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YALE COLLEGE — YALE UNIVERSITY 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 
 
 CLASS OF SIXTY 
 
 1860-1906 
 
 Orlando Leach, Class Secretary 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Preface of Editorial Committee 5 
 
 Preface of Class Secretary 7 
 
 Class Meetings 9 
 
 Meeting of 1861 9 
 
 Triennial 10 
 
 Sexennial 15 
 
 Decennial 16 
 
 Quindecennial 23 
 
 VlGINTENNIAL 29 
 
 Photo of Class (1880) Facing 30 
 
 Quarter-Century 32 
 
 Thirty Years After 36 
 
 Photo of Class (1890) Facing 36 
 
 Thirty-fifth Anniversary 40 
 
 Photo of Class (1895) Facing 42 
 
 Fortieth Anniversary 46 
 
 Photo of Class (1900) Facing 46 
 
 The Bicentennial 57 
 
 Forty-fifth Anniversary 58 
 
 Photo of Class (1905) Facing 58 
 
 Biographical Record of Graduates 61 
 
 Biographical Record of Non-Graduates 173 
 
 Statistics 203 
 
 Professions and Occupations 205 
 
 Addresses 206 
 
 In Memoriam 209 
 
 Boating Days of Sixty C.H.O. 210 
 
 Stray Leaves from a Lost Diary E. G. H. 229 
 
 Retrospective J. L. D. 234 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 The only foreword the Editorial Committee need to say is to advise 
 readers to take in the preface of the Class Secretary and then pass on 
 in medias res, every excellence of which is due to his faithful and 
 persistent effort. 
 
 To Secretary Leach the Class of '60 owes a lasting debt of gratitude 
 for all his painstaking labor and generous sacrifice of time (if not of 
 patience) in the determined pursuit of every item of interest to the 
 class, and in careful and conscientious attention to every detail. 
 
 To co-operate with him in the work has afforded us many hours 
 of agreeable occupation and pleasant pastime, as well as occasion for 
 some sober and serious reflection. 
 
 It has brought us face to face once more with every member of the 
 class, awakened anew the old class pride and spirit, and stirred within 
 us whole troops of precious memories. 
 
 We believe the reading of the records herewith presented will serve 
 to beguile many a happy hour, recall vividly numerous interesting 
 scenes and events of college days, revive fond recollections not a few, 
 and kindle afresh the flame of mutual affection, — 
 
 11 Those first affections, 
 Those shadowy recollections ; 
 Which, be they what they may, 
 Are yet the fountain -light of all our day, 
 Are yet a master light of all our seeing. 
 
 " Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, 
 Nor man nor boy, 
 Nor all that is at enmity with joy 
 Can utterly abolish or destroy! " 
 
 We would fain hope, also, that the perusal of the pages which follow 
 might, perchance, stimulate or encourage those of us who survive to 
 yet new and nobler endeavor while the day lasts. 
 
 To every living classmate we sincerely say: 
 
 " Serus in Caelum Redeas." 
 
PREFACE 
 
 " I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master Cobweb." 
 
 The breaking off in the midst of what one was about to say, as if 
 he took himself up, breeds a greater appetite in him with whom you 
 confer to know more. — Bacon. 
 
 The truest test of civilization is not the census, or the size of cities, 
 nor the crops, — no, but the kind of men the country turns out. — 
 Emerson. 
 
 The forest trees once asked the fruit trees: " Why is not the rustling 
 of your leaves heard in the distance? " The fruit trees replied: " We 
 can dispense with the rustling to manifest our presence, our fruits 
 testify for us." The fruit trees then inquired of the forest trees: 
 " Why do your leaves rustle almost constantly? " " We are forced 
 to call the attention of man to our existence." — The Talmud. 
 
 — Dr. Osier. 
 
 But now is tyme to yow for to telle 
 How that we bare us in that ilke night, 
 When we were in that ostelrie alight; 
 And after wol I telle of oure viage 
 And al the remenaunt of oure pilgrimage. 
 
 Prologue to " The Canterbury Tales.'l 
 
 Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, Dr. Johnson tells us, made the dis- 
 covery that he had " mused away " the four and twentieth part of 
 the forty years of life allotted to man. And from that period was to 
 be deducted the ignorance of infancy, and beyond it was the imbecility 
 of age. But he had been living in " The Happy Valley " and was 
 looking about for an exit therefrom where he could lead a more 
 strenuous life. 
 
 We, who have lived a score or more of years beyond the forty, and 
 not always in " The Happy Valley," can count some of our achieve- 
 ments in the later period, and some of us, perhaps, are looking for 
 further successes and victories. We are men of " cheerful yesterdays " 
 and hopeful to-morrows. 
 
 There are sins of omission and of commission in these memorabilia 
 of the Class of '60 for which the Secretary alone is blameworthy. 
 Thanks are due to all those who have helped the compiler and cheered 
 him in his work. Its imperfections be upon his own head. The 
 Editorial Committee, Eugene Richards, Daniels, and Dunham, have 
 wrought valiantly. 
 
 In the former days the class rejoiced in an Historian and a Class 
 Committee, as well as a Secretary. Now all these offices and functions 
 are merged in the present chronicler. An attempt has been made in 
 these pages to supply an existing need. 
 
 The Talmud says: " Three names are given to a man: one by his 
 parents, another by the world, and the third by his works." 
 
Class Meetings and Records 
 
 The class of 182 1 met in 1824, and this is the earliest formal 
 reunion of any class of which there is any record. Since then 
 the custom of holding a class meeting at the end of three 
 years after graduation, and then at the end of ten years, 
 followed by meetings at intervals of five years, has become 
 established. Since the class of 1845, there has been but one 
 exception to this; the first formal reunion of the class of 
 1858 was at the end of seven years, owing to the Civil War. 
 
 The first class record published of an academical class was one of 
 twelve pages for the class of 1821, in 1836, and it was followed by two 
 more in 1841 and 1846. Thirty-six issued one in 1839; '10, in 1840; 
 '37, in 1840 and 1847; '17, in 1842; '13 and '33, in 1843; ' 2 4> i n I 844; 
 '22, in 1845; '44. i n J 847; and the class of 1797, the oldest class that 
 printed a record, issued one of ninety-nine pages in 1848. Beginning 
 with '32, all subsequent classes have issued records. — Colonel Bacon 
 of ' 5 8. 
 
 Class Meetings. Our class has had twelve meetings, the 
 informal meeting in 1861 and the Bicentennial included. 
 The undertaking herewith is to give some account of each 
 meeting, more or less in detail, but in all cases to preserve 
 the spirit, if not the letter, of each meeting, as it has been 
 recorded by the class secretaries. 
 
 Informal Meeting of 1861. The members of the class re- 
 siding in New Haven became convinced that there would 
 be a goodly representation of the class at Commencement 
 time. Accordingly, some preparations were made, and a 
 meeting called by posters and other means, in Professor 
 Larned's recitation room. 
 
 About thirty members presented themselves, and gave 
 each other hearty welcome. Daniels was elected chairman 
 of the meeting and Owen secretary. 
 
 The subject of a Class Committee was brought before the 
 meeting and White, Daniels, and Champion were selected as 
 such committee. Champion was also elected Class Secretary. 
 
io Class of Sixty 
 
 As Johnson was on the point of leaving, as commissary of 
 the Fifth Connecticut Volunteers, it was thought desirable to 
 present him with some token of our good wishes. He was, 
 therefore, enticed from the room, and it was voted to give 
 him a saddle and trappings. On Johnson's return, Holden 
 made the presentation in his usual felicitous style, and John- 
 son replied, thanking the class for their kindness. 
 
 The roll of absent members was called, and those who were 
 able gave information about them. Some refreshments were 
 then discovered, and after an agreeable hour or two spent 
 in discussing these and other topics, the class adjourned at a 
 seasonably late hour of the evening. 
 
 The Triennial Meeting was held in President Woolsey's 
 lecture room, at noon of July 29, 1863, for business purposes. 
 About forty were present; Daniels was chairman. A tax of 
 six dollars each was voted, to cover cost of supper and other 
 class expenses. 
 
 Walter Phelps was chosen chairman for the evening, and 
 Furbish chaplain. The name of the Class Boy, Oliver Wendell 
 Holmes, was announced, and cheers were given for both the 
 boy and his father. The Secretary was authorized to print 
 the Class Report, and it was also voted to have the Class 
 Book of Portraits for the college library rebound. 
 
 A committee, consisting of C. H. Richards, Knowlton, and 
 Daniels, was appointed to draft and present resolutions rela- 
 tive to deceased classmates. This committee presented, and 
 the class passed, appropriate resolutions concerning the death 
 of Hebard, Arnold, Johnston, and Boies. 
 
 At 9.30 p. m., the class met at the same place and 
 walked in procession to the New Haven House, where supper 
 was served. There were fifty-three at supper: Ball, E. R. 
 Barnes, H. E. Barnes, E. C. Beach, Blakesley, Bristoll, R. B. 
 Brown, Bunnell, Carrier, Catlin, Champion, Colton, Daniels, 
 Denison, Dunham, Engs, Eno, Fairchild, Furbish, Gaul, 
 Griffin, Haight, Hale, Hart, Higgins, Holden, Holmes, Hurl- 
 but, Keese, Kingsbury, Knowlton, Loomis, McAlpin, McKay, 
 Mason, Norton, Owen, Pennington, G. D. Phelps, W. W. 
 Phelps, Rice, C. H. Richards, Siglar, Ward, White, Willcox, 
 Williams, Worthington, and Bunce, Egleston, D. J. Ogden, 
 Park, and Wildey. During the supper the class of 1853 passed 
 
Class Meetings and Records 1 1 
 
 through the room, headed by their Class Boy, bearing a banner 
 inscribed, " Our oldest boy." Near the close of the supper 
 the doors were thrown open and the wives, sisters, and other 
 friends of the class were invited in, the class rising and sing- 
 ing " Gaudeamus." 
 
 Chairman Phelps, in his address, said in part: 
 
 A band of brothers, united after a long separation, we will enjoy 
 our reunion to the full, and let the sunshine of the meeting be dark- 
 ened by no shadow of partings that have been, or of the parting that 
 to-morrow must be. If waves are surging without, they break against 
 these walls and are powerless to harm us. Behind them we sit to-night 
 holding each other's hands, and the noise of the outer conflict, of the 
 great battle in which you and I and our fellowmen are bearing parts, 
 shall be to us but a pleasant lullaby, the patter of the rain upon the 
 roof to the dreamy sleeper who is safe beneath its shelter. Let 
 to-night be as full of laughter as our parting was of tears. 
 
 Within a stone's throw of where I stand the moonlight is falling 
 on the spot where, three years ago, beneath the sunshine, we joined 
 in the exercises of the Presentation Circle. Then no eye was dry, 
 and a hundred men were not ashamed to weep together. There are 
 but fifty of us here to-night, but the same sympathy that filled all 
 eyes with tears will fill them now with joy. . . . We are here for a 
 simple and familiar object, — to see each other again; to assure our- 
 selves that time and absence have not diminished the friendships of 
 our youth, and to strengthen ourselves in the thought that in the 
 sorrows we have the sympathy, in our joys the congratulations, of 
 all our classmates. 
 
 Chairman Phelps, then taking the Class Boy from the arms 
 of his mother, seated him in a little chair upon the table, in 
 full view of the company, and introduced him: 
 
 Gentlemen, the pleasantest task of the evening is before us. We 
 are about to enter upon the most romantic and prized of all college 
 exercises. Of the hidden significance of this custom I shall say noth- 
 ing before this audience. I shall introduce to you immediately the 
 Boy of the Class, Oliver Wendell Holmes, for whom you will give three 
 cheers. 
 
 Now, on this boy I shall pass no encomium, and for the old reason, — 
 he needs none. As for his beauty, his looks speak for themselves. 
 As for his wisdom, it is evident : he knoweth his own father. 
 
 Holden then presented the silver cup to the Class Boy : 
 
 Three years ago, my friends and classmates, our Alma Mater pushed 
 us from her generous lap and sent us sprawling upon the floor of the 
 great world. Some of us happily fell upon our feet and at once were 
 ready to take the places of our various duties and to perform them, 
 
1 2 Class of Sixty 
 
 while others lay floundering without any definite aims or substantial 
 hopes. But all, by this time, doubtless, have found their appropriate 
 spheres of action, and many of us have returned to recount our trium- 
 phant experiences, or to bewail in sympathy our misfortunes. 
 
 Some in mercantile life have become Pythoness-es in pantaloons, 
 and mounted the tripod of the counting-room, on which, if they do 
 not prophesy, they at least give their attention to profits. Some have 
 made the law their profession, and, without intending the slightest 
 disparagement to them, I may say they have probably found thus 
 far quite a discrepancy between their profession and their practice. 
 Others, believing in both the law and the prophets, have taken to the 
 gospel, and some, indeed, have even " wagged their pows in a pu'pit." 
 A few in the editorial chair grasped the product of the bird that 
 cackled before the walls of Rome, and evidently believed that through 
 the same instrumentality another republic would be saved. Others, 
 not satisfied with the destruction of human life caused by this civil 
 war, have graduated at our medical colleges, and compensate by an 
 abundance of faith for their lack of patients — the only compensation 
 they at present expect. Many others, to their everlasting honor be 
 it spoken, have been hammered into a nobler manhood by the iron 
 arm of war, and some, also, have been crushed beneath its ponderous 
 blows. . . . But more particularly are we assembled here to-night to 
 bear testimony to our affection toward you, my friend, and give 
 expression to our gratitude for the honor you have conferred upon us; 
 although when we separated we could not predict who would be so 
 gracious as to grant us this boon, we did have a complete assurance 
 that wheresoever and by whomsoever a boy belonging to this class was 
 brought into the world, the world would reciprocate the favor by the 
 most remarkable demonstrations of its appreciation. Such proves to 
 have been the case; for scarcely was the announcement made — on the 
 Fourth of July, 1861 — that the firstborn of the Class of '60 had 
 graced this planet with his presence, than the bells of all the church 
 spires from Maine to California rang out their gladness. ... A new 
 significance was added to the national flag as it floated in the breeze, 
 and the father sang to the child, with its new meaning, the nursery 
 legend of " The Baby Bunting." " Night dropped down the sky," 
 when rockets and wheels, blue lights and serpents, sulphurous stars, 
 and gunpowder moons lit up the firmament in honor of the boy; and 
 so soothing and pleasant were his juvenile pyrotechnical impressions 
 that one has but to say " rocket " in connection with his cradle, when 
 he soon sinks into peaceful slumber. 
 
 And now, as the sponsorial representative of more than one hundred 
 godfathers, allow me to indulge in a few words of modest panegyric 
 upon their foster child. He is no ordinary boy. In fact, I know of 
 but one thing in the world more extraordinary, and that is, that any 
 baby belonging to the Class of i860 should be an ordinary child; there- 
 fore, I say it without hesitation, I say it boldly, I say it candidly, that 
 literally and metaphorically, both in virtue of priority of birth and in 
 
Class Meetings and Records 1 3 
 
 virtue of his inherent genius, he is a first class boy; and that although 
 his stature is small and his mental vision at present of limited extent, 
 yet in comparison with other youths of his age he stands " a giant 
 among pygmies, a one-eyed monarch of the blind." 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes, — Your baptismal appellation has imposed 
 upon you a fearful responsibility. Perpetual humor must be your lot , 
 and unbroken fun is incumbent upon you. You are the representa- 
 tive of a dynasty of jokers, and, although you may never become an 
 " autocrat," to be clothed in purple and fine linen, yet be it your 
 care that all shall say, " There is wit in Holmespun! " You need a 
 motto in life. Allow me to recommend the one which the poet has 
 immortalized, "Excelsior"; for it was, I believe, in a spirit of 
 prophecy, never fulfilled until now, that the poem was written, as in 
 it he tells us concerning his hero, that, 
 
 11 By happy Ho(l)mes he saw the light." 
 
 This gift to you will be, besides, a valuable evidence in determining 
 your legitimacy as a Class Boy; for, as the lineaments of the counte- 
 nance betoken the claims of their possessor to his real parentage, so, 
 should any one dispute your right to be considered as the child of the 
 Class of i860, you will only have to show your " mug " triumphantly 
 to refute them. 
 
 Take, then, this goblet, and with it our heartfelt prayer that until 
 the golden bowl is broken, the generous wine of our love for you, your 
 parents, and for each other, shall forever give its color in the cup. 
 
 Holmes then briefly thanked the class for the gift, on behalf 
 of the boy, his wife, and himself. 
 
 " The Cup Song," by C. H. Richards, was then sung, to the 
 air, " A Little More Cider." 
 
 Come, boys, and raise a rousing song, 
 
 And ring the chorus out. 
 And strain your ancient diaphragms 
 
 In one tremendous shout. 
 For yonder Holmes in glory comes, 
 
 His face lit up with joy, 
 And brings with him a youngster trim, 
 
 Our '6o's eldest boy. 
 
 Chorus 
 Then hail, thou favored lad! 
 The noblest to be had, 
 We pledge you here with right good cheer, 
 And give you greeting glad. 
 
 Your patriot soul would not let you 
 
 Some vulgar day be born in, 
 So you and July Fourth came on 
 
 The same illustrious morning. 
 
14 Class of Sixty 
 
 Since you were smart and got the start 
 
 Of every other " pup," 
 Roll up your eyes, and take the prize; 
 
 We crown you with the cup. 
 
 Chorus 
 Then clap and crow, and sing; 
 The silver cup we bring; 
 Who wins the race with such good grace 
 Shall be of babes the king. * 
 
 And when with Sixty's Oliver 
 
 All over it shall be, 
 When you shall fix to cross the Styx 
 
 And take your last degree, 
 If this desire your heart shall fire 
 
 That one more cup be quaffed, 
 Then pour the last libation out, 
 
 And don't " resist the draught." 
 
 Chorus 
 But till that day shall roll 
 Its summons to your soul, 
 Omit the " sticks " whene'er you mix 
 Your bitters in the bowl. 
 
 Three years ago a Bachelor's 
 
 Estate we longed for then, 
 But now these same " Hi juvenes". 
 
 Are yielding to Hy-men. 
 Now all the couples in the class 
 
 This cup'll couple stronger, 
 And all the rest will vow they will 
 
 Be Bachelors no longer. 
 
 Chorus 
 
 Then ring the cups around, 
 
 There's music in the sound, 
 
 No maids, they say, can answer nay, 
 
 When '6o's on the ground. 
 
 After this song had been sung the doors were again closed 
 and the more intimate speaking and other exercises of the 
 evening began. Songs were sung; regular toasts were pro- 
 posed and responded to by Dunham, Daniels, Gaul, Bunnell, 
 Higgins, H. E. Barnes, Ball, and Park. It was voted to meet 
 again in three years, and as daylight dawned, the class 
 adjourned to the ivy and sang our " Parting Song," by 
 Champion. 
 

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 i ass Meetings and Records 15 
 
 .£ AIR — "Good bye" 
 
 -£ net to part, but it cheers the heart 
 
 -^ re we have met again, 
 
 6^ leartier grasp and the stronger clasp 
 
 ^S,^ ds that have grown to men. 
 
 6U "ought in the battle of life, 
 
 ve bravely met the foe, 
 opes that were dreams three years ago 
 Past, that we talk of now. 
 
 brief years, the wonderful years, 
 of the bright and gay, 
 , brief years, the sorrowful years, 
 aken our friends for aye. 
 x ui ^.i. w.ose whom we met before, 
 
 When planting our ivy here, 
 Some happy faces we see no more, — 
 Faces we held so dear. 
 
 We said farewell, but we could not tell 
 
 The meaning of all we said; 
 They do not return and we silently mourn 
 
 For the brave and loved, — the dead. 
 And again we say good bye ; 
 
 Each brother we bid good bye; 
 Old Yale, may our ivy grow green on thee, 
 
 We bid thee again — Good bye. 
 
 At noon of Thursday, the class met again in President 
 Woolsey's lecture room, in the old Lyceum, to transact some 
 business, and there was a prayer meeting in the afternoon. 
 It was voted at that time that this should be a permanent 
 feature of our class meetings. 
 
 The thanks of the class were voted to Secretary Champion, 
 and to the Class Committee, White, Daniels, and Champion, 
 for their services. 
 
 The Sexennial Meeting was held at the Tremont House, 
 Wednesday evening, July 25, 1866. Thirty, in all, sat down 
 to supper: Beers, Blakesley, W. E. Bradley, W. L. Bradley, 
 Bristoll, R. B. Brown, T. H. Brown, Bunnell, Dutton, Elder, 
 Fairchild, Foster, Fowler, Gaul, Hall, Hurlbut, Johnson, 
 Knowlton, Loomis, Marsh, Marshall, Mason, Morris, Owen, 
 W. W. Phelps, Siglar, Starr, White, Willson, and Woodruff. 
 
 Mason was president of the evening. Toasts were offered 
 and responded to. It was remarked that the six years that 
 
1 6 Class of Sixty 
 
 had passed since graduation had but slightly changed the 
 personal appearance of those present. Of our original number 
 eleven had already died: Hebard, Johnston, Arnold, Boies, 
 Howe, Ogden, Schneider, Carrier, Martin, Camp, and Seely. 
 
 Forty -one of the class then living had married, and eleven 
 of these had married New Haven girls. There had been 
 twenty -nine births. 
 
 W. L. Bradley was Class Secretary at this time. A vote 
 of thanks was given to a class committee; the names of its 
 members do not appear. Whether there was any other meet- 
 ing beside the class supper, either for business or for prayer, 
 no record is found. It was voted to meet again in 1870, and 
 the class separated in a happy frame of mind. 
 
 The Decennial Meeting. It is a fair inference from the 
 record that this meeting was held Wednesday, July 20, 1870. 
 A large attendance was anticipated by reason of the interested 
 and spirited replies received from classmates. Already 
 changes in personal appearance had become so manifest that 
 those who had not met for ten years were far from sure of 
 each other's identity. " But there were the same pleasant 
 countenances as of old, and the same cordiality of manner." 
 A business meeting was held at twelve o'clock, in the south 
 front room, second story, of the Lyceum; about twenty were 
 present. Knowlton was made chairman. 
 
 The Class Secretary read a report of the Sexennial Meeting 
 and of the expenditure of money contributed on that occasion. 
 Catlin was chosen Class Historian, and was instructed to 
 reprint so much of the Triennial Record as pertained to the 
 personal history of the class; to defray the expense of such 
 publication he was authorized to collect from each member 
 a sum not exceeding two dollars. 
 
 W. L. Bradley was re-elected Class Secretary. W. L. 
 Bradley, White, W. W. Phelps, Mason, and Catlin were 
 appointed a committee to look after the general interests of 
 the class. W. W. Phelps was chosen to preside at the supper 
 at the New Haven House at eight o'clock in the evening. 
 
 At 5.30 p. m., thirteen of the class met in the same upper 
 room of the Lyceum, and passed an hour in prayer, the 
 singing of hymns, and the narration of personal religious 
 experiences. 
 
Class Meetings and Records 17 
 
 There gathered at the supper, H. E. Barnes, Blakesley, 
 W. L. Bradley, Bristoll, Bunnell, Catlin, Colton, Dunham, 
 Elder, Eno, Foster, Furbish, Gaul, G. N.Greene, Griffin, Haight, 
 Hart, Hawley, Higgins, Johnson, Keese, Knowlton, Loomis, 
 McAlpin, Marshall, Morris, Owen, G. D. Phelps, W. W. 
 Phelps, Post, E. L. Richards, Siglar, Taintor, Wheeler, Will- 
 cox, Williams, Worthington, and Young, besides Bunce, 
 Ogden, and Woodruff, — forty -one in all. 
 
 The feast was begun with an invocation by Dunham, and 
 closed by the singing of " Gaudeamus." Chairman Phelps 
 called out the toasting and speech-making capabilities of 
 those present by his witty and pointed personalities. All 
 the toasts were drank enthusiastically in cold water. Owen 
 and Catlin spoke in response to toasts to " Alma Mater," 
 and the " Class of '60." It was voted that Catlin's poem, 
 " The Class of '60," be published in the Class History. 
 
 Griffin responded to the toast, " Our Deceased Classmates," 
 in part as follows : 
 
 My Classmates, — As we review to-night the starred names of 
 seventeen of our number who left these college halls ten years ago with 
 as good promise of long life as any one of us then had, how forcibly 
 are we reminded of the words that constitute the second stanza of 
 old "Gaudeamus ": 
 
 " Vita nostra brevis est, 
 Brevi finietur; 
 Venit mors velociter 
 Rapit nos atrociter 
 Nomini parcetur." 
 
 Truly, " death is no respecter of persons," it spares none, not even 
 the best, the bravest, the strongest. 
 
 In rising to respond to this toast, I cannot help feeling that a deep, 
 impressive silence would be more appropriate than any words of 
 human utterance. But at the same time, I esteem it a privilege to 
 stand here and testify to the deep and affectionate esteem in which 
 we all held those dear classmates who are not, for God has taken them. 
 Let me rehearse their names in your hearing as they occur in alpha- 
 betical arrangement, for I have not at command the order of time in 
 which they died: Arnold, Boies, T. H. Brown, Carrier, Camp, Cham- 
 pion, Hall, Hebard, Howe, Johnston, Martin, F. C. Ogden, Parsons, 
 C. H. Smith, Schneider, Seely, and Way. 
 
 All good men and true! We weave the chaplets of affection for 
 the graves of our noble dead; we embalm their memory and enshrine 
 their virtues in our heart of hearts. " Manly and gentle, pure and 
 noble hearted, sweet were their lives of peaceful youth and beauty." 
 
1 8 Class of Sixty 
 
 Though gone from us we feel they still belong to us. Though 
 absent in body, we cannot doubt they are present with us in spirit, 
 as we have assembled in this delightful decennial reunion of our noble 
 class. Especially near may we realize them during these passing 
 moments which we are now spending in tender reminiscence and 
 grateful contemplation of the happy hours we have enjoyed with 
 them in the days of Auld Lang Syne. I seem to hear a voice from the 
 open heavens saying unto me: "Write, Blessed are the dead which 
 die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they 
 may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." 
 
 Answering for " The Wives of '60," Dunham announced 
 that fifty -six of the class had consoled themselves with wives ; 
 and then turning to the unfortunate bachelors, he spoke 
 words of commiseration and exhorted them to mend their 
 ways. At the close of his remarks, he gave notice that he 
 would be in town the next morning, prepared to join in 
 marriage any who should be so minded. 
 
 " The Bachelors of the Class " found a champion in Gaul. 
 The toasts to " The Lawyers," " The Physicians," and " The 
 Ministers " were appropriately responded to, respectively, 
 by Bunnell, Colton, and Blakesley. 
 
 " The Press " was toasted by Morris. As a " carpet- 
 bagger," he was seeking the radical cure of Charleston, S. C, 
 with the satisfaction which usually follows intervening time 
 and distance he related how he had suffered perils by bullets, 
 and perils of various kinds, but how he was, through pluck 
 and courage, victorious over them all. 
 
 At intervals were sung " Co-ca-che-lunk," " Vive V- 
 Atnour," and the following song by Catlin, revised from the 
 Triennial program: 
 
 AIR — "A Little More Cider " 
 Well, here we are again, my boys, 
 
 All gathered here together, 
 Tho' fortune's waves had scattered us 
 
 " Like leaves in wintry weather "; 
 But then, you know, " affinities 
 
 And mutual attraction " 
 
 Are just as potent here as in 
 
 "A chemical reaction." 
 
 Chorus 
 Then fill your glasses high, 
 Fling all your troubles by; 
 Old '6o's fame of jolly name 
 For us can never die. 
 
Class Meetings and Records 19 
 
 But " who are these in bright array," 
 
 These fair new forms and faces, 
 With joyous laugh and sparkling eye, 
 
 Adorned with woman's graces? 
 It's just as well to tell the truth: 
 
 These forms and faces comely, 
 Since College laws forbid to wed, 
 
 Have joined us as Alumni. 
 
 Chorus. — Then fill your glasses high, etc. 
 
 And see the children: bless their hearts; 
 
 And hear their footsteps patter. 
 Why! '6o's growing old, my boys, 
 
 And that's just what's the matter. 
 It seems but yesterday this scene 
 
 As tender Freshmen found us, 
 Yet now, young Freshmen of our own 
 
 Are growing up around us. 
 
 Chorus. — Then fill your glasses high, etc. 
 
 But while we pass the jovial bowl, 
 
 And glass to glass is kissing: 
 Ah! sad the thought, we call the roll, 
 
 And many more are missing. 
 Alas, how many that we've loved, 
 
 Have left us and forever. 
 So, yearly, grim death stealeth in, 
 
 Our ranks anew to sever. 
 
 Chorus. 
 Then let the heartfelt tear 
 Fall silent on the bier, 
 As we call them, one and all, 
 Those absent brothers dear. 
 
 But ere the tie which binds to-night 
 
 For years is cast asunder, 
 Let's have a rousing carnival, 
 
 And send " black care " to thunder. 
 Then shout as loud as e'er you can, 
 
 " Prex., Had., and Tommy " scorning, 
 The monitors locked in — we'll all 
 
 Sleep over in the morning. 
 
 Chorus. — Then fill your glasses high, etc. 
 
 The remainder of the evening, or morning, was passed in 
 the narration of personal history, reading of letters from 
 absentees, and obituary notices of deceased members. 
 
20 Class of Sixty 
 
 It was voted to meet again in 1875, and a vote of thanks 
 was tendered to Class Secretary Bradley for the able manner 
 in which he had discharged his duties, and for the valuable 
 and unselfish services rendered by him in the past four years. 
 
 The exercises were closed about 3 a. m. by singing 
 Champion's " Parting Song," to be found on page 15. The 
 fact that our ivy was growing luxuriantly in 1870 was noted. 
 If it survives the rebuilding of the library some of us, in 19 10, 
 will gather around the slip from the original planting which 
 Mrs. Champion has saved and nourished for us. 
 
 THE CLASS OF SIXTY 
 
 CATLIN'S DECENNIAL POEM 
 
 One day, some fifteen years or so ago, 
 
 Great Jove, his court in high Olympus holding, 
 
 Sat throned in state, expounding and unfolding 
 
 His edicts, while around him, in a row, 
 
 Ranged all the pet divinities: Minerva, 
 
 Old Bacchus, Vulcan with his sooty fervor, 
 
 Juno the bull's-eyed, rosy featured Venus, 
 
 Diana, Mercury (velox amoenus), 
 
 Apollo, little mischief-making Cupid, 
 
 And all. " Non est negandum quin," 'twas stupid, 
 
 And very prosy. As they sat and listened, 
 
 First Venus yawned, then Bacchus' eye-balls glistened, 
 
 And off he went for " medicum Sabinum "; 
 
 Diana nodded, Vulcan snored sonorous; 
 
 In short, they all agreed 'twas sadly bonis; 
 
 And Zeus had just made up his mind to fine 'em 
 
 And let them go, when lo! there came a rapping, 
 
 So loud and long that Vulcan woke from napping. 
 
 Venus sat up, Diana ceased to nod, 
 
 And tipsy Bacchus hid away his tod. 
 
 " Who's there ? " the cloud-compeller shouted madly, 
 
 " Who's there ? " he shouted once and twice again. 
 
 The answer came, each time distinct and plain, 
 
 " A special message from Professor Hadley." 
 
 The entire assemblage shuddered with dismay, 
 
 At mention of that great, that horrid name, 
 
 Which Trojan matrons long had used to tame 
 
 The froward child, when prone to disobey. 
 
 " What can he want? Why sends he here ? " they muttered. 
 
 " He knows the side on which his bread is buttered, 
 
 And surely will not dare offend our master." 
 
 Meanwhile, with visage blanched to alabaster, 
 
 Enter the messenger, a timid tutor, 
 
 With hungry mien, a regular Greek-rooter. 
 
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 He seemed familiar, though, with each one present; 
 
 Nodded to Venus, patted Juno's pheasant, 
 
 Shook hands with Bacchus, Vulcan, and the others — 
 
 In short, was as one of their foster brothers. 
 
 Then, turning to great Jove, bowed low his head, 
 
 And thus, in good dactylic accents, said: 
 
 " Great thunder scatterer, old Jersey Lightening, 
 
 With thy far-reaching rays all nature brightening; 
 
 Most august sovereign, potentate, and king, 
 
 Incline your ear to this complaint I bring, 
 
 From one who, year on year, dispenses knowledge 
 
 Of your great self to Freshmen in Yale College. 
 
 He bids me come in his behalf, deploring 
 
 The fact that, notwithstanding all his boring, 
 
 The last half score or so of Freshman classes 
 
 Have turned out most unconscionable asses. 
 
 Sixty, the next, will be as bad, I fear, 
 
 Unless, O king, you lend your gracious ear, 
 
 And give the subject most profound attention; 
 
 Nay, more, perchance your royal intervention." 
 
 To him replying thus the Father spoke, 
 
 While thunders loud the Olympian echoes woke: 
 
 " What! can it be, that, spite of all this training, 
 They flunk and fizzle still? This needs explaining. 
 These impious Freshmen, frivolous and ruddy, 
 Somehow or other must be taught to study; 
 They need some penalty — they need it sadly. 
 Go, give my greeting to Professor Hadley, 
 And tell him that this coming class of Freshmen 
 
 Shall be as model and precise as chessmen." 
 
 Away the tutor sped. Jove, for a second, 
 
 Sat pond'ring, scratched his royal pate, then beckoned 
 
 To Mercury, who, ever wont to heed 
 
 His master's mandate, came with winged speed. 
 
 " Go forth," cried Jove, " to every clime and nation; 
 
 In each promulgate this my proclamation; 
 
 Proclaim it far and near that I've commanded 
 
 Such Freshman class shall be together banded 
 
 As ne'er before, from widely scattered realms, 
 
 Assembled under those Yalensian elms; 
 
 And mark! wher'er you find a noble youth, 
 
 Most excellent in learning and in truth, 
 
 To him this mild but firm behest make known: 
 
 'The Class of '60 claims him for its own.' " 
 
 Thus saying, he declared the meeting ended, 
 
 Took off his specs, and from his throne descended; 
 
 While Mercury profound obeisance made, 
 
 And sped away to do as Jove had said. 
 
22 Class of Sixty 
 
 Far and near the search he carried; 
 
 Nowhere lingered, nowhere tarried; 
 
 Up and down, to town and city; 
 
 By the sea, to hamlets pretty ; 
 
 To the distant isles of ocean — 
 
 Aintab, Hilo, Keeseville, Goshen, 
 
 Plantsville, Smyrna, Warsaw, Guilford, 
 
 Old Mandamus, Clyde, New Milford, 
 
 Cincinnati, Hartford, Holden, 
 
 And to California golden; 
 
 Storm and sun and peril breasting; 
 
 Never weary, never resting, 
 
 Sped the god, with footsteps willing, 
 
 Jove's august command fulfilling. 
 
 And so it came that one September day, 
 
 When autumn skies were hazy, soft, and mellow, 
 
 When falling leaves were rustling to decay, 
 And summer's green was fading into yellow, 
 
 Yon college chime rang out its peal of welcome, 
 
 And told the good old story o'er again — 
 How classes came and went, and classes shall come, 
 " So long as Yale and grateful minds remain." 
 
 Ah! need that four-year story be repeated? 
 
 No, in each heart its moral is impressed, 
 That tale of ends achieved, of hopes defeated, 
 
 Could time or gilded memory give it zest? 
 
 Yet we may pause a moment, recollecting 
 The many, many things we could have done, 
 
 Yet did not; still another in reflecting 
 
 How many things were better left undone. 
 
 Well, good or evil, all went sweeping o'er us; 
 
 Those four bright years were all too quickly passed 
 When, standing on life's brink, we looked before us 
 
 And saw the sea, the open sea at last. 
 
 We launched our shallops, all so deeply laden 
 With hopes and fears, upon those sunlit waves, 
 
 Each steering toward the distant longed-for Aiden 
 Whose shores the sea of youthful fancy laves. 
 
 Oh! have we yet that haven reached, my brothers? 
 
 We, who, for ten long years, have journeyed on 
 Through storm and sunshine, while so many others, 
 
 As full of hope as we, alas! have gone? 
 
 Is not the light of riper days dispelling 
 The wild, unreal visions of our youth? 
 
 Is not a kind experience daily telling 
 
 The difference 'twixt the Mirage and the Truth? 
 
Class Meetings and Records 23 
 
 Where have we been since last we met? 
 What have we done we'd fain forget? 
 How many vows have we kept or broken? 
 How many good words have we spoken? 
 Whom have we succored in distress? 
 Ah! could each heart its tale confess, 
 What would the long, long record say 
 For each of us as we come to-day, 
 Here to renew the olden joys 
 That we knew so often when we were boys? 
 
 Let each heart answer. But this we know, 
 That each face to-night is all aglow 
 With memories happy, of times gone by — 
 Those dear old times — that can never die. 
 
 Quindecennial Meeting. On Wednesday, June 30, 1875, 
 at 12 m., eleven of the class assembled in the second story, 
 south front room, of the Lyceum. The meeting was called 
 to order by the Secretary, after which Mason was appointed 
 chairman. The Secretary gave a report of receipts and 
 expenditures during the past five years; he stated that all 
 miscellaneous expenses having been paid, the only expense 
 attending the Quindecennial Meeting would be the supper 
 in the evening. Gaul was unanimously chosen president of 
 the Quindecennial Meeting. The old committee were re- 
 elected, with W. L. Bradley as Class Secretary. 
 
 At 6 p. m. a few members of the class met in the aforemen- 
 tioned room of the Lyceum, and enjoyed a brief season of 
 social worship, Barnes conducting the service. 
 
 At 8 o'clock p. if. twenty-two members of the class, viz., 
 H. E. Barnes, R. B. Brown, Bunce, Catlin, Colton, Gaul, 
 Griffin, Haight, Hart, Higgins, Keese, Kingsbury, Knowlton, 
 McKay, Marsh, Marshall, Mason, Owen, W. W. Phelps, Post, 
 Siglar, and Ward, sat down to the class dinner at Redcliffe's, 
 Gaul presiding as Magister Epuli, and Catlin acting as Secre- 
 tary in the absence of the Class Secretary, W. L. Bradley, 
 who was prevented, by the recent loss of his father, from par- 
 ticipating in the festivities of the evening. 
 
 After a blessing had been asked by Higgins, a bountiful and 
 luxurious repast was partaken of, and the regular toasts of the 
 evening were then in order, being prefaced by two stanzas from 
 good old " Gaudeamus." The presiding officer in a neat speech 
 welcomed his classmates back to their whilom scenes of labor 
 
24 Class of Sixty 
 
 and jollity, and announced the first regular toast of the even- 
 ing, " Alma Mater," which was eloquently responded to by 
 Mason, who spoke touchingly of the ties which bound Yale 
 men together wherever congregated, and alluded with pride 
 to the strength and influence of the Yale Alumni Association 
 in his own city, Chicago. The song " Alma Mater " was then 
 sung by the class, with all the wonted gusto of yore, after 
 which the chairman called upon William Walter Phelps to 
 respond to the second regular toast, " Yale Influence in 
 National Legislation. ' ' Phelps's remarks were in a happy vein 
 of mingled humor and earnestness, and elicited frequent 
 applause from his classmates. The third toast, " The Class 
 of '60," called to his feet Owen, who, after a few happy re- 
 marks, produced from his coat pocket a mysterious article 
 carefully wrapped in paper. Upon unfolding the contents 
 he turned to his next seat-mate, Marsh, and with a flourish 
 of oratorical trumpets, presented him with a fossil discovery, 
 which he claimed was nothing less than a portion of the shoe 
 of the learned professor's pre-Adamite horse. The professor 
 took it, put on his glasses, inspected it, and in a moment 
 remarked that, while he doubted that fact, he would yet 
 admit that the relic was a curious one, and was probably, he 
 should say, a piece of the pothook on which Pocahontas had 
 hung her teakettle. Having once taken the floor, Marsh was 
 not readily allowed to resume his seat. In response to an 
 invitation from his classmates he gave them a delightfully 
 interesting description of his recent adventures in the Sioux 
 country, including his feast to Red Cloud, his venturesome 
 escape by night through the Indian encampment, and his 
 wonderful discoveries of fossil remains in the Mauvaises 
 Terres. To all this his hearers listened with pride and delight, 
 and testified their satisfaction by deafening applause when at 
 last the professor was allowed to sit down, but with an appoint- 
 ment to meet the class next morning at the Peabody Museum, 
 and show them the result of his discoveries. 
 
 The class statistics were then read by the Secretary pro 
 tem., after which the toast " The Pulpit " was responded to by 
 H. E. Barnes, who sketched in a graphic manner the work 
 that had been and was still being done, in various quarters of 
 the land, by the ministers of the class. Colton responded for 
 " The Doctors," ably defending that much-abused profession 
 
Class Meetings and Records 25 
 
 against the many erroneous popular impressions held regard- 
 ing it. " The Bar " was responded to by Post, who, seated 
 on a table, with his feet on the chair before him, opened court 
 in western style then and there, and, after bringing down the 
 house by his flow of humorous rhetoric, wound up with a 
 touch of pathos which all but set his hearers' tears flowing, 
 and rendered imperative a resort to the lively verses of " Co- 
 ca-che-lunk," which followed. " The Press " was responded 
 to by Catlin, who sketched the careers of various classmates in 
 the field of journalism, and the " Bachelors of Sixty " by Gaul 
 and Haight, who defended their cheerless position in the most 
 defiant and daring strain. To " The Wives and Children of 
 '6o " Griffin presented a glowing tribute in verse, of such 
 merit that the class authorized its publication herewith. 
 
 YALE 18604875 
 
 Classmates, convened from far and near, 
 With joy extreme, I meet you here, 
 And on this jolly Quindecennial 
 I wish you happiness perennial. 
 
 Our Secretary, blithe and bland, 
 Took me, awhile since, by the hand, 
 And with his genial, winsome smile 
 Did my simplicity beguile, 
 To this extent, that I rehearse, 
 As optional, in prose or verse, 
 The glories of this mighty theme 
 Which shine with purest ray serene. 
 
 " Our wives and '60 Junior! " Oh! 
 
 Expression's force falls far below 
 
 The requisitions of the time, 
 
 That call for grand and glorious rhyme. 
 
 Come, then, my muse, if I have one, 
 
 Help me sing in sweetest tone, 
 
 Worthy paeans to our wives, 
 
 Dearest charmers of our lives; 
 
 And the children! bless their souls, 
 
 When the wave of trouble rolls 
 
 Heavy o'er life's stormy main, 
 
 By their smiles bring peace again. 
 
 Woe to the bachelors of our class! 
 
 We can't in justice let them pass 
 
 Without the briefest possible mention. 
 
 Though they seem hopeless and past redemption: 
 
26 Class of Sixty 
 
 In compassion to them we forbear 
 (Only their tender feelings to spare) 
 Descanting at length upon the joys 
 Surrounding a father of girls and boys. 
 
 Here we note a single exception 
 
 To this disparaging reflection, 
 
 By speaking a word in favor 
 
 Of Professor Marsh, the savor 
 
 Of whose influence has shed glory 
 
 By his research into hoary 
 
 Relics of bygone ages 
 
 On our class history's pages: 
 
 Nay, the utterance of his name 
 
 Has added to the fame 
 
 Of this great University 
 
 By the infinite diversity 
 
 Of bones he has found and vertebrates, 
 
 But, alas! he's one of the celibates. 
 
 We count those happy and wise 
 Who, heeding the good advice 
 Given by classmate Dunham 
 At our ten-yearly reunion, 
 Have from single misery fled, 
 To double-blessedness wed, 
 Leaving their lonely condition 
 To taste of domestic fruition. 
 All hail! most fortunate band, 
 We greet you with heart and hand; 
 May your shadows never grow less, 
 And peace your firesides bless. 
 
 But, all is not sunshine here, 
 With each joy is mingled a fear 
 That the shadows of grief may soon 
 Darken bright skies with gloom. 
 Our tears of sympathy flow 
 For those who've been called to go 
 To the narrow house and lay 
 Their precious dust away. 
 The circle of love was broken 
 When fond farewells were spoken 
 And the spirit took its flight 
 To a land of cloudless light. 
 May He whose grace can heal 
 The wounds which mourners feel, 
 By His loving, gentle voice, 
 Bid the sorrowing hearts rejoice. 
 
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 Oh! the checkered years, 
 With their smiles and tears, 
 That have come and gone, 
 Hurrying on and on 
 Since our hundred and nine, 
 With prospects fine, 
 Each took his place 
 In the earnest race, 
 For honor's goal 
 With heart and soul, 
 All noble youth 
 In search of truth. 
 
 It seems to us but a dream 
 As we recall that scene; 
 Boys in our teens were we then, 
 Now we are strong, busy men. 
 
 Already our numerous children 
 Exceed by a full round dozen 
 The graduate number of our band, 
 A few of whom together stand 
 To-night and pledge their faith anew 
 To Alma Mater, firm and true; 
 Classmates once and friends forever, 
 Bonds which death itself can't sever. 
 
 Looking a few years hence 
 
 With keen, prophetic glance, 
 
 Sixty Junior I seem to see, 
 
 Coming hither to take his degree. 
 
 If I should make a guess 
 
 Of time, say more or less, 
 
 In eighteen eighty-one 
 
 There will have been begun 
 
 An era for this College 
 
 With its great heaps of knowledge, 
 
 Beside which all shall pale, 
 
 Even in mother Yale: 
 
 For then our boys shall come 
 
 To this old classic home 
 
 In one tremendous crush, 
 
 To fizzle, flunk, and rush. 
 
 And when that day shall be 
 
 May we be there to see, 
 
 With bouquets rich and sweet 
 
 To fling at the orator's feet, 
 
 As forth he struts to make 
 
 His maiden speech and take 
 
 Upon Commencement stage 
 
 The honors of the age. 
 
28 Class of Sixty 
 
 Of one thing we're agreed: 
 If that class shall succeed 
 In beating '6o's crowd, 
 They'll do us mighty proud! 
 
 Now, classmates, fill your glasses full 
 Once more, with water pure and cool, 
 As I repeat the sentiment 
 By way of sincere compliment, — 
 Here's to our wives, God bless their hearts, 
 Who captured us with Cupid's darts; 
 Here's to our children, bright and hale, 
 Fit candidates for good old Yale, 
 At least the lads; as for the lassies, 
 What can they do, but join the classes 
 Of " old Grove Hall, York Square and all," 
 Beneath whose leafy bowers fall 
 The shadows of departed years, 
 When, full of youthful hopes and fears, 
 Some of our fellows, with great propriety, 
 Made their entree to high-toned society; 
 Now and then got " stuck for a hack " 
 As the rain descended with darkness black, 
 On the night when the concert was to be, 
 And they had invited fair company. 
 
 But, pardon me for running on 
 In this loose, prolix fashion, 
 And occupying precious time 
 With my poor rambling rhyme. 
 
 God bless us, classmates, one and all, 
 Our wives and children, great and small, 
 And grant that we again may meet 
 In friendship, one another to greet 
 Under the elms, the dear old elms, 
 Until in bright and heavenly realms 
 We join our kindred gone before 
 And sing God's praise forevermore. 
 
 The song by Catlin from the Triennial program, " Well, 
 here we are again, my boys," was then sung, after which, per- 
 sonal reminiscences being in order, the name of each member, 
 present or absent, graduate or non-graduate, was called off by 
 the Secretary pro tern., and such information given concerning 
 each as could be furnished by any classmate present. Many 
 were the sallies of mirth or the thought of sadness evoked in 
 
Class Meetings and Records 29 
 
 turn at the mention of each familiar name; nor was it until the 
 rosy fingered maiden had commenced her morning duties in 
 the eastern sky, or the Center Church clock had struck three, 
 that the interesting recital closed. 
 
 A vote of thanks was then tendered Catlin for his services, 
 in preparing the Decennial Record, and Bradley for his co- 
 operation as Class Secretary. 
 
 Catlin then thanked the class for their recognition of his 
 labors as Class Historian, and stating that owing to the pres- 
 sure of other business it would be impossible for him to con- 
 tinue in the discharge of his duty as such, nominated as his 
 successor Griffin, who was unanimously elected, and was 
 instructed to prepare and publish a record covering the five 
 years subsequent to the Decennial Record, at an expense not 
 exceeding one hundred dollars, to be paid for by an assessment 
 pro rata upon the class. 
 
 The Secretary was instructed to look after the class ivy, and 
 it was voted that the next class meeting be held in 1880. 
 
 The benediction was then pronounced by Ward, after which, 
 with three rousing cheers for '60, the class adjourned, unani- 
 mously voting the reunion the happiest and jolliest yet 
 recorded in its history. 
 
 The Vigintennial Meeting. On Wednesday, June 30, 1880, 
 at 12 m., twenty-three members of the class assembled at 
 room 174 of the Lyceum. The meeting was called to order 
 by the Secretary, and Mason Young was appointed chairman. 
 The Secretary gave a report of receipts and expenditures 
 during the previous five years. It was voted to lay a tax of 
 one dollar upon each member, absentees included, to defray 
 the ordinary expenses, the amount due for the supper to be 
 collected from those present in the evening. Isaac J. Post 
 was chosen President, W. L. Bradley, Secretary, George H. 
 Griffin, Historian; E. L. Gaul, William McAlpin, and Mason 
 Young were appointed to act with the Historian and Secre- 
 tary in making arrangements preparatory to the Quarter- 
 Century Meeting to be held in 1885. 
 
 At one o'clock twenty -two members of the class, viz., H. E. 
 Barnes, W. L. Bradley, Denison, Furbish, Gaul, Griffin, Hig- 
 gins, Johnson, Kingsbury, Knowlton, Loomis, Marsh, Marshall, 
 McAlpin, McKay, Post, E. L. Richards, C. H. Richards, 
 
30 Class of Sixty 
 
 Siglar, Williams, Willson, and Young, gathered on the steps 
 of the " Old Chapel," and were photographed by De Silva. 
 
 This seems to have been the first photograph of a group of 
 the class taken at any reunion. None was taken in 1885, 
 but since 1890 the classmates assembled at each reunion 
 have been " taken." In these five groups following there 
 are fifty -nine different faces, — fifty -three of graduates and six 
 of non-graduates. Four of the same ones only are to be 
 found in all of the groups. 
 
 At half past six o'clock seventeen members met for an hour 
 of social worship in the recitation room of Professor Richards. 
 
 At eight o'clock p.m., twenty -seven graduates and two non- 
 graduate members, viz., H. E. Barnes, W. L. Bradley, Brown, 
 Bunce, Col ton, Denison, Dutton, Furbish, Gaul, Griffin, 
 Higgins, Johnson, Kingsbury, Knowlton, Loomis, Marsh, 
 Marshall, McKay, McAlpin, Ogden, Owen, W. W. Phelps, 
 Post, E. L. Richards, C. H. Richards, Siglar, White, Williams, 
 and Willson, sat down to the reunion supper at the Tremont 
 House. 
 
 Post presided. In response to the call of the chairman, 
 some recalled the pranks of college days, while others narrated 
 the experiences of mature life. The class pride vaunted itself 
 in the possession of members of congress, members of state 
 legislatures, two of the six elected members of the Yale Cor- 
 poration, six college professors, and many distinguished 
 representatives in the learned professions. At the alumni 
 meeting the reference by Willson to " the scholarly attain- 
 ments of E. L. Richards and the world-wide scientific repu- 
 tation of Marsh " was warmly applauded. The prophecy 
 made ten years before, in the song of Catlin, 
 
 " Yet now, young Freshmen of our own 
 Are growing up around us," 
 
 had become a reality, and W. W. Phelps announced that his 
 son, prepared by Siglar, was a member of the Freshman (com- 
 ing Sophomore) class at Yale, while H. E. Barnes confessed 
 that his son had just entered the Freshman class at Harvard. 
 By request, E. L. Richards made a statement in behalf of the 
 Yale Athletic Association which desired contributions toward 
 the purchase of a permanent field. In this connection Owen 
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 Johnson, and himself) were members of the crew who in 
 1859 won in the University boat race with Harvard. The 
 meeting was enlivened by the singing of songs, among which 
 was the following new one by Griffin: 
 
 AIR — " Auld Lang Syne " 
 In friendship firm again we meet 
 
 Around our well-spread board, 
 The hearts of classmates here to greet 
 
 With grateful feelings stored; 
 On rapid wing the years have .passed 
 
 Since we, so young and hale, 
 Went forth from joys that could not last, 
 
 In those fair days at Yale. 
 
 Through all the years what varied scenes 
 
 Of sunshine and of shade, 
 The backward sweep of history gleans 
 
 From life-plans here once laid; 
 This lesson greatly wise and true, 
 
 Which all the thoughtful learn, 
 That they who manhood's work would do 
 
 Must heavenward daily turn. 
 
 From platform, pulpit, bench, and bar, 
 
 From busy marts of trade, 
 From battlefields where many a scar 
 
 The conflict long has made ; 
 We've come to tell the checkered tale 
 
 Of life thus far unrolled, 
 How we as loyal sons of Yale 
 
 Have tried to prove " pure gold." 
 
 With absent boys of '6o's band, 
 
 Wherever they may be, 
 Though scattered wide o'er every land, 
 
 We're one in sympathy; 
 And bid them Godspeed in the race 
 
 For honors yet in store; 
 Hoping to meet them face to face, 
 
 Ere life's brief day is o'er. 
 
 The loved and lost — with sad refrain 
 
 We speak their names to-night; 
 They've gone from earthly care and pain 
 
 To heaven's unclouded light; 
 Those names to us will never die, 
 
 We'll keep their memory green, 
 Till called to rise above the sky 
 
 And see as we are seen. 
 
32 Class of Sixty 
 
 After the narration of personal reminiscences, the class 
 adjourned to meet in 1885. 
 
 The Quarter-Century Meeting. The preliminary meeting 
 was held, Tuesday, June 23, at 12 m., in Prof. E. L. Rich- 
 ards's recitation room, Atheneum. The following were pres- 
 ent: H. E. Barnes, Beckley, W. L. Bradley, Chapell, Colton, 
 Daniels, Denison, Eno, Fairchild, Freeman, Furbish, Gaul, 
 Greene, Griffin, Haight, Hale, Hart, Higgins, Holden, Hunt, 
 Hurlbut, Keyes, Kittredge, Knowlton, Loomis, Marshall, 
 Mason, McAlpin, Norton, E. L. Richards, Smith, Ward, 
 Wheeler, Williams, Willson, Young, Clinton Furbish, and 
 Dodge — thirty-eight, and also Griffin's son. Gaul was 
 chosen chairman. The Secretary read his report of the Vig- 
 intennial Meeting, and also presented a financial statement. 
 The class voted not to accept the resignation of the Secretary. 
 Holden was elected President and Mason, Vice-President. 
 
 At seven o'clock in the evening a class prayer-meeting was 
 held in the same place. Daniels presided, and about thirty 
 were present. 
 
 The meeting and supper were at 9 p. m., in the Brothers' 
 Hall, Alumni Building. The use of the room, with light, was 
 furnished by the college authorities. Forty -eight graduates 
 and three non-graduate members were present (only two less 
 than the number present at the triennial), viz., Ball, H. E. 
 Barnes, Beckley, W. L. Bradley, Brown, Bunnell, Chapell, 
 Colton, Daniels, Denison, Dunham, Eno, Fairchild, Freeman, 
 Furbish, Gaul, Greene, Griffin, Haight, Hale, Hart, Hawley, 
 Higgins, Holden, Hunt, Hurlbut, Johnson, Keyes, Kittredge. 
 Knowlton, Loomis, Marsh, Marshall, Mason, McAlpin, Mc- 
 Kay, Norton, Owen, Pennington, E. L. Richards, Siglar, 
 Smith, Ward, Wheeler, Williams, Willson, Woodruff, Young, 
 Bunce, Dodge, and Clinton Furbish. 
 
 After the supper had been disposed of the President ad- 
 dressed the class as follows: 
 
 I came here, like the rest of you, to enjoy myself, without an 
 apprehension of burden or responsibility of any sort. I did not expect 
 anything more formal than to ask and tell how it has been with us 
 the past twenty-five years. But, to my great consternation, this 
 afternoon I learned that many of you had united in a conspiracy to 
 make me preside this evening. To a man who has scarcely made a 
 
Class Meetings and Records 33 
 
 speech during all that time, and whose principal work has been with 
 the pen, an extemporaneous address would be something he would 
 not care to make, nor you care to hear. I have, therefore, fallen 
 back upon the weapons which God and Nature have put into my 
 hands, and shall inflict upon you the following leading editorial. 
 
 We have returned here — many of us at least — to renew our 
 youth like the eagles of the American or bald-headed species. We 
 have fulfilled all the cherished hopes and vast designs of twenty-five 
 years ago. We have painted all creation red. Virtue is now 
 rewarded, as it has always been, at its own expense. Vice has been 
 abolished. Justice has been sent to the blind asylum, her scales to 
 the coal dealer's. Like the Irishman in the story, the doctors have 
 sawed off all the limbs they depended upon for support. 
 
 The millennium has come as promised. We went right to the front 
 with checks for reserved seats, and this world has humbly asked us 
 to run the planet to suit ourselves. 
 
 Usually, of every twelve eggs laid by the Commencement hen, eleven 
 are addled. But all of ours have hatched. The poet who said that 
 " heaven lies about us in our infancy," didn't know our class. To 
 " act like sixty," and even to " lie like sixty," have passed into prov- 
 erbs. Our great success is owing to our possession of a superior article 
 of Gaul. He is our mascot. There is only one, and we've got him. 
 Then there's the friend of Red Cloud, and Delano, the father of the 
 pterodactyl and the famous equestrian who has learned to ride the 
 fiery, untamed ichthyo-saw-horse. His bones lie scattered from the 
 Alleghanies to the Rockies — the man who, early in life, seizing his 
 geologist's hammer, heard and heeded the poet, when he bade him 
 
 " Break, break, break, 
 The cold gray stones, — " O. C. 
 
 Marsh; or when discussing the paleogenesis of the ferrugineous 
 depravity of the metamorphic schists with the argentiferous shales, 
 while dovetailed into the granitic elevation of the anthropomorphic 
 range of the Wiggle-Waggle Mountains, he exclaimed again with the 
 poet: 
 
 " O! would that my thoughts could utter 
 The words that arise in me." 
 
 Finally, only the man who had made his early study of a well- 
 thumbed pony could ever have discovered a five-toed horse. It is 
 not Cyrus Field or Jay Gould who has built up one of our gigantic 
 monopolies. It is Joe Twichell and Ned Mason, especially Mason, 
 both of whom so constantly employed the Western Union Telegraph 
 Company, informing each other of their new babies, that the company 
 regularly declared six per cent semi-annual dividends, and the opera- 
 tors, broken down from overwork, began their vigorous but useless 
 strike. 
 
 Of the other Mason, surnamed Young, I need but mention his recent 
 experiments in overcoming Newton's law of gravitation that has so far 
 served to hold him down in his professor's chair. 
 
34 Class of Sixty 
 
 Walter Phelps's bright youth soon closed. An overruling Providence 
 ordered otherwise. His promising career soon ended in the shadows. 
 A simple stone, with this inscription, marks his last resting place: 
 
 " Wm. Walter Phelps, 
 
 Born, March, 1840, 
 
 Elected to Congress, November, 1874. 
 
 This tribute of respect and affection 
 
 Is erected by his surviving 
 
 Classmates." 
 
 I come now to speak in sadness of my most cherished and intimate 
 friend and classmate. I knew him from childhood; watched his 
 growth with intense interest through all the vicissitudes of his check- 
 ered, but, alas! his not very ex-chequered career. His life has been 
 the most interesting of all his classmates, in my opinion. My emotions 
 will not let me speak his name at the present time. You will best 
 remember him and Nat Norton, because of the terrible affliction from 
 which they both suffered, — their asthma; that is to say, the " short- 
 ness of their pants." This member of the class, whose name I cannot 
 speak, has been thrown, not so much from pillar to post, as from Post 
 to Post — to wit, from the Hartford Post, which he conducted, or 
 misconducted, for three years, to the Detroit Post, on which he 
 remained for twelve years, exposing the nefarious deeds of the " hell- 
 hounds of the opposition." His success in saving the country, during 
 all that period, has never been publicly known, because Lincoln, 
 Grant, and Walter Phelps got the credit of it. The particular editorial 
 article which accomplished this great work was a powerful appeal 
 for " harmony in the ranks," for burying all minor differences, and 
 marching shoulder to shoulder against the common enemy. This 
 present election, he declared, was no time for dissensions; wait for 
 some other occasion; present a united front, and let the sun of election 
 day go down upon another victory for the grand old party. Then a 
 blight came upon the bloom of this journalist. He grew to be a dude 
 and a Pharisee, thence into a mugwump, and transferred his blasted 
 talents to the Detroit Free Press. 
 
 A man was once crossing a covered railroad bridge with an express 
 train just entering behind him. There was no escape but flight toward 
 the glimmer of day at the other end of the bridge. From tie to tie 
 he leaped. A misstep, and he would go down into the flood that ran 
 below. The light seemed no nearer; the train thundered at his heels. 
 Every muscle was tense, every pulsation agony. 
 
 It was an eternity of struggle and desperation. In the train itself, on 
 the other hand, time passed with scarcely the knowledge or conscious- 
 ness of the passengers. As they entered the bridge, the sun shone, 
 the trees waved, the grass was green about them. Then darkness for 
 a moment and out they hurried into the sunshine and the same land- 
 scape again; the same familiar faces about them, the same voices 
 they had heard on their journey to the bridge. Such seems to me 
 our passage of this quarter of a century. Pursuing us, ready to over- 
 
Class Meetings and Records 35 
 
 take and crush us, the great world has roared and rushed. Every 
 muscle has been strained, every heart-throb wild, to reach the light 
 that is always before us but never near. There, we hope, is safety, 
 peace, content. But it never comes and the train is at our heels. 
 A misstep will be fatal. Down we shall go into the abyss. But, 
 here and now, to-day, to-night, that vision seems like the horrid dream 
 of a moment. The blank, dark passage we scarcely realize. We have 
 shot out into the light of other days. Around us wave the same 
 green trees we last saw and know so well. Under our feet is the grass 
 on which we often trod; about us the well-known, the kind, the well- 
 beloved faces we saw just now before we disappeared into the darkness 
 of five and twenty years ago. 
 
 About fifteen of the class made impromptu remarks in 
 response to the call of the chairman. 
 
 To the question of Owen, " How about reconstruction in 
 Tennessee ? ' ' came the quick and warmly applauded retort of 
 Wheeler — " Whatever we are, we are not mugwumps, as you 
 are in Connecticut." 
 
 Richards advocated more attention in college to physical 
 education as the best basis for the highest intellectual culture. 
 His son, as a member of the graduating class, stood seventh in 
 scholarship, received one of the six Townsend Premiums, and 
 had also been prominent as an athlete throughout his entire 
 college course. 
 
 Marsh, who had expected to be absent in Europe, was for- 
 tunately present to listen to the remarks of Holden and Owen, 
 glorifying his fame as a paleontologist. 
 
 Daniels spoke of the influence exerted upon the state of 
 Michigan by Holden, as the able editor of the Detroit Free 
 Press, and by himself as professor of Olivet College. 
 
 Knowlton, as a recently appointed judge of the Superior 
 Court of Massachusetts, had postponed the session of court for 
 one day in order to be present. 
 
 Keyes narrated his many escapes from imminent death at 
 the hands of the wicked and murderous Apache Indians of 
 Arizona and New Mexico ; and having (as expressed by Hol- 
 den ) the necessary key, he stated that he had unlocked the 
 Golden Gates of California to the amount of a quarter of a 
 million dollars. 
 
 Beckley expressed a wish to see any of the class at his 
 home in Kentucky, but not all at once. 
 
 Hunt recalled student life, and referred to Hurlbut as a 
 personified Boreas. 
 
36 Class of Sixty 
 
 Smith read an antique biennial paper, which Holden said 
 " we would answer if we had the time." 
 
 About midnight a deputation from the class of 1882, then 
 holding their triennial at the Atheneum, came with greetings 
 to the Class of Sixty and in return were heartily cheered. 
 
 Young read a paper entitled, " Some Facts about the 
 Corporate Organization of Yale College," which was published 
 in full in our Quarter-Century Record. 
 
 The class voted to meet again in 1890 and adjourned. 
 
 Some ten members of the class met again the next day to 
 replant the ivy, which had suffered by the cold of winter, and 
 by the strokes of baseballs. 
 
 Thirty Years After. According to appointment, our boys 
 assembled at 12 m., Tuesday, June 24, 1890, in room C, 
 Cabinet Building, on the Yale campus, for their preliminary 
 business meeting. There were present: H. E. Barnes, E. C. 
 Beach, Bunce, Bunnell, Colton, Delafield, Denison, Dunham, 
 Eaton, Fairchild, Furbish, Gaul, Griffin, Haight, Hale, Hart, 
 Hervey, Higgins, Hurlbut, Jessup, Kingsbury, Keyes, Knowl- 
 ton, Loomis, Marsh, Marshall, Mason, McAlpin, Norton, 
 E. L. Richards, Siglar, Smith, Wheeler, and Woodruff. 
 
 Gaul, as chairman of the Class Committee, called the meet- 
 ing to order and presided. The resignation of W. L. Bradley 
 as Class Secretary was announced by the chairman. It was 
 voted to accept said resignation, with thanks to Bradley for 
 his long-continued and faithful service in the above capacity. 
 Griffin was then elected viva voce Secretary of the class and 
 accepted the position on the expressed condition that the office 
 of historian, which he has long held, be allowed to lapse. This 
 condition was conceded by unanimous consent, and hereafter 
 the Secretary will perform the duties of annalist, recorder, and 
 treasurer. 
 
 The Class Committee offered their resignation, and it was by 
 vote accepted. Gaul explained that there was no need of 
 continuing this committee, as it had been originally appointed 
 to assist the Secretary in making a special success of our 
 Quarter-Century Meeting. 
 
 Knowlton was elected nem. con. chairman of the class 
 supper. 
 
 A vote having passed in favor of a photograph, the class 
 adjourned to the steps of the Sloane Laboratory, where 
 
Class Meetings and Records 37 
 
 twenty -nine of the fellows were " taken " in a group, viz., 
 H. E. Barnes, E. C. Beach, Bunnell, Colton, Denison, Dun- 
 ham, Eaton, Fairchild, Furbish, Gaul, Griffin, Hale, Haight, 
 Hart, Higgins, Hurlbut, Keyes, Kingsbury, Knowlton, 
 Loomis, McAlpin, Marshall, Mason, Siglar, Smith, Wheeler, 
 Bunce, Hervey, and Jessup. 
 
 At six o'clock the following twenty -four met in Dwight 
 Hall (room belonging to '93 ) for an hour of social worship : 
 Ball, Barnes, Beach, Bunnell, Colton, Denison, Dunham, Fair- 
 child, Furbish, Griffin, Hart, Hervey, Higgins, Jessup, Kings- 
 bury, Knowlton, Loomis, Marshall, McAlpin, C. H. Richards, 
 Smith, Siglar, Ward, and Wheeler. 
 
 Furbish was leader. " From every stormy wind that 
 blows" was sung, and I Peter, 4th chapter, was read. 
 
 After some pleasant remarks, Furbish offered prayer. 
 
 C. H. Richards spoke of the spiritual benefit he derived 
 from the class prayer-meetings in college. 
 
 Griffin thanked God for the merciful way in which he had 
 been led. He asked for prayer especially on behalf of Leach 
 and Foster, both detained from the reunion after confidently 
 expecting to be with us, — one by reason of personal illness, the 
 other on account of the death of his eldest daughter. 
 
 Jessup gave an account of his experiences as a missionary in 
 Syria. He felt peculiar pleasure in this his first meeting with 
 the class since graduation. 
 
 Kingsbury and Hervey prayed, the hymn (one verse) " My 
 faith looks up to Thee " intervening. 
 
 Loomis recalled the blessing which came to our class through 
 the great spiritual awakening of 1858. 
 
 Barnes continued these reminiscences and expressed pecu- 
 liar desire to see all our classmates Christians. 
 
 Smith dwelt upon the deep significance of this prayer serv- 
 ice after thirty years of life's checkered experiences. 
 
 " Heaven is my home " : one verse of this hymn was sung in 
 memory of the many times we used to sing it, long, long ago. 
 
 Bunnell made special mention of Camp's holy walk and con- 
 versation, as that life impressed him. Camp never talked 
 religion to him through those four years, but he kept on 
 steadily exemplifying it. At separation, he gave Bunnell 
 some earnest words which helped him toward the light. 
 
 After prayer by Higgins, especially for Bunnell, Hart said 
 
38 Class 0} Sixty 
 
 he felt strengthened by the expressions of trust in God which 
 he had heard from his classmates. 
 
 Ward spoke of Camp, Johnston, and Schneider, as the three 
 men of '6o, long since sainted in glory, who had made the 
 strongest impressions for good on his mind. 
 
 McAlpin emphasized the blessings of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association, — largely developed since our college 
 days : an institution to which Yale is indebted for this Dwight 
 Hall, — a center of Christian life and power. 
 
 Dunham indorsed McAlpin's words and told how much 
 interest he felt in the Association movement and all it was 
 doing for the colleges of the land. 
 
 Marshall praised God for the prayer-meetings which our 
 class never fails to hold at its reunions. It seems, on com- 
 parison with other classes, to be quite a unique feature of ours. 
 
 The time did not suffice for all to participate. At 7.15 
 o'clock the meeting closed with singing one verse, " When 
 we asunder part," and benediction by Jessup. 
 
 The class sat down to their supper at eight o'clock, in the 
 front parlor of Julius Prokasky's Yale Hotel, Center Street, 
 according to the following order from Knowlton's right: C. H. 
 Richards, Ball, Eno, Mason, Hurlbut, Woodruff, Haight, 
 Wheeler, E. C. Beach, Bunnell, Siglar, Dunham, Furbish, 
 Smith, E. L. Richards, Ward, Kingsbury, Marsh, Marshall, 
 Loomis, Hale, Bunce, Denison, Barnes, Higgins, Hervey, 
 Keyes, Norton, Colton, Owen, McAlpin, and Griffin. 
 
 Jessup, Hart, and Fairchild sat at a convenient side table, 
 and, as for Gaul, no one could tell where he did sit, so busy 
 was he in caring for the comfort of all. 
 
 It should be mentioned, for Hawley's benefit, that he was 
 becalmed off New Haven harbor all that night, in a friend's 
 yacht, and thus lost, to his great regret and ours, the pleasure 
 he had anticipated at the class supper. 
 
 Before eating, the divine blessing was invoked by C. H. 
 Richards. After the viands had been sufficiently discussed, 
 Knowlton opened the feast of reason with some fitting re- 
 marks, commendatory of all who had worked to make this 
 reunion a success. He mentioned the interviews he had when 
 abroad last summer with Jones in London and Catlin in Zurich. 
 
 Every member of the class present was called in alphabetical 
 order. Ball was the only man whose modesty prevented his 
 
Class Meetings and Records 39 
 
 making a little speech, and Hurlbut kindly came to his help 
 (when the H's were reached ) by telling us that he had been 
 deputed by Ball to assure his classmates that he (Ball ) loved 
 them all. This is the only time on record in the class history 
 when it became necessary for Hurlbut to save Ball from flunk- 
 ing in recitation. 
 
 When Barnes spoke, he alluded to the son whom he was 
 compelled by circumstances to send to Harvard. This brought 
 forth a few groans from the class, which were given purely in 
 the Pickwickian sense. When Mason took the floor he came to 
 Barnes's defense by offsetting this peccadillo with an act of 
 magnanimity shown by Barnes, when chaplain in the army, to 
 Mason's brother. Barnes dismounted and nobly gave the use 
 of his horse to the wounded soldier. 
 
 And so the course of friendly talk and reminiscence flowed 
 on, the excellence of the remarks made by each being matched 
 only by the happy and hearty way in which Knowlton intro- 
 duced all the speakers. 
 
 The interchange of kind feeling and good fellowship was 
 continuous through the hours that went by all too swiftly. 
 The exercises were enlivened at appropriate intervals, by the 
 singing of our reunion songs with piano accompaniment. 
 
 After the speeches came the roll-call of absent ones, whose 
 letters, so far as received, were read. The welfare of others 
 was reported by different fellows who happened to be in- 
 formed. Near the conclusion, a son of Kip and a son of 
 Griffin (Yale '92 ) came in and were introduced to the class. 
 
 The name of Engs was mentioned as the only classmate 
 called from this world since '85, a fact of remarkable mercy, 
 considering the time of life we have now all reached. Engs 
 died very suddenly of heart disease, July 7, 1887, in the forty- 
 eighth year of his age. " As long as his health permitted," 
 says the Yale obituary record for '88, " he was a successful 
 practitioner, and was especially beloved by the poor, who 
 benefited by his professional services." 
 
 Special votes of thanks were given to Knowlton for his able 
 chairmanship, to Gaul for his mastery of details, and to Griffin 
 for his labors as historian and acting secretary. 
 
 After a vote to meet again in 1895, the class adjourned at 
 2.30 o'clock in the morning. 
 
 As a postscript, it is worthy of record that a good number 
 
40 Class of Sixty 
 
 of our fellows had the pleasure, on Wednesday, of paying their 
 compliments at 415 Orange Street, to Miss Mamie Clay, who 
 was the bearer of her father's kind messages to the class. 
 
 Joe Clay's photograph proved a conundrum which few were 
 able to guess. 
 
 Another delightful feature of the day was the courtesy of 
 Marsh to a delegation of his classmates (about a dozen), in 
 exhibiting and explaining his choice collection of assorted 
 bones in the Peabody Museum. 
 
 Some twenty of the class, including Hawley, sat together at 
 the alumni dinner on Wednesday afternoon. 
 
 In the absence of Mason, whose name was on President 
 Dwight's list, Griffin was called to speak for '60. In the 
 " few feeble remarks " which came to him impromptu, he 
 tried, at least, to do justice to the grand old class. He ac- 
 knowledges hereby, with gratitude, the cordial hand -shakes 
 and congratulations given him at the close by many of his 
 classmates. 
 
 The finale of this happy day came through the kindness of 
 Eaton, who had invited the class to his beautiful home on 
 Prospect Street for a spread at six o'clock in the afternoon. 
 A score of the fellows were present and heartily enjoyed the 
 occasion. 
 
 " God be with us till we meet again." 
 
 Griffin died in September, 1894, and in the November 
 following Hurlbut was invited by a dozen or more of his 
 classmates to assume the duties of the office, provide all 
 things necessary for our reunion in 1895, and act until 
 Griffin's successor could be regularly chosen by the class. 
 Hurlbut accepted, and soon the class began to receive circu- 
 lars about the next meeting, laden or upborne by all the 
 eloquence of small caps and italics. His urgent pleadings 
 were effective in bringing together the largest attendance since 
 our Decennial. 
 
 Thirty-fifth Anniversary. Commencement exercises at 
 Yale in '95 were declared by competent judges to have been 
 the best attended, most enthusiastic, and attractive that have 
 ever taken place. How much the Class of '60 contributed to 
 this success — modesty forbids. Let others tell: alii loquan- 
 
Class Meetings and Records 41 
 
 tur. It certainly contributed its full share, heaping and 
 running over. Where the crowd was biggest, the excitement 
 intcnsest, the heat hottest, the applause and noise greatest, 
 there could be seen in the heat of the fray the blue '60 flag, 
 followed by a cohort of blue '60 badges. From Sheffield 
 Presentation Day, the 21st instant, until the last guest had 
 left Prex's levee, 26th instant, '60 was " on deck " — first, last, 
 and all the time; yesterday, to-day, and forever. Nunquam 
 backseatibus . 
 
 On Monday morning, the 24th, the Class Poet and Orator 
 had their inning, just as Boies and Daniels had, and in the 
 afternoon the class histories, pipes, songs, marching, and 
 ivy planting carried us back to our student days, thirty -five 
 years ago. 
 
 Tuesday, 25th, was alumni meeting, presided over by 
 our classmate, Knowlton, and Willson was selected by the 
 Alumni Committee to impress upon the assembly what '60 
 was, is, and is to be — to demonstrate that '60 was the greatest 
 class that ever graduated; in fact, that there had been but 
 one class that really amounted to much, and that he repre- 
 sented it. Both Knowlton and Willson " filled the bill " 
 with credit to themselves and honor to the class. 
 
 As soon as Willson had finished, his classmates present 
 adjourned to room 200, Old Chapel, for our business meeting. 
 The class had commenced to arrive since the preceding 
 Thursday, and some were present at the different exercises 
 already mentioned. 
 
 On Monday evening about twenty collected at the New 
 Haven House, and our reunion really commenced then. On 
 Monday morning early, the posters on the trees announced 
 that '60 was " in town," and on Tuesday morning a large 
 Yale blue silk flag, with '60 in white satin numerals, floating 
 outside the door of No. 200, Old Chapel, a most conspicuous 
 location opposite Trumbull Gallery, and next to Alumni 
 Hall, announced to the college world that the " Old Guard " 
 was " Here." It attracted much attention and admiration. 
 
 At 1 1. 1 5 the Secretary called the roll, and the follow- 
 ing answered to their names: Ball, H. E. Barnes, Beckley, 
 W. L. Bradley, Bunnell, Chapell, Colton, Dunham, Eno, 
 Freeman, Haight, Hale, Hart, Hawley, Higgins, Hurlbut, 
 Johnson, Keyes, Kingsbury, Kittredge, Knowlton, Leach, 
 
42 Class of Sixty 
 
 Loomis, McAlpin, Marsh, Marshall, Mason, Norton, Owen, 
 Pennington, Rice, C. H. Richards, E. L. Richards, Siglar, 
 Smith, Wheeler, Willcox, Willson, and, as invited guests, 
 Hervey, C. Furbish, Coan, Park, and Bunce, a total of forty- 
 three. 
 
 Mason, nem. con., took the chair. A tax of five dollars per 
 capita was collected, except from the guests, and a vote of 
 thanks offered to those whose additional contributions fur- 
 nished " the oil to move the machinery." Blue satin badges 
 with '60 on were distributed, and were certainly a feature of 
 the occasion, as the class wore them while in New Haven, 
 and they made a most distinguishing mark. The claims for 
 favorable consideration of the Yale Alumni Weekly were 
 mentioned in a notice that was read, and it is a most inter- 
 esting publication for those who wish to keep in touch 
 with college matters. (No commission for this puff. ) 
 
 A vote of thanks for the Secretary, and his unanimous 
 re-election ; the selection of Smith to preside at the class sup- 
 per, and a vote to meet in 1900 closed the business meeting. 
 
 At its adjournment the class, headed by the Secretary, 
 with the class flag, marched to the Library Building, were 
 grouped on the steps, a picture was taken, — and a capital 
 one, too. 
 
 There were forty -one in this goodly company: Ball, H. E. 
 Barnes, Beckley, Bunnell, Chapell, Colton, Dunham, Eno, 
 Freeman, Haight, Hale, Hart, Hawley, Higgins, Hurlbut, 
 Johnson, Keyes, Kingsbury, Kittredge, Knowlton, Leach, 
 Loomis, McAlpin, Marshall, Mason, Norton, Owen, Penning- 
 ton, Rice, C. H. Richards, E. L. Richards, Siglar, Smith, 
 Wheeler, Willcox, Willson, Bunce, Coan, C. Furbish, Hervey, 
 and Park. If Marsh had arrived on the ground ninety-seven 
 seconds earlier he would have been included in the group. 
 
 After registering in the alumni book at the Library, the 
 marching was continued to the hall, where luncheon was 
 provided, and the time, until two o'clock, was taken up with 
 eating, and its usual concomitants. Edendi bibendi. At 
 that time the line of march was resumed, and then, headed by 
 the blue flag, the route was to the New Haven House, to take 
 the trolley car for the field. The sight of over forty old gray 
 beards, — and some of them can have their hair cut " while 
 they wait," without taking off their hat, — marching behind a 
 
Class Meetings and Records 43 
 
 class flag, and each wearing a class badge, created much 
 attention, and our arrival at the New Haven House did much 
 to increase the fun, noise, and enthusiasm already at fever 
 heat (calor febris). 
 
 After some little delay, because of the immense crowd, 
 for everybody in New Haven seemed to be coralled in that 
 vicinity, we got our car, and were on our way to the field 
 for the Yale-Harvard game. 
 
 Upon our arrival, gathering forces at the gate, we entered 
 in a body, forty -three strong, with flag flying and badges 
 waving. 
 
 We all remember ( ? ) the description of the different cele- 
 brations in the Roman Coliseum (Livy IV, 3; Homer V, 9), 
 whether it was a bull fight with thumbs down (pollice sub rosa ) 
 or "The Lady or the Tiger " {Damme Tigrisque)', even they 
 pale into insignificance in comparison with the reception 
 to the Class of Sixty, when it entered the arena and marched 
 across the full length of the field to their reserved seats. 
 The classes having reunions, '65, '70, '75, '80, '85, '89, and 
 '92, already seated in the spaces reserved for them, each with 
 a full band, arose as one man, and drowned the noise of the 
 music with their own. The grand stand, holding four thou- 
 sand, a living mass of youth, beauty, and loveliness (dulciora 
 melle), joined in the applause, and the waving of handker- 
 chiefs and flags was simply " out of sight." ( Not to be taken 
 literally.) Sixty cheered the crowd, and the crowd cheered 
 '6o, and all the while the Secretary was furiously waving the 
 class flag, and making as much noise as only he can make, 
 while every classmate, individually and collectively, was 
 waving anything he could get hold of, and shouting for dear 
 life, "Vita dulce." 
 
 " See Naples and die." See a sight like this and live. 
 Because of delay in calling the game, each class took the 
 opportunity to march around the field behind its band, and 
 halting in front of the bleachers, '60 gave the college cheer, 
 which was returned with interest. Oh! it was a great day 
 for '60; but then '60 was a great class. 
 
 Returning from the field quite a number attended the 
 class prayer-meeting, presided over by C. H. Richards, while 
 others came back to the site of the old fence, where several 
 sections of it were placed on the sidewalk for our special use. 
 
44 Class of Sixty 
 
 The time up to 7.30 was passed in chatting, singing, 
 watching the other classes, criticising the vast crowd, and 
 amusing ourselves in various ways, when, having in the mean- 
 time been joined by the others, in a body, still following the 
 blue '60 flag, we marched to supper. The table, laid on the 
 three sides of a hollow square, looked inviting, decorated with 
 flowers contributed by Owen, raised at his country place. 
 Rus in urbe. Smith presided, with the Secretary on his right. 
 " Gaudeamus " was sung, and then Park pronounced the 
 blessing. One classmate was so overcome at the sumptu- 
 ousness of the menu that he swooned, and went under the 
 table before he had finished reading it, thereby beating the 
 class record in that respect; but the medical talent present, 
 seven in number, after prescribing nux vomica, habeas corpus, 
 nunc pro tunc, succeeded in convincing him that he need not 
 pass an examination on the whole of it at once, but might 
 digest it in sections. 
 
 With songs, jokes, and general conversation, the evening 
 quickly passed, and, the physical pabulum being disposed of, 
 the mental pab. was brought out. Mens sana in sano corp. 
 
 The Secretary reported as follows concerning the absent 
 members : Answers had been received from all except Foules 
 and Jones, who treated beseeching letters of inquiry as though 
 they had been requests for charity or tailors' duns, with 
 dignified silence — silentia digitalis. The following reported 
 themselves as in good health, no radical change since 1890, 
 with a universal expression of regret that circumstances 
 compelled their absence: E. R. Barnes, E. C. Beach, F. Beach, 
 Beers, Blakeslee, Bristoll, Clay, Delafield, Holden, Howard, 
 Kip, Vandyne, Warren, Williams, Worthington. 
 
 The following expected to have been present, and accepted 
 their invitations, but were later prevented. These, too, are 
 in good health, with no radical changes since 1890: W. E. 
 Bradley, Daniels, L. H. Davis, R. S. Davis, Dutton, Fairchild, 
 Foster, Furbish, McKay, Starr, Ward, White, Young. 
 
 Denison wrote in January that he expected to come. In 
 May his sister wrote of his illness, and again on July 22 of his 
 death on July 7, at his home in Pomfret, Conn. 
 
 Holmes is too much of an invalid to travel. 
 
 Catlin, Clay, R. S. Davis, Dutton, Eaton, Holden, Starr, 
 Williams, as also Jessup and Wildey, of the invited guests, 
 
Class Meetings and Records 45 
 
 wrote most interesting letters that were read to the class, and 
 Jessup inclosed photographs of Mrs. Jessup and himself. 
 
 Just here the toast to our classmates deceased since 1890 
 was drunk standing and in silence. Letters were read from 
 Mrs. Greene, Mrs. Griffin and her son (as well as an auto- 
 biography presented), Mrs. Phelps, Mrs. Woodruff, and our 
 Class Boy's father, Holmes. Gaul's sister and brother-in-law, 
 Rev. Dr. George C. Yeisley, of Hudson, N. Y., were present 
 during the dinner exercises, and Dr. Y. was invited to a seat 
 beside the President, and made some remarks in memoriam 
 of our late class chairman, whose photograph has been 
 placed with the class memorabilia. 
 
 After this the following toasts were disposed of: " The 
 Corporation," Mason; " Athletics," E. L. Richards, who, in 
 the course of his remarks, said: " Yale has not asked for an 
 apology from Harvard, but simply a statement from the mem- 
 bers of the Harvard team in which they may clear themselves 
 of all responsibility for the vile slanders heaped upon Yale 
 last fall. It is not an apology for what has been done, but 
 a disavowal such as Yale frankly gave to Pennsylvania last 
 winter, when that college wrote to know if the published 
 attacks on her system of athletics had originated at Yale. 
 Such a statement Yale thinks she should get before trusting 
 her reputation to another football contest with Harvard "; 
 and " The Class of '60," Hurlbut, who paid a tribute to the 
 former secretaries and class committees, whose places " might 
 be taken but could not be filled," reminding the class that of 
 the one hundred and nine who had graduated, but seventy- 
 two (now seventy -one ) were left ; that the class had taken the 
 Yale Lit. Medal three times, in '57, '58, '59, Dutton, Jones, 
 and Ward; had furnished three members of the victorious 
 Yale-Harvard '59 crew, and that these three were present 
 to-day, Colton, Johnson, and Owen; that the unprecedented 
 attendance at our class reunions was a proof of the strong 
 class feeling, and that this present attendance was phenom- 
 enal, — including Beckley from Kentucky, Freeman from 
 Minnesota, Keyes from California, Loomis from Wisconsin, 
 McAlpin from Ohio, Mason from Illinois, Wheeler from 
 Tennessee, — where can you find such a record ? But, then, '6o 
 is a record maker. Recordia fecit. The class has not buried 
 its talents in a napkin. It has now two professors in the 
 
46 Class of Sixty 
 
 University, — Richards and Marsh; it has had a third, Eaton. 
 Daniels, D.D., Greek professor at Olivet; Smith at Dart- 
 mouth; Young, ex-member of the Corporation; Mason, an 
 active member, recently made LL.D. at Knox College, 
 Illinois; Phelps and Catlin, who have represented this country 
 abroad; Beers, professor in Kansas University; L. H. Davis, 
 M.C. for Missouri; Delafield, professor in Columbia College 
 Medical School; Dutton, editor and compiler U. S. A. re- 
 searches; Freeman, U. S. registrar and prosecuting attorney, 
 Minneapolis; Hurlbut, commissioner of education, New York 
 City; Knowlton, LL.D., and justice Supreme Court, Massa- 
 chusetts; Willson, justice Court of Common Pleas, Pennsyl- 
 vania; R. S. Davis, Foster, and Holden, each exerting a 
 widespread influence through the public press, besides mer- 
 chant princes and representatives of all the professions galore 
 who have made their mark in their different callings. Truly 
 our class motto was well chosen, — Spectemur Agendo. 
 
 Fortieth Anniversary. As the time for this meeting 
 approached, it became apparent that Hurlbut was not 
 going to be in condition to make the necessary preparations 
 and provide for the class entertainment. Accordingly a 
 number of the class united in a request to Leach to assume 
 the duties of Secretary provisionally. Having the necessary 
 time at his command, through having recently retired from 
 business, he took up the work. 
 
 The Attendance. Out of a possible sixty -one living mem- 
 bers, twenty -seven were present. There were also with us 
 three of our brethren who could not complete their course 
 with us, much to their regret and to ours. Ball, H. E. Barnes, 
 Beckley, W. L. Bradley, Bunnell, Colton, Dutton, Eno, Fair- 
 child, Foster, Furbish, Haight, Hart, Higgins, Johnson, Kings- 
 bury, Knowlton, Leach, Marshall, Norton, Owen, Pennington, 
 C. H. Richards, E. L. Richards, Smith, Wheeler, Williams; 
 Bunce, Hervey, and Park were with us and of us. 
 
 In Alumni Hall. Tuesday morning, June 26, 1900, '60 
 rallied at Alumni Hall with none of the doubts, misgivings, and 
 trepidations of old biennial days, which were a prolonged 
 agony to some of us. The meeting was opened with prayer 
 by Park. Wheeler was there to speak for our class when it 
 was called. Those who have attended recent reunions do 
 
Class Meetings and Records 47 
 
 not need to be told that he has an engaging presence, and that 
 his platform appearance and remarks were creditable to our 
 class. 
 
 Business Meeting. Promptly at eleven o'clock the class 
 assembled in Richards' recitation room, No. 175 Lyceum. 
 On motion, it was voted that the Secretary should act as 
 chairman; hence he had triple duties to perform at this 
 meeting. 
 
 Leach was elected Class Secretary. Tickets were pro- 
 cured by Haight for all who wished to go to the Yale-Harvard 
 baseball game in the afternoon. After reading correspond- 
 ence relating to the class ivy, which is published on a following 
 page, adjournment was had to the steps of the new Library- 
 Building, to sit for the class picture. 
 
 While our group was being arranged, another group of 
 friendly boys of '97, who perhaps thought '60 might be sad 
 and serious and in need of a more lively expression, came 
 down upon us, and taking a position near the instrument 
 of the artist, chanted some lines from the " Frogs of Aris- 
 tophanes," with their compliments to '6o. If any cheerful 
 effect was needed, this little episode gave it. For besides 
 being less in numbers than five years ago, we missed Hurlbut's 
 enlivening rallying cry. In this group of June, 1900, there 
 are twenty -six: Ball, H. E. Barnes, Beckley, W. L. Bradley, 
 Colton, Dutton, Eno, Fairchild, Foster, Furbish, Haight, 
 Hart, Higgins, Johnson, Kingsbury, Knowlton, Leach, 
 Marshall, Norton, Owen, Smith, Wheeler, Williams, Bunce, 
 Hervey, and Park. 
 
 The Ivy. Some feeling akin to sadness has always crept in 
 whenever it has been brought to mind that our class ivy failed 
 to thrive. 
 
 Charley Boies sang to us at its planting: 
 
 " We go to plant the ivy now, 
 
 The sun may burn, the storm may break it, 
 In growing years it may decay 
 
 And stranger hands may rudely take it. 
 
 But round these rugged walls, to-day, 
 A hundred living hearts shall center, 
 
 And ivied memories creep and cling 
 Where envious Time can never enter.' 
 
48 Class of Sixty 
 
 In 1895, Mrs. Champion kindly had our ivy replanted, 
 but it did not long survive, owing, it is said, to too much 
 ball practice in its neighborhood. 
 
 The following letter was read at the business meeting, 
 and the reply was adopted: 
 
 To the Members of the Class of '60. 
 
 Greeting: It is due you that with the slip of ivy sent for the planting 
 on your fortieth anniversary, I add a few words to prove its -authen- 
 ticity as a grandchild of the ivy planted in i860. 
 
 Let me first say that my husband dearly loved his class and class- 
 mates; that the words of the parting song sung by you in 1863 were 
 from the heart. He used often to speak of his plans as secretary 
 for the meeting in 1870. 
 
 When, after a year's residence in Minnesota, the angels came for him 
 and I returned East alone, I asked of President Woolsey the privilege 
 of taking a few slips from the '60 ivy. It was most readily given. 
 
 Two of the slips were sent to Hartford to plant by the grave of 
 Major Camp, of whom Mr. Champion was very fond. Two were taken 
 to the Grove Street cemetery, and the fifth was planted in my garden. 
 This has grown to be a large plant; and a year ago, realizing an ivy 
 would be needed by you this year, I started the slip I send. 
 
 If any of the class would like a slip to take to their home, it will 
 give me great pleasure to take one from the ivy in my garden if they 
 will call at 270 Crown Street, any time this afternoon before 7 p.m., or 
 any time to-morrow before the president's reception in the evening. 
 
 After my return from Minnesota, the Corporation of the college 
 voted to me the privilege of " the college that would have belonged to 
 my husband," so I consider I have a right to say I belong to the Class 
 of '60. May I ask that I be so considered by you? 
 
 Should I live till 19 10, and this slip not flourish, I promise to 
 have another ready for you. 
 
 With best wishes, 
 
 Mrs. Henry Champion. 
 New Haven, June 26, 1900. 
 
 Reply to Mrs. Champion : 
 
 The Yale Class of i860 has received, by the kindness of Mrs. Henry 
 Champion, a slip of ivy, which we have this day planted to replace 
 the one set out upon our graduation, but which did not flourish. This 
 one is certified to us as a grandchild of the original plant. 
 
 It is the sense of this class that we are greatly indebted to the donor 
 for this kindly and gracious gift. It is our wish that she should accept 
 from us this tender of our warmest thanks, and that she should receive 
 from us, with our cordial good-will, an honorary membership of our 
 class. 
 
 Smith's Address. Among the varied experiences of our 
 lengthening lives, this which I am about to describe has 
 befallen many of us. 
 
Class Meetings and Records 49 
 
 You had been traveling for miles over a level or slightly 
 rolling country. You had gained an elevated point and 
 paused to look backward. Your eye followed the road which 
 you had traversed until it was lost in the mists which shrouded 
 the distant landscape. But as you gazed the mists melted in 
 the sun's heat and the point from which you had set out hours 
 before was distinct and near, and the space and the toil that 
 lay between were as though they had not been. 
 
 We stand on such a point of vantage to-day. In the glow 
 of feeling kindled by our reunion amid these well-beloved 
 scenes, the mists and shadows which have gathered over 
 the way of our forty years' pilgrimage vanish, and we can 
 see ourselves the boys of '60 planting our first ivy here — one 
 hundred and nine of us, young and strong, and full of the joy 
 of living. 
 
 Our four years of association in common interests had 
 begotten a mutual love that was fain to express itself in 
 act; and the fitting act in which we solemnly joined was 
 the planting of the ivy. We did it in a body, which signi- 
 fied our union in purpose and feeling. He who plants allies 
 himself with the creative force, and thus we expressed the 
 stirring sense of power within us. In planting our ivy we 
 set forth our hope of future growth and bloom, and our 
 desire to preserve here, in this sacred repository, a reminder 
 of the common treasures which our four years had gathered. 
 
 For ten years our ivy flourished, while some of the best 
 and brightest of us finished their course. Then a winter's 
 frost killed it. Our Secretary, Dr. Bradley, tried to replace 
 it, but without success; and in '85 we planted another, — 
 a slip cut from the first, and preserved for us by Mrs. Cham- 
 pion. That has also perished, and again, to-day, we plant a 
 descendant of the first, furnished by the same kind hand. 
 
 There is something sadly suggestive in these repeated 
 failures. They remind us of the failures that we have all 
 made, — failures to obtain the things we desired; failures to 
 reach our ideals; failures to do the work set before us. They 
 remind us, too, of the untimely end of many an opening 
 career among us. 
 
 But none of these things overcome us. To-day — men 
 in our last decade, gray and careworn — we plant our ivy 
 again. We plant it with a mutual affection whose founda- 
 
50 Class of Sixty 
 
 tions have been deepened by time. Four years of boy- 
 hood were our common portion then. Forty years of man- 
 hood are our common portion now. In varying scenes, 
 with varying incidents, our experiences have had the same 
 essential feature; and more and more, my classmates, as 
 we meet, I recognize, in you and in myself, the boys we were 
 in i860. 
 
 How many plantings have we done; how many seeds we 
 have sown since then! Lawyer and merchant and broker 
 and doctor and teacher, writer and soldier and priest, we 
 have planted, and the rain and the sunshine of God's provi- 
 dence have watered and quickened, and the fruit has ripened, 
 the good and the bad. 
 
 Life has tested and tried us. It has taught us to know 
 the eternal verities as the boy cannot know them. In the 
 words of Emerson: 
 
 " Out of love and hatred; out of earnings and borrowings and 
 lendings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of worshiping; out 
 of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and 
 contempt, — has come our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.". 
 
 Charley Boies said to us in our class poem : 
 
 " Oh, 'twas true, the dream of sages 
 
 Of the music of the spheres. 
 And each life of human creatures, 
 
 With its changing joys and fears, 
 Is a note in the great anthem 
 
 Ever ringing through the stars." 
 
 As life has disciplined us, the discords have been gradually 
 hushed, and we have come into closer harmony with the 
 great anthem. 
 
 We plant our ivy again to-day, and it is well that we have 
 the opportunity. We do it in loving memory of departed 
 days and of the comrades who have left us, but we do it 
 with hope, fearless of aught that may be before us, resolute 
 still to plant and to reap, to live with our might in the present, 
 looking forward to an ever-widening and never-ending future. 
 
 After this address our tenor, H. E. Barnes, led us in singing 
 " Gaudeamus," which we sang with all the vim and vigor of 
 earlier days. Adjournment to luncheon followed. 
 
 Luncheon. The plan of keeping the class together for 
 luncheon as well as dinner has much to recommend it, and 
 
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 it has proved quite popular with all our boys. An enjoyable 
 hour was spent in eating and conversation before we separated 
 for the afternoon, many for the ball game, others to revisit 
 old scenes and renew former acquaintance. Many of us looked 
 at what remains of the Old Brick Row with regret, and with 
 the knowledge that Old South Middle would soon be the sole 
 survivor. 
 
 The Prayer-Meeting was well attended. Furbish was the 
 leader. He turned our thoughts to those who used to be with 
 us on these occasions, but who have gone before us. His 
 words were tender, and they helped to make the occasion one 
 of combined reminiscence and of incitement to use the time 
 that remains to us in faithful activity. The meeting was 
 entirely informal, each one in turn saying a word, — in most 
 cases of his experience during these years. Some of these 
 experiences were very touching as they revealed the heart 
 life of one and another. 
 
 In tender fellowship, in song and prayer, and in pleasant 
 converse, the hour and a half passed swiftly by. The meet- 
 ing furnished some of the most delightful moments of our 
 reunion. 
 
 The Dinner. The class assembled promptly at the ap- 
 pointed hour, and after a blessing had been asked by H. E. 
 Barnes, fell to in a way showing that age and custom had 
 not dulled or diminished their accustomed appetites. Foster 
 presided. Beckley, Bunnell, Eno, and Knowlton were unable 
 to remain to the dinner, but they left their hearts with us. 
 Knowlton went on his way to Harvard to receive his honorary 
 degree of LL.D. Sixty could also supply other worthy candi- 
 dates for her honors. — Verb. sap. 
 
 Although we sat down to table less in numbers than was 
 expected, there yet lacked nothing in vivacity, pleasure, and 
 enthusiasm. There were Ball, H. E. Barnes, Bunce, Colton, 
 Dutton, Fairchild, Foster, Furbish, Haight, Hart, Hervey, 
 Higgins, Johnson, Kingsbury, Leach, Marshall, Norton, Owen, 
 Park, Pennington, C. H. Richards, E. L. Richards, Smith, 
 Wheeler, and Williams. 
 
 The attendance of W. E. Bradley, Keyes, and Rice was 
 unexpectedly prevented at almost the last moment. Dan- 
 iels, Dunham, Holden, and Howard had hoped to be with 
 us. Eaton, Holmes, and Vandyne were too ill to come. 
 
52 Class of Sixty 
 
 Others were prevented by sickness in their families or impor- 
 tant engagements. 
 
 E. R. Barnes, Foules,* and Siglar were silent. 
 
 Much interesting personal history of the past was given 
 by each one in the five-minute speeches called for by Chair- 
 man Foster. Interest was unflagging. At i a. h. we ad- 
 journed, after singing Kingsbury's " Recessional " ; all united 
 in saying that the class had never had a more enjoyable 
 meeting. Richards' poem, which appears below, both because 
 it ought to be preserved and that the absent may also enjoy 
 it, was highly appreciated and warmly applauded. 
 
 A delegation from '97 visited us, and cheers and good 
 wishes were exchanged. 
 
 Holden sent us a " telephone " message by private wire, 
 which was in his usual happy vein and much enjoyed. There 
 were five large pages brimming full of humor, love, and good- 
 will. It was one only, but one of the best, of the good things 
 that all of you missed who were not there. 
 
 The absent and the gone before were all lovingly remem- 
 bered. The whole occasion was one to be thought of with 
 agreeable remembrances, and its next repetition to be looked 
 forward to with eager anticipations. The hearty handgrasp 
 and the cheerful Godspeed of classmates give pleasure, 
 courage, and strength. Past trials and disappointments are 
 lessened in magnitude, and the future takes on a brighter hue. 
 
 FORTY YEARS AFTER 
 
 Wake from your Rip Van Winkle sleep, 
 
 Proud Sixty, best of all the classes! 
 You've had a nap; from slumber deep 
 
 Arise, ere yet the daylight passes. 
 
 You're still beneath the elms of Yale; 
 
 The college bell will soon be ringing 
 Its summons out ; we must not fail, 
 
 But quick to meet the Prof, be springing. 
 
 * Under date of July 17, Foules writes: 
 
 11 I would have been glad to have met you all on June 26, but my 
 health has been so bad for the last three years that I have scarcely 
 been out of my yard for that length of time. Remember me to any 
 of my classmates you should happen to meet, and if any of them should 
 happen down my way, give me a call, and I will promise each and all 
 of them a hearty reception." 
 
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 What! rather stiff in all your joints? 
 
 And racked with dire rheumatic twinges? 
 And you, who gave the sprinter points, 
 
 Are your knees rusty on their hinges? 
 
 And what's the matter with your hair, 
 
 Which yesterday was full and flowing? 
 A scalping-knife has sure been there, 
 
 And snowdrifts through your beard been blowing. 
 
 And what's the matter with my muse? 
 
 She limps; her voice is hoarse and raucous, 
 As though her shouts had been let loose 
 
 In many a noisy party caucus. 
 
 Old? Nonsense! for we still are boys, 
 
 The roistering sons of brave old Eli ! 
 What lies the almanac employs! 
 
 To-night a college stripling feel I. 
 
 Come on across the campus now; 
 
 We go to meet Professor Hadley. 
 If you should " flunk," there'll be a row! 
 
 His trenchant wit will spear you sadly. 
 
 If you should " fizzle " (how absurd!), 
 
 Well may your nerves be all a-quiver! 
 He'll take your heart out, as the bird 
 
 Dissected out Prometheus' liver. 
 
 Come on! — but, bless me, what a change! 
 
 Where are the dear, familiar features? 
 How could one night so disarrange 
 
 The campus, halls, and college teachers? 
 
 Where is the dear old college fence, 
 
 The roost of many generations, 
 Where 'neath the elm-trees' leafy tents 
 
 Rose rousing songs and mock orations? 
 
 And where has gone the " Old Brick Row," 
 The old " North Middle," and " South College,". 
 
 In which we crammed and frolicked so, 
 
 And stuffed our heads with classic knowledge? 
 
 I do not see the college clock 
 
 Look kindly from the Chapel steeple : 
 Somehow the boys seem different stock — 
 
 A cruder, vealier sort of people. 
 
54 Class of Sixty 
 
 I miss Prof. Newton's step so spry; 
 
 The kindly face of dear old Thacher, 
 The gleam of Woolsey's flashing eye, 
 
 Of college Prexes the out-matcher. 
 
 Hark! hear Bob Davis and his chum 
 Sing " Glory, glory, hallelujah! " 
 
 And others, " Swe-vil-a-wee-dum-bum ! " — 
 You don't like new songs better, do you? 
 
 And where has gone the " Wooden Spoon "? 
 
 And where the " Brothers," and " Linonia "? 
 Have they not vanished all too soon? 
 
 Can any other clubs be tonier? 
 
 Alas! some devilish, magic art 
 
 Has worked a monstrous transformation! 
 
 The Yale in which we bore a part 
 Is swallowed in a new creation. 
 
 What's that you say? — " We're sleeping yet 
 And of a golden past are dreaming "? 
 
 Then rouse, and rub your eyes, and get 
 A view of facts, not fancies seeming. 
 
 Ah, yes! we see 'tis four decades 
 
 Since we went forth with hearts a-flutter; 
 
 Went, making love to beauteous maids; 
 Began to earn our bread and butter. 
 
 Full forty glorious years have sped 
 
 Since we roamed o'er the college campus: 
 
 We went to work with hand and head, 
 Determined that no fate should cramp us. 
 
 And we have filled these twoscore years 
 With gallant deeds in life's fierce battle: 
 
 We fought to win, o'er doubts and fears; 
 We lived for action, not mere prattle. 
 
 In varied work in many lands 
 
 We've had a story somewhat checkered; 
 
 But we rejoice as we clasp hands 
 That we can boast of Sixty's record. 
 
 Our score of lawyers worthy are 
 
 To wear the ermined gown of Judges; 
 
 No stain doth their escutcheon mar; 
 Not one from honor's standard budges. 
 
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 And when went out the startling news 
 
 That Sixty sent out seventeen preachers, 
 The world stood trembling in its shoes, 
 
 For fear there'd be a glut of Beechers. 
 
 Our fifteen doctors, armed with drugs, 
 
 Went forth to soothe neuralgia's frenzy; 
 To kill microbic germs and bugs, 
 
 And get a grip on influenza. 
 
 Our merchants, journalists, and such, — 
 
 Professors, teachers, soldiers, brokers, 
 Have with the modern world kept touch, 
 
 All brave, strong men, and never croakers. 
 
 Two wars have called our men a-field, 
 
 And we have had our share of heroes; 
 And their great record proof doth yield 
 
 That Sixty furnishes no zeroes. 
 
 No knight of Arthur's Table Round 
 
 Faced death more bravely, and defied her, 
 
 Than Henry Camp, who glory found 
 
 With Hebard, Johnston, Ogden, Schneider. 
 
 And twoscore soldiers more beside, 
 
 Marched 'neath our country's starry banner 
 
 And fought with courage true and tried, 
 Till Peace rang out her glad " Hosanna! ". 
 
 And we have had an ample share 
 
 In Mother Yale's immense advances: 
 Her progress is our joy and care, 
 
 Her story great our soul entrances. 
 
 When " Fellows " three she needed sore 
 
 To fill her famous corporation, 
 She knew in Sixty there were more 
 
 Good fellows than in all creation. 
 
 She cried, " Oh, give me three, I pray, 
 
 To swell young Yale's loud diapason! " 
 We answered her without delay 
 
 And gave her Phelps and Young and Mason. 
 
 We walk to-day 'neath Phelps's arch, 
 
 And visit Marsh's hall of science; 
 To Richards' " Gym." then proudly march, 
 
 Where they turn out such little giants. 
 
56 Class of Sixty 
 
 Our men have helped set such a pace 
 
 In training men of brain and muscle, 
 That when we match in any race, 
 
 We make proud Harvard sweat and hustle 
 
 New power may Alma Mater get ; 
 
 We greet her growing splendor gladly; 
 We've lived to see the great quartet 
 
 Of Woolsey, Porter, Dwight, and Hadley. 
 
 And he who stands now at the helm 
 
 Was in our day " Prof. Jimmie's baby "; 
 
 But yet, like some high-towering elm, 
 He'll beat all predecessors, maybe. 
 
 The stars are thickening in our sky, 
 The sunset glow fades in the gloaming, 
 
 And we shall join those, by and by, 
 
 Who now in heavenly fields are roaming. 
 
 Yet still with steady step and strong 
 
 We march with Yale's grand ensign o'er us. 
 
 And lift our voices loud and long 
 To sing to her our gladsome chorus. 
 
 Fling out the banner of the blue, 
 
 And let it wave in all its beauty! 
 Live on, live long, dear Mother true, 
 
 For God and manhood, truth and duty! 
 
 C. H. Richards. 
 
 RECESSIONAL 
 
 AIR — " Auld Lang Syne ". 
 Once more we gather here, my boys, 
 
 Though forty years have flown 
 Since those glad days of youthful joys 
 
 Old Yale to us made known. 
 We talk together of the ways 
 
 Our feet since then have trod, 
 We place the crown of memory's bays ) „. 
 
 On names these years have starred. ) 
 
 We're veterans in life's warfare now, 
 
 Though still our hearts beat young; 
 Before the passing years we bow, 
 
 Yet stand we brave and strong. 
 To-night we drink the wine of life, 
 
 To-morrow we must part — 
 Once more the cares, once more the strife, ) „ . 
 
 To meet with steadfast heart. f 
 
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 But on until the years shall end 
 
 For each one in his turn, 
 To Sixty shall our thoughts still tend, 
 
 For her our love shall burn. 
 God bless us all and all who're ours; 
 
 God guide our steps aright, 
 Until we reach celestial bowers, — ) „ . 
 
 Heaven's morning after night. ) 
 
 Oliver A. Kingsbury. 
 
 Sixty at the Bicentennial. Great is Yale, and great was her 
 Bicentennial. Volumes of description could give but a faint 
 conception of the greatness and grandeur of the occasion. 
 Weather clear, warm, and superb, even for October. For 
 outdoor events it was simply perfect. The city's welcome 
 by mottoes, decorations, and loving sentiments was worthy 
 of the home of Yale. The night procession was an event not 
 seen in many lifetimes. Fancy representations by the various 
 classes, and by representatives from other institutions, were 
 brilliant, practical, suggestive, and successful. New Haven 
 never before saw the like. 
 
 The Secretary was absent by reason of the sickness and 
 death of his wife. Hence plans for the part '60 was to take 
 in the procession had not been fully perfected. 
 
 But we were much in evidence along the route watching the 
 parade, and much in evidence also in the outdoor event when 
 we saw Yale's history dramatically outlined. Seven thousand 
 alumni made the air vocal, if not with harmony, yet always 
 with cheers and songs galore, led by the undergraduates and 
 a splendid band. 
 
 We made a triumphal march to the theater where the 
 degrees were conferred, the class being led by Joe Clay and 
 H. E. Barnes, Secretary pro tern., and en route we showed the 
 Yale kids swarming about how to cheer in the good old- 
 fashioned hurrah! and they responded with the modern 
 " 'Rah, 'rahs." 
 
 That assemblage at the Hyperion — who could describe it ? 
 The world never saw its equal and never will, until Yale has 
 her bi-and-a-half-centennial. The world's greatest scholars 
 from two or three continents on the platform, and the Class 
 of '60 in the first balcony! That neat, pertinent, crisp little 
 speech by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States; 
 
5 8 Class of Sixty 
 
 the marvellously felicitous words of President Hadley in con- 
 ferring the large numbers of degrees; the roar of voices 
 greeting distinguished strangers, — all made it an occasion 
 unsurpassed and unsurpassable. 
 
 The class met and Secretary pro tern. Barnes was in the 
 chair. No special business was transacted, but an hour and 
 a quarter was spent in mutual interchange of news, and with 
 tributes of love and respect to classmates Chapell and Mason, 
 recently deceased. Mrs. J. L. Daniels, now, alas, the late 
 Mrs. Daniels, was present at the meeting, and was invited 
 to sit with us as an honorary member. 
 
 There were present at the meeting: H. E. Barnes, Bunnell, 
 Bunce, Daniels, Dunham, Hale, Hart, Knowlton, Loomis, 
 Marshall, Park, and Snell. Besides, there were present in the 
 city: C. H. Richards, E. L. Richards, Colton, W. L. Bradley, 
 Owen, Fairchild, Higgins, Johnson, Kittredge, Smith, Clay, 
 Haight, and White; twenty -five in all. 
 
 Forty-fifth Year, June 27, 1905. Lowndes Davis had writ- 
 ten that he would be there, and so had Mason Young. Hart 
 had expected to go even if he had to walk, but he was pros- 
 trated by another attack of pneumonia. Unavoidable business 
 engagements kept Foster, Haight, Johnson, and Pennington 
 away. Kingsbury was detained by a complication of circum- 
 stances, Smith by a professional engagement, and Willson by 
 the order of his physician. 
 
 Nevertheless there were Ball, H. E. Barnes, Beckley, 
 Colton, Daniels, Dunham, Dutton, Fairchild, Furbish, Higgins, 
 Holden, Knowlton, Leach, Marshall, Norton, Owen, C. H. 
 Richards, E. L. Richards, Siglar, Willcox, Wheeler, Bunce, 
 and Hervey, looking as alert and as ready for pleasure or 
 business as they did forty -five years ago. 
 
 As listeners, the class was well represented at the meeting in 
 Alumni Hall. Among the gratifying items of news handed 
 down by President Hadley was the official announcement of 
 the gift of ten thousand dollars to the Yale Infirmary by Mrs. 
 William H. Hurlbut, as a memorial to her husband. A room 
 with special reference to the needs of poorer students is pro- 
 vided for. The great audience cheered this, with other similar 
 gifts, as Yale men of our time know how to cheer. No an- 
 nouncement in the president's report was received with 
 heartier greeting, and with louder and longer continued 
 
Class Meetings and Records 59 
 
 applause, than the decision to save the old library building 
 practically intact. Highly prized and endeared associations 
 are to receive consideration at the hands of the authorities as 
 well as architect's ideas of harmonious development. 
 
 After the report, speeches were made by representative men 
 of three different classes holding reunions. The class of 1855 
 had a representative upon the program and the next academic 
 class was 1885. The attendance in Alumni Hall was certainly 
 greater than it was five years ago, when each class holding a 
 reunion was represented by a speaker. 
 
 At noon the class met at room B2, Osborn Hall, for busi- 
 ness. Daniels was made chairman. Notice was given that 
 Mrs. Champion would be pleased to receive the class at her 
 residence, and that she had numerous pots of ivy, lineal 
 descendants of our original plant, which she would gladly have 
 members accept for growing at their own homes. The ques- 
 tion of a class history was taken up and discussed at length. 
 Since our graduation we have had seven separate publications, 
 records, reports, etc., with more or less biographical matter, 
 spread over three hundred and seventy-two pages. Various 
 points of interest about a class book were considered. The 
 conclusion of the whole matter was that it was voted with 
 enthusiastic unanimity to have the class history compiled, 
 written up to date, and printed. An editorial committee, 
 consisting of Eugene Richards, Dunham, and Daniels, was 
 associated with the Secretary, to prepare the same. C. H. 
 Richards was appointed leader for the prayer-meeting, 
 Daniels elected to preside at the dinner in the evening, and 
 Leach was again elected Class Secretary. Adjournment to 
 the steps of the Library Building was then had and a picture 
 of the class was taken by Pach. In our forty -fifth anni- 
 versary group there are twenty-three: Ball, H. E. Barnes, 
 Beckley, Colton, Daniels, Dunham, Dutton, Fairchild, Fur- 
 bish, Higgins, Holden, Knowlton, Leach, Marshall, Norton, 
 Owen, C. H. Richards, E. L. Richards, Siglar, Wheeler, Will- 
 cox, Bunce, and Hervey. 
 
 At one o'clock we went to luncheon, which was served in a 
 room which was formerly Professor Thacher's study, in the 
 old residence of President Day. An attractive bill of fare was 
 none the less well relished in such historic surroundings. 
 Norton read a letter from Hurlbut, which he had received soon 
 after his recovery from his long illness. It was pathetic in 
 
60 Class of Sixty 
 
 showing how the man was trying to recover his bearings after 
 some years of oblivion, and also for interest in and love for 
 the class. After luncheon, baseball for those who love the 
 game; a renewal of old associations for some, and a look about 
 to see Yale's new buildings for others. 
 
 The hour of social prayer and religious experience was 
 enjoyed in loving unison by Barnes, Beckley, Colton, Daniels, 
 Dunham, Furbish, Higgins, Knowlton, Marshall, C. H. 
 Richards, and Hervey. 
 
 The viands of a generous dinner menu were enjoyed in the 
 same room where we had had our luncheon ; and after about 
 two hours devoted to its discussion, Chairman Daniels began 
 the speaking of the evening in some apt and well chosen 
 remarks, setting the keynote for the speaking by each class- 
 mate that was to follow. Reminiscences, anecdotes, personal 
 experiences, remembrances of the living and the dead, the 
 present and the absent, succeeded and followed one another 
 quickly about the tables, and in this way three of the shortest 
 hours of our lives were rapidly passed. Loving and sympa- 
 thetic letters from those who were unwillingly absent were not 
 forgotten. As became men of our youth, we adjourned soon 
 after midnight, after joining in " Auld Lang Syne," led by 
 Charley Richards. 
 
 Holden read us some extracts from the diary of a Freshman 
 of 1856, which were a laughable compound of fact and fiction, 
 fun and fancy, which we enjoyed to the limit. It was one of 
 the many good things in the crowded hours of the reunion 
 that the boys who failed to get there " wouldn't have missed 
 for anything." Much of this related to the fun we did have, 
 and which we might have had, in connection with the election- 
 eering for the " Brothers " and " Linonia," the " Statement 
 of Facts," " Freshman Pow-Wow," " Burial of Euclid," 
 " Thanksgiving Jubilee," and other college institutions of our 
 day, now defunct, and of which the poor student of to-day 
 knows nothing except by faint and misty tradition, but instead 
 he has his choice among two hundred forty-nine elective 
 courses, lately reduced from two hundred sixty-three or 
 thereabout, wherewithal to comfort his soul, improve his 
 mind, and preserve his morals. 
 
 Adjourned till June, 19 to. 
 
Biographical Record of Graduates 
 
 * George Waterman Arnold was the son of Burrill Arnold, 
 of Centreville, R. I., and was born at Johnstown, R. I., 
 October 19, 1840. He entered college with his class in 1856, 
 and maintained a fair stand in scholarship and as a debater 
 in the Brothers' Hall. He was above all conscientious in all 
 his habits and pursuits. 
 
 After graduation he studied law, first in the office of 
 Green & Anthony in Providence, and afterward in the law 
 school at Cambridge, Mass. In October, 1862, he enlisted as 
 a private in the Twelfth Rhode Island Regiment, and was 
 soon after made a sergeant. In November, he was taken ill 
 with typhoid fever, and when his regiment, which had been 
 stationed in the defenses of Washington, was sent forward, 
 he was left behind in Fairfax Seminary Hospital, where he 
 died December 8, 1862, in his twenty-third year. 
 
 11 No trait seemed so prominent in his character as his manly and 
 firm devotion to a principle which he had once adopted. He would 
 talk for it, no matter who opposed, and defend it on all occasions. 
 Politics, not in a bad sense, seemed to be his favorite subject, and he 
 was always on the side of freedom and justice. His love of these, I 
 have no doubt, was his motive for enlisting. For these, which he so 
 ably defended in college debates, he finally gave his life." 
 
 Alonzo Brayton Ball, son of Alonzo S. and E. W. Ball, was 
 born in New York City, February 10, 1840. He entered 
 college with his class, and after graduation, until May, 1862, 
 he studied medicine in New York ; he then entered the serv- 
 ice of the sanitary commission, and was so employed during 
 the Peninsular Campaign, and afterward, until February, 
 1863, in the Military Hospital at Frederick, Md. He then 
 returned home and completed his medical studies, graduating 
 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in March and 
 delivering the valedictory address at the Commencement. 
 He served as senior assistant physician and as house physi- 
 cian in the New York Hospital, from July, 1863, to December, 
 
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62 Class of Sixty 
 
 1864. He then commenced the practice of medicine in the 
 city, and has continued it ever since with great success. He 
 has contributed articles of marked value to the medical 
 journals. 
 
 Other appointments and positions which he has held and 
 filled most acceptably are: 
 
 Professor of materia medica in the Women's Medical 
 College of the New York Infirmary, during the sessions of 
 1868-69 and 1869-70; lecturer in the New York College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons, in the spring of 1870 and following; 
 physician to Bellevue Hospital, 1883-88; physician to 
 St. Luke's Hospital, 1881-97, consulting physician since 
 the latter date; physician to New York Hospital, 1 888-1 905, 
 consulting physician now; professor of clinical medicine in 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; 
 honorary member of Association of American Physicians; 
 member County Medical Society, of New York Academy of 
 Medicine, and of New York Medical and Surgical Society. 
 
 He was married, March 15, 1866, to Miss Helen S. Stone, 
 daughter of Edward Stone, Esq., of Kingsbridge, N. Y. 
 They had two children, a daughter and a son. 
 
 Edwin Randolph Barnes, son of Josiah and Delia Marsh 
 Barnes, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., September 2, 1838. He 
 entered college with the class, having been fitted at a private 
 school in Bridgeport, Conn. After graduation he traveled 
 in the West for some months. 
 
 He then went to work on Iona Island in the Hudson River, 
 to acquire a knowledge of grape culture, which was attracting 
 a good deal of attention at that time. This, with the subjects 
 of landscape gardening and rural architecture, occupied his 
 time and thoughts until the developments of the Civil War 
 led him to believe that he must abandon these pursuits and 
 take up the study of medicine. 
 
 In October, 1861, he entered the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons in New York City, and after graduating from that 
 institution, practiced his profession in Brooklyn for about 
 one year. In 1862, he served as ward master on the hospital 
 transport Daniel Webster, in connection with McClellan's 
 army. In 1863, he served as acting assistant surgeon of the 
 Eighth Regiment of the National Guard of New York state, 
 
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 during the campaign caused by General Lee's invasion of 
 Pennsylvania, including the battle of Gettysburg, Lee's 
 retreat, and recrossing the Potomac. In 1864, ne served as 
 acting assistant surgeon in United States Army from May 
 till January, 1865, at Chattanooga, Tenn. He writes: 
 
 This was during the campaign of General Sherman. When he had 
 marched across the country and captured Savannah, Chattanooga 
 ceased to be a point of importance, and officers and men rapidly left. 
 For thirty days we had been isolated by the movements of the Con- 
 federate army under General Hood, whose attacks on General Sher- 
 man's communications in the rear had opened the way for the general's 
 famous march to the sea. At length the battle of Nashville destroyed 
 Hood's army, and enabled us to learn what had been going on in the 
 world. The position I held at Chattanooga was one of some impor- 
 tance. I drew medicine officially for six thousand men. 
 
 After he retired from army service, he returned to his 
 native city and began practicing medicine and surgery there. 
 From 1872 to 1878, inclusive, he was attending surgeon on 
 the staff of the Buffalo General Hospital. 
 
 Barnes's family has a Yale record that, perhaps, has few 
 rivals. Both his paternal and maternal grandfathers were 
 graduates: Jonathan Barnes, 1784; Truman Marsh, 1786. 
 Jonathan Barnes had three sons, Jonathan, 1810; Julius S., 
 1815; Josiah, father of Edwin R., 1825. Lewis Barnes, 
 1847, was a son of Julius S. ; George S. Buck, 1896, was a 
 grandson of Josiah. 
 
 He married, June 6, 1905, Mrs. Theresa Osborne, daughter 
 of Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell. 
 
 Henry Elbert Barnes, son of Selah and Ada L. Barnes, was 
 born at Southington, Conn., October 31, 1832. 
 
 He entered college during the second term of Freshman 
 year, and, after graduation, began studies for the ministry 
 at the Chicago Theological Seminary, where he remained two 
 years, preaching also a part of the time at Crystal Lake. In 
 the fall of 1862, he served as army chaplain in the southwest; 
 afterward he resumed his studies in Chicago, completing them 
 in the winter of 1864. He was then called to the pastorate 
 of the First Congregational Church of Newton, la., remain- 
 ing there until July, 1868, when he accepted a call from the 
 church at Moline, 111. Resigning that pastorate, he went to 
 the Central Congregational Church at Worcester, Mass., 
 
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 which he left November i, 1876, to accept a call to the Centre 
 Church, of Haverhill, Mass., where he remained for ten years. 
 He was temporary supply in a Boston church for six months, 
 and in May, 1887, went to Sherbrooke, Canada, where he 
 remained five years. While there he was offered the highest 
 office in the gift of a delegate body representing the Congre- 
 gational churches of the Dominion. 
 
 On his return to this country, after serving for a time as 
 temporary supply in Worcester, he accepted a call to the 
 church in North Andover in 1893, and remained there until 
 September, 1904, when he resigned, closing his active pastor- 
 ate, but still preaching as opportunity offers. He has been 
 in the active ministry forty -four years, preaching each Sun- 
 day, except when prevented by brief periods of ill health. 
 
 He served two terms of three months each as moderator 
 of the Boston Congregational Ministers' weekly meetings. 
 He was vice-president, and acting president for a time, of 
 the Boston Interdenominational Evangelical Alliance. In 
 1898, he was one of the university preachers at Cornell Uni- 
 versity. He was five times a delegate to the Triennial Con- 
 gregational Council, a national body, including the first 
 meeting in 187 1, when the council was formed. He was 
 commander of the G. A. R. post in Lawrence, Mass., in 1900. 
 In June, 1904, he gave the historical address at the centennial 
 of Monson Academy. In 1887, he received the degree of 
 D.D. from Iowa College. During two of his pastorates, 
 new church edifices were built, one costing thirty -five thousand 
 dollars; in another, the edifice was entirely rebuilt, and in 
 all the other churches where he was installed, extensive 
 improvements were made. Many of his sermons have been 
 published in full in the newspapers, and from others copious 
 extracts have been made, while several have been printed in 
 pamphlet form at the request of various congregations. 
 
 He was married, at Evanston, 111., May 1, 1862, to Miss 
 Eliza S. Carpenter, of Warren, Mass. She died July 7, 1904. 
 They had five children, three sons and two daughters; the 
 older daughter died in infancy, the younger is the head of his 
 household. His oldest son graduated at Harvard in the class 
 of 1884, and is practicing law in Minneapolis. The second 
 son is manager for a manufacturing concern in Boston, and 
 the third is a broker in Hartford, Conn. 
 
Biographical Record 65 
 
 * Erastus Chittenden Beach, son of Charles and Fanny 
 (Mansir) Beach, was born in Barker, N. Y., July 24, 1834, 
 and died at Cortland, N. Y., May 17, 1903, in his sixty -ninth 
 year. 
 
 After graduation he devoted much of his life to teaching, 
 first, for about a year, at West Chester, Pa., a short time at 
 Cooperstown, N. Y., and then a year or more at Albion, Wis. 
 In September, 1864, he became principal of the Cortland 
 Village Academy, and in July, 1866, of the Plainfield, N. J., 
 High School. In 1868, he taught at Whitney's Point, N. Y., 
 and then turned his attention to fruit raising in Vin eland, 
 N. J. After an experience of a year or two in this, he resumed 
 teaching, removing to Hanover, Pa. In 1875, he engaged in 
 the drug business at Newport, Pa., but in 1885 moved to 
 Cortland, N. Y., where he afterward resided, and where he 
 died from paralysis, after an illness of over three years. 
 From early manhood he was a member of the Presbyterian 
 church. 
 
 He married, July 12, 1865, Mary C, daughter of Martin 
 and Margaret (Keep ) Merrick, of Cortland, N. Y. Their 
 only child, a son, died while a senior at Cornell University, in 
 1893. 
 
 Ferdinand Beach, son of Dennis Beach, Esq., was born in 
 Milford, Conn., June 19, 1838. 
 
 The fall after graduation he went South and took charge 
 of an academy in North Carolina, where he remained until 
 June, 1 86 1. After hostilities had commenced, he had some 
 differences of opinion with the military authorities, and, 
 thinking the climate at the North more healthful, he made 
 his way home by a long and circuitous route, overcoming 
 numerous obstacles and difficulties. The following year he 
 passed in teaching and in the study of medicine. The next 
 year he continued his medical studies in St. Louis, Mo., and 
 the winter of 1863-64 he graduated from the Yale Medical 
 School, and, removing to New York City, began the practice 
 of his profession. He is a most skillful and successful general 
 practitioner, a fact of which the secretary and his family 
 have had repeated experiences. He writes: 
 
 For our class history there is nothing of interest in my uneventful 
 life. I practice my profession and hitherto have gained a comfortable 
 
66 Class of Sixty 
 
 living thereby, though I have no faculty for making money. I've 
 never been capable of combining business methods with the practice of 
 medicine. In fact, I do believe the two are incompatible; and some- 
 times I say the doctor ought to know nothing about money. He ought 
 to be like John the Baptist, clad in camel's hair and subsisting upon 
 locusts and wild honey, only that he would have to substitute glucose 
 for wild honey in this the hey-day of pretension, sham, subterfuge, 
 and fraud. 
 
 I have four children, all of them sound in mind and body, and, so 
 far as I can discern, all of them heirs of the Puritan spirit. With that 
 inheritance I shall never find fault. If I can continue to supply their 
 " prime necessities " and guide their footsteps a few years longer, can 
 educate them, i, e., teach them to fear God and take their own part, 
 I shall count myself happy. 
 
 He was married, October 9, 1893, to Annie Gleason Short, 
 at East Orange, N. J. 
 
 Children: Ferdinand Clifton Beach, Marion Beach, Eleanor 
 Beach, Elizabeth Beach. 
 
 John Werley Beckley, son of John R. and Elizabeth Beckley, 
 was born at Shelby ville, Ky., October 8, 1839. 
 
 He entered college at the beginning of Junior year, and, 
 after graduating, returned to his native city, where he lived 
 until July, 1866, engaged in the study and practice of law. 
 He spent some time, however, in Nevada and California, and 
 upon his return was elected county attorney. In 1866, he 
 removed to Louisville, where he has ever since made his 
 home, and continued the practice of law. For the last ten 
 years business has called him to New England the greater 
 part of the time, but for a home he clings to his native state 
 of Kentucky, where his family resides. He writes: 
 
 Although among strangers, thanks to my Alma Mater, I find many 
 friends. Those friendships formed at college last forever. I am like 
 the man who said he would rather live in the heart of one than on the 
 lips of a multitude. 
 
 Time has dealt harshly with my physical self, for my hair is white, 
 but there is one thing that time, as powerful as it is, has not done, — 
 it has not made me old. I have only prospered somewhat materially. 
 By looking at the face of my ledger I cannot tell whether I am rich 
 or poor, but in looking in the faces of my family and friends, I feel 
 rich indeed. 
 
 He married, January 26, 1870, at Berkeley Springs, Va., 
 Miss Florence Colston, of Baltimore. They have a son and 
 two daughters ; the son is now a practicing lawyer in Louisville. 
 
Biographical Record 67 
 
 * George Louis Beers, son of Davis and Susan Beers, was 
 born in Stratford, Conn., December 28, 1839, and died in 
 Topeka, Kan., January 17, 1896, in his fifty -seventh year. 
 
 The first two years of his college course he passed at Oberlin, 
 and the last two at Yale. After a year of travel in the West, 
 he began the study of medicine in Bridgeport, Conn., with 
 Robert Hubbard, M.D., and in the fall of 1862 entered the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where 
 he graduated in March, 1865. He then settled in practice in 
 Bridgeport, whence he removed in 1873 to Avon, Lorain 
 County, Ohio. In 1879, he again removed to Allegheny City, 
 Pa., and, finally, in September, 1882, to Topeka, Kan., where 
 he was highly esteemed in his profession. Blakesley writes: 
 
 He was thought by the doctors of that city to be a walking cyclo- 
 pedia of medical information. 
 
 He was assistant surgeon in the State Insane Asylum, 
 having charge of one building with six wards, containing over 
 three hundred patients. He was also professor of the Prin- 
 ciples and Practice of Medicine in the new Medical College at 
 Topeka. 
 
 He died after a lingering illness and much suffering, from a 
 complication of Bright's disease and nervous prostration. 
 
 He married Annette Wilder, in Avon, Ohio, September 13, 
 1882. He left no children. 
 
 Linus Blakesley, son of Milo Blakesley, was born at Terry - 
 ville, Conn., December 16, 1837. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, 
 Meriden, N. H., and, after, two years at Amherst College, 
 entered Yale at the beginning of Junior year. For three 
 years succeeding graduation, he studied theology and music 
 at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, graduating 
 therefrom in 1863. The following year he tutored in Hebrew 
 in that institution. From 1864 to 1870, he was pastor of the 
 Second Presbyterian Church in Piqua, Ohio. He was then 
 called to the pastorate of the First Congregational Church in 
 Topeka, Kan., where he remained for twenty -nine years. On 
 account of impaired health he resigned in 1899, and sought 
 a new lease of life in the invigorating climate of El Paso, 
 Tex., making a business connection with the International 
 
68 Class of Sixty 
 
 Book and Stationery Company, and he continues to reside 
 there. 
 
 In 1892, he received the degree of D.D., from Washburn 
 College. He was a trustee and secretary of that insti- 
 tution for twenty -five years. For twelve years he was a 
 director of Chicago Theological Seminary. He was chair- 
 man of the executive committee of the Kansas Home Mission- 
 ary Society for ten years. He was moderator of the General 
 Association of Congregational Churches of Kansas three 
 times, and president of the Topeka school board three years, 
 besides many other positions not here set down. He says he 
 has not yet written a book, that he has not yet taken his 
 chloroform, and that, in fact, he never expects to get beyond 
 60. 
 
 He married, August 9, 1866, Miss Nellie Treat, of Terry - 
 ville, Conn. They have had six children, three of whom are 
 now living, two daughters and a son. The son is an editorial 
 writer upon the Kansas City Star, and the second daughter 
 is a teacher in the New Mexico College of Agriculture and 
 Mechanic Arts. 
 
 * Charles Alfred Boies, son of Rev. Artemas Boies, of Keene, 
 N. H., was born in Boston, June, 1838. 
 
 He entered college with his class, and for the first part of the 
 year after graduation he was instructor in the family of Judge 
 O'Neill, of Fernandina, Fla. He returned home in the spring, 
 sailing in the last steamer that left Savannah under the 
 national flag, after the fall of Sumter. The following year he 
 was a student in the Theological Seminary at Princeton. 
 After his return to Keene, he began to preach in the neighbor- 
 ing town of Roxbury, and also took an active part in several 
 Sunday schools in his neighborhood. In September, 1862, 
 he entered the middle class of the Andover Seminary, but 
 owing to ill health he returned home in January, where he 
 died, May 14, 1863, aged twenty -five years. 
 
 Boies was our class poet, and his poem upon presentation 
 day, of which his class was, and is, justly proud, will bear 
 rereading to-day, in the light of all our increasing years. As a 
 prose writer, he had an attractive style, and his rank in 
 scholarship was high. No one of the class was better or more 
 generally beloved than he, for he had all the graces of a kindly 
 
Biographical Record 69 
 
 heart revealed in his genial spirit, in considerateness of word 
 and deed, in simplicity of manner and a sympathetic nature. 
 
 At our Triennial Reunion, in response to the toast to " Our 
 Deceased Classmates," Daniels said of him, in part: 
 
 He must have ripened fast for heaven in the last years of his life. 
 I have no doubt but that in the final day, his short life will be crowned 
 with results as great as those who reach their three-score years and 
 ten. His whole character seems to be summed up in two stanzas of 
 his valedictory poem: 
 
 " Living well is not mere living 
 In the cultured taste of schools; 
 Tis not the knack of business, 
 Or the hoarded gold of fools : 
 
 "But an earnest life's deep passion 
 
 Beating in a kingly heart, 
 With the gentle grace of goodness, 
 Glorifying every part.". 
 
 * Edward Boltwood, son of Hon. Lucius Boltwood and 
 Fanny H. (Shepard ) Boltwood, was born in Amherst, Mass., 
 September 4, 1839, and died in Cairo, Egypt, on the 6th of 
 February, 1878, in his thirty -ninth year. 
 
 He was admitted to the bar in Boston after taking the 
 course in the Law School of Harvard University. After a 
 short time spent in an office in Pittsfield, Mass., he removed 
 early in 1863 to Detroit, Mich., where he engaged in practice. 
 He was married, October 26, 1865, to Miss Sarah E., daughter 
 of Thomas F. Plunkett, of Pittsfield, and the next year re- 
 moved to Grand Haven, Mich. In 1868 he was elected pro- 
 bate judge of Ottawa County, but resigned that office in the 
 summer of 1871, to accept the treasurership of the Berkshire 
 Life Insurance Company in Pittsfield. After the death of his 
 father-in-law he became, in January, 1876, also president of 
 the company, and continued to hold both these offices until 
 his death. Under his management, the good character and 
 financial success of the company were satisfactorily pro- 
 moted. The effect of too close attention to business, follow- 
 ing on the death of his wife, was to develop tendencies to 
 consumption which foreign travel failed to overcome. He 
 spent the winter of 1876-77 in South Carolina, and on the 
 approach of the next winter sailed for the south of France. 
 He left Marseilles for Cairo, Egypt, January 10, 1878, but 
 
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 the exposure of the passage proved too great, and he rapidly 
 declined and his death in Cairo soon followed. He had two 
 sons, one of whom survived him. His classmates will always 
 remember Boltwood as one of the most genial, whole-souled, 
 good-natured members of the class. He was a friend to have 
 and to tie to. 
 
 * William Edward Bradley, son of Edwin Bradley, was born 
 at Southport, Conn., May 27, 1840, and died at Frankfort, 
 Ky., February 16, 1905. His death was due to heart disease 
 and was very sudden. 
 
 After graduation he taught school for some time in South- 
 port, Conn., but in the fall of 1861 he enlisted and became 
 lieutenant in the Thirteenth Regiment of Connecticut Vol- 
 unteers. In October, 1863, he was promoted captain, and 
 after serving with that rank as brigade and post quarter- 
 master, and as regimental commander, resigned, and was 
 honorably discharged August 24, 1865. During his four 
 years of army life, he saw duty at Ship Island, New Orleans 
 and Port Hudson; narrowly escaped death from typhoid at 
 Opelousas; accompanied Banks's expedition up the Red 
 River; was transferred to the Shenandoah Valley; then again, 
 in turn, to Savannah and Newbern, and finally to Augusta. 
 During the winter succeeding the war, he visited Louisiana 
 and Texas on business for his father, and after that he en- 
 gaged in business with him in New York City, in the sale of 
 foreign and domestic woolens. 
 
 Soon after 1870, he removed to Frankfort, Ky., and became 
 an officer of the W. A. Gaines Co. corporation, and continued 
 with this concern and its successors up to the time of his 
 death. He was prominently identified with the affairs of the 
 city and state of his adoption, although he would never con- 
 sent to the holding of any public office. 
 
 He was twice married, — in 1872 to Miss Tedesco Hall, of 
 Perth Amboy, N.J. There were no children to this marriage. 
 In 1892, he married Miss Mary L. Hawkins, of Frankfort, Ky. 
 His wife and two sons survive him. 
 
 * William Lockwood Bradley, son of Leonard and Charlotte 
 Selleck (Lockwood) Bradley, was born in New York City, 
 October n, 1837, and died at his home in New Haven, June 
 12, 1903, in his sixty -sixth year. 
 
Biographical Record 7 1 
 
 For about a year after graduation he was employed in the 
 bookstore of Mr. Pease, and then entered the Yale Medical 
 School, but left after a few months to become a medical cadet 
 at McKim's Mansion Hospital in Baltimore. In the fall of 
 1862 he entered Belle vue Hospital, New York City, but went 
 abroad the following February, and spent eleven months 
 among the hospitals of Paris, and three months in travel and 
 medical observation on the Continent and in Great Britain. 
 He received the degree of M.D. at Yale, in 1864; m May, 
 1865, he returned to New Haven to reside, and in June 
 began the practice of his profession, making a specialty of 
 obstetrics and gynecology. From 1865 to 1877 he was 
 demonstrator of anatomy at the Yale Medical School.. 
 
 For some years he was an officer of the New Haven Medical 
 Association, one of the attending physicians and surgeons of 
 the General Hospital, and afterwards a director, a member of 
 the Prudential Committee and vice-president. He was a 
 lecturer before the Connecticut Training School for Nurses 
 and an officer of the school. In 1875, he was made a fellow 
 of the Connecticut Medical Society. He occasionally contrib- 
 uted articles to the medical press, and was always interested 
 in religious and philanthropic work. For many years he 
 was Class Secretary, faithfully serving its interests. His 
 health had failed somewhat during the last three years, but 
 there was no indication that his end was near. He died very 
 suddenly of heart disease. He was never married. 
 
 William Merrick Bristoll was the oldest child of William 
 Bontecou and Sarah Merrick Bristoll, having been born 
 September 3, 1839, at Milford, Conn. At three months he 
 was taken to Charleston, S. C, where his father was established 
 in the retail boot, shoe, and trunk business on King Street. 
 At twelve years he went back to Connecticut, where the Mil- 
 ford High School, the New Haven " Hopkins Grammar 
 School," and Mother Yale continued his education until 
 July, i860. 
 
 His first teaching was as principal of the village school at 
 Frankford, Sussex County, Del., whence, in February, 1861, 
 he was summoned to Charleston, S. C, and accepted a posi- 
 tion in the St. Philip Street Public School. 
 
 The bombardment of Fort Sumter, of which he was an eye 
 witness, broke all plans. He spent until into September 
 
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 endeavoring to save something from the wreck of the father's 
 twenty -five-year-old business, but the Confederate States 
 Sequestration Act intervened, and made a longer stay in 
 Dixie unprofitable. He escaped by a toilsome and perilous 
 ten-day trip through Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 
 reaching Cincinnati, then Connecticut late in September. 
 
 After a short rest, he became principal of the " Farm Ridge 
 and Deer Park Seminary," near Ottawa, 111. 
 
 December 31, 1 861, he resigned at Farm Ridge to take the 
 larger position of principal of the Second Ward Public School 
 of Milwaukee, Wis., and served as such until July, 1863. 
 
 July 3, 1863, he enlisted as a private in the Thirteenth 
 Battery, Wisconsin Volunteer Light Artillery, received a 
 commission as recruiting officer in September, second lieu- 
 tenant in January, 1864, and first lieutenant in January, 1865. 
 His service, for twenty -one months of his three-year term, was 
 on detail as depot ordnance officer, sixteen months at New 
 Orleans, and assigned on the staff of the commanding general, 
 Department Gulf and Military Division of the Gulf, as assistant 
 to the chief of ordnance of the department and military divi- 
 sion. He was honorably discharged June 14, 1866, having 
 been retained more than eleven months after the muster out 
 of his battery by special authority from the War Department. 
 His chief's indorsement on request for discharge recommended 
 Lieutenant Bristoll to the favorable notice of the major- 
 general commanding (Sheridan), "for the efficient, faithful, 
 and conscientious performance of the important duties he 
 has fully and satisfactorily completed." 
 
 After his military service, he studied for two years at the 
 Andover (Mass. ) Theological Seminary, and was thence 
 called, in 1868, to the professorship of the Latin language and 
 literature in Ripon College, Wisconsin. 
 
 At Ripon he was librarian of the college from 1868 to 1871, 
 registrar from 1868 to 1872, and assistant treasurer, 1872 to 
 
 i873. 
 While a member of the Ripon faculty, December 1, 1870, at 
 
 Afton, Minn., Bristoll married Rosa Olds, the only daughter 
 
 of Leavitt Ira and Rhoda Ann Olds, of that village, and a 
 
 graduate of Ripon College in the class of '70. 
 
 He resigned the Ripon professorship of Latin in July, 1873, 
 
 and accepted the chair of Latin at Atlanta, Ga. Here he was 
 
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 made librarian of the Graves Library, and also placed in 
 charge of the office of the institution. Because of ill health, 
 it became necessary to resign the work at the close of the 
 year. 
 
 He removed to Yankton, Dak. T., where he became 
 principal of the Yankton Academy, September, 1874, the 
 academy being transformed into the high school, in March, 
 1875. He was elected, February, 1875, secretary of the 
 board of education of the city of Yankton, and, ex officio, 
 superintendent of city schools, and pro tern, principal of the 
 high school. From this school were sent forth the first gradu- 
 ates from any educational institution in the Dakotas. After 
 making seven annual reports as secretary of the board of 
 education, he resigned his position, August 31, 1882. 
 
 He was professor of Latin and principal of the preparatory 
 department of Yankton College during its first year, 1882-83. 
 
 He removed to Minneapolis, Minn., August, 1883, after 
 nine years' residence in Yankton. 
 
 From 1883 to 1884, he was employed in the Hennepin 
 County Savings Bank, Minneapolis. From 1884 to 1886, he 
 was engaged, under the American Missionary Association, as 
 principal of Avery Normal Institute, Charleston, S. C. 
 
 Since 1886 to the date of this writing, May 31, 1905, Bristoll 
 has been an accountant and in the employ of one house, 
 David P. Jones & Co. and their predecessors (a corporation), 
 mortgage loan brokers, rental agents, and real estate dealers. 
 The head of the house, David P. Jones, is the present mayor 
 (1905) of Minneapolis. 
 
 Three years of army life, two of postgraduate study, 
 twenty as a teacher and twenty as an accountant is Bristoll's 
 record, briefly summarized, of the forty -five years since 
 graduation. 
 
 * Richard Baxter Brown, son of Seneca and Sarah Gould 
 Brown, was born in Hanover, N. H., April 1, 1834, and died 
 in Milwaukee, Wis., October 11, 1894, in his sixty -first year. 
 For nearly a year after graduation, he taught in a private 
 family in Warrenton, Miss., but then succeeded in crossing 
 the lines and went to Boston, where he studied medicine for 
 a year. He then served some months as house physician 
 in the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, Conn., after which 
 
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 he completed his medical course at the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons, in New York City, receiving the degree of M.D. 
 in 1864. On May 23, 1865, he married Miss Alice Howard, of 
 Bridgewater, Mass., sister of a classmate, and soon after settled 
 in Milwaukee, Wis., as a homceopathic practitioner. After a 
 long and successful career he died suddenly in Milwaukee 
 from heart failure. His wife survives him (1895), with five 
 children. 
 
 * Thaddeus Howe Brown was the son of Dr. Thaddeus 
 Brown (Yale College, 1826) and Susan (Crosby) Brown, of 
 Billerica, Mass., where he was born June 17, 1838. Being 
 early left an orphan, his boyhood was passed in Andover, 
 Mass., under the care of an aunt, and there he prepared for 
 college. He died in North Woodstock, Conn., October 19, 
 1868, aged thirty years. 
 
 After graduating, he returned to Andover for theological 
 study, and finished the course at the seminary in 1864; in 
 the meantime he married, July 23, 1862, in New Haven, Lydia 
 W., daughter of Rev. Henry Herrick (Yale College, 1822 ). 
 Immediately after his marriage he went to Europe and re- 
 mained until September, 1S63, most of the time at Heidel- 
 berg, engaged in theological studies. 
 
 He preached for six months at Pittsford, Vt., and in 1866 
 accepted a call to the Congregational church at North Wood- 
 stock, Conn., where he was ordained pastor April 11. He 
 continued in this relation until his death, which was the result 
 of a sudden illness of less than a week's duration, contracted 
 while at a meeting of the American Board at Norwich, Conn. 
 
 He left a widow with three children. 
 
 A writer in The Congregationalist said of him : 
 
 From early boyhood the purity of his life, his intense love for right 
 and truth, and his rigid conscientiousness won the respect and confi- 
 dence of all who knew him, while his genial social traits, the abounding 
 charity and responsive affection, tender and deep, which eminently 
 characterized him, drew all hearts to him. 
 
 Natural reserve concealed much that was best in his character, yet 
 gave it the increased strength and tenderness of a repressed sensitive 
 nature, and made him in the end more beloved. 
 
 * Lyman Benham Bunnell, son of Hezekiah and Amanda 
 (Benham) Bunnell, was born August 18, 1832, in Burlington, 
 
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 Conn., and died at his home in New York City, March 18, 
 1902, in his seventieth year. He had an attack of pneumonia 
 which proved fatal in four days. Almost unaided, he worked 
 his way through Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Mass., 
 and through college. After graduation he studied two years 
 in the Yale Law School, and was, at the same time, instructor 
 in gymnastics in the college. In November, 1862, he was 
 admitted to the bar, and thereafter practiced his profession 
 in New York City. For the last year his sons were associated 
 with him. 
 
 The year he began to practice he united with the Broadway 
 Tabernacle, and since that time was continuously engaged in 
 vSunday -school work, sometimes having two classes at different 
 hours. From 1869 to 1881 he was an active church member 
 at Englewood, N. J. He removed to New York in 1881, and 
 was an officer for some time in the Madison Avenue Presby- 
 terian Church, and later in the Lenox Presbyterian Church, 
 where he was chairman of its board of trustees. 
 
 He married, May 30, 1865, Jennie V., daughter of Alfred A. 
 and Nancy Ranney, of West Townshend, Vt., and had two 
 sons, graduates of the New York Law School, and a daughter, 
 who, with their mother, survive him; two other daughters 
 died in infancy. The daughter is married, and the sons are 
 practicing law at 76 William Street, New York City. Mrs. 
 Bunnell's address is 72 Ashland Avenue, East Orange, N. J. 
 
 In his home life Lyman Bunnell was always a devoted, thoughtful 
 husband and father, playful, affectionate, and high-minded. In his 
 business, as a lawyer, he carried out his Christian principles with a 
 rugged honesty and an almost childlike straightforwardness which 
 cost him many a fee, but won him many a friend. Some of us remem- 
 ber how, on the topic, " Religion in Business," on Wednesday, Febru- 
 ary 26, with the Psalm xv as our passage, Mr. Bunnell spoke with a 
 delightful frankness, to this effect: " I have never found it easy to 
 carry my religion into every detail of my business; yet I have always 
 tried. When my conscience would not allow me to fix a fee I have 
 generally left it to my client to say what my services were worth, and, 
 on the whole, I believe I fared better in the end for so doing." Dr. 
 Thompson happened to choose this very Psalm xv for the funeral 
 service : 
 
 " He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness, 
 
 " And speaketh truth in his heart. . . . 
 
 " He that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not. . . . 
 
 11 Nor taketh reward against the innocent." 
 
 — From the Lenox Leaf. 
 
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 * Henry Ward Camp was born in Hartford, Conn., February 
 
 4, 1839, the son of Rev. Henry B. (Yale College, 1833) and 
 Cornelia (Baldwin) Camp. After graduation he spent a few 
 months in teaching and then commenced the study of law in 
 the office of John Hooker, Esq., in Hartford. In December, 
 i86i,hewas commissioned as lieutenant in the Tenth Con- 
 necticut Infantry. He was afterwards appointed adjutant, 
 and, on one occasion, was detailed as judge advocate of a gen- 
 eral courtmartial on Seabrook Island. In July, 1863, ne took 
 part in the heavy fight on James Island, and also in the assault 
 on Fort Wagner on the 19th of that month. In a cessation 
 of hostilities for the burial of the dead and the removal of the 
 wounded, he, with Chaplain H. C. Trumbull, was seized and 
 carried as a prisoner to Charleston and thence to Columbia, 
 
 5. C. He escaped at length from confinement, but, after a 
 tramp of nearly a hundred miles was recaptured and held a 
 prisoner till April, 1864. He made a short visit at home, but 
 as soon as his exchange was effected, he hurried back to his 
 regiment and shared with it, in the army of the James, five 
 months of the most arduous and dangerous service. In 
 September, 1864, while before Petersburg, he was commis- 
 sioned as major. 
 
 On the 13th of October he fought his last fight. After 
 skirmishing all day between the Darbytown and Charles City 
 roads, about four miles from Richmond, his regiment was 
 ordered to lead an assault upon the enemy's works. " Come 
 on, boys ! come on ! " he shouted to his men, and the words were 
 hardly uttered before he fell, shot through and through. His 
 body was recovered next day and taken to Hartford for inter- 
 ment. The record of his beautiful heroic life has been 
 written by the chaplain of the regiment, Rev. H. Clay Trum- 
 bull, under the title of " The Knightly Soldier: a Record of 
 College, Field, and Prison." Champion wrote of him: 
 
 Naturally retiring and modest, and ever esteeming others above him- 
 self, he needed some outside influence to cause him to display his 
 powers openly. These modest and unassuming traits, joined to the 
 greater dignity and boldness brought out by the war, united to render 
 him one of the noblest of the many noble ones whom our class mourns 
 for. 
 
 * Oscar Mortimer Carrier, the son of B. H. and E. Carrier, 
 was born at Conquest, N. Y., August 2, 1834. He came from 
 
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 Oberlin College to Yale, joining our class in Junior year. 
 After graduation, he taught for a few months at Jackson, 
 Mich., and then became an instructor in Olivet College, where, 
 in the spring of 1 861, he was elected professor of Latin. He 
 occupied this post until his death, of congestion of the brain, 
 which occurred at Olivet, October 30, 1865. 
 Daniels wrote of him: 
 
 Carrier, in his relations to our classmates, was, I am well convinced, 
 not appreciated. I know that until coming here (Olivet) I never 
 appreciated him. But here I have learned by daily contact that under 
 that exterior which, upon slight acquaintance was not prepossessing, 
 was hidden a sincere, self-denying friend and noble man. 
 
 He had been here about five years. He spent the summer of 1864 
 in the service of the Christian Commission at Louisville, Nashville, 
 and Altanta. 
 
 He was married, in 1862, to Miss Susan Lyon, of Eckford, 
 Mich. 
 
 * George Lynde Catlin, son of George and Catharine Living- 
 ston Catlin, was born on Staten Island, N. Y., February 13, 
 1840, and died at St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, while 
 undergoing a surgical operation, December 14, 1896, in the 
 fifty -seventh year of his age. 
 
 In December, after graduation, he became the editor of 
 the Richmond County Gazette, published on Staten Island. 
 In the following April he enlisted in the Fifth New York 
 Volunteers, and remained with this regiment until his dis- 
 charge on account of protracted ill health, with the rank of 
 first lieutenant, in November, 1862. After a long period of 
 confinement, he was able, in December, 1863, to re-engage in 
 the service, and was employed in the quartermaster's depart- 
 ment in New Orleans up to the close of the war. 
 
 After an experience of mercantile life in Mobile, he returned 
 to New Orleans in October, 1866, as local editor of the Daily 
 Crescent, and so continued until a visit to New York City in 
 April, 1869. For some months following he was corre- 
 spondent of the New Orleans Bee. Instead of returning 
 in the fall, as he had intended, he was induced to 
 remain in New York, at first in the editorial office 
 of the Commercial Advertiser, but for the most of the time, 
 until September, 1873, in charge of the newspaper and adver- 
 tising department of the Erie Railway Company. For the 
 
78 Class of Sixty 
 
 next four years and a half he was again connected with the 
 Commercial Advertiser. During these periods his residence 
 was at Paterson, N. J. For the next seventeen years he was 
 in the consular service of the United States, from May, 1878, 
 to May, 1880, at La Rochelle, France, next at Stuttgart, 
 Germany, until October, 1884, and, finally, at Zurich, Switzer- 
 land, until 1895. He then returned to the United States and 
 resided in Paterson. 
 
 He was a sprightly writer, both of prose and verse, and 
 published a good deal of original work beside translations. 
 
 He married, April 10, 1864, Miss Louise E. Pradat, of Pass 
 Christian, Miss. 
 
 His wife survives him (1897 ) with their children, a son and 
 a daughter. 
 
 A writer in the New York Graphic in 1877 said of him: 
 
 In 1869 he returned to this city and joined the staff of the Commer- 
 cial Advertiser. In 1873 he succeeded Bayard in writing the editorial 
 notes on that paper, and in that sign he has conquered. The paper 
 is better known by the notes than by all the other features put together, 
 in fact, without them the Commercial would lose its identity. Mr. 
 Catlin is the most dreadful and inveterate punster on the American 
 press, having cultivated that dangerous art till he is capable of inflict- 
 ing complicated tortures on his victim. In his hands a happy and 
 peaceable word is made to writhe and manifest the grotesque anguish 
 of the dying gladiator. 
 
 Dyspeptics should read his column every day. They will be more 
 patient when they see how much an innocent language is made to 
 suffer. 
 
 The Continental Gazette, Paris, February 12, 1881, said of 
 Catlin: 
 
 Among the many talented men of letters that Secretary Evarts has 
 sent abroad in the consular service of the United States, and who are 
 busy in keeping up and adding to their literary reputation, is George 
 L. Catlin, of Stuttgart, who has been recently promoted from the 
 Commercial Agency of La Rochelle, in France. While at the latter 
 place he translated from the French quite a large work entitled "The 
 Huguenots of La Rochelle," which has been published by Randolph 
 & Co., of Broadway, New York. There are so many of the Huguenot 
 descendants in the United States that this book will be eagerly sought 
 and read. A novel of his, " Nathalie Rey," of which the advanced 
 sheets are already out, and which is highly spoken of, will soon appear 
 from the same publishing house. The incidents of the novel are laid 
 at La Rochelle, Paris, and New Orleans. In addition to other literary 
 works, Mr. Catlin has contributed some excellent magazine illustrated 
 
Biographical Record 79 
 
 articles for Lippincott's, besides occasional letters and articles for the 
 New York Tribune and other prominent journals. Some of his fugi- 
 tive pieces of poetry, such as" Lookout Mountain," M Dachsen on the 
 Rhine," "Je suis Americain" "Arcachon," " The New Dixie," are 
 among the best of their kind, and have been very much admired and 
 extensively copied by the press. 
 
 The following verses were published in the New York Sun 
 in 1879, being copied from the Cincinnati Gazette: 
 
 JE SUIS AMERICAIN 
 
 [When it shall be heard as the proudest exclamation of man, " I am 
 an American citizen." — Daniel Webster.] 
 
 He got to Paris late at night, 
 
 So tired he couldn't stand, 
 He'd three valises by his side, 
 
 A guidebook in his hand. 
 He singled out a hackman from 
 
 The crowd. Said he, " My man, 
 Just drive me to the best hotel — 
 
 Je suis Americain." 
 
 The Jehu drove him to the Grand 
 
 By course circuitous, 
 And charged a price which was — well, by 
 
 No means gratuitous. 
 The stranger paid, then registered, 
 
 And to the clerk began: 
 11 I want the best room in the house — 
 
 Je suis Americain." 
 
 They showed him up to twenty-blank, 
 
 Upon the parlor floor — 
 Two candles on the mantelpiece, 
 
 A gilt plate on the door: 
 But ere he slept he mused, and thus 
 
 His lucubrations ran: 
 " To-morrow I'll make this Paris howl; 
 
 Je suis Amiricain." 
 
 And make it howl he did, indeed, 
 
 From Concorde to Bastile, 
 From Madeleine to Luxembourg, 
 
 He raced, and at Mabile 
 Wound up the day. But when one fair 
 
 Smiled from behind her fan 
 Seductively, " No, no," said he; 
 
 "Je suis Americain." 
 
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 Next day to the summit of 
 
 The Arc of Triomphe hied, 
 " Veil, vat you zink of zis? " inquired 
 
 A Frenchman at his side. 
 11 This? This is nothing," answered he; 
 
 " Deny it if you can; 
 You ought to see our Brooklyn Bridge — 
 
 Je suis Americain" 
 
 Into a gilded restaurant 
 
 He chanced to drop one day, 
 The waiter's jargon fairly drove 
 
 His appetite away. 
 " Confound the dishes cooked," said he, 
 11 On the American plan! 
 I want a plate of pork and beans — 
 
 Je suis Americain." 
 
 Where'er he went, whate'er he did, 
 
 'Twas always just the same; 
 He couldn't, it appeared, forget 
 
 The country whence he came. 
 And when, once more at home, his eyes 
 
 Familiar scenes did scan, 
 He doffed his hat and cried, " Thank God, 
 
 Je suis Americain." 
 
 * Henry Champion was the son of George and Susan 
 Champion, missionaries to South Africa, and was born in 
 that country, at Port Elizabeth, November 8, 1838. He 
 died at Mankato, Minn., January 30, 1867, aged twenty -eight 
 years. The first year after his graduation was spent in the 
 study of modern languages in New Haven, and the two suc- 
 ceeding years in the college law school. He was admitted to 
 the bar in May, 1863, an d established himself in practice in 
 New Haven. In January, 1866, his health, which had been 
 failing for some months, compelled him to seek a change of 
 climate, and he went to Mankato, Minn., where he died after 
 a year's residence. In 1863, he prepared and published a 
 " Catalogue of the Cabinet of Coins belonging to Yale College," 
 and subsequently gave the college his own large and valuable 
 collection. Daniels wrote of him : 
 
 His college days may have revealed his inner life to but few; yet 
 to those few, how many are the sweet remembrances of his artless 
 and unselfish character. Some of us who had spent seven years with 
 him at Andover and Yale only after graduation and subsequent resi- 
 
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 dence in New Haven began to discover what a true and rare friend 
 we had in Henry Champion. His intellectual growth, too, after gradu- 
 ation was no less marked. In all that constitutes true manhood — 
 the generous, the noble, the Christlike traits — there was manifest 
 the most rapid development. 
 
 He was married, August 4, 1863, to Sarah E., daughter of 
 Willis Booth, Esq., of New Haven. The class has been much 
 indebted to Mrs. Champion, especially in the matter of the 
 class ivy. The original plant died, but she had preserved and 
 propagated a slip from it which was replanted by the class 
 in 1900. She was then elected an honorary member of the 
 class. Other slips of her propagation she had potted and 
 gave to members of the class — a happy reminder of Sixty 
 days to have in and about our homes. Her address is 270 
 Crown Street, New Haven. 
 
 * Frederick Leonard Chapell, son of Elisha T. and Sabra 
 Chapell, was born at Waterford, Conn., November 9, 1836, 
 and died at Newport, R. I., February 16, 1900, in his sixty- 
 fourth year. After graduation he took a course in Rochester 
 Theological Seminary, and was then ordained to the Baptist 
 ministry at Middletown, Ohio, September 29, 1864. After a 
 pastorate there of nearly seven years he was called to Evans- 
 ton, 111., where he remained seven years, and also lectured to 
 the students of the theological seminary. A few of his ser- 
 mons and addresses were published. From July, 1878, to 
 May, 1 88 1, he was at Janesville, Wis., and afterwards at 
 Flemington, N. J., eight years. He then accepted a position 
 in the institution which was afterward called the Gordon 
 Missionary Training School in Boston, of which he was the 
 dean at the time of his death. He died of B right's disease 
 at the home of his daughter in Newport, R. I. 
 
 In 1901, a book on " Biblical and Practical Theology," 
 three hundred and seven pages, was published in Philadelphia, 
 by Harriet Chapell. The publisher's note says: " The book 
 contains the matter prepared by Rev. F. L. Chapell for his 
 junior classes in the Gordon Missionary Training School and 
 used there by him for ten years." [I have the book in my 
 library. — Dunham.] 
 
 He married, September 7, 1865, Miss L. Eva Stow, daughter 
 of Henry Stow, of New Haven. 
 
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 From the Clarendon Light, March, 1900: 
 
 Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D.D., the president of the Training School, 
 who had left pressing engagements in Brooklyn to be present, gave, in 
 substance, the following: 
 
 " Funeral occasions are great tests of our integrity and sincerity. 
 We are tempted to eulogize the dead to meet the demands of the 
 occasion. But I believe we should be exceedingly careful and delib- 
 erate in what we say of the dead, and so I shall speak to-day with 
 great moderation. In this case, we have no such temptation, for this 
 man possessed, in a remarkable degree,the crowning Christian virtues 
 of humility and patience. In the many conversations I have had 
 with him, I was impressed with his modest estimate of himself. He 
 was peculiarly humble. I never heard him utter a word that needed 
 to be recalled or modified. He confided to me many of his secret 
 difficulties and temptations, but I never heard a word in censure of 
 any one, even when it might have been just to censure or denounce. 
 I have been associated with him for about ten years, and in regard to 
 his work as a teacher, I can say, from close observation, that the 
 homely metaphor of Sydney Smith was true of him, and he was ' the 
 round peg in the round hole.' Dr. Gordon told me, not long before 
 his death, that there were three men whom God had given to him for 
 his work, and one of these men was F. L. Chapell. He had two 
 remarkable characteristics that fitted him for the work he has done 
 in the Training School, and one of these was the paternal instinct, 
 which made him watch over and instruct the students as dear children. 
 The other was the maternal instinct, which made him yearn over them 
 in all their trials, that Christ might be formed in them. I have been 
 thinking of this on my journey here, and I must say that I know of 
 no man in all this country who can fill his place. 
 
 " But funeral services also test strongly the integrity and sincerity 
 of our Christian faith. Our cemeteries are full of symbols such as the 
 broken column, the fallen flower, the inverted torch, which are not 
 Christian, but pagan. Death is no longer death to the believer, since 
 Christ tasted death for us. Death is not the same thing to the believer 
 and the unbeliever. Now is the time to show the reality of our faith, 
 that death is swallowed up in victory, and that Christ's words are true 
 that, in the old sense of death, ' He that believeth on me shall never 
 die.' " 
 
 Among his frequent sayings in his last weeks were, " The thing to do 
 now is to rest," and, " It is all right." Truly, he rested in the Lord. 
 
 He was a most intense worker, often securing two or three hours of 
 meditation and study before breakfast, and never denying himself to 
 any calls. Yet his faith was as large as though he expected to have 
 everything done for him. 
 
 He scorned the ornaments of rhetoric, fearing they might divert 
 attention from his message or lull the conscience of the hearers. Yet 
 he labored over his writings till every word was exact and essential 
 to his meaning, and occasionally he wrote verses, correct and fervent, 
 to illustrate some doctrine. 
 
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 Every winter he studied thoroughly some new subject, preparing 
 a course of sermons upon it, and this work furnished the material for 
 beginning the studies of the Training School. 
 
 He was almost a paradox in his combination of mildness and firm- 
 ness, docility in small things with inflexibility in regard to principles, 
 intensity of faith with judicial broad-mindedness. His peculiar fair- 
 ness of mind made him an invaluable counselor, as he saw not only 
 the ideal to be finally attained, but also the first step possible to the 
 troubled questioner. 
 
 He was, finally, a Spirit-filled man. Having forgotten himself, he 
 was sensitive only to that which touched his Lord's interests. And 
 in this path many can follow him. As he firmly believed, it is the 
 "guided man " who counts in the affairs of the Lord's kingdom. 
 
 All this will carry but a feeble meaning to those who never knew 
 him; but over and over again his associates spoke and wrote of him 
 in the highest terms while he was yet among them. Faithful, humble, 
 loving, and earnest, he stood as a representative of the Lord, and an 
 embodiment of the blessed hope in which he now rests, the hope of 
 M the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour, Jesus 
 Christ." 
 
 Joseph Clay, son of Thomas Clay, Esq. (Harvard alumnus), 
 was born in Bryan County, Ga., December 10, 1838. 
 
 His family for several generations had been planters, and 
 his father having died when he was but ten years old, after 
 graduating he returned to his old home and took up the 
 planter's life. On his way home, at Charleston, he became 
 aware of a feeling and intense excitement of which he had 
 no idea while at Yale. But he went out to their plantation 
 and took charge, and although it was not many miles from 
 Savannah, he was often for months at a time the only white 
 person about the place, except a casual visitor. As the war 
 went on, being too near the salt water for safety and comfort, 
 he removed his mother and family, with a large number of 
 the servants, to the mountainous regions of the state. He 
 always found great pleasure in the fact that none of the serv- 
 ants ever tried to run away and leave him during the war. 
 They had never bought or sold slaves except for the purpose 
 of keeping families together. Their slaves were born upon 
 the place, were well treated, and there was mutual attach- 
 ment between them and the master. He took no active 
 personal part in the war, yet he found it very onerous to stay 
 at home, notwithstanding his great slave interests, and his 
 plans being frustrated by deaths in his family. 
 
 After the war he went to planting rice again, at first on the 
 
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 old plantation on the Ogeechee River, and later on the Savan- 
 nah River. At one time he thought he was going to be 
 successful, and that he would prosper again as before, but 
 gales came and with them floods and devastation and destruc- 
 tion followed. This came about to such an extent that he 
 gave up and took a position under the government in the 
 engineering department in deepening the rivers and harbors. 
 This was in 1893, and he has continued in this occupation for 
 the most part ever since. 
 
 He married, November 13, 1865, Miss Mary E. Herndon, 
 of Fredericksburg, Va., who died February 1, 1878. They 
 had two children, Thomas Savage and Mary E. Clay. The 
 son is living in New York, and the daughter with her father. 
 He writes : 
 
 I am certainly blessed in both of my children. In my disappoint- 
 ments and losses God has certainly been good to me, and I hope he 
 will continue to help me and to aid me to do what he wants of me. 
 
 Frederick Henry Colton, son of Jacob and Clarinda R. 
 Colton, was born at Longmeadow, Mass., April 24, 1839. 
 
 Schools in Brooklyn, N. Y., had the benefit of his services 
 for about a year after graduating, while he was considering 
 what his life work was to be, and helping out a deficient cash 
 account. He then studied medicine at the Long Island 
 College Hospital, graduating in 1864. From October, 1863, 
 to October, 1865, he was in medical service of the army, with 
 the rank of acting assistant surgeon, doing duty at different 
 camps and hospitals in and about the city of Washington, 
 keeping (as he says ) well to the rear, and out of the range of 
 cannon or musket. A caution that Charley Owen did not 
 take, for two days after the battle of Cold Harbor, in 1864, 
 Colton says he found him in the officers' ward at the Douglas 
 Hospital with a shattered elbow. 
 
 Colton thinks a general practitioner of medicine, such as he 
 has been for almost forty years, and always at the same 
 address, a rata avis nowadays. For upward of twenty -five 
 years he has been a visiting physician at the Long Island 
 College Hospital, the St. John's Hospital, the Brooklyn Home 
 for Aged Men and Couples, the secretary and member of the 
 board of directors of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital. He 
 is a member of the Kings County Medical Society, the Practi- 
 
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 tioner Club, Long Island Historical Society, the New England 
 Society, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and the 
 Hamilton Club. He is also a member and officer of the 
 Church of the Pilgrims. He is in good health, and although 
 fully up to the age for chloroforming, he is not yet ready to 
 submit to it. 
 
 He married, October 25, 1865, Alice Gray, daughter of 
 Prof. Alonzo Gray, founder and principal of the Brooklyn 
 Heights Seminary for Girls, who died in 1890. The fruit of 
 this marriage was five sons and two daughters. Twin sons 
 died a few hours after birth. Of the other three sons, one 
 graduated at Yale in 1892, another in 1896, and the third at 
 the Columbia School of Mines. One is an architect, another 
 a lawyer, the other in business. 
 
 Joseph Leonard Daniels, son of Paul and E. B. Daniels, was 
 born in East Medway (now Millis), Mass., August 1, 1833. 
 He studied at the Yale Theological School for three years 
 succeeding graduation, and during this period he acted most 
 of the time as librarian of the Brothers' Society, and assistant 
 librarian of the college. In the winter of 1861-62, he also 
 attended a course of lectures at the Yale Medical School. In 
 September, 1863, he became the principal of the Guilford 
 (Conn. ) Institute, where he remained for two years. Pre- 
 viously he had taught a few weeks at the Lawrence Academy, 
 Groton, Mass. In 1 865 , he accepted the professorship of Greek 
 at Olivet College, Mich. His story is best told in his own 
 words : 
 
 My life has been uneventful for others, yet none the less interesting 
 for me. It is so entirely different from any forethought of mine that 
 I can but believe it to be, as Dr. Bushnell puts it, "a plan of God." 
 For I never purposed to teach, much less to come to Olivet. Our 
 classmate Carrier induced me to come here. He lived but six months 
 after my coming. I have just completed my fortieth year of service, 
 a record four years longer than any of my predecessors. Deeming 
 this long enough for my ambition, and too long for the good of the 
 college, I tendered my resignation in March, 1905. The trustees of 
 the college responded with the following resolution: 
 
 " That Dr. Daniels be advised that his resignation is received, and 
 that after careful consideration we earnestly ask that the same be 
 withdrawn for the present." 
 
 A very appreciative letter accompanied the resolutions. 
 
 Besides my work as professor I have been college librarian for thirty 
 
86 Class of Sixty 
 
 years. When I took charge there were two thousand volumes. 
 There are now thirty thousand well selected books, adapted to the 
 needs of the college. This avocation has brought me no little pleasure 
 in cultivating my love of books. There is also the added joy that 
 both the library fund and building are, for the most part, the volun- 
 tary gifts of my personal friends. 
 
 For fifteen years I was a member of the board of trustees of Olivet 
 College, and have twice served as acting president. I hold at present 
 the office of dean of the faculty. For several years I served as one 
 of the college preachers. My writings have been historic and educa- 
 tional, for special occasions and for magazines. A part of two years 
 has been spent in travel and study in Europe. 
 
 The last five years have brought severe sickness both to myself 
 and to my beloved wife, the light and joy of my home for forty years, 
 whom I lost in 1903. But the years of trial have also been years of 
 great blessings, for which I am daily thankful. My health is good, 
 my mental powers unimpaired, my friends more numerous and kind 
 than ever. My son is in the practice of law in Detroit, and my daugh- 
 ter and grand-daughter with me in the home. 
 
 In the spring of 1892, to my surprise, I received a letter from 
 Secretary Dexter saying that the Yale corporation had voted to confer 
 the degree of D.D. upon me in case I would come to New Haven at 
 Commencement and receive it. 
 
 He was one of the guests of the college at the Bicentennial, 
 and Mrs. Daniels was made an honorary member of the class 
 at that time. 
 
 He was married, November 26, 1865, to Miss Julia B. 
 Allen, of North Leominster, Mass. Two children. 
 
 How Daniels is regarded at Olivet, where his life work has 
 been done, may be learned from the following extracts from 
 The Echo, the college paper of May 10, 1905, which was a 
 " Memorial Number." 
 
 Editorial: 
 
 April 6 was the fortieth anniversary of the beginning of Dr. 
 J. L. Daniels's life in Olivet. Forty years of faithful, indefatigable 
 labor! Far more to be valued than Olivet's fine buildings, the beauty 
 of her campus, her intellectual attainments, her spiritual standing, 
 is the record of the beauty, scholarliness, and Christian spirit of this 
 life. 
 
 This memorial number, commemorating this service of forty years, 
 is a tribute to Olivet's Grand Old Man. Articles from those who have 
 known him as instructor, as coworker on the college faculty, as 
 fellow townsman, tell of what he has been to Olivet; a reminiscent 
 article, by Dr. Daniels himself, gives a most interesting account of how 
 Olivet has appeared to him throughout these many years. 
 
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 Apropos of the subject was a conversation which we recently held 
 with a present-day student of Olivet College, who said in part: " I, 
 also, wish to do honor to Dr. Daniels. I count the two years spent in 
 his classes as perhaps the most valuable and enjoyable of my entire 
 college course. Greek was not composed of verbs and nouns, but of 
 glorious thoughts, expressed in language of sublime beauty. Dr. Daniels 
 was not the pedagogue, but the man, the inspirer. I speak from the 
 standpoint of one who is, in general, a skeptic, an unbeliever, a non- 
 Christian in Olivet's Christian atmosphere, wondering at the seeming 
 inconsistencies of a number of those ' of the faith,' regarded with a 
 ' how-much-better-I-than-thou ' air by some of the followers of Him 
 who taught brotherly love. I have always looked upon Dr. Daniels as 
 my idea of a perfect Christian. Sincere, generous, kindly, he comes 
 closer, perhaps, to the doubting one than to him whose belief is fixed. 
 When the entire world has seemed wrong and all men deceivers, the 
 calmness and serenity of his manner, the cheery cordiality of his 
 greeting have given new life. No one can know him and doubt that 
 there is goodness in man." 
 
 Dr. Alexander Tison, New York City : 
 
 Some men are too near to us and mean too much to us to leave us 
 quite ourselves when we come to set down even a part of what they are 
 to us. Professor Daniels is such a man to me. I am too much and 
 too long and in too many ways bound to him, for me to stand away 
 from him and put in order my feelings about him or tell how they have 
 come to be what they are. 
 
 There ar*e some things which no one must do who would do anything 
 to the purpose in honor of Professor Daniels. And first we must not 
 strive or cry in speaking his praises. Whatever is said about him, 
 if it would ring true and be like the man, must be simply said. A life 
 spent in doing the best things simply, quite as a thing of course and 
 part of the day's work, — that is what we have always seen and loved 
 and would honor in Professor Daniels. The charm and the fullness of 
 it, and the goodness and the greatness back of it all, who can hope to 
 tell to those who have not seen it? 
 
 Matthew Arnold was all the time telling us that we needed sweetness 
 and light more than anything else. I have always thought, and still 
 think, that Professor Daniels lived the gospel which Matthew Arnold 
 preached, and that in him we have had the perfect union of what Swift 
 long before has well said are the two noblest of things, sweetness and 
 light. 
 
 I will recall the first time that I ever saw Professor Daniels. It 
 was in the room of Parsons Hall which at that time served to hold the 
 college library. He was then, as now, the librarian, but fortunately 
 for me he also had some temporary duty of helping out in another 
 department — and how much of that sort of thing he has done and is 
 always doing — which brought me early into more intimate relations 
 with him than the library alone would have insured. I was probably 
 
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 the rawest boy that ever left home to prepare for college, but Pro- 
 fessor Daniels was as gracious and kind and helpful to me as he would 
 have been to the governor of the state. And so he was and has always 
 been to all, whether in the college or out of it. It used to seem to me 
 that a man could not be in Olivet twenty-four hours without having 
 something to thank Professor Daniels for. And he would go on 
 getting deeper and deeper into debt in this kind as long as he stayed; 
 and, when at last he went away and went out into the world's work, 
 there went with every one who had eyes to see and ears to hear and the 
 heart to understand what was about him, as the best single reward of 
 his stay in college and the thing to be remembered longest, dearest, 
 and most helpfully in all the days to come, — the imperishable influence 
 of Professor Daniels. 
 
 I cannot think of him as old or to grow old. He is as young to me 
 as his own Homeric heroes. And so he will remain. He seems to 
 me now even younger than he did to me when I first' saw him. In 
 part this may be because he is not one of whom you must be all the 
 time revising your impressions. As you begin to think of him so you 
 continue to think. Only this must be said: He grows upon us, or 
 rather we grow into better knowledge of him, and see more of his 
 completeness the longer we know him. To name but one thing, I 
 had not at first seen the hiding of his marvelous strength. But when 
 it came to me to work with him and for five happy years to be some- 
 what nearer to him, years that were the happier for the fact of such 
 nearness to him, I saw then, better than ever before, how much he 
 worked, and how strong he was in his work and how many burdens he 
 bore and what wise counsel he gave and how he could dispatch busi- 
 ness and how few mistakes he made in dispatching it. 
 
 But why say more? Happy the college that has had the life service 
 of such a rare and master spirit. Happy we who have been taught 
 out of the fullness of what he knows, and thrice happy to have been 
 touched and uplifted by the lofty inspiration of what he is. May 
 many classes succeed to this happy privilege. Serus in cesium redeat. 
 
 But, more than that, may we not now do something to put in lasting 
 form the feeling which all of us have for him? He needs no memorial. 
 He asks nothing of us. But we shall fail and be wanting in what 
 we owe to ourselves if we do not mark our sense of what we owe 
 to him by something which shall tell to those who are to come 
 after us that we were not wholly insensible to the power and the 
 charm and the beauty and the worth of what is best while it is yet 
 with us. 
 
 That these were not empty words is shown by the fact that 
 at the Commencement in June, 1905, the alumni honored 
 Professor Daniels with a public reception, and surprised him 
 with a check for five hundred dollars, while the college trustees 
 voted him a leave of absence for a year, with continued salary, 
 and, also, for meritorious service, an LL.D., — a degree be- 
 
Biographical Record 89 
 
 stowed by Olivet College only five times in its previous history. 
 Daniels is enjoying a year of rest and spending the winter in 
 California ( 1905-6). 
 
 Note. — How Daniels came to be professor at Olivet is, probably, 
 not generally known. We are informed that he used, every now and 
 then, especially about examination time, to come around to Dunham's 
 room to get him to help translate his Latin and Greek, to elucidate the 
 intricate construction, and to exhibit the nicer and more delicate 
 shades of meaning. And then Olivet College, ignorant of the facts in 
 the case, went and appointed Daniels, instead of Dunham, Greek 
 professor. Such is the irony of fate! Dunham says that that man, 
 Joe Daniels, never acknowledged his indebtedness for the lucrative 
 position and never offered to divide his salary with him! 
 
 Lowndes Henry Davis, son of G. W. Davis, Esq., was born 
 in Jackson, Mo., December 14, 1836. 
 
 He entered college at the beginning of Sophomore year, and 
 after graduation studied law at the Louisville (Ky.) Law 
 School, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1863. In 
 1866 he commenced practice in his native place. Two years 
 later he was elected state attorney for the tenth judicial 
 circuit of Missouri, and held this office for four years, until 
 January 1, 1873. In 1874, he was elected to the constitu- 
 tional convention which met the following year and framed 
 the present constitution of that state. In 1876 he was 
 elected to the general assembly for the term of two years. 
 
 In 1878 he was elected to the House of Representatives at 
 Washington, where he served for three terms, or until 1884, 
 when he declined another re-election. He returned to the 
 practice of his profession, with farming for a side issue and 
 amusement. In 1893 he moved to Huntsville, Ala., where 
 he has since resided, and devotes himself to farming. 
 
 He was married, November 12, 1861, to Miss Mary B. Hall, 
 daughter of B. M. Hall, Esq., of Shelby County, Ky. They 
 had three children; only one son is living, and he is engaged 
 in running the farm for his father. 
 
 Robert Stewart Davis, son of James H. Davis, Esq., was born 
 in Philadelphia, April 23, 1838. 
 
 After graduation he immediately began the study of law 
 in the office of Judge Pierce in his native city. In 1863 ne 
 was war correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer in South 
 
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 Carolina. In 1864 he was the Washington correspondent 
 of that paper, and later of the New York Times. In 1865 
 he established Saturday Night, a weekly paper which in 
 rive years reached a circulation of over two hundred 
 thousand copies. The most successful serial stories of this 
 paper, which were the chief cause of its rapid increase in 
 circulation, were written by him. These stories were some 
 twelve in number, and were written between 1868 and 1879, 
 during which year he sold out his interest in Saturday Night, 
 and soon after joined in the formation of Our Continent 
 Company. 
 
 Not satisfied with this venture, he withdrew from it, and in 
 September, 1883, began the publication of The Call, a daily 
 newspaper. Because of its original features, women's, 
 children's, and fashions departments, The Call was imme- 
 diately recognized as a first-class family newspaper, and met 
 with great success. It became one of the most popular and 
 best one-cent afternoon papers in the country, and held that 
 position for a long time. 
 
 In 1888 he became officially connected with the Phila- 
 delphia & Reading Railroad, and soon became manager of 
 all its interests in New Jersey. In this position he served 
 with distinction for five years, dividing his time between The 
 Call and the railroad. In 1893 ne gave up the railroad 
 management and devoted his time entirely to his newspaper 
 property. About four years ago he retired from all active 
 business connection. He has always joined in all the live 
 measures for the advancement of the city. He is a prominent 
 member of various clubs and literary associations. 
 
 He married Miss Mary Louisa Molten, of Philadelphia, 
 September 30, 1868. 
 
 Francis Delafield, son of Dr. Edward and Julia (Floyd) 
 Delafield, was born in New* York City, August 3, 1841. 
 
 He was prepared for college in the private schools of the 
 city. After graduation he entered the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons in New York City, and graduated from that 
 institution in 1863. He continued his studies for some 
 months in Paris and London, spending a considerable portion 
 of his time in hospitals, and on his return home entered at 
 once upon the practice of his profession. In 1875 he was 
 
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 appointed adjunct professor of medicine in the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons. He made so brilliant a record 
 that upon the retirement of Dr. Clark, in 1882, he was elected 
 as his successor. He has unusual powers of imparting knowl- 
 edge, and has exerted an important influence in shaping the 
 opinions and careers of his students. He has been an original 
 investigator in pathology, and his writings upon this subject 
 embody vast research and are standard authorities. 
 
 His " Studies in Pathological Anatomy," whose publica- 
 tion extended over ten years, is the most exhaustive and 
 elaborate work in its field. His first important publication, 
 " A Handbook of Post-Mortem Examinations and Morbid 
 Anatomy," was first published in 1872. Afterwards it was 
 rewritten and greatly enlarged in 1885 in collaboration with 
 Dr. T. M. Prudden, under the title of " A Handbook of Patho- 
 logical Anatomy and Histology." This work is in general use 
 as a textbook in medical colleges. Another important achieve- 
 ment was his classification of the group of diseases generally 
 treated under pulmonary consumption. Another addition 
 to medical literature was a treatise upon " Renal Diseases." 
 
 He was, at one time, attached to the house staff, and later, 
 attending physician, and then consulting physician, of Bellevue 
 Hospital; pathologist to Roosevelt Hospital, and surgeon to 
 the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He is a member of 
 the New York County Medical Society, New York Academy 
 of Medicine, Pathological Society, the Association of American 
 Physicians, and also of man)'- other organizations and clubs. 
 Yale conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1890. 
 
 He married, January 17, 1870, Katharine Van Rensselaer, 
 who recently died. They had two daughters, Elizabeth Ray 
 and Cornelia V. R., and one son, Edward Henry Delafield, who 
 graduated from Yale in the class of 1902. 
 
 * Daniel Denison, son of Daniel and Susan (Cunningham) 
 Denison, was born in Hampton, Conn., September 4, 1838, 
 and died in Pomfret, Conn., July 7, 1895, aged nearly fifty- 
 seven years. For nearly a year after graduation he taught 
 in Birdsboro, Pa., and then entered the Union Theological 
 Seminary, New York City. A year later he went to Andover 
 Seminary, where he finished the course in 1864, though his 
 health had been broken by malaria contracted in 1863 m the 
 
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 service of the Christian Commission. The most of the follow- 
 ing year he spent, in feeble health, with his brother in Portland, 
 Conn. He was, for about four years, interrupted by a period 
 of ill health, in the service of the New York Tribune, traveling 
 as a business agent. On December 30, 1873, he was suffi- 
 ciently strong to be ordained and installed over the Second 
 Congregational Church in Middle Haddam, Conn. His health 
 again failing, he resigned this pastorate in June, 1884. He 
 then went to Hartford, Wis., the home of a brother, and while 
 there, was able to supply the Congregational church in that 
 town. In 1885, he returned to his native village and supplied 
 the pulpit there until he accepted a call to the Congregational 
 church in Pomfret, Conn., where he was installed September 
 1, 1889. He continued in Pomfret, greatly beloved and very 
 happy in his work, until his death, after a long illness of severe 
 suffering from sarcoma of the liver. 
 
 On September 2, 1872, he married Miss Augusta M. Bryant, 
 of Springfield, Mass., who died in Middle Haddam, December 
 22, 1873, leaving no children. 
 
 Samuel Dunham, youngest son of Chauncey and Sylvia 
 (Langdon) Dunham, was born February 8, 1835, at South- 
 ington, Conn. He takes a natural and pardonable pride in 
 announcing to the class that his venerable mother, who was 
 born July 27, 1800, and has had the unique experience of 
 enjoying life in three centuries, is still living (January, 1906) 
 in her one hundred and sixth year, and that she is a " real 
 Daughter " of the American Revolution, her father, Capt. 
 Giles Langdon, having served in the Revolutionary army. 
 It is presumed that, as respects age, she easily breaks the 
 class record.* 
 
 In the absence of any startling personal achievements to 
 record, he comforts himself just a little upon a recent dis- 
 covery that the genealogy of the Dunham family, in England 
 and America, two volumes now going through the press, traces 
 his ancestry directly back to Deacon John Dunham, of the 
 Mayflower, who figured prominently in Colonial affairs, having 
 for many years served as an officer of the church, and 
 deputy of Old Plymouth Colony. The old coat of arms 
 
 *She "fell on sleep" February 21, 1906. 
 
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 of the family bears the legend, "Semper vigilante," almost 
 as inspiring a motto as our own, "Spectemur agendo." 
 
 Dunham fitted for college at Lewis Academy in his native 
 town, graduating as valedictorian in 1855. He entered 
 college with the class of 1859, chumming with his old fellow 
 townsman, Joe Twichell; but was soon obliged, by the return 
 of a serious affection of his eyes, to abandon study for nearly 
 a year. He then re-entered college with the class of '60. 
 
 Union Theological Seminary in New York City knew him 
 for two years after graduating from college, and the seminary 
 at Andover, Mass., the following year, where he graduated in 
 1863. The Essex South Association at Salem, Mass., licensed 
 him to preach February 3, 1863. He began the supply of the 
 pulpit of the Congregational church at West Brookfield, Mass., 
 in April, 1863, and was ordained and installed as pastor of this 
 church, October 4, 1864, and continued there till October 27, 
 1870. Following that charge he was acting pastor of the 
 First Congregational Church, of Norwalk, Conn., for two years. 
 He found his life work at the West Presbyterian Church, 
 Binghamton, N. Y., where he went January 1, 1873, and con- 
 tinued as active pastor till January 3, 1902, a period of twenty- 
 nine years; he then became " pastor emeritus," with a small 
 annual stipend for life. He is still busy meeting various 
 demands of his old parish, and preaching almost constantly in 
 the city or elsewhere. 
 
 He organized this church in February, 1873, with sixty- 
 five members. More than thirteen hundred were added to 
 the church during this ministry. Upon his retirement from 
 active duties, he left a membership of over eight hundred. 
 During this period two church buildings were erected and one 
 was enlarged and remodeled, and a parsonage was also built. 
 The last church reared is a spacious stone edifice, one of the 
 most commodious in the city, upon a new site. It was 
 " Erected to the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of 
 Sarah M. Dunham, Wife of the first Pastor," and was dedi- 
 cated free of debt in October, 1899. This building has a 
 large memorial window for his deceased wife and four children. 
 
 His active and responsible duties outside of his pastorate 
 have been many ; a few are here enumerated : 
 
 Member of the board of trustees of Binghamton Presby- 
 terian Union since 1890, and of the board of trustees of Bing- 
 
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 hamton Presbytery for about the same period. For thirty 
 years treasurer of the Binghamton Presbytery. The first 
 president of the New England Society of Binghamton. Secre- 
 tary of the City Ministerial Association for the last thirty-three 
 years, still in office. For ten years secretary of the Broome 
 County Bible Society. Member of the Broome County His- 
 torical Society. Commissioner to Auburn Theological Semi- 
 nary. Sy nodical visitor to Union Theological Seminary. 
 Member of the Executive Committee of the New York State 
 Christian Endeavor Union. Eighteen years on the Board of 
 Examiners of Elmira College. Commissioner to the General 
 Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of 
 America at Cleveland, Saratoga, Minneapolis, New York, 
 Winona Lake, Los Angeles, etc. 
 
 In 1869 and 1870, he enjoyed a six months' European tour, 
 and in 1890 an extensive Oriental tour, returning by the way 
 of Athens, Constantinople, and the Continent, and concluding 
 with a trip through Great Britain. On this trip he visited 
 the Jessups and other missionaries in Syria, Joe Twichell's 
 sister in Constantinople, and Walter Phelps at the American 
 embassy in Berlin. 
 
 Among his publications are: 
 
 "An Historical Discourse, Delivered at West Brookfield, 
 Mass., on the Occasion of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anni- 
 versary of the First Church in Brookfield," and other historical 
 papers. 
 
 Address at the " One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the 
 First Congregational Society, Southington, Conn.," included 
 in the volume (pp. 845 ) of " Sketches of Southington." 
 
 Contributions to a volume in memory of Mrs. Henry L. 
 Clapp, of New York City. 
 
 " The Nation's Tears," a sermon in memory of President 
 Garfield. 
 
 " In Memoriam, Mrs. William R. Black," who died in Edin- 
 burgh, Scotland. 
 
 " In Memoriam, Mrs. Samuel Dunham." 
 
 " Retrospect of a Happy Ministry," including the history 
 of the West Presbyterian Church, Binghamton, N. Y., from 
 its organization in 1873. 
 
 He was married at Harwinton, Conn., October 6, 1863, 
 to Miss Sarah M., daughter of Harley Clarke, Esq. She died 
 
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 April 9, 1894. They had four children: three sons and one 
 daughter, all deceased. December 10, 1901, he married 
 Robertha C. McLeod, daughter of Robert C. and Mary A. 
 (Bartholomew) McLeod, of Philadelphia. 
 
 More than in all honors and earthly delights Dunham says 
 he rejoices now in the retrospect, in the good opinion, confi- 
 dence, and esteem of his brethren in the ministry of all denomi- 
 nations, as formally expressed on several occasions. Upon 
 completing, in 1898, the twenty -fifth year of his pastorate, 
 the City Ministerial Association passed a series of compli- 
 mentary resolutions, such as might well make any man feel 
 that he had not lived altogether in vain. At the public cele- 
 bration of this " Silver Jubilee," numerous tributes were paid 
 by representative ministers of the various denominations, and 
 more than one hundred congratulatory letters were received 
 from old friends and prominent men throughout the country. 
 
 The succeeding year, in October, 1899, upon the completion 
 and dedication of the New Memorial Church, a still more 
 elaborate and gratifying testimonial was adopted and pre- 
 sented to Dunham by the same ministerial association. 
 
 Upon Dunham's retirement from the active duties of the 
 pastorate, January 3, 1902, the Presbytery of Binghamton 
 adopted resolutions, from which the following is a brief extract : 
 
 The Presbytery also expresses its high appreciation of the work of 
 the Rev. Samuel Dunham, of his ministerial ability, faithful service, 
 and self-sacrificing spirit. The congregation fostered and cared for 
 by him during all these years, and brought to its present material and 
 spiritual prosperity, attests the character of his labors. 
 
 Clarence Edward Dutton, born at Wallingford, Conn., May 
 15, 1 84 1. Prepared for college at Ellington, Conn. Entered 
 Yale, June, 1856. Graduated, i860. In September, 1862, 
 entered as a volunteer in the Twenty-first Connecticut 
 Infantry, and was appointed adjutant of the regiment. 
 Proceeded with the regiment to Washington and thence to 
 Harper's Ferry. Marched from Harper's Ferry southward 
 along the Blue Ridge and eastward to Fredericksburg. Was 
 severely wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg and subse- 
 quently was extremely ill with enteric fever. After a pro- 
 tracted illness recovered and rejoined the regiment at Norfolk, 
 Va. Went with it to Suffolk, Va., where it was engaged in 
 
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 constant skirmishing, and on July 3, 1863, was engaged in a 
 heavy battle (the same day as the battle of Gettysburg). 
 A month later, the regiment withdrew to Norfolk, Va., and 
 afterward to Newport News. In November, the regiment 
 went to Beaufort, N. C, and did garrison duty at points along 
 the sound. 
 
 In December, 1863, an opportunity was offered him to 
 compete for a position in the ordnance corps of the regular 
 army, which was offered to any officer of the regular or volun- 
 teer service who might pass the examination. He was fortunate 
 enough to pass it, and was appointed a second lieutenant of 
 ordnance in January, 1864. 
 
 Was on duty at Fort Monroe until May, 1864, being married, 
 meantime, on April 18, to Emeline C. Babcock, of New Haven. 
 In May was ordered to the Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburg, Pa. 
 In the fall of that year was engaged in arming volunteer regi- 
 ments and disarming term-expired troops at Wheeling, W. 
 Va., at Cincinnati, Chicago, and Springfield, 111., until Novem- 
 ber, when he was ordered to the headquarters of General 
 Schofield in the field. Joined the Twenty-third Army Corps 
 in Tennessee just before the battle of Harpeth River — one 
 of the most terrible and bloody battles of the war. Hood's 
 army was repulsed with frightful slaughter, though our own 
 was almost as great. We retreated to Nashville, where, a few 
 days later, Hood was finally crushed and fled southwards. 
 Schofield pursued, but Hood's extinction was so complete 
 that there were no fragments to be gathered up and the 
 campaign ended. 
 
 Was recalled from Schofield's command in January, 1865, 
 and ordered to the command of the ordnance depot of the 
 Army of the Potomac and remained with it to the close of the 
 war, when the depot was cleared out and the stores sent to 
 Washington Arsenal. Was then placed on duty at the Water- 
 vliet Arsenal, West Troy, N. Y. 
 
 He had now some leisure time in the afternoons and evenings 
 which could be devoted to study. Two subjects interested him ; 
 one was the manufacture of steel, for which Troy was then 
 noted and the other was geology. His leisure time for five years 
 was divided between them, much of the week days being spent 
 in the steel works, while the Saturdays and Sundays were spent 
 with James Hall and R. P. Whitfield, at Albany, in the pale- 
 
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 ontological museum. He was very much in earnest and never 
 lost an hour. 
 
 In 1869 he read his first scientific paper, " On the Chemistry 
 of the Bessemer Process," which, he believes, was the first 
 explanation of that process ever published — at least in this 
 country. It was read before the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science. 
 
 In 1870 was transferred to the Frankford Arsenal, Phila- 
 delphia, remaining there a year. While there, he still con- 
 tinued the pursuit of the two subjects and wrote several papers 
 which were given in the Franklin Institute, the American 
 Philosophical Society, and the Academy of Sciences. 
 
 In 187 1 was transferred to the Washington Arsenal. Here 
 he was brought into intimate contact with a large circle of 
 scientific men, which aroused his interest and greatly stimu- 
 lated his ambition. Professors Henry and Baird, of the 
 Smithsonian; Hilgard, of the Coast Survey; Newcomb, Hall, 
 and Harkness,of the Naval Observatory ; Hayden and Powell, 
 of the surveys of the West; Woodward and Billings, of the 
 Medical Department, he met often at the Philosophical Society, 
 and some of them at their homes. After two years, which 
 were spent in geological study and correlated inquiries, he was 
 asked by Powell to become a member of his survey, if the 
 War Department would consent. He replied that he would not 
 ask for the duty, but if the authorities saw fit to detail him, it 
 would be very agreeable. It was, however, a long time before 
 any action was taken. At length, in 1875, Professor Henry 
 took up the subject, and by personal application to the Secre- 
 tary of War, and with the approval of the chief of ordnance, 
 secured his detail to Powell's survey. In that year he began 
 his geological field work. The first field season was in the 
 high plateaus of southern Utah — an immense field of vol- 
 canic rocks. This work, which was hardly more than a 
 reconnoissance, occupied three years, at the end of which his 
 first monograph was written, " The High Plateaus of Utah." 
 
 In 1878 the western surveys (of which there were three ) 
 were consolidated, and Clarence King was appointed director, 
 which office he held but a year and was succeeded by Powell. 
 In 1878 he was sent to the survey of the Grand Canyon dis- 
 trict, immediately south of the high plateaus. Three years 
 were occupied in this work, at the end of which his second 
 
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 monograph was written, " The Tertiary History of the Grand 
 Canyon District." Upon its completion, he was sent to the 
 Hawaiian Islands (1882). Nine months were spent there. 
 Returning to Washington, in the late autumn, his third 
 monograph was completed, on the " Hawaiian Volcanoes." 
 
 In 1883 he went to explore the interesting country around 
 Fort Wingate, Mount Taylor, and Zuni, which occupied two 
 years, and his fourth monograph, " Mount Taylor and the 
 Zuni Plateau," was written in 1884-85. 
 
 He was next sent to Northern California and Oregon to begin 
 the survey of the Cascade Range, one of the greatest volcanic 
 fields of the world, being surpassed only by the volcanic field 
 of the Deccan, in India, in magnitude. When he had spent two 
 years in the reconnoissance of this district, he was diverted from 
 it by the Charleston earthquake. He had for several years 
 maintained in his Washington office a division for collecting 
 information about earthquakes in the United States, and had 
 studied the subject with the greatest interest. The earth- 
 quake at Charleston occurred while he was in the wilds of 
 Oregon, far from telegraphs or mails, and he did not hear of it 
 until nearly three weeks after it happened. His assistant, 
 however, had taken the matter up, and with the help of 
 Major Powell had gathered together a great deal of informa- 
 tion. On his return he went to Charleston, and in the course 
 of a month went over the ground, and, meantime, secured 
 from all parts of the country a great number of reports which 
 he proceeded to study. In 1887 his fifth monograph was 
 written, on " The Charleston Earthquake." 
 
 He had supposed when this monograph was written that he 
 should return, when it was finished, to his work in the Cascade 
 region. But he was disappointed. Congress had, during the 
 winter, made an appropriation for beginning the irrigation 
 surveys of the West, and had placed the work in the geological 
 survey under Powell's direction. He had been for many years 
 interested in the developments of irrigation in the West; 
 had studied it much, and had been instrumental in securing 
 the appropriation, though he had no desire to take charge of 
 the work. Powell, however, the Secretary of the Interior, 
 and those congressmen who had specially interested them- 
 selves in securing the appropriation, all united in pressing 
 upon him the charge of the work. He very reluctantly con- 
 
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 sented to begin the work and carry it on for a year or two 
 until a fit man could be found for it. 
 
 The first appropriation was only seventy-five thousand 
 dollars, but quite large enough for a beginning. Powell, 
 however, devoted a considerable part of it to strengthening 
 his topographic work, — a proceeding which Dutton thought 
 not only ill advised, but unlawful. However, he got together a 
 body of hydrographers and young men well educated in cognate 
 branches of science and put them in camp during the autumn 
 and winter, where they practiced stream measurements. 
 
 The next year Congress appropriated four hundred thousand 
 dollars for the irrigation survey work. Powell devoted half of it 
 to the topographic work and with the remaining half Dut- 
 ton employed irrigation engineers who had long been known to 
 him, and, with the hydrographers who had already been prac- 
 ticing, they divided the arid country up and began their work. 
 
 Powell's action in devoting half of the large appropriation 
 to another purpose soon bore fruit, as Dutton had repeatedly 
 told him it would. It attracted the attention of the far western 
 congressmen, who questioned the propriety of it; and the 
 more they investigated the more they became convinced 
 that it was wrong. The questionings became remonstrance, 
 and the remonstrance became warning, and at last a con- 
 gressional joint committee of investigation was ordered, 
 which resulted in a very damaging report. Powell was com- 
 pelled to resign from the survey, while Dutton was upheld and 
 justified. The appropriation was discontinued. 
 
 About this time a new chief of ordnance was about to be 
 appointed. As the survey had lost interest for him by the 
 retirement of Powell, and as the next chief of ordnance would 
 be a man whom, he could not but feel, would be unwilling to 
 have him continue in the survey, he requested that he might 
 be relieved and returned to military duty, which was done, in 
 the autumn of 1890. 
 
 He then made a journey to the western states, the Pacific 
 coast, and the Southern states, as a member of a board on 
 factories for making guns. When this was concluded, he 
 obtained a leave of absence and went to Central America. 
 On his return, the new chief of ordnance had been appointed, 
 and in 1891 ordered him to the command of the San Antonio 
 Arsenal, Texas. He remained there for eight years, in practical 
 
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 banishment until the chief of ordnance retired, in 1899. His 
 successor was a friend of Dutton's, and he ordered him to his 
 office in Washington as first assistant. The position was very- 
 honorable, but was very laborious, thankless, and disagreeable, 
 and in 1901 he was glad enough to ask for retirement, although 
 he had four years to serve. His application was granted. 
 Since then, he has been in much ill health, but has written 
 one book on " Earthquakes," one of Putnam's Scientific 
 Series. His health has begun to improve, and may be good 
 enough in future to enable him to write more. 
 
 This book on " Earthquakes " has been republished in 
 England. 
 
 Daniel Cady Eaton, son of Daniel C. Eaton, Esq., was born 
 in Johnstown, N. Y., June 16, 1837. 
 
 After graduation he studied law in the Law School of 
 Columbia College, and began the practice of his profession, 
 first in partnership with Fowler of our class, and afterward 
 with Taylor, of '59, at No. 9 Pine Street, New York City. In 
 the spring of 1861 he went to Washington with his regiment, 
 the famous Seventh of New York. He was in Europe for 
 his wife's health in 1866-67, living in Dresden during the 
 greater part of his absence. He returned to New York for 
 a year, but in November, 1868, he went to Europe again, liv- 
 ing for some months in Berlin. On his return to New York, 
 in June, 1869, he was appointed to a newly established pro- 
 fessorship of the History and Criticism of Art in Yale College. 
 He accepted this appointment, and sailed for Europe again 
 the following August to perfect himself at all points, by 
 study and investigation at the best sources of information 
 and inspiration, for the acceptable discharge of the duties of 
 his new position. 
 
 In Paris, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Munich, Florence, Rome, 
 and London, in succession, he made the acquaintance of lead- 
 ing instructors in the different branches of art, familiarized 
 himself with their systems of instruction and with the organi- 
 zation and government of the art schools to which they 
 belonged. At the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, he went so 
 far as to have himself admitted as a pupil that he might under- 
 stand the school from a pupil's point of view. The larger part 
 of Eaton's life has been enthusiastically devoted to the study 
 
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 of art. Even during his college course he was an art critic 
 of marked esthetic taste and of no mean attainments. 
 
 From a report made by Professor Eaton to the corporation 
 in 1876, we extract a single luminous passage: 
 
 No complete idea of the history, literature, or religion of a nation 
 can be obtained without a knowledge of its arts. A knowledge of 
 Greek art is indispensable to an understanding of Greek nationality. 
 The study of Greek literature assumes a different aspect when pursued 
 in connection with Greek art. The Rennaissance period manifested 
 its strength and expressed its character chiefly in art. 
 
 The one art, architecture, affords, in its early monuments, one of 
 the best means of tracing the origin and migration of races, and all 
 through history it is to the ethnologist a reliable and pleasant guide. 
 Even the mathematician may find a new delight in the study of 
 perspective or in tracing the dependence of the most abstruse prin- 
 ciples of art upon the most abstract formulas of science. 
 
 In our Quarter-Centennial Report, Griffin says of him: 
 
 Eaton, who styles himself " writer and lecturer on artistic and 
 educational subjects," reminds us of the failure of any former class 
 record to report the fact that he was appointed colonel in New York 
 State Militia in 1863. He lays special emphasis upon the additional 
 fact that the regiment to which he was appointed was never raised. 
 
 He also says: " Once ran for alderman of the First Ward, New 
 Haven, on the Democratic ticket. Needless to add that I was licked 
 out of my boots." 
 
 He has published various pamphlets, newspaper and magazine 
 articles, besides a " Handbook to Greek and Roman Sculpture." 
 
 For some years past he has been, at home and abroad, in 
 the eager pursuit of health, and the shy goddess seems as 
 determined to avoid him as he is to capture her. He wrote 
 the Secretary, October 21, 1905: 
 
 I am still on this side of the water — Hotel des Trots Rats a Bale — 
 and in poor condition. I shall return to New Haven next month and, 
 if not able to go on with my lectures, must send in my resignation. 
 I am going to Paris next Monday, the 23d, to consult an eminent 
 French specialist, Dr. Gunion, and shall be influenced by his opinion. 
 At home I have had physicians of both schools. No two agree; no 
 one seems to know exactly what is the matter. If my race is run, and 
 my work done, I want to know it. 
 
 I can't write out my history for the class book; you will have to 
 take the old one. You might add that in justification of the position 
 I took in 1876 when I resigned my professorship in the Art School, 
 I was in 1901 appointed to a university professorship of the History 
 and Criticism of Art. 
 
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 He was married, December 18, 1861, to Miss Alice, daughter 
 of Henry Young, Esq., of New York City. 
 
 From Yale Alumni Weekly, January 24, 1906: 
 
 One of the particularly choice lecture series of the winter began on 
 the 17th of this month, when Prof. D. Cady Eaton delivered the 
 first of a series of lectures, entitled, " Sketches of French and Italian 
 History and Art of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries." The lec- 
 tures are delivered in room Ai, Osborn Hall, at three o'clock, Wednes- 
 day afternoons. Professor Eaton, who occupies the University chair 
 of the History and Criticism of Art, is prepared as few men in this 
 country are prepared to give such a course of lectures, and the oppor- 
 tunity stands out as an unusual one even for New Haven, with all 
 its list of lecture series. The lectures are free to graduate and under- 
 graduate students of the University, being of such a nature as to 
 enlist the interest of any age to whom such matters appeal. 
 
 * Daniel Riker Elder, son of George and Hannah E. Elder, 
 of Stamford, Conn., was born in New York City, July 7, 1838, 
 and died at sea, April 25, 1875, aged thirty -seven years. 
 
 Elder remained at home after graduation until June, 1861, 
 when he entered the navy. From March, 1862, until near the 
 time of his death, he was engaged in business in New York 
 City. In June, 1874, he left home for a trip around the world, 
 and continued in good health until his departure from Japan 
 on the steamer City of Peking, in April, 1875, when he was 
 taken seriously ill with dysentery and died within three days' 
 sail of San Francisco. 
 
 * George Engs, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Engs, was 
 born in Newport, R. I., February 25, 1840, and died in that 
 city, July 7, 1887, in the forty-eighth year of his age. 
 
 After graduation he entered at once on the study of medi- 
 cine in New York City, and was graduated in 1863 from the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons ; after which he served two 
 years on the medical staff at Belle vue Hospital. He then 
 returned to Newport and engaged in private practice for 
 nearly two years, which were followed by a visit of about 
 eighteen months to Vienna, Prague, and Paris, for further 
 study. The rest of his life was spent in Newport, where he 
 died very suddenly of heart disease. As long as his health 
 permitted, he was a successful practitioner, and was espe- 
 cially beloved by the poor, who benefited by his professional 
 services. 
 
Biographical Record 103, 
 
 Henry Clay Eno, son of Amos Richards and Lucy Jane 
 (Phelps ) Eno, was born in New York City, October 28, 1840. 
 
 Since graduation he has been engaged in the practice of 
 medicine. He graduated from the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons in 1864; was in Bellevue Hospital at 1865, and sur- 
 geon at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary from 1875 to 
 1882. His summer residence is at Saugatuck, Conn., and his 
 winter home is at 8 East Sixty -first Street, New York City. 
 
 He was married to Miss Nellie Lane, of New York City, 
 October 19, 1869. 
 
 The Secretary feels confident that Eno will bear him 
 witness that he has labored with him instantly, in season 
 and out of season, to get him to relate the interesting story 
 that he can tell; or which he could tell and would tell, but. 
 for the multiplicity of other and more exacting and insistent 
 duties. When he and a few others get a little of their well- 
 earned leisure they will write for us the story we are longing 
 to hear, and we shall publish a supplementary class history 
 of an interest equal to or surpassing the present one. 
 
 Horace Lewis Fairchild, son of Daniel Fairchild, was born 
 in Trumbull, Conn., June 15, 1835. 
 In our Decennial Record Catlin said : 
 
 Since graduation but little has been heard of Fairchild, nor has any 
 reply been received from him to repeated inquiries addressed him 
 since the Decennial Meeting. He is, however, believed to be engaged 
 in the paper business with his father, in Trumbull, Conn. 
 
 In 1875, Griffin said: 
 
 The historian can state from personal observation that Fairchild 
 is still alive, and that he continues as aforetime in the paper business 
 in the beautiful town of Trumbull, Conn. He is the teacher of a 
 young men's Bible class and deacon of the Congregational church. 
 No written communication has been received from him. 
 
 Again, in 1885, he said further: 
 
 Fairchild holds his own among the paper makers of Connecticut, 
 and promises to supply all customers with a satisfactory article both 
 in quality and weight. At least this is what the historian supposes 
 Fairchild would have said if he had sent him any word. Some of us 
 who belonged to Fairchild's division still retain a lively sense of 
 gratitude to him for helps over hard places in mathematics during 
 freshman and sophomore years. We have had to cross other pontes 
 asinorum since without his help. 
 
104 Class of Sixty 
 
 The present writer has been more fortunate than his prede- 
 cessors, for under date of February 28, 1905, he writes: 
 
 It is evident from yours of the 25th, you expect to be the last lone 
 survivor, for you begin by saying after copying the obituaries, you 
 are " now ready to take the lives of the survivors." When a man 
 gets an open threat like that he naturally takes to the woods. 
 
 Now, as I had the honor of the shortest obituary in the first class 
 history, and as I have never set the world on fire, nor even been put 
 in jail, and have not raised any boys, nor got myself into any more 
 serious trouble than the average man, I don't really feel that I am 
 in dire need of an immediate obituary. 
 
 He lives in the village of Nichols, about six miles out of 
 Bridgeport, where there is excellent authority for saying that 
 he owns considerable property, — a good deal of land, — and 
 that he has made a special study of fruit culture and is con- 
 sidered an expert in this branch. " He is a man of very sound 
 judgment and is consulted on important matters by his towns- 
 people." He has been for the past twenty -six years one of 
 the directors of the First National Bank of Bridgeport, and 
 he has represented his town in the state legislature for two 
 years. Perhaps the political secrets he thus became cogni- 
 zant of at Hartford have confirmed him in a habit of silence 
 well nigh impenetrable. He might take the class into his 
 confidence, however, with the certainty that they would 
 respect the trust reposed in them. Moreover, the fact that 
 he is an expert fruit culturist is one that is calculated to 
 awaken pleasant thoughts in the minds of all his classmates. 
 It seems that he is a devotee of the " simple life," and not 
 altogether after the manner of one of its greatest professed 
 exemplars, who has by some been mistaken as " strenuous." 
 
 He sold out his paper manufacturing business in 1886. 
 
 September 10, 1872, he was married to Antoinette Edwards, 
 of Trumbull, Conn. They have had no children. 
 
 * Edgar Augustus Finney, son of James and Harriet 
 Finney, was born in Norwalk, Conn., March 27, 1836, and 
 died there September 21, 1872, in his thirty -seventh year. 
 
 After graduation he studied law for two years, — during the 
 first year in New York, and then in Norwalk. He was about 
 to be admitted to the bar when he enlisted in the Twenty-first 
 New Jersey Volunteers, in which regiment he was soon after 
 
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 chosen captain. In May, 1863, at the battle of Chancellors- 
 ville, he was taken prisoner, and was confined for two months 
 in Libby Prison. After his return to the North he was 
 engaged for a time in business in New York, but soon retired 
 to his native place, where he died of consumption. 
 
 He was married, March 5, 1867, to Mary, daughter of John 
 Van Cleef, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Their only child, a daughter, 
 died in imancy. 
 
 William Edward Foster, son of Hon. E. H. Foster, was 
 born in New Haven, Conn., June 4, 1839. 
 
 After graduation he studied law, a part of the time in 
 Auburn, N. Y., and afterwards in New Haven, until the 
 spring of 1861, when he was commissioned on the staff of the 
 quartermaster-general of Connecticut, with the rank of 
 captain, which position he resigned in July, 1862, for that of 
 paymaster in the navy, being assigned to the steamship 
 Memphis on blockade duty in the South Atlantic Squadron. 
 Remaining in active service until 1865, he resigned, and 
 returning to New Haven, studied law, and was in the same 
 year admitted to practice. 
 
 In the winter of 1867, he went to Florida and remained 
 there until June, 1868. In November of that year he became 
 editor and part owner of the Lynchburg, Va., Daily Republi- 
 can, and participated in the conduct of that sheet until March, 
 1870, when he went to his present position, that of editor of 
 the Buffalo (N. Y. ) Commercial Advertiser. Griffin, in 
 1885, records him as the author of " about three hundred 
 thousand ringing editorials, salient paragraphs, and such." He 
 completed, on the 9th of March of this year (1905), his thirty- 
 fifth year of service upon the Commercial. On this occasion 
 there was a general acclaim of praise from the newspapers 
 of that city and section of the state for faithful, courteous, 
 and able service. The voice of all is well represented by the 
 Catholic Union and Times: 
 
 We have learned incidentally that on this Thursday Mr. William 
 Edward Foster completes the thirty-fifth year of continuous editorial 
 life on our esteemed neighbor, the Commercial. 
 
 That beats our record on the Union and Times by four years; and 
 we doubt if there be two other editors in this Empire State who have 
 given the same length of uninterrupted service to any one newspaper 
 as the editor-in-chief of the Commercial and ourselves. 
 
106 Class of Sixty 
 
 Mr. Foster is a gentleman of high and varied culture, whose accom- 
 plishments and character have won the regard of this entire commu- 
 nity. We heartily salute him to-day, and wish him very many more 
 years of health and happiness to preside over the paper that his gifted 
 pen has so long adorned. 
 
 He is president of the Yale Alumni Association of Buffalo. 
 
 He married, August 14, 1862, Miss Sarah E., daughter of 
 the Hon. F. J. Betts, of New Haven. They have had three 
 children, one son and two daughters. The son, Frederick 
 Betts Foster, died at the age of fifteen; the oldest daughter 
 died at the age of twenty, in 1890; the youngest daughter is 
 married and has had two children. 
 
 * Charles Dougharty Foules, son of William B. and Matilda 
 Ann (Luse) Foules, and brother of Henry Luse Foules 
 (Yale, 1857 ), was born October 23, 1839, at Kingston, Miss., 
 and died at his home in that city, May 27, 1 901, in the sixty- 
 second year of his age. 
 
 After graduation he studied medicine, but preferred the 
 life of a planter and devoted himself chiefly to that occupa- 
 tion. At the beginning of the Civil War he joined a Mississippi 
 cavalry regiment, and served in Wade Hampton's command 
 in the army of Northern Virginia. He remained in the serv- 
 ice during the whole war, but did not receive even a slight 
 wound, though he took part in many engagements. After 
 the war ended he returned to his plantation and went to 
 raising cotton. He represented his county in the state 
 legislature for a number of years — from 1882 to 1888. He 
 died of heart trouble. 
 
 June 30, 1900, writing to the Secretary, he said: 
 
 I have performed no special deeds of valor, have simply lived the 
 life of a quiet planter, doing unto others as I would have them do unto 
 me. 
 
 He married, November 19, 1868, Martha Eugenia, daughter 
 of Alexander and Weltha Boyd, who survived him with a 
 son and daughter. Mrs. Foules has recently died; their 
 daughter, Mrs. Mattie Foules Bailey, lives in Natchez, Miss. 
 
 * William Fowler, son of Rev. Philemon H. Fowler, D.D., 
 and Jennette (Hopkins) Fowler, was born in Albany, N. Y., 
 
Biographical Record 107 
 
 September 26, 1839, and entered college from Utica. He 
 died in New York City, November 26, 1874, aged thirty -five 
 years. 
 
 He went to the Albany Law School after graduation, where 
 he took the degree of LL.B., in the summer of 1861, and in 
 the autumn entered into partnership with Cady Eaton, for 
 the practice of the law in New York City. In 1862, he was 
 commissioned as lieutenant of the One Hundred and Seventy- 
 third Regiment, New York Infantry, and served with them 
 throughout the siege of Port Hudson and Banks's Louisiana 
 Expedition, and during this period sowing the seeds of the 
 disease of which he finally died. In August, 1863, he was 
 commissioned captain and transferred to the One Hundred 
 and Forty-sixth New York Infantry, and in his capacity as 
 line officer, and afterward as assistant adjutant-general, on 
 the staff of Gen. Charles Griffen, of the Fifth Corps, partici- 
 pated in all the movements of the Army of the Potomac from 
 this date until the surrender of General Lee. He was in every 
 battle of the Virginia Campaign, had two horses shot under 
 him, and was bre vetted major. At the conclusion of the war 
 he was commissioned as captain in the regular army, and, 
 at the request of General Howard, assigned to duty with the 
 Freedmen's Bureau, and placed in charge of the Land and 
 Claim Division. In 1868 he left the army and undertook the 
 business of manufacturing turpentine in Newbern, N. C. 
 Not succeeding in this, he returned to the practice of his 
 profession in Elmira, N. Y., where his diligent efforts were 
 beginning to bring him success, when he was prostrated by a 
 long and painful illness which resulted in his death. 
 
 He was married, October 26, 1871, to Miss Laura A. Went- 
 worth, of Elmira, who survives him. Her address is Dedham, 
 Mass. 
 
 ♦Everett Parker Freeman, son of Horace and Eliza A. 
 (Belknap ) Freeman, was born in Hartford, Conn., in January, 
 1837, and died in Mankato, Minn., November 27, 1895, in 
 his fifty -ninth year. 
 
 After studying law for a year at the Albany Law School, 
 and at home, he went West and settled in Mankato, in 
 southern Minnesota, where he was engaged up to the time 
 of his death in the practice of his profession. He was a 
 
108 Class of Sixty 
 
 successful lawyer and a highly esteemed citizen. He was 
 also largely intrusted with important offices from the time of 
 his settlement in Mankato until his death, having easily won 
 and deserved the public confidence. He served twice in the 
 state senate. Before going West he married, in October, 
 1 86 1, Eliza K., daughter of Rev. Henry Morris, then of Port 
 Jervis, N. Y., and later of Binghamton, N. Y. His wife and 
 three children survive him (1896). 
 
 A GOOD MAN GONE 
 
 Mankato, Minn., November 26. 
 Funeral services over the remains of E. P. Freeman, who died 
 this morning, will be conducted by the Masons to-morrow, with the 
 entire Bar Association of Blue Earth County attending. Deceased 
 was born at Hartford, Conn., fifty-eight years ago, graduated from 
 Yale College in i860, and afterwards studied law at the Albany Law 
 School, and was admitted to practice law in New York. He came to 
 Mankato in December, 1861, and has since then been engaged in the 
 practice of his profession. He was recognized by judges of the state as 
 having one of the brightest and most acute legal minds in the state. 
 Perhaps no man in this part of the state held as many offices of trust 
 as the deceased. During the years 1867 and 1868 Mr. Freeman was 
 county attorney of Blue Earth County. He served two years in the 
 state senate, retiring in 1873, when he was appointed register of the 
 United States land office at Jackson, Minn. Again he was elected 
 to the state senate, this time from the Jackson district, and served 
 during the years 1874 and 1875. At the expiration of his term he 
 resumed the practice of law in Mankato and in 1878 was a second time 
 chosen county attorney, and was again re-elected two years later. 
 After that time he held the office of city attorney for several years. 
 From 1889 to 1893 he held the commission from President Harrison 
 as receiver of the United States land office at Tracy which was later 
 removed to Marshall, Minn., and at the time of his death was president 
 of the Blue Earth County Bar Association. — Special telegram to the 
 Tribune. 
 
 Edward Brown Furbish, son of D. H. Furbish, Esq., was 
 born in Portland, Me., May 21, 1837. After graduation he 
 entered the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass., where 
 he studied for two years. He was then requested to become 
 chaplain of the Twenty -fifth Regiment of Maine Volunteers, 
 and he was ordained to that position in the presence of his 
 regiment, by his pastor, who had baptized him as a child 
 and received him into his church. When the regiment was 
 mustered out of the service in 1863, he entered the seminary 
 at Yale and finished his course of study in 1864. He then 
 
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 accepted a call from the Presbyterian church at New Hartford, 
 N. Y., and labored there from December 1, 1864, to March 10, 
 1872. March 17, 1872, he became pastor of the Presbyterian 
 church at Potsdam, N. Y., and continued in charge there until 
 August, 1879. He then went to the Congregational church 
 at Lockport, N. Y., and remained as pastor there until July, 
 1890. He then began a pastorate in the Presbyterian church 
 at Spencerport, N. Y., which lasted for nearly twelve years. 
 May 8, 1902, he was appointed chaplain of the New York 
 State Soldiers and Sailors' Home, at Bath, where he writes 
 that he is pleasantly at work. 
 
 He married, October 9, 1862, Miss Grace H. Townsend, 
 daughter of Robert Townsend, of New Haven, Conn. They 
 have had six children, three of whom, two sons and one 
 daughter, are now living. 
 
 ♦Edward Linus Gaul, son of John Gaul, Esq., a leading 
 lawyer of Columbia County, N. Y., was born in the city of 
 Hudson, February 24, 1837, and died in that city, April 2, 
 1894, in his fifty-eighth year. 
 
 Gaul entered the class in the spring of Freshman year. He 
 studied law with his father for a few months after graduation, 
 but in the spring of 1861 he enlisted in the United States 
 Navy, where he served until February, 1862, as assistant 
 purser and captain's clerk. In the following autumn he raised 
 a company for the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth New York 
 State Volunteers, of which regiment he was lieutenant- 
 colonel at the time of his discharge, in June, 1864, on account 
 of disability from swamp fever, contracted in Louisiana, from 
 the effects of which he never fully recovered. He then re- 
 sumed his law studies and was admitted to practice in De- 
 cember, 1865. He formed a partnership in Hudson with 
 Cornelius Esselstyn, Esq., but in 1869 he removed to New 
 York and accepted an editorial position upon the New York 
 Times, in connection with the real estate department. On 
 his father's death in 1879, he returned to Hudson to look 
 after the interests of his estate, and that continued to be his 
 residence until his death. He was well known through his 
 prominence in Masonic circles and as an officer of the National 
 Guard of the State of New York. He died after a lcng period 
 of ill health. 
 
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 He was the subject of many eulogies from eminent Masons 
 and other men of prominence, at the time of his death. The 
 following are some extracts: 
 
 He was one of the most affable of men, who always impressed the 
 least consequential of his acquaintances with that affability which 
 never deserted him. He was one of those men who could refuse a 
 request in so graceful a way as to make it seem like a favor. In ap- 
 pearance he was tall and handsome, possessing a fine figure and 
 graceful carriage; in manner always the polished gentleman. 
 
 No one knew him intimately but to love him, and to have known him 
 is to have enjoyed the love of a true man, — one of nature's noblemen. 
 The grandness of his character, the open-hearted generosity of his 
 nature, his innate courtesy, won our esteem. He was a royal com- 
 panion, a warm-hearted and loyal friend. He had a heart overflowing 
 with sympathy and kindness, ready to assist and encourage a friend, 
 and beyond that, the loyalty and courage to stand by him to the last 
 extremity. He possessed sterling qualities which commanded admira- 
 tion and respect. He hated devious and crooked ways, and loved 
 direct and ingenuous dealing in all the affairs of life. He was the 
 charm of the social circle and was welcomed at every feast. I do not 
 think another man can be named with as large a circle of friends, 
 and it is a grand testimony to his character that he held them with 
 hooks of steel. 
 
 He bequeathed his fine Belles-Lettres Library of about one 
 thousand volumes to the university, and also his portrait, 
 a fine oil painting; these were accepted with the promise of 
 devoting an alcove to their reception and use. 
 
 He was never married. His sister, Mrs. George C. Yeisley, 
 of Hudson, N. Y., has an interest in '6o perhaps not even 
 second to that which her brother had. 
 
 * George Walter Giddings, son of Nathaniel Giddings, Jr., 
 was born in Pittston, Pa., July 3, 1832, and died there Janu- 
 ary 12, 1 88 1, in his forty -ninth year. 
 
 Giddings studied theology for three years in the seminary 
 at Princeton, N. J., but after he had graduated his eyes failed 
 him, and in consequence of this, and also on account of his 
 extreme diffidence, he finally abandoned the idea of preaching. 
 He served as a private in the Forty-ninth Pennsylvania 
 Militia during the invasion of the state by the Confederate 
 forces, and subsequently, from September, 1864, until August, 
 1865, in the One Hundred and Ninety -eighth Pennsylvania 
 Volunteers. The following years were spent in teaching, in 
 
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 farming, and in business, his home being for much of the time 
 in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1880, he returned to his native 
 town, where his invalid mother needed his care. In Novem- 
 ber he entered the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad 
 Company, and while thus engaged fell from a trestle, and 
 received an injury on the head which caused his death a 
 week later. He was never married. 
 
 * George Nelson Greene, son of Charles Greene, was born 
 in Warwick, R. I., September 18, 1827, and died at Charles- 
 town, R. I., May 17, 1894, in his sixty -seventh year. 
 
 The first year after graduation, having had some experience 
 as a Baptist preacher before going to college, he spent in 
 occasional preaching, and the second year in teaching at 
 Montville, Conn. In the spring of 1863, he went to Norfolk, 
 Va., as a missionary to the freedmen, and he remained in the 
 South engaged in general missionary labor until the fall of 
 1865. On July 21, 1866, he married Miss Mary F. Saunders, 
 of Westerly, R. I., and in April, 1867, accepted a call to the 
 Central Baptist Church in Tiverton, R. I. Two years later 
 he removed to the Baptist church in Tivoli, N. Y., and thence, 
 in September, 1870, to Rosendale, N. Y. In June, 1871, he 
 returned to New England. After a few years mainly spent 
 in teaching, he attempted to resume the duties of a regular 
 pastorate, in the spring of 1876, in Rhode Island, but poor 
 health obliged him to return speedily to an out-of-door farm 
 life. In October, 1884, he took charge of a church in South 
 Newfane, Vt. From there he went to a church in East Hard- 
 wick, in the same state, whence he removed in 1892 to Charles- 
 town, R. I., on account of ill health. The next year he was 
 able to resume preaching, but soon after died of heart disease. 
 His wife survives him (1895), with three sons and four 
 daughters. 
 
 * George Hermon Griffin, son of Hermon and Louisa G. 
 (Faulkner) Griffin, was born in New York City, May 13, 1839, 
 and died in Springfield, Mass., September 9, 1894, in his 
 fifty-sixth year. 
 
 After a considerable period of foreign travel he entered the 
 Union Theological Seminary, where he finished the course 
 in June, 1864. On June 22, 1865, he was settled as pastor 
 
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 of the Plymouth (Congregational) Church in Milford, Conn., 
 where he made himself greatly beloved. He was dismissed 
 February 18, 1885, to accept an invitation from the American 
 Sunday-School Union to become their secretary for New 
 England. He then removed to Springfield, Mass., and though 
 retiring from the service of the Union in 1892, he continued 
 his residence in that city until his very sudden death there, 
 from cerebral apoplexy. 
 
 In 1875, he was elected to succeed Catlin as Class Historian, 
 and brought out a supplementary record in that year, thirty- 
 two pages. In 1885, he prepared for publication an addi- 
 tional biographical record, sixty-eight pages, and a report 
 of the meeting in 1890, of eight pages. In the latter year he 
 was elected Class Secretary to succeed William L. Bradley, 
 and, at his request, the office of Class Historian, as a separate 
 office, was discontinued. Into his work for the class he put 
 his usual and well-known earnestness and devotion, as well 
 as good judgment and discrimination. In all things faithful. 
 
 He printed a small volume of foreign travel in 1881, and 
 various other publications — especially in the line of his 
 special interest in sacred music. A brief memorial of his life 
 has been issued. 
 
 He married, June 13, 1867, Katharine L., daughter of Samuel 
 A. Hoyt, of Fishkill, N. Y., who survives him (1895), w ith 
 three children. The eldest son graduated at Yale in 1892. 
 
 A classmate wrote of him in the New York Observer, in 
 part: 
 
 He had made his home in Springfield, Mass., when he entered upon 
 his work for the Union, and continued to reside there when his official 
 connection with that organization ceased. But though his official 
 life was over, to be idle was not in his nature. On his first coming 
 to Springfield he had identified himself with Hope Congregational 
 Church, and he at once became one of its most active and efficient 
 workers. He conducted the Congregational Bible class, he led the 
 singing in the prayer-meeting. He co-operated with the then pastor 
 of the church, Rev. David Allen Reed, in the School for Christian 
 Workers, of which the latter was and is president. He was also 
 much interested in the work of the French Protestant College, located 
 in Springfield, and had just undertaken to edit the English depart- 
 ment of the paper published by that college for the benefit of the 
 many Canadian French now living in New England. His salutatory 
 had been already printed and other matter was in readiness. He 
 was for a time president of the Armory Hill branch of the Young Men's 
 
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 Christian Association of Springfield and always active in its work. He 
 was one of the foremost spirits in the Hampden County Musical Asso- 
 ciation which affords the people of Springfield and vicinity so much 
 of culture and of pleasure. He had indeed a ready hand and an open 
 purse for a great many laudable enterprises, those that pertained to 
 public-spirited citizenship as well as those that pertained to religion 
 and morals. His pen often supplemented his other activities. During 
 all his residence in Springfield he was frequently called to fill vacant 
 pulpits, and became endeared to a number of neighboring churches 
 by his acceptable ministrations. 
 
 On Sunday, September 9, he complained of a strange and dizzy 
 feeling in the head, and before his physician could be summoned he 
 was gone. His death was caused by cerebral apoplexy. 
 
 The funeral was held in Hope Church, which was filled with mourn- 
 ing friends, young, old, rich, poor, white, black. The services were 
 conducted by Rev. Ralph Brokaw, the paster. Rev. Oliver A. 
 Kingsbury, a friend from childhood's days, spoke of the beautiful 
 life of the departed. Rev. David A. Reed, the former pastor, offered 
 prayer. A male quartet sang fitting selections, including the hymn 
 already spoken of. It was a bright, beautiful September afternoon, 
 when in a flower-strewn grave in Oak Grove Cemetery, beside the 
 sleeping dust of his two infant children, we laid away all that was 
 mortal of him to gather strength and beauty for the coming of the 
 Lord. 
 
 Mr. Griffin leaves a widow and three children. His oldest son, a 
 graduate of Yale (1892), has recently been admitted to practice at 
 the New York Bar. Two older brothers also survive, Mr. Edward 
 Payson Griffin and Mr. C. Francis Griffin, both of New York City. 
 
 One who has known George Griffin — playmate, schoolmate, 
 college chum, seminary classmate, received into the communion of 
 the church and licensed to preach the gospel at the same time with 
 him, an intimate friend throughout all the years — bears cordial 
 testimony to the purity, simplicity, beauty, and value of his life. It 
 was a genuinely Christian life, exceptionally happy as human lives 
 go, even if not without its shadows. It was a life which helped one's 
 faith in Christ and his religion. It was a life which put sunshine into 
 many other lives and never brought a shadow into any. His going 
 leaves a great void, and not least in the heart of him who lays this 
 tribute of affection on the grave of his departed friend. 
 
 David Lewis Haight, son of Richard R. and Sarah R. Haight, 
 was born in New York City, September 27, 1839. 
 
 There is little that the present writer can do for this subject, 
 except to copy and summarize our previous records, and this 
 is being done reluctantly as such an all around good fellow 
 has, no doubt, an interesting life story to tell his classmates if 
 it could be extracted from him, but he has been tried by 
 
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 ingenious devices and by all peaceable means, but with 
 limited or no results. So much as this, Haight once con- 
 fessed : That the present commodious and elegant housing of 
 the University Club in New York was due to his initiative, 
 and to his persistent push and courage in silencing objections 
 and overcoming obstacles. It is a monument in which any 
 one may take exultant pride. 
 
 To go back a little: He entered college with the class, was 
 a faithful attendant for the four years, and, after graduation, 
 began the study of medicine at the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons in New York, and while still a student served with 
 the Sanitary Commission. In the fall of 1863, he was ap- 
 pointed acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, and 
 was ordered to the Douglass General Hospital, in Washington, 
 where he remained until the close of the war. He then went 
 to Europe and remained there until the fall of 1869, studying 
 his profession in all the best institutions of the chief capitals, 
 with occasional pleasure trips to points of greatest interest. 
 When he returned to New York, he opened an office for the 
 practice of his profession, and also served as one of the 
 physicians to the New York Dispensary. Although a usual 
 attendant on class meetings, he was unable to be with us at 
 the last one. But he reported, by letter, that he was in good 
 health, and doing very well in the real estate business. He 
 sent his affectionate greeting to his classmates, and his regrets 
 at not being able to be at the reunion. 
 
 William Henry Hale, Ph.D., was born at Albany, N. Y., 
 August 20, 1840; son of Silvester and Nancy Arzelia (Eames ) 
 Hale; grandson of William Hale, of Dal ton, Mass., a Revolu- 
 tionary soldier, who owned and occupied the estate at Dalton 
 which is now the home of Senator W. Murray Crane; and 
 a great-grandson of Dr. Elizur Hale, of Glastonbury, Conn. 
 (Yale, 1742 ), who was born on the estate which had been in 
 the family since the seventeenth century, and still remains 
 in a collateral branch as the famous Hale peach orchard. On 
 his mother's side he is a great-grandson of Gideon Deming, 
 of Hartford, Conn., and later of Washington, Berkshire 
 County, Mass. ; also a soldier of the Revolution. 
 
 After completing his professional and postgraduate course 
 in 1863, he engaged in financial and commercial business for a 
 
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 number of years, in Albany, N. Y., Chicago, and elsewhere; 
 but finally settled down to the practice of the law, having 
 been admitted to the bar at Albany, in 1861, and practiced 
 at Albany till 1888, when he removed to Brooklyn and has 
 continued in practice ever since. 
 
 Has for many years made a specialty of attending and 
 writing up reports of scientific meetings for the press, having 
 from time to time corresponded with many of the leading 
 news and professional papers. Was for many years the 
 American correspondent of Nature, England. Edited the 
 science department of the Bachelor of Arts, a magazine pub- 
 lished for a while at New York. Is one of the original fellows 
 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 
 
 (1874). 
 
 February 25, 1892, he was married to Miss Louisa G., 
 daughter of John and Louisa Washington. 
 
 * Henry Lewis Hall, son of John and Betsey (Davis ) Hall, 
 was born in Guilford, Conn., November 26, 1835, an d died 
 at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., November 6, 1869, aged thirty -four 
 years. 
 
 He studied in Yale Theological Seminary until October 30, 
 1 86 1, when he was ordained chaplain of the Tenth Regiment 
 of Connecticut Volunteers. In August, 1862, he returned 
 home and then went to Europe, where he studied for three 
 years at Halle. He was installed over the Congregational 
 church at Auburn, Me., January 23, 1868, but resigned his 
 charge in less than a year on account of failing health, though 
 he was not formally dismissed until March 21, 1869. His 
 remaining days were spent in seeking recovery of health, but 
 an acute attack of his malady, Bright 's disease, caused his 
 death. 
 
 He was married, January 17, 1868, to Laura Hale Stickney, 
 daughter of J. N. Stickney, of Rockville, Conn. They 
 had one child, a daughter. 
 
 Classmate Griffin wrote of him: 
 
 He was uncommonly gifted in mind; a thorough student, a clear 
 thinker, and a terse writer; yet while ranking among the first scholars 
 of the class, he was always modest and unassuming. Of a warm 
 heart, kindly sympathy, and genial temperament, his was one of those 
 transparent natures which answer to the full idea contained in the 
 Latin derivatives of the word sincere. 
 
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 * Henry Elmer Hart, son of Ruel and Rosanna (Barnes ) 
 Hart, died of pneumonia at West Hartford, Conn., September 
 9, 1905. He was born at Southington, Conn., June 1, 1834. 
 He fitted for college by private study and in the academy of 
 his native town. He entered college in the fall of 1855, but 
 owing to ill health, entered as Freshman again a year later. 
 This second time of entering, instead of being penniless, as 
 he was the year before, he had forty dollars in his pocket. 
 He secured the privilege of ringing the college bell during his 
 Senior year. After graduating from college he studied the- 
 ology at the seminary at East Windsor Hill, Conn., whence he 
 graduated in June, 1863. His pastorates have all been in his 
 native state, as follows: Bridgewater, three years; East 
 Hampton, from September 19, 1866, to November, 1871; 
 Durham, November, 1871, to June, 1875; Wapping, June, 
 1875, to June, 1878; Hadlyme, June, 1878, to May, 1881; 
 Franklin, June, i88i,to May, 1900. In June, 1900, he moved 
 to West Hartford, where he became the beloved pastor 
 emeritus of all the people, spending his time in visiting the 
 sick and comforting the afflicted. He was rich only in the 
 blessings and gratitude of those he was able to help in many 
 ways. 
 
 Writing to the Secretary, March, 1905, he said: 
 
 In reviewing my life I find little occasion for praise or ground for 
 censure. I have tried to improve my opportunities, and I have done 
 some good. Were I at the entrance of life, I would choose the ministry 
 with all its poverty and disadvantages, and live it through again as 
 best I could. 
 
 He married Miss Josephine G. Perry, of New Britain, Conn., 
 October 6, 1864. They had three children, who, with the 
 wife, survive him. The children are: William E. Hart, New 
 Britain; Mrs. A. D. Lamb, Franklin, and Miss Elizabeth E. 
 Hart, West Hartford. 
 
 * Henry Eugene Hawley, son of Irad and Sarah (Holmes ) 
 Hawley, was born in New York City, June 24, 1838, and died 
 in his native city, February 10, 1899, in his sixty-first year. 
 
 He spent the greater part of the first three years after 
 graduation in mercantile business abroad, the first year in 
 Nassau and Havana. In December, 1864, he settled to a 
 business life in New York City. For a long time he was 
 
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 engaged in the tea importing and jobbing business, and more 
 recently was at the head of the Standard Asphalt Company. 
 February 12, 1862, he married Elizabeth T., eldest child 
 of William S. Lockwood, of Norwalk, Conn. His children 
 were four daughters, the eldest of whom died in infancy. 
 
 * Daniel Hebard, son of Hon. Learned Hebard, was born in 
 Lebanon, Conn., September 3, 1836. For a short time after 
 graduation he was in charge of the library of the American 
 Geographical Society in New York. After a brief service 
 there he became an instructor in the Ohio Deaf and Dumb 
 Asylum, at Columbus, a position which he retained until 
 December 18, 1861, when he was appointed assistant adjutant- 
 general of volunteers and attached to the staff of General 
 Gorman. He acted a brave part in the battles of the Penin- 
 sula and before Richmond. But his incessant services 
 seriously impaired his strength and he was sent home to 
 recover his health. The disease, however, terminated 
 fatally soon after he reached New York. He died in the 
 New England rooms of that city, August 7, 1862, aged twenty- 
 six years. 
 
 Champion said of him: 
 
 Hebard's practical talents were always prominent. I saw this in 
 a variety of circumstances; nowhere was it more manifest than in 
 the Brothers' Library. He seemed born a librarian, and was one of 
 the prime movers in changing the library system. At Columbus 
 he made his mark. When his knowledge was to be applied to practice 
 — when he was to teach others — he at once took the lead. He 
 mastered the manual in an incredibly short period. 
 
 He had a very sympathetic and emotional nature. His religious 
 feelings were at times very strong; but in no way did his soul leap out 
 more than in what I call " righteous indignation." His sense of jus- 
 tice as well as of honor was very keen. When others would simply 
 express strong disappointment, he would bring out all his artillery 
 and fire no blank cartridges. 
 
 General Gorman said that Hebard was the most exemplary man and 
 the best officer of his class in the division. He had been promoted, 
 but died before the order was published. He entered the army from 
 the purest patriotism, determined to sacrifice everything for his 
 country; his life as a Christian was no less bright than as a patriot. 
 " Death," he said in a letter home, " has few terrors for me. I have 
 learned to trust all upon Him who died that I might live," and his 
 whole correspondence shows the same earnest devotion. 
 
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 Lucius Hopkins Higgins, son of Timothy and Jennette 
 Carter Higgins, was born in Southington, Conn., July 4, 1832. 
 
 He fitted for college at Monson (Mass.) Academy, and 
 passed the first term of Freshman year at Amherst, before 
 coming to Yale. After graduation he studied theology one 
 year at New Haven and the two following years at the Andover 
 Seminary, graduating in 1863. He then spent two years in 
 study and local preaching. In October, 1865, he removed, 
 with his family, to Chicago, and the succeeding March he 
 went to Lanark, 111., a flourishing town one hundred and forty 
 miles farther west. In June, he was ordained and installed 
 as pastor of the Congregational church. During this pas- 
 torate of nearly nine years, he had some of the most pleasant 
 experiences of his life. 
 
 On account of impaired health, he returned to New Haven, 
 with his family, in September, 1874, and the next March he 
 became the pastor of the Congregational church at Hunting- 
 ton, Conn. He continued here till October, 1881, when his 
 field of labor was changed to Mount Carmel, Conn., and the 
 Congregational church at that place became his charge. 
 Here nearly seven years were spent, it being, with one excep- 
 tion, the longest period covered by any pastor in that church. 
 A unanimous call to the church at Hanover, Conn., together 
 with physical reasons, led to his making a change to that 
 point where he ministered to a thoughtful and appreciative 
 people for twelve years, closing his labors in December, 1900. 
 This period marked the end of active service in the ministry. 
 Moving, with his family, to West Hartford, he found a most 
 pleasant home with congenial surroundings, with children 
 and grandchildren within a few minutes' walk. He still 
 preaches as often as opportunity offers, passing his spare time 
 in his garden and in other rural occupations, quietly enjoying 
 the sun-setting period of life. He extends the most cordial 
 invitation to the boys of '6o, their sons and daughters, to 
 partake of his hospitality. Looking back over a busy life he 
 writes that he can say with another: " Hitherto hath the 
 Lord helped me." 
 
 He married, September 3, 1863, Miss Louise Young Blakes- 
 lee, of New Haven. They had seven children: Edwin Aure- 
 lius, born June 27, 1864; Jennette Carter, November 21, 1867; 
 Henry Dewitte, September 5. 1870; Mary Edwards, Septem- 
 
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 ber 10, 1872; Gould Shelton, July 2, 1875; David Winne, 
 February 28, 1878, and Homer Blakeslee, July 28, 1882. 
 The latter died in May, 1884. Three sons and two daughters 
 are married, and they have five children. 
 
 Edward Goodman Holden, son of A. P. and M. J. Holden, 
 was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 24, 1839. 
 
 After graduation he took up newspaper and literary work 
 as his vocation for life. He writes : 
 
 I can hardly remember when I was not interested in newspapers. 
 I learned most of the alphabet from their titles and their modest 
 headlines of more than half a century ago. I early got acquainted 
 with the mystery of typesetting and the primitive hand -printing of 
 those times. I think I looked upon an editor with as much awe as 
 upon a clergyman, which was then heterodox. I was always an 
 assiduous newspaper reader and when I was thirteen years old I was 
 a subscriber to the New York Daily Tribune, and from then on was 
 a devourer of newspapers — advertisements and all. I occasionally 
 issued a single copy of my own, printed with pen and ink. So I never 
 had much doubt what I should become after leaving college, where 
 I deemed my election as an editor of the ''Lit." as big an honor as 
 any I was likely to obtain. 
 
 Daniel C. Gilman gave me a letter of introduction to Charles A. Dana, 
 then managing editor of the Tribune. He offered me some good 
 advice, or at any rate, advice, but no position. Perhaps he shared 
 Greeley's alleged prejudice against college graduates. About a 
 month before Sumter was fired on, I heard of a vacancy on the Hart- 
 ford Courant. The duties mainly were to copy and condense the 
 telegraphic dispatches, and to write editorial articles when the editor 
 was absent or didn't feel like it, which proved to be most of the time. 
 After the war broke out, the dispatches generally came until three 
 or four o'clock in the morning. As I was a poor daylight sleeper, I 
 had on that account to secure a more congenial place both for work 
 and hours on the Hartford Post, of which I subsequently had charge, 
 until the establishment of the Detroit Post with Carl Schurz as editor- 
 in-chief. My year's acquaintance with as intelligent, kind, and genial 
 a man as I ever knew, has always been a pleasant episode in my life. 
 He went elsewhere, but I lived in Detroit for nearly thirty years, 
 engaged in newspaper work, and two years in Cleveland. At this 
 time, my health being broken, I had to give up routine work, but 
 subsequently pursued my occupation for ten years in Chicago and 
 New York, independently of any direct connection. 
 
 Newspaper work, except on its commercial or publishing side, never 
 yields more than a comfortable living, and even then is, like office- 
 holding, subject a good deal to caprice and influences independent 
 of the quality of the work. For the most of my life it yielded me a 
 comfortable living in the commercial sense and always an agreeable 
 
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 one socially and intellectually. With my training and predilections 
 I doubt if I could have done any better in any other pursuit. I do 
 not think the college training at Yale half a century or more ago was 
 especially adapted to newspaper work, the chief occupations recog- 
 nized by the courses of study being theology, law, and teaching. 
 
 Married, June 20, 1874, to Jean M. Stansbury, of Danville, 
 111. 
 
 Children: (1 ) James Stansbury, born June 12, 1875; 
 graduate of Detroit High School; two years student at Michi- 
 gan Agricultural College; graduate of Detroit Law School. 
 Successful operator and dealer in Detroit real estate. 
 
 (2) Euphemia Goodman, born September 8, 1877; gradu- 
 ate Detroit High School; two years at the University of 
 Michigan; achieved some reputation as writer for the periodi- 
 cal press. 
 
 Ephraim Lindsley Holmes, son of John A. Holmes, Esq., 
 was born in Delaware County, N. Y., February 27, 1830. 
 
 He fitted for college at the Delaware Literary Institute, 
 Franklin, N. Y., where he was the valedictorian of his class, 
 and entered college the first term of Junior year. After 
 graduating from college he was married and went to farming 
 and into the lumber business, besides engaging in a mercantile 
 business at Downsville, N. Y., and at the same time began 
 to read law in the office of Johnson & Wagner, doing the most 
 of his law reading at night and on stormy days. During his 
 term as law student he had a large practice in trying cases 
 in justices' courts. After admission to the bar he was a 
 justice of the peace for twelve years, supervisor of his town, 
 besides holding various other offices of local importance. 
 While good health lasted he had a very large and lucrative 
 practice in his own and a neighboring county. After a time, 
 through failure of his hearing, he had to give up practice in 
 the courts. His health is much better now (1905) than it 
 was a few years ago, although he does not expect ever again 
 to be able to undertake and carry on the difficult and laborious 
 tasks of former days. 
 
 His early life was one of struggles and sacrifices to enable 
 him to compass a college and professional education. He 
 won success, surmounting difficulties and obstacles that 
 would have daunted a less determined spirit. 
 
 He married, September 19, i860, Miss Emmeline Dann, of 
 
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 Colchester, N. Y. They had six children, four boys and two 
 girls. The youngest boy and the two girls are still living. 
 
 His oldest son, our Class Boy, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who 
 took the silver cup, died September 19, 1894. His death, 
 which was quite sudden, was caused by pulmonary trouble. 
 He had received a good academic education, but owing to 
 his father's business difficulties and losses he was unable to 
 go to Yale. He had already made a fine start in a business 
 life at Binghamton, N. Y., at the time of his decease. 
 
 *John Howard, son of Davis and Martha Howard, was born 
 in Boston, Mass., February 22, 1838. He entered college 
 the first term of Freshman year, from West Bridgewater, Mass. 
 After graduation he engaged in teaching music at Bath, Me., 
 and afterward at Woodstock, Vt. For about six months he 
 served in the Twelfth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. 
 During the years 1867-69 he spent most of the time studying 
 music in Germany. It was during that period, May, 1867, 
 that he married Miss Annie Heawood, at Leipsic. They had 
 one child, a daughter, Annie Curtis, born in February, 1868, 
 and died the September following. On his return to this 
 country, Howard resided for some time at Kansas City, Mo., 
 and later at Fort Wayne, Ind. After a time he returned to 
 Boston, his native city, where he gave lessons in artistic sing- 
 ing according to the Howard Voice Method. Later he 
 removed to New York, where he still pursued his musical 
 studies and lessons. He was a scholar in the whole literature 
 of his profession, including Latin, Italian, German, French, 
 and English authors. He was also skilled in the study and 
 dissection of all the vocal organs, devoting much time to this 
 branch under the direction of eminent specialists. 
 
 In 1 88 1 he published a pamphlet of sixty-four pages upon 
 " Respiratory Control," and in 1885, a book of three hundred 
 pages upon the " Physiology of Artistic Singing." Just 
 before his death he had completed for publication a new 
 work on music. 
 
 The last twenty years or so of his life were spent in New 
 York City in pursuit of his favorite profession. October 3, 
 1904, in crossing Broadway to visit acquaintances in West 
 Sixtieth Street, he was run down by a truck, receiving a com- 
 pound fracture of the skull, from which he died an hour later 
 in the accident ward of the Roosevelt Hospital. 
 
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 His first wife died in February, 1868. He married Mrs. 
 Helen Graham, at Fort Wayne, Ind., September 16, 1872. 
 In 1880, he married Miss Cicily C. Carbaniss, of Williamson 
 County, Texas, who died in 1889, leaving three daughters 
 and a son, who survive him. 
 
 * Theodore Lewis Buffett Howe was born in Lenox, N. Y., 
 June 15, 1839. He was the son of Rev. Samuel Howe (Yale 
 College, 1827). 
 
 Howe taught school in Madison, Conn., for a short time 
 after graduation, but ill health compelled him to give up the 
 work. In January, 1861, he had a hemorrhage of the lungs, 
 from which he never recovered. It was his hope and inten- 
 tion to become a foreign missionary, and to this end he pur- 
 sued, as far as his health permitted, the study of both theology 
 and medicine. November 7, 1863, he had a sudden hemor- 
 rhage of the lungs which terminated fatally. His age was 
 twenty-four years. 
 
 * Thomas Gordon Hunt, son of John and Sarah (Gordon ) 
 Hunt, was born in New Bedford, Mass., July 29, 1838, and 
 died of heart failure in Washington, D. C, November 2, 1891, 
 in his fifty-fourth year. 
 
 He remained at home for two years after graduation, in 
 business with his father. He married Annie G., daughter 
 of the Hon. Jonathan Bourne, of New Bedford, December 29, 
 1862, and after an extended tour abroad he returned to a 
 business life in his native city. Within two or three years 
 he removed to New York, where he continued in a commission 
 business in oil for many years. 
 
 His wife survived him, with their only daughter. His 
 daughter, Mrs. A. Kirtland Michler, is living at Greenwich, 
 Conn. His widow died in Washington, December 29, 1897. 
 
 A classmate wrote concerning him at the time of his death : 
 
 He was throughout the entire course the popular man of his class. 
 His integrity and nice sense of honor, his scholarship, ripening naturally 
 from congenial study, and little quickened by strife for rank, and the 
 charm of his companionship brought to him the respect, confidence, 
 and affection of both the students and professors of the college. 
 
 It may be of interest to his friends, who in his mature years knew him 
 only as a man of affairs, to learn that in the rare art of turning the 
 Greek and Latin poets into elegant English, he had few, if any, superiors 
 among his classmates. 
 
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 But better than scholarship or grace of manner were the ingenu- 
 ousness of character and cheery kindliness by which he was very 
 helpful, unconsciously, no doubt, to the better purposes of college 
 life. 
 
 * William Henry Hurlbut, son of H. A. Hurlbut, Esq., was 
 born in New York City, June 17, 1840, and died at St. Augus- 
 tine, Fla., February 18, 1905, in his sixty-fifth year. 
 
 After graduation he went into business in his native city, 
 and carried it on until 1892. Afterward, while his father was 
 still living, he was engaged with him in looking after private in- 
 terests, which were of no small magnitude. During the Civil 
 War he went twice with his regiment, the famous Seventh New 
 York, to the defense of Washington. He served for some 
 time as a member of the New York City Board of Education, 
 and was actively identified with all measures proposed for the 
 improvement of the schools, and for the maintenance and 
 extension of their opportunities. Owing to ill health, he lived 
 a retired life, for some years before his death, which came 
 quite suddenly through an attack of pneumonia. Classmates 
 will always remember him as he appeared as their leader and 
 secretary at their reunion in 1895 — the same jolly fellow 
 they had parted with on the campus under the old elms, 
 thirty-five years before. 
 
 He married, December 2, 1863, Miss Margaret H. Crane, 
 of New York City, who, with two daughters, survives him. 
 
 Mrs. Hurlbut has given, June, 1905, ten thousand dollars 
 to the Yale Infirmary as a memorial of her husband. A 
 room with special reference to the needs of poorer students is 
 provided for, and it is to be known by his name. 
 
 Henry Larned Johnson, son of Henry L. Johnson, Esq., and 
 Almira D. (Browning) Johnson, was born in Jewett City, 
 Conn., July 11, 1837. 
 
 He entered college with the class, having been prepared 
 at the academy at Thetford, Vt. After graduation he studied 
 law for a year in Hartford, Conn. In the fall of 1861, he 
 volunteered and was made commissary of the Fifth Connecti- 
 cut Volunteers. Afterwards he was assigned to signal duty 
 on the Potomac, and in the fall of 1862, was appointed aide- 
 de-camp on the staff of General Terry, serving with him in 
 that capacity at Suffolk, Va., Newbern, Port Royal, and 
 
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 before Charleston. In 1863 he was appointed assistant 
 adjutant-general by President Lincoln, and was assigned to 
 duty as judge advocate of a military commission at Harris- 
 burg, Pa. Later he was ordered to join the army operating 
 before Petersburg and Richmond, and was assigned to duty 
 upon the staff of General Birney. Afterwards he rejoined 
 General Terry, and after the fall of Richmond resigned his 
 commission and returned to his home in Connecticut. 
 
 In 1866 he became connected with a firm of manufacturers 
 of paper hangings, and a short time later he engaged with 
 Brayton Ives (Yale, 1861) in gold mining ventures in Nova 
 Scotia. In 1868 he and Ives began business as bankers and 
 brokers in Wall Street, where uninterrupted success has 
 attended him, and in the opinion of his classmates never was 
 prosperity better deserved. 
 
 In April, 1902, he transferred his seat in the Stock Exchange 
 to his son Leeds (Yale, 1898) and he has since been in the 
 quiet enjoyment of life, getting much pleasure out of it in 
 many ways. Camping in the Adirondacks in the summer 
 and yachting are his favorite amusements. He is a member 
 of the Union League Club, and of the Atlantic Yacht Club. 
 
 He married Miss Carrie D. Howe, of New York City, 
 December 3, 1868. She died May 16, 1870. 
 
 June 3, 1873, he married Miss Carrie D. Leeds, of St at en 
 Island. 
 
 * William Curtis Johnston was born July 11, 1839, at Trebi- 
 zond, Asia Minor. He was the son of Rev. Thomas P. 
 Johnston, then missionary of the American Board in Turkey. 
 Subsequently he lived in Smyrna, and in 1853 he came to the 
 United States and fitted for college at Salem, Mass. 
 
 After graduation he studied for the ministry in the Presby- 
 terian Theological Seminary at Danville, Ky., and after two 
 years was licensed to preach. In the summer of 1862 he 
 was engaged in preaching and teaching in Greensburg, Ky. 
 In the following September he was ordained and commissioned 
 as a chaplain in the Thirteenth United States Kentucky 
 Volunteers. This regiment was stationed at Mumfordsville, 
 Ky., and while there he was seized with pneumonia and died, 
 December 3, 1862, aged twenty-four years. 
 
 At our Triennial, Daniels said of him: 
 
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 As a writer, speaker, and debater, he stood in the very front of 
 our class. Debate and extempore speaking were his forte, and his 
 happiest intellectual efforts were at those times when he was throwing 
 his whole mind and soul into some grand theme upon the stage. Of 
 native eloquence, the rarest of nature's gifts, he had no mean share. 
 
 But in his social, frank, transparent, and confiding traits, in a 
 word, all that made him attractive as a friend, was his greatest natural 
 power. He made friends everywhere. There was a spontaneousness 
 about his friendship that led every one to see that it was genuine. 
 Kind words and gentle deeds were as natural to him as blossom and 
 fragrance to a flower. Johnston was never proud. He did not wear 
 his honors as laurels, but laid them at the feet of the Master, happy 
 to wear the Christian graces as his unfading crown. His best eulogy 
 is that he was a sincere and humble Christian. 
 
 Luther Maynard Jones, son of Levi Jones, Esq., was born in 
 Marlboro, N. H., April 21, 1837. 
 
 He was prepared for college at Williston Seminary and 
 entered with the class. After graduation he spent the first six 
 months in New York as secretary of the American Geographi- 
 cal and Statistical Society. He returned to New Haven in 
 February, 1861, and remained there until the following Sep- 
 tember, when he entered the Columbia College Law School. 
 The following May he served in the hospitals, caring for sick 
 and wounded soldiers. The latter part of April he went to 
 Keene, N. H., and resumed the study of law. He received 
 the degree of LL.B. from Columbia in 1865, and of M.A. in 
 1868. 
 
 None of our class records, later than the Decennial, give 
 any additional information about his career. That he went 
 to Europe and was occasionally seen in London, Paris, and 
 at other points, by classmates and other college acquaintances, 
 is matter of common knowledge. It is now many years since 
 he has been met by any of his former friends. If living, he 
 makes no sign; if dead, his resting place, with time, place, 
 and circumstance of his demise, are unknown to those having 
 the greatest interest in these facts. 
 
 A classmate writes of him: 
 
 We all remember his brilliant and promising career while he was 
 our classmate in college. Many considered him to be by far the ablest 
 man in the Class of '60. It is certain that no member of his class excelled 
 him in versatility of talent. During his college course he won several of 
 the highest prizes. Early in his Sophomore year he wrested the Yale 
 Literary Medal from competition in the Junior and Senior classes, 
 
126 Class of Sixty 
 
 and no one who heard his speech given at the Freshman Prize Debate 
 in the Brothers in Unity, which at once made him a marked man in 
 the college circle, or his De Forest prize oration, pronounced just 
 before his graduation, will forget either one of his efforts. During 
 his collegiate course also he did that which was better than any bril- 
 liant exhibition of ability by exerting the strong and steady influence 
 which grew out of his religious character. For four years he was 
 mentally and morally a great power in the Yale community, beloved 
 even more for his unaffected goodness than for his great ability. 
 
 Up to the date of graduation, the college discipline had held Jones 
 to something like a uniform course, but when he entered the outside 
 world, his many aptitudes began to confuse him. His ability to walk 
 in so many paths became his greatest misfortune, and he was excelled 
 by classmates of far less ability who could say: " This one thing I do.'! 
 
 He lost his main chance for a successful career in this country. 
 His conduct in middle life became more and more unworthy of his 
 early promise, and he finally disappeared from view altogether. For 
 a long time Yale alumni who visited the European capitals reported 
 their having met Jones personally or their having seen persons upon 
 whom he had called. But as no rumors concerning him have reached 
 this country for more than ten years, the inference that he is no longer 
 alive becomes very strong. Let us forget the errors of Luther Jones's 
 later years, and remember him as we knew him in the brilliant promise 
 of his college days. Had his almost unlimited ability been matched 
 by a corresponding strength of character and purpose, he might, in 
 our opinion, have made one of the foremost men of his generation. 
 The high expectation to which he gave rise was not fulfilled on this 
 earth, but he was for many years certainly a man of strong religious 
 character, and we trust that the next life upon which he has probably 
 entered may afford him the grand new chance to begin again. The 
 Creator has made " nothing in vain," and it is against all reason to 
 believe that He will permit the splendid powers with which He endowed 
 our classmate to come to a total loss. — W. E. P., January, 1906. 
 
 * Sidmon Thome Keese, son of Peter and Melinda A. Keese, 
 was born in Keeseville, N. Y., May 16, 1840, and died, at 
 Peru, N. Y., April 3 1880, aged forty years. 
 
 Keese entered our class during the first term of Freshman 
 year, and after graduation studied law in the Columbia 
 College Law School, graduating in 1862. He took the first 
 prize there during his course and was chosen orator for the 
 alumni at the Commencement in 1863. During the summer 
 of 1864, he was in the service of the sanitary commission in 
 Virginia. He practiced his profession in New York City until 
 187 1, when he was appointed by the legislature of New Jersey 
 justice of the first district police court of Jersey City, the 
 place of his residence. He held this office until 1877, when 
 
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 he resumed practice in Jersey City. A year or two later he 
 had a severe attack of rheumatism which induced dropsy. 
 He went to Peru, N. Y., near his old home, for his health, but 
 died there. 
 
 Keese had abilities of a high order, far greater than was 
 generally known to his classmates. He was a great lover of 
 books — a great reader and student of books of the best class, 
 whether in history, politics, poetry, biography, or fiction. 
 He both absorbed and assimilated what he read, and in the 
 privacy of his own room, with a fellow student, would give 
 a comprehensive, lucid, and illuminating view or review of the 
 subject to which he had given his attention. His textbooks 
 and the daily grind of the class room had small interest for 
 him, bored him, in fact, so that his rank as a student was just 
 high enough to keep him from being dropped out of the 
 class. But with all his solid attainments outside the regular 
 course, he seemed to lack that " spur to prick the sides of his 
 intent," and give him a standing in the class and college that 
 he was well able to win and to hold. Perhaps the curriculum 
 of this day is better adapted to a man of his cast of mind. 
 Perhaps life had been made too easy for him in his early 
 days. He had the ability and the culture to have enabled 
 him to take high rank in college and in the world. 
 
 He was married, February 14, 1865, to Miss Mary E. 
 Andrews, of New Haven, Conn., who survives him, with one 
 son, who bears the name of Sidmon. 
 
 Winfield Scott Keyes, son of Gen. E. D. and Caroline M. 
 (Clarke) Keyes, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 17, 
 
 1839. 
 
 For a short period after graduation he engaged in business 
 in New York. In the fall of 1861, he went to Saxony and 
 studied mining for three years at the Mining School at Frei- 
 burg. Upon his return home he went to the Pacific coast and 
 engaged in mining in California and Nevada. In November, 
 1870, he was elected to the office of state mineralogist of 
 Nevada. At this period of his career he wrote several valua- 
 ble official papers, such as articles on the mineral resources of 
 California, reports on Montana to mineral commissioner, 
 etc. 
 
 He has acted as mining engineer and expert in all the mining 
 
128 Class of Sixty 
 
 states of the West, and also in Mexico. He has published 
 several monographs on mining and metallurgy, Eureka lode, 
 and Leadville ore formation. At the Centennial Exhibition 
 at Philadelphia he was one of the judges, and was commis- 
 sioner for Nevada at the Paris Exhibition in 1878. Under 
 date of May 25, 1905, he writes: 
 
 I am in the very best of health and spirits, — absolutely sound in 
 mind, body, and estate. I am "up to my eyes " in business. Am 
 opening up two big mines [in Mexico] and getting ready to dam (not 
 damn) for hydraulic and electric works. I am vice-president of a 
 big bank here [San Francisco], and director of another up country. 
 I was offered and refused the presidency of one bank. Last summer 
 at the St. Louis Exposition I received " Grand Prize " for my exhibit 
 of ' ' dry ' ' wines - 1 — an unexpected success, as there were only three 
 prizes for the different California wines exhibited. I have reached 
 the top rung of the wine ladder and I have long ago reached that 
 elevation as a mining engineer. So I may fairly consider myself a 
 success as, first, an engineer; second, as a financier; third, as a viti- 
 culturist; and, fourth, as a money maker. 
 
 Oliver Addison Kingsbury, son of Oliver Richmond and 
 Susan (Patterson) Kingsbury, was born in New York City, 
 August 20, 1839. He was prepared for college at " The 
 Collegiate School " in his native city, and entered college with 
 his class. For a while after graduation he engaged in teach- 
 ing, but in September, 1861, he entered Union Theological 
 Seminary in New York and graduated June 8, 1864. 
 
 In the spring of 1865, he took charge of the Congregational 
 church at Middle Haddam, Conn. In the autumn of 1866, 
 he accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian 
 Church of Joliet , 111. , then recently organized, and was ordained 
 and installed by the Presbytery of Chicago, December 11, 
 1866. A substantial stone house of worship was built during 
 this pastorate. In March, 1869, he resigned this charge and 
 returned East. After supplying various pulpits for a time, 
 he was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church 
 at Wappingers Falls, N. Y., and continued there from 
 February, 1870, to November, 1873. An attractive church 
 edifice was erected during this time. 
 
 In the early summer of 1873, he began editorial work in 
 connection with the American Tract Society, in New York 
 City. His work was upon The Illustrated Christian Weekly, 
 The American Messenger, and The Child's Paper. In addition 
 
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 to editorial duties he served as pastor of the Union Evangelical 
 Church at Corona, L. I., from July, 1874, to June, 1877. In 
 October, 1878, he removed his residence to Jersey City and 
 remained there until May, 1889, supplying pulpits here and 
 there in addition to editorial work. From the summer of 
 1887 to February, 1889, he was editor-in-chief of The Illus- 
 trated Christian Weekly. After this for two years he was 
 occupied in supplying pulpits and writing. He entered upon 
 the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at New Hartford, 
 N. Y., April 1, 1 89 1, which is the oldest church of that region, 
 and where Furbish formerly preached, and there he still abides. 
 For eleven years he was the permanent clerk of the Presbytery 
 of Jersey City, and he is the stated clerk of the Presbytery of 
 Utica. He has been four times a commissioner to the General 
 Assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States of 
 America. 
 
 Besides contributing many articles to religious periodicals, 
 he has written several books and booklets: " The Freed- 
 man's Home," " Hints for Living," " Alfred Warriner," 
 " Burdens," " Holiness," and " The Spiritual Life." 
 
 He was married, May 11, 1865, to Sarah Cecilia Stevenson, 
 of New York City. They have had four children, two sons 
 and two daughters; one son died in infancy. There are five 
 grandchildren. 
 
 William Ingraham Kip, son of Right Rev. William Ingra- 
 ham Kip, Bishop of California, was born in Albany, N. Y., 
 in January, 1840. 
 
 Soon after graduating he went to Europe, traveled there 
 for a while and then returned to California and began the 
 study of law. Shortly after he was appointed secretary of 
 the United States Legation to Japan and he remained in that 
 country during the year 1862. Most of the following year he 
 passed in China and in East India, and then nearly two years 
 more in Europe, and then in the fall of 1865 he returned to 
 this country. For one year following he lived in the East 
 and then he returned to California and became a [commission 
 merchant in San Francisco. 
 
 In our Record of 1885, he reports himself as statistician to 
 the government. 
 
 August, 1905, he writes: 
 
 Since my last report I have been living quietly in San Francisco 
 
130 Class of Sixty 
 
 with the exception of trips abroad and to the East. At present I am 
 the United States Statistician here, besides which I am doing some 
 investing and taking care of my private means. 
 
 I have one son, a lawyer, and two daughters, both married: One 
 married to Major Guy L. Edie, U. S. A., the other to Dr. Ernest 
 L. Robertson, of Kansas City, Mo. Have three grandchildren. 
 
 He was married, February 28, 1865, at Nice, France, to 
 Miss Eliza C. Kinney. 
 
 Josiah Edwards Kittredge, son of Dr. Josiah and Sarah 
 (French) Kittredge, was born in Boston, Mass., October 12, 
 1836. His father was a physician and surgeon, born in Mt. 
 Vernon, N. H., being fifth in descent from John Kittredge. 
 
 He fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, 
 N. H., and at Phillips Academy, Andover, coming into the 
 class in Junior year. After graduating he was principal, for 
 one year, of the Mt. Prospect Institute in Montclair, N. J. 
 He studied theology one year at Union Theological Seminary 
 in New York City and two years at Andover, where he gradu- 
 ated in 1864. The two following years he spent in travel in 
 Europe, Egypt, and the East. He organized the first Sunday 
 school of the American Chapel in Paris in 1866. His first 
 pastorate was at Glastonbury, Conn., 1869 to 1873. 
 
 The winter of 1873 he spent in Berlin with his family, in 
 charge of the American Chapel. In 1874, he traveled in 
 Scandinavia, and in 1875 in Asia Minor and visited Constanti- 
 nople. He was pastor of the American Union Church in 
 Florence, Italy, from 1874 to 1876. April 18, 1877, he was 
 installed as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Geneseo, 
 N. Y. A division in the old church of nearly twenty years 
 standing was healed, and the two parties united in building 
 a church costing forty thousand dollars, which was dedicated 
 in December, 1881. 
 
 He is an enthusiastic student of Biblical archaeology, a 
 member of the London Society of Biblical Archaeology, and 
 of the Victoria Institute, and is local secretary of the Egypt 
 Exploration Fund. The University of New York City con- 
 ferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1884. He has pub- 
 lished a " Year Book of Sermon Texts " for children, besides 
 sermons, lectures, and addresses. He is secretary of the 
 Chuutauqua Archaeological Department and, upon its inaugu- 
 
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 ration, delivered an address entitled " Bible History in the 
 Light of Modern Research," which was favorably criticised 
 and praised in the London Academy. These studies are his 
 recreation, his duties as pastor and preacher are his occupa- 
 tion and delight. In April, 1905, began the twenty-ninth 
 year of his pastorate at Geneseo. He writes: 
 
 I am not becoming a bit pessimistic as the years roll on. I am 
 sound in the faith that the brightest and best of the Master's grace 
 is ahead, and that life is well worth living if it can just help some others 
 to live it well. 
 
 He married, on the 28th of June, 187 1, at Groveland, N. Y., 
 Miss Emma McNair. She died, June 21, 1898. Their children 
 are: 
 
 Robert J. Kittredge, instructor of mathematics and physics 
 at Erie, Pa. 
 
 Charles F. Kittredge, pastor of the Presbyterian church at 
 Knoxboro, N. Y. 
 
 William McNair Kittredge, pastor of the Presbyterian 
 church at Bayfield, Wis. 
 
 Mary Emma Kittredge, wife of Rev. Stanley F. Gutelius, of 
 Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 December 30, 1903, he married Miss Nettie S. Long, of 
 Geneseo. 
 
 Marcus Perrin Knowlton, son of Merrick and Fatima 
 (Perrin) Knowlton, was born in Wilbraham, Mass., February 
 
 3. l8 39- 
 
 He fitted for college at Monson (Mass. ) Academy and 
 entered with his class. After graduation he was principal of 
 the Union School at Norwalk, Conn., for six months. His 
 engagement as teacher was interrupted by the burning of the 
 school building, and he went to Palmer, Mass., and began 
 reading law in the office of James G. Allen. Afterward he 
 removed to Springfield, reading law with John Wells and 
 Augustus L. Soule, both of whom were later justices of the 
 Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Late in 1862 he was 
 admitted to the bar, and eight years later he was admitted to 
 practice in the United States Supreme Court. 
 
 Before his elevation to the bench, he was connected with 
 numerous large interests and served in various official capaci- 
 ties. In 1872 and 1873 he was president of the Springfield 
 
132 Class of Sixty 
 
 Common Council. In 1878 he was a representative from 
 that city in the state legislature, where he served on the 
 important committees of the judiciary, the liquor law, state 
 detective force, and constitutional amendments. In 1880 
 and 1 88 1 he was a state senator. During this time he was 
 also a director of the Springfield & New London Railroad 
 Company, a director of the City National Bank of Springfield, 
 and trustee and treasurer of the city hospital. 
 
 He was appointed a justice of the superior court in August, 
 1 88 1, and was promoted to the supreme bench in 1887. In 
 1902 he was appointed chief justice of this court, which 
 office he now holds. In 1895, ms Alma Mater conferred upon 
 him the honorary degree of LL.D., and in 1900 the same 
 degree was received from Harvard. 
 
 He married, in Springfield, July 18, 1867, Sophia, daughter 
 of William and Saba A. (Cushman) Ritchie. She died 
 February 18, 1886. May 21, 1891, he married, at Portland, 
 Me., Rose M., daughter of Cyrus K. and Susan Ladd. They 
 have two children, a boy and a girl. 
 
 His early life was passed upon the farm and in the district 
 school. Hard work and plenty of it, with close application 
 to the duties nearest at hand, have been and are some of his 
 characteristics. . 
 
 Following is some account of the reception tendered to 
 Knowlton by the bar of his native county to congratulate him 
 upon his accession to the highest judicial honors in the state. 
 Only brief extracts from the speeches on that occasion are 
 here quoted. The Boston bar gave him a similar reception 
 March 13, 1903, which was one of the largest and most 
 enthusiastic gatherings of its kind ever held in this Common- 
 wealth : 
 
 From the Springfield Republican, February 5, 1903: 
 
 One of the most memorable events in the history of the Hampden 
 County bar was the banquet tendered by its members last evening to 
 Marcus P. Knowlton, in honor of his elevation to the chief justice- 
 ship of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth. Not since 
 the new court house was dedicated, more than thirty years ago, has 
 there been such an assemblage of the members of the bar in this 
 city, and it is doubtful if there was ever so large a gathering of the 
 members of the legal profession here. The company was honored 
 with the presence also of Chief Justice Albert Mason, of Brookline, 
 whom it made a guest with Judge Knowlton, as well as Judge Henry 
 
Biographical Record 133 
 
 K. Braleyof the Supreme Judicial Court, and Judge Elisha B. Maynard 
 of the Superior Court. Judge William C. Waite of the Superior Court 
 was also to have been a guest, but court duties detained him at the 
 last moment. Charles L. Gardner, president of the Hampden County 
 Bar Association, presided over the after-dinner exercises, and Edward 
 H. Lathrop performed the duties of toastmaster. Marshall Wilcox 
 the oldest lawyer in Berkshire County, spoke for that county, former 
 District Attorney John C. Hammond, of Northampton, spoke for 
 Hampshire County, and District Attorney Dana Malone, of Green- 
 field, spoke for the Franklin County Bar, each bringing words of 
 congratulation to the new chief justice. Milton B. Whitney, of 
 Westfield, was to have spoken for Hampden County, but illness 
 prevented him from attending, and William W. McClench, of this city, 
 spoke in his place. Chief Justice Albert Mason spoke as the repre- 
 sentative of the Superior Court, and a characteristic able response 
 was made by Chief Justice Knowlton. 
 
 When the banquet was over and cigars were lighted, Charles L. 
 Gardner, president of the Hampden County Bar Association, arose 
 and was greeted with hearty applause. Mr. Gardner said that there 
 were obvious reasons why the opportunity for this gathering / should 
 be especially gratifying to the bar of Hampden County. " It is on 
 an occasion like this, and in a manner like this, that we can most 
 fittingly express by our presence and by speech our recognition of 
 the success of one of our members. Many of us recall the last bar 
 dinner which was honored by the presence of the judges of our courts, 
 and we recognize the changes which time has made upon the members 
 of the Hampden County bar. Among the members at that time 
 there was one about whose success there was never any question. 
 He became eminent in his profession almost at the outset of his 
 career. His early attainments procured him promotion to the bench, 
 followed later by his advancement to the highest court of the Common- 
 wealth. And now he has become chief justice of that judicial body, 
 the highest judicial honor possible for the state to confer upon any 
 man. We have with us to-night members of our profession from 
 other counties, from whom we shall expect speeches. It gives me 
 great pleasure to present Brother Lathrop, who has kindly consented 
 to act as the toastmaster on this occasion." 
 
 Mr. Lathrop was greeted with long applause. He said that, 
 contrary to his usual custom, he should exercise the virtue of repres- 
 sion and speak but briefly. " Let me say," he said, " that this occasion 
 was born out of the earnest and heartfelt desire of the members of 
 our bar as giving us an opportunity of recognizing the honor which 
 has been done one of our members. The embarrassment of the occa- 
 sion is speech — in his presence." 
 
 Hon. Dana Malone, now attorney -general of the state: 
 
 It is a good thing to be well thought of in one's own city; it is a 
 good thing to be well thought of in one's county; it is a good thing 
 to be well thought of in the four western counties; but it is better 
 
134 Class of Sixty 
 
 to be so well thought of in the whole Commonwealth that when a 
 vacancy occurred in the chief justiceship of her highest court, the 
 only name considered for that position was that of our guest. And 
 when in after years the roll of Massachusetts' most illustrious names 
 shall be called, none will show a purer, higher, and more useful record 
 than that of Chief Justice Marcus P. Knowlton. 
 
 From Chief Justice Albert Mason's address: 
 
 Mr. President and Brethren of the Hampden Bar, — I do not come 
 here to-night to tell you of the sterling worth of the distinguished 
 guest of the evening, your friend and neighbor, but to rejoice with you 
 that he has come to his true place at the head of the judiciary of the 
 Commonwealth. If I may not share directly your local pride in his 
 advancement, I heartily sympathize with it. I do claim for myself 
 and for the justices of the Superior Court, so far as I may presume 
 to speak for them, to share your satisfaction as his personal friends, 
 that this well-earned honor has come to him. To no one in the 
 Commonwealth is the promotion of Judge Knowlton to be chief justice 
 of Massachusetts more gratifying than to his friends of the Superior 
 Court. 
 
 The distinguished guest whom we honor to-night, through all his 
 professional and public life, with increasing singleness of purpose, 
 has given first thought to the service which he could render, and now 
 that the Commonwealth has accorded to him the highest professional 
 honor which it can confer, I am sure that he values more than all else 
 the opportunity which it opens to him for further and higher service. 
 Long may he be spared to serve in the great office to which he is called. 
 
 Orlando Leach, son of Simeon and Parne (Ford) Leach, 
 was born in East Stoughton, now Avon, Mass., February 4, 
 
 1834. 
 
 He was prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, 
 Meriden, N. H. After graduating from college he studied law 
 in the office of Judge Whittemore, of Sandwich, Mass., until 
 April, 1 86 1, when he accepted United States government 
 employment in Boston, devoting all the time possible to 
 continued legal study. In the summer of 1862 he devoted 
 considerable time to the enlistment of troops for the Civil 
 War, and received a commission as captain. In October, 
 1863, ne was admitted to the bar in Boston. In March, 1864, 
 he was detailed in the United States government civil service 
 to some duties among the sea islands of South Carolina. 
 While there he had the pleasure of serving as a volunteer 
 private soldier for some weeks, in company with many other 
 
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 civilians temporarily employed in that section. There and 
 at Savannah, Ga., he also embarked in some private business, 
 which proved to be unprofitable. 
 
 After his return to the North, in the spring of 1866, he made 
 an engagement with a Boston school-book publishing house. 
 A year later he went to New York City and established a 
 branch of the business in that city. In June, 1883, he became 
 the head of the firm and developed and extended the business 
 especially in the direction of high-school and college text- 
 books. 
 
 In addition to the business side of a publisher's life a good 
 deal of editorial work fell to his lot. He prepared one text- 
 book, " State and Local Government of New York," to be 
 used in connection with a more extended work on the civil 
 government of the United States, of which he was the author, 
 in part. 
 
 In January, 1899, he retired from business, and in June, 
 following, removed his residence to his native town. Here 
 he has been engaged in usual rural pursuits, including the 
 cultivation of the proverbial two blades of grass. Here, 
 also, he has been in request to hold various town and church 
 offices, and as delegate to church and political conventions. 
 If he has any hobby, it is for trees, shrubbery, and garden. 
 
 He married, June 3, 1863, Josephine Langdon, daughter 
 of James F. Langdon, Esq., of Plymouth, N. H. She died 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 4, 1884. June 6, 1888, he 
 married, in New York City, Martha Brewster, daughter of 
 the late Marshall Brewster, of Northampton, Mass., who died 
 at Avon, November 30, 1901. No children from either 
 marriage. 
 
 Alba Levi Parsons Loomis, son of Albemarle and Sarah H. 
 Loomis, was born in Coventry, Conn., August 2, 1836. 
 
 He studied theology at East Windsor one year, and two at 
 Andover, after graduation. He was licensed to preach in 
 January, 1863, and began at East Coventry. Afterward he 
 preached for a few weeks at Wentworth, N. H., and went to 
 Chicago in January, 1864. For eight months he labored as 
 missionary in the Railroad and the Foster Mission schools, 
 connected with the First Presbyterian Church of that city, 
 and in January, 1865, accepted a call to a church of the same 
 
136 Class of Sixty 
 
 denomination in Columbus, Wis., where he was ordained the 
 following August. In 1866, he went to a Congregational 
 church in Fort Atkinson, Wis., and two years later to Elk- 
 horn in the same state. 
 
 During the years 1871-72, he was pastor of the Congre- 
 gational church in Downer's Grove, 111., near Chicago, and 
 there he helped in the care of the sufferers from the great 
 Chicago fire. The most of the year 1873 was spent in a 
 journey through Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land. After 
 his return he was made pastor of the Congregational church 
 at Mattoon, 111., where he remained three years, and where he 
 enjoyed a wonderful revival of religion, the churches of the 
 city doubling their membership within a year. From 1876 
 to 1 88 1, he ministered to the church in Milton, Wis., where 
 again there was a great revival. Subsequent pastorates have 
 been : 
 
 Rosendale, Wis., 1881-86; Grand Rapids, Wis., 1886-90; 
 Plainview, Minn., 1890-1895; Windsor, Wis., 1895-1901. 
 
 In the latter year, he removed to Rochester, Wis., where 
 he is still laboring in the ministry. He is the only survivor 
 among those who were preaching in the state when he went 
 there in 1864. He writes that he and Mrs. Loomis, who has 
 been his co-laborer all these years, both feel young, and that 
 they can do more and better work than ever before. Wher- 
 ever they have been they have interested themselves largely 
 in literary work and circles, promoting interest in education 
 and good letters. 
 
 He married, July 18, 1868, Miss Fannie S. Peck, of Fort 
 Atkinson, Wis. They have had four children, — two sons and 
 two daughters. The oldest son, Arthur, graduated in engi- 
 neering at the State University of Wisconsin, the youngest 
 son has finished his Freshman year at Beloit College. The 
 oldest daughter was valedictorian of her class at Carleton 
 College, Minnesota. 
 
 * William McAlpin, son of Andrew and Margaret (Merrie ) 
 McAlpin, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 20, 1839, 
 and died in his native city, June 2, 1899, in his sixty-first year. 
 
 On graduation he returned to Cincinnati and engaged in 
 business in connection with the firm of McAlpin, Hinman & 
 Co., cabinet and general hardware dealers. He became a 
 
Biographical Record 137 
 
 member of the firm in 1863, but retired in 1867, after a period 
 of ill health resulting from too close confinement. As his 
 strength allowed he gave himself generously in subsequent 
 years to public and philanthropic work, and came to be 
 regarded as one of the foremost citizens of Cincinnati by his 
 activity in good works. 
 
 He had served the First Presbyterian Church since 1864 in 
 various offices, such as trustee, deacon, elder, and superintend- 
 ent of the Sunday school. From 1874 he gave much of his 
 time to the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, 
 and filled the office of president from 1879 to his resignation 
 in 1895. He was one of the first to become interested in the 
 establishment of the Cincinnati College of Music, and was 
 president of the institution at the time of his death. He was 
 also a trustee of the University of Cincinnati from 1892. 
 
 On the death of his mother, in 1890, he took up an active 
 business life again, as secretary of the George McAlpin Com- 
 pany, a large dry goods firm, but was obliged, by the state of 
 his health, to lay down his work in 1897. He died suddenly 
 of pulmonary hemorrhage after several months of feebleness. 
 
 He married Mary, daughter of Hon. George W. C. Johnston, 
 of Cincinnati, who survives him (1899) with two sons and 
 two daughters. 
 
 * Edward DeCost McKay, son of Ferdinand and Angelina 
 McKay, was born in Warsaw, N. Y., January 1, 1836, and 
 died at Southern Pines, N. C, January 31, 1899, in his sixty- 
 fourth year. 
 
 From graduation until May, 1866, he was engaged in the 
 wholesale boot and shoe business in Hudson, N. Y. He 
 then went to New York City, and by his boundless energy 
 achieved a striking success as an agent of the New York 
 Life Insurance Company. He retired from that business 
 about 1880, and, after a course of study at Columbia College, 
 received the degree of LL.B. in 1882, and that of Ph.B. in 
 1883. He died from heart disease of long standing. 
 
 He married, January 15, 1861, Susan E. White, of Worces- 
 ter, Mass. One son and one daughter survive him. 
 
 McKay's later years were darkened, saddened, and even 
 embittered, by business losses, lawsuits, and fruitless efforts 
 to extricate himself from pecuniary entanglements in which 
 he became involved. 
 
138 Class of Sixty 
 
 * Othniel Charles Marsh, eldest son of Caleb and Mary G. 
 (Peabody) Marsh, both natives of Danvers, Mass., was born 
 in Lockport, N. Y., October 29, 1831, and died in New Haven, 
 March 18, 1899, in his sixty -eighth year. 
 
 His early advantages were limited, but in 185 1 his uncle, 
 George Peabody, of London, offered him a higher education 
 and he began his preparation at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
 Mass. Before he entered Yale, his scientific bent was already 
 manifest, and he had even begun in a modest way his career 
 as an explorer and discoverer. 
 
 For two years after graduation he pursued the study of 
 natural science in New Haven, at the Sheffield School, and 
 then spent three years in close study in Germany. In the 
 meantime he had contributed several papers to the American 
 Journal of Science, and as early as 1863 his ability had been 
 recognized by his election as a fellow of the Geological Society 
 of London. On his return from abroad, he was elected, in 
 July, 1866, professor of paleontology in Yale College. Three 
 months later, his uncle, George Peabody, gave to the college 
 a foundation, on terms suggested by Marsh, for a museum of 
 natural history. He was appointed curator of the Geologi- 
 cal Collection of the college in 1867, and under his superin- 
 tendence the first wing of the museum was completed in 1876. 
 
 Beginning in 1870 he led a series of explorations to the 
 West, which accumulated a vast store of vertebrate fossils, 
 to the description of which the remainder of his life was 
 mainly devoted. In 1882, he was appointed vertebrate pale- 
 ontologist of the United States Geological Survey, and held 
 this office with his professorship until his death. In January, 
 1898, he presented his valuable collections to the museum, 
 and, by his will, left the university the main part of his estate. 
 
 These gifts to the university represent an outlay of over 
 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the labors of upwards 
 of thirty years, and continuous service during this period 
 without salary. 
 
 Condensed from American Cyclopedia of Biography: 
 
 In his expeditions, and in others under his direction, he discovered 
 more than one thousand species of extinct vertebrates, many of which 
 are of great scientific value, representing orders wholly new, as well as 
 others not known in this country. Descriptions of several hundred 
 of these were published by him, chiefly in the Journal of Science. 
 
Biographical Record 139 
 
 Among these are a new sub-class of birds with teeth (pdontornithes), 
 including the genera hesperornis and ichthyornis from the cretaceous 
 strata of Kansas, and the first known American pterodactyls, includ- 
 ing a new order (pteranodontia) from the same strata ; two new orders 
 of large mammals from the eocene tertiary of the Rocky Mountains; 
 the titlodontia, related to the carnivores, ungulates, and rodents, and 
 the dmocerata of elephantine bulk, and bearing upon the skulls 
 two or more pairs of horn-cones; also from the same formation in 
 Nebraska and Wyoming, eohippus, orohippus, and epihippus, the 
 earliest supposed ancestors of the horse, having three and four toes, 
 also the first monkeys, bats, and marsupials found in North America; 
 from the miocene of Dakota and Nebraska the brontotheridce, a new 
 family of great ungulates; from the later cretacean a new group of 
 gigantic horned dinosaurs, the ceratopsia, and many rare mammalian 
 remains; and from the Jurassic and cretaceous of Wyoming, the first 
 mammals of these formations found in America, and several new 
 families of dinosaurs, probably the largest land animals yet discovered. 
 
 He was elected a member of the National Academy in 
 1874, and was president of that body from 1883 to 1895. 
 He received the honor of membership in numerous learned 
 societies, at home and abroad, and the honorary degree of 
 Ph.D. from Heidelberg in 1886, and that of LL.D. from 
 Harvard in the same year. The Bigsby medal of the Geo- 
 logical Society of London was awarded him in 1877, and the 
 Cuvier prize of the Institut de France (of which he was a 
 corresponding member) in 1897. His publications in the 
 form of contributions to scientific journals and separate mono- 
 graphs are voluminous and of the highest importance. Their 
 titles would fill many pages. His health had been impaired 
 since the fall of 1897, and a cold which he contracted early 
 in March, 1899, passed into pneumonia from which he died, 
 at his residence in New Haven. He was never married. 
 
 From the New York Evening Post, December 2, 1905: 
 
 A collection of Central American antiquities, the value of which 
 was not suspected, has just been brought to light in the Peabody 
 Museum, and, when arranged, will be put on exhibition in the an- 
 thropological department. Beginning as early as i860, A. De Zeltner, 
 French consul at Panama, and Mr. J. E. McNeil, for many years 
 a resident of Panama, collected in that province antiquities of the 
 Chiriqui Indians, who ranked next in culture to the Aztecs and to 
 the Peruvians under the Incas. The collections, chiefly secured from 
 prehistoric graves, were brought down from the interior on horses, 
 but, as the result shows, with only slight breakages. The late Prof. 
 O. C. Marsh bought the collections from time to time and down to 
 the year 1879, storing the boxes away in a remote part of the museum 
 building, where they have remained unopened for twenty-six years. 
 
 The collection, now for the first time disclosed, is said to be by far 
 
140 Class of Sixty 
 
 the largest and most complete gathering of the kind owned by any 
 institution. It includes more than five thousand separate objects, 
 chiefly pottery of diversified shapes and sizes, some handsomely 
 colored and figured and singularly symmetrical in shape; and, besides, 
 come fifty objects in gold, most of them figurines, amulets, and charms, 
 together with a few copper objects. The Panama Chiriquis left 
 behind no large monuments such as are found in other parts of Central 
 America. The collection, when arranged, will be a very striking 
 feature of the anthropological section of the museum, and the prices 
 paid by Professor Marsh — who gave all his collections to Yale — 
 indicate that it has large money value. 
 
 Few, if any, of his classmates knew Marsh as a writer of 
 verses, yet here is an amusing skit that he wrote and addressed 
 to Cady Eaton when he was traveling in Greece and Egypt, 
 and was writing rather bilious accounts of his travels for 
 publication in the home newspapers. " Periander " was the 
 name under which Eaton was writing. Marsh was so well 
 pleased with his effort that he had the verses printed for 
 circulation among the friends of both parties. 
 
 PERIANDER, COME HOME! 
 To Professor D. Cady Eaton 
 BY A CLASSMATE 
 
 Come home, Periander, come home! 
 
 Come back to your friends on the hill ! 
 We have read of your troubles in Rome, 
 
 And grieve at your faring so ill. 
 
 When you left, you were festive and gay, 
 
 But the sea made you gloomy and sad. 
 Your comrades were bores, so you say, 
 
 And the odors on shipboard were bad. 
 Gibraltar, it seems, did not please you; 
 
 Old Cairo itself was quite vile; 
 All Egypt you felt sure would tease you, 
 
 So declined that fine trip up the Nile. 
 
 Even Greece had for you lost its charm; 
 
 Its temples had gone to decay; 
 While robbers and fleas threatened harm; 
 
 How you suffered by night and by day! 
 
 Come home, Periander, and rest! 
 
 Then the tale of your travels relate 
 To your friends, who await your request 
 
 To tell you their news up to date. 
 New Haven, March 30, 1895. 
 
 Henry Grimes Marshall, son of Deacon Samuel A. and 
 Jerusha (Grimes) Marshall, was born at Milford, Conn., 
 
Biographical Record 141 
 
 January 2, 1839. He engaged in teaching, after graduation, 
 in Stamford and Milford, Conn., and at Newark, N. J. In 
 August, 1862, he enlisted in Fifteenth Connecticut Regiment 
 of Volunteers, and the same month went to the front and 
 shared the fortunes and marches of this regiment, until 
 January, 1864, when he received an appointment as lieutenant 
 in the Twenty -ninth Connecticut Regiment. In this capacity 
 he went to Annapolis, to Beaufort, S. C, and to City Point, 
 Va., where he was detached for service as aide, or acting 
 assistant adjutant-general, with Generals Birney, Russell, 
 and Wild. In January, 1865, he was promoted captain, and 
 in June following sailed with his regiment for Brownsville, 
 Texas, where he remained, serving most of the time on staff 
 duty, until mustered out the next October. 
 
 In February, 1866, he entered the Yale Theological Semi- 
 nary, but in the fall went to Andover, where he graduated in 
 July, 1868. The next December, he was installed as pastor 
 at Avon, Conn., where he remained until January 1, 1872. 
 In May of that year he went to Charlemont, Mass., where 
 he was pastor till June, 1877. He went at once to Middle- 
 bury, Conn., where he preached until June, 1885, going from 
 there the same month to Cromwell, Conn., where he had a 
 continuous pastorate for nineteen years. In October, 1904, 
 he went to Hampton, the home of Denison (whose picture 
 hangs upon the wall of his chapel ), and he is now ministering 
 to that people. He writes of his beautiful location, of good 
 health, and of ability to walk all round his parish of six 
 square miles. 
 
 He married, August 25, 1869, Miss Marrietta Crosby, of 
 Danbury, Conn., who died March 18, 1871, leaving one son, 
 William Crosby, six months old, who graduated from the 
 Sheffield Scientific School in 1890, and who is now assistant 
 professor in the engineering department. December 29, 
 1874, he married, at Charlemont, Mass., Mrs. Annette L. 
 (Emerson) Barton. They have one son, Samuel Andrew, 
 who graduated from Yale in 1898, and from Johns Hopkins 
 Medical School in 1902. 
 
 *William Wisner Martin, son of Rev. William M. Martin, 
 was born at Rah way, N. J., December 18, 1837. He died in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., October 16, 1865. 
 
142 Class of Sixty 
 
 After graduation he spent two years of his theological 
 course at Andover, and the third year at Union Seminary, 
 New York City. He was ordained as an evangelist, June 18, 
 1863, and a few days afterwards sailed for California. He 
 preached for a year at Sonora, but finding the work too hard, 
 was obliged to leave for rest. Then after preaching a few 
 months in San Francisco, he was called to San Jose. His 
 health gave way after a brief effort and he returned, in 
 August, 1865, to Brooklyn, where he died. 
 
 Prof. B. W. Dwight, of Clinton, N. Y., wrote of him: 
 
 His characteristic traits were clear, discriminating habits of thought, 
 a sturdy, unflinching, conscientious will, a great love of work, high 
 earnestness of character, an exceedingly ingenuous, frank, and genial 
 disposition, great purity of motive, an ardent desire to do good in 
 every form and at all times, a trustful habit of mind toward others, 
 and a temper thoroughly humane and thoroughly religious. He 
 would have made a superior teacher had he chosen that high profession, 
 from his warm appreciation of its duties and privileges, or a superior 
 preacher and pastor. 
 
 He married, in 1863, Fanny L., daughter of Crowell Hadden, 
 Esq., of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 * Edward Gay Mason, son of Roswell and Harriet L. (Hop- 
 kins) Mason, was born in Bridgeport, Conn., August 23, 
 1839, and died in Chicago, December 18, 1898, in his sixtieth 
 year. 
 
 After graduation he studied law with H. G. Miller in 
 Chicago, where his family had removed in 185 1, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1863. Endowed with superior mental 
 gifts and a peculiar personal charm, he won easily a distin- 
 guished rank in his profession; but by preference he devoted 
 himself mainly to office practice, and in later years, in partner- 
 ship with his brother (Yale College, 1870), gave most of his 
 attention to real estate business. 
 
 He was an active spirit in all that concerned the higher 
 intellectual life of the city, and rendered especially valuable 
 service to the community as president of the Chicago Histori- 
 cal Society, from November, 1887, to his death. He was 
 elected by the alumni as one of the fellows of the Yale corpo- 
 ration in 1891, and re-elected without opposition in 1897. 
 Knox College, Illinois, gave him the honorary degree of LL.D. 
 in 1895. His death from B right's disease was sudden. 
 
Biographical Record 143 
 
 He married, December 25, 1867, Julia M., daughter of 
 Charles Starkweather, of Chicago, who survives him, with 
 their children, ten sons and three daughters. Three of his 
 sons were undergraduates at Yale at the time of his death, 
 and four had already graduated. 
 
 Concerning the historical work upon which he had been 
 for some time engaged, The Nation said: 
 
 " Chapters from Illinois History " (H. S. Stone & Co.) represents the 
 chief part of a work which the late Edward G. Mason was preparing 
 upon the annals of his own state. While it must be regarded as a 
 fragment, it covers a relatively long period, and would have formed 
 the bulk of the book which was projected and begun, though never 
 finished. Mr. Mason, who showed himself an eminent man in more 
 than one way, had a great fondness for the study of records relating 
 to Illinois, and we must regret that he was unable to complete his 
 labor of love. What he has left is well studied, excellently written, 
 and filled with a spirit of quiet enthusiasm which one always delights 
 to encounter. After all, he succeeded in covering the best as well 
 as the largest part of his field, for while he begins with the Champlain 
 map of 1632, he reaches the Chicago massacre of 18 12. Nearly two 
 thirds of the space is devoted to " The Land of the Illinois," a general 
 subject under which discovery, exploration, occupation, and settle- 
 ment are treated in separate chapters. " Illinois in the Eighteenth 
 Century " comes next in point of prominence, with its studies of old 
 Fort Chartres and Col. John Todd's " Record Book." Illinois in the 
 Revolution, the march of the Spanish across Illinois, and the Chicago 
 massacre are the remaining topics. The text takes the form of a 
 straightforward narrative, supplemented by bibliographical notes, 
 and stripped of all philosophical observations or other extraneous 
 matter. Mr. Mason seems not to have done much at first hand (in 
 the archives of Paris, for instance), but for one who looked to the 
 broad facts already ascertained rather than to the smaller details 
 which may lurk in the background, he shows himself extremely well 
 informed. One can follow his reading quite easily through the help 
 afforded by numerous references, and it is clear that he had mastered 
 the best literature relating to the connection between the Illinois 
 country and New France. 
 
 *John Moses Morris, son of Moses and Laura W. Morris, 
 was born in Wethersfield, Conn., April 27, 1837, and died in 
 Washington, D. C, of consumption, November 27, 1873, aged 
 thirty-six and a half years. 
 
 After graduation he went upon the stump in New York and 
 Pennsylvania. In November, he entered the Divinity School 
 at Yale and remained there until February, 1862. On the 
 
144 Class of Sixty 
 
 twenty -fifth of the following April, he was ordained in New 
 Haven as an evangelist and accepted an appointment as 
 chaplain of the Eighth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers. 
 In this position, which he occupied until September, 1863, he 
 shrank from no service or exposure, however severe. On his 
 resignation he returned to New Haven, and conducted the 
 Connecticut War Record until the close of the war. He then 
 began the compilation of a " History of Connecticut during 
 the Civil War," which was completed in conjunction with 
 Mr. W. A. Croffut, and was published in 1868. In the mean- 
 time he became, in 1865, assistant clerk of the Connecticut 
 House of Representatives, and in 1866, clerk of the same 
 body. In 1867, he was clerk of the state senate, and at the 
 close of this service went to Washington as private secretary 
 to Senator Ferry. In October, 1868, he established the 
 Charleston (S. C. ) Weekly Republican, which he conducted 
 two years as editor, it becoming a daily paper after August, 
 1869. In March, 1869, he was elected executive clerk of the 
 secretary of the United States Senate, which position he held 
 until his death. During the winter of 1870-71 he pur- 
 chased the Washington Chronicle and continued as principal 
 stockholder and editor-in-chief until June, 1872, when he 
 withdrew from the management on account of declining 
 health, dying in November, 1873. 
 
 Morris was the valedictorian of the class and took several 
 college honors during the course. 
 
 He married, December 31, 1863, Miss Augusta R. Griswold, 
 of Wethersfield, Conn. 
 
 Nathaniel Norton, son of Nathaniel and Caroline G. (Call ) 
 Norton, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 7, 1839. 
 
 He was prepared for college at the school in Brooklyn of 
 Dr. Benjamin Dwight, having as classmates there, as well 
 as in college, Eugene L. Richards, William Wisner Martin, 
 and Louis Leeds Robbins. In the fall after graduation, he 
 entered Columbia College Law School, and received the 
 degree of LL.B. in 1863. He taught for a time in Newark, 
 N. J., while continuing his legal studies. In July, 1862, 
 he was admitted to practice, but he afterwards started in 
 mercantile business in New York City, joining the wholesale 
 hat house of Jehial Read & Co., where he continued until 
 
Biographical Record 145 
 
 about 1880. For a time after this he was engaged in publish- 
 ing the American Business Guide until 1886, when he went 
 into insurance business about which he has been employed 
 ever since. 
 He writes: 
 
 Since the last biographical publication of the members of our class 
 in which my modest story was told, there has been nothing outside 
 of purely domestic concerns to add. I lost one of my beloved daugh- 
 ters four years ago, after a protracted illness, and last April my oldest 
 son was married, but these events hardly have a place in such a sketch. 
 I have been simply a private soldier, fighting life's battle in the ranks, 
 plodding along in business from day to day, finding my happiness in 
 the home and social life, and striving with God's help and what little 
 strength lay in me to make the world a bit brighter and better because 
 I was in it. Holding fast to many of the dear old-fashioned ways of 
 thought and feeling, and yet not altogether out of step with the newer 
 trend and tread of the thousands seeking for the truth regarding life 
 and its meaning here and hereafter. 
 
 The Secretary feels sure that he has had and filled accepta- 
 bly various positions of trust and honor, but his powers of 
 persuasion have been used in vain in trying to get even a brief 
 story of them. 
 
 He married, September 27, 1865, Miss Emma S. Read, of 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. Their children are: Nathaniel R. Norton, 
 graduate of Yale (Sheffield) 1891, born July 16, 1871; Caro- 
 line S. Norton, born November 1, 1872, Stella K. Norton, 
 born September 15, 1875, died January 20, 1900, and William 
 S. Norton, born June 5, 1877. 
 
 ♦Frederick Callender Ogden was born in Newport, R. I., 
 May 21, 1839. He was the son of Edwin Ogden, Esq. 
 
 Ogden spent a year in Europe after graduation. On his 
 return he entered the military service as lieutenant in the 
 regular cavalry, in which capacity he was actively engaged at 
 Fort Leavenworth under General Hunter, in Kentucky and 
 Tennessee under Generals Buell and Rosecrans, and afterwards 
 under General Stoneman in Virginia. July 17, 1862, he was 
 promoted to be first lieutenant. He participated in the 
 battles at Corinth, Miss., at Tuscumbia Creek, Ala., and in 
 twenty-two engagements in the Army of the Potomac. He 
 
146 Class of Sixty 
 
 was serving as regimental adjutant when he was killed in 
 action at Trevillian Station, Va., June 11, 1864. His age 
 was twenty-five years. 
 
 Charles Hunter Owen, son of Elijah Hunter and Susannah 
 Boardman Owen, was born in Hartford, Conn., March 15, 
 1838. 
 
 He was prepared for college in the public high school of 
 his native city, which had been combined with the Hartford 
 Hopkins Grammar School dating from 1638. Among his 
 ancestors were the first settlers of the Connecticut towns 
 of Windsor, East Granby, Wethersfield, Otis, Mass., and the 
 first ministers of Boston. For a year after graduation he 
 read law in an office in his home city, and then went to the 
 Law School at Harvard, where he took the degree of LL.B. 
 in January, 1863. He commenced practice in Hartford, but 
 in the spring of 1864 he entered the military service as first 
 lieutenant in the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery. He 
 served for a month at Fort Ward and then served as aide-de- 
 camp with Major-General Tyler, and was transferred with 
 him to Hancock's command (Fourth Division, Second Army 
 Corps ) and was in the battles of Spottsylvania and Cold 
 Harbor. In this last engagement he was so badly wounded 
 that he later received his discharge from the service. 
 
 He was breveted captain for gallant conduct at Spott- 
 sylvania, and major for conspicuous gallantry at Cold Harbor, 
 where he was severely, and, at first, thought mortally, 
 wounded. 
 
 Since his army experience he has followed the profession 
 of law, with such avocations as farming, manufacturing, 
 journalism, and politics. In farming he has been the means 
 of introducing highly valued foundation Jersey stock in a 
 dozen states. In journalism he has published articles in the 
 New Englander, Yale Review, and numerous editorials and 
 book reviews in these and other publications. He led the 
 forces that reformed the state board of education and put 
 three Yale men in control. He was, for a time, member of 
 the state legislature and chairman of three committees in 
 the House. During the time of the state constitutional 
 convention his articles in the newspapers upon constitutional 
 law and international policies and obligations attracted a 
 
Biographical Record 147 
 
 good deal of attention and received high compliment. He 
 says he has found it " hard work fighting men and aches at 
 the same time, but that he has knocked out some scoundrels, 
 and helped knock out others." At present he is literary 
 editor of the Hartford Courant, on the regular staff. 
 
 He was married to Miss Esther S. Dixwell, of Cambridge, 
 Mass., October 18, 1866. They have two daughters. 
 
 ♦Alfred Conrad Palfrey, son of William T. and Sidney A. 
 (Conrad) Palfrey, was born in Franklin, La., March 20, 1839, 
 and died at New Iberia, La., June 18, 1879, aged forty years. 
 
 On graduation he went to Charleston, S. C, where he was 
 married, November 27, i860, to Eliza E., eldest daughter of 
 James Tupper, Esq., master in equity in Charleston. He 
 was the confidential assistant of his father-in-law in his busi- 
 ness until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted 
 as a private in the Charleston Light Dragoons, afterward 
 Company K, Fourth South Carolina Cavalry. He was with 
 that command in 1864, Butler's Brigade, Hampton's Division. 
 He was with them until October, 1864, when he was appointed 
 assistant auditor of South Carolina, a position which his 
 failing health made it advisable for him to accept. Soon 
 after the close of the war he resumed his duties in the office 
 of master of equity, and remained in that employment until 
 the death of Mr. Tupper, in 1868. His wife died in Charles- 
 ton, May 2, 1866, and in 1874 he removed to New Orleans, 
 La. In 1876, he was appointed secretary of the Sugar Shed 
 Association of that city, holding this position until his death. 
 He died of pneumonia after a painful illness of three months. 
 One son, the last of a family of four children, survived him. 
 
 ♦John Russell Parsons, son of Col. Edward Parsons, was 
 born in Northampton, Mass., August 24, 1838, and was 
 drowned at Jackson, Miss., March 3, 1869. 
 
 After graduation he remained at home until the fall of 1861, 
 when he engaged in enlisting troops in western Massachusetts. 
 He was made a lieutenant in the Thirty-first Massachusetts 
 Volunteers and sent to the Department of the Gulf. With his 
 regiment he was there transferred to the First Loyal Regiment 
 of Louisiana Volunteers, as captain. He was subsequently 
 promoted to the rank of major and served to the close of the 
 
1 48 Class of Sixty 
 
 "war. He then remained in the South, partly engaged in 
 mercantile pursuits, and, for the last three years of his life, 
 resided at Jackson, Miss. His intention on graduating was 
 to study law, but the needs of his country appeared more 
 pressing and continued to demand his time and energies. 
 
 At the time of his death he was a member of the House of 
 Representatives from Hinds County. On the 3d of March, 
 a friend with whom he had passed the evening parted from 
 him at a short distance from his residence; it was not until 
 a week later that his body was found in the river near by. 
 An official investigation developed no clew to the identity 
 of the assassin nor to the motive that prompted the deed. 
 
 William Pennington, son of Aaron S. and Catharine C. 
 Pennington, was born in Paterson, N. J., August 27, 1839. 
 
 He entered college at the beginning of Junior year, and 
 after graduating at once began the study of law at the Colum- 
 bia College Law School, graduating thence in the spring of 
 1863. Since that time he has been actively engaged in the 
 practice of his profession in his native city. He says: 
 
 My biography is simple: I have never married. I am a lawyer 
 practicing in Paterson, N. J., where I was born and have always lived. 
 I really do not know of any fact worth mentioning except those. 
 My biography might as well be of a piece of protoplasm, without 
 differentiation into visible organs, — no events, no offices, nothing to 
 specify, nothing to mention. 
 
 A fellow townsman says: 
 
 In later years his home has been in a picturesque spot on the banks 
 of the Passaic River, some distance above the falls of the same name. 
 He has always been fond of pedestrian exercise, — never rides when 
 he can walk, — and he may be daily seen, satchel on arm and robust 
 walking stick in hand, walking with vigorous stride the miles that 
 lie between his suburban estate and his law office. 
 
 He has never had a taste for public life or a desire for official position, 
 though his engaging manner, character, and ability would have often 
 made him their choice for offices within the gift of his fellow citizens 
 had he been inclined toward such preferment. Being a man of 
 exceptional literary tastes, he spends much of his time in literary 
 recreation. 
 
 * George D wight Phelps, son of George D. Phelps, was born 
 in New York City, August 8, 1839, and died June 22, 1883. 
 Phelps set out for Europe shortly before Commencement, 
 
Biographical Record 149 
 
 in i860, and did not return until September of the following 
 year. He began the study of law in New York and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1863. He then opened an office in 
 Wall Street, but did little or no professional business, though 
 his residence continued in New York. He was found in a 
 dying condition in Vesey Street, near Broadway, at an early 
 hour of the morning in June 22, 1883, and expired soon after. 
 His skull had been fractured, it is supposed by a fall on the 
 sidewalk or in the street. A post-mortem examination showed 
 that his brain had been for some time seriously diseased. He 
 was unmarried. 
 
 ♦William Walter Phelps, son of John Jay and Rachel B. 
 (Phinney) Phelps, was born in New York City, August 24, 
 1839, an d died at Englewood, N. J., June 17, 1894, in his 
 fifty-fifth year. 
 
 He entered college in 1855, but left in March, 1857, on 
 account of his health; in the fall of 1858, he joined our class. 
 He was married on the evening of Commencement Day, 
 July 26, i860, to Miss Ellen Sheffield, daughter of Joseph E. 
 Sheffield, Esq., of New Haven, and sailed at once for Europe, 
 returning in the spring of 1862. He then entered the Law 
 School of Columbia College, where he was graduated with 
 high honor in May, 1863. He practiced law with eminent 
 success in New York City, until the death of his father in 
 May, 1869, obliged him to relinquish general practice in order 
 to devote himself to the management of the family estates and 
 other private trusts. Soon after this, having removed his 
 residence to Englewood, N. J., he became prominent in politi- 
 cal affairs in that state, and, in 1872, was elected by a large 
 majority to the Forty-third Congress as a Republican. In 
 his brief term of service he made a national reputation as a 
 brilliant debater. He was again the nominee of his party in 
 1874, but was defeated by seven votes. In May, 1881, he 
 was appointed by President Garfield minister to Austria, but 
 he resigned his post in the summer of 1882. The same year 
 he was re-elected to Congress, as also in 1884 and 1886. In 
 June, 1889, President Harrison appointed him as minister 
 to Germany, where he represented his government with dis- 
 tinction for four years. On his return to America, in June, 
 1893, he accepted an appointment as lay judge of the Court 
 
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 of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey, and devoted himself 
 laboriously to his duties in this relation, until his last illness. 
 He died at his home near Englewood, of quick consumption. 
 His wife survives him, with their three children, two sons 
 (Yale College, 1883 and 1886, respectively ) and one daughter. 
 
 He was a warm friend of the college and was included in 
 the original election of trustees by the alumni in 1872. He 
 retained this office until he refused a renomination in 1892. 
 The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the corporation 
 in June, 1890, as it had already been by Rutgers College in 
 October, 1889. He had made liberal gifts at various times to 
 the Sheffield Scientific School, the Medical and Law schools, 
 and other university interests, and, as the trustee of a large 
 bequest from his father, as well as by his own gifts, had been 
 a very helpful friend to the university. 
 
 Correspondence of New York Tribune: 
 
 Mr. Phelps in Berlin 
 his legation, his diplomatic services, his personal and social 
 
 successes 
 
 Our minister to Berlin has several titles to respect in his official 
 capacity, and among them one which is, so far as I know, unique. 
 He has housed the legation comfortably and even handsomely. 
 This ought not to be remarkable or exceptional, still less unique, but 
 it is. Our American policy in such matters is seldom a wise one. 
 Perhaps it is not a policy; perhaps it is only a custom, but, whichever 
 it be, it is a mistake. 
 
 Mr. William Walter Phelps, however, has established the American 
 Legation in Berlin in an apartment which does no discredit to him, or 
 to the government he represents. It is in a good street, a good build- 
 ing, on the first floor, with a suite of large, airy, well-decorated, and 
 elegantly furnished rooms. 
 
 All about the walls of the central room hang portraits of American 
 presidents and of American ministers to Germany. On either side of 
 the minister's desk is a bust of Washington and a bust of Frederick 
 the Great. If the patriotic American wonders why they are thus 
 bracketed together, he has only to recollect that Frederick was the 
 first European sovereign who recognized the independence of the 
 United States. He may remember, also, that it was upon this prece- 
 dent that Prince Bismarck, as he himself said in 1886, based his policy 
 of friendship to the Union during the Rebellion. He had been asked 
 to do otherwise. " But did they suppose I was going to forget Fred- 
 erick, or reverse the policy of good will to America which ever since 
 his time had prevailed? " 
 
 The other and more important services of Mr. Phelps during his 
 mission to Berlin are better known; perhaps so well known that it is 
 
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 superfluous to say anything more about them. Still, the end of them 
 all has come, and the completion of a career, or of one phase of a career, 
 is a good time for taking stock. And four years is a long time. The 
 unassisted human memory occupies itself in these hurried days with 
 the things of yesterday, but how about the things of day before yes- 
 terday? It is four years since the Samoan Conference took place, in 
 May, 1889, when Mr. Phelps came to Berlin, not as minister, but, 
 together with Messrs. Kasson and Bates, as commissioner. He did 
 his share of that work, more difficult and important than it seemed, — 
 difficult enough and important enough to engage a good deal of Prince 
 Bismarck's attention. He did it so efficiently and wisely as to earn 
 the name of the peacemaker. No name is more honorable to the diplo- 
 matist; it is the final testimony to his capacity and his success, for 
 peace is what diplomacy aims at. Anybody can quarrel; to compose 
 a quarrel, and to adjust conflicting interests and appetites in a stable 
 and honorable way, is the highest triumph. 
 
 What happened upon the conclusion of the conference is known, 
 but may be told once more. Mr. Phelps quitted the Foreign Office in 
 Berlin where the Samoan Conference had been held during May and 
 part of June, carrying a little yellow traveling bag, which contained 
 the treaty that had just been signed. He drove straight to the 
 station, caught the train to Bremen and the North German Lloyd 
 steamer from Bremen to New York; journeyed on by the first train 
 from New York to Washington, and presented himself and his treaty 
 to Mr. Blaine, who took him to the President, and to the President 
 the treaty was handed over. For once, the somewhat frigid individual- 
 ity of Mr. Harrison showed itself sympathetic. Whether he asked 
 Mr. Phelps to sit down is disputed. He was himself standing, as 
 his habit was, at the corner of his desk. But he received the treaty, 
 opened a drawer, took out a commission as minister to Germany, 
 handed it to Mr. Blaine, saying, "You won't mind signing this"; 
 and then delivered the signed commission to Mr. Phelps, with the 
 remark: " I offer you this because you have earned it." 
 
 Mr. Phelps returned to Berlin, this time as minister, in September, 
 and presented his credentials to the Emperor. They made each other 
 speeches, cordial on both sides; rather longer than usual on the 
 Emperor's side, — which were duly published in the German papers. I 
 would tell the whole story of the publication if I dared, but I do not 
 wish to be indiscreet or to raise an international question. It is 
 enough to say that first impressions were in this case lasting. The 
 foothold which Mr. Phelps gained he kept, and both at court and 
 elsewhere established those relations of confidence and personal good 
 will without which the most skillful diplomacy has but half a chance. 
 He spent no small part of his ministerial life in endeavoring to secure 
 the reintroduction into Germany of American pork. It is a topic of 
 which no heroic treatment is possible, but it concerned a great industry 
 and the prosperity of many Americans. At the end of a year of 
 diplomacy the prohibition was removed. His countrymen who deal 
 in this commodity need not be the less grateful to their representative 
 
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 because the German consumer was also grateful. It was one of the 
 acts which helped make Mr. Phelps popular in both countries; and 
 his securing the admission of American live cattle was another. 
 
 American cereals were looked after, also, and there is a curious 
 tradition in Berlin that the American minister's " corn dinners " to 
 members of the government and of the Reichstag created a demand 
 for this peculiarly American product. It is even on record that he 
 contributed something to the hilarity of nations, or of the German 
 nation, by securing the admission of Colonel the Hon. W. F. Cody's 
 bucking ponies and buffaloes. Certain it is that the six hundred — 
 just the number of British warriors who charged at Balaklava — 
 American doctors who came to the Medical Congress at Berlin found 
 themselves well looked after. Many other American compatriots 
 could say the same thing, whether transient or resident. 
 
 Mr. Phelps has a kindliness of nature which makes this burden easy 
 to him, and his circumstances make it easy. Berlin is pretty full of 
 American students of both sexes and at times of American travelers. 
 Both will remember their minister's friendly good will, though few of 
 them will ever understand how constant was the call upon it, and no 
 one of them ever realized that he or she was not the sole beneficiary 
 of these attentions. 
 
 If I add that Mr. Phelps was a favorite in Berlin society, a constant 
 and delightful host, and ever on friendly terms with the two Bismarcks, 
 father and son, and yet again that he nevertheless found it possible 
 to get on comfortably with the Emperor and with his present chan- 
 cellor, I shall have come pretty nearly to the end of my history. 
 There is, at any rate, among the best people of Berlin and even in the 
 German press, a general and sincere expression of regret at Mr. Phelps's 
 departure. — George W. Smalley (Yale, 1853). 
 
 * Isaac Joseph Post, son of Rev. Albert L. and Eleanor C. 
 Post, was born at Montrose, Pa., June 21, 1837, an d died at 
 his native place, July 10, 1885, aged forty-eight years. 
 
 After graduation he studied law at Montrose in the office of 
 Hon. William Jessup (Yale College, 181 5 ), and was admitted 
 to the bar in January, 1862; in September following, he 
 entered the army and served one year with honor. He then 
 took a position under the solicitor of the treasury at Wash- 
 ington. After two years' service he resigned this position 
 and entered into partnership with Alfred Hand (Yale College, 
 1857 ) at Scranton. This partnership was dissolved in con- 
 sequence of the election of Mr. Hand to a judgeship in 1879. 
 He continued the practice of law alone for five years, during 
 which his health began to fail. In January, 1885, he formed a 
 partnership with William H. Jessup (Yale College, 1849 )• 
 
 He married Eliza Blake Todd, of Paterson, N. J., June 23, 
 
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 1868. Two sons and their mother survived him. He was 
 an accurate and successful lawyer, retained a fondness for 
 scientific investigation, was thoroughly grounded in Christian 
 principles, kept pace with the religious controversies of the day, 
 was a generous friend and highly esteemed in business circles. 
 He visited Europe during his lingering illness of three years 
 and was interested in affairs up to a few days before his death. 
 
 * George Rice, son of Martin and Betsey (Gibbs ) Rice, was 
 born in Natick, Mass., September 28, 1837, and died at South 
 Framingham, April 18, 1905, in his sixty -eighth year. 
 
 He fitted for college at the Framingham High School and 
 at Exeter (N. H. ) Academy. He entered college the second 
 term of Junior year, having previously studied in the Medical 
 Department for about two years. After graduation from 
 college he continued his studies in the Yale Medical School 
 and graduated from that department in the following January. 
 He practiced medicine in Framingham for about three years 
 and then enlisted in the Government service. He was hospital 
 steward in the surgeon-general's office at Washington, and 
 later was appointed acting assistant surgeon in the United 
 States Army, from which he received an honorable discharge 
 in 1869. 
 
 In 1872 he established a pharmacy in South Framingham, 
 from which he retired a few years ago. He was a member of 
 Grace Congregational Church, and for a number of years 
 was actively connected with the Sunday school of that church, 
 serving as its superintendent. He was also connected with 
 the Grand Army post and served in an official capacity. Up 
 to a short time before his death, he had been engaged in writ- 
 ing the history of the Framingham volunteers in the Civil 
 War. His death was caused by apoplexy, by which he had 
 been attacked before. 
 
 He was noted for earnestness and hard work in whatever 
 he undertook, and his disposition always was to look upon 
 the bright side of things. 
 
 He married, June 14, 187 1, Miss Almira Emily Appleton, of 
 Bentonsport, la. They had one son, Hugh Belfield, who, 
 with his mother, survives him. 
 
 Eugene Lamb Richards, son of Timothy Pickering and Agnes 
 
154 Class of Sixty 
 
 Lamb Richards, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 27, 
 1838. 
 
 Ill health, caused by a boating accident during Junior year, 
 required much of his attention after graduation for a consid- 
 erable period. Gradually, however, the attacks of paralysis 
 occurred with less -frequency, and he was able to resume 
 work to a limited extent. Even as late as September, 1870, 
 he sometimes lost the use of his legs for a few days and had 
 to resort to crutches. 
 
 He was appointed tutor in mathematics in Yale in May, 
 1868, to fill a vacancy, and the appointment was confirmed at 
 the next meeting of the corporation. In 1871, he was made 
 assistant professor of mathematics, and, in 1891, he was 
 made full professor. In 1888-89 he began to agitate for a 
 new gymnasium and went to alumni meetings galore to 
 speak on that behalf; finally, he interested some influential 
 New York alumni enough to persuade them to form a com- 
 mittee to raise funds. They raised the money, bought the 
 land on which to build, and handed over the hall equipped 
 and paid for in 1892. He was appointed director, his asso- 
 ciate directors doing the work which was laid out under his 
 supervision. For all the work which he did he received the 
 immense addition of one hundred dollars to his salary. After 
 seeing the work well started and in good running order, he 
 resigned in 190 1. At the time he was on this committee to 
 raise funds and form plans, he was doing hard college work, 
 having two optional courses, besides his regular grind. To 
 meet all his obligations he drew so much upon his reserve 
 strength that after the completion of the gymnasium he was 
 almost a wreck. The corporation recognized his services and 
 his need of rest by giving him a year off in 1896-97, and 
 again in 1902-03. 
 
 He has published two books: " Plane and Spherical Trigo- 
 nometry with Applications," in 1878-79, and " Elementary 
 Navigation and Nautical Astronomy," in 1902. He has 
 written a great many articles for the magazines, most of 
 them going to the Popular Science Monthly, — in February and 
 March, 1884, two articles on "College Athletics "; in July, 
 1886, one on the " Influence of Exercise on Health"; in 
 April, 1888, one on " College Athletics and Physical Develop- 
 ment "; in October, 1894, one on " The Football Situation "; 
 
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 in August, 1895, u The Physical Element in Education." 
 The New Englander published an article of his in July, 1883, 
 upon " Elementary Geometry." The Educational Review of 
 January, 1892, had his article on " Old and New Methods in 
 Geometry." In August, 1894, his " Walking as a Pastime " 
 appeared in the Century. Other minor articles he has pub- 
 lished in various periodicals. 
 
 He calls himself pretty well, and says that if he can get 
 through to our class meeting (June, 1905) without any set- 
 backs, he ought to be good for at least two years more of 
 work, before, by a rule of the corporation, he is shelved as an 
 emeritus. Later he has asked to be retired from active service 
 in 1906. 
 
 The men of '60 have not forgotten how Richards was 
 cheated out of the valedictory by the above-mentioned mis- 
 hap, which seriously impaired his health and interrupted his 
 studies. 
 
 He was married, November 27, 1 861, to Miss Julia L. Bacon, 
 of New Haven, Conn., and they have had four children, — 
 two sons and two daughters. The oldest son graduated from 
 Yale in 1885 and is a lawyer in New York City. The younger 
 son graduated in 1895 and studied and practiced medicine in 
 New York City, until he had to give up and go South for his 
 health. The elder daughter married Prof. James Locke 
 (Yale, 1890). The younger daughter is living in Boston, 
 Mass. 
 
 Charles Herbert Richards, born in Meriden, N. H., March 
 18, 1839, son of Cyrus S. Richards, LL.D., and Helen Dorothy 
 (Whiton) Richards. 
 
 His father was a graduate of Dartmouth (1835) and was 
 for thirty-six years principal of Kimball Union Academy, 
 and fourteen years dean of the preparatory department of 
 Howard University, Washington, D. C. 
 
 He fitted for college at the academy of which his father was 
 principal, and first went to Amherst, but entered our class 
 at the beginning of Junior year. After graduating in i860 
 from Yale, he taught more than two years in Kimball Union 
 Academy. He was for six months in the " Christian Com- 
 mission " in the Army of the Potomac. He studied the- 
 ology two years in Union Theological Seminary, New York 
 
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 City, during which time he also taught in private schools. 
 His last year in the seminary he took at Andover Theological 
 Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1865. 
 
 Declining two good offers to settle in Massachusetts, he 
 went West, and was pastor of a Congregational church in 
 Kokomo, Ind., 1866-67. Here he was ordained and dedi- 
 cated a pretty church. 
 
 In March, 1867, he began service as pastor of the First 
 Congregational Church in Madison, Wis., where he continued 
 for twenty-three years. Here he led the people in building 
 a fine stone church, and the membership greatly increased. 
 He engaged considerably in lecturing through the Northwest ; 
 was chaplain in the legislature, and in the state hospital; 
 was conductor of the Monona Lake Assembly (the Wisconsin 
 Chautauqua) for a time; was trustee of Downer College; 
 and president of the Wisconsin Home Missionary Society; 
 and rendered other public service. The state university 
 being located here, a large number of the faculty and students 
 were in his congregation. 
 
 In February, 1890, having accepted a call to Central Con- 
 gregational Church, Philadelphia, he removed to the " Quaker 
 City," and continued as pastor of that church for thirteen 
 years. While here he was president of the Evangelical 
 Alliance of Pennsylvania ; vice-president of the New England 
 Society of Philadelphia, and held other official positions. 
 He was also increasingly brought into active participation 
 in the national work of the missionary and benevolent societies 
 of this denomination. 
 
 By an unexpected election he became secretary of the 
 Congregational Church-Building Society in March, 1903. 
 This aids in building, on an average, about two churches and 
 one parsonage each week, and its work is in fifty states and 
 territories. 
 
 He received in 1882 the degree of D.D. from Beloit College, 
 " the Yale of the West." 
 
 He published, in 1871, " Will Phillips " (a book for boys); 
 in 1880, " Songs of Christian Praise " (a hymn and tune 
 book) and " Scriptural Selections for Responsive Reading "; 
 and, in 1883, " Songs of Prayer and Praise " (a hymn and 
 tune book). A volume of his sermons was also printed by 
 a friend, entitled " Sunday Mornings with Our Pastor." 
 
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 He has also published various pamphlets and magazine 
 articles. 
 
 He was married, November 18, 1868, in Charles City, la., 
 to Marie M. Miner, daughter of the Rev. Absalom Miner. 
 They have had six children: Paul Stanley, Charles Miner, 
 Helen Dorothy, Marie Louise, Mildred Whiton, and Gladys 
 Lyman; four are living, Charles and Mildred having died in 
 early childhood. 
 
 His address is Congregational Church-Building Society, 
 105 East Twenty -second Street, New York. His home is at 
 35 Hillside Avenue, Montclair, N. J. 
 
 ♦Jacob Wadsworth Russell, son of Jacob and Mary H. 
 Russell, was born in Chicago, 111., December 22, 1839, an d 
 died in that city, May 29, 1875, aged thirty -five and a half 
 years. 
 
 After one year's study of law in his native city, he entered 
 the military service as an attache' of the paymaster's depart- 
 ment and served until 1863, when he resigned and engaged in 
 oil speculations and banking. From 1867 until his death he 
 was secretary of the Chicago board of health, and was esteemed 
 as a faithful and efficient public officer. The cause of his 
 death was a sudden attack of pleuro-pneumonia. 
 
 * James Henry Schneider was born at Broosa, Turkey, 
 March 14, 1839. He was the son of Rev. Dr. Benjamin and 
 Susan M. Schneider, missionaries of the American Board of 
 Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Aintab, Syria. 
 
 During the first three years after his graduation, Schneider 
 was a teacher in the State Normal School at Bridgewater, 
 Mass. He often felt called upon to offer his services to his 
 country after the Civil War began, and, when at length he 
 was drafted, he waited no longer, but reported at once for duty. 
 He presently received the appointment of lieutenant in the 
 Second Regiment of United States Colored Troops and was 
 afterward chosen chaplain of the regiment, being ordained 
 at Bridgewater, October 27, 1863. He was stationed at Ship 
 Island and then at Key West. After a short illness he became 
 a prey to yellow fever and died, April 25, 1864, aged twenty- 
 five years. 
 
 In determining from the purest love of his country to enter 
 
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 the military service he declined an appointment as tutor in 
 Yale, and postponed indefinitely direct preparation for the 
 work of a foreign missionary on which his choice was fixed. 
 Kingsbury wrote of him: 
 
 He showed himself admirably adapted to the functions he had to 
 discharge. He not only ministered to the spiritual wants of the men, 
 being instant in season and out of season, but he also did much for 
 their education and general improvement. He taught classes in the 
 rudiments of learning, held a lyceum, and frequent prayer-meetings, 
 had regular Sunday preaching, ministered to the sick and dying, and 
 buried the dead. 
 
 And so all his plans, — of completed study, of union to the woman 
 he loved, of life-long labor for Christ as a missionary to his native 
 land, — all his plans were ended, and he had entered into rest, and yet 
 those four years of earnest labor, have they not been worth more to 
 the world than the ten that the most of the best of us have spent since 
 we said good bye under these elms? Let us say then, as we pause in 
 our festivity for a moment to call up these tender recollections, let us 
 say: " Thank God for the example and for the memory of James 
 Henry Schneider." 
 
 *John Frank Seely was born at Ludlow, Ohio, October 1, 
 1836, and died at Des Moines, la, October 21, 1865, aged 
 twenty -nine years. He was the son of John H. Seely. 
 
 The first year after graduation he studied law at Beverly, 
 Ohio. The following year he attended lectures in the Cincin- 
 nati Law School, from which he received his degree in the 
 spring of 1862. He removed shortly after to Des Moines, 
 where he engaged in the practice of his profession until his 
 death. 
 
 Park wrote of him at our Decennial: 
 
 Many may not realize fully the extent of hope and promise cut off 
 by his early death. Time, growth, and new responsibilities materially 
 changed his character after he left us. The impulsive brightness of 
 his youth was fast developing into the firm energy and judgment of 
 the man, and the genial temper which once pleased his classmates, 
 gathered a whole community about him in its later and stronger 
 development. As a citizen, the loss of his influence is deeply felt in 
 his western home, nor will it be easy to replace it. It is not, however, 
 as the lawyer, or citizen, but as the Christian man, from which all 
 other right relations spring, that Seely should be remembered. While 
 in college he commenced the religious life, but those who saw only its 
 earlier steps did not realize with what increasing power eternal things 
 would take possession of his mind during each one of the few remaining 
 
Biographical Record 159 
 
 years to be allotted to him. In a growing western city the influence 
 of one decided Christian man is very great. Vice is there bold and 
 determined, and religion is compelled to assume the same attitude, 
 and amidst a population so forming and plastic, the influence of a 
 marked man is far greater than it can be in a staid community. Our 
 classmate saw at once the only principle that could build up the 
 community around him; he gave himself with all his heart to the 
 work of religion and said: " This one thing I do." No sooner had he 
 located in Des Moines than he connected himself with the Congrega- 
 tional church of the place, and became the cherished friend and right- 
 hand man of the pastor. The two labored side by side to mold and 
 form the community around them. Some advantages for religious 
 work our friend did not possess; he had not enjoyed the full benefit 
 of early religious training, and he found some Christian duties difficult, 
 because he had commenced them late. To take part in religious meet- 
 ings he found at first severe and difficult, but perseverance overcame 
 the obstacle so that he was able to speak with freedom, and sometimes 
 with real pathos and power. In the Sunday school he took an ardent 
 interest, and was superintendent of it at the time of his death. The 
 death of some leaves but a small void behind, but the classmates of 
 our friend must feel a peculiar melancholy in viewing the departure 
 of one who w r as called away when he had finished so many years of 
 preparation, and had just approached the result. His mind had passed 
 the stage of growth, and commenced that of action, but too soon was 
 he snatched from the love of those around him, from hopes that can 
 be completed only in another world, and plans w r hich another hand 
 must finish. 
 
 September 8, 1863, he was married to Eliza M., daughter 
 of Eli W. Blake, Esq., of New Haven. They had one child. 
 
 Henry Ward Siglar was born at Seneca, Ontario County, 
 N. Y., October 11, 1833, son of Samuel Siglar. 
 
 Immediately after graduation Siglar accepted the position 
 of principal of Staples Free Academy, Easton, Conn., in which 
 position he remained from September 20, i860, till August, 
 1863. He then conducted the Fairfield Family School for 
 Boys till April, 1864, when he removed to Newburgh, N. Y., 
 and established the Siglar School, a preparatory school for 
 boys. 
 
 Although Easton is but nine miles from Bridgeport, there 
 was but one mail a week. He was, therefore, practically 
 buried during the exciting times of i860 and 1861; and not 
 till the fall of 1862, when Connecticut made a draft for nine- 
 months men was the town really stirred. So many of the 
 patriotic citizens found themselves unfit for military duty 
 
160 Class of Sixty 
 
 that of the small number finally subject to the draft, Siglar 
 was the first one to draw a prize. Not able to be in two 
 places at once, and having decided that duty required his 
 presence in Copperhead Easton, he paid a young man five 
 hundred dollars to take his place in the army. Through some 
 mistake he was arrested as a deserter, while his substitute 
 was in camp near New Haven. Having set this matter right, 
 he was not disturbed till the United States enforced a draft 
 in August, 1863, when the schoolmaster was again drafted, 
 but fortunately his nine-months' substitute had not yet been 
 mustered out, and Siglar could not be held, though in conse- 
 quence of another blunder, he was again posted as a deserter 
 in January, 1864. He had to stand another draft on his 
 removal to Newburgh. 
 
 The Siglar School was opened in Newburgh on the 10th of 
 May, 1864, and from a small beginning, and in spite of many 
 discouragements, became one of the prominent preparatory 
 schools of the country. Over a hundred Siglar boys have 
 been graduated from college, fifty of them from Yale. After 
 over a third of a century in the schoolroom, he gave up the 
 work of teaching and discontinued the school in the spring of 
 1902. 
 
 After closing his school, Siglar removed to New York City 
 and engaged in a variety of pursuits, including tutoring, 
 advertisement writing, and editorial work. 
 
 Since January last he has been employed as a special agent 
 of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. 
 
 Siglar published an English grammer in 1874 (Henry Holt 
 & Co., New York). He has never been a candidate for 
 public office. 
 
 He was married, August 14, 1861, to Miss Mary Frank 
 Burr, of Easton, Conn. They had one son, Henry Burr, born 
 February 29, 1876. He graduated from Yale in the class 
 of 1897, and is practicing medicine in New York City. 
 
 * Calvin Harmon Smith, son of Abial M. and Sarah R. 
 Smith, was born at Coventry, Vt., September 19, 1838, and 
 died at Potsdam, N. Y., July 24, 1866, in his twenty -eighth 
 year. 
 
 He entered college at the beginning of Junior year, and 
 after graduation he studied law for eighteen months, at the 
 
Biographical Record 161 
 
 end of which time he was admitted to the bar and commenced 
 practice at Potsdam, N. Y. In 1863, he was appointed 
 assistant district attorney for the Northern District of New 
 York, and acted in that capacity until near the time of his 
 death, three years later. He had, however, formed an 
 advantageous connection with an established law firm in 
 Chicago, and was about to remove to that city when he was 
 prostrated by a fatal attack of inflammation of the bowels, 
 and nervous fever, induced by exposure while traveling in 
 the West. 
 
 William Thayer Smith, son of Rev. Asa D. Smith, D.D.,was 
 born in New York City, March 30, 1839. 
 
 Long continued ill health prevented his carrying out his 
 plans to study theology and enter the ministry. He lived 
 in New York after graduation until April, 1864, when he went 
 to live with his father who was president of Dartmouth Col- 
 lege. In 1878, he graduated from Dartmouth Medical College, 
 After all these years of ill health he was able to enter on his 
 professional life in the following year. In 1885, he wrote two 
 school physiologies which have been in the hands of several 
 million children and are still in use. In 1877-78, with his 
 family, he spent six months in Europe studying at Paris, 
 Heidelberg, and Vienna. In 1901, again with his family, he 
 took a trip across the continent, spending a few weeks in 
 California. In 1903, with two sisters and his sons he spent 
 the summer in England, Scotland, Holland, and Paris. 
 
 In June, 1897, he received the honorary degree of LL.D. 
 from Dartmouth College. For one year, the limit of the 
 term of office for any member, he was president of the New 
 Hampshire Medical Society (1900-01 ). He is a member 
 of the American Academy of Medicine, of the American Asso- 
 ciation for the Advancement of Science, dean of the Dart- 
 mouth Medical School, and " last, but not least " a deacon 
 in the Congregational church. He writes that he works hard, 
 and his health is excellent. 
 
 He married, at Norwich, Vt., January 14, 1885, Miss Susan 
 Weston Kellogg, who died, " translated in a night," in 1902. 
 Two sons were born to them, — the elder, who is now (1905) 
 a Junior in Dartmouth, in 1886; the younger, who is a Senior 
 at Phillips Andover Academy, in 1889. 
 
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 Pierre Sythoff Starr, son of Jonathan and Catharine L. Starr, 
 was born in New London, Conn., November 18, 1839. 
 
 He was prepared for college at Williston Seminary, East- 
 hampton, Mass., and entered with the class. After gradua- 
 tion, he studied medicine in the medical department of the 
 University of the City of New York. The first year after 
 receiving his medical diploma, he was acting assistant sur- 
 geon in the United States Army, and the next two years 
 he was assistant surgeon of the Thirty -ninth Ohio Volunteer 
 Infantry. 
 
 When he was mustered out of the service, he began the 
 practice of his profession in Chicago, but later he removed to 
 Hartford, Conn., where he has long been in the quiet enjoy- 
 ment of a large and lucrative practice. He has one son, 
 Robert Sythoff, who is in company with him in the practice 
 of medicine. 
 
 He married Miss Louise G. Tudor, of South Windsor, Conn., 
 May 27, 1868. Besides the son, they have a daughter, also. 
 
 * Joseph Lord Taintor, son of Ralph S. and Phebe L. Tain tor, 
 was born in Colchester, Conn., September ax, 1835, an d died 
 in Bloomingdale, N. Y., September 1, 1881, at the age of 
 forty -six. 
 
 Taintor entered our class in the spring of Freshman year. 
 He had intended to study law after graduation, but anxiety 
 about his health induced him to enter the map and guide- 
 book publishing business, with his uncle and brother. In the 
 spring of 1864, while residing at Avon, N. Y., he purchased 
 the interests of his partners in business. Two years later he 
 was attacked with congestion of the lungs, and on regaining 
 strength he removed to South Orange, N. J., where he con- 
 tinued to reside until his death, highly esteemed for his public 
 spirit and Christian influence. In the spring of 1867, in 
 conjunction with his brother, Charles Newhall Taintor (Yale 
 College, 1865 ), he began the business of publishing school and 
 miscellaneous books in New York City. The success and 
 growth of the firm were evidence of the good judgment, strict 
 integrity, and painstaking industry of both the brothers. 
 In 1879 he was attacked by pneumonia, which was followed 
 by a permanent weakness of the lungs in consequence of which 
 he retired from business in August, 1880, and devoted him- 
 
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 self to the care of his health. He died in the Adirondack 
 region, where he had gone in the hope of recuperating. 
 
 He was married, September 4, 1862, to Miss Isabella Corn- 
 stock, of Avon, N. Y., who survives him, with several children. 
 
 Charles Henry Vandyne, son of Henry and Emily G. Van- 
 dyne, was born in New York City, February 8, 1838. He 
 entered the class the second term of Freshman year. He 
 writes : 
 
 I entered the theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal 
 church in the vicinity of Alexandria, Va., in the fall of i860. Within 
 a few months the seminary was closed by the disturbances incident to 
 the war for the Union. Finding my way homeward to New York, I 
 continued the study of divinity at the General Seminary located in 
 that city. In August, 1862, being eager to begin my chosen work of 
 preaching the gospel, I was ordained to the ministry and placed in 
 charge of a little mission church among the poor in the city of Chicago. 
 I became attached to the little flock and with reluctance left them to 
 accept a call to an attractive parish, delightfully situated on the shore 
 of Lake Michigan. There I had a fine field, and applied myself to the 
 work with all the ardor of youth, but found ere long that my physical 
 strength was inadequate. This fact, which it was difficult to accept 
 without discouragement, hindered me at the outset, and has been my 
 chief obstacle all through, limiting my diligence and causing me to 
 make changes time and again when I would gladly have remained at 
 my post and worked on. In spite of it, however, I was permitted to 
 preach the gospel for nearly thirty-five years without any protracted 
 interruption. For that privilege I feel deeply thankful. I regret only 
 that I did not proclaim saving truth more vigorously and effectively. 
 Those for whom I ministered listened to my teaching with interest, 
 and treated me with kindness and liberality, providing abundantly for 
 my temporal needs. My general aim was to instruct and enlighten 
 rather than directly to persuade and entreat. Gospel truth has a 
 charm and fascination for all noble minds when clearly and accurately 
 presented. I endeavored primarily to awaken loving attachment 
 to the Founder of the Faith on account of his infinite elevation 
 and amiability of character and his self-sacrifice for poor sinning and 
 suffering humanity. I was not troubled with rational doubts and 
 temptations to unbelief. It seemed to me that any man who strives 
 sincerely to put the Christian religion in practice will obtain abundant 
 conviction of its truth. The Bible has always impressed me as a 
 glorious divine revelation. Its numerous prophecies, wonderfully 
 fulfilled, furnish the most irresistible proof of its supernatural origin. 
 
 In the earlier years of my ministry I was zealous in advocating 
 church unity. I felt deeply that there was excessive and pernicious 
 dissension on points of minor importance. But later, when the so- 
 
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 called higher criticism began to rage, I took the ground that nothing 
 could be lower or more detestable, and that Holy Scripture must be 
 defended at any cost. No imaginable unity would compensate for its 
 loss. No genuine agreement is possible between those who reverently 
 and thankfully accept the Bible as the word of God and those who 
 appoint themselves its critics and assailants. This doctrine I endeav- 
 ored to emphasize both in the pulpit and through the press. Though 
 I set very high value upon unity and harmony, I could not doubt that 
 when divine revelation was treacherously attacked by men who were 
 most solemnly obligated to be its earnest defenders, the time had come 
 for division and war. But as my term of active service was about to 
 end, I could do little more than lament over the general apathy on this 
 vital question, and declare my warmest sympathy with those, wherever 
 they may be found and by whatever name called, who are zealous for 
 the dear old Book transmitted to us by souls faithful unto death 
 through all the centuries as the genuine record of divine truth. 
 
 In the last years of my preaching, I was impressed by the alarming 
 weakness of the church to stem the rising tide of unbelief, to resist the 
 evident decline in moral and religious sentiment and to ward off 
 threatening social disaster, but was sustained by the assurance that 
 where man fails, God is mighty, and that the second advent of our 
 Lord is now near at hand. On the bright and consoling topic of a 
 dawning millennium, I delighted to discourse and found eager listeners. 
 I would gladly have worked longer, but it is better to be thankful for 
 privileges and blessings already enjoyed than to complain because 
 they come to an end. 
 
 He filled acceptably a number of pastorates in New York, 
 Pennsylvania, and Maryland, the last being at St. Mary's 
 Church, Pocomoke City, Md., where he remained for five 
 years. Changes were made on account of the necessity for 
 brief periods of rest and recuperation. 
 
 He married, August 28, 1867, Miss Helen Marselis, daughter 
 of Dr. Isaac N. Marselis, of Philadelphia, who died, June 29, 
 1895. They had one child, a boy, who died in infancy. 
 
 * Julius Hammond Ward, son of Hammond and Laurinda 
 (Lathe ) Ward, was born in Charlton, Mass., October 12, 1837, 
 and died in Worcester, May 30, 1897, in the sixtieth year of 
 his age. 
 
 For six months after graduation he taught school, and then 
 entered the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown, Conn., 
 where he was ordained deacon by Bishop Williams, June 4, 
 1862. He then took charge of Grace Chapel in Yantic, a 
 part of Norwich, Conn., and May 6, 1863, he was advanced 
 to the priesthood. In February, 1864, he became rector of 
 
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 Christ Church, Ansonia, Conn., and went thence in August, 
 
 1865, to St. Peter's Church, Cheshire, Conn. In the fall of 
 
 1866, he published the " Life and Letters of James G. Perci- 
 val," which he had begun to prepare for publication while a 
 student in college. 
 
 In December, 1867, at the earnest call of Bishop Neely, 
 he took charge of an extensive missionary field in Thomaston 
 and Rockland, Me., where he labored assiduously until the 
 early part of 1875. By this time he had become greatly 
 overworked, and he removed to St. Michael's Church, Marble- 
 head, Mass., where his health was re-established. In the 
 beginning of 1877, he acted for three months as editor of the 
 North American Review, and, in September of that year, began 
 a connection with the Boston Herald, which he served as 
 literary editor and editorial writer until his last illness. In 
 1878, he removed to Boston and undertook a series of Sunday 
 afternoon lectures in the Union Hall, which he hoped might 
 lead to the organization of a permanent People's Church, but 
 the experiment was abandoned after three seasons, and he 
 found an abundant opportunity for influence in his successful 
 editorial work. Besides his constant service on the Herald, 
 he wrote largely for other daily and weekly papers, and for 
 monthly magazines, especially on questions in religion, social 
 movements, and education. He also published several 
 volumes, the most important of which was " The Church 
 in Modern Society " (1889 ). His health failed in November, 
 
 1896, and an attack of paralysis, which occurred May 25, 
 
 1897, left him unconscious, and led to his death five days later. 
 September 2, 1862, he married Olive E., daughter of John 
 
 Witter, of Brooklyn, Conn., who survives him (1897), with 
 two daughters. 
 
 Samuel Reed Warren, one of the sons of Dr. John P. Warren, 
 a prominent physician, was born at Wardsboro, Vt., on April 
 4, 1834. He fitted for college at Monson Academy in Monson, 
 Mass., and after spending one term at Amherst, he entered 
 the class of '60 at Yale, early in the winter of 1856-57. 
 After graduation he studied law in New York City and was 
 admitted to the bar. When Banks's expedition sailed from 
 New York in the winter of 1862-63, he accompanied it as 
 assistant to General Beckwith, chief commissary of subsist- 
 
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 ence, and remained in New Orleans in that capacity until 
 the summer of 1865. He then resigned his position, and 
 soon after returned to New York and resumed his legal pur- 
 suits. Subsequently he removed to Washington, where, at 
 one time, he was in the practice of law, although most of the 
 years he has spent in the executive departments of the 
 national government in responsible and important positions. 
 For a long time he was in the office of the adjutant-general in 
 the War Department. For several years previously to 1885, 
 he was connected with the National Bureau of Education, 
 and while engaged there he was the chief author and compiler 
 of the comprehensive work published by the government, 
 entitled " Public Libraries in America." The New York 
 Tribune referred to this publication as " a document of 
 uncommon interest, containing a rich fund of information on 
 points that rarely come within the purview of the general 
 government, affording a complete and exhaustive treatise 
 on the statistics and bibliography of American libraries." 
 The reviewer with entire justice went on to say: " Its value 
 in a great degree is due to Mr. Warren's literary experience, 
 accurate scholarship, excellent judgment, and conscientious 
 fidelity." 
 
 Warren is still living in Washington, and is rendering 
 valuable and appreciated service in the War Department. 
 He has never married. 
 
 Xenophon Wheeler, son of Salmon and Gillin Wheeler, was 
 born in Homer, Ohio, February 19, 1835. 
 
 After graduation he began the study of law in New York, 
 but in July, 1861, he went to his native state and enlisted in 
 the Sixty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, and soon saw 
 active service. A musket ball fractured his thigh at Win- 
 chester. After nearly four months in the hospital he recov- 
 ered and then returned to his former home in central Ohio, 
 and went into a law office for a few months. But he soon 
 returned to the army again, and this time as captain in the 
 One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteers. After 
 being mustered out of the service he began practicing law, 
 and in the summer of 1865, he went to Tennessee and took up 
 his residence at Chattanooga, where he has since lived. He 
 was United States district attorney for the Eastern District 
 
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 of Tennessee from 1879 to 1883, and he declares that this is 
 the only office he has ever held. But the Bar Association of 
 Tennessee honored itself and him by electing him as the 
 president of that body. He writes that his life has been 
 quite prosaic, while he has much to be thankful for, he doubts 
 not that the Lord has used him really much better than he 
 has deserved. There is reason to surmise that he has 
 enjoyed a large and lucrative law practice. Although he 
 entered our class only at the beginning of Senior year, yet 
 every one feels as if he had known him even from the pina- 
 fore stage of existence. 
 
 He married, July 14, 1863, Miss A. E. Knowlton, of Utica, 
 Ohio. They had three children, two daughters and a son. 
 The wife died in December, 1887. He married again in 
 September, 1890. The son graduated from Yale with the 
 class of 1894. 
 
 Thomas Howell White, son of Henry and Martha (Sher- 
 man) White, was born in New Haven, Conn., February 4, 
 1840. He was fitted for college at the Hopkins Grammar 
 School and entered college with the class. For three years 
 after graduation he pursued the study of medicine, and 
 followed his profession in New York City. 
 
 In April, 1 871, he was married to Elizabeth Ann Van Buren. 
 They have one child, a daughter. His present address is 
 Mackie Cottage, Grand Street, Newburgh, N. Y. 
 
 * Francis Roscoe Way, the son of Francis D. Way, of Phila- 
 delphia, was born in that city, April 28, 1840, and died at 
 Jacksonville, Fla., March 16, 1868, aged twenty-eight years. 
 
 After graduation he commenced to study law in Phila- 
 delphia, and was admitted to the bar in 1863. In the summer 
 of that year he joined an artillery company, the First Phila- 
 delphia Light Battery, organized for temporary service in 
 consequence of the invasion of Pennsylvania by General Lee. 
 A few weeks of exposure, combined with the excitement of 
 actual conflict, sufficed to destroy his health, not strong 
 before. He afterward entered into active business, without 
 being able to check the progress of the disease. He went to 
 Florida in December, 1867, in hope of being benefited by the 
 
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 climate. His strength failed rapidly and he died of consump- 
 tion the following March. His remains were brought home 
 to his native city and buried at Laurel Hill. 
 
 Lemuel Tripp Willcox, son of Amaziah and Susan H. Will- 
 cox, was born in Fairhaven, Mass., August 8, 1835. 
 
 After graduation he commenced the study of law in the 
 office of Congressman Elliott, of the Southern Massachusetts 
 District, in New Bedford, and was admitted to the bar in 
 1862. He has ever since lived in his native town and practiced 
 his profession in the neighboring city. He has persisted with 
 the Secretary that he had no life story to tell that would 
 interest his classmates. But a lucky chance brought a letter 
 from a member of the Bristol County bar, through which we 
 get an interesting and lifelike sketch of our friend. 
 
 No man in the community in which he lives is more highly esteemed 
 than Mr. Willcox. His moral standards are on the very highest levels. 
 Every good cause has his hearty support, and every ignoble action of 
 public men or parties meets his fearless condemnation. His reputa- 
 tion is that of a man who places truth in the foremost place regardless 
 of personal or other consequences. In his whole career he has followed 
 where his conception of truth has led him, — in some instances to the 
 sacrifice of valued personal relationships and important business 
 advantages. In his profession he is high toned. He will not allow 
 himself to be retained in causes of doubtful morality. The one ques- 
 tion with him in the practice of his profession is, What is right? He 
 will fight hard and brilliantly for his client, if he is persuaded that his 
 cause is just, but he will do nothing to help him get the best of his 
 adversary regardless of the merits of the case, No man anywhere has 
 a more creditable standing at the bar. He handles his cases admira- 
 bly and generally with success. He is still in active practice. 
 
 He was married, June 22, 1865, to Miss Harriet Curtis 
 Field, of New Haven, Conn. They have one son, Standish, 
 whose home is in Boston. 
 
 Edwin Sidney Williams, son of Wilmot Williams, Esq., was 
 born at Elizabeth, N. J., June 8, 1838. 
 
 He was prepared for college at Oberlin, Ohio, where he also 
 says he became a Christian. He entered college with his 
 class in 1856. His story is best told in his own words. 
 
 You will not expect the poorest mathematician in the class to cipher 
 out his love for the boys of '6o. When I tell you I have two ivies 
 growing which are the horticultural grandsons of the ivy we planted 
 
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 in i860, and brothers of our vine of 1900, you recognize the sentiment 
 of love which brought these ivies across the continent. 
 
 I studied theology at Oberlin, graduating in 1865. My first parish 
 was Northfield, Minn., where I learned to love people, and helped start 
 Carleton College, staying there nearly two years. I preached to Free 
 Church, Andover, Mass., for a time. Like an old war horse hearing a 
 bugle, I was easily won back to Minnesota, where I divided three years, 
 1872 to 1875, between Glyndon and Brainerd. Coming to Minneapolis 
 I wrought until 1883, with what is now the Park Avenue Church of 
 that beautiful city, and was city missionary for two years. Then I 
 began to think of going to California, whose charms slowly but surely 
 won me from Minnesota, with which I was bewitched. In 1891-92, 
 I represented the Congregational Church Building Society on the 
 Pacific coast, resigning, as I had told them I should do, in 1892, to carry 
 out a long cherished plan to go around the world. Unexpectedly, I 
 was appointed World's Fair Commissioner and rendered hearty service 
 in Japan, China, India, and Egypt. I had a rare opportunity to study 
 Christian missions, which I enthusiastically improved. While my 
 excellent wife was recovering, during 1893-94, from sickness con- 
 tracted during the world journey, I was helpful in building the useful 
 Mayflower Church at Pacific Grove, Cal., Then I spent nearly two years 
 as associate pastor of the First Congregational Church of Oakland. 
 
 Since 1898, I have lived upon a small, but very beautiful ranch in 
 Saratoga, where I have tried to do a little good as life's evening has 
 come on. My latchstring is out for the boys of '60. I tell them what 
 I tell thousands of visitors to this superb country, that the sight of 
 the ninety billion of white prune blossoms in the springtime is, while 
 it lasts, the unsurpassed horticultural sight of the world. 
 
 I am in excellent health, and life is richly worth living. I love my 
 Bible, Oberlin, dear old Yale, and the Class of '60, and always expect 
 I shall preach the gospel until I die. 
 
 Dunham says: 
 
 Ned Williams, in college days, was one of the most ardent, enthu- 
 siastic, and warm-hearted fellows I ever knew. One day, in Senior 
 year, I met him out under the elms, and he said, " Well, Sam, what are 
 you going to do when you get through college? " I told him I had 
 decided to study for the ministry. " Why, bless your heart, Sam, if 
 any church ever gets you for a pastor, they'll never let you go as long 
 as you live." Some of us Yale boys, when studying in New York, 
 enjoyed Williams's generous and graceful hospitality out at his Eliza- 
 beth home. We went out skating together, and returned, with our 
 appetites, to a savory turkey dinner, the delicious flavor of which 
 lingers even unto this day. Ned has not yet quite forgiven me for 
 twice failing to visit him at his California ranch when on the Pacific 
 coast. Nor have I ever forgiven myself for missing so splendid an 
 opportunity. I had, however, a delightful little time with him in 
 San Francisco, and found him the same genial, large-hearted fellow 
 as of yore. 
 
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 He married, December 31, 1861, Miss Frances A. Lee, of 
 Garrett sville, Ohio. They had one child, a daughter, who 
 died in infancy. 
 
 Robert Newton Willson, son of Rev. Robert E. Willson, 
 was born at Hammondsport, N. Y., February 7, 1839. 
 
 He entered college with the class and after graduation spent 
 a year and a half in teaching in Connecticut, and then went 
 to Philadelphia and commenced the study of law with his 
 uncle in that city. In 1864, he was admitted to the bar and 
 began the practice of his profession. He was for a term a 
 member of the city Board of Education, and, in December, 
 1872, he was appointed first assistant city solicitor. In 
 November, 1884, ne wa s elected one of the judges of the Court 
 of Common Pleas, and is now serving his third term of ten 
 years upon the judicial bench. For many years he has been 
 president of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School 
 Work of the Presbyterian church, and is a prominent factor 
 in the church life of Philadelphia. 
 
 He was married, September 28, 1869, to Miss Lizzie S. 
 Dale, of Philadelphia. They have six children, three of 
 whom are married, have homes of their own, and all of whom 
 make the lives of their parents happy. 
 
 * Morris Woodruff, son of Hon. Lewis B. Woodruff (Yale 
 College, 1830) and Harriette B. Woodruff, was born in New- 
 ark, N. J., July 30, 1838, and died in New York City, March 3, 
 1894, in his fifty-sixth year. 
 
 He prepared for college at Andover, and entered with his 
 class, but did not complete the course, leaving in 1858 to 
 engage in mercantile pursuits in New York City. He was 
 connected with two different firms in the dry goods importing 
 business, and in 1864 became a member of the firm of George 
 W. Lane & Co., importers of teas, of which house he was for 
 over ten years and at the time of his death the head. 
 
 In October, 1863, he married Juliette daughter of George 
 W. Lane, president of the New York Chamber of Commerce, 
 by whom he had four children, the eldest son being a gradu- 
 ate of Yale in 1893, and the younger now (1894) in the class 
 of 1895 in the Sheffield Scientific School. In 1874 the college 
 conferred upon him the degrees of A.B. and A.M., and his 
 
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 name was enrolled with his class. He was a member of the 
 New York Chamber of Commerce and for many years 
 treasurer of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, of 
 which he was also a member. 
 
 He died suddenly of paralysis, at his home; his wife and 
 all his children survive him (1894). He was a man of ster- 
 ling qualities and of inflexible business and personal integ- 
 rity, and his genial social characteristics endeared him to a 
 large circle of friends. 
 
 Lewis Nicholas Worthington, son of Lewis and Sallie A. 
 Worthington, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 21, 1839. 
 He entered college with the class, from a preparatory school 
 in his native city. He devoted three years after graduation 
 to the study and practice of law in Cincinnati, and also 
 served some time in the army as lieutenant in the Sixth Ohio 
 Volunteers, and again during Morgan's raid. In 1863-64, 
 he attended lectures at the Harvard Law School. He then 
 went to Europe and passed some time in travel, but for the 
 most part devoted himself to the study of medicine and sur- 
 gery in Paris, and in perfecting himself in the French and 
 German languages. 
 
 Since our Decennial, he has resided mostly in Paris, and 
 practiced medicine in that city. In 1875, ne published a 
 medical thesis, "De VObesite" and he is an Officier d J Aca- 
 demic, France. In July, 1899, he writes that he 
 
 visited New Haven and spent the day looking over the college 
 grounds and buildings, reviving old memories, seeing but one familiar 
 face, Van Name of '58, — Eugene Richards had already gone off for his 
 vacation. It was melancholy for one to note the almost complete 
 change, not only of the college buildings, but also of streets of the city. 
 The old familiar look was gone, and I felt a complete stranger. I longed 
 for a sight of some of the old classmates, and for handshakings and 
 greetings of comrades who were young when I saw them last. 
 
 He was married, May 18, 1886, in London, England, to 
 Miss Emma L. J. Browne, of Antigua, West Indies. They have 
 two boys, who are at school in England, and who, he writes, 
 are looking forward eagerly to the time when they shall be 
 students at Yale, both being enthusiastic Americans. 
 
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 * Mason Young, son of Henry and Anne Mason Young, was 
 born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 6, 1838, and died in New York 
 City, March 27, 1906, aged sixty-eight, nearly. 
 
 He was prepared for college at a private school in New York 
 City and could have taken his entrance examinations at the 
 age of fourteen; the next few years he spent in foreign travel 
 and in 1855 he was an attache of the American Legation at 
 Madrid. During this period he became thoroughly conver- 
 sant with the French, German, Spanish, and Italian languages. 
 He entered the class at the beginning of Sophomore year, and 
 with the exception of a short period of ill health, remained 
 through the course. 
 
 After graduation he studied law, both in an office and in 
 the Columbia College Law School, and was admitted to the 
 bar in May, 1862, in New York City, where he practiced his 
 profession until about 1887. While in New York, he was a 
 vestryman of St. George's Church. In 1875, he moved his 
 residence to New London, Conn., and became a warden of 
 St. James' Church there. 
 
 In his law practice he was associated with Thatcher Adams 
 of '58 and Eugene Smith of '59. 
 
 After leaving law practice in New York, he lived for some 
 time at St. Augustine, Fla., and became interested in railroad 
 and hotel enterprises which proved financially unsuccessful. 
 He was a member of the Corporation from 1873 to 1884. 
 Mr. Joseph E. Sheffield retiring in the former year, Young 
 was chosen as his successor. He was a zealous promoter of 
 all Yale's interests, whether in finances, athletics, or any other 
 department of need or endeavor. About two years ago he 
 suffered a paralytic stroke which rendered him an invalid to 
 the day of his death. 
 
 He was married, December 10, 1862, to Miss Louise M. 
 Hurlbut, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who survives him, with four 
 daughters and three sons, George H. Young, Yale, 1887; 
 William D. Young, Yale, 1892; and Mason Young, Yale, 1897. 
 
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 Richard Hinckley Allen, son of Richard L. and Sally O. 
 (Lyman) Allen, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., August 4, 1838. 
 He writes: 
 
 From 1848 to 1854, I was a school boy in Northampton and Lenox, 
 Mass., and then for two years lived on Staten Island, N. Y., and was a 
 scholar under Prof. Charles Anthon at Columbia Grammar School in 
 old Park Place. 
 
 I entered our class at the beginning of Freshman year, but nearly 
 broke down in my eyesight, and ought not to have gone in at all; so 
 that I was not surprised when my physician told me to get out at 
 Sophomore year. This I did, and so ended all active participation in 
 Yale for me. 
 
 After two years of travel and rest, I went into business in New 
 York, where I remained until 1886, and have since lived quietly in this 
 country place (Chatham, N. J.), where I still remain, busy with the 
 usual interests and cares, as well as enjoyments of a landed estate, 
 and two or three estate trusts in my charge. I am a member and 
 officer in the Presbyterian church here, but I have no other honors, 
 social or political. I am interested in an amateur way in ornithology 
 and astronomy, but proficient in neither. I have always thought 
 pleasantly of my brief stay in Yale, and of the fellows in the class, 
 though I have seen few of them since. Your reunion papers bring 
 them all before me, and I wish that I could see you all again. 
 
 He was married, in 1873, to Miss Mary Collins Wallace, 
 younger daughter of William C. Wallace, of Newark, N. J. 
 They have no children. 
 
 ♦Jonathan Knight Bacon, eldest child of Rev. William T. 
 Bacon (Yale College, 1837) was DOrn i n New Haven, August 
 10, 1840. His mother was Elizabeth, eldest daughter of 
 Prof. Jonathan Knight, M.D., of the Yale Medical School. He 
 was in the class through Freshman and the greater part of 
 Sophomore year. 
 
 He began his course in the Yale Medical School in 1861, 
 and graduated in March, 1864. He entered the United States 
 Navy as acting assistant surgeon, and was in the fleet under 
 
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174 Class of Sixty 
 
 Admiral Farragut at his capture of Mobile. He resigned 
 from the service in October, 1865, and in January, 1868, began 
 the practice of his profession in New Milford, Conn. He 
 remained there until his death, a period of almost thirty years, 
 and was widely known and appreciated, both as a physician 
 and a surgeon. 
 
 He died July 17, 1897, after an illness of several weeks, 
 aged nearly fifty-seven years. 
 
 He married, December 16, 1868, Sophie, eldest daughter of 
 Frederick A. Marsh, of Litchfield, Conn., who survives him. 
 He left no children. 
 
 * George Becker, son of Abraham and Maria D. Becker, was 
 born in South Worcester, N. Y., April 19, 1839. 
 
 He entered college with the class, but left during Freshman 
 year and began the study of law ; he was admitted to the bar 
 in i860, and practiced in Schoharie, then in Cooperstown, and 
 afterward in Binghamton, where he was settled for some years. 
 He was engaged in the celebrated Ruloff murder trial in the 
 later sixties. He is remembered by some of the older lawyers 
 of Binghamton as a rather brilliant, though somewhat erratic 
 member of the profession. It is believed that he died some 
 twelve years ago, and that his family is now living in Milwau- 
 kee, Wis. 
 
 He was married, near Hanover C. H., Va., May 8, 1865, to 
 Miss Mollie E. Cady. 
 
 George Bernard Bonney, son of George and Elvira S. T. 
 Bonney, was born in Rochester, Mass., March 10, 1839. 
 
 He entered college with the class, but left during Freshman 
 year. Subsequently he joined the class of 1861 and gradu- 
 ated with them. After graduation he studied law six months 
 in Providence, R. I. During the summer of 1862, he served 
 as a private for three months in the Tenth Rhode Island 
 Regiment, which left for the seat of war at only a few hours, 
 notice, on the occasion of Jackson's raid up the Shenandoah 
 valley. He had some hard marching, but for most of the 
 time was on duty near Washington. On his return he entered 
 Harvard College Law School, where he remained until March, 
 1863. He then removed to New York, and was admitted to 
 the bar December 6 of the same year. Since that date he 
 
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 has been practicing his profession in that city. His address 
 is 51 Wall Street. 
 
 He was married, in New York, April 3, 1872, to Miss Caro- 
 line K. Holbrook, who died May 19, 1901. They had six 
 children. 
 
 ♦John Routh Bowie, son of Dr. Allen T. and Matilda J. 
 (Routh) Bowie, was born in Natchez, Miss., April 14, 1839, 
 and died at St. Joseph, La., in 1878. 
 
 He entered college with the class, but did not remain 
 through the Freshman year. He went first to the University 
 of Virginia, and then to the University of North Carolina, 
 where he joined the class of 1861, and graduated with it. At 
 first, after graduation, he engaged in cotton planting in 
 Tensas Parish, La. In the Civil War he enlisted in a cavalry 
 regiment and was appointed to the command of a signal corps, 
 and of a small detachment of scouts on the Mississippi River, 
 which was occupied in conveying stores through or around the 
 Federal lines. At the close of the war he was paroled at 
 Jackson, Miss. He afterwards engaged in planting and mer- 
 chandise at St. Joseph, La., until some time during the year 
 1878, when he died. All efforts to get further information or 
 to get into communication with his family have been futile. 
 
 He was married, January 15, 1 861, to Miss Carrie Calloway, 
 of Wilkes County, N. C. They had three children. 
 
 William Pomeroy Brooks, son of James S. and Mellicent 
 Brooks, was born in Meriden, Conn., March 4, 1838. 
 
 He entered college with the class and left during the second 
 term of Freshman year. Upon leaving college he at first was 
 a bookkeeper, but afterwards went to sea before the mast for 
 three years. During the Civil War he served for four years, 
 first in the First Connecticut Volunteers, and afterwards in 
 the Seventh. He was afterward engaged in mechanical pur- 
 suits at Spring Valley, N. Y. There are rumors that he rose 
 to a position of some importance in railway circles, but ail 
 efforts to get into communication with him or his friends 
 have proved fruitless. 
 
 He was married to Miss Ellen M. Smith, of Clarkstown, 
 N. Y., June 1, 1870. 
 
176 Class of Sixty 
 
 * William Brown entered college with the class, but on 
 account of sickness left college during Freshman year and 
 returned to his home in Bethel, N. Y., and remained there 
 until the time of his death, which occurred during the follow- 
 ing year. He was one of our class monitors. 
 
 Charles Henry Bunce, son of John L. and Louise M. Bunce, 
 was born in Hartford, Conn., May 25, 1839. 
 
 He entered college with the class, but a serious illness early 
 in Senior year compelled him to leave, and when he recovered 
 a year later, so as to be able to resume his studies, he entered 
 the Sheffield Scientific School and graduated in 1862, with 
 the degree of Ph.B. He spent one year as draughtsman in 
 the Woodruff and Beach Iron Works at Hartford, three and 
 a half years more in the government service as civil engineer 
 on the coast fortifications. Later he resumed his place as 
 draughtsman, and then became division engineer upon the 
 Connecticut Valley Railway. He was, for many years follow- 
 ing, city surveyor of Hartford, and he is now pursuing the 
 profession of expert and consulting engineer in his native 
 city. 
 
 Bunce ought to be restored to the class " with all the rights 
 and privileges " of an academic graduate, and a full-fledged 
 member of the Class of '6o. 
 
 He was married, February 16, 1865, to Miss Mary L. Beebe, 
 of New Haven, Conn. 
 
 *John Groesbeck Burnet entered college with the class and 
 left at the close of the second term of Freshman year, return- 
 ing to his home in Cincinnati, Ohio. The only information 
 the Secretary has been able to get in regard to him comes 
 from General Garrard, of 1858, who writes that he has been 
 dead for twenty years or more. 
 
 George Chalmers, son of Thomas C. and Margaret M. 
 Chalmers, was born in New York City, September 4, 1840. 
 
 He left the class at the close of the second term of Fresh- 
 man year and entered the class of 1861 at the beginning of 
 its Sophomore year, graduating with that class. After gradu- 
 ation he studied law at the Columbia College Law School and 
 was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1863. He practiced 
 
Biographical Record 177 
 
 law in New York City until 1888, when he went to England, 
 and although he has not lately been heard from it is believed 
 he is still there. 
 
 Titus Munson Coan, son of Rev. Titus and Fidelia Church 
 Coan, was born in the Hawaiian Islands, entered college with 
 the class and left during the third term of Freshman year. 
 He subsequently entered Williams College and graduated 
 there in the Scientific School in i860. Later Williams honored 
 him with the degree of A.M. He studied medicine at the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, and 
 after graduating entered the navy as assistant surgeon, serv- 
 ing for two years (1864-65) in the West Gulf Squadron 
 under Farragut. On resigning from the navy he began the 
 practice of his profession in New York City. 
 
 In 1880 he established a bureau of revision for purposes of 
 criticism, editing, compiling, and preparing manuscript for 
 publication, and acting as general intermediary between 
 authors and publishers. He is a trustee of the Authors Club, 
 member of the Century Club, of the Loyal Legion, of Phi 
 Beta Kappa, and of the Deutscher Liederkranz. 
 
 He was married in 1877; a widower in 1901. His address 
 is 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
 
 * Walter Douglas Comegys, son of Joseph P. Comegys, Esq., 
 of Dover, Del., entered the class during Freshman year and 
 left during first term of Sophomore year. Subsequently he 
 entered the class of 1861 and remained through its Sophomore 
 year. He then studied law and practiced for a time in 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, and after 1866, in Philadelphia, where he 
 died suddenly, December 28, 1877. 
 
 He married the daughter of the late Hon. John Bell, of 
 Tennessee. 
 
 George Langford Curran, son of Edward and Mary (Lang- 
 ford) Curran, was born in Utica, N. Y., March 10, 1840. 
 
 He was prepared for college at the Utica Free Academy 
 and entered college with the class, and remained through 
 Freshman year. Subsequently he joined the class of 1863 
 and graduated with them. He has been in the hide and 
 leather business in his native city ever since, is a prosper- 
 
178 Class of Sixty 
 
 ous merchant, and interested in charitable and Christian 
 work. 
 
 He was married, September 6, 1865, to Cornelia, daughter 
 of Dr. J. H. Douglas, of Utica. They have two children. 
 
 * Laban Smith Cutler, son of William and Susan M. (Barnes ) 
 Cutler, was born in New Haven, Conn., February 25, 1839, 
 and died in that city July 6, 1890. 
 
 He was fitted for college in New Haven, and entered with 
 the class, but did not remain through Freshman year, owing 
 to the financial embarrassment of his father. He opened a 
 bookstore in Middletown, Conn., but that venture not prov- 
 ing successful, he went to California, where he remained till 
 1880, when he returned to New York and entered the publish- 
 ing house of A. S. Barnes & Co. He remained with them for 
 nine years, leaving on account of poor health and returning 
 to New Haven, where he died in 1890. He was never married. 
 
 * William H. Davenport, son of William H. and Ellen M. 
 Davenport, was born in New York City, April 6, 1840. 
 
 He entered the class during the third term of Freshman 
 year and left at the close of Sophomore year. He entered 
 the New York School of Design, and was besides engaged in 
 teaching school for a short time. He was a special artist for 
 the Harpers for a time during the Civil War. He was quite 
 successful as an illustrator and writer of magazine articles, 
 also as a political cartoonist and painter of genre subjects. 
 Some of these he exhibited for three successive years in the 
 National Academy of Design. Since 1882, and up to the 
 time of his sudden death, on October 2, 1885, he was figure 
 artist and leading designer at Tiffany's silver works. 
 
 His three pictures, " Freshman Initiation," " Burial of 
 Euclid," and " Biennial Examination," drawn and litho- 
 graphed during the Sophomore and Junior years of the class, 
 were greatly admired for their apt illustration of prominent 
 events of college life of that day. Davenport's occasional 
 pencil illustrations of passages in Whately's Rhetoric, and 
 other textbooks, which were sometimes passed about the 
 recitation room, served to raise a smile on countenances 
 darkened by gloomy forebodings of a fizzle. 
 
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 ♦John Purvis Davis, of Kingston, Miss., entered college 
 with the class and remained until some time during the second 
 term of Sophomore year, when he returned to the South. 
 Little information in regard to his subsequent career has 
 been obtained. The place near which he lived was not a 
 post-office and efforts to get his correct address have been 
 futile. It is said that he served in Hampton's Cavalry with 
 Foules, in the army of Northern Virginia, but in what capacity 
 is not known. Foules wrote the Secretary, June 30, 1900, 
 that Davis was practicing medicine in Louisiana, opposite 
 New Carthage, Miss. 
 
 It has since been learned that he died September 5, 1902, 
 upon a plantation near New Carthage, La., on which he had 
 been living. 
 
 * Samuel Harrison Davis, who was until recently the editor 
 of the Insurance, died on Thursday morning, May 21, 1903, 
 in Plainfield, N.J. He had been ill for several months. 
 
 He was born in Wethersfield, Conn., on December 16, 1838, 
 and entered college from the high school at New London, 
 Conn. He left during the second term of Sophomore year for 
 financial reasons. He was popular in his class, which escorted 
 him in a body to the depot upon his departure from New 
 Haven. From Illinois he went to the Civil War, and was 
 mustered out as a major. In 1868, he became editor of the 
 Chicago Evening Record, a financial and trade paper. Later 
 he established a weekly paper in Whitehall, 111., and returned 
 to Chicago in 187 1 to edit The Insurance Herald. With 
 Charles D. Lakey he established the paper Insurance in 1883, 
 in New York City. 
 
 Charles Cleveland Dodge was born in New York City in the 
 year 1840. He left the class in the first term of Junior year 
 and was engaged in business in New York until the breaking 
 out of the Civil War. He entered the service as an officer of 
 the First New York Mounted Rifles, and was successively 
 promoted to be colonel and brigadier-general. In the summer 
 of 1863, he resigned and returned to New York. His address 
 is No. 1 West Eighty-third Street. Circulars and letters from 
 the Secretary to him remain unanswered. 
 
180 Class of Sixty 
 
 William Couch Eggleston, son of Thomas and Mary J. 
 Eggleston, was born in New York City, June 30, 1839. 
 
 He was with our class through the first two years of the 
 course, and then traveled abroad for a year. On his return 
 he joined the class of 1861 and graduated with it. In August, 
 1 86 1, he became first lieutenant in the Forty-third New York 
 Volunteers and remained in the service until the following 
 December. Since that time he has been in banking and stock 
 commission business in his native city. His address is 7 Wall 
 Street. 
 
 He was married, January 8, 1863, to Miss Ella L. Bates, of 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Wood Fosdick, son of Samuel and Sarah A. (Wood) 
 Fosdick, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 24, 1838. 
 
 He left the class during Freshman year, but continued his 
 studies for two years under a private tutor. He entered the 
 Law School of Harvard University and took the degree of 
 LL.B. During the war he served as a private in the Sixth 
 Ohio Volunteers, and afterwards as adjutant of the Third 
 Ohio Cavalry. He served for two and one-half years. On 
 his return to Cincinnati he took up newspaper and literary 
 work. Beyond the fact that he is living in Paris no additional 
 information has been obtained from or about him. 
 
 * Clinton Furbish died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 Saturday, December 24, 1904. He was born in Portland, Me., 
 in 1838, and prepared for college at Andover. He entered 
 Yale with his class in the Freshman year, but remained only 
 until close of the first term of Sophomore year. He then 
 returned to Portland and engaged in business with his 
 father. Later he took up newspaper work and established the 
 Leader in Chicago in 1890. For several years he was con- 
 nected with the Chicago Times, and did work on other papers. 
 
 He was married, October 27, 1862, to Miss Grace Codman, 
 of Portland, Me. 
 
 * Samuel Clark Glenny was born in Milford, Conn., and died 
 in the service of his country, September 11, 1862. 
 
 He left college at the close of the first term of Freshman 
 year, remained at home for a year, and then engaged in teach- 
 
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 ing school. He enlisted, April 15, 1861, in the Fourth Regi- 
 ment of Connecticut Volunteers, afterwards the First Artillery. 
 He was taken sick during the seven days' battles before Rich- 
 mond and was carried to Philadelphia, where he died. 
 
 * Herman Day Gould, son of Herman Downs and Ann 
 Eliza (Sherwood) Gould, was born at Delhi, N. Y., October 
 13, 1838, and died at Chicago, 111., May 1, 1892. 
 
 He entered with the class, but did not remain through 
 Freshman year. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, first in 
 his native place, and later in Fernandina, Fla. Afterwards he 
 became engaged in railway business in Chicago and Peoria, 
 111., living in the latter city for sixteen years, and was general 
 freight and passenger agent of the Toledo, Peoria, & Western 
 Railway. 
 
 He was married, December 19, i860, at Philadelphia, to Miss 
 Ellen Lasell. They had eight children, of whom three are now 
 living. The address of Mrs. Gould is 349 West 145th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 * George Washington Green, son of John and Catharine 
 Green, was born in Reading, Pa., November 15, 1838, and 
 died at Hart's Island, N. Y., January 8, 1866, in his twenty- 
 eighth year. 
 
 He was with the class the first two years of the course, and 
 then entered the law office of his brother in his native city, 
 where he studied two and one-half years. On the breaking 
 out of the Civil War, he joined Captain McKnight's battery, 
 which was one of the first three companies to reach Washing- 
 ton on the morning of April 18, 1861. The following July he 
 was commissioned lieutenant in the regular army. He was 
 subsequently promoted to the captaincy of his company, and 
 continued in active service until some time after the battle of 
 Gettysburg, taking part in the Peninsular and Pope cam- 
 paigns, and in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Fred- 
 ericksburg, and Chancellors ville. After the battle of Gettys- 
 burg, in which he was slightly wounded, he was placed on 
 recruiting service, and so continued till the close of the war. 
 In the fall of 1865, he was engaged in drilling recruits on Hart's 
 Island. On New Year's Day, 1866, he took a severe cold, in 
 
1 82 Class of Sixty 
 
 New York City, which developed into erysipelas and termi- 
 nated fatally in eight days. 
 
 He had been bre vetted major and lieutenant-colonel for 
 meritorious services, and in his death the army lost an 
 officer, the country a defender, and the class a comrade, of 
 whose record each may be justly proud. 
 
 Albert Newton Hatheway, son of Amos Morris and Mary 
 Gay (Thrall) Hatheway, was born in Windsor, Conn., Febru- 
 ary 20, 1838, his ancestry being of old English and New Eng- 
 land stock. 
 
 He graduated from Williston Seminary, Easthampton, 
 Mass., in 1856, and entered Yale with the class. Leaving 
 early in the course, he became a law student at Harvard 
 University, also attending the lectures of Lowell and Agassiz 
 and received his degree of LL.B. in i860. In the same year 
 he was admitted to the bar in Boston, and for twenty-four 
 years thereafter engaged in the practice of his profession in 
 Hartford, Conn. He was for one term an alderman in Hart- 
 ford, and for some years a judge of one of its municipal courts. 
 
 Under the first administration of President Cleveland, he 
 was appointed United States consul at Nice, France, and 
 served there for four years. Since his return from abroad he 
 has retired from his profession and lived with his family in 
 Washington and New York. His address is 128 West 109th 
 Street, in the latter city. 
 
 On the third day of October, i860, he was married to Miss 
 Emma S. Robbins, daughter of David Lowrey Robbins, of 
 Newington, Conn. She died October 15, 1897. They had 
 one child, a son. 
 
 James Walter Hervey, son of Ebenezer and Hannah Hervey , 
 was born in New Bedford, Mass., February 2, 1838. He writes: 
 
 During my first year at Yale College, I was offered the position of 
 teller in the Mechanics Bank, New Bedford, Mass. As I learned that 
 to remain in college would be a financial burden to my father, I left, 
 and accepted the bank position. On October 8, 1859, I was chosen 
 assistant cashier; in 1882, cashier. In 1897, I resigned, and entered 
 the service of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of 
 Milwaukee, Wis., and still continue to serve as special agent. August 
 23, 1862, I enlisted in the Forty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- 
 
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 teer Infantry, for three years, or the war. August 31, 1862, mustered 
 as first lieutenant; February 1, 1863, commissioned captain. I 
 remained with the regiment, participating in every engagement, up 
 to March 5, 1864, when, as the result of severe injuries received while 
 on picket, followed by serious illness, I was compelled to resign. I 
 have never fully recovered my health, but in the main, my health has 
 been good, and I have so much to be grateful for, I do not repine at 
 any of my army privations and sufferings. 
 
 September 11, 1862, I married Miss Elizabeth R. Nickerson, of New 
 Bedford. Of this union, two children were born, — Walter Everett, 
 February 2, 1865, and Helen Curtis, May 7, 1872. My son died June 
 7, 1875; my daughter still lives. I held office as treasurer of New 
 Bedford Lyceum for about twenty years. Treasurer of New Bedford 
 Bible Society, seventeen years. Was treasurer of the North Congre- 
 gational Church, fifteen years; clerk of the corporation of the North 
 Congregational Church, six years; deacon, eleven years. In 1888, I 
 was elected commander of R. A. Peirce Post 190, G. A. R. I am now 
 its quartermaster. I am also treasurer of the associate and contribut- 
 ing members of the post, also of the associate members of Company G, 
 Naval Brigade, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. For the past ten 
 years I have been a member of the board of trustees of Wheaton 
 Female Seminary, Norton, Mass., an institution with an endowment 
 of nearly eight hundred thousand dollars. I am one of the auditors of 
 Tabor Academy, Marion, Mass. My chief avocation since the war has 
 been music. I have played the organ in various churches up to last 
 April. In about two weeks I expect to have an organ in the largest 
 church (Protestant) in the city. I was sixty-seven years old last 
 February (1906). 
 
 Hervey has attended every class meeting. 
 
 * Edgar Augustus Hewitt was born in New London, Conn., 
 and fitted for college in the Bartlett High School of that city. 
 He entered with the class, but remained with us only through 
 Freshman year. All efforts to get a statistical or other record 
 of him or of his family have failed. He has a son who is on 
 the staff of the Insurance Post in Chicago, but he is unrespon- 
 sive to the requests of the Secretary for information about his 
 father. It is known that Hewitt became a Baptist preacher, 
 that he had troubles, and that he left the ministry. He had 
 one of the brightest minds possessed by any member of the 
 Class of '6o. He was a fervent, even impassioned, speaker; 
 as an extemporaneous debater he was ready, apt, and inter- 
 esting. When he had taken time for preparation, he showed 
 comprehension and mastery of his subject, and frequently 
 almost magical eloquence in its exposition. Had his moral 
 
184 Class of Sixty 
 
 nature been under equal control and with equal development 
 with his intellectual, he should have made no ordinary impress 
 upon his generation. Here are extracts from the Boston 
 Journal and New York Times of June, 1877, — the date was 
 not preserved: 
 
 Mr. Edgar A. Hewitt, a well-known journalist, for ten years editor 
 of the Insurance Chronicle, died of consumption on Friday, at the St. 
 Nicholas Hotel, New York. He continued his journalistic labors up 
 to the day before his death. ... As a writer he was regarded as able 
 and forcible. His age at the time of his death was thirty-nine years. 
 
 The funeral of Edgar A. Hewitt, for ten years editor of the Insur- 
 ance Chronicle, took place yesterday afternoon from his late residence, 
 the St. Nicholas Hotel. The body, which was laid in a handsome 
 rosewood casket, with silver plate and silver mountings, and covered 
 with flowers, was placed in the parlor on the first floor of the hotel, 
 and was viewed by a large number of the friends of the deceased. The 
 funeral service was read by the Rev. Arthur C. Kimball, of St. 
 Augustine's Chapel, and chaplain of Astor Lodge, F. and A. M., of 
 which Mr. Hewitt was an honored member. Delegations from the 
 New York Press Club, the Liberal Club, the Masonic Order, and the 
 Knights of Pythias, were in attendance. A number of prominent 
 insurance men were also in attendance. After the funeral services 
 the body was conveyed to the steamboat for New London, Conn. 
 It will be interred by Union Lodge of that city with Masonic honors. 
 
 * Edward Augustus Hixon, of Springfield, Mass., was with 
 the class through Freshman year, when he left and went into 
 business with his father in his native city, — wholesale boot, 
 shoe, and leather dealers. He died July 5, 1862. 
 
 * Alpheus Hyatt, assistant in invertebrate paleontology at 
 Harvard University, died suddenly, Wednesday night, Janu- 
 ary 22, 1902, in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Mr. Hyatt was born in Washington, D. C, April 5, 1838. 
 After a course at the Maryland Military Academy, he entered 
 Yale, but left at the end of the second term of Sophomore 
 year, in 1858, for a period of travel in Europe. When he 
 returned he entered the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard, 
 and graduated from there in 1862. In the Civil War he 
 served as captain in a regiment of Massachusetts infantry. 
 Mr. Hyatt assisted in founding the Peabody Academy of 
 Science at Salem, Mass., in 1869, and in 188 1 was elected 
 curator of the Boston Society of Natural History. In 1886, 
 
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 he was appointed assistant in paleontology in the museum at 
 Harvard, where he had, for many years had charge of the 
 fossil cephalopods. He was one of the four founders and one 
 of the original editors of the American Naturalist. Mr. Hyatt 
 was corresponding member of the Geological Society in London 
 in 1897. 
 
 Samuel Jessup: 
 
 My dear Leach, — In reply to your letter of inquiry regarding our 
 classmate, Samuel Jessup, let me say that few members of our class 
 probably realize the great work which he has already done, and still 
 continues to do. He is a strong member of a very strong family. 
 His first American ancestor, John Jessup, was settled in Massachu- 
 setts soon after the landing of the Pilgrims; his father, William Jessup, 
 was a distinguished jurist, and a church worker of national reputation. 
 His brother William was a noted lawyer and politician, and had for his 
 legal partner our much loved classmate, Isaac Post, who died in 1886. 
 Another brother, Henry, who was graduated from Yale in 185 1, is 
 one of the foremost missionaries living, having declined calls to very 
 important churches in this country, as well as President Arthur's 
 invitation to become the United States ambassador to Persia. He 
 served as moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly during a 
 visit which he made to this country in 1879. 
 
 Samuel Jessup was born in Montrose, Pa., in 1833, and spent several 
 of his earlier years in mercantile pursuits. It was here that he acquired 
 that business faculty, which has been so serviceable to him in his later 
 career. But he resolved, influenced probably by his elder brother, 
 to devote himself to the foreign missionary work, and entered Yale 
 College with us in 1856. His manly character and the strong, healthy 
 influence which he exerted while he remained with us forms part of 
 the wealth of our college memory. In consequence of a crisis in the 
 affairs of the Syrian mission his services in the foreign field were 
 required sooner than he had expected, and he left us in 1858 to become 
 a member of Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. He was graduated 
 from this institution with distinction in 1861, soon after which he 
 received ordination from the Presbytery of Montrose, Pa. The Civil 
 War broke out, our classmate heard the call of his country, and became 
 the chaplain of the Sixth Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. After a few 
 months of effective service in the nation's army, he joined the great 
 foreign missionary army, which is ever conquering the world for 
 righteousness, and sailed for Syria in 1863, where he joined his brother 
 in the service of the American Board, but his mission passed under 
 the Presbyterian control about six years later. 
 
 His life has been spent in preaching, teaching, editing, organizing 
 schools and churches, attending to the endless details and meeting 
 the numerous emergencies of missionary life. The pastor in his own 
 country finds most of the church organizations made to his hand, but 
 
1 86 Class of Sixty 
 
 the foreign missionary resembles Robinson Crusoe on his island, who, 
 before he can obtain bread, must sow and harvest his wheat and then 
 make the pots and pans needed for cooking it. In the foreign field our 
 classmate has become that which his college course showed that he 
 would be, an able organizer. The details of his work have not been 
 fully given to us, but he spent several years laboring with his brother 
 at Beirut in Syria, after which he worked for a long term at Tripoli in 
 that country. He was accounted able to supply a vacancy at the 
 central office, and during the year 1889, he was acting secretary of 
 the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. He became editor of the 
 Arabic Weekly, and was for thirteen years manager of the Arabic 
 publishing house in Beirut. He suffered a heavy affliction by the 
 death of his wife in 1895, and after that event he changed his residence 
 to Sidon, the city near which, probably, our Saviour healed the 
 daughter of the Syrophenician woman, and the port at which the 
 Apostle Paul landed on his journey from Jerusalem to Rome. In 
 thisjplace thus associated with the origin of Christianity, a place in which 
 his daughter, now the wife of a pastor in Philadelphia, was then en- 
 gaged in teaching, our classmate continues the work which was begun 
 by Jesus and Paul. His only son is associated with him, and the two 
 together conduct a school which numbers one hundred and fifty pupils. 
 Lately Dr. Jessup wrote to an American friend, " I am schoolmaster, 
 not only acting principal, am business manager, treasurer, superin- 
 tendent of the trades taught, Sunday-school superintendent, and 
 preacher." He added a thrilling account of the efforts which he was 
 making to protect his scholars and church members from the rapacity 
 of the Turkish magistrates, and told of the devotion of his scholars 
 who, on the twenty-fourth of January, 1905, celebrated the thirty- 
 second anniversary of his arrival in Syria. 
 
 The Class of '60 has had long arms and pushed her influence into 
 many places. We have had Camp to represent us on the battlefield, 
 Marsh in the halls of science, Eugene Richards and Joe Daniels in the 
 professor's chair, Mason at the bar, Phelps in diplomatic and congres- 
 sional work, and Samuel Jessup to hold up the flag of '60 in the foreign 
 missionary field. 
 
 W. E. P. 
 Oberlin, Ohio, 
 
 January 8, 1906. 
 
 * Robert Barclay Lane, son of Ira and Hannah Lane, was 
 born in Preble County, Ohio, December 29, 1838, and died, 
 March 17, 1869, in his thirty-first year. 
 
 He was a member of the class during the first and second 
 terms of Junior year, when he returned to his home in Hender- 
 son, 111. Shortly afterwards he removed to West Tennessee, 
 where he was engaged in teaching until the outbreak of the 
 war. He served four years as captain in the Fifteenth 
 Tennessee Infantry, in the Confederate service. After the 
 
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 war ended he engaged in mercantile pursuits for a year, and 
 afterwards in farming. On the 17th of March, 1869, while he 
 was a passenger upon the steamer Belle Memphis, at the 
 head of Island No. 10, he met a violent death. His brother, 
 Clinton A. Lane, and C. P. Edwards were killed with him in 
 the affair. His surviving brother, Dr. E. F. Lane, states that 
 the affair was entirely unprovoked on the part of the deceased. 
 He was married, December 29, 1865, to Miss Julia M. 
 King, of Tiptonville, Tenn. They had two children. 
 
 * William McCaleb Martin, son of William H. and Mary M. 
 Martin, was born near Port Gibson, Miss., November 1, 1840, 
 and died July 14, 1864, in his twenty-fourth year. 
 
 He entered college with the class and remained till the close 
 of the first term of Sophomore year, when he returned to his 
 native state and engaged in planting. He joined the Con- 
 federate army in 1861 and served a year in Virginia, six 
 months as a private in the Claiborne Guards, and six months 
 more as first lieutenant of the same. At the close of this 
 term of enlistment he returned home and assisted in raising a 
 cavalry company of which he was appointed first lieutenant 
 and which formed a part of the Fourth Mississippi Cavalry. 
 On the death of his captain, who was killed in a skirmish, he 
 succeeded to the command and filled it until the 14th of July, 
 when, in an engagement at Hattiesburg, Miss., he received 
 wounds simultaneously in his left arm, temple, and side, and 
 was almost instantly killed. 
 
 * Elbridge Francis Meconkey, of West Chester, Pa., was a 
 member of the class a part of both Sophomore and Junior 
 years. During the war he was an aide to General McCall in 
 the Army of the Potomac. 
 
 The single word " dead " is all the information vouchsafed 
 the Secretary in reply to his inquiries. Some of us recollect 
 him as a rather tall, athletic-appearing young man, of frank 
 and engaging manners. And all of us will remember the 
 famous evening chapel rush, joined in by the whole class, in 
 resentment to an injustice done to Meconkey, and to others 
 of the class, by a tutor who had never had any official connec- 
 tion with, or jurisdiction over, us. 
 
1 88 Class of Sixty 
 
 * William Warriner Merriam, of Springfield, Mass., began 
 and closed his career at Yale with the first term of Freshman 
 year in 1856. After a while, he entered the class of 1861 at 
 Williams College and graduated with it. He afterwards went 
 to the Albany Law School, but remained only a short time. 
 He then entered the Theological School at Madison (now 
 Colgate) University at Hamilton, N. Y., where he graduated 
 in the summer of 1863. He afterwards taught for a short 
 season at Essex, Conn. 
 
 He died at Springs, Long Island, N. Y., January 30, 1889. 
 He never married. It has been difficult to get any particulars 
 in regard to his life as he was for a long time estranged from 
 his family and held no communication with his class secretary 
 of Williams College. This much seems well assured, that he 
 was a Baptist minister, that he was eccentric to an unusual 
 degree, and that he had property in United States bonds to 
 the amount of eighty thousand dollars, which he willed to 
 the government. 
 
 * David Judson Ogden, son of Rev. David L. Ogden (Yale, 
 1814) and Sarah A. (Judson) Ogden, was born at Whites- 
 boro, N. Y., December 24, 1837. 
 
 He was prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar 
 School, entered college with the class, but owing to poor 
 health he gave up during the first term of Senior year and 
 went traveling for his health. A year later he entered the 
 class of 1 86 1 and graduated with it. For nearly two years 
 after this he studied theology at the Yale Divinity School, 
 when ill health again made him give up his studies. Subse- 
 quently he graduated in 1868 with the degree of S.T.B. He 
 lived in New Haven until 1876, all his plans of life being 
 apparently frustrated by his lack of good health. In that 
 year he became acting pastor of the Congregational church at 
 Tolland, Mass., where he remained for three years. During 
 the succeeding two years he supplied for brief periods the 
 pulpits in Congregational churches at Riverton, West Hart- 
 land, and Stanwich, Conn., and Hillsboro Centre, N. H. 
 From May, 1881, to July 25, 1885, he was pastor at Niantic, 
 Conn. After leaving Niantic he passed a year in New Haven, 
 and in the fall of 1886 began the supply of the Congregational 
 church in Easton, Conn., with which he remained until his 
 
Biographical Record 189 
 
 sudden death in New Haven, of neuralgia of the heart, 
 November 7, 1891. 
 
 He was never married. He was for four years scribe of 
 the Fairfield West Consociation of Churches. At his funeral 
 many ministers who knew him intimately were present and 
 paid strong tributes to his worth as a man and a pastor. Rev. 
 Dr. Newman Smyth 
 
 spoke with much feeling, eloqiiently testifying to his strong personal 
 attachment for Mr. Ogden, an attachment so close as to render it 
 about as difficult to speak at his funeral as if it had been his own 
 brother. Their ministerial lives had had much in common. Laboring 
 as they had, repeatedly, in closely related fields of pastoral work, he 
 had peculiar opportunity, in their frequent interchange of thought as 
 to the best interests of their parishes, to note the loyalty with which 
 Mr. Ogden had served his people and his unflagging effort to secure 
 their highest welfare. 
 
 ♦William Wesley Palmer, son of Henry and Mary Palmer, 
 was born in Chenango, N. Y., January 4, 1836, and died in 
 New York City, December 18, 1892. 
 
 He left the class during the second term of Freshman year, 
 and after traveling for some months, entered the class of 
 1 86 1, the third term Freshman (1858), and remained until the 
 end of Sophomore year. The next year he spent at home in 
 study and then entered Auburn Theological Seminary, where 
 he graduated in May, 1863. He was licensed to preach 
 September 23, 1862, and ordained at Owego, N. Y., April 29, 
 1867. He preached for a number of years at Hawleyton, and 
 at Silver Lake, Pa. 
 
 A classmate writes: 
 
 I knew Palmer quite well. He was for years an active member of 
 the Binghamton Ministerial Association. His papers always dis- 
 played ability and original thinking. His was an acute mind. He 
 was recognized as able, but rather erratic. 
 
 He was married, December 19, 1859, to Miss Mary E. Tyler, 
 of Buffalo, N. Y. She died October 29, 1861. 
 
 May 9, 1863, he was married to Miss Emily S. Rexford, of 
 Cortland, N. Y., who still survives him. They had two 
 children, William B. Palmer, on the staff of the Evening 
 Bulletin of Philadelphia, and Mary Emma Palmer, wife of 
 Frank S. Nash, and who lives in New York. 
 
190 Class of Sixty 
 
 William Edwards Park, son of Edwards A. and Ann Maria 
 (Edwards) Park, was born in Andover, Mass., July 1, 1837. 
 
 He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, and spent the 
 first three years of his college life with our class, but left at 
 the close of Junior year and later graduated with the class of 
 
 1861. After graduation he studied at home until March, 
 
 1862, when he went to Port Royal, S. C, and spent the suc- 
 ceeding four months in teaching the freedmen. The following 
 year he engaged in studying law in New York City, and in 
 teaching. In the fall of 1863, he entered the theological semi- 
 nary at Andover and graduated in 1867. During this period 
 he spent ten months at Nashville, Tenn., as an agent of the 
 Christian Commission, and in 1865 cooperated in raising funds 
 to rebuild Phillips Academy when it had been destroyed by fire. 
 
 He was ordained and installed as pastor of the Central 
 Congregational Church at Lawrence, Mass., November 13, 
 1867, and remained there eight years. He then became 
 pastor of the Congregational church at Gloversville, N. Y., 
 and was installed there June ax, 1876, where he had a con- 
 tinuous pastorate for twenty-eight years. He resigned last 
 year (1904) and removed to Oberlin, Ohio, where he reports 
 himself as " working up a mass of papers and memoranda on 
 President Edwards, left me by my late father, and which I 
 hope to be able to work into a book." While at Gloversville, 
 he held various offices in connection with local, state, and 
 national organizations of his church. He also gave much 
 time and effort to the formation and care of a public library 
 in that city. In 1872, he spent six months in Europe, and 
 again, in 1881, he made an extensive tour of Europe and the 
 East. In 1902, he went to Russia, visiting St. Petersburg, 
 Moscow, and Warsaw. In 1903, he crossed the continent 
 and made a tour of Alaska. 
 
 Besides his weekly labors in the preparation of sermons 
 and addresses, he has been a prolific writer upon many differ- 
 ent subjects, as well as a public lecturer. His articles have 
 been published in newspapers, magazines, and encyclopedias. 
 
 He was married, March 4, 1874, to Sara B., daughter of 
 the late Prof. B. B. Edwards, of Andover, Mass. Their 
 daughter graduated at Bryn Mawr in 1898, and is now a 
 professor in Colorado College. Their son graduated from 
 Yale in 1900, and is a physician. 
 
Biographical Record 191 
 
 * Elihu Frank Pomeroy, son of Samuel and Mary Coe Pome- 
 roy, was born in Granville, Mass., June 7, 1837, and died in 
 Minneapolis, Minn., April 17, 1883, aged forty-six years, 
 nearly. 
 
 He was desirous of becoming a minister and was prepared 
 for college at Monson Academy and he entered Amherst 
 College in 1856, but soon became attracted to Yale and joined 
 our class. But under the advice of a physician, he gave up 
 his college course before he had completed his first year. In 
 1858, he went to Chicago and became interested in the grain 
 business. In 1866, he removed to Cedar Rapids, la., and 
 became a railroad contractor. He continued in this work for 
 some years when he became a manufacturer of soap, and in 
 1879 he removed to Minneapolis, where he established the 
 Northampton Soap Company, of which he became the first 
 president. 
 
 In each place of his residence he at once became an active 
 church and Sunday-school worker. For a great part of the 
 time he was an elder in the Presbyterian church and closely 
 identified with its mission and philanthropic activities. Not- 
 withstanding his constant fight with poor health his career 
 was active and useful. 
 
 He was married to Miss Jane E. Carpenter, of Warren, 
 Mass., in July, 1858. They had six children, of whom three 
 daughters and one son are now living. Mrs. Pomeroy 
 and two daughters are living in Minneapolis at 1400 Nicollet 
 Avenue. 
 
 Horace Reed, son of John S. and Jane E. (Terry) Reed, 
 was born in Geneva, N. Y., February 28, 1839. 
 
 Our Decennial Record left him a member of the Chicago 
 wool house of Reynolds, Reed & Co., a firm which long since 
 went out of existence, and all efforts to trace him, either from 
 that firm or from his birthplace, have produced no results. 
 He was with us for a short time only in Sophomore year, and 
 on leaving college went to his father's home in Chicago, 
 studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced for one 
 year. In 1862, he enlisted in Battery B, First Illinois Artillery, 
 and served with it to the close of the war. 
 
 He was married, May 1, 1867, to Miss Julia March, of 
 Chicago. 
 
192 Class of Sixty 
 
 ♦Louis Leeds Robbins, son of Matthew P. and Isabella I. 
 Robbins, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 9, 1840, and died 
 in that city, July 17, 1866, in his twenty-seventh year. 
 
 He entered with the class and remained through Freshman 
 year, when he left to engage in mercantile pursuits. Two 
 years later he received an appointment in the Security Insur- 
 ance Company, of New York, and filled his position there up 
 to the time of his death. He was ill only nine days. His 
 father wrote of him at the time of his death : 
 
 He died as he had lived, an affectionate, dutiful, and Christian child; 
 none knew him but to love him ; no child of poverty and sorrow ever 
 appealed to him in vain. He had been a member of the South Presby- 
 terian Church for eleven years. 
 
 Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa, son of Charles B. and 
 Amelia E. (Foster) Roosa, was born in Bethel, N. Y., April 4, 
 1838. 
 
 He fitted for college at the academies in Monticello, N. Y., 
 and Honesdale, Pa. On account of ill health he did not 
 remain in the class through Freshman year, but continued 
 his studies with a private tutor and matriculated in the 
 medical department of the University of the City of New York, 
 and received his degree in i860. In April, 1861, after a year's 
 study in Germany, he became assistant surgeon of the Fifth 
 Regiment of the National Guard of the state of New York, 
 and later served for a time in the same capacity in the Twelfth 
 Regiment. He also served as house surgeon in the New York 
 Hospital in 1861-62. After this he spent a year in study 
 at the ophthalmic clinics in Berlin and Vienna, returning to 
 New York in May, 1863. In the autumn of that year he 
 engaged in private practice, chiefly in ophthalmology and 
 otology, in New York City. 
 
 He has been aural surgeon in the New York Eye and Ear 
 Infirmary, and professor of diseases of the eye and ear in 
 several institutions. Besides, he has held several honorary 
 positions in connection with the practice of his profession, 
 and is the author of several standard medical works relating 
 to his specialty, either alone, as a translator, or in collabora- 
 tion with others. He received the honorary degree of A.M. 
 from Yale, and of LL.D. from the University of Vermont. 
 
Biographical Record 193 
 
 He married Mary Hoyt Blake, who died in 1878. After- 
 wards he married Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, of New York City. 
 
 Alexander Porter Root, son of John B. Root, was born in 
 Galveston, Texas, June ax, 1840. 
 
 He left the class at the close of Freshman year, but subse- 
 quently joined the class of 1861 and graduated with it. He 
 passed the fall after graduation in Delaware, but afterwards 
 ran the blockade, reached home and went to live upon his 
 father's plantation. He enlisted in the Confederate service 
 as a private in a cavalry regiment and served one year in 
 Texas. After the battle of Galveston he was promoted to be 
 lieutenant of a light battery, and served another year in Texas 
 and Louisiana. During the last part of the war, he was 
 assistant adjutant-general on the staff of General Drayton, 
 with the rank of major. After the war he went into business 
 with his father in Galveston. In the summer of 1874, he 
 became teller of the First National Bank of Houston, Texas, 
 and he is now the president of that institution. 
 
 He was married to Laura N. Shepherd, of Houston, January 
 24, 1869. They have had four children, three now living. 
 
 * Francis Ritter Schmucker, son of Jacob and Mary Ann 
 Schmucker, was born in Oley Township, near Reading, Pa., 
 May 24, 1838, and died in Reading, Pa., March 3, 1902. 
 
 He left the class at the close of Sophomore year, and later 
 joined the class of 1861 and graduated with it. After gradu- 
 ation he began reading law in an office in Reading, and was 
 admitted to the bar in that city in August, 1862. The same 
 month and year he volunteered in a regiment of nine months' 
 men and was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the One 
 Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment of Pennsylvania 
 Volunteers. He took part in the battle of Antietam, was 
 promoted to be captain in February, 1863, and participated 
 in the battle of Chancellorsville the following May. His 
 term of service having expired he was mustered out the same 
 month. He again volunteered during the second invasion 
 of his state and was adjutant of his regiment, the Forty- 
 second Militia. 
 
 For the next few years he practiced law in Reading. Then 
 his health having failed him he took up the study of medicine 
 
194 Class of Sixty 
 
 at the New York Homeopathic Medical College, where he 
 graduated in 1873. He went to Reading and practiced his 
 profession until the time of his death. He furnished articles 
 to medical journals, both in this country and in England. 
 
 He was a member of several medical associations, and of 
 the Loyal Legion. For nearly forty years he was a member 
 of the First Presbyterian Church of Reading, and for many 
 years a ruling elder. 
 
 He was married, August 31, 1865, at Allentown, Pa., to 
 Miss Emma C. Young. They had nine children. Five sons 
 and his wife survive him. 
 
 Kidder Mercon Scott, then and now of Geneseo, N. Y., 
 entered college with the class, but did not remain through the 
 first year. He went to studying law and was admitted to the 
 bar in 1 86 1 . In the Civil War he was first lieutenant and then 
 a captain in the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth New York 
 Infantry. In 1863 he was discharged for disability, and then 
 took up the practice of the law in his native place, sometimes 
 alone, and again in partnership, and he is still engaged in 
 that profession. 
 
 He was a member of the New York Assembly from 1881 
 to 1885, inclusive. He has also served as clerk of the Surro- 
 gate Court in Livingston County, and as supervisor of his 
 town. He is a member of the Episcopal church, and is known 
 as a man of retiring disposition, which, perhaps, accounts for 
 the Secretary being unable to get from him any reply to his 
 communications. 
 
 He has been married, but has no children. 
 
 Lorenzo Sears, son of Nathaniel and Cordelia Morton Sears, 
 was born in Williamsburg, Mass., April 18, 1838. 
 
 He entered college in the second term of the Freshman 
 year, being prepared at Williston Seminary, and left at the 
 beginning of Sophomore year. Subsequently he entered the 
 class of 186 1 , with which he graduated. In 1864 he graduated 
 from the General Theological Seminary in New York, and was 
 then ordained to the diaconate and to the priesthood in the 
 following year. For twenty-one years he was in the ministry, 
 having parishes in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New 
 Hampshire. 
 
 For the last twenty years, with the exception of two years, 
 
Biographical Record 195 
 
 he has been a professor in colleges, first as professor of rhetoric 
 and English literature in the University of Vermont, and 
 then in Brown University for the last fifteen years, first as 
 professor of rhetoric and later of American literature. 
 
 He has the honorary degree of Litt. D. 
 
 Among his articles and books published are: " A History 
 of Oratory from the Age of Pericles to the Present Time," 
 Griggs, Chicago, 1896. " The Occasional Address, Its Com- 
 position and Literature," Putnams, New York, 1897. " Prin- 
 ciples and Methods of Literary Criticism," Putnams, New 
 York, 1898. " American Literature in the Colonial and 
 National Periods," Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1902. 
 11 Seven Natural Laws of Literary Composition," American 
 Institute of Literature, 1904. " Makers of American Litera- 
 ture," American Institute of Literature, 1904. Also numerous 
 articles on literary and biographical subjects, the last being 
 an account of " Colonial Libraries," and of the books our 
 forefathers read and wrote. 
 
 A last and largest book, nearly ready for publication (1905) , 
 is entitled " A Comparative View of American and English 
 Writers during Three Centuries," or from the landing of John 
 Smith at Jamestown in 1607. 
 
 He married, January 2, 1866, Miss Adeline A. Harris, of 
 Wyoming, R. I. Of two children, one, Sophie Harris, is living. 
 
 * George Royal Sibley was born in Augusta, Ga., June 19, 
 1839, and died there in July, 1887, forty-eight years of age. 
 
 He entered college with the class and remained until some- 
 time during the second term of Sophomore year. He after- 
 wards joined the class of 186 1, and remained with it a short 
 time, but then went to his home and engaged in the wholesale 
 grocery business. Soon after the breaking out of the Civil 
 War he entered the Confederate service in which he remained 
 throughout the war. He then returned to Augusta and 
 engaged in the cotton commission business. 
 
 He was married, January 21, 1862, to Miss Emma S. Tucker, 
 of Milledgeville, Ga. They had two children. 
 
 Munroe Snell, son of Melville and Harriet F. Snell, was born 
 in Ware, Mass., November 13, 1836. 
 
 He was fitted for college at the Sturbridge Select School 
 
196 Class of Sixty 
 
 and at Williston Seminary, entering with the class. The 
 financial crisis of 1857 caused him to leave college, with the 
 expectation, however, of returning the following year. Dur- 
 ing two and a half years of the Civil War he was employed at 
 the Springfield Armory with about fifty skilled mechanics 
 from his father's factory. In 1865, he became established in 
 the life insurance business in Baltimore, and after nine years' 
 successful business with another company, Boltwood inter- 
 ested him in the Berkshire Life and he has ever since repre- 
 sented that company as general agent for Maryland, doing a 
 successful and prosperous business from the beginning. He 
 is a member of the Yale Club of Baltimore, and of the Associate 
 Congregational Church, and is secretary of its board of trus- 
 tees. He is active in Sunday-school and other church work. 
 He has been active and prominent in Masonic circles. He 
 says that being a member of the grand jury of the United 
 States District Court for the last October term is about the 
 highest civil office he has ever held. His address is 909-911 
 Union Trust Company Building, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 January 13, 1870, he was married to Miss Nettie M. Stirret, 
 of Baltimore. They have three daughters: two of them are 
 graduates of the Woman's College of Baltimore, and another 
 is the wife of Dr. Hubert L. Clark, of Harvard University, 
 and formerly of Olivet College. 
 
 * William Henry Seward Sweet was born in Marcy, near 
 Utica, N. Y., September 20, 1838. He was prepared for 
 college in the public schools of Utica, entered with his class 
 and remained one year only. He then entered the Albany 
 Law School, where he graduated in i860, and then took up 
 the practice of law in Utica. On the breaking out of the 
 Civil War he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth 
 Regiment of New York Volunteers and served successively as 
 lieutenant, captain, and colonel. He was taken prisoner at 
 the battle of the Wilderness and confined in an officer's prison 
 near Anderson ville for several months. 
 
 His active army life served to make distasteful his plan to 
 follow the profession of law, and after leaving the army he 
 went to North Carolina and engaged in distilling turpentine, 
 and later he engaged in railroad building in the South. The 
 panic of 1872 put an end to his operations in that part of the 
 
Biographical Record 197 
 
 country and he returned to Utica, where he lived until his 
 death, on the 30th of August, 1890. 
 
 He was married, in Marcy, in 1869, to Emily Richardson. 
 Of five children, three are now living: M. Louise Sweet, a 
 Senior in Smith College (1905), and Arthur J. and Horace B., 
 graduates of Cornell University, and now occupy responsible 
 positions. 
 
 William Floyd Taylor, son of William and Jane Taylor, was 
 born in Philadelphia, July 29, 1838. 
 
 He entered college with the class and left us during the 
 second term of Sophomore year. He at once became book- 
 keeper in his father's wholesale provision house, and on his 
 father's death, two years later, became the senior partner in 
 the firm. 
 
 This firm long since went out of existence , and all efforts 
 to get into communication with Taylor or any of his friends 
 have been unavailing. 
 
 ♦David Todd entered college from Great Valley, Pa., and 
 died in New Haven, December 30, 1857. He entered with 
 the class at the beginning of the first term in 1856, and by 
 his manly and frank nature and generous disposition, had 
 won for himself many friends during the period he was with 
 us. He was taken sick during the winter vacation of Sopho- 
 more year, and died after a short illness. His remains were 
 taken to his home for burial, accompanied by a committee of 
 his classmates. 
 
 William Campbell Trull, son of Willard and Sarah (Vander- 
 lip) Trull, was born at Cherry Valley, N. Y., March 18, 1839. 
 
 He remained a member of the class through the first term 
 of Freshman year only. Then he went to Union College 
 and remained a year. He began the study of law, and on 
 admission to the bar removed to New York City, where he 
 has since practiced his profession. His address is 20 Fifth 
 Avenue. 
 
 On February 26, 1876, he was married to Jennie Blanchard, 
 of Salem, N. Y. 
 
198 Class of Sixty 
 
 *John Dresser Tucker, son of Erastus and Emma A. 
 Tucker, was born in Scotland, Conn., December, 19, 1838, 
 and died in Hartford, Conn., December 3, 1904, aged nearly 
 sixty-six years. 
 
 He entered college with the class and remained through 
 Sophomore year. Subsequently he joined the class of 186 1, 
 with which he graduated. At first he engaged in teaching 
 after graduation, but later took up the study of law in Hart- 
 ford and was admitted to the bar in July, 1865, and practiced 
 law until the death of his father in 1868. He then gave 
 up his law practice and, in partnership with his brother, 
 engaged in the business his father had left, wholesale dealers 
 in strawboard and papers. He died of an apoplectic 
 stroke. 
 
 He was married, June 3, 1869, to Miss Sarah L. Ingraham, 
 of Vergennes, Vt., who died March 8, 1872. He was married 
 again, October 8, 1879, in Brooklyn, N. Y., to Miss Kate 
 Abbott Fox. His wife, sister, and three brothers survive 
 him. 
 
 * George Makepeace Towle, son of Dr. Nathaniel C. and E. 
 M. Towle, was born in Washington, D. C, August 27, 1840, 
 and died in Brookline, Mass., August 10, 1893, aged nearly 
 fifty-three years. 
 
 He entered the class during Freshman year and left it at 
 the close. Later he became a member of and graduated with 
 the class of 1861. He graduated from the Harvard Law 
 School in 1863, with the degree of LL.B., made an eight 
 months' tour of Europe, and was admitted to the Boston bar 
 in December. He was engaged upon literary work and law 
 practice until about July, 1866, when he was, for two years, 
 consul at Nantes, France, and was then transferred to the 
 consulate at Bradford, England. 
 
 He was a prolific writer of books, having more than twenty 
 volumes to his credit. His articles in magazines, both Ameri- 
 can and English, were numerous, and besides he was a man 
 of prominence in the lecture field. Since about 1870, he was 
 a resident of Brookline, Mass., was a trustee of the public 
 library, and took an active interest in public affairs. 
 
 He was married to Miss Nellie Lane, of Boston, at the 
 United States Legation, Paris, France, September 16, 1866. 
 
Biographical Record 199 
 
 * Henry Upton, son of Daniel and Electa Upton, was born 
 in Batavia, N. Y., June 20, 1835, an< ^ died in Pierce, Neb., 
 July 29, 1887. 
 
 He was a member of the class a part of Freshman year. 
 When he left college he went to farming. In August, 1862, 
 he volunteered for the Civil War and became a lieutenant in 
 one of the New York State regiments; he was severely 
 wounded in the lungs at Chancellors ville. He was, therefore, 
 obliged to resign the following February. In 1867-68 he 
 was principal of the public school at Andalusia, 111., and in 
 1869 he had charge of the high school at Rock Island. From 
 1876 to 1883 he was superintendent of schools at Decatur, 
 Mich., and later he was secretary of the Board of School 
 Examiners for Van Buren County. 
 
 In 1883 he left educational work and located at Pierce, 
 Neb., where he invested in real estate, established a large 
 stock ranch, and engaged in various enterprises incident to the 
 development of a new country. As a school officer he was 
 instrumental in organizing a high school and erecting a hand- 
 some building. He was an officer in many societies, and a 
 candidate for the state senate at the time of his death. His 
 wound received in battle had always troubled him, and to its 
 effects his death was attributed. In every community where 
 he lived he was always respected and influential, an example 
 of clean and healthful living, diligent, enterprising, and suc- 
 cessful in business, an exemplary and earnest Christian worker. 
 
 He was married, August 9, 1864, to Miss Susan C. Osgood, 
 of Brookfield, 111. His widow and their six children are now 
 living. 
 
 John Marshall Varnum was from Lowell, Mass., in the 
 halcyon days of 1856 to 1858. Why he left us at the close 
 of Sophomore year, making no sign, he has confided to the 
 Secretary, and he, in turn, has tried to prevail upon him to 
 take the whole class into his confidence; suffice it to say, 
 that he never has considered himself a born mathematician, 
 and in severing his connection with the college he took away 
 with him no burning love for Professor Newton. In this he 
 was not singular. At this day and age he is sure that had his 
 case been handled by a man of flesh, blood, and heart, like 
 one we know, coefficients, angles, sines, tangents, and other 
 
200 Class of Sixty 
 
 things, horrid and forbidden, would have become as familiar 
 and lovely as members of his own family. 
 
 The Secretary undertook to hunt Varnum up, and know- 
 ing several members of the Varnum family, first tried to 
 approach him by the way of Florida, and, finally, after various 
 adventures, corralled him in his broker's office at 7 State 
 Street, Boston. He is the same Varnum that we knew in 
 Freshman and Sophomore days, and will give a cordial 
 welcome to any '6o man who will climb his stairs, and 
 hopes to have the chance yet to meet many of them in the 
 flesh, either at his own home or at theirs. 
 
 Daniel Webster was catalogued as from Killingly, Conn., in 
 our Freshman days. Our Decennial Record reports him as 
 having become a wool broker in Providence, R. I. He left 
 us during the second term. Some of us will recollect him and 
 his almost striking resemblance in size, complexion, and 
 figure to the great and original Daniel of that name. There 
 are three Daniel Websters in the city directory of Providence, 
 one of whom is a retired broker, and lives at 184 Water- 
 man Street, but whether this one is our Daniel or not he will 
 not tell, and so we cannot immortalize him in these pages. 
 
 * Charles Burr Wheeler, son of Charles Burr and Jerusha 
 (Bradley) Wheeler, was born in Easton, Conn., July 2, 1836, 
 and died in Gallatin, Tenn., in March, 1883, in his forty- 
 seventh year. 
 
 He entered our class from that of 1859, and remained with 
 us a part of Sophomore year. He taught school for a while 
 at Tarrytown, N. Y., and then studied law in Bridgeport, 
 Conn., where he also practiced his profession. Later he went 
 to Louisiana and taught school for a brief period. He then 
 enlisted in the First Regiment of Louisiana Cavalry, com- 
 manded by Judah P. Benjamin, and served four years in the 
 Civil War. When he surrendered at Clinton, La., he was an 
 acting adjutant -general. 
 
 After the war he practiced law both in Pass Christian and 
 in New Orleans, La. While living in the latter city he was a 
 judge for eight years. He was also a state senator for two 
 terms, the last term being quite breezy, owing to the dual 
 governorship of Nichols and Packard. In that struggle he 
 
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 was a member of the legislature that was locked up in the 
 State House for several days. He removed to Nashville, 
 Term., in 1879, and placed his only daughter in a school in 
 that city. In 1880, he removed to Gallatin, Tenn., and soon 
 after he resumed teaching as a profession, it being his intention 
 to build up a training school for young men and prepare them 
 for college. In March, 1883, he died of pneumonia, after an 
 illness of about a week. At the time of his death he was the 
 highest Mason in the state, having received all the degrees 
 that could be conferred in this country. 
 
 He was married, November 27, 1862, to Miss Mary E. Lee, 
 of Concordia Parish, La. His wife and daughter survive him, 
 the latter is married to W. W. Pardue, an attorney-at-law of 
 Gallatin, Tenn. 
 
 Pierre Westcott Wildey, son of Pierre and Mary Ann 
 (Mandeville) Wildey, was born at Tarrytown, N. Y., 
 May 12, 1840. 
 
 He prepared for college at the Collegiate Institute in his 
 native place, and at the Friends' School at Providence, R. I. 
 He entered college with the class and left some time during 
 Sophomore year. Afterwards he entered the class of i860 
 at Columbia College and graduated with them. Following 
 this, he took a three years' course in the Columbia Law School 
 and graduated with the degree of LL.B. Yale gave him the 
 degree of A.M. in 1865, honoris causa. He was associated in 
 law business for some time with William Walter Phelps, 
 until he gave up the law for politics and the care of his large 
 estate. During the Civil War (in 1863 ) he came near enter- 
 ing the navy with the rank of lieutenant , but sickness at home 
 defeated this plan and he remained a peaceable man. He 
 has taken some part in politics as a delegate to state and 
 other nominating conventions. He has made a considerable 
 study of genealogy, a study which he and his wife find i both 
 interesting and absorbing. He says of himself that his " life 
 seems more a record of what I would have liked to do than 
 of actual accomplishments." 
 
 October 4, 1870, he was married to Anna Cheesborough, 
 daughter of Robert J. and Anne (Bermingham ) Cheesborough, 
 at the Church of the Incarnation in New York City. They 
 have had no children. He lives at 146 Central Park, 
 
202 Class of Sixty 
 
 West, and his address is 82 Beaver Street, New York 
 City. He expects to meet with the class upon its fiftieth 
 anniversary. 
 
 * Frank Wiley Wiswell, son of Calvin and Hannah (Burr ) 
 Wiswell, was born in Holden, Me., January 5, 1835, an< i died 
 in Mexico, February 8, 1904, in his seventieth year. 
 
 He entered college with his class and remained until the 
 close of the first term of Junior year, when he left and went 
 to studying law. But before he had completed his studies 
 he enlisted as a private in the Eleventh Maine Regiment of 
 Volunteers, was promoted to be a lieutenant, and then a 
 captain, and so served until the close of the war. He then 
 engaged in oil business in Pennsylvania, but was unsuccessful. 
 In 1868 he went to the Rocky Mountain region and engaged 
 in mining. For a time he served as probate judge of Sweet- 
 water County, Wyo. 
 
 Under date of June 5, 1900, he wrote the Secretary from 
 La Noria, Sinaloa, Mexico, full of love to the class and of regret 
 that he could not attend our fortieth anniversary. He said 
 in part : 
 
 During the war I met Camp in Virginia. Since then I have met 
 Marsh twice, I think, in Wyoming, and once I met Professor Silliman 
 in Salt Lake, at the time he was making an examination of the Emma 
 Mine. . . . Thank God I am well and tough as a knot. Reading your 
 note and passing in memory back to other days, I feel almost as young 
 as I did then. 
 
 I am engaged in mining here, but expect to close out this year. . . . 
 I have wandered much by sea and by land. Have crossed the Rockies 
 many times, and the Andes several times, and am getting about the 
 right age to settle down now. 
 
 His death was reported by the United States consul at 
 Mazatlan, but no particulars could be obtained. 
 
Class Statistics 
 
 For full and extended statistics of the class the reader is 
 referred to our Decennial Record, pages 113 to 134. The 
 table of professions and occupations is printed below, both 
 on account of some omissions, and for the sake of a more 
 accurate classification. 
 
 The first term of Freshman year 134 entered: The whole 
 number at any time in the course enrolled with the class was 
 168. Of these, 108 graduated, and one was given a degree 
 later and restored to class membership, making 109. Of 
 the remaining 59, 10 graduated from the academic depart- 
 ment in some later class in Yale, one from Sheffield, and three 
 from some other college. Of the others (45 ) , 17 pursued their 
 studies in some professional school or office, whence they 
 graduated, and the rest engaged in teaching or in some of the 
 higher branches of business. 
 
 The average age at graduation was twenty -two and a half 
 years; the oldest member of the class was born in 1827, and 
 the two youngest in 1841. During the first decade, 17 died, 
 2 of these being killed in battle and 6 dying from causes 
 connected with the Civil War. Between 1870 and 1880 
 8 died; between 1880 and 1890, there were 5; between 1890 
 and 1900, 18 died, and from 1900 to April, 1906, 9. 
 
 During the Civil War, 48 graduates and 27 non -graduates 
 saw service in some capacity, either in the army or the navy. 
 
 Of the living graduates all but three have been married. 
 Of the 109, 23 were never married. Of the 134 entering at 
 the beginning of Freshman year, 83 took the full course and 
 graduated. Twenty-six took the degree of M.A. at Com- 
 mencement, July, 1863. The honorary degree of D.D. has 
 been bestowed upon five, and eight have been awarded the 
 degree of LL.D. The class has supplied three members of 
 the Corporation, — Mason, Walter Phelps, and Young: the 
 two former were overtaken by death while yet in office. 
 
 803 
 
204 Class of Sixty 
 
 The great gifts and distinguished services of Marsh to the 
 university are noted on another page. 
 
 If this page is seen by any one who has knowledge of Luther 
 Maynard Jones later than 1890, or of William Pomeroy Brooks, 
 Horace Reed, William Floyd Taylor, or Daniel Webster, 
 whether alive or dead, later than 1870, he is urged to com- 
 municate at once with the Class Secretary. 
 
Professions and Occupations of 
 Graduates 
 
 Law. Arnold, Bunnell, Champion, L. H. Davis, Fowler, Freeman, 
 Gaul, Hale, Holmes, Jones, Keese, Knowlton, Mason, Palfrey, Penning- 
 ton, G. D. Phelps, W. W. Phelps, Post, Seely, C. H. Smith, Warren, 
 Way, Wheeler, Willcox, Willson, Young. — 26. 
 
 Theology. H. E. Barnes, Blakesley, Boies, T. H. Brown, Chapell, 
 Denison, Dunham, Furbish, Giddings, Greene, Griffin, Hall, Hart, 
 Higgins, Howe, Johnston, Kingsbury, Kittredge, Loomis, Marshall, 
 Martin, C. H. Richards, Schneider, Vandyne, Ward, Williams. — 26. 
 
 Business. Beckley, Boltwood, W. E. Bradley, Clay, Elder, Fair- 
 child, Finney, Hawley, Hunt, Hurlbut, Johnson, Kip, Leach, McAlpin, 
 McKay, Norton, Parsons, Russell, Taintor, Woodruff. — 20. 
 
 Medicine. Ball, E. R. Barnes, Ferd. Beach, W. L. Bradley, R. B. 
 Brown, Colton, Delafield, Engs, Eno, Foules, Haight, Rice, Starr, 
 White, Worthington. — 15. 
 
 Professors. Beers (Kansas Medical College), Bristoll (Ripon 
 College), Carrier (Olivet College), Daniels (Olivet College), Eaton 
 (Yale University), Marsh (Yale University), E. L. Richards (Yale 
 University), W. T. Smith (Dartmouth College). — 8. 
 
 Literature. Catlin, R. S. Davis, Foster, Holden, Morris, Owen. — 6. 
 
 Teachers. E. C. Beach, Camp, Hebard, Howard, Siglar. — 5. 
 
 Army. Dutton, Ogden. — 2. 
 
 Mining Engineer, Mining Expert, Viticulturist, Banker. Keyes. 
 
 305 
 
Revised Addresses 
 
 Ball, Alonzo B., M.D 42 W. 36th Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Barnes, Edwin R., M.D 1258 West Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Barnes, Rev. Henry E., D.D 16 Littell Road, Brookline, Mass. 
 
 Beach, Ferdinand, M.D 235 West 75th Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Beckley, John W 941 Second Street, Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Blakesley, Rev. Linus, D.D El Paso, Tex. 
 
 Bristoll, Wm. M 815 East 18th Street, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Clay, Joseph 22 E. Oglethorpe Avenue, Savannah, Ga. 
 
 Colton, Fredk. H., M.D 136 Montague Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Daniels, Prof. Joseph L., D.D., LL.D Olivet, Mich. 
 
 Davis, Hon. Lowndes H Huntsville, Ala. 
 
 Davis, Robert S 4045 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Delafield, Dr. Francis, LL.D 12 West 32d Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Dunham, Rev. Samuel 35 North Street, Binghamton, N. Y. 
 
 Dutton, Major Clarence E Englewood, N. J. 
 
 Eaton, D. Cady, 218 Prospect Street, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Eno, Henry C, M.D Saugatuck, Conn. 
 
 Fairchild, Horace L Box 262, Bridgeport, Conn. 
 
 Foster, Wm. E 431 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Furbish, Rev. Edward B Bath, N. Y. 
 
 Haight, David L., M.D 1 W. 54th Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Hale, Wm. H., Ph.D 40 First Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Higgins, Rev. Lucius H West Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Holden, Edward G 138 East 40th Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Holmes, Ephraim L Downsville, N. Y. 
 
 Johnson, Henry L 20 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. City 
 
 Jones, Luther M. 
 
 Keyes, Winfield Scott Pacific Union Club, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Kingsbury, Rev. Oliver A New Hartford, N. Y. 
 
 Kip, William I Box 2179, San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Kittredge, Rev. Josiah E., D.D Geneseo, N. Y. 
 
 Knowlton, Hon. Marcus P., LL.D Springfield, Mass. 
 
 Leach, Orlando Avon, Mass. 
 
 Loomis, Rev. Alba L. P Rochester, Wis. 
 
 Marshall, Rev. Henry G Hampton, Conn. 
 
 Norton, Nathaniel 11-19 William Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Owen, Charles H Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Pennington, William 148 Ellison Street, Paterson, N. J. 
 
 Richards, Rev. Charles H., D.D 105 East 22d Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Richards, Prof. E. L New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Siglar, Henry W 158 Waverly Place, N. Y. City 
 
 306 
 
Addresses 207 
 
 Smith, Prof. Wm. T., M.D., LL.D Hanover, N. H. 
 
 Starr, Pierre S., M.D Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Vandyne, Rev. Charles H 569 West 161st Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Warren, Samuel R War Department, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Wheeler, Xenophon Chattanooga, Tenn. 
 
 White, Thomas H., M.D Tuckahoe, N. Y. 
 
 Willcox, Lemuel T New Bedford, Mass. 
 
 Williams, Rev. E. S Saratoga, Cal. 
 
 Willson, Hon. Robert N 2226 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Worthington, Lewis N., M.D.,85 A venue Henri Martin, Paris, France 
 
 Fifty-one. 
 
Addresses of Non-Graduates 
 
 Allen, Richard H Chatham, N. J. 
 
 Bonney, George B. (1861) 51 Wall Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Brooks, William P. 
 
 Bunce, Charles H. (Sheffield) Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Coan, Titus M. (Williams S.) 70 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. City 
 
 Chalmers, George (1861). 
 
 Curran, George L. (1863) Utica, N. Y. 
 
 Dodge, Charles C 1 West 83d Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Eggleston, William C. (1861) 7 Wall Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Fosdick, Wood Paris, France 
 
 Hatheway, Albert N 128 West 109th Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Hervey, James W New Bedford, Mass. 
 
 Jessup, Samuel Sidon, Syria 
 
 Park, William E Oberlin, Ohio 
 
 Reed, Horace. 
 
 Roosa, Daniel B. St. J 20 East 30th Street, N. Y. City 
 
 Root, Alexander P. (1861) Houston, Texas 
 
 Scott, Kidder M Geneseo, N. Y. 
 
 Sears, Lorenzo (1861) Providence, R. I. 
 
 Snell, Munroe. . .909-911 Union Trust Co. Building, Baltimore, Md. 
 Taylor, William F. 
 
 Trull, William C 20 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. City 
 
 Varnum, John M 7 State Street, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Webster, Daniel. 
 
 Wildey, Pierre W. (Columbia) 82 Beaver Street, N. Y. City 
 
 208 
 
In Memoriam 
 
 Arnold, George Waterman 
 
 Hebard, Daniel 
 
 Beach, Erastus Chittenden 
 
 Howard, John 
 
 Beers, George Louis 
 
 Howe, Theo. Lewis Buffet 
 
 Boies, Charles Alfred 
 
 Hunt, Thomas Gordon 
 
 Bolt wood, Edward 
 
 Hurlbut, William Henry 
 
 Bradley, William Edward 
 
 Johnston, William Curtis 
 
 Bradley, William Lockwood 
 
 Keese, Sidmon Thorne 
 
 Brown, Richard Baxter 
 
 McAlpin, William 
 
 Brown, Thaddeus PI owe 
 
 McKay, Edward DeCost 
 
 Bunnell, Lyman Benham 
 
 Marsh, Charles Othniel 
 
 Camp, Henry Ward 
 
 Martin, William Wisner 
 
 Carrier, Oscar Mortimer 
 
 Mason, Edward Gay 
 
 Catlin, George Lynde 
 
 Morris, John Moses 
 
 Champion, Henry 
 
 Ogden, Frederick Callender 
 
 Chapell, Frederick Leonard 
 
 Palfrey, Alfred Conrad 
 
 Denison, Daniel 
 
 Parsons, John Russell 
 
 Elder, Daniel Riker 
 
 Phelps, George Dwight 
 
 Engs, George 
 
 Phelps, William W T alter 
 
 Finney, Edgar Augustus 
 
 Post, Isaac Joseph 
 
 Foules, Charles Dougherty 
 
 Rice, George 
 
 Fowler, William 
 
 Russell, Jacob Wadsworth 
 
 Freeman, Everett Parker 
 
 Schneider, James Henry 
 
 Gaul, Edward Lewis 
 
 Seeley, John Frank 
 
 Giddings, George Walter 
 
 Smith, Calvin Harmon 
 
 Greene, George Nelson 
 
 Taintor, Joseph Lord 
 
 Griffin, George Herman 
 
 Ward, Julius Hammond 
 
 Hall, Henry Lewis 
 
 Way, Francis Roscoe 
 
 Hart, Henry Elmer 
 
 Woodruff, Morris 
 
 Hawley, Henry Eugene 
 
 Young, Mason 
 
 Fifty 
 
 -eight 
 
 Bacon, Jonathan Knight 
 
 Lane, Robert Barclay 
 Martin, William McCaleb 
 
 Becker, George 
 
 Bowie, John Routh 
 
 Meconkey, Elbridge Francis 
 
 Brown, William 
 
 Merriam, William Warriner 
 
 Burnet, John Groesbeck 
 
 Ogden, David Judson 
 
 Comegys, Walter Douglas 
 
 Palmer, William Wesley 
 
 Cutler, Laban Smith 
 
 Pomeroy, Elihu Frank 
 
 Davenport, William H. 
 
 Robbins, Louis Leeds 
 
 Davis, John Purvis 
 
 Schmucker, Francis Ritter 
 
 Davis, Samuel Harrison 
 
 Sibley, George Royal 
 
 Furbish, Clinton 
 
 Sweet, William Henry Seward 
 
 Glenny, Samuel Clark 
 
 Todd, David 
 
 Gould, Herman Day 
 
 Tucker, John Dresser 
 
 Green, George Washington 
 
 Towle, George Makepeace 
 
 Hewitt, Edgar Augustus 
 
 Upton, Henry 
 
 Hixon, Edward Augustus 
 
 Wheeler, Charles Burr 
 
 Hyatt, Alpheus 
 
 Wiswell, Frank Wiley 
 
 Thirty-four 
 
Boating Days of Sixty 
 
 An interesting suggestion to the philologian goes with the 
 general newspaper and university substitution of the word 
 11 athletics " for some words it displaces, and the question 
 whether this succession in the reign of words carries unim- 
 peachable, because involuntary, evidence of succession in the 
 reign of things. 
 
 At Yale, " before the war," " sport " was a word in frequent 
 use and could be made to run the full gamut of the Century 
 Dictionary s later definitions; there was: " Amusement, 
 enjoyment, entertainment, diversion, fun, play, pastime," 
 out on the hills, on the harbor, across " the green," and 
 especially in the Varuna. 
 
 There was no occasion then for the recent pathos of a 
 waist-oar and right-guard: " With boat practice almost 
 lapping football training, and, football over, tank rowing 
 begun, it gets to be a serious question how a man is to get a 
 little fun for himself." 
 
 A sporting man was not " one interested in open-air sports " 
 only, for dancing, fencing, boxing, and wrestling were mainly 
 practiced indoors. Neither was the sporting man to be too 
 easily disposed of as: "in a bad sense, a betting man, a 
 gambler, a black-leg (colloq. )." 
 
 If one of the crew had taken sport in the " Century's " (3 ) 
 sense, " Jest, as opposed to earnest," and too shortly before 
 a race, there would have ensued worse than philological con- 
 troversy with a trainer. 
 
 Trainer is the word; the coach came into sport as coach- 
 ing, except for millionaires, went out; coaches having also 
 been recently reported as holding that " coaching is no 
 sport " when a pitcher or a half-back has gone stale. 
 
 And at any era of sport or athletics, if a favorite for the 
 ring or the track had taken " (4) amorous dallying" for 
 sport, none of the words used about him would get into a 
 dictionary at all. 
 
Boating Days of Sixty 211 
 
 There is another good word of the early date which the 
 dictionary scorns even to stigmatize " (colloq. ) ": Sport, 
 or, effusively, old sport, for the lover of rod or gun or foil or 
 oar. 
 
 I remember that when Sam Johnson, prince of college boot- 
 blacks and judge of the article in question, dubbed me a 
 " regular sport," I was far vainer than when the president 
 gave me my degree. The only verbal question in Sam's 
 preliminary examination had been: " Why don't ye box 
 Jep Garrard? " to which the answer had been: " Because 
 he is not up to my weight," which was nicely accurate. 
 
 I am using the first person. It makes a yarn spin simpler, 
 and, as the athletic authorities have not sent me the Y, 
 which, under the rules, I have a right to wear, it gives me 
 pleasure to wear such look of authority as I can assume while 
 I recall some of the story of the Varuna and the boating 
 period that name represents. The ladies of New Haven were 
 too attractive for Yale boating to surrender itself readily to 
 boat racing. A " tub " which could give comfortable sittings 
 to some lovely young matron and her bevy was a necessity. 
 
 Heavy oars and heavy rowing are excellent early practice ; 
 far preferable to wabbling about in a cranky shell before learn- 
 ing to sit firm and get the back into the stroke. 
 
 There were plenty of races, one or more per week if Satur- 
 day and Wednesday afternoons were fair; tubs, gigs, " race 
 boats," such as there were, all contesting. An ambitious 
 crew, fancying themselves " in better shape " than others, 
 or with " a score to settle," was slow to get off as the rest left 
 the red farmhouse up Mill River (it was a farmhouse in the 
 fifties) ; an oar leather had to be helped with a tack or two, 
 or an oarsman refused to be too suddenly wakened from his 
 snooze under an apple-tree. Once off, down would come that 
 rearmost boat with a " spurt," and by the time the broader 
 water was reached at the confluence of the Quinnipiac, there 
 would be a gallant outlay of such skill and strength as were 
 in the navy, as far as Tomlinson's bridge, and sometimes 
 through between its piers and round the steamboat wharf to 
 Brooks's. 
 
 The first race of the Varuna crew was from Fort Hale to 
 Savin Rock, four miles. The Thulia, '59, was in it with Ed. 
 
212 Class of Sixty 
 
 Perkins and Carpenter, the completest of gymnasts but too 
 light, as their whole crew were, for a tub. There were 
 Jep Garrard and Bob Galloway in the Wa Wa, a '58 boat; 
 the Nereid, '58, with Penny Morgan and Esty Stephens, 
 Magill, and more of the winning crew in the last " regatta," all 
 very soft. The old scientific Transit (badly renamed 
 Varuna, for a wooden god) started last, by management of 
 Ed. Curtis, S. S. S., '57, who was pulling stroke and coaching 
 the new crew, and " wanted to see them brush "; and was 
 teaching me to pull bow and steer. It was not good form 
 for a bow to look around and twist his face over his shoulder 
 too often; his course once laid and cross current or drift 
 observed, he could feel the boat edge away or hold up to her 
 course. If one man slurred some part of his work, or forced 
 it, I could feel it on my oar as a fencer feels on his foil the 
 weariness or new resolve of his opponent. 
 
 There was always the boat's wake giving increasing praise 
 or blame, renewed from stroke to stroke until the finish line 
 was astern. If the triple ribbon of the dip of the oars and the 
 cut of the rudder disappeared in too stiff a ripple, there was 
 the criticism, harder to read but no less inflexible, of the 
 imaginary line from the starting flag to the stake boat ; how 
 nearly did it pass through the center of the boat, and how 
 abruptly was the angle changed at which that imaginary line 
 kept crossing the line of the kelson. 
 
 Few realize that a boat never goes in the direction in which 
 she is heading. She progresses on a line which is the resultant 
 of the ratio of the speed of the wind to the speed of the tide, 
 and of both to the speed of the boat, and the angle at which 
 the lines of motion of the three cross each other. 
 
 The Varunas used to sit with their hands in their laps when 
 waiting for the word, taking it easy and willing to see rival 
 crews bent down over their foot boards, pumping their wind 
 already; content to give a half length of start for the ad- 
 vantage of clear breathing, and satisfied that in no position 
 could another crew be sized up better than lapping her quarter. 
 
 All this and more Curtis was teaching us in the Varuna, 
 week after week, or it developed in his pupils in the score of 
 races in which they afterwards were winners; and to him, 
 more than to any other, was due our ideas of training, style 
 of rowing and racing. 
 
 By 1858 the races of the Nereid and Halcyon, the Transit, 
 
Boating Days of Sixty 213 
 
 the Undine of Hartford, the Virginia, manned by New York 
 pilots, the Nautilus and Wa Wa, Olympia and Wenona, had 
 brought about some fair practice and care as to diet of a crew. 
 
 William D. Morgan, Frederick W. Stevens, George E. Dun- 
 ham, and Henry L. Johnson, under William Plumb Bacon, 
 " commodore," were in training for a Harvard race, and pulling 
 regularly in the Volante, a log-sided, tipsy craft, but believed 
 to be very fast. The men were all that could be wished for 
 individually, and there was prospect that Harvard must 
 eclipse all previous precedents to win, when Dunham was 
 drowned. It seemed impossible that such an athlete was 
 not a swimmer, or that the superhuman exertions of the 
 others should not have rescued him. The accident came at 
 the end of three miles on time. Yet Morgan, the stroke, 
 dived for him a dozen times, stood sobbing with exertion and 
 whatever else, his eyes still searching the clear depths under 
 the bridge at Springfield, saw something gleam in an eddy, 
 plunged again and brought up his own flannels. Every candi- 
 date for a place on the Varuna race crew passed first a search- 
 ing examination as a swimmer. 
 
 Occasional hints or criticisms from the Volante crew were 
 of value to the Varuna; but little was known of their prac- 
 tice. After the tragic end, none of them ever liked to speak 
 of it. 
 
 As a club, the Varuna had been unlucky. Her first stroke 
 oar was Alpheus Hyatt, an ideal for the place. When I 
 offered it to him, his answer was: " Well, I can row in a 
 heavy boat. The first thing I can recollect is rolling about 
 in a dug-out on the Chesapeake." He left us before we had a 
 race, to take his scientific course at Boston, where, at the head 
 of the museum work, he spent his life. 
 
 As some of the '6o Freshmen were trying a " running 
 jump" (the running broad) in front of the Atheneum one 
 evening, a swart, lithe six-footer, broad-shouldered, a little 
 bent with recent work at the plow, where he said he had 
 been earning the wherewithal for making his way through 
 Yale, with a send-off of half a dozen steps cleared 19+ feet in 
 smooth turf. Five minutes later he and I were wrestling at 
 collar and elbow. He drew out with a protest that it was all 
 trick, and took a back hold with Johnson, who threw him, 
 after a hard bout, as he did everybody else, but said at once 
 
214 Class of Sixty 
 
 in my ear, " He is green, but strong enough; twists like an 
 eel and could tire anybody." Before bedtime we had signed 
 David Todd for a Varuna waist. In a pair oar of Brooks's 
 he exhibited capacity for everything except fatigue. When 
 we came back from vacation he was dead, of typhoid. 
 
 Henry L. Johnson, the Wall Street broker coming from a 
 Connecticut farm in Lebanon, was presumably the best oar 
 in the class. If he had not been, he would not have been 
 drafted into the Volante (Yale) four. That honor did not 
 make less the loss to the Varuna of her stroke, though he 
 rowed in her in some of her more important races and found 
 little to change. 
 
 The clubs were class clubs, until 1861, and the Wenona 
 had taken her first choice, or very nearly so, from the i860 
 Freshmen. The gymnasium had been canvassed, the tradi- 
 tions of the preparatory schools taken in evidence. The New 
 York boys and their money had guaranteed a new boat by 
 James, " without a straight line in her," and had enlisted, 
 among others, Eugene L. Richards (from that date to the 
 present, mathematician and leader in the Yale gymnasium), 
 D. Cady Eaton (the art professor), William Edwards Park 
 (of Andover and pulpit fame), both looking very fit; Othniel 
 Charles Marsh (already wrestler, campaigner, sportsman, and 
 always paleontologist), Edward B. Furbish (the strongest man 
 I knew in college, and the ideal pastor ever since), Jacob W. 
 Russell (who had been the pet athlete of the Russell Military 
 School), and for stroke, Joseph Clay (Georgia planter, dan- 
 gerous wrestler, kindly gentleman through all these years, 
 and " had broken two oars already "). They were steered and 
 commanded by the class favorite, William T. Smith (Dart- 
 mouth professor and LL.D., M.D.). Clearly a crew not to 
 be easily disposed of, whether estimated by brain or muscle. 
 We were to have at least stout competitors in our own class. 
 In his senior year Richards pulled on the Yale. 
 
 Meantime the Varuna club, and with it the crew, would 
 have gone to pieces had it not been for Henry Champion, 
 Charles H. Bunce, now city engineer in Hartford, Conn., and 
 his schoolmate, John D. Tucker, merchant; Winfield Scott 
 Keyes, mining engineer and capitalist in California; William 
 McAlpin, Cincinnati merchant; Col. Edward L. Gaul and 
 Edward Boltwood, Detroit judge of probate and president 
 
Boating Days of Sixty 215 
 
 of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company, father in insur- 
 ance of the late Col. Jacob L. Green and his successor, 
 John M. Taylor, presidents of the great Connecticut Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn. Others filled 
 the crew: Horace L. Fairchild, always reliable and as good as 
 any in the waist, now a Bridgeport merchant and manufac- 
 turer; Clarence L. Dutton, powerful and unimpressionable at 
 starboard bow or port stroke, lieutenant-colonel, United 
 States Army, ordnance officer at Sandy Hook under General 
 Burbank, United States Army, who, by an odd coincidence, 
 was pulling stroke in 1859 in the Hartford Atalanta, a rival 
 of Yale to be mentioned later (to them all the artillery of 
 the world to-day, in comparison with experimental equip- 
 ment, is as antiquated as Parrots and Rodmans); Robert N. 
 Willson, good at any oar, judge of the superior court, Phila- 
 delphia. Everett Parker Freeman, of Hartford, pulled star- 
 board bow in more than one race, with great courage and skill; 
 graduating from Yale, and a year later from the Albany Law 
 School, he settled at once in Mankato, Minn., then the border, 
 where he " grew up with the town," and was a leading lawyer 
 until he died. A state senator, a political and social power, 
 Freeman was a type of what is the sinew of a republic. With 
 a soft heart which made " Lo, the poor Indian " his invariable 
 school declamation, his military training at Russell's and his 
 personal worth made him an officer in the local volunteers 
 when they went out into the wilderness against the savage 
 allies of the Confederacy, who swarmed over British bound- 
 aries, as they did in 1776 and 181 2, to burn and slaughter. 
 
 We could hardly have got the championship without 
 Frederick Henry Colton, another farm boy, from Long- 
 meadow, Mass. It was doubtfully, almost reluctantly, that 
 I sent Colton to stroke, after Johnson was drafted for the 
 Volante. Accustomed to the square shoulders induced by 
 " the horizontal bars, "then much in vogue, we had not learned 
 to appreciate the power in sloping shoulders and a compara- 
 tively narrow chest and trunk. It was only after Colton out- 
 ran and outjumped all rivals that we put the tape round him 
 and learned that cubic capacity is quite consistent with a 
 symmetrical and almost slender look. 
 
 I met Colton at the Bi-centennial, and it was good to hear 
 him say he never felt more vigorous than now that he has 
 
216 Class of Sixty 
 
 graduate sons to bless him. Johnson, except for ten or twenty- 
 pounds and gray hair, looked as fit to step into a racing shell 
 as ever. So also did Rev. Samuel Dunham, of Binghamton, 
 N. Y., who pulled in two or three of the Varuna' s minor races 
 with all the skill and determination of the best, and only failed 
 of a place in all the races by an inch or two of stature. His 
 wedding cards are on my table as I write, and are of this 
 year's date, 1902. 
 
 My reluctant, unequal pen has been putting off mention 
 of Henry Ward Camp, major of the terrible Tenth Connecticut, 
 " the knightly soldier " of Rev. Henry Clay Trumbull's and 
 Rev. Joseph H. Twichell's beautiful biography, and the 
 named ideal of the dead hero in the memorial oration to 
 Yale's martyrs, of Horace Bushnell, D.D. His portrait in oil 
 hangs among those of Yale's most dear and honored. 
 
 There is a fascination about so clear and flawless a character 
 as Camp's, which draws to it and its delineation that which 
 is best in those about him or who write about him, so that 
 the chief beauty of those sketches by those chosen Christian 
 leaders, whom I knew only less well than Camp, is in the 
 look one gets into the characters of Trumbull and Twichell 
 and Bushnell as they talk about him, and wisely let his own 
 letters speak for him. 
 
 When in one race I had drawn first choice of position, and 
 had chosen the outside because it was to windward, and at 
 the start had headed the boat so sharply into the wind and 
 tide, which set strong across the course, that the crew thought 
 it absurd, and I would listen to no remonstrance, Camp was 
 hopeless, but all he said was: " If we have four miles to row 
 instead of three, it's time we were about it "; and for a few 
 lengths I had all I could do to hold down the crew from expend- 
 ing too much force at the start. 
 
 Camp had a theory in which he did not stand alone, that 
 training was a mistake, certainly if weight were lessened; 
 that so much of power on the oar was lost, and that : " as for 
 wind, a man of determination enough could pull two miles or 
 so after his wind was gone." As the time in practice im- 
 proved, even with reduced weight, he was too honest a 
 reasoner not to concede the point ; but probably he was half 
 right, the Varuna and the Yale of '59 were drawn too fine. 
 
 To detail the training and practice of the Varuna would 
 
Boating Days of Sixty 217 
 
 be tedious, and would, perhaps, tax memory too far for 
 accuracy. The table fare was very like the present, save that 
 vegetables and liquids, even water, were more scanted, and 
 cereals were in less variety and very inferior; it was a memora- 
 ble privation that oatmeal, quite sweet and fresh, was some- 
 times not procurable. Fruits, especially at breakfast, were 
 permitted in fair variety and almost plentifully. Every Yale 
 athlete, and probably in some degree every athlete, who has 
 gone to a training table in the last forty years, owes a debt 
 of gratitude to Jonathan Knight, M.D., professor of surgery, 
 etc., and to Eli Ives, M.D., professor of materia medica and 
 therapeutics, emeritus, neither of whom ever scorned a con- 
 sultation with a bewildered coach, or would take a fee for 
 advice as to the hygiene of a crew. Both professed the 
 utmost interest in methods and results, grudged no time in 
 considering weights, temperatures, or lassitude, pledged 
 their professional reputation on the recognition of constipa- 
 tion as the umpire which must always overrule too stimulating 
 diet ; and laughed with bitter irony at the preference of sulphur 
 and molasses to the strawberry or the banana. Both had 
 gardens and had critical knowledge of quality in fruits, and 
 the need of freshness, even beyond the need of ripeness. 
 
 William Plumb Bacon, of New Haven, and Samuel Davis 
 Page, of Philadelphia, were not so overweighted by the title 
 of commodore as to have been disqualified for great successes 
 as commissaries, and training was much mitigated and 
 assisted by their judicious marketing, as well as the styles 
 of rowing subjected to their constant criticism. Lyman B. 
 Bunnell, long respected at the New York bar, was gymnastic 
 instructor in '59, and much was due to his kind assistance. 
 
 Camp had not the money to spend on boat fees, was unwill- 
 ing to ask his father, a minister, for more, and thought it 
 wrong to borrow. Bunnell took him home for the vacation 
 to Burlington, Conn., where Camp " accepted a position " 
 (I am glad to say that in those days we said " got a job " ) 
 in the hayfield, and earned enough to pay his own way, and 
 subscribe to the navy funds. 
 
 The training of the Varuna and of the Yale crew of 1859 
 was severer than that of later crews. 
 
 The Varunas held the champion flag for two years, and in 
 the autumn of 1859, after four of her crew had rowed in the 
 
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 Yale, notified the commodore that they would no longer 
 contest the championship — it being evident that competition 
 could be expected only with Varuna barred. The flag was 
 less than a yard of dark blue bunting on a green staff, bearing 
 the white letters, " Pioneer Yale No. i." It was presented 
 to the Yale navy on Wednesday, May 26, 1858, as " the first 
 ever hoisted over a Yale boat," by the captain of the Pioneer, 
 1844, William J. Weeks, of Yaphank, L. I.; and by Article 
 V of the constitution of the Yale navy it was to be " offered 
 at each annual regatta as a champion flag, and to be subject 
 to challenge throughout the boating season on a notice of 
 four weeks." 
 
 When four Varuna men went to Lake Quinsigamond, at 
 Worcester, on the Yale, in '59, the flag hung in Johnson's 
 room, a trophy held in trust for the navy. When they 
 returned for Commencement it had been removed. No one 
 of the Varuna crew knew of, or approved of, its removal, 
 or has ever regarded its continued detention from the Yale 
 navy's custody without indignation. 
 
 During two boating seasons the Varuna, holding the cham- 
 pionship, was compelled to keep a crew in condition to race 
 within four weeks. The training was almost identical with 
 that of the Yale '59, — a run before breakfast out "Tutor's 
 lane " and back, pulling weights in the gymnasium at noon, 
 a row, generally over the full course, in the evening. 
 
 There has been a legend readily adopted by lovers of 
 antithesis, who liked a contrast for the orderly management 
 of modern athletics, that " there were giants in those days," 
 and that the 1859 crew made one tally by its overwhelming 
 brawn. As a matter of fact, the winning crews of that date 
 were not large men. 
 
 The average height of the Yale crew in 1859 and the Varunas 
 was about five feet, nine inches. 
 
 I take from a memorandum the following weights, in 
 pounds : 
 
 Varuna: Colton/145; Johnson, 150; Freeman, 145;* Owen, 
 140. 
 
 * The crew was made up by adding Horace L. Fairchild, of Bridge- 
 port, and Henry W. Camp, of Hartford, each about one hundred and 
 fifty-five pounds. 
 
 Freeman alternated with Robert N. Willson, Philadelphia, and 
 Clarence L. Dutton, New Haven. 
 
Boating Days oj Sixty 219 
 
 Wenona: Richards, 156; Eaton, 145; Park, 160; Clay, 
 175; Marsh, 170; Russell, 150; total, 956. 
 
 The average weight of the Yale crew of 1859 was one hun- 
 dred and forty-eight. The men were probably larger and 
 more muscular than the weight would indicate to-day, as the 
 crews were then too fine. 
 
 When the Harvard and Yale met at Worcester, both crews 
 had had more work than is now approved. The Harvard 
 had beaten the best professional talent of the country in the 
 Boston races on the 4th of July. The Varuna men had 
 trained for, rowed and won, a championship race June 8; 
 had rowed and lost an open race for six-oared boats at New 
 London, July 4, their gunwale broken in two places in a 
 southeaster (time, 22 min. 28 sec), and another for four-oared 
 boats on the same day, July 4, four men pulling the six-oar 
 boat ; and had won a championship race in New Haven July 5, 
 defeating the Olympia, and the Atalanta manned by a picked 
 crew in which were Joseph H. Twichell and Charles T. 
 Stanton, stroke (time, 22 min. 26 sec). The New London race 
 is worth some description as the only one in which the Varuna 
 ever suffered a defeat, and probably the only one of the kind 
 ever rowed. The start was from near the west ferry-land- 
 ing. The course was around a stake boat near Fort Pequot, 
 around another stake boat near the Groton shore and return. 
 This made the turns to port and favored the boats of our com- 
 petitors which were new and rigged in the new fashion, stroke 
 on port side. Their boats were manned by an admirable set 
 of whalers and fishermen from all along shore. These new 
 boats were not so long as the Varuna, nor probably so fast, 
 but scientifically planned and built for speed in the weather 
 they were expected to encounter and the stalwart crews they 
 were to float, by the same talent which was, at this period, 
 building the New York Yacht Club winners. The Varuna 
 did better than hold her own for the first mile, with the ebb 
 tide and in a stiff chop, against a strong southerly blow; but 
 at the turn, our port gunwale broke across in two places at the 
 waist outrigger ; five oars could not keep up to the weatherly 
 and well-handled boats of our rivals, and the Pequot won in 
 22 min. 28 sec; Varuna fifth, in 24 min. 27 sec. An elegant 
 method of turning the stake boats was developed in this race 
 which does not seem to have met with favor in later days, but 
 
220 Class of Sixty 
 
 is deserving of a record. Port oars in the racing boat were 
 trailed; the stroke locked hands with a friend in the stake 
 boat, and the turn was made closer and quicker than the 
 Harvard's splendid swoop around the stake at Quinsigamond, 
 comparable only to a swallow's. We were advised to pro- 
 test the decision, but, as our broken boat had defeated 
 us in any case, we offered the Pequot, the winning boat, 
 fifty dollars for expenses, to come to New Haven, and 
 row for prizes offered by the city on the following day. 
 This was declined, but the best of feeling was established 
 for Yale in New London, as appeared a few days later 
 in Worcester, and has been maintained for almost half a 
 century. 
 
 The Varuna crew was obliged to take care of its boat on 
 two platform cars on the return trip to New Haven, that 
 evening ; and the next day rowed for the city prizes and the 
 championship. Against them were entered the Sheffield 
 Scientific School Olympia, eight oars, which, by agreement, 
 gave no handicap, and the six-oar Atalanta, ' 61. The 
 Atalanta crew had been allowed, by consent of all con- 
 testants, to take on any men from all college, except 
 Varunas, to contest this championship race and to pull for 
 4th of July prizes in Middletown, — where they defeated the 
 Olympia, and the Atalanta, of Hartford, in 23 min. 10 sec, — 
 but they were all 1861 men, except Joseph H. Twichell, '59. 
 Charles T. Stanton, Stonington, Conn., was stroke. 
 
 The Atalanta '61 was newer and faster than the Varuna, 
 which was a little hogged from her New London accident ; and 
 the Varuna crew felt that they had their work cut out. The 
 Atalanta' s work becoming a trifle ragged, overboard went one 
 of her oars. The Varuna stopped, backed water, and hailed, 
 " Pickup your oar and come on." But the Atalanta drew out, 
 gave what passed for a cheer, and called back, "Go on or 
 you won't catch the Olympia" We did, however, and 
 finished the mile and a half and repeat, — Varuna, 22 min. 26 
 sec, Olympia, 23 min. 35 sec. 
 
 This was the last race of the Varuna as a contestant for col- 
 lege honors, and established beyond cavil her title to the Yale 
 championship, whatever her place among whalers in a blow. 
 Her almost uniform success was due to thorough and faithful 
 training and, what I do not hesitate to pronounce, after seeing 
 
Boating Days of Sixty 221 
 
 contests at Springfield, Saratoga, New London, on the Harlem, 
 the Isis, and at Putney, scientific rowing. Her time, 22 min. 
 6 sec, was not what she could have made if pushed to the 
 finish, but was good for the class of boats and the tide rips of 
 New Haven Bay, which met more wash from its open entrance 
 before the breakwater was built. Also one and one-half 
 miles and repeat is quite different from three miles straight 
 away, for the same boat. No boat ever made a perfectly 
 straight course to a stake boat at a mile and a half, in choppy 
 water and a varying cross tide. 
 
 In the race in which Varuna made 22 min. 6 sec, the 
 Yale or Harvard, of '59, would have gone to pieces in the 
 first mile; in an eight of present-day contests, much sooner. 
 
 The length of swing or stroke was not complicated then with 
 any question of length of slide, though there was a free use 
 of the leg, in the last position of the leap, in which its strength 
 is greatest. The men were made to stand on a flat floor, and, 
 with knees rigid, touch the fingers as far in front of the toes 
 as possible; on the recover swinging back and drawing the 
 hands to the ribs. Then the men took their places in the 
 boat without oars and without straps on the footboards; the 
 length of swing possible with easy recover rectified errors, and 
 the length of stroke was determined. The full power of an 
 easy back-swing remains a constant quantity in all rowing 
 problems, however complicated with slide, and Yale cannot 
 defeat Oxford and ignore it. 
 
 Our oars were straight spruce, twelve and a half to thirteen 
 feet long, in the waist, and were sometimes balanced or 
 loaded inboard, with a pound or more of lead driven into an 
 auger hole bored into the center of the end of the loom. 
 
 The races commenced with a recover from an easy sitting 
 position, an instantaneous catch, and a half-stroke. The 
 second stroke and the rest were as long as could be easily 
 recovered from, without lift on the oar or foot straps, the 
 legs and back straightening together, and the arms finishing, 
 though all the movements were almost simultaneous; then 
 an accelerated recover, to insure against loss of time in a 
 cramped position, and an instantaneous catch to hold the 
 boat from any dip at the recover point. Already somebody 
 had made the phrase "the victorious Varuna catch." The 
 full power or stress was not, however, so quickly put on as the 
 
222 Class of Sixty 
 
 catch. The back-swing took the catch, and the almost simul- 
 taneous thrust of legs, back, and arms against the footboard 
 came as the oar was at right angles to the line of the kelson. 
 
 Stanton and Twichell with four Varunas* had gone into 
 the Atalanta, now the Yale. There was no considerable change 
 from the Varuna stroke, which had been 36 to 40, though the 
 count was not much regarded and the principal attention 
 was paid to maintaining uniformity and length of swing in 
 line with the boat and at whatever pace. When the new shell 
 came, three days before the race, it was rigged for a coxswain, 
 and, instead of with twelve and a half and thirteen foot oars, 
 with what Stanton at once denounced as " tooth-picks," 
 spoons ten and one-half feet long, and identical with the 
 sculls, of which, in 1870, Walter Brown pulled a pair. 
 
 If will-power develop additional energy in the drag at the 
 loom, if superior training has given more endurance, if 
 experience has given a veteran crew nerve to withstand the 
 temptation to sacrifice more for the lead at the start than it is 
 worth, that crew will win, and very probably, if necessary, in 
 better time — relative, of course, to weather and tide conditions 
 — than its practice time; and just as probably it will have 
 averaged from start to finish a stroke or two more per minute, 
 but not by any other variation of stroke than increase of power. 
 When there is so long studied and well-perfected system as in 
 the boats of to-day, differences are nearly eliminated and are 
 difficult of recognition. What makes the Varuna an invalua- 
 ble study is that the differences were so obvious that the 
 1859 races afforded a final solution of the so-called quick- 
 stroke problem; or rather an absolute proof that there is no 
 such problem: and that the number of strokes per minute is 
 purely a result from the real factors. 
 
 Stanton and Twichell added something to the quality of 
 the Varuna, certainly with spoon oars and in a shell. 
 Stanton was as powerful as any of his weight, and was equally 
 with the Varunas a veteran oar, and in almost the same condi- 
 tions. Twichell was far from a veteran, but was as con- 
 scientious and powerful as Camp, as lithe as Colton, the 
 largest man of the crew, and the pick of college to fill the crew 
 of 1 86 1 when the Varuna had taken the championship against 
 
 " all college." 
 
 * Johnson, Camp, Colton, and Owen; Hezekiah Watkins, coxswain. 
 
Boating Days of Sixty 223 
 
 But the new boat gave us only three days for practice at 
 Worcester, and that not uninterrupted, for we pulled off five 
 pot -metal rowlocks, and had to have them replaced while 
 we waited. The stroke was on port side, so, as it was regarded 
 too late to shift over, Stanton cordially took his place behind 
 Johnson who became stroke by the change, the crew was all 
 the more Varuna behind a Varuna stroke, and went on 
 rowing in the Yale shell their old well-studied, second-nature, 
 Varuna stroke. 
 
 Wat kins was worth his weight in gold. We all knew that 
 in a day. But gold, or radium, is not worth its weight in a 
 racing six-oar, and I had doubted whether spoons and shell 
 would make up for over-weight sufficiently to give us better 
 speed than in the Varuna lapstreak. The time, however, of 
 the first half mile in which we managed to keep right side up, 
 showed my error. The Yale, with Stanton and Twichell to 
 reinforce us, was carrying Watkins's brains and going faster 
 than the best record the Varuna had laid up in her archives. 
 But the Yale shell was getting away from the stroke faster than 
 the Varuna or the Atalanta had; 44 would not do the work 
 and 48 had to. As Stanton said, " After you've pulled your 
 oar through, if you're going any further, you put it in again." 
 
 At Worcester it was thought very handsome in Harvard 
 to have furnished two entries. It certainly proved to be 
 benevolent in them to enter the Avon lapstreak for stable 
 companion, and put two to one on her. 
 
 The fleet foot of Calydon came again to the line. This 
 time the Atalanta was entered by Brown. Apples must have 
 been swimming in Quinsigamond that day, for Brown was last. 
 
 We got the word at 4.30 o'clock p.m., July 26, the four boats 
 starting well together, the broader floor of the lapstreak 
 Avon giving her the advantage of a half length. No four 
 boats, nor two, can pull from a line with the object of turning 
 a stake, without a tendency of their lines of flight to converge. 
 The Harvard and the Avon, one on each side of us, developed 
 that tendency; they did converge, and it was necessary to 
 drop behind the Avon and come up outside of her; so the time, 
 Harvard, 19 min. 18 sec; Yale, 20 min. 18 sec; Avon, 21 
 min. 13 sec; Brown, 24 min. 40 sec, is not of the best value 
 for comparisons except that the Harvard's 19 min. 18 sec 
 was the record professional time. 
 
224 Class of Sixty 
 
 So much as this had been done: i min. 48 sec. had been 
 taken off Yale's record for one and one-half miles and repeat; 
 for the first time a Yale boat had defeated a Harvard boat, 
 the Avon. 
 
 The next day, the 27th, the city of Worcester offered 
 handsome prizes in gold coin, open to all six-oared boats. 
 One hundred to five was offered " on the Harvard against 
 the field "; but most of the betting was that the Harvards, 
 who had never been pressed at the finish and were now 
 wanting a final record to inscribe on their shell before hanging 
 it up for a trophy, would beat the Yale on the second day 
 more than a minute. They would now show their speed. 
 One hundred to five, accidents not barred, is not betting odds; 
 later in the day the Yale navy was out of debt, and the Yale 
 crew accused of showing their pace " only when the money 
 said so." 
 
 The start was at 2.22 p.m., 21 hr. 52 min. since the start of 
 the day before. It was said that the Harvard was hindered 
 by rough water. There was breeze enough to give good 
 breathing air, of which Yale was soon in sore need; but the 
 ripple was nothing to New Haven cracks, even in a new shell. 
 Harvard was heavily handicapped none the less, — by the 
 betting. Yale persistently lapped her quarter. Where was 
 the minute and more of lead to come from, needed to win the 
 Harvard bets? On the 26th the Yale had rowed against two 
 Harvard boats. On the 27th Harvard was rowing against 
 the Yale and against time; six Yale men were pulling their 
 six sculls through the lake faster and faster, and their powerful 
 stroke driving the sharp boat faster and faster, until after a 
 slight foul at the half mile of which both steersmen agreed to 
 take no advantage, the Yale led to the stake boat. 
 
 I think it was on that second and third half mile the race 
 was won and lost. Every oarsman knows at how great a 
 strain the top speed of a spurt is attained, and how much 
 less a crew is being pumped which responds barely enough to 
 hold its own. In a turn race the leader has the advantage 
 that a following boat must regain the lead, wait for the 
 leader at the turn, or take the longer course outside of her. 
 In meeting the fierce dashes of the Harvard's attempts to 
 pass us, just foiling them and no more, Johnson and Stanton 
 were perfect. Once a Varuna man was heard in approval, 
 
Boating Days of Sixty 225 
 
 " Hold them there, Jack! " (Jack was boating sobriquet for 
 Johnson.) Then the Yale, with no oars fit to steady her, 
 splashed round the stake with a clumsy turn like that of a 
 raft log. The Harvard forty-foot pine shell, sharply careen- 
 ing to port, her port oars holding hard, flew round like a bird, 
 the most beautiful thing I ever saw on the water, or above it, 
 hawk, swallow, or cup-defender, and was again in the lead 
 and kept the lead, although most of the way we lapped her, 
 until the roars of the grand stand were abeam. 
 
 Our eloquent coxswain had been adjuring the crew all the 
 way, in a race which is one of the three or four boat races in 
 fifty years which could not have been mistaken for a proces- 
 sion. Two Harvard men were meeting their oars as the last 
 half mile opened. Our stroke was perceptibly flagging. 
 Nobody could know how much that savage 48, 50 had taken 
 out of us. " Jack, one spurt would do it." He only shook 
 his head. I felt my hands try to loosen their grip of the oar 
 loom; the chance was there, but we could not grasp it. 
 
 It seems our grand stroke had been figuring to himself, 
 and by not too narrow a margin. The Harvard enthusiasts 
 had proclaimed that their boat had always drawn away at 
 the end; that no rival crew could stand a Harvard finish. 
 He had sworn to himself that Yale grit should stay to the end. 
 How often, and how nearly impossibly, has it done that 
 since! And how often because it did so then? 
 
 The benches were Jack's limit ; from there to the line the 
 crew must hold all he could set for them. 
 
 The rest was dramatic. Harvard had come down the 
 middle of Lake Quinsigamond after her beautiful turn, in 
 full view, her red turbans flashing in the sun; and cheers 
 for her had been ringing clear all the way. Yale's wide 
 turn had brought her close in the lee of the shore, where 
 Watkins wisely held her, and where her light blue (Yale blue 
 was then as light as lavender ) was not easily seen across the 
 blue water. Later a wooded promontory shut her from view. 
 With the shouts of " Harvard! Harvard! " there were anxious 
 cries of " Where is Yale? " As our rudder slipped past the 
 promontory, our stem was at the grand stand. Yale had 
 sprung into sight and was lapped on the leader. 
 
 Then a chasm opened in the atmosphere. Shouting took the 
 air, so we had almost none to breathe. Jack's face half turned 
 
226 Class of Sixty 
 
 toward us. As I saw the set of it I knew it was our race. 
 He called his crew himself. His word was " Shake her! " 
 It was correct. The 50 strokes which had fallen to 48 and 
 46, went to 56, 58, 60, and had the vice with which a terrier 
 shakes a rat. Yale shot in, for the first time a winner over 
 the Harvard, in Yale, 19 min. 14 sec; Harvard, 19 min. 16 
 sec. The record was broken again. This time we held it. 
 Harvard had lowered her own record of the day before, which 
 was also the professional record, by two seconds. Yale had 
 beaten her own time of the day before on the course around 
 the Avon by sixty-four seconds, taken four seconds from the 
 professional record, and lowered the Yale record made against 
 outside clubs (that of the Atalanta at Middletown, July 4, 
 1859, 23 min. 10 sec.) three minutes and fifty-six seconds. 
 
 As we did the correct thing, exchanging cheers and rowing 
 past the grand stand, the Harvards tore off their red turbans 
 and threw them into the lake. The command to the Yale 
 crew was, " Try to look as though you were in the habit of 
 doing this every day!" 
 
 Just then I recognized two Yale graduates, local clergymen 
 in their " blacks," up to their armpits in the water, baptizing 
 each other with their silk hats. They had visited us on the 
 25th, to inquire if it would help us any to know that they 
 were praying for us, and had been saddened to know that we 
 feared we were past praying for. I asked one of them, " Is 
 this the way you receive an answer — " but before I could say 
 " to prayer? " a flipper was on my shoulder, another at my 
 waist, my legs described a celestial parabola, and I found 
 myself seated on the neck of the bowsman of the New London 
 Pequot (weight, two hundred and eight ; they put a heavy man 
 in the bow whaleman fashion, a harpooner ) . Those whalemen 
 came near pulling our arms off, and begged for information: 
 " Why in hell didn't you boys pull like that in New London? " 
 When they came to look our boat over they saw it would not 
 have floated us ten rods on the tide rips of New London Harbor 
 in the blow of July 4. 
 
 All this was not very much, by modern standards of speed. 
 Harvard had fairly won the flags ; and we held no trophy. 
 
 But we had in a sensational finish put Yale first and given 
 her the record " for all comers " to that date. And that 
 quick stroke? Sam Woodruff, the Brown captain, with a 
 
Boating Days of Sixty 227 
 
 stop watch, gave me the figures; it was my business to get 
 them right for the Yale Lit ; at the finish line the count was 
 at the rate of an even 60. It was not flurry nor excitement 
 nor a short swing. I knew then, as I know now (it had been 
 my especial business to know for three years in the Varuna), 
 that the stroke never was pulled through with fuller leg-drive, 
 back-swing, and arm-finish, never with more vim, than at that 
 grotesque stroke (of one per second) of the finish at Quinsiga- 
 mond in 1859; and its value ought not to be lost as a 
 lesson, made possible by the absurd blunder of a boat builder, 
 that the number of strokes per minute is a result and not a factor 
 in a boating problem. With the mechanics of the boats and 
 oars so nearly a fixed quantity as now, the only varying quan- 
 tity is the conformation of the men. 
 
 Another patent lesson from 1859 is that a formal cham- 
 pionship race, June 8, — there were also informal races, — a 
 double defeat in New London, July 4, a championship race 
 the next day, July 5, a hard race in new and intolerable con- 
 ditions of short oars and a coxswain to carry, on July 26, 
 did not incapacitate the Varuna men, nor Stanton and 
 Twichell, who had done much the like, from going through 
 as fierce a struggle from start to finish as has yet been seen, 
 successfully and unharmed, on the 27th. When that lesson 
 is taken to heart, dual league processions will give place to 
 intercollegiate meets again, with trial heats and finals worth 
 going across a continent to see. 
 
 It remains to be credited to the Varuna and the 1859 crew 
 that, with the kind attention and testimony of Drs. Knight, 
 Ives, and Townsend, they won over the faculty to more than 
 a tolerance of athletics, and in great part, no doubt, by the 
 fact that the 1859 crew carried one Greek oration (philosophi- 
 cal), one oration, two disputes, two Townsends and the 
 chairmanship of the Yale Lit Board; or by other ratings, 
 before another college course could begin and end, two staff 
 captains, one division chaplain, one division surgeon, one 
 major, one lieutenant -colonel, one colonel. 
 
 The veteran character of the crew was of unquestionable 
 value. There is question whether Oxford oars have not an 
 advantage from their experience in many "bumps " as well 
 as in their back swing. 
 
 It would be pleasant for the men (of one hundred and forty- 
 
228 Class of Sixty 
 
 eight pounds average weight) who in twenty-three days 
 reduced Yale's rowing record four minutes, to have it remem- 
 bered that they were neither giants nor fools, nor favored by 
 a lucky fluke. It is of more consequence, however, that it 
 be remembered that successes never are won by fools or flukes, 
 or twenty-minute grit, but by the honest, persistent, hard 
 work of months and years, and the application of the best 
 science the day has developed. — Charles Hunter Owen, 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
Stray Leaves from a Lost Diary 
 
 New Haven, September 13, 1856. As I was coming in on 
 the train this morning, two fellows came in a few miles out. 
 One of them sat down by me, the other, in front of me. 
 11 Going to college this year? " said one. M Don't know," 
 said I; " am headed that way." "Oh, haven't passed yet? " 
 " Last summer," said I. ' Then why don't you know? " 
 said he. u Ever traveled on the Canal road? " said I. " Yes," 
 said he. " Then why'd you ask such a foolish question? " 
 said I. " You want to go into the best society? " said he. 
 " Don't I look's though I'd always gone there? " said I. "Oh, 
 yes," said he; "but I mean college society. You look and 
 talk like a Brother already." "Well, I am," said I; "the 
 oldest in the family ; have always had to set a good example 
 to the others. You know how that is? " "I'd like to talk 
 about your becoming a Brother in Unity," said he, not 
 noticing my question. " Is she pretty? " said I. " Who? " 
 said he. " Your sister," said I. " Who said anything about 
 my sister? " " You said you wanted to talk about my becom- 
 ing a brother." " A Brother in Unity," said he. " All the 
 smart, good-looking Freshmen like you go to my society," 
 said the other fellow, breaking into the talk. " The Brothers 
 get the rowdies, the low-stand men. They lose half their 
 members from college before the year's out." " Don't you 
 believe a word he says," said the Brother. " He's a Linonian, 
 which means that they tell every lie known. Every great 
 man that ever lived has belonged to the Brothers, way back to 
 Plato, Cicero, and Julius Caesar, down to Napoleon and the 
 valedictorian of last year." " Except Alexander the Great, 
 Shakespeare, and fellows like them," said the other. " They 
 were Linonians. As for the valedictory, the faculty's bound 
 by the constitution of Connecticut to give it to a Linonian." 
 
 By this time we had providentially got to New Haven and 
 when they left me, or rather, when I left them, each of them 
 declared I was pledged to him. When I got a room, I flipped 
 up a cent. Heads, Linonia; tails, Brothers. It came heads. 
 
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230 Class of Sixty 
 
 September 14. Rose at five this morning, still dark. 
 Linonian told me to be at chapel early, so's to avoid the crowd 
 that would come to get a choice of seats for the rest of the 
 college course, up near the pulpit; first come, first served, or 
 reserved, rather, is the rule, and the four earliest were ap- 
 pointed college class deacons, at a salary of ten dollars a 
 week, for spending money. This proved to be a mistake, 
 as Foules and Gaul found afterwards when they applied. 
 Found two fellows ahead of me on the chapel steps. As I 
 came up, one of them rose before the sun did, until I thought 
 he'd hit his head against the eaves. Said his name was 
 Finney. Introduced me to the other whose name was Arnold. 
 Finney said he was Benedict's grandson. But the other said 
 he wasn't. S'pose he knew best, but it's getting hard to 
 know what to believe. The Brother told me to commit last 
 year's catalogue by heart, as I'd have to pass an examination 
 on it before I could be matriculated or vaccinated; but the 
 Linonian said I'd better learn the tables of the four years' 
 " Course of Study," if I wanted a good place close to the 
 tutor, in the recitation room. 
 
 January 20, 1857. Went up to Linonia Hall to-day. 
 Found it full, and a lot of Freshmen and Sophs undertaking 
 to tell whether or not a lawyer ought to defend a client whom 
 he knows to be guilty. Found my name on the program and 
 decided to give a few hasty views I'd been " dashing off " 
 the past month. Late this evening, heard I'd got a prize. 
 One of those who didn't said Prof. Larned, who was a judge, 
 gave it to me because he liked a joke — not original, at that — 
 which I put in it. Such is envy. But what care I when I've 
 entered a career like Clay's or Daniel Webster's? 
 
 June 17, 1857. Last night was our Freshman powwow. 
 Blew tin horns, put on old clothes wrong side out, stood on 
 the statehouse steps and bragged about things we hadn't 
 done and of what we probably aren't going to do the next 
 three years. Sophomores on the ground jeered and yelled. 
 Then we marched round town, called at the girls' boarding 
 schools, because Bob Willson and Jack Johnson said they 
 knew 'em all and carried latchkeys, and the girls were talking 
 of giving us a spread. But the only thing that looked any- 
 thing like a spread was something white at the windows. 
 Powwow is because we're glad we've got through Freshman 
 
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 year. I don't know why we should be. No one else seems 
 to know except that they all supposed they were glad because 
 the rest were. But I got so cold tramping around with noth- 
 ing on but my old drawers and a linen coat, that I didn't think 
 I was as glad as I thought I was. 
 
 November 10, 1857. Just heard of Euclid's death, to-day. 
 His funeral was to-night. As none of his family were in 
 town our class took charge of the services. Was asked to 
 make a few remarks, which I did. Said I wasn't very well 
 acquainted with the deceased, but as near's I could remember 
 that whenever I saw him round he seemed square ; he was 
 likewise plane and angular. Always had a some sort of propo- 
 sition to offer ; never got into a dispute ; appeared to coincide 
 with everything and everybody, and so amiable, very few 
 things were apt to be " contrary to his inclination." The 
 thing I heard most against him was that he never kept a 
 " pony." 
 
 These, and other remarks, were received with laughter 
 which seemed so out of place at a funeral that I was glad even 
 to tramp through two miles of mud, lose a rubber boot, and 
 out to a grove, where we buried him by burning him, and 
 singing " Massa's in the cold, cold ground." Just the same, 
 it was a striking scene with the flames lighting up the forest 
 trees, and the autumn leaves, and the faces of the fellows; 
 and with the sounds of the solemncholy dirge we sang. They 
 say he has more lives than a cat and will turn up again at 
 biennial examination next year. Hope I'll know him better 
 than I do now; for you can " skin " a cat and you can't Euclid. 
 
 September 27, 1858. Statement of facts to-day. Johnston 
 and I stated them. Didn't waste much time on that ; wanted 
 to get at our orations. We had to tell the Freshmen after 
 they had all joined either the Brothers or Linonia, what a 
 terrible mistake they had made at the very threshold of their 
 college careers, by joining the wrong one. They would regret 
 it all the rest of their lives. I read a letter from John C. 
 Calhoun to a friend at home, when he was in college, telling 
 him that he had joined Linonia. It was a very good letter 
 of its kind, for I wrote it myself, and dipped it in coffee to 
 make it look old. Lent it to Johnston for the evening meet- 
 ing, and he added a postscript saying that if anybody ever 
 read such a letter from him, it would be a forgery. I remarked 
 
232 Class of Sixty 
 
 that only a Brother in Unity would pick a man's pocket of a 
 letter and add a post script to it. I made a speech that would 
 have captured all the Freshmen for Linonia if half of 'em 
 hadn't already joined the Brothers. H. E. Barnes was so 
 impressed with it that he said he never saw me in a better- 
 looking vest. Am more and more convinced that I shall yet 
 be heard from, for my much speaking. 
 
 June 13, 1859. Great crowd at Brewster's Hall this evening. 
 I couldn't get in at the front door and so Jack Johnson and 
 Charley Owen smuggled me in, in a trunk. This was called 
 the " Opening Load." Hen Hawley called me out on the 
 platform. Said he'd got something for me. Handed me a 
 wooden spoon that formerly belonged to Goliath or some of 
 his crowd. Hawley said it was sometimes given to the biggest 
 eater in the class, sometimes to the poorest scholar and laziest 
 fellow. The Class of '60 was lucky enough to get a combina- 
 tion of 'em all. Said I'd been measured for it, so it was a gift 
 well fitted to its recipient. I was very much surprised. I 
 said I felt I was unworthy of the honor ; there were so many 
 in the class deserving it so much more than I did. At first I 
 thought of calling them out and handing it over, but as 
 they would be as much taken by surprise as I was, I hauled 
 out several pages of extemporaneous reply instead, and took 
 the spoon with a few stirring remarks. 
 
 June 14, 1859. Stayed awake most of the night expecting 
 to be awakened by '59 men; wasn't by even one. Learned 
 to-day that the Death's Head men this year were too cheap 
 a crowd to think of asking me. Believed I'd 've risked it. 
 They ought to told me before, though, so I could' ve got 
 my night's rest. 
 
 June 1, i860. After four years, the fellows in the class 
 seem to be all pretty good ones. Hope I'll know as many like 
 them the rest of my life. To be sure, Ed Furbish and Dan 
 Hebard, Jo Daniels, H. E. Barnes, Denison, Griffin, Boies, 
 Kingsbury, and others of that gang, will have to reform and 
 not stay out nights and make so much noise coming home. 
 For some reason they don't show it; are always at prayers 
 next morning and at church and prayer-meeting, and I dare 
 say if they were accused of it they would deny it. Perhaps 
 I'm mistaken; perhaps it isn't they that make the racket. 
 One should be careful and not say such things unless he knows. 
 
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 Some in the class are quite different from the others. There's 
 Gaul. " Gaul," said I, the other day, " you'll never get on 
 in the world. You're too pious, too quiet, too studious; you'll 
 ruin your health. You ought to go on sprees now and then, 
 just to see how it seems." Then there's Del, — just the other 
 way, boisterous and bumptious, goes round slapping you on 
 the back and saying " Hawhaw! and how are you." I said 
 to him, " Del, you ought to repress yourself. People don't 
 like to be thumped and guyed and hawhawed. You ought to 
 learn to be quiet and modest. You talk too much and roar 
 and cavort. If people hear so much of you now, they won't 
 hear of you hereafter. I don't think he liked my plain speak- 
 ing, but it'll do him good if he'll take it good-naturedly, as it 
 was meant. There's Howe. For four years, now, I've sat 
 on one side, or rather, leaned on one side, of him, and Hunt 
 on the other. He's a fellow Hunt and I can rely on whenever 
 we're sleepy, especially Sunday in chapel. He's got a mighty 
 soft heart, or something, that makes him feel easy whenever 
 we lop over on him. 
 
 There's lots of others I'd like to write about, but I really 
 must study my astronomical problems so's to be able to tell 
 Newton, to-morrow, " Not prepared," instead of standing up 
 and trying to guess whether I am or not. 
 
 June 18, i860. Last day! Class day! Formed in a ring 
 near the chapel. As we were about to part, there was natu- 
 rally a good deal said about the divisions among us when we 
 first entered college. There were four. For one, I told a 
 good deal that I didn't know about the second. After that 
 was all done and songs were sung that we shall never sing 
 again — at least I hope not — some of 'em — including my 
 own; and although we're not going to leave for six weeks, 
 everybody shook everybody's hand and wept. But dear me! 
 How I wish I was just coming to college on the Canal railroad 
 again! — E.G. H. 
 
Retrospective 
 
 Probably every college class thinks its own time a transi- 
 tion period and its career somewhat remarkable. And, yet, 
 without any invidious comparison, a brief retrospect will 
 show that this is preeminently true of the Class of '6o. 
 
 It was our privilege to come under the influence of that 
 mighty religious awakening of 1858, probably unequaled in 
 its quiet intensity and permanent results by any college 
 revival in the nineteenth century. It came with pentecostal 
 power, unheralded, except by the morning prayer-meetings 
 that thronged the large New Haven churches. There was no 
 extra preaching, no suspension of college work, and yet every 
 heart was touched. We were in the midst of Sophomore year, 
 in the hardest work of the whole course. We had just begun 
 to realize the meaning of college life, and its bearing on all 
 the coming years. The Class of '60 received its deepest 
 impress and became almost unanimously Christian. It 
 welded us together in a loving brotherhood which continued 
 throughout college and has remained to this day. The class 
 prayer-meeting has been a most delightful feature of our 
 reunions all through these forty-five years. The rare heroism 
 of our men in the Civil War and the faithful and successful 
 careers in the larger world may be traced in no small degree 
 to the experiences of those days. 
 
 Just after graduation came that tidal wave of patriotism 
 that swept over the land and ushered in the Civil War. Statis- 
 tics no doubt will show what class did most and suffered most 
 on the battlefield, but certainly none sent better men or more 
 " knightly soldiers " than ours. Henry W. Camp will be 
 honored beside Nathan Hale as long as Yale and the nation 
 stand. Forty-eight members of our class, in various positions, 
 gave their services in this great crisis, and six sealed their 
 patriotism with their lives. With this early baptism of suffer- 
 ing and service, consecrated to God and country, our class 
 
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 entered upon its life work. It has never forgotten its motto,* 
 and is willing to be judged by its actions. No truer, braver, 
 better men were ever enrolled in Yale than those in the 
 brotherhood of " Sixty." We have every reason for congratu- 
 lation in the record and the retrospect. 
 
 Equally happy are we in the growth and development of 
 our Alma Mater. We have seen her transformed from a 
 small college to a great university. Although at our entrance 
 one hundred and fifty years of history were behind us, yet as 
 we look backward we seem to have been at the beginning of 
 things. We saw the first gymnasium erected and were one 
 of the first classes to use it. We saw the early regattas at 
 Springfield, and those memorable contests with Harvard in 
 which our own class was a prominent factor. The elective 
 principle in the curriculum began in our time. Mr. Sheffield 
 was still living on Hillhouse Avenue, and laying the magnifi- 
 cent foundation of the scientific school that bears his name. 
 The new building era which has transfigured the campus, and 
 whole blocks adjacent, began in the sixties. The grand 
 bicentennial celebration, which crowned all this success and 
 brought the world together to rejoice over it, is interwoven 
 with our own life and history. We are glad to have had our 
 small share in this marvelous growth of Yale. Truly, the 
 lines are fallen to us in pleasant places and we have a goodly 
 heritage. 
 
 We do well to rejoice in our class, our college, our country, 
 and in this golden era in which God has permitted us to live 
 and work. — J. L. D. 
 
 * Spectemur agendo.