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NECROLOGY
or
ALUMNI  OF  HARVARD  COLLEGE,
1851-52 to 1862-63.
By JOSEPH  P A L M E R,
     Of the Ci.as-i of 1820.
       B O S T O N :
PRINTED BY JOHN' AYILSOX AND SON,
       1), Watkk Sti:ki:t.
          1SG4. 
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       Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by




                         WILLIAM BKIGHAM,




In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. 
NOTE  BY THE COMMITTEE  OF PUBLICATION.
   The  advantage of having  in  a compact and accessi-
ble form  the  obituary notices contained in this volume
is  so obvious, that no apology for their republication is
needed.   It has been  often  suggested, but was brought
about directly by a communication from a member of the
class of 1811, written  in Europe, to a friend in Boston,
a little more than a year  ago, urging that it  should be
undertaken at once, sketching a plan of operations, and
promising a handsome subscription.  'This communica-
tion resulted in a meeting of  friends of the undertaking,
and in  the choice of a  committee of publication, who
issued the following circular,  drawn up, at their request,
by Hon. Edward Everett: —

          TO THE  ALUMNI OF HARVARD COLLEGE.
   It is well known to the Alumni that an annual necrology of
those who  have died in the course of the year has, for the last
thirteen years, regularly appeared in the Boston Daily Advertiser
on the morning of  Commencement-Day.  This necrology has,
from the first,  been prepared by Dr. Joseph Palmer of the
class of  1820.   Originally consisting of a very brief notice, it
has gradually swelled to ample dimensions, embracing  all  the
known facts of any public interest in the life and career of the 
IV
NOTE BY
THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION.
                     ^rl   This work  has been  executed by
individuals commemorated,   lnis wo                judgment.
Dr. Palmer with great  diligence, fidelity, and good J   g
Lm his connection with a  f^™^  ^ £has
early notice of the deaths as they have  occurred^ _
then resorted to the most authentic sources, ^"^7
class-books, since those records began to be kept, for all  urthe
  cLible information.   It may be ^^^^ 2
successfully has Dr. Palmer's work been performed, that no
Taper  n the course of the year is read with greater interest by
 i;  graduate  of Harvard,  than the  Boston Da^y  Advertiser
whil Spears on Commencement-Day.   Nor is the interest of
those articles likely to be confined to the present time.  As they
will unquestionably be the means of preserving from oblivion
many  facts which  would otherwise  perish, they  will, *or the
classes  to which  they  pertain,  form the basis of any future
Athene,  Cantabrigienses.  The favor with which  Dr. Palmer s
necrologies have been received is not confined to the alumni  of
Harvard.  They are  scarcely less valuable to all who study
 American biography, and have  served  as a model for similar
 necrologies in  the other New-England colleges.
    These articles, including that of the  present year, fill above
 one hundred columns of the  Daily Advertiser, and would make
 an octavo volume of about four hundred pages.   They are far
 too valuable not to be collected in a  permanent form, and  it is
 manifestly a question of time alone when that shall be done.
    Thus far the preparation  of  them has been, on the  part of
 Dr. Palmer, purely a labor of love.   It has involved the em-
 ployment of much time ; the  consultation of many journals,-
 tracts, and larger volumes; continual  reference to surviving
 friends; and a voluminous correspondence.  AU  this has  been
 gratuitous, and that on the part of an  individual whose stated
 occupation might seem sufficient to fill a busy day.  It is mani-
 festly neither just nor honorable to  the body of the Alumni,
 that this great amount  of labor should continue without compen-
  sation.  With this impression  it has  been proposed by  some
  personal friends of Dr. Palmer, to take  charge of the  publica-
  tion of his necrologies in a handsome volume for  his benefit. 
        note by  the committee of publication.         v

To secure him from the  possibility of loss, it has been deemed
expedient, with Dr. Palmer's permission, that the copyright of
the work should be held by a committee by whom the net pro-
ceeds  shall be applied for his benefit. ... As the volume will
be of common interest to all the sons of Harvard, it is confidently
expected that it will be so generally subscribed for as to yield a
handsome compensation for the labor  and care bestowed upon
the work by its worthy compiler.
  Messrs. William Brigham of the class of 1829, Nathaniel
B. Shurtleff of the class of 1831, and Henry G. Denny of
the class of 1852,  will act as  a committee of publication; and
communications  on the  subject and subscriptions may be  ad-
dressed to  them at  Boston.

               JOSIAH QUINCY.
               EDWARD EVERETT.
               JARED  SPARKS.
               JAMES  WALKER.
               THOMAS HILL.
               SAMUEL SVVETT.
Cambridge, July 15th, 1863.

  The enormous labor required by such a compilation as
this  must be  evident to  all;  while  few but those who
have been engaged in similar works can appreciate the
impossibility of perfect, or even approximate, accuracy of
detail in items  so various, and coming, in many cases,
from such remote  and uncertain sources.   Many errors
and  omissions, resulting in part from the circumstances
under  which  the  necrology has  from  time  to  time
appeared, have  been corrected by the compiler; but
it is  much to  be regretted that but few,  comparatively,
of the friends of  deceased alumni, have taken the op-
portunity  offered  them by the public  notice  given a
year  ago,  and lately repeated, to correct  or add to the
obituaries.
ROBERT C. WINTHROP.
WILLIAM BRIGHAM.
NATHANIEL B. SHURTLEFF.
C. WILLIAM LORING.
HENRY* G. DENNY. 
VI
NOTK BY THE COMMITTEE  OF  PUBLICATION.
   The Committee have given much time to the arrange-
ments for the publication of this work, in order  that all
sums received from its sale,  after paying the actual  cost
of paper, printing, and binding, may go for the  benefit
of its compiler; and they trust  that the  considerations
set forth in their circular are such as will secure a speedy
sale of the limited edition that has been issued.

           For the Committee of Publication,

                                  HENKY G. DENNY.
Boston-, July 20th, 1864. 
PREFACE.
  The suggestion of preparing a necrology of alumni
of Harvard College was made by Hon. Edward Everett
to the compiler of these notices in the year 1851.  He
began the work the next succeeding year, and has since,
at the request of the Executive  Committee  of the Asso-
ciation  of  the Alumni,  published  it  annually  in the
"Boston Daily  Advertiser" on  Commencement-Day.
He acknowledges his obligations  to Mr. John Langdon
Sibley, the accomplished librarian of  Harvard College,
for the use he has been permitted to make of the notes
and memoranda of the alumni,  collected by him  during
his  long connection with the  college.   The  compiler
intended to rewrite  the  earlier notices,  as they were
meagre  and imperfect;  but he was unable to do it, by
reason of having partially  lost his eyesight.   They are
therefore  republished nearly as they  appeared  in the
" Advertiser."  It is to be regretted that the  necrology
was not begun a century earlier; for then much valuable
information  would have  been  preserved which is  now
irrecoverably lost.  The compiler hopes, that, when he
shall have passed away (which, in the  course of nature,
will occur at no distant  period), the necrology will be
continued by more  able  hands. 
 
NECROLOGY.
                        1851-52.

    1785.—Dr. Samuel Emeesox died  in Kennebunk, Me.,
 7 August, 1851, aged 86 years and 11 months.  He was born in
 Hollis, N.H., 6 September, 1765.  He served in the war of the
 Revolution, in the regiment of Col. Prescott, and was quartered
 at Cambridge at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill.
    1785.—Theodore Lincoln  died  at  Dennysville, Me.,
 15 June, 1852, aged 89.  He was a son of Gen. Benjamin Lin-
 coln, of Hingham, where he was  born  30 December,  1763 ;
 was one of the earliest settlers of the town of  Dennysville, and
 was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and Sessions for  the
 County of Washington.
    1788.—Henry Phelps died at Gloucester, 18 February,
 1852J aged 8Q.  He was born in Salem,  10  November, 1765.
 His father was a shipmaster sailing from that town, from  which,
 about the commencement of the Revolutionary War, he removed
 to Beverly.   He wras lost at sea on his homeward passage from
 France in 1786.  He was spoken by a vessel when sixty davs
 out, being  short of provisions and water, with his  vessel dis-
 abled and leaky.   On board of the ship that spoke him, he sent
 a letter for his wife,  in a sealed bottle attached  to a line, Avrittcn
 in a  strain of complete despondency as to his chance of reaching
home.   From the contents of this letter, it is supposed that  the
vessel must have foundered not long after it was written.  His
                            1 
son
cons:
                  NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI           [1851-52.

    Henry was then in college.   He had to contend with the
  ^enitai difficulties of a club foot and an imperfectly developed
ri,h°t arm and hand; but, not allowing them to discourage, him,
soon after leaving college he commenced the study of medicine
with Dr. Joshua Plummer,  of  Salem, quite a  distinguished
physician, formerly of  Gloucester, who established him m  busi-
ness as an  apothecary and physician in Gloucester,  in  1790
He acquired some practice as a physician, but soon abandoned
that branch of his business.   Being a man of lively tempera-
ment and companionable  qualities, his shop was the resort of the
most respectable and influential men of the  town.   He was for
some time postmaster  in Gloucester, and  also for many years
the principal acting magistrate in the town.
   1790.—Dr. William Ingalls  died in Wrentham, 9  Sep-
tember, 1851, aged 82.  He Avas born in Newburyport, 3 May,
1769, and was for many  years  an  eminent physician in Boston.
   1792.—Nathaniel  Chandler, of Lancaster, died at the
Insane Hospital in Worcester, 4 June, 1852, aged  78.   He was
bom in Petersham, 6 October, 1773.
   1792.—Rev.  John Snelling- Popkin  died in Cambridge,
2 March, 1852, aged 80.  He was born in Boston, 19  June,
1771.  Ordained pastor of the Federal-street Church in Boston,
10 July, 1799.   Dismissed 28  November, 1802.   Installed
pastor of the First Church in Newbury, 19 September,  1804.
Dismissed 5 October, 1815, having accepted the appointment of
professor of the  Greek  language in Harvard  College.   This
office he held till  1826, when he was appointed Eliot Professor
of Greek literature.   He resigned  his professorship  in  1833,
but continued to reside in Cambridge during the  remainder of
his life.  He  Avas a member  of  the Massachusetts  Historical
Society, and of the American Academy.
    1793.— Joseph Stowers died at North Chelsea, 31 August,
1851, aged 77 years and 10 months.  He  was born  in Chelsea,
10 November, 1773.   He  was  justice  of the peace,  town-
clerk, town-treasurer,  selectman,  representative;  and, in fact,
made himself "generally useful" to  the people  of his  native
place. 
1851-52.]            OF HARVARD COLLEGE.                  3

   1794. —William Crosby died at Belfast, Me., 31 March,
1852, aged 81.   He Avas born  in  Billerica, Mass., 3  June,
1770.  Soon  after he left college, he entered as a student-at-laAv
in the office of William Gordon, Esq., of Amherst, N.H., and
in due time  finished  his  legal studies  with Judge  Dana, of
Groton,  Mass.   In January,  1802, he went to Belfast, and
settled as a practising lawyer.  He was one of the pioneer band
of professional adventurers,  who, at that early day, dared to
penetrate this neAv  region, and locate themselves  east of the
Kennebec RiAer; a tract of country then, as noAV, comprising
much the largest portion of the now State of Maine.   There
were at that  period less than a dozen framed houses in the vil-
lage, with a  few  log cabins; some Indian-built wigwams, and
not more than three  hundred inhabitants  in the  whole  town.
Thus by his  enterprise he became an early citizen of that unde-
fined  space called " DoAvn East," and was the associate and the
first legal adviser of the founders of that beautiful town.
    1795.—Oliver Crosby died at Atkinson, Me., 29 July,
1851,  aged 82.  He was born in Billerica, Mass., 17 March,
1769 ; and settled as a laAATyer in Dover, N.H., in 1798.  He
subsequently removed to Maine.   For several years before his
death, he had discontinued the practice of his profession.
    1795. —Josiah Sturges died in New York, 22 February,
1852, aged 78.   He was son of Jonathan Sturges, of Fairfield,
Conn., Judge of the Supreme  Court of Connecticut, and was
born 10 September, 1773.   He was  a merchant in NeAv York,
and Avas  at one time Avealthy,  but lost his property during the
war of 1812.
    1796.—Rev. Nathan Tilton  died at Scarborough, Me.,
4 October, 1851, aged  79.   He was born in  East Kingston,
N.H., 2 July,  1772; was  ordained pastor of the church in
Scarborough, 10 December,  1800;  and resigned his pastoral
charge, 12 December, 1827.
    1798. —Thomas Cole died at Salem, 24 June, 1852, aged
72.   He was born in Marlborough, Mass., 29 December, 1779.
He was preceptor of the Aurean Academy, at Amherst,  N.H.,
afterwards teacher of the Ladies' High School at Salem ;  a Fel-
low of the American Academy. 
 4                 NECROLOGY  OF ALUMNI           [1851-52.

    179*.__Eev. Abraham Randall died at Stow, 3 March,
 18.')2, aged 80. He was born in Stow, 25 October, 1771 ;  Avas
 fitted for college at Westford Academy, under the tuition  of the
 late Levi  Hedge,  LL.D.   During  a  part  of his collegiate
 course, he was room-mate with the late Judge Story.   He  Avas
 ordained at Manchester, 2 September,  1802 ; dismissed Septem-
 ber, 1808, and returned to Stow.
    1798. —Dr. Robert Thaxter died in Dorchester, 10 Feb-
 ruarv, 1852, aged 75.   He Avas  son of Dr. Thomas Thaxter, of
 Hingham ;  and was born in that town, 21 October, 1776.  He
 commenced his professional practice in Hingham in 1802.  In
 1809 he established himself in Dorchester, and for more than
 thirty years Avas not kept from his professional business a  single
 day by illness.
   1799.—Rev.  William  Frotiiingiiam  died  at  Belfast,
 Me., 24 June, 1852, aged 77.  He Avas born in Cambridge,
 14  March,  1777.   Ordained  pastor of  the  Third Church in
 Lynn, 2(5 September, 1804; dismissed 7  May, 1817;  installed
 at Belfast, 21 July, 1819.
   1800.—Benjamin Marston Watson died  at  Newton, 31
 August, 1851, aged 71.  He Avas born in Marblehead, 11 Janu-
 ary, 1780.  He studied law Avith  the late Chief Justice Parsons ;
 but soon left the profession, and went into mercantile business in
 Boston.  He Avas also president of the Mercantile Marine Insur-
 ance Company.
   1801. —Samuel  Mather  Crocker died  at Milford,
 9 March, 1852, aged 69.   He was a laAvyer by profession, and
practised successively in the towns of Douglass, Uxbridge, Fitch-
 burg, and Milford.
   1804.—Joseph E. Sprague died at Salem, 22 February,
 1852, aged  69.  He was the eldest son of Dr.  William Stearns,
 and was born in Salem, 9 September,  1782.  Soon  after he
graduated, he took the name of Sprague, to  which family  his
mother belonged.   He was a member of the Essex bar, and for
many years was an active politician  of  the  Jefferson  school.
Lnder  the  administration of Jefferson, he was  for a time  one
of  the Lnited-States marshals.   In October, 1811, he was  ap- 
1851-52.]            OF HARVARD COLLEGE.                  5

pointed clerk of the courts for Essex County, and continued in
the office about nine months.  In  1815, under the  presidency
of Madison,  he Avas appointed postmaster  of Salem, and re-
tained the  office  until the accession of  Gen. Jackson to the
presidency in 1829.   Previous to this time he had served several
vears as representative from  Salem in the General Court, as  a
senator from Essex, and as  an executive councillor.   In Sep-
tember, 1830, he Avas appointed high sheriff of the county,
succeeding  his father-in-law, Bailey Bartlett, AA'hose resignation
of the office in the month preceding had been accepted, to take
effect on the 14th of September.   On the 15th, Mr. Sprague's
nomination was unanimously confirmed by the Council; and he
remained in the office until his commission  expired,  about nine
months before his death, when another person was appointed in
his place.  Mr. Sprague died of apoplexy ;  and it may be men-
tioned  as a singular coincidence, that his  grandfather,  whose
name he assumed, died in the same way, in the same room, at
nearly the same age, in the same month, February, 1808.
   1804. —Dr. John Starr died at Xorthwood, N.H., 8 Sep-
tember, 1851, aged  67.  He was son of Dr. Ebenezer Starr, of
Dunstable,  N.H.,  where he was  born 3  December,  1783;
studied medicine with Dr. Matthias Spalding, of Amherst, N.H.,
and  commenced practice in  Peterborough, N.H., where he re-
mained three years, excepting a brief absence, during the war of
1812, as a surgeon of the Second Regiment of the New-Hamp-
shire Detached Militia, commanded by  Col.  John  Steele, of
Peterborough.   From Peterborough,  Dr.  Starr removed to
Xorthwood, where  he continued in practice thirty-eight years.
He was a gentleman of the old school.   His political principles
were of the Federal stamp.   He was constant at tOAvn-meeting,
casting his vote  for none but just  men, whether upon regular
tickets or  not.
   1805.—Ward  Chipman died  at St. John, N.B., 26 No-
vember, 1851, aged 65.   He was son of Hon. Ward Chipman,
 (H.C. 1770), and was born in St. John, N.B., 10 July, 1787.
He  was appointed  one of the justices of  the Supreme  Court
of Judicature, 17 March,  1825 ; and was elected to the office of 
6
NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI
[1851-52.
chief justice of the same tribunal, 29  September, 1834.   He
resigned January,  1851.
   1805.—Rev. John White died  at Dedham, 1 February,
1852, aged 64.  He was son of Deacon  John White, of Con-
cord ; and was born in that tOAvn, 2 December, 1787.  He was
ordained pastor of the Third Parish in Dedham, 20 April, 1814.
   1806.—Thomas Prince Beal died at Kingston, 16 July,
1852, aged 66 years  and 5  months.    He  was  a  native  of
Kingston, and was born 12 February, 1786.   He was formerly
a member  of the Senate of Massachusetts,  and  an eminent
counsellor-at-law.
   1808.—Benjamin Rand died in Boston, 26 April, 1852,
aged  67.   He was born  in Weston, 18  April, 1785, and was
one of the most distinguished members of the  Suffolk  bar.
   1810.—Rev.  Joseph  Haven died  at Amherst,  Mass.,
15 October, 1851, aged 65.   He was son of Noah  Haven, and
was born at Holden,  19  June,  1786;  ordained  at Dennis,
27 July,  1814;  dismissed 12  May,  1826, on  account of  his
health, and removed to Amherst to superintend the  collegiate
education of his son.  On the 8th of June, 1836, his  health
having been partially restored, he was  installed  pastor of the
Orthodox Church in Billerica, and continued in this service five
years ; at the close of which period, on account of returning and
increasing bodily infirmities, he felt constrained to relinquish the
labors of a settled minister for ever.
   1810. —Dr. John Manning died at Rockport, 7 February,
1852, aged 62 years and 6 months.  He  was born in Gloucester,
Mass., 12 October, 1789 ;  and was son  of the late Dr. Manning
of that town.
   1811. —Walter Baker, of Dorchester, died in Boston,
7 May  1852, aged 59.  He was son  of Dr. James  Baker,
(H.C. 1760), and was born in Dorchester, 28  June 1792  He
was well known as an extensive chocolate manufacturer, in which
business he acquired an ample fortune.

X V81!!;"^" J°HN BR0WN ^ at Lancaster, Erie County,
B™  f r     J' if'' ag6d °°-    He Was  son <>f Samuel
BroAvn of Concord,  Mass., where he  was born 10  January, 
1851-52.]            OP HARVARD COLLEGE.                  7

1792.  He studied medicine, but  relinquished the profession,
and settled as a merchant in the  vicinity of Buffalo, N.Y.
   1814. — Ephraim May  Cunningham died in Washington
City, 26  May, 1852, aged 60.   He Avas son of William Cun-
ningham, of Boston, and was born  in Fitchburg, Mass., 4 Feb-
ruary,  1792.    He was  a lawyer by profession,  and practised
successively in  Ashburnham, Lunenburg, and Sterling.   He
Avas aftenvards  an  officer in the Boston Custom House,  and
finally  Avas employed  as a clerk at Washington.    He  ob-
tained  considerable  notoriety by publishing, in the year  1823,
what is knoAvn  in  political circles as the  " Cunningham Corre-
spondence."
   1814. —Aaron Prescott died at Randolph, 24 November,
1851, aged 64.  He was son  of Deacon John  Prescott,  and
Avas born in Westford,  Mass.,  19  November, 1787; was pre-
ceptor  of Framingham  Academy, one year after he graduated;
then studied law, and settled  in Randolph, where he practised his
profession Avith  success during the remainder of  his life.  He
represented that tOAvn once or twice in the Legislature.
   1816. —Rev. William Ware died at Cambridge, 19 Feb-
ruary,  1852, aged 54.  He was  son of Rev. Henry Ware, D.D.
(H.C.  1785),  and was  born at Hingham, 3 August,  1797.
He Avas ordained pastor of the Unitarian Church in New York,
18 December, 1821; dismissed  19 September, 1836.  Installed
at West Cambridge, December,  1843; dismissed  1845.
   1819.—AValter Rogers  Johnson died in Washington
City, 26  April, 1852, aged 57.   His death was  occasioned by
inhaling  noxious gas while  performing  some chemical experi-
ments  in the laboratory of the Smithsonian Institute.  He  was
born in Leominster, Mass., 21 June, 1794 ;  was for many years
preceptor of an academy in Germantown, Penn. ;  afterwards
Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College at Philadelphia,
and subsequently of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington.
He was one of the persons employed by the city of Boston, pre-
vious to  the construction of  the water-works, to examine Long
and Spot Ponds, and ascertain  which was the best  source for
obtaining a supply  of water for the  city. 
8                 NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI           [1851-52.
    1822. —Joseph Green Cole died at Paris, Me., 12  No-
 vember, 1851, aged 52.  He  was son of Capt. Abraham Cole,
 of Lincoln, Mass., and was born in that town in  1799.  After
 studying law with Hon. Levi  Lincoln, of Worcester, he settled
 in Paris.  He successively held the offices of clerk of the House
 of Representatives, representative to the Legislature, register of
 probate, clerk of the courts, and judge of the Western District
 Court.
    1825.—Dr.  Augustus Sidney Doane  died at the quar-
 antine station, Staten  Island,  New-York Harbor, 27 January,
 1852, aged 44.   He Avas  son  of the  late Samuel B. Doane, of
 Boston;  Avas born 2 April, 1808 ; settled in New York as a
 medical practitioner, and for several years had been employed as
 the quarantine physician of that port.
    1827.—Rev. William Matticks Rogers died at Dorches-
 ter, 11 August, 1851, aged 45.   He was born on the Island of
 Alderney, England,  10  September,  1806;  was  ordained at
 ToAvnsend, 16 February,  1831 ; dismissed  2  July, 1835.   In-
 stalled pastor of the Winter-street Church, Boston, 6 August,
 1835.  His original name was Samuel Matticks Ellen Kittle.
   1828.—William Sawyer was instantly killed  on  the
 Fitchburg Railroad  in West   Cambridge,  near the Waverly
 Depot, 24 May, 1852.   He  was 45 years of age.  He  had
 been a practising lawyer in Charlestown ; but, a short time pre-
 vious to his death, had removed to Waltham.
   1830. —Franklin Sawyer died at Cambridgeport, 18 No-
 vember, 1851, aged 51.   He was born in Cambridge, 18 June,
 1810.  He was a lawyer by profession, but for several years was
 connected with  the  newspaper press.  He was  for a time edi-
 tor of the "Crescent" in New Orleans ; and, for about two years
 previous to his death, was  one  of the editors of the " Watchman
 and Reflector," in Boston.   He  was representative of Cam-
bridge to the Legislature in 1851; and, at the time of his decease,
was a member of the Common Council of the city of Cam-
 bridge.                                         J

ISlT^i'111"?  SMIIH  CKlTT died in  Pari8' Fran«>>
16 July,  1851, aged  36.   He was  son of Edward Cruft, of 
1851-52.]            OF HARVARD COLLEGE.                  9

Boston ;  was born 17 February, 1815 ; and was a merchant in
NeAv York, of the firm of Newbold and Craft.
   1845. — George Washington Brown died at Charles-
town, 7  December, 1851,  aged 29.   He  was  a native of
Charlestown;  born  12 May, 1822, and had established himself
as a lawyer in Boston.
   1845. — Dr.  Paul Leavis  Nichols  died at  Kingston,
28 April, 1852, aged 29.   He Avas  a  native of Kingston;  was
born 24 May,  1823, and had settled as a physician in Roxbury.
   1846.—John Adams  Hastings died  at Erie,  Penn.,  16
October,  1851, aged 27.  He was son of Jonathan Hastings, of
Brighton ; and was  born in that town,  16 July,  1824.  He was
preceptor of an acidemy in Erie at the time of his death.
   1847. — George Edward Waters died at Henrietta, N.Y.,
23 July,  1851, aged 23 ;  born in Boston, 17 September,  1828.
His death was occasioned by his being thrown from a carriage.
He Avas son of the late Isaac Waters, of Boston.
   1851. —Arnold Welles  Brown Avas  killed on the Boston
and Worcester Railroad, at Newton Lower Falls, 21  January,
1852, aged 25.  He Avas son of Dr.  John Ball Brown, and was
born in Boston, 19  January,  1827.   He was very desirous of
having a collegiate  education,  and  entered the Boston  Latin
School for the purpose of  pursuing  his preparatory studies.
But, Avhile in the school, his father lost all his property by a fire
which destroyed a large laundry and two dwelling-houses belong-
ing to him.   His  hopes  of going to college were therefore
destroyed, and he was placed in a wholesale dry-goods store in
Boston, where he remained a few months,  when the firm was
dissolved, and he was throAvn out of employment. He was after-
wards put into a dry-goods store in Dover, N.H., where  he
remained but a short time.   Being still desirous  of going: to col-
lege, he went to Avork on a farm, hoping to earn money enough to
get a liberal education; but, as he was unacquainted with farming,
his father determined to send him to sea as the best way to earn
money to pay  his  collegiate expenses.   He went to  New Bed-
ford, and was  shipped on board  a whaling vessel, and made  a
long voyage.   After his return,  he entered college ; and, Avith the
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money he made in his whaling voyage, he succeeded  in  going
through college.  After graduating, he made a tour as colporter;
and in the fall of 1851 he entered  the Theological Seminary at
Andover, where he remained until the following January; when,
about three o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st, as he was pass-
in"1 along the viaduct on the railroad at Newton Lower  Falls, he
AAras caught  betAveen the cars and the railing of the bridge, and
throAvn from the latter  by the  passing train, which struck him
doAvn, and instantly deprived him of life. 
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   1787. —Hon. Samuel Putnam, of Boston, died at Somer-
ville, 3 July, 1853, aged 85.  He was son of Gideon Putnam,
and Avas born at Danvers, 13 April, 1768 ; commenced the prac-
tice of law in Salem about the year 1790 ; was senator for Essex
in 1808 and 1809,  representative from Salem in 1812, and
again senator  in  1813  and  1814.   On  the  death  of  Chief
Justice  SeAvall,  in  1814, he was appointed, by Gov.  Strong,
Judge  of the Supreme Court.
   1790. —Rev. Micah Stone  died in Brookfield, 20 Septem-
ber, 1852, aged  82.  He was son of Rev. Eliab Stone, of Read-
ing (H.C. 1758), and AA'as born in that tOAvn, 22 September,
1770 ;  ordained pastor of the Second Church in Brookfield,
11 March, 1801.
   1791. —Ezekiel Hersey Derby died in Salem, 31  Octo-
ber, 1852, aged 80.'  He Avas  son of Hasket Derby, of Salem,
where he A\as born 1 November,  1772  ; Avas early in life a mer-
chant,  but for the  last thirty-five years was a conspicuous and
active agriculturist.
   1793.—Rev. Charles Coffin, D.D., died in Greenville,
Tenn., 3 June,  1853,  aged 77.  He was born in Newburyport,
15 August, 1775, and was successively president of Greenville
and Knoxville Colleges in Tennessee.
   1793.—Dr.  Charles  Williams Winship died  in Rox-
bury, 27 August, 1852, aged 78.  He Avas son of Dr.  Amos
Winship (H.C.  1771), and Avas born in Boston, 22 June,  1774,
and Avas considered a skilful  physician.  He practised succes-
sively in the Avestern country,  in Havana, Cuba, in Boston and
Roxbury.
   1794.—Hon.  Charles  Humphrey  Atherton died  in
Amherst, N.H., 8  January, 1853, aged 79.   He was son of 
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Hon. Joshua Atherton (H.C 1762), and was born in Amherst,
14 Au"-u<t  1773 ; read law with his father, and with Hon.  \\ il-
liam G°ordon, of Amherst (H.C.  1779) ;  was admitted to the
bar, and opened an office in Amherst in 1797 ;  appointed register
of probate  for Hillsborough County in 1798 ;  representative
to Congress  from  1815 to 1817 ; represented his native town
in the°State Legislature in 1823, 1838,  and 1839.
   1794.__Rev.  David Kendall  died  in  Augusta, Oneida
County, N.Y., 19 February, 1853, aged 85.   He was  born in
Athol, Mass., 20 March, 1768; ordained  at  Hubbardston,  20
October, 1802; dismissed April, 1809, and removed to Augusta,
N.Y., where he was installed over the Congregational Society in
that tOAvn, and where he spent the remainder of his  life.  For
several years before his death, he was unable to perform his cleri-
cal duties, on account of a paralytic affection.
    1795. — Capt.  Josiah  Bartlett  died  in  Newburyport,
24 February, 1853, aged 77.   He was a native of Newbury-
port, and was born 15 September, 1775.  After leaving college,
he Avent to sea several years as supercargo, and subsequently as
master.  During the war of 1812, he sailed from Bourdeaux as
commander  and principal owner  of  the ship "Volant," with a
very valuable cargo, bound for Boston.  When  he had nearly
reached his  port of destination, he was captured by a  British
cruiser, and carried to  Halifax, and subsequently to England.
He resided in England and France till the close of the war, when
he returned to NeAvburyport, and  resided there the remainder of
his life,  employed principally as  a teacher, particularly of  the
French language, of which he had acquired a knowledge during
his residence in Europe.
    1795.—Thomas Be ale Wales died in Boston, 15 June,
1853, aged  77.   He Avas son of Dr. Ephraim Wales, of Ran-
dolph (H.C. 1768), Avhere he Avas born 1 January, 1776.   He
was a highly respected and eminently successful merchant in
Boston.
    1796. —George Wingate  died  in  Stratham, N.H.,  12
September,  1852, aged 75.  He  was son of Hon. Paine  Win-
gate (H.C.  1759),  and was born in Stratham,  14 May, 1778. 
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He did  not study a profession,  but devoted  himself to agri-
culture.
   1798.—Nathaniel Lord died in IpsAvich, 16  October,
1852, aged 72.  He was son of Isaac Lord, of Ipswich, where
he was born 25 September, 1780.  For several years after leav-
ing college, he was employed as a teacher.  He was subsequently
associated Avith the  late Daniel Noyes,  register of  probate;
upon  Avhose -decease he was appointed his  successor by Gov.
Strong,  in May, 1815, and held the office till he was removed
by Gov. Boutwell in June,  1851.
   1799.—Daniel Adams  died  in  Medfield,  2  September,
1852, aged 73.  He AATas son of Rev. Daniel Adams, of Water-
toAvn  (H.C. 1774), where he was born 26 March, 1779.   He
fitted for college  with Rev. Dr. Prentiss, of Medfield (H.C.
1766).   On leaving college, he was appointed preceptor of Bris-
tol Academy, AAdiere he continued one year;  after which he
studied  divinity a  year Avith Rev.  Dr. Bancroft of Worcester
(H.C.  1778), when his fondness for the law led  him to  the
office of Benjamin Whitman, Esq.  of Hanover, Mass., where
he completed his studies.  He then opened an office in Medfield,
AA'here he settled.   He  also had for  a time  an  office  in  Hop-
kinton.   With the exception of having once represented Med-
field in the  Legislature, he was neA'er in public life.
   1801. —William Bartlett died in Newburyport, 28 De-
cember, 1852, aged 70.   He Avas  son of William  Bartlett, of
NeAvburyport, Avhere he was born 23 July,  1782, and was  a
merchant in his native place.
   1802. —Isaac Gates died in Harvard, 9 November, 1852,
aged 74 ; found dead in his bed.   He was born  (supposed) in
Charlestown, 7 May, 1777 ; Avas a lawyer successively in Con-
cord,  N.H., Brunswick, Me., Lynn, Mass., and Harvard.
   1802. —Henry Gardner Rice died in Boston, 26 March,
1853, aged 69.  He was son  of Dr. Tilly Rice, of Brookfield,
Avhere he was born  18 February,  1784; was a merchant in
Boston.
   1803.—John  Farrar died in  Cambridge, 8 May, 1853,
aged  73.   He was son of Deacon Samuel Farrar, of Lincoln, 
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and was born 1 July, 1779.  He Avas appointed tutor in Creek
in 1N05 ; and, in 1807, was chosen Hollis Professor  of Mathe-
matics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College ; whicli latter
office he held till June, 1831, when he resigned on account of ill
health.
   1804.—Rev.  Oliver Brown died  at Haddam, Conn.,
while  on a journey from  Lyme to MiddletoAvn, 9  February,
1853,  aged  76.   He was  born  in Charlestown, 13 January,
1777;  Avas for some years chaplain of the  State Prison;  A\ras
installed at  Kingston,  R.I., 19  December,  1821,  dismissed
April,  1835 ;  moved to Bozrahville,  Conn. ;  Avas  afterwards
settled as pastor of the  Congregational Society at Grass  Hill,
Lyme,  Conn.
   1804. — Seth Low died  in  Brooklyn, N.Y.,   19 June,
1853,  aged 71 years and 10 months.  He  Avas born in the
West Parish of Gloucester, Mass., 19 March, 1782; moved
to Brooklyn about the year 1827, where he  resided during the
remainder of his life, and Avas one of the most influential and
useful citizens of that community.  He was a prominent  mer-
chant in New York;  and his prosperity furnished him with the
ability to give AArhen needed, and his ripe judgment always made
his donations discreet.  At the time of his death, he was presi-
dent of the Board  of Supervisors, and  also of the Association
for the Relief of the Poor.
   1806. — John Boies Thomas died in Plymouth,  2 Decem-
ber, 1852, aged  65.  He Avas  born in Plymouth, Mass.,  28
July, 1787.  He commenced and pursued  the practice of laAv
in Plymouth till he  received the  appointment of clerk of the
judicial courts for Plymouth County; which office he held for a
period of about thirty-eight years, Avhen he resigned on account
of ill health.  He filled numerous municipal offices  for many
years ; was seA-enteen years president of the Old-Colony Bank ;
Avas a member of the Convention to  revise the Constitution
in 1820;  and was elector of President and Vice-President in
1840.
    1806. — Dr. Timothy Wellington died in West  Cam-
bridge, 6  May,  1853, aged  71.  He was son of Timothy 
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Wellington, of Lexington ; where he Avas born 8 October, 1781.
After completing his  professional studies, he settled in West
Cambridge as a physician, AAdiere he resided till his death, always
engaged in  the active  and arduous  duties of an extensive and
successful practice.
   1807. — Abiel Jaques  died in  Worcester, 7  October,
1852, aged  72.   He was son of Samuel Jaques, and was  born
in Worcester,  7  March,  1780.   He  was  teacher in Salem,
Watertown, NeAvton, Brooklyn (Conn.), Palmyra (N.Y.), and
Uxbridge (Mass.) ; then settled, as  a farmer, in Worcester.
   1807.—Rev.  Francis Parkman  died in Boston, 12  No-
vember, 1852, aged 64.  He was son of Samuel Parkman, and
was born in Boston, 4 June, 1778 ;  ordained at the New North
Church in Boston,  8 December, 1813 ; resigned 1 February,
1849.
   1808.—Henry Codman died in Roxbury,  4 May, 1853,
aged 63.  He was a laAvyer in Boston ; he was born in Port-
land,  1  October, 1789.
   1808. —John Faraatell died in  Tyngsborough, 19 Novem*
ber, 1852, aged 66.  He Avas born in  Tyngsborough, 2 Octo-
ber, 1785.  He studied law with Hon. Asahel  Stearns (H.C.
1797) ; settled  as a lawyer in  Tyngsborough,  and  became a
member of  the Middlesex  bar.  He succeeded  to his father's
landed estate in Tyngsborough, and the greater  part of his life
was successfully devoted to agricultural pursuits.
   1809.—Major David S. Townsend died in Boston, 28
January, 1853, aged 62.  He was  son of Dr.  David Towns-
end (H.C.  1770),  and was born in Boston, 19 April, 1790.
Soon after he graduated, he entered a merchant's counting-room,
where he continued till the commencement of the war of 1812,
when  he entered  the  army as lieutenant and adjutant in the
ninth  regiment  of infantry, commanded by Col. Tuttle.   Du-
ring a skirmish on the banks of the St. Lawrence, he received
a Avound, from a musket-ball, through the leg, below the knee ;
in consequence of which, his leg was  amputated.  Soon  after
the close of the Avar, he received the appointment of paymaster,
which office he held till his death. 
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   1810. — Dr. Benjamin Dixon  Bartlett died in  Cam-
bridge, 7 February,  1853,  aged 63.   He Avas son of Samuel
Bartlett, of Concord; and Avas born 17 September, 1789 ; com-
menced practice as a physician in that town in 1813 ; removed
to Bath, Me., in 1816, and subsequently to Cambridge.
   1811. — Henry  Holton Fuller, of Boston, died at Con-
cord,  15 September, 1852, aged  62.   He  Avas son of Rev.
Timothy Fuller, of Princeton (H.C. 1760), where he was born
1 July, 1790.   He Avas a distinguished lawyer in Boston.
   1812. — Dr. Abel Laavrence Peirson, of Salem, Avas
killed on the New-York and NeAv-Haven Railroad, at Norwalk,
Conn., 6 May, 1853, on his return from'NeAv York, where he
had been  to attend  a medical convention.   He was son  of
Samuel Peirson, of Biddeford, Me., Avhere he was born 25 No-
vember, 1794; commenced practice as  a physician in Maine;
removed to Salem in 1819,  and has been  for many years con-
sidered one of the most eminent of the profession  in Essex
County.
   1813.—Dr.  Charles Augustus Cheever, of Portsmouth,
N.H., died in  Saugus,  22 September, 1852,  aged 58.  He
Avas born in Lynn, 1 December, 1793 ;  was for many years  a
highly respectable physician in Portsmouth;  came  to Boston
some  months before his death on account of ill health, and
entered the Massachusetts  General  Hospital  to be  under  the
charge of the physicians of that  establishment;  but after re-
maining some time, his  disease being considered incurable, he
left, and Avent to Saugus, where he owned an estate, and died
soon after he arrived there.
   1814.—Dr. Nathaniel Brewer, of Boston, died in Pep-
perell, 17  May,  1853, aged  57.   He was born in Northfield,
Mass., 23 July,  1795; and  was a druggist of the firm of
Brewers,  Stevens, and  Cushing,  of Boston.
   1814.—Arthur Middleton, of South  Carolina, died in
Naples, Italy, 9 June, 1853, aged 57.  He was son of Hon.
Henry Middleton, who was for many years American minister
at St. Petersburg, and grandson of Hon.  Arthur Middleton,
one of the signers of the Declaration  of Independence.   He 
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was  born in South Carolina, 28 October, 1795 ; Avas, for eight
years, secretary to the American Legation in Spain;  married
the Countess Benivoglio, of Rome, who survives him, with tAvo
children.  He had resided in Naples with his family for three
years previous to his death.
   1815—John Dall died in Boston, 7 August, 1852, aged
56.  He was son of William  Dall, and  was born in Boston,
22 February,  1797 ; was for many years  teller, first in  the
New-England, and afterwards in the State Bank.   He became
insane  some years before his  death, and was for a considerable
time in the  McLean Asylum at Somerville.
   1815.—John Sprague Whitavell  died at College Hill,
Cincinnati, 30  January, 1853,  aged 57.   He  Avas born  in
BrunsAvick, Me., 17 September, 1795 ; was for a time a teacher ;
afterwards  a merchant;  and  at the ,tinie  of his  death was
Professor of  Ancient  and Modern  Languages,  and  Belles
Lettres,  in Farmer's College,  Cincinnati.
   1816.—Dr.  George Baker died in Chelsea,  25 Decem-
ber,  1852, aged 56.   He was  son  of Eliphalet  Baker,  of
Dedham, where he was born 9 July, 1796 ;  was a physician in
Lancaster, next  a druggist in Cambridge, afterwards resumed
his profession  in Chelsea.
   1817. —Richard Farwell  died in Marlborough, 20 Feb-
ruary,  1853, aged 63.  He was  born  at  Fitchburg,  23  July,
1789,  but  removed  with the  family,  when  quite  young,  to
Harvard.   He  studied law,  was admitted to the  bar, and
went to the West,—believed to  Dubuque, Iowa; but  subse-
quently returned  to  Massachusetts,  and established  himself at
Marlborough, Avhere  he resided the remainder of his life.
   1818.—Dr.  Ralph  Emms Elliott, of South  Carolina,
died  in New York, 5 June,  1853, aged 55.  He Avas born  in
Beaufort,  S.C.,  15  July, 1797; studied medicine with Dr.
Hosack,  of  New York, but did  not  practise his profession.
He Avas  an  extensive  planter  in  South Carolina, but resided
during  the winter seasons in  Savannah, Ga.
   1819. —Hon. Alfred Dwight Foster died in Worcester,
10 August,  1852, aged 52.   He was son  of Hon. Dwight
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Foster,  of Brookfield  (B.U.  1774), where  he Avas  born 26
July, 1800 ; settled as a lawyer in Worcester ; Avas representa-
tive, senator, and councillor in the state legislature.
   1820. —Rev. William Gragg died in Groton, 19 Novem-
ber,  1852,  aged  66.    He  was son of Thomas  Gragg,  of
Groton, where he was born  17 September, 1786 ; ordained at
Windham, Me., 15 October,  1828 ; after a few years was dis-
missed,  and removed to Carlisle, Mass.,  thence to Bedford, and
finally returned  to his native  place,  Groton, where  he  passed
the remainder of his life.  His wife died 29 November,  having
survived him but ten  days.
   1820.—Hon. Charles Paine, of Northfield, Vt., died  in
the village of Waco, Texas, 6 July, 1853, aged 54.  He had
gone to that part of the country for the purpose of exploring  a
southern route  for the proposed Pacific Railroad; and  it was
Avhile in Texas  that he  contracted the  disease common to the
climate, Avhich  caused  his death.  He Avas son of Hon. Elijah
Paine, of Williamstown,  Yt.  (H.C. 1781), Avhere he was born
15 April, 1799.  After leaving college, he went to  Northfield
to take  charge of his father's  factory in that tOAvn.  He became
a manufacturer from necessity, and continued the business  until
the burning of his factory in March, 1848, — a period of nearly
tAventy-five years.   By his influence and energy, the  charter of
the  Vermont Central Railroad was obtained, and he was the
first president of that corporation.   The Vermont and Canada
Railroad, the Champlain and  St. Lawrence Railroad, and the
Ogdensburg Railroad, were  largely  indebted  to him for  their
construction.   In the year  1841, he was elected governor of
Vermont; Avhich office he held two  years, when he declined
being a candidate for re-election.
    1821.—Henry Bulfinch died  at Nahant, 28 January,
 1853, aged 55.   He was born in Lynn, 6 June, 1797 ;  studied
 divinity, and preached occasionally,  but, most of his time, wras
 engaged as a teacher.
    1824. —John Thomas Philip Dumont  died in  Hallowell,
 Me., 6 October,  1852,  aged 50.  He was  a lawyer in Hal-
 loAvell, and  an ardent politician of  the whig school. 
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   1824. —John Greenough died in Paris, France, 16 No-
vember, 1852, aged 51.   He was son of David Greenough, and
was born in Boston, 19 November, 1801; was an artist by pro-
fession.
   1825.—Horatio  Greenough died at the McLean Asy-
lum, Somerville, 18 December, 1852, aged 47.   He was son of
David Greenough, and was born in Boston, 6 September, 1805.
He was an eminent  sculptor, and resided many years in Italy,
pursuing his profession there with great success.
   1825.—Hiram  Manley died in St. Mark's, Fla., 9  July,
1853,  aged 51.  He was son of David Manley, and was born
in Easton, Mass., 11 June, 1802.  He settled  as  a lawyer  in
Tallahassee, where he  resided about ten years, when he removed
to St.  Mark's.  At  the time of his death, he was judge of one
of the courts in Florida.
   1825. — Sears  Cook Walker died  at the house of his
brother,  Judge Timothy Walker,  in Cincinnati, 30  January,
1853, aged  47.   He Avas  born  in Wilmington, Mass.,  28
March, 1805 ; taught a private school  in  Philadelphia several
years; was for a considerable period actuary of the Pennsylvania
Life-insurance Company ;  a short time attached to the National
Observatory; and, for several years preceding his death, one of
the assistants of the  Coast Survey.  He  was  a distinguished
member of the American Academy, and one of the most emi-
nent mathematicians and astronomers in the country.
   1826. — Robert Rantoul, Jun., died in Washington, D.C,
7 August, 1852, aged 47.   He was son of Robert Rantoul, and
was born  in Beverly,  13 August, 1805 ; admitted to the bar  in
1828 ; in 1833 became a resident of Gloucester, which town  he
represented in the state legislature  several  years.  In 1843  he
was appointed collector of Boston ;  but his appointment was not
confirmed by the Senate, and he held the  office  but one year.
In 1845 be was appointed United-States attorney for Suffolk
District, which office he held till 1849.  In 1851 he was chosen
United-States senator, to fill, for a few days only, the unexpired
term of Mr. Webster; and, the same year, was chosen represen-
tative in Congress from Essex District, which office he held  at
the time of his death. 
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   1828.—Thomas Philander Ryder  died in the Lunatic
Hospital, at South Boston, 21 November, 1852, aged 47.  He
was  son  of Thomas Ryder, and was  born in Hallo well, Me.,
19 August, 1806.   He taught school in Dedham for some time ;
Avas afterwards a temperance lecturer, and for several years Avas
a constable in Boston.
   1829. — Ezra Weston died in Duxbury, 6  September,
1852, ao-ed 43.   He was son of Ezra Weston, and Avas born in
Duxbury, 23 December,  1809.   He was a lawyer in Boston,
and  for a few years held the office of city-marshal.
   1830.—Isaac Appleton Jeavett  died in Keene, N.H.,
14 January, 1853, aged 44.   He was born in  Burlington, Vt. ;
settled as a lawyer, first  in Cincinnati, and aftenvards in NeAv
Orleans.  For several years latterly, he resided principally at the
North, and Avas  engaged in other business.   He had  travelled
extensively, and  published two volumes entitled " Passages in
Foreign Travel.''  He  also wrote a series of letters from the
West Indies, which Avere published in the " Christian Register "
about three years before his death.
   1831.—Henry Frederick Friese died  in Baltimore
County, Md., about seven miles from the city, 24  May, 1853,
aged 42.   He was son  of Philip  R. J. and Julia G. Friese,
of Baltimore, where he  Avas born 16 November, 1810.  He
Avas  fitted for college at  the Round-Hill School  at Northamp-
ton, Mass., under the charge of Messrs.  Joseph G. Cogswell
and  George Bancroft.   By profession he Avas  a lawyer, and
practised  in his  native city,  where for  a  time  he held a jus-
tice's commission.
   1831. — Frederick  Furber died at the Lunatic Hospital,
 South Boston, 1 July,  1853, aged  42.   He was son of Thomas
 Furber and Elizabeth Green (Foster) Furber, of Boston; and
 Avas born  22 January,  1811.   He Avas  distinguished for his
 mathematical attainments ;  and, after graduating, qualified him-
 self for  the profession of a ciAdl engineer.   He was insane
 for  tAventy years; the last thirteen  of Avhich he passed at  South
 Boston, Avhere he latterly beguiled the  tedium of confinement
 by  draughting plans for similar institutions. 
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   1832.—William Prescott Gibbs died in Lexington, 27
July, 1852, aged 39.   He committed suicide by droAvning him-
self in a pond  near his house.  He was the eldest son of William
Gibbs, of Salem ; where he Avas born 5 August, 1812.  He was
a lawyer by profession.
   1833.—Rev. Joseph Harrington died in San Francisco,
2 November,  1852, aged 39.  He was son of Joseph Harring-
ton, of Roxbury (Y.C. 1803), and was born 21 February, 1813;
ordained  in Boston as an evangelist, 27 September, 1840; in-
stalled at Hartford, Conn., 23 April, 1846 ; was dismissed ; went
to San Francisco to take charge of the Unitarian society in that
place, and died of fever a few weeks after his arrival there.
   1835.—Allen  Crocker Spooner  died in  Boston, 28
June, 1853, aged 39.  He was born in Plymouth, 9 March,
1814 ; was a lawyer in Boston.
   1835. —John Hunt Welch died in Dorchester, 9 Septem-
ber, 1852.   He  Avas  son of John Welch, and was born in Pen-
nington,  N.J.,  17  November,  1814.  He studied law, but
left the profession; went into mercantile  business, and was for
a time of the  firm of  Heard and Welch in  Boston.
   1836. —Daniel  Cook died at East Boston, 1 June, 1853,
aged 35.  He was son of Nathan Cook, and was born in Salem,
4 January, 1815.  After graduating, he went to the South, and
kept school several years in Mississippi and vicinity.  For the
last  ten years, or thereabouts, of his  life,  he resided mostly in
Salem, and subsequently in East Boston, as a machinist.
   1837.—Manlius Stimson Clark died in Boston, 28 April,
1853, aged 36.   He Avas son of Rev. Pitt Clark, of Norton
(H.C. 1790), Avhere he Avas born 17 October, 1816;  was a
highly respected lawyer in Boston.
   1837.—William  Davis, of  Plymouth, died in Boston,
19 February, 1853, aged 34.  He was son of Nathaniel Mor-
ton Davis (H.C. 1804), and Avas  born in Plymouth, 12 May,
1818 ; was a lawyer in Plymouth, and, at  the time of his death,
vice-president of the Pilgrim Society.
   1843.—Francis Whitney Bigelow died in San Francisco,
11 July, 1853,  aged 29.  He was son of Tyler Bigelow of 
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Watertown (H.C.  1801), where  he  was born 4 June,  1824.
He was a lawyer by profession.
   (1843. —Washington Very died in Salem, 28 April, 1853,
aged 37.   He was son of Jones Very, of Salem,  and was born
in that place, 12 November, 1815.  For some time before  he
entered college, he was a clerk in one  of the Salem  banks.
After he  graduated, he  studied  divinity at the Theological
School in Cambridge.  He preached one year, and subsequently
was teacher of  a private school in  Salem.
   1844. —Francis Willard Sayles wras killed on the New-
York and  New-Haven Railroad, at Norwalk, 6 May, 1853, as
he was on his return from a journey to the South.   He was son
of Willard Sayles,  and was born in Boston, 30  September,
1823.  Was a  merchant, of the firm of Sayles, Merriam, and
Brewer, in Boston.
   1846.—James  Morris died at  Staten Island,  N.Y.,
28 January, 1853,  aged 27.  He  was born in the city of New
York, 19  March, 1825 ;  and was, by  profession,  a civil en-
gineer.
   1847.—Dr. James Bemis Adams died of yellow fever at
Curacoa, West  Indies, 16 January, 1853, aged 28.  He was
son of William Henry Adams, and was born at Lyons, Wayne
County, N.Y.,  12  January, 1825.  He studied medicine, and
received the degree of M.D. at the New-York Medical School
in 1851.
   1847.—Mark Sibley  Adams  died in San  Francisco,
19 February, 1853, aged 25.  He was son of William Henry
Adams, and was born at Lyons, Wayne County, N.Y., 10 April,
1827.
   1849.—James  Pierce, of Brookline, died at sea of con-
sumption, 29 May, 1853, on board ship "Parliament," on the
passage from Liverpool to  Boston.    He was  son of James
Pierce, and was born in Dorchester, 20 NoATember, 1825.
   1849.—Augustus Warren Whipple was scalded to death,
4 September, 1852, at Saugerties, N.Y., on  board the steam-
boat " Reindeer," in consequence of the  bursting  of the boiler.
He had just completed his studies at the Theological School at
Cambridge. 
1852-53.]
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   1852. — Alfred  Wellington  Cooke  died  at  Weston,
Mass., 3 August,  1852, aged  22 years.   He was the  son of
Josiah Wellington and Sarah (Hancock)  Cooke, and was born
in Cambridge, Mass.,  25 August, 1830.   He began his prepa-
ratory course for college at the Cambridge High School, where
he remained till the last two years, which he spent at the classi-
cal school  of  Edmund Burke Whitman  (H.C.  1838), in the
same city.  During his last school  Aacation, before entering
college, he suffered an attack of bleeding at the  lungs, from
which, in  a few  days, he appeared to  entirely recover;  but
though after that his health seemed to be good till the  last year
of his college-life, yet  the  seeds of disease were  probably lurk-
ing in his system,  and  he  gradually sank  under confirmed pul-
monary consumption.   By class-day he had become  so ill, that
he was unable to take part in its  exercises.  During his whole
college-course, he was an earnest, faithful student, and performed
his scholastic duties Avith untiring perseverance.   In spite of his
failing health, he continued to labor, till,  from bodily weakness,
he could no longer attend  the  recitations.  Never  was a more
worthy example of scholarly devotion shown than was displayed
by him in feebly going  to and from his college-exercises, after all
could see that the  hand of death was already upon him.   His
energy, though quiet, was  indomitable; and,  if a resolute  will
could  ever avert  the  approach of mortality,  his  would have
done so.
   From his earliest years, he was impressed with the need of
a religious life ;  and, at the age of twelve, he  made a profession
of his faith, and united with the First Baptist Church of Cam-
bridge  (of which Rev. Joseph  White  Parker was  then  the
pastor), 24 March, 1842.  When very  young, he had displayed
great  talents  for  music and  painting.   He  played with much
ability upon the piano and the organ ; and his first and untaught
efforts with the pencil showed a  hand  by no means unskilful.
He  was extremely persevering,  and never  idle.   When  not
engaged upon his  college-studies,  he was  always busy with his
brush or pencil, or playing upon some  instrument of  music.
Careful in  his choice of friends, and  invariably preferring merit 
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to numbers, he Avas faithfully devoted  to those he had.  They
Avho kneAv him best thought most highly of him, and Avarmly
appreciated both his talents and his unassuming virtues.  It was
ever his earnest desire to visit Italy, for  the purpose of perfecting
himself in the  arts he loved so well.   He Avould often  exclaim,
Avith true  artistic  fervor,  "I shall certainly  see Italy  before I
die ! "  but Providence had ordained that he should look upon a
fairer land than that.
    Only a feAv days before his death, he received an appointment,
at a liberal salary, as teacher of  music  in a Southern academy.
He had applied for this in the hope that rest from  mental exer-
tion and a year's residence in a  warmer  climate  might restore
his  failing health ;  but, Avhen the letter announcing his engage-
ment reached  him, he  Avas too  Aveak to ansAver it.  Reserved
and gentle in  his  manners, eArer  fearful of obtruding himself
upon the society of others, cordial  and kind toAvards all, his
short life floAved on peacefully into  the ocean of eternity.  With
his  promising  talents  and  abundant  sources of enjoyment,
he had much to live for; and it is matter for  deep sorroAv, that
a youth  so bright Avas so early  clouded  by the  approach of
death. 
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                        1853-54.


   1784. —Thomas Greenleaf died in Quincy, 5 January,
•1854, aged 86.  He was son of John Greenleaf, and was born
in Boston, 15 May, 1767.  He was for many years an  apothe-
cary in Boston :  his shop was No. 62, Cornhill, now Washing-
ton Street.
   1786.—Rev. Ebenezer Hill died in Mason,  N.H., 27
May, 1854, aged  88.   He was  son  of Samuel Hill, and Avas
born in Cambridge, 29 January, 1766 ; was ordained at Mason,
3 November, 1796.
   1787. —Dr.  Nathaniel Shepherd Prentiss died in West
Cambridge,  5 November,  1853, aged  87.    He was  son of
Nathaniel Prentiss,  saddler, of  Cambridge, and his wife  Mercy
(Pierce), and was  born in the old tavern building near Porter's
hotel, in Cambridge, 7  August,  1766.   He studied medicine
with Dr. Israel Atherton, of Lancaster (H.C. 1762) ; and
settled in Marlborough, where he remained  tAvelve or thirteen
years.   He then removed to Roxbury, AAThere he had  charge of
the Latin School eight years, and fitted many distinguished men
for college; he  also practised  medicine  in  Roxbury, and was
town-clerk over  thirty years.  On leaving  Roxbury, in 1850,
he presented to the Roxbury Athenaeum a set of valuable books.
For the last few years of his life, he resided with his son-in-law,
the Rev.  Mr. Banvard, in West Cambridge.
   1789.—Rev. Aaron Green died in South Andover,  23
December, 1853, aged 89. He  Avas born in Maiden, 2 January,
1765 ; Avas ordained as pastor of  the First Church in his native
toAvn, 30 September, 1795 ; resigned 8 August, 1827, and soon
afterwards removed to Andover, where he passed the remainder
of his days.
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   1789.—Hon.  Naiium Mitchell, of  East BridgCAvater,
died suddenly in Plymouth,  1 August, 1853,  aged 84.  He
was son of Cushing Mitchell, and Avas born  in Bridgewater, 12
February,  1769.  He was a lawyer  by profession;  Avas for
many years chief justice  of the Old County Circuit Court of
Plymouth; Avas representative in Congress at a most important
period of our history ; was representative and councillor in our
state legislature;  was for several years  librarian of the Massa-
chusetts Historical Society; and published a valuable history of
his native town.
   1790.—Hon. Samuel Chandler  Crafts  died in Crafts-
bury, Vt.,  19  November, 1853,  aged  85.   He Avas son of
Col. Ebenezer  Crafts (Y.C. 1759), and was  born in Wood-
stock, Conn., 6 October, 1768, Avhere  his father  then  resided;
but the family  soon after  removed to  Sturbridge, Mass., and
Samuel  C.  was fitted for college  at  Leicester  Academy,  of
Avhich his father was one of the principal founders and  patrons.
Soon after leaving college, he moved with the family to Crafts-
bury, where his father died in 1810, and where  he ever after
resided.  In 1792, he was appointed clerk of the town;  which
office he held, by yearly re-elections, for thirty-seven successive
years.  In 1796, he Avas chosen member of the legislature; and,
the tAvo folloAving years, was elected clerk of the same.  He was
again elected to the legislature in 1800, 1801, 1803, and 1805.
From 1800 to 1810, he held  the office  of first assistant judge
of the County Circuit Court;  and, after that time to 1816, was
chief  judge.   In  1816,  he  was  elected  a representative in
Congress, and  was continued a member for  eight years.  In
1828, he was chosen  governor of the state, and was re-elected
in 1829 and 1830.   In 1842, he Avas appointed, by the execu-
tive of the state, to a seat in the Senate of the  United States,
in place of Judge Prentiss, Avho had resigned;  and, at the fol-
loAving meeting  of  the  legislature,  he was  chosen for the  re-
mainder of the period for which Judge Prentiss had been elected.
From that time  to  his death, he retained no important  public
office,  exept that of justice of the peace for the town.
    1796. —Francis Dana died in Cambridgeport, 28 Decern- 
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27
ber,  1853,  aged 76.   He was  son of Hon. Francis Dana
(H.C. 1762),  and was  born  in  Cambridge,  14  May,  1777.
He was a merchant by profession ; and he passed seA^eral years,
after he entered into business, in Russia, Germany, India, South
America, and the western regions  of our own country.  In the
latter part  of his life,  he represented his native  tOAvn  in the
state legislature.
   1797.—Hon. Daniel Abbot died in Nashua,  N. H.,  3
December,  1853, aged  76.   He Avas son of Timothy Abbot of
Andover, and was born in that town, 25 February, 1777.  He
studied  law with Parker Noyes  of  Salisbury, N.H.  (D.C.
1796),  where he was  a felloAv-student  with  Daniel  Webster.
In 1802, he commenced  the practice  of law  in Londonderry,
N.H., but moved to Dunstable the same year.   He represented
the town in the legislature many years, and was once a member
of the senate.  He Avas president of the Nashua Manufacturing
Company for several years  of its  early existence; president of
the Nashua Bank many years ;  president of  the Nashua and
Lowell Railroad Company for fourteen years after its incorpora-
tion ;  president  of the Wilton Railroad from its organization
till Avithin a short time before his death ;  and, for a long period,
president of the  Hillsborough-County bar.
   1797.—Rev. Freeman Parker died in  Wiscasset,  Me.,
24 April,  1854, aged 78.  He  was born in  Barnstable,  13
July,  1776; ordained at Dresden, Me., 2  September, 1801,
and was minister there about twenty-five years;  when he resigned
his pastoral charge,  and removed to Wiscasset.  On the fiftieth
anniversary of his ordination, he went to  Dresden, and preached
an occasional sermon to his former congregation.  This was the
last discourse he ever delivered.   He was blind for upwards of
forty years  before his death.
   1798.—John Abbot died in Westfbrd,  30 April, 1854,
aged 77.   He was born  in Westford, 27 January, 1777 ;  and
was a lawyer in his native  town.
   1799.—Bartholomew  Brown died in Boston, 14 April,
1854, aged 81.   He was  son of John Brown,  and was born in
Dan vers, 8 September,  1772;  Avas a lawyer in Sterling from 
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1803 to 1809, Avhen he removed to East BridgeAvater, where he
continued in practice of his profession till about ten years before
his  death, Avhen  he  removed to Boston.   He possessed great
talent for music; and, in connection  with the late Judge Mitch-
ell,  he edited, for about twenty years, the "BridgeAvater Collec-
tion of  Church  Music," in which book may be found  many
pieces of his composition.  He AA'rote the calendars in Thomas's
" Old Farmer's Almanac " for fifty-nine years successively.
    1800.—Rev. Joshua Bates died in Dudley,  14 January,
1854, aged 77.  He was born in Cohasset, 20  March, 1776 ;
was ordained at Dedham as colleague-pastor of the First Church
with the Rev. Jason Haven (H.C. 1754), 16  March, 1803;
resigned 10 February, 1818, and, the following month,  was in-
augurated president of Middleborough College, Vt.; Avhich office
he held  till 1843, when he resigned,  and was installed the same
year as  pastor of the Congregational Church in Dudley, where
he remained till his death.
    1800.—Dr.  John  Dwight  died  in  Roxbury (Jamaica
Plain),  5 August, 1853,  aged  78.   He  Avas born in Shirley,
22  December, 1773 ; studied medicine Avith Dr.  John Jeffries,
of Boston  (H.C. 1763) ; practised his profession in Boston
till  1844, when he joined the " Community" in West Roxbury,
Avhere he remained about four years,  continuing the practice of
his  profession among them.   He  then remoAred to Jamaica
Plain, Avhere he passed the  remainder of  his life.
    1801.—Josiah Adams died in Framingham, 9 February,
1854, aged 72.  He was son of Rev. Moses Adams, of Acton
(H.C. 1771), and wa#s born in that  town,  3 November, 1781.
He Avas a lawyer in Framingham.
    1804. — Andrews Norton, of Cambridge, died in Newport,
R.I., 18 September, 1853, aged 66.  He was son of Samuel
Norton, of Hingham; and Avas  born in that town, 31 Decem-
ber, 1786.   In 1801, he entered college a year in advance, and
Avas the youngest  in  his class.  After graduating, he  studied
divinity, but was never ordained.  In 1813, he  was appointed
librarian, which office he held till 1821.   He Avas also, in 1813,
appointed Dexter Lecturer.   In 1819,  Avhen the Theological 
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School Avas organized, he was elected Professor of Sacred Liter-
ature, which office he resigned in 1830.   In 1833-4, in connec-
tion Avith Charles Folsoni, Esq., he edited "The Select Journal
of Foreign Periodical Literature," which closed Avith the fourth
volume.   The elaborate theological works of Professor  Norton
are well known.
   1806. — James Day died in Paxton, Mass., 16 December,
1853, aged 74.  He Avas born in Paxton, 14  December, 1779.
After leaving college, he studied laAv, but soon relinquished the
profession, and devoted himself to teaching in his native  toAvn
and the vicinity.
   1806. — Abraham  Moore died in Boston, 30 January,
1854, aged 69.  He was born in Bolton,  Mass.,  5 January,
1785 ; studied laAv with Hon. Timothy Bigelow (H.C.  1786) ;
and settled as a lawyer in Groton in 1809, where he resided till
1815, Avhen he removed to Boston.
   1807. —Rev. Joshua Chandler died at the Massachusetts
General Hospital, in Boston, 31 May, 1854, aged 67.   He was
son of Major Abiel Chandler, of Andover, where he was born
15 May, 1787;  was ordained at Swanzey, N.H.,  20 January,
1819;  dismissed 26 November,  1822;  installed  in  Orange,
27 November, 1822 ; dismissed 31 October, 1827 ;  installed in
Bedford, 20 January, 1836 ;  dismissed and installed in  Pem-
broke, 9 February, 1842 ; dismissed, and  removed  to Boston,
where he spent the remainder of his days.
   1807.—Rev. Phineas  Fish died in Cotuit (Barnstable),
16 June,  1854,  aged 69.  He  was born in Sandwich,  30 Jan-
uary, 1785 ;  was ordained at Marshpee,  18 September, 1812 ;
and, for more than forty years, was a devoted and faithful mis-
sionary to the Indian tribe at that place.
   1807.—William  Coffin Harris  died in Portsmouth,
N.H., 22 November, 1853, aged  65.  He was seized with  an
apoplectic  fit in his  school-room,  fell on  the floor, and died
within ten minutes afterwards.  He was son of Abiel Harris,
of Portsmouth,  where he was born 17 March, 1788.   He had
been  a teacher  in NeAvington  and Portsmouth betAveen  thirty
and forty years ; and, for faithfulness, energy, and thorough- 
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ness in this  capacity,  Avas  greatly distinguished and  highly
esteemed.
   1807.—Hon. James Cushing Merrill died in Boston,
4 October,  1853, aged 69.  He was son of Rev. Giles Merrill
(H.C. 1759), and Avas born in Haverhill, 27  September, 1784.
He was a lawyer in Boston;  and, for many years, was one of
the judges of the Police  Court.
   1808. —Joseph Bolles Manning, of Rockport, died sud-
denly in IpsAvich, 22 May, 1854, aged  67.   He Avas born in
Gloucester  (now Rockport), 5 March, 1787; was for several
years a lawyer in IpsAvich;  and  afterwards removed to Glou-
cester.
   1810. — Hon. James  Gore  King died in  New  York,
4 October,  1853, aged 62.   He Avas  the third  son of  Hon.
Rufus King (H.C. 1777), and was born in New York,  8  May,
1791.  He went Avith the family to England, on  the appoint-
ment of his father, in 1796, as minister from the United States
to the court  of  St. James.   He was  placed at  school  near
London for some time ; and was afterwards sent to Paris, where
he also attended school.  He returned to the United States in
the year  1805,  and was  fitted  for college  by  the  Rev. Dr.
Gardiner, of  Boston.   After graduating, he commenced the
study of law  Avith Peter van  Schaick, Esq., of Kinderhook;
and completed his studies at Litchfield under  the instruction of
Judges Reeve and Goold.  He afterwards turned his attention
to commerce,  and formed a commission-house in New York,
which  he  soon after transferred to Liverpool.   In 1823,  he
returned to NeAv  York, and became a partner in the banking-
house of Prime, Ward,  and  Bang; and subsequently, on  its
dissolution, was the  head of the  house of James G. King  and
Sons.
   1810. —Dr. Rufus Kittredge died in Portsmouth, N.H.,
21 February, 1854, aged  64.  He was son  of  Dr. Benjamin
Kittredge, of  Tewksbury, Mass., Avhere he was  born 28 June,
1789.  His father, who died at the  age of 81,  had eight  sons
and three daughters.   All the sons  reached manhood, and were
all physicians.  Dr. Rufus was  the last of the  brothers.   He 
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had been a resident of Portsmouth since 1817 ;  had an extensive
practice in his profession, and enjoyed the confidence  of the
public.
   1810. —Dr. Thomas Gardner Mower died in New York,
7 December,  1853,  aged 63.  He was son of  Thomas Mower,
and was born in  Leicester,  18  February, 1790, but removed
with the family, at  an early age, to Worcester.   He  studied
medicine with Dr. Thomas Babbitt, of Brookfield (H.C.  1784).
He was appointed surgeon's mate in the Ninth Regiment of United
States Infantry, 2 December, 1812, and immediately joined  his
regiment  in winter-quarters at  Burlington, Vt.   On the 30th
of June, 1814, he was promoted to the surgeoncy of his regiment,
and continued on the New-York frontier till  the close of  the
Avar, February, 1815.   The war being  ended,  he was  one of
the regimental-surgeons, out of about forty, that were selected
for the peace establishment.   After nine or ten years' service on
the frontier, the last two on  the Upper Missouri, he was placed
on special duty in  the harbor of New York,  and charged with
the various  duties  pertaining to the station.  Here, with occa-
sional absences on duty, he  was  continued till the time of his
death.
    1811.—Dr. Joseph Wheelavright died in  Heathsville,
Northumberland  County, Va.,  24 August,  1853,  aged  61.
He was born in  Newburyport,  29 December, 1791.   He es-
tablished himself as a physician in Virginia, and for nearly forty
years was actively engaged there in the practice of his profes-
sion.  His loss was deeply felt by a large circle of friends.
    1812.—James  Foster Gould died in  Canton, Miss.,
 14 February, 1854, aged 61.   He was born in a  part of Dor-
chester which is now South Boston, 24 November, 1791; was
a teacher, first in Baltimore, and afterwards at the South.
    1813.—Edward  Hinkley died in Baltimore, 28  June,
 1854,  ao-ed  63.    He  was born  in Barnstable,  Mass., 26
August, 1790.  He was a lawyer  by profession, and for  many
years had been a prominent member of the Baltimore bar.
    1814. —Hon. Elijah Paine died in New York, 7 October,
 1853, aged 57.  He'was  son  of Hon. Elijah Paine,  of Wil- 
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liamstown, Vt. (H.C.  1781), where he was born 10 April,
1796 ;  studied  laAv Avith Judge Cady, of Montgomery County,
N.Y., and settled in NcAv-York City as a lawyer about the year
1823.   In  1849,  he was elected one of the justices of the
Superior Court, and discharged the duties of his  office as long-
as his health would permit.  His term Avould  not ha\re expired
till 1 January, 1857.
   1816.—Rev. William Daniels Wiswall died in Roxbury,
30 November, 1853, aged 66.  He was son of Timothy and
Diadama AViswall,  and was born in Milford, 23 October,  1787.
His name, originally, was Lot Wiswall.  He was ordained at
Ellsworth, Me., 5 July,  1837; dismissed 5  July, 1839.  He
Avas never settled over  any other society, but preached occa-
sionally in various  places.
   1817. — George Storer  Bulfinch died in  Boston,  7
October, 1853, aged 54.   He was  son of  Charles Bulfinch
(H.C.  1781), and was  born  in  Boston, 23  January, 1799;
was a lawyer in Boston, and for some time librarian of the
Boston Library.
   1818. — Thomas  Cook Whittredge  died  suddenly of
apoplexy,  in Salem, 26 January; 1854, aged 54.   He was son
of Capt. Thomas Whittredge,  of Salem, where he was  born
28 May, 1799.  He adopted the maritime profession, and was,
for some time, master of a merchant-ship ;  but, several years
before his  death, he retired from active life.
   1820. — Rev. Alexander  Young  died in  Boston, 16
March, 1854, aged 53.   He was son of Alexander Young,  and
was born in Boston, 22 September, 1800; was ordained pastor
of the New South Church, in Boston, 19 January, 1825.
   1822.—Hon. Charles Gordon Atherton, of Nashua,
N.H., died  at the Manchester House, in Manchester, N.H.,
15 November, 1853, aged 49.   He  died  of paralysis,  with
Avhich he  was attacked  in the court-house, in  Manchester,
while engaged in professional  business.   He was son of Hon.
Charles  Humphrey Atherton (H.C.  1794),  and was born in
Amherst,  N.H., 4  July, 1804;  studied law with his father;
Avas admitted to practice in 1825, and soon afterwards opened 
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an office in  Nashua Village, then called Dunstable.  He was
elected to the state legislature in 1830, and  in  1831 he Avas
chosen clerk to the Senate.   He Avas again chosen represen-
tative in 1833-6;  and  was Speaker  of  the House during
three  of those years.  He was elected  representative in Con-
gress in 1837, 1839, and  1841;  was elected senator in 1842,
and took his seat  in the Senate in March, 1843.   His term
expired  in 1849 ;  and he Avas again elected to that  place in
1852, and took  his seat  in March,  1853.
   1822.—John  Thompson  died  in Centre  Harbor, N.H.,
21 January, 1854, aged 52.   His house was destroyed by fire;
and A\rhile endeavoring to  save an article  of  furniture which he
highly prized, it being a present  from his mother, he perished
in the flames.  He Avas son of Benjamin Thompson of Durham,
N.H., where  he was born  2 December, 1801.    He was a
practising lawyer1 in  Centre  Harbor.
   1826. — Rev. Nathaniel Phippen Knapp died in Mobile,
Ala., 17 February, 1854, aged 46.  He was son of Capt. Jo-
seph J.  Knapp, of Salem, AArhere  he  was born 25 June, 1807.
He  was for  a time a lawyer in  Marblehead,  but subsequently
relinquished the profession;  studied divinity, and  became an
Episcopal minister; was ordained priest at Jamaica, N.Y., 15
March ,1837.  In 1838,he was instituted rector of Christ Church,
in Montgomery,  Ala. ;  and afterwards removed to Mobile.
   1827. —Thomas Kemper Davis died in Boston, 13 Octo-
ber,  1853, aged  45.   He was son of Isaac P Davis, and was
born in  Boston, 20 June, 1808.  He graduated with the high-
est  honors  of his  class.   He  studied law  with  Hon. Daniel
Webster ; was admitted to the bar in 1830, and opened an office
in Boston ; but, for several years before his death, was an inmate
of the McLean Asylum at Somerville.
   1828. — Charles Tracy  Murdoch died in Cambridge,
25 November, 1853,  aged 44.  He was son of John Murdoch;
and was born in Havana, Island of Cuba, 5 January, 1809.
He  was  a lawyer  by profession; had an office in Boston, but
resided  in Cambridge.
   1830.—James Benjamin, of Boston, died in Springfield,
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Mass., 28 August,  1853, aged  42.   He  Avas son of Ashur
Benjamin, and Avas born in Boston, 23 April, 1811.   He Avas
fitted  for college partly at Exeter Academy, and partly at  the
Boston Latin School.   He was a lawyer in Boston.
   1830. — Joseph Barney Williams died in Baltimore, Md.,
30 August, 1853, aged 43.   He Avas son  of Nathaniel Wil-
liams  (H.C.  1801),  and Avas born in Baltimore,  16 October,
1810.   He  Avas  fitted for college at the Round-Hill School,
Northampton, and entered the sophomore class in  1827.   He
Avas a lawyer by profession ; and, for many years previous to his
death, was notary-public and commissioner.
   1834.—Drausin Baltazar Labranche died at his resi-
dence in the parish  of St.  Charles, Louisiana,  25 August,
1853, aged  38.   He  was born in that place, 12 April, 1815,
and Avas  by  profession a lawyer.
   1837. — Edavard Pinkney Williams died in New Orleans,
18 November,  1853, aged 34.  He was born in Baltimore, 9
June, 1819 ; and vvas a merchant in NeAv Orleans.
   1838.—Jonas AVhite  Thaxter died  in  Watertown, 1
March, 1854, aged 34.  He was son of Hon. Levi Thaxter, and
Avas  born  in Watertown,  27 February, 1820.   He studied
medicine for a time, but did not pursue the profession.
   1842. — Francis Henry  Appleton,  of Boston, died at the
McLean Asylum  in  Somerville, 28 May, 1854, aged 30.   He
was son of Hon. William Appleton, and  was born in Boston,
11 September, 1823.
   1843. — Dr.  John Gardner Ladd, of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
died at  Saratoga  Springs, 19 August, 1853,  aged 33.   He
Avas  son  of  John  H.  Ladd,  of Savannah;  and Avas born  in
Alexandria,  D. C,  4 July,  1820.   He was  a  physician in
Brooklyn.
   1845. — Gorham  Bartlett, of Concord,  died  at  the
McLean Asylum  in  Somerville, 17 June, 1854, aged 28.   He
was son of Dr. Josiah Bartlett (H.C. 1816), and  was born in
Concord,  22  January, 1826.   He  commenced the study of
divinity  at  the Theological  School  at Cambridge, but relin-
quished  it on  account of his health. 
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   1845. — Nicholas Lafayette Marr died in Tuscaloosa,
Ala.,  17 April, 1854, aged  29.  He Avas born in Tuscaloosa,
2 August, 1824, and was a planter by occupation.
   1848.—Edavard Irvixg Bigelow died in Cairo, Egypt,
9 April, 1854, aged 26.  He was son of Tyler  Bigelow,  of
Watertown (H.C.  1801),  Avhere he was born 1 June, 1827.
He Avas a lawyer by profession.
   1848.—Henry Whitcomb Holman died in  Carrollton,
La., 1 October, 1853, aged 29.  He Avas son of Hon. Amory
Holman, of Bolton, Mass., where he was born 8 October, 1824.
He taught school in Jackson,  Miss., in 1849—50; afterwards
studied law in New Orleans, and established himself as a laAvyer
in that city.
   1849. — George Washington Cogswell died in Le Roy,
N.Y., 22  April, 1854, aged 23.   He was born in Peterbor-
ough, N^., 1 July, 1830, and was a student-at-law.
   1852. — Gorham Thomas  died in Cambridge, 16 August,
1853, aged 21.  He was son of Dr. Alexander Thomas  (H.C.
1822), and was born in Boston, 8  September, 1831.  He was
a student of medicine.
   1853.—Edward Jarvis  Tenney was washed overboard
from steamship " San Francisco," 25 December, 1853.   He had
taken passage in that  ill-fated vessel for Aalparaiso, South
America, Avhere he  intended to  establish himself in mercantile
business.  He was  son of John Tenney, of Methuen, where he
was born  20  September, 1833 ; and  was consequently twenty
years  of age  at the time he was  lost. 
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   1791.—Hon. Thomas  Rice  died  in  Winslow, Me., 24
August,  1854,  aged 86.  He was  son of Dr. Thomas  Rice
(H.C. 1756), and was born in Pownalborough (now Wiscas-
set), 30  March, 1768.  He studied law with Hon. Timothy
Bigelow of Groton (H.C. 1786).   After completing his studies,
he went to Winslow on horseback, carrying in his saddle-bags
his  clothes, and a few law-books which constituted his whole
library.  He commenced the practice of law  in that  town in
1795, where he  soon  gained  a  lucrative  business, and» became
successful as an advocate.   In 1814, he was representative to
the Massachusetts  legislature; in 1817, he was elected repre-
sentative to Congress, where he  continued  two terms.  With
the exception of two years, when he  resided  in Augusta, he
continued to live in Winslow till his death.   He was naturally
of a cheerful and social temperament; and had quite a taste for
gardening, which he indulged to the last.  He relinquished the
practice of law about twenty years before he died.
   1792.—Hon. John Locke  died  in Boston, 29  March,
1855, aged 91.   He was son of Jonathan  and Mary (Haven)
Locke,  and  was  born  in  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  14  February,
1764.   In  1769, he, with his father's family, removed to
Framingham; whence, in June, 1770,  they removed  to Fitz-
william, N.H., then called  Monadnock No. 2, and  lived  in a
log-house.  In May or June, 1772, he removed with the family
to Ashby, Mass.  He worked on  a farm till twenty-two years
of age, when he went to Phillips Academy in Andover, where
he continued till he entered Dartmouth College, in  the  second
quarter of the  sophomore  year.    He  left Dartmouth,  and
entered Harvard in the beginning of the junior year.  In  No-
vember, 1793, he entered the law-office of the  late Hon. Timo- 
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37
thy Bigelow  of Groton  (H.C. 1786).   In September, 1796,
he was admitted to the bar in Middlesex County, and opened an
office in Ashby.   He was elected representative to the Legisla-
ture in  1804, 1805,  1813, and 1823.   In  1820,  he was  a
member  of the  Convention for revising  the Constitution of
Massachusetts.   From 1823 to 1829, he was representative in
Congress from the Worcester North District.  In 1830, he was
chosen senator from Middlesex to the Massachusetts Legislature.
In 1831, he was a member of the Executive Council.  In 1837,
he removed to LoAvell to reside with his son, John GoodAvin
Locke;  with whom, in 1849, he removed  to Boston, where he
passed the remainder of his days.
   1792.—Dr.  Hector Orr died in  East Bridgewater, 29
April, 1855, aged 85.   He was son of Col. Robert Orr, and
was  born in East Bridgewater, 24 March, 1770.  He settled
as a physician in his native town, where he passed his life ; and,
besides having held offices  of  honor  and trust, he was distin-
guished as a skilful  physician  and a man of cultivated intel-
lect.
   1793. — Thomas Wigglesworth died  in Boston,  27 April,
1855, aged 79.   He  was son of Rev. Edward Wigglesworth,
of Cambridge  (H.C. 1749),  and grandson  of  Rev. Edward
Wigglesworth,  of Cambridge  (H.C. 1710) ; both Hollis Pro-
fessors of  Divinity in  Harvard College.    He  was  born in
Concord,  Mass., 2 November,  1775.   At  the  time of his
birth, his  father's family were residing  temporarily  in  Con-
cord, to which place the students  and teachers of the college
had removed a short time before, in consequence of  the occu-
pancy of Cambridge and  the university buildings by the Ameri-
can forces collected to besiege the British army, who were then
in possession of  Boston.  Mr. Wigglesworth,  immediately after
graduating, commenced  the study of law at  Salisbury, N.H.,
near the residence of the family of the late  Daniel  Webster,
whom he remembered very Avell as a boy.  In a few months, he
discontinued his legal studies, and went to Newburyport, where
he entered the counting-room of Messrs. Searle and Tyler.  At
the age of twenty-one, he came to  Boston, and soon  formed  a 
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copartnership with William Sawyer,  Esq. (II.C. 178*), who
survived him for a  feAV  years.   They carried  on  business
together for  several years.  Mr. Wigglesworth early  engaged
in the Russia and India trade, and continued in the latter to
the end of his  life, having accumulated a large  fortune.  He
Avas connected, as a director, with several of our financial insti-
tutions, and Avas respected for his industry, integrity, and capacity
for business ; but he was retiring in his habits, and never served
in any state or city office, except for a short time on the school-
committee.
   1795. —Samuel Adams Dorr died  in Boston, 25  Febru-
ary,  1855, aged 79.   He Avas  son of Ebenezer Dorr,  of Bos-
ton,  and  was  born  in Medfield, Mass. (where his   parents
resided during the siege of Boston), 1 July, 1775.  He studied
law Avith Gov. James Sullivan, but relinquished the profession;
engaged in commercial pursuits; went abroad, and passed many
years of his life in foreign countries.
   1796. — Rev. Leonard Woods  died in  Andover,  Mass.,
24 August, 1854, aged 80. He was  son of Samuel  and Abi-
gail Woods,  and was born in Princeton, Mass., 19 June, 1774.
He commenced  the study of Latin with  the parish minister of
Princeton ;  and,  after three years, he  entered as freshman in
1792, having received  but three months' regular  instruction,
Avhich he obtained at Leicester Academy, under  the tuition of
Ebenezer Adams (D.C. 1791, afterwards professor in Dart-
mouth College), and graduated with the highest  honors of his
class.   For eight months after he left college,  he Avas  engaged
as a  teacher in Medford.   He  united with Rev. Dr. Osgood's
church in Medford in 1797.   In the autumn  of the same year,
he studied  theology three months Avith Rev. Dr. Charles Backus,
at Somers, Conn.  (Y. C.  1769).   The following winter he
continued his studies at home.   In the spring of 1798, he was
licensed to preach,  and was  ordained  pastor of  the  Fourth
Church in NeAvbury, 5 December, 1798.   He Avas  dismissed
26 May, 1808 ; was inaugurated Professor of Theology in  the
Institution at Andover, 20  September, 1808 ; and continued to
give instruction till 1846, when his active connection wTith  the 
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seminary ceased.   After that time, he was engaged in revising
and giving to the Avorld his lectures and  other Avritings, in  an
edition of five volumes ; and in preparing a history of the semi-
nary, which was nearly or quite  completed  at the time of his
death.
   1797. — Dr. Henry Gardner died in Charlestown, Mass.,
22 August, 1854,  aged 81.  He Avas born in Charlestown, 13
September,  1772 ;  and settled as a physician in his native toAvn,
Avhere he passed his life.
   1800.—Hon.  Leonard  Jarvts  died  in Surry, Me.,  18
September,  1854, aged 62.   He was born in Cambridge, Mass.,
19 October,  1781.  Immediately  after leaving college, he en-
tered the counting-room of the late David Greene and Son, where
he acquired a knoAvledge  of  commerce, and habits of business,
which entitle him to an honorable name among the merchants
of Boston.   He became  subsequently connected  with mercan-
tile operations,  in the prosecution of Avhich he spent several years
abroad, chiefly in France and South America.   On his return
home, he settled in Maine,  where he filled various  important
positions ;  being at  one time collector of Eastport,  afterwards
sheriff of Hancock County.  In the year 1831—33, he represented
his  district  in the  Congress  of the United States.  He was a
prominent politician in the Democratic party.  Under the ad-
ministration of President  Van Buren, he Avas appointed  navy
agent for the port of Boston.  From this post he was removed
by the administration of Gen.  Harrison ; and soon aftenvards
returned to Maine, where he spent the  closing years of his life
in the pursuits  of agriculture and literature.
   1802. — Rev. James Flint died in Salem, 4 March, 1855,
aged 73.  He was  born in Reading, 10 December, 1781.  After
leaving college, he spent a few years in teaching;  then studied
divinity with the Rev. Joshua Bates, D.D., of Dedham (H.C.
1800).   On finishing his studies, he received a call from the First
Church and Society in East  BridgeAvater, Mass. ;  which he ac-
cepted, and Avas ordained 29 October, 1806.   Possessing a fine
taste for horticulture, he improved it by embellishing the grounds
about his house, and made it  one of the most attractive places 
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of residence in the  county.   Here, too, he  cultivated his love
for classical literature by superintending the education of stu-
dents Avho were committed to his care by the college government.
He occasionally  wrote poetry, and contributed largely  to  the
literary journals of the  day.
   At  his own request, his connection with the church in East
BridgeAvater was dissolved 6 April, 1821 ; Avhen he was invited
by the  East Church and Society in Salem to  supply their pulpit,
then vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. William Bentley (H.C.
1777).  After officiating a few sabbaths, he received an  invita-
tion for  a permanent settlement, which he  accepted, and Avas
installed  20 September,  1821; and continued to  be the sole
pastor  till the installation of his  colleague, the  Rev.  Dexter
Clapp, 17 December, 1851.  His  ready humor, lively sympa-
thy, and  rare conversational powers,  peculiarly fitted him for
discharging parochial duties;  and in  these he was eminently
successful.
    1803. — Hon. Josiah Butler died in Deerfield, N.H., 29
October,  1854, aged 74.  He Avas son of Nehemiah and  Lydia
(Wood) Butler, and was born in Pelham, N.H., 4 December,
1779.   At the age  of 14, he was sent  to the academy in Lon-
donderry, N.H., and subsequently to Atkinson Academy, where
he completed  his preparation for college under the instruction
of William Merchant Richardson (H.C. 1797).   Immediately
after leaving college, he entered,  as a  student-at-law, the office
of Hon.  Clifton Claggett, of Amherst, N.H., where  he remained
a  short  time, and then went to Virginia, where  he resided in
1804,  1805, and 1806; taught an academy; pursued his  kv\v
studies in the offices of Gov. Cabot and  Jacob Kinney, Esq., and
Avas admitted to practice in that State.   In 1807, he returned to
New Hampshire, and practised  law in his  native  town about
tAvo years, during which time he represented the town  in the
State  Legislature.   In  1809, he removed  to Deerfield, where
he resided during the remainder of his life.  In 1810, he was
appointed high sheriff of the county of  Rockingham, and contin-
ued in that office nearly four years.    In 1815  and 1816, he
was elected a representative of Deerfield ; and, in  1816, he  held 
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the office of clerk of the Court of Common  Pleas.  In 1816,
1817, he wras nominated and elected a representative to Congress ;
and, by successive elections, continued in Congress six years.  In
1825, he was appointed associate justice of the Court of Com-
mon  Pleas;  and continued in that  office till 1833, when the
court was abolished.   He then returned to the practice  of laAv,
Avhich he continued a few years ; and was subsequently engaged
in agriculture.   A few years since, he was appointed postmaster
at South Deerfield, Avhich  office  he held at the time of his
decease.
   1803. — Rev. Jacob Coggin died in Tewksbury, Mass., 12
December, 1854, aged  72.   He was son  of Jacob Coggin, of
Woburn (H.C. 1763), and was born in that town, 5  Septem-
ber,  1782.   He studied theology  with  his pastor, the  Rev.
Joseph Chickering (H.C. 1799), then of Woburn.  In April,
1806, he received an invitation to take the pastoral charge of
the church and society in Tewksbury, and was ordained on the
22nd of October of the same year.   He continued his ministry
till 1847, when the Rev. Mr. Tolman was settled as a colleague
with him.  After that time, he was twice a representative to the
legislature; in 1852, was chosen one of the  Presidential elect-
ors ;  and, in 1853, was a delegate to the Convention for revising
the Constitution of the State.  Upon the establishment of the
state  alms-house in Tewksbury, he was appointed by Gov.  Clif-
ford one of the inspectors, and wTas  chaplain of it till the  time
of his decease.  He was one of the  pioneers in the temperance
cause, and served as agent for  it in  all the towns around  him.
Three sabbaths before  his death, he preached his last  sermon
from the fourteenth verse of the ninety-second psalm, " They shall
bring forth fruit in old age."  Two of his sons have been educated
for the ministry :  one died in the ministry, at West Hampton.
   1804. —Dr. John Merrill died in Portland, Me., 7 June,
1855, aged 73.   He was son of Thomas Merrill, by his fourth
wife;  and was  born in ConAvay, N.H., 2  March,  1782.   He
was highly respected as a skilful physician and good citizen.
   1808.-^ Col.  John Bliss died in St. Augustine, Fla., 22
November,  1854, aged  66.  He was born in Haverhill, N.H.,
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26 April, 1788.  After leaving college, he entered the United-
States army.  He was appointed first lieutenant in the Eleventh
Regiment of Infantry,  12 March,  1812 ; and  made captain in
May, 1813.  He distinguished himself, and was wounded in the
battle of Niagara Falls, 25 July, 1814.   When the army was
re-organized, in May, 1815, he was retained in the Sixth Regi-
ment of Infantry.  From April, 1813, to January, 1819, he
was  instructor in infantry tactics, and commandant  of cadets at
West Point.  For " ten years' faithful service," he was made
brevet-major, 13 May, 1823.  He was commissioned major of the
First Regiment  of Infantry, 15 July, 1830 ; and commanded his
regiment in person at the, battle of the Bad-Axe.   He was  pro-
moted to be a lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth Infantry, 30 Septem-
ber,  1836 ; and resigned 6 September, 1837.   For several years
subsequent to his  resignation, he resided in Buffalo, N.Y.
   1809.—Hon. William Plumer died in  Epping, N.H.,
18 September, 1854, aged 65.  He was the oldest son of Gov.
William  Plumer,  of Epping, where he was  born 9 February,
1789.   He studied law with his father, but did not pursue the
profession.    He  was repeatedly elected  a  member  of both
branches of the New-Hampshire legislature, and  was also  a
member of  the New-Hampshire Constitutional Convention of
1850.   From 1819  to 1825, he was a representative  in Con-
gress ; where, in  1820,  he  opposed the Missouri Compromise,
on the ground  that Congress thus superseded its powers,  and
legislated slavery  where  it did not exist.  He commenced his
public career as a member of the Democratic party : but, in 1828,
he became a Whig; and ever after that time he adhered to  that
party.   He possessed quite a literary and historical  turn of
mind, and published two small volumes of poems.   He collected
a large library,  particularly valuable for the works it contained
on America and American history.
   1810.—Rufus  Bacon died in Taburg,  Oneida  County,
N.Y.,  6 November,  1854,  aged 70.   He was  born  in Ply-
mouth, Mass., 13 February, 1792.   He settled as a lawyer in
Freetown, Mass. ; and about the year 1827 removed to Taburg,
Avhere he resided during the remainder of his life. 
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    1810. — Stephen Fales died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 Sep-
 tember,  1854, aged 64.  He was born in Boston, 3 May, 1790.
 In the autumn  of 1810, he was appointed tutor in Latin and
 Greek at Bowdoin College,  where he remained two years.  He
 afterwards read law  in the office  of Jeremiah Mason  (Y.C.,
 1788), of New  Hampshire; was admitted to the bar in Ports-
 mouth;  and, in 1819, removed to Cincinnati, where he  became
 a partner with Francis Arthur Blake (H.C, 1814), a distin-
 guished lawyer,  since deceased.  In  1821, he removed to Day-
 ton, Ohio,  where he practised law  about ten years, when he
 returned to Cincinnati.   He was elected  to the senate  of Ohio
 while  he resided in Dayton, and  served with great honor to
 himself,  and advantage  to  his constituents.   He was  a good
 classical scholar; and, to the latest period of his life, read the
 New Testament in the original Greek, as his constant exercise.
 He often carried that volume in his  pocket, and  perused it in
 private.   He  left behind him many pleasant memories, many
 delightful evidences that one lived and died who keenly felt for
 his race, and loved the image of God  in his fellow-man.
    1810. —Col. Benjamin Faneuil Hunt died in New-York
 City, 5  December, 1854, aged 62.   He was son of William
 Hunt, of Watertown, Mass.,  where he was born 29  February,
 1792.   His mother,  a  woman of high  spirit, the second wife
 of William Hunt, was Jane,  daughter of George Bethune, of
 Brighton, whose wife was Mary Faneuil, a  descendant  of  one
 of the Huguenot families, who fled from France at the  revoca-
 tion of the Edict  of Nantes.   Faneuil Hall was named for her
 grandfather's brother.   Col.  Hunt's  father died  in 1804.   As
 young Hunt manifested aptitude for study, and  a determined
 purpose  of obtaining a liberal education, his widowed  mother
 made provision  for meeting the expenses.  Immediately after
 he left college, as all his brothers had died of consumption, and
 as his  health was  very delicate, he  adopted the advice of his
physician to quit the New-England climate, and went to Charles-
ton,  S.C., where he arrived 1 November, 1810.    He  entered
as a student the law-office  of the late Keating Lewis Simons,
at that time one of the most distinguished ornaments  of  the 
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legal  profession in  Charleston.   After two years'  study,  he
Avas admitted to the bar in Charleston, at a period Avhen it Avas
crowded with eminent practitioners.   Gifted with high intellect-
ual powers, and a ready and powerful rhetoric, he  at  once  took
his place in the front  rank of the profession;  and, as a jury
laAvyer, was perhaps never surpassed at that bar.   His prac-
tice was extensive and successful, and his professional triumphs
generally,  and especially  in  defence of criminals  in  capital
cases, were multiplied and signal.  His ability and eloquence
as an  advocate soon gave him prominence in the field of politics,
and he frequently served in the state legislature as a represen-
tative from Charleston, and was always regarded  as one of the
ablest and most influential debaters on the  floor of the House.
Although a Northern man, his sympathies were mainly with the
South.   He was chairman of the Committee on Federal Rela-
tions ;  and his reports on  the  tariff, the tenure  of the presi-
dential office, and the  distribution of the sales of public lands,
have been  received as  text-books of the state-rights democracy.
On the declaration of war  in 1812, he was active in the organi-
zation of a military company,  which was drafted, during the
war, into the service of the United States.   He successively
rose  through the intermediate military grades;  and, about the
year 1818, was made colonel  of the Sixteenth Regiment, in
Avhich  capacity he served  about twenty years.   About a year
before his death, he removed from Charleston to the city of New
York.
   1811.—Robert Haaakins  Osgood died  in  New York,
27  February,  1855, aged 64.    He  was son  of  Capt.  John
Osgood, of Salem, Avhere  he was born 14 June, 1790.  After
leaving college, he  entered upon the study of the law in  his
native town,  but  did  not pursue  the profession.   With  his
brother John, he entered into  business as a  wholesale clothing
merchant in Baltimore.   Here  he was one of the  most self-
sacrificing  and active  men in founding  the  society over Avhich
President  Sparks and Dr. Burnap were  afterwards settled.
Subsequently,  he and his partner engaged in the  wholesale
clothing business in New York.   Having relinquished this  occu- 
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pation, he  became a partner in the house of Harnden and Co.,
and resided, as European agent for the firm, during a few years,
in Liverpool, Eng.  The last years  of his life were spent  in
New York.  He was noted for his excellent sense, even temper,
social accomplishments, and kind heart.
   1812. —Henry Peter Coburn died of cholera,in Indiana-
polis, Ind., 22 July, 1854, aged 64.   He was son of Peter and
Elizabeth  (Poor)  Coburn,  and  Avas born  in  Dracut,  Mass.,
12 March, 1790.  The Coburns  (originally Colburns) came  to
America at an early period, and were among the first settlers  on
the Merrimack :  the family emigrated from Scotland.  The Poors
are also an old family in Dracut. , The  paternal and maternal
grandfathers  of  the  subject  of this memoir were both  in the
battle of Bunker Hill.  His  father  was a farmer, — as had been
all his ancestors in America, — and he was brought up on a
farm.  At the age of sixteen, he began his preparation for col-
lege ; telling  his parents, brothers, and sisters, that he would
take,  in the  form of an  education, his portion of his  father's
estate.   He did so, and graduated with distinction.   He studied
laAv at IpsAvich, Mass. ; and, in the year 1815, emigrated  to
the West.  During the session of the Constitutional Convention,
at the  organization of the  state  government  of  Indiana,  in
June, 1816,  he Avent  to Corydon, Ind., then the capital of the
state.  There he located himself,  and  began the  practice  of
the law.   He continued to  practise  until the year 1840.   In
1818,  he  Avas appointed clerk  of  the Supreme Court  of the
state, and  continued in office till November, 1852.  In 1825,
when the state capital Avas permanently located at Indianapolis,
he removed to that place, and there resided during the remainder
of his life.   His  name,, originally,  Avas Peter Coburn;  but,
after he removed to the West, he prefixed Henry to his given
name Peter.   As a man, he was quiet, plain, honest, straight-
forward,  and decided.   He had  no ambition for notoriety,
public honor, or public favor.  He retired from  popular  tur-
moils, and shrank from contention.   He took little or no  part
in politics, except as a voter, though he Avas  a firm and un-
wavering Whig.  His character as  a lawyer was  fair; as  a 
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 counsellor,  he was  considered excellent;  as an  advocate, he
 never shone.  He AAras called the " honest lawyer."  He Avas a
 member of the Presbyterian Church;  he Avas an ardent friend
 of education and temperance ; his efforts to promote intelligence
 and to forward literary enterprises were  constant,  and in some
 degree successful.   The Indiana Historical Society, the Indiana
 Law-Library, the  Marion-County Library, and the free schools
 of Indianapolis, OAve much to his constant  efforts;  and were
 partly,  for  years,  under his management.  Although he made
 less public  display than almost any  one, he  did  more for the
 moral and educational interests of the city of  his adoption than
 any man in it.  He was truly one of those to  whom the Saviour
 promised an open reward for secret good.
    1812.  —Rev.  Jonathan Mayhew  Wainwright died in
 New-York City, 21 September, 1854, aged 61.  He was son of
 Henry Wainwright, and his  wife Elizabeth Mayhew, daughter
 of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, D.D., of Boston ; and was born in
 Liverpool, Eng. (during the temporary residence of his parents
 there),  24 February,  1793.   His  father was an English mer-
 chant, who  removed to this  country shortly after the war,  and
 became  a  naturalized citizen of the United States.   Dr. Wain-
 wright's boyhood was spent in England, at  school; and, on the
 return of his  parents to this  country, he fitted for college at
 Sandwich Academy,  under  the  instruction  of  Elisha Clap
 (H.C.  1797).  After he graduated, he  was for* two  years
 instructor in  rhetoric  and  oratory in  Harvard  College.  In
 1816, he was ordained a deacon  in  the Protestant Episcopal
 Church, and was soon after placed in charge of Christ  Church,
 Hartford,  where he remained three years.  In  1819, he was
 called, as  an assistant  minister of Trinity Church, New York,
 to fill the vacancy occasioned by the election of Rev. Dr. Brow-
 nell as  Bishop of  Connecticut.  A few months  afterwards, he
 became  rector of Grace Church, in New York.  Here he re-
 mained until 1834 ; when, upon a very urgent call, he accepted
the rectorship of Trinity Church, Boston, where he resided three
years.   On the 25th of March, 1837, he returned to New York,
as an assistant minister, once more, of Trinity Church, and re- 
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tained this connection during the remainder of his  life.  Mean-
while, however,  he had been  of distinguished service to the
church in many other capacities.   He succeeded Bishop Henry
U.  Onderdonk as  secretary  of the  Board  of  Trustees of the
General Theological Seminary  in 1828 ; in which capacity his
zeal and  activity  were  of great and  lasting service until his
removal to Boston in 1834.   He was for many years a manager
of the Bible, Prayer-book, and Tract Society.   He  was secre-
tary of the House of Bishops from the jsear  1838 until he took
his  seat as a member of that house;  and it was  in his capacity
as secretary  that he went to  England, in the summer of 1852,
bearing the  resolutions  of the American bishops responsive to
the invitation to attend  the closing services of the third semi-
centennial jubilee of the venerable Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.   But the crowning energies of
his  long  and laborious  life were  devoted to  the episcopate, to
which he was elected as  provisional bishop by the Diocesan Con-
vention of 1852, and consecrated on the 10th of November fol-
lowing.  Anxious to serve faithfully that diocese which had called
him to preside over it,  he refused  to  moderate his episcopal
labors by any consideration of his own health.   This enormous
diocese is too heavy a  burden for even the most vigorous man
in the flower of his age  ; and the determination  to do what  no
man of his  years could reasonably  expect  to perform  hurried
him to the grave.   His  last  Sunday's duty was  at Haverstraw
(on 27 August), where  full and somewhat exciting services were
held ; he preaching both morning and afternoon to crowTded con-
gregations,  with  a confirmation  of thirteen persons, and  an
appropriate  address besides.   During  his  brief episcopate of
one  year, ten months,  and  eleven  days,  he went  through  a
far  greater  amount of  episcopal labor  than was ever before
crowded into the same space  of time by any American  bishop.
He paid for  his brilliant pre-eminence with his life.
   1813. — Dr. Zabdiel  Boylston  Adams died  in Boston,
25 January, 1855, aged 62.  He was born in Roxbury, Mass.,
19 February, 1793.  He was long known as one  of the  most
skilful and  successful  practitioners  in Boston;  and he was 
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greatly endeared to the many families aa ho availed themselves of
his professional services, as Avell as to the community at large.
   1815.—Elisha Fuller  died suddenly of disease of the
heart, in Worcester, 18 March, 1855, aged 60.   He was son of
Rev. Timothy Fuller (H.C. 1760), and was born in Princeton,
Mass., 28 October, 1794.   Immediately after he Avas graduated,
he commenced the study of divinity, and completed his  studies
at the Theological School in Cambridge in 1818, when  he was
licensed to preach.   For three years,  he officiated  in  various
pulpits, but finally relinquished  the profession,  and in July,
1821, he  began the study of  law.  In May, 1823, he settled
as a lawyer  in Concord, Mass.   In May, 1831, he removed
from Concord to Lowell;  and, in the spring  of 1844,  from
LoAvell to Worcester, where he remained diligently practising his
profession till death suddenly called him away.   At the  time of
his decease, he held the office of Associate  Judge of the Police
Court in Worcester.   His  interest in the university, which
gave to him  his  education, was large  and unintermitted.   Its
history, as it was unfolded, Avas his study.   It was a subject of
gratulation with him, that, from the period of his matriculation,
no Commencement-Day had come  that did  not find him a visitor
at Cambridge, if it were  only for  an hour, to manifest, by his
presence, his interest in his Alma  Mater.
   1816.—John Amory Deblois died  in Columbus,  Ga.,
30 May, 1855, aged 57.   He was son of Stephen Deblois, and
was born in Boston, 20 July,  1797.  After leaving college, he
engaged in mercantile business in New Orleans.   He afterwards
removed to Columbus, where he formed a copartnership under
the firm of Hall and Deblois ; and where, for eighteen years, he
was one of the most prominent merchants  of that place,  pos-
sessing strict integrity, gentle and courteous manners.
   1816.—Rev. William Poole Kendrick. died in Bristol,
Kendall County, 111., 5 November, 1854, aged  64.   He was
born in Hollis, N.H., 27  January, 1790.  At the early age
of eleven years, he became  seriously impressed, and  resolved,
by the  aid of  divine grace,  to  devote the best  of his life
to the  eternal welfare of his fellow-man.  In accordance with 
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this  resolution,  he  fitted  for  college;  and, after graduation,
studied his profession at the Theological  Seminary in Andover.
He remained  some  time  at  the East, ministering to destitute
churches ; after which, he removed to the state of NeAv York,
acting as  home missionary for nearly thirty years at Shelby,
Parma  Centre,  and other  places.   In  1846,  he repaired to
Illinois, and there ended his days.
   1817.—Frederick  Hobbs died in Bangor, Me., 10 Octo-
ber,  1854, aged 57.  He was son of Isaac Hobbs, of Weston,
Mass., Avhere he was born 28 February,  1797.  On his  mater-
nal side,  he  was  a  lineal descendant from the celebrated Rev.
John Cotton, the minister of the First Church in  Boston.  As
such a descendant, he was entitled to, and received, certain ben-
efits  from Harvard College,  while a student  there, groAving
out of bequests to the institution from the Cotton family.   Af-
ter graduating, he read law in the office of Daniel Webster, in
Boston ; and, in 1820, went to Eastport, Me., where he opened
an office.  He soon entered  upon  an extensive practice,  and
gained a high position at the bar of Washington County.  He
filled various municipal offices in Eastport, and  represented the
town one year  in  the legislature.   He was once nominated  by
the whig  party as their candidate for representative to Con-
gress in the Eastern Congressional District, and received  the
united vote of that party; but,  as it was then in a minority in
the district, he failed of an election.   In 1836, he removed to
Bangor, where he  successfully continued the practice of the law ;
having, up to  the time of his  sickness, more business  in the
United-States Court than any practitioner east of the Kenne-
bec.   Although devoted  to  his  profession,  he found time for
other employments,  and always  took a lively interest in munici-
pal  affairs;  and, as  an alderman," his  services  in the city
council  were laborious and efficient.  He  was for some  time
president of the Musical Association in Bangor, and  freely lent
his aid to  this branch of education.  He was a great friend to
horticulture; was among the few who first started the Bangor
Horticultural Society, and was for some  time its president.   In
the cause  of  schools, lyceums, and  temperance, he  Avas  an
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earnest advocate, and contributed his full share for their general
advancement.    He Avas a good and  useful  citizen ;  of stern
integrity, of strict honesty,  and highly exemplary in all  his
habits.   In February,  1849, while engaged  in  an important
case before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, in Boston, he
was suddenly  attacked with blindness  and  dizziness, which  for
some time incapacitated him for labor.   Rallying,  however,
from this attack, he continued his business until February, 1852,
when he Avas struck doAvn with severe paralysis as he was finish-
ing a written argument to be  delivered  before the United-States
Court at Washington.   He was a Christian.   Many years ago,
he embraced the Unitarian faith;  and,  through all his after-life,
his  thoughts and actions appeared to have been regulated from
conscientious motives.   He was sincerely attached to his church,
and sought in  all proper ways to advance the spread of its doc-
trines.  A present of a rich silver communion-service, which
he made  to the church where  he worshipped in Bangor, after he
Avas taken sick, showed  that the  effect  of his  illness tended to
draw his  affections still closer to the best object of his wishes.
    1817. — Caleb Reed died in Boston, 14 October,  1854,
aged 57.   He Avas son of Rev. John Reed, D.D., of West
BridgeAvater, AA'here he was born  22 April,  1797.   His mother
Avas Hannah Sampson.  He studied law with his brother, Hon.
John Reed (B.U. 1803),  in Yarmouth, Mass. ;  Avith  Avhom he
continued in practice until 1828.   In that  year  he removed to
Boston, and entered into business with Cyrus Alger and Co., in a
foundry which is now known as the South-Boston Iron Company,
of Avhich he Avas treasurer.   In 1821,  he published in 18mo a
small work entitled " The General Principles of English Gram-
mar."  For more than twenty years of his life, he was editor of
the "New-Jerusalem Magazine," and a  liberal contributor to its
pages.   He was  a very efficient member of the Swedenborgian
Society.
    1818.—Dr.  Jesse Chickering died at Jamaica  Plain,
West Roxbury,  29  May,  1855, aged 57.    He was born in
Dover, Mass., 31 August, 1797.   After graduating, he entered
the Theological School  at Cambridge;   completed his  studies at 
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that institution  in 1821,  and preached  for several  years;  but
was never settled over any society.   He then relinquished the
profession, and  commenced  the  study of medicine.   He  com-
pleted his studies and received his medical degree in 1833.  He
practised  in  Boston  for  ten years;  but, his studious habits
not agreeing  with the active fife of a physician, he  retired from
the service, and devoted himself to statistics, for which he had
great partiality.   His  elaborate  work  on  the "Population  of
Massachusetts from 1765 to 1840 " was published in 1846.   His
valuable book on " Immigration into the United States " appeared
in 1848.  His reports on the " Census of Boston " were printed in
1851.  He also contributed many valuable articles to magazines
and other periodicals.   He  rendered essential  service to the
Senate  committee that  arranged  the details of the last United-
States census.   He was  for several  years  a confidential  cor-
respondent of Daniel Webster,  John Davis, and other leading
statesmen.   A  few Aveeks before his death, he was engaged in
writing a long communication to  the  celebrated Marshall Hall,
of  London,  who had misunderstood  his  article  in De Bow's
Review for August, 1853.   Dr. Hall, in  his work on slavery,
alluded to the article as " an  admirable paper;" but the author
found his English friend had  mistaken his views,  and therefore
prepared an elaborate letter in reply.   His last published work
was a " Letter addressed to the President of the United States
on Slavery, considered in relation to the Constitutional Principles
of  Government  in Great Britain  and in the United States."   It
was issued from the press a few weeks before his death, and will
rank its author among the profound thinkers and writers on the
slavery-question.  He was an intelligent, upright, and conscien-
tious man.   Few  persons   could be  in his  society  without
receiving instruction,  as  his mind was active and his habits
were communicative.
    1818. —Rev. James  Delap  Farnsworth died in Bridge-
water, 12 November, 1854,  aged 61.   He was born in Groton,
Mass.,  11 September, 1793; was ordained  at Orford, N.H.,
1 January, 1823 ; dismissed 9 April,  1832 ; installed at Paxton,
Mass.,  30 April, 1835;  dismissed  1840;  installed at North 
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Chelsea ; dismissed 1853 ; installed at Bridgewater, 1 Septem-
ber, 1853.   In  1853, he Avas  chaplain to the Massachusetts
Senate.
    1819.—John  Haeleston  Corbett  died  in  Charleston,
S.C., 11 May, 1855, aged 56.   He  was son of Thomas and
Elizabeth  (Harleston) Corbett,  and  Avas born  in  Charleston,
16 February, 1799.   He studied the profession of law;  but lost
his  eyesight in 1826,  and was blind to the day of his death.
He  enjoyed life, however, very highly ; was fond of society ; and
kept himself well informed in all the great topics  of the day,
and felt an interest in all its  leading movements.   He was of a
gay and elastic temperament.  Still his misfortune necessarily
threw him much into the shade, and he Avas  rarely seen in public
or general society.
   1819. —Hon. Samuel Baker Walcott, of Salem, died at
the  Massachusetts General  Hospital  in Boston,  4 December,
1854, aged 59.   He was born in Bolton, Mass., 7 March, 1795.
His given name originally was Jesse, which he had changed to
Samuel Baker by legislative enactment.   He received a portion
of his  academic education at Andover.   In 1821, he was ap-
pointed tutor  in Greek  at  Harvard  College; which position
he  occupied about  one year, having previously labored with
much success as a  school-teacher in Salem.   He subsequently
studied law in the office of Hon. Daniel Webster,  and  secured
the  esteem and  confidence of his distinguished  teacher, which
never abated during life, and which afterwards  placed  the  pupil
in the position of guardian and guide of the son  of  that states-
man Avhose whole time and  care were claimed by his country.
After his admission to the bar,  he opened an office in Boston,
but soon removed to Salem.   After  a brief  residence in  Salem,
he removed to  Hopkinton, where he pursued his profession with
success.  His  public life  began in this toAvn ; and no man, who
frequented  the  halls of our  legislature  for more  than twelve
years prior to 1845, can  have forgotten the calm  and proper
presence of the member from Hopkinton, the senator from Mid-
dlesex,  or  can have  failed  to mark  the attentive hearing he
always received  from whatsoever assembly he addressed.   No 
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representive, no senator, ever served his town and county better
than he, during many years of public life.  His scholarship was
excellent,  his manners unostentatious ;  his conduct, in Avhatever
he undertook,  prudent and discreet; in public, a reliable man ;
in -private,  dignified, exemplary,  and conscientiously kind and
attentive.
   1819.—Benjamin Wheatland died in Salem, 28 Decem-
ber,  1854, aged 53.   He was son of Capt.  Richard Wheatland,
of Salem,  AA'here he was born 27 May, 1801.  After graduating,
he studied law, but did not pursue the profession.   He  engaged
in the service  of the New Market (N.H.) Manufacturing Com-
pany at the commencement of its career, and continued with it
to the time of his death ; a  faithful,  intelligent,  upright, and
honorable agent in the various  stations he filled.
   1822. —Luther Barker Lincoln died in Deerfield, Mass.,
11 May, 1855, aged 53.  He was son of Luther Lincoln,  of
Westford,  Mass., where he was  born 3 April,  1802.  At an
early age, he lost his mother; and, from that time, he knew little
of a home till he formed one for himself.   His father, who was
a sea-captain,  was absent most of the time, and he was kept  at
school.  At one time, his father possessed considerable property,
but lost it during the youth of his son; who was thus left, at an
early age, to struggle hard for means to complete the course  of
study on which he  had entered.   He was fitted for college  at
Westford  Academy.   In college he took a respectable rank  as
a scholar, and was faithful and conscientious in the performance
of every exercise.   On leaving college, he went to Sandwich,
and  had charge of the academy  in that place for several years.
From Sandwich he  removed  to  Hingham,  and  was associated
with Dr. Willard in  a private school in that place.  In  1835,
he became  the principal  of  the  academy  in  Deerfield;  which
office he filled  with much acceptance till 1844, when he resigned
his situation there, and  accepted one  in the Derby Academy
at Hingham,  Avhere  he remained till 1848,  when he returned
to Deerfield.   The last seven years of his  life were devoted  to
teaching, for the  most part in a  private school;  a part  of the
time in Deerfield, and a part of  the time  in  Greenfield.   His 
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last situation in this capacity Avas in the Greenfield High School.
The  last four months previous to his death Avcre spent in ardu-
ous  labors as representative  in  the legislature, to Avhich office
he Avas chosen Avith a unanimity  rarely Avitnessed  in these days.
It will thus be seen that teaching was the chosen occupation to
Avhich he devoted more than thirty years  of his life.   It was  an
occupation which he loved, and  to which he  gave himself with
all the  ardor of his  soul.   He  had a rare taste for  his work :
he commanded the respect of the young to  a degree  seldom
equalled.   It may be truly said  of him, that he led a pure and
blameless  life.
   1823.—Thomas Wilson Dorr died in Providence, R.I.,
27 December, 1854, aged 49.   He  was son of Sullivan and
Lydia  (Allen) Dorr, and was born in Providence, 5 Novem-
ber,  1805.  He commenced his  education at the free school and
the Latin  Grammar School in Providence; and completed his
studies, preparatory to entering college, at Phillips Academy, in
Exeter, N.H.  He graduated as the second scholar of his class.
He attended the law lectures, and was  under the instruction of
Chancellor Kent  in New York  in 1824—25 ;  and after passing
some time in the office  of John Whipple, in Providence, was
admitted to the bar in 1827.   He did not pursue  the practice
of his profession, but early turned his attention to political life,
and  the more congenial studies  of scholastic lore.  He devoted
much attention to matters of public utility and general improve-
ment.   He was a trustee and treasurer of the Providence His-
torical Society at the time  of  the  troubles in  1842.  He gave
long and  zealous attention to the  subject of education  in  the
free  schools; was president of  the committee in 1<S42 ;  intro-
duced, and carried through the committee, the plan  of  a high
school, which was finally adopted  by the city government, and
resulted in the present improved system of education.
   He commenced political life in 1834.   Early in that year, he
attended the Freeholders' Convention,  designed  to  bring about
an extension of suffrage, and establish  a republican constitu-
tion.   In  April of the same year, he was elected representative
from the city of Providence;  and was re-elected semi-annual!v 
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till August, 1837.  In June, 1836, he drew up a report of the
investigation of the banks, and a draft of the Bank Act, which
was  adopted.   In 1839, he was nominated as a  candidate for
representative to Congress, but was defeated.  While a member
of the Assembly, he exerted himself to  obtain an extension of
suffrage;  he also attempted to procure the call of  a convention,
without success.  He took an  active interest  in the movement
which was organized  in 1840 for obtaining a written constitu-
tion, securing an extension of suffrage,  &c. ;  and was a promi-
nent  member  of. the  convention resulting from this movement,
holden in 1841, and which framed and submitted to the people
a  constitution,  the original draft  of Avhich is  in his  hand-
writing.
   He Avas tried upon the charge  of treason at the term of the
Supreme Court at Newport, in June, 1844 ; was convicted, and
sentenced on the 25th of June to  imprisonment for " life at hard
labor in  separate  confinement."   At  the  May  term of the
General Assembly holden in 1845, an act was passed, providing
for his liberation on conditions which he refused.    At the  June
session following, he Avas unconditionally liberated, without being
restored to the rights  of citizenship.   The time of his  continu-
ance in prison was  just one year.   He  was elected a  delegate
to the Baltimore National Democratic Conventions in 1848 and
1852, but Avas unable to  attend either of them.    The General
Assembly, at their June session in 1851, restored  him to all the
rights and  privileges of citizenship, without condition.   At
the January session in 1853, an  act was passed  annulling the
sentence passed upon him by the Supreme Court.  During his
last  illness, he  connected himself with the Episcopal  Church.
The Democratic State Convention, holden in March last, voted
to erect a monument to his  memory, and appointed a  commit-
tee to carry the  same  into effect.
   1826. — Dr.  George Franklin Turner died at Corpus
Christi, Texas,  17 October, 1854,  aged 47.   He was son of
Robert Turner, and was born in Boston, 22 April,  1807.  After
leaving college,  he  studied  medicine in the  army hospital with
the late Dr. B. Turner,  with a vieAV of entering the army.   His 
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commission  as assistant-surgeon was dated  23 July, 1833 ;
previous to Avhich time,  he had practised  medicine  for a  short
period in  Indiana.   His  commission of  surgeon was of date
1 January, 1840.   He was stationed at Mackinaw in 1834 ;
when he married Mary,  the  eldest daughter  of the  late Robert
Stuart, Esq., of Detroit, Mich.  He aftenvards served in Florida
during the Seminole War;  and was subsequently  stationed at
Fort  Snelling,  at the Falls of  St. Anthony, on the  Mississippi,
until  the Mexican War, Avhen  he was ordered to Mexico, Avhere
he served as medical surveyor.   Aftenvards, in California and
Texas, he  continued to render the  services  of his profession,
which, from the time of his entering  the service until the end of
his life, were uninterrupted,  and often as arduous as they Avere
faithful and able.
   1827. — Marshall   Tufts  died  in Lexington,  Mass.,
18 May,  1855, aged 52.  He  was son of  Thomas and Rebecca
(Adams) Tufts, and was born in Lexington, Mass., 26 Sep-
tember, 1802.  In the winter  of 1826,  he taught  a  school in
Woburn,  Mass.   After  graduating, he  entered as  a student
in the Theological School  at Cambridge, but left after a  short
period.   In 1828,  he  commenced his theological  studies Avith
the Rev. Abiel Holmes,  D.D.  (Y.C.  1783),  of  Cambridge.
After completing his  studies,  he preached for some years, but
Avas  never  ordained.
   1828. — Dr. John  Appleton Swett died in New-York
City, 18 September, 1854, aged 45.   He was son of  John and
Alice (Appleton) Swett, and was born in Boston, 3 December,
1808.  He  commenced practice as a physician, in Boston ; but
a few years afterAvards removed to the city of New York, Avhere
he resided till his death.   He was one of the  brightest lights of
the profession in that city.   For many years,  he Avas recognized
as an authority of the first standing, especially upon diseases of
the chest; on which subject a volume of  his, published a year
or two since, has become a valuable text-book.   His private
practice was extensive :  but he was  much more largely known
through his connection with the NeAv-York City Hospital;  to fill
one  of the most  responsible offices  in  which, he  Avas elected 
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in the year 1842.   His minute  pathological  examinations, and
their comparison with the diseases illustrated thereby in the living,
made him one of  the most instructive lecturers that walked the
Avards  of that  famous charity;  and his clinical classes  were
always large.   He held too, at his death, an important profess-
orship in the medical department of the University (the Four-
teenth-street  School).   In that institution,  he  lectured  with
great success  on  the Institutes  and Practice of  Medicine.
    1829. — Elbridge Gerry Austin died at Nahant, 25 July,
1854, aged 43.   He was  son  of Hon.  James T. Austin (H.C.
1802), and was born in Boston, 4 October,  1810.  He studied
laAv, and opened an office  in Boston, where he practised  several
years.   About four years before his death, he removed  to  San
Francisco; where he opened an office, and soon obtained an ex-
tensive practice.  A few Aveeks  before his decease,  he came to
Boston on a visit to his relatiAes ; and, on his passage across the
Isthmus, contracted the seeds of disease Avhich terminated his life.
    1831. — Caleb Fletcher Abbott died in Toledo, Ohio,
24 April, 1855.  He Avas son of Caleb and Mercy (Fletcher)
Abbott, and Avas  born in Chelmsford, 8 September,  1811.   He
studied  laAv at  LoAvell and at the  Law School in Cambridge;
and, in 1836, removed to  Toledo, where he attained  a high rank
in his  profession, and held many important offices.   He was
formerly mayor of  the city, and prosecuting-attorney for that
judicial district.   He Avas a ripe scholar, possessed of fine literary
and scientific  acquirements.  As a speaker, he had but  few
equals as a logical and eloquent debater, and held a front  rank
among the members of the bar.   He Avas a warm  friend,  and
possessed elements  of character Avhich  entitled him to the admi-
ration and respect  of his  fellow-citizens.
    1831. — Francis  Lowell  Dutton  died in  Brookline,
Mass., 15 December, 1854, aged 42.    He  was son of Hon.
Warren Dutton (Y.C. 1797)  and Elizabeth Cabot Lowell, and
Avas born in Boston, 21 June, 1812.  He studied law in Boston,
but did not long pursue the profession.
   1832.—William  O'Hara  Robinson  died  in Pittsburg,
Pa., 6 February,  1855, aged 41.  He was second son of Gen.
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William Robinson, and Avas born in Alleghany, Pa., 7 October,
1813.  He was a lawyer in Pittsburg.
   1833.—Dr. Charles  Henry Peirce died in Cambridge,
Mass., 16 June,  1855, aged 41.   He was son of Benjamin
Peirce, of  Salem, Mass.  (H.C. 1801), where he  was  born
28 January, 1814.  He studied medicine, and established  him-
self  as a physician in Salem; but  subsequently removed to
Cambridge.   For a few years, he held the office  of  special
examiner of drugs in  the  Boston  custom-house.
   1834.—Rev.  George  Henry Hastings died in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn., 2 September, 1854.   He Avas  the oldest  son of
Joseph Stacy Hastings, and was born in Boston, 17 June, 1814.
He was  for several years  chaplain  in the  American legation
at Rome, Italy;  and held  the place until  he  Avas compelled to
relinquish it in consequence of the rapid progress of pulmonary
disease.   During his  residence at Rome, he  was a regular cor-
respondent of the "New-York Commercial  Advertiser;"  and
continued to  Avrite for it after his return, and during his travels
through  the Southern States.
  1834. — Dr. Samuel Parkman died in Boston, 15 December,
1854, aged 38.  He was son of Samuel Parkman (H.C.  1810),
and was born in Boston, 21 June, 1816.  He studied medicine
and  established himself as a physician in  Boston,  where  he
rapidly gained an extensive practice;  and bade fair to take the
highest rank  among the numerous members of the  profession
in the city, when he was suddenly cut off in  the prime  of life.
A few days before his death, he had been  elected a member of
the School Committee.
  1836. — Frederick William Gale, of  Worcester,  Mass.,
was lost at sea in the steamship " Arctic " on  his passage  from
Liverpool for New York, 27 September, 1854.   The "Arctic"
left Liverpool 20 September; and on the 27th, off Newfound-
land, was run into by another steamer,  and sunk.  He was born
in Northborough,  Mass., 22 June, 1815.  He Avas a practising
lawyer in Worcester.
   1838.  — Charles  Henry Hartshorn died in Cincinnati,
Ohio, 2 May, 1855, aged 35.  He was son of Caleb Hartshorn ; 
1854-55.]
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59
and was born in Boston, 4 December, 1819.   He  studied no
profession, but  Avas employed as a clerk in various mercantile
houses in New York, Boston, New Orleans,  and Cincinnati.
   1842. — William  Grinnell  Cross died in  New Bed-
ford,  Mass., 29  October,  1854, aged 37.   He  was  son  of
Capt. Latham  and Deborah  (Snell)  Cross, and was born  in
New  Bedford,  6 November, 1816.   His father was born  in
Fairhaven, 5 November, 1774.  His  mother was born 4 Jan-
uary, 1779; and died 15  July,  1853, aged 74.   In 1789,
his father  learned the trade of a hatter in New Bedford, which
he pursued  until  1795, when  he abandoned it, and  went  a
Avhaling voyage on the  coast of Brazil.  He soon became master
of a vessel, first of a coaster, which he built in  1802, and ran to
New  York;  but subsequently was commander of  a merchant-
ship,  and  went  to Liverpool; at which port he was  at the  time
of the declaration of Avar in 1812.  After peace, he resumed the
whaling business, which he  continued with success  until 1828,
AAThen he retired Avith an ample competence.
   The subject of this notice,  at  the age of nine  years, Avas
attacked with a severe affection of the right thigh-bone, which
confined him to the house until  nearly seventeen years of age;
and  resulted in exfoliation and shortening of the  bone, and
rendered him  a cripple for life.  He then entered the High
School in  New  Bedford, which  he attended about a year; when
he entered the counting-room of William T. Russell, afterwards
collector of New Bedford, Avhere he continued two  years.   He
then determined to obtain a collegiate education, and pursued his
preparatory studies  under  the instruction of  Dr. Julius Stewart
Mayhew,  of New Bedford.    After leaving college,  he studied
law under the instruction of Hon. Thomas Dawes Eliot; when,
on being admitted to the bar, he opened an office in New Bed-
ford,  but  abandoned the profession Avithin a year.   He married
(1st), in January, 1846, Rebecca C. Wady, daughter of Hum-
phrey Wady.   She died Avithout issue, 20 February, 1847, in
her 24th  year; and he married (2d),  19 January,  1851, Ruth
Almy Weaver,  daughter of John Weaver, and had two children
(daughters), the elder of Avhom survives him.  His  second wife 
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died 13 May, 1857, at the age of 31.   Mr. Cross  pursued no
business after relinquishing his profession, as his health continued
feeble.   The later years of his life were cheered, amid  so much
affliction, by devotion to choice literature and by the kind offices
of numerous friends.  His  integrity of character  was unim-
peached, and his society was sought  by his religious associates.
   1843. — Eliphalet  Birchard  died in Lebanon,  Conn.,
20  September, 1854,  aged 39.   He was  born in Lebanon,
21 January, 1815.  After graduation, he entered the Theological
Seminary in Andover,  and completed his studies there in 1846.
Though invited by several churches to settle as pastor, he was
prevented by imperfect health from accepting any of these invita-
tions ;  but he was  a faithful and acceptable preacher,  and Avill
long be remembered with gratitude by many  who  Avere richly
blessed by  his labors.
   1846.—William Thaddeus Harris  died  in  Cambridge,
Mass., 19 October, 1854, aged 28.   He was son of Dr. Thad-
deus AYilliam  Harris (H.C. 1815), and was  born in  Milton,
Mass., 26 January, 1826.  He removed with his father's family
to Cambridge when five years old.  He began to fit for college in
September, 1840, at the Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge,
then first established by Mr.  John B. Henck (H.C. 1840) ;
and completed his  preparatory studies under Mr.  Edmund B.
Whitman  (H.C.  1838).   A physical infirmity, a congenital
weakness of the  spine, followed  by  its  permanent  curvature,
debarred him from the usual pleasures of those of his own  age;
and he Avas obliged to have recourse  to books, Avhich, in process
of time,  became  his meat and drink, his only solace,  his only
amusement.  While in college, in  his junior  year, he printed
a collection of "Epitaphs  from  the  Old  Burying-ground in
Cambridge."   This collection was made mostly during his  boy-
hood, Avhile attending  the town-school.   He  finished it,  and
added the notes, while  in college ; and the  book was published
in May, 1845.   Immediately after  graduation, he  entered the
Law School at Cambridge;  and  was admitted to  the bar on
the 1st of December, 1853.   His acquaintance with early New-
England  history was thorough and  extensive.   He projected 
1854-55.]            OF  HARVARD COLLEGE.                 61

several historical performances, which, had he lived, would have
been of great value :  one Avas a " Continuation of Prince's Chro-
nology."   To what extent he went with it, is  not  known ;  but.
Avhat  he did was so avcII done,  that Mr. Prince, it is believed,
could not have wished it better done had he  been  here  with all
his former ability to appreciate such a work.
   1846.—Nathaniel Gilman Perry died  at sea, on board
ship "William Tell," on the passage from Havre to NeAv York,
2  June,  1855, aged  28.  He was son  of  Dr. William Perry
(H.C. 1811), of Exeter, N.H.  ;  where  he  was born 28 Octo-
ber,  1826.   He  inherited a  feeble  constitution;  and, at the
age of seven, lost one of his eyes by an arrow in the hands  of
another  boy.  He Avas  fitted for college  in Phillips Exeter
Academy, and entered the freshman class in August,  1842.  He
was taken with raising  blood while in college, which  recurred
frequently, on exertion of the arms, for three or four years.  On
leaving college in 1846, he  commenced reading law with  Gil-
man Marston,  Esq.,  of Exeter; and entered the Law School
in Cambridge  in 1847,  where  he remained  a  year.   In the
spring of 1849,  he  accompanied  Capt.  John C. Long, as his
clerk, in the United-States  steam-frigate " Mississippi," to the
Mediterranean.   He  returned home in November,  1851,  and
Avas admitted to the Rockingham bar.  In March, 1852, he was
chosen to represent  the  tOAvn of Exeter in the legislature, and
again in 1853.   His health noAV became  so  feeble, that he was
unable to engage fully in the labors of his  profession;  and,
thinking himself benefited by being  at sea, he was  reluctantly
induced, in the following October, to accept Capt. Long's invi-
tation to go again Avith him to the Mediterranean, in the United-
States steamer " Saranac."   For a time, his  health seemed  to
improve; but,  in the autumn of  1854, he became so unwell
as to find it expedient to leave the ship for a  time, and remain
in Nice.  The latter part of the winter, and the first of the
spring, he spent in Florence.   In April, he visited  Tunis  and
Naples ;  but became so  feeble, that  he was compelled  to leave
for home under  the  care of a benevolent gentleman  and his
Avife, AA-ho volunteered the responsible and arduous  undertaking. 
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They left  Leghorn the 3d  of May, and went to  Paris  by way
of Marseilles.  Here he joined a brother, avIio had previously
been  with him  in Florence,  and now, finding him so  ill,
prepared  to  accompany  him home.   They sailed from HaAre
the 24th of May;  and, on the 2d of June, he died in the arms
of his brother, a firm believer in the mercy of God through
the merits of his  Son.
   1850. — Oscar Fitzalan Parker died  in St. Louis,  Mo.,
5 August, 1854, aged 26.   He was son of Peter Parker, and
and was born in Schroeppel, Oswego County, N.Y., 19 Febru-
ary, 1828. He was a young man of pure life, sterling integrity,
and marked abilities.   He  was  a member of the  legal profes-
sion, and had recently established himself in St. Louis,  with the
intention of making that his place of residence.   A meeting of
the St. Louis bar  was held on the day of his  death, at which
resolutions Avere passed in warm eulogy of  the deceased,  who,
though but recently attached to that bar,  had  already made
himself beloved and  respected by his associates.
   1851. — William Coombs  Wheelwright was lost at sea,
9 September, 1854, aged 25.  He Avas  son of Ebenezer and
Sarah  (Boddily) Wheelwright, and was born  in Portsmouth,
N.H., 13  December, 1829.   His grandparents, on his  father's
side, were Ebenezer Wheelwright  (born in Gloucester),  and
Anne (born at Newburyport),  daughter of William Coombs.
On his maternal line, his grandfather, John Boddily, Avas  born
in England,  probably in  1760.   His  grandmother, Sarah
(Tuckmell) Boddily,  was  born in Bristol, Eng., or, at least,
came  from that place.   When the subject  of  this notice  was
four years old, he moved  with his father's family to  Boston,
Avhere, and at Roxbury and at Salem,  he lived till he  entered
college in  1847.   His childhood was marked with fearlessness
and self-reliance, fondness for the sea, a taste for  the mechanic
arts, correct deportment, and benevolence.  From a defect in
his  vision, he was never able  clearly  to  discern objects about
him;  and  consequently, being quite liable to accidents, he re-
ceived  several slight injuries.   Although  his inclination for a
liberal education was not strong, he began to fit  for college, in 
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1841,  at the Boston Latin School;  where, with the exception
of ten months at the Salem Latin School, he continued  till the
last two years before entering college, Avhen he was at the Rox-
bury Latin School.  During the first year of his college-course,
he Avas parietal freshman; and, in his  second year, monitor  at
the lectures  and  declamations.   In the junior year,  he was
absent nearly two months,  and seriously threatened  Avith con-
sumption.   While an undergraduate, his love of adventure was
strengthened by his reading; which, besides poetry, —to which
he Avas much attached,—consisted principally of travels and voy-
ages, particularly of the narrations of various arctic  exploring
expeditions.   The state of his eyesight, however, interfered with
his literary pursuits.   His strong memory, enabling  him  to
repeat long poems,—particularly of Walter  Scott,—rand  his
activity  in  the  college playgrounds,  relieved many an  hour
which otherAvise  might have been unemployed.   After gradu-
ating, he was engaged for a short time in teaching at Raynham :
but the trouble in his eyesight continuing, and his passion for a
sea-life increasing, he went on board one of his father's vessels, as
a common sailor,  to the West Indies ; and he was so much pleased
and benefited, that he abandoned all thoughts of  studying a pro-
fession.  After another Aoyage  to the  West Indies, he went  to
the Sandwich Islands.   While  there, he was  deeply  impressed
with the importance of personal  religion,  occasioned  by the
sabbath worship  of the  islanders.   He had never  witnessed
the gospel in NeAv England as he saw it manifested in the con-
duct of these  converted heathen.   He described their religious
Avorship  as  more impressive  than could be imagined; being
marked  by a degree  of solemnity, sincerity, and reverence,
such as he had never seen.  Subsequently, he went on a voyage
to HaATe,  in France,  where he attended the Bethel worship ;
and  on  his return to  New York, and thence home, it was
manifest that an important change  had  taken place  in  his
character.  His mind Avas solemn  and thoughtful.  His evening
hours were spent  in solitude, reading the Scriptures, and  prayer.
He became  much concerned for the Avelfare of  seamen, col-
lected  money for tracts, and  employed his efforts  in  various 
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ways for their  good; and, in his  conversation Avith his friends,
it Avas eAident that he was deeply concerned to fulfil the duties
of life,  and  always to  be prepared  for death.   His eyesight
continuing to  improve, he  took  the post of  first  officer  on
board the brig " Horace Greeley,"  of Philadelphia.   He made a
voyage to Cuba and back; thence proceeded to Charleston, S.C. ;
and thence to GeorgetoAvn, in the same  State.   The brig was
there loaded for Philadelphia ; and, sailing on the 5th of Septem-
ber, encountered a hurricane on the eighth and ninth of the same
month,  in Avhich the brig, on  the last day named, was upset,
and all on board perished.   Two other vessels sailed the same
day from  GeorgetoAvn, bound north; and both vessels, with  all
their  crews,  Avere lost.
   He cherished a love for literature ;  and, in all his voyages,  he
made some of his old Latin classics his companions.  The rough
men among Avhom he was thrown felt the refining influences  of
his  education,  and at once  and  cheerfully acknowledged  his
superiority.   His benevolence and sympathy  created bonds  of
strong attachment between him and his friends.  He had  no
sunshine of his  OAvn Avhich did not  gladden the hearts of others,
and  he  counted no blessing  he possessed  complete till it was
largely shared by his friends and others.   He  loved much, and
Avas greatly beloved, and left a void in the hearts of his parents
and in the circle of his friends which  can never be filled.  He
kept a journal, on the  title-page  of which was the following
memorandum :  "  Should God in his  providence see fit to take
my life during this voyage, I wish  this book to be kept strictly
private, and sent  to my  friends in Newburyport, Mass."
   1854. —Henry Cobb, of Barnstable, died suddenly, of in-
flammation of the boAvels, at Tazewell, Tenn.,  5 January, 1855,
aged 21 years and 11 months.   He  was son  of Enoch T. and
Abiah Cobb, and was born in Barnstable, Mass.,  5 February,
1833.   He had studied  and qualified himself for civil engineer-
ing ; and, seeking a more southern climate for the benefit of his
precarious health, he joined an engineer corps  in Tennessee,  in
November, 1854, and was  actively engaged with them in  sur-
veying for and locating a  railroad through that  state,  when, 
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after about a week's confinement, he died.   He was remarkable
for his studious and correct habits; and though compelled  by a
pulmonary attack to leave college, and, by the advice of physi-
cians, to travel in Europe, passing several months of his junior
year in Italy, he kept his place in his class, and graduated with
the usual honors.
   1854. —Nicholas Gilman died in Exeter, N.H., 31 Octo-
ber, 1854, aged 20.  He was son of Capt. Nathaniel Gilman,
and was born in Exeter,  8 May, 1834; was fitted for  college
at Phillips Academy, Exeter, and entered  the sophomore  class
in 1851.   He was  distinguished for  his  scholarship, courtesy
of  manners,  singular sweetness of  disposition,  and  correct
morals.
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   1782. —Hon. John Welles died in Boston, 25 September,
1855, aged 90.   He was son  of Arnold Welles (H.C. 1745),
and was born in Boston,  14 October, 1764;  was fitted  for col-
lege  by Rev. Daniel Shute, D.D., of Hingham (H.C. 1743),
where he had among his fellow-students  Capt. James Sever, of
Kingston, Mass. (H.C. 1781), and  Col. Thomas H. Perkins,
of Boston.   He was the youngest in his class ; having graduated
before he had completed his eighteenth year.   Soon after leav-
ing college, he entered into mercantile business with his father.
About the year 1802, he  formed a copartnership with  his cousin
Samuel Welles (H.C. 1796), under  the  firm  of  John and
Samuel Welles.   This  partnership  was. dissolved  in  1815 ;
and his partner proceeded to Paris, where he became  connected
with the celebrated banking-house of Welles and Co.  Mr. Welles
soon afterwards took into partnership  his kinsman, Benjamin
Welles of Boston, under the style of John and Benjamin Welles.
This firm continued until  a recent period, when the infirmities of
age compelled the senior  partner to retire, having  accumulated
an ample fortune.  He was one  of the few survivors who were
claimants for French spoliations prior to 1800.   He was several
times elected a representative,  and also a senator, in our state
legislature.   He  was  a member   of  the  executive  council
under  the  administration of  Gov.  Strong.   When the city
charter was  granted in 1822, he was elected a member of the
first  common council;  and, the following year, was re-elected,
when he was chosen president of that branch  of the  city govern-
ment.   He  was one of  the earliest promoters of agricultural
societies;  was for several years an active member of the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural Society; and was associated with  the late
Hon. John Lowell in editing an agricultural journal.   He owned 
1855-56.]
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a valuable farm in Natick, Mass., on which, for many years, he
passed the summer season, devoting himself to agricultural pur-
suits.  This farm  has been  in  possession of the Welles  family
ever since the days of the old Apostle Eliot, the translator  of
the Bible into  the Indian language.   In  politics, Mr. Welles
Avas ever a firm and consistent  federalist of the Washington
school.   In all his business transactions, he was characterized  as
a merchant of strict integrity and upright conduct.  In the last
tAvo triennial catalogues of the  college which were issued before
his death, his name stood as the senior surviving alumnus.  He
outlived all his classmates many years.
    1783.—Asa Andrews died in Ipswich, Mass.,  13 Janu-
ary, 1856, aged 93.  He  was son  of Robert Andrews, and
was born in that part  of  Shrewsbury which  is now within the
limits of Boylston, 11 May, 1762.   His father was a native  of
Boxford.   His  mother — who was  a  Bradstreet, a  native  of
Topsfield — was a descendant of Gov. Simon Bradstreet.  Since
the death of the Hon. John Welles, Mr. Andrews has been the
oldest surviving graduate of Harvard;  and,  at the time of his
death, was the oldest man  in  Ipswich. He studied law with
Hon. Caleb Strong, of Northampton (H.C. 1764).  After com-
pleting his legal studies, he opened an office in Ipswich, where he
resided during the remainder of his long life.   In 1794, he was
appointed, by Washington, collector of the port  and district  of
Ipswich; which office he held until 1829, when he was removed
by Jackson.   At the time of his removal, a balance was claimed
as due from him to the government;  but on a trial before Judge
Story, in the Circuit Court at Boston, the jury found that there
was due to him from the government about two thousand dollars.
This was not paid him until about a year  before his death ;  when,
by an appropriation made by Congress, he received the balance
which had been due to him more  than a quarter  of a century.
He Avas a man of distinguished ability.   He  filled many offices
of honor and trust, and enjoyed the entire confidence of his fel-
low-citizens.
    1785.—Rev. Thaddeus Fiske died in Charlestown, Mass.,
14 November, 1855, aged  93.  He was son of Jonathan and 
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Abigail Fiske; Avas born  in Weston, Mass., 22 June,  1762;
and was, at the time of his death, the oldest clergyman in Mas-
sachusetts.   He was  ordained  pastor of the church in  West
Cambridge, 23 April, 1788 ; and resigned his pastoral  charge,
23 April, 1828, on the completion of the fortieth  year of his
ministry.  It is remarkable that he lived to see  five clergymen
successively ordained over the  society where he had faithfully
labored for forty years, three of whom passed off the stage  be-
fore him : viz., Rev. David Damon, Avho died 25 June, 1843,
aged 55 ; Rev. William Ware, who  died  19 February, 1852,
aged 54 ; and Rev. James Francis Brown, who  died 13 June,
1853,  aged 32.   In the year  1821,  the degree of D.D. was
conferred upon Dr. Fiske by Columbia College, New York.   A
feAv months before his death, he removed from West  Cambridge
to Charlestown to reside  with  a relative in the latter place,
where  he passed the few  remaining days  of his life.
   1787. —Hon. William Cranch died in Washington, D.C.,
1 September,  1855,  aged 86.   He  was son of Richard and
Mary (Smith) Cranch, and was born in Weymouth, Mass., 17
July,  1769.  His mother was  sister  of the wife of President
John Adams.  He was prepared for college under the instruc-
tion  of Rev. John Shaw,  of Haverhill (H.C. 1772) ; and  en-
tered the freshman class, six months  in  advance, in February,
1784.   He studied law with Hon. Thomas  Dawes, of Boston
(H.C. 1777) ;  and in July, 1790, Avas admitted to  practice in
the Court of Common Pleas in this State.  He opened an office
in Braintree,  near Quincy; but, one year afterwards, removed
to Haverhill.   For three  years he attended the courts in Es-
sex County, Mass., and Rockingham  County, N.H. ; and Avas
admitted to practice in the Massachusetts  Supreme Judicial
Court  in July, 1793.  In September, 1794, he Avas employed
as the  land-agent of the firm of Morris,  Nicholson, and Green-
leaf, in the city of Washington;  to which  place he removed
in October of that year, and there resided during the remainder
of his life.  In April, 1795, he was married to Nancy Greenleaf,
daughter of  Hon. William Greenleaf, with  Avhom  he lived
nearly fifty years;  she having  died in Washington,  16 Sep- 
1855-56.]
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69
tember, 1843.   In  1800, he  was appointed one of the com-
missioners of the city of Washington, which office  he resigned
in 1801 ; Avhen he was  appointed, by President  Adams, junior
assistant-judge of the United-States Circuit  Court  of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, under  the act of Congress of 27 February,
1801 : the late  Gov. Thomas  Johnson, of  Maryland, having
been appointed chief judge ;  and Mr. James Marshall, brother
of the late Chief Justice Marshall, having been appointed elder
assistant-judge.   Mr. Adams consented to  give this appoint-
ment to his nephew, only upon the earnest  personal appeal of
Chief-Justice Marshall,  after  a  public petition to the same end;
as he was apprehensive, that, in the  dispensation of office,  the
public might charge upon him that  system  of nepotism which
has  since become so common at the seat of government; and
hence his reluctance  to  elevate  one whom he loved next to his
own son.  Gov. Johnson refused  to  accept the  office;  and
President Jefferson  appointed  William  Kitty,  Esq.,  chief
judge.  Mr. Marshall resigned in 1803 ;  and Nicholas Fitzhugh,
Esq., of Virginia, was  appointed  in  his place.   In 1805, Mr.
Kitty  having  been  appointed  chancellor of  Maryland, Judge
Cranch Avas  appointed  by President Jefferson to the office of
chief-justice; and, by virtue of that office, he was sole judge of
the District Court of the United States for  the District of Co-
lumbia, AArhich has  the same jurisdiction as the other district
courts of the  United States.   He  published nine volumes  of
cases in the Supreme Court of  the United States ; a memoir of
the life, character, and writings of President John Adams,  read
before the Columbian Institute, 16 March, 1837; and an address
upon the subject of temperance in  1831, a small pamphlet.   He
Avas a member of the American Academy of  Arts and Sciences,
and of the American  Antiquarian Society.   In 1829,  he re-
ceived the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard
College.  For  fifty  years and  more, he was looked up to  in
Washington, Alexandria,  Georgetown, and in the neighborhood,
as the chief citizen of the district.  By his kindness  and benevo-
lence to the  poor,  by his uniform courtesy  to all  men, by his
life-long industry and patience  in labor, by his  love  of letters, 
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by his fidelity to every private and public trust reposed in him,
he won  a love and respect which Avere felt by every man, and
even every child, who knew him.  His  life, too, was  eminently
a religious one; and  as he lived, so he died, in the fullest hope
of a blessed immortality.
   1787.—Dr. Walter Hunnewell  died in  Watertown,
Mass.,  19 October,  1855, aged 86.   He was born in Cam-
bridge,  10 August, 1769 ; studied medicine with  Dr. Marshall
Spring, of Watertown (H.C. 1762) ;  and settled in Watertown,
AA'here he passed  the whole of his professional  life, and was
highly respected as a good citizen and a skilful physician.
   1793.—Hon. Charles Jackson died in Boston, 13 Decem-
ber,  1855, aged 80.  He was the eldest son of Hon. Jonathan
   7       7  o
Jackson,  of Newburyport (H.C. 1761), — one  of the most
prominent men of this state during the revolutionary era ; being
a member of the Continental Congress in  1780 ; marshal of the
district  of Massachusetts, under Washington; treasurer of the
commonwealth  for  five  years,  and  of  Harvard College  at
the time of his death ; — and grandson of Edward Jackson (H.C.
1726),  a  distinguished merchant  of Boston.  He was born  in
Newburyport, 31 May, 1775 ;  was fitted  for college  under the
instruction of Nicholas Pike,  of Newburyport (H.C. 1766),
and  at Dummer Academy.   He graduated with  the  highest
honors of his class.   He  pursued the study of laAv in  Newbury-
port, under the instruction of Hon. Theophilus Parsons  (H.C.
1769) ;  was admitted to practice in the county of Essex in 1796 ;
immediately entered upon the  practice  of his  profession in his
native town, and  rose  rapidly to  eminence.   In  1803, he  re-
moved to Boston,  and soon attained the highest rank at the
bar,  where James Sullivan, John Lowell, Christopher  Gore,
Rufus Amory,  Harrison  Gray  Otis,  Samuel  Dexter, William
Sullivan, and other distinguished men, were his associates and
competitors;  and, in partnership with Hon. Samuel  Hubbard,
(Y.C. 1802), acquired  probably the most  lucrative practice ever
before known in Massachusetts.   In 1813, he  was appointed by
Gov. Strong to the  office of judge of the  Supreme  Court,  to
fill  the  vacancy occasioned  by the death  of Hon.  Theodore 
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Sedgwick  (Y.C. 1765) ; which appointment,  he, after  much
hesitation, accepted, impelled by a high sense of duty, and by
the urgency of the chief-justice and his other professional friends
of his peculiar fitness for that high station.  He discharged its
duties with eminent  fidelity until the year 1823 ; when he was
compelled by declining health to resign his seat, to the universal
regret of the bar and the people of the  state.   Immediately on
his retirement, for the  purposes of relaxation and recovery, he
went to Europe ;  and, Avhile in England, received great attention
from the jurists and statesmen of the  times.   In 1820, he was
a  very influential member  of the convention for revising the
constitution  of the  state.    In  1832,  Gov. Lincoln,  acting
under a resolve of the legislature, appointed three commission-
ers to revise the General Statutes of the commonwealth; and
Judge Jackson Avas placed at the  head of this important  trust.
His associates were Hon. Asahel Stearns  (H.C. 1797), and
John Hooker Ashmun  (H.C. 1818).   Mr.  Ashmun died soon
afterwards, and Hon. John Pickering (H.C. 1796) was appointed
in his place.   Before his elevation to the bench of the Supreme
Court,  he was elected,  in 1808, in 1809, and in  1812,  a repre-
sentative to the General Court.   After  his resignation, he was
selected for the performance of various important trusts; among
Avhich Avas that of a member of  the corporation of Harvard Col-
lege, which he filled from 1825  to 1834.  In politics, he  clung
with the ardor and  tenacity of settled principle  to the  ancient
faith of the old Essex  platform, of which his master, Parsons,
so admirably sketched the outlines in his famous "Resolutions,"
and from which so many of the noblest men, whom this country
has  eArer counted among its jewels, have so often uttered the
words of warning and wisdom and encouragement and patriot-
ism,  in  the  roughest  times  the  country has  ever  seen.  In
religion, he Avas a Christian  believer in faith and practice,  with-
out ostentatious profession, but with earnest and  never-shrinking
fidelity  to  the  great principles which his faith inculcates.   He
had  long looked  upon  his work as done upon  earth, and was
aAvaiting in calmness and serene composure the summons which
was  at last kindly sent, translating him  from this  to a higher 
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world, so gently and free from suffering, that it seemed little else
than falling asleep.
   1795. —Henry Gassett died in Boston,  15 August, 1855,
aged 81.  He Avas son of Henry and Persis  (Howe) Gassett,
and was born in Northborough, Mass., 1  February,  1774.   He
was of French extraction, and the name was, originally,  Gachet.
About the year 1700, two  Frenchmen,  brothers, Huguenots,
named Henri and  David  Gachet, emigrated from Rochelle,
France, and landed in Boston.   David married a Miss  White,
and  settled  in Raynham, Mass. :  Henri married Miss Sarah
Hoskins, and settled  at Taunton,  Mass.  The descendants of
the two have Anglicized the name in different ways : those of the
elder brother writing  it Gassett;  and those  of  the younger,
Gushee.   Most  of them  reside in Massachusetts,  in  Bristol
County, where the descendants of both are numerous;  and but
feAv, if any of them, live out of New England.   They do not,
however, retain the name of their progenitors to a very great
extent, OAving to the large proportion of females in the families.
The subject of this notice was a  descendant in the third genera-
tion from Henri the Huguenot.  He was fitted  for college at
Leicester Academy.   On graduating, he  began teaching school,
which he continued some twelve or eighteen months: but, finding
it not a very profitable business,  he relinquished it, and engaged
in trade, first in  the  country, and  afterwards in Boston, in a
small, cautious way;  till,  about  the year 1804, he  became the
head of the  extensive dry-goods importing  house  of Gassett,
Upham, and  Co. ;  and on the 18th of April,  1805, he sailed for
Liverpool, being the first of three visits  he made to England.
He continued doing a large and profitable  business for more than
forty years ;  and retired about eleven years before his death, hav-
ing accumulated an ample fortune.   He married,  17 February,
1812, Lucy  Wood, of Northborough; by whom he had nine
children,  five of whom  survive him.   Three of his sons  are
graduates at Harvard  College; namely, Henry in  1834, Edward
in 1843, and  Francis in 1847.  There is in the possession of
the  family a letter from the mother — then  a widow — of the
two emigrants, Henri and David, dated "A  la Rochelle,  le lr 
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 de mars,  1711," and directed thus: "La pre*sente, qu'il donne
 a Maitre Henri Gachet, charpentier de navire, a Boston."   Mr.
 Gassett  was one of the most distinguished of  the  old anti-
 masonic party, and by his pen  and Avealth contributed liberally
 to its aid.   He was an intimate personal friend of John  Quincy
 Adams, for whose talents and character he  had  the  most un-
 bounded respect.
    1795.—Hon. Benjamin Gorham died in Boston, 27 Sep-
 tember, 1855, aged 80.   He was son of Hon. Nathaniel  Gor-
 ham, and was born in Charlestown, Mass., 13 February, 1775.
 Nathaniel Gorham, a member and president  of the Continental
 Congress,  was the father of a numerous family,  among whom
 Avas the late Mrs. Peter C. Brooks, and a son, who became one
 of the pioneers of Western New York, and  died a few years
 since at Canandaigua.   Benjamin, who was  a younger  son,
 soon after graduating, entered the office of the Hon. Theophilus
 Parsons, in Newburyport, as a student of law, where he pur-
 sued and completed his legal studies.  He then opened an office
 in  Boston,  where he permanently resided.  He rose rapidly to
 eminence in his profession, and soon became one of the  leading
 members  of the  Boston  bar.   He was a familiar associate of
 the famous  circle in Avhich were comprised Prescott,  Jackson,
 Parsons, Gore,  Dexter,  Sullivan, Cabot, Ames, Otis, Parker,
 and Lowell.   From 1820 to 1823, he represented  Suffolk
 District in the United-States Congress.  He  was  succeeded by
 Hon. Daniel Webster,  who held the office until 1827,  when he
 Avas chosen senator; and Mr. Gorham was again elected repre-
 sentative from Suffolk, which office he filled with honor to  him-
 self and the entire satisfaction of his constituents until 1831,
 Avhen, his term having expired, he declined a re-election.  When
 in Congress,  although  not a frequent speaker, he was  always
 listened to with  marked attention,  as he possessed a mind of
 great logical acuteness, and his  speeches commanded the  respect
 eAen of his political opponents.  The great questions which fell
 within  these periods, under the administration of Mr.  Adams
 and Gen. Jackson, were those of internal improvements, the
revenue-tariff,  and the bank of the United  States.  No  one
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understood them better than Mr. Gorham.   He discussed them
on several occasions Avith eminent ability;  and no student of the
history of our legislation on these subjects should fail to consult
the reports  of his  arguments.   His speech, in  1828, on  the
occupation of Oregon, is another monument  of his enlightened
and  prudent statesmanship.   In 1833, after  repeated fruitless
attempts  of his  party to  choose  another  candidate, he was
reluctantly persuaded to accept a third election;  and served in
the third Congress,  under the administration of Jackson ;  of the
proceedings of  which  body, his  speech on the removal  of
the deposits from the United-States Bank,  in February, 1834,
Avas  a prominent feature.  After his retirement from Congress,
he never  accepted office, except for a short time as a member
of one or both branches of the state legislature.   Being at
ease in point of fortune, the remainder of his life was passed in
the company of his books and his friends.  He was of a singu-
larly sociable nature :  he loved to  talk, and talked admirably
well.  His equanimity was imperturbable, and his cheerfulness
seldom clouded.  In the closer relations of life, he was singu-
larly favored.   By  his first marriage, he became connected with
the  family of  Judge  Lowell;  and by  his second, with that of
John Coffin Jones.    Left a widower for many years, death had
been made  familiar to his mind.  He had often expressed  a
desire that it might  be sudden; and the  gentle messenger that
summoned him fulfilled his wish.
   1795. — Dr. Ebenezer Lawrence died  in Pepperell, Mass.,
14 June, 1856, aged 86.  He was  son of Ephraim and  Anna
 (Fisk) Lawrence, and was born in  Pepperell, 9 January,  1770.
He pursued his medical studies under the instruction of Gov.
John Brooks, of Medford;  and settled as a  physician in Hamp-
ton, N.H., where he acquired an extensive  practice, which he
continued with eminent  success for fifty-one years.   Unlike
most of his contemporaries in  the medical profession, he adminis-
tered  to  his patients but  very little  medicine;  relying  rather
upon the vis medicatrix naturae to effect a cure.   He married, in
 1800, Abigail Leavitt, daughter of Col. Thomas Leavitt, of
 Hampton;  and had  a large family of children.   His wife and 
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four children, two sons  and two daughters, survive  him.  He
was highly esteemed and  respected  by  the  citizens  among
whom he so long  resided, and who  intrusted to  him  many
offices of importance and responsibility.   He was  repeatedly
elected a selectman, and  several times  represented the town in
the New-Hampshire  legislature.  About five  years  before his
death, he returned to his native town,  where he resided in the
family of one of his sons during the remainder of his life.  He
died full of years,  universally respected; and will long be re-
membered  as  the  "beloved physician."
    1795. — Rev. Silas Warren died in Jackson, Waldo Coun-
ty, Me., 7 January, 1856, aged 88.  He Avas son of John and
Mary (Myrick) Warren, and was born in Weston,  Mass., 11
May, 1767.   For  several years after leaving college, he  was
engaged in the  instruction of youth.   He  was  ordained at
Jackson, 16 September,  1812.  He was a liberal divine of the
old school;  and after a peaceful ministry of about ten years, in
consequence  of some dissatisfaction with the  liberality of his
opinions, felt by a portion of his people, his pastoral  relation to
the church in Jackson was dissolved.   He continued to  reside
in the town, and  spent the  remainder of his days, until over-
taken by the infirmity of age, in teaching,  and in  cultivating  a
farm.   He possessed a naturally  vigorous  constitution,  and
retained  his faculties of  body and mind to such a  degree as
enabled him to enjoy life to  almost the  close of its period of
eighty-eight years.  A cheerful and happy temperament made
him peculiarly acceptable in his favorite occupation  of instruc-
tion, and sustained him  under the privations  of straitened  cir-
cumstances.  His  appearance in the pulpit was calm, dignified,
and grave ; and his manners,  in private intercourse, affable  and
polite.   He  had long looked forward to  death  as  a happy
release, and at  last sank  quietly away as in sleep.  It was the
natural, peaceful close of a venerable old age.
    1797. —Leonard Jarvts died  in Baltimore,  Md., 16 No-
vember,  1855,  aged 76.   He  was son  of Nathaniel Jarvis,  and
was born in Cambridge, Mass., 7  January, 1779.   For ten
years   after  leaving  college,   he followed maritime  pursuits, 
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and  was master of an  indiaman, making successful voyages.
He then quitted this  sphere to enter upon mercantile  life, and
formed a partnership Avith Mr. Asaph Stone ; their place of busi-
ness  being first at No. 9, Union  Street, and  afterwards at the
corner of Court and  Washington  streets, Boston ;  which firm
continued for six years.   During  the war of 1812,  Mr Jarvis
disposed of his interest in the business, and resided in Cambridge
until the close of the war, when he removed to Baltimore for the
benefit of a milder climate.   Here  he was highly successful in
business, and became wealthy.   He married, in 1806 or 1807,
Mary Cogswell, of Littleton.   They had no child.   He was a
gentleman  without  ostentation or  display, and remarkable for
his generosity towards young men in the mercantile profession.
By his Avill, he devised the Melange edifice in Baltimore, known
as the " Jarvis Building," and  occupied  by the  " Baltimore Pa-
triot," one  half to Harvard  College, and the other half to the
Baltimore Humane Impartial Society,  the House  of  Refuge,
the Aged-Women's  Home, and the Baltimore Orphan Asylum.
These  devises do not, however, take effect until the decease of
his AvidoAv, to Avhom nearly the whole of the income of his estate
is given during her life.   The estate is estimated at not less than
twenty thousand dollars  a year, and is increasing.
   1797.—Joseph Tilton died  in Exeter, N.H.,  27 March,
1856,  aged  81.    He  was  born  in East Kingston,  N.H.,
10 August, 1774; and  was fitted for college at Exeter  Aca-
demy.    On  leaving college, he returned  to Exeter, Avhere he
studied  laAv Avith Hon. Jeremiah Smith  (Rutg. C.  1780), Avho
had  that year removed from Peterborough to Exeter.   He was
admitted to the bar in 1801;  and immediately afterwards opened
an office in Wakefield, N.H.,  Avhere he  practised  four or five
years ; when he removed to Rochester, N.H., where he remained
two  or three  years;  and,  in the  summer of 1809,  went to
Exeter, and there passed the remainder of his life.  He acquired
an extensive  and  respectable practice, which he continued for
forty-five years, Avhen he retired from the  active  duties  of his
profession.   It is a sufficient proof of his professional success,
that  he gained a prominent position at a bar where Webster, 
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 Mason, Smith, Sullivan, Woodbury, Bartlett, Cutts, and Haven
 were his contemporaries and competitors.   He was held in high
 estimation by his fellow-citizens, as was indicated,  among other
 things, by their electing him to represent the town of Exeter, in
 the  New-Hampshire legislature, nine  successive  years,—from
 1815 to 1823 inclusive.   He was a director in  the old  Exeter
 Bank, for  many years, until it  closed.  In 1806, he  married
 Nancy Folsom, of Exeter.   She died in 1837.   In his pro-
 fessional and social relations, his good-humor Avas as unfailing
 as his  integrity was  undoubted.   He appeared to regard his
 profession  as his post of duty, in which he was to do his part in
 guarding and advancing  the interests of society.   He  passed
 through life  in  the enjoyment of the  respect of  his brethren of
 the  bar, and the confidence of the community.   He lived to a
 good old age, and his memory will be long cherished by those
 who knew him.
    1797. — Dr. John Collins Warren died in Boston, 4 May,
 1856, aged 77.    He Avas the eldest often  children  of Dr. John
 and  Abigail  (Collins) Warren ;  and was  born  in Boston,
 1 August,  1778.  His  father, Dr. John Warren  (H.C. 1771),
 Avas born in Roxbury, Mass,, 27 July, 1753 ; studied  medicine
 with his brother, Gen. Joseph Warren ; and acquired a reputation
 as a physician and surgeon no less extensive than that  to which
 his distinguished son afterwards attained.   His mother was  the
 daughter of  John Collins, who Avas governor of Rhode Island
 from 1786 to 1789, a patriot of  the Revolution,  and a delegate
 to Congress in 1789.   He died at Newport, R.I., March, 1795,
 at the  age of  78 years.   His uncle, Gen. Joseph Warren
 (H.C. 1759), was born in Roxbury,  11 June, 1741; and was
 a physician in Boston.   He fell a martyr to the cause of freedom
 in the battle  of Bunker Hill.
   Dr.  Warren was a pupil at the Public Latin School in Bos-
 ton when the first Franklin medals were distributed  ; and was a
 successful competitor for one of them, an honor of Avhich he was
justly proud.  After going through a course of medical studies
 under the instruction of his father, he went to  Europe, where
 he passed several years studying in the  hospitals of London and 
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 Paris.   While in London, he enjoyed the friendship and instruc-
 tion  of Sir Astley  Cooper.   On  his  return, he  established
 himself as a physician in Boston, and soon  rose to the highest
 rank in his  profession.   In 1806, he was appointed assistant-
 professor of  anatomy and surgery  in Harvard College; and  on
 the death of his  father,  Avhich took place  4 April,  1815,  he
 succeeded him to the full professorship in that chair, and was
 inaugurated  1 November of that year.  The duties of this office
 he discharged with signal ability  and  success for  a  period  of
 thirty-two years.   In 1847,  he tendered  his  resignation, which
 was accepted so far as to relieve  him from the active duties  of
 the professorship; but he was retained as emeritus-professor until
 his  death.   He  was elected  president  of the Massachusetts
 Medical Society, 7 June, 1832; which office'he held  until 25
 May,  1836, Avhen, at  the  annual meeting of the society, he
 declined a re-election.    He was  a  member of the American
 Academy of Arts and Sciences,  of the American Philosophical
 Society, of the Philadelphia Academy  of Natural Sciences, of the
 Academy of Naples, and the  Medical  Society  of Florence;  a
 corresponding member of the  Royal Academy of Medicine  of
 Paris, and an honorary member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society
 of London.  He was, at the time of  his death,  president of the
 Boston  Society of Natural History.   He was one of the original
 members of the Boston Light Infantry;  and was third sergeant
 on the first parade ever made by that  corps, in 1798.   After his
 retirement from the active duties of his professorship, he devoted
 much of his  time to the study of the  natural  sciences.    His
 museum of specimens in comparative anatomy, osteology and
 paleontology, was  one of the  most valuable private collections in
 the world; and  he had probably  the most perfect  skeleton of
 the mastodon giganteus of  North America  known to be in exist-
 ence.  He Avas, in conjunction with  his  friend and contempo-
rary, Dr. James Jackson, mainly instrumental in originating the
Massachusetts General Hospital and  McLean Asylum, by issu-
ing, in August, 1810, a circular to the public on the  need of
 such an institution; and  afterwards  rendered valuable  service
in arranging and perfecting its organization.   He was, for nearly 
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thirty-six years  (from 6 April, 1817, to February,  1853), at
first the sole, and  subsequently the principal, acting surgeon,
in daily attendance upon its wards ;  and by  his eminent talents,
knowledge, and  practical skill, as well as by his fidelity, energy,
and  untiring devotion in behalf of its interests, largely contrib-
uted to  make it what it now is, — an honor to the city and to the
commonwealth.   He  married, first, 17 November, 1803, Susan
Powell, daughter of Hon.  Jonathan Mason, by whom he had
seven children,  six of  whom surviAe  him.   His wife died  3
June, 1841; and he  married, second,  17 October, 1843, Anna
Winthrop, daughter of Hon. Thomas  L. Winthrop,  by whom
he had  no issue.   She died  17 December, 1850.  He contrib-
uted a  large number of valuable  papers in the  Massachusetts
Medical Society's publications.  A few years  since,  he  pre-
pared and published, at his own  expense, and  for  gratuitous
distribution to  public  institutions and  scientific persons, his
great work on the mastodon of this country; and, a few weeks
before his death, he issued  a  second and enlarged  edition, which
is offered for sale at a price  which will barely meet the cost of
publication.   In 1854, he  published, in a splendid  quarto vol-
ume, a "Genealogy  of Warren."   He died full of years and
honors  ; and, by his death, science lost one of its most ardent and
devoted laborers.
    1798. — Hon. Samuel Phillips  Prescott Fay  died  in
Cambridge, Mass., 18  May, 1856,  aged 78.  He was son of
Jonathan Fay, and was born in Concord, Mass., 10 January,
1778.   He  Avas the orator, who, by the appointment of his
classmates, addressed them in Latin, according to the usage of
that time, before the faculty, at the  close of the  college-studies
of the  class, and  at the  time of  their separation until  the
recurrence of the annual commencement.   On leaving college,
he began the study of law :  but soon  afterwards he  received  a
captain's commission in the American army, raised in conse-
quence of  French hostilities ;  and joined the forces  under the
command  of Gen.  Hamilton, stationed  at Oxford,  Mass., in
1798-9.   His military career,  however, Avas not  of  long  dura-
tion.   After the successful issue of the second mission of envoys 
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 sent to  France by President Adams, the army Avas disbanded,
 and young Fay resumed the  study  of  the law.   Having com-
 pleted his course of legal studies, and been admitted to the bar,
 he oj)ened an office  in Cambridge, where  he soon acquired a
 high reputation as  a  successful lawyer.   He  Avas early and
 happily  married,  and enjoyed, in an  uncommon degree, the
 blessings of domestic life; and, when the partner of his comforts
 and cares was taken from him, he Avas not left in entire domes-
 tic solitude, but was cared for and solaced by dutiful and affec-
 tionate children.  In his professional business,  he Avas faithful
 and exact, and possessed  the  utmost confidence  of his clients.
 Without seeking for political  distinction,  he  took a reasonable
 degree of interest in politics, which was demonstrated  by his
 pen, and by his acceptance of the office  of representative of the
 town.  He Avas a  member of the governor's council  in 1818
 and 1819, and of the  Convention for revising  the Constitution of
 Massachusetts in 1820.   On the 1st of  May, 1821, he Avas  ap-
 pointed judge of probate  for  Middlesex County; the duties of
 Avhich office he discharged with singular fidelity and promptness
 for nearly thirty-five years, until the latter part of March, 1856,
 Avhen he was  compelled  to  resign it on  account of the feeble
 state of his health.    He was elected a member of the Board pf
 Overseers of Harvard College  in 1824, which office he held until
 the neAv organization  of the board in 1852.   In all his  civil,
 social, and official relations, his  uprightness  and urbanity will
 be  among  the cherished  memories of a host  of  survivors.
    179S.—Hon.  Ralph Hill French died in Manchester,
 N.H., 31 October, 1855, aged 79.  He was born in  Marble-
 head, Mass.,  31 January, 1776.   He  studied law with Hon.
William Gordon, of Amherst, N.H.  (H.C. 1779) ; and opened
an office in Marblehead, in which town,  and in Salem, he prac-
tised law more than twenty years, during which time  he held
many offices of trust and importance.  In 1819,  he was elected
a senator in the Massachusetts legislature  from Essex District.
He was chosen register of deeds for Essex County,' and held the
office  twenty  years, until he was  compelled  to  resign  it  on
account of the impaired state of his health.   Three years before 
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his death, he removed to Manchester, where he spent the remain-
der of his days.  He married a sister of Hon. Charles Hum-
phrey Atherton, of Amherst,  N.H.  (H.C.  1794).   He  was
highly respected by the bar, and by the people of Essex County,
among Avhom he passed the greater portion  of his life.
   1799. — Hon.  Ebenezer Clap  died in  Bath,  Me.,  28
January, 1856, aged  77.   He was born in  Mansfield, Mass.,
21 January, 1779.  His father was a respectable farmer of that
town.   AVhen  a boy, he had an unaccountable  presentiment
that  he was born to greater  things than he  saw awaited  him
should he remain and  labor with his father on a farm :  so he
betook himself to study, for the purpose of acquiring a  liberal
education.   Soon after graduating, he began  the  study of law
under  Hon.  Seth Padelford,  of  Taunton (Y.C. 1770) ;  and
finished his legal studies under the instruction of Hon. Benjamin
Whitman,  of Pembroke (B.U. 1788).   He was admitted to
the bar at  Taunton in 1803,  and immediately opened an office
in Nantucket;  but removed the same year to Bath,  Avhere he
resided  during  the  remainder of  his life.   During  that long
period,  he  held many important  positions among his fellow-
citizens ; at  the  bar, in the legistature  of  Massachusetts, on
the  bench,  as  judge of the Court of  Sessions,  and fourteen
years judge  of  the  Municipal Court in Bath.   In  1812, he
married Sarah  Winslow,  of  Marshfield, Mass., daughter of
Dr.  Isaac WinsloAV, and a descendant,  in a direct line, from
Gov. Winslow.  They had no children.  Judge  Clap was an
honest  lawyer.   In  disposition  he  was modest, mild,  and
humane;  in integrity he  was above reproach.
   1800. —Hon. Timothy Boutelle died in WaterA-ille, Me.,
12 November, 1855,  aged 77.   He was son of Col.  Timothy
and  Rachel (Lincoln) Boutelle, and was born  in Leominster,
Mass., 10 November, 1778.  After leaving college, he  became
an assistant preceptor in Leicester  Academy, where he remained
one year.   He began the study of law, in his native town, with
Hon. Abijah BigeloAV (D.C. 1795) ; and completed his studies
in the office of Edward Gray,  Esq.,  of  Boston (H.C. 1792).
Soon after his admission to the bar, he  established himself in
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Waterville, and made that place his home until the close of his
life.  He soon acquired a good practice in the counties of Ken-
nebec and Somerset,  to  Avhich  his  attention Avas  principally
limited.   For many years, he  devoted himself mainly to the
regular  duties  of  his  profession,  without being much  allured
by  the  honors and emoluments  of  political-life.   With the
exception of acting as elector of  President and Alee-President
in 1816, he Avas not much in public life until after the separation
of Maine from Massachusetts, when he subsequently served at
least a  dozen  years as senator and representative in the legis-
lature of Maine.  He Avas a warm friend of the cause of educa-
tion, and took a deep interest in Waterville  College, of  which
he Avas,  at the time of his death, one of the trustees, and from
Avhich he received, in  1839,  the  honorary degree of Doctor of
LaAvs.    During the latter years  of his life, having in a great
measure withdraAvn from the active duties of his profession, he
gave much of  his time and labor to the promotion of railroads
and the  means of internal improvement.   Active, energetic, and
public-spirited, he was ever  ready to  engage in any enterprise,
Avhich, in his judgment, would tend to promote the best interests
of the public;  and, in all situations of influence and trust, he
enjoyed, in a high degree,  the confidence of those associated with
him.  He closed a long, active, and useful life with a reputation
for sound judgment, public spirit,  and kindness of heart,  Avhich
might Avell afford the richest consolation to those who loved and
respected him.
   1802.—John Mico Gannett, of Walpole, Mass., died
suddenly in Boston, 25 July, 1855, aged 71.   He was  son of
Caleb and Katharine  (Wendell) Gannett;  and was born  in
Cambridge, Mass., 15 March, 1784.   His father, Rev.  Caleb
Gannett (H.C.  1763),  Avas  born  in  Bridgewater,  Mass.,
22 August, 1745 ; was ordained in Hingham, Mass., 12 Octo-
ber,  1767, as minister at  Amherst  and Cumberland,  N.S. ;
where he remained  until 1771,  when he returned to Massa-
chusetts.  He was tutor in Harvard College from 1773 to 1780;
a member of the corporation from 1778 to 1780; and steward
from 1779 till his death, which  took  place  25 April,  1818. 
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His mother was  daughter of John  Mico Wendell, whose wife
Avas Katharine, daughter of William  Brattle.   Mr. Gannett was
fitted  for college at PhiDips Academy, Andover, Mass.  Imme-
diately after he graduated,  he began to study law in the office of
Hon.  William Stedman, of Lancaster, Mass. (H.C. 1784) ;
but soon Avent to Plymouth,  Mass., and  entered the office of
Judge Joshua Thomas (H.C. 1772), with whom he studied two
years.  He Avas  admitted  to the bar, in Boston, before he was
twenty-one years old.   He was married, 30 June, 1805, in Hart-
ford,  Conn.,  to  Mary Woodbridge Wyllys,  daughter of  Gen.
Samuel Wyllys (Y.C. 1758).   He  opened an office  in North-
field,  Mass., where he  remained about two years.  While there,
he w^as chosen major-general of the militia.   Early in the  year
1807, he was prevailed on  by his father-in-laAv, who was secre-
tary of the state of Connecticut, and between seventy and eighty
years of age, to  move  to Hartford.  Here he practised  law,
became a  prominent politician of the old federal school, was a
representative to the  General Court, a senator, and  a member
of the council.   About 1823, his health  became impaired  so
much as to prevent him in a great measure from  pursuing his
profession.   His  wife died 25 April, 1825.   This produced a
a great effect on his spirits, and he spent two or three years  in
Cambridge and Boston.   In 1828, his health having  improved,
he moved to Walpole, Mass., with the vieAv of leading  a  quiet
country life.   Here he  declined entering  extensively into the
practice of  laAv;  but, as  he  held a commission of  justice  of
the peace, he rendered various services, mostly gratuitous, to his
friends and neighbors.   He was married a second time, 3 April,
1837, to Hannah, daughter of William Kingsbury, a  farmer  in
Walpole.   She died in April,  1839.   He was a member of the
school committee of Walpole during his residence there.   He
devoted much of his  time to literature,  and  published many
articles in the neAvspapers.   " He was a fine specimen  of a gen-
tleman of the old school, courteous,  genial, of great  integrity,
of fine tastes, varied  attainments, and of high  culture."   His
death, which  was caused by disease of  the  heart, took place
while  he was  on a temporary visit to Boston. 
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   1806. — Charles Hayavard died in Boston, 18 December,
1855, aged  68.  He Avas son of Dr. Lemuel II ay ward (II. C.
1768), and was born in Boston, 18 August, 1787.   His father
Avas a surgeon in  the  Revolutionary army ;  was aftenvards  for
many years an eminent physician in Boston, where he died 20
March, 1821, aged  72.   Mr. Hayward, after leaving  college,
engaged in mercantile business, but relinquished it;  and, for the
last thirty-five years, Avas Avell known as a  notary public.   He
Avas  highly  respected  as  a  quiet, unobtrusive, upright, worthy
citizen.
   1808.—Naiium Houghton  Groce  died  in  Westford,
Mass., 14 March,  1856,  aged 74.  He was born in Sterling,
Mass., 8 December, 1781.   He was, for  fourteen years, pre-
ceptor of Westford Academy.  The subsequent part of his  life
he devoted to agricultural pursuits.
   1812. — George Phillips Parker  died in New-York City,
19 January, 1856, aged 62.  He was son of John  Parker, of
Boston ; where he was born 2 March, 1793.  His name original-
ly was George Parker;  but, some years  after leaAdng college, he
took the intermediate name of Phillips.   He entered his father's
counting-room, where he remained a short time ; after which he
went to Europe, where he travelled several years.  For some
years before his death, he was actively engaged in the temper-
ance cause, and contributed liberally from his ample  means to
promote its objects.
   1814. — Gorham Brooks died in Medford, Mass., 11 Sep-
tember, 1855, aged  60.   He was son of Hon.  Peter C. Brooks,
and Avas born in Boston, 10 February, 1795.  He Avas prepared
for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.  After reading
laAv one year in the  office of Hon. LeAvis Strong at Northamp-
ton (H.C.  1803),-he made a voyage to Calcutta, not  in  the
Avay of business, but for amusement and to  see the world.   In
1833, he engaged in mercantile business in Baltimore  as one of
the firm of William E. Mayhew and Co.  Possessing an ample
fortune, he retired after a few years, and returned to Massachu-
setts, where he subsequently resided, passing the winters in Bos-
ton > and the summers at his country seat in  Medford ; devoting 
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himself to agriculture and gardening, for which he had great taste
and fondness.  He married the only daughter of Resin D. Shep-
herd, Esq., of NeAv Orleans.  Being of a modest, retiring dispo-
sition, he did not seek distinction, and was never in public  life,
except that he one year represented  the town of Medford in the
state  legislature.  Distinguished by spotless  integrity, he added
lustre to a family name  already honored in the history of the
commonwealth for its  bravery in the field, and its unsurpassed
success in active business.
    1814.—Ezekiel Hildreth died in Wheeling, Va., 15
March, 1856, aged  71.    He Avas  born in  Westford,  Mass.,
18 July, 1784, and Avas fitted for college at AVestford Academy.
On leaving college, he entered upon the business of teaching.  He
taught in Washington City, D.C. ; Wheeling, Va.  ; Zanesville,
O. ; Louisville, Ky. ; Newmarket,  Va. ; and Decatur,  Tenn. ;
in all, forty-tAvo years.  He published a grammatical work, enti-
tled "Logopolis, or City  of Words;"  also a "Key to Knowl-
edge ; "  an " Essay on the Mortality  of the Soul;" and  an
"Address on Education," delivered before the Educational Con-
vention  of  Virginia, held at Clarksburg, Va., in 1836.  He
also left a number of unpublished manuscripts on  various sub-
jects, translations from  the Septuagint,  &c.   He married, in
June,  1818, Sally, daughter of Jonathan Zane;  had three sons
and four daughters, of whom all the sons and one daughter  sur-
vive him.   His wife  died in July,  1854.  For  the  last eight
years of his life, particularly,  his mind was  in an unbalanced
state.   The particular form of mental  disturbance  appeared to
be  an  alternation  of melancholia  and hypochondriasis.   His
reasoning powers, so  far from  being obtunded, were, at  times,
remarkably acute.  Difficult mathematical problems proposed to
him he Avould Avork out.   Incorrect  quotations from Greek  and
Latin authors, purposely made to him, he would promptly cor-
rect.   There Avas  a  sullen  and dogged idea with  him that he
could not "get along," that is,  provide  for his  family, although
the family had  not only provided for themselves, but for him.
For the last eight or nine  years, the  family were very comforta-
bly situated,  without necessity for labor of any kind.   Mr. Hil- 
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dreth's oldest  son, Avho is  an eminent physician in Wheeling,
supplied his father's place in the  family, Avhen the latter, from
mental malady, was no longer able to preside over the household ;
and Avatched over him in his last hours with true filial affection.
   1815.—Andreav Cunningham Davison, of Boston,  died
in Lexington,  Mass., 27 January, 1856, aged 66.  He was son
of Henry and  Mary Davison, and was born in Boston, 5 June,
1789.  After  graduating, he began the study of laAv in the office
of Hon. George  Blake, in Boston  (H.C. 1789).   From March,
1818,  to  November, 1828, he was assistant teacher in  the
Adams School in Boston.    For  many years previous to  his
death, his health did not permit him to engage in any active pur-
suit ;  and, for the last few months of his life, his mental  and
physical poAvers  were so much impaired, that his friends removed
him to Lexington, where he Avas tenderly watched and cared for
until death came to his and their relief.
   1815.—Dr.  Thaddeus William  Harris died in Cam-
bridge, Mass., 16 January,  1856, aged  60.  He was son of
Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D. (H.C. 1787) ;  and  was
born in Dorchester,  Mass., 12 November, 1795.  On leaving
college, he chose the medical profession; and, after completing
his studies, he  established himself for medical  practice in Milton,
in connection with the eminent physician Dr. Amos Holbrook,
Avhose  advanced years  (although  he lived  a  score  of  years
longer) already demanded some  relief.   As a  physician,  he
acquired  a solid  reputation  for learning, fidelity, and skill:  but
his little  confidence in himself, and a groAving taste for natural
sciences, led him to  desire some  mode  of life more consistent
with its leisurely cultivation; and in 1831,  on the decease of
Benjamin Pierce, the librarian of  Harvard College,  he  was
chosen as his successor.   This office he accepted,  and held until
his decease, discharging its duties with great assiduity and fidel-
ity.   In  the study of nature, he possessed those rare powers of
observation, discrimination,  and  analysis, which,  united to  a
hearty love of  the  pursuit, make  a naturalist of the highest
order.   He Avas a  learned botanist:  but  the  department of
natural history to which he Avas especially devoted was the study 
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of the insect tribes; and he was recognized, by common con-
sent of European naturalists, as the first  entomologist in the
Avorld.  His " Treatise on some of the Insects of NeAv England
Avhich are Injurious  to Vegetation," first  published in  1841
under a  commission from the  common Avealth,  is a permanent
contribution to science, of the highest value.   He felt a strono-
interest in our New-England antiquities, and the fruits of his
occasional  investigations  in  that  sphere  often  enabled  him
to  give  valuable  information  to  more  systematic inquirers.
He was  a member of the  Boston  Society of Natural History,
the American  Academy  of Arts  and  Sciences,  and  of the
Massachusetts  Historical  Society.    He lived a pure, useful
life, and died as a Christian dieth, leaving behind  him a  good
name.
    1816.—John James  Devereux died in Salem,  Mass.,
16  March, 1856,  aged  59.   He was son of Capt. James and
Sarah (CroAvninshield)  Devereux,  and  Avas  born in  Salem,
Mass., 12 June,  1796.  His  father was  born in  Waterford,
Ireland,  May, 1766;  and emigrated, when  quite young,  to
Salem, where he married,  12 September,  1792,  Sarah, daughter
of John  CroAvninshield and Mary Ives, both natives of  Salem.
His mother was born in 1768, and died 13 March,  1815.  Mr.
Devereux, the subject of this notice, Avhen in the eighth year of
his  age,  entered  the private school of Robert Rogers  (H.C.
1802) in Salem,  where he remained  about tAvo  years, when  he
Avas transferred to the Branch School, established by an associa-
tion of gentlemen, and  under the  direction of Benjamin  Tap-
pan (H.C. 1805).  Mr.  Tappan was succeeded in the school
by Abiel Chandler and  Samuel Adams (both H.C. 1806),  by
Avhom young DeArereux was fitted  for college.  He entered in
1812, and remained with his class  till 1815, Avhen he left col-
lege to become a merchant.   He did not  receive his degree  of
Bachelor of Arts until 1849, and the folloAving year he received
his  degree of Master.   He pursued  the mercantile profession
until  1829, when he relinquished it, and  began the study  of
laAv under the instruction of Hon.  David Cummins, of Salem
(D.C. 1806).  Upon his admission to the bar, he opened  an 
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office in Boston, Avhere he remained  a few  years,  and then
removed to Ncav York, and, three years  afterwards, to Phila-
delphia, Avhere he practised nearly twenty years, and attained an
honorable rank among the learned members of that distinguished
bar.   Being endowed with the rare combination  of great versa-
tility of mind,  elegant  manners, a facility of speech seldom
equalled, and generous  impulses, he was  a welcome  visitor at
every social circle that was graced by his presence.  Possessing
all the advantages that ample Avealth could bestOAv, he  travelled
extensively in various quarters of the globe,  and circulated in
the most polished society of Europe.   He visited nearly every
part of the European continent,  and most of the islands of the
Eastern Archipelago;  having,  at one time,  actually  travelled
the Island  of Java from one extremity to another.   He  was
never married.  He was polished without affectation, learned
Avithout pedantry, and, with  all  his  accomplishments, easily
recognizable as a gentleman and a scholar; cheerful  as to his
future destiny, sinking to rest with that serenity which  results
from a heart at peace with  itself, and with a world to  which  it
bids  an eArerlasting adieu.
   1<S16. — George Frederick Farley  died in  Groton,
Mass., 8 November, 1855, aged 62.  He was son of  Benjamin
and  Lucy (Fletcher) Farley, of Brookline, N.H. ; and Avas born
in Dunstable, Mass., 5 April, 1793 ; his mother, at the time of
his birth, being on a visit at her father's house.  He  was pre-
pared for college at Westford Academy;  and, on leaving  col-
lege, began the study of law with his brother, Benjamin Marcus
Farley  (H.C. 1804),  in Brookline, N.H,;  afterwards, for a
time, studied Avith Luther Lawrence, of Groton (H.C. 1801),
but  completed  his studies with  his  aforementioned  brother.
He was admitted to  the  bar in New Hampshire in 1820, and
opened  an  office in New Ipswich, N.H., where he  practised
until 1831  or 1832, when he removed to Groton, Mass., Avhere
he resided during the remainder  of his  life.   For the  last  two
or three years previous to his death, he had an office in Boston.
He  was one of  the  most eminent and successful lawyers in
Middlesex  County. 
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   1817.—Rev. Asa  Cummings  died  at  sea,  on board  the
steamship " George Law," on the passage from Panama to New
York, 5 June,  1856, aged  65.   He Avas son of Deacon Asa
Cummings, and was born in Andover  (now  North Andover),
Mass.,  29 September,  1790.   His  immediate ancestors lived
to advanced  ages.   His  grandfather died in  1794,  aged 102
years.  His  father was born in  Topsfield, Mass., September,
1759 ;  and died in  Albany, Me., 22  February, 1845, aged 85.
The family removed  to Albany in 1798, where  the  subject of
this  notice resided until 1811;  when he  left home, and entered
Phillips Academy  in Andover, where he  was  prepared for
college.  After graduating,  he taught school  a few months in
Danvers,  Mass.    He joined the junior class in the Andover
Theological  Seminary,  6  December,  1817, where he  remained
about two years, when his health failed, and he feared he should
be  obliged to give up  his intention  of  entering the  ministry.
Under the advice of physicians, he left the seminary, and went a
journey ;  and finally became  connected with Bowdoin College as
a tutor in  1819—20.  His health improved, and  he accepted  a
call  from the First Church and Society in North Yarmouth, Me.,
and was ordained 14  February, 1821.   His  pastoral life, how-
ever, was brief; for, after a few years, the  difficulty which occa
sioned  the suspension of his studies  at  Andover returned, and
he was  compelled to give up  preaching ;  but, at the desire of his
people, he  retained  his pastoral  office until his successor's
ordination, 17 February,  1830, when he was  released  from his
charge, with high  testimonials as to his ability  and Christian
character  both from the church  and  the ecclesiastical council.
On the  18th of August, 1826, he  undertook the editorship of the
"Christian Mirror," a religious paper published in Portland ; and
on the 31st of July, 1845, he became sole  proprietor of it, and
continued to  edit it  until  the close  of the  year 1855,  when he
transferred it into  other hands.   He was a  man  of vigorous
intellect, and devoted  all his energies to the advancement of the
cause to which the "Mirror" was originally consecrated.   Amidst
all the conflicts of party strife, he kept on the  even  tenor of his
Avay with  a  zeal  and  steadfastness  AArorthy  of  his  Christian
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calling.    His editorial labors,  however,  yielded  him  but a
meagre support during the long years of toil; but unexpectedly,
a few months before his death, he became possessed of an abun-
dant competence  of worldly goods.   From 1825 to 1848, he
Avas an efficient member of the Board of  Trustees of the  Maine
Missionary Society.   He was also a member of the American
Board, and was ever a warm friend of missions at home and
abroad.   He Avas deeply interested  in the cause of education,
and rendered long and valuable services  in connection Avith the
college  at New Brunswick and  the academy  at North  Yar-
mouth.   In  1847, the honorary  degree  of Doctor of Divinity
was  conferred upon  him by Bowdoin College.   In February,
1856, it being known that he was about to  make a voyage to
Panama to visit a daughter who resides  there, a large number
of the most respectable people of Portland,  irrespective of politi-
cal or religious opinions, united in tendering to him a testimo-
nial of appreciation of his moral worth, and his editorial services
of nearly thirty years, by an entertainment at Lancaster  Hall,
in Portland, on the evening of the 29th of  February.  This in-
vitation, however, he  was obliged to decline, on  account  of the
brief time allowed for  preparation for his proposed journey.   He
left New York in the  steamship on the  5th of March, arrived
safely at Panama, and enjoyed the new scenes and the re-union
Avith his children very much; and it was hoped he might  return
Avith re-invigorated health.   But, during his  stay  at Panama,
he Avas taken ill; and his physicians deciding that there Avas  no
hope of his recovery in  remaining there, and that the sea air
might possibly revive him, he was conveyed on board the steam-
ship Avhich left Aspinwall on the  4th  of June for New York;
but he rapidly sank,  and died on the second night out.  On the
following morning, after a short  funeral-service by the Rev. J.
Sessions, of Albany, N.Y., his body was committed to the deep.
He Avas greatly beloved and respected by the community in which
he lived : his life Avas  one of great activity and usefulness ; and
it might be truly said of him, that he Avas "an Israelite indeed, in
whom there was no guile."
    1817. — Dr. Edward Augustus Holyoke died in  Syra- 
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cuse, N.Y., 17 December, 1855, aged  59.   His name, origi-
nally, Avas Edward Augustus Holyoke Turner;  but, in 1820 or
1821, he assumed the name of his maternal grandfather, Dr.
Edward Augustus Holyoke, of Salem.   He was son of William
and Judith  (Holyoke)  Turner, and was  born in Boston,  12
July,  1796.  He studied medicine under the instruction  of Dr.
James Jackson, of Boston  (H.C. 1796).   On completing his
medical studies, he established himself as a physician in  Salem,
Mass. ; A\4iere he continued until 1840, when he removed to
Framingham, Mass.   Here he  resided two years;  at the  end
of which time he returned to Salem, and there resided  until the
spring of 1853, when he  removed  to Syracuse, where he re-
mained until his  death.   He married  Maria  Osgood,  daughter
of Dr. George Osgood, of Andover, Mass.   His widow and six
children survive him.   He  was  greatly respected for his  estima-
ble character and professional skill.
   1817.—Paul Willard died in Charlestown, Mass.,  18
March, 1856, aged 60.   He was son of Paul and Martha (Has-
kell)  Willard, and was  born in  Lancaster, Mass., 4 August,
1795.  His maternal grandfather, Col.  Henry Haskell,  was  an
officer in the Revolutionary army.  Mr. Willard was  fitted for
college at Westford Academy.   Soon  after  he graduated,  he
began the study of law in the office  of Hon. Calvin Willard in
Worcester.  Having completed his studies, he Avas admitted to
the bar in 1821, and opened an office in Charlestown, where he
resided, and continued in the practice of his profession, until the
day of  his  death.    In  September,  1822, he was  appointed
postmaster of Charlestown, which office he held  for seven years.
In  1823, he was elected  clerk  of the state  senate,  and was
re-elected for  seven successive years.  He held a highly re-
spectable rank at the Middlesex bar, and had an  extensive  and
lucrative practice.   He enjoyed the full confidence of his fellow-
citizens, as was shown by his being repeatedly elected  chairman
of the board  of  selectmen,  and of  the  school-committee, of
CharlestOAvn, before the  organization  of the city government.
He Avas either cashier or president of the Charlestown Bank the
Avhole time of its existence ;  and, at the time of his death,  he held 
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the office  of magistrate under the  truant-act, to which he Avas
elected by the city council.  He Avas of an exceedingly sociable
and  affable temperament, and   his house was the  home  of
hospitality.   He Avas  a  Avortliy  and honored citizen.
   1821. — George Barrell Moody died in Bangor, Mc.,
6 July, 1856, aged 53.   He was son  of Joseph  and Maria
(Barrell)  Moody,  and  AA'as born  in Kennebunk, Me., 17 July,
1802.   He was fitted  for college at the academy in  Gorham,
Me.   Immediately after  leaving college,  he began the study of
law under the instruction  of Hon. William Sullivan, of Boston
(H.C. 1792).   Having completed  his legal studies, and been
admitted to the bar, he opened  an office  in Kennebunk; but
soon aftenvards removed to Gardiner, and thence to  Brewer, in
Avhich places he remained but a few months.  He then Avent to
OldtOAvn,  where  he  continued several years;   and  finally  re-
moved  to  Bangor, where he  practised law for nearly thirty
years.   He acquired a high  reputation as  a sound,  thorough,
rather than a brilliant  lawyer; and was especially distinguished
for dignity and courtesy of  manners, as well  as integrity  of
character,  which made him  esteemed by  all his professional
brethren and by his fellow-citizens, so far as his  naturally quiet
and  reserved  habits  admitted general  acquaintance.    On  the
next day subsequent to his decease,  at a meeting of the Penob-
scot  bar, Hon. EdAvard Kent, who Avas his classmate and room-
mate, announced  his  death,  accompanying the  announcement
with some eloquent  and  highly  appropriate remarks, in Avhich
he spoke  of his guileless and confiding nature, his simplicity,
his  high sense of honor, his  refined and polished manners, his
domestic virtues, which ahvays rendered liis  house attractive  to
its inmates and his friends.  He concluded  by offering  a  series
of resolutions,  expressing a  high  appreciation  of his charac-
ter  as  a correct,  capable, and  honorable  lawyer, an upright
man, a useful  citizen, a  refined  and accomplished gentleman.
Chief-Justice Tenney responded in just and touching terms, in
Avhich he  bore testimony to the  worth and virtues  of the  de-
ceased,  and concluded by ordering the clerk to place the resolu-
tions upon the records.   Mr. Moody married  Mary, daughter 
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of Mr. John Barker, of Bangor,  and had  four children  (one
son and  three  daughters),  all of whom, with  their  mother,
survive him.
   1824. — George Thomas Sanders died in  Salem, Mass.,
1 May, 1856, aged 51.   He was son  of Thomas and Elizabeth
Sanders,  and was  born  in  Salem,  30 October, 1804.   He was
descended from Thomas Sanders, one of the first settlers  of
Cape  Ann.   His  great-grandfather commanded the  sloop-of-
Avar "Massachusetts" at the  capture  of  Louisburg in 1745.
His grandfather, Thomas Sanders  (H.C. 1748), was for seve-
ral years a counsellor under the provincial  government.  Mr.
Sanders  did  not study  a profession.   After he  graduated,  he
spent a  feAV  years  in  travelling  on  the Eastern  continent.
When abroad, and particularly in Italy, he acquired a  love for
the music of the opera, which afforded him the greatest  pleasure
through life.   After his return, he was married to Marianne,
daughter of Samuel Browne; a very  estimable lady, who sur-
vives  him.   His tAvo sons are all that remain  to  perpetuate the
name.  He lived in the  old mansion-house of his wife's family,
with hospitality, but without ostentation.    He will   be  long
remembered for his kind and benevolent disposition, his integ-
rity and truthfulness.
   1826.—Hon.  Timothy Walker  died  in Cincinnati, O.,
15 January,  1856, aged 53.  He was born in Wilmington,
Mass., 1 December, 1802.    His father was a farmer,  and died
when this son was  nine years old ; leaving a Avidow to rear up six
children.   Through his paternal grandmother, a Miss Brewster,
he was directly  descended  from William  Brewster, who came
over in the "Mayflower."   The patrimony left was small, and
the sons had  to  labor on the  farm for their support.   Young
Walker continued to work on the farm until he Avas sixteen years
old, when his friends reluctantly consented to his  earnest desire
to obtain a collegiate education; and he began his studies with a
clergyman in a neighboring town, and completed his preparation
for college at Mr. Putnam's academy,  in North Andover.   He
graduated Avith the highest honors  of his  class.  He  supported
himself, while in college, by school-keeping,  and  by translating, 
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in his junior year, from the French, for Prof. Farrar, Biot's
" Course of Natural Philosophy."   During the three years suc-
ceeding his graduation, he Avas employed as a teacher of  mathe-
matics in the Round-Hill School at Northampton.   In October,
1829, he  entered  the LaAv  School  at  Cambridge, where  he
remained until  July of the next year; Avhen he  concluded to
emigrate to the West, and arrived  at Cincinnati on the 6th of
the folloAving month.   Here he  completed his studies in the
office of Messrs.  Storer and Fox,  who were  among  the  leaders
of the Cincinnati bar.   He  opened an office by  himself;  but
soon  aftenvards entered  into partnership  with Edward King
(since deceased) and Salmon P. Chase, then governor of Ohio.
This firm Avas dissolved in 1835 ; and he formed a copartnership
Avith John C. Wright, well known as a distinguished member of
Congress, and judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio.  In 1833,
he, together Avith Judge Wright, established a law-school  in
Cincinnati.   Two years afterwards, this school was united with
the Cincinnati  College,  with,  at  first, three professors;  but,
after  a short time, it  fell under  the exclusive charge of Mr.
Walker.  In the AAdnter of  1837—8, he delivered  a course of
ten or tAvelve lectures, upon commercial Liav, before the  Young
Men's Mercantile-Library Association.   In  March, 1842,  he
accepted an  executive  appointment 'to the  place of president-
judge  of the Hamilton-County Common Pleas, until the next
legislature should fill the  vacancy.   In his short term of office,
he despatched cases with  such rapidity, that the court-docket Avas
soon  materially  diminished.   In   1844,  finding  his business
again  increasing, he resigned  his  professorship Avhich he had
held in the law-school from its foundation, and took in John
Kebler as a junior partner.   From that time he was a  lawyer
in full practice,  confining himself chiefly to cases interesting
from  their  intricacy or from the amount of property involved,
and editing the "Western Law Journal."  He declined a judge-
ship of the  Superior Court which was proffered to him  by the
governor of Ohio.  The  comments and  explanations which  he
gave to the students upon  their text-books, Avhile professor 6f
the laAv school,  were subsequently developed into formal lectures, 
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and published in a volume  under the title  of " Introduction of
American Law."  In  1854, the  honorary degree of  Doctor
of Laws was conferred upon him by Harvard College.   By his
death, the Cincinnati bar  lost  one of its brightest ornaments,
and  the profession  one  of its  most profound  and learned
jurists.
   1832.—Lewis  Joseph Glover,  of Boston, died in  Pep-
perell, Mass., 24 June,  1856,  aged 49.   He was a tAvin-child
(the other being a daughter) of Ezra and Eunice Glover, and was
born in Dorchester, Mass., 26, February, 1807; but was brought
up in Quincy, the family having removed into that town during
his infancy.   He began to fit for college at Lexington Academy,
Avhere he remained a year,  when that school was broken up, and
he was sent to Milton Academy, where he completed his prepa-
ratory studies.  On leaving college,  he  began  the  study of
medicine  in Boston, under the instruction  of Dr. James Jack-
son  (H.C.  1796);  and received his  medical  diploma at the
end of three years, when he began the practice of his profession
in Boston.  He Avas quite  successful, and was rapidly attaining
a high  rank as  a physician, until, about two years before his
death, he had a slight attack of  paralysis, which was followed
by  mental  alienation.   This continued, with occasional  lucid
intervals, until death came to  his  relief.
   1832. — William Richardson died in Dorchester, Mass.,
6 June, 1856,  aged 42.   In  a fit of temporary insanity, he
committed suicide by drowning  himself in Neponset River.  He
was  son of Asa and Elizabeth (Bird) Richardson, and was born
in Boston, 2 December, 1813.   His father  was a  native of Bil-
lerica.  His mother Avas a  native  of Dorchester, but removed to
Walpole, Mass., about 1804.   He was fitted for college at the
Boston Latin  School, and graduated with high honors.   On the
1st of October,  1832, he Avas appointed usher in the reading-
department  of the  Mayhew School in Boston,  where he re-
mained  one  year.  In September, 1833, he began the  study of
divinity in the theological school at Cambridge, but relinquished
it at the end of six months ; and on the 20th  of  March, 1834,
he began the study  of laAv in  the office   of Hon.  Jeremiah 
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Mason, of Boston (Y.C.  1788).  Having completed  his legal
studies, he Avas  admitted  to the bar  in  April,  1837 ; and,  on
the 6th of the  same  month, opened  an  office  in Boston.   He
soon attained to a high rank in his  profession, and gained  an
extensive  and lucrative business.   He AAras married  in Walpole,
Mass., 30 June, 1836, to Almira Kingsbury, daughter of Hon.
Daniel Kingsbury of that place, but had  no children.   As a
pleader he was not conspicuous,  but as a  counsellor  he  was con-
sidered as one of the safest and most able of his age in Boston.
Mr. Mason, with whom he studied, often spoke in strong terms of
his  high intellectual powers and  of his great  legal attainments.
He was distinguished for perfect integrity, for faithfulness to his
clients,  and for the moderation  of  his charges for his  services.
He Avas largely intrusted with the settlement of  estates, and was
president  of the Dorchester Savings Bank.   He was in affluent
pecuniary circumstances, and happy in his domestic relations ;
Avas highly  esteemed by  his acquaintances as Avell as  by  his
professional brethren; of  an exceedingly affable and social dis-
position,  but  of  a  somewhat  nervous  temperament;  and  it
Avas supposed that anxiety, caused by the overAvhelming care
and responsibility of duties intrusted  to his  charge by  his
rapidly  increasing professional  business, induced a temporary
aberration of mind, which led  him to commit  the  act of self-
destruction.
    1832. — Archer Ropes died  in  Baltimore, Md.,  2 Octo-
ber, 1855,  aged 46.   He  was son  of William  and Rachel
(Archer)  Ropes, and was born in Salem, Mass., 10 December,
1808.   For several years previous to  his  preparing to enter col-
lege, he was an apprentice in the apothecary store of Benjamin
F. Browne in Salem.  He was fitted  for college at the  Salem
Latin School, then under the charge of Theodore Eames  (Y.C.
1809).   His name,  originally,  was  Jonathan  Archer Ropes;
but, the  year  of his graduation, he  dropped  the  name  of
Jonathan, and Avas styled Archer Ropes.   After going through
a course of legal studies, he removed to Baltimore, and in 1835
began the practice of law in that place, where he continued until
his  death.  He  was married in  Baltimore, 13  January, 1852, 
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to M. Emilie W. Tucker, but had no children.   He was, for
several years, commander of  the Maryland Cadets, at that  time
regarded as one of the best disciplined companies in the country ;
was a colonel of Maryland militia; a past grand-master of the
order of Odd FelloAvs ; a Mason ; and, under the municipal term
of Mayor Jerome, was the city-counsellor of Baltimore.   He
was a man of  great kindness of  heart and of considerable intel-
lectual ability.
   1832. — Rev. George Frederick Simmons  died in  Con-
cord, Mass., 5  September,  1855, aged  41.   He Avas son of
Hon. William Simmons  (H.C. 1804), and was born in Boston,
24 March, 1814.  He Avas fitted for college at the Latin School
in Boston.   Immediately after  leaving college, he went  as  a
tutor in a private family to Europe, and travelled through  Italy
and Greece, where he  had the opportunity  of cultivating those
tastes for art,  and for foreign languages and literature, which in
him were always strong.  On returning, he studied theology at
the Divinity School in Cambridge.  He Avas ordained as an evan-
gelist, in the Federal-street church in Boston, 9 October, 1838,
and immediately proceeded to Mobile, and there began his  min-
istry, which went on prosperously and acceptably until the 17th
of August, 1840, Avhen  he preached a sermon in which he al-
luded to the peculiar institutions of the South in a manner which
gave great offence to the people  in Mobile ;  and, it being feared
that personal violence might be offered to  him, he was concealed
on board a vessel in  the bay, bound to Boston, and returned to
his native city.   On the 27th of October,  1841, he was installed
at Waltham as associate pastor with Rev.  Samuel Ripley, Avhose
daughter, Mary Emerson Ripley, he married 17 October, 1845 ;
Avho now survives him, the mother of four orphaned children.
Here he labored a few years with encouraging  results : but his
views with regard to the slavery question, which he occasionally
expressed in the pulpit,  created  dissatisfaction among  some of
his parishioners, which resulted in his leaving the place;  and, in
1843,  he went to Germany for the  purpose of theological study,
where he remained two years.  Here he enjoyed the instructions
of Tholuck and Neander, and returned with some peculiarities
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of opinion, but Avith no less of faith, and a marked increase of
scholarship.    On the  9th  of February, 1848, he Avas installed
at Springfield as  the immediate  successor of Rev. William B.
O.  Peabody  (H.C. 1816), Avho  had deceased the previous
year.   In this new and attractive field, his labors were abun-
dantly rewarded until 1851, when his antislavery zeal  broke  out
aneAv ; and, as he had little disposition and less power  to concili-
ate those who differed from him,  he was compelled to  resign his
post, to bring back peace to the parish.  From  Springfield he
went to Albany ; and, in the prime of life and the maturity of his
mind, he Avas devoting himself  unremittingly to his  ministry,
and reaping,  even then, a high reward, when symptoms of  con-
sumption manifested themselves in his system, and  obliged  him
to retire for a short period to the home of his mother in Con-
cord,  where soon, in middle age, the invalid pastor  exchanged
earthly hope for heavenly fruition.
    1836.—Rev. James  Chisholm died of yellow fever in
Portsmouth, Va., 15 September,  1855, aged 39.  He was son
of William and Martha (Vincent) Chisholm, and was born in
Salem, Mass., 30 September, 1815.   His father, William Chis-
holm, was born, 24 September, 1772, in Inverness-shire, near the
city of Inverness, Scotland.  His mother,  Martha Vincent, was
born at Salem,  Mass., 22 September, 1774.   Mr.  Chisholm
Avas prepared for college  at the Salem Latin Grammar School.
Immediately after graduating, he  went to the South to take the
associate charge of an academy at Charlestown, Jefferson County,
Va.  A year afterwards, he went to Washington, D.C., where
he taught a private classical school a year  and a half.  In  the
mean time, he became  a candidate for orders in the  Episcopal
church, and left Washington to  enter the theological seminary
near Alexandria, Fairfax  County,  Va.   He  was ordained to
deacon's orders in October, 1840.  His first ministerial labors
Avere  over a  colored congregation in Albemarle County, Va.,
consisting of the servants on  the  estate  of  Hon. William
C.  Rives and other  gentlemen of that neighborhood,  who were
desirous that  all under  their care should enjoy the best privileges
of the gospel  in meetings of their  own.  In this office  he had an 
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 opportunity to observe the depth and fervency of religious feeling
 which characterizes the African race.   In the spring of 1842, he
 Avas admitted to priest's orders, and was settled over three,con-
 gregations,— viz.,  Trinity  Church, at  Martinsburg;  Mount-
 Zion Church, at Hedgeville; and Calvary  Church, at Back
 Creek.  To  the first two of these congregations he preached on
 alternate Sundays, and  occasionally at Calvary Church, which
 Avas built through his instrumentality.   These churches were so
 far apart, that it made a circuit of twenty-seven miles to visit
 them.  From this scene of his arduous labors, he Avas called, in
 1850, to Portsmouth, Va., where he was instituted rector of St.
 John's Church.  This was a new church, and in a feeble condi-
 tion, numbering scarcely twenty communicants ; but it flourished
 under his ministry, and  is  now in a vigorous state.   Here  he
 continued  until his death.   On the  10th of August, 1847,
 he was married to Jane Byrd Page,  daughter of John White
 Page, and great-grand-daughter of  Carter Braxton, one of the
 signers of the Declaration of Independence.   She died in Feb-
 ruary, 1855,  leaving two children, one of whom deceased but a
 few days before his father.   During the  prevalence of the epi-
 demic in Norfolk and Portsmouth  in  September last, he felt it
 his duty to remain at his post.  With  a fidelity and courage
 worthy of his sacred profession,  he met the terrible dangers of
 the scene,  and continued to the last, ministering consolation and
 hope  to the  mourning  and  the dying.  He left  an  only  son,
 about seven  years old, whose pride it  may be, in future years,
 to look back  upon the well-spent life and glorious death of his
 father.   As  a proof of the  estimation in which Mr.  Chisholm
 was  held by the denomination to which  he belonged,  we may
 state, that, at the annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal
 Church in Virginia, held at Fredericksburg, in May last, on the
 recommendation of Bishop Meade,  in  his annual report, it Avas
 voted that  the sum of one hundred and  fifty dollars be  appropri-
 ated,  from the fund of the society for the relief of widoAvs  and
 orphans of deceased clergymen, annually, until otherwise ordered,
for the support and education of the son of the deceased, although
the latter Avas not a member of the society, and therefore his son 
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Avas not entitled to any thing from  its funds.   An interesting
memoir of Mr. Chisholm, by Rev. David II. Conrad, of Mar-
tinsburg, Va., Avas  published  about three months  since,  and a
third edition of the book is now in press.   It has received  the
highest commendation from the Rev. Dr.  Tyng, of Ncav York,
and the Rev. Prof. Huntington, of Cambridge.
   1838.—Dr. Henry Ware Wales died in Paris, France,
8 June,  1856, aged 37.  He was son of Thomas B.  (II.C.
1795)  and Ann (Beale) Wales, and was born in Boston, 11 De-
cember, 1818.   He was  fitted for college,  in  Boston,  at  the
private school of Mr. Daniel Greenleaf In graham (H.C. 1809).
Immediately after graduating,  he began the study of  medicine
under  the instruction of Dr.  John C. Warren (H.C. 1797) ;
and received his medical degree in 1841.   He then Avent to Paris
to pursue his professional studies further at the medical schools
in that city;  but after studying a few months,  finding  that  the
medical profession Avas not congenial to his tastes, he abandoned
it, and devoted himself to the  study of philology and the acqui-
sition of languages,  for which he had great fondness.   These
studies he pursued Avith  great ardor  and  success.   He soon
acquired  a thorough knowledge of French, Italian, and  German,
and was able to converse fluently in either of them.   He also
made himself master of the modern Greek; and, under the cele-
brated  professors and teachers in Prussia, he  pursued the  study
of Sanscrit and of other oriental languages.  After an absence of
eight years, he returned to his native city.  He did not,  however,
remain long  at home,  as his  predilections were for a foreign
residence.  On this, his second visit to Europe, he extended his
travels to far eastern regions, visiting  Egypt and other oriental
places  of  note.  This tour extended through a  period of three
years,  Avhen  he again  returned to Boston.   Here he  remained
until October, 1854, when he started on his third visit to Eu-
rope.  Before his departure, his health began to fail; and, some
time after his arrival in  Europe, he was seized with an affection
of one of his knees.   He passed the last Avinter in Rome,  but
shut up in his house, suffering sickness and pain.  In the spring,
he was carried to Paris, Avhere he submitted to amputation of his 
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limb ; but this could not  sa\re  him.   He  gradually sank, and
breathed his last  in a  foreign  land,  comforted,  however, by
the presence of  friends  and the attentions of a deAroted brother.
His  life was consecrated  to literature, which he  pursued with
untiring  ardor.   He had  collected a  large library of rare and
valuable works,  Avith which he  delighted to  pass  his time; the
temptations and frivolities  of great foreign cities offering no
allurements for him.  He pursued the even tenor of his way,
leading a quiet,  blameless life ;  and, when the hour of his depart-
ure arrived, he calmly resigned his spirit into the  hands of Him
who gave it.
    1846. — Benjamin  Newhall died in  Milwaukie, Wis.,
30 March, 1856, aged  29.  He was son of Benjamin  Franklin
and Dorothy (Jewett)  Newhall, and was born in Lynn, Mass.,
7  March, 1827.  His father Avas born in Lynn, 29 April, 1802.
His mother was born in Stanstead, Can., in 1807.   He removed
Avith his father's family  to Saugus, Mass., when nine years old.
At thirteen, he was placed at the Lynn Academy, where he was
fitted for college by Mr. Jacob Batchelder (D.C.  1830), whom
he mentions in his  autobiography, in the " class-book," as a man
of the  greatest worth  and intelligence.   On  graduating,  he
entered the Law School in Cambridge, and remained three years ;
receiving in course the degree of LL.B. in 1849.   He  then
returned to Saugus, where he  resided until  June, 1851.   In
May of this year, he changed his name to Benjamin Newhall; it
having been originally Benjamin Franklin Newhall.  On leaving
Saugus, he Avent  to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he passed  about
eio-ht months.   In June, 1852, he removed to Milwaukie, and
entered the office of Messrs.  Emmons and Van  Dyke for the
further prosecution of his legal studies.  Being shortly aftenvards
admitted to the bar, he began practising in December, 1852, in
partnership with A. C.  May, Esq.  Although, at  the time of his
death, he had been but four years  in practice, he had  attained
an enviable position as  a  sound and Avell-read lawyer.   He had
conducted several very  important suits to a successful issue, and
his  business Avas  rapidly increasing.   He chiefly excelled in
equity- and admiralty-laAv.   At  a meeting  of the Milwaukie 
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 bar, held the day after his decease, resolutions of  a highly eulo-
 gistic character Avere passed,  in Avhich a tribute Avas paid to his
 courteous demeanor, and manly,  elevated principles, which had
 won the good-Avill of all; to his industry, energy, and marked
 ability,  which had given sure promise of a successful and distin-
 guished  career in his  profession.   A committee was appointed
 " to  make  suitable arrangements  for forwarding  his remains to
 his friends  in Massachusetts, and to invite a clergyman to deliver
 a funeral discourse before the members of the bar."  His remains
 Avere interred at  Saugus, 9 April, 1856.  When in  college, he
 attained an excellent rank as a scholar; and, throughout his short
 life, he  bore a high character for honor and integrity.   He was
 of an open,  frank temperament,  a firm friend, and of a most
 generous,  self-sacrificing disposition.   He always evinced the
 greatest  interest in  old  college associations ;  and the favorable
 effects of the collegiate course  upon his hopes, desires, and prin-
 ciples, he has himself recorded.
    1850.—Benjamin Payson Williams died in West Rox-
 bury, Mass., 17 May, 1856, aged 29.  He  Avas  son of Major
 Benjamin Payson and  Margaret  (Childs) Williams,  and  was
 born in  Roxbury (now West Roxbury), 6  February,  1827.
 After going through a course of legal  studies, he  was admitted
 to the Suffolk bar; opened an office in Boston, and had already
 attained a highly respectable rank  in his profession.   He took
 an active part in  politics, his  opinions being  those of  the  old-
 line democracy.   He was endeared to all his  associates  by his
 open and  generous disposition,  his  rare  social qualities,  and
 his genial and affectionate nature.   Of an unusually strong and
 powerful frame, he was foremost in athletic  sports, into Avhich
 he entered  Avith great zest.   In the various  literary  and social
 clubs which make so prominent a  feature in college-life, he was
particularly conspicuous; his ready wit,  his overflowing humor,
 and his  lively and  poetic fancy, making  him  one of the most
valued members.
   1851.—Peter  Smith Byers died  in Andover,  Mass., 19
March,   1856,  aged  27.  He Avas son of  James  and Mary
 (Smith) Byers, and was born at Brechin, in Forfarshire, Scot- 
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land, 12  September, 1828.    He  emigrated with his father's
family to Andover, Mass., in  1836.  His father Avas sent for
to take charge of the shoe-thread manufactory of Smith, Dove,
and Co., the first establishment of the kind in the United States,
in  which the subject  of this  notice  worked  two  years.   In
1844, he entered Phillips Academy for  the purpose of being
fitted for college.   In the Avinter of 1846—7, he taught school
in  Andover, and entered the  freshman class of Harvard Col-
lege in 1847.  In his sophomore year, he taught school in Hollis-
ton ; in his junior, in Andover;  and, in his senior, in Boxford.
He graduated with high honor, being the  third scholar in a class
of  sixty-three  members.  In the following autumn,  he  Avas
engaged as an assistant  teacher in the Greek and Latin school
AA-here he had prepared  for college.   There he continued for two
years, discharging the duties of the station with great credit to
himself,  and  acknoAvledged  usefulness  to the pupils.  During
most of  this  time, he  was  a devoted teacher  in  the  Sunday
school of the Episcopal Church in Andover; and frequently, in
the desk, assisted the rector in reading the service, —an accept-
able duty, which was congenial with his  tastes, and  in accord-
ance with the ultimate object of his pursuits.   In the spring of
1853, he was elected principal of the Abbot Female Seminary
in Andover ; a position, however, which he did not long occupy,
as  he was appointed to the like office in  the High School of
ProA-idence, R.I.   There he continued but a single  term,  since
his declining health induced  him to listen to overtures tendered
by the trustees  of the  Pun chard  Free  School  in Andover,
wTho, in choosing him its  first principal, showed the exalted esti-
mation in which they held him and his attainments by offering
him a salary till their building should be erected, that he might,
by  relieving  himself of  all anxiety,  have the opportunity of
regaining his strength.  But  his health continued  to fail, and
he fell  a martyr  to nine  years of ceaseless application  and
unyielding toil in  the  pursuit of knowledge.
    1851. —Edmond Franklin Raymond died in Cambridge,
Mass., 12 October, 1855, aged 24.  He was the eldest son of
Hon. Zebina L. and  Rhoda Clark  (Hildreth) Raymond,  and 
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Avas born in Shutesbury, Mass., 31 July,  1831.  When about
two years  old, he removed with his parents to Boston, where,
and in the vicinity,  they have since  lived.   He Avas fitted for
college at  the Hopkins Classical School in  Cambridge, under
the charge  of Mr. Edmund Burke Whitman  (II.C. 1838).   In
October of the sophomore year, in consequence of ill health, he
Avas obliged to go to Havana, Avhere he spent the Avinter.   In
his junior  year,  he  taught school in Sherborn; and,  in  his
senior year, he taught at Taunton, but his health compelled  him
to leave at  the end of seven weeks.  He studied law,  and began
the practice of his profession in Greenfield, Mass., Avith flatter-
ing prospects of distinction;  but his health failed, and he
returned  to his  father's  house,  in  Cambridge,  about a week
before  his  death.  His early decease is deeply lamented  by his
family  circle, and the many friends to  whom his  amiable dispo-
sition had endeared him.
   1853.—John Daves died in  Beaufort,  Cartaret  County,
N.C., 1 October, 1855, aged 23.  He Avas  the  eldest son of
John Pugh and Elizabeth (Graham) Daves,  and Avas born in
Newbern,  N.C., 24  December, 1831.   His father Avas son of
John Daves,  a major in the Revolutionary war, and grandson
of John Daves, who came from Wales.  His mother Avas a third
wife, and Avas the daughter of Edward Graham, a lawyer, born
at Newbern,  whose  father came from Scotland.  Mr.  Daves
studied at  the academy at Newbern,  N.C., until about  fifteen
years of age, when  he went to  Scuppernong, N.C., where he
spent a year in the family of his cousin, Josiah Collins, Esq.,
under the charge of a private  tutor.   In 1848, he entered  the
freshman class at St. James's College, Md.,  where he remained
one year.   In 1849, he entered the freshman class at Harvard
College.   At the end of the first term of the junior year, he
left college on account of his health, and returned at the end of
the junior  year,  and passed the examinations with his class-
mates,  but  was unable to join the class afterAvards.   He Avas,
however, able to return for his degree, which Avas  granted to
him, notwithstanding his absence, and to join his class in their
parting ceremonies.   After receiving his degree, he studied law, 
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privately, one  year at Scuppernong, when his failing health
compelled him to abandon it.   Possessed of. a manly, upright,
and  frank  nature,  and endowed  with brilliant  conversational
poAvers, — the natural fruit of a gifted and  cultivated  mind, —
he was greatly beloved  by his classmates  and his numerous
friends.
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   1786.—Rev.  Henry Lincoln died in Nantucket, Mass.,
28 May, 1857, aged 91.  He was son of William and Mary
(Otis) Lincoln, and Avas born in  Hingham, Mass., 3 Novem-
ber,  1765.  His  mother was  daughter of Dr.  Ephraim Otis,
who  was born in Scituate,  Mass.,  in 1708, and Avas a physician
in that  tOAvn.   Mr. Lincoln was fitted for college, partly at the
grammar school in Hingham, under the instruction  of Eleazer
James (H.C. 1778), and  partly by Dr. Joshua Barker  (H.C.
1772),  of Hingham.  After leaving college, he studied divinity
with Rev. William Shaw  (H.C.  1762),  of Marshfield,  Mass.
He was ordained pastor  of the Congregational church in  Fal-
mouth, Mass., 3 February, 1790 ;  and continued his labors  with
great fidelity, and to the entire  acceptance  of his people, until
26 November, 1823,  when, at his own  request, his pastoral
connection  was dissolved,  and he  removed to Nantucket, where
he resided, during the remainder of his life,  in the family of his
son-in-law, Dr. Elisha P. Fearing (B.U. 1807).   He married,
26 April, 1790, Susannah Crocker, daughter of Timothy Crock-
er, of Falmouth, and had,  by her, seven children, four sons and
three daughters,  of whom  six survive him.   One  son  Avas
drowned in 1798, at the age  of five  years  and  seven months.
His wife died 29 July, 1819, aged 51.    He was, at  the  time
of his  death, with  one  exception,  the  oldest  clergyman  in
this  state; his classmate,  Rev.  Jacob Norton, of Billerica,
afterwards  the oldest surviving  graduate  of  Harvard  Col-
lege), being  his  senior by  nearly two years.   Mr. Lincoln
was  a gentleman of the old school, of fine  personal appear-
ance, always  remarkably neat in his dress, of  an affable and
social disposition,  and,  above  all, a  sincere Christian.    For
a few years before his  death, his eyes were dimmed,  so that he 
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Avas  unable to read; but his mental faculties were unclouded to
the last.   He was a highly popular preacher, a fine speaker;
and  his sermons  were  characterized by  sound,  practical, good
sense.   Having finished the work which  was given him  to do,
Avith a  serenity of mind seldom witnessed, he calmly waited  his
summons, and gently passed away, like the twilight of a long
summer's  day, into  that  solemn  darkness which  mortal eye
cannot pierce,  but  which, to  him, doubtless is lighted  up by
the radiance  of a never-ending noon.
   1786. — Dr.  Joseph Loring  died  in Lisbon, Portugal,
about  1  March,  1857, aged  88.   He  was son of Caleb and
Sarah  (Bradford) Loring, and was born  in Boston, 11 August,
1768.   After leaving  college, he studied medicine under the
instruction of Dr. Samuel Danforth (H.C. 1758), of Boston.
Having completed his medical education, he was employed as sur-
geon on board the ship " Massachusetts," on a voyage to Batavia
and  Canton.   This ship Avas  built in  1789  for Messrs. ShaAv
and  Randall, and was the largest merchant-ship in the United
States.  Her commander Avas  Capt.  Job  Prince,  brother  of
James Prince, formerly United-States marshal for Massachusetts,
The ship sailed from Boston, 28 March, 1790 ; and, after a brief
stay at Batavia, arrived at  Macao 30 September following.
Soon after her arrival, she was sold to the Danish Company for
$65,000, and Dr. Loring returned to  Boston.  He then went
to France, and settled as a physician in  Paris.  After remain-
ing there a feAv years,  he relinquished the practice of his pro-
fession, and went to Lisbon, where he  established himself as a
merchant, and Avhere he resided during the remainder of his life,
never  having afterwards revisited the United States.  He mar-
ried a  Portuguese lady of great personal  beauty, and possessing
a  large fortune.   His mercantile transactions proved,  after a
time, unsuccessful, and the property fell  a  sacrifice to unfortu-
nate speculations.   He left several children.
   1792. —Jacob Wyeth died in Cambridge, Mass., 14 Janu-
ary, 1857, aged 92.   He was son of Ebenezer Wyeth, and Avas
born in Cambridge, Mass., 29 April, 1764.   He Avorked  at
brick-making, Avhich was his  father's occupation,  until  he was 
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 twenty-three or twenty-four years old, Avhen he  concluded to
 obtain a liberal education ;  and after six months only, devoted to
 the preparatory studies, he Avas admitted to the freshman class.
 Although so imperfectly prepared, he  maintained  a respectable
 rank  as a scholar, and graduated with distinction.  Soon after
 leaving college, he went to Hamburg to transact some business
 for Andrew Craigie, Esq.,  either  in Hamburg  or England.
 On his return, he brought home some European  goods,  which
 he had purchased on his own account.  These goods he disposed
 of at a large profit, and soon afterwards married Betsey Jarvis,
 daughter of Nathaniel Jarvis, of Cambridge.   He then entered
 into partnership  Avith Phineas Stone  (who married his  wife's
 sister) ; and they established themselves in Littleton, Mass., as
 country traders.  In  this business they were  unsuccessful, be-
 came insolvent, and Mr. Wyeth was left without a dollar.  He
 returned to Cambridge,  and his father  gave him a deed  of the
 land on which the Fresh-Pond Hotel now stands.   He made a
 contract with Walter and Moore, and they erected for him the
 hotel  entirely on credit;  he giving them a mortgage on the prop-
 erty as security.   In  eighteen  months after  he opened  the
 house, he paid  the contractors  every dollar  he  owed  them;
 having  made it all in this brief period in keeping the.public
 house.  He continued in the hotel business until he accumu-
 lated  a handsome fortune, when he retired, but resided  in the
 house until death closed his long life.
   1795. — Samuel Jackson Prescott died in Brookline,
 Mass., 7 February, 1857, aged 83.  He was son of Dr.  Oliver
 (H.C. 1750)  and Lydia (Baldwin) Prescott,  and was born in
 Groton, Mass., 15 March, 1773.   He was fitted for college at
 Phillips Academy in Andover.  After graduating, he studied
 law in the office  of Hon. William  Prescott (H.C. 1783), and
 Avas admitted to the bar; but soon left the profession on account
 of being affected  with deafness, and engaged in mercantile busi-
ness ; having formed a copartnership Avith Aaron P. Cleveland,
under the style of Prescott  and Cleveland.   In  this pursuit he
Avas unsuccessful, owing to the  embargo  of  1807, the non-
intercourse,  and the war with Great Britain which  ensued.   He 
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then became a magistrate, and for  more than twenty years was
a notary-public for Suffolk county.   He  married  Margaret
Hiller, daughter of Joseph  Hiller, Esq., by whom he had five
children, — two sons  and three daughters ;  of whom the sons
only survive him.   He was  a  man of strong powrers of mind,
and  held a high rank  in his  class as a scholar.   He  had a
taste  for genealogical  and  statistical investigations : he  com-
piled  the index for  the triennial catalogue of Harvard College,
which was first  published  in the  triennial in  1830.   Later
in life, to his physical  infirmity  of deafness  was added  that
of blindness.   His  intellectual faculties, too, became clouded;
and he passed his closing years at the residence of one of his
sons in Brookline,  where he was  kindly cared  for with all  the
attention which filial affection could bestow.
   1797. — Hon. Nathaniel Paine Denny died in Barre,
Mass.,  23 August, 1856,  aged  85.   He  was  son of Col.
Samuel Denny, of  Leicester, Mass., a  distinguished patriot of
the Revolution, whose father was one of the four original pro-
prietors  of that town,  where  the subject of  this notice  was
born  22 July, 1771.  His academical education was acquired
at Leicester Academy.   After graduating, he studied law Avith
Hon. Nathaniel Paine, of Worcester (H.C.  1775) ;  and, about
the beginning  of the present century,  he opened an office in
Leicester, where he practised  law  for  a period of nearly forty
years.  His  name, originally, was Thomas Denny, which he
changed  to Nathaniel Paine Denny, on account of there being
another Thomas Denny in the town.  He became widely known
as a thoroughly-read laAvyer.  He was a man  of strong mind;
and,  as  a citizen  and  lawyer,  he was  distinguished  for  his
sound judgment, and a strict and impartial adherence to justice.
He enjoyed in an eminent degree the confidence and  esteem of
his fellow-citizens ;  having represented the town of Leicester in
the state legislature successively from 1804 to 1809, in 1812,
1826, 1829,  1834, and 1841.   He  was elected  senator  for
Worcester District in 1824 and 1825 ; was a  county-commis-
sioner ; and, for several years,  president of the Leicester Bank.
In all these stations, he discharged his duties in such a manner 
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as to Avin the respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens.  His
modesty forbade his seeking public  distinctions ;  and the honors
conferred upon him Avere Aoluntary  on the part  of his  friends,
and the result of the unwavering confidence which they placed
in his  integrity.   In private  life he Avas social  and hospitable,
and his numerous acquaintances Avill long remember his house
on Mount  Pleasant as  the home  of hospitality.  In October,
1798, he married  Sally Swan, a native  of  Leicester, who was
equally distinguished for her humble piety, intellectual refine-
ment, and personal charms.  He had ten children, of whom five
are now living.   His wife died at  Leicester in 1843, aged 71
years.   In 1845, he married Mary, daughter of the  late Daniel
Denny, of Worcester; and removed to Norwich, Conn., Avhere
he resided  about eleven years.  In June,  1856, he returned
to his  native state to pass  the few remaining days  of his  life
Avith his eldest son,  Hon. Edward  Denny, of Barre : and they
proved to be feAV indeed ; for in two months he passed peacefully
from this to the other Avorld.   With the exception  of  the last
few years  of his life, he Avas in constant and active  intercourse
Avith his fellow-citizens in their various pursuits ; and Avhatever
relation he sustained  towards them, or in whatever  position
placed, his motto was always,  "Be  just,  and fear not."
   1797.—Joseph Hurd died in Maiden, Mass.,  19  March,
1857,  aged 78.   He was the eldest son of Joseph Hurd, late of
Portsmouth, N.H.,  formerly an eminent merchant in Charles-
town and Boston ; and was born in Concord or Lincoln  (during
the temporary removal of the family from their home in Charles-
tOAvn at  the time of the Revolutionary war), 27 July, 1778.
While in college, he was  remarkable for  his habitual courtesy
and kindness, and for his upright and exemplary conduct.   He
held a distinguished rank in his class, and graduated with high
honor.  On leaving college, he adopted the mercantile profession,
and was known and respected for his intelligence and commercial
knowledge in his own country, and also  in England, where he
formed important connections  in business, and Avhere he passed
several years of his mercantile life.   An eminent member of the
Essex bar — a classmate of  Mr.  Hurd — gives the folio win «• 
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sketch of his subsequent life :  " Soon after the disastrous war of
1812 broke out, he retired from the troubled affairs of commerce,
and purchased a  farm in Stoneham, beautifully situated on the
borders of Spot Pond.   Here  he derived the chief enjoyment of
his  subsequent life  from the  indulgence of his rural  taste and
his  philosophical  ingenuity.   Science and  taste happily co-ope-
rated  in the various improvements which he introduced upon his
extensive grounds ;  but he soon became  deeply interested in
various scientific experiments in regard to heat, and the best mode
of constructing stoves,  the results of which haA'e  inured to the
public benefit through others employed in  his  service, and who
aArailed themselves of his discoveries.  He had little thought of
profit to  himself beyond the gratification he  found in thus endeav-
oring  to  promote the general good.  He  also turned his atten-
tion to the manufacture of maple  and beet  sugar; and also,
wTith more important  success,  to the refining of sugar, for which
he obtained a patent, as well  as much celebrity.   The following
brief  sentence in a  letter from France, found among his papers,
asking for a  description of his patent, and highly compliment-
ing him  upon it, gives the  best idea of  the discovery that we
can at this moment  present:  c You took, in 1844, a patent,
in your   country, for  a new system to purify and  cleanse
sugar by means  of the centrifuge  force.'  This  patent, with-
out his  seeking, inured largely to  his profit, and  immensely
to the profit of  those  who were so fortunate as to purchase
it.  In his will, he bequeathed the  sum of five thousand dollars
to  each   of  the  states  of Maine,  NeAv Hampshire, Vermont,
and Massachusetts, the income to be applied  yearly  in  giving
prizes to promote  and encourage the manufacture and refining
of sugar."
   In the early period of Mr. Hurd's residence at his beautiful
retreat in Stoneham, his friends were often  attracted to visit him,
and were always  received with the kindest hospitality.   Ladies
were  cordially welcomed among his visitors.    Happy would^ it
have been had he  chosen some  one to share his fortunes, and bless
him in his retirement.   Left  to  his own  solitary resources, he
became so absorbed in  his studies and experiments as to  impair 
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his health, and finally to obscure his intellect.   During his later
years,  he divided his time betAveen Stoneham  and Maiden;
boarding at the latter place in a Avorthy family, where he found
every accommodation suited to his simple habits.   He retained,
through life, the  simplicity of childhood,  with the firmness  of
the philosopher.   He was as independent in his own opinions as
he was deferential to others.   In respect to his deeper feelings,
he had great reserve.   An unspotted life was  his only religious
profession.   Throughout his lingering illness  he manifested  the
resignation of a " Christian ; and in peace  and serenity his spirit
ascended to God, who gave it."
   1798. —Rev. Jonathan French died in  North Hampton,
N.H., 13 December, 1856, aged 78.   He  was son of Rev.
Jonathan  French (H.C.  1771),  and was born in  Andover,
Mass., 16 August, 1768.  He was ordained at North Hampton,
18 November, 1801; formally resigned the active duties of his
pastorate, 18  November, 1851;  and actually resigned them  at
the ordination of his colleague, Rev. John Dinsmore,  18  No-
vember, 1852.  He  was for many years one of the most active,
influential,  and highly  esteemed  clergymen in the Piscataqua
Association of Congregational Ministers.   He was known and
had  preached  in  all  their congregations,  had been  called  to
advise in  their churches, and had  many friends  in all  their
parishes.   He was one of the finest  specimens of ministerial
character.  Evangelical, sincere,  earnest,  devoted, he was  the
good preacher, the wise counsellor, the sympathizing pastor, the
obliging ministerial brother, the ready helper of all good enter-
prises.  He was  a diligent student until he reached the age  of
threescore years and ten.   He was a reliable  historian, and left
behind him manuscripts of great value.    Above all, he was a
good husband, loving and beloved; a good father, honored, and
worthy of honor; a  good neighbor and friend, welcoming every
worthy guest to his board, and  in turn welcomed by wor-
thy  households everywhere.   In  1851, the honorary degree  of
Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Dartmouth  Col-
lege.  He delivered  a half-century discourse  four  years before
his death, from the  text, " Behold,  I  die; but  God shall  be 
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with you."  He " came to his grave in#a full age," after a useful
and honored life.
   1798. —Hon. Sidney Willard died in Cambridge, Mass.,
6  December, 1856,  aged 76.   He  Avas  son of Rev.  Joseph
Willard  (H.C. 1765),  formerly minister in Beverly, Mass., and
subsequently, for nearly a quarter of a century, president  of
Hansard College; and was born in Beverly, 19 September, 1780.
Immediately after leaving college, he began the study of theology
under the instruction of the Hollis Professor of Divinity.  In
April, 1800, the office of librarian  became vacant by the  death
of Samuel  Shapleigh  (H.C.  1789),  and  Mr.  Willard  was
elected as his successor.  This office he held five years.  In the
mean time, having  completed his  theological studies, he was
licensed as a preacher.   He  preached  in various places  in this
state, as well as in Maine and Vermont; and was invited to set-
tle as a minister in Wiscasset, Me.,  and in Burlington, Vt.  ; but
he declined  both invitations.    In December, 1806,  he was
chosen  Hancock  Professor of  Hebrew  and  other  Oriental
Languages in Harvard College, and was inaugurated in Febru-
ary of the following year.   This office he held until 1831, dis-
charging  its duties  with  great  fidelity and  ability.   While
connected with the college, he was interested in  several literary
publications, and contributed valuable articles to the "Monthly
Anthology " and " Christian Examiner."   He was a  member,
with many other distinguished men, of the Anthology Society,
to Avhich  the Boston Athenaeum is  so deeply indebted.   He
contributed  many valuable  articles for the " North-American
RevieAv;" and, about two years before his death, he published his
" Memories of Youth and Manhood," in many points a valuable
Avork.  His learning was varied and  extensive, his style of writing
clear  and plain, his  vieAvs  sound  and practical.   Accustomed
to the best society for moral worth,  social position, and intellect-
ual power, he appreciated and  enjoyed  the  advantages he pos-
sessed.   In his manners he was  easy, polite, and  urbane.   He
Avas firm in his principles, and amiable in disposition.   His feel-
ings were tender and refined;  and he was  remarkably honest,
sincere, and truthful.   Filial reverence  and piety marked his
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character, and he Avas estSemecl by all Avho  knew him.   Nearly
his whole life was  passed  in Cambridge;  and he filled various
offices, always  acceptably.  He  Avas mayor of Cambridge in
1848, 1849, and 1850; was several times elected  a representa-
tive to the state legislature;  and was a member of the executive
council.   He was the last relic of the officers of the college gov-
ernment  during the first quarter of the present century.
   1802. — Hon.  Samuel  Hoar  died  in Concord,  Mass.,
2 November, 1856,  aged 78.  He  was son of Hon.  Samuel
Hoar, and Avas born in Lincoln, Mass., 18 May, 1778.  After
leaving college, he spent two years as  a private tutor in the
state of Virginia ; and it was while he was on his return to Massa-
chusetts, and during a temporary stay in the city of NeAv York,
that the fatal and memorable duel between  Hamilton and  Burr
deprived the country of one  of its most honored and illustrious
statesmen.  Arriving home, Mr. Hoar entered, as a student of
law, in the office of the Hon.  Artemus Ward, of Charlestown,
(H.C. 1783), afterwards,  and for many  years,  the  learned
chief-justice of the Court of  Common Pleas.   He was admitted
to the bar in September, 1805  ; and, the same month, opened an
office in  Concord, where he soon attained a high rank;  and for
forty years he was one of the most eminent and successful prac-
titioners  in the county of Middlesex.  The last few years of his
life Avere withdrawn from that  activity of legal service, to which,
from  early manhood to late maturity, he had devoted his ener-
gies ; and the people of Middlesex were deprived of the forensic
talents and experience of the veteran leader, who, for more than
a generation, had been engaged in most  of the  important  cases
tried at their bar.  To the neighboring bars of Worcester, Essex,
and  Suffolk, he had  been no stranger;  nor was his voluntary
surrender of the excitements of the more public and conspicuous
positions of his honorable profession unnoticed or unregretted by
them.   He was associated with Mr.  Webster in the celebrated
case of  the  Commonwealth  against  Crowninshield and the
brothers  Knapp, convicted  of the  murder  of Capt. AVhite, in
Salem, in 1830.   He AAras repeatedly honored by being elected
to offices of honor, trust, and importance.   He was a member of 
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the  convention for  revising  the constitution of the  state  in
1820; was elected a  senator, in the  state legislature, in 1825
and  1833 ; Avas a member of  the executive council in 1845 and
1846.   He Avas a representative from Middlesex in the twenty-
fourth Congress of the United States  in 1836-7.   He was also
a representatiA-e in our state  legislature in 1850.   In 1844, he
Avas  appointed by Gov. Briggs,  in accordance with a resolve
passed by the  legislature of Massachusetts, a commissioner to
proceed to Charleston, S.C., to test, in the Court of the United
States, the constitutionality of an act  passed by the legislature
of South Carolina on the 20th of December, 1825, legalizing the
imprisonment of colored persons who should enter their bounda-
ries : but on his arrival at Charleston, and  making  known the
object of his visit,  such was the excitement against  him, on
account of his mission's being deemed  by the people of the place
an unwarrantable interference with their  state rights, that he
was  obliged to leave the city forthwith, to escape threatened per-
sonal violence ;  and he returned to Massachusetts without fulfil-
ling the object of his appointment.
   The most agreeable characteristic of his latter  years was the
interest with which he pursued every movement of benevolence
or education.   He always possessed a liberal  and charitable
spirit;  but his retirement from the bar afforded leisure for a
more extensive indulgence and cultivation  of such affections.
From the institution of the sunday-school of his church, until
the  Sunday  of his  death,  he  officiated either  as  teacher or
superintendent.   He was a member of the Massachusetts Peace
Society and of the American Bible Society,  and was an invari-
able participant in all charitable organizations.   His  private
charities also were incessant, ample, and intelligent.  He was a
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of
the Massachusetts Historical Society.  At  the time of his death,
he was one of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College;  and
the college, in 1838, conferred upon him the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws.   In 1812, he was married to Miss Sarah Sher-
man, youngest daughter  of the  celebrated Roger Sherman, of
Connecticut.  They had five  children;  viz., Elizabeth,  Sarah 
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Sherman, Ebenezer Rockwood, EdAvard Sherman, and George
Frisbie.   The -sons Avere graduates of Harvard College in 1*35,
1844, and 1846, respectively.
   Mr. Hoar was a  man of deep religious  principles :  he was a
sincere and devout Christian.   He will  be remembered and
regretted longer than many men of more brilliant Ha es and more
conspicuous history, by the bar, of which he  was an ornament; by
the social circle of friendship, where  affections always cluster
around one so  sincere and earnest as he;  by  the community
where he dAvelt, and which he aimed to serve ; and by the  com-
monwealth, of which he was a Avise and faithful son.
   1802.—Elias Upton died in Bucksport,  Me., 16 June,
1857, aged 85.   He was born in Reading,  Mass., 16 February,
1772.   He devoted a great portion of his life to the instruction
of youth in A'arious places.  He was, for eleven years, precep-
tor of the Bluehill (Ale.)  Actdemy.   He afterwards removed to
Bucksport, where he engaged in trade, and kept a store in that
place for  many years, and there finally closed his long life.
   1803.—Dr.  Thomas  Ivers Parker  died in  Boston, 10
December, 1856, aged 72.  He was son of Rev. Samuel Par-
ker, D.D. (H.C. 1764),  and was born  in Boston, 29 March,
1784.  He was fitted for  college at the  Public Latin School in
Boston.  On leaving college, he chose the medical profession,
and pursued his studies under the instruction of Dr. James Jack-
son (H.C. 1796).   HaAang been admitted to practice,  he estab-
lished himself as a physician in the city of New York, where he
remained several years.    He  then returned to Boston, where
he resumed the practice of his profession, and where he resided
during the remainder of his life.  For  ten or twelve  years, he
held the office of county-physician for Suffolk.  He was  never.
married.
   1806. — Rev. Isaac  Hurd, of Exeter, N.H., died  sud-
denly, at the residence of his son, in  South Reading, Mass.,
4 October, 1856, aged 70.  He was son of Joseph Hurd, and
was  born  in  Charlestown,  Mass., 7  December,  1785.    On
leaving college, he  began the study  of  theology under  the
instruction of Rev.  David Osgood, D.D., of Medford, Mass., 
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(H.C. 1771).   He afterwards went to  Europe, and completed
his studies at Divinity Hall in Edinburgh.  He preached his first
sermon in London.  On his return  he  received several  invita-
tions to settle ;  and finally accepted one  given him by the Unita-
rian  society in  Lynn, Mass., and Avas ordained  15 September,
1813.   He was dismissed,  at his own request, 22 May, 1816.
A feAv months aftenvards,  he  Avas invited  to settle over  the
Second Society in Exeter, of the same liberal  denomination ;  to
Avhom he had rendered himself so  acceptable, that although he
frankly avowed he  had  changed his  theological  views, and  de-
clared his belief in the Trinitarian doctrine, yet they persisted in
the call, and he was installed  pastor of that church,  11 Sep-
tember, 1817.   Notwithstanding a  conscientious  difference  of
opinion on certain important points, he continued to enjoy, undi-
minished, their cordial respect and affection.   After  a  ministry
of thirty years, Rev. Samuel Dering Dexter (H.C.  1843) was
ordained,  2  December,  1847,  colleague-pastor.  Mr.  Dexter
died in Roxbury,  Mass., 20 April,  1850;  and Rev.  Asa  D.
Mann  was settled  as  a colleague,  19  November, 1851.   In
Mr.  Hurd the  society  found  a single-hearted  devotedness  to
his DiA-ine Master as his  guide, and to the  Scriptures  as  the
source and illustration  of  Christian truth, together with solid
learning, true  taste,  ardent piety,  and exemplary fidelity  in
all his ministerial and social relations.   He was a chaste, cor-
rect  writer, and, to  the extent of  his  vocal powers,  a good
speaker.   He Avas  affable  in his manners,  and given to hos-
pitality.  In 1854, the honorary degree of  Doctor of  Divinity
Avas conferred «upon him by Dartmouth College.  He  married,
16  March,  1819,  Mrs. Elizabeth Emery,  of  Exeter,  whose
maiden name was  Folsom ;  by whom he had  two sons,  one ,of
Avhom died in early childhood.   The other  son, Francis Park-
man Hurd,  graduated at Harvard College  in 1839, and is a
physician in  Exeter.
   1808. —Rev. James Johnson died  in St. Johnsbury, Vt.,
31 October,  1856, aged 77.   He was born in that  part  of
Lynn Avhich is noAV within the boundaries of Lynnfield, Mass.,
12 July, 1779.  He studied theology in Cambridge under  the 
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tuition of  Rev. Henry Ware, D.D.  (H.C.  1785),  and Avas
licensed to preach  in  1810.   He Avas  ordained  pastor  of the
Presbyterian  church in Potsdam, N.Y.,  11  March,  1812 ; the
ordination-sermon being preached by Rev. Amos  Pettengill, of
Champlain, N.Y.  (H.C.  1805).   In 1817,  he was  dismissed
from his charge at Potsdam ; and, in October of the same year,
was installed  pastor of  the Congregational church in Williston,
Vt.   While settled at Williston,  he preached at St. Alban's the
only sermon  of his that found its Avay  to the press.   It Avas
preached at the  anniversary meeting of free-masons,  on the
festival of St. John the Baptist, 24 June, 1826, from the text,
ft Every house  is builded by some man; but  he  that  built all
things is God" (Heb. iii. 4).   On the 28th of February, 1827,
his pastoral connection was transferred to  the Second Congrega-
tional Church in St. Johnsbury, Vt., where he  ministered until
3 May, 1838 ;  when his relation to that  church was dissolved,
and he was installed, February,  1839, at Irasburg, Vt., where
he labored till the autumn of 1849, when, at the age of seventy,
he was dismissed, and passed the remainder of his days  at the
Centre Village, in  St. Johnsbury,  preaching occasionally, as
opportunity offered,  without pastoral relation.  He  was  an
industrious, faithful, and successful preacher of the word of life.
His discourses evinced a most affectionate  regard for the welfare
of his hearers,  and the simplicity  of his manner was as touching
as his love  Avas sincere.  To him more than to any other man is
to be  attributed a great reformation  in the moral condition of
St. Johnsbury.   He found his parish full of pestilent doctrines
and eAril practices ;  and he gave  himself no rest until he had
extirpated heresy, root and branch, and trained the people to a
high standard of morality.  He " set his face like a flint" against
all isms.  Two revivals of more than ordinary interest  occurred
during his  ministry in  St. Johnsbury; one of which, in 1831,
resulted in  the addition  of more than sixty to the church.   The
Avhole number  added to the church  during  his  eleven  years'
connection  Avith it was  one  hundred  and seventy.   The closing
years  of his life were devoted mainly to the care of his faithful
wife, Avho Avas for many years a confirmed invalid.   She died 
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only eleven days before him ;  and when, at length, she Avas  re-
leased from her sufferings, there seemed no more for him to do
on earth, and he hastened to rejoin her above.
   1808.—Dr. Samuel  Scollay died in Smithfield, Jeffer-
son County,  Va.,  11 January, 1857, aged 74.   He was son  of
Grover and  Rebecca Scollay, and  was born in Ashburnham,
Mass., 21 January, 1782.  His personal character and history
furnish a beautiful instance  of persevering  industry and  stern
integrity, united to high mental accomplishments, a heart of the
noblest impulses,  and  the keenest sensibility.   He  began life
Avith  no  advantages, except  those which a  good name and a
faithful training of his parents conferred.   Having to make the
money to pay for his  education, it was several years beyond
the  usual  period  of entering upon  college-life that he* was
matriculated as a  member of an advanced class.   While his
classmates were  enjoying the recreations  of  vacation and  the
endearments of home, he was exerting himself to  provide for
the  next  term of  study by teaching school.  Thus,  one term
after another,  did he succeed in  partially  anticipating the  ex-
penses of his education.   At college he was distinguished  no
less by his excellence in scholarship among  his felloAv-students,
than for his perseverance  and fidelity, during the vacation, as a
public teacher.    In 1810, he went to Virginia ;  settled in  the
vicinity of Charlestown, Jefferson  County ;  and taught school in
the family of Mr.  Henry Turner.   His school soon attracted the
members of other families, and became very large.   For  three
years, he thus labored to  free himself from  the encumbrance of
debts contracted in acquiring  his  education,  and also to enable
him to qualify himself  for a profession.   He at  the  same time
prepared himself to  enter upon the course  of study at the Jef-
ferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where he graduated  as
one of the first in his class.   He began the practice of medicine
in Jefferson  County at the age of thirty;  soon became highly
distinguished in his profession, not less  eminent in his humble
sphere than some of his contemporaries at college in the exalted
position they have attained in the nation's councils.   By perse-
verance and industry, for nearly half a century,  he was enabled 
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 to bring up and educate a large family of children, and become
 one of the most affluent citizens in that part  of the state.  His
 first wife was Miss  Harriot LoAvndes, a grand-daughter of the
 late Gov.  Lloyd, of Maryland, and  first cousin  of the late
 Francis S. Key.  His second wife Avas Miss Sarah  Page Nel-
 son, grand-daughter  of the  late Gen. Thomas Nelson.   His
 remains  repose  in  the  graveyard of the beautiful  Episcopal
 church  in the village of Smithfield, Avhich his liberality largely
 contributed to  build.
    1809. — Hon. Francis  Calley  Gray died  in Boston,
 Mass.,  29 December, 1856, aged 66.  He was son of Hon.
 William Gray, well known as an enterprising and wealthy mer-
 chant;  and was born in  Salem, Mass., 19  September, 1790.
 After1 leaving college, he went through a course of legal studies
 in the office of Hon. William Prescott, of Boston (H.C. 1783),
 and was admitted to the bar; but he did not pursue the profes-
 sion for  any considerable  time.   Possessing  ample wealth, he
 became a man of letters, and devoted his powerful  and Avell-
 cultivated mind to  the  pursuits  of literature.  He was private
 secretary of Hon. John Quincy Adams, when the  latter was
 minister  in Russia.   He was  one  of the most brilliant and
 accomplished writers of his time,  and was an early contributor to
 the " North-American Review."  He was the  author of a valua-
 ble paper, entitled " Remarks on the  Early Laws of  Massachu-
 setts Bay, with the  Code  adopted in 1641, and called 'The
 Body of Liberties,' '•' which is replete with important historical
 information.  This paper  was published in  the eighth volume
 of the third series of the Collections of the Massachusetts His-
 torical Society.   In August, 1816,  he delivered the  oration
 before  the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College, which
 was published in the " North-American Review " for September of
 that year;  and in August, 1840, he delivered the annual poem
 before  the  same society, which was  highly commended in the
 "North-American" for January,  1841.   In 1848, he  published
 a pamphlet entitled " Prison-Discipline in America," in which he
 made a  powerful  argument  against  the separate  system  of
imprisonment, or solitary confinement of prisoners.  This pam- 
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phlet Avas noticed, in strong terms of commendation, in an  able
article in the "Christian Examiner" for Marcn, 1848.   On the
4th  of July, 1818, he  delivered the  oration, before the town
authorities of Boston, on the anniversary of the Declaration  of
Independence.   This  oration takes rank among the ablest  pro-
ductions Avhich that occasion has brought forth.   He had  a
decided taste for antiquarian and historical researches.  On the
29th of January, 1818, he Avas elected a member of the Massa-
chusetts Historical Society, and he edited several volumes of its
published Collections.   He was elected to many offices  of honor
and trust.  He was a member of the American Academy of Arts
and  Sciences, and its corresponding secretary; was president  of
the Boston Athenaeum ;  a trustee of the State Lunatic  Hospital
at Worcester, on its establishment; a trustee of the  Massachu-
setts  General Hospital  in Boston;  and a fellow  of  Harvard
College from 1826 to 1836.   In  1822, he was elected  a repre-
sentative  from  Boston  to the state legislature;  and  was re-
elected in 1823, 1824, and 1836.   He was chosen senator from
Suffolk in 1825, 1826,  1828, 1829, 1831, and 1843;  and was
elected  one of  the executive council in  1839.  He was  vice-
president of the Prison-Discipline Society;  and Avas, for several
years, chairman of the Board of Directors of the state prison  at
Charlestown.   In all these  several stations,  he discharged his
duties with eminent ability.  In 1841,  the honorary degree  of
Doctor  of Laws was  conferred upon him by Harvard  College.
He died a bachelor.
   1810.—Rufus Bradford Allyn  died  in Belfast, Me.,
25 January, 1857, aged 63.   He was son of Rev. John Allyn,
D.D., of Duxbury, Mass. (H.C. 1785), and Abigail (Bradford)
Allyn ;  was born in that tOAvn, 27  March, 1793 ;  and was the
seventh in descent from Gov. Bradford, of Plymouth  Colony.
He studied law in the office of Hon. William Sullivan, of Boston
(H.C. 1792) ; and, having been admitted to the bar, he rennrved,
28 July, 1815, to Belfast, Me., Avhere he opened an office,  and
there he resided during the remainder of his life.  He soon ac-
quired an extensive and lucrative practice,  and became one of the
leaders of the bar in Waldo County.  Some of the wealthy men
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of Boston were proprietors of large tracts of land in the vicinity
of Belfast;  and at the solicitation of Mr. Sullivan, himself one of
the proprietors, Mr. Allyn  accepted  an agency for the sale of
these lands, such an agency not interfering, but being connected,
Avith the practice of his profession.  He continued in this agency
for more than tAventy years, when it was terminated by his pur-
chase of the remaining interest  of the  proprietors.   He  was a
scholar of rare attainments, of profound learning,  and great re-
finement of taste.   As a lawyer, he  had  hardly his superior in
the country.  He  was thoroughly versed in the authorities, and
of memory  so retentive and remarkable as to be able to make a
brief upon any given question, referring with accuracy  to volume
and page without taking the books from their cases ; and yet  he
was by no means exclusively what is  called a book-lawyer.  He
Avas master  of the great principles of jurisprudence ; and, with a
mind of great logical acuteness as well as  comprehensiveness,  he
applied those principles with Avonderful readiness and discrimina-
tion.   He was a man of great promptness in business,  faithful to
his clients, and of  unbending integrity, but of great eccentricity
of character,—reserved to the very borders of misanthropy ;  an
hereditary temperament, which  oftentimes  endured very great
depression,  and which tended to obscure his faith, and obliterate
the faintest  trace of ambition or desire to be  known or noticed
by his  fellow-men.   He shunned distinction, and every thing
like notoriety he avoided with disgust.  He  might at one time
have removed to Boston,  and become the partner of Daniel Web-
ster ;  but he preferred a  life of absolute seclusion.  Towards the
close of his  life, those gloomy doubts  superinduced by his melan-
choly temperament, which had  at times obscured  his religious
faith, were  dispelled; and he' often  prayed, " Lord, I believe :
help thou mine unbelief."   He was ever a zealous advocate of the
principles of liberal Christianity maintained  by his  father; and
retained his respect for the institutions  of religion, to which  he
gave  his  personal countenance and support.   Late in life,
he  married Rebecca P.,  the  eldest daughter  of his   friend
Samuel Upton, formerly of Boston;  and  he, perhaps, was  the
only person not connected by family ties toAvards whom he had 
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any feeling  deserving the name of friendship.   Mr. Upton re-
sided in Belfast for some years prior to his removal to Washing-
ton, where  he died in  1840.   His friendship, which  was the
sunny spot  in Mr. Allyn's  early life, was  strengthened by the
family tie which  united  them  after  Mr.  Upton's removal  to
Washington,  and  was  only  dissolved by death;  and  now, in
firmer, purer, and better bonds, and brighter realms, the friends
are re-united.  His widow and five children survive him in inde-
pendent circumstances.
    1810.—Frederick  Kinloch died  in  Charleston, S.C.,
7 August, 1856, aged 66.  He was son of Francis and Martha
(Rutledge)  Kinloch, and was born in Charleston, 17 February,
1790.  He began  his preparatory studies under the Rev. Dr.
Buist; and at the  age of  12 he left Charleston, when his father
took  him to  Geneva, in  Switzerland, where he remained  four
years under the instruction of the celebrated Prof. Prevost.   He
returned with the family to Charleston in 1806 ;  and,  that year,
entered college.  For some time after he graduated, he followed
the business of planting  ; but he was an ardent lover of learning,
and he took great delight in acquiring knowledge in all useful arts
and sciences, and  imparting  his information for the  benefit  of
others.   He was a thorough French scholar; was  also  familiar
with the Italian and Spanish languages.  Amiable in private life,
self-sacrificing for  the  benefit  of  others, he was  without an
enemy, and Avas beloved by all who knew him.   Perseverance
and punctuality were marked qualities in his character ; a sincere
friend, but vindictive when angry, sarcastic when offended,  yet,
if opportunity offered, ready to forget  and forgive.   Such  was
Mr. Kinloch.  He died at the house of a  friend, where he  had
resided for the last thirty-one years of his life; and, by his own
request, he was buried in Magnolia Cemetery.
    1812. — Charles Browne died in Boston,  21  July, 1856,
aged  63.   He was son  of Moses (H.C.  1768)  and Mary
BroAvne, and was born in  Beverly, Mass., 24 May,  1793.  He
studied laAv three years  in the office of Hon. Nathan Dane, of
Beverly (H.C. 1778) ;  but did not enter upon the practice of the
profession, but became a partner in  the extensive  publishing 
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firm of Hilliard, Gray, and Co., of Boston, AA'here he continued
for many years.   He Avas for nearly ten years a director in the
New-England  Mutual  Life-insurance Company,  in Avhich  he
took great interest;  and his labors in the management  of its
affairs contributed essentially to its  success.   Pie was also, for a
long period, one of the most  active members of  the  Boston-
Library Society, and through life Avas much interested in histori-
cal and genealogical researches.  Modest and unobtrusive in his
manners, he never sought notoriety, but chose rather to do his
duty as  a good citizen and a  Christian, and to  be known  by
his Avorks.   He  was in truth  a just and good  man; one Avho
contributed much to the happiness and dignity of  human life;
one who  was never  weary in well-doing, and sought  no other
reward than the consciouness of a life well spent.   He married,
14 December,  1825, Elizabeth Isabella, daughter of Bryant P.
Tilden, Esq., of Boston; and  had two sons and one daughter,
who, Avith his wife, survive him.
   1812.—Leonard  Jackson died  in West Newton, Mass.,
1  April, 1857,  aged 65.   He was  son of Major Daniel  and
Lucy (Remington) Jackson, and was born in Newton, 26 July,
1791.   His father was an officer in the Revolutionary war,  and
Avas  in  the  battles  of Concord, Bunker  Hill,  Germantown,
and Monmouth.  After leaving college, Mr. Jackson studied
theology, and preached for a feAv years, but was never ordained.
The subsequent  portion of  his  life was devoted to agricultural
pursuits  in his native  town.
   1812. — George  Thacher  died  in  Westford,  Mass.,
12 June, 1857, aged 66.   He was son of Hon. George (H.C.
1776) and Sarah (Savage) Thacher, and was born in Biddeford,
Me., 7 September, 1790.   He Avas partly fitted for college by
Joseph  Adams (H.C.  1805),  who was private tutor in his fa-
ther's family ;  and completed his preparatory studies at Gorham
Academy, under the instruction of Rev. Reuben Nason (H.C.
1802).   He studied law with  Hon. Cyrus King, of Saco ;  and
began practice in that place in 1815, where he continued until
1835.   For five years, he was senior partner  in  law-business
with the  late Gov. Fairfield.  For  several years, he was register 
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of probate of York County.   In 1835, he left Saco for Monroe,
where he remained until 1841, when he Avas appointed, by Pres.
Tyler, collector of Belfast, and removed to that place.   After
the expiration  of his commission, he returned to Monroe, Avhere
he resumed business ;  and continued there until 1853, when he
removed to Westford, Mass.   He married,  20 January, 1818,
his cousin, Lucy Bigelow, daughter of Amos Bigelow, of Weston,
Mass.   By this  marriage he had six  children, four of whom
survived him.   This happy connection was severed by her death
at Belfast  in  September, 1843.  He married again, 14 June,
1847, to Lucy, daughter of Dr. Amos Bancroft (H.C.  1791),
of Groton, Mass., who survived him.  Mr. Thacher was a gen-
tleman of most pleasing address, and distinguished for his gene-
rous qualities.   He had a deep sense of  the importance of truth
and justice, and discharged every trust  and every duty with
conscientious integrity.   Believing the truth and importance of
the Christian religion, he was a firm supporter of public worship,
a communicant and constant attendant on the ordinances of the
gospel.
    1812.—Dr. Ezekiel Thaxter died in Abington, Mass.,
11 October, 1856, aged 69.   He Avas son of Dr. Gridley and
Sarah (Lincoln) Thaxter,  and was born in Abington, 22 July,
1787.   His mother was daughter of Gen.  Benjamin Lincoln, of
Hingham,  the revolutionary hero.   He was fitted for  college
at Hingham Academy, under the  tuition of  James Day (H.C.
1806).   After  completing  his collegiate course,  he  studied
medicine under the instruction of Dr. John C. Warren, of Bos-
ton (H.C.  1797); and,  having received his medical diploma in
1815, immediately began practice with  his father in Abington.
He Avas quite successful in his profession, and acquired the full-
est confidence of his patients.   As his father advanced in age, he
gradually withdrew from practice ; and, for some time before his
death (which took place February, 1845,  at the age of 89), he
gave it up entirely, and his son, the subject  of this  notice,  was
the only physician in the town, which is quite large, and embraces
four considerable villages, three of them from one and a half to
tAVO  and a half miles  from the doctor's residence.   Notwith- 
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standing this, so popular Avas he, that no physician Avas  able to
establish himself even in the remote parts of the tOAvn Avhile Dr.
Thaxter retained his health.  Noav there  are seven physicians on
the territory Avhich he occupied.   For the  last two or three years,
he was able to ride very little,  having suffered  from paralysis,
Avhich in a great measure disabled one side of his body;  and his
death occurred from a  repetition of the  shock.   As he  resided
all his life in Abington, he became one of its fathers ; and always
occupied a large place in the community, being highly esteemed
and honored by his  fellow-townsmen.   In 1821, he was  chosen
town-clerk ; and held the office,  by successive annual re-elections,
until 1832.  He married Diantha Brown,  daughter of Samuel
BroAvn, of Abington ;  and left four children, two sons and two
daughters, all residing in that town.   His  wife died  a few
years since.  He was a man of strong social  attachments, and
loved to live in the bosom of his family, and in the society of his
near relatives and intimate friends.   He  was a kind  and affec-
tionate father, a worthy and estimable citizen.
   1814. —Francis Dallas Quash died in Charleston, S.C.,
17 February, 1857,  aged 63.   Pie was  born in Charleston,
19 December, 1793.  When in college, he AAras distinguished by
his strength of memory, his finished recitations, and his graceful
elocution.   He  graduated with high honors.   Many will re-
member the  animated  and graceful  manner in which he  pro-
nounced  the Latin salutatory  oration in  August,  1814, and
the valedictory oration in  August,  1817, Avhen he took his
degree  of  master of arts.   The latter was afterwards published.
After leaving college,  he studied law with Judge Samuel Prio-
leau, but did not enter upon its practice.  Inheriting a  planta-
tion, his time for several years was devoted to its care.  During
eighteen years, he was a member of the legislature of his native
state;  and, for  some  time previous  to  his decease, he held a
responsible office in the custom-house in  Charleston.  He mar-
ried, 6 January, 1819,  Emma  J. Doughty, by whom  he had
six children, of whom one son and two daughters survived him.
   1815. — Henry Felt Baker, of Cincinnati, died suddenly,
of congestion of the brain, in  Portsmouth, O., 20  February, 
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1857, aged  59.   His name, originally, was  Henry  Felt;  but
his  father having died,  and his mother marrying Joseph Baker,
he took the surname of his step-father.  He Avas the only child
of Henry Felt, and was born in Salem, Mass., 6  November,
1797.  Pie Avas fitted for college, in .Salem, under the instruction
of Josiah  Willard  Gibbs  (Y.C.  1809).  Immediately after
graduating, he entered the counting-room of Baker and Plodges,
of Boston, for the purpose of acquiring a mercantile  education.
Here he remained several  years, when  the firm Avas dissolved,
Mr. Hodges retiring;  and a new  copartnership was  formed,
under the style of Joseph Baker and Son.  This firm was, after
a few years' continuance, dissolved; and the subject of this notice
went to London, where he established himself as  a merchant.
He remained there a little more than two years, and returned to
Boston in  the autumn of  1841.   Soon  afterwards, he went
to New Orleans, with a view of establishing himself in that city ;
but, not succeeding  according to his wishes, he returned  to Bos-
ton, and became one of the most active and efficient  persons in
establishing steam flour-mills in East Boston.  He was subse-
quently treasurer of the Flour-Mills Company.  It was at this
period that he exhibited his scientific tastes ;  and he was led to
studies and investigations, that resulted, in 1846, in  the patent
of an invention, and the issue of an illustrative pamphlet  entitled
"Improvement in Steam-boiler Furnaces."  The  value  of this
improvement, whatever the strength of confidence with which
he regarded it, he was  willing that its own intrinsic merits and
practical  experience should determine.   A  year  or two after-
wards he wTent to Cincinnati, where he was employed as  a clerk
in a bank, and where he  passed the remainder of  his life.  In
 1853 and 1854, he published, in two parts, a work  on  "Banks
and Banking in  the United  States ;"  Avhich, to  men  of busi-
ness, is of intrinsic and  durable  value.   In August, 1856,
he began writing  a  series of articles, which Avere  published  in
the  " Banker's Magazine," in  New York,  illustrative   of the
specific interests  to  which that periodical is  dedicated.   These
evidences of a public nature establish the conclusion, that, even
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not suffer his mind to be alienated from that loATe of science and
letters to Avhich it  had been  early  devoted.   He Avas  not an
inattentive observer of the course of public affairs ; and  he will
be remembered  by many  of  his  contemporaries  in Boston as
ahvays  in  sympathy  Avith principles of high  honor and of a
large and generous patriotism.   The interests of private Airtue
and  social improvement found  in him a friend and benefactor.
He  was an  early associate and patron of  the Young  Men's
Mercantile-Library Association in Boston, and  ahvays Avatched
its success with the interest of one avIio had,  in some  measure,
been instrumental in its establishment.   In  1828, he Avas elected
commander of the Boston  Independent Company  of Cadets ; a
post that has ever been connected with high  and noble bearing
in the activities of life.   He Avas a gentleman of polished man-
ners ; and, possessing rare colloquial faculties,  his acquaintance
was  much courted in fashionable  society.   He was often called
upon to preside at military dinners  and on other festive occa-
sions, which he did with a  grace seldom equalled.  He married,
21  November,  1822,  Caroline, daughter  of Capt. John Boit,
of Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Mass. ;  and had two children, — a
son  and a daughter, — who,  Avith their mother, surviA'e him.
His  son graduated at Harvard College  in. 1848.   Of his  domes-
tic virtues and religious aspirations, of his  firmness in  trial, his
fortitude in disappointment, his trust in God,  and his  hope in
his Saviour,  it  is given to those who were united with  him
in the loved and loving experiences of home to cherish memories
into which it were  not fitting for the  present  writer  to enter.
After a life of activity, varied,  as most lives are, by alternate
elevations and depressions, he passed  aAvay;  and his grave is
found in the quiet and beautiful  Spring-Grove Cemetery, in the
queen-city of the West, Cincinnati.
   1818. — William  Augustus  Carson  died  at  Sullivan's
Island,  near Charleston, S.C., 17 August, 1856, aged 55.  He
was  son of James  and Eliza (Neyle)  Carson, and was born
in Charleston, 27 November, 1800.  His father Avas a native of
Camden, S.C., and Avas a merchant in  Charleston.  His  mother
was  a native of Exeter, Eng.   Mr. Carson was prepared for 
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college, in Charleston, by an Irishman of the name of Moriarty,
Avho was  a distinguished scholar.   After leaving college, he
studied medicine, but never practised; being entirely occupied
with his business as a planter.   This, however,  did not exclude
the study of chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mechanics ;  for
all which he had a strong inclination.  He married Miss Caro-
line Petigru, the accomplished and  interesting daughter  of the
Hon. James Louis Petigru, the special friend of Daniel Web-
ster, and the head  of the Charleston bar.  He had two sons, —
William and James Petigru, — who smwive him,  as does  also
his widow.  Mr. Carson always preserved the liveliest recollec-
tion of his college life and college friends, and frequently spoke
of revisiting those scenes dear to his youth;  but his devotion to
his business as  a  planter,  and intendant of Sullivan's  Island,
always prevented  him from putting this wish into execution.
   1818. — Charles  William  Cutter  died in Chatfield,
Minn. Ter., 6 August, 1856, aged 57.   He was born in  Ports-
mouth, N.H.,  11 June, 1799.  He studied law in the  office
of Hon. Jeremiah Mason (Y.C. 1788) ; and, having been  ad-
mitted to  the bar, he  entered upon the  practice of the  law in
Portsmouth.   For several  years  he was  a  contributor  to  the
"Portsmouth Journal."  He afterwards entered upon the political
field; and, espousing the Avhig cause, was a writer of much spirit.
For a year or two, he became a resident of DoArer, N.H. ; where,
about 1823, he established the "Dover Republican."  From July,
1825, to  January,  1830,  he was  an  associate editor  of  the
"Portsmouth Journal."  As a writer and public speaker he was
always Avell received, and enjoyed a confidence which was  re-
warded by the honors and emoluments of office.   He was aide to
Levi Woodbury when  the  latter was governor of New Hamp-
shire,  and also  aide to Major-Gen. Upham for several  years.
He several times represented Portsmouth in the NeAv-Hampshire
legislature, held the offices  of clerk of the United-States District
and  Circuit Courts in New Hampshire, naval storekeeper and
navy-ao-ent.  With the heads of the national government, en-
joying the personal  friendship  of Daniel Webster, he at times
possessed an influence from which others have  derived advan-
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tage.   But, although in a degree successful in his course, he ex-
pressed deep regrets that he ever left his profession to enter the
race in the political  arena.  To a  young man Avho Avished his
influence at Washington for an office, he  said, "I would caution
every young man to follow any honest  calling rather than rely
for support on any public office."   Well informed in the litera-
ture of the day, interested in all that relates  to  state histori-
cal researches, the promoter of the interest  of literary institu-
tions, the ready public speaker, Avhether on the political platform,
at the forensic club, or  the desk  at  the lyceum, he was  ever
listened to Avith attention and interest, and  cheered with  enthu-
siasm.  Though his aim might be high personal position, he was
ever noble and generous-hearted to  all; and, in filial affection,
none  could  be more devoted.  He was  never married.
   1818.—Dr. Joshua Henshaw Hayward  died  in Boston,
2 December, 1856, aged 59.  He was the youngest  son of Dr.
Lemuel Hayward  (H.C. 1768), and  was born  in Boston, 6
February, 1797.   He  was fitted  for college in Boston  by the
celebrated  Ebenezer  Pemberton,   and  graduated  with high
honors.  On leaving college, he chose  the  medical profession;
and, having completed  the regular course of studies, was  admit-
ted to the degree of M.D. in 1821.  He then went to  Europe
for the purpose of more thoroughly qualifying himself for  the
practice of his profession.  He remained  in Europe three years,
and embarked at Havre for New York  on board the packet-ship
"Cadmus," Capt. Allyn, in the summer of 1824 ; being a fellow-
passenger with Lafayette, when he visited the United States as
the nation's guest.   He opened an office in Boston, and pursued
the practice of his profession a few years ; when he relinquished
it, and became a partner in the house of Fletcher and HayAvard,
wholesale druggists.  Possessing a  taste  for the fine arts, he, a
few years afterwards, devoted himself to portrait-painting, which
he followed for some time with good success.  In 1849,  he was
appointed a weigher in the Boston custom-house ; which office he
held until his  death.   He was a gentleman widely known,  and
universally  respected;  of  an amiable disposition,  modest  and
unobtrusive in manners,  and unblemished moral character.   Pie 
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married a daughter of the Hon. John McLean, of Ohio, judge
of the Supreme Court of the United States.   Her early and
sudden  death, after a few years of happy union, made  a deep
impression  upon him, which  was never  effaced.   She left  t\vo
children, — a son and a daughter;  both of whom survived their
father.
   1819. — Hon. Stephen  Clarendon Phillips, of  Salem,
Mass., was lost by the burning of the steamboat "Montreal," in
the river St. Lawrence, on the passage  from Quebec to Mon-
treal, 26 June, 1857.  He was the only child of Capt. Stephen
Phillips, an active and enterprising shipmaster  and  merchant;
and  was born  in Salem, 4 November,  1801.   He graduated
with high honors at the early age of 18.   After leaving college,
he began the study of law ;  but soon relinquished it, and entered
upon his father's business as  a  merchant, in which  he engaged
with great energy and success.  While yet quite young,  he was
called into the public service.  In 1824,  he was elected a  repre-
sentative for Salem to the state legislature ; which office he held,
by successive re-elections, until 1830, when he was chosen to the
senate, where he remained two years ; and, in 1832 and 1833, he
was  again a member of the house  of representatives. In 1834,
he was elected a representative in Congress from the Essex South
District to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon.
Rufus Choate; and continued  to  occupy  that  post until  the
autumn of 1838, when he resigned, and was succeeded by Plon.
Leverett Saltonstall.   On the 5th December, 1838, he  was
elected mayor of Salem ; and remained in office until March,
1842, when he  voluntarily retired, giving the whole of his three
years' salary, amounting to twenty-four hundred dollars,  for the
benefit of the public schools of Salem.  In 1840, he was one of
the presidential-electors for Massachusetts.  He was a member of
the Board of Education of Massachusetts from 1843 to 1852, and
a trustee of the  State Lunatic Hospital from 1844 to 1850.  Of
positions of less prominence, which  he filled with  honor, were
those of president of the Salem Young-Men's Temperance Socie-
ty, organized 15 February, 1832 ;  trustee and  president  of the
Bible Society of Salem and  vicinity; president of the  Salem 
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Moral Society;  one of the managers of the Salem Dispensary,
and vice-president of the Salem Savings-Bank.  In 1848, he left
the Avhig party, and engaged actively in the free-soil movement,
in the success of Avhich his sympathies were thoroughly enlisted.
He Avas the candidate  of that party for governor  of Massachu-
setts in that and the following  year, but  failed  of an election.
From that time he Avithdrew from political life.  In  private life
he Avas  a man of genial disposition, a devoted husband and fond
parent;  as a man  of business he  was prompt and energetic;
as a Christian he Avas above reproach.   He Avas  a member of
the Barton-square Unitarian Church, Avhere  he Avas a constant
attendant for thirty-six years.    He Avas  eminently a friend of
youth, and contributed largely to the support  of the  sunday-
school.   Through his munificence a chapel was built;  and the
church  and  society,  in  his death, lost  a valued  friend  and
member.   He married, first, Jane Appleton, daughter  of Wil-
lard Peele, of Salem  (H.C. 1792) : she dying,  he  married,
3  September, 1838,  Margaret M., sister of his former  wife.
The fruits of  these marriages are  ten children,—six sons and
four daughters.  Three  of his sons,  Stephen Henry,  George
William, and Charles Appleton, are graduates of  Harvard Col-
lege in  1842, 1847, and 1860, respectively.
    1820.—Rev. William Lawrence Stearns died in Chico-
pee, Mass.,  28 May, 1857, aged 63.   He  was son  of Rev.
Charles (H.C. 1773) and Susanna (Cowdry) Stearns,  and was
born in Lincoln, Mass.,  30 October, 1793.   His twin-brother,
Daniel  Munroe  Stearns,  graduated  at  BroAvn  University in
1822.   He Avas fitted for  college  by  his father.   After grad-
uating, he studied  divinity under his father's instruction, and
Avas licensed  to preach in 1823.   He was  ordained pastor of the
Unitarian church in  Stoughton,  Mass.,  21 November,  1827.
His pastoral  relation Avith this society Avas dissolved 30 March,
1831.    He was installed at Rowe, Mass., 30 January,  1833;
where he  labored as  a diligent and faithful pastor until 31 De-
cember, 1849, when  he  was dismissed, and, 1  January, 1850,
Avas settled over the Unitarian  church in Pembroke, Mass.  He
continued his labors  in  this place until a few months before his 
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death,  Avhen ill health compelled him to resign his pastoral
charge ; and he removed to  Chicopee, where  he resided  in  the
family of  his son until death closed his earthly career.  He was
married, 5  June, 1828,  to Mary Monroe,  daughter of Isaac
and  Grace (BigeloAv) Monroe, of Lincoln;  and had four chil-
dren, three  sons and one  daughter, of whom the daughter and
one son died before their father.   Mr. Stearns was emphatically
a good man, an honest, worthy Christian.   He never aimed at
eminence or sought popularity, but pursued the even tenor of his
Avay, laboring diligently in the vocation  to which he was  called,
and no doubt made his calling and election sure.  His religious
sentiments,  and his vieAvs of the course  a minister of  the gospel
ought to pursue, are Avell expressed in the following extract of a
letter written by him about  five years before his death : " I have
good reason to believe my ministerial services have been as profit-
able, in a moral and religious point of view, as those  of my
brethren who  have had larger salaries  and obtained notoriety.
All  kinds and  degrees of  transcendentalism  and Germanism I
have detested,  and held on in the good  old ways of evangelical
preaching, for  Avhich I have somewhat lost caste, and been con-
sidered a little old-fashioned;  but  I  have  the  consolation to
think  I  have  in  no way  been  accessory to infidelity,  come-
outism, and the other abominations in Avhich the  times abound.
I  wish Ave  had in our denomination fewer of what  are  called
smart preachers, and more  of those who  teach for  doctrine the
commands  of  God, and  the  simplicity of the  truth by Jesus
Christ."                   ,u,
    1822. — Samuel Manning died in Baltimore, Md., 16 May,
1857, aged 54.   He was son of Dr. Samuel (H.C. 1797) and
Lucy  (Cogswell)  Manning, and was born in Westford,  Mass.,
6  July, 1802 ; but, from the age of eight years until  he entered
college, had his home  in  Lancaster, Mass.,  and was fitted for
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admission at Lancaster Academy under  the instruction of Pres.
Jared Sparks  (H. C.  1815) ;  but on account of his  youth,
being then only fifteen years of age, he remained one year longer
at the academy under  Mr.  Sparks's successor,  George Barrell
Emerson (H.C. 1817), and entered in  1818.  In his freshman 
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year, he taught a school in Lancaster;  and, in the av inter of his
senior  year,  in  Leominster.   He  Avas captain of the college
company; and, at that time, Capt.  Shaw, of the Paiited-States
navy, Avas under suspension.   It Avas intimated to the company
that it Avould be agreeable to Capt. Shaw to see them.  Manning
asked  Pres.  Kirkland's permission.   The president  inquired
whether they intended to  visit Capt.  Shaw as an officer, or as
a private  citizen.   Manning replied,  "As a private  citizen."
The  company Avent,  and saluted  ShaAv as  had always been the
custom of saluting their  hosts.   This gave  great offence  to
the officers of the court-martial, among whom was Com. Hull;
and,  shortly afterwards, Hull published  a communication  in a
newspaper, asking to what literary institution they were indebted
for the insult they had received.   The consequence was, Man-
ning was deprived of a part he was  to  have performed at Com-
mencement.    It was his  intention, through college, to study
medicine with his father; and,  accordingly, he  attended  the
medical lectures in Boston the  first winter after he graduated.
But his father died 11 October,  1822 ;  and he relinquished  the
plan  of pursuing the medical profession.    In  1823, he went to
Maryland, and  taught  a  school  of twenty or  thirty scholars
in Baltimore County, about eight miles from the city of Balti-
more, for  two years.   During the winter of £825—6, he studied
Spanish under Cubi y Soler ;  and, the following spring, went to
Mexico, about eighty miles from the city, to  Timascaltapec,
as agent for a silver-mining company.  In the summer of 1827,
he sailed from Vera Cruz in a schooner for Philadelphia, and the
voyage occupied sixty-five days.   They  Avere  twenty days
becalmed  in the Gulf.   The vessel had neither quadrant nor
compass ;  and, for twenty  days, all on board were reduced to an
allowance  of one biscuit and one pint of water each a day.   The
vessel, too, was leaky; and all were obliged to take their turns
at the  pumps  fifteen  minutes  successively,  until they got  into
Tampa Bay.   He lost his hat soon after leaving Vera Cruz, and
had only a paper one, which he  made to keep off the heat of
the tropical climate.   In the spring of 1829, he returned to Bal-
timore, and on the 10th of June,  the same year, was married to 
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Miss Susan Shepard, of Baltimore ;  and they passed the summer
at Cambridge,  Mass.   In October, he, with his wife, Avent to
Mexico,  and returned the folloAving spring.   A feAV months
afterwards, he settled as a lawyer in Baltimore, haAang attended
to the study of law at such intervals  as he had after first going to
that city.   He was quite successful in  the profession, and con-
tinued in practice until the spring of 1838, when he removed to
a farm a feAv miles from Palmyra  in Missouri.   The first ground
broken on his farm was to  bury one of his  five children.    He
intended to practise law; but he lost his law-books on the way
out.  The Ohio was low, and he  had the promise that his books
should go by the next boat; but the last he  heard  of them was
that the boxes on Avhich his name  Avas marked were seen floating
in the river.   Then he lost  several hundred  dollars' worth of
fencing by prairie fire, and other misfortunes followed.   Subse-
sequently he lived for a time at  St. Louis, where he was still
unsuccessful.  About 1843, he returned to Baltimore, where he
remained until his death.   For  some time, he was in the office
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company ;  and afterwards in
the  coal and  iron business, as  one of the firm  of  Manning,
Stimpson, and Co.  Latterly he Avas in the hardware business with
his brother Joseph, at the Avalon  Iron-works.   For the last
year, he felt that he had a heart disease, and often said that
he should die suddenly.  About four weeks  before his death, he
was taken  with  hemorrhage  from  the stomach, which con-
fined him for several days.  He recovered, and went daily to
the  iron-works.   On  the  15th  of  May,  on  the way to  the
cars, on his return,  he was  taken with fainting,  which was
immediately followed  by paralysis;  and  he  died  about one
o'clock on the following morning.   He  was a gentleman of fine
personal appearance,  great  suavity of  manner, and of unblem-
ished integrity.
    1823. —Rev. William Parsons Lunt, of Quincy, Mass.,
died at Akabah, a town in Arabia Petrasa, 21 March, 1857, aged
51.   He left Boston on the 31st December last to make the tour
of Europe, intending to return in July folloAving; and was on a
journey to visit some of the spots memorable in sacred history, 
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 Avith the intention of proceeding to Jerusalem.  He Avas attacked,
 Avhile in the desert, Avith an illness which  seemed to be a  sharp
 seizure of rheumatism ;  and it Avas Avith some difficulty that he
 could reach Akabah.   Here his  disorder increased in violence ;
 assumed a more distinct febrile type :  delirium  supervened, and
 death  closed the scene.  His last moments Avere soothed by the
 kindness and attention of two English gentlemen — one of them
 a clergyman—with whom he had for some time been travelling ;
 and one of his own countrymen,  —Rev. Mr. DoAvdney,'of NeAv
 York, — Avho was at Akabah, performed the last sacred office to
 his remains.  He Avas son of Henry and Mary  (Greene) Lunt,
 and was born in NeAvburyport, 21 April, 1805. He Avas fitted for
 college at  Milton Academy,  and graduated  Avith high honors.
 On leaving college, it was his intention to have pursued the pro-
 fession  of  law;  and accordingly he entered, as a student, the
 office of Charles  Pelham Curtis (H.C. 1811), of Boston.  After
 studying one year, he changed his mind, relinquished  the study
 of law, and entered  the  Theological School  at  Cambridge  for
 the purpose of studying for the ministry.  After completing his
 studies, he was invited to take the pastoral charge of the Second
 Unitarian  Church (now the Church of the Messiah) in the city
 of New York.   This invitation  he  accepted, and was accord-
 ingly ordained 19 June, 1828.   His pastoral relation  Avith that
 church was dissolved 19 November, 1833 ;  and he was installed
 over the Unitarian church in Quincy,  3 June,  1835,  where he
 faithfully labored until his death, — a period of nearly twenty-
 two years.   He  married, 14 May, 1829, Ellen Plobart, daugh-
 ter of  Barnabas Hedge  (H.C.  1783),  of Plymouth,  Mass.,
 and had seven children, — four daughters  and two sons,—of
 Avhom  six, with  their mother,  survived him : one child died in
 infancy.   Dr. Lunt was one of the most popular and eloquent
 divines of the day, and Avas greatly beloved by the society among
whom he had labored so long.   His writings, both in prose and
poetry, display a singularly pure taste and classic refinement, and
have been  much admired.  Quiet, unobtrusive, and refined in his
manners, he sought rather to do good than to court popularity.
He was a learned and accurate historian, and was a member of 
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the Massachusetts Historical Society.   In 1850, the honorary
degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by Har-
vard College.
    1823. — Dr.  John Marsh, of Contra Costa, Cal.,  was
murdered about two miles from Martinez, Cal., by two Span-
iards, named Jose Antonio Olivas and  Felipe  Morena, on  the
evening of 24 September,  1856.  He was son of John  and
Mary (BroAvn) Marsh, and was born in that part  of Danvers,
Mass., which is comprised within the limits of South Danvers,
5 June, 1799.  His great-grandfather's  name was Ezekiel.   He
died the same year that John was  born.   The paternal estate
was given by will to John's father.   It  has  been in the Marsh
family for more than one  hundred years.   The subject of this
notice was fitted  for college at the academy in Lancaster, Mass.
When a boy, he  was more remarkable for active exercises than
for abstruse studies.   The groves and the brooks around will bear
testimony to  his adroitness in capturing their tenants.  No  fox,
squirrel, or muskrat, could live in peace where John wandered.
Shortly after he graduated,  he went to the Western coun-
try, where he  secured  employment  as  Indian  agent at one of
the government stations on the Upper Mississippi.  While in
this region, he began the study of  medicine with  a physician
who died before the regular course was  completed,  and he
did  not finish the usual  term.   He  then removed across  the
country to California, where he established himself as  a physi-
cian.  His personal appearance was commanding; his adroit-
ness as a manager by no means wanting.  He had the  good
fortune  to obtain from the Mexican Government a grant of land
on  and about Monte Diablo, and settled thereon in the business
of rearing cattle ; and his  herds became  as numerous as those of
the patriarch of old.  When the gold fever began to rage, Dr.
Marsh's lands began to  advance in worth, and it is not now easy
to estimate their value.  The title to a  large part of his claim
Avas confirmed to him since the United States came in possession
of the territory.  On all hands, it is admitted  that his posses-
sions are large  and valuable.  He was married  in California, in
June, 1851, to Miss Abba Tuck, of Chelmsford, Mass., who
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went thence to seek  her  fortune as an instructress.   She died
before the doctor, leaving one daughter, four years old, as  his
only legal heir.  Dr. Marsh had four brothers and two  sisters.
The standing  of the family has  ever been  that  of substantial,
respectable farmers.   His father survived him, a vigorous old
gentleman of the age of eighty years.  He had one brother who
graduated at Yale, and was  educated for the ministry,  but died
young.
   The following additional  particulars of Dr. Marsh's life and
character are  extracted from  a  letter  written by a gentleman
formerly of Salem, but who  has for some years past been a resi-
dent of California.   It is dated San Francisco, Dec. 11, 1856.
   " He [Dr. Marsh] had seen much of life ; was a keen observer
of men and  things; had much general  information ; read much,
and was very ready and willing to communicate of his knowledge
to others.    He  was  a very  thorough  Spanish  and  French
scholar, speaking and writing both languages with great  fluency
and  correctness.   In his  residence  for seAreral years in the
Western states as an Indian agent, he  obtained a more  perfect
knowledge  of the  habits, manners, and dialects of the  various
Indian tribes  than any  other person,  I suspect,  except Mr.
Schoolcraft.   His mind was a sound and logical one, capable of
thoroughly discussing  and fully comprehending most  subjects.
His good judgment,  together with his resolute and  adventurous
spirit, Avould, I think, have made him distinguished as  a  soldier.
I am not aware that he saw more service  than while in  com-
mand of a company  of rangers in the Black-HaAvk war, under
Gen. Atkinson.  All his qualities of mind, and experiences of life,
made him a most entertaining and  instructive  companion.   His
long residence in California, and his intimate knowledge of the
history of the country in early times,  induced Mr. Larkin and
other pioneers in the settlement of the state  often to urge him to
write an account of the most important portions of its history.
For such a work he was eminently qualified ; but his own affairs
had too  many claims  upon his  time and thoughts  to allow him
to do so.  He came  to this  state in 1836, and spent six  months
after his  arrival in  exploring the state, to select a location.   The 
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one upon which he finally decided is situated beyond  the  coast
range of mountains, and at the foot of Monte Diablo, a high moun-
tain across the bay, and in full view from San Francisco.  At the
time he came here, land had not much value; and he purchased
the estate of Signor  Norriega, a native of California, for almost
a nominal sum.   There are  about  fifty thousand  acres  of land
included in the estate.   Much of it is  excellent  for cultivation ;
but he  has  devoted himself to the business of  cattle-raising,
gradually increasing his stock, till he  had,  at  the time of his
death, some four or  five thousand  head.   He  lived for many
years in an adobe house, which he built with the assistance  of
Indians hired for the purpose.  He was twice plundered  in early
times by gangs of thieves, to which his almost solitary mode of life
exposed him.    When the gold-fever broke out  in this state, all
the persons in his employment left him, and  went  to the mines.
He went there likewise, and was  tolerably successful;  but fell
sick in a short time,  and returned to his rancho.   The  growth
of San Francisco and other cities and  tOAAms has of late greatly
increased the  value  of  his propertyj  as it has opened a market
for cattle, which of course,  in early times,  did  not exist.  He
had just completed a beautiful house,  and  was making arrange-
ments for that comfort and  enjoyment which he had for many
years denied himself.  But he was not  permitted to carry out his
plans, and to spend the evening of his life in ease and enjoyment,
as he had contemplated.  He Avas doomed to death  by felon hands
at the very time when  all  life's projects seemed  to be  accom-
plished, and the burden and heat of the day was to be succeeded
by rest and enjoyment.   Truly the  ways  of  Providence are
inscrutable !"
   The Avriter of the above extract states previously that he had
received a letter from the doctor the day but one before his death,
requesting him to go with the bearer of the note to give evidence
against  some cattle-thieves, who had committed many depreda-
tions on his property.   The doctor intended to visit San Fran-
cisco on the day of his assassination.   He started  about  noon  in
his buggy for  Martinez, about twenty miles from his residence,
where he would take Avater  conveyance to  San  Francisco;  and 
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about dark, Avhen tAvo miles from Martinez, he was met by the two
wretches, AArho, it is supposed, threw a lasso over him, and then
dirked him.   He never could be induced to go armed, although
so exposed to peril in  consequence of plunderers of  his timber
and cattle,  against Avhom  he had instituted  legal  proceedings.
The two murderers, however, were not among this  class of per-
sons.    They were  men who had been in his employ, and who
knew his habits.   It is conjectured that they knew of his having
four  hundred dollars about his person, Avhich, together with the
gold Avatch,  were taken.   Dr. Marsh retained  a warm attach-
ment  for his friends, and  was  intending to visit his native town
the following spring.
   1825. — Dr.  John Goodhue Treadwell  died  in Salem,
Mass., 6 August,  1856,  aged  51.  He was son  of Dr. John
Dexter  Treadwell  (H.C.  1788)  and  Dorothy   (Goodhue)
Treadwell;  was born in Salem, 1 August, 1805 ; and was fitted
for college at the Latin School in  Salem.   He held a high rank
as a  scholar  in his  class,  and  graduated  with distinguished
honors.   Immediately after graduation, he began  the study of
medicine under the instruction of Dr. William Johnson Walker,
of Charlestown  (H.C. 1810).   He  attended two  courses  of
medical lectures in Boston, one in  New York, and spent one sea-
son in a dissecting-room in Baltimore.   Having completed his
medical studies, he received  the degree  of M.D. in  1828.   In
August, 1829, he went to London ; in  the spring of 1830, to
Dublin; and the following summer to Paris, at the time of the
revolution, the scenes of which he saw.   Thence he went again
to London,  and returned home in November, 1830.   He then
established himself as a physician in Salem, when he rose  rapid-
ly to distinction,  and in a few years  stood  at the  head of the
medical profession in his  native  city.   When thus in the  full
tide of  a successful and lucrative  practice, in November,  1839,
he made a post-mortem examination  of a child  which had died
of scarlet fever ;  and, through a slight sore on one of his fingers,
the virus  became infused into his system, which  affected him
severely, although  he continued his practice until March,  1841,
when he was obliged  to give up, and  did nothing for two or 
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three years.  He subsequently, hoAvever, so far recovered, that
he AAfas consulted at home, and occasionally visited some of his
patients.   His  father died 6 June, 1833, at the age of 65 ; and
he lived with his mother, avIio survived him.  He was never mar-
ried.   He was  someAvhat eccentric, but was enthusiastically fond
of his profession, ignored almost every  thing but that, and  read
scarcely any Avork that did not pertain to it.  By his will he made
several valuable public bequests.   The principal one, amounting
to nearly fifty thousand dollars, was to Harvard College, for the
establishment of a free course of medical lectures.  The property
appropriated for this purpose was given to the college after the
decease of his mother, who was then about eighty years of age.
The principal conditions of this bequest are, that the money is
to be appropriated to the establishment of professorships of anat-
omy and physiology.   The candidates for these offices are  to be
examined, before appointment, by a commission  of experienced
men, after the  custom of the French university.   If the income
of the funds appropriated should not be sufficient for the support
of the professors, then they are to be  allowed to lecture before pri-
vate classes, but not to the Lowell Institute or to public lyceums.
His valuable library,  containing all the latest medical  European
publications, was left  to the college under certain conditions.  In
case the college authorities should not accede to the conditions of
the will, the whole amount, after the death of his mother, goes
to the Massachusetts General Hospital, without conditions.   A
valuable theological library he bequeathed to the  Barton-square
Church, in Salem, for the use  of the pastor.  A fine farm of
seventy acres,  situated in Topsfield, Mass., he left to the Essex
Agricultural Society, for the purposes of an experimental farm.
    1828. —Henry Swasey McKean died in Boston, 17  May,
1857,  aged  47.   He was son  of  Rev. Joseph (H.C. 1794)
and Amy  (Swasey) McKean,  and Avas born in Boston, 9 Feb-
ruary, 1810.   Pie was fitted for college at the Latin  School in
Boston, and graduated with high honors.  In  the winter of his
senior year, he kept school  at Nine-acre Corner, in Concord,
Mass.   Immediately after graduating,  he was employed as as-
sistant in the private  school of Charles  Winston  Greene (H.C. 
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1802), at Jamaica Plain ; but was taken sick a feAv Aveeks after-
wards, and left.  He next taught a school a short time in Cam-
bridge.  In January, 1830, he entered the LaAv School in Cam-
bridge, where he remained about six months ; Avhen, on the 18th
of August the  same year, he Avas appointed tutor in  Latin  in
Harvard College ;  which office he held until August, 1835, Avhen
he resigned, and began the study of engineering under Loammi
BaldAvin  (H.C. 1800),  of Charlestown, and continued in this
profession, with some intervals, during the remainder of his life.
For this occupation he had peculiar qualifications, as he Avas an
excellent mathematician, and Avas thoroughly versed in the theo-
retical part of the profession.  He had an accurate eye, was an
excellent draughtsman, and performed Avith great neatness  all the
mechanical work which his  duties required.   During part  of
1842, he Avas engaged in instruction in Georgia, and in 1845-6
in New Jersey.   From July, 1842, until  May, 1845, he was
librarian of the Mercantile-Library  Association in the city  of
NeAv York,  during which time he made the  catalogue  of the
library.  From July,  1846, to October, 1848, he was employed
as assistant engineer of the second division of the Boston AVater-
works, residing at  Newton LoAver Falls; his  friend Mr. Ches-
borough  being the official chief.   Here he labored with  great
assiduity and skill, and earned the praise and confidence of those
who  were intrusted with  the  supervision and responsibility  of
that enterprise.  Two of the works constructed under his  imme-
diate  charge — abridge across the river Charles,  and an em-
bankment over which  the aqueduct is  carried, and under which
the county road goes — have been mentioned as works reflecting
great credit on his skill and science.   He continued in the ser-
vice of the city so long as  Mr. Chesborough was chief engineer ;
and,  upon that gentleman's removal from the city, Mr. McKean
resigned his place, and opened an office as engineer on  his own
account.   At the time of  his death he Avas meditating a change
of occupation, and  proposing  to  engage in some literary em-
ployment.   He married, 3 November, 1851, Anna PI. Hosmer,
of Camden, Me., and had one child.   His life Avas eminently
pure, honorable,  and faithful.  He  had excellent  capacities, 
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trained by thorough and careful preparation ; and yet his success
in life Avas not commensurate with his gifts and accomplishments.
No man Avas less zealous to set  forth his own  claims, or more
inclined to recognize the claims  of  others.   His health was not
robust.   His temperament was sensitive, and inclined  to melan-
choly, which affected him to such a degree, as  to induce, occa-
sionally, mental alienation, in a paroxysm of which he  ended his
life with his own hand.  He was a man of warm domestic and
social affections ; and in his relations of friend, son, brother,
husband, and father, he tasted the purest joys of which the heart
is capable.   He  Avas often  tried, alike by external disappoint-
ments and  by struggles with his own peculiar temperament;
but he never lost his sense of the paternal relations of  God, and
never murmured at any dispensation of his providence.
    1830. — Hon.  Thomas Hopkinson  died  in  Cambridge,
                                                        ©  7
Mass., 17 November, 1856, aged 52.  He Avas  son  of Theo-
philus and  Susanna (Allen) Hopkinson,  and was born in NeAv
Sharon, Me., 25 August, 1804.   He was fitted for college at
the academy in  Parmington,  Me., and  graduated  with the
highest honors of his class.  After  leaving college, he studied
law under  the instruction of Hon.  Luther Lawrence  (H.C.
1801) ; and, on being admitted  to the bar, became his partner,
and began to practise in Lowell.   He was married,  1 Novem-
ber, 1836, to Corinna Aldrich Prentiss, daughter of Hon. John
and Diantha (Aldrich) Prentiss, of Keene, N.H. ;  Avith whom
he  lived in  uninterrupted  harmony and  happiness for tAventy
years.  In his profession, he soon rose to an eminent rank ; and
was extensively known as an able lawyer and safe counsellor. He
was elected a representative from Lowell to the  state legislature
in 1838 and 1845 ; and, in 1846,  he was chosen senator from
Middlesex  District.  Pie was chairman of the committee on rail-
roads at a time when the situation was one of great  importance.
In 1848, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas ;
but resigned his  seat on the bench  the folloAving year, having
been elected president of the Boston  and Worcester Railroad Cor-
poration.    AVhen he  entered upon the duties of  his office as
president, he removed to Boston, where he lived  until the autumn 
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of 1855 ;  when he removed to Cambridge,  and there resided
until his death.   He Avas a member of  the convention called in
1853 for revising the constitution of the state.   In the discharge
of his duties, he was conscientious, judicious,  and indefatigable ;
and entered into the various details so minutely, that the labor
and anxiety, in connection, perhaps, Avith organic tendencies to
disease, seriously impaired his health.  In May, 1856, he Avent
to Europe;  travelled in England, Scotland, France, Germany,
Holland, the upper part of Italy ; and spent some time in Swit-
zerland.   On his return, he was not able to resume  his  duties,
but rapidly  sank away, until death terminated his  severe suf-
ferings.
   1831. —Rev. Nathaniel Tucker Bent died in Worcester,
Mass., 4 November, 1856, aged 46.  He was son of Josiah and
Susannah Bent, and was born in Milton, Mass., 30 July, 1810.
He began his preparatory studies for admission to college under
the instruction of his brother, Rev. Josiah Bent, of  Weymouth
(H.C. 1822), and completed them at Phillips  Academy in An-
dover.  He held a distinguished rank in college, and graduated
with high honors.   After leaving college, he began the study of
diAnmity at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in New York ; and
finished his studies, under the instruction of Bishop  Alexander
Viets Griswold,  at Salem.    He was  ordained as  deacon  at
Salem, and was afterwards instituted as  rector over the follow-
ing churches :  Ariz., Grace Church, in New Bedford, where  he
remained five  years;  St.  John's,  in Charlestown, two  years;
St. Thomas's, in Taunton, five years ;  St.  John's, in Bangor,
Me., two and a half years ;  All Saints', in Worcester,  two and
a half years ;  and Grace Church, again, in New Bedford, a feAV
months.  He  retired from the ministry in 1853,  and  removed to
Worcester, where he taught a private school  for young  ladies,
which he continued until  his  death.   He married,  18 June,
1834, Catharine E. D.  Metcalf, eldest daughter of  Col.  Eliab
W. Metcalf, of Cambridge.;  and had four children by birth, and
one by adoption ; three of whom, including the adopted one, are
noAV liAring.    Air. Bent Avas a man of rare abilities, and, when
engaged in the active duties of the  ministry,  was very popular 
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and efficient as rector.   Much might be said truly in praise of
his fidelity to all the details  of  parochial  duty,  the interest he
took in promoting  musical taste in  its sacred department, his
zeal in missionary  enterprises, and  the  genial  flow which he
manifested in social life.   Not a  few of his former parishioners
and friends will long cherish a most kindly remembrance of him
as a beloved and respected pastor.
    The mortality of the class of  1831, of Avhich Rev. Mr.  Bent
was a member, was very great during  the  first twenty years
after graduation ; twenty-four of the sixty-five members of the
class having died before the systematic publication of the obituary
notices commenced  in the year 1852.  The fohWing list  com-
prises  a brief  notice  of  these twenty-four: William Austin,
jun., a school-teacher,  son of Hon. William and Charlotte (Wil-
liams) Austin,  born in Charlestown,  15 September, 1811; died
of  typhus fever, in Groton, 8 January, 1835 ;  never married.
Rufus Bigelow, son of Tyler and  Clarissa (Bigelow) Bigelow,
born in AYatertoAvn,  3 June, 1809 ; died of consumption, in
AVatertown,  6  July,  1832;  never  married.   Robert  Adams
Coker,  a  school-teacher,  son of John and Hannah (Adams)
C&ker, born in Newbury,  19 March, 1807 :  died of consump-
tion, in AVest NeAvbury, 30 Alarch, 1833 ; unmarried.  George
Clinton Coombs, a lawyer, born  in 1810 ;  died of consumption,
in New Bedford, 16 Alarch, 1835 ; unmarried.  Edward Cruft,
jun., a lawyer, son of Edward  and Elizabeth (Storer) Cruft,
born in Boston, 7 May, 1811 ;  died of hemorrhage from the
lungs, at St. Louis, AIo., 23 April,  1846; unmarried.   Jere-
miah George Fitch, a lawyer, son of Jeremiah and Alary (Rand)
Fitch,  born in Boston, 19 February, 1810 ; died of dropsy at
Orono, Ale., 25 February, 1845 ; unmarried.  John Giles, jun.,
a lawyer, son of John and Alary (Adams) Giles, born in Towns-
end, 3 March, 1806 ;  died  of consumption,  at  ToAvnsend, 14
June, 1838 ;  unmarried.  William Cabot Gorham, a  merchant,
son of Hon.  Benjamin and Susan (LoAvell)  Gorham,  born in
Boston, in the year 1814 ;   died of typhus  fever, in Boston,
18 April,  1843 ; unmarried.   Robert Habersham, jun., a stu-
dent of law, son of Robert  Habersham,  of Savannah, Ga. ;  died
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of typhus fever, at  Savannah, 30  August, 1832, aged tAventy
years ;  unmarried.   Charles George Clinton Hale, son of Moses
and Alary Hale, born in Winchenden, August, 1812 ;  died of
consumption, in New York, 6 May, 1832 ;  unmarried.   John
George McKean, a lawyer, son of Rev. Prof. Joseph and Amy
(Swasey) McKean,  born in Cambridge, 1 December,  1811 ;
died of spinal disease,  in Cambridge, 31 January, 1851 ;  un-
married.    Benjamin Franklin  Parker,  a physician,  son  of
Samuel and Eusebia Parker, born in Roxbury, 21 November,
1810;  died of consumption, in Roxbury,  27 February, 1814;
unmarried.  John Peters, a merchant, son of John and  Char-
lotte (Langdon) Peters, of Boston;  died  in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
17 July, 1846 ; unmarried.  Francis James Russell, a merchant,
son of Nathaniel and Martha (Le Baron) Russell, born in Ply-
mouth, 11  September,  1811 ;  died in Plymouth,  of typhus
fever,  6 September, 1833 ; unmarried.  Francis Henry gilsbee,
who studied law, and subsequently became a bank-officer,  son of
Zachariah F.  and Sarah (Boardman) Silsbee, born  in Salem,
6 September,  1811; died of marasmus,  in Salem, 19 Novem-
ber, 1848 ;  unmarried.   AVilliam Hammatt Simmons, a teacher
of elocution, and laAv-student, son of Judge AVilliam and Pris-
cilla (Hammatt) Simmons,  born  in Boston,  11 May, 1812;
married  at Roxbury, 24 June, 1840, Josephine Matilda P'el-
lowes,  daughter of Nathaniel  and  Aglaie (de Chambellan)
Fellovves ; died of fever, in Boston, 10 August, 1841.   Henry
 Cheever Simonds, a lawyer, son of Shepherd and Joanna Thayer
 (Gool)  Simonds,   born  in  Boston, 3  June,  1810 ;  died in
 Charlestown,  of disease of the brain, 3 April, 1840 ; unmarried.
 Charles  Henry Tilghman, a planter, son of AVilliam G.  Tilgh-
 man, of Talbot County, Md. ; died in Talbot County, Md., 18
 September, 1842 ;  unmarried.   Abner Bennett AV heeler,  a phy-
 sician, son of Abner and Mary  (Swift) AVheeler, born in Fra-
 mingham, 2 February, 1812;  married at Boston, 26 October,
 1836, Caroline Harris Sumner;  died  at  Somerville,  of dis-
 ease of  the brain,  8 December, 1847.   Alexander AVhitney,
 a school-teacher, son of Nathaniel Ruggles and  Sally (Stone)
 AVhitney, born in AVatertown,  12 Alarch,  1810;  died  of con- 
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 sumption, in East Cambridge,  13  May,  1842;  unmarried.
 Samuel AViggles worth,  a physician, son of Thomas and  Jane
 (Norton) AVigglesworth, born  in Boston, 16 December, 1811 ;
 married  at Boston,  7  December, 1841, Louisa G.  Davenport,
 daughter  of Isaac and Mary Davenport;  died of disease of the
 spine, 7 April, 1847, at Boston.   Frederick Wright, a lawyer,
 son of Theodore and Mary  (Dickinson) AVright, born in North-
 ampton,  6 July, 1811 ;  married at AVilloughby, O., 10 Novem-
 ber, 1841, Helen Irene AVilson,  daughter  of  Samuel AVilson;
 died in Manhattan, O., 10  April,  1846.   Hartley Hezekiah
 AVright,   a lawyer,  son  of Hezekiah  and  Charlotte  (Sewall)
 AVright,  born in Boston, 22 December, 1812 ; died  in  Boston,
 8 Alarch, 1840 ;  unmarried.
   1833.—Frederick  Parker  died in  Lowell,  Mass., 29
 January,  1857,  aged 43.  He was son  of Joseph and  Olive
 (Bailey) Parker, and was born in Carlisle, Mass., 2  September,
 1813.   He Avas fitted for college in the adjoining towns.   After
 graduating, he taught school in  Gloucester and Billerica, Mass.,
 and  in Hallowell, Me.  In the autumn  of 1838, he began the
 study of law Avith Hon. Samuel AVells, of Hallowell.   In  Sep-
 tember, 1839, he entered the Law School at Cambridge, where
 he completed his legal studies, and received the degree of LL.B.
 in 1841.   He then established himself in Lowell.   After spend-
 ing a short time  in the office of  Joel Adams, Esq., of that city
 (H.C. 1805), he was admitted to the bar.  In October, 1844,
 he married  Harriet  AI.  Kimball.   In 1845, he  experienced
 a long and severe illness, the effects of which never left  him ;
 and, from that time forward, he was forced to struggle with ill
 health.   In the same year he Avas chosen one of the school com-
 mittee, and held that office during four successive years.   The
 cause of education always interested him ; and, during his term of
 office, he suggested several important changes in the arrangements
 of the Lowell schools.   In 1849, he was instrumental  in forming
the Howard  Fire-insurance  Company, of which,  for  several
years,  he  Avas secretary and treasurer.   In 1852, he opened a
book and  print store in Lowell, and, soon afterwards, another
in Boston.   The former Avas soon  closed,  and he devoted his 
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energies to the latter.    In this employment he manifested great
taste and enterprise.   In the summer of 1856, his health failed ;
and he gave up his interest in his business in Boston, and retired
to Lowell.   In the autumn of that year, he had repeated attacks
of hemorrhages, and died of consumption.  He kept up his lite-
rary tastes  in a greater degree than is usual with men of busi-
ness.   In character he was grave and earnest.   He encountered
reverses ; but maintained, through them all, unsullied integrity.
No misfortune had power to diminish the energy of his spirit, or
to mar his  Christian temper.
    1834. — Dr. AVilliam Putnam Richardson died in  Ken-
dall, 111., 27 Alarch, 1857,  aged 41.   He was son  of Capt.
William P. and Deborah (Lang) Richardson, and was born in
Salem, Mass.,  15 August, 1815.  He was fitted for  college at
the Latin  School in  Salem.  He studied medicine with Dr.
Abel  Lawrence Peirson, of Salem (H.C.  1812) ;  and in 1837
received the degree of M.D., when he entered upon the practice
of his profession in Salem, where he  continued until 1846, when
he removed to Kendall.  There he was chiefly engaged in horti-
cultural and agricultural pursuits, for Avhich his fine tastes, and
love of natural history, peculiarly fitted him.  While in Salem,
he  was an active and useful citizen,  interested  in  Avhatever
tended to elevate and  improve the community.    He was a valu-
able member of  the  school-committee, and a  pattern  and co-
worker  in  various public institutions.   He Avas unmarried.
    1837. — Gales  Seaton died  in AVashington,  D.C., 9
February,  1857, aged  39.   He  Avas   son  of William  AV.
Seaton,  and was born in AVashington,  27 July, 1817.   He
passed through his preparatory studies for admission into Plar-
vard College under the instruction of the faculty of Georgetown
College.   On graduating, he selected the law as his profession;
and repaired to the University of Virginia, where he prosecuted
his legal studies with  assiduity and success.  He was admitted
to the bar, but was not long in discovering that he  had  given
his nights and his days to the study of that, as  a science, which
his mental habitudes and literary tastes rendered distasteful as a
pursuit;  and, abandoning the profession  of the law, he became 
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 the proprietor and editor of the Raleigh (N.C.) "Register," in
 which station  he continued several years.  He afterAvards Avent
 to Europe, AArhere he resided some time.   AVhile there, he  Avas
 intrusted by  the  administration  of President Taylor Avith  a
.confidential commission, Avhich he discharged in a manner highly
 creditable to himself, and satisfactory to the Secretary of  State,
 — the late John M. Clayton.  Of polished manners and com-
 manding presence, without fear and  Avithout reproach, shrinking
 instinctively from  all that  was  base in act or indecorous in
 thought and word, he was, in all respects, a true gentleman.   In
 every relation of life, he was remarkable for a singular combina-
 tion of modesty and self-reliance.  To  the inevitable ills  of life
 he opposed the firmness of manhood Avith the submission enjoined
 by Christianity;  and, amid the consolations  and hopes of the
 latter,  his  mortal  life slowly and  calmly ebbed  away, until
 the waiting spirit dropped the tabernacle of the flesh to take on
 the robes of immortality.
    1838. — Charles Delano Boavman died in Oxford, Alass.,
 19 January,  1857,  aged 40.   He was  the youngest son of
 Joseph and Sally (Penniman)  Bowman, and  was born in New
 Braintree, Alass., 12 December, 1816.  He pursued his prepara-
 tory studies at Leicester Academy, and entered Amherst College,
 where he remained one year, and then entered Harvard.   After
 leaving college, he went to  Georgia, Avhere he Avas instructor in
 private schools and families, about three years, at Richmond Fac-
 tory, Richmond County, at Athens,  and at Augusta. In 1842,
 he entered the office of Hon. Emory AVashburn (AV.C. 1817),
 at AVorcester, Alass., as a  student-at-law.   In March,  1845,
 he was admitted to the bar; and  began practice in  Oxford,
 22 April, 1845, where he continued to reside until  his decease.
 He had, considering his experience,  a good knowledge  of law ;
 was a man  of more than ordinary promise, and of considerable
 literary taste.   He had  a valuable  legal  and  miscellaneous
 library.  The legal part he gave to  the AVorcester-County LaAv-
 yers' Literary Association,  and the  other part to some literary
 institution in  AVorcester.
    He married,  24 November,  1846, Almira  Louise Jones, 
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daughter of Elnathan and Almira (Jencks) Jones, of Knfield,
Alass.
   1838. — AVilliam Abijaii AVhite died in Alilwaukie, AVis.,
10 October, 1856, aged 38.   He Avas son of Abijah and Anne
Alalia  (HoAvard) AVhite, and Avas  born in WatertOAvn, Alass.,.
2 September, 1818.   He Avas fitted for  college at the  school  of
Rev. Samuel Ripley  (H.C.  1804), of AValtham, Alass.  Hav-
ing chosen the profession of  law, he, immediately after graduat-
ing, entered the LaAv  School in Cambridge, where he pursued his
professional studies for a year, and completed them in the office
of Messrs.  Charles P. and Benjamin R.  Curtis (H.C.  1811 and
1829) in Boston.  He never, hoAvever, devoted  himself to the
practice of his profession ;  but, becoming very much interested
in the antislavery and temperance movements, he devoted much
of his time to lecturing on these subjects, and, in 1843, spent
several months in travelling through Ohio and Indiana, holding
antislavery meetings  in  company Avith Frederick Douglass  and
George Bradburn.  In  the  course of this tour, their meetings
Avere frequently broken up by mobs ; and both AVhite and Doug-
lass were, on one occasion, severely wounded  by stones.  After
his return, he took a farm in Watertown, Avhich he cultivated
until his father's death  in 1845 ; for two or three years after
which,  he Avas engaged in settling his estate.  He then engaged
in manufacturing, and for some time edited a temperance  news-
paper in Boston.  In 1853, he removed to Aladison, Wis.   The
circumstances of his  death were peculiar.  On the 7th  of Octo-
ber, 1856,  he went from Madison to Milwaukie for the purpose
of attending the  state fair.   On the evening of the 8th, he went
to Chicago by steamboat, and returned to  Milwaukie on the
evening of the 9th.   On the morning  of the 10th, he left the
hotel, intending to return in  a few hours, and Avas recognized by
a person  on the street  shortly afterwards.   From that time,
nothing \Aras seen or heard of him, although every exertion  Avas
made to find him, until the first day of May following, Avhen his
body was found near the Lake Shore, aboAre North Point, in Mil-
Avaukie.   It was so much decayed, that it was identified only by
the clothing, Avatch, and a peculiar watch-key.   By Avhat means 
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he came to his death, remains  a mystery.    He  married first,
7 May, 1846,  Harriet  T. Stuvgis,  daughter of Nathaniel R.
Sturgis,  of Boston : she died 18 March, 1850.  On the  15th
of May,  1855, he married  Ada A. Butterfield, daughter  of
Justin Butterfield,  of Chicago,  111.   His children AArere, by his
first  wife,  AVilliam Howard  AVhite, born 21 February, 1847 ;
Amy,  born 25 September, 1848 : by his  second wife,  Justin
Sydney, born 19 April, 1856;  died 5  February, 1857.  Mr.
AVhite possessed fine natural abilities.  He was a fluent and im-
pressive speaker, and Avrote with ease and pungency.  He had a
keen wit and a strong sense of humor, Avhich frequently did him
good service in the  hot debates in Avhich he was engaged as an
antislaArery and temperance orator.  He Avas incapable of a mean
or selfish act; and  his first and only rule of action was to do
what Avas right, without regard to Avhether it was expedient.   As
an eminently  brave,  sincere,  and  honest man,  who earnestly
sought to do  his duty, and to benefit his fellow-men at the  cost
of much personal sacrifice to himself, he will long be  remem-
bered Avith affection and respect  by an unusually extensive circle
of friends and acquaintances.
   1842.  —  Dr. Henry  AViiiting died  in  Lowell,   Mass.,
23  June,  1857, aged  35.   He Avas  son  of Capt. Phineas
and  Sarah (Coburn) Whiting,  and was born  in that  part  of
Chelmsford Avhich is now Lowell, 19 February, 1822.   He was
prepared  for college partly in LoAvell;  partly in Boston, under
the instruction  of  Air. Tilly Brown Hayward (H.C.  1820) ;
and partly in Deny, N.H.  He studied medicine Avith Dr.  Gil-
man Kimball, of LoAvell;  Dr. Marshall  S. Perry, of Boston ;  at
Jefferson College, Penn. ;  and  at the Harvard  Medical  School.
He received the degree of M.D. at Jefferson  College in 1845,
and immediately afterAvards went to Paris, where he passed one
year in completing  his professional studies ;  and, in the succeed-
ing year,  travelled  over various  portions  of  the continent.   On
his return, he began practice in  the city  of LoAvell.  He held a
good  rank among the profession ; Avas of a frank, noble  disposi-
tion ; and was popular Avith all  classes.   He was never married.
During the last two years of his life, he was confined  to the 
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house by sickness ; did not see any person except  his nearest
relatives ; and, after this  long and painful confinement, gladly
welcomed death as a relief from  his sufferings.
   1843. — Charles  Frederick  Adams died  in Boston,
30 December, 1856, aged 32.  He was son of Charles  Fred-
erick and Caroline Hesselrigge  (Walter) Adams ; Avas born in
Boston, 3 February, 1824; and Avas fitted for college at the Bos-
ton Latin School.  On leaving college, he entered the LaAv School
at Cambridge, where he remained  one  year; and completed his
legal studies in the  office  of Charles Greely Loring, of Boston
(H.C. 1812).   Having been admitted to the bar, he opened an
office  in Boston.   The  profession, however,  being croAvded,
afforded but little encouragement for one of so modest and re-
tiring habits as Mr. Adams ; and  he, after a few years, deter-
mined to seek a new field  for practice, and, in  1849, sailed for
California, via Cape Horn ; but, on the passage, he was attacked
with pleurisy-fever, and arrived at the end of  his long voyage
in a feeble state of health.  After  remaining a few weeks in San
Francisco, by the advice  of friends he proceeded to  the Sand-
Avich Islands ; but,  on his arrival there,  he found the accom-
modations  for  invalids very  scanty  and  undesirable,  and  he
shortly  afterwards sailed  for China.   But this voyage Avas of
little benefit to him ; and he returned home after  an absence of
about thirteen months, and resumed the practice of his profes-
sion in Boston.  His health, however, was  never fully restored ;
and that insidious disease, consumption, closed  his mortal career
while in the prime of life.  Exemplary in all the duties of private
life, he shoAved a diligence, exactness, and fidelity in his profes-
sion, which,  had his life  been prolonged, would have insured
success, and the  confidence and esteem of the community.   He
had  a  taste  for  archaeological and  genealogical studies.   An
interesting paper, entitled "Notices of the AValter Family," fur-
nished by him, Avas published in  the "Historical and Genealogi-
cal Register'' for July, 1854.   He died full of Christian  hope
and  resignation,  leaving  many  devoted friends to mourn his
early  death.
   1844.—Robert Lemmon died atPatuxent,  Aid., 24 Decern- 
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 ber, 1856, aged 31.   He was son of Richard and  S. A. Lem-
 mon, and Avas born  in Baltimore, 25 September, 1825.   After
 leaving college, he studied law in the office of the late Judge
 Glenn, and  practised his profession in  Baltimore  until 1848 ;
 when he relinquished it to pursue the business of an iron-master
 at the Patuxent Furnaces in Anne Arundel  County, Md.   He
 married, in the autumn of 1854,  Fannie  C,  daughter of Henry
 A. Hall, of AVest River, Md.  They had two children, —sons,
 — Avho, Avith their mother, survived him.
    1848.—John Edson  died in New-York City, 29 April,
 1857, aged  29.   He Avas born  in Quincy,  Mass.,  27 June,
 1827.  AVhile very  young, he removed Avith  his father's  family
 to Bridgewater, Avhere he was fitted for college.  In September,
 1844, he was admitted to the freshman class in Trinity College,
 Hartford.  There he remained not  quite five months; and in
 February,  1845,  entered Columbia College, in the city of New
 York.  He was in this institution one year and a half, until the
 close of the sophomore year; and in August, 1846,  he was
 admitted into the junior class at Cambridge.  After graduating
 in 1848, he spent the remainder of that year  and the following
 year  in  Troy, N.Y., in the study of  engineering.  He then
 Avent to the city of New York, where he studied architecture;
 and afterwards established himself there  as an architect, which
 profession he pursued until his death.
   1849. —Rev.  Julius AValker  Stuart  died in Beaufort,
 S.C., 30 October, 1856, aged  28.  He  was  born in Beaufort,
 30  September, 1828.  After graduating,  he went through a
 course of theological studies,  preparatory to becoming an Epis-
 copal clergyman;  and was ordained in  Beaufort, as assistant-
 pastor to the  Rev. Mr. Pinckney, of Grace Church, in Charles-
 ton,  S.C. : but his labors in his sacred calling were destined to
 be short.   He left  Charleston on a visit to Beaufort;  and, a
 few days after his arrival there, he was taken  with yellow fever,
 of which he died, after an illness of seven days.   The editor of
 the " Charleston Mercury,"  who was his  classmate,  in announ-
cing his death, says,  " He had just begun a career in the minis-
try of the Episcopal  church, which opened the highest prospects
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of future usefulness.   KnoAving him from his early boyhood,
we  can say that  we have  neA er  known a human  being more
thorouohlv blameless.   Nor  were his virtues of  the  negative
sort;  he Avas earnest, conscientious, firm in his convictions, and
courageous in their maintenance and defence :  but all his manly
qualities Avere pervaded Avith a gentleness and unselfishness that
never allowed them to give offence ; and Ave do not believe, that,
in the whole course of  his life, he ever made an  enemy,  or has
left a  solitary spark of  human unkindness to be extinguished on
his graA*e."
   1850. — AVilliam  Lowell  Stone  died in   Cambridge,
Alass.,  9 January, 1857, aged 27.   He was son  of  AVilliam
Fiske and  Harriet (Brigham) Stone,  and Avas born 24 June,
1829, during the temporary  residence of his  mother at AVest-
borough, Mass.,  while his parents  Avere inhabitants  of East
Cambridge.  He was prepared for college at the High  School
in East Cambridge, under Justin Allen Jacobs  (H.C. 1839).
He  maintained,  during the whole of his  academic career, the
same  conscientious industry, and  steady excellence of deport-
ment, Avhich distinguished him in his earlier years  at home and
at school;  and graduated with the  esteem of his instructors,
and an honorable rank  in his  class.   During the latter  part of
his college  course, symptoms  of failing health began  to shoAv
themselves, and  it was  with difficulty that  he performed  his
commencement part.   For nearly two years after he graduated,
he was employed in  the  office  of the register  of deeds in
Middlesex  county.  In the  mean* time, by  the advice  of  his
friends, he concluded to study law, not with a view to practice
in the profession, but to enable him  to pursue successfully, at
the offices in East Cambridge, the business of examining land
titles, — a  business well  suited to his quiet tastes  and  habits.
Accordingly, he entered the LaAv School at Cambridge, Avhere he
took his degree in 1854.  By this time, his health  was so much
impaired, that he abandoned his purpose; and, confined  mostly
to his father's house, he experienced great mental depression and
physical suffering, until he was relieved by death.   He was  a
young man of great  purity and delicacy of mind;  of unspotted 
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integrity and truthfulness ;  of conscientious fidelity to the studies
he pursued, and the work,  whatever it might be, that he under-
took : but he Avas one of those who are ill fitted  for the rough
conflicts of life, or  for making their way to worldly distinction
and worldly success.   He  had a morbid sensitiveness of tem-
perament, an extreme humility and  self-distrust, a constitutional
shyness and reserve, that shrank from all publicity, and some-
times made him unjust  to  himself.   His abilities and merits
could be known only by the few Avho  had opportunity to pass
beyond  the barrier  "of his natural reserve, and to  see the ster-
ling excellence behind.
   1852. — John  Sylvester  Gardiner  died  in Boston,
25  July,  1856, aged 25.  He was son of AVilliam Howard
Gardiner (H.C. 1816) and Caroline  (Perkins) Gardiner, and
was born in Boston, 5 October,  1833.  After finishing his col-
legiate course, he went to Europe,  where he passed a year or
two.  After his return, before  he had fixed upon any profession,
he was suddenly cut down in the bloom of life, and his  earthly
career terminated by the inscrutable decree of an all-wise Prov-
idence.
   1852. — Dr. James  Seneca  Hill  died  in  Sacramento,
Cal., 21  April, 1857,  aged 32.   He was  son of  George
AVashington and Sallie  (Albee)  Hill,  and Avas  born in  Paw-
tucket, Mass., 3 March,  1825.  His  father, who Avas the son
of Samuel  (commonly  called Judge) Hill,  was  a  native of
Smithfield, R.I., and died about 1832.   AVhen about five  years
of age,  he moved with  his father  (who  was in  feeble health)
to his grandfather's in Smithfield.   After his father's death, he,
with his mother, went to AYillimantic, Conn. ;  his uncle being
appointed his guardian.   Soon afterwards, he went to school at
AVindham, Conn.,  and  lived  with James Wilson.   There he
remained three or four years, occasionally residing a while at
AArillimantic.  Being then eleven or twelve years old, he Avent to
AYillimantic, residing with  his  uncle ;  assisting him occasionally
on his farm in summer, but most of the time  attending  school.
About 1837, he went to  Holliston Academy, then under the
charge of  Rev.  Gardner Rice.   About two  years and a half 
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afterAA-ards, he Avent to the Colchester  (Conn.)  Academy  one
av inter, Avhere his mother then lived.  He then went to Chaplin,
Conn., to learn the trade of a carpenter.  After Avorking at the
trade two years, he Avent  to  Northampton, Mass., whither his
mother and guardian  had  removed.   The  following  year,  he
built a small house for his mother.  He afterwards built  several
small houses, having two or more hired men under him ; always,
after the first winter,  attending the academy at  Easthampton.
He also built four barns ; and, in 1846, assisted his elder broth-
er, George A. Hill, in building the wood-w#ork to a stone dam.
AYorking  very hard on the dam, worn down  and fatigued, it
occurred  to him, one  day, to go to college;  and, about the 1st
of December, he entered AVilliston Seminary at  Easthampton,
Avhere  he AA-as fitted, and entered the freshman class at Amherst
College in 1848, and  took the first prize there,  as  a speaker,
in  1850.  He remained in Amherst three years ;  and, in  the
autumn of 1851, he left, and entered the senior class at Harvard
College.   He taught school, in his junior year, at East  Doug-
lass, and  at  Duxbury in  his  senior year.   After  graduating,
he studied medicine at  the Boylston Medical School  in Boston;
and received his degree of M.D.,  18 July, 1855.    Shortly
afterwards,  he  Avas  appointed  physician to the  state alms-
house in  Tewksbury,  where  he  remained a year and a half;
Avhen he  concluded to  go  to  California, and left New York for
that place on the  21st of January last.  During his stay in
Tewksbury, he had some twenty-five hundred patients under his
charge, and  performed many difficult surgical operations with
great success.   By his uniform kindness and gentlemanly bear-
ing, he endeared himself to all.   By nature, as well as by early
education, he Avas  eminently  qualified to be a surgeon of  the
highest order; and there is no doubt in  the minds of those who
knew him, that such Avould have been the case had his  life been
spared.  AVhile  at Tewksbury, many a  poor creature had cause
to bless him, not  only for his medical and  surgical skill,  but
also for his ingenious contrivances to alleviate their misery ; such
as  easy - chairs  for those  unable  to  walk;  padded  crutches
for the lame.  Being  no respecter  of  persons,  he treated  the 
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poor and unfortunate, whate\-er their color or country, with  the
same  kind care and  attention bestowed upon the more favored
ones.   He was a man of rare genius,  and could make  almost
any thing, hoAvever complicated, to which he turned his atten-
tion.   Life-saving articles  he was considerably interested  in;
being the  inventor of a life-boat,  and also  of "a safety-lamp.
He sometimes wrote poetry ;  and a few of his compositions were
set to music, and  arranged  for the piano-forte.  His  poetical
writings,  while in Amherst  College,  gave  him  a  high rank
among his fellow-students.   Early in April, after his arrival in
California, he Avas taken sick  of typhoid fever  at the residence
of his brother in Sacramento ; and, after an illness of two weeks,
he  died.   Thus, at the early age of thirty-two, Avhen a new
field  of enterprise  was  open before him, with flattering pros-
pects of success, he Avas cut  off, far from the land of his birth,
deeply lamented by his relatives  and by his classmates, to Avhom
he  had endeared  himself by his amiable disposition, his social
habits,  and his unblemished  moral character.
    1852.—Edaaard Horatio Neal  died at  Newton Lower
Falls, Alass., 24 August, 1856, aged 23.  He was son of Ben-
jamin and Eunice (Daniell) Neal, and was born at  Newton,
23 October,  1832.  He was fitted for college at  the  private
school  of Air.  AVilliam Hathorne Brooks,  of Boston (H.C.
1827) ;  going from Newton P'alls, and returning daily in the
cars, from February, 1846, till he  entered college, at the begin-
ning  of  the  sophomore year,  in 1849.   He soon became a
prominent and valued member of his  class.   AVhile an under-
graduate, he Avas not ambitious,  but  he was conscientious  and
diligent;   and it is a remarkable  fact, that, during his whole
collegiate course,  he  was not absent from one recitation.  After
graduation, he studied  law at the Law School in  Cambridge,
where he received the  degree of LL.B. in 1854.   After leav-
ing the Law School early in  that year, he  pursued his studies
Avith  his brother, George Benjamin Neal, of Charlestown (H.C.
1846).   He Avas distinguished from childhood for moral worth ;
and, Avhile a resident  in Charlestown,  connected himself with the
Episcopal church in  that  place.   In the autumn  of  1854, in 
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consequence of ill health, he travelled in the Southern States,
visiting New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, and other places,
and  returned the folloAving summer;  after which he resided at
Newton Lower Falls until his  death.
   1852.—George AValter Norris died in  Mobile,  Ala.,
21 January, 1857, aged 25.  He Avas son of Shepherd Haynes
Norris, then of Boston, but now a resident of Milwaukie, AVis. ;
was  born  in Boston, 21 November, 1831 ; pursued his studies,
preparatory to his admission into college, at  the Boston  Latin
School.  Immediately after graduating, he Avent  to New York,
and  pursued the  study of law one year  in the  office of John
Cleveland, an eminent attorney of that  city; another year in
the office of N. F. Waring, counsellor to the corporation of the
city  of Brooklyn ; and there he began the practice of his profes-
sion.  Soon afterwards,  however, he  opened an  office,  with
AVilliam Henry  AVaring (H.C.  1852),  in  the  city of  New
York.   In October, 1855, he was seized Avith hemorrhage of
the lungs, an hereditary disease ; and, from that time, fell away
rapidly in consumption.   In the summer  of  1856, he removed
to Mihvaukie to reside, in hopes that a change of climate might
save  him; but his physicians soon discovered that his  case was
hopeless, and,  as soon as cold weather came, sent him to  Mo-
bile,  AA'here he  died.   He possessed a mind of quick conception,
and  Avith  talents which,  had his life been  spared to a  more
mature age, would have enabled him to take  an  elevated  rank
in his profession.  Of  a  mild,  amiable, and social disposition,
he was greatly beloved  by his classmates  and friends ; and his
premature death is  deeply  deplored by his  relatives  and  the
community in  which he Avas  known.
   1853.—AVilliam Henry AVhittemore died  in Cambridge,
Mass., 9 February,  1857, aged  23.   Pie was son of Thomas
Jefferson and Susanna Frances  (Boardman)  AVhittemore; was
born in Boston, 10 October, 1833 ; and moved with his father's
family to Cambridge in July, 1837.   In  1842, he  entered the
Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge,  under Edmund Burke
A^ hitman (H.C. 1838) ;  and remained there seven years, until
he entered the freshman  class in 1849.   In August,  1851, he 
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was on board the steamer " Governor " when she struck a rock
near Owl's Head in Maine, and the lives of the passengers Avere
imperilled.  Part of the winter vacation of 1851—2 he  spent in
AVashington.  In  his senior year, his eyesight began to fail;
and, instead of studying a profession as he had proposed, he made
arrangements to engage in mercantile business.   His sight not
improving, in the September after graduating, he sailed for Rio
Janeiro, and returned in Alarch of the following year.   In the
summer of 1854, he had  an attack  of hemorrhage, which Avas
folioAved  by tAvo or three  others about a year afterwards.  A
cough  followed;  and he  finally died, at the  residence  of his
father, greatly  lamented  by his  class-mates, relatives,  and
friends.
   1855.—Warren Brooks died in  Townsend, Mass.,  4
February, 1857, aged 25.   He was  son  of Samuel and Sarah
(Campbell) Brooks, and Avas born in Townsend, 15 February,
1831.   He Avorked on his father's farm  until 1850; but, hav-
ing always had a desire to obtain a liberal education, in May of
that year he entered the  academy of New IpsAA-ich, N.H., to
prepare for college.  After staying there two terms, he  left New
Ipswich in the autumn, and entered Aleriden Academy  in Con-
necticut, where he remained six months, and then  entered Yale
College.   He remained at Yale two years ; when, having, as he
states in the class-book, a desire to study the modern languages,
he left New Haven, and entered the junior class at Harvard in
1853.   AVhile at Yale, he  gained a prize, during the freshman
year, for Greek composition.   He supported  himself  almost
entirely, while in college, by teaching school in the Avinter vaca-
tions ;  Avorking  on a farm and at the coopering business  in the
summer.   In  the  September  following  his  graduation,  he
entered the Theological Seminary at Andover : but his health
failing, obliged  him, in 1856, to relinquish his studies ; and,
leavino- the seminary, he returned to his home in Townsend.
He  himself supposed that the consumption of which he died
was induced by an attack  of typhoid fever in August, 1856 ;
but his physicians  thought it might be traced further back.  He
was even  told, while studying at Cambridge, that his lungs were 
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diseased ;  but his desire to complete his theological studies made
him disregard medical advice.  His strength failed so gradually,
that he Avas not aAvare of his near approach to death until a feAv
hours before his departure.  His  Avhole  scholastic  career  Avas
embarrassed by pecuniary troubles.  AVhile few, perhaps, of his
classmates knew much of his personal history or his pecuniary
difficulties, no one could help respecting him as an honest, inde-
pendent man,  who met his duties resolutely, and did his best to
be faithful to them.   His Avhole bearing showed a man of fine
principle, and would ha\re commanded the confidence even of a
stranger. 
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                         1857-58.


    1786.—Rev. Jacob  Norton died  in  Billerica, Alass.,
 17 January, 1858, aged 93.   He was son of Samuel Norton,
 and Avas born in Abington, Alass., 12 February, 1764.   He Avas
 prepared for college partly at Plingham Academy, and partly  by
 Rev. James Briggs, of Cummington, Alass. (Y.C. 1775).   He
 held a high rank as a scholar in his  class, and  graduated with
 distinction.   At the time of his death, he  was the oldest surviv-
 ing graduate of Harvard College.   After passing a brief time
 in  the  study of  divinity under  the  instruction  of Rev. Perez
 Fobes,  of  Raynham (H.C. 1762), he was  ordained  over the
 Congregational church in AVeymouth, Mass.,  10 October, 1787  ;
 Avhere he continued his pastoral labors until 4 July, 1824, when
 he resigned his charge, and a few years afterwards removed  to
 Billerica, where he resided during the  remainder of his long life.
 He Avas much esteemed as a  preacher,  and was  particularly
 known  as a polemical waiter.  The following are  his  principal
 publications : —
    1. Sermon preached in Weymouth, and in seATeral other places in
 the vicinity, illustrating the Duty of Impenitent Sinners.  8vo.   Bos-
 ton, 1803.  2. The Will of God respecting the Salvation of all Men;
 illustrated.   A  Sermon at Weymouth,  18 December, 1808.   8ato.
 Boston,  1809.  3. Remarks on an Address from  the Berean Society
 of Universalists in Boston to the Congregation of the First Church in
 Weymouth, in Answer to a  Sermon dehVered there 18 December,
 1808, &c.  8vo.  Boston, 1809.  4. Sermon before  the Massachu-
 setts Missionary Society,  May 29,  1810.  8vo.   Boston,  1810.
 5. Discourse  at AVeymouth, 3 February,  1811, on the Death of his
 Wife. 8vo.  Boston,  1811.   6. Seasonable and Candid Thoughts  on
Human  Creeds, or  Articles of Faith, as Religious  Tests, connected
Avith an  Humble Attempt to ascertain the true  Character  of  Jesus
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Christ, &c., by  an Orthodox  Clergyman of Massachusetts.   8vo.
Boston, 1813.  [Published anonymously.]  7. Tilings set in a Proper
Light; in AnsAver to a Letter from T. A. to a Friend, by an Ortho-
dox Clergyman of Massachusetts.   8vo.   Boston, 1814.  [Published
anonymously.]   8. Things  as  they are;  or, Trinitariauism Devel-
oped ; in Answer to a Letter of the Rev. Daniel Thomas, of Abington ;
with Strictures on  the  Sentiments  of the late Rev. Dr.  Hopkins.
8vo.  Boston, 1815.  9. The same.   Second Part.  In Reply to a
Letter Avritten in  February, 1815, to the Rev. Jacob Norton,  by
Daniel Thomas.   8vo.    Boston, 1815.   10. "A Short  and Easy
Method" Avith a  late Writer, arrogating to himself the Title  of " Or-
thodox Clergyman," in a Letter to a young Gentleman just entered
on a Course of  Theological Studies, with a A^iew to the  Christian
Ministry.  By an Aged Clergyman  of Massachusetts.   8vo.   Bos-
ton, 1815.  11. Sermon at  the Interment of Hon. Cotton Tufts.  8vo.
Boston,  1816.   12. A Candid  and Conciliatory Review of the late
Correspondence  of the  Rev. Dr.  AVorcester  with the Rev. AV.  E.
Channing on the Subject  of Unitarianism. By a Serious  Inquirer.
8vo.  Boston, 1817.  [Published anonymously.]   13.  An Humble
Attempt  to ascertain the Scripture Doctrine of the  Father, Son, and
Ploly Spirit.  In Three Discourses.  To which is added " The AAva-
kener," delivered in the Months  of January and  February, 1819, be-
fore  the First Religious Society  in AVeymouth.  8vo.  Boston, 1819.
14. Dispassionate Thoughts on the Subjects and Mode  of Christian
Baptism.   8vo.  Boston, 1821.   15.  The Duty of Religious Tolera-
tion, Mutual Sympathy,  and Fellowship, among  different Denomina-
tions, exhibited in a Sermon delivered in the South Meeting-house in
Weymouth, 8 November,  1821, on a  peculiarly interesting  and im-
portant Occasion.   8vo.   Boston, 1822.   16.  Valedictory Discourse
delivered  before  the First Religious  Society in  AVeymouth, in Two
Parts, on the  morning and  afternoon of Lord's Day,  July 4, 1824.
8vo.  Boston, 1824.  17.  " Dialogue between a Minister and a Par-
ishioner on the Trinity," begun  in  the " Boston  Observer" in  1835,
and continued for several  months in  that  paper and the " Christian
Register."
   Air. Xorton married, 11 February, 1789, Elizabeth Cranch,
the eldest daughter of Hon. Richard Cranch, of Braintree  (now
Quincy) ;  sister of the late Judge AVilliam Cranch (H.C. 1787),
of Washington, D.C. ;  and niece of the wife of President John
Adams ;  by Avhom he had five sons and three  daughters.   His 
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Avife died 25 January,  1811, aged 46.  He aa^is married again,
by  Rev. Henry Cumings, D.D., 7  May, 1813,  to  Hannah
Bowers, daughter of Josiah Bowers, of Billerica.   She died
26 Alarch, 1842, aged  76 years.  He left tAvo daughters, eleven
grandchildren,  and  eleven  great-grandchildren.   He  outlived
five sons and one daughter.   Two of  his sons, Richard  Cranch
Norton  and AVilliam Smith Norton, graduated at Harvard Col-
lege in 1808 and 1812 respectively.   He  retained his  mental
and physical powers  to a remarkable  degree until past the age
of ninety.  For the last year  or tAvo of his life, he spent most
of his time during  the day reading, Avithout glasses, Avhich he
never used, Avith the exception  of a  short  time, and  then laid
them aside as useless.
    1791.—Hon. Charles Porter Phelps died in Hadley,
Alass., 22 December, 1857, aged 85.  He Avas son of  Charles
and Elizabeth  (Porter)  Phelps, and Avas born  in  Hadley,
8 August, 1772.    His name, originally,  was  Moses  Porter
Phelps ;  Avhich Avas changed by  act of the legislature, 15 Febru-
ary, 1796.  He Avas fitted for college by Rev. Joseph Lyman,
D.D., of Hatfield,  Mass.  (Y.C. 1767),  and graduated with
high honors ;  the salutatory oration  in  Latin having been as-
signed to him at Commencement.  Having selected the profes-
sion of the laAv, he pursued his legal studies under the instruction
of Hon. Theophilus Parsons, of NeAvburyport  (H.C.  1769).
On his  admission to the  bar  in 1795, he established  himself
in Boston, where he resided twenty-two  years, and  attained a
high rank  in his profession.  In 1816, he Avas chosen a repre-
sentative from Boston to  the state legislature.  In  1816  and
1817, he was commander of the celebrated company of caAalry,
Avell remembered by the  elder portion of  this community as
the  Hussars; being the immediate successor in command to the
Hon.  Josiah Quincy.   This company was probably  the  most
splendid one that ever  existed  in this state.  Every member of
it was required  to OAvn the horse upon Avhich he appeared in
parade ;  and the expense of equipment to each man,  including
his  horse, Avas not less  than fifteen hundred dollars.   The  com-
pany paraded for the last  time  on the occasion  of the  A'isit of 
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President Monroe  to  Boston in June,  1817 ;  and Avas soon
afterwards  disbanded.    In 1816,  Air. Phelps Avas appointed
cashier of the Massachusetts Bank in Boston.  This office he
resigned  the  folloAving year, Avhen he returned to his  native
place, Hadley, Avhere he passed the  remainder of his long  life,
beloved and respected by the community, Avho manifested their
regard for him by  repeatedly electing him  to  offices of honor
and  trust.    He represented the  tOAvn of Hadley  in  the state
legislature in 1821, 1822, 1823,  1825, 1830, and  1832; and,
in 1828, he Avas elected senator from the district of Hampshire.
There were two religious societies in Hadley, and it sometimes
happened that  they could not agree upon a candidate for repre-
sentative.  AVhen this Avas the case, so popular was Mr. Phelps,
that they would compromise the matter by electing him.   AVhen,
therefore, the legislature assembled, and Mr. Phelps  appeared
as the  representative from Hadley, it Avas  at  once said  that
there had been a quarrel between  the societies about the  choice
of a person  to represent the town.  Mr.  Phelps married, in
January, 1800, Sarah  Davenport Parsons, daughter of  Moses
Parsons, of Haverhill, Alass. (H.C. 1765).    She died October,
1817 ;  and he married,  November, 1820,  Charlotte Parsons,
daughter of Hon. Theophilus Parsons.   His second Avife died
in July, 1830.   In  1833, he married, for his third wife, Mrs.
Elizabeth C.  Judkins, who  survived him.   He had fourteen
children, of whom  ten survived him.
   1792.—Henderson Inches  died in Boston, 9  September,
1857,  aged  83.    He was son  of Henderson and Elizabeth
(Brimmer) Inches,  and was born in Boston, 7 February, 1774.
He was  fitted for  college at Andover Academy.   Soon after
graduating,  he entered the  counting-house  of Hon. Thomas
Russell, of Boston,  where he received his mercantile education ;
and, on the termination of his apprenticeship, he began business
in Boston, at No. 47, Long AVharf, where he remained  several
years.   After the death of Air. Russell, he purchased Russell's
(now known as Russia) AVharf; whither he removed, and Avhere
he retained an  office until his  decease.  He married, Septem-
ber,  1802, Miss Susan Brimmer,  daughter of Martin Brimmer, 
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Esq., of Boston.  They had ten children, of whom seven are
noAV living.  Mrs.  Inches died 21 September,  1823,  aged 40
years.   Air. Inches  was long  and  favorably known  as  an
honorable and upright  merchant.   He  Avas, in every  sense, a
gentleman :  intelligent,  affable,  of a genial, social disposition,
he Avas a welcome  guest AvhereAer he Avent;  beloved  at home
as a kind husband and  affectionate father, and respected by the
community as an estimable and valued citizen.
   1796. — Rev. Luther AVright died in  AVoburn, Alass.,
21 June, 1858,  aged 88.   He  was son of  Samuel and Rachel
AVright, and Avas born  in Acton, Mass., 19 April, 1770.  As
he  Avas afflicted with severe lameness in 1781, which became
permanent, and  rendered him incapable of manual labor, he Avas
designed for college by his parents, as well as by his OAvn incli-
nation.   He pursued his preparatory studies partly at New Ips-
Avich, N.H., under the instruction of John Hubbard  (D.C.
1785),  the preceptor of the academy in that town, and partly
under the tuition of Rev. Moses Adams, of Acton (H.C. 1771).
After leaving college, he taught school five  months in AVater-
town, and three  months in Cambridge, near the college,  studying
divinity at the same time ; and, a few months after  relinquishing
those schools, he placed himself under the  instruction  of Rev.
David Tappan (H.C. 1771), professor of theology in  Harvard
College.  He was licensed to preach by the  Marlborough Asso-
ciation, April, 1797.   The  first  society to  which  he  preached
as a candidate  for  settlement Avas  at  Med way, where he was
ordained 13 June,  1798 ;  and  over  which  he continued his
pastoral labors for nearly eighteen years, on a salary of eighty
pounds  per  annum,  and the use of a Avood-lot  from Avhich he
obtained his wood.   By frequent and  kind presents  from his
people,  and by taking into his family lads and youth from Bos-
ton, and other  toAvns in this and other states, to board, and fit
for college,  and to study English branches, he Avas enabled to
supply the deficiency of his salary, and to accumulate something
for  his  support in the decline of life.   In September,  1815, he
asked and  received a dismission from his church  and society.
He immediately  began preaching as a candidate for re-settlement, 
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and receiAred invitations to settle in Dunstable, and the upper
parish in Beverly, Alass. ;  in Raymond, N.H. ; and Barrington,
R.I.   At the last-named place,  he accepted the call, and Avas
installed as their pastor, 17 January, 1817, over a feeble church
and parish, and on feeble support.    As the society Avas small,
its means for competent support scanty, and  unhappy divisions
existed in the church and society, he expected his mission Avould
be short; and so it proved.  After a residence of about four and
a half years, he requested a dismission.  His request was granted,
5 July, 1821.  In Alay, 1825, he was installed over the church
in Tiverton,  R.I.,  where he continued until 24 Alay,  1828,
Avhen he Avas dismissed ; and, his health being feeble, he felt it
his duty not to  resettle again in the ministry.   He, however,
continued to preach in different places, — about six months in
Dartmouth,  Alass.;  three years in Carver;  one year in Bille-
rica ;  seven  months  in  South AVeymouth;  several Aveeks  in
Plymouth,  Middleborough, and Lynnfield; besides occasionally
in a few other places for short periods.   About eight years be-
fore his death, he relinquished his  clerical labors  entirely, and
resided in AVoburn.    His only publications  Avere (1)  A Ser-
mon, occasioned by the Death of Capt. Cyrus Bullard, preached
25 May, 1806.   8vo.  Dedham, April, 1807.   (2) A Sermon
delivered at  MedAvay,  4 November, 1813, on the Close of a Cen-
tury since the Incorporation of the Town.  8vo. Dedham, 1814.
He married, 23  December, 1799, Anna Bridge, second daughter
of Rev. Josiah Bridge (H.C. 1758),  of  East Sudbury, now
Way land ;  but had no children.   His wife survived him.  By
prudence and good management he accumulated considerable
property, which  he bequeathed,  after the  death of  his  widow,
to the Congregational Board of Publication, the Alassachusetts
Home-Missionary Society, the American Missionary Association,
and the New-England Female Aledical College.
   1797. — Hon. James Richardson died in Dedham, Alass.,
7 June, 185'S, aged 86.   He was son of James and  Hannah
(Clapp)  Richardson, and was born in Medfield, Alass., 6 Octo-
ber, 1771.   He was fitted for college by Rev. Thomas Prentiss,
D.D.,  of Aledfield (H.C.  1766).   He held a high rank in his 
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class as a scholar, and graduated Avith distinction.    He pursued
his professional studies with the Hon. Fisher Ames, of Dedham
(H.C. 1774) ;  Avas admitted to the bar in the autumn of 1800 ;
and began the practice of the laAv in Dedham, Avhere he continued
it until AArithin a feAv years of his decease.   He was for some
time a laAv-partner Avith Mr. Ames, and was'ever a great favorite
of that eminent  statesman.   He attained to  a high rank as a
laAvyer;  and, for many years, Avas one  of the leading members
of the bar in Norfolk  county.   His connection with Air. Ames
was dissolved, by the death of the latter, the 4th of July, 1808.
He Avas but little in public life; for, being in political principles
an ultra-federalist,  a  majority of the  voters of  the town, as
well as of the county, in Avhich  he  resided, were of opposite
politics.   These principles he retained through life, although he
acted with new parties as new times demanded.  He Avas elected
a senator in the state legislature in 1813 ;  was a member of the
convention, in 1820, for revising the state constitution ; and was
a member of the executive-council  in 1834  and  1835.  He
was also a master-in-chancery, and a trial-justice,  in connection
with his professional practice.   He Avas much interested in mea-
sures designed for public improAement, such as  the construction
of turnpikes and the establishment of manufactures.   He  was at
one  time a considerable owner in manufactories, although he
never abandoned the practice  of his profession.   He was one
of the projectors of the Dedham Bank, and was president of
the Norfolk Alutual Fire-insurance Company from  1833 until
April, 1857.   He delivered a poem before the Phi Beta Kappa
Society,  at  Cambridge; a Fourth-of-July oration,  at Dedham,
in 1808, being the day of the death  of Fisher Ames, to which
event the oration contains  an allusion; and an address  before
the Norfolk bar,  at their request, in 1837, upon the profession
and practice of the law.   All these were printed.   As a lawyer,
he had a clear  and discriminating judgment, and  an  ample
knoAArledge of legal  principles  derived  from the very fountains
of jurisprudence.   He was president  of the Norfolk bar, and
held that position at the time of his death.  He was a man of
fine sensibilities,  fond of letters,  especially of the classics and 
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 of early English poetry ; of elevated vieAvs of life and character,
 especially as applicable to  his  own  profession.   lie  married,
 December, 1813, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Richards,
 of Dedham ; by Avhom he had three  children, tAvo sons and one
 daughter.   One son died in infancy in 1820.  His other children
 survive him.   The  son graduated at Harvard College  in 1N37.
 His wife died October, 1820.   His peculiarly tender attachment
 to her preArented his ever forming a second marriage connection,
 although  his children were  young.   Indeed,  for many years
 after her death, the very mention of her name affected him even
 to tears.
    1798.  — Dr.  Andrew Croswell died in Alercer,  Ale.,
 4 June, 1858,  aged 80.  He  was son of Andrew and  Sarah
 (Palmer) Croswell, and was born in Plymouth, Mass.,  9 April,
 1778.   AVhen  in college, he was remarked for  his amiable dis-
 position, and, Avithal, for his diffidence and retired habits ; and he
 seldom mingled in the  pastimes of his classmates.  He studied
 medicine under the instruction of Dr. Zaccheus Bartlett, of Ply-
 mouth (H.C. 1789).   On completing  his professional studies,
 he  settled  as a physician in the town  of Fayette, Me. ;  and
 subsequently removed  to Mercer, which was  afterAvards  his per-
 manent residence.   He acquired an extensive practice ;  and, by
 his skill and success, he gained the entire confidence not only of
 the people of the town in which he resided, but  of all the neigh-
 boring towns ; and was frequently called to go long distances for
 consultation in critical cases.  He was a man of the kindest
 feelings ;  and to the indigent he was ever prompt  to render his
 best services, without expectation of  reward  other than the
 consciousness of having relieved,  as  far as  was in his poAver,
 the sufferings of a fellow-being.   He was  justly entitled to the
 appellation  the apostle  bestowed  upon  St. Luke;   namely,
" the beloved physician."
   He married Susan Church,  of Farmington, and  had six
 children, — four sons  and tAvo daughters.   His widoAv, and all
 his children, excepting one daughter,  survived him.  He Avas a
 kind and affectionate husband and  father, greatly beloved by his
 family, and respected by all his acquaintances. 
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    1798. —Dr. Henry Gardner died in  Boston, 19  June,
 1858, aged 78.   He was son of Henry and Hannah (Clap)
 Gardner, and  was born in the old  Province-House,  in  Boston,
 2 August, 1779.  His father,  Henry  Gardner  (H.C. 1750),
 was born in  Stow,  Alass.,  14 November, 1731.  He Avas a
 member of the Middlesex Convention in 1774;  also of the
 Provincial Congress, Avhich met 7  October, 1774, and in Feb-
 ruary and May, 1775.   He  was judge of the  Court  of  Com-
 mon Pleas for Middlesex.  In December, 1774, he was chosen
 first state treasurer;  when he removed  to Boston, and  occupied
 the Province-House, Avhere Avere vaults for the  safe  keeping of
 the  provincial revenues.  He held this  office until his death.
 He  Avas a member  of  the  American  Academy  of Arts  and
 Sciences, and  had the character of  a learned  man.  He was a
 sincere patriot, and rendered very important service to  the pro-
 vince by his diligence and fidelity.   He died  8  October, 1782,
 aged 50.   Dr.  Gardner's  grandfather,  Rev.  John-  Gardner
 (H.C. 1715), was born in Charlestown, Alass., 22 July, 1695 ;
 was ordained  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church in Stow,
 26  November, 1718 ; and died 10  January, 1775, aged  79.
 Dr. Gardner  Avas fitted  for  college in Andover, Mass.    He
 studied  medicine with Dr. John AVarren, of  Boston, (H.C.
 1771),  Avho,  at the death of Dr.  Gardner's father, had  been
 appointed his  guardian ;  and received his first medical degree in
 1801, but never practised. According to the laws of primogeni-
 ture then existing, he, being  the eldest son, inherited a double
 portion  of his  father's estate;  and he was thus placed above the
 necessity  of engaging in any stated business.   He employed
 himself in the care of  his  property,  which  increased under
 his  judicious  management.   He resided  many years  in  Dor-
 chester, Alass., where he was highly esteemed by the people of
that ancient town, who elected him  a representative to the legis-
lature in  1822, 1823, and 1824.   He was  chosen a  senator
from Norfolk District in 1825, 1826, and 1827.  He was also,
in 1820, a member from Dorchester of  the convention for revis-
ing  the constitution of the state.   He was, for a number of years,
one of the trustees of the State Lunatic-Hospital at Worcester.
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Of late years, he declined all public offices, preferring the quiet of
private  life.  He Avas a  gentleman of strict  integrity, and Avas
highly respected in the community.   He married, first, 17 Alay,
1803, Joanna Bird Everett, daughter of Rev. Aloses Everett, of
Dorchester (H.C. 1771) :  she died 7 February, 1807, leaving
one daughter, Avho is noAV the Avife of Daniel Denny, Esq., of
Boston.   He married, second, 20 Alarch,  1810, Clarissa IIol-
brook, daughter of Dr. Amos Holbrook, of Milton, Alass. ; by
Avhom he had three  children, — two  daughters  and a son;  of
whom only the  son, Hon. Henry  Joseph  Gardner,  late gov-
ernor of Massachusetts,  is  living.  His second wife  survived
him.
   1799.  —Hon. Joseph Dane  died  in Kennebunk, Me.,
1  Alay,  1858,  aged 79.   He was son  of John  and Jemima
(Fellows) Dane, and was born in Beverly, Alass., 25 October,
1778.   He Avas  a descendant of John  Dane,  who emigrated
from England, and settled  in IpsAvich, Alass., about the year
1648.   Both his parents Avere natives of IpsAvich.  They  died
in Beverly, where they lived : the father, 5 Alarch, 1829, in his
eightieth year;  and  the  mother, April,  1827, aged  76 years.
Air. Dane  was  fitted for college at Phillips Academy,  Ando-
ver, and graduated Avith the second honors  of his class.  After
leaving  college,  he pursued his legal studies in  the  office and
under the instruction of  his  uncle,  Hon.  Nathan  Dane,  of
Beverly (H.C.  1778) ; and, having completed his term of study,
he Avas  admitted to the bar in Essex county in July, 1802.
He Avas thoroughly prepared for usefulness  and distinction in the
honorable profession he had chosen.   Besides the advantages to
be derived from the large experience,  exact and varied learning,
and practical good sense, of his immediate  instructor,  he could
not fail  to be benefited by the intimate association of the latter
with  Prescott,  Jackson, Putnam,  and Story, who Avere  then
beginning  to be distinguished for professional  excellence, and
became the ornaments  of  the bar and  the  bench.   After his
admission to the bar, Air. Dane immediately began the practice
of laAv in Kennebunk, at that time a part of the  toAAm of Wells ;
Avhere he  soon  became  distinguished as  an able laAvyer,  an 
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upright and safe counsellor.  He continued in active practice in
the profession until 1837, Avhen he retired.   As  a practitioner,
he  Avas courteous, faithful,  and honest;  and  sought,  by  the
influence of his OAvn example, to elevate the character of the pro-
fession  for  integrity and  moral  excellence.  "He concerned
himself Avith the beginnings of controversies, not  to inflame, but
to extinguish them.   He felt that he OAved a duty to  the com-
munity in Avhich  he lived, and  AArhose peace he  Avas  bound to
preserve.   He Avas eminently a peacemaker, a composer of dis-
sensions, and  constantly aimed to prevent  the mischiefs which
folio av in the  train of litigation."  To him may very justly be
applied the language used in regard to another :  " That  he cast
honor upon his  honorable profession, and sought dignity,  not
from  the ermine or the mace, but  from a  straight  path and a
spotless life."
    He was the last survivor of those who  were members of the
bar of York Avhen  he began practice;   among  Avhom were
the honored names of Mellen, King, Holmes,  Hubbard, and
AVallingford.   He Avas often selected by his felloAv-citizens for
places of trust and responsibility.  In 1816, he Avas chosen  one
of the delegates from the town of AVells to the Brunswick con-
vention for forming a constitution for Maine, Avhich then failed
to accomplish its object; the popular majority required to author-
ize it not having been obtained.  In 1818, he Avas elected by the
legislature of Alassachusetts one  of the executive-council;  but
declined to accept the office, on account of professional  engage-
ments.  In 1819, he Avas a member of the convention  Avhich
framed the constitution of Alaine, and took an active part in its
proceedings and deliberations ; and was one of the committee
which draughted the constitution, Air. Holmes being  chairman.
Associated with him in this important committee, among others,
Avere  Chief-Justice AV hitman, Generals AVingate and  Chandler,
Judges Bridge,  Dana,  and Parris.  On the admission of Alaine
into the Union in 1820, he was elected a member  of the sixteenth
Congress,  from  the first district, to complete the  unexpired term
made vacant by the election of Air. Holmes to the  Senate,  and
also  a  member  of the  seventeenth Congress.  Subsequently he 
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 Avas in the state legislature, as a member of the House, in the
 years  1824,  1825, 1832,  1833,  1839,  and 1840;  and was
 a member of the Senate in 1829.   In 1841, he Avas elected a
 member of  the  executive-council of  Alaine, but  declined to
 accept  the  office.  He fulfilled the  duties of the various and
 important  public trusts confided to him Avith acknowledged abil-
 ity, great  singleness of purpose,  and Avith an earnest, patriotic
 desire  to advance the public interest.   After his retirement from
 the  bar and from public duties, he  ahvays interested himself
 deeply in Avhatever Avas calculated to  promote the Avelfare of the
 community.   Few men have  lived  so long, and  enjoyed so
 largely and  uniformly the  confidence, respect,  and esteem of
 their fellow-citizens.
    He  married, October,  1808,  Alary  Clark, daughter of
 Hon. Jonas Clark, of Kennebunk, and grand-daughter  of the
 Rev. Jonas Clark, of Lexington, Alass.  (H.C. 1752) ;  a lady
 of great excellence  of character, who survived him.   He  had
 three children, two sons  and  a daughter.  The  sons  survived
 him, prominent citizens of the  county of York, — Hon.  Na-
 than Dane, of Alfred; and Joseph Dane,  jun., of Kennebunk.
 He Avas happy in his domestic  and social  relations; kind,
 affectionate, and benevolent.  His death Avas deeply lamented by
 his neighbors and  friends, Avho grieved most of all that they
 should  see his face no more.   He had usually enjoyed  good
 health, the "ripe fruit of temperance, self-control, and a virtuous
 life," until  seized by the  malady Avhich terminated  his  earthly
 existence.   He sustained the suffering  of  his long and painful
 illness  with characteristic cheerfulness and equanimity, and Avith
 Christian resignation ;  and at last  calmly  and serenely  yielded
 up his  life in the exercise of a reasonable religious faith  and a
 Christian hope.
   1800. — Dr. Samuel AA'eed died in Portland, Ale.,  24 No-
 vember, 1857, aged 83.  He was born in Amesbury,  Mass.,
 10 June, 1774.   His father, Ephraim AVeed, was a respectable
farmer.  He Avorked on his  father's farm until he Avas 17 years
 old ; Avhen he Avas sent to  Exeter Academy, where he remained
nearly a year.  The next four years he spent alternately keeping 
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school in Amesbury and Bradford in Avinter, and working on the
farm  in  summer.   Being noAV desirous  of obtaining a liberal
education, he Avent to Atkinson Academy, then under the charge
of Stephen Peabody (H.C. 1769), and prepared himself for col-
lege.  He entered college in 1796, the oldest member of his class.
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A distinguished literary gentleman, Avho  Avas long intimately
acquainted Avith him, gives the following particulars of his subse-
quent life : "It was one of the college customs of that  day, for
the freshmen, on the  entry of every class, to be initiated  into
their  new life  by a Avrestling-match.  The  sophomores chal-
lenged the neAV-comers to a trial of strength in this  ancient  and
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classical exercise.   The senior class Avas the umpire,  and the
victors Avere treated to a supper on their invitation.  In  the con-
test  in  1796, after a  hard and manly struggle,  the freshmen
came off victorious, leaving  three of their champions  ready to
continue the contest:  of these, AVeed was one.   The  Alonday
after, the juniors, not easy under  this  defeat, challenged the
freshmen to a neAv contest AArith them.  This was  accepted,  and
AVeed Avas the first to  enter  the list : he threw successively six
of the juniors, the first of Avhom was the late Judge Fay, of
Cambridge.  Reeking with perspiration, and  nearly exhausted,
he Avas required to renew the struggle Avith a  fresh  competitor :
in this struggle he Avas unfortunately overcome ; the  victor being
Ebenezer Thatcher,  then  of Cambridge, but Avhose manhood
and  age  were spent  in Alaine,  in  the discharge of many
important  offices, and  who  died  in 1841.   After   leaving
college,  Air. AVeed took charge of the  academy at Framing-
ham,  Avhere  he continued four years; when he Avas invited to
unite  with his classmate, Rufus Hosmer, in conducting  a high-
school in Aledford.  In this occupation he remained  three years.
He then began in earnest the study  of his profession under the
wise and paternal direction of Dr. John Brooks, afterwards gov-
ernor of the commonAvealth; the brave a«d gallant  soldier, the
skilful physician, the  prudent statesman,  and the accomplished
gentleman.   Here he saAv the best  practice,  and improved his
admirable opportunities to acquire an accurate knowledge of his
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and enjoving  the  company of many of the most distinguished
men of the old common Avealth, a*s Gore, Dexter, Bigelow, ite. ;
and of meeting the old physicians,  Danforth, Dexter, Lloyd,
Rand, the elder AVarren, &c, Avho came to Dr. Brooks for con-
sultation or as friendly visitors.  Here, too, he met the eccentric
and gifted Dr. Osgood, pastor of the church in Aledford, then
in the vigor of his intellect and of his peculiarities.   From these
rich and  varied stores of instruction, his mind Avas imbued Avith
useful knowledge, and pleasant and  instructive  anecdote, Avhich
his memory laid up  for the  entertainment of his  friends and
companions through the long period of his remaining life.   Dr.
AVeed Avent to Portland, and entered on the practice of his pro-
fession, in 1810.  The principal physicians then there were Dr.
Coffin, Avho had been forty-four years in the practice, and  stood
at the head of the  profession,  both in medicine and  surgery;
Drs. Erving, Thomas, Cummings, Harding, Kittridge, and Alor-
rill.   A  very healthy town,  Avith a population of only  seven
thousand, and pre-occupied with such a  number of  the faculty,
did not  afford a  very  cheering prospect  to  a new  aspirant,
especially Avhen the charge for  a medical visit, including  medi-
cine,  Avas only fifty cents.   At that time, it Avas the custom for
physicians  to prepare  the medicines  Avhich they  prescribed:
patients  wrere  unwilling  to go to the apothecary;  and articles
obtained there Avere not always to be relied on.  It happened,
fortunately for Dr. AVeed, that  Dr. Eiwing, that good Samari-
tan, and a most excellent  man, soon after this  moved to  Bos-
ton.   Tavo  years before Dr. AVeed came,  Dr. Kinsman, one of
the most learned and skilful practitioners who had ever pursued
his Avocation in Portland, had died ;  so that Dr. Weed was en-
abled early to enter upon a  remunerating  practice.   He Avas
quite  successful in  securing  a  goodly number  of  first-class
patients, Avhich he ever retained, and their families after  them,
by a  calm judgment, a good knoAvledge of his profession, and a
uniform  gentlemanly deportment.   Never was  a physician fur-
ther removed  than he from cant and quackery, to Avhich ignorant
practitioners often resort to gain  business and  populaiity.  lie
gained the confidence of his patients, and secured their affection, 
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by a safe and  judicious application of remedies, by  courteous
deportment, and strict attention to the Avants of the sick-chamber.
His great caution sometimes gave him the appearance of doubt
and hesitation : but he thought it better to be slow than to be
Avrong ; that it Avas better to assist nature, than to prostrate it by
hasty and violent applications.   The estimation in Avhich he was
held by his numerous friends, many  of Avhom Avere children  of
parents avIio had enjoyed the benefit of his earlier services, Avas
manifested in a manner most gratifying to both parties.  In De-
cember,  1852, Dr. AVeed fell upon the ice, and  broke his  hip-
joint ;  a severe  misfortune, Avhich disabled  him from  future
practice.   His friends, believing  that, deprived of his  usual re-
sources, he must be straitened in his means of support, came
cheerfully forAvard, and contributed to procure for him an annu-
ity of  five  hundred dollars a year during his life.  This at once
relieved his anxiety, and made him comfortable for the  remainder
of his days.   In 1816,  Dr. AVeed  married Maria Condy,  of
Medford, an  amiable and  accomplished  lady,  Avhose death  in
1835 was a deep and lasting sorrow, depriving him  of  a Avise
counsellor,  an admirable companion, and  an unfailing friend.
Her grandfather, Rev. Jeremiah Condy (H.C. 1726),  Avas  a
Baptist clergyman in Boston; predecessor,  in the First  Baptist
Church, of the eloquent Stillman.  By her he had  three sons ;
of Avhom the only survivor is Edward Condy,  of Boston.   From
his earliest life, Dr. AVeed was an example  of a true philosophi-
cal and religious  moderation.   His whole conduct Avas regulated
by strict principle.   He Avas never knOAvn  to deviate from  the
paths of rectitude and honor: he knew no guile, and Avas never
guilty of detraction.  He had entire control over himself, and
so Avas able to apply to useful purposes the AAmole vigor of his
poAA^ers.   As a physician, he was not rapid in  his perceptions,
nor fertile  in expedients ; but by great caution, sound judgment,
and  natural  experience, he arrived at just conclusions  in  the
diagnosis of disease.  By a course so  uniform and so worthy,
he conferred dignity on his honorable profession, and grace and
beauty on his daily life."
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Avich, R.I.,  24 December,  1857, aged 74.  He was son of
David Greene (H.C. 1768), and Avas born in Norwich, Conn.,
3 July, 1783 ;  but, when quite young, removed Avith his father's
family to Boston, AA'here  he  passed  a great portion of his life.
His mother's name was Rebecca Rose ; and  his father married
her in the island of Antigua, of Avhich she Avas  a  native.  She
died at  the  age of forty, leaving  eight  children.   Air.  Greene
Avas fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, Avhere he Avon
a Franklin medal for his  superior scholarship.   On leaving col-
lege,  he entered his father's counting-room for  the purpose of
preparing himself for  the  mercantile  profession,  in  Avhich his
father had long held a prominent rank.   In 1805 or 1806, he
Avent  to England,  where  he remained  a  feAv months, Avhen
he returned;  and on the 7th of December, 1806, he Avas married
to Esther Ward Bowen, daughter of Hon. Pardon Bowen, of
Providence, R.I., and settled in New York.  She died in Alarch,
1808, leaving no children.  Mr. Greene shortly afterAvards sailed
for Europe ;  visited many ports in the Mediterranean,  and went
as far as Odessa,  in  the  Black Sea, in the ship "Calumet,"
Avhich was the first American vessel that  visited  that port, and,
it  is believed,  Avas the first that ever entered the Black Sea.
He remained in Europe five  years; during Avhich  time  he
acquired a thorough  knoAvledge of the French  language, Avhich
he spoke as fluently as he did his  native  tongue.   He returned
in 1813 ;  and,  on the  27th of September of that year,  he Avas
married to Frances Bowen, a sister of his former wife.  He then
established himself in Boston as a merchant; but, meeting with
reverses, he relinquished the mercantile profession, and engaged
in the business  of teaching, for which he  Avas  by nature peculiar-
ly fitted.  He opened a  private  school at  Jamaica Plain (noAV
AVest Roxbury), Alass., which he continued for more than thirty
years Avith eminent success.  In 1849, he removed to East Green-
Avich, R.I., where he continued his school until the 13th of Feb-
ruary, 1856 ; Avhen he was seized Avith a slight paralytic affection,
which compelled him to relinquish his labors.   During the time
he was engaged in teaching,  more than seven hundred youth Avent
forth  from his school, many of Avhom now fill high places, and 
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have achieved deserved eminence.  Among those who gratefully
testify to the  good influences exerted upon  them, while  at his
school, may be mentioned George AV. Curtis, the  "HoAvadji; "
J. Lothrop AIotley,the historian ;  Frank B. Goodrich, author of
the " Court of Napoleon ;" Charles G. Leland, and Fletcher and
EdAvard  AVebster.   The great feature of this school consisted
not so much  in  its educational advantages,  though these were
undoubted, as in the excellent influences which were brought to
bear upon the characters of the pupils.  The boys were trained
to be courteous  and gentlemanly, Avith a modest but  manly
bearing, and a noble scorn of all that Avas mean or ungenerous.
Himself a gentleman  of the old  school, Air.  Greene labored
earnestly and successfully to train up his pupils in all the virtues
which belong to that type.   It was to  this  moral  training that
Air. Greene  chiefly confined himself.   Though admirably quali-
fied,  it Avas  his  custom to  devolve  upon  assistants  the main
burden  of instruction, under his general  supervision.   Those
Avho have had familiar opportunities  to observe hoAv admirably
he understood the nature of boys, and how wisely and well he
managed them — smoothing down their rough angularities, and
instilling into them gentlemanly  courtesy, mutual forbearance,
and a manly deference for their superiors in age and acquire-
ments— during  his  thirty-nine  years'  experience, will be
tempted to  compare him,  not out of empty compliment, but
with  full conviction, to the celebrated Dr. Arnold, the model
teacher of England.  It may not be out of place to chronicle
an illustration of the high integrity Avhich actuated Air. Greene
in his dealings with his fellow-men.   At the close of his mer-
cantile life, he failed to the  amount  of thirty thousand  dollars,
— a  sum AA-hich, legally, he Avas not bound to pay; but, with a
sense of obligation Avholly independent of legal enactments, he
discharged the entire debt out of the  subsequent  profits of his
school.   It Avas  many years before he could accomplish it; but
he steadfastly persevered  until  every dollar Avas paid.  Air.
 Greene employed himself for some time  in writing a history of
the country  around the Black Sea, an  account  of his own voy-
 age and observations Avhile there and at  Constantinople, Avith
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the intention of publishing them ; but, on being applied to by
Gen. Henrv A. S. Dearborn for information on  those  subjects,
finding the latter Avas preparing a work on  the  " Commerce  of
the Black Sea," he handed him his manuscripts, desiring him  to
make Avhat use of them he might  Avish, and then gave up all
thoughts of publishing any thing himself.
   Air.  Greene's second wife survived him, but had no children.
   1803.—Rev.  Asa Eatox  died in Boston, 24 Alarch, 1858,
aged 79.  He Avas born in Plaistow, N.H., 25 July, 1778 ;  Avas
fitted  for  college  by Rev.  Giles  Merrill, of Haverhill,  Mass.
(H.C.  1759).   After a.brief preparatory course of theological
studies,  he was instituted rector of Christ  Church in Boston,
23  October,  1805, where he labored diligently and  faithfully
until Alay, 1829, Avhen he resigned his rectorship ; and, for eight
years subsequently, Avas employed as a city-missionary, — labor-
ing among the destitute in Boston, and preaching to the poor  in
a hall Avhere the seats were  free.   From 1837 to 1841, he was
connected Avith a literary institution  in  New Jersey.   For a
short time previous to his death, he was attached to the Church
of the  Advent in  Boston.   He Avas a distinguished member  of
the Alasonic Fraternity, and at one time held the office of deputy
grand-master of the Grand Lodge of Alassachusetts.   He Avas
widely knoAvn throughout the county, from his long connection
Avith the Episcopal church, his  blameless life, and  his entire
consecration to the Avork of the Christian ministry.  11 is tall and
commanding figure,  with locks  of snowy Avhiteness,  attracted
attention wherever he went;  and  his  memory is revered as a
beloved and faithful expounder of  divine truth.   He  married,
9 October, 1813,  Susannah Storer, youngest daughter of Eben-
ezer Storer, of Boston  (H.C. 1747), and had six children,—
three  sons and three daughters ;  of whom  two  sons  and one
daughter survived him.  His Avife died 26 November, 1853, aged
71 years.
   1804.— Bex.tamix Guild died in Boston, 30 Alarch, 1*58,
aged 72.   He was son of Benjamin (H.C. 1769)  and Eliza
(Quincy)  Guild, and Avas  born in Boston, 8 Alay, 1785.   His
father was  born in AVrentham, Alass., 28 April, 1749; was a 
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tutor in Harvard College from 1776 to 1780 ;  and was a mem-
ber of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He was
for some time a preacher ;  but subsequently opened a book-store
in Cornhill (now AVashington Street), Boston, Avhich he kept for
some years.  He died in October, 1792, aged 43 years.    The
subject of this notice was fitted for college at Hingham Academy.
He studied law  with Hon.  William Prescott (H.C. 1783).   On
his admission to  the bar,  he opened  an  office in Boston, and
afterwards  became a laAv-partner Avith  Air. Prescott.   He Avas
subsequently associated  in the practice of his profession with
Benjamin Rand,  of Boston  (H.C.  1808).    He  married, 31
March, 1817,  Eliza Eliot, daughter  of Samuel Eliot,  a dis-
tinguished and wealthy merchant of Boston ;  and had five chil-
dren,— three sons  and tAvo daughters,—avIio, Avith his widow,
survived him.  All his sons have graduated at Harvard College ;
viz.,  Samuel Eliot in 1839, Charles Eliot in 1840,  and Edward
Chipman in 1853.  Air. Guild Avas,  for more than thirty years,
an active and efficient member of  the Alassachusetts Society for
the Promotion of Agriculture ; Avas for some time its recording-
secretary;  and  Avas the  writer of many of its annual reports.
He was a  gentleman of polished  manners, of an exceedingly
affable and  sociable disposition,  and was highly respected and
beloved by a large  circle  of acquaintance.
   1805.—Epheaim Hixds  died in  AVest  Boylston, Alass.,
18 June, 1858,  aged 77.   He Avas son  of Benjamin and Tabitha
(Holland)  Hinds, and was born  in that  part of  Shrewsbury
Avhich is noAV Avithin the limits of AVest Boylston, 7 November,
1780.  His father was a farmer, and one of the earliest settlers
of the town.  His mother was a native of Boylston.  He was
fitted  for college  partly at  Leicester Academy, and partly by
Rev.  AVilliam Nash, of AVest Boylston (Y.C. 1791).    After
leaving college,   he taught  school  in   Boston,  AVatertown,
Sterling, Lancaster, Mass.,  and several  places in  Vermont.
After some  years spent in teaching, he  entered  upon  the  study
of law under the instruction of Eleazer James,  of Barre, Mass.
(H.C. 1778).   On his admission to the bar, he began the prac-
tice of his profession in  Barre, where  he resided a short time;
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when he  removed  to Athol.  From this town he Avent to Har-
vard, Avhere he remained about  thirteen years; afterAvards  he
lived in Marlborough from 1833 to  1841 ;  in South Brookfield
from Alay, 1841, to Alay, 1845 ; in  South Orange from Alay to
November,  1845 ;  in Deerfield from November, 1845, to  May,
1847 ; and  in AVest Boylston from May,  1847, until his death.
He married, 28 April, 1823, Maria,  daughter of Ilutchins Hap-
good, of  Petersham.   He was greatly respected at the bar as a
man of strict veracity, of unbending  integrity, sound judgment,
and  practical Avisdom.   He had been unable  to Avalk for more
than a year before his death, in  consequence of a  severe  rheu-
matic affection ;  but Avas  uniformly  cheerful, and  entirely sub-
missive to the Divine AVill.  He was remarkable for his habits of
punctuality, systematic arrangement of secular affairs, and rigid
economy.   His memory was wonderful.   A few days before his
death, his pastor,  sitting by his bedside,  quoted a passage from
the xc. Psalm : " The days of our years are threescore years and
ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is
their strength  labor  and  sorrow; for it is  soon cut off, and we
fly away;"  and added, "I suppose your experience, Mr. Hinds,
confirms the truth of the Psalmist's declaration, that it is labori-
ous  and  sorrowful work  to live." — "Yes," said  he, "even to
breathe."   He then added, " That is a brief but exact description
of old age, and reminds me of a passage in Virgil." — " Can you
repeat it? " asked his pastor.   " Yes," he replied ;  and did so, as
folloAvs : —
          " Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus sevi
            Prima fugit: subeunt morbi, tristisque senectus :
            Et labor et dime rapit inclementia mortis."
                                        Georg., lib. iii. 66-8.
          " From wretched mortals each best day of life
            First takes its flight.  Diseases follow next,
            Old age disconsolate, and weary toil;
            And death, relentless, snatching them away."
                                        Kennedy's Translation.
   At the time of his funeral,  an old friend, who was his con-
temporary at college, and Avho  had  been associated with him,
more or less, for nearly seventy years, rose, and said with deep 
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emotion, "I have intimately knoAvn the  deceased  from  early
boyhood, and have distinct and pleasant recollections of him for
more than half a century.   I can truly  say,  that as a  com-
panion in youthful days, as a felloAv-student  in  the  school, the
academy, and the college, as an associate at the  bar  and in the
various relations of life, I have never knoAvn a  man of stricter
integrity, purer life and manners,  or more  unblemished  moral
character, than Ephraim Hinds."  It Avas a beautiful and affect-
ing tribute  of respect and affection, spontaneously given Avith
tears and a broken  utterance.
   Air.  Hinds left three sons and one daughter;  she being the
youngest child, and about tAventy-one  years of age.  He also
left an ample estate, the fruit of his industry and prudence.
   1806.—Hon. AVilliam Pitt Preble  died in Portland,
Ale., 11 October,  1857,  aged 73.   He was  born  in York,
Me., 27 November, 1783 ;  Avas fitted for college by Rev. Rose-
well Messinger,  of  York  (H.C.  1797),  and  graduated  with
high honors.   He was distinguished, when  in  college,  for  his
skill in mathematics, and  his powers  of  argumentation.   On
leaving college, he  read laAv,  first with Hon. Benjamin Hasey
(H.C.  1790), and  then Avith Hon. Benjamin  Orr,  of Tops-
ham, Ale. (D.C. 1798).  In 1809, he was  appointed tutor in
Harvard College, where he continued  two  years ;  and,  while
tutor,  he married a Aliss  Tucker,  of  York, daughter  of the
collector of that port.   On resigning  his tutorship,  he  began
the  practice of law in his native town, and rapidly rose to the
front rank in his profession.   He soon removed  to Alfred, Ale.,
Avhere he remained  in  practice until 1813 ;  when, having been
appointed United-States district-attorney for Alaine District, he
remoAred to Saco,  and thence, in 1818, to Portland.    The
following sketch of his  life  is principally derived from an able
article published in  the " Portland  State  of  Alaine " soon after
his death.   He took an active interest in politics from early life ;
Avas  at first  an ardent federalist, but subsequently acted with the
democratic party, became a  leading advocate for the separation
of Alaine from  Massachusetts,  and Avrote  a pamphlet  in its
favor.   He  was  a member  of the constitutional  convention of 
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Alaine in 1819, and Avrote its address to the people of the state.
In  1820, he Avas appointed a justice of the Supreme  Court of
Alaine, — associate  Avith  Hon.  Prentiss Alellen (II.C 1784),
chief-justice.    This office  he resigned  in  1-S29, on  bein^ ap-
pointed, Avith  Air. Gallatin, an agent to  prepare the case of the
United-States Government before the King of the Netherlands;
and was finally appointed, by Gen. Jackson,  minister-plenipo-
tentiary to  the Hague.  His career as a public man, for Avhich he
Avas most  distinguished, Avas in  connection  Avith the north-
eastern-boundary question.   His ability in exposing the absurd-
ity  of the  decision of the Dutch king was undoubtedly chiefly
instrumental in  causing its defeat  in the United-States  Senate.
He was one of the commissioners  of Alaine in 1-S32  with the
Hon. Ruel AVilliams and the Hon. Nicholas  Emery,  and ad-
vised a compromise by taking lands in Michigan in exchange
for  lands north of the St. John;  but the legislature of Alaine
declined the offer to this effect by the general  government.   At
the close of his  foreign mission, he  returned to the practice of
law in Portland.    He  was  elected by  the   legislature  as a
commissioner  with Gov: Kent and others,  in  1842, to  arrange
the  Treaty of  AVashington;  and  finally  gave  his  sanction,
though reluctantly, to the mode of settlement carried out by the
AVebster-and-Ashburton  Treaty.   This was  the last  political
office Avhich he held.  In 1844,  he was called to what he re-
garded as  the most important  duty that  had ever engaged his
attention, — the connecting by railway of  the waters of the St.
Lawrence Avith those of the Atlantic.  He was slow to engage in
that Avork,  and his  natural  caution  made him at first  fearful of
any connection with that enterprise ;  but, after mature reflection,
he engaged in it with all  the enthusiasm of youth, and all the
A'igor of early manhood.  AVhen his concurrence in the scheme
Avas known, it gave to it  the  confidence of the public;  and a
large share of credit is  due to him for its  success.   He was
the  first president of the corporation, and continued to hold the
office until  1848 ;  when  he declined a  re-election, and retired
from  public labors.  He lived  to see the work  accomplished,
but not to lose his interest in its prosperity.   The last article, 
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probably, which he prepared for the press, was upon the White-
Mountain scenery along the route, and which was  published  in
the " Portland Argus " a short time before his  death.   All  his
public writings display the most marked exhibition  of labor, and
care of preparation.   He. never allowed any thing from his pen
to appear, without subjecting it to the most elaborate prepara-
tion.  But  little, however, remains that will serve as an endur-
ing record  of his labors.   His  reported  opinions as  a judge
do not give any adequate  idea of his power as a  lawyer.   He
had a reputation for intellectual  power far beyond  any  measure
 of success that he obtained;  and those who knew him best were
 aware of his  peculiarities  of temperament  and of temper, that
 were a drawback to popular favor.   He appeared to  the best
 advantage in  the oral argument of legal questions.   He stated
 legal propositions with a  clearness  and force  that were rarely
 equalled.   When all  his faculties were raised into activity by
 the excitement of a great occasion, the pressure of a crowd, or
 the responsibilities of a great cause, his mind worked with the
 greatest ease  ; and he was capable, on such occasions, of bring-
 ing out  an  argument, that by its strength of reasoning, force of
 illustration, and effective eloquence, gave him  the  mastery  over
 others.   In 1829, the honorary degree of doctor of laws was
  conferred upon him by Bowdoin College.
     1807.__Hon. John  Glen  King died in Salem, Mass.,
  26 July,  1857, aged  70.   He  was the  second  son of James
  Kino-, Esq. ;  and°was born in  Salem, 19 March,  1787.   He
  was°fitted for college at  Phillips Academy in Andover, Alass.
  He did not  graduate with his class, but, like many  others of
  his own and the  succeeding class, left college in Alay, 1807,
  the period of what is  known as "the  Grand  Commons-Re-
  bellion."   His degree was conferred upon him in 1818.   He
  pursued the study of law  under the instruction of Hon. Wil-
  liam Prescott  (H.C. 17»3) and  Hon.  Joseph  Story (H.C.
  1798)  ; was admitted a member of the  Essex bar;  began the
  practice of his profession in Salem, where he continued during
  the remainder of his life.  He  attained an  eminent  rank, and
  for many  years was one of the leading  members of the bar in 
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 Essex countv.   He Avas repeatedly elected to offices  of honor
 and trust.  He Avas chosen a representative  from Salem to the
 state legislature in 1816 and 1821 ; and Avas  a  member of the
 senate from Essex District in 1822, 1823, and 1826.   He was
 also the first  president of the  common-council of Salem, under
 the city charter.  Among his important legislative duties  may
 be mentioned his share in the great Prescott impeachment case,
 in 1821.  He, being at that time  a member of the house  of
 representatives, Avas appointed to  make the impeachment at the
 bar of  the senate, in  the name of the house of representatives
 and of the people of  Alassachusetts ;  and  afterAvards Avas ap-
 appointed first of the seven managers on the part of the house
 to conduct the impeachment before the senate,  sitting as a
 court;  the other six being Levi Lincoln (afterwards governor),
 AVilliam  Baylies, AVarren  Dutton, Samuel P.  P. Fay  (after-
 Avards judge),  Lemuel Shaw (afterAvards  chief-justice  of the
 Supreme Judicial  Court), and  Sherman  Leland  (afterwards
 judge.).   Horatio  G. XeAvcomb  and Francis C. Gray, in the
 course of the  proceedings, were substituted for Alessrs. Lincoln
 and Baylies.   Air. King, although younger  than several of the
 gentlemen comprising this eminent array of legal talent, bore a
 distinguished part in the conduct of the laborious and novel case.
 He made the opening argument;  and, at the close of the pro-
 ceedings, demanded judgment upon the  articles on  which the
 respondent A\-as found guilty.   The following eminent legal gen-
 tlemen Avere the respondent's counsel: AVilliam Prescott, George
 Blake, Daniel Webster, Samuel  Hoar,  Samuel  Hubbard, and
 Augustus Peabody.   Air. King Avas, for many years,  commis-
 sioner-of-insolvency, and held that office at the time of his death.
 He Avas also a member of the Alassachusetts  Historical  Society.
 He Avas a wise and learned counsellor, whose  honor and integrity
 Avere without the suspicion of a stain ; Avhose counsel in the dis-
 tribution of estates was  sought from far  and near;  and Avhose
 association in  any deed of trust gave confidence to all Avho were
 interested in  its being honestly and  judiciously administered.
 His  mind Avas singularly acute and critical;  his spirit, of  that
justly balanced cast, Avhich, Avhile  Avisely conservative in  all its 
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185
tendencies and judgments, was keenly alive to every moral and
social wrong, and resolute in the maintenance  of the right and
the true, in the face of any weight of precedent or  example on
the other side.   His love  of literature and  of  books almost
amounted to a passion.   His precious and well-selected library
was his solace through many a year of suffering;  and the sight
of it, around his bed of mortal sickness, cheered and enlivened
the last days of his declining life.   He was a scholar, and a ripe
and good one.  The ancient classics were his mental food and
drink.  He nourished his spirit, too, on the old English master-
pieces, especially of the theologians, for whose range of subjects
his mind had a natural affinity; but in every stage of English
literature he Avas at home, and his fine and cultivated taste appre-
ciated all that  was truly Avorthy.   Mr. King married Susan,
daughter of Major Frederick Gilman, of  Gloucester.   He had
six children, of Avhom two died in infancy : the others, Avith his
widow, survived him.   One son, John Gallison King, graduated
at Harvard College in 1838.
    1807. —Jared AVeed died in Petersham, Mass., 6 August,
 1857, aged 74.   He was son of Elnathan and Lydia (Bouton)
Weed, and was born in North Stamford, Conn., 5 April,  1783.
He was fitted for college in North  Salem, N.Y., under the in-
 struction of a Scotch pedagogue, whom he used to speak of as
 " Old Johnny AIcNess."  He had  certain peculiarities of expres-
 sion which he undoubtedly contracted  under this  Scotchman's
 teaching.  He studied law with Hon. AVilliam Stedman, of Lan-
 caster, Mass. (H.C. 1784), and  Judge  Nathaniel Paine, of
 AVorcester  (H.C. 1775).   AVith Judge  Paine he acquired  a
 thorough knowledge of probate  business, which he was said to
 transact remarkably well,  and which he  continued to practise
 until his death.   He was admitted to the bar in AVorcester, and
 in 1813 established  himself in the practice  of law in Peters-
 ham, where he resided during the remainder  of  his  life.  He
 made his first entries in the Court of Common Pleas in AVorces-
 ter County at the November term in 1812, and continued after
 that  to make entries at each term.   He was  admitted  an attor-
 ney of the Supreme  Judicial Court at the September term in
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1816, and a counsellor of the same court at the September term
in 1818.  He attained a very respectable standing in his  pro-
fession ; was a magistrate in whom the people had confidence,
an honest politician,  and a most worthy and excellent man.   He
was, for several years, chairman of the board of county-com-
missioners ;  and filled other offices of honor and trust which Avere
bestowed upon him by his fellow-townsmen  and the citizens of
his county, Avith credit to himself, and satisfaction to his  con-
stituents.   He  married, 30 April,  1821,  Eliza Prentiss,  of
Petersham,  daughter of Nathan and Lydia Prentiss  (singular
coincidence  with  the names of his  parents).  He had  three
daughters, — Elizabeth Otis, born 1822 ; Lydia Pennoyer, born
1823 ; and Mary Jane, born 1827, — the eldest of whom  only
survived him: the others died within  six years of the death of
their  father.  His widow survived him.  He was a kind and
indulgent husband and father, thoughtful for others, and exhib-
ited wonderful patience during the last five  Aveary years of his
life while suffering  from  a severe  attack  of paralysis.  His
mother always said, " Jared was a good boy at  home, — her best
child; " and  she had a large family.   He was too forgetful of
his own  interests for his worldly prosperity ;  but his  generous,
kind heart is remembered by his friends.
   Mr. AVeed  was  descended, on  the mother's side,  from a
family by the name of Pennoyer ; one  of Avhom, AVilliam Penn-
oyer, many years ago, left a legacy to Harvard College on condi-
tion  of the  awarding of certain benefits to such  of his descendants
as should be educated  there, of which Mr. AVeed had a share.
AVilliam Pennoyer never came  to  this country, but lived and
died in England.  It is his brother Robert's descendants Avho have
lived in the  United States.
   1811.—Rev.  Samuel  Gilman,  of Charleston, S.C., died
at the residence  of  his son-in-law,  Rev. Charles J. Bowen, in
Kingston,  Mass., 9  February, 1858, aged 66.  He was son of
Frederick  and Abigail  H.  (Somes) Gilman, and  was  born
in Gloucester, Alass., 16  February, 1791.   His father had
been a very successful merchant in Gloucester,  but died insolvent
more than  sixty years ago ; his insolvency having  been caused 
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by the capture of several of his vessels by the French in the war
of 1798.   He left a youthful widow and four  male children;
and, when Samuel was about seven years old, his mother took
him to Atkinson, N.H., to be educated  in  the  academy there,
under the charge of Rev. Stephen Peabody (H.C. 1769), whose
quaint, primitive ways  are described with inimitable humor in a
biographical sketch by Dr. Gilman, published in the " Christian
Examiner" in 1847.   Not  long subsequently,  the family re-
moved to Salem, Mass. ;  and  Samuel  was  for some time em-
ployed as a clerk in the old Essex Bank.    He graduated with
high honors in a class remarkable for eminent talent.  A poem,
which he delivered on  his  graduation,  " On the Pleasures and
Pains of a Student," Avas replete  with humor, and elicited raptu-
rous applause from a crowded audience.   This poem he repeated
on the evening of  commencement-day, in 1852, at the residence
of Hon. EdAvard Everett, in Boston, whither the class had been
invited to celebrate the forty-first anniversary of their  gradua-
tion ; and added a sequel, in Avhich he gave  a retrospect of the
time from their graduation  to that period,  paying a brief and
beautiful tribute to the memory  of those of the  class who had
deceased.  The poem concluded with the following fine compli-
ment to their host, the Hon. Air. Everett: —

         " Stay yet, dear friends ! the minstrel bids you toast,
          In pure, bright water, our accomplished host;
          Who gives, one need not say, our class its name,
    ,      Tinged with the lustre of his well-earned fame.
          Health for his labors, for his cares relief,
          To him, our first and last unen\ded chief!"

   These two poems were printed immediately afterwards for dis-
tribution to the surviving members of the class.
   Among the various pursuits which offered themselves to Dr.
Gilman's choice, was that  to which, by character and  endow-
ments, he was best adapted ;  and it Avas the profession which Avas
the choice of his heart.  He soon began the study of theology
under  the  supervision of Drs. Ware  and Kirkland, who then
constituted the theological faculty.  Fortunately for him, he was
not hurried, liKe most young Americans, immediately and pre- 
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maturely into professional life.   He lingered long under the roof
of his Alma Alater, maturing his mind, extending his knowledge,
and  laying up those intellectual and literary treasures which hin
future isolation rendered so important.   In 1817, he Avas  ap-
pointed tutor in mathematics at Harvard College;  Avhich office
he held two years.  Early in.1819, he went to Charleston, S.C.,
where he received  a  pastoral  call as successor to the Rev. An-
thony AI. Foster ; and, after a few months of probationary service,
he was ordained, 1  December,  1819, as pastor of the Unitarian
or Second Independent  church in that city.   The ordination-
sermon Avas  preached by  Rev. Joseph Tuckerman,  D.D.,  of
Chelsea, Mass. (H.C. 1798).   Here he labored faithfully and
acceptably until his last sickness.   He was universally respected
by the people  of the city of his  residence, and his influence ex-
tended far beyond the limits of the religious denomination with
which he was connected.   He was the life and soul of the New-
England society of South  Carolina, and was always  hospitable
to all visitors from the North.   During his residence in Cam-
bridge, he Avas a frequent  contributor to the " North-American
Review," in  Avhich periodical  his papers are marked by their
polished elegance of diction, the grace and felicity of their illus-
trations, and their racy humor.   Among his contributions were
a series of able papers on the philosophical lectures of Dr. Tho-
mas  Brown, and translations of several  of the satires of Boileau.
One of his most  noted essays  Avas on  " The Influence of One
National Literature upon Another."  He also wrote a fine paper
on " The AVritings of EdAvard Everett," his classmate  and warm
personal friend.  After his removal to  Charleston, he continued
to write for different periodicals ;  his  contributions embracing a
wide range of subjects, from profound philosophical  discussions
to sparkling satirical essays.  A  selection of these Avas published
in a volume a few years since, under the  title of " Contributions to
American Literature, descriptive, critical, humorous,  brigraphi-
cal,  philosophical,  and poetical."  Among his productions, the
"Recollections of a NeAv-England Village Choir" has, perhaps,
become the most generally popular.   For  apt local description,
a keen sense of the ludicrous, and a happy intuirlon of charac- 
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189
teristic peculiarities, it has seldom been matched in the humorous
literature  of  this country.  Dr. Gilman  possessed  the gift of
poetry, Avhich he cultivated Avith no inconsiderable success.  He
had a luxuriant fancy, an excellent command of natural imagery,
and  great fluency of expression.  As a pulpit-orator, he  was
affectionate and persuasive ;  equally removed from languor  and
vehemence;  never boisterous,  but  always in earnest;  loving
the sphere of universal ethics rather than the subtleties of secta-
rian doctrine; and commending the great  lessons he taught by
the shining and noble example of his private life.
   Dr. Gilman  married,  14  October,  1819,  Aliss Caroline
Howard,  daughter of  Samuel  Howard, a shipwright of Bos-
ton ; a lady  of  remarkable talents  and acquirements.  She  is
the author of several  excellent books : viz., "Oracles from the
Poets ; "   " Recollections  of a  NeAv - England Housekeeper ; "
" NeAv-England  Bride, and Southern Alatron ;"  " Poetry of
Travelling in the United States ; "  " Tales and Ballads ; "  and
others.
   Dr. Gilman  had four daughters, Avho  survived  him:  viz.,
Abby  Louisa,  Avife of  Francis J.  Porcher,  merchant,  of
Charleston;  Caroline  H., widow of AVilliam Glover, planter,
of South  Carolina;  Eliza AV.,  Avife of Pickering Dodge, Esq.,
of Salem  ; Anna,  Avife of Rev. Charles J. Bowen, of Kings-
ton, Mass.   He had also a son, Avho died young.   His widow
survives him.   His occasioned visits to the home of his youth
kept his  ancient  intimacies  unbroken;  old   associations were
preserved amid the excitement of  novel  scenes and fresh in-
terests ; and, now  that he has passed  away, his memory will
be  tenderly cherished,  both by those to Avhom  he  devoted the
maturity of his  strength,  and  those  among Avhom he has found
a grave.
    1812.—Hon. Franklin Dexter  died in Beverly, Mass.,
 14 August,  1857,  aged  63.    He Avas  son  of Hon.  Samuel
 (H.C. 1781) and Catharine (Gordon) Dexter,  and Avas  born
 in Charlestown, Alass., 5 November, 1793.  He  held a  high
rank in  college, and  graduated with distinction.   He studied
 law under the  instruction  of  Hon. Samuel Hubbard  (Y.C. 
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1802), and Avas admitted in regular course to practice in Suf-
folk County.   He established himself in Boston, Avhere he soon
rose  to  distinction  at  the bar,  which could  boast, during his
connection Avith it, the names of Otis, Jackson, Prescott, AVeb-
ster, Alason,  and Hubbard.   Among such rivals, he took rank
as a leader.   Several of his  competitors, undoubtedly, were
more successful;  that is, they had more cases  on their dockets,
and much larger incomes by their profession : but he was one
of the first to be sought in important  cases, or Avhen great legal
points  Avere  to  be discussed,  or  large  interests disposed of.
This position he held,  with   continually increasing reputa-
tion, until his  retirement from practice in 1845.   He Avas for
some years a partner  of Hon.  Charles  Greely Loring   (H.C.
1812) ;   afterwards of Hon. AVilliam Prescott (H.C. 1783) ;
and, still later, of AVilliam Howard Gardiner  (H.C.   1816)
and George AVilliam Phillips (H.C. 1829).   He Avas employed
as counsel for the Knapps, in their trial for the murder of Capt.
AVhite, at Salem, in 1830 ;  and exhibited great skill and logical
acuteness in their defence against the gigantic  poAvcrs of Daniel
AVebster, avIio  Avas  employed  in  behalf  of  the government.
He Avas  afterAvards engaged in the defence  of  Airs. Kinney,
Avho  Avas  acquitted on a charge of poisoning her  husband in
Lowell.   He held many public  stations,  Avhich he filled Avith
honor to  himself,  and advantage  to  the  community.   On the
4th of July, 1819, by appointment of the authorities  of the town
of Boston, he delivered the oration on the anniversary of the Dec-
laration of Independence.   He Avas elected a representative from
Boston to the state  legislature in  1825,  1826, and 1840 ;  in
1835, he Avas chosen  senator  from  Suffolk  District;  and in
1836, as  one of the  select committee, he rendered valuable
and important service in shaping and  improving  the Revised
Statutes.   He was a member of the  city-council in  1825.  He
took much interest in military affairs, and was  for some time
commander of the  NeAv-England Guards.    He  had  a rare
taste for the fine arts,  and was  a  warm friend and admirer of
AVashington Alls ton.   His  beautiful criticism  on landscape-
painting,  in an  extended article in the  " North-American Re- 
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191
view," attests his information on this  subject.  "In political
life,"  says his  classmate, the Hon. Charles  G. Loring,  "Mr.
Dexter exhibited the same love of truth,  and contempt of arti-
fice, the  same  gentlemanly bearing, and marked  ability for
debate,  Avhich distinguished him at the bar.   Eminently faithful
to his convictions of duty to his country, he never sacrificed or
compromised them at the behest of a party, or  under the more
insidious  and  dangerous  influences  of private friendship  or
social influence.   An  enlightened and fervent  lover  of her in-
stitutions, he was not lost in blind or extravagant admiration to
their  peculiar  weaknesses  and dangers;  and  contemned  the
appeals to that infatuation, so generally characteristic  of popular
addresses, and  so  often  the cloak of basely selfish  hypocrisy.
It  Avas  perhaps  in this sphere of duty,  more than in  any  other,
that his resolution and intrepidity Avere displayed.   In the great
struggle of 1850, his comictions upon the great questions which
divided the country impelled him  into painful opposition to the
principles avowed, and measures  advocated, by  the  great
champion of the party Avith Avhich he had hitherto united himself
and his associates, which drew  upon him, not merely the re-
proaches  and suspicions  of the zealous  partisans, and many of
the public  prints  of the  day,  Avhich  he could patiently  and
calmly  endure, but alienated many whom he  had been  accus-
tomed to look  upon as  personal  friends, who turned from him
in  coldness, or indulged in censure of his course;  thus adding
another victim to that lamentable intolerance  in public  opinion,
by Avhich our community has been too long and unhappily  dis-
tinguished, and Avhich seems in strange contrast with its  claims
to  intellectual position  and advancement.  But no desertion of
friends, no blandishment  or persecution, could damp his courage,
 or shake his consistency.   He never ceased to maintain,  and
press upon the public mind, the vieAvs he entertained; and hap-
 pily lived long enough at last to enjoy the satisfaction of  seeing
them become those of  the great mass of  his fellow-citizens,
though his  sensitive mind neArer recovered from the wounds thus
ungenerously inflicted,  Avhich,  to use his own expressive  lan-
guage, were 'blows upon the  heart.'"   In 1841, Mr. Dexter 
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 accepted from President Harrison the  office  of district-attorney
 of the United States for the district of Alassachusetts.   To Ins
 conduct  in  office, his friend, who presides  over the  court in
 which his  practice necessarily lay, bore ample and just testi-
 mony.   Judge Sprague said,  "His official duties lay mostly in
 the court in Avhich I presided; and I can bear Avitness that they
 were performed with consummate ability, fidelity, and  discre-
 tion.  Vigilant and firm  in the  detection and punishment of
 crime, it was  ahvays  Avith that  considerate  calmness  which
 became the representative  of a mild  and paternal government.
 AVhile he effectually repelled and exposed every effort, hoAvever
 bold or artful, to turn aside the course of justice, no amount of
 opposition   in  a  trial,  Avhatever  its  force or  character, could
 convert it,  on his part,  into a contest for victory, or an occasion
 of self-exhibition.   He had the most exact appreciation  of the
 duties of his station, and every qualification for their perform-
 ance.   Indeed, no  man could  come nearer to the ideal of a
 perfect public-prosecutor."   Mr. Dexter married,  28  Septem-
 ber, 1819,  Catherine  Elizabeth  Prescott,  daughter of Hon.
 AVilliam Prescott.   He had five children.   One died in infan-
 cy :  the  others, Avith his widow, survived him.   For a few years
 before his death, he  resided permanently in Beverly.  In 1857,
 the honorary degree of Doctor  of LaAvs was conferred upon
 him by  Harvard College.
    1818.—James  Barbour died in  Barboursville,  Orange
 County,  Va.,  7 November, 1857, aged 58.   He was the eldest
 son  of the  late Governor James  Barbour,  of Virginia, from
 whom he inherited  talents that would have  distinguished him
 in any walk of public  life,  but for  a constitutional modesty,
 which kept him in retirement.  He was born in Orange county,
 Va., 22  December,  1798.   He graduated with distinction in a
 class which exceeded in numbers any previous one which had
 ever left the walls  of  Harvard.    AVith strong literary  tastes,
 and a mind enlarged and improved by foreign travel, he pursued
the cultivation of polite learning in the intervals of leisure af-
forded him in the management of a large plantation; and there
 were few men of wider information  or  sounder scholarship in 
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the state.   In 1828,  he accompanied  his father to  England,
where  the late  Gov.  Barbour  was sent as  minister to  that
country ;  and served  as  secretary-of-legation to  the court  of
George IV.   Old  enough to have seen some of the greatest
men in Virginia, in the unreserve of social intercourse, around
his father's fireside, his conversation was rich in reminiscences
of political and literary celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic,
and  embraced personal anecdotes  of Air. Jefferson, Mr. Madi-
son, Air. Monroe, Lafayette,  Sir Walter Scott, and others : but
he never talked for effect; and so little  pretension was there  in
his manner, that a careless observer might  have passed him by
as a person  of ordinary poAvers.   But,  as  soon as he engaged
AAath zest in the conversation of the  moment, it was impossible
not to  perceive that he was a very uncommon man.  A volume
of  his recollections would haA'e been  a great  addition to the
department  of literature  Avhich  embraces the  ana  of  distin-
guished people.
   1821.—Dr.  Oliver  Hunter Blood died in AVorcester,
Mass., 8  April,  1858,  aged 57.  He was  son of Thomas
Howard and Polly (Sawyer) Blood, and was born in Sterling,
Alass., 31 May, 1800.    He was fitted for college by Rev.
Lemuel Capen, of Sterling (H.C. 1810).  On leaving college,
he determined to become a physician, and pursued his profes-
sional  studies under the instruction of Dr. John Green, of AVor-
cester  (B.U.  1804).   Having received his degree of M.D.
in 1826,  he began the  practice  of  his profession  in Brook-
field, Mass., where he remained two years.  He then removed
to Worcester, where he resided during the remainder  of his life.
He  married Ellen  Blake, daughter of Hon. Francis Blake, of
AVorcester (H.C. 1789), and had eight children,—four sons
and four daughters.   One son died at the age of four  years : his
other chddren, with his widow, survived him.  He was a man of
small stature, but of great physical strength; and, on this account,
when in college  he became the possessor of the huge herculean
club,  which bore  the significant  name of  the  "Thundering
Bolus  ; "  a  weapon of formidable size, Avhich, for many years,
was transmitted from class to class to the strongest member  in
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each.  Dr. Blood Avas a man of social and genial disposition.
AVith a fund of ready wit always at command, he was ever a
welcome guest at the festive board.   His name, originally, Avas
Oliver Blood:  but, a short time before he entered college, he,
with some juvenile companions, went  on a hunting expedition,
which was attended Avith but  indifferent success ;   and on their
return, merely out of  sport, he assumed the name of Hunter,—
quasi lucus a non lucendo, — which he ever after retained.  Pos-
sessed of the kindest  feelings, and of a most  obliging  disposi-
tion, he was greatly beloved, not only by his family, but by the
community among Avhom he had so  long lived.
   1821.—AVilliam Foster Otis, of Boston,  died  in Ver-
sailles,  France,  29  Alay,  1858, aged  56.   His disease was
" syncope of the heart."   His death Avas very sudden,  he having
been  in' perfect health until  about fifteen minutes  before he
breathed his last.  He left Boston on the 17th of June, 1857,
for Liverpool, and had been travelling in England and on  the
Continent.   The last winter he spent in Paris, and  had been
about two weeks in Versailles at the time of his death.   He
was  the  third son of Hon. Harrison Gray (H.C. 1783) and
Sally (Foster) Otis ;  and was born  in Boston,  1 December,
1801.   He was fitted for college at the Public Latin  School in
Boston.  Having  chosen the profession of law,  he  pursued
his legal studies with  his eldest  brother, Harrison Gray Otis,
jun.  (H.C.  1811), and Augustus  Peabody (D.C.  1803), of
Boston.  On his admission to the  bar, he established himself
in the practice of his profession in Boston.   In  early life he
took an active part in political and military affairs.  He was an
officer in the New-England  Guards ;  Avas a member of  the
Ancient  and Honorable Artillery Company in 1828 ; and was
commissioned  as a major in  the Boston regiment.   He was
elected a representatiA^e to the legislature in 1830, and  was re-
elected  the two following years.   On the 4th of July, 1831, he
delivered an oration  before the  young men of  Boston, Avhich
excited  much  attention from  the spirit of " Young  America"
which he displayed in  it; and Avhich at that time, among the
older class, Avas  deemed to be  too much in advance of the age. 
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He early retired from public life and from  the practice of his
profession, preferring the quiet of private life to political strifes
and forensic contests.   He was a gentleman of polished manners,
affable in his deportment, and of unblemished moral character.
He was, for several  years,  president  of  the Young  Men's
Temperance Society ; was an active member of the Church of the
Advent in Boston, was  a liberal contributor to its support,  and,
at the time he left for Europe, Avas its senior warden.    He
married, 18 May, 1831, Emily, daughter of Josiah Marshall,
Esq., a merchant of Boston.   She Avas  a  lady of remarkable
personal  beauty  and  accomplishments,  Avhich  were  exceeded
only by the goodness of her heart and the loveliness of her life.
She died, 17 August, 1836, at the early age of 29.  Her death
was a  severe  affliction  to her husband,  from Avhich he seemed
never to recover.  He left tAvo  daughters.  His only son  died
24 October,  1848, at the age of 12 years.
    1828. —Frederic Dabney died in  Fayal, Azores, 29 De-
cember, 1857, aged 48.  He Avas son of John Bass and Roxa
 (Lewis) Dabney, and was born in Fayal (where his father resided
as United-States consul for  many years), 2  August, 1809.  He
was fitted for college, partly  by Rev. Henry Colman (D.C. 1805)
at Brookline, and partly by Jacob Newman Knapp (H.C. 1802)
at Jamaica Plain, Mass.  He Avas one  of the youngest in his
class,  and one  of  the most  juvenile in appearance; he had
however, a manly  deportment, which won from  his associates
the love given to a younger brother, and the respect paid  to  an
equal.   He  entered with great earnestness  into the athletic
sports  of the gymnasium (which  were  introduced during his
collegiate course) ; and Avas one of the most graceful  and  skil-
ful performers, especially in those exercises which require agility
rather than strength.   He was not ambitious of college distinc-
tions,  but was faithful in  the discharge of his duties; held a
respectable rank in every department of  study, and enjoyed* the
confidence  and  esteem  of  his teachers.   Immediately  after
leaving college, he returned to Fayal, and engaged in the  mer-
cantile business as a partner in the firm of which his father was
the senior member.   There was his  permanent residence; and 
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he led an active, useful, and happy life.  He  visited Boston a
feAv times, and spent some time in Europe, seeking the  restora-
tion of impaired health.   In 1835, while in England, he mar-
ried  Roxana Stackpole,  of  Boston.  His business, the duties
of a wide hospitality, his books, and his family, filled  up his
time pleasantly and profitably.   His classmates, at their period-
ical meetings, occasionally received an  affectionate letter from
him, in which tenderness of feeling that comes Avith growing
years was in touching contrast with the  boyish light-heartedness
of his college-life.   He Avas greatly esteemed and valued in the
community  in which he dwelt;  and the general sense of the
loss sustained by his death was expressed in the most emphatic
manner, alike by native and foreign residents, by Catholics and
Protestants.   He died of disease  of the lungs.  He had long
been  in failing health, and  was  watched with much anxiety by
his family and friends ; but his  summons was at last sudden.
He took part in  the  Christmas  festivities  of his household, and
even dined with  his family the day before his death ; but, in his
enfeebled condition, a few hours of suffering sufficed to  release
his spirit.   He had ten children ;  five of whom, with his widow,
survived him.
   1828. — Hon. John James Gilchrist,  of Charlestown,
N.H., died  in AVashington, D.C, 29  April,  1858, aged 49.
He Avas the eldest son of Capt. James and Susan (Wyman)
Gilchrist,  and Avas born in Medford, Alass., 16 February, 1809.
His father was an active and enterprising shipmaster, sailing for
many years  from the ports of Boston and Salem, in the China
and East-India trade;  until, having acquired an  ample compe-
tence, he  retired from a  seafaring life, and  removed  with his
family from Aledford,  in  February,  1822,  to Charlestown,
N.H., wjiere he had purchased a farm ; and devoted himself to
agriculture until his death, Avhich occurred 15 June, 1826.  The
subject of this notice began  his  preparatory studies for  college
under the  instruction of Rev. Jaazaniah  Crosby,  D.D.,  of
Charlestown (H.C. 1804).   He was afterAvards sent to Aled-
ford,  and placed in the private academy of Air. John Angier
(H.C.  1821),  where  he  made  such  rapid  progress, that, 
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although not  intending, Avhen he  went there, to enter to an
advanced standing j he Avas enabled  to pass a satisfactory exami-
nation,  and was admitted in  1825  to the  sophomore class.
His conduct, Avhile in college, Avas exemplary, and his character
unblemished.   He  was not  ambitious  for  distinction, and his
course  of  studies  was  rather  general than  confined  to the
requirements of a  collegiate course; and therefore his  rank in
his class,  although always respectable,  was not  so high as he
might have attained.   After leaving college, he began  the study
of the law under the  instruction  of the late AVilliam Briggs, of
CharlestOAvn (D.C. 1799), and completed his legal studies at
the Law School in Cambridge.  On his admission to the bar, he
began the practice of his profession  in Charlestown.  He rapidly
rose to distinction,  and soon formed a business connection with
the late Gov. Henry Hubbard (D.C. 1803).   He  took a pro-
minent part in politics, and Avas early elected to offices of trust
and importance.   He repeatedly represented Charlestown in the
legislature of New Hampshire, and was also elected solicitor of
Sullivan county.   In Alarch, 1840, at the early  age  of thirty-
one, he was  appointed an  associate-justice of  the  Supreme
Court of NeAv Hampshire.  The ability with which he discharged
the duties of this high station developed the eminent  qualifica-
tions he possessed for the post to which  he had been  elevated;
and  Avhen, on the retirement  of the  Hon.  Joel Parker (D.C.
1811) from the  office  of chief-justice,  in  June,  1848,  he was
at once appointed his  successor.    This  office  he held  until
Alarch, 1855 ;  Avhen he resigned   it to accept  that  of judge
of the United-States  Court of Claims,  to  Avhich he  had been
appointed by President Pierce, and Avhich  he held at the time
of his death.
   Judge Gilchrist was a man of ample and varied learning; a
clear and good reasoner; and, as a judge,  quick,  attentive, and
courteous.   Apart from his judicial sphere,  he  Avas  a  great
lover of literature, and Avas thoroughly versed in the standard
Avorks  of England and his  own country.   In private  life, he
was  possessed of a genial, social,  and  cordial disposition, sea-
soned Avith a fine sense of humor, and a keen perception of the 
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ludicrous, Avhich rendered him  an agreeable and entertaining
companion.   He married, 25 August,  1836,-Sarah Dean Hub-
bard, daughter  of the late Gov.  Hubbard, by Avhom  he had
two  children, — a  son  and a  daughter,—who, AArith  their
mother, survived him ;  his son  being then a student of Har-
vard College.
   In his domestic relations, as a son,  husband, father, and
brother, he Avas  all that could be Avished.   His house was the
home of  hospitality; and his many friends Avho have  been wel-
comed at his board wrill  recall with pleasure  the  many happy
hours passed in his society, Avith a melancholy regret "that they
shall see  his face no more."
   1832. —Hon. Albert Hob-art Nelson, of AVoburn, died
at the McLean Asylum  in Somerville, Alass., 27  June, 1858,
aged 46.  He was son of Dr. John and  Lucinda  (Parkhurst)
Nelson, and was born in  Milford, Mass., 12  March, 1812.  He
Avas  fitted for college at Concord Academy.   After leaving col-
lege, he entered his name as  a law-student in the  office of the
Hon. Samuel Hoar, of Concord, Mass. (H.C. 1802) ; but soon
afterwards entered the Law School at Cambridge, where he com-
pleted his studies, and was admitted to the degree of Bachelor of
Laws in  1837.   On his admission to the bar, he began the
practice of law in Concord, where he remained until 1841; when
he removed to  Woburn, which was  his  subsequent  home, al-
though he had an office in Boston.  He was a well-read lawyer,
a  fine speaker, and a most pleasing, persuasive, and  successful
advocate before  a jury.   He Avas much in public life.   For sev-
eral years, he held the office of district-attorney for the  counties
of Aliddlesex and Essex.   He Avas elected as a Avhig  senator,
from Aliddlesex District, to the legislature in 1848 and 1849 ;
and in  1855 he was  appointed  one of  the  executive-council,
which station he  resigned  a few months  afterAvards, having
received  the  appointment  of  chief-justice  of  the  Superior
Court.   He continued his seat  on the bench until the 6th of
Alarch, 1858 ; Avhen he Avas compelled to resign it in consequence
of ill health.  Mental alienation  ensued, Avhich increased to such
a  degree, that it became necessary to place him in the asylum for 
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the insane, at Somerville, Avhere he remained until his death.   In
the discharge of his duties as prosecuting-attorney,  he was can-
did and  courteous.   His elevation  to  the  bench was  entirely
satisfactory to the bar of Suffolk county ;  and the manner  in
Avhich he discharged the duties  of the station  evinced the judi-
cious decision of the executive in making the appointment.  His
ample experience at the  bar  had made  him familiar with  the
rules of evidence and practice; and his instinctive legal percep-
tions and quickness of mind  enabled him to  decide promptly,
and generally correctly, the questions that came before him.
   To the toAvn of AYoburn the death of Judge Nelson was espe-
cially a loss.   He had done much for its interests,  and with  an
enthusiasm which shoAved that it  came from  the heart.   Alany
of the public  measures of the toAvn for the last fifteen years bear
the impress of his mind and hand.   It was by his efforts, more
than by those of any  other individual, that the High School —
an institution that reflects the greatest lustre on the town,  its
intelligence and generosity — Avas established ; and his memory
was  appropriately honored at his funeral by the pupils of the
school, Avho  came forth Avith sorrowful countenances to pay a
last sad tribute to the worth of their thoughtful benefactor.
   Judge Nelson  married,  September, 1840, Elizabeth  B.
Phinney,  daughter  of the  late  Elias  Phinney, of Lexington
(H.C. 1801), clerk of the courts in Aliddlesex.  HisAvidow and
one daughter survived him.   He had one other child, a son, who
died in infancy.
   1836. — George AIinot died at  his residence  in Reading,
Alass., 16 April, 1858, aged 41.  He Avas son of Hon.  Stephen
(H.C. 1801) and Rebecca (Trask) AIinot,  and was  born  in
Haverhill, Alass., 5  January, 1817.  His father  was  son  of
Capt. Jonas  AIinot,  of Concord, Alass., Avhere  he was born
28 September, 1776, and has been a lawyer in  Haverhill.  He
was appointed a judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas,
and held the  office until 1820, when the laAv which  created that
court Avas repealed.   In  1824, he Avas  appointed county-attor-
ney  for  Essex;  Avhich office he resigned in 1830.   He died
6 April, 1861.   Air. Alinot's mother Avas a daughter of Samuel 
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Trask, of Bradford, Alass.,  and deceased several years since.
He began to fit for college at Haverhill Academy, and concluded
his preparatory studies at Phillips  Academy in Exeter, N.H.
Immediately after graduating, he  entered  the  LaAv School  in
Cambridge, Avhere he  remained two years ; Avhen he  left, and
completed his  legal studies  in the  office of the Hon. Rufus
Choate (D.C. 1819).   He was admitted to  the  Suffolk bar  in
April, 1839 ;  and immediately opened an office in Boston.  He
rose  rapidly to  distinction, and soon attained an eminent rank
in his profession.  Possessing a mind remarkably clear and logi-
cal,  his counsel Avas sought  in cases,  which, from  their intri-
cacy, required great  acumen, keen discernment, and a nice  dis-
crimination.   But he  Avas more widely known  by his  editorial
labors.   He was the careful and accurate editor of the "United-
States Statutes at Large," during the last ten years.   He  also
rendered valuable assistance to the late  Air.  Peters in  the pre-
paration of the first eight volumes of the statutes  published  in
1848, the full and  complete general-index  of which  Avas the
exclusive result of his  labors.  His name is  also familiar to the
legal profession  as associate-reporter of the decisions  of the late
Judge Levi AVoodbury in the first Circuit Court; and his edition
of the nine volumes of "English  Admiralty Reports," repub-
lished by Little, Brown,  and Co., in 1854, bears evidence  of
his industry and learning in this branch of  his profession.   In
1844, he edited  the work  which has made his name familiar  to
every Massachusetts  lawyer, — "The Digest of the Decisions  of
the Supreme Court of this State," — to which he added a supple-
ment in 1852 ; and, until compelled by the  state of  his health
to lay aside his labors, he was intending to recast  the entire
work, and, including the  later reports, to make it  more com-
pletely useful  to the profession, more just to his own  reputa-
tion, and to that of the court, whose learning and ability it would
illustrate.
   Air. AIinot was for  many years solicitor  of the Boston  and
Alaine Railroad Corporation.    As such, he Avas called on to ad-
vise in many very delicate  and difficult controversies and delibe-
rations ;  and in all he was remarkable  at once for honesty  of 
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purpose, firmness, and discretion.   Beyond his profession, he
read and speculated more variously and more independently than
most men of any profession.   Elegant general literature ;  music,
of which,  in its science and practice, he was a lover and master;
politics ; theology, in its relations to a religion revealed in the
Bible, and to that philosophy which performs its main achievement
in conciliating faith  with  reason,—Avere his  recreations.   To
sacred music  and poetry he devoted  himself with  fervor.   He
loved especially the standard hymns and tunes of the church in
which the congregation united in public worship.  AVhile in col-
lege, he was the organist of the chapel;  and, during most of
his maturer years, he  himself conducted  the  sacred music of
the religious society Avith Avhich he worshipped.   In his religious
belief, Avhile he did  not  receive,  as a whole, the  creed  of any
sect, he was sincere, earnest,  catholic.  He made the Bible his
constant study ;  he read and explained it in his house ; and his
heart embraced, as his reason  had acknowledged, its truths.
   He married, first, in 1844, Airs.  Emily P. Ogle, Avidow of
Dr. Richard Ogle, of Demarara, an Englishman by birth.   She
Avas  the daughter of Dr.  Gallup, formerly of Woodstock, Vt.,
but Avho resided many years at the Hague, Netherlands, where
he married Susan  Alaria  Eversdyk,  a Dutch lady, and where
this  daughter  Avas born.   She died  in Boston, 21  November,
1853 ;  and Air. AIinot married,  second, 12 December, 1854,
Elizabeth  Dawes, daughter of Thomas Dawes (II.C. 1801),
a  lawyer in  Boston, and grand-daughter of Hon. Thomas
DaAves  (H.C.  1777),  who is well  remembered  by the  elder
portion of the community as  the learned judge successively of
the Probate,  the Municipal, and the  Supreme courts.  He left
two children, — a  son by his first wife,  and  a  daughter by
his second wife.
   As a citizen, many will bear testimony to his private  virtues
and his excellence in all the social relations.  As a son, he was
all that could be desired, — attentive, respectful, and affectionate.
He was  a  loving and considerate husband, and the fondest father.
Yet he was judicious in the training of his son ;  and, with all his
numerous engagements, he never neglected  giving him lessons of
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Avisdom and Christian counsel.   His domestics and neighbors
loved as Avell as respected him ; for  he Avas kind to  all.   He
had important trusts  reposed in  him by friends and relations,
who kneAV their confidence in his ability and  integrity  could
never be shaken, or their  hope in  him  disappointed, except by
death.  Fidelity  to  the dictates of conscience  Avas his ruling
principle of action.   His faith in religion was firm, and attended
him through life, and shone forth in the perfect resignation Avith
Avhich he bowed to the  appointments  of Heaven.   He had all
that man could desire to  render life  attractive.  Placed  in
circumstances to warrant their liberal  indulgence, he was happy
in the exercise of his  benevolent sympathies and a  generous
hospitality.   He had numerous beloved and  loving  relatives
and  friends,  a  strong and vigorous  intellect, and  a  heart
disposed to employ it in the sen ice of  his fellow-man  and his
heavenly  Father.   Yet  when  the announcement  was  made,
which was very sudden and  unexpected to him,  a few  days
preA'ious .to his death, that his life  on  earth was  near its close,
he was enabled to say, "  God's will be  done ! "  He  besought
his sorroAA'ing friends around his  bed to  " trust in God, and all
would be well."
   The funeral services of the deceased were conducted in the
church by three clergymen of different denominations : namely,
the  Rev. William  Barrows, his  pastor,  Trinitarian ; the  Rev.
Thomas Dawes, of  South Boston, Unitarian ;  and the  Rev.
Thomas Worcester,  D.D.,  of Boston,  of the  New-Jerusalem
church.   The  organ at which  he had  so  often presided was
richly draped in mourning in token of respect to his memory,
and  the  choir  executed  an appropriate chant as  a  parting
requiem.
   1839. —Rev. Augustus Russell Pope died in Somerville,
Mass., 24 Alay, 1858, aged 39.   He was  son  of Lemuel and
Sally Belknap  (Russell)  Pope, and  was born  in  Boston, 25
January,  1819.   His father Avas  for many years president of
the  Boston Insurance Company, and died in Roxbury in 1851.
Mr.  Pope  pursued his  preparatory studies for  admission  into
college, partly  under the instruction of Air. Daniel Greenleaf 
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 Ingraham (H.C.  1809), and partly at the Boston Latin School.
 Immediately  after graduating, he entered the Divinity  School
 in  Cambridge,  where he pursued his theological  studies.   He
 Avas  ordained pastor of  the  Unitarian  church  in Kingston,
 Alass., 19 April,  1843, where he  faithfully  discharged  his
 ministerial  duties  until  June,  1849;  when he  resigned  his
 pastoral charge, and his  resignation was accepted on the 12th
 of July folloAving.   On  the 25th of November in the same year,
 he  Avas installed over  the  Unitarian  church in  Somerville.
 Here he continued to labor with great acceptance  to  the  people
 of his charge until his death, with the exception of a few months,
 about two  years  since,  during Avhich period he acted as state
 agent and lecturer for the Massachusetts  Board of Education.
 He was a man of  great energy  and industry.   He possessed
 talents Avell adapted to the profession he had chosen.   His per-
 sonal character was  adorned with Christian virtues, which made
 him eminently useful as  a minister, and. beloved and respected
 as a man  by a large  circle of acquaintances.  He delivered many
 lectures before conventions of teachers, for the Board of Educa-
 tion,  in which he  displayed much ingenuity :  one  particularly,
 on  telegraphs, was highly commended.   He was well versed in
 physics, and had great talent for mechanics.   He invented the
 electrical  apparatus  to alarm the inmates  of a house  against
 burglars.   He edited or prepared the first "Educational Year
 Book," and wrote many  articles for the " Alassachusetts  Teach-
 er."   His published  Avorks  were, — 1.  Christian  Union :   a
 Discourse preached before the  First Congregational  Society in
 Kingston, 22 November, 1846.   2. Discourse commemorative of
 the Life and Alinistry of Rev. Zephaniah Willis, delivered before
 the First Congregational Society in Kingston, 14 March,  1847.
 3. Address at the  Laying of  the  Corner-stone of the  Free
 High-school House,  Somerville,  17  September, 1851.   4. An
 Address delivered at the  Laying of the Corner-stone of a House
 of AVorship for the Allen-street Congregational Society in the
 City of Cambridge,  25 September, 1851  (of which there Avere
two editions).  5. A Sermon before the First Congregational
Society in Somerville, 4 July, 1852.   6.  A Sermon on the 
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Burning of the First Church in Somerville, preached  25 July,
1852.   7. Agricultural Head-Avork : an Address delivered be-
fore  the Aliddlesex Agricultural  Society, 30 September, 1856.
   Mr. Pope married, 2  June,  1843, Lucy Ann,  daughter
of Col. George and Alary Aleacham, of Cambridge ;  by Avhom
he had four  children,  two sons and two daughters, Avho, with
their mother, survived him.  An aged mother, of whose declining
years he Avas a dutiful supporter, also survived him.
   1844. — Francis Lowell  Batchelder, of Cambridge,
Mass., died at Hibernia, Fleming's Island, Fla. (Avhither he had
gone for the benefit of his health),  9 February, 1858,  aged 32.
He was  son  of  Samuel  and Alary (Alontgomery) Batchelder,
and was born in that part of Chelmsford which is now within the
limits  of  the  city of Lowell, 2 April, 1825.    He was fitted
for college  at Thornton  Academy in  Saco, Ale., where his
father's family resided for several years.   On leaving college, he
entered the Law School at Cambridge, where he pursued his legal
studies, and received  his degree of bachelor of  laws  in 1848.
He opened an office in Boston, and there practised his profession
during  the  remainder of  his  life,  having his  residence in
Cambridge.    Of a modest  and  retiring  disposition,  he  had
no ambition to gain distinction by forensic eloquence  ; but de-
voted his attention to the business of  conveyancing,  a branch
in which he attained an honorable reputation ; and no man could
say that  he  had not well done  the part of a faithful servant.
AVithout pretension, without affectation or disguise, his numerous
and constantly increasing circle  of  friends were Avitnesses of his
simple  and well-spent Christian life.  Enemies  he had none.
His tastes were refined and cultivated ; and an ardent love of mu-
sic, in  Avhich he was a Avell-skilled  amateur, always afforded an
agreeable relaxation • to the routine of  daily toil.   He was a
zealous and faithful officer of the  church to which he belonged,
and took a deep interest in  all its concerns.   lie  took  no active
part  in politics, but faithfully served in the common-council of
Cambridge in  1853 and 1854.   He married, 2 December, 1851,
Susan  Cabot Foster, of Cambridge, and had two children, a son
and a daughter, who, with his widow, survived him. 
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205
   1846.—Dr. Edward  Mulliken  died in Montpelier, Vt.,
24 July, 1857, aged 30.   He was son of Dr. Isaac AV alter and
Alicia  (Shepard)  Alulliken,  and was  born in Stowe,  Mass.,
21 January, 1827, AA'here he resided until he was seven j^ears of
age, Avhen he removed with his father's  family to  Lowell.   He
resided  in LoAvell  two years,  when he  removed to AValtham,
where he passed the remainder of the time until he entered col-
lege, excepting one year when at school at Concord.  He Avas
fitted for college at the school of Rev. Samuel Ripley, of AVal-
tham (H.C. 1804).  He began the study of  medicine with Dr.
Daniel Adams, of Keene, N.H. (D.C.  1797), with Avhom, and
at Dartmouth, he remained  one  year.   The subsequent two
years he studied at the University of New York, where, in 1850,
he received his degree of M.D.  He was for some time the resi-
dent physician at the Bellevue Hospital in New-York City.   After
leaving New York, he practised his profession about two  years
in Alilford,  Alass., when  he removed  to AYaterbury, Vt., and
afterwards  to  Montpelier.   At AVaterbury,  he  formed an ac-
quaintance with Miss  Elizabeth Robbins, an  adopted daughter
of Gen. Robbins, to whom he Avas married a few months before
his death.  Having enjoyed advantages equal to any the country
afforded, he improved them to the best advantage; was tho-
roughly qualified  for  practice; and, had he  lived,  bid fair to
have attained to  an  eminent rank in his profession.   He was a
well-read scholar in general literature ;  of fine taste,  and gentle-
manly  in his habits and manners.   He had Avon for himself the
respect of all who kneAv him,  and his  early death was deeply
regretted by his friends  and the  community.
    1850.—John David Jones died  in  New  Orleans, La.,
30 November, 1857,  aged  27.  He was son of Jesse Rouble
and Rebecca (Ragan) Jones, and was born in Covington, La.,
21 April,  1830.   His father was born on a plantation near
Richmond, Va., in October, 1787.  An ancestor,  the original
emigrant to this country, came from Wales.   His mother, Avho
was daughter  of John and Susanna (Battelle) Ragan, was born
near Milledgeville, Ga., September, 1804.   John Ragan was
of  Irish origin,  and the name was formerly written (JRagan. 
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The first of the name settled in North Carolina.  The  subject
of this notice began to fit for college  at  home ;  and completed
his preparatory studies at an academy in Afandeville, La., under
Felix Alacmanus.   On leaving college, he  entered  the  law
department of the University  of Louisiana, where he  gradu-
ated in 1852, and, the same year, began  the practice of law in
the Eighth Judicial District of the State of Louisiana, which he
continued with success until his death.   His disease was yellow
jaundice.   He was unmarried.   He was a young gentleman of
upright character and generous disposition,  Avith a  promise
of a useful and honorable life.  The  information of his early
death Avas received with  surprise  and sorrow by his numerous
friends in  this part of the country.
   1854.—Frederick AV heeler died in Framingham, Mass.,
23 December, 1857, aged 25.   He was the only son of Increase
Sumner  (H.C.  1826)  and Elizabeth A.  AI.  AVheeler;  was
born in Framingham, 20 April,  1832 ;  and was fitted for college
at Phillips Exeter Academy.   On leaving college, he began the
study of law with Hon. Charles Russell Train (B.U.  1837),
with whom he  remained one year.   He  then entered the Law
School at  Cambridge, and received  his  degree  of bachelor of
laws  at  Commencement in 1857.    AVhile  engaged  in  hia
legal studies,  his health  became impaired, and in  February,
1857, he sailed for Port au Prince ; but, being wrecked on one
of the Bahama Islands, he abandoned the voyage, and returned
in Alarch.   A writer in  the " Christian Register " thus beauti-
fully sketches his  subsequent life to the closing scene :  " Disease
rapidly developed, and  assumed, finally,  one  of the  several
forms of consumption.  Every means Avhich medical skill or
maternal love could devise to alleviate his  pains was adopted;
and seldom has there been a more patient,  uncomplaining suf-
ferer.   It  was while waiting  to  pass for ever away  that the
 strength and beauty of his character were fully manifested.  In
his native town,  at Exeter, at  Cambridge, everyAvhere, he had
won the confidence of the persons Avith Avhom he mingled; and
those avIio knew  him  best loved him most.  His  air  of manli-
 ness  (as  manhood  came),  his  outspoken sincerity,  and his 
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regard for truth, ha\re commanded the respect of persons  even
whose opinions were  unlike  his own.  Friends, Avho had  care-
fully  noted  his moral and intellectual development,  had seen
that his sense of  honor and views of honesty were those of a
Christian gentleman ;  that he gave promise of becoming a dig-
nified and eloquent advocate ; that he would have borne to the
bar fertility  of  resource, keen insight,  quick  discrimination,
surpassing faithfulness to the interests of clients, and a judgment
uncommonly mature ; and that his  ambition to achieve distinc-
tion in politics Avas founded on a knowledge of the constitutional
and political history  of his  country : but all this was for life.
Alortal sickness and  the torture  of  mortal  pains came  upon
him.   Those who  ministered to his wants, saw him for death.
His preparation to depart! — who of those that witnessed it
Avill forget the spirit  in A\*hich, amid intense bodily suffering, it
was finished ?  If  the scenes of the last weeks of his  life may
not be related here, it is still to be  written, that, from  the hour
his pastor at his request gave him the bread and wine of  the
communion-supper until the  silver cord of mortality was gently
loosed  and  its golden  bowl was tenderly broken, his conversa-
tion Avas on heaven and on  the  concerns  of the soul.  He  did
indeed say  of the body, 'Let me  sleep,' — such are his  exact
words, —' let me  sleep in my own  native town, amid the scenes
of my childhood and  riper years, within the sound of  the music
of the bells which have so often summoned me to school and  to
church.  Let my  last resting-place be in some quiet spot in that
beautiful grove which  has  so often been, filled Avith my joyous
shout.   There, perhaps some friend who cherishes  my memory
will drop a flower on my grave.'  On the 26th of December, in
the first thick-falling  snoAv of winter, classmates laid his body
in the ' quiet spot' he had asked ;  and, as the sabbatlnsun arose,
Avomen avIio loved him Avent  to the  whitened mound, and placed
upon it a cross and  crowns and wreaths of evergreen.   And,
ere that sun  went down, there was  still another offering;  for
woman, too, had  dropped the expected 'flower.'" 
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   1787.—Rev.  Abiel Abbot  died in AVest  Cambridge,
Alass., 31 January, 1859, aged 93.   He had been for-several
years the only survivor  of his class;  and,  at the  time of his
death, Avas  the oldest surviving graduate  of  Harvard College.
He was the son of Deacon Abiel and  Dorcas  (Abbot)  Abbot,
and was born  in AVilton, N.H., 14 December, 1765.   He was
a descendant of the sixth generation of George Abbot, the first
of the name Avho settled in this  country.  His father was a
highly respectable man,  Avas a zealous patriot,  and major  of
a  regiment during the  Revolution ;  and, though  originally a
cooper by trade, he was chiefly occupied in farming.   He was
remarkable for industry, equanimity,  integrity,  public spirit,
and beneArolence.   Air. Abbot was the eldest of twelve children,
two of Avhom  died in  infancy.  Three of the sons graduated
at Harvard College, — Abiel, the subject of this sketch : Jacob,
born 7 January,  1768;  graduated in 1792;  was  ordained  at
Hampton Falls, N.H.,  15  August, 1798; resigned in 1827;
afterwards removed to AVindham, N.H., where he was drowned
in a pond, 2 November, 1834, while returning from divine ser-
vice:  Samuel, born 3 Alarch, 1786; graduated in 1808;  studied
law;  practised for several years in  Dunstable, N.H., and Ips-
wich, Alass. ; retired from the bar in 1818 ; removed to AVilton,
and  engaged with his brother in  the  manufacture of  potato-
starch on a large scale; and on the 2d of January, 1839, Avas
burnt to death in a starch-mill, which he had  been instrumental
in establishing, in Jaffray, N.H.
   Air. Abbot's advantages of education in his earliest years Avere
very small; being taught chiefly by untaught teachers.  AVhen he
was fourteen years old, he began to study Latin under the  instruc-
tion of Rev. Abel Fiske, of Wilton (H.C. 1774). ' In Novem- 
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ber, 1780, he was admitted to Phillips Academy, in Andover,
under the  preceptorship  of Air. (afterwards Rev.) Eliphalet
Pearson (H.C. 1773), where he remained until  July,  1783,
VArhen  he  entered college.   A few months after graduating, he
Avas appointed  assistant of  Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton  (N.J.
1765),  the  principal  of  Phillips  Academy;  Avhere   he re-
mained  until July, 1789,  on  a salary of sixteen  shillings per
week.   Immediately  on leaving the  academy, he  began the
study of theology.  He remained at Andover, and  prosecuted  /
his studies chiefly by himself, with  the aid  of books from the
library of the Rev. Jonathan French (H.C. 1771), and also
from the town library.   In June, 1790, he was approbated by
the Andover Association as a candidate  for the ministry, and
preached for  the first time at Amesbury,  Mass.  After preach-
ing successively at Kensington,  N.H.,  Gardner, Mass., and
Cambridge, he Avas employed, in June, 1791, as a missionary in
the district of Alaine, in connection with Rev. Daniel Little,
known as "the Apostle of  the  East," under the  patronage of
the Society for Propagating the Gospel.   He continued in mis-
sionary labor for five months ; and, notwithstanding the  priva-
tions  and  sacrifices incident to that  kind  of work, his time
generally passed very pleasantly.  After completing his  mission-
ary tour, he preached, in 1792, in several places, as in Nelson,
Greenfield, and Peterborough, N.H. ; but in none of them were
the people prepared for a  settlement.  In February, 1793, he
preached at Middleton, Mass.   In  April, went to Penobscot,
and preached there and at Castine until  November.  He was
invited  to settle  in  Castine,  but declined  the  invitation.  In
December, he preached  for a  feAv Sundays  in AVest Newbury,
after  the  removal of  Rev. David Tappan  (H.C. 1771) to
be Professor of Divinity  in Harvard College.   In January,
1794, he was appointed tutor in Greek at Cambridge, where he
remained one year,  preaching occasionally for the neighboring
clergy, and also supplying  the pulpit in Newbury and  Maiden.
In January,  1795, he went to Coventry, Conn., on  an invita-
tion to  preach  there as  a candidate.   He officiated eight Sun-
days,  and was requested to  return, but  declined, as  he concluded
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that the prevailing theological vicAvs Avere much more Calvinistic
than his own, and that he should probably find little  sympathy
if he Avere to become associated Avith  them.   In Alay,  1795, he
preached for several Sundays in Alilford, X.H.  In June, at the
urgent request of the people of Coventry, he returned to that
place to  preach  as a candidate.  In August, he received  an
unanimous call of the church and society to become their pastor.
After considerable  hesitation,  from  an  apprehension that his
vieAvs Avere not  sufficiently in accordance  Avith  those of his
brethren around  to Avarrant the expectation of so peaceable a
ministry as he desired, he accepted the invitation,  and was
ordained 28 October, 1795.  There he  labored faithfully, and
with a good degree of acceptance, until about 1806, when some
suspicions in regard to his Orthodoxy began to  be excited, and
several members felt themselves called upon  to  interrogate him
directly upon the subject.   The result was, that their suspicions
were confirmed, and things  were forthwith put  in  train for his
ultimate separation  from his charge;  but no  effective measures
Avere  taken until  1809, when a meeting of  the church was
called, at  which Air. Abbot  was invited  to be present, for the
purpose of ascertaining  his peculiar  views, and  the  points  of
difference between  them.   But it  resulted in nothing that Avas
satisfactory.   In June,  1810, there was  another  similar meet-
ing,  and  the  result was alike unsatisfactory.  Finally, on the
16th of April, 1811, a  convocation  of his  old neighbors and
friends (the pastors and  messengers of Tolland county) assem-
bled, and, with great unanimity, solemnly decreed that he had
forfeited  both  his parish and  office;  and that he Avas severed
from his people, and deposed from the ministry.   He  had  com-
mitted the old Protestant sin of regarding the Scriptures as the
only standard of faith, and refusing to express his religious sen-
timents in the manner prescribed by men.  Being subjected  to
scrutiny, he was found upon certain difficult points to  differ  in
opinion  from  a portion of his  society,  including chiefly the
church,  as distinct from the  congregation.  He Avould  not  take
the words set down for him.  He would not stretch to the full
length of the  procrustean bed  on which  he was laid.  Neither 
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Air.  Abbot nor  the parish  acknowledged the validity of the
sentence,  or the jurisdiction  of the court;  and accordingly he
continued to occupy the pulpit as usual,  though  he and they
soon afterwards joined in calling another council from  Alassa-
chusetts,  Avhich assembled on the 6th  of June folloAving,  re-
A'iewed the whole case, and declared Air. Abbot's relation to his
people unaffected by the decision of the consociation: never-
theless, in view of the peculiar circumstances, they concluded
that his interests, and the interests of the  parish, required  that
his pastoral relation should be dissolved.  In August folloAving,
Air. Abbot published a statement of his difficulties at Coventry,
which Avas subsequently replied to by the Association of Tolland
county, in a pamphlet said to have been  written  by Dr.  Bas-
sett, of  Hebron.    The  General Association of  Connecticut,
Avhich assembled in June, took notice  of the matter, by request
of the Tolland Association, and made a report on the subject, of
considerable length.
   About  the  1st  of September, Air. Abbot left Coventry,
went to Byfield, Alass., and took charge of Dummer Academy.
Here  he continued seven years and  a  half.   In April, 1819,
removed to North AndoA'er,  and settled on  a farm, which he
superintended for some time.  In May, 1<S24, he remoA'ed  to
Chelmsford, where  he and his daughter Sarah had  a school.
After remaining there two years and a half, he left in the autumn
of 1826,  and removed to AVilton.  During his residence at By-
field, Andover, and Chelmsford, he often supplied for the neigh-
boring ministers, and occupied the pulpit of  North Andover for
several months in succession.   AVhile  at AVilton he lived on his
farm, and superintended it.   In Alarch, 1827, he went to preach
at Peterborough, in  the  pulpit rendered vacant  by the recent
dismission of the Rev. Elijah Dunbar (H.C. 1794).  About
the first of Alay he received a call, Avhich he  accepted, and Avas
installed 27 June.  Here he continued to discharge regularly the
duties of his office  until Alarch,  1839 ;  Avhen, on  account of a
bronchial affection, he found it necessary to retire from the active
duties of  the ministry.  He,  hoAvever, retained a  nominal rela-
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of a new pastor, he thought best, from considerations of deli-
cacy, not to retain any longer even a nominal pastoral  relation.
For some years after he ceased to preach regularly, he occasion-
ally supplied pulpits in the neighborhood, though for several of
the last years he did not undertake any public service.  About
four  years before his  death, he left  Peterborough, and resided
with his  grandson, Rev. Samuel Abbot Smith (H.C. 1849), in
AVest Cambridge.
   He married, 19 Alay,  1796, Elizabeth Abbot,  daughter of
Capt. John  and Abigail Abbot, of Andover, by whom he  had
three children, all daughters : 1, Elizabeth, born 22  May, 1798 ;
married,  1822, Rev. John Abbot Douglass,  of AVaterford, Me.
(Bowd. C. 1814); died 12 October,  1823.   2. Abigail, born 17
October,  1799, who  survived  her  father.  3. Sarah  Dorcas,
born  22  June,  1801 ;  married,  1828, Samuel G.  Smith, of
Peterborough, Avho died 9 September, 1842, aged  43.    She
died 11 June,  1831.  Dr. Abbot's wife died 6 April, 1853.
   Dr. Abbot Avas a man  gifted with fine talents, Avas an able
writer, and  a  very popular  preacher.  In 1838, the honorary
degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by  Harvard
College.   His  domestic life was  most happy and  affectionate,
and he pursued the even tenor of his Avay in all modesty, gentle-
ness, and meekness.   But the noble and heroic elements were
also largely  developed in his  character.   He  lived a life of un-
sullied integrity, extended  far beyond the usual period allotted
to man;  and at last departed to receive the reward  of a good
and faithful  servant.
   The following is a list of  Dr. Abbot's  publications: 1. A
Sermon at North Chelmsford, 4 July, 1825 ;  2. Right Hand of
Fellowship at Canterbury ; 3. Statement of the Coventry Case ;
4. Address before the Essex Agricultural Society ; 5.  History of
Andover; 6. Genealogy of the Abbot Family.
   1788.—Dr. AVilliam Sawyer  died in Boston, 18 April,
1859, aged 88.  He Avas the last  survivor of his class, and after
the death of Rev. Abiel Abbot,  D.D., mentioned  above,  was
the oldest surviving graduate of  the college.   He was son of
Dr. Aiicajah (H.C. 1756) and Sybil (Farnham)  Sawyer,  and 
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Avas  born in Newburyport, Mass.,  1 February,  1771.   His
father, Avho was an  eminent physician, was  born in  Newbury,
15 July, 1737 ; and died 29 September, 1815, at the age of 78
years.   His mother was daughter  of Daniel Farnham,  Esq.
(H.C. 1739), a highly respectable lawyer in Newburyport, who
was a native of York, Ale., and died Alay, 1776,  aged 56.   Dr.
SaAvyer was fitted for college at Dummer Academy, in Newbury.
After graduating, he studied  medicine  with his  father,  and
practised for a feAv years ; but, finding the profession not suited
to his  taste, he relinquished it;  and near the close  of the last
century he removed to Boston, where he engaged in  mercantile
business, having formed a  copartnership Avith the late  Thomas
WigglesAvorth (H.C. 1793),  under  the  firm of Sawyer  and
AViggles worth, at No. 69, Long AVharf.   This partnership was
dissolved about six years afterwards.   Dr. Sawyer continued in
business  by  himself at the same  place a  short time, and then
went to Europe, Avhere he resided several years.  He returned
to Boston about  1817, and  resumed business.   He was very
successful, and acquired an ample  fortune.  He retired  from
active  business about twenty-five years  before  his death, and
passed the last years of his life almost constantly in reading:
and the kind of reading that occupied him was really surprising ;
that is to  say, it Avas hard reading,  for an  invalid.  He  espe-
cially delighted in works on astronomy ; and he talked more on
that than on almost any other subject.  Newton's Life, Sir John
Herschel's and Prof. Nicol's  AVorks, were  on his table;  and
Hume's too, which he was  reading  through,  But, in alluding
to Hume's, he said, "AVhen I came  to the part  on miracles, I
passed it ov«r, thinking I had no more faith than I wanted."  A
friend carried to him Evelyn's  Diary, as  an  amusing book for
an invalid.  The next time this friend saw him, he said, "Is  it
not remarkable that Evelyn should not have  said a word about
Sir Isaac Newton,  living at  the  same time?"  And then  he
talked  at  length of  Newton, and ended with saying, what he
often said, "He was  the greatest man that has ever lived  since
Jesus Christ."  Dr.  Sawyer was a man of great  modesty, of a
sensitive delicacy  of nature,  and, from these causes, very re- 
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served.   But his tenderness and disinterestedness  in more inti-
mate relations Avere well knoAvn to  those  nearest him.  Yet  he
shrank from any praise or expressions of gratitude which Avere
offered to him ; saying, "Let that matter rest."   He Avas never
married.
   1794.—Rev. Isaac  Braman  died in Georgetown, Alass.,
26 December, 1858, aged 88.  He Avas  son of  Sylvanus and
Experience  (Blanchard)  Braman, and  Avas  born  in  Norton,
Alass., 5 July, 1770.   He Avas fitted for college by Dr. Samuel
Morcy,  of Norton (Y.C.  1777),  and  Mr.  Stephen Palmer
(H.C. 1789), afterAvards  minister of Needham, Alass.   He
graduated Avith high honors ;  and, for several years before his
death, he Avas the only smwivor of his  class.   After leaving col-
lege, he  studied for the  ministry \a ith Rev.  Jason Haven,  of
Dedham, Mass.  (H.C. 1754), and Rev. Pitt Clark, of Norton
(H.C. 1790).   He was  ordained, 7  June, 1797, pastor of the
Second Parish in Rowley,  then called New RoAvley, and  since
incorporated into a toAvn by the name  of GeorgetoAvn.   He Avas
successor of Rev.  James Chandler (H.C. 1728), who died  19
April, 1789, at the age of 83 years, and in the 58th year of his
ministry.   The parish was  without a settled minister  for nine
vears, and  Air.  Braman  was the last of sixty-four  candidates
avIio preached there on probation.   He continued pastor of this
society until his death, — a period of more than sixty-one years,
— discharging the duties of his profession Avith great fidelity, and
to the entire  acceptance  of his  people,  until 1842 ; Avhen,  on
account of  the infirmities  of age,  it was deemed necessary that
he should be relieved from a portion of his labors ; and, in De-
cember  of  that year,  the Rev. Enoch Pond (Bowd. C. 1838)
was ordained as  colleague-pastor with him.   Air. Pond died in
1846 ;  and in February, 1847, Rev. John Aloore Prince (Bowd.
C. 1841) Avas ordained as his  successor, and continued until No-
vember,  1857, when he resigned.   His last colleague and suc-
cessor is  Rev. Charles Beecher (Bowd. C. 1834).
   Air. Braman  was a man of great originality of mind, and his
sermons  evinced  deep thought and  profound reflection.   He
married, August, 1797, Hannah Palmer (born 12 June, 1773), 
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youngest daughter  of Rev.  Joseph Palmer, of Norton (H.C.
1747).   They had five children:  viz., 1. Harriet,  born'17
July, 1798; married Rev. John Boardman  (D.C. 1817), min-
ister in  Douglass, Alass.   2. Alilton Palmer, born 6 August,
1799 (H.C. 1819); noAV minister of the First Church in Dan-
vers,  Mass.   3.  James  Chandler,  born 29 September, 1801;
died, at sea  (on his passage from Calcutta forSalem, seventy-five
days  out),  5  December, 1820.   4.  Adeline,  born 10 July,
1805 ; died 10  September,  1830.   5. Isaac  Gordon, born
12 Alarch,  1813 ; is a physician in Brighton, Mass.   Mr. Bra-
man's wife  died 14 August, 1835, aged 62 ; and he married for
his second Avife, in 1837, Sarah Balch, daughter of John Balch,
Esq., of NeAvburyport.   She survived him.
   1795.—Francis  Johonnot  Oliver died in Middletown,
Conn.,  21  August, 1858,  aged  80 years.   He was  son  of
Ebenezer and Susannah (Johonnot) Oliver, and was  born  in
Boston, 10 October, 1777.   His father Avas a merchant in Bos-
ton,  was for many years a selectman, and Avas Avarden of King's
Chapel.  He  died 14 December,  1826,  aged 74.   His mother
died 24 August,  1839,  aged 84.  Air. Oliver was fitted for
college at the public Latin School in Boston.  After leaving col-
lege,  he entered as an  apprentice the counting-room of Joseph
Coolidge, Esq., for the  purpose  of qualifying himself for the
mercantile  profession.   In 1798, Avhen  a war was threatened
betAveen this country and France, he Avas among the young men
of Boston who addressed the elder Adams, offering their services.
He  read the president's response  in Faneuil Hall, and Avas the
first  to follow the injunctions of the president: "To arms, then,
my  young friends ; to  arms ! "  About the same time, the Boston
Light-Infantry Company AAas organized, in which he took a
prominent  part, and Avas elected  the first ensign.  He began
business in  Boston as a merchant in 1805, and established him-
self at No.  45, Long AVharf.   In 1813,  he entered into copart-
nership with Cornelius Coolidge (H.C. 1798), under the style of
Cornelius Coolidge and Co.   This  partnership Avas dissolved four
years afterAvards.   On  the  13th of June, 1818, the  American
Insurance  Company,  in Boston,  was  incorporated,  and  Mr. 
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Oliver Avas elected its first president.   This office he continued
to hold until the autumn of  1835, when he resigned it, and was
elected president of the City Bank, Avhere he continued by suc-
cessive re-elections until 1840 ; Avhen he removed to Aliddletown,
and  there passed the remainder of his life.   He Avas elected a
representative to  the legislature in 1822 and  1823 ;  and Avas
a member of the Boston common-council in 1823, 1824,  1825,
and  1828, and was its president in 1824 and 1825.   In all these
stations,  he discharged  their various duties with  the strictest
fidelity and  integrity.   In  his  political  principles,  he  was  an
ardent federalist;  and  being  a gentleman of fine personal ap-
pearance, great suavity of  manner, and fluency of speech,  he
was  often called upon to preside at  public meetings and political
caucuses.
   He married (first) Alary Caroline, daughter of Richard Alsop,
of MiddletoAvn ; and had issue : Mary Caroline, Avho died in in-
fancy ; Francis Eben, Avho  entered Harvard College, but left
in his senior year on account of  his health,  and died in London,
May, 1850, in his 37th year;  Mary Alsop, who married Joseph
AV. Alsop, merchant of New York ; Richard Alsop, Avho died in
infancy;  and  Susan Heard.  His  wife died  29 August, 1819,
aged 28 ; and he married (second)  Mary Charlotte, daughter of
Ebenezer Jackson, of MiddletoAvn (formerly of Newton, Alass.),
by whom he had Caroline Alsop and George  Stuart Johonnot:
the latter graduated at Harvard College in 1851.
   Air. Oliver was a gentleman of unblemished  moral character,
and was  for many years a warden of King's Chapel in Boston.
   1796. — Rev. James Kendall died in  Plymouth, Alass.,
17 March,  1859,  aged 89.   He was the youngest son of Alajor
James and Elizabeth (Alason) Kendall, and was born in  Ster-
ling, Alass., 3 November, 1769.   His mother  was a native of
Lexington, Alass.   In some reminiscences of his OAvn life, writ-
ten at the  age of 84, he describes her as " a sensible and pious
woman,  of  a  strong mind, and a kind and generous  heart;
discreet and faithful in the discharge of all the relative duties of
life:" and adds, that  "her children  Avere greatly  indebted to
her for their youthful training, and  their early religious impres- 
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sions."   He pursued his preparatory studies under the instruc-
tion of Rev. Reuben Ilolcomb (Y.C. 1774), of Sterling; and
was nearly fitted to enter  college at the age  of  14 :  but an
affection of his eyes, caused by a too close application to the
study of Greek in the evening, obliged him, for seAreral  years,
to  give up the hope  of obtaining a liberal education.  From
that time  until the age of 21, he  worked upon his  father's farm
in  the summer;  and, Avhen old enough,  taught school in the
•winter.  During that period, in which he Avas accumulating a
capital  of  physical health to  secure a  life of such remarkable
vigor, even to  his ninetieth  year,  his  eyes  recovered  their
strength;  and, gladly returning.to his studies, he was  prepared
to  enter college  in 1792.   In his collegiate course, he defrayed
a large portion of his expenses by his own exertions, by teach-
ing school  in A'acation, and by other services in term-time.  In
his reminiscences,  he says, "It is  some  satisfaction to me, in
looking back to this  period of my life as an undergraduate, to
remember  that I had no mark for delinquency in  college exer-
cises, unnecessary absences, or any  misdemeanor."  He  held a
high rank as a scholar, and graduated with the second honors
of  his class ; the late Dr. Leonard AVoods, of Andover, having
the first.   Immediately after leaving college, he was  appointed
assistant teacher in  Phillips Academy at Andover, of which
Air. Alark 'NeAvman  (D. C.  1793) was  then the  principal.
Here he passed two years ;  at the  same time pursuing his  theo-
logical  studies  under the  direction  of Rev. David  Tappan,
D.D.  (H.C.  1771), then Professor of  Divinity in  Harvard
College, and Rev.  Jonathan French (H.C. 1771), minister of
the Second Church in Andover.   He was approbated  to preach
by  the  Andover Association  in  1798.  In that year, he was
appointed  tutor in Greek in the college, and removed to Cam-
bridge,  where he still continued his theological  studies with the
advice and  aid of Dr. Tappan.   He resigned his  tutorship in
1799.   During his  residence in Andover,  he  had occasionally
preached there and in the  vicinity.   AVhile he lived  in Cam-
bridge,  he  preached more  frequently;  and  for a short time
supplied the pulpit  of the First Church in Boston, and the First
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Church in Quincy.   He first preached at Plymouth  on the
second Sunday in October,  1799 ;  and, having preached for
four Sundays, on the 4th of November,  1799,  he Avas invited to
become the minister  of that  ancient parish.   His answer of
acceptance Avas given on Thanksgiving-Day of that year;  and
he was ordained 1 January,  1800.  He  was the sole pastor of
the society  for thirty-eight years.   On the  3d of January,
1838, the infirmities of age having begun  to  come upon him,
the Rev.  George AVare Briggs (B.U. 1825)  was ordained as
his colleague;  where he continued until 15 December, 1852.
Rev. Henry LeAvis Myrick was his colleague from 21  Septem-
ber,  1853, to 21 September, 1854 ; and Rev. George S. Ball
from  8 April, 1855, to 8 April,  1857.  On  the  5th  of Jan-
uary, 1859, Rev. Edward Henry Hall (H.C. 1851)  was or-
dained as  his colleague, and is now sole pastor of the  society.
After the settlement of a colleague, Dr. Kendall preached fre-
quently, for a number of years, in his OAvn pupit;  in the pulpits
of those with whom he was accustomed to exchange;  and in
comparatively distant places, during several journeys into vari-
ous parts  of the country.  He preached  his semi-centennial ser-
mon, 3 January,  1850.  He never took a  formal leave  of the
pulpit, and never wished to bid it farewell.   He preached for
the last time on Thanksgiving-Day, November, 1857.  One of
his last public  services was at the ordination of his associate
minister  on the 5th of January, 1859.   He stood in his pulpit
again to offer a fervent prayer  at the  close  of the first  services
of the same  pastor on Sunday, 9 January; and yet once more
to take the same part at the close  of service, Sunday, 17 Janu-
ary ;  and then his  public ministry was ended.  He was con-
nected with his parish nearly  twenty years  longer than any of
his predecessors.   He  was  a  man of peace,  order, integrity,
faith, and devotion.  It is  one of the  strongest  proofs  of his
true  piety, that during a period of more than fifty years, when
children have been born around him to groAv up to mature age,
and in their turn to be surrounded by  children and grandchil-
dren, amongst them all, no one was known  to  have breathed a
word derogatory to him as a Christian or a  man.   Genial  and 
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cheerful, he  enjoyed  every bright  hour :  humble  and trustful
toAvard his God, he met submissively the  discipline of sorrows.
His experiences were  the varied ones of the  lot of humanity;
and he accepted and used them with the conscientious purpose
to be obedient to the truth,  and loyal  to  duty.   Many have
seen him in  his hospitable home;   many have seen him in the
street, moving with the steady step  of a true man ;  many have
seen him  at  their firesides, as the visitor, the adviser, and con-
soler ; many  have seen him in the  church,  and listened  to his
honest discourse, and  his prayers  of  singular richness  and
fervor :  and,  of all these, many will hold him in remembrance
as one they trusted, and affectionately revered.  In  1825, the
honorary degree of doctor of divinity was conferred  upon him
by  Harvard  College.   He married, first,  June, 1800,  Sarah
Poor, daughter of Deacon Daniel Poor, of Andover,  by whom
he had six children;  of whom one died  at birth, another at the
age  of thirteen days, and another  at three years  of  age :  the
remaining three  survived him.   She  died  13 February, 1809,
in  the  thirty-third year of  her  age.   He  married, second,
17 June, 1810, Sally Kendall, daughter of Deacon Paul Ken-
dall,  of  Templeton,  Mass., Avho also was the mother of six
children, five of  whom survived him : the  other died at Madi-
son,  AVis.,  9 Alarch,  1853,  in  the thirty-fifth  year of his
age.  She died 5  February, 1845,  at the age of 65.   She was
a very intelligent person, — of great strength and  loveliness  of
character.  In his reminiscences,  Dr. Kendall  says,  "I have
been  singularly favored in my domestic relationships.   Although
not  exempt from the  trials  and changes to which every man  of
my age, and  at the head of a large family,  is destined in an
earthly life, I cannot  be sufficiently thankful  to the  Father  of
an  infinite mercy for  the comfort,  satisfaction,  and consolation
I have  enjoyed  during the whole period of my connection with
a family."   His first wife he describes as " a person of an amia-
ble disposition, faithful  and affectionate as a Avife, and  tender
and devoted as a mother."   Of his last wife he says, " She was
a person  of  great discretion, sound judgment,  and of a pure
and pious mind.   Like her Divine  Master,  she Avas made perfect 
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through suffering."  The folloAving is  a list  of Dr. Kendall's
publications, Avith the dates of their delivery :  1. Discourse upon
the Character  of AVashington, deliA'ered at the request of the
ToAvn of Plymouth,  22 February, 1800.   2.  Sermon on the
Death of Airs. Jane Robbins, 21 September, 1800.   3. Sermon
on  the Death of Col. George AVatson, 14  December,  1800.
4.  Sermon on the Death of Rev. David Tappan, D.D., 4 Sep-
tember, 1803.   5.  Sermon  at the Ordination  of  Rev. Caleb
Holmes, at Dennis, 2 January,  1805.   6. Sermon before the
Ancient and Honorable  Artillery Company,  2 June,  1806.
7. Sermon before the Society for propagating the Gospel among
the Indians, 7 November, 1811.   8.  Sermon before the Hu-
mane Society, 8  June, 1813.  9.  Sermon  at  the Ordination
of Rev. Oliver Haywood at Barnstable,  8 November,  1815.
10.  Sermon in the "Liberal Preacher" for  Alarch, 1828, on
Alan's Accountableness to his Creator,  and a Future Retribu-
tion.  11.  Sermon at the Ordination of Rev. Hersey B. Good-
win, at Concord,  Alass., 17 February,  1830.   12.  Sermon at
the Ordination of his Son, Rev. James A. Kendall, at Aled-
field, Alass., 10 November, 1830.   13. Charge at  the Ordina-
tion of Rev.  Chandler Robbins  as  Afinister of  the Second
Church, Boston,  4  December, 1833.    14.  Sermon on the
AVreck of the Brig "Regulator," 14 February, 1836.  15.  Semi- f
centennial Sermon, 1 January, 1850.
    1799.—Parker  Cleaveland died in  Brunswick,  Ale.,
15  October, 1858, aged 78.   He was  son of Dr.  Parker and
Elizabeth  (Jackman)  Cleaveland, and  was   born  in Rowley
(Byfield Parish), Mass.,  15  January,  1780.   His father was
son of Rev. John Cleaveland, and Avas born in Chebacco, parish
of Ipswich, Avhich is now  the tOAvn of Essex, Alass.   Rev.  John
Cleaveland entered Yale College; and, when in his  senior  year,
he was, with another, expelled for embracing the doctrine of the
" New Lights."   Prof. Cleaveland's father was fitted for col-
lege ; but the Avar broke out, and he relinquished his intention
of obtaining a collegiate education, studied medicine, became  a
surgeon in the revolutionary army, and was stationed at Cam-
bridge.   Prof. Cleaveland was fitted for  college  at Dummer 
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Academy, in NeAA'bury, Alass., under Rev. Isaac  Smith (H.C.
1767).   He taught school in Boxford, Alass., in his sophomore
year,  and in Burlington or Wilmington, Alass.,  in his junior
year.   Immediately after his graduation, he entered, as a  law
student, the office of Ichabod Tucker, of Haverhill, Alass. (H.C.
1791),  Avhere he remained  one  year.   In  the middle of the
year 1800, he began teaching a  school at York, Ale. ; and, at
the same time, Avas clerk in the office  of Daniel Sewall, Esq.,
the  clerk  of  the Supreme Court;   was  with  him  at  the
courts,  and continued  the  study of law.   Here he remained
until  the autumn of 1803 ; when he  was  appointed  tutor in
mathematics at Harvard College,  which office he held until Com-
mencement in  1805, Avhen  he resigned  it  in  consequence of
having received an invitation to fill a professorship in BoAvdoin
College,  which he accepted;  and he Avas installed, 23  October,
1805, as professor of mathematics and natural  philosophy; the
college then having been in operation but  a  single year.  The
duties of this professorship, together with  those of lecturer  on
chemistry and  mineralogy,  he  discharged  Avith  distinguished
ability until 1828, Avhen it  Avas  deemed expedient to  separate
the departments  of mathematics and  natural  philosophy,  and
establish a distinct professorship  of chemistry and mineralogy.
Air. AVilliam Smyth, the distinguished professor of mathematics,
was raised to that department, and Air.  Cleaveland Avas installed
in the new professorship of chemistry, mineralogy, and natural
philosophy.   This position he occupied until his death, having
acquired a world-wide reputation, and a success seldom attained
by a scientific instructor.  He was thus connected with the col-
lege for  a period of fifty-three years, during AA'hich he devoted
the Avhole powers of his mind and the energy of his body to the
advancement of his favorite  studies ; and no man in the country
has done more to inspire a  passion and create  an interest  and
knowledge of the details of  the sciences Avhich  he taught.   He
spent six hours a day in his laboratory, recitation and lecture
room, and was frequently engaged for sixteen of the twenty-four
hours.   The college never  bought any  minerals.  James Bow-
doin gave about five hundred specimens :  the rest have  been 
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collected either by Prof. Cleaveland's personal labor, or by the
exchange of specimens which he obtained, and they uoav amount
to upAvards of seven thousand.  He became Avidely knoAvn in
the United States,  in  Great Britain, and  on the continent of
Europe, by his great Avork on mineralogy  and geology, Avhich
he published in 1816, in  one volume,  and  in 1822,  a second
edition, in  two volumes.   He had  contemplated publishing  a
third edition;  but his eyesight, Avhich  had  failed by incessant
application, deprived him of the honor, and the world of the ben-
efit, of his increased learning and experience from the proposed
work.   His high reputation as a lecturer  is  spread all over the
country by  a  succession of graduates  of the college, avIio will
transmit the praise  of  his learning and eloquence, and will rise
up with one accord, and bless his name and memory.
   On the 9th of August,  1809, Air. Cleaveland was elected  a
member of the American Academy of Arts  and Sciences; on
the 9th of September, 1814,  a  corresponding  member of the
Academy of National Sciences at Philadelphia;  on  the 17th of
April,  1818, a member of the American Philosophical Society
at Philadelphia; on the 10th of November, the  same year, an
honorary member of the Literary and Philosophical  Society of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; on the 30th  of January, 1819, an hono-
ary member of the  Mineralogical  Society at Jena;  on the 4th
of October,  the same year, an honorary member of  the Miner-
alogical Society of  Dresden ;  on the 26th of April, 1823,  a
member of the Society of Natural  Science at  Halle,  in  Ger-
many; on the 16th of December of the  same year,  a  member
of the  Alineralogical  Society of St. Petersburg; on  the  11th
of June,  1834,  an honorary  member  of the  Literary and
Historical  Society at  Quebec.  He  was also a fellow  of the
AVernerian Society at Edinburgh, and the Geological Society of
London; and  was for many years  the corresponding  secretary
of the Alaine Historical Society.  In 1824,  the honorary degree
of doctor  of laws was  conferred upon him by BoAvdoin Col-
lege.
   Air.  Cleaveland  married,  9  September,  1806,  Martha,
daughter of Levi and Martha (Ball) Bush, of Boston, she 
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being then but nineteen years old;  and they had issue :  First,
Aloses Parker, born 6 July,  1807 (Bowd. C. 1827) ; married,
21 October,  1834, Alartha  Richardson,  of Duxbury,  Alass.,
and  settled as a  physician in  Natick, Alass.,  Avhere he died
7 October,  1840.   Second, James  BoAvdoin, born 17 January,
1809 (BoAA'd. C. 1828) ; settled as a lawyer at Passadumkeag,
Ale. ; married, 13  Alarch,  1834,  Lucinda P.  AlcKinney, of
Gray, Ale.  ; and died in 1854.  Third, George, born 22 Sep-
tember, 1810; and died 11 Alay, 1811.   Fourth, Alartha Ann
Bush, born 16 July, 1812  ;  married,  30 November,  1837,
Hon. Peleg AV hitman Chandler, of Boston (BoAvd. C.  1834).
Fifth, Elizabeth Abigail, born 4  September, 1814; married,
16 November, 1847, George AV. AVoodhouse, of Dover, N.H.
Sixth, Alary  Ackley, born  27 September, 1816.   Seventh,
John Appleton, born 29 Alarch,  1819 (Bowd.  C. 1840) ;
married, 31 December, 1844, Catharine Alexander, of Bruns-
wick.  Eighth, Nathan Smith (BoAvd. C. 1840), is a druggist
in BrunsAvick.
   In private life, Professor CleaAreland Avas universally respected
for his unblemished moral character, his genial and affable dis-
position as  a  husband, a father, and a friend, and as a public-
spirited and generous citizen.   His Avife died about 1852.
   1802.—Solomon Kidder Livermore died  in Alilford,
N.H., 10 July, 1859, aged  80.   He was the youngest  son of
Rev. Jonathan (H.C.  1760)  and Elizabeth (Kidder) Livermore,
and Avas born in AVilton, N.H., 2  Alarch, 1779.  His father
was born in Northborough, Mass.,  7 December,  1739 ; was or-
dained at AVilton, 14 December,  1768;  resigned  his pastoral
relation, February, 1777 ; and died in AVilton, 20 July, 1809,
aged  69.   His mother was  a native of Billerica, Alass.   Air.
Livermore  Avas fitted for college at Air. Pemberton's academy in
Billerica, and entered the sophomore class in 1799.   He grad-
uated with  a high reputation  for scholarship  in a  class  famed for
eminent talent.  After leaving college, he taught the  grammar-
school in Cambridge for one  season.  Having chosen the pro-
fession of law, he pursued his preparatory studies in  the office
of Oliver Crosby, Esq., of  Dover, N.H. (H.C. 1795).  On 
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 his admission to the bar, he opened an office in Dover, Avhere he
 practised for a short time ; but, in 1807, he removed to Alilford,
 Avhere he resided during the  remainder  of his life, pursuing the
 practice of the profession until he attained the age of 70 years,
 Avhen he relinquished it, although he continued to transact busi-
 ness relating to the settlement of estates for his neighbors until
 near the end of his life.  He Avas  held in high estimation by the
 citizens of the town Avhere he passed so large a portion of his life,
 who all regarded him as an honest man, and a sincere, devoted
 Christian, whom no temptation, no motives of self-interest, could
 turn  from the straightforward  path of duty.   In  the whole
 course of his long life, not a stain dimmed the pure lustre of his
 character for integrity.  Having no ambition for political office or
 power, his extensive attainments did not achieve so Avide a reputa-
 tion as they might have won.   Except when the merited confi-
 dence of his townsmen selected him to represent them in the state
 legislature, he uniformly declined to become a candidate for office ;
 and yet no man was more strongly sensible of the grave duties
 of an American citizen than he.   He was a devoted  student  of
 the Bible ; and its pure precepts seemed to have stamped their
 own beauty upon his  life, his thoughts, and his  conduct.   Far
 more anxious to promote the good of others than his own interest,
 he  always endeavored to  bring  to an amicable adjustment the
 controversies among his neighbors.  No one had a more generous
 heart or a more open home than he ;  and neither his benevolence
 nor his public spirit was ever  appealed  to  in vain.   His death
 was in harmony with his  life.  In the  calm, still beauty of a
 bright summer's Sunday, in the quiet of his home, with its famil-
 iar  and beloved objects and  associations, the hymn  of  divine
 praise  scarcely cold upon his aged lips, his life gently ebbed
 away,  and his soul went forth  to meet its Maker.*
   He married, 6 July, 1810, Abigail Adkins, youngest daugh-
ter  of Nathaniel  Jarvis,  of  Cambridge.   She  survived him.
 The offspring of this union Avere four sons  and four daughters;
 of Avhom  two—the  eldest son and daughter — died  early, two
— the  next  oldest  son and  youngest  daughter — died  after
 attaining  maturity,  and four  survived their father. 
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225
    1802. —Rev. Ichabod Nichols died in Cambridge, Mass.,
 2 January, 1859, aged 74.  He was  the fourth son  of Capt.
 Ichabod and Lydia (Ropes) Nichols, of  Salem, Mass., and was
 born in Portsmouth, N.H., during the  temporary residence of
 the  family at that place,  5 July, 1784 ;  but removed with his
 parents to  Salem when he was but five  or six years old.   He
 was fitted for college at the Salem High School; and graduated,
 at the age  of eighteen, Avith the highest honors of his class, — a
 class remarkable for  eminent talent.  Immediately after leaving
 college, he began the  study of theology with  his  pastor, Rev.
 Thomas Barnard, D.D. (H.C. 1766).   In  1805, he Avas  ap-
 pointed tutor in mathematics in Harvard  College ; a position he
 held until 1809, pursuing in the mean  time his  theological stud-
 ies.   Here  his opportunities for  a higher cultivation were greatly
 enlarged ;  and his strong and acute intellectual powers could not
 fail to be richly improved  in the society of Rev. Henry AVare,
 John Quincy Adams, Levi Frisbie, John Farrar, and  Ashur
 AVare, who were all associated with him in the  instruction of
 the college.  In January, 1809, he preached his first sermon to
 the First Congregational Church and Society in Portland, Ale.  ;
 and continued to preach for the three following Sundays.  On
 the 27th of February, the parish concurred unanimously with the
 church in giving him a call, and voting him a  salary of  twelve
 hundred dollars ;  which was much larger than  any minister re-
 ceived in the town or state (then a district), and which was not
 changed during his whole ministry.  The venerable Deacon Free-
 man, then the leading man in the parish and the town, speaking
 of the  occasion, exultingly said, "The meeting  of the  parish
 Avas full and respectable; and it is a pleasing circumstance, that
 there Avas not a hand raised nor a word spoken against the sub-
ject of either vote."   The invitation he accepted 20  March, and
 he  was ordained as  colleague  with the Rev.  Samuel Deane,
 D.D. (H.C. 1760), 7 January, 1809,  the third pastor  of that
 ancient church, organized in 1727, the  first in the state  east of
 Kennebunk.   The Rev. Thomas Smith (H.C.  1720),  the first
pastor, was born  in  Boston,  10  March, 1702 ; was ordained,
and the church formed, 8 March, 1727 ; and he  continued in the
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pastoral office until his death, 23 Alay, 1795, at the age of 93,
and  in the  sixty-ninth year  of his pastorate.    Rev. Samuel
Deane, born in Dedham, Alass., 30 August, 1733, Avas ordained
as his colleague, 17  October, 1764 ; and this was the only reli-
gious society in Portland until 1788, when the Second Parish was
established.    Dr. Deane's pastorate continued  fifty years;  and
was  closed only by his death, 12 NoA'ember, 1814,  at the age of
81 years.   AVith him Dr. Nichols  was associated five years  and
five months  ;  and his connection with the society, Avhich was ter-
minated by  his death, extended to  more than forty-nine years.
He was sole pastor from the  decease  of Dr. Deane, diligently
and  faithfully doing his Alaster's work, until 31 January, 1855 ;
when the present pastor, Rev. Horatio Stebbins (H.C. 1848),
was  settled  as his colleague.   Dr.  Nichols Avas  then desirous of
withdrawing entirely from his  official station, on account of the
infirm state of  his health :  he wished entire repose  from the
cares of  office.   But the  parish Avas unAvilling to dissolve a con-
nection which had existed so long and so harmoniously ;  and he
consented to  retain his official relation, relieved from all  duty
and  responsibility connected with it.  On his retirement, a feAv
members of his society tendered to him an  annuity of five  hun-
dred and fifty  dollars for  the remainder of his life; but  this
tribute  to his services and worth, so justly  deserved and so
freely offered, he declined, from that  innate sense of delicacy
which governed all his  conduct.   At  the time  he relinquished
his duties he removed from Portland  to Cambridge, which was
subsequently  his place of residence.   This brief review of the
history of the First Parish in Portland exhibits  the striking fact,
of  an uninterrupted ministration  in the parochial  office for  a
period of more  than a  hundred  and thirty-one  years, not an
hour without a  pastor ; that its three deceased ministers entered
young upon their ministry, and died in office; and that each has
labored with  a colleague.   Such  a history, in connection Avith
the protracted pastorates, the three averaging fifty-six years each,
cannot, we think, be paralleled in the  annals of the church.
    " Dr. Nichols," says an  eminent Avriter Avho knew him long
and intimately, " not only discharged the duties  peculiar  to his 
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station  with fidelity, — and in which, with advancing years, he
grew more  earnest  and spiritual, both  in  his  discourses  and
devotional exercises, — but he  took an active part in the philan-
thropic  and reformatory movements of the day.  He was  one
of the  earliest  and  most devoted friends  of the temperance
cause, of  the Bible society, the Sunday school, and  of benevo-
lent  institutions.  He did not permit his mind to  grow rusty
amidst  the  various and every-day duties of parochial life, but
devoted all his leisure  hours is study.  He published, in 1830,
a work on  natural  theology,  which is considered as classical
authority  in the theological schools.   He kept up not only with
the theological progress of the age, but also Avith the wonderful
advance in scientific attainment,  which, in the last half-century,
has  almost  created a  new world.   Nothing  in  the way of dis-
covery  escaped  his  vigilant  observation,  from  the theories
broached  by visionary  enthusiasts to  the  profound problems of
La Place,  Cuvier, Bowditch, and Peirce.   In  his latter days,
after leaving his parochial duties, he had the highest gratifica-
tion   in a free  intercourse with Agassiz upon  his  wonderful
developments in the animal kingdom.   From this new source of
knoAA'ledge, his mind received a fresh impulse; and he was able to
add  to  his  great work (now in  press, and to be published in a
few  Aveeks,  entitled "Hours with the Evangelists," on the con-
nection of the old ajad new dispensations) new proofs and illus-
trations of the being and  attributes of God.  He was equally
familiar with the Avritings of German and English scholars, and
penetrated with a clear discrimination and an unsAverving  love
of truth into the prevailing fallacies  of the  philosophies of the
day; and was able rightly to  divine the Avord of truth.   It is
impossible that a mind naturally keen and  comprehensive, and
which was so thoroughly furnished by education and reflection,
should  not be full and instructive on all  the  topics which  come
under discussion among scholars and in the  social circle.   This
copiousness of  general knowledge  gave  him great power and
interest in  conversation,  which few have surpassed.   No one
could be  in his society,  for  even a brief time, without being
deeply  impressed with  the largeness and variety of his  knowl- 
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 edge, and his ease and felicity in the communication of it.  Yet,
 with these rare poAvers, he Avas perfectly simple, unaffected, and
 unpretending.  No man was farther  from conceit and unpretend-
 ing display.   He loved to talk, not  for the sake of talking, but
 to  communicate  instruction;  to impart from his accumulated
 stores to the pleasure  and benefit  of others.  These  qualities
 made his society  to be sought,  and,  Avherever  he Avas known, to
 be  valued as a ripe and good scholar, an able and sound theo-
 logian, and a most  instructive  companion.   We may apply to
 him, with great appropriateness, a truth happily expressed by
 Lord Coke,  who said, 'AVhen  a great and learned man dyeth,
 much learning dyeth Avith him.'  Though he has left a  valuable
 legacy in his last great work, Avhich  he fondly called the round-
 ing-off of his life, and is  the  complement  of his learning and
 best thought, yet there  was that in his mind and heart, as in
 every wise man,  which cannot be stamped on  the printed  page :
 it dies  Avith  the  possessor.  The beautiful expression,  the mild
 and gentle demeanor, the sensitive appreciation and communi-
 cation of the good  and true, the noble example of a  virtuous
 and devoted life, — these all pass on, and leave but their  subtle
 fragrance in the memory of surviving friends."
    Dr.  Nichols Avas early elected a member of the American
 Academy of  Arts and Sciences, of  which  he  held the office of
 vice-president.    In  1821, he  received from  Bowdoin College
 the honorary degree of doctor  of  divinity, and the same  from
 Harvard in 1831. It is worthy of note,  that the year 1821 was
 the beginning of the academical honors at Bowdoin ; and a Avise
 as well as liberal  beginning it was.   The clerical distinction was
 given (and to them confined) to the  tAvo distinguished  lights of
 the  Portland pulpit, — Ichabod Nichols and EdAvard Payson ;
 regarded, no  doubt,  throughout the  state as  the representative
 heads of the two  opposing sections of its congregational body.
   Dr. Nichols married first, probably in the  spring of 1811,
 Dorothea F.  Gilman, daughter  of Gov. John  Taylor Gilman,
of Portsmouth, N.H.  They  had four children, all sons,  of
whom tAvo surA'ived  him;  A'iz., 1. John Taylor Gilman, who
died within about a year of his  birth.  2. George Henry,  born 
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26 August,  1814  (H.C.  1833) ;  a physician  in Standish,
Ale.   3. John Taylor  Gilman, born 24 April, 1817 (H.C.
1836) ;   settled  as a  clergyman  in Saco, Me.   4.  Charles,
born 12 April, 1819,  and died the same  year.   Dr. Nichols's
wife died 17 April, 1831 ; and he married for his second AArife,
3 Alay, 1832, Alartha Salisbury Higginson, daughter of Stephen
Higginson, Esq., of Cambridge.   She survived him.
   1803. — William Draper, of Pontiac, Mich., died at the
Island of Alackinaw, 9 xVugust, 1858, aged 78.  He was son of
James  and Lois  (Battle) Draper, and was born in that  part
of Dedham  Avhich is  noAV Avithin the limits of Dover, Mass.,
12 February,  1780.   He was fitted  for college partly by Rev.
Nathaniel Emmons, D.D. (Y.C.  1767), of Franklin, Alass.,
and partly by Rev. Thomas Thacher  (H.C. 1775),  of Dedham.
On leaving  college, he Avent to Concord, Alass., and entered as
a student-at-law in the  office  of John Leighton  Tuttle (H.C.
1796).   Having completed his legal studies and  been admitted
to the bar, he opened an  office in Alarlborough, Mass., where he
acquired an  extensive practice,  and  was  quite successful  as a
lawyer.   For ten years he was president of the Middlesex  bar.
In 1832, he removed to Nashua, N.H., Avhere he remained until
the spring  of 1833 ;  Avhen he Avent to Alichigan, established
himself  in Pontiac, and was  a citizen of that place during the
remainder of his life.  He occupied a prominent and distinguished
position in the legal profession ; but Avas no politician, and  held
but verv few offices during his life.  At the time Congress passed
the enabling act for the  admission  of Alichigan into the Union,
a convention was called under that act, that the people might de-
termine Avhether they would accede to the proposition  of Con-
gress or not.  Air. Draper was the president of the convention.
This was the first one, which rejected the  dishonorable  proposi-
tion of a democratic congress ; and Air. Draper  always looked
with great satifaction on  the part he took in that  body of men.
That Avas an honorable post,  and right honorable was the de-
cision.
   Mr.  Draper  was president of  the bar of  Oakland county,
Mich., for twenty years, and held  the office at the time of his 
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decease.   AVhile few of the high earthly honors were bestoAved
upon him, he had, Avhat was far better, the deserved esteem and
respect of every one Avho kneAv him.   He Avas a Christian gen-
tleman, scrupulously upright, and for twenty-five years was an
exemplary member  of the  Congregational  church  in Pontiac.
He retained his mental  faculties  to  an extraordinary degree.
About two years before his death, there was a case pending in the
Circuit Court of Michigan,  in  which he had  a  personal interest.
He wrote out, and read to the  court, a brief  and an  argument of
marked power and great research;  and was  successful at last.
   Mr. Draper was famed for his love  of field sports ;  and it Avas
his delight, in  the last years of his life, to hunt and fish in and
around  the beautiful lakes  that are so numerous in the vicinity
of his late residence; and the principal reason  of his visit
to Mackinac, Avhere he died, was  his desire to gratify his taste
in this respect.   He went with several acquaintances ; and  had
been there only a few days, when he was taken  sick ; and, before
any of his family could reach there after hearing of his illness,
his spirit had departed to another and  better  world.
   A writer in Porter's "NeAv-York  Spirit  of the Times,"  in
announcing the death of  Mr. Draper, says, "He Avas ever
active and assiduous through  his  early life, and  until he  had
acquired a competence in the practice of his  arduous profession;
but was never so thoroughly absorbed in it, nor in  the acqui-
sition of wealth, as to neglect his gun  and his rod.   To these
he gave  a liberal share  of  his time, Avith a keenness of relish
Avhich eA'inced that  the love of sport  was natural  and inborn.
He was not an  indiscriminate sportsman; for he cared but little
for the  rifle  or  the hound,  and looked upon the deer-chase with
no favorable eye.   His first loves were the fowling-piece and the
well-trained pointer and spaniel; his chosen  sphere of enjoyment
the rich summer  corn-field,  or  the broAvn hill-side covers of
autumn.   Scolopax was the bird of his choice ; and, more than
half a century  ago,  the echoes of his gun, and the  cheerful call
to his well-trained dogs, were wont to ring through the valleys of
the old Bay State.   The love of sport was  a marked feature
in the life of the deceased, from which his highest earthly enjoy- 
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ments  were derived;  so marked and influential indeed, that
when, after a time, mercenary pot-hunters had  depopulated the
region  about his house, that circumstance influenced him in no
slight degree in making choice of a home where  the Avoodcock,
snipe, plover, partridge, quail,  and prairie-hen were more abun-
dant, and less sought after for gain.   Hoav fresh  in the mind of
the writer of this notice, noAV in middle life, is the recollection,
when a mere boy, of the exploits of the deceased over the backs of
poor old  Sport and Sancho, and the almost boundless admiration
with Avhich Ave saAv him bring  cloAvn thirty-eight woodcocks  in
succession on the Southborough meadow, without missing a bird ;
killing more than once with both barrels !   In his earlier days,
while he  yet made Massachusetts his home, his associates, drawn
to him by similar tastes, Avere to be found among  the liberal and
prominent men throughout that state.   Of such were Hon. S. P.
P. Fay,  some years deceased, and long judge of probate for the
county of Middlesex;  his son, Hon.  Richard S.  Fay; Hon.
Franklin Dexter, late of Boston;  and very many others, whose
names,  once familiar,  have now  escaped  the Avriter.  Having
changed  his residence  to Alichigan, Mr.  Draper continued the
same keen  and indefatigable  sportsman, with  little  change;
except that, game being more plenty and in greater variety, his
days in  the field  Avere more frequent.  He found feAver Avood-
cocks, which, at the time of his arrival, had just begun to fre-
quent the bottom-lands  of the rivers, and the old French farms of
Wayne and Alacomb ;  but in their places  he found the prairie-
hen, the  wild-turkey, the partridge and  snipe, more  abundant.
He brought Avith  him  his small but excellent and well-chosen
armament of guns, his choice stock  of  ammunition,  and his
favorite  and reliable old dogs, which, in a short time, made
themselves at home in their  new  sphere.  The rod divided the
sway with the  gun in the sport-life of the deceased, and he Avas
alike skilful and successful  in  both.   If the day Avas bad for
shooting, it was pretty sure  to  be good for fishing;  or, if the
companions Avho offered  happened not to  be devotees of old
Izaak, the game-bag and the  long tramp were  all the same to
him.   Sport-love with the  deceased  did  not arise from a mere 
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 spirit of adventure, combined AA'ith the exuberance of Avealth and
 of animal  spirits :  it Avas a principle of his being, Avhich greAv,
 rather than failed, Avith advancing  age ; and yielded to no in-
 firmity of body short of absolute sickness.  Indeed, he  may be
 said to have almost died in harness ; for his last trip Avas under-
 taken by him that he might enjoy the choice sport of trout-fish-
 ing around the picturesque and beautiful Island of AlackinaAv, at
 a time Avhen declining years and failing strength had long since
 AA-arned him that the hours upon the  earth for him were short and
 few.   Thus, Avith the life of a thorough sportsman, ended that
 of  an honorable, useful man, and  a sincere  and exemplary
 Christian."
   Air.  Draper  married,  in   1810, Harriet  Eliza  Payne,  a
 daughter of Alajor Phineas Payne, of Concord,  Alass., of revo-
 lutionary memory.  They had six children,—four sons and tAvo
 daughters ;  namely, AVilliam,  Charles,  Albert  F.,  James,
 Eliza  C, and Ann M.  : all survived their father except James,
 Avho was the  youngest child.   Charles graduated at Harvard
 College  in 1833,  and became a lawyer in Pontiac.
   1805. — Rev.  Ebenezer  Hubbard  died  near Nashville,
 Tenn., 2 September, 1858, aged 74.   He Avas son of Rev.
 Ebenezer (H.C.   1777) and Abigail  (Glover) Hubbard, and
 Avas  born in Alarblehead,  Mass., 12  November, 17X3.   His
 father  Avas born in Concord,  Alass., 22 Alay,  1758; Avas or-
 dained at Alarblehead, 1 January, 1783 ; and died 15 December,
 1800,  aged 42.   His mother  was daughter of Col. Jonathan
 Glover, of Alarblehead.   Air. Hubbard Avas fitted for college at
the public  classical school or  academy in  Alarblehead.   After
 leaving college, he  studied divinity with Rev.  Timothy Flint,
 of Lunenburg, Alass.  (H.C.  1800),  Avho married his  sister
 Abigail.    He  Avas ordained pastor  of the Second Church  in
Newbury, Alass., 11  Alay,  1809,  This pastoral relation Avas
dissolved 16  October, 1810;   and he  Avas installed over  the
church in Middleton,  Alass., 27 November,  1816 ; resigned his
charge, 29 April,  1828 ;  Avas  installed at Lunenburg, 10 De-
cember, 1828.  He Avas  always a Trinitarian, as he declared,
and, as he called  himself, a moderate Calvinist;  but Avas very 
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liberal in his  feelings towards Unitarians, and  would not  in-
frequently exchange with clergymen of that denomination.   In
consequence of this,  a most unrighteous attempt was made, by
some of the more rigid Orthodox, to prevent his settlement at
Lunenburg, by circulating reports injurious to his moral charac-
ter.   They did not, however, succeed in their plot.   The fol-
lowing  extract from an article in the " Christian Examiner " for
Alarch,  1831, gives a history of this affair  : —
   " Rev. Mr. Hubbard, a minister of acknowledged Orthodox
sentiments,  and late pastor  of  the  church in Middleton, was
invited  to  a  re-settlement  in Lunenburg.   It was generally
known to his ministerial brethren, that he Avas in  the practice of
exchanging with Unitarians.   This circumstance alone induced
some  Orthodox preachers in  the  vicinity  of  Lunenburg  to
make great exertions  to prevent his installation.   They  went
to Andover, and  earnestly solicited from   the Orthodox  min-
isters in  the  neighborhood  of Aliddleton some  information
derogatory to the character of Air.  Hubbard.   False and  slan-
derous  reports were invented by an individual in Aliddleton,
and  communicated to an Orthodox minister in Danvers,  and
conA'eyed by him  to the  principal  agent  in this  unrighteous
work.   Rev. Air.  Payson, of Leominster, having  obtained the
desired  misrepresentations, went into Lunenburg, communicated
them to an influential family, and requested them  to put  them
in circulation,  and conceal   the  name  of  the  informer.   He
affirmed that  Mr.  Hubbard  was a  bad man, brought up  his
children to  SAvear, and would prove  a  curse to the society if
they retained  him  as  their  pastor.   Such reports threw the
parish into  consternation, and  reached  the ears of the pastor
elect.   He proceeded immediately to the source of  the evil, and
eventually  dragged to light the individuals concerned.  By the
terrors  of the civil  law,  he compelled them to  confess  their
wickedness, and agency in the base understanding."
   Air.  Hubbard continued pastor of the church in Lunenburg
until 20 November, 1833, Avhen his connection with the society
was dissolved.   He studied medicine, but neA'er practised regu-
larly, except, perhaps, in Boxford,  or  rather  in  Lunenburg,
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while he was a pastor there.   In  June, 1838,  he  removed
to the AArest, and  taught  school for awhile in Trenton, Tenn. ;
and  afterwards  in  Paris,  Tenn.  In 1843  or 1844, he  re-
moved  to  Fulton  county, Ky.,  and  settled on a  farm  in
Hickman, which a son, dying,  left  him, and  Avhich he called
" Clergyman's Retreat."   For some  years he pursued the farm-
ing business, overseeing it, and attending to his garden : while
in his leisure hours he read books and Avrote sermons ; preach-
ing sometimes, but having no charge.  He liked the investiga-
tion of literary and scientific subjects.   He gradually,  for three
or four years before  his death, became  irritable and  maniacal
under a disease of the brain (probably softening), until, in the
spring of 1858,  his mind was completely gone, so that he  did
not  know his OAvn wife and children ; and, becoming very furi-
ous, his sons took him, in June, 1858, to the state asylum for
the  insane,  six  miles out of  Nashville, Tenn., — a fine  in-
stitution ; AA'here he died, not having had, during his stay there,
one  lucid moment.
   Mr. Hubbard  married, 10 June, 1808, Charlotte,  daughter
of Alajor Joseph  Swazey, of IpsAvich,  Alass.  They  had nine
children, six sons and three daughters, of whom three  sons and
two  daughters are  living.   His wife died 30 October,  1858, in
the  seventy-fifth year  of her age, having survived her husband
not  quite two months.   The  remains  of Air. Hubbard Avere
conveyed to Hickman, and deposited  in the  family  cemetery
Avith his wife's,  at "Clergyman's Retreat,"  owned by his  son
Charles.
    1807. — Joshua  Prescott died in Reading, Alass., 1
January,  1859,  aged  78.   He Avas son of  Deacon John and
Martha (Abbot)  Prescott;  was born in Westford, Alass., 15
November,  1780; and was the  last  surviving  member of their
family, which consisted  of  six  sons  and one daughter,  Avho
lived to mature age.  Three of the sons graduated at Harvard
College, — Samuel in  1799, Aaron in 1814,  and the subject of
this  notice.  He was  fitted for  college  at AVestford Academy.
After graduating, he taught school  in Saco, Ale.   He studied
law  with Judge James Prescott, of Groton, Mass. (H.C. 1788). 
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He was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1811, and imme-
diately opened an office in Reading.  He afterAvards removed to
Lynn, Alass., Avhere he remained a few months ;  then  returned
to Reading, Avhere he continued  actively engaged in the practice
of  his profession  until a  few years before his  decease.  In
1824, he compiled a digest of the probate-laws  of Alassachu-
setts, which was considered a valuable work, and had an exten-
sive circulation.   In 1827 and 1828, he was chosen  repre-
sentative to the state legislature.  Being much   interested  in
agricultural pursuits, he  superintended  and cultivated success-
fully his farm, on which he  resided for  many years.  As a
citizen, and in all the  social relations of life,  he  was kind,
generous, hospitable; an honest  man, and one who commanded
the universal respect  of the people.  He never  sought public
office.   As  a lawyer, he was possessed of  a sound  and  discrimi-
nating mind;  always carefully  and thoroughly examining the
matter presented before  he came to a  conclusion.  His judg-
ment and opinion were received with  great respect  and confi-
dence.  He never  suffered himself to sacrifice  his  principles  of
honor and integrity for pecuniary advantages ;  always maintain-
ing, that a  lawyer should govern himself professionally as he
would as a citizen, and be guided by the rule, to do unto others
as you wish or  expect them to  do unto you.  His  faith as a
Christian in the unbounded love and goodness of  God  was firm
and unAvavering, and he awaited  his departure with calmness and
resignation.   He married, in 1813, Abigail Eaton, only daugh-
ter and  only  surviving child  of Lieut.  Thomas  Eaton,   of
Reading.   He had five children.   One  daughter  died  in early
infancy.  Two  sons and two  daughters are  now living.   His
wife is also living.
    1807.—Rev. Seth Freeman Swift died in Oswego, N.Y.,
12 October, 1858, aged 71.   He Avas son of Joseph and Anna
(Freeman)  Swift, and  Avas  born  in  SandAvich, Mass.,  25
April,  1787.  He was fitted for  college at Sandwich  Academy.
After leaving college, he went through a course  of theological
studies under the instruction of Rev. John Simpkins, of Brew-
ster, Alass.  (H.C.  1786).  In the spring  of 1809, he  went to 
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Nantucket, Avhere, for a short time, he taught a school of a high
order.   The Unitarians of that island, having in vieAv the pro-
motion  of their liberal religious principles, erected the present
South Congregational Church, and invited Air. Swift to take the
pastoral charge of the  new society.  The house Avas dedicated
in November,  1809 ;  and Air. SAvift, having  accepted  the call,
AA-as  ordained  25 April, 1810.   Here  he labored with  great
fidelity for more than twenty-three years.  Many of his parish-
ioners  passed  away before him;  but  many still  survive Avho
remember him as one Avhose ministrations Avere  always accepta-
ble, because always appropriate to the various circumstances of
human life.   The young of his society Avould  often, at  his invi-
tation,  assemble  at his house, Avhere he would entertain  them,
and make them feel at home :  ahvays cheerful;  welcoming them
with a  genial  smile ; taking a deep interest in their Avell-doing;
sharing their joys  and sorrows ;  offering counsel,  that,  if  fol-
io Aved, he Avas certain would result in the formation of high and
noble characters, as many to whom it Avas addressed are  left to
testify.   He  always  said the right word; and it  came from a
warm, sympathetic heart.   No one tied the  nuptial knot with
more grace  than he.   His beaming countenance brightened  the
joy of the  occasion.   In sadder  hours, his apt Avords brought
consolation to  the mourner; and,  in the ordinary course of life,
he was  a genial friend.  In the autumn of 1833,  he  resigned
his pastoral charge ;  and, the following winter, he was  a rep-
resentative from Nantucket, in the legislature.  In the  spring
of 1834, he removed to OsAvego, N.Y., and Avas principal of an
academy at that place for two years.   For the  last eight years
of his life he was incapacitated from any employment, in conse-
quence of having become blind.   After his removal from Nan-
tucket, he  ever retained a lively interest for the place.   A  few
months before his death, he received a letter from a friend  there,
reverting to the  past, calling  up  early memories, and  speaking
of his friends ;  and, Avhen he found he Avas not forgotten, he wept
like a  child, shoAving  hoAv deeply his  affections Avere rooted in
his early home.
    He  married,  20  Alarch, 1810, Valina RaAvson, daughter of 
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237
Abel and Lydia  (Briggs) Rawson, of NeAv York.   He had four
children, — Caroline, who married Philo Stevens, of Oswego,
N.Y. ; EdAvard, Joseph, and Charles.   His daughter and tAvo
sons survived him ;  as did also his widow.  His last sickness was
of short duration, but of great suffering, which he bore without
a murmur.   His disease was cancerous  tumor in the bowels.
At the time  of  his  death he resided with his daughter, whose
unceasing devotions to him were  indicative of the purest  affec-
tion.  His son EdAvard too, who is well settled  in  Savannah,
Ga., Avas  permitted to be with him to administer to  his comfort
even in his last moments.
    1808. —Hon. Nathaniel Wright  died in LoAvell, Alass.,
5  November, 1858,  aged 73.  He was the oldest son of Hon.
Thomas and  Eunice (Osgood)  AVright, and was  born in Ster-
ling, Alass.,  13 February, 1785.  He was fitted for college by
Rev. Reuben Holcomb, of Sterling  (Y.C. 1774).   He  held a
very respectable rank in his class, and graduated with  distinc-
tion.   He pursued  the study of the law in  the  office of Hon.
Asahel  Stearns, of Chelmsford, Alass. (H.C. 1797) ;  was
admitted to the  bar in 1814, and opened an  office  in Dracut,
Alass.   In 1816, Air. Stearns Avas elected  University Professor
of Law in Harvard College, and removed to Cambridge the fol-
loAA'ing year.   Air.  AVright succeeded to Mr. Stearns's office, and
to much  of  his professional business ;  and  subsequently pur-
chased his (Air. Stearns's)  residence, which he occupied during
the remainder of his life.   He attained to a high rank in his pro-
fession as an able and Avell-read laAvyer.  For forensic display
he had little  taste, and made no pretension ; but when an emer-
gency required a sound, reliable, and disinterested opinion, he
was the dependence of his community for many years.   Singu-
larly simple and almost  blunt  in his manners, and sparing  of
Avords, there was an honesty and independence about him Avhich
won confidence  and secured respect.   On the  organization  of
the town  of  LoAvell, Air. AVright's judgment, counsel, and legal
 knoAvledge Avere under great and constant requisition.  He per-
formed an important part in the preliminary purchase of land
by the founders of the town ; and, in setting  it off from Chelms- 
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ford, he Avas an  efficient agent.  AVhen LoavcII  Avas incorpo-
rated as a tOAA-n, in 1826, he Avas elected its first representative
in the legislature, and was re-elected the two  following  years.
He Avas also chosen chairman of the first board  of selectmen.
In 1834, he Avas elected to the state senate from Aliddlesex  dis-
trict.   In 1836,  LoAvell Avas  incorporated as  a city;  and Air.
AVright Avas elected its mayor in  1841 and  1<S42.  He  was
chosen the first year as an  independent  candidate, and the  sec-
ond as the regular Avhig nominee.   On  the  organization of the
LoavcII Bank, in  1828, he Avas  elected, on the second of June
in that year, its president;  an office which he held  uninterrupt-
edly for more than thirty years,  resigning it only on the 22d of
October,  185<S, just two Aveeks before  his death : his  failing
health and strength admonishing him that his work on earth Avas
done ;  a fact  to Avhich  he resigned  himself Avith  calmness  and
cheerfulness.  In all the positions Avhich he filled, he gave entire
satisfaction to those whose  interests were  intrusted  to his care.
He married, 5 Alarch, 1820, Laura Hoar.  They had five chil-
dren, four sons and one  daughter; viz., Nathaniel, Thomas,
William Henry Prentice, Emery, and Laura  Grace.  Two of
his sons, Nathaniel and Thomas, graduated at Harvard College,
in 1838 and  1842 respectively.   Nathaniel was a lawyer in
LoAvell, and died  18  September, 1847,  aged  27.   The others
survived him.   Thomas is a lawyer in Lawrence, Mass.   Mr.
Wright's wife died 21 January, 1857, aged 62.
   1810. — Rev.  Lemuel Capen  died  in South Boston, 28
August, 1858, aged 69.   He Avas  son  of John and  Patience
(Davis) Capen, and was born in Dorchester, Alass., 25 Novem-
ber, 1789.  His  father Avas a substantial farmer :  and,  early
discovering  in  this son  a taste  for study, he determined  to
give him a liberal education;  for Avhich purpose he placed him
under  the charge of Rev. Peter AVhitney,  of Quincy  (H.C.
1801), where  he pursued his  preparatory studies.   At college
he Avas exemplary in his conduct,  was a diligent student, and
graduated with a  respectable  rank.   On  completing his  colle-
giate course, he determined to  study for the ministry, and  re-
mained at Cambridge as a  resident-graduate, going through his 
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course of theological study under the instruction of Prof. Henry
Ware, D.D.  (H.C. 1785), and Andrews Norton (H.C. 1804).
He Avas  ordained pastor of the  church in Sterling, Alass., 22
March, 1X15.   He early espoused the side of Liberal Christian-
ity, and  was one of the first to preach  these  sentiments  in  the
county of AVorcester.   In 1813, he Avrote a pamphlet, which
was  published anonymously,   entitled  " Memorial of the Pro-
prietors of the New South Meeting-house in  Dorchester  to  the
Ministers of the Boston Association ; "  a document which even
the " Panoplist" acknowledged to  be " written  with more than
ordinary care  and  ability."   His pastoral  relation Avith  the
church in Sterling was  not of long duration.   He resigned his
charge, 21 June, 1819, not on account of any disaffection,  but
because  his  salary Avas  inadequate  to  his frugal wants, and it
could not be increased without endangering the  harmony of the
society.   His  fare av ell  sermon, which  has been  twice printed,
was full  of the kindest  interest in the people Avho were to be no
longer under his professional charge.  Pie then returned to his
native place, Dorchester; and, from 1819 to 1822,  he taught
in the Stoughton School in that tOAvn.  At  the  close of 1822,
he resumed his ministerial duties, at the same  time taking the
part  of  instructor in the Hawes School in South Boston.   He
Avas installed  pastor of the HaAves-Place Church, 31 October,
 1827.   During the interval from 1822 to 1827, he received no
pecuniary compensation for his clerical services.   He depended
upon his salary as a teacher, which was only  about five hundred
dollars a year, for the support of himself and his family.  All this
while, and for several years  afterwards,  the public worship  AA-as
held in one  of the humblest of meeting-houses.'   The building
was  ten feet  high,  about a  hundred  feet long, and less  than
thirty in breadth.  Under that lowly roof,  he labored, in the
 preaching of  the AVord, faithfully, earnestly,  and with good
acceptance, for about tAvelve years.   In 1832, he was called to
part with his venerable friend, Air.  John HaAves, the  founder of
the religious society to which he ministered ; and set forth, on the
 Sunday  after  his funeral, a discriminating account of his char-
acter and benefactions.   This discourse was  published, with an 
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"Appendix containing  Historical Notices of  the  ILiAves-Place
Church and Society."  That sturdy and trusty  Christian man,
Avho has left his name so favorably impressed upon the religious
and educational institutions of South Boston,  invariably treated
Mr.  Capen with the utmost confidence and regard, and consulted
him  often to the day of his death.   Soon after his departure,
and  by the help  of the funds  Avhich  he bequeathed,  a new
meeting-house  Avas  built;  but  Avith the enlargement  of  the
borders of the  sanctuary, and  the beautifying of its walls, and
the  increased  comeliness of its  appointments,  there seems  to
have been no corresponding increase of the holy dispositions for
which sanctuaries are built.   It is often  the  case, that moneyed
endowments  lead  to neither  prosperty nor  peace; and, in  the
present instance, they encouraged jealousies, expectations more
ambitious than pure or  considerate,  and  growing troubles.  Air.
Capen again resigned his pastorate, with less  of  his OAvn will
in the surrender than before, and  not Avith the  same conscious-
ness of perfect favor, though he  carried a better  consciousness
in the testimony of his  OAvn  breast.   He delivered his  farewell
sermon, 23 June,  1839.  It  was Avritten in  his  usual direct,
dispassionate,  and  faithful manner.   He never afterwards  en-
tered the  settled ministry, though his heart  was always in that
work;  and he continued, to the end  of his  days,  preaching
occasionally where his  services  were requested.   During his
Avhole residence at  South Boston, the scantiness  of his  income
compelled him to till his grounds with his own hands ;  and this
he did stoutly and cheerfully.  His vigorous  health, Avhich never
gave Avay, nor showed sign of giving way, till it broke up wholly
and  at every point at last, enabled him to perform  this  kind of
toil; and, moreover, he had a taste for it, and skill in  it.  He
knew Iioav to do the work of a farmer well,  and to write about
its experiences.  His opinions on agricultural topics, in  his con-
tributions  to the  "New-England  Farmer," are  said  to have
been valued  by the  readers  of  that journal.   In  the midst of
his pecuniary  straits, no one  ever  knew him  to  be  penurious
or exacting or cringing  or  shuffling or mean.   Some  of the
pleasantest associations of his whole existence he declared to be 
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connected with school-keeping;  and there were many to  appre-
ciate the  influence  of his conscientious  instructions.  He was
often  called to serve  on  school-committees, where he gaAe.the
best of his diligence.   He Avas  elected  a representative  to the
state legislature in 1836, and  again in 1847.  AVhen he Avas
nearly  sixty  years  of age, the  old zeal for both his vocations,
teaching  and  preaching, burned afresh in him.  .Vt an invita-
tion from Baltimore to succeed Rev. Charles H. A. Dall  (H.C.
1837)  as a missionary to the poor,  he at once left his home, —
to no one dearer, — and assumed that laborious service in that
southern city.  A  printed copy of his  first  quarterly report,
dated 31 January,  1846, is marked Avith the  deepest  feeling  of
engagedness in his trying  office.   The singleness of his  mind,
and the tenderness of his heart, were likely to  distinguish them-
selves in such a mingled work of instruction and charity; and
the trustees of the Baltimore Alinistry at Large bear ample tes-
timony, in the same document, to the efficiency Avith Avhich his
hard duties were discharged.   Besides his publications which
have been mentioned, there is  in the " Liberal Preacher" a
sermon of his on " The Religious Education of Children," printed
in June,  1831; and there is  an  elaborate article in the " Chris-
tian Examiner" for September,  1855, on "Dr. Codman and the
Second  Church in  Dorchester."  He Avas  also  the Avriter  of
several biographical notices  of  ministers and  of old residents
in South Boston, Avhich have been  read with interest, and even
republished.
   He  married, 11  October, 1815, Alary Ann Hunting, daugh-
ter of Asa and Abigail (Blaney) Hunting, of Roxbury.   They
had nine children, six  sons and  three daughters, of Avhom five
sons and  one daughter with their  mother survived  him.  His
children  were Francis  Lemuel,  born  in Sterling,  17 Alarch,
1817;  John,  born 8  September,  1818; Mary Ann, born  in
Dorchester, 19  February, 1820,—died 7 November,  1844;
Edward,  born 20 October, 1821  ; Charles James, born in South
Boston, 5 April, 1823 ; Sarah Hawes, born 22 October, 1824,
— died 5  December,  1825 ; Barnard, born 31 October,  1826;
Jane, born 5 November, 1828 ; Eliphalet Porter, born 14 Novem-
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ber, 1831, — died 19 November, 1835.   Four of liis sons have
graduated at Harvard College; namely, Francis Lemuel in 1839,
John in 1840, Edward in 1842, and Charles James in 1844.
   1811.—Hon. Thomas Greaves Cary, of Boston, died at
his summer residence in Nahant, Alass., 3 July, 185!), aged 67.
He was son  of Samuel and Sarah (Gray)  Cary,  and was born
in Chelsea, Alass., 7 September, 1791.  After finishing his col-
lege course,  he studied law in  the office of Hon. Peter Oxen-
bridge  Thacher (H.C. 1796), of Boston.   He was admitted to
the Suffolk bar in 1814, and began the practice of his profession
in Boston.   He married, 30 Alay, 1820, Alary Ann C. Perkins,
daughter of Hon.  Thomas Handasyd Perkins, of Boston.  They
had seven children, two sons and five daughters,  all of Avhom,
with their mother, survived him.  A short time before his mar-
riage, he removed to  Brattleborough, Vt., where he continued
the practice of his profession until  1821, Avhen he removed to
New York, and engaged in the Canton trade as the senior part-
ner in  the house of T. G. and AV. F. Cary.   After eight or
nine years, he returned to Boston,  and joined the house of J.
and T. H. Perkins and Co.   After  the dissolution of this firm,
Mr. Cary became the  treasurer of the Hamilton  and Appleton
manufacturing companies  at Lowell, the affairs  of Avhich  he
managed, with great ability and success, to the day of his death.
In 1838, he became a special partner  in the house of Fay and
Far wells, of Boston.   This partnership continued until the  dis-
solution of the firm in 1851.   He was often solicited to allow
himself to be a candidate for political honors ;  but he generally
declined.  He, however, served as a senator for the Suffolk dis-
trict in the state legislature in 1846, 1847, 1852, and 1853.   In
his political  opinions and action he was Avholly  free from a blind
partisan spirit.   Though conservative in his tendencies, he  was
a consistent and  able advocate  of real progress.   He  took a
great interest in all  questions  of education and social  reform,
and carried through the legislature several of the most important
acts on those subjects now on the statute-book ; as, for example,
the law relating to state scholarships.   He was for many years
a director of the Hamilton Bank, and president of the  Boston 
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Athenamm.  He was  also a  trustee of the Institution for the
Blind ;  and  took an  active  interest in  many other charitable
establishments, giving to their affairs both pecuniary support and
much valuable time.  He Avas a member of the American Acad-
emy of Arts and Sciences,  and of the Alassachusetts Histori-
cal Society.    He frequently contributed  able essays to  the
newspapers and  the  periodical publications.   Hunt's  "Mer-
chants' Alagazine," the "North-American RevieAv," and several
of the daily journals, were enriched by his elegant and well-con-
sidered writings.  In  1847,  he delivered before the city author-
ities of Boston the Fourth-of-July oration, which was published,
and which shoAved the refined taste,  high moral tone, and purity
of style, that Avere  peculiarly characteristic of him.  He  pub-
lished, in 1844, "A Letter to a Lady in France on National and
State Repudiation ; " in 1845, "A Letter on  Profits on Manu-
factures in LoAvell," and "An Address on the Fine Arts, deliv-
ered before the  Alercantile-Library  Association."  In the same
year he delivered a lecture on banking, in AA'hich the  subject was
explained with great perspicuity and  beauty.   In 1856, besides a
"Lecture on the Gold of California, and its Effects on Prices," he
published the most elaborate of his  works,  entitled "A Alemoir
of  Thomas Handasyd Perkins, containing Extracts from his
Diaries  and Letters," in  8vo ;  a volume of great biographical
interest,  presenting a masterly delineation of the life and charac-
ter of that great merchant.   In February, 1857,  he embarked
with his  family for Europe ;  and having travelled through Eng-
land, France, Italy, and Switzerland, returned, in October of the
same  year, to  resume  his various occupations at home.   His
health, which had not been vigorous for some years, began  to
give Avay a few months before  his death.  He gradually grew
feebler;  and, during the  last week  or  two of his life,  his de-
cline was rapid, and he breathed his  last as gently as  a child
falls asleep.  Air. Cary Avas  a gentleman in the truest and  best
sense of the Avord.   His manners were at once unaffected, and
marked  by a chivalrous high breeding, recognizing the rights
of the loAvest as well  as those of the highest to the courtesies
which sweeten  the intercourse of life.   In thought, word, and 
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deed, his daily intercourse was characterized by Christian  purity.
Into the transactions of business, public and private, as Avell as
into the intercourse of society and the domestic relations,  he car-
ried the principles  of Christianity, as the  rule of conversation,
the guide of conduct, and the assurance of happiness here  and
hereafter.
    1814. — Jonathan Porter died in  Aledford, Alass.,  11
June, 1859, aged 67.   He had  been confined to his sick-room
for more than a quarter of a century. A disease, which no skill
could remove, embarrassed and afflicted him for a time, while
struggling  to continue  his active  labors ;  and  at  length com-
pelled him, in the midst of his days, to abandon his pursuits,
and shut himself  up as an invalid for the rest of his life.   His
expectations were thus disappointed, his plans broken up,  and
his work left unfinished.   The  story of his life, though brief,
is  not Avithout  interest.   He was  son of  Jonathan and Phebe
(Abbot) Porter, and was  born  in  Aledford,  13  November,
1791.   His father  was a merchant in  Medford:  his  mother
was a native of Andover, Alass.   He married, 22 July, 1823,
Catharine Gray, daughter of Samuel Gray, of Aledford.   They
had  three children,  one son and two daughters.   One daughter
died in his lifetime.   His wife and  the other  two children sur-
vived him.   Until he reached the age of about sixteen or seven-
teen, he was employed, as far as he had  any employment,  as a
clerk in his father's  store.  It was found that he had no taste
for mercantile pursuits ; but from an early age he had discovered
a fondness for books and study,  and desired to obtain an educa-
tion.  AVhen about seventeen years old, having up to that time
enjoyed only the ordinary advantages  of  common schools, he
began to prepare for college under the  instruction of Dr. John
Hosmer, avIio Avas the principal of a private school or academy
in Medford.  He prosecuted his studies at this  school for about
a  year; and  then entered  Harvard  College  at  Commence-
ment in 1810.   His class was large for that  time ;  and is now
distinguished by the eminent abilities, high position, and great
fame, of some Avhose names stand  upon its catalogue.  That it
possessed a large range and  amount of talent, is evident from 
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245
the number  of its  members Avho have obtained an  honorable
rank in their several callings and  pursuits.  In  this class, and
Avith these associates, Air.  Porter,  as  a scholar, stood among
the first, and graduated Avith the highest honors.  He was ear-
nest and assiduous in the prosecution of his  studies, faithful  in
the performance of all  his  duties,  and exemplary in all his
habits.   His generous  and  manly  bearing  in the  severe  con-
tests of the literary arena won for  him the esteem and friendship
of his  classmates, which continued to the  close of his  life, and
cheered the many long years of his feebleness and confinement.
He cherished good-will  toward all; rejoiced  at their success,
and bore Avith meekness his OAvn.   AVhen he reached the end  of
his college term, and looked forward to the future, the prospect
Avas bright and hopeful.   His college honors seemed an earnest
of other and higher, to be won on a Avider field.   He chose the
law for a profession ; and pursued his preparatory studies a part
of the time in the office of the Hon.  Luther LaAvrence (H.C.
1801), of Groton, and a part in the office of the Hon. Asahel
Stearns (H.C.  1797), of Chelmsford.  They were  both  able
and eminent laAvyers,  and  stood high in  public  estimation.
They were also gentlemen of  high  moral  character, upright  in
all their dealings,  and honorable in  all their practice.    Air.
Porter  Avas  a  Avorthy  pupil  of  such teachers, and in  these
schools acquired all which could be  expected to  be  acquired  in
the time, — an accurate knowledge of the  general principles  of
law, and sound professional ethics.  He  was admitted to the
bar in  the county of Aliddlesex in the fall  of 1817, and opened
an office, at first in Medford,  and  about a  year afterAvards  in
Boston.  His intellectual endowments were well suited to the
study of the law as  a science.  His mind was acute, discrimi-
nating, and logical; and his memory was  retentive  and ready.
A patient, persevering, and critical investigation  Avas to him an
agreeable exercise ;  and he was unwilling to relinquish a  sub-
ject, once taken in hand, until it  Avas mastered and exhausted.
He took pleasure in working out,  with  steady, patient thought,
and thorough, laborious research,  perplexed  and difficult ques-
tions  of law.   He  read much;  and his  legal learning was 
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accurate  and entensive.   There can  be no doubt  that he  was
capable of reaching a high rank as a lawyer.   But the practice
of the law, as a business, Avas  not so Avell suited to his  tastes
and habits.   lie Avas a  scholar, fond of books and  study  and
retirement, but had no fondness for the turmoil and  strife,  the
"pert dispute" and "babbling hall," of  professional practice.
Still he had  considerable business, Avhich Avas always aacII  and
faithfully managed.  He argued some questions of law before
the Supreme  Court Avith decided ability.   He Avas patient, labo-
rious, and conscientiously scrupulous and exact in  the perform-
ance of all his duties.   In his professional as in his private life,
he Avas just and upright, and incapable of any unworthy arti-
fice or trick.   His principles and practice Avere pure, elevated,
and honorable.   He did not, upon coming to the bar, as is  too
often  the  case  with men of  the  laAv, relinquish all attention
to liberal studies.   The classics still  continued to be his com-
panions.   So far as he could command the time,  he continued
his application to general literature, and was a diligent student
of metaphysics, mathematics, and the exact sciences.   In 1822,
he delivered  the  oration before the Phi Beta  Kappa at  Cam-
bridge.  At that time, he was  in  feeble health.  His infirmity
was such, that he thought, from time to time, that he should be
obliged to relinquish the task he had undertaken; but he strug-
gled on to the fulfilment  of his engagement.    Of the literary
merit of his  performance we have not been informed, and have
no knowledge ; but are apprised of the fact, that the oration  Avas
prepared and delivered under much bodily Aveakness and suffer-
ing.  In 1830,  the complaint which clung to him ever  after-
wards made its presence known.   In  the summer of  that  year,
he made a voyage to Europe, in the hope of improving his
health.   In  the  spring of 1831,  he returned Avith  his health
apparently somewhat  improved.   But, soon after  resuming his
business, the  disease gained strength, and became  more alarm-
ing.  Now succeeded a period of much  anxiety and suffering.
He still hoped that recovery to health Avas possible, and  was
earnest and persevering in the  use of means to that end.  At
times he would seem to be improved, and be  encouraged;  he 
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would  then  become  worse,  and fall into despondency.   So he
continued on, hoping and desponding, until  at  length  he Avas
compelled to settle  doAvn in the  conviction,  that  there was no
prospect  of  his restoration  to health,  and that his professional
and  all other  active pursuits must be finally  and for ever relin-
quished.   Then began a distinct and peculiar period of  his life.
His complaint Avas supposed to be a spinal affection, the precise
character and  extent of Avhich  was  never  fully  ascertained.
The disease gradually increased,  until it deprived him  of the
power  of moving about;  and  he was  obliged  t©  remain con-
stantly in a lying  or sitting posture.   In  this  condition he
remained to the end of life.   Until  Avithin  a year or  two  of
his decease, he  Avas, from time to time, subject to much pain
and  suffering.   All the alleviation Avhich the most  affectionate
and  untiring attention and efforts of  his family  could afford he
had.   AVhen  all hope of  recovery or  amendment was  extin-
guished,  he  became perfectly resigned  to his  condition.    There
was never the slightest murmuring or discontent or impatience
or dejection.  He Avas calm and  cheerful, and grateful for the
many mercies  he enjoyed.   His chamber  was not  shrouded  in
gloom, but  lighted up with  the mild and cheering  rays  of con-
tentment and peace.  He felt that the best place,  the happiest
place,  the most  honorable  place,  for  him,  Avas  his  own  place,
the place Avhich Providence had assigned him.  In that place
he Avas willing and  happy to remain  until removed to  another
state of existence.   Though   his body was feeble, his mind
retained  its activity and vigor.   Though  confined within the
narrow limits  of his OAvn room, his life was  not an idle one,  or
Avithout  significance.  For  some years,  he was constantly occu-
pied in  the education of his children; an employment which he
greatly  enjoyed, and for  Avhich  he  was  admirably qualified.
The daughters  Avere Avholly and  thoroughly educated by him.
He Avas  himself, at  all times, a diligent student, and  never
unoccupied.   He Avas particularly fond of Greek literature, and
took much interest in reading the  Greek poets  and historians.
He Avas  also a  good English  scholar;  read  extensively moral
and religious Avorks, and kept along Avith the  current literature 
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 of the day.   He enjoyed the visits of his friends, and took an
 interest  in  Avhatever interested  them  or the public.   lie saw
 Avith pleasure, and Avithout repining,  his  classmates  successful
 in the Avorld, and Avinning the prizes of life.  For  himself, he
 Avas entirely content Avith his OAv'n little spot, as  the  theatre of
 his action.    Thus  year  after year wore  aAvay,  and the time
 of his departure  drew on.   There  was no  suffering, no new
 complaint, no apparent increase  of the old one.   His strength
 gradually failed ;  he Avas confined to his bed ; he lost  the power
 of  speech,  though evidently conscious of  what Avas  passing
 around him ;  his pulse stopped, but he still breathed :  at length
 his lungs ceased to heaA'e, and he ceased to live.
   Air. Porter gave ample evidence of a high order of intellectual
 endowments.  He had a  calm, well-balanced, active,  and vigor-
 ous mind, an ardent desire of knoAvledge, and firm  and umvaver-
 ing  moral and religious  principles.   Thus qualified, he might
 well be  expected  to achieA'e much  in  any field  of intellectual
 labor.  But he Avas suddenly stopped in  his course, and  his
 work remains incomplete.   His manners were simple,  unassum-
 ing, and courteous ; and  his feelings  were liberal,  social, and
 obliging.  He Avas a steadfast  and  true-hearted friend.   He
 loved  his friends, and secured  their enduring affection.   His
 friendships ended  only with his life.  His large attainments as a
 scholar,  and his pure principles, made his  conversation  always
 interesting and improA'ing.  He had no idle or frivolous talk, no
 gossip, no slander, no censoriousness.   He Avas kind and chari-
 table from principle and feeling,  and gave liberally to charitable
 and other objects which he thought  deserving.   The  respect in
 which he was held by all who knew him bore evidence to  his
 sterling Avorth.  Of Air. Porter  in the  privacy of his domestic
 life this is not the fitting occasion particularly to speak.   But it
 was  in his  OAvn  home AA'here the  sympathies, affections,  and
 amenities of his  daily life best exhibited the excellence of  his
true character.  " A man's religion is the chief fact in regard to
him."  Air. Porter Avas a  religious man.  He had deep religious
feelings  and principles.   He Avas  connected Avith the  church
under the pastoral charge  of the Rev. Andrew Bigelow (H.C. 
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1814)  in  Medford, and afterwards united with  the  Episcopal
Church by the rite of confirmation.   He  reverenced  Christian-
ity, and had a firm belief in the  Christian  Scriptures as a divine
revelation.  He was a constant, earnest, humble  student of the
Bible.   His patience, resignation, and cheerfulness, during the
long period of his confinement and suffering, were the triumph
of his  Christian faith.   In the remembrance of what he was,
and hoAv he lived, his family have found consolation in their be-
reavement.   The many years  during which he  was shut out
from the  world Avere not lost.   This life is  not the end  of
our being.  The fruit of cultivated intellect, of chastened, puri-
fied, elevated, Christian affections, will be gathered, either in this
life or  a life hereafter.
   1814.—AVilliam Hickling Prescott  died in Boston,
28  January, 1859, aged 62.   He was son of  Hon. William
(H.C. 1783) and Catharine Greene  (Hickling) Prescott, and
was born in Salem, Alass., 4 Alay, 1796.   His father was born
in Pepperell, Alass., 19 August, 1762 ; was an eminent lawyer
and judge;  and was distinguished for his social qualities, Avhich
Avon for him troops of friends.   He Avas admitted to the  bar  in
1787, and began the practice of  his profession in  Beverly.  He
soon afterwards removed to Salem, where he practised extensively
and successfully for nineteen years, when he removed to Boston,
his son being at that  time  twelve years of age;  and there he
continued his professional business until 1828,  when  his  health
obliged him to relinquish it.  He twice had the  offer of a seat
on the  bench of the Supreme Judicial Court, but in both in-
stances declined it.   He was afterwards induced  to accept the
office of judge of the Court of Common Pleas  in Boston; but
having filled it about a year, and finding its duties irksome, he
resigned it.   He died 8 December, 1844,  aged  82.   Mr.  Pres-
cott's mother was  one of the noblest women that ever lived.
She was the daughter of Thomas Hickling, Esq., who for nearly
half  a  century was the American consul  at  the  Island of St.
Alichael's.  His grandfather, Col. AVilliam Prescott,  as is well
knoAvn, commanded the American forces at the battle of Bunker
Hill.   He died  13 October, 1795, at  the age of 69.
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   Soon after the removal of the family to Boston, Air. Prescott
AA-as placed under the  charge of the Rev. John  S. J. Gardiner,
D.D., of Trinity Church,  where  he pursued  his  preparatory
studies, and entered the sophomore class in  1811.    He  imme-
diately gained a high rank  of scholarship, and graduated with
distinction.   He had  intended  to devote himself to the profes-
sion  of law;  but  in  his  junior  year he lost the sight of one
of his eyes,  from  an accidental blow;  and  the other, sym-
pathizing with it,  soon became  enfeebled :  his general  health
failed, and he was obliged for  a time to  relinquish  all studies.
Happily his  father's  circumstances Avere  such  that  he was not
necessitated to toil for his bread.   He early determined  to de-
vote himself  to a life  of literature.   Soon after  leaving college,
being advised to travel,  he went to  Europe, AA'here he passed
two  years in an extended  journey through England, France,
and Italy, and vainly sought aid  from the most eminent foreign
oculists.   He returned  home restored  in health, but with his
sight permanently impaired.  He was never  able to  use his own
eyes for more than a short time in the day; but was constantly
obliged to use the  eyes of others for  his studies and researches,
as well as for recording the results of them.  His quiet perse-
verance and  continuous industry enabled him  to  triumph over
this difficulty, and to  achieve  an amount of literary  labor Avhich
is not only most honorable to his intellectual powers,  but conveys
a noble moral lesson to  all who may be afflicted  in a similar
manner.  His earliest literary efforts were contributions to the
"North-American Review."   These show the tendencies of his
mind and his favorite studies.   In October, 1824, he contrib-
uted a paper on "Italian Narrative  Poetry," Avhich called out
some strictures from an Italian teacher in New York  ; to which a
reply Avas made in the " North-American " for July, 1825.  A
paper  on "Scottish   Song" appeared in  July, 1826;  one on
" Aloliere'' in October,  1828 ; one  on  Irving's " Conquest of
Granada" in October, 1829.   The titles and dates of his other
contributions are as folloAvs  : "Instruction of the  Blind," July,
1830; "Poetry and  Romance of the  Italians," July,  1831;
"Cervantes," July, 1837;  "Sir Walter Scott," April,  1838; 
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Chateaubriand's "English Literature," October, 1839; Bancroft's
"United States," January, 1841 ; Madame Calderon's "Life in
Alexico," January, 1843 ;  Ticknor's "History of Spanish Liter-
ature," January,  1850.   These  essays, except the last, were
printed in  one volume, in London  and Boston, in 1845 ; and
several editions have since  been called for.   The memoir  of
Charles  Brockden  Brown,  the novelist, published in  Sparks's
"American Biography" in 1834,  was Avritten by Mr. Prescott.
But he had long cherished a hope  of being  able to write a his-
tory; and,  as he prosecuted his researches into Spanish literature
and annals, his design assumed form.   The friendly offices of the
late Hon. Alexander H.  Everett, then United-States minister at
Aladrid,  were of great service in enabling him to obtain a rich
and extensive body of materials for his work.   These \raluable
books, manuscripts, and copies of official  documents,  reached
him at a time when most men, under like circumstances, would
have abandoned all  hope  of executing the  task he undertook.
An extract from the preface of his "History  of  Peru," dated
April, 1847, will best explain what these were, and  most authen-
tically describe that peculiarity of his  literary history which is
so  remarkable in  itself, and so  valuable  and encouraging  to
others who  may   suffer  under any  physical  infirmity.   He
says, —
    " AVhile at the university, 1 received an injury in one of my
eyes, which deprived me of the sight of it.  The other, soon after,
Avas attacked  by inflammation so severely,  that for some time I
lost the  sight of that also ; and, though it was  subsequently
restored, the  organ was so much disordered as to remain perma-
nently debilitated;  Avhile, twice in my life  since,  I have been
deprived of the use of it, for all purposes of reading or writing, for
several years together.  It Avas during one of these periods that I
received from Aladrid the materials for my " History  of Ferdinand
and Isabella ;" and in my disabled conditon, with my transatlan-
tic treasures lying  around me, I Avas like one pining with hunger
in the midst of abundance.  In this state I resolved to make the
ear, if possible, do the work of the eye.  I procured the  services
of a secretary, who read to me the various  authorities;  and, in 
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time, I became so familiar Avith the sounds of the different foreign
languages (to some of Avhich, indeed, I had been previously ac-
customed by a residence abroad), that  I could  comprehend his
reading without much difficulty.   As the reader proceeded, I dic-
tated copious notes ; and, when these had  SAvelled to a consider-
able amount, they Avere read to me repeatedly, till I had mastered
their contents sufficiently for the purpose of composition."
   After some deliberation and hesitation, he selected the reign
of Ferdinand and Isabella as the subject of an extended historical
work ; and  to this the assiduous labor of many years Avas cheer-
fully and patiently given.   The Avork Avas  published in 1838, in
three volumes,  and was received Avith the utmost enthusiasm
both in Europe and  America.    Scholars  and philosophers ad-
mired its depth of research, while general  readers were charmed
by the limpid  ease  and natural grace of its style, his brilliant
descriptions and animated pictures.   It was soon  translated into
French,  Spanish, and German.   Its author Avas  immediately
elected a member of the Royal Academy of Aladrid.  The popu-
larity  which it gained  upon its first publication  it has  since
steadily  maintained.   The  seventh revised edition of the  work
appeared in 1854 ;  and it is one of the established classics in the
language.   Mr. Prescott's literary industry was not checked  by
the success  of his first work.  He did not, for a moment, repose
under his laurels.   He immediately devoted himself to the inves-
tigation  of  another brilliant period  in  the history of  Spain, the
fruits  of which appeared in 1843, in a work in three volumes,
entitled  the " History of the Conquest of Alexico, with a Prelimi-
nary View of the Ancient Alexican Civilization, and the Life of
the  Conqueror Hernando  Cortez."   This  work  Avas  received
AA'ith no  less favor than that which had greeted the " History of
Ferdinand  and Isabella."  The literary world recognized in it
the  same careful research, the  same  accuracy of  statement, the
same persuasive SAveetness and magic beauty of style.   In 1847,
was published, in two volumes, the "History of the Conquest of
Peru, with a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas ; "
a work of kindred and commensurate  excellence  to that of the
"History of the Conquest of Alexico." 
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   Air.  Prescott now devoted  himself with unabated  ardor  to
the preparation of a work of wider range and a broader scope, —
a work which he was not permitted  to finish, — the " History of
the Reign of Philip the Second."  This was a theme requiring
a larger and more  comprehensive treatment than his previous
works.  He had now become one of the great literary names of
the age, and found everywhere  persons who were ready to give
him assistance.  Everywhere, both  public and private collections
and private archives were  thrown open to him.   It was while
preparing for  this work that he indulged himself with a brief
excursion  to England, where he was received with the utmost
enthusiasm by persons of the highest distinction in literature and
social life,  and where the favorable impression created  by his
Avorks was confirmed by his prepossessing appearance and delight-
ful manners.  He took ample time for the task which he destined
to be the crowning Avork of his life.  In the latter part of 1855
appeared  the  first two volumes of  this work, under the title of
the " History of the  Reign of Philip  the  Second, King of Spain."
The highest expectations of the public were gratified by it.
   In 1856, he published an edition of  Robertson's "History of
the Reign of  Charles the Fifth," with notes and a valuable sup-
plement,  containing an account of the emperor's life after his
abdication.
    But a feAv  AA-eeks before his death,  the third  volume  of his
"History of Philip the Second"  appeared ;  and the public journals
and  reviews on both sides of the  Atlantic  were  speaking  its
praises, as a Avork Avorthy the fame of its distinguished author,
Avhen the  news of his decease was received.
   No native   author has  shed more lustre on American  litera-
ture than  Air. Prescott.   The highest  acknowledgments  of
literary distinction  Avere liberally  showered  upon him.   The
University of  Oxford, in 1850, conferred upon him the degree
of doctor of laws.    He  received  the  same  degree from Co-
lumbia College, N.Y., in 1840; from  South Carolina College
in 1841;  and from Harvard College in 1843.  He was  elected
a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Northern Anti-
quaries,  Copenhagen, in  July, 1837;  of the Royal Academy 
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of History, Aladrid,  Alay, 1839 ;  of the  Royal  Academy of
Sciences, Naples, September,  1839 ;  of the Herculanean Acad-
emy,  Naples, Alay, 1841 ; of the Institute of France,  Paris,
under  the  division  of moral and political  science, and  in the
section of  general  history succeeding Navarete,  the Spanish
historian, without the previous knowledge or solicitation of him-
self  or friends, being  the highest of all  distinctions  of its
class, —an honor said never before to have  been conferred on
any native of  New England,  except Dr. Franklin, — 1 Feb-
ruary, 1845 ;  of the Prussian Imperial Academy of  Berlin,
February,  1845.  He was an honorary-member  of the  Royal
Society of  Literature, London ; of the Royal  Irish Academy;
of the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec ;  of the  Mexi-
can Society of Geography  and Statistics :  and was elected, in
1850,  an  honorary-fellow  of the Society of Antiquaries, Lon-
don.   He  was also a  member of the American  Academy of
Arts  and  Sciences,  the American  Philosophical Society,  and
the Massachusetts Historical  Society.   In private life, he Avas
a most entertaining and genial companion.   He was as rich in
the love of his friends as in  the  admiration  of the literary
world.   His  character was  thus  beautifully  and  eloquently
described,  a  few days  after his  death, by his former pastor:
" The man  Avas more than his books.   His character was  loftier
than  all his  reputation.   So  simple-minded, and  so  great-
minded ; so keen in his perceptions,  but  so kind  in  his judg-
ments  ; so resolute,  but so unpretending; so  considerate of
every one,  and so tasking of himself;  so full of the truest and
warmest affections ; so merry in his temper, without overleaping
a single due bound ; such spirit, but such equanimity ; so much
thoughtfulness, without the least cast of sickliness ;  doing good
as by the instinct of spontaneous activity, and doing labor Avith-
out a  wrinkle or a  strain; unswerving in his integrity,  and
with the nicest sense  of honor;  Avhom no disadvantage could
dishearten, no prosperity corrupt, no honors and  plaudits elate
or alter one whit; modest  as if he had never done any  thing ;
retaining through life all the artlessness of the highest wisdom;
with a liberal heart and open hand;  the ingenuousness of youth 
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flashing to the last from  his frank face ;  walking in sympathy
with his  felloAvs, and  humbly  before  God."
   Air. Prescott married,  4 May, 1820, Susannah,  daughter of
Thomas C.  and Hannah  R. Amory, of Boston.   They had
three  children, two sons and a daughter, who with their mother
survived  him.
   1815.—Hon.  George  Eustis died in New Orleans, 22
December, 1858, aged 62.   He was  the  oldest son of Jacob
and Elizabeth (Gray) Eustis ;  and  was born  in  Boston, 20
October, 1796.  He Avas fitted for college at the Boston Latin
School.   Soon after  his graduation, he  Avent  abroad  in the
capacity of private secretary to his uncle, Gov. AVilliam  Eustis
(H.C. 1772), then minister to the Hague;  the  secretary of the
legation  being Hon. Alexander Hill Everett (H.C. 1806), so
A\-ell known for his varied  attainments, Avith whom he formed  a
friendship that Avas life-long.   At the Hague he began his legal
studies, and drew, from the clear fountains  of the  civil laAv of
Holland, France, and Germany, those elementary principles and
stores  of learning, which, at a later period, he was destined to
exhibit to  such advantage in his career at the bar and on the  ,
bench.   On  his return from Europe,  he went to New Orleans,
where he  completed  his professional studies  Avith Abner L.
Duncan  of that city, and Avhere, on  his admission  to the bar
about the year 1822,  he established himself in  the  practice of
law.   He  soon began to attract notice  as an able jurist,  a
keen  logician, and a  speaker  and writer  of  great pith  and
terseness.  The bar of New Orleans then embraced some of the
ablest juridical minds in  the country.  The learned, laborious,
and  eloquent LiA'ingston; the  vigorous, ponderous,  and  sar-
castic  Alazureau;  the fluent,  graphic, and sensible  Grymes;
the Avell-read, sagacious, and  vigilant  Hennen;  and a  host
of  other younger attorneys, — many  of whom   have   since
reached the  highest places  in the profession,—were the for-
midable rivals among Avhom young Eustis was throAvn  to strug-
gle and contend for the prizes  of professional  distinction.   He
Avas  not unequal to the  contest.   Discarding  the arts  of the
advocate, the strategy of  the mere attorney, he  based his claims 
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   to consideration  as a hiAvyer  upon  his logical poAver, his thor-
   ough knowledge  of the science of hnv, his fine analytical talent,
   and his  clear, perspicuous,  laconic  style.   Oratory, or  elo-
   quence,  he held  in little  esteem ; and quibbling technicalities
   were his special disgust.   The reason of the hiw, its equity and
   philosophy, were the objects of his constant study and search;
   and, in the pursuit of these, he  deemed  it necessary to  render
   himself  perfectly familiar  with  the  history of jurisprudence.
   He was a thorough civilian, — one of the most accomplished in
   the United States.
     He was several  times elected a member  of the state legisla-
   ture ;  was secretary-of-state of Louisiana; and Avas for several
   years the  leading commissioner  of the Board  of Currency, an
   institution Avhich has been eminently serviceable in  guarding
   and regulating the  banking system.   He possessed a  thorough
   knowledge of  the  system of banking, and Avas  the author of
   many of those reforms which have given  so much stability and
   such a high character to the currency of the state  of Louisiana.
   He was also  attorney-general and assistant-justice  of the  Su-
,   preme Court of the state;  Avhich last position he  resigned to
   enter on  a somewhat lengthened tour in  Europe.  He was a
   leading member,  as a conservative democrat,  of the  convention
   for amending the state constitution, in 1845 ; and  became the
   chief-justice of the Supreme Court  as it  Avas remodelled  by
   that instrument.   During  his  term  of  office  he  performed
   much  mental  labor, Avith great success.    He  Avas  indefati-
   gable, and possessed an admirable method,  and  great command
   of his  resources.   His judicial  decisions were  marked by a
   clearness  of style and  logic, and a thorough acquaintance with
   law, AA'hich made them compare favorably  with the  best  to  be
   found in the English or American reports.  After the adoption,
   in 1852, of the present constitution of the state, which provides
   for popular election  of the judiciary, he  retired from  public
   life — being utterly opposed  to  the  election of judges by the
   people — to resume his  practice at the bar; which he did under
   flattering circumstances.
     To his great  professional learning  he  united an extensive 
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 acquaintance Avith English, French, and Spanish literature ; and
 Avas esteemed by his large circle of friends as a most entertain-
 ing and instructive companion;  and, if his  conversation Avas
 occasionally  dashed  with sarcasm, it was  often  replete with
 genuine humor and  racy wit.   He was  incorruptibly honest, a
 high-minded gentleman,  a  virtuous citizen, and  an excellent
 man.   He Avas naturally of a vigorous,  mental,  and physical
 constitution,  maintained by habits of  out-door exercise.   In
 1849, the honorary degree of doctor  of laws Avas conferred
 upon him by Harvard College.
    He married, in 1825, Clarissa Allain, of Louisiana, by whom
 he had six children,—four sons and  two daughters; one  of
 whom,  the Hon. George Eustis, jun.,  Avas for several  years
 the representative in Congress from the First Congressional Dis-
 trict of Louisiana.  His Avife survives him.
    1816. — William John Alden Bradford died at sea,  of
 Chagres fever, on the ^passage  from  Central America to New
 York, 28 November, 1858, aged 61 years.   He was the oldest
 son of  Hon. Alden (H.C. 1786) and  Alargaret  (Stevenson)
 Bradford, and was born in Wiscasset, Ale., 19 November, 1797.
 His father was born in  Duxbury, Mass., 19  Alay, 1765; was
 ordained  minister of  Pownalborough (now  Wiscasset),  Ale.,
 14 November, 1793 ; was dismissed 21 September,  1801 ; relin-
 quished the  ministry, removed to Boston,  and Avas clerk of
 the Supreme Court.  He afterwards engaged in the book-trade
 as a partner of the firm of Bradford and Read.  Leaving  trade
 for politics, he was secretary of state from 1812 to  1824.   He
 published a history of  Alassachusetts from 1760 to  1820, and
 several  other valuable works.  He died 26 October, 1843, ao-ed
 78 years.  The mother of this  notice was daughter of Thomas
 and Isabel Stevenson,  of Boston.  He was fitted for college
 principally at Exeter (N.H.) Academy, but completed his pre-
 paratory studies at the public Latin School in Boston.  After
 leaving  college, he studied law under the instruction of Hon.
 James Savage, of Boston, (H.C. 1803), and practised his pro-
fession in Essex and New Bedford.  He subsequently went to
Iowa, and practised in Dubuque some ten or twelve  years, where
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he AA^as for some time district-attorney.   lie afterAvards returned
to Alassachusetts ; Avas a clerk in the United-States Branch Bank
in Boston ; but, finding that the confinement Avas injurious to his
health, he resigned his situation, resumed the practice of the laAv,
and acted as a justice  in Charlestown, Alass., two or three years.
He then went  to Central America, intending,  if  he liked the
country, to settle there : but, it not meeting his expectations, he
concluded to return to  the United States ; and on  the voyage
home he Avas seized Avith  the fever which proved fatal, and he
AA-as buried at sea.  He Avas never married.
   1816. —Augustus Thorndike died in Boston, 25 Novem-
ber,  1858, aged 61.   He was son of  Hon.  Israel  and Anna
(Dodge) Thorndike,  and was born in Beverly, Alass., 8  July,
1797.   His father Avas a man of great ability and  energy.  It
has been  justly remarked, that "few individuals, endowed with
such mental  powers,  appear in a generation;  and Avhen their
influence is united, as  Avas his, with high moral  powers, and
exerted during a long life on the side  of virtue, and in promot-
ing the best interests of society, it is enduring,  and serves to give
a character to the age in Avhich they live." *
   At an early age, Augustus manifested a quickness of  appre-
hension, and much aptitude for learning; and  Col. Thorndike
was Aery desirous that his son  should receive  the best possible
education.   AA'ith this object in view, he sent  him, when about
eleven years of age, to Edinburgh, and placed him under the care
of the Rev. David  Irving, D.D., a very distinguished classical
scholar, in whose family he resided during all the  time  he re-
mained in Scotland.   After some preparation,  under the instruc-
tion of Dr. Irving, Augustus entered that Avell-known  seminary
called the High School of Edinburgh.  There  he  pursued his
studies Avith  diligence,  and made  very satisfactory  proficiency,
until about August,  1813, AA'hen his  father directed  him  to re-
turn home, for the purpose of having him enter  college at Cam-
bridge.  As war existed at that time betAveen England and the
United States, some delay occurred before a suitable ship could
be obtained in which he might cross the Atlantic.  On the 28th
* History of Harvard College, by Josiah Quincy, vol. ii. p. 413. 
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of September, he left Liverpool in what was denominated a car-
tel, together Avith forty-one  other Americans ;  and arrived at
Boston on the 4th of November.
   It may be proper here to state that Augustus conducted him-
self well AA'hile he lived  in  Edinburgh, and was held in good
estimation by his instructors and acquaintances.   The late Earl
of Buchan, the friend of Washington, took much interest in him,
familiarly calling him little Thorndike; and  he, as Avell as  the
celebrated Francis Jeffrey, the late Lord-Advocate'of Scotland,
shoAved Augustus much attention and kindness.   At the High
School, at  that  time, there were several pupils who  were  sons
of noblemen ; and, Avhen Augustus  entered  the school, these
pupils manifested a disposition to be rude to this young Ameri-
can.  One of the boys, who was son of an illustrious duke, often
took the liberty to run upon and hector young Thorndike ;  and
he seemed to be encouraged in this practice by some of his com-
rades.  This Avas borne with a good  degree  of patience for a
time ; but at length it became intolerable ;  and Augustus, having
consulted with his old friend, the Earl of Buchan, took a favor-
able  opportunity, when  he was  grossly assailed by the young
duke, as he was commonly  called, to redress  his  grievances.
Whereupon these two champions had  a furious set-to  and fight.
A ring Avas formed, and a large majority of the boys insisted
upon fair  play.  Augustus, AA'ho AA-as A'ery athletic,  and  was
expert in  boxing, gaA'e  the  young duke such a severe drub-
bing, that he cried for  quarter, and at length surrendered at dis-
cretion.  The young American was cheered, and proclaimed the
A'ictor.  Thenceforth he was in the ascendant, and Avas treated
with great deference and civility by all the boys in the school.
   On the return of Augustus, in November, 1813, he reviewed
his  studies,  and made some additional preparation  under  the
instruction of Air. George Alorey (H.C. 1811), who was then a
student-at-law in Boston.   On the 9th of February, 1814,  Mr.
Alorey offered him  for admission into Harvard College.   He
bore a verv satisfactory examination, and was admitted into  the
sophomore class by the unanimous \'oice of his several examin-
ers.   Augustus went  to  Cambridge under  circumstances  not 
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likely to insure to him a satisfactory progress through college.
He entered at an advanced standing, and became at the outset a
member of the sophomore class.   At the High School in Edin-
burgh he had been thoroughly drilled in  Latin and  Greek, and
his manner of pronouncing Greek and reciting in these  studies
was peculiar and striking.   His advent at  Cambridge  produced
quite a sensation among the students.   His dress and manners
attracted much notice.  Certain members of his class, and also of
the tAvo upper classes, Avhose companionship was  not calculated
to be particularly beneficial to him, sought  his  acquaintance.
They  Avere disposed to express surprise at his acquirements, and
at all times they courted and flattered him.  He frequently spoke
of the feats and exploits perpetrated at the High School in Edin-
burgh, and often gathered a croAvd around  him while he nar-
rated  what he had seen  and done.  He often expressed much
admiration of the arrangements at the school  he  had just left;
and, finding the rules to which he was noAV subject very different
from those he had been accustomed to, he Avas not slow to mani-
fest his  dissatisfaction and disgust with the regulations at Cam-
bridge.   This state of feeling led  him not unfrequently to  dis-
regard and disobey them, and he was encouraged to do  so  by
his associates.   In  consequence  of this,  he  was  seA'eral times
called to account by the,officers of the college ;  and,  Avhen ar-
raigned, he was not  inclined to manifest a proper respect or
deference to those who  administered  admonition to him.  At
length,  on the 6th of November, 1814, having become involved
in a complication of ordinary college difficulties, his  relations
Avith the  university were, by a vote of the faculty, wholly sus-
pended.   He then left Cambridge, and went to Groton, Mass.;
and there pursued his studies under the direction of his former
instructor, Air. Alorey, who had entered his name as a student-
at-law in  the office of the Hon. Luther Lawrence (H.C.  1801).
He remained at Groton about six months, where his conduct Avas
unexceptionable ; and he  fully kept up with his  class in their
studies.   On the 29th of Alay, 1815, he Avas again offered by
Air. Morey for admission ;  and, having borne a very good exam-
ination, he was again restored to his former standing in college. 
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At  the commencement  in  1816, he took  his  degree; but, as
might well haAe. been expected, he had no share in the special
honors of the day.
   After leaving college, he went to Gottingen, and there took
up  his residence, in  company with Air.  Joseph  G. Cogswell
(H.C. 1806).   After remaining a considerable time at Gottin-
gen, he, Avith Air. Cogswell, made an extensive tour, and visited
various parts of Europe.  In due time  he returned to the United
States.   He married, about the year  1824, Henrietta Steuart,
daughter of Dr. James Steuart, formerly of Annapolis,  Aid.,
and afterwards  of Baltimore.  The children  of this marriage are
four, — two sons and two daughters.   Their names are Rebecca
(now the wife of Lieut.  H. C. Marin,  of the navy), James
Steuart,  Charles,  and  Henrietta  Augusta.    James  Steuart
graduated at Harvard College in 1848, and  Charles in  1854.
    In the year  1836,  Air. Thorndike left Boston, with his family,
for the purpose of proceeding to Scotland, and taking up his
residence there for an indefinite length  of time.   On his arrival
in Scotland, he took a lease, for a term of years, of  an  estate
situated not far from  Edinburgh, with  a preserve attached  there-
unto, Avell stocked with game.  On this estate he resided several
years, amusing himself by shooting game  in  the season, and
by fishing in the Tweed and the various waters in Scotland.  He
Avas as enthusiastic an angler as Izaak  Walton.  He visited the
coast of Norway with a friend from Boston, and  spent several
days in fishing  on the coast of that country.   He invented a fly,
which he used for  the  purpose of  catching fish.  It was  called
the Thorndike fly, and became very famous throughout Scotland.
Such was his  success with this artificial fly, that he Avas invited
to  go to  Arundel,  in  England, and  use it for the purpose of
catchino- mullet in the river Arun.   This was a favorite fish with
Heliogabalus and other Roman emperors.    They often paid for
it at the rate of a sestertiuin ($40) for a pound.   The Duke of
Norfolk, through whose estate this stream runs, has a regulation
forbidding the taking of mullet by the  seine, net, or spear; and
as this wary fish cannot be caught by a hook used  in the  ordi-
nary  mode, Avhich  fact his  sagacious  lordship  well knew, the 
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above regulation amounted to an  entire prohibition.    But Air.
Thorndike declined going to Arundel for the purpose suggested,
until the consent of the noble duke should be first obtained.  He
remarked that it should not be said that an American gentleman
had attempted to practise any circumvention upon the Earl-AIar-
shal of England.
   After Air. Thorndike had resided several years in Europe, he
returned, with his family, to the United States.  He became OAvner
of a beautiful estate in Newport, R.I.,  which he occupied a con-
siderable period, until the marriage of his eldest daughter with
Lieut. Alarin.  After this event, he sold his estate, broke up his
establishment at Newport,  and went, with his family, to Europe.
He came to Boston in 1856, and remained here several months.
He, at this time, took an active part in the management of his
property.  He built a block of stores on the site of the old Com-
mercial Coffee-house, and to some extent superintended the work
himself.  He Avent back to Europe, and spent most of his time in
Paris ; and again,  in the month of June, 1858, he returned to
Boston,  for the purpose of purchasing a mansion-house in this
city, to be occupied by himself and his wife during their remain-
ing days.   At  the time of his  return,  and  for some months
afterwards, he appeared to be in excellent health.   In the course
of the summer, he set about making that long Avill, which has
been published, has attracted much attention, and has been point-
edly commented on in divers newspapers.  It was  completed
and executed 24 September, 1858 ; and was deposited, by order
of the testator, in the office of the Probate Court for the county
of Suffolk; to which tribunal he, without doubt, expected and
intended it should, upon his decease, be presented for allowance
and approval.   This will bears, in a peculiar manner, the im-
press of Mr. Thorndike's mind.   It is  obviously the result of
much reflection  and consideration ;  and is, in a great measure,
his own handiwork.   Undoubtedly he  received assistance on the
occasion from one  or more friends  learned in the  law.   The
circumstance that it is all in his OAvn handwriting, furnishes, to
those Avho knew him well, pregnant evidence that  he took a deep
interest in the matter,  and devoted  particular attention to the 
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preparation of this elaborate instrument.   This is not the  place
to discuss the character of this  important document, or the
merits of some of its provisions, the nature of Avhich resulted
from a certain family-difficulty.    AVhat the precise character of
this difficulty may have been, no one can fully know and compre-
hend  but the  parties themselves :  while  there is no doubt, that,
if he  had consulted any  of his judicious friends as to what sort
of a Avill  he should make,  a very different instrument, in one
important particular at least, would  have been the result of such
consultation :  but the testator, in this case, chose to make and
publish his own will, and not that  of a friend.   The will actually
executed is  emphatically Air.  Thorndike's  OAvn will.   He alone
is responsible for all  its provisions, and  he expected to be so
responsible.   It is just  such a will  as those who best knew Au-
gustus Thorndike would have expected him to  make, under  the
circumstances stated by  him in the instrument.
   Air. Thorndike possessed much intellectual power and vigor.
His  mind Avas  highly cultivated.   He was a  good  classical
scholar.   He  Avas a great reader of  ancient and modern history.
He had visited the most interesting portions of Europe.   He
had  seen  much, and  had  an excellent  opportunity to  make
discriminating observations upon men and manners.   He pos-
sessed a large fund  of accurate information in relation to Euro-
pean  society, and was  familiar  with its   prevailing  manners,
customs,  and usages.   He possessed colloquial   powers  of  a
high order.   He could make his conversation exceedingly pleas-
ant and interesting.   His  bearing  was that  of a gentleman.
His manners indicated good breeding, and a perfect knowledge
of the forms  and civilities belonging to  the best society.   In
his opinions and feelings, he was always conservative.  He was
early taught to respect and venerate the principles of Theophi-
lus Parsons,  Nathan  Dane,  George  Cabot, and  other  Essex
statesmen.    He  was, during the greater part of his life,  on
terms of intimacy  and friendship with many  distinguished
noblemen  in  England and Scotland.
   He was averse to labor, especially of an ordinary kind ;  but
he Avas capable of great physical exertion,  and would not shrink 
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 from long, vigorous, and continued  effort  in  anv thing about
 Avhich he felt a particular interest.   Pride was not a stranger to
 his bosom.   He Avas always desirous  of having reason to be
 proud of every member of his family, and of Avhatevcr  posses-
 sion  belonged to him.  Any disappointment, therefore, in this
 respect,  Avas to  him a sore grievance and  mortification.   He
 was ever anxious to  give  all his children  a perfect education.
 On some occasions, there Avere indications of his  being actuated
 by a  spirit of jealousy.  He  manifested much  sensibility Avhen
 he suspected that some wrong or fraud Avas intended to be prac-
 tised  upon him.  Nothing proA'oked him so much as to discover
 that  he  had been deceived, or imposed upon.   He Avas  slow
 to forget or forgive  a supposed injury of this kind, especially
 when he thought it had  been accomplished  b}T concealment or
 management.   He had  an iron will;  and, whenever  he  had
 given formal notice of a particular  purpose,  he was very certain
 to fulfil it.  AVhen he had made  a  decision or resolve, the thing
 Avas fixed, and a change  in  his  determination could hardly be
 expected.   If, like the Israelitish  captain, he made a vow,  like
 him he was sure to perform  it.   He never harbored,  for  any
 length of  time,  those ordinary  resentments Avhich many per-
 sons  persistently cherish.  He uniformly  entertained much re-
 spect for those  who  had been his tutors and instructors,  and
 ahvays expressed kind feelings towards  them.  Those Avho  had
 been  strict  and severe in their discipline formed no  exception to
 this  rule.   Notwithstanding he received  some rebuffs during his
 residence at Cambridge, he  manifested  much affection  for  the
 universitv.  He  sent his  two sons to Harvard College, where
 they graduated  in  due course ;  and  in his last will, which  has
 been  so  much criticised,  he remembered  his Alma Mater, and
 gave  a legacy of tAventy thousand dollars to  establish a  profes-
 sorship of music at the college,  to be managed, as far as prac-
ticable, according to  the statutes of the University of Oxford.
His provision respecting  the  management of the professorship
is  perfectly characteristic of  the testator.
   No one  could question  his veracity  or honesty.   AVhatever
he stated might always be implicitly relied upon;  and whatever 
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265
debt he owed he was certain to pay promptly,  and to the utter-
most farthing.   Every promise he made, or contract he entered
into, he never failed to perform, in the spirit  and to the letter.
AVhile he exacted strict and perfect justice of others, such jus-
tice he was at all times ready to do  on his part.   This was Avith
him a constant maxim and fixed principle of conduct.   He Avas
conscious of having committed errors  during  his  career.   This,
notwithstanding his pride, he on several occasions  confessed to
some  of his  most intimate  and confidential  friends.  He often
regretted that he had not  studied a profession, or engaged in
some  business, which would have required constant attention,
and given him regular employment.   One circumstance should
not be  forgotten in this connection.    He eschewed the great
mistakes often committed by the sons of rich men.   He not
only did not waste or impair the large property derived from
his father's will, but greatly increased  it by his prudence and
good  management.  For  this, his  family certainly have much
reason to  express feelings of pride and thankfulness.   EA'ery
member thereof may well be  particularly grateful, that, by the
provisions Air. Thorndike has  made for his worthy and excellent
wife,  he has given her the means, in her own judicious  way, to
make amends, in a great  degree, for the  most objectionable
feature  of her husband's will; and it  is hoped that it will not
be deemed impertinent to suggest,  in conclusion, that her quiet
and prudent management will be vastly more likely to promote
justice and equity, the peace of the family, and the good  of all
concerned, than a long and protracted course of litigation.
   1820. — Charles  Butterfield  died   in Tyngsborough,
Alass.,  26  July, 1858, aged  62.  He was  son  of Capt. Asa
and Abiah  (Colburn) Butterfield, and was born in  Tyngs-
borough, 21 December,  1795.   He was fitted  for college  at
Westford Academy.  Having chosen  the profession of law, he
pursued his  legal studies under the  tuition of Hon.  Daniel
Richardson,  of Tyngsborough.  On the completion of his pro-
fessional studies,  and  having  been admitted  to  the bar, he
opened an office in his native town; but relinquished the profes-
sion a few years afterwards,  and devoted himself to agriculture.
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He Avas never married.   He Avas a man of a  most amiable and
genial disposition, with  a fund of Avit ever  at command,   lie
Avas  one of the four, of the class of 1820,  Avho  established in
1818, in college, the  renowned "Med. Fac. Society."  The
other three Avere James Ferdinand Deering, of Portland, Ale. ;
David Priestley Hall, of Pomfret, Conn. (noAV  of NeAv-York
City) ;  and  the Avriter  of this notice.
   Air. Butterfield Avas universally esteemed  by the inhabitants
of his native toAvn.   He represented the town in the state legis-
lature in  1834 and  1835.   Possessed of  the most kind and
philanthropic feelings, he Avas  ahvays  ready  to afford his ser-
vices  to benefit his felloAv-beings.   At the bedside of the sick,
he was unwearied in his Avatchings ;  to the afflicted, he was a
comforter; to those who needed counsel in Avorldly matters, his
services were always freely given ;  and, being  a Avell-read law-
yer, he had great influence in preventing litigation.
   In 1857,  he Avas  appointed  librarian of the Aliddlesex  Ale-
chanic Association in Lowell, and took up his residence  in  that
city.  It Avas a quiet place among books ; and, with the changes
contemplated, was just the situation Avhere he hoped to pass, in
a manner suited to his tastes, among pleasant companions, many
long years of a healthy  and vigorous  old age.  He was  in  per-
fect health, Avas careful of himself, and was of a long-lived race ;
his father having lived, in  robust  health, to the age  of 94
years.  But it was decreed otherwise.   In the midst of the hap-
piness he  enjoyed in his new position, and the pleasure Avhich his
friends took in having him there, he was suddenly, in February,
1858, attacked with a disease of the  heart, Avhich  satisfied him
at once that his plans for the future were soon to come to an
end.   He remarked, that, amid all the death-scenes he had wit-
nessed, he had always hoped for a sudden  exit for himself, and
was happy that the nature of his disease promised this.   But in
this  he Avas not gratified.    He went  home  to die, contentedly
and patiently ; but for Aveeks he  lingered Avith great suffering,
though with perfect submission  to his fate.   He  was   greatly
beloved and respected  by the people  among whom he passed
nearly the whole of his life; and who, in  his  de'ath, mourn the
loss of a  worthy, good man. 
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   1822.—Rev. Benjaviin Clark  Cutler Parker died in
NeAA'-York City, 28 January, 1859, aged 62.  He was the sixth
son of Rev. Samuel (H.C. 1764) and Anna (Cutler) Parker,
and Avas born in Boston, 6 June, 1796.   His father was rector
of Trinity Church, Boston, and bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in Alassachusetts.   Deprived of the directing care
of his father before he had completed  his eighth year, he enjoyed
the careful tutelage of a Christian mother, whose fidelity and
consistency were a lantern in his path.   He entered the Boston
Latin School in the year 1808 ; and, having successfully pursued
a literary  course in that institution for three years, he left, and
went into the counting-house  of Blodget,  Power, and AVheeler,
Avhere he remained until the dissolution of that firm, Avhen he
Avas transferred to the counting-house of the late James Carter,
on Central AVharf.  Soon after the breaking-out of the Avar, he,
being  of  the  age at  AA'hich  military duty was  required, was
draughted from the militia to  serve  on the defenceless forts in
Boston harbor ; but a substitute Avas  obtained by his employer,
Avith Avhom he remained a year or tAvo longer, when,  by one of
those little incidents directed  by the  guiding  Spirit, he AA'as led
to the determination to  devote himself to the Christian ministry.
One Sunday, after  attending  the  services of  the church, he
was  thoughtlessly induced  to enter one of those places  of re-
freshment  Avhich the vigilant eye of the law often overlooks or
ignores ; and, on coming out  of that  place, his thoughts became
ill at ease, at Avhat, from maternal instruction, he Avas  convinced
was  a violation of the sanctity of the  Lord's day.   He at first
thought of the pain it Avould give to a Christian  mother,  should
she know Avhere he had  been;  and this reflection  was followed
by a consideration  of the  reasons why she Avould disapprove of
such a resort  on such a day.  Stung  by the reflection, his walk
homeward Avas prolonged, he knew not Avliither,  until he reached
the open air and sunshine  of the country.  There was a quiet-
ness around him not in unison Avith  his feelings Avithin; and it
became evident to  him  that he was  the  object  of an internal
struggle between the world above and that below.   By the grace
of God, the world beloAv Avas  vanquished ; nor did he rest until 
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he had resolved to give himself heart and soul to the service of
God.  This at as the beginning of  a  neAv life.   From that time,
he determined to relinquish the flattering prospects of mercantile
advancement before him, and to  renew his studies  under  the
direction of that rare and ripe classical  scholar, the late Rev.
Dr. John S. J. Gardiner, of Trinity Church, the  assistant and
successor of his father, with the view of preparation for the min-
istry.  He Avas soon prepared for college, and entered in 1818.
In his freshman year, he obtained a BoAvdoin prize for an  essay
on the Life and Character of Dr.  Johnson.*   He graduated Avith
high rank.  His religious sympathies received fostering  encour-
agement under the faithful ministry of  the Rev.  Dr. Asa Eaton
(H.C. 1803),  of Christ Church, of which he became a commu-
nicant in 1816, tAvo  years before  his  entrance  into  college.
While preparing for the ministry, he opened a private school in
the vestry of St. Paul's Church, in  his  native  city ;  and, as a
remarkable instance of his perseverance, it may be mentioned, that
for nearly four months he here  labored Avith only three pupils.
His  persevering fidelity,  however, Avas soon rewarded; and he
was compelled to limit his numbers,  and  deny many applications
for admission.   He  Avas ordained a deacon by Bishop Griswold,
in Trinity Church, Boston;  and was admitted to priest's orders
at St. Alichael's Church,  in Bristol, R.I., 17 Alay, 1826.  Soon
after his ordination,  he gave up his school,  then in the full tide
of successful experiment, for the beloved object  of his heart,—
the work of the Christian ministry.  His first labors Avere in the
church in Gardiner,  Ale. ; but, by the  persuasion of his bishop,
he Avas  induced  to  visit  Lenox, in  Alassachusetts, to  attempt
to resuscitate a church then  almost extinct  in that place.  Be-
coming interested in this new field  of labor, he remained  six
years in that beautiful but retired village, instead  of a few months
as  he expected.   From  Lenox  he removed  to  AVoodstock,
Vt.,  Avhere he labored for a similar period.  He  afterAvards
labored in Plainfield and  other places for three  years; uniting,
as it were, the  labors of a pious missionary with  those of a faith-
  * This production will be found entire in the "  Aids to English Composition," a
work prepared by his brother, Richard Greene  Parker (H.C. 1817), p. 380. 
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 ful parish-priest.  In 1842, he removed to the city of NeAv York,
 and  supplied the Church of the Ascension during the absence of
 its rector, the present Bishop of Massachusetts.  He subsequent-
 ly took charge of a church in Flushing, L.I., for six  months;
 Avhen he was invited to the scene of his last labors, the " Float-
 ing Chapel for Seamen," where for more than fifteen years he
 labored Avith singular ability and  fidelity.  This was a field  of
 labor entirely  congenial to his taste, and  for which  he  pos-
 sessed  signal  qualifications.    The hardy  mariners, they  who
 go down to the sea in ships, and behold the wonders of the Lord
 on the  deep, were  met with a sympathy, which,  like a  key,
 opened the secrets of their souls ;  and  thousands of volumes —
 Bibles,  prayer-books, tracts, religious stories—were sent on  their
 missionary labors in the ships' forecastles ;  and many a foot, that
 came to the chapel  to scoff, "remained to pray."  His labors
 were brought to a  sudden  close.  He  died, after an illness  of
 six days, of congestion of the  lungs.   His physical sufferings
 during this period were intense ; but his mind Avas clear, tran-
 quil, and composed.   He was fully aware of his situation ; but
 his soul, in  perfect peace, reposed in Christ.   Disdaining all
 dependence on his own merits, he trusted solely to the  atoning
 sacrifice of his Saviour for his acceptance at the mercy-seat;  and,
 with  simple,  childlike faith, he resigned  himself wholly — to
 use  his  own words — "to the  adorable, lovely, blessed will  of
 God ; " and,  in this delightful frame of mind, he passed  at  last,
 Avithout a struggle or a groan, to a blissful immortality.
   He  married, 7  February, 1833,  Frances, daughter of the
 late Dr. Shirley Erving, — a descendant of the celebrated Gov.
 Shirley, — a lady whose religious sympathies had long been in
 unison with his OAvn, and with whom he enjoyed a life of matri-
 monial harmony, extending over a period of more than a quarter
 of a century.   She survived him.   They had no children.
   1825. — Dr. Clifford Dorr, of Boston, died in the McLean
 Asylum, Somerville, Mass.,  19 August, 1858, aged 52.   He
 was  son of John and Esther  (GoldtliAvait) Dorr, and was born
in Boston,  2  No\rember, 1805.  He Avas fitted for college at the
public Latin School in Boston.   After graduating, he  studied 
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medicine under the instruction of Dr. George IlayAvard, of Bos-
ton (H.C. 1809) ; and received the degree  of M.D.  in 1*29.
He practised his profession in Braintree and Quincy, Mass., and,
for a short time, in Matagorda,  Tex.   On the 6th of Septem-
ber, 1840, he sailed from Ncav York, as a passenger, in the ship
" Coriolanus," Francis A.  Bertody (his brother-in-law), master,
to  Sydney, New South AVales;  and returned home by way of
Calcutta and  St.  Helena; arriving at  Ncav  York in January,
1842.   In Alarch, 1855, he was  seized with a severe paralysis
of the brain; from which, however, he partially recovered the
following  year, and his convalescence continued for five months  :
but in December,  1856, he experienced a second attack, which
so affected his mental faculties, that it  became necessary to re-
move him to  the  Hospital for the Insane, in Somerville, where
he  remained until death closed the scene.  He was never mar-
ried.
    1826.—Dr. Samuel  Sawyer died in Cambridge, Alass.,
5 January,  1859, aged 54.   He was son of Samuel Flagg and
Patience (Learned) Sawyer,  and was  born in Cambridge,  20
March, 1804.  His father was a mason in Cambridge, and Avas
born in Sterling,  Alass.   His mother Avas a native of Water-
town, Alass., and survived him.   After  leaving college, he was
for some time employed as a teacher in  Chelmsford, Alass.  He
then began the study of medicine ; and  after going through a
regular course, and receiving the degree of M.D., he settled as
a physician in Fairhaven, Mass., where he practised with good
success for several  years.   Soon after the discovery of gold in
California, about the year 1849, he was applied to  by a company
to go  to that place;  which application he accepted, and went
round Cape Horn.   On his arrival there, he resumed the  prac-
tice of his profession, and also kept an apothecary's-shop.  After
remaining  there about four years, he returned, and settled in
Cambridge, Avhere  he  passed the  remainder of his life.  He was
a very  successful agent, for  a year or  two, among the poor in
Cambridge, during which time he published one or two reports.
He was also a member of the city-council;  and,  in 1857 and
1858,  was  one of the  school-committee.   He was highly es- 
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teemed  as a  physician and a citizen.   He married, 23 Novem-
ber, 1833, Aliss Lucy Tufts,  of Charlestown, Alass.,  by whom
he had six children, — all daughters, — who, with their mother,
survive  him.
   1830.—Horatio Sprague  Eustis  died  at his plantation
in Issaquena  County,  Aliss.,  5 September,  1858,  aged 46.
He was son  of Gen.  Abraham  (H.C.  1804)  and  Rebecca
(Sprague)  Eustis,  and Avas  born at  Fort  Adams,  Newport,
R.I.,  25 December, 1811.  He was fitted for college at Round-
Hill  School,  Northampton,  Alass., under the superintendence
of Joseph  Green  Cogswell  (H.C.  1806)  and George  Ban-
croft  (H.C.  1817).   After  leaving  college,  he studied law;
Avent to the AA^es't;  and  finally settled,  as a lawyer, in Natchez,
Avhere he continued in  the practice of his  profession, with the
exception of an interval of a  year or two, until his death.  He
married, 10 Alay, 1838, Catharine, daughter of Henry Chotard,
a planter.   He left a widow and ten children, seven sons and
three  daughters.
   1830.—Rev. Barzillai Frost died in Concord,  Mass.,
8 December, 1858, aged 54.  He was born in Effingham, N.H.,
18 June, 1804.  He Avas fitted  for college  at  Exeter (N.H.)
Academy, under the charge of Benjamin Abbot, LL.D. (H.C.
1788), and graduated at that  institution Avith the highest honors.
He then entered the  sophomore class at Harvard.   AVhile in
college, he held a high rank in his class, and graduated with dis-
tinction.  On  leaving college, he Avas appointed  preceptor of
Framingham Academy,  which situation he held two years.   In
1832, he entered the Divinity School  at  Cambridge,  where  he
completed his theological  studies.   During this period, he Avas
appointed instructor in  mathematics to the senior class  in the
college, in place of Prof. Farrar, who visited Europe for the bene-
fit of his health. This situation he filled two years, pursuing his
theological studies at the same time.   On leaving the Divinity
School,  he began to preach ; and in January, 1836, received an
invitation to settle as pastor of the Unitarian Church and Society
in Barnstable, Mass. ; and, in September of the same year,  he
received a call to settle in Northfield, Alass. : both  of  which 
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inA'itations he declined.  On the 1st of February, 1837, he was
ordained as colleague Avith Rev. Ezra Ripley, D.D. (H.C. 1776),
over the Unitarian Church and Society in Concord.   Dr. Ripley
died 21 September, 1841,  at  the  age of 90 years;  and Air.
Frost  continued in the uninterrupted, active, and successful dis-
charge of his duties as  pastor until the autumn of 1855, when,
in consequence  of a  severe cold, his lungs  became  seriously
affected, and he was  obliged to  relinquish his pastoral  duties.
In February, 1856, he sailed for St. Thomas ; and, after spend-
ing nearly three months on that island,  and on the islands of
Jamaica, Cuba,  and St. Croix, he returned to the United States.
He came home  by way of Charleston, S.C.  ;  and reached Con-
cord the last of Alay.  His  health continuing feeble, he sailed on
the 24th of November for St. Croix, where he passed about five
months;  and, on his return, he visited the Island of Bermuda,
where he remained several weeks.  He arrived home  the latter
part of June, 1857.   His health being still in a very precarious
state,  he was obliged,  on the 13th of September, 1857, to ask a
dismission, which was  granted with great reluctance ; his parish-
ioners unanimously expressing  on the occasion their great regret
that the interesting relation which had so  long existed between
them  and their beloved pastor should be terminated, and mani-
festing in various ways their strong and affectionate regard for
him.   His pastoral relation  closed on the 3d  of October, 1857.
   A  few weeks before  the termination of his connection with
the church and  society,  he suffered a severe affliction in the de-
parture from this life of  his distinguished  and excellent parish-
ioner,  the Hon.  Samuel Hoar (H.C. 1802).   One of the last,
and probably the very last sermon Avhich he wrote, was that which
he preached  on the  Sunday after the interment of his lamented
and faithful  friend.   Though  written by Air. Frost Avhile in a
feeble  state of health, it was a full and just tribute to the memory
of a great and good man.  For a period of about twenty years,
Air. Frost performed  all the duties of  an active, zealous, and
faithful minister.   Every good cause found in  him an earnest
and efficient friend  and advocate.  His ministry was a very use-
ful and successful one.   A satisfactory evidence of this is, that, 
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during the Avhole course of his labors at Concord, he secured the
entire  respect, and enjoyed the  uninterrupted confidence and
friendship, of Samuel Hoar.
   On  the 24th  of November, 1857, Mr. Frost, accompanied
by his faithful and excellent Avife,  and his youngest  son, a very
interesting boy of  about  ten  years of age, sailed from Boston
for Fayal, one of the Azores, in the hope that it  might restore
him  to health.   After  remaining;  at the  island about  eight
months, he returned to his native  shore.   He arrived at Boston
on the 17th of August, 1858.  His visit to Fayal  was a most
unfortunate movement.   It happened that the weather was, for
a considerable time, cold  and chilly : so  inclement a season was
never before known at that island.  Air. Frost  suffered very
much on  account of the cold and dampness ; and it became
manifest that there  was little or no chance of his recovery.   In
the midst  of his suffering, a most distressing affliction befell him,
in the loss of the child who accompanied him.  On the 31st of
Alay, the  lovely boy  went up  a  mountain  near  the  residence
of his parents,  in  company with a  party of friends;  and, on
their  return, he deviated from  the path usually taken, and fell
over  a precipice into a  ravine about  seventy feet deep :  by
the fall his spine was broken.   After lingering about two days,
he expired in the  arms of his distressed mother.   Great sympa-
thy was manifested on the occasion by the members  of the
several very respectable families of Fayal; and great kindness
Avas shown to  Mr. Frost and his family by all the people, during
their residence on the island.
   On the arrival  of Mr. Frost  at Boston, he was in a very
prostrate  condition  ; and  Avas borne  from  the  ship to the resi-
dence  of  a friend in the city, where he remained about a week.
He was then  carried to Concord, and was there  received  into
the house  of  his  kind and faithful friend and physician,  Dr.
Josiah Bartlett  (H.C. 1816).    Finding himself in so com-
fortable a  mansion, among a host  of his friends, consisting of
his former parishioners and other esteemed  acquaintances, his
spirits  revived, and his  strength  seemed to  be  considerably
improved.  He rode out a few times, and had  the  satisfaction
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of taking a parting  look  at  the places endeared to him as hav-
ing been  the  scenes of the  cares and pleasures Avith which he
was conversant during  his  Christian ministry.   He took great
comfort in being able  to see and converse Avith his dear friends
once more.  At length, he began to grow weaker; and, about
the 1st of November,  the symptoms of a  speedy dissolution
were manifested : but he still lingered until the 8th of  Decem-
ber,  Avhen, in  the presence of his  wife and son, and his faithful
physician and other dear friends,  his spirit took  its  flight to
another and a better world.
   Air. Frost  married, 1 June, 1837, Elmira Stone, youngest
daughter  of Daniel  and Sally (Buckminster)  Stone,  of Fra-
mingham.  They had four children, two  of whom died in infan-
cy.  Another died in  Fayal, under  the circumstances above
mentioned.  The surviving son graduated at Harvard College
in 1858 ; and became  a  student-at-law  in  the  office  of Hon.
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, in Boston (H.C.  1835).  This son
stood  by the bedside to smooth the pillow and administer to the
wants  of his  languishing parent.   The faithful and affectionate
wife devoted herself, Avith unremitting care and watchfulness, to
the  beloved husband through all the stages of his disease, until
the  last moment came, when she closed  his eyes, and Avitnessed
with what faith and hope a Christian could die.
    1834.—Eugene Fuller Avas  drowned from on board  the
 steamship "Empire  City," 21 June, 1859, on the passage from
New Orleans to New York via Havana.   He  was forty-four
 years  old.   He Avas the eldest  son of  Hon. Timothy (H.C.
 1801)  and Margaret  (Crane) Fuller, and was  born in  Cam-
bridge,  Mass., 14  Alay,  1815.   After leaving  college, he
 studied  law,  partly at  the Law  School in Cambridge, and
 partly in the  office of George Frederick Farley, Esq., of Gro-
 ton, Alass.  (H.C. 1816).  After his admission  to the bar, he
 practised his  profession two years in Charlestown, Alass.   He
 afterwards Avent to  New  Orleans,  and was  connected with the
 public press  of that city.   He  spent several summers there;
 and, some tAvo or three years ago,  was affected by  a sun-stroke,
 which resulted  in a softening of the brain,  and ultimately in a 
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brain-fever, Avhich came very near proving fatal, and left him in
a shattered condition.  His friends  hoping  that  medical treat-
ment at the North might benefit him, he embarked with  an
attendant on board the " Empire City," for New York.   AVhen
one  day out, his attendant being prostrated Avith sea-sickness,
Air.  Fuller Avas  left alone, and was not afterwards seen.   He
must have been lost overboard.  The " New-Orleans Picayune "
of the 30th June, with AA-hich  he Avas  some time connected, says,
" His industry, reliability, and intelligence were equalled only  by
his invariably mild, correct, amd gentlemanly demeanor ;  and he
was  liked and respected by all Avho knew him."
   Air.  Fuller married Airs.  Rotter,  a  widoAv  lady of New
Orleans, originally of Philadelphia.  They had five children,  —
three sons and tAvo daughters.
   1835. — Dr.   Aaron  Larkin Leland  died  in Detroit,
Mich.,  14 No\'ember,  1858, aged  45.  He was son  of Jo-
seph P. and Tryphena (Richardson)  Leland,  and was born in
Sherburne, Alass., 21 August, 1813.   His mother was daughter
of Dr. Abijah Richardson, of Aledway, Alass., a  surgeon in the
Revolutionary war.  He was fitted for college by Air.  Nathan
Ball (B.U.  1826), and Rev. Amos Clarke (H.C. 1804),  of
Sherburne.   After leaving college, he pursued his medical stud-
ies  Avith Drs.  Charles Harrison  Stedman  and  Jerome Van
CroAvninshield Smith, of  Boston.   During his   pupilage,  he
spent much of his  time in various hospitals in the vicinity  of
Boston : viz., at the Alarine Hospital in Chelsea, of which Dr.
Stedman was then the physician;  at  Rainsford Island, of which
Dr.  Smith  was superintendent,  and where  Dr.  Leland  re-
mained, and took much of the charge during a season when the
small-pox was very prevalent;  and also at the Lying-in Hospi-
tal on  Boston Neck.   In July, 1839, he removed to Pontiac,
Oakland County,  Alich. ;  and settled there in the practice  of
his profession, in  connection  with Dr.  Isaac  Paddack,  an old
and  esteemed practitioner of that place.   In 1847, he remoA'ed
to Detroit, where  he continued in successful practice until  his
death.   Pie  Avas  a  thorough and scientific practitioner;  having
brought to the  aid of  discriminating qualities  of  a high  order, 
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 and a judgment of great soundness, minute and extensive read-
 ing  and a Avide practice.    He  deservedly ranked  among  the
 first medical men of the  day.   In his personal attributes,  he
 was eminently prudent, thoughtful, reflecting, and sagacious;
 correct in every principle ; of scrupulous  uprightness ; prompt
 and diligent in his profession ;  trustworthy and punctilious in
 every transaction.  He Avon  the esteem of all Avho knew him,
 by his urbane manners, his integrity of character, and his  hu-
 mane disposition.   He married, 17 June, 1856, Sarah Elizabeth
 Livermore,  daughter  of Hon. Isaac Livermore, of Cambridge,
 Alass.   He  had two  children, — a  son and a daughter.   The
 former  died in infancy : the latter, with her mother, survived
 him.
   1836. —Edavard Augustus Crowninshield died in Bos-
 ton, 20 February, 1859, aged 41.   He was the fourth son of
 Hon. Benjamin AVilliam and Alary (Boardman) Crowninshield,
 and was born in  Salem, Alass., 25 February, 1817.  He was
 fitted  for college  at  Round-Hill  School  in  Northampton,
 Alass.,  under the charge  of Joseph  Green  Cogswell (H.C.
 1806)  and   George Bancroft  (H.C.  1817).   After leaving
 college, he went through a course of legal studies in the  office
 of Franklin  Dexter (H.C. 1812) and AVilliam Howard Gardi-
 ner  (H.C.  1816), and was admitted to the bar, but  never
 practised ;  his pecuniary circumstances being  such as not to
 require  him  to toil for his daily bread.   About the first of
 December, 1859,  in company with some friends, he Avent on a
pleasure-excursion to  Europe,  and returned  the  next  year.
In 1856,  he again went to  Europe, with  the hope that  the
voyage would be the means of restoring his health, which had
been for some time previously in a delicate  state.   He spent the
winter of 1856-7  at Pau, in the south of France ;  thence he
went to Madeira, where he passed the winter of 1857—8  ; and
returned the following June, without having  experienced any
permanent relief.   He  Avas a gentleman of exceedingly pleasing
manners and prepossessing appearance.   Of an equable temper-
ament, he had no  ambition for public honors or political promi-
nence ;  but Avas a great lover of literature, and was passionately 
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fond of books.   He had one of the rarest and choicest private
libraries in this part of the country.  His taste in bibliography
was exquisite.  He Avanted not only the best books, but the best
editions.   His  library was particularly rich  in early American
history and biography.  He  had a copy of  the  " Bay Psalm
Book,"  the first  book  that  Avas printed  in New England.
Among other rarities, he  had an original  copy  of Cushman's
" Plymouth Sermon ;" " Purchas his Pilgrimes ;" Smith's " His-
tory of  Virginia  and  NeAv  England"  (an  original  copy) ;
"Hypocrisie Unmasked," by EdAvard AVinslow ; Hakluyt's  Voy-
ages,  published in  1582; an  original  copy  of "The  Christian
Commonwealth," by John Eliot; and a similar copy of "Brad-
ford and AVinsloAv's  Relation,"  published  in  London; " The
Schoolmaster," by Roger Ascham;   "Coryat's Crudities"  of
1611, from the library of the Duke of  Sussex;  "The AVhole
Book of  Psalms," by  Sternhold and Hopkins;  a  book  on
angling,  by Bernes,  bearing  date of  1486;  the  "Nuremburg
Chronicle" of  1493 ; King  James's  AVorks ;  Dibdin's biblio-
graphical  works ; and " Samuel Gorton's Answer to  Alorton's
Alemorial,"  in  manuscript.
   Mr. CroAvninshield read the books he bought, with  discrimi-
nation and profit.   His mind,  manners, and  language indicated
refinement  and scholarship.   His whole  life was regulated by
good  sense, good taste,  and  good  feeling.  He secured the
esteem, the confidence, the affection, of all Avho were sufficiently
acquainted Avith him to know his true character.   He Avas for
some time a trustee of the  Boston Athenaeum, and took a  deep
interest  in the  art-exhibitions  of that  institution.    He  Avas
elected, 11 November,  1858, a member of the Massachusetts
Historical Society; an  honor  to which  his scholarly  acquire-
ments and literary taste justly entitled him.  He married,  15
January,   1840, Caroline  Alaria Welch, daughter of Francis
Welch, Esq.,  of Boston.  They had three  children, all sons;
the eldest of Avhom graduated at Harvard  College in 1861.
   183s. — Dr.  AVilliam  Augustus  Briggs,  of  Boston,
died in Baltimore,  Aid., 19 May, 1859, aged 39.   He was the
only child of  AVilliam and  Alary (Clark)  Briggs,  and  was 
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born in Boston, 12 July, 1819.   His father,  Avho  Avas a na-
tive  of Little  Compton, R. I, Avas a  merchant  in  Boston,
and died of consumption in Alatanzas, Cuba  (whither he had
gone for the benefit of his health),  14 Alay, 1828, aged 37.
His remains were brought back  to Boston, and corn-eyed to
AVatertown, Alass., for interment.   His mother Avas  a daughter
of John Clark, Esq.,  of AVatertoAvn,  Avhere she  Avas  born
Alarch, 1796 :  she died in Boston, 19 January, 1854, aged 57.
Young Briggs began his  preparatory studies for admission  into
college  at Woburn Academy, under  the instruction of Alfred
AVashington Pike (D.C.  1815).  Thence he went to Framing-
ham Academy, under  Barzillai  Frost  (H.C. 1830).   At these
institutions he remained four  years; and he completed his
studies under Rev. Theodore Parker, of AVatertown, aftenA'ards
of Boston, Avith whom he remained one year.   After leaving
college, he studied medicine at the  Tremont Aledical School in
Boston, under the charge of Drs. Jacob Bigelow (H.C. 1806),
EdAA'ard Reynolds  (H.C. 1811),  David Humphreys Storer
(BoAvd.C.  1822), and Oliver AVendell Holmes (H.C. 1829).
On completing his medical studies, he began the practice of his
profession in Boston ;  but, being left with an ample competence,
it Avas not necessary for him to depend upon his profession  as  a
means  of support.  Still, however, he was very successful;  and,
until his health failed, Avas rapidly rising to  distinction.   He
Avas of a most amiable  disposition, and  led  a blameless  and
exemplary life.  The  death of  his mother  Avas a sad  affliction
to him, from Avhich he seemed never to recover.   The  incipient
symptoms of consumption not long afterAvards  began to develop
themselves, and he endured a long and painful  sickness.  But,
notAvithstanding all his sufferings, not a word of complaint ever
passed his  lips.  In  order to  escape  the rigors  of a  northern
climate, he passed the last two Avinters of his life with a relative
in Baltimore,  where  he  received every attention and comfort
which kind affection and endearment  could procure, and where
he calmly and  peacefully  passed aAvay.  He Avas never  married.
His remains Avere brought to the North, and interred at Alount
Auburn. 
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   1838.—Asa  Hammond  AVhitney  died  in  Aricksburg,
Miss., 8 October,  1858,  aged 39.   He  was son of Asa  and
Alary (Hammond) AVhitney, and was born in Boston, 17 June,
1819.   After leaving college, he made a voyage to the Mediter-
ranean for his health,  and  subsequently Avent to Rio Janeiro as
supercargo.   On his return, he  embarked  in  business as  a
junior partner in the house of HenshaAv and AVhitney, Avholesale
druggists, in Boston ;  but for several years resided in Cambridge,
where he built and occupied the house now owned by Charles
Russell Lowell, Esq.  He  subsequently  removed to Norfolk,
Va., Avhere he managed the financial affairs of the Seaboard and
Roanoke  Railroad  Company for  many  years   with  marked
ability; and, at the time of his decease, was filling an important
trust in Alississippi.   He was  a  man of great energy and  ear-
nestness  of  character, of warm  and cordial feelings, and most
courteous and winning manners ;  of an ardent temperament and
a  strong will;  a most genial companion, and a steadfast friend.
He married, 3 October,  1842,  Aliss Laura Leffingwell Hen-
shaw, of Alabama,  niece and  adopted  daughter of the  late
David Henshaw, of Leicester, Alass.  He had five children,—
viz.,  Laura LeffingAvell, Anna  Henshaw,  Catharine A^irginia,
Hammond, and Emily, — who, with their mother, survived him.
    1843.—Joseph  Hurd  AValker,  of  AVest  Townsend,
Alass., died at the residence of his father, in  Boston, 16 Octo-
ber,  1858,  aged 36.  He  AA-as  son  of Dr.  William Johnson
AValker  (H.C. 1810)  and  Eliza (Hurd) AValker,  and  was
born  in  Charlestown, Alass., 19 September, 1822.   He  was
fitted for college in  Exeter, N.H.  He held a very respectable
rank in his class,  and graduated with  distinction.  He was  par-
ticularly distinguished for talents  in mathematics.   After leaving
college, he prepared himself for the profession of a civil-engi-
neer, in Avhich  business  he became  quite* distinguished.  He
made the surveys and  superintended the  construction of the
Peterborough and Shirley  Railroad, which he completed  to the
entire satisfaction of the  stockholders, and at much less than
the estimated cost.   A feAv years afterwards he relinquished the
business  of engineering, purchased a farm  in AVest Townsend, 
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 and devoted  the  remainder of his days  to agriculture.  He
 married, in 1845, Anna Al. Babbit, of CharlestoAvn.  They had
 six children,  of whom five survived him:  one  died in  1^5.3.
 His Avidow also survived him.
    1844.—Joseph  Brown  Smith died in Louisville, Ky.,
 6 Alay, 1859, aged 36.  He was born in  Dover, N. H., 14
 Alarch, 1823.  At birth, his sight was perfect; but, ere a Aveek
 had passed, a disease fastened upon his  eyes, which resulted in
total, incurable blindness.   AVhen  three years of age, he lost his
 father.   His mother then removed to Portsmouth, N.II.,  where
 he passed eight years.   The following sketch of his life  is com-
 piled from  a funeral discourse on his life and character, delivered
 by Rev.  John H.  Heywood, of LouisA'ille  (H.C. 1836).  He
 was endoAved  AA'ith a mind active and vigorous, a memory very
 retentive and capacious.  From early childhood, he was marked
 for his love, his yearning, for knowledge.   Sent to school Avhen
 but four years old, he was so fortunate as to have for his teacher
 a lady who had a just view of  education, and whose schoolroom
was pervaded  by the affectionateness which makes the charm of
 a home.   AVhen nine years of age, he was placed  in the  Institu-
 tion for the Blind in Boston, under the charge of Dr.  Samuel
 Gridley Howe, who saAv Avhat  was in the boy, and  determined
that it should be fully brought out.   Under  his instruction, he
prosecuted his studies,  until, at the age  of  seventeen,  he was
prepared to enter college.  He passed through  his collegiate
 course with credit to himself, and received, at its expiration, his
diploma;  being the first totally blind man  who ever graduated
at any college in this country.   He was a good scholar in Latin,
 Greek, and mathematics.   He was a proficient in French and
 German,  both of  which languages  he understood well, and
spoke fluently ; and had an extensive and thorough acquaintance
with the best English literature.   He had  a remarkable  talent
for music, in which, by his attainments, he became pre-eminent.
At  eighteen months,  he could sing three  tunes.   When nine
years of age, he composed a march.  So fond of musical thought
and expression was he, that, when  a mere child, he Avas  often
OArerheard composing in his  sleep.   Sometimes,  when between 
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 the  ages of eight and ten, strains  and tunes taught him by his
 instructor would escape him ;  and he Avould try in vain, before
 going to bed, to recall them.   In his sleep they  would come,
 as if conscious, that, having once been given him,  they had no
 right to leave him  long; and  then he would rise,  go  to the
 piano, and, like a true poet or sculptor, embody  them,  not in
 words or marble, but in  harmony.   Not far from the time when
 he  entered  college, he composed an overture, which Avas per-
 formed by the Boston Academy of Alusic, and  which Avas deeply
 interesting, not only as a manifestation of his rare susceptibility
' and extraordinary capacity, but also of the wonderful knowledge
 he even then possessed of the  deep,  intricate science of music.
    In September, 1844,  he  went  to  Louisville,  Ky., having
 been appointed professor of music in the Asylum for  the  Blind
 in that  city ; and there he  resided until his death.   With so fine
 a susceptibility to the influence  of  music,  Avith so thorough  a
 knowledge of its principles, he was eminently  fitted to appreci-
 ate and enjoy music of the highest order.   In that he revelled.
 His soul responded to the songs and choral symphonies in which
 the great masters gave expression to thoughts  and  emotions too
 vast for words, too deep for tears.   Such were the rare musical
 poAvers  and attainments of this gifted man ; and how kindly and
 faithfully  he employed them, there are many to testify.   The
 private  pupils whom he patiently instructed—all connected with
 that home for the blind to AA'hich he consecrated fourteen of the
 best years of his life, and for whose benefit he  labored with the
 fidelity  of an earnest, conscientious Christian teacher—can never
 forget him.   He was a sincere, hearty Christian.   He  loved
 the  Bible  dearly.   Eight years before his death,  he  connected
 himself with the  church.   In an earnest,  humble, and devout
 spirit, he made the Christian  profession, and sought  to live  in
 harmony  with it.   His resignation to the will  of  God Avas
 perfect, for life and for death,  for time  and  eternity.
   He  married,  first, 9 August, 1846, Elizabeth Jane Cone,
 Avho died 14  June, 1851; and  second, 26 July,  1853,  Sarah
 J. Nash.   He left two  sons  : the elder,  the  child of the first
 marriage,  bearing the  name  of the great composer,  Joseph
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Haydn;  the younger,  named for an  intimate friend,  Bryce
Patten.
   1848. —Enoch Lincoln Cummings died in Portland, Ale.,
21 January, 1859, aged 31.   He was son of Col. Simeon and
Alary  (Cushman) Cummings; and Avas born  in  Paris,  Ale.,
23 May, 1827.   His father, avIio Avas son of Jesse and Nancy
Cummings, was born in Bridgewater, or Sutton, Alass.   His
mother was a  native of Paris.  He pursued  his preparatory
studies mostly at North Yarmouth, Ale. ;  and entered AVaterville
College in 1843,  AA'here  he  remained one  year  and two terms.
He then  left; went to Cambridge, where he continued his
studies privately,  and entered the sophomore class at Harvard
in 1845.  After graduating, he studied laAv  a little more than a
year Avith his brother, Benjamin C. Cummings, in Paris ;  and
then entered the office  of  AVilliam AVillis  (H.C. 1813),  and
AVilliam Pitt Fessenden (Bowd. C.  1823), in Portland, where
he completed his legal  studies; and Avas admitted  to practice
in Cumberland county, in October, 1850. He  immediately
opened  an  office  in Portland, and  devoted himself entirely to
business.  His  brother,  with whom  he studied in Paris, moved
to Portland a few years  after, where he died in 1857  or 1858.
Their mother (a woman of great  energy and good  sense)  and
one brother survived him, both living in Paris.   Their father
has deceased.   Had Mr.  Cummings's  life been spared,  and
an  opportunity been given for the  full development of his
powers, his habits of industry and perseverance were such, that
he would have  attained  a  high rank in  his profession.   But,
dear as was the tie Avhich bound him  to  his associates in life,
there Avas a closer and more endearing fellowship to which his
surviving friends turned  in  the hour  of their bereavement.   The
last year of his life was one of Christian activity and useful-
ness, Avhich makes up his brightest  record.   Having,  about  a
year before his death, united with the  church of AA'hich the  Rev.
Dr. Chickering was pastor, he entered  at once heartily into
the new  service to which  he  committed himself; and carried
into it the same  elements  of activity and devotion Avhich  had
characterized him as  a business-man.  A meeting of the  mem- 
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bers of the Cumberland  bar was  held immediately after  his
death, at which appropriate resolutions Avere  passed, expressive
of their profound regret and sincere soitoav at the  loss of their
associate,  and tendering  to  his Avife and  family their deepest
svmpathy  and heartfelt sorrow for their  bereavement.   Mr.
Cummings married, 28 July,  1852, Annie  N. Clifford, only
daughter of Hon. Nathan Clifford,  of  Portland, an  associate-
justice  of the Supreme Court of the United  States,  formerly a
member of Congress from  Alaine, attorney-general of the United
States, and  minister to Mexico.   They had three  children,  all
of whom survive.  Judge Clifford began practice in Newfield,
a small town in York county, Ale. ;  and removed to Portland
about the year 1849.
    1851.—Rev.  George  Bradford died  in  Watertown,
Alass., 17 February,  1859, aged 30.  He was son of Ephraim
and Lucy (Peterson) Bradford,  and  was born  in  Duxbury,
Alass.,  3  June,  1828.   He  was  a lineal descendant of Gov.
Bradford  of Plymouth Colony.   He was fitted for  college at
Partridge Academy in Duxbury.   AThile in college, he  held
 a high rank  as  a scholar;  was  elected by his classmates to
 deliver the  class-oration  at  the close of the senior  year,  and
 graduated with distinguished honors.  He returned to Duxbury
 at  the end of his collegiate course, and was for two years pre-
 ceptor of the  academy at which he had pursued his preparatory
 studies.   In August, 1852,  he became a member of  the Unita-
 rian church in Duxbury; and, about that time, he decided to
 enter the gospel-ministry, — a choice of profession of which his
 friends soon acknowledged the wisdom.   He entered the Divin-
 ity School at Cambridge  in 1853 ; and,  after  finishing  the
 regular course of study, was ordained as pastor of the Unita-
 rian church in AVatertown, 6  November,  1856.  He had only
 time to fairly enter  upon his career of professional and social
 usefulness, Avhen the symptoms of consumption, of long  stand-
 ing, perhaps, but hitherto  scarcely observed, manifested them-
 selves ;  and,  after an illness of a few months,  he gave way,
 and, sinking at the last rapidly, but peacefully died, surrounded
 by his friends and relatives, without pain and without regret. 
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 " It is hard to leave the Avorld Avhen one has but just begun his
 Avork here,"' he said, on the last day of his life, to a near friend;
 "but death of itself has no terrors."  All those who kneAv him
 intimately could Avell understand, that in  that calm and stead-
 first  mind,  trained to early maturity by a  life of  Christian
 virtue, and imbued AA'ith the deepest Christian faith, there Avas
 no regret, except  for those Avhom he left  behind  him.  He
 was a devoted pastor, who brought to his work  a mind of no
 ordinary  depth and compass, a judgment  singularly correct,
 and  a devotion to  duty which is  rarely  seen.   Plis  generous
 friendship neA'er failed, while his  exterior  reserve covered  a
 nature of wondrous geniality, and of genuine enthusiasm;  and
 his calm, upright, and resolute walk in life seemed the  charac-
 teristics inherited from the Puritan governor from Avhom he
 Avas descended.   He married, 18  February,  1857, Ruth Ann
 Ford, of Duxbury, who survives  him.  They had no children.
    1851.—Francis  Oliver Dabney,  of Boston,  died in
 Beirut, Syria, 26 December,  1858, aged  28.   He was son of
 Charles AVilliam and Frances Alsop (Pomeroy) Dabney, and
 was born in Fayal, Azores (where his father resided as Ameri-
 can  consul), 17 Alarch, 1830.   His mother AA-as formerly of
 Brighton, Mass.   He was fitted for college mostly under tutors
 in Fayal, and the last year under the instruction of Eben Smith
 Brooks, of Cincinnati (H.C. 1835).   Immediately after gradu-
 ating, he entered the counting-room of Messrs. Dabney  and
 Cunningham, of Boston, for the  purpose  of preparing himself
 for the mercantile profession.  He was subsequently  admitted
 as a partner in that house, Avhere  he remained until his death.
 He was unmarried.  On the 15th of September,  1858,  he left
 New York, in the steamship "Africa," for  Liverpool,  on busi-
 ness of the house with which he was connected ; expecting to be
 absent about  a year.   Immediately after his  arrival at Liver-
pool,  he proceeded  east as far as  Beirut, in which place  and
vicinity he intended to remain until  his return home.   He was
in perfect health  until near the middle of  December;  when he
was seized with an alarming illness, which, in two weeks, termi-
nated fatally. Although he died in a distant  land, he was sur- 
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rounded by kind  and sympathizing friends ;  and all that love
and skill could do Avas done to rescue him  from death.  The
last three months of his life,  he was the honored  guest of a
Avealthy and influential Arab gentleman, Avho  evinced  a devo-
tion and regard for him,  in his last illness, that could not have
been surpassed by the dearest relative.  During the last days of
Air. Dabney's  life, this gentleman never left his bedside; and
he saAV the grave  close over the object of his solicitude Avith a
grief that did  honor to his heart, and that told most eloquently,
to all Avho Avitnessed it, what must have been the character of one
Avho could inspire such affection.   His mortal remains were laid
in the beautifully-situated  cemetery of the American mission.
Air. Dabney had  not  gone  far  enough in life's  journey to  be
knoAvn to many beyond the circle of  his friends ;  but his energy
and upright manliness struck all Avho  came near  him.   Seldom
are so much firmness and integrity, and such a chivalrous sense of
honor, shoAvn  by  one so young.   For  these noble qualities,  he
might well be  esteemed by all who knew him.
   1851.—William  Paisley Field,  of  Randolph,  Alass.,
died  at the residence  of his  father, in Newton Lower  Falls,
Alass., 5 Alay, 1859,  aged 31.   He Avas the  youngest son  of
Justin and Harriet (Power) Field, and was born in  Northfield,
Alass., 27 December, 1827.   His father, now living in Newton,
and doing business in Boston as a lawyer, was the son of Sam-
uel Field, and was born in Northfield.   His mother Avas born
in Boston.   The  family removed to Boston when the  subject of
this notice Avas one  year old.   He  entered  the Boston Latin
School in August, 1836 ;  and left in the spring of 1841,  on
account of ill  health.   He remained  at home  a year or  two ;
after AA'hich he entered, as  an  apprentice,  the flour-store  of
Alessrs. Earle  and BroAvn, No.  9, LeAvis AVharf; AA'here he re-
mained about four years.   He then suddenly determined to  go
to college ; left the store on the 1st of Alay,  1847, reviewed  his
studies by himself, and entered the freshman class the  same
year.   He attained a  high rank in his class, and graduated
Avith distinguished  honors.  In  his junior year, he gained a
second prize for a dissertation.   In his senior  year, he taught 
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school for a short time  in Harvard,  Alass.    He  possessed
great musical talent;  Avas organist at the Episcopal  church
in Cambridge, Avhen in college ;  and had constantly played the
organ  in  church  from the age of fourteen years.  Tavo of his
brothers — Thomas Power and Justin — graduated at Amherst
College in 1834 and 1835 respectively.   On leaving college, he
went to Philadelphia; AA'here he taught one year in  the Protest-
ant  Episcopal  Seminary.   He  then returned, and  spent the
following  year  in teaching private pupils in Cambridge.   He
entered the LaAv School in Cambridge, at the second term in
1853-4;  and took his degree  of LL.B. in  July, 1855.  In
Alarch, 1857, he  began the practice of his profession in Ran-
dolph, Alass. ; Avhere he continued during the  remainder of his
life.   He  Avas unmarried.  He  was  of  an amiable disposition,
and  led a life of unblemished  integrity.
   1853. — AVilliam  Henry  Rowe died in Boston, 22 July,
1858,  aged  27.    He  was  son  of  Samuel  and  Lydia  Ann
(Fletcher) RoAve, and  AA-as born in Boston, 6 October, 1830.
His father was a native of Kensington, N.H. ;  was a carpenter;
and  died  in  Boston, 28 August, 1843, aged 43.   His mother
Avas probably born in Newburyport, Alass.   She died in Boston,
13 October, 1830, aged 23.  The subject of this notice, when
five  years of age, was  accidentally  hit on  the left knee  by a
stone, which  lamed him for life.   He was fitted  for college at
the Boston Latin  School, Avhere  a Franklin medal Avas awarded
to him for his superior scholarship.   AVhile in college, he taught
school during the winter vacations, in his freshman year, in
Aliddleton, Mass; in his sophomore year, in Deerfield, N.H. ;
in his junior year, in Braintree, Alass ;  in his senior year, in
Taunton,  Mass.  He was  a diligent student,  his conduct Avas
unexceptionable,  and  he graduated Avith high honors.  Imme-
diately after leaA'ing college, he entered  as a student  the office
of Fisher Allen Kingsbury, Esq., in AVeymouth, Alass. ; under
AA'hose tuition he pursued the  study of the  law tAvo  years.
AVhile in this place, he Avas instrumental  in establishing a de-
bating society,  of Avhich  he Avas the leading  spirit, and Avhich
Avas highly successful.   Aleeting accidentally,  in  Boston,  some 
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gentlemen  from the AVest, he  Avas induced,  by the flattering
prospects held out for young laAvyers in that part of the country,
to go to Davenport, Io. ;  Avhere  he entered the office of Hon.
John P. Cook, who was at  that time  a representative in Con-
gress from Iowa.  Here he  finished  his  legal studies ;  and in
March, 1856, he Avas  admitted to  the  bar in  Davenport.   He
immediately began practice, still continuing in the office of Air.
Cook.   His  success Avas  \'ery great;  and he was soon in full
practice, with a brilliant prospect before him.   He was  a man
of great energy ;  and a too-constant attention to business prob-
ably affected  his health.
   Early in the year  1858, he  experienced a change of heart,
which  induced him to resolve upon  a different course  of life.
In a letter, dated 9 Alarch,  1858, to a friend in Boston,  he
AA'rites: " I humbly  trust  that I have become  a  Christian;
that  God, in  his  infinite mercy, has pardoned  me, through  the
atoning merits of Christ.   I feel  that I am weak indeed; far,
very far, from being established as a disciple of Christ:  but I
also  feel that I have obtained  something that I ne\'er had before ;
that  my  life, sIoavIv and  Avaveringly indeed, is inclining up  to
God and  Christ,  and aAvay from  the  world and death."   He
further adds:  " I shall  probably  give  up the  profession  of
laAv, and  study for the ministry;  and I earnestly pray  to God
that  he will  accept  and prepare me for the holy work.  AVith
God's  permission, I expect to enter the seminary at Andover at
the commencement of the next term, viz., September next; and
shall probably therefore return  to the East in  the course of a
few  months :  when,  I don't  exactly  know."
   But upon this neAv profession he Avas not permitted to enter.
In Alarch,  the incipient symptoms of that fell disease, consump-
tion, began  to be developed, and rapidly increased;  and it
soon became manifest that death had marked him for its victim.
His  illness was not knoAvn to his friends here until some time
afterwards ; but,  Avhen the sad neAvs reached  them, they took
measures  for his  return to  his native city.   He reached Boston
the 1st of July, in a  state of extreme debility; and after three
weeks' great  bodily suffering,  but in a very happy state of mind, 
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he expired, Avith a full confidence of a joyful immortality.   He
Avas  greatly beloved by his  acquaintances  and relatives, avIio,
from his blameless  life and brilliant prospects, had anticipated
for him a long  career of success and  usefulness.  He Avas
unmarried.
   1853.—John Henry  Sullivan  Avas drowned  in  Lake
Michigan, 27  August, 1858, aged 25.  On  the afternoon of
that day, he and Air. R. P. Jennings went out from Milwaukie
for a sail on the lake, in the "Galatea," a four-oared boat belong-
ing to  the Galatea Boat-club, of  which Mr. Sullivan was a
member.  Both the gentlemen were skilful  and experienced  in
the management of a  boat:  but a  gale came on at nightfall,
causing a heavy sea; and they did not return.   The members of
the boat-club took a tug-boat, and Avent in search of their friends.
In the mean time the tidings reached Chicago, AA'here Air. Sulli-
van  had resided  for nearly two  years  previously to settling in
Milwaukie;  and a party of his friends started immediately for
Milwaukie, and joined  in the anxious search for the missing ones.
Fragments of the " Galatea " were found scattered alone; the shore
for a distance of six or seA'en miles.   She was a new and beau-
tiful  boat, and the fragments were easily identified by her owners
and  builder.   Day after day the search was renewed, and re-
wards were offered to enlist the services of the shore fishermen;
but each day weakened the  slender hope that the young men had
been saved.  The body of Air. Jennings was at length found,
half-buried in  the  sand;  but  Air. Sultan's has never been
recovered.   He was unmarried.   He was the only son of John
AVhiting and Marion (Dix) Sullivan, of Boston, and Avas born
in Dorchester, Mass. (where his parents were then temporarily
residing), 30  October,  1832.   He entered the Boston Latin
School when  only nine years old, but completed his preparatory
studies  at  Phillips Academy in Andover, Alass.   While  in
college he bore an unblemished character, and Avas much beloved
by his class.   In  Plymouth,  Alass., where  he  spent several  of
his vacations, he had many true friends, who will  long remem-
ber him as a most genial companion, a kindly and pure-minded
boy.   After graduating, he  studied laAv  for  tAvo years in the 
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289
office of  Baker  and Peabody, in Concord, N.H.   He  then
entered the Law  School at Cambridge, where he completed his
legal studies, and soon afterwards emigrated to the West.   He
settled  first in Clinton, Io. ;  but soon  removed  to Chicago,
where he was induced to abandon the practice of his profession,
and enter the commercial-agency office of B. Douglass and Co.
Here he remained until the spring of 1858, when he went to
superintend the Aiilwaukie branch of the  agency.   He was also
connected, from  time to time, with various  newspapers  in New
England and the AVest, as correspondent, contributor, and lite-
rary-critic.   AVherever he went, he made warm and appreciating
friends, both  among his  business acquaintance and  in  general
society.   Not only was he  highly educated, thoroughly  well
read, possessed  of  business  ability  and decided  literary  and
musical talent, a  most sprightly Avit and lively fancy, but he had
a truly  kind and  pure heart.   He never spoke slightingly of any
one, Avas peculiarly generous  and noble in  his  disposition, and
invariably courteous to old and young, to rich and  poor  alike.
    AVhen all hope of his safety was given up, the Galatea Boat-
club met, and passed the following resolutions in regard  to their
lost brother: " AVhereas we may no longer indulge the  hope
but that a sudden and grievous dispensation of Providence has
severed the links  of  our brief association in  the transition  from
this earth of  a gifted and highly esteemed  felloAv-member, the
going-out of  Avhose life,  in the full vigor of manhood and  use-
fulness, has filled our hearts  with the profoundest  sorrow;  and
AA'hereas, after long and  patient endeavor, the poor consolation
of recoAering, and consigning  to a fitting resting-place,  all  that
remains to earth of our departed friend has thus far been denied
us :  therefore  be  it Resolved, That we deeply and  sincerely de-
plore the  removal from this  life of our late friend and  felloAv-
club-man, John H. Sullivan, whose refined and scholarly attain-
ments, blameless  life, and generous impulses, endeared  him by
ties  of  no  ordinary  regard to each and  every  member of our
association.   Resolved, That to those, who, from ties of kindred
or long and  happy association, were nearer and dearer to our
lost  companion,  unto whose  hearts  this great  affliction  shall
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bring the tenderest soitoav, — to such, and to all  who are com-
pelled Avith us  to taste of this bitter  cup, avc extend our kind-
liest sympathy and condolence."   The AMsconsin bar also passed
a series of resolutions in expression of their kind feeling and
respect for him.
   1854.—David Henry AIordecai, of  Charleston, S.C.,
died in Nice,  Italy,  22  January,  1859, aged  25.  He was
the eldest  son of  Hon.  Moses Cohen  and Isabel  (Lyons)
Mordecai, and was born  in Charleston,  13 November, 1833.
Both his parents were of Jewish  origin.   His father, who is  a
merchant, Avas  born in Charleston in  February,  1805 ;  and is
the son of Aloses Cohen AIordecai, Avho Avas born in England.
His mother, Avho  is the daughter of Isaac and  Rachel Lyons,
was born in Philadelphia, during a temporary residence of her
parents in that city, in Alarch, 1805.  Air. Mordecai was fitted
for college at home ; entered the  junior class in  South-Carolina
College in December, 1851; and remained there until  Decem-
ber,  1852, when, with seAeral others,  he  received an honorary
dismissal (the college refusing to abolish the  system of bursary
commons), and entered Harvard  the second  term of the junior
year.   Here he immediately took  a very high rank, and was
one of the most  brilliant scholars in  his class.  He remained
until  the 14th of April  of the  following year, when he was
obliged to leave on account of the delicate state  of his health;
but the college faculty conferred upon him his degree with the rest
of his class.   He afterwards read law  in the  office of the Hon.
James Lewis Petigru, of Charleston;  and then went to Europe
to finish his studies and improve his health.   But death, Avith its
relentless hand, — Avho knows no distinction  between man and
man, between virtue  and A'ice, genius and imbecility, — struck
him  down  in  his promising manhood, at the very threshold of
the goal at which the hopes of his family and friends would have
been  realized.  He was,  in point  of talents and attainments,
perhaps the first man  of his age in his native  state.   A  brilliant
sphere Avas opened before him :  his future Avas  a perspective of
the brightest  auguries.   Possessing a mind among the quick-
est in conception, a  memory that appropriated  without effort 
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the treasures  of learning,  a judgment ripe for  his  years, he
united with these endowments that patient  perseverance, with-
out which natural gifts are the foliage without the fruit of intel-
lectual culture.  Alas that  a life  so  rich in promise  should be
so soon ended ; that the associations which so intimately blended
social Avith intellectual  merit should be so  suddenly severed;
that the memories of  friendship,  the anticipations  of  future
eminence, the images of parental hope, the  visions  that  cluster
round one Avith faculties so  gifted, and a life so  radiant in its
prospects, should have been so prematurely obliterated !
    1854. — Alfred  Hampton Preston, of Columbia, S.C.,
died in Rome, Italy, 16 January,  1859,  aged  24.   He was
the eldest son of Hon. John S. and Caroline Martha (Hamp-
ton) Preston, and was born in Abingdon, AVashington county,
Va.,  3  June, 1834.   His  father,  a  sugar-planter, was son
of  Gen. Francis Preston,   AA'hose wife, Sarah Campbell, was
daughter  of   Gen.  AVilliam  Campbell, of King's - Mountain
celebrity (Avhere he was commander), and niece of Patrick
Henry.   His  mother was  daughter of Gen. AVade  Hampton,
and was  born  at The AVoodlands,  Richmond  District, S.C.
Gen. Hampton's second wife, Alary Cantey, of  St.  Matthew's
Parish,  S.C, was  a niece of Gen.  Sumter.    Air.  Preston's
father had established  himself in Columbia, Richland District,
S.C, where he married ; and he travelled to and  from Virginia
each season.   His interest  was in Louisiana, but  his citizenship
was in South Carolina ;  and he was twice in the South-Carolina
Legislature.   Mr. Preston  travelled much in the United  States.
He studied with a pmrate tutor several years ; came to Cambridge
15  July, 1852 ;  and in six  weeks, under James Coolidge Carter
(H.C. 1850), Avas prepared, and  entered  the junior class, 1
September, 1852.   After graduating, he went to Germany  to
continue his  studies, which were cut short  by a fever,  which
settled upon his lungs.  The slow and insidious  decline which
followed, resisting all that human kindness  could effect,  served
but to shoAV in bright characters the beautiful confidence  of the
young Christian in  his progress to the rich inheritance, through
his Redeenier, of eternal life.  In his later moments, his  gentle- 
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ness and meek submission to the Avill of God were only exceeded
by his cheerful enjoyment of that " peace Avhich passeth  under-
standing," and AA'hich divested his dying bed of any fear  of the
destroyer.   Cut doAvn  as  he Avas  in the  brightest promise of
early usefulness, his bereaved parents  and  sorrowing  friends
would not recall him  from that bliss Avhich is the attainment of
the righteous.  He was a high-toned gentleman, an affectionate
and devoted son and brother,  and a true friend. 
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                               1859-60.


           1796.—AVilliam AVells died in Cambridge, Mass., 21
        April, 1860, aged 87 years lacking six days.   He was son  of
I        Rev. AVilliam  and Jane  (Hancox) AVells,  and was born  in
        Bromsgrove, AVorcestershire, England, 27 April, 1773.   His
        father Avas  a Unitarian clergyman,  an intimate friend, of Dr.
        Priestley.   During the occurrence of the riots which drove that
        eminent theologian  from his congregation and his home, Air.
        AVells's  chapel at Bromsgrove, fifteen miles from Birmingham,
        Avas threatened with destruction by the mob.   In consequence
        of such  a prospect, and the gloomy and distracted state of that
        part of the kingdom, he determined to emigrate with his family
        to America;  and arrived  in Boston in June, 1793.   From
        Boston  he Avent  to Brattleborough,  Art., where  he  preached
        " the faith that Avas in him," but was not settled  as pastor of any
        society.    In  1818, the honorary degree of doctor of divinity
        was conferred upon him by Harvard College.  He died in Brat-
        tleborough, 9 December,  1827, aged 83.  Mr.  AVells's mother
        AAras daughter  of  Rev. James Hancox, of Dudley, in AVorces-
        tershire, England.  Before coming to this country, Mr. AVells,
        jun.,  had gone through  a course  of  studies  at the  college  in
        Hackney, England ;  having been fitted by the celebrated classi-
        cal scholar, Gilbert AVakefield.  After  he came  to America,
        and before going to college, he taught school in AVethersfield,
        Conn.  He entered college  in  the last term  of the  junior
        year in  1795, and at once took a high rank in his class.  He
        was particularly distinguished  for his attainments in the Latin
        and Greek classics.   In 1798, he AAas appointed Latin tutor in
        the college ; an office which he held two years.  He intended to
        study for the ministry ; but as his health was delicate, his lungs
        being somewhat affected, he relinquished his purpose.  In 1800, 
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he visited England.  In  1802, he  was appointed usher in the
Boston  Latin School,  AA'here he  remained until August, 1S04.
He then engaged in business as a bookseller, in Court Street,
Boston; Avhich he  conducted alone until about 1815, Avhen he
formed a partnership Avith Robert Lilly, under the firm of AVells
and Lilly.   AVhile in this business,  he taught a private classical
school in Boston.  He retired from  his partnership Avith Mr.
Lilly about  the year 1830, and removed to Cambridge ;  where
he opened a classical school for  boys, which he continued for
many years  with much  success,  until the infirmities of age com-
pelled him to relinquish it.  He Avas highly respected as a man
of extensive literary acquirements, as well as  a good  and useful
citizen  of unblemished moral  character.   He had been for
many years  a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
   He married, 3 Alay, 1808, Frances Boott, daughter of Kirk
Boott, Esq., of Boston.   The issue of this marriage Avas seven
children,—three sons  and  four  daughters.   One of the sons
deceased. The other children, Avith their mother, survived him.
One of  the  daughters — Frances  Boott — is  the  wife of  Rev,
AVilliam Newell, D.D.,  of Cambridge.
   1800.—AVilliam  Saavyer died  in  Wakefield, N.H,,  5
July, 1860, aged 85.  He  AA-as son of Nathaniel and Jerusha
(Flint)   Sawyer, and  was  born  in AVestminister,  Alass.,  26
October,  1774.   His parents Avere both  natives  of Reading,
Alass., and removed to AVestminster soon  after their marriage.
His father died 26 July, 1797.   AVhile laboring in the field, he
suddenly fell, and instantly expired.  His mother died 20 Feb-
ruary, 1821.  Young Sawyer was fitted for college at AYestford
Academy, under Amos Crosby (H.C.  1786).   AVhile in col-
lege,  he taught school, in vacation, one Avinter in that  part of
Chelmsford which is noAv Lowell,  and two Avinters in  his native
tOAvn.   He  studied law  with Henry Alellen, of Dover, N.H.
(H.C.  1784) ; and, having been admitted to the bar, he, in
August, 1803, established  himself as a laAAyer in Wakefield,
AA'here he passed the remainder of  his life.   He Avas quite suc-
cessful in the practice of his profession.  He  Avas several times 
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elected a representatiAe to the New-Hampshire legislature ; and,
after the division of  the  county of Strafford, he was  chosen
president of the  Carroll-county bar.   He retired from  profes-
sional  practice many  years  ago, having acquired  a compe-
tence ;  and devoted himself to agriculture and the improvement
of the  farming interest in  his vicinity.  He sustained through
life an unblemished moral character.
   He  married, in 1804, Alary Yeaton,  of  Portsmouth, N.H.
The issue of this marriage Avas five children, —three sons and two
daughters.   AVilliam,  the  eldest  son,  settled  as  a trader in
AVakefield.  George Yeaton, the  second son (Bowd. C.  1826),
studied law with his  father,  and  settled  in practice in Nashua,
N.H.  He became an associate-judge of  the  Supreme Court of
Ncav Hampshire.  Charles Haven,  the  third  son,  settled on
his father's farm.  All the sons  married.   The eldest  daugh-
ter married Dr. Thomas  Lindsey, a physician  in Lincoln,
Ale.  The  second daughter,  Augusta Afehitabel,  married Jo-
seph Pike, and  lived  in Brookfield,  N.H.,  a  town  adjoining
AVakefield.
    1800. — John Wadsworth  died  in Hiram, Me., 22 Jan-
uary,  1860,  aged  78.  He was son of Hon. Peleg  (H.C.
1769)  and Elizabeth  (Bartlett)  AYadsAvorth, and was born in
Plymouth,  Alass., 1  September,  1781.   His father, who was
son of Deacon Peleg  AVadsworth, was  born in Duxbury, Alass.,
6 Alay,  1748.   He  Avas an officer in the  revolutionary Avar.
He joined the  army as captain of  a company  of minute-men at
Roxbury, in the beginning of the Avar;  and, by  his skill and
courage, rose to the rank of brigadier-general.  He was chosen
representative  to Congress in  1792, and was  successively re-
elected until 1806, when he declined a further nomination.  He
died in Hiram, 18 November, 1829, aged 81.  His mother was
born in Plymouth, 9 August, 1753.   She was  sister of Joseph
Bartlett  (H.C.  1782), the eccentric poet and  humorist.   Air.
AYadsAvorth Avas fitted for  college at Fryeburg Academy.  He
was remarkably  comely and graceful: his manners and carriage
Avere polished  and courtly in the highest degree.  He possessed
superior talents, and ranked very high  as a scholar in his class. 
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 ToAvards the close of his collegiate course, his health failed ;  and
 he left in the latter part of his  senior year,  but received his
 degree with his class.   He soon afterAvards  made a vovage to
 Liverpool for the benefit of his health, but returned in the same
 vessel in which he went  out.  He Avent to the South as a teacher,
 and spent several  years  in  the southern and middle  states.
 He  taught  in Natchez, Aliss.  ; Avas a private teacher  in  the
 Berrien  family in  Georgia,  and  also  in that of  Governeur
 Morris  in New York.  He then  studied law  Avith Hon. Isaac
 Parker  (H.C.  1786), and opened an  office in Vassalborough,
 Me., but soon abandoned the profession.  AVhile his father Avas
 a  member of Congress, he passed  a considerable time at AVash-
 ington,  much  to  the detriment of his  business-habits.   He
 retired to his father's residence  in Hiram; and, his health being
 in a somewhat precarious state, he did not pursue  any regular
 business.
   He  married,  in 1836 or  1837, Ellen  George,  of Con-
 cord, N.H.,  or vicinity, but had  no children.  His wife sur-
 vives him.
   1802.—James Davenport died  in  Boylston,  Alass.,  27
 April, 1860, aged 81.  He was son of Matthew and  Patience
 (Goodnow) Davenport, and was born in Sterling, Alass. (Avhere
 his parents resided a feAv months), 24 January, 1779.  His name,
 originally,  was Matthew  Davenport, Avhich he changed about
 1835, taking the name of James for a son avIio died in St. Louis
 in 1833, and because James Avas an ancient family name, and the
 name of the first Davenport who  came from England to NeAv
 Haven,  and settled  in 1656 on  the present Davenport place,—
 situated partly in Boylston and partly in AVest Boylston, and
 a  considerable part of which  has  continued  in the family
 ever since.   Air. Davenport Avas fitted  for college at Leicester
 Academy.   After leaving college, he studied law tAvo years with
Hon. Edward Bangs,  of AVorcester  (H.C.  1777), and  one
year with  Hon. Tristram Burgess, of Pro\idence,  R.I. (B.U.
 1796).   Ha\'ing been admitted to  the bar, he settled in Cum-
berland, R.L, Avhere he practised  his  profession from Alarch,
 1804, to April, 1815 ;  when he removed to his homestead in 
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 Boylston; where he resided during the remainder of his  life,
 being occupied in the business of farming, although he con-
 tinued to be a member of the bar and  a  justice of the  peace.
 He Avas universally respected,  and was frequently consulted, as
 well as called upon to act, as a trial-justice.   Three or four years
 before his death, his mental faculties  became  impaired, and at
 times his once-strong mind seemed but a mere wreck of what  it
 had been.   It was thought that the deaths of  several  of his
 children,  and the loss of his property, with  other trials, seriously
 affected his mind.  He had been failing  in health  the whole of
 the last year, in consequence of a cancer on his lip ; but the im-
 mediate cause of his death was influenza, which induced inflam-
 mation of the lungs.  Three  days  before  his  last, one  side
 became paralyzed, which deprived him of the power of speech ;
 but previously he appeared conscious of his near dissolution, and
 spoke of his faith and trust in God.
    He  married,  27 Alay, 1804, Sallie Andrews, daughter of
 Deacon Daniel Andrews,  of Boylston, a  most excellent man,
 and father of an  equally excellent family.  The  issue of  this
 marriage  was twelve children, — six sons and six daughters ; of
 whom six survived him,—four sons and tAvo daughters.   One
 son died at ten years  of age, and  one daughter at the age of
 seven months.  All the others lived to maturity.   Their mother
 survived her husband,  retaining much of her youthful vigor.
    1803.—Rev. David  Tenney  Kimball  died in  Ipswich,
 Mass.,  3 February,  1860, aged 77.  He was son of Lieut.
 Daniel and Elizabeth (Tenney) Kimball, and was born in Brad-
 ford, Alass.,  23 November, 1782.   When a boy, he exhibited
 a great passion for learning; but  so industrious Avas he in the
 business of agriculture, that his  father used  to say that he should
 not know  Iioav to spare him, and send him to  college, if he had
 health to pursue the labors of the field.   He began the study of
 Virgil, in the district  school, under  the instruction of Moses
Dow, of Atkinson, N.H., afterAvards Rev. Aloses Dow, of Bev-
erly, Alass. (D.C. 1796).   He became a student, 3 Alay, 1798,
in Atkinson Academy, under Hon. John  Vose  (D.C. 1795)
as  preceptor.   That thorough  scholar, judicious teacher, and
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upright man always spoke of  him as one of the most exem-
plary and  amiable  young  men, and one of the best scholars
under  his instruction; and, Avhen he Avas requested to name a
Fourth-of-July speaker from among his  students, he selected
young Kimball for the purpose, who delivered an oration Avhich
Avas  well received.   Leaving the  academy 14 August, 1799,
he entered college.   He sustained a very respectable standing in
his class, attended diligently to every branch of study, but  ex-
celled in belles-lettres, almost invariably receiving distinguished
marks of approbation on  his  themes from  that accomplished
scholar and accurate writer, Dr.  Eliphalet Pearson.  Imme-
diately after leaA'ing college,  he was appointed instructor in
Phillips Academy, Andover, where he remained one year.   He
then began his theological studies with Rev. Jonathan French,
of Andover (H.C  1771) ; having, as felloAv-students, Samuel
Walker (D.C. 1802), afterwards Rev. Air. AValker, of Danvers,
Mass.; Samuel Gile (D.C.  1804), afterwards Rev.  Dr. Gile,
of Milton; Samuel  Greele (H.C 1802), now Deacon Greele,
of Boston ; and John Farrar  (H.C.  1803), his classmate, after-
wards professor of mathematics in Harvard College.   His first
pulpit-performances  on a Sunday  were  17 Alarch, 1805.   He
preached for the first time in Ipswich,  22 September, 1805.
From that time until his ordination,  with the exception  of thir-
teen Sundays, he supplied the pulpit in Ipswich.   On the 17th
of June, 1806, the  church unanimously im-ited him  to become
their pastor, and the parish concurred with only one  dissenting
vote.  He was ordained 8 October, 1806 ; and there he labored,
with great diligence and faithfulness, for nearly forty years be-
fore he was relieved from a portion of his duties by the assist-
ance of a colleague.  For  ten or twelve years, he instructed the
children  of his society at  the  meeting-house, and  at his OAvn
dwelling-house, in the Assembly's  Catechism.  The  number of
children  present varied from 120  to 200.  AVhen the Sunday-
school was established,  20 June,  1818,  with 145  scholars, he
acted as  superintendent, and took part in its immediate instruc-
tion.  Few men took a deeper interest in the intellectual, moral,
and religious Avelfare of the community than he.   In December, 
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1818, he instructed the young ladies of his society, at his house,
in AVilbur's Catechism, and continued it a long time ;  and also,
during the same time, he instructed the young of both sexes  in
sacred history.  He preached more  than a hundred sermons
exclusively to the young.  Fourteen evenings in one winter
Avere occupied in a courSe of fourteen  lectures to young men, on
the text,  " Is the young man Absalom safe ?"  in  which  he
aimed, as far as possible, to bring before them those  principles
and practices which tend to the moral ruin  of the young.   He
Avas one of the original signers of the Massachusetts Society
for the Suppression of Intemperance,  constituted in May, 1813.
He Avas also secretary of the Education Society of Essex County
and Essex North, from  the establishment of the former, in
 1816, to the  time  of his death; and, what is remarkable, never
failed, it is said, in an appointment, and never went to the an-
nual meeting unprepared with a report carefully made out.  He
 was a man of great modesty and humility, a faithful  servant in
his Master's vineyard, and one of the worthiest  members of the
 community.   For many years he kept a journal, in which were
 recorded interesting incidents of his life.   In this journal, under
 date  of  12 October, 1806,  is a prayer which he offered the
 Sunday  after his  ordination, of which the following is a part:
 "Teach  me how to pray  for this people.  May they always
 be near  my heart, especially when I  address the  throne of
 grace !   AVhile I have breath to pray, may I not cease  making
 mention of them in my prayers !"  This petition was literally
 answered; for the last  audible prayer he  uttered Avas " for my
 people."
    He  married,  20  October,  1807, Dolly A^arnum  Coburn,
 daughter of  Capt. Peter and  Airs. Elizabeth Coburn, of Dra-
 cut,  Alass.,  and  grand-daughter  of Deacon  David Poor, of
 Andover.  This union was  replete with happiness.  They had
 seven children,—five  sons  and two daughters;  of  whom two
 sons  died before their  father.  The  other  children,  with their  •
 mother, are living.
    He never lost his interest in the languages.  He read almost
 daily a portion of the Old Testament in Hebrew,  and of the 
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Ncav Testament in Greek.   He enjoyed  greatly a good  recita-
tion in Latin,  and also in mathematics.   He Avrote in his diary,
18 November, 1859, "In the afternoon, I attended  the exami-
nation of the Ipswich High School.   I took the  direction  of a
Latin class, and made a short  address to  the school, in which I
spoke of the great interest I felt in this and all our schools, and
mentioned  the fact,  that it is  my constant practice, every even-
ing,  to seek the greatest blessing from the highest source on all
the young people  in  this tOAvn.  I then  spoke  of the immense
amount of  moral  power concentrating in  the scholars belonging
to this school, and urged them to  do all in their power  for the
general good.
   "November 23.  This is my birthday.  lam now seventy-
seven years old.   My day  of  probation is almost  ended.   The
question which I have often put to others is a  solemn one to
me, — Are you ready for its close?  I surely ought to have my
lamp trimmed and burning.
   "December 11.  My wife  having observed that few of those
who  have died in  our society  during the time  of my ministry,
according to the  record, were as  old as  we are, my thoughts,
after  retiring  to  bed, ran  very much on our nearness to our
eternal  home ; and when I awoke in the morning,  as well as
a number  of times during  the night, I found myself praying
that  an abundant  entrance  might  be administered to her,  and
to us  both, into the  everlasting kingdom  of our  Lord  and
Saviour."
   His mind  and body were so vigorous, that he was likely, in
the estimation of his family and  friends, to live  to a very ad-
vanced age.   Though his call was sudden,  and his sufferings,
owing to his disease  (lung  fever,  attacking both his lungs), ex-
treme, not a murmur escaped  his  lips.  It Avas a privilege never
to be forgotten, to stand by his bedside, and witness his  transi-
tion  from earth to heaven.   At the moment of his soul's depart-
ure from the body, there came to his  lips  a smile  of ineffable
beauty.
   His attachments Ayere very strong.  Pie enjoyed Commence-
ment at Cambridge exceedingly.  These seasons  of re-union 
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with his beloved classmates and very many literary friends gave
him  heartfelt pleasure ;  although, as he  expressed himself not
long before his death, " it was sad to  miss so many who have
gone to their graves, with whom  I have trodden  the paths of
literature in company."
   1803.—Rev. Samuel Willard died in Deerfield, Alass.,
8 October, 1859, aged 83.   He was son of William and Cathe-
rine (Wilder) AVillard, and was born in Petersham, Mass., 18
April, 1776.   He Avas  fitted  for college principally by  Rev.
Nathaniel Thayer, D.D., of Lancaster, Alass.  (H.C.  1789).
At the close of his collegiate studies,  he determined  upon the
gospel-ministry as his  future vocation;  but, immediately after
graduating,  he  went to  Exeter  as assistant-preceptor in the
academy at that place,  where he continued until  August, 1804,
and employed  most of his leisure time  in the studies  of his
chosen profession, under Rev. Jesse Appleton, D.D., of Hamp-
ton,  N.H.  (D.C.  1792),  afterwards  president  of Bowdoin
College.  His  continuance  with  Mr.  Appleton was of short
duration; for early  in October,  the  same  year, he was ap-
pointed tutor  in BoAvdoin  College;  which appointment he
accepted.   There, too, he employed his leisure time in prepara-
tions for the  ministry, under  the  instruction of  Rev.  Joseph
McKeen,  D.D. (D.C. 1774),  president  of the  college.  In
September,  1805, he returned to  Cambridge to finish the course
of  theological  study he had begun under Dr.  Appleton, and
continued under Dr. AlcKeen.  After a few  weeks, he was
licensed by the Cambridge Association to preach.  He preached
his  first sermon in  Deerfield,  15 March,  1807.  In June, he
received an invitation to settle there, and accepted it.  The 12th
of August was  the day first appointed for his ordination; and
the  council  assembled,  composed principally of the Calvinistic
persuasion.   It Avas about  this time that the first indications
were made apparent  that  this denomination were  preparing to
separate themselves  from the  Arminian and liberal churches.
The council, after a two-days' session and a rigid examination
of the candidate, refused to ordain him;  not deeming the prin-
ciples he avowed to come  up to their standard of faith.  Another 
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council Avas called, and he was ordained 23 September, 1807.
From  that time, he  became  a pioneer in the cause of liberal
Christianity.   He labored faithfully and acceptably  among the
people who had called him to be their spiritual guide.   He early
took a deep  interest in public schools,  and wrote a series of
schoolbooks,  which were  long and successfully used.  He Avas
a scientific musician ;  and was the author of the " Deerfield Col-
lection of Sacred Music," which  deservedly held  a  high rank.
" It aimed to  secure, by the simplest and most practicable means,
an invariable  coincidence between the  poetic  and the musical
emphases, and thus to combine the two powers  for the high pur-
pose of religious  impression."   Many of the hymns  in  his col-
lection were of his own composition;  and, after its publication,
he committed to memory every hymn in the volume.  In 1819,
his  sight  became so  dim that he could neither read  nor Avrite;
and then his devoted and affectionate wife cheerfully supplied all
his needs, as  far as human help could do it, aided  by  their chil-
dren and friends.   In September, 1829, he resigned his pastoral
charge, but'  continued  to officiate to his people occasionally
until near the close of his life.  His loss of sight induced him
to make  attempts to strengthen his memory, which he did to a
wonderful degree;  and he accordingly accustomed  himself to
commit to memory daily something of value.   His  wife would
read passages  over and over, until he attained them; and, in
his  hours of  solitude,  he would keep  repeating them.  The
amount thus committed became  prodigious.   Aiany books  of
the New Testament,  and the Psalms and Prophets of the Old,
he could  repeat  with  an accuracy which was unerring.  The
severe  affliction of blindness he submitted to with meek submis-
sion to the will of the Sovereign Disposer.  For forty .years, he
was  not  able to look upon the beauties of the earth, or the glo-
ries of heaven.   He had not seen the face of his  beloved wife,
of his  virtuous  children, or his troops of friends ;  yet not a
word of complaint, not a whisper of uneasiness,  nor a  tear  of
sorrow.  He was a modest but large benefactor to society, and
his parish loved and respected him without cessation.  If there
was  a  truly Christian household in the state,  that family circle 
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was his ;  and many loved to sit, and sun themselves in the light
that was ever pouring from his rich and healthy mind.  He was
a member  of the  American  Academy of Arts and  Sciences;
and, in 1826,  the honorary  degree of doctor of divinity was
conferred upon  him  by Harvard College.
   He married, 30 Alay, 1808, Susan Barker, daughter of Dr.
Joshua Barker, of Hingham, Mass. (H.C. 1772).   They had
three  children,—two  daughters and  one son, — who  survive
him.  The son  inherited his father's sad infirmity of blindness.
His wife died 24  August, 1857,  aged 74 years.
   1804.—Dr. John Maitland Brewer  died in Beverly,
N.J., 5 November, 1859, aged 78.  He was  son of David and
Comfort  (AVheeler) BreAver, and Avas born  in  Framingham,
Alass., 10 April, 1781.  His name, originally, was John Brew-
er, but  many years  since he took the intermediate name  of
Maitland.  He was fitted for  college at Framingham Academy.
He entered Brown University in 1800, Avhere  he  remained two
years ; when he left, and entered  the  junior  class  at Harvard
College, 14 October,  1802.   Immediately after graduating,  he
Avas appointed perceptor of the same academy in which he had
pursued his preparatory studies for college, where he continued
two  years.   He  then studied divinity with  his pastor, Rev.
David Kellogg, D.D. (D.C. 1775), of Framingham.   After
preaching a short time to good acceptance, he received a call  to
take the pastoral charge of the church in Dover, Mass., but de-
clined the invitation on account of the inadequacy of the salary
offered.  He soon afterwards  relinquished preaching, and took
charge of an academy in New Bedford, Alass., where  he re-
mained several years.  He then removed to Germantown, Penn.,
where he continued the occupation of teaching with much suc-
cess as an instructor, and with pecuniary profit to himself.  He
afterwards  went to  Philadelphia, where  he   studied  medicine.
In 1837, he received the degree of M.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania, in  Philadelphia,  and practised  medicine  in that
city until 1850 ; when, having become wealthy, he removed  to
Beverly, N.J.,  where  he owned  real estate  to  a considerable
amount,  and where  he built several  houses,  one of which  he 
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 occupied himself, and there passed the remainder of his days.  JIc
 Avas an expert financier, and the latter years of his life were de-
 voted almost exclusively to " increasing his store," in AA'hich he
 took great satisfaction, and Avas  highly successful.   He  Avas
 never married.
    1808. — Charles Flanders died in Plainfield, N.H., 15
 April, 1860, aged  72.   He was  son of Nehemiah and  Sarah
 (French) Flanders, and was born in NeAvburyport, Alass., 11
 February,  1788.  He Avas fitted for college by Alichael AValsh,
 of Newburyport.  After leaving college, having chosen laAv for
 a profession, he pursued his studies partly under the instruc-
 tion of Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (D.C. 1804), and  partly with
 Little  and  Banister, of Newburyport (D.C. 1797).   Having
 been admitted to the bar,  he established himself in the  practice
 of his  profession in Plainfield.   Possessing a clear, discerning,
 and logical mind, by untiring industry and devoted attention to
 the  interests of his  clients, he soon rose to distinction,  and
 acquired an extensive and lucrative  practice.   For  nearly fifty
years,  he was distinguished as an honored member of the  New-
 Hampshire bar,  an able laAAyer, a safe counsellor, and an honest
 man.  Nor were his talents and usefulness Avithout appreciation
 by the people among Avhom he so long  resided.  He several
 times represented Plainfield in  the NeAv-Hampshire legislature:
not so  often as he would have done, had his political vieAvs been
 different.    He  was of the  old Federal  National-Republican
 school, to which he adhered  consistently and  strenuously.  He
 was, at one time, solicitor for  SulliA'an county.   In 1847, the
honorary degree of master of arts was conferred upon  him by
Dartmouth  College.   About the year  1848, he  removed  to
 Alanchester, N.H., where he  resided several years;  but re-
turned to Plainfield some four or five years  before his death.
He Avas  a kind   husband  and  father, a Avorthy  and respected
citizen ; fulfilling all  the relations of  life with conscientious and
scrupulous integrity and  fidelity.
   He married, 20 August, 1815, Lucretia Kingsbury, of Keene,
N.H.  The issue of this marriage was four sons and one daugh-
ter,— Charles, George  AI.,  AVilliam M., Henry,  and Ellen. 
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Charles Avas a merchant in New York, and  died  a few years
since.  George  M., a  lawyer, and William  M., a  merchant,
both resided in Boston.  Henry became a distinguished lawyer
and writer in Philadelphia.  Pie is the author of " Lives and Times
of the Chief-Justices  of the United  States," in two parts:
the first containing the lives  of John Jay and John Rutledge,
published  in  1855 ;  and the other those of William  Cushing
Oliver, Oliver Ellsworth, and John Alarshall, in  1858.  The
work is written in a beautiful style, the biographies being inter-
spersed Avith many stirring  incidents  of the times, rendering  it
an exceedingly fascinating book.   He has also written two other
works, which are esteemed high authority by the legal profession,
— "A Treatise on Alaritime Law," published in 1853 ;  and "A
Treatise on the  LaAv of Shipping," published in 1858.  Ellen
became the wife of Dr.  Norman Curtis Stevens, a much-esteemed
physician in Boston.
    1808.—Rev. Ralph Sanger died in Cambridge, Mass.,
6 May, 1860, aged 73.  He was the fourth  son of Rev. Zede-
kiah (H.C. 1771) and Irene (Freeman) Sanger, and AA-as  born
in Duxbury, Mass.,  22 June, 1786.   His father, who  Avas son
of Richard and Deborah (Rider)  Sanger, was  born in Sherborn,
Mass., 4  October,  1748; was  ordained  at  Duxbury, Mass.,
3 July, 1776 ;  dismissed, at  his own request, 10 April, 1786 ;
Avas installed  at  Bridgewater  as  colleague  with  Rev. John
Shaw (H.C. 1729), 17  December, 1788.   Mr. Shaw died  29
April,  1791, aged  84; and, from that time, Mr. Sanger  dis-
charged the  laborious  duties of  pastor alone until  his death,
which  took place  17 November, 1820, at the  age  of  72.   In
addition to his pastoral duties, he instructed a classical school.
He was highly esteemed for genius and learning, reverenced as
a minister, and sought for  as a counsellor.   He was  a  member
of the American Academy  of Arts and Sciences ; and, in 1807,
the honorary  degree  of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon
him by Brown LTniversity.  The subject of this notice Avas fitted
for college by his father, and graduated Avith the highest honors
of his class.  After leaving college, he studied divinity with his
father.  In 1811,  he was appointed tutor at  Cambridge, where
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he remained one year.   He Avas ordained  pastor of the church
in Dover, Alass., 16  September,  1812, as  successor of Rev.
Benjamin Caryl (H.C. 1761), Avho  died 13 November, 1811, at
the age of 79 years.  Here  he labored Avith  great fidelity, and
in perfect harmony Avith the people of his charge, until his death,
a period of forty-seven years and se\ren months.   He was  sole
pastor until about  a  year before his  decease, Avhen  the Rev.
Edward G. Barker  was  ordained as colleague Avith him.   Mr.
Caryl  was  ordained 10 November, 1762 ; and it is Avorthy of
note that the pastorates of these two clergymen comprised, Avith
an interval of only  ten months, a period of ninety-seven years
and six months.  About four years  before his death, his house
was set on fire by an incendiary, and destroyed.  He soon after-
Avards removed to Cambridge,  to the house  of his son-in-laAv,
Mr.  AVilliam W. Gannett, Avhere he resided during the remain-
der of his life, although he  continued  his  pastoral  labors over
his society in Dover, as before.  He was elected a representative
in the state legislature from Dover in 1837, 1845, 1847, 1K51,
and 1854.  In 1858,  the honorary degree  of doctor of divinity
was  conferred upon him by Harvard College.
   Dr. Sanger was  extensively known, and universally respected
for his mild, amiable disposition, and spotless  integrity.   As a
Christian minister,  his wisdom, prudence,  fidelity, and useful-
ness won for him a name that will be sacredly cherished in the
church, and in many homes where his influence was felt and his
labors were known.  For the promotion of agriculture, of tem-
perance, and of social elevation and improvement in every way,
his  labors were modestly yet earnestly employed.  He was a
man of scholarly and liberal attainments, of a frank and cheerful
temperament, distinguished for  his sterling virtues and his mod-
est worth.  In his death, a worthy  man and a sincere Christian
has gone to his rest.
   He married, in July, 1817,  Charlotte  Kingman, of East
Bridgewater, who was born 5  July, 1792.   The  issue of this
marriage was six children, — four sons and two daughters.
   1808.—Hon. Samuel Emerson Smith died in Wiscasset,
Ale., 3 Alarch, 1860, aged 71.  His death was very sudden.   He 
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retired, about eleven o'clock, in his usual health, — having just
completed the solution of a difficult mathematical problem upon
which he had been engaged during the evening, — and soon after-
Avards breathed  his last.   He was the seventh child and third
son of Alanasseh (H.C. 1773) and Hannah  (Emerson) Smith,
and was born in Hollis, N.H., 12 March, 1788.   His parents
removed to Wiscasset the year  of his birth.   His father, who
was the son of Abijah Smith,  was born in Leominster, Alass.,
25 December, 1749.  He was a lawyer in Leominster, in Hollis-
ton, and in AViscasset; and was clerk of the Supreme Court.  He
died 21  Alay, 1823, aged 73.   The  subject  of this notice was
fitted for  college, partly at  AViscasset, and partly at Groton
(Alass.) Academy.   He attained to  a distinguished rank in his
class, and graduated with high honors.   After leaving college,
he studied law, for a time, with Hon.  Samuel Dana, of Groton ;
afterAvards  with  his brothers  Alanasseh Smith (H.C. 1800), of
Warren, Ale., and Joseph Emerson Smith (H.C. 1804), of Bos-
ton.   He was admited to the bar in Boston, 25  February,  1812,
and established himself in the practice of his profession in AVis-
casset.  In 1819,  he was elected to represent AViscasset  in  the
general  court  in Boston, and was elected to the legislature of
Alaine in 1820, after the separation of that state from Alasssachu-
setts.  He AAas appointed chief-justice of the Court of  Common
Pleas in 1821, and a justice of the state Court of Common Pleas
in 1822 ; which situation he  retained until 1830, when he was
elected governor of Alaine.   He was  re-elected governor for the
political  years  1831-32  and  1832-33,  and Avas  re-appointed
justice of the Court of Common Pleas early in 1835; which office
he resigned in 1837.   In October, 1837, he Avas appointed one
of the commissioners to revise the public laAvs of Alaine.  On
his election to the  gubernatorial chair, he  removed  to  Augusta,
where he resided  until July,  1836, when he returned to Wis-
casset.  He was unostentatious in his  intercourse with his felloAv-
citizens, honest in all his dealings, exemplary in his  habits of
life,  beloved and respected by all who knew him.
   He married,  12 September, 1832, Louisa Sophia,, daughter
of Hon. Henry AVeld Fuller  (D.C. 1801), of  Augusta;  and 
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had five children,—all sons.   His Avife and children survived
him.
   1810.—Dr. Joseph Eaton died at Fort Hamdton, N.Y.,
17 March,  1860, aged 75.   He was son of Edmund and Sally
(Brown) Eaton, and Avas  born in Reading, Alass., 24  July,
1784.   His mother was a descendant of Nicholas Brown, one of
the first settlers of Reading.   She was also a relation of Gen.
Benjamin Brown, of Reading, Avho was a colonel in the Revolu-
tion, and a general in the militia.   The subject of this notice Avas
fitted for college at Phillips Academy, in Andover, Alass.   He
was much assisted, in acquiring his education,  by his relative,
Rev. Oliver Brown (H.C. 1804),  of Charlestown, Alass., then
chaplain of the state-prison.   After leaving college, he chose the
medical profession;  and, having pursued  his studies for some
time, he entered the  army of the United States, 14 April, 1812,
as surgeon's-mate.   This position he  resigned, 12 December,
1813.   He was appointed  hospital-surgeon's mate, 15 April,
1814;  and, having completed his  medical studies,  he  received
his degree of M.D. that year.  He was commissioned as assist-
ant-surgeon with the rank of captain, 1 June, 1821, Avhich post
he retained during the remainder of his life ;  and, at his death, he
was  the senior  surgeon in the service.  He was an intelligent
gentleman,  and a faithful  public  servant.   He married Sally
Smith,  of  Salem, Mass.   The issue of this marriage was six
children, — one son and five daughters.   The son, whose name
is Joseph, entered the army; and, during the Mexican  Avar,
was aide to Gen. Taylor. He had the reputation of being a brave
officer.   The daughters  have resided  in  the vicinity  of  Fort
Hamilton.   Their mother died about nineteen years since.
    1810. —Isaac Redington Howe died in Haverhill, Mass.,
15 January, 1860, aged 67.   He  Avas son of David and Eliza-
beth (Redington) Howe, and Avas  born in Haverhill, 13 Alarch,
1791.   He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, An-
dover.  After graduating, he began the study of law, under the
instruction of Hon.  George Bliss, of Springfield, Alass. (Y.C.
1784) ; and completed his studies  with Hon. AVilliam Prescott,
of Boston (H.C 1783).   After  his admission to the bar, he 
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 opened an office in his native town, where he resided during the
 remainder of his life.   He was,  for many years,  active in his
 profession, in which he acquired a  highly respectable rank ;  but
 he  gave  up  his business some  sixteen years before his death,
 alleging, as it is said,  that he did not regard it as an honest pro-
 fession.   In this, probably, his peace principles, which were well
 known, actuated him.   He Avrote much for  the press, and was
 at one time  associated in conducting the " Haverhill Gazette."
 He was a great advocate of all that related to mechanics and the
 arts ;  and, in these matters, his mind  was  far in advance of
 the age.   He was never selfish or partisan in  his character.   He
 aimed at truth and independence, and never committed his  con-
 duct or opinions to the dictation  of party.   He was  a gentleman
 of  great kindness and gentleness  of  disposition.    For several
 years before  his  death,  he was  in ill health, and was but little
 known away from his own fireside,  being but seldom abroad.
 Possessed of unusual.amiability, he had no  enemies.   He was
 particularly upright and honorable in all his business transactions,
 and left a character above reproach.
     Mr. Howe married, 16 June, 1816,  Sarah, daughter of Dr.
 Nathaniel Saltonstall, of HaA'erhill (H.C.  1766), and sister
 of  Hon.  Leverett Saltonstall, of  Salem (H.C. 1802).  They
 had eight children, —four sons and four daughters,  — of whom
 three sons and one daughter, Avith their mother,  survived their
 father.   The  children are  as follows: 1.  Nathaniel Salton-
 stall, born 24  April, 1817  (Y.C. 1835);  lawyer in Haver-
 hill,  and judge of probate^  has been member of  the state
 senate.  2.  Alary Cooke, born  25 March, 1819 ;  married, 30
 September, 1851, James H. Carleton, a merchant in Haverhill.
 3.  Caroline Alatilda,  born 27 September, 1821;  died 9 August,
 1844.  4. Ann  Elizabeth,  born  14  November,  1823;  died
• 7 July,  1845.   5.  AVilliam  Garland, born  28 June;  died 26
 August,  1826.    6. Frances Garland, born  8 October, 1827 ;
 died 5 September, 1828.  7. AVilliam Garland, born 1 August,
 1829 ; broker in Boston.  8.  Francis Saltonstall,  born  8  No-
 vember,  1831 (H.C.  1852) ;  lawyer in Chicago.
     1810. — Rev. Cyrus Peirce died in AVest Newton, Mass., 
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5 April,  1860, aged 69.   He Avas the youngest  of twelve  chil-
dren — five sons and  seven  daughters — of Isaac and Hannah
(Alason) Peirce ; and was born in AValtham, Alass., 15 August,
1790.   He began his preparatory studies  for college at  Fra-
mingham Academy, and  completed them under the instruction of
Rev. Charles Stearns, D.D. (H.C.  1773), of Lincoln, Alass.
AVhile in college, he maintained the reputation  of a pure, up-
right young man ; a faithful and indefatigable student; an accu-
rate, though not a brilliant,  scholar.   During his sophomore
year, in the winter of 1807—8, he began his labors as a school-
teacher in the village of AVest Newton, —in the same town, and
not far from the very spot, where he closed his life, upwards of
fifty-three years afterwards.   Immediately after leaving college,
he accepted an  invitation to  take  charge of  a  private school in
Nantucket.   Here he taught, two years, with  great fidelity and
success.   During that time, he determined to study for the  min-
istry ;  and, in 1812,  he  returned to Cambridge  to pursue his
theological studies.   After three years spent there, he Avas  per-
suaded to return to Nantucket, and resume his work as a teacher,
where  he remained three years.  In 1818, he  left, and began
preaching.   He was ordained pastor of a church in North Read-
ing,  Alass., 18  Alay,  1819.   Here he remained a most faithful
and discreet preacher  of the gospel for eight years ; but, having
come to the conclusion that he was not called to preach so much
as to teach, he  resigned his pastoral charge,  19 May, 1827, and
returned to school-keeping, as that which should  thenceforth be
the business of his  life.  In company with  a  relative,  Mr.
Simeon Putnam (H.C.  1811),  he took charge of a school in
North  Andover, Alass.  Here he remained four  years ;  Avhen
at the  earnest .solicitation of his former friends, in 1831, he re-
turned to Nantucket.   His return was most cordially welcomed;
and  he immediately found himself at the head of a large  and
lucrative school.  This school he continued  to teach six years,
during Avhich time he was occasionally blessed Avith able assist-
ants ; and  among them was  Miss Maria Mitchell, who had  been
his pupil, and who has since obtained a world-wide fame as an
astronomer.  In 1837, he relinquished  his  private school,  and 
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became the principal of Nantucket High  School.   This school
he kept tAvo years.   In 1839, when the first normal-school  on
this continent was established at Lexington, Mass., he was, at
the earnest solicitation of the late Horace Mann, induced to take
charge of it;  and entered upon his labors, 3 July, 1839.   He
began with only three scholars.  The contrast between the full
and flourishing establishment he  had just left at Nantucket, and
the " beggarly account of empty boxes " which was daily before
him for the first three months,  was very disheartening.  How-
ever, he had put his hand to the plough, and of course the fur-
row must be driven through, ay, and the  whole field  be turned
over, before he would relinquish his effort.  He set  about his
Avork as  one  determined to " do with his  might what his hand
found to do."   He  soon made  his three  pupils conscious that
there Avas more to be knoAvn about even the primary branches of
education than they had dreamed;  and better methods of teach-
ing reading,  spelling,  grammar,   and geography,  than  were
practised  in the schools.   Their reports  of the searching thor-
oughness and  other excellent peculiarities  of the normal-teacher
attracted  others to  him.   The  number of his pupils steadily
increased from term  to term, until, at the  expiration of his
first three years' service, there were forty-two; at which  time
he was obliged to resign in consequence of failing health, and he
returned to Nantucket:  but, at  the end of two years, he was so
far recruited as to be able to resume the charge of the school, to
Avhich he was  unanimously elected in 1844 ;  it having been re-
moved to AVest NeAvton.  He continued in charge of the school
until 1849, when he was again compelled to resign  on account
of his health.   He retired with  the highest  recommendation of
the Board of Education and others for his fidelity and success.
   A purse containing five hundred dollars was contributed by
his pupils and other friends, and was presented to him, to enable
him to go to Europe as  a delegate to the  Peace Congress, then
to be held shortly in Paris.  This was almost the only recreation
he  had allowed himself to take after leaving college in 1810.
He spent several months in travelling in England and on the
Continent.  Soon after his return, he  became  an  associate Avith 
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Mr. Nathaniel T. Allen, a young and ardent successful teacher,
in the management of an  academy in AVest Newton.   Here he
labored with all the zeal of'his younger days, until his  health
again compelled him to  retire, although he nominally remained
an  associate  until  his  death.  He passed away  calmly  and
serenely, with the love and respect of all who knew him.
    He married,  about the year 1816, Harriet Coffin, of Nan-
tucket,  but had no children.
    1811. — Clarke Gayton Pickman died in Boston, 11 Alay,
1860,  aged 68.   He  was the second son of Col.  Benjamin
(H.C. 1784) and  Anstis  (Derby) Pickman,  and was born in
Salem,  Alass.,  22 November,  1791.  His father Avas born in
Salem, 30  September, 1763.   He was a gentleman of fortune;
was a member of both branches of the state legislature and of
the executive-council;  a  delegate in  1820 to the convention
for revising the constitution of Massachusetts ; and a representa-
tive in Congress, from Essex South District, from 1809 to 1811.
He died 11 August, 1843, aged 79.   Plis mother Avas a daugh-
ter of Elias Hasket Derby, an eminent and wealthy merchant
of Salem.  He was fitted for college by Jacob NeAvman Knapp
(H.C. 1802), AA'ho for several years kept a classical  school in
Salem.   He was taken  ill in  his sophomore year, and did not
again reside in college;  but received  a  degree Avith  his  class.
He then turned his attention to theological studies, intending to
take orders in the Episcopal church, but not under the direction
of any clergyman.   He was  ordained a  deacon,  and read  the
service a few times; but did not afterwards pursue the profes-
sion.   He was long subject to undue nervous excitement,  Avhich
occasionally resulted in temporary alienation of mind to such  a
degree, that it was  necessary, more than once, to place him in an
asylum for the insane, for short periods.   He possessed a benev-
olent disposition,  which  he  manifested by educating several
meritorious children  who  were left  orphans  in straitened  cir-
cumstances.  He  delivered an address  before the East-Cam-
bridge Temperance Society, 22 December, 1835, and another
before  the  Ladies' Benevolent  Society at East Cambridge, 18
December,  1836 ;  both  of which were published.   In the  fol- 
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lowing  extract from  the  latter,  he  evidently alludes  to  him-
self:—
   " It  has  pleased  God  to create  men with different degrees
of talent; and, of course, their pursuits must be attended with
different degrees  of success.   In the complicated concerns of
human life,  it must also happen, that to equal talent there can-
not, at  all  times,  be given  equal  opportunities  of  exertion.
Hence it is,  that, while one man is able to  succeed in his  object
of desire, another is kept back,  sometimes by weakness,  some-
times by his crimes,  often by a course of events which he cannot
control, and for the influences of Avhich no cause can be assigned
but the good pleasure of our Creator."
   For many years, he had no permanent  place of abode.  He
resided in Charlestown,  East Cambridge, Boston, and other
places in this A'icinity.  He was never married.
   1814.—Benjamin Apthorp Gould  died  in Boston,  24
October,  1859,  aged 72.  He  was son  of Capt. Benjamin
and  Grizzel (Apthorp)   Gould,   and was  born in Lancaster,
Mass.,  15 June,  1787; but removed, when quite  young, with
his father's family, to NeAvburyport,   Mass., where most  of his
youthful days were passed.   He was fitted for college at Dummer
Academy in Newbury, Alass.  AVhile in college,  he attained
a high  rank in scholarship, and was particularly distinguished
for his  attainments  in the Latin and Greek classics.   In April
of his  senior  year,  an offer was made to him to take charge of
the public Latin School in Boston ;  which had become greatly
reduced, both in regard  to the number of its scholars, and the
want of a proper discipline.   Whereupon  he  made application
to the government for leave of absence for the  remainder of his
collegiate course; which,  in consideration of his  diligence  as  a
student, his  exemplary deportment, and  the  urgency of the
Boston  school-committee  to obtain  his valuable services, was
granted, with the further privilege, that he should  receive his
degree Avith  his class at the next Commencement.   In the month
of Alay following, he began his labors as principal of the school;
and the highest anticipations of his friends  Avere  realized.   The
institution, under his vigorous and  unwearied exertions, soon
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 rose to a  degree  of  prosperity  Avhich it  had never before  at-
 tained.  He continued to hold the office of principal, Avith undi-
 minished popularity and success, for fourteen years.  In 182N,
 his health having become somewhat impaired by his long  and
 arduous labors, he resigned his situation, and entered upon mer-
 cantile business, in Avhich he continued the remainder of his life.
 He became a large ship-owner, and Avas extensively engaged in
 the Calcutta trade,  which he pursued with good judgment and
 Avith much success ; but he always retained an  interest for the
 school of which he was so long the head.  AVhen the Latin-
 School Association  was formed, he Avas unanimously elected  its
 president;  a post which he held, by successive re-elections, until
 his death.   He was a member  of the Boston  common-council
 in 1834, 1835, 1836, and 1837, and was for several years  one
 of the school-committee.  He was a man of extensive literary
 attainments, and Avas  a member of the American Academy of
 Arts  and Sciences.  He was greatly beloved by his numerous
 pupils, Avho ever retained an affectionate regard for their faithful
 instructor.   His moral character was Avithout a blemish.
   He married, 2  December, 1823, Lucretia Dana Goddard,
 daughter of Nathaniel  Goddard,  Esq.,  of Boston, — a most
 amiable and accomplished lady, —who survives him.  They had
 four children, — two sons and two daughters, — all of whom are
 living.  The elder son,  Benjamin Apthorp Gould, graduated at
 Harvard College in 1844, and is the well-knoAvn astronomer.
   1814.—Thomas  AValley Phillips, of Boston,  died  at
 his  summer residence  in Nahant, Mass.,  8 September,  1859,
 aged 62.   He was the eldest son of Hon.  John (H.C. 1788)
 and Sally  (AValley) Phillips, and was born in Boston, 16  Janu-
 ary, 1797.   His father was born in Boston,  26 November,
 1770, was an eminent lawyer, was judge of the Court of  Com-
 mon Pleas in Suffolk county, was for  many years president of
the  state senate, and Avas the first mayor of Boston.  He died
 29  Alay,  1823, aged  52.   His mother was the daughter  of
Thomas and Sarah AValley ; was born 25 Alarch, 1772 ; and died
 4 November, 1845, aged 73.  His brothers and sisters,  all  of
Avhom survive him, are Sarah Hurd, Avife  of Professor Alonzo 
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Gray,  of Brooklyn, N.Y. ;  Margaret,  wife  of Dr.  Edward
Reynolds,  of Boston ; Miriam,  wife of Rev. George AVashing-
ton Blagden,  of Boston ;  Rev. John Charles Phillips (H.C.
1826), of Alethuen, Mass.; George AVilliam Phillips (H.C
1829) ; Wendell Phillips (H.C.  1831) ; and Grenville Tudor
Phillips (H.C. 1836),—the last three of Boston.  He was sent
in early boyhood to Phillips  Academy in  Andover,  Mass.,
which Avas founded  by one of his  relatives, and was there  fitted
for college.   After graduating,  he read  laAv with Hon. Lemuel
ShaAV (H.C. 1800), and was  admitted to the  Suffolk bar in
1817.  For about fourteen years, he practised laAv with much
success in Boston, until he succeeded the late Joseph H. Pierce
as clerk of  the Municipal Court; the arduous duties of which
office he filled with great ability, and with perfect acceptance to
the public, until his decease.  Although of a retiring disposition,
he Avas at various times called from his much-loved, quiet life at
home, to take part in other official duties.   In  1827, he was an
influential member of the common-council, under the mayoralty
of the elder  Quincy; and, in 1829, he performed the duties of
school-committe man for the Avard  in which he resided.  In  1834
and 1837, he served the city as a representative  in the legisla-
ture.   But the most important  position Avhich  he occupied was
that of clerk of the Municipal Court; Avhich office he held under
the appointment  of Judge Peter Oxenbridge Thacher (H.C.
1796), in  1830,  and which, in  its various changes, he retained
by successive appointments  and  elections.   For many years, he
was a Avorthy and conscientious  member of the Masonic frater-
nity ; having received the degrees  in Mount-Lebanon Lodge, of
Boston, in July,  1821.   The next year, he became a member
of St. Andrew's  Lodge, of Boston, — one of the most ancient
and respectable in the country,—in  which he for many years
held  the office of treasurer; and was one of the  members'-com-
mittee, dispensing charity with an open hand and liberal heart.
In all  the relations  of life, he was  a most worthy man; and
by his genuine kindliness of heart, and  amiability of character,
made warm  friends  of all with whom he associated.
   He married,  18  March,  1824,  Anna Jones, daughter of 
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 Samuel  Dunn,  of Boston.   Two  children of  this marriage
 survived him,—John,  an engineer of promise, at one time
 employed in the construction of raihvays in Chile ;  and Samuel
 Dunn (H.C. 1861), who died in the service of the Educational
 Commission for Freedmen, in 1862.  His wife also survived him.
    1814.—Thomas  AVetmore  died  in  Boston,  30  Alarch,
 1860, aged 64.  He was son of  Hon. AVilliam (H.C 1770)
 and Sarah (Waldo)  AVetmore, and Avas  born in  Boston,  31
 August, 1795.  His father, who Avas the son of Jeremiah  and
 Hannah (Hobbs) AVetmore, Avas  born  in  AliddletoAvn,  Conn.,
 30 October,  1749 ; was a lawyer by  profession;  practised a
 short time in Salem, and removed thence to Boston, where he
 was appointed judge of  the Court of Common  Pleas ; an office
 which he held many years.  He died in Boston,  18 November,
 1830, aged 81.  The subject of this notice  was fitted for college
 at the public  Latin School in  Boston.  After graduating,  he
 studied law;  and, having been  admitted to the bar, he  opened
 an office in Boston, but  retired from practice many years before
 his death, being possessed of an ample competence  of worldly
 estate.   He was a most  useful and highly respected  citizen, and
 devoted many years of his life to the interests of the city.  He
 was a member  of  the  common-council from  1829 to  1832;
 was an alderman in  1833,  1834,  1835,  1837, 1838, 1839,
 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1847.  He was  also for  several
 years a member of the  board  of water-commissioners.  He
 was once a candidate for the office of mayor;  but there being
 two other candidates, and a majority of  all the votes cast being
 necessary for a choice, there was no election ; and he then with-
 drew  from the contest.   He Avas never married.
    1818.—Rev. Joseph Augustus  Edavix Long died  in
 Hookset,  N. H., 3 May, 1860,  aged 65.   He was  son  of
 Nathan and Alary (Blaisdell)  Long, and was born in Ames-
 bury, Alass., 8 November, 1794.   His  name, originally, Avas
 Joseph Long ; but, in 1820, he, by authority of the legislature,
took  the intermediate names of  Augustus Edwin.  He Avas
fitted  for college  at  Amesbury Academy,  but  concluded  to
become a merchant; and for that purpose entered the counting- 
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room of Zebedee Cook, on  India  Wharf, Boston,  as  a clerk,
where he  remained one summer:  but, business  being dull in
consequence of  the embargo  Avhich existed at that time, he
relinquished his  purpose of  a  mercantile life, went to Phillips
Academy, Exeter, N.H.,  where he reviewed  his studies under
Dr. Benjamin Abbot,  and entered college in  1814.   Immedi-
ately after graduating, he entered the DiA-inity School  at Cam-
bridge  as  a student, where he remained one year and a half;
instructing, at the same time, a select number of private pupils.
He then returned to Amesbury, where he  continued his theo-
logical studies with his brother-in-law, Rev. Benjamin  Sawyer
(D.C  1808),  now of Salisbury,  Mass.  He was licensed to
preach by the Essex North Association, 10 October, 1820 ;  and
went immediately to Kensington, N.H., where he preached, for
the first time, 29 October of the same year.   He  continued his
labors there to good acceptance until  5 June, 1822,  when he
was ordained as  an evangelist; the church and society not being
able to settle and support a pastor.  He continued to preach,
and perform all the ministerial duties, until 8 April, 1823.  He
then went to Chelmsford, Mass., where he performed the duties
of ministerial pastor six  or  eight  months.   After leaving  this
place, he was employed as a  missionary in  the state of Alaine
about a year and six months.  He often spoke of these eighteen
months as the most pleasant in his life; and the people among
whom he labored spoke of him AA'ith much  respect  and warm
affection.   Pie then went to Hookset,  where he preached most
of the  time until 1832 ; Avhen he  went to Sandown, Avhere he
preached; and at Epping, Nottingham, and Poplin  (now Fre-
mont), for three or four years.  In Biddeford and Lyman, Ale.,
he A\as employed, as stated supply, about two years.   In the
autumn of 1837, he returned to his house and home in Hookset.
After this time,  his health being feeble, he preached only occa-
sionally.   He Avas often  sent for  to officiate at funerals ; on
which  occasions, he was  said to be gifted in prayer, and in
adapting  his remarks to the  bereaved mourners.
   His death was very sudden.   Pie went to Concord, N.H.,
the 2d of Alay ; returned home about five o'clock, p.m., as well as 
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he had been for some weeks;  and died  the  next  morning,
exchanging this for a better world, calmly and peacefully.   For
some weeks previous to his death, he often said he thought he
should not five but a  short time ; that he should die suddenly;
and gave directions respecting his funeral.
   He married, 9 September, 1830,  Anna Alatilda Milton,
daughter of Rev. Charles William Alilton,  of Newburyport,
Alass. ; by whom he had  a son,  Joseph Samuel  Head, and a
daughter,  Alary Jane,—both well settled in life.   These, with
their mother, survived him.
   1819.—Hon. Robert Cross died  in Lawrence, Alass., 9
November, 1859, aged 60.  He was son of Alajor William and
Ruth (Stacy) Cross, and was  born  in  Newburyport,  Alass., 3
July,  1799.   He was grandson  of Col.  Ralph Cross, of the
army of the Revolution, — afterwards Gen. Cross of the militia ;
and was appointed, by Jefferson, collector of NeAvburyport.   His
mother was a native of Gloucester, Alass.   He was  fitted for
college at Phillips Academy, Andover;  and graduated  with high
honors.  Immediately  after leaving college, he was  appointed
usher in the Boston Latin School, where he remained one year.
He then studied law in the office of  Hon. Ebenezer Moseley, of
Newburyport (Y.C. 1802) ;  was admitted a member of the
Essex  bar  in December, 1823 ; and began the practice of his
profession in Newburyport, where he remained several years.
He then removed to Amesbury, Mass., Avhere he continued his
profession with great  industry,  fidelity, and success, and en-
joyed repeated marks of the public confidence.   He Avas elected
a  representative to  the state legislature from Newburyport in
1827.   In 1832, he was chosen senator from Essex district,
and  again  in 1842.   In  1844, he  removed to Marshall, in the
state  of Michigan,  where he  resided  until  1849,   when  he
returned to Massachusetts, and settled in LaAvrence,  where he
continued in the practice of his profession until his death.   He
was an accomplished scholar, a sound lawyer, and, in the highest
sense of the word,  a gentleman, — endeared to his friends, and
respected by the community.
   He married, in 1828,  Mary Cabot Tyng, daughter of Hon. 
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Dudley  Atkins Tyng, of Newburyport  (H.C.  1781).  They
had four children ;  viz., Robert D., Alary R. (deceased), Ralph
(deceased), and Charles E.  His eldest son resides in Alichigan,
and his youngest is a cadet at AVest Point.  His wife died very
suddenly,  of cholera,  in Alichigan, in July, 1849.
   1820.  Rev. Benjamin Kent,  of Roxbury, Alass., died in
the insane-hospital  at Taunton, Alass.,  5  August, 1859, aged
65.  He  was son of Samuel and Rhoda (Hill)  Kent, and was
born in that part of Charlestown Avhich is noAV within the limits
of Somerville, Alass., 25 Alay,  1794.   He pursued his prepara-
tory studies  under  the instruction  of Hon. James Russell, of
West Cambridge,  Alass. (H.C. 1811).  He held a high rank
in his class, and graduated with distinction.  The part assigned
to him  on his graduation Avas  a poem " On Rank and Titles ; "
which Avas replete Avith sparkling wit, and elicited  greater  ap-
plause  than any  other  performance that day.    After  leaving
college, he studied theology at the Divinity  School in Cam-
bridge.   He  was ordained,  7  June,  1826, as  colleague with
Rev. John Allyn, D.D. (H.C.  1785),  over  the  Unitarian
church in Duxbury, Alass.   Here he labored with great fidelity,
and to the entire acceptance  of  the society, until ill health com-
pelled him to ask a dismission,  Avhich was with much reluctance
granted 7 June, 1833.  To his unwearied labors the  town was
much indebted for the establishment of a high-school, which,
principally through his instrumentality, was begun ; and  by his
exertions a sum sufficient for its maintenance  was  raised,  and
teachers eminently qualified for the duties of instructors were
procured.   It Avas  first under the charge of Air. George Putnam
(H.C. 1826), noAV the  Rev. Dr.  Putnam, of Roxbury; who
Avas succeeded by Air. AVilliam Augustus  Stearns (H.C. 1827),
now the Rev. Dr. Stearns, president of Amherst College.
   From Duxbury, Air. Kent removed,  in 1833, to Roxbury;
AA'here he taught a private academy for young ladies for several
years.   He Avas  afterAvards  librarian  of the Roxbury  Athe-
naeum until Avithin  two or three years, when the feeble state of
his health compelled him to relinquish it.   He was a great  suf-
ferer for many years from extremely severe headache, — so severe 
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that it several times resulted in fits of insanity, such as to render
it necessary to remove him to the hospital for the insane.   He
was aware Avhen these fits  were coming upon  him,  and would
give directions for his removal Avhen it should be necessary.
But all these afflictions he endured with remarkable patience and
resignation.
    Air. Kent was a  great lover of antiquity.  He ransacked
garrets, collected many autographs and literary documents of the
Pilgrims, and made several discoveries of interest.  He was a man
of superior intellect, great originality, keen wit, and a fine poetic
taste.  He  delivered,  several years ago, the poem  before  the
Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge.   His health was broken
down by hard labor.  His life affords a noble  example of pa-
tience, self-devotion, enthusiasm, and virtue, through  a life of
uncommon trials.
    He married, 27  September, 1826,  Eleanor Bradford, of
Boston.  They had four children, — all daughters, — who, with
their mother, survive  him.
    1820. — Rev.  Stephen  Schuyler died  in Rhinebeck,
Duchess  county, N.Y., 1 November, 1859, aged 58.  He Avas
son of Philip J. and  Sarah (Rutsen) Schuyler, and was  born
in Rhinebeck, 18 April, 1801.   At the  age of eight years, he
was sent to Medfield, Mass., to school, under the charge of Rev.
Thomas Prentiss, D.D. (H.C. 1766), preparatory for  entering
college, where he remained three years ;  thence to Cambridge
and Brighton three years ; thence to Albany, N.Y.,  one year;
Avhen he entered Union College  at  Schenectady.   There  he
remained two years, when he  left;  and in August, 1818, he en-
tered the junior class  at Harvard College.   AVhile in  college,
he was studious, exemplary in his deportment,  attained a high
rank in  his  class, and graduated with  honors.  Immediately
after leaving college, he selected  the profession of law,  and be-
came a  student in the office of Francis Livingston,  Esq., at
Rhinebeck,  and in that of Samuel Jones, Esq. (Y.C. 1790),
who was subsequently chancellor of the state of New York,
the first judge of the Superior Court of  the city of NeAv York,
and finally judge of the Supreme Court  of the  state,  by  elec- 
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tion under the new judiciary system.   He received his diploma
as an attorney in the Supreme Court of the state of  New York
in October, 1823.   He then turned his attention to the study of
the divine law, and became  a student in the Divinity School
at Cambridge for two years, from September, 1824,  to August,
1826.   Compelled by ill health  to abandon  the  practice  of
laAv in the city of New York, he became, in 1830, a permanent
resident of his native place, Rhinebeck.  He married,  11  De-
cember,  1831, Catharine  Alorris.    Three  children were  the
issue of this marriage ;  viz.,  1.  Stephen R.,  born 23 Novem-
ber, 1832.   2. Sarah Catharine, born  27 April, 1840;  died
8 June, 1848,  aged  eight  years,  one  month, eleven days.
3. Rutsen, born 19 April, 1849 ; died 8 Alarch, 1852, aged two
years, ten months,  eighteen days.   The lady whom he married,
Avas, by religious profession,  a member of the Alethodist-Epis-
copal church, and he became a member of the same church in
1834 ; was licensed as a local preacher in the same  year ;  was
ordained to the order of deacon in 1839, and to that of elder in
1844.   He was a most sincere believer in the doctrine of the
denomination which he had  embraced, and Avas  a faithful and
efficient laborer in his Master's vineyard until his health failed.
In 1851, he had a  severe hemorrhage from the  lungs ; but,  by
great care, he rallied again, although he  was always, after that,
subject to a severe cough and occasional bleeding.   For the last
two years of his life, his health was very feeble.   In Alay pre-
vious to his death, he said to his friends that he might  get through
the summer, but  should not live through the  fall.  The  disease
gradually wasted his body away, but his  mind  continued  calm
and cheerful  until the very last.  He made all his arrangements
 for his departure to that bright Avorld which his  pure spirit AA-as
 so fully prepared to enter, and  he  gradually passed aAvay into
 that solemn darkness which mortal eye cannot pierce, but which
 to him, doubtless, is lighted up  by the radiance  of a never-
 ending noon.  His wife survived him ;  and his only remaining
 child was a civil-engineer, residing in Alississippi.
    1822.—John Frost died in Philadelphia, 28  December,
 1859,  aged   59.    He  was  son  of Nathaniel  and Abigail
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(Kimball) Frost,  and Avas  born in Kennebunk, Ale., 26 Jan-
uary, 1800.   In  early life  he manifested great fondness  for
study.  He pursued  his  preparatory studies  at the academy in
Gorham,  Me. ; and, in  1818, he  entered  BoAvdoin  College,
where he remained one  year, Avhen he  left,  and  entered  the
sophomore class at Harvard College.   He held  an honorable
rank of scholarship in his class, and graduated Avith high honors.
In the  AA'inter  immediately subsequent to leaving  college,  he
taught school  in Cambridgeport.  In 1823,  he  Avas appointed
principal  of the Mayhew School  in Boston, Avhich position he
held about four years.  In 1828,  he removed  to  Philadelphia;
passing the winters of 1827-8  and 1828-9 in Cuba to recoA'er
from  severe attacks of bleeding from the lungs.  From 1828 to
1838, he  conducted a school  for young ladies ;  and,  at the latter
date, accepted  the situation of  professor of belles-lettres at
the Central High-School in Philadelphia,  Avhich he  resigned, in
1845, to devote himself entirely to literary pursuits.   He was,
during a great portion of his  life, a book-maker, —probably  the
most  prolific one our  country has yet produced.   To that pur-
suit  he sacrificed   every thing  else.   He made his pupils  his
assistants, and thus lost for his female school the patronage of
some of the wealthy  families.   He mingled the  same pursuit
AA'ith his teachings  in  the High School, and Avith a similar result.
The two things  were  incongruous, and the passion for literature
triumphed.  It is  impossible  to  give  a list of the numerous
works he wrote and compiled.   They were principally histories,
many of them  bearing a fictitious name on the titlepage.   His-
tory was his speciality,  and this exhaustless mine he Avorked in
every Avay.  His " Pictorial History of the United States " sold
largely,  upAvards  of  fifty thousand copies having been disposed
of some years ago ; and it is still  popular.  Next to his histori-
cal works, his biographies fill the largest  space.   He employed
Avriters, engravers, and designers, and had a regular Avorkshop
for the production of books.   Nevertheless, his mind,  which
was  exceedingly suggestive,  was  the architect of every  thing.
By unceasing  industry in  his vocation, the volumes of  his
compilation numbered upwards of  three hundred.  He Avas a 
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scholar of  ripe  attainments, well versed in  the  Spanish and
French languages.   Although his talents and  attainments were
universally admitted to be of a high  order, his love of study
and reading never flagged.   Every new publication, from Avhich
he hoped to derive fresh information, was  read with attention;
and  his wonderfully fine memory treasured  up all  of interest.
In 1843, the honorary degree of doctor of  laws was conferred
upon him by Marshall College in Pennsylvania.
   He married, 4 May,  1830, Sarah Ann  Burditt, daughter of
James AVhite and Alary (Rhoades) Burditt, of Boston.  They
had ten children, all born in Philadelphia; viz., 1. Mary Cor-
delia, born  28 April, 1831.   2. Caroline Augusta, born 3 July,
1833; married, 8 Alarch, 1854,  Dr. J. R. Rowand. 3. James
AV.  Burditt, born 31  July,  1835 ;  died 15 December,  1835.
4. Sarah Annie, born  20  Alay,  1837.   5. George Frederic,
born 16  October, 1839.   6. Frances Emily, born 19  Alay,
1842; died 6 August, 1846.   7. Alorton, born  6 February,
1845; died 5  February, 1847.   8.  Charles William,  born 10
April, 1848.  9. Arthur Burditt, born  17 January, 1851.   10.
Francis Burditt, born 5 November, 1855 ;  died 15  April,  1857.
   Air. Frost's domestic relations were  those of a sincere Chris-
tian, a most loving husband, and a kind parent.  A long life of
incessant study and labor  ended Avith a  peaceful  and happy
death.   AVeighed doAvn in  his last years by business perplexi-
ties and troubles, his perfect trust  in a protecting Providence,
and his gentle loving-kindness in his family, were never disturbed
by worldly difficulties.   His last illness was very short,  and  his
death fearfully sudden : yet, though often in  severe bodily pain,
his  mind Avas, through all his sickness,  calm, quiet, and peace-
ful ;  seeming  to have  laid aside all earthly cares, to  wait in
perfect love and hope  the  release from his  burdens here.
   1824. — Rev. George AVashington Burnap died  in  Bal-
timore, Aid., 8 September,  1859, aged 56.  He was son,  and
the  youngest of thirteen children,  of Rev. Jacob, D.D. (H.C.
1770) and  Elizabeth (Brooks) Burnap, and was born in Aler-
rimack,  N.H., 30 November, 1802.   Plis father Avas  born in
Reading, Alass.,  2  November, 1748;  was  ordained pastor of 
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the church in Merrimack, 14  October, 1772 ;  and died 26 De-
cember, 1821,  aged 73 ; having sustained his pastoral relation-
ship with his people upAvards  of forty-nine years.   His mother
was  the daughter of Caleb and Ruth (Albree) Brooks, of Aled-
ford, Alass., and sister of the late  Gov.  John Brooks.   The
subject  of this  notice  was fitted for  college at the academy in
Thetford, Vt.,  and graduated with high honors.   After leaving
college,  he studied theology  at the  Divinity School in  Cam-
bridge.    He was  ordained  pastor  of  the First  Independent
(Unitarian) Church in Baltimore,  23 April, 1828, as successor
of Rev.  Jared Sparks (H.C  1815), AA'here  he  labored  with
great acceptance until  his decease, a period of thirty-one years.
In  this outpost of the Unitarian faith, although not gifted AA'ith
such an address as might be supposed to  captivate a  Southern
audience, he soon obtained a standing in his congregation, and
a reputation with the public,  such  as few  clergymen  have en-
joyed ;  and maintained them  unimpaired through  his  ministry.
He  retained to  the  last an  earnest simplicity  of  character,
which was his peculiar trait;  and commanded  universal respect
for his genial disposition and  high  Christian aims.   He was not
brilliant, but was solid; and  his discussions, whether social or
from the pulpit, were  marked  by strict  logic and  conscientious
fairness.   Plis publications, mostly upon religious topics and
moral subjects, were numerous, and of a high order  of merit.
His  social position in Baltimore gave him a Avide sphere of use-
fulness, independently of his labors in his pastoral  relation ; and
he did much, by means of lectures, to elevate  and  refine public
sentiment, and  to diffuse useful knowledge.  He Avas a member of
the  Maryland  Historical Society; and was one  of  the  board
of trustees of  the  Peabody Institute in Baltimore,  the  build-
ing  for  the  accommodation  of which has just  been erected.
His  thorough  scholarship,  and  his large acquaintance  Avith
books, rendered his aid in that body most valuable, particularly
in connection with the organization of the library, a  subject in
which he felt a deep  interest.  In 1849, the  degree  of doctor
of divinity was conferred upon him by Harvard College.
   He  married,  18  July,  1831,  Nancy AVilliams, daughter 
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325
of Amos A. AVilliams, Esq., a distinguished merchant of Bal-
timore.   They had  three children,—one  son  and two daugh-
ters ;  of  whom the  son and one daughter died in infancy.   The
other daughter and her mother are living.
   He published, in 1835, a  volume of "Lectures to Young
Alen on the Cultivation of the Alind, the Formation of Charac-
ter, and  the  Conduct of Life ;" in the same year, a volume of
"Lectures on  the Sphere and Duties of AVoman; "  in 1842,
" Lectures on  the History of  Christianity."   In 1844, he con-
tributed to Sparks's  American Biography a memoir of Leonard
Calvert,  first Governor  of Maryland.  In 1845,  he  published
"Expository  Lectures  on the  Principal  Texts  of the Bible
which  relate  to  the Doctrine of the Trinity; "  a \rolume  of
"Miscellanies," and a "Biography of Henry  T. Ingalls."  In
1848,  he published a small Avork entitled " Popular Objections
to Unitarian Christianity Considered and Answered;" and,  in
1850, twenty discourses " On the Rectitude of Human Nature."
He was a contributor to the pages of the "  Christian Examiner "
from the  year 1834.
   1824. — Caleb  AIorton Stimson  died in Newton Lower
Falls, Alass., 6 July, 1860,  aged 56.  He was son of Samuel
and  Susanna  (Bigelow) Stimson, and  Avas born  in  Newton,
13 April, 1804.  His father, who  was  son  of Jeremiah and
Sarah Stimson, Avas born in Boston  in  1765 ;  was brought up
a merchant; travelled abroad to some extent; and finally settled
in business, as a grocer, on  Long  AVharf, Boston, having en-
tered  into partnership  Avith his  younger  brother,  Caleb.   He
was married, 4 July, 1796,  by Rev. John Thornton Kirkland,
to Susanna Bigelow.  They had but two children, —the subject
of this notice, and one elder brother who died in infancy.  AVhen
the yellow-fever broke  out  in Boston,  his father  relinquished
business, removed to Newton,  where he purchased a  farm, on
which he lived until his death,  AA'hich took place  in November,
1849,  at the  age of eighty-four years.   His  mother was  the
daughter of Thomas  and Betsey  (AVales) Bigelow,  of  AVal-
tham, Alass.   Young Stimson was fitted  for college  mostly by
Rev. Charles Train, of  Framingham, Mass. (H.C 1805), but 
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[1859-60.
passed a few months in completing his preparatory studies at
Alilton Academy.  After leaving college, he studied law in part
at the Law School in Cambridge, and partly in the  office of
Hon. Lemuel Shaw (H.C 1800), of Boston.  He AA-as admit-
ted to the bar in Boston in 1827 or 1828, but did not enter into
practice;  for, being  an only child, at his father's express desire
he went to reside with him at NeAvton, and  remained there, with
the exception of some brief intervals,  during the remainder of
his life.   Inheriting an ample competence, and his health having
been for many years in  a very feeble state, he pursued no regular
business.   Possessing a  most amiable  disposition, he  led a
blameless life, and finally passed aAvay with calmness and  com-
posure,  leaving no enemy behind him.
   He married, 27  April,  1847, Charlotte Augusta  Crehore,
daughter of Lemuel  Crehore, of Newton, but had no  children.
His wife survived him.
   1825.—Hilary Breton  Cenas died  in  New Orleans, 26
October, 1859, aged 53.   He Avas son  of Blaise  and Catharine
(Baker) Cenas, and was born  in  Philadelphia,  5 November,
1805.  He Avas prepared for college by Rev. James  F.  Hull,
rector of  Christ Church, Philadelphia.  On leaving college, he
chose the  profession  of law, and pursued his  studies  under
the instruction of AVilliam Christy and John R. Grymes, of New
Orleans ;  and, after his admission to the bar, he opened an office
in that city, where he  practised for several years; but subse-
quently relinquished it, and established himself  as a notary-
public.   He Avas a gentleman of great affability of manner, was
highly esteemed for  his many excellent personal qualities, and
retained the confidence of a large business-acquintance in the
exercise of the duties  of  his important profession.
   He married, February,  1833, Margaret Pierce, of  New Or-
leans, who survived him.   They had thirteen children, —seven
sons and six daughters,—of whom tAvo sons and all the daughters
survived him.
   1830. — John AVhite  Browne,  of Boston,  was  instantly
killed in Braintree, Alass., 1 Alay, 1860, by accidentally falling
from the platform of a railroad-car while the train Avas in motion. 
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He was fifty years of age.  He was son of James and Lydia (Vin-
cent) BroAvne, and was born in Salem, Alass., 29 Alarch, 1810.
His father was the eldest lineal descendant of Elder John Browne,
the ruling elder of the First  Church of the Alassachusetts-Bay
Colony  at  Salem, Avhose acceptance of the eldership the Rev.
Mr. Higginson  made the  condition of his own  settlement  as
pastor.   His  great-grandfather,  for whom  he was named, was
John AVhite;  Avhose  daughter, Alary White, was the wife  of
Elder AVilliam Browne, and mother of James Browne, the father
of John AVhite Browne.   Both AVilliam and James were elders
in the East Church, Salem, —Unitarian, under the pastorate of
the late Dr. AVilliam  Bentley (H.C. 1777), — James succeed-
ing at the death  of his father.
    The  subject of this notice was fitted for college at the Salem
Classical School, under the  charge of Theodore Ames and Henry
Kemble Oliver.   AVhile in college,  he was the  chum of Hon.
Charles Sumner.   He attained  a very high rank of  scholar-
ship in his  class, and  graduated Avith distinguished honors.   He
studied law one year at the Law School at Cambridge, one year
with Hon.  Rufus Choate (D.C. 1819),  and one year with Hon.
LeA'erett Saltonstall (H.C. 1802) in Salem.  He practised his
profession  several years in Lynn, Alass. ; but,  about twelve
years before his death, he removed to Boston, Avhere he continued
in practice, principally as a conveyancer, until his decease.   In
1837, he was elected a representative to  the legislature;  and
in 1838, during his absence from  the state, he was nominated  by
the Avhig party  of  Essex  county as  a  candidate for the  state
senate.   On his return, he declined the nomination, for the rea-
son that he was  unwilling to become the candidate of any party
for political office.  From that time he carefully avoided political
prominence (although he took a warm and constant interest in the
course of public  affairs), devoting himself with extreme assiduity
to the business of his profession.  He took an especially service-
able part in almost every effort for criminal  reform, and  for the
improvement of prison discipline,  during his long period of active
professional service;  and  was also  earnestly,  though  quietly,
devoted to the promotion  of the antislavery movement.  His 
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daily life Avas an exhibition of a noble, highly cultivated intellect,
of the purest  morality, and the gentlest kindly feelings for the
welfare of the Avhole human race.
   He married, in 1842, Alartha Ann Gibbs, daughter of Capt.
Barnabas  Lincoln, of Hingham, Alass.   They  had but  one
child, —a daughter (Laura Lincoln BroAvne), — avIio, with her
mother, survived him.
   1830.—Dr.  Henry Lincoln died  in Lancaster,  Alass.,
29 February,  1860, aged 55.  He Avas son of AVilliam and Ta-
bitha  (Kendall) Lincoln, and was born in Leominster,  Mass.,
11 August,  1804.   His father was a farmer, and died in Leo-
minster,  27 December, 1846.   His  mother was daughter of
EdAvard Kendall,  of Fitzwilliam,  N.H.,  originally from Leo-
minster.   He  was  fitted for college,  in  part,  by Hon.  Joseph
Gowing  Kendall   (H.C.  1810),  of AVorcester,  Mass., then
practising  law at Leominster;  and  in  part   at  LaAvrence
Academy  in Groton.  After leaving college, he went to Phila-
delphia, where he studied medicine under the instruction  of Dr.
Samuel Jackson, of that city; and received his degree of M.D.
at the University of Pennsylvania in 1834.  Returning to Alas-
sachusetts, he established himself in Lancaster, where he acquired
an extensive practice, and was highly respected.   He married,
14  February, 1838,  Martha  Bond;  and  had children,—
AVilliam Henry (who died before him), Alary Catharine, Ellen
Sears, Alartha Bond, Francis Newhall, and EdAvard  Hartwell.
His Avidow survived him.
   1838.—Abel Fox died of consumption, in Quincy, 111.,
14 November, 1859, aged 41 years.  He was son  of Oliver and
Mary (Dorr)  Fox, and was born in Fitchburg, Alass., 21 Au-
gust,  1818.   His mother was sister of the late  Samuel Dorr, of
Boston, for many years president of the New-England Bank.
The subject of this notice Avas fitted for college  partly at Leices-
ter  Academy, and completed  his studies  at  Exeter (N.H.)
Academy.   He did not study a profession ; but, soon after he
graduated, removed  to  Quincy, 111., and  devoted  himself  to
agriculture.   He there married the widow of his brother, Henry
Fox.   Her  maiden name was  Abby AVhittemore, formerly of
Boston.   He left no children. 
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   1843.—Elisha ATinslow Tracy  died  in  Hampshire,
Kane county, 111., 5 February, 1860, aged 36.   He  was son
of Elisha and Lucy C (Huntington) Tracy,  and was  born
in Norwich, Conn., 8 April, 1823.   His name originally Avas
Winslow  Decatur  Tracy,  Avhich was changed  soon  after he
graduated.   He  was  fitted for  college  at  the   academy in
Cheshire, Conn.    He pursued his professional studies  at the
Law School in Cambridge.   Having come into possession  of a
considerable fortune soon after  leaving college, by the  death of
his father, he went to  Chicago, 111.    He was  admitted  to the
bar in the fall of  1844,  and at once took a high rank in his
profession.   The " Chicago Times " thus speaks of his  abilities :
"His  poAvers of  intellect were indeed remarkable.  His mind
possessed that comprehensive quality which beholds a subject  at
once in all its various aspects, and perceives their  relations and
bearings without  the labor of study.   Its habit was eminently
philosophical, its tone strong and vigorous.  He was no follower
 of other men's thoughts.   His  utterance, whether in a set speech
 or unpremeditated debate, betrayed an originality  of thought, a
 clearness of comprehension, which are seldom found even in our
 most eminent men.   His imagination, too, was extremely fine ;
 and his speeches very frequently embraced figures  and  tropes of
 surprising beauty.  Indeed, an elevated poetical quality, united
 with originality of ideas and philosophical treatment of subjects,
 were the distinguishing characteristics of  his oratory."
    Air.  Tracy never  held  any political office.   He married, in
 November,  1858, Lizzie  Thayer, a  young  and amiable lady
 of Chicago ; and with his bride Avent immediately to Europe,
 where he spent about a year  in travelling in England  and on
 the Continent.   On his return, he purchased a farm in the town
 of Hampshire, Kane county, with the design of abandoning the
 laAv, and engaging in agriculture.   There he died,  leaving a
 Avidow only  twenty  years of  age, but  no children.
     1848.__James Atherton Dugan died in Brewster, Mass.,
  5 June, 1860, aged  33.    He was  son of James and Sophia
  (Atherton) Dugan, and was born in Boston, 4 February,  1827.
  He received his education wholly at the public schools  in Boston,
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and Avas prepared for college  at the Latin School.   He Avas a
remarkably studious, bright, and exemplary scholar Avhen a  boy ;
so much so, that three Franklin medals were awarded to  him at
three several schools Avhich he attended ;  namely, at the AVells
School in  1838, at the English High School in 1842, and at the
Latin School in 1844.  AVhile in college, he attained  a  high
rank in scholarship, and was a great  favorite among his class-
mates.  But in his junior year his health  failed, so that  he was
unable to continue his studies ;  and he Avas obliged to leave.  He
went a voyage to Rio Janeiro, and returned Avith his health in a
great measure restored ;  and his degree Avas conferred upon him
in 1851.   After his return, he taught a private  school in  Bed-
ford, Alass.,  for some time; after  which he Avas engaged as  an
assistant  in  the school of Air. Epes  Sargent Dixwell  (H.C.
1827) in Boston.   He next removed to Brewster,  Alass., AA'here
he opened a private school, which  he  continued as long as his
health Avould permit.    He Avas a popular teacher, of unblemished
moral character; and his early death was  a sad affliction to his
family and friends.  His father died suddenly at Brewster, while
on a visit to that place, 10 August, 1858, aged 66.
   He married, 5 August, 1852, Helen, daughter  of  Elijah
Cobb, Esq., of Brewster.   They had three children, —tAvo sons
and one daughter, — who, with their mother, survived him.
   1848. — Samuel Parsons died in Philadelphia, 28 October,
1859, aged  30.  He  was son of Samuel  and Alary  BroAvn
(Allen) Parsons, and was born in Boston, 2  Alay, 1829.   He
was  fitted for college  at the public  Latin School  in Boston,
where a Franklin medal Avas awarded to him for superior scholar-
ship.  He held a highly respectable rank in his class, and  gradu-
ated with  distinction.  After  leaving college, he  pursued the
study of law, partly in the office  of  Charles Bishop Goodrich
(D.C. 1822), and partly in  that  of  AVilliam Brigham  (H.C.
1829), of Boston.   Having been admitted to the bar, he  opened
an office in Boston ; but, his health failing, he left the city, and
resided for a time on his father's farm in Newton, Avhere he in  a
great measure recovered, and then  concluded to change his  resi-
dence to Philadelphia, but did not long survive after his removal
to that city.   He Avas unmarried. 
1859-60.]
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   1848.—Dr. Adam's  AViley, of Roxbury, Alass., died in
Clifton, Mich., to Avhich  place he had gone for the benefit of his
health, 2 April, 1860, aged 33.   He AA-as  son of Thomas  and
Margaret  (AVright) AViley, and was born in Boston, 16 Novem-
ber,  1826.  He was a twin,—the tAvo graduating in the same
class.  As they were born the same year that the two presidents,
Adams  and Jefferson, died, their parents  named them Adams
and  Jefferson  respectively.   The father  of the subject of  this
notice  was  born in  Reading, now  South Reading, Mass., 7
August, 1784; and died in  Roxbury,  25 Alay,  1860; having
survived his son only  seven weeks and  four days.  His mother
Avas  born in Boston, 23 Alarch, 1791;  and  his parents were
married by  Rev. John Alurray, 2 December, 1810.  He  was
fitted for college at  Lunenburg Academy, of which  John Rod-
man Rollins (D.C.  1837) was principal.   While  in college, he
Avas  a  diligent  student, attained a very respectable standing in
scholarship, and his deportment and moral  character were with-
out a blemish.   After leaving college, he pursued his professional
studies at the Tremont Aledical School  in Boston ; and, having
received his decree of M.D. in 1852, he  established  himself in
Roxbury,  where, by his judicious practice, he became quite popu-
lar, and the prospect opened to him a wide  field for success  and
eminence in his  profession.  During his residence in Roxbury, he
was  appointed  one  of the physicians  of the  dispensary;  and
Avas  also  secretary  of the  athenaeum,  in which institution  he
took a lively interest.   Amiable  in his disposition  and manners,
cultivated in mind and tastes, genial  and generous in his feel-
ings, pure and  exemplary in his whole conduct and  character,
he Avas esteemed  and loved by  a  large  circle of kindred  and
friends.   His death came  upon him somewhat unexpectedly,  but
it was singularly calm  and beautiful; and, to quote  an expression
from a  pencilled note written by him but the day  before  his
decease, he was " full of faith in a God who  had showed his love
for sinners."  He was never married.
   1852. — Charles AVentworth Upham  died in Buffalo,
N.Y., 2 April,  1860, aged 29.   He was  the eldest son of Hon.
Charles  AVentworth (H.C  1821) and Mary Ann  (Holmes) 
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Upham,  and Avas  born in Salem,  Alass.,  19 August,  1830.
His father, Avho Avas son of Judge Joshua Upham (H.C. 1763),
of Brookfield, Alass.,  a refugee, was born  in St. John, N.B.,
4 Alay, 1802.  His mother was daughter of Rev. Abiel  (Y.C
1783) and Sarah (Wendell) Holmes, of Cambridge, Alass.
   In the summer of 1839, young Upham AA'as  sent to St. John,
N.B. (where his aunt, Fanny AVendell, resided), to improve his
health ; where he spent nearly seven months.  On his return the
following year, he went to the Ropes farm in Danvers, Avhere
he passed the summer, and where he repeatedly went; his pa-
rents, on account of his health, ahvays  sending him aAvay from
school during the summer season.  In the interim he attended the
Salem schools, and finally there  completed his preparation for
college at the Latin School, under Mr. Oliver Carleton  (D.C.
1824).   In the summer of 1847, with  Danvin Erastus  AVare,
of his class, and Plenry Stone, Avho entered  Harvard, but gradu-
ated at Bowdoin College, he went to  Portland by steamboat.
There he and his companions, dressed in pedestrian style, went
on foot round the AVhite  Mountains  to  Andover, Me., back to
AVinnipiseogee, thence through Concord, N.H., home, all the
way on foot, haA'ing been absent twenty-one days.  In the sum-
mers of 1849 and 1851, he also made excursions to the  AVhite
Alountains ; and, in the vacation in his senior year, he journeyed
to Brandon, A^t., to  AVashington,  D.C,  and to  Providence,
R.I.   He AA'as college marshal at  the inauguration of President
Sparks in the spring of 1849 ; chief-marshal  at the celebration
of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the  battle  of Bunker Hill,
17  June, 1850;  chief-marshal at the  railroad jubilee  celebra-
tion in Boston, in September,  1851; chief-marshal at the class-
day ; and vice-president at the class-supper.  He suggested the
idea of class-daguerrotypes, first carried  out in  the class  to Avhich
he belonged, and which has since been succeeded by photographs
in later classes.
   Immediately after graduating,  he entered the Law School at
Cambridge;  and, after remaining the usual  period, he  received
the  degree  of  bachelor of laws; was  admitted  to  the bar,
and opened an office in Salem.  In 1855,  he went to  Europe, 
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Avhere he remained about two years, enriching his mind by vis-
iting the most interesting portions of England and the Continent,
and increasing his stock of useful information ;  but, as he Avas
about to leave  England on his return, the first symptoms of that
fell disease, consumption, appeared, AA'hich terminated his  life.
In the summer of 1857,  he removed to Buffalo, where he estab-
lished himself in the practice of his  profession ;  having been
admitted a partner with Hon. S.  G. Haven and AVilliam Dor-
sheimer,  under the firm of Haven,  Dorsheimer, and  Upham.
The firm was  originally  Fillmore, Hall,  and Haven.   AVith a
handsome person, fine colloquial powers, and a  mind  enriched
by the observations and experiences of foreign travel, he was a
favorite AA'ith all  Avho kneAv him, and every thing seemed to  pro-
mise for him a brilliant and successful career.   It Avas, hoAvever,
otherAvise ordered ;  and he was cut down in the morning of life :
but he submitted to his inevitable doom Avith a  cheerful,  Chris-
tian resignation, and with a full confidence of a blessed immor-
tality beyond the graA'e.
    He married,  22  June,  1859,  Alary, daughter  of Hon.
Solomon G. HaA'en, of Buffalo ;  Avho  survived the partner of
her affections.
    The members of the bar  in Buffalo held a  meeting on the
evening of the 4th of April, at which appropriate and  respectful
tributes Avere paid  to the memory of their youthful associate;
and subsequently attended the funeral in a body, pursuant  to a
vote to that effect.
    1854.—James Brown Kendall died at  the residence of
his  father,  in Saxonville  (Framingham, Alass.), 9 October,
1859, aged 25 years, lacking tAA-o days.   He Avas  the  only son
of  Rev.  James Augustus  (H.C.  1823)  and  Alaria  Boyle
(BroAvn) Kendall,  and was born  in  Aledfield, Alass., 11 Octo-
ber, 1834.  AVhen about tAvo and a half years old, he removed
Avith his parents  to  Saxonville; about two years  later, to Stow,
Alass. ;  and in July,  1842, to Cambridge ; which place was his
residence until the summer previous to his death.  He Avas fitted
for college at the Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, under
Edmund Burke  AVhitman (H.C 1838),  noAV of Kansas.  He 
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 graduated Avith high honors.   In the Avinter of his junior year,
 he taught school in Scussett (Sandwich, Alass.).  After gradu-
 ating, he taught with great success a private classical  school in
 Portsmouth, N.H.,  for tAvo years; in the mean time  pursuing
 the study of law, which he subsequently continued and com-
 pleted at the LaAv School in Cambridge.   Having been admitted
 to the bar, he,  in partnership Avith his  classmate, Payson  Elliot
 Tucker, opened an office in AVorcester, Alass., in the summer of
 1859.  About two  months afterwards, he  Avas  seized  with
 typhoid-feA'er, of which he died after  a brief illness.   He Avas
 brilliant, witty, learned, of stern integrity and high moral char-
 acter.
   1855. —Andreav Lammey Yongue Avas killed on the Char-
 lotte  and  South-Carolina  Railroad,  at  Columbia, S.C,  17
 NoA'ember,  1859, aged 31.  He was the youngest  of three
 children (the others, a  brother named Robert A., and a sister
 named Sarah)  of AVilliam and Elizabeth (Lammey)  Yongue,
 and was  born in Buckhead, Fairfield District, S.C, 12 April,
 1828.   Both his parents died several years since.   His father
 died 13 November, 1842, aged 77 years; and his mother died
 19 January, 1844.  He was  prepared for South-Carolina Col-
 lege at the  Alount-Zion Collegiate Institute, J. AV.  Hudson,
 principal, AVinnsborough,  S.C.  He  entered  the  sophomore
 class of the  South-Carolina College, December, 1851;  and left,
 December, 1852, with one hundred  and  ten others, who were
 compelled to leave on account of what is known  as the  " Biscuit
 Rebellion."   He  entered the sophomore  class of Harvard Col-
 lege, March, 1853.  It was  his intention, after graduation, to
 prepare for  the ministry : but his  health  became delicate from
 exposure during his residence at college, and passing to and fro,
 so that, in a measure, he had to give  up  study, and he settled
 on a farm inherited from his father;  but becoming embarrassed by
 the deaths of his  negroes,  and  other misfortunes, he was forced
 to change his business.   He  then taught school for  eighteen
 months, with a view still for the ministry, if his health Avould
 permit.  To raise  further funds to  enable  him to carry out his
purpose, he  obtained the situation of conductor on the Charlotte 
1859-60.]            OF  HARVARD COLLEGE.                335

and South-Carolina Railroad.   About three months after enter-
ing upon his  new duties, he met with the unfortunate accident
Avhich terminated his life.  He attempted to step on the train
Avhile in motion : his foot slipped, and he fell under the cars ; the
wheels passed  over both his  legs.   One was  taken  off  above
the knee, and the  other  broken above the ankle.  This Avas on
the 16th of November; and  he died the next day.   He bore
his suffering with great patience, and not a murmur escaped his
lips ; believing it was the will of his heavenly Father  that he
should die thus, and for some good end.  Pie died with a prayer
upon his lips, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."  He was buried
at the Salem church, Fairfield District, of which he was a mem-
ber.  He was never married.
    One calamity follows another in quick  succession.  Robert
A. Yongue, the only brother of Andrew L., died on the 4th of
February, 1860 ; having been left by the cars seven miles from
Charleston, Avhile warming himself at a fire by the road; and in
attempting to Avalk over a high trestle (thirty feet), stepping on
a rotten plank Avhich gave Avay, he fell through the distance men-
tioned, on stumps,  and  into Avater four feet deep.  His  remains
Avere not found until the next day.  The expression of Andrew
L. Yongue, that his death was for some good end, Avas verified:
for his brother, Avho had been  thoughtless of his latter end, was
almost inconsolable at  his death;  from that period became a
changed man ;  and there was good reason to believe that he was
prepared for  the sudden and unexpected death that awaited him.
He was a graduate at  the  South-Carolina  College some years
ago.  He left  a Avidow and two children to mourn their irre-
parable loss.
    Their sister Sarah, the only surviving member of the family,
became the wife of David Milling, Esq., of Alill View, Fairfield
District, S.C. ;  where  he at one  time held  the office of post-
master.  She was in feeble and delicate health  after the  melan-
choly deaths  of  her brothers,  following each other in so quick
succession.                 t
    l,s,37.—Edaa-ard  Thomas Damon, of AVayland,  Alass.,
died in Cambridge, Alass., of small-pox, 30 November,  1859, 
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aged  25.   He  was  son  of  Thomas  Jefferson  and  Rachel
(Thomas) Damon, and Avas born in ^"ayland, 19 April, 1<S34.
He began  his  preparatory studies  for college  at Lawrence
Academy in  Groton,  Alass. ;  and completed them under the
instruction  of  Airs. Samuel Ripley, of Concord,  Alass.  He
graduated Avith distinguished honors.  After leaving college, he
began the study of medicine, at the Medical School in Boston,
under the instruction  of Drs.  John  AVare (H.C. 1813)  and
Morrill and Jeffries Wyman (H.C. 1833) ;  and, while attending
the course of medical lectures, he was attacked with that loath-
some disease which terminated his life.  He was a great favorite
Avherever he was knoAvn ; and his premature removal, just as a
brilliant  prospect  for  the future was  opening before  him,  was
a sad affliction to his parents and other relatives, as well as to
his classmates and many friends.
    1857. — George  Hollingsavorth died in Groton, Alass.,
8  August,  1859,  aged 23.  He Avas son  of John A lark  and
Emmeline (Cornell) HollingsAvorth, and was born in Braintree,
Mass., 29 July, 1836.  He entered the Boston Latin School at
the age  of ten ; and, after remaining there  somewhat over  two
years, left, upon the removal of his parents to AVest Cambridge;
and there he completed  his preparatory studies for admission  into
college, under the instruction of a private tutor.  He taught school
during the winter of 1857-8, and subsequently was engaged in
the paper-manufacturing business with his father in  Groton.
    1858. — Amory Pollard Sawyer died  in Bolton, Mass.,
20 Alay, 1860, aged 26.  He Avas son of Nathan and  Lucinda
(Pollard) SaAvyer, and was  born in Bolton, 30 October, 1833.
He Avas  fitted for college  at the high-school in Bolton.   The
disease by which  he was so prematurely taken away was con-
sumption, the  incipient symptoms of  which appeared during
his junior year at college;  and nearly the whole of his senior
year he was absent from Cambridge, returning only to join in
the festivities  of  Class-day.   AVhile  his health permitted, he
was a diligent and faithful student; of modest, unassuming de-
portment ; winning the love of his classmates and the regard of
his instructors. 
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   1859. — Henry  Huston Abbott died in  Charlestown,
Mass., of typhoid-fever, after an illness of eight days, 22 July,
1859, aged  23.   He was the eldest  son of John Gilman and
Sophia  (Huston)  Abbott, and was born in Charlestown,  18
July, 1836.   His  father was a native of Concord, N.H., and
was born 27 Alarch,  1812.  His mother was born in Farming-
ton,  Ale., 23  December,  1814.   Young Abbott pursued  his
preparatory studies at the high-school in Charlestown.  AVhile
in college, he was  a diligent student, constant in his attendance
at all recitations, modest in his demeanor, and exemplary in  his
conduct.  He made extraordinary exertions to secure the advan-
tages of a college education, intending afterwards to devote him-
self  to the business  of a  teacher.   But he Avas cut off in the
dawning of his hopes :  death marked him as the first victim in
his class.  His  degree  was conferred  upon him :  he was per-
mitted, while on his death-bed, to look at his diploma; but, within
forty-eight hours from his graduation, he ceased to live.
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   1795. — Rev. Caleb Bradley  died in Westbrook, Ale.,
2 June, 1861, aged  89 years.   He  was son of Deacon Amos
and Elizabeth (Page)  Bradley,  and was born  in that part of
Dracut which is  now  within the limits of Lowell, Alass,  12
Alarch, 1772.  His  parents were natives of Haverhill,  Mass.
He labored on  his father's  farm  until he was seventeen years of
age ;  when he began the study of the Latin language, under the
instruction of Rev. Solomon Aiken,  of Dracut (D.C. 1784).
He afterwards studied for three months Avith Rev. Simon Finley
AVilliams, in  Methuen  (D.C. 1785).  The next year, he en-
tered  Atkinson  (N.H.)  Academy, where he completed  his pre-
paratory studies ;  and in August, 1791, he entered  Dartmouth
College, where  he remained  two years; when he left, and en-
tered  the junior class in Harvard College; where he graduated,
in due course,  with  a respectable standing.   In an autobiog-
raphy, he  stated, that, while in  college, he " was never absent
from  prayers, nor from any of the college exercises;  was never
admonished or fined."  Immediately  after graduating, he  began
the study of  divinity with  Rev.  Henry Cumings, of Billerica,
Alass. (H.C. 1760).  Within a  year afterwards, he was appro-
bated by the Andover Association, and preached his first sermon
in Billerica.  He  was ordained pastor of the  church in Fal-
mouth (now Westbrook),  Me., 9   October, 1799.   He con-
tinued his pastoral labors in this  place, with great diligence and
fidelity,  until 28  April, 1828,  when he resigned his  charge;
and,  on the  following  day,  the Rev. Henry Cushing Jewett
(B.U. 1824) was ordained as his successor.  The society were
desirous that Mr.  Bradley should remain as  senior  pastor, and
that Air. Jewett should be  settled as his colleague; but he pre-
ferred to be relieved from the burdens and responsibilities of the 
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OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
339
pastoral charge.  He did not, however, give up preaching, but
continued  his ministerial labors.  For more than six years, he
officiated as chaplain at the city poor-house in Portland, and was
twice delegated by the  Maine  Missionary Society to act as
missionary in the county of Cumberland; and he continued to
preach occasionally  in various places.
   He married, 16 November, 1801, Sally Crocker,  of Taun-
ton, Mass.   She  died 27 April, 1821,  leaving six  children.
He married for his second wife, in 1827, Mrs. Susan Partridge
(widow of Nathaniel Partridge), whose maiden  name  was
Susan Smith, originally  from Wrentham, Mass.   She died 3
November, 1843 ;  and he married for his third wife, 26  De-
cember, 1844, Mrs. Abigail Codman, widow of James  Codman,
Esq., of Gorham, Me.   She died  17 August, 1854.   She was
a native of Halifax, Alass.
   1797.—Hon. Daniel Appleton  White died in Salem,
Alass., 30 March, 1861,  aged 84 years.   He was son of Capt.
John and Elizabeth (Haynes) White, and was born  in that part
of Alethuen Avhich is now the city  of LaAvrence, 7 June,  1776.
In June,  1792, he  entered the academy in  Atkinson, N.H.,
Avhere he was fitted  for college.  He graduated with the high-
est honors of his class.   AA'ith  a love of sound learning' and
classic literature, his mind Avas richly imbued Avith the element-
ary  course of college-life, and  formed a sure foundation for
future progress in  intellectual culture.  In 1799,  he was ap-
pointed a tutor in  the Latin department of the college ;  Avhich
post he occupied until 1803.   During that time, he had entered
his name  as  a  student-of-law in the  office  of Francis  Dana
Channing, of Cambridge  (H.C. 1794).   He was always deeply
interested  in the  success of  the  college;  and as a general
supervisor of all its concerns, as  a temporary member of the
faculty, and member of the board  of overseers,  he never  lost
sight of its interests.  In September,  1803,  he went  to Salem
for a year," and entered the laAv-office of Hon. Samuel Putnam
(H.C. 1787),  afterwards judge of the  Supreme  Court.   In
Judge Putnam's office, the  late Hon. John  Pickering (H.C.
1796) was a fellow-student;  and, jointly with that distinguished 
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scholar, young AVhite prepared, for the use of the college,  an
editon of  " Sallust,"  which  was published  by  Cushing  and
Appleton;  but the whole edition, as soon as it was  ready for
delivery, was destroyed by fire.  In 1804,  Judge AVhite  was
admitted to the Essex bar, and established himself in the prac-
tice  of law,  in  NeAvburyport,  in the days  Avhen there  Avere
legal  giants in Essex, and when  his discipline and well-stored
mind insured for him a successful practice.  At this interesting
period of our  political history, his talents and discretion drew
him into the arena of political life ; and, from 1810 to 1814, he
was a conspicuous member of the senate of Alassachusetts, under
the administration of Gov. Strong ; and was a firm supporter of
his patriotic and practical policy.  In November,  1814,  he was
elected a member of Congress from Essex North District, and
commissioned;  but,  before the  meeting  of  Congress,  he re-
signed, to  accept the office  of judge  of  probate,  to  which he
Avas  appointed by Gov.  Strong,  upon the resignation of Judge
Holten, in  May, 1815.  In 1817, he  moved to Salem, where
he passed the remainder of his life ; continuing to fill the office
of probate-judge, with uncommon  ability,  until he resigned it in
the summer  of 1853 ;  blessed with  an  old age, serene  and
bright to the latest moment;  and enjoying, by universal consent,
the distinction of being regarded as, beyond dispute, the first
citizen in the community  where he resided.
   Judge White's vast  literary resources were  always  at the
command of his friends and  the public;   and he was the  dis-
penser of a liberal  hospitality, and the  patron of every  good
enterprise — moral, assthetic, and  educational—which tended to
foster the highest interests  of the community.    He was one of
the  founders  and directors  of the Divinity School at Cam-
bridge ;  was  an overseer  of Harvard College from 1842 to
1853;  delivered the  address at the  second meeting  of the
Association of the Alumni in 1844.   He was the founder of
the  lyceum  in Salem;  was the president  of the athenamm,
and  presided  over  the Essex Institute from its first establish-
ment ; was a  member of the Massachusetts Historical Society;
of the American Academy of Arts  and Sciences;  and received 
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from Harvard College,  in  1837, the degree of doctor of laws.
He delivered eulogies on the decease of Dr. Nathaniel Bowditch
and Hon. John Pickering.  He was the author of several other
addresses  and memoirs of great literary merit.   Early in  his
judicial career, he wrote a valuable book on probate jurisdiction.
As an author, he was master of a singularly clear and nervous
style, which was exhibited through a period of more than  sixty
years.   But it was in the intimate relations of family and friend-
ship that  his graces and excellences as a man and a Christian
were most remarkable ;  and these were continued literally to the
the very last minute of his most consistent life, in loving recog-
nitions, sentences of faith, and prayer, and hymns of praise.
   Judge White married, first, 24 May, 1807, Mrs. Mary van
Schalkwyck, daughter of  the late Dr.  Josiah  AVilder (Y.C.
1767), of Lancaster, Alass.   She died  29 June, 1811; and he
married, second, in Salem, 1 August, 1819, Mrs. ElizaWetmore,
daughter  of AAdliam Orne,  Esq., late  of Salem, merchant.
She died  27 March, 1821;  and he married, third, in Charles-
tOAA'n,  22  January, 1824, Airs.  Ruth  Rogers,  daughter  of
Joseph Hurd,  Esq., late of Charlestown, merchant.   He had,
by his first Avife, three daughters ; by his second wife, one son,—
AVilliam Orne White, — graduated at Harvard College in 1840,
and became a Unitarian  minister in Keene, N.H. ;  by his third
Avife, one  son, — Henry Orne White, —who graduated at Har-
vard  College in 1843, and became a physician  in Salem; also
two other sons, who died in infancy.
    1798.—Isaac Fiske died in Cambridge, Mass., 11 Alarch,
1861,  aged 82 years.   He  was the youngest son of Jonathan'
and Abigail (Fiske) Fiske, and was born in AVeston,  Alass., 4
December,  1778.   His  father was son of Nathan and Mary
(Fiske) Fiske, and  was born in Weston, 15 December, 1739.
His mother  was daughter of Thomas and  Alary (Pierce) Fiske,
and was born in AVeston, 16 August, 1739.  The ancestors and
brothers of Air.  Fiske were remarkable  for their  longevity.
Three  of his  brothers  died  at  the ages  respectively of  75
years,  92 years and 4  months, and 93 years and 6 months; a
sister died at upwards of 86 years; and a brother, now living, 
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has arrived at the age of 87 years.   Air. Fiske Avas fitted  for
college by  his  brother,  Rev.  Thaddeus Fiske  (H.C.  1785).
After leaving college, he  studied law Avith Hon. Artemas A Yard,
then of AVeston (H.C 1783) ; Avas admitted to the bar in 1801,
and succeeded to the lucrative business of Air. AVard after the
removal of the latter to Charlestown.   He approved himself
to  be an example of constancy, skill, and fidelity, in his official
duties ; verifying the proA-erb of Solomon, that " the hand of the
diligent  maketh  rich."  He was  for  more than  thirty  years
register of probate for the  county of Middlesex,  having been
appointed by  Gov. Brooks  in 1817.  In transacting the busi-
ness of this office, — an office  of great responsibility, — he Avas
remarkable alike for accuracy and despatch, and no  less for his
readiness to give advice and directions, AA'hen called for, to those
Avho were intrusted, as  executors or administrators,  Avith  the
settlement of the estates of the deceased.   In the midst of his
useful labors in this office, he was superseded in  the year 1851,
in consequence of a political change in the administration of the
government of Massachusetts, in compliance with a usage not
uncommon,  by AA'hich the  public good is often sacrificed to party
preferences.   It is believed that at the time of his death he was
the oldest member of the Middlesex bar,  counting from the date
of  admission;  and, in point  of age, he was the oldest, with
one or  two exceptions.   He  was elected representative to the
state legislature in 1808,  1812,  1813, and 1814.  In  1820,  he
was a member of the convention which revised the constitution
of Alassachusetts.  He was a justice of the Court of  Sessions,
until that court  was superseded by the  appointment of county
commissioners.
    He married, 7 November, 1802, Susan Hobbs,  daughter  of
Ebenezer and  Eunice (Spring) Hobbs, of AVeston;  and the
issue of this marriage was six  sons and one  daughter,  of whom
two sons  only  surviA'ed him.   The  oldest  son,  Augustus
Henry  Fiske, graduated at Harvard College  in  1825, and is a
distinguished lawyer in Boston.  Air. Fiske's wife died 8 Janu-
ary, 1831, aged 48 ; and he married, in 1832, Sophronia Hobbs,
sister of his former wife, who  survived him. 
1860-61.]
OF HARVARD COLLEGE.
343
   1800.—Rev. Charles Loavell died in Cambridge, Mass.,
20 January, 1861, aged 78 years.   He was son of Hon. John
(H.C 1760) and Rebecca (Russell) LoAA-ell, and was born  in
Boston, 15 August,  1782.  His father  was son of Rev. John
Lowell (H.C. 1721)  of Newbury, Mass., in which town he was
born  17  June, 1743.   He Avas a  lawyer in Boston;  Avas a
member  of  the  convention  which framed the constitution  of
Alassachusetts;  and  was one of the founders of the American
Academy of Arts and  Sciences.  In  1789,  he was appointed,
by AVashington,  judge  of  the District Court of Alassachusetts.
He died in Roxbury, Alass., 6 Alay, 1802, aged 58 years.
   The subject of this notice was a student at Andover Academy
three or  four years, under Abiel Abbot (H.C. 1787) and Mark
Newman (D.C.  1793)  ; and was afterwards  placed  under  the
instruction of Rev.  Zedekiah  SaAvyer (H.C. 1771), in South
Bridgewater, where he  completed  his  preparatory studies, and
entered the sophomore class in 1797.  After leaving college,  he
studied law one year  Avith  his  elder brother, John Lowell, jun.
(H.C. 1786), when he  relinquished it  for the study of theology.
In the autumn of 1802, he Avent to Scotland,  and entered  the
divinity-school of the Edinburgh University, where, among  his
felloAv-students, was the renowned Sir David Brewster.  He took
a letter of introduction from  Dr. James  Currie, of Liverpool,
to Dugald Stewart, Avhose lectures he attended, and whom he
considered, from the  gracefulness and eloquence  of his delivery,
the copiousness  and  beauty of his illustrations (often extem-
poraneous), as the  finest  lecturer he  had  ever heard.   He
also attended  the lectures  of Hope and Alurray  in  chem-
istry, of BroAvn  in  rhetoric,  and  of others.   In Edinburgh,
he formed an  intimate acquaintance and  established a  corre-
spondence with Dr. Thomas BroAvn,  the distinguished succes-
sor,  as he had been the  pupil, of Dugald Stewart.  He Avas
well acquainted with  Francis Jeffrey, the editor of the  " Edin-
burgh Review."   In the summer of 1803, he  made a pedes-
trian tour through the Highlands of Scotland ; and, after spend-
ing another  winter in  Edinburgh, he  left that city for London
in the spring of 1804.   He took a  letter  of introduction from 
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Earl Buchan to Earl Stanhope,  father of Lady Hester Stan-
hope.  He visited Porteus  (bishop of London), Air. AVilher-
force, and other distinguished persons ; from  all of whom  he
received great attentions.   Wilberforce introduced  him into a
favorable place in the House of Commons, where he heard Pitt,
Fox,  Sheridan,  and other distinguished men.  Pitt,  he  said,
had a sharp  face and  a very large  nose.   In his  manner  he
was very  vehement, and  by  no means graceful;   constantly
moving his body forward,  and beating the air in the  same direc-
tion with his  right arm.   Fox was  more calm,  and someAvhat
colloquial; Sheridan, graceful in his  manner,  and speaking as
if reciting from a book.   He  also witnessed the performances
of John P. Kemble, and his sister, Mrs.  Siddons.  He  attended
on the preaching, among others, of John Newton, and the eccen-
tric but eloquent Rowland Hill.
   From London, Dr.  Lowell went  to  Paris at  an  eventful
period, and  had frequent  opportunities  of  seeing Napoleon
Bonaparte, who had just become emperor,  and whose  assump-
tion  of the imperial purple rendered him extremely unpopular.
He was present at the first appearance  of Napoleon  after  he
was proclaimed  emperor.   He saw Talleyrand the day before
he died.   After a tour through  Holland and SAvitzerland,  he
returned to Scotland, and spent another winter in  Edinburgh.
In the spring of 1805, he left Edinburgh; passed a little time
Avith a maternal uncle at Clifton, near Bristol, Eng. ; preached
at Bristol and Hackney; and returned to his native  country.
On his return home, he  studied divinity Avith Rev.  Zedekiah
Sanger, of South Bridgewater, and Rev. David Tappan (H.C
1771), professor of divinity at Cambridge.  He was  ordained
over  the AVest  Church in Boston, 1 January, 1806.   As a
preacher,  he  was eminently popular;  and he was almost adored
by his parishioners.  Graceful  as  an orator, with a  voice of
uncommon  sweetness,  he preached  with  such an ardor and
sincerity,  that he seemed to his  hearers to be almost divinely
inspired.  He  continued  sole pastor  of  the  church for  more
than thirty-seven years.   His health having become feeble, the
Rev.  Cyrus  Augustus Bartol (BoAA'd. C 1832)  was  ordained 
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as his  colleague, 1 March,  1837, where he still remains : but
Dr. LoAvell continued  his pastoral connection  with  his church
until his death ;  although he was unable to officiate, except occa-
sionally, for se\reral  years before  his decease.   Soon after his
colleague was ordained, he  revisited Europe.   In Edinburgh,
he met Dr. Brewster and others of his  former  fellow-students.
He spent  a day very  agreeably  with Dr. Chalmers at Burnt
Island, tAvo miles beyond the Frith of Forth.   He was in Lon-
don  the first winter  of his tour,  and  attended  the lectures  of
Dr.  Faraday, as he had  those of his  predecessor,  Sir Hum-
phry Davy, many years before ;  attended  the  meetings of the
Royal Society, and many other societies. He was a few months
in Paris, where he  saw  M.  Coquerel and other distinguished
persons.    He went to Belgium,  Holland, Hamburg,  Copen-
hagen, where he met Prof. Rafn ;  visited the falls of  Trolhaetta,
which  are  among the  most  remarkable in Europe.   He con-
tinued  his  tour  to Pomerania, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Bava-
ria, the Rhone, Baden Baden, Switzerland, Mont Blanc ; crossed
Mont Cenis to Alilan and Florence, and wintered at Rome.  He
was  presented to the pope in the winter of 1839 ; was present
at the  fooleries  of the carnival, and saw the magnificent spec-
tacle of the illumination of St. Peter's.  From Rome he went
to Genoa,  Naples,  Sicily,  Switzerland, Mount Etna, Malta,
and Athens, Avhere he was admitted  a  member  of the Archaeo-
logical Society of Athens at the Parthenon.  Thence he went  to
Smyrna and Constantinople, and was at the latter at the time  of
the death  of Sultan Alahmoud, — which  was occasioned by
delirium tremens, —whose funeral procession on the water was
\-ery imposing;  and  Avas also  there when his successor, Abdul
Medjid, Avas proclaimed, whose installation was most splendid
Avith barbaric pearl  and  gold, like some  of the scenes in the
"Arabian  Nights."  He  visited Rhodes, Cyprus, Joppa, Jeru-
salem, Bethlehem, Beirut,  Damascus (Avhere there is a street
called "Strait," as in the New Testament), Alexandria, Cairo,
the pyramids, the ruins of Baalbec, Thebes, and the tombs  of
Sesostris and the Pharaohs, the Red Sea, Trieste, Corfu, Vienna,
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Nimes,  and Paris,  after tAvo years' absence.   He saAv the Em-
peror Nicholas at Toplitz.
   The  honorary degree  of  doctor of divinity Avas  conferred
upon him by Plarvard College in 1823.  He was also a member
of the Alassachusetts Historical Society.   He  published seven-
teen occasional sermons, and  two or three  small volumes.
   He married, in October, 1806, Harriet B. Spence, of Ports-
mouth,  N.H. ; left  five children,—three sons and two daugh-
ters,— of  whom three are well known to the literary public;
viz., Prof.  James Russell LoAvell,  Rev. Robert  Traill Spence
LoAvell  (an Episcopal clergyman in NeAv Jersey), and Airs. S.
R. Putnam.   His wife died 30 Alarch, 1850.
   In a sermon which he preached about forty years after his
ordination, he says, " Is it amiss for me, in  this connection, to
say, that I am not  conscious  of having ever heard of sickness
or trouble  in  any of your families, that I have not gone to do
what became me as  your minister to do;  or that I  haA'e ever
knoAvn any considerable accession to the sources of your happi-
ness, that I have not rejoiced  Avith you in your joy, and endeav-
ored to lead you to a grateful impro\rement of the goodness of
God to  you?  One  thing more  I may claim  to say, —that my
pastoral visits have  never been spent in idle gossiping.   I  have
aimed to make them useful, however much I  have failed to do
so.   A  minister  of religion, I have  felt  that it  became me to
teach religion, not  only ' publicly,'  but ' from house to house,'
to 'watch for souls.'  God forgive me that I have  not been more
faithful, as one who must give an account! "
   1800. — Hon. Lemuel Shaav died in Boston, 30  Alarch,
1861, aged 80 years.   He Avas  son  of Rev.  Oakes (H.C.
1758)  and Susannah  (Hayward)  ShaAv,  and  was  born in
Barnstable, Alass.,  9 January, 1781.   His  father was  born
in Bridgewater, Alass., 10 June, 1736; was  ordained  over the
First Church in Barnstable, 1 October, 1760;  and died 11 Feb-
ruary, 1807, aged 70.  His  mother was a native  of Braintree,
Mass.   He was fitted for  college principally by his father ; but
studied  a  few months Avith Rev. AVilliam  Salisbury (H.C
1795),  of Braintree.  On leaving college, in order to disen- 
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cumber his  beloved father  of  the  expenses of his education,
he became usher at the Franklin (now the Brimmer) School, in
Boston, of which  the  late Dr. Asa Bullard (D.C. 1793) Avas
the principal, Avhere he remained one year; and was also during
that time  assistant-editor of the "Boston Gazette."  He then
studied law Avith David Everett (D.C. 1795), part  of the time
in Boston, and partly in Amherst,  N.H.  He Avas  admitted to
the bar in Hopkinton, N.H., in September, 1804; and  after-
Avards  in Plymouth, Alass., in November of the same year.   He
began  the practice  of law in Boston, in December, 1804, where
he resided during the remainder of his life.  In 1811, he deliv-
ered a  discourse before the Boston Humane Society; and on the
4th of July, 1815, an oration before the  town-authorities  of
Boston.  In this oration Ave find an explanation of the opposition
of a powerful party among us to the last war with Great Britain,
and a magnanimous and prompt concession that the contest  has
strengthened the bonds of our political union.  He says,  "AVe
rejoice in the  belief that the danger which we once feared from
the ascendency of  French principles is for ever removed.   The
secret spell which  seemed to bind  us in willing  chains to  the
conqueror's  car is  for ever broken.  No  sophistry can  again
deceive us into a belief that the cause of  Bonaparte  is the  cause
of social rights, or create  a momentary sympathy between  the
champion of despotism and the friends of civil liberty.   One of
the most alarming  points of view in which the sincere opponents
of the  late war with England regarded the measure was, that it
tended to  cement and perpetuate that dangerous and disgraceful
connection."
   In  politics, Judge Shaw was a  decided  federalist, and was
secretary of  the Washington Benevolent Society.   In 1811 he
Avas  elected  a representative to the state legislature, was con-
tinued  in that  office for four succeeding  years, and was again
elected in  1819.   In 1820 he was a member of the convention
for revising  the  constitution of the  state.   In 1821 and 1822,
he was a  member  of the senate; and again in 1828 and 1829.
Before  Boston became a city, he held various town offices ; was
a member of the board of fire wards, a selectman, and one of the 
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school-committee.   In 1822, while in the senate, he was chair-
man of the joint-committee of the  legislature on a city charter
for Boston; embodied the same in the form of a report  to  the
tOAvn, which Avas accepted;  drafted the city charter; and wrote
the act of incorporation establishing the city of Boston, granted
by the state legislature, 23 February, 1822 ; Avith the exception
of the fourteenth  section, relative to public theatres and exhibi-
tions, and the act establishing a police-court; which were drafted
by Hon. AVilliam Sullivan,  and went into operation at the same
time.  In  1830, his friends wished to nominate him as  a  candi-
date for representative to Congress ;  but he would not accept the
nomination.   He was an active member of the Boston-Library
Society,  the  Humane  Society,  the Alassachusetts Historical
Society, the Alassachusetts  Congregational Charitable  Society,
the  Society for Propagating the Gospel  among the Indians
in North  America, and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.   He was an overseer of Harvard College twelve years,
and  one of the corporation  twenty-seven years.  On the  23d of
August, 1830, he was appointed chief-justice  of the  Supreme
Court,  in  place  of Isaac  Parker (H.C. 1786) deceased.   He
held this office until the 31st of August, 1860,  when he resigned
it.   During the Avhole period of his devotion to the  state judi-
ciary,  he  made  records  of the  legal transactions  under  his
superintendence, comprising upwards of fifty volumes of several
hundred pages each.   He was blessed with an extraordinarily
large, powerful,  and vigorous  frame, which alone could have
sustained the pressure of the unremitted  and vast exertions of
his powerful intellect  for eighty years.  His ample and warmly-
feeling heart was quite as remarkable as his intellect.  A more
generous  and social  man  never lived.   Plis  fund  of mirthful
and racy anecdote was inexhaustible.   His honor, integrity, and
Christian faith were never questioned.  The honorary degree of
doctor of  laws  was conferred  upon him by  Harvard College
in 1831,  and by  Brown  University in 1850.
    He ever felt a devoted veneration for his parents.   His mother
was a lady of more than ordinary powers  of intellect; and of
his  father he thus warmly expressed himself in a  speech at 
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the centennial celebration at Barnstable, 3  September, 1839 :
"Almost Avithin sight of the place AA'here  Ave  now  are,  still
stands a modest spire, marking the spot Avhere  a beloved father
stood to minister the holy word  of truth and  hope and salva-
tion to  a numerous,  beloved, and attached people, for almost
half a century.   Pious,  pure, simple-hearted, devoted to  and
beloAed by his people, never shall I cease to  venerate his  mem-
ory, or to love those who knew and loA'ed him.  I speak in the
presence of some who kne\v him, and of many more, Avho, I
doubt not, Avere taught to love and honor his memory as one
of the earliest lessons of their childhood."
    Judge ShaAv married, 6 January, 1818, Elizabeth, a daugh-
ter of Josiah Knapp, a merchant of Boston ; and had by her two
children,—John Oakes and  Elizabeth Knapp.  His  wife  died
13 January, 1822,  aged 36  years.  He married for his second
wife, in  August, 1827, Hope, a daughter of Dr. Samuel  Sav-
age (H.C. 1766),  of Barnstable; by Avhom  he had  tAA-o chil-
dren,— Lemuel and Samuel Savage.   The former graduated at
Harvard College in 1849,  and is a lawyer  in Boston.    His
wife  and all his  children survive  him.                    .  .
    1800. —Benjamin AVelles died in Boston, 21 July, 1860,
aged 78 years.   He Avas  son of Samuel and Isabella (Pratt)
AVelles, and was born in Boston, 13 August, 1781.  He studied
for college in  part at the  Boston Latin School, under Master
 Samuel  Hunt  (H.C.  1765), and  during one year with  Rev.
Thomas Prentiss, of Aledfield, Mass. (H.C. 1766).  On  leav-
ing college, he studied law for some time with Hon. Levi Lin-
   ©     © 7
coin, of AVorcester, Alass. (H.C 1772), and afterwards  with
 Hon. Harrison Gray  Otis, of Boston (H.C 1783).  In  1803,
he went to England,  and pursued his professional studies  there.
In 1804, he joined his classmate, AVashington Allston, in Paris.
 A few  months afterwards, they went together to Switzerland,
 and passed St. Gothard in their carriage, being the first persons
 who  had traversed it.  They went to Lombardy, and  by  Lake
 Como to Rome, passing through Bologna, Avhere Allston exam-
ined the great paintings  of the Caracci and other great masters.
 They next went to Florence.  The plague,  prevailing in  Leg- 
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horn, detained them at  Rome tAvo months,  during AA'hich time
Allston employed himself in painting.   At Rome Air. Welles
staid  about two months, and Air. Allston a year.   Air. AVelles
returned to Boston in 1804.   In 1807, he, in company AA'ith
Stephen Higginson, AVilliam Parsons, Thomas II.  Perkins, and
others, engaged in an  iron-mining company in Vergennes, Vt.
In 1812, Air. AVelles was appointed sole agent of the establish-
ment, and took up his residence in Vergennes.   He met Lieut.
M'Donough at Burlington,  in a small gunboat,  strapping a
block, and made an engagement to supply the iron and cannon-
balls  for the ships, Avhich were  all built at ATergennes for the
lake-service; the iron-work amounting to $47,000.  In 1816,
he became a partner AA'ith Hon. John AVelles (H.C. 1782), who
Avas his cousin, in the auxiliary house in Boston to the banking-
house of AVelles and Co., of Paris.   This connection continued
twenty-eight years, until the  death of Samuel Welles (H.C.
1796),  which  took place in Paris,  31 August,  1841.
   He married, 1 August, 1815, Mehitable Stoddard Sumner,
eldest daughter of Gov. Increase  Sumner  (H.C. 1767) ;  by
whom he had  two  daughters,  Elizabeth and  Georgiana,  and
one son, Benjamin Samuel.   His wife died 31 January, 1826;
and he married, for his second wife, Susan Codman, daughter of
AVilliam Codman, Esq.*, of New York,  by  whom he had one
daughter,  Susan;  Avho  married,  14 January,  1856,  Russell
Sturgis, jun.,  of  Boston.
   Air. AVelles Avas highly respected in the community as a gentle-
man of  the old school.   lie left a very large estate.
   1801.—Hon.  Stephen AIinot died in Haverhill,  Mass.,
6 April, 1861, aged 84 years.  He  was son  of  Capt.  Jonas
and Mary  (Hall)  Minot, and Avas born in Concord, Alass.,  28
September, 1776.   His father was son of Dea.  Samuel and
Sarah (Prescott) AIinot; was born in Concord, 25 April, 1735 ;
and died in his native town, 20 March,  1813,  aged 78 years.
His mother was daughter of Rev. Willard Hall (H.C.  1722),
of AVestford, Mass.  She was  born 30  July,  1738, and died
3 NoA-ember, 1792, aged 54 years.  The subject  of this notice
was fitted for college at AVestford Academy.  He held a very 
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respectable  rank in  his  class  at  college.   Having  selected
law as a profession, he  pursued  his  legal  studies under  the
instruction of Hon.  Samuel Dana,  of  Groton, Mass.   On his
admission to the bar, he settled in New Gloucester, Me., in which
town and the town of AIinot he  practised about one year.   He
then removed to Haverhill,  where he remained until his death,
with the  exception  of a residence of three years  in  Methuen,
where he owned a cotton-factory.   He Avas a learned and accu-
rate lawyer.   His mind Avas clear in its perception, and logical
in its conclusions.  He Avas appointed,  in 1811,  judge of the
Circuit Court of  Common Pleas, and held the office until 1820,
when the laAv which created that court Avas repealed.  In 1824,
he was  appointed county-attorney  for Essex; which office  he
resigned  in 1830.  He was elected a representative to the state
legislature in 1825,  and would have been re-elected, but refused
to be a candidate again.  He was firm in purpose, exact and
punctual in method and habit, of strict integrity, fearless in spirit,
ever prompt to say  or  do whatever his judgment approved ;
of great  regularity  and temperance in his manner of  life ;  in
his private  relations a true, affectionate, generous friend.  His
house was the abode of kindness and a generous hospitality.   In
conversation,  he Avas genial, and rich in anecdote.   For  several
years,  having withdrawn from professional  labors, he spent
much of his  time in mathematical studies, and  in reading  the
Latin classics.  He also possessed a strong  mechanical talent,
of Avhich many instances remain;  among them an  organ of fine
musical  poAvers,  wholly the work  of his own  hands.   He was a
liberal supporter of the institution of religion, the ministrations
of Avhich he attended with great regularity.   To him the Unita-
rian faith Avas dear.  His  religious principles were firm, and sus-
tained him in the trials of life and in the hour of  death.  " He
set his house in order," and awaited with perfect composure  the
coming of the angel of death.
            " Calmly  he gave his being up, and went
              To share the joys that wait a life well spent."
    Air.  AIinot  married,  9 November, 1809, Rebecca  Trask,
daughter of Samuel Trask, of  Bradford, Mass.   She  died  27 
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November, 1832 ;  and he married, for his second Avife, Ellen P.
Gardner,  daughter of Hon.  Stephen Partridge Gardner,  of
Bolton, Alass., who survived him.  He left tAvo children, — Airs.
Pitman, of Reading, Alass.;  and Charles  AIinot, Esq., super-
intendent of the Erie  Railroad, New York.   The  late George
AIinot,  Esq.,  who  died 16 April,  1858, — a sound and able
lawyer of  Boston, author  of "Alinot's Digest," a  work well
known to the profession generally, — was his youngest son.
   1806. — Dr. Nathaniel Jacob died in Canandaigua, N.Y.,
3 February, 1861, aged 78 years.   He was  the  eldest son  of
Nathaniel and Lucy (Jacob) Jacob, and was born in Hanover,
Alass., 16 July, 1782.  Plis father, who AA'as son of Dr. Joseph
Jacob, Avas born in Hanover, 6 April, 1750 ;  Avas an industrious
farmer, of good natural abilities ; died 22 September, 1822, aged
72 }'ears'.   His  mother, Avho  was daughter of Joshua Jacob,
Avas born in Hanover, 3 November,  1748 ; and died 20 March,
1812, aged 63 years.  The subject of this notice was fitted for
college  at  Bridgewater  Academy,  under the tuition  of Rev.
Zedekiah Sanger, D.D. (II. C. 1771).  After leaving college,
he studied medicine, under the instruction of Dr. Nathan Smith,
of Hanover, N.H. ; and settled in Canandaigua in  1810, Avhere
he was one of the early principals  of the academy in the village,
and practised as a physician.   He was  for some  time professor
of anatomy in the  Fairfield Medical Institute in the state  of
New York.
   He was one  of the principal founders of St. John's  Epis-
copal Church  in Canandaigua.   He  was  a citizen of  much
public spirit,  and served as military surgeon on the frontier in
the year 1812.   At one time, he filled the  office of trial-justice.
He was a zealous and active member of the medical profession,
but retired from practice many years before his death.
   He married,  8 March, 1812,  Hannah  Sanborn,  of Canan-
daigua.  She Avas the first white inhabitant  born (in 1789)  in
that village; her parents  being one of four families who  emi-
grated from Lyme, Conn.  It took them  four weeks to  make
the passage; going in boats  up the  Hudson, the AIohaAvk, and
on from one lake to another by creeks.   By  his wife he had ten 
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children, of whom only four are now living ; one in Buffalo, and
the others in Canandaigua.   His Avife survived him.
   1808. — Lloyd Nicholas Rogers died  in  Baltimore,  13
November, 1860, aged 72 years.   He  was born in Baltimore,
20 September, 1788.   He held a very  high rank of scholarship
in his  class,  and  graduated with distinguished honors.   He
studied  law, and  settled  in  Baltimore.  He had the  ability to
attain  distinction  in  his  profession;  but, as he  inherited  a
very large fortune, he had no necessity to labor for a subsistence,
and he virtually hid his talent in a napkin.  He was not known
beyond his immediate acquaintance.
   1809.—Henry  Barney  Smith died in Boston, 1 April,
1861, aged  71 years.  He was son of Barney and Ann (Otis)
Smith,  and  was born in Boston, 26 October, 1789.   He was
fitted for college by Rev. Nathaniel Thayer, of Lancaster, Alass.
(H.C. 1789).   After leaving college, he began  the study of
law  in Litchfield under Judge Reeve, and afterwards  studied
with Hon. AVilliam Sullivan, of Boston (H.C.  1792).   He
was admitted to the Suffolk bar ;  but, having inherited an ample
fortune, he did not pursue his profession.   He was  an inveterate
democrat  in  politics;  and  possessing strong mental powers,
Avith great facility of address, he was one of the  most eloquent
speakers of his party at  democratic  caucuses  in Faneuil Hall.
He Avas for some time president of the Boston Debating Society.
In 1822, he deli\'ered an oration at a  democratic celebration of
the 4th  of July, in Dorchester;  and another, at a  similar  cele-
bration at the Marlborough Hotel in Boston, in 1824.   On the
4th of July, 1830, he delivered an oration before the Washington
Society  in Boston.  It was  said of him then, that " he is  an
uncompromising democrat, who has sketched the  protean visage
of aristocracy in thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."
   He retired from political life many years before his death,
and  devoted  himself to the  care  of his large  possessions.   He
was  never married.
   1812. — George  Edward Head  died in Boston, 5 July,
1861, aged 68 years.  He  was  son  of Joseph  and Elizabeth
(Frazier) Head, and was born in Boston, 25  February, 1793.
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His father (who was son of Joseph Head, who came from Eng-
land in the neighborhood of Norwich) Avas  born in Boston,
1 January, 1761;  Avas for many years a highly respectable mer-
chant; and was a member of the  first board of aldermen, on
the organization of the city-government,  in 1822.   He Avas a
director in the Massachusetts Bank from the year 1810 until
his death.   He died  30 December,  1836, aged 76 years.  His
mother, who was daughter of Nathan  and Elizabeth (AVhite)
Frazier, was born in Andover, Alass., 25 February, 1764; and
died 2 October, 1798, aged 34 years.  The subject of this notice
began to fit for college at Phillips Academy in Exeter, N.H.
He subsequently pursued his studies under the instruction of
Rev. John S. J.  Gardiner,  D.D., of Boston; and completed
them in the Boston Latin School, where a Franklin medal Avas
awarded to him in 1807.  After leaving college, he studied law
at the law-school in Litchfield, Conn.,  under  the instruction of
Judges  Reeve  and Gould;  and, on his admission  to the  bar,
established himself in  Boston.  Born  to  affluence, he did not
aim at eminence ; but, endowed by nature with a remarkably clear
intellect and refined taste, he  took pleasure in the  development
of his mind by the pursuit of studies Avhich Avere in accordance
Avith his fancy rather  than  the  dry routine of his profession ;
although,  had  necessity required  his entire  devotion  to law,
his talents  would have enabled  him to attain an eminent dis-
tinction as a  barrister.   That he  enjoyed the confidence and
respect  of  the  community was  manifested by the stations to
which he was elevated.   He was elected a representative to the
state legislature in 1836, 1837,  1847, and 1848.   He was a
member of the board of aldermen of Boston in 1846, 1847, and
1848 ; and, in the last-named year, he was chosen a permanent-
assessor ; which office he held, by successive elections, until his
death, with the  exception of the year  1855.  He  was at one
time urged by his  friends to alloAV the use  of his name as a
candidate  for  the mayoralty,  but  declined.   In  private  life,
his ready wit  and genial humor, combined  with high-toned
morality, endeared him to his family and his numerous acquaint-
ances. 
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   He married, 26 February, 1815, Hannah Catlin, daughter of
Grove Catlin, of Litchfield, Conn., and great-grand-daughter of
Joseph AVads worth, who hid the  charter of Connecticut in the
oak.  The issue of this marriage was six children ; of whom four,
—two sons and two daughters, — with their mother,  survive.
One of the sons, John Frazier Head, graduated at Yale College
in 1840 ;  and  the other, George Edward Head,  at Harvard
College in 1852.   Both became physicians.  One of the daugh-
ters is the wife  of Bishop Eastburn, of Boston.
   1812. —Nathaniel AVhitworth White died in Halifax,
N.S., September,  1860, aged 67  years.  He was son of  Capt.
Gideon and Deborah  (AVhitworth)  AVhite,  and  was  born
in Shelburne,  N.S.,  25 February, 1793.  His father was  a
loyalist, joined the British army at the time of the Revolution,
and rose to be a captain.  He left  the country, and  settled at
Shelburne, Avhere he was appointed a judge.  After the  Revolu-
tion,  living in  that little town,  and not mingling with the
Americans, he  retained his  bitter feelings.   When the war of
1812 broke out, he took his son away from college, only about
two weeks before Commencement; and the son was  therefore not
present when his degree was conferred upon him.   He also took
away with him another son, who was fitting to enter.  He died in
Shelburne in 1833, aged 82 years.   He was born in Plymouth,
and was  a descendant of Peregrine AVhite.  Mr.  AVhite, after
leaving college, settled as a lawyer in  Halifax, Avhere he prac-
tised two-thirds of  his  life.   He was  afterwards  master-in-
chancery.  He  died of  disease of the heart.   He  was  never
married.
    1813.  — Orville Luther Holley died in Albany, N.Y.,
 25  Alarch, 1861, aged 69  years.    He was  son  of Luther and
 Sarah (Dakin) Holley,  and was born in  Salisbury, Conn.,
 19 Alay, 1791. He was the eighth child of a family of nine, all
of whom he  survived.   The eloquent  Rev. Horace  Holley,
pastor of the Hollis-street  church  in Boston, Avas his  brother.
He was fitted for  college probably at  Greenfield Hill,  in Fair-
field, Conn.   He  held a high rank of scholarship in  college,
was particularly distinguished  for  his graceful oratory, and grad- 
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                                                      t
 uated Avith distinction.   He  studied  law in New York,  and
 practised his  profession successively in Hudson, Canandaigua,
 and the city  of NeAv York.   His  tastes  led him, at an early
 period of his career, to journalism;  and he Avas successively editor
 of  the " Anti-Masonic Alagazine," published  in  NeAv York, the
 " Troy Sentinel," the " Ontario Repository,"  and the  " Albany
 Daily Advertiser."  He superintended the  publication of the
 "New-York  State  Register" for  several  years.    In  1853,
 the NeAv-York  legislature authorized the  purchase of  the cor-
 respondence  and other papers  of George  Clinton,  the first
 governor of that state, then on deposit  in the office of the secre-
 tary of state ; and appropriated the sum of five  hundred dollars
 for arranging, indexing, binding, and lettering the same.   The
 labor of indexing and arranging these manuscripts Avas intrust-
 ed  principally to  Air. Holley,  by whom  the work was  very
judiciously and thoroughly performed  under the direction of the
 library-committee.  The collection numbered twenty-three vol-
 umes of folio  size.  In January, 1838, under the  first admin-
 istration of Gov.  SeAvard, Mr. Holley Avas  chosen  surveyor-
 general of the state of New York;  and, during the last ten years
 of his life, he was occupied in duties connected with the depart-
 ment of the secretary  of state :  but, for the  last tAventy years,
 severe bodily  infirmities compelled him to  forego, to a great ex-
 tent,  the honors of public position.  His great solace during the
 years of infirmity were his literary studies, by which he was most
 distinguished; and his  " Life of Benjamin Franklin," written
 during a period of severe suffering, is not excelled  as a chaste
 and comprehensive biography.   His  acquirements in history
 were  equalled by few men.    He Avas a close  student of medical
 science.   Few clergymen of eminence were so Avell versed in
 theology, Avhile  his acquaintance AA'ith  English polite  literature
 was exhaustive.   His  conversation, for terseness,  variety, and
 finish, was most eminent.   The range of his thoughts was Avide,
 his mind  catholic and  genial,  his  manners full  of courtesy
 and grace.  He left the impression of one,  Avho, through excess
 of  sensibility  or  fastidiousness of taste, has  never marshalled
 his powers to  any enterprise  fully worthy of them.   The won- 
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der Avas, that a man of such a stamp and presence, so evidently
made up  of every creature's  best,  Avas  not  a  great  poet,
philosopher,  or saint;  for  he  looked  fully capable of  being
either.
   Air.  Holley belonged to  a family which has largely contrib-
uted  to enlighten our  American  superstition.    Two  of his
brothers,  Horace  and  Myron,  were eminent propagandists of
Liberal Christianity, but neither was superior to  him  in  intelli-
gence, zeal, and devotion to the work of emancipating the people
from spiritual despotism.  It was one of the  chief desires of his
later years to establish a strong liberal church in  the capital city
of New York.   He gave himself freely to the work  of  organ-
izing such a movement.   His efforts,  more than any  thing,
secured the re-establishment of  the drooping church in Albany.
For several  years, he was  clerk of the society, superintendent
of the sunday-school, often conducted  public worship, and, it
is said, paid yearly one-eighth of his entire income into its
treasury.
   Air.  Holley AA-as never married;  and, during  his later years,
lived AA-hat would be called a lonely  life; but it was the best for
the peculiar cast- of mind in his condition of health.
   1815. —Hon. Ezra Hunt, of BoAvling  Green,  Alo., died
in Troy, Lincoln county, in that  State, 19  September,  1860,
aged 70 years.  He Avas in  attendance  upon the Circuit  Court,
in session there, in his usual health.  Having spoken on  a case
in his charge  in  the  afternoon,  and having eaten  his  supper
after the  adjournment  of  the court, he said he was not very
well, Avent to a fire in a retired  room at his lodgings, was con-
versing Avith a  lady Avith apparent  cheerfulness, when he sud-
denly appeared to be falling from  his chair.   He was caught,
and  physicians Avere called, Avho found that the A'ital spark had
fled, and he ceased to live.   He was the ninth and youngest son
of Daniel and Alary  (Phillips) Hunt, and was born in Alilford,
Alass., 7 April, 1790.   He Avas a descendant of the sixth gene-
ration from AVilliam Hunt, one of the original settlers of Con-
cord, Alass.  He was fitted for college at Leicester Academy;
of which  Luther  vYillson  (W.C  1807), afterwards minister 
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of Petersham,  Mass.,  was preceptor.   He was  distinguished
for his knowledge of  mathematics and  the exact sciences ;  and
at Commencement, Avhen he graduated, the  subject assigned to
him was "The Study of the Mathematics."   Immediately after
leaving college, he was  appointed preceptor  of Leicester Acad-
emy; where he remained until the autumn  of  1817, Avhen he
Avent to Cambridge for the purpose  of studying diA'inity.   He
remained there, with  the exception of four months devoted to
keeping  school in Lincoln, Alass., until May, 1818; when he
went to Pulaski,  AVest Tenn., and took charge of an academy
on  a salary of seven hundred  dollars per  annum.    He  was
invited  to  remain another year, with a salary of  twelve hun-
dred dollars, but declined.   AVhile  in charge of the academy
in Pulaski, he  pursued the study of the law, under  the direc-
tion of the late Judge William C Carr; and, at the end of  one
year, obtained  a license to practise  in the  states  of Missouri
and Illinois.   He practised three years in the town of Louisi-
ana, in  Missouri.  From this place, he removed to St. Charles
in the same state.
   In 1831, he removed to Bowling  Green,  Pike  county,  Mo.
He was the first lawyer  that ever settled in that county ; and it
is stated that he attended every term  of the  Criminal Court in
the  county,  either as  lawyer or judge,  from the  territorial
days of 1819 until his death.   He was appointed,  6  January,
1836, judge of  the  Circuit  Court  for that judicial  district,
with a salary of  a thousand dollars per annum ;  and discharged
the duties of the office  with ability and impartiality, to the general
satisfaction of the people of the circuit.  He decided questions
of law, but never addressed juries.   AVhen he made any com-
munication to the jury,  it was in writing.   In  the convention
called to revise the constitution of the state of Alissouri, in 1845,
he was a member for  Pike and Ralls  counties, composing a  dis-
trict ; and  acted as chairman of the judiciary committee in that
body.   By a change  in  the constitution of  Missouri, in 1849,
the term of offices of the judges Avas limited to eight years ;  and,
simultaneously Avith the  limitation, neAv judges were appointed
all over  the state.  Judge Hunt, who had held the office many 
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359
years, was superseded by a man, who, if he had no other claim,
could allege most vigorous  party services.  Judge Hunt was  a
diligent student all his life;  and, having accumulated one of the
largest and best  private libraries in the  state of Missouri, had
with its use,  aided by  a  discriminating,  logical mind,  made
himself a learned and sound lawyer, as well as a ripe scholar in
general literature; and in all the relations of his life, both public
and private, he Avas faithful, just, and true.
   In 1830, he visited Alassachusetts ;  and, on the 18th of May
in that year, he married, in Connecticut,  Maria E. Pettibone,
then sixteen years  old,  daughter of the late  Rufus Pettibone
(AV.C  1805), judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri.  Judge
Pettibone married a  New-York lady,  and his daughter Maria
was born in New York.  The issue of this marriage was  seven
children;  of Avhom  four, with their mother, survived him.
   1815. — Hon.  Gayton Pickman Osgood died in North
Andover, Mass., 26 June,  1861, aged 64  years, lacking eight
days.   He was son of Isaac and Sally (Pickman) Osgood, and
Avas born in Salem,  Alass.,  4 July,  1797 ;  but removed with his
parents  in his infancy to North Andover, which  was  ever  after-
wards his place of abode.   His father was for some time clerk
of the courts for the county of Essex.  His  mother was daughter
of Col. Benjamin Pickman (H.C. 1759), and sister of Col. Ben-
jamin Pickman  (H.C. 1784), of Salem.   He was well  fitted
for college at  the Franklin Academy in North Andover.   He
attained a high rank of  scholarship in his class Avhile in college.
After graduating, he studied laAv  with Benjamin Merrill, of Salem
(H.C. 1804).   He began the practice of laAv in Salem, but in
1819 removed to North Andover, and left the profession.  Pos-
sessed of ample property, he lived a retired  life.   He enjoyed
his library, a Aery valuable  one,  especially in  classical literature,
which continued  to  hold a primary place  in his studies to  the
close of his life.   He was formerly known as  a prominent politi-
cian of the democratic school.   He was the leading opponent of
Caleb Cushing in his early competition for the  office of repre-
sentative to Congress, — a contest long to be remembered, — and
was elected for one term, 1833-35.  In 1844, he was a  candi- 
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date for elector-at-large in Alassachusetts of President of the
United States; but Avas not elected, having been nominated  by
the democratic party.  He was several times elected a represen-
tative to the legislature : the last  time, hoAvever, he refused to
take his  seat, Avhich, in consequence, remained vacant for the
entire session.  He sought the pleasures  of home, and  it Avas
only at the earnest solicitation of friends that he allowed the use
of his name as a candidate for office.   His range  of study and
reading was very extensive; and his political and miscellaneous
lectures evince much thought  and great research,  and abound
with apt illustrations and  eloquent appeals.

                         " From his cradle
              He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one."

He was benevolent, sensible, and intelligent;  and  united mod-
esty with merit to a degree as unusual as it is amiable.
   He married, 24  March,  1859, Mary  Farnham,  of North
Andover, but had no  children.  His  wife survives him.
   1822.— Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch died in Brook-
line, Alass., 16 April, 1861, aged 56 years.  He was the eldest
son  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Ingersoll)  Bowditch,  and Avas
born in  Salem, Alass., 17 January,  1805.   His father,  the
eminent mathematician of world-wide fame, Avas born in Salem,
26 March, 1773 ; and  died in Boston,  16 March, 1838, aged  65
years.   The subject of this notice was fitted for college  in Salem
by Abiel Chandler  (H.C.  1806).  He  graduated with high
honors,  although the youngest  in  his  class.   He studied law
under the  instruction of Hon. AVilliam Prescott (H.C. 1783)
and Hon. Franklin  Dexter (H.C.  1812), and was admitted  to
the Suffolk bar in  1825.   A  few years afterwards, he  relin-
quished the practice of law,  and devoted himself to business
as a conveyancer and examiner of titles of real  estate ;  in Avhich
he  enjoyed a large and lucrative  employment, and  won  the
esteem of  all with  whom  he had  intercourse,  by the suavity
of his  manners,  and his noble and generous  character.   He
married, 23  April,  1835,  Elizabeth  B.,  eldest  daughter  of
Ebenezer Francis, well known as  the wealthiest gentleman  of 
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Boston.  For some  years  Air. Bowditch was in the enjoyment
of a very  large income, which he  distributed  in a thousand
nameless rills of beneficence for the relief of suffering humanity.
Air.  Francis  died  21 September,  1858 ;  and, soon after that
event,  Air. Bowditch retired  from business,  and took up his
residence in Brookline.   Soon afterwards, he was attacked by
a terrible and incurable  disease, — a cancerous affection in one
of his  thigh-bones ;  and for  eighteen months he was wasting
away under this painful disorder, unable to move, except slightly
to raise his head in the bed.  But  gently, patiently, nobly, Avas
the discipline  borne.  To  go into his sick-chamber was like
going into a chapel;  and such dews fell upon the heart there
as fall upon the lilies of heaven.   You saw the sufferer upon his
couch, propped  up  by pillows,  pale  and worn ; but his smile
was sweet, his greeting was cordial, his interest in life was un-
abated.  Books, the society of his family, intercourse with his
friends, filled up his  days.   Slowly and gradually the last  hour
came, and now "Goodness  and he fill up one monument."
   His  wife  survives him, with  four  children,—one son and
three daughters.
   1822. —Rev. Nathaniel Gage died in Cambridge, Mass.,
7 May, 1861, aged sixty years.   He was son of Nathaniel and
Betsey (Kimball)  Gage, and  was born in North Andover, on
the line between North Andover and Boxford, Mass., 16 July,
1800.   His father was a farmer ;  and  Nathaniel worked  on the
farm while a boy,  attending public schools until he was  about
sixteen years of age.   His father determined that one of his
sons  should go to college.   The younger son, Daniel,.declined,
and  chance fell to Nathaniel;  although his father regretted it, as
he was so apt at farming.   He began  to fit for college at Brad-
ford Academy,  under Benjamin  Greenleaf (D.C 1813) ; and
finished his preparatory studies under the instruction of  Rev.
Peter  Eaton  (H.C. 1787),  of  Boxford,  whose  meeting the
family attended.   Before he entered  college, he taught school
in Boxford, pursuing at the  same time his  studies with great
perseverance.   He  entered, at the  age of, seventeen, without
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conditions.  AVhile in college, he  taught school every Avinter,
successively in  Newton, GoffstOAvn, N.IL, Wayland, and  Bol-
ton.   In  summer vacations, he Avorked  on the farm at home.
He ranked very high in scholarship Avhile in college.  He had
the oration  on  class-day, the salutatory  oration at Commence-
ment,  and  the valedictory oration Avhen  he took  his  second
degree.  After graduating, he pursued his theological studies at
the Divinity School in Cambridge ; during a part of the time,
teaching school in Cambridgeport.  In 1825, he was appointed
tutor in mathematics in college,  and  held  the  office one year.
He was ordained pastor of the  Unitarian church in Nashua,
N.H.,  27 June,  1827, where he remained seven years.   He
was dismissed in  1834; and immediately went to Haverhill,
Alass., where he Avas installed 2 July  of  the same year.  There
he remained seven years.   Thence he went to Petersham, where
he Avas installed  6 October,  1841, and remained  there  four
years.   From  Petersham  he went to  Lancaster,  where, for
about one year, he supplied the pulpit of Rev.  Edmund Hamil-
ton Sears (U.C.  1834), who was in ill health.   Then he had a
call at  Westborough, where he went in the spring of 1851, and
remained  six years without being  installed.   In  April, 1857,
he removed to Cambridge;  and in the summer of that year  he
began to preach in Ashby,  where he continued  his ministrations
as long as  he  lived, going  there  on Saturdays,  spending two
Sundays and the  intervening week, then  returning to his home
in Cambridge.   On the  18th of April, 1861, while on his way
from Cambridge for Boston on foot, he was attacked Avith  apo-
plexy.   He Avas carried home, where  he  lingered until the 7th
of May, when he died.
   Air. Gage was a man of a most genial and kindly spirit, a
true and devoted friend,  a conscientious  and self-sacrificing
Christian.   Many have wondered that he  had  not risen  to
higher eminence in the church.   It is surprising that he  should
have escaped reverses, and maintained so respectable and uni-
form a standing,  with his guiltless nature and sensitive heart.
               " Of manners gentle, and affections mild,
                In wit a man, simplicity a child." 
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   His heart was Avarm and sympathetic, joyous in prosperity,
but in seasons  of adversity overfloAving Avith the tenderest sensi-
bility.   In private  life, he  Avas most interesting and  genial.
Possessing no small  share of wit, ahvays  cheerful  and buoyant,
he Avas  the life  of the social circle ; tender and loving,  he Avas
the idol of his home.
   He published a Sermon, delivered at the installation of Rev.
A.  Dumont Jones  over the  Congregational Church in AVilton,
N.H., January 1, 1834; 8vo;  Nashua,  N.H., 1834; pp.  32.
An Address before the Essex Agricultural Society at Topsfield,
September  27, 1837, at  the Annual Cattle ShoAv; 8vo ;  Sa-
lem,  1838; pp. 27.  A  Discourse  delivered in AVindham,
N.H., 5 November,  1834, at the Interment of Rev.  Jacob
Abbot and  Capt. John Dinsmore, Avho were droAvned 2 Novem-
ber;  Nashua,  N.H., 1835;  8vo,  pp.  24.  An Address  on
Intemperance,  pronounced  at  Nashua  Village,  N.H., April
4,  1829; published by request;  8vo.   Dunstable, N.H.,  pp.
21.   Sons  and Daughters of the Times;  a Sermon deliv-
ered  in HaA'erhill,  Alass.,  on  Fast Day,  April 5,  1838.
Haverhill;  pp. 28.
    He married, 1 August,  1827, Abby Richardson, daughter
of Hon. Stephen Partridge and  Achsah (Moore) Gardner, of
Bolton.  She  was the fourth of eight daughters, four of whom
became widows within four years.   Their  children were, —
1.  Ellen Gardner, born 9 July, 1828, at Nashua; married, 5
October, 1854, Rev. Charles Henry AVheeler (Bowd. C  1847),
of South Danvers.   2. Abby, born February, 1831;  died 1832,
aged 17 months.  3. Louisa Charlotte, born 18 October, 1833,
at Nashua; married, 20 September, 1855, Franklin,  son of
Augustus and  Harriet (Child) Perrin,  born  9 August, 1830,
in Boston.   4. Nathaniel, born 1835 ;  died November, 1839.
5. AIinot Gardner, born  11 September, 1841;  graduated at
Harvard College in  1861.
    1822.—Hon. Francis Osborn Watts died in Roxbury,
Alass., 28  September, 1860, aged 57 years.   He AA-as  son of
Francis  and Alehitable (Lord) AVatts, and was born in Kenne-
bunk, Ale., 9 August, 1803.   He was great-grandson of Judge 
364               NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI           [1860-61.

Samuel AVatts, of Chelsea, Alass., and grandson of Dr. Edward
AVatts, of Portland, Ale.   His father AA-as a merchant in Kenne-
bunk ; and, on his removal to Boston, he  engaged in  business,
as  a Avholesale  grocer, on Long AVharf, which  he continued
about tAA'elve years.   In 1832, he Avas elected president of the
Atlantic Insurance Company; Avhich office he held until 1844,
when he resigned it on account of ill health.   He died 6 April,
1846.   His mother  Avas a devout Christian Avoman, Avho  died
when he was  little more than nine years old.  In 1815, at the
age of twelve years, he entered Thornton Academy  in Saco,
Me., Avhere, under the  instruction of Air. Ezra Haskell (Y.C.
1811), he pursued his preparatory studies until 1818, when he
remoA'ed, with his father, to Boston, and completed  his studies
at  Air. Gideon  French  Thayer's school, in Chauncy  Place.
Immediately after leaving college, he began the study of law in
the office  of  Air. Augustus Peabody, in Boston (D.C 1803)  ;
where, with the  exception of a single  interAening term  at  the
law school in Northampton, under Judge Samuel HoAve (W.C.
1804), he completed his legal  studies; and  was  admitted
to  the Suffolk bar in October,  1825,  at a little  more than
tAventy-two years of  age.   But, though  so young, his abilities
and attainments and  general  character were such, that he Avas
immediately received  as a  law-partner  by Air. Peabody, Avith
whom he continued six years.   A year later, he formed a part-
nership with Air. William Joseph Hubbard (Y.C.  1820) ; and,
many years afterwards, he records of both  his partners, "I  be-
lieve I may say I have never had an unpleasant word with either
of them."  Some few years before  his  death, he practised in
connection with Owen  Glendour Peabody (D.C. 1842),  the
son of his former partner.  From  1826  until  near the close
of 1840, he Avas a worshipper,  and, for most  of that time, a
communicant, in* the Unitarian church :  but in  the spring of
1841, having changed his religious views, he  joined the Protes-
tant Episcopal church ;  to  which religious  faith he  ever after-
wards  adhered.   He was  esteemed  by his acquaintances as a
singularly faultless man ;  commanding respect and confidence
by the strength  of his mind, the respectability  of his attain- 
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        ments, the soundness of his judgment, the modesty of his  self-
        estimation, the uprightness of his dealings, the  SAveetness of his
        temper, and the amenity of his manners.  As a laAA-yer, he held
;        a highly respectable rank, and was greatly esteemed by his pro-
        fessional associates." In 1846, he was  elected a senator from
i
i        the  Suffolk district to  the state legislature ; where he  distin-
        guished himself as  an able debater, and a most valuable mem-
I        ber of the senatorial board.
          He  married,  1   Alay,  1826, Caroline Goddard,  born 25
        February, 1804, daughter of Thacher  and Lucy Goddard,  of
        Boston, by whom he had seven children, —three  sons and  four
        daughters;  of Avhoni two daughters only survive.   His  Avife
        died 25 July, 1850, aged  44 years and 5  months.   He married
        for his second Avife, 21 January, 1854,  Caroline Keith Brad-
        bury, daughter of Charles Bradbury, of Boston,  who  survives
        him ; but has had no children.
           1823. — Edward Vernon Childe died in Paris, France,
        23 January, 1861,  aged 56 years.  He was son of David AVeld
        and Abigail (Dorr) Child, and Avas born  in Boston, 13 Alarch,
        1804.  His  name  was originally Ebenezer Dorr Child, and
        was changed, by an  act of the legislature, 8 February, 1823.
        His  father Avas  a very respectable merchant, and died in Bos-
        ton, 3  February,  1830,  aged 58 years.  The subject  of this
        notice was fitted for  college  at the Boston public Latin School.
        After  leaving  college,  he studied law  in the office  of Hon.
        Daniel AVebster (D.C.  1801).  He did  not, however,  pursue
        the  profession.   On the  death of his  father,  he inherited an
        ample fortune, which Avas subsequently very much increased by
        his inheriting  also the estate of a deceased brother.  In 1828,  ,
        he Avent to Europe, Avhere  he remained about tAvo years ;  when
        he returned.   About the year 1834, he again went to Europe;
        resided several years in Italy and Germany.   He then became a
        permanent resident in Paris,  and devoted  himself to literature.
        He Avas a regular  correspondent  of the  " London Times " for
        nearly eleven years.  His first letter to the "Times" Avas  dated
        Paris, 3 November, 1845 ;  and the  last, 7 June, 1856.   He
        Avas  also  correspondent of the " New-York Courier and En- 
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quirer" from 17 October, 1846, to 4 December,  1856.   Both
these  series  of  letters he had  printed in 1S57, in a duodecimo
volume making 259 pages,  for  priA'ate circulation.
   He married, in  1831, Mildred Lee, daughter of Gen.  Henry
Lee,  of Virginia.    He left  three  children, — one  son  and
two daughters: viz., Edward  Lee  Childe, residing  in  Paris;
Florence, the elder daughter,  married to Count Henry Soltyk,
of Cracow,  Austrian Poland;  Alary,  the  younger, married
Robert Gilmor  Hoffman, of  Baltimore, Aid.   His wife died in
Paris, 24 June, 1856.
   1823. — Joseph Henry Farley died in Pittsfield, Alass.,
4 January, 1861, aged  55 years.   He was  the fourth  son of
Eben and Lydia  (Coolidge) Farley, and was born in Boston,
7 September, 1805.  His father Avas born in Ipswich, Alass., 24
March, 1775 ;  Avas a merchant in Boston,  of the firm  of Swett
and Farley; and  died  27  September, 1826,  aged 51  years.
His mother Avas born in AVatertown, Mass., 18 March,  1776;
and died 14 NoAember,  1813,  aged 37 years.   The subject of
this notice was  fitted for college at Phillips Academy in Exeter,
N.H.   After graduating, he  engaged  in mercantile  business,
and settled in New-York city ;  having become a member  of the
firm of  Felix  AI.  Walton and  Co., importers of dry  goods.
The house became insolvent;  and Air.  Farley subsequently en-
tered  into partnership with Calvin Angier, of New York, in the
sale of boots and shoes.  Here he was again unfortunate.  He
left New York, and went to Lenox, Alass., where he resided
Avith a younger brother ;  but he fell into a morbid and depressed
state of mind, which the kindness of his  friends could not re-
store, but resulted  in mental  alienation, during which  he  termi-
nated his life by his own hand.   He was never married.
   1823. — Rev. James Trask AVoodbury died in  Milford,
Alass., 16 January, 1861, aged 57 years.   He was son of Hon.
Peter  and   Mary  (Woodbury) AVoodbury,  and was  born in
Francestown, N.H., 9  May, 1803.  His father  was born in
Beverly, Alass.', in 1767, and removed  to New Hampshire,
where he engaged  in mercantile and agricultural pursuits;  Avas
fifteen years a  representative,  and  two  years  a senator,  in the 
1860-61.]
OF HARVARD COLLEGE.
367
state legislature.  He died in 1834.  His mother was daughter
of James AVoodbury, who Avas  born in Beverly, but removed
to Alount Vernon, N.H.,  in  1782.   He  was a subaltern in
Col. Robert  Rogers's  regiment  of rangers;  and  Avas  near
AVolfe AA'hen he  fell at  the  storming of Quebec.   The  subject
of this notice Avas a brother of the late Hon. Levi AVoodbury
(D.C. 1809), who was governor of NeAv  Hampshire,  senator
in congress, secretary of the navy, and afterwards secretary of
the treasury under President Jackson, and associate-justice of
the Supreme Court of  the  United States.   He began to fit
for college at the  academy  in FrancestoAvn, N.H., and  com-
pleted his preparatory  studies at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Alass.  After  leaving  college,  he  studied  law AA'ith his  dis-
tinguished  brother  Levi, in Portsmouth, N.H.  He Avas ad-
mitted to the bar of his  native state in 1826, and at once opened
an office  for  the  practice  of law in Bath, N.H.   Having  a
thorough education, possessing talents of a high order, AA'ith an
unblemished character,  strong physical and  intellectual powers,
he had every prospect of becoming eminent in his profession.
   But, in the midst of his  bright prospects of future eminence,
his ambition Avas suddenly checked, and his  Avhole course of life
changed.   Under the preaching of Rev. David Sutherland, of
Bath, where  he  resided, he became a sincere  convert to the
Christian faith, to the advocacy of which he devoted the rest of
his life.   After  a  long struggle with himself,  and  contrary to
the advice of many friends, he relinquished  his  profession as a
laAvyer, and placed himself under the instruction of Rev. Lyman
Beecher, D.D. (Y.C. 1797), of Boston, as a student of divin-
ity.   After completing  his course of study,  he soon had an invi-
tation to settle as pastor of the church in Acton, Alass., and was
ordained  29 ^August,  1829, where he  continued  pastor for
tAventy-two years.  In  the spring of 1852,  at his own request,
he Avas dismissed from the church ; and, on the  15th of July the
same year, was installed pastor of the First Church  in  Alilford,
Alass., where  he continued  to discharge his ministerial duties
until his death.   He Avas elected representative to the state  legis-
lature from Acton in 1851 and 1852.  He was first elected Avith 
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special reference to his  making  an appeal to the  state for aid
in the erection of a monument, in the toAvn of Acton, to the
memory of Capt. Isaac  Davis, Avho fell at the old North Con-
cord Bridge,  19 April,  1775.   AVhen  the  order for the appro-
priation came up for consideration, it found little favor : indeed,
it was said that scarce five men could  be found Avho favored its
passage.   On the 5th of February,  1852, he made a speech Avhich
occupied tAvo hours in delivery.   It was the only  time  he  ever
addressed a legislative assembly.  Every  eye Avas  riveted upon
him, as he proceeded in his  peculiar graphic description of the
opening scenes of  the revolution, and held up in his  hands the
trappings that were worn  by  the hero on  that eventful  day,
pierced as they were by the  bullets of the  invader.   The excite-
ment was intense ; the cause Avas gained ;  the appropriation was
voted by a large majority.
   Air. AVoodbury possessed a  genial  nature, with fine social
feelings,  AA'hich endeared him to a large circle of friends.  His
visits to his people were frequent and interesting.   As a preach-
er of the gospel, he was devoted to his work; and  the degree of
success Avhich attended his ministerial labors testifies to his faith-
fulness as a pastor.
   He married, in 1826, Augusta Porter, a daughter  of the late
Jonathan  Porter, of Medford, Mass.   He left three children,—
Augusta,  married to George  G.  Parker, counsellor-at-law  in
Milford;  George Porter,  married,  and  resides   in Milford;
Charlotte Elizabeth, 18 years of age.   His wife survived him.
   1829. —James Dutton Russell  died in Brighton (Long-
wood village), 10 June, 1861,  aged 51 years.  His  name was
originally James Russell Dutton ; and was changed by act of the
legislature, 21 February, 1820.   He was son of Hon.  Warren
(Y.C. 1797) and Elizabeth Cabot (Lowell) Dutton, and was
born in Boston, 7 January,  1810.  He Avas fitted  for college in
the  Boston Latin  School.  Immediately  after graduating, he
entered the  Law School in Cambridge,  where  he  remained
somewhat more than a year; and then entered as  a student the
office of Hon. Franklin Dexter, of Boston (H.C.  1812).   In
October, 1832, he was  admitted in Boston  as attorney of the 
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Court of Common Pleas, and opened an office at No. 5, Court
Street.  At this time  he was an  ensign in the Boston Light
Infantry.  In 1833,  he visited Europe.  Possessing an ample
competence, he did  not  pursue his  profession as a means of
living.   About ten years before his death, he made Longwood
his permanent residence.
   He married, 4 November, 1835, Helen Hooper, daughter of
AVilliam Hooper, Esq., of Marblehead.   The issue of this mar-
riage Avas  four children,—two sons and two daughters, — all
of whom are living.   Their  mother died 27 February, 1848, at
the age of 31 years.
   1831.— Moses Hagar died in Philadelphia, 18 November,
1860, aged 56 years.   He  was the eldest son of Elijah and
Alary (Jones) Hagar, and  was born in Westminster,  Mass.,
9 September, 1804.   His father died 27 April, 1841, aged 83
years  and 6 months.  He pursued his studies, preparatory to
entering college, at Stow, Mass., New Ipswich, N.H., Leices-
ter  and l^ew Salem, Mass. ; also with Dr.  John  AVhite, in
Westminster.   After graduating,  he began the study of laAv ;
but was not, probably,  admitted to  the  bar.  He  was at
one time clerk of court in  Philadelphia;  but, for  some time
previous  to  his death, he held an agency in one of the  various
railroad-offices in that city.   He  was never married.
  1831.—Joseph Ricketson Williams died in Constantine,
Alich., 15 June,  1861, aged 52 years.   He was the oldest son
of Capt.  Richard and Rebecca  (Smith)  Williams, and  was
born in Taunton,  Alass., 14 November, 1808;  but removed
soon after  his birth, with his parents, to New Bedford.   His
father was a highly respectable shipmaster ;  and, after his retire-
ment from the sea, held for many years the office of postmaster
of New Bedford.  At the age of sixteen years, the subject of
this notice was apprenticed in a counting-room  in Boston.  He
remained there two  years ;   but, disliking a mercantile life, he
relinquished his place, with  the intention  of  obtaining a col-
legiate education.   He pursued his preparatory  studies at Sand-
wich Academy, under the instruction of Luther Barker Lincoln
(H.C 1822).  He  gained  a high rank of scholarship in his
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class, and graduated with  distinguished  honors.   He taught
school in his  sophomore year in Concord, Alass., and in his
senior year in Northborough, Alass.   After leaving college, he
studied law in the office of Hon. John Davis, of AVorcester,
(Y.C. 1812), was admitted  to the bar, and began the practice of
his profession in New  Bedford.   Soon afterAvards, Hon.  John
H. Clifford, of New Bedford,  offered him a  partnership in a
lucrative  practice, which he declined on account of his health.
He was always a student; and as a Avriter, if he had  addressed
himself persistently to  any department of letters, would have
been  distinguished.   He was  at one period an acceptable con-
tributor to the "North-American Review."   An  admirable and
exhaustive article upon the whale-fishery appeared in  its pages,
prepared  by him while he  was  in Air.  Clifford's office.   If he
had devoted himself resolutely to his profession, he would have
obtained  a high position  in  it.  The precarious  state of  his
health from the time of his  admission to the bar, and the neces-
sity which he  thought it impressed upon him for a more out-of-
door life, and in  a different climate, only prevented  him  from
being  one of the men  of mark  in his native state, and return-
ing in a  larger measure to his  Alma Alater the fruits of her
planting.  In  1835, he  relinquished his profession,—having
accepted the agency of  an extensive NeAv-England company for
investments in Western lands, — and Avent to Toledo, O.   The
place, then small, offered few inducements, beyond the opportu-
nity for  speculation in  city property, in  which Air.  Williams
successfully engaged.    He  built  the  American Hotel in 1836,
and remained there until 1839, Avhen he removed to Constan-
tine, Mich.  He there  engaged* in the  milling business,  built
a  fine mill, and  was for several years  very successful in this
vocation.  Between the years  1837  and 1853, he became iden-
tified  with the political interests of the state of Alichigan.   He
was elected a  member of the constitutional convention of Alichi-
gan.   He  was twice  a candidate  for United-States  senator
against Gen.  Cass, before  the organization of  the  republican
party, and was  three times a whig  candidate for Congress in
the district in which he lived;  and,  although  his party was 
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greatly in the minority, he  came within a  small  vote of an
election.  In  1853 he purchased the " Toledo-Blade " establish-
ment,  and returned to that city.   Under his management, the
" Blade " became, from the first, the advocate of republican prin-
ciples, and  did more  to inaugurate  the  republican  party in
Northern  Ohio than  all the  other  papers in the state.   Mr.
AVilliams  was in failing health  when he assumed  the  manage-
ment of the "Blade;" and, though eminently  qualified by capa-
city and taste  for the  occupation, it was one that did not, as he
anticipated,  favor his disease.   After an editorial career of three
years, he  sold the paper to its present proprietors, to occupy the
position, at  the hands of the Alichigan legislature, of president
of  the Agricultural College  of Alichigan.   This  institution,
located at Lansing, was  but  just incorporated;  and, being
unlike any institution  in the country, it was, of course, an ex-
periment.  Air. AVilliams was  deemed the most suitable person
to  inaugurate  it,  by  the character  and ability of his writings
and addresses  upon the  subjects of  agriculture.   His failing
health was the impediment in  the way of  success; and, after a
year of laborious exertion, he was obliged to abandon this posi-
tion, and  seek relief at  Havana and  Bermuda.  He returned
from the  South in the spring  of 1860, considerably improved,
and was  elected the  folloAving fall  a member  of the senate of
Alichigan, which  body did him the honor to  elect him  their
president; an office for which his talents eminently qualified
him.  By the resignation  of the  lieutenant-governor,  Hon.
James Birney, Air. AVilliams became acting lieutenant-governor
of  the state;  which office he held at the time  of his death.
    He married, in Buffalo, N. Y., 20 May, 1844, Sarah Row-
land Langdon, daughter of John and Charlotte  Langdon, and a
grand-niece of Gov. John Langdon, of New Hampshire; who,
with three daughters, survived him.
    1832.—Dr. Joseph James Lloyd Whittemore died in
Paris, France, 14  October,  1860, aged 49  years, lacking one
day.  He was the only child of Capt. Isaac and Betsey (Tower)
,A\ nittemore,  and was born in Scituate,  Mass.,  15  October,
1811.  His  father was educated a  merchant in the counting- 
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room of Bordman and Pope, of Boston.  On coming of age,
he was first employed as supercargo in one of their ships  then
trading  on the  north-west  coast.   Afterwards  he had  com-
mand of several of their ships in the same trade until he died in
1818, and was  buried  on  Aladison's  Island, in  the Pacific
Ocean.   He had acquired a handsome property, the fruit of his
maritime industry, AA'hich his young son inherited.  His mother
was  daughter  of Matthew Tower, of Scituate.   Placed under
the guardianship of the late  Dr.  Cushing Otis (H.C 1789), of
his native town, he Avas liberally provided for, and his education
attended to Avith all wisdom, discretion, and  the  most paternal
kindness.   He Avas fitted for college at the Derby  Academy in
Hingham, Alass.   His  ample  resources pecuniarily,  and his
large genial  and social  qualities, combined Avith  an almost ab-
sorbing  genius and taste for music, Avere not calculated to induce
a very close and untiring application to the prescribed studies,
although his talent for acquiring  readily a knowledge of  the
languages, classic  and  modern, Avas  remarkable.   He needed
the spur of the res angusta domi  to make him hold high  rank as
a college student.  Lacking this, and the other spur of literary
ambition, it is almost needless to add, that he did not  graduate
"with all the honors."  Immediately  after  leaving college,  he
began,  1 September,  1832,  the study of medicine in Boston, in
the  Aledical  School  under  the  superintendence  of Dr. James
Jackson (H.C.  1796), and remained  there until April, 1833.
He embarked, 1  April, 1833, in company with his  classmate Tar-
bell, for Liverpool, to prosecute his studies at the medical schools
of Paris,  where he  remained three years.   In  Alay,  1834, he
Avas  married  at Dover, Eng.,  to Victoire Alarie  Anne Ade-
laide Bellenger, of Paris; who survived him, without  children.
He left  Paris, 1 July, 1836, for Heidelberg, Germany, to finish
his medical studies.   Having passed a most creditable  examina-
tion (in the French tongue as a medium of communication) be-
fore the medical department of the Heidelberg University, and
obtained his diploma, he returned to Paris, 21 Alay, 1#37.   He
then embarked for home, where he  arrived 1 July, 1836 ;  and
1  September,  1837, began the practice of medicine  in his native 
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town.   He  succeeded, with only a short interval, to the large
practice of his late guardian, Dr.  Otis, whose  place  he seemed
almost providentially to have been fitted to supply.   His Euro-
pean education and  universal popularity as  a  fellow-townsman
combined to render the claims upon his skill  A'ery numerous and
constant, and his labors very arduous  and unremitting, including
a wide range of travel by night and  by day.  His wife having
become dissatisfied with Scituate as a place of  residence, he was
persuaded to  give up  his practice, and remove  to  New-York
city.   But, having from his observations  there  concluded that
dentistry would prove  more  lucrative to him  as  a stranger  in
that large city than the practice of his profession as a physician,
he placed himself under the instruction of the late Dr. Burdell, at
that time an eminent and successful practitioner of the dental art.
After an itinerary practice in Arermont and Alassachusetts for  a
few years with varying success, he was strongly urged to estab-
lish himself at  Rio Janeiro as a dentist;  and  he accordingly
embarked at Boston for that place in the fall of 1843.   His
genial and refined manners, his unobtrusive deportment, and un-
divided attention to  his business, very soon won for him hosts of
friends, and an overfloAving patronage, until in a  feAv years he
was honored in his  calling  with the  preference of the emperor
and the royal  family ; thereby supplanting a jealous and un-
principled rival, and  bringing  to  nought all  the  "devilish  en-
ginery " of  his malice  and falsehood.   For the last ten years  or
more, up to the time of his leaving Rio, he retained his post, of
honor as " dentist to the royal family of Brazil."
    On the  7th of April, 1860, he left Rio, via Southampton,
Avith  the  intention of coming home;  and on his passage Avas^
struck  Avith paralysis, which rendered him insensible for four
days.   He recovered partially,  landed at Southampton,  re-
mained there three weeks,  and was  then  removed to  Amiens,
France.  Here he hired a pleasant  house  and garden, as his
home  for the  coming Avinter,  in the hope of recovering  his
health and bodily activity, so as to revisit the home of his youth
in the ensuing spring.   But he soon afterwards left Amiens, and
went to Paris, where he concluded  to pass  the  winter.  But 
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alas for  all human hopes !   After  breakfast, on  the  14th of
October, while in the act of replacing his Avatch, he Avas struck
again with  paralysis; and  looking up  to his wife Avith  the
remark,  " I can't  put it back," he fell into her arms,  and never
spoke or knew anything afterAvards.   He died in the evening of
that day, having very nearly completed forty-nine  years of his
existence.   The funeral-service of the  deceased was performed
by  a clergyman of the Protestant church.  If report  speaks
true, the doctor had accumulated quite a large property during
his residence at Rio.   Some, who claim to knoAV,  placed it as
high as  eighty  thousand  dollars.
    1834.—Thaddeus Clapp  died in  Dorchester, Mass.,  10
July, 1861, aged 50  years.   He was the second son  and third
child of Capt.  William  and Elizabeth  (Humphreys)  Clapp,
grandson of Capt. Lemuel  and Rebecca (Dexter) Clapp, and
a descendant in  the seventh  generation from Nicholas and Sarah
Clapp, of Dorchester.  He Avas born  in  Dorchester, 11 May,
1811.   He was fitted  for  college at the  academy  of Hiram
Alanley  (H.C.  1825), in Dorchester.   In college he attained a
distinguished rank, and graduated with the second honors of his
class.   Immediately after leaving college, he taught, for a short
time, a private school in Brookline.   He was  superintendent of
the  sunday-school  of the First  Church  and  Society  in Dor-
chester for  about two years from 1836.   On the 16th  of Feb-
ruary, 1837, he entered his name with Col. Loammi Baldwin,
of  Charlestown, Alass., as  a student in engineering;  but, on
account of ill health, did  not prosecute his studies.   On taking
his  degree  of master of  arts,  in 1837,  the  Latin valedictory
.oration Avas proffered to  him by President Quincy;  which, on
account of feeble health, he  could not accept.   He was secretary
of the board of school-committee in  Dorchester several years,
and wrote some of the annual reports ; among them those for the
years 1842 and 1843, which were printed.  In the fall of 1838,
he went to Franklin, La., where he was, for some  six or seven
months, a  tutor in  the family of AVilliam T. Palfrey, Esq.,
brother  of Hon.  John  G.  Palfrey,  postmaster  of  Boston,
 (H.C. 1815).  He  returned to Dorchester in the summer  of 
1860-61.]
OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
375
1839.   About the year 1840, he engaged in horticultural  and
pomological pursuits, which he continued during his life.  He
became  quite celebrated among the fruit-growers for his theoret-
ical and practical knowledge, and obtained many premiums for
choice varieties of fine samples of fruit.  He was a member of
the Alassachusetts Horticultural Society and the Norfolk Agri-
cultural Society.  He was of a most  amiable  disposition, and
led a life  of unspotted integrity.   He married in  Claremont,
N.H.,  11  August,  1857, Mary H. Dustin, daughter of Rev.
Caleb Dustin ; but had no children.  His wife survived him.
   1834. —Rufus Hosmer died in Lansing, Mich., 20 April,
1861,  aged  45  years.   He  was son of Hon.  Rufus  (H.C.
1800)  and Amelia (Paine)  Hosmer,  and was born in  StoAv,
Alass., .16  July, 1816.  His father Avas born in Concord, Alass.,
18 March, 1778 ; and was a lawyer in Stow.   He was a mem-
ber of the executive-council  in  1839,  and died very suddenly
in Boston, 19 April, 1839, aged  61  years.  His grandfather,
Hon. Joseph Hosmer, was born  in  Concord,  25 December,
1735 ;  and Avas one of the most honored  and distinguished citi-
zens of  the town.   He took a conspicuous part in the events of
the revolution.   He  Avas a representative five, and a  senator
twelve,  years.   He  Avas  appointed sheriff of the  county in
1792, and filled the office fifteen years.  He died 31 January,
1821, aged 85 years.   His maternal grandfather, Alajor Phineas
Paine, was a native of Randolph, and was a  hero of the revo-
lution.  He served in the army three years, being at MorristoAvn,
\ralley Forge, AVhite Plains, and Monmouth.   From Randolph
he removed to Alilton Hill, and there  married Nancy Babcock.
Alany years afterAvards, he removed to  Concord, where he died.
   The  subject of this notice Avas fitted for college at the acad-
emy in Stow.   After leaving college, he studied law in his
father's  office, and attended lectures at  the LaAv School in Cam-
bridge.  In 1838 he Avent to  Alichigan, and  soon afterwards
AAas admitted to the bar.  He began the practice of his profession
in Pontiac, Oakland county ;  at first in partnership AA'ith his cou-
sin, Charles Draper (H.C. 1833), and afterwards with the late
George  AVisner.  He was very successful,  and attained a high 
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rank as a lawyer.   But, after a few years, he relinquished the
profession, removed to Detroit, and became editor of the " Daily
Advertiser," in that city; in which position he remained  about
seven years; Avhen, having been appointed state-printer,  it be-
came necessary for him to reside in the capital of the state;  and
he removed to Lansing, where he became part owner and  editor
of the " Lansing Advertiser."   Here he remained about three
years ; and relinquished his situation, a few days before his death,
to accept the appointment of consul at  Frankfort-on-the-Main,
which had been  conferred upon him.  While making prepara-
tions for his departure to his foreign post, he was prostrated by
an attack  of  apoplexy, which terminated  his life after a  few
days' illness.  As an editor and an agreeable and finished writer,
he had few superiors.  But it was for his high social qualities,
his keen wit, his ready repartee, and his powers of conversation,
that  he was best known and most admired in the various com-
munities in which he resided.
   He married, in  1840, Sarah  Chamberlin, daughter of Dr.
Olmsted Chamberlin,  of  Pontiac.   His  wife  survived  him;
as did also three children,—two daughters and  an infant son.
A year ago, in Alay last, he lost  his then  only  son, Rufus, at
the age  of eighteen  years.   The little boy, who survives him,
was only ten days old when his father died; and,  the day before
he Avas taken sick, he  named him Rufus, making the third gene-
ration who bore that name.
   1840.—Dr. Benjamin Heywood died in Worcester, Mass.,
21 July, 1860,  aged  39 years.  He was the eldest son of Dr.
Benjamin Franklin (D.C. 1812) and Nancy (Green) Heywood,
and was  born in AVorcester, 16-July, 1821.   He was fitted for
college at the classical school in AVorcester, under Charles Thurber
(B.U. 1827).   Immediately after leaving college, he began the
study of medicine under the instruction of his father, attended his
first course of medical lectures in Boston, and the two succeed-
ing courses in Philadelphia ; and, in the spring of 1843, received
the degree of M.D. at the  University of Pennsylvania, in Phila-
delphia.  He then began the practice of his profession in AVor-
cester, and continued  it until the spring of 1846 ;  when he went 
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to Europe, for  the  purpose of perfecting himself in the theory
and  practice of surgery in  the  city of Paris.   He returned  in
1847, and resumed the practice  of his profession  in AVorcester,
and continued until almost the day of his decease : having  pre-
scribed, Avithin three days of his death, for  an old patient; and
prescribing, also, mainly for himself during his long  illness  of
more than a year.  He combined, with high attainments in theo-
retical knoAvledge,  rare skill in diagnosis, and  discriminating
judgment in the  application of  his  remedial agents.   Few men
of his years in  the profession were more successful practitioners,
both in  medicine and  surgery.  Descended  from a line of an-
cestry eminently distinguished  in  medicine and surgery,  he
seemed to have acquired the art of  healing almost by intuition.
Apprehending  readily the obscure as Avell as  the prominent in-
dications  of disease, his remedies were adapted with  rare skill
and success.   He  Avas never married.
    1846.—John  Doaanes Austin, of Boston, died in AVhite
Plains, N.Y.,  28 February, 1861,  aged 34 years.  He arrived
at New-York  city  from Boston,  on Thursday, 26 February,
 on a visit  to  some relatives.   On Wednesday, he  expressed
apprehensions  of an attack of  temporary  insanity, with AA'hich
 he had been affected  on two former occasions ; and, should it
 occur,  he  feared he  might  attempt to commit suicide.   He
 therefore Avished that his friends would keep all  implements of
 harm out of his  AAray.  In  consequence of this, a friend  kept
 watch of him during the night, and he rested  quietly.   About
 daylight on the 28th,  this  Avatcher  fell asleep.   He slept  about
 twenty minutes ; and, Avhen he awoke, he found that Air. Austin
 had disappeared.   Search was immediately made for him, but in
 vain.   On  Friday, 1 March,  his hat was found in Bronx River,
 not far from AVilliams Bridge, and  his shirt on the  bank of the
river near by ;  which led to the inference, that he had committed
 suicide by drowning :  and a careful  search of the  river was made
for his body, but Avith no success.   Search AA-as continued by his
friends and the police,  and a  reward of one hundred dollars was
offered for  the discovery of his  body.  On Thursday, 11 April,
a man AA-as  fishing  from a boat in a  pond at White Plains,  when
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 he observed a strange object in the bottom of the Avatcr.   Assist-
 ance Avas procured ;  and the object, AA'hich proved to be the body
 of Air. Austin,  was drawn up.   A very affecting incident con-
 nected Avith the matter Avas the sudden death of his elder  brother,
 Air. AVilliam Downes Austin, formerly of the United-States navy,
 at a village in New Jersey, on the 4th of April.  He Avas  plunged
 into great  grief at the disappearance  of  his brother John, and
joined in the search of the missing man.   He repaired to New
 Jersey to view the body of a  man who had  been found  there.
 He had been called to breakfast, and replied that he  would  be
 doAvn soon ;  but,  not  appearing,  a  servant  Avent to his room
 again, and found him lying dead upon his bed, his eyes  suffused
 AAith tears.
   The subject of this notice Avas son of AVilliam and Hepzibah
 (DoAvnes) Austin, and Avas born in Boston,  10 February, 1827.
He resided in Boston, Roxbury, LoAvell, and Dedham, Alass.;
at Ravenwood Plantation,  La. ;  and  Columbia, Tenn.  He
attended school  some time  at the last-named place.   In 1839
and 1840, he made voyages to New Orleans.  He was fitted for
college at the school of Air. Stephen AIinot Weld (H.C. 1826)
at Jamaica Plain.  After graduating, he pursued the study of the
law in the office  of Bradford Sumner, of Boston (B.U.  1808) ;
completed  his  studies at. the  Law  School in  Cambridge,
where  he received the degree of LL.B. in 1848 ; and  was ad-
mitted to  the Suffolk bar in 1849.   In 1850, he removed  to
Taunton,  Alass., where,  for  a  short time,  he  practised law
in company with Horatio Pratt  (B.U. 1825).    In  1853,  he
went to New York to  reside;  but shortly afterwards returned
to Boston.   In 1854, he practised law in  Boston.   In  1856,
after  the  death  of his  father,  having  relinquished  law,   he
passed one or two winters  at Water Proof, La., superintending
the affairs of a plantation  belonging to a connection.
   Air. Austin was a person  of excellent abilities and  under-
standing,  A\ith a  mind well  stored Avith general information.
The wandering life which  he led, as a boy,  would seem to have
had some influence on his  late career, and to  have unfitted him
for  the pursuit of a profession ;  on Avhich, through an inherited 
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competency, he was not obliged to rely for a livelihood.  He
Avas never married.
   1849.—Dr.  Horace  A\ralter  Adams died  in Boston,
17 February, 1861, aged 33 years.   He was son of Charles Fre-
derick and Caroline Hesselrigge (Walter) Adams, and was born
in Boston, 8 December, 1827.   He was fitted for college at the
public Latin School  in this city.   He adopted the practice of
medicine for a profession, and pursued  his  studies at the Tre-
mont Aledical  School in Boston.   He chose his  native city as
the field of his practice, and Avas  early appointed a dispensary
physician ; and so deeply did he interest himself in this practice,
that at one time  he  had charge of the invalid poor, under the
auspices of that benevolent institution, for Avards four, five, and
six.   His labors in this department  of practice were very various,
extensive,  and arduous; yet  he cheerfully and  faithfully re-
sponded to all their  requirements.
   He Avas a sincere lover of his profession, which was adopted,
not from necessity, but from  a real and abiding interest in its
pursuit, which induced him to devote to  its practice the best
energies of his life.  His services were very frequently demanded
at the Eye-and-Ear Infirmary in Boston,  Avhere he established a
character for  reliable  judgment, and gentleness of treatment of
those delicate organs, which made  him a skilful operator at that
-institution. He was untiring in industry and zeal for those  pa-
tients whom he attracted about him : indeed, his devotion to his
profession was at times so absorbing, that he felt it due to his own
health  that both his body  and mind should  have  occasional
recreation.  Accordingly, he was accustomed from time to time,
as he felt the need thereof, to engage with one or two friends  in
sporting excursions,  of which he  was  remarkably  fond;  and
it was on an occasion of this nature that he contracted the disease
which terminated his  life.
   On Tuesday,  5 February, 1861, he left Boston, in company
with Air. Francis Lowell Gardner, a member of the junior class
at Harvard College, and two other friends, to spend a few days at
Cotuit Point, a town on the South Shore.   On Sunday, the 10th
of February, Air. Gardner, having contracted a very severe cold 
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Avhich affected his throat, died of diphtheria, most unexpectedly to
his friends and  associates.   Dr. Adams attended Air. Gardner
most assiduously ; and he Avas brought so immediately in contact
with his friend and patient at the last hours of his life, that he
unconsciously imbibed some portion of the fatal disorder into his
throat and lungs, which became immediately affected on his  re-
turn to Boston, where he died on the Sunday following, 17 Feb-
ruary, of the same disorder.   He was never married.
   Dr. Adams was not only an accomplished physician, but  his
genial manners, his kindness of heart, and his OAvn ready sym-
pathy with the sick and suffering, so won  the  confidence  of  his
indigent patients, that their affection for him often outlived their
convalescence, and led them, as was repeatedly the case, to con-
sult him and seek his  judicious advice upon pecuniary matters;
to which,  although foreign to his profession, he always gave the
most careful  attention :  and for his untimely departure  there
were very many of his patients whose hearts were made  really
desolate ;  some who wept bitter tears for the loss of their " good
physician."
   1854. — AVilliam Gaston Pearson died in  Oakland, Ma-
rion county,  Cal., 19 January, 1861, aged 26 years.   He Avas
born in  North  Carolina, 24 Alarch, 1834.   He was at  St.
James College, Maryland, five years, — three in the preparatory
school, and two in the college.   He entered the sophomore class
in Harvard College  in  September,  1851 ;  left, on account of
ill health, in  November, 1853 ;  but took his degree Avith his
class.  He went to  Europe, where he remained a year; then
back to  this country for a while; then to Cuba for a winter ;  and
thence to  San Francisco, Cal., where his disease (consumption)
seemed  to be arrested.   He returned to the Atlantic states in
1857 or 1858, and went to farming on his family estate at Brent-
wood,  near AVashington, D.C.   His health continued pretty
good until the spring of 1860,  when a  violent pleurisy again
prostrated him.   He failed rapidly,  and  on the 1st of De-
cember  he sailed again  for California, in hopes of a  recovery;
but he was too  far gone, and  died  19 January, soon after  his
arrival. 
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   1856. — Isaac  Nelson Beals  died of  consumption, in
Dexter, Ale., 5 August, 1860, aged 29 years.  He was son of
Isaiah  and Lucy  (Bradstreet) Beals, and Avas born in Dexter,
12 June,  1831.   He Avas fitted for college  at small academies
and  high-schools in  the villages  of Dexter, St. Alban's, and
Corinna, Me. ; being governed in his choice of a school from
term to term by circumstances and the abilities of the teacher.
In his preparation for college, as  Avell  as  during his college
career,  he was  obliged to rely mainly  upon such pecuniary
resources  as he  could control by his own labor, principally in
school-teaching.   In  September, 1853, he entered the sopho-
more class  in AVaterville  College,  Ale.; having pursued  the
studies  of the first year by himself, while teaching school, or
Avhile at home in the  intervals of  teaching.  One who was a
classmate with him at AVaterville remarks,  that " on entering
college he at once took a  high  rank, which  he  constantly im-
proved."   At the end  of the junior year, he left AVaterville ;
and  in September, 1855,  he  entered Harvard at the beginning
of the senior year.   Here  he  exhibited the same studious  traits
Avhich  appear to have characterized  his  course at AVaterville.
In  the winter  after  he  entered Harvard,  he  taught  AYest-
brook  Seminary, in AVestbrook, Me. ;   and in April, 1856,
having received  the appointment of principal of the high-school,
Quincy, Alass.,  the faculty of the college gave him  permission
to begin  his school  before taking his degree; and he immedi-
ately entered upon  his duties there.   His labors in this school
Avere highly satisfactory to the committee; who state, in their
report, that " at each visitation they witnessed proofs of thorough
and  faithful training, and heard  recitations, which,  in some
respects,  Avere wonderful."   In September,  1858,  he became
principal  of the  high-school  in Somerville,  Alass., which  ap-
peared to have been unpopular in  the town, and in a chaotic
state ;  but in the face of  much opposition,  and with constant
ill health, he gave  to the school,  in less than  a year, a high
intellectual character and  a faultless discipline.   In  discipline,
indeed, he appeared ever to have excelled.   In the summer of
1859,  he  accepted  an invitation to take charge of a new high- 
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school to be opened  in  Newton, and located in the village of
NeAvtonville ; and entered upon his duties in September.   Here
he remained until  ill health compelled him to resign, in April,
1860.   His physical  poAvers  Avere by nature capable of  great
endurance;  but  excessiA'e mental  labor from his  boyhood, to
which he was urged  by his  ambition to excel,  backed by his
almost  unconquerable  will,  together  Avith constant  mental
anxiety Avhile  bearing the responsibilities  of prominent public
schools, wore him out; and Avhen at  length  he was induced to
give up  Avork, which was  several months  after his  physician
began persuading him to do so, he was ill and exhausted beyond
the chance of recovery.  Immediately after  his resignation, by
the advice of his  physician, he went to Philadelphia to seek the
benefit of a milder climate.   He returned  in May, without any
permanent improvement.   He then went to  his native place in
Alaine, hoping that the  climate  there might be beneficial; but
all to no purpose.  He  rapidly declined  until death closed
the  scene.  A communication from an intimate friend of the
deceased to  Air.  AVilliam Wirt Burrage,  the secretary of the
class, who kindly  furnished the above  sketch,  says, "During
the last few weeks of his illness,  his character presented a very
pleasant  phase of mildness and tenderness, strongly contrasting
Avith his  habitual temperament.  He was  a  great  sufferer, but
bore his pain patiently, and never murmured a word  at his lot.
In the last few days, he realized, more fully than did his friends,
hoAv near death was, talked composedly of it, and was prepared
to meet  it bravely and  manfully.   He was an  ardent lover of
nature, and spent hours out of doors  for no other purpose  than
to admire its  beauties,  seeking  varied landscape views  from
every hill-top and mountain.  He ignored religious  forms, but
Avas no stranger to religion itself."
   He married,  9 August, 1859, Caroline Rowena Burgess,
who  had  been  his  assistant at the high-school at Quincy.   She
was  the  daughter of Josiah and Nancy AV. (Fuller)  Burgess of
Waltham, Alass.    His younger and only brother Charles,  who,
Hke Isaac, inherited from his parents a decided character and
great strength of will, died in 1857, about 25 years of age, from 
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illness brought on a few years before by physical over-exertion,
into Avhich he had been led by his ambition.  The family survi-
vors of the deceased are his widow, who lives in Cambridge ; and
his father and mother, who live in Dexter, Me.
   1856. —Thomas Thaxter died in Alethuen, Mass.,  15 Au-
gust, 1860,  aged 26 years.   He was son of Thomas and Ruby
(Bradstreet) Thaxter, and was born in Alethuen, 24 December,
1833.   He  was a tAvin.  His  brother  Robert  died when two
years of age.   His father, Avhose first known ancestor, Deacon
Thomas  Thaxter,  Avas  born in Alachias, Ale., 2  November,
1792, settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1635.  He Avas connected
Avith the Methuen Manufacturing Company,  and died 27  Jan-
uary, 1842.  His mother, whose first known ancestor was Gov.
Simon Bradstreet, was  born in Billerica, Alass., 4 July, 1800 ;
and died in  Alethuen, 21 June,  1845.   His parents were  mar-
ried  2 September, 1827.  On the death of his  mother, Mr. John
Davis,  of Alethuen, was appointed  guardian of the surviving
children, Ruby and Thomas.   Thomas lived for a short time
upon a farm Avith Deacon Edward Carleton ; and about October,
 1846, began to attend  a private school kept by  Moses Burbank
and  Avife, and boarded with his uncle, Mr. AVilliam Thaxter.
Here he remained a year, and then entered a family boarding-
school in Fairhaven, Mass., kept by Rev. AVilliam Gould, where
he remained about thirteen months.   In 1849, he went to  Phil-
lips  Academy, Andover, to  prepare  for college, Avhere he  re-
mained a year  and a  half.  AVhile in Andover in 1851,  he
joined the Congregational (Orthodox) church in Alethuen.  In
 September,  1852,  he entered the freshman class in  Yale Col-
lege, Avhere he remained until Alay, 1854, when he took up  his
 connexions.  In September, 1854, he entered  the junior class
 at Harvard.   Towards the end  of  the term, a  Aveakness of  his
eyes obliged him to remit his studies ; and in April of the follow-
ino- term he was compelled,  from a general failure of health, to
leave college.   He did not  return until January, 1856 ;  from
Avhich time  he remained until graduation.  During the  time he
was able to study,  he gained a  very high rank in his class,
and a reputation for persevering industry and ambitious  scholar- 
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ship.   On leaving college,  he intended to pursue  a business
career, and entered the counting-room  of E. and T.  Fairbanks
and Co.,  dealers in scales,  No. 24, Kilby Street, Boston, but
soon left on account of his health ; and, Avith the hope of improv-
ing it, he Avent, in April, 1857, to Fairbault, Alinn., on  a visit
to  his uncle, Air. AVilliam Thaxter, Avhere, and in the vicinity,
he remained Avorking on a farm until November of that year.
    His  health  having  apparently improved, he,  in  December,
began to teach a public school in Stillwater, Alinn., and,  1  Sep-
tember, 1858,  became principal of the high-school; but  it was
soon apparent  that his health Avas not  sufficient to sustain the
labor.  Before the end of his first term, he entered the school-
room one morning, feeling very Aveak;  had proceeded with  but
few recitations, Avhen  he fainted ;   was obliged to  dismiss his
school, never to resume it. - Symptoms of incipient consumption
were  developed, folloAved by hemorrhage at  the lungs.  But by
his  ambition and perseverance he rallied in  a degree, and  took
a class  of private pupils, who recited to him a few hours daily.
The secretary of his class,  to whom we are  indebted for  the
foregoing particulars, concludes his record by quoting an account
of the last portion of his life from one Avho had  the best opportu-
nity of learning the incidents : "As long  as he was able to work,
so long did he persist in doing so, even  to Avithin a short time of
his  decease.  But, as daily and weekly he became sensible  of a
gradual decline, he began to feel a desire to  be  among his early
friends ;  and in September, 1859, he returned to the East, to
the  house of Air. Davis, his former guardian, where he remained
until  his  death.  For  a  short time  after his  return  home, he
seemed stronger.  He could not rest unemployed ;  and, against
the  Avishes of his friends, he began book-keeping for  a firm in
Lawrence, Alass., with whom he remained three months.   Here
it was painfully evident to his friends  that his life was fast ebbing
away.  He would frequently say, ' Am I lazy ? or am I  groAv-
ing weaker?'   He Avas confined to his bed only four  days, and
to the last of  his life  manifested the same desire to wait upon
himself, Avhich  had been one of the prevailing traits of his char-
acter  during his long sickness.   Through the  many  months of 
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his last sickness, he often spoke of dying with the calmness that
characterizes the Christian.   When dying, his mind was calm
and clear; and almost  his last words were,  fI want to go  to
heaven:  I want to begin to work there.' "
   He left, as the only survivor of his  immediate family, a sister,
— Airs. Ruby T.  Tenny, of Methuen.
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   1796.—Henry Abbot died in Andover, Alass., 13 Janu-
ary,  1862, aged 84 years.  He Avas the fourth child and second
son of Capt. Henry and  Phebe (Abbot) Abbot, and was born
in Andover, 8 April, 1777.  His fiither Avas son  of Henry ;  was
born in Andover,  10  January, 1725 ; and  died  21  February,
1805,  aged 80 years.  His  mother Avas daughter  of Deacon
Isaac Abbot,  of Andover; was born  26 NoA'ember, 1746 ;  and
died  29 June, 1833, aged 86* years.  He was fitted for college
at Phillips Academy, Andover. After leaving college, he en-
gaged  in  mercantile  business  in Bedford, Mass.  He did  not,
however, remain there long; but went to sea, in the capacity of
captain's-clerk,  with Capt. David AVoodward, of Charlestown,
in the  ship "Catharine," of Boston,  owned by Samuel Torrey,
Esq. :  it was a  voyage around the world.   Sailing from Bos-
ton,  they touched  at Rio  Janeiro, and, doubling Cape Horn,
proceeded up the  west coast  of South America, stopping at
various places along the  coast, until they reached California,
whose  golden treasures were then undreamed of; yet, as far as
their voyage was concerned, the gains of their traffic along  that
coast  exceeded  those  of many of the  present  day  who  meet
with more than average success in  the land of gold. .  Their
next destination was Canton ; where they  arrived, after stop-
ping on  their way at the Sandwich Islands, which were then
in their primitive condition of barbarism.  Taking in a cargo of
Canton goods, the ship returned to Boston by Avay of the Cape
of Good  Hope.   At the Isle of France, on his  return voyage,
Air.  Abbot was greatly  and   agreeably surprised to meet his
brother, whom  he  supposed to be at. home; and learned from
him the  death of their father, who, at the age of eighty  years,
was  in good health when he parted  from him.   He made 
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one  more similar voyage with  the  same  captain, in the ship
" Dromo ;"  Avhich  Avas  also OAvned  by Samuel  Torrey.   His
attachment to Capt. AVoodward Avas very strong.   He spoke of
his  treatment of him  as being like  that  of a father, and also
of his  kind  and considerate treatment of  his  crew;  Avhile,
at the  same time, his authority over them  was  unimpaired.
After his return from his last voyage, he  engaged in trade at
Andover; but soon afterwards, in partnership with his brother,
went into the Avholesale grocery-business in Boston.  Owing to
the embarrassments brought  upon the trade by the embargo at
that time,  their business Avas unsuccessful; and Mr. Abbot re-
turned  to  Andover.    About  1*14,  he  visited  the AVestern
country; crossing the Alleghany Alountains on foot,  and,  from
Pittsburg, navigating the Ohio River, AA'ith a single companion,
in a small boat, to the falls of the Ohio River  at Louisville,
Ky.  There were but few  inhabitants along the  Ohio  at that
early day ; and the principal places Avhere he stopped to  trans-
act  business  (Avhich  are  now  large  and  flourishing  cities)
were at that  time small settlements, composed  of a few log-
cabins.   At Lexington,  Ky., he met with Mr. Newman  (after-
wards  Prof.  Samuel  P. Newman, of Bowdoin College), and
returned home in  company Avith him,  performing  the  Avhole
journey on horseback.   He  afterwards went a journey South as
far as Georgia, to visit his brother.   On his  return home,  he
settled doAvn in AndoA'er with his mother, on the home-farm,
and  remained  there  until her  death.   He then removed to
Chester, N.H. ; and, after  residing there about  six years, re-
turned to Andover, and lived there,  amidst old scenes and old
acquaintance, until his death.
   He Avas a member of the Old South Church in Andover for
thirty-eight years.  He was unswerving and decided in his reli-
gious convictions and principles, earnest  and consistent  in his
Christian life.  In his family he was social, Avarm-hearted, and
cheerful; and,  in his intercourse with society, genial and friend-
ly ; generally lively, and often  jocose, in the company of his
friends.  In politics, early in life, he Avas fully convinced of the
correctness and true  policy of the principles  of the federalists, 
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and honestly contended  for the  interests of  that  party.   He
naturally fell in with the  sentiments of the Avhigs when  that
party  came into existence, advocated their principles, and heart-
ily co-operated with them.  In  his  last years, he  uniformly
acted  and voted with the republicans ; and cast his last vote for
the candidates  of that  party, at the last  November  election.
He Avas abroad until  a few Aveeks before his death, retained his
faculties to the last, and died, not of disease, but of old age.
   He married, Alay,  1807, Judith Follansbee, — a  niece and
adopted child of Dr. Abiel Pierson,  of  Andover.   He had six
children, — four daughters and two sons.  Three of the daugh-
ters and one son  survived him.   His wife  also survives him ;
being now eighty years of age.
   1798. — Hon.  Richard Sullivan died in Cambridge, 11
December, 1861,  aged  82 years.   Pie was  the third son  of
Hon.  James  and Alehitable (Odiorne)  Sullivan, and was born
in Groton, Alass., 17  July, 1779.   His father was born  in
Berwick, Ale., 22  April, 1744.   He was a lawyer by profes-
sion,  and began practice in Georgetown, Me. ; but soon after-
Avards  removed  to Biddeford,  Ale.   In February,  1778, he
removed to Groton, Alass. ; and,  in 1782, he  removed from
Groton to  Boston.  He was  a judge  of the  Supreme Court,
and attorney-general of  Massachusetts.  In 1807,  he was  cho-
sen governor of the state; was re-elected  in 1808,  and  died
AA-hile in office,  10 December, 1808.  Mr.  Sullivan's mother
was the  daughter of William Odiorne, a ship-builder, of Dur-
ham,  N.H., where she was born 26 June, 1748 ;  and died in
Boston,  26 January,  1786.   Young  Sullivan was fitted for
college at the Boston Latin School.   He was well  prepared for
pursuing the prescribed studies in the  college course, but did
not presume so far upon his acquirements as to pass superficially
over the assigned tasks.  As a scholar,  he was  among  the most
distinguished  of  his  class.   His character was spotless, his
disposition kind and benevolent, his manners polished, Avithout
affectation  or  parade.   After leaving college, he studied law in
the office of his father, and was admitted to  the  Suffolk  bar in
1801, but did not long pursue  his profession, as he had  an 
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ample competence of worldly goods.  In his early manhood, he
took much interest in political affairs..  He was elected a senator
in the  state legislature from Suffolk in 1815 and the two fol-
lowing years ;  was a  member, from Brookline, of the convene
tion for revising the  constitution  of the state in 1820 ;  Avas a
member of the governor's council in 1820 and 1821.  In  1823,
he was the candidate  of the federal party for lieutenant-gover-
nor of the state, the Hon.  Harrison Gray Otis being the  candi-
date for governor; but the ticket Avas defeated.   In 1821, he
was elected a member of the board  of overseers of Harvard
College, and held that  office until the board was newly consti-
tuted by an act of the legislature of Alassachusetts in 1852,  which
was accepted by the  corporation and overseers  of the  college.
He was public-spirited and philanthropic ;  and the  records of
several  of  our most valuable public institutions, founded during
the first thirty years of the present century, bear ample testi-
mony to his services in their behalf.  It was at  a  meeting of
gentlemen  at his house  that the project of the  Massachusetts
General Hospital was first  seriously started;  and, among those
who aided in rearing that beneficent establishment, the  labors
of few were more earnest or efficient than those of Mr.  Sulli-
van.   Removing into  the country, and residing for many years
in the  neighboring town of Brookline, he was among the first
of those, who, nearly  half a century ago, gave  an impulse to
rural tastes and pursuits,  to the  advancement of agriculture,
and  to that culture  of fruits and  flowers,  which, noAV  wide-
spread, does so much to embellish and refine life  among us.
Here,  at his beautiful estate in the country, surrounded  by his
wife and daughters, he  had a home, which, in the dignity and
grace that presided over it, in the intellectual and  moral  refine-
ment that pervaded it,  in the holy love and faith  that sanctified
it, Avas the model of a Christian home ; and comes  up  to the
thoughts of all who remember it, as being  as near an approach
to a picture and miniature of  heaven as they may ever hope
to see  on earth.
   He  married, 22 Alay, 1804, Sarah Russell,  a daughter of
the eminent and wealthy merchant, Thomas Russell, of Boston; 
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and shortly after, in company Avith her, made an extensive tour
in Europe.  The issue of this marriage Avas four sons and four
daughters,  of  Avhom  only two  sons  survived him.   His wife
died 8 June, 1831.
   1799. — Gen.  AVilliam  Hyslop  Sumner  died  in  AVest
Roxbury  (Jamaica Plain),  Mass.,  24 October, 1861,  aged
81 years.   He had been helpless from paralysis for four years;
and, for the last two years of his life,  was hardly able to utter a
sentence intelligibly.   He Avas the  only son  of Hon. Increase
(H.C. 1767) and Elizabeth  (Hyslop)  Sumner, and Avas  born
in Roxbury, 4 July, 1780.   His father was born in Roxbury,
27 November, 1746 ; Avas associate-judge of the Supreme Court
from 1782 to 1797 ; was governor of Alassachusetts from 1797
until his death,  7  June, 1799.   His  mother was the  daugh-
ter of AVilliam and Mehitable Hyslop ; was born in  Boston,
5 August, 1757 ; and died 28 December, 1810,  aged 53 years.
AVilliam Hyslop  was  an eminent  and  prosperous merchant in
Boston, but about 1781 removed to Brookline, Mass.,  where
he died 11 August, 1796, aged  84 years.   The house in which
the subject of this  notice was  born was  formerly owned  by
Judge Robert Auchmuty, a royalist, and was confiscated.   He
was first  sent to  school under the charge of  Alaster  Abiel
Heywood  (H.C.  1781),  principal of the  grammar-school in
Roxbury;  next  under Rev.  AVilliam  Emerson (H.C.  1789),
afterwards  minister of the First Church in  Boston,  Avho Avas
succeeded  by  Rev. Calvin Whiting (H.C.  1791),  he  being
followed  by  Rev.  John Pipon   (H.C.  1792),  afterwards
minister  in  Taunton, Alass.  About this  time,  Gen. Lincoln
marched his troops against Shays during the rebellion.   Young
Sumner, then about six years old, saw the troops, under  Alajor
Spooner, march  from Aleeting-House Hill in Roxbury, where
the church now stands in which  the Rev. Eliphalet Porter then
preached.   From the Roxbury school he  was  taken away in
1789 ; was placed in the family of his uncle, Charles Cushing
(H.C. 1755), and sent  to the writing-school of Alaster Oliver
AVellington Lane (H.C.  1772), in the  westerly part of Boston.
AVhen Gen. Washington visited Boston in  that  year,  the boys 
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of all the schools formed the front lines of the  streets  through
which he passed;  and  Sumner well remembered the dignified
manner in Avhich AVashington received the  plaudits of the peo-
ple in the streets and houses; and that he, with the rest of the
boys  in  the school,  about seventy in number, carried  long
quills Avith the feathers on ;  and, when AVashington passed, they
paid him a  salute by rolling those quills in their hands.   In
1793, he was sent  to Phillips Academy in Andover, where he
Avas fitted for college.   He  remained there two  years.  During
the first  part of that time, he Avas under  Ebenezer Pember-
ton (N.J. 1765), then  under Abiel Abbot  (H.C. 1787),  and
finally under Alark Newman (D.C. 1793).  AVhen he entered
college, in 1795, the rooms in the college buildings were so full,
that for three years he lived in  the  house of  the late  Prof.
Wigglesworth.  He held a respectable  rank of scholarship in
his class.  In his senior year, he  delivered an English oration
at exhibition.  The subject was,  "The Spirit  of Innovation."
It Avas a creditable performance.  At  commencement, the part
assigned to  him was a colloquy with John  Harris  on  " The
Importance  of a National Character to the United States ; " but,
on account  of the death of his father  a  few weeks before,  his
performance was omitted.   Immediately after  graduating, he
entered the office of Hon. John Davis  (H.C. 1781),  under
whose instruction he pursued his legal studies ; was admitted to
the bar in 1802, and opened an office at No. 4, Tremont Street,
Boston;  and  subsequently  removed  to  Scollay's  Building,
where he occupied  an office with Judge Davis,  when the latter
was appointed judge of  the District Court as successor of  Judge
Lowell.    He  early  distinguished himself by his successful
defence of John AVhiting, of Franklin,  who was indicted  for
robbing himself, when he was carrying money to be  exchanged
in Alaine for money of the Franklin Bank, of which he was an
officer.   He said he  was assailed  by  robbers, and showed the
holes, in  the top of the  chaise, made by the bullets  which
the  pretended robbers fired  at him.
    Gen. Sumner was aide-de-camp to Governors Strong and
Brooks, — to the former in 1806  and from 1813 to 1816,  and to 
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the latter from  1816 to 1818, when he was appointed adjutant-
general by Gov. Brooks, and  then  relinquished the practice
of the laAv.   He held the offices of adjutant-general and  quar-
termaster-general  under Governors  Brooks,  Eustis,  Lincoln,
and  Davis, until 1834 ;  when,  upon his resignation, General
Dearborn was appointed his successor.  In 1808, and the eleven
following years, he was one of the representatiAes of Boston  to
the legislature.   On the 10th of September, 1814,  he was ap-
pointed by Governor Strong executive-agent to repair " to the
district of Alaine (Avhich was then invaded by the enemy), and
promptly to provide any practicable  means for the defence  of
that  part of the state."  On  the  same day, the  commissioners
for the sea-coast  defence (Hon. David Cobb, Timothy Picker-
ing,  and John Brooks) also confided to  him their  full power.
In December, 1814, he was  appointed by the board of war  to
borrow money of the banks  to pay off  the troops which had
been called out  in Maine; and when it was afterwards proposed
to send three commissioners, two  from Massachusetts  and one
from  Alaine, to  the general gOA'ernment,  to confer with  it
upon the measures of defence of the state in  future, the mem-
bers  of the legislature from  Alaine agreed upon  him  as their
commissioner to represent the interest of that part of the state.
In 1816, he was sent, with Hon. James  Lloyd,  to  present the
Massachusetts  claim to  the general  government  for militia
services.  In November, 1826, he was appointed by the secre-
tary of war a member of the board of army and militia officers,
of Avhich Gen.  Scott was president,  to  report a plan for the
organization of the militia,  and a system  of cavalry tactics.   In
December, 1831, he contracted for the purchase of Greenough's
half of Noddle's Island (his  sister and uncle  owning  the  other
half), and projected the settlement of it  as a part of the city  of
Boston;  and, with other gentlemen, founded  and put in  opera-
tion  the East-Boston Company, which thus came into possession
of the whole  island, and under auspices of which the improve-
ments which have  given East Boston its present measure  of
prosperity have been carried  on.  Since  that time, he has done
much for the  Avelfare and adornment of the place.   A few years 
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since, he gave land to the value of six  thousand dollars, the
income  to  be applied to  setting out shade-trees on the island.
He also gave land to the value of eighteen or tAventy  thousand
dollars for the erection of a library-building by the library-asso-
ciation Avhich bears  his name, and to Avhich  he gave his OAvn
private  library.   He AA'rote  a very elaborate history of East
Boston, comprising eight hundred  pages, Avith numerous en-
gravings.   He was  a  member of the Alassachusetts Historical
Society.
   He married, first, 4 October, 1826, Airs. Mary Ann Perry,
daughter of Hon. James DeAA'olf, of Bristol, R.I., and widow
of Raymond H. J. Perry, brother of Commodore O. H. Perry :
she died 14 July, 1835.   He married, second,  13 December,
1836, Airs. Alaria Foster Greenough, daughter of Elisha Doane,
of Cohasset,  and widow of David Stoddard Greenough,  of Ja-
maica Plain : she died 14 November, 1843.  He married, third,
18  April,  1848, Mary  Dickinson  Kemble, of New  York,
daughter of Peter Kemble, grand-daughter of Gen. Cadwallader,
and niece of Gov. Thomas Gage.  She survived him.   He had
no children by any of his Avives.
   1800.—Rev.  Daniel  Kimball died in Needham, Mass.,
17 January, 1862,  aged  83  years.   He Avas  son of  Lieut.
Daniel  and Elizabeth (Tenney) Kimball,  and was  born  in
Bradford, Mass.,  3 July, 1778.  Until  he was  sixteen years
old, he worked on his  father's farm in summer, and attended the
district school in Avinter.   He was fitted for college at  Atkinson
Academy,  N.H., under  the instruction of John Vose  (D.C.
1795).   He  held a  respectable rank in his class, and graduated
Avith honors.   After leaving college, he was assistant-teacher in
Sandwich Academy  one year.  For the next six months, he had
charge of a school in  his  native  town.  He  then returned  to
Cambridge as a theological student,  under the direction of Rev.
David Tappan, D.D.  (H.C.  1771), Plollis Professor of Divin-
ity;  Avas  approbated, and began preaching in the spring  or
summer of 1803 : and, on taking his degree  of master of arts
that year, he pronounced the  Latin valedictory oration.   At the
same  time,  he was appointed  tutor for  the Latin department.
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This office he held two years ;  and, on resigning it, he returned
to Bradford, where he resided  more than tAvo years, supplying
vacant parishes, and giving Avhat Avere termed "labors of love,"
pursuing theological and miscellaneous reading  and study.   In
August,  1808, he Avas appointed preceptor of Derby Academy,
in Hingham,  Mass., AA'here he remained until the  spring of
1826.   In addition to the duties of preceptor, he often preached,
sometimes in neighboring pulpits  in  supply, or giving " labors
of love."  He  was ordained at Hingham, as  an evangelist,
17 December, 1817.  In  the  spring  of 1826,  he removed to
Needham, where he purchased a farm,  and opened  a boarding
and day school for children of both sexes, which he continued
until 1848, devoting himself at  the same time to agricultural
pursuits.  His  published  works were, A Lecture in Poetry on
Temperance ; also another Address on Temperance, on the 4th of
July;  An Address before the Peace Society  at Hingham, of
Avhich he Avas  president; a Sermon  on Unitarianism, preached at
Milton, Alass., where he supplied the pulpit at intervals for a
few years ; a Discourse before  the American Institute of In-
struction, at the State House,  on the  Employment of Female
Teachers.
   Pie AA'as president  of the Needham Lyceum for tAventy-five
years, and was for nearly as many years chairman of the school-
committee.  He was a representative to the state legislature in
1846.   In his religious principles he Avas a firm Unitarian.  He
was highly respected as a man of unblemished character, a kind
friend, a hospitable  neighbor,  and  a devoted husband  and
parent.
   He married, 23 March, 1808, Betsey Gage, of Bradford,
daughter  of Peter and  Alary  (AVebster)  Gage, descended, on
her father's  side, from Alajor  Benjamin Gage, an  officer in
the American army  in the struggle  for our national indepen-
dence.   The  children of this marriage  were  as  folloAvs  (all
born in Hingham)  : 1. Elizabeth Tenny, born 23 Alarch, 1810 ;
died 2 April,  1833.  2. Harriet AVebster,  born 1 December,
1812  (afterAA-ards widow of John M.  AVashburn).   3. Daniel,
born 1 October, 1814; died 17 December, 1827 (Avas fitted for 
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college at the time of his  death).   4.  Benjamin Gage, born
5 May, 1816 (H.C. 1837).  5. Mary Jane, born 19 October,
1817  (now  AA-ife of Hon.  James Ritchie, of Roxbury) (H.C.
1835).   6.  Henry Cohnan, born 25 February,  1820 (H.C.
1840).   7.  Charles David Tenny, born 6 September, 1821;
died at Hingham, 24 July,  1822.  8. Charlotte  Sophia (Airs.
Hoadley), born 31 July, 1823;  died at Lancaster, 12 June,
1848.  9. Clara Anna, born 7 January, 1825 ; died at Need-
ham, 25 December, 1847.   Air. Kimball's Avife survived him.
   1801.—Henry Newman died in Boston,  28 July, 1861,
aged 78 years.  He Avas son of Henry and Deborah (Cushing)
Newman, and was  born in Boston, 16 Alay, 1783.   His father
Avas  a distinguished merchant.  His mother was daughter  of
Hon. Thomas Cushing (H.C. 1744), representative of Boston,
and speaker  of the  house, in 1763 ; when he so warmly espoused
the cause of his country in the disputes with Great Britain, that
Dr. Johnson in his "Taxation  No Tyranny,"  speaking  of the
Americans, said, "If  their rights are inherent and underived,
they may, by their oavii suffrages, encircle  AA'ith  a diadem the
broAvs  of Mr.  Cushing."  He was also  lieutenant-governor  of
the state.  The subject of this notice was fitted for college at the
Boston Latin School.   AVhile in college,  his father became in-
volved in consequence of  speculations in Georgia  lands, and
President AVillard  generously paid a part of young Newman's
college dues.  Immediately after graduating, he  entered as an
apprentice in  a merchant's  store, but   soon  relinquished the
situation; began the  study of law Avith  Hon.  Thomas DaAAres
(H.C. 1777), and completed his legal studies with Hon. AVil-
liam Prescott (H.C. 1783).   Soon after his  admission to the
bar, he Avent to the South, and spent most of the time for twenty
years in AVashington and other  southern cities; being engaged
in securing the family property in the Georgia lands, and obtain-
ing remuneration through the government at Washington.  He
was also agent for Joseph Blake, and several others, who had
claims  for lands in ATrginia and other  southern states.   This
led him  to  great  intimacy Avith many  eminent gentlemen  at
Washington, — among others, Gen. Jackson, — who treated him 
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Avith great kindness.   He thus obtained an exhaustless  fund of
information concerning those gentlemen, which rendered him  a
very interesting companion.
    A feAv years ago, Avhen a committee of the Alumni of Har-
vard College Avas appointed to raise funds for the college library,
the chairman of the committee, the late Thomas G.  Cary, called
on  Air. Newman to ask him to take  charge of the  subscription
in his  class.  He readily accepted the office ;  and,  Avithout any
special solicitation, handed Air. Cary his check for five hundred
dollars as his OAvn subscription, saying that he Avas not so Avell
able to give as he had  once been, having lost some of his prop-
erty ; and  that he wished to contribute Avliile  he was yet able,
as further losses might put it out of his power to do so : thus
giving, as a reason for subscribing, Avhat many would have con-
sidered an  ample excuse for refusing to give at all.  He was
remarkable for his constant  and unostentatious charities.   He
AA'as a member  of the Cincinnati Society, through his  uncle,
Capt.  Samuel Newman,  who was an officer of distinction in
the re\'olutionary Avar, and Avas  killed, under  Gen. Sinclair, in
a battle with  the  Indians.   His  manners were highly finished
and gentle, of the old  school.  Never was a more kind-hearted
man, a more devoted son,  or  affectionate brother.   He was
never married.
    1802.—Deacon  Samuel  Greele,  of  Boston, died in
SAvampscott,  Mass.,   where  he  went  to pass  the  summer,
16 August, 1861,  aged 78 years.   He was son of  Samuel and
Olive (Read)  Greele, and was born  in AVilton, N.H., 3 July,
1783.   He was  fitted  for college  at the academy in  New Ips-
wich, N.H.  After graduating, he studied divinity Avith Rev.
Jonathan  French, of  Andover,  Mass.   (H.C.  1771).   He
preached for several years, but was never ordained as a minister
over any society;  and he resigned the sacred profession, much
against his will,  on account of temporary ill health.  He then
became  a  devoted  and useful teacher.   He Avas for some time
preceptor of an academy in Marblehead.   He  then  removed to
Boston, where he taught a private school  from 1816  to  1822.
In 1825, he entered into partnership with John Baker, under the 
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firm of Baker and Greele, in the business of manufacturing print-
ing-types.  This firm was dissolved in 1827 ; and, the next year,
Air. Greele took  into partnership Air. Henry AVillis; and they
continued the business, under the firm of Greele and AVillis, until
1832, when Air. Greele retired from  active business.   He was
a devoted member of various charitable  and benevolent institu-
tions.   He was  an  officiating deacon in the  Federal-street
church for nearly fifty years,  first under the ministry of Rev.
Dr. Clianning, and subsequently under Rev.  Dr. Gannett.   His
steady and sincere adherence to the liberal faith, through all the
fluctuations  of time  and opinion, was remarkable.   He was a
faithful worker in the American  Unitarian Association.  He
was elected a representative from Boston in the state legislature
in 1838, 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843.   He was a member of
the board of aldermen in Boston in 1834, 1835, and  1836.
He was the friend and associate of the  young, his  heart being
ahvays youthful;  and nothing pleased him better than the so-
ciety  of little children.    His fund of  anecdote,  geniality of
temper, and unfailing flow  of spirits, made him the  most agree-
able of visitors and companions.  His perfectly regular habits,
yearly journeyings, and equanimity of temper, no  doubt con-
tributed  to his long life.  He was  ahvays  surrounded by the
most  untiring and devoted love; and he passed away in sweet
patience, Avithout  a murmur.
   He married, 3  Alay, 1812, Lydia Maria Sewall,  daughter
of Chief-Justice Samuel Sewall, of Marblehead (H.C.  1776).
She died in Boston, 11 August, 1822, in the 32d  year of her
age, leaving no children.   He married for his second wife, 19
October, 1823, Louisa Alay, daughter of Col.  Joseph May, of
Boston.   She died 14 November, 1828, at the age of  36 years,
having had two children, — a son and  a daughter.  The son
graduated at Harvard College  in  1844.  He  married for his
third AA'ife, 18 October, 1831, Alaria Antoinette Paine, daughter
of Hon.  Robert Treat Paine,  of Boston (H.C.  1749).   She
died 26 Alarch, 1842, aged 58 years, leaving no children.  flPe
married for his fourth wife, 8 October, 1844, Sarah Follansbee
Emerson, of  Newburyport, Avho survived him. 
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    1802.—Rev.  Charles Wellington died in Templcton,
 Alass.,  3 August,  1861,  aged 81  years.  He AA-as the sixth
 child and fifth son of AVilliam and Alary (Whitney) Welling-
 ton, and Avas born  in AValtham,  Alass., 20  February, 1780.
 His parents had eight sons and five  daughters.   One of these
 sons, Isaac, Avas droAvned Avhile a member of the senior class in
 Harvard College,  12 November,  1796.  No other death took
 place among these children till more than fifty years afterAvards.
 The subject of this notice was fitted for college partly at Ncav-
 Salem Academy, and partly by Rev.  Charles Stearns, D.D., of
 Lincoln, Mass. (H.C.  1773).  About the time of graduation,
 he, AA'ith others,  consulted  Rev. David Tappan (H.C. 1771),
 Hollis Professor of Divinity,  about  their theological studies,
 and obtained from him a recommendation of a list  of books for
 perusal  for that  purpose.   But Dr.  Tappan died  27 August,
 1803 ; and Dr. Henry AV are (H.C. 1785) Avas not appointed to
 succeed him until  Alay,  1805.  These young men, therefore,
 pursued  their  studies  alone,  as  resident graduates;  meeting
 together occasionally for reading of essays,  and comparison  of
 A'ieAvs.
  He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in Temple-
 ton, 25  February, 1807, as successor of Rev. Ebenezer Spar-
 hawk (H.C. 1756), who Avas  born in AA'hat is  now Brighton,
 15 June, 1738 ;  was ordained 18 November,  1761; and died 25
 November, 1805, aged  67 years.  Dr. AVellington continued his
 ministerial relation to his society until his  death,  a period of
 more than fifty-four years.   About 1839, his  health  began to
 fail, so much as to interrupt the constancy of his public seiwices ;
 and temporary provision was made for his aid : but he supplied
 the pulpit most of the time  until 1843, Avhen arrangements Avere
 made for the settlement of a colleague, and, 24 February, 1*44,
 Rev. Norwood Damon  was ordained as his assistant.   Air. Da-
 mon resigned his ministry, 1 November, 1845 ; and the supply of
 the pulpit was resumed  by the senior partner.   lie preached
 molt of the time until August, 1846.   On the 13th of January,
 1847, Rev.  Edwin Goodhue Adams Avas  ordained as his col-
league ;  where he still continues.  On the 25th June, 1857, Dr. 
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AVellington preached a half-century sermon from his  ordination.
It Avas printed as prepared for the anniA'ersary-day, four months
before;  from which time  it  Avas  postponed  on account of the
author's ill health.    A  very large concourse of parishioners
and of other friends assembled on the occasion, and  made most
gratifying testimonials of esteem and affection in which they had
held their aged pastor.  In his sermon he gives a brief and very
modest account of his labors.  His influence as a  minister Avas
second to  that of no one in  the western section of AVorcester
county.  That influence was ahvays exerted in favor  of religious
and civil freedom, of  Christian order, and scriptural  piety.   In
1854, the honorary degree of doctor of divinity  was conferred
upon him by Harvard College.
   Dr.  A\rellington  married, 29  June, 1807,  Anna  Smith,
of Boston.   The issue of this marriage Avas three sons  and six
daughters, of whom two  sons  and  all the daughters survived
their father.   The  two  surviving  sons graduated  at Harvard
College  in 1838  and  1846  respectively.   His  wife  died
24  April, 1830;  and  he  married for  his  second wife,  27
July,  1831,   Adelaide Russell,  of Templeton,  Avho survived
him.   By his second wife he had one child, a daughter, Avho died
young.
   1804. — Dr. Jonathan AVild died in Braintree,  Mass.,
6 December, 1862, aged 77  years.  He was the oldest child of
Jonathan and Deborah (Wild) AVild, and  Avas born in South
AVeymouth, Alass., 3 April,  1784; but, when he Avas  about a
year old,  his  parents  removed to  Braintree, Avhere they lived
and  died.  His father Avas the son of Capt. Silas  Wild,  and
his mother Avas the daughter  of Alicah AVild, all  of Braintree.
Youno- AVild Avas fitted for college under the instruction of Rev.
Dr.  Jonathan Strong, of Randolph (D.C. 1786).  After gradu-
ating, he studied medicine Avith Dr.  Ebenezer Alden, of AVest
Randolph, father of  the present  Dr. Ebenezer Alden (H.C.
1808),  of Randolph.  After completing his studies, he settled
in Braintree, Avhere he continued in active and successful prac-
tice until  1844,  Avhen he retired from the profession.  His per-
sonal interests  were  seriously  affected  by his  too-indulgent 
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leniency toAvards his patients;  for,  had  he been more rigid in
exacting  his dues  for his professional services, he Avould have
become a wealthy man ; but he suffered  his accounts to remain
uncollected, much to his pecuniary detriment.
   He married, first, 12 December,  1811, Nancy  Lynfield, of
Randolph, by Avhom he had three children, —all daughters, —
of whom one only survived him.  His AA'ife died 23 August, 1827.
He married for his second wife, 11  February, 1830,  Livia  D.
Thayer, of  Braintree,  sister of Col. Sylvanus  Thayer (D.C.
1807), the  distinguished engineer, an  officer in the Alilitary
Academy at AVest  Point.  By his second wife he had three
children, — two daughters and one son, — of whom one daugh-
ter deceased before him.  The other two children, with their
mother, survived him.
   1806.—Rev. AVilliam Turner Torrey died  in Madison,
Lake county, O., 29 October, 1861, aged 75 years.   He was the
second son of James and Eunice (Turner)  Torrey, and was born
in Kingston, Mass., 5 February, 1786.   His mother was  the
eldest daughter of  Rev. Charles Turner  (H.C. 1752),  who
was born in Scituate, Mass., 3 September, 1732  ; was ordained
at Duxbury, Mass., 23 July, 1755 ; dismissed 10 April, 1775 ;
Avas afterwards chaplain of Castle AVilliam, and  senator in the
state legislature:  died  in the  town of Turner,  Ale., August,
1818, aged 86 years.   A classmate of the subject of this notice
has furnished some particulars of his life, from which we  extract
the following: "Torrey entered college in 1802.   During  all
the term  of his collegiate course his  moral character was  un-
blamable, his diligence in study exemplary, his standing in  the
class highly respectable.  He graduated with collegiate honors.
After he received his degree, he  studied  theology under Rev.
Dr.  John Reed, of AVest  Bridgewater  (Y.C. 1772).   Dr.
Reed was a  decided Unitarian; and Torrey, at that time, was
of the same sentiments.   Soon after he was licensed to preach,
he took charge of the only Congregational church in Ncav Bed-
ford, but was not ordained.  It  was when the Unitarian con-
troversy, early in  this century, was  at its height; Avhen the
odium theologicum pervaded  many of the  religious societies  of 
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this  order  in Alassachusetts.   It  may not be  too strong an
expression to say, that  it raged at  that time in  New Bedford.
The  church and  society were  split between the  two factions.
The  majority of the church — technically so  called — separated
from the society, and  held distinct worship at another place ;
AA'hile the society, as a body, continued in the old place  of wor-
ship, and adhered to Unitarianism.
   " Torrey, a young man, undrilled and unskilled in ecclesiastic
tactics,  found himself, in this logomachy, in a moral, or rather
immoral, atmosphere, not congenial with his natural disposition,
which  AA'as full of benevolence to  all.   His situation became
unpleasant;  and he finally removed to  Canandaigua, in New
York, and Avas settled over a Unitarian society there.  [He was
ordained at Alarlborough, Mass., in January or February, 1812,
as minister  of the  Congregational  church in Canandaigua, and
resigned in  the  latter part of  the year  1817.]   He could
not  have  been  settled  there   long,  when he  experienced a
change  of religious feeling and of religious views, and became
as orthodox  in sentiment (using the term  in its claimed and
generally accepted  sense) as before he was liberal.   As was to
be expected, he did not continue over the church in Canandaigua
long after  this.  He was installed 1  January, 1818, in Ply-
mouth,  Alass., near his native town; and resigned 12 March,
1823.   His  heart  was  naturally a loving one ;  and  his  new
views, if  possible,  increased  the intensity of  this love to all.
Free from dogmatism, yet was he earnest and  sincere.   This
charity, in its true sense, and his full belief in what he viewed
all-important  in  religion, prompted him  to reAisit his former
associates of the liberal  order, and to kind efforts to com'ince
them of their doctrinal errors ; which met with but little success."
   From Plymouth, Air. Torrey went to  Newport, R.I., where
he ministered to the church, once under the charge of Dr. Samuel
Hopkins,  about three years ; ending in  the course of the year
1829.   In 1830, he removed to Aiurray, Orleans county, N.Y.,
and  settled  on a farm.   He Avas  afterwards formally installed
there as a pastor of a  church.   In  November, 1853, he minis-
tered to a parish in  West Greece, N.Y., until Alarch,  1856.
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Afterward, Avhen past the age of 70 years, he removed to Ohio,
and  preached for  two years from January, 1858, to a church
in Edinburgh,  Portage  county,  O.
   He married,  2 June,  1814, Betsey James,  daughter of
AVilliam  James, of Scituate.  They had  four sons, — Charles
AV., Josiah J., Francis, and Samuel, — of whom only the  first
named is living; he being a minister, settled in Madison, O.,
when his father died  at his  house.   His wife died 30 April,
1852, at East  Cleveland, O.,  also at the residence of their
only surviving  son.
   1808. — Edward Fenwick Campbell died  in  Augusta,
Ga., 27  September,  1861, aged 75 years.  He  was  son of
Alacarton Campbell, a planter ; and Avas born in Augusta, Ga.,
25 January, 1786.   He  was fitted for college by Rev. Jona-
than  Homer (H.C.  1777), of Newton, Mass.   He had the
tastes of a gentleman  of fortune from Georgia.  His habits were
good; he made no efforts, apparently, to obtain college honors.
After graduating, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in
Georgia, but never practised.   He  inherited a plantation and
much wealth from his  father;  also inherited many slaves, but
never bought or sold  any.  His  residence was in Georgia, where
he occupied himself in cultivating his plantation.  His character
was one of singular  honor, delicacy, and generosity : he was a
very indulgent master.
    He married, in 1814, Maria Hull, daughter of Gen. AVilliam
 (Y.C. 1772) and Sarah Hull, of Newton, Mass.   She died in
Augusta, Ga., in 1846.   He never married again.   His wife
prepared for publication a work entitled " Revolutionary Services
and Civil Life of  Gen.  AVilliam Hull; prepared from his Alanu-
 scripts, by his Daughter, Mrs. Maria Campbell."  In an address
to the reader, she says, " Gen. Hull left behind him memoirs of
his  revolutionary services, in manuscript, which he had written
 for  the  gratification  of his children and grandchildren.   These
 memoirs are the basis of the present Avork.  His spirit pervades
 the whole;  and  my endeavor has  been,  that  it should not
 be  obscured.   The  facts  are in substance precisely as  he has
 related them.   But,  as his manuscript was  not prepared for the 
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        press, it was necessary, to a certain extent, that the arrangement
        of the  work, and  sometimes  the  style,  should be changed."
|        To  this Avork was  added, by Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of
        Boston  (H.C. 1829), grandson of Gen. Hull, "History of the
        Campaign  of  1812, and Surrender of the  Post of Detroit."
        Air.  Clarke,  in  his preface,  alluding to  the before-mentioned
        work, says, "This,  which was written by himself (Gen. Hull),
        was  prepared for the press by his daughter, Airs. Maria Camp-
        bell, Avife of EdAvard F.  Campbell, Esq., of Augusta, Ga.  It
        was a favorite and  cherished object  of  this  lady  to  erect this
        monument  to the memory of  her father, and her  life was spared
        by a kind  Providence just long enough  to  enable  her to  com-
        plete it.  Amid  painful sickness and the languor  of disease, she
        labored  diligently until  it was  finished.   This  labor of love
        seemed to  sustain her failino; strength ;  and Avhen she reached its
        termination she  could say, 'Lord, let me now depart;' and the
        daughter passed into the spirit-land to  meet the parent  Avhom
        she had  so tenderly loved.  But another labor yet remains to be
        performed.  Airs.  Campbell  did not attempt the history of the
        campaign  of  1812, and surrender  of Detroit;  and  though
        deeply convinced that her father deserved praise,  not blame, for
        his  share in this transaction,  yet she shrank from a Avork which
        she feared  might involve her  in angry controversy, and prevent
        the simple  narrative of  her  father's revolutionary labors from
        being appreciated.   She left  to another  hand,  and another
        time, this  part of the work.   This task has been committed to
        the present writer; who, with no qualifications except a strong
        conviction of the justice  of the cause he advocates, founded on
        careful study and examination, joined with an earnest wish to be
        candid and conscientious, has undertaken  the work.   He is in-
        deed about to defend a grandfather,  and one whom he remem-
        bers Avith mingled feelings of affection and respect."
           1815. — Samuel R Putnam died in Boston, 24 December,
        1861, aged 64 years.  He Avas the eldest  son of Hon. Samuel
        (H.C.   1787) and  Sarah (Gool) Putnam,  and was born in
        Salem,  Alass., 2 April,  1797.   His father was son of Gideon
        Putnam, of Danvers,  Alass., where he Avas born 13  April, 
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1768 ;  AA'as a laAvyer in Salem, but afterAvards removed to Bos-
ton ; was judge of the Supreme Court of Alassachusetts, a station
Avhich he held with dignity and honor.   He died 3 July,  1853,
aged 85 years.  Plis mother was daughter  of John Gool and
Lois (Pickering) Gool,  a sister of Hon. Timothy Pickering
(H.C.  1763), of Salem.   His studies, preparatory for admission
to college, were conducted by Jacob  Newman Knapp (H.C.
1802).   His  collegiate life was without reproach.  On leaving
college, he concluded to adopt a mercantile life;  and he entered
the counting-room of Pickering Dodge, Esq., of Salem, Avhere he
served  his apprenticeship.   He  ever  afterwards  spoke of Air.
Dodge  with  great  esteem and  respect.   He made  several
voyages, as supercargo,  to the East  Indies.   For many years
he was  engaged in business  in Europe,  particularly in the city
of Antwerp.  Here  he established  a house,  and had as a part-
ner an Englishman  by  the  name  of  Alfred Barrow, a most
estimable  gentleman, for whom Mr. Putnam named his eldest
son.   This son died early in life, of Asiatic cholera, while trav-
elling in Italy. He  conducted  his business with skilful enter-
prise and success.   In  the course  of time  he returned to his
native  country, and still  maintained his character as a merchant
in Boston.   His  interest  in  the  education  of his children
prompted him, in 1851, to return  to  Europe with his family;
and he spent with  them three years in Paris, and nearly two
years in Italy and  Germany.   He then returned, and  again
made Boston his home.   He was not what is considered a public
man.   His  own position in  society he was  careful  to adorn by
integrity and  honor; and whatever influence he  exerted was
mainly  through the power of his example.  A friend, who
knew him intimately, in speaking  of him,  says,  " Goodness
deserves commemoration,  especially in the   modest merit that
makes  no claim.   Its immediate and irresistible impression was
of unpretending kindness, and an utter honesty and constitutional
transparency that knew  not how to deceive.   That a nature so
unassuming should be so  noble and generous, was a perpetual
charm.   Our friend's humility had another delightful combina-
tion with the directness and energy of his mind.   His action or 
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speech was  ahvays forthright.  Never had a  soul cleaner and
fuller expression of all its meaning in the manners, every look and
word.   Such was his unvarnished and confiding sincerity, that,
after he had spoken, nothing remained for him to add or explain.
He did not reflect on himself as a subject, but with unconscious
beauty appeared himself for every object his  reason and  con-
science  owned  as just; never involved, but in all  his dealings
open as the day.  In his business he showed great practical ability,
and a judgment in all affairs on which others associated Avith him
could lean.  AVhat seemed unsentimental promptness or remarka-
able ability in the concerns of this world was united with a Avon-
derful and womanly tenderness of heart, making the eyes often
moist and  tearful  above  the  ever-firm  and manly lips.   His
faculties were not confined to any special vocation ;  but he was
deeply interested in  his  country and  all  mankind.  He was
earnest  in his  decisions, but never narrow.   Always in a large
charity was his  appreciation of others.    He was as broad in his
intellectual culture  as  in his moral aims.  He had  a great  taste
for art, and  enjoyment of its  masterpieces  abroad; and, in the
latter part  of  his  life, acquired  a  command of  the German
tongue, which  few  seek save in youth.   But finely foremost in
him were the qualities  of his heart, as  they  who loved him and
lived Avith him  so well know.   Performing his duties constantly,
and bearing his  trials patiently, he  has followed the  distin-
guished jurist, his father, and all  his  own sons."
    He married, 25 April,  1832, Mary, daughter of Rev. Charles
Lowell, D.D.  (H.C. 1800),  of Boston,  by whom he  had
three sons and one daughter.  His first and third  sons  died
some time before him.   His second, and then only surviving son,
Lieut. AVilliam Lowell Putnam, fell a martyr to his country;
having  died in Alary land, 22 October, 1861, of a wound re-
ceived the day  previous in the battle of Edwards  Ferry.  His
death will be identified with the military glory of America, as it
shall be reflected  from deeds of valor in the cause of freedom,
earnest  resolves and decisive acts in support and establishment
of equal laws and righteous government.  Air. Putnam's AvidoAV
and one daughter remain  to cherish his memory, and illustrate
his sympathies and affections. 
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   1817.—Hon. Samuel Atkins Eliot  died in Cambridge,
29 January, 1862, aged 63 years.  He Avas son of Hon. Samuel
and Catharine (Atkins) Eliot, and Avas born in Boston, 5 Alarch,
1798.   His father Avas an eminent and wealthy merchant.  He
was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School.   He attained
a high  rank of scholarship in his  class, and graduated with
honors.  After leaving college, he entered the Divinity School at
Cambridge, and went through a course of theological study, but
did not enter upon the clerical profession.  He was a gentleman
of great personal worth, and was repeatedly honored by eleva-
tion to offices  of distinction.  In  1834, he Avas elected a  repre-
sentative to the state legislature ;  and, in 1843, he was chosen a
senator from Suffolk district.  He was a member of the board of
aldermen in 1834 and 1835; and was mayor of the city in 1837,
1838, and 1839.  In 1850, he Avas elected a representative to the
thirty-first Congress from Suffolk district, Avhere he remained tAvo
years; but, at the close of his term, he declined to be a candidate
for re-election.  In 1853, he became a partner in the extensive
commission house  of  Charles  H. Mills and  Co.,  of Boston,
Avhere he remained six years, Avhen the  copartnership was dis-
solved; and he soon afterwards removed to Cambridge, where he
passed the remainder of his life.   In 1859, he was elected presi-
dent of the Boston Gas-light Company.   He was treasurer of
Harvard College from 1842 to  1853.  He was for  many years
a warden of King's Chapel, in Boston.  He was a gentleman of
unblemished moral character, of accomplished deportment, social
and affable in his intercourse with  his fellow-citizens ;  and, in the
many and  important positions  in which  he was  placed, he dis-
charged his duties with great fidelity,  with an  honest  conviction
of what he thought to be right, and to the  entire  satisfaction of
his constituents.
   He married, 13 June, 1836, Mary Lyman, the beautiful and
accomplished  daughter  of Hon.  Theodore  Lyman,  of Boston.
Their  children  were one son  and  four daughters, as follows :
Alary  L., Charles AVilliam, Elizabeth  E., Catharine A., and
Fannie A. ; all of whom, with their  mother,  survived him, all
but the last two being married. 
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   1817.—Daniel Gilman Hatch, of Covington, Ky.,  died
in Exeter, N.H., 13 Alarch, 1862, aged 63 years.   He was the
oldest  son  of Samuel and Alary  (Gilman)  Hatch,  and  Avas
born in Exeter, 3 August,  1798.  He was fitted for college  at
Phillips Academy, Exeter.  He left college in the last term  of
his senior year, before commencement; and first taught an acad-
emy in King-George county, Va., on the Upper Neck, so  called,
between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers.  In  conse-
quence  of  the unhealthiness of the location, he Avent, a  year
afterAvards, to DinAviddie county, Va., where he remained  almost
twenty years, devoting himself to teaching.  He carried into his
profession an enthusiasm for education, and a personal  regard
for the welfare of his scholars, AA'hich alike insured success, and
won for him the regard of the many  young men who were bene-
fited by his instruction.   He was a member of the celebrated
Virginia convention in 1829.  About 1837, he removed to Ken-
tucky, settling at Georgetown, where he embarked  in  commer-
cial pursuits.  Here his fine business capacity and stern integrity
soon gave him much influence; and, though no longer a profes-
sional  teacher, his knowledge of every branch of educational
science rendered good fruits.   He AA'as, until  the day of his
death, a trustee of the college in that village;  Avas for a time  its
treasurer, and held other offices in connection with it,  by which
he was enabled to promote its financial  soundness, and  add  to
its educational efficiency.  His zeal in behalf of instruction did
not confine itself to this institution.  As he had  done in Vir-
ginia,  so, during his  residence  in Kentucky, he was constantly
finding positions as teachers for young men and women from the
East;   thus  giving  deserving  employment, and providing the
means of a better education for the children of his neighbors and
friends.  It is stated that during his  life he obtained at the AVest
situations for over fifty persons, male and female ;  and such was
his discrimination, that in only one or two cases did they disap-
point his expectations.  About ten years before his death, he AA-as
called  to Harrodsburg to take the cashiership of the Commercial
Bank in that place.  His management was admirable.   In 1&56,
foreseeing the approaching financial crisis, he induced the direct- 
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ors to call in a large proportion of its wide circulation, thus en-
abling the institution  to  ride  out  the  gale Avithout detriment.
Soon afterwards he removed to CoA'ington, and became a member
of the firm of Buckner and Hall, of Cincinnati; but for a year or
tAvo he had withdraAvn  from active business.  The almost simul-
taneous death of his Aenerable  parents, just  a year before his
decease, called him temporarily, to the  home  of his childhood.
He proposed only a few months' stay, and had taken his  family
with him.   His health had long been someAvhat impaired ;  but
there was nothing to forbid the  hope  for him  of  many years
more of usefulness, until  attacked with  a sudden  acute disease.
He breathed his last beneath the roof under which he was  born.
He AA-as a kind father,  a  sincere and devoted  friend,  a sterling
patriot, and an earnest member of the  Baptist church, and was
officially connected with most  of the benevolent enterprises of
that denomination in  the state of his residence.
   He married, 30 May,  1822, in Dinwiddie county,  Va., Ann
Eliza Thompson; by whom he had one son and two daughters,
of Avhom the  son and one  daughter survive  him.   The  other
daughter, named Alary E. Prudentia, married, 15 April, 1852,
Col. B. R. Johnson, professor in the Nashville military univer-
sity.  She died in Nashville, 22 May, 1858, aged  32  years.
His wife died 13 April, 1837.   He  married for his second wife,
in Georgetown, Ky., 12 February,  1840,  Mary R., daughter of
Kinsley and Alary Hall, of Exeter, N.H. ;  by whom he had two
sons and six daughters, of whom two daughters died before their
father.   The other children, with their mother, survived him.
   1818.—John Prentiss died in Baltimore, Aid., 31 August,
1861, aged 62 years.   He rode into the city in a carriage with
one of his students, from his residence at Aledfield, about  three
miles distant;  and, while crossing the Northern Central Railway
near the  junction of Cathedral and Biddle streets, his vehicle
was run against by a train of cars :  he was thrown out, and in-
stantly killed.
   Air.  Prentiss was the third son and seventh child of Rev.
Thomas (H.C. 1766)  and Alary (Scollay) Prentiss, and Avas
born in Medfield, Alass., 10  August,  1799.  His father was 
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son of Rev.  Joshua (H.C. 1738) and Alary (Angier) Prentiss,
and  was born  in  Holliston, Alass., 27  October, 1747;  was
ordained pastor of the  church  in Medfield, 31 October, 1770;
and died 28 February, 1814, aged 66 years.  His mother  was
daughter of Dr. John  Scollay, of Boston, where he held the
office of town-clerk over forty  years.  She died 23 September,
1841, aged 82 years.  The subject of this notice pursued his
preparatory studies for admission to college under the instruction
of his father, until the death of the latter; and, in April of the
same year, he was at placed Phillips Academy in Andover, where
he completed his  studies.   In his  sophomore year,  he taught
school in AYayland,  then called East Sudbury;  and, in his
junior and senior years, in Aledfield.  He graduated with  a fair
reputation for  scholarship,  and with a character  untainted by
any  of  the  vices of college-life, to  the influences of which he
had been exposed,  without experience, or any knoAA'ledge of the
world, and with no guide or protection but the  principles of  a
pure religion and the precepts of a stern morality breathed from
the lips and illustrated by the life of one of the best and tender-
est of mothers.  Notwithstanding the practice  of the  strictest
economy throughout his college course, he found himself,  at its
close, not  only without resources, but encumbered with  debts
which had been unavoidably contracted.   To  acquit  himself of
his obligations, and to furnish him AA'ith the means of prosecuting
the study of theology, which he had chosen as a profession, he
was  induced to accept an  appointment  to the charge of the
Female High School in  Charlestown, Alass., then  just insti-
tuted.   Here, with one female  assistant, he had intrusted to his
instruction and management three  hundred pupils.    That he
discharged the  duties of this arduous office acceptably, may be
inferred from the fact, that,  at  the close of the academic year,
the engagement Avas renewed,  and Avas continued, until, having
accomplished the object for which he had assumed  it, in the
winter  of  1819-20  he relinquished it  to enter  the  Divinity
School at Cambridge.   His  connection with the school continued
until the autumn of 1822.   During this  time, his studies  were
occasionally interrupted by ill  health; and for  several months
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were partially suspended by his having the  charge of the  pri-
vate female school of Rev.  Henry  Colman (D.C. 1805), in
Boston, who, from severe sickness, was compelled to relinquish
it for that period.  During this engagement, he was a member
of Mr. Colman's family;  and  the acquaintance  thus  begun
ripened into an  intimate friendship, Avhich ended only with the
death of this distinguished clergyman and  accomplished gentle-
man and  scholar at Islington, near London, 17 August, 1849,
whilst  engaged in agricultural inquiries in  Europe, under the
auspices of the government of Alassachusetts.   At the close of
his theological course of study, Mr. Prentiss  Avas compelled,
from bodily indisposition, to abandon for a time, as he then sup-
posed, the profession  which he had chosen, and  the preparatory
studies  for which he  had just completed.   The greater part of
the year 1823 he passed at his native village, under his mother's
roof, in the vain  hope of recovering his health.   Early in the
winter of this year, he was induced, by the advice of his physi-
cian, to try the  effect of a milder  climate;  and  accepted the
appointment of  a tutorship in Baltimore College, Md.  His
health being measurably restored by his residence in a southern
climate, in the spring of 1824 he took charge, as principal, of
one of the state academies  of Maryland at Garrison  Forest,
about ten miles from  the city of Baltimore, in Baltimore county ;
where he remained until the autumn of  1825.   With health
re-established,  and with the reputation of being a faithful and
successful teacher, at the solicitation of  many parents whose
children had been under his instruction,  he removed to Balti-
more at  the above date, and opened a private school for boys ;
in which  he was  eminently  successful.   The hazard he would
run in exposing himself to the rigors of  a  northern climate for-
bade  his  return  to New England to reside;  whilst  the social
relations  he had formed, and the  reputation he had established
as a teacher, induced him to make Baltimore his place of  resi-
dence,  and school-teaching  his occupation for  life.    In the
summer of 1833, he  was elected president of the collegiate, and
principal  of the academic,  department of  Baltimore College;
which situation he retained for eight years.  During this period, 
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411
he was most laboriously and  successfully employed in the direc-
tion of this institution, having under his charge a large number
of pupils, and associated Avith him  many assistant instructors.
Convinced by much reflection, and long experience and obser-
vation, that the business  of instruction could and  ought to be
conducted without resort to corporal punishment, in entering on
the duties of his office, in a public statement of the principles
on which the institution would be conducted, Be rejected entirely
the use of the rod and all physical infliction as a means of disci-
pline.   This plan was a novel one, —one which it was believed
had  never been attempted in any  similar institution in  this
country.   It was regarded by most persons,  at the outset, as
visionary and impracticable, and the public avowal of it as, of
course, impolitic.   Its practicability was,  however, abundantly
demonstrated,  and  the expediency of its  adoption completely
vindicated, by  an experiment of eight years' continuance,—the
period of Air. Prentiss's administration of  the  affairs  of  this
department of  the university  of Maryland.  In 1841, in con-
sequence  of his  health  being sensibly impaired  by the great
amount  of labor inseparable  from  the   proper  discharge of
the duties of the office which he held, he resigned his  situa-
tion,  and retired to a country-seat which he had purchased,
three and a  half miles from  the  city of  Baltimore; where he
continued to reside  during the  remainder of his  life.  As the
occupation to  which he  had  devoted  so  much of his life  had
become an essential  part of his being, he here opened a private
boarding-school for boys.   By uniting several occupations  and
amusements Avith the more serious  and sedentary duties of in-
struction, his  health was completely restored.  This  place he
named Medfield, for his  native  tOAvn.  Here, in  a family that
afforded  the attractions  of  home  to his pupils, he labored
modestly  and diligently, for twenty years, in the formation of
mental and moral character.  Himself of that broad church which
never separates itself, for  any  creed, from any soul, but finds in
every soul an opportunity for  Christian charity and work, with-
out professions he  silently led his scholars  towards Christian
faith and practice, by their expression of his  own beautiful  and 
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gentle life.  He had the rare faculty of being both  teacher and
friend;  and the strong ties that bound him to his pupils through
the years Avere seldom broken.  A conversation so even and  so
gentle made his discipline strong; and even reproof from him lost
its smart and provocation, it Avas uttered from so gentle lips.
   That he had no sympathy with  the  unnatural  and infamous
rebellion Avhich has been brought upon our country by ambitious,
political, and unprincipled  demagogues, Avill be plainly seen by
the following extract  from a letter, Avhich he wrote a  feAv days
before his  death, to  a near relative in Alassachusetts : " I can
hardly believe that I have sunk so  low  in your  estimation  as  to
be suspected,  for  an  instant, of  having any  participation  or
sympathy with  this execrable Southern rebellion.   There are,
as you suppose, some good Union  people here.   I am proud  to
be classed as  a humble member  of that honorable fraternity.
Aloreover, I am happy to add, on most satisfactory evidence,
that  the Unionists constitute a decided majority in  the  state  of
Maryland, and at least a very large and most respectable minor-
ity in the  monumental city, or mob-town, as you may choose  to
call  Baltimore !   God  save our commonwealth,  if she should
ever  be so forgetful  of her interest or her honor as to make a
league with those states which are in  arms  against their  gov-
ernment !  As to  our  city, no power, human or  divine, could
save it from utter desolation and ruin in that event."
   Mr. Prentiss married, 22 December, 1825,  Amelia F. Ken-
nedy, of  Baltimore.    The issue of  this  marriage  was  nine
children, — five sons  and four daughters, — of whom four sons
only survived him.  The oldest son is a physician, and resides on
his father's estate.  His wife died February, 1857 ;  and he mar-
ried for his second wife, July, 1858,  Sarah AYatson, of Nan-
tucket, Alass., who survives him.    By his  second  Avife he had
one  child, which died when a few months  old.
   1818.—Rev. Charles Robinson died in Groton, Alass.,
9 April, 1862, aged  68 years.   He was the eldest son of Caleb
and  Judith (Robinson) Robinson, and was born in Exeter, N.H.,
25 July, 1793.  His  father was a native of Exeter ; as were also
his grandfather and great-grandfather on the paternal side, both 
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413
of whom bore the Christian name of Caleb.   His grandfather was
a major or a  lieutenant-colonel of the New-Hampshire militia,
in the battle of Bunker Hill.  He afterAvards served as an officer
in the  continental  army during  the  revolution,  and died soon
after his return from the Avar.   His  mother was  born in Glou-
cester, Mass.  Her father's name was John Robinson.   He was
an Englishman, and followed the sea as a profession.  He settled
in Gloucester, and  married Hannah Lane.   They had four
children, — all daughters ;  and his wife died in giving birth to
Robinson's mother.  Her husband Avas then at sea ;  and, when he
returned, the neAvs of the death of his wife made such an impres-
sion upon him, that he sickened, and died a few days afterwards,
— leaving  four  fatherless  and motherless  children,  who  were
taken and cared for by their grandmother Lane,  until the oldest
was married, and remoA^ed to Exeter.  Robinson's mother, at
that time but a child, went  with her.  His father died at the
age of about 32 years, leaving his wife, with four young children,
without property:  but she was  a woman of Aery extraordinary
physical and mental powers,—of great endurance,  industry, and
ingenuity, — Avhich enabled her to bring up her family through.
great hardships, until they were able to help themselves; and
then Robinson and two sisters devoted themselves to the attain-
ment of an education somewhat above the humble condition of
their fives.  His mother lived to the age of 87 years, almost
always enjoying  good health.
   He was fitted for  college at Exeter Academy.   He held a
high rank of scholarship in his class, and graduated with honors.
After leaving college, he went to Maryland, where  he was presi-
dent of AVashington College for one year.   He then returned,
and  studied  theology at  the Divinity School  in Cambridge.
He  was ordained over the  Unitarian  church in  Eastport, Me.,
30 October, 1822 ; resigned his charge, 1 April, 1825.   He was
installed at Groton, 1 November, 1826 ;  and resigned in Octo-
ber, 1838 ; installed  at Medfield, 16 October, 1839 ;  resigned
1 September, 1850;  installed  at Peterborough, N.H., 4 De-
cember, 1851;  resigned  24  June, 1860.  He then  returned
to Groton, where  he resided  until his death. 
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    He married, for his first wife, 3 July, 1827, Jane Park, only
daughter of Stewart J. Park, of Groton; and had one child,
Jane, — born 17 March, 1828,—who lived only five days.  His
wife died 23 Alarch, 1828.
    He married, for his second wife,  1 January, 1830, Diantha
Prentiss, daughter of Hon.  John Prentiss,  of Keene, N.I I.
She died at Medfield,  18 Alay, 1843, —no children.
    He married, for his third wife, 11 September, 1844,  Sally
May Cotton, daughter of Rev. Ward Cotton  (H.C. 1793), of
Boylston, Alass., and  had  by her two  children; viz.,  Sarah
Jane, born 29 July, 1845, — died 8 October, 1847; and Charles
Cotton, born 22  May, 1849,—who survived^him.   His wife
died 6 June, 1849.
    He married, for his fourth wife, 1 September, 1850, Eliza-
beth Jane Burton, daughter  of  Jonathan Burton, of Wilton,
N.H., and had one child; viz., William Burton, born  3 April,
1854 ; who, with his mother, survived him.
    1818. —Dr. Simon AVhitney died in Framingham, Mass.,
2  September,  1861,  aged  62 'years.  He was the youngest
but  one  of  nine  children of Nathaniel Ruggles and  Abigail
(Frothingham) AVhitney, and Avas born in AVatertown, Alass.,
30  October, 1798.  His father  was son of Simon  and Mary
(Ruggles)  AVhitney;   was  born in AVatertown, 19  March,
1759; was  a teacher in  early  life, afterwards a trader and
farmer:  died  17  December,  1833.  His  mother was daughter
of James Frothingham, for many years  deacon of  Dr.  Jede-
diah Morse's church in Charlestown, Alass.  The subject of this
notice began his preparatory studies for college under the instruc-
tion of Abiel Jaques (H.C. 1807), at Newton Corner, Mass.,
where he remained about one year; and completed his studies
under Samuel  Hunt, of AVatertown (H.C. 1765).   Air. Hunt
was born in  Watertown,  25 .October, 1745 ;  Avas appointed
master of the Boston Latin School, 8 November, 1776, where
he  remained until January, 1805 ; when he resigned, and re-
turned to his native place.   He afterwards went to the AVest;
and died in  Lexington, Ky., 8 October,  1816, aged 71 years.
After leaving college, Air. AVhitney taught school six months in 
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Brighton;  then went to Charlestown,  where  he taught  six
months; and there he began the study of medicine, under  the
instruction  of Dr.  AVilliam Johnson AValker  (H.C.  1810),
where he remained until  1822,  when he received his  degree of
M.D. ;  and established himself in Framingham, where he passed
the remainder of his life.  He soon acquired an extensiA'e  prac-
tice, and gained the  confidence of the community in AA'hich he
resided.  His practice was in accordance with the plain principles
of the science of medicine.  He dealt in no occult sciences,  nor
patent medicines, which none but the initiated could understand.
His fine powers of observation, perception, and discrimination,
enabled him to  gather up, in the range of his extensive practice,
a  large  amount of  experience  and practical knowledge  ;  and
made him always welcome to the chamber of sickness and suffer-
ing, AA'hich his genial spirit and manners brought  confidence to,
and brightened with  the light of faith and hope.   As a citizen,
he  was  honored and trusted;  for he was  always ready, with
heart and hand and purse, to do  any good word or work.   In
the Christian church, he was a  strong pillar and a beautiful  ex-
ample,  in  ever treading in the  footsteps  of " Him who went
about doing good."  He Avas  repeatedly honored by offices of
honor and  trust.   He  Avas surgeon of the regiment in that
vicinity  five years;  captain of an infantry company; leader of
the  choir thirty years;  Avas frequently elected selectman,  and
chairman of the board ;  was  a justice  of the  pe*ice for fifteen
years;  and  was  representative  to  the  state  legislature from
Framingham in 1853.
    He  married,  6  Alay, 1824,  Alary AValker,  daughter of
Timothy Walker,  Esq., of  Charlestown,  and sister of  Dr.
William J. Walker, with whom he studied medicine.  The issue
of this marriage was eight children :  viz.,  1. Elizabeth AValker,
born 8  April, 1825;  married,  30  August,  1845, John  W.
Osgood, M.D., a practising physician in Saxonville, Mass., who
have had three children, —two sons and one daughter.  2. Alary,
born 16 August,  1826, and died the next day.  3. Allston
Waldo, a graduate at the Harvard Medical School in 1852,  and
a practising physician in South Framingham.   4.  Abby Walker, 
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born 23  July, 1829.   5.  Henry Augustus, born 11 January,
1831 ;  was drowned while bathing, 22 July, 1840.   6.  Harriet
Lincoln,  born 3 October, 1833.  7. Clarence, born  1 January,
1838.  8.  James Bradish, born 22 August, 1843.   His  Avife
survived  him.
   1818. — Hon. John Hubbard AVilkins  died  in Boston,
5 December, 1861,  aged 67 years, lacking  fiA'e days.  He Avas
the youngest son of Deacon Samuel and Dorcas (Towne) AVil-
kins, and was born in  Amherst, N.H., 10  December, 1794.
He AAas also grandson of Rev. Daniel AVilkins (H.C. 1736),
the first settled minister  of his native town.   It was  the inten-
tion of Deacon Wilkins that his youngest son should become a
merchant.   He accordingly left home early in life, and was em-
ployed in the store of a Mr. Randall, in the  neighboring town of
Mount Vernon.  After remaining there about  a year, he Avent
to Boston, and was employed in  the  store of Air. David S.
Eaton, on Long Wharf, where he continued until  the war Avith
England  began, in 1812.   He then conceived the idea  of ob-
taining a more thorough education, and, having purchased some
books,  returned to his  native town with the view of preparing
for college.  His father  told him that a college education would
be very expensive ; that he was unable to assist him ; and that,
if he entered college, he  would  not succeed in going through the
course.   He replied, that he thought he would try.  He was
fitted for college by Rev. Humphrey  Aloore  (H.C. 1799), of
Milford,  N.H.  He attained a  distinguished rank of  scholarship
in his  class, and graduated with  high honors.  Immediately
after leaving college,  he was  appointed preceptor of  Taunton
Academy, where he remained one year.  He  then entered the
Divinity  School in Cambridge, where  he studied  theology two
years.  In 1821, he  came to Boston, and entered the book-
store of Halliard, Gray, and Co., as a  salesman; and,  in 1826,
he was admitted as a partner in  that well-known  publishing
house,  where he remained until 1832, Avhen he withdrew.   The
next year he formed a  copartnership with  Air. Charles Bolles,
under the style of John  H. Wilkins and Co., as paper-dealers,
in Water Street.  In 1835, Air. Bolles withdrew.  Mr. AVilkins 
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then took in as  a partner  Air. Richard  B. Carter,  and  they
continued business under the firm of AVilkins and Carter;  and,
in 1844, Hon. Alexander II. Rice (U.C.  1844), for  tAA'o years
mayor of Boston, and afterwards a  representative in  Congress,
was admitted as a partner, under the style of Wilkins, Carter, and
Co.   In his  business, Air. AVilkins displayed great talent and
stern integrity.   He  was a skilful financier, was Arery success-
ful, and acquired an ample competence.   In 1853, the National
Bank was  established in Boston.  Mr. AVilkins, having  been
elected its president, withdreAV from mercantile business, and de-
voted himself to the interests of that institution; which  he did
with rare ability.  He held the office of president until October,
1861, when,  at the annual meeting, he, on account of ill health,
declined to be a candidate for re-election.
   Air. Wilkins was a most useful  and valued  citizen, and the
estimation in which he was held was often manifested.  He Avas
elected  a member of  the  Boston common-council  in  1840,
1841,  1842,  and 1843;  was an alderman  in 1844, 1848, and
1849 ; was elected to the senate in the state legislature in 1850
and  1851; and was a member of the state convention  in 1853.
He was for five years president of the Cochituate Water Board.
He was once a candidate for mayor, but failed of an election by
a few votes.
   In 1822, he published a  work entitled  " Elements of Astron-
omy," for the use of schools and academies.  This  treatise met
with a rapid sale.   The encouragement he received  induced him
to correct  and  somewhat enlarge  his work; and,  in  1823, he
issued a second  edition.  Subsequently,  the book was  stereo-
typed.  In  1822,  the  celebrated mathematician, AVarren  Col-
burn (H.C. 1820),  wrote thus to Mr.  AVilkins:   "I  have
examined your treatise on astronomy, and  I think that subject is
better explained, and that more matter is contained in this,  than
in any other book of the kind with which  I am acquainted."
During the discussion  of the  subject  of introducing water into
the city of Boston, Air. AVilkins took  a  prominent part.  He
wrote several pamphlets on the question, which  were printed,
and contributed many valuable articles  in  the newspapers.   At
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the consecration, 24 June, 1852, of Alount-Hope Cemetery, in
Dorchester and AVest Roxbury,  he acted as  president  of the
corporation, and made some introductory remarks, which were
published in the pamphlet containing the order of services.  He
was one of the most active and efficient members in establishing
the New-Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church in Boston, of which
his classmate,  Rev. Thomas AVorcester, D.D., is  the  pastor.
The total amount of his donations to the society, it is said, were
not less than fifty thousand dollars.
   He married, 17 November, 1826, Mrs. Thomasine E.  AIinot;
she being  a sister of the late Professor William Cranch Bond,
of Harvard College.   He had no  children.  His wife survives
him.
   1819. —Rev. William Farmer died in Lunenburg, Mass.,
24 June,  1862, aged 69 years.   He  was son of Jonas  and
Mary (Whitney) Farmer, and was  born in Townsend,  Alass.,
24 February, 1793.  He was fitted for college at the academies
at New Ipswich, N.H., and Groton, Mass.  After leaving  col-
lege, he studied divinity with Rev. Thomas Beede,  of Wilton,
N.H.  (H.C. 1798),  and Rev.  Eli Smith,  of Hollis,  N.H.
(B.C.  1792);  but completed his  theological  studies  at the
Divinity School at Cambridge.   He was ordained over the Uni-
tarian  church  in  Belgrade,  Me., 18  May,  1831.   Here  he
remained about six years, when he resigned his pastoral charge.
He preached afterwards, about two years, in Dresden, Me.;
and,  for a year or more, in various places, — in AVest Boylston
and Lunenburg, Mass., in Fitzwilliam, N.H., and Pomfret, Vt.
He had been an invalid for many years, and suffered often from
pulmonary hemorrhage and other serious symptoms before he
relinquished preaching.  His decline was very gradual;  and his
bodily  sufferings, which towards the last were particularly irri-
tating, were borne with great patience.  He was a true Christian,
and was warmly interested  in every thing that concerned his
Alma Mater.
   He married, 15  October,   1851, Mrs.  Lovina' Jackson.
They had no children.  His wife survived him.
   1819. —Joseph Hardy Prlnce died in Boston, 18 Novem- 
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ber,  1861, aged  60 years.   He  was son of Capt. Henry and
Sarah (Alillet) Prince, and was born in Salem, Alass., 7 June,
1801.   He  was  fitted  for  college  partly by  Abiel  Chandler
(H.C.  1806), and  partly by  Samuel Adams  (H.C.  1806).
After leaving college, he studied law in the office of Hon. John
Pickering,  of Salem (H.C. 1796) ;  and began the practice
of his profession  in Salem.  He  was a representative to the
state legislature from  Salem, in 1825.  In 1834,  he was ap-
pointed  an inspector  in the  Boston  custom-house.  He  was
private-secretary for Com. Eliot, of the frigate " Constitution," in
1835, on the voyage to France to  bring home the Hon. Edward
Livingston,  the American minister, on account of the  differ-
ences with that nation.  On his return, he pursued the practice
of law in Boston.   In 1848, he was appointed to the surveyor's
department of customs.   After leaving that office, he resumed
his profession, which he continued  to the end of his life.  He
was eArer tenaciously devoted to the democratic party, and  was
an early advocate  of Andrew Jackson.  He delivered an oration
on  the  4th  of July, 1828,  before the  Washington Society.
Afterwards,  when Andrew Dunlap moved that a  copy be re-
quested  fbr the press, Mx. Prince said,  "If I  have done  any
thing towards rekindling the fire of the old democracy, if I have
contributed a pebble to the pile in the cause of principle against
corruption, I shall be  satisfied."
   Mr.  Prince married,  late in life, Mary Hunt, of Salem;  but
had no children.
   1821. — Dr. Jonas  Henry Lane died in Boston, 5 Sep-
tember,  1861,  aged  61 years.    He was son  of Jonas  and
Eunice  (Kendall) Lane, and was  born  in Lancaster, Mass.,
28 January,  1800.   His name  was originally  Henry  Lane;
but, by  act of the  legislature, he was allowed to prefix the name
of Jonas, which he  did from respect to his father.  He began
his preparatory studies for entering college at Groton Academy,
Avhere he remained one term ; then he  went to Leicester Acad-
emy ;  and he completed his preparatory studies at the scientific-
school in Lancaster, under the instruction of Jared Sparks (H.C.
1815), afterwards president of Harvard College.   He attained a 
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distinguished rank of scholarship in his class, and graduated Avith
high honors.   He studied medicine Avith Dr. Silas  Pearson, of
AVestminster, Alass.   He Avas, while studying his profession, for
some time house-physician at the Alassachusetts General Hos-
pital in Boston, and subsequently an assistant at the McLean
Asylum for the Insane, at Somerville.  On receiving his degree
of AI.D., in 1826,  he began the practice of his profession  in
Boston,  where he  passed  the remainder of his life;  having
attained a highly  respectable rank in his profession, gained an
extensive practice, and reaped a rich rcAvard for his skill, fidelity
to his profession,  and his amiable  and exemplary life.  Modest
in his deportment, he never entered  public life, or  sought any
office.   He held the even tenor of his way ;  was as  faithful and
diligent in  his  attendance on the  poor to whom he  Avas called,
and who Avere unable to compensate him for  his services, as he
was to those who had abundant wealth to reward him.  He Avas
a  cheerful, happy Christian;  and was emphatically  " the be-
loved physician."
   He married, 6 October, 1830, Frances Ann Brown, of Nor-
Avich, Conn.   The  issue of this  marriage was three daughters
and one son ;  of  whom the son and two of the daughters, with
their mother, survived him.
   1824. — John  Mark Gourgas, of  Quincy, died in Rox-
bury, Mass., 28 June, 1862, aged 58 years.  He was  son of
John Mark and Margaret (Sampson) Gourgas,  and was born
at Alilton Upper  Mills, Alass., 25 Alarch, 1804.   He was fitted
for college at Exeter (N.H.) Academy.  He studied law in the
office of  Hon.  Lemuel ShaAv (H.  C. 1800),  and settled in
Quincy.  He was  never married.
   1825. —Isaiah Thomas was lost at sea, probably the last
week in February,  1862.   He was the son of Isaiah and Alary
(AVeld) Thomas, and was born in AVorcester, Alass., 29 Novem-
ber, 1805.  His  father was the  oldest son  of Isaiah Thomas,
the eminent printer, and author of the " History of Printing;"
and  was born  in Boston, 5 September, 1773.  His mother was
daughter  of Edward AVeld, of Boston.   The  subject of. this
notice was fitted for college at Leicester Academy.   After grad- 
1861-62.]            OF HARVARD COLLEGE.               421

uating, he went to Cincinnati, O., where  he  was, for  a time,
editor of  the  " American" newspaper,  and  afterwards was a
merchant  in that city;  thence  he  removed to New York.  In
January, 1862, he was appointed consul to Algiers, and took
passage in the  ship "Milwaukie," Capt. Rhodes, from New York
for Havre, Avith his  only daughter and two of his sons, thence
to proceed to Algiers.  The ship sailed on the  21st of February,
and was never  afterwards heard from.  It is supposed she foun-
dered, on  the 28th of the same month, in a gale which occurred
at that time.
   He  married,  30  May,  1831,  in Cincinnati,  Mary Ann
Ruder, of that city ;  by whom he had four sons and five daugh-
ters, — of whom four of his daughters had deceased.   Two sons
only survived  him, — one  in  a mercantile  house in  Boston,
and  the other in the army.   His  wife  died  about  nine years
since.
   1827.  — Cornelius  Conway   Felton, of  Cambridge,
Mass.,  died  in  Chester,  Penn.,  26 February, 1862, aged
54  years.   He  left  Cambridge about  three weeks pre\'ious-
ly for  AVashington,  D.C,  and stopped  at  the residence  of
his  brother, Samuel  Morse Felton  (H. C  1834), where he
was  suddenly taken ill with a disease of the heart, of which he
had  several times before had attacks.  He was son of Cornelius
Conway and Anna  (Morse) Felton, and was born in  West
Newbury, Alass., 6 November,  1807.  His father was  born  in
Alarblehead.   His mother was born in Newbury, died in 1825 ;
and  his father married for his second wife Mrs. ----Boynton,
whose first husband was a farmer in Saugus, Mass.   She was
a Torrey,  of Scituate, Mass.  She  died many years  ago at the
McLean Asylum in  Somerville, Mass.    In  1815, he moved
with his father  to the corner of Chelsea, AA'hich belonged to a
parish in  Saugus.  His father lived in great poverty during the
war  of  1812,  although he had a  good business as a  chaise-
maker, to which  he  served his apprenticeship with  Air. Abner
Greenleaf, of AVest Newbury.  But the whole  establishment was
broken up by  the war; and, to earn a livelihood, he became a
toll-keeper at Chelsea, on the Newburyport turnpike.  When  he 
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married his second wife, he took her farm, AA'ith its encumbrances,
in Saugus, and carried it on several years ; then he sold it, and
went to Charlestown, Avhere he Avas employed in the construc-
tion of the AVarren bridge,  of Avhich he had the charge, and was
one of the toll-keepers of it.  AVhen the Fitchburg railroad Avas
put in operation,  he Avas  contractor for  all  the Avood burned
on the road, and  at  the same time bought a farm in Littleton,
Alass.,  where he  died.
   From his early youth, young Felton was very fond of study ;
which propensity Avas encouraged by his mother.    His father,
seeing his passion for learning, thought he might afford to send
him to school one quarter; and he Avas placed in the academy
at Bradford, Alass., under Benjamin Greenleaf, and  under the
tutelage of the venerable Joshua Coffin.   From Bradford, he
returned to the town-school in Saugus.   Early in the  summer
of 1822, his father sent him to the private school of Mr. Simeon
Putnam, in North Andover (H.C. 1811).   AVhen he went there,
he intended to study one quarter.   Mr.  Putnam was  an enthusi-
astic scholar ;  a great lover of the classics ;  a man very austere in
his manners, but  gentle and  kind to all who wanted to study,
and awakened an extravagant enthusiasm in all his pupils.  After
some  time,  knoAA'ing Felton's  father's  circumstances, he called
him up to him one  day,  and told him he wanted him to go to
college, and would trust him for his tutorage until he could repay
it.  He therefore  remained at the school one  year and three
months.   In that  period, he  read Sallust four times,  Cicero's
Orations four times,  Virgil six times, Grasca  Alinora five or
six times,  and the  poetry of it, until he could repeat  nearly the
whole by  memory ; the Annals and History of Tacitus, Justin,
Cornelius Nepos ; the Anabasis of Xenophon ;  four books of Rob-
inson's Selections  from the Iliad; the Greek  Testament four
times : besides Avriting a translation of one of the Gospels, and a
translation of the whole of Grotius de Veritate, which he carried
in manuscript to  college.   He also wrote a volume of about
three  hundred  pages of Latin exercises, and one of about tAAO
hundred pages of Greek exercises.   He also studied carefully all
the mathematics and geography requisite to  enter college.  These 
1861-62.]
OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
423
severe studies greatly affected his health.  Still, while in college,
he studied a great deal of extra Greek; also modern languages —
French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese — and some
Hebrew.  In the winter vacation of his freshman year, he Avas
employed in  the college library.   In the sophomore year, he
taught school in Concord ;  in the junior year, in Bolton ; during
the rest of the junior year, or six months, he taught mathematics
in Round-Hill School, kept by Cogswell and Bancroft, in North-
ampton.  He was also one  of the editors of the " Harvard Regis-
ter."   After  graduating, he was engaged for two years Avith his
classmates, Cleveland and Sweetser, in the charge of the Living-
ston-county  high-school   at  Geneseo,  N.Y.   He  was  then
appointed Latin tutor in Harvard College;  and the next  year
was appointed  tutor in Greek, which office he held two years ;
and, in 1834, he was appointed Eliot Professor of Greek Litera-
ture.    This  professorship  he held until the 16th of February,
1860, AA'hen he was chosen president of the college.   In 1833, he
published an edition of Homer, with English notes and Flaxman's
illustrations,  which  has since passed through several editions,
with revisions and emendations.   In 1840, a translation by him
of Menzell's  Avork on " German Literature,"  in three volumes,
was published among Ripley's " Specimens of Foreign Literature."
In the same year,  he gave  to the public  a " Greek Reader," con-
taining selections  in prose and verse from Greek authors, with
English notes,  and a vocabulary : this has since been frequently
reprinted.  In  1841, he published an edition of the  "Clouds"
of Aristophanes, with an  introduction and notes;  since revised,
and republished in England.  In 1843,  he aided Prof. Sears and
Prof. Edwards in the preparation of a work on classical studies,
containing essays  on classical  subjects, mostly translated  from
the German.   He assisted Prof. Longfellow in the preparation
of the "Poets and Poetry of Europe," which appeared in  1845.
In  1847, editions of the " Panegyricus " of Isocrates, and  of the
"Agamemnon" of iEschylus,  with introductions and English
notes, were published by him.   A second edition  of the former
appeared in 1854, and of the latter in 1859.  In 1849, he  trans-
lated, from the French, the work of Prof. Guyot on physical 
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geography, called " The Earth and Alan ; "  and, in the same
year, he published an edition  of the "Birds" of Aristophanes,
Avith an introduction and English notes, AA'hich Avas republished
in England.   In 1852, he edited a selection from the Avritings of
Prof. Popkin, his predecessor  in the  Eliot  professorship, with
an introductory biographical notice.   In the  same year, he pub-
lished a volume  of selections from the Greek historians, arranged
in the order of events.   The period from April,  1853, to Alay,
1854, was spent by him  in a European tour; in the course of
Avhich he visited Great Britain, France, Germany,  SAvitzerland,
Italy, and Greece; giving about five months  to the  last-named
country, visiting its  most interesting  localities,  and carefully
studying its architectural remains.  In 1855, he revised, for pub-
lication in the United States, Smith's "History of Greece," adding
a preface, notes, and a continuation from the  Roman conquest to
the present time.  In the same year, an edition of Lord Carlisle's
" Diary in  Turkish and Greek Waters " was prepared by him for
the American press, with notes, illustrations,  and  a preface.   In
1856,  a selection by him from modern Greek writers, in prose
and verse, AA-as  published.    Besides  the  above,  he compiled
an  elementary work on Greek and Roman metres ; was the au-
thor of a life of Gen. Eaton, in Sparks's "American Biography;"
of A'arious occasional addresses ; and of numerous  contributions
to the " North-American Review,"  " Christian Examiner,"  and
other periodical publications.    A series of vigorous  articles  on
spiritualism, which appeared in the "Boston Courier" in 1857-8,
were understood to have proceeded from his pen.    He delivered
three courses of lectures before the Lowell Institute in Boston,
on subjects connected with the history and literature of Greece.
In the summer of 1858, he made a second visit to Europe,  partly
on account of his impaired health, and partly to complete some
investigations into the language, topography, and education of
Greece.  He was a member of the Alassachusetts Board of Edu-
cation, and one of the regents  of the Smithsonian Institution; a
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,  and of
the Alassachusetts  Historical  Society ; and  a  corresponding
member of the  Archaeological  Society of Athens.   The degree 
 1861-62.]            OF HARVARD COLLEGE.                425

 of doctor of laAvs was conferred upon him by Amherst College
 in 1848.   He Avas a gentleman of genial and social habits,  and
 was warmly loved by a large circle of friends.
    He married, in the summer of 1838, Alary AVhitney, daugh-
 ter of Asa AVhitney, a merchant  of Boston.  She died 12 April,
 1^45, leaving tAvo daughters.  He married, for his second Avife,
 28 September,  1846, Alary  Louisa Cary, daughter of Hon.
 Thomas  Greaves  and Alary  (Perkins) Cary,  of Boston.   By
 his second wife he had two sons and one daughter, who, Avith
 their mother,  survived him.
    1829.—Josiah  Quincy Loring  died in AVeston, Alass.,
 6 April,  1862, aged 51 years, lacking four days.   He was  the
 youngest  son  of Elijah and  Abigail (Rand)  Loring, and  Avas
 born in Boston, 10 April, 1811.  He was a pupil of the some-
 what celebrated Lawson Lyon,  of Boston (H.C. 1805) ;  but
 subsequently entered the Boston  Latin School.  At this school
 he AAas fitted for college.   He  entered in 1825.  He left college
 at the end of his sophomore year; but rejoined his class at the
 beginning of his  senior year, and  graduated with them.  In
 November,  1829, he  entered the Law School at Cambridge.
 Here he remained  one year; AA'hen he relmquished the study of
 the law, and passed the winter of 1830-31 in Boston, pursuing
 some favorite mathematical studies with Rev. Tilly Brown Hay-
 Avard, of Boston  (H.C. 1820).   In the  summer  of 1831, he
 taught a school at  Jamaica Plain, Roxbury;  and in the autumn
 following went into his father's counting-room, having at length
 reached the occupation he had most desired.  He did not, how-
 ever, long pursue mercantile business.   He finally removed
 to AVeston, where he had purchased a farm } and was engaged in
 agriculture the remainder of his life.   He was possessed of excel-
 lent natural gifts, of a fine literary taste, and of many scholarly
 acquirements.   He was a man of the most unbending integrity,
 of a high sense of honor, and of most benevolent feelings, man-
 ifesting themselves in many a generous deed.  If he had faults,
 others were not made  the sufferers, except as  they sympathized
 Avith his suffering  and pain.   Intimately known to but few,
those few Avill never forget his many kind and generous qualities.
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   He married, 27 December, 1849, Aliss Christian AV. Renton,
daughter of Dr. Peter Renton, of Boston.  They had four chil-
dren ;  of whom three, with their mother, survived him.
   1831. —Alexander Ramsay Bradley died in Fryeburg,
Ale., 16 February, 1862,  aged 52  years.  He was  the third
son of Robert and Abigail  (Bailey)  Bradley, and Avas born in
Fryeburg,  5  November,  1809.  His father was  born in Con-
cord, N.H., 17 June, 1772; removed to Fryeburg in 1801,
Avhere he resided until his death.  His great-great-grandfather,
Samuel Bradley, was killed by the Indians, near Concord, N.H.,
11  August, 1746.  His  maternal grandfather was Col. Ward
Bailey, of  Lemington, Vt. ; and his maternal grandmother was
Alary  Sargeant,  sister of  Hon. Nathaniel Peaslee  Sargeant
(H.C.  1750), formerly chief-justice of the Supreme Court of
Massachusetts.  The  early studies of young Bradley were pur-
sued under the instruction of Rev. Benjamin  Glazier* Willey
(BoAvd. C 1822), of Conway, N.H.  ; in whose house he passed
several years, preparatory to entering Phillips Academy in Ex-
eter, N.H., where he  was fitted for college.  AVhile in college,
he was remarkable for his  social amenity,  and  for  his athletic
characteristics.  After graduating, he pursued his professional
studies in  the office  of his uncle,  Col. Samuel Ayer Bradley
 (D.C.  1799), who was,  at that time, in partnership with John
S.  Barrows,  Esq., of Fryeburg.  He there acquired a  good
knowledge  of law as a  science, although having a distaste
for the practice, as he had also  for the  details of business; the
characteristics of his mind being rather for general literary pur-
 suits.  In 1835, on  motion of Hon. Charles Stewart Daveis,
he was admitted to the bar; but, for some years, was engaged
in the  speculations in timber-lands, in Avhich, at that time, the
fortunes of so many were embarked.   More fortunate,  if not
 wiser, than numbers who make similar ventures,  he returned to
 the  practice of law with some small capital yet remaining; and
 thenceforth attended to his professional duties, without much in-
 terruption, until the time of his death.   His practice,  though
 somewhat extensive,  both in his own state and  in New Hamp-
 shire, was never a source of much profit to himself;- the chief 
1861-62.]
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427
reason  of which was his neglect of keeping proper accounts,
and collecting his  dues.   In his social and domestic relations,
he AA-as fortunately and happily situated.   He married, Novem-
ber, 1835,  Alary O. Barrows, daughter  of AVilliam BarroAvs,
Esq., of Yarmouth, Ale. ; by whom he had thirteen children,
— ten sons  and three daughters.   Two sons and two daughters
died at an  early age.   His wife died 27 December,  1861.
There are eight sons  and one daughter living.   The first and
second sons graduated in the same class at BoAvdoin College  in
1858 ; the elder of whom, Samuel Ayer Bradley, is now  pro-
fessor  of mathematics in Western Union College, Fulton, 111. :
the second,  Alexander Stuart Bradley,  who has  been  engaged
in surveying western government-lands for the last two or three
years, came home in the fall of J.861 to see his sick  parents ; and,
in consequence of their decease,  remained to take care  of the
younger members of the family, and pursued the study of law.
   The attachment of Mr. Bradley for his  wife was one  that
years,  and  the  care and trouble attendant upon providing for a
large family, never diminished, but strengthened ; and her death,
which occurred after a lingering illness of  consumption, entirely
prostrated him.  He seldom left his room after that event; and
there is no doubt  that the  final attack of the disorder which
proved fatal to him was  brought  on by excessive grief  at her
loss.  A week before his death, it was evident that the faculties
of his  mind were giving way; and  he did not regain  posses-
sion of them  during  life;  passing into total unconsciousness a
few hours before he expired.   xVll avIio were intimate with  him
bore testimony  to the unusual amount of  general  knowledge
which he possessed,  which rendered him exceedingly entertaining
and instructive in his social intercourse with them;  and to his
high character as an honorable  and upright man.
   1832.—Rev. Charles AIason died in  Boston,  23 Alarch,
1862, aged  49 years.  He AA'as  son  of Hon. Jeremiah  (Y.C.
1788) and Alary (Aleans) AIason, and was born in Portsmouth,
N.H.,  25  July, 1812.  His father, who was an eminent  jurist,
and one of the most brilliant members of the bar, was  born  in
Lebanon, Conn., 27 April,  1768 ;  and died in Boston, 14 Octo- 
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[1861-62.
ber,  1848.   The subject of this notice Avas fitted for college by
Rev. Andrew Preston Peabody (H.C. 1826).  He held a high
rank of scholarship in his class, and graduated with  honors.
After leaving  college,  he began the  study of theology at the
seminary at  Andover, and completed his  course of studies at
the NeAv-York Episcopal Seminary.   He Avas  ordained  as dea-
con,  in Boston, 31 July,  1836.   He Avas inducted rector of the
Episcopal church in Salem, Alass.,  31 Alay, 1837, AA'here he
continued a faithful and  beloved teacher of the  gospel  until
30 Alay,  1847, when he  resigned  his pastoral  charge,  and
removed to Boston.  He was inducted rector of Grace Church,
in Temple  Street, Boston, in September, 1847.   Being pos-
sessed of a competence, his generous nature was evinced by the
fact, that he gave his entire salary back to the church.   No cler-
gyman in the city probably labored more  earnestly  than he to
advance the cause of religion.    He was of an amiable  and
social disposition, a kind  husband and parent.  The honorary
degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him  by Harvard
College in 1858 ;  and he received the like honor from Trinity
College in Hartford, Conn., the same year.  He was elected a
member of the Alassachusetts Historical Society, 10 November,
1859.
   He married, 11 June, 1838, Susan Lawrence, daughter of
Amos Lawrence, of Boston, by whom he  had three  daughters
and one son.   His wife died 2 December, 1844.  He  married
for his second  wife, 9 August, 1849, Anna Huntington Lyman,
of Northampton, Mass. ;  by whom  he had two daughters  and
one son.   All his children and his second wife survived him.
   1833.—Thomas Butler Pope died at his  residence in
Appleton Place, Roxbury, near  Longwood, 15 January, 1862,
aged 48 years, lacking seven days.   He was son of Lemuel and
Sally Belknap (Russell) Pope, and was born in Boston,  22 Jan-
uary, 1814.   His  father was a very respectable citizen,  and, for
many years, president of  the Boston Insurance Company.  He
died in Roxbury in 1851.  His mother was sister  of the  late
Nathaniel Pope Russell, Esq., and second cousin of Rev.  Dr.
Jeremy Belknap.   He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin 
1861-62.]
OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
429
School, and entered at the beginning of the sophomore year.
His course in college Avas acceptable.  After graduating, he en-
tered the LaAv School of the University, and subsequently studied
in the office  of Hon. Charles  Greely Loring, of Boston (H.C.
1812).  In the summer of 1836, he was admitted to the Suffolk
bar, and began to practise.  In 1840, he formed a partnership
with Charles Henry Parker (H.C. 1835), AA'hich continued until
1853, and then terminated on that gentleman becoming treasurer
of the  Suffolk Savings Bank.
   Though beginning the practice of law under good auspices,
and, in some respects, manifesting proficiency, he was  tempted
to enter into speculations  quite foreign  to his profession.   In
this  he simply folloAved  the  example of many other laAvyers :
but,  Avith him, his ventures met with disasters ; and,  being con-
tinued,  resulted in bankruptcy of fortune, though his probity
was unscathed.  His affairs were so much embarrassed in 1858,
the year AA'hen his class celebrated their " silver  wedding," that
he was with difficulty induced to attend the meeting.   In 1859,
he went into  insolvency.   His pecuniary misfortunes preyed
upon him, and, it Avas thought, somewhat affected his mind for
several of the last years of his  life.   The disease of which he
finally died was softening of the brain, Avhich began to come on,
it was  thought, about two years before his death.  On the 1st
of April, 1861, whilst riding from Boston, he Avas seized AA'ith
an attack of paralysis, affecting.his lower limbs.  He Avas con-
veyed  to  his  home, and never left it  again.  After fingering
more than nine months,  he  died.
   He married, 3 June, 1846,  Gertrude,  daughter  of the late
John Binney, Esq., of Boston, who survived him.  He left also
three daughters, — Gertrude Binney, born 1847 ; Louisa Bin-
ney, born 1855 ;  and Alary Binney, born 1858.
   1837. —Dr. John Foster AVilliams Lane died in Boston,
25 August,  1861, aged  44 years.   He was  son of  Frederick
and Eliza (Bonner) Lane, and was born in  Boston, 14  June,
1817.   He  was fitted for college at the Boston  Latin School,
Avhere  a Franklin medal was awarded to him in 1831.  He left
the school at that time;  and, being only thirteen years of age, 
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his parents, thinking he Avas too young to enter college, sent
him  to  Europe ;  and  he spent tAvo years in Italy and France,
studying the modern languages.  He returned in 1833, and en-
tered the freshman class.  He attained a  high rank of scholar-
ship  in his class, and graduated AA'ith distinction.   After leaving
college, he studied medicine under the instruction of Dr. AVins-
Ioav Lewis (H.C. 1819).   On  receiving his degree of Al.D.,
he established himself  in Boston, Avhere he soon acquired  an
extensive practice.  His prospects Avere flattering for  attaining
an eminent rank in his profession ; but he Avas very suddenly cut
off in the prime of life.  He married,  3 June, 1849, Phebe A.
Stewart, of Boston,  who survives him.   He had no children.
   1837. —David Henry Thoreau died in Concord, Mass.,
6 Alay, 1862, aged 44 years.   He was son  of John and Cyn-
thia  (Dunbar)  Thoreau, and was  born  in Concord,  12 July,
1817.   His father, who was a  pencil-maker, son of John and
Jeannie  (Burns)  Thoreau, was born in Boston.   His  grand-
father came from  St. Helier, on the Island of Jersey, and was
of French origin.   A  Burns  left property in  Sterling, Scot-
land, to his wife,  the said Jeannie Burns, and said  it was worth
attending to ; but the papers to obtain it, though three attempts
were made, never reached Scotland.   This was about fifty years
ago.  His grandfather  had a  brother Philip in the Island of
Jersey.  He  was a cooper; but business was  dull; and  he
shipped as a sailor  on board  a vessel in which John  Adams
Avent to  France,  in the American revolution.  He came to this
country  about 1773.   After  the termination of  the war,  he
went into business at  No. 45, Long AVharf, Boston, in a very
small way, in company with a Mr. Phillips,  under  the firm of
Thoreau and Phillips.  He accumulated a large property, and
removed to Concord, where he  died of consumption about one
year afterAvards, in consequence of a cold caught in.patrolling
the  streets in Boston,  in  a heavy rain  in  the  night, when a
Catholic riot was expected, about  1801.  PRs  first wife died
not  long before he did; and he married a Miss Kettle, of Con-
cord, sometimes spelled Kettell, by whom he had  no children.
Air. Thoreau's mother was daughter  of Asa and Alary (Jones) 
1861-62.]            OF HARVARD COLLEGE.                431

Dunbar, and was born in Keene, N.H.  Her mother belonged
to the Jones family of AVeston.   Her father, Rev. Asa Dun-
bar (H.C.  1767),  was a minister in Salem,  and afterwards a
lawyer in Keene, an  eminent freemason;  died 22 June, 1787,
aged 42 years, and was buried with masonic honors.  Young
Thoreau was fitted for college  at Concord Academy by Phineas
Allen  (H.C.  1825).   While  in college,  he kept school  six
weeks in Canton,  and boarded with  Orestes  A.  Brownson.
They studied  the  German reader together very industriously,
and talked  philosophy  till  eleven  o'clock, nights.   Thoreau
became sick, and was obliged to leave his school.   This was in
his junior year.   After graduating, he taught the public school
a few weeks ;  then a private  school in Concord two or three
years.  Not long afterwards, he spent six  months  as a private
tutor in the family of AVilliam Emerson (H.C. 1818), on Sta-
ten Island, N.Y.  For two years at one time, and one  year at
another,  he Avas  a member  of  the family  of Ralph AValdo
Emerson (H.C. 1821) in Concord.  With the exception of the
six months at Staten Island,  he resided constantly in Concord,
leading chiefly an agricultural  and literary life ; supporting him-
self by his own hands, being a pencil-maker ;  often employed as
a painter, surveyor, and carpenter.   Nearly every year, he made
an excursion on foot to the woods and mountains in Maine, New
Hampshire, New York, and other places.   For  two years  and
two months continuously, he lived by himself in a small  house
or hut of his own building, about a mile and a half from Con-
cord village.  He was well known to the  public as the author
of two remarkable books, " A  Week on the Concord and Merri-
mack Rivers," published in 1849 ;  and " Walden, or Life in the
AVoods,"  published in 1854.   These books  have  never had a
wide circulation, but  are well known to the  best readers,  and
have exerted a powerful influence on an important class of ear-
nest and contemplative persons. He led the life of a philoso-
pher, subordinating all other pursuits and so-called duties to his
pursuit of knowledge, and  to  his own estimate of duty.   He
was a man of firm mind and direct dealing ; never disconcerted,
and not to be turned, by any inducement,  from his own course. 
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 He had a penetrating insight into men with AA'hom he conversed,
 and was  not  to  be  deceived or used by any party, and did not
 conceal his disgust at any  duplicity.   As he was  incapable of
 the least dishonesty or untruth, he  had nothing to hide;  and
 kept  his  haughty independence  to  the end.   He Avas never
 married.
    1841. — Charles Frederick Simmons was lost at sea,  in
 February or March,  1862, at the age of 41 years.   He was the
 youngest son of Hon. AVilliam (H.C. 1804) and Lucia (Ham-
 matt) Simmons,  and  was born in Boston, 27  January,  1821.
 His father Avas born in Hanover, Alass., 9  July, 1782 ;  was a
 lawyer in Boston, and for many years one of the judges  of the
 Police Court;  and died  17 June,  1843,  aged 61  years.  His
 mother was a  native of Plymouth.   He was  a school-boy  at
 the Latin School in  Boston, and nearly ready to enter college,
 when  ill  health  compelled  an absence for several months  of
 country  life :  his preparatory studies were finished under the
 direction  of his brother, the Rev. George Frederick Simmons
 (H.C 1832) ; and he entered Harvard  College in 1837.  After
 the usual  college course, he studied law in the office  of David A.
 Simmons ; and except as interrupted by ill health,  at one time,
 in his early professional life, — being from this cause absent for
 three years from  his  office, — he was in general practice as a
 lawyer in Boston, devoting himself during  the  last  three years
 chiefly to conveyancing, and to the law  of real estate.  At an
 early period of the war, he  received  a  commission  as  adjutant
 of the Fourteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, when he gave all
 his energy to the formation of that  regiment.   The exposures
 and hardships  of military life were  cheerfully borne by him ;
 but a long march with  his  regiment, in severely  cold  and
 stormy weather,  proved too much for  his physical strength :
 from  the  ill effects of this march he never recovered.  After a
 long furlough, during which he hoped, in vain, quickly to regain
his customary health,  he resigned his  commission, and, for the
benefit  of a sea  voyage, left Boston, in the English brig
" Gypsy," on the  25th of February,  1862,  for St. Jago, Cuba.
Violent gales swept along the Atlantic  coast during the early 
1861-62.]            OF HARVARD COLLEGE.               433

part of Alarch, and in these the  brig must have foundered :
after her departure from Boston,  no  tidings of the brig, her
passengers, her crew, ever came; no floating spar, no fragment,
was ever seen.
   Mr.  Simmons  was a  man of artistic tastes,  of reserved
manners, of  great penetration, and  much power  of  sarcasm.
The influence of his residence at Concord,  during the last year
of his life, led him to embrace the  soldier's life early  and ear-
nestly, and to  associate the welfare  of the  negro  race closely
with the objects of the war.
   1842. — George Edward Rice,  of Boston, died in Rox-
bury, Mass.,  10 August, 1861, aged 39 years.  He was son of
Henry and Alaria (Burroughs) Rice, and was  born in Boston,
10 July, 1822.  He was fitted for college partly at  the Latin
School in Boston, and partly at the school of Mr. E. L. Cush-
ing (H.C. 1827).   After leaving college, he  studied law with
Charles G.  Loring (H.C. 1812)  and William  Dehon  (H.C.
1833), of Boston, and practised his profession in his native city.
He was a gentleman of fine literary taste ; and contributed valua-
ble articles to the best periodicals in the country, including  the
"North-American Review."   He also possessed  much poetical
talent, with keen  wit.   He was  author  of several humorous
plays, which were performed at theatres, and received with great
applause.   He published several matters of a humorous charac-
ter, and  subsequently two  small volumes  of poems, under the
titles  of " Ephemera "  and  " Nugamenta."   He was  widely
known as a writer of genuine sarcastic wit.  He  was possessed
of a sensitive mind and nervous temperament, easily excited by
any unusual event of joy or sorrow.
   He married, 28 December, 1857, Tirzah  Maria Crockett,
daughter of George AV. Crockett, Esq., of Boston.  She died
10 January, 1859, at the age of 27 years, without issue.
   1845. — George Dwight Guild  died in Brookline (Long-
wood Village), 5 May, 1862, aged 37 years.  He was  son  of
Moses  and  Juliette (Ellis) Guild, and was born in Dedham,
Mass., 17 March,  1825.   He was fitted for college at Wren-
tham Academy. After graduating, he began the study  of law
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at the Law School at Cambridge; and completed his studies in
the office of Charles Alayo Ellis (H.C.  1839), of Boston.   On
his admission to the bar,  he established  himself in  the practice
of his profession  in Boston, AA'here he remained until his death.
He devoted himself to his profession with great, assiduity, and
soon acquired an extensive practice.   He was a safe counsellor;
and  his  legal acquirements, had his life been  spared, would
probably haA'e obtained for him judicial honors.   Single-hearted
integrity was the basis of his Avhole intellectual life.  His  gen-
tleness and uncompromising uprightness  commanded the esteem
and insured the confidence and respect of all with whom he came
in contact.
   He married, 13 September, 1860, Alary M. Thomas, daugh-
ter of AVilliam Thomas, Esq., president of the Webster Bank
in Boston.  His wife and an infant child survive him.
   1849.—Henry Middleton Rutledge Fogg, of Nash-
ville, Tenn., was killed in the battle of Somerset, Ky., 19 Janu-
ary,  1862, aged 31 years.  He was the second son of Francis
Brinley and Mary (Rutledge) Fogg, and was born in Nashville,
16 September, 1830.  His father was a son of Rev. Daniel Fogg
(H.C.  1764), an Episcopal clergyman of Brooklyn, Conn.;
was  born in Kensington,  Conn.,  18 August, 1743;  married
Deborah Brinley, daughter of Francis Brinley, of Newport, R.I.,
and Alef, his wife, a daughter of Hon. Godfrey Alalbone, of that
city ; and died in  Brooklyn in 1815, aged 72 years.   His mother
was  daughter  of  Hon. Edward Rutledge, of Charleston,  S.C.
He was a fine scholar, and graduated with high honor.  After
leaving college, he visited Europe ;  and, on his return,  studied
law with his father, one of the ablest lawyers and  ripest schol-
ars in the valley of the Alississippi.   It  may be added that the
latter studied  law with his relative, the Hon. AVilliam Hunter,
of Newport, R.I., who received his legal education in London.
On being admitted to the bar,  Francis  Brinley Fogg  removed
to Nashville, Tenn., and became the partner of the late Fehx
Grundy; and in their office the late President Polk acquired his
legal education.  Young Fogg became a promising lawyer; was
talented and spirited.   A little South-Carolina blood,  probably, 
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led him into the rebel army.   He left his business to become an
aide  to  Gen. Felix K.  Zollicoffer;  and they were  both  killed
in the battle at Somerset.   Fogg's brother,  Francis  Brinley
Fogg, jun.,  AA'as educated at the university in Nashville, Tenn. ;
but studied his profession at the Law School in Cambridge, grad-
uating in 1846.  He returned to Nashville, where he began  to
practise with marked success.   He died, after a brief illness  in
that  city, in February, 1848.  Fogg's parents are now left
childless, haA-ing lost their only daughter a few years ago.
   1849. — Dr. John Smith Nichols died in Nevada, Cal.,
January, 1862, aged  35 years.  He was the  ninth child and
third son of Ezra and AVaity Gray (Smith) Nichols, and was
born in Middleton, Mass., 20 June,  1826.   His father was born
in October, 1789 ;  was married in Seabrook, N.H. ;  and died in
September,  1848.   The son was fitted for college at Andover.
After leaving college, he studied medicine with Dr.  Ezra Addi-
son Searle Nichols, of Cambridge.   He received his degree  of
M.D. in 1851, and established himself in the practice of his
profession in Cambridge.   He afterwards  removed to AVoon-
socket,  R.I. ; and finally went to California.
   1849. —Col. Everett Peabody died in Pittsburg, Tenn.,
6 April, 1862, aged 31 years.  He was killed in  battle.  He
was  the second son of Rev. AVilliam Bourne Oliver (H.C.
1816) and Eliza Amelia (White)  Peabody, and was  born in
Springfield, Alass.,  13  June,  1830.   His  father  was  son  of
Hon. Oliver Peabody  (H.C. 1773),  of Exeter, N.H.,  where
he was  born,  9  July,  1799; was  ordained at   Springfield,
October, 1820 ; and died 29 May,  1847.   His mother was the
second daughter and eighth child of Major Moses and Elizabeth
Amelia (Atlee) AVhite, of Rutland, Mass. ; and was born 24
May, 1799.  The subject of this notice was fitted for college
by his father, and entered the University of Vermont,  at Bur-
lington, as freshman, in 1845, where  he remained one  year;
then left, and entered as sophomore at Harvard College in 1846.
On leaving college, he concluded to adopt engineering as a pro-
fession ;  and he was  employed on  the Cochituate water-works
one or two  months, under Mr. Chesborough.   He then went 
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on to the Ckweland, Columbus, and  Cincinnati Railroad, as a
leveller.   He rose rapidly in his profession.  AVent on to the
Pacific Railroad, in Missouri, in  1851 ; went on to the Aiays-
ville and Lexington Railroad, Ky.,  in 1852;  became  chief of
the Memphis and Ohio  Railroad in  1853 ;  became resident-
engineer on the  Hannibal and  St.  Joseph Railroad in 1855 ;
chief-engineer of the Platte-County  Railroad in 1859.  AVhen
the war broke out, he raised a battalion, received a commission
as major, and was busily employed in repairing and defending
the railway-communications  of  Northern Alissouri.  He  com-
manded twelve  hundred men at the siege  of Lexington.   He
was slightly wounded in the chest, and severely  in the foot,
which lamed him for life.  He was confined to his bed  for two
months, and went on crutches for two more.  He re-organized
his regiment (the Twenty-fifth Alissouri) in spite of great opposi-
tion, and was ordered to join Gen. Grant's army.   Upon  his
joining the force under Gen. Grant, the command of a brigade '
under Gen. Prentiss was assigned to  him, on the exposed  left
wing  of the army nearest the enemy;  and here, in the  unequal
conflict which that wing maintained,  he was killed.  He Avas
six feet  and  one  inch  in stature,  very  broad  and  powerful;
hardy and rugged, hardly knowing Avhat sickness was ; gay, and
careless of the future ;  very chivalrous, and of dauntless courage.
    1850.—Dr.  Edward Brooks  Everett died in  Boston,
5  November,  1861,  aged  31 years.    He was  son of  Hon.
Edward  (H.C. 1811)  and  Charlotte Gray (Brooks) Everett,
and was born in  the house of his. grandfather,  Hon. Peter
Chardon Brooks, at Medford, Mass.,  6 May, 1830.  He  went
with  his  parents to Europe in  1840  (his  father  having been
appointed minister to the Court of St. James), and was at school
successively at Paris, Florence, Paris again, and London,  while
his father resided in Europe, from 1840 to 1845 : at London, he
was at King's-College School, under Dr.  Major.   He returned
home Avith his parents in 1845 ;  and was  for a short time at  the
Boston public Latin School, and then  at  the private school of
Daniel Greenleaf  Ingraham, of Boston (H.C. 1809), by whom
he was offered for admission  to  college.   After  graduating, he 
1861-62.]
OF HARVARD COLLEGE.
437
studied medicine at the Tremont Medical School in Boston, and
received the degree of M.D. in 1853.   He had given much
attention to veterinary science, under the impression that it ought
to be held in much higher consideration than it is.  His health,
however, soon began to fail; and he never engaged in the prac-
tice of his professsion.
   He married, 24 October, 1855, Helen C, daughter of Benja-
min Adams, of Boston.  He left a  son  of six and a  daughter
of four years  of age, whose mother also survives him.
    1851.__Arthur Herbert Poor died  in New-York city,
 11 January, 1862, aged 31 years.   He  was son of Benjamin
 and Aroline Emily (Peabody) Poor, of Boston; and was born
 in Stow, Mass. (where his parents resided for a short time),
 6 December,  1830.   He was fitted for  college at the Boston
 Latin School.  In his class he held  a high rank of scholarship,
 and graduated with honors.   On leaving college, he entered the
 counting-room of Messrs. Read, Chadwick, and Dexter, commis-
 sion-merchants, of Boston ; and in January, 1855, was admitted
 as a partner of the firm.  He exhibited great enterprise, energy,.
 and skill in business ; and soon afterwards went to New York
' to take charge of the branch-house of the firm in that city.   In
 the early part of the year 1861, he had  occasion to  visit some
 of the western states,  on business of the house; and while on
 his journey he took a severe cold, which terminated in an affec-
 tion of his  lungs,  of  which he died after a long illness.  He
 was greatly esteemed by his relatives, as well as by  the house
 with which he was connected in business.
     He married, 10  January, 1855, Harriet  Leonard, daughter
  of  AVilliam  A. F.  Sproat,  of Taunton, Mass., by  whom he
  had two children, —one son and  one daughter,—who,  with
  their mother, survive  him.
     1851. —  George Doane Porter died in  Medford,  Mass.,
  25 November, 1861,  aged 30 years.  He was son of Jonathan
  (H.C. 1814) and Catharine (Gray) Porter, and was born in
  Medford, 21 June, 1831.  His father was born in Medford,
  13 November, 1791; was  a lawyer in that town;  and died
  11 June, 1859.  His mother survived him.   He was fitted for 
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college chiefly by his father, and entered  one year in advance.
After graduating, he studied law under the instruction  of AVil-
liam Brigham, of Boston (H.C. 1829).   On his admission to
the bar, he opened an office in Boston, and another in Aledford;
but soon  afterwards confined his business solely to Medford.
He AA-as much respected in his native  town for his good sense,
honesty, and faithfulness.   He was for several years a diligent
and useful member of the school-committee.
   He married, 8 August, 1860, Lucretia A. Holland, and  had
one son ;  who, with his mother, survived him.
   1854. — Henry Blatchford  Hubbard,  of Boston,  died
in Chicago, 111., 13 February, 1862, aged 29 years.  He was the
third  son of Hon. Samuel (Y.C 1802) and Mary Ann (Coit)
Hubbard,  and was born in Boston, 8 January, 1833.   His father
was born  in  Boston,  2 June, 1785 ;  was appointed associate-
judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in 1842 ; and died
24 December, 1847, aged 62 years.  The subject of this notice
entered the Boston Latin  School  at the age  of twelve,  and
there  pursued his preparatory studies.  While in  college, he
resided with  his brother,  Gardiner  Greene  Hubbard (D.C.
1841), in Cambridge.   At the end  of his  junior  year,  on
account of ill health and an affection of his eyes, he left college,
and sailed for Europe, 18 June, 1853.   He returned  19 Septem-
ber,  1854, too late to graduate with his class.   He received his
degree, out  of course, in  1857.  He  began the study of  law
with his brother, Gardiner Greene Hubbard ; but in  September,
1855, he entered  the Law School in Cambridge.  He left the
LaAv  School  in 1856 ; and was clerk,  engineer,  and treasurer
of the  Cambridge  water-works until  the fall  of 1859.   His
health failing, he sailed for California,  25 December  following,
in the ship " Andrew Jackson."  AVhile in California, he  was
attached to the  United-States  Coast  Survey as  magnetic  and
astronomic assistant.   He returned in the spring of  1861, with-
out any improvement  of his  health.  In September following,
he went to  visit his  brother, AVilliam Henry Hubbard (B.U.
1845), in Chicago, where he died.   His remains  were brought
home, and interred at Mount Auburn 17 February,  1862.
   He was never married. 
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   1855.—Langdon Ervlng died in Baltimore, Md., 20 Alay,
1862, aged 27 years.   He Avas son of John and  Emily Sophia
(Elwin) Erving, and Avas born at Fort Henry, Aid., 20 Novem-
ber, 1834.   His father is a colonel in  the United-States army,
son of John,  a retired gentleman, and was  born in Boston.
His mother was  daughter  of  Thomas Elwin, of England, a
laAvyer, who never practised his profession.   His (Thomas El-
win's) wife Avas the only child of Gov.  John Langdon, of Ports-
mouth, N.H.   The subject of this notice, for the  first ten  years
of his  life, did not live a  year in any one place.   He was  at
North Carolina, Alichigan, Georgia, South Carolina, and Phila-
delphia : at nine or ten years of age, he was at Fort Hamilton,
in New-York harbor.  He was christened, when very young, by
Rev. Charles Burroughs, D.D., of Portsmouth, N.H.   In Sep-
tember, 1845, he began to  attend school at Perignot's,  in  New
 York, where he staid, with the exception of going to Cincinnati
and Kentucky, until he entered college.   He attained a dis-
tinguished standing of scholarship in college, ranking as  the fifth
in a class  numbering  81.   After graduating, he entered the
Law School at Cambridge; and, having obtained his degree of
 LL.B. in  1857, he  established  himself in the practice of his
 profession  in  Baltimore.
    He  married,  18  December, 1860, Sophie C. Pennington,
 of Baltimore;  and left  one daughter, born  27  September,
 1861.
    1855. — George  Foster Hodges,  of  Roxbury,  Alass.,
 died at HaU's HiU, near AVashington, D.C, 30 January, 1862,
 aged 25 years.   He contracted a violent cold while on a visit to
 AVashington,  which the damp exposure of camp life intensified,
 till it became  a fever,  of which he died after an illness of ten
 days.   He was son  of Almon Danforth  and Martha (Corn-
 stock) Hodges, and was born in Providence, R.I., 12 January,
 1837.  His  father was  born in Norton, Alass., 25  January,
 1801.  He came to Boston in his youth, and served his appren-
 ticeship in the store of Alessrs. John D. AVilliams and Co. ; and
 afterwards began business  in  Providence, R.L, under  the firm
 of Stimpson and Hodges, as wholesale grocers,  where he con- 
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tinued more than twenty years.  In 1845, he removed  to Bos-
ton,  and formed  a  copartnership with  Air. John L. Emmons
(Avho was a fellow-apprentice with him  in  the store  of  Alessrs.
AVilliams), under the style of Hodges and Emmons.   In No-
vember,  1850, he  was  chosen  president  of the AVashin£ton
Bank; which office he now holds, having retired from commer-
cial business.  Youno- Hodges's mother was a native of Provi-
dence.  She died in Roxbury, 29 August, 1849.  The  subject
of this notice was  fitted for  college  by  Rev. Moses Burbank
(AVaterv. C. 1836), at his private school in Newton,  Alass., and
entered  the sophomore class  in  1852.  He was one  of  the
youngest in his  class, but attained  a highly respectable rank,
and graduated with honors.   After leaving college,  he  studied
law, first in the  office of Peleg Whitman  Chandler, of Boston
(Bowd. C. 1834),  and completed his  studies at the Law School
in Cambridge, where he received his degree of LL.D. in 1860.
Immediately after he graduated, he went to the Warren-street
Chapel in Boston, and asked whether he could not be of some
service in carrying out the objects of that most useful  institution,
and pressed his desire to be employed in whatever way he could
be useful.   He was immediately engaged in the evening school,
teaching the simplest rules of  arithmetic and writing to  adults,
who in their youth  had not enjoyed the privileges of instruction.
After he had begun the  practice  of  his profession, in the first
case in which he was employed he was successful.   With  the
reward he had earned, and of  which he  had so much right to be
proud, he went to the treasurer of the chapel.   " This,"  said he,
" is one-half of my first fee.   Take it, that it may do good to
others."   When the call came for the Massachusetts militia to
rally for the support of their flag, in April, 1861, he sought his
friend and classmate,  Col. Lawrence,  of the Fifth Massachusetts
Regiment, and told him that his heart was in the struggle, and
that he had determined  to enlist with his regiment; but, there
being no vacancy for him as an officer, he  enlisted as a  private
in the Charlestown City-Guards, but was soon promoted.by his
classmate to the office of  paymaster.   At the battle of Bull Run
he manifested great bravery, standing at the colonel's side, even 
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OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
441
when urged  to  lie down* when  shot  and  shell were  coming
against them like an avalanche.  Col. Lawrence publicly stated,
soon after his return, that he owed his life to the chivalrous exer-
tions of his friend.  Returning to  Massachusetts with his regi-
ment, his military taste was again  gratified by his appointment
as adjutant of the Eighteenth.  The universal testimony of his
intimate  friends is, that he was of a frank and generous nature,
amiable and warm-hearted, and enjoyed the esteem and respect
of all his classmates and  friends.   The noble object to which he
devoted,  and in the end gave  up,  his life, is a guaranty to  the
Avorld  that their confidence  Avas  not  misplaced.   An officer
 of his regiment, at his funeral, said of him, "He  had a good
 word for everybody.  He Avas kind and obliging  to  all.   He
 gained the respect and regard  of both officers and men."
   He was never married.
   1855. —  Rev.  AVilliam  AVard AIeriam  was  murdered
3 July, 1862, on his way from Constantinople to Philippopolis.
He was  born in Princeton, Mass., 15  September, 1830; and
was  therefore 31  years  old at the time of his death.  After
the death  of his  father, in  1834, his mother removed with
her four  children to Cambridgeport, where she resided until her
death in 1850.   The subject of this notice was fitted for college
at the high school in Cambridgeport.   In  1850, he  became
deeply impressed Avith  the importance  of a  religious  life ; and
the next year  he united with the Orthodox Congregational
church in Cambridgeport.  Immediately after leaving college,
he  entered  the  Andover Theological  Seminary,  where  he
graduated in  1858.   Havins; resolved to devote  his  life to
missionary services, he  married,  1 September,  1858,  Susan
Dimond, of  Cambridgeport;  and was ordained at the  same
place,  29 November of that  year.  He sailed from  Boston
for his mission, with  his  wife and several other missionary
laborers, 17  January, 1859 ;  arrived  at Smyrna  22  Febru-
ary,  and at Adrianople  22  April.   After  spending  some
months at the latter place, studying the Turkish language, he
went  in  October,  AA'ith Mr. Clark, another missionary,  to the
new station Philippopolis  (AYestern Turkey), which was subse-
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quently the field of his labors.  He had  greatly endeared him-
self to the people in the vicinity of his residence ;   had just
acquired a knowledge of the Turkish language,  and Avas pre-
pared to prosecute his Avork successfully.   In Alay, 1862, he
made a tour through sixty or seventy villages  in  the  neighbor-
hood of his residence.  At the time of his death, he Avas on his
way home from Constantinople, Avhere he  had been to attend the
annual meeting  of the missionaries  of Western  Turkey.  His
Avife and child and one or tAvo missionaries Avere Avith him ; Avhen
the party were met by a company of five mounted brigands, by
AArhom Air.  Aleriam and  one of his companions Avere killed.
Airs.  Aleriam  carried, the body of her husband forty-eight long
and AA'eary hours, in order that she might bury it in  the home
of his mission-life; but  the  shock to her  own system was too
great for her to bear, and she died of typhoid-fever on the 25th
of July, — twenty-three  days after  the  death of her husband.
She  Avas  a  graduate  of  the  Cambridge  High School, and for
many years a most successful teacher in the public schools of the
place.  Three of  the five brigands were afterwards  arrested,
were  tried,  convicted, and were all executed on the  8th  of
January,  1862.
   The child of Air. Meriam arrived at Boston, 12 Alay, in the
bark  " Smyrniote " from Smyrna, in good health;  and  found
a new home in the family of  Air. J.  N.  Meriam, in  Cam-
bridge.
   1858.—George Bradford Chadwick,  of Boston, died
in Northampton, Mass., 12 August, 1861.   He  was the third
of four children,  and only son  of Dr.  George  (D.C. 1825)
and  Susan  Brewster  (Gilbert)  Chadwick, and was born  in
Ipswich, Mass.,  3 January, 1836.  His father graduated at
Dartmouth College with the second honors of his-class.   After
leaving college, he pursued the study of medicine;  and, having
received the degree of M.D. in 1828, he began the  practice of
his profession  in Ipswich, where his four children Avere born.
Shortly after the birth of his fourth child, he relinquished the
practice of medicine, removed to Chelsea, and began business
as a merchant, in Milk Street, Boston, Avith his brother-in-laAv, 
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Samuel S. Gilbert, under the firm of Gilbert  and Chadwick.
His mother was daughter of Hon. Benjamin Joseph Gilbert, of
Hanover, N. H. (Y. C. 1786), a lawyer by profession ; and mar-
ried Sally Shepard, of Boston.   His great-grandfather, Joseph
Gilbert, was a native of Brookfield, Mass.   The father  of  the
subject of this notice took a  severe cold in the autumn of  1843,
AArhich resulted in a rapid consumption ; and he died, 11 Novem-
ber of that year,  at the house of his  father-in-law, who had
removed from Hanover to Boston.
   Young Chadwick first entered the Adams School, in  AIason
Street, Boston.  He was afterwards transferred  to the Brimmer
School, where a Franklin medal was  awarded to him in  1850.
He that year  entered the Boston Latin School, where he re-
mained a little more than a year ;  and then  entered  the private
Latin school of Epes Sargent Dixwell (H.C. 1857), in Boyls-
ton Place, where he completed his studies for entering college,
leaving the  school in January,  1854.   While in  college, he
held a  respectable rank of scholarship.   He  had a strong par-
tiality for architecture ; and, at commencement, an essay was
assigned to him :  the  subject was, "Architecture in the United
States."  After leaving college, he studied architecture for some
time under the instruction of Mr. George  Snell, of Boston ;
and intended to  make that  business his profession.
   1858. —James Jackson Lowell was born in Cambridge,
Oct. 15, 1837..   He  was the second son and  fourth child of
Charles Russell  and Anna Cabot  (Jackson) LoAA'ell, and  the
grandson of Rev. Charles Lowell, D.D. (H.C. 1800),  and of
Patrick T. Jackson.   He was  fitted  for college at  the private
school  of Rev. Thomas  Russell Sullivan,  and at  the Boston
Latin School, where he took the first  rank.   Early in the fresh-
man year, he was acknowledged to be the first scholar  in his
class ;  a place which he held without dispute through his  college
course.   After graduation,  he taught private  pupils in  Cam-
bridge  for a year;  and then  entered the Law School, while still
continuing his private instruction and residing with  his parents
in Cambridge.  At the breaking-out  of the rebellion, he became
an interested member of a drill-club Avhich was  formed in Cam- 
444               NECROLOGY  OF ALUMNI            [1861-62.

bridge, and has since  furnished many excellent officers  to the
army.   In July, 1861, he joined the Twentieth  Alassachusetts
Regiment as first lieutenant in Capt. Schmitt's company.
    On  21  October,  1861, he  was wounded  in  the thigh at
Ball's  Bluff;  passing  several Aveeks at home  in  consequence.
He rejoined his regiment as soon as he was fit, and, in the ab-
sence of the captain, took the command of his  company, Avhich
he retained through the  Peninsula* campaign, until, during the
"seven days," he was wounded mortally in the  battle  of Glen-
dale, June 30.  He was left in the hands of the enemy, it being
the opinion of the surgeons that  he could not live  more than a
few hours.  He lingered, however, until the fourth of July, —
a day most fitting to be associated thus Avith the memory of this
patriot  soldier.   His whole bearing,  after receiving  the fatal
wound, was marked by a characteristic composure and undemon-
strative fortitude.  He bade his men go forAvard without  mind-
ing him.  To a fellow-officer he  said that his wound was similar
to that of his cousin, William Lowell Putnam, at Ball's  Bluff,
whom  he  spoke of meeting shortly.   The only message which
he sent home was to the  effect that he Avas doing his duty when
he fell; and,  after he  was left in the enemy's hands, so clearly
and so dispassionately did  he talk of the nature  of  the war,
and of the reasons which had led him  to devote his life to it,
that our surgeons, Avho had remained to care for the wounded,
told the rebel officers to talk with him if they wished to see how
a true  and brave Northern soldier thought and felt.
    Some weeks elapsed before certain news concerning his death
reached his family; but at length the return of one of his fellow-
prisoners  put  it beyond doubt.   Few have fallen so  widely
lamented, or have  been felt to be a  greater loss to the com-
munity, as was manifested by the  heartfelt tributes which were
paid to his memory in very numerous letters to his parents, in a
printed sermon by Rev. C A. Bartol, D.D. (Bowd. C 1832),
and in  many other ways.  Nor can the loss of one whose character
was so  living ever cease to be freshly felt.  His springing step, his
cheery  voice, his eye shining with a deep interior light, are inti-
mately associated, to all who knew him, with the Cambridge streets 
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and walks.  The outward bearing marked the quality of the man.
There Avas a charm in his whole  air and  manner that attracted
even the chance beholder;  the more because he Avas  himself so
unconscious of it.   A  lover of  nature  and natural  things,  he
Avas  thoroughly and entirely natural.   Simple, pure, and Avige,
abstemious in personal tastes and habits, reticent of his judg-
ment of others, he Avas severe in  his judgment of  himself, so
that he  might almost have been called ascetic, but for the fresh
and hearty enjoyment Avhich he took in all social pleasures.
   He had a singular truthfulness,  which sometimes put  on  the
appearance of bluntness ; nor did he conceal the quick displeas-
ure Avhich moved him at any deception or ungenerosity :  but he
was  equally ready to  more than repair  any fault  of impulse.
His  unobtrusive kindness was  continually occupied in quiet
benefits.  Deliberate in decision, he was  speedy in thought: his
mind Avorked carefully and surely,  as well as quickly, in its pro-
cesses ;  although he Aveighed the practical results of  his  conclu-
sions Avith the utmost care, and was slow to take an  irrevocable
step.
   A high and delicate honor, loyalty to  the principles of truth
and  freedom, a fine sense of justice, AA'hich Avas instinctive, took
in him the place of a natural aptitude for war,  a\ hich he had not
especially.  At his second college  exhibition, he had spoken  on
"Loyalty."  In a military note-book for  his private use,  he had
written the motto, from one  old French army list, "The true
characteristic of a perfect warrior should  be fear of God,  love of
country, respect for the laws, preference  of honor to pleasures,
and  to life itself."  It was the unconscious statement  of the prin-
ciples Avhich led him into the service  of his country.  He went
calmly and seriously, because he felt it  to  be his  duty to  go.
He comprehended the nature and importance of the contest; and,
realizing fully the personal danger also, was willing  to give his
life to the cause.   In a letter to  some classmates who had pre-
sented him with a sword, written in the spring of 1862,  he said,
almost prophetically, " AVhen the class meets in years to come,
... let the score who went to fight for their country be remem-
bered with  honor  and praise;  and  let  not  those  who never 
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returned be forgotten, — those Avho died for the cause,  not of
the constitution and  the laAvs (a superficial cause :  the rebels
have the same), but of civilization and laAv, and the self-restrained
freedom AA'hich is their result."
  , Such a noble spirit can never be  forgotten.   Honorable  by
blood and name and nature, devotedly belo\red, rarely gifted in
all intellectual and moral qualities,  pre-eminent  among his fel-
lows, who rejoiced in that undisputed pre-eminence, their pride
and affection  follow him with  fresh sorrow, and yet AA'ith joy
that a heroic death was permitted to round and complete a life
short in years, but long in  the  acquisition  of those gifts and
graces AA'hich are among  the  possessions of the  soul, and can
never die.
    1858.—Nathaniel Russell,  of Plymouth,  Mass.,  died at
DrummondtoAvn, Accomac county, Va., 25 Alarch, 1862, aged
24 years.   He was son of Nathaniel (H.C 1820) and  Catha-
rine Elizabeth (Elliott) Russell, and was  born  in Plymouth,
13 June,  1837.  Pie Avas fitted  for college  at the  high-school
in Plymouth,  under John AVilliam Hunt (Mid. C. 1847), and
afterAvards under Franklin Crosby. He had a particular partiality
for  vessels; for any kind of navigable craft.  He intended  to
be a merchant, and become interested in navigation.   Soon after
leaving  college, he became attached to the  United-States Coast
Survey, under Capt. Plarrison, of Plymouth, stationed in Eastern
Virginia.   His death was sudden:  on the 18th of March,  he
was attacked  with  lung-fever, and  died  one week  afterwards.
He was a  young man of frank,  cordial manners, and was en-
deared  to all  his acquaintances.  Retiring  and  quiet,  almost
self-distrustful, as he was, his unaffected simplicity and open-
heartedness could not fail to  win him friends.   Kind, affec-
tionate,  devotedly fond of his relatives  and friends, an upright
man and sincere Christian, he has gone early to receive the re-
wards of a life well spent.
   1858. —Frank Howard Shorey died in Dedham,  Alass.,
24 January, 1862,  aged 24  years.   He was son of John and
Cornelia (Guild)  Shorey, and Avas born  in  Boston, 2 Novem-
ber, 1837.   His father  A\ras a merchant  in Boston : he died 
         1861-62.]            OF HARVARD COLLEGE.                447

         about ten years since.  His  mother Avas a native of Dedham :
         but, on her marriage,  she removed to Boston, where she resided
         five or six years;  after Avhich she returned to Dedham,  and has
         since resided there.   He was fitted for college  at the  Dedham
         High School.   He  entered  Dartmouth  College, Avhere he re-
[         mained two years;  then left, and entered the junior  class in
         Harvard.   He attained a high rank of scholarship in his class,
         and graduated Avith  distinction.   He Avas a very good belles-
         lettres  scholar,  and  possessed great  love  for  the natural sci-
         ences.   Botany was to him  a favorite pursuit.  After leaving
         college,  he  studied  laAv, under the instruction  of Thomas La-
         fayette  AYakefield, of Boston (D.C. 1843) ; and Avas  admitted
         to the Suffolk bar in December, 1849.   He immediately began
         the practice of his profession in Boston,  with cheering prospects
         of  success.   Soon afterwards he became a member of the Epis-
         copal church in Dedham,  of which the  Rev. Samuel Brazer
         Babcock  (H.C.  1830),  is  rector.    About  a year before his
         death, the fatal  signs of consumption  appeared.  He Avas patient
         in  suffering,  Avaiting  calmly the  result.   His Avhole  life  was
         beautifully  consistent, pure; and his  death  Avas  serene  and
         cheerful.  He was neA'er known to swerve  from moral rectitude ;
         and yet, with delicate sensitiveness, he discarded self-merit, and
         died Avith the Saviour's name upon his lips, as his only  but  per-
         fect hope.  He Avas never married.
             1*59. — Alajor Henry Jackson Hoav Avas killed  in one  of
i         the battles fought during a retreat of the army from Fair Oaks
[         to  Alalverton, on  James river, 30 June, 1862.  He was son  of
         Phineas and Tryphena (Wheeler) How;  was born in Haver-
         hill, Alass., 22  October,  1835 ; and  Avas therefore 26 years old
         at  the time of his death.   He was fitted for college at  Phillips
         Academy, Andover, Alass.,  and entered in 1854, but left in the
         first term, in his freshman year.   He re-entered in  the class  of
         the next year.   After leaving college, he was engaged most
         of  the time in the manufacture of hats, until the breaking-out  of
         the rebellion, Avhen  he resolved to devote  himself to the cause
         of  his  country.  He entered into  the service AA'ith his Avhole
         soul, and proceeded at once to raise a  company, Avhich  Avas 
448                NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI           [1861-62.

attached to the 19th regiment.  He Avas a fine soldier ;  six  feet
in height;  of splendid personal appearance, great physical
power, and indomitable courage.  He received a commission as
major.  The regiment left for AVashington on the 28th of Au-
gust last, and was stationed on the Upper Potomac.  Alajor Hoav
was engaged in much  active  service, and  exhibited the  utmost
intrepidity on the battle-field, until, at last, his life  Avas sacri-
ficed in the cause to which he has  so nobly devoted himself.
   1860.—Julius  Sedgwick Hood, of Lynn, Alass., died
in Louisville, Ky., 21  December, 1861,  aged 21 years.  He
was  son of George and Hermione  (Breed) Hood, and was
born  in Lynn,  7  October,  1840.    His father  Avas  son  of
Abner  and  Alary (Richardson)  Hood;  was born  in  Lynn,
10  November,  1806.   AVhile  young, he  removed Avith  his
parents to Nahant, where he passed his youth, with the  excep-
tion of a few years AA'hich he spent at school  in Hanover, N.H.
Ha\ing, by his  own unaided exertions,  accumulated a small
capital, he went, in  1827, to St. Louis, Alo., where, in com-
pany  with John C.  Abbott, he established a. boot-and-shoe
business, in which he was interested until 1841.  Returning to
Lynn in 1835, he established himself in Boston as a commission
boot, shoe,  and leather merchant; in which business he con-
tinued  until his  death.   He for some time took an active part
in public life, being for several years a member of the Alassa-
chusetts legislature.  He was also, in  1850,  the first mayor of
Lynn, and was re-elected in 1851 ; and a member of the Alassa-
chusetts constitutional convention  in 1853.  He died 27 June,
1859.   His mother was born in Lynn, 18 March, 1812.  She
was daughter of Aaron Breed, born  in 1761, a soldier  in the
revolutionary war, and an adjutant in the war of 1812.  He
was  also  a  member of the  state  legislature for several  years.
He  died in  1817.   The subject  of this notice was fitted for
college at  the Lynn High School, under Mr. Jacob Batchelder
and Air. Gordon Bartlett,  In college, his attainments in schol-
arship  were distinguished, and  he graduated with the  second
honors of his class.   On account of  his feeble health,  he  did
not enter  upon the  study of any profession  or upon any busi- 
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ness.   A few weeks before his death, he left his home in Lynn
for Lexington, where  he had a brother residing; hoping, in a
more congenial climate, to regain his lost strength, or, at least,
to lengthen a life so dear to those who looked to him for counsel
and assistance.  "His death," writes one Avho knew him well,
"was calm and beautiful: he felt more than willing to go  and
do the work and achieve the usefulness there which he had hoped
to do here."  He was a true and warm-hearted friend; a man
strong in principle, and earnest in a Christian life.
   1860. —William  AIatticks Rogers  died  of typhoid fe-
ver,  in the army, near  Richmond, June,  1862.   He was  the
only son of Rev.  AVilliam AIatticks (H.C.  1827)  and Adelia
(Strong) Rogers, and was born  in Boston,  26 October, 1838.
He Avas fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Alass.
He held a  respectable rank of scholarship, and was greatly be-
loved by his  classmates.   He was one of  the class-committee.
Immediately after  graduating, he went to Europe, and began the
study of law and of the German language  in Heidelberg, where
he remained one year; and, when the rebellion broke out, he at
once determined to devote  himself to the cause of his  country.
He immediately returned, and enlisted as a private in Company
A,  of  the Eighteenth Alassachusetts Regiment.  He was soon
afterAvards  made a sergeant,  and, subsequently, sergeant-major.
Had his life been spared, he would probably soon have received
a commission.  But  it  was otherwise ordered:  his  life  was
sacrificed while contending for the preservation of the Union.
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    1791.—Dr. John AValton died in Pepperell, Alass., 21
December, 1862, aged 92 years.  He Avas the son of John and
Keziah (Viles) AValton, and was born  in Cambridge, Mass.,
29  October,  1770.  He was  fitted  for  college in his native
place.   He held a respectable rank in his class, and graduated
with honors.   He studied medicine under the instruction of Dr.
Oliver Prescott, of Groton, Alass. (H.C. 1783), and settled in
Pepperell; AA'here he practised his profession for more than sixty
years,  and was much respected  by the people of the  town of
which he was so long a resident.  On the 4th of September,
1832,  he was chosen a deacon of the Unitarian church  in Pep-
perell.  He never held a political office.
   He married, in  Newton, Mary Bullard, by whom  he had
seven sons and one daughter;  of whom the daughter and three
sons surviA'ed  him.   His wife died in the spring of 1848.
   1801.—Rev. John Okill  Stuart died  in  Kingston,
CAV., 5 October, 1862, aged 86 years.   He was son of Rev.
John  Stuart, and Avas  born in  the  missionary-house  at Fort
Hunter, on the banks  of the Mohawk River, N.Y., 29 June,
1776.   His father  was the  last missionary to the Mohawk
nation.  In 1787, at the  age  of eleven years,  he was placed
at school  in the  academy in Schenectady, N.Y.  (now Union
College),  where  he received  instruction preparatory  to his
reception into  a  higher seminary.   In 1792, he was  sent to
the  academy at AVindsor, N.S., where he remained two years.
In  1795,  he  was appointed  teacher of  a  public  grammar-
school  in  Kingston,  and continued in that office and employ-
ment till June,  1798 ; and that year he entered the sophomore
class in Harvard College;  but he did  not remain Avith the class
much more than  a year, although  he received his degree with 
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          the others of the class who had gone through the Avhole course.
          In June,  1800,  he was ordained as minister of the United
          Church  of England and Ireland by  Dr, Alountain,  bishop  of
          Quebec; and, in 1801, was appointed  missionary, by the Society
I          for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, at York (now
          Toronto), C.AV., at that time the  seat of government.  There
          he served his vocation and ministry from 1800 to 1812 ; estab-
          lished a congregation, and built a church; and, on the decease
          of his father (av1io was rector of St. George's  in Kingston), by
          invitation  of the  congregation, and upon application  to  the
          bishop, he Avas appointed his  successor;  and, in 1812, removed
          from York (now Toronto) to Kingston.   From 1812 to 1822,
          he served the congregation at Kingston as their parish minister;
          and, in  the  latter year,  he  was collated by the bishop to be
          archdeacon of York, in the diocese of Quebec.   In 1839, when
          the  diocese of Quebec was divided, and  Toronto taken from it,
          he resigned  his commission,  and was collated by the bishop to
          be archdeacon of Kingston, in the diocese of Toronto, and con-
          tinued in  that office until 1862 ;  Avhen,  on the  subdivision  of
          the diocese of Toronto  into that of Ontario, he surrendered his
          commission of archdeacon of  Kingston, and was preferred to be
          dean of  Ontario.   In 1830, he had an assistant-minister to St.
          George's, who continued his  aid and work, he, however, con-
          tinuing as rector of St. George's ; and, at the time of his death,
          Avas  one of  the officiating clergymen in the  cathedral  of  the
          diocese  of Ontario,  in  the city of Kingston.   Therefore,  for
          more than sixty years, he resided in nearly  the same  place;
          preaching to a people to whom his Avhole  course  of life, and
          all his sayings and doings,  were known,  and  retaining and
          enjoying their  respect and esteem.   He  was not brilliant, nor
          particularly gifted, nor very  learned ; but he  had great moral
          worth.  In all  his communications, he  was perfectly sincere,
          Avholly free from  artifice, deception,  guile.   With  an exterior
          somewhat grave and reserved,  almost  stern, he  had  ardent
          and  warm attachments.   In communing with him, one felt
          a perfect  satisfaction  that he  was   truthful  in all  he  said.
          Without making  professions of  attachment,  he was always
          inclined  to do kind things Avhenever it  was in his power. 
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   He married,  2 October, 1803,  Lucy Brooks,  daughter  of
Gov.  John  Brooks, of Aledford,  Avith Avhom  he became  ac-
quainted in 1798, during a residence of several  months in the
town, completing his studies for admission into college.   She
died in 1813, leaving one son, — George Okill Stuart, the only
surviving  male descendant of  Gov. Brooks, — a counsellor-at-
law of  high  standing,  who has been  mayor of Quebec.   He
married a second wife,  Ann Ellice Stuart,  who died in King-
ston,  28 November, 1836, aged  70 years.
   1802.—Henry Adams died in Somerville, Alass., 13 No-
vember,  1862, aged 83 years.   He was son of Rev. Zabdiel
(H.C. 1759) and Elizabeth (Stearns)  Adams ; was the ninth
of eleven  children, ten of whom lived  to  adult age;  and was
born  in Lunenburg, Alass., 13 Alay,  1777.   His  father  was
son of Ebenezer Adams, of Quincy, Mass., where he was born
5 NoA'ember, 1739 ; was ordained at Lunenburg, 5 September,
1764; died  1 March, 1801, aged 61 years.   His mother was
daughter of  Rev.  David  (H.C. 1728) and  Ruth (Hubbard)
Stearns  :  she was born in Lunenburg, 20 April, 1742 ;  and
died August, 1800, aged 58 years.   His father was successor
of her  father in the church of Lunenburg.    The subject  of
this notice was fitted for college, partly at Groton Academy, and
partly by Dr. John Hosmer, of Aledford.   He studied law with
his  brother,  Zabdiel Boylston Adams (H.C. 1791), in Charles-
town, Mass., where he afterwards  practised  his  profession.
Subsequently he resided for about four years in Richmond, Va.,
where he  taught a private school; then  returned, and again
practised his profession in Ashburnham, Alass., where he resided
about four years.   Thence he  removed to Lexington, Alass.,
having relinquished his  profession ; and, for the last twenty years
of his life, he resided in Somerville, where he devoted himself to
agricultural pursuits, to which  he had a great  partiality.
   He married,  1  January, 1806, Susan Forster, daughter  of
Jacob and Rebecca Forster, of Charlestown, Alass., by Avhom
he had  three children (all sons),  of whom the only survivor is
Edwin Forster Adams,  a merchant in Boston.   His Avife died in
Lexington,  12 January,  1834.  He  married for  his second 
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OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
453
 Avife, 8 October,  1835,  Sarah K. HaA\kins, daughter of Col.
 Nathaniel HaAA'kins, of Somerville, then a part of Charlestown.
 She died without issue, in Somerville, 17 December, 1851.  Pie
 married  for  his third AA'ife,  4 November, 1852,  Mrs. Arphia
 Besent, a Avidow, of Cambridgeport, whose former husband was
 a foreigner.   She survives him.
    1802.—Andreav Ritchie died in NeAvport,  R.I.,  7 Au-
 gust,  1862,  aged 80 years.  He was  son of  Andrew  and
 Isabella  (Alontgomery) Ritchie, and  was born  in Boston, 18
 July,  1782.  He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy in
 Andover.  He held  a distinguished  rank of scholarship,  and
 graduated  with  the second honors of his class;  but, when he
 took his  degree of  master of arts  in 1805, the \aledictory
 oration was  assigned to  him.  He studied laAv in the office of
 Rufus Greene Amory (H.C.  1778), and practised  his profes-
 sion in Boston.   Having inherited an ample  competency,  he did
 not aim at distinction at the bar, although his legal attainments
 were of the first order.  On the 4th of July, 1808, he delivered
 the  annual oration before  the  town authorities  of Boston, in
 Avhich he said, " We  are not required, like young Hannibal, to
 approach the altar, and vow eternal hatred to a rival nation ; but
 we will repair to the neighboring heights, at once the tombs and
 eA'erlasting monuments of our heroes, and swear, that, as they
 did, so would Ave rather sacrifice our lives  than  our country."
 On  the morning of the day Avhen he delivered this oration, the
 Hon. Fisher  Ames  died  in Dedham.   In  his address,  while
 alluding to Bonaparte,  he  said,  " His conduct has  declared,
 plainer than  language can express, that he will endure no neu-
 trals ;  and  that, too, under a persuasion  that  we  dare  not
 become his enemy.   If we are thus summoned to take our side
 in this momentous contest, which will in a few years determine
 the political destiny of the civilized world,  let the alternative
 be decided by the intelligence,  the virtue, and patriotism of the
 country."  He then uttered the following  apostrophe on  the
 death of Air. Ames:  "But, alas! the immortal  Ames,  who,
like Ithuriel, Avas commissioned to discover the insidious foe, and
point out our danger, has accomplished his embassy, and, on 
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this  morning  of our  independence,  has ascended to  heaven.
Spirit  of  Demosthenes !  couldst thou have  been a  silent and
invisible auditor, how wouldst thou  have  been delighted to hear
from his lips those strains of eloquence which once, from thine,
enchanted the assemblies of Greece !"
   Air. Ritchie married,  27  Alarch,  1807,  Alaria  Cornelia
Durant, daughter  of  Cornelius Durant,  a AVest-India  planter.
Her father was an officer of the revolution; Avas afterwards for
many  years  an eminent merchant of Boston, where  he  died
5 Alay, 1812, aged 80 years.   In consequence of this marriage,
after the  death of his father-in-law, Mr. Ritchie became, by
right of his wife, owner of  a plantation  in  the Island of St.
Croix.   By  the Danish  law, he,  to  retain  possession of  the
estate, was required to reside there ; and  for many years this was
his  place of residence, although he often visited Boston, and
spent a great part of his time in the United States.   He there-
fore did  not  long practise  his  profession.  His wife died in
Paris, France,  without issue.
   He  married  for his second wife, 9 December, 1823, Sophia
Harrison Otis, daughter of Hon.  Harrison Gray Otis, of Boston
 (H.C. 1783), by whom he had three children, — two sons and
one  daughter,—who, with their mother,  survive him.   The sons
graduated at Harvard College respectively in 1845  and 1846 ;
and the daughter is the wife of a physician in Paris, France.
    1805.—Moses Gill  died in  Shrewsbury, Mass., 21 Au-
gust, 1862, aged 81  years.  He was son of Alichael and Anna
 (Gill)  Gill, and was born in Westminster, Mass., 20 Decem-
ber, 1780 ; but remoA'ed to Princeton, Alass., with his parents,
when two years of age, where he passed his youthful days.  His
parents were cousins; his  mother being  daughter of John Gill,
of the firm of Edes and  Gill, well known as printers in Boston.
He  was born  in Charlestown, Mass. ; served a regular appren-
ticeship with Samuel Kneeland, and married one of Kneeland's
daughters.  He died 25 August,  1785.  He  was nephew of
Hon.  Moses  Gill, who was  lieutenant-governor of Alassachu-
setts,  and acting-governor from  7 June,  1799, to  20  Alay,
1800. 
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    It being  the AA'ish of his  uncle  (Gov. Gill) that he  should
have  a collegiate education, he left him,  by his  will,  ample
means for his support while in college, and during his  subse-
quent life ; but this  provision was not carried into effect,  for his
uncle's  will was  destroyed at his  decease.   He Avas fitted for
college partly by  Rev. Joseph Russell (Y.C 1793), of Prince-
ton, and partly at Leicester Academy.   On leaving college, he
taught  school for some time in Dorchester and Charlestown,
Alass.   He then began the study of divinity at Suffield, Conn.,
and finished his studies Avith Rev. Ebenezer  Gay (Y.C. 1787),
of that  place.  He  receiA-ed his license to preach,  after having
been thoroughly examined as to  his  views and qualifications, at
Boylston, Alass., 29 June, 1808, by the unanimous vote of the
association in that vicinity.   He was a teacher  in Boston, pub-
lic  and private, from  1812  till 1829 ;   preaching  occasionally
during the time.   He  then, owing  to ill health, removed  into
the country,  which  it was  thought prolonged his  fife.  After
leaving Boston, he taught in Waltham, Chelmsford, and Acton,
during the winter seasons ; attending to agriculture  in the sum-
mers.   He also taught in Boylston, Northbridge, and Shrews-
bury, until Avithin a few years of his death, when he met AA'ith a
fall which disabled him from walking, except with crutches ; and
had also other infirmities, which he  endured  patiently.   He was
one of the school-committee in Shrewsbury about five years ;  was
chairman and secretary most  of the  time.  He died suddenly ;
haA'ing been as comfortable as usual during the summer, until
the morning of his death, when  he  was  taken ill, and survived
but a few hours, passing away without a struggle.   He was of
a cheerful, mild  temperament,  enjoying the  company of his
friends,  kind and sympathizing, an  affectionate husband  and
father.
   He married, 2  October, 1810  (at   that time  teaching in
Roxbury)", Mary Baldwin, daughter of  Capt. Henry  Baldwin,
of Shrewsbury, in which town  she was  born  2 July,  1787.
The issue  of this marriage  was two children, — a son and a
daughter,— both of whom, with their mother, survived him.
   1806. —Daniel Henshaw died  in Boston 9 July,  1863, 
456                NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI            [1862-63.

aged  81  years.   He Avas  son of  Col.  AVilliam  and Phebe
(Swan) HenshaAv, and Avas  born in Leicester, Alass., 9 Alay,
1782.   His father was born in Boston in 1735, and removed to
Leicester  in  1748.   He  was an  officer in  the  reAolutionary
army.   He died February, 1820, at the age of  85 years.   His
mother  was  daughter  of  Dudley AVade and Beulah SAvan, of
Leicester, where she  was born  12 January, 1758 ; and  died
5 November, 1808, aged 55 years.   The subject  of this  notice
was  fitted for  college at  Leicester  Academy.   After leaving
college,  he studied  law in  part with Nathaniel  Paine Denny
(H.C. 1797),  of Leicester,  and in part with Judge Nathaniel
Paine (H.C. 1778), of Worcester.   He practised his profession
twenty-one years in AVinchester, Mass.   In 1830, he Avas prac-
tising in AVorcester, and  afterwards for several years in Lynn,
where  he had  the management of a public  newspaper, — the
" Lynn Record."  On becoming an editor, he gave up his  pro-
fessional business, and continued for fourteen years in the arduous
and responsible place of leading editor of a paper ; and, after that
period, often contributed valuable and interesting articles, chiefly
of a biographical or historical character, to sundry newspapers,
which were read with interest.   He had a great taste for gene-
alogy,  and a  fund  of wit.  He  read many  amusing papers
before the Historic-Genealogical Society, several of which were
published in the Boston papers.   After  his connection Avith the
paper in Lynn  had terminated, he removed to Boston ; where he
resided — with the exception of a year or two  in AVisconsin
with a  relative — until his  death.
   He  married, 19  November,  1821,  Deborah  Starkweather,
daughter  of Deacon Charles Starkweather, of  Worthington,
Mass.,  where  she was born 2 November,  1796.   She  died
6 July, 1851,  leaving two  daughters  and one son.
   1809.—Hon. William Elliott  died in South Carolina,
February, 1863, aged 74  years.   He was son of William Elliot,
and  was born in Beaufort, S.C, 27 April, 1788.   He entered
college at the age of  18,  and took a very high rank of scholar-
ship in his class; standing as the second, Samuel Bird ranking
as the first, scholar in the  class.   On account of ill health, how- 
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OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
457
ever, he was  obliged to return  home  before  completing  his
academical career;  but  his degree was conferred upon him by
the government in 1810,  the year after his class graduated.
For many years he  devoted himself to the management  of his
estates, and served  with credit in both  branches  of the state
legislature.  During the nullification-crisis in South Carolina in
1832, he held the office of  senator in the state legislature, but
resigned upon  being instructed by his  constituents  to vote to
nullify the tariff law.   He afterwards participated less frequent-
ly in public affairs ;  his  letters  against secession, signed " Agri-
cola," and published in 1851, being among his latest expressions
of opinion on political subjects.   He contributed largely  to the
periodical press of the  South.  His  published works consisted
of an " Address before the  St.  Paul's  Agricultural Society"
(Charleston, 1850), and " Carolina Sports by Land and Water "
(1856).  He was  also the  author of " Fiesco," a tragedy
printed for  the  author  in 1850,  and of  a number of occasional
poems of merit; few of which, however,  have been published.
    1812. — Samuel AVilliam Dexter  died in Dexter, Mich.,
6 February, 1863,  aged 70 years.  He was  son  of Hon.  Sam-
uel (H.C 1781) and Catharine (Gordon) Dexter, and was born
in Charlestown, Mass., 18 February, 1792.  He first entered
college with the class  which  graduated  in 1811,  but remained
only a few months ;  when he took up his connexions, and entered
the freshman class the following year.  A few years after  he left
college, he purchased a township of land in Michigan, which he
named Dexter, and  in which he resided until his death.
   1812. — Benjamin Daniel Greene died in Boston, 14 Oc- _
tober, 1862, aged 68 years.   He  was the eldest son of Gardiner
and Elizabeth  (Hubbard) Greene, and was born in Demarara,
South  America, — where his  parents were  then residing, —
29 December,  1793.  His father was well known as the wealth-
iest citizen  of Boston.   His mother, whose virtues and amiable
character were long remembered by her contemporaries, and
Avho was a sister of the late  John Hubbard, of Boston,  died
during his early childhood.   Her  maternal cares were  assumed
and fulfilled by Elizabeth Copley, a sister  of Lord Lyndhurst, —
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the present Airs. Gardiner  Greene, — betAveen Avhom and her
adopted  son a cordial affection  subsisted through  life.   The
subject of this notice AAas fitted for college  in the Boston Latin
School, where a  Franklin  medal was awarded to him in 1807.
He held a  respectable rank in his class, and graduated with
honors.  After leaving college, he became a student-at-law in
Litchfield,  Conn. ;  and entered upon  the practice of his  profes-
sion,  which he soon relinquished for that of medicine.  Passing
four  years  abroad, he  travelled extensively  in  Europe,  and
completed  his studies  in the schools  of Edinburgh  and  Paris.
Attracted by scientific  pursuits, he  was highly  appreciated as  a
botanist, and became the  intimate  friend and correspondent
of  Sir AVilliam Hooker,  and other men of distinguished  attain-
ments.   He was a  liberal contributor to the Boston Society of
Natural History ; was  its first president; and his valuable libra-
ry, uncommonly rich in  scientific works, was  ever open  to the
researches  of his associates.   He was  a member of the American
Academy of Arts and  Sciences.
    He  married,  30  Alay,  1826,  Alargaret  Morton Quincy,
daughter of Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Boston.  She survives him.
They had no children.
    1812. — George  AVashington  Heard died in  Ipswich,
Mass., 21 April,  1863, aged 70 years.  He was son of John and
Sarah (Stamford) Heard, and was born in Ipswich, 5  Febru-
ary, 1793.  He began to fit for college under the instruction of
Rev.  Asahel Huntington (D.C. 1786), of Topsfield, Mass. ; and
completed  his preparatory studies at Phillips Academy in Ando-
(ver.  After leaving college, he studied medicine with Dr. John
Gorham, of Boston (H.C.  1801) ;  and received his degree of
M.D. in 1815, but did not  enter upon the practice  of his pro-
fession.  He engaged  in business as a distiller in Ipswich, which
had been previously his father's occupation.  After pursuing this
employment several years, he abandoned it,  from conscientious
motives, and removed  to Boston, where, in 1837, he entered into
partnership with James Haughton,  under the firm of  James
Plaughton  and  Co.,  dealers in  dry  goods.    This  partnership
continued until 1844, when Mr. Heard withdrew.  He returned 
 1862-63.]            OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.                459

 to  Ipswich,  and  engaged in  agricultural  pursuits, which  he
 continued  during the remainder  of  his life.   He was  much
 respected in  his native town;  was noted for his courtesy, kind
 feelings, and private liberality; and  the families  of volunteers
 in the war  had reason to be thankful for his unostentatious dona-
 tions for their relief.   In 1862 he was elected a representative
 to  the state  legislature from Ipswich, but did not take his seat;
 having been  obliged to resign it  on account of ill health.
     o          C5          O
    He married,  6 November,  1823, Elizabeth Ann  Farley,
 daughter of  Robert Farley, of Ipswich.    The  issue of  this
 marriage was four sons and one daughter.   The sons and their
 mother survived him.
    1813.—Dr. David Osgood died in Boston, 23 February,
 1863, aged 69 years. He was the only son of Rev. David (H.C.
 1771) and Hannah (Breed) Osgood, and was born in Medford,
 Mass., 23  December, 1793.   His  father was born in Andover,
 Mass.,  14 October, 1747;  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  first
 church in Aledford,  14  September, 1774;  and was one of the
 most eminent divines of his day.   He died  12 December, 1822,
 aged 75 years.   His  mother died 7 January, 1818,  aged  70
 years.  She belonged to Charlestown, Alass., and was grand-
 daughter to Richard Foster, who was  high sheriff under the  old
 government.   The subject  of this  notice was fitted for college
 by  Dr. John  Hosmer, of Medford.  He held a respectable rank
 of  scholarship in  college,  and graduated with  honors.  After
 graduating, he studied medicine with Dr. John Jeffries, of Bos-
 ton (H.C.  1763)  ; and, on receiving his degree of Al.D. in 1816,
 began practising his  profession in  Boston, where he continued
 his  duties until his death.   As a member of the Massachusetts
 Aledical Society, he was respected in his profession for his skill,
 promptitude,  and kindness.   He had a warm and generous  na-
 ture, Avhich never  failed in its response to calls for assistance and
 advice;  was  always  lenient  and  kind  towards real suffering.
 To  his poor  patients  he was  an  unfailing friend, whose  pa-
tience no length  of  unpaid  service could  exhaust; one  whose
 unobtrusive and unostentatious  charity made him an always-
 welcome  visitant.   AVith a mind open to conviction, he was  not 
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afraid of questioning his early opinions.   .V  signal proof  of this
occurred during a visit to Europe in 1839.   At  Paris, a friend
introduced him to Dr.  Hahnemann, the founder  of the school of
homoeopathy.   The German  philosopher  spoke with warmth
of his system, and offered his visitor the loan of a copy of the
"Homoeopathic Novum Organum."  This book, though not  en-
tirely satisfactory to Dr. Osgood, led him to further  researches,
and he ended in  becoming a very successful  practitioner  on  the
homoeopathic system.   During a second journey to Europe,  he
visited his distinguished  patient, Aliss  Fredrika Bremer,  avIio
AA-as  under his charge when she Avas  in Boston, and who feels
lasting gratitude for his successful treatment of  her case.  Her
printed  commendations of his skill and friendliness are the just
sentiments of a discriminating mind and a feeling heart.   As a
friend, he was not demonstrative and  impetuous, but reserved
and sure.   As a husband, he was all devotion to the chosen  of
his life ; Avhile she most promptly repaid every service, and most
heartily returned every affection.
   He married in November,  1821, Mary Ann  Elder, of Port-
land, Ale., Avho survived him.   They  had  no children.
   1813.—Royal Turner died in Randolph, Mass., 31 De-
cember, 1862, aged 70 years.    He Avas the only son of Seth
and Abigail (Wales) Turner, and was born  in Randolph, 6 De-
cember, 1792.   He Avas fitted for college under the tuition  of
Rev. Jonathan Strong (D.C. 1786).   On  leaving college,  he
engaged in mercantile  pursuits, in which he was  eminently suc-
cessful.    He was  much  occupied in public business,  always
to the satisfaction  of  his  employers.    In  early life, he was a
practical surveyor, and assisted in locating the first railroad built
in this country ; namely, that leading from the stone-quarries in
Quincy to Neponset River.  In 1815, he received a lieutenant's
commission, and rapidly passed  through all  the  grades of pro-
motion until he reached the colonelcy in 1823.  He  Avas honor-
ably discharged in 1825.   In  1818, and in several  subsequent
years, he  was elected  one  of the selectmen  of  the toAvn.   He
was also clerk and treasurer from 1823 to 1828.   He was com-
missioned justice of the  peace  in 1826, and of the  quorum in 
1862-63.]            OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.                461

1833 ; and continued in office until his death.  He was appointed
bank-commissioner from Norfolk in 1830.  On the incorporation
of the Randolph Bank, in 1836, he was appointed cashier, and
held the office until 1842, when he was elected  its  president,
and  continued in that position until his death.  During this long
period, he Avatched over its interests with paternal solicitude, and
left it in a state  of prosperity rarely attained by similar institu-
tions.   He Avas a director in the Bridgewater and Aliddleborough
and  Fall-River railroads until their union with the  Old-Colony
in one corporation ;  and afterwards he was often  consulted with
regard  to  important measures.   In  all financial matters,  his
judgment Avas much respected ;  and, when deliberately made up,
seldom needed a revision.  Although his intercourse with soci-
ety Avas necessarily restricted by  a defect in his hearing, which
increased as he advanced in life, yet he Avas social in his tem-
perament, and took a deep interest in  passing events.  He was
exemplary  in  all  the vocations and  duties of life,  and was  a
regular attendant upon public worship, although for many years
unable to hear a syllable uttered during the service.   Symptoms
of organic  disease of the  brain  began  to  manifest  themselves
some months before his death, and  continued to increase in inten-
sity, until they  terminated in  partial paralysis, and  ultimately
in apoplectic  coma, and the extinction of life.   His death was
felt  to be a  great loss, not  only to his family, but  also to the
business circle in  Avhich  he moved.   Such was  his integrity,
energy, and promptness in executing every trust committed  to
him, and such his  accuracy in all pecuniary transactions, as  to
command  the confidence  of his  associates and  of the public.
Although very decided  in  his  opinions, it was observed  by the
directors of the bank, after  his  decease, that, during the long
period of his presidency, no  one could call to mind any unkind
word or act towards his associates in  any of their deliberations
or transactions.
   He married, 14 September, 1818,  Maria White, born 27
June,  1800,  daughter  of Alajor  John  AVhite, of AVeymouth.
They had  children;  viz., 1.  Alaria White, born 30 October,
1819 ; died 31 October, 1819.  2. Seth, born 29 July, 1821 ; 
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now cashier  of  Randolph Bank.   3. Royal AVhite,  born  10
Alarch,  1823.    4.  Ann  Alaria,  born  15 November, 1825 ;
who married, in 1849, Isaac Sweetser,  a merchant in Boston.
5. Abigail AVales, born 10 February, 1830.
   1815. —Rev. Convers Francis died in Cambridge, Alass.,
7 April,  1863, aged 67 years.
   He Avas  the  fourth  child and  second son of Convers  and
Susanna  (Rand) Francis, and Avas born  in AVest Cambridge,
9 November, 1795.  He Avas fitted for college at the  Aledford
Academy, under the charge of John Hosmer.  He held a  dis-
tinguished rank of scholarship in his class.  After graduating,
he studied theology in  the Cambridge  Divinity  School;  was
approbated by the Boston Association;  and preached  his first
sermon, 15 November, 1818, in Rev. Dr. Osgood's  pulpit in
Aledford.   He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church
in AVatertown,  Alass.,   23  June,  1819, where  he  remained
twenty-three  years.   In  1842,  he was appointed "Parkman
Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and the Pastoral  Care "  in Har-
vard College, which appointment he accepted; and 21  August,
1842, delivered his valedictory sermon in Watertown.   He  im-
mediately entered upon the duties of his  professorship, which he
continued until the end of his life.   He  was earnest  and inde-
fatigable  in his researches after sacred truth.   From a principle
of self-respect, he was prompted to  regard  as true the conclu-
sions which his mind had established ;  yet he Avas far from being
unreasonably tenacious of his opinions.   His mind Avas  enriched
with the best thoughts of authors.   He  read with  avidity,  but
with attention;  noting with  care peculiarities of opinions,  and
sentiments distinguished for beauty and power.  He was, in an
eminent sense, ambitious to know  the truth through  whatever
medium, be that medium  only authoritative.  He held an  im-
portant  and responsible  office.   He was  not only a  Christian
learner :  he was also a  Christian  teacher.  He knew full Avell
the impression that instruction makes upon open and sensible
minds ;  and it was commendable in  him, that, in his  anxiety to
teach nothing but the truth, he should seek the guidance of
other minds, hallowed by equally holy motives with his own, to
share with him the responsibilities of his sacred vocation. 
1862-63.]
OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
463
   He possessed a heart alive to social affections.  His  friendly
interest, Avhere it found a fitting and accordant  place, was sin-
cere and ardent; and he did not suffer it  to  be  limited to any
point  beyond which it  could by any means be influential for
good.  Although no elaborate work proceeding from  his pen
has been given to the public, he manifested his  interest in sci-
ence  and  literature by publishing several valuable papers in our
best  accredited  periodicals.  Among  his  publications were
"Errors  of Education,"  a  discourse  at  the  anniversary  of
Derby Academy, in Hingham,  21 Alay, 1828 ;  Address on
the 4th of July, 1828, at AVatertown ;  An Historical Sketch of
AVatertown, from the first settlement of the  town  to the close
of the second  century,  in 1830 ;  A Discourse, at Plymouth,
22 December, 1832 ;  A Dudleian Lecture, at Cambridge,  8
May, 1833; The Life of Rev. John Eliot, the  Apostle to the
Indians, in the fifth volume  of Sparks's American Biography,
1836 ; The Life of Sebastian Rale, Alissionary to the Indians, in
the seventh volume  (new series)  of Sparks's American  Biogra-
phy, 1845 ;  Alemoir of Rev. John Allyn, D.D., of Duxbury,
1836 ; Alemoir of Dr. Gamaliel  Bradford,  1846 ;  Alemoir of
Judge Davis, 1849  (the last three were published in the Collec-
tions  of the Alassachusetts  Historical Society) ;  many articles
in the " Christian  Disciple," the " Christian Examiner,"  the
" American Monthly Review," the  " Unitarian  Advocate," the
"Scriptural  Interpreter," the "Juvenile  Aliscellany; "  several
translations from Herder, at different times ;  Obituary Notice of
Miss Eliza Townsend,  1854 ; and a large number of occasional
discourses.  He was a member of the Alassachusetts Historical
Society.   In 1837, the honorary degree  of doctor of divinity
was  conferred upon him by Harvard College.
   He married, 15  Alay, 1822,  Abby Bradford, daughter of
Rev. John Allyn, D.D., of Duxbury, by whom  he had two
children, — one daughter and one son.   The son graduated at
Harvard  College in 1854.   His wife  was  born in Duxbury,
15 January, 1796 :  she died in Cambridge, 17 December, 1860,
aged 64 years.   The two children survive their parents.
   1816. — Samuel Buckminster Rice died in Brookfield, 
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 Alass., 28 Alay,  1863, aged  64 years.   He AA-as  son of Dr.
 Tilly (B.U.  1777) and Eunice (Reed) Rice, and Avas born in
 Brookfield, 14 June, 1798.   He Avas fitted for college at Lei-
 cester Academy.  Immediately after  graduating, he entered the
 counting-room of Alessrs.  Bordman  and  Pope, in  Boston, for
 the  purpose  of preparing  himself for business as  a merchant.
 AVhile in their employ,  he  Avent to the East  Indies  in the ship
 " Brilliant," belonging to them.   On the passage, the ship sprang
 a  leak;  and he labored so long and so severely at the pumps,
 that it seriously affected his health, which  he never afterAvards
 fully recovered.   At the  expiration  of his  apprenticeship,  he
 returned to Brookfield,  but did not enter  into  mercantile busi-
 ness.  He Avas afterwards connected Avith an iron-foundry and
 glassAvorks in  that  toAvn,  but relinquished  the business some
 time  before his death.   He was never  married.
    1817. — Rev.  Thomas Russell Sullivan died in Boston,
 23 December, 1862, aged 63  years.  He  was son  of John
 Langdon and  Elizabeth (Russell) Sullivan,  and  was  born in
 Brookline, Alass., 13 February,  1799.  He  was fitted for col-
 lege principally at Dummer Academy in Newbury.   He held a
 respectable rank  of  scholarship in  his  class.  After leaving
 college,  he studied  theology in  the  Divinity  School  at  Cam-
 bridge.  He  was  ordained pastor of the  Unitarian church in
 Keene, N.H., 28 December,  1825,  where  he faithfully and
 zealously performed  his duties until  Alay, 1835, when he re-
 signed his charge.   He soon  afterwards  removed  to  Boston,
 Avhere he opened a private  school, which he continued  until his
 death.   His beautiful  Christian  character is  thus eloquently
 delineated by Rev. AVilliam Orne AVhite  (H.C.  1840),  now
 pastor of the church in Keene, over which Air. Sullivan was
 settled :  " He has gone,  —the man who kneAv how,  in the apos-
 tolic sense, to magnify his office; the  serious and  reverend
 ambassador of God ; the simple-hearted and guileless Christian ;
 the friend whose  heart was  pierced  with  the sorroAvs  of his
people ;  the A\rriter skilled  in  controversy, yet  rejoicing  more
Avhen he  could utter affectionate  and sober words of  practical
counsel.   In  a 5 furnace of  affliction' he has  indeed been tried 
 1862-63.]  .          OF HARVARD COLLEGE.               465

 and proved ;  and at last, from sharp and mysterious visitations
 of chastisement,  he has been permitted to rest from all earthly
 toil, to lay down his heavy cross, and to be led by the hand  of
 the good Shepherd 'in green pastures by the still waters.'  The
 scholarly mind of this true-hearted man enabled him to achieve
 enduring success  as a wise and faithful teacher for  many years
 after his retirement from the  scenes  of his  ministry.   From
 time to time, however, he delighted in the privilege  of resum-
 ing, in various pulpits, his early and cherished duties.  He was
 one whom no change of occupation could secularize ; one  who
 might have always said, in perfect sincerity, <I will dwell in the
 house of the Lord for ever.'  Now that, safe from every rough
 blast,  the  tears  Aviped  from his eyes, his faith and patience
 accepted, he has  ' sweetly fallen asleep in  Jesus,'  it  is precious
 to remember that here, where he  so patiently served the Church
 of Christ  for nine-and  a half years, in what was then an out-
 post of our Zibn, not a shadow rests upon his memory.  ? Good
 and  faithful servant,' Ave bid thee  a  reluctant farewell;  while
 we rejoice  that all who  ever knew thee, if they value  purity,
 honor, truth, Avill find words of respect and affection springing
 to their lips, Avhenever they hear the name of Thomas Russell
 Sullivan."
   Mr. Sullivan married,  19 January, 1826,  Charlotte  C
 Blake, of  Worcester, by whom he had six sons and tAvo  daugh-
 ters, all of whom but one son survived him.   His wife died  2
 July, 1863, aged 59 years.
   1818.—Rev.  Peter Sidney Eaton died in Chelsea, Mass.,
 13 March,  1863, aged 64 years.   He was son  of Rev. Peter
 (H.C. 1787)  and Sarah  (Stone)  Eaton, and was born in Box-
 ford, Alass.,  7  October, 1798.  His father was born in Haver-
 hill,  Alass.,  15 Alarch, 1765 ; ordained at Boxford, 7 October,
 1789; died in Andover, 14  April, 1848, aged 83 years.   His
 mother was daughter of Rev.  Eliab  Stone  (H.C.  1758), of
 Reading.  Young Eaton pursued his  preparatory studies under
the instruction of his father.   On  leaving college,  he was em-
ployed some time as a teacher in Phillips Academy, Andover.
He subsequently  studied divinity at  the theological seminary
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in that toAA'n, and  graduated there in 1822.   He Avas ordained
at Amesbury,  20 September,  1826, where  he continued his
pastorship about eleven years, Avhere  his labors Avere so arduous
as to  seriously  affect his  health;  and by the advice of his
friends  he  resigned his  charge,  and wholly  relinquished the
duties  of the ministry.   He spent several years afterwards as a
teacher, principally in AndoAer.   From Andover,  he removed
to Chelsea, where  he resided the remainder  of his life.   His
health  was someAvhat impaired; but  he  endeavored to exert  an
influence, by all the means  he  might possess,  favorable to the
interests of religion and good morals.
   He  married, 4  December,  1828, Elizabeth Ann Leman,
of Charlestown, Alass., by whom he had three children : Sidney
Payson, born in Amesbury, 16  September, 1829;  Henry Mar-
tyn, born in  Amesbury,  28  June,  1835;  Elizabeth  Anne,
born in AVorcester,  16 Alay, 1841.   Plis Avife and  all his  chil-
dren survived him.
   1818.—Charles Octavius Emerson died in  York, Me.,
22 June, 1863, aged 64 years.  He Avas  son of Edward E.
and Abigail (Lyman) Emerson, and  was born in  York, 27
Alarch, 1799.   He  Avas fitted  for college  at Phillips Exeter
Academy.  After graduating, he began the study of law in the
office  of Jeremiah Bradbury in York, where  he. remained one
year.   In October,  1819,  he  went  into the office of Luther
Lawrence (H.C. 1801)  in  Groton, Alass.,  where he continued
his studies until October, 1821, when he was admitted to the
bar in Concord, Alass.   He then returned  to  his native town,
where he practised his profession until his  death.   From 1823
to 1830, he was frequently  elected to  fill the office  of clerk and
treasurer; was representative in the  legislature in  1827, 1828,
and 1829.  His life was happy and useful.   He Avas an honora-
ble, religious, and unambitious gentleman.
   He  married, 24 June, 1829, Harriet Jane Phillips, daugh-
ter of Deacon John Phillips, of Portland, Ale.  Their children
were, — 1.  Charles Edward,  born  5  April, 1830; died  25
Alarch, 1832.   2.  Francis Philip, born 2 September, 1831.
3. Abbie Clara, born  17  Alarch, 1833.   4. Edward Octa- 
1862-63.]
OF. HARVARD  COLLEGE.
467
vius,  born  6 June, 1834.    5.  Andrew  Samuel,  born  25
February,  1837.    6.  Harriet Eliza, born  11  March,  and
died 23 September, 1840.
   1818. — John  Flavel  Jenkins  died in  White  Plains,
N.Y., 12 September, 1862,  aged 66 years.   He was son  of
John  and Abigail (Hall) Jenkins, and was born in Gloucester,
Mass.,  6 February, 1796.  His  father, who  was a celebrated
writing-master, and was author of "The Art of  Writing," &c,
was born in Dorchester, Mass., in 1755, and  died in Wilming-
ton, Aid., in 1823.   His mother was daughter of Dan Hall, of
Peekskill, N.Y., who Avas son of Caleb Hall, of Attleborough,
Alass. ; and Avas born in Peekskill, in 1765.   The subject of this
notice,  AA'hen about  six  Aveeks old, Avent with his parents  to
NeAv-York city ; whence they soon left for Peekskill, where they
resided until he Avas seven years old.   He then Avent to the resi-
dence of his grandparents in Boston, which he made his home,
except  while pursuing  his  studies in  the  country.   As  he
obtained his education by his OAvn unaided  exertions until  he
entered college, he labored on a  farm at first, and afterwards
taught, to defray his expenses.  He was  obliged to change  his
place of study several times,  according to the  state of his funds ;
and taught  school for three Avinters while in college.  He held
an eminent rank of scholarship in college;  and in the  classics,
in general  literature, in natural sciences, and in mathematics,
he manifested equal ability to excel; so that,  at commencement,
the salutatory oration was assigned to him.   After  graduating,
 he taught the Roxbury Grammar School one year.  In  1819,
 he received the appointment  of tutor  of mathematics in  Tran-
 sylvania University, Lexington, Ky.   In 1820,  he was made
 professor of mathematics in place  of Professor Bishop, after-
 wards  president of Athen's  College,  O.  In 1823, the death
 of his father required his presence in the  East,  and he  resigned
 his professorship.    In  1824, he took  charge of  Middletown
 Academy, Monmouth county, N.J., where he  remained  nearly
 eleven years,  except one  interval,  when he  taught  a select
 school in  Freehold, the adjoining  town.  He was there untU
    rited to the city of New York,  and  appointed principal of the
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Mechanics' - Society School;  where he  remained until  1S39,
when, in consequence of ill health, he resigned, and removed to
the country.   In  January, 1840,  his health being  in  some
degree restored, he assumed the charge of North-Salem Academy,
AVestchester county J N.Y., where he remained  until  1853;
when he removed to AThite Plains, where he passed the remain-
der of his life, engaged in business as civil  engineer  and sur-
veyor.  He married in Lexington, Ky., 14 March, 1*22, Alary
Ann  Thayer  Pike, daughter of Job H. Pike,  of Providence,  .
R.I., who derived his descent from Sir  George Pike,  Bart., of
the Isle of Wight.  The  issue of this  marriage was  tAvelve
children:  viz.,   1.  John Pike,  born at Middletown,  N.J.,
12 April, 1827;  a lawyer at  White Plains.  2. Mary Abi-
gail, born at Freehold, N.J., 28 April,  1827 ; married A. AV.
Lobdell, of North Salem,  in 1860.  3. James Mason, born in
Middletown, N.J;, in 1831; died in infancy.   4. Emily Maria,
born in Middletown, 4 February, 1832.   5. Oliver Richardson,
born in Middletown, 20 November, 1833.   6. James Henry, born
in New-York  city, 15 December, 1835.  7.  Caroline  Hall,
born inNeAv York, 12  February,  1838 ;  died at the age of six
months.  8. Caroline  Hall, born in North  Salem, 27 March,
1840.  9. Horatio Gates, born in North Salem,  12 February,
1842.  10. Everett Lent, born in North Salem, 18 July, 1843 ;
died in infancy.   11.  Henry Clay, born in North Salem, 28
November, 1844.   12.  George Mead, born in North Salem, 25
June, 1847.   His wife survived him.
   In a letter to one of his classmates, he says, "As I began to
teach before I entered college, and taught every winter- and two
summer- vacations while there, and have continued teaching in
college or academy ever since, I may take rank among the oldest
teachers in the country.  There are comparatively few  who have
taught for thirty-six years continuously.   During that period,  I
have helped to form, or rather to develop, the minds  of many
who were afterwards distinguished and useful.  Several of my
early scholars have been members of Congress.  I therefore trust
I have done some good in  my day ;  and, though I have acquired
no great amount of wealth or fame, I have ascertained that  a
good degree of happiness may exist Avithout either." 
          1862-63.]            OF HARVARD COLLEGE.               469

             At the time of his death, three of his sons were in the army :
          one a captain, and  another a sergeant, in the 25th Connecticut
          Volunteers, under Banks ;  and the third, fife-major in  the 17th
j          Connecticut Volunteers, under Sigel.   The eldest son had been
          connected with the army for the previous 'eighteen months, and
          Avas about to resume the practice of the law at White Plains.
             1823.—Charles Carroll died in Baltimore, Md., Decem-
          ber, 1862, aged 61 years.   He  was son of Charles and Har-
          riett (Chew) Carroll, and was born in Baltimore, Md., 25 July,
          1801.  His father was  born  in Annapolis, Aid., and was edu-
          cated in Liege, Europe.  His grandfather, Charles Carroll,  of
          Carrollton, was born in Annapolis, 20 September, 1737 ; died
          14 November,  1832, aged  95 years; and was the last survivor
          of the signers of the  Declaration of Independence.  Each of the
          three Avas named Charles,  and each  was an only  son.  The
          mother of the subject of this notice was a daughter of the chief-
          justice of the state of Pennsylvania.   After  going through his
          preliminary studies at home, he was sent  to Alount-St.-Mary's
          College,  near Emmettsburg, — a Roman-Catholic institution  in
          Alaryland.  He remained  there for a year or two;  Avhen his
          grandfather,  who superintended his studies, determined to give
          him the advantages  of a European education.  In  1817,  he
          Avas sent to Par\s ; Avhere,  in company with his  cousin, Charles
          Carroll Harper, he  entered the college of St. Stanislaus,  and
          remained there three years.  After a  short tour through Italy
          and SAA-itzerland,  of which he has left a very interesting diary,
          he returned home, and immediately proceeded to Harvard Col-
          lege;  where, in  1821, he entered the sophomore class.  [It
          may not be amiss  to mention here, that a  large  portion of his
          class became engaged in some disturbances  at college only a few
          weeks before commencement, and  were summarily  dismissed :
          among them was Mr. Carroll; and it was not till 1855  that his
          degree was forwarded to him by the faculty of the college.]
             Having thus completed his course at college, he entered the
          law-office of his uncle, Robert Goodloe Harper (N.J.C 1785),
          where he remained two years ; and, in 1825, he married Alary
          Digges Lee, a grand-daughter of Gov.  Thomas Simon Lee, 
470                NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI            [1862-63.

of  Maryland.   In  November,  1832,  his grandfather, having
died, left him his tract of land in Alaryland, called Donghoregan
Manor, consisting of about tAvelve thousand acres, together Avith
the care of some two hundred slaves.   The estate had become
much impoverished ; tut Air. Carroll, by devoting his life to the
improvement of his property, for his own pleasure and the benefit
of  his family,  succeeded  in  gathering  around him one of the
largest  and most respectable tenantries in the state,  and, by
judicious management, increased many fold the productive  qual-
ities of  the manor-lands.
    He always took a very lively interest in the public questions
of the day; but the sphere of duties  which he had marked out
for himself did not incline him  to engage in  political life.  A
feAv years since, he built up and enlarged the old Catholic chapel
at the manor, ornamenting it with a  marble altar made by the
American artist Bartholomew in Rome, and  erecting  a  hand-
some monument to the memory of his grandfather, whose remains
lie there.   For  some years preA'ious to his death, he had been
afflicted AA'ith a very severe catarrh, or, as it is called by some,
"hay fever."  This  trouble visited him  every autumn, causing
great suffering, when finally a disease of the heart became deA-el-
oped, AA'hich terminated in dropsy, of which he died.   He  left a
family of six children living, and three grandchildren, repre-
sentatives of a  son who  died  a few months previous.    The
" home-quarters"  of Donghoregan  Alanor he  devised to his
eldest son of Charles Carroll; and all the residue of his property
to be divided equally among his children, share and share alike.
He survived his wife only three years ; she having died at the
manor in December, 1859.
    Mr.  Carroll was greatly endeared  to his friends by a remark-
ably kind and genial nature, which derived a peculiar attraction
from the ease and refinement of his  manners, and found ample
illustration in the liberality with which  he ministered the tradi-
tional and elegant hospitality of Donghoregan Manor ; a virtue
which he has transmitted with the inheritance  to  a most worthy
successor in  his eldest son,  the present proprietor of the old
homestead.   He was, in its more exalted sense, a gentleman, — 
1862-63.]            OF  HARVARD COLLEGE.                471

cordial, frank, and honorable  in every relation of duty, — a
beloved husband and father,  a most  humane and considerate
master of his servants, and a generous and trusty friend.   Pos-
sessing, by an hereditary necessity, a large number of- slaves at-
tached to the  manor, he was forced to give much  attention to
the questions involved in this relation ;  and no man in Maryland
ever brought to it a more liberal  and intelligent study : the re-
sult was the conclusion which he  has expressed in his will, and
in conformity  with which his whole conduct through life was
directed, — a  conviction,  namely, that this  class of dependants
was  too  helpless for  freedom without the  preliminary nurture
and education  that alone can make it valuable to its possessor,
and that it is one of the  highest and  most necessary duties of
the proprietor to bestoAV that  boon upon the slave  before  he
commits him  to the hazards  of self-defence.  In  accordance
with this view, Mr. Carroll has  enjoined it upon  his children
to give their attention to  this  preparation, with the further in-
timation of his desire that the slaves  committed to them  shall
not pass into  bondage  to another generation.
   1824.—Rev.  AVilliam Hazzard AVigg Barnavell  died
in GermantoAvn, Penn., March, 1863,  aged 56  years.   His
name Avas originally AVilliam Barnwell, but Avas altered in 1856.
He AA'as son of Col. Robert Gibbs and Elizabeth (Wigg) Barn-
Avell, and  Avas born in  Beaufort, S.C,  27 July, 1806.   He
Avas brother of Hon. Robert AVoodward Barnwell (H.C. 1821),
Avho has been  senator in Congress from South Carolina.   After
leaving college,  he  studied law in Litchfield, Conn., and South
      O     O  7
Carolina.  He was admitted to the  bar at  CoosaAvhatchie in
1827.   Some time in the month of September,  1831, he expe-
rienced a change of heart, relinquished the bar, united himself
with the Episcopal  church, and began the study of divinity.   He
was ordained deacon in the Episcopal church in Beaufort, S.C,
14 April, 1833 ; and, in 1834, was ordained by Bishop Bowen,
rector  of the  Pendleton  Church in  South  Carolina, Avhere  he
remained  six  months.   He was then  called to Charleston, and
was instituted rector of St. Peter's Church, which Avas built for
him, and Avhere  he  continued some tAventy years.   Then he left, 
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and came north to Philadelphia, where he resided  a few years.
In 1857, he became insane, and Avas removed to Germantown,
where he died.
   He married, 26  November,  1820,  his cousin, Catharine
Osborn Barnwell, daughter  of Edward Barnwell,  of Beaufort,
S.C, where she was born  27 April,  1809.
   1824.—Rev.  Robert  Brent  Drane  (name originally
Lillbourne  Brent  Drane)  died of yelloAv-fever  in AVilming-
ton,  N.C,  16  October,  1862, aged 65 years.  He was  born
in that part of  Maryland  Avhich  is now in  the District of
Columbia,  9 January,  1797.   He was  fitted for  college at
Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.   For a  few years  after
he graduated, he kept a classical school in Salem, Mass.   He
was  settled  as an Episcopal  clergyman in Hagerstown, Md.,
where he remained several years.    In 1836,  he  became  rec-
tor of St.  James Church in Wilmington, N.C.   In 1843,
much to the regret  of  his parishioners, he took  charge  of a
small college near Louisville, Ky. ; but after a few years, at
the urgent  solicitation  of his  old parishioners,  he returned to
AVilmington, where he remained until his death.   He Avas much
beloved by his people, and hardly any man could be more self-
sacrificing and hard-working than he Avas.  In 1843, he published
a brief history  of the  parish  over  which he was  settled,  and
which was  one  of the oldest in the state.  In 1844, the honor-
ary degree of doctor of divinity was  conferred upon  him by
South-Carolina  College.
   When the troubles incident to the  last presidential election
threatened to destroy the Union, he took firm ground to sustain
it; but when these efforts proved unavailing, and the capture of
Fort Sumter compelled all to decide for the South or the North,
he came  out fully and strongly for the former ; and, for the last
year, hardly a man in the town advocated the doctrine of seces-
sion with more force and energy.  The most prominent members
of his  church had long before been ultra secessionists, which
may  have influenced him in  his course.  But this great  and
leading congregation is  now nearly broken up  : of the young
men,  a large part have fallen victims  to the war; and subse- 
1862-63.]            OF HARVARD COLLEGE.                473

quently the  old  men  and females, with their pastor, fell before
the pestilence, and have gone  to  that  bourn from which no
traveller  returns.
   He married,  Alay,  1828, Augusta  Endicott, daughter of
Captain  Moses  and  Anna  (Towne) Endicott, of  Danvers,
Mass., where she Avas born  25  July, 1803;  by whom he had
two sons, —Robert and Henry,—the former of Avhom died about
three years  since.   His wife died in AVilmington, 7  July,  1847.
He married afterAvards a lady of North Carolina.
    1829.—Rev.  Reuben  Bates  died in  Stowe,  Mass.,
 1 December,  1862, aged 54 years.   He AA-as son of Caleb and
 Alary (Douglas) Bates, and  Avas  born  in  Concord,  Mass.,
 20 Alay, 1808.   He was fitted for college, partly at the West-
 ford  and partly at the  Groton Academy.    Immediately after
 leaving  college, he entered the Divinity School in Cambridge,
 from which he  graduated 18 July, 1832.  He was faithful as a
 student, as  he Avas always faithful in every thing ; but his success
 and usefulness in active life surpassed any expectations his class
 had formed of him.  As he proceeded in his studies in  divinity,
 it became  manifest how the heart Avas quickening  the intellect.
 His first sermon  in the theological  school Avas  a  marked suc-
 cess; not, indeed, on  account of  any very neAv or  brilliant
 thoughts ; but it Avas so full of devotion and piety, that it moved
 all hearts.    In him was fulfilled the saying of  Scripture,—
 " His eye was single, and his whole body full of light."  For a
 short time after  he  left Cambridge, he supplied the pulpit in
 Saxonville, Alass.  He AA-as ordained at New  Ipswich,  N.H.,
 1 June, 1834 ; where he remained until 31 March, 1835, when
 he Avas dismissed at his  own  request.   He was installed at
 Ashby, 13  Alay, 1835.  In February, 1844, he went to Havana,
 having  suffered from an attack of bronchitis.   He returned in
 June,&his  health having improved.   Two  months afterwards,
 his health  again failed; and he resigned his pastorate, 31 Au-
  gust, 1845.    During the Avinters of 1845  and 1846, he was
 representative  from Ashby to  the state legislature.  His health
 having  improved, he was  installed  in  Stowe, 18 June, 1846.
 In the  summer of 1859, his health again compelled him  to give
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[1862-63.
up  his parish.   He  continued, hoAvever,  to  reside among his
people, taking an active interest in every good work;  having
charge, as  school-committee, of the  public schools, and super-
intending the sunday-schools until  within about three months
of his decease.   Both in Ashby and in Stowe, his labors were
rewarded with much fruit of spiritual and moral good.  Very
modest and unassuming, he was independent and fearless in all
his  work.   He did nothing to be seen of  men; but he labored
Avith all earnestness,  industry, and self-devotion, and with care-
ful  thought and sound judgment, to see hoAv he  could  do the
most  good.  His people felt the poAver of a steady and strong
influence in favor of rational, practical  Christianity;  wherein,
by  Avork and examples,  he Avas faithful to  the end.
   He married,  11 February, 1835, Sarah Elizabeth,  daughter
of Jeremiah Prichard,  of New  Ipswich, by whom  he  had two
children, — George Prichard, born 7  August, 1836, who is now
a clerk in a mercantile house in  Boston ; Charles Francis, born
31 October, 1840, and died 30 April, 1842.   His wife died in
Ashby, 10  April, 1842, aged 33 years.   He married, for his
second wife,  25  November,  1842, Helen T.,  AvidoAV of Clinton
Atwater, of Michigan, and daughter of Daniel  Tuttle, of Bos-
ton ; Avho survives him, and resides in Stowe.
   1829. — Frederick William Crocker died in Barnstable,
Alass., 11 June, 1863, aged 54 years.  He was son of David
and Rachel (Bacon) Crocker,  and  was  born in Barnstable,
16  April,  1809.   He  was  fitted for college,  in  part, at the
Sandwich Academy, under the instruction   of  Rev. Warren
Goddard (H.C.  1818), and in part at Phillips Academy,
Andover.   After graduating, he was for seven years in business
in Barnstable.  In February, 1837, he removed to Boston, and
went into the naA'igation and commission business in  company
with James Huckins and Zenas D.  Bassett.   This connection
continued two years,  when it was dissolved ; and he was in busi-
ness alone until 1842, when he formed a partnership with Dwight
Ruggles as booksellers.  This continued but one year ; and, in
1843, he returned to Barnstable  to  reside.   Inheriting a good
estate, he thenceforth took  a deep and earnest interest in the 
1862-63.]            OF  HARVARD COLLEGE.                475

improvement of  his  native town,  and identified  himself with
its social  and literary progress.   At the third anniversary of
the Cape-Cod Association, held in Barnstable, 2 August, 1854,
he delivered  a  humorous and appropriate  poem,  subsequently
printed  in the "Yarmouth Register."   He  was, we believe,
a frequent contributor  of political  and literary articles to the
county journals.   His " Song for Harvest," written for an agri-
cultural meeting in 1858 (set to the tune of " Old Hundred "),
has much  of poetic beauty and merit.   The annual meetings of
his class  have been much indebted to him for very racy and
witty contributions, as  well as for  the  remarkably kindly and
genial spirit  which he  invariably brought AA'ith him.   Few of
the class  possessed more striking characteristics ; and very few
classes or communities of men can show a more honest and
truthful man than Frederick AVilliam Crocker.   A hearty hater
of cant and shams of every description, he knew hoAv to appre-
ciate every sterling and generous characteristic in man;  and, to
those in Avhom he could confide, he proved himself a  warm and
true  friend.   In 1855, he was appointed, by the Supreme Court
of Alassachusetts,  clerk of the  courts for the county of Barn-
stable.  After the amendment of die constitution of the state,
requiring  election  by the people to the county offices, he was
elected to the same office with but a single dissenting vote, — a
rare  instance  of almost unanimity.
   He married, 6 April, 1851, Louisa G. Sawyer, of Bolton,
Alass., by whom he had four children, who, with their mother,
surviA'ed him.
   In this class, the following members had died prior to 1851  :
viz., Nathaniel F. Derby, of Salem, who died 13 July, 1830«;
Henry B. AlcLellan,  of  Boston,  who died  4 September,
1833; AndreAV Ritchie, of Boston,  who  died at Palermo,
Sicily, 10 July,  1837 ; Albert  Locke, of LoAvell,  Avho died
26 September, 1840;  AYilliam  Emerson Foster, of  Boston,
who  died 23 January,  1843 ;  John  Rogers Thurston, who
died  23 November,  1843 ; John Parker Bullard, of  Clinton,
La.,   who died  29  January,  1845;  Nicholas  Devereux, of
Salem, who  died  2  Alarch, 1848 ;  Solomon Martin Jenkins, 
476                NECROLOGY OF  ALUMNI            [1862-63.

of Easton, Aid., Avho died 15 Alay, 1848; John  Hubbard, of
South Berwick, Ale., Avho died 3 October, 1848.
   1829.—Dr. AVilliam Young died in Hingham,  Alass.,
1 July, 1863, aged 54 years.   He  Avas son of Alexander and
Alary (Loring) Young, and Avas  born in Boston, 12 January,
1809.   He was fitted for college in the Boston  Latin School,
where a Franklin medal was awarded  to  him in 1825 for his
good  scholarship.    AVhile  in college,  he did  not associate
much  with his classmates.    After   graduating,  he  studied
medicine with Dr.  George Cheyne Shattuck (D.C. 1803) ; and
received his degree of M.D. in 1834,  Avhen he opened an office
in Essex  Street, Boston.   After a few years, he relinquished
the practice of his profession, and removed  to  Scituate, and
subsequently to Hingham, Avhere he remained until his death.
   1833. — Col. Fletcher AVebster Avas killed at the  second
battle  of  Bull Run, Va.,  29 August, 1862, aged 49  years.
He  AA-as  son  of  Hon.  Daniel  (D. C.  1801)   and  Grace
 (Fletcher)  AVebster,  and Avas born  in Portsmouth,   N.PL,
23 July, 1813.  He Avas fitted for college at the Boston  Latin
 School.   He held a respectable rank of scholarship ; and such
was his popularity with his associates, that he was chosen class-
orator at  the conclusion  of their collegiate  studies.    After
leaving college, he studied law with his father;  was admitted to
the Suffolk bar,  and practised his profession in Boston.  He
was private-secretary to his father during a portion of the period
when the latter held the office of secretary of  state under John
 Tyler's administration.  In 1843, he became secretary of lega-
tion under Hon.  Caleb Cushing,  Avho  was then sent  out as
minister to China.   In 1847,  he was representative to the state
legislature.  In 1850, he was appointed surveyor of the  port of
 Boston ; an office  which he held until the spring of 1861, when
he was removed.   Immediately afterAvards, on the breaking-out
 of the war, he proceeded to raise a regiment;  which Avas one of
 the earliest for the  three-years' service.  In July of that year,
 he proceeded to  the seat  of war; and  from that time he was
 assiduously devoted to the practical duties of the field,  sealing
 and  crowning his  career  by his death in  battle.    A  few 
1S62-63.]            OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.               477

weeks  previously, he was granted a furlough to return home,
and attend the funeral of his youngest daughter, aged thirteen
years.   He  was also  ill himself,  and needed rest.   He was
urged to address mass-meetings to aid enlistments in Alassachu-
setts ; but his physician forbade  the exertion.  During the year,
he had belonged to  the corps of Gen. Banks, whom he highly
respected and esteemed;  but was  subsequently transferred to
the corps of Gen. AlcDowell.   He  died  as the great defender
of the Constitution would have been willing to see a son die, —
fighting  for the defence of the Union.
   He married Caroline Story AVhite,  daughter  of Stephen
AVhite, of Salem.   The  issue of this marriage was four  chil-
dren,— two sons and  two  daughters, — of whom both of the
sons and one daughter, with their mother, survive.
    1836. — Grenville  Tudor  Phillips, of Boston, died at
the hous'e of his brother, George William Phillips, in Saugus,
Alass., 25 Alay, 1863, aged  46 years.   He Avas  the youngest
son of Hon.  John  (H.C. 1788)  and Sally (AValley) Phillips,
and Avas  born in Boston, 14 August, 1816.   His father, Avho
was son  of AVilliam and Margaret (Wendell) Phillips, was born
in Boston, 26 November, 1770 ; was an eminent laAA-yer; was
president of the senate of Alassachusetts ;  and was elected, in
Alay,  1822, the first mayor of Boston.  He died 29 Alay, 1823,
just at the close of the year of his mayoralty.  His mother was
daughter of  Thomas   and  Sarah  (Hurd) AValley; was  born
25 Alarch, 1772 ; and died 4 November, 1845.  Pie was fitted
for college at the Boston Latin School.   After leaving college,
he studied laAV  in  the office of Hon. Peleg Sprague  (H.C.
1812) and AVilliam Gray (H.C.  1829).   He was admitted to
the bar  in 1839, and began the practice  of his  profession in
Boston.   Soon after the death of his mother, he went to Europe,
where  he remained a  few  years, and then returned home; but
his parents being dead, and the family broken up,  he returned
to  Europe,  spent  some  time in  England and in  Spain, but
made  his permanent residence in France,  and was absent fifteen
years.   His death  was very sudden, caused  by  disease of the
heart,  of Avhich he had previously  had  one attack.  He was
ne\'er married. 
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   1839. —Samuel Eliot Guild, of Boston, died at his sum-
mer  residence at Nahant, 16 July, 1862, aged 42 years.   He
was  son of Benjamin  (H.C. 1804)  and Eliza (Eliot) Guild,
and Avas born in Boston, 8 October,  1819.  He Avas fitted for
college at the private school of Henry Russell Cleveland (H.C.
1827)  in Boston.   He held a high rank of scholarship in his
class, and graduated Avith distinction.   After leaving college, he
studied law for some time in the office of AVilliam Gray (H.C.
1829),  afterwards  with Theophilus Parsons  (H.C  1815),  of
Boston, and completed his studies  at the Law School in Cam-
bridge.   He  was admitted  to the Suffolk  bar  in  1841,  and
established himself in the practice of his profession in Boston,
where he resided until  his decease.   He was not ambitious  of
public life, and neAer  held  or sought  office.  In the  practice
of his profession, he pursued the course which was most conge-
nial to his taste, — a department which, though it does not bring
the practitioner conspicuously before the public, opens to him an
honorable and useful  career.  As a chamber-counsel, convey-
ancer and manager of property, his good  sense, his conscien-
tious fidelity to his  clients, and his quiet and uniform industry,
gave him all the success which his desires coveted or anticipated.
He was a gentleman of high moral instincts.  He was, in early
life, a communicant in the Rev. Dr. Gannett's church, and ever
walked worthily of his religious profession.   He was ever ready
to promote the best interests of the community; kind, charita-
ble, endowed with all  the  amenities of a gentleman, having  a
pleasant word for all with whom he might have intercourse.
   He  married, 9 February, 1847, Elizabeth H., daughter  of
Henry  Gardner Rice  (H.C. 1802), of Boston.   The issue
of this marriage was tAvo children, — a daughter and a son, —
who, with their mother, survive.
   1842. — Col. AVilliam Logan Rodman was killed in the
attack on Port Hudson, Miss.,  27 May, 1863,  at  the age  of
40 years.   He was the only son of Benjamin and Susan (Alor-
gan) Rodman, and was born  in New Bedford, Mass., 7 Alarch,
1823.   He Avas fitted for college  at the Friends' Academy in
New Bedford.  After  graduating, he  entered into mercantile 
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business.  He visited California during the  gold fever, and re-
turned,  by way of Calcutta  and the overland route,  through
Europe.   He was absent about two years ; and with this excep-
tion,  and his college-life,  he was  always a resident  of  New
Bedford.  He Avas a member  of the  common-council of that
city in 1852 ; and, in 1860 and in 1862, represented wards one
and two of his  native city in the legislature.  He  enlisted in
the service of his country from  the purest motives of patriotic
duty;  relinquishing the blessings of friends  and home, and all
the attractions  which Avealth could  command, to assume the
position of a volunteer  captain.  He was rapidly promoted  to
be major and lieutenant-colonel; and was the first officer  from
New  Bedford who had fallen  in  battle.  The illness of Col.
Ingraham devolved upon him  the command  of  the regiment
during the assault of the 27th and the preceding six-days' fight-
ing, Avherein he bore a most gallant  part.  The " New-Bedford
Alercury " thus  spoke of this  lamented officer : " It is fresh in
the memory of every one in this community, with what earnest-
ness  and zeal Col. Rodman  devoted himself to the successful
labor of raising a company of volunteers for the Avar, at a time
Avhen the work of recruiting moved heavily here.   His rapid
promotion from the  captaincy of this  company to the position,
first of major, and then of lieutenant-colonel,  of the regiment,
has been justified by the testimony of his superior officers, who
have Avarmly commended the  care taken of his men, and, most
of all, by his gallant conduct in action, where he proved  him-
self— as his friends knew he  would, in the  hour of danger —
faithful to his  duty,  a brave soldier.  There will be many to
mourn for him ; remembering how he  possessed the fine qual-
ities which mark the gentleman, the generous nature which made
him a true friend,  and that amiable disposition which endeared
him to his family and kindred."
   Col. Rodman was never married.
   1843.__Rev.  Arthur Buckminster Fuller  was killed
in the battle at  Fredericksburg, Va., 12 December,  1862, aged
40 years.  He was the third son of Hon. Timothy (H.C. 1801)
and  Alargaret  (Crane) Fuller, and was born in Cambridge, 
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 Alass., 10 August, 1*22.   At the age of twelve, he spent one
 year at Leicester Academy.   He Avas fitted for college by his
 sister Alargaret (who afterAvards  married  Count Ossoli),  at
 Groton, and Airs. Ripley, Avife of Rev. Samuel Ripley, at Wal-
 tham.  During his college course, he united Avith the church con-
 nected with the university.  Immediately after  graduation, he
 purchased Belvidere Academy, in  Belvidere,  Boone county, 111.,
 in which, assisted by a competent corps of instructors, he taught
 for the two succeeding years.   During this time he occasionally
 preached, as a missionary, in Belvidere and destitute places. He
 was a member of the Illinois conference of Christian and Uni-
 tarian ministers, and by them licensed to preach.   Plis first ser-
 mon was preached October, 1843, in Chicago, to the Unitarian
 church then under the charge of Rev. Joseph Harrington (H.C
 1833).   In 1845, he returned  to New England;  entered, one
 year in  advance, the Cambridge  Theological School, where he
 graduated in 1847.   After preaching three months at  AVest
 Newton, he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Unitarian
 society in Alanchester, N.H.,  over which he Avas  ordained 29
.March, 1848, and remained there a little  more than five years,
 when he resigned his charge, and was installed over the NeAv
 North Church in Boston, 1 June, 1853.   Failing health  induced
 him to resign his city pastorate, and close his labors there, 31
 July, 1859.  He accepted, however, a call for six months to the
 charge over the Unitarian church in AVatertown, Alass., which
 was afterwards reneAved for an indefinite time.  In  1854, he Avas
 chaplain of the house of representatives in the legislature; and,
 in 1850, he was chaplain of the  senate.   In  1855, he  was  se-
 lected to deliver a bi-centennial oration, by the citizens of Groton,
 Mass., on the two-hundredth anniversary of the  settlement  of
 that tOAvn; which he did on the 31st of October of that year.
 After the Avar broke out,  he determined to devote himself to the
 cause of his country.   He was appointed chaplain  in the army,
 11 August, 1861; and he then resigned his charge  of his society
 in AVatertown.  He proceeded to  the seat of Avar, where he
 continued until his death.   At the battle  of  Fredericksburg, he
 reported himself  to  Capt.  Dunn, of  Company  D, Nineteenth 
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Regiment, whose company was  deployed as skirmishers  in the
principal street, and said he  wanted to do something for his
country.   He  took  a  musket, and in five minutes fell  dead,
pierced by a rebel  ball.
   Mr. Fuller was a gentleman of great enthusiasm,  an ener-
getic preacher,  untiring in the pursuit of the objects at  which he
arrived;  and, in his patriotic zeal  in behalf of his country, he
sacrificed his life.
   He married, 18 September, 1850, Elizabeth  G. Davenport,
daughter of Joseph G. and Alary H. Davenport, of Andover,
Mass.   She. died 4  March, 1856.  He married,  for his  second
Avife, 28 September, 1859, Emma Lucilla Reeves, who survives
him.  He left three children.
   1843.—Seth AVebb died in Scituate, Alass., 31  August,
IS62, aged 39 years.   He was son of Seth and Eliza (Dunbar)
AVebb, and was born in Scituate, 14 February, 1823.  He was
prepared for college, partly at a  private school in Hingham,
Alass. ; partly at the academy in Bridgewater; and from  May,
1837, to August, 1839, at  Phillips Academy in  Exeter, N.H.
He held a distinguished rank of scholarship in his class.   After
leaving college, he  passed  the  time  from  November,  1843, to
June,  1844,  in  travelling;  having  gone to  New  Orleans,
Jamaica, and Cuba, back to New Orleans, up the river to Cin-
cinnati, and through the country home.  He then pursued the
study of the  law in the office of Hon. George  Tyler  Bigelow
(H.C. 1829) and Manlius  Stimson  Clarke (H.C. 1837), and
afterwards with Hon. Charles  Greely Loring (H.C. 1812).  He
Avas admitted to the Suffolk bar in Boston,  at the July term of
the Court of Common Pleas; and  1  October, 1845, went into
practice with O. Z. Chapman,  Esq., the partnership  continu-
ing until 1848.   From January, 1847, to  the autumn of
1848, he kept  a law-office  also in Brighton, Alass., where he
resided most of the time.   In the fall of 1848, he gave up his
Brighton office and his connection with Mr. Chapman.   He then
opened an office in Boston, which  he  continued  until  1 Alay,
1851, when  he went into  partnership in Boston with Charles
Gideon Davis (PLC 1840), under  the firm of Davis and AVebb.
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In 1858, he removed to Ncav York, where he was admitted to
the bar, and practised there during that and the following year.
He then returned, and practised a short time in his native place
(Scituate), until he gave up his  profession on account of ill
health.   In July,  1861, he was appointed United-States com-
mercial agent at Port-au-Prince, in Hayti; Avhither he repaired,
and remained, until, on account of serious illness, he got leave of
absence, and returned to his native place, Avhere he died, after a
long illness, of consumption.
   He married, in Boston, 18 November, 1852, Helen Gibbons,
daughter.of George AI.  and Mary D.  (Billings) Gibbons (ha\'-
ing been changed from Gibbens, which was the original name).
They had no children.  His wife  died very suddenly, 16 June,
1858.
   1847. — George  Andrews died in Salem, Mass., 26 Au-
gust, 1862, aged 38 years.  He was son of John Hancock  and
Nancy (Page)  Andrews, and was born in  Salem, 13 March,
1824.   His father  was a merchant  of Salem, and  died some
years  since.   His   mother was daughter of  Samuel Page, of
Danvers, and Rebecca (Putnam)  Page, of Sterling,  and was  a
direct  descendant  of Gen. Israel Putnam.  He was  fitted for
college at the Salem public Latin School, under the instruction
of Oliver  Carlton  (D.C. 1824).   After  leaving college, he
studied law in the office of Hon. Asahel Pluntington, of Salem
(Y.C. 1819) ; and was  admitted to the Essex bar in due  course.
He practised his profession in  Salem  during his life.  He  was
a representative from Salem to the  legislature in 1858 ; was for
many  years a member of the school-committee, a justice of the
peace and quorum, a special-justice of the Salem Police Court,
a member of the Essex Institute, a trustee of the Salem Athe-
naeum, a trustee, secretary, and treasurer of the Plummer Farm
School, and vice-president of the Salem Lyceum.  In his death,
his native city lost a conscientious, faithful, upright  man.  By
his will, in  addition to  several private legacies, he bequeathed
to the city of Salem $1,500, the income of which is to be given
to the high-school scholars most distinguished, not for scholarship
only, but  for faithful and  correct deportment.  If this dispo- 
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483
sition of the fund is refused by the school-committee, it is  then
to be appropriated to furnish fuel for poor and destitute families ;
$300 to  the  Salem  Marine Society;  $500 to the Seaman's
AVidoAv and Orphan Association ;  $500 to the Seaman's Orphan
and  Children's Friend Society ;  $500  to the Essex Institute;
$100 to the Fraternity of Odd Fellows.
   He Avas never married.
   1848. —John Franklin Goodrich died of brain-fever, in
the  rear of Vicksburg, Miss.,  4 June, 1863, aged 36 years.
He was son of Allen and Mary (Emerson) Goodrich, and was
born in Mount  "Vernon,  N.H.,  13 August, 1826.   He was
fitted for  college by the wife of Rev.  Samuel Ripley,  of  AVal-
tham, Alass.   After graduating, he was employed as a clerk, one
year, in one of the manufacturing companies in Waltham.  He
then went to California, where he  remained five years; and on
his  return settled in Epworth, Dubuque  county,  lo.  When
the rebellion broke out, he felt it his duty to enlist; and went into
camp in Iowa, 15 September, as  a private  in the Twenty-first
Regiment, for three years.   He was always in the  advance  in
every engagement, and was the first to enter the rifle-pits in the
charge of Black River; and was in the thickest of the fight in
the  attempt to carry Vicksburg by storm, in Avhich his  company
lost thirty-three men in killed, wounded, and missing.   He was
in ill health when he went into this, his last battle;  and, though
 he came out unharmed, he was  immediately taken with a  fever,
 which, together with the previous severe marching and fighting,
 terminated fatally.  Among his classmates, he was always con-
 sidered as modest, unpretending, intimate with but few of  them,
 leading a religious life; and at a meeting  of his  class, several
 years after he left college, he was duly remembered,  with a wish
 that he might become as rich as he was good.
     He  married, 12  September,  1857, Marion Pratt,  of  IoAva,
 whose parents were originally from Connecticut.   The issue of
 this marriage Avas three  children,—two sons and  one daugh-
 ter,__who,  Avith their mother,  survive him.
     1848. — Col. William  Oliver  Stevens died from inju-
      received in the  battle near  Chancellorsville, Va., 5  Alay,
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484               NECROLOGY  OF ALUMNI            [1862-63.

1863, aged 36 years.  He was son of AVilliam (H.C 1*19)
and Eliza Leach  (AVatson) Stevens, and Avas born in  Belfast,
Me., 3 February, 1828.   His father  AA-as  born in  Andover,
Mass., 21 January, 1799; was  a lawyer in Andover, but re-
moved to LaAvrence, AA'here he noAV resides ;  and is judge of the
Police Court in that city.  His paternal grandfather was a soldier
in the revolutionary war, and Avas  in the battle  of Bunker Hill.
His mother was born  in Boston, 22 Alarch,  1802 ; was daugh-
ter of George and Eliza AVatson,  and  grand-daughter of John
AVatson, of Clark's Island, Plymouth, formerly president of the
Pilgrim Society.   The subject of this notice was fitted for col-
lege  at  Phillips  Academy, Andover.   After graduating, he
studied law, during a  year and a half, with his father,  and, for a
year and a  half afterwards, with Hon. Thomas Wright (H.C
1842), of Lawrence.   He practised his  profession, with much
success, at Newmansville, Fla., for ten  months, but was obliged
to lea\'e on account of the debilitating influence of the climate.
He was summoned on one occasion, at  midnight, to the prison
grates, as counsel for  a man who  had  just been committed on
a charge of murder.   A  hideous  countenance met his  glance
through the grates ; and, upon his  asking the name of his client,
the answer was, "AVilliam Stevens!"   In 1852, he went  into
the practice of his  profession  in Dunkirk, N.Y.  In 1859, he
was elected, by a very flattering vote, district attorney of Cha-
tauque county, in which Dunkirk is situated ; filled the office for
two years, to  the great acceptance of  the bench, the bar, and
the whole people;  and resigned  the unexpired term of three
years for the  military service  of his country, in the  spring of
1861.   He  married,  23 May,  1855,  Virginia I.  Grosvenor,
daughter of Hon. Godfrey  Grosvenor, of Geneva, N.Y.   By
this marriage  he had  two sons, — George AVatson, seven years
of age at the time of his father's death,  and AVilliam GrosA'enor,
twenty months ; and one daughter, who died in infancy.
   Col. Stevens joined the  Excelsior Brigade, at Staten Island,
N.Y., as captain of a company raised in  Dunkirk;  was elected
major before leaving Staten Island  ; took a conspicuous  part in
the battles of Williamsburg, —where he  was slightly wounded, 
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and Avhere his regiment lost over two hundred men, — of Fair
Oaks, of AVhite-oak Swamp, and Malvern Hill; losing in the
last-named battle sixty-one out of three hundred men.   He was
commissioned colonel of the Third Excelsior Regiment on the
10th of October, 1862 ; his commission dating from 6  Sep-
tember.   His regiment was attached to the Third Army Corps,
under Gen.  Sickles.   He  led  it at the bloody battle of Chan-
cellors ville, on  Sunday, the 3d of May, 1863.    The  battle
began at daylight.  His horse was shot under him at about six
o'clock ; after which he headed  his regiment on foot.   At about
half-past  seven  he received a mortal Avound, from a minie ball,
through his chest.  A captain and two privates of his  regiment
were in the act of raising him to carry him from the field, Avhen
the officer Avas shot.   A private received his sword, with the in-
junction,  " Carry it to  my  AA'ife;  remember me  to my boy."
He was conveyed to a hospital within the  rebel lines,  about
a mile  from  the Chancellor  House, where he was kindly cared
for by our OAvn surgeons and by the  enemy, bearing his  suffer-
ings without a murmur or a groan;  during most  of the time
speaking Avith cheerfulness and hopefulness;  and,  during his
moments  of  delirium,  speaking as to his command, "Forward,
men ! steady !"   He died, without a struggle, at eight o'clock on'
Tuesday evening, 5 May.   Immediately after the fall of Col.
Stevens, a flag of truce was sent into the enemy's lines to recover
him ; but Gen. Lee Avould not receive it.   The general in imme-
diate command of the Excelsior Brigade on that day, in writing
to a friend in Boston, said, "The Excelsior did splendidly, and
lost heavily ;  but no one  is to be  so  much regretted as Col.
Stevens, who Avas killed in my sight.  He was truly a splendid
officer, and magnificently brave ; in fact, too good a man to be a
soldier,  and food for powder : for he was a fine lawyer, and has
left an interesting wife and boys.  It was the most terrific fight
I have ever passed through."
   D*\  Butler, a surgeon in the rebel army,  told the father  of
Col. Stevens, who AA'ent within their lines to  recover his son's
body, and who remained there  ten hours, that the appearance
and bearing  of Col. Stevens were  so attractive and soldierly, 
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that  he called  several officers of the  confederate army to  his
room,  to witness  his  manly beauty  and  demeanor.    Rev.
George Patterson,  chaplain of the  Third North-Carolina Vol-
unteers (rebel),  finding him in a  room with  fourteen  other
Avounded men, was  attracted to his person, procured for  him a
bed  and a private room :  for thirty-six hours he watched over
him  as his own father, washed his body, bathed  his temples,
gave him medicine and nourishment;  spoke Avith him of  his
wife, his boys, his parents,  and his friends, and commended him
in prayer to  God; closed his eyes in death; caused him, after
death, to be dressed in his own uniform  ; took from his neck the
locket of his wife ; his money, bills, and change from his pocket,
with all  his private papers; folded  them in an envelope, and
caused them to be sent to his wife.   This  chaplain said to our
informant, " I  was born in Boston.  My father was a Greek :
my mother,  if alive,  resides  in Raynham, Alass.   Go and see
her; tell her  of  her  son; for she  does  not know that I am
alive."
   Soon after he was carried into the hospital, Col. Stevens was
asked by the surgeon in attendance, " What regiment do you
belong to?"   The  reply was, "The Excelsior."—"Does that
regiment belong to  the Eleventh Corps?"—"No, sir," was the
emphatic reply: " my corps never runs from the  enemy !"
   Upon the death of Col. Stevens, resolutions, in the highest
degree honorable to his fame  as a soldier, a laAvyer, a citizen,
as a man, were adopted by the officers of the  Excelsior Brigade,
by the Supreme Court of New York in Chatauque county,  by
the members of the bar, and by the citizens  of Dunkirk.
   1849. —John Pegram May was  killed in the second bat-
tle of Bull Run,  Va., 29 August, 1862, aged 31 years.  He
Avas  son  of David May,   of Petersburg,   Va.,  and  Maria
AV. Pegram, of Booneville, Ara. ; and was born  in Petersburg,
18 November,  1829,  the  oldest  of five  boys and tAvo girls.
He Avas  married,  15  Alay,  1850,  in  the First Presbyterian
Church in Petersburg, by  Rev. A. B. Van Zandt, to  Alary
Dandridge, daughter of the late Nathaniel Hanna, AI.D.  He
Avas killed while in the rebel  service. 
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OF HARVARD COLLEGE.
487
   1850.—Henry Edson Hersey died in Hingham,  Mass.,
24 February, 1863, aged 32 years.  He was son of  Capt.
Stephen and Alaria (Lincoln) Hersey, and was born in Hing-
ham,  28 May, 1830.   His father, who was son of Jonathan
and Ruth (Nichols) Hersey, was born in Hingham, 3 Septem-
ber, 1797.   He was a shipmaster,  and was  lost at sea,  having
sailed oh a voyage several years ago, and the vessel never being
heard of afterwards.  His mother was daughter of Welcome
and Susanna  (Gill) Lincoln, and was born in Hingham, 16
September, 1806, where she still resides.   The subject  of this
notice early manifested a  scholarly taste ; and, after going through
the customary course  of instruction provided by  the  public
schools  of his native town, he was fitted  for college at Derby
Academy in Hingham, under the tuition of Luther Barker Lin-
coln  (H.C. 1822).  He entered the sophomore class in 1847,
in Avhich he  at once took a high rank, and won the esteem of
his associates, both  by  his  attainments as a scholar, and  his
demeanor as  a gentleman.   At commencement, the  salutatory
oration  Avas  assigned to him.  After leaving college,  he was
employed as a private teacher in Charlestown, N.H. ; studying
law,  at the  same time, in the office  of Plon. Edmund Lambert
Cushing (H.C.  1827).   He afterwards  continued his pro-
fessional studies in Boston in the office of Hon.  Peleg AVhitman
Chandler (BoAvd. C.  1834), and then completed his preparatory
course in the office of Judge John Phelps Putnam (Y.C. 1837).
He Avas admitted  to the  Suffolk  bar in September,  1854, and
entered  upon the practice of his profession in Boston ; opening
an office also in his  native town, Avhich he made his place  of
residence.  Soon after establishing himself in business, he began
to be honored with important and responsible trusts  by  his
townspeople.   He was  repeatedly chosen a  member  of  the
school-committee, in which capacity he rendered much efficient
and valuable service.   He was one  of the trustees of Derby
Academy, and in that office his fine scholarship  and  his zeal  in
promoting the work of sound and liberal culture were exerted
in a way that was  creditable to himself, acceptable  to his col-
leagues, and  satisfactory to the public.   For several years he 
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was  superintendent of  the First-Parish  Sunday School.  By
a diligent use of his talents, and faithful attention to business, he
had  put  himself in a way to obtain a successful practice.  The
future was looking fair and promising, when his health began to
fail, and, sadly to his disappointment, in the fall of 1861, he was
obliged to relinquish the duties of his profession ;  and he made
a voyage across  the  Atlantic,  accompanied  by his  wife, and
passed some months in Spain and the south of France.  Soon
after his return, in the summer of 1862, it became evident his
health AAras not materially improved ; and, after remaining a short
time in Hingham, he sought the  relief Avhich he hoped the cli-
mate of New Hampshire might afford.  There he remained a feAv
months, AA'hen his vital energies had become so exhausted, that
he once more returned to  the quiet repose and loving care of
home.    Here  the slow  Avasting  of consumption  terminated
in his decease at his mother's residence.
   He married,  20 March,  1856, Catharine,  only daughter of
Col. H. H.  Sylvester, of Charlestown, N.H.
   1851.—William Nye  Davis,  of  Boston, died in Nice,
France, 24  February, 1863, aged 32 years.   He was  son of
John AVatson (H.C. 1810) and Susan Holden (Tallman)  Davis,
and was born in Boston, 2 December, 1830.   He began his pre-
paratory studies for college at the Boston Latin School, where he
remained nearly five years, leaving in the spring of 1847, when
he became a pupil of Shattuck Hartwell  (H.C.  1844),  who was
at that time  a tutor in college, with Avhom he continued until he
entered the freshman class at  the beginning of the second term,
                                 ©      o                   7
February, 1848.   After graduating, he began the study  of law
in theLaAV School in Cambridge, and completed his studies under
the  instruction of AVilliam Howard Gardiner  (H.C. 1816), of
Boston.  On  his admission  to the Suffolk bar,  he  established
himself in the practice  of his profession in. Boston.
   He married, 24 Alarch, 1856, Mary C, daughter of AVilliam
Howard  Gardiner,  of Boston.   They  had no children.   In
1860, on account  of  pulmonary affection, he went to  France,
accompanied by his Avife, for the  benefit of his  health.   AVhile
residing in Nice, he met with a most heartrending affliction,  on 
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OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
489
the 8th or 9th  of February,  1863, by the sudden  death  of his
wife, caused by her clothes accidentally taking fire.  This sad
event  completely  overcame  him.   He  was  soon  afterwards
attacked twice  by severe hemorrhage from the lungs, arid  sur-
vived his wife  only about two weeks.
    1851.—Alajor William  Dwight Sedgwick died at Kee-
dysville, Md., 30 September, 1862, of wounds received  at the
battle of Antietam, 17th  of  the  same month,  aged 31  years.
He  was the only  son of Charles and  Elizabeth (Dwight)
SedgAvick, and was  born in Lenox, Mass., 27 June, 1831.   At
the age of fourteen years, his father sent him to Illinois, where
he  spent a summer with a farmer, who was a relative, and who
then lived in a log-house ; where he learned and performed every
kind of farm-work of Avhich a boy of that age  is capable.  His
father believed, that, without  some personal knowledge and expe-
perience of labor, he could not have a  proper sympathy with
laboring men.   He spent  one year at a French school in New
York, and one in a boys' school taught by Rev. Samuel P. Parker
(H.C. 1824) in Stockbridge, Alass. ; and pursued the  studies
preparatory to admission into college under the instruction of
his mother, and at the academy in Lenox.  After leaving  col-
lege, he spent a winter in a law-office ; then went  abroad,  and
studied a portion of his professsion, first in the University of
Gottingen, and then in that of Breslau.   He was abroad about
seventeen months.  Soon  after his  return, he entered the Cam-
bridge LaAv School, where he remained a year,  and then  estab-
lished himself as a laAvyer in St. Louis, Mo.  After the breaking-
out of the war, he forsook his profession,  and was commissioned
as a lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Regiment.  He went
into the service with the regiment;  was made ordnance-officer
of Gen. Banks's corps ; and was soon promoted to  the rank of
major on the staff of his kinsman, Gen. Sedgwick, with many
and weighty duties faithfully  discharged.   All through the fear-
ful  battles before Richmond, he  went with little food,  almost
without sleep, for days, worn down with fatigue and exhaustion,
fighting at every step,  and winning the praise  of his chief.   In
the great battle  of Antietam, while attempting to rally  and
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re-form a regiment in some disorder, he received a fatal Avound.
Seven hours and a half— from half-past eight  in  the  morning
until  half-past  three in  the  afternoon — he lay  on the hard
ploughed ground;  while  the shells, the cannon-balls,  and the
bullets of the foe were showering  over and  around him.  As
he was lying there, his body from his waist to his feet para-
lyzed, and unable to move, he felt for  his diary, and wrote in it
a feAv modest, manly Avords, " Say that  he tried to do his duty ;"
and making some suggestions in behalf of his family.   At the
close of a long letter, in which he gave his share of the dreadful
news  and sufferings of  the  retreat from before Richmond, he
said, "Aly country is welcome to every drop  of  my blood."
He was fully persuaded that the war  would  be fruitless, com-
paratively, unless slavery were completely eradicated ; and said,
" I love my wife and children as well as any man;  but  I  would
engage never to see them again, if thereby I could secure the
eradication of slavery."
   He married in  1857,  at Hanover,  Germany, Louisa Frede-
rica Tellkampf, daughter  of Professor Adolf Tellkampf, of that
place.  He left three little girls, the youngest of whom he never
saw.   She was born in July, 1861, after he had enlisted in the
army, and bidden what proved to be his last farewell.
   1851.—Rev. Theodore Tebbets died in New-York city,
29 January, 1863, aged 31 years.  He was son of Hon. Noah
(Bowd. C. 1822) and Mary Esther (Woodman) Tebbets,  and
was born in  Parsonsfield,  Ale., 1 April, 1831.   His father, the
son of James (a blacksmith) and  Alary (Nutter) Tebbets, was
born in Rochester, N.H., 26 December, 1802; was a lawyer
and circuit-judge of the Court of Common Pleas of New Hamp-
shire ;  and moved from Parsonsfield to Rochester, in November,
1834 or 1835, where he died 9 September, 1844.   His  mother
was  daughter  of  Jeremiah  Hall  (D.C.  1794),  a lawyer of
Portsmouth, N.H., and Sarah (Chase) AVoodman ; was born
in Portsmouth, 12  January, 1808 ; and Avas grand-daughter of
Stephen Chase (H.C. 1764), a merchant of Portsmouth.   In
Alay, 1845, the subject of this  notice  went to Parsonsfield to
live on a  farm ;  and in the following August left,  and entered 
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Phillips Academy in  Exeter,  N.H.   In August,  1847,  he
entered Bowdoin College, but returned to Exeter to fit for ad-
mission, a year in advance, at Harvard,  as all his friends  went
to Cambridge.  He procured a dismission from Bowdoin, and
entered the  sophomore class of  Harvard,  in  August, 1848.
Being entirely without property, he was supported by his OAvn
exertions, and by the funds for assisting  poor students at Exeter
and Cambridge.  He taught school, in  the  winter of 1847-8,
in Rochester, N.H.   He  attained a high rank of scholarship in
college.  He took the first Bowdoin prize  for English composi-
tion, in the senior year, for a dissertation on " The Characteristics
of a Philosophical History; "  also the prize for  Latin  prose
composition, for a dissertation, "De Sepulchris Etruscis;" and,
at commencement, the fifth English  oration Avas assigned to him.
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After graduating, he entered the Divinity School at Cambridge,
Avhere  he remained till February, 1852.  From Alarch, 1852,
to July,  1853,  he was teacher of the ancient languages in Exeter
Academy ; and from October, 1854, to July, 1855, was  proctor
in college.   He was ordained as pastor of the Smith Unitarian
Church in Lowell, as successor of Rev.  Henry A. Aliles (B.U.
1829), 19 September, 1857.   He  preached  two Sundays, and
Avas taken Avith a typhoid-fever, from Avhich he did not  recover
entirely for a year.   He  resigned his pastorate in  Alay, 1856,
and spent the summer at the Isle of  Shoals.  In January, 1857,
he received a call from  the First  Parish in Medford,  as suc-
cessor of Rev. John Pierpont;  and was installed 15 April, 1857.
In the  autumn of 1858, he was attacked Avith symptoms  of pul-
monary  disease,  AA'hich  resulted in  a  slight  hemorrhage  in
February, 1859 : he had preached in  the mean Avhile, with the
exception of one Sunday.  He left NeAv York for the South,  14
February, 1859, and spent the winter in Savannah and Florida;
but returned in  the spring, and resumed preaching.  He preached
three half-days, and then was attacked with a severe hemorrhage
from the lungs  ; Avent  to  the Isle of  Shoals, 1 August, Avhere
he remained  till  18 November,  gaining health and  strength.
He Avent to Savannah again, 14 January, 1860; and thence to
Florida, where he remained till 3 Alay  ;  thence to Savannah, 
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and returned to Medford.  Finding  the life of a minister Avas
out of the question, he sent in a peremptory resignation ; preached
for the  last time,  12 July;  and his resignation Avas  accepted
1 August,  1859.
   He afterwards went into business as a coal-dealer in Boston,'
and opened an office  at No.  3, Merchants' Exchange ; but was
soon afterwards obliged to relinquish it on account of his health.
The closing years of his life tested and testified to  the  strength
of his religious faith.  AVith unsurpassed  patience, a  patience
that veiled  itself with cheerfulness, asking neither for sympathy
nor pity, he submitted to the  loss of  all his  most cherished pur-
suits.   Not-only the profession he so loved, but all study and
continuous effort, must be relinquished ;  and yet no one ever
heard him refer to baffled hopes, or indicate that he was pecu-
liarly unfortunate.   His faith in the all-wise Father Avas the pillar
of fire through the darkness.
   His  printed works were several articles in the " Monthly Re-
ligious  Magazine; " also  a sermon  in the same magazine  for
May, 1858, on "The Revival; " "A Memoir of the late  Judge
Tebbets, of New Hampshire; "  "A Memoir  of William Gib-
bons."
   He married, 3  June,  1857, Ellen Sever, daughter of Col.
John and Anna Dana SeArer, of Kingston, Mass.  They had
one son, John Sever,  born 4  July, 1858.
   1852. — Dr. Samuel Foster Haven was  killed at the bat-
tle of Fredericksburg, 13 December, 1862, aged 30 years.   He
was the only son of  Samuel  Foster (H.C. 1826) and Lydia
Gibbon (Sears) Haven, and was born at the house of his grand-
father, Hon. Samuel Haven (H.C. 1789), in  Dedham, Mass.,
20  May,  1831.  In  August of the same year, he went with
his  parents to live in Dracut, Mass., where they resided a little
more than  one year.  They then removed to Lowell, where  his
father practised law.  After living there  three  years, he  spent
the winter of 1835-6 in Dedham.   In April, 1836,  he was
sent to Salem to live with a private family.  About a  year  af-
terwards, he returned  to Dedham; and soon afterwards went to
a boarding-school in Needham, where he remained  three  years. 
1862-63.]
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493
In 1839, he went to live in AVorcester with his father, who had
removed thither in 1837, where he now resides, and holds the
office of librarian of the Antiquarian Society.  The subject of
this notice was fitted for college at the AVorcester High School.
   In January,  1853, he began  his  medical studies in the
office of Dr. Henry Sargent, of Worcester ;  and was next in the
Medical School  at Boston.   The  last year  of his studies, he
had the appointment of house pupil at  the  Alassachusetts  Gen-
eral Hospital.   He graduated at the Medical  College, 7 March,
1855 ;  and, the same year, he was  admitted  a member of the
Massachusetts  Medical Society.  In the summer  of the  same
year, he went abroad for professional improvement, with particu-
lar reference to the department of  ophthalmology.   He spent a
winter in Paris, and passed the following year partly* at Vienna
and  partly at  Berlin.  On  his  return to  Boston * he took an
office in Asylum Street; but, in the spring  of 1858, he removed
to AVorcester, where he proposed to attend  chiefly to diseases of
the eye.  At the beginning of the Avar, he immediately offered
to enter  the service; and,  Avhen  the  Fifteenth Massachusetts
Regiment was  organized,  he  joined  it as  assistant-surgeon.
The illness and absence of the senior-surgeon left him alone in
the medical care of the regiment for many months ; and, on the
ultimate retirement of that officer,  he was  commissioned in his
place.  During the whole  of his service, he devoted all his ener-
gies to the discharge of his  duties, and never left his post for
rest or recreation.  Believing it to be  his  duty to be where he
could render instant aid to the wounded, he always accompanied
his regiment into battle, entirely regardless  of personal exposure.
AVhen his regiment went into the engagement at Fredericksburg,
where he lost his life, he was remonstrated with by the medical
director of the division for wanting to go with them, and ordered
to report himself at the hospital; but his desire to be with the
men  was so urgent, that he was permitted  to accompany them :
and he was killed by a shell, while marching by the  side of the
color-bearer, 13 December,  1862.
    He had neither the faculty nor  disposition for  slighting any
part  of his duty ;  and, whatever he undertook to do, his nature 
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required him to do earnestly and thoroughly.  By his  presence
in the midst of the conflicts, he is said, by an officer, to have
saved lives that must otherwise have been lost for Avant of imme-
diate attention ; and the consciousness of such a possibility, in his
judgment, not only justified, but demanded, the personal expo-
sure of  the surgeon to the same  risks that Avere encountered by
the men.   He was a careful student,  and fond of literary and
scientific research.  Two  of his essays were printed;  one on
"Intestinal  Obstructions," and  one on " Cysterci Avithin the
Eye."   When he entered the army, he had nearly ready for the
press a chronological catalogue of books and pamphlets  printed
in this country from its settlement  to the period of the revolu-
tion, with an introductory chapter.  This was a continuation and
extension of a list which was begun by Isaiah Thomas, the author
of the " History of Printing in America," but never completed, or
arranged from the materials he had gathered.  He Avas in the
battles of Ball's Bluff, Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Savage's Station,
the seven-days' fighting on the retreat to Harrison's Landing,
Antietam (where  his regiment was A'ery badly cut to pieces), and
the first battle of  Fredericksburg.
   1852. — Capt. AVilliam Duncan McKim was killed in the
rebel  service in the battle of Chancellorsville, 3 May, 1863,
aged  30 years.    He  was son  of William and  Margaret D.
(Hollins) McKim, and was born in Baltimore, Md., 27 June,
1832.   His father was son of William  Duncan and  Susan
(Haslett, of the Eastern Shore of  Maryland) McKim,  and was
born  21 December,  1808 ;  is a banker in Baltimore; one of
their  most esteemed  citizens and straight-out union-men.  His
mother  was daughter of  John  Smith  and Rebecca  (Dugan)
Hollins, and was  born in Baltimore, April, 1810.  The subject
of this notice always lived in Baltimore ; was fitted for college.
by Michael R. McNally, and entered at the beginning  of the
second term of the sophomore year.
   1852.—Col.  Paul Joseph Revere  died of wounds  re-
ceived in the  battle of Gettysburg, Penn., 4 July, 1863, aged
30 years.  He was son of Joseph Warren and Mary  (Robbins)
Revere,  and was  born in Boston, 10 September, 1832.  His 
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father was son of Paul Revere of revolutionary history, who
changed his name from Revoir.  Paul's father's name was Apol-
los ;  was born in France ; went to the Isle of Guernsey when
young ;  and his father, Simeon, was obliged to leave the country
at the revocation of the edict of Nantes.   The mother  of the
subject of this notice was a daughter of Judge Edward Hutch-
inson Robbins (H.C. 1775), of Milton.  In 1839, young Re-
vere went to  Milton Academy, where he remained  four years
under Air. Alarsh;  then went about a year  and  a  half to the
Boston Latin School; then about a year to Rev. Samuel  Ripley
(H.C. 1804), of Waltham ; then about a year to Mr. AVilliam
Hathorne Brooks (H.C. 1827), of Boston; then to Dr. AV. A.
Davis, of Dorchester, previously of Roxbury ; then, about six
months  before entering the  sophomore class, was  Avith John
Brooks Felton (H.C. 1847), in Cambridge.  He did not study
any  profession after leaving college.   AVhen the war broke  out,
he volunteered his  services in behalf of his country.  He was
commissioned major in the Twentieth Regiment of Volunteers ;
AAas  in the battle of Ball's Bluff, where he was taken  prisoner,
carried to Richmond, and kept in close confinement for  several
months ; being one of the officers held by the rebels  as hostages
for the  rebel privateersmen.   After his exchange, he was pro-
moted to be colonel  of the TAventieth Regiment.
   He married, 17 March, 1859, Lucretia Watson, daughter of
Rev. AVilliam Parsons Lunt  (H.C.  1823),  of Quincy.  The
issue of this  marriage was two  children, — one son and one
daughter, — who, with  their mother, survive him.
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   1852.—Dr.  Robert Ware  died  in  AVashington,  N.C,
10  April,  1863, aged  29 years.   He  was  son  of Dr. John
(H.C. 1813) and  Helen (Lincoln)  AVare,  and was born  in
Boston,  2 September, 1833.   He was fitted  for college  at the
Boston  Latin School.  On leaving  college,  he determined  to
enter the medical profession.   He  began his studies under the
instruction of his father,  Avith whom he continued  until Alay,
1854 ; when he went to Europe, where he remained until Sep-
tember,  1855, spending about six months of the  time  in Paris,
studying in the French hospitals.   On his return, he continued 
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his studies AA'ith his father, and graduated  at the Aledical School
in 1856, Avhen he began the practice of his profession in Boston.
In July, 1857, he was appointed  one of the  district physicians
of the Boston Dispensary.   He was remarkably successful in
his practice;  which increased rapidly, as his  father Avas intend-
ing to relinquish the profession to his son.   On the breaking-
out of  the  war, he was one of the first physicians  to enter
the service of the Sanitary Commission,  and continued in its
service  until  the close of the  Peninsula  campaign in Virginia.
He was subsequently appointed surgeon  of  the Forty-fourth
Alassachusetts Regiment, with which he left for the seat of war.
On his arrival in North Carolina,  his arduous labors and ex-
posures to  the unhealthy climate  brought on a fever,  of which
he died, after a few days' illness.   Such  is the brief record of
a life  of stainless virtue,  and of modest, wise, and effective de-
votion to the public  service.   His  manly, thoughtful, earnest
simplicity indicated all  the ancestral virtues  that were shining
in his character.  Few gave  such promise of eminence in his
profession.   But one so wise,  so virtuous,  was well prepared to
sacrifice his life in the service of his country.
   He was never married.
   1852. — Major Sidney Willard was killed in the  battle of
Fredericksburg, Va.,  14 December, 1862, aged 31 years.  He
Avas son of Joseph (H.C. 1816) and Susannah Hicklin  (Lewis)
Willard, and was born in Lancaster, Mass., 3 February, 1831.
In 1831, he, with his parents,  removed  to Boston, which A\ras
his subsequent residence.   He was fitted for college at  the Bos-
ton Latin School.   While an  undergraduate,  he was a diligent
student, and held a respectable rank in his class.   In his  junior
year,  he taught school, during the winter vacation, in Deerfield,
Mass.  He was distinguished  for his athletic powers and his in-
vincible courage.  After graduating,  he  entered the  Harvard
Law School,  and remained there a little  more than one term.
From April,  1853, to May, 1854, he was teaching in  Charles-
tOAvn, N.H.,  and at the same time studying law in the  office of
Judges  Cushing and Gilchrist.   In June, 1854, he entered the
office  of Hon. Charles Greely Loring (H.C.  1812), of Boston. 
1862-63.]
OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
497
 He was  admitted to  the bar, 19 April, 1856.   In July, 1856,
 he went to the AVest, and returned to Boston, after an  absence
 of about three months.  In October, 1856, he opened an office
 in Court Street, Avhere he remained until he left for the seat of
 war.   His  moral character  was  irreproachable.  From moral
 conviction, he was strongly antislavery in his principles.  From
 1854, besides being occupied by his profession, he was more  or
 less  engaged in giving instruction to private pupils.   He wrote
 an article  entitled " A  Night in  a Wherry,"  which was pub-
 lished in the " Atlantic  Monthly " for October, strongly indica-
 tive of his  insensibility to fear.   In the summer of 1862, he
 determined to devote himself to the service  of his country ; and,
 having a taste for the military art,«vvas commissioned as  a major
 of the Thirty-fifth Regiment  of the Massachusetts troops.   He
 was employed for some time before his departure  in  drilling
 soldiers, at which he was very expert.
   He married*, 21 August,  1862, Sarah  Ripley, daughter of
 Augustus Henry Fiske (H.C. 1825), of Boston; and  left  the
 next day, with his regiment, for the seat of war; bidding, sad to
 say, a last fareAvell to his newly married wife.
   1853. — Lieut.-Col. AVilder Dwight died in a hospital,
 near Boonesborough, Aid.,  19  September,  1862, of  wounds
 received  in  the  battle of Antietam.   He was  son  of Wil-
 liam  (H.C.  1825)  and Elizabeth Amelia  (AVhite) Dwight,
 and  was  born in Springfield, Alass.,  23  April, 1833.   His
 father  was son of Hon. Jonathan Dwight (H.C. 1793); was
 born in  Springfield, 5 April, 1805 ; and was a lawyer in that
 place; but  subsequently  removed to Boston,  where  he en-
 gaged  in manufactures,  residing  in  Brookline.   His  mother
 was  a daughter  of the  late  Hon.  Daniel Appleton AVhite
 (H.C  1797), and  was  born  in Salem,  Mass., 4 August,
 1809.
   He was fitted for college at Phillips  Academy in  Exe-
ter, N.H.   He attained a distinguished  rank of scholarship in
his class, and graduated with  high honors.  Immediately after
graduating,  he entered the Law School at Cambridge, where he
o-ained the first prize in 1855.   He then  visited  Europe, where
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he spent fifteen months, travelling through Spain,  in company
Avith Hon. Alillard Fillmore.   On his return,  he  pursued his
laAv-studies  in  the  office  of   Hon.  Caleb  Cushing   (H.C.
1817),  the attorney-general of the United States;  and in that
of Hon. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (H.C. 1835),  and Horace
Gray, jun.,  Esq. (H.C.  1845).  He Avas admited to  the  bar
in 1856, and began practice in Boston in 1S58, Avhere  he soon
gave promise of future eminence in his  profession;  and no
man of  his age had a higher position at the bar AAdien  he  left
the profession for the  field.  He  had studied law  Avith great
assiduity; and his knowledge of the sciences was not only ex-
tensive and exact, but also  systematic and practical.   He  fre-
quently, during the four yftirs he  was in practice, appeared
before  the Supreme Court; and many of his arguments there
displayed  learning, research, and vigorous practical logic, which
promised to make him leader of  the profession.
   When the war  broke out, he  left his profession to serve
his country;  and, with  Col.  Gordon,  organized  the Second
Massachusetts Regiment;  one of the  first tAvo regiments which
entered the field under the  President's original call for three-
years' men.   In the summer of  1861, he Avas commissioned as
major,  and  served  through the  laborious  campaign  on  the
Potomac.    The Second  Alassachusetts,  under  Col.  Gordon,
covered the  disastrous retreat of Gen.  Banks  doAA'n the She-
nandoah.   At Winchester,  after  a display of individual cour-
age  and admirable presence of mind,  he was  taken prisoner,
but  was  immediately  paroled.   AVhen Col. Gordon,  for his
distinguished services,  was promoted  to  the rank of brigadier-
general, Major  Dwight became lieutenant-colonel  of the regi-
ment.   After his exchange, he returned to  active service ;  and
in the battle of Antietam,  16  September, 1862,  received his
mortal  wound.   He was distinguished for singular independ-
ence of character.   His thought was clear and Avell  defined, his
statements lucid, his convictions strong.   The same rare traits
adorned his short professional career; and, seconded by other
shining qualities, enabled  him  to achieve a reputation,  as a
military officer,  beyond that of most civilians.  His clearness 
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OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
499
of insight, his promptness of execution, his decision of charac-
ter, his insensibility to  fear, and his dignified familiarity, Avon
the confidence, the  admiration,  and the love of his command.
   1854. — Capt.  Richard  Chapman Goodavin  was  killed
in the battle at Cedar Alountain, Va.,  9 August, 1862,  at the
age of 28 years.   He was the oldest son of Ozias and Lucy N.
(Chapman) GoodAvin,  and was  born in Boston, 11  October,
1833.  He went to a private school in Boston until  1845, and
then entered the Latin school, Avhere he was fitted for college.
After graduating, he determined to pursue the mercantile profes-
sion ; and  in August, 1854,  he entered the  counting-room of
AVilliam Story Bullard, of Boston ; but soon afterwards went
abroad, where he  spent  several years in  foreign travel, and
returned in 1858.   In 1861, immediately after the breaking-out
of the rebellion, he raised a company of Alassachusetts  volun-
teers, of which he was appointed  captain; and was attached, as
Company K, to the Second Regiment,  under Col. George H.
Gordon.
   1854.—Edmund Rhett  died  in  Spartansburg, S.C, 15
February,  1863, aged 29 years.   He Avas  son of Hon. Robert
Barnwell  and  Elizabeth   (Burnet) Rhett,  and Avas  born  in
Charleston, S.C, 19 November, 1833.   His time, before enter-
ing college, Avas passed between AVashington, Charleston, and
his  father's plantation on  the  Ashepoo River.    He  returned
from AVashington in 1848 ; when his father resigned the seat he
had held in the lower house for about thirteen years.  He entered
the sophomore class  of the  South-Carolina College in  1850 ;
took an honorable dismission, with one hundred and ten others,
in December, 1852, on account of certain differences Avhich arose
between the students and the college-government;  and  entered,
in Alarch, 1853, the junior class, half advanced, at Harvard.  In
alluding  to himself,  he said, Avhen in college,   "As  my first
appearance  in  this Avorld of jests was amidst the  disturbances of
nullification in South Carolina, so probably will my life continue
through a  series of political struggles  and commotions  only ;
but the last act  which it  shall Avitness will be  more effective,
and more finally decisive for the maintenance of  the integrity of
my state, than the first." 
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   He afterwards studied laAv in  Charleston, and  intended  to
practise in California ;  but he afterAvards became assistant-editor
of the "Charleston  Alercury," of AA'hich  paper his  father Avas
proprietor.
   1854.—Lieut.-Col.  James  Savage  died  in  the hospital
in Charlottesville, Va.,  22  September, 1862, of wounds re-
ceived in the battle at Cedar Alountain on the  9th  of August,
aged  30 years.   He  AA'as the only son of Hon.  James  (H.C.
1803) and Elizabeth Otis  (Stillman) Savage, and Avas born  in
Boston, 21 April, 1832.   He Avas  fitted for college at  the Bos-
ton Latin School, and held a respectable, but not  distinguished,
rank in his class.
   The love of excellence, rather than the ambition  to  excel,
was  always a  controlling motive  in his life and conduct.  He
secured the respect of his teachers by the correctness and  purity
of his course, and was much beloved by his classmates for the
rare truth and nobleness of his character.   He early showed a
great love for music;  and this, with  the  study  of horticulture,
equally an object of his regard, filled all his leisure hours.   Soon
after leaving college, he Avent to Europe, where he remained tAvo
years, profiting by  the  instructions of  Professor Liebig and
others, at  Alunich and  Berlin, in  agricultural  chemistry, and
other departments ; visiting, with a student's  appreciation, the
galleries of art, and cultivating his taste for music.   Upon his
return, he was undetermined  as  to the path in life he  should
take, having no decided  taste for either of the so-called learned
professions,  and  having  found,  by six  months'  reading  of
law,  that the  confinement incident to them  was  incompatible
with his health.  AVith more than common muscular strength
and activity, a person  manly and vigorous, and presenting all
the external aspects of health, his  constitution  Avas such as  to
make sedentary employments pernicious, and much exercise  in
the open air necessary.   Fond of rural employments,  of Avhich
he had acquired no small  knoA\ledge from his  studies and ob-
servations  at  home and abroad, and enjoying nature Avith  a
poetical enthusiasm, he determined  to make  agriculture  his
profession;  and, with that vieAv, purchased a small farm  in the 
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town of Ashland, where, for two  years,  he spent most of his
time in the practical labors of  the husbandman.  In the  midst
of these  occupations,  he became  interested in the great ques-
tions of the day, and gave his  heartiest sympathy to  the  cause
of human freedom.   The strong love of justice inherited from
his father, showing itself in indignation  against wrong and  op-
pression in every form, was confirmed at this time by his reading
and reflection, and prepared him to  take  an active part in  the
defence of free  principles whenever they were assailed.  Fol-
lowing these convictions, as well as  his interest in the occasion
itself,  he attended the meetings in connection with the death of
John  BroAA'n, held  in December,  1860,  AA'here  he  remained
through the day, despite the insults' of a vulgar and excited mob,
and shoAved then, and on subsequent occasions, his determina-
tion, at all personal risks, to protect freedom of discussion, and,
as he said, " to give fair play."  AVith these  characteristics, it
need hardly be said that he responded  to the first call of his
country for defenders in the field  with a  deep and earnest  en-
thusiasm.   Already, in  anticipation of such a call, he had been
devoting himself to  the practice and study of military tactics as
a member of a drill-club, and  had shown his superior fitness for
the duties of a soldier.  AVith his  friends DAvight and Curtis,
he worked zealously in organizing  the Second Regiment of
Alassachusetts Volunteers,  since so distinguished for  its disci-
pline,  valor, and sacrifices ;  and, Avith his friend and lieutenant,
Henry Higginson, recruited the company placed under his com-
mand.   His regiment left Boston on the  8th of July,  1861.
Its subsequent career is  part of the history of the country.   In
all its fortunes, whether successful or  adverse,  Capt. Savage
bore a distinguished part.   During fourteen months  of his la-
borious service, he  never asked a  furlough ; nor was  he ever
absent from  his post, except when  suffering from a fever con-
tracted on picket-duty on  the Potomac.   The men  under his
command Avere  noted for their orderly conduct, as well as for
their endurance and unflinching courage in all the trials of camp
and march and battle-field.   AVith a heart as tender as it was
brave, his profession served to bring out more distinctly the gentle 
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and generous qualities, AA'hich, in times of peace, had made him so
dear to his kindred and friends.  This union of gentleness Avith
the sterner traits of character is illustrated by the incident, that
in the Shenandoah campaign, Avhile pursuing a squad of rebel
cavalry who had fired on our pickets, he  snatched from the
ground the  first floAver of  spring,  a  humble  hepatica, as  it
attracted his attention in the dry oak-leaves,  not relaxing for an
instant his  eager chase.   Of his  tender  thoughtfulness, Avhat
more touching evidence could be given than his offering of roses
to the dying German bugler of the NeAv-York  Eighth, at AVin-
chester, accompanied   by' kind Avords  in the  language that
recalled his  fatherland?
   The following tribute to Col. Savage's worth as a patriot and
soldier is copied from the " Boston Daily Advertiser," to which
it was contributed by  Col. Samuel AI.  Quincy, soon after the
news of Col. Savage's  death : —

   " Of Col. Sa\Tage's life previous to the Avar, of the services of the
regiment to which he belonged, and the manner  of his death,  otHers
have Avritten.  It is my desire simply to bear Avitness to the estima-
tion in Avhich his character Avas held,  and  the appreciation Avhich  it
received among his fellow-officers.  He was unh'ersally acknowledged
to have entered the service simply and entirely from his sense of duty,
and  conviction  of right.  With  others,  although  patriotism was,
beyond doubt, the underlying motive, still each man was conscious of
a variety of  inducements and reasons which influenced his final deci-
sion.   Not so with Savage :  the cause of freedom and right was to
be fought for; and, beyond that, he never thought of looking.  For
his character, as it was developed  and  brought to  our notice by the
varied duties  and experiences of the campaign, the feeling of admira-
tion was universal.  To  an almost feminine gentleness and amiability
he joined the indomitable energy  and  resolution which  became the
man.   When, before the regiment had  yet been in action, officers
around their camp- or picket- fires at night would discuss its probable
behavior, there Avas one universal sentiment; viz., that ' Jim Savage,'
at least, would fight, as it Avas once expressed, ' like Mr. Valiant-for-
Truth, until his sword clove to his hand :' and this prediction he avcII
fulfilled at Newtown,  Winchester, and Cedar Alountain ;  on which
last disastrous field he  fell, struck by two bullets.  As he  lay on the 
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503
field, he was found by Capt. Russell, whom he earnestly requested not
to remain, but to save himself; which request, it is needless to say,
that  officer disregarded, though at the expense of his  own safety.
Col.  Savage Avas taken to  Charlottesville,  where  it is gratifying to
think that he found friends, and Avhere, on  the 22d  of  October, 1862,
his mortal frame had no longer strength to retain the  soul of one of
the bravest Christian gentlemen that  ever drew sword for the right
since the  world  began.  He was the only man  ever  known to the
writer Avho seemed  fully to observe the title given to the model of
French knighthood, — Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche."

   1856.—Lieut.  Stephen George  Perkins  was killed in
the battle at  Cedar Alountain, Va.,  9 August,  1862, at the age
of 26 years.  He was son of Stephen H.  and Sarah S. (Sullivan)
Perkins, and was born  in  Boston,  18  September,  1835.   He
Avas  fitted for  college  partly by Thomas  Gamaliel  Bradford
(H.C. 1822),  and partly by AVilliam Parsons  Atkinson (H.C.
1838),   After graduation he traA'elled  in Europe, and returned
in October, 1857.  He joined the Law School in  Cambridge at
the  Alarch term in  1858 ;  and joined  the Scientific School in
September, 1859, as a  student in mathematics;  AA-here he re-
mained  until he  resolved to devote his services to aid in the
preservation  of the Union.  He  received a commission  as
second-lieutenant  in Company  H, of  the Second  Regiment,
under Col. George H. Gordon ;  Avhere he remained, discharging
his duty  Avith great ardor, until his life  was sacrificed in  defend-
ing the flag which was so dear to him.
   1857.—Capt. Hoavard Dwight  was killed by  guerillas
7 Alay,  1863, at  Courtableau,  on the  Mississippi River, Avhile
bearing  despatches  from his brother, Gen. DAvight,—to Avhose
staff he  was attached, — to Gen. Banks.  He  was son of  AVil-
liam  (H.C.  1825)  and Elizabeth Amelia  (AVhite)  DAvight,
and  was born in Springfield, Mass.,  29 October,  1837.   He
was  fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N.H.  After
graduating,  he Avent  to the West, where he was  engaged in
business  Avhen the war  broke out.  He immediately enlisted,
and  devoted  Avhat proved to be the remainder  of his life to the
sendee of his  country.   The manner  of his death is thus de-
• 
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scribed in a Xew-Orleans paper : " He left the headquarters of
his brother on the morning of the 4th ; and, proceeding rapidly
along  the  road from  Alexandria  to Franklin,  on  reaching
Courtableau, he was hailed by three rebel guerillas.  He stopped,
and asked  them avIio they  were; when  they  presented  their
revolvers, and asked him to dismount.   As there Avere three to
one, and the captain was unarmed,  he Avas forced to comply ;
remarking,  'I cannot help  myself,  and  therefore  surrender.'
But the heartless representatives  of the chivalry retorted,  ' We
don't want a prisoner :' and they immediately fired  two shots at
him, one of Avhich  took  effect  in his leg;  but the other, Avhich
proved mortal, passed through his head.   The  guerillas  then
left him lying on the road ; but the body was watched over by a
small  boy  who had  Avitnessed  the  cold-blooded  transaction,
and Avho afterwards related the circumstances to  some of Gen.
Dwight's cavalry which  happened to pass that Avay soon after,
and found the  body."
    His genial social qualities,  his unflinching bravery, and his
sterling  character, had endeared him to his fellow-officers;  and
his death and the manner of it will not be quickly forgotten.
    A meeting of the members of his class in college was held on
the 20th of May, and a  series  of resolutions passed expressive
of  their  sense  of  his merits as a genial companion,  a beloved
classmate; and " that the atrocious  circumstances of his  death
make it peculiarly a martyrdom ;  and that  his cherished memory
shall give a new earnestness  to our  loyalty to  the great  cause
in the defence  of which  he  fell."
    1857. — Samuel Breck  Parkman was killed in the battle
of  Antietam, Md., 17 September, 1862, aged  26 years.   He
Avas born in Savannah,   Ga.,  1 November, 1836.   He Avas
in  the rebel army, first-lieutenant   of Reed's  Battery,  from
Georgia; and was major upon Gen. Longstreet's staff Avhen he
Avas lulled.   He was left an orphan at an  early age, by the loss
of both parents in the steamer " Pulaski," which was destroyed
by  fire, when off the coast of North  Carolina, on her passage
from  Charleston  for Baltimore,  14  June, 1838.   Among the
names  of those lost were Mr.  S. B. Parkman, Alaster  Park-
• 
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man, Aliss A. Parkman, Miss C. Parkman, Miss T. Parkman.
In a paragraph in the account of the burning of the steamer,
it  is  stated  that "the persons  by  the  name of  Parkman
were the family of S. B. Parkman, of Savannah, and formerly
of AVestborough, Mass."  They were probably descendants of
Rev.  Ebenezer  Parkman  (H.C.  1721),  who  was born  in
Boston, 5 September, 1703 ; was ordained p%stor of the church
of AVestborough,  28 October,  1724;  and died 9 December,
1782,  aged 80 years.  The  subject of this notice was cared
for by an aunt, who supplied the place of a mother to him.  He
had two  sisters.  He passed  some time at the  military-school
in Sing-Sing, N.Y., before entering college.   After  gradu-
ating, he read law in Savannah, and was admitted to practice in
due time ; became a member of the Georgia Historical Society ;
and finally joined the Savannah troop of cavalry.   In the sum-
mer of 1860, he travelled in Europe; returned in the fall, and
visited Boston.
   He married, in December, 1860, Nannie Bierne, of Virginia,
a very wealthy lady.
   1857. — George AVhittemore  was killed in the battle of
Antietam, Md., 17 September,  1862, at the age of 25 years.
He was the son of George and Anna (Alansfield) Whittemore,
and was born in Boston, 19 December, 1836.  He Avas educated
at the public  schools in Boston;  and was prepared for admis-
sion to college at the public Latin  School, where a Franklin
medal  was awarded to him  in 1853.   His parents removed
from Boston to Gloucester, Mass., during  his last  year at the
Latin  school; and this town was his home during his  college-
course.  Soon after entering upon his college-course, he attained
a  high rank  among the best  scholars in  his class, and grad-
uated Avith honors.  During three of the winters while in  college,
he taught school in Gloucester and Northampton.   After grad-
uating he was for a time an assistant in the private latin-school
of Mr. Epes Sargent Dixwell (H.C. 1827) in Boston.  He
then studied  law in the  office  of John  Jones Clark  (H.C.
1823)  and Lemuel  Shaw  (H.C.  1849) in Boston.  He was
of an amiable disposition, modest and unassuming in his man-
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 ners.  His  tastes Avere  naturally quiet and  scholarly ; yet he
 had a spirit of  adventure  and a  fondness  for manly sports,
 which led him, after three  years teaching, and reading huv, to
 join a party for travel and exploration to the  South-Avest.   His
 arrangements, however, Avere not carried out, and he  returned
 after a brief absence.   In August, 1861, he enlisted for three
 years in Capt. Saunders's company of sharpshooters, determined
 to devote himself to the service of his country. On the morning
 of his departure for the seat of war, he, after an examination,
 was admitted to the Suffolk bar.  He Avas an excellent marks-
 man ; and, from his first  fight in a skirmish at Edwards's Creek
 to the day of his last battle, he did his duty with his corps as a
 true soldier of the flag.
    1858. —Paul Mitchell Eliot  died  in the city of New
 York, 26 XoA'ember, 1862, aged  25  years.   He Avas son of
 Hon. Thomas Dawes and Frances  Lincoln  (Brock)  Eliot,
 and was born in New Bedford, Alass.,  13 September,  1837.
 His father was son  of William Greenleaf Eliot, and was born
 in Boston, 20 Alarch 1808.  He  graduated  at Columbian Col-
 lege,  AVashington, D.C, in 1825,  his  parents having resided
 many years in AVashington; is  a laAvyer in  New Bedford,  and
 is  now a representative in Congress from  the First  Congres-
 sional District of Massachusetts.   The mother  of young Eliot
 was a native of Nantucket.  He was a student  at the  Friends'
 Academy in New Bedford, under the instruction of Mr. Abner
 Jones Phipps (D.C. 1838), from 1847 to 1850, when he entered
 the Bristol  Academy in Taunton, Alass., under  Air. Henry
 Blatchford Wheelwright (H.C.  1844), where he completed his
 preparatory studies for entering college.  After graduating, he
 determined to engage in mercantile business.  In October, 1858,
he went to St. Louis, and, 1 January, 1859,  entered  the count-
ing-room  of the  Atlantic-Mills  Co.  in that city,  AA'here he
remained one year, and, 1 January, 1860, entered the  store of
F. B. Chamberlain and Co. ; and Avhile there, having been en-
gaged one very hot day in marking goods in the  sun, he was
affected by  a  sun-stroke,  from  which  he  never  recovered.
In November of that year, he left  St. Louis  on account of ill 
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health, and spent the Avinter in AVashington, where his father
was attending Congress ; and in March, 1861, returned to NeAv
Bedford.   His brain having been affected, the disease produced
mental imbecility.   His father took him  to New York,  and
placed him in a  private hospital under  the charge of a  dis-
tinguished  physician, but without  any benefit.   He remained
there  more than  a year, Avhen death ended  the scene.
   1858.—Dr. Henry Augustus Richardson died of con-
sumption,  in  Cambridge, 1  July,  1863, aged 26 years.   He
was born  in Boston, 25 November, 1836, the son of George
C. and Susan Gore (Aloore) Richardson.    His father, now a
merchant in Boston, Avas the son of a  physician in Royalston,
from whom Henry probably derived a fondness for the study of
medicine,  and a poAver of accurate observation, that led him to
the same   profession.   AVhen  he Avas very  young, his family
removed to their present residence in Cambridge, where he pre-
pared for  college at the Hopkins  Classical  School, and at  the
High School.   In 1853-4, he  completed his studies at Exeter
Academy,  entering the freshman class in 1854.
   He early developed a taste for chemistry ;  and, in college, he
added a keen interest in anatomy and other branches of medical
science, and, AA'ith a set of congenial minds, turned his  attention
to personal investigations.   For six months  before graduation,
he attended lectures  at the  Harvard  Aledical School, and in
October, 1858, became a  pupil of Dr. C  A.  Davis, at  the
Alarine Hospital  in Chelsea, AA'here he  remained three years.
During this period, he folioAved certain courses at the school; in
1860-1, attended regularly  all the lectures; and  received  his
degree in July, 1861.  His classmates, Drs.  Francis and Cobb,
Avere associated Avith him at the hospital in the latter part of his
residence.   In Alay,  1861, he  became  assistant-physician in the
hospital.   In August,  he passed examination in  Boston ;   Avas
commissioned acting assistant-surgeon,  and appointed to  the
steamer " Cambridge," Capt. Parker, of the North-Atlantic block-
ading squadron.   In this duty he remained  nearly a year;  the
steamer being constantly employed  in the blockade of Beaufort
and Wilmington, N.C.  In  his exposure to  cold  and wet,  and 
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restraint from exercise, Avhile upon this service, the development
of the disease  commenced, AA'hich had been fatal to his mother
and  older brother.
   In July, 1862, he was forced by his ill health to resign his
commission ; and spent the folioAving months, till November, in
the southern part of New Hampshire.   As a last expedient, to
stay the disease by residence in a dryer climate, he Avent to Alin-
nesota, and spent the winter and spring at St. Paul.   But the
Avinter Avas extraordinarily open; and the melting snoAv filled the
air with moisture,  so that he derived no benefit from the change.
In Alarch, he  Avas joined by his  brother, and seemed to  gain
strength  till his return home  in the last of Alay.   From this
time he  rapidly failed,  but remained  constantly cheerful  and
social, though perfectly aware of the nature of his decline.   On
class-day, being unable to witness  the festivities on the college-
grounds, he invited  several classmates to a quiet party in his
own room.  One of his last acts was to send for the photographs
of his class, that he might recall their  memories, and enjoy the
pleasure  of their silent society.
   Dr. Richardson lacked the  brilliant gifts that  haAC made
others distinguished.   He was  not ready of speech, or skilful  in
gathering the learning of books, but was conscious that his pe-
culiar talent would be  discovered in studies requiring a power of
exact and complete observation.  In this he remarkably excelled,
and he wisely guided himself by it in the choice of a profession.
He was  sincere, courteous,  and frank,  though reserved,  gener-
ous, and devoted  in  his friendships  to a remarkable degree;
signally free from vanity; devoid of envy or malice ; sympathiz-
ing,  cheerful, full of animal spirit and the zest  for  nature, and
gifted with a quick sense of humor.   His firmness and self-reli-
ance fitted him peculiarly for his profession, while his personal
traits made him a favorite in every professional and  social rela-
tion.
   1858. —Lieut. Thomas Jefferson Spurr died in Hagers-
town, Aid., 27 September, 1862,  of wounds  received  in the
battle of Antietam, on the 17th of the same month, at the age of
tAventy-four years.   He was son of Samuel D. and Alary A. 
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(Lamb)  Spurr, and was born in Worcester,  Mass., 2 February,
1838.   He was fitted for college at the Worcester High School,
under the instruction of Mr. George Capron (B.U. 1847).  At
the outset of his college career, he took rank with the foremost;
but, in the second term of his  junior year, an affection of the
eyes came upon him, compelling him to withdraw from his stud-
ies  for a Avhile.    He made a voyage  to  Fayal,  returned  with
improved health, and resumed his connection Avith his class ;  but
was compelled  to employ  the aid of a " reader."   He was
honored  by his  classmates  with an election  to  the  Phi-Beta-
Kappa Society, as a token of the rank which he Avould haA'e held
but for his affliction.  After  graduating, he studied law in the
office of his  brother-in-law, George Frisbie Hoar  (H.C. 1846) ;
and in September, 1859, he entered the  Law School at  Cam-
bridge, and continued his studies until the first of April, 1861,
Avhen he sailed for  Russia, in the bark "Ethan Allen," for a plea-
sure-trip, to return through England in the autumn.  Hearing of
the rebellion, he hastened home to offer his services to his  coun-
try.  He was commissioned as first-lieutenant in Company G, in
the Fifteenth Regiment  of Massachusetts Volunteers, and held
his commission until his death.   At the battle of Antietam, he
fell Avhile forming his company in  line.   He Avas removed  by a
rebel officer to the shade of a haystack,  where he lay four  days.
On the  21st, he Avas found by his friends, and removed  to a
better shelter; and, on the 22d, was moved to Hagerstown, eight
miles, Avhere his mother, his family-physician,  and other friends,
met him on the  24th ;  and on Saturday,  the  27th, he tran-
quilly passed away.  He expressed no regret at his fate, saying
that he knew that many must fall, and he would claim no exemp-
tion.  His character exhibited a combination of womanly gentle-
ness with manly strength :  he  was "pure in heart," and a true
Christian.
    The following letter from Lieut.-Col. Kimball, of the Fif-
teenth Regiment, is indicative of the estimation in which he Avas
held by his  associates in arms : — 
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                                 " AVai:i:i:nton, Va., Nov. 18, 18C.2.
   " The death of Lieut. Spurr was a sad bloAv to the regiment.  His
place cannot be filled.  He came among us a stranger to us all; but
by his manly traits of character, his kind, noble, and generous nature,
he won the esteem of all, — officers and men.   He Avas ever faithful
to his trust;  and his  courage  and bearing were  undoubted.  His
memory Avill be most dearly cherished by his comrades ;  and they will
always point Avith pride to his private virtues and his military career,
which were such  as it would be  alike honorable and manly to follow.
His noble bearing on the battle-field of  Antietam, where he refused to
be carried  to the rear  when  mortally Avounded, AAas Avorthy of the
man, the hero, he Avas; and Avon the praise of all his companions."

   1859. — Capt.  George  AVellington Batchelder  was
killed in the battle  of Antietam, 17 September, IS62, aged 23
years.    He  was  son of Jacob  (D.C. 1830)  and Alary  AV.
(AVellington) Batchelder, and was born in Lynn, Alass., 20 De-
cember,  1838.   His mother Avas  daughter of the late Rev.
Charles AVellington, D.D.,  of Templeton, Alass. (H.C. 1802).
He was  fitted for college at  the Lynn High School  under the
instruction of his father.  He held a respectable rank of scholar-
ship in his class, and graduated with honors.  After leaving
college, he studied laAv about  a year and a half in the office of
Perry and Endicott, of Salem.   At his country's call  in April,
1861, he was one of  the first to enlist in the ranks ;  and, two
days after his return Avith the three-months' troops, he enlisted
for three years.  He Avas  commissioned  as first lieutenant in
Company  C  of  the  Nineteenth Regiment,  and Avas afterwards
promoted to the captaincy of  the same company.  On the even-
ing previous to  the eventful 17th of September, he gave  to his
lieutenant, the late lamented Newcomb, special directions to be
folloAved if it should be his lot to fall on the next day ; and, in
the hottest of the battle of the 17th, called him  a^ain to his side,
repeated his injunctions, and informed him where he would  find
a record of his  wishes.   Among  these occurs the  following
sentence, written Avith a  pencil, though unsigned by  him: "I
wish my books to  go to  my father  and  mother,  and,  after
their decease, to be given  to Harvard  College."   His sisters. 
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who alone are interested  in the final disposition of his books,
will be  ready at  the appointed time  to  execute the  sacred
trust.
   A letter from Lieut. Hill, of the Nineteenth Regiment, says,
"AVhile rallying his company, George received two wounds,—
one from a fragment  of a shell, and 'one from  a bullet.  His
health  impaired by disease from which he had  not recovered,
and the  loss of blood, rendered the  wound fatal.   He  died in
the afternoon of the same day, passing from  sleep  to death
quietly and without a  struggle,—his last words, 'Mother, O
my mother!'"   Lieut. Hill continues: "AVe all feel, that, in
losing him, we have met with an irreparable loss.  How can we
feel otherwise, when, by his kind and  cheerful disposition, his
upright and honorable dealings with all, his brave and unflinch-
ing courage, he has bound  himself so closely to us all?"  He
well deserved the compliment I once heard paid him by a felloAA'-
officer, Avho said of him, " He was the most honorable man I ever
kneAv."  AVith a Avell-stored mind,  and a communicative dis-
position, it  was impossible to be long in his  society without
learning something.  As an officer, he  had no superior.   Firm,
yet gentle, he secured the love and respect, as well as the cheer-
ful and  ready obedience,  of his  inferiors.   Sharing with his
men, Avithout complaint, the dangers and hardships of the cam-
paign,  he secured their confidence, and, in battle,  urged them
on to deeds of valor by his own noble example.   He died in a
noble and just cause,—the cause he  espoused, and  for Avhich
he endured so many hardships and privations to sacrifice his life
for his  country.   Another fellow-officer says, with impressive
beauty  of expression,  " AVe had pictured for  him a glorious
future : shall it be  less bright  because  not wrought out in our
presence?"   Another, a   clergyman and  a classmate,  after a
visit to the  old college-rooms, writes,  " I could not restrain a
sharp pain  at  his  early death ; but  there followed a soothing
satisfaction  at  the  thought of his generous self-sacrifice for his
country's sake, and I felt  the stimulus of his brave example.
The spirit that hath such power to  quicken and  strengthen our
spirits  cannot die." 
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   1859. — Henry  AVeld Fuller died in Roxbury, Mass.,
3 Alay,  1863, aged 23  years.  He Avas son of Henry AVeld
(Bowd. C 1828)  and Alary Storer (Goddard) Fuller, and was
born in Augusta, Ale., 7 December,  1839.  His father Avas son
of Henry Weld Fuller (D.C.  1801), of Augusta.   His mother
was  daughter of Nathaniel and Lucretia (Dana)  Goddard, of
Boston.   He was fitted for college at the Roxbury Latin School
under  the instruction of Mr.  Augustus Howe Buck.  During
his collegiate course, he met with a severe accident in the streets
of Boston ;  having been knocked  down  by a  runaway horse,
Avhereby  his spine was injured, and from which he  never  fully
recovered.  In consequence of this, he was interrupted in his
studies in college for  a  considerable time,  and was thus pre-
vented from gaining  such a standing of scholarship as his talents
would  have  enabled  him to take.   Immediately after  graduat-
ing,  he entered the  Law School at  Cambridge, where he re-
mained until his impaired health obliged him to leave; and his
bright  prospects of entering upon the active duties of life were
thus early extinguished to enter into the brighter scenes of an-
other existence.   The great charm of his genial nature was his
kindness  of heart and perfect disinterestedness.    The sunny
cheerfulness of his character  sustained him  through the weary
days and sleepless nights of his long  illness,  and  seemed to
triumph over the insidious malady to which he finally succumbed.
His tastes were simple and pure; and they reflected the charac-
ter of  his mind, which was allied to every thing noble, gener-
ous, and  true, and were  strikingly exemplified  in his fondness
for  whatever was  most refined  and  elevated in literature  and
art.
   1859. —Francis Curtis  Hopkinson died in Stanley Hos-
pital, in Newbern, N.C, 13 February,  1863, aged 24 years.
He Avas  the eldest  son  of Hon.  Thomas  (H.C.  1830)  and
Corinna Aldrich (Prentiss) Hopkinson, and Avas born in Keene,
N.H.,  11 June, 1838.   He was fitted for college in the Boston
Latin School, where he was distinguished for  his acquirements
in the  classics.   During  his college-course, he was distinguished
for his facility in English composition and  Latin versification, 
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OF HARVARD  COLLEGE.
513
for which he took a Bowdoin prize.   He also contributed several
humorous articles for the " Harvard Magazine."   After graduat-
ing,  he was employed for  some time in writing  critical  notices
for the "Boston  Daily Advertiser," and  was soon afterwards
engaged for a similar service for the "Atlantic Monthly."  He
was  at this time a student-at-law in the office of Horace Gray,
jun.  (H.C. 1845), and the late Wilder Dwight  (H.C. 1853) ;
and  was  completing his studies at the Law School in Cambridge,
Avhen the call came for the nine-months' men.  He then felt that
the war was a matter of self-defence and of honor to the North.
He enlisted, in August, 1862, from Cambridge,  in Company F,
Massachusetts Forty-fourth, as a  private.  He  was in both of
Gen. Foster's expeditions, and was warmly engaged at the battle
of Whitehall, near Goldsborough, N. C. In that battle he fought
with Company A, his  own company not being engaged ; and he
was  highly praised by  his  officers.   He caught a fever while on
picket on the  18th of  January ; and, during his entire  illness,
he was delirious, with very brief intervals.  From the time he
enlisted, he seemed to  haA-e a strong presentiment that he should
not  return ; and he remarked to a friend, that he hoped he should
not  die in  a hospital.   It seemed,  however, to Infinite Wisdom,
that his wish in this respect should not be granted.  Esteemed by
his officers, his wit, vivacity, cheerfulness, and good nature were
the traits which endeared  him to his companions  of the barrack.
By them he was  elected to preside at the dinner given  by  the
company upon Thanksgiving  day, when  his few touching  re-
marks showed how dearly he loved the home Avhich he had sacri-
ficed so readily to what he deemed his  duty.
    1859.__Capt. Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff fell at
the  battle  of Cedar  Mountain, near  Culpepper, in  Virginia,
9 August, 1862,  at the age of twenty-four years.  He was born
in Boston, 16 Alarch, 1838, and was  the first-born child of his
parents, Nathaniel Bradstreet  (H.C.  1831) and Sarah Eliza
(Smith) Shurtleff, both of whom are now living  in Boston, their
native city.   His grandparents, on his father's  side,  were Dr.
Benjamin  (B.U.  1796) and  Sally (Shaw) Shurtleff, who took
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up their abode in Boston on marriage, about the commencement
of the century, leaving the  county of  Plymouth, Avhere  their
ancestors had dwelt since the first settlement of the Old Colony,
nearly all of the most remote of them haAang come to New Eng-
land in either the "Alay Flower," "Fortune," or "Ann," the three
earliest vessels that conA'eyed the Pilgrim forefathers to these
shores.  On his maternal side, his grandparents Avere Hiram and
Sarah Remington (Beal) Smith, also of Boston.
   The subject of this notice received his early school-training in
the Boston public schools, and took a Franklin medal in 1850
at the Adams  School, then kept  in Mason  Street; and another
in 1855 at the public Latin School, where he was fitted for  col-
lege under the pupilage of  that eminent  scholar and teacher,
Francis Gardner  (H.C. 1831),  and from AA'hich he immediately
entered the university, chumming the first year Avith his school-
mate and classmate, Clinton  A.  Cilley,  and rooming alone the
remainder of the college course.  On leaving college, he entered
active life with all those  high hopes which naturally belong to
youth, ambition, cultivation, and brilliant talents.   Even in his
college and in his schoolboy days, the determined character  and
firm-set principles Avhich marked  him as a man shone forth.   The
eldest son of a family possessing an unusually large share of the
Puritan blood  of the first settlers  of New England,  and  long
identified with Protestantism, he  became a Roman Catholic while
at school, and for the remainder of his life was a devoted adhe-
rent of that communion, humbling himself to his new faith, and
gathering around him large numbers of the young and neglected,
to whom he gave instruction, and  OA'er  whom he  watched with
the strictest vigilance and almost parental care.   Immediately
after  leaving  college, he entered the novitiate  of the order of
Jesuits, at Frederick City, in Alaryland, and there continued until
the following February, Avhen, failing in health, in consequence
of the strict personal discipline,  hard  study, enfeebling depriva-
tions, and self-sacrificing labors, he was obliged to undergo, he
set aside, for a while, his great purpose  of life;  and thereupon
entered the law  office  of  AVilliam Brigham  (H.C.  1829) in 
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 Boston, Avhere he was making good progress in his studies when
 the present unnatural rebellion broke out.
    Having an ardent temperament, and being an enthusiast for
 the unsullied preservation of the constitution, and for the union
 of the states, which he warmly advocated by his public acts and
 speeches, he, on the 20th of April, 1861 (the day after the brutal
 assault upon the Sixth Regiment of Alassachusetts Volunteers by
 a mob in Baltimore), determined to devote himself to the cause of
 his country, and tendered his services to Fletcher AVebster (H.C.
 1833), to assist in enlisting the Twelfth Regiment for the three-
 years' service ; and, on the following  Monday morning, opened
 papers  in the Merchants' Exchange, in Boston, for that purpose.
 So great was the success  of this effort, that,, in  less  than three
 days from the opening of these papers  on the 22d  of April, the
 regiment was filled and the lists closed, men enough for sixteen
 full companies having offered for the service ; and the organiza-
 tion of the regiment was completed in the short space of sixteen
 days ; for, on the 7th of Alay following, the AVebster Regiment (for
 by this  name it Avill ever  be remembered) was uniformed, armed,
 officered, and  in camp  at  Fort AVarren,  in  Boston harbor.
 Air. Shurtleff,  who had served as  a private in the Independent
 Company of Cadets of Boston, was elected by Company D, Avhich
 he joined, as captain ; and the company, in consequence of being-
 adopted by the Latin School, took for name " The  Latin-School
 Guard."  Nearly three long and dull months to the soldiers, who
 were anxious for service, were spent by this regiment at Fort
 AVarren ; and, although it was sooner mustered into the United-
 States service,  it was not until the 23d  of July, 1861, that this
 magnificent regiment, whose excellence  for drill and  discipline
 had become famous, left Fort Warren  for the seat of war.  A
 short time  before leaving  the fort, the Latin-School  boys pre-
 sented their adopted company with a classic standard, constructed
 after the ancient form of that borne by the Roman maniple.  The
 following extract from Capt. Shurtleff's almost prophetic speech
 of  acceptance  will clearly exhibit his feelings,  and  the truly
heroic and  noble sentiments which governed every action of his
life.  He spoke in behalf of his company, as follows : — 
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    " I hardly know in what way best to return to  you,  my fellow-
 schoolmates, on behalf of the  Latin-School Guard, our sincere  and
 heartfelt thanks.   I thank you for your sympathy for  me, and more
 especially my command. Our thanks for the standard AA'hich you have
 presented us, much as we shall prize it as an  emblem  of the esteem
 in which we are  held by the members  of the Latin School, are as
 nothing in comparison with the gratitude Ave feel toward you for  the
 innumerable favors you have shown us in a way in which we are much
 more likely to be  neglected.   Presentations of banners and swords,
 where a grand display is to be made and speeches exchanged, are very
 Pheasant things ; while the more substantial  favors, such as we have
 received from  you, are too apt to be overlooked  and neglected."
 After referring to  the causes of the delays which the  regiment had
 suffered in getting into the field for  active  service,  he continued,
 referring to the standard: "But, sir, our eagle, upon which  the sun
 smiles now so auspiciously, differs in one marked respect from the  old
 Roman eagle.   That  Avas the signal  for carnage.  Wherever that
 eagle was seen to float, chains and slavery were sure to  follow.  Ours
 is our  own noble American eagle, which raises its  talons  to strike
 those only  whp destroy the holy Temple of Freedom.  Yes,  we will
 ' strike till the last armed foe expires.'  Our eagle will strike his beak
 into the brain of every man who shall be found Avith arms in his hands,
 lifted against the Constitution of the country ; but, unlike the Roman
 eagle,  when victory has crowned our banners, when our flag waves
 proudly once more, then his thirst for blood will be satiated, his talons
 will sink into their place, and he will return to you, no longer the fierce
 bird of war, but the emblem of the victory of truth and freedom over
 error and oppression.  Although I can never hope to meet my school-
 mates again with my ranks as full as they are to-day (for we are liable
 to the chances of war;  and it may be that I, who  noAv address you,
 will lay my bones beneath some Southern soil), it may be that these,
 my children, for whom I would lay down my life, — not one of them
 will ever return;  but, should that be our fate, it will be, at  least, a
 glorious one.  We ask only, that, if it be our lot to fall in the cause
 of liberty  and justice, it  may  be remembered by you all, that  for
 liberty we fought, and for liberty we fell; and that our  eagle shall be
 returned to you; and that upon the walls of your beautiful hall, where
 many an ancient Roman relic hangs, you may place  this eagle ; and
when some visitor  shall look upon it, all grimed with smoke and
blood, — not blood of Gaul or Allobrogian, but of our own citizens 
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who fought and bled for freedom, — and ask its history, some future
master of the school may say, ' In the year 1861, a son of the great
expounder of the Constitution went forth to  fight the battles of his
country, and under his  command  went a company representing the
Latin  School. They fought, triumphed, and died ; and that eagle was
their standard.'"

   From  the time Capt. Shurtleff  left Massachusetts, until his
decease, he  was constantly engaged in the service, except a few
Aveeks in the subsequent September, when he was brought home,
reduced nearly to death by the malarious  fever  so prevalent in
western Maryland.  From 26 January to 24 February, 1862,
the last month  that the Webster Regiment formed part of the
division under Major-Gen. Banks, Capt. Shurtleff was detailed
from his command to act as divisionary judge-advocate, — a duty
which he performed to the highest satisfaction  of his command-
ing general  and those  under him.  The regiment was not  put
under fire until August, 1862 ;  and it was then, on the 9th of
that month, at  the battle of Cedar Mountain,  that Capt. Shurt-
leff—his company having been placed in an advanced position—
was slain, the first to fall, as he was the first to enlist in its
number.    The  regiment,  having  fallen  into  an  ambush, had
been ordered to  lie down to avoid the fire of the enemy ;  and his
solicitude  for the safety of  his men  cost him his fife.   He raised
himself upon his elbow to see if they were protected, received a
ball in his breast,  had only time to  utter, " I am shot! — Mary !
— pardon ! " and was dead before he could be carried  from  the
field.   His  dying expressions were  those of a true man, who, in
the solemn moment when he felt that he had  given  his  earthly
all for the cause he served, humbly and touchingly reposed in
spirit  with the God he worshipped.  His body was conveyed by a
trusty servant  to Washington, where it  was embalmed, and
afterwards transported to Boston ; where, on the 16th of August,
in accordance with his own request, the  funeral  services Avere
performed in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in  the
imposing  manner of the Jesuits, by a high-mass requiem.  The
remains were attended to Mount Auburn by  the Cadets and  a
large  concourse  of citizens  and official persons.  And there they 
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repose, his last resting-place being marked by the emblem of the
cross to which in early life he had consecrated himself.
    This notice cannot be better closed than AA'ith  the following
appropriate tribute to his pure and noble life, from the pen of a
young friend Avho knew him Avell: —

    " And so Avas laid to rest all that remained here of Nathaniel  B.
Shurtleff, jun., in the first morn of life,  well educated, brilliant, enthu-
siastic, and courageous.  Early in college-life, he took a religious stand
that marked him there — of all places — as singular indeed ;  but  he
never swerved from his position and belief to the  day of his death.
He was fixed in his opinions, and never hesitated to avow them.
    " Brought up a Protestant, at an early age he became a Catholic,
and unhesitatingly placed himself at the service of the church.  For
whatever labor he was needed, he Avas  ready. He worked energeti-
cally and faithfully among the poor of his city; he, Avith the reputa-
tion of being the best writer and most  eloquent  speaker of his  class
at Harvard, devotedly toiled in the Sunday school, teaching the  poor
and ignorant;  he rallied men around him as he drew  his sword;  he
offered his life to  his  country, and  his country  has accepted and
received the  sacrifice.   His last words Avere, not of home or earthly
endearments, but of spiritual yearnings.
    " He who, being a Protestant, condemns, in voice or heart, Nathan-
iel B. Shurtleff, let him lead a more devoted life, possess a more obedi-
ent spirit,  live more earnestly, die more heroically ; let his last words
show that his daily thoughts have been on heaven and with heavenly
persons, and then let him leave the judgment with his Maker.  For
my own part, if I do not believe his creed as he did, yet do I consider
his example as truly noble, manly, and pious.  AVe may be happy to
leave behind us as pleasant  memories, — memories  that will only
brighten when the radiance of eternal sunlight shall be poured upon
the acts of each man's life."

    1860.  — Capt. Edward  Gardiner Abbott  was killed  in
the battle at Cedar Mountain, Va.,  9 August, 1862, at the age
of 21 years.   He was  the  oldest son of Hon. Josiah Gardiner
(H.C. 1832) and  Caroline  (Livermore) Abbott,  and was born
in  Lowell,   Mass., 29  September,   1840.   He  was fitted for
college at the Lowell High School.   After leaving  college,  he
began the study of law in the  office of Samuel A.  Brown, Esq., 
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of Lowell.  As soon as the rebellion broke  out, he was  one  of
the first  to  offer himself for the defence of his  country.  He
raised  the first company  in the Second Regiment, under  Col.
George H.  Gordon, of which he was appointed captain;  was
the first  captain-Avho was sworn into the service in this state,
and devoted himself with characteristic  energy to the duties  of
his new profession.  At the time of Gen. Banks's retreat, in the
spring of 1862, he commanded two companies Avith a gallantry
and coolness which elicited Avarm commendation from the  officers
on the field.   His nature was manly and brave, and his affec-
tions  Avere strong.  In a postscript to a letter  to  his  father,
dated 2 August,—perhaps the  last letter  he ever wrote, — he
says,  "I wish to  tell you how  deeply  affected I feel by  your
kindness in this and all other matters ;  and I promise you,  that,
Avith God's help, I will neAer do any thing  to  cause you to  be
sorry for it, or ashamed of me."  His father, in a letter to the
mayor of LoAvell,  tendering his  thanks to the people of that city
for their  deep sympathy Avith  him and his family in their be-
reavement,  and in Avhich he speaks of his son, Avho fell  so gal-
lantly doing his duty, says,  "I have no certain  information of
the facts immediately connected with  my  son's death,  except,
generally,  from the fact of his position  as senior captain, his
company was much  exposed.   His general Avrites me  that  he
saw my son fall;  that his countenance  in death was  as  ' proud
and defiant, though placid,'  as  Avhen he marched to the fight.
His colonel, among  other things, said his voice, in  giving his
command to his men, in the thickest of the fight, was as cheer-
ful and  calm as  if on parade.  In a  pencilled note from my
other son, in the same regiment, he says, cNed fell while cheer-
ing on his men.'   I think I can  add that he  has repaid the many
kindnesses he and his command have received from LoAvell, by so
actino- that his native city can point to nothing in his life to  be
ashamed of."
    I860.—Lieut. Edgar  Marshall  !Newcomb  died  at Fal-
mouth, Va., 20 December, 1862, from wounds receiA-ed in the
battle of Fredericksburg on the 13th of the  same month, aged
22 vears.   He was son of John J. and Mary S.  Xewcomb, and 
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was born in Troy, N.Y., 2 October, 1840 ;  but his parents re-
moved to Boston Avhen he Avas a few months old,  where his life
Avas passed.  He  was  fitted  for college, partly at Chauncy-
Hall  School,  and partly at the Latin School, in  Boston.  He
held a respectable rank  of scholarship in his class;  but, before
his collegiate course was completed, his health became So much
impaired, that he left in his senior year,  before commencement,
and went to Europe in  the  summer of 1860.  He spent the
autumn in travelling on foot through England and France, Avith
the hope of improving his physical condition.    It had long been
his purpose to become a  minister of the gospel;  but on his
return from Europe,  his health being still delicate, he entered
his father's counting-room, and engaged  in active business for
a  while.   AVhen  the Avar broke  out,  with  a generous  disre-
gard  of his pecuniary interests,  and of a  home  surrounded
by all the  attractions  that  make life pleasing, he  came for-
ward to volunteer as a  soldier  in the  ranks, to  defend the
government of his fathers, and assert its rightful supremacy.
He enlisted as a private in  the  Nineteenth  Massachusetts  Regi-
ment  Avhen  it was first  formed,  shared  its fortunes, and con-
tributed to its glory.  Earning his  promotion, step by  step, he
became sergeant-major,  second- and finally first-  lieutenant.
That he did his duty as  a  faithful and brave officer, was  fully
shown by those who were with him in the hour of peril.   Capt.
ChadAvick, in whose  company he  served, in  alluding  to his
death, wrote as follows : "He was wounded in the legs in the
fight of 13 December, before the batteries and rifle-pits on the
enemy's  left.   The ball struck the brass band  of  his SAvord,
passed through the  left  leg,  and grazed  the  right.  He was
wounded while holding the American flag high  above his  head,
having just given  up the state-colors.   Both  color-sergeants
had been  shot down," — seven in succession.  Other accounts
say, "And Edgar sprang forward, and picked up both flags, hold-
ing one in each hand, and called upon the men to stand by their
colors.  No braver officer or man ever stood upon  the battle-
field than Lieut. Edgar M.  Newcomb ;  and  I  am the more
proud  to  say so,  from the fact of the association existing be- 
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tween us.  He was loved and respected before; but that love
and respect was more  than  doubled by his daring bravery and
unflinching courage."   His  letters  to  his friends at home illus-
trated his enthusiastic devotion to the cause of his country.   He
had passed with his regiment through fourteen battles and  skir-
mishes, unscathed.  He frequently officiated as chaplain of his
regiment;  preaching to the  men, and holding prayer-meetings.
Yet his modesty and reserve' were such that he never mentioned
the fact in his  letters, and it was only learned by his friends
after his decease.  To his  brother, who was with him in his
dying hours, he remarked, "You have  a work to perform in this
life, and I will be with you.    I feel that I shall  be nearer to my
friends  after death than ever."  Retaining  his  senses perfectly
until his death, he called the men and  his fellow-soldiers to his
side, and gave to each a dying message, — to meet him in heaven.
Dying  there,  in the  sound of battle, he  devised  his property
equally to the societies for home and foreign  missions.
   1860. — Lieut.-Col.  Chables  Redington  Mudge   was
killed in the battle of Gettysburg,  2 July,  1863, aged 23 years.
He was son  of Edward Redington and Caroline  A. (Patten)
Mudge, and was born in NeAv-York city,  22 October, 1839.
He was fitted for college at the private school of Thomas Gama-
liel Bradford (H.C.  1822)  in Boston.    AVith the exception
of a few months passed in  preparing  to enter business with his
father,  he was in the service  of his country, having joined the
Second Massachusetts  Infantry, — the  first three-years'  regi-
ment raised for the war.  He went into  the  service with his
whole soul.  He was  commissioned as  first-lieutenant; was pro-
moted   to be  captain,  8 July, 1862; and Avas subsequently
made lieutenant-colonel.   AVhile encamped at Brook  Farm,
he slept on  the bare  ground to  prepare himself for  the life
which   he was to lead.   His regiment was  spoken of  as  a
model  for  its  admirable  drill.   AVhen  they covered the  rear
of Gen. Banks's retreat, Col.  Mudge was with them  in  their
dangerous path;  and in the battle of South Alountain he re-
ceived   his first wound/  The  officers of  his  regiment  never
failed to  express  their opinion  of his  military  qualities  and
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[1862-6:3.
abilities in the highest terms.   But there are other traits in his
character which Avill be remembered Avith the warmest affection
by his young contemporaries.   In his college-course,  his popu-
larity Was  universal; and he was a favorite in every clique, and
in the most dissimilar sets.  Every one was his friend in need ;
and no one would have hesitated a moment  to  have  asked his
services, with the certainty of a kind reception.
   18.61.—Lieut. Pardon Almy'Avas killed in the battle  at
Bull Run,  Va., 30 August, 1862, at the age of 26 years.   He
was  son of Pardon and  Mary (Cook) Almy, and  was born
in Little Compton, R.I., 4 July, 1836.  His father Avas son of
Sanford and Lydia (Gray) Almy, and his mother was daughter
of Samuel and Hannah (Little) Cook.   All his ancestors have
been residents of Rhode Island for some generations back.
   The subject  of this  notice  was fitted for college  at  Pierce
Academy in Middleborough, Alass.   He held a very respectable
rank of scholarship in his class.   Immediately after graduating,
President Felton gave him a letter to  Gov. Andrew; and the
governor authorized him to recruit a company in New Bedford,
for three  years  or the  war :   but  as  the  military enthusiasm
had not been kindled there, the accomplishment  of his purpose
appearing  too uncertain,  and feeling that his duties were in the
service  of  his country in the army, he accepted a lieutenant's
commission in  the Eighteenth Regiment of Massachusetts Vol-
unteers, Col. James Barnes, where he  served until  his  death.
Some idea of his reputation and standing in the service may be
inferred from the following extract of a letter to  his  brother
from Major Joseph Hayes, who was in command of the regi-
ment when he fell.  He says, "I can  only express to you my
sincere  sympathy in your great bereavement, and add my testi-
monial to  the high character of Lieut. Almy as a soldier and a
man.  His conduct in the engagement in which he fell is men-
tioned in the highest praise by all the officers who were engaged
with him.   He fell in the very front, while bravely cheering on
his men under a most galling fire,  and displayed to  the  last a
spirit of intrepidity and gallantry  surpassed  by no one.  He
Avas  always prompt,  faithful,  zealous,  and  cheerful too, in the 
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performance  of his duty as  a soldier;  and I do  not know a
single  blemish  in  his character as  a man, but could enumerate
many,  very many, virtues that he  possessed.  You have  lost,
sir, a  noble  brother,  and the  country  a gallant soldier."
   A meeting of his classmates was held in Boston  on the 16th
of September, when they passed a series of resolutions bearing
testimony to  his virtues.
   He was highly esteemed by his friends  and relatives for his
many good qualities of  head and  heart, for his  sterling  princi-
ples and uniformly correct conduct; and they confidently looked
forward to a  long life  to him of usefulness to  his felloAv-citizens,
and of honor to himself: but his  career was abruptly termi-
nated,  and the  hopes of his friends were blighted.
   1861. — Capt. Henry Jonas Doolittle  died in Racine,
AVis.,  10  August, 1862, aged 23  years.   He was the  eldest
son of Hon. James  R. and Alary Lovina  (Cutting)  Doo-
little,  and was  born  in Rochester, N.Y., 4 Alarch, 1839.   In
1851,  he removed with  his parents  to Racine, and soon  after-
wards  became a pupil in Racine College.   Two  years  later,  he
became personally interested  in  the truths-of the  gospel, and
soon after united with the First Baptist Church in Racine.   In
his class,  he held a  respectable  rank of scholarship.   At the
time of his graduation,  the rebellion  had just begun to exhibit
its gigantic proportions.  AVith his fehW-students in college,
he received a military drill;  and was employed with them, by
order of the  governor, in guarding  for a time the Massachusetts
arsenal at Cambridge.   After spending a few months with his
father  (who  was  a senator in Congress) in AVashington,  he
returned to Racine, and was  engaged  in drilling Capt. Lyon's
company in that city, and a company at Darlington,  and had
the promise of  the post  of major in one of the AVisconsin regi-
ments  ; which  post,  however, he failed to  obtain.   Early  in
the folloAving spring,  he accepted a position, with the rank  of
captain, upon the  staff  of Gen. C. S. Hamilton, with whom  he
served on the Peninsula  ; then for  a short time at Harper's Ferry ;
and subsequently near Corinth.   In July, he applied for a ten-
days' furlough,  in order  to complete the family-circle gathered in 
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commemoration of the  twenty-fifth  anniversary of his parents'
marriage.  Ere he received  his furlough, he was attacked with
typhoid-fever, and went home to die.  In the delirium of fever,
after his return, he imagined  himself still on his journey, and
piteously entreated that he might be taken home ;  and God took
him home, — a home which war shall never invade, and sorrow
shall never mar, and death shall never enter.   Strong in body,
sound in mind, of rare energy, he sacredly  devoted himself to
his country's cause, and for  his country he fell a martyr.   His
friends have this consolation, — that  he Avas a Christian patriot,
a kind brother, and a faithful son; and it is a comfort that he
breathed his last, not amid the horrors of battle, but under  the
paternal roof.
   1861. — Capt. AVilliam Yates Gholson was killed in  the
battle of Hartsville, Tenn., 7 December, 1862, aged 20 years.
He was son of Hon. AVilliam Yates  (N.J.C. 1825) and Elvira
(AVright) Gholson, and was born in Pontotoc, Miss., 11 March,
1842,  but removed with  his parents to Cincinnati in  1845.
His mother belonged to a Virginia family, which had removed
to Mississippi, where Mr.  Gholson married her.   He began to
fit for college with Mr. Joseph Vernon, of Cincinnati, and  com-
pleted  his preparatory studies  in  the private school of  Eben
Smith  Brooks  (H.C. 1835)  in the same city.   After gradu-
ating, he began the study of the law  with his father; but,  when
the President made a call for  three hundred thousand men, he
determined to engage  in  the cause  of  his country.   In  Sep-
tember, 1862,  he was  commissioned as captain  in  the  One-
hundred-and-sixth Regiment  of Ohio Volunteers.   In October
following, he was appointed  provost-marshal of South  Frank-
fort, Tenn.  On the 8th of November, he was acting-assistant-
adjutant-general of the Thirty-ninth  Brigade, Fourteenth Army
Corps,  on  the staff of Col. Moore.   He  fell while rallying
his men.   He  was  pierced  with  three bullets, — one  near
the heart, one in the  forehead, and one in the temple.   His
intelligent patriotism  demanded a country worthy of a  sacri-
fice ; and if,  at last,  he  did not find  it, it will  hasten into
being sooner because he  fell evoking it.   He  was by nature 
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ardent and aspiring,  of  independent  thought and active con-
science, generous and affectionate.  In his death, he bequeathed
a conspicuous example of courage in the midst of general inca-
pacity and cowardice ; and left no room for his many friends  to
grieve, except for their own loss.
   1861. — Samuel Dunn  Phillips, of Boston, died  at St.
Helena  Island, Beaufort, S.C, 5 December, 1862,  aged  23
years.  He was son of Thomas AValley (H.C. 1814) and Anna
Jones (Dunn) Phillips, and was born in Boston,  12 ^December,
1868.   He began to fit for  college  under the instruction  of
Mr.  Thompson  Kidder,  of Boston;  but, from 1852 to 1857,
he was  studying in  the  Boston  Latin  School.   After  gradu-
ating, he began the study of medicine, under the instruction  of
Dr.  Edward  Reynolds, of Boston (H.C. 1811).   In January,
1862, he was  teaching a school in  Tewksbury, Mass. In March
following, he turned  his  attention to  the unfriended blacks  at
Port Royal, S.C. ; and, on presenting himself before the Educa-
tional Commission, he was  approved,  and sent out among the
first.   His deep religious  convictions and  eminent conscien-
tiousness, joined with an ever-active benevolence and constant
cheerfulness,  gave him a near approach  to the hearts  of his
people, and caused him to rank among the most useful  of the
superintendents.   He made a visit to  his home  on account  of
indisposition,  and  returned  much sooner than the precarious
state of his health warranted; and thereby his life was sacrificed
to his devotedness to  his mission.
   1861.—Thomas  Rodman Robeson died  in  Gettysburg,
Penn.,  6 July, 1863, of a  wound received in battle, 3 July,
aged  22 years.  He  was son  of Thomas Rodman and Sibyl
(Washburn) Robeson, and was born in New Bedford, 7 Novem-
ber, 1840.  His father died 13 August, 1848 ; and his mother
removed subsequently to Brookline, and afterwards to Cambridge,
where she now resides.  He  was fitted for college in Brookline,
by AVilliam P. Atkinson (H.C. 1838).  He left his class in April,
1861, to drill at Fort Independence ;  and, on the formation  of
the Second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, he enlisted  in
it, and was commissioned, 28 May, 1861, as second-lieutenant: 
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30 November, 1862, he was promoted to be first lieutenant, and
soon afterwards detached for duty in  the  signal-corps.  In this
service, he was present at the  battles  of Roanoke  Island and
Newbern, in February and Alarch, 1862.   In the folloAving
spring, his eyes becoming inflamed, he returned to his regiment,
and took part with it in all its many battles and hardships to the
time of  his death.   He Avas wounded,  9  August, 1862,  in
the right fore-arm, at the battle of Cedar Alountain, A^a.   He
was  promoted, 10 August, 1862, to be  captain; and  Avas,  at
the time of his death, the  senior captain of his regiment.   In
the battle of Gettysburg of the morning of Frida}^, 3 July,  he
was  making a charge with his  regiment, Avhen he was mortally
wounded by a minie-ball in the upper part of his right thigh.
He was  a brave and efficient officer, cool in action, always
manly  and dignified,  and much esteemed by his men  and his
fellow-officers.
   1862.—Lieut.  Henry Ropes was  killed in the battle  of
Gettysburg, Penn., 3 July, 1863, aged 24 years.  He  Avas son
of AVilliam  and Mary Ann  (Codman)  Ropes,  and Avas born
near London, Eng., where  his  parents were temporarily re-
siding, 16 May, 1839.  His father is a native of Salem, and  an
eminent  merchant of Boston.   His  mother Avas a daughter  of
Hon. John Codman, of Boston.  He was fitted  for college  by
Sidney  Willard (H.C.  1852), late  major of the  Thirty-fifth
Massachusetts Regiment, killed at Fredericksburg,  14  Decem-
ber,  1862.  He was  commissioned  as  second-lieutenant of the
Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment,  25  November, 1861, and
as first-lieutenant,  2  October,  1862 ;  was with the regiment
until his death, going through the Peninsula campaign, — siege
of Yorktown, Fair Oaks, seven-days' battles? Antietam; storm-
ing of the city of Fredericksburg,  11  December, 186£j  and was
never wounded until he met his death at the battle of Gettys-
burg.   AVhen in college, he took great interest in boating and
other manly exercises, and was selected to be one  of six men
who composed the crew of the  "Harvard,"  and was in this
representative boat of the college  during  some of her proudest
triumphs.  He was well  fitted  by his physical strength to as-

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sume the hardships of a campaign, but was  cut doAA'n in the
flower of his youth in the struggle with the enemy.  His last
march, the longest ever  accomplished  in one  day by the Army
of the Potomac, was  borne Avith the utmost cheerfulness.   He
was the life of all  about him, encouraging the weary, inspiring
and enlivening the  men  of his  command,  whose testimony has
been given to the beautiful spirit and kindly temper with Avhich
the fatigues of the day were endured by him.   The last act of
his life, of which there is any record, is touchingly characteristic.
The  battle of the day  before had  been severe, and many
wounded were left upon the field.  AVith noble self-forgetfulness,
he went  out at night with his cup of cold water to soothe and
relieve those Avho  were fainting and  dying from  wounds and
thirst.   FeAv instances  of rarer patriotic impulse have  been
seen.  Six weeks  before  his death, he visited his  friends  after
the battle of Chancellorsville, and said, in reply to the hope they
expressed that he Avould not return to the army, that no  posi-
tion of influence or wealth which could be offered to him, would,
for an instant, tempt him to leave his regiment until the war was
closed.   AVar had no  fascination for him ; he longed for a right-
eous  and honorable  peace : but, until that was  proclaimed, he
would neAer sheathe his sword.
   1862. —John Henry Tucker Avas killed in the attack on
Port Hudson, Miss., 27  May,  1863,  at the  age of 28 years.
He Avas  son of Ebenezer and Eliza Bradlee  (Foster)  Tucker,
and  AA-as born in  Cambridge, Mass., 19 February, 1835.   He
studied at the public  schools in Cambridge  until April, 1851,
Avhen his father thought it  best that he should  learn  a trade.
He Avas  accordingly apprenticed to his brother, who was a car-
riage-painter.  Although the drudgery which fell to his lot as
a young apprentice was  not at all to  his taste, he persevered
until he  acquired such a  proficiency in  his  trade, that,  Avhen his
time expired, his master offered him high wages to remain as
journeyman.  In  the winter of 1855, he  joined the Mechanic
Apprentices' Library Association, where  the literary exercise
proved very attractive to him;  and the library afforded him in-
formation Avhich Avas eagerly collected.   Such Avas his success in 
528   NECROLOGY OF ALUMNI OF  HARVARD COLLEGE.  [1862-63.

this institution, that, on the occasion of the thirty-sixth anniver-
sary of  its foundation,  he was chosen orator, and delivered an
oration  on the " Position of the  Mechanic in  Society," at the
Meionian, 22 February, 1856.  This oration has  been printed.
The future of literature  thus opened to him proved so attractive,
that he  endeavored to advance yet further;  and, as  a means,
determined to enter college,  if possible.   In December, 1856,
he entered the Cambridge High  School^ and  in July, 1858,
was admitted to  Harvard College.  During  his college-course,
he won the respect of all his classmates by  his unassuming
modesty and his high  religious principle.   Naturally quiet  and
retiring, he passed to and from recitations almost  unknown  by
many of his class; but those who  knew him well valued him
perhaps more for  the A'ery qualities which restrained him from
active participation in  class-matters.   Devoting himself to the
study of theology, and the ministry of the Baptist  church, which
he joined  in 1850, he felt that his  country needed  him in a ser-
vice  in  every way opposed to his tastes, but in  one where  he
might do good.   He joined the Thirty-eighth Regiment.  Among
the first, he fell at the attack on Port Hudson. 
INDEX   OF   ALUMNI;
WITH THE YEARS  OF  GRADUATION  AND  DECEASE.
                                 PAGE.
Abbot, Abiel (1787), 1859  ....   208
Abbot, Daniel (17.97), 1853 ....    27
Abbot, Henry (1796), 1862.  ...   386
Abbot, Jacob (1792), 1834 ....   208
Abbot, John (1798), 1854   .  .  \  .    27
Abbot, Samuel (1808), 1839  ...   208
Abbott, Caleb F. (1831), 1855.   .  .    57
Abbott, Edward G. (1860), 1862 .  .   518
Abbott, Henry H. (1859),  1859   .  .   337
Adams, Charles F. (1843), 1856  .  .   152
Adams, Daniel (1799), 1852  ...    13
Adams, Henry (1802), 1862  ...   452
Adams, Horace W. (1849), 1861 .  .   379
Adams, James B. (1847),  1853   .  .    22
Adams, Josiah (1801), 1854  ...    28
Adams, Mark S. (1847), 1853 ...    22
Adams, Zabdiel (1759), 1801 ...   452
Adams, Zabdiel B. (1813), 1855  .  .    47
Allvn, Rufus B. (1810), 1857 ...   121
Almy, Pardon (1861), 1862   ...   522
Andrews, Asa (1783), 1856.  ...    67
Andrews, George (1847),  1862   .  .   482
Appleton, Francis H. (1842), 1854  .    34
Atherton, Charles G. (1822), 1853  .    32
Atherton, Charles H. (1794), 1853  .    11
Austin,  Elbridge G. (1829), 1854.  .    57
Austin,  John D. (1846), 1861 ...   377
Austin,  William (1831), 1835 ...   145

Bacon, Eufus (1810), 1854 ....    42
Baker, George (1816), 1852  ...    17
Baker, Henry F. (1815), 1857.   .  .   126
Baker, Walter (1811), 1852   ...    6
Barnwell, Wm. H. W. (1824), 1863 .   471
Barbour, James (1818), 1857 ...   192
Bartlet,  William (1801), 1852 ...    13
Bartlett, Benjamin D. (1810), 1853 .    16
Bartlett, Gorham (1845), 1854    .  .    34
Bartlett, Josiah (1795), 1853  ...    12
Batchelder, Francis L. (1844), 1858.   204
Batchelder, George W. (1859), 1862,   510
Bates, Joshua (1800), 1854.  ...    28
Bates, Reuben (1829), 1862   ...   473
Beal,  Thomas P. (1806), 1852.   .  .    6
Beals, Isaac N. (1856), 1860  ...   381
Benjamin, James (1830), 1853   .  .    33
Bent, Nathaniel T. (1831), 1856 .
Bigelow, Edward I. (1848), 1854 .
Bigelow, Francis W. (1843), 1853
Bigelow, Rufus (1831), 1832  .  .
Birchard, Eliphalet (1843), 1854 .
Bliss, John (1808), 1854 .  .  .  .
Blood, Oliver H. (1821), 1858 .  .
Boutelle, Timothy (1800), 1855  .
Bowditch, Nathaniel I. (1822), 1861
Bowman, Charles D. (1838), 1857
Bradford, Alden (1786), 1843  .  .
Bradford, George (1851), 1859  .
Bradford, William J. A. (1816), 1858,
Bradley, Alexander R. (1831), 1862,
Bradley, Caleb (1795), 1861  .
Braman, Isaac (1794), 1858   .
Brewer, John M. (1804), 1859 .
Brewer, Nathaniel (1814), 1853
Briggs, William A. (1838), 1859
Brooks,  Gorham (1814), 1855 .
Brooks, Warren (1855), 1857  .
Brown, Arnold W. (1851), 1852
Brown, Bartholomew (1799), 1854
Brown, George W. (1845), 1851
Brown, John (1813),'1852 .  .
Brown, Oliver (1804), 1853 .  .
Browne, Charles (1812), 1856 .
Browne, John W. (1830), 1860
Bulfinch, George S. (1817), 1853
Bulfinch, Henry (1821), 1853 .
Bullard, John P. (1829), 1848 .
Burnap, George W. (1824), 1859
Burnap, Jacob (1770), 1821   .
Butler, Josiah (1803), 1854 .  .
Butterfield, Charles (1820), 1858
Byers, Peter S. (1851), 1856  .
Campbell, Edward F. (1808), 1861
Capen, Lemuel (1810), 1858   .
Carroll, Charles (1823), 1862  .
Carson, William A. (1818), 1856
Cary, Thomas G. (1811), 1859
Caryl,  Benjamin (1761), 1811  .
Cenas, Hilary B. (1825), 1859.
Chadwick, George B. (1858),  1861
Chandler, James (1728), 1789.  .
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Chandler, Joshua (1807), 1854
Chandler, Nathaniel (1792), 1852
Clieever, Charles A. (1813), 1852
Chickering, Jesse (1818), 1855
Childe, Edward V. (1823),  1861
Chipman, Ward (1805), 1851 .
Chisholm, James (1836), 1855.
Clap, Ebenezer (1799), 1856  .
Clapp, Thaddeus (1834), 1861.
Clarke, Manlius S. (1837),  1853
Cleaveland, Parker (1799), 1858
Cobb, Henry (1854), 1855  .  .
Coburn, Henry P.  (1812), 1854
Codman, Henrv (1808), 1853 .
Coffin, Charles (1793), 1853  .
Coggin, Jacob (1803), 1854  .
Cogswell, George W. (1849), 1854
Coker, Robert A. (1831), 1833
Cole, Joseph G. (1822), 1851 .
Cole, Thomas  (1798), 1852.  .
Cook, Daniel (1836), 1853  .  .
Cooke, Alfred W. (lt-52), 1852
Coombs, George C. (1831), 1835
Corbett, John  H. (1819), 1855.
Crafts, Samuel C. (1790), 1853
Cranch, William (1787), 1855.
Crocker, Frederick W. (1829), 1863
Crocker, Samuel M. (1801), 1852
Crosbv, Oliver (1795), 1851  .  .
Crosby, William (1794), 1852.  .
Cross, William G. (1842), 1854  .
Cross, Robert  (1819), 1859  ...
Croswell, Andrew (1798), 1858 .
Crowninshield, Edw. A. (1836), 1859
Cruft, Edward (1831), 1846  .  .
Cruft, William S. (1834), 1851  .
Cummings, Asa (1817), 1856 .  .
Cummings, Enoch L. (1848), 1859
Cunningham, Eph. M. (1814), 1852
Cutter, Charles W. (1818), 1856 .

Dabney, Francis O. (1851), 1858
Dabney, Frederic (1828), 1857
Dall, John (1815), 1852 .  .  .
Damon, David (1S11), 1843  .
Damon, Edward T. (1857), 1859
Dana, Francis (1796), 1853 .  .
Dane, Joseph  (1799), 1858  .  .
Davenport, James (1802), 1860
Daves, John (1853), 1855  .  .
Davis, Thomas K. (1827),  1853
Davis, William (1837), 1853  .
Davis, William N. (1851), 1863
Davison, Andrew C. (1815), 1856
Dav, James (1806), 1853  .
Deane, Samuel (1760), 1814
Deblois,  John A. (1816), 1855
Denny, Nathaniel P. (1797), 1856
Derby, Ezekiel H. (1791),  1852  .
Derby, Nathaniel F. (1829),  1830
Devereux, John J. (1816),  1856
Devereux, Nicholas (1829), 1848
Dexter, Franklin (1812), 1857 .
Dexter, Samuel D. (1843), 1850
Dexter, Samuel W. (1812), 1863
Doane, Augustus S. (1825), 1852
Doolittle, Henry J. (1861), 1862
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Dorr, Clifford (1825), 1858 .  .
Dorr, Samuel A. (1795), 1855 .
Dorr, Thomas W.( 1823),  1854
Diane, Robert B. (1824), 1862
Draper, William (1803), 1858 .
Dugan, James A. (1848), 1860
Dumont, John T. P. (1824), 1852
Dunbar, Asa (1767), 1787  .  .
Dutton, Francis L. (1831), 1854
Dwight, Howard (1857), 1863
Dwight, John (1800), 1853.
Dwight, Wilder (1853), 1862

Eaton,  Asa (1803), 1858 .   .
Eaton,  Joseph (1810), 1860.
Eaton,  Peter (1787), 1848   .
Eaton,  PeterS.  (1818), 1863
Edson, John (1848), 1857   .
Eliot, Paul M. (1858), 1862.
Eliot, Samuel A. (1817), 1862
Elliott, Ralph E. (1818), 1853
Elliott, William (1809), 1863
Emerson, Charles 0. (1818), 1863
Emerson, Samuel (1785),  1851
Erving, Langdon (1855), 1862.
Eustis, George (1815\ 1858  .
Eustis, Horatio  S. (1830), 1858
Everett, Edward B. (1850), 1861

Fales,  Stephen  (1810), 1854  .
Farley, George  F. (1816), 1855
Farlev, Joseph  H. (1823), 1861
Farmer, William (1819), 1862 .
Farnham, Daniel (1739), 1776.
Farnswortb, James D. (1818), 1854
Farrar, John (1803), 1853  .
Farwell, John (1808), 1852.
Farwell, Richard (1817), 1853
Fav, Samuel P. P. (1798), 181
Felton, Cornelius C. (1827), 1862
Field,  William  P. (1851),  1859
Fish, Phineas (1807), 1854 .  .
Fiske,  Isaac (1798), 1861   .  .
Fiske,  Thaddeus (1785), 1855 .
Fitch,  Jeremiah G. (1831), 1845
Flanders, Charles (1808),  1860
Flint, James (1802), 1855   .  .
Fogg,  Henry M. R. (1849), 1862
Foster, Alfred D. (1819), 1852
Foster, William E. (1829), 1843
Fox, Abel (1838), 1859 .   .  .
Francis, Convers (1815), 1863 .
French, Jonathan (1798), 1856
French, Ralph  H. (1798), 1855
Friese, Henry F. (1831), 1853.
Frost,  Barzillai  (1830), 1858  .
Frost,  John (1822), 1859.   .  .
Frothingham, William (1799), 1852
Fuller, Arthur  B. (1843), 1862
Fuller, Elisha (1815), 1855 .  .
Fuller, Eugene  (1834), 1859  .
Fuller, Henry H. (1811), 1852.
Fuller, Henry W. (1859), 1863
Furber, Frederick (1831), 1853

Gage, Nathaniel (1822), 1861  .
Gale, Frederick W. (1836), 1854 
INDEX  OF  ALUMNI.
531
Gannett, Caleb (1763), 1818  .
Gannett, John M. (1802), 1855
Gardiner, John S. (1852), 1856
Gardner, Henrv (1750), 1782 .
Gardner, Henry (1797), 1854 .
Gardner, Henrv (1798), 1858 .
Gardner, .Tohn"( 1715), 1775   .
Gassett, Henrv (1795), 1855  .
Gate«, Isaac (1802), 1852  .  .   .
Gholson, William Y. (1861), 1862
Gibbs, William  P. (1832), 1852
Gi'christ, John J. (1828), 1858
Giles, John (1831), 1838.  . .
Gill, Moses (1805), 1862  .  . .
Gilman, Nicholas (1854), 1854.
Gilman, Samuel (1811),  1858 .
Glover, Lewis J. (1832), 1856 .
Goodrich, John F. (1848), 1863
Goodwin, Richard C. (1854), 1862
Gorham, Benjamin (1795), 1855 .
Gorham, William C. (1831), 1843
Gould, Benjamin A. (1814), 1859
Gould, James F. (1812), 1854 .
Gourgas, John M. (1824), 1862
Gragg, William (1820), 1852 .
Grav, Francis C. (1809), 1856 .
Greele, Samuel (1802), 1861 .
Green, Aaron (1789), 1853 . .  .
Greene, Benjamin D. (1812), 1862
Greene, Charles  W. (1802), 1857
Greenleaf, Thomas (1784), 1854
Greenough, Horatio (1825), 1852
Greenough, John (1824), 1852.
Groce, Nahum H. (1808), 1856
Guild, Benjamin (1769), 1792 .
Guild, Benjamin (1804), 1858 .
Guild, George D. (1845), 1862.
Guild, Samuel E. (1839), 1862
Habersham, Robert (1831), 1832
Hagar, Moses (1831), 1860  .  .
Hale, Charles G. C.  (1831), 1832
Harrington, Joseph (1833), 1852 .
Harris, Thaddeus W. (1815), 1856
Harris, William C. (1807), 1853
Harris, William T. (1846), 1854  .
Hartshorn, Charles H. (1838), 1855
Hastings, George  H. (1834), 1854
Hastings, John A. (1846), 1851
Hatch, Daniel G.  (1817), 1862.
Haven, Joseph (1810), 1851  .
Ha%'en, Samuel F. (1852), 1862
Hayward, Charles (1806), 1855
Havward, Joshua H. (1818), 1856
Havward, Lemuel (1768), 1821
Head, George E. (1812), 1861 .
Heard, George W. (1812), 1863
Henshaw, Daniel  (1806), 1863 .
Hersey, Henry E. (1850), 1863
Hevwood, Benjamin (1840), 1860
Hil'dreth. Ezek'iel  (1814), 1856.
Hill, Ebenezer (1786), 1854 .   .
Hill, James S. (1852), 1857 .   .
Hinds, Ephraim (1805), 1858  .•
Hinklev, Edward (1813), 1854.
Hoar, Samuel (1802), 1856 .   .
Hobbs, Frederick (1817), 1854.
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Hodges, George F. (1855), 1862
Holley, Orville L. (1813>, 1861
Hollingsworrh, George (1857), 1859
Holman, Henrv W. (1848), 1853
Holyoke, Edward A. (1817), 1855
Hood, Julius S. (1860), 1861
Hopkinson, Francis C. (1859), 1863
Hopkinson, Thomas (1830), 1856
Hosmer, Rufus (1800). 1839   .
Hosmer, Rufus (1834), 1861   .
How, Henry J. (1859), 1862   .
Howe, Isaac R. (1810), 1860   .
Hubbard, Ebenezer (1777), 1800
Hubbard, Ebenezer (1805), 1858
Hubbard, Henrv B. (1854), 1862
Hubbard, John (1829), 1848   .
Hunnewell, Walter (1787), 1855
Hunt,  Benjamin F. (1810), 1854
Hunt,  Ezra (1815), 1860 .  .   .
Hurd,  Isaac (1806), 1856.  .   .
Hurd,  Joseph (1797), 1857 .   .

Inches, Henderson (1792), 1857
Ingalls, William (1790), 1851  .

Jackson, Charles (1793), 1855 .
Jackson, Leonard (1812), 1857
Jacob, Nathaniel (1806), 1861 .
Jaques, Abiel (1807), 1852 .   .
Jarvis, Leonard (1797), 1855   .
Jarvis, Leonard (1800), 1854  .
Jenkins, John F. (1818), 1862 .
Jenkins, Solomon M. (1829), 1848
Jewett, Isaac A. (1830), 1853 .
Johnson, James (1808), 1856   .
Johnson, Walter R. (1819), 1852
Jones, John D. (1850), 1857   .

Kendall, David (1794), 1853   .
Kendall, James (1796), 1859   .
Kendall, James B. (1854), 1859
Kendrick, William P. (1816), 1854
Kent,  Benjamin (1820), 1859  .
Kimball, Daniel (1800), 1862  .
Kimball, David T. (1803), 1860
King, James G. (1810), 1853   .
King, John G. (1807). 1857 .• .
Kinloch, Frederick (1810), 1856
Kittredge, Rufus (1810), 1854 .
Knapp, Nathaniel P.  (1826),  1854   .

Labranche, Drausin B. (1834), 1853
Ladd,  John G. (1843), 1853 .   .
Lane,  John F. W. (1837), 1861
Lane,  Jonas H. (1821), 1861   .
Lawrence, Ebenezer (1795),  1856
Leland, Aaron L. (1835), 1858.
Lemmon, Robert (1844), 1856 .
Lincoln, Henry (1786), 1857   .
Lincoln, Henrv (1830), 1860   .
Lincoln, Luther B. (1822), 1855
Lincoln, Theodore (1785), 1852
Livermore, Jonathan (1760), 1809   .
Livermore, Solomon  K. (1802), 1859,
Locke, Albert (1829), 1840 .   .  .  .
Locke, John (1792), 1855  ....
Long, Joseph  A. E. (1818), 1860 .  .
316 
532
INDEX  OF  ALUMNI.
                                  Page.
Lord, Nathaniel (1798), 1852  ...   13
Loring, Joseph (1786), 1857   ...  107
Loring, Josiah Q. (1829), 1862.  .   .  425
Low, Seth (1804), 1853.....14
Lowell, Charles (1800), 1861  ...  343
Lowell, James J. (1858), 1862 ...  443
Lowell, John (1721), 1767  ....  343
Lowell, John (1760), 1802  ....  343
Lunt, William P. (1823), 1857.  .   .  135

Manlev, Hiram (1825), 1853   ...   19
McKean, Henry S. (1828),  1857  .   .  141
McKean, John G. (1831), 1851   .   .  146
McKim, William D. (1852), 1863.   .  494
McLellan, Henrv B. (1829), 1833.   .  475
Manning, John (1810), 1852   ...    6
Manning, Joseph B. (1808), 1854 .   .   30
Manning, Samuel (1797), 1822   .   .  133
Manning, Samuel (1822), 1857   .   .  133
Marr, Nicholas L. (1845), 1854  .   .   35
Marsh, John (1823), 1856   ....  137
Mason, Charles (1832), 1862   ...  427
Mav, John  P. (1849), 1862  ....  486
Meriam, William W. (1855), 1862   .  441
Merrill, James C. (1807), 1853 .... 30
Merrill, John (1804), 1855  ....   41
Middleton,  Arthur (1814), 1853  .   .   16
Minot, George (1836),  1858.  ...  199
Minot, Stephen (1801), 1861   .  . 199, 350
Mitchell, Nahum (1789), 1853 ...   26
Moody, George B. (1821), 1856  .   .   92
Moore, Abraham (1806), 1854  ...   29
Mordecai, David  H. (1854), 1859 .   .  290
Morris, James (1846), 1853  ....   22
Mower, Thomas G. (1810), 1853 .   .   31
Mudge, Charles R. (1860),  1S63  .   .  521
Mulliken, Edward (1846), 1857  .   .  205
Murdoch, Charles T. (1828), 1853   .   33

Neal, Edward H. (1852), 1856  ...  157
Nelson, Albert H. (1832), 1858   .   .  198
Newcomb, Edgar M. (1860), 1862   .  519
Newhall, Benjamin (1846),  1856 .   .  101
Newman, Henrv  (1801), 1861  ...  395
Nichols, Ichabod (1802), 1859  ...  225
Nichols, John S.  (1849), 1862  ...  435
Nichols, Paul L.  (1845), 1852  ...    9
Norris, George W. (1852), 1857  .   .  158
Norton, Andrews (1804), 1853 ...   28
Norton, Jacob (1786), 1858 ....  161

Oliver, Francis J. (1795), 1858  .   .  215
Orr, Hector (1792), 1855.....37
Osgood, David (1771),  1822.  ...  459
Osgood, David (1813),  1863.  ...  459
Osgood, Gayton P. (1815),  1861 .   .  359
Osgood, Robert H. (1811), 1855  .   .   44
Otis,  William F.  (1821), 1858  ...  194

Paine, Charles (1820),  1853.  ...   18
Paine, Elijah (1814), 1853  ....   31
Parker, Benjamin C. C. (1822), 1859  267
Parker, Benjamin F. (1831), 1844   .  146
Parker, Frederick (1833), 1857  .   .  147
Parker, Freeman (1797), 1854.  .   .   27
Parker, George P. (1812), 1856  .   .   84
Parker, Oscar F. (1850), 1854  ...   62
                                  Page.
Parker, Thomas I. (1803), 1856  .  .  116
Parkman, Francis (1807), 1852  .  .   15
Parkman, Samuel (1834), 1854  .  .   58
Parkman, Samuel B. (1857), 1862  .  504
Parsons, Samuel (1848), 1859  ...  330
Peabody, Everett (1849), 1862  .  .  435
Peabody, William B. O. (1816), 1847  435
Pearson, William G. (1854), 1861   .  380
Peirce, Charles H. (1833), 1855  .  .   58
Peirce, Cvrus (1810), 1860 ....  309
Peirson, Abel L. (1812), 1853  ...   16
Perkins, Stephen G. (1856), 1862.  .  503
Perrv, Nathaniel G. (1846), 1855.  .   61
Peters, John (1831), 1846  ....  146
Phelps, Charles P. (1791), 1857  .  .  163
Phelps, Henry (1788), 1852.   ...    1
Phillips, Grenville T. (1836), 1863  .  477
Phillips, John (1788), 1823 .   .  .314,477
Phillips, Samuel D. (1861), 1862 .  .  525
Phillips, Stephen C (1819), 1857.  .  131
Phillips, Thomas W. (1814), 1859   .  314
Pickman, Benjamin (1784), 1843 .  .  312
Pickman, C. Gayton (1811), 1860   .  312
Pierce, James (1849), 1853 ....   22
Plumer, William (1809), 1854 ...   42
Poor, Arthur H. (1851), 1862  ...  437
Pope, Augustus R. (1839), 1858  .  .  202
Pope, Thomas B. (1833), 1862.  .  .  428
Popkin, John S. (1792), 1852  ...    2
Porter, George D. (1851), 1861  .  .  437
Porter, Jonathan (1814), 1859  .  .244, 437
Preble, William P. (1806), 1857  .  .  181
Prentiss, John (1818), 1861....  408
Prentiss, Nathaniel S. (1787), 1853  .   25
Prentiss, Thomas (1766), 1814.  .  .  408
Prescott, Aaron (1814), 1851   ...    7
Prescott, Joshua (1807), 1859  ...  234
Prescott, Samuel J. (1795), 1857 .  .  108
Prescott, William (1783), 1844  .   .  249
Prescott, William H. (1814), 1859   .  249
Preston, Alfred H. (1854), 1859  .  .  291
Prince, J. Hardy (1819), 1861  ...  418
Putnam, Samuel (1787), 1853  .  . 11, 403
Putnam, Samuel R (1815), 1861  .   .  403

Quash, Francis D. (1814), 1857  .  .  126

Rand, Benjamin (1808), 1852  ...    6
Randall, Abraham (1798), 1852  .   .    4
Rantoul, Robert, jun. (1826),  1852  .   19
Raymond, Edward F.  (1851),  1855  .  103
Reed, Caleb (1817), 1854  ....   50
Revere, Paul J. (1852), 1863   ...  494
Rhett, Edmund (1854), 1863   ...  499
Rice, George E.  (1842), 1861  ...  433
Rice, Henrv G. (1802), 1853   ...   13
Rice, Samuel B. (1816), 1863  ...  463
Rice, Thomas (1791), 1854 ....   36
Richardson, Henry A. (1858), 1863  .  507
Richardson, James (1797), 1858  .   .  166
Richardson, William (1832), 1856   .   95
Richardson, William P. (1834), 1857,  148
Ritchie, Andrew (1802), 1862  ...  453
Ritchie, Andrew (1829), 1837  ...  475
Robeson, Thomas R. (1861), 1863   .  525
Robinson,  Charles (1818), 1862  .   .  412
Robinson, William 0. (1832), 1855  .   57 
INDEX  OF  ALUMNI.
533
                                  Page.
Rodman, William L. (1842), 1863  .  478
Rogers, Llovd N. (1808), 1860   .  .  353
Rogers, William M. (1827), 1851
Rogers, William M. (I860), 1862.  .  449
Ropes, Archer (1832), 1855 ....   96
Ropes, Henrv (1862), 1863 ....  526
Rowe, William H. (1853), 1858  .  .  286
Russell, Francis J. (1831), 1833 .  .  146
Russell, James D. (1829), 1861
Russell, Nathaniel (1858), 1862
Ryder, Thomas P. (1828), 1852

Sanders, George T. (1824), 1856
Sanger, Ralph (1808), 1860    .
Sanger, Zedekiah (1771), 1820
Savage, James (1854), 1862   .
Sawyer, Amorv P. (1858), 1860
Sawyer, Franklin (1830), 1851
Sawver, Micajah (1756), 1815.
Sawyer, Samuel (1826), 1859 .
Sawyer, William (1788), 1859
Sawyer, William (1800), 1860.
Sawyer, William (1828), 1852.
Sayles, Francis W. (1844), 1853
Schuvler, Stephen (1820), 1859
Scollay, Samuel (1808), 1857 .
Seaton, J. Gales (1837), 1857 .  .
Sedgwick, William D. (1851), 1862,
Shaw, John (1729), 1791   .   .
Shaw, Lemuel (1800), 1861   .
Shaw, Oakes (1758), 1807 .  .
Shorey, Frank H. (1858), 1862
Shurtleff, Nathl. B., Jr. (1859), 1862,
Silsbee, Francis H. (1831), 1848 .
Simmons, Charles F, (1841), 1862
Sirrunons, George F. (1832), 1855
Simmons, William (1804), 1843 .
Simmons, William H. (1831), 1841
Simonds, Henry C. (1831),  1840
Smith, Henry B. (1809), 1861 .
Smith, Joseph B. (1844), 1859
Smith, Manasseh (1773), 1823
Smith, Samuel E. (1808), 1860
Smith, Thomas (1720), 1795  .
Sparhawk, Ebenezer (1756), 1805
Spooner, Allen C. (1835), 1853
Sprague, Joseph E (1804), 1852
Spurr, Thomas J. (1858), 1862
Starr, John (1804), 1851   .  .
Stearns, William L. (1820), 1857
Stevens, William O. (1848), 1863
Stimson, Caleb M. (1824), 1860 .
Stone, Micah (1790), 1852 .  .  .
Stone,  William L. (1850), 1857 .
Stowers, Joseph (1793), 1851 . .
Stuart, George 0. (1801), 1862 .
Stuart, Julius W. (1849), 1856  .
Sturges, Josiah (1795), 1852  . .
Sullivan, John H. (1853), 1858  .
Sullivan, Richard (1798), 1861  .
Sullivan, Thomas R. (1817), 1862
Sumner, Increase (1767), 1799  .
Sumner, William H. (1799), 1861
Swett, John A. (1828), 1854  . .
Swift, Seth F. (1807), 1858 .  . .

Tappan, David (1771), 1803  . .
446
 20

 93
305
305
500
336
  8
212
270
212
294
  8
 22
320
119
148
489
305
346
346
446
513
146
432
 97
432
146
146
353
280
307
306
225
398
 21
  4
508
  5
132
483
325
 11
154
  2
450
153
  3
288
388
464
390
390
 56
235
Tebbetts, Theodore (1851), 1863
Tenney, Edward J. (1853), 1853
Thacher, George (1812), 1857 .
Thaxter, Ezekiel (1812), 1856.
Thaxter, Jonas W. (1838), 1854
Thaxter, Robert (1798), 1652 .
Thaxter, Thomas (1856), 1860
Thomas, Gorham (1852), 1853
Thomas, Isaiah (1825), 1862  .
Thomas, John B. (1806), 1852
Thompson, John (1822), 1854 .
Thoreau, David H. (1837), 1862
Thorndike, Augustus (1816), 1858
Thurston, John R. (1829), 1843  .
Tilghman, Charles H. (1831), 1842
Tilton, Joseph (1797), 1856   .
Tilton, Nathan (1796), 1851  .
Torrey, William  T. (1806), 1861
Townsend, David S (1809), 1853
Tracy, Elisha W. (1843), 1860
Treadwell, John  D. (1788), 1833
Treadwell, John G. (1825), 1856
Tucker, John H. (1862), 1863 .
Tufts, Marshall (1827), 1855  .
Turner, Charles (1752), 1818 .
Turner, George F. (1826), 1854
Turner, Royal (1813), 1862.  .

Upham, Charles W. (1852), 1860
Upton, Elias  (1802), 1857   .  .   .

Very, Washington (1843), 1853  .
Wadsworth, John (1800), 1860   .
Wainwright, Jona. M. (1812), 1854
Walcott, Samuel B.  (1819), 1854.
Wales, Henry W. (1838), 1856   .
Wales, Thomas B. (1795), 1853  .
Walker, Joseph H. (1843), 1858  .
Walker, Sears C.  (1825), 1853   .
Walker, Timothy (1826), 1856   .
Walton, John (1791), 1862
Ware, Robert (1852), 1863 .
Ware, William (1816), 1852
Warren, John (1771), 1815.
Warren, John C. (1797), 1856
Warren, Joseph (1759), 1775
Warren, Silas (1795), 1856 .
Waters, George E. (1847), 1851  .
Watson, Benjamin M. (1800), 1851
Watts, Francis O. (1822), 1860   .
Webb, Seth (1843), 1862  .  .   .
Webster, Fletcher (1833), 1862   .
Weed, Jared (1807), 1857 .  .   .
Weed, Samuel (1800),  1857   .   .
Welch, John H. (1835), 1852  .   .
Welles, Benjamin (1800), 1860   .
Welles, John (1782), 1855 .  .   .
Welles, Samuel (1796), 1841  .   .
Wellington, Charles (1802), 1861
Wellington, Timothv (1806),  1853
Wells, William (1796),  1860  .   .
Weston, Ezra (1829), 1852  .  .   .
Wetmore, Thomas (1814), 1860  .
Wetmore, William (1770), 1830  .
Wheatland, Benjamin (1819), 1854
Wheeler, Abner B. (1831), 1847 . 
534
INDEX  OF  ALUMNI.
                                  Page.
Wheeler, Frederick (1854), 1857 .   .  206
Wheelwright, Joseph (1811), 1853  .   31
Wheelwright, Wm. C. (1851), 1854 .   62
Whipple, Augustus W. (1849), 1852,   22
White, Daniel A. (1797), 1861.  .   .  339
White, John (1805), 1852  ....    6
White, Nathaniel W. (1812), 1860   .  355
White, William A. (1838). 1856 .   .  150
Whiting, Henry (1842), 1857  ...  151
Whitnev, Alexander (1831), 1842   .  146
Whitnev, Asa H. (1838), 1858   .   .  279
Whitnev, Simon (1818), 1861 .  .   .  414
Whittemore, George (1857), 1862   .  505
Whittemore, Jos. J. L. (1832), 1*60,  371
Whittemore, Wm.  H. (1853), 1857  .  158
Whittredge, Thos.  C. (1818), 1854  .   32
Whitwell, John S.  (1815), 1853  .   .   17
Wigglesworth, Samuel (1831), 1847,  147
Wigglesworth, Thomas (1793), 1855,   37
Wild, Jonathan (1804), 1862 ...  399
Wilev, Adams (1848), 1860   ...  331
Wilkins, John H. (1818), 1861   .   .  416
Willard, Paul (1817), 1856 ....   91
Willard, Samuel, (1803), 1859 .  .
Willard, Sidney (1798), 1856  .  .
Willard, Sidney (1852), 1862  .  .
Williams, Benj'ainin P. (1850). 1856
Williams, Edward P. (1837), 1<53
Williams, Joseph B. (1830), 1853
Williams, Joseph R. (1831). 1861
Windship, Charles W  (1793), 1852
Wingate,  George (1796), 1852 .  .
Wiswall, William D. (1816), 1853
Woodbury, James T. (1823), 1861
Woods, Leonard (1796), 1854 .
Wright, Frederick  (1831), 1846
Wright, Hartley H. (1831), 1840
Wright, Luther (1796). 1858 .
Wright, Nathaniel (1808), 1858
W'right, Nathaniel  (1838), 1847
Wyeth, Jacob (1792), 1857 .  .

Yongue, Andrew L. (1855), 1859
Young, Alexander (1820), 1854
Young, William (1829), 1863 . 
INDEX  OF CLASSES.
Class.					Page.	Class.		Page.
1715.						1799.	4, 13, 27, 81, 170, 220,	390.
1720.						1800.	4, 28, 39, 81, 172, 294,	295,
1721.							343, 346, 349, 375, 393.	
1728.						1801.	4, 13, 28, 199, 350, 395,	450.
1729.						1802.	13, 39, 82, 114, 116, 176,	223,
1739.							225, 296, 396, 398, 452,	453.
1750.						1803.	13, 40, 41, 116, 178, 229,	297,
1752.							301.	
1756.					212, 398.	1804.	4, 5, 14, 28, 41, 178, 303,	399,
1758.							432.	
1759.					77, 452.	1805.		454.
1760.				223,	226, 343.	1806.	6, 14, 29, 84, 116, 181,	352,
1761.							400, 455.	
1763.						1807.	15, 27, 30, 183, 185, 234,	235.
1768.						1808.	6, 15, 30, 41, 84, 117, 119	208,
1767.					390, 431.		237, 304, 305, 306, 353,	402.
						1809.	... 15, 42, 120, 353,	456.
1769.						1810.	6, 16, 30, 31, 42, 43, 121,	123,
1770.	.	.		,	316, 323.		238, 308, 309.	
1771.			• 77,	305,	398, 459.	1811.	6, 16, 31, 44, 68, 186, 242	312.
1773.						1812.	16, 31, 45, 46, 84, 123,	124,
1777.					. 232.		125, 189, 353, 355, 457,	458.
1782.						1813.	6, 16, 31, 47, 355, 459,	460.
1783.	. , •				67, 249.	1814.	7, 16, 31, 84, 85, 126, 244	249,
1784.					25, 312.		313, 314, 316, 437, 462.	
1785.						1815.	17, 48, 86, 127, 255, 357,	359,
1786.	. . .	25,	106,	107	161, 257.		403.	
1787.	11, 25	, 68,	70,	208,	403, 465.	1816.	7, 17, 32, 48, 87, 88, 257,	258,
1788.				140,	212. 314.		435, 463.	
1789.					25, 26.	1817.	17, 32, 49, 50, 89, 90, 91,	406,
1790.					2, 11, 26.		407, 464.	
1791.				H,	163, 450.	1818.	17, 32, 50, 51, 128, 129,	130,
1792.			. 2	107,	164, 208.		192, 316, 408, 412, 414,	416,
1793.				2,	U, 37, 70.		465, 466, 467.	
1794.				3, 11, 12, 214.		1819.	7, 17, 52, 53, 131, 318,	418.
1795.	3, 12,	38, 72,			, 75, 108,	1820.	. . 18, 32, 132, 265, 319,	320.
	215,	338.				1821.	... 18, 92, 193, 194	419.
1796.	3, 12, 350,	26, 386.	38,	165,	216, 293,	1822.	8, 32, 33, 53, 133, 267, 360, 361, 363.	321,
1797.	27, 39	, 75,	76,	77,	109, 110,	1823.	. 54, 135, 137, 365, 366,	469.
	133,	166,	339.			1824.	18, 19, 93, 323, 325, 420,	471,
1798.	3, 4,	13, 27, 79		, 80,	112, 113,		472.	
	168,	169,	341,	388.		1825.	. . 8, 19, 140, 269, 326,	420.
 
536
INDEX OF  CLASSES.
Class.                            Page.
1826.....19, 33, 55, 93, 270.
1827.......8, 33, 56, 421.
1828.  .   8, 20, 33, 56, 141, 195, 196.
1829.  20, 57, 368, 425, 473, 474, 475,
         476.
1830.  8, 20,  33,  34,  143,  271, 326,
         328.
1831.  20, 57,  144,  145, 146, 147, 369,
         426.
1832.  21, 57, 95,  96,  97,  198, 371,
         427.
1833.  ...   21,  58, 147, 428, 476.
1834.  8, 34, 58, 148, 274, 374, 375.
1835.........21, 275.
1836.  .  .   21, 58, 98, 199, 276, 477.
1837.  ...  21,  34,  148, 429, 430.
1838.  34, 58,  100, 149, 150, 238, 277,
         279, 328.
1839.........202, 478.
1840..........376.
1841..........   432.
1842.  ...  34,  59, 151, 433, 478.
1843.  21, 22, 34, 60, 117, 153, 204,
         279, 329, 479, 481.
Class.
1844.......22,  152,
1845.......9, 34, 35,
1846.   .  9, 22, 60, 61,  101,  205,
1847........9, 22,
1848.   35,  153,  282, 329, 330,
          483.
1849.   22, 35, 153, 379, 434, 435,
1850.   .   62, 102, 154, 205, 436,
1851.   9, 62, 102, 103, 283, 284,
          437, 489, 490.
1852.   23, 35, 155, 157, 158, 331,
          492, 494, 495,  496.
1853.   .  35,  104,  158,  286,  288,
1854.   36, 64, 65, 206, 290, 291,
          380, 437, 499, 500.
1855.   .  .  36, 37, 159, 334, 439,
1856.......  381, 383,
1857.   .  .   .  335, 336, 503, 504,
1858.   336, 442,  443, 446, 506,
          508.
1859.   .  .   .  337, 447, 510,512,
1860.   .  .   . 448, 449, 518, 519,
1861.....522, 523, 524,
1862.........526,
Page.
280.
433.
377.
482.
331,

486.
487.
285,
497.
333,

441.
503.
505.
507,

513.
521.
525.
527.
ERRATA.
  4,  8th line from bottom, for " E." read " E ".
 12,14th line from bottom, for " Bartlett " read " Bartlet."
 15,12th line from bottom, for " S." read " S ".
 21,11th line from bottom, for " Clark " read " Clarke."
 60,  9th line from top, for " 1815 " read " 1812."
103,  3d  line from bottom, for " Edmond " read " Edward."
114,17th line from top, for " Artemds " read " Artemas."
145,15th line from bottom, after " lawyer " read " son of Benjamin and Patience (Carver)
   Coombs, born in Middleborough in 1810."
145,  3d  Une from bottom, for " 1814 " read " 5 October, 1813."
148,12th line from bottom, for " Gales Seaton " read "Joseph Gales Seaton." 
 
 
 
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