A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
OF THE
j   ~YALE - COLEGE.
PUBLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH A RESOLUTION ADOPTEDT AT
THE MEETING OF THE CLASS IN 1846.
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COMPILED AT THE REQUEST OF THE COMMITTEE, 
UTICA, N. Y.
ROBERTS, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, 60 GENESEE STREET.
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A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
OF THE
CLAASS OF 1826,
YALE COLLEGE.
PUBLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH A RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT THE
MEETING OF THE CLASS IN 1846.
COMPILED AT THE REQUEST OF THE COMMITTEE,
By SELDEN HAINES,
ROMEr, N. Y.
UTIC-A-, NI.'YV.
ROBERTS, BooK aND JOB PRINTER, 60 GENESEE STREET.
1866.








TO THE MEMBERS OF  THE CLASS OF 1826.
Next Commencement completes the fourth decade since our
Alma Mater bade us farewell and sent us forth with her benediction to engage " in the battle of life," and to act our parts on
the stage of action. As a matter of fact, forty years after graduation covers the most of a man's public life; when, if he has
not already secured the prize for which he has run, he never
can attain it. While many of oni- beloved classmates have
fallen on the field of conflict, some of whom fell early, through
a kind Providence a goodly number have been spared to labor
in their various callings, with more or less success; and while
some have been eminently successful, having gained for themselves an honorable distinction among their fellow-men, few, if
any, have failed of filling, to a reasonable degree, their measure
of usefulness in the sphere in which the Providence of God had
placed them.
At a meeting of the class in 1846, a resolution was adopted
for procuring and publishing a biographical sketch of each
member of the class, and a committee appointed to carry out
the resolution. The committee issued their circular, requesting
the members to furnish such sketches; but at the meeting of the
class in 1856, it was ascertained that very little had been done;
*the class, with few exceptions, had failed to furnish the committee with the materials for such a work. In 1862 one of the
-committee was suddenly called away from earth; another had,only impaired health; while the other, burdened with cares and




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abundant labors incident to his profession, had very little leisure
for such a "labor of love."
In July last, the compiler having previously been released
from pastoral care, proposed to the committee to undertake this
work; and though distrustful of his ability to meet the expectations of the class, it seemed the only alternative for securing
the object contemplated by the resolution of 1846. The proposition was accepted, and he entered upon the work. Imperfect
and unsatisfactory as it may be, those who have had no experience in labors of this kind, will never understand or appreciate
the labor and vexation that must be endured in the accomplishment of such an undertaking. It has involved an extensive
correspondence, and while some promptly responded, others
promised to do so at a more "convenient season," a few have
declined to furnish any sketch.  In several instances we have
failed to reach the members, or to ascertain their places of residence. It has been our object, to the best of our ability, to
gather up the personal history of each member of the class,
since leaving college, and to present it in as life-like form as
possible; regarding it more important, as well as more interesting to exhibit the peculiarities and eccentricities that characterized them while in college; and thus reproducing a kind of
intellectual photograph of what they were in early life. Hence,
where it was practicable, we have inserted the sketch, to a
greater or less extent, in the words of the writer, preferring to
let each speak for himself; for it is almost impossible for one to
recast the various sketches without leaving the impress of the
same hand upon them, which detracts from the interest in the
book, instead of enhancing its value. While it has been attended with much labor, and considerable expense, and some




annoyance from causes alluded to; it has also had its compensation in the many kind communications and expressions of
affectionate remembrance from so many survivors of the class,
"whose living forms and oft remembered faces we may never
again behold; wherein they have unconsciously expressed the
thoughts of their minds and the emotions of their hearts."
Special effort has been made to obtain full sketches of those
who have passed away fiom earth. In this we have been aided
by the widows and family friends of several of our deceased
classmates; while in some instances having failed, we have
made up the brief record from our recollection of them as they
were daguerreotyped on our memory, while in college. Essential aid has been rendered in the prosecution of this work by
others, particularly by ODIORNE, SEYMOUR, and J. A. SMITH.
The class of 1826 was the largest evbr graduated at any
American College prior to 1837; and the personal history of its
members, their success in their various callings in which they
have spent the forty years since their graduation, has never
dishonored the institution that sent them forth. But these forty
years have wrought sad changes in the corps of teachers who
labored to qualify us for usefulness. We visit the scenes of
our college life, but we miss the familiar faces of those venerated instructors, who were accustomed to greet the returning
sons of Yale, with a cordial welcome.  Old Yale of 1866 is not
the Yale of 1826. The stately elms, the pleasant walks, the
beautiful churches that skirt our old ball ground, the massive
piles of brick and mortar that constitute the college buildings,
the beautiful area that fronts the college, all look familiar, but
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miss the genial smile of SILLIMAN, the bright twinkling eye of
humorous KINGSLEY, the erect form  and measured tread of
OL0rSTEAD. But thanks to a kind Providence whohas lengthened the time of DAY beyond the period usually allotted to
men on earth, now the only remaining link that connects us
with the faculty of 1826.
And now, friends and classmates, our work is done; and notwithstanding its defects and incompleteness, we send it forth on
its destination, in the hope that it may afford as much pleasure
in its perusal by those for whom it was designed, as it has the
compiler in preparing it; and that it may be accepted as a
token of that love and esteem which originated -from our college intercourse, and which the lapse of nearly forty years has
not effaced.
ROME, Ar2ril, 1866.                      S. HAINES.




BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
JOHN GLOVER ADAMS,
Son of John and Ann (Glover) Adams, was born in the city of
New York, August 12, 1807. His father was for many years a
member of a large and wealthy mercantile firm, and for a period
of thirty-six years, was a ruling elder in the Brick Church under
the pastoral care of the Rev. Dr. Spring. John G. is the eldest
of seven children, and as he writes, " was educated under Christian training and nurture, (' line upon line, and precept upon
precept,') his family on both sides of the house, having been
Presbyterians of the straitest sort, according to the Bible and
Westminster Catechism."
He fitted for college in the city of New York, and in the fall
of 1822 he entered Columbia College where he spent two years.
By the advice of his pastor, he took a dismission and entered
the Junior Class in Yale College in October 1824.  After
graduating, he commenced the study of medicine with Alex.
H. Stevens, M. D., then " in the zenith of his professional career,
both as a general practitioner, as one of the surgeons of the
New York Hospital, and as Professor of the Principles and
Practice of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons,"
and was graduated as M. D., in May, 1830.
During the year 1833, he served as physician to the New
York City Dispensary. In May, 1834, he went to Europe, and
spent two years inattendance upon the schools and hospitals of
Paris. In October, 1836, he resumed practice in the city of New
York, and was elected President of the New York Medical and
Surgical Society. He has also been President of the Alumni
Association, of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, a position of high distinction in the profession. Favored with a competency of this world's goods, he practiced his profession among
the poorer classes in the city, receiving very little pecuniary
compensation. In 1836 he delivered a course of lectures in the
Broome street School of Medicine. He has visited Europe sev



eral times in the pursuit of health. In 1851 he established a
monthly medical journal called, " The New York Medical Times,"
which he continued for five years. He possesses the characteristics of a fine writer, a classical taste and style.
In 1858 he married Margaret Aspinwall, daughter of the
late Daniel Sterling of Bridgeport, Conn., and immediately embarked for Europe, from whence he extended his bridal tour
east to Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and Greece, and returned in
August, 1860, and has continued to reside at the homestead of
his wife's family, which she inherited from her father; while
he still claims to be a citizen of the Empire State.
MOSES ATWATER,
Son of Moses and Panthea Maria Atwater, was born in Canandaigua, New York. His studies preparatory to entering college
were pursued at the Academy in his native town. His father
was one of the early settlers in that place, a man of high social
position.
After graduating, young Atwater returned to his home in
Canandaigua.  He never studied any profession, but was engaged " in various things by turns."
In 1854 he married Miss Margaret Weist, who died in January, 1857, leaving one son, Frederick Atwater.
Atwater, died August 8, 18641
ELDAD BARBER,
Son of Eldad and Lois (Bissell) Barber, was born in East Windsor, Conn., September 24, 1801. The first twenty years of his
life were spent in his father's family, and in labor on the farm.
His studies preparatory for college were pursued under the instruction of the Rev. William Ely, of Vernon, Conn. After
completing his theological course in that department of Yale
College, in 1829, he was ordained by the Litchfield South Association, in company with seven other young men, of whom the
late Everton Judson, his classmate in college and seminary, was
one. Barber and Judson soon after set out together for the
State of Ohio as missionaries, with commissions from the American Home Missionary Society, expecting to labor in Marion




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county, " but a chain of circumstances, ordered in the Providence
of God, eventually brought" them both to Milan, Ohio. Barber preached in Marion, Milan and Vermillion, Ohio, for about
eight years. During his residence in Milan, from April, 1832, to
October, 1835, he was employed in teaching. From Milan he
removed to Florence, Erie county, Ohio, where he has continued
his labors in preaching the gospel and in teaching in the languages, and the higher branches of an English education.
In September, 1831, he married Miss Mary Ballentine, who
died September 15, 1832, leaving an infant son, Henry Ballentine Barber, now living.
In April, 1834, he married Miss Hannah Ely Crosby.  By
this marriage he has had two children, Mary Emily, who died
in infancy, and Caroline Louisa. Both of his surviving children
married in 1861. Barber still remains at Florence, Ohio. His
son entered the Union army in September, 1861, in the 7th Illinois
cavalry, and served three years in the ranks.
JAMES MAXWELL BARKER,
Son of Christopher and Sarah (Maxwell) Barker, was born in
Boston, Mass., March 14, 1806. His parents were English, but
their acquaintance commenced in Boston, where they were married. The'father died in Boston, in 1813, and the mother in
Philadelphia, in 1839. James went to Andover Academy in
1819, where he remained until he entered college in 1822. After
graduating, he commenced the study of law with the Hon.
Samuel Hubbard, an Alumnus of Yale, and subsequently a Judge
of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and after the usual course
of study, was admitted to the bar. In a year or two from that
time he left Boston, and was absent about ten years; nearly six
of which were spent in teaching in Philadelphia, and in New
Castle, Del., and for four years or more, he was employed in lawyers' offices in New York City, and in Philadelphia. In 1843, he
returned to Massachusetts, and entered the office of Registry of
Deeds, in Dedham, Mass., as a clerk, and continued there a few
months. From thence he went to Worcester, Mass., where he
made an arrangement with the Hon. Charles Allen, in whose
office he remained until 1850, when on the election of Mr. Allen
to Congress, he left Worcester and returned to Boston. In 1858
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he opened an office of his own in Boston, where he remains.
His business is chiefly conveyancing.  He does not appear at
the bar.  He is not dependent on his profession for a maintainance, as he receives an annuity left him by a deceased brother,
which is ample for that purpose.  He never married.
(J. C. O.-1866.)
ELIJAH PORTER BARROWS,
Son of Nathan and Sophia (Hawks) Barrows, was born in Mansfield, Conn., January 5, 1805.  Upon the death of his father,
which occurred in 1818, his uncle, Elijah Porter Barrows, of
Baltimore, took young Barrows to his own home in Baltimore,
and through the kindness of that friend he received a liberal
education. Ilis studies preparatory to entering college, were
pursued in Baltimore.  He entered the Sophomore class in the
fall of 1823. Immediately after his graduation, he took charge
of the Hartford Grammar School, at the head of which he continued for five years. He never was a member of a theological
seminary; but during-his residence in Hartford, Conn., he pursued a course of theological studies under the general supervision of the Rev. Drs. Hawes and Linsley.  In June, 1831, he
was licensed to preach the gospel by the Hartford North Association, and in June, 1831, was ordained at Simsbury, Conn.,
by the same association, as an Evangelist, " with special reference
to the need of ministerial labor in feeble and broken parishes."
He continued in this work, until the spring of 1835, when he
was called to the First Free Presbyterian church in Dey street,
New York, where he remained two years, when he was elected
to the Professorship of Sacred Literature in the Western Reserve
College, in Ohio, where he remained fifteen years. He resigned
his Professorship in the spring of 1852, and in April, 1853, he
was elected Professor of Sacred Literature in the Theological
Seminary, at Andover, -Mass., where he still remains.
Prof. Barrows is the author of several small volumes, viz:
a sabbath school book entitled, " The Thornton Family," "A
View of Slavery," published in 1835, "A  Memoir of D. IH.
Clark," "A Memoir of the Rev. Everton Judson."  For twelve
years, he was the senior editor of the " Ohio Observer," a weekly
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moval to Andover, has been a large contributor to the pages of'
the Bibliotheca Sacra, and other periodicals.
In 1858 he received the honorary degree of S. T. D., from
Dartmouth College.
In March, 1829, he married Miss Sarah Maria Lee, of Hartford, Conn. They have had ten children; Nathan is a graduate
of' Western Reserve College, and of the Medical Department in
the same institution, and married Susan E. Hains, of Falmouth,
Mass. At the present time he is Principal of Atkinson Academy, N. H.; Frances Lee, now the wife of the Rev. Thomas DSggett, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Niagara Falls, N. Y.;
Elijah Porter, who died in 1861, at the age of 26 years; Allen
Campbell, who entered the U. S. Army, in Nov. 1861, and
served three years in the Army of the Cumberland, in the 18th
Regiment of the Regular Army.  He was in the battles of
Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Jonesboro, and
many others of less note. He married Miss Tracy, of Steubenville, Ohio. He is now Professor of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy in Western Reserve College. His second daughter,
Sophia Lee. The third daughter, Martha Bliss, is married to
Chas. H. Hitchcock.  Iis other children are Charlotte Malvina,
William Elliott, Franklin Lee, and Sarah Maria. William Elliott
entered the army in July, 1861, and served in the Army of the
Potomac till the end of the war. During the Peninsular campaign, he was Hospital Steward of the 19th Regt. Mass. Vols.,
and was with the regiment at the second battle of Bull Run, and
at Antietam, Fredericksburgh  and  Chancellorsville.  After
leaving the Medical Department he passed through the various
grades from Second Lieutenant to Brevet Major of the Regiment.
At the battle of Gettysburgh he was Aid to Col. Hall, acting
Brigadier General, and also in the same capacity at Bristo Station, at the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House,
Cold Harbor, and at the final battles near Petersburgh and
Richmond, he was Aid to Maj. Gen. Webb. He now resides
at Lowell, Mass.
Prof. Barrows went out three successive springs during
the war, in the service of the Christian Commission. After the
fall of Richmond he was sent to that city, where he had charge,
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ISAAC -CLOSSON BEACH,
New Milford, Conn., entered college, Sophomore year. In about
two years after he graduated he was licensed to preach the gospel,
by the Litchfield North Association, and spent about a year in
Washington, Conn., and also preached some time in Bethel,
Conn. His health failing, he engaged as an agent for the American Bible Society, and spent a year in Ohio. He returned east,
and became a settled pastor in Ulster County, N. Y., where he
remained about eight years. From there he went to Chester, in
Orange County, and continued there about eleven years..As
the fruit of his labors in Ulster County, about two hundred
were added to the church; and at Chester, the church composed
of less than a score of members when he began his ministry
there, was strengthened by the addition of near three hundred
souls. His next field of labor was Newburgh, N. Y. After
about eighteen months there, he went to Illinois, where he
labored about three years and a half as a Home Missionary.
From Illinois, he went to southern Ohio, and spent about three
years with the church at North Bend, the home of the late
President Harrison; from thence he went to Cincinnati, and
spent between three and four years with the Sixth Presbyterian
Church in that city. His health again failed, and he became an
exploring Missionary in Kansas, and now resides at Olathe. In
1829 he married Miss Emily A. Wheeler, of New Haven, Conn.
They have had eight children, three of whom died in infancy.
His eldest son is a physician in Kansas, and is somewhat distinguished in his profession. His second son is a druggist in
Kansas; a daughter was married to a lawyer just before the rebellion broke out; he entered the Union Army, and was killed
in battle in Missouri, at the time the brave Gen. Lyon fell.
HENRY CURTISS BEARDSLEE,
Son of Gideon and Sarah Ann (Curtiss) Beardslee, was born in
Monroe, July 2d, 1807. His father was a physician in Monroe,
then called Huntington, Conn. His preparatory studies were
pursued in a select school, under the instruction of Hezekiah
Rudd, in Huntington, and a portion of the time under the instruction of the Rev. Chauncy G. Lee, of Monroe. After leav



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ing college, he spent a few months in teaching, and then commenced the study of medicine with Prof. Eli Ives, in May, 1827,
and was graduated at the Medical Institution in New Haven,
in March, 1829. He shortly after commenced the practice of
medicine in Montville, Conn., and soon had an extensive but
laborious country practice. IHe was elected a representative to
the State Legislature several times.
In May, 1845, he removed to Painesville, Ohio, where he has
devoted himself to his profession, and has earned a high and
honorable distinction, by his skill and success in the more difficult operations in surgery. Under date of January, 1866, he
writes: "In May, 1863, I was appointed by the Secretary of
War, Surgeon of the Board of Enrollment, for this;Congressional District, and received an honorable discharge from the
service in June, 1865. The duties of the office afforded a relief
to the somewhat monotonous round of professional labor, and
though very laborious, yet on the whole quite interesting. The
real work did not commence till October, 1863, but between
that time and the surrender of Lee's army to Gen. Grant, I
examined of recruits, substitutes, drafted men and enrolled
men seeking exemption, an aggregate of more than twelve
thousand men. In this large number were many splendid
specimens of physical organization, and many rare and unusual
forms of disease, all of high professional interest. In the examination of substitutes it was necessary to detect diseases
which they sought to conceal; and in the examination of drafted
men and enrolled men seeking exemption, to decide whether
their complaints were real or pretended. It will be seen that
the duties of the office afforded opportunity for the exercise of
much skill in the diagnosis of disease."
In the spring of 1833 he married Miss Harriet Hawley, of
Monroe, an old schoolmate, to whom he'had long been partial.
They have had five children. Maria Hawley, Augusta, Charles
Henry, Edward, and Harriet Louisa.  Augusta and Edward
died in infancy. His wife died July 8, 1860, after protracted
suffering from cancer in the stomach. In November, 1861, he
married Clementine M. Currier, of Enfield, N. H., and has two
children by this marriage, James Currier and Henry Curtiss.
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Plains, Mass. Charles is employed in Western Union Telegraph Company at Cleveland, Ohio.
EBENEZER HUGGINS BISHOP,
Son of Timothy (Y. C. 1793) and Esther (HIuggins) Bishop,
was born in New IHaven, Conm., February 11, 1807. His studies
preparatory to entering college, were pursued under the instruction of HIon. Joel Jones, afterwards Judge of the United States
District Court in Philadelphia, whom  as a faithful teacher, he
holds in grateful remembrance. After graduating, he studied
medicine in the office of the late Dr. Ives, in New Haven, and
received his Medical Diploma in the spring of 1829. He began the practice in Geneseo, N. Y. After one year he removed
to Pittsburgh, Pa., where he remained in the practice of his
profession until the fall of 1882, when he returned to New
Haven, where he has since been engaged successfully in the
duties of his profession. In October, 1832, he married Miss HI.
Maria Lewis, daughter of Seth Lewis, (Y. C. 1783) of Southington, Conn., by whom he has had two sons, Addin Lewis
Bishop, (Trinity, 1855) received the degree of Bachelor of Laws,
Yale College, 1857-a lawyer of much promise, who died July
1863. Timothy HIuggins Bishop, who received the degree of
Doctor of Medicine from the Medical Department of Yale College, 1860, is married and settled in his native city.
The members of the class of 1826 are largely indebted to
Dr. Bishop for his many acts of generous hospitality and labolrs
of love, as the class Secretary since their graduation, and as
one of the committee for preparing the class book; while it is
to be regretted that the excessive modesty of "the beloved
physician," should compel his classmates to accept so meager a
report of his acknowledged ability, usefulness, and success in
his profession.
AMOS BLANCHARD,
Son of Deacon Amos and Elizabeth (Jenkins) Blanchard, was
born in Andover, Mass., March 7, 1807. He prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. In 1828 he was appointed tutor in Yale College, and held the place one year. In




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December, 1829, he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Church, in Lowell, Mass., and in May, 1845, was installed
pastor of the Kirk Street Church, in the same city, where he still
remains in the faithful prosecution of his work, and it would
seem from the statistics, with more than ordinary success. In
his report to the committee, in 1856, he writes, " My habits have
been those of regular and continuous application, varied by a
somewhat larger proportion of miscellaneous and out-of-door
work than falls, I suppose, to most of my brethren. With
health never very robust, I have seldom been laid aside or interrupted by sickness. The constant pressure of pastoral duty,
in a field requiring at short intervals, new plans and movements,
to meet the wants of a rapidly growing community, have left
me less leisure for extended study than would have been congenial to my taste, and none at all for authorship. Neither my
strength or time has allowed of my extending my services much
in any direction, beyond my regular round of duties at home.
These have been so far owned of God, that within the first
twenty-five years of my ministry, I was permitted to receive to
the church eight hundred and thirty-two persons on profession
of their faith, and seven hundred and thirty-four by letter."
The whole number received during his ministry, from 1829, to
January, 1866, is nine hundred and sixty-eight on profession of
their faith, and eight hundred and twenty-five by letter, making
a total of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three; he has
solemnized eight hundred and eight marriages, and officiated at
eight hundred and sixty funerals.
In May, 1830, he married Miss Caroline R. Draper, of Dover,
N. 1-. They have had four children, of whom but one survives.
Two died in infancy, and Hannah R., wife of Horace Webster,
Esq., of Portsmouth, N. H., died September 1, 1861. His son
Amos, is Paying Teller in the National Bank of Redemption,
Boston, and is married.
In 1852 he received the honorary degree of S. T. D., from
Williams College, Massachusetts.
WILLIAM HENRY BOGART,
Was born in the year 1801. He came to college from Hempstead Harbor, L. I., anrl entered as Junior in the fall of 1824.




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We have been unable to obtain his history, either previous to
his coming to college or since he graduated. He is reported to
have died some years since; but the time and place are unknown to us. We regret that all efforts to obtain some more
satisfactory account of him have altogether failed.
FREDERICK BRIDGMAN,
Son of Joseph Bridgman, was born in Belchertown, Mass., in
the year 1804. He fitted for college in his native town, and entered Amherst College in the fall of 1822, where he spent one
year. In 1823 he entered the Sophomore class in Yale College.
He studied medicine with Dr. Hunt, of Northamton, Mass.,
attending medical lectures at Harvard, where he received his
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1830. He soon after went
south and settled in the practice of medicine in Macon, Ga.,
with much success, where he remained several years. He removed from thence to Tuskegee, Ala. He married Miss Jennings, who was a teacher in the South, and daughter of the
Rev. Dr. Jennings, of Dalton, Mass. "Dr. Bridgman died in
1850, leaving a widow and three sons, named Charles, Edward
and Frederick.  He was highly esteemed in the community
where he resided, not only as a physician of more than ordinary
ability, but for his amiable and gentlemanly manners, his high
integrity, and for the deep interest he manifested in both public
and private enterprises."            (S. E. B.-1866.)
JESSE BRONSON,
Son of Bennet (Y. C. 1797,) and Anna (Smith) Bronson, was
born in Waterbury, Conn., February 8, 1806. "He fitted for
college under the instruction of his father; entered college in
regular course in 1822, and graduated in 1826. He began the
study of medicine with Samuel B. Woodward, M. D., then of
Weathersfield, Conn., and afterwards pursued it with the Doctor's brother Henry, in West Springfield, Mass. He attended
two courses of lectures at the Medical Institution in Yale College, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in~ 1829.
He soon after settled as a physician in North Haven, Conn.;
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in the classics. At length his health, which for some years had
been delicate, gave way. His mother and elder brother had
died of pulmonary consumption, and he showed unmistakable
evidence of the disease. He returned to his father's house in
Waterbury, ran rapidly down, and died April 14, 1831."
"He was small in stature, and of a delicate organization.
His perceptions were quick, and his intellectual and imaginative
powers decidedly good. He was diffident in manner, and slow
to form acquaintances; but those with whom he had once become intimate, were strongly attached to him. He was not long
at North Haven, but he succeeded in obtaining strong friends
and a fair share of professional business.  His removal from
them and his death were much deplored."
TIHADDEUS BROWN,
Son of Joseph and Sarah (Foster) Brown, was born in Tewksbury, Mass., October 27, 1803.  He prepared for college at
Phillips' Academy, Andover, Mass.  After his graduation he
studied medicine with Dr. Twitchel, of Keene, N. H., and also
with Dr. Greene, in Worcester, Mass., and Dr. Shattuck, Boston,
and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine, from Harvard
University, in 1830.  He began the practice of medicine in
Billerica, Mass., where he remained until his death, which occurred, September 23, 1839. He was greatly beloved and esteemed, both as a physician and a friend. He married Susan
Crosby, of Billerica. Their eldest son died at the age of four
years. Their second son, Thaddeus IHowe Brown, fitted for college at Andover, and graduated at Yale College, with the class
of 1860. Mrs. Brown died some years after her husband.
WILLIAM PETER BUEL,
Son of William Buel, M. D., was born in Sheffield, Mass., in
the year 1808. His father was a practicing physician for several years in Sheffield, and removed to Litchfield, Conn., in the
year 1816, and afterwards was elected President of the State
Medical Society of Connecticut. William P., pursued his preparatory studies under the instruction of Mr. J. P. Brace, of
Litchfield. After graduating, he studied medicine for a time,
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with his father, and also with the late Dr. A. W. Ives, of New
York City. He was graduated at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in New York, in 1880, and commenced the practice of
medicine in New York, where he continued until 1850, when
his health failing, he went to California. From 1850 to 1855,
he was for the most time surgeon in the steam mail line from
New York to the Isthmus. Since then, he has been employed
in the same capacity, from the Isthmus to San Francisco. His
position while residing in New York, was one of distinction,
not only as a physician, but as a citizen. He was for several
years an officer in one of the most prominent churches in the
city, and President for a number of years of the Young Men's
City Bible Society. One of the class who has known him intimately, in giving the committee some facts of Buel, writes: "He
is one of the best specimens of humanity I have ever known,
and is an honor to his class."
In a statement furnished by himself in 1857, he writes: I have
circumnavigated the American continent from Boston on the
east, to Columbia River on the west; have heard
" The wolf's long howl on Onolaska's shore;"
have sailed through the straits of Magellan, and visited most of
the principal cities of South America. I have been once in iminent peril from shipwreck, and after having been tossed for
thirteen days and nights, upon the raging billows of a most tempestuous sea, was rescued by the hand of an overruling Providence from the jaws of death."
In 1835 he married Miss Elizabeth Penny, of New York.
They have had five sons, one of whom died in infancy.
(1857.)
EDWARD COLEMAN BULL,
Son of Epaphras and Mary (Wells) Bull, was born in Danbury,
Conn. His father was a practicing lawyer in that town, and
when the son was five years old, the family removed to the
State of Ohio, where the father died.  After his death the
family returned to New Milford, Conn. His preparatory studies
were pursued at Danbury, under the instruction of Samuel B.
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After graduating, he commenced the study of the law in the
office of Leonard Maison, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he
spent one year. I-Ie then went to Canandaigua, where he completed his course and was admitted to the bar. After his admission he returned to Connecticut, and before entering upon
his profession, his views respecting his future course were
changed, and he commenced studying for the ministry in the
Episcopal church.  He studied successively in the seminaries
in Andover, New York, and Alexandria, and was admitted to
orders in the autumn 1834. Immediately after this, he preached
for a short time in Taunton aind Cambridge, Mass., in Phillipstown, N. Y., and VWoodbury, Conn. He was then invited to
settle in Brookfield, Conn., where he remained three years.
From there, he was called to Westport, Conn., where he continued six years.
In the spring of 1847, he was called to Rye, N. Y., where he
labored eleven years, when his health, as he supposed, became
permanently impaired, he was compelled to resign. During the
whole course of his ministry, his health has been poor. Since
leaving Rye, he has never resumed his pastoral and ministerial
labors, nor had any fixed residence, but has alternated in the
city and country. His effort has been to regain a comfortable
degree of health, by more active exercise than he could have
while with a pastoral charge. In 1864, he purchased a residence
on the shore of Long Island Sound, and while preparing to occupy his new and beautiful home, his prospects were unexpectly
blighted, and a dark shadow shrouded his future. His wife was
taken suddenly ill, and after a short illness died of pneumonia.
Her maiden name, was Anna Maria Waite, of Westport, Conn.
They were married in June, 1847. They had no children.
JAMES FITCH BUNNELL,
Son of Rufus Bunnell, (Y. C., 1797,) was born in Delaware
county, N. Y., March 27, 1807. In 1817, his father removed to
New York City.  His preparatory studies were pursued in
Jamaica, L. I., and in Connecticut. He came to college from
New York, Freshmen year.  After graduating he studied law
in Litchfield, Conn., and also in New York City. After being
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changed his business and engaged in the manufacture of woolen
and cotton goods, in the vicinity of Bridgeport, Conn., and continued in the business until 1847, when his health failing, he
retired from business, and has resided since in Bridgeport.
WILLIAM PORTER BURRALL,
Son of Hon. William M. and Abigail (Porter, Stoddclard) Burrall,
was born in Canaan, Conn., September 18, 1806. His preparatory studies were principally conducted and finished under the
instruction of the Rev. Joseph Harvey, D. D., at Goshen, Conn.,
in whose family he spent the two years next preceeding his admission to college. Immediately after graduation he commenced
the study of the law with his father. After one year, he entered the office of the Hon. Samuel Church, since Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, then a practicing lawyer
in Salisbury, Conn. From his office, he went to Litchfield, and
attended a course of lectures at the Law School in that place,
when at the close of the course, he was admitted to the bar in
Litchfield county, in April, 1829, and immediately thereafter
commenced the practice in the office of his father, in Canaan,
who was then a Judge of the County Court. He continued in the
practice of the law until October, 1838, when the IHousatonic Railroad, having been projected, the company organized, and the
work commenced, he was offered the Presidency of the Company
on condition that he would locate in Bridgeport, and devote his
time to the duties of that office. He accepted the offer and held
the office until 1852 or'53, when he resigned in consequence of
the pressure of other duties. At that period in the history of
railroads, experience in the construction and management of
railroads was very limited. Insufficient means, occasional revulsions in financial affairs, and other causes, produced frequent
arnd serious embarrassments, and rendered it " up hill work."
The road was completed in 1841, and relaid with the heavy T
rail in 1846, and the indebtedness paid, and has afforded great,
and permanent benefits to the valley through which it runs.
He was connected also with the New York and New Haven
railroad during its construction and the earlier years of its operation.
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Railroad, first as Treasurer, and afterwards as President; and
also at two different times with the Hartford and New Haven
Railroad, as Vice President, devoting his time to the active duties of the management, which position he still holds. In fact,
since 1838, his whole business life, has been spent in connection
with the construction and management of railroads.  In the
spring of 1859, he removed from Bridgeport to Salisbury, Conn.,
where he purchased a farm and built a house, which his family
occupies during the summer season, and which he calls his
home. His place of business is in Hartford.
In May, 1831, he married Miss Harriet Holley, daughter of
the late John M. Holley, of Salisbury, by whom he has had six
children, viz.: William H., John M., Elizabeth M., Sarah B.,
Harriet H., and Porter S.  Harriet died with consumption,
January 9, 1860, at the age of 20 years. Sarah B. was married
to H. H. Anderson, Esq., of New York, in 1861. William H.,
educated a civil engineer, John M., is in mercantile business in
San Francisco; Porter S., is a clerk in the office of an iron manufactory, in Salisbury.                         (1866.)
JAMES DYER CHAPMAN,
Son of James D. and Tryphosa (Huntington) Chapman, was
born in Columbia, Conn., in the year 1798. Previously to his
preparing for college he worked several years at the business of
harness-making, until he was twenty-one years old, in Norwich,
Conn. He first commenced his study of the languages in his
native town, and completed his preparation under the instruction of the Rev. Dr. Kirkland, President of tHarvard University,
he being a near relative of Mr. Chapman. He spent two years
at Cambridge, and entered the Sophomore Class at Yale College
in 1823. After graduating, he spent three years as Principal of
Morris Academy, in Litchfield, Conn., where he married Miss
Abbie Julia Smith. He then went to New Haven, associated as
a teacher with his brother-in-law, Amos Smith, in a classical
school. He also attended the theological lectures of Dr. Taylor
at the Seminary. He was licensed to preach the gospel by the
New Haven West Association. He preached in the vicinity of
New Haven, as stated supply, and was ordained at Wolcott,
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reference to slavery subjected him to persecution, reproach, and
loss of property, which he endured patiently. After leaving
Wolcott, he went to Cummington, Mass., where after a successful ministry of eleven years, he finished his course on earth
and went to his eternal reward.
The following extract from a letter written by an officer in
the church at Cummington, shows that he is embalmed in the
hearts of that people, that the sweet fragrance of his memory
will be cherished as long as they live.  "It is now twenty-two
years last October, since, late one Saturday evening, a stranger
knocked at our door and introduced himself as a clergyman
wishing to obtain a situation.  In conversation, he soon unfolded to us his history and circumstances; for he had already
secured to himself the blessing of him who suffers for righteousness sake. Mr. Chapman had early identified himself with
the Anti-Slavery cause, and as a faithful servant of God he
pleaded the cause of the oppressed; the fires of persecution
were kindled around him, his church was burned, and he was
driven from the place, so that he came to us in his deep poverty; but bringing with him a spirit of uncompromising fidelity
to the cause he had espoused; and for the space of eleven years,
in season, out of season, as often as he exhorted the people to
love the Lord their God with all the heart, he also enjoined
upon them to love their neighbor as themselves. We were a
feeble, struggling church, having nothing of a pecuniary nature
worth the offering; but he freely cast in his lot with us; took
upon himself the trials of a people struggling to sustain the
ordinances and institutions of religion; was an angel of mercy
at the bedside of the sick and the suffering, a consoler of the
afflicted, a sympathizer in all our joys and sorrows, till he filled
up the measure of his work on earth; and when the heavenly
mandate came, his little flock were permitted to gather around
his bed, that he, who had taught them how to live, might teach
them how to die. Many were the precious words he spake to
them, as the spirit lingered for a season, struggling to be free.
His death was a triumphant and glorious one. In a quiet spot
of his own selection, where the tall trees wave, and the flowers
bloom in their season, slumber peacefully his remains. And
now that the year of jubilee has come, and the enslaved millions
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swell the anthem of praise to Him who came to preach deliverance to the captive, and the opening of the prison doors to
them that are bound."
Hie had ten children, three of whom died in infancy; each
of the surviving children are members of the Presbyterian
church in Rochester, N. Y., where his widow now resides.
He died at Cummington, December 19, 1854.
EBENEZER CHURCH,
Son of Isaac and Esther Church, was born in Norwalk, Conn.,
October 1, 1800. He prepared for an advanced standing in
college at the academy in Norwalk, under the instruction of the
Rev. Reuben Sherwood, Rev. William  Jarvis, Rev. James
Keeler, and Mr. Pinney. He began his college course with a
view of entering the ministry of the Episcopal church, but
was compelled to abandon this purpose on account of some
difficulty in his speech. He entered the Junior class in June,
1825. After graduating he engaged in teaching, in his native
town, in which employment he continued until the year of his
death. He died at his father's, in the year 1833.
EDWIN ELEAZER CLARK,
Came to college, Freshman year, from Belchertown, Mass. After graduating, he studied law, and went to the State of Michigan. Nothing definite has been heard from him since. Letters
and class circulars addressed to him at Detroit and Ann Arbor,
where he was reported as residing, have elicited no reply,
REUBEN HOLMES CLOSE,
Came to college from the town of Genoa, Cayuga county, N. Y.,
and entered Junior year. After graduating, he studied theology
at Auburn Seminary; was ordained to preach the gospel by the
Presbytery of Cayuga. He has preached in several places.
At the last account he was reported as an agent for the Female
College at Elmira, N. Y. Letters and class circulars addressed
to him have failed to obtain from him any response. According
to the minutes of the last General Assembly of the Presbyterian
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JOSIAH COLLINS,
Son of Josiah Collins of Edenton, N. C. But very little has
been heard of him since his graduation. He was among the
youngest in years, and though thoroughly southern in his views
and feelings, he was firmly attached to his college friends. He
possessed a kind and genial spirit-a sunny side for his friends,
and in after years, always gave his college acquaintances a cordial greeting and a hearty welcome. He studied law, but never
practiced, and succeeding to his father's estate, became a large
slaveholder, a man of wealth and of commanding influence.
He was at one time a member of the State Senate, and several
times was a lay delegate from the Diocese of North Carolina
in the General Episcopal Convention of the United States.
He married a Miss Riggs, from New Jersey. He met with a
severe domestic affliction, by the drowning of two interesting
sons, occasioned by the upsetting of a boat. From a Confederate prisoner of war from Edenton, the compiler learned that
Collins died in the winter of 1863-4, leaving two or three sons
in the Confederate army.
FREDERICK TYLER CONE,
Entered college in 1820, from East Haddam, Conn., but in consequence of ill health he left college for two years, and joined the
class of 1826 at the beginning of Senior year. Nothing has been
received from him, or any particulars of his history, since his
graduation. He died in 1834.
JEFFERSON COOLEY,
Son of Philetus and Polly (Hinman) Cooley, was born iln
Granby, Conn., September 15, 1800. Previous to his preparation for college, he was employed in farming. His preparatory
studies were pursued under the instruction of the Rev. Timothy
M. Cooley, D. D., of Granville, Mass. He studied law with
Jared Griswold, Esq., of Hartford, Conn., and was admitted to
the bar, but never engaged in the practice.
The following is an extract from an obituary prepared by his
preceptor, Dr. Cooley: "The succeeding ten years after his
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school in his native place.  In 1832 he was admitted to the bar
as an attorney. In 1836 he became Preceptor of the Academy
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and afterwards was Principal of the
Academy at Sharon, Conn. In 1838 he recommencecld teaching
in Granby, and continued his chosen employment till a diseased
and broken constitution compelled hi]m to retire and await the
day of his departure from earth.  He was a decided friend of
morality and religion, and though he never connected himself
with any branch of the church, yet it is believed his life and
experience were those of a Christian, and that he died the
blessed death of those who die in the Lord.  His mind was of
a retiring, yet independent cast; contemplative, yet quick and
vigorous. He was distinguished for deliberation, accuracy, and
strict moral honesty."
He never married.  He died of consumption at Gi'anby, December 20, 1840.
ELIJAH COWLES,
Son of Gad and Mary (Deming) Cowles, was born in Farmington, Conn., February 10, 1808.  HIe prepared for college at the
academy in Farmington.  After graduating he spent most of his
life in mercantile pursuits.  He remained several years in business in his native town, and then removed to Sandusky, Ohio.
In a few years he returned to Farmington; and about the year
1849 he established himself in business in Syracuse, N. Y.,
where he remained until November, 1856, when be removed to
Cleveland, Ohio, where he died May 22, 1859.  "I-Iis death
was instantaneous, from'rupture of the. aorta, within the pericardium.' The aorta bad become softened at the point of rupture, so that it could easily be rubbed to pieces between the
thumb and finger.  Previous to his death, his health had been
feeble, but at the timne of his death, no one feared fatal consequences. Ie fell dead from his chair, as in a fit; the blood
filled the pericardium, and the heart ceased to beat."  A friend
writes, "Mr. Cowles was a nman of more kindly nature than that
which fits a man for a merchant, a physician or lawyer. I
should judge, that naturally he was more particularly adapted
to the clerical profession.  Kind, generous and forgivillg in all
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pecially by the young men, who often sought his counsel in important matters. His loss was deeply felt by all his acquaintances, and often are his many good qualities the subject of
conversation."  He was a most noble, generous-hearted man;
ardent in his attachments, manly and upright in his deportment
towards others, he had an inexpressible contempt for the low,
cunning, niggardly spirit IHe was generous to a fault, always
ready to divide his last shilling with the poor and distressed
In April, 1845, he married Miss Mary D. Lewis, of Northumberland, N. Y., by whom  he had two sons. Henry A.
Cowles, now living in New York; and Gad, who died in infancy.
Mrs. Cowles died in September, 1848, three days before the
death of their youngest child. In October, 1850, he married
Miss Evalina Beatrice Robison, of Syracuse, by whom he had
two daughters, Lilly, who died in infancy, and Louisa G., now
living with her mother at St. Paul, Minn.
HENRY COWLES,
Son of Samuel and Olive (Phelps) Cowles, was born in Norfolk,
Conn., April 24, 1803, and prepared for college under the instruction of Rev. Ralph Emerson,  D.  I., of Norfolk.  He
studied theology at New Haven, and with the Rev. Dr. Emerson two years. He was licensed to preach by the Litchfield
North Association, in June, 1828, and ordained as a Home Missionary, July, 1828, at Hartford, Conn. He went to Ohio, and
labored about two years as a missionary, and then became pastor of the Congregational Church, in Austinburgh, Ohio, where
he remained about five years. In September, 1835, he became
Professor of the Latin and Greek languages in the college at
Oberlin, Ohio. In 1839 he was transferred to the Professorship
of the Hebrew Language and Literature in the Theological Department, in which he continued until 1848; at that time he
became the editor of the Oberlin " Evangelist," and has continued down to the present time, (1862.)
In July, 1830, he married Miss Alice Welch, of Norfolk, Conn.
They have had six children, three sons and three daughters.
Helen Maria, the eldest, died in the twentieth year of her age,
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a very able and eloquent preacher of the gospel.  Their young
est died in infancy. Mrs. Cowles died in October, 1843.
In March, 1844, he married Mrs. Minerva D. Penfieldcl.  Under
date of 1856, the professor writes to the class committee, " My
domestic life has been pre-emrninently happy.  Death has taken
none who were not manifestly ripe for heaven; the living are all
ini the church of our Lord, and hopefully maturin g for usefulness
on earth and fruition above."  He is now (1866) eingaged in
writing a commentary on the Scriptures.  He has always been
an earnest working man in the Master's vineyard.
JOHN PHELPS COWLES,
Son of Samuel and Olive (Phelps) Cowles, was bornl in Colebrook, Conn., January 21, 1805. His preparatory studies were
pursued under the instruction of the Rev. R. Emerson, D. D., in
Norfolk.  He studied theology in the Theological Seminary in
New Haven, and during 1833-4 he preaclhed at Princeton, Mass.
In 1836 he was appointed Professor of the Hebre vr language in
Oberlin College, Ohio, which position he held about three years.
In 1840 he became the Principal in the Academy at Elyria,
Ohio, where he remained about four years.  From thence he
removed to Ipswich, Mass., ancd took charge of the Female Seminary in that place, where he yet remains.
In 1838 he married Miss Eunice Caldwell, of Ipswich, Mass.,
and has had five childclren-Mary Phelps, Roxanna Caldwell,
John Phelps, Henry Augustine, and Susanl Abby Rice.
Mr. Cowles has published nothing over his own name, but
aided in preparing WVebster's Dictionary and the Comprehensive
Commentary for the press.  He has been a very great sufferer
from disease of his eyes, which has resulted in the entire loss
of sight.
The following account, forwarded under date of March, 1866,
will be read with painful interest, and will awaken the most profound sympathy of his surviving classmates: " As to mnyself, I
have walked in total bodily darkness for more than six years.
My case oscillated between hope and fear, for about five years
previous, and at last the sight of my remaining eye totally failed
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own thoughts.  I have in a good degree recovered tone and
strength, and find life still busy and happy.  My two sons, although young, both took some little part in the war for union
and libertry.  The eldest, John, went to the defense of Cincinnati
in 1862, when the rebels did not attack it.  The campaign was
short, not over a month.  H-enry A., my youngest, being at that
time a student at Oberlin, heard his country's call in the spring
of 186~ for hundred days' men.  His regiment was sent to guard
WVashington, andc there, about the beginning of July, lie was
seized with typhoid and pneumonia, aind after a fortnight's severe
sickness, he was, as we trust, transferred friom the service of his
country to the courts above.  He died July 15, 1864.  He was
a most affectionate son, a very apt scholar, and in his death a
bright earthly promise has, for us, been clouded.  IHe was a
lively, decided Christian, as well as patriot, which both increases
our mourning and comfort at the same time."
His eldest son is in Londclon, Eng., learning the tea business,
with the expectation of being employed in a China tea house ere
long.  The eldest daughter, Mary P. Cowles, was married in
November, 1864.
ELIEZER CRANE,
Son of' Rev. Daniel Crane, was born in Chester, Orange county,
*N. Y., November 2, 1806. After leaving college, he commenced
the study of the law, but ill health compelled him to abandon
the profession for a farmer's life. I-Ie married Miss Ann Remmy
Nestell, of Blooming Grove, Orange county, and had eight children, viz: John Nestell, Ann Remmy, Bertha Catherine, Eleazer,
Daniel, Mary Hannah, Thomas Carlyle, and Bertha Catherine 2d.
The first of that name, with Eleazer and Thomas Carlyle, have
died. In a letter of March 9, 1866, from the eldest son, he writes
thus of his father: " Lacking the capacity of' bargin,' our father
went through life poor in purse. Living in his family, lie was
the life and happiness of home. Independent in his religious
views, he was religiously independent.  Tolerant of men's earnest
convictions, but not tolerant of a catechism, —we never saw one
in the house,-he was a member of an independent church, recognizing the Bible as its only creed, and congregational in its
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tion and application of the good book, making its beautiful
truths welcome to our young minds, Sundays it was his practice to give his children a, chapter in the New Testament to read
and comment upon, for the purpose of familiarizing our minds
with independent thought and those truths necessary to happiness. With a keen sense of propriety, a genial nature, selfreliant in thought, with wit and harmless satire, he was the most
companionable of mnen."  He died at Cornwall, N. Y., June 3,
1860.
" Mr. Crane was a man of singular unworldliness and simplicity of character, which, combined with great constitutional indolence and lavish generosity, was not the material for worldly
prosperity. His intellect was of the finest order, however, and he
read, thought, and observed more than most men. All who
knew him intimately, respected and loved him. As one of his
neighbors (after being in college with him) I knew him well,
and much regret his loss."  (N. P. Willis.)
Those who were intimately acquainted with Mr. Crane, will
discover in the letter from the son, the peculiarities of the father
reproduced in the son —" a true scion of the old stock."
SYLVESTER DANA,
Son of Anderson and Sarah (Stevens) Dana, both of whom were
natives of Connecticut, and came to Wilkesbarre, when quite
young, with the earliest settlers in that valley. The fathers of
Mr. and Mrs. Dana were both slain in the battle of Wyoming,
on the 3d of July, 1778. Sylvester Dana was born in Wilkesbarre, May 28, 1806. His studies preparatory to entering college
were pursued at Wilkesbarre Academy, under the instruction of
the Rev. Joseph H. Jones, D. D., since pastor of the Seventh
Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. He entered the Sophomore class in the fall of 1823. After graduating, he spent two
years in reading law with Judge Mallery, then of Wilkesbarre,
now of Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in 1828, and
the same year went to Ohio, and was appointed Principal of the
Worthington Academy, an institution under the care of the Presbytery of Columbus, where he remained two years; but intending to pursue the practice of law, and having been admitted to
practice in the courts in Ohio, he went to Circleville, in Picka



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way county, and entered into a law partnership with G. W.
Doane, Esq., where he continued about four years, and during
a portion of the time, edited a paper called " The Olive Branch."
His health failing, he ~returned to Wilkesbarre, and in 1835
became the Principal of the academy in that place, which position he held until 1839, when he built an establishment of his
own and commenced a new enterprise, the Wyoming Boarding
School, which has been in operation ever since, and most of the
time under his direct supervision.  His school and farm occupy
his attention, while his health has been greatly improved by the
change in his occupation.
In the spring of 1832 he married Miss Elizabeth Brown of'
Worthington, Ohio, and has had five children —Robert, a physician, Eunice Anln, Elizabeth, Louisa. A., and Ellein. (1861.)
SHERMAN DAY,
Son of President Jeremiah Day (Y. C. 1795) and Martha (Sherman) Day, was born in New Haven, Conn., February 13, 1806,
and fitted for college in New Haven. After graduating, he was
engaged in mercantile business in New York for several years,
when, in consequence of a disastrous fire iln St. Louis, he sustained a severe loss, which, together with failing health, induced
him to change his business. In the summer of 1849 he embarked for California, and arrived at San Francisco in August.
Since then he has been mostly engaged in land-surveying and
civil engineering. In 1854 he was elected to the senate of California, and served two years. In 1855 he surveyed a route for
an emigrant wagon road across the Sierra Nevada Mountains, but
the legislature failed to pass the bill for the construction of the
road, and the project, as a State work, failed. In 1857, however,
the road which he had laid out two years before was put under
contract by voluntary subscription, and if finished according to
his survey, will, he thinks, be the shortest and best route across
the nmountains,- although it was only one of five or six routes
being at that tinie (1857) improved by private enterprise. No
report has been received by the committee since 1857. He had
up to that period been successful ini business, with health greatly
improved by out-of-door employment. At the date of his last
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gineer at the New Almadan Quicksilver Mines, near San Jose,
one of the richest and most extensive mines in California, and
of quicksilver the most productive in the world.
His only literary published work, is the Historical Collections
of Pennsylvania.  He married Miss Elizabeth Ann King of
Westfield, Mass., and has had six children, of whom four were
living in 1857 —two sons and two daughters. Their names are,
Hannah King, Roger Sherman, Martha Elizabeth, Jane Olivia,
Clinton, and Mary. One son and one daughter have married in
California.
RICHARD DECHARMS,
Son of William and Sarah (Mead) DeCharms, was born in Philadelphia, October 17, 1796. His fathei was of Iluguenot extraction, and was born at Itammersm.ith, near London, and became a physician: his mother was born near London. His
father came to this country in 1793, and settled as a physician
in Philadelphia in 1795, and died the next year.
Richard DeCharms was a student in the academy at Perth
Amboy, N. J., from the sixth to the eleventh year of his age.
His mother then removed to Kentucky, where he was apprenticed to a printer, and worked between four and five years. In
1816 he returned to Philadelphia, and worked as journeyman
printer. His health failing, he engaged as a "traveling book
agent;" and while passing through New Haven on this business
he felt a burning desire " to go to college." In the twenty-fourth
year of his age he began the Latin grammar, and fitted for college at Bethlehem, Conn., under the Rev. John Langdon. In
about eighteen months he entered the Sophomore class in the fall
of 1823, and attained a high position in his class as a scholar.
After leaving college, he returned to Philadelphia and began the
study of medicine; but his health had been so much impaired,
that he was compelled to relinquish the plan. Soon after, he
became a convert to the Swedenborgian doctrine, and intending
to enter its ministry, he studied theology with the Rev. Thomas
Worcester, of Boston, Mass., and wi-th the Rev. John Hargrove,
of Baltimore, Md. He preached one year at Bedford, Pa. In
1830 he went to London, where he spent two years. On his
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cinnati, Ohio. While there, he edited, printed and published a
periodical work entitled "The Precursor," two years. He remained in Cincinnati six years. In 1839 he ministered to the
First New Jerusalem church in Philadelphia. In 1840 he published his first volume of sermons. In 1841 he delivered in
Charleston, S. C., a course of lectures on the fundamental doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, which he afterwards published. About this time he edited a periodical called " The New
Churchman," three volumes of which were published. In 1845
he became pastor of the New Jerusalem church in Baltimore
until 1850, when he returned to Philadelphia. While in Baltimore, he wrote a voluminous report on the Trine, a book of
more than 700 pages. From that time on, he resided in Philadelphia, without ministerial charge; preaching at times, and engaged in literary pursuits, and in devising many ingenious and
useful mechanical inventions.
In April, 1833, he married Miss Mary Graham of Storystown,
Somerset county, Penn., and had eight children, five daughters
and three sons, one of whom died previous to 1857. Mr. DeCharms died in the Pennsylvania Retreat in 1864.
JOHN DEFOREST,
Son of Benjamin and Alma DeForest, was born in Watertown,
Conn., March 31, 1806. He was the eldest of nine children, of
whom but three were living in 1856. His studies preparatory
to entering college were pursued under the instruction of his
uncle, the Rev. Aaron Dutton, of Guilford, Conn. In conse
quence of sickness in his father's family, he was prevented from
joining the class until the third term in Freshman year. After
graduating, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. S. W.
Gold, of Goshen, Conn., and continued with him until April,
1829; but during this period he had attended two courses of
Inedical lectures in New Haven, where he received the degree
of Doctor of Medicine in March, 1829. He practiced his profession for about one year with his preceptor, Dr. Gold, when a
favorable opening in his native town offered, and he removed
to Watertown and continued in practice until 1845, when in consequence of ill health he was compelled to relinquish his profession. From that time he has not been engaged in any active




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business; but, as he writes to the compiler, under date of February, 1866-"- For twenty years past I have not been engaged
in any active business requiring constant care and attention;
but have attended strictly to my private affairs, nursing a feeble
wife, and endeavoring to invigorate my shattered constitution.
For the last three years I have not thought it safe to venture
from home over night; but for the last six months I have inmproved considerably."  In 1830 he married Miss Lucy S. Lyman,
of Goshen, and had two sons by this marriage, one of whom died
in infancy; the other, Erastus Lyman, graduated at Yale College in 1854, and is by profession a civil engineer. Mrs. DeForest died August 3, 1855, after a protracted illness of twentyone years. At no time, during this long period, was she able to
walk a step, and, for many years, not even to sit in a chair; all
which she bore with Christian patience and resignation.
In 1838, Dr. DeForest was a member of the Assembly in the
State of Connecticut.
ZINA DENISON,
Son of Abel Denison, was born in New Haven, Conn., in the
year 1807. After leaving college, he engaged for several years
in the mercantile business. Very little has been known of him
by his classmates since they graduated. He died in Summit
county, Ohio, November 4, 1852, aged 45 years.
JAMES TAYLOR DICKENSON,
Son of Horace and Mary Ann (Taylor) Dickenson, was born in
Lowville, Lewis county, N. Y., October 27, 1806. He came to
college from Montreal, C. E. He prepared for college at Potsdam, N. Y., and at Amherst Academy, Mass.
After graduating, he commenced the study of law in Montreal.
In 1827 he relinquished the study of the law and studied theology-first, in the seminary at Andover, Mass., and then at
New Haven, Conn. After being licensed, he preached in Hartford, Boston, and Burlington, Vt., and was installed pastor in
Norwich, Coln., April, 1832. The same year, he married Miss
Mary Hickok, of Burlington, Vt., who lived only about eighteen
months after their marriage. After the death of his wife he left
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Norwich and became a missionary to China, under an appointment by the American Board. Before leaving on his mission,
he studied medicine for one year. After five years in the service of the Board, which time was spent partly as a student of the
Chinese language, and partly as an explorer in Borneo, Celebes,
the Moluccas, and Philippines, he became a teacher in the Singapore institution for four years-years of great intellectual
activity and delight, though attended with loss of health. After
nine years of foreign life he returned to his native land, by way
of Hindustan, the Red Sea, Egypt, Greece, Italy, France, and
other countries of W~estern Europe.
In 1845 he married Sarah Lyman, of Mliddlefield, Conn.  Since
that time, with the exception of occasional work as preacher,
teacher and lecturer, and a second visit to Europe, he has lived,
as he writes, "a retired and happy life in Middlefield, Conn.,
thanking heaven for books and stars, and trees and hills, and a
few friends.  Health and hope often depressed during these near
forty years; but yet, how many bright days, delicious scenes
and upward thoughts."  Hie has published a few articles in the
"Christian Examiner," Boston; "Church Repository," Canton,
China; " Missionary Herald;" the article on the Malay language, in Appleton's " Cyclopeclia;" a discourse against Slavery,
inl 1834; and a brief memoir of the Rev. George TW. Perkins.
WILLIAM COURTLAND DWIGHT,
Son of Jonathan and Amly (Parsons) Dwight, was born in Belchertown, Mass., November 18, 1805.  His studies preparatory to
entering college were pursued in his native town.  After graduating, he studied law with Judge Howes, of Northampton, Mass.,
and entered upon the practice of his profession, in Springfield,
Mass., in 1829. IHis lungs being too wealk to endure a northern
climate, he sought iefuge in the sulllny south, and in 1835 he
settled at Franklin, St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana.  In reply to the
class-circular of 1846, in July, he wrote-" Driven from the iron
climate of New'England by ill health, I have found in this' land of sugar cnd  olatcsses,' where I have resided for ten years,
uninterrupted health, many kind friends, and enough of employment illn the profession of the law, to enable ime by the sweat of
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country, and enjoy a reasonable share of happiness; and I endeavor, in a humble way, to do good to my fellow creatures,
hoping for the great reward.  In this retired manner of life, I
find no little satisfaction in the recollection of my classmates
and the scenes of our Alma Mater."  He died at Franklin, La.,
in 1851.
It is to be regretted that our record of one so universally popular and highly esteemed, of such noble impulses, of one so
genial and kind, should from necessity be so short, and, have
so little of incident; and yet we are grateful, that even the little
that we have from  his own pen, so perfectly characteristic of'
what he was in college days, has beein preservel.  He never
married.
WILLIAM  WtHITE DWIGHT.-IT'
Son of' Dr. Elihu and Lydia (White) Dwight, was born in South
Hadley, Mass., August 19, 1806.  He prepared for college at the
academy in Hadley.  After graduating, he commenced the study
of medicine with his father, and the following winter he went to
Boston and studied with Dr. Hayward, and. attended the medical
lectures at Harvard University.  In the summer he pursued his
studies with his father, and the winter he spent in Boston, with
Dr. Hayward, and in attending lectures.  He received his medical degree at Harvard, in the spring of 1830. He became associated with his father in the practice of medicine, in his native
town, where he remained about three years, and then removed
to Boston.  He practiced his profession in Boston, until about
1836, when he came to the city of New York.  He remained in
New  York until Jule, 1849, when he went to California, inl
feeble health, and remained there in the practice of medicine,
most of the time at Marysville, for nearly two years, when he
returned to New York.  After this he made several voyages
from New York, during the years 1859 and 1860, going to Cuba,
Panama, and to Europe. In. November, 1860, he went to Aspinwall, and returned to New York in June, 1861; in the mean
time he had made several trips on the Pacific coast, to San
Francisco and back.  He came home in the last stages of the
consumption, and lingered in much suffering and weakness until
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lieve, to rest in heaven. For several years prior to his going to
California, he was a member of the Houston Street Presbyterian
Church, a portion of that time under the pastoral care of the
compiler.
In 1840 he married Miss Mary Louisa Goetchius, by whom
he had four children, as follows: Rebecca, Elihu, John, and
Ada.
Rebecca was married in May, 1864, to Robert Leeds, of New
York.
Dr. Dwight was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, L. I.
WINTHROP EARLE,
S6n of WVinthrop Earle, was born at Leicester, Mass., July 7,
1807. He was in feeble health, during his whole.college course,
and one year was absent from his class several months On account of ill health.  After leaving college, he attempted to
teach, and for a time was preceptor of an academy in Dudley,
Mass., but he broke down under his labors.
The Rev. John Nelson, D. D., of Leicester, writing to one of
our classmates in reference to Earle, says: " As his health failed
him, he attempted no business and entered upon no preparatory
studies for a profession. I remember him in a drooping, declining state, month after month, till the amiable young man, respected and beloved by all, sunk into an early grave."  He died
at Leicester, November 9, 1828.
Governor Washburn, in his history of Leicester, says: " Winthrop Earle was a young man of good promise, and fine moral
qualities, and his loss was much lamented."
The father of young Earle, was an active business man, and
died in 1807, while our classmate was an infant. His mother
married again and lived to a great age, surviving all her children, except one daughter.                     (J. C. O.)
JAMES COGSWELL FISHER,
Son of Rev. Samuel Fisher, D. D., (W. C.,) and Alice (Cogswell) Fisher, was born at Wilton, Conn., April 6, 1808, and prepared for college at the Academy in Bloomfield, N. J. He
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diploma at one of the medical colleges in that city in 1831.
He then went west, when, in consequence of ill health, he returned to New Jersey. In 1837 he came to New York, and in
1839 was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in
the New York University, and resigned in 1840, went to Virginia and spent two years.  In 1843 he removed to Philadelphia, and was Principal of the Southwest Grammar School
for ten years. I-le then went to Dayton, Ohio, where he had
charge of the Cooper Female Institute in that place for two
years. I-Ie then returned to Philadelphia, and was Librarian of
the Academy of Natural Sciences, up to the breaking out of the
late rebellion, when he enlisted as Surgeon of the 5th N. J. Vols.
He was soon after made Brigade Surgeon of the New Jersey Brigade; served for a time on Gen. Hooker's staff, was through the
Peninsular campaign, and soon after was appointed Post Surgeon
to the 3d corps Hospital. After that was closed up, he was sent to
New Orleans. He was Surgeon in charge at Springfield. Landing, was at the surrender of Port Hudson, and forwarded all the
wounded from the Landing to Baton Rouge, and there was made
Medical Director at New Orleans, and then Inspector of the Invalid Corps in that department of the Gulf.  HE was then sent to
Camp Parole to take charge of the Hospital for our returned prisoners, where he remained until the closing up of the war. He has recently purchased a farm near New Brunswick, N. J., where he
hopes to spend the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits, of
which he is fond.
In May, 1831, he married Miss Eliza Sparks of Paterson, N. J.,
and has had twelve children Samuel Sparks, a lawyer residing
in Ohio, who was Colonel of the 138th Ohio Vols., one hundred
days' men, William Stewart, Mary Eliza, Alice Cogswell, Elizabeth Stewart, Harriet Mott, Emma Donaldson, James Henry,
Charles, Thomas Sparks, Hannah Sparks, and Sophia Sparks.
William Stewart, Elizabeth Stewart, and Charles died in infancy;
Emma died at the age of three years. In 1861, Mary E. was
married to E. Payson Berry, who entered the army as a private,
and rose to the rank of captain. He fell at Gettysburgh wounded
in the knee, and lay within the lines of the enemy for three days
without any attention, but one drink of water. He was afterwards brought in and the leg amputated, but he died five days
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CHARLES BEZALEEL FISK,
Son of John and Mary Fisk, was born in Middletown, Conn., June
14, 1806. His father for many years held several responsible and
important offices; among which were, Clerk of the Superior and
County Courts for Middlesex county, Clerk of Probate and City
Clerk and Treasurer-a man of great integrity and fidelity to his
public trusts.
Charles B. entered the Sophomore class in the fall of 1823,
and soon attained a high position in mathematics.
After leaving college, he engaged in the service of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company as volunteer Rodman, and,
from step to step, he arose to the position of Chief Engineer in
1839. During his connection with the canal, he was often called
upon as consulting engineer for other public works. The canal was
completed in 1850, but he remained in the service until 1852,
when he was solicited to take charge of one of the State works
in Virginia, the Covington and Ohio Railroad, which, from the
peculiar nature of the difficulties to be overcome, was considered
one of the greatest works in the United States. He accepted
the position, and continued in the service of the State of Virginia
until the breakin'g out of the rebellion. It is generally conceded
by all who have known him, that he was at the head of his profession in the department of civil engineering.  The nature of'
his profession and his long continued service in the employ of'
a single company, furnish fewer incidents in his every-day life,
than in the other learned professions; but we doubt not that he
could have furnished much that would be interesting to his college friends.
In October, 1837, he married Miss Mary Elizabeth Bender,
daughter of Maj. George Bender, of Washington City, D. C., by
whom he had two daughters.
He died at Staunton, Va., January 11, 1866. His family reside in Washington City.
JAMES HANMER FRANCIS,
Son of Jalnes and Pamela (Wells) Francis, was born in Weathersfield, Con n., May 28S 1796. Previously to his entering college, he woflked with his father at the trade of a house-joiner.
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sical education, with a view of entering the Christian ministry.
He began to prepare for college, in the meantime supporting
himself after the example of the great apostle, " working with
his own hands," laboring at the business of his father, and by
teaching, while he prosecuted his studies under the instruction
of the Rev. Mr. Tenney. In his diary he writes-" My progress
in my studies is so slow, I should soon be discouraged, were it
not a preparation for usefulness." While in college, rather than
accept of any assistance from others, he supported himself by
working and teaching.
After graduating, he entered the theological department of
Yale College and completed the full course of study, and was
licensed to preach the gospel, August, 1828. He preached in
various places until August, 1831, when he was ordained and
installed over the church in Dudley, Mass., where he remained
until June, 1837, when ill health compelled him to resign his
charge. From there he went to Perrysburgh, Ohio, where he
preached one year. He then came east, and began preaching in
the Fourth Congregational Church in Middletown, Conn., Westfield parish, (November, 1839,) where he remained until June,
1845. From there, he went to Wading River, L. I., in 1854,
when his health failing, he left in March, 1861, and returned to
his native town. He continued very feeble, gradually becoming
weaker, until July 11, 1863, when he was released from earthly
labors, and went to his everlasting reward. While at Dudley,
he married; but we have no reliable information of his family.
SIDNEY SMITH FRANKLIN,
From New York city, entered college Sophomore year. Since
his graduation, no information has been received by the class
respecting his occupation or place of residence. At one of the
class-meetings he was reported as dead, but the report was afterwards contradicted.
CHARLES COTESWORTH PIN CKNEY GALE,
Son of Gilman and Mary (Wiggins) Gale, was born at Kingston,
N. H., April, 20, 1799. He came to college from Exeter, N. H.,
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ployed for a time as an assistant teacher in the academy at Exeter; and for the next ten years he was the Principal of the
academy at Derry, N. H.  "He then made arrangements to take
the place of Mr. Ebenezer Baily, of Boston, who for many years
had taught a private school in that city wifh great success."
With this view Gale came to Boston; but before he had fairly
engaged in the duties of his new fielcd, he was taken sick and
died of brain fever, after an illness of two weeks, March 1, 1838.
His family soon after returned to Exeter, where his widow died
within a few years since. In April, 1832, he married Miss Martha Walker.  They had three children —Mary Halliburton,
Charles William, and Helen McGregor; the latter died in infancy.
SAMUEL GAYLORD
Was born in Middletown, Conn., in the year 1805.
"Immediately after graduating, he began the study of law in
the office of the Hon. William L. Storrs, of Middletown.  On
the 27th October he was so unwell that he left the office, and
took to his bed; the typhus fever setting in, he died after two
weeks' illness, entirely insensible and unconscious of his situation. His father being a sea captain, was at the time absent on
a voyage."                                      (J. C. O.)
Gaylord was a living picture of health.  No one in the class
had better health during the four years in college, or possessed
a more vigorous constitution, or was there one whose prospects
for a long life were more flattering than our friend Gaylord, who
died in less than two months after graduating. It is not known
to his classmates that he was ever absent from any college exercise on account of ill health.
ARAD GILBERT,
Son of Solomon and Eunice (Walker) Gilbert, was born in
Brookfield, Mass., October 6, 1801. He fitted for college at the
schools in Leicester and Monson, in Massachusetts, and after
graduating he studied law at the Law School in Northampton,
Mass., and was admitted to practice in the several courts or
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A year or two after he began the practice of the law, his
health failing, made a change in his occupation indispensable.
Mercantile business proving less exhaustive, he followed it for
several years. For some time he was connected with the management of the Western Railroad, from Worcester to Albany.
For several years past he has resided in New York, and engaged
as Secretary and Treasurer of an oil company in the city.
On the first day of June, 1834, he was married to Miss Mary
Fowler, daughter of the Rev. Bancroft Fowler, and has had five
children, the youngest of which died in infancy. The eldest, a
son, Curtis Fowler, served in the Union army as a private, and
was honorably discharged on the disbanding of the army. The
other three children are daughters; the eldest is married to
Henry Calhoun, of New York.
CHARLES GODDARD,
Son of Dr. John and Mary (Langdon) Goddard, was born in
Portsmouth, N. H., in the year 1797. His mother was the
daughter of the Rev. Samuel Langdon, D. D., President of Harvard College at the period of the revolution.
Goddard fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass. "After graduating, he was engaged in teaching; and
about the year 1831 he came to Boston and took charge of a
private school, as successor to a Dr. Park, and was quite successffll as a teacher. He continued in that situation for several
years, when he was chosen Principal of the Abbott Female
Seminary at Andover, Mass., where he remained quite a number
of years."
In a communication of recent date, to the compiler, he says:
"I have studied no profession with a view to practice. I have
had no political aspirations, and have always been strongly averse
to public office, and only in one instance have I yielded to my
convictions of duty, when I represented the towns of Winchester and West Cambridge in the Massachusetts legislature in 1865.
I have resided at different periods in New York, Boston and vicinity, and for now more than twenty years in Winchester, until
within the last eight months, I have resided in Woburn.
Since 1842 to the present time, I have held an office in the
Boston and Lowell Railroad corporation, a period of twenty-four
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years; about eighteen of which I was cashier of that and several
connecting roads."
In 1830 he married Miss Caroline A. Lerow, by whom he has
had four children,-two sons, who died in infancy, and both
received the name of Charles; two daughters, named Caroline
Langdon, now the wife of William G. Weld, a merchant in Boston, and Mary Louisa. His wife died a few years after the birth
of their youngest daughter. In 1845 he married Miss Elizabeth Lerow.
The surviving members of the class will be pained to learn
that Mr. Goddard, early last winter, met with a severe misfortune,
from which he probably will never fully recover, a fracture of
the hip joint-that, after more than six months, he is unable to
change his position without assistance.
HORATIO NELSON GRAVES,
Son of Erastus and Rhoda Graves, was born in Sunderland,
Mass., April 7, 1806, and fitted for college at Amherst Academy,
under the instruction of Gerard Hallock, late of New Haven,
deceased. During his senior year he was called home to witness
the death of a most loving and devotedly pious mother. He had
already decided to study medicine, but at this time his mother
said to him, "Promise me that you will preach the gospel;" he
replied, " Mother, I am not a Christian; " she replied, "but you
will be." HIe graduated soon after, and commenced the study of
medicine; but feeling his obligation to preach the gospel, though
not having satisfactory evidence of his own piety, he was encouraged by others to commence the study of theology, at New Haven. After being licensed, he preached a year at Middlefield,
Conn. He next engaoed as an agent for the American Sunday
School Union, and traveled on horseback on the Western Reserve, in northern Ohio, organizing Sabbath Schools where it
was practicable. In the summer of 1832 he was ordained pastor
of the Congoegational church in Townshend, Vt., where he
labored most acceptably for more than fifteen years, when ill
health led him to go south for the winter, in 1847-his father's
family having removed to Macon, Ga., in 1828.  His health
finally compelled him to resign his pastoral charge in 1848. He
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so far improved that he preached occasionally, and through the
winter of 1849-50 he rode seven miles and preached grattitously,
in a school-house at Hempstead Harbor. In the spring, symptoms of decline returned with increased vigor, so that he was
compelled to seek a home where the winds were less severe.
He removed to Orange, N. J., where he continued to decline
until October, 1852, when, in the hope of a blessed immortality,
he passed away from earth. His remains were laid in Rosedale
cemetery, where his loving and gratefill people of Townshend,
Vt., have erected a suitable monument to his memory.
In 1834 he married Miss Martha Arms, of Conway, Mass.
They have had six children, two of whom died in infancy in
Townshend-Martha and Louisa. Edward Horatio joined the
10th Massachusetts Regiment in 1861,; was 1st Lieutenant at
the battle of Gettysburgh; took Salem IHeights, under Gel.
Sedgwick, at Fredericksburg; was wounded in the battle of the
Wilderness, from which he has not fully recovered, although he
is able to fill the position of book-keeper for a house in Philadelphia. The second son, James Taylor, entered Yale College
in 1861; in 1862 he left and enlisted in the 52d Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, under Gel. Banks, and went to Louisiana.
After the surrender of Port Hudson he came home, and ie-entered college in 1863, and is now a senior in Yale College. The
third son, John Morrison, is a clerk in Philadelphia.
(M. A. G.-1866.)
JAMES BURR GRISWOLD
Came to college from New York city, and entered the Junior
class in the fall of 1824. He died of consumption in 1829. We
have been unable to obtain any information in reference to his
early history, or his life, so soon cut off after graduating. After
so many intervening years, we retain a distinct recollection of
him as a pleasant, companionable young man of much promise.
DAVID ADAMS GROSVENOR,
Son of Nathan and Lydia (Adams) Grosvenor, was born in
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Andover, Mass,, and commenced his preparation for college,
having the Christian ministry in view.  He spent three years in
the academy, and entered Yale College in 1821. An inflammation in the eyes, during his junior year, deprived him of the
ability to read for nine months.  This event compelled him to
fall back a year in his stalnding-from the class of 1825 to that
of 1826.
After graduating, he spent a year in the family of the late
Judge Hall, of Ellington, Conn., as Principal of his High School.
The next three years were spent in the Theological Seminary of
Yale College. After being licensed to preach, he supplied for
nine months the pulpit of the Congregationial church in Pomfret,
Conn., the place of his father's nativity.
In August, 1831, he' commenced preaching in LUxbridge,
Mass., andl in  June, 1 was ordained and installed pastor
of the First Evangelical Society, in Uxbridge, where he remained
until May, 1842. In October of 1842 he began his labors with
the Presbyterian church in Elyria, Ohio, and was installed pastor
of the same in February, 1843, and remained in the pastorate
until the summer of 1852. In 1853 he began his labors with the
Congregrational church in Medina, Ohio, where he remained for
several years.  He is now residing at Elyria, Ohio, operating as
agent for one of our benevolent institutions.
In May, 1835, he married Miss Sarah Whitney, of Princeton,
Mass. They had one child, Ellen Louisa, who died in infancy.
He writes: "I have no literary character or productions to
speak of. I have published an occasional sermon, or review,
among which are the following:' The Believer Fictorious,' a discourse delivered at the funeral of the Rev. Samuel Judson, Uxbridge, 1832;' The Glory of the Sanctuary,' a dedicatory sermon
in 1833;' On the Blac~k Laws of Ohio,' a Thanksgiving discourse,
delivered at Elyria, 1845;' The Last Hours of the Christian,' a
discourse delivered at the funeral of Mrs. Mary H. Ely, 1849;'A  Tribute to the ifemory of Hon. Heman Ely,' delivered at
Elyria, 1852;' Illustrations of the Divine Government,' in a
review of Dr. S. Smith's Treatise on the Final Restoration of all
Mankind to Heaven; published in the New Haven Spectator,
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SELDEN HAINES,
Son of Asa and Mary (Fuller) Haines, was born in Hartland,
Conn., November 27, 1800. His father was a native of Bridclgehampton, L. I., where his ancestors settled about the year 1640.
He removed from Granby, Connecticut, to Ohio in 1818.
S. Haines was employed in agricultural pursuits until the
summer of 1820, when he commenced his preparation for college with the Rev. Harvey Coe, of Vernon, Ohio. In September, 1821, he came to Granville, Mass., and completed his preparatory studies with the Rev. T. M. Cooley, D. D.
After leaving college he commenced the study of the law, in
the office of Hooker and Talmnadge, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In
the fall of 1828 he removed to Warren, Ohio, and was Principal
in the Academy at that place for about eighteen months. In
June, 1830 he was admitted to the bar, and commenced the
practice of law in Poland, Trumbull Co., Ohio, where he continued for six years, when he relinquished the profession of law
and commenced the study of theology. In September, 1836, he
was licensed to preach the gospel by the presbytery of Trumbull, and in February, 1837, was ordained by the same body.
After laboring two years in Ohio, he returned to the State of
New York, and preached one year at Perry Village, N. Y:, and
about sixteen months in Scottsville, Monroe Co., N. Y., when he
received a call to the First Church, in Rome, N. Y., and entered
upon his duties there in January, 1841. In the summer of
1846 measures were adopted for uniting the First and Second
Churches, in Rome, when it was deemed advisable that the pastors of both churches should resign, and thus a most harmonious
and successful pastoral relation was dissolved.
From Rome he was called to the Houston Street Presbyterian
Church in New York, which position he resigned in October,
1848, and for several months supplied the Central Church in
Newark, N. J. He next was employed for nearly a year, as
agent for the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West. In September, 1850, he accepted
a call from the Congregational Church in South Abington,
Mass., which place he resigned at the end of one year, and accepted a call from  tile Presbyterian Church in Skaneateles,
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moved to Northern New York, where he spent ten years in
ministerial labor in Champlain, Keeseville and Granville. In
November, 1864, he returned to Rome, where he now resides,
without a pastoral charge —preaching occasionally to his former
parishioners, and supplying vacant pulpits in the vicinity. In
the spring of 1864 he spent six weeks with the Army of the
Potomac,. under an appointment from the Christian Commission,
at Camp Distribution, Belle Plain, and Fredericksburg.
In April, 1828, he married Miss Catherine Butler, of Poughkeepsie. They have had three daughters and two sons-Mary
Elizabeth, Sarah Maria, and Kate, who are all married; William
Nevins, who died at the age of nearly two years, and Edward
Selden, who died June 20, 1865, nearly twenty-two years old.
Has made no attempts at authorship beyond the ordinary duties
of his profession; has published occasional sermons in the secular papers, and in the "National Preacher," also contributed
articles for the religious and secular papers to a limited extent.
WILLIAM HARLOW,
Son of Deacon John and Betsey (Torrey) Harlow, was born in
Plymouth, Mass., October 27, 1805.  After graduating, he
studied theology with thd Rev. Dr. Ide, of Medway, Mass. In
October, 1828, he was ordained as an Evangelist by the Mendon
Association, and preached as stated supply two years in Canton,
Mass. He next supplied the Congregational church at Waterford, Mass., for near two years. He continued to supply vacant
pulpits in the vicinity of Wrentham, where he had resided since
1830.  " Being afflicted with deafness from his youth, which he
found to operate as a serious hindrance in his discharge of the
duties of a settled pastor, he has for several years devoted himself
to the book trade," and to agricultural pursuits. In seasons of
leisure, he spent much time in circulating religious books in the
adjoining towns and counties. His object was employment in
doing good, rather than pecuniary profit, for he possessed a
competency by inheritance. In 1862 he removed to Brooklyn,
N. Y., where he resides, except in summer, when he returns to
his country home in Wrentham.
In 1828 he published a tract on the " D)ivinity of Christ," and a
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In 1829, he married Miss Caroline Porter, of Wrentham, and
has two daughters, one of whom was married in 1859 to Henry
M. Messenger, merchant, N. Y.
SAMUEL HASSARD,
Son of Robert Hassard, of Jamaica, W. I., " was born on the Isle
of Jamaica, January 21, 1806, and was brought to Westerly, R.
I., at six years of age, to be educated. His preparatory studies
were for a period pursued at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
After graduating, he was employed as editor of a newspaper
in New Haven, Conn.
HIe married Miss Sarah Cook, of Rhode Island, and had one
son, Robert G. Hassard, born in 1842. Mr. Hassard first studied
medicine. He afterwards studied theology, and took deacon's
orders in the Episcopal church, June, 1835; was admitted
to priest's orders, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Griswold, of Massachusetts. He preached some time in Taunton, Mass. Afterwards he was Rector of the Episcopal church in Great Barrington, Mass., from Easter, 1839, to the time of his death, (nearly
eight years,) which occurred January 13, 1847, aged 41 years."
(Funeral sermon by Rev. Henry W. Lee, of Springfield, Mass.)
A volume containing nineteen of his sermons was published
by the Rev. Mr. Lee. They are characterized as written, in a
clear and beautiful style, breathing the simple, fervent and
earnest piety for which he was distinguished.  "His sermons
were eminent for purity of style and taste. He gave the impression of a holy man, who practiced what he preached; of
classical precision and beauty of diction."
ALEXANDER THOMAS HAWKINS,
Came to college from Baltimore, Md., and entered the Sophomore class in the fall of 1823. No report has ever been received from him. He received the Master's degree in course,
and was present on that occasion. He has the significant star as
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HENRY ZACHARIAH HAYNER,
Son of Zachariah and Eve (Clum) Hayner, was born in the
town of Brunswick, Rensselaer county, N. Y., September 18,
1802. His parents were of German descent.
Hayner received his early education in the schools of his native town, while assisting his father in cultivating his farm. He
prepared for college at the Academy in Hadley, Mass., and entered
the Sophomore class, in the fall of 1823. After graduating, he
commenced the study of the law, under the instruction of the
Hon. David Buel, of Troy, and was admitted in the year 1830.
He commenced business as a lawyer, in the city of Troy,
and continued in successful practice until 1851. In 1852 he
received from  President Fillmore the appointment of Chief
Justice of the then Territory of Minnesota, and removed to St.
Paul. He continued to fill this high office with great ability,
until by a change in the National Administration, he was superceded. He then returned to the bar and located in the city
of New York, where he continued in practice, until the breaking
out of the rebellion. Soon after the commencement of hostilities, he tendered his services to his country, and was immecliately appointed a member of the staff of Major General John
E. Wool, with the rank of Major.
Remaining in active service at Fortress Monroe, until General
Wool was assigned to another post, he was subsequently made a
Provost Marshal, and stationed at Baltimore, and afterwards in
the city of New York, where he remained until the close of the
war, when he left the service. He has recently accepted a very
important agency from certain large capitalists in the city of
New York, and has engaged in their behalf in securing titles to
large tracts of mineral lands, and in organizing mining operations for them, in the mineral regions of the States and Territories of the west.
He has been three times married. First, to Miss Mary Herrick, of Sheffield, Mass., by whom he had one son, Herrick
Hayner, a young man of high mental qualities and great promise, and had received an excellent education. On the breaking
out of the rebellion, he entered the service of the United States,
and received a commission as Lieutenant. in the Volunteers,
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At the battle of' Williamsburgh, in the campaign of 1862, his
captain having fallen, the commancd of the company having devolved on him, he took his position at the head of his company
and led his men over a strong abattis of logs which the enemy
had thrown up in front, and rallying his men, he waived his
sword, and ordered them to charge on the foe, when instantly
his heart was pierced by a bullet and he fell.  His body was
recovered and interred with the honors of war in Greenwood
Cemetery.  After the death of his first wife, Mr. Ilayner married Miss Catherine Wheeler, by whom he had two sons and one
daughter.  One of the sons has since deceased.  After the
death of his second wife he married Mrs.  -—, with whom he
is now living.  He has no children by his present wife.
(D. L. S.)
REUBEN HtITCHCOCK,
Son of Peter (Y. C., 1801,) and Nabby (Cowles) Hitchcock,
both of the town of Cheshire, Conn., from whence they removed
to Burton, Ohio, where Reuben was born September 2, 1806.
Peter Hitchcock was a Representative in Congress from Northern
Ohio, and afterwards Judge of the Supreme Court, and Chief
Justice for several years; an able jurist and an upright j udge.
Reuben pursued his studies preparatory for college at the Academy in Burton, under the instruction of the Rev. David L. Coe,
and entered the Sophomore class in the fall of 1823.
We prefer to let him  tell his own story of his life since his
graduation, and therefore transcribe it, as given by himself,
under the date of December 8, 1865.  In this statement, his
classmates will recognize the frank, unassuming manner of their
old college friend.  "I studied law with my father in Burton,
and was by him  thoroughly drilled in its elementary principles.
I was admnitted to practice, in June, 1830, and removed to
Painesville the same year, and have practiced law there, and in
Cleveland ever since, except a few years, while I was Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas. I removed to Cleveland in 1846,
but returned to Painesville in 1851, and from 1855 to the present time, have had my office in Cleveland, and nay residence in
Painesville, whither, thanks to a good railroad, and the dead-headc
system, I have been able to return almost daily.
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I have not been burdened with offices, although I have shared
the confidence of my fellow citizens to the full extent of my
merits. I assisted in revising the Constitutionl of this State in
1850; and did not make peace at Washington at the Peace Congress in 1861, although I tried to. I am rejoiced now that we
did not succeed. I was elected Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas in this circuit in 1851, and held the office and performed
the duties to the best of my abilities, between three and four
years, when I resigned and went to railroading, much to my
annoyance and embarrassment, as the result proved.  But I am
now out of it, and am retiring from  active business, as fast as
previous engagements will permit. I am not rich, but (with
economy) have a competence, have a pleasant home, one of the
best wives, and (in my juudgement) a lovely family. I regard
myself as having been highly prospered and especially favored
of Providence; I have no grounds for boasting, but hope my
life has not been entirely useless, and trust that the residue of
it may be an improvement on the past.
In September, 1834, I married Miss Sarah Marshall, of Colebrook, Conn., and made a good bargain. We have had six
children, Sarah A., Peter Marshall, Henry L., Eliza M., Edward
Marshall, and Helen Marshall. Of these, three, to wit: Sarah
A., Henry L., and Helen Marshall, died in infancy. The others
have been spared to us, and are the joy of our lives, and are A
No. 1 children. Peter Marshall married in October, 1864, and
lives in Cleveland."
ASA THEODORE HOPKINS,
7Was born in Hartford, Conn., July 25, 1805. He was fitted for
college at the GramLmar School, in Hartford, under the instruction of the late Solomon Stoddard.
I-e studied theology with the Rev. William Wisner, D. D., of
Ithaca, N. Y., and was licensed to preach in 1828. His first
pastoral charge was at Pawtucket, R. I. From Pawtucket he
came to Utica, N. Y., and was pastor of the Bleeker street Presbyterian church, about two years. In September, 1835, he received a call to the First Presbyterian church in Buffalo, where
he remained until his death.  He was prostrated by paralysis,
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In July, 1847, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity from Hamilton College.
He married Miss Elizabeth Wisner, a niece of his instructor
in theology. He was a very popular preacher, and held in high
estimation by the people of his charge. His wife died some
time before his death.
STEPHEN HUBBELL,
Son of Nathan and Sarah Hubbell, was born in Wilton, Conn.,
April 2, 1802. He prepared for college in Wilton, with Hawley Olmstead, and entered the Sophomlore class in the fall of
1823, and united with the church in college in 1825. His theological course was pursued in the Seminary at Yale College. In
May, 1830, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational church
in Hamden, Conn., where he conltinued six years.  He after.
wards labored a short time inll Wolcottville, Coln., and then became pastor of the Congregational Church in East Avon, Conn.,
where he continued about twelve years and a half. In August,
1853, he was installed pastor of the church in North Stonington,
Conn., where he still remains. His first marriage was with Miss
Martha Stone, daughter of Noah Stone, M. D., of Oxford,
Conn., and had three children, Mary Elizabeth, who died June
10, 1854, at the age of twenty years, a young lady of great
promise, and high literary attainments for one of her years.
William  Stone (Y. C. 1858,) spent the two years succeeding
his graduation as a surveyor, andcl in engineering.  His health
having become reestablished, his mind was turned again to his
first choice of a profession, and entered the Theological Seminary at Andover. At the close of his second year in the seminary he volunteered his services in the defense of his country, and
served three years in the army, and shared in some of the severest
battles during the war, and was mustered out with his regiment (21st Conn. Vols.) in July, 1865. He has since returned to
the seminary to complete his studies. In August, 1856, Mrs.
Hubbell died, " full of sustaining faith and bright anticipations
of the heavenly rest. Through the whole progress of her decline and near its close, she was firm in the belief that God
would very soon give great success to the means of grace in our
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of religion, the fruits of which have been to the church as life
from the dead."
His son Edward Stephen died in infancy.
In May, 1859, he was married to Miss Harriet T. Hawley, of
Catskill.  He concludes his report, by adding-" Being happy'
in all my connections, I may truly say, that I am nzmade glad according to the days whelrein I have been qfflicted, and the years wherein,
I have seen evil."                                 (1866.)
EVERTON JUDSON,
Son of Asa and Sarah (Minor) Judson, was born in Woodbury,
Conn., December 8, 1799. Hie commenced his preparation for
college in the spring of 1822, and entered the Sophomore class
in September, 1823.  "In steady, consistent piety, and desire for
usefulness, he was the same man in college as afterwards in the
ministry."  He was, to a most remarklable extent, diffident and
retiring.  He never, on any occasion, put himself forth prominently in his class; never rose to address a religious meeting;
never took part in the debates of any literary society; never so
much as declaimed in his turn before the college.  His plan
was that of engaging substitutes to fill his place, who, when
their own turn came, quietly appeared for themselves the second
time." This in after life he disapproved of, as unwise as well as
wrong. But it was the same with him while in the Theological
Seminary.  "He seldom ever read a dissertation before the theological class. HIe was a diligent, regular student, retiring in his
manners, seeking obscurity; or rather, remaining in that obscurity which his natural diffidence had thrown over him. But
neither in college or in the seminary was his life devoid of religious activity.  His earnest, ardent spirit, could not rest without
some field of usefulness.  With his classmate, Rev. E. Barber,
he engaged in the work of giving instruction in the Sabbath
school of colored children in the Rev. Mr. Jocelyn's congregation."  This work he continued during his whole residence in
New Haven.  He, with the same companion, was in the habit
of visiting the colored families in and around New Haven, reading the Scriptures to them and praying with them, and encouraging them to send their children to the Sabbath school. In
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gratuitously; and while in the seminary, in addition to his other
labors with this class, he had a Thursday evening Bible class.
These labors, so abundant and so efficient for good, were known
to but few, even of his own classmates. His motive seemed to
be the simple desire of doing good. At the close of his second
year in the seminary, he accepted an agency for the American
Sunday School Union to labor in the west, and spent about a
year in the State of Ohio. In the summer of 1829, having returned to Connecticut from the west, he was ordained as a missionary under an appointment of the A. H. M. Society at Woodbury, Conn., by the Litchfield South Association, in connection
with seven others; one of whom was his classmate in college
and in the seminuary, the Rev. E. Barber, his fellow traveler' and companion in labor' in after years, as during their college
and seminary life. He returned to Ohio, and began preaching
at Milan towards the close of the year 1829, and was connected
in ministerial labor with the church in that place till the close
of his life. In 1837 he was installed pastor of that church."
"In 1835 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Catherine B. Stuart. This union was conducive alike to his comfort and his usefulness in the ministry, and the happy influences resulting therefrom were visible to the close of his earthly career"  He was an
active and successful laborer in the field allotted to him, and
spent his life in projecting and executing plans of usefulness.
He was sound in doctrine, an able, earnest.preacher, and a ready
writer. His influence for good is still felt, where he expended
his mature strength and devoted all his energies to the work to
which the Master had called him. He died at Milan, Ohio,
August 20, 1848. A memoir of his life, peculiarly interesting to
his classmates, was published by Rev. E. P. Barrows, D. D.,
in 1852.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS LARNED,
Son of George (B. U. 1792) and Anna (Brown) Larned, was
born in Thompson, Conn., June 23, 1806. His grandfather, Gen.
Daniel Larned, was a very active and useful citizen, and served
in the war of the revolution as an officer of one of the Connecticut regiments, and repeatedly represented his town in the State
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part in the adoption of the Federal Constitution. George Larned,
the father of W. A., was by profession a lawyer. William A.
entered college at the beginning of Sophomore year in 1823.
The two years after his graduation were spent in teaching in
Salisbury, N. C. In 1828 he accepted the appointment of tutor
in Yale College, which lie resigned in 1831. Near the end of
his connection with the college as tutor, and. during the great
revival of 1831, his attention was first called, in an effectual way,
to his spiritual interests. When he came to college, he was, although trained religiously at home, a thoughtless boy, and as
his mind grew, he began to think that many of the pretences to
religion were delusions, until, by and by, he fell into doubts
concerning Christianity itself.  Yet, as he mentioned to his
friends, the preaching of Dr. Fitch in the college chapel did him
great good; such powerful defenses and logical exhibitions of
the gospel, as were made by that eminent preacher, were too
strong to be resisted by a mind as logical and honest as Larned's.
But no thorough alteration in his life and character occurred
until that great revival, when he gave to this great subject of
personal religion his earnest and serious attention. The result
was, that without that intense feeling which some manifest, he
gave himself up to the service of God, and in a solemn covenant
engaged to be a follower of Christ.  *      *      * 
The new views of life, andcl new religious impressions produced at this time, led him to inquire what work God had for
him, and whether his Divine Master was not calling him to
preach the gospel. He had chosen the bar for his profession;
and during his leisure hours in North Carolina, and afterwards,
had made considerable progress in the necessary reading. But
now, under a conviction of duty, and in accordance with the advice of friends, especially of Dr. Taylor, he consecrated himself
to the work of the ministry and began the study of theology.
*          *           *          *
Having completed his course in the Seminary at Yale College, he was called to the Congregational church in Milbury,
Mass., where he was ordained in May, 1834. He received the
call early in the fall of 1833, but lie stipulated that he should
not be settled before May, 1834. He continued in the pastorate
until October, 1835. He performed his work to the profit and
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was led to leave the people who loved and honored him, and to
listen to proposals from Rev. Dr. Beman, of Troy, N. Y., and
the Rev. Mr. Kirk, then of Albany, to unite with them in a theological institution at Troy, which they had set up and were
conducting. Here he spent a little over three years, chiefly in
teaching the languages of the Old and New Testaments, and in
preaching as an assistant to Dr. Beman on Sabbath afternoons.
But here again his health languished, and the seminary became
embarrassed by the financial disasters of 1837. He therefore,
in 1839, sought a temporary retirement from his labors, and
chose New Haven for his refuge, where, during some months, he
gave himself up to study, particularly to the study of the AngloSaxon. ~ *    *  In the fall of 1839, when the chair of Rhetoric and English Literature was made vacant by the transfer
of Prof. Goodrich to the theological department, Larned was
chosen his successor by the corporation of Yale College, in which
office he continued until his death which occurred suddenly, on
the 3d day of February, 1862. *'       When " The New
Englander " was first started, in 1843, lie was one of a committee
to superintend its interests, and often contributed to its pages,
and during the years 1854-5 was its editor.
He had a sound judgement in regard to the validity of arguments, the arrangement of topics, the fitness of style to express
the desired thought.  *'  He hated that vicious rhetoric
which aims at display, which is fond of redundant words, instead of controlling and ever pruning off whatever has no near
connection with the argument and the progress of the thought.
Hence his taste was of great use to the college, for it had
truth and honesty for its foundation.  As a writer, he was characterized by a straight forward, simple, but somewhat philosophic style.
The circumstances of his last walk, on which he met his death
-as discovered since that event-are full of a peculiar and precious interest. He was uncommonly systematic in his exercise,
and had set out from home on the afternoon of the 3d of February, 1862, for this purpose, taking the diiection towards the
house of a friend, a little out of town. In the absence of the
family, the house was in charge of a poor woman, in whose welfare and that of her children, he had long taken an interest,
Here he staid about half an hour, spending the time chiefly in




hearing the Sunday School lessons which their teacher had set
them. While here, he complained of a pain in the head, remarking that he had it when he left home, and that it was no
better for the walk. This head-ache was the precursor of an
attack upon the brain, which caused him while returning home,
to fall to the ground on the track of the railroad near Prospect
street, which took away his consciousness and power of utterance almost immediately, and closed his life about six o'clock of
the same afternoon." —Abbreviated from Pres. Woolsey's Sketch qof
the Life of Prof: Larned, in the New Englander, April, 1862.
About thirty articles in the New Englander, mostly reviews,
are the productions of his pen, besides some books for his college classes.   He married Miss Irene Battell, daughter of
Joseph Battell, Esq., of Norfolk, Conn.  They had no children.
JOHN RILEY LEE,
Son of Thomas and Electa (Riley) Lee, was born in Berlin,
April 22, 1804.  His preparatory studies were pursued under
the instruction of E. A. Andrews, of New Britain, Conn., afterward Professor of Languages, in Chapel Hill College, N. C.
The summer before entering college, Lee spent at Bacon Academy, under the charge of Elizur Goodrich, Esq.
After graduating, he commenced the study of medicine, first
with Dr. Hooker, of New Haven, and afterwards with Dr. Samuel
B. Woodward, then of Weathersfield, Conn., afterwards Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital, at'Worcester Mass.,
with whom Lee was associated in charge of that Institution, for
about ten years. He then returned to New Britain, and continued to practice medicine about eight years.  He afterwards
spent considerable time in foreign travel.  In his letter of
December, 1865, he states: "I have traveled in Europe, Asia,
and Africa, and can say, what few doctors can, that I have practiced medicine in-the four quarters of the globe, as I have had
patients in each of the countries visited, as well as on the ocean.
There has been but little of incident or accident in my life, not
even the common one of marriage. I was in poor health
through all my college life, and for some years after, having a
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fered seven or eight years.  There is nothing I look back Ltpon
in my past life with more satisfaction, than the part I have taken
in the cause of the slave. I early espoused the anti-slavery
cause from conviction of its truth, and with others suffered the
ignominy attached, and consequently the loss of many who
would have been friends, as well] as the loss of worldly prosperity, doubtless. I have lived to see the cause triumphant.
I have made no books, and have only written a little for the
anti-slavery and temperance causes. Ten years ago I gave up
my professional business, and have spent my tinme in libraries,
and in traveling.'                               (1865.)
JARED LINSLY,
Son of Josiah James and Eunice (Hall) Linsly, was born in
Northford, Conn., October 30, 1803. He prepared for college
at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn., under the instruction of
John Witter, (Y. C. 1812.) He entered the class of 1825 in the
autumn of 1821. In consequence of ill health, he was compelled
to leave college during the Junior year, and after an absehee of
more than a year, he entered the class of 1826 in the winter
of 1824.
After graduating, he commenced the study of medicine with
Dr. John C. Cheeseman in New York city, and graduated at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons in the fall of 1829, and began the practice of his profession in the city, where, by his diligence and constant attention to the arduous duties of his profession, he has attained an eminent distinction, while he has secured
and retains a very extensive and remunerative practice. In 1832
he was appointed Physician to the Cholera Hospital; has held
the position of President of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons; is consulting Physician of the
New York Dispensary; Trustee of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, and consulting Physician of the New York Lying-in Asylum.
In 1853 he was invited to join the party of Commodore Vanderbilt in his pleasure voyage across the Atlantic and up the
Mediterranean, in his famous steam  yacht North Star. Theyt
sailed from New York, May 19th, and after visiting England,
France, Spain, Russia, Denmark, Italy, Turkey, Malta, Madeira,
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&c., they reached New York, September 23d. A very interesting account of the tour, contained in a volume.of 853 pages,
was written and published by Rev. J. O. Choules, D. D., one of
the party.  W~hile in London, they met a party friom New York,
among whom were some of Dr. Linsly's patrons and personal
friends. Dr. Choules in his book pays a high compliment to Dr.
Linsly, by saying-" Here, I may observe, our good Doctor
Linsly met in Lond6n several of his patients, and rarely have I
seen more cordial greetings than were exchanged.  A warmer
heart, full of sympathy for all the sorrows of the afflicted, never
beat in humafi breast, than in this excellent man, who, I imagine,
mUSt have been missed by his numerous friends."
In 1834 he married Miss Catherine Baldwin, of New York, by
whom he has had nine children —five sons and four daughters;
the youngest child diedl in infancy.  Lizzie Baldwin, married to
Otis W. Booth, merchant, New York; John Hitchcock, merchant, New York; William Baldwin, physician, assistant surgeon 1T. S. Vols.; Jared, acting assistant paymaster in the navy;
Wilford, in the Scientific School, Yale College; Catherine, Josiah James, and Sophia.
THOMAS GOLD MATHER,
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hubbard) Mather, was born at
Albany, N. Y., January 31, 1808.  Soon after his birth, his parents renmoved to Middletown, Conn.  Hle was the youngest of
seven children and the sole survivor of the seven. His mothler
died when he was so young as scarcely to retain a faint remembrance of her.'When he was five years old, his father married
a second wife, by whom he had ten children, four of whom now
survive.  Thomas G. attended the common school until he enterecl his twelfth year, when le was placed under the instruction
of Rev. Dr. Chapin of Rocky Hill, an inmate of his family, to be
fitted for college.  Of his venerated instructor he writes: "I can
not forbear to state, that I look back to that period of my life
with a most grateful and tender remembrance of the love and
kindness of the doctor and his family, and a delightful consciousness of well-spent time.  The doctor was not only a fine scholar,
a ilnost excellent Christian, of pleasant humor ancl rare wit, and
a capital teaclher, but he was also a practical farmer and horti



culturist; a mechanic enough to set up half a dozen trades.
From him I caught my partiality for a country life."
Mather studied law with the late Chief Justice Storrs, of Middletown, and after being admitted to the bar, formed a partnership with the Judge, which continued for several years.  After
the dissolution of this arrangement, lie practiced law some years,.
until failing health compelled him to seek a more active life.
Accordingly, in 1835 he purchased a farm, beautifully located
on the banks of the Connecticut, where he resided, with the exception of three years, until 1852.  I-e writes: "' Here I recovered my health, and luxuriated in all the blessings that it brings.
I worked hard, and enjoyed the firuits of mny labor as the gift of
God.  I ignored sucli troublesome organs as stlonazcch and nerves,
slew and ate, stigmatizing nothing as common or -unclean;
made cider and drank it, cracked ulits an-d jokes witlh my neighbors, entertainecd my friends, hlunted some and fished more.
Other duties were not omitted.  I attended chulllrch regularly,
and for many years used my old flute for a'tooting weapon,'
(mem. Jack Adams,) read the Bible daily, (thanks to my good
wife for that,) and performed my full share in the various matof interest, such as schools, roads, &c. &c.; was the only Justice
of the Peace in the neighborhood.  Moreover, I perpetrated an
address before the County Agrlicultural Society, and was flattered by having it published by the society and republished in
the agricultural papers.  In 1847 I leased my farm and accepted
the offices vacated by the deathl of John Fisk, Esq., the father
of our classmate, C. B. Fisk, some of which lie had filled for
more than fifty years.  Though numlerous, they were not very
profitable-Town Clerk, Town Treasurer,.Treasurer of Deposit
Fund, City Treasurer, Clerk of City Court, Clerk of Probate,
and some others appurtenant thereto.  After three years I returned to my farm, but a sedentary life had enervated nze too
much to recover my physical energy.  I sold out, and in 1852
removed to Cleveland, Ohio; but the change was not favorable.
Ill health drove me back to the hills and healthful breezes of
New England.  We are now located in the charming village of
Longmeadow, Mass., where we expect to spend the remainder
of our life."
In October, 1834, he married Miss Jane Ann1 Mather.  They
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who, he says, "has filled the place of a child in our hearts and
household until December, 1865, when she married."
WILLIAM MAY,
Son of Eleazer and Cynthia (House) May, was born in Westminster, Vt., in the year 1808.  His preparatory studies were
pursued under the instruction of the Rev. J. Crosby, of Charleston, N. H:.
After graduating, he commenced the study of medicine with
Dr. Alpheus Fletcher, of Cavendish, Vt., and completed his medical course in the Berkshire Medical College at Pittsfield, Mass.
He afterwards became associated with Dr. Fletcher in the extensive practice of that eminent physician and surgeon, "securing
to himself a worthily earned fame for science and skill as a practitioner."
In 1831 Dr. May located in the village of Palmyra, N. Y., and
for several years was connected in his professional business with
the late Dr. D. D. Hoyt in a successful practice.  "After the
death of Dr. Hoyt, Dr. May continued to practice with acknowledged fidelity and general satisfaction until disabled by overpowering disease.  Outside of his profession, he was highly
esteemed in the community as a gentleman of more than ordinary intelligence and brilliancy among the educated and refined.
Added to this, his genial temperament and kindness of heart,
rendered him, in social life, an ever-welcome companion and
friend to those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.  This
beautiful trait of character was particularly illustrated in his
social and domestic attachments-few men being more true in
their friendships, or more devoted to their family interests." He
died at Palmyra, September 10, 1865, aged 57 years.
In 1838 he married Miss Elizabeth Thayer, of Palmyra, and
had two sons and three daughers: both sons died young; the
daughters, Julia M., Clara S. and Lizzie T., survive their father.
STEPHEN WALBRIDGE MEECH
WVas born in Lebanon, Conn., in 1804. He came to college from
Preston, Conn., and entered the Junior class in the fall of 1824.
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cantile business in St. Louis, Mo. For the last twelve or fifteen
years of his life, he resided in Norwich, Conn., occupied in business pursuits.  He was elected a member of the Legislature of
Connecticut in the year 1856, and re-elected'the next year.
During the session of the Legislature he died, suddenly, at
Hartford, after a short and very severe illness, May 31, 1857,
aged 53 years. IHe left a widow and one daughter, having previously lost by death eleven children.
His disease was bilious in character, attended with hemorrhage
of the bowels, and he sank rapidly.  The Hartford Press says:
" Mr. Meech, in politics, was a hearty, earnest Republican; and
indeed the same terms will apply to him in all the relations of
life. He was decided and clear in his convictions, and remarkably frank and manly in expressing them.  His manners were
very lively, pleasing and social, and joined to a strict integrity
and enthusiastic devotion to what seemed to him right, gave
him great and deserved popularity among his constituents. He
was an active, useful, public-spirited citizen, though his duties
called him away from home a large portion of his time."
ASAHEL PHELPS MILLS
Entered college as Freshman, in the class of 1822, from Austinburgh, Ohio. His health failing, he was compelled to leave
college at the close of his Junior year, 1821. He returned to
college in the winter of 183, aild graduated with the class of
1826, and died at Brunswick, Me., September, 1826, aged 29
years.
SIDNEY MILLS,
Son of Gardner and Mary (Skinner) Mills, was born at Canton,
Conn., March 29, 1799.  His studies preparatory to entering
college were pursued at Phillips' Academy, Andover, Mass.
He studied theology with the Rev. Grant Power, of Goshen,
Conn., and with the Rev. G. E. Pierce, D. D., afterwards President of Western Reserve College. He has been occupied mainly
with the duties of the ministry, and has instructed a few students, chiefly those preparing for college, or designing to pursue
a profession without a collegiate education, and frequently those
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He married Miss Laura P. Fuller, and has had four childrenHarriet Fuller, Catherine Hammond, Sidney Hammond, and
Laura Louisa. He resides at Lawrenceville, Tioga Co., Pa., and
under date 185X, the last, we regret, we have received from him,
he wrote: "My life has been one of much enjoyment, and I
have great occasion to be thankful for so many kind Providences, kind friends and rich mercies."
ALLEN CLAY MORGAN
Was born in New London, Conn., January 7, 1802.  "His
father subsequently removed to Greenfield, Mass., where his son,
under the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Strong, became attached to
the doctrines and worship of the Episcopal church, and a comnmunicant at the early age of sixteen.  Bent upon the attainment of a classical education, and determined to prosecute his
design, he engaged in school teaching. It was in this employment that the Rev. Dr. Wheaton, then rector of Christ's Church,
Hartford, found him, and kindly offered to assist him in obtaining an education, and also interested in his behalf some of the
leading men in his parish, and brought Morgan to Hartford,
where, under Dr. W.'s personal instruction, he was fitted to join,
at the third term, the Freshmen class in Yale College.
Immediately after graduating he proceeded to Norwalk, Conn.,
and took charge of an academy there, which was under the
supervision of the Rev. Mr. Sherman.  When Mr. Sherman
accepted the rectorship of the High School, at Hartford, Morgan
went with him as his principal teacher; and when afterwards he
went to Ulster county, N. Y., Morgan went with him in the same
capacity. There he continued till the autumn of 1831, when
he returned to Hartford, and was ordained a Deacon in Christ's
Church, November 27th. He began the duties of his ministry in
St. Matthew's Church, in Plymouth, Conn., and the newly-formed
parish in Bristol, Conn. In the latter part of the succeeding
summer, he was invited- to supply the vacancy in the rectorship
of St. John's Church, Waterbury, where he was ordained a Priest,
January 17, 1833. For more than four years he labored in this
parish with great zeal and acceptance. He showed himself, in
all his duties, the faithful pastor and untiring friend of his people. In 1836 he was elected to the office of Principal of Cheshire




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Academy, which he accepted, and performed his duties with
energy and success till his death, which occurred suddenly, in
New York, October 12, 1838."-Extract from Rev. Mr. Beardsley's Address, o7n the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut. 1844.
CINCINNATUS NEWTON,
From Norfolk, Va.  His name first appears on the catalogue
of Seniors, in November, 1825. No report from him has been
received, nor is it known whether he is living. His father was
a member of Congress for several years from the Norfolk
district.
WILLIAM OTIS NORCROSS,
Son of Joel and Betsey Norcross, was born in Monson, Mass.,
September 13, 1806. His preparation for college was at Monson
Academy. After graduating, he returned to his native town,
and for several years was engaged with his father in extensive
agricultural pursuits.  He afterwards was engaged for a few
years in trade, at Perth Amboy, N. J. Afterwards he lived for
several years on a small farm, in Newark, N. J., engaged in horticulture. For the last few years of hi; life his health was feeble, and he was unable to labor, and finally died of consumption,
in 1863. He never studied any profession.
In 1830 he married Miss Mary Fanning, of New York. He
left five children —Charles F., clerk in New York; Henry Faln
ning, who is book-keeper at Birmingham (Conn.) Iron Works;
Anna Frances married, and resides in Newark; Lavinia, who is
married, and lives in Lynn, Mass., and William, who resides
with his mother, in Newark.         (A. NORCROSS, 1866.)
JAMES CREIGHTON ODIORNE,
From Boston, Mass., son of George Odiorne, who was born in
Exeter, N. H., and became a merchant in Boston, where he
resided until his death, in 1846. In 1800 he went to England,
and there married Maria, daughter of Rev. James Creighton, of
London. Mr. Creighton was descended from a Scotch family,
of which, in 1440, Chancellor Crichton, of Edinburgh, was the




head, who lived in Crichton castle, so beautifuilly described by
Scott, in his " Marmion."
James Creighton Odiorne was born in London, Eng., June 4,
1802. His father returned to this country in a few weeks after
the birth of this son. In his boyhood, James attended school in
Boston, and spent two years at Phillips' Academy, in Andover,
before entering college.  After leaving college he became a
partner with his father in the iron business, he being the owner
of extensive iron works in the vicinity of Boston.
He gave up mercantile pursuits several years since, and retired
to Framingham, Mass., where he has a country residence, and
spends his winters in Boston. In his letter to the compiler, he
writes: "Since my release from mercantile affairs, my engagements have been of a miscellaneous character. I have given
some attention to the study of the Law; have had much business with Probate Offices, in the settlement of estates; have
engaged some in land transactions, and, as a Justice of the Peace
have found some employment.  Since leaving college I have
felt an interest and taken some active part in the great and leading moral enterprises which have successively engaged public
attention. In 1830 I espoused the cause of the Anti-Masons,
and published a volume of 300 pages, entitled "Opinions on
Speculative Masonry, relative to its Origin, Nature and Tendency."  In 1832 I assisted in the formation of the New-England Anti-Slavery Society, and was for many years its Treasurer.
I have felt it an honor to be associated with the friends of Temperance, and after the organization of the American Temperance
Society, I had, for fifteen years, the management of its finances.
Other societies have also claimed my attention, among which
are the'Boston Society of Natural History,' and the'American
Statistical Association,' of the last of which I was for several
years the Treasurer. I assisted Dr. Cogswell in the preparation
of the first volume of the' Quarterly Register,' the organ of the
New England Historic and Genealogical Society, and have, from
time to time, contributed to its pages. I am now engaged in the
preparation of a Genealogical work, which I propose to publish."
In June, 1828, he was married to Miss Susan Elizabeth Warren, daughter of Isaac Warren, Esq., of Framingham.  She died
in January, 1851. She was a lady of great excellence of character, endeared to a large circle of acquaintances by her many




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Christian and domestic virtues.  They had six children-Edward Gordon, merchant in Davenport, Iowa; James Creighton,
who died in the ninth year of his age; Amelia Maria, married,
and since died; George Langdon, now in the iron business, in
Boston; Susan Huntington, married in Boston, and Charles
Creighton.
AURELIUS DWIGHT PARKER,
Son of Ebenezer and Mary (Binney) Parker, was born in Princeton, Mass., April 23, 1802. His preparatory studies were commenced in the academy at New Ipswich, N. H., and completed
at the academy in Amherst, Mass.  After his graduation, he
began the study of law in the Law School at Litchfield, Conn.,
and completed his studies, preparatory to his admission to the
bar, in the office of the late Hon. Samuel Hubbard, in Boston.
Since his admission to practice, he has resided in Boston, and
devoted himself to his professional engagements. He congratulates himself in not having been " caught in the meshes of matrimony."  We are, however, inclined to believe that had he
been, in his estimation, less fortunate in this respect, he would
never have indulged in such gloomy expressions as we find in
some of his correspondence, in which he says: " Having won
neither political, professional, nor other distinction-neither
fame nor fortune —my life has been, in the estimation of the
world, a failure. And so it has, though for far different reasons
in my own. But I soothe my vanity with the reflection, that if
I have not won the prizes so ardently coveted by others, neither
hlave I sought them, or at least only as objects of subordinate
importance and value.  And as to what I have sought, and
failed to win, complete success would have been, in the opinion
of the world, a still more signal failure.
I have seen a good deal of rough weather, a good many sad
and gloomy days. Indeed, sometimes in my darker hours, my
whole life wears the aspect of a bleak and desolate waste,
shrouded in perpetual night, nor illumined even by the " cold
light of stars." But when I cast a glance backward over the
long and ever-lengthening track of vanished years, I am surprised to find through how many green and beautiful oases it
leads; upon how many spots the warm, glad, sunshine rests;
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how many wayside flowers, withered now, yet fragrant still, I
have been permitted to pluck and wear. And so, sustained by
these pleasant memories and by a genial philosophy, I contin-.ued, for the most part, to keep my head cool and my heart
warm, and my feelings fresh, struggling, as best I may, with the
difficulties that beset me, and waiting calmly, though sometimes,
perhaps, a little impatiently for the setting sun and the hour of
rest."
EDWARD WARING PARKER,
Came to college from Spartansburg District, South Carolina, and
entered the Sophomore class in the fall of 1823. Since his
graduation, nothing has ever been received from him.
WILLIAM PARMELEE,
Son of Elias and Fanny (Fitch) Parmelee, was born at Lansingburgh, N. Y., November 28, 1806. His parents emigrated from
Connecticut to Lansingburgh, about the year 1800, and were of
English descent. He was fitted for college in Lansingburgh,
under the instruction of the late Hon. G. A. Simmons, of Keeseville, N. Y., who was an excellent teacher and scholar.
William entered the class of 1825, at the begining of the
Sophomore year, in the fall of 1822. During his Junior year
he was compelled by sickness, to leave college for several
months, when on his return, he joined the class of 1826, at the
commencement of its Senior year.
After graduating, he studied law about two years with Mr.
Simmons, in Keeseville, and spent a year in the office of the late
Samuel Stevens, of Albany, and was admitted to the bar of the
Supreme Court in 1830. He commenced the practice of law in
Albany, where he lesided until his death.
In 1836 he was appointed City Attorney by the Common
Council. In 1839 he was appointed a Judge of the County of
Albany, from which bench, in 1840, he was appointed Recorder
of the city of Albany, and ex-ofcio a member of the Common
Council, aind remained in that office until 1846, when he was
elected Mayor of the city. In. 1847 he was elected Judge of the
County of Albany, under the judiciary act of that year, making
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again elected Mayor, which office he held at the time of his
death, which occurred March 18, 1856. His disease was cancer
of the tongue. His sickness was painful, but he retained his
mental vigor through the whole of it; and died at last from exhaustion of the vital powers, quietly and happily.
The following is an extract froom  the Albany " Evening
Journal" of that date.
"The Hon. Williaml  Parmelee, Mayor of our city, who has
for more than two months suffered painfully and patiently, and
with the assurance of his medical attendants, confirmed by his
own convictions, that his malacdy must terminate flatally, expired
at one o'clock to-day.
Although this event has been daily, and almost hourly anticipated throughout the city, it will fall heavily not only upon the
hearts of those connected with him, but upon a community with
which he has been so long, and inl so maay relations connected."
In June, 1838, he married Miss Margaretta Wright, of Baltimore, Md., who died in December, 1842, leaving a daughter,
Margaretta, now the wife of I-Tenry Homans, Esq., of San Francisco, Cal.
In November, 1848, he married Miss Helen L. Beck, daughter
of T. Romeyn Beck, of Albany, by whom he had two children,
William, who died in 1856, aged about three years, and Harriet
C., who resides with her mother's sister, Mrs. Pierre Van Cortlandt, at the Manor House, Croton Landing, N. Y.
Mrs. Parmelee died in November, 1863, and is buried in Caldwell, N. Y., on the west shore of Lake George, to which place
the remains of Mr. Parmelee had been removed.
Mrs. Helen L. Parmelee was a fine writer.  Since her death,
al volume of her Poems, Religious and Miscellaneous, has been
published, which evince a truly poetical genius; a refined and
highly cultivated taste; a beautiful souvenir for surviving
friends.
HUGH PETERS,
Son of Hon. John T. Peters, Judge of the Superior Court of'
Connecticut, was born in Hebron, Conn., January 30, 1807.
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ting he studied law in his father's office, in Hartford; was
admitted to the bar in 1828, and removed early in 1829 to Cincinnati, Ohio.  The laws of Ohio requiring a longer term of legal
study than those of Connecticut, he became again a student for
the requisite period, and in 1830 began the practice of his profession, and his prospects for business were good.  He came to
his end in a sad and mysterious manner.  On the morning of
June 9, 1831, his body was found in the Ohio river.  "It is
supposed that disturbed and harassed by business, he arose in
his sleep, as he had done the night before, and in a state of unconsciousness wandered to the river, where he met his melancholy fate." The members of the bar of Cincinnati, held a
meeting, and passed resolutions expressive of the highest respect
for the deceased, and the sincerest sorrow for his early departure.
He began to write occasional poetry for the press, while he
was in college, and afterwards was known as a correspondent of
the "New  England Weekly Review."  His "Yankee Lyrics,"
abound in humor and drollery, and show skill in versification.
— [Condensed from  a sketch in Everest's Poets of Connecticut.]
The following was written as he was leaving his native State
for Cincinnati:
"' Jluch yet remains unsung."-CowPER.
We copy the following beautiful verses from  the "New England Weekly Review."  The sentiment does honor to the head
and heart, and the poetry to the ability of the writer.-Albany
Arguzs.
MY NATIVE LAND.
"My Native Land, Good Night." —BYRON.
The boat swings from the pebbled shore,
And proudly drives her bow;
The crested seas roll up before:Yon dark gray land I see no more.
How sweet thou seemest now!
Thou dark gray land, my native land,
Thou land of rock and pine,
I'm speeding from thy golden sand;
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I've gazed upon the golden cloud
Which shades thine emerald sod;
Thy hills, which Freedom's share hath plow'd,
Which nurse a race that have not bow'd
Their knee to aught but God;
Thy mountain floods which proudly fling
Their waters to the fallThy birds, which cut with rushing wing
The sky that greets thy coming spring,
And thought thy glories small.
But now ye've shrunk to yon blue line
Between the sky and sea,
I feel, sweet home, that thou art mine,
I feel my bosom cling to thineThat I am part of thee.
I see thee blended with the wave;
As children see the earth
Close up a sainted mother's grave;
They weep for her they cannot save,
And feel her holy worth.
Thou mountain land-thou land of rock,
I'm proud to call you free;
Thy sons are of the pilgrim stock,
And nerved like those who stood the shock,
At old Thermopylke.
The laurel wreaths their fathers won,
The children wear them still,Proud deeds these iron men have done
They fought and won at Bennington,
And bled at Bunker Hill.
There's grandeur in the lightning stroke,
That rives thy mountain ash;There's glory in thy giant oak,
And rainbow beauty in the smoke
Where crystal waters dash;
There's music in thy winter blast,
That sweeps the hollow glen;
Less sturdy sons would shrink aghast
From piercing winds like those thou hast
To nurse thine iron men.
And thou hast gems; aye, living pearls;
And flowers of Eden hue;
Thy loveliest, are thy bright-eyed girls,
Of fairy forms and elfin curls,
And smiles like Hermon's dewThey've hearts like those they're born to wed,
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They'd scorn to share a monarch's bed,
And sooner lay-their angel head
Deep in their humble grave.
And I have left thee, Home, aloneA pilgrim from thy shore;
The wind goes by with hollow moan,
I hear it sigh a warning tone"Ye see your home no more."
I'm cast upon the world's wide sea,
Torn like an ocean weed;I'm cast away far.-far from thee,
I feel a thing I cannot beA bruised and broken reed.
Farewell, my native land, farewell!
That wave has hid thee nowMy heart is bow'd as with a spellThis rending pang!-Would I could tell
What ails my throbbing brow!
One look upon that fading streak
Which bounds yon eastern sky;One tear to cool my burning cheek,
And then a word I cannot speak" My native land-Good bye."
Long Island Sound.                 H. P.
AMOS AUGUSTUS PIHELPS,
Was born in Farmington, Conn., November 11, 1804.
After graduating, he spent two years in the Theological Seminary at Andover, and one in the Seminary in Yale College.
His first settlement as pastor, was over the Congregational Church
in Hopkinton, Mass. After two years he resigned, and accepted
a call to the Pine Street Church in Boston, and was installed in
September, 1832, and resigned in March, 1834, to accept an
agency for the Massachussetts Anti-Slavery Society, and continued in this agency until some time in 1837.  In 1839 he was
installed over the Free Church in Boston, but resigned his charge
the next year.  In March, 1842, he was installed over the Maverick Church, Boston, and continued over three years.  He also
lacted as editor of the " Emancipator," an anti-slavery paper published in Boston, and as Secretary of the American and Foreign
Anti-Slavery Society, and editor of their " Reporter."   He also
labored some portion of the time as a City Missionary.  He was
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enlisted in behalf of the poor and oppressed. When he espoused a cause and believed it a just one, he gave to it his whole
heart, and soul, and strength.  His abundant labors having
seriously impaired his health, he spent the winter of 1846-7 in
the West Indies, but without any substantial benefit. He returned in April, 1847, and died in Roxbury, Mass., June 30,
1847. He was married three times. His second wife was the
daughter of the Rev. Elisha Fiske, of Wrentham, Mass.
A sketch of his life and services is given in the "National
Era," of Washington, of which paper he was a corresponding
editor at the time of his death.
ISAAC GLEASON PORTER,
Son of Edward Porter, (Y. C. 1786,) was born in Waterbury,
Conn., June 29, 1806. He came to college from Farmington,
Conn., where he had pursued his preparatory studies; where,
also, was the home of his Puritan ancestry since the town was
settled in 1640.
After graduating, he was associated for two years with Prof.
E. A. Andrews, in a High School for young ladies, in New
Haven. He commenced the study of medicine, in New Haven,
and completed his course in Philadelphia, where he graduated
as Doctor of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania, in
1833. That spring he settled in New London, Conn., in the
practice of his profession, where he now resides. He is now
President of the State Medical Society of Connecticut.
In September, 1833, he married Miss Williamina Davis, of
Philadelphia, and has had two children, a son and a daughter.
Edward Leighton, graduated at Yale in the class of 1857;
studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He was commissioned as Captain in the  Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, and was killed almost instantly, at'Vinchester, Va., in
making his third charge on the enemy's battery, June 15, 1863.
He was noted for his bravery and gallantry, and was sincerely
loved and honored by the whole regiment.
MARK PRATT,
Son of Hopson and Delia (Skiff) Pratt, was born in Kent, Conn.,
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to the Class Committee, is so life-like, so perfectly characteristic
of the college student of 1826, that it will be easily recognized
by his classmates, and therefore we prefer to let him speak for
himself.
"Of my early education I recollect but very little, save the joy
I felt when I got to B-A-K-E-R, in Webster's Spelling-Book, and
the reception of a new pocket-knife which I had selected, and the
dreadful shock I sustained in my feelings when my father broke
off the point, which was dangerously sharp for a boy of my age.
After a suitable time I was employed on the farm in the summer,
though in direct opposition to my taste and propensities. I was
sent to the academy in Danbury, Conn., which was then under the
care of Reuben Booth, Esq., since Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.  After that I was sent to the academy at Sharon,
Conn., under the supervision of Mr. Sedgwick.
After graduating, I taught a select school for a few months in
my native town. This employment was not in accordance with
my taste. I then formed a mercantile partnership with a man in
New Preston, Conn., for which business I had no particular fancy.
While engaged in mercantile business, I: boarded with Dr. J. C.
Hatch, and had free access to his library. I commenced reading
his medical books, at first rather as an amusement, and frequently
went with him to visit his patients, and in this way acquired a
taste for the medical profession, which I adopted, and was graduated at Yale College Medical School, in 1831. I went immediately to Delhi, Delaware County, N. Y., and commenced the
practice of medicine with Dr. E. Steele, where I remained two
years. I then removed to New Yorkl city, but not succeeding
there as I had hoped, I went to Haverstraw, Rockland County,
N. Y., in 1833, where I remain still.
In 1828 I was married to Miss Fanny A. Coggswell, of New
Preston, Conn., and have had four children. Frances Elizabeth,
who died at about three years of age. Adelia Maria, who died
in her eleventh year, at a time when I was dangerously ill from
a fractured skull, caused by my being thrown from my carriage.
Lizzie Coggswell and Albert Seymoui, who bid fair to become'chips of the old block,' fair, nice and comely. I have been in
the practice of medicine and surgery since the fall of 1833,
and have acquired a competency of this world's goods, as far as
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ent, although the old scythe and hour-glass fellow  has been
bleaching my hair, which I never asked him to do, and for which
I won't thank him, nor will I ever pay him a red cent.
My literary publications have been few, consisting mostly of
fugitive sketches, poetical effusions for village papers, and some
addresses on different occasions."
NOTE.-The compiler would add, that in 1863 he visited Haverstraw, and although
not recognized by the venerable doctor, he knew he was in the right place, from the
appearance on the table, of what seemed to be the identical violin on which music
was sawed out by the quantity, at almost all hours, in 51 Old South Middle, much
to the annoyance of his fellow students, and against the dignity of certain tutors.
WILLIAM PRESTON,
Son of Nathan and Sarah (Perry) Preston, was born in Woodbury, Conn., August 1801.  He entered the Sophomore class in
the fall of 1823. After graduating, he taught school one. year,
and was tutor in Kenyon College, Ohio, a year.  He studied
theology in Alexandria, Va., and was ordained in the Episcopal
church, in Ohio, by the late Bishop Chase.  His first parish was
in Columbus, Ohio, where he remained twelve years, and then
removed to Pittsburgh, Pa., where he continued ten years, and
then went back to his former parish in Columbus.  Here he remained about four years, when he removed to Bridgeport, Conn.,
where he remained two years, and then went back to his former
charoe in Pittsbiurgh, from where he wrote in 1856: " I intend
to remain during the rest of my stay upon earth."
He married Miss Maria S. Lamson, of Woodbury, who died
in 1841. He afterwards married Miss Caroline Scoville, of
Woodbury, Conn., and has had four children; William, Sarah,
and two named Scoville, both are dead.  Has published no
books, his "first desire has been to seek first the kingdom  of
God, and if possible to win others to the same pursuit." As a
preacher he is earnest and energetic.  In 1860 he received the
degree of Doctor of Divinity from Kenyon College Ohio.
(1861.)
GEORGE JAMES PUMPELLY,
Son of James and Mary (Pixley) Pumpelly, was born in Owego,
N. Y., December 11, 1805, on the same grounds where he still
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resides, a most lovely spot on the banks of the Susquehanna.
His mother, the daughter of Col. David Pixley, of Stockbridge,
Mass., came with her father into that wilderness on horseback,
by the Indian paths, about the year 1789. Pumpelly's father
was also a pioneer fiom Salisbury, Conn., and settled in Owego
about the year 1795, after having been engaged in the survey
of the Western Reserve, Ohio.
The preparatory studies of George were pursued in his native
town and in Stratford, Conn., under the instruction of J. Parkhurst. After graduating, he entered the Law School, at Litchfieldl, Conn., and aftei completing the course there, he entered
the office of Judge Kent, in New York, at the time when the
late Chancellor Kent was preparing the second edition of his
Commentaries for the press, where Pumpelly was honored by
the kindness and counsel of that distinguished man. In 1829
he was admitted to the bar, and immediately entered his father's
land office, where he had an opportunity for applying his legal
knowledge in conducting the extensive business of the office,
and while thus practicing his profession, he became extensively
and actively engaged in farming and in internal improvements.
In April, 1832, he married Miss Susan Isabella Pumpelly, by
whom he had five children, four sons and a daughter, viz:
James Kent, Charles Frederick, Josiah Collins, George B., and
Mary Susan. James K., and Charles F., were prepared for college at Russels, in New Haven, Conn. James was for some
time in the Scientific Department of Yale College, and at one
time was assistant to Prof. Silliman. He was extensively engaged in farming in Wisconsin, when Qn the breaking out of
the rebellion, he raised a company and went with it under Col.
Howe down the Mississippi, and was engaged in active service
in West Tennessee and Mississippi.
Charles F., entered Yale College and graduated in 1858.
Josiah C., was fitted for College in New Haven, under the instruction of A. N. Skinner, and graduated at Rutger's College,
N. J., in 1860, and was admitted to the bar in 1863. George
enlisted in Col. Berdan's Regiment of Sharpshooters in 1861,
and broke down under the severe marches and exposures, and
was sent to the hospital, and was rescued from death by careful
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Department in Yale College, and is now in his third year.  In
1862 Mrs. Pumpelly died.
In concluding his sketch, he writes: " I am still going on in
my land office, now the oldest in WVestern New York, where I
have been nearly forty years, and love fcarming and breeding
choice stock as much as ever.  The records of my office carry
me back eighty years, to the first settlement of Western New
York, commencing immediately after the close of the war of
the revolution.  Many of the original surveys of this part of
the State made by my father and others, in the last century, are
in my hands, and hundreds of letters to my rfather from men in
public life, after the close of the war, actively engaged in settling
this new country, would be a rich treat for autograph collectors.
You see I am going far back into the past, and why should we
not?  I long once again, after forty years' separation, to meet
those of our class whom God has not taken to himself, and to
renew our old pledges of love and memory for what is left of
this life and for all of eternity."
CHARLES MARSH PUTNAM,
Son of David, (Y. C. 1793,) and Betsey (Perkins) Putnanm, was
born in Marietta, Ohio, February 24, 1802. Prior to 1818 his
studies preparatory for entering college were pursued at Muskingham Academy, under the instruction of Elisha Huntington,
M. D., late of Lowell, Mass.  His studies were suspended for
two or three years, while lie engaged in various occupations,
until the fall of 1821, when he resumed his classical studies for
a few months at Athens; Ohio, and then completed his preparation at the Grammar School in Norwich, Conn.  After graduating,: he entered the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass.,
and went through the whole course of three years. In September, 1829, he, with fifteen others, was ordained in Boston, by
the Presbytery of Newburyport, Mass. In November of that
year he began his labors as a Missionary in Licking county, O.,
his labors being mainly with the church in Jersey, in that county.
On the 24th February, 1832, he was installed pastor of the
Presbyterian Church in Jersey, and a Congregational Church in
St. Albans, Ohio. After about two years, he resigned his charge
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his charge in Jersey, where he has remained to the present time
-(1866)-now in the 37th year of his ministry with that people,
on a salary of about $400 per annum, up to last year, when it
amounted to about $600, which would have been altogether
inadequate for his support and the education of his children, had
it not been for what he received from his father's estate. His
reward for long continued and faithful labors has not been in
worldly things.
In October, 1829, he married Miss Abby S. Edgerton, of
Marietta, Ohio, and they have had nine children. Charles Marsh
died in infancy. Henry is a prosperous farmer in Illinois.
Lutther E., David, and Douglas Perkins, all enlisted in the 92nd
Ohio Volunteers. The two latter were members of Marietta
College when they enlisted. David was a Lieutenant commanding a company in thie battle of Chickamauga, and was, wounded
so as to render him unfit for further service in the field, and received his discharge. Douglas P. is now a member of Wabash
College; Lydia graduated at the Western Female Seminary,
Oxford, Ohio, in 1858, Catherine, who died at two years of age,
Howard M. and Julia S. We are glad to state that our friend
P. has good health, which is now much better than it was a few
years since. All his children, except the two youngest, are
members of the church.  Henry is an elder in the Presbyterian
Church, where he resides.
ROBERT GOSMAN RANKIN,
Son of Henry and Ann (Marsh) Rankin, was born in the city of
New York, June 29, 1806. HIis father was a native of Kylsyth,
Scotland, where the family had occupied the same homestead
for nearly three centuries. His mother was descended from the
Puritans of New England. His father came to this country
while a lad, and became a successful merchant in the city. From
the age of ten to fifteen, the son was kept at the ordinary schools
in the city. Having expressed a desire for a collegiate education, he was placed under the instruction of one of the most
successful classical teachers of the day-Joseph Nelson, a blind
man.. He entered the Sophomore class in the fall of 1823.
After leaving college, he began the study of the law with
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entered the Law School in Litchfield, Conn., under the instruction of the Hon. Judge Gould, and having completed the course
of study, he was admitted to practice October, 1829, and immediately entered upon the duties of his profession. His professional prospects were bright, and pecuniarily successful. In
1838, too assiduous attention to business brought on a bronchial
attack, that ultimately compelled him to give up, and seek the
more active duties of a country life. After spending parts of
two winters in the valley of the Ohio and Mississippi, he removed
to Fishkill Landing, in Dutchess Co. Here he indulged his
partialities for the Mechanic Arts and Natural Sciences, of which
in his earlier schoolboy days, as well as in college, he was passionately fond, and ultimately became extensively engaged in
the manufacturing of cotton and iron. While residing there, as
he writes to the compiler, "I was the first, I believe, to project
the present Hudson River Railroad, and the line now under
construction in the State of New York, and part of the line from
Newburgh Bay to Boston. Twenty-five years ago I was laughed
at as a fool, for saying that a railroad would be built on the
banks of the Hudson, through the Highlands, to be crossed at
Newburgh Bay by a line running to Boston. Now I am the
counseling engineer of the New York division of that line, and
with a prospect of an early realization of the'foolish idea.'"
In the revulsion of the industrial interests that occurred between 1842 and 1846, he lost about all that he had invested in
manufacturing stocks, and at once made arrangements to resume
the active routine of business life. In 1847 he was elected, by
the Legislature, a Regent of the University of the State of New
York, an office entirely of honor and trust, and the only one held
during life in the State. This Board has charge and supervision
of all the incorporated colleges and academies in the State; the
distribution of the U. S. Literature Fund; the management of
the Natural History of the State; the State Cabinet; Geology
and Mineralogy; Documentary and Colonial History; antiquarian researches, and the whole system of international exchanges,
and conferring literary and medical degrees, &c. In 1850 he
removed to Poughkeepsie, and in 1852 he removed to Astoria,
L. I., and engaged in business as a consulting engineer.  In
January, 1853, he accepted the Presidency and management of
the Mexican Mail Company-a new mail route between New




York, New Orleans and San Francisco, via Vera Cruz and Aca.
pulco. IIe resigned this position for one more congenial to his
tastes —the general management and engineering of a valuable
coal property in Maryland-the office of the Company being in
New York. In 1859 he removed to Washington Heights, New
York, and for a time was Superintendent of the Institution for
the Blind.
In 1863 he removed to Newburgh, his present place of residence.  "Thankful," he writes, " to the kind Providence which
has led me back to to the neighborhood arid the scenes of earlier
years, while I acknowledge God's overruling Providence in all
the events of my life, yet I have a desire to mark His hand in
especial significance since the period of reverses prior to 1850.
Then, by the force of circumstances in the control of others, and
not my own, I lost a handsome property, and had to commence
the world de novo, with a large and growing family on my hands.
During our more affluent days, our domestic habits and life had
been associated With ideas of convenience rather than ostentation.
Our children had been taught to look at home as the radiating
centre of true happiness, rather than to the influences of the
world around; and when the clouds flung their darkening shadows over our pathway, we had light and hope and happiness on
the hearthstone, which glistened with a home light, reflected, we
trust, from the countenace of a Saviour, who knew our condition,
and made our bread and water sure. While all our clouds had
silver linings, their sombreness induced reflection, self-examination, and a more earnest desire not only to profess Christ, but'to
_put on Christ.' Our reverses proved blessings in disguise.:  *
The Holy Spirit has led six of our ten children into the ark of
safety, and I feel sure that the others will yet be gathered in.
*'a   I have been a teacher, superintendent, or Bible
class instructor for many years, and have now a fine Bible class
and charge of a Mission School."
In 1835 he published a book on the economic value and geological formation of the great Cumberland coal basin, and also for
a time edited a scientific work, and published several reports on
various subjects.
In March, 1831, he married Miss Laura Maria Wolcott,
daughter of the Hon. Frederick Wolcott, of Litchfield, Conn.,
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Wolcott, Annie, Laura Maria, Charles Chauncey, Robert Gosman, Catherine Almedia, Frances Huntington and Francis Wolcott, (twins,) Mary Wolcott and Cornelia Wolcott. His daughter
Annie is married to the Rev. Charles J. Collins, of Wilkesbarre,
Pa., and has two children. His third daughter is the wife of
George A. Boyd, New York.
THOMAS RITTER
Was born in New Haven, Conn., April 28, 1806. His preparatory studies were pursued chiefly at the Grammar School at
New Haven, under the instruction of Prof. Edward Turner and
Judge Joel Jones, of Philadelphia. The last few months of his
preparatory course were spent at the academy in Hallowell, Me.
After leaving college he took charge of an academy at Unadilla, N. Y. His health failing, he returned to New Haven in
February, 1827, and commenced the study of medicine with
Prof. Nathan Smith, and after the death of Prof. S. he studied
with Prof. Knight, and received his medical diploma in the
spring of 1829. He then went to New York, and spent several
months attending the hospitals and Eye Infirmary. From there
he removed to Long Meadow, Mass., and began the practice of
medicine, and, after a trial of a few months, he went to Wethersfield, Conn., and after a short residence there he returned to
New York, and in 1835 entered upon the retail drug business,
continuing, at the same time, his medical practice. In 1839 he
turned his attention to preparing and putting up boxes of medicine, or medical stores for vessels, which business increased rapidly, and became highly remunerative, while the demand so
increased that he relinquished the practice of medicine, and gave
his whole attention to this branch of business. He published
also a medical work of one hundred and fifty pages, of which
more than twenty-seven thousand copies have been sold. He
has been very successful in his branch of business, has accumulated a handsome property, and been equally distinguished for
his philanthropy and zeal in the cause of the poor and the
oppressed, as also for his Christian liberality.  Under the instruction and example of godly parents, he became early inter.
ested in religion, and made a public profession when about
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executive committee of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society, and also of the American Missionary Association.
In June, 1830, he married Miss Delia Maria Ayres, of New
Canaan, Conn., and they have had nine children, five of whom
died in early life. Julia Elizabeth, Isabella Graham, Maria and
Anna survive. Two of his daughters are married.
WILLIAM  ROBINSON,
Son of John and Susan (Thomas) Robinson, was born in Charleston, S. C., in 1805. His mother was of Huguenot descent. He
studied law, and was engaged in planting as well as in professional business. He removed to Alabama, and died at Marion,
July 7, 1856. He never married.
CHARLE$ ROCKWELL,
Son of Martin and Mary (Burrall) Rockwell, was born in Colebrook, Conn., Nov. 22, 1806.  His preparatory studies were
pursued under the instruction of his brother-in-law, Rev. Dr.
Emerson, then pastor of the Congregational Church in Norfolk,
Conn. In connection with his studies, a considerable portion of
his time was spent in labor on his father's farm, by which means
a constitution that in early life had been delicate and frail, became hardy and vigorous. After leaving college he was engaged
in teaching for about five years, more than two of which, he was
associated with the late Rev. Dr. Gaulledet, and others, in the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, at Hartford, Conn. In 1831 he entered
the Theological Seminary at Andover, and graduated in 1834,
and for a time supplied the pulpit of the late Dr. Payson, in
Portland, Me. In October of that year he left the United States,
on board the frigate Potomac, with a ship's company of more
than five hundred men. From this cruise he returned in 1837,
having sailed more than forty thousand miles, and examined,
coastwise, and in some cases extensively in the interior, Spain,
Portugal, France, Italy, Sicily, Malta, the Ionian Isles, continental Greece, and some places on the Barbary coast, Liberia
and Brazil. As a result of this cruise, a work entitled "Foreign
Travels, and Life at Sea," was published, a book of more than
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s a' guide-book to those traveling where he went. Across Portugal, from Lisbon, on his way to Madrid, he traveled with
smugglers, as a sure defence against robbers. On his way from
Madrid to Cadiz, heAvas robbed of all his money and baggage,
by a band of sixteen banditti, who stopped the diligence in
which he was traveling. While on his way home, the African
coast fever brought him  near a watery grave.  HeIc barely
escaped with his life.
After his return he preached in several places, when in November, 1838, he went to Chatham, Mass., where he was installed pastor of the church in that town, and remained until 1845,
when he removed to Boston, and preached there until the health
of his family compelled him to try the influence of a western
climate. He went to Pontiac, Mich., where he preached a year,
from there he went to Kentucky, where he remained preaching
and teaching two years; during which time his wife died at
Henderson, Ken. In 1849 he removed to Terre Haute, Ind.,
and preached there until the fever and ague drove him back to
New England. He preached in Sharon, Conn., Philadelphia,
Castine, Me., and in many other places, supplying churches
almost as constantly and continuously as if pastor of a particular
church. In June, 1860, he removed to Catskill, N. Y., and
became the pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church, where he still
remains, and from his report of his weight, (only 280 lbs.,) we
conclude the Dutch take good care of their Dominie, for of the
one hundred and one members of the class of 1826, no one can
exhibit such evidence of growth as our friend C. Rockwell.
His first marriage was with Miss Mary Howes, of Chatham,
Mass., by whom he had three children. Mary Frances, who
died in infancy. Charles IHenry, who is an officer in the U. S.
navy, and took an active part in blockading the Southern ports
and in suppressing the rebellion, and was promoted for taking a
valuable prize, and also for bravery in a bloody battle fought
near St. Marks, Fla. George Pierce, who is a practical chemist
at the print works in Manchester, N. H.
In 1852 he married his second wife, Miss Mary Dayton, of
East HIampton, L. I. Besides his book on "Foreign Travels,"
he has published several sermons and addresses in the " National
Preacher," and written much for the religious papers, both in
prose and verse; among the latter are translations of old Latin
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Hymns, including "Dies Irae," "Stabat Mater," which have
been well received by the public. He is now preparing a book
on the Science, History, Curiosities, Early Revolutionary and
Hunting Adventures of the Catskill Moun'tiins; also, a new
poetical version of the book of Psalms.
JULIUS ROCKWELL,
Son of Reuben and Rebecca (Beebe) Rockwell, was born in Colebrook, April 26, 1805.  His preparatory studies were commencedc under the instruction of Rev. Dr. Emersom, of Norfolk,
and completed with the Rev. Timothy M. Cooley, D. D., of East
Granville, Mass.
He studied law in the New Haven Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Litchfield county, in 1829. In 1830 he
removed to Pittsfield, Mass., and engaged in the practice of his
profession. He was a member of the House of Representatives
of Massachusetts, from 1834 to 1838, and was Speaker of the
House from 1835 to 1838; in the latter year he was appointed
Bank Commissioner, and held the office three years. He was a
Representative in Congress from 1844 to 1848, and elected to
the United States Senate to succeed the HIon. Edward Everett,
which office he held for two years.
In 1853 he was a member of the convention to revise the
Constitution of the State, and in the year 1858 was again elected
to the House of, Representatives in Massachusetts.  In June,
1859, he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, which office he still holds.
In November, 1836, he was married to Miss Lucy Forbes
WValker, of Lenox, Mass., and they have had five children, viz:
William WValker, who died at Baton Rouge, December 3, 1863,
of typhoid fever. HIe was Captain of Company G, 31st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers.  Cornelia, Frank Williams,
Alice, and Robert Campbell. Frank W. is a member of Amherst
College, and Robert C. is preparing for college. In June, 1865,
Judge Rockwell moved fiom Pittsfield to Lenox, where he now
resides.
WILLIAM FREDERICK ROWLAND,
Son of Rev. William F. Rowland, (Dart. 1784,) and Ann (Geddings) Rowland, was born at Exeter, N. H., October 25, 1807.




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His father was pastor of the First Congregational Church in
Exeter, for -rnmore than thirty-eight years, and died in 1843. The
preparatory studies of young Rowland, were pursued at Phillips
Academy, in Exeter, N. H. In consequence of his feeble health
after leaving college, he never studied any profession, but engaged
in agricultural pursuits. He never married. His love of mathematics and of reading, and general literature, continued until
his health failed him.  He died of consumption at Exeter,
December 17, 1849.
ALDEN SCOVEL,
Son of Jonah and Sarah (Brigham) Scovel, was born in PerLu,
Berkshire county, Mass., April 4, 1801. His father removed to
Albany, where he resided when the son entered college. His
preparatory studies were pursued in Plainfield, Mass., under the
instruction of the Rev. Moses Hallock.'After his graduation
he pursued a full course in Theology at Princeton, N. J., where
he graduated in 1829. His first pastoral charge was with what
was at that time known as the Second Presbyterian Church, in
Hudson, N. Y., lnow Stockport, where he spelit seventeen years
in preaching and teaching. From there he removed to Bordentown, N. J., where he continued for sixteen or seventeen years,
when he removed to Bloomington, Ill., to take charge of a select
classical school in that place; that being his principal employment, and yet preaching in the vacant pulpits in that vicinity as
occasion demands.
In 1829 he married Miss Elizabeth B. Hutchinson, of Princeton, N. J. They have had eleven children. Sarah Elizabeth,
who died in 1851. Alden Cortland, Philip Spencer, William
Chester, Harriet Hutchinson, Catherine Cornelia, Jonah Sylvester, John Combs, Robert Hutchinson, who died in 1846, Edward
Combs, and Anna Leland. The eldest son is practicing law in
Camden, N. J., and Philip S. in Bordentown.
DAVID LOWREY SEYMOUR,
Son of Ashbel and Mary (Lowrey) Seymour, was born in Wethersfield, Conn., December 2, 1803. Previously to entering upon
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were pursued under the instruction of the Rev. Joab Brace, pastor of the church in his native village.
After graduating, he commenced the study of the law in the
law department of Yale College, under the instruction of the
Hon. David Daggett and Samuel J. Hitchcock. In 1828 he was
appointed tutor in the college, and while performing the duties of
that office, was in 1829 duly admitted to practice in the several
courts in Connecticut.  In view of the many superior advantages
for success in his profession, which the State of New York at that
time presented to young men, he established himself in business
in the city of Troy, in June, 1830.  The rules of the courts in
that State did not permit lawyers from another State to be admitted to practice, without previous preparation in the practice
then peculiar to that State. It was not, therefore, until after a
clerkship of two years spent in the office of Hon. John P. Cushman, that he was admitted to practice in the several courts in
the State of New York.
Soon after his settlement in Troy, he became actively engaged
in politics, as well as in the practice of the law; and in 1835
was elected a Member of the Assembly, and during the session
served on the committee of Ways and Means.
Subsequently he was appointed a Master in Chancery, which
office he held for a few years.
In 1842 he was nominated by the Democratic party in that
district for Congress, and after a warmly contested canvass, he
was declared elected by eighty-five majority.
In December, 1843, being just forty years of age, he took his
seat in the 28th Congress, and was placed on the committee of
Ways and Means.  The tariff question was then agitating the
country, and the subject was referred to this committee for adz
justment. Not satisfied with the views of his associates, of'
either political party on this committee, he made a separate and
independent report, embodying his own views on that much,
vexed question.  The democratic majority in congress were divided in opinion on this subject, and the new tariff bill failed to
become a law. In January, 1844, he introduced into congress a
" Bill to amend the act granting half-pay and pensions to certain
widows of officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution."
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bill became a law. At the second session of the 28th Congress
lie was made Chairman of the committee on Revolutionary
Claims. During this session the country was deeply agitated by
the proposed annexation of Texas to the United States.  He
opposed the measure as contemplated by the joint resolution of
Congress, deeming the action of the treaty-makicng power more
consistent with the spirit and provisions of the Constitution.
The subsequent amendment in the senate, of the resolutions
of annexation, induced him to vote in favor of concurring with
the senate on the final passage as amended.
In the fall of 1844 he was a candidate for re-election, and was
defeated by the anti-renters.  In 1850 the anti-rent excitement
having somewhat abated, he was again put in nomination for
Congress, and elected by several hundred majority.  In this
election he was sustained by many of his political whig opponents, for his votes in congress in support of the industrial inter
ests of the country, in which very many of his constituents were
engaged, and to whzich, the great body of the party with which
he affiliated were opposed. In the 32d Congress he was made
Chairman of the committee on Commerce, and had for his associates on that committee, ANDREW JOHNSON of Tennessee, Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, William Aikin of South Carolina,
and others, of less notoriety, inl the subsequent history of our
country.
At the first session of that congress he prepared, and reported
from that committee, a bill for the improvement of certain rivers
and harbors, which passed and received the sanction of the President, appropriating several millions to the public service. At
the second session, the question of reciprocal. trade with the
British Provinces was much agitated in the country, and many
resolutions and proceedings of State legislatures and boards of
trade were presented to Congress, asking a free system of trade
between this country and the Provinces, upon the basis of mutual relaxations of commercial restrictions on both sides.  These
were referred to the committee on Commerce. He prepared and
presented to Congress an elaborate report on the subject, which
ultimately formed the basis of the subsequent treaty and laws
under which the system of reciprocal trade with the British
North American Provinces was established for a limited period,
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held no official position, his whole time being engrossed with
the varied duties of his profession.
In 1837 he was married to Miss Maria L. Curtiss, of Lanesborough, Mass., daughter of the late Sheldon Curtiss, Esq., (Y. C.)
1807. He has had four children —Mary Louisa, Sarah Lowrey,
Fannie Maria, and Harriett Maria: the latter died in infancy.
He has long been a member of the Episcopal churcll.
JAMES ALLWOOD SMITH,
Son of Normand and Mary Smith, was born in Hartford, Conn.,
November 6, 1806. His preparatory studies were pursued at
the Grammar School in Hartford, under the instructionof the
late Prof. Solomon Stoddard. After graduating, he spent nearly
two years as Principal in the Union Academy, New London,
Conn. He then entered the Theological Seminary in New
Haven, and completed his course of preparation for the gospel
ministry in 1831. He spent four years in ministerial labor in
Somersworth, Great Falls, N. H. In December, 1837, he was
installed pastor of the Congregational Church in Glastenbury,
Conn., where he remained twenty years, and as he reported,
"having much health, contentment, and grateful signs of usefulness in my sacred office."  In 1858 he resigned his pastoral
charge in Glastenbury, and soon after removed to Unionville,
Conn., his present place of residence, and although without a
pastoral charge, he supplies vacant pulpits in the vicinity as occasion requires.  Has published  nothing except occasional
sermons and contributions to religious papers..
In July, 1838, he married Miss Mary Morgan, of Hartfordl,
and has had ten children, four only now living, viz: Joseph
Morgan, (Y. C. 1854,) now in the ministry; James A., in the
mercantile business; Frances Ann Brace, and Sophia Tracy.
JAMES MALCOLM SMITH
Was born on Turks Island, W. I. He resided most of his life
in the United States. He studied medicine in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and was graduated in
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Surgeon, when about the year 1844 he was attacked with a
disease of the brain, from which he never recovered.
He died at Flushing, N. Y., April 29, 1848, and was buried
in Greenwood Cemetery.
THOMAS LEE SMITH,
From Bermuda, W. I. He must have entered college during
the Senior year, inasmuch as his name does not appear in the
catalogue of that or any previous year. In 1834 he received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine in New York. He died in Bermuda November, 1862.
WILLIAM  SMITH,
Of Suffolk county, N. Y. We have tried, but without success,
to obtain some particulars concerning his history before entering
college. From a member of the class, we learn that Smith died
at Madison, in the State of Indiana, in 1829. At the time of
his death he was Judge of Probate, and held in high estimation
in that community.                             (J. C. O.)
JOHN WRIGHT STANLEY
Came to college from Wilmington, N. C., a place that will hereafter be distinguished in the history of this country, as the great
entrepot for blockade runners during the late rebellion.
Nothing definite has been heard fiom Stanley since he left
college, except that the report of his death has been confirmed;
but when or where it occurred, we have never learned. He was
a robust, athletic young man, fond of wrestling and jumping, in
which exercises he excelled, and once performed the somewhat
dangerous feat of climbing up the lightning rod into the belfry
of the Lyceum building, and removed the tongue of the bell on
Christmas eve, to the annoyance of the tutors, and the great
delight of nmany of the students.
HARLOW LOUNDES STREET
Came to Yale College from Moscow, N. Y. He was the son of
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1799. Hlis mother was a native of Hartford, Conn. His parents
being in humble circumstances, he began quite early in life to
provide for himself. At one time he was a "mail carrier"
between certain points in western New York. The first two
years of his college course were spent at Hamilton College.
He entered the Junior class in Yale College in the fall of 1824.
Soon after leaving college he was engaged in teaching, and for a
year or two was Principal of the Academy at Dudley, Mass. In
March, 1828, he married Miss Mary C. Sumner, whose family
home was in Carthage, Ohio. The marriage took place in New
Haven. He immediately removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and there
resumed the study of law, which he had commenced in New
England. With some funds of his wife's, he was fortunate in
making a good investment in real estate in Cincinnati, which,
rising in value, was of great help to him while out of business.
He studied law in Cincinnati with Mr. Haynes. The climate
did not suit his constitution, his lungs being affected, his physicians advised his removal to the South. Accordingly, he left
Ohio in 1830, and first located in Mississippi, and two years
after went to New Orleans, where he was admitted to the bar in
the fall of 1832. During all this time his disease was slowly
but steadily progressing, so much so that his physician recommended to him during the hot season of 1834 to go North.
This he did, and the change was favorable for a time, but in
September he had an attack of hemorrhage of the lungs, which
left him very weak, and as soon as he was able he returned
South, leaving his wife and two children with her friends in
Cincinnati. Soon after he left for the South his youngest child
died. In the spring of 1835 he had given up all hope of recovery and started for home, confidently expecting to die among
his friends. He seemed to have no idea that death was so near,
and on his way up from New Orleans, often spoke of the pleasure it would give him to see his family and friends once more.
But Infinite Wisdom had arranged otherwise. He died about
two hours before the steamer reached Cincinnati, on the 2nd
day of June, 1835. His sun went down at noon. His eldest
son, William Sumner, died at Oberlin, at the age of twenty-one
years. Mrs. Street has since married a Mr. Hopkins, and he has
since died. Since the death of Mr. Hopkins she has been a
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EPHRAIM TANNER STURTEVANT,
Son of Warren and Lucy (Tanner) Sturtevant, was born in
Warren, Litchfield County, Conn., in the year 1803. In 1816
his father removed from Connecticut, and settled in Talmadge,
Ohio, then a great and almost an unbroken wilderness. But the
church and the school-house had preceded them. His preparation for college was at the academy in Talmadge.
The first twenty years after leaving college were spent in
teaching. In the autumn of 1828, on the opening of the Western Reserve College for the reception of students, he was selected
to make the beginning in giving instruction. His appointment
was to give instruction in mathematics, but being the only
teacher on the ground for nearly a year, he was obliged to be
President, Professors and Tutor, being in fact the entire faculty.
After spending something more than two years in the college,
and finding the duties too severe, he resigned the position, and
soon after opened a select school, embracing classical and the
ordinary academical branches of education. He was successful in
building up and sustaining, for many years, a very large, prosperous and popular school. His labors were almost incessant; but he
had the satisfaction of knowing that his labors were appreciated,
and that very many youth were being benefited. After years of
toil and confinemenlt, he found his health giving way under the
constant pressure, and that he was making but little provision
for the support of himself and family, when he should be no
longer able to teach, and therefore he discontinued his school,
and in the spring of 1846 bought a farm in East Cleveland, two
miles east of the city limits, where he now resides in his quiet
home, with tasteful surroundings, and many evidences of comfort.
In 1829 he married Miss Helen Louisa Oviatt, of Hudson,
Ohio. She died very early, leaving a daughter a few weeks old,
who survived the mother about one year. He afterwards married Miss Julia A. DeForest, of Huntington, Conn., who died in
1845, leaving a daughter and two sons. The daughter, Helen
Louisa, died in 1856.'His third marriage was with Mrs. Frances Leonard, whose maiden name was Frances Pierce, of Woodbury, Conn.; and by this marriage has one daughter, Julia A.
Sturtevant.  His son, Warren D. Sturtevant, graduates this
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spring, (1866,) in the medical department of Western Reserve
College. His youngest son, Wheeler D. Sturtevant, was in the
cavalry service during the entire rebellion, as a non-commissioned officer, declining promotion.  In concluding his sketch,
he adds: " Severe afflictions and signal mercies have been experienced in my way.  The anticipations and hopes of earlier
years have not been realized, while I have learned by experience that'it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.'"
(1866.)
JULIAN MONSON SITURTEVANT,
Soli of Warren and Lucy Sturtevant, was born in Warren, Conn.,
July 26, 1805.  At the age of ten years he became a professing
Christian; and in reference to this event in his life, he writes:
"In no part of my childhood, youth or manhood, have I ever
regretted that step, or been entirely indifferent to the serious
consideration which it involves. If, when I took that step, it
expressed only the feelings of a child's heart, it has since received
the sanction of my maturest thought and my ripest judgment."
His preparatory studies were pursued at the academy, in Talmadge, Ohio.  He studied theology at Yale College, and was
ordained to the work of the ministry, at Woodbury, Conn.,
August 27, 1829, and on the thirty-first of the same month he
was married to Miss Elizabeth Maria Fayerweather, of New
Canaan, Conn.. The same fall he removed to Illinois-the present seat of Illinois College, at Jacksonville —then an infant settlement in the wilderness.  In January, 1830, he was the first
teacher in what is now Illinois College. In 1831 he was elected
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in that institution, and in 1844 was elected President of the same, which
position he still holds, and has filled with signal ability and success. Pres. Sturtevant has contributed several articles, published
in the Quarterlies, and in pamphlet form, among which, are an
Address before the American Congregational Union, in 1855,
and a Historical Discourse, delivered at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Illinois College, in 1855; a Sermon
before the American Home Missionary Society, in 1857, on the
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In 1863 he made a Euorpean tour, spending three months in
England and Scotland, making also a short tour into France,
Germany, Netherlands, and Switzerland.  On his return, he
delivered, at Chicago, and published, a lecture, entitled, " Three
Months in Great Britain," which was republished in England,
and widely circulated, and highly commended by the party of
which Bright and the lamented Cobden are the representative
names. In June, 1865, he preached the opening sermon before
the National Congregational Council, in Boston, which was published, and widely circulated in this country, and has been
republished in England; but which has exposed the author to
severe criticism in this country, and a long controversy through
the public press.
He has devoted his life to the cause of education in the West,
and no man has done more, if as much, or has accomplished so
noble a work for the West, or has been instrumental in laying
foundations so broad and permanent for future generations, as
President Sturtevant.  He has reared with his own hands a
monument that will endure long after he shall have gone to his
reward.
He has been twice married and had ten children, five by each
marriage. In 1840 Mrs. Sturtevant died, leaving five children,
two of whom died before the close of that year. His son Julian
Monson Sturtevant, graduated at Illinois College in 1854, and in
1860 was settled as pastor over the Congregational Church, at
Hannibal, Mo., where he still remains. His second son, James
Warren, graduated at Illinois College in 1856. The third surviving child by the first marriage is Hannah A. In 1841 he
married Hannah Fayerweather, the sister of his deceased wife,
by whom he has had five children, two of whom " have gone to
the spirit land." The survivors are named Elizabeth Fayerweather, Lucy Ella, and Alfred Henry.
In 1848 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity
from the University of Missouri.
ANDREW THOMPSON,
Entered college Sophomore year, from Crawford, Orange county,
N. Y. He is a lawyer by profession, and for many years had an
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wealth, a Christian gentleman, yet -very reserved in his manners;
has a family, and resides in one of the beautiful villages on the
banks of the Hudson, but where we are not informed. We regret to add, that for some unexplained cause, he refuses to give
any facts or incidents of his life since leaving college, while he
exhibits a great want of filial affection for his Alma Mater.
PHILIP STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER,
Son of the Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer, (Har. 1782,) of Albany, N. Y., ILieutenant Governor of New York, and for several
years a Representative in Congress from the Albany District.
Philip S. married Miss Louisa Talmadge, daughter of the
lHon. James Talmadge, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and at one time
resided at New Hamburgh, in Dutchess county, N. Y. He has
spent considerable time in Europe. It would have been gratifying to have had a full sketch of his history since graduation,
but we have failed in our efforts, his present place of residence
not being known to us.
WYLLYS WARNER,
Son of Lyman and Annis (Welton) Warner, was born in Plymouth, Conn., January 6, 1800. His early life was spent on the
farm, and in the common schools. In August, 1821, he began
the study of Latin with the Rev. John Langdon, of Bethlemn,
Conn., preparatory to a collegiate course, and in October, 1822,
entered the Freshman class in Yale College. After graduation,
he spent a year in Norwich, Conn., engaged in teaching; then
commenced the study of theology in the Seminary in Yale
College. Soon after entering the, Seminary, a movement was
made to endow the Professorship of Sacred Literature. Being
interested in the enterprise, he spent some time during the second
winter of his course, in soliciting subscriptions to complete that
endowment. In the spring of 1829 he was called to the tutorship, and at the commencement following was appointed Financial Agent of the college.
In June, 1830, he was licensed to preach by the Litchfield
South Association, and in view of spending the winter in New
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West Association. In the capacity of financial agent he was
employed with but little interruption, preaching occasionally till
December, 1832. The first object of this agency was to fill up
the fund of the Dwight Professorship, which had been reduced
by losses; second, to procure the means of aiding indigent
students; the third, to raise a fund of one hundred thousand
dollars to meet the general wants of the college. This work
completed, and the office of College Treasurer being vacant, he
was called to act in that capacity in December, 1832, and in
May following was duly appointed Treasurer, which office- he
held till July, 1852, when on account of long protracted ill
health, his resignation was accepted. In July, 1858, he was
chosen Secretary of the Corporation of Yale College, which
office he still holds.
As an author, he can show no literary record, although his
work has had much to do with the cause of learning. In this
connection may be mentioned the Divinity College, the College
Library Building, the Grammar School Building and the Lincoln School-House, built under his direction, and in part with
funds procured by him.
In September, 1829, he married Miss Elizabeth Earl Hazard,
of Norwich, Conn. She died without children, at New Orleans,
in March, 1831. In October, 1833, he was married to Miss
Elizabeth Ann Hart, of Lyme, Conn., and by this marriage has
had six children, two sons and four daughters. Wyllys Hart is
married and resides in Brooklyn, N. Y. Elizabeth Mather is
married to Lyman Baird, and lives in Chicago. Louisa Elvira,
has been a suffering invalid for the last ten years. Harriet
Williams died at the age of sixteen, in September, 1856; Helen
Virginia and George Lyman.                       (1866.)
ELIZUR TIMOTHY WASHBURN,
Son of Rev. Joseph Washburn, (Y. C. 1793,) and Sarah Washburn, was born in Farmington, Conn., in 1805. His father was
pastor of the Congregational Church in that town, and died after
a short, though eminently successful ministry. It was the purpose of young Washburn to qualify himself to preach the gospel,
"but this object he was compelled to relinquish on account of
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ployed as a teacher in the American Asylum for the Deaf and
Dumb, at Hartford, Conn., where he continued three or four
years; but his health failing, he applied for the appointment of
Chaplain or School-Master in the Navy, and obtaining the latter
appointment, he went on a cruise in the West Indies in 1830,
on board U. S. frigate Brandywine; returning, he sailed in the
autumn of the same year on a cruise to the Mediterranean, but
his health compelled him to return a year later. He reached
Norfolk, Virginia, in November, 1831, and died there a few days
after his arrival."        (H. B. WASHBURN~, N. Y., 1865.)
RICHARD SALTER WILLIAMS,
Son of Rev. Samuel Porter Williams, (Y. C. 1796,) entered college from Newburyport, Mass., Freshman year. After his
graduation, he for a time engaged in mercantile business, and
then removed to a plantation near Natches, Miss.
He was a passenger on the steamer Arctic at the time of the
collision at sea September 27, 1854, and perished in that
catastrophe.
ELIZUR WRIGHT,
Son of Elizur, (Y. C. 1781,) and Clarissa (Richards) Wright, was
born in South Canaan, Conn., February 12, 1804. In 1810 his
father removed with his family to Ohio, via Easton, Bedford
and Pittsburgh, Pa., with wagons drawn by teams of cattle and
horses, occupying thirty-nine days in performing the journey.
He settled in Talmadge, Ohio, where they found a church
already organized in the wilderness, of which the Rev. David
Bacon was the pastor, and where young Wright attended school
for two or three years in a log cabin, with the Rev. Leonard
Bacon, D.D., now of New Haven, Conn. His preparatory studies
were pursued in the Academy at Talmadge, under the instruction of his father, who was for several years Principal of that
institution.
In 1829 he was elected to the Professorship of Mathematics
and Natural Philosophy, in Western Reserve College, which
position he held until some time in the year 1833. In a letter
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never had any settled profession, or achieved any thing in my
life worth mentioning; though I can honestly say, that for the
most of the time since I graduated, I have labored to the best of
my ability to  deliver  the  country  from   the  dominion  of a
curse, which has made its politics a sham, and its religion a
mockery."
In 1829 he married Miss Susan Clark, of Groton, Mass., by
whom he has had eighteen children; so that although the last
on the catalogue of his class, he has placed himself at the head
in this respect.  The names of his children are, *Susan Louisa,
John Seward, *Clara Richards, *Josiah Elizur, Charles Storrs,
Mary  Vashon,  Ellen  Martha,  Etlarriet Amelia, Lucy  Jane,
*Arthur Tappan, Kathlean, Winnifred, Walter Channing, Ida
Russell, *Rosa Lind, Annie  Carroll, Edward  Kittredge  and
Richard Hildreth.  Those marked with a star died in infancy.
(1856.)
Since the date of the above report he has lost three sons, one
by drowning, at the age of 20 years, and two (twins) at the age
of seven years, by the small pox.                              (1866.)
NOTE.-Since this work has been in type, the compiler has been requested by
some members of the class, to send them a proof of their sketches as prepared for
publication, for their revision and correction. He would be most happy to gratify
his friends in this respect if it were practicable. Several additions and corrections
have been made since it was put in type. Probably some will be disappointed to
find their statements condensed and so many things omitted which they deem important, while others, would prefer, perhaps, to have had less inserted. We cannot expect to meet the wishes of all. We have done the best we could in the circumstances. We have used the materials furnished by the individuals themselves.
It is difficult to construct a work from sueh scanty materials and give universal
satisfaction. It was not the object of the class resolution to publish a full biography
or memoir, but that each member should prepare a brief sketch for the committee,
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NAMES OF MEMBERS
WHO DID NOT GRADUATE WITIH THE  CLASS.
THOSE NOT OTHERWISE MARKED, ENTERED IN THE FALL OF 1822.
Alexander Hamilton Arnold, Paulings, N. Y.; died at New Haven, of typhoid fever, December 31, 1825, aged 21 years.
Samuel T. Atwater, Canandaigua, N. Y.; left September, 1823.
William Atwater, New Haven; left 1824; graduated in 1827.
Anthony W. Baker, New Orleans, La.; left September, 1823.
Luke C. Baker, Chatham, Mass.; entered 1823; left 1825; died
1834.
Dyer Ball, Shutesbury, Mass.; left 1824; graduated at Union
College 1828; a missonary to China; died 1866.
Samuel E. Banks, Danbury, Conn.; left September, 1824; died
1826.
John L. Bartlett, East Windsor, Conn.; left September, 1824.
Edward Brace, Farmington, Conn.; left September, 1824.
Alson Brigham, Sudbury, Mass.; left 1824.
John W. Bush, Boylston, Mass.; left 1823.
Robert Day, Catskill, N. Y.; left 1825.
George DeForest, New York; left 1823.
George E. Delavan, Patterson, N. J.; entered 1823; left 1824;
graduated 1827; died 1861.
Robert Edmond, Newtown, Conn.; left 1824.
Alexander E. Gadsden, Charleston, S. C.; entered 1823; left September, 1825.
Cushing Green, Pawlings, N. Y.; left September, 1823.
Bently Hasell, Charleston, S. C.; entered 1823; left September,
1825.
Wensley Hobby, Augusta, Ga.; left September, 1823.
Timothy A. Hunt, New Haven, Conn.; Commodore U. S. N.;
left May, 1826.
Charles W. Jencks, East Windsor, Conn; died February, 1825.
Edward S. Kneeland, Augusta, Ga.; left 1823.
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Andrew Knox, Elizabeth City, N. C.; entered 1823; left September, 1824.
Charles F. Langdon, Boston, Mass.; left September, 1823.
William Lowndes, Charleston, S. C.; entered 1823; left 1824.
Edward Laurens, Charleston, S. C.; left September, 1824.
Brockholst Livingston, Jamaica, W. I.; left September, 1824.
William A. V. Magraw, Meadville, Pa.; left September, 1823.
Robert Barnwell Means, Beaufort, S. C.; died October, 1824.
Henry Paine, Worcester, Mass.; left 1823.
George E. Palmer; Stonington, Conn.; left 1823.
John M. S. Perry, Sharon, Conn.; left 1824; graduated 1827;
missionary to India; died with the cholera, 1838.
William M. Peyton, Augusta, Ga.; entered 1823; left September, 1825.
Richard S. Porter, Granby, Conn.; left September, 1824.
Daniel H. Prosser, Wilkinson Co., Miss.; left September, 1824.
Douglass Putnam, Marietta, Ohio; left September, 1825.
Abraham G. Randall, Stow, Mass; left September, 1823.
Frederick W. Rees, Statesburgh, S. C.; left September, 1823.
Robert K. Richards, New York; entered 1823; left 1824;
graduated 1827.
John T. Sample, Mississippi; left 1823.
Horatio N. Seeley, Weston, Conn.; entered 1823; died October,
1824.
Edwin S. Smithwick, Martin Co., N. C.; entered 1823; left
September, 1825.
John B. Staples, New Haven, Conn.; left 1825; graduated in
1827.
John H. Thayer, Braintree, Mass.; left 1823.
Alexander H. Thomas, Cheraw, S. C.; left 1823.
James Upham, Leicester, Mass.; left 1823.
J. Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Claverack, N. Y.; left 1823.
Jacob Van Winkle, New York; entered 1823; left September,
1824.
Samuel H. Walley, Boston, Mass.; left 1824; graduated at Harvard University, 1826.
Samuel Warren, Weston, Mass.; left 1825.
Nathan Whiting, New Haven, Conn.; left 1825.
Joseph T. Williams, Milledgeville, Ga.; entered 1823; left 1825.




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ROLL OF HONOR.
Names of the Sons of Members of the Class of 1826, who served
in the Army of the Union.
Henry Ballentine Barber.     William B. Linsly.
Allen Campbell Barrows.      Jared Linsly, Jr.
William Elliott Barrows.     *Edward Leighton Porter.
John Phelps Cowles, son of J. James Kent Pumpelly.
P. C.                      George B. Pumpelly.
z'-Henry Augustus Cowles, J. P. Luther E. Putnam.
C.                         David Putnam.
Samuel S. Fisher.            Douglas P. Putnam.
Curtiss Fowler Gilbert.      Charles H. Rockwell, son of C.
Edward Horatio Graves.         R.
James Taylor Graves.         *William  Walker Rockwell,
*Herrick Hayner.               son of J. R.
William Stone Hubbell.       Wheeler D. Sturtevant, E. T. S.
SUM M ARY.
As far as ascertained of the Class31 Are Clergymen.
23 Lawyers.
19 Physicians.
18 Known to have studied no profession.
44 Are known to have died.
54 Have been once married.
12 Have married the second time.
3 Have married the third time.
325 Children born.
106 Children died.
A very large proportion of the class are members of the
church.