I c 1)2 5Fn 1813 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/classofalumniofd1813bost m?--*m>w@m?— m -mm®m? a ™m>< ^^^^^^^^i— CLASS OF ALUMNI lm DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 1813: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE MEMBERS. — -^E^^^C 3 **" - " eM that Omnipotent Perfection has so immutably arranged the moral universe, that we may rest with the fullest confidence in the rule which he has revealed, and cherish the strongest encouragement in the promises which 51 he has made. The whole earth should rejoice, because he reigneth. May this obligation ever find a happy response from all our purposes and actions. CHARLES FOX. Charles Fox was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on the sixth day of February, 1794. His father's name was Eben- ezer, and the maiden name of his mother was Anna Downes. Mr. Ebenezer Fox was a patriot of the Revolution, and died in Roxbury, his native town, the 14th of December, 1843, aged eighty, in the full possession of his mental faculties. His wife survived him six years, and died at the age of eighty-eight, in February, 1849. Mr. Fox, being one of three sons, was prepared for Col- lege in Roxbury, by his oldest brother, Abraham. As his father's means were ample, and as he liberally supplied his son with funds adequate to all his wants, he did nothing towards defraying his expenses during his collegiate life. In College he was not a hard student, and discovered more in- clination for literature than science ,* devoting more time to general reading, than to the lessons of the day. He was not at all ambitious to be distinguished as a scholar ; but having a retentive memory, he acquired a considerable amount of knowledge, though of rather a desultory and miscellaneous character. After he graduated, he entered the Medical College, and for two years was a pupil of Dr. Perkins, then Professor in that institution. Whether Charles was induced to remain a student at Hanover from a love of the profession, or a regard for a young lady, of beauty and accomplishments, who after- wards became his wife, was a subject of some discussion among his Class-mates. He was married to Mary Louisa Sparhawk, May 5, 1815, at Hanover, by the Rev. Roswell 52 Shurtleff, and afterwards resided on a farm, given to him by his father, on the banks of the Connecticut, in the town of Windsor, Vermont. On this pleasant spot he remained three years, and had two children born to him ; the elder a daughter, the second a son. Mr. Fox's wife was the daughter of Thomas Stearns Spar- hawk, who graduated at Dartmouth in the class of 1791 ; and grand-daughter of the Rev. Ebenezer Sparhawk, the first settled minister in Templeton, Massachusetts, where several of his descendants now reside. Mrs. Fox's mother, Mary Kinsman, was the daughter of Col. Aaron Kinsman, of Concord, New Hampshire. Col. Kinsman commanded a company at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and was in the service of his country during the whole of the war. Her father was a lawyer, and was settled in Bucksport, Maine, where he died in 1807. Mrs. Fox was married before she was eighteen years of age, and notwithstanding her youth, she has proved herself a model mother, " bringing up her children in the way they should go," and they have thus far shown themselves worthy of the moral and intellectual education they have received. The eldest child of these parents, Mary Anna, was born in Windsor, Vermont, April 18, 1816, and died in Shrews- bury, Massachusetts, where she resided a short time, for the benefit of her health, August 17, 1840. This young lady gave evidence of extraordinary intellectual powers at an early age. The productions of her pen adorned the pages of many periodicals of the day, and not one of the articles she contributed was ever rejected. She was an amiable and affectionate daughter, a consistent Christian, a member of the Pine street Church in Boston, and died with a well-grounded hope of a blessed immortality. After her death, her father published two small volumes of her writings, entitled, ' The Only Son,' and e Stories for the Young,' which have had an extensive circulation. — The second child, Charles James, was born in Windsor, Vermont, January 8, 1818, and died 53 in Boston, August 8, 1885. — The third child, Ebenezer, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, January 26, 1820, and died in May of the same year. — The fourth was William Stearns, born in Roxbury, April 4, 1821. This son was remarkable for his precocity, being able to read, understand- ingly, before he was four years old. He received a scientific education, and before he was twenty-one years of age, he was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy, having passed the test of a critical examination, to prove his qualifications. He was attached to the ship Fal- mouth, and remained in the service to the time of his death, October 28, 1844. This melancholy event was thus noticed in the Boston Mercantile Journal : " Lost, in Pensacola Bay, on the 28th ult., by the upsetting of the cutter of the Falmouth, William S. Fox, Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy, aged twenty-three years, son of Charles Fox, of this city. Professor Fox was appointed at the age of twenty, and was attached to the Falmouth, on board of which ship he has been in active service ever since. In the death of this amiable young man, the navy has lost a valua- ble officer, society an estimable member, and his parents an affectionate son." The death of this son was a sad bereave- ment to his parents. — The fifth child was Louisa, born in Roxbury, August 11, 1823, and died in May, 1824.— The sixth was a son, Richard Edward, born in Roxbury, Sep- tember 3, 1825, and died in November, of the same year. — The seventh, named Edward Augustus, was born in Box- bury, October 11, 1826. Having qualified himself for a civil engineer, he went to Quincy, Illinois, aud was employed as such for some time ; when he went to Hannibal, Missouri, and is now (1854) one of the corps of engineers engaged in the construction of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, in that State. In this work he has been employed about two years. He married, in 1853, Sarah Eldredge, of Mere- dosia, Illinois, very much to the satisfaction of his parents. He is a young man of much moral and intellectual worth, 54 and is highly respected and esteemed by all his acquaint- ance. — The eighth child, Frederick Emerson, was born in Roxbury, January 11, 1829. This son early in life discov- ered a great taste for drawing, in the cultivation of which he was encouraged and furnished with facilities for its improve- ment. He served an apprenticeship in the office of one of the most skillful engravers in Boston. He has been in busi- ness for himself a few years, fully employed, and is consid- ered, by competent judges of the art, as one of the best engravers in Boston. — The ninth child, a daughter, named Lucia Louise, was born in Boston, July 4, 1831. After receiving an excellent education, and obtaining one of the medals awarded to the six best scholars annually in the Boston public schools, she taught a school in West Cam- bridge, for four years, to the great acceptance of her em- ployers ; and resigned her office in 1853, when she was married, and removed with her husband to the city of New York. — The tenth child, Charles James, was born in Boston, October 12, 1835. He was a member of the English High School in Boston for three years, the term allotted for the course of studies pursued in that excellent institution. While there he was among the best behaved and most capa- ble scholars, and was accordingly rewarded each year with a prize, and at the close of his course with a Franklin medal. Having fitted himself as a surveyor, he went to the West, was employed as an assistant engineer in Missouri, and is now in Illinois, holding the same trust. — The eleventh, a daughter, named Mary Ellen, was born in Boston, March 2, 1837. She was educated in the Johnson School in Boston, and resides at home. — The twelfth, a son, Arthur George S., was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, June 16, 1841, where the family resided at that time. He is now a member of the Brimmer School in Boston, and holds a high rank in his class. After Mr. Fox had resided on his farm in Windsor, Ver- mont, about three years, he disposed of it on account of 55 some pecuniary losses which his father experienced in busi- ness, and removed to his native town. For the first time in his life he found himself thrown upon his own resources, and compelled to learn a lesson he had never been taught, self-reliance, — a want which he has been careful should make no defect in the education of his children. He commenced a private school for young ladies, which he continued for about a year, when he was appointed Prin- cipal of the Roxbury Grammar School, then considered as the highest in the grade of the schools in the town, and which is now called the Roxbury High School. He retained this office for five years, and being recommended by the Trustees of that institution, he was unanimously elected, by the School Committee of the city of Boston, to the office of Principal of the Boylston Grammar School. In this capacity he served the city for the period of eighteen years. The estimation in which his services were held by his scholars, may be seen from subsequent statements. Young ladies, who had been under his instruction, sent him a letter of October 17, 1840, with some presents, expressing them- selves highly satisfied with his faithfulness to them, while they sustained such a relation. So it was with gentlemen, who had been his pupils. In a communication to him, of June 16, 1842, after enumerating valuable articles as a donation to him, they express themselves as follows : " Allow us to remark, that the affection and concern manifested for us when children, the careful training of the moral as well as the intellectual nature, and the constant adherence to strict, impartial justice, in the government of your school, will cause us to hold you in grateful and enduring remem- brance." Mr. Fox's labors as a teacher were now drawing to a close. He had, for three or four years, been afflicted with the infirm- ity of a partial deafness, which, increasing, prevented him from discharging his duties to his own satisfaction, or that of his friends and patrons, and compelled him to relinquish his 56 office. From the Hon. Martin Brimmer, then Mayor of Boston, and ex officio Chairman of the School Committee, he received the following testimonial : City Hall, Oct. 3, 1844. This is to certify, that Mr. Charles Fox has been engaged for eighteen years in the faithful discharge of the duties of an instructor in the Public Schools, which situation he has been obliged to relin- quish in consequence of a defect in his hearing. M. Brimmer, Mayor. Of the productions of Mr. Fox's pen, are many articles which have occasionally been published in the Boston jour- nals, upon political, moral and educational subjects. Among these were a series that appeared in the Mercantile Journal, in the year 1841, advocating the arrangement of school-rooms and a system of instruction adopted within a few years upon the recommendation of the present Superintendent of Public Schools, Mr. Bishop, although he was not then aware that any such plan had ever been previously offered to the notice of the citizens of Boston. Mr. Fox has published the Adventures of his father in the war of the Revolution, which he wrote in his father's name, as they were related to him. This book has had an extensive circulation. He has likewise had engraved a portrait of Washington, which he found in the possession of a family in Boston, accompanied by docu- mentary evidence showing that it is the best likeness of the Father of his country extant. He has in manuscript a work, which he intends to publish, entitled e Washington in Boston.' AUGUSTUS GREELE. Augustus Greele was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, December 27, 1787. His father, Samuel Greele, was a farmer of good property, and one of the leading men of the 57 town. 1 His mother was of the Read family, of Amherst. In September, 1798, his father died, leaving five children. His mother, a woman of great strength of character and moral worth, managed the affairs of the family and the education of her children in the most judicious manner. His elder brother, Samuel, (now of Boston, and extensively known as a public man and popular speaker,) graduated at Harvard in 1802, and was very little at home after the death of his father. At an early age, therefore, much of the care of the farm and the family business devolved on Augustus. His success in after life was, doubtless, very much owing to the habits of industry and self-reliance then formed, and to the responsibilities thus early incurred. Amidst all his duties and labors, he kept constantly in view a higher sphere of action. At New Ipswich Academy he qualified himself for teaching, and for several winters taught a school in his native town or in the vicinity. Having made considerable progress in classical studies, and still continuing then pursuit, at about the age of twenty-one he commenced the study of law in the office of Daniel Abbott, Esq., of Nashua. He soon perceived the importance of a more thorough preparatory education, and wisely determined to suspend his professional studies, and go through with a regular collegiate course. In 1809, he enter- ed the freshman class at Dartmouth College, at a mature age, and well prepared to take rank with the best. During his collegiate course he had the misfortune to lose his excellent mother, suffered much from ill health, and was, from one cause and another, absent more than usual from his class. Still he maintained a high standing as a scholar, and emi- nently enjoyed the esteem and respect of his Class-mates and of the faculty. Soon after graduating, he went to New York, and opened a private classical school for boys at Manhattanville, near the city, and soon enjoyed the patronage and friendship of many 1 The whole of this communication is from Daniel Elliot, Esq. 8 58 distinguished families of the city and vicinity. With some changes in his establishment, he continued in this business, with very considerable profit, till 1819, when he gave it up, and went into the city in pursuit of mercantile employment. Here he became interested in a commission paper warehouse, the first of the kind established in New York. Within the year, seeing a broad field open before him, he purchased the interest of his partner, and went on with the business alone, up to 1827, when his brother-in-law, D. Elliot, became connected with the concern. Mr. Greele continued to be engaged in this business, either as a principal or a special partner, till 1838, when he withdrew from all connection with business, having secured a very handsome competency. In 1820, he married Caroline Cornelia Lovett, in New York, who is still living. They had no children. In 1832— 33, Mr. and Mrs. Greele spent about eighteen months in Europe, visiting the most interesting points in Great Britain, Erance, Switzerland and Italy. Eew American travelers have been better prepared to enjoy and appreciate what they saw, and none, probably, have made more diligent and profitable use of their time. He brought home a handsome and well- selected collection of paintings, and during the rest of his life took great interest in the progress of the fine arts in our country. He was one among the founders of the American Art Union. Mr. Greele was one of the early members of the First Unitarian Society in New York, and contin- ued attached to it under the administration of William Ware, Dr. Follen, and Mr. Bellows, to the time of his de- cease. In politics he was a decided whig, but had no taste for the turmoils of party strife, and would not suffer himself to be nominated for office. During the last four or five years of his life, he suffered much from disease, in various forms, — a sad drawback from the enjoyment of his otherwise happy circumstances. After a protracted confinement, he died on the 19th of August, 1843, of softening of the brain, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. 59 BENJAMIN GREENLEAF. Benjamin Greenleaf was born September 25, 1786, at Haverhill, Massachusetts. His father's name was Caleb, born August 16, 1759, at Newburyport, Massachusetts, and was the son of Timothy, who was the son of John, who was the son of Samuel, who was the son of Stephen, who was the son of Edmund, born in England in 1600, and who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1635. His mother's name was Susanna, born in Methuen, Massachusetts, July 2, 1761, the youngest daughter of Abigail and William Emerson. He commenced his academical education at Atkinson, New Hampshire, September 9, 1805, under the instruction of the Hon. John Yose. From this period to September 26, 1810, he spent about two years at the Academy, and most of the remaining time he was engaged in teaching schools in Plaistow, Atkinson, Haverhill, Bradford, and Marblehead. September 28, 1810, he entered the sophomore class at Dartmouth College. While in College, he calculated and projected the Transit of Venus, which is to happen Decem- ber 8, 1874 ; it being the first time this calculation was made at this College. Soon after he graduated, he took charge of the grammar school at Haverhill, which he kept till March 27, 1814; at which time he was obliged to leave, on account of a severe sickness. December 12, 1814, he became Preceptor of Bradford Academy, and commenced his labors with ten scholars, but in a few months he had more than thirty. He continued in this Institution until April 6, 1836. During the last year of his labors, there were more than one hun- dred and fifty pupils, that were members of the Academy. After he left the Academy, it was constituted a Female Sem- inary, and has so continued to the present time. From 1835 to 1840, he was engaged most of his time in 60 making a series of Arithmetics — the National, the Introduc- tion or Common School, and Mental Arithmetics. He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature during the years 1837, 1838, and 1839. In January, 1837, he introduced an order into the Legislature for a new Geological Survey of the State ; also an order for a Natural History Survey. He was appointed chairman of a committee to whom these orders were referred. They made a favorable report on this subject, and the surveys have since been com- pleted. December 4, 1839, he took charge of the Bradford Teachers' Seminary, which was extensively patronized, while under his care. This institution he relinquished in 1848. Since this date, he has re-written his Arithmetics, to which he has made many additions and improvements. He has prepared a Practical Treatise on Algebra, published in 1852, which has passed through many editions. He is now en- gaged in writing a System of Practical Surveying. Of his pupils, more than one hundred and fifty have been members of College ; and of this number, more than forty have entered the Christian ministry. The whole number of his pupils is about three thousand. For many years past Mr. Greenleaf, in addition to his other labors, has made calculations for Almanacs for Boston, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, Halifax, California, and the Cherokee Nation. He took a very active part in estab- lishing the American Institute of Instruction, and for many years has been one of its Vice Presidents. He was one of the founders of the Essex County Teachers' Association, being the first of the kind in New England, and for four years was President. For many years he has been President of the Board of Trustees of Bradford Academy ; and, for forty years, he has been connected with the Institution, either as teacher or trustee, and for most of the time he has held both offices. He was married to Lucretia Kimball, the daughter of 61 Col. James Kimball, of Bradford, November 20, 1821, and who was born February 29, 1794. He has had nine chil- dren: Emily Ann, born September 13, 1822, and married to John B. Tewksbury, of West Newbury, November 23, 1848. — Mary Abigail, born June 24, 1824, and who died in infancy. — Benjamin, born October 4, 1825, and who died September 16, 1829. — Betsey Payson, born March 19, 1827, and who died in infancy. — Betsey Payson, born April 6, 1828, and who was married to Rev. S. C. Kendall, of Webster, October 19, 1854. — Benjamin, born July 10, 1830, and who died in infancy. — Benjamin, born July 31, 1831, and who died October 2, 1843. — James, born Decem- ber 31, 1832, and who died March 7, 1834.— Lydia Kim- ball, born May 15, 1836. Mr. Greenleaf has, therefore, but three children living, — Emily Ann, Betsey Payson, and Lydia Kimball. He has been a Justice, of the Peace for more than twenty years, and has been a member of a Congregational Church twenty-two years. The preceding relation contains facts, which impart to it a substance, form and qualities of no ordinary kind. The subject of it has no cause to fall back from the approving application of our Saviour's noted comparison, " By their fruits ye shall know them." It has eminently come up to " life's great end," and well may be a " lamp to his feet and a light to his path," as he peacefully and usefully descends to the tomb. HUTCHINS HAPGOOD. Hutchins Hapgood was the second son of Hutchins and Elizabeth Hapgood, and was born at Petersham, Massachu- setts, September 2, 1792. His father died September 4, 1837, aged 74, and his mother, January 11, 1835, aged 71. He pursued his studies under the Rev. Alpheus Harding, of 62 the New Salem Academy. He united with the freshman class, and made hopeful advancement with them. But in the winter vacation of the sophomore year, he was accidentally shot, in Petersham woods. By this event, his left arm was so badly fractured, that he never regained its full use. He had a long and painful confinement, and was not able to unite with his class until the autumn of 1811. Having graduated, he began to study law, November 6, 1814, with John Taylor, Esq., of Northampton, Massachusetts. Here he remained to the 18th of July, 1815. and then went to Cavendish, in the State of New York. When leaving his legal instructor, the latter remarked, that he "parted with him with great reluctance." In the last of the towns just mentioned, he finished his professional course. He spent some time in visiting various parts of the United States, to make himself better acquainted with their localities and resources. The question renewedly pressing itself on his mind, whether he should practice the profession for which he had prepared, or engage in mercantile pursuits, he de- cided to prefer the latter. He accordingly united with a firm in the city of New York. Among the impressions on his mind, which he noticed as very remarkable, from not being caused by any immediate previous associations of thought, or by any natural inclination in him for superstition, was a vision of his, on the 28th of October, 1818, relative to the scene of the last Judgment. Giving his father an account of this event, he said, ( ' All I felt and all I saw, I cannot express. It was wonderful, and baffles description. I therefore will forbear, wishing that the God of wisdom may convey, through the past, instruction to my heart." He addressed his other relatives on the same subject. To them, he said, "It was an appearance that I never, when awake, could have conceived. Did I depend on my own merit for salvation, I should despair. But God is merciful, he has pointed out a way of happiness by the good Shepherd." 63 After several years his health began to fail, and about 1825 he was compelled to withdraw entirely from business. While in that city, it appears from a manuscript book, con- taining seventeen pieces of poetry, on different subjects, that he was in the habit of improving his leisure in such compo- sition. He sought his father's house, greatly enfeebled with pulmonary complaints. A relative of his writes as follows : " He was, as you know, never married. But, for some years, he was engaged to a young lady of rare excellence. Letters written by her, after his death, to members of his family, furnish the most satisfactory evidence that he was not a stranger to the conso- lations of religion, and that, in his last days, he was sup- ported by a well-founded hope of future happiness." After more than three years of suffering, he finished his earthly career, June 2, 1828, taught, that nothing short of God should hold the supreme reliance of mortals. LEVI HARTSHOEN. Levi Hartshorn was son of Edward and Lucy (Elliot) Hartshorn, and had his birth at Amherst, New Hampshire, March 5, 1789. He was the oldest of four children, the youngest of whom, Jotham, is the only surviving one, and lives in the native place of his deceased brother. He entered the class in their second year. After taking his first degree with them, he studied divinity. He was settled over the First Church and Congregation of Gloucester, Massachusetts, October 18, 1815. Here he labored faithfully, usefully and acceptably. His health being enfeebled, he concluded to visit his parents, in the hope that it would be improved. Therefore, in the month of Sep- tember, he set out on his contemplated excursion, expecting to return and prosecute his work with greater vigor. \ But 64 the lot is cast into the lap, and the disposition thereof is of the Lord.' Soon after reaching his destination, it was per- ceived that a typhus fever had fastened upon him, and threat- ened to prove mortal. The fear that he would sink under the attack, was realized in a few days. He expired Septem- ber 27, 1819. In this time of trial, when human delusions vanish, having lived the religion of Christ, he could well apply to himself the soul-sustaining encouragement of his Saviour, " Fear not, thy sins are forgiven thee." A notice of him in the Recorder pertinently and truly says : " By the death of this amiable man, his church and society have sus- tained a great loss ; and to his afflicted consort and children, the loss is irreparable. In all the various duties appertaining to his pastoral office, he was indefatigable, and although his labor among the people of his charge has been short, we trust he has not labored in vain." CHARLES JOHNSTON. Charles Johnston was born at Haverhill, New Hamp- shire, June 3, 1789. His preparatory studies were at the Academy of that town, under the tuition of Joseph Bell and Ephraim Kingsbury. He taught the same Institution two years, 1814 and 1815. He studied theology under Rev. Grant Powers, pastor of the South Parish, where he was a preceptor. He was licensed for the ministry at Hanover, February, 1817, by the Orange Congregational Association. Then he went to Litchfield, Connecticut, and pursued his studies under Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D., till he ardently engaged in the work of Home Missions. So consecrated to an occupation of the noblest kind, as to its results and rela- tions, however viewed by those who lose sight of eternal interests, he preached the riches of grace in this State and that of New York. His « labors were signally blessed in 65 the promotion of revivals of religion, imparting courage and strength to the churches, and the building up of waste places." He joined the Presbytery of Onondaga, and was installed Pastor of the Congregation and Church in Otisco, September, 1821. In the same month, he married Hannah H. Sanford, daughter of Dr. Jared Sanford, of Ovid, and sister of the late Judge Lewis H. Sanford, of New York. Ever since this time, Mr. Johnston's residence has been in central New York, but the most of it in Summer Hill, Cayuga county. Three of his latter years, he officiated as an agent of a benevolent society ; but, for the few last years, feeble health has required him to cease from the greater part of his ministerial callings and attend to agricultural concerns. Mr. Johnston has one son and two daughters living. He lost a son of high promise, who died August, 1844, a mem- ber of Dartmouth College. Thus with endeared ties to earth, and admonition to be ready for his departure, he still exhibits the firm purpose, which has long distinguished his life, to honor God as the great concern of his probation. EBENEZER SMITH KELLY. Ebenezer Smith Kelly was from New Hampton, New Hampshire, and was born February 1, 1794. He studied law, and about 1819, settled in Kittanning, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania. He was appointed by Governor Heister, Pro- thonotary of the Court of Common Pleas ; Clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace ; Clerk of the Orphans' Court ; Eecorder of Deeds and Register of Wills of that County. In 1825 he was elected State Senator, which office he held till his decease. He was "very highly respected and esteemed by all who knew him, and was among the foremost in his profession." He died in Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania, while engaged 9 66 in legislative duties, March 28, 1829, aged thirty-five years. He married, in 1821, Miss Nancy Davidson, daughter of Hugh Davidson, of Virginia. They had four children : only one, Mary, wife of William D. Robinson, Esq., of Lawrence- burgh, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, survives. The widow of Mr. Kelly married Hon. Samuel S. Harrison, and died in 1853, leaving a daughter by her last husband. The bright promise, which the College life of Mr. Kelly gave, was increasingly realized, till he was gathered to his fathers. JONATHAN KITTREDGE. Jonathan Kittredge was son of Doctor Jonathan and Apphia (Woodman) Kittredge, of Canterbury, New Hamp- shire. He was barn July 17, 1793. After graduating, he read law in Albany, New York, and commenced practice in the metropolis of the same State, where he remained in it successfully till 1823, when he re- turned to New Hampshire. He subsequently renewed his professional labors in Canaan, and then in Lyme. In 1829, he married Julia Balch, of this town, by whom he has had nine children, seven of whom are living. He now resides in Canaan. In 1827, January 8, he delivered a Temperance Address in Lyme, which was subsequently printed, and widely circulated in the United States. It was the first address published, certainly for many years, and it gave an impetus to the temperance cause, which was felt throughout the civilized world. This address was republished in Eng- land, Erance and Germany, and was extensively circulated. Mr. Kittredge, in 1828, '29 and '30, addressed many public assemblies upon the subject. Two other addresses of his were issued from the press, by the friends of temperance. Mr. Kittredge was for several years agent of the New 67 Hampshire Temperance Society, and for a short time of a similar institution in Massachusetts. He finally relinquished his agency, and resumed the practice of law in Canaan, N. H. He has represented this town three years in the Legislature, has been Postmaster, and sustained several other offices. Various have been the occasions, on which he has had suc- cessful opportunity to exhibit the natural strength and literary acquisitions of his mind. ALLEN LATHAM. His parents were Arthur Latham, from Bridgewater, Massachusetts, who died at his residence in Lyme, New Hampshire, November 25, 1843, aged 85, and Mary Post, from Hebron, Connecticut, who died where her husband did, February 25, 1836, aged 72. He had his birth at Lyme, July 1, 1792 ; attended school at South Bridge- water, Massachusetts, and fitted for College with Pev. Eden Burroughs, D. D., of East Hanover, New Hampshire. After graduating, he studied law with Judge Nahum Mitchell, of Bridgewater, and at the Law School in Litch- field, Connecticut. He soon put his natural spirit of enter- prise into exercise. Having been amply supplied with funds by his father to enjoy the best means of education, he went to Chilicothe, Ohio, with the purpose to improve the advan- tages thus laudably gained. He there opened an office for the law, and also for a general land agency. His business was increasingly successful, and wealth has flowed upon his hands. He has been honored with the trust of Surveyor General of the Virginia Military District, and of Senator for the State in which he has dwelt. He married Maria, the daughter of Col. Richard C. Anderson, of Soldier's Petreat, near Louisville, Kentucky, May, 1822. 68 He continues active in his business relations, without any appearance but that of a modest and benevolent gentleman. As probation hastens to a close, may he be divinely enabled to lay up incorruptible treasure to supply his immortal wants. BENJAMIN GREEK LEONARD. Benjamin Green Leonard was born March 8, 1793, at Newport, Rhode Island. His father was Captain Nathaniel Leonard, of the United States army, and, consequently, the childhood of the son was spent in garrison. His mother was Mary Leverett, connected with the Windsor family, of Ver- mont. His grandfather was Rev. Abiel Leonard, of the First Congregational Church in Woodstock, Connecticut. It is remarkable that he, his father and grandfather, all three exhibiting uncommon talents in early life, became insane when about fifty years old. On entering College, he was from Niagara, New York ; and on leaving it, he went to Canandaigua, of the same State, and read law. He resided a short time at Batavia, and then moved to Chilicothe, Ohio, in 1819. He had little practice, at first, but afterwards was employed in many important cases. " As a land lawyer, he was unrivalled in Ohio." He frequently argued before the United States Supreme Court at Washington. The last time he was thus engaged, he broke down in the midst of the trial, came home mentally deranged, and was placed in an asylum. His friend Latham, and class-mate, who has fur- nished the preceding facts, speaks of Mr. Leonard as follows : " The leading characteristic of his mind was an extraordinary memory. I have known him multiply five decimals by any other five decimals and give the result correctly, and much quicker than I could do it with pen and paper. He would never allow a client to tell his story a second time, for he always remembered it on being once told. In College, you 69 remember, he was among our best Greek and Latin schol- ars." He continually made advancement in this respect. He also excelled in the French and German languages. " But his great passion was for philosophy, astronomy and general literature. I have often known him lock his office and exclude all visitors and clients, whenever he obtained a new book that he wanted to read. He would knowingly lock out his most intimate friends, and refuse them admission, unless they threatened him. We used, in these circum- stances, to threaten to smoke him out. This would open the door, and afford us a pleasant interview. While in the asylum, he partially recovered and conversed sensibly. The last time I visited him, on leaving he came as far as the road, admired my horse, held the stirrup and told me to mount. I did so, and he said, as loud as he could, Go. The horse went upon the run, and Leonard almost as fast the other way. This was the last I saw of our friend B. G. L." The subject of this relation soon died. As we look on so distinguished a mind, passing away in its ruins, we cannot suppress the thought, — thus vanish the glories of this world, while naught less than heavenly wisdom can fit the soul for immortal excellence. ALEXANDER LOVELL. Alexander Lovell was the son of Amos Lovell, a respectable and industrious farmer. He was born, and always resided, in Holden, Massachusetts. He died November 6, 1815, at the age of sixty-two. His mother's name, before her marriage, was Mary Ball, a native of Concord, Massachusetts. She died February 13, 1833, in the seventy-seventh year of her age. They both died on the same place where they had lived together many years, and reared a family of eight chil- dren, all of whom survived their parents several years. Mr. Lovell was born in Holden, Massachusetts, February 10 70 14, 1787. He lived with his father and labored on the farm till his twentieth year. Up to this time his advantages were limited to the ordinary district school, which was usually kept but a few weeks in the year. His father wished to encourage his desire to pursue a course of study, but felt unable to afford the pecuniary assistance which seemed necessary. He however cheerfully relinquished all claim to his time and earnings during the remainder of his minority, that he might engage in the enterprise, and do what he could by his own efforts. His first step now was, to engage himself to a farmer for the summer. With his earnings during that season, he entered the Academy at New Salem, Massachusetts, in the autumn, where he pursued his studies, for the most part, while fitting for College. A few months of the time, how- ever, were spent in the family and under the instruction of Rev. Dr. Murdock, afterwards a Professor in the Theological Seminary at Andover. From the time he commenced fitting for College to the time he graduated, he spent a portion of each year in teaching. In the fall of 1813, he was admitted to the Theological Seminary at Andover, and continued his connection with that institution to the close of the regular course in 1816. Having received license to preach the gospel, he went to Vermont, with a view to spend the winter among the destitute churches in the western part of that State, and in the spring to engage in the service of the Home Missionary Society. A portion of the winter and spring was spent among the people of Yergennes, from whom he received a pressing invitation to settle among them. A careful examination of the subject brought the conviction to his mind, that it was his duty to relinquish his previously formed plan, and to accept the invitation. He did so, and was ordained as Pastor of the Congregational Church in Yergennes, October 22, 1817. He remained among that people, he trusts, with some degree of usefulness, till November, 1835. At this time he took a dismission to accept a call from the Church in Phillipston, 71 Massachusetts, and was installed in that place the sixteenth of the next month. His labors were continued here, till the spring of 1843, when he was laid aside by prostrating sick- ness, and was not able to perform the pulpit labors for a single Sabbath, for two years and a half, and only occasion- ally since that time. Though unable to perform pastoral duties, his connection with that church was not dissolved till April, 1844. After this he resided a few years in West- borough, Massachusetts, and then removed to Nashua, New Hampshire, where he is still residing. During this time he has occasionally supplied a vacant pulpit, as health would permit, and opportunity offered. About a year and a half from the time of his first settle- ment, June 8, 1819, he was married to Miss Clarinda Bush, daughter of Col. Jotham and Mrs. Mary Bush, of Boylston, Massachusetts. Her mother, whose name before her mar- riage was Mary Taylor, died at her residence in Boylston, November 17, 1836, aged seventy-five years. Col. Jotham Bush died at the same place, December 13, 1837, aged eighty years. Mr. Lovell has had but two children, a daughter and a son, both of whom are still living. Except a brief memoir of a friend, issued in pamphlet form, and a dedication sermon, his publications have been limited to pieces on various subjects, occasionally inserted in newspapers or other periodicals. Leaning on the arm of his Saviour, who has enabled him to live usefully, he looks for- ward to the rest of a heavenly mansion. CHARLES MARSH. The following notice is given of him by his class-mate, Elisha B. Perkins, Esq., of Marietta, Ohio : " I have endeavored to review my recollections of our class-mate Marsh, and to get what information I could by correspondence with his friends ; but I cannot make as full a 72 report as the subject merits. His amiable character, and his high standing as a scholar, we all knew. There have been few young men who, during their College course, have exerted so great influence over their associates. Indeed, his influence was not only felt by those on whom it was directly exerted, but was continued long after his presence was with- drawn. Professor Shurtleff, in speaking of him some time since to a friend, said that i his influence made a perma- nent and entire change throughout the College, raising the standard of scholarship by his example and spirit.' He maintained the same pre-eminence among the young men in the Law School at Litchfield, that was universally yielded to him while in College. Had his life been spared, he would unquestionably have taken his place among the greatest men of our country. "Charles Marsh, Jr., was born at Woodstock, Vermont, October 17, 1790. His parents were, Charles Marsh, of Woodstock, born at Lebanon, Connecticut, and Anna Collins, of Litchfield. His father's high and well-deserved reputa- tion as a lawyer, a legislator, and above all as a Christian, is well known. His grandparents were, Joseph Marsh, formerly Governor of Vermont, and Dolly Mason, a near relative of Jeremiah Mason, one of the greatest men of his day. He was thus allied to some of the most eminent and excellent men of our country, and he largely inherited their worth and talent. He was early destined by his friends to a liberal profession, but his health was not good, and it was thought unsafe for him to pursue his studies. He was, therefore, placed in the store of Gen. Curtis, in Windsor, and was several years employed there or elsewhere as a clerk. His health was so much improved, by the active duties in which he had been engaged, that he was able to resume his studies, and he was fitted for College at the Academy in Randolph, Vermont. After his graduation, he studied law for some time with his father, and then com- pleted his course at the celebrated Law School of Judge 73 Keeve, in Litchfield, Connecticut. He was soon after admitted to the Bar in the city of New York, and opened an office at Lansingburgh, in October, 1816, where he remained till compelled to relinquish business by the sick- ness of which he died. While at Litchfield he took very copious notes of the Lectures of Judges Reeve and Gould, and also reports of cases tried before the moot court attached to the Institution. I have a copy of this manu- script, making a large quarto volume, that would do honor to the skill and talents of a veteran reporter. " He was married, at Lansingburgh, to Miss Mary Leonard, daughter of Timothy and Mary Leonard, of that city, but had no children. Early in the spring of 1817 he was attacked with a pulmonary disease, and in May he left Lan- singburgh, with his wife and a physician, to try the effect of travel, and of the western and southern climate, on his health. He was compelled, however, by the violence of his disease, to stop at a public house on the Ohio, not far from Louisville, where he died about the 1st of July. His re- mains were taken to New Albany, Indiana, and there buried. His class-mate, Experience P. Storrs, who was then residing in the neighborhood, was with him at the time of his death, and, with his other friends, did all that affection could do to make his last hours comfortable. Mr. Storrs prepared an obituary notice, from which I make the following extracts : 6 We brought the corpse down, through Louisville, to a little town just rising out of the woods below the falls, on this side of the Ohio, called New Albany, where it was buried. It will be most melancholy intelligence to all who knew him, especially to his class-mates, and more especially to his brothers, who knew his excellences. Ah ! we loved him as a brother I He had no superior while in College, and had he lived, would undoubtedly have risen to the first grade in his profession. He possessed great fondness, and a taste highly cultivated, for classical literature, as well as a mind peculiarly well adapted to legal pursuits. It is not 74 common for any College to be graced with an undergraduate possessed of such talents for extemporaneous performances. He was one of those primary geniuses that give both direc- tion and momentum to those about them ; not indeed by the low arts of political quackery, but by the intrinsic merits of his talents and character.' Our friend made no profession of religion, but for some time before his death he had been deeply interested in the subject, and died rejoicing in the hope of a Christian. He was brought up in the strictest principles of the old Puritan school of theology, and all the earlier influences, by which his character and principles were formed, were of the purest and loveliest kind, and accompanied, as they were, by the earnest and fervent prayers of devotedly pious parents and friends, they could hardly fail of being blessed to his spiritual good. He published nothing, and I believe held no office. In politics, he was a federalist, of the Washington school. In person, he was tall and slender. As well as I can recollect, he was about six feet in height, and weighed about one hundred and forty pounds. " I regret that it is not in my power to do better justice to our departed friend. As his relative and < chum,' I was more intimate with him than others ; but we all admired him for his talents and acquirements, and loved him for his amiable- ness and virtues." JOHN NICHOLS. His parents were Daniel and Mary (Dinsmore) Nichols, and he was born at Antrim, New Hampshire, June 20, 1790. His father was a respectable farmer and magistrate, and died of the spotted fever, February, 1812. He was fitted for College by Rev. John M. Whiton, his pastor, and Hon. John Vose, of Atkinson, and joined the class in their sophomore year. He entered the Theological Institution at 75 Andover, October, 18 13, and finished his course there in 1816. In July of this year, he wrote as follows to Mr. Whiton : " It is now about two years since I commenced the examination of the subject of missions to the heathen, with reference to my personally engaging in the great work. No Christian can doubt, for a moment, that the religion of the gospel is to be the religion of the world. A large pro- portion of our number have reasons for declining the service. Who will go 7 This question has come home to my own bosom. My inquiries and my prayers have resulted in a settled conviction, that it is my duty, divine Providence per- mitting, to make known to those, who dwell in pagan dark- ness, the unsearchable riches of Christ. I would leave myself in his hands, and be at his disposal. God forbid that I should think of meriting salvation by a pilgrimage to a land of Pagan darkness. No ; * The blood of Christ shall still remain, Sufficient and alone.' " No one of his acquaintances in College would doubt, for a moment, but that his ability to acquire learning, his laud- able progress in it, and his exemplary Christian deportment, were in harmony with so noble a consecration of himself to the missionary cause. The greater part of the year, after leaving the Andover Institution, Mr. Nichols spent, under a commission of the Board, in stirring up the churches of New Hampshire to the calls of Foreign Missions. His labors did much towards inducing Christians in that State to adopt their present sys- tematic contributions for such an object, ever worthy of their prayers, their high estimation, and their liberal donations. Before embarking for the distant land of his anticipated trials and labors, he visited the town of his birth, to converse with those whom he knew and loved. He did all in his power for the future welfare of his relatives, and especially of his widowed mother, who had experienced the faithful assistance 76 and the consoling attentions of his filial affection. While hearts almost broke at the thoughts of separation, they were comforted with the belief, that it was a sacrifice demanded by a higher and more sacred obligation than commonly exists. The ordination of Mr. Nichols was at Park Street Church, Boston, September 3, 1817 ; and his marriage with Elizabeth Shaw, of Upper Beverly, Massachusetts, was on the 31st of the same month. On the morning of October 5, he and his wife sailed from Charlestown for Bombay, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Graves. Prior to his embarkation, he intended to visit his native place once more, but his other duties pre- vented his purpose. On this account, he sent a farewell discourse, from 1 Corinthians xv. 58, to his pastor, who read it from the pulpit, at the earnest request of his parishioners. The pertinency of the Scripture passage, the relations sus- tained by the adviser to the hearers, the impression that they were to see his face no more in the land of the living, and that in judgment they must answer for the use of the parting counsel he gave them, must have rendered the occasion deeply interesting, solemn and impressive. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols arrived at Bombay, February 23, 1818. He immediately entered on the study of the Mah- ratta language. Towards the close of October, he was pros- trated by a bilious attack, and his life despaired of. But divine goodness raised him up and enabled him to recom- mence his labors. Soon after his restoration he opened a school at Tannah, on the Island of Salsette, and another at Cullian, with encouraging prospects. In his Journal of a Tour, we have the succeeding extract, beginning September 24, 1819: "After addressing the villagers, we retired to rest in an open veranda. The Hindoos have neither chairs, tables, nor beds. Of course, whoever travels among them, must sit on the ground and sleep on the ground. Our jour- neying from village to village was through deep mud, long grass, and water sometimes up to the middle. To wear shoes and stockings was out of the question ; though our 77 feet suffered much from the stones and gravel. With bare feet we traveled over a region inhabited by tigers, and were in continual danger from serpents, which might be concealed in the long grass. On the evening of the 25th, we arrived at a village where we spent a Sabbath. In the evening, before we had retired to rest, while reclining on a mat in an open veranda, I was roused by a serpent crawling over my feet ; and before I could speak, it was under the feet of brother Graves. Through mercy we were not bitten. The serpent was killed before the door. There is a species of serpent very common here, whose bite causes death in five or ten minutes, and for which the natives know no remedy." About May 20, 1820, Mr. Nichols, his wife and their little son, were taken with an intermittent fever. The two last recovered in three weeks, but Mr. Nichols was confined for sixty days, during the hottest portion of the year. In 1821, he wrote to Mr. Whiton, while called to behold the desolations of spasmodic cholera : " It is one of the most awful diseases with which a righteous God ever visited our sinful race, and was entirely unknown till about four years ago. I have witnessed its awful ravages in Tannah and Bombay, and have been much with the sick and the dying. This people generally believe it to be not a proper disease, but a destroying demon. I have abundant opportunity to put in practice the little stock of medical knowledge I acquired in America, and have prescribed for the sick in hundreds of instances. So ignorant of the healing art are these people, that the administration of the simple but pow- erful medicines, (emetics and cathartics,) produces such speedy and manifest relief as truly astonishes them." On the 11th of May, 1822, the child of Mr. and Mrs. Nichols was taken from them, and they left to mourn its death, though with consolations that God ordered all things in righteousness. As a further specimen of perils and hardships, which his office called him to encounter, Mr. Nichols expresses himself 11 78 as follows : " Since I have been in India, I have slept many nights on the ground, without anything about me but a loose cotton gown ; and in my tours to the continent, to distribute books and visit schools, I have slept many times all night on the boards of an open boat, without any bed or covering. In all the country, among the natives, high and low, you will scarcely meet with a chair, a table or a bed." Thus enduring hardness as a good soldier of Christ, Mr. Nichols still cherished pleasant memories of home, and kindly affec- tions for kindred and acquaintances in his native land. To a friend he wrote in the subsequent language : " Need I tell you, that my early friends are my dear friends, and that a recollection of them is entwined with every fibre of my heart ? The rocks and hills of Antrim, are a scene on which imagination fondly lingers and memory drops her silent tear. Oh may that be a spot highly favored of Heaven, when this mortal body of mine shall be mouldering in the sands of India. Satisfied with the providence of God in calling me far away from my native land, I have not the remotest idea of ever returning there. It is worth a thou- sand lives, a thousand times more precious than mine, to make known for these heathen what a Saviour has done for a sinful world." Such language, in the estimation of him who looks no higher than human wisdom, is cant, is folly. But to every mind, illumined by the light of inspiration and sanctified by the Spirit of grace, it accords with the dictates of divine knowledge, the necessities of our apostate race, and the infinite riches of Christ's redemption. In 1824, the last year of his earthly pilgrimage, Mr. Nichols received the sad tidings of a beloved sister's decease. Thus he was a legal claimant to a portion of the property which she left. He forwarded to a fiiend a power of attor- ney to make distribution of it in the succeeding manner. To assign to his mother what was needful for her comfort ; to lay out a part for the purchase of tracts for the benefit of youth in his native town ; and to send the residue, if any, 79 to his wife's father, subject to his future disposal. Though attending to duty in this respect, as it called upon him from amid the changes and uncertainties of probation, he knew not that it would be his last act with reference to so judicious an arrangement. Late in the autumn, Mr. Nichols began a tour in Southern Konkan, for the purpose of visiting, and modifying to some extent, the schools established there. He had not proceeded sixteen miles from Bombay, when he was taken sick of a fever. Informed that he was dangerously ill, Mrs. Nichols, accompanied by a friend, hastened, in a covered boat, to the place of his confinement, and had him brought back to Bombay. His return was on the 9th of December, ten days after he was attacked by the disease. Then he was speech- less and, for the most part, insensible. He so continued till the middle of the succeeding night, being the 10th of December, 1824, when he fell asleep, and rested from the trials and labors of his ministry. The services of the funeral were performed the next day in the chapel, to which many of the natives resorted. Mr. Nichols had three children, two of whom died prior to his decease, and the other eight months afterwards. His widow was married, October 19, 1826, to Rev. Joseph Knight, Church missionary at Nellore, in Ceylon. Here she departed this life, September 5, 1837, and left a son, Henry by her second husband, who became a clergyman. Thus she closed her earthly course, after a long and well-earned reputation of an exemplary Christian, and a faithful servant in the missionary vineyard of her Lord and Saviour. The Memoirs of American Missionaries, whence the most of the preceding facts have been taken, speak of Mr. Nichols as follows : He " was nearly seven years among the heathen, engaged in various missionary labors ; but 1 She was born November 17, 1793, was a pupil of Benjamin Greenleaf, Esq., of Bradford, and was eminently distinguished for her literary attain- ments and piety. 80 especially, for the greater part of the time, in preaching the gospel to them in their vernacular tongue. He was a man of an excellent spirit, mild, gentle, and yet firm in the pur- suit of duty. lie longed for the salvation of the heathen, and prayed earnestly and continually for so great a blessing. To his* brethren, he was a judicious and faithful counsellor, and to the mission, a warm and devoted friend." "I have long thought," observes Mr. Whiton, "that his Christian character presented traits of uncommon excellence. If ever I knew a man, who ruled his own spirit and was master of himself, he was that man. It was manifest, that the fear and love of God were the governing principles of his conduct." Thus truth deservedly speaks of our departed brother. Better, infinitely better, to be as he, having fought the good fight of faith to extend the triumphs of Christ's kingdom over the hearts of his fallen race and the dominion of the prince of darkness, than the mightiest conquerors, who have not subjected their souls to the rule of Emmanuel, nor con- tended for the extension of his gospel. Verily believing and well doing for the highest welfare of man and the honor of God, are the imperishable crown, whose glories will ever abound and shed light on the successive events and ages of eternity. TIMOTHY PARKHURST. Timothy Parkhurst was the son of Jonathan and Rachel (Colburn) Parkhurst. His father died at Wilton, New Hampshire, January, 1819, aged sixty-six, and his mother, August, 1826, aged seventy-one. He was born in the same place, November 27, 1793. He attended the common schools of the town till his fifteenth year ; then he com- menced preparation for College, under Rev. Thomas Beede, and continued it till joining his class in their freshman year. 81 He taught school during his College course. An extract from his reply, follows : " After graduating, I commenced the study of medicine at Amherst, in this State, and continued to reside there three years. I then commenced the practice of medicine in my native town, and have continued since to remain in the same place. " As to offices, I have never been much of a public charac- ter. I have been Postmaster some seven years, have a Jus- tice's commission for the county of Hillsborough, and have been Town Clerk of Wilton twenty-seven years. " I was married May 28, 1818, to Betsy Abbot, of Wil- ton, daughter of William Abbot, Esq., whose wife's name was Phebe Chandler. My wife died in March, 1828. I married, a second time, Naomi Sawyer, of Sharon. I have had five children, by both marriages, three daughters and two sons, all now living. My life has been one of no re- markable incidents, although I have been busily engaged in the cares and pursuits of life, without making any great noise in the world." Thus speaks one, who was a pattern of equanimity to his class-mates, and who steadily and honestly attended to his own business, without unnecessarily troubling himself with others' concerns. ELISHA BACKUS PERKINS. I cannot perhaps better comply with the resolutions adopted by those of our Class, who met in Hanover at the last commencement, than to follow the inquiries of the Cir- cular of July 15, 1853. It is always a difficult matter to form a just estimate of one's own character and doings ; and to a man of much sensitiveness or delicacy of feeling, it is rather an unpleasant task to be required to communicate that 82 opinion to others. I am not, however, disposed to allow my own feelings to stand unnecessarily in the way of anything that can afford gratification to my dear old class-mates, and especially since the feelings of attachment I have ever cher- ished towards them, have been so pleasantly revived and strengthened by our last delightful meeting. My parents were Dr. Elisha Perkins, son of Dr. Elisha Perkins, of Plainfield, Connecticut, born July 18, 1763, and died in Baltimore, February 15, 1840 ; and Eunice Backus, daughter of Maj. Andrew Backus, of Plainfield, born June 14, 1770, and died at Canterbury, July 9, 1792. I was born at Canterbury, Connecticut, June 19, 1792. My present residence is Marietta, Washington county, Ohio. I was married June 27, 1822, to Miss Emily Pope, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Pope, born in Boston, May 14, 1796. She is still living. I have had two children, both born in Pomfret, Connecticut. 1st, Elisha Douglas, March 23, 1823, and married April 11, 1848, to Miss Harriet Eliza Hildreth, daughter of Dr. Samuel P. and Mrs. Phoda Maria Hildreth, of Marietta, Ohio, and died at Sacramento, Cali- fornia, December 17, 1852 ; 2d, Mary Duick, born Feb- ruary 1, 1825, married November 21, 1849, to Joseph P. Shaw, of Cleaveland, Ohio, son of William and Eliza De Wolfe Shaw, and died in Marietta, August 27, 1853, soon after my return from Hanover. I commenced business as a lawyer, at Pomfret, Connecti- cut, in August, 1816. In 1828, my health having failed, I moved to Baltimore, and went into the drug business with my father. My health still continuing feeble, I removed, at the close of 1830, to Tallahassee, Florida, and opened a drug store there. While residing in Tallahassee, I was licensed by the Medical Board to practice physic, but was never actively engaged in that profession, except to a gratui- tous business among the poor. In 1836, my health having been restored, and feeling anxious to withdraw my children from the influences of slavery, I sold my establishment, and 83 after nearly two years spent in examining different parts of the West, I came to Marietta, where I had friends, and purchased a house and a few acres of land, and was not employed in any active business till 1845, when I opened a drug store in Marietta, in which I am now engaged. I have all my life felt a deep interest in the cause of education, and have generally held some office connected with our schools and literary institutions ; but I have never allowed myself to be made a candidate for any political office, though I have held other situations of trust and responsi- bility. While residing in Florida, I was offered the appoint- ment of Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, which I declined, but accepted the office of Commissioner of Public Grounds and Buildings, and was one of the Trustees appointed under the grant by Congress, of two townships in South Florida, to Mr. Perrine and his associates, for the purpose of locating and establishing a Garden, for the intro- duction into this country of tropical and other foreign plants. These offices, involving no political partisanship, and being in their duties agreeable to my tastes and feelings, I held till I left the State. Under the grant to Mr. Perrine and his associates, I explored a large part of Southern Florida, but the selection of the townships was prevented by the occur- rence of the Seminole war ; and since the death of Mr. Per- rine, who was killed at Indian Key by "the Indians, the project has been abandoned. I have been a frequent contributor to the literary, relig- ious, agricultural and temperance papers and journals, and have delivered Addresses on Peace, Temperance, Education, &c, which have been published. One of the Peace Ad- dresses has been republished two or three times and exten- sively circulated. I have written or compiled nothing of more permanent character. I united with the Associate Reformed Church in Balti- more, under the care of the Rev. Dr. I. M. Duncan, in the summer of 1830, and am now a member of the First 84 Congregational Church of Marietta. My earliest denomina- tional attachments were to the Moravians, with whom I was placed in my boyhood for an education, and my feelings still incline most strongly to them ; but among our evangelical churches I have no very decided preferences. I can cheer- fully hold fellowship with all, of any name, " who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth." I was born and bred a federalist, and since the dissolution of that party I have been a whig, but never a very zealous partisan. My height is five feet seven and a half inches. My usual weight is from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and thirty pounds. I have never, in health, fallen below one hundred and sixteen, nor gone above one hundred and thirty- eight pounds. Soon after I was graduated, I entered the office of the Hon. Sylvanus Backus, of Pomfret, Connecticut; and after the usual course of study with him and with the Hon. Calvin Goddard, of Norwich, I was admitted to the Bar of Windham county, in August, 1816, and formed a partner- ship with Mr. Backus which was terminated by his death, in February, 1817. I was soon engaged in a large and lucra- tive business, in which I continued till the autumn of 1828, when I was compelled to abandon the profession by a pul- monary affection, which made it necessary for me to change my business and seek a milder climate. I was ambitious of distinction in my profession, but, not possessing a strong constitution, I broke down under the effort. The disap- pointment was very severe ; but I have had abundant cause since to bless God for this, as well as for every other trial he has called me to bear. The failure of my prospects of worldly distinction, led me to feel the vanity of all earthly hopes, and the importance of securing a better and more enduring portion ; and I humbly trust I have not sought it in vain. Much of my time has been devoted to efforts, feeble in themselves, and yet not altogether without God's 85 blessing on them, to do good to others. There is no condi- tion nor employment in this life without anxiety and care ; but, after enjoying probably much more than an average portion of this world's favor and prosperity, I know that nothing but the hopes and promises of the gospel, much as some may affect to despise them, can satisfy the soul. Without them, the present is cheerless, and the future is involved in darkness and despair. By the deaths of our dear children, my wife and I are left alone in our old age, with none to cheer our declining years, or weep over our graves. Yet we are far from being unhappy. We know these trying events have been ordered by a kind Father, who never willingly afflicts nor grieves ; and we trust that the loved ones, who have been taken from our embraces here, have only arrived a little before us at the happy home, where we hope to meet again and dwell together forever. Oh, my brother, what a cheering thought it would be to feel assured that, in those blessed abodes, we shall meet all our dear class-mates whom we have loved so well here. It is a thought I have dwelt much upon since our recent delightful meeting at Hanover. Let us earnestly plead for such a blessing, and perhaps He, who delights in the prayers of his people, may grant it to our petitions. PETER ROBINSON. Peter Robinson was the son of General Robinson, of Pembroke, New Hampshire, and was born November 15, 1791. He prepared for College at Atkinson, of the same State, under the instruction of Hon. John Yose. He entered freshman, and taught school in the winter of his collegiate course. From his class-mate, Bond, we have the subsequent facts : "In 1816, he settled in Binghamton, Broome county, New York, as teacher in an Academy, and he resided there 12 86 until his decease. He was a lawyer by profession, but devoted considerable attention to agriculture. He was a Justice of the Peace about fifteen years ; was a member of the New York Assembly five or six years, and in 1829 was elected Speaker of that body. His speeches, we are told, were of a high order, and were published in the current debates of the day. Afflicted with a complication of dis- eases, he died of congestion of the brain, in 1841, aged fifty, unmarried." Thus departed one, remarkable for his talents and scholar- ship. It is regretted that our materials for a notice of him are so scanty, though indicative of the eminent stand, for which intellect and knowledge amply qualified him. He learned that, while careful for the wisdom of earth, we should be far more so for the wisdom of heaven. DAVID SMITH. From him we have the succeeding account : John Smith and Elizabeth Campbell, of the county of Hillsborough, and State of New Hampshire, were my parents. My father served six years in the Revolutionary war ; was in nearly all the battles at the capture of Burgoyne, and was wounded in the head by a musket-ball, at King's Bridge. The ball remained there till his death. I was born at Francestown, New Hampshire, on the 2d day of October, 1785. My present residence is Wheeling, Virginia, and there is my post-office address. I am not married now. On the 17th of August, 1814, I was married to Miss Rhoda Mitchell, then of Boston, who died on the 19th of August, 1819. Her parents were James Mitchell and Mary Leech, of Haverhill, Massachusetts. She was born about six weeks before I was. This most excellent of all persons whom I ever knew, bare Elizabeth, Mary and John. In May, 1820, 1 married Harriett Mitchell, 87 sister to my first wife. She was born on the 20th of Decem- ber, 1802, and died the 11th of August, 1833, leaving three children, viz., Khoda, James and David. My connubial state ended with her life. I resided in Columbus, Ohio, from 1814 till 1836 ; and, though absent from there much of the time since then, am still a citizen of that place. My daughter Elizabeth married Gen. Joseph M'Cormick, now of Cincinnati. Mary married Mr. Richard Hubbell, of Wheeling. John married Miss Matilda Patterson, of West Union, Ohio. Rhoda married Mr. John W. Gill, of Wheel- ing. James married Miss Martha Jeremiah, of Cincinnati. David married Miss Martha Gonell, of Wheeling. They now reside at Louisville, Kentucky. Elizabeth, my oldest, is thirty-eight years of age, and David, my youngest, is twenty-four years. Mary Hubbell has five children living. All the others have from one to four. I was admitted to the Bar, but did not practice. My business, from 1816 to 1836, was printing. During this time I owned and issued a newspaper, called the i Ohio Monitor ' ; nor am I author of any literature except newspaper fugitive essays ; and those are so evanescent, that few of the sheets could now be found which contained them. I was six years a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, appointed by the General Assembly ; three years the State Printer, by the same mode of appointment ; was twice elected to the General Assembly, to represent Franklin county ; was a Clerk in the General Post Office from 1836 to 1845, at a salary of $1,400; was appointed by Amos Ken- dall and dismissed by Cave Johnson. I have been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1831. In politics, democratic ; took the Adams phase thereof in 1824, the Jackson phase in 1828, and the abolition phase in 1845, from which I think that I shall never depart. I entertain no thought so abhorrent to me as African slavery ! On account of it, I was made a yellow statesman 88 in 1823 at home, and ejected from place at Washington city in 1845. My height is five feet seven inches ; my weight is one hundred and sixty-two pounds. I am disabled from ordinary exercise by lameness in both my lower limbs ; belong to no secret society, and to no public one, except the church ; enjoy good health, and as much happiness as an infirm celi- bate can expect. The above is a very meagre sketch of a small pattern. If my worthy brethren think well enough of it not to leave my name blank, I shall thank them. I doubt not that their united biographies will be interesting. And excuse me if I say, jokingly, that if we do not preserve our own histories, our deeds will not inspire any Homer to rhyme them. EXPERIENCE POSTER STORRS. His parents were Constant and Lucinda Storrs. Of their eight children, he was the sixth son, and was born August 21, 1794, at Lebanon, New Hampshire. He is survived by only two members of this family, a brother Dan, aged sixty- six, residing in the same town, and another, the youngest, aged fifty-eight, settled in the ministry at Brooklyn, New York. He began his studies under Rev. Eden Burroughs, of East Hanover, and closed them with Professor Shurtleff, of Hanover. His complexion was light, his height about five feet, and his weight one hundred and forty pounds. After graduating, he read law with his brother Constant, of Argyle, New York, and was admitted to the Bar, October, 1816. Then he went to Indiana, and practiced his profession in the town of Paoli. With the deserved reputation of a distinguished scholar in his class, and of fixed habits to im- prove his strong intellectual powers, his prospect of eminence 89 in life was clear and encouraging. But human anticipations are often crossed by divine wisdom. Only two years had passed from his entering the arena of legal competition, when ill health required him to seek the attentions and remedies of his parental mansion. Here he struggled with a lingering consumption, which proved his end, December 17, 1829, at the age of thirty-live years. A brother, who witnessed his long sickness, and helped to alleviate the trials of his advance- ment to the bourne of probation, remarks of him as follows : " He bore his lingering illness with Christian fortitude and resignation, trusting in the great Redeemer for acceptance with God. He never made a public profession of religion, but often regretted that he had. not." Consoling indeed is the thought to his friends, that, in the day of his adversity, he leaned not on the broken staff of earth, but applied to the only remedy of salvation, which could take away the sting of death from him and them, and prepare his spirit to shine among the brighter lights of immortality. JOSEPH WARDWELL. His parents were Jeremiah and Mary Wardwell. He was one of ten children, six sons and four daughters. His birth was July 3, 1788. When entering College, he was of Salis- bury, New Hampshire. During the winters he was there, he instructed schools. After graduating, he continued this employment in Boston, Massachusetts, where his prospect of success was better than usual. But his strength and health began to falter under long and persevering application to study. Besides this, he exerted himself in teaching sacred music, an art in which he greatly excelled. He soon fell before the power of consumption. He died February, 1814. He was modest in his manners, devoted to the pursuit of 90 knowledge, bent upon the purpose of being useful, and exemplary in all his deportment. His piety was eminent, and enabled him to follow the directions of duty with a peaceful submission to the allotments of Providence. SAMUEL WELLS. His parents were Samuel and Electa (Bascom) Wells. His father was the youngest of four children, was a farmer, and, though not of a strong constitution, was largely engaged in his calling, was Deacon of the Second Congregational Church in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and a Colonel in mili- tary service, when such an office was a token of much confi- dence and of equal honor. His mother was the daughter of Ezekiel and Anna (Brown) Bascom. It was a favorite maxim of hers, when conversing with her children, " Seek to be good rather than great," and one which she fully exhibited in her life. Of her thirteen children, one died while an infant, and all the rest, with a single exception, became professors of religion. The eldest child, Samuel, had his birth at Greenfield, December 21, 1792. Being of feeble health from his earliest days, he was designed by his father for a liberal education. In accordance with this parental purpose, he left home on the day of the total eclipse, June 16, 1806, for New Salem. Here he studied at the Academy, and then performed the duties of clerk in a store, both of which occupied two years. At the close of this period, he concluded to prepare himself for mercantile pursuits ; but by the winter of 1809, yielded to the wish of his father and renewed his studies, under the direction of Rev. Avery Williams, afterwards settled in the ministry at Lexington, Massachusetts. On the 2d of the following October, he was matriculated as a member of Dart- 91 mouth College. He remarks, " Here my health was such, that it was with difficulty I could keep up with my class, and in the spring of 1812, after a protracted fever, I was sent home to die ; but again joined the class, late in the autumn, and graduated with them in 1813." Though he was thus called to endure the severe discipline of ill-health, yet his deportment was such as to win the friendship of those who became acquainted with him. After graduating, Mr. Wells began to study law with Elijah Alvord, Esq., of Greenfield, and was admitted at this place to practice in the Court of Common Pleas, August, 1816, and at Northampton, to practice in the Supreme Judicial Court, September, 1819. He opened an office at Greenfield, and continued there till August, 1819, when he moved to Northfield. Here he continued for six months, and then went back to his native town. In November, 1822, he received a proposition from the Hon. Isaac C. Bates, to become a partner with him in the practice of law, which he accepted. This connection lasted till June, 1827. Thence Mr. Wells continued the duties of his profession alone. As the consequence of being responsible for a company, whose affairs became much embarrassed, Mr. Wells's own property was taken, in 1830, and trials pressed upon him. His health failed, consumption seemed to be preying upon his vitals, and for more than two years he was unable to do any business. But that Providence, which seeth not as man seeth, turned back his captivity. He was restored so that he was able to resume his profession. This he followed till April 27, 1837, when he was appointed Clerk of the Judi- cial Courts for the county of Hampshire, Massachusetts, which office he has held to this date. In addition to this, he holds the offices of Justice of the Peace and Quorum, and also of Trials. As to the social relations of Mr. Wells, we have the subsequent facts. On March 9, 1820, he married Sarah 92 Hooker Leavitt, daughter of the Hon. Jonathan Leavitt, of Greenfield, eminent for her piety. She died in her fortieth year, January 29, 1837, of an inflammation of the brain. She left four children, — Sarah Leavitt, Jonathan Leavitt, Maria Louisa, and Samuel Henry Martyn. Of these, Jona- than married Delia C, the daughter of Mr. Cornelius Delano, of Northampton, and resides in the city of New York. Henry is a member of Dartmouth College. The daughters live with their father. Mr. Wells was again married, May 15, 1851, to Mrs. Maria L. Carleton, widow of Mr. Cyrus Carleton, late merchant of the city of New York. She has three sons, — George W., Cyrus, and Charles A. Carleton. It affords us much satisfaction to know, that while Mr. Wells has been careful for temporal concerns, he has been more so for those which are spiritual. He agrees with us, that in nothing are the most of our race so justly chargeable with erring from the dictates of reason, conscience and reve- lation, as in their everlasting interests. Like many others, he perceived that, from his earliest days of boyhood, the thoughts of death and judgment would frequently arise in his mind and produce a fear, lest, when summoned to meet them, he should be altogether unprepared. Then the prince of darkness would suggest to him, that there was time enough for him to conform with a deceitful world and still be sure of endless safety. Allured by such sophistry, he continually replied to the voice of inspiration, ' Go thy way for this time/ until the decease of a beloved brother, not emerged from infancy. This providence said to him, l If one so young is called to eternity, you may be commanded soon to follow him ; prepare to meet thy God.' Then doubts and darkness overshadowed his soul. The destroyer of all good assumed another mode of action, in order to keep him in bondage, and induced him to think that the day of grace for him had passed away. Still the Holy Spirit continued with him, and so aided him to seek, that he found peace in 93 believing. Thus turned to wisdom's ways, he could sin- cerely adopt the versified thoughts of an Apostle, — " When I am weak, then am I strong ; Grace is my shield, and Christ my song." Mr. Wells united with the Second Congregational Church of Greenfield, in July, 1817. On removing to Northamp- ton, his relation was transferred to the First Church there. He so continued, till the Edwards Church was formed in that town, when he became one of its original members. He remarks, as to such membership, (( With my own, the records now bear the names of my deceased and present wife, and of four out of our seven children." We can heartily pray, that the remaining part of their children may be speedily brought into the fold of Christ, so that they may finish life and be partakers in the endless, perfect and glori- ous experience of heaven, as an unbroken and united family. Compare this portion with unions, graced by all the attrac- tions of earth and most sought by insatiable ambition, and it excels them as the brightness of seven days does the dim- mest glimmer of twilight. WILLIAM WHITE. William White was the son of James and Eunice (Kingsbury) White. His father died at Thetford, Vermont, 1830, aged seventy-six, and his mother, 1819, aged sixty. He had his birth at Haverhill, Massachusetts, May 1, 1788. He was prepared for College by the Rev. Gardner Kellogg, of Bradford, Vermont. He taught school in the winter, during his collegiate course. For two years after graduating, he was the Principal of an Academy at Gorham, Maine. For the same period, 1815-17, he was tutor in his Alma Mater. In the year last named, he commenced the practice of law, 13 94 at Bennington, Vermont, and remained there twelve months. He went to Philadelphia in 1821, and opened a Select Clas- sical and English School. This Institution he continued four years. In this time, as his class-mate Bond relates, he "pub- lished an elaborate Essay on the Pronunciation of the Latin and Greek languages. He frequently wrote communications for the newspapers, but always anonymously. He also com- menced a weekly publication, entitled ' The Saturday Maga- zine/ of which he was editor and proprietor, and which was literary, political, and critical. This periodical was conducted with decided ability, but it did not acquire an extensive circu- lation. At the end of a few months, it was discontinued. In the summer of 1825, he went to Richmond, Virginia, where he became Principal of the High School, and where he died of dysentery, August 21, 1826, unmarried. Mr. White's mind was remarkable for the clearness and acuteness of its perceptions, especially upon abstract, metaphysical sub- jects. His demeanor was unpretending, and his morals un- blemished." The high promise which his appearance in College gave, was fully realized. He believed and rever- enced the doctrines of grace. He deeply felt that the greatest of human intellect and acquisitions should be laid in the dust, when compared with even the glimpses of Divinity, as made known on the sacred pages of Revelation. FREDERICK WOOD. Frederick Wood was the youngest of five brothers, and was born in Littleton, Massachusetts. After graduating, he studied medicine and prepared himself for its practice. He then traveled through several of our Western States. He contracted the impression, that the world cared nothing for him, and he might care nothing for them. Hence, for the 95 last twenty years he lias made little provision for the morrow, any further than to supply his present necessities. During such a period, he has labored in various places. When last heard from, he was in the western part of his native State. A graduated class, in the development of their bias, habits, tastes, talents, and acquisitions, are like a little world in the exhibition of its various characters. Some meet, some fall below, and others rise above the line of anticipations individ- ually formed of them, while on their collegiate course. Duty demands of them all, that they should move in the spheres adapted to their capacity and preparation, as faithful stewards of divine bounty. Happy indeed are they whose conscious reflection constantly lays before their perception, the knowledge that however encumbered with the imperfec- tions of their fallen race, they desire, pray, purpose and strive to meet the approval of the Judge, who will render unto all according to their ways. CHARLES WOODMAN. Charles Woodman was the son of Rev. Joseph Wood- man, minister of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, and was born January 9, 1792. He studied law with Jeremiah H. Wood- man, of Rochester, in the same State, and then with Christo- pher Gore, of Boston, Massachusetts. He was married twice ; first, to Mary W. Gage, daughter of Joseph and Mary Gage, of Dover, New Hampshire, June, 1818 — she died in June, 1819, aged thirty years ; second, to Dorothy Dix, daughter of the Hon. John and Rebecca Wheeler, of the same town, the 5th of November, 1821. His last wife was born Febru- ary 28, 1798, and died in March, 1849, leaving one son, bear- ing his own name. For several years he was Representative in the Legislature from Dover, and in 1822 he was Speaker of the House. At the time of his decease, October 31, 1822, 96 " he was candidate for Congress, and would in all probability have been elected." His knowledge of human nature, and the tact for using it to compass the objects which he consid- ered fit to be obtained, and his busy, stirring spirit, exhibited while a member of College, he successfully applied in his subsequent life. But while political eminence was inviting him to share more largely in its laurels, and the pulses of his heart throbbed more strongly in unison with its proffers, the hand of Providence pointed him to the dial of probation, and bid him note that the hour of his departure from all earthly attractions had come. Thus warned, he was brought to the position, wherein no relief short of the favor conferred by Immanuel, can shed the light of hope upon the soul, and enable it to look for acceptance into the society of the righteous made perfect. APPENDIX While collecting- the preceding - , the Committee received the following notices of their Class-mates, who did not graduate with them, and which they think it is well to print in this connection. JACOB ATKINSON. His parents were Samuel and Sally Atkinson. His father died in Amherst, New Hampshire, in 1796, aged about forty- six years ; and his mother in Boscawen, of the same State, in March, 1845, aged eighty-four. He was born in the last- named town, November, 1793, and fitted for College by Rev. Samuel Wood. IJe remained with his class two years, and then entered Brown University, where he graduated. He soon went to Stark county, Ohio, where he purchased land, improved it, and, in two years, sold it " at a handsome advance." Thence he moved to Wheeling, Virginia, where he taught school for a like period. In the course of 1817, he engaged in prosperous business with an elder brother of his in the same place, and so continued nearly up to the time of his decease, March 29, 1837. He was not married. " He was a good writer on politics, as well as other subjects. He was gentlemanly and conciliating in his deportment." The realities of life passed away with him, pointing to the wisdom of securing the purest and greatest temporal happiness, by the best preparation for immortal concerns. JOHN EATON FULLER. John Eaton Fuller was born at Francestown, New Hampshire, November 19, 1788. His parents were Daniel 98 and Abigail Fuller, who moved from Dedham, Massachu- setts. He was one of nine children, who are all dead but two. While applying his time and energies to make lauda- ble progress in his studies, he was prostrated by disease, and died at home, October 22, 1811. Mr. John Nichols, the missionary to India, was appointed by the Class to pronounce the eulogy customary on such occasions. This service was done very acceptably to the audience. NATHANIEL HENCHMAN. His parents were Dr. Nathaniel and Anna (Crosby) Henchman. His father was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, May, 1763, and died at Amherst, New Hampshire, May 27, 1800. His mother was born at Billerica, Massachusetts, and died where her husband did, November 27, 1836, aged 77. He was born at Amherst, Nov. 19, 1786, and attended the Academy under Jesse Appleton, afterwards President of Bowdoin College. Llaving left his class, he studied medi- cine under Dr. Matthias Spalding, and practiced some in his native place. In the last war with England, he became Surgeon's Mate in the army, and was stationed at Sackett's harbor. Thence he went to Aquacknock, New Jersey, and followed his profession there a short time. Erom that place he went to Woodville, Mississippi, and, having resided nine months here, he was attacked with an inflammatorv fever, and died, after a sickness of five days, September 5, 1819, aged 33 years. In the burying ground of Amherst, a cenotaph is erected in memory of him by his mother. Two closing lines on this monument are as follow : In distant clime, without stone or name, He rests, who here had friends and honest fame." 99 JOSIAH HUBBARD. Josiah Hubbard was son of John Hubbard. He was born at New Ipswich, New Hampshire, July 24, 1793. When he entered College, his father was its Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, but died the next year. His brother John, was of the same class with him. Bereft of their father's care and counsel, they soon took up their connections. Josiah married Mehitabel Whitmore, of Lebanon, New Hampshire, September 23, 1814 ; has had seven children, and four of them are married. Prom Leb- anon he moved to Lowell in 1838, and was elected City Librarian in the latter place, 1844, which office he yet holds. He still exhibits the urbane and kind manners, which were common in his youth. Favored with the desirable disposi- tion to live usefully, he has opportunity for its continual gratification. JAMES MILTIMORE. He left College before his Class graduated. His parents were Rev. James and Dolly Miltimore. His birth was at Stratham, New Hampshire, March 30, 1789. He took charge of the classical department in Charlotte Hall Acad- emy, Saint Mary's county, Maryland, in 1§16, where he con- tinued till his decease. He married Ann R., daughter of Robert Hilgour, resident where the Academy was located. They had three children, James, William, and Mary Ann. Mr. Miltimore was a member of the Episcopal church. His wife died July 27, 1851, and he, May 7, 1852. He was a classical scholar, and eminent for his oratory. 100 SAMUEL PHILBRICK. His parents were Jonathan and Alice (Butler) Philbrick. His father died June 10, 1841, at Washington, New Hamp- shire, aged seventy-three, and his mother at Angelica, New York, February, 1853, aged eighty-two. He was born at Deerfield, New Hampshire, about 1792, whence his parents moved to Washington, 1803. He studied with B,ev. Mr. Whiting, of Antrim, and Rev. John Lord of Washington. He married a daughter of Elder Bascomb. He has been a merchant more than twenty-five years in Savannah, Georgia. imi 1 .j