STATISTICS OF THE Class of 184.0, FROM 1840 TO 1870, WITH NOTICES OF THEIR MEETINGS HELD AT YALE COLLEGE, JULY 25, i860; JULY 25, 1866; and JULY 20, 1870. Published bg oxAtx of tht |^la^s NEW HAVEN : PRESS OF TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR. 187I. STATISTICS Class of 1840, FROM 1840 TO 1870, WITH NOTICES OF THEIR MEETINGS HELD AT YALE COLLEGE, JULY 25, i860; JULY 25, 1866; and JULY 20, 1870. ffluMisW bg ox&tx of the |Llass. NEW HAVEN : PRESS OF TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR. 1871. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/statisticsofclas1840yale (I PREFACE PUBLISHED WITH THE STATISTICS IN 1850. Agreeably to a vote of the Class on a former occasion, a meeting was held at the Tontine Hotel, in New Haven, on the evening- of the 13th of August, and again on the night of the 14th. It had been hoped and expected that the general interest of the members of the Class in each other, coupled with the interest which all alumni of '' Old Yale " might be supposed to feel, in being present at the anniversary which would complete the third half century since the founding of the College, would bring together on this occasion a large number of the Class of 1840. This hope, however, was disappointed, the following named persons only being present : — Alley, Booth, Bruyn, Curtis, Dexter, Doubleday, Edwards, Eg- GLESTON, Fitch, T. E. Foster, Hart, G. H. Hollister, J. C. Hollister, Houghton, Ingersoll, James, Knapp, Lawrence, Leavitt, D. P. Noyes, Parsons, Perrin, Rankin, Richards, Thacher, and Wright. The meeting of the few who were present was, how- ever, as it could not but be, extremely interesting. The minds of all were carried back with vivid recollection to the scenes and days of college life, and as we were made acquainted with each other's joys and sorrows and suc- cesses a new tie of interest was woven between us. A tinge of sadness was indeed imparted to our meeting, as we listened to the records which told the early death of several whose companionship had been our joy in former years, and who gave abundant promise of distinction and usefulness. In the name of the Class we tendered the expression of heart-felt sympathy to their surviving rela- tives. The absence of some was partially supplied by letters from them, which went far to increase the interest of our meeting, and to bring them before us, at least as they were in days gone by. It would be difficult to describe our meeting in other than this general way. Our classmates who were not there will readily imagine its more particular aspects, and its more peculiar scenes. We have thought it would be a matter of interest to them to know who were present, and to all of us to preserve some outlines, at least, of the history of the Class thus far, and it was accordingly de- termined to publish the present sketch of our late meeting. Our next assembly is to take place in i860; and, breth- ren and classmates, if our lives are spared, let us then be present to take each other by the hand. Death has al- ready thinned our ranks. AsHBURNER, Babcock, BeaS- LEY, Bristol, Colclough, Colton, Dwight, Hitch- cock, Kelley, Proctor, Ruggles, Smith, Waite : these are already taken from among living men ! Another ten years will doubtless remove many others. Let those who then survive, spare no pains to greet each other at our next appointed convocation, and if any of us may not be there, because removed from earthly scenes, let our common virtues and our common faith ensure us all a meeting in that world where "there shall be no more death." N. H. E. THE MEETING OF THE CLASS OF 1840, TWENTY YEARS AFTER ITS GRADUATION. In accordance with a vote passed at the meeting in 1850, the Class convened at the Tontine Hotel, on the evening of Wednesday, July 25th, i860. This meeting was happily preceded by an informal reunion, on the previous evening, at the house of our honored classmate, Charles R. Ingersoll, Esq. Twenty years, aided by the general adoption of a manly style of beard, had wrought wondrous changes in countenances, so that our efforts at mutual recognition and recollection were both painful and amusing. It was plain, however, that no change had passed upon the generous and cordial spirit of the Class of 1840. This, in every case, we could re- cognize, in the grasp of the hand, and the tone of the voice, even though the lines of the face were as bewilder- ing, for the moment, as a diagram in conic sections, on the recitation blackboard, in the olden times. This little party was unexpectedly enlivened by the introduction of three little girls, about twelve years of age, the daughters of three of our classmates. Miss Ingersoll, Miss Shoe- maker, and Miss Burnam. The children received a most cordial greeting, and added much to the pleasure of the evening. This little circumstance suggested to several of us the idea of connecting with the celebration of our twenty- fifth anniversary a similar informal party, at which the wives and children of the Class should be present, so far as practicable and convenient. At this meeting Curtis F. Burnam, our orator on Class Day, was requested to be our spokesman at the Alumni meeting. 6 It will be remembered that at the meeting of 1850, there were present but twent3^-six members of the Class, viz: Alley, Booth, Bruyn, Curtls, Dexter, Double- day, Edwards, Eggleston, Fitch, T. E. Foster, Hart, G. H. HOLLLSTER, J. C. HOLLISTER, HOUGHTON, InGER- SOLL, James, Knapp, Lawrence, Leavitt, D. P. Noyes, Parsons, Perrin, Rankin, Richards, Thacher, and Wright. Of this number, eighteen were present in i860, while three, viz: T. E. FOSTER, Knapp, and Wright, have passed to a *' better country," thus verifying the remark in the report of that meeting, " Another ten years will doubtless remove many others." Seven of the Class, not then present, have also passed away since that time. We add, with sadness, these names to the list of the de- parted : Grout, Noyes, Lamb, Miller, Pelton, Wil- liam Perkins, and VVitmer. During the first ten years after our graduation, thirteen of our one hundred names were numbered with the dead. During the last ten years eleven more were added to the list. We give a catalogue of all who have died, in the order of their decease : Ambrose N. Hitchcock, . - - 1840 Henry M. Proctor, _ _ _ 1841 John B. Dwight, _ _ . _ 1843 Peter R. Beasley, _ - - _ 1844 John S. Kelley, ----- 1844 James Smith, ----- 1846, William E. Ashburner, _ _ - 1847, James S. Babcock, - _ - _ 1847 George H. Colton, - - - - 1847 Bagenal Colclough, - - - 1848 Charles J. Ruggles, - - - - 1849 George C. Waite, - - - - 1849 George G. Steere, _ _ - - 1849 Simeon C. Bristol, - - - - 1850 Thomas E. Foster, - - - - 185 1 David Lamb, _ - - - _ 1852 Edward Wright, ----- 1852 Cale Pelton, _ - _ _ _ 1853. William Perkins, . _ _ - 1854. Oscar T. Noyes, ----- 1854. Joseph M. Grout, _ . - - 1855. . Theodore B. Witmer, - - _ 1856. Charles J. Miller, - _ - - 1859. Jared O. Knapp, _ _ _ _ i860. Many pleasant memories, and many sad regrets, mingle as we read this catalogue of the early dead. As we came together, the constant mention of the departed, involun- tarily called out by inquiries, sometimes in the midst of the hilarities of our pleasant meeting, spread a sombre light over the whole scene, and brought into conjunction, in a manner very unusual, thoughts of this life and thoughts of eternity, the memories of the happy past and the anticipations of the mysterious future. It will be seen that seventy-six who graduated with the Class are still living. Of this number forty-one were pres- ent at the meeting of i860, viz: BuRNAM, J. C. HOLLIS- ter, Hoyt, Goodwin, Noyes, James, Dexter, J. Few Smith, Edwards, Douglass, Lawrence, Eggleston, WOODBRIDGE, NORRIS, IgLEHART, InGERSOLL, McCaLL, Day, Childs, Brinsmade, Long, G. H. Hollister, Marsh, Gregory, Fitch, Curtis, Richards, Shoe- maker, DOUBLEDAY, RaNKIN, HuNT, PeRRIN, ThACHER, Houghton, Hamelin, Dodge, Leavitt, Bronson, Al- ley, Thompson, Gulliver. Seymour, who left the Class, Sophomore 3^ear, and afterwards graduated at Trin- ity College, was also present by invitation. It will of course be impossible to reproduce upon paper the scenes of the meeting itself. It continued from 8 P. M. until the dawn of the morning had begun to spread over the streets of our university town, reminding us, as we wended our way to our lodgings, of the peculiar appearance of things, seen seldom enough since, at that early hour when we used to grope sleepily to morning prayers. This can be said, however, and ought to be said, that without any design or wish on the part of any to make it so, it was a peculiarly earnest and thoughtful meeting. BuRNAM, who acted as Chairman, gave the key-note in his opening address, when, after reciting the usual incidents of his history, both grave and gay, he rose the second time and added, that he could not do justice to his narrative or to his own feelings without saying, " I am a different man from what you knew me in College." Circumstances related by many of the Class, the earnest Christian feel- ing incidentally expressed by many, and especially the circumstantial accounts, received from several sources, of the recent death of that noble Christian man, Jared O. Knapp, contributed to deepen the delightful impression of the opening address. There was nothing sanctimoni- ous or studied; but in the frank simplicity which charac- terized the meeting, the feelings of the heart were allowed to bubble up as they would. No one who listened, could have failed to receive the impression that the Class was made up of earnest men, who were living for a purpose, and who, that purpose accomplished, were anticipating a life of wider activities and purer joys hereafter. Classmates! — We are to celebrate our quarter century anniversary five years hence. Will you not all be there, .or if you fall by the way, will you not leave a record of noble deeds — of a life made sublime — over which your Classmates shall then linger with delight and honorable pride? J. p. G. THE MEETING OF THE CLASS OF 1840, TWENTY-SIX YEARS AFTER ITS GRADUATION. The meeting commemorative of the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the graduation of the Class, was purposely postponed to the succeeding year, on account of the re- cent close of the war, and the confused state of the times, not promising well for a large gathering. The meeting in 1866 was quite well attended, and was a thoroughly pleasant reunion. The regular Class-supper was held at the Tontine Hotel, presided over by Gen. Lewis Parsons. The facts there elicited in respect to the history and con- dition of the Class have all been embodied in the statistics now published, which bring up the Class-record to the latest possible date. There were present at this meeting the following members: Brinsmade, Dexter, Edwards, Eggleston, Fitch, Goodwin, Gulliver, G. H. Hol- lister, j. c. hollister, hoppin, liunt, hubbard, Ingersoll, Jesup, Long, Lawrence, Leavitt, Noyes, Parsons, Perrin, Rankin, Richards, Tiffany and Roderick Terry. THE MEETING OF THE CLASS OF 1840, THIRTY YEARS AFTER ITS GRADUATION. In June, 1870, the following note was addressed to every member of the Class of '40, whose residence, or probable residence, was known : CLASS OF 1840. New Haven, June i, 1870. Dear Sir : We need hardly remind you that the present year is the thirtieth anniversary of our graduation, and we know that you will concur with us in thinking that the year should be-specially noticed, and celebrated by a large Class gathering. Never, probably, shall we be bet- ter able to come together as a Class in a friendly circle, since our numbers still remain unusually full. We, there- fore, would entreat you to make an effort to be with us this year, and without formality, to enjoy the sight of each others faces once more. Those of us who live in New Haven, promise to do what we can to render your visit a pleasant one, and for the sake of old memories and friendships, we would earnestly request that you will res- pond to this notice by being present in New^ Haven the day before Commencement, which comes this year upon the 2ist of July. L. W. Fitch, John C. Hollister, James M. Hoppin, Chas. R. Ingersoll. II In answer to this call the following members of the Class came together on the evening of the 20th of July, 1870, at the house of J. M. Hoppin, corner of Sachem and Mansfield Sts., New Haven : Theodore H. Benedict, Henry Booth, William B. Brinsmade, Curtis F. Burnam, William B. Cur- tis, Giles H. Deshon, Henry M. Dexter, Jonathan Edwards, Nathaniel H. Eggleston, Lucius W. Fitch, Samuel Gregory, John P. Gulliver, James P. Hart, John H. Head, John C. Hollister, James M. Hoppin, William A. Houghton, Charles R. Inger- SOLL, Horace James, James R. Jesup, Chauncey P. JuDD, Amos E. Lav^rence, Loring B. Marsh, Orin F. Otis, Edward E. Rankin, George Thacher, Wil- liam H. Tiffany. The night was spent in friendly conversation. It was good once more to look on the manly, brotherly faces of such men as Booth and Burnam. The absent living and the absent dead were none of them forgotten. Those who have known and have loved each other as boys can never grow old in each others regard. "Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death. In years that bring the philosophic mind." STATISTICS OF THE CLASS OF 1840. Levi Abbott, Wilton, N. H. Born May 26, 18 18. In 1843 was a lawyer in Nashville, N. H. ; took his A. M. in 1844, and in 1848 was teaching school in Alexandria, Va. Married, and taught school in Newark, New Jersey. Is now residing with his wife in HoUis, N. H., where he carries on a farm. He has no children. *J0HN B. Alley, Boston, Mass. Born April 25, 1821. Took his A. M. in course, and M. D. at Harvard Univer- sity ; studied medicine two years in Paris ; was a prac- ticing Physician in Boston, Mass. Not married. Died in 1862, in Boston, Mass. He was much esteemed, and his loss is felt by the poor. '^Basilius Argyras, Epirus, Greece. Born April 15, 1 8 16. Soon after graduating, returned to Greece, and was engaged in some revolutionary movements there ; returned to America in 1842, and entered into business in Boston, first as a clerk in a wholesale leather establish- ment, and afterwards on his own account. Was some- what successful in business. In 1849 ^^ sailed for Califor- nia, but was wrecked in the Straits of Magellan. He however reached San Francisco, where he was in 1861. He was never married. He died in 1866. He always spoke with delight of Yale College, and kept up his affec- tion for the Class of 1840. ^William E. Ashburner, Philadelphia, Penn. Born March 22, 1815. Took his A. M. in course; was in the book business, for a time, in Philadelphia, and then be- came a teacher. He died in Philadelphia, in 1847. 14 Garwood H. Atwood, Woodbury, Conn. Born De- cember 6, 1818. Studied medicine at Yale, and is a prac- titioner in Woodbury, Conn. Is married. He has be- come an active member of the church, as well as a promi- nent man in his profession. He has several children. Edward M. Avery, New Haven. Born March 25, 1 8 19. Studied law and opened an office in Wooster, Ohio. In 1844 he moved to St. Louis, in circumstances of great adversity ; he however soon became the head of the St. Louis Academy, and became Superintendent of the city schools. Is now Principal of Webster College, at Web- ster Station, on the Pacific Railroad, near St. Louis, Mo. Is married, but has no children. He is much respected as a teacher and a citizen. ■^James S. Babcock, Coventry, Conn. Born Novem- ber 17, 181 5. Took his A. M. in 1844; spent some time at the South. He died calmly and contentedly, in 1847, ^^ Coventry, Conn. He left unpublished manuscript poems in the hands of his classmates, Messrs. D. P. Noyes and Colton ; but on the decease of the latter, they were handed over to his classmate Goodwin, under whose superintendence they were published by Mr. Babcock's sister, with a biography. In the estimation of his friends, and also of more impartial readers, his poems possess much real merit. *Peter R. Beasley, Brunswick County, Va. Born 1 8 16. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and became a planter. He died in 1844, of congestive fever. Not married. Christopher J. Beirne, Union, Monroe County, Va. Born July 9, 18 19. Is a lawyer in Virginia, and has rep- resented the County of Monroe in the State Legislature. Theodore H. Benedict, New York City. Born March 13, 1821. Took his A. M. in 1844. Is now residing upon his farm, in Tarrytown, N. Y. Has been a member of the Senate of the State of New York. Not married. 15 Henry Booth, Roxbury, Conn. . Born August 19, 1818. Taught school one year in Wellsboro, Penn. Studied law in Litchfield and New Haven, Conn., and commenced the practice in Towanda, Bradford County, Penn., where he resided until the spring of 1856, when he removed to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and took charge of the Law Depart- ment of the State and National Law School. In June, 1858, he left the School, and engaged in the practice of the law in Poughkeepsie. In July, 1859, ^^ removed to Chicago, 111., and is now at the head of the Law Depart- ment in the University of Chicago. He was the Deputy Attorney-General for Bradford County, Penn. Married Miss Ellen Morris, of Wellsboro, Tioga Co., Penn., and has six children, three daughters and three sons; the old- est of the sons is now in the Chicago University. He has been elected a Circuit Judge for six years. William B. Brinsmade, Washington, Conn. Born May 10, 1819. Is a Civil Engineer, and has been em- ployed upon most of the recently constructed railroads in New England. In 1856 was made Superintendent of the Connecticut River Railroad. In 1850 married Miss Chapin, of Springfield, Mass., and has three children. Is now residing at Springfield, Mass. He has resigned his connection with the Conn. River R. R. on account of ill health. His eldest son is a student in Harvard College. ^Simeon C. Bristol, Rochester, N. Y. Born April 24, 1818. Went to Milwaukie, where he studied law with W. P. Lynde, Esq. In 1843 he removed to Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin, where he commenced the practice of his profession, and in 1845 represented that county in the Legislature. He married Miss Ordway, of Wisconsin, and had one child. In 1849 went to California, where he died in February, 1850, of chronic diarrhea. William A. Bronson, New Haven, Conn. Born June 4, 1817. Studied medicine and took the degree of M. D. at Yale ; entered upon his profession in Westchester Co., N. Y., from thence removing to New York City, where i6 he is now a Dentist. He has the reputation of being one of the most successful Dentists in the city, and has made some important improvements in dental instruments. In 1844 he married Miss Raymond, of New Haven. ^Johannes Bruyn, Ulster County, N. Y. Born May 16, 1820. Studied law at Kingston, New York, where he resided in the practice of that profession until his death in 1862, having maintained an excellent reputation. To the time of his decease he kept up friendly correspond- ence with several of his classmates. He was married. Curtis F. Burnam, Richmond, Ky. Born May 24, 1820. Took the degree of LL. B. at Transylvania Uni- versity, Ky., in 1842, and of A. M. at Yale, in 1846; was admitted to the bar in 1843, ^^^ has since remained in the practice of his profession, at Richmond, Ky. In May, 1845, married Miss Sarah H. Rollins, of Boone County, Mo., and has eight children, — five sons and three daugh- ters — the oldest of whom was at New Haven, at the Class- meeting in i860. In 185 1 was elected to the Legislature of Kentucky, from the County of Madison, and in 1852 was chosen one of the Presidential Electors from Ken- tucky, to vote for Scott and Graham. In 1853 declined the candidacy for a seat in the United States Congress, from his District, with an absolute certainty of an elec- tion, as the candidate of his party ! In 1859, again repre- sented his County in the State Legislature, and in i860 was a member of the Constitutional Union Convention which assembled at Baltimore, in May. He was a mem- ber of the Kentucky Legislature in the years '60, '61, '62 and '63, and in '63 was Speaker of the house. He strove to hold the State fast to her allegiance to the national government, at the cost of much personal sacrifice and loss. *WiLLiAM Chauvenet, Philadelphia, Penn. Born 1819. Received his A. M. in course. In 1841 was ap- pointed Professor of Mathematics in the U. S. Navy, and on the establishment of the U. S. Naval Academj'- at An- i; napolis, Md., he was made Professor of Astronomy, and placed at the head of that institution. In 1859 he was elected Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in the Washington University at St. Louis, and after three years became its Chancellor. In 1869 he was compelled by ill health to resign this office. After traveling in the South without the restoration hoped for, he returned to St. Louis, and in the autumn went to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he died, Dec. 13, 1870. He ranked very high as a man of science, and was among the first mathematicians and astronomers of our country. He contributed largely to the American Journal of Science and the American Astronomical Journal, and was a collaborator in the pre- paration of the United States Ephemeris, for which he furnished new and original methods of finding the longi- tude by lunar observations. His '' Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry " is considered one of the most complete works extant on that subject. He was also the author of a treatise on " Practical Astronomy," in two large octavo volumes, which has received great commend- ation both in this country and in Europe. His scientific books have been largely used as text-books in our higher schools and colleges, and their reputation is on the in- crease. He was President of the American Association for the advancement of science. Mr. Chauvenet in his later years was a great sufferer from ill health, but he retained to the last his bright piercing look and pleasant smile. With his premature white locks, long beard, and strikingly intellectual fea- tures, he looked like an old Greek Philosopher. His ardent love of music formed one of the chief solaces of his life, spent as it was in the most severe studies. In December, 1841, he married Miss Catherine Hemple, of Philadelphia. He left five children. His oldest son is reported to be a promising scholar and chemist, and his oldest daughter inherits her father's musical genius. At the class meeting in 1870, not long before his death, the Class voted to send him a letter of sympathy through Prof. Hoppin. 3 Enoch L. Childs, Henniker, N. H. Born Oct. 6, 1810. Was married in 1840 to Miss Harriett, Long, and went immediately South ; taught school several years in Mont- gomery, Ala., but since 1846 has been a Railroad-bridge contractor at the North, in company with his brothers. Has no children. In 1866, he was connected with the department of Internal Revenue in the City of New York, '^Bagenal Colclough, Wexford, Ireland. Born Octo- ber 20, 1820. Studied law at Cambridge, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1843. H!e then went to Ireland, and from there brought his parents to this country. He entered into partnership in the practice of law with his brother, at Montgomery, Ala. ; but his health gradually failed until his death, which occurred July 20, 1848, in DeKalb County, Miss., whither he had gone for relief. His disease was consumption. " Young as he was," says an obituary notice in a Montgomery paper, " he met death without fear, and surrendered this life with but little re- gret. He died with the Christian's hope of immortality, and as the hour of dissolution came nearer, his mind became clearer, his thoughts more elevated, and his hopes brighter. His death will long be a source of deep regret to his friends and acquaintance ; but none can tell how terrible the shock to his family. They never more in this life shall see, ' face to face,' the good and dutiful son — the kind, gentle and affectionate brother." He was not married. ^George H. Colton, Westford, N. Y. Born Oct. 25, 1818. Immediately after graduating, taught school in Hartford, Conn. ; published his poem '' Tecumseh," soon afterwards. He was engaged in literary pursuits until his death, which occurred at New York city, December I, 1847. He established the American (Whig) Review, and was its able editor at the time of his death. William B. Curtis, Exeter, N. Y. Born June 5, 1812. Studied theology at New Haven, and became a Clergy- 19 man in Humphreysville, Conn., and afterwards in Hunt- ington, Conn. In [858 removed to Plumstead, N. J., and in December, 1859, became Pastor of the Congregational Church in Branford, Conn. Is married, and has two sons, having lost two children. He now resides in Monroe, Fairfield County, Conn., where he preaches as a " stated supply." Charles Day, Washington, Conn. Born August 18, 18 1 8. Studied law three years after graduating and took his A. M. in course. He has been engaged in mercantile life in Apalachicola, Fla., and New Orleans, La., since graduating. Has visited Europe, and now resides in New York city, as an officer of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Co. He married the daughter of Hon. S. G. Haven of Buffalo, Dec. 14, 1865. A letter from him tells the Class that his interest in all that concerns them continues unabated. Giles H. Deshon, New London, Conn. Born March, 1820. Is an Episcopal Clergyman; at present settled in the Parish of Meriden, Conn. He has been to Europe since graduating, and has had Parishes at Windham and Glastenbury. He is married and has four children, all daughters. He has been twenty-one years rector of the Parish Church in Meriden, and has built two large stone churches. John Devereaux, Raleigh, N. C. Born December 12, 18 19. Became a planter in North Carolina, soon after graduating. In 1843 he married Miss Mordecai of Ra- leigh, and has eight children. Before the war he had his city residence at Raleigh, and a plantation at Halifax on the Roanoke river, and was very prosperous. He was a member of the State Government of N. C. under the Con- federacy, and when Gen. Sherman entered Raleigh, Gen. Frank Blair was quartered near his place. He had a son under Gen. Jubal Early in the Valley of the Shenandoah. Henry M. Dexter, Boston, Mass. Born August 13, 1821. Took his A. M. in course; studied theology at 20 Andover, after teaching some time at Rochester, Mass. Was first Pastor of Franklin Street Church, Manchester, N. H., whence in 1849 he removed to Boston, where he became Pastor of the Pine Street Congregational Church, and afterwards of the Berkeley St. Cong. Church. He w^as for a few years sole editor of the Boston '' Congrega- tionalist." Has also established the " Congregational Quarterly," of which he was one of the editors. Married Miss Emeline Palmer, of Boston, and has had a son and two daughters. He has lost his two daughters. His son, Henry Morton, was graduated at Y. C, and also at Andover Theol. Seminary. He resigned his pastorate of the Berkeley St. Church to devote himself more exclu- sively to editorial and literary labors. He is now in Europe making researches in preparation for a work with which he has been long occupied, the history of the Old Colony (Plymouth). Among other books which he has published, his work on " Congregationalism " is the most elaborate and is highly regarded. Richard V. Dodge, Springfield, 111. Born August 4, 1822. Took his A. M. in course. Having studied theol- ogy at Princeton, N. J., he became Pastor of a Presbyte- rian Church, at Princeton, Ind. From there he removed to Terre Haute, Ind., and thence to Springfield, 111. He then became Pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Wheel- ing, Va. He is now settled over a Presbyterian Church in Madison, Wis. Married Miss Ridgely in 1845, ^^^ has four children. John M. Doubleday, Binghamton, N. Y. Born March 13, 1821. Taught school for a while, but his health having failed, he became a merchant in 1846. He is now in good business as an Umbrella manufacturer at 136 Wil- liam street, New York city, and resides in Montclair, N. J. Visited Europe four years since. Married, and has two children. John W. Douglas, Trenton, N. Y. Born April, 1818. Taught school at the South for some time ; studied theol- ogy, and in 1848 went as a Missionary to California, and in 1849 took charge of a Church at San Jose, for eighteen months. For four years publisher of a religious paper called " The Pacific." In May, 1855, returned to the East, and has resided at Trenton, Oneida Co., N. Y. During the war of the Rebellion he was in the civil ser- vice in connection with military R. Roads in North Caro- lina, on the Union side, and after peace went into the culture of cotton at the South. Is not married. *J0HN B. DwiGHT, Norwich, Conn. Born December 8, 1 82 1. Was engaged the first year after graduating in teaching. He received his A. M. in course, and in 1843 became a Tutor in Yale College ; he was also attached to the Yale Law School. He died October 20, 1843, from a knife wound received while endeavoring, as Tutor, to quell a disturbance among the students. Jonathan Edwards, Andover, Mass. Born July 17, 1820. Received his A.M. in course; taught school in Lunenburg, Va., and in Gorham and Augusta, Me. ; stud- ied theology at New Haven and Andover, and was the Pastor of a Congregational Church in Woburn, Mass., till 1856, when he removed to Rochester, N. Y. Re- mained in Rochester some years as Pastor of a Congre- gational Church. In 1863 was settled over a Church in Dedham, Mass., where he now resides. In 1848 married Miss Frances S. Bronson, and has two daughters and a son. Nathaniel H. Eggleston, Hartford, Conn. Born May 7, 1822. Immediately after graduating engaged in the study of law, at Hartford ; was afterwards a resident graduate at New Haven, where he studied theology, and in 1845 became Pastor of the Congregational Church in Ellington, Conn., at which place he remained until 1850. He was for a time, in New Haven, the acting Pastor of the First Congregational Society, during the absence of Rev. Dr. Bacon in Europe. In 185 1 removed to Brook- lyn, N. Y., and thence, in 1853, to Chicago, 111., to take 22 the charge of a Church and a religious newspaper. Re- maining there two years, he then removed to Madison, Wisconsin, remaining till i860, when he resigned his charge and came East. He was next installed as a Pastor in Stockbridge, Mass., Avhere he remained nine years: was temporary Professor of Rhetoric at Williams Col- lege, where his eldest son has just graduated. He was married, July 30, 1844, to Miss Sarah Ann Winship, of Hartford, Conn., and has four children. ^Stuart W. Fisk, Natchez, Miss. Born August 28, 1820. Took his A. M. in course ; studied law and received LL. B. at Harvard, and was admitted to the Natchez Bar in 1843. I^^ 1846-7, he traveled in Europe. He be- came very wealthy, and during the late war was Colonel of a Southern regiment from Natchez, and was killed at the battle of Murfreesborough (or Shiloh). Lucius W. Fitch, New Haven. Born July 25, 1820. Took his A. M. in course. Soon after graduation, was for a few months connected with the religious press in Boston, Mass. Studied medicine, but did not practice. In 1845, engaged ii^ farming in the town of Huntington, Conn., where he resided two years. In 1847 removed to New Haven. From 1849 to 1857, was a Bookseller in New Haven. Since the latter period, has been employed in the office of the Treasurer of Yale College. Within the last few years, has devoted much of his time to lite- rary pursuits, having translated for Hon. H. Barnard's Journal of Education, the first volume of Von Raumer's Paedagogic, also the '' Gaudeamus igitur " and the " Lau- riger Horatius," which latter translations are embodied with the number of College Songs that have become classical. Was married in 1845 to Miss Sarah P. Tufts, of New Haven, and has had five children, of whom two are now living. Stephen C. Foster,. East Machias, Me. Born 1820. On graduating, went to the South, and in 1843 was en- gaged in Alabama, teaching. He subsequently studied 23 medicine in New Orleans, and in 1846 was a Physician in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was afterwards in Chihua- hua, and in 1848 was reported to the Class as ''probably killed by the Indians." But in a published sketch of the members of the Convention to form a Constitution for the State of California, there is mentioned among the delegates from Sonora, " Stephen C. Foster, aged twenty- eight, born in East Machias, Me., removed to Missouri, thence to Pueblo de los Angelos ; has lived in California three years ; an agriculturist." Has been a member of the State Senate of California, and several times Mayor of the city of Los Angelos. He married a Spanish lady there, of one of the old families of the country, and had one daughter. ■^^Thomas E. Foster, Andover, Mass. Born December 16, 1820. Took his A. M. in course; taught school some time, and was for several years an instructor in Phil- ip's Academy, Andover. Studied theology at Andover, preached in Vermont ; was not ordained or married, and died at Andover, in 185 1. John B. Gardiner, New York City. Born Sept. 9, 1821. Took his A. M. in course; studied law and was admitted to practice in New York city. Practiced his profession in New York, residing in Brooklyn. Married, Oct. I, 1857, and had one child. Supposed to be dead. Henry M. Goodwin, Hartford, Conn. Born June, 1820. Studied theology at New Haven and New York. In 1850 went to Chicago, and thence to Alton and Rock- ford, 111., where he has been settled for some twenty years as Pastor of a Congregational Church. He is at present erecting a new and elegant stone church. He has won reputation as a religious writer and philosophical thinker. Married, in 1854, Miss Martha French, of Bath, N. H., and has two children. Samuel Gregory, Guilford, Vermont. Born April 19, 1813. Received his A. M. in 1845. For several years 54 after graduating- he was engaged in teaching, lecturing and writing on educational and sanitary subjects. He wrote a History of Mexico, at the time of the war with that country. In 1847, he engaged in an enterprise that has occupied his exclusive attention to the present time — the medical education of women, and their introduction into the profession. To carry the idea into effect, he started the New England Female Medical College, in Boston, in 1848 — said to be the first institution of the kind in the world. It received a liberal charter and early pecuniary aid from the Massachusetts Legislature, and now has real and personal property to the amount of $80,000. It has a spacious lot of land and a newly erec- ted college edifice, conveniently located by the side of the City Hospital. He has advocated the object by means of public lectures, various pamphlets, annual re- ports, and the public press, giving a wide scope to his efforts ; some of his writings having been published and circulated in England, and some having urged the sending out of female missionary physicians to foreign lands by the different religious denominations. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1853. He resides in Boston, and is not married. ^Joseph M. Grout, Westboro, Mass. Born Sept. 11, 1814. Received his A. M. in course; studied theology, after teaching awhile, and was for several years a Mis- sionary of the American Home Missionary Society at Warsaw, 111., where he died in 1855. He married and left several children at his death. John P. Gulliver, Boston, Mass. Born May 12, 18 19. Received his A. M. in course ; studied theology after teaching school awhile at Randolph, and in 1846 became the Pastor of Broadway Congregational Church in Nor- wich, Conn. He did much for the schools of that city, and by his personal exertions mainly, secured the estab- lishment of the Norwich Free Academy, with an endow- ment of over $125,000. In 1850 went to Russia in conse- 25 quence of broken health. Remained in Norwich twenty years, and in Dec, '65, became Pastor of the New England church in Chicago. After three years of sickness and suffering, during which he lost two children, he was elected a Trustee and then the President of Knox College, 111. He entered upon this duty in August, 1868, and has already brought up the College to a high rank. Has had the title of D. D. conferred upon him. In 1846 he married Miss Frances W. Curtis and has had several children. His oldest son recently graduated at Yale. John L. Hamelin, Philadelphia. Born 18 19. Re- ceived his A. M. in 1844. Fo^ three years was engaged in teaching in a classical school, when he entered into mer- cantile pursuits and continued in business for seventeen years. In i860 resumed literary labors and is now editing '* Emerson Bennett's Dollar Monthly," in Philadelphia. Married in 1841 and has three children. James P. Hart, Farmington, Conn. Born July 27, 1817. Studied theology, and afterwards became a pub- lisher of works on Etymology, in which not succeeding, he visited the fugitive slaves in Canada. He subsequently gave his attention to the science of Phonograph}^ He resides in New Haven. John Frazier Head, Boston, Mass. Born January 9, 1 82 1. Studied medicine and received M. D. at Harvard. Took his A. M. in course. In August, 1846, became at- tached to the Medical Staff, United States Army, and was with Scott's army, in Mexico. He went to Europe to stud}^ the European military hospital systems, and on his return was ordered to Oregon via Missouri and Columbia rivers, a distance of 3,000 miles. During the late civil war he had charge of thirty hospitals in Ky. Thence went to West Point and is now medical director of the military Department of Dacotah, at St. Paul, Minn. In August, 1846, married Miss Apthorp, of New Haven. He has one son. 4 26 '^Ambrose N. Hitchcock, Brimfield, Mass. Born November 28, 18 13. Died soon after graduating, in Kentucky, while teaching school. GuSTAVUS A. HOLCOMBE, Savannah, Ga. Born De- cember 26, 1820. Studied medicine in Philadelphia. Is a practicing physician near Savannah, and is unmarried. Gideon H. Hollister, Washington, Conn. Born December 14, 1818. Studied law in Litchfield, and was admitted to the bar of Litchfield County in April, 1842. He has since resided in Litchfield, where he continued to practice his profession till 1859, when he opened an office in the city of New York. Was for four years Clerk of the Courts of Litchfield County. He went as United States Charge d' affairs to Hayti, when that country was under the administration of Salnave. On his recall he took up his residence in Stratford, Conn. He practices law in company with his brother in Bridgeport. In 1855, he published a History of Connecticut, in two volumes, of which two editions have been exhausted of two thousand copies each. In 1856 he was a member of the Connecticut State Senate. He is the author of three historical dramas, one of them bearing the title of " Thomas a Becket." He has also written a legal treatise on the Law of Eminent Domain. He is now engaged in writing a history of Hayti. In June, 1847, married Miss Mary S. Brisbane, of Charleston, S. C, and has had four children, onl}^ one of whom survives. John C. Hollister, Manchester, Vt. Born June 2, 1 818. Studied law in Northampton, Mass., and New Haven Law School. Was admitted to the New Haven bar in 1842. Took his A. M. in course. Has been Grand Juror for New Haven, and Clerk of the Connecticut Senate ; and for several years w^as principal Magistrate of the Town of New Haven. Was married to Miss Martha L. Bradley, of New Haven, who deceased March 5th, 1849, leaving two children. Married Miss Sarah S. Ship- 27 man, of New Haven, October 31st, 1850. Has had seven children, four now living. Resides in New Haven prac- ticing law. James M. Hoppin, Providence, R. I. Born January 17, 1820. Studied theology at Andover and after that spent three years as a student in Germany and in foreign travel. On his return in 1850, was settled as pastor over the Crombie St. Church in Salem, Mass. After being nine years in Salem he went again to Europe, with his family, and was eighteen months abroad. In 1861 he was made Professor in the Theological School of Yale College as successor of Prof. Goodrich, which position he now occupies. In 1854 he published a book called "Notes of a Theological Student;" and in 1867 a book called ''Old England"; and in 1869 a text-book upon Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, entitled " Office and Work of the Christian Ministry." In 1870 he received the degree of D. D. from Knox College. On the occasion of their thir- tieth anniversar}^ meeting he entertained his classmates at his house, for which they returned him a cordial vote of thanks. In 1850 married Miss Mary D. Perkins, of Litch- field, Conn., and has two sons. His oldest son is now a Junior in Yale College. William A. Houghton, Berlin, Mass. Born June 2, 1812. Studied theology at New Haven ; was settled at Northborough, Mass., as pastor of the Evangelical Church, in 1843. Leaving Northborough in 185 1, he removed to Berlin, Mass., his native town, and that of his wife, where he still resides, and labors faithfully in his sacred calling. Was married in 18 14, to Miss Mary G. Howe, of Berlin, Mass., but has no children. His adopted daughter, now married, resides with him. ■^Joseph G. Hoyt, Dunbarton, N. H. Born January 19, 181 5. Immediately upon graduation he became prin- cipal of the Academy at Plymouth, N. H. ; but, at the expiration of one year, accepted an appointment as Pro- fessor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in Phillips' 28 Exeter Academy, N. H., where he continued eighteen years. In 1850-51 he was elected a member of the Con- vention for the revision of the State Constitution, and at a later period " fortunately escaped being- sent to Con- gress." Under his influence, the public schools of his own town were re-organized and graded, and new build- ings erected, including a beautiful structure for a High School. In the winter of 1845-46, he revised Colton's Greek Reader, furnishing an entirely new Lexicon. April 13, 1842, he married MargaretteS. Chamberlain, of Exeter, and in due process of time became " the bewildered father of six children," — three sons and three daughters — live living, of whom the oldest is a daughter. In December, 1858, he accepted the appointment of Chancellor and Pro- fessor of the Greek Language and Literature, in Washing- ton University, — a well endowed and promising institution in the city of St. Louis, and entering upon his new duties the following February, he was formally inaugurated, October 4, 1859. ^^ received from Dartmouth College, at its Commencement in July, 1859, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Mr. Hoyt died of pulmonary con- sumption, after protracted suffering, Nov. 26, 1862, aged nearly forty-eight years. During his declining days he occupied some of his time in making a collection of his miscellaneous writings, addresses, lectures and reviews, which were printed after his death, with an introductory note by Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody, of Harvard College. A commemorative discourse, by Prof. S. Waterhouse, deliv- ered in St. Louis, Jan. 20, 1863, has also been published. He impressed himself by his vigorous mind and generous nature, strongly upon the communities where he lived, and his loss to the educational world was, and still is, deeply felt. Chauncey H. Hubbard, Springfield, Mass. Born Feb- ruary 10, 1820. Taught school at the South for a while; studied theology at New Haven, and was a settled pastor at Greenwich, Conn., and afterwards in Sand Lake, N. Y. Is now residing at Bennington, Vt., and is married. 29 Timothy D. Hunt, Rochester, N. Y. Born March, 1 82 1. Studied theology at Auburn, N. Y. Went a mis- sionary of the Arnerican Board of Commissioners of For- eign Missions, to Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, which place he left in 1848, for San Francisco, Cal. He was the first minister of the gospel in California, and organized the first church there, — remaining over eight years. While there, he published '' The Past and Present of the Sandwich Islands," and was one of the editors of "The Pacific." He married Miss Mary Hedges, November i, 1843, ^^^ has had eleven children, six daughters and five sons, of whom eight are now living. He became a grandfather at the age of forty-eight. He is now pastor of a Presby- terian Church in Niles, Mich. He has labored with self- den3ang zeal and great success for the sacred cause to which he early and enthusiastically devoted himself. Thomas S. Huntington, Hartford, Conn. Born June 20, 1820. In the winter of 1840 went to the South, where, for a few years, he was occupied as a teacher, and in the study of the belles-lettres. Thence he went to Cincinnati, where his father had removed. In 1844 he was living as a farmer, in Wisconsin; but since 1850, has resided prin- cipally in Cincinnati, as a Land Surveyor, until i860, when he removed, with his family, to a new settle- ment on Lake Pepin. In 1866, reported as being in Cin- cinnati. Thomas S. Iglehart, Ann Arundel County, Md. Born February 27, 1820. For several years resided on his farm, near Annapolis, Md. In 1848 was a member of the House of Delegates of Maryland, and for a time Tobacco In- spector of the State, residing at Baltimore. Lost his first wife ; is married again, and has two children ; resides upon a beautiful estate about ten miles from Annapolis, Md. Charles R. Ingersoll, New Haven, Conn. Born September 16, 1821. Was in Europe two years after graduating. Returning, studied law in New Haven, and 30 was admitted to the New Haven bar in December, 1844. Has been several times a member of the General Assembly of Connecticut. Married Miss Virginia Gregory, Decem- ber, 1847, 3.nd has four children living — one a member of the present Freshman Class, Yale College. Resides in the practice of the law, at New Haven. Horace James, Medford, Mass. Born May 6, 18 18. Studied theology at Andover and New Haven ; took his A. M. in course. Married Miss Helen Leavitt, of Boston, in September, 1843, ^^^ was settled as a Pastor in Wren- tham, Mass., the first of November following. While acting as pastor here he was employed at times by the State to lecture in behalf of Common School Education. In 1853 he removed to Worcester, Mass., and took charge of the First Church there. When the late war broke out he left this pastorate to take an army chaplaincy in the Twenty-fifth Mass. Regt. Inf. Vols. After occupying this position during two years of service in the field, he was made Assistant Quartermaster on the general staff with the rank of Captain, and placed in charge of the Freed- men of the State of North Carolina, where he was ap- pointed Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. He was mustered out of service in January, 1866. The war being closed, he spent a year at the South, planting cotton and organizing labor among the Freedmen. He was in- stalled pastor of the First Church, in Lowell, Mass., in October, 1867, where he now resides. He has lost six children of his own, and two adopted ones, and has but one child, a daughter, living. James R. Jesup, Westport, Conn. Borii 1821. Took his A. M. in course ; studied law and was admitted to the New York bar in 1843. Although of wealthy parentage he determined to make his own way in the world, and in a struggle of many years, kept up with great energy, he entirely succeeded in his purpose. He has now become rich through a lucrative business and the inheritance of property. His son is a merchant. He still resides in New York. Chauncey p. Judd, Northampton, Mass. Born June 25, 181 7. After graduating- he went to South Carolina, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He had an office in Boston until 1850. Removed to Reading, Mass., where he still lives in the practice of his profession. He attended the Class-Meeting in 1870, that being the first time he had visited New Haven since his graduation. In 1857 he married Miss Sarah Dawes, of Cambridge, Mass., and has had three children, of whom two are living. "^JOHN S. Kelley, Middletown, Conn. Born June 26, 1 82 1. Died December 29, 1844, while in the New York ■ Theological Seminary. '^Jared Owen Knapp, Greenwich, Conn. Born Oct. 6, 1818. Taught school three years in Middletown, Conn.; took his A. M. in course, and studied theology at New Haven ; in 1846 became a settled Pastor in Plainfield, (Central Village,) Conn. In 185 1 was called to Hatfield, Mass. Leaving this place in 1855, he was Pastor of the Church at Suspension Bridge, Niagara Falls, from that time till 1858. Failing in health he retired to Beloit, Wis., where he attempted to take charge of a Parish, but found his strength insufficient. He died at the latter place, July 14, i860. '^David Lamb, Pittstown, N. Y. Born January^, 1820. Studied law and was admitted to practice in Troy, N. Y. In 1850 resided at Cincinnati, in the practice of his pro- fession. Died at sea, on board an Ocean Steamer, on his way from Panama to San Francisco, in the year 1852. George D. LaMont, Gaines, N. Y. Received his A. B. in 1 841. Settled as a lawyer in Lockport, N. Y., where he now resides. Has been District Attorney of Niagara County, and Senator of the State of New York. Amos Edward Lawrence, Geneseo, N. Y. Born June 25, 1812. Prepared for College at Phillips' Academy, Andover, Mass., and entered from New York City. After 3^ graduating, he spent a year traveling through the North- west. Returning to New York, in the fall of 1841, he entered the Union Theological Seminary, completing his course, and graduating at that institution in 1844. In the spring of that year, entered the office of the American Home Missionary Society, as Assistant Secretary, with Rev. Drs. Badger and Hall, in which service he spent four years, and in 1848 settled in the ministry over the Con- gregational Church of Cutchogue, L. I. In 1851 he re- moved to Southbury, New Haven County, Conn. Thence he was called to the Pastorate of the Orthodox Congre- gational Church of Lancaster, Mass., where he remained four years ; then went to Housatonic, in the town of Great Harrington, Mass., and preached there three years; re- moved thence to Stockbridge, where he now resides. In September, 1846, he married Miss Hannah Bowne, of New York, who died in April, 1858, after having borne him two children— a daughter and a son. On the i8th of May, 1859, h^ w^s again married to Miss Ann Maria Crocker, daughter of Oliver Crocker, Esq., of New Bedford, by whom he had one son, George Crocker, born May loth, i860. He lost his second wife, and in 1867 married Miss Lucy W. Davis. His oldest son, Horace James, is a printer; he has three other children living, two sons and a daughter. William S. Leavitt, Bloomfield, N. J. Born January 26, 1822. Read law one year, then studied theology four years; took his A. M. in course. Became a pastor of the Congregational Church at Newton Center, Mass., then a minister in Hudson, N. Y. In 1867 he went to North- ampton, where he still resides as pastor of the First Con- gregational Church. He is one of the solid men of the Class, both intellectually and in avoirdupois, weighing over two hundred pounds. He is, however, still an active and enthusiastic fisherman, and as skilled with the rod as the pen. He married Miss Grover, of Newark, N. J., in November, 1845, ^^^^ has one child. 33 William H. Long, Hopkinton, N. H. Born Sept. 9, 1813. Took his A. M. in course; taught a private school several years and studied theology in New Haven in 1844, and began to preach, but his health failing, he has since 1847 been in charge of a large public school in Roxbury, Mass., where he is still teaching and is highly esteemed as an instructor. His health, however, is poor. Married Miss Lucia A. D. Rollins, in 1848 ; has no children. Henry McCall, Donaldsonville, La. Born 1821. Took his A. M. in course ; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, where he now resides. In 1844 married Miss Willcocks, of Philadelphia. Is at present in Europe with his family. Daniel March, Millbury, Conn. Born July 21, 18 16. Took his A. M. in course ; after studying theology, resided for a time in Fairfield County, Conn., and in 1846 became a pastor in Cheshire, whence he removed to Nashua, N. H., and was settled over the First Congregational Church. He was then settled over a congregation in Woburn, Mass.; afterwards became pastor of the Clinton Street Presbyte« rian Church in Philadelphia, where he now lives. In 1846 he was chosen Phi Beta Kappa poet at Yale. He has published two works respecting Bible lands, '' Walks and Talks of Jesus," and " Night Scenes in the Bible "; also a work entitled " Nature and Revelation." Mr. March has gone a second time to Europe, and to Palestine, to gather materials for other works of the same character. He is married and has five children. LORING B. Marsh, Ware, Mass. Born February 12, 1816. Studied theology in New Haven; went to Eddy- ville, Wapello County, Iowa, in 1847, ^^^^1 abandoned his field of labor in 1858, on account of protracted ill health. Taught a High School in Berlin, Mass., in 1854-5. In 1858 assumed the charge of the Congregational Church in North Scituate, R. I. In 1862, went to Wading River, L. I., and thence in October, 1869, to Huntington, Ct., 5 34 where he is now settled. He is a man of great attain- ments in theological and metaphysical studies. Was married in 1865, and has two daughters and a son. ^Cpiarles J. Miller, Fayetteville, Vt. Born Jan. 26, 1816. Soon after graduating went to Mount Carmel, 111., studied medicine with Dr. Lescher ; married a daughter of the Doctor, and at the time of his death, which occur- red May loth, 1859, was in compan}^ with his wife's brother in the drug business, and successful practice of his profession. Had one son, and a daughter was born after his decease. Dewitt C. Morris, Philadelphia, Pa. Born July 13, 1821. Took his A. M. in course; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia. In 1846 married Miss Johnson, of New Haven, now deceased, and has two children. William H. Norris, Baltimore, Md. A merchant in Baltimore in 1841. Went to Europe in 1842. Admitted to Baltimore bar in 1844. Land Surveyor in Texas in 1845. Practicing law in New Orleans in 1845, '4^> '47- In California in 1848, '49, practicing law, mining, survey- ing and speculating, and, for awhile, acting as Judge Ad- vocate for the U. S. Squadron in the Pacific. In Europe in 1850. In 185 1 married in Valparaiso, Chili. Same year returned to Baltimore, " dropped anchor and moored for life." In the war was in the service of the Confederate Government for the exchange of prisoners, and a major in the Signal Corps. He has four children. Daniel P. Noyes, Newbury, Mass. Born June 4, 1820. Taught school in Salem, Pembroke, and Byfield, Mass. Was three years a tutor in Yale College. Took his A. M. in 1846; studied theology one year at Andover ; resided awhile at Newbury, Mass., and in April, 1849, became pastor of the Jay Street Presbyterian Church, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1854, was Secretary of the American Home Missionary Society. He now lives in Longwood, 35 near Boston, and has for several years been acting- as Sec- retary of the Home Evangelization Society in Mass. He is a lecturer upon that subject in Andover Theological Seminary. Married in 1850, and has four children. '^OSCAR T. NOYES, Modena, Ulster County, N. Y. Born April 22, 18 19. Studied law and was lawyer and farmer, in Ulster County, N. Y., Modena Post Office. Was married. Died in 1854. Orrin Otis, Colchester, Conn. Born May 12, 18 12. Studied theology in Union Seminary, N. Y., and in 1846 was settled as a clergyman in Chepachet, R. I., where he remained as a faithful worker in a difficult field for twenty- one 3^ears. He left Chepachet in 1866 and went to Provi- dence. He married a sister of his classmate, Knapp, and has five children. His oldest son is in business. Lewis Parsons, Perry, Genesee County, N. Y. Born April, 18 1 8. Took his A. M. in course. On graduating, went to New Orleans, in company with Colclough and James Smith. After struggling some time with adversity, having taught school eighteen months in Mississippi, he entered the Harvard Law School, and there went through the course of legal studies. In 1844 he entered into a law partnership with an old practitioner in Alton, 111., where he resided a number of years. Was City Attorney for four years. Sev^eral years since, he removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he now resides. During the late war Gen. Parsons rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the Quartermaster's Department; and having charge of R. R. and River Transportation in the army of the west, he did most valuable service and performed miracles of celerity in the movement of vast bodies of troops and of supplies, winning an enviable reputation for energy and ability. He has a fine prairie farm of 3,000 acres at Flora, Illinois. He married Miss Sarah G. Edwards, of St. Louis, in 1847, f^^^ his first wife, and has recently been married to his third wife, Miss Elizabeth Darrah, of New York. He has two sons and two daughters. His oldest son is now a Junior in Yale College. 36 ■^Cale Pelton, Buckland, Mass. Took his A. M. in course. For several years was a teacher in Philadelphia, and a manufacturer of the well-known Pelton Outline Map, of which" he was inventor. He was married in 1842, and died a few years since. ^William Perkins, Grand Gulph, Miss. Born April 26, 1 82 1. Studied law and took LL. B. at Cambridge. Has been District Attorney for the Parish of Tensas, La., where he resided for a time. Was on board the steamer Arctic, and perished with her, in 1854. In 1846 married Miss Murdock, of Mississippi, and had two children. John Perkins, Jr., Grand Gulph, Miss. Born July i, 1 8 19. Studied law at Cambridge, and took the degree of LL. B. Practiced law in New Orleans, in company with James Smith. His health failing, he sailed for Europe in 1848 ; he returned in 1850, his health re-established. Was Representative of United States Congress two terms, and has been Judge of the Courts in Louisiana. Residence was at Somerset, Ashwood, Tensas Parish, La. At the commencement of the late war he was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the United States House of Representatives. He was for a time Secretary of the Navy under the Confederate government, and at the close of the struggle burned up his valuable mansion and an immense amount of cotton lest it should fall into the hands of union troops. Married Mrs. Bailey, a w4dow, as his second wife. Miss Potts, who was his first wife, was very useful among the poor in the city of New York, but is now dead. Lavalette Perrin, Vernon, Conn. Born May 15, 1 8 16. Studied theology at East Windsor and New Haven. Licensed to preach August 8th, 1843. Settled in Goshen, Conn., December 13th, 1843. Married to Miss Ann Eliza Comstock, of New Haven, June 4th, 1844. Dismissed, at his own request, September 4th, 1857. Installed pastor of First Church in New Britain, Conn., February 3d, 1858. Was recently dismissed from his pastorate in New Britain, 37 and has been spending- some months in European travel. He received the degree of D. D. from Yale College in 1869. Has four children — Bernadotte, Catherine, Addison, and William A. Perrin. His oldest son is now studying theology in the Yale Theological Seminary. Frederick A. Pratt, Deep River, Conn. Born 1817. Studied theology in East Windsor, Conn. Was a min- ister of the Old School Presbyterian Church, in the Domestic Missionary service, residing in Dakota County, Minn., having charge of two congregations. His present address is Sterling, Blue Earth Co., Miss., where he is acting pastor of a Presbyterian Church. ^Henry M. Proctor, Boston, Mass. Born Nov. 29, 1820. Shipped as a sailor on board bark General Scott, bound from Boston to Sidney, New South Wales. When two days out of port, on the 22d of December, 1841, he fell overboard, and was lost. Edward E. Rankin, Newark, N. J. Born May 15, 1820. Took his A. M. in course; studied Theology in New York, and from October, 1843, to May, 1850, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, N. J. On the 26th of May, 1850, became the pastor of the Forty-Second Street Presbyterian Church, New York City. Visited Europe in 1846. Left New York, after fourteen years of ministerial labor there, and went to Newark, N. J., as a missionary, where he helped to form a church. Served in the Christian Commission in the army ; then removed to Fairfield, Conn., where he has resided four years. Has received the degree of D. D. In October, 1847, married Miss Emily Watkinson, of Hartford, Conn. Has had two daughters and six sons, — of whom, the eldest, Margaret, died in April, 1849, aged about seven years. ^George Richards, New London, Conn. Born Nov. 2, 1816. Taught school a year or two; took his A. M. in course, and became a tutor in Yale College. Studied 3^ theology at Andoverand New Haven, and in 1845 became associate pastor of the Central Church, Boston, and from 185 1 to 1859, ^^^^^ sole pastor. Spent some time, after- wards, in Europe. On his return, was settled as pastor over the Congregational Church in Litchfield, Conn ; whence he removed to take charge of the ist Congrega- tional Church in Bridgeport, Conn. Some two years before his death he became afflicted with partial loss of sight, accompanied with nervous prostration of the whole system. During these years, though continuing his min- isterial labors, he was a constant sufferer, in body and brain, until released by a peaceful death, October 20, 1870. He was a man of refined culture, a zealous worker, and a preacher of no ordinary power, carrying out in mature years the brilliant promise of his college days. " He went to his too early grave with the unbounded affection and confidence of all who knew him, and has left behind him a name endeared and enshrined in the hearts of his man}^ friends." He sent a pleasant letter of greeting to his classmates at their last meeting. In 1846, married Miss Anna M. Woodruff, of Philadelphia, and has left a widow and five children. His oldest son is now a Junior in Yale College. ^Charles J. Ruggles, Newburgh, N. Y. Born Nov. 5, 1820. Studied law and was admitted to the bar at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Took his A. M. in 1847. He con- tinued in the practice of his profession until October, 1848, though his failing health had compelled him to spend two winters at the South ; from which time he gradually sank under a pulmonary attack, until the 25th of Septem- ber, 1849, when he died, at home, and in the midst of friends. His remains are interred in the family burying ground at Coldenham, Orange County, N. Y. Charles S. Shelton, Huntington, Conn. Born August 28, 1819. Took his A. M. in course, and also M. D. Entered on the practice of medicine, but gave it up, and in 1848 went as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, to Madura, 39 Southern India. In 1848 he married Miss Hyde, of Brooklyn, and has one child. Resided in Springfield, 111., practicing- medicine ; and is a Homoepathic physician in Jersey City. He was in the army service for a time. L. Denison Shoemaker, Wilkesbarre, Penn. Born Nov. 5, 1 8 19. Is a lawyer in Wilkesbarre, where he is highly esteemed as a lawyer and as a man. Has been a member of the Penn. Senate and is member elect of the House of Representatives of the 42d Congress of the United States. Was married in 1849, ^^^ has five children. *James Smith, Peterborough, N. H. Born Jan. 15, 1 8 16. He instructed, for a time, in the family of Mr. Perkins, of Louisiana ; then studied law and received LL. B. at Harvard. In 1845 became established as a law- yer in New Orleans, in partnership with John Perkins. His health soon failed, and being attacked with pulmonary consumption, he returned to his native place, (Peter- borough, N. H.,) and there died, on the 31st of December, 1846. The Lazv Reporter for March, 1847, contains an in- teresting sketch of his life and character. J. Few Smith, Philadelphia, Penn. Born Jan. 7, 1816. Took his A. M. in course; studied theology at Western Reserve College, where he was for some time a Tutor. Was settled as a pastor at Valatie, N. Y., and subsequently at Winchester, Va., from which place he removed in 1848, to become Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in Auburn Theo- logical Seminar}^, N. Y. Left Auburn in 185 1 for Newark, N. J., where he now resides. Pastor of Second Presbyte- rian Church. Was married in 1843 ^^'^cl has had six child- ren, four now living. In reply to the letter of invitation to the last class-meeting our valedictorian writes : " May those of you who come together have a very joyous time in the remembrance of the past and in the strengthening of pleasant bonds, and go forth in the fresh hope, mel- lowed and radiant with light from above, into the work and blessedness of another cycle." 40 ■^George W. Steere, Providence, R. I. Born June 14, 1 8 14. For several years resided in Louisiana ; part of the time as instructor in the family of Mr. Perkins. He was in delicate health, and is believed to have died in 1849, ^t Pensacola, Fla. He was a man of. great simplicity and sincerity of character, and ''a mighty hunter." He was not married. Lev^is Sterling, Bayou Sara, La. Born March 5, 1819. Continued to reside on his plantation near Bayou Sara. Reported to be dead. Never married. George H. Swift, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Born Feb- ruary 8, 1820. Studied law, went into practice in Pough- keepsie ; did an extensive business ; health failed ; went to South Amenia, N. Y., and purchased a large farm, and is engaged in its cultivation. He is also doing consid- erable unsought business in his profession, and is equally earnest in other benevolent and Christian labors. Has been married twice and has had several children, but one of whom survives. George Terry, Plymouth, Conn. Born Jan. 22, 18 17. George Thacher, Hartford, Conn. Born July 25, 1 81 7. Having studied theology at New Haven, he was first settled as a pastor at Derby, Conn. ; removed in 1848 to Nantucket, w^here he remained eighteen months, whence he accepted a call to the Allen St. Church, New York City. Then became a settled pastor in Meriden, Conn. Removed from Meriden to Keokuk, Mo., where he remained six years. He then spent five months in Europe, and on his return he has pre?iched at Milwaukee, New York City, and Waterloo, low^a. Is now President of Iowa University, Iowa City. He married Miss Sarah M. Smith, who died July, 1850, leaving two children, one of which has since deceased. In 185 1, married a younger sister of his first wife. He has lost his last daughter, an only child. 41 Egbert A. Thompson, Bethlem, Conn. Born 1814. Married December, 1840, to Miss Caroline A. Smith, daughter of Hon. Nathan Smith, of New Haven. Studied law in the New Haven Law School, and removed to Quincy, 111., where he practiced his profession till 1847, when he removed to Cincinnati, and there engaged in an extensive and lucrative practice. He has since moved across the river into Covington, Ky., where he cultivates a vineyard and manufactures wine. He has given up the practice of the law. Has had eight children ; four are now living. William H. Tiffany, Brooklyn, Conn. Born 18 19. Entered into business in New York City, soon after grad- uating, where he remained until 1849, when he went to San Francisco, California. He has spent fourteen years in California, and been engaged in all kinds of business speculations, real estate operations and mining. He put gas-works into Honolulu. He is unmarried. ^George C. Waite, Lyme, Conn. Born August 13, 1820. Took his A. M. in course; studied law and was admitted to the bar at Troy, N. Y., where he remained in practice until 1849, when, in consequence of ill health, he returned to the residence of his father in Lyme, and there, in August of that year, he died. He was not married. Elias H. Williams, Ledyard, Conn. Born July 23, 1819. Is a farmer residing at Garnavilla, Iowa, and owns large quantities of land there. Was Judge of the County Court, Clayton County, Iowa, and has been recently elected Chief Justice of the State of Iowa. He is the inventor of a valuable rail-road excavator. '^Theodore B. Witmer, Lancaster, Penn. Born April 26, 1818. Studied law at Cambridge, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1843. Soon after sailed for Europe. Returned and resided in Philadelphia (although occasionally re-visiting Europe) till 1856, when he was lost at sea, near Malaga, Spain, while traveling along the Mediterranean coast. 6 42 William Woodbridge, Hartford, Conn. Born Aug., 1 8 19. Studied medicine and took M. D. at Yale. Settled as a physician at Manchester, Conn., but is now residing in Brooklyn, Conn. He is an accomplished musician, especially in playing upon the organ. Was in 1869 a member of the Connecticut legislature. Said to have written a book entitled '' Ten Years among the Mail-bags." Is married and has two children. ^Edward Wright, Deerfield,. Mass. Born May i, 181 5. Studied theology, and since his ordination was the pastor of the Congregational Church at West Haven, Conn., and also at the head of a flourishing Female Semi- nary, where he died in 1852, leaving a wife and children. The following members of the Class left it during Senior Year. W. WOODBRIDGE HUDSON, Hartford, Conn. Born 1820. Studied law and was admitted to the bar in New York City, where he resided as a practicing lawyer. He died some years since. N. Smith, Augusta, N, Y. Is a lawyer in Selma, Ala. The following left the Class during Junior Year. James H. Collier, Binghamton, N. Y. Died at Panama, on his return from San Francisco, where he had held a post in the Custom House, in 1849 o^ 1850. Frederick Morrill, Brentwood, N. H. John Sterns Sparhawk, Warehouse Point, Conn. Died at New Haven in 1839. The following left the Class during Sophomore Year. LuciEN Birdseye, Pompey, N. Y. *John Tod Breck, Richmond, Ky. Died Feb., 1839. Joshua R. Brown, Stonington. JosiAH W. Brown, Acton, Mass. Peter Hewins Burget, Geneva, N. Y. Warren S. Childs, Henniker, N. H. Joseph S. Claghorn, Savannah, Ga. George W. Clark, New York City. Entered the United States Navy. Resigned a few years since, and is now in business in Brooklyn, N. Y. Stillman a. Clemons, Granby, Conn. 44 JosiAH Curtis, Wethersfield, Conn. Born April 30, 1 8 16. Received his A. M. in i860, and M. D. at Jefferson Medical College in 1843. I" i^44 settled in the practice of medicine in Lowell, Mass. In 1849 removed to Boston, where he continued in the practice of his profession, until 1 861 when he entered the United States Volunteer Ser- vice, commissioned as Brigade Surgeon. He remained in the army till 1865, having attained the rank of Colonel of Cavalry, the highest rank in the Volunteer Medical Department of the Army. Was brevetted " for faithful and meritorious service " but never accepted the brevet. Since the war he has resided at Knoxville, Tenn. His exposure and labors during the war so impaired his health that he has not been able to resume his profession. During the past few years he has devoted much time to the study of Natural History. Is a permanent and hon- orary member of many Medical and Scientific Asso- ciations. Flavel a. Dickinson, Preston, N. Y. John C. Downer, Norwich, Conn. Charles E. Everitt, Smithville, N. C. Joseph W. Fitch, Charleston, S. C. Samuel B. Garrett, Nash Co., N. C. James P. Holcombe, Lynchburg, Va. Is the Author and Editor of several legal works. Is a lawyer of distinc- tion in Virginia. Was one of the Confederate Peace Commissioners during the war. James E. Houston, Savannah, Ga. James M. Linsley, Prospect, Conn. Samuel B. Mills, Chester, Conn. '^-Charles W. Peck, Attica, N. Y. Died in the Island of Cuba. Charles N. Seymour. Left the Class during Sopho- more year, on account of ill health, and afterwards grad- uated at Trinity College, Hartford. Studied theology at New Haven, and is now a settled minister at Brooklyn, Conn. Married and has had ten children, four now 45 Thomas H. Skinner, New York City. Is a Clergy- man of the Dutch Reformed Church, settled at Fort Wayne, Ind. Charles Smith, Hudson, N. Y. John C. Sterling, Watertown, N. Y. John W. Stoughton, East Windsor, Conn. Roderick Terry, a merchant, resident in Hartford, Conn. ^Ebenezer S. Underwood, Woodstock, Conn. Died in 1837. Simeon Waters, Providence, R. I. W. Fred. Williams, Tonawanda, N. Y. Was for many years a missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. in Mardin, Eastern Turkey, and has been four times married. Joseph W. Woolfork, Columbus, Ga. Graduated at Princeton, N. J. The following left the Class during Freshman Year. John W. Armstrong, Toronto, U. C. ^Samuel S. Bates, Warren, Conn. Died in New York, 1839. Francis H. Brown, Columbia, Conn. Henry Gunn Buckingham, New Milford, Conn. Samuel P. Caldwell, Columbia, Tenn. Edward W. Champlin, Saybrook, Conn. Graduated at Union College. Leonoreon De la Motta D'Lyon, Savannah, Ga. John Dowse, Burke Co., Ga. DiviE B. DuFFiELD, Philadelphia, Pa. Resides in Detroit, Mich. Lawyer. ■^Samuel Hayes Elliot, Brattleboro, Vt., 1809. After remaining a year at Yale entered Union College, N. Y., where he graduated. Studied theology at Yale Seminary and was settled in the ministry at Woodbridge, Conn., in 46 1840. His failing health compelled him to leave the min- istry in 1855, when he became a business man in New Haven, where he continued to reside until his death, Sept. 1 1, 1869. He was an attractive and earnest preacher, and a guileless and unselfish man. He acquired quite a reputation as an author. Some of his books are entitled, " Rolling Ridge," " The Parish Side," '* Dreams and Realities." In 1844 he married Miss M. F. Harvey of Somerville, N. J., and leaves a widow and four children. '^William J. Forbes, New Haven, Conn. Merchant in New York City. Died several years since. William Henry Hart, Trinidad, W. I. Horace G. Hitchcock, Cheshire, Conn. Elijah B. Huntington, Bozrah, Conn. A settled minister in Stamford, Conn. Author of '' History of Stamford " and " The Huntington Family." ^William Kennedy, Darlington, S. C. Lost in the Steamer Home, between New York and Charleston, Oct. 9th, 1837. John Kilbourn, Salisbury, Conn. Desires to have his name placed on the list of the Class of 1840, as the class of his "first love." He received the degree of A. M. from Yale College in 1854. He spent twenty years in teaching. Is now Postmaster in Augusta, N. Y. John W. Lewis, Charleston, S. C. Martin Martins, St. Eustatius, W. L ^Daniel G. Mason, Boston, Mass. Was in business in New York City, one of the firm of Mason Bros., Music Publishers. Died two or three years since in Germany. R. F. Morris, East Haven, Conn. Joseph Osgood Mussey, Hanover, N. H. For several years was a Reporter and letter writer at Washington. *JOHN H. Olmstead, New Haven, Conn. Graduated in 1845, ^^^ died the following year. Edward Potter, Plymouth, Conn. William H. Potter, Colchester, Conn. Chauncey D. Rice, Amherst, Mass. 47 Thomas H. Rodman, New York City. Reuben C. Shorter, Columbus, Ga. Benjamin A. .Spaulding, Billerica, Mass. Samuel W. Stebbins, New Haven, Conn. Lewis E. Sykes, Brattleboro, Vt. Joseph Joslyn Thompson, New Britain, Mass. Has been a schoolmaster and lecturer on Phrenology and various other subjects. James L. Trask, Woodville, Miss. BuEL M. Williams, Hartford, Conn. Francke Williams, Hartford, Conn.