r^ Ut tV.-V. '^ With the Comphments of YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY NEW HAVEN, CONN.. U. S. A. » V\S ''i ^^]>3 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE INCLUDING THOSE GRADUATED IN CLASSES LATER THAN 1815, WHO ARE NOT COMMEMORATED IN THE ANNUAL OBITUARY RECORDS BY FRANKLIN BOWDITCH DEXTER, LITT.D. ISSUED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE OBITUARY RECORD NEW HAVEN— 1913 PREFACE Biographical Sketches of the graduates of Yale College to 1815 have already been published, in six octavo volumes; and when it became necessary to bring this series of Sketches to a close, the author was requested by the Cor- poration of the University to compile a supplementary volume, of those deceased graduates of the College, of Classes later than 181 5, who have not been included in the Obituary Records, published annually since i860. Many of the notices in the volume thus compiled have a certain sameness, as commemorating those who died too soon to have achieved much ; while another considerable group consists of those who were early lost sight of, or whose distant residence has obscured their later history. The time which could be given to the task of compilation has limited the amount of research, but it is hoped that the results justify the design. »> > 1( lis.. .'•^- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE . CLASS OF 1816 Reuben Booth, son of Reuben H. and Sarah Booth, was born in Newtown, Connecticut, on November 26, 1794. The family removed to Kent in his boyhood, and he entered Yale at the opening of Sophomore year. In 1814 his father, who was a wool-carder, was drowned in the Housatonic River, leaving him dependent on his own exertions. On graduation he began the study of law in New Milford with Judge David S. Boardman (Yale 1793), and after one year continued his studies with Moses Hatch (Yale 1800), while teaching in the Danbury Academy. In 1818 he was admitted to the bar, and opened an office in Danbury, where he remained through life. His practice was large and remunerative, and he also became one of the leading poli- ticians of the State. In 1822 he represented the town in the General Assembly, and from that date to 1835 he was the Judge of Probate for the Danbury District. In 1830 he was a member of the State Senate, and in 1844 and 1845 Lieutenant Governor. He died in Danbury on August 14, 1848, in his 54th year, after an illness of two or three days. He married Jane, daughter of the Rev. David Belden (Yale 1785), of Wilton, who died on February 18, 1844, at the age of 45. Their children were three daughters and two sons. John Steinmetz Brinton, the eldest son of John Hill Brinton (Univ. Pa. 1790) and Sarah (Steinmetz) Brinton, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadelphia on July 20, 1798. A sister married his classmate McClellan. 2 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES His health began to fail during his College course, and this, together with his strong love of classical literature, delayed his professional studies. He spent about a year at Oxford University, and traveled on the Continent; but finally began his preparation for the bar in the office of Jonathan W. Coudy, of Philadelphia, and was admitted to practice. He married on February 26, 1825, Adelaide, daughter of Isaac and Alida Gouverneur, of New York City. On the 8th of the following August she died in Philadelphia, of fever, and his death from the same fever followed on August 18, at the age of 27. Epaphras Chapman, son of Isaac and Abigail (Brooks) Chapman, of East Haddam, Connecticut, was born on April 25. 1792. On graduation he entered the Princeton Theological Sem- inary, where he remained between one and two years. He then undertook, in the service of the United Foreign Missionary Society of New York, an exploration of the southwestern Indian country, with a view to the establish- ment of missions. On the strength of his report in 1819, a mission to the Osages, in what is now Oklahoma, then Arkansas Territory, was resolved upon, and the Rev. William F. Vaill (Yale 1806) and Mr. Chapman were appointed missionaries. He was married, on April 2, 1820, to Hannah Eliza Mansfield, third daughter of Deacon Solomon Fowler, of Northford, in (North) Branford, and four days later he was ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of New Brunswick. He started immediately for his mission, and labored zeal- ously until his death, after a few days' illness, at the missionary station named Union, on Grand River, January 7, 1825, in his 33d year. His wife died at her father's house in June, 1843. He was a man of great simplicity of character and purity of purpose. YALE COLLEGE^ CLASS OF 1816 3 William Pitt Cleaveland, the eldest child of William Pitt Cleaveland (Yale 1793), of New London, Connecticut, was born on May 14, 1797. After teaching school for a year in Virginia, he studied law with his father, and settled in practice in his native city, where he attained eminence before his early death. He married on February 19, 1824, Mary Sanford, third daughter of the late James Scott Dwight, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Mary (Sanford) Dwight, by whom he had one daughter and one son. He died in New London on February 5, 1841, in his 44th year. His widow died on November 2, 1854, in her 57th year. Joseph Lord Coit, the only son of Wheeler and Hannah (Lord, Abel) Coit, of that part of Preston, Connecticut, which is now Griswold, was born on June 14, 1796. His mother was a granddaughter of the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Lord (Yale 1714) ; and a half-sister married Thomas Day (Yale 1797). He studied law with Judge Zephaniah Swift (Yale 1778), of Windham, but never practiced. He became a manufacturer in Preston, and died, unmarried, in Jewett City, on October 15, 1836, in his 41st year. John Alexander Cuthbert, the fifth child and second son of General John Alexander and Mary Dupre (Hey- ward) Cuthbert, of Charleston and Beaufort, South Caro- lina, was probably born in 1797. A brother was graduated in 1813. He settled on a plantation in Florida, and married there. No details of his death are known. George Younglove Cutler, the youngest child of Younglove and Dothee (Stone) Cutler, of Watertown, Connecticut, was bom on April 6, 1797. A sister married 4 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Holbrook Curtis (Yale 1807), and a half-brother was graduated here in 1829. He studied law, and entered on practice in his native place. He married, on May 29, 1821, Mary Ann Pomeroy, only daughter of Dr. .^neas Monson (Yale 1780), of New Haven, and subsequently removed hither. Later he was induced to engage in the book business in New York City, with disastrous results ; so that, about 1829, he went West, and settled in Western Illinois, on the Mississippi River, at the point later named Nauvoo. Here he established a land-agency, and was meeting with deserved success, when he died of bilious fever, on Sep- tember 3, 1834, in his 38th year. Besides two children who died in infancy, one daughter survived him. His widow married, on August 15, 1838, Daniel Green Whitney, of Quincy, Illinois, where she died on July 7, 1844, in her 42d year. Ash BEL Dart, the eldest of fourteen children of Joseph and Sarah (Hurd) Dart, of Middle Haddam, in Chatham, Connecticut, was born on July 15, 1793. He studied medicine, with Dr. Thomas Miner (Yale 1796) in Middletown, and in the Yale Medical School, where he received the degree of M.D. in the spring of 1818. Later, he spent some time in the New York City Hospital, and then began practice, in Carthage, a village just outside of Rochester, New York. After a few months, about 1819 or 1820, he removed to Conneaut, in the northeastern corner of Ohio, where he applied himself laboriously and with success to professional business. He was also active in public matters, and for one year (1833) served as an Associate Judge of the Ashtabula County Court. He was also for some years Postmaster. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1816 5 About 1837, his health having become somewhat im- paired, he gave up his practice, and was soon after appointed superintendent of the pubhc works being constructed by the Government at the mouth of Conneaut Creek. He also went into mercantile business. On October 28, 1844, he was stricken with paralysis, from the effects of which he died, on December 8, in his 52d year. He was never married. Abiel Booth Glover was born in Newtown, Connecticut, on January 16, 1797. He became a merchant in his native place, and on May 2, 1822, married Maria Nichols, of Newtown. He died in Newtown, on October 13, 1825, of typhus fever, in his 29th year. He left one son ; a daughter died in infancy. His widow married Isaac Bears, of Newtown. Uriel Holmes, Junior, the younger son of Judge Uriel Holmes (Yale 1784), of Litchfield, Connecticut, was born on September 15, 1796, and entered Yale in 181 3. After graduation he spent a year at home, and then decided to enter the ministry. He began his studies in the Andover Theological Seminary, but was obliged to return home by the rapid progress of consumption. He arrived in Litchfield on May 18, 1818, and died there on July 4, in his 22d year. Charles John Johnson was born in 1797-8, and was prepared for Yale in Morristown, New Jersey. His mother, Mrs. Mary Johnson, accompanied him to New Haven, and took boarders here, as she had also done in Morristown. He became a merchant in New York and died there on April 6, 1843, ^t the age of 45. 6 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He married Mary Noel, daughter of Dr. John Neilson (Princeton Coll. 1/93), of New York, who survived him, without children, and died on October 24, 1863, in her 61 St year. John Henry Kain, son of John Kain, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, about 1796. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and began practice in his native place. In August, 1819, he married Eliza, third daughter of Elisha and Mary (Wright) Boardman, of New Haven. From Knoxville he removed to Shelbyville, also in Ten- nessee; but returned, perhaps about 1834, to New Haven, where he was for some years in active practice. He received the honorary degree of M.D. in 1837 from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, at the head of which was his classmate McClellan. He was a devout and active Christian, and in 1843 entered the service of the American Bible Society as an agent in the Southwestern States. His wife died on January 2, 1846, in her 49th year. While laboring in the service of the Virginia Bible Society, he died at Point Pleasant, (West) Virginia, on March 4, 1849, aged 53 years. Their children were one daughter, who married Profes- sor John Brocklesby (Yale 1835), and one son. Joseph Kerr, Junior, son of Joseph Kerr, was born in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, on August 16, 1797- After graduation he attended the Litchfield Law School, and in 1820 began practice in Augusta, Georgia. Being ill with consumption, he started to return to his father's house ; but had only accomplished about one-third of the distance when death overtook him, at Newberry, South Carolina, on June 25, 1823, in his 26th year. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1816 7 James Kimball was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on November 21, 1789, being the ninth in a family of fourteen children of Deacon Ephraim and Betty (White) Kimball. He entered the Andover Theological Seminary at gradua- tion, but was obliged to suspend his studies in the Senior year (1818-19) by the state of his health. He died at his father's house in Fitchburg, on January 24, 1 82 1, in his 32d year. He was unmarried. Sheldon Lemon entered College from Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. After three years of teaching in New Preston Society in his native town, he studied medicine, and settled for the practice of his profession in North Carolina. About 1836 he removed to Covington, in western Tennessee. On account of consumptive tendencies he retired early from practice, and he died on his plantation near Covington, from congestive fever, on September 21, 1853, aged about 58 years. He married at the South, and left several children, including one son, a Confederate soldier, who died in prison in Chicago. George McClellan, the eldest thild of James and Eunice (Eldridge) McClellan, was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, on February 22, 1797. He was a nephew of John McClellan (Yale 1785), and entered College at the opening of Sophomore year. At graduation he was the youngest of his class. He studied medicine for a year under Dr. Thomas Hub- bard, of Pomfret, and then entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1819. Before his graduation he had been elected resident physi- cian to the hospital of the Philadelphia alms-house, and he 8 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES remained permanently in that city in full practice as a physi- cian and surg-eon. On September 14. 1820, he was married to the sister of a classmate, Elizabeth, second daughter of John Hill Brin- ton, of Philadelphia. He early gave private courses of lectures on anatomy and surgery, and his success was so g-reat as to suggest the idea of his founding a new medical college. Accordingly, the Jefferson Medical College was chartered in the winter of 1825, and he was made Professor of Sur- gery. The institution was very prosperous for a dozen years, but in 1838 a reorganization hostile to him was effected, and he at once procured the incorporation of a medical department for Pennsylvania College (at Gettys- burg) to be located in Philadelphia, in which he lectured on surgery from November, 1839, ""til the spring of 1843, when the entire Faculty resigned. His private practice was also very large, and his success as an operator brilliant. He died suddenly in Philadelphia, from ulceration of the bowels, on May 9, 1847, in his 51st year. Five children survived him. The eldest son (University of Pa. 1841) was eminent as a surgeon, and the second son (U. S. Mil. Acad. 1846) was the celebrated Major- General of the Civil War. James Van Cortlandt Morris, son of James and Helen (Van Cortlandt) Morris, of Morrisania, New York, was born on August 19, 1796. A sister married her cousin, Richard R. Morris (Yale 1818). He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1820 in New York City, where he established himself in practice. He died at the house of his brother, William H. Morris, in Morrisania, on January i, 1843, i" 'lis 47th year. William Nevins, the youngest of twelve children of Captain David and Mary (Hubbard) Nevins, of Norwich. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1816 9 Connecticut, was born on October 13, 1797, and entered Yale as a Sophomore, having previously been a clerk for one year in New York. He became a Christian in the spring of 181 5, and entered the Princeton Theological Seminary on graduation, com- pleting the course in 1819. He was licensed to preach by the New London Associa- tion of Congregational Ministers, and after some further study in Princeton began in August, 1820, to preach as a candidate in the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore. He was ordained and installed as pastor of that church on October 19, 1820, and was married on November 13, 1822, to Mary Lloyd, daughter of the Hon. Philip Barton and Anne Key, of Georgetown, District of Columbia. He continued at his post, performing his duties with earnestness and great success, until September, 1832, when a violent attack of bilious fever prostrated him for many weeks. An affection of the throat and voice, from which he never recovered, set in in the early spring of 1834; and shortly after his return from a necessary vacation, Mrs. Nevins died of cholera, on November 8. He left home in January, 1835, for the benefit of his health, but returned in August to Baltimore, where he died on September 14, in his 38th year. Of his five children, two died early; one son and two daughters survived him. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was con- ferred on him by Princeton College in 1834. He had a brilliant and original mind, and a character which retained the warmest regard of his friends. A Memoir was prefixed to a volume of his Remains, published in 1836. Charles Olcott, the eldest child of the Rev. Allen Olcott (Yale 1768), of that part of East Hartford, Con- lO BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES necticut, which is now Manchester, was born on April 3, 1793, and entered Yale in 1813. His father died in 181 1. He studied law in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, and began practice in Medina, after his admission to the bar. He held the office of prosecuting attorney for Medina County, by appointment of the court from 1826 to 1830, and by popular election from 1833 to 1837. His legal knowledge was extensive, minute, and accurate ; but his eccentricities and intemperate habits grew upon him so that his practice w^as wholly abandoned about 1840. His chief interest was in mechanical inventions. While in College he had given much time to the invention of an iron ship; and after twenty years of labor he procured a patent from the United States Government in 1835 for his perfected invention. He always believed that the first British conception of an iron ship was taken from some of his models. He was a frequent contributor to the newspapers, chiefly on political affairs; and he published one volume, on the character of Hebrew servitude. For a series of years before he ceased to do business, his chief support came from his fees as a magistrate. After that, for a considerable time, he was supported by the charity of his neighbors. Three or four years before his death he suffered severely from a paralytic shock, and became an inmate of the County Infirmary, in Medina, where he died on March 4, 1857, in his 64th year. He was never married. Whiting Sanford, the youngest son of Deacon EHada and Nancy (Todd) Sanford, of North Haven, Connecticut, and grandson of John and Mehitabel (Ives) Sanford, of North Haven, was baptized on November 10, 1793. In 1817 he went to Laurel, Delaware, as a teacher. He married on August 30, 1821, Mary, eldest daughter of Dr. Joseph Foot (Yale 1787), of North Haven, who died in Laurel on the i6th of the following November. YALE COLLEGE^ CLASS OF 1816 II He next married Mary, daughter of the late Nathaniel Mitchell, of Laurel, a member of the Continental Congress, soldier of the Revolution, and Governor of Delaware (1805-08). She died at the birth of a daughter, who grew to maturity. In 1824 and 1825 he was a member of the State House of Representatives. Soon after this he embarked in the shipping business, and took a cargo to Hayti, where he contracted the yellow fever, and died at Port au Prince, and was buried there. His name was first marked as deceased in the Triennial Catalogue of Graduates issued in 1829. John Gibbes Shoolbred entered College from Charles- ton in 1813. He spent his life in South Carolina, carrying on a rice plantation in St. James Parish, on the South Santee River, about forty miles southeast of Charleston. As this was not suitable for a summer residence, he spent the summers in Charleston, or during the last ten years of his life in the mountain region near Flat Rock, Kershaw County; during this period he was the chairman of the vestry of St. John's Episcopal Church in Flat Rock. He died suddenly, in the neighborhood of Charleston, at a friend's house, from dropsy, on February 14, 1859, aged about 62 years. He married Emma Augusta Gibbes, who survived him,^ with four sons, of a large family of children. Peter Smith was born in North Salem, Westchester County, New York, on October 24, 1795, and entered Col- lege in 1814. He was noted for his inventive genius, and especially for a printing press which was known by his name. He established himself in business in New York City, where he died, after a lingering illness, on October 23, 1823, at the as:e of 28. 12 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Phineas Smith, the second son of Phineas and Deborah Ann (Judson) Smith, of Roxbury, Connecticut, was born on November 19, 1793. A brother was graduated in 181 5. Soon after graduation he began the study of law with his uncle, the Hon. Nathan Smith, of New Haven, after- wards Senator of the United States. He was admitted to the bar in the spring of 18 19, and after a few months in his uncle's office he removed to Arlington, in southwestern Vermont, where he established himself in his profession, and rapidly acquired an extensive practice. He married, on June 30, 1824, Harriet, eldest daughter of Joshua Judson, of Arlington, who died, without children, on November 3, 1826. He next married, on June 25, 1833, Jane, second daugh- ter of Sylvanus J. Penniman, of Albany, who survived him. About 1835 he removed to Rutland, where he acquired a new circle of clients, while retaining the old. But in Feb- ruary, 1839, he was attacked with hemorrhages of the lungs, and his death followed, on April 19, in his 46th year. A son and a daughter survived him, another son having died in infancy. Charles Stewart, son of General John Stewart, of Brattleboro, Vermont, was probably born about 1793, and entered College during Sophomore year. He was prepared by the Rev. Ephraim T. Woodruff (Yale 1797), of North Coventry, Connecticut. He taught in Georgia for two or three years (about 1817- 20) ; and after two or three years spent at home, he settled in Haymarket, Prince William County, Virginia. The date of his death is not known. George Swift, a son of Judge Zephaniah Swift (Yale 1778), was born in Windham, Connecticut, about 1796, and entered Yale in 1813. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1816 1 3 He studied law, and settled in practice in Warren, Ohio, where he died in 1845. In 1829 he was a member of the State House of Rep- resentatives from Trumbull County. John Stevenson Walsh, son of Dudley Walsh, a mer- chant of Albany, New York, of Irish birth, was born on October 14, 1795, and entered Yale in 1813. His father died in May, 1816. He returned to Albany and studied law, but though admitted to the bar never practiced. At the time of his death he was engaged in the hardware business. He married, on April 27, 1831, Laura Spencer Townsend. He died in Albany on February 15, 1857, in his 62d year. His widow died on September 15, 1863. Of their children, two died in infancy; two daughters and a son survived them. Russell Canfield Wheeler, elder son of Dr. Elijah Wheeler, a practicing physician of Southbury, Connecticut, was born on December i, 1795. His mother was Mary Matilda, eldest daughter of the Rev. Jehu Minor (Yale 1767), of Southbury, and of South East, New York. Her mother was a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Canfield (Yale 1739), and granddaughter of Colonel John Russell (Yale 1704). In 1806 his father, having studied theology, became pastor of the Congregational church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. A brother was graduated at Williams College in 1825. He entered Yale with the Class of 181 5, but withdrew during Junior year, and joined the next class a year later. He studied law in New York City, and after his admis- sion to the bar in 1820 practiced his profession there with success until the last year of his life. He married, on October 23, 1833, his second cousin, Theodosia, second daughter of John A. Davenport (Yale 14 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES 1802) and Eliza M. (Wheeler) Davenport, of New York City. In the spring of 1847 the progress of consumption obUged him to reHnquish business, and on May i he removed to Brooklyn, where he died on August 13, in his 52d year. His widow removed in 1852 to New Haven, where she died on September 14, 1883, in her 73d year. Their children were two sons and two daughters. The elder son was graduated here in 1858 with the degree of Ph.B. ; the younger (B.A. 1855) was killed in the Civil War. The daughters married, respectively, Selah B. Strong (Yale 1864) and Franklin B. Dexter (Yale 1861). George Winchester, fourth son of General Jacob Ban- croft and Elizabeth (Earned) Winchester, of Salem, Massa- chusetts, was born on June 26, 1794, and entered Yale from Dartmouth College at the opening of Senior year. He studied law with Judge Joseph Story in Salem, and emigrated to Mississippi, where he established himself in practice in Natchez. After having served as Judge of the Criminal Court of Adams County, he was nominated by the Whig party as their candidate for the judgeship of the Supreme Court of the State in February, 1827. He was unsuccessful, but when the person elected declined to serve, he was appointed to the office by the Governor; the Legislature, however, at their next session, gave the appointment to another. In 1829, being one of the foremost Whigs in the State, he was their candidate for the governorship. He was elected to the State Senate in 1836, but resigned in April, 1837. In 1844 he was sent to the Legislature as a Representative. He died in Natchez, on February 4, 1851, in his 57th year. He was never married, and for many years made his home in the family of William B. Howell, whose daughter married Jefferson Davis. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817 1 5 At the time of his death he was Senior Warden of Trinity Church, Natchez. RuFus Woodward, fourth son of Dr. Samuel and Polly Woodward, of Torringford, Connecticut, was born on July 16, 1793. His mother was a sister of Stanley Griswold (Yale 1786). After graduation he taught an academy in Stratford for nine months, and then taught in Wethersfield, where his brother, Samuel B. Woodward, M.D. (honorary Yale 1822), was then living, for a year. In October, 1818, he undertook the office of Tutor in Yale, but resigned in February, 1822, mainly on account of ill-health, from an aggravated form of dyspepsia. After an interval, spent under the care of his father and two brothers, all physicians, he embarked in July, 1823, for Europe, hoping to gain some intellectual advantage, as well as improvement of health. After visiting Great Britain and the south of France, he arrived in Edinburgh about the loth of November, with the intention of attending lectures in the University; but he graw rapidly worse, and died there on November 24, in his 31st year. He was buried in the ministers' burying-ground in Edin- burgh, and was remembered under the title of "the amiable American stranger." The poet Brainard (Yale 181 5) published a tribute to his memory. Before his health failed, he had expected to study theology. CLASS OF 1817 Ebenezer Bailey, the youngest of four children of Paul and Emma (Carr) Bailey, of (West) Newbury, Massa- chusetts, was born on June 25, 1795. For a few months after graduation he remained in New Haven, teaching a private school for boys and beginning l6 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES legal studies with Seth P. Staples; but at the end of the year 1817 he definitely gave up the law, and became a tutor in the family of Colonel Carter, of Sabine Hall, Richmond County, Virginia. After a little more than a year he returned home, and opened a school for young ladies in Newburj^port. This he conducted with success, until in 1823 he was appointed headmaster of the Franklin Grammar School for boys in Boston. On March 13, 1825, he was married in Newburyport to Adeline, second daughter of Allen and Mary (Burroughs) Dodge, of Newburyport and Hamilton, and a sister of Allen W. Dodge (Harvard 1826), who was the father of "Gail Hamilton." In November, 1825, he was transferred (largely at the instance of his friend and pastor, the Rev. John Pierpont, who was then on the School Committee) to the principalship of a High School for Girls, then newly established, which his unusual ability as a teacher soon made a distinguished success ; but the expense was so sharply criticized that the experiment came to a sudden and mortifying end in June, 1827. He felt keenly the failure of his best efforts, but in the following December he established a Young Ladies' High School as a private enterprise, which he conducted for about ten years. Meantime he was in the public service as a member of the City Council, and was a frequent contributor to the newspaper press. He also published various school- books which were widely used, especially his Algebra (1833). The financial crisis of 1837 was disastrous to him, and his school was closed in consequence. In the summer of 1838 he opened a school for boys in Roxbury. which he removed to Lynn in the spring of 1839. He died in Lynn, of lockjaw, on August 4. 1839, ^" his 45th year. His wife survived him, with two sons. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817 l^ John Phelps Beers, the fourth son of Deacon Nathan and Mary (Phelps) Beers, of New Haven, was born on July 15, 1796, and entered Yale at the opening of Junior year from Middlebury College. A brother was graduated in 1808. While pursuing graduate studies, he died in New Haven, of typhus fever, in September, 1819, in his 24th year. He was unmarried. Ebenezer Blackman, son of Philo and Eunice Black- man, of Brookfield, Connecticut, was born on May 29, 1792. He studied law, and practiced his profession for a short time in Sharon. On April 18, 1822, he married Abigail, daughter of Ethan and Abigail Goodrich, of Sharon, and soon after settled on a farm in Brookfield, where the rest of his life was spent. He was elected in 1850 as the first Judge of the Probate Court of the Brookfield district, and held office until 1859. He died in Brookfield on August 11, 1863, in his 72d year. His widow died in Brookfield on February 21, 1874. They had several children. George Chase, the eldest child of Philander Chase (Dartmouth Coll. 1796) and Mary (Fay) Chase, was born on December 9, 1797, in Albany, New York, where his father was a teacher in the Academy. In 1798 Mr. Chase was admitted to Deacon's orders in the Episcopal Church, and for the next few years he was stationed at Pough- keepsie. When he removed to New Orleans in 1805, his son was left under the care of an uncle. Judge Dudley Chase (Dartmouth 1791), of Randolph, Vermont. In 181 1 the father returned to New England, becoming rector of Christ Church, Hartford, and ultimately a Bishop, and the son entered the Episcopal academy in Cheshire. He came to Yale in the last term of Sophomore year. After graduation he studied law with his uncle in Ran- dolph, and in July, 1821, married Eliza Grover, of Bethel, 1 8 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES a town about five miles to the southward, where he soon after began practice. He also became known as a contributor to the New York Mirror, and was encouraged by Major Noah, George P. Morris, and others to think that a future lay before him in that direction. Meantime, however, he had become a victim of intemperate habits. In 1828 he left his wife and two young daughters to go to New York City, and was never again heard of. His wife died at the house of a daughter in Wisconsin in 1862. Joseph William Edmiston, son of Samuel and Jane (Montgomery) Edmiston, was born in Carlisle, Pennsyl- vania, about 1796. In his boyhood the family removed to Lexington, Kentucky, whence he entered Yale in 18 14. He settled in the South, and died in Alabama, unmarried. His name is first marked as deceased in the Triennial Catalogue of Graduates issued in 1832. Joseph Fowler, the eldest child of Joseph and Abigail (Baldwin) Fowler, of Milford, Connecticut, was born on October 7, 1798. He died in Milford in 1825. He w^as never married. William Gushing Gay, the eldest child of William Gay (Yale 1789), of Suffield, Connecticut, was born on July 12, 1797. He studied law in Boston, and in 1822 began practice in his native town, where he died, unmarried, on December 24, 1833, ^" ^""^s 37th year. Charles Champion Gilbert, the youngest of nine children of Judge Samuel Gilbert (Yale 1759) and Deborah (Champion) Gilbert, of Gilead Society, in Hebron, Con- necticut, was born on April 14, 1797. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817 I9 He Studied law with his brother-in-law, Samuel Jones (Yale 1800), in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and in 1820 settled in practice in Zanesville, Ohio, where he married, on July 26, 1 82 1, Deborah Cass, daughter of Wyllys Silli- man, a prominent lawyer, and Deborah Webster (Cass) Silliman. He was soon diverted from his profession by an appoint- ment as Register of the United States Bank, which he held from 1825 to 1828; and from this office he passed to a position in the Zanesville Bank, with the result that the rest of his life was given to banking. He was also mayor of the city, and prominent in other public positions. His wife died on November i, 1839, in her 34th year; and his own death followed, on November 18, 1844, in his 54th year. Their children were four sons and six daughters. The eldest son was graduated at West Point in 1846. Jared Griswold, the youngest son of Captain Andrew and Eunice (Prince) Griswold, of East Lyme, Connecti- cut, was born on February 25, 1794. He studied law while teaching school in Farmington, and practiced his profession successively in Simsbury and Farm- ington. He represented Farmington in the Legislature for four years, 1826-29, and in the latter year removed to Hartford. He was elected Mayor of Hartford, and took office in June, 1835 ; but died there after a brief illness on November 20, 1835, in his 42d year. He married, on January i, 1830, Mary, daughter of Appleton Robbins, of Granby, by whom he had one son and one daughter. RuFus Huntington, the third son of William and Mary (Gray) Huntington, of Lebanon, Connecticut, and a nephew of the Rev. Dan Huntington (Yale 1794), was born on April 5, 1798. 20 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He died, unmarried, in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia, on December lo, 1825, in his 28th year. Samuel Bridge Ingersoll, only son of Samuel and Eleanor Ingersoll, of Salem, Massachusetts, and grandson of the Rev. Matthew Bridge (Harvard 1741), was born on October 13, 1785. At the age of 17, he entered on a seafaring life, in which he continued for about nine years, reaching the post of Commander. Having then become a Christian, and having resolved to prepare for the ministry, he began to study, and joined the Sophomore Class at Yale at the age of 29. On graduation he put himself under the instruction of Professor Fitch, and on May 25, 1819, he was licensed to preach by the New Haven West Association. In September he began to preach in Shrewsbury, Massa- chusetts, where the Rev. Dr. Joseph Sumner (Yale 1759) was in need of a colleague, and on December 2 he was mar- ried to Susan, second daughter of Charles and Anna (Cut- ler) Whittelsey, of New Haven, and sister of Chauncey Whittelsey (Yale 1820). In January, 1820, he was called to Shrewsbury by the unanimous vote of the church, which was confirmed by a vote of the town in May ; and his ordination and installation followed on June 14. He preached on the following Sunday, June 18, but was then taken severely ill. In July he was removed to Beverly, where his family then resided, and after languishing in extreme pain for four months he died on November 14, in his 36th year. The unvarying testimony of his contemporaries is that he was a man of remarkably beautiful and elevated Christian character, and that his influence for good while in College was rarely equaled. His widow married on June 7, 1824, the Hon. William Tappan Eustis, of Boston, who died in May, 1874. She YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817 21 returned later to New Haven, where she died on December 6, 1877, aged 8i years. James Harvey Linsley, the eldest of ten children of James and Sarah (Maltby) Linsley, of Northford, in (North) Branford, Connecticut, was born on May 5, 1787. His parents were Baptists, and after he had taught for several years he became a member of the church and decided to study for the ministry. He was obliged to teach during much of his College course, to obtain money, and this excessive labor injured permanently his constitution. After graduation he continued to teach in New Haven, where he was married, on February i, 1818, to Sophia Brainard, daughter of Colonel William and Lois (Mans- held) Lyon. In May, 1818, he took charge of the New Canaan Acad- emy, which he left in April, 1821, to establish a boarding school for boys in Stratford, which was thenceforth his home. In addition to his teaching, he began in 1828 to preach as he had opportunity, though not regularly licensed until January, 1831 ; and on desiring to undertake stated minis- terial work, he was ordained as an Evangelist on June 9, in Meriden, at a meeting of the Baptist State Convention. At the same time he gave up his school to devote himself wholly to his new duties. For nearly five years he was exclusively occupied with preaching, having also the pastoral care of two Baptist societies which he had gathered, in Milford (1832) and Bridgeport (1835). Early in 1836 the constant exertion of his voice brought on an alarming attack of bronchitis, which forbade further public speaking. He then had leisure to indulge his enthusiasm for natural history, and in his remaining years he gave himself with all his wonted energy and perseverance to the preparation of 2 2 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES exhaustive catalogues of the birds, mammals, reptiles, fishes, and shells collected by himself in Connecticut. Meantime his health was precarious, and after a brief final illness he died at his home in Stratford, on December 26, 1843, Jn his 57th year. His widow died in Stratford on January 31, 1866, in her 84th year. Their children were two daughters, the younger of whom married the Rev. Dr. Sylvanus Dryden Phelps (Brown Univ. 1844). James Fitch Mason, son of James Fitch Mason, of Goshen Society, in Lebanon, Connecticut, and nephew of the Hon. Jeremiah Mason (Yale 1788), was born in 1796. His mother was Nancy, daughter of Joseph Fitch, of Montville. He studied law in Troy, New York, and in 1822 settled in practice in Lockport, where he early took a prominent posi- tion. He was clerk of Niagara County from November, 1825, to November, 1828. He died in Lockport, on May 25, 1836, in his 40th year. He was unmarried. Samuel Hanford Mead, the eldest child of Nehemiah and Ruth (Richards) Mead, of Greenwich, Connecticut, was bom on December 2, 1796. He studied medicine, and practiced in Paterson, New Jersey, and afterwards in his native town. In consequence of ill health he finally gave up his pro- fession, and was for some time engaged in teaching. His residence remained in Greenwich. He married on March 14, 1822, Malvina Valentine, who died on October 10, 185 1, in her 56th year. He was struck by a passing train, while walking on the railroad track in the upper part of New York (near Mel- rose), on October 10, 1854, and died in the New York Hos- pital, one week later, on October 17, in his 58th year. His children were two daughters, who survived him. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817 23 Abraham Ogden, the second son of Thomas Ludlow Ogden (Columbia Coll. 1791), a distinguished lawyer of New York City, and of Martha (Hammond, Rosseau) Ogden, was born in Newark, New Jersey, on September 22, 1798. He spent two years in Columbia College, and then migrated to Yale, on account of dissatisfaction with the Faculty. He studied law, but soon abandoned the profession as uncongenial to his tastes, which were mainly literary. He then pursued a mercantile career, and died in New York, unmarried, on July 29, 1849, '^^ his 51st year. Robert Bridges Patton, the second son of Colonel Rob- ert and Cornelia (Bridges) Patton, was born in Philadel- phia on September 25, 1794. His father, a native of Ire- land, a Revolutionary officer, and for nearly twenty years Postmaster of Philadelphia, died in January, 1814. At that time this son had begun the study of law; but he now entered Middlebury College, Vermont, with the design of becoming a minister. At the beginning of Junior year, he came to Yale. On graduation he was elected to a tutorship in Middle- bury College, and after one year's service in that capacity, his promise was so striking that he was elected Professor of the Greek and Latin languages. He then spent three years in study in Europe, mostly in Gottingen, where he took the degree of Ph.D. in 1821 ; during this period he studied also Hebrew, Arabic, and the modern languages. On his return he devoted himself to his vocation with eminent success, and in 1825 accepted a call to a correspond- ing chair in Princeton College. This he resigned in 1829, to become the principal of the Edgehill School for boys, which he established at Princeton, and which he maintained for four years with highly satisfactory results. In 1833 he transferred this to other hands, and after a year in Europe, became Professor of Greek in the New 24 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES York University. Here also success attended his teaching; but owing to serious difficulties with the chancellor, in 1838 his chair and three others were declared vacant by the Council, who refused a hearing to the dismissed Professors. The circumstances of this action so wore on his sensi- tive nature that he sank into a decline, and died in New York on May 6, 1839, i^ his 45th year. He married Eliza S. Latimer, of Middlebury, who sur- vived him with two sons and a daughter. Benjamin Edmond Payne entered Yale from Norfolk, Virginia, at the opening of Sophomore year. He was born about 1796. He returned to Norfolk, and engaged in teaching for a time. He then studied law, but became the victim of intem- perate habits, and died early. Horace Southworth Pratt, the fifth of eight sons of Ezra and Temperance (Southworth) Pratt, of that part of Saybrook which is now Essex, Connecticut, was born on February 7, 1794. In 1818 he entered the Princeton Theological Seminary, where he remained until the spring of 1821, when he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Bruns- wick. He then supplied for about a year the Presbyterian Church in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, wdience he removed to Georgia, where he was ordained and installed by the Pres- bytery of Georgia, on June 10, 1822, as pastor of the church in St. Mary's, at the southeastern corner of the State. His pastorate was terminated in 183 1, but his residence continued in St. Mary's, and he was employed for most of the time in the supply of his old church, until late in 1838, when he removed to Tuscaloosa to accept the appointment of Professor of English Literature in the University of Alabama, which had been offered him in 1837. In the latter part of July, 1840, he made a journey into Georgia, and while on the way died, on August 3, in his YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817 25 46th year, at the house of his next younger brother, the Rev. Nathaniel A. Pratt (Yale 1820), in Roswell, Cobb County. He married, at St. Mary's, on February 28, 1823, Jane, only daughter of John Wood, of Columbia County, who died in 1829. In January, 1832, he married Isabel Drysdale, a special friend of his first wife. By his first marriage he had two daughters and two sons ; and by his second marriage a son and two daughters. Jared Reid, son of Samuel Reid, of Fall River, Massa- chusetts, and Preston, Connecticut, was born in Preston in February, 1788. He subsequently resided in Colchester, and spent the first two years of his college course in Middle- bury College. In 1819 he entered the iVndover Theological Seminary, where he spent three years. He was licensed to preach in April, 1822; and on October 8, 1823, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Old South Congregational Church in Reading, Massachusetts, where he remained until June 12, 1833. He was married on November 27, 1823, to Sarah (or Sally), second daughter of Asa and Lydia (Newton) Bige- low, of Colchester, and sister of George N. Bigelow (Yale 1820). Immediately on leaving Reading he began to supply the pulpit of the Congregational Church in Belchertown, and in the next month he was called to the pastorate. He was installed there on September 4, 1833, and was dismissed on January 6, 1841, at his own request. Later in 1841 he was installed in Tiverton, Rhode Island, where his ministry terminated, on account of ill health, in 1850. His wife died in Tiverton on February 11, 1845, i'^ h^^ 58th year. He died in Tiverton on June 17, 1854, in his 67th year. His only child was graduated here in 1846. 20 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Edward Rutledge^ son of Edward and Jane (Harleston) Rutledge, was born near Charleston, South Carolina, on November i6, 1798. Two brothers were graduated here, in 1819 and 1829, respectively. He studied theology, and was the first person admitted to (Deacon's) orders by Bishop Brownell, of Connecticut, — at Middletown, on November 17, 1819. He was soon after married to Augusta, daughter of Nathaniel Shaler, of Middletown, and then returned to South Carolina, where he was employed in the parish of St. Thomas and St. Denis, north of Charleston, in Berkeley County. In 1 82 1 he came North, and organized the church in Springfield, Massachusetts. In November, 1822, he went back to his former location in South Carolina, and was ordained Priest by Bishop Bowen in December at Berkeley. In 1824 he became Rector of Christ Church in Stratford, Connecticut, where he remained until the spring of 1829, when he accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia. A serious bronchial affection obliged him to resign his position late in 1831, and to return to Charleston, where he died on March 13, 1832, in his 34th year. His wife survived him, with six children. Lewis Rogers Starr, son of Benajah Starr, of Danbury, Connecticut, was born in 1793. He became a country store keeper in his native town, but suffered from ill health and intemperate habits, and died in Danbury, unmarried, on March 8, 1852, at the age of 59 years. William Bostwick Stillson, the eldest son of John and Rachel (Bostwick) Stillson, of New Milford, Connecticut, was born on May 24, 1795, and entered Yale in 1815. He YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817 27 was regarded by his classmates as a man of genius, and of singularly attractive character. His attainments were such that he delivered the Valedictory Oration at graduation. He died while teaching school, in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 30, 1819, at the age of 24. RoswELL Stone, a brother of Randolph Stone, Yale 1 81 5, was born in Bristol, Connecticut, about 1793. He became a lawyer in Warren, Ohio, and died in Decem- ber, 1833, leaving a widow and three children. Edward Taylor, son of Phineas and Molly (Sherwood) Taylor, of Bethel, then a district of Danbury, Connecticut, was born on December 5, 1794. Phineas Taylor Barnum, the noted showman, was his nephew. He studied law, and practiced his profession, residing at first in Bethel, then in Danbury, and finally again, after the failure of his health, in Bethel. For two years (1852- 54) he was a Judge of the Fairfield County Court. He was a Whig in politics, and a leader in his party. His character as a professional man may be judged by the fact that he was known among his contemporaries as "an honest lawyer." He married on September 17, 1820, Salome, daughter of Captain Joseph and Salome Barnum, of Bethel. He died in Bethel on May 24, 1857, in his 63d year. His wife survived him, with two sons and a daughter. William Ustick Titus entered College from Flushing, Long Island. He was probably born in 1797. He became a wholesale merchant in Pearl Street, New York City, but retired about 1831 or 2 to a farm on Long Island. He died in Malone, Franklin County, New York, on Jan- uary 19, 1845, in his 48th year. Richard Warner, son of Selden and Dorothy (Selden) Warner, of Hadlyme Society, in Lyme, Connecticut, was born on October 19, 1794, and entered College in 1814. 2 8 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES While teaching- school in a neighboring parish, he began the study of medicine with his brother (Yale 1812), and in 1820 he joined the Yale Medical Department, where he received the degree of M.D. in 182 1. He began practice in his native parish, removing in May, 1823, to the adjoining town of East Haddam. On November 11, 1826, he married Mary Melicent, sec- ond daughter of John and Cynthia (Hyde) Gilbert, of Mansfield, and sister of Dr. Gershom C. H. Gilbert (Yale 1841). Early in 1831 he again removed, to Middletown Upper Houses, now Cromwell, where his wife died on December 13, 1836, in her 34th year. He continued in Cromwell until his very sudden death there, on September 29, 1853, in his 59th year. His career had been in the highest degree creditable to him, as a physician, as a religious man, and as a citizen. At the time of his death he was President of the State Medical Society. He married secondly, Mary, daughter of Captain Samuel Gaylord, of Cromwell, and sister of Samuel Gay lord (Yale 1826), on July 17, 1844, who survived him, with two sons; besides a son by his former marriage. Edmund Wilkins, the eldest son of William Wyche and Elizabeth Judkins (Rains) Wilkins, of Hicksford, now Emporia, Greenesville County, Virginia, near the southern border, and grandson of Edmund and Rebecca Wilkins, was born on October 2, 1796, and entered Yale from the Uni- versity of North Carolina at the opening of Sophomore year. Two brothers were graduated here, in 1820 and 1822, respectively. He studied law in the Litchfield Law School (where his father had also been trained), and settled for a few years in Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina, remov- ing thence to a large and valuable estate called Belmont. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1818 29 which his father had purchased in 1815, in Thelma, in the adjoining county of Northampton. His law practice ex- tended over both counties. He died at Belmont on January 28, 1867, in his 71st year. He was never married. Robert Walker Withers, son of Thomas and Louisa (Walker) Withers, of Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Vir- ginia, was born on November 9, 1798, and entered Yale in 1815. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of M.D. in 1820, and settling in prac- tice in his native State. He married, in 1822, Martha Williams, who died six weeks later. In 1823 he removed to Greensboro, Alabama, where he abandoned his profession and devoted himself with energy and enterprise to business as a planter. Some years later he married his first cousin, Mary Dorothy, daughter of John and Mary Herbert (Jones) W^ithers, of Huntsville; and his home at Milwood, ten miles from Greensboro, was a famous center of hospitality. Here he made the first application of artesian wells as a water-power in America. He was the first president of the State Agricultural Society, and a fre- quent contributor to the agricultural press. He was an earnest Churchman, and a member of the vestry of St. Paul's Church, Greensboro. He died in 1854, in his 56th year, leaving a large family of sons and dausfhters. CLASS OF 1818 Cyrus Hall Beardsley, son of Hall and Rachel Ann (Wheeler) Beardsley, was born in that part of Huntington, Connecticut, which is now Monroe, on February 4, 1799. 30 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He Studied law for about a year in the office of Chief- Justice Zephaniah Swift (Yale 1778), of Windham, and completed his studies under the direction of Judge Asa Chapman (Yale 1792), of Newtown. In March, 1820, he married, in Windham, Maria, daugh- ter of the late Timothy Burr, a Hartford merchant, and Susan (Horton) Burr, and settled in his native parish. Being in easy circumstances, he did not devote himself largely to the practice of his profession, though he main- tained a good reputation as a lawyer, and had abundant business when he attended the courts. After the town of Monroe was incorporated (in 1823), he was its representative seven times in the Legislature, serving as Clerk of the House in 1825, 1826, and 183 1, and as Speaker in 1846. He was also elected to the State Sen- ate in 1832, and was at different times for a number of years one of the Judges of the Fairfield County Court. In 1850 he removed to Bridgeport, and there did some business as an office lawyer, in connection with his son. He died at his daughter's house in Fairfield on August 13, 1852, in his 54th year. He was buried in Monroe. Two children survived him, — a son and a daughter. The son was for a time a member of the Class of 1842, and in 1886 received an honorary M.A. degree. Samuel Borrowe, Junior, a son of Dr. Samuel Borrowe, of New York City, was born in 1798, and had been a mem- ber of Columbia College before entering Yale during Fresh- man year. He studied medicine in New York, and received the degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons in the spring of 1822. In the spring of 1824 he established himself in practice in Geneva, New York, and had attained a good degree of success, when he died there from typhus fever, on March 5, 1827, at the age of 29. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1818 3 1 David Botsford was born in Newtown, Connecticut, on March 5, 1797. In the fall of 1820 he became a student in the Episcopal Theological Seminary then established in New Haven, and on September 26, 1821, he was admitted to Deacon's orders by Bishop Brownell. The following winter he had charge of the parish in Wallingford ; but in March, 1822, he was obliged by the progress of pulmonary disease to retire to his father's house, where he died on June 17, in his 26th year. He was of a very amiable and gentle disposition, and died with entire resignation. Eleazer Brainard, the eldest son of Gideon and Heph- zibah (Hubbard) Brainard, of Haddam, Connecticut, was born in Haddam on July 7, 1793. From 1 8 19 to 1822 he was a student in the Andover Theo- logical Seminary, and then spent some time in city mission- ary work in Charleston, South Carolina. On October 26, 1825, he was ordained in Salem, Massa- chusetts, for home missionary service in Ohio in connection with the Presbyterian Church. In August, 1827, he married Lucinda, daughter of Cap- tain Thomas and Lucinda (Wheeler) Reed, of Boston. He labored with various churches in Southern Ohio, as from 1828 to 1836 in Portsmouth, in 1839-40 in Lewis, in 1843-46 in Mason, in 1847-50 in Oxford, and in 1850-53 in Manchester. He died on July 24, 1854, at the age of 61. His children were two sons and three daughters. Anson Burgess, the youngest son of Asa and Sarah (Miles) Burgess, was born in Westminster Society, in Canterbury, Connecticut, on April 6, 1796. A brother was graduated in 1814. He died in Canterbury on November 3, or 26, 1838, in his 43d year. 32 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Henry Clary was born in Conway, Massachusetts, in 1796. He remained at the College as a resident graduate for the year 1818-19. Later, he was engaged in teaching, and married on August 31, 1826, Hephzibah, daughter of John Eastman, of Amherst, and sister of Jonathan Eastman (Yale 181 1 ) and Oman Eastman (Yale 1821). While principal of a seminary for young ladies, called Ebenezer Academy, at Sturgeonville, in Brunswick County, Virginia, he died there on March 12, 1829, aged 33 years. Before his last illness he had resolved to study for the min- istry, and had subscribed $1,000 to the funds of the new- Union Theological Seminary in New York. His widow married, in November, 1835, Matthew O. Halsted, of Orange, New Jersey. Francis Hiram Cone, the elder son of Joshua and Chloe (Chapman) Cone, of East Haddam, Connecticut, was born in East Haddam on September 5, 1797. A brother was graduated here in 1820, and a half-brother in 1826. He entered College at the opening of the Sophomore year. After graduation he resided here for a year on a Berkeley Scholarship. In 1819 he settled in Georgia, and on his admission to the bar began practice in Greene County, where he con- tinued until his death. He married on January 8, 1829, Jane Williams Cooke. In 1841 he was elected an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He resigned his post shortly before the expiration of his term (of four years) ; but consented to stand again, and served for another term. In 1856 he was elected to the State Senate. He died at his residence in Greensboro on May 18, 1859, in his 62d year. His children were two daughters and two sons. Judge Cone had a wide reputation for brilliancy and wit. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1818 33 James Jamieson Cordes, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Jamieson) Cordes, of Charleston, South Carolina (who were married in May, 1797), was born in 1798. He was prepared for College by the Rev. Thomas D. Frost (Yale 1813). He was married, on March 20, 1820, to his second cousin, Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Lydia (Simons) Lucas. In 1823 his father-in-law, a very wealthy rice-mill owner, enjoying a monopoly of the rice-milling business, since his father had invented the mill, was induced by the English government to go to London to establish rice-mills. Mr. Cordes and his family went with the Lucas family, and he soon after joined with a brother-in-law in an iron mill near London. Mr. Lucas also transferred to Mr. Cordes a patent for making wrought nails which he had acquired, and Mr. Cordes established a very successful nail-factory near New- port, in Monmouthshire. He died at his place in Newport, on January 12, 1867, in his 69th year. One of his sons became the Conservative Member of Par- liament for Monmouth from 1874 to 1880. Edward Gere was the eldest son of Isaac Gere, who came from Pomfret, Connecticut, and settled in Northampton, Massachusetts, as a goldsmith in 1794. Here he married Jemima Kingsley, and his son Edward was born on Decem- ber 19, 1798. Another son was graduated at Yale in 1827. About the year 1820 Edward Gere and his brother Isaac in a spirit of enterprise removed to Williamsburg, eight miles westward, and began life as merchants. The elder brother married on October 14, 1824, Arabella, daughter of Gross and Mary (Washburn) Williams, of Williamsburg. He soon after bought a farm and removed to it in 1825; but died there on September 24, 1832, in his 34 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES 34tli year. He had been twice elected to the board of selectmen of the town, and died while holding that office. He left three sons. His widow died in Williamsburg on March 5, 1893, in her 89th year. Joseph Morgan Gilbert, son of Joseph Gilbert, was born in Hamden, a suburb of New Haven, on May 16, 1795. His early training was mainly given by the Rev. Elijah G. Plumb, rector of the Episcopal Church in East Haven. As an undergraduate he was distinguished in mathematics. After a year of study in New Haven, and of preparation for the ministry, he was admitted to Deacon's orders by Bishop Hobart, in New Haven, on June 3, 18 19. In the following summer he declined a call to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and toward the close of the year accepted the rectorship of the church on Edisto Island, South Carolina, twenty miles southwest of Charleston. He was there ordained Priest by Bishop Bowen on April 19, 1820. In the summer of 1822 he removed to Grace Church, on Sullivan's Island, a summer parish, in Charleston Harbor, to which charge was added in the following winter the rector- ship of St. Andrew's Church, Charleston. These duties not occupying fully his time, he was en- couraged to conduct also a select classical school, and a little later (December, 1822) became a teacher in a grammar school established by the trustees of Charleston College, and subsequently Professor of Mathematics in that college. He was highly successful in this office, but in August, 1824, removed with some of his pupils to Sullivan's Island, to escape the ravages of yellow fever, to which, however, he fell a victim, on October 27, in his 30th year. A son survived him, and left descendants. Richard Haughton, the second son of William Whiting and Olive (Chester) Haughton, of Montville, Connecticut, was born in Montville on October 13, 1799. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1818 35 He was a resident graduate at the College for two or three years. While proprietor and senior editor of the Boston Atlas, he died in Boston on April 17, 1841, in his 42d year, after a final illness of less than two hours. He had just been entrusted by the United States Government with the task of conveying to Europe certain public dispatches, and was shortly to sail on that errand. He was unmarried, and a brother was the sole heir of his estate. Hector Humphreys, the youngest of ten children of Col- onel George and Rachel (Humphrey) Humphreys, of Can- ton, Connecticut, was born in Canton on June 8, 1797. He delivered the Valedictory Oration at graduation. He united with the College Church in his Freshman year, and remained in New Haven after taking his degree, as Rector of the Hopkins Grammar School and a student of law with Seth P. Staples. On March 15, 1820, he married Mariette, daughter of Stephen and Clarissa (Quintard) Mott, of Norwalk, who was a member of the Episcopal Church ; and after he had begun the practice of law in New Haven, he decided (late in 1822) to abandon his profession for the Episcopal ministry. He was admitted to Deacon's orders in New Haven by Bishop Brownell on March 14, 1824, and soon became Tutor in the new Washington (now Trinity) College in Hartford. He also had the charge of a church in South Glastonbury, where he was advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Brownell on March 6, 1825. In 1826 he was made Professor of Ancient Languages in Washington College, and held that post until 1831. In November, 1830, he was elected to the presidency of St. John's College, in Annapolis, Maryland, where he took office in the ensuing summer, was inaugurated on Feb- 36 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES ruary 25, 1832. and remained until his death. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was given him by Trinity College in 1833. Besides his presidency he filled the professorship of Aloral Science. He died in Annapolis on January 25, 1857, in his 60th year. His widow died in Annapolis on February 19, 1874, in her 71st year. They had three daughters and three sons. Thomas Harmer Johns, a son of the Rev. Evan Johns (hon. M.A. Yale 1809), a Welshman who came to America in 1801, was born about 1797. His mother was a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Harmer, a dissenting minister of Suf- folk, well known as a writer and antiquary. Mr. Johns was pastor of the Congregational Church in Worthington Society in Berlin, Connecticut, from June, 1802, to February, 1811 ; and after an interval of residence in South Hadley, Massa- chusetts, settled again in the ministry in Canandaigua, New York, in October, 181 7. The son spent an uneventful life on a farm in Canan- daigua, and died there on November 22, 1854, at the age of 57- He bequeathed to the College the Harmer Scholarship fund, now amounting to over $11,000, for aiding deserving and needy undergraduates in obtaining an education. John Nelson Jones entered College from Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama (then included in Mississippi Territory). He was born in 1794. He returned to Huntsville after graduation, but no par- ticulars of his later life are known. Earl Loomis, the youngest child of Benoni and Grace (Parsons) Loomis, of Columbia, Connecticut, was born in Columbia (then part of Lebanon) on September 16, 1794. He became a physician, and married on September 22, 1824, Louisa, daughter of the Rev. David and Sally (Wat- son) Dickinson, of Columbia. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1818 37 From 1828 to 1838 he practiced his profession in Enfield, and then removed to Herkimer County, New York. After a brief sojourn in Frankfort, he settled permanently in Herkimer, where he died on May 12, or 13, 1858, in his 64th year. His widow died in 1870, aged JJ years. His children were, a daughter who died unmarried, and a son who died in infancy. RoMEO LowREY, the fourth son of Daniel and Anna (Munson) Lowrey, of Bristol, within the limits of the par- ish of Southington, Connecticut, and grandson of Thomas Lowrey, an emigrant from Ireland, was born on October 8, 1793, and was only able to come to College by the most rigid economy. For the first year after graduation he was tutor in a pri- vate family near Winchester, Virginia, and then studied law with Ansel Sterling, of Sharon, Connecticut. He was admitted to the bar in 1820, and settled in South- ington, where he had a highly creditable career. He repre- sented the town in the Legislature in 1830 and 1838, and was a member of the State Senate in 1844 and 1848, serving in the latter year as ex officio a Fellow of the College. He also held office as Judge of Probate and Judge of the County Court. He died in Southington on January 30, 1856, in his 63d year. He married on May 14, 1828, Elizabeth Allen, eldest child of Chester and Nancy E. (Wadsworth) Whittlesey, of Southington, who died on July 3, 1840, in her 30th year. He next married, on August i, 1841, her sister, Laura Ann. who died on July 11, 1852, in her 37th year. By his first marriage he had two sons and three daughters (of whom one died in infancy) ; and by his second marriage one son. The eldest son was graduated at Yale in 1848, and the youngest in 1864. f at the as;e of 29. He was unmarried. i John Phelps, son of Captain Seth and Phebe ( Hastings y Phelps, of Sufifield, Connecticut, and grandson of Aaron Phelps (Yale 1758), was probably born in 1808. John Lewis (Yale 1868) is a nephew. He studied law in Kingston, New York, and settled in practice there, but was obliged to return home about 1846 from impaired health. A year later he went West, and was heard from at Chicago, but never again. Stephen Atwater Potwine, the eldest son of Stephen and Mary (Osborn) Potwine, of East Windsor, and grand- son of the Rev. Thomas Potwine (Yale 1751), was born on September 17, 1810. During the vacation preceding graduation he went to Canada, as an agent for circulating a controversial anti- Romanist work, but was taken ill in July, and was unable to attend Commencement. He reached home in September, and died there, of con- sumption, on March 4, 1834, in his 24th year. He was intending to study for the ministry. Robert Robertson, son of Robert and Frances Robert- son, of Norfolk, Virginia, was born on February 3, 1813, and entered Yale in 1830. He studied law in the office of the Hon. William Max- well (Yale 1802), of Norfolk, but never practiced, preferring to devote himself to belles-lettres and general science. From 1836 to 1839 he was Secretary to Commodore Jesse Wilkin- son on the frigate United States, of the Mediterranean squadron. From 1841 to 1845 he was Secretary to the successive officers in command of the United States Ship of the Line Pennsylvania, stationed at Norfolk. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 833 247 He died in Norfolk, after a brief illness, from inflamma- shn of the bowels, on August 4, 1845, aged 32^/^ years. He ifis never married, d Jeremiah Smith entered College from Santa Cruz, West Indies, in 1830. He returned home after graduation, to find that his prop- erty had been dissipated by embezzlement. He then went to Philadelphia, and engaged in a limited mercantile busi- ness, in which his success was small. He is supposed to have died there in 1853, in his 41st year. He was married, and had several children. John Marshall Fayette Stoddard, the eldest son of Ebenezer and Lucy (Carroll) Stoddard, of (West) Wood- stock, Connecticut, was born on June 30, 181 3. His father was prominent in the Toleration party in the State, and was a Member of Congress from 182 1 to 1825, and Lieutenant Governor for four terms (1833-34, and 1835-38). He studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Windham County in 1836; but died of consumption in his native parish, on May 6, 1837, in his 24th year. Moses Brown Stuart, the youngest son of Professor Moses Stuart (Yale 1799), of Andover, Massachusetts, was born on October 18, 18 13. On graduation, he went to Beaufort, South Carolina, where he assisted his oldest brother (Yale 1828) in a High School, while also pursuing his studies, for about a year. He then went to Hartford, Connecticut, and was engaged in the study of law in the office of the Hon. William W. Ellsworth (Yale 1810) until his very sudden death, from hemorrhage of the bowels, during a slow typhus fever, on October 23, 1835, at the age of 22. Charles Turner Torrey, the only son of Charles and Hannah Tolman Torrey, of Scituate. Massachusetts, was 240 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES born on November 21, 181 3, and bore the name of his mater- nal grandfather. His parents died in his infancy, and, he was brought up by his mother's family, who settled in 1827 in Chelsea, whence he entered College at the opening of Sophomore year. In the autumn after graduation he became Principal of the Female Seminary in West Brookfield, but resigned after four months. In October, 1834, he entered the Andover Theological Seminary, but left at the end of a year, on account of precarious health and straitened circumstances. A long journey on foot, and abundant rest, restored his health so that he was able in the fall of 1835 to resume his studies under the care of the Rev. Luke A. Spofford (Mid- dlebury Coll. 181 5), of Scituate. In June, 1836, he went to West Medway, for further study with the Rev. Dr. Jacob Ide (Brown Univ. 1809). He was licensed to preach by the Mendon Association on October 25, 1836, and on March 22, 1837, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Richmond Street Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island. One week later, on March 29, he was married to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Ide, and granddaughter of the Rev. Dr. Nathanael Emmons (Yale 1767). His stay in Providence was short, as he was dismissed in October at his own request. He soon accepted a call to the pastorate of the Howard Street Congregational Church in Salem, Massachusetts (as successor of the Rev. George B. Cheever), where he was installed on January 4, 1838. For several years he had been intensely interested in opposition to slavery, and as opportunities to labor in that cause were increased he found it necessary to choose between the pastorate and these calls. He accordingly thought it his duty to resign his charge on July 21, 1839, and give his time to lecturing on slavery and to editorial work in the same behalf. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1834 249 In December, 1841, he went to Washington as corre- spondent for several papers, and in January, 1842, suffered a brief detention in jail for attending as reporter a slave- holders' convention in Annapolis. In the following autumn he went to Albany as editor of the daily Tocsin of Liberty, later the Albany Patriot, and remained for one year, although the enterprise proved unsuccessful. About the first of May, 1844, he went to Baltimore, to make that his headquarters while assisting slaves in Mary- land and Virginia to escape to the North. On June 24 he was arrested in Baltimore, on the com- plaint of a Virginia slave-dealer, for aiding slaves to escape, and this was immediately followed by similar action on the part of a Maryland citizen. The latter suit took precedence, and he was thrown into the city jail to await trial. After a delay due to his feeble health, the trial began on Novem- ber 29. He was convicted, and sentenced to six years' hard labor in the State Penitentiary. In the summer of 1845 ^'^is health began to be decidedly affected by his imprisonment, and the danger of pulmonary consumption seemed so imminent as to induce vigorous efforts by his friends for his pardon and release. These were unsuccessful, and he died in prison on May 9, 1846, in his 33d year. He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. His widow died in West Medway on November 6, 1869. aged 52 years. Their children were a son and a daughter. A Memoir, by Joseph C. Lovejoy (Bowdoin Coll. 1829) was published in 1847. CLASS OF 1834 George Anson Oliver Beaumont, the only child of Oliver and Esther (Clarke) Beaumont, of Columbia, Con- necticut, was born on April 7, 1812. He was a nephew of 250 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Asahel Clarke (Yale 1797), and first cousin of the Rev. William B. Clarke (Yale 1849). ^^is father died in his infancy. He spent the two years succeeding graduation in the Yale Law School, and in 1836 removed with his mother to Chicago, where he established himself in practice. He was highly successful; but in the spring of 1845 was obliged by illness to return to Columbia, where he died on December 18, in his 34th year. He was unmarried. William Shedden Burr, son of David Judson Burr, of Richmond, Virginia, was born on June 7, 1814. His mother, Annabella Shedden, was the widow of Aaron Burr Reeve (Yale 1802), of Litchfield, Connecticut, and Troy, New York. He entered College in 183 1. A brother was graduated in 1839, and a half-brother in 1829. He engaged in iron manufacturing in Richmond, — a busi- ness inherited from his father. He married, in Geneva, New York, on December 7, 1853, Laura P., daughter of the late Judge Lewis H. Sandford, of New York City, who died in Richmond on July 15, 1857, in her 22d year. He died in Richmond on December 17, 1858, in his 45th year, leaving one son. Joseph Fowler, son of Eliseus and Sally (Knox) Fow- ler, of Blandford, Massachusetts, was born on August 9, 1809. His residence during the first half of the College course was in Hartford, Trumbull County, Ohio, and during the last half in Licking County. After a brief experience as a teacher, he entered Lane Theological Seminary, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Cincinnati in 1837. In 1839 he was ordained by the Presbytery of Alton, while supplying the church in Jerseyville, Jersey County, Illinois. He ended his engagement there in 1840, and was YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1834 251 married on March 23, 1841, to Eliza A., daughter of the Rev. Amos P. Brown, a retired minister living in Jerseyville. He was next employed in York, Medina County, Ohio, for a brief engagement, and in October, 1845, took charge of the Presbyterian Church in Lacon, Marshall County, Illi- nois, where he remained as stated supply for seven years. His later years were spent in the service of the American Home Missionary Society, in Astoria, Rushville, and finally, from November, 1856, in Magnolia, all in Illinois. He died in Magnolia on September 16, 1857, in his 49th year. He was buried in Lacon. His life had been spent in doing good and in building up feeble churches. His wife survived him with three daughters and one son, — another son having died in infancy. Henry Sewall Gerrish French was born in Boscawen, near Concord, New Hampshire, on April 27, 1807, the sec- ond son of Joel and Susannah (Gerrish) French. He had been a printer before entering College. He spent the three years after graduation in Andover Theological Seminary, and being accepted as a missionary by the American Board was ordained on September 19, 1837. He married, on April 9, 1839, Sarah Catharine Allison, of Concord, the eldest child of Andrew and Sarah Carter (Bronson) Allison, of Castine, Maine. They sailed from Boston on July 6, 1839, for Siam, and arrived in October at Singapore. It had been arranged that Mr. French should take charge of the printing for the mission, and he spent some months in learning the language and in preparing a font of type. He reached Bangkok in May, 1840, and was beginning to use the language with some facility when consumption developed in May, 1841. After some months of great weakness he died in Bangkok on February 14, 1842, in his 35th year. 252 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES His wife returned to America in April, 1844, on account of the delicate health of their only child, a son. She died in Greeley, Colorado, on April 9, 1882, in her 72d year. Job Swift Gold_, son of Deacon Benjamin and Eleanor (Johnson) Gold, of Cornwall, Connecticut, was born on November 27, 1810. His eldest brother was graduated in 1806. He was for one year a student in the Yale Law School ; and on October 28, 1835, married Catharine B., daughter of Anthony and Rebecca (Clark) Smith, of Washington, Con- necticut. During the rest of his life he was associated with his brother, Stephen J. Gold, in the manufacture of cooking and other stoves and of general heating apparatus, and in the development of inventions and improvements in this business. He died of consumption in Philadelphia on June 18, 1844, in his 34th year. Four sons survived him. Daniel Emerson Hall, son of the Rev. Nathaniel Hall (Dartmouth Coll. 1790) and Hannah (Emerson) Hall, of Granville, Washington County, New York, was born on May 9, 1810, and entered the Class in 1831. The Rev. Ralph Emerson (Yale 181 1) was an uncle. His father died in 1820. He studied law with his brother, Willis Hall (Yale 1824), in New York City, and settled in practice in Mobile, Ala- bama, where his brother had practiced from 1827 to 1831. He died in Mobile on April 24, 1852, at the age of 42. He married Delphine E. Kennedy, of Mobile. Three children survived him. John VandenHeuvel Ingersoll, the eldest child of Ralph I. Ingersoll (Yale 1808) and Margaret C. E. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 834 253 (VandenHeuvel) Ingersoll, of New Haven, was born on May 7, 1815. He studied law, and established himself in Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio, but was diverted from the practice of his profession by serving for several years as secretary to an Indian Commission, and by editing a political paper. In October, 1840, he was appointed Register of the Land Office at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, but retained the position for less than a year. He then returned to his editorial work, but in 1845 went to Sandusky to resume law practice. At the beginning of June, 1846, he went to Scott's Point, on Lake Erie, beyond Sandusky Bay, on a fishing excursion, where he was drowned on June 5, in his 32d year. William Stoddard Johnston, son of the Hon. Josiah Stoddard Johnston, of New Orleans, a native of Salisbury, Connecticut, and United States Senator from Louisiana from 1823 to his death in 1833, was born in 181 5. His mother, Eliza Sibley, married the Hon. Henry D. Gilpin (Univ. Pa. 1819), of Philadelphia, in 1835. General Albert Sidney Johnston was a half-brother of his father; and William Preston Johnston (Yale 1852) and J. Stoddard Johnston (Yale 1853) were his cousins. He entered Yale in 1833. He studied law and settled in practice in his native State. He married Miss Williams, of Alexandria, Rapides County, and is believed to have died in Alexandria in 1839, at the age of 24. A son survived him. John Noyes, the only child of Dr. Richard and Martha (Noyes) Noyes, of Lyme, Connecticut, was born on Jan- uary (or June?) 22, 1815. He studied medicine for two years in the Yale Medical School, where he received his degree in 1836. He began 254 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES practice in Lockport, New York, but in 1838 returned to his native town, where he followed his profession and won the entire regard of the community. He died in Lyme, of consumption, on October 26, 1854, in his 40th year. He married, in 1839, Anna Colton, of Maryland ; and after her death he married, in 1849, Edwardanna, daughter of Edward L. and Anna Matilda (Stewart) Schieffelin, of New York, and widow of Dr. Francis Nicoll Sill of Staten Island, who had died in May, 1848. Two sons by his first wife survived him. His widow next married Captain Mather Chadwick, of Lyme. Henry Pomroy, son of Eleazer and Ruth (Hunt) Pom- roy, of Coventry, Connecticut, was born on March 6, 1814, and entered Yale in 1831. He taught in Natchez, Mississippi, for two or three years, and then became a merchant in Hartford, Connecticut. About 1843 he removed to New York City, where he was engaged in the grocery business for about twelve years, with his residence on Staten Island. Assiduous application to business brought on softening of the brain, and he died in Coventry on February i, 1858, in his 44th year. He married, on April 10, 185 1, Jane Harris, of New York City, who survived him, without children. Charles Roger Welles, second son of the Hon. Martin Welles (Yale 1806), of Farmington, Connecticut, was born on August 26, 1812. His father settled in Wethersfield, his native place, in 1820. He spent more than a year after graduation at the West, for the benefit of his health, and then began the study of law in Newburgh, New York (where his father had lived in infancy), and completed it in the Yale Law School. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1834 255 In 1840 he settled in Springfield, Illinois, where he soon obtained an extensive and lucrative practice. He was also very active in religious matters, and was an Elder in the Second Presbyterian Church. He married, on July 8, 184 1, Mary Louisa, daughter of Cleveland J. and Susan Clarinda Salter, formerly of New Haven, and half-sister of Charles C. Salter (Yale 1852). He died in Springfield on July 23, 1854, in his 42d year. His wife died in Elwyn, Pennsylvania, on March 7, 1900, at the age of 81 ; of their six children, only one son, for a time a member of the Class of 1870, lived to maturity. Samuel Goodrich Whittelsey, the eldest child of the Rev. Samuel Whittelsey (Yale 1803), of New Preston Society, in Washington, Connecticut, was born on Novem- ber 8, 1809. His parents were living in Utica, New York, when he entered College; and removed to New York City in his Senior year. He entered in 1836 on a College tutorship, which he held for two years. In the meantime, in 1837, he began the study of theology in the Yale Divinity School, and was licensed to preach by the Litchfield South Association in 1839- After his graduation from the Seminary in 1840, he was accepted as a missionary by the American Board, and was ordained at New Haven on January 10, 1841. He was married, in New York, on September 29, to Anna Cook, daughter of Jabez and Hannah (Coe) Mills, of Morristown. New Jersey. On October 14, 1841, they sailed from Boston for Ceylon, and arrived at Jaffna on April i. 1842. In 1843 ^i^ was put in charge of the Mission Female Seminary in Oodooville. About two years later, on account of impaired health, he was transferred to the adjoining continent, and he died in Dindigal, about thirty miles north of Madura, from an 256 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES inflammatory fever, brought on by fatigue and exposure, on March 10, 1847, in his 38th year. His widow returned to America in 1848; and afterwards married the Rev. Dr. Thornton A. Mills (Miami Univ. 1830). Of his children, two sons and a daughter, the only one surviving infancy was graduated here in 1864. CLASS OF 1835 John Stearns Abbott, son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Hatch) Abbott, of Tolland, Connecticut, was born on July 22, 1814. After graduation he studied law, in part in the Yale Law School (1836-37), and then went to Michigan, where he established his residence in the suburbs of Detroit, and entered on practice in that city. On March 31, 1845, he married Lucy Maria, second daughter of ex-Governor William Woodbridge, then United States Senator from Michigan. He sustained a high reputation at the bar, but died of pulmonary disease, at his residence in Springwells, on the borders of Detroit, on September 26, 1852, in his 39th year. His widow married William Henderson, of Detroit, in August, 1858, and died on April 6, i860, in her 38th year. His children, two daughters and a son, survived him. James Calvin Briggs, the eldest son of Dr. Calvin Briggs (Williams Coll. 1803) and Rebecca (Monroe) Briggs, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, and grandson of the Rev. James Briggs (Yale 1775), was born on December 30, 1814. A sister married the Rev. David T. Stoddard (Yale 1838). He attended one course of lectures in the Medical School in Woodstock, Vermont, and supplementary courses in Bos- YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1835 257 ton, and received the degree of M.D. in 1839 ^''O'" the Castleton (Vermont) Medical Colleg-e. After a few months spent in Salem, he began practice in Marblehead, and, like his father, attained unusual success. He married, on April 18, 1848, Harriet Emeline, daughter of John and Emma (Stewart) Glover, of Marblehead, who died on April 13, 1852, in her 35th year. He next married, on September 8, 1854, Catharine T. Whidden. He died in Marblehead on December 18, 1856, at the age of 42. By each marriage he had a daughter ; both died in infancy. John Davis, the third son of Isaac and Polly (Rice) Davis, of Trenton, Maine, and a nephew of the Hon. John Davis (Yale 1812), was born on October 25, 1813. In 1819 his parents returned to their native place, Northboro, Worcester County, ]\Iassachusetts. He studied law, partly in the Harvard Law School (1835- 36), and in 1837 established himself in practice in St. Louis, Missouri. His successful pursuit of his profession was interrupted in 1843 by a pulmonary attack, which obliged him in June, 1844, to return to his home, where he died on September 20, in his 31st year. HowLAND Dawes, son of John and Dolly (Shaw) Dawes, of Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, was born on February 12, 1809. His birthplace was on the border of Windsor, Berkshire County, which he also some- times called his residence. Henry L. Dawes (Yale 1839) was a first cousin. He taught in the Academy in Stonington, Connecticut, for a year or two after graduation, and in April, or May, 1837, married Mrs. Harriet (Miner) Wilbur, a . native of Stonington. 17 258 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He afterwards taught in Middletown and Glastonbury, and later removed to Sag Harbor and East Hampton, Long Island, where he studied theology and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery. He ministered to several churclics, but soon returned to Massachusetts, and died in Lynn, from inflammation of the lungs, on January 17, 1847, in his 38th year. He was buried in Stonington, where his widow was laid by his side some years later. They had no children. Joseph Brush Fenton was born in Norwich, New York, on July 4, 181 5, and removed with his parents to Palmyra in 1828. He entered Yale in 1832. He studied law in Troy during the winter after gradua- tion, and with William H. Seward in 1836-37. He then practiced law in Palmyra and New York City until 1845, when he removed to Cincinnati. He died in Cincinnati of typhoid fever on February 25, 1848, in his 33d year. He was unmarried. Charles Alonzo Gager, the son of Samuel and Cynthia (Meech) Gager, of Bozrah, Connecticut, was born on March 15, 1814. He was the Rector of the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven for a year after graduation, and then entered the Yale Divinity School, and while continuing his studies served for two years (1837-39) as a Tutor in the College. He then went to the Andover Seminary for a year's addi- tional study, and was licensed to preach in the spring of 1840. He then went on an extended tour to the East, and after having visited southern Europe and Palestine, he was pros- trated during his passage up the Nile by an attack of typhus fever, which caused his death in Cairo on November 16, 1841, in his 28th year. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 835 259 James Hervey Howe was born, probably in Bedford, New York, in 1816, and entered College from New York City. After his graduation the family home was in Bedford. He entered on a tutorship in Yale in the fall of 1838, and performed his duties there, while also studying in the Divinity School, until July, 1840, when a sudden mental break-down interrupted all his work. He recovered himself so as to receive a license to preach from the Litchfield South Association in 1842. In February, 1844, he began to supply the Presbyterian Church in Washington Hollow, Duchess County, New York, with the result that in April he received a unanimous invitation to serve them for one year. He was accordingly ordained as an Evangelist in Washington Hollow on May 22, and remained in charge of that church until the close of 1847. He had been in delicate health for several years, and consumption was now so far advanced that he was forced to retire to his mother's house in Bedford, where he died on March 25, 1849, '" ^is 33d year. He was unmarried. Algernon Sidney Mitchell, son of Dr. Mannaduke and Mary B. (Temple) Mitchell, of Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee, was born on September i. 1816. His parents were natives of North Carolina, and removed to Madison County, Mississippi, shortly before he entered College in 1834. After graduation he returned to Madison County and became a planter. He was also greatly interested in poli- tics, and represented the County in the Legislature. He edited at one time the American Citizen, a Whig newspaper published in Madison County. For several years before his death he suffcrefl severely from a serious spinal disease. He died on September 26. 1874, at the age of 58. He married, about 1837, Martha E.. daughter of John and Rachel P. Tillman, of Shelbyville, Tennessee, who died 26o BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES soon after the birth of her first child, a son, who was killed in the Confederate army. A year or two after her death Mr. Mitchell married her sister, Mary Ann, wdio died twelve or thirteen years later, leaving one son. About two years after her death he married a third sister, Lucy R. Tillman, by whom he had one daughter. After his death his widow married the Rev. Mr. Quinn. George Washington Olney, son of Colonel Anthony and Patty (Crane) Olney, was born in Plymouth, Massa- chusetts, on July 25, 181 5, and entered Amherst College from Waterford, New York, in 183 1. He came from Amherst to Yale in 1833, as a resident of Cincinnati. He studied law, and was for a time associated in practice in St. Louis with Henry W. Billings (Amherst Coll. 1834), who married his sister. He settled later in southern Illinois, and was successful, holding the position of Attorney General from June, 1838, to February, 1839. He died of cholera in Chicago on August 5, 1850, at the age of 35. Edward William Smith, the youngest son of the Rev. Daniel Smith (Yale 1791), of Stamford, Connecticut, was born on September 2, 181 3. He entered College in 1830, but left the Class of 1834 early in his Senior year on account of severe suffering from asthma, and returned a year later. He studied law in the Yale Law School for two years (1836-38), and began practice in New York City. But successive attacks of sudden illness greatly dispirited him, and finally caused his death, in New York, on April 7, 1841, in his 28th year. Henry Smith, son of Deacon Norman and Mary (Board- man) Smith, of Hartford, Connecticut, was born on March 20, 1813, and was admitted to College in 1830, but withdrew YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1835 261 soon and reentered a year later. A brother was graduated in 1826. After graduation his health seemed too delicate to allow of his following a profession. He therefore took up an active business life, in the employ of his brothers, who had large manufacturing and other interests in Hartford and in New Orleans. After some years his health was found to be again grad- ually failing, and he was obliged to make a change of occupation and to seek a milder climate. With this in view he went to New Orleans in the spring of 1846, in quest of an estate, in the cultivation of which he might employ himself. On May 14, while crossing the Hay of St. Louis, on the southern coast of Mississippi, about fifty miles from New Orleans, to examine a farm which had been offered him, he was drowned by the capsizing of the boat. He married, on November 27. 1838, Harriet Irwin, sec- ond daughter of Captain Francis and Harriet (Robbins) Stillman, of Wethersfield, by whom he had one daughter. Mrs. Smith married, in May, 1849, Henry Ferre, Junior, of Wethersfield, and died on December 22, 1898, in her 82d year. John Cotton Smith, the next older brother of his class- mate, Edward William Smith, noticed above, was born in Stamford on April 6, 181 1, and had been engaged in busi- ness before coming to College. On graduation he entered the Yale Medical School, and while still a student died suddenly in Stamford, while recov- ering from an attack of scarlet fever, on January 14, 1837, in his 26th year. His was the first death among the graduates of the Class. Caleb Strong, the second son of Lewis Strong (Harvard 1803) and Maria (Chester) Strong, of Northampton, Mas- sachusetts, and grandson of Governor Caleb Strong 262 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES (Harvard 1764), was born on January 31, 1816, and entered Yale in 1832. He studied theology, in part (1837-38) in the Yale Divinity School, and while still a resident licentiate in New Haven, he was ordained on October 16, 1838, at Oxford, as an Evangelist. He was installed on September 29, 1839, as pastor of the American Presbyterian Church in Montreal. Canada, and was greatly esteemed in that relation. He died in Montreal, after two days' severe illness, from appendicitis, on January 4, 1847, at the age of 31. He married, in Wethersfield, Connecticut, on May 26, 1840, Catharine Sophia, daughter of the late Stephen Mix Mitchell, Junior (Yale 1794), of Burlington, Vennont, who died on September 4, 1843. Their only child died in infancy. He next married, on May 14, 1846, Maria Elizabeth, daughter of Amos M. and Mary (Lyman) Collins, of Hart- ford, Connecticut, who long survived him. William Wallace Wilcox, the eldest child of Jonathan Samuel and Chloe (Hand) Wilcox, of (East) Guilford, now Madison, Connecticut, was born on July 22, 1816. Two long and ver)^ serious illnesses while in College impaired his health permanently. He taught school in Clinton for a year after graduation, and then entered the law-office of his uncle. Judge George E. Hand (Yale 1829), of Detroit, but was obliged by ill health to return home a year later. He was able, however, for nearly two years (1837-39) to have the charge of Lee's Academy, in Madison, where he had himself been fitted for College. On' leaving here he was compelled to go South for his health, and was admitted to the bar in Augusta, Georgia, in 1839; but after temporary improvement he returned home to await death, from consumption, which ensued on June 27, 1841, in his 25th year. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1836 263 CLASS OF 1836 Henry Wright Bacon, son of Dr. Leonard and Sophia (Wright) Bacon, of Hartford, Connecticut, was born on December 12, 1816. He was a first cousin of the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon (Yale 1820). In April 1837, he entered the Harvard Law School, and after completing his studies there in 1838, opened an office in Richmond, Virginia, where he continued for two or three years. He then removed to New York City, where he prac- ticed for about the same length of time. He then relinquished his profession, and engaged in mer- cantile business in Boston. While there his health failed, from a chronic disease of the liver, and he spent a year or two in travel. He died on November 19, 1845, while on his way from Peoria, Illinois, to St. Louis, in a private carriage with a driver, expiring so quietly that his death was unobserved at the time. Thomas Bailey, the eldest son of William and Susanna (Bailey) Bailey, of Little Compton, Rhode Island, was born on December 21, 1810. He was intending to become a minister, but it was very soon evident after graduation that his failing health would not permit this. He found occupation mainly in traveling as an agent for subscriptions to popular periodicals. While in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1850, the pulmonary disease, from which he had long sufifered, made rapid progress, and he died there on July 19, in his 40th year. He was buried in Washington. He was never married. James McKinlay Daves, the eldest child of John Pugh and Jane Reid (Henry) Daves, of Newbern, North Caro- lina, was born on December 27, 1816, and entered Yale at 264 BIOGFLAPHICAL NOTICES the opening of Sophomore year. A younger sister married John W. Elhs (Univ. of N. C. 1841), Governor of North CaroHna from 1859 to 1861. He became a planter, and died by his own hand in New- bern, on July 2, 1838, in his 226. year. William Hackett Eaton, the son of Deacon William and Polly (Hackett) Eaton, of Newburyport, Massachu- setts, was born on December i, 181 1, and entered Yale as a resident of Andover. In Senior year his residence was in Bradford. Nothing is known of him after graduation, except that he was teaching" in Mississippi in 1839. James Fergusson, son of Judge John Fergusson, a native of Scotland, and of Elizabeth (Turner) Fergusson, of Charles County, Maryland, was born on March 11, 18 16, and entered College at the opening of Sophomore year, with his residence in Port Tobacco. He studied law in Baltimore in the office of James Mason Campbell, and began practice in that city with the fairest prospects. His strenuous application to his work, how- ever, undermined his health, and he was before long obliged to retire to his old home in the country. He married, on December 27, 1849, Amelia, youngest daughter of General John Matthew, of Charles County, by whom he had one son, who survived him. He died of typhoid fever on October 28, 1854, in his 39th year. Jonathan Grout, son of Moses and Catharine (War- ren) Grout, of Westboro, Massachusetts, was born on June 13, 181 1, and spent his Freshman year with the Class of 1835. He was a nephew of the Rev. Jonathan Grout (Har- vard 1790), of Hawley; and a brother was graduated here in 1840. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 836 265 After graduation he spent two years in teaching at the South, and then studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Jacob Ide (Brown Univ. 1809), of West Medway, Massachusetts. He received a Hcense to preach, but did not proceed to ordination. He married, on June 2, 1842, Florella Alills, daughter of the Rev. David Holman (Brown Univ. 1803) and Clarissa (Packard) Holman, of Douglas, who died in West- boro, of consumption, on December 11, 1844, in her 28th year. In 1846 he removed from Westboro to Ohio, and fur some time labored as a home missionary in Chester in Meigs County, in the southeastern part of that State. On April I, 1847, he married Mrs. Lucy Wolcott Paine, of Connecticut. He was soon obliged to give up regular preaching on account of a disease of the throat, and removed about twelve miles to the northeast, to Coolville, in Athens County, where he prepared young men for College and preached occasionally. In 1856 he bought a large farm in Lancaster, Keokuk County, southeastern Iowa, where he remained until his sudden death, from paralysis, on December 2. 1866, in his 56th year. His only child (by his second marriage) died in infancy. James Harrison, son of John and Jemima (Jenkins) Harrison, of Greenville, in northwestern South Carolina, was born on December 26, 1813, and entered Yale at the opening of Sophomore year. He studied medicine, and received the degree of M.D. from the Medical College of South Carolina, at Charleston, in the spring of 1840. He settled in Greenville, and was married to a lady of the vicinity on June 27, 1843. 266 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES His practice of medicine was successful, but he was obliged to retire by the failure of his health in 1846, and thenceforth devoted himself to agriculture. He died on September 5, 1871, in his 58th year. He had a family of thirteen children. Arthur Moseley Hopkins, a son of Arthur Francis and Pamelia (Moseley) Hopkins, was born in Liberty, Bed- ford County, Virginia, on July 15, 1816, and entered Yale in 1833. In his infancy his father removed to Huntsville, Alabama, where he became an eminent lawyer, and in 1836 a Judge of the Supreme Court. He married, on July 19, 1837, Eliza Pamelia, the young- est child of ex-Governor Thomas and Pamelia (Thompson) Bibb, of Huntsville. He studied law, and practiced for about eighteen months. On the death of his father-in-law, in 1839, he was obliged to remove to Louisiana, as trustee of the Bibb estate. In 1849 he settled in Memphis, Tennessee, where he engaged in the cotton factorage business ; and in 1856 he removed to New Orleans, where he continued in the same business as a member of the firm of Powell & Hopkins. In 1862 he went to Europe for his health, and he remained abroad until his death in Manchester, England, on April 4, 1865, i^ his 49th year. His widow died in Bir- mingham, Alabama, on January 18, 1899, ^^ ^^^ 78th year. Their children were four daughters and nine sons. Jacob Thompson Hotchkiss, the only child of Hezekiah and Elizabeth Hotchkiss, of New Haven, was born in August, 1816, and was named for his maternal grandfather. For three years after graduation he taught an academy in Canandaigua, New York. He then entered the Yale Medi- cal School, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1842. He resided in New Haven, engaged in successful prac- tice, until his death, after an illness of two weeks from YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 836 267 fever, on August 22, 1850, at the age of 34. He was unmarried. Sylvester Judd, Junior, second son of Sylvester and Apphia (Hall) Judd, of Westhampton, Massachusetts, and a great-grandson of the Rev. Jonathan Judd (Yale 1741), was born on July 23, 181 3. The family removed to North- ampton in 1822. He united with the Congregational Church in 1831, and entered College with the intention of becoming a minister. A brother was graduated here in 1840. On graduation he took charge of an academy in Temple- ton; but unfortunately found serious difficulties existing there between the Orthodox and Unitarian Societies. The academy was under Orthodox control, but he found him- self distinctly in growing sympathy with the Unitarian belief. He felt obliged to resign his situation in the spring of 1837, and in the fall he entered the Harvard Divinity School. On finishing his course there in July, 1840, he went at once to Augusta, Maine, to fill an engagement to supply the pulpit of the Unitarian Church for six wrecks; and before this engagement had expired, he had accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate. He was ordained on October i, and on August 31, 1841, he was married to Jane Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Reuel Williams, of Augusta, then United States Senator from Maine, and of Sarah Lowell (Cony) Williams. During the twelve years that follow^ed he was devoted to his parish, but also found time for the preparation and pub- lication of three notable volumes, two prose idylls and a poem, all designed to advocate the spread of his ideal of Liberal Christianity. The first and most successful of these, Margaret, retains a place in the literary development of New England. He also became known, outside the bounds of his neighborhood and of his denominational fel- 268 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES lowship, as an inspiring lecturer on moral reforms, espe- cially peace and temperance. His piety and deep religious feeling colored all his work. His nervous energy was undermined by his intense earnestness, and a certain frailty of constitution was con- tinually apparent. On January 3, 1853, he was exposed to a severe chill, under which he sank rapidly until his death, at his home, on the 26th of the same month, aged 39j^ years. A volume on his Life and Character was published in 1854. His wife survived him with their three children. John Griffith Martin, the eldest son of John Griffith Martin, of Paris, Kentucky, was born on January 10, 181 7, and entered Yale after the opening of Junior year. He read law at home for a year after graduation, and then spent a year in the Law Department of Transylvania University, in Lexington, where he received the degree of LL.B. in 1838. He then began the practice of his profession in Paris, and soon entered into partnership with Garrett Davis, after- wards a Member of Congress and United States Senator. On June 2.^, 1839, he married a daughter of Mr. A. Spear. A few years later his health failed. In the spring of 1846 he made a voyage to Europe without benefit. He died in the house in which he was born, on August 27, 1847, in his 31st year. His wife survived him. Frederick Davis Mills, son of Captain Frederick Mills, a native of Stockholm, Sweden, and of Susan Grant (Davis) Mills, of Norwich, Connecticut, was born in New Haven on May 19, 1817. He entered Yale with the Class of 1835, and remained with them until May, 1834, when he left to teach school, joining the next Class in the following year. He studied law, in part in the Yale Law School, and in 1841 or 1842 began practice in Burlington, Iowa, where he won a good reputation. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 836 269 In March, 1847, he was persuaded to accept a Major's commission in the United States army, and serve in the Mexican War. He took part in the battle of Churubusco, on August 20, 1847, and with a body of private soldiers gave chase to the retreating Mexicans, but was made prisoner and killed the same evening. He was never married. Samuel Moseley, son of Chauncey and Harriet (Bing- ham) Moseley, of Westfield, Massachusetts, was born on April 21, 1809. A nephew was graduated here in 1874. After graduation he studied theology for three years in the Yale Divinity School, and was licensed to preach by the New Haven West Association on August 7, 1838. He supplied for a year or more a Presbyterian Church in Ticonderoga, New York, but as the climate disagreed with his health he returned to Connecticut, and preached succes- sively in Middle Haddam, a parish of Chatham, and in Bur- lington. He declined a call from the latter place, on account of his health, and associated himself with his brother, David B. Moseley, in the establishment of the Religions Herald, a weekly paper in Hartford, in Fe])ruary, 1843. He also preached occasionally. He died in Hartford, of consumption, on December 9. 1845, in his 37th year. He was never married. Charles Edward Murdock, son of Peter and Bathslicba Murdock, was born in that part of Saybrook, Connecticut, which is now Westbrook, in November, 1809, and entered Yale in 1831. In February, 1833, he left College, returning the next fall to the next Class. He studied in the Yale Divinity School for two years, and was licensed to preach by the New Haven West Association on August 7, 1S38. He then went as a home missionary to a small cinirch in Round Prairie, Shelby County, Illinois, having been 270 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES ordained on November 14. He left this church in the fall of 1840 for another in the village of Hillsgrove, McDonough County. In June, 1841, he returned to Connecticut, and on June 29, 1842, was installed as pastor of the Congregational Church in Hamburg Society, in Lyme, where he died on December 15, 1843, in his 35th year. He married Lucy Rice, of Meriden, who survived him. They had no children. Daniel Bigelow Parkhurst^ son of Dr. William and Hannah Parkhurst, of Petersham, Massachusetts, was born on February 20, 181 8, and was named for his maternal grandfather. He spent the first two years of his course in Amherst College. He taught for one year after graduation, and entered the Harvard Divinity School. On completing his studies there in July, 1840, he went to Charleston, South Carolina, for the benefit of his health, and was ordained there to the min- istry on December 6, 1840. He returned in March, 1841, and in accordance with an agreement already made proceeded to preach as a candidate to the First (Unitarian) Congregational Society in Deerfield. He was installed there on July 21, but after preaching for five Sundays was prostrated by illness and went to his father's house for rest. He returned and preached for half the day on October 3, and soon after went to Keene, New Hampshire, for a slight surgical operation; but pulmonary consumption set in with renewed force, and after a long decline he died in Keene on February 16, 1842, at the age of 24. He was buried in Deerfield. He was never married. Henry Kirk Preston, son of the Rev. Willard Preston (Brown Univ. 1806) and Lucy Maria (Baker) Preston, was born in Northbridge, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1814. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1836 27 1 In his infancy his father became a pastor in Providence, Rhode Island, and was next preacher (1821-25) and Presi- dent (1825-26) of the University of Vermont in BurHng^ton. In 1829 he took a pastorate in Savannah, Georgia. The son came to Yale in 1833. After graduation he taught school in Savannah for a feu- years, and then studied law. He practiced his profession until his death, in Savannah, on October 21, 1854, in his 41st year. He was unmarried. Charles Prindle, the second son of Elijah and Sallv (Ward) Prindle, of New Haven, was born on November 6, 1810, and entered Yale at the opening of Sophomore year. His family were communicants in the Episcopal Church, and at graduation he entered the General Theological Semi- nary in New York City, where he remained three years. On July 3, 1839, he received Deacon's orders from Bishop Brownell in New Haven, and soon left for the work of a missionary in the West. He was stationed at Terre Haute, Indiana, and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, but while on a visit at home was taken seriously ill, and after eleven days' illness died on November 18, 1841, at the age of 31. He was unmarried. William Sherman Rowland, the youngest child of the Rev. Henry Augustus Rowland (Dartmouth Coll. 1785) and Frances (Bliss) Rowland, of Windsor. Connecticut, and a grandson of the Rev. David Sherman Rowland (Yale 1743) and of Judge Moses Bliss (Yale 1755), was born on October 23, 1817, and entered Yale at the opening of Sophomore year. He studied law, and settled in New York City, at the same time giving much attention to botany and other more general studies. In consequence of severe professional labor, his health failed, and his mind became to some extent disordered. He 272 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES sought relief by a visit to Florida for botanical excursions. In April, 1856, he returned without much benefit, and in a paroxysm of his malady took his own life, in New York City, on May 5, in his 39th year. Nelson Wheeler, originally Lord Nelson Wheeler, son of Paul and Phebe (Hill) Wheeler, of (South) Royalston, Massachusetts, was born on October 24, 1813. His father died in 1826. After graduation he taught in the New Haven Hopkins Grammar School, and in Townshend, Vermont; and then spent some time in the study of Hebrew in the Newton Theological Seminary, though not expecting to enter the ministry. On April 24, 1839, he married Rebecca, daughter of the Hon. Rufus and Sally (Davis) Bullock, of Royalston, and sister of Alexander Hamilton Bullock, afterwards Governor of the State. For the following year he taught in Plainfield, New Jer- sey, and then became Principal of the Worcester (Massa- chusetts) Manual Labor High School, which was main- tained by the Baptist denomination. By excessive labor in superintending this institution he contracted the pulmonary disease which finally ended his life. In 1847 ^6 was made Principal of the Worcester High School, and so continued until appointed in 1853 Professor of Greek in Brown University. He accepted this position, but in 1854 was attacked with hemorrhage of the lungs. After a brief trip to the South, he returned to his birthplace to await the end, and there died on August 25, 1855, in his 42d year. His wife survived him with two sons, another having died in infancy. The youngest son was a member of the Class of 1872 in Yale, but was graduated at Brown University. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1836 273 Lucius Harrison Woodruff, elder son of James and Lucretia (Catlin) Woodruff, of Litchfield, Connecticut, was born on November 30, 181 3, but spent his childhood and youth in Greensboro, Georgia. He entered Yale in 1829, but retired at the end of Sophomore year, by reason of delicate health. He joined the Class of 1835 in their Sopho- more year, but was again obliged to leave, and return a year later to this Class. For two years after graduation he studied in the Yale Divinity School, but was then obliged by ill-health to with- draw. After brief experience in teaching elsewhere, he became in 1841 an instructor in the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, in Hartford, where he remained for ten years. He died in Hartford on May 20, 1852, aged 38^/2 years. He married, on March 2^, 1844, Julia Maria Southmayd, of Middletown, who survived him, and next married Samuel S. Ward, of Hartford. She died in October, 1894, in her 85th year. James McAlpin Wray was born in New Orleans, on November i, 1817. He entered the Law School of Harvard University in June, 1837, and remained for one year. He became a lawyer in New Orleans, and died there on April 8, 1850, in his 33d year. Henry Wright, son of Dr. Asahel Wright (Williams Coll. 1803) and Frances (Bascom) Wright, of Chester, Massachusetts, was born on August 7, 1811. His father died in 1830. Shortly after graduation he took charge of the Depart- ment of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in East Tennessee College, at Knoxville, but left there in 1839- iS 274 BIOGRAPHICAL .NOTICES He then studied law, and began practice in Iowa City, Iowa, but soon became insane. After a few months he recovered his reason, and removed to Lexington, Henderson County, Tennessee, where he was successful in his profes- sion. From 1854 he acted as Deputy for the County Clerk, and in signing the Clerk's name omitted sometimes to add his own name as Deputy. He was arrested on a (ground- less) charge of forgery, and his insanity returned. Before his case came up in the court, he died in the Insane Asylum in Nashville, on June 13, 1859, i" his 48th year. CLASS OF 1837 Joseph Conkling Albertson was born in Southold, Long Island, on February 16, 1817. He studied law in New York City, and began practice there in 1840. In 1845 he was one of the Assistant Alder- men of the city, and in 1846 a Representative in the State Legislature. In 1847 he became a Justice in one of the Ward Courts, but was superseded under the new Constitu- tion, which went into operation in that year. For the next two years he was engaged in farming in Southold. In 1850 he resumed practice in New York, and continued there until the winter of 1853-54, when he went to San Francisco, to pursue the law. He died in a hospital in that city, the victim of intemperance, on December 8, 1858, in his 42d year. He married in 1846, but survived his wife; his only child died in infancy. William Barlow Baldwin, son of William and Ann (Perrin) Baldwin, of New Haven, and a brother of Michael Baldwin (Yale 1833), was born on October 5, 1817. For two years after graduation he was a tutor in a family near Natchez, Mississippi. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 837 275 He then entered the Princeton Theological Seminary, and as soon as he obtained a license to preach he returned to Mississippi, and for six months supplied the Presbyterian Church in Pine Ridge, seven miles northeast of Natchez. His voice then failed him, and by the advice of friends he abandoned the hope of pursuing the ministry, and attended two courses of medical lectures in New Orleans, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1844. He settled on a plantation in Woodville, about thirty miles south of Natchez, where he was eminently successful in his profession and universally esteemed. During the prevalence of an epidemic of yellow fever, he overtaxed himself, and his death followed in consequence, in Woodville, on November 15, 1853, in his 37th year. He was never married. Thomas Allen Barnard, son of Captain Frederic and Margaret (Allen) Barnard, of Nantucket, Massachusetts, was born on October 15, 1816. His parents removed to Poughkeepsie, New York, in his infancy. Three brothers were graduated here, in 1841, 1847, and 1848, respectively. He studied law in Poughkeepsie, where he was admitted to the bar in 1839. In October, 1840, he removed to Macon, Georgia, where he practiced his profession until his death, on August 17, 1842, in his 26th year. He was never married. JoAB Brace, Junior, the second son of the Rev. Joab Brace (Yale 1804), of Newington, then a parish in Weth- ersfield, Connecticut, was born on Tune 16, 1814. He was very feeble from infancy, on account of enlargement of the spleen, and also suffered from lameness induced by paralysis. After graduation he resided in the family of his brother- in-law, the Rev. John Todd (Yale 1822). in Philadelphia until 1841, and later in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Meantime he occupied himself in teaching a small select school, in 276 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES various editorial and other literary labors, and in theological study. He was licensed to preach by the Berkshire Association in the fall of 1844, and soon after was ordained and installed as pastor of the Congregational Church in Lanesboro, the town next north of Pittsfield. In May, 1845, he married Elizabeth J. Watson, of Pittsfield. In July, 1845, he was seized with a severe illness, but recovered sufficiently to ride to Pittsfield, where he was taken ill again, and died, after eight weeks of extreme suffering, on September 22, in his 32d year. Charles Buck, third son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Bel- den) Buck, of Wethersfield and Hartford, Connecticut, and grandson of Colonel Ezekiel Porter Belden (Yale 1775), was born in Hartford on December 26, 1817. After graduation he became a civil engineer, and was employed in various localities, especially in Maine and Ohio. He was then for a short time a broker in New York City, but in 1844 returned to Hartford, where he was employed as an agent of the New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company. In February, 1845, he took a severe cold, which resulted in pulmonary consumption, from which his death followed, in Hartford, on August 28, in his 28th year. He was unmarried. William Gaston Caperton, a son of the Hon. Hugh Caperton, who was a Representative in Congress from 181 3 to 1815, was born in Union, Monroe County, (West) Vir- ginia, on February 14, 181 5, and entered Yale from Ohio University, at Athens, in 1836. A brother was graduated here in 1832. He studied law in Staunton, Virginia, during the year after graduation, and practiced the profession in Monroe YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1837 277 and adjacent counties until the failure of his health in 1844, when he retired to his farm in Monroe County. He died very suddenly at his home, from disease of the heart, on June 17, 1852, in his 38th year. He married, on June 29, 1843, Harriet B. Alexander, of Monroe County, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. She survived him with two sons and two daughters. Philip Allen Davenport was born in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York, on November 23, 181 7. After graduation he studied medicine in the office of Dr. Alexander H. Stevens ( V^ale 1807), of New York, and received the degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1841. He was then connected for a year with the hospital service in the city. In 1842 he began practice in New Rochelle, but the severe climate led him in the fall of 1844 to seek a warmer latitude for his delicate lungs. After a winter in Georgia and Florida, he settled in 1845 in Columbia, about fifty miles west of Galveston, Texas, where he followed his profession for some years. He there married Catharine Helen Sayre, of Sag Harbor, Long Island, who was visiting an uncle in Columbia. Later, he gave up practice and bought a large tract of land near Columbia, where he devoted himself chiefly, and with success, to raising cattle and to agricultural pursuits. In the winter of 1856-57 his health broke down, and in the following spring he came North to recruit. He reached New Rochelle, exhausted by disease and the fatigue of the journey, and died there, on June 2, in his 40th year. His children were two sons and a daughter. William Smith Deming, the only son of William and Sarah (Smith) Deming, of Newington Parish, in Wethers- field, Connecticut, was born on November 27, 1814. 27S BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He taught after graduation in Prospect Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia. He returned to his native place in feeble health in August, 1839, and died there on September 14, in his 25th year. He was unmarried. William Pierce Eaton, son of Joseph and Margaret (Wright) Eaton, was born in Plainfield, Connecticut, on April 23, 181 7. His mother was a native of the island of St. Christopher, in the British West Indies. He taught in Lebanon for about two years (1838-40). In April, 1843, he entered the Law School of Harvard University, Avhere he received the degree of LL.B. in 1844. In 1845 he married Sarah F. Brazer, of Groton, Massa- chusetts, and began practice in Greensboro, Alabama; but after two years he abandoned his profession, to resume teaching, in which he was highly successful. In 185 1 he removed to Harrison County, Texas, where he continued teaching until 1854, when he returned to the North, to be nearer his aged father. He was the Principal of the Union School in Lockport, New York, from the fall of 1854 to his death there, from bilious pneumonia, on March 17, 1857, in his 40th year. He was buried in his native town. His wife survived him, with one son. John Gould Hull, son of Dr. Nimrod and Amy (Lewis) Hull, of that part of Waterbury now included in Naugatuck, Connecticut, was born on March 16, 1814. His father died in 1824. His College course was much interrupted by ill health. After graduation he engaged in teaching and in the study of medicine in \\'oodbury. In 1839 he began the study of theology in the Protestant Episcopal Seminary in Alex- andria, Virginia, and on July 5, 1840, he was admitted to YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 837 279 Deacon's orders by Bishop Brownell, in Glastonbury. Connecticut. His feeble health interfered, however, with his plans. After a winter spent in the West Indies, he officiated in sev- eral places in Virginia, but was soon compelled to return to Naugatuck, where he died on March i, 1844, at the age of 30. Addison Lyman Hunt, son of William and Lora (Wright) Hunt, of Columbia, Connecticut, was born on March 18, 1813. He taught for some time on Long Island, and afterwards became a dentist in Alabama, where he died in Cambridge, Dallas County, on August 8, 1845, in his 33d year. Robert Underwood Hyatt, a native of Washington, District of Columbia, was a member of the Class from the beginning of Sophomore year to the end of the first term of Senior year, and was admitted to a degree in 1839. After studying law for a year with Richard S. Coxe, of Washington, he entered the Law School of Harvard Uni- versity in November, 1838, and graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1840. He began practice in Washington, but soon removed to St. Francisville, Louisiana, where he died on November i. 1843, from yellow fever, contracted from watching with a friend, at the age of 25. George Beale Morse was born in 1809 or 1810. and entered College from Oxford, Connecticut. He studied law, and engaged in practice in Columbus, Mississippi. He went to California after the discovery of gold, and thence to Australia, where he also engaged in mining. He finally settled in Chicago, and died in 1883. 28o BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Christopher Musgrave was born in Antigua, West Indies, on January 8, iSi8. His family resided in New Haven during his College course. He remained in New Haven for a year after graduation and then went to England, with the purpose of studying law in London. Nothing more is known of him. John Augustus Noyes was born in Modena. a village in Plattekill, Ulster County, New York, on August 9. 1817. A brother was graduated here in 1840. He studied law, and began practice in his native town in 1840, uniting the pursuit of agriculture with his profes- sion, until his death there on January 10, 1843, in his 26th year. CoDDiNGTON BiLLiNGS Palmer, third son of Denison and Hannah (Slack) Palmer, of Stonington, Connecticut, was born on February 8, 1810. After graduation he taught in an Academy in Southold, Long Island. He married, in February, 1839, and removed during the ensuing summer to Belvidere, New Jersey, where he studied law with Mr. Southard. He was admitted to the bar in 1841, and for a few years practiced in Jersey City. In 1844 he removed to New York City, where he was partly employed in work for the Anti- Slavery Society, his sympathies having long been deeply enlisted for that movement. Not succeeding in his profes- sion as he hoped, and his wife's health suffering in the city, he went in 1847 to Oyster Bay, Long Island, where he taught in the Academy. In 1850 he went to California, and in 1852 sent word to his family that he was about to return. Nothing was ever heard of him again, except that the death of a Mr. Palmer in April of that year was reported in the California papers. He left a son, his only child. VALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1837 281 Daniel Powers was born in Warren, then called West- ern, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on May 21, 181 5, the son of Chester and Eunice (Haskell) Powers. He taught in Mobile, Alabama, for about two years after graduation, and then spent a year in New Haven in the study of German. In the fall of 1840 he entered on a tutorship' in the College, but was obliged to resign from ill health in the fall of 1842. He spent the following winter in Franklin, Louisiana, and after a summer at the North, resorted to a southern climate for another winter. In the spring of 1844 he began the study of law in Franklin, but was soon attacked with hem- orrhage of the lungs, and returned to end his days among friends. He died in his native place on March 17, 1845, in his 30th year. He was never married. Abel Bellows Robeson, the only son of Colonel Jonas and Susan (Bellows) Robeson, of Fitzwilliam, New Hamp- shire, was born on April 10, 1817. His father died in 1820. and his mother returned to Walpole, her native town. He studied medicine in Columbia, South Carolina, with Dr. Thomas Wells, who had married his half-sister, for one year, and continued his studies in Boston, Woodstock, Vermont, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He then established himself in practice in New York City, and on October 5, 1841, married Susan, third daughter of the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel W. Taylor (Yale 1807), of New Haven. His professional career engrossed him fully, until his death in New Y^ork, after a brief illness, of pulmonary congestion, on March 22, 1853, in his 36th year. He was buried in Walpole. His widow died, of consumption, on March 17, 1856, at her father's house in New Haven, in her 40th year. 2S2 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Their children, three sons and a daughter, survived them. One son was for a time a member of the College Class of 1869. George Schenck, sixth son of Abram H. and Sarah (Wilkie) Schenck, of the village of Matteawan, in Fishkill, Duchess County, New York, was born on January 27, 1816. An accident in childhood left him permanently lame. He studied theology for three years in the Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Brunswick, New- Jersey, and was ordained and installed on December 29, 1840, as pastor of the church in Bedminster, New Jersey. After the call to Bedminster, he had married, on October 20, Sarah A., daughter of John Acker, of New Brunswick. After an acceptable and fruitful service of over eleven years, he was stricken with paralysis in December, 1851, and lingered until July 7, 1852, when he died in his 37th year. His children were two sons and a daughter. His widow next married M. A. Howell, of New Brunswick. He was a most useful minister and able preacher, of indomitable energy. William Henry Sheldon was born in Southampton, Massachusetts, on February 24, 1816. After graduation he taught for a year in Ravenna, Ohio, and then spent three years in the Andover Theological Seminary. The graduation exercises were held on Sep- tember I, 1 84 1, but he died in Southampton on the 7th of the same month, in his 26th year. AzARiAH Smith, Junior, the fourth son of Azariah and Zilpah (Mack) Smith, of Manlius, Onondaga County, New York, was born on February 16, 1817, and entered Yale during the Freshman year. A brother was graduated here in 1844; David Mack (Yale 1823) was a first cousin. He became a Christian in his Sophomore year, and then YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1837 283 resolved to become a foreign missionary. He pursued the study of medicine in the Geneva Medical College in 1837- 39, and spent the summer of 1839 ^" dispensary and hospi- tal practice in Philadelphia. He then spent three years in the Yale Divinity School, besides completing his course in medicine in the Medical School and receiving the degree of M.D. in January, 1840, and attending a course of lectures in the Law School. He was ordained at Manlius by the Presbytery of Onon- daga on August 30, 1842, and sailed from Boston in November as a missionary of the American Board to Western Asia. On account of his medical skill he was for the first three years called almost incessantly from place to place; but in the fall of 1845 he was able to settle more permanently in Erzerum, Armenia. Two years later he was commis- sioned to Aintab, in the vicinity of Aleppo. Early in 1848 his devoted and unremitting labors, which had been crowned with signal success, were interrupted by a brief visit to America, during which he was married, on July 6, to his first cousin, Corinth Sarah, daughter of William and Abigail (Mack) Elder, of Cortland, New- York. He died in Aintab, of lung fever, after two weeks' illness, on June 3, 185 1, in his 35th year. His wife died in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on September 8, 1888, in her 69th year. Their two children died in infancy. Frank [A.] South all, of Enfield, Halifax County, North Carolina, entered Yale from. Princeton College (where he had studied for a year) in 1836. He studied law in Nashville, Tennessee, and began prac- tice there with good prospects. He was soon, however, dis- carded by a lady to whom he was deeply attached, and lost all ambition and self-respect. He became a miserable wanderer, dying in Florida, in July, 1853. at the age of 3;. 2^4 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES William Alexander Sparks was born in Society Hill, South Carolina, on October 4, 181 7, and entered Yale from Columbian College, at Washington, in 1834. He pursued the study of medicine for two years in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, in Charles- ton, and subsequently in Paris. He married, on May 31, 1842, Alicia, youngest daughter of Colonel John and Mary (Burroughs) Middleton, of Charleston and Crowfield. He was appointed Consul at Venice by President Polk in 1845, ^"^ years. Mrs. LeConte married, in April, 1859, the Rev. Dr. Daniel March (Yale 1840), and died in April, 1879. Charles Long, son of Hugh and Mary (McNair) Long, of Hartsville, in Warwick Township, Bucks County, Penn- sylvania, was born on March 11, 1818, in the adjoining township of Warminster, and entered Yale in 1839. For two years after graduation he taught in Reading, and then entered the Yale Divinity School. At the end of his second year, he accepted a tutorship in the College, but served for one year only, resigning in 1847 to become Pro- fessor of Greek and Latin in Delaware College, in Newark, Delaware. In March, 1850, he resigned his professorship to establish "The Tennent School," a boarding-school for boys near Hartsville, in connection with his older brother, the Rev. Mahlon Long (Princeton Coll. 1839). As a teacher he was very successful; but in the fall of 1855 consumptive symp- toms appeared, and his death followed, in Hartsville, on July 15, 1856, in his 39th year. He married, on December 21, 1848, Martha, daughter of Dr. Joseph Chamberlain, of Newark, Delaware, who sur- vived him without children. Charles Collins Parker was born in Philadelphia on August 3, 1823, and entered Yale in 1839. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 842 33 1 For two years after graduation he studied medicine in Philadelphia, and then went abroad to continue his studies in Paris. He received the degree of M.D. from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in April, 1846, and began i)ractice in Philadelphia, with every promise of success. On September 30, 1847, he was married to Anna Coleman, of Philadelphia, the sister of a classmate. In the fall of 1848, during a business trip in the West, he caught a severe cold, and was prostrated on his return with congestion of the lungs. After a few weeks of severe illness, he died on December 29, in his 26th year. He left one daughter. His widow married, some years later, Dr. Peace, of Philadelphia. Jacob Perkins, the fifth son of General Simon and Nancy Ann (Bishop) Perkins, of Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, and a brother of Alfred Perkins (Yale 1833), was born on September i, 1821. He entered Yale with the Class of 1841, and left College on account of ill health at the end of Junior year, returning a year later. His father was an extensive land owner and land agent, and he found abundant occupation in this business, and on his father's death, in November 1844, in the settlement of his estate. He married, on October 24, 1850, Elizabeth Owen, daugh- ter of Dr. Jonathan Ingersoll Tod, of Milton, Mahoning County, and granddaughter of Judge George Tod (Yale 1795)- He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1850-51, and during the remainder of his life was very actively interested in the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad Company, of which he was President from 1853. In the fall of 1856 he removed to Cleveland. In that year he was also one of the Presidential Electors (for Fremont). His wife died of quick consumption on June 4, 1857, in her 26th year, and he was soon prostrated by the same 332 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES disease, which had long been fastened upon him, and was aggravated by his incessant labors. He went South for the next two winters, and died in Havana, Cuba, on January 12, 1859, in his 38th year. His children were two sons and a daughter, of whom only one son (Williams Coll. 1877) survived him. Steuben Rexford, son of John and Ursula (Hitchcock) Rexford, of Barkhamsted, Connecticut, was born on August 2, 1816. He taught in Norfolk, Virginia, for a year or two after graduation, in the meantime also studying law, and thus securing admission to the bar. He then returned to the North, and continued his law studies in the office of his cousin, Benjamin F. Rexford (Union Coll. 1830), in Norwich, Chenango County, New York. After his admission to the bar there, he remained in Norwich for about eighteen months, and then removed to Syracuse, where his success was both rapid and brilliant. He married, on February 28, 1849, Elizabeth Rebecca Cooley, of (West) Granville, Massachusetts. While on a visit with his wife to her former home, he died of typhoid fever, after an illness of about four weeks, on September 19, 1850, in his 35th year. He left no children. William Willshire Robinson, of Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, was born on November 11, 181 8. For two years after graduation he was the Principal of the Academy in Norwich, in his native county; and he then entered the Auburn Theological Seminary, where he com- pleted the three years' course. He was married, on September 16, 1847, to Frances (Fanny), second daughter of Samuel and Fanny (Osborne) Robbins, of Camillus, and sister of Dr. Samuel Robbing (Yale 1846). In the fall of 1847 he spent a few months as a resident licentiate at Andover Theological Seminary, and was then YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 842 333 called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church in Penn Yan, New York, where he was ordained and installed on January 27, 1848. He had already shown himself a preacher of ability, and a man of an unusually kindly and winsome personality, when he died suddenly, from typhoid fever, after a fortnight's illness, on November 14, 1850, at the age of 32. Two. daughters survived him. His widow died in New York City on March 26, 1886, in her 66th year. The younger daughter is the wife of the Rev. Dr. William W. McLane, Ph.D. (Yale 1889). AsHER Miner Stout, son of Dr. Abraham and Anna Maria (Miner) Stout, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was born on September 30, 1822. In January, 1843, he entered the office of Chester Butler, in Wilkesbarre, as a law student, and he was admitted to the Luzerne County bar on August 4, 1845. He immediately began practice in Wilkesbarre, and mar- ried, on January 31, 1849, Ellen C, daughter of the late Cyrus Gildersleeve (Rutgers Coll. 1789) and Frances Caro- line (Wilkinson, Kennedy) Gildersleeve, of Wilkesbarre. He prospered in his business until the failure of his health, from disease of the spine, in 1855. After eighteen months' severe suffering, he partially recovered, but died, from paralysis, at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, on April 24. i860, in his 38th year. He was buried in Bethlehem. His wife survived him, with one daughter and one son (Trinity Coll. 1870). Jared Reid Swift, son of Nathan* and Charity (Reid) Swift, of Colchester, Connecticut, was born on August 5, 1814, and entered Yale in 1839. After graduation he spent upwards of two years in the Yale Divinity School, and then went to Greenup County, Kentucky, to visit an uncle, for the sake of his health. 334 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES After a few months' trial, he decided to make his home in that State, and engaged to teach in Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, and also to preach in that vicinity. He married, on June lo, 1847, Susan M., daughter of John Hansford, of Crab Orchard. Her family being mem- bers of the "Christian" denomination, he was ordained as a minister of that church. In the fall of 1847 he accepted a professorship in the Western Military Institute, at George- town, where he remained for two years. In the meantime he preached statedly in Georgetown and in Lexington. Early in 1850, while on a visit at his wife's father's, he was attacked with pneumonia, which became fixed upon his lungs, causing his death, in Crab Orchard, on May 15, in his 36th year. His only child died in infancy. His widow married again. James Mitchell Thacher, son of Augustus and Eliza- beth Mary Thacher, of Hartford, Connecticut, was born on September 3, 1822, and was named for his maternal grandfather. He taught for several years in Alabama and in Maryland, and then studied medicine in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1849. He then began practice in Philadelphia, but was arrested by failing health in the spring of 1853. He returned to New Haven, and after two months of gradual decline, he died at the house of his uncle, Professor Thomas A. Thacher (Yale 1835), on June 8, in his 31st year. CLASS OF 1843 Samuel Worcester Andrew, the eldest son of the Rev. Samuel Rogers Andrew (Yale 1807), of Woodbury, Con- necticut, was born on June 8, 1822. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1843 335 He Studied law with John Hooker (Yale 1837), of Farmington, and with John C. Hollister (Yale 1840), of New Haven, and in 1847 began practice in New Haven. In the meantime he had been on one or two voyages as a com- mon sailor; and had edited for a few months the New Haven Daily Herald. He married, on January 4, 1848, Fanny Augusta, daugh- ter of General Chauncey and Maria (Bacon) Crafts, of Woodbury. He died in the City Hospital in New York, on December 17, 1849, i" bis 28th year, having been accidentally crushed between two railroad cars. He was buried in New Haven. An only child was graduated here in 1871. His widow married, in February, 1854, William S. Charn- ley, of New Haven, and died in New York City on April 22, 1907, in her 81 st year. Julius Adolphus Baratte was born in St. Mary's, Georgia, on July 9, 1823, and entered Yale during Freshman year. He studied law and began practice in St. Mary's. He was appointed Collector of the Port by President Pierce, and held office until his death, in St. Mary's, on November 2, 1859, in his 37th year. He married Cora Dufour, w^io survived him. with three children. James Perrine Cutler, the eldest son of General Joseph Cutler, of Morristown, New Jersey, was born on October 24, 1823. He studied law in Morristown for two years after gradua- tion, and then entered the Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he completed the course in August, 1848. and was licensed to preach. He had resolved to become a foreign missionary, but had only preached for a few weeks when symptoms of insanity 336 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES appeared, and he was taken to the State Lunatic Asylum in Trenton, where he died on September 25, 1851, in his 28th year. James Bogardus Donnelly, the eldest child of John M. and Jeanette (Bogardus) Donnelly, of Catskill, New York, was born on February 11, 1824. His Freshman year was spent at Williams College. After graduation he entered the General Theological Seminary in New York, but left in 1845 ^"^ completed his studies privately under the care of the Rev, Dr. Samuel Seabury, of New York. In 1847 he removed to North Carolina, where he was admitted to Deacon's orders by Bishop Ives on March 4, 1848. In 1848 he became Rector of St. Matthew's Church, Hills- boro, where he remained, greatly respected, until his death, after a brief illness, on October 31, 1855, in his 32d year. He was never married. Charles Nicolas Cachet, of Lumpkin, Stewart County, Georgia, was born on July 2, 1822, and entered Yale during Sophomore year. He married early, and settled on a plantation in his native county, while pursuing his profession as a lawyer. He was a soldier in the Confederate service, and died in Tullahoma, Tennessee, on April 14, 1863, in his 41st year. James Burnet Gibbs, son of David and Elizabeth (Lock- wood) Gibbs, of Norwalk, Ohio, was born on May 21, 1822. His father removed from Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1815, and died a few months after his son entered Yale. He entered the Yale Divinity School in 1844, and was licensed to preach by the New Haven West Association on August 13, 1845. He remained at the School for another year, during much of which he was watching anxiously at YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1843 337 the bedside of the young lady to whom he was engaged to be married (Tirzah M., daughter of Cyrus Wilhams), who died in New Haven from consumption in August, 1847. He then returned to his home, preached a few times, and settled in Hudson, Ohio, for further theological study, but was prostrated in a few weeks by the development of consumption. In September, 1848, he went South, but not making per- manent improvement, he returned in May, 1849, to his mother's house, where he died on August 3, 1850, in his 29th year. JosiAH ToRREY KiNG, youngcr son of Deacon Joshua and Hannah King, of Abington, Massachusetts, was born on July 21, 1819, and was named for his maternal grandfather. On graduation he entered the Andover Theological Semi- nary, whence he removed a year later to the Yale Divinity School, where he finished the course in 1846. He was licensed to preach in 1846 by the Hartford Central Associa- tion, and went in June, 1847, to Home Missionary work in String Prairie, Greene County, southwestern Illinois. The climate affected his health so unfavorably tbat he was obliged to return to New Haven late in 1848; but in April, 1849, he was able to begin to supply the Congrega- tional Church in East St. Johnsbury, Vermont. In August, 1849, he visited his native town, and was detained by the illness (from dysentery) of his father, who died on September 5. He was then prostrated by the same disease, and died there on October 7, in his 31st year. He was to have been married in a few weeks. Thomas Hudson Moody was born in Morgan County, Georgia, on May 12, 1822. For a while after graduation he was employed as a travel- ing agent for the collection of debts due to his father, who had failed in business. 338 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He is said to have married a Texan lady in 1845, ^^^ to have served through the war with Mexico. He is reported to have fallen in a duel about 1856. Edward Munro, of Elbridge, Onondaga County, New York, was born in 1823. His health was not good during his College life. After graduation he attempted to study for the ministry, but the condition of his health obliged him to abandon this design, and for five years he was mainly occupied in traveling. He then settled in Syracuse; but in the fall of 185 1 his health again gave way, and in search of a more genial climate he went to St. Augustine, Florida, where he died in December, 1851, in his 29th year. He was not married. John Frederick Nourse, son of Captain Stephen and Martha (Prince) Nourse, of Beverly, Massachusetts, was born on November 24, 1820. After graduation he had charge of the Academy in Beverly, until his removal to Boston in 1845 to take charge of the Endicott School. He remained in that school until it was discontinued, when he became the Principal of the Chapman School in East Boston, where he continued until his sudden death, from the effects of overwork and exposure, on January 17, 1854, in his 34th year. He was married, on November 10, 1845, to Annie Thorn- dike, daughter of the Rev. Asa Rand (Dartmouth Coll. 1806) and Clarissa (Thorndike) Rand, of Peterboro, Mad- ison County, New York. Their children were three sons. William Stedman Peck was born in Greensboro, Ala- bama, on December 29, 1822, and was sent North for his education in his 9th year. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 843 339 After graduation he remained at home for a year, and then entered the Union Theological Seminary in New York, but was called home in 1846 by his father's death. On June 25, 1848, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Tuscaloosa and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Livingston, Sumter County. A year later he was attacked with a bronchial trouble, which developed speedily into consumption. In the hope of relief he spent some time at St. Clair Springs, in East Tennessee, but without perma- nent benefit. On the way home, he died without warning in an inn in Rome, Georgia, on September 10, 1849, '" his 27th year. He was not married. John Hunter Robb, son of Charles and Rebecca (Hunter) Robb, of Philadelphia, was born on February 12. 1822. A brother was graduated in 1844. He studied law at home, and was admitted to the bar in 1845, when he began practice. He died in Philadelphia on October 7, 1864, in his 43d year. He married Ellen Jane Mullen, of Philadelphia, by whom he had three daughters and three sons. Samuel Worcester Strong, the youngest son of the Rev. William Lightbourn Strong (Yale 1802), of Somers. Con- necticut, was born on December 14, 182 1, and entered Yale at the opening of the Sophomore year. His father at this date had just retired from the active ministry, and was living in Auburn, New York, whence he removed to Fay- etteville the next year. After graduation he taught in Mil ford. Connecticut, for about six months, and then had charge for over two years of the Academy in Wilkesbarre. Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1846 he entered the Yale Divinity School, where he finished the course in 1849. 34° BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He soon after began preaching to the Fourth (or Olivet) Congregational Church in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was ordained and installed pastor on March 27, 1850. His health had long been feeble, and he was obliged to resign his charge on November 17, 1852, and to his great disappointment to retire definitely from the work of the ministry. After a short period of travel and recreation he went through a brief course of legal study, and was admitted to the bar in Reading, Pennsylvania, where his eldest brother (Yale 1828) was settled, and where he also entered on practice and made rapid progress toward success. A severe cold, attended by typhoid fever, brought his life to an end. in Reading, on April 16, 1856, in his 35th year. He married, on December 7, 1854, Abiah Palmer, young- est daughter of Deacon Harvey and Mary (Palmer) Root, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, who survived him with one daughter. Franklin Taylor was born in Westport, Connecticut, on March 6, 1823, and entered Yale at the opening of the Sophomore year. While in College he united with the College Church, and resolved to devote himself to the min- istry, as a foreign missionary. After graduation he was the Preceptor of an Academy in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and subsequently taught in Milford, Connecticut, but was obliged to stop by the failure of his health. He then undertook to begin his prepa- ration for the ministry, but was soon arrested by what proved his final illness, of brain fever, from which he died in Westport, on November 5, 1844, in his 22d year. He was unmarried. Ira Day Whittelsey, the third son of Jared Potter and Lydia G. (Archer) Whittelsey, was born in Catskill, New York, on September 4, 1822. His father, a native of Wal- YALE COLLEGE, CLASS (JF 1844 34 1 lingford, Connecticut, was a wholesale flour-merchant in New York City, but was residing temporarily in Catskill during the prevalence of yellow fever in New York. In 1832 he returned permanently to Wallingford. He studied law in New York with George VV. Strong (Yale 1803), was admitted to the bar in December, 1846, and at once opened an office there. His health had, how- ever, become impaired, and in January, 1847, on account of consumptive symptoms he went on a voyage to Cuba. Returning in the spring, by way of New Orleans, he took a sudden cold which detained him there for some weeks. He reached his father's house in Wallingford on June 3, and sank gradually until his death, on June 24. 1849, in liis 27th year. CLASS OF 1844 Henry Clay Birdseye, son of Victory and Electa (Beebe) Birdseye, of Pompey, Onondaga County, New York, was born on July 18, 1823. His father, a grandson of the Rev. Nathan Birdseye (Yale 1736), and a graduate of Williams College (1804), was a Member of Congress in 1 81 5-1 7 and 1841-43. He taught for a year in Milford, Connecticut, and then began the study of law with his father. Shortly after, he removed to Albany, where he continued his studies with his brother (Yale 1841). In January, 1847, when four members of his family were prostrated by a malignant fever, he went home to cheer the sick by his ministrations ; but contracted the disease, and died in Albany, a few weeks after his return, on February 18, in his 24th year. Charles William Blixcoe. son of Sampson Blincoc, a lawyer of Leesburg, Loudoun County, \'irginia, and grand- son of Thomas Blincoe, a native of South Wales, was born on February 19, 1824. His mother was Martha, daughter 342 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES of William and Sarah (Edwards) Jones. Both parents died in his infancy, and he entered Yale during the Sophomore year. He began the study of law in the office of F. A. Smith, of Alexandria, and continued it with Richard Maxwell, of Richmond. He was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1846, and began practice in Leesburg; but for some years his time was much absorbed in family affairs. He afterwards resumed practice in Alexandria, but died there, of typhoid fever, in April, 1858, in his 35th year. He was never married. Henry Byne, son of George Byne, of Augusta, Georgia, and grandson of Lewis and Mary (Jordan) Byne, was born on January 8, 1825. His mother, Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Maria (Steptoe) Byne, w^as her husband's first cousin. He entered Yale in 1842. He studied medicine, but inheriting ample means did not pursue his profession. He settled on a large plantation on McBean Creek, about fifteen miles south of Augusta, in Burke County, where he lived quietly. He died from bleedings at the lungs, induced by a fall, probably in 1876. He was never married. James Linton Cunningham, the eldest son of Colonel Joseph Hanna and Emily Louisa (Alford) Cunningham, of Fayetteville, Georgia, about twenty miles south of Atlanta, was born on September 19, 1824. In his childhood the fam- ily removed to Oakbowery, in Chambers County, eastern Alabama. He entered Yale in 1842. He began the study of law in Tuskegee, and about the close of 1845 went to Columbus, Georgia, where he was admitted to the bar and began practice. In June, 1847, he established himself in GriiTfin, about twenty miles southeast of his birthplace, and thence removed YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 844 343 to Mansfield, in northwestern Louisiana, where family friends had settled. Here he opened a school, while still practicing- at the bar. He died in Mansfield, after a week's illness, from yellow fever, on October 2, 1853, at the age of 29. He was unmarried. OswiN Hart Doolittle, the eldest child of Alfred and Lois (Dayton) Doolittle, of Wallingford, Connecticut, was born on December 7, 1818. About 1835 the family removed to North Haven, his mother's ancestral home. His only brother was graduated from the Yale Medical School in 1852. He taught school for a time in North Haven and South- ington, and had begun his preparation for the law, when he was nominated in 1847 ^Y the Democratic party and elected as a Representative in the General Assembly. Two years later he was again elected, and during this session he was prominent in the organization of the State Normal School, of w^hich he was made a Trustee. He was sent a third time to the Legislature in 1850, and subsequently his health was broken by an attack of the measles. In this con- dition he contracted a cold while absent from home on business concerning the Normal School, and he died of lung fever in North Haven, on July 11, 1851, in his 33d year. He was never married. His name is perpetuated in the name of a nephew. Judge O. H. D. Fowler, Ph.B. (Yale 1878). He was about to be admitted to the bar at the time of his death. William Horace Elliot. Junior, the youngest of eight children of William Horace and Mary (Law) Elliot, of New Haven, and a nephew of George A. Elliot (Yale 1813), was born on December 31, 1824. A sister married Dr. John K. Bartlett (Yale 1838). 344 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES On graduation he began the study of law in the Yale Law School, but his course was interrupted by feeble health. He received the degree of LL.B. in August, 1847, and was admitted to the bar in December, when he began practice here. On June 5, 1849, he was married to Sallie Frances, daugh- ter of Nathaniel and Pamela (Anderson) Sawyer, of Cincinnati. His health obliged him to spend a large part of the years 185 1 and 1852 in travel. In October, 1852, he sailed for the West Indies, and on December 8 he died from yellow fever in Santa Cruz, at the age of 28. Two sons died in infancy ; a daughter survived him, who was graduated at Vassar College (1872), and married Dr. Justin Edwards Emerson (Williams Coll. 1865). Mrs. Elliot next married, in April, 1859, Dr. Lebeus C. Chapin (Yale 1852), then a Tutor in Yale, who settled in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1867. She died in 1888, in her 59th year. After Mr. Elliot's death his father provided for the pub- lication of his manuscript genealogy of the Eliot Family (New Haven, 1854). John Henry Felder, the second son of Samuel Felder, and nephew of John M. Felder (Yale 1804) and of Nathan- iel F. Felder (Yale 1822), was born on December 17, 1822, on the plantation four miles below Orangeburg, South Caro- lina, which was occupied by his great-grandfather Felder on his arrival from Switzerland about 1720. His mother was Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Paul Stroman, of Orangeburg He studied law with Judge John W. Glover, and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He then engaged in practice in Orangeburg and Barnwell, but within a few years bought the old family homestead near Orangeburg and became a successful planter. He was elected to the State Legislature for five biennial terms, beginning in 1852. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 844 345 When the Civil War began, he had accunuilated a large property. He was, however, one of the first to volunteer, and was elected First Lieutenant of the Edisto Rifles, com- posed chiefly of residents of his vicinity, which became a part of the First Carolina Regiment and was stationed on Morris Island. After the surrender of Fort Sumter, the State troops were reorganized, and he went to Virginia and attached himself to Colonel Kershaw's regiment and was in the first battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861). A few days later he contracted camp fever, and was taken home, where he died on August 16, in his 39th }ear. He was unmarried. William Hollister Guernsey, the eldest son of Noah and Amanda (Crosby) Guernsey, of Northfield Society, in Litchfield, Connecticut, w^as born on April 28, 181 7. On graduation he began the study of theology in the Seminary in Auburn, New York, where he finished the course in June, 1847. In July, 1846, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Chenango. He was married to Serena P. Burwell. of New Hartford, Connecticut, on April 8, 1847. He took charge (without ordination) in 1847 of the small Congregational Church in Oriskany Falls, in Augusta town- ship, Oneida County, New York; but only remained there for a part of one year. He w^as then prostrated by severe illness, and only recovered sufficiently to preach a few times. In the fall of 1849 he went to Savannah, in the hope of relief from consumptive symptoms; but he died there on April 7, 1850, at the age of 33. His wife survived him with their only child, a son. Mrs Guernsey died of consumption some ten or fifteen years later. Henry Kinney, son of Roswell Kinney. Junior, and Jerusha (Rust) Kinney, of Amenia. Duchess County, New York, was bom on October i, 1816. 346 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He spent the three years after graduation in the Union Theological Seminary of New York. Having been accepted as a missionary by the American Board, he was ordained by the Presbytery of North River in July, 1847, and on September 6 was married to Maria Louisa, second daughter of Silas and Sophia (Brown) Wals- worth, in West Bloomfield, Ontario County. They sailed in October for Hawaii, where he labored efifectively until 1853. Being then exhausted, and especially depressed by the loss of a daughter, he started for home with his family by way of California, where a sister of his wife resided ; but the journey was too much for his strength, and he died in Sonora, on September 24, 1854, at the age of 38. His widow, with one son and one daughter, returned to Hawaii. In August, 1856, she married Benjamin Pitman, a wealthy tea-merchant of Honolulu, and died within the next two years. Joseph Lovell, the fourth in a family of twelve children of Dr, Joseph Lovell (Harvard 1807), Surgeon-General of the United States Army, and grandson of Major James Lovell (Harvard 1776), was born in Washington on June II, 1824. His mother was Margaret Eliza, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Green) Mansfield, of New York. Major-General Mansfield Lovell (U. S. Mil. Acad. 1842) was an elder brother. His parents died in 1836. The first two years of his College course were spent in Williams College. He studied law in Geneva, and in Utica, New York, and was admitted to the bar in New York City in July, 1847. He practiced his profession in New York until 1859, — for the latter part of the time in partnership with the Hon. Lucien B. Chase. On January 18, 1859, he married Louisa Turner, eldest daughter of Governor and General John Anthony Quitman, YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 844 347 of Monmouth, near Natchez, Mississippi, and widow of the Rev. John Franklin Chadbourne, an Episcopal clergyman of Natchez, who died in 1853. He then formed a partnership with William Henry For- man, but the death of his wife's mother, Mrs. Eliza (Turner) Quitman, in July, obli,2:ed him, as the administra- tor of his estate and the guardian of three minor daughters, to remove to the family residence near Natchez, where he continued until his death. When Mississippi seceded from the Union, he joined the Confederate army as Lieutenant on the staff of Brigadier- General Earl VanDorn, and a little later on the staff of his brother, General Mansfield Lovell. at New Orleans. After the surrender of New Orleans, in April, 1862, he rejoined the staff of General VanDorn in northern Mississippi. After the fall of Vicksburg, in July, 1863, he was attached to the command of General Joseph E. Johnston in Georgia, and the end of the war found him in the mountains of North Carolina with a captain's commission. His later years were spent in the endeavor to retrieve the fortunes of the Quitman estate, and in the business of raising cotton. He died, after about a week's illness, of malarial or swamp fever, at his home near Natchez, on November 28, 1869, in his 46th year. His widow died in April, 1884. Their only child, a daughter, survived her parents. William Allen Macy was born in New York City on January 29, 1825, the younger son of Robert J. and Mary Howard (Allen) Macy. His father died in Hudson in September, 1836. While a child he passed some years at a school in France. He spent one year after graduation in the Vale Divinity School, and then went to Hong Kong, to take charge of the Morrison Education Society's School for Chinese youth. 348 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He was subsequently joined there by his mother, and when the school was discontinued in 1849, he returned to America on account of her failing health. In 1850 he resumed theological and classical studies in New Haven, and completed his theological course in 1852. He was licensed to preach by the New Haven West Asso- ciation on July 22, 185 1. His mother's death in October, 1853, removed the only obstacle to his return to China, and on his appointment as a missionary by the American Board, he was ordained in New Haven on January 29, 1854. On November 6 he sailed for Canton, where, and in Shanghai, he prepared himself for his cherished project, of an inland mission in northern China. He was just about leaving for this goal, when he was attacked with smallpox, and died in Shanghai on April 9, 1859, in his 35th year. He was unmarried. By his will he left to the College funds for the estab- lishment of a graduate and an undergraduate scholarship, which bear his name. Samuel Dexter Marsh, son of Foster and Lucy (Thom- son) Marsh, of Ware, Massachusetts, was born on Novem- ber 28, 181 7. A brother was graduated at Yale in 1840. On graduation he entered the Union Theological Semi- nary in New York, where he spent two years, followed by one year in the Yale Divinity School. In the meantime he taught for a while in Fairfield, Connecticut. Having been accepted as a missionary by the American Board, he was married in New Haven, on August 31, 1847, to Mary S., daughter of the late Roger S. Skinner (Yale 1813), and on September 9 was ordained in Ware Village. They sailed on October 28 for the mission among the Zulus in South Africa. He was stationed in Umlazi, Natal, and labored there for nearly six years with cheerful devo- tion. He died at his home in Itafamasi, after a painful YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1844 349 illness of nearly two months, on December ii, 1853, in his 37th year. His widow returned to this country, and subsequently married John W. Fitch, of New Haven. After his death she married the Rev. Dr. Samuel Harris (Bowdoin 1833), Professor in the Yale Divinity School. Mr. Marsh's only child married Edward G. Coy (Yale 1869). John Contee Mullikin, the only son of John Beans and Mary Moylan (Weems) Mullikin, of Mount Oak, in Mitch- ellville. Prince George County, Maryland, was born on Octo- ber 21, 1824, and entered Yale in 1842. A sister married William A. Gunton (Yale 1847). He studied law in Baltimore, and after his admission to the bar in March, 1847, began practice in Upper Marlboro, Prince George County, and practiced with success until his sudden death there, on May 28, 1858, in his 34th year. He was unmarried. He was a man of sterling Christian character, and sincerely respected. Alexander Fisher Olmsted, the third son of Professor Denison Olmsted (Yale 1813), of the University of North Carolina, was born in Chapel Hill on December 20, 1822. His father accepted a professorship at Yale in 1825. On graduation he became an assistant in the University Grammar School in New York City, but the labors and confinement of the position pressed too heavily on his health. In the fall of 1845 he entered the Yale Divinity School, but the trial of a few weeks proved him unequal to this task also. He spent the winter to advantage with a family friend in Maryland, and the following summer on a farm in East Hartford. In the fall of 1846 he was sufficiently restored to under- take the teaching of the natural sciences in the school of the Rev. Robert Bolton, in New Rochelle, New York. 35© BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES After two years' teaching' he ventured to resume his preparation for the ministry, in the Union Theological Semi- nary in New York, but another failure of health brought him home in the spring of 1849. In the ensuing fall he accepted an invitation to become Assistant to the Professor of Chemistry in the University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, where he passed a profitable winter. As one result, he was led to decide on Chemistry as his profession, and spent the next two years in work in the chemical laboratory in New Haven, and in the preparation of a text-book on the Elements of Chemistry, which was published in the summer of 1851, and was very favorably received. He was revising a second edition, when another and more serious break-down of his health occurred. He w^ent again to Maryland, but was obliged to return home unimproved, and died here on May 5, 1853, in his 31st year. He was unmarried. Denison Olmsted, Junior, the fourth son of Professor Denison Olmsted (Yale 1813), was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on February 16, 1824, and entered Yale with his brother, just noticed. On graduation he applied himself zealously to the study of analytical chemistry at Yale. In January, 1846, he was appointed assistant in the State Geological Survey of Ver- mont ; but in March a former pulmonary weakness, aggra- vated perhaps by his care of an older brother (Yale 1845), who had died in January, became more active, and he died, at his father's house in New Haven, of quick consumption, on August 15, aged 22^ years. HoLLis Russell, the second surviving son of Francis and Rhoda (Russell) Russell, was born in Concord, Somerset County, Maine, on July 6, 181 7. In his infancy his father removed to the neighboring town of Moscow ; and his Col- lege residence was in Bingham, in the same vicinity. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 844 35 1 For two years after graduation he taught in a family in Clarksville, Tennessee, and then began his preparation for the ministry in the Princeton Theological Seminary. After six months he removed to the Yale Divinity School, where he remained till the summer of 1848. He married in 1848 Lucy Jane, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Bailey) Hamlin, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, who had been a teacher in Oak Hill Seminary, West Haven, where Mr. Russell had also taught. In October, 1848, he went as a Home Missionary to the Congregational Church in Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Under his leadership the church became Presby- terian in April, 1849. He died in Schoolcraft, after less than a week's illness, from dysentery, on August 14, 1850, at the age of 33. His wife survived him, without children. Augustus Sammis, second son of John S. and Nancy W. (Seymour) Sammis, of Nor walk, Connecticut, was born on July 21, 1822. He studied medicine with John A. McLean, M.D. (Yale 1822), of Norwalk, and attended one course of lectures (1846-47) in the Yale Medical School. He began practice in Norwalk, but soon removed to Lisle, Broome County, New York. This location proved unsatisfactory, and he returned to Norwalk, where he was comparatively successful. He died, of typhoid fever, in Norwalk, on July 29, 1855, at the age of 33. He married Mary A., daughter of Daniel Starr Bartram, of Norwalk, who survived him, with one son and two daughters. James Austin Sheldon, son of James Sheldon, of Rupert, Vermont, and grandson of Deacon David Sheldon, from Suffield, Connecticut, was born on October 4, 1822. 352 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES His mother was Abigail, daughter of Deacon Roswell Flower, of Rupert. After teaching in Louisville, Kentucky, and in Rupert, he studied law in Salem, New York, and with the Hon. Solo- mon Foot (Middlebury Coll. 1826), of Rutland; and then practiced in Rutland for a year after his admission to the bar. He married, in 1850, Mary, daughter of Judge Benjamin F. Langdon (Union Coll. 1818), of Castleton. In 185 1 he went to California, and engaged in gold-min- ing, but returned to Rupert in 1859 or i860, broken in health and spirits. In October, 1861, he entered the army as Captain in the First Vermont Cavalry, but was obliged to resign on account of rheumatism, in March, 1862. He was then laid aside from all occupations for about two years. He taught the village school in Rupert in 1865-66, serving at the same time as Superintendent of Schools. In 1867 he bought an interest in a general store in Rupert, which he conducted until compelled to sell out by the state of his health, a short time before his death. He died in Rupert, from Bright's disease, on June 19, 1877, in his 55th year. His wife survived him without children. William Smith, son of Lewis Smith, of Spafiford, Onon- daga County, New York, and grandson of Job and Eliza- beth (Keeler) Smith, natives of Norwalk, Connecticut, was born on August 31, 1819. His mother was Chloe, daughter of Elkanah and Deborah (Wheelock) Benson, of Marcellus. A brother was graduated here in 1849. He taught for two years in Baltimore, at the same time studying law, and then began practice in Weston, Platte County, Missouri. In January, 1849, he set out for Califor- nia, reaching San Francisco in July. After spending a short time in the mines, he engaged in business in Sacramento, YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 844 353 but died there, of cholera, after a few hours' illness, on November 6, 1850, in his 32d year. James Ellison VanBokkelen entered Yale from New- bern, North Carolina, in 1842. He was the son of Adrian H. VanBokkelen, and was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 18, 1825. After a course of study in the General Theological Semi- nary in New York (1844-47) he was admitted to Deacon's orders in the Episcopal Church by Bishop Whittingham, of Maryland, on August i, 1847. He had charge for a short time of Grace Church, Elkridge Landing, in the suburbs of Baltimore, and in September, 1848, went to St. Paul's Church, in St. Louis. He left St. Louis, worn out by attendance on the sick during a visitation of the cholera, and returned to Maryland, to serve as Assistant Minister of St. Timothy's Church, Catonsville. While thus engaged, he died in Baltimore, after a lingering illness of nearly five months, on November 17, 1850, in his 26th year. He married, on August 31, 1848, Mary Grundy. William Minor Williams, son of Ebenezer T. Wil- liams, a native of Williamstown, Massachusetts, who settled near Appling, in Columbia County, Georgia, was born on December 8, 1824. His mother was Susan, daughter of William Jones, of Columbia County. He entered Yale in 1 841. After graduation he read law with William T. Gould (Yale 1816), of Augusta, and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced, on account of poor health, which also incapacitated him from engaging in any business. He is reported to have died by his own hand about 1852. He was never married. 354 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES CLASS OF 1845 William Augustus Bigelow was born in Brandon, Rut- land County, Vermont, on March 8, 1825, the only son of Dr. Elijah Avery and Milly (June) Bigelow. He began to teach in New Jersey after graduation; but in consequence of the inroads of consumption he was obliged to retire to the home of a sister in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, where he died on February 13, 1846, in his 2 1 St year. Samuel Sitgreaves Bowman, son of the Rev. Samuel and Susan (Sitgreaves) Bowman, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, on February 19, 1826. In his infancy his father removed to Lancaster. Many years later he became Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania. He began the study of law with the Hon. William M. Meredith (Univ. Penns. 1812), of Philadelphia, but his health failed rapidly, and he died at his home in Lancaster, on May 16, 1846, in his 21st year. JosiAH Bissell Crowell, son of David and Rebecca Crowell, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, was born on Octo- ber 26, 1823. He had made his plans for the study of law in the office of Cortlandt Parker (Rutgers Coll. 1836), of Newark, but died at his home, from bilious fever, on September 18, just four weeks after graduation, in his 22d year. Isaac LaFayette Cushman, the only son of Dr. Isaac and Harriet Keziah (Garrett) Cushman, of BurHngton, Otsego County, New York, was born on March 17, 1823. In 1835 his father retired from professional practice, and removed to Sherburne, Chenango County. After graduation he remained at home, studying medi- cine as a recreation, while debarred by consumptive symp- toms from much exertion. During 1848 and a part of YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 845 - 355 1849 he was Principal of the academies in Sherburne and New Berlin. In 1849 he was persuaded to accept a Demo- cratic nomination as Representative in the State Leg-islature, and was elected by a large majority, but the sudden death of his father, in March, 1850, obliged him to resign shortly before the close of the session. While settling his father's estate he embarked with a friend in the drug business, but lost his entire investment by fire the ensuing summer. From this time his health failed rapidly. In the fall of 1854 he left home for a more genial climate, spending the winter in St. Louis, and going thence to Quincy, Illinois, where he made improvement and was able to undertake some employment. In the spring of 1857 he decided to return home, in view of his declining condition; but he was unable to rally, and died in Quincy on June 12, in his 35th year. He was unmarried. James Gardner Gould, the eldest son of William Tracy Gould (Yale 1816), of Augusta, Georgia, was born in the suburbs of Augusta on August 14, 1825, and was named for his maternal grandfather. He delivered the Valedic- tory Oration at graduation. He studied law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1847. In May, 1848, he became Tutor at Yale, and in the summer of 1849 entered on the practice of his profession in Augusta with brilliant prospects. He married, on November 25, 1852, Harriet Glascock, daughter of Thomas Bartlett, of Augusta. . On September 13, 1854, yellow fever appeared in Augusta, and in Mr. Gould's immediate neighborhood. Three days later he took his family to Marietta, in Cobb County; but on the i8th he was stricken with the fever, and he died on the 21st, in his 30th year. His wife survived him, with one daughter. 356 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES William Riddle Harper, the eldest son of John and Jane (Harkness) Harper, of Kortright, Delaware County, New York, was born on August 26, 1819. In his infancy his father removed to the adjoining town of Harpersfield. He entered the Sophomore Class in 1842. He taught for a year in Washington, District of Colum- bia, and for two years in Delhi, in his native county. In the spring of 1848 he was appointed Principal of the Academy in Rhinebeck, Duchess County. He married, on April 26, 1848, Mary Jane, second daugh- ter of Benjamin Mead and Hannah Priscilla (Dennis) St. John, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. In the spring of 185 1 he left Rhinebeck, to open a classical school in Newburgh. His constitution, never rugged, was overstrained by his efforts in behalf of this new enterprise; and his death from pulmonary disease fol- lowed, on June 7, 1855, in his 36th year. His children, a son and a daughter, survived him. His widow next married James Troope, and died in Brooklyn, New York, on February 7, 1873, in her 48th year. Thomas Kennedy was born in Ireland on August 19, 1822, and was brought to Baltimore with his family in 1833. Three or four years later he came under Protestant influences, and while a clerk in Philadelphia his attention was turned to the ministry. On graduation he entered the Andover Theological Semi- nary, where he remained for three years. During the fol- lowing winter he preached as he had opportunity, and in the spring of 1849 he engaged to supply a pulpit on the eastern shore of Virginia. On his way thither, about the first of July, he was overtaken by disease in Baltimore, and after nine weeks' illness from dysentery, he died in that city on September 8, in his 28th year. I YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1845 357 John Howard Olmsted, the second son of Professor Denison Olmsted (Yale 1813), was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on September 8, 1820. His father accepted a professorship at Yale in 1825. He entered College in 1836, but showed signs of pulmonary trouble during the Freshman year, and withdrew at its close. He then attempted to engage in business, but was repeatedly interrupted by the condition of his health. Finally, he entered the Junior Class in College in the fall of 1843, and was able to complete the course. In the October after graduation he went South for the winter, and in his search of improvement finally reached Jacksonville, Florida, on January 2, 1846. He died there on the 17th, in his 26th year. His body was brought to New Haven for burial. Timothy Dwight Sprague, a nephew of the Rev. Dr. William B. Sprague (Yale 1815), was born in Andover. Connecticut, on January 26, 1819. His literary tastes were prominently displayed, and his writings gave promise of successful authorship. He taught for a year in Brockport, New York, and then went to Albany, where his uncle encouraged him to under- take a new periodical. In July, 1847, the first number of a monthly, called the American Literary Magazine, was issued under his editorship; and it appeared with regu- larity until August, 1849. The venture did credit to the editor's taste and skill, but was too much for his strength. He died, after a brief illness, at his father's house in Andover, on October 8, 1849, i" ^^'^ 3Tst year. David Blair Watkinson, son of Edward and Lavinia (Hudson) Watkinson, of Hartford, Connecticut, was born on October 11, 1825. He spent the first two years of his course in Trinity College. A sister married the Rev. Horace Hooker (Yale 1815). 358 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES During the winter after graduation he taught in Rock- ville, but about the middle of March he returned home quite ill. After a gradual failure, he died from a paralytic stroke on May 14, in his 21st year. Ira Benjamin Wheeler, son of Ira Benjamin and Han- nah Wheeler, of New York City, was born on May 4, 1826. After graduation he became a bookkeeper in the dry- goods house of Vail & Kensett, of New York City; and in February, 1846, he was made a member of the new firm of Kensett & Wheeler. He married, on October 6, 1847, Kitty Ann, daughter of Edwin S. and Rachel T. (Price) Belknap, of New York. In 1849 he retired from the dry-goods business, and engaged in that of hermetically sealed provisions, oysters, fruit, etc., under the firm-name of Thomas Kensett & Co. ; but the business was soon transferred to Baltimore, and in the fall of 1852 he removed thither with his family. In the fall of 1855 he was suddenly attacked with pul- monary consumption. He went South in February, 1857, but after March the disease developed rapidly, and he returned home in June without hope of recovery. He died on November 17, 1857, aged 3i>4 years. His wife survived him, with two sons and two daugh- ters, — two other children having died in infancy. George Terry Wright, the eldest son of Isaac and Sally (Terry) Wright, of Hartford, Connecticut, was born in Enfield, his mother's former residence, on January 15, 1825. He entered Yale at the opening of Junior year. His health, while in College, was not good, and did not allow of his preparing to study a profession. After a few months he took a trip South, where he taught for a time in St. Simon's Island, Georgia. He returned in the sum- mer of 1847; but went again to South Carolina in the fall, and took a position as private tutor. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1S46 359 He finally returned to Hartford, and occupied himself in teaching until his sudden death, from inflammation of the bowels, on October 20, 1852, in his 28th year. He was unmarried. CLASS OF 1846 Charles Goldthwaite Adams, son of Dr. Charles Goldthwaite Adams (Dartmouth Coll. 18 10) and Mary Ann (King) Adams, of Keene, New Hampshire, was born on May 9, 1827. He studied medicine with his father, and after two courses of lectures in Boston, received the degree of M.D. from Harvard University in 1849. He then served for six months as house-surgeon in the Massachusetts General Hospital, after which he was associated with his father in practice, until March, 185 1, when he settled in Paterson, New Jersey. He was rapidly gaining practice, when he took a severe cold in the last week of July, 1852, resulting in fever, with typhoid symptoms, from which he died on September 11, in his 26th year. He was to have been married in September. Frederick Peter Bellinger, son of Colonel Frederick P. and Marie B. (Weber) Bellinger, of Herkimer, New York, was born on January 22, 1826. A brother was graduated in 1841. He began the study of law in the office of Cagger & Hill, in Albany, but a slight hemorrhage of the lungs soon made it prudent for him to return home, where he con- tinued his studies with Judge Ezra Graves, until his health failed in the spring of 1849. He died in Herkimer, of pulmonary consumption, on October 30, 1849, in his 24th year. James Jonathan Coit, the only child of Dr. James Coit, was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, on March 26, 1827. 360 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES His father was a native of New London, Connecticut, as was his mother, Frances, daughter of Pardon Taber. John C. Coit (Yale 1818), David G. Coit (Yale 1819), Thomas W. Coit (Yale 1821), and Gurdon S. Coit (Yale 1828), were his first cousins. He entered College in 1843, with his residence in New London ; but by the Senior year his father had settled in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He studied medicine with his father in Baton Rouge, and began practice there, but died early. He had for years been subject to dizziness, and while crossing a stream near his home, fell from his horse from this cause, and was drowned. Calvin Morgan Fackler, the eldest son of John J. and Elizabeth (Turner) Fackler, of Huntsville, Alabama, was born on November 14, 1826, and entered Yale at the open- ing of Junior year from East Tennessee Uni\ersity, at Knoxville. He studied law at home after graduation, but eventually entered on a mercantile life as a member of the firm of Bradley, Wilson & Co., in Memphis, Tennessee. When the Civil War broke out, a diseased bone near the ankle, the result of a severe attack of typhoid fever some years before, unfitted him for active service; but he joined General Pillow's Division of the Confederate Army of Tennessee as commissary, with the rank of Major. The hardships incident to this period aggravated his disease, and left him a prey to hereditary paralysis, which caused his sudden death, while temporarily in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 24, 1865, in his 39th year. He married, in Memphis, on January 12, 1853, Anna, daughter of John and Mary S. Kirk, by whom he had five sons, two of whom died in infancy. Thomas Isaac Franklin, son of Henry and Mary (Purnell) Franklin, of Berlin, Worcester Cotmty, Mary- YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1846 36 1 land, was born on October lo, 1827, and entered Yale in 1843. A brother was graduated in 1849. He studied law, and was just beginning practice in Berlin, when he died there, on September 18, 1848, in his 21st year. William Walter Horton, son of Rodah and Lucy A. (Otey) Horton, was born near Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, on August 7, 1825. He studied law, but practiced for only a short time, retiring to take charge of a plantation which he owned in Marengo County. He married Vannie VanDyke in 1853. He served in the army of the Confederacy during the Civil War, being on the staff of General John T. Morgan. A virulent fever contracted in the malarious swamps caused his death, in Marengo County, in June, 1865, in his 40th year. Isaac Nelson Keas was born on July 29, 1827, and entered Yale from Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1845. He had previously been a student in Bacon Col- lege, Georgetown, Kentucky. He is reported as having died of consumption about 1851. Stephen Duncan Linton was born in Natchez, Mis- sissippi, on July 24, 1826, the son of one of the largest cotton-planters in the State. He was successfully engaged in cotton-planting, and spent much of his time in New Orleans, until the outbreak of the Civil War, in which he lost all his property. He went subsequently to Paris, and after an interval of great physical and mental prostration died there on Decem- ber 15, 1867, in his 42d year. His wife survived him. William Minor, son of Truman and Eunice (Peet) Minor, of Peekskill, New York, was born on January 24, 1827, and entered Yale during the Sophomore year. 362 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He Studied law for three years in Honesdale, Pennsyl- vania, was admitted to the bar, and on October 8, 1850, married Frances J. Clinton, of Peekskill. About this time his health began to fail, and for about three years he suffered acutely from spinal disease. He died in Peekskill on December 28, 1853, in his 27th year. His wife survived him, without children. David Humphrey Mulford was born in Steuben, Oneida County, New York, on August 3, 1823. During the last term of his College course he engaged in the iron business, and he afterwards devoted most of his time to it. He died on January 6, or July 6, 1890, in his 67th year. George Washington Thomas Perkins, of Chestertown, Maryland, was born on March 29, 1824, and entered Yale during the Freshman year. He became a farmer in his native place, and was married and had a family. After suffering for some time with disease of the heart, he died suddenly in Chestertown, on December 3, 1885, in his 62d year. Chester Newell Righter, the fifth son of John and Lockey (Stiles) Righter, of Parsippany, New Jersey, was born on September 25, 1824. After a year spent in his father's business, he entered the Yale Divinity School, where he completed the three years' course, being licensed to preach on August 7, 1849, by the Middlesex (Connecticut) Association. He preached in various places with success, and in 1852 spent some time in the Andover Theological Seminary as a resident licentiate. His eyes failing, he set out for Europe and the Orient in the spring of 1853, and returned a year later, much improved. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 846 363 Being urged to undertake the agency of the American Bible Society in the Turkish Empire, he accepted the call, and was ordained as an Evangelist by the Presbytery of Newark on September 22, 1854. He reached Constanti- nople in December, and labored at the seat of war, and later in Egypt, Palestine, and Eastern Turkey, with success, until his death, after a few days' illness, in Diarbekir, Kurdistan, at the house of one of the missionaries of the American Board, on December 16, 1856, in his 33d year. He was unmarried. James Giles Rowland, son of Charles and Betsey (Giles) Rowland, was born in Troy, New York, on Sep- tember 21, 181 5. He had learned the trade of a cabinet- maker, before winning an education. On graduation he began teaching in Wilton, Connecticut, and remained there until the spring of 1849. He next taught for one term in South Norwalk, and then in Fairfield until early in 1850. On April 2, 1850, he married Elizabeth, second daughter of Dr. David Willard, of Wilton, and sister of a classmate ; and in the following month he opened a family boarding- school for boys in W^ilton, which he continued successfully until his death there, from pulmonary disease, on August 20, 1853, in his 38th year. His widow married, in October, 1864, Lewis J. Curtiss, of Norwalk. JosiAH Savage, the eldest child of Edward and Harriet (White) Savage, of that part of Middletown, Connecticut, which is now Cromwell, was born on October 5, 1824. He began the study of law in the Yale Law School, and continued it in New York City, where he was admitted to the ba*- in the spring of 1848. In January, 1849, he sailed for San Francisco, intending to follow his profession there. He visited the mines in the northern part of California, but the exposure and fatigue 364 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES were too severe for his delicate frame, and he died from fever on November i, 1849, ^t the age of 25. He was buried on the banks of Trinity River. RuFus Smith^ the elder son of Dr. Rufus and Clarissa (Huntington, Bottom) Smith, of Griswold, Connecticut, was born on September 17, 1821. His father afterwards abandoned his profession as a physician, and in 1838 was settled as pastor of the Congregational Church in East Hampton Society, in Chatham. He taught for about a year after graduation in Powelton, Hancock County, Georgia; and about the ist of September, 1847, left there on his way to Galveston, Texas, to take another school. At New Orleans the vessel in which he was to take passage was delayed ; he contracted yellow fever, and died there on October 14, in his 27th year. Albert Everett Stetson, son of Caleb and Susanna (Hunt) Stetson, of Braintree, Massachusetts, was born on May 2, 1826. The family soon removed to Boston. He studied medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and received the degree of M.D. in 1849. He then began prac- tice in South Scituate, now Norwell, and represented that town in the Legislature in 1855. Finding country practice too fatiguing, he removed a little later to Dorchester, on the borders of Milton, where he died, of typhoid fever, on July 5, 1857, in his 32d year. He married, in 1852, a daughter of Henry J. Holbrook, of Braintree, by whom he had a son and a daughter. Joseph Stiles, the eldest son of Benjamin Edward and Mary Ann (Mackey) Stiles, of Savannah, Georgia, and nephew of the Rev. Dr. Joseph C. Stiles (Yale 1814), was born on January 14, 1826, and entered College in 1844. He returned home after graduation, and was preparing to undertake manufacturing in Georgia, when he died, on August 17, 1 85 1, in his 26th year. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 847 365 Lorenzo Wesson, son of Abner and Sarah (Hall) Wesson, was born in Brunswick County, Virginia, on April 3, 1822, and entered Yale in 1841 from Chillicothe, Ohio. He remained with the Class of 1845 ""til June of Senior year, when he took a dismission. He joined the next Class in January, 1846. He remained for many years in Chillicothe, and during part of the time was county surveyor. He married Wilhelmina Mollenkopf, of Chillicothe, on April 23, 1868, and removed to California in 1886. He died in Los Angeles, on January 26, 1898, in his 76th year. His widow is still living, with three of their six children. CLASS OF 1847 Samuel Perkins Allison was born on September 28, 1827, and entered Yale in 1844 from Williamson County, Tennessee. At graduation his residence was in Nashville, and there he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1849. He practiced his profession in Nashville, but died at the house of his uncle, Thomas F. Perkins, in Williamson County, on April i, 1858, in his 31st year. He was buried in Nashville. He was a Democrat in politics, and the unsuccessful opponent of the Hon. Felix K. Zollicoffer in one candidacy for Congress. Benjamin Wisner Bacon, the eldest child of the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon (Yale 1820), of New Haven, was born on November 25, 1827. At the time of graduation he was already the victim of consumption; and he died in New Haven on January 8, 1848, in his 22d year. This was the first death in the Class. 366 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Anthony Wayne Baker, son of Joshua and Fanny (Stelle) Baker, of Franklin, Saint Mary County, Louisiana, was born on May 5, 1826, and entered Yale shortly after the opening of Freshman year. On graduation he entered the New Orleans Law School, and later settled on a plantation in his native county. He married, in May, 185 1, Emma M. Fuzileer, of the same vicinity, and was elected to the State Legislature in 1852. He died of yellow fever, in Attakapas, St. Mary County, on October 20, 1854, in his 29th year. His wife survived him with their children, a son and a daughter. Roger Sherman Baldwin, Junior, son of the Hon. Roger Sherman Baldwin (Yale 181 1), of New Haven, was born on July 4, 1826, and entered College in 1844. He studied law in the Yale Law School, in Hartford with his uncle, Thomas C. Perkins (Yale 1818), and finally for a few months in the office of the Hon. J. Prescott Hall (Yale 18 1 7), of New York City. He was admitted to the bar in Washington (his father being then in the United States Senate) early in 1849; and in the spring of that year he went to California, where he opened an office in San Francisco and accepted, tempo- rarily, a clerkship in the custom-house. In one of the great fires that occurred soon afterwards, his valuable library was destroyed, and he then joined Eastern friends in the mining region, near Folsom. In the fall of 1856 he was thrown from his horse, and his head struck a stone. The shock caused brain fever, from which he died, at Baker's Ranch, on November 11, in his 31st year. He was unmarried. John Cotton, of Pomfret, Connecticut, was born on February 19, 1826, the younger son of Joseph and Nabby YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1847 367 (Storrs) Cotton, and grandson of Deacon Simon and Eliza- beth (Davison) Cotton, of Pomfret. On graduation he began to teach school in Tolland, at the same time studying medicine. He died there, of typhus fever, on January 9, 1848, in his 22d year. Simeon Allen Craig was born in New Liberty, Ken- tucky, about forty miles south of Cincinnati, on September I, 1824. He studied law with Judge James Prior, in Carrollton, and was admitted to the bar, but did not engage in practice. He became a teacher, and taught in various places in the South until i860, when he returned to his early home. He did not take part in the Civil War. He continued teaching after the war, particularly in Car- rollton and Madison, until his health failed. He died in New Liberty on October 18, 1879, in his 56th year. He married Eliza Spangler, of New Liberty, who died on April 28, 1887, leaving two sons and three daughters. George Washington Cumings was born in Lexington, Virginia, probably on January 7, 1827. His father was a native of York, Pennsylvania, and his mother was Miss Shields, of Virginia. He had been graduated at Washington College, now Washington and Lee University in Lexington, in 1846, before entering Yale in Senior year. He began the study of law in Lexington with James D. Davidson, and continued it at the University of Virginia. On his admission to the bar in 1849, he began practice in Lexington. In December, 1850, he went to Mississippi to visit relatives, and thence with a kinsman to Austin, Texas, where they intended to settle. As the climate, however, did not suit him, he returned to Virginia in September, 1851. In November, 1852, he left for California, and settled in practice in Siskiyou County, where he became prosecuting 368 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES attorney for the county. He died there in November, 1859, in his 33d year. He was unmarried. Horatio Wells Gridley, son of Dr. Horatio Gridley (Yale 1815), of Kensington Society in Berlin, Connecticut, was born on July 3, 1826. He studied medicine in the Yale Medical School, and in New York City, and after receiving his degree of M.D. at Yale in January, 1850, went in April to New York, where he had been appointed House Physician in the Bellevue Hospital. He died there, from typhus fever, contracted in the hospital, on March 29, 1851, in his 25th year. William Alexander Gunton was born on November 19, 1826, the son of Dr. William Gunton, of Washington, District of Columbia. He studied law in Baltimore, and on June 20, 1848^ mar- ried Mary R. N., daughter of John Beans Mullikin, of Prince George County, Maryland, and sister of John C. Mullikin (Yale 1844). About the same date, on account of failing health, he gave up his professional prospects, and retired to a plantation in Prince George's County, nine miles from Washington. On March 28, 1854, he was severely injured by a fall from his horse in the streets of Washington, in a collision with a frightened horse attached to a dray. He died in Washington on April i, in his 28tli year. His wife died on February 20, 1853, in her 27th year. Their only child died in infancy. DuGALD Cameron Haight, the younger son of Fletcher Mathews Haight (Hamilton Coll. 1818) and Elizabeth Stewart (MacLachlan) Haight, of Rochester, New York, was born in Bath on May 27, 1827. A brother was grad- uated here in 1844. His family having removed to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1846, he began the study of law there with his father, but YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 847 369 Spent part of the first year in a telegraph office in Quincy, Illinois. He began practice in St. Louis, but sailed from New York City in January, 1852, for California on a business visit. The steamer on which he sailed arrived off Chagres, on the Isthmus of Panama, in the evening of January 21, and some of the passengers attempted to land, in a rough sea; among them was Mr. Haight, who was drowned by the swamping of the boat in which he embarked. He was in his 25th year, and was unmarried. Francis Louis Hodges, son of Dr. Lewis Hodges, of West Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, was born on January 23, 1825. His mother, Susan Bacon, was a sister of the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon (Yale 1820). He entered Yale in 1844, his residence then being in Canandaigua. After graduation he studied law for a few months in the Yale Law School, and then took a school in Pittsfield, Mas- sachusetts, where he continued his studies in the office of the Hon. Julius Rockwell (Yale 1826). In May, 185 1, he entered on a tutorship at Yale, where he remained for only one year. In September, 1852, he settled in New York City in the practice of law, and attained a good position as the principal attorney in the office of the Corporation Counsel. In July, 1853, he went to his mother's house in Geneva, New York, for a vacation, and died there, after a brief illness, on July 27, in his 29th year. He was unmarried. George Washington Hollister, the youngest child of Abner and Polly Woodbridge (Elwell) Hollister, of Cato, Cayuga County, New York, was born on March 27, 1826. After a short interval of teaching a district school near Syracuse, he began the study of law in that city with John G. Forbes, and continued it with his eldest brother, Madison E. Hollister, in Ottawa, LaSalle County, Illinois. He was admitted to the bar in 1850, and removed to what is now the State of Nebraska. On April 3, 1855. while 24 37° BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES engaged with two companions in surveying land in Bellevue, an altercation arose between Mr. Hollister and one of the others, and Hollister was fatally shot by the third, in a misapprehension of his intentions. He was 29 years old, and unmarried. Lewis Burr Jennings, the youngest child of Captain Abraham Gold and Anna (Burr) Jennings, of Fairfield, Connecticut, was born on October 28, 1826, and entered Yale in 1844. Two nephews were graduated here, in 1880 and 1887, respectively. In the winter after graduation he went South, and taught in Georgia for a few months, until unfitted by illness. He returned to the North in September, and remained at home through the winter in poor health. In May, 1849, he undertook mercantile life in New York, and after many interruptions of travel and recreation, died in Charleston, South Carolina, from cholera, on March 17, 1853, in his 27th year. William Henry Lyman, of West Gaines, Orleans County, New York, was born on November 12, 1823, and entered Yale in 1844. After graduation he taught school in Georgia for nearly a year, and spent the early part of the next winter in a counting-house in New York. In 1849 he went to California, and nothing later is known. Lucius Holly Lyon, the eldest son of Daniel and Han- nah (Holly) Lyon, of Greenwich, Connecticut, was born on June 5, 1823, and entered Yale in 1844. He spent a part of the first year after graduation in teach- ing, but was debarred from further occupation by ill health. He died in Greenwich, from erysipelas in the head, on August 28, 1853, in his 31st year. He was unmarried. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 847 37 1 William Stewart McKee, son of Samuel and Margaret (McMillen) McKee, was born in St. Louis. Missouri, on March 31, 1824, and entered Yale in 1844. He studied law in St. Louis in the office of the father of his classmate Haight, and entered on practice there, but was mainly occupied with editing the St. Louis Democrat, a Free- Soil newspaper, until his death, in St. Louis, on October I3> 1854, in his 31st year. He was unmarried. Philemon Ferdinand McLallen was born in Trumans- burg, Tompkins County, New York, on August 20, 1823, and entered Yale in 1844. After graduation he studied law, and on being admitted to the bar settled in Trumansburg. In 1850 he removed to St. Louis, Missouri, and began practice. He died there, after a brief illness, of a malig- nant fever, on June 4, 1853, in his 30th year. He was unmarried. Charles Heyward Manigault, the eldest son of Charles and Elizabeth (Heyward) Manigault, was born in Charles- ton, South Carolina, on April 12, 1826, and entered Yale in 1845. The year after graduation was spent in foreign travel, and he then spent nearly a year in a counting-house in New York. His later years were years of leisure, mostly passed at the North. He died at a hotel in New York, from injuries received at a fire, on December 3, 1856, in his 31st year. He was unmarried. Nathaniel Williams Manning, the second son of John and Lois (Williams) Manning, of Lebanon. Connecticut, was born on June 28, 1820, and came to College with the ministry in view. Before graduation he had secured a place to teach in Rockville ; but in the fall he returned home, laboring under 372 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES a chronic inflammation of the throat, which extended to the lungs, and caused his death, from a Hngering consump- tion, in Lebanon, on October 28, 1848, in his 29th year. Hezekiah Davis Martin was born in Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, on November 8, 1827, and entered Yale in 1845. He studied law at home, but on the discovery of gold in California he went to that region. He returned and studied medicine in the Medical Depart- ment of the University of the City of New York, receiving the degree of M.D. in 1853. He then purchased a large tract of land near Areola, in Douglas County, Illinois, and settled there for the practice of his profession. On October 9, 1856, he married Ellen Wood, of his native county. In August, 1862, he raised a company of volunteers for the war (Company K, 79th Regiment, Illinois), which he commanded until his death. On June 25, 1863, he was wounded in the thigh in a skirmish at Liberty Gap, Tennessee. He was taken to Murfreesboro, where he died on July 3, in his 36th year. His wife survived him, with a son and a daughter. Nathaniel Matson, elder son of Israel and Phebe Mat- son, of Lyme, Connecticut, was born on October 18, 1825. His mother was a sister of Elias H. Ely (Yale 1810). He studied law for a year in the Yale Law School, and then entered the office of William N. Matson (Yale 1833), of Hartford. He was admitted to the bar in the summer of 1849, and practiced in Hartford until his death there, after a short illness, on January 24, 1851, in his 26th year. He was unmarried. John Munn was born in Monson, Massachusetts, on May 30, 1822. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1847 373 Before graduation he had begun to teach in the Academy in Monson, where he had been prepared for College, and in the spring of 1848 he began law-studies in the office of the Hon. George Ashmun (Yale 1823), of Springfield. In October, 1849, ^^ ^'^^ admitted to the bar, and opened an office in Springfield. He had already shown consumptive symptoms, which now developed rapidly. He was confined to his bed early in January, 1850, and died on the 30th of that month, in his 28th year. He was buried in Monson. He was to have been married, in the fall of 1850, to a Monson lady. John Hull Olmsted, younger son of John and Charlotte Law (Hull) Olmsted, of Hartford, Connecticut, was born on September 2, 1825. He entered Yale in 1842, but after the opening of the Sophomore year, having trouble with both his eyes and lungs, he went to the West Indies for the winter, and on his return joined the next Class. He spent the year after graduation in a water-cure estab- lishment in New York, and on a farm on Staten Island, and then began the study of medicine in New York. After various interruptions on account of his health, his medical studies were nearly completed in 1851, and he was married, in the same summer, to Mary Perkins, of Staten Island. He received the degree of M.D. in 1852 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He did not, however, engage in practice, but spent most of his time in literary pursuits. While in Europe for his health, he died in Nice. Italy, on November 24, 1857, in his 33d year. He left two sons and a daughter. His widow next mar- ried his elder brother, Frederick Law Olmsted. LL.D. (Yale 1893), the distinguished landscape-architect. William John Powell, son of General John and Molly (McGregor) Powell, of Berlin, Worcester County. Mary- land, was born on November 15, 1826. 374 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He studied law at home, but in 1849 went to California for several years. After his return he studied medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he received the degree of M.D. in 1859. He settled in practice in Louisiana, and during the Civil War served as a surgeon in the Confederate army. He was drowned while crossing a lake near his home on May 10, 1871, in his 45th year. Thomas Waltham Renshaw, son of Robinson and Mar- garet (Waltham) Renshaw, of Baltimore, was born at Davisville, near Baltimore, on April 23, 1823. He studied law in Baltimore, and for a time practiced his profession in Westminster. He was also employed as a civil engineer. He kept up his classical studies, and pre- pared for publication a translation of Justinian's Institutes. In 1860-61 he was a member of the House of Representa- tives of Maryland. He died at Roland Park, in the suburbs of Baltimore, on January 16, 1890, in his 67th year. He was never married. Linus Burr Smith was born in Haddam, Connecticut, on April 14, 18 18, and was the oldest member of the Class at graduation. On graduation he took charge of a school in Lyme, and in the spring of 1848 began the study of medicine at home. In October, 1848, he went to New York, where he continued his studies and received the degree of M.D. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 185 1. He then began practice, and continued there until his health failed early in 1854. He then returned home, where he died of consumption on April 30, at the age of 36. Henry Sherwood Steele, son of Henry and Mary (Sherwood) Steele, of Hartford, Connecticut, was born on September 5, 1828. His father died in his infancy, and he YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 847 375 spent the first three years of his College course in Trinity College. He studied medicine in Albany, where a brother of his father was a prominent citizen, for two years, under the direction of Dr. James H. Armsby, and in September, 1849, went to California by the overland route, but returned to his studies in Albany in February, 1851. For the improvement of his failing health, in June, 1852, he removed to Illinois, and settled in Dixon, Lee County. He completed his preparation in Chicago the next winter, and received the degree of M.D. there in the spring of 1853. He then began practice in Dixon, but soon realized that he could not bear the confinement. He spent the winter of 1854-55 with a relative in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and the following winter in Florida. In August, 1856, he returned to Roxbury, with the intention of going again to Florida for the cold weather, but he sank gradually until his death on March 18, 1857, unmarried, in his 29th year. Samuel Copp Waring, son of Samuel and Maria A. (Copp) Waring, was born in New York City on August 18, 1826. During his College course his mother, then a widow, lived in New Haven. His only brother was graduated here in 1849. He began the study of medicine in New York, and received the degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 185 1. He also studied in Paris, and on his return from Europe was lost in the wreck of the steamer Arctic, on September 27, 1854, in his 29th year. He was unmarried. Henry Fairchild Wildman, son of Fairchild and Polly (Canfield) Wildman, of Danbury, Connecticut, was bom on October 9, 1826. He studied law in the office of Benedict & Boardman, of New York City, his boarding-place being in Brooklyn. 376 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He died in Brooklyn, of the cholera, after a few hours' illness, on July 20, 1849, in his 23d year. He was buried in Danbury. John Wilson, of Huntsville, Missouri, was born on June 14, 1827, and entered Yale in 1845. After studying law at home, he was admitted to the bar, and settled in St. Joseph, where he remained in successful practice until his death, on December 2, 1867, in his 41st year. He was unmarried. Cyrus Elisha Worrell, of Hertford County, North Carolina, was born on March 10, 1826, and entered Yale in 1845- He studied medicine in Murfreesboro, in his native county, and went to California in March, 1849, returning in June, 1857. He died in Hertford County in 1874, at the age of 48. Antonio Poma Yancey, son of James Madison Yancey, of Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina, was born on October 21, 1825. His mother, Ann (or Nancy) Harrell, was previously the wife of Dr. William Lay Smith (Yale 1802), of Murfreesboro, and mother of the Hon. William Nathan Harrell Smith (Yale 1834). He entered College in 1844. He studied law in the office of his half-brother, and immediately on his admission to the bar, in the latter part of 1848, was elected State Solicitor, or Prosecuting Attorney in Hertford County. He had shown, while in College, symptoms of pulmonary disease, and these gained strength from month to month, so that he was finally obliged to seek a more favorable climate. He left home in November, 1854, for Charleston, and died two or three days later, while en route, in Wilmington, North Carolina, on November 26, at the age of 29. He was unmarried. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 848 377 CLASS OF 1848 Austin Arnold was born in Middle Haddam, a village in Chatham, Connecticut, on May 28, 1821, a son of Gideon and Lucy (Hurd) Arnold. He entered the Union Theological Seminary in New York City in December, 1848, but was obliged to leave two months later on account of bleeding at the lungs. In March, 1849, he left New York on a California vessel for Valparaiso; but decided to go on, and spent the winter in San Jose. He returned in 1850 by way of the Isthmus, reaching home in July, so much exhausted that he died there on August 15, in his 30th year. John Allen Barnard, son of Captain Frederic and Mar- garet (Allen) Barnard, of Poughkeepsie, New York, was born in 1828. Three brothers were graduated here, in 1837, 1841, and 1847, respectively. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Pough- keepsie in 1 85 1. Subsequently he became a civil engineer, and acquired considerable reputation as chief engineer of the London & Port Henry Railroad. He went later to Chili, and was engaged in railroad con- struction. While building a line from Santiago to Valpa- raiso he suffered a sunstroke, from the effects of which he died, on November 20, 1870, in his 43d year. He was buried in Santiago. John Bates was born in Sumter, South Carolina, in May, 1825. His residence while in College was in Pineville, a village near Nanafalia, Marengo County, Alabama. He intended to study law, but the precarious state of his health at that time determined him to pursue a more active employment. His life was mainly spent on his farm in Marengo County, until his death there, in 1859. 378 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES He married, in Mobile, on February 7, 1856, Miss S. E. Overall, by whom he had one son and one daughter. Clinton Capers Brown, son of Colonel B. H. Brown, was born on July 16, 1827, in Barnwell, South Carolina. He studied law at home with William A. Owens, and after his admission to the bar in May, 1850, became a part- ner of Mr. Owens. In December, 1850, he was appointed Aide-de-Camp by Governor Means, with the rank of Colonel. He died in Barnwell on January 29, 1852, in his 25th year, of inflammatory rheumatism and chronic affection of the heart. Marshall Mason Fitch, son of Mason Cogswell Fitch (Williams Coll. 1815), of New Albany, Indiana, and grand- son of the Rev. Dr. Ebenezer Fitch (Yale 1777), was born on March 6, 1828. His mother was Ann Maria, daughter of Charles Paxson, of Philadelphia. He entered Yale at the opening of Sophomore year, and was obliged to go home in the spring of Senior year, on account of his father's illness. His father died in November, and he was mainly occupied with the settlement of the estate until the spring of 1851. Meantime a slight hemorrhage of the lungs had induced him to give up his plan of studying for the ministry, and he entered into business as a commission merchant in New Albany, in the firm of Morris & Fitch. On February 26, 1850, he was married to Mary Lowrey, daughter of Captain James Montgomery, of New Albany, who died on November 24, 1852. He died in New Albany on January 29, 1854, in his 26th year. His children were a son who died in infancy, and a daughter. Edward Burr Harrison, son of Lee and Sally (Powell) Harrison, of Leesburg, Virginia, thirty miles northwest of YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 848 379 Washing-ton, was born early in 1827, and entered Yale at the opening of Sophomore year. He read law at home and in the University of Virginia until his admission to the bar in the summer of 1851. He then engaged in practice in Leesburg, until his death, from consumption, on July 31, 1852, in his 26th year. He was unmarried. Henry Condict Hedges, son of Nathan Hedges, a vet- eran teacher of Newark, New Jersey, was bom on May 10, 1828. His mother was Julia, daughter of Stephen Condit, of Morristown. He entered Yale at the opening of Sopho- more year. He was associate principal in his father's High School in Newark until May, 1850, and for a part of the next year was a member of the Union Theological Seminary in New York. In September, 1851, he engaged in business in New York, and at the end of 1853 went to San Francisco, where he remained until November, 1855, employed in a shipping house. For the rest of his life he was connected with the paper warehouse of John Priestley, in New York, at first as clerk and later as partner. He died in New York on February 25, 1859, '" '"'is 31st year. He was unmarried. Shelton Hollister, the eldest child of Benjamin and Prudence (Hollister) Hollister, of Glastonbury, Connecti- cut, was born on September 30, 1825. He settled in St. Anthony, Minnesota Territory, in the summer of 185 1, and there practiced law. He married, on February 16, 1853, Anna Lewis, of Phila- delphia, who died on September 6, 1854. Her only child died in infancy. He next married, on April 12, 1855, Emily Lord, only child of the late Dr. Royal Kingsbury, of Marlborough, Con- 380 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES necticut, whose mother, Emily (Foote) had married a sec- ond time, and Hved in Glastonbury; and he died on April 29, of cholera, in St. Anthony, in his 30th year. David Sanford Mowry, the second son of Deacon Samuel and Rebecca (Story) Mowry, of Bozrah, Connect- icut, was born on March 10, 1827. His residence while in College was in Norwich. He had just begun the study of law in Fairfield with the father of his classmate, Osborne, when he died, of typhoid fever, on November 14, 1848, in his 22d year. Franklin LaFayette Plimpton, son of Warren and Samantha (Partridge) Plimpton, of Sturbridge, Massachu- setts, was born on September 8, 1824. He had intended to study for the ministry, but he suffered from pulmonary disease before graduation. While visiting in Monson he died there, of consumption, on January 8, 1849, in his 25th year. Isaac Turner Rathbone, the youngest child of Samuel Rathbone, a merchant of New York City, and Mary (Turner) Rathbone, was born in New York on July 26, 1821. His father removed to Buffalo in 1841, and the son spent the first two years of his College course in Madison, now Colgate University. He went to Cincinnati on graduation, as a private tutor in the family of the Hon. Mr. Ewing. He died there, of cholera, on June 12, 1849, in his 28th year. He was already a licensed Baptist preacher, and was intending to enter the ministry. Robert Martin Richardson, son of John Richardson, of Philadelphia, was born on October 3, 1828. He studied law in Philadelphia, and in 185 1 for reasons of health went abroad, where he continued his studies in YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 848 381 Paris. He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1854, but died there on April 19, 1855, in his 27th year. He was unmarried. John Thomas Shoener was born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, on June 30, 1829, and entered College from Orwigsburg in that county at the opening of Junior year. After studying law in Pottsville, with Judge Edwin O. Parry, he was admitted to the bar in December, 1852, and began practice in that place. He married, on April 7, 1857, Theresa Martin, of Potts- ville, by whom he had one child who died in infancy. The promise of a succcessful career was cut short by his death, in Pottsville, on November 13, i860, in his 32d year. Cyprian George Webster, son of Cyprian and Agnes (Thomson) Webster, v/as born in Mobile, Alabama, on September 12, 1825. He was elected Class Orator at grad- uation, and was regarded as one of the most gifted men in the Class. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in IMobile in December, 1848. In June, 1849, he sailed for San Fran- cisco, partly on business, and partly for the sake of health. After a month's residence there, he returned much enfeebled, and died in Mobile of consumption on October 30, 1850, in his 26th year. George Arthur Wetherell, son of John and Clarissa (Sigoumey) Wetherell, of Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, was born on October 30, 1825. He studied law with his brother (Yale 1844) in Wor- cester, and after his admission to the bar in 185 1 he prac- ticed in partnership with his brother until his death, at his father's house in Oxford, on September 23, 1858, in his 33d year. He was unmarried. 382 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES CLASS OF 1849 Charles Henry Foote was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on August 17, 1828. His mother, Mrs. Matilda Foote, was living when he entered Yale, his father being deceased. He studied law in Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1852 began the practice of his profession in Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas, where he remained until his death, though during a part of the time engaged in teaching, in Batesville, and in Jacksonport, about twenty miles distant. He died while on a visit in Memphis, on July 8, 1857, in his 29th year. Charles Rush Goodrich, the second son of Josiah B. and Mary (Dater) Goodrich, was born on March 16, 1829, in Brunswick, a village near Troy, New York, and entered Yale at the opening of Sophomore year. He remained in New Haven for a year as a resident graduate student ; and then went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he taught for one year, and then pursued medical studies for two years. During the latter part of 1853 and the early part of 1854 he was associated with Professor Benjamin Silliman, Junior (Yale 1837), in editing the Illustrated Record of the industrial exhibition recently held in New York City. He then visited Georgia on account of consumptive symp- toms, and returned to his father's residence, then in Flush- ing, Long Island. In 1855 he began the preparation of a book on botany, and undertook some other literary work; but about the ist of July he was prostrated by a severe hemorrhage, and he died at his home in Flushing on August 22, in his 27th year. Henry Mills Haskell, son of Ezra Haskell (Yale 181 1 ), was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 10, 1827. His family removed to Dover, New Hampshire, in 1840. A brother was graduated in 185 1. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 849 383 After graduation he spent three years in the Yale Divinity School. During the following years he was engaged in further study and in occasional preaching, until March 6, 1855, when he was ordained in Boston to the charge of the British and American Church in St. Petersburg, Russia. He reached St. Petersburg on June i, and had begun to prosecute his labors there when prostrated in October by fatal illness. He died in St. Petersburg of typhus fever, on October 31, in his 29th year. He was unmarried. Horace Hollister, Junior, tlie second son of Horace and Sarah (Lee) Hollister, of Salisbury, Connecticut, was born on June 3, 1826, and entered Yale at the opening of Sopho- more year. He taught for a year in Louisville, Kentucky, and in October, 1850, removed to Mobile, Alabama, on account of his health. From that date he taught in Mobile, at the same time studying law, until his death there, from yellow fever, on September 10, 1853, ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ year. This was the first death in the Class. He was unmarried. Joseph Hurlbut, Junior, the second son of the Rev. Joseph Hurlbut (Yale 1818), was born in New York City on February 19, 1828. His father returned to New London, his native place, in 1833. On graduation he began the study of theology in the Union Theological Seminary in New York ; but a year later went to Beloit College as Tutor for one year. He then resumed his studies in the Andover Theological Seminar)-, and in May, 1852, accepted a tutorship at Yale, which he held until July, 1854, besides studying for the year 1852-53 in the Divinity School. Impaired health then obliged him to return to his home in New London, which he left in May, 1855, for a European trip; but he died, of consumption, in Paris, on July 4. in his 28th year. 384 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Aaron Lyon, son of Corbin and Rebecca (Vinton) Lyon, was born in Southbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on August 14, 1824. He studied law in the Yale Law School, and at home, and in 185 1 began practice in the adjoining town of Stur- bridge, where he married, on May 26, 1852, Mary J. Porter. He died in Sturbridge, after three months' final illness, of consumption, on August 22, 1858, at the age of 34, leaving one son. His widow next married Charles Fuller, of Sturbridge. Hugh Florien Peters, son of William Thompson Peters (Yale 1825) and Etha L. Peters, of New Haven, was born on June 14, 1829. He was a grandson of Ithiel Town, the architect. He studied law in Litchfield, and was admitted to the bar in December, 185 1, by which time his father had removed to Cheshire. He then began the practice of law in Cheshire. From November, 1853, to May, 1854, he taught in Dux- bury, Massachusetts; and in the ensuing September he secured an appointment in the Tidal Division of the United States Coast Survey. In the summer of 1855 ^^^ became a clerk in the Pension Bureau at Washington, but returned home shortly before his death, from consumption, in Cheshire, on October 4, 1856, in his 28th year. Charles Bill Waring, younger son of Samuel and Maria A. (Copp) Waring, of New York City, was born on April 15, 1828, and entered Yale with the Class of 1848. He left that Class soon after the beginning of Sophomore year, and joined the next Class in the ensuing fall. A brother was graduated in 1847. Their mother, a widow, lived in New Haven while her sons were here. He was a member of the Yale Law School from his graduation until May, 1851 ; and then went to New York City, where he was admitted to the bar in May, 1852, and entered into partnership with John R. Harper (Yale 1848). YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 185O 385 He died in New York, of quick consumption, following an attack of pneumonia, on October 12, 1854, in his 27th year. He was married, on May 2, 1850, to Frances (or Fanny), daughter of James L. Morris, of New York, by whom he had a son, who died in infancy, and a daughter. His wife long survived him. CLASS OF 1850 John Isaac Ira Adams, eldest child of the Rev. John Adams, a Methodist preacher, and Sarah (Sanderson) Adams, was born in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massa- chusetts, on July 22, 1826, and entered Yale in 1845 with a brother, who was graduated with the Class of 1849. He left College in May, 1846, and joined the next Class at the beginning of the course. In 1845-46 his father was living in New Haven, and at his graduation in Durham, New Hampshire ; and he taught there and in the vicinity until February, 1853. On May 26, 1853, he was married to Helen Mary Brans- combe, of Newmarket, daughter of Arthur Branscombe, and soon after became Principal of the High School in Holyoke, Massachusetts, during the same time also editing the Holyoke Independent. His health failing, he removed to Lawrence, Kansas Ter- ritory, in the spring of 1857, and while there served as cor- respondent of the Boston Traveler and the Springfield Republican. He died in Lawrence, on October 16. 1857. in his 32d year, and was buried in Durham, New Hampshire. He left one son. His widow married Alonzo J. Ulman, of St. Louis. Cltnton Camp, son of Colonel Hermon and Caroline (Cook) Camp, of Trumansburg, Tompkins County, New York, was born on December 19, 1829, and entered Yale from Williams College at the opening of Junior year. 25 386 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES At graduation he was awarded the Berkeley and Clark scholarships, and he remained for one year on these founda- tions, at the same time also teaching. In September, 1851, he sailed for Germany, and studied in Berlin for one semester. He then went to Gottingen, and studied there until taken with a serious cough and slight hemorrhage from the lungs. In January, 1853, he left Gottingen for Pisa, Italy, where he died on May 17, in his 24th year. He was intending to enter the ministry. Edward Payson Clarke, the only son of the Rev. Tertius Strong Clarke (Yale 1824) and Almira Alcott (Marshall) Clarke, of (South) Deerfield, Massachusetts, was born on July 4, 1 83 1. He entered Yale from Williams College at the opening of Senior year, when his father was settled in Stockbridge. About the time of his graduation the family removed to Penn Yan, Yates County, New York, where he spent more than two years, pursuing a thorough and systematic course of reading, in preparation for a literary life. The family then removed again, to Franklin, in Delaware County, where he died, of pulmonary consumption, on Sep- tember I, 1853, in his 23d year. A younger sister after- wards married his friend and former classmate, Professor Evan W. Evans (Yale 1851). George Walter Crane, son of the Rev. John R. Crane (Princeton Coll. 1805) and Harriet (Burnet) Crane, of Middletown, Connecticut, was born on May 30, 1828. A brother was graduated in 1838. During his Junior year, in February, 1849, he was attacked with hemorrhage of the lungs, and he was laid aside during most of Senior year from a similar cause. The Class received their degrees on August 15, 1850, and he died in Middletown on August 22, in his 23d year. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1850 387 Richard Lamb, the eldest son of William W. Lamb, of Norfolk, Virginia, was born on June 23, 1830, and entered Yale in 1845, but soon left that Class, to return a year later. On graduation he began the study of medicine in the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. In the spring of 1852 he took the place of a friend in the New York Hospital, to enable him to visit relatives in the West, and there overtaxed his strength, and on his return home at the end of July was prostrated by a lumbar abscess, which caused his death, after a very painful illness, in Norfolk, on October 3, in his 23d year. William Haughton Richards, son of Henry Augustus and Julia Ann (Haughton) Richards, of Uncasville, in Montville, Connecticut, and a nephew of Richard Haughton (Yale 1818) and of the Rev. George Richards (Yale 1840), was born in June, 1825. The family removed to New York City, and thence to Groton, Massachusetts, in 1841. For two years he taught in a school for young ladies in Cincinnati, in the meantime also studying law. He began practice in New York City, but in the fall of 1853 his health began to fail, and for a year he was a partial invalid. He then seemed to have recovered, and resumed full professional labor, but died in Brooklyn, of brain fever, after four days' illness, on May 17, 1855, in his 30th year. He was buried in New London, Connecticut, the old family home. Robert Smith was born near Nashville, Tennessee, on March 25, 1825. His residence was at Louisville, Ken- tucky, while in College. An older brother, J. Howard Smith, was an Episcopal minister. On graduation he entered the Episcopal Theological Seminary near Alexandria, \''irginia, and soon after decided to devote his life to the heathen in Africa. He was admitted to Deacon's orders by Bishop Meade, in Alex- andria, on July 15, 1853. 388 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES In October, 1854, he sailed for West Africa, and arrived at his appointed station, Cavally, Cape Palmas, in January, 1855. After a brief interval of labor, he was taken ill with the African fever in April, which was succeeded by severe dyspepsia and consumptive symptoms. He died, in great pain, on May 24, in his 31st year. CLASS OF 185 1 Horatio Walsh Brinsmade, son of Thomas C. Brins- made, M.D. (hon. Yale 1839), and Elizabeth (Walsh) Brinsmade, of Lansingburg, New York, was born on Octo- ber 25, 183 1. His father removed to Troy in 1833. He took up the' study of medicine under his father's direction, and during the winter of 1851-52 attended medi- cal lectures in Albany. In his journeys to and from home he caught a cold which settled on his lungs, which was followed by quick consumption. He died in Troy on July 25, 1852, in his 2ist year. Andrew Jackson Burnham, son of Noah Burnham, was born in Chester, New Hampshire, on July 2, 1829, and entered College from Concord. He engaged in teaching, principally in Newmarket, and in South Braintree, Massachusetts. He married Sarah A. West, of Concord, in 1853. He studied medicine in the Vemiont Medical College in Woodstock, and practiced in his native State in Northwood and New Hampton. He died in Concord on October 31, 1857, in his 29th year. Charles Haskell, son of Ezra Haskell (Yale 1811), was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 6, 1829. A brother was graduated in 1849. His father removed to Dover, New Hampshire, in 1840. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 185I 389 After graduation he taught, and studied theology. He was admitted to Deacon's orders in the Episcopal Church by Bishop Chase, of New Hampshire, on November 12, 1852, and immediately took charge of St. Peter's Church in Westfield, Chautauqua County, New York. While there an enlargement of the heart, which had threatened him in College, began to assume so serious a character that he was taken to his father's house in Dover, where he died, on May 26, 1853, at the age of 24. Albert Hebard, the eldest child of the Hon. Learned and Persis Elizabeth (Strong) Hebard, of Lebanon, Con- necticut, was born on January 5, 1826. A brother was graduated in i860. During his Senior year he undertook the preparation of a new catalogue of the library of the Brothers in Unity. The labor involved proved too heavy, and he went home for a portion of the spring vacation in greatly impaired health. He returned on May 12, was so ill as to be obliged to go back to Lebanon on May 15, and died suddenly on May 18, in his 26th year. A funeral sermon by President Woolsey was published, and bears the heartiest testimony to his high Christian character. His name was enrolled among the graduates by the Corporation at Commencement. James Richard Hills, son of Eleazar and Sarah Wol- cott Hills, of Auburn, New York, was born on May 24, 1830. His mother was a daughter of Josiah Bissell, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He entered Yale during Sopho- more year. He studied law in the AJbany Law School, and with Judge William Kent in New York City, where he settled in practice. He was a successful lawyer, and greatly respected as an active Christian. After having suffered for a year from bronchitis and aneurism of the aorta, he died suddenly, while on a journey 39© BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES for his health, at Saratoga Springs, on September 8, 1882, in his 53d year, and was buried in Auburn. He was never married. George Hopkins, son of John and Abiah (Woodruff) Hopkins, was bom in that part of Waterbury which is now Naugatuck, Connecticut, in 1826. After teaching for a year in EHzabeth, New Jersey, he began the study of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He died while on a visit home, in December, 1853, in his 28th year. David Lewis Judsox, the eldest child of Hon. Donald and Polly Maria (Shelton) Judson, of Huntington. Con- necticut, was born on December 6, 1830. His father removed to Derby in 1835, ^"^ *^J^d j^st before he entered College. He studied law in the Yale Law School for nearly two years, and afterwards engaged in farming and manufactur- ing in Derby, where he died on March 18, 1858, in his 28th year. George Washington Lyon, the only son of Lsrael and Eunice Elvira (Raymond) Lyon, of Bedford, New York, was born on October 14, 1828. In the fall of 1851, while residing in Mount Kisco, he was elected to the New York Assembly by a large majority, and served one term (January-April, 1852), but did not wish to run for office again. He studied medicine, and received the degree of M.D. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1856. He practiced his profession for three or four years in New York, and then settled in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he married, in i860, Abby L. Duncan. He had a successful career as a physician, until his death there, after an illness YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 85 1 39 1 of several months, from consumption of the bowels, on November 23, 1875, in his 48th year. His wife survived him, without children. Benjamin Franklin Martin, son of Jacob Martin, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was born in 1828 or 1829. He returned to Lancaster, and entered very early into political life, being elected to the State House of Represen- tatives for 1852; but his exertions in the preliminary can- vass induced a bronchial affection, which caused his death on August 26, at the age of 23. James Lewis Rowland, son of Isaac Rowland, was born in New York City in 1826, and entered Yale in the spring of 1849 from Milton, near Saratoga Springs, New York. For a year after graduation he was a farmer in Milton. His later history is not definitely known. Noah Smith was born in Westville, near Urbana, Cham- paign County, Ohio, on July i, 1830. He entered Yale at the opening of the Junior year, having already spent three years in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware. His health began to fail near the end of his College course, but he undertook the study of medicine after grad- uation. In May, 1852, he was obliged to desist, and he spent the next winter in Florida and Cuba, returning in April to Westville, where he died on July 7, 1853, at the age of 23 years. James VanBlarcom, son of Brant and Getty (VanRiper) VanBlarcom, was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on May I, 1829. He studied law with the Hon. Peter D. Vroom (Columbia Coll. 1808) in Trenton, until Mr. Vroom went as United States Minister to Russia in 1853. He then completed his studies with the Hon. Abraham O. Zabriskie (Princeton 392 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES Coll. 1825), in Jersey City, after which he went to Berlin for the study of German. He began the practice of law in Paterson, where he con- tinued until his death, with the exception of the period of his service (1862-65) in the 25th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, during the Civil War. He died in Paterson on October 22, 1876, in his 48th year. Emerson Cogswell Whitney, the eldest son of Richard and Eunice (Cogswell) Whitney, of Winchendon, Worces- ter County, Massachusetts, was born on November 8, 1822, and entered Yale from Dartmouth College at the opening of Junior year. He began work as an assistant in the Academy in Middle- town, Orange County, New York, in April of Senior year, and after hard study in the summer vacation, he went back to Middletown in November, in impaired health. He died there, of typhus fever, after a little over a week's illness, on December 2, in his 30th year. He was regarded as a man of unusual promise. CLASS OF 1852 James Atwood was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on July 4, 1832, and entered Yale in January of the Sophomore year. He studied law at home in the office of Robinson & Jones, and after his admission to the bar removed, in November, 1853, to New Orleans, where he intended to begin practice. Meantime he obtained a position as Secretary to the Quartermaster of the United States Army at that post, and while discharging this duty died there, of yellow fever, on October 5, 1854, in his 23d year, after five days' illness. Henry Clay Blakeslee, son of Elmon and Laura Blakeslee, of New Haven, was born on January 21, 1831. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1852 393 He became a civil engineer, and was employed on the Great Western Railroad in Canada, and on the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad in Illinois. His last employment was as freight clerk in Chicago. On the evening of August 19, 1857, he jumped from his bedroom window on the fourth floor of the Metropolitan Hotel in Chicago, and was instantly killed. It was sup- posed that he was a somnambulist. Lewis Howe, the youngest child of Jonas and Anna (Mead) Howe, of Greenwich, Connecticut, was born on August 6, 1827. He was married, on November 3, 1852, to Mary Louisa, daughter of Joseph and Sarah A. (Mead) Brush, of Green- wich, and taught school for the following winter in Cromwell. In the spring of 1853 he established in Greenwich a family boarding-school for boys, which he continued until his death there, on July 3, 1857, in his 30th year. He left a son (who died in infancy) and a daughter. His widow married, in October, 1864, Dr. Benjamin F. Bassett (Yale 1847), of Brooklyn, New York, whom she survived. George Edward Hurd, son of Ezekiel Hurd, of Dover, New Hampshire, was born on August 14, 1830, and entered Yale with the Class of 1851, which he left on account of ill health in Junior year, returning a year later to the next Class. In October, 1853, he entered the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York, and on his graduation there was admitted to Deacon's orders, on July 6, 1856, by Bishop Chase, of New Hampshire. His health, never vigorous, began to fail more seriously about this time, and he died in Dover on October 16, 1858, in his 29th year. 394 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES David Ogden Morehouse, son of John G. Morehouse, of Fairfield, Connecticut, was born on April 28, 1831. He taught for a year after graduation in Westville, a suburb of New Haven, and then began the study of medi- cine in Philadelphia. In the spring of 1854 he was teaching in York, Pennsyl- vania, where he was drowned while bathing, on May 25, in his 24th year. Angelo Wood North, son of Darius and Olivia North, at one time of New Haven, was born in Watertown, Con- necticut, on December 21, 1831. His residence was in Louisville, Kentucky, while in College. He began the study of medicine in the University of Kentucky, in Louisville, but died there, from typhoid fever, on July 2, 1853, in his 22d year. His was the first death in the Class. CLASS OF 1853 Isaac Holt Hogan, the younger son of Isaac and Nancy (Holt) Hogan, was born on November 16, 1828, in Glen- ville, near Schenectady, New York. After a part of a year in Jefl^erson College, Pennsylvania, he entered Yale in the spring of 1850. The family residence was then in Middle- port, Niagara County. He delivered the Valedictory Ora- tion at graduation. He went to Marshall, Michigan, to teach school, and there contracted pulmonary disease which developed rapidly. He died in Middleport on May 29, 1855, in his 27th year. John Andrew Williamson Jones, son of John W. and Mary A. (Breneman) Jones, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was born on September 4, 1832, and entered Yale in May of the Freshman year. He studied law at home, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1856. After practicing in Harrisburg for a few YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1853 395 months he went to Kansas Territory in September as private secretary to Governor John W. Geary. Thence he removed in 1857 to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he practiced his profession and engaged in business as a land-agent. After the outbreak of the Civil War he acted as Clerk of the Adjutant General and of the Provost Marshal of the State. He subsequently returned to Harrisburg, and finally set- tled in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was married, on August 24, 1869, to Belle Englesfield. Some years later he was placed in one of the Indiana State Hospitals for the Insane, as the result of an attack of paralysis, which seriously affected his mind. He died in the hospital on March 28, 1889, in his 57th year. A son survived him. His wife married a second time. Edward Walden, son of Judge Ebenezer and Susanna (Marvin) Walden, of Buffalo, New York, was born on February 13, 1832. He began the study of law at home, but died suddenly, after a few hours' illness, at his father's summer residence, on the shore of Lake Erie, on July 19, 1854, in his 23d year. William Rankin Webb, son of Wyatt C. and Ann Davenport (Rankin) Webb, of Georgetown, Kentucky, was born on March 25, 1832, and entered Yale from Georgetown College in 1850. He studied law with the Hon. Garrett Davis, in Paris, Kentucky, and entered on practice in his native town. In 1856 he was a Presidential elector, and voted for Fillmore. In July, 1862, he joined the Confederate army as a mem- ber of the cavalry command of General John H. Morgan. He died on December 29, 1862, in his 31st year, from wounds received in a skirmish near Glasgow, Kentucky. He was buried in Georgetown. He was unmarried. 396 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES CLASS OF 1854 Charles Henry Barrett, son of James and Miriam Barrett, of Rutland, Vermont, was born on May 13, 1833. He studied medicine in Rutland and Boston, and received the degree of M.D. from Harvard University in 1858. He at once began practice in Detroit, Michigan, where he mar- ried, on November 16, 1864, Frances M., daughter of Nathaniel Terry Taylor. In the fall of 1868 he removed to Waterloo, Iowa, where he was successful up to the time of his very sudden death, on November 6, 1869, in his 37th year. Two daughters survived him. His wife next married, in April, 1877, Dr. Edmund Andrews, Professor of Chemical Surgery in the Chicago Medical College. Joseph Raynor Howell, son of Isaac Reeves and Han- nah (Raynor) Howell, of Mattituck, in the township of Southold, Long Island, was born at Middle Island, in Brookhaven, on October 25, 1826, and entered Yale in 1851. He became Principal of the Academy in Franklinville, in Riverhead, on the borders of Southold, and married, on October 16, 1854, Harmietta, elder daughter of Seth and Harma Squires, of Southampton. He is supposed to have contracted typhus fever from a dying brother, and died in consequence on September 13, 1855, in his 29th year, at Squiretown, in Southampton. He had no children. His widow next married, in Sep- tember, 1876, William Clark, of Centre Moriches, in Brookhaven. Robert Miller McClellan, son of Joseph Parke and Mary (Ellis) McClellan, of Parkesburg, Chester County, Pennsylvania, was born on September 5, 1833. His resi- dence while in College was in Westchester, in the same county. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1854 397 He spent the year after graduation as a student in the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, and was then for two years a private tutor near Darien, Georgia. During the year 1858 he was in Europe, and on his return kept a select school in Savannah, Georgia, until the breaking out of the war. In September, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Georgia Hussars, a troop of horse from Savannah, which was ordered to northern Virginia. In November, 1862, he was appointed Assistant Quartermaster, with the rank of Cap- tain, in the Jeff Davis Legion, and served in that capacity until the close of the war. He then opened a select school in Macon, Georgia, which he continued until 1870. He then returned to Westchester, and in 1871 opened a boarding school for boys. He married, on December 21, 1 87 1, Ella, daughter of W. T. Hildrup, of Harrisburg. His school was successful, and he was glad to be able in 1878 to lay it down and resume medical studies. He received the degree of M.D. from the Jefferson Medical College in March, 1879, ^^^ practiced his profession in a suburb of (West) Philadelphia until his death there, after a short illness, from cerebral hemorrhage, on February 16, 1887, in his 54th year. His wife died on June 27, 1882. Their children, one son and two daughters, survived them. Charles Edward Trumbull, son of Gurdon and Sally Ann (Swan) Trumbull, of Stonington, Connecticut, was born on October 31, 1832. He was a brother of the Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull (Yale 1842) and of the Rev. Henry Clay Trumbull (M.A. hon. Yale 1866). He spent the first two years of his course in Williams College. He intended to enter the ministry, but gave up the year after graduation to the study of literature and to out-of- door exercise. In the summer of 1855 he was prostrated 398 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES with typhoid fever, and to hasten his recovery sailed for Florida in December. A relapse occurred in February, and he died in Magnolia, on March 17, 1856, in his 24th year. Jared Clark Warner, son of Judge Ely Warner (Yale 1807), of Haddam, Connecticut, was born on December i, 1829. His father returned to Chester, his native place, in 1837. After a brief business experience in Detroit, Michigan, he became Principal of Union Academy in East Saginaw, in June, 1855. He died there, of typhoid fever, after four weeks' illness, on August 9, 1855, in his 26th year. This was the first death in the Class. Edward Payson Whitney, the youngest child of Josiah Dwight and Sarah (Williston) Whitney, of Northampton, Massachusetts, was bom on May 22, 1833. His eldest brother. Professor Josiah D. Whitney, was graduated here in 1839, and another brother, William D. Whitney, was appointed Professor of Sanskrit here in 1854. He taught for a year after graduation in Williston Semi- nary, Easthampton, founded by his uncle, where he had himself been prepared for College. He then pursued for three years the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Willard Parker, of New York, at the same time attending lectures in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In the fall of 1858 he disappeared, and nothing has ever been learned of his fate. CLASS OF 1858 Edmund Morse Taft, son of Cyrus and Lucinda (Morse) Taft, of Peacham, Vermont, was born on July 16, 1834. The family removed soon after to Whitinsville, in Northbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts. YALE COLLEGE. CLASS OF 1 863 399 He began to teach school in Whitinsville, but died there, of typhoid fever, on October 25, 1858, in his 25th year. His was the first death in the Class. CLASS OF 1863 Edwin Henry Cooper, son of Dr. Esaias S. and Mary E. (Martin) Cooper, of Henderson, Knox County, Illinois, was bom on January 3, 1843, and entered Yale in 1861 from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. Soon after graduation he enlisted as a private in the 83d Illinois Volunteers, acted as nurse for some months, and was then detailed as Assistant Surgeon in charge of a contraband camp in Clarksville, Tennessee. On May 3, 1865, after examination, he was commissioned as Assistant Surgeon of his regiment, and later in the year received the degree of M.D. from the Rush Medical College, Chicago. He retired from the army in July, 1865, and returned to his practice in Henderson. He died in Henderson on August 14, 1901, in his 59th year. CLASS OF 1867 William Lewis Stevenson, son of John Stevenson, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born on December 10, 1843, He completed his studies for the ministry in the Western Theological Seminary, in Allegheny City, in 1870, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Allegheny on April 14, 1869. His health failed in consequence of a sunstroke, and his death occurred in July, 1879, i" his 36th year. CLASS OF 1869 William Wallace Audenried, son of George and Mary Magdalene (Hagenbach) Audenried, was born in North- 400 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES ampton County, Pennsylvania, on September i8, 1847, ^nd entered College from Philadelphia. In 1870-71 he was assistant superintendent of a coal com- pany in Minersville, and he then entered the firm of E. V. Maitland & Co., stock-brokers, in Philadelphia. He was also for a time President of the Columbia Steel & Iron Com- pany, a corporation engaged in the manufacture of railroad iron, in which he held a controlling interest. He died in Philadelphia, after a lingering illness, during which his mind was affected, on January 11, 1889, in his 42d year. He married, in Philadelphia, on October 24, 1874, Ada B. Howard, who survived him without children. CLASS OF 1874 Harvey Weed, son of Francis P. and Harriet L. Weed, of Newburgh, New York, was born on August 12, 1852. He studied law in the Albany Law School, and received the degree of LL.B. in 1876. He practiced his profession in Newburgh, and about 1883 also opened an office in New York City, to which place he transferred his residence about 1887. He died early in 1892, in his 40th year. He was never married. CLASS OF 1875 Francis Dudley, son of Uriah H. and Prudence D. (Fish) Dudley, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 17, 1856. On graduation he entered his father's business in New York City, and later became a member of the firm of U. H. Dudley & Co., dealers in canned goods. He married, on June 9, 1880, Daisy Oakes, daughter of William J. A. Fuller, of Orange, New Jersey, and New York, who died suddenly, in Orange, on August 20, 1881. YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1 878 40 1 In the fall of 1881 he entered the Law School of Colum- bia University; but on account of his health started on a sailing vessel from New York for San Francisco, in Decem- ber, 1882. He reached his destination in May, 1883; but after three weeks on shore, realizing that the end was rapidly approaching, he sailed for home on the steamer Colima on June i, and died two days later, in his 28th year. Horatio Townsend Fairlamb, the second son of Charles and Martha (Jefferis) Fairlamb, of Westchester, Pennsyl- vania, was born on August 10, 1853. On graduation he studied law with the Hon. J. Smith Futhey, of Westchester, and in June, 1877, began practice there. He was eminently successful in his profession. He married, on December 30, 1880, Mary F., second daughter of Joseph P. Wilson, of Westchester. In 1889 he organized the Pennsylvania Mortgage Invest- ment Company, intended for promoting loans on mort- gages of real estate in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho ; and he removed with his family to Spokane, as the western manager of the corporation. He died in Spokane on June 14, 1892, in his 39th year. His wife survived him, with two sons and two daughters. CLASS OF 1878 Philip Keller, son of Daniel and Anna Keller, was born in Numidia, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, on August 22, 1853, ^^^ entered Yale from Ashland, Schuylkill County. He studied law in Ashland, and after his admission to the bar in 1881, practiced his profession there. He married, on October 22, 1889, Belle, daughter of Wellington and Mary Jones, of Auburn, Schuylkill County. After several years of mental weakness, he died in Ash- land on August 7, 1894, at the age of 41. His wife sur- vived him, without children. 26 402 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES CLASS OF I< Andrew Penrose Lusk Dull, son of James Junkin and Elizabeth McKinley (Lusk) Dull, of Harrisburg, Penn- sylvania, was born on October 6, 1857. After a brief employment in the office of the Lochiel Rolling Mill Company, he was connected with the Mechan- ics' Bank of Harrisburg until 1891, when his health required a rest. He married, on November 22, 1888, Helen Montgomery Boyd, of Harrisburg. He died in Harrisburg on October 24, 1893, at the age of z^. CLASS OF 1884 James Martin Dawson, son of James Dawson, of Wilmington, North Carolina, was born on April 26, 1861. He died in Wilmington, of typhoid fever, in 1888, after a long and painful illness, which had affected him both mentally and physically. IISTDEIX: Class 1835 Abbott, John S. 1846 Adams. Charles G. 183 1 Adams, James U. 1850 Adams, John I. I. 1838 Adams, John McN. 1825 Adams, Ripley P. 1821 Adee, Augustus A. 1837 Albertson, Joseph C. 1827 Allen, Alldis S. 1823 Allen, Bela 1847 Allison, Samuel P. 1842 Alter, Joseph H. 1 82 1 Anderson, James 1830 Anderson, John G. 1843 Andrew, Samuel W. 1829 Apthorp, George H. 1832 Archer, Henry W. 1848 Arnold, Austin 184! Arnold, William W. 1840 Ashburner, William E. 1852 Atwood, James 1869 A.udenried. William W. 1822 Avery, Elijah M. 1840 Babcock, James S. 1847 Bacon, Benjamin W. 1833 Bacon, Epaphroditus C. 1838 Bacon, Francis 1836 Bacon, Henry W. 1817 Bailey, Ebenezer 1836 Bailey, Thomas 1847 Baker, Anthony W. 1829 Baker, Oliver 1831 Baker, Otis 1832 Baker, Samuel G. 1830 Baker, William N. 1820 Baldwin, Abraham 1842 Baldwin, Edward L. 1833 Baldwin, Michael 1847 Baldwin, Roger S. 1837 Baldwin, William B. 1829 Baltzell, Charles J. 1842 Bangs, Allen 1843 Baratte, Julius A. 1848 Barnard, John A. Page Class 256 1837 359 1822 216 1828 385 1854 284 1841 137 1822 67 1833 274 1848 165 1823 lOI 1833 36s 1818 324 1840 67 1834 205 1828 334 1817 194 1840 228 1821 377 1824 319 1846 307 1841 392 1821 399 1839 84 1820 1845 307 1842 365 1844 235 1830 285 1830 263 1819 15 1817 263 1852 366 1821 195 1844 216 1831 228 1829 206 1839 57 1826 325 1816 235 1818 366 1818 274 1822 195 1845 326 1 83 1 335 1837 377 1818 Page Barnard. Thomas A. 275 Barnes, Edward F. 84 Barnes, Romulus 181 Barrett, Charles H. 396 Barstow, Ephraim T. 320 Bartholomew, Isaac 84 Bartlett, Shubael F. 236 Bates, John 377 Bates, Talcott 102 Beach, John C. 236 Beardsley, Cyrus H. 29 Beasley, Peter R. 308 Beaumont, George A. O. 249 Beecher, George 182 Beers, John P. 17 Beirne, Christopher J. 308 Belden, Lemuel W. 67 Belden, Thomas 121 Bellinger, Frederick P. 359 Bellinger, Jacob W. 320 Benedict, Alanson 68 Biddle, Thomas B. 296 Bigelow, George N. 58 Bigelow, William A. 354 Bingham, Gideon 326 Birdseye, Henry C. 341 Bishop, Alexander H. 206 Bispham, John B. 207 Bissell, Jonathan H. 45 Blackman, Ebenezer 17 Blakeslee, Henry C. 392 Blanchard, Nathaniel 69 Blincoe. Charles W. 341 Bliss, David N. 217 Boardman, John F. 195 Boardman, William R. 296 Bogart, William H. 147 Booth, Reuben i Borrowe, Samuel 30 Botsford. David 31 Bowen, George T. ^ Bowman, Samuel S. 354 Boyd, James McH. 217 Brace, Joab 275 Brainard, Eleazar 31 404 Class 1823 1824 1822 1826 1835 1827 185 1 1816 1840 1826 1829 1848 1826 1837 1819 1819 1828 1819 1830 1818 1851 1834 1824 1823 1833 1822 1844 1828 1823 1850 1838 1837 1828 1822 1829 1838 1821 1829 1831 1819 1816 1826 1817 1821 1821 1828 1831 182 1 1826 1830 1827 Brewer, Edwin Brewer, Eliab Brewster, Joseph M. Bridgman, Frederick Briggs, James C. Brinckerhoff, George Brinsmade, Horatio W. Brinton, John S. Bristol, Simeon C. Bronson, Jesse Bronson, Thomas Brown, Clinton C. Brown, Thaddeus Buck, Charles Buffett, William L, Bulkley, Ichabod Bull, George F. Bull, Norman Burden, Thomas L. Burgess, Anson Burnham, Andrew J. Burr, William S. Burritt, Stephen E. A. Butler, Anthony W. Butler, William A. Butts, Asa Byne, Henry Bynum, Benjamin S. Cairns, William D. Camp, Clinton Campbell, George W. Caperton, William G. Carpenter, Walter Carrington, George Carter, Bernard M. Gary, Lorenzo Case, William Catlett, Fairfax Champion, George Chapin, Graham H. Chapman, Epaphras Chapman, James D. Chase, George Chase, Paine W. Chase, Simeon Chauncey, Charles Chester, Orlando Child, Asa Church, Ebenezer Church, Edward Clagett, John M. INDEX Page Class 102 183 1 121 1825 85 1833 147 1831 256 1850 166 1830 388 1818 I 1816 308 1824 148 1823 196 1819 378 1846 148 1816 276 1840 46 1842 46 1823 183 1833 47 1841 207 1840 31 1832 388 1822 250 1818 122 1826 103 1820 237 1827 85 1826 342 1863 183 1838 1818 103 1847 385 1829 286 1826 276 1821 183 1821 86 1827 197 1847 286 1850 69 1827 197 1823 217 1822 48 1822 2 1845 149 1824 17 1833 70 1847 70 1844 183 1833 218 1828 70 1845 ISO 1816 208 1816 166 1843 Page Clapp, John M. 219 Clark, Abner P. 138 Clark, Noah B. 237 Clark, Samuel W. 219 Clarke, Edward P. 386 Clarke, George R. 208 Clary, Henry 32 Cleaveland, William P. 3 Cleveland, Richard F. 122 Cloud, John W. 104 Coit, David S. 48 Coit, James J. 359 Coit, Joseph L. 3 Colclough, Bagenal 309 Coleman, Robert 327 Coles, Oliver 104 Colt, John O. 238 Colton, David B. 320 Colton, George H. 309 Colton, John O. 229 Colton. Walter 87 Cone, Francis H. 32 Cone, Frederick T. 150 Cone, Theodore C. 58 Cooke, Joseph P. 166 Cooley, Jefferson 150 Cooper, Edwin H. 399 Corbyn, Almon D. 287 Cordes, James J. 33 Cotton, John 366 Cowles, Albert S. 197 Cowles, Elijah 151 Cowles, George 71 Cowles, Samuel H. 72 Cox, Adam T. 167 Craig, Simeon A. 367 Crane, George W. 386 Crocker, Zebulon 167 Crosby, Daniel 105 Croswell, Sherman 88 Croswell, William 89 Crowell, Josiah B. 354 Crozier, Robert 123 Crump, John 238 Cumings, George W. 367 Cunningham, James L. 342 Currier, John M. 238 Curtiss, Rodney 184 Cushman, Isaac L. 354 Cuthbert, John A. 3 Cutler, George Y. 3 Cutler, James P. 335 Class 1816 Dart, Ashbel 1821 Davenport, George F. 1837 Davenport, Philip A. 1836 Daves, James McK. 1833 Davis, Benjamin F. 1835 Davis, John 1835 Dawes, Rowland 1884 Dawson, James M. 1840 Day, Charles 1832 DeForest, Henry A. 1831 DeForest. Samuel S. 1837 Deming, William S. 1826 Denison, Zina 1820 Deshon, Francis B. 1832 Dewey, Amasa 1820 Dewey, Daniel N. 1828 DeWint, Peter C. 1827 DeWolf, Allen M. 1829 Dixon, Robert 1838 Dodd, Albert 1843 Donnelly, James B. 1844 Doolittle, Oswin H. 1828 Douglas, George H. 1822 Douglas, Sutherland 1820 Dow, James G. 1828 Downer, David R. 1830 Drake, Richard G. 1825 Dubose, Isaac 1875 Dudley, Francis 1881 Dull, Andrew P. L. 1823 Duncan. John N. 1821 Duncan, Lucius C. 1833 Durand, William M. 1829 Dutch. Aaron H. 1840 Dwight, John B. 1827 Dwight, Timothy E. 1826 Dwight, William C. 1826 Earle, Winthrop 1836 Eaton, William H. 1837 Eaton, William P. 1817 Edmiston, Joseph W. 1829 Edwards, Benjamin 1827 Edwards, Henry P. 1842 Edwards, Newton 1839 Eldredge, Charles St. J. 1844 Elliot, William H. 1830 Ellsworth, Oliver 1829 Ely, Joseph M. 1833 Ely, Zabdiel R. 1832 Ernst. Frederick S. 183 1 Evans, Thomas L. INDEX 405 Page Class Page 4 1832 Evarts, John J. 232 72 277 263 1819 Ewing, George W. 49 1846 Fackler, Calvin M. 360 239 1875 Fairlamb, Horatio T. 401 257 1839 Fairman, William 297 257 1822 Fanning, Andrew M. 91 402 1830 Fanshaw, William H. M. 209 310 1839 Faulkner, Endress 297 230 1844 Felder, John H. 344 220 1822 Felder, Nathaniel F. 92 277 1835 Fenton, Joseph B. 258 151 1836 Fergusson, James 264 58 1833 Field, Samuel 240 230 1828 Finch, Sherman 185 58 1840 Fisk, Stuart W. 311 184 1829 Fisk, William L. 198 168 1838 Fitch, Elisha 289 197 1848 Fitch, Marshall M. 378 288 1849 Foote, Charles H. 382 336 1825 Ford, Seabury 139 343 1831 Foster, Lewis 220 184 1840 Foster. Thomas E. 311 90 1817 Fowler. Joseph 18 59 1834 Fowler, Joseph 250 185 1822 Fowler, Joseph R. 92 208 183 1 Fowles, James H. 221 138 1846 Franklin, Thomas L 360 400 1834 French, Henry S. G. 250 402 1832 Frisbv, Tames E. 232 105 1838 Fuller, Seth 289 72 1825 Fulton, William M. 140 239 197 1843 Gachet, Charles N. 336 310 1835 Gager, Charles A. 258 169 1830 Galatti, Pantoleon G. 209 151 1826 Gale, Charles C. P. 152 1823 Gallup, Nathan 106 152 1824 Gardiner, David J. 124 264 1817 Gay, William C. 18 278 1826 Gaylord, Samuel 133 18 1818 Gere, Edward ii 198 1827 Gere. William 169 169 1843 Gibbs. James B. 336 Z27 1817 Gilbert, Charles C. 18 297 1839 Gilbert. John M. 298 343 1818 Gilbert, Joseph M. 34 209 1829 Gilbert, Matthew J. 199 198 184I Gillett. Augustus C. 321 240 1828 Gleason. Henry 185 231 1816 Glover. Abiel B. 5 220 1833 Goddard. John C. 241 4o6 INDEX Class 1834 Gold, Job S. 1831 Goodloe, David S. 1849 Goodrich, Charles R. 1821 Goodrich, Joseph 1838 Goodwin, David E. 1821 Goodwin, Roswell 1833 Gould, Alfred K. 1842 Gould, Edward Y. 1845 Gould, James G. 1824 Gould, James R. 1826 Graves, Horatio N. 1830 Greig, David 1819 Gridley, Elnathan 1847 Gridley, Horatio W. 1822 Griffin, Francis 1824 Griffin, George 1824 Griswold, George 1826 Griswold, James B. 1817 Griswold, Jared 1829 Griswold, "Richard S. 1836 Grout, Jonathan 1840 Grout, Joseph M. 1844 Guernsey, William H. 1847 Gunton, William A. 1827 Gurley, Charles G. 1830 Gwynne, Abram E. 1847 Haight. Dugald C. 1834 Hall, Daniel E. 1839 Hall, David N. 1841 Hall, Frederic 1831 Hall, Junius 1823 Hamilton, Frederick W. 1830 Han ford, Frederick A. 1845 Harper, William R. 1848 Harrison, Edward B. 1836 Harrison, James 1822 Hart, Henry C. 1823 Hart, Simeon 1851 Haskell, Charles 1849 Haskell, Henry M. 1826 Hassard, Samuel 1818 Haughton, Richard 1826 Hawkins, Alexander T. 1824 Hayes, Amasa A. 1825 Hayes, William R. 1830 Hays, Thomas A. 185 1 Hebard, Albert 1848 Hedges, Henry- C. 1821 Hempsted, John A. 1842 Hennen, William D. Page Class Page 252 1824 Herrick, John P. 125 221 1842 Higginbotham, Jesse A. 329 382 1819 Hill, Joseph A. 50 7Z 1830 Hillard, David J. 211 289 1851 Hills, James R. 389 1Z 1829 Hinckley, Asa J. 199 251 1833 Hinsdale, Abel K. 241 328 1821 Hinsdale, Theodore 75 355 1840 Hitchcock, Ambrose N. 312 124 1847 Hodges, Francis L. 369 153 1853 Hogan, Isaac H. 394 210 1828 Holcomb, Hiram 186 4Q 1840 Holcombe, Gustavus A. 312 368 1824 Holland, William M. 126 92 1822 Holley, John M. 93 124 1847 Hollister, George W. 369 124 1849 Hollister, Horace 383 154 1848 Hollister, Shelton 379 19 1833 Holmes, Silas 242 199 1816 Holmes, Uriel 5 264 1823 Holt, Eleazar 107 311 1827 Hooker, Richard 170 345 1836 Hopkins, Arthur M. 266 368 1826 Hopkins, Asa T. 155 170 1851 Hopkins, George 390 298 1846 Horton, William W. 361 1836 Hotchkiss, Jacob T. 266 368 1830 Hough, Alfred 211 252 1819 Hovey, Sylvester 50 299 1827 Howard. John L. 171 321 1833 Howe, Cheney 243 222 1835 Howe, James H. 259 106 1852 Howe, Lewis 393 210 1854 Howell, Joseph R. 396 356 1824 Hubbard, Austin 0. 126 378 182^ Hubbard, Jabez B. 141 265 1829 Hubbard, John M. 200 92 1819 Hubbard, Samuel D. 51 106 1824 Hudson, J. Trumbull 128 388 1824 Hulbert, William E. 128 382 1837 Hull, John G. 278 154 1818 Humphreys, Hector 35 34 1837 Hunt, Addison L. 279 155 1827 Huntington, George 172 125 1828 Huntington, Peter L. 186 140 1817 Huntington, Rufus 19 211 1839 Hurd, Alva A. 299 389 1852 Hurd, George E. 393 379 1849 Hurlbut, Joseph 383 74 1837 Hyatt, Robert U. 279 328 1820 Hyde, Joseph 59 INDEX Class Page Class 1834 Ingersoll, John V. 252 182I 1817 Ingersoll, Samuel B. 20 1825 1820 Isham, Chester 59 183I 1824 Ives, Matthew 129 1842 1822 Ives, Thomas E. 93 1818 1844 1823 Jameson, Robert 107 1818 1828 Jenkins, Joseph 187 1847 1847 Jennings, Lewis B. 370 1838 1818 Johns, Thomas H. 36 1839 1816 Johnson, Charles J. 5 1849 1820 Johnson, Daniel H. 60 185 1 1834 Johnston, William S. 253 1847 1830 Jones, Edward B. 212 1829 Jones, George N. 200 1816 1853 Jones, John A. W. 394 1854 1818 Jones, John N. 36 1821 1838 Jones, Seaborn A. 290 1820 1840 Judd, Chauncey P. 312 1847 1836 Judd, Sylvester 267 1847 1821 Judson, Albert 75 1831 !85i Judson, David L. 390 1827 1826 Judson, Everton 156 1844 1847 1816 Kain, John H. 6 1847 1846 Keas, Isaac N. 361 182s 187S Keller, Philip 401 1844 1840 Kelley, John S. 313 1833 1825 Kennedy, Algernon S. 141 185 1 1845 Kennedy, Thomas 356 1847 1816 Kerr, Joseph 6 1836 1816 Kimball, James 7 1839 1843 King, Josiah T. 337 1839 1832 Kingsley, George T. 232 1817 1844 Kinney, Henry 345 1839 1827 Kirby, William 172 1839 1819 Kortright, Robert 52 1829 1847 1840 Lamb, David 313 1838 1850 Lamb, Richard 387 1823 1822 Lathrop, William 94 1817 1838 Law, William L. 290 1827 1842 LeConte, Porter 329 1825 1820 Lee, Richard H. 60 1826 1816 Lemon, Sheldon 7 1829 1821 Lester, William 76 1828 1829 Lewis, George R. 201 1840 1824 Lewis, James 129 1833 1828 Lewis, James D. 187 1826 183 1 Lewis, William B. 223 1824 1817 Linsley, James H. 21 1836 1846 Linton, Stephen D. 361 1827 Little, Thomas P. Livingston, Charles O. Lockwood, Rufus A. Long, Charles Loomis, Earl Lovell, Joseph Lowrey, Romeo Lyman, William H. Lynde, Charles J. Lynde, Watts S. Lyon, Aaron Lyon, George W. Lyon, Lucius H. McClellan, George McClellan, Robert M. McCullough, William B. McElhenny, James McKce, William S. McLallen, Philemon McNeill, Hector McPhail, John B. Macy, William A. Manigault, Charles H. Manning, Nathaniel W. March, John C. Marsh, Samuel D. Marshall, Samuel D. Martin, Benjamin F. Martin, Hezekiah D. Martin, John G. Mason, Ebenezer P. Mason, Henry T. Mason, James F. Mason, John F. Masters, Justus S. Mastin, William J. Matson, Nathaniel May, Edward R. Mead, Ebenezer Mead, Samuel H. Mead, William E. Mead, Zechariah Meech. Stephen W. Meredith, George S. Metcalfe, Volney Miller, Charles J. Miller, Phineas T. Mills, Asahel P. Mills, Charles L. Mills, Frederick D. Mills, Frederick I. 407 Page 76 142 224 330 36 346 37 370 291 300 384 390 370 7 396 77 61 371 371 224 173 347 371 371 142 348 243 391 372 268 300 301 22 301 302 201 372 291 108 22 174 142 157 201 188 314 244 157 130 268 174 4o8 INDEX Class 1839 Mills, John Y. 1832 Minor, Lucius H. 1846 Minor, William 1835 Mitchell, Algernon S. 1820 Mitchell, Matthew E. 1843 Moody, Thomas H. 1833 Moore, Nathaniel S. 1852 Morehouse, David O. 1826 Morgan, Allen C. 1833 Morgan, George J. 1831 Morgan, Thomas N. 1840 Morris, DeWitt C. 1816 Morris, James VanC. 1818 Morris, Richard R. 1837 Morse, George B. 1822 Morson, Arthur A. 1836 Moseley, Samuel 1848 Mowry, David S. 1846 Mulford, David H. 1844 Mullikin, John C. 1847 Munn, John 1843 Munro, Edward 1836 Murdock, Charles E. 1820 Murray. Washington 1837 Musgrave, Christopher 1830 Neely, Lorenzo 1816 Nevins, William 1833 Newbold, James E. 1824 Nichols, George 1828 Nicoll, Alexander Y. 1852 North, Angelo W. 1830 Nott, Abraham P. 1843 Nourse, John F. 1824 Noyes, Burr 1834 Noyes, John 1837 Noyes, John A. 1840 Noyes, Oscar T. 1827 Oaks, William B. 1817 Ogden, Abraham 1816 Olcott, Charles 1844 Olmsted, Alexander F. 1844 Olmsted, Denison 1839 Olmsted, Francis A. 1845 Olmsted, John Howard 1847 Olmsted, John Hull 183s Olney, George W. 1818 Orr, Isaac 1820 Orr, Robert 1839 Packard, Cullen 1820 Paddock, Seth B. Page Class 302 1837 233 1842 361 1827 259 182s 61 1839 2>Z7 1827 244 1836 394 1819 158 1826 245 1830 224 181 7 314 1817 8 1828 38 1823 279 1843 94 1823 269 1840 380 1828 362 1833 349 1830 372 1824 338 1846 269 1842 62 1840 280 1827 1824 212 1820 8 1826 245 1849 130 188 1825 1826 394 1823 212 1833 338 1820 131 1831 253 1848 280 1838 315 1834 1827 174 1823 '23 1839 9 349 350 302 357 2,72 260 38 62 1828 1819 1833 1841 1847 1832 1837 1817 1818 303 1836 62 1836 Page Palmer, Coddington B. 280 Parker, Charles C. 330 Parker, Charles T. 175 Parker, Ebenezer 143 Parker, Eliphalet 303 Parker, George G. 175 Parkhurst, Daniel B. 270 Parkhurst, Jeremy 53 Parmelee, William 159 Patton, Charles H. 212 Patton, Robert B. 23 Payne, Benjamin E. 24 Payson, John O. 188 Peck, Henry E. 108 Peck, William S. 338 Peet, Stephen 109 Pelton, Cale 315 Penniman. Silas M. 189 Perkins, Alfred 245 Perkins, Alfred E. 213 Perkins, George W. 131 Perkins, George W. T. 362 Perkins, Jacob 331 Perkins, William 315 Perry, John M. S. 176 Perry, Samuel 132 Peter, John P. C. 63 Peters, Hugh 160 Peters, Hugh F. 384 Pettingell, Amos 143 Phelps, Amos A. 160 Phelps, Dudley III Phelps, John 246 Pierson, Jeremiah H. 63 Pike, Francis V. 224 Plimpton, Franklin L. 380 Polk, Samuel W. 292 Pomroy, Henrj^ 254 Pope, C. Milton 177 Pope, LeRoy 112 Porter, Charles H. 304 Porter, Francis 189 Porter, Theodore W. 53 Potwine, Stephen A. 246 Powell, Tohn D. 322 Powell, William J. 27i Power, William 233 Powers, Daniel 281 Pratt, Horace S. 24 Pratt, Seneca 39 Preston, Henry K. 270 Prindle, Charles 270 INDEX 409 Class 1831 1840 1819 Page Class Pringle, John McP. Proctor, Henry M. Purcell, Edward H. 1831 Quenichet, William F. 183 1 Rae, Luzerne 1829 Ralli, Constantine T. 1848 Rathbone, Isaac T. 1825 Raymond, Henry A. 1818 Raymond, James 1823 Reed, Edmund L. 1822 Reed, Eli 1829 Reeve, Tapping B. 1817 Reid, Jared 1847 Renshaw, Thomas W. 1842 Rexford, Steuben 1822 Reynolds, Walter 1838 Ribeiro, Carlos F. 1821 Richards, John 1850 Richards, William H. 1848 Richardson, Robert M. 1822 Richmond, John R. 1818 Riddel. Robert 1819 Riddell, Freeman 1846 Righter, Chester N. 1822 Ripley, George B. 1844 Robb, John H. 1833 Robertson, Robert 1837 Robeson, Abel B. 1828 Robinson, Thomas 1826 Robinson, William 1842 Robinson, William W. 1822 Rockwell, William 1823 Rogers, Timothy 1829 Rogers, William H. 1820 Rogers, Zabdiel 1823 Root, Judson A. 1821 Rose. Israel G. 1846 Rowland, James G. 1851 Rowland, Tames L. 1826 Rowland, William F. 1836 Rowland. William S. 1840 Ruggles, Charles J. 1839 Rumsey, Daniel L. 1822 Russell, Albert 1844 Russell, Hollis 1817 Rutledge, Edward 1819 Rutledge, John H. 1829 Rutledge. Nicholas H. 1841 Sa, Pompeo A. de 1844 Sammis. Augustus 225 316 54 225 226 201 380 144 39 113 94 202 25 374 332 95 292 T? 387 380 95 40 54 362 95 339 246 281 190 162 332 96 114 202 63 114 78 391 162 271 j 316 304 96 350 26, 54! 202 1 32; 351 1832 839 824 816 841 827 830 846 837 830 831 821 822 822 844 822 837 825 824 829 848 816 829 827 823 837 835 821 835 828 840 826 833 83s 818 847 840 851 816 816 850 846 823 824 826 844 837 838 818 837 821 Page Sanford, Julius E. 305 Sanford, Mason F. 133 Sanford, Whiting 10 Sargent, Henry z^Z Saunders, Alanson 177 Saunders, Josephus W. 213 Savage, Josiah 363 Schenck, George 282 Scoville, Charles E. 214 Seddon, Thomas 227 Shaw, Oliver A. 79 Sheaffe, George D. 96 Sheaffe, William F. 97 Sheldon, James A. 351 Sheldon William 97 Sheldon, William H. 282 Sherman, Charles B. 145 Sherwood, Moses A. 133 Sherwood, William B. 203 Shoener, John T. 381 Shoolbred, John G. il Shorter, James H. 203 Simonds, Ephraim 178 Skinner, Aaron N. 115 Smith, Azariah 282 Smith, Edward W. 260 Smith, Eli 80 Smith, Henry 260 Smith, Horatio N. 190 Smith, James 316 Smith, James Malcolm 163 Smith, James Monroe 324 Smith, Jeremiah 247 Smith, John C. 261 Smith, Levi 40 Smith, Linus B. 374 Smith, Nelson 317 Smith, Noah 391 Smith, Peter 11 Smith, Phineas 12 Smith. Robert 387 Smith, Rufus 364 Smith, Sidney 116 Smith, Theophilus 134 Smith. William 163 Smith, William 352 Southall. Frank A. 283 Spalding, Ebenezer 293 Spalding, George 41 Sparks, William A. 284 Spencer. Horatio N. 82 Sperry. Corydon S. 234 4IO INDEX Class 1845 Sprague, T. Dwight 1819 Spring, Pinckney 1830 Stanley, Anthony D. 1826 Stanly, John W. 1817 Starr, Lewis R. 1847 Steele, Henry S. 1840 Steere, George W. 1824 Sterling, Henry D. 1820 Sterling, Thomas S. 1846 Stetson, Albert E. 1828 Stevens, Edwin 1867 Stevenson, William L. 1816 Stewart, Charles 1823 Stiles, Ezra 1846 Stiles, Joseph 1817 Stillson, William B. 1838 Stoddard, David T. 1833 Stoddard, John M. F. 1831 Stoddard, Jonathan 1820 Stoddard, Solomon 1817 Stone, Roswell 1842 Stout, Asher M. 1826 Street, Harlow L. 1835 Strong, Caleb 1828 Strong, George W. 1843 Strong, Samuel W. 1818 Stuart, James 1833 Stuart, Moses B. 1816 Swift, George 1842 Swift, Jared R. 1858 Taft, Edmund M. 1825 Taft, John A. 1839 Taintor, Charles 1832 Talcott, Eleazar P. 1818 Tallmadge, John S. 1817 Taylor, Edward 1843 Taylor, Franklin 1829 Tenney, George C. 1820 Terry, Edward P. 1819 Terry, Shadrach H. 1842 Thacher, James M. 1819 Thomas, William 1830 Thompson, Albert 1822 Thompson, Edward G. 1818 Titus, Henry B. 1817 Titus, William U. 1828 Tolefree, Robert 1828 Tomlinson, Henry A. 1833 Torrey, Charles T. 1822 Townsend, Isaac H. 1827 Train, Elijah N. Page Qass 357 1824 55 1839 214 1854 163 1818 26 1830 374 1825 317 1829 135 64 1851 364 1844 190 1829 399 1824 12 182 1 117 1818 364 26 1840 293 1853 247 1824 227 1829 64 1827 27 1827 333 1816 163 1819 261 1849 191 1847 339 1854 41 1817 247 1826 12 1845 333 1839 1822 398 1853 145 1848 305 1831 234 1874 41 1827 27 1818 340 1834 203 1830 65 1846 55 1848 334 1820 56 1845 215 1836 97 1816 42 182S 27 1823 191 1823 192 1824 247 i8S4 97 185 1 178 1830 Page Trapier, William H. 135 Trotter, Silas F. 306 Trumbull, Charles E. 397 Turner, Edward 42 Turner, Henry 215 Tyler, Edward R. 145 Tyler, Joseph D. 204 VanBlarcom, James 391 VanBokkelen, James E. 353 VanDyke, Alfred W. 204 VanWyck, William 135 Vass, Edmund B. 83 Vaughan, Henry 42 Waite, George C. 317 Walden, Edward 395 Walker, Charles 136 Walker, Henry A. 204 Walker, Willard H. 179 Walsh, Charles 179 Walsh, John S. 13 Ward, Henry D. A. 56 Waring, Charles B. 384 Waring, Samuel C. 375 Warner, Jared C. 398 Warner, Richard 27 Washburn, Elizur T. 164 Watkinson, David B. 357 Watson, John M. 306 Webb, Isaac 98 Webb, William R. . 395 Webster, Cyprian G. 381 Webster, Horace B. 227 Weed, Harvey 400 Welch, William H. 179 Weld, Lewis 43 Welles, Charles R. 254 Welles, Thomas N. 215 Wesson, Lorenzo 365 Wetherell, George A. 381 Wheeler, Fitch 65 Wheeler, Ira B. 3S8 Wheeler, Nelson 272 Wheeler, Russell C. 13 Whitehead. Cobum 192 Whiting. Daniel W. 117 Whiting, Joseph 118 Whiting, Spencer 136 Whitney, Edward P. 398 Whitney, Emerson C. 392 Whitney, Henry 215 INDEX 41 I Class 1820 Whittelsey, Chaimcey 1843 Whittelsey, Ira D. 1834 Whittelsey, Samuel G. 1818 Whittlesey, Frederick 1822 Whittlesey, Frederick 1827 Wickes, Simon A. 1828 Wickham, Robert H. 1823 Wight. John 1837 Wilbur, Seth T. 1824 Wilcox, Chauncey 1835 Wilcox, William W. 1847 Wildman, Henry F. 1817 Wilkins, Edmund 1820 Wilkins, John L. 1822 Wilkins, William W. 1828 Willey, Sidney B. 1819 Williams, Elias W. 1827 Williams, John S. 1822 Williams, John W. 1826 Williams, Richard S. 1829 Williams, Sidney P. 1838 Williams, Thomas S. 1844 Williams, William M. 1839 Williams, William P. Page I Class 66 340 254 44 99 180 192 118 284 136 262 375 28 66 100 192 56 181 100 165 205 295 353 307 823 820 847 816 817 840 829 818 823 836 816 828 847 836 840 845 836 847 822 823 Page Williamson, Samuel McC. 119 Williston, John P. 66 Wilson, John 376 Winchester, George 14 Withers, Robert W. 29 Witmer, Theodore B. 318 Wood, James 205 Wood, Spencer 45 Woodbridge, Henry H. 119 Woodruff, Curtiss 295 Woodruff, Horace 193 Woodruff. Lucius H. 273 Woodward, Rufus 15 Worcester, Henry A. 194 Worrell, Cyrus E. 376 Wraj'. James McA. 273 Wrighti Edward 318 Wright, George T. 358 Wright, Henry 273 Yancey, Antonio P. 376 Young, Guilford D. loi Young, Thomas J. 120 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES THE U^MVERSITY LIBRARY This book i' ' . ' <» las' ^4m ! , 3 SOUTHERN REGIONAL L IflRAfiv ( AA 001 195 290 4 WM^'^W^M^!^ OLATING