again on Sunday, all of the students as- 
 sembled for prayer and answered to roll call. 
 The roll of each class was also called at its reci- 
 tations and examinations. In the basement of 
 "Old North" the janitor kept a secondhand 
 furniture depot for the convenience of students. 
 The remainder of the building was used for dor- 
 mitories of tutors and students. East and West 
 Colleges were for dormitories. In the basement 
 of Philosophical and Chemical Hall was the col- 
 
lege commons or refectory; in the upper part 
 were the lecture room and laboratories of Pro- 
 fessors Henry and Torrey. Nearby was the 
 steward's house. There was an additional com- 
 mons east of East College, styled the Poor 
 House, because of the reduced j^rice of board 
 and the absence of the tutors. During the life 
 of the class it became very popular. 
 
 There were recitation rooms on both floors of 
 the Library, and near it a brick dwelling in which 
 Professor Henry resided. In the rear of the 
 middle, or back campus, stood Cliosophic and 
 Whig Halls, and in the center of this campus 
 was planted the ' * old cannon. ' ' The residences 
 of the president and vice president were near 
 the street, and on each side of the front campus. 
 In the rear of the former was the Faculty room, 
 with door opening into the campus. This was 
 in fact the president's office, but was known to 
 the students as the "Court House.'' ^ 
 
 These buildings were so arranged as to make 
 the group unique and perfectly suited for the 
 student life of that day. With the exception of 
 Clio and Whig Halls, which were modeled after 
 a Grreek temple, they were plain, rugged, sub- 
 stantial structures, with rooms heated in the 
 winter by open wood fires in the ' ' Old North, ' ' by 
 open grates in East and West Colleges, and by 
 stoves in the chapel, halls and recitation rooms. 
 There were no bath or toilet rooms. Water was 
 
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supplied from two pumps that stood in the rear 
 of ' ' Old North, ' ' and with the fuel, was carried 
 to the rooms. Oil lamps furnished the light. 
 
 The character and arrangement of these 
 buildings with their environments represented 
 the thought and work of the plain, earnest and 
 strong men who had during the past century 
 devised and constructed them. Many, at least, 
 of the older graduates regret that the old group- 
 ing has not been kept entire, both as an historic 
 monument to the memory of their founders and 
 builders as well as an illustration of the condi- 
 tions of the old college life. 
 
 Under the distinguished professors already 
 mentioned, and in and about the buildings 
 shown and described, the class passed its under- 
 graduate life. Its daily round consisted of 
 morning prayers, breakfast, study hour, morn- 
 ing recitation, dinner, study hour, afternoon 
 recitation, evening prayers, supper. The hour 
 for retiring was 10 P. M., when the tutors made 
 their rounds. 
 
 This daily round varied on Friday night, for 
 attendance at the exercises in the ''Halls," and 
 on Sunday, when there were no recitations, but 
 all had to attend the early and late prayers and 
 a morning sermon in the chapel. 
 
 There was no special dress required or pro- 
 hibited. In the summer time ordinary dressing 
 gowns were largely worn, and in the winter a 
 
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student, or Spanish cloak. The members of the 
 different classes mingled socially. As a rule the 
 close associations were between the members of 
 the same hall. This was due to the rivalry be- 
 tween them and the profound secrecy of their 
 proceedings. But as a rule, except when hall 
 rivalry was dominant, there was at all times a 
 pleasant and friendly intercourse. 
 
 The honors sought by the ambitious members 
 of the class, were the Junior Oratorship, Editor- 
 ship of the Nassau Monthly, the First Honor for 
 highest mark in study, the assignment of a 
 Speech at Commencement and the Valedictory 
 Oration. 
 
 The Junior orators were eight — four from 
 each hall and were assigned to speak in public 
 the evening before Commencement. 
 
 The Editors of the Nassau Monthly were four 
 in number for the Senior year — two from each 
 hall. Each one of the four had charge of the 
 magazine for a month. 
 
 The Faculty selected the speakers for Com- 
 mencement, as well as the First-Honor Man and 
 the Valedictorian. 
 
 In looking back over the college days of the 
 class, there are only dim memories of its stu- 
 dent life as embraced in its daily routine, yet 
 the memories of the interruptions of that life 
 by sports, good comradeship, pranks and esca- 
 pades seem to grow brighter as the graduate 
 
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grows older. In those far-away days there were 
 few avenues through which exuberant youth 
 could find a strictly lawful vent. There were no 
 college songs. Athletics were confined to the 
 shinny stick or a stroll to the canal, or a constitu- 
 tional to Jugtown, And so at times some tradi- 
 tional prank was played, like rolling heated can- 
 non balls along the halls of "Old North" for the 
 tutors to pick up ; the stealing of the clapper of 
 the college bell, or turning it up on a cold night 
 and filling it with water in order that it might 
 not call to morning prayers; the barricading 
 "Old North" on a cold night when the tutors 
 and most of the students were at supper. These 
 and many others cling to the old graduate's 
 memory. While he has forgotten his Grreek, 
 Latin, Mathematics and Lectures on Philosophy, 
 he recalls easily Professor Henry's experiments 
 with Electricity, when he sent the current 
 through the wires and through the class; of 
 Professor Torrey's laughing-gas illustrations; 
 the proposal of Professor Stephen Alexander 
 that his head should modestly represent the sun 
 as he placed it in the center of his Orrery; of 
 President Carnahan's illustration of the asso- 
 ciation of ideas, with the story of the Swiss 
 immigrant who, on sight of a lot of "Swiss 
 cheese" on a dock on the North River, as the 
 boat landed, exclaimed, "Oh! my country! my 
 country ! ' ' 
 
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An old graduate, in writing about the under- 
 graduate life of Princeton, has happily said : 
 
 ''Memories sad as well as sweet, serious as 
 well as ludicrous, crowd upon the mind of every 
 son of Nassau who takes a pen in hand to write 
 of the happy days gone by. No college has a 
 life more crammed with mirth and humor, of 
 youthful exuberance; none is richer in historic 
 association and sacred tradition; none more 
 free from vicious influence and corrupting ex- 
 ample. Her sons look back with pride and 
 l^leasure, not only to the solid instruction re- 
 ceived at her hands, but to the royal times spent 
 beneath her shades. 'Oh, happy years! once 
 more, who would not be a boy ! ' " 
 
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Faculty, 1843-1847 
 
 EEY. JAMES CAKNAHAN, D.D. 
 
 President 
 
 EEY. JOHN MACLEAN, D.D. 
 
 Vice President, and Professor of the Greek Language and 
 Literature 
 
 JOSEPH HENEY, M.D., LL.D. 
 
 Professor of Natural Philosophy 
 
 JOHN TOEEEY, M.D., LL.D. 
 
 Professor of Chemistry and Natural History 
 
 *EEY. ALBEET B. DOD, D.D. 
 Professor of Mathematics and Architecture 
 
 STEPHEN ALEXANDEE, A.M. 
 
 Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy 
 
 tEEY. JAMES W. ALEXANDEE, D.D. 
 
 Professor of Belles-Lettres 
 
 EEY. MATTHEW B. HOPE, M.D. 
 
 Professor of Belles-Lettres 
 
 IJEYEET M. TOPPING, A.M. 
 Adjunct Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages 
 
 A. CAEDOXT DE SANDEANS 
 Teacher of the French Language 
 
 GEOEGE MUSGEAYE GIGEE, A.M. 
 Senior Tutor and Assistant Teacher of Mathematics 
 
 A. ALEXANDEE HODGE, A.M. 
 Tutor 
 
 N. MEEEITT OWEN, A.M. 
 
 Tutor 
 
 JOHN T. DUFFIELD, A.M. 
 Tutor and Registrar 
 
 HENEY J. DAYID 
 
 Teacher p7'o tern., of the German Language 
 
 ■'^ Died in 1845. f Resigned in 1844. ^ Resigned in 1847- 
 
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PORTRAITS OF PROFESSORS, 1843-1847 
 
Class of 1847 
 
 Junior Orators, Tuesday Evening, June 23, 1846 
 
 William A. Blevins, Alabama, Subject, "Principle a Reality" 
 
 Daniel Elliott, Georgia 
 
 Subject, "Science, Not Literature, Demanded by the Age" 
 
 Robert Foster, New York .... Subject, "Man — the Age" 
 
 William H. Armstrong, Pennsylvania 
 
 Subject, "Public Opinion" 
 
 George M. Robeson, New Jersey 
 
 Subject, "Our Nation's Sympathies" 
 
 William Henry Welsh, Pennsylvania 
 
 Subject, "The Spirit's Melodies" 
 
 Charles H. Key, District of Columbia 
 
 Subject, "Modern Heroism" 
 
 Hiestee Clymer, Pennsylvania, Subject, "Mythical Philosophy" 
 
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Editors of the "Nassau Monthly" 
 
 Robert Foster, December, 1846 — No. IV, Vol. VI 
 ^^•lLLIAM A. Blevins, March, 1847— No. V, Vol. VI 
 Beverley R. Wellford, Jr., April, 1847 — No. VI, Vol. VI 
 HiESTER Clymer, May, 1847— No. VII, Vol. VI 
 
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Class of 1847 
 
 Comtnencement Exercises, June 30, 1847 
 
 SPEAKERS 
 
 Henry Rinker, Pennsylvania .... "Latin Salutatory" 
 
 Henry Clay Cameron, District of Columbia 
 
 English Salutatory, "Ancient Literature'' 
 
 John M. Candor, Illinois, "Development of American Mind" 
 
 •^N. A. Cooper Seward, New Jersey, 
 
 "A Nation's Glory — Its Distinguished Few" 
 
 Music 
 
 "Thaddeus a. Culbertson, Pennsylvania, 
 
 "Motives Give Moral Character to Action" 
 
 T. Scott H. McCay, Mississippi 
 
 "The Advantages of the American Orator and Poet" 
 
 John Gosman, New York, "The True Principle of Action" 
 
 D. S. G. Cabell, District of Columbia . . "Success in Life" 
 
 Music 
 
 Henry B. Munn, New Jersey . . "The Spirit of the Age" 
 
 Robert Foster, New Jersey "Eclecticism" 
 
 Joseph M. Pittenhouse, New Jersey, "The Claims of Truth" 
 
 William H. Armstrong, Pennsylvania 
 
 "National Amusements" 
 
 *Samuel Henry Orton, New Jersey. .. ."Self Acquaintance" 
 
 Music 
 Samuel B. Smith, New Jersey . . ' The Forgotten Great" 
 Frederic B. Ogden, New Jersey . "The Legal Profession" 
 Edward P. Guerard, South Carolina, ' English Radicalism" 
 
 *Excused. 
 
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Music 
 
 W. Silas Whitehead. Ncav Jersey, '"The Religions of Nature" 
 
 James M. Johns, Delaware . "The Influence of .Vuthors" 
 
 William Wallace Marsh, New Jersey 
 
 "The Tomb Does Not Take All Away" 
 
 Edward Pugh, Louisiana . "The Talisman of Greatness" 
 
 Music 
 
 HiESTER Clymer, Pennsylvania 
 
 "The Realization of the Ideal" 
 
 George M. Robeson, New Jersey 
 
 "Our Institutions Favorable to the Cultivation of Eloquence" 
 
 Samuel J. Milliken, Pennsylvania 
 
 "Things Seen and Unseen" 
 
 W'lLLiAM Sergeant, Pennsylvania, 
 
 "Labor improbus non omnia vincit" 
 
 Music 
 
 Augustine H. Fish, New Jersey 
 
 "Public Opinion Not the Standard of Truth" 
 
 William H. Welsh, Pennsylvania 
 
 A Poem, "The Martyr Spirit" 
 
 Music 
 
 Conferring of Degree of A.B. 
 
 Beverley Randolph Wellford, Jr., Virginia 
 
 "Valedictory Oration" 
 
 At 4 P. M. the Alumni and invited guests formed in 
 procession and marched to the campus in the rear of Nassau 
 Hall, where tables were spread beneath a spacious and com- 
 modious tent for the accommodation of about seven hundred 
 persons. The banquet to celebrate the Centennial was then 
 served and followed by eloquent addresses. 
 
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Members of Class 
 
 1843-1847 
 
 00 — Left before graduating. 
 
 A.B. — Degree conferred on graduation. 
 
 A.M. — Degree conferred after graduation. 
 
 Figures indicate the year in which a member died. 
 
 Members surviving in 1907 are marked "living." 
 
 Adlek, John Mekcer (District of Columbia), A.B. and 
 
 A.M 1904 
 
 Anthony, Daniel Gbafius (Pennsylvania), A.B 1859 
 
 Armstrong, William Hepburn ( Pennsylvania ) , A.B. and 
 
 A.M living 
 
 Bacon, Frederic ( Canada) , A.B 1902 
 
 Barber, John V. (Pennsylvania), 00 living 
 
 Bartlett, Henry Clay (TSTev^' Jersey) , A.B 1864 
 
 Benbury, John Avery (North Carolina). A.B. and A.M. .1862 
 Berry, William Henry (District of Columbia), A.B. and 
 
 A.M 1859 
 
 Blevins, William Armstrong (Alabama), A.B 1853 
 
 BouDiNOT, Richard Stockton (New Jersey) , 00 1845 
 
 BuNN, John Wesley (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M 1852 
 
 Cabell, David S. Garland (Virginia) , A.B 1893 
 
 Cameron. Henry Clay ( District of Columbia ) , A.B. and 
 
 A.M. 1906 
 
 Candor, John Montgomery ( Illinois) , A.B 1849 
 
 Carothers, Thomas Leander (South Carolina), A.B... 1891 
 
 Clark, Robert Breckinridge (Mainland), A.B 1905 
 
 Colt, Morgan Gibbs (New Jersey) , 00 1894 
 
 Clymer. Hiester (Pennsylvania), A.B. and AM 1884 
 
 Culbertson, Thaddeus x\insworth (Pennsylavnia), A.B. , 1850 
 
 CuTHBERT, Alfred (Georgia) , A.B. and A.M 1880 
 
 Dalrymple, Aaron Pitney (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M., 1894 
 
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Davison, James Finley (Now Jersey), A.B 1850 
 
 DiLLARD, James Willis (North Carolina), A.B 1882 
 
 Elliott, Daniel Stewart (Georgia) , 00 1862 
 
 Epperson, Benjamin H. (Texas) , 00 1878 
 
 Faison, Julian Poydras (North Carolina), 00 1892 
 
 Fish, Augustine Hallet (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M., 1872 
 FoRTiER, PoLYCARp Lucius (Louisiana), A.B. and A.M., 1877 
 
 Foster, Robert (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M 1894 
 
 Fountain, Ezra James (New York), A.B. and A.M 1861 
 
 Glassell, John (Virginia) , A.B living 
 
 GosMAN, John (New York) , A.B. and A.M 1903 
 
 Grant, Seth Hastings (New York), 00 and A.M living 
 
 Grymes, \Villiam Shepherd (Virginia) , 00 1891 
 
 Guerard, Edward P. (South Carolina), A.B 1865 
 
 Howard, Francis Key (Maryland ) , 00 1872 
 
 Johns, James Montgomery (District of Columbia) , A.B. , 1880 
 
 Johns, Montgomery' (Maryland) , A.B. and A.M 1871 
 
 Jones, Eusebius Lee (District of Columbia), A.B. and 
 
 A.M 1876 
 
 Key, Charles Howard (District of Columbia), A.B. and 
 
 A.M 1869 
 
 Lloyd, Edward ( ^Maryland ) , A.B living 
 
 Marsh, \Yii.liam Wallace (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M., 1892 
 
 Martien, Alfred (Pennsylvania), A.B. and A.M living 
 
 Maxwell, Charles Edward (Georgia) , A.B 1852 
 
 McCay, Thomas Scott Henderson (Mississippi), A.B. ..1882 
 
 McFarland, James Robert (Virginia) , 00 1859 
 
 McKee, John Henry ( South Carolina) , A.B 1860 
 
 McKnight, Charles (Pennsylvania), A.B. and A.M 1881 
 
 MiLLiKEN, Samuel John (Pennsylvania) , A.B 1900 
 
 Moore, Isaiah N. ( Pennsylvania) , 00 1862 
 
 Moore, Samuel ( Delaware) , A.B 1852 
 
 MuNN, Henry Benson (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M., living 
 Murdoch, Thomas Fridge (Maryland), A.B. and A.M. ..1901 
 Ogden, Frederic Beasley (New Jersey). A.B. and A.M.. .1893 
 
 Olden, Joseph (New Jersey) , 00 1886 
 
 Oliver, Henry Hunter (Alabama), A.B. and A.M 1864 
 
 Okton, Samuel Henry (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M 1892 
 
 PuGH, David Bryan (Louisiana) , 00 1886 
 
 Pugh, Edward F. (Louisiana) , A.B 1870 
 
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RiNKER, Henry (Pennsylvania), A.B. and A.M living 
 
 RiTTENHOUSE, JosEPH Menagh (New JersejOj A.B. and 
 
 A.M 1903 
 
 Robeson, George Maxwell (New Jersey), A.B. and A.M., 1897 
 
 Sergeant, William (Pennsylvania), A.B. and A.M 1865 
 
 Seward, Nathan A. Cooper (New Jersey), A.B. and 
 
 A.M 1856 
 
 Shewalter, George William (Virginia), A.B. and A.M. .1877 
 
 Shewmake, John T. (Georgia) , 00 1898 
 
 Smith, Samuel Batnton (New Jersey) , A.B 1886 
 
 Smithfeter, William (Tennessee) , A.B 1904 
 
 Stevenson, David (New York) , 00 1901 
 
 Stonestreet, Joseph Harris (Maryland) , A.B 1895 
 
 Sturgess, John R. ( Georgia) , 00 1862 
 
 Strother, John Hunt (Missouri) , A.B 1861 
 
 Swope, John Augustus (Pennsylvania), A.B living 
 
 Taylor, William (Virginia) , 00 1891 
 
 Tingle, William Stuart Williamson (Maryland) .... 1866 
 
 ToLAND, Henry ( Pennsylvania) , A.B 1858 
 
 Todd, George W. (Pennsylvania) , 00 1875 
 
 Wellford, Beverley Randolph, Jr. (Virginia), A.B. and 
 
 A.M living 
 
 Welsh, William Henry (Pennsylvania), A.B. and A.M., 1903 
 
 White, William L. (Kentucky) ,00 not known 
 
 Whitehead, John Randolph (Georgia) , 00 1876 
 
 Whitehead, James Troupe (Georgia) , A.B 1889 
 
 Whitehead, William Silas (New Jersey), A.B. and 
 
 A.M 1905 
 
 WiLLSON, Alpheus Evans (Pennsylvania), A.B. and 
 
 A.M 1884 
 
 Wright, William E. (Missouri), 00 not known 
 
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Biographies 
 
 John Mercer Adler 
 
 Taken at ti6 
 
 Abler, John Mercer. Born 
 August 9, 1828, at George- 
 town, District of Columbia. 
 Entered Junior. Studied 
 medicine. In 1852 went to 
 Panama as surgeon of the 
 railroad company, with his 
 classmate, Fountain, who 
 left there in 1853 on account 
 of impaired health and lo- 
 cated at Davenport, Iowa, where Adler joined 
 him in 1855. On the breaking out of the Civil 
 War he was appointed United States surgeon 
 of the Military Establishment of the State of 
 Iowa, and continued in charge to the close of 
 the war, in 1865. Then removed to Philadel- 
 phia and continued in successful practice of his 
 profession till his death, February 11, 1904, in 
 his seventy-fifth year. In 1857 married Harriet 
 B. Gilbert, of Philadelphia, who, with three 
 daughters survived him. 
 
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Daniel Graflus 
 Anthony 
 
 Taken at 22 
 
 Anthony^ Daniel Grafius. 
 Born September 27, 1825, at 
 Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 
 Entered Sophomore. Read 
 law and practiced in his na- 
 tive town till his death, July 
 29, 1859, in his thirty-fourth 
 year. In 1848 married Re- 
 gina McDowell, of Williams- 
 port, who died in June, 1859. 
 They had four children. 
 
 Armstrong, William Hepburn. Born Sep- 
 tember 7, 1824, at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 
 Entered Sophomore. Studied law with his 
 father. Was admitted to the bar in 1849. In 
 1851 married Miss Annie Earp, of Philadelphia. 
 In 1854 removed to Pliiladel]ihia, wliere he 
 practiced until 1856, when 
 his health failing, he trav- 
 eled in Europe for one 
 year, and on his return, 
 under medical advice, re- 
 sumed practice at Williams- 
 port with his father. In 
 1859, and again in 1860, was 
 elected a member of the Leg- 
 islature of Pennsylvania. 
 In 1860 was the Republican 
 candidate for Speaker of the House. Gave way 
 to a ''War Democrat" that the House might 
 
 William Hepburn 
 Armstrong 
 
 Taken at 74 
 
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be organized in the interests of the Republican 
 party. Was chairman of the Committee on 
 Ways and Means. His report passed the House 
 in one day and without amendment. Was one 
 of the Committee of the House to meet Mr. Lin- 
 coln, president-elect, at the Ohio State line and 
 escort him to Washington. In 1870 was a mem- 
 ber of the Forty-first United States Congress. 
 Was the author of the resolution authorizing 
 and requiring the President to establish rules 
 and regulations for the Civil Service — the be- 
 ginning of the present Civil Service of the 
 United States. Was the author of the resolution 
 which declared that Congress would not there- 
 after recognize any Indian tribe as a power with 
 whom they would contract by treaty. This set- 
 tled the long controversy in which the Senate 
 claimed the exclusive right to ratify Indian 
 treaties, and the House denying the right of the 
 Senate to make Indian treaties which obliged 
 the House to make appropriations of money 
 without their consent. In 1873 he was elected 
 delegate-at-large to the convention to reform the 
 constitution of Pennsylvania. Was chairman 
 of the Committee on the Judiciary, and the 
 author of the system which abolished the Dis- 
 trict and Nisi Priiis Courts as separate organi- 
 zations, and established the Courts of Common 
 Pleas in uniform organization and jurisdiction 
 throughout the State. Also of the provision 
 
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which established distinctive Orphans' Courts to 
 audit and pass upon accounts of decedents with- 
 out reference to masters and without expense to 
 the parties. In 1880 he was a delegate-at-large 
 to the Republican Convention at Chicago, and 
 served on the same committee with Mr. Garfield. 
 Was one of the 306 steadfast supporters of 
 Grant. He was appointed United States Com- 
 missioner of Eailroads by President Arthur, 
 which office he retained until the first election of 
 President Cleveland, when he resigned. In 1884 
 his wife died. He never afterwards married. 
 There were four children born to him, two sons 
 and two daughters — one son and one daughter 
 now (1907) living. In 1886 he removed to Phila- 
 delphia, but did not resume the general practice 
 of the law, although he accepted engagements in 
 a few important cases. In 1899 he accepted the 
 office of president of the Mexican Plantation 
 Company, a tropical plantation of 5500 acres; 
 and in 1904 he accepted the presidency of the 
 International Lumber and Development Com- 
 pany — a company owning title in fee to 288,000 
 acres in Mexico, 20,000 acres of which are being 
 cultivated to henequin, rubber, and other trop- 
 ical products. 
 
 Bacon^ Fredekic. Born March 18, 1824, at 
 Hatleyborough, Lower Canada, to which place 
 his parents had removed from New England. 
 Resided for some years, while young, with rel- 
 
 27 
 
atives in Georgia, where he was prepared for 
 college. Entered Sophomore. After gradua- 
 tion returned to his former home in Canada and 
 engaged in agricultural imrsuits. Later in life 
 became blind, but remained on the farm till his 
 death. May 28, 1902, in his seventy-ninth year. 
 Was very highly esteemed and respected by his 
 acquaintances for his learning and sound judg- 
 ment. Married, and left one son, now (1906) 
 Treasurer of a Mercantile Co., Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Barber, John V. Born 
 May 19, 1824, White 
 Springs, Union County, 
 Pennsylvania. Entered 
 Sophomore. Left in 1845 
 on account of poor health. 
 Then lived on a farm for 
 ten years. Health having 
 improved, though never ro- 
 bust, moved to Mifflinburg, 
 Pennsylvania, and engaged 
 and continued in mercantile business for nearly 
 thirty years. Subsequently not in any active 
 business. Has been superintendent of Sunday 
 schools some forty years: an elder in the Pres- 
 l)yterian Church nearly half a century. 
 
 Bartlett, Henry Clay. Born April 10, 1827, 
 at Stanhope, New Jersey. Entered Sophomore. 
 Studied law. Afterwards engaged in banking 
 
 28 
 
 John V. Barber 
 
 Taken at 72 
 
and the brokerage business. Was successful. 
 Retired, and spent a year in Texas, then made 
 his residence in Caldwell, 
 New Jersey. On the breaking; 
 out of the Civil War, raised 
 a company and joined the 
 Seventh Regiment, New Jer- 
 sey Volunteers, August 28, 
 1861. Was in the Army of 
 the Potomac and com- 
 manded his regiment in the 
 seven-days ' fight before 
 
 -,^. T , ^r- • ■ T Henry Clay Bartlett 
 
 Richmond, Virginia, and Taken at 31 
 
 was praised for gallantry. His health failing, 
 resigned January 14, 1863, and returned home. 
 Subsequently was appointed a captain in the 
 133d Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, and be- 
 came part of the Army of Tennesee. Was mor- 
 tally wounded while leading a battalion against 
 the enemy's works at ''Dug Gap," near Dalton, 
 Georgia, May 8, 1864. Died the next day, in his 
 thirty-eighth year. Married, January 13, 1854, 
 Mary E. Russell. Issue, four daughters — Gen- 
 evieve, Minnie, Lydia and Josea. 
 
 Benbury_, John Avery. Born February 9, 
 1827, at Sandy Point, Chowan County, North 
 Carolina. Entered Junior. Read law and fol- 
 lowed planting. In 1859 became a member of 
 the House of Commons of North Carolina. On 
 the secession of his State volunteered in the 
 
 29 
 
Confederate Army and was commissioned first 
 lieutenant, Company A, First Regiment, North 
 Carolina State Troops, 
 afterwards promoted to 
 captain. Was mortally 
 wounded at the battle of 
 Malvern Hills, and died in 
 Richmond, Virginia, four 
 days later — July 4, 1862 — 
 in his thirty-sixth year. 
 Married Harriet Ryan, of 
 T , , o , AVindsor, Bertie Countv, 
 
 John Avery Benbury ' 
 
 Taken at 36 Nortli CaroHua. Left sur- 
 
 viving, his wife and one child — a daughter. 
 
 Berry, William Henry. Born December 3, 
 1827, at Georgetown, District of Columbia. 
 Entered Sophomore. Studied medicine. Tn 
 1850, in company with his 
 classmate, Thomas F. Mur- 
 doch, went to Europe and 
 pursued his studies in Paris 
 till 1853, when he returned 
 and practiced his profession 
 in Washington, District of 
 Columbia, until his death, 
 February 19, 1859, in his 
 
 thirty-first year. Wiinam Hemy Beny 
 
 '' "^ Taken at 25 
 
 Blevins, William Armstrong. Was born 
 May 10, 1827, at Pleasant Valley, near Selma, 
 
 30 
 
Alabama, Entered Freshman. Was one of the 
 Junior orators at the Commencement of 1846. 
 Was also one of the class editors of the Nassau 
 Monthly/. After graduating, returned to his 
 father's home, Pleasant Valley. His father 
 being a wealthy planter, he did not feel the 
 necessity of acquiring a profession, and like 
 most of the Southern men of that period, led a 
 life of social ease and pleasure. He married, in 
 the winter of 1848, Miss Mary Weaver, of 
 Selma; and died at that place, September 14, 
 1853, of yellow fever, in his twenty-seventh 
 year, esteemed and loved by his family and 
 friends. 
 
 BouDiNOT^ Richard Stock- 
 ton. Born February 24, 1828, 
 at Newark, New Jersey. 
 Entered the Sophomore. 
 Died while in college from 
 a wound received by the ac- 
 cidental discharge of his 
 gun. The Nassau Monthly 
 of October, 1845, says: 
 ''About ten days ago our 
 fellow student, R. Stockton Boudinot, a mem- 
 ber of the Junior class, dangerously wounded 
 himself while on a hunting excursion with 
 some of his friends. Our college has been 
 thrown into gloom over this sad event." 
 And in the November number, continues : 
 
 31 
 
 R. Stockton Boudinot 
 
 Taken at 17 
 
"The morning was delightful and bright with 
 anticipated enjoyment, when our fellow student 
 a few weeks since went forth on a day's ex- 
 cursion. But, alas, the instrument of pleas- 
 ure became to him the minister of death! On 
 the evening of the Sal)bath, November 2, 1845, 
 he calmly and peacefully breathed his last." In 
 his nineteenth year. 
 
 BuNN, John Wesley. 
 Born 1826, near Pennington, 
 in the State of New Jer- 
 sey. Entered Junior. Be- 
 came a teacher. Taught one 
 year, then went to Europe, 
 being in poor health. At 
 the end of a year returned 
 and became principal of a 
 private school in Haddon- 
 field. New Jersey. Was there 
 attacked with hemorrhage of the lungs. Died at 
 the home of his parents, in Pennington, of con- 
 sumption, January 19, 1852, in his twenty-sixth 
 year. 
 
 Cabell> David S. Garland. Born June 23, 
 1825, in Amherst County, Virginia. Entered 
 Sophomore. Read law. In 181:9 appointed 
 clerk in the United States General Land Office. 
 In 1853 resigned and commenced practice of law 
 at New Market, Nelson County, Virginia, and fol- 
 lowed it in four counties till the commencement 
 
 John Wesley Biinn 
 
 Taken at 2:, 
 
 32 
 
David S. Garland 
 Cabell 
 
 Taken at 42 
 
 of the Civil War. During the war held both mili- 
 tary and civil positions in Virginia. At its 
 close was elected to the Vir- 
 ginia State Senate for four 
 years, taking his seat De- 
 cember 4, 1865, and was an 
 active member, as shown by 
 its journals. In 1871-4, was 
 professor in the Norwood 
 high school and college, Nel- 
 son County, Virginia. At 
 the expiration of his profes- 
 sorship, resumed the prac- 
 tice of law. During most of his life was a pro- 
 lific writer for newspapers, magazines, and peri- 
 odicals. Died August 14, 1893, at the home of 
 his brother, in Virginia, in his sixty-ninth year. 
 Was never married. 
 
 Camekon^ Heney Clay, 
 Born September 1, 1827, at 
 Shepherdstown, Virginia 
 (now West Virginia). 
 Entered Junior. Engaged 
 in teaching in a private 
 family in King George 
 County, Virginia, for three 
 years. In 1850 entered the 
 Theological Seminary, 
 Princeton, New Jersey. In 1852 became tutor 
 of Greek in the college at Princeton, and on 
 
 33 
 
 Henry Clay Cameron 
 
 Taken at 78 
 
finishing his course in the seminary, in 1855, 
 was appointed adjunct professor of Greek, In 
 1858 was licensed to preach, and in 1861 was or- 
 dained to the ministry in the Presbyterian 
 Churcli and was a member of the General As- 
 sembly in 1875 and again in 1887, again in 1900. 
 Visited Europe four times and liad many in- 
 teresting experiences in his travels. Has de- 
 livered in different places interesting addresses 
 and written valuable articles for leading peri- 
 odicals. His life has been devoted to the best in- 
 terests of the college, both as professor and ad- 
 ministrative officer. Received honorary degrees 
 from Princeton and other colleges. Died, Oc- 
 tober 25, 1906, in his eightieth year, after under- 
 going a surgical operation. Married, Septem- 
 ber 14, 1858, Miss Mina Chollet. Had two chil- 
 dren, one of whom, Arnold Guyot, born July, 
 1859, is living. His wife and son survive him. 
 
 Candoe, John Montgomery. Born in the year 
 1825, in Union County, Pennsylvania. Entered 
 Soi)homore. After graduation entered the 
 Princeton Theological Seminary, where he died, 
 November 13, 1849, of consumption, in his 
 twenty-fourth year. Was highly esteemed, and 
 his body was accompanied by a portion of his 
 fellow students to the place of his burial, Dan- 
 ville, Pennsj^lvania. 
 
 Carothers, Thomas Leander. Born June 25, 
 1821, in Union District, South Carolina. En- 
 
 34 
 
Thomas Leander 
 Carothers 
 
 Taken at 55 
 
 tered Senior. Engaged in teaching. Became 
 the president of Washington College, east 
 Tennessee. Subsequently lo- 
 cated at Decatur, Alabama. 
 Spent many years teaching 
 in Houston, Aberdeen, and 
 West Point, Mississippi. 
 Was a most successful edu- 
 cator. Enjoyed splendid 
 health until Christmas Eve, 
 1890, when on his way to an 
 entertainment given by the 
 Sunday school of his church, 
 he was thrown from his buggy and sustained in- 
 juries from which he died October 1, 1891, in 
 his seventy-first year. Was an active member 
 of the Presbyterian Church. Married, December 
 1848, Mary E. Miller, of Chickasaw County, 
 Mississippi. Left four sons and two daughters. 
 
 Clark, Robert Breckinridge. Born April 2, 
 1824, in Baltimore, Maryland. Entered Sopho- 
 more. Studied law. Practiced for a year or 
 two, then removed to St. Louis, Missouri, and 
 followed merchandizing. Made a respectable 
 fortune and lost it. Then accepted the position 
 of superintendent of the office of Recorder of 
 Deeds, in St. Louis. In charge for sixteen years 
 and on account of age, withdrew about 1900. 
 Married, in 1858, Miss Gaither, of Frederick, 
 Maryland. In 1896 had living, three children — 
 
 35 
 
Robert Breckinridge 
 Clarlv 
 
 Taken at 74 
 
 two sons, Eobert and Stuart, and one daughter, 
 Mrs. Harvey G. Mudd. 
 After leaving the Record- 
 er's office, passed the spring 
 and summer of each year 
 with son and daughter in St. 
 Louis, and the fall and 
 winter with his other son, re- 
 siding in Meriden, Missis- 
 sippi. While with the latter, 
 died suddenly of apoplexy, 
 October 18, 1905, in his 
 eighty-second year. Was buried on the follow- 
 ing Saturday, at Frederick, Maryland, by the 
 side of his mother. 
 
 Colt, Morgan Gibbs. 
 Born March 10, 1826, at 
 Paterson, New Jersey. En- 
 tered Sophomore. Left in 
 1815. Inherited a large for- 
 tune. Studied no profes- 
 sion. Married, October 27, 
 1857, Miss Mary Burrows. 
 Died April 10, 1891, in his 
 sixty-eighth year. 
 
 Clymee, Hiester. Born November 3, 1827. 
 Caernarvon, Berks County, Pennsylvania, En- 
 tered Junior. Studied law. Practiced in Potts- 
 ville, and Reading, Pennsylvania. In 1860 was a 
 delegate to the National Democratic Convention 
 
 36 
 
 Morgan Gibbs Colt 
 
 Taken at 24 
 
Hiester Clymer 
 
 Taken at 53 
 
 at its sessions in Charleston and Baltimore, In 
 the Pennsylvania State Senate from October, 
 1860 to 1866, in March, 
 when he was nominated by 
 the Democrats for gover- 
 nor. Was defeated. In 
 1868 delegate to the Na- 
 tional Democratic Conven- 
 tion in New York. Visited 
 Europe 1870-1871. Presi- 
 dent of Democratic State 
 Convention at Reading, 
 Pennsylvania, in 1872. Was 
 elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty- 
 fifth and Forty-sixth United States Congress. 
 Retired to private life after March 4, 1881. De- 
 voted himself to business pursuits. Married, in 
 1856, Elizabeth Mary Brooke, of Birdsboro, 
 Pennsylvania. She died in 1870. Married, 
 second time. Miss Minnie Clement, of St. Louis, 
 Missouri. Died suddenly at his home in Read- 
 ing, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1884, in his fifty- 
 seventh year, as reported in the newspapers, 
 from an overdose of morphine, taken the even- 
 ing previous. Left no children. 
 
 CuLBEKTsoN, Thaddeus Ainsworth. Bom 
 about 1826, at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. 
 Entered Sophomore. In 1848 entered Princeton 
 Theological Seminary. In 1849 taught school 
 in Virginia. In the spring of 1850, being out of 
 
 37 
 
health, arranged with the officers of the Smith- 
 sonian Institution to make a tour up the Missouri 
 River for collection of specimens of animal and 
 vegetahle life. This he did in company with his 
 brother, Alexander, who had been connected 
 with the American Fur Trading Company. On 
 his return, made an interesting report, embrac- 
 ing a narrative from April 27, 1850, to July 6, 
 1850, which the institution included in its fifth 
 annual report to the Board of Regents. He re- 
 turned in good health with a prospect of a long 
 life. Later in the year suffered an attack of a 
 prevailing disease and died after a few weeks' 
 illness, in his twenty-fourth year. 
 
 CuTHBERT, Alfred. Born 
 _ January, 1826, in Savannah, 
 
 jj^^^^y Georgia. Entered Junior. 
 
 ijS K After leaving college, lived 
 
 V* "^ \i on his plantation in Jasper 
 County, Georgia, the life of 
 a literary man and planter. 
 Although inheriting a large 
 number of slaves, was op- 
 posed to the institution, and 
 arranged for the deporta- 
 tion of such as were willing to go with the 
 American Colonization Society, and to manumit 
 the rest. Spent a large portion of his time vis- 
 iting friends in the North. During the Civil 
 War served as a private in a cavalry company 
 
 38 
 
 Alfred Cuthbert 
 
 Taken at 44 
 
in the Confederate Army. After the war, con- 
 tinued his visits North, and died at Morristown, 
 New Jersey, December, 1880, in his fifty-fourth 
 year, of apoplectic seizure. Married, 1856, eldest 
 daughter of Eev. S. S. Davis, of Augusta, Geor- 
 gia. Had two children, son and daughter, resi- 
 dents of Augusta, Georgia, 1897. 
 
 Dalrymple^ Aaron Pit- 
 ney. Born November 21, 
 1824, at Dover, Morris 
 County, New Jersey. En- 
 tered Sophomore. Studied 
 medicine. Held position in 
 Bellevue Hospital, New 
 York City, for one year, 
 then, as surgeon on United 
 States Mail Steamship ' ' At- 
 lantic." In 1856 opened an 
 office in New York City, was appointed a police 
 surgeon and also surgeon of the Twelfth Regi- 
 ment, National Guards, New York. In the Civil 
 War, entered the service September 11, 1861, as 
 surgeon, with rank of major. Was with the ex- 
 pedition against Fort Royal, Beaufort, Fort 
 Pulaski, and other Southern points. In 1862 
 was promoted to the rank of Brigadier Surgeon 
 of Volunteers, and soon after was appointed 
 chief medical officer of the Southern Military 
 District, with headquarters at Charleston, South 
 Carolina. Held his medical appointment till 
 
 39 
 
 Aaron Pitney 
 Dali-ymple 
 
 Taken at 39 
 
close of the war, February 2, 1866, was honor- 
 ably mustered out. After the war, resumed his 
 practice in New York City and continued it till 
 within a couple of years of his death. Was mem- 
 ber of the New York County Medical Society, 
 The Loyal Legion, and the New York Princeton 
 Club. Died of paralysis, at his home in New 
 York City, February 26, 1894, in his seventieth 
 year. Left a widow and one son. Was buried 
 at Mount Freedom, Morris County, New Jersey, 
 about four miles from Dover. Married, in 1853, 
 Ellen Hutchens,of New Brunswick, New Jersey. 
 She died January 23, 1896. 
 
 Davison, John Fin ley. Born about 1826 in 
 (reported) Newark, New Jersey. Entered 
 Sophomore. C^ommenced the study of medicine 
 in New York City. Relinquished on account of 
 feeble health and died in Newark, New Jersey, 
 January, 1850, in his twenty-fourth year. 
 
 DiLLARD, James W^illis. 
 Born December 17, 1826, in 
 Sussex County, Virginia. 
 Removed to North Carolina. 
 Entered Sophomore. En- 
 gaged in ])lanting in South- 
 ampton and Nansemond 
 counties, Virginia. Married, 
 in 1856, Sarah Browning 
 Cross, Nansemond, Virginia. 
 
 40 
 
 James Willis Killard 
 
 Takfii :it M 
 
Health was much broken by the reverses of the 
 Civil War, and removed to Norfolk, Virginia, 
 and entered the business of cotton commission 
 merchant. Died May 20, 1882, in his fifty-sixth 
 year, leaving one son, now (June 20, 1907) 
 professor in Tulane University, New Orleans, 
 Louisiana. 
 
 Elliott, Daniel ( Stewart ) . ( The ' ' Stewart ' ' 
 added by the Legislature.) Born November 20, 
 1826, in Savannah, Georgia. Entered Fresh- 
 man. Continued on through most of the Senior 
 year, but left before graduation. Commenced 
 reading law in Philadelphia. In September, 
 1849, was engaged in the coast survey. Subse- 
 quently lived abroad eight years. Married, June 
 1, 1858, Lucy Ireland Sorrel. Was abroad on 
 breaking out of Civil War, but returned, entered 
 Confederate service. A¥ithdrew on account of 
 ill health and died August 3, 1862, in his thirty- 
 sixth year, leaving widow and two children, 
 John Stewart and Matilda Moxley. 
 
 Epperson, Benjamin H. Born November 30, 
 1826, in Amite County, Mississippi. Entered 
 Junior, Left before graduating. Removed to 
 Texas, settling at Clarksville, where he resided 
 until about 1871. Studied law, was admitted to 
 the bar and practiced with marked ability and 
 success. Was an active Whig politician before 
 the war, and was the candidate of his party for 
 governor in 1851, at a time when he was below 
 
 41 
 
^^ 
 
 Benjamin H. Epperson 
 
 Taken at 52 
 
 the constitutional age. In 1852 was at the head 
 of the Texas delegation to the Wliig National 
 Convention. Served in the 
 Legislature practically from 
 1853 to his death, except 
 during the war and recon- 
 struction. In the contro- 
 versy over secession was a 
 Union man, standing sub- 
 stantially w^ith General 
 Houston on that question. 
 After the State seceded, he 
 cast in his allegiance with 
 the Confederacy. Having been crippled in an 
 accident, he saw no active service in the army, 
 but gave liberally of his time and money to the 
 Southern cause. In 1866, and again in 1868, he 
 was elected to the United States Congress, but 
 was not permitted to take his seat. Because of 
 his wide j^ersonal acquaintance and unusual 
 ability, he exercised a wide political influence 
 throughout the State. He was one of the first 
 presidents of the old Memphis, El Paso & Pa- 
 cific Railroad, now the Texas & Pacific, and was 
 highly instrumental in the railroad development 
 of Texas. He died in September, 1878, at his 
 home in Jefferson, Texas, of nervous prostra- 
 tion, in his fifty-second year. He was twice mar- 
 ried, and left surviving, a widow^ and five chil- 
 dren. 
 
 42 
 
Julian Podras Faison 
 
 Faison, Julian Podbas. 
 Born in 1826, in Sampson 
 County, North Carolina. 
 Entered Sophomore. Left 
 in 1846, before graduating. 
 Studied law. Did not prac- 
 tice. Followed planting. 
 Was a delightful companion, 
 and a kind and considerate 
 master of his slaves. "Mar- 
 ried at an early age, a woman of singular beauty 
 and culture." In 1855 joined the Baptist Church, 
 and in 1857 was ordained to its ministry, and 
 labored in country churches, winning fame as a 
 preacher and pastor. In the Civil War, served 
 in the Confederate Army, first as private and 
 then as chaplain, until broken health compelled 
 his retirement. Subsequently continued his 
 preaching, and died about 1892, in his sixty- 
 sixth year, when away from 
 home, in the high duties of 
 his calling. 
 
 Fish, Augustine Hallet. 
 Born November 28, 1828, at 
 Trenton, New Jersey. En- 
 tered Sophomore. Studied 
 medicine. Was a resident 
 .physician of Blockley Hos- 
 pital, Philadelphia, till the 
 fall of 1854, when he mar- 
 
 Augustine Hallet Fish 
 
 Taken at 40 
 
 43 
 
riecl Sarah P. Clieeseman, of Philadelphia. 
 Opened office in that city and followed his pro- 
 fession till about three months before his death. 
 Was visiting physician to the Philadelphia Dis- 
 pensary and one of the physicians of the Char- 
 ity Hospital. Was never robust. Died August 
 3, 1872, in his forty-fourth year, at Cooperstown, 
 New York, while in pursuit of health, being a 
 consumptive, and was buried in Ewing, Mercer 
 County, New Jersey. 
 
 FoRTiER, PoLYCARP Lucius. Was boru April 
 27, 1827, on the family plantation, Jefferson 
 Parish, Louisiana. Entered Senior and gradu- 
 ated with the class, then returned to his plan- 
 tation home. Married, August 25, 1847, Louise 
 Labranche. Engaged in planting. Gave 
 special attention to the cultivation of orange 
 trees and was considered an authority in 
 that line. He also became a contractor for 
 construction of levees, and acquired a repu- 
 tation in filling the roadbed of Morgan's 
 Louisiana & Texas Railroad from New Or- 
 leans to Berwick Bay, as it was an en- 
 gineering feat and herculean task that 
 no other parties could be induced to 
 undertake. He died, November 21, 1879, 
 at the home of E. F. Garcia, in New Or- 
 leans, of disease of the liver, in his fifty-first 
 year. 
 
 44 
 
Robert Foster 
 
 Taken at 60 
 
 Foster, Robert. Born 
 December 20, 1826, at Bath, 
 Maine. Entered Sopho- 
 more. Commenced teaching 
 in Bloomfield Academy, 
 New Jersey. In 1857, with 
 his brother-in-law, Charles 
 M. Davis, erected and 
 opened a school for boys. 
 Two years afterwards 
 opened the Dudley English Classical School in 
 Brooklyn. In 1856 became the superintendent of 
 the Collegiate Department of the Brooklyn 
 Polytechnical Institute, and held the position 
 till his death, March 6, 1894, in his sixty-seventh 
 year. He was also secretary of the Brooklyn 
 Institute of Arts and Sciences, and president 
 of the Union for Christian Work. Married first, 
 in October, 1853, to Alida Robinson, of Thomas- 
 ton, Maine. She died three years afterwards, 
 of consumption. Married second, Febru- 
 ary 17, 1859, to Augusta Swain, of Brook- 
 lyn. Left surviving, his widow and four 
 daughters. 
 
 Fountain, Ezra James. Born about 1826, 
 at Peekskill, West Chester County, New York. 
 Entered Junior. Studied medicine. In 1852 
 was employed as surgeon on the Panama Rail- 
 road, with his classmate, John M. Adler. In 
 
 45 
 
Ezra James Fountain 
 
 1853, on account of impaired health, returned 
 North and located at Davenport, Iowa, where, 
 in 1855, he was joined hy 
 Adler. They practiced 
 there, associated together, 
 till his death, March 29, 
 1861, in his thirty-fifth year. 
 Adler writes, June 13, 1887 : 
 "I was with him when he 
 died, from an overdose of 
 chlorate of potash, with 
 which he was experiment- 
 ing, a victim of his zeal and 
 enthusiasm in the prosecution of medical inves- 
 tigation. Was the best medical practitioner I 
 ever knew." Married in 1856 to Miss Bur- 
 roughs, of Davenport, Iowa, who survived him. 
 
 Glassell, John. Born 
 August 16, 1828, in Fau- 
 quier County, Virginia. 
 Moved to Culpepper 
 County. Entered the Junior 
 class. After graduating en- 
 gaged in farming. In De- 
 cember, 1858, moved to De 
 Soto Parish, Louisiana. 
 Served as a private in the 
 Confederate Army til) the end of the war. In 
 1886 was ordained a preacher by the Presbytery 
 of Red River, and was sent to the Southern Gen- 
 
 
 John Glassell 
 
 Taken at ?:> 
 
 46 
 
eral Assembly, in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1888. 
 'A few years after graduation, married Mary F. 
 Thomas, of Culpepper, Virginia. Issue, nine 
 children — three boys and six girls. His wife 
 died in 1891. A few years later, was stricken 
 with paralysis. Several strokes followed. 
 April 4, 1902, his son writes that his father was 
 quite feeble and nearly blind. 
 
 GosMAN, John. Born 
 March 19, 1826, near Ithaca, 
 New York. Entered Junior. 
 Engaged in teaching. 
 Taught in Virginia, 1849 to 
 1851 ; in South Carolina and 
 Georgia, 1851 to 1857. Prin- 
 cipal of West Jersey Acad- 
 emy, Bridgeton, New Jer- 
 sey, 1859 to 1868; of a 
 boarding school at Spring- 
 boro, Ohio, 1871 to 1881; of the Doylestown 
 Seminary, Pennsylvania, 1882 to 1890. Taught 
 at other places, and at his death. May 25, 1903, 
 was considered one of the foremost educators 
 of the country. In 1853, married Sarah P. Fur- 
 man. At the time of his death was an elder in 
 the Doylestown Presbyterian Church. He died 
 in his seventy-eighth year. 
 
 Geant^ Seth Hastings. Born June 6, 1828, in 
 Marshall, Oneida County, New York. Entered 
 Freshman. Left during Sophomore on account 
 
 47 
 
 John Gosman 
 
 Taken at aS 
 
Serb tiaslings Grant 
 
 Taken at 56 
 
 of an attack of pneumonia; returned during 
 Junior, but finding it too difficult to keep up 
 with the class, left without 
 graduating, then followed a 
 somewhat literary life. 
 Was first with the publish- 
 ers, "Wiley & Putnam," of 
 W^\^' New York City. Then ap- 
 
 ■**- ^ pointed librarian of the Mer- 
 
 cantile Library Association 
 of the City of New York. 
 Held the position for seven- 
 teen years. During that 
 time, in 1850, became the editor of Norton's Lit- 
 eran/ Gazette and Publishers' Circular. In 1853, 
 secretary of the Meeting of Librarians in New 
 York City. Was an officer of the Athenaeum 
 Club. In 1855 visited Europe, examining libra- 
 ries ; there met Thackeray and arranged a course 
 of lectures in New York City. In 1860 entered 
 on a general brokerage and real estate business. 
 In 1873 prepared the annual report of the New 
 York Produce Exchange. In 1882 was ap- 
 pointed private secretary of Franklin Edson, 
 mayor of New York. In 1883 was appointed 
 comptroller of the city, and on retiring, served 
 one year as vice president of the National Bank 
 of New York City. Married, October 14, 1858, 
 Margaret Van Antwerp, New York. Issue, 
 three children. June 4, 1848, united with Cen- 
 
 48 
 
William Shepherd 
 Grymes 
 
 Taken at 45 
 
 tral Presbyterian Church, subsequently with the 
 Madison Square Presbyterian Church. Has 
 
 served as deacon and ruling elder thirty years. 
 
 Grymes, William Shep- 
 herd. Born April 3, 1825. 
 
 in Orange County, Virginia. 
 
 Entered Sophomore. Left 
 
 before graduating. Studied 
 
 medicine. In 1850 settled 
 
 in Gordonsville, Virginia, 
 
 and practiced medicine and 
 
 surgery with distinguished 
 
 success till the breaking out 
 
 of the Civil War. Accom- 
 panied the local volunteers and soldiers to Har- 
 per's Ferry, April 17, 1861. Was appointed sur- 
 geon of the Thirteenth Regiment, Virginia In- 
 fantry — General A. P. Hill's regiment — and 
 was promoted brigade and division surgeon. 
 Served continually to the close of the war at 
 Appomattox, April, 1865. He attained great 
 distinction as a surgeon, and was regarded with 
 great affection by the soldiers. Married, June 
 1, 1870, Miss M. A. Bernard, who (1897) sur- 
 vives him, with two daughters and two sons. 
 Died March 26, 1891, aged sixty-five, universally 
 regretted by the profession and the public. 
 
 GuERARD, Edward P. Was born November 20. 
 1827, in Charleston, South Carolina. Entered 
 Sophomore. Graduated. Was assigned a 
 
 49 
 
Edward P. Guerard 
 
 Taken at 21 
 
 speech at Commencement; subject, "English 
 Radicalism," x\fter graduation, traveled two 
 years in Europe. On his re- 
 turn, engaged in rice plant- 
 ing. Spoke French and Ital- 
 ian and understood German. 
 Married Theodora C. Gail- 
 lard in 1855. Was taken ill 
 in 1858, continued in poor 
 health, and died in 1865, in 
 his thirty-eighth year, of 
 some stomach trouble, leav- 
 ing widow and two children. 
 
 Howard, Francis Key. Born October 25, 
 1826, in Baltimore, Maryland. Entered Sopho- 
 more. Left before graduation. Studied law. 
 Practiced for some years. In 1858, during the 
 mob rule in Baltimore, prior to the Civil War, 
 gave up his i^rofession and 
 became one of the editors of 
 the Baltimore Exchange, 
 and in 1859 one of its pro- 
 prietors. September 13, 
 1861, he was arrested by the 
 military of the United 
 States and confined first in 
 Fort McHenry, then in Fort- 
 tress Monroe, then in Fort 
 Lafayette, and finally in 
 Fort Warren, Boston, until November 27, 1862, 
 
 50 
 
 Francis Key Howard 
 
 Taken at 4.') 
 
when he was unconditionally released. He pub- 
 lished two pamphlets in 1863, on the subject of 
 his imprisonment and the state of affairs in 
 Maryland, entitled "Fourteen Months in an 
 American Bastile, ' ' and ' ' The Southern Rights 
 and Union Parties Contrasted." After his re- 
 lease, became one of the editors and proprietors 
 of the Baltimore Gazette, a successor to The Ex- 
 change. Married Lydia E. Hollingsworth Mor- 
 ris. Issue, six children. Died in London, May 
 29, 1872, in his forty-sixth year, and was buried 
 in St. Paul's burying ground, Baltimore, Mary- 
 land. 
 
 Johns, James Montgom- 
 ery. Born January 28, 1828, 
 at New Castle, Delaware. 
 Entered Sophomore. Stud- 
 ied law and practiced his 
 profession until his death. 
 Died March 20, 1880, in his 
 fifty-third year, at Center- 
 ville, Maryland. Married, 
 June 13, 1851, Eliza Hopkins. 
 
 Johns, Montgomery. Born April 22, 1828, in 
 Cincinnati, Ohio; then moved to Maryland. 
 Entered Sophomore. Studied medicine. Prac- 
 ticed a short time in Baltimore, Maryland. Re- 
 moved to La Grange, Missouri, having accepted 
 a professorship in a medical college. In 1860 
 returned to Maryland, purchased a farm in 
 
 51 
 
 James Montgomery 
 Johns 
 
 Taken at 50 
 
Prince George County. Practiced medicine. 
 Lectured in the Maryland Agricultural College 
 and in the Medical College in Washington, Dis- 
 trict of Columbia. A few years before his death, 
 decided to study for the ministry of the Protes- 
 tant Episcopal Church, and would soon have 
 been ordained. He died July 28, 1871, in his 
 forty-third year, in Prince George County. 
 Was buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Balti- 
 more. Married, September 19, 1857, Salome 
 Lydia Diffenderffer. Left issue. 
 
 Jones, Eusebius Lee. Born 
 in Washington, District of 
 Columbia, December 20, 
 1827. Entered Junior. 
 Graduated. Studied medi- 
 cine. Was house surgeon at 
 Bellevue Hospital, New 
 York City, from May 11, 
 1850, to October 1, 1851; 
 then assistant surgeon. 
 United States Army, to 
 March 7, 1852. Was member of the New York 
 Pathological Society, attending physician at the 
 New York Dispensary, and house physician of 
 the Demitt Dispensary from July 1, 1853, to 
 July 1, 1857. Then engaged in private practice 
 in New York City. Married, May 23, 1860, Julia 
 Calvert Stuart, daughter of Dr. Charles Stuart, 
 King George County, Virginia. She died in 
 
 52 
 
 Eusebius Lee Jones 
 
 Taken at 40 
 
1861, leaving one son, Julian Stuart Jones, now 
 (January, 1907) lawyer, Baltimore, Maryland. 
 September 3, 1873, Married (second) Martha 
 Moran, of New York, and shortly afterwards re- 
 moved to Oakland, California, where he died 
 of congestion of the lungs, January 30, 1876, 
 after a short illness, in his forty-ninth year. 
 
 Key, Chaeles Howard. 
 Born July 20, 1827, in 
 Georgetown, District of Co- 
 lumbia. Entered Freshman. 
 Studied law. Practiced for 
 some years in Baltimore, 
 Maryland. Married, Novem- 
 ber, 1852, Elizabeth Lloyd, 
 of Talbot County, Maryland. 
 About 1860 retired from 
 practice of the law and spent 
 the rest of his life as a planter, in Talbot 
 County, where he died, June 29, 1869, in his 
 forty-first year, and was buried in the Lloyd 
 family graveyard, at Wye, Maryland. Had five 
 children, four of whom survive him. 
 
 Lloyd, Edward. Born October 22, 1825, in 
 Baltimore, Maryland. Entered Freshman. Left 
 at the end of the second year. Did not gradu- 
 ate with class, but was subsequently given the 
 degree of A.B., and enrolled as member of the 
 class of 1847. Has been engaged in farming in 
 Talbot County, Maryland, all his life. Until 
 
 53 
 
 Charles Howard Key 
 
 Taken at 21 
 
Edward Lloyd 
 
 Taken at 80 
 
 the Civil War, had large interests in cotton 
 plantations in Louisiana, Mississippi and Ar- 
 kansas. "Was member of the 
 House of Delegates, Mary- 
 land, in 1847, 1849 and 1884; 
 of the State Senate eight 
 years, and its president two 
 sessions. A delegate to the 
 Sound-Money Convention at 
 Indianapolis, Indiana, Sep- 
 tember, 1903. An elector-at- 
 large for Maryland on the 
 Palmer and Buckner ticket 
 nominated at that convention. Married, June 
 5, 1851, Mary H. Howard, of Baltimore, and has 
 (December 24, 1896) four sons and three 
 daughters. 
 
 Marsh, W^illiam Wallace. 
 Born August 13, 1827, at 
 Schooleys Mountain, New 
 Jersey. Entered Sopho- 
 more. Studied law. Subse- 
 quently engaged in business 
 pursuits and resided in 
 Schooleys Mountain, where 
 his father had left him large 
 property interests. W^as a 
 director in several large business corporations, 
 notably the Thomas Iron Company. Was an 
 active member of the Presbyterian Church, and 
 
 54 
 
 William Wallace 
 Marsh 
 
 Taken at U:! 
 
an elder of the church at Hackettstown, New 
 Jersey, and then of the church at Schooleys 
 Mountain, being the mainstay of the latter, and 
 superintendent of its Sunday school. Was 
 always in the church courts. Many times a 
 member of the New Jersey Synod, and twice of 
 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian 
 Church. Married, May 25, 1858, Ida S. Reeder. 
 Died during the night or in the early morning of 
 August 30, 1892, in his sixty-fifth year. Was 
 found dead in his room by his son. Death was 
 attributed to heart failure. Left a widow, three 
 daughters and one son. 
 
 Martien, Alfred. Born 
 May 5, 1828, in Philadelphia, 
 Pennsylvania. Entered 
 Senior. Engaged with his 
 father in the book-publish- 
 ing and importing business. 
 In 1854 visited Europe and 
 spent six months in travel- 
 ing. In 1861 succeeded to 
 his father's partnership in- 
 terest in the newspaper The Presbyterian. 
 Afterwards became proprietor and publisher. 
 In 1872 introduced stereotyping of books by the 
 papier-mache process as an addition to his print- 
 ing business, being the pioneer of that kind of 
 work in this country. Subsequently started 
 several new periodicals, using illustrations in 
 
 55 
 
 Alfred Martien 
 
 Taken at 39 
 
advertising them, then a new idea. In 1865 was 
 elected a trustee of Lafayette College, in Eas- 
 ton, Pennsylvania; continued as such twelve 
 years. Kesigned in 1877. During his trustee- 
 ship, erected the dormitory known as "Mar- 
 tien Hall," in memory of his father, who had 
 been a trustee. From 1865 to 1884 held many 
 prominent positions in connection with the Pres- 
 byterian Church, in which he was a ruling elder ; 
 a member of its Board of Domestic Missions, 
 its Board of Publication, of its Annuity Com- 
 pany, and of its General Assembly at Cincin- 
 nati in 1867. After parting with his interests 
 in the newspaper, printing and publishing busi- 
 ness, became secretary and treasurer of a large 
 paper mill, then treasurer of a textile manufac- 
 tory. After retiring from the latter, has been 
 practically without occupation. In 1872, upon 
 the death of Augustine H. Fish, the first secre- 
 tary of the class, was appointed his successor, 
 and has been continued as secretary ever since. 
 Married, February 1, 1855, Saidie Bella Smith, 
 of Philadelphia. Issue, one son and two 
 daughters. 
 
 Maxwell, Charles Edward. Born May 18, 
 1826, in Savannah, Georgia. Entered Sopho- 
 more. Studied medicine. Practiced with Dr. 
 Richardson in Savannah, Georgia. In order to 
 perfect himself in his profession, subsequently 
 attended lectui'es at the University of Pennsyl- 
 
 56 
 
Charles Edward 
 Maxwell 
 
 vania, Philadelphia. While returning from a 
 
 visit to some friends at Basking Ridge, Xew 
 
 Jersey, was taken ill with 
 
 dysentery and stopped at a 
 
 hotel in Morristown, New 
 
 Jersey. A physician and 
 
 his uncle, the Rev. Dr. C. C. 
 
 Jones, and his wife were 
 
 summoned. They arrived 
 
 only in time to see him count 
 
 his pulse by the watch and 
 
 say, "Must this beating 
 
 pulse he stillf" He died Take„at25 
 
 shortly after, April 2, 1852, in his twenty-sixth 
 
 year, the same day that he was to receive his 
 
 diploma. His classmate, Seward, who was in 
 
 Morristown at the time, performed the sad duty 
 
 of keeping watch over the corpse, and wrote to a 
 
 classmate, ''Poor Maxivell, how suddenly and 
 
 quickly icere all his fine hopes blighted.'''' 
 
 McCay, Thomas Scott 
 Henderson. Born in 1826, 
 in Port Gibson, Mississippi. 
 Entered Senior. Studied 
 law. Practiced in New Or- 
 leans, Louisiana. In 1855 
 was elected to the State Sen- 
 ate of Louisiana. In 1856 
 was United States District 
 Attorney at New Orleans, 
 
 57 
 
 Thomas Scott Hender- 
 son McCay 
 
and held other important offices of public trust. 
 When the Union forces took and occupied New 
 Orleans, he left the city. Returned after the 
 surrender of General Lee and resumed the prac- 
 tice of his profession. His health, however, had 
 become so much impaired that he was obliged 
 to close his office, and for the last few years of 
 his life lived at the home of his sister, Mrs. 
 Sarah P. Bernard, in Lake Providence, Lou- 
 isiana, where he died, September 28, 1882, in his 
 fifty-sixth year. In 1855 married Georgine 
 Luzenberg, of New Orleans. A year before his 
 death, became a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church at New Orleans. In announcing his 
 death, the newspaper Reveille says: "He was 
 a gentleman of fine personal appearance, elo- 
 quent in speech and manners. He ranked high 
 in his profession, and in his dag wielded great 
 influence in the State." 
 
 McFaeland, James Rob- 
 ert. Born December 17, 
 1828, at Charleston, Kana- 
 wha County, West Virginia. 
 Entered Junior. Left before 
 graduating. Studied law. 
 Afterwards entered the Di- 
 vinity School at Cambridge, 
 Massachusetts, and after 
 graduating went to Iowa, 
 where he spent some time 
 
 58 
 
 James Ilobert 
 McFarland 
 
 Taken at 25 
 
delivering lectures that brought him into prom- 
 inence in that field of work. In 1858, May 24th, 
 was elected pastor of the Charleston, South 
 Carolina, Unitarian Church, and in one year 
 after entering upon his duties, died April 4, 
 1859, in his thirtieth year, A handsome marble 
 monument to his memory was erected in the 
 churchyard, and in the church a tablet was 
 placed giving the dates respectively of his elec- 
 tion to the pastorate and of his death ; eulogiz- 
 ing him as one ''^Zealous and independent in 
 preaching Christ's Gospel, untrammeled ivith 
 human creeds, careful in regulating his daily 
 life hy Christ's precepts, and devoted to the 
 propagation of God's truths; he lived and died 
 a true Christian.'''' 
 
 McKee, John Henry. 
 Born January 28, 1828, in 
 Beaufort, South Carolina. 
 Entered Junior. Gradu 
 ated. After leaving college 
 removed to Charleston, 
 South Carolina, and en- 
 gaged in planting at Goose 
 Creek, South Carolina. 
 Married, December 9, 1856, 
 Miss Bradford, and died in Charleston, 
 Carolina, in 1860, in his thirty-second 
 leaving a widow and two sons. 
 
 59 
 
 John Henry MeKee 
 
 South 
 vear. 
 
Cbarlus McKii.l 
 
 Taken at 55 
 
 McKnight, Charles. Born 
 September 4, 1826, in Pitts- 
 l)urgh, Pennsylvania. En- 
 tered Junior. Studied law. 
 Then visited Europe. Wrote 
 letters for publication under 
 the name "Marco Polo, Jr." 
 After his return delivered 
 a lecture in several places. 
 Engaged for a time in his 
 brother's rolling mill. Then turned to literary 
 Xnirsuits and journalism. Bought out the Pitts- 
 burgh Evening Chronicle. As owner and editor 
 made it the leading newspaper of the city, and 
 about the close of the Civil War sold it with 
 considerable profit. Subsequently becoming in- 
 terested in the Colonial history of the West, 
 wrote first an historical romance entitled "Old 
 Fort Duquesne"; also, "Simon Girty Pontiac," 
 and several other historical novels ; besides pub- 
 lished an historical collection entitled "Our 
 Western Border," which had a wide circulation. 
 About 1878 moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, 
 and became editor of TJie Republican; after- 
 wards to Philadelphia, where he was in the edi- 
 torial department of The Press, and subse- 
 quently with The Evening News. Died in Phila- 
 delphia, January, 1881, in his fifty-fifth year. 
 Married, about 1857, Miss Jennie Baird, of 
 Washington County, Pennsylvania. She de- 
 
 60 
 
Samuel John 
 Milliken 
 
 Taken at 60 
 
 ceased December 2, 1897. They had eight child- 
 ren, of whom five were living in 1905. 
 
 Milliken, Samuel John. 
 Born September 27, 1826, in 
 Lewistown, Pennsylvania. 
 Entered Junior. Studied 
 Theology at the Princeton 
 Theological Seminary. Near 
 the close of the course, 
 being troubled with nervous 
 prostration, went to Florida. 
 In April, 1853, was ordained 
 as an evangelist and entered 
 on the work of the ministry ; first in Georgia and 
 Florida and later in New Jersey and Pennsyl- 
 vania, More than fifteen years of his life were 
 spent in Philadelphia, where he started two new 
 church enterprises. Was pastor of the Presby- 
 terian Church at Titusville, Pennsylvania, from 
 1892 to 1897, when he retired from active ser- 
 vice and went with Mrs. Milliken to visit his 
 daughter, who was engaged in missionary work 
 in Japan, and there engaged earnestly and joy- 
 ously in forwarding the work of the missions 
 for three years, when prostrated by illness, was 
 obliged to undergo a surgical operation, but was 
 too weak to recover from its effects and died in 
 Tokio, May 15, 1900, in his seventy-third year. 
 Married, September 30, 1858, Miss E. P. Gran- 
 ville, of Alexandria, Pennsylvania. Issue, two 
 
 61 
 
daughters and one son. The eldest daughter 
 was in Japan as a missionary and with him at 
 the time of his decease. 
 
 MooEE, Isaiah N. Born in the year 1827, in 
 Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Entered 
 Sophomore. Left during Junior year to accept 
 cadetship at West Point. In July, 1851, was ap- 
 pointed brevet second lieutenant Dragoons. 
 Served on frontier at Fort Reading, Fort Jones, 
 and in northern California. February 21, 1853, 
 commissioned second lieutenant of First Dra- 
 goons, and March 3, 1855, first lieutenant ; April 
 20, 1861, captain, and August 3, 1861, captain 
 First Cavalry. Engaged most of the time scout- 
 ing after Indians. Served during the Civil War, 
 in New Mexico, where he died, January 16, 1862, 
 in his thirty-fifth year, whilst engaged in the 
 defense of Fort Craig. 
 
 Moore, Samuel. Born April 22, 1827, in New 
 Castle, Delaware. Entered Senior. Went West 
 to Michigan with his father's family. Taught 
 school in Cincinnati, Ohio. Afterwards went 
 to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he died April 
 27, 1852, of consumption, in his twenty-fifth 
 year, and was buried at Niles, Michigan. 
 
 MuNN, Henry Benson. Born August 1, 1826. 
 in Belleville, New Jersey. Entered Junior. 
 Engaged in teaching, 1847-1852, at the Ashland 
 Hall Collegiate School of Rev. David A. Frame, 
 
 62 
 
Henry Benson Munn 
 
 Taken at W2 
 
 Montclair, New Jersey. Studied law with A. C. 
 M. Pennington, Esq., 1851-1854. In May, 1854, 
 went West and located in 
 Portage, Columbia County, 
 Wisconsin. Was admitted 
 to the bar of the State in 
 1855. Initiated a Free and 
 Accepted Mason in 1857. In 
 1858 was elected mayor of 
 Portage, and the superinten- 
 dent of its public schools 
 1861-2-3-4-5. While super- 
 intendent, secured the 
 grounds and the erection thereon of a High- 
 school building. In 1859 elected member of the 
 State Legislature. In 1861 assisted Captain 
 John Mansfield in raising a company for the 
 Civil War, and in January, 1864, spent a week 
 with him, then brevet-brigadier general in com- 
 mand of the Fifth Wisconsin in camp in the 
 Army of the Potomac, near Culpepper, Vir- 
 ginia. In 1859 became interested in unimproved 
 lands in western Iowa and Missouri. Owing to 
 the depression of business in the West following 
 the Civil War, removed in the winter of 1866-7 
 to Washington, District of Columbia, and en- 
 gaged in practice as attorney, before the United 
 States Patent Office and other departments of 
 the Government, in partnership, first with W. 
 C. Dodge, Esq., and subsequently with Charles 
 
 63 
 
F. Stansbury, Esq., class of 1840. Was ad- 
 mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the 
 District, March 2, 1872, and of the United States, 
 October 8, 1888, and elected member of the 
 American Bar Association, August 23, 1893. 
 Wliile retaining his Washington business asso- 
 ciations, resided for several years in Grant City, 
 Missouri, as member of the firm of Munn & 
 Farwell, bankers and real-estate agents. Mar- 
 ried, September 22, 1881, Cornelia L. Farwell, 
 and in 1884 returned to Washington; his part- 
 ner, Charles F. Stansbury, having deceased, 
 withdrew practically from the practice of his 
 profession and devoted himself to the care of 
 his private affairs and the education of his chil- 
 dren. I'roni 1865 to 1877, as special correspond- 
 ent of the Wisconsin State Register, wrote over 
 the signatures of "Viator" and "Occasional," a 
 series of letters from Washington, the Middle 
 West, California, New Orleans, and other 
 places. Was one of the organizers of the 
 Princeton Alumni Association of the District of 
 Columbia and Southern States in 1872, and has 
 served as its president. Is a member of the 
 University Clul), Sons of the American Revo- 
 lution, and the Historical and Geographical 
 Societies of the District. Has been one of the 
 commissioners of Rehoboth, Delaware, a sea- 
 side resort, for the past fourteen years. His 
 family, consisting of his wife, two sons and two 
 
 64 
 
daughters, are at this date (May 8, 1907) all 
 living and residing with him. 
 
 MuKDocH, Samuel Fridge. Born May 9, 1829, 
 in Baltimore, Maryland. Entered Junior. 
 Studied medicine. Went to Europe and studied 
 in the hospitals of Paris and Dublin. On his 
 return commenced the prac- 
 tice of his profession in Bal- 
 timore. Was elected as 
 manager and physician-in- 
 charge of the House of 
 Refuge. Held the position 
 for twenty years and then re- 
 signed. On the 11th of 
 June, 1862, was appointed 
 acting assistant surgeon, 
 United States Army, and 
 shortly after received the appointment of sur- 
 geon of the Board of Enrollment for the Third 
 Congressional District of Maryland; held these 
 positions till mustered out at the close of the 
 war. He was a member of the Medical and Chi- 
 rurgical Faculty, president of the Academy of 
 Medicine of Baltimore, and vice president of 
 the Gynecological and Obstetrical Society. In 
 1854 married Elizabeth C. Winchester. She 
 died in 1900, and he followed her February 19, 
 1901, in his seventy-second year. Left surviv- 
 ing, a son, Mr. Turnbull Murdoch, and a 
 daughter, Mrs. Nicholas P. Bond. 
 
 65 
 
 Thomas Fridge 
 Murdoch 
 
 Taken at 64 
 
Ogden, Frederic Beasley. Born July 20, 
 1827, at Paterson, New Jersey. Entered Sopho- 
 more. Studied law. Practiced in Paterson, 
 New Jersey, five years, then removed to Ho- 
 boken, New Jersey. Was Mayor of Hoboken 
 1865-6. Was District Court Judge 1877-1888. 
 Married, September 22, 1858, Miss Ford, of 
 Morristown, New Jersey. Died, November 1, 
 1893, of apoplexy, in his sixty-seventh year. 
 
 Olden, Joseph. Was born in Princeton, New 
 Jersey, January 26, 1826. Prepared for college 
 and entered the Sophomore class in 1844. 
 Left in 1845 on account of ill health. On arriv- 
 ing at legal age became the owner of two hun- 
 dred acres of land in the outskirts of Princeton, 
 and engaged in farming. On his farm he 
 erected a spacious dwelling 
 for his residence which, with 
 the farm, is known as 
 * ' Spring Valley. ' ' Through 
 his land adjoining Princeton, 
 he laid out the street known 
 as "Prospect Avenue," and 
 deeded it to the town. Dur- 
 ing his life was not only a 
 successful farmer, but was 
 also prominent in county af- 
 fairs and interested in the growth of Princeton 
 and the college. He married, September 9, 1851, 
 Miss Mary Clemson, of New Brunswick, New 
 
 66 
 
 Joseph Olden 
 
 Taken at 43 
 
Henry Hunter Oliver 
 
 Taken at 25 
 
 Jersey, and by her had six children. He died at 
 his residence, February 10, 1886, in his sixty- 
 first year. At the present time (March 7, 1907) 
 only his widow and one daughter, Sarah E. 
 Olden, now residents of Princeton, survive him. 
 
 Oliver, Henry Hunter. 
 Born in December, 1828, in 
 Conecuh County, Alabama. 
 Entered Junior. Studied 
 law. Never practiced. Pur- 
 sued the vocation of cotton 
 planter on his family estate 
 in Dallas County, Alabama. 
 Married, June 8, 1853, Mil- 
 dred M. D. George. She died 
 in 1857, and he followed in 
 1864, of pneumonia, in his thirty-sixth year, 
 leaving one daughter. 
 
 Orton, Samuel Henry. 
 Born, in the year 1829, in 
 Caldwell, New Jersey. En- 
 tered Sophomore. Studied 
 medicine. Was employed 
 in the Bank of Commerce, 
 New York City, for some 
 time. At the outbreak of 
 the Civil War was appointed 
 an assistant surgeon in the 
 Regular Army. First served in the army hos- 
 pital in Newark, New Jersey, and was after- 
 
 67 
 
 Samuel Henry Orton 
 
 Taken at 65 
 
wards placed in charge of St. James Hospital 
 in New Orleans, Louisiana. After remaining 
 there for a few years was transferred to the 
 McDougal Hospital, Fort Schuyler, New York. 
 The rank of brevet major was conferred on him 
 at the close of the war, when he resigned. He 
 was afterwards appointed examining surgeon 
 for recruits in New York City, an office which he 
 retained until 1891. Al^out this time his health 
 began to fail and he sought relief from all im- 
 portant duties. He died April 26, 1892, in Nor- 
 walk, Connecticut, in his sixty-third year. 
 
 PuGH, David Bryan. Born 
 July 28, 1828, on the sugar 
 plantation of the family in 
 Assumption, Louisiana. En- 
 tered Freshman. Left in 
 1846 before graduating. 
 Shortly after, on account of 
 delicate health, was sent to 
 I]urope and lived for some 
 time in France. Married, 
 July 7, 1859, Ellen Eustis 
 Haven. Divided his time in traveling in the 
 North and in looking after his sugar jDlanta- 
 tion. He died of apoplexy January 29, 1886, 
 at La Fourche, Louisiana, in his fifty-seventh 
 year, leaving widow, two sons and two daugh- 
 ters. 
 
 David Bryan rugh 
 
 Taken at 30 
 
 68 
 
Edward F. Pugh 
 
 Taken at 17 
 
 PuGH, Edward F. Born 
 March 20, 1827, on the sugar 
 plantation of the family, in 
 Assumption, Louisiana. En- 
 tered Freshman. After 
 graduation became an ex- 
 tensive traveler in pursuit 
 of health. Finally settled 
 on a beautiful sugar planta- 
 tion in Assumption Parish, 
 Louisiana, where he lived until his death, De- 
 cember 3, 1870, in his forty-fourth year. He 
 was never married. His death was caused by 
 dyspepsia. 
 
 RiNKER, Henry. Born April 5, 1825, in what 
 was then Southampton County, now Monroe, 
 Pennsylvania, in a rural district, eighteen miles 
 from Stroudsburg, Pennsyl- 
 vania. Entered Sophomore. 
 Graduated ivith first honor. 
 Taught for a couple of years 
 at Mount Holly, New Jersey, 
 then for two years studied 
 theology at the Princeton 
 Seminary. Subsequently 
 
 took charge of the old 
 Princeton Academy, and 
 then of the old Edge Hill 
 school. About a year after that, was licensed 
 to preach, and soon left Princeton for State 
 
 69 
 
 Henry Rinker 
 
 Taken at 80 
 
of New York. Was there ordained as an evan- 
 gelist and for some years was engaged in sup- 
 plying several struggling churches. In 1856-57 
 spent about a year in the State of Wisconsin in 
 missionary work, and part of the time in charge 
 of Carroll College. The health of himself, as 
 well as that of his wife, forbade a permanent 
 residence in the West. He returned to the East 
 and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church 
 at Wyoming, Pennsylvania. In 1861 took 
 charge of the Newton, New Jersey, Collegiate 
 Institute. During the last year of the Civil War 
 enlisted in the army as a private in the Eleventh 
 New Jersey Volunteers. While serving, was 
 elected a commissioned chaplain of the Eighty- 
 Sixth New York Veteran Volunteers, and 
 served to the close of the war. Was mustered 
 out at the city of Elmira, New York. For sev- 
 eral years following was struggling with imper- 
 fect health. In 1875 became pastor of the Dick- 
 inson Presbyterian Church, near Carlisle, Penn- 
 sylvania, and remained as such for nearly eight 
 years. Since 1883 has lived a retired life on a 
 small farm, doing evangelistic and other gospel 
 work as health permitted. While at Princeton, 
 in the fifties, married Mary A. Haight, of Ver- 
 mont. In 1881, married, second time, Mary 
 Weakley, of Mount Holly Springs, Pennsyl- 
 vania. Issue (1897), three daughters. 
 
Joseph Menagh Ritten- 
 . house 
 
 Taken at 61 
 
 ElTTENHOUSE, JoSEPH MeNAGH. Bom JuHG 
 
 8, 1825, at Everettstown, New Jersey. Entered 
 Junior. Entered Princeton 
 Theological Seminary. Was 
 ordained and installed pas- 
 tor of Middle Octoraro and 
 Strasburg churches, Penn- 
 sylvania, November 10, 1853. 
 After preaching in these 
 churches with great success 
 for twenty years, his health 
 failed. Went to Nottoway, 
 Virginia, bought an old 
 plantation and occupied himself in farming. 
 After four or five years, regained his health and 
 resumed preaching. Being surrounded by a 
 dense population of ignorant negroes, obtained 
 permission to use the Court House for church 
 purposes. Established preaching at three other 
 places within reach of his home, and with the 
 aid of the Presbyterian Board of Missions, es- 
 tablished schools, and in due time built houses 
 of worship and organized Presbyterian 
 churches at these several places, and built 
 Ingleside Seminary, now doing splendid work 
 under the presidency of Rev. G. C. Campbell. 
 Married, December 29, 1852, Sarah C. Hand, of 
 Hunterdon County, New Jersey, a marriage 
 that proved a very happy one. Died, July 20, 
 1903, in his seventy-ninth year, at Crewe, Vir- 
 
 71 
 
George Maxwel 
 Robeson 
 
 Taken at 50 
 
 ginia, from a succession of slight paralytic 
 strokes during the last years of his life, 
 
 EoBESON, George Max- 
 well. Born March 23, 1830, 
 at Oxford Furnace, Warren 
 County, New Jersey. En- 
 tered Sophomore. Studied 
 law. Practiced first at New- 
 ark, New Jersey, then at 
 Camden. In 1859 was ap- 
 pointed prosecutor of the 
 pleas for Camden County. 
 Held the office till 1864. In 
 1867 was appointed Attorney-General of the 
 State of New Jersey, and served until 1869. In 
 1869 was appointed Secretary of the Navy, and 
 held the position until the expiration of General 
 Grant's second term, 1877. In 1871 delivered 
 the annual oration before the Cliosophic and 
 Whig Societies. In 1879 was elected to the 
 Forty-sixth Congress from the first district of 
 New Jersey, and was re-elected to the Forty- 
 seventh Congress. Married Mrs. Richmond 
 Aulick, of Washington, District of Columbia. 
 Issue, one daughter, Ethel Maxwell Robe- 
 son. In 1889 moved to Trenton, New Jersey, 
 where he died, September 27, 1897, in his sixty- 
 eighth year, in the practice of his profession. 
 
 Sergeant, AVilliam. Born August 29, 1829, 
 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Entered Junior. 
 
 72 
 
William Sergeant 
 
 Taken at 42 
 
 Studied law. Practiced in Philadelphia. In 
 1852 was elected to the Legislature. On the 
 breaking out of the Civil War, was commis 
 sioned, May 14, 1861, cap- 
 t a i n Twelfth Infantry, 
 United States Army, anci 
 ordered to Fort Hamilton, 
 New York. Was attached to 
 Army of the Potomac. Was 
 at siege of Yorktown, Gaines 
 Mill, and Malvern Hill, June 
 30, 1862. On the withdrawal 
 of the army from James 
 River, was present at the battle of Grroveton, 
 August 27 and 30, 1862, and in the subsequent 
 operations under General Pope. Was at the 
 battle of Antietam. In September, 1864, was 
 appointed colonel of the Two Hundred and 
 Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and partici- 
 pated in the movements of the army in front of 
 Petersburg. In the battle of the White Oak 
 Road was badly wounded, and sent to the Gen- 
 eral Hospital, at City Point. Whilst being 
 transferred from there to Washington for an 
 amputation of the hip joint, he expired on the 
 boat, April 11, 1865, in his thirty-fifth year. 
 Was buried at Laurel Hill, Philadelphia, with 
 the honors of war and the rights of the Masonic 
 Fraternity. Married, November 8, 1853, Eliza 
 Espy. Left a widow and five daughters. 
 
 73 
 
Nathan A. Cooper 
 Seward 
 
 Taken at 25 
 
 Seward, Nathan A. 
 Cooper. Born November 
 29, 1825, at Goshen, Orange 
 County, New York. En- 
 tered Sophomore. Studied 
 law. Practiced in Morris- 
 town, New Jersey, with 
 ability and success. Be- 
 came a prominent member 
 of the First Presbyterian 
 Church. Married, October 
 6, 1852, Matilda Kockwell. She died in 1855. 
 He died March 14, 1856, of inflannnation of the 
 bowels, in his thirty-first year. Buried at Pleas- 
 ant Hill, New Jersey. 
 
 Shew ALTER, George Wn.- 
 LiAM. Born in 1827, Jeffer- 
 son County, Maryland. En- 
 tered Junior. Studied medi- 
 cine. Settled in Lexington, 
 Missouri, where his parents 
 had located. After the bat- 
 tle of Lexington, Missouri, 
 September, 1861, was left 
 in charge of wounded of 
 lioth armies, and became a prisoner ; though not 
 arrested, was not permitted to return South. 
 Afterwards visited his classmate. Dr. Adler, at 
 Davenport, Iowa. From there, in 1864, rejoined 
 the Southern army and surrendered at close of 
 
 74 
 
 George William 
 Shewalter 
 
 Taken at 4:'. 
 
the war in Texas. Returned to his home in Lex- 
 ington, Missouri, and continued the practice of 
 his profession till his death, November 7, 1877, 
 in his fiftieth year. He never married. A near 
 relative says : '"''His modesty, professional skill, 
 learning, gentleness, kindness, and philan- 
 thropy secured for him universal esteem." 
 
 Shewmake, John Troup. 
 Born June 26, 1826, in 
 Burke County, Georgia. 
 Entered Sophomore. Left 
 before graduating. Studied 
 law. Practiced in Waynes- 
 boro and Augusta, Georgia. 
 Was Solicitor-General of the 
 Augusta Circuit. Attorney- 
 General of the State. Mem- 
 ber of the State Senate and of the Confederate 
 Congress. Married, in 1851, Elizabeth Jones. 
 After the Civil War devoted himself to his pro- 
 fession, to the close of his life. He died in 1898, 
 in his seventy-second year, having the highest 
 rank in his profession, leaving four sons and 
 two daughters. Residence, Augusta, Ga. 
 
 Smith^ Samuel Baynton. Born October 3, 
 1827, at Troy, Morris County, New Jersey. 
 Entered Senior, from Yale. Taught one year, 
 then studied law. In 1849 went to California, 
 around Cape Horn. Engaged in the search for 
 gold with indifferent success. Was admitted to 
 
 75 
 
 d^ 
 
 John Troup Shewmake 
 
 Taken at 55 
 
Samuel Baynton Smith 
 
 Taken at 53 
 
 the bar. Elected slieritT of Yuba County, suc- 
 ceeding two predecessors wlio had been mur- 
 dered. In 1850 settled in Sutter County. Was 
 elected State Senator. From 1854 to 1857 was 
 the law partner of the Honorable Stephen J. 
 Field, who became one of the 
 justices of the United States 
 Supreme Court. In 1855 ap- 
 pointed one of the State 
 Commissioners to prosecute 
 before Congress the claims 
 of the State of California 
 for moneys expended in its 
 Indian wars. In 1861 re- 
 turned to New York. Sub- 
 sequently became manager of the Clifton Iron 
 Works, or Company, in St. Lawrence County, 
 and also president of the Chicago & Atlantic 
 Railway Company. Was an active Democratic 
 politician during the last thirty years of his 
 life. Both in State and National conventions of 
 the party was held in high esteem. His com- 
 manding presence, fine courtesy, and genial dis- 
 position making him influential and a favorite. 
 He died suddenly, June 16, 1886, in his fifty- 
 eighth year, of rheumatic heart aifection, at 
 Fredonia, New Jersey. Married first, October 
 30, 1856, Maria D. Cisco. She died in 1869, leav- 
 ing four children surviving. Married, second 
 time, November 17, 1874, Mrs. Alice B. Goff. 
 
 76 
 
William Smithpeter 
 
 Taken at 70 
 
 Smithpeter, William. Born January 26, 
 1819, in Carter County, Tennessee. Entered 
 Senior, from Washington College, Tennessee. 
 Was Professor of Mathematics in Washington 
 College until 1849. In 1851 
 studied and practiced law in 
 Taylorsville, Tennessee, till 
 1855. In 1857 moved with 
 his family to Missouri and 
 engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising with success. 
 In the Civil War, was 
 a "Eadical Union Man." 
 Married, in July, 1849. Had 
 issue nine children. Left 
 an estate of 2000 acres home farms. Died, 
 May 13, 1904, in his eighty-fifth year, at his 
 home, Bogard, Missouri, of cirrhosis of the liver. 
 
 Stevenson, David. Born in 1822, in Newry, 
 Ireland. Came to Cam- 
 bridge, New York, when 
 young, where he united with 
 the church and pursued his 
 studies. Entered Sophomore. 
 Left before graduating and 
 entered the Theological 
 Seminary. In 1850 licensed 
 by the Presbytery of Eliza- 
 bethtown. New Jersey, and 
 in 1851 was ordained an evangelist by the Pres- 
 
 77 
 
 David Stevenson 
 
 Taken at 70 
 
bytery of Indianapolis, Indiana. Resided in that 
 State till 1877, being ])astor there of several 
 churches. Was elected State Librarian and 
 wrote and jmblished a book entit'ed, "Indiana's 
 Roll of Honor and Patriotic Dead." In 1864 or 
 1865, delivered the annual oration before the 
 Whig and Cliosopliie Societies of Prince- 
 ton College, and had its honorary degree of 
 D.D. conferred upon him in 188-1. In 1878 re- 
 turned to New Jersey, and after holding several 
 pastorates, was, in 1896, at his own request, re- 
 tired from duty and settled in Perth Amboy, en- 
 gaging in Sunday-school work till his death, Oc- 
 tober 25, 1901, in his seventy-ninth year. Dur- 
 ing his life he represented his Presbyteries in 
 several General Assemblies, and was esteemed 
 for his courtesy, fine humor, genial spirit, and 
 eloquence, as well as for his strong faith and 
 pure gospel he loved to preach. In 1887 he mar- 
 ried Miss Adele Manning, who survived him. 
 
 Stonestreet, Joseph Har- 
 ris. Born December 10, 
 / 11 1826, in Port Tobacco, 
 
 §pW SK^*; 1^ Maryland. Entered Fresh- 
 man. Studied law. Ad- 
 mitted to the bar. Engaged 
 in agricultural pursuits, and 
 pursued them very success- 
 fully till the commencement 
 of the Civil War. Then en- 
 
 78 
 
 .T..si|,li ll;iri-is 
 Street 
 
 Taken at 3S 
 
listed in the Confederate service as private in 
 an artillery company. Was promoted to lieu- 
 tenant and served till the surrender at Appo- 
 mattox, when he was paroled. On his return 
 home resumed farming, but, under the changed 
 conditions, with poor success. In 1901 was at- 
 tacked with paralysis, from which he suffered 
 until the day of his death. Was Justice of the 
 Peace for five years. He died, August 5, 1895, 
 in his sixty-ninth year, on his home farm, near 
 Laplata, Charles County, Maryland, and was 
 buried in Mount Rest Cemetery. Was twice 
 married. First, to Ann Gwinetta Harris, June, 
 1857. She died the following December. Mar- 
 ried, second time, August 4, 1870, Emily Fergu- 
 son, who, with three children, survived him. 
 Was a ''good son, brother, husband and father, 
 and was respected by all with whom he was 
 brought in contact. ' ' 
 
 Strothee, John Hunt. Born (date unknown) 
 in St. Louis, Missouri. Entered Sophomore. 
 Shortly after graduating went to Europe with 
 his mother and sister. He pursued no special 
 vocation. Never married. Died in 1861. 
 
 Sturgess^ John Reynolds. Born in 1827, in 
 Burke County, Georgia. Entered Sophomore. 
 Left for Yale College before graduating. 
 Taught school four or five years. Then studied 
 law and practiced with success in Waynesboro, 
 Georgia. Was member of the Georgia Legisla- 
 
 79 
 
ture 1857-1859. In the Civil War. Was, in 
 1861, first lieutenant of the Burke Guards, and 
 in the reorganization of the military forces of 
 the State for the Confederate service, became 
 major and then colonel of the Third Georgia 
 Kegiment. Was killed, July, 1862, at the battle 
 of Malvern Hill, in his thirty-fifth year, while 
 leading his regiment, and was buried on a 
 farm near the battlefield. After the war his 
 remains were brought from Virginia and re- 
 interred in the Waynesboro Cemetery, Burke 
 County, Georgia. 
 
 SwoPE, John Augustus. 
 Born December 25, 1827, at 
 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 
 Entered Junior. Studied 
 medicine, and practiced for 
 some years. Then engaged 
 in financial pursuits and 
 succeeded his father as 
 president of the Gettysburg 
 National Bank. In 1884 
 was elected to Congress from the Nineteenth 
 C'Ongressional District, Pennsylvania, and re- 
 elected on the expiration of his first term. At 
 the termination of his second term declined 
 further political honors, and, locating in Wash- 
 ington, District of Columbia, became interested 
 in establishing the Washington Loan and Trust 
 Company, and subsequently was elected its vice 
 
 80 
 
 .lulm Augustus Swope 
 
 Taken at 7S 
 
William Taylor 
 
 president, which position (1905) he still holds, 
 and is actively engaged in discharging his 
 duties. Married twice. First to Emma C. Wirt 
 and second to Blanche Mitchell. 
 
 Taylok, William. Born 
 Jnne 30, 1827, near Berry- 
 ville, Clarke County, Vir- 
 ginia. Entered Sophomore. 
 Left in 1846, before grad- 
 uating. Followed farming 
 in his native county until 
 the commencement of the 
 Civil War, when, April, 
 1861, he enlisted with the 
 Clarke County Cavalry, with 
 rank of major, in the Confederate Army. Was 
 in command of his company at the first battle 
 of Manassas, and was wounded shortly after- 
 wards. Subsequently continued with the army 
 until its surrender at Appomattox, when he re- 
 turned to his farm in Clarke County, where he 
 lived to the time of his death, December 4, 1891, 
 in his sixty-fifth year. Married, May 15, 1849, 
 Miss Gertrude McGuire, and on his decease left 
 a widow and four children. 
 
 Tingle, William Stuart Williamson. Born 
 November 28, 1826, at Snow Hill, Maryland. 
 Entered Junior. Left before graduating. 
 Studied law. Practiced with success at Snow 
 Hill and in the State. At the breaking out of 
 
 81 
 
William Stuart Wil 
 liamson Tingle 
 
 Taken at 3U 
 
 the Civil War was arrested 
 for supposed disloyalty and 
 held as a suspect. He died, 
 February 3, 1866, in his 
 fortieth year, from the ef- 
 fects of a bullet wound at the 
 hands of a colonel of cav- 
 alry, with whom he had a 
 controversy, believing that 
 he was the party instru- 
 mental in having him arrested as a suspect dur- 
 ing the war. 
 
 Todd, George W. Was Born in 1826 at Salis- 
 bury, Maryland. Entered Freshman, 1843, and 
 left at the end of the Sophomore year. Studied 
 medicine at the Maryland University, graduat- 
 ing in 1847. Settled in Salis- 
 bury. There practiced his 
 profession for many years, 
 and became the leading phy- 
 sician of that section of the 
 State. Was a member and 
 ruling elder of the Presby- 
 terian Church and promi- 
 nent in its councils. In 
 1849 married Miss S. Fran- 
 ces Hooper, and died, June 
 13, 1875, in his forty-ninth year, of Bright 's dis- 
 ease. 
 
 George W. Todd 
 
 Taken at 49 
 
 82 
 
ToLAND, Henry. Born June 18, 1828, in 
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Entered Junior. 
 Studied medicine. Then went abroad on ac- 
 count of ill health. Returned, and died in Phila- 
 delphia, April 23, 1858, in his twenty-ninth year. 
 Was never married. 
 
 Wellford, Beverley Ran- 
 dolph, Jr. Born May 10, 
 1828, in Fredericksburg, Vir- 
 ginia. Entered Junior. 
 Was the Valedictorian of 
 the class. Studied law. 
 Practiced in Fredericksburg 
 and the surrounding coun- 
 ties. In December, 1854, re- 
 moved to Richmond, Vir- 
 ginia. Continued his practice 
 
 Beverley Randolph 
 Wellford, Jr. 
 
 Taken at 71 
 
 On the break- 
 ing out of the war and during its continuance, 
 v/as engaged in the War Department of the 
 Confederate States. After the war, resumed 
 practice. In 1870 was elected judge of the Cir- 
 cuit Court of Virginia, and continued to hold the 
 office till 1904, when he retired. Was Grand 
 Master of Masons in Virginia, 1878-1880. Was 
 made a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian 
 Church, Richmond, in 1870. In 1879 delivered 
 the address before the Whig and Cliosophic 
 Societies of Princeton College. Married, March 
 3, 1858, and (1897) had three surviving children 
 — two daughters and one son. 
 
 83 
 
William Henry Welsh 
 
 Taken at 48 
 
 Welsh, William Henry. 
 Born February 23, 1826, in 
 the borough of York, York 
 County, Pennsylvania. En- 
 tered Junior. Studied law. 
 Practiced in York. In 1853, 
 accompanied James Buch- 
 anan, minister to England, 
 as private secretary, an at- 
 tache to the United States 
 Legation. Was present at the Ostend Confer- 
 ence. In 1855, was elected State Senator from 
 York. Served two terms of three years each, 
 and a portion of the time as speaker. In 1856, 
 became one of the proprietors of the York Ga- 
 zette, Democratic, and for several years its 
 principal editor. In 1860, was president of the 
 Democratic State Committee and chairman of 
 the Democratic State Central Committee. In 
 1861, moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and 
 opened a law office. In 1863, with two other 
 prominent journalists, founded the Philadel- 
 phia Age, and devoted his time to its editorials. 
 In 1872, removed to Baltimore, Maryland, pur- 
 chased a controlling interest in the Baltimore 
 Gazette, and continued at its head until 1881, 
 when he retired from journalism. In 1880, was 
 chosen one of the Presidential Electors for 
 Maryland on the Democratic ticket. In 1881, 
 delivered the annual address before the literary 
 
 84 
 
societies of Princeton College. In 1885, was ap- 
 pointed third anditor of United States Treas- 
 ury Department. In 1887, delivered a memorial 
 poem at the celebration of the one hundredth 
 anniversary of the York County Academy, in 
 York, Pennsylvania. He married, in 1860, 
 Sarah A. Wickes, and had issu.e, four children 
 — three sons and a daughter — living, May, 1907. 
 She died in 1902. He died, December 2, 1903, in 
 his seventy-seventh year, at the home of his son- 
 in-law, George Buchanan Fife, in New York 
 City. 
 
 White, William L. Born (date unknown) in 
 Richmond, Kentucky. Entered Sophomore. 
 Left the following year, on the death of his 
 father, September 22, 1845. 
 
 Whitehead, John Kaist- 
 DOLPH. Born 1828, in Burke 
 County, Georgia. Entered 
 Sophomore. Left before 
 graduating and entered 
 Franklin College, Athens, 
 Georgia. Followed planting 
 in Burke and Baker Coun- 
 ties, Georgia. In the Civil 
 War was a lieutenant in 
 Cobb's Legion, and afterwards major of the 
 Fourth Regiment, Georgia. In 1863 was mem- 
 ber of the Georgia Legislature. In 1851 mar- 
 ried Miss Connelly, of Jefferson County, Geor- 
 
 85 
 
 John Randolph White- 
 head 
 
 Taken at 41 
 
gia. Died in 1876, on his plantation, in Miller 
 County, Georgia, of apoplexy, in his forty-eighth 
 year, leaving a widow and three children — one 
 son and two daughters. 
 
 Whitehead, James Troupe. Born October 
 13, 1827, in Burke County, 
 Georgia. Entered Sopho- 
 more. Engaged in planting. 
 During the Civil War 
 served on the staff of Gen- 
 eral Carswell. After the 
 war, lived the retired life of 
 a planter, and, with the ex- 
 ception of attending county 
 James Troupe White- meetings, took uo part in 
 Taken at 41 publlc affalrs, owing to in- 
 
 different health. He died, February 23, 1889, 
 in his sixty-first year, of Bright 's disease. Mar- 
 ried, in 1851, Miss Harper, 
 of Augusta, Georgia, and 
 left widow and one son. 
 
 Whitehead, William 
 Silas. Born March 3, 1829, 
 in Newark, New Jersey. 
 Entered Sophomore. Stud- 
 ied law. Practiced suc- 
 and was well 
 all the courts of 
 
 cessfully, 
 known in 
 the State. 
 
 William t5ilas White- 
 head 
 
 Taken at 45 
 
 Held the office of Surrogate of Es- 
 se 
 
sex County for five years. Visited Europe. In 
 1864, was elected Grand Master of Masons, of 
 New Jersey, and held the office for many years, 
 and was a prominent official at Masonic cere- 
 monies. During the last years of his life, on ac- 
 count of ill health, did not appear much in 
 public. He died, February 14, 1904, in his 
 seventy-fifth year, at his home, in Newark. 
 Was never married. His funeral was attended 
 by the leading members of the bar of the State. 
 
 WiLLsoN, Alpheus Evans. 
 Born October 24, 1828, 
 Spring Hill Furnace, Fay- 
 ette County, Pennsylvania. 
 Entered Sophomore. Stud- 
 ied law. Practiced for a 
 few years in Fayette 
 County, then moved to New 
 London, Ohio, and there en- 
 gaged in practice and farm- 
 ing. On the decease of his 
 wife, in 1863, returned to Fayette County, and 
 there continued practice and farming, with 
 residence at Uniontown. In 1873, was elected 
 judge of the courts of Fayette and Green 
 Counties, and served till the end of term, expir- 
 ing January 1, 1884. Although struggling with 
 failing health for several years, after leaving 
 the bench his health did not improve, and he 
 died at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, September 9, 
 
 87 
 
 Alpheus Evans 
 Willson 
 
 Taken at 30 
 
1884, in his fifty-seventh year. He married, in 
 1855, Catharine Dawson, and left three 
 daughters. 
 
 Wright, William F. Born in 1826, in St, 
 Louis, Missouri. Entered Sophomore. Left in 
 1845. Belonged to a very wealthy family. Pur- 
 sued no special occupation. Married young and 
 died soon after. 
 
 88 
 
tt. 3 
 
Finis 
 
 At the meeting of the class, June 19, 1897, at 
 Princeton, to celebrate its Golden Aniversary, 
 those present were : John M. Adler, M.D., Hon. 
 William H. Armstrong, Professor Henry C. 
 Cameron, Professor John Gosman, Alfred Mar- 
 tien. Rev. Samuel J. Milliken, Hon. Henry B. 
 Munn, Hon. Wm. Silas Whitehead, S. Hastings 
 Grant, Rev. David Stevenson. The class presi- 
 dent was Hon. Wm. S. Whitehead; secretary, 
 Alfred Martien; historian, Hon. Henry B. 
 Munn. 
 
 The historian, having presented some rem- 
 iniscences and sketches of the lives of some of 
 the members, was requested to prepare a brief 
 sketch of the lives of all the members, and, in 
 connection with the secretary, to have them 
 printed, together with portraits, illustrations, 
 and such other matter as they might decide 
 would add interest and value to the volume. 
 
 The result is embraced in the preceding 
 pages, and almost completes the record of the 
 entire class. Of the eighty-five members that 
 composed its undergraduate life, now, June, 
 1907, sixty years after the class graduated, only 
 ten are living — all octogenarians. Some of the 
 
 91 
 
members fell early. Many lived long enough to 
 play important parts in the history of their 
 country, and others have continued their use- 
 fulness to the present day. 
 
 The class graduated shortly after the close of 
 the war with Mexico. Electric telegraphs 
 were then in their infancy. Railroads had not 
 crossed the Alleghenies. Transportation 
 throughout the country was mainly by stage- 
 coach, canals and steamboats. No steamship 
 lines or marine cables extended to foreign coun- 
 tries. Since then and during the lifetime of 
 the class, the country has been covered with a 
 network of railroads and telegraphs from the 
 Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great 
 Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Steamship lines 
 and marine cables have been run to every im- 
 portant point on the ocean's coast. Thirteen 
 new states have been admitted to the Union. A 
 bloody Civil War has been fought out for its 
 preservation. A foreign war, ending in the 
 acquisition of distant colonial possessions, car- 
 ried on. Three Presidents have been assassi- 
 nated. A canal across the Isthmus of Panama 
 commenced. The great West and the mineral 
 regions of the Rocky Mountains and Alaska 
 been developed. Large educational institutions 
 and industrial plants have been established 
 throughout the country. 
 
 In all these wonderful advances of civilization 
 
 92 
 
during the last half century, many of the mem- 
 bers of the class have played important parts. 
 Their voices have been heard and their influence 
 felt in the Cabinet of the President, in the 
 National Legislature, in the Legislative Halls 
 of nine different States, in municipal affairs, on 
 the bench, at the bar, on the rostrum, in the 
 professor's chair, and in missionary work 
 abroad and at home. Some have distinguished 
 themselves as physicians and surgeons in medi- 
 cal institutions, in the hospitals and on the field 
 of battle, — as librarians, journalists, authors, 
 publishers, planters, farmers, and successful 
 promoters of large financial, industrial and 
 educational enterprises. 
 
 In the Civil War the class divided as they 
 saw the right. Four of its members fell on the 
 field of battle and others returned home with 
 shattered constitutions. In all the bitterness of 
 the strife, the Princeton spirit, and the bond of 
 good comradeship of the undergraduate days 
 was ever cherished and unshaken. At all the 
 reunions of the class, which were held at inter- 
 vals of five years, the members have met as 
 brothers, breathing only love and loyalty to one 
 another, and to their Alma Mater, Old Nassau! 
 
 And now, as the end draws nigh, as the 
 shadows lengthen, and the curtain about to 
 drop, the class historian and secretary present 
 this volume to the surviving members, to the 
 
 93 
 
friends of those deceased, and to their Alma 
 Mater, regretting only that it is not more com- 
 plete. 
 
 "Enough, if something from our hands has 
 
 power 
 To live and act and serve the future hour ; 
 And if, as towards the silent tomb we go 
 Through love, through hope and faith's tran- 
 scendent dower, 
 We feel that we are greater than we know." 
 
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
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