BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF THE
CLASS OF I 85,
OF
YALE COLLEGE,
PREPARED BY THE CLASS COMMITTEE AND PRINTED
FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS.
NOT PUBLISHED.
NEW  HAVEN:
TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR, PRINTERS.
1877.
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DEAR CLASSMATES:
In accordance with your request at the last meeting, your Committee
have prepared the following Biographical Record, for the period of nearly
twenty-seven years since our graduation. Of its defects we are well aware,
but we can plead that we have used not a little care to diminish their nurnmber, and have not been in undue haste.
We have given, where we knew them, the names of the parents of our
Classmates. Whenever there has been a direct relationship with other graduates of the college, we thought you would be interested to have it also
specially noted. At the expense of not a little repetition we have combined
in this record the materials of the two of I853 and I86o, in order to make it
one complete in itself. We have omitted, however, the record of the nongraduate members, prepared by Jerome in I853. This could not be made
complete by a reasonable amount of labor, and the task was therefore not
undertaken.
Very truly your Classmates and obedient servants,
A. D. W.
A.B.
H. A. N.
G. S. P.
B.  1   m
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[The place given in brackets immediately after the name is that from
which the member of the Class entered College.]
*JOHN ISAAC IRA ADAMS (New Haven, Conn.), son of
John and Sarah Adams, and brother of Enoch George
Adams (1849 Y. C.), was born in Edgartown, Mass., July
22, 1826, and entered Freshman from the Class of I849.
In the fall of I850 he was engaged in teaching in Durham,
N. H., in the spring of I85I in Madbury, and from May,
i85I, till Feb. I853 in New Market, of the same state, as
Principal of the High School. During this time he was
also engaged in administering upon, and managing his
father's estate in Durham, and was most of the time
Superintendent of the schools of that town. From I853
to I857 he was principal of the High School in Holyoke,
Mass., editing during that time the "Holyoke Indepeindent," and "Our Little Pet," papers published in Holyoke.
His health failing, he went to Lawrence, Kansas, in the
spring of 1857, at which place he was correspondent of
the "Boston Traveler" and the "Springfield Republican."
He died of consumption in Lawrence, Oct. I6, I857, and
was buried in Durham, N. H. We have the consolation
of knowing that in his last hours his mind seemed to be
in peace, and in Christian hope.
He was married to Miss Nellie M. Branscombe, of New
Market, N. H., May 26, I853, and had one child, Arthur,
born in I854.
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STEPHEN ADAMS (Albany, N.Y.), son of John L. Adams,
was born in Fulton, Schoharie Co., N. Y., Feb. 28, I829,
and entered the Class the second term Junior year from
the Class of I849, having been absent a year.
After graduation he was teaching in Amherst Co.,
Virginia, till March, I85I, and the rest of the year was
engineering for the James River and Kanawha Company.
He then spent several months, till Sept. I852, studying
law in the office of R. J. Davis, Esq., of Lynchburg, Va.,
when he again engaged in teaching, first as Principal
of the Elon Academy in Amherst for one year, and then
for two years in the family of Anthony Lawson, Esq.,
Logan Co., Va. In the fall of I855 he was admitted to
the bar in Lynchburg.
For several years he practiced law in Raleigh, Logan,
and the adjoining counties, in partnership with Hon.
Evermont Ward.   The news that the convention of his
State had passed the ordinance of secession, which he
had up to that time opposed with all his might, both in
private and on the hustings, found him residing and practicing law at Raleigh C. H., (now) West Virginia. He
enlisted as a private in one of the first volunteer regiments
formed in that section for the Confederate service. Upon
the organization he was elected captain, and he served in
the field with the Army of Northern Virginia until the
battle of Winchester, Sept. 19, I864, when he was desperately wounded while commanding the 30th Va. battalion, and was taken prisoner.   He was carried to the
hospital at Frederick, and when well enough to be exchanged he returned to Lynchburg. After the war, the
laws of West Virginia then excluding Confederate soldiers
from its bar, he settled in Lynchburg, where he has
since been engaged in the pursuit of his profession.
"With a little cork skillfully inserted in my boot you
would scarcely observe in me any effect of the late little
unpleasantness. In conclusion, I will add that I am obeying the parting injunction of our beloved classmate, Sam
Edwards in I850:'Steve, by all means, teach your boys
to fiddle.'"
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He was married April 26, I854, to Miss Emma C.
Saunders, of Lynchburg, and has had six children: (I)
John Lawson, born Oct. 13, I855; (2) Stephen, born June
9, I86o, died March 22, 1862; (3) William Saunders, born
Dec. 9, i86I; (4) Peter 0., born Sept. 2I, I866; (5) Benjamin Donald, born Sept. 19, I870, died July I12, I872; (6)
Emma, born July 21, I875.
*GEORGE ARNOLD (Baltimore, Md.) was born in Georgetown, D.C., June 20, I832, and entered the class Junior year.
For two years after graduation he studied law in Baltimore, and was admitted to the bar in that city in Oct.
I852.  After practicing law three years he taught till
I857, and then removed to Georgetown and had charge
of the Clinton Academy for several years. During the
war he was Captain in the Mining Bureau, and Lieut.
Col. of Engineers in the Confederate service. He received
his discharge in I864, and returned to Baltimore with his
wife and two children.  In the autumn of I865 he suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, and is believed to
have been murdered.
He married Miss Elizabeth M. Tilley, daughter of H.
W. Tilley, Esq., of Georgetown, and had two children;
viz., Paul, born Dec. 8, I856, and another whose name has
not been reported.
LEONARD WOOLSEY BACON (New Haven, Conn.), son
of Rev. Leonard Bacon, D.D. (Y. C. I820), and brother of
Benjamin W. (Y. C. I847), Francis (Y. C. I853, m.), Theodore (Y. C. I853), George B. (Y. C. I856), Thomas R.
(Y. C. I872), and Alfred T. (Y. C. I873), was born in New
Haven, Jan. I, I830, and entered the Class the third term
of Sophomore year from the Class of I849.  He left the
Class Senior year, and received his first degree in I852 as
a member of the Class of I85o.
He traveled with his father in Europe and the East from
Sept. i85o to Sept. I85i; then studied theology for two
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years at Andover. In I853 and I854 he studied theology
and medicine in New Haven; was licensed to preach in
I854, and received the degree of M.D. in 1855.  During
the summer of I855 he was minister of St. Peter's Church
in Rochester, N.Y.  In Oct. I856, he was ordained pastor
of the Congregational Church in Litchfield, Conn., where
he remained till June, I86o. In I86I was in the service of
the committee on Home Evangelization of the General
Association of Conn. From I862 to I865 he was pastor at
Stamford, Conn., and on March 30, I865, was installed
pastor of the New England Congregational Church,
Brooklyn (E. D.), N.Y.   In I870 he took charge of a
Congregational church in Baltimore, Md., where he remained until I872. From thence he went to Europe and
resided for several months in Germany; thence he went
to Geneva, Switzerland, where he has since resided, having been pastor of the American Church in that city until
the fall of I876, and at the same time editing the "Swiss
Chronicle," published in English. He expects to return
to this country in May of this year.
Besides articles in the " New  Englander," the "Congregational Quarterly," and "Putnam's Magazine," he
published, in I86I, a historical discourse on the 2oo00th
anniversary of the founding of the Hopkins Grammar
School, and two elaborate reports of the Committee on
Home Evangelization of the Gen. Assoc. of Conn. A
tract published in I864 on "the Mistakes and Failures of
the Temperance Reformation" occasioned protracted
controversy. He published the "Book of Worship," a
volume of hymns and tunes, in I865; "Fair Answers to
Fair Questions," a tract in the Roman Catholic controversy in I868; and in i869-70, two volumes of translations
of the "Discourses of Father Hyacinthe."
In Oct. I857, he was married to Miss Susan Bacon,
daughter of Nathaniel A. Bacon, of New Haven, and has
had ten children: (I) Nathaniel Terry, born Aug. I6,
I858, now a member of the Sheffield Scientific School;
(2) Benjamin Wisner, born Jan. I5, I86o, who with his
brother Selden, expects to enter College next September;
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(3) Selden, born Sept. 27, i86i; (4) Theodore Davenport,
born Aug. 3I, I863; (5) Leonard Woolsey, Jr., born Feb. 24,
I865; (6) Margaret Wardell, born April IO, I866; (7) Almira
Selden, born May I6, I869; (8) Susan Corbin, born Aug.
I8, I 87I, died Aug. I 5, I 874; (9) Mabel Ginevra, born June
9, I874; (IO) Catharine Terry, born April I7, I876.
ABRAHAM DEWITT BALDWIN (Milford, Conn.), son of
David L. Baldwin, and grandson of Abraham Van Horn
DeWitt (Y. C. I785), was born in Milford, Conn., Oct.
I5, I828.
After graduation he entered the Yale Law School,
where he remained until Jan. I852, when he entered the
law office of Philo T. Ruggles, Esq., New York City.
He was admitted to the bar in Oct. I852, and soon after
entered the office of Judge Peabody, where he remained
until the following May. From that time until I859 he
was in the office of Judge Bonney, studying and practicing law.  May I, 1859, he formed a law partnership with
Wm. T. Farnham, our classmnate, which continued until
May, I873. In July, I867, he made a trip on professional
business to Tampico, Mexico, returning by way of Vera
Cruz and Havana. In Oct. I862, he joined the famous
Seventh Regiment, of New York City, and participated
with it in its Maryland campaign in Jan. I863. He is now
practicing his profession at No. 4 and 6 Pine st., New
York City. We are sorry to say that he is still a bachelor.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BALDWIN (Chester, Conn.) was
born in Killingworth, Conn., Feb. 23, I824. He studied
at Bangor and Yale Theological Seminaries, and was to
some extent engaged in teaching until I852, when he was
licensed to preach April 7th by the New York and Brooklyn Associations.   He  was preaching and teaching in
Peru, Ill., till the summer of I854, when he went to Morris, Ill., where he preached for six months. Thence he
removed to Whitewater, Wis., and preached in the Congregational church until May, 1858.  For about a year he
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preached in the First Cong. Church at Fond du Lac, Wis.,
but on account of a change in his religious views, left the
ministry, and from I86o to I862 he studied law. He was
admitted to the bar in Wisconsin, May 27, I862. In I863
he came East on account of his health, and resided for a time
at Meriden. In I864 he went to Battle Creek, Mich., but
was compelled again to return East by failure of health.
Since I868 he has been practicing law in Philadelphia,
and residing at Waterford and elsewhere in New Jersey.
He has had five children: (I) Anna G., born May 27,
I854; (2) Flora, born Dec. 25, I856; (3) Helen, born Sept.
8, I858; (4) William, born Oct. 19, I867; (5) Philadore,
born Jan. I3, I869. 
WILILIAM ELLIOTT BASSETT (New Haven, Conn.), son
of John Bassett and Nancy A. (Lee), was born in Derby,
Conn., May 24, 1829, and entered the Class the second
term Freshman year.
The first year after graduation he spent in Brooklyn,
N.Y., in teaching. In the autumn of I85I he commenced
the study of divinity, the first year of which was spent in
the Union Theological Seminary, and the last two in New
Haven. He was licensed to preach by the New Haven
Central Association, July 6, I853, and after finishing his
seminary course, preached in various places, until in Oct.
I856, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational
church at Central Village, Conn., by an Ecclesiastical
Council. In the spring of I859, on account of ill health
he requested dismission from his people and removed to
Norfolk, Conn. After resting several months and regaining his health he took charge of the Congregational church
at North Manchester, Conn. He left that place in I863,
and removed to Warren, Conn., where in I864 he was installed pastor, and remained until the autumn of I875.
He  was then second of the Congregational pastors of
Litchfield Co. in length of period of settlement.   His
health requiring him to rest he then resigned his charge
and has since resided in New Haven, but expects to take
a charge again in due time.
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He married, Oct. 22, 1856, Miss Mary Dowd of Norfolk, Conn., and has two children: (I) John Dowd, who
was born Jan. 6, I858, pursued his preparatory course with
honor at Williston Seminary in I874-5, and has entered
Yale College in the Class of I88o; (2) Rebecca Aiken, who
was born Dec. 23, i868.
EDWARD WARREN BENTLEY (Harwinton, Conn.), son
of William Bentley, was born in Tyringham, Mass., July
23, I1826.
He taught in Lyme, Conn., from Sept. I850 to Oct.
I85I, and then entered the Theological Seminary at East
Windsor, Conn. A part of the year I852-3 was spent
in teaching, first in Williamsburg, Mass., and afterwards
in Rochester, Mass.   He was licensed to preach, Jan.
I854, by the Hartford Fourth Association, and finished
his theological course the following July. In October
of the same year, he was ordained pastor of the Reformed
Protestant Dutch Church of Ellenville, Ulster Co., N.Y.,
by the Classis of Orange. He still resides at Ellenville,
and is the oldest settled pastor in Ulster Co.
He was married, May I, I854, to Miss Emily Humphrey,
daughter of Mr. L H. Humphrey, of Canton, Conn., and
has had five children: (I) Caroline Humphrey, born May
20, I856, died Aug. 25, I86I; (2) Edward  Manross, born
July 31, I858; (3) William Harmon, born Sept. 27, i86i;
(4) Evelyn McCurdy, born June Io0, I863; (5) Annie Preston, born Sept. 28, I866. His son Edward Manross, who
was a namesake of our classmate Manross, was one of the
first two scholars (of equal rank) in the graduating class
at East Hampton last fall (I876), and is a member of the
Class of I88o in the Academical department.
CHAMPION BISSELL (Rochester, N. Y.) son of Josiah
Bissell, was born in Rochester, N.Y., Janl. I I, I830. Since
graduation, he has been engaged most of the time in
mercantile pursuits in New York City. In I852 he edited
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and published the "American Whig Review." In i86o
he published a volume entitled "The Panic and other
Poems," and delivered the poem before the Phi Beta
Kappa Society at Yale in I86I. He was admitted to the
bar in i86o. In I863 he went to Rockville, Conn., where
he resided for two or three years, and he established
there a weekly journal, entitled the "Tolland Co. Herald."
He has edited and published the N. Y. "Paper Trade
Reporter" since I872.
He was married in October, I854, to Miss Josephine
Wales, daughter of Hon. John Wales (Y. C. I8oi), of
Wilmington, Del., and has four children: (I) John, born
in I855; (2) Annie, born in I857; (3) Emily, born in I86I;
(4) George P., born in i872.
In a letter to the Secretary he says: "Like most men
at our time of life, I have ceased to build castles in the
air. If I build anything, it will be a good square house
with a library, a bay window, and a portico to the south.
I produce no more poetry, having made the discovery
that prose is a higher achievement.   You ask for my
photograph and my history. I have neither photograph
nor history. I postponed the acquisition of the former
until I lost my good looks, and the manufacture of the
latter until I lost my ambition."
*JOEL SHERLAND  BLATCHLEY (New Haven, Conn.),
son of Samuel L. Blatchley, of New Haven, and brother
of Samuel R. (Y. C. i862), and Charles C. (Y. C. I863),
was born in North Madison, Conn., March 8, I829.
After graduation he taught school in New Orleans, La.,
until Aug. I85I, when he went to Dubuque, Iowa, where
he taught, and studied law. He was admitted to the bar,
and practiced law at Dubuque until July, i863.  His
brother, in a letter to Secretary Newton writes: "Brother
left Dubuque in the latter part of I863. He had lost four
children, whose death he thought was occasioned by the
extreme heat of the summer there. He gave up a lucrative business and began the world again in San Francisco.
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In his voyage out with his family he had the company of
his classmate, Prof. Kellogg, who with his newly married
wife, was on his way to his work in the University of
California. Another classmate, J. H. Brewer, a resident
of California, he became pleasantly associated with, who,
if present at your meeting, might perhaps give you more
information in regard to brother's life in California than
we are able to. He was slowly building up a good busi ness there when his health failed. A bad catarrh brought
on inflammation of the lungs.  He recovered from the
latter, but the catarrh remained. By the removal of his
residence to San Leandro (still retaining his office in San
Francisco) he endeavored to escape, in a measure, the
fogs and winds of the latter city. But he was not able
to regain his health. He returned to New Haven in I870,
and was associated with his father and brothers in business here until his death.  The year I87i he spent in
Fernandina, Florida.   He derived no benefit from his
residence in that place, but was so unfortunate as to lose
another child there. A heart complaint, the result of a
severe attack of rheumatism, slowly developed. He died
at New Haven, Jan. 8, I874, suddenly, while sitting in his
chair. He left three children, a boy and two girls. The
boy has since died.   He was associated with H. A. Littleton in the preparation of a'Digest of Fire Insurance
decisions in the Courts of Great Britain and North
America,' published at Dubuque in 1862. He also edited
one volume of the California Law Reports.   He was
present at your class meetings in I86o and I870, and
always retained his interest in his classmates and Alma
Mater."
He was married in Feb. I859, to Mrs. Marion Hall, of
Monroe, Mich., and has had eight children, of whom only
two survive: viz., (I) Mary Louise, born April 2I, I867;
(2) Margery, born Feb. 2I, I872. Mrs. Blatchley and her
two children reside at New Haven.
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ROBERT BLISS (Boston, Mass.), son of Rev. Seth Bliss
(Y. C. I830 h.) and Jennette F. (Root), was born in Jewett
City, Conn., Dec. 3, I828.
Hie taught in St. Timothy's Hall, Baltimore, Md., from
January, I85I, until August of the same year. For a year
thereafter he was in the Metropolitan Bank in New York
City. In July, I852, he engaged in the dry goods commission business in New York, where he still resides.
He has been successively partner in the firms, Stone
Bowman and Bliss, Stone Bliss Fay and Allen, and is at
present senior partner of the firm of Bliss and Allen, at
78 and 80 Thomas st., New York City.
He was married, Nov. 13, I86I, to Susan Maria Handy,
daughter of Parker Handy, of New York City, and has
had eight children: (I) Robert Parker, born Dec. 2, I862;
(2) Charles Fanning, born Sept. 25, I865, died March 30,
i868; (3) Alice Jennette, born March 13, 1867; (4) Grace
Edith, born March 26, 1869; (5) Clifford Douglass, born
July I5, I870; (6) Laurence Thornton, born Nov. 26, 1872;
(7) Arthur Herbert, born Dec. 26, I874; (8) Winthrop,
born Aug. 30, I876.
WILLIAM ROOT BLISS (Boston, Mass.) was born in
Jewett City, Conn., Oct. 20, I825.
In I853 he married  Elizabeth Fearing, daughter  of
Andrew C. Fearing, Esq., of Boston. Since his marriage
he has resided in New York City, engaged in commercial and literary pursuits. In I868 he visited the West
Indies; in I869-70 visited Europe; in 1872 visited Central
America and the Sandwich Islands. On his return from
the latter he wrote a volume entitled' Paradise in the
Pacific, a book of travels, adventures and facts in the
Sandwich Islands,' published by Sheldon & Co., New
York, I873.
He is still residing in New York City, and has had
two children: (I) Frederic W. Bliss, born in I854, died at
South Wareham, Mass., Oct. 4, I876; (2) Sidney Bliss,
born in I859, died in I86o.
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JAMES LEWIS BLODGET (Wethersfield, N. Y.), son of
Lewis Blodget, was born in Wyoming Co., N. Y., Sept.
1822. Nothing has been heard from him directly, but he
is said to be residing in his native town, and leading a
secluded and almost solitary life. Bolles writes in regard
to him: "I know but little about Blodget, not having
seen him in many years. The last I heard of him he was
at Wethersfield in the adjoining county of Wyoming.
When I met him last he seemed very much pleased to
see me and promised to write me an occasional letter, but
he never kept his pledge, and I hear about him only from
some attorney in that neighborhood whom I happen to
meet at court."
DAVID HUNTINGTON BOLLES (Jamestown, N.Y.), son
of Asa M. Bolles, and great grandson of Rev. Eliphalet
Huntington (Y. C. I759), was born in Clinton, Conn., Dec.
I8, I829. After graduating he studied law in the office
of Angell & Co., in Ellicottville, N.Y.  He was admitted
to the bar in April, 1853, and for several years practiced
law in Ellicottville. In I863, he was elected County Judge
for four years.   He is now residing at Olean, N. Y.,
practicing law in the firm-name Bolles and Moulton
He was married, Nov. I4, I855, to Mrs Eglantine E. Moulton, and has had two children: (I) Asa M., born Sept. I2,
1856, died Jan. I865; (2) John Huntington, born Oct. I86o.
DANIEL BONBRIGHT, born at Youngstown, Westmoreland Co., Pa., March IO0, I83I, entered the Class Junior
year from Dickinson College. The first year after graduation he was engaged in teaching in Georgia, and the
following two years in Downingtown, Pa. From Jan.
I854, to July, I856, he was tutor in Yale College, when he
was appointed Professor of the Latin language and literature in the Northwestern University at Evanston, near
Chicago, Ill. The following two years he spent in Germany, studying in preparation for his profession.  He
also spent the year I870 in Europe recruiting his health,
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and is now, and for nearly twenty years has been engaged
in the duties of his professorship at Evanston, "with no
new items to contribute to the Class Report-such is the
tranquillity of bachelor years!"
ALBERT BOOTH (East Windsor, Conn.), son of Samuel
C. Booth, was born at Springfield, Mass., Aug. 22, I825.
He taught two years and then studied theology at East
Windsor and at Union Theological Seminary, New York
City. As he is a Methodist minister his fields of labor
are often changed, he having had these appointments;
viz., Darien, Conn.; West Farms and Westchester, N. Y.;
Litchfield and Seymour, Conn.; Freeport, Baldwins,
Rockville, and Whitestone, N. Y; Woodbury, Roxbury,
New Milford, and Bloomfield, Conn.; at which latter place
he now resides.
He was married, March 30, I857, to Miss Louisa Tristram, daughter of William H. Tristram, of Darien, Conn.,
and has had eight children: (I) Ella Louise, born Aug.
Io, 1858; (2) Samuel Albert, born Feb. 3, i86o; (3) Wilbur
Franklin, born Aug. 22, i86i; (4) Lillie, born April, I863,
died June, I863; (5) Charles Isaac, born April, I864, died
July, i864; (6) George Frederic, born Jan. I6, I866; (7)
Minnie Day, born Nov. 26, I867; (8) James Rubert, born
March 28, I869.
CYPRIAN STRONG BRAINERD (born at Haddam, Conn.,
Aug. 4, I828), son of Cyprian Strong Brainerd, was teaching at Central Village, Conn., during the first two years
after graduation.   In Oct. I852, he went to Aberdeen,
Miss., and remained there teaching in a female seminary
until Sept. I853.   During the next two years he taught
in Berkshire, N. Y., and Danville, N. Y. In the summer
of I856 he entered the law office of Roswell C. Brainerd,
Esq., in New York City. During I857 and I858 he was
clerk and private secretary of the Mayor of Brooklyn,
and since has been residing in Brooklyn, engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York City, in the firm of C. E. Hull
& Co. His present address is I 7 Cedar st., New York City.
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JOHN HIRAM BREWER (Slaterville, R. I.), son of Willard
Brewer, was born July 20, I824, at North Brookfield,
Mass., and entered the Class in Jan. I847. Fora few months
after graduation he taught in Stamford, Conn., and then
became principal of the Bacon Academy in Colchester,
Conn.  Fromr Feb. 1852 till the following Septemnber, he
was principal of the Worcester Academy, in Worcester,
Mass., and after that date, until July, I853, was instructor
in Greek in the same institution. He had in the meanwhile been reading law in the office of Hon. Peter C.
Bacon of Worcester, and he was admitted to the bar in
March,  I853.   He continued in Worcester, practicing
law, being part of the time in the office of Hon. Dwight
Foster, of the Class of I848, until in May, I854, he went
to San Francisco. He has resided at Oakland for the last
twelve years engaged in the practice of law in San Francisco. He retains the warmest interest in his Class and
in the College, as is shown by his letters, and by the
reports of those who visit his hospitable home at Oakland.
He was married, Oct. 6, I862, to Miss Margaret Abernethy, and has had three children: (I) Margaret, born
Sept. I863; (2) Annie Willard, born Aug. I866; (3) Henrietta, born June, I870.
OLIVER BROWN (Lyme, Conn.), soni of Rev. Oliver
Brown (Harv. Coll. I804), was born at South Kingston,
R. 1., March 31I, I830.
The first year after graduation, he was teaching at
North Stonington, Conn. He then entered the law office
of John B. Hlaskin, Esq., of New York City. He was
admitted to the bar in New York, in May, 1852, and continued to practice his profession in that city until I854,
when he engaged in teaching ill North Stonington, Conn.
Soon after this he entered the Andover Theological Seminary, and graduated there in I857. In December following, he was ordained pastor of the orthodox Church in
Kingston, R. I. He remained here until Oct. I859, when
he removed to Quincy, Mass., to take charge of the orthoclox Church, and continued there two years.  After this
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he was pastor for three years of Union street Church,
St. Johns, N. B.  He was afterwards pastor of the Congregational Church at Foxlake, Wis. He then removed
to Missouri, and has been Professor of Latin and Natural
Science, and acting President at Thayer College, Kidder,
Mo., for three years.  During a part of the timne he has
been also pastor of the Congregational Church at Breckenridge.   He is now at Springfield, Mo., Professor of
Natural Science in Drury College.
He was married, Aug. 29, i855, to Miss Sarah Grant,
of North Stonington, Conn., and has had seven children:
(I) Maria, born July Io0, I859; (2) Jennie, born Jan. 20,
I865; (3) Oliver, born July 29, I867, died Feb. I7, I868;
(4) Hattie, born March 5, i869; (5) Edward, born Oct. 9,
I87I, died July I, I873; (6) Mary born Nov. 20, I873, died
Dec. 6, I873; (7), born Aug. I9, I876.
*SAMUEL WATSON BROWN. The following notice of
our classmate, prepared by the late Rev. R. C. Learned,
appeared in the "Congregational Quarterly" for Jan.
i868. "Rev. Samuel W. Brown was born at Winchendon,
Mass., on the 7th of April, I828, son of Samuel and Phebe
Brown. At an early age he was deprived of both parents
by death, and was left the only survivor of his father's
household. He graduated at Yale College in I850, and
entered immediately on the study of law in the office of
Judge Mallery, at Philadelphia. After six months, his
own funds being exhausted, and the sudden death of a
friend having cut off the prospect of promised aid, he was
obliged to leave his studies to employ himself in teaching.
In this work he spent about a year in New Jersey, and
then went to Matagorda, Texas, where, for several years,
he taught as constantly as his health permitted. In the
spring of I855 he returned to the North with the intention of completing his law studies, and resumed them
with much interest; but meanwhile had conceived such
disgust for the practice of that profession as led him
finally to abandon all thoughts of it. About this time a
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struggle, which had been going on for more than a year
in his mind, resulted in the determination to live and
work for Jesus. An event which, by God's grace, seemed
to prepare the way for this conclusion, was a fearful
storm that in the autumn of I854 visited Matagorda and
vicinity, and by which many lives were lost and the
whole region threatened with destruction.  At this time
of peril Mr. Brown being placed providentially in a position of great responsibility, was led to pour forth earnest
prayers on behalf of himself and those under his charge.
For the year following the question of personal duty
seemed to dwell upon his mind, for he saw that its decision
might involve a revolution in almost every plan and habit
of his life. When, however, the choice was fully made,
it was an honest purpose, faithfully kept, which soon produced an evident change in the character and life. He
became an earnest worker in Christ's kingdom; the more
earnest because of his natural heartiness of disposition,
and none the less successful because of his uniform affability and cheerfulness.
" In October, I855, Mr. Brown was married, and soon
after took a share in a store at Ludlow, Vt. At this time
he had not considered the possibility of becoming a minister of the Gospel. Owing partly to the circumstances
of his early life the study of the Bible had not been a
favorite one with him until the time of his conversion.
As he gradually became intensely interested in its great
truths, and saw that he must speak for Jesus often and
habitually if he would be true to himself and his Master,
the feeling grew upon him that he was out of place. But
to devote himself at this time to the work of the ministry
involved an entire change in the prospects of his family,
and the immediate use of all his property.   It is not
strange that he hesitated, but, God enabling him, the
decision was made.
"In the summer of I858 he closed his business relations
in Ludlow and leaving his wife and children with friends
in New Hampshire repaired himself to the Theological
Seminary in Chicago, designing to remove his family in
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the spring, and to settle permanently at the West. Circumstances, however, led to a change in his plans, and in
May, I859, he entered the School at Andover, where he
remained until early in I86I. The illness of a member of
his family induced his removal.   In January, I862, he
became the stated supply of the Village Church in South
Coventry, and continued there two years and five months,
during which time two of his children died. On the 29th
of June, 1864, he was installed pastor of the church in
Groton, in which charge he labored lovingly until his
death, on the 9th of November, I866.
"As a Christian minister his chief merit, and perhaps
his chief power, lay in the sweet and tender spirit which
made itself felt in almost every word and look. Men felt
that he cared for their souls.  His ministry was his lifework, and, as the years went on, he was more and more
unwilling to turn aside from its peculiar duties for any
purpose whatever.   His only regrets during the weeks
of his last sickness seemed to be that he could not go
abroad among his people to execute plans which he had
devised for their good. The last sentence he ever wrote
expressed his wish that he might be more earnest and
useful when he should recover than he had been in the
past.
" During his last days he seemed quite at rest with regard to the issue of his disease:' I have given it all up to
God,' he said. So he died, deeply lamented by his people
and his brethren in the ministry; duly commemorated on
the following Sunday in a sermon by the Rev. G. B. Willcox, of' New London; followed to his grave in Coventry
by numbers of those who had loved him as their pastor,
and cherished still in their memories as a good minister
of Jesus Christ. His widow and two surviving children
remain among the people, who supply to them their lack
of relatives."
He was married, Oct. 2I, I855, to Mrs. Mariana Ward
Moore, daughter of Benjamin Ward, Esq., of Rindge,
N. H., and had four children: (I) Stella Caroline, born
July 29, I856; (2) Benjamin Ward, born March I5, I858,
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died April I2, I864; (3) Samuel, born May 1I2, I86o, died
Aug. 28, I862; (4) Arthur Raymond, born July I6, I865.
Mrs. Brown still resides at Groton, where our classmate
Woodhull is settled pastor.
CHARLES EDWARD BROWNELL (East Haddam, Conn.),
son of Edwards P. Brownell, was born at East Haddam,
Conn., Oct. 26, I827. Three months of the year I85o-5I
he spent in teaching in Westchester, Conn. Since that
time he has been engaged in manufacturing in East Haddam, Conn., where he still resides.
He was married, Nov. 25, I852, to Miss Abby F. Loomis,
daughter of Mr. Alfred I. Loomis, of Colchester, Conn.,
and has had five children: (I) George L., born July I3,
I854; (2) Edward C., born Jan. 27, I856; (3) Charles H.,
born July 7, I859; (4) Mary J., born April I5, I86I, died
Feb. 7, I862; (5) Abby F., born July I3, I863. Mrs. Brownell
died Dec. 30, I864.  His eldest son, George, graduated
at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in i875, and was
one of the Yale University crew in the college regatta
at Saratoga in July, I874. His second son, Edward, graduated at the Williston Seminary in 1874, and Charles is
now a member of that institution.
WILLIAM BRUSH was born at New Fairfield, Conn.,
Feb. 19, 1827, and entered the Class the first term, Sophomore year.  In the spring of I85I he joined the New
York Conference, and commenced preaching at Stockport,
Columbia Co., N. Y. He remained there two years and
then went to Chatham, in the same county, where he
preached two years. He preached the following year at
Lenox, Mass., and then for two years at Carmel, Putnam
Co., N. Y.   He then went to Iowa, and preached two
years at Dyersville, near Dubuque. During the latter
part of this term he was elected to the presidency of
Upper Iowa University, at Fayette, Fayette Co. Here
he remained ten years, and then resigned to resume his
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chosen profession of preaching. He was presiding elder
of the Charles City district three years, when he was
transferred in I873 to take charge of the work among the
Methodists in Texas. He was a delegate to the General
Conference of I868 and I872, and was from i872 to I876
a member of the Book Committee. He was also a member of the General Conference of i876, and reelected a
member of the Book Committee for the quadrennian ending I88o. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him
by the Iowa Wesleyan University in i869. During the
war he was appointed Colonel of the 38th Iowa infantry,
but did not serve.
He was married, Oct. 28, I85o, and has had five children,
of whom two have died.   His oldest son, Franklin E.,
graduated in I874 at the State University of Iowa, and
was immediately elected Junior Professor of Ancient
languages in that Institution.   He expects to graduate
in theology in the Northwestern University in May next,
and to make the ministry his life work.
In a letter to the Secretary, Brush says: "Our second
son was sixteen years old July I3, 1875. Our youngest
child is a daughter, Hattie Emma, nearly ten years of age;
two children have died. My health is good-never better.
I am doing my best to promote the cause of Christ.
Amid the cares and toils of life I often turn fondly to the
old associations of my Alma  Mater.   The  Lord bless
Yale and her honored sons, especially the surviving members of the Class of'5o. May success attend you."
*CLINTON CAMP (Trumansburg, N. Y.) was born at
Trumansburg, Dec. 19, I829, and entered the Class the
first term of Junior year from Williams College.  He remained a resident graduate in New Haven one year,
teaching Greek in William H. Russell's School, attending
lectures, etc.; left this country for Berlin (via Liverpool
and London) in Sept. 185I; was student in the University
at Berlin during one term; from thence went to Gottingen
University, Germany, where he remained as a student
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(with the exception of a short time spent in traveling),
until taken with a serious cold and cough, accompanied
by a slight hemorrhage of the lungs. The consequent
illness finally terminated his life at Pisa, Italy, May I7,
I853. The Secretary extracts the following particulars
respecting his last days, from a letter received from his
father, Mr. Hermon Camnp, of Trumansburg, N.Y.: "After
this severe cold was contracted," his father wrote, "his
physician immediately advised him to quit his studies and
to go to Pisa in Italy. He left G6ttingen in January last,
accompanied by his good friend, William D. Sedgwick,
of Lenox, Mass., and arrived at Pisa (via Venice) Feb. 3d.
His first letter to me from[ Pisa, giving an account of his
fatiguing journey, is dated 8th of February. His last letter
is dated March ioth, at which time he thought he was
better, but was evidently mistaken.  His physician, Dr.
Bacchetti, wrote me on the I4th of the same month."
After quoting the Dr.'s views with regard to his son's
disease, Mr.  Camp resumed:  "This letter nearly extinguished all hope of recovery from  his disease, yet we
cherished a hope that he might be able to return home,
and arrangements were made to bring him home; but,
alas! they were too late, and the next news received from
Pisa was the shocking announcement of Clinton's death.
He died on the I7th of May, at 5 o'clock P. M., surrounded
by only a few very affectionate and faithful friends he had
made on a very short acquaintance.   He indulged the
fond hope until his last day, that he should return to his
beloved home and see his family and friends again. I do
not regret this, because I believe he was a true Christian,
and that God, in kindness to him, spared him the painful
thought that he should never see the faces of his dear
friends again. He died without pain either of body or
mind. The fond hopes of my family had centered in him.
But'God's thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor His
ways as our ways.' I intend to bring home the remains
of my son and bury him beside his own dear mother,
and sister Caroline, who when at school in New Haven
in her I7th year, died suddenly of the same disease."
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ROBERT HETT CHAPMAN (Livingston, Ala.), son of
William S. Chapman (Univ. of N. C. I823), and Coziah
A. (Beck), and grandson of Rev. Robert H. Chapman,
D.D. (Nassau Hall, I789), President of Univ. of N. C.,
and great-grandson of Rev. Jedediah Chapman (Y. C.
I762), was born in Greensboro, Ala., Feb. 7, i828, and
entered the Class the third term of Freshman year.
The first year after graduation he taught in Livingston,
and the second year at Tuscaloosa, in the same state. He
then studied law at Talladega and practiced his profession
in Alabama till the breaking out of the war, in which he
took an active part. In I869 he removed to California and
tried farming. He has lately resumed the practice of his
profession, and is now located at Los Angeles, Cal.
In a letter dated June 20, I875, he writes: " My way of
life has been changed by necessity from that of a solitary
Ranchero to the less agreeable occupation of a practicing
lawyer.   I, with my  usual good judgment and sense,
located on a dry ranch. Three dry years reduced me,
financially, to the bed rock, and I was compelled to practice law for a living. I am doing very well. Have nothing to complain of personally, and am pleased to say that
most of my clients seem willing to pay liberally for an
inferior article of the law. I am still unmarried, and likely
to remain so. I hope you will all have a pleasant reunion,
and the majority be able to meet to celebrate our fiftieth
anniversary."
HENRY CHASE was born in Lyndon, Vt., Oct. IO, I827.
During the winter following our graduation Chase studied
law in the office of Hon. Thomas Bartlett in Lyndon.
The following summer he worked on his father's farm,
and in September entered the Cambridge Law School,
but returned home in Jan. I852 in consequence of an entire failure of his health. He remained at home, regaining his health, reading, studying, and helping his father
in his business, till the fall of I855. He then went to
Sycamore, Ill., to engage in such business as he might
find agreeable, and, if his health permitted, to resume the
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study of the law. He was admitted to the bar at Sycamore, April 22, I857. He remained in that place practicing his profession and filling the office of attorney and
clerk of the corporate town of Sycamore until Feb. I859,
when he entered into a partnership with a law firm in
Chicago, and resided there some time in the practice of
his profession.   He is now settled in his native town,
Lyndon, Vt. He is one of the directors of the Vermont
State Agricultural Society, and also president of the
National bank of Lyndon. He was elected a representative from Lyndon to the State Legislature in I865. He
had the alternate appointment, and served to the end,
Nov. I876, as Centennial Commissioner for Vermont. In
I876 he was appointed by Gov. Fairbanks a member of
the Vermont Board of Agriculture.
He was married, Feb. 25, I869, to Miss Sarah Weir
Robinson, of Brooklyn, N. Y, and has three children: (I)
Henrietta H., born July 24, I870; (2) Gordon B., born
July I8, I872; (3) Florence, born Sept. Io, I874.
*EDWARD PAYSON CLARKE (Stockbridge, Mass.), son
of Rev. Tertius S. Clarke, D.D. (Y. C. I824), was born in
Deerfield, Mass., July 4, I83I. He entered the Class the
first term of Senior year, from Williams College. After
graduation he joined his father's family in Penn Yan,
N.Y., where he remained for more than two years pursuing a systematic and thorough course of reading, intending to fit himself for the literary profession. In May,
1853, he removed to Franklin, Delaware Co., N. Y. His
health, previously delicate, now failed altogether, pulmonary consumption manifesting itself and making rapid
progress. He died on the ISt of Sept. I853, at Franklin.
Our classmate, Prof. Evans, was then a teacher in the
Franklin Academy. He wrote: "I was with him a great
deal during his sickness, and I stood by his deathbed. I
have the happiness of believing that he died a Christian.
* * * He had read with wonderful success. I never
knew another man, young or old, who showed such general familiarity with the English classics."
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ROBERT COlT (New London, Conn.), son of Robert
Coit and Charlotte (Coit), grandson of Joshua Coit (Harv
Coil. I776), and brother of Joshua Coit (Y. C. 1853) and
of Alfred Coit (Y. C. I856), was born in New London,
April 26, I830.
For one year he studied law in the office of W. C.
Crump, Esq., in New London, and then entered the Yale
Law School, and remained a year. He was admitted to
the bar in New London in Nov. I852, and since that time
has been practicing his profession in that city.  For a
number of years he was Judge of Probate for the District
of New London.  In I867 he was appointed Register in
Bankruptcy of the U. S. District Court for Connecticut,
and also Treasurer of the New London Northern R. R.
Co., which offices he still holds.
He  was married in August,  I854, to Miss Lucretia
Brainard, and has had two children: (i) Mary Gardiner,
born Jan. 2I, I857, died Jan. 6, I86o; (2) William Brainard,
born July 23, I862.
WILLIS STRONG COLTON (Lockport, N.Y.), son of Rev.
George Colton (Y. C. I804) and Lucy (Cowles), is of a
family most honorably connected with Yale College. The
name of his great-grandfather, Rev. Benjamin Colton
(Y. C. I710), stands on the first page in the list of grad
uates in the College Triennial at the head of his class of
two. Five of his brothers, all scholars of high rank, received the honors of the College; viz., Rev. John O. Colton (Y. C. I832), George H. Colton (Y. C. I840), Rev.
Theron G. Colton (Y. C. I844), Rev. Henry M. Colton
(Y. C. I848), and Horace B. Colton (Y. C. I85o h. but in
Class of 1837).
Our classmate was born June 25, I828, at Royalton,
Niagara Co., N. Y., and prepared for college at Phillips
Exeter Academy (I844-46). After graduation he taught
school in Saybrook, Conn., residing there till April, I85I.
He then went to Kentucky and entered as private instructor the family of Hon. Cassius M. Clay, in which capacity
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he'continued till the summer of I852, when he returned
to New Haven and entered the Theological Seminary of
Yale College. Soon afterwards he assumed the duties of
Tutor in the College itself and continued teaching, and
at the same time prosecuting his professional studies, until
i856. Receiving a call to settle as pastor of the First
Congregational Church at Wethersfield, Conn., he accepted it, and was there ordained and installed pastor in
Sept. I7, I856. Here he prosecuted the duties of his profession for ten years, when he received a call to settle as
pastor of the First Congregational Church in Washington, Conn., where he remained in the active discharge of
the work of his profession a second decade of years. In
the present month (March, I877) he removed to Warren,
Conn., where he is expecting to continue his labors.
He was married, May 22, I857, to Miss Lucy P. Gibson,
daughter of 0. L. Gibson, M.D., of Wellsboro, Pa., and
has had seven children; (I) Etnelyn A., born July I, I858;
(2) Laura M., born May I4, I86o, died Oct. i865; (3)
George B., born June 4, I862; (4) Ada G., born Nov. 5,
I864; (5) Arthur W., born May 22, i868; (6) Lewis G.,
born April 20, I870; (7) Mabel, born Sept. I5, I873.
ALBERT PIERSON CONDIT (New Haven, Conn.), brother
of Charles Condit (Y. C. I848), and of Stephen Condit
(Y. C. i856), was born in Orange, N. J., Dec. Io, I829.
He studied law in the office of Hon. William Pennington,
of Newark, N. J., and was admitted to the bar in Nov.
I853. He has since been actively engaged in the practice
of his profession at Newark.   He was a member of the
State Legislature in I866, I867, and I87I, and in I871 was
elected Speaker of the Assembly.
GEORGE SHERMAN CONVERSE, son of Sherman Converse (Y. C. I813), and Eliza (Nott), and grandson of Rev.
Samuel Nott, D.D. (Y. C. I780), was born in New York
City, Sept. 2, I828. For two years after graduation he
was teaching at St. Timothy's Hall, Baltimore Co., Md.
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In Oct. I852, he commenced the study of medicine in
New York City. He studied medicine for one year, and
after that was engaged in teaching and studying divinity
in New York City until August, i857, when, after graduating at the General Theological Seminary, he was ordained Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church by
the Rt. Rev. Horatio Potter, D.D.. at Newburg, N. Y.
Until June 2, I859, he was Assistant to the Rector of the
Church of the Ascension in New York City. He was
ordained Priest by Bishop Potter June 2, I859, and became Rector of St. James' Church at Roxbury, Mass.,
where he remained for twelve years, and is now Rector
of St. John's Church, Boston Highlands.
He was married, Dec. 30, i862, to Miss Ella Coles, of
New York City, and has had four children: (I) Eliza
Nott, born I864; George Sherman, Jr., born I867; Hobart
H., born I870, died Aug. 29, I870; (4) Henry Coster, born
March I17, I874.
In a letter dated Nov. I3, 1875, he writes: "I resigned
St. James' Church after a rectorship of twelve years, in
the spring of J87I, very much out of health. In the fall
of I873 I became Rector of St. John's Church, Boston
Highlands, where I am now,-a parish that has grown
out of a mission work that I established when I was Rector of St. James. My health, however, was not good, and
I was obliged to break off and go abroad last June. I
have returned better than I have been for years.   It
seems as though I had taken a new lease of life. I enjoy
my work and have a great deal to encourage me in it."
THOMAS DYER CONYNGHAM (Wyoming Valley, Pa.),
son of Hlon. John N. Conyngham (Univ. of Pa. I8i6), and
brother of John B. Conyngham (Y. C. I846), was born in
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Dec. I, I83I.  For two years after graduation he was engaged as Civil Engineer on the Penn.
Central R. R., and for the next four years in the same
capacity on the North Penn. R. R. In I857 he engaged
in the coal business, living a portion of the time at Easton,
Pa., and for the last few years at Wilkesbarre.
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He  was married, June 5, I856, to Miss Harriet M.
Michler, daughter of Hon. P. S. Michler, of Easton, Pa.,
and has had four children; (I) John Nesbitt, born Feb. 7,
I859, died Aug. 3I, I859; (2) Mary Michler, born April
5, I86o; (3) Redmond, born March I2, I863; (4) Edith,
born May Io, 1865.
*GEORGE WALTER CRANE (Middletown, Conn.), son
of Rev. John R. Crane, D.D. (Princeton Coll. I8o5), was
born in Middletown, May 30, I828. He died at his home
in Middletown, of consumption, Aug. 22, I85o, only a few
days after graduation.   The  following letter from his
father was given in the first Class Report:
"His fatal disease was pulmonary  consumption.  It
commenced with hemorrhage of the lungs in February,
I849, in the second term of his Junior year. On the second day after his return to New Haven, in the first term
of his Senior year, he sustained a similar attack, which
occasioned a prostration of his frame during several subsequent weeks, and inability to continue in the course of
study with his Class. During the following winter, which
he spent in Middletown, his malady did not appear to
increase in strength, and his chief regret was that he
could not enjoy the privileges of the Senior year in College, and the intercourse of his classmates. In June, i85o,
he visited New Jersey in hope of improvement to his
health, without success. After his return early in July
his decline was gradual and constant until the close of his
life. During his sickness he suffered but little pain in his
body and was calm in his spirit. When it became obvious
that he could not recover from his disease, he expressed
a wish that he might not be removed from time in his
early youth, but uttered no murmur at the dispensation
of Providence, in prospect of the departure he was soon
to take from earth. He stated in the fullest manner his
conviction of the entire sinfulness of his moral character,
and his sense of the indispensable need of Christ. His
views of the way of salvation appeared to be scriptural
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and his trust in the Divine Redeemer decided and supporting to his heart. He was obviously much engaged
in meditating on divine things during his illness.
"In the evening of the 2ISt of August, after a day in
which his countenance had been much brighter than for
some days previous, he mentioned that he had been
affected with wonder in meditating on the astonishing
love of Christ in interposing for the redemption of such
sinners as he was, and felt that the Saviour was very
precious to him. On the following morning symptoms
of approaching dissolution were manifest in his case.
His mental faculties not being imnpaired, he united in
prayer with the family in his room. His mother, who
held his head, asked,'My son, is Christ now precious to
you?' He bowed his assent to her question, and added
in a whisper,'Yes, very.'   These were his last expressions. He expired at six o'clock in the morning of August
22, 1850."
HENRY MARTYN DECHERT, son of Elijah Dechert, Esq.,
was born in Reading, Pa., in I83I. He studied law in his
father's office in Reading the first year after graduation.
From I85I till April, I853, he was Principal ofthe Mount
Pleasant Seminary, Boyerstown, Berks Co., Pa. He then
went to Philadelphia and resumed his study of law in the
office of Hon. C. B. Penrose, was admitted to the bar
Feb. 7, I854, and since that time has been practicing law
in that city. In I855 he was elected School Director; in
I856-58 he was Assistant City Solicitor of Philadelphia,
and in May, I86o, was the Democratic candidate for the
office of City Solicitor, but was beaten by a few votes,
along with the rest of his ticket.  In September, I862, he
was 2d Lieut. in the Pennsylvania Militia service, and
was Ist Lieut. in 4oth Regt. P. V. M., mustered July I,
I863 into the U. S. service for go90 days, for duty in Maryland and Virginia.
He was married, Sept. 15, I857, to Miss Esther S. Taylor,
daughter of Mr. Thomas S. Taylor, of Philadelphia, and
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has three children: (I) Harry Taylor, born Feb. 2, I859;
(2) Bertha M., born April 5, I86I; (3) Ellen G., born Nov.
I, i 863.
*CHARLES CHAUNCEY DILLINGHAM (Philadelphia, Pa.)
was born in Westchester, Pa., July 22, I83I. He studied
law at Philadelphia, and received the degree of Bachelor.
of Laws at the University of Pennsylvania. He did not
enter upon the practice of the law, but engaged in literary
pursuits and resided in Europe for many years. He died
in London, Eng., Oct. 25, I867, and was buried in Kensal
Green Cemetery, where his friends in London have
erected a monument with this inscription:" Sacred to
the memory of Charles Chauncey Brinton Dillingham, of
Philadelphia, U S. A. Died October 25, 1867, aged 36.
An accomplished scholar and a genial companion, his loss
is lamented and his memory cherished by a wide circle of
literary friends."
JOHN DAY EASTER was born in Baltimore, Md., Aug.
24, I830, and entered the Class the second term Junior
year. After graduation he first taught a season in Alexandria, Va.   He then studied chemistry in the Yale
Analytical Laboratory, and at Philadelphia, until Sept.
1852, when he went to Gottingen in Germany, to continue
his scientific studies. He studied at Gottingen, at the
School of Mines at Freiberg in Saxony, and at Heidelberg,
and received in I854 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
from the Heidelberg university. During a few months
of I855 he was first assistant in the Geological Survey of
Mississippi, but resigned on account of ill health; then
went to Washington, and for a year or two had charge of
the laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution.   Being
elected Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry
in the University of Georgia at Athens, he filled that
office during the years I857-59. In I86i he published a
translation of Frick's Technical Physics.
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He was ordained Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal
Church by Bishop Elliott at Savannah, Nov. 30, I859.
After preaching three months in Christ Church, he removed to St. Mary's, Ga., where he was residing in the
summer of I86o. He had charge of two parishes forty
miles apart. On the breaking out of the war, the population on the coast being scattered, he removed to Rome,
Ga.   In the spring of I862 he was commissioned as
Chaplain in the Confederate army, and assigned to duty
in the hospitals at Rome. He continued in this service
until the close of the war. He accepted, in the winter of
i865, the charge of a parish in Tuscaloosa, Ala., his former
parishes being too much weakened to support a pastor.
Here his wife died, leaving three sons and a daughter.
His own health failing, he was compelled to remove, and
in April, i868, he accepted the charge of Trinity Church,
St. Louis, where he remained until January, I872, when
his health again failing him, he resigned. After traveling
some months, he took charge of St. John's Church, a
small parish in Howard  Co., Md.   In April, I875, he
accepted a call to be Dean of the Cathedral Church in
Omaha, Neb. In July, I876, he removed to Jacksonville,
Ill., to take the charge of the Episcopal Church in that
place.
He was married, Oct. 29, 1857, to Miss Fanny Coley,
of New York, by whom he had four children: (I) Henry,
born Sept. 4, I858; (2) Fred. William, born Oct. 7, I86o;
(3) Charles Hamilton, born Sept. 8, I862; (4) Ellen Coley,
born March 27, I865. His wife died in I866.
He was married Jan. 24, I872, to Miss Mary E. Doan,
by whom he has had one child, John Doan, born Jan.
I873, died Oct. I874.
*SAMUEL HENRY EDWARDS, son of Hon. Samuel L.
Edwards (Y. C. I812), was born at Manlius, N. Y., on the
27th of December. I83I, and he entered our Class the
third term of Freshman year. He studied law at Manlius,
and was admitted to the bar in Jan. I853. For two years
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he practiced law at Manlius, and then removed to Buffalo,
N. Y., where he resided until I858.   He  returned to
Onondaga County in the spring of that year, and entered
into a law partnership with Gen. W. J. Hough. Afterwards he was by himself for about a year, and then formed
a partnership with Mr. Bookstaver, which continued till
his death. In I86o he was the Democratic nominee for
Surrogate of Onondaga County. He died at Syracuse,
March I7, I862, quite unexpectedly from an attack of
quinsy. His classmates knew that Edwards would win
confidence and love in any community. Yet they will be
gratified to read some of the expressions of the affection
and esteem of his fellow citizens, uttered at the time of
his death.
The Syracuse " Courier and Union " in an editorial
article says: "The high position he held, socially and
professionally, made the sad tidings fall like a shock upon
our community. His membership of one of the ablest
and most respected families of our county, the character
and reputation which he had built up by his industry, his
integrity, his spotless purity of motive and of habit, and
the sterling qualities of his mind and heart, had endeared
him to a wide and constantly increasing circle of friends
and acquaintances. He was fidelity itself to those who
possessed his friendship, or trusted to his social or professional qualifications. Systematic, prompt, and exact,
he was never at a loss and never confused, but met every
emergency with that cool, calm judgment which he possessed in so remarkable a degree."
At a meeting of the bar of Onondaga County, Judge
Spencer said: "All those happy social relations that his
intelligence, his integrity, his high sense of honor and
congeniality of disposition had gathered around him, all
are ended! They exist only in memory; but that memory will ever be bright. Honest and unsuspecting himself
it seemed to be his delight to place the fullest confidence
in others. His life as a lawyer was without one single
cloud to darken it-without one single mark to mar it.
These truths, like rays of light, penetrate the gloom that
naturally gathers over the grave."
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At the same meeting, Edwards' partner, Mr. Bookstaver,
said: "The fears, anxieties and doubtings incident to life,
with his innate modesty, made the future to him, at times,
look dark and uninviting; but in the happy consummation
of his nuptials in November last, they were all removed;
and well do I remember his remark to me on his return
from that wedding tour,'Life is indeed a sweet and joyous
reality.'   He  seemed to be just entering upon its full
enjoyment, with unwonted health-business prospects
opening with brilliancy upon his vision —social position
beckoning him fo its choicest seat-rejoicing in the full
strength of his manhood, with the wedding wreath scarce
folded on the brow of his youthful bride, when he is
stricken down."
Our classmate was mnarried, Nov. 29th, I86I, to Miss
Virginia, daughter of Hon. William H. Shankland.
WILLIAM THOMPSON FARNHAM (New York City), son
of Judge George W. Farnham and Caroline (Thompson),
was born in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 15, I830. One of
his ancestors, Ebenezer Bassett (Y. C. I746), was a classmate of President Stiles.
He studied in the Yale Law School during one year,
and one year in New York City, where he was admitted to the bar in Oct. 1852, and since that time he has
been practicing his profession in New York City. For
fourteen years he was in partnership with our classmate
A. De Witt Baldwin.   His present business address is
8 Pine st. He became a member of the Seventh Regiment
in New York City in I855, and served with it in its several
campaigns in the late war.
He  was married, Dec. 29, I864, to Miss Charlotte
Maxwell, daughter of J. T. B. Maxwell, Esq., of New
York City.
JOSEPH FORWARD FOOTE, son of Thaddeus Foote, and
brother of Thaddeus Foote, Jr. (Y. C. I844), was born in
Southwick, Mass., Feb. 7, I828. He studied law in the
autumn of I85o in the office of Hon. L. F. S. Foster, in
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Norwich, Conn.   Hie then went to Norwalk, Conn.,
studied law in the office of Hon. O. S. Ferry, was admitted to the bar Dec. 20, I852, and since that time has
been practicing law in Norwalk.   In I855-56 he was
Executive Secretary of the State of Connecticut under
Gov. Minor, and has held several civil and municipal
offices in the town and borough of Norwalk.
He was married, March 20, I873, to Miss Jennie D.
Middlebrook of Norwalk.
GEORGE LOMBARD FROST was born in Springfield,
Mass., March i8, I830. He studied law in Springfield
from the time of graduation until Sept. I85I, when he
entered the Cambridge Law School, and was admitted to
the bar in Sept. I852. In March, i853, he went to Mineral
Point, Wis., where he remained in the active practice of
his profession until the autumn of I869. He held several
offices, and being a firm Democrat, and the county Republican, he was beaten in the canvass for several others. In
the winters of I863 and I864 he represented the county in
the State Senate. In the spring of I864 he was candidate
for Circuit Judge. In i869 he removed to Dodgeville,
in the same county, and has practiced law there to the
present time.
He was married, Sept. IO0, I852, to Miss Malvina Gaszynski, of Boston, Mass., and had eight children: (I)
George Vernon Brown, born June 25, I853, who is now
in New York City (837 6th ave.), and is City Inspector in
the District Telegraph Co.; (2) William Lee, born Aug. 3I,
i855, died Oct. I6, I855; (3) Vivian, born Oct. 29, I856;
(4) Henry Lee, born July 3I, I858, now  publishing a
newspaper in Calamo, Nebraska; (5) Joseph Wilson, born
April I2, I86o; (6) Charles Chapin, born March 4, I862;
(7) Frederic Thorpe, born July 3I, i866, died Aug. 30, I866;
(8) Lee, born July 3I, I866, died Aug. 3I, I866. Mrs. Frost
died in February, I867.
He married, Nov. 20, I87I, Miss Mary E. Thomas, of
Dodgeville, and they have one son, Walter Bridgeman,
born Sept. 4, I872.
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EDWIN HALL (Norwalk, Conn.), son of Rev. Edwin
Hall, D.D. (Middlebury Coil. I826), was born Aug. I,
I829, in Middlebury, Vt.
He taught at North Granville, N. Y., and Norwalk,
Conn., till Sept. i851, when he entered the East Windsor
Theological Seminary and completed the full three years'
course. In the fall of I854 he commenced preaching for
the South Congregational Church of New Hartford,
Conn., and was ordained their pastor, Dec. I3, I854,
where he remained till April 13, I869.  He was installed
pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Youngstown, Niagara
Co., N. Y., July I4 i869. In August, I873, he went to
South Canaan, Conn., where he preached for one year.
In Oct. I1874, he removed to Rosendale, Fond du Lac
County, Wis., where he has been until the present winter
(I877), acting pastor of the Congregational Church.   He
has removed to Charleston, West Virginia, and he became
acting pastor of the Kanawha Presbyterian Church in that
place on the 25th of February, I877.
He was married, Oct. I3, I869, to Miss Henrietta Watson, of New Hartford, Conn.
*CHAUNCY MEIGS HAND (Madison, Conn.), son of
Joseph W. Hand (Y. C. I813), and Catherine (Fowler),
and nephew of Hon. William C. Fowler (Y. C. I8i6), was
born in Washington, D. C., May 2, i828. For the first two
years after graduation he taught in a military school in
Oxford, Talbot Co., Md.  In 1853 he studied law in New
Haven, and the next year went to New York City and
began the practice of law, continuing there several years.
He afterwards studied theology, and was licensed to
preach in May, i862.  In 1864 he joined the army in the
cavalry service under General Sheridan, and was severely
wounded in a battle in the valley of the Rappahannock.
After the war he returned to his home in Madison, Conn.,
but his health was so much injured by his labors, privations and sufferings in the service that he gradually failed,
and died Oct. 5, 1865.
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Mr. Fowler says of him: "He was a gentleman of high
culture, strong sense of religious obligation, honorable in
all his intercourse with others, and greatly beloved by his
intimate friends. He was in my family for many months
at a time in different periods of his life, and I can think of
him only with affection for his amiable qualities, and great
respect for his moral principles and his high sense of
honor."
Rev. W. B Lee (Class of I849) in reply to a letter of
the Secretary, says: "I knew and loved Hand from his
boyhood until his death, and his memory is very precious
to me now.   He always manifested a noble spirit, and
was actuated by generous impulses. He had a high temper, which was under gentlemanly self-control, and finally
seemed to be under the rule of the grace of God. At
one time, during my ministry in Brooklyn, N. Y. (I think
that it was the year previous to his joining the army), he
was often at my church on Sabbath morning, dined with
me, and sometimes spent the day. On these occasions we
always spent all the time in which I could be with him,
in conversation on religious subjects. He was in some
darkness of mind, not, as I think, upon any of the great
truths of revealed religion, but rather because he felt an
inability to come up to the lofty standard of the Christian
life which he had set before him. I shall alwvays remember these conversations with pleasure.   He seemed to
desire to learn of Christ just like a little child, and yet he
was naturally proud.  He could not bear shams.  To a
stranger he was distant and reserved. To a friend he was
warm-hearted and tull of sympathy, both in joy and sorrow; and he was'true as steel.' He was very ambitious
to excel in whatever he undertook. But, for some reason
unknown to me, he seems to have failed of reaching the
goal of his ambition, and so became disheartened as his
health continued to fail. Yet he was a splendid fellow,
and no doubt a true Christian, whom I expect to meet in
the coming glory. God bless you and your genial Class,
many of whom are still my warm and dear friends."
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CURTIS JUSTIN HILLYER, son of Justin Hillyer, was
born in Granville, Licking Co., Ohio, May 3I, I828. He
entered the Class the first term Sophomore year. After
graduation he was studying law and teaching in Cincinnati, Ohio, until March, I852, when his health failed and
he went to California In July of that year he bought a
mining claim and worked it for four months. Having
regained his health, he was admitted to the bar in March,
I853, and opened an office in Yankee Jims, Placer Co.,
about 50 miles N.E. from Sacramento City. After spending a year or two here he removed to Iowa City in the
same county. In I856 he settled in Auburn, the county
seat, from which place he removed to Virginia City,
Nevada.   For the last few years he has  resided  in
Washington, D. C., in the practice of his profession,
where he will gladly welcome any of his classmates who
may give him a call.
He was married to Miss Alexander, of Iowa City, Cal.,
I855, and has had five children: (I) Virgil Justin, born
Oct. 3I, I856, died Jan. 30, I869; (2) Edgar Curtis, born
March 2, I858; (3) Munson Frank, born Sept. 7, i86i; (4)
Will Lowe, born Aug. 2, I865; (5) Bessie, born Aug.
26, 1 869.
BENJAMIN JASON HORTON (Cincinnati, Ohio) was born
in New  York City, Feb.  I3, I831I; entered the Class
Sophomore year.
During the fall of 1850, and until July, I85I, he taught
at Pass Christian, a place on the gulf coast between
New Orleans and Mobile.   Late in that year he commenced the study of law in the office of Hon. Timothy
Walker, of Cincinnati, and continued there until the summer of I853. He then studied until about Jan. I, I854, at
the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the bar early
in I854, and soon after formed a law partnership with
Hon. Eben. Newton, at Cincinnati   In January, I862, he
entered the army as Ist Lieut. 24th O. V. I., and was on
the staff of Major General William Nelson, up to the time
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of Gen. Nelson's death.   He was in several important
engagements, and lost a leg at the battle of Stone River,
Dec. 3I, i862. Jan. I, I863, he was promoted to a captaincy. In the fall of I863 he was elected Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio, and
by virtue of his office, Clerk of the Superior Court of
Cincinnati, and of the District Court of the ISt Judicial
District of Ohio. In May. I870, he removed to Lawrence,
Kansas, and since then has' mixed a little in politics;
but for the last three or four years, having been on the offside, has had the honor of a glorious defeat on at least
two occasions." He is now practicing law at Lawrence.
He was married, April 8, I858, to Miss Virginia Yeatman, of Cincinnati, and has five children living: (I) Eva
A., born Nov. 26, I86I; (2) Alice G., born Dec. I2, I863;
(3) Dick, born Feb. 2I, I866; (4) Thomas Y., born March
7, I868; (5) Benjamin, born Sept. 8, I872.
THOMAS HEBER JACKSON (Prince George's Co., Md.)
was born in Leesburg. Va., Sept. 1830. He studied medicine at Philadelphia, Pa., and graduated at the Jefferson
Medical College in March, 1853. He remained at Philadelphia and practiced medicine until Feb. 1857, when he
removed to Prince George's Co., Md. After practicing
here until the fall of I859, he removed to Kittrel, Granville Co., N. C.; but his health failing, he removed to
Garretson's Landing, Ark., where he now resides, engaged
in cotton planting.
He was married, May 5, I857, to Miss Christiana Burwell, daughter of Mr. William A. Eaton, and has had two
children: (I) Edith, born Jan. 24, I858, died July I4, I858;
(2) Maria West Aden, born Feb. 19, I859.
EDWARD MILES JEROME (New Haven, Conn.), son of
Chauncey Jerome, was born in Bristol, Conn., June I5,
1826. He studied law for two years, until May, I852, at
the Yale Law School, and the three following months in
the law office of William Schley, Esq., in Baltimore, Md.
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He was admitted to the bar in Baltimore in June, I852,
received the degree of LL.B. from Yale College in July,
1852, and was admitted to the bar in New Haven in Nov.
I852. During the presidential canvass of that year he
was engaged in stumping the State. He opened an office
in New Haven in Jan. I853, but the death of his brother
caused him, in August, I853 to take up his residence in
New York City, in order to superintend the branch of
his father's clock business in that city. Here he remained
until Dec. i855. From that time till May, i86o, he resided
alternately in New Haven and Hartford. The first part
of the time he spent in studying theology, and he was
licensed to preach in Dec. i856. After preaching in several places as an evangelist, he was ordained pastor of the
Baptist Church in Northampton,  Mass., in May,  i86o.
From I862 to i866, he was pastor in Meriden, Conn., but
his health failing he removed to St. Paul, Minn., and remained a year. His health not being benefitted by the
change he returned East, and from I867 to I869 resided in
New Haven, preaching as his health permitted. In Oct.
i869, he was settled as pastor in Westfield, Mass. He removed in I87I to Ansonia, Conn., where he established
"The Naugatuck Valley Sentinel," which paper he is
now editing. It is a weekly journal of merit, and has a
constantly increasing circulation.   He also preaches as
he has opportunity and strength.
He was married, Dec. 14, i852, to Miss Kate H. Braddock, daughter of Mr. John Braddock, of Hartford, Conn.
She died in New Haven, July 26, i856, leaving one child,
Chauncey Braddock, born Aug. 6, 1854, who died Oct. 25,
I859.
He was again married, Oct. 5, I858, to Miss Emma
Hotchkiss, daughter of the late Mr. Horace R. Hotchkiss, of Fair Haven, Conn., and has had six children:
(I) Edward Hotchkiss, born June 23, I859, died April I7,
i860o; (2) Hattie Louise, born Jan. 29, 1863; (3) Lottie Morris, born Nov. 28, I864; (4) Chauncey, born Dec. I3, I867,
died Aug. I4, I869; (5) Herbert Lincoln, born Aug. io, I87I,
died Feb. 23, I873; (6) Florence, born March 3, i875.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON (Detroit, Mich.), son of John Johnson,
and Ann, daughter of Rev. Robert Winfield, was born at
Ambaston, Derbyshire, England, Aug. I3, I823. He entered the Class Sophomore year from Western Reserve
College.
He studied theology in the Yale Theological Seminary,
and was licensed to preach in July, I852, by the New
Haven East Association. After completing his theological course he remained a year at New Haven as resident licentiate. He then spent a year at Detroit studying
medicine, returning to New Haven afterwards, and residing there a year as resident licentiate.
In I855 he engaged in preaching at Ashville, Chautauqua
Co., N.Y., and was ordained pastor there by the Western
New York Consociation, June Io0, I856. From this place
he went to Cambria, Niagara Co., N.Y., where he labored
two years. He then went in 1859 to Center Lisle, Broome
Co., N. Y., and in r86o to Chenango Forks, of the same
county, where he remained six years. Was afterwards at
Newark Valley, N. Y., five years, and Groton one year,
and since April, I873, has been at Rodman, N. Y. He
spent the summer of I866 in traveling in England and
France. While abroad he wrote a series of foreign letters
for the papers. He published a sermon on the death of
President Lincoln in I865, and has furnished a history of
Susquehanna Association for the "Congregational Quarterly." In I876 he received the degree of A.M. ad eundem
from Drury College, Mo. His labors at Rodman closed
April I, i877; but for the present, until Providence opens
another field of labor, he remains at that place.
He married, Oct. 30, I855, Miss Catharine C. Isham, of
Taunton, Mass., daughter of Rev. Chester Isham (Y. C.
I820) and has had three children: (I) Chester Lavalette,
born Sept. I4, I858, now preparing for college at Homer,
N. Y., and expecting to come to Yale; (2) Ann Eliza
born Nov. 26, I859, died Jan. 3, I865; (3) Catharine Isham,
born May 29, I86i.
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MARTIN KELLOGG, son of Allyn Kellogg and Eliza
(White) was born in Vernon, Conn., March IS, I828. He
spent the first year after graduation in study and teaching.
In I85I he entered the Union Theological Seminary in
New York City.   The second year of his theological
studies was spent in Andover, and the senior year again
in New York, where he was licensed to preach by the
Congregational Association in the spring of 1854. After
graduating, he passed a year as resident licentiate in the
Yale Theological Seminary. In the fall of 1855 he was
ordained by a Congregational council at Vernon (sermon
by Pres. Woolsey), and on the 20th of October sailed as
a Home Missionary for California. From Dec. i855 to
June, 1857, he was located at Shasta, in that State, and
then he removed to Grass Valley, to minister to the Congregational Church in that place. In I859 he was elected
Professor of Latin in the College of California, at Oakland,
near San Francisco; and when, in 1869, that College was
merged into the University of California, he was appointed
Professor of Ancient Languages, and spent some months
in Europe in travel and study.   He  has recently been
designated as Professor of the Latin Language and
Literture, the chair of Ancient Languages having been
divided.
He was married, Sept. 3, I863, to Miss Louisa W.
Brockway, daughter of Hon. J. H. Brockway (Y. C.
I820), granddaughter of Deodate Brockway (Y. C. I797),
and great-granddaughter of Thomas Brockway (Y. C.
I768), and has had two children: (I) Grace Hall, born
Aug. 26, I865, died Oct. 17, i865; (2) Norman Brockway,
born Aug. 29, I867, died Nov. 25, I867.
In his letter to the Secretary, he writes: "I have all
along hoped to be with my Class at its quarter-century
celebration, but am reluctantly compelled to give it up.
IT means the celebration and not the Class; that I never
wish to give up. The Class tie holds after so many years,
at such a distance, with so little personal intercourse, as
steadily as ever. It is a real grief that I cannot be with
you.
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"I will add but a word as to my California work.  I
became early interested in college education for this new
State, and was one of the first two professors (simultaneously appointed) in the College of California. Henry
Durant, who had prepared the way for the College by a
college school, was the other professor then appointed.
When the College gave way to the'University of California,' I was again one of the first two appointed
(simultaneously) to professorships in the new institution.
I am thus a sort of college pioneer. My work has been
thus far too general and miscellaneous to admit of very
ripe fruits in any one specialty. Such I fear it will still
continue to be.  I must content myself with laying foundations. This I am glad to do. Our University is succeeding well. As a State Institution it labors under some
special disadvantages, but the State has thus far fostered
it with a noble generosity. Our classes are steadily increasing, the new one promising to be fully one hundred.
In my own department, the classical, there has been a
hard fight, owing to the general  wish for a'scientific'
and  practical' education.  But the good old conservative
course, somewhat modified, is steadily gaining in favor.
All departments are vigorous and hopeful.
"Wishing you all a very pleasant meeting, and craving
a kind passing thought in your joy, I am, etc."
*RICHARD LAMB (Norfolk, Va.) was born in Norfolk,
June 23, I830, and entered our Class Freshman year from
the Class of I849. He was a student of medicine in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City
until July, I852. He died at Norfolk, Va., on the 3d of
October, I852, after an illness of nine weeks.
His father, Mr. Wm. W. Lamb, writes as follows, regarding the last sickness and death of his beloved son:
"Richard fell a martyr to his generous disposition.  For,
instead of coming to a home overflowing with comforts,
after the close of the session of his Medical College in
the spring of I852, he took the place of a friend in the
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New York Hospital to enable him to visit his relatives in
the West, and labored beyond his strength till late in the
summer in the midst of the most loathsome diseases. The
foundation of the cause of his premature death-lumbar
abscess-was there laid, and on the third day after reaching his happy home, filled with joyous anticipations,
which every preparation had been made by his father and
mother to fulfill, he was prostrated by intense pain, from
which for nine long weeks he had no relief, and which he
bore without a murmur of complaint, or expression of
regret at leaving the bright earthly prospects full in his
view. One solitary obstacle seemed in his pathway to
Heaven-a desire to make some return to his parents for
all that they had done for him-and his parents labored
hard to remove that obstacle by assurances that they had
been more than repaid by all the past conduct of his life.
He then went to Heavenl with the ecstasy of bliss beaming
out full on his angelic countenance, and we have that
bright heavenly look ever before us as a polar star to
guide us to his presence, to unite with him in the delightful service of a Saviour who had early marked him for his
own, and who, for reasons we will know hereafter, saw fit
to take him from us to Himself. Richard's influence is
felt yet in our entire community, where, when alive, he
enjoyed the love and esteem of'all, without distinction
of classes.'"
To show the esteem in which he was held by the community where he was born and had so long resided, we
quote an article from the " Norfolk Herald," written by
the editor, Mr. Broughton, just after his decease: "The
death of this most estimable and exemplary young man
presents an eloquent appeal to the affections and sympathies of kindred hearts, and an example well calculated
to awaken to serious reflection those whose thoughts are
given to worldly pleasures. Though but in the morning
of life he had given amnple promise of those virtues and
excellencies of character which adorn human nature, and
exalting it above the sphere of earth, render it blest of
men and acceptable in the sight of God. The companion
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ship of thoughtless youth, prone to error and sinfulness,
made no impression on his guileless heart, fortified as it
was by principles of morality and religion instilled in
childhood; and it was at a distant school, beyond the influence of his parents and exposed to every temptation to
vice and folly, that five years ago he sought his Saviour
and continued till his death a consistent member of His
Church.   For the pure in heart death has no terrors.
"Tis but the voice that Jesus sends to call them to His
arms.'   The death of our young friend then, is but an
awakening to'joys immortal and sincere.' But what pen
or tongue can describe the woe, the poignant, the heartrending grief, which the sad bereavement has carried into
the bosom of his family, and overwhelmed his devoted
parents and venerable grandsire. The chord of love so
tenderly entwined around their hearts is severed here on
earth! The bright hopes and fond anticipations which he
had implanted in their affections and cherished by his
budding promises, have vanished away; and their all of
happiness from the pure source he had opened to them, is
but an illusion! He has passed away to' mansions in the
skies.' They may go to him —but he shall never return to them."
The following is from the "Norfolk Daily News," by
Mr. Beale, the editor. It was of the same date as the
preceding, Oct. 4, 1852, the day following the death of
our departed classmate: "With saddened hearts will the
intelligence above be received.'Death's doings,' his conquest of the fair and good are generally received with
indifference, and only in the house of the victim is the
deep sob of anguish or the shrieking lamentation of despair
heard. But in this bereavement, all who have known the
deceased will sincerely and deeply sympathize with the
afflicted family, and many a tear will be shed secretly and
silently over the tomb of this bright bud of promise prematurely withered by the breath of the destroyer. The
writer of this had known the deceased from boyhood, and
in the short intervals from his scholastic pursuits, in which
this acquaintance was resumed, marked with pleasure the
rapid unfolding and growth to perfection of the bright
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germs of purity, amiability and intellect, which gave such
brilliant promise of the future. Esteemed by all, loved
by his intimates, and fondly cherished in their'heart of
hearts' by those afflicted ones, who viewed his onward
course with that pride and delight which parents only
know, and which parents alone can appreciate, he had
returned to the bosom of his family, and in the midst of
joy, congratulation and hopes, has been taken from their
embrace. The dark shadow which has come across their
path cannot be removed by words, though tender and
sympathizing; the mourning veil which shrouds their
grief, cannot, should not be lifted, even by friendly hands.
Time alone can change the sharp anguish to tender regret; the consolations of religion and the blissful hopes
of a reunion in Heaven, are the only efficacious remedies
for the deep wound of their hearts."
*NATHAN APPLETON LEE (Charleston, S. C.) was born
in London, England. Jan. 6, 1829. He entered the Class
during Freshman year from the Class of I849. The first
two years after graduation he studied law in the Yale
Law School, and received the degree of LL.B. in I852.
He afterward resided in New York City, being for the
first year in a law office in Wall street, and the following
three years with Peet & Nichols, attorneys (Y. C. I847).
He then, on account of hiS health, relinquished the law
as a profession and became more or less engaged in literary pursuits. His health, however, never very robust,
continued to fail him, and he died in New York City,
March I8, I863.  The funeral services were held in St.
Clement's Church, Amity st., at which several members
of the Class, and other college friends were present, following his remains to Greenwood, where they were
interred.
WILLIAM LUDDEN, son of Benjamin Ludden and Hope
(Miller), was born in Williamsburgh, Mass., May 19, I823.
After graduation, in I85o, he pursued his vocation as a
teacher of music in New Haven for two years, during
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which period he was also devoting a portion of his time
to the study of medicine, attending two courses of lectures
at the college. In the summer of I852 he went to Paris
for the purpose of continuing his studies, both in music
and medicine. Returning to this country after an absence
of one year, he resumed his professional work as a teacher
and writer of music, at first in Cincinnati, O., and afterwards in Chicago, Ill1., where he continued till I869.
During this period he prepared for publication "Ludden's
Thorough  Bass  School,"  "Sacred  Lyrics," "School
Lyrics," and "Ludden's School for the Voice," the first
and last of these works being now extensively used as
text-books throughout the country.  In I870 he associated
himself with Mr. J. A. Bates, of Chicago and founded the
present "Southern Music House,"  in Savannah,  Ga.,
where he now resides, devoting his time to mercantile
pursuits, and editing the' Southern Musical Journal,"
published in that city.
He was married, Aug. I4, I854, to Miss Mary Jane
Blatchley, of New Haven, sister of our classmate.'
*JOSEPH BARDWELL LYMAN (Northampton, Mass.), son
of Timothy Lyman and Experience (Bardwell), was born
in Chester, Hampden Co., Mass., Oct. 6, 1829. For three
years after graduation hle was engaged in teaching, first
in Cromwell, Conn., and afterward in Mississippi.  In
June, I853, he went to Nashville, Tenn., where he remained till Jan. I855, studying law.   He then went to
Louisiana, studied civil law in the New Orleans Law
School, graduated with the valedictory in i856, was admitted to the bar in April of that year, and continued
to reside in New Orleans practicing law till the breaking
out of the war. He was in the Confederate army eighteen
months, being chiefly engaged in commissary and hospital service. In Sept. 1863, he came north and joined
his family in Boston, they having gone thither by sea a
year previous. For a year he resided at Easthampton,
Mass., trying to earn an honest living by the work of his
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hands, painting houses, and working in the corn and
tobacco fields, his southern sympathies rendering it impossible, however, for him to secure regular employment.
In Feb. I864, he removed to New York City and engaged
in journalism with immediate and gratifying success.
From I867 to I869 he was agricultural editor of the
"N. Y. World," and for several months managing editor
of "Hearth and Home," and about Jan. I869, was called
to edit the agricultural department of the "N. Y. Tribune," where he continued till his death from small pox,
Jan. 28, I872.   During these years he wrote "Women
of the War," "Resources of the Pacific States," and, assisted by his wife, "The Philosophy of Housekeeping."
His classmates will surely be glad to see in full, and will
read with a sad interest Lyman's cheerful letter, written
from the "Tribune" office, July I6, I870, to those of us
who met four days later for our twentieth anniversary:
"My dear Classmates.-I will be with you in hope and in
spirit on the 20th, and I had planned for months to stand
with you all and touch your hands after two decades.
But a party of journalists have requested me to go with
them across the continent, and while you are sitting there
on the grass I will be whirling up the valley of the North
Platte, or loitering on the margin of Salt Lake.   The
record thus written for you is far dimmer than the vital
report of man to man, as eyes give their swift verdicts,
and we note in gait and port, in wrinkle or in beard the
stamp of twenty years.
"Three summers after we were graduated I read Blackstone, and Kent, and Greenleaf, and five years after those
diplomas I received a certificate from the Supreme Court
of Louisiana of my fitness to plead before it. From'56
to'6I I was in practice in the courts of that State and
liked it. I proposed a summer home in the picturesque
mountains near Chattanooga, and tasks and enterprises
there
"Where the rose, in crimson glory
Blossoms all the winter time."
But,
"The best laid plans of mice and men
Gang aft aglee."
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"The war broke over me as a sea; it quenched hopes,
thwarted plans, destroyed securities, and made engagements nugatory. My land became a useless spread of
earth; my fees went where the woodbine twineth. In
Feb. I865, I set foot in Broadway. That day on the bulletin board of this paper stood the words, "Conference at
Fortress Monroe, without results." In a day or two there
appeared a leader in the "Times" on the situation. It
was from my pen. Thus introduced, I entered on newspaper work, and have been in it ever since. I like it so
well that the salary of Chief Justice Chase would not
draw me back to the hazards and harrassments of the
courts. In I858 I married. No step of life has been so
important, and none with me has been so fortunate. It
opened a gateway into a merry land where the bells are
ringing and the birds are singing all the day long. Of
little Lymans there are five; three are boys. My home
is on a farm near Trenton, my work here, where the feet
of those I write for echo round me evermore.
"My twenty years of knock and scuffle have pounded
three or four ideas into me. Perhaps you have been hammered into the same convictions; if so, you will agree with
me: ISt. That in American society, all a brave spirit asks
of fortune, is to let ability have opportunity. 2d. That
in winning success no counsel is to be held with flesh and
blood. He wins who can do two days' work in one, and
who is trying to see how much, not how little work he
can do. 3d. Yet I have learned to contemn the gilded
phantoms for which I see men racing. I am never sick,
I am wholly content with the opportunity before me,
and my home after labors is as blessed as I hope Heaven
may be after death."
Many notices of his death appeared in the public prints,
of which we quote the following: " We mourn in him a
most amiable, able and faithful associate, and all the
friends of enlightened and progressive agriculture will
find his loss an irreparable one.   He  was a devoted
Christian, always foremost in all good works in his neighborhood, and his unobtrusive charity was limited only by
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his means. It will be well for us all, if when the summons
of death comes, it finds us with a record made up of so
little harm and so much good done, as was that of this
modest and faithful workingman."
He was married at Nashville, Tenn., July I4, I858, to
Miss Laura E. Baker, daughter of Rev. Charles Baker,
of Somerville, Mass., and left six children surviving him:
(I) Alexander S., born April 8, I86o; (2) Charles W.,
born Nov. 5, I86I; (3) Laura E., born Dec. 24, I866; (4)
Carrie F, born Aug. 28, I868; (5) Joseph B. Jr., born
Jan. 4, I870; (6) Clarence A., born April I2, I87I. Mrs.
Lyman is living with her children at Richmond Hill, L. I.
GARRICK MALLERY (Philadelphia, Pa.), son of Hon.
Garrick Mallery (Y. C. i8o8), and Catherine J. (Hall),
was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 23, I83I.
He studied law during the first three years after graduation, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws at
the University of Pennsylvania in I853.  He continued
in the practice of the law in Philadelphia until the breaking out of the war, when he entered the army, volunteering as a private April I6, 1i86I, the day of President
Lincoln's proclamation, and on May 27, was appointed
captain in the regiment raised by Senator Baker, first
called the "California," and afterwards the 71st Pennsylvania, with which he was engaged in several minor actions
before the battle of Ball's Bluff, Oct. 2I, i86I, and on the
day after that battle was detailed as Assist. Adj. General
of the " Philadelphia" brigade.  In the spring of f 862 he
returned, at his own request, to his company, and commanded it in the battles of Fair Oaks, May 3I, and Seven
Pines, June I, I862; commanded the advance guard of
sixteen companies at Garnett's Farm, seven miles from
Richmond, June 7, I862, and was thanked in the presence
of the brigade by its General commanding, for having
held his ground against a largely superior force; at the
battle of Peach Orchard, June 29, I862, commanded the
left wing (eight companies) of his regiment, his conduct
being specially praised in the official report; was severely
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wounded in both thigh and arm, left in the hands of the
enemy on the ground for two weeks, and thence taken to
the Libby Prison. After being exchanged, he was (Feb.
I7, I863) promoted to be Lieut. Col.'3th Penn. Cavalry,
which regiment he joined, and took part in the four days'
fight at Winchester in June, I863, and in the battles of
Culpepper Court House, Rapidan Station, and others
fought during the campaign of that year, in several of
which he commanded the regiment. His last active duty
in the civil war was in command of brigade, July, I864,
in defence of Fort Stevens on Gen. Early's advance to
Washington. Three wounds then received, and two attacks of typhoid fever induced acceptance of a Lieut.
Colonelcy in the 3d Regt. Veteran Reserve Corps; after
which followed duty as Judge Advocate of several important courts martial until September, I865, when he
took command of his regiment, then garrisoning several
posts on the northern frontier. In January, I866, he was
ordered to Virginia as Inspector of the Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, and on July 28th was
commissioned Captain in the 43d Infantry in the regular
army, with which regiment he served during the ensuing
winter, at Fort Wayne, Mich. In March, I867, was again
ordered to Virginia and was successively Acting Inspector
General, Assist. Adjutant General, and Acting Assist.
Commissioner Bureau R. F. and A. L. for that State. In
April. I869, he was appointed Acting Judge Advocate for
the First Military District, on the staff of Gen. Schofield,
continuing in the same capacity with Generals Stoneman,
Webb, and Canby, until June, I870, and in those years,
in addition to his military duties, held together the offices
of Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia (being for
some time Acting Governor), Adjutant General, Superintendent of Public Printing, and State Librarian. In the
reorganization of the army, in Dec. I870, was assigned to
the Ist U. S. Infantry. During the war was brevetted
Colonel of Volunteers for "gallant and meritorious services," and, after being commissioned in the regular army,
received three other brevets for gallantry at Garnett's
Farm, Peach Orchard, and Fort Stevens.
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When the Government entered upon a system of meteorological observations, resulting in the establishment
of the present Signal Service Bureau, he was the first
officer selected by the Secretary of War (Aug. I870) to
report to the chief signal officer of the army in reference
to the duty then just started, of telegraphic meteorology,
and was always at least second, and for long periods, first
in commnand, until August, I876, when, on account of the
Indian war, he was sent to the command of Fort Rice, in
Dakota Territory, on the Upper Missouri. The medical
authorities, after some months, decided that his old
wounds rendered active service impossible, and on March
3, I877, he was again ordered to report to the Chief Signal
Officer at Washington. In view of the changes of station
and duty always to be expected in the army, his mail
address should be, " Brevet Lieut. Col. G. M., Captain
Ist U. S. Infantry, care of Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, D. C."
He was married, April I4, I870, to Miss Helen Marian
Wyckoff, daughter of Rev. A. V. Wyckoff, of New
Brunswick, N. J., and has had one son that died in
early infancy.
[The following notice of Manross was written, nearly in its present form,
for the Connecticut War Record, by his college chum.  It is given in full,
since probably no one of the Class would wish any part of it left out.]
*NEWTON SPAULDING MANROSS, the second son of the
late Elisha Manross, Esq., of Bristol, Conn., was born
July 9, I825. His father was for many years engaged in
the clock-making business in what is now the village of
Forestville in that town, and Newton's earlier days were
spent in attendance on the district school, alternating
with odd jobs in the clock shop. From the former institution he graduated with a reputation for quickness in
scholarship, for preeminence in athletic games and sports,
and for a genius in roguery; and from the latter, with that
skill in the use of mechanical tools for which he was ever
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afterwards justly admired.  He  was, in fact, a finished
mechanic, competent both "to make the thing, and the
machine that makes it."
In I844 he entered Williston Seminary with a view to
fitting himself for college. His course here foreshadowed
the characteristics of his after life. His tastes all ran in
the channel of scientific investigations. He was an enthusiast in chemistry, geology, mineralogy, and botany.
On holidays he traversed the hills and plains of the surrounding region, bringing in at nightfall stones, and bugs,
and flowers.  At one time he busied himself with a monstrous kite, repeating Franklin's experiments in electricity.
At another time he turned taxidermist, and ornamented
his r)om with stuffed rabbits, and the skeletons of weasels
and rats. Anon he was experimenting with a magnetic
battery, training the wires through the partition into his
neighbor's bed, and creating queer sensations as the tired
victim dozed off into dreams.
With his fellow-students Manross was a great favorite.
His great good sense, his inexhaustible stores of information, his uniform cheerfulness, his imperturbable good
nature, an'd his ready wit, made his companionship a rich
prize. The students of the Seminary during his attendance there will all remember his peculiar appearance;
his broad-shouldered, square-set frame, his slouched hat,
and careless dress; the open-mouthed side pockets of
his dingy "sack" always crammed with some curious bits
of rock, or wood, or flower; his pertinacious practice of
hurling a long rod at a mark, or of tossing a brick-bat
into the air and hitting it with another before it struck
the ground. At East Hampton he formed his acquaintance
and friendship with Dr. W. S. Clark, now President of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst. They
were kindred spirits, and the Damon and Pythias-like
attachment there established was ever after unbroken.
Manross entered college with the Class of I850, and
soon reached that standing as a scholar and a man which
he maintained through the course.  In the languages he
did not stand high, simply because they were not to his
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taste. He neglected them, much to his after regret; but
really his abilities in this line were of a high order.
When it became necessary for him in the laboratory at
Gottlngen to know German, he qualified himself in six
weeks to follow Prof. Wo6hler understandingly through
his course of chemical instruction. In mathematics his
standing was higher, but still in these he did no more than
was necessary to keep on with the Class. English composition was his especial aversion. The mechanical part
of it, strange to say, tired him; his handwriting was
harsh and angular, and put him out of patience. He used
to say he would rather make a dozen clocks than write
one composition. But that he had a special gift in this
direction which, improved, would have given him eminence as an author, is shown by the many brilliant fragments that are scattered through his correspondence and
journals. The closing part of a lyceum lecture of his,
describing his adventures in the region of the Chiriqui
Lagoon, I venture to class among the finest passages in
the English language. Manross had also a fine vein of
poetry in his composition, as some small pieces in my
possession amply prove. But his habit of shirking in this
department of his education clung to him through life,
and issued in the unfinished fragmentary condition of all
the papers left behind him.
But in all that appertained to natural science, Manross
towered head and shoulders above the Class. Especially
was he at home in Prof. Silliman's department, as it was
then constituted. In chemistry, mineralogy, and geology,
he never tired or faltered. Morning, noon and night, his
little spirit-lamp blazed on his study table, and his blowpipes, test-papers, and crucibles lay scattered around.
His out-of-doors explorations covered the entire region
from Derby to Branford, and from Mt. Carmel to the
Sound. On these excursions nothing escaped his notice,
or withstood his scrutiny. I have known himn, after one
of these protracted walks, when I had gone supperless to
bed through sheer exhaustion and consequent inability to
reach our boarding house, spend half the night in testing
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some new specimen which he had picked up on the tramp.
This course of life tended to make him what he was physically, a perfect man. His arm had an herculean strength,
and his hand the gripe of a blacksmith's vice. His unvarying good temper, his free and easy manners, his
quickness at repartee, made him a universal favorite.
Beloved by his class, respected by his teachers, he left
college with a fair standing in scholarship, and with the
heartiest good will of all who knew him.
The day after Commencement, July 21, i850, he sailed
from New York for Europe in company with his friend
Clark. After a few weeks in London they proceeded to
Go6ttingen and entered upon a course of chemistry in the
laboratory of Prof. Wo6hler.   At the end of eighteen
months they each received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Manross' printed dissertation on this occasion
was an elaborate monogram "On the Artificial Formation
of Minerals," an abstract of which was published in the
"American Journal of Science and Arts," [2] vol. xvi.
During his residence at G6ottingen he made various scientific excursions, visiting the mines in the Hartz mountains,
and other locations of interest. Leaving G6ttingen, the
two friends strapped on their knapsacks and tramped
away to Berlin, Vienna and Triest, stopping on their way
to inspect mines and mining processes in Saxony and
Austria, giving special attention to the modes both of
mining and refining in use at the quicksilver mines at
Idria, in Carniola. From Triest they proceeded to Venice,
and thence crossed the Alps to Paris and Havre, and
reached home in the fall of I852.
For several months succeeding his return, Manross was
engaged in the clock shop perfecting an invention for
cutting the "jewels," which were then having a "run" in
the clock business. Previously, these were fashioned by
a laborious and expensive hand process, which kept up
the price of that style of time-piece. Manross' machine
was an ingenious structure, and answered its purpose
successfully.   Meantime, he continued his studies with
a view to employment as a professional mineralogist.
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In Oct. I853 he sailed from New York for Venezuela,
in the service of a New York mining company. He
ascended the Oronoco 300 miles to Angostura, and went
thence up a branch of that river I5o miles to Tupuquien,
in the neighborhood of which he spent some months
prospecting for gold in the bed and along the banks of
the Yuruari river.  His success here was very encouraging; but subsequent civil commotions in the state of
Venezuela prevented any advantage being taken of his
discoveries. Returning early in the summer of L854, he
visited en route the famous pitch lake of Trinidad, of which
he gave an interesting account in vol. xx of the "American Journal of Science."
In April, i856, in the service of the "Chiriqui Improvement Co." he began extensive surveys on the Isthmus of
Panama, in a district midway between the Nicaragua and
Panama transit routes, in pursuit chiefly of coal mines.
He also made a minute and laborious exploration to ascertain the practicability of a wagon road from the Chiriqui
Lagoon to the Pacific coast. He was present at the first
discovery of the gold images in the ancient graves of
Chiriqui, and was among the first to give an intelligible
account of those interesting relics.  In the fall of the
same year he was engaged in a survey of gold fields in
the upper part of Georgia and South Carolina.
In Nov. I856, he entered the service of the "Mexican
and Pacific Mining and Land Co.," and proceeded to
Mexico, via St. Louis, New Orleans, and Vera Cruz. He
reached the city of Mexico Dec. 23, i856, and remained
there a fortnight, making excursions in vtarious directions,
with an eye to the discovery of coal fields.  Leaving
Mexico in January, he crossed down to Acapulco, on the
Pacific coast, and spent several months in surveying and
locating iron and copper beds under grants held by the
company from the Mexican Government.   His report to
the company, as I am assured by high authority, is a
paper of great value, and I know that Manross regarded
his discoveries there as of vast consequence, could they
but be followed up.   From Acapulco, Manross and his
party returned to the States via Panama and Aspinwall.
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The financial troubles of I857arrested his labors in the
line of his chosen profession, and so settling down at
Forestville, he began an extended course of chemical
experiments, which he varied and interspersed with the
construction of several ingenious and valuable mechanical
inventions. Urged to patent some of these and give them
to the public, he declined, saying, "What is the use?  I
have no capital to back me against the sharpers that light
like buzzards upon every man who is foolish enough to
invent anything. Some fool will come along and stick a
screw in somewhere, and away goes my labor."  During
this period he declined several invitations to scientific
professorships, was a defeated candidate for the State
Legislature from his native town, and seemed, to the mere
looker-on, to be drifting into inefficiency and uselessness.
But Manross was never idle.  There was method and
work even in his trifling. The great defect in his character was a want of ambition.  He cared little or nothing
for the applause of his fellow men; not that their approbation was not appreciated when it came, but it never
seemed to him worth his while to make an effort to secure
it. And so, where other men would be found scheming
and planning to elbow their way into notice, he plodded
quietly along, saying that his turn would come by and
by, and that if the world wanted him it would find out its
need and call for him early enough for all the fame he
craved. But meantime he purposed that every day should
increase his fitness to meet the demand when it came.
During this period, also, he married; and in the peace
and rest of domestic life, after his many years of wandering, it troubled him little that more aspiring men thought
his talents were rusting out.
Thus the war found him, and roused him from his repose. Dr. Manross was naturally an optimist, and therefore a conservative. He was an ardent Whig in politics
in I848, and during his absence in Europe was thrown
much into company with Southern students and travelers,
and being aloof from the immediate scene of conflict, he
felt little sympathy with the anti-slavery sentiment of
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the North as it displayed itself on the passage of the
Fugitive Slave Law. On his return, therefore, he advocated moderation and fo)rbearance, and deprecated all
exhibitions of bitterness between the sections. But the
Kansas imbroglio dissipated his neutrality, by convincing
him of the animus of the Southern heart, and disclosing
the drift of the pro-slavery sentiment. His residence and
travels in other lands had awakened in him an ardent
admiration of, and a deathless attachment to the Union,
and he now thought he saw that the real danger to its
perpetuity lay, not in the efforts of a few wrong-headed
but right-hearted "reformers," but in the un-republican
spirit and tendency of the peculiar institution itself.
Upon the outbreak of the rebellion, his first intention was
to volunteer in the Engineer service as soon as that
branch of the army should demand recruits.   But no
opening of this kind presented itself, and meantime his
friend Clark had accepted the post of Major in the 2ISt
Mass. Vols., and Manross was selected to fill his place in
the Faculty of Amherst College during his absence. He
entered upon his duties as Professor of Chemistry and
Botany in the Fall Term of I86I, and became immediately
popular with the students and respected by the Faculty.
As a lecturer he developed fluency, and great aptness of
illustration combined with precision and breadth of
knowledge, enabling him to control his audiences with
dignity and ease. During the year of his connection with
the professorship, he laid out and partially filled up a
two-fold set of lectures which, in their unfinished state
display the accurate scholarship and broad research of
their author.
During his residence at Amherst, Manross' position and
feeling on the subject of religion underwent a decided
change. Although hitherto correct in his habits, moral
in his life, and always respectful in his attention to the
claims of religion, he had not yielded himself to its power.
But now he was led to consecrate himself to God, and the
changed current of his life proved the sincerity of his new
purpose. It was his intention, in company with his wife,
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to connect himself with the Congregational Church of
Bristol on the Sabbath, which proved to be the one succeeding his departure for the field.
During the Summer Term of I862, at Amherst, he canvassed the subject of entering the army. In a letter to
his wife he said: "You can better afford to have a country
without a husband, than a husband without a country."
Returning to Bristol at the commencement of the fall
vacation, he found the citizens there astir with excitement
over the recent call for volunteers.   At the close of a
speech which he made to an assembly of his fellow-townsmen, he was entreated to take the captaincy of a company
which he was assured could be raised at once if he would
consent to take the command.   He yielded, and threw
himself con amore into the work of organization, and in
three weeks from its inception, marched his company
.(K, I6th Conn. Vols.) into camp at Hartford.
When informed of his purpose to volunteer, his friend
Clark urged him to accept the then vacant majorship of
the 2ISt Mass. Vols. This would have brought him into
most congenial companionship, as Col. Clark was then in
command of that regiment. But "No," was the reply;
"I have promised my boys to go with them, and I will
not desert them now." On the deck of the steamer, on
his way to New York, he said to a friend, " If I can only
bring out what I know is in my men, I want no different
shoulder-straps from these."   And this confidence and
regard was fully reciprocated bv his men. His successor
in command, after his death, once said to the colonel of
the regiment. "Those boys care more for Manross' old
shoes than they do for the best man in the regiment."
More than once, on the warm, dusty march from Washington to Antietam, the captain was seen carrying the
muskets of his tired men.
The arrival of Manross' company in camp at Hartford
comnpleted the regiment, and it was immediately ordered
to the front. Reaching Washington, it was supplied with
muskets and hurried forward to the Army of the Potomac, then confronting Lee's advance into-) Maryland. It
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arrived just in time for the bloody work at Antietam.  It
had had absolutely no drilling, had never even been on
parade under arms.   Somebody, therefore, must have
blundered awfully when that raw regiment was sent
through a galling fire to support a battery. As it marched
into position, Capt. Manross was struck by a cannon ball
on the outer edge of the left shoulder-blade. The ball
passed under his arm, leaving a deep indentation in the
flesh. He was taken at once from the field, and expired
two hours after. He said but little after his injury, and
that little indistinctly. He told the surgeon he was bleeding inwardly and could not live.  A powerful anodyne
was administered to him, and he soon became unconscious.
A friend bending over him heard him murmuring, "O0, my
poor wife; my poor wife!" Thus was extinguished one
of the noblest of the many lives exacted by that merciless
rebellion. A purer patriot, a truer man, a braver soldier,
a more generous friend, never lived.
His body was forwarded to his friends-an immense
concourse gathered at his burial —and he sleeps there in
the family burial ground at Forestville, his strong arm
nerveless, and his great heart cold and still. 0, fortunate
he to die for such a country, and still more fortunate
country to have such as he to die in her defence. The
free-stone shaft planted on his grave by the joint contributions of his college classmates and his bereaved company, towers grandly to heaven, and is only one of
thousands that will tell to future generations where the
nation's jewels lie buried.
He was married, Nov. 5, I1857, to Miss Charlotte H.
Royce, of Forestville, Conn., and had one child, Lottie
Maria Newton, born Dec. 27, i86o.
PATRICK CABELL MASSIE (Nelson Co., Va.), son of
Thomas Massie, was born in Nelson Co., Jan. 8, I829.
The first year after graduation he studied law at the
Yale Law School, then returned to his home in Virginia,
where he has resided nearly all the time since, engaged
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in agricultural pursuits. " A very quiet life, except when
interrupted by the roar of cannon and the raids of cavalry during the civil war, or rebellion, as you perhaps
term it. Ill health and business cares have prevented my
visiting Yale College. I nevertheless feel a lively interest
in everything that concerns it, and also in the prosperity
and well-being of my classmates.  If any of our classmates ever visit Virginia I hope they will not fail to make
me a visit, and they shall meet with a cordial reception."
His Post Office address is Massie's Mills, Nelson Co., Va.
Ill health at present prevents him from giving active
attention to his business.
He was married June I8, 1857, to Susan C. Withers, of
Campbell Co., Va., and has had eight children: (I) Robert
Withers, born April 24, i858; (2) Thomas, born Sept. 17,
I86o, died May 22, 1863; (3) Patrick Cabell, Jr., born Aug.
27, I862; (4) Thomas, born May 14, I864; (5) Thornton,
born Oct. I, i866; (6) Douglas Gray, born Nov. 27, I868;
(7) Withers, born April I7, I870; (8) Susan C., born Sept.
IO, I872.
JOHN ROBERT MILLS (Vicksburg, Miss.) was born in
Vicksburg, June I3, I829. For several years he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York City. He then
went to Galveston, Texas, and was engaged in the mercantile firm of R. and D. G. Mills, in that city. He is
now and has for several years been planting in Brazoria
Co., Texas. His Post Office address is Brazoria, Brazoria
Co. The Secretary has only heard from him indirectly.
EDWARD DUCHMAN MUHLENBERG (Lancaster, Pa.) was
born in Lancaster, May I8, I832, and entered the class the
first term Sophomore year.
From graduation, until Sept. 1857, he was engaged as
civil engineer on various railroads and canals in Pennsylvania. In September, 1857, he sailed for Brazil in company
with several other civil engineers and artisans required
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in the construction of a portion of very heavy grading
on the Dom Pedro Segundo Railroad, commencing at
Rio Janeiro, and running nearly due west.  "Remained
on this road until Sept. i86i, when I bade adieu to the
evergreen land. The desire to return and fully understand the'unpleasantness' by participation, became irresistible. I landed at Baltimore in Oct. I86I, and upon
reaching Philadelphia was elected LieUt. Colonel of a
Pennsylvania Regiment just about completing its organization." Soon afterwards he received an appointment as
Ist Lieut. in the 4th Regiment of Artillery, U. S. A., and
was ordered to Co. F., known as Best's Battery during
the war.   "My associate, ist Lieut. F. B. Crosby, was
killed at Chancellorsville in May, I863. For short intervals
before that date, and constantly after, was the sole officer
with it. Doing service with the I2th Corps in the Army
of the Potomac, was chief of artillery of the right wing
of the army during the three days' fight at Gettysburg,
July, I863.   Fought at Missionary Ridge under Gen.
Hooker.   Remained  with the Battery until Dec. I864,
when I was appointed Adjutant and Regimental Quartermaster."
He left the army in May, I866, and resumed civil engineering; was employed on the Kansas & Pacific Railroad
from Sept. I856 to Sept. I867; came East in Sept. I867,
and was employed in the construction of the Reading &
Wilmington Railroad until Jan. I870. From July, I870
to Jan. 187I, was surveying a route along the Yellowstone
river, in Montana, and from June, I87I to Jan. I872, surveying the Texas & Pacific Railroad from Fort Phantom
Hill to Fort Bliss on the Rio Grande. He is at present
at Lancaster, unmarried.
SILVANUS SANFORD MULFORD was born in Montrose,
Pa., Jan. 24, I830. He entered the Class the first term
Sophomore year.
He spent the year after graduation in Susquehanna
Co., Pa., in civil engineering, and in Oct. I852 commenced
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the study of medicine in New York City. He graduated
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York
City in I855, entered the New  York Hospital, and remained there as house physician until the autumn of I857.
He then went to Europe, returned the following year, and
located at Cherry Valley, N. Y.
In a recent letter he says: "I remained in Cherry Valley
until the spring of I86I, when 1 went into the army and
continued with it until Aug. I865, when I succeeded in
securing an acceptance of my resignation, which had been
sent forward with the actual close of the war. I had in
my positions and assignments to duty (surgeon) as fair a
share of success as I could desire.   Upon leaving the
army I rested for a year, traveling about our own country,
and then settled in accordance with my original intention
in New York City, where I have been engaged in the
practice of medicine, and where I expect (D. V.) to remain.
I am not married, never have been, and do not intend
to be."
HUBERT ANSON NEWTON, son of William Newton and
Lois (Butler), and brother of Isaac S. (Y. C. I848), and of
Homer G. (Y. C. I859), was born in Sherburne, N. Y.,
March 19, I830. He prepared for college at Sherburne,
and entered the Class the second term Freshman year.
He spent the first two and a half years after graduation
at Sherburne, and in New Haven, pursuing mathematical
studies. He was appointed Tutor in Yale College July,
I852, and entered upon the office Jan. I853. From the first
he had the care of the whole department of mathenematics,
in consequence of the illness of Professor Stanley, which
was followed by death in the spring of 1853. In I855 he
was elected Professor of Mathematics in the college, with
permission to spend one year in Europe. Since Sept.
I856, he has been engaged in the active discharge of the
duties of this professorship.   The summer  of I869 he
spent in Europe traveling, and visiting scientific institutions, in company with Prof. Lyman.
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He has written several scientific articles, most of them
being published in the "American Journal of Science."
He is now and has been for ten or twelve years past, one
of the associate editors of that journal.   When  the
National Academy of Sciences was constituted by Act of
Congress in I863, he was one of the fifty members appointed by the Act, and he has been elected member of
several other learned societies in this country and England. In I875 he was the Vice President for Section A,
of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and served at the Detroit meeting. In I868 he
received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Michigan.
He was married, April I4, I859, to Miss Anna C. Stiles,
daughter of Rev. Joseph C. Stiles, D.D. (Y. C. I814), and
has two  daughters:  (I) Clifford, born Feb.  5, i86o;
(2) Josephine S., born Oct. 29, I864.
*WILLIAM HENRY ORSBORN was born in Oxford, N. C.,
July, 1826, and entered the Class the first term Junior
year from Dickinson College, Pa. Immediately after
Presentation Day he went to Rapides Parish, La., where
he was for some time engaged as civil engineer and surveyor. In I854 he was appointed Engineer for the Third
District Public Works of Louisiana, and continued in the
discharge of the duties of this office at least until i86o,
and it is believed until the time of his death in I865. He
owned and cultivated a large plantation on the Red River
near Alexandria, and resided upon it a part of the time
each year.   He died in the latter part of the year i865,
from consumption.
BENJAMIN PARSONS was born at Bloomfield, N.J., Jan.
6, I826, and he entered the Class the first term Sophomore year.
The first year after graduating he was teaching in the
family of Hon. Cassius M. Clay, Madison Co., Ky. He
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was then for several months a teacher in Bloomfield
Institute, N. J. In the earlier part of I852 he attended a
course of medical lectures in Pittsfield, Mass. After this
he pursued his theological studies at East Windsor Seminary, and was ordained as missionary in Fairfield, Conn.,
June 20, I854. On the 8th of August he sailed from Boston
for Smyrna on his way to Sivas in Asia Minor, a mission
station of the A. B.C. F. M. He remained at Sivas until
Oct. I859, when the failure of the health of his family
compelled him to return to this country. From I86o to
I865 he was pastor at Windsor, Conn., and then for two
years at Watertown, Conn. From I867 till I872 he was
settled at Smyrna, Mich., and from July, I872, till Nov.
I876, preached at Saline, Mich.   He then removed to
Ann Arbor, Mich., where he is now residing.
He was married, June I8, I854, to Miss Sarah W. Powers,
daughter of Samuel Powers, Esq., of Hadley, Mass., and
has four children: (I) Henry Betts, born Nov. 20, I855;
(2) Emma Laura, born May 27, I859; (3) Charles West,
born July 23, I86I; (4) Edward Bentley, born Feb. I4,
I865. His eldest son graduated in I876 from the department of chemistry and pharmacy in the University of
Michigan, and is now an assistant professor in that department.
FREDERIC BEECHER PERKINS, son of Thomas C. Perkins (Y. C. I8i8), and Mary (Beecher), and grandson of
Enoch Perkins (Y. C. I78I), and Rev. Lyman Beecher,
D.D. (Y. C. I797), was born in Hartford, Conn., Sept.
27, I828.
He left college in the autumn of I848, and commenced
the study of law at Hartford. In the autumn of I849 he
went to New York City to teach and to study law. During the summer of I85o he taught in Newark, N.J., and
in the autumn returned to Hartford to continue the study
of law, where he was admitted to the bar in I85I.  In the
spring of I852 he entered the Connecticut Normal School,
and graduated at the same in the fall. He then taught
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during the winter of I852-3 in Greenwich, Conn.  The
following year and a half he was a clerk in the office of
the Superintendent of Common Schools of Connecticut
(Hon. Henry Barnard), and was an editor of the Conn.
Common School Journal. From the autumn of I854 until
the spring of I857 he was engaged as editor and author
in New York City.   He then returned to Hartford, became assistant editor of Barnard's Americal Journal of
Education, and in the summer of I857 was appointed
librarian of the Connecticut Historical Society. From
I870 to I873 was assistant editor of a magazine entitled
"Old and New." At present he is office secretary in the
Public Library of Boston, Mass. The degree of Master
of Arts was conferred on him by the Corporation at the
Commencement in I86o.
He was married in May, I857, to Miss Mary Annie
Westcott, daughter of Mr. Henry Westcott, of Providence,
R. I., and has had three children: (I) Thomas Henry, born
March I5, I858; (2) Thomas Adie, born May 9, I859;
(3) Charlotte Aina, born July 3, I86o.  Thomas Henry
died April II, i858.
. SIDNEY PH(ENIX (New Haven, Conn.), son of Rev. Alex.
Phoenix and Sarah, daughter of Gov. Caleb Strong (Harv.
Coll. I764), was born in Chicopee, Mass., Aug. 2I, I829.
After graduation he resided in Brooklyn, N. Y., till
December, I85o, when he went to Germantown, Pa., to
study farming at an Agricultural Institute. He remained
here till Oct. I85I, when he went to Harlem, N. Y., and
in Sept. I852 entered the law office of E. Ketchum, Esq.,
where he studied until May, I853.  In Sept. I853 he
entered the Union Theological Seminary, where he studied until Christmas.   His health, impaired by chronic
catarrh and dyspepsia, did not permit him to pursue the
course, and the following year he was unemployed. In
November, I854, he purchased a farm in the neighborhood
of Paterson, N.J., and worked on it until Dec. I857, when
he left it on account of the death of his sister who had
kept house for him. He then resided in New York City
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for two or three years, studying theology as much as his
health permitted, finishing the seminary course in I86I.
He was licensed to preach by the Congregational Association of New York and Brooklyn, April 3, I86I. The
summer of I86I he spent in Geneseo, N. Y., and the following year in St. Paul, Minn., and in preaching in
Geneseo and in Vermont.   His health, however, now required him to give up altogether the attempt to preach.
In the spring of IS864 he bought a fruit farm near Rochester,
N. Y., and he remained in that city two years. In I866
he removed to Vineland, N.J., and remained there till
the spring of I873. He then went to St. Paul, Minn., and
remained a year, and thence to Lake City, Minn., where
he now resides.
He was married in November, I86I, to Julia F., daughter
of E. P. Metcalf, M.D., of Geneseo, N. Y., and has three
children: (I) Clara Strong, born Sept. I8, I863; (2) Alexander Metcalf, born Oct. 31, I866; (3) Edward Chauncey,
born Feb. 20, I870.
GARDINER SPRING PLUMLEY (New York City), son
of Alexander R. Plumley (Dartmouth Coll. I8,2I), and
Hannah K., daughter of John Haskins,  M.D. (Harvard
Coll. I812), was born in Washington, D. C., Aug. I11, I827.
He entered the Class Sophomore year from the Class of
I849. For several years after graduation he resided in
New York City, engaged during the first two years in
teaching, and as organist and director of music in the
South Dutch Church.
The following three years, in addition to teaching and
attention to music, he studied theology in the Union
Theological Seminary, retaining his position in the South
Dutch Church.   He  was  licensed  to preach by the
New York and Brooklyn Association in April, I855, and
was ordained pastor of the Bloomingdale Presbyterian
Church, in New York City, by the Presbytery of New
York, Nov. I855. In this office he continued until I858,
when he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
at Metuchen, N. J. He was a member of the General
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Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in i1863 and in 1869.
He edited the "Presbvterian Reunion Memorial Volume"
in I87I, and has since prepared and published a History
of the Church from the earliest times, entitled "The
Presbyterian Church throughout the World." He was
for fifteen years New York editor of The Presbyterian,
and has been a constant contributor to the New York
daily, weekly, and monthly press. After serving as pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church at Metuchen, N. J., for
nearly eighteen years, he resigned that charge on Jan. I,
I 876. In April, I1876, he became pastor of the North
Dutch Church, New  York City.   He  has also, since
Jan. I, I876, had charge of the department for clergymen,
etc., of the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of
New York. His residence is No. 60 Dey street, New
York City; with an office, No. 20 Western Union Building,
and a study, No. 58 Ann street, at each place happy to
welcome a classmate.
He was married, Nov. I3, I85o, to Miss Emily A. Fisher,
of New York City, and has had eight children: (I) Wm.
Edgar,  horn  Nov.  I2, I85I, class boy, graduated  at
Princeton last summer (I876).  He is now Professor of
Ancient Languages and Literature in the "School of the
Lackawanna," Scranton, Pa.  He was married, Dec. 25,
I876, to Mrs. Mary A. Trask, of Scranton.  (2) Emnia
Frances, born March I13, I1853; (3) Elizabeth Marriner,
born Aug. 27, 1859; (4) Albert Freeman, born Oct. 22,
I854, died Jan. I2, I857; (5) Richard Haight, born Sept.
23, I856, died June 3, I86o; (6) Gardner Ladd, born Feb.
I4, i862; (7) Alexander Rolston, born Nov. 2I, I863
(8) Emily Louise, born Aug. I0, I868.
He has a country residence for his family at Metuchen,
New Jersey.
*WILLIAM HAUGHTON RICHARDS (Boston, Mass.), son
of Henry H. Richards and Julia Ann (Haughton), was
born at Uncasville, Conn., June, I825.
He taught in Cincinnati from I85o till 1852. He was
admitted to the bar in June, 1852, and opened an office in
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New York City in November following. In the autumn
of I853 his health became impaired, and he continued to
be more or less of an invalid until October, I854. At that
time he seemed to have regained his usual strength, and
he spent the following winter in close attention to his
professional duties.  In April, however, he was again
ill, and he died suddenly in Brooklyn, May I7, I855. For
two or three days before his death his mind was wandering in delirium, but in his last rational moments he spoke
with great emphasis of his conviction of the importance
of personal religion, and of his determination, if restored
to health, to live in accordance with this conviction.
And this is the brief record which sums up the history
of our distinguished classmate! No one can read it without a sigh that the bright hopes which we cherished of
his future should have been so soon buried in his grave.
Many will remember him only as the successful scholar
and the brilliant writer; but those whose fortune it was
to know him intimately will remember him also as the
warm-hearted, whole-souled, generous man. Placed in a
position during his college life where he was unavoidably
liable to be misunderstood and misrepresented, he ever
cherished the kindest feeling towards all his classmates,
and was always ready to pay a deserved tribute to the
character and talent of his rivals
Of peculiar mental ability, faithful to his friends, and
generous and charitable to his opponents, Richards will
ever be regarded by the Class as one whose qualities of
mind and heart deserved their warmest admiration, and
whose death makes a vacancy in our ranks which can
never be filled.
ERASTUS LATHROP RIPLEY (Middlebury, Vt.) son of
Nathaniel Ripley and Fanny (White), was born in Weybridge, Vt., Feb. I4, 1822.
For some years after graduation he was engaged in
manufacturing enterprises in New York City and Guil
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ford, Conn. For seven years he was the Principal of the
Public Schools in Jackson, Mich., and for about the same
length of time he was Professor of Mathematics in the
Michigan State Normal School. Since Sept. I867 he has
been the Principal of the College of Normal Instruction
in the University of Missouri at Columbia, in that State.
He has written an " Elementary and Practical English
Grammar," an"  English Grammar for Advanced Classes,"
"Methods of Instruction in Arithmetic, a Manual for
Teachers,"  "Ripley's Map  Drawing,"  and "Students'
Chart of History."
He has been married three times: first, to Miss Emily
J. Isbell, of Guilford, Conn.; second, to Miss Helen E.
Devoe, of Corning, N. Y.; third, to Mrs. Caroline A.
Aldrich, of Penfield, Ohio.   He has four children: (I)
James White, Postmaster at Columbia, Mo.; (2) Charles
Clark, assistant cashier of the Commercial Bank, Kansas
City, Mo.; (3) Julia Fisk, Valedictorian of Class of I874,
Univ. of Missouri, now teacher in Washington University,
St. Louis, Mo.; (4) Helen Elizabeth.
ELLIS HENRY ROBERTS, son of Watkin and Gwen
Roberts, was born in Utica, N. Y., Sept. 30, I827. He
entered the Class the first term of Sophomore year.
During the college course he had devoted his vacations
to work upon the "Utica Mornling Herald," then as now
a daily and weekly paper. For a few months after graduation he was Principal of the Utica Academy, at the
same time, however, giving a portion of his time and
energies to the paper.   In May, I85I, he became its sole
proprietor, and in I857 he united with it the "Utica
Gazette," and has continued to edit and publish the
"Utica Herald and Gazette" to the present time.  The
average daily circulation of the paper has for the last ten
years been over 6,ooo daily and 6,500oo weekly, larger by
far than that of any other journal in New York State
outside of the metropolis.
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In I862 he was nominated for Mayor of the city of
Utica, but his party being in the minority he was defeated.
In I864 he was a delegate to the National Republican
Convention, and was elected to that of I868. In I867 he
served one term in the Assembly of New York State.
In I870 he was elected, and in I872 was re-elected Member
of Congress. During these four years he was one of the
most efficient members of the Ways and Means Committee, and in I874 reported the bill which became a law
for the repeal of moieties under the customs laws to
informers and officials.  He was again nominated in I874
in his district, but as he had openly and stoutly denounced
the idea of a third term in the presidential office, he was
defeated in the canvass by a small majority. In the summer of I868 he traveled in Europe, and again in I873,
when he visited Greece, Turkey, and Russia. The degree of LL.D. was given him by Hamilton College in I869.
He married in June, I85I, Miss Elizabeth Morris,
daughter of Mr. David E. Morris of Utica, and sister of
Rev. Dr. Morris (Y. C. I849).
HENRY PHELPS SANFORD, son of Mr. P. P. Sanford
(Y. C. I820), and Ann E. (Phelps), was born in Painesville,
Ohio, Nov. 7, 1829, and entered the Class the first term
Junior year.
For a year he was studying law in the Yale Law School,
but since that time has been engaged in manufacturing in
his native town, having been for many years past the leading member of the Geauga Stove Co. "I trust," he says,
"that none of my classmates will fail to stop and see me
whenever they come this way. They mnay be sure of a
hearty welcome."
He married, Dec. 24, I85I, Miss Emilie J. Huggins,
daughter of Mr. Henry Huggins, of New Haven, and has
four children: (I) Henry Huggins, born Feb. 9, I857;
(2) Henrietta Dall, born Feb. 7, i86I; (3) Mary Leggett,
born July 30, I867; (4) Percy Phelps, born Dec. 25, I1873.
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FRANKLIN SHAW (Mobile, Ala.), son of Franklin Shaw,
M.D., and Sylvia (Weeks), was born in Greensboro, Ala.,
May 9, I829.
Since graduation he has been engaged in commercial
business in New Orleans.   In a letter dated March 6,
I877, he says:
"Your two very kind letters came to hand at the same
time, and brought back very vividly memories of the days
long ago, when we were delightfully engaged in forecasting the then future, which now is a part of the historic
past. I now a second time experience the regret I felt at
my inability to be present at the late reunion of the remnainder of the Class It would have been a real pleasure
to have again renewed the associations which were so
pleasant to us all, and to have heard the varied history of
each man from his own mouth. I sometimes look over
my autograph book, not only to freshen the impression
of this or that face, but more particularly to revel in the
kindly expressions that were once tendered me, in perfect
sincerity.   I regret to be obliged to say, that often the
retrospect of my past has more of sorrow at the failure
of well-meant predictions than of rejoicing at the fulfilment of expectations of too partial friends.  But I am
afraid, if I go on in this strain, you will think the'news
from Louisiana' is as sombre in individual cases as it is
mournful in its political aspect.
"Since we parted in I850 I have with varied fortune
been engaged in merchandising, very successfully before
the war, in the house of John I. Adams & Co., in New
Orleans, and so far with very indifferent success since.
During the war my' whereabouts' were as changeable as
the varied necessities of the case required. The position
I nave held in several houses since, while agreeable in
having plenty to do, has not yet been so remunerative as
to enable me to carve out anything for my own account.
After several unsuccessful ventures I am for the present
content to have my hands full of other peoples' business,
hopeful that in the near future I may have my own to
attend to.
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"I have had at all times, thousands of undeserved blessings-unimpaired health, plenty for all my wants, and,
surrounded with the most partial of friends, I find my
most becoming attitude one of profound gratitude to our
Heavenly Father for these mercies, and I am continually
praying that I may be content with whatsoever lot He
may assign me. I am, as I said before, still unmarried;
but if we were sitting down together and talking very
confidentially, I think I could convince you that perhaps
it was one of the most fortunate moments in my life when
for the time I made up my mind that I had better remain
single; that was some years ago, and I have so far remained steadfast to the determination."
*ROBERT SMITH (Louisville, Ky.) was born in Davidson
Co., near Nashville, Tenn., March 25, I825.
He studied divinity in the Theological Seminary of the
Episcopal Church in Fairfax Co., Va. Soon after entering the Seminary he decided to devote his life to the
heathen in Africa.   He was ordained to the Episcopal
ministry, July I5, I1853, in Alexandria, Va., by Bishop
Meade.  During the following year he remained in the
United States, preaching in different places, intending,
however, to sail for Cape Palmas in the spring of I854.
In October he left this country for Africa, arriving at
Monrovia in December, and at Cavalla, his appointed
station, in January of the next year. For more than two
months he was able to labor uninterruptedly in his chosen
work. On the I6th of April, while on a visit to Cape
Palmas, he was taken with the African fever. It was at
first slight, and yielded to medicine, but an old complaint,
dyspepsia, now set in, and a cough with which he had
also before been affected returned, with symptoms of
consumption. These continued for nearly six weeks. On
the day before he died, he was able to ride out in a hammock, and be with the family at the dinner table. He
died in intense pain, at one o'clock, P. M., the 24th of May,
1855. The following is an extract from one of his letters,
dated Cavalla, May II, 1i855:
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"A little mnore than three weeks since, I was attacked
with  African fever,-immediately on arriving at the Cape,
whither I had gone to seek change and recreation! The
doctor was prompt in his remedies, and one night effectually broke the fever. But my poor weak stomach got
into a state of torpidity (or something worse), which confined me to my room, and very short walks, for two weeks.
Even now, from this cause, and from loss of sleep, I am
so feeble that I can just creep about, and am unable to
attend to any of my missionary duties. How long this
will continue, I know not. But I do know that God is
my God-my covenant, ever present, ever helping God;
and I can with thankfulness say —
'My times are in Thy hands,
My God I wish them there."'
In a letter dated Cape Palmas, May 28, 1855, Mr. H. R.
Scott says: "I went down to Cavalla to see him the day
before he died, and found him well enough to ride out,
and he was with us at the dinner table, seeming to be a
great deal better than he had been for some days, and
when I parted from him in the evening to return to the
Cape I little dreamed that I should never again see him
alive. Next morning the Bishop wrote to me that he was
in an agony of pain from oppression of his lungs. I hastened down, but reached there too late to see him breathe
his last. His end was so sudden, scarcely any who were
present believed him dying, nor is it known that he was
aware of it himself.   He assured the Bishop that the
Saviour was with him, and during his sickness repeatedly
spoke of his preciousness. A few days before he died he
said he would be willing to have his sickness six times
over for the sake of the spiritual comfort that attended it."
To those who knew Smith, as we his classmates knew
him, it is hardly necessary to add that his life after graduation was like his college life. While in the Seminary,
"the smallest child, the meanest beggar who crossed his
path, received from him a warning word. He ever labored
as one who felt that he had a great work to do, and a
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solemn account to render. Whilst he was a most diligent
student, he was also regularly engaged in enterprises for
the temporal and spiritual good of his fellow beings. In
the destitute portions of the country in the vicinity of the
Seminary, he might be seen, week after week, reading the
word of God, and praying in the houses of the people;
and on Sunday collecting the old and young together and
instructing them."
One who knew him well says: "After his ordination,
he remained one year in this country. His religious character had risen to a suprising elevation, and as a preacher
he astonished his best friends. His voice was clear, and
deep, and rich, altogether beyond my expectations, his
composition that of a man accustomed to prepare for the
pulpit for years. On the first occasion of his preaching
he displayed that perfect composure and distinctness of
appeal that mark the absence of self-consciousness, and
when he preached in the large church in Bridgeport the
impression upon the people was most deep. The stillness,
almost of death, reigned in the congregation, while the
young preacher rising in the force of his argument and
the grandeur of his emotions, swept like a tempest over
our awed minds.   But he laid his powers and himselt
upon the altar, and is gone."
CORDIAL STORRS (Lowville, N. Y.), son of Cordial
Storrs, and Mary (Ives), was born in Martinsburg, N. Y.,
Sept. I, I823.   He entered the Class the second term
Sophomore year.
After graduation he taught for a short time in Flushing,
N.Y. He then came to New Haven, studied theology,
and was licensed to preach in July, I852. Turning however. his attention to political affairs, he went to Washington, and was one of the assistants in the national whig
committee rooms during the canvass of I852. The winter
following he spent in Washington, then made a tour
through the South, visiting most of the Southern States.
Returning to his home he published, I854-5, a paper at
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Lowville, N.Y. In the spring of I856 he went to Chicago,
Ill., and spent the campaign of I856 in stumping the State
of Illinois for Fremont, and the following winter was
writing for the papers in Chicago.   In the spring of I857
he went to Kansas, where he remained until May, I86o.
During this time he was candidate for County Judge, and
would have been elected "but for a few too many democrats in the county where I was residing."   He returned
to Chicago and engaged in the political campaign of i860,
and at its close removed to Washington, D. C. For some
time he was chief clerk in the Fourth Auditor's office,
Treasury department, but since i865 has been engaged in
the practice of law, and in real estate business in Washington.
He married, Dec. i855, Miss Cornelia P. Bagg, daughter
of Hon. J. W. Bagg, of Detroit, Mich. She died in July,
I856.
*PHILEMON TRACY was the son of Hon. Edward Dorr
Tracy, Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of
Alabama, and was born at Macon, Ala., June, I83I. His
father, after admission to the bar, went from Norwich,
Conn., and settled in Macon. Two uncles of our classmate received degrees from Yale College, viz., Richard
P. Tracy, M.D. (Y. C. I8i6 m.), and Hon. Phineas L.
Tracy (Y. C. I8o6). His grandfather, Philemon Tracy,
received the honorary degree of M.D. in I817, and his
great-grandfather, Elisha Tracy, graduated here in I738.
The first months after graduation Tracy spent in work
upon one of the southern railroads. He however soon
established himself in practice of law in his native town,
where he edited the "Macon Telegraph," and held the
position of Probate Judge. In I86O-6I he was a member
of the Georgia Legislature. Shortly after the breaking
out of the war he became Major of the 6th Georgia
Infantry, and while acting as such in the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, I862, he was severely wounded. He died
the next day, the day after the death of Manross.
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He had married Mrs. Caroline Walker, who had died,
however, about a year after their marriage, leaving no
children.
HENRY MARTYN TUPPER (East Longmeadow, Mass,),
son of Rev. Martyn Tupper (Coll. N.J. I826), and Persis
L. (Peck), was born in Hardwick, Mass., June IO, I830.
After graduation he taught in Monson Academy until
Jan. I85I.  Early in I85[ he went to Sunsbury, Gates Co.,
N. C., where he was engaged in teaching till August.
In September he entered the Union Theological Seminary
in New York City. The partial failure of his health induced him to go in May, 1852, to Nyack, N.Y., where he
remained until July engaged in teaching. In September
he went to Jacksonville, Ill., as tutor in Illinois College,
in which office he remained two years. He then returned
to the Union Theological Seminary, where he spent two
years. He was licensed to preach by the New York and
Brooklyn Association, April, I856.  After leaving the
seminary he preached in Woonsocket, R. I., but his health
failing he went to the West. After recovering his health
he taught in Illinois College, and in Griggsville, Ill., until
June, 1859, when in answer to a call to become pastor of
the Congregational Church in Waverly, near Springfield,
Ill., he removed to that place, and was ordained their
pastor Oct. I2, I859.   Here he remained until Sept.
187I, when he removed to Ontario, Knox Co., Ill., where
he is now preaching, having been acting pastor of the
Congregational Church of that place since Feb. 4, I872.
In I865 he attended the Congregational Council at Boston
as delegate from the Southern Association of Illinois.
He married, Nov. I3, I86o, Miss Maggie E., daughter
of Mr. Walker Cree, of Griggsville, Ill., and has had five
children: (I) Carrie Augusta, born Jan. 4, I 862; (2) Charles
Henry, born March I8, I864, died Nov. I9, I87I; (3) James
Walker, born March 3I, I866; (4) Emily Elizabeth, born
July IO, I868; (5) Jennie Louise, born Dec. 5, I876.
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JAMES JOHNSTON WARING, son of William R. Waring,
M.D. (Univ. of Pa.), and Ann (Johnston), and brother of
Joseph F. Waring (Y. C. I852), was born in Savannah, Ga.,
Aug. 19, I829.
After graduation he studied medicine in the University
of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for two years, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution in the spring of 1852. During the following year
he was assistant resident physician of the Blockley Hospital in Philadelphia. Early in I853 he went to Dublin,
Ireland, where he was for some time resident in the
Lying-in Hospital, after which he became assistant resident physician in St. Bartholomew's Hospital at London.
After living in Paris seven months, and traveling in Italy
and Switzerland, he returned to America and settled in
I856 as a physician in Washington, D.C. He was elected
in I857 Professor of Physiology, and also Professor of
Obstetrics in the National Medical College. In I859 he
was elected Surgeon, and also Curator, of the Washington
Infirmary. He had acquired an extensive practice before
the breaking out of the war. In I86I he went to Savannah
to join his family, then in Savannah, and on his return was
arrested with them by the Confederate authorities and
sent back on parole to Savannah. During the war and
since its close, he has resided in Savannah in the practice
of his profession.   On  hearing of the yellow fever in
Savannah in I876 he hastened home from Saratoga, became Chairman of a Committee of the City Government
for carrying out sanitary reforms in the city, and engaged
heartily in that work.   He has purchased a cottage at
Saratoga, N.Y., for a summer residence.
He married, May 23, I856, Miss Mary B., daughter of
Col. Thomas Pinckney Alston (Y. C. I814) and has had
seven children: (I) Annie J., born in I857; (2) Mary B.,
born in I859, died in I865; (3) Pinckney Alston, born in
i86o; (4) Helen, born in I862; (5) James J., born in I865;
(6) T. Pinckney, born in i867; (7) Minna A., born in I869.
The eldest son, Pinckney Alston, has been preparing for
college at the Hopkins Grammar School, in New Haven,
and expects to enter Yale College this year.
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JACOB KENT WARNER, son of Milo Warner, and brother
of Pliny F. Warner (Y. C. I855), was born at Strykersville,
Wyoming Co., N.Y., Sept. Io, 1 824.
He studied theology at Auburn, and was licensed to
preach in June, I853. He preached two years at Alleghany, N. Y., then two years at Burdett, N. Y., and the
next two years at Dundee, N. Y. He was ordained at
Waterloo by the Geneva Presbytery, Feb. 3, i858. In
the fall of I859 he removed to Janesville, Wis., the state
of his wife's health requiring a change of climate. Here
he remained till 1862, when he went to Johnstown, in the
same state. In i867 his health failed, and after a long
illness he was compelled to relinquish his profession and
remove to a different climate. He spent one year in
Augusta, Ga., in charge of schools of the American
Missionary Association, in that city, and thence went to
Jacksonville, Florida, where he now resides, engaged in
mercantile pursuits, and yet preaching as he has occasion
and as his partially restored health permits. Several of
his summers have been spent in preaching in churches
near Seneca Lake, in New York.
He married, June 29, I854, Miss Mary A., daughter of
Rev. E. Platt, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and they had four
children: (I) Edith A., born Aug. I7, I856, graduated at
Bordentown Female College, N.J., and is now teaching
in that institution; (2) Alton Graham, born May 7, I858;
(3) Edwin Gaylord, born Nov. 30, I86o; (4) Mary Morrill,
born July 6, I864, died Aug. 2, I865.  The eldest son
studied at the Hudson River Institute. Both he and his
brother Edwin are in business in Jacksonville. Mrs. Mary
Warner died at Johnstown, of consumption, Dec. I8, I864,
a lady of unusual culture and rare excellence.
He married, Dec. 6, I865, Miss Elizabeth Mason, daughter of Mr. Daniel Mason of Bristol, N. H. She died at
Jacksonville, June 19, I870.
In I873 he married Miss Louise Brown, of Burdett,
N.Y., and they have had two children: (I) Walter Brown,
born April 29, I874; (2) Frank, born May 29, I875, died
Dec. I875.
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MOSES COOK WELCH (Wethersfield, Conn.), son of
Archibald Welch, M.D. (Y. C. 1836 h.), and Cynthia
(Hyde), grandson of Rev. Moses C. Welch (Y. C. I772),
and brother of H. K. W. Welch (Y. C. I842) was born in
Mansfield, Conn., July 3I, I827.
He taught in Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., the
first year after graduation. In May, I853, he became tutor
in Yale College, and continued in that office for two years.
In I856 he went to Kansas as secretary of the colony
that located at Waubonsee.   In June, I86I, he enlisted
in the 2d Kansas Volunteers, a three months' regiment,
and served in the Missouri campaign. In I862 he was ordained Evangelist, and entered the 5th Conn. Vols.; was
obliged by sickness to resign in I864. He was in the service of the Christian Commission at Nashville, Tenn., from
Dec. I864, to July, I865. Hle has been pastor of the Congregational Church at Mansfield, from I867 to Aug. I876.
He married. in I864, Miss Sarah D. Mills. They have
had three children.
LUCIAN SUMNER WILCOX, son of Justus D. Wilcox,
M.D. (Y. C. i855 h.), and Emeline B. (Wilcox), was born in
West Granby, Conn., July I7, I826.
He taught in Easton, Conn., for the first three years
after graduation. He then studied medicine at the Yale
Medical School, and received the degree of M.D. in I855.
After spending about a year in the Cherokee nation teaching -and practicing medicine, he returned to Connecticut,
and in I857 settled in Hartford, where he has been now
engaged twenty years in the constant and successful
practice of his profession. He has been Chief Medical
Director of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
since I865.
He married, May I8, I853, Miss Harriet C., daughter
of Mr. David Silliman, of Easton, Conn., and has had
four children: (I) Charles Silliman, born July I9, I857,
died June I3, 1858; (2) Antoinette Phelps, born April 28,
I863, died Feb. II, I875; (3) Kate Silliman, born Sept.
15, I868; (4) Alice Louise, born Nov. 4, I1874.
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DANIEL ELLIS WILLES, son of Mr. Horatio and Susan
P. Willes, and great-grandson of Rev. Henry Willes
(Y. C. I715), was born at Franklin, Conn., Oct. 27, I824.
He entered our Class in Junior year from the Class of
I849, and left before the close of the year   He received
the degrees of B.A. and M.A. in X855.
After leaving college he studied law in Detroit, Mich.,
was admitted to the bar in I85I, and practiced law in that
city. Returning to the East on account of ill health, he
taught, I1852-55, in Westchester Co., N. Y.   He then
studied theology in the Episcopal Theological Seminary,
in New York City, and was ordained Deacon in June,
I858.  He preached in Granville, Washington Co., N.Y.,
for a year, and Sept. I, I859, was settled as Rector of
Grace Church, in West Rutland, Vt. In the spring of
I86o he went as missionary to the Pacific States, and
preached in Olympia, Wash. Ter., and in Nevada City,
Marysville, and Brooklyn, Cal.   At the latter place,
which is about a mile from the College of California, he
was Rector of the Church of the Advent from I865 to
1868. He then returned to New York City, and in March,
I869, became Rector of St. Peter's Church, Hobart, N.Y.
In I874 he removed to Burlington, N.J., where he is now
residing.
He married in I863, in San Francisco, Miss Bythenia,
daughter of Capt. Francis Peet, of Bridgeport, Conn.,
and has two sons and three daughters.
*OSWALD LANGDON WOODFORD (West Avon,) was the
son of Zerah and Minerva (Potter) Woodford of West
Avon, Conn., where he was born Oct. 31I, I827. His
father, familiarly known as "Squire Zerah," was a wellto-do farmer, a man of intelligence and prominence in
the town. His mother was a devout Christian, energetic
in character and well beloved in the community. Both
father and mother believed in educating their children.
Oswald's earliest training was in the district school.
His preparation for college was made at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., where he graduated with
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the class of I846. He stood high in scholarship there
and delivered a poem of considerable merit at graduation.
Upon entering college he early secured a position among
the leading scholars of the class. He was a thorough,
close and patient student, being neither a "genius" nor
a "grub." He was never a mere book-worm. He had
literary tastes, read a good deal, and read discriminatingly, and used what he read. He wrote much and
easily and enjoyed it. The poetic vein in him frequently
broke ground and bubbled and sparkled on the surface,
and at all times tinged his style with a certain vigor and
quaintness.   As a speaker he never excelled.   Words
that flowed freely enough from his pen stuck and clogged
on his'tongue. And yet in debate he could strike hard
and well-aimed blows.
Woodford entered college with a towering ambition.
No man in the class had plans and purposes for the future
that reached higher and farther than his. He dwelt upon
them and lived in them with a peculiar zest.  In his
Junior year (I think it was) he became a Christian. The
change was radical; not so much in his outer life as in
the direction of his thoughts and aspirations. He came
down out of his cloud-land and faced the activities of
real life, calm and determined. The direction and spirit
of the change in him found expression in the choice of
his Commencement theme: "Learn to labor and to wait."
Those of us who shared his thoughts knew that his words
on that occasion voiced the purpose of his heart.
In December, I85O, he went to Tahlequah in the Indian
territory and taught in the male seminary of the Cherokees till in August, I852, when he returned North and
soon after entered the Theological Seminary at Andover,
Mass.  He went on with his studies there through the
Middle year, and then was called to take the vacant
Principalship in Tahlequah. Having been licensed to
preach by a council called for the purpose in West Avon,
Feb. 7, I855, he immediately started for his field of labor.
He remained till in August of the same year, when he
returned and attended a course of Dr. Taylor's lectures
in the Theological department at New Haven during the
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winter of I856-7. In May, I857, he located himself as a
missionary of the American Home Missionary Society at
Grasshopper Falls, Jefferson Co., Kansas, where he succeeded in organizing a church of the Congregational
order, April 19, I858. After eighteen months of hard
labor his health broke down, and his eyes, which had
long been troublesome, became wholly unserviceable,
and he was compelled to abandon the field altogether.
In July, I859, he came East with his family and went to
farming with his father, hoping soon to regain his health
and be enabled to take up his profession once more. But
it was not to be.  One year after another left him still
disabled. He had learned to wzork, and now he must
learn to wait. He accepted the decision patiently and
cheerfully, and meantime did what he could. He made
himself useful and respected as a citizen.  He  filled
various minor offices, was made justice of the peace, gave
much time and care to the educational interests of the
town, and labored for its prosperity in all ways. He was
an authority in agricultural matters, particularly in the
line of fruits and vegetables, and established an enviable
reputation for integrity and honor in all business concerns.
He represented the town in the State Legislature, where
he served with ability as chairman of the Committee on
Education. But he did his best work in the Church,
where his energy and skill made him invaluable. As a
deacon and as superintendent of the Sabbath school and
as the pastor's right hand man, he made for himself a
place not easily filled when it was vacated by his death.
And thus disabled as he was, he became a strong pillar
on which many important interests leaned.
In the latter part of Sept., I870, he was seized by a
typhoid fever which held him for five weeks-mostly in
dilirium till Oct. 2I, when he put off this mortal and
put on immortality.
Woodford was twice married: first, to Miss Pauline,
daughter of Mr. Joseph Avery, of Conway,  Mass.  She
died Feb. 26, I858, leaving a daughter thirteen days old.
His next marriage, May I8, I859, was to Miss Esther Post,
daughter of Dr. Elizur Butler, so long and favorably
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known as a missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. to the
Cherokees.
Woodford's children are; (i) Fanny Pauline, born Feb.
I3, I858; (2) Butler Ames, born April 22, i860; (3) Abbie
Marian, born Oct. I4, I86I; (4) Esther Minerva, born Oct.
I7, I867. A daughter, Kittie Minerva, died in March,
I869. Mrs. Woodford is living at West Avon.
JOHN ALPHEUS WOODHULL, son of Mr. Richard Woodhull and Frances (Greene), and brother of Rev. George
L. Woodhull (Y. C. I862), was born at Ronkonkoma,
Suffolk Co., N. Y., Oct. 30, I825.
He studied theology at Bangor, Yale, and Auburn
Theological Seminaries. He was licensed to preach in
I852, and preached successively at Union Center, Greenport, and Wadham's Mills, N. Y., at which latter place
he was ordained pastor, Jan. I, I856.  In August, I858, he
went to his native county and preached first at New
Village, and then at Commack, and then (I866-69) at
Northville. In the autumn of I869 he removed to New
Preston, Conn., where he preached till I872. He then
went to Grotorn, Cont., where he was installed pastor,
Dec. 24, I873, over the church of which our classmate,
S. W. Brown, had been pastor.   He has published, recently, a "Review  of the Congregational Church of
Groton, Conn., with sketches of its ministers."
He married, July 20, I853, MissJoanna Brown, daughter
of Dea. Joel Brown, of Miller's Place, Long Island, and
has had eight children: (I) Joel Brown, born June io0,
I854; (2) Charles Edward, born Dec. I4, I855; (3) John
Francis, born July 2, I857; (4) Augustine, born Feb. I7,
I859, died Aug. I6, I86o; (5) George Heber, born Dec. I6,
i86o; (6) Florence, born Aug. 22, 1862, died Oct. I4,
I876; (7) Mary Anna, Aug. 26, I864; (8) Adelia Hallock,
born July I4, I866, died Nov. 14-, I876. The oldest son,
Joel, is married and has one son, and both he and Charles
reside at Miller's Place. The third son, John Francis,
prepared for college at Williston Seminary, and is now
a member of the Class of I88o, in Yale,College.
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MEETINGS.
[Although some of the following reports have appeared in the previous
Records of the Class, they are introduced here to complete the present
Record.]
FIRST MEETING.
The Class met after the exercises of Commencement, under the pavilion
on the College grounds, at 6 o'clock P. M., August I5, I85o. They proceeded
at once to the election of a Class Secretary, and the choice fell unanimously
upon Clinton Camp. Gardiner S. Plumley was chosen Assistant Secretary,
with the same degree of unanimity. After passing a resolution to assemble
again in three years, the meeting adjourned with hearty cheers for the Class.
SECOND MEETING.
A few members of the Class were again convened July 31, I85I, at I2
o'clock M., in the Library room of the Law Building. Mr. Condit was called
to preside. The Secretary, Mr. Camp, being present, officiated in that capacity. For the want of any business of importance, each member present was
called upon to give an account of himself during the preceding year, and of
any who were absent with whose history he might be conversant.
THIRD MEETING.
On Wednesday, July 28th, I852, the Class being well represented as to
numbers, met in the Lyceum Building, at 12 o'clock M. Mr. Roberts was
called to the chair, and Mr. Farnham appointed Secretarypro tem.
The first business in order was the appointment of a Class Secretary, vice
Camp, who was absent in Europe. As Mr. Camp's absence would prevent
him from preparing the Class Report, E. M. Jerome was unanimously chosen
to that office. The address of each member present for the ensuing year, and
that of all others as far as known, were then given to the Secretary-elect.
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CLASS MEETINCGS.
Messrs. R. Bliss, Farnham, and Jerome were appointed a Committee to provide a supper for the triennial meeting in I853. As it was ascertained that
Hymen's claims had not been slighted by some members of the Class, and
moreover that a certain injunction of Holy Writ had been complied with, by
at least two or three Classmates, the Supper Committee had delegated to
them another duty, that of purchasing a silver cup for the first boy born to
the Class. The meeting then adjourned till July 27th, I853.
THE TRIENNIAL MEETING IN I853.
The members of the Class having been notified by the Secretary, assembled
in the Theological Lecture Room, under the Trumbull Gallery. at I2 o'clock
M., on Wednesday, July 27, I853. The meeting was called to order by the
Secretary, and, on motion, it was voted that he retain the Chair.  The first
business which engaged the attention of the Class, was the appointment of
a Chairman to preside in the evening. Mr. Mallery was unanimously chosen
to officiate as presiding officer.  Mr. Jerome, as one of the Committee appointed to purchase a silver cup, reported that the youthful representative of
the Class had been provided for, as the cup had been purchased and engraved
with an appropriate inscription.   Mr. Mallery, the Chairman, was selected
to present it, in behalf of the Class. Mr. R. Bliss, as Chairman of the Supper
Committee, then reported that the wants of the inner man would be provided
for by Mr. Ives, of the New Haven Hotel, at 92 o'clock P. M.
The subject of purchasing the daguerreotypes of Mr. Ripley was then
called up. Mr. Ripley made a statement of the number of portraits which
he had, and their price. Sixty-five portraits of the Class were in his possession, making thirteen necessary to complete the number.   As the Class
wished to see them before purchasing, the farther consideration of the subject
was deferred until evening. The Class then adjourned to meet at the same
place at 9 P. M., to proceed together to the hotel.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.-The Class met pursuant to adjournment at the
Trumbull Gallery, at 9 o'clock, and soon after, preceded by the Chairman
and Secretary, went in procession to the New Haven Hotel. The large dining hall, after a little delay, was thrown open, when the Class of'50 sat down
to the sumptuous feast prepared for them. Mr. Mallerr took the chair, having on either side the Secretary and the Chairman of the Supper Committee.
Before partaking of the good things provided, a blessing was asked by the
Rev. Robert Smith. The viands were then disposed of in a very satisfactory
manner to all concerned.   There were thirty-three of the Class present:
Messrs. A. D. Baldwin, Bassett, Bissell, R. Bliss, Bonbright, Booth, Brewer,
Brownell, Coit, Colton, Condit, Converse, Dillingham, Farnham, Foote,
Hall, Hand, Jerome, Kellogg, Mallery, Manross, Newton, Plumley, Richards,
Ripley, Roberts, Sanford, Smith, Tupper, Welch, Wilcox, Woodford, Woodhull. There were three in town who were not at the meeting: Messrs. Bacon,
Johnson, and Warner. The former was detained on account of the unexpected intelligence of the death of his relative, Francis L. Hodges, Esq., of
the Class of I847. The regrets of Mr. Bacon at not being present were made
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known to the Class by a note which was read by the Chairman. The absence
of the two latter gentlemen was owing to circumstances unknown to the
Secretary. It may be well to state here, that three members were intending
to be with us, who were detained on account of sickness: W. R. Bliss, Mills,
and Phoenix. It afforded the Class much pleasure to have among them Mr.
J. Norman Jackson, of Liverpool, who left us Junior year. The presence of
Mr. William Lamb, of Norfolk, Va., as an invited guest, a brother of our beloved Classmate who has deceased, was also a source of gratification to all.
After the physical wants had been satisfied, the ceremony of presentation
of the Silver Goblet took place. And the most novel and interesting feature
connected with it was the presence of the "Infant Lion" of the evening " in
propria persona." It was reserved for the Class of'50 to set this example,
well worthy of imitation by all succeeding Classes. The boy who was to receive this mark of favor was placed upon the table near the Chairman.   He
was about the age of twenty months, and his appearance such as to reflect
the greatest honor upon the father and thus upon the Class. At agiven signal, all rose to their feet, when Mr. Mallery, in a speech perfectly unique and,
characterized by a vein of humor which excited our risibilities not a little,
presented the Silver Goblet, most beautiful and chaste in its design and finish, bearing the following inscription: "To WILLIAM EDGAR  PLUMLEY,
from the Classmates of his father, July 27, i853-Yale College, Class of
I85o." Mr. Plumley briefly responded in behalf of the youthful recipient, in
a very pleasing and felicitous strain, closing with a most  appropriate
sentiment.
After the preceding ceremony was concluded, the Secretary read his financial report, the most important feature of which was, that the sum of $3.I2
was necessary from each member present, in order to defray the cost of publishing the Class Report, together with various other expenses incurred in
connection with the Class Meeting. Each one was accordingly called upon
to relieve his purse of the above sum, which was responded to most cheerfully. The worthy host, Mr. Ives, followed the Secretary, releasing all from
their pecuniary liabilities by his agreeable attentions.
The subject of purchasing the daguerreotypes was again resumed, the portraits of all such as were in the possession of Mr. Ripley having been examined by each member present. Such were their obvious imperfections, that
the proposition to purchase them was negatived by the Class.
The good old song "Gaudeamus" was then sung, after which the Report
of the Secretary was called for. The preface to the Statistical Record was
then read, when each Classmate was called in alphabetical order, and, if
present, gave an account of his life since graduation.  When any were called
who were not present, the Secretary read the account received from them,
which is to be found in its appropriate place elsewhere. After about half of
the Class had been called, the following song was sung, composed for the
occasion by Mr. Plumley, who was also the author of the closing song on a
succeeding page.
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CLASS MEETINGS.
S 0 N G.
THE GOOD OLD TIMES OF YALE.
AIR-" Old Folks at Home."
Oft, when my heart is fondly musing
On bright days to come,
Weird Memory sways, her portion choosing
From the happy time that's gone.
When Freshman verdure had departed,
Each a Sophomore;
Learned, grand, polite, and lion-hearted,
Mingled with Freshmen no more.
Chorus, &c.
CHORUS:
Soon Euclid's elements and members
Asked a decent tomb;
Each man of'50 well remembers
That scene of sorrow and gloom.
Chorus, &c.
Years may other bonds dissever,
Distance oft prevail;
Still, still my heart is turning ever,
To those good old times at Yale.
Friends then were won, and hearts united,
Ere life's race began;
And, toil by genial kindness lighted,
Time with fleetest coursers ran.
Chorus, &c.
Oh! yonder Chapel I remember,
Thither we did go;
Smart jolly Freshmen, young and tender,
Innocent as virgin snow.
Chorus, &c.
Thus soon we passed the goal of College,
Took our first degree;
And with our modicum of knowledge,
Went forth the great world to see.
Chorus, &c.
There Profs and Tutors smiling nodded
And examined me;
I knew not what such kindness boded,
Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re.
Chorus, &c.
Then Sophs, my most obedient brothers,
Introduced my name
To Societies, renowned for others
High upon the scroll of Fame.
Chorus, &c.
After the remainder of the Class had been called, and their account listened
to, the particulars of the last sickness and dying scenes of our deceased
brothers were read to the Class; and a tribute of affection was paid to departed worth, as the moistened eye of each Classmate bore witness. There
were spontaneous gushings of hearts warm with fond recollections of the
virtues of those who would no more meet with us here. A solemn silence
pervaded the hall, broken only by the choked utterance of those who, one
after another, rose to pour forth their heartfelt tribute of love to the memories
of the dead. It is indeed a happy thought, that though Classmates die, they
are not forgotten.
The Secretary then requested that when any intelligence might be received
concerning a Classmate, which would interest the Class, they would communicate it to him at New Haven.
A vote of thanks was unanimously passed complimenting the Secretary
for his past services, with a request that he continue in the same office in
future. It was also voted to retain the same Committee of Arrangements in
office.
The Secretary gave notice that the Report would be published in a few
weeks. The Class then voted, without a dissenting voice, to meet again
seven years from that time, at the Commencement in I86o. After which all
present joined hands and sung the following
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Now, glad returned, to share in pleasure,
Where no ills assail;
Sing all, to-night, in joyful measure,
Of the good old times of Yale.
Chorus, &c. 
CLASS MEETINGS.
CLOSING SONG.
AIR-"Auld Lang Syne."
Oh, happy days of Auld Lang Syne!
Ye still the same appear;
And still your happiness is mine,
In every passing year;
For there the loved and loving meet,
Their woes, their joys to blend;
And heart meets heart in converse sweet,
And friend joins hand with friend.
CHORUS-For Auld Lang Syne, my Boys,
For Auld Lang Syne;
High beat the heart, loud swell the voice,
For Auld Lang Syne.
But they have gone, their spirits blest
Have left the clay cold sod;
To share,'mid endless peace and rest,
The bosom of their God.
Their love, their hopes, their prayers are ours,
They too our  chorus f   ill;
They join us from heaven's blissful bowers,
Yes! they are with us still.
T he n   while  with joy we m e et tonfight,
The living and the blest;
Those marshaled for life's strenuous fight,
And those in peaceful rest.
Let us, who here are warriors still,
Give pledge, till life be o'er,
Its noble objects to fulfill,
To meet those gone before.
Chorus, &c.
'Tis not that ties of kin have bound
Our spirits, in their spell;
But "Classmate" is the magic sound,
That opens Memory's cell:
And memory by her loving gaze,
Though years and oceans part,
Enchains; and with her tender lays,
She steals away the heart.
Chorus, &c.
And if, in future distant days,
Some  toilworn Classmates    come,
Whose lagging step and wistful gaze,
Pine for his youthful home;
Pledge we, to-night, his woes to soothe,
Pledge we, his steps to guide,
Pledge we, his brow of care to smoothe,
And for each want provide.
Chorus, &c.
We meet as "Classmates" here, to-night,
To learn how each has fared;
With brows unbent, and spirits light,
For many joys we've shared;
And many joys we trust to share,
In the glad future time;
Where Hope is painting all things fair,
In her Italian clime.
Chorus, &c.
Thus shall we through our journey bear,
As  Classmate,  Brother, Friend;
In all delights and ills our share,
Till time for us must end:
Then all completed, journey, strife,
The Victory ours for aye;
Meet on the verge of yon blest life,
No more to say-" Good Bye."
Chorus, &c.
And there were others with us here,
In those past happy days;
Who now no more on earth appear,
To meet affection's gaze:
They seem to fill their wonted place,
We hear each well-known voice,
We seem to see each much-loved face,
And they with us rejoice.
Chorus, &c.
After singing, the meeting adjourned at 4i o'clock A.M., of Thursday, the
28th. The Class then went in a body to the college yard, in front of the
Lyceum, where "three times three" chleers were given for the glorious Class
of'Fifty. And thus was ended the Triennial Festival of I853.
E. M. JEROME.
NEW HAVEN, October, I853.
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Chorus, &c. 
CLASS MEETINGS.
DECENNIAL MEETING.
Pursuant to the call of the Committee of Arrangements, twenty-six members of the Class met at I37 Lyceum at 2 P. M., July 25, I86o. The only
important matter of a business nature was the selection of a Chairman for
the evening. Mallery was chosen for this office, and from the highly satisfactory manner with which he has filled the chair both on this occasion and
at our previous meeting, it would be safe to predict that he will hold the
office for life, or at least for good behavior.
The early part of the evening was spent at the house of the Secretary.
Several of the ladies of members of the Class were present, to enliven the
occasion and testify both to the good judgment and the good fortune of our
Classmates. Soon after Io o'clock, all assembled on the Lyceum steps and
went in procession to the supper room at the New Haven House. It was
found that thirty-four of the Class were present: Bacon, A. D. W. Baldwin,
Bassett, Bentley, Bissell, Blatchley, R. Bliss, W. R. Bliss, Booth, Brainerd,
O. Brown, Brownell, Brush, Coit, Colton, Condit, Converse, Conyngham,
Dechert, Edwards, Farnham, Hall, Hand, Jerome, Kellogg, Ludden, Mallery,
Manross, Newton, Parsons, Phoenix, Roberts, Tupper, and Woodford. Scoville, who was in the Class Freshman year, and who is now settled in Chicago,
Ill., was also present.
After the removal of the cloth, a letter was presented from Mr. Stafford,
with reference to a small balance due on account of the "Yale Literary Magazine." After a brief discussion, a contribution was taken up and the matter
satisfactorily disposed of. The Secretary made a similar successful appeal for
funds. The Chairman then called for responses to the following sentiments:
I. Yale College.
Dum mens grata manet nomen laudesque
Yalenses
Cantabunt soboles unanimique patres.
Responded to by H. A. NEWTON.
2. Pres. Woolsey.
Et spes et ratio studiorum in Czesare tantum.
Responded to by L. W. BACON.
3. The Class of I850.
Accipe nunc artes
Quas colis et Musarum et Apollinis ede
relicta.
Responded to by M. KE-LLOGG.
4. The dead of the Class.
Nunc nonne e tumulo fortunataque favilla
Nascentur violae?
Received standing and in silence.
5. The Pulpit.
Quorum optimus est interpres legum sanc        tarum.
Responded to by W. S. COLTON.
6. The Bar.
Ubi nunc Lex? Dormis?
Responded to by H. M. DECHERT.
7. The Medical Profession.
Medico ridente.
Not responded to, as no physician was
present.
8. Agriculture.
0 fortunatos nimium, sua si bona n6rint,
A gricolas.
Responded to by 0. L. WOODFORD.
9. The Press.
Lux et veritas.
Responded to by E. H. ROBERTS.
IO. The Merchant.
Adspice, quid faciant commercia?
Responded to by R. B       ELISS.
I I. The Poet.
Celebres notique poetsae.
Responded to by  C. BISSELL.
I2. Manufacturers.
Doedala fingere tecta.
Responded to by  C. E. BROWNELL.
I3. Science at   Work.
Nil mortalibus arduum est.
Responded to by N. S. MANROSS.
R4.  Music.
Curis et angoribus Musarum adhibere
solafla.
Answered by a song from W. LUDDEN.
I5. The Wives of our Classmates.
Sit formosa, decens, dives.
Responded to by E. M. JEROME.
I6. The Children of our Class.
Gratum est quod patriae civem populoque
dedisti.
Responded to by J. S. BLATCHLEY.
I7. Our Bachelors.
Uxorem Posthume ducis?
Responded to by W. T. FARNHAM.
go 
CLASS MEETINGS.
The names of the Class were then called in order, that those present might
respond, and that the Committee might give information of the absent. At
short intervals were sung, not only the familiar old college songs, and those
which were prepared for the previous meeting, but two others suitable to the
occasion, furnished by Bissell and Colton.
SONG.
BY W. S. COLTON.
AIR-" Home, sweet Home."
Where'er on life's ocean we spread our lone sail,
No harbor we find like the haven of YALE;
The tempest-tossed sailor comes here to his rest,
And finds sweet repose on his dear mother's
breast.
CHORUs-Yale, Yale, dear old Yale,
Wherever we wander, there's no place like
Yale.
Ye bright jocund hours, wreathed in story and
song,
Ye come but too rarely, ye linger not long;
O wave o'er us now your soft banner of love,
Ere the gray wings of morning droop down
from above.
Though dear be the groves by Ilissus' cold
stream,
And classic the walks by the Tiber's pale
gleam,
And grand the gray towers that o'ercastle the
Rhine,
There's no grandeur, no glory, no beauty like
thine.
All hail, CLASS OF FIFTY! we give joy to thee!
Thou  bearest brave honors on land and on
sea;
Thy march is still onward, thy heart shall not
fail;
Then a hip, hip, hurrah! for the sons of old
Yale!
CHORUS-Yale, Yale, d        ear o ld Yale,
Wherever we wander, there's no place like
old Yale.
From the highways and byways of life back to
thee
We come, O fond Mother, thy loved face to
see;
Thus the hours passed rapidly and pleasantly away. Each one was sorry
to see the dawning light, and hear from the landlord the message that the
room was needed for breakfast.
Before separating it was voted that the Class will meet in I865, as well as
in I870, and that the present Committee of Arrangements, with the addition
of Mallery to their number, be continued in office for both meetings. This
Committee will then consist of A. D. W. Baldwin, G. Mallery, H. A. Newton,
and G. S. Plumley. After votes of thanks to the Chairman, to the Committee
of Arrangements, to the Poets, and to the Secretary, all adjourned to the
steps of the Lyceum, and there, after hearty cheers and shaking of hands,
parted to meet in i865.
Each one present at this meeting will, I know, look back upon it with
peculiar pleasure.   Such hours as those at the supper table, are rarely repeated in one's life. When we met three years after graduation, we were
students coming back after a longer vacation than usual.  The active business of life most of us had not begun. Professional studies were not so
widely different from college studies as to open to us many new experiences.
Character had changed so little that we met with just such feelings as we had
when we parted at graduation.
gi
Receive us, embrace us, as thou did'st of yore,
Bestowing on us thine own blessing once
more. 
CLASS MEETINGS.
But it seemed different with the present meeting. Each Classmate felt the
effect of these ten years. He was no longer preparing for the duties of life.
New business and social ties made him conscious that his student life was
over. It was not now a meeting after a long vacation. It was turning away
from the business that absorbed his efforts, and the social sphere that had
grown round him, to revive memories of the past.
Nor could one fail to be struck with the change which ten years had wrought
in others. They were not merely ten years older. The effect of the college
course was more plainly seen than when we were in college, and I am sure
that everyone went away from the meeting with increased respect for his
Classmates.
H. A. NEWTON.
NEW HAVEN, April, i86i.
SONG.
BY C. BISSELL.
AIR-"Lauriger Horatius."
Though the days be ten years past
Since we left our mother,
Still the kind old lady fast
Brother binds to brother.
Now to-night again we meet While the cups are flowing,
L    et                     the hours of morning beat
Before we think of going.
Do I see a something grave,
Where there once was laughter?
All the joys of living have
Cares that follow after.
Never cup.was purely sweet,
Of all the cups set flowing;
Tears and smiles are sure to meet,
When every wind is blowing.
Tell me how the days have fared,
Friends along the table;
Tell me, have you always dared
All that you were able?
Talk it over while we meet,
Keep the cups a flowing;
When the Class of'Fifty greet,
Who shall talk of going.
Brush the dusty cares away;
Let them come to-morrow;
They will have the less to pay,
Who troubles never borrow.
Room is plenty in the street,
For all ill winds a blowing;
Shut the doors and let us meet,
And set th' old times a going!
Have you found what life is like,
Since you went and tried it?
Have you learned a blow to strike,
Or if struck, to bide it?
Not the Heenanistic feat,
But blows of Fortune's showing:
Tell me how such raps to meet,
And I'll not think of going.
Pledge    we all      that'w e will be
Honest friends together,
Friends of such sincerity
As lives through rainy weather.
Thern when'next'the'Fifties meet,
A little older growing,
They shall just as kindly greet,
And set the cup a flowing.
Once, I know, your hearts were kind,
When your forms were slender;
Now, beneath' the manly rind,
Is the heart as tender?
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Yes, I know that every beat
Sets kindly currents going:
Let them freely flow, and meet,
And never cease from flowing. 
CLASS MEETINGS.
MEETING OF i865.
In Commencement week, I865, nearly twenty of the Class met on Wednesday afternoon at i8o Lyceum, and in the evening they sat down to a supper
provided by the committee.   Mallery presided at both meetings.  It was
voted not to publish a continuation of the Biographical Record until more
complete returns could be had than were then attainable. The Secretary,
however, sent to each Classmate a list of the post office addresses of the
members of the Class.
MEETING OF I1870.
The Class met at the mathematical recitation-room, i8o Lyceum, on July
20, I870, at 2.30 P.M., and appointed Roberts chairman for the afternoon and
evening. There were present either at the afternoon or evening gathering,
the following Classmates: Bacon, Bassett, A. D. Baldwin, Blatchley, R. Bliss,
Booth, O. Brown, Brownell, Chase, Colton, Conyngham, Dechert, Easter,
Farnham, Jerome, Newton, Phoenix, Plumley, Roberts, Tupper,  Wilcox,
Woodford, Woodhull. Upon motion of Plumley, Newton was continued as
Class Secretary. Letters were read from Adams, W. A. Baldwin, Bentley,
Bissell, Bolles, Brewer.   The early evening was spent by members of the
Class, and ladies accompanying them, at the house of the Secretary. They
met there several of their old instructors. At half-past nine, P.M., the Class
sat down to supper and passed the night in pleasant conversation, interspersed with song and story.
From the notes in the Secretary's possession a few sentences may recall
the spirit of the meeting. One gave late incidents about Ludden; another,
of Mills. Mulford was spoken of by some who had seen him lately. Of
Perkins and his literary employment, several spoke. Another recalled a
pleasant interview with Shaw. Of Brown, S. W., a number mentioned tender
reminiscences. References were also made to Frost, and to Orsborn. In
the free conversation that followed all in turn participated:
Bassett:-" A hard working minister.   Class feeling grows stronger as
years go by."
Booth:-" A strong feeling of friendship for Classmates.   I am doing my
work cheerfully."
Woodford:-" A farmer and cultivator of small fruits."
Tupper:-" I have looked forward to this meeting with much pleasure.
It is seldom that I see a Classmate. I saw one in Chicago last spring, the
first one that I have met for many years."
Brownell:-" Where I was born and brought up is my home since graduation."
Farnham:-" My pleasant partnership with Baldwin for years, has strengthened our friendship. Have no desire for public life, or to hold office, but
prefer the duties of my profession. I attend the Protestant Episcopal Church,
and am a member of that Church."
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CLIASS MEETINGS.
Wilcox:-" My professional life is pleasant but uneventful.  One morning
I awoke and learned that I was elected' Deacon.' I declined, but did accept
the appointment to examine medical students at Yale."
Easter:-" Sad privation overtook me during and subsequent to the war.
Brighter skies are now above me. It has done me good to come here. I
have come twelve hundred miles to see my classmates." (Applause.)
Bacon:-" I have made a discovery which should appear in the next edition of Webster's Dictionary. The definition of what some call'Indolence,'
should be'Misdirected Industry.'"
Phoenix:-" I have had cares and disappointments, but many mercies."
Blatchley:-" My practice in San Francisco was large, and steadily growing."
Jerome:-" It is pleasant to be with you, and to hear the familiar tones of
your voices."
Chase:-" My first visit to New Haven since I850."
Brown: —" I enjoy my work."
Coit:-" I have been at most of the Class meetings."
Colton:-" Have enjoyed uninterrupted health since childhood. I never
lost a recitation in college. I had my eye on the ministry since mv Sophomore year."
Dechert:-" We have a Yale Association in Philadelphia."
Baldwin:-" I stick to the regular course of legal business, and avoid
political strifes."
Plumley:-" I have been constantly employed in the duties of my calling."
Newton:-" I am grateful for the advantage that Yale has been to me. It
has helped me much more than I have helped it."
Roberts:-" Let us ask ourselves, if we owe much to Yale College, is it
not our privilege to make some return to her that will be remembered?"
MEETING OF I875.
The Class met in the afternoon of Wednesday (Commencement Week) in
the mathematical recitation-room of Newton, once the "Brothers' Hall."
Plumley was chosen Chairman. A. D. W. Baldwin, Booth, Newton, and
Plumley, were appointed Class Committee.
In the evening, supper was served in a room of the Insurance building. A
number of ladies related to Classmates honored the Class by their presence.
The records of the Secretary afford copious notes of the conversation and
addresses of this very pleasant interview.  It is not, however, easy to make
extracts from these notes without repeating the information more accurately
furnished in the preceding Biographical Record.
All present testified to the gratification they felt in the reunion, and unanimously invited the wives and daughters of Classmates to the meeting in
I880.
There were present, A. D. W. Baldwin, Bassett, Bentley, R. Bliss, Booth,
Brownell, Colton, Conyngham, Hendrick, Jerome, Newton, Plumley, Roberts,
Tupper, Wilcox.
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CLASS MEETINGS.
SONG  OF REUNION,  JUNE 30, 1875.
BY W. S. COLTON.
AIR-"Home, sweet Hom;e."
From the world's weary conflicts, its grief, and its care,
From the dust of its toil, rising thick on the air,
How gladly we turn, leaving turmoil and strife,
To revisit the scenes of our manhood's young life.
Home, home, sweet, sweet home.
Receive us again, Mother Yale, to thy home.
We come worn from battle with falsehood and fraud,
With leagued powers of darkness at home and abroad;
We bring back no scars of disgrace or defeat,
We lay down no trophy of shame at thy feet.
Home, home, sweet, sweet home,
O welcome thy war-beaten veterans home!
How brightly the days glide with swift-footed hours,
How lightly the years touch thine ivy-wreathed towers,
While ever beneath the blue dome of the skies
New fanes of Religion, Art, Science, arise.
Home, home, sweet, sweet home,
Our hearts fondly yearning, come back to our home.
How many, our comrades, have sunk'neath the wave,
And have found in life's wide rolling ocean a grave,
While we, sailing on, still wherever we roam,
Turn ever to thee, Alma Mater, our home.
Home, home, sweet, sweet home,
For thy storm-driven sons thou art haven and home.
Well, we come and we go; years will not stay their flight,
Upon all things on earth soon or late comes a blight;
We go and we come-but ne'er may we see
The mold of decay gather, Yale, upon thee!
Home, home, sweet, sweet home,
May here strength and beauty find ever their home.
And when, at the last, down the steep vale of years,
We pass to the dark silent river of tears,
We will look o'er the wave to the far shining shore,
And there we will gather-at Home evermore!
Home, home, sweet; sweet home,
And there will we gather-at Home evermore!
[We have lost by death nineteen members of the Class.   This is very
nearly the number we might have expected.   Computing it, as is usual,
from year to year, and by calendar years, the expected mortality up to Jan.
I877 is, by the Carlisle Table, 20.04; by the Actuaries' Table, I8.2I.  The
tables show that about half of our present number will be living on the 50th
anniversary of graduation.]
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PRESENT POST-OFFICE ADDRESSES OF THE SURVIVING
MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1850.
City address, or County.
Campbell Co.
Care Rev. L Bacon, D.D
4 and 6 Pine st.
Town.
Lynchburg, Va.
New Haven, Conn.
New York City,
Philadelphia, Pa.
New Haven, Conn.
Ellenville, N. Y.
New York City,
New York City,
New York City,
Wethersfield, N. Y.
Olean, N. Y.
Evanston, Ill.
Milford, Conn.
New York City.
San Francisco, Cal.
Springfield, Mo.
Moodus, Conn.
Austin, Texas,
Los Angelos, Cal.
Lyndon, Vt.
New London, Conn.
Warren, Conn.
Newark, N. J.
Boston Highlands, Mass.
Name,.
S. Adams,
L. W. Bacon,
A. DeW. Baldwin,
W. A. Baldwin,
W. E. B assett,
E. W. Bentley,
C. Bissell,
R. Bliss,
W. R. Bliss,
J. L. Blodget,
D. H. Bolles,
D. Bonbright,
A. Booth,
C. S. Brainerd,
J. H. Brewer,
O. Brown,
C. E. Brownell,
W. Brush,
R. H. Chapman,
H. Chase,
R. Coit,
W. S. Colton,
A. P. Condit,
G. S. Converse,.
T. D. Conyngham,
H. M. Dechert,
J. D. Easter,
W. T. Farnham,
J. F. Foote,
G. L. Frost,
E. Hall,
C. J. Hillyer,
B. J. Horton,
T. H. Jackson,
E. M. Jerome,
S. Johnson,
M. Kellogg,
W. Ludden,
G. Mallery,
P. C. Massie,
J. R. Mills,
E. Muhlenberg,
S. S Mulford,
H. A. Newton,
B. Parsons,
F. B. Perkins,
S. Phoenix,
G. S. Plumley,
E. L. Ripley,
E. H. Roberts,
H. P. Sanford,
F. Shaw,
C. Storrs,
H. M. Tupper,
J. J. Waring,
J. K. Warner,
M. C. Welch,
L. S. Wilcox,
D. E. Willes,
J. A. Woodhull,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Jacksonville, Ill.
New York City.
Norwalk, Conn.
Dodgeville, Wis.
Charlestown, W. Va.
Washington, D. C.
Lawrence, Kan.
Garretson's Landing, Ark.
Ansonia, Conn.
Rodman, N. Y.
Oakland, Cal.
Savannah, Ga.
Washington, D. C.
Massie's Mills, Va.
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- 3. D w ight st.
Ulster Co.
7 Gold st.
78 and 8o Thomas st., (P. 0. B.. 27119)
4- W. i.th st.
Wyoming Co.
Cattaraugus Co.
Northwestern University.
New Haven Co.
-7 Cedar st., care of C. E. Hull & Co.
53 Montgomery Block.
Drury College.
Middlesex Co.
Travis Co.
Los Angelos Co.
Caledonia Co.
Treas. Office N. L. R.R. Co.
Litchfield Co.
Essex Co.
Rectory of St. john.'s Church.
209 S- 5th st.
Morgan Co.
8 Pine st.
Fairfield Co.
Iowa Co.
Jefferson Co.
2I2I Massachusetts Ave.
Douglass Co.
Jefferson Co.
New Haven Co.
Jefferson Co.
College cf California.
Care of Ludden & Bates.
Care of Adjutant General's Office.
Nelson Co.
Brazoria Co.
Lancaster Co.
47 W. 3'st St.
I35 Elm st.
P. 0. Box, I097.
Public Library.
Wabasha Co.
20 West. Union Bd'g, (P. 0. B. 787.)
P. 0. Box.67.
Herald Building, Genesee st,
Lake Co.
Care Vose Bros., 8- Magazine st.
1,424 F. st., N. W.
Knox Co.
Chatham Co.
Duval Co.
65 Edwards st.
Hartford Co.
Burlington Co.
New London Co.