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SKETCHES OF ELEVEN HUNDRED LIVING AND DECEASED ALUMNI : WITH
FIFTEEN PORTRAITS OF FOUNDERS, PRESIDENTS, AND PATRONS.
ALSO, THE EXERCISES OF THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY : THE HISTORICAL ADDREss;
RICHARDS" AND TAYLOR'S POEMS : THE MISSIONARY RECORD ; THE WAR RECORD ; LISTS
OF COLLEGIATE AND THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES ; MEMBERs of THE BOARDS FROM
THE BEGINNING ; FINANCIAL History ; skETCHES OF ORFICERS AND TEACHERs ; LIST of
HONORARY DEGREES CONFER RED : A GENERAL CATALOGUE OF STUDENTS, BOTII
GRADUATES AND NON-GRADUATE ; AND OTHER HISTORICAL MATTER.
JHaec meminisse juvabit.
NEW YoFR . SHELDON & CO. BoSTON : GOULD & LIN COLN,
PHILADELPHIA, CHICAGo, AND ST, Louis ; BIBLE AND PUBLICATION SOCIETY.
1872,
PU B L IS H ED BY A C O M M ITT E E O F A 1, U MN I.
LANGE, LITTLR & Hii, LMAN,
PRINTRRs, Electrotype RR AND stEREotypers,
108 to 114 Wooster St., N. Y.
P R E F A C E
MANY of those for whom this work was especially intended have
been impatient for its appearance, and have felt that the publication
has been needlessly delayed. All such are invited candidly to con-
sider the circumstances connected with its preparation. It is believed
that these fully justify the apparent delay.
At the close of the last hour of the Jubilee, the undersigned were
appointed a Committee to publish a Memorial Volume. They had
not sufficient time to consider whether they could perform the service,
but their hearts would not allow them positively to decline attempt-
ing it. Among the difficulties which they especially felt, was the
fact that no provision had been made for the necessary expense, and
the Editors could not go forward without such a guarantee.
When, after the lapse of a year, a pecuniary basis for the publica-
tion had been secured, the unfinished, but not neglected, work was
resumed with fresh vigor. The materials gathered before the Jubilee
Anniversary were comparatively meagre. The notices of the Alumni
were insufficient in number to render the work worthy of its purpose.
Accordingly, letters, circulars, and printed lists of those whom the
Committee could not trace, were widely distributed. This was a
task requiring, for any proper degree of accuracy, patient and pro-
longed search, and another year was unavoidably occupied in these
investigations. We hope that a justification of this may be found in
the result, which presents in this volume the sketches of eleven hun-
dred Alumni—seven hundred and fifty living, and three hundred and
fifty deceased—representing every class of the half-century, and every
quarter of the globe. It is proper to say that the term “Alumni.”
has been used in rather a general sense, so as to include not only
graduates, but others who were long enough connected with the In-
vi PREFACE.
stitution to receive somewhat of its stamp, and to be identified with
its history. º
The work has proved one of unexpected magnitude, has been at-
tended by unavoidable delays in preparation and in printing, and has
been gratuitously performed, at the call of the Alumni, by those who
have been continually pressed by their regular professional engage-
ments. As the volume is not a mere record of Jubilee Exercises, as
many anticipated it would be, but a History of the Institution during
its First Half-Century, containing matter not only valuable to the
University, but important to the Denomination, the Committee soon
decided that undue haste would be a greater evil than any necessary
delay. For the sake of all possible accuracy, considerable time has
been taken for the presswork. With a view to completeness, even
at the risk of being charged with anachronism, the editors have noted
events occurring since 1869, so far as known, in the Missionary
Record, in Sketches of Alumni, and in other parts of the volume.
Many will regret that the biographical notices of Alumni are so
brief, and that the instances are so numerous in which there is record
of only the name and the class, or the year of entrance. Not all
even of graduates are represented by sketches. Some of them failed
to report, and to know the full number of graduates in any class, the
reader must refer to the Lists of Graduates near the end of the volume.
Among the Sketches of Alumni, under nearly every year, are notices
of some who did not graduate, but who were for a considerable time
connected with the class. It is obvious that even brief sketches of
two thousand students would demand much larger space than the
limits of such a work would allow. Of those who entered after the
extension of the course in 1833, the Editors have solicited reports
from those only who went as far as through the Sophomore Year.
From some whose progress fell short of that point reports had been
received before the Jubilee, and notices of such have therefore
been inserted with the rest. It has been necessary throughout to
abridge carefully and to print closely. Most of the sketches have
been condensed without the omission of important facts, although in-
teresting details have often been necessarily omitted. The original
PHEFA CE. vii
manuscripts, however, have been preserved for future reference in the
library of the University. The work of abridgment was difficult and
delicate, since the effect of mere statistics on the one hand, and the ex-
cess of personal elements on the other, were equally to be avoided.
If it shall seem to the general reader that the limits of good taste are
in any instance transgressed, an apology may be found in the unique
character of this portion of the work, as designed for classmates and
fellow-students, for whom these personal features will have special
relish.
In a considerable number of instances the Editors have made a
brief record of the public life of Alumni, in respect to whom no com-
munication has been received. These will generally be recognized
by the absence of any notice of birth and marriage.
It will be seen that the sketches embrace no eulogy of the living,
and no reproach of either the living or the dead. As the Alumni
Association intend hereafter to publish annually obituary notices of
Alumni, it is hoped that facts relative to such as from time to time
shall decease, will be promptly forwarded to the Secretary of the
Alumni Association.
Among the Sketches of Alumni, the heading, “Besides Graduates
of the Collegiate Department,” etc., indicates graduates from The-
ology who were not in the College. It implies that all Theological
graduates who had previously graduated from the Collegiate De-
partment are noticed under the year of Collegiate graduation.
Quite a number of names included among the sketches, particu-
larly about 1850, are of men who graduated elsewhere. Notices of
these are due to the strength of former class relations. Sketches
have been inserted of all such as reported themselves, and the fact of
graduation elsewhere is invariably stated.
The Editors tender their hearty thanks to such members of the
Decade and Class Committees as faithfully discharged the duties
devolving upon them, and to many others whose voluntary services
have been of great value. Without the co-operation of many, this
collection of biographical notices would have been an impossibility.
Especial reference should be made to Rev. Jirah D. Cole, D.D., class of
viii PREFACE.
’26, who secured most of the sketches in the first Decade, many in
the second, and some in the later periods. The first Decade alone
cost him the writing of four hundred letters, besides the use of
printed circulars. The Editors feel peculiarly indebted also to Prof.
J. R. Eaton, and to Messrs. J. C. Ward, L. J. Matteson, and J. B.
Child, for painstaking work cheerfully performed.
Much labor has been expended upon the Catalogues. It is hoped
that they will be so used that the Alumni will be generally known to
one another, and our Alma Mater kept familiar with the history of her
many sons. It should be observed that, in the “General Catalogue,”
the word “entered ” means “entered the Institution,” without indi-
cating whether Theo. Sem., College, or Grammar School. In the
great mass of instances it would belong to the last.
The final reading of the Sketches shows that the War Record is not
complete. The names of some appear in the War Record without
indication of the Class, because they had not entered College, were in
the Institution but a short time, or belonged to the Partial Course.
Great care has been taken in the printing and proof-reading. As
the sketches, however, necessarily went to the press, not in continu-
ous manuscript, but in separate sheets having no obvious connection
with one another, it is probable that some errors in arrangement have
escaped notice. Moreover, it is impossible that a record of so many
thousands of dates and names of persons and places, written by so
many different hands, should be free from errors of manuscript and
typography, especially as the proof has been read at a distance from
the press. The Editors crave charitable judgment for all such mis-
takes that may be detected. It is proper to say that the responsi-
bility of carrying the work through the press has devolved upon Dr.
Bronson and Prof. Andrews. The former prepared for the press the
Proceedings of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary, the first four De-
cades of Alumni Sketches, and the General Catalogue. The latter
prepared for the press and read proof of all the remaining matter.
Their previous editorial work involved the sending of one thousand
letters and fifteen hundred circulars. In defence against possible
PREFACE. ix
criticism, the Editors will be pardoned in thus alluding to the arduous
labor which these two gentlemen have performed.
The account of the Proceedings of the Jubilee, although meagre,
will serve as a pleasant reminder after this interval to those who were
present, and will aid the imagination and contribute to the enjoyment
of the many more who were absent. Editorial comment on the Jubi-
lee Addresses in prose and verse would be superfluous, if not imperti-
ment. They were heard with great delight by the throng in attend-
ance, and have permanent historical value.
Alumni, and friends of the University generally, will all be grate-
ful for the portraits by which the volume is illuminated and embel-
lished. These have added somewhat to its cost, although the steel-
plates have, in most instances, been furnished by individuals or their
friends, to whom the Editors hereby tender hearty thanks. Dr.
Nathaniel Kendrick's portrait is accompanied by the title of “First
President.” As he was elected President, and, although he declined,
virtually acted as such, this designation was regarded just.
The Editors are sensible how imperfectly they have done their
Work, but are nevertheless confident that the volume will do much to
renew and extend the acquaintance of the Alumni with one another,
that it will deepen the conviction of the magnitude and importance of
ministerial training, and all higher education, and that it will be not
only a memorial of the past history of Madison University, but an
earnest of her power and progress in the future.
B. F. BRONSON,
J. D. COLE,
W. H. SHAILER, EDITORs.
A. M. BEEBEE,
N. L. ANDREWS,
May, 1872.
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. SKETCHES OF OFFICERS AND TEACHERs,
C O N T E N T S .
. PROCEEDINGS OF JUBILEE WEEK, tº º
DR. DODGE'S ADDRESS OF WELCOME, --- mº
. THE JUBILEE ODE, * - *-* wº -
. DR. EATON'S HISTORICAL DISCOURSE, wº wº-
W. C. RICHARDs’ POEM, - - - agº. -
ADDRESS OF REV. ROBERT POWELL, * -
FOREIGN MISSION WORK OF MADISON UNIVERSITY,
WAR RECORD OF MADISON UNIVERSITY,
B. F. TAYCOR’s POEM, - - - - - -
. THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL FUND, * - *
. REPORT ON INCREASE OF FACILITIES, - * …
. SKETCHES OF ALUMNI—FIRST DECADE, - -
* { & —SECOND DECADE,
§ { * & —THIRD DECADE, - *
4 & & & —FOURTH DECADE,
4 { * { —FIFTH DECADE, cº -
. FIRST ADDREss of THE EDUCATION SocIETY, -
d iſ { % & EXECUTIVE CoMMITTEE, -
. THE CHARTER OF THE EDUCATION SocIETY, *.
. THE CHARTER of MADIsoS UNIVERSITY, *
. THE FIRST COMPACT, - - - - -
. THE SEcoSD CoMPACT, . * - *
. MEMORIALs of EARLY COMMENCEMENTs, . -
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CONTENTS,
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36,
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, MADISONIAN ANNALs, *g wº * st *º * - 389
. THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, < •f -- * 397
. GENERAL VIEW OF Madison UNIVERSITY, - * * - 399
. OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE EDUCATION SOCIETY-1817 to 1871, 405
. CONSTITUTION OF THE EDUCATION SOCIETY, * * * 413
. CORPORATION OF MADISON UNIVERSITY – 1846 to 1871, sº. - 414
. HONORARY DEGREES CONFERRED BY MADISON UNIVERSITY, - 417
. HoNORARY DEGREES TRECEIVED BY ALUMNI, . -x - - 425
. THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES, - * * * *. ** 427
. COLLEGIATE GRADUATES, - * -*. sº * - 440
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS, - ~. º wº * - 453
GENERAL CATALOGUE, ** ** - • sº *. - 478
SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY
OF
MAD IS ON UNIVERSITY.
PROCEEDINGS OF JUBILEE WEEK.
At the denominational anniversaries held in Chicago, Ill., in
1867, there was a meeting of the Alumni of Hamilton, in which,
under a resolution offered by Rev. J. D. Cole, D. D., a committee
was appointed to make arrangements for a general meeting at Com-
mencement in July, 1868. In the Spring of 1868, at a large and
enthusiastic meeting of the Alumni held in New York City, the
following committee was appointed and directed to report at the
next meeting in Hamilton a programme for the celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary, August, 1869. -
S. G. HAVES. A. M. B.E.E.B.E.
A. S. PATTON. O. W. GATES.
W. A. LEWIS. . G. W. L.A.S.H.E.R.
T. A. T. EIANNA. T. SW AIM.
A. P. MASON. W. R. GILI,ETTE.
At the annual meeting in 1868, the committee presented a re-
port of which the following is an extract:
{ { -X- * ºx- A history fraught with such events and enriched
by such memories as belong to the early struggles and triumphs of Madison Uni-
versity, deserves to be rehearsed and recorded. The faith and prayers, the un-
flagging zeal and arduous, life-long toils of the founders and fathers of the Uni-
versity, and of those who have received and worn their mantles, as well as of
the men of martyr-spirit whom she has sent out, and who have carried her es-
cutheon, “Deo ac Veritati,” round the world, and embalmed her name in every
language of the East,-are monuments such as few Institutions of any country
have reared in the period of five short decades. And it is due, alike to her, and
to ourselves, her sons, to gather at the old homestead, to re-count these memories,
to recall these names, to re-kindle in our hearts our admiration for the virtues
which have here been illustrated, and to lay in the lap where We were nurtured
our grateful and our filial offerings.
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10 SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY
Your committee considered it especially desirable—a sine gua mon, to the full
success and enjoyableness of the occasion, that a Jubilee offering of not less than
$200,000 be secured before the close of the year. This will require no little la-
bor on the part of those to whom it is directly committed ; but it can be done,
and will be done, if every friend and alumnus of the University do but emulate,
in some small degree, the spirit which has ruled her sons and patrons for the
fifty years now closing. We do therefore most earnestly recommend that early
and vigorous efforts be initiated to compass this object.
The times amid which the Jubilee occurs; the condition of our own country
and of the world, and the calls which come in multiplied intonations from every
quarter for men of the ripest and broadest culture are considerations, which,
coupled as they properly may be, with an honest and noble pride to see our Alma
Mater, just as she is entering the cycle of her second half century, advancing and
maintaining her place as a first-class Institution, seem to require this at our hands.
Thus our grateful memories of the past will be supplemented by a wise and lib-
eral forecast for the future.”
The programme of exercises proposed for the day was as fol.
lows:
INVOCATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By the President of the Alumni.
PRAYER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By the oldest Alumnus present.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By the President of the University.
ORIGINAL ODE, to be sung in concert by the Alumni. . . . . . . By T. A. T. Hanna.
HISTORICAL DISCOURSE. . By Dr. Eaton, President of the Theological Seminary.
POEM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Rev. W. C. Richards.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
RE-UNION DINNER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
FREE CONFERENCE AND REMINISCENCES
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This report was adopted and the same committee were instructed
to make full arrangements for the Jubilee.
The following sub-committees were appointed :
CLASS HISTORIES-First Decade, 1819–29—A. D. Gillette D. D., (Washington,
D. C.,) Pharcellus Church, D. D., Jacob Knapp.
Second Decade, 1829–39–W. H. Shailer, D. D., (Portland, Me.,) A. Wheelock,
D. D., G. Kempton, D. D.
Third Decade, 1839–49—J. S Holme, D D, (N. Y. City,) W. S. Mikels, D. D.,
G. J. Johnson.
Fourth Decade, 1849–59—Prof. J. R. Eaton, (Louisville, Ky.,) J. C. Ward, L.
J. Matteson.
Fifth Decade, 1859–69–Prof. N. L. Andrews, (Hamilton, N. Y.,) Frank Johnson,
J. B. Child.
NECROLOGY—B. F. Bronson, (Southbridge, Mass.,) C. A. Buckbee, B. Griffith,
D. D.
JUBILEE OFFERING—Prof. P. B. Spear, D. D., C. P. Sheldon, D. D., E. T. His-
cox, D. D. To this committee were added by the Board of the Education Society
and by the Board of the University, J. B. Colgate, Esq., G. H. Andrews, Esq.,
Samuel Colgate, Esq., Rev. H. A. Smith, and A. Pierce, Esq.
INCREASING FACILITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY-A. H. Burlingham, D. D., Reu-
ben Jeffrey, D. D., S. Haskell, D. D.
For EIGN MIssion Work OF THE ALUMNI—J. W. Sarles, D. D., H. Harvey, D.
D., A. C. Osborn, D. D.
OF MADISON UNIVERSITY. 11
WAR RECORD–Prof. L. M. Osborn, Gen. P. P. Brown, Hon. T. W. Osborn.
MEMORIAL VOLUME–Prof. A. N. Arnold, D. D.
The days of the Jubilee showed that no pains had been spared
by these committees to accomplish the purpose of their appoint-
ment. Communications of inquiry and of invitation went
through the land and to the ends of the earth wherever the sons
of Hamilton were known to reside. Affectionate responses poured
in from far and near. There was abundant proof that our Alma
Mater has a large place in the hearts of her Alumni.
A brief account not only of the Jubilee day but also of the an-
niversary week is here put on record for future reference.
The examination of all departments and classes occupied
four days, Wednesday to Saturday, July 28–81 inclusive. On
the evening of Friday the Annual Exhibition of the Uni-
versity Grammar School was held in the Baptist Church.
Thirty-nine young men graduated, of whom sixteen delivered
original addresses. Saturday evening was enlivened by the Annual
Prize Declamation, consisting of recitations by twelve students
chosen in equal numbers from the three lower classes of the Uni-
versity.
On Sunday morning, August 1, the church edifice was thronged
by eager listeners to hear the sermon preached before the Educa-
tion Society by Wm. H. Shailer, D. D. of the class of '35, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, Portland, Me. After fitting and touching
allusions to the peculiarity of the occasion he announced as his
text, 1 Cor. 7: 7, “Every man hath his proper gift from God,”
and discussed upon the variety of abilities and attainments in the
ministry, in a manner well adapted to stimulate to the most dili-
gent use of the gifts conferred and also to excite thankfulness for the
measure of divine blessing which surely attends the faithful exer.
cise of one's ransomed powers whatever the appointed sphere may
be. Prayer was offered and the benediction pronounced by the
venerable Robert Powell, of Michigan, the only survivor of the
immortal “thirteen" who had formed the Education Society more
than fifty years before. The afternoon was given to conference
and prayer. Fervent prayers and thanksgivings were offered and
memorable experiences related by veteran laborers from widely
distant fields. It was good to be there.
The annual meeting of the Society for Missionary Inquiry was
held in the evening. Prayer was offered by J. N. Murdock, D. D.,
Home Secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union.
The sermon was preached by A. H. Burlingham, D. D. of St.
12 SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY
Louis, Mo., of the class of '48; text, Collossians 1: 23–29;
theme, Missions a Spontaneous Result of the Spirit of the Gospel.
A wide field of thought was traversed, fitting tributes were paid
to the character of those who had gone from the society to mis-
sion fields, and the impression deepened that Christians must lose
the spirit of their Lord and of His Apostles before they can give
up the work of missions.
The Education Society held its annual meeting Monday after-
noon. One hundred and eleven students had during the year re-
ceived pecuniary aid to the amount of twelve thousand dollars.
Addresses were made by Rev. J. F. Elder, of Orange, N. J., Rev.
John Peddie, of Albany, S. S. Cutting, D. D., Sec'y of the Educa-
tional Commission, Rev. Daniel Reed, LL.D., President of Shurt-
leff College, Ill., Rev. Thomas Price, Ph. D., of Wales, and
others.
Monday evening was devoted to the Literary Societies, Aeonian
and Adelphian. Prayer was offered by R. Jeffrey, D. D., of Cin-
cinnati. An elaborate and comprehensive address was delivered
by C. W. Anable, D. D., theological graduate of 1854, pastor of the
Baptist Church in Old Cambridge, Mass.; theme, the Service ren-
dered by Science to Christianity. B. F. Taylor, Esq. of Chicago,
Ill., gave the poem, so inspiring and so apropos to the Jubilee
that its publication in the memorial volume was demanded with
one accord.
As the Jubilee services were to be held on Wednesday, the
graduating exercises of both the theological and collegiate depart-
ments took place on Tuesday.
The services were as follows:
Prayer by Rev. Robert Powell. A. H. BALL, Amherst, Mass., A Sword, not
Peace. A. M. PRENTICE, Hamilton, Christianity the Fact of History. E. C.
ROMINE, Stockton, N. J., The Prime element in Ministerial Character. C. C.
SMITH, Piscataway, N. J., Breadth and Intensity in the Preacher.
After intermission the University Commencement followed :
Prayer by Dr. Dodge, President.
Latin Salutatory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Wallace Ford.
Oration of the First Class–Image Making. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *Charles Pratt.
Oration—Earnestness Essential to the Christian Minister. . . . . . . . . Ezra Tinker.
Oration of the First Class—Manhood in American Politics,
º Edward Kingsford Chandler.
Classical Oration——Importance of the Classics in Education
William Colgate Eaton.
*Scientific Course.
OF MADISON UNIVERSITY. 13
Oration of the First Class—The Grandeur of Decay. . . . . . . James Wallace Ford.
Philosophical Oration—The Spanish Revolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jabez Smashall.
Oration of the First Class–Loyalty to Principle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nelson Sutton.
Oration of the First Class—Free ?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Abraham Thomas.
Oration of the First Class—Marathon and Gettysburg. . George Oliver Whitney.
Waledictory Oration and Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Silas Wright Hatch.
Address to Class by the President. Conferring of Degrees.
In the evening of Tuesday the special exercises of the Jubilee
commenced. Prayer was offered by S. B. Grant, D. D., of Fitch-
burg, Mass., class of '43. The various committees appointed at the
previous anniversary gave partial reports, showing that though
much labor had been performed, much remained to be done be-
fore the class histories would be ready for publication.
The morning of Wednesday brought clouds which soon passed
away after giving a refreshing rain that brought fully out the
beauty of the delightful valley and the surrounding hills. As the
thronging visitors reached the University Hill and gazed over the
almost unequaled scenery spread far around, there seemed to them
no exaggeration in the poem of the previous evening, which de-
scribed it as having “A little of earth and a great deal of heaven.”
To the veterans whose personal acquaintance with this sacred
spot had begun more than half a century before, and to the
youthful graduate just buckling on his armor for the dusty,
smoke-enveloped field, to the men who had come from southern
Savannas, from western prairies, or from rocky eastern shores,
from Pacific coast, from stations in China, or Burmah, or from
hills along the Bramahpootra in sight of the Himalayas, to these
men whether making new acquaintances, or in looking through
smiles and tears on the faces of old friends not seen for tens or
scores of years, the dear old hill seemed a heavenly place, and not
far away seemed heaven itself where the Redeemer of all kin-
dreds will join the Assembly and Church of the First Born.
The exercises at Alumni Hall were commenced by singing the
Coronation Hymn. A. H. Burlingham, D. D., president of the
Association of Alumni, was presiding officer of the day. Prayer
was offered by Rev. Francis W. Emmons of Massachusetts, of the
class of '24, the oldest alumnus present.
E. Dodge, D. D., LL.D., President of the University, gave the
address of welcome. Dr. Burlingham made a fitting response.
Rev. T. A. T. Hanna, class of '64, read his Ode prepared for the
occasion. It was sung by the assembly in the tune of Star-spangled
Banner.
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Geo. W. Eaton, D. D., LL.D., President of the Theological Sem-
inary, then followed with portions of his Historical Discourse, and
Rev. W. C. Richards, Ph. D., delivered the Jubilee Poem.
The dinner, of which a thousand partook, was spread beneath a
most capacious tent pitched in front of the eastern edifice, in full
view of the magnificent scenery below and around, on which eager
eyes feasted as gladly as did their sharpened appetites upon the
generous repast with which the tables were loaded. Thanks were
voted to Mr. Solomon Baker, the chief butler, and to Capt. C. W.
Underhill, class of '62, the chief marshal of the day.
We are aided in our report of the post-prandial proceedings by
the account in the Hamilton Republican and by a phonographic
report of Rev. S. S. Bidwell, class of '58.
Dr. Burlingham, the presiding officer, gave the following sen-
timent:
“The original thirteen Corporate Founders of Hamilton Literary and Theo-
logical Institution ; one alone survives, a living link to us of the glorious mem-
ories of fifty years ago.”
In response, Father Powell spoke of his feelings on visiting, the
day before, the house in which the original thirteen met and formed
the society. He looked around for the fathers, Hascall and Ken-
drick, Payne and Olmstead, and their companions in this great
work, but he saw only their resting places and their monuments,
the noblest of which are these University edifices and the men
trained in them for their glorious work.
Dr. Eaton being called up as “one whom the friends and alum-
ni always loved to hear,” expressed the opinion that the “audience
had had enough of his tongue already,” but favored them with a
glowing eulogy of the “fathers and founders,” with all of whom
he had had no little acquaintance.
The next sentiment was as follows:
“The early professors and teachers, Hascall, Kendrick, and their associates—
the impress of their lives, characters, and counsels still remains, and is the glory
of Madison University.”
Response was made by J. D. Cole, D.D., of Illinois. He said
that his personal acquaintance with Professor Hascall began forty-
seven years ago, when he became a member of the Institution.
Hascall was its life and soul. It was born in his heart. He was
the moving spirit in this enterprise in the Madison Association.
The people of the denomination feared a man-made ministry.
Most of the ministers shared the feeling. Dr. Welch in his early
ministry had no sympathy with those who went to Hamilton,
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and once expressed this most pointedly to the speaker. Alfred
Bennet once intended to oppose the educational enterprise in a
sermon before the Association, but had no freedom of utterance,
and soon became one of its warmest friends. Under such oppos:
ing influences Professor Hascall began his great work. He was
the first professor as well as the first mover. He was a man of
great enterprise, patience, and perseverance, and of a self-sacrific-
ing spirit. His relation to the whole movement, whose grand
results we to-day see, ought to be more fully known and appre:
ciated. Dr. Kendrick at first came over twice a week from Eaton,
but soon resided permanently in Hamilton, and united his whole
influence with that of Hascall. No other two men had so much
of the confidence of the people of the region, and no other men
could have carried on the work with so little opposition.
A copious shower made it necessary to return to Alumni Hall
during the delivery of Dr. Cole's address.
The President of the Day called upon Dr. Shailer, who at Ham-
ilton got not only a good education, but also got Professor Has:
call's daughter for a wife. Dr. Shailer gave more than an intimation
that he considered all he got at Hamilton as good, very good.
He said that Kendrick and Hascall were both needed in their
day. Professor Hascall was a man of very strong faith, which
was abundantly shown by his works. He was a man of action.
On his death-bed he said, “I should not be willing to go if there
was not something to be done in heaven.” Dr. Kendrick was a
man of much thought and vigor.
Next sentiment:
“Foreign Missions.—Hamilton gave to them her first-fruits, and has not with-
held her choicest. Where the work has been hardest, the danger thickest, the
darkness deepest, her sons have nobly stood or gloriously fallen for Christ.”
Miles Bronson, D.D., missionary to Assam, a graduate of '36,
responded: -
“Thirty-three years ago I went from this place to my distant field of labor.
Words cannot express what I feel in reviving the associations of dear old Ham-
ilton. When I was here with Dean, and Comstock, and Vinton, and others of
like spirit, we felt that there was no enterprise so glorious as that of dispelling
the darkness of heathenism by pouring in the light of Christianity. When on
our distant field we were beset, or overworked, or prostrated in sickness, and
felt that we might soon fall, we were comforted by the thought that Hamilton
would send others to take our places. So it proved. Thomas fell when he had
got within sight of the trees around the mission house. His place was soon
filled. E. P. Scott has just fallen nobly following his Master. His place must
be filled at once. The work is hard but glorious, I know all the trials of mis-
sionary life, but if I stood here a young man, as I did thirty-three years ago, I
would at once set out for the same toil, and the same reward, in the same field.”
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Rev. A. T. Rose, of the Burman Mission, was warmly welcomed
to the halls from which he went forth sixteen years before. He
said :
“My heart is greatly affected by your welcome. There are those who think
and say that missionaries should never return to their native land—that they
need no vacations for any reason. Do the Churches sympathize with mission-
aries as they did twenty-five years ago 2 Is the missionary spirit in Hamilton
what it was formerly 2 If this spirit be lost, will the world be the better for our
having lived in it? I knew Abbot, and I have known hundreds of those who
were converted under his labors. I was with Vinton when his eyes closed in
death. A rich crown will be his. At the grave of Comstock I asked: ‘Is this
all there now is of Comstock 2' No, no l He yet speaks in Burmah and in this
land. God gave us Burmah. Let us go in and fully possess it.”
J. N. Murdock, D.D., Home Secretary of the Missionary Union,
said:
“I am glad to be at the fountain head of so much blessed missionary influ-
ence. There are no more noble men than those who have gone forth from these
walls to preach the gospel to the heathen. The crowning glory of Hamilton is
its missionary history. The work of Missions requires men of the best training
Such men you have furnished, and will furnish in all time to come.”
Next sentiment:
“Home Missions.—The wilderness and the solitary place have been made glad
for them. The Alumni of Hamilton have been the true “Army of Occupation'
on the frontiers of our country.”
Rev. J. L. Moore, D.D., of Ohio, a graduate of 1831, was called
on to respond. He was one of those who originated the Western
Association of the Institution. They saw that in the future the
Great Valley would control the Continent. He gave details of
the Home Mission work in its beginning. While on his way it
pleased the Lord to try him by fire, literal fire, by which his sight
was nearly lost, and his visage marred, but this had, in various
ways, proved to be for his advantage and for the good of Home
Missions.
A song, the words of which were composed by James H. An-
drews, class of '68, and the music by Rev. T. G. Wright, theologi-
cal class of '42, was sung by as many of the “old choir” as could
find places and notes.
Reminiscences were here suspended in Order to hear the report
of the Committee on the Jubilee Fund.
Professor P. B. Spear, D.D., Professor of Hebrew, and Treasurer
of the University, reported what had already been done, and what
yet remained to be done to make this part of the Jubilee a com-
plete success. His cheerful confidence had the best immediate
results. He obtained more thousands than he had demanded.
OF MADISON UNIVERSITY. 17
The scene was one of extraordinary interest and profit. It beg-
gared description, and those who were unfortunately not present
can know only the names and sums as given in Dr. Spear's Report
on Jubilee Fund. -
Rev. Dr. Price of Wales, and Rev. Mr. Henry of Ireland, being
present as a deputation of Baptists of Ireland to the Baptists of
America, were welcomed by a resolution, to which they each elo-
quently responded. Mr. Henry urged the vast emigration of the
Irish to this country as a reason why American Baptists should
aid the Home Mission work of Irish Baptists.
Dr. Price, in allusion to the large number of the Spear family
who had contributed, one after another, at intervals, during Dr.
Spear's occupation of the platform, remarked that in all financial
engagements that he had witnessed, he never before saw such a
bundle of Spears. He remarked upon the difference between
Wales and the United States as to the difficulties of the educa-
tional enterprise. Here the want seems to be of men—there the
want seems to be of means. He promised to send forty promising
men, who can preach already, if he might have the pledge that
they would be supported through a course of study.
Next sentiment—
“The representatives of the daughters of our good old mother.”
Prof. A. C. KENDRICK, D.D., Professor of Greek in the Univer-
sity of Rochester, being warmly cheered as he was called forward,
responded in an eloquent address of mingled humor and pathos.
He had been invited by a friend of Hamilton to “repent and re-
turn home.” He felt very penitent and very much at home. He
had two homes, Hamilton and Rochester. He was proud of both,
and wished he was worthy of either. He at first hesitated
whether to come to this maternal, filial, fraternal, sororial gather-
ing, but was glad he had come. He had been walking around the
old paths and looking over the scenery, the parallel of which can
be seen from the windows of no other University in the world.
He had looked again at the portraits of Hascall, and Cobb, and
Payne, and Burchard, and the other founders. He had looked
again over the list of its students, than whom the world has no
nobler men, and he blessed God for Hamilton. Hamilton could
have no blessing that would not give him great joy. He and
others went out to build at Rochester because God had so ordered.
Both there and here “the workmen had builded better than they
knew.” It was predicted that “at Rochester there would be ship-
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Wreck,” and that “Hamilton would soon come to ashes.” What
ashes these are that we to-day look upon Dr. Kendrick con-
cluded by congratulating the University on having such a treas.
urer. The slightest waving of his magic wand brought out such
treasures, that he must be a lineal descendant of the veritable
Shake-spear himself. *
Other prepared dishes of the feast, of which the company
failed, for lack of time, to taste, were as follows:
“The patrons of Madison University : The sons of our Alma Mater cherish
with sincere gratitude their memory and honor them, both the living and the
dead, for their devotion and their munificent contributions to the cause of general
and ministerial education.” -
J. B. COLGATE, Esq., C. P. SHELDON, D.D., and D. G. CoREY,
D.D.
“The patrons of ministerial education in sister States.”
JUDGE RUNYON, New Jersey, and S. S. CUTTING, D.D.
“Patriotism—The sons of Madison love their country, and fly to her rescue in
the hour of her peril.”
Gen. P. P. BROWN.
“The religious element which has so largely distinguished the Institution in
the past is essential to its highest prosperity in the future.”
Prof. T. J. CONANT, D.D., J. W. SARLEs, D.D.
“The Hamilton student—from the people and to the people.”
R. JEFFREY, D.D.
“Greeting to the alumni of other kindred Institutions.”
Rev. E. A. LECOMPTE, of Cambridge and Newton, Mass., and
Rev. S. H. KENNARD, of Lewisburg and Princeton.
“Scienee—The place now assigned it in Madison University is a fitting recog-
Inition of its relation and service to Christianity and learning.”
Prof. A. S. BICKMORE, Ph.D., responded, stating that the col-
lection now in the museum is large and valuable, prized at $13,000.
It embraces a complete assemblage of the birds of North America,
an extended collection of European birds, and a large variety of
the birds of the Tropics. Many of these the Professor secured
while travelling in the East.
The committee on the memorial volume reported a recommen-
dation that such a volume be published, and that B. F. Bronson,
D.D., be chief editor, aided by J. D. Cole, D.D., W. H. Shailer,
D.D., Prof. A. M. Beebee, and Prof. N. L. Andrews. The report
and recommendations were adopted.
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Such had been the interest of the day that a conclusion of the
services could not be made until the darkness compelled it.
Rev. D. G. Corey, D.D., pronounced the benediction. Then the
alumni, with Solemn joy, bade each other and their Alma Mater an
affectionate adieu.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME
BY
REV. E. DODGE, D.D., LL.D., PRESIDENT OF MADISON UNIVERSITY.
Gentlemen of the Alumni: we welcome you to your Alma Mater.
Friends of Madison University: we offer to you our cordial greet-
Ings.
You have left your homes to participate in the festivities of this
anniversary, and to exchange the congratulations which this occasion
inspires. You will here refresh the memories of other days, and re-
new the friendships of other years. You will mingle with the men
of the past, and unite yourselves with the men of the present and
of the future. You will thus re-enter the life of the University,
breathe anew and afresh its atmosphere, take on its responsibilities,
and share in the blessed fruitions of all its labors, and you will
carry back to your homes the abiding conviction of its present pros-
perity and of its future growth.
Fifty years ago, God planted this school in Hamilton, “on the
sides of the north, beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth.”
He had mapped out this region for Madison University. The climate
is favorable for study. The cold of winter invigorates, the beauty
of summer inspires, and the air bathes us, by day and by night, with
its own fresh life. Nature is steadfast. The same contour of coun-
try will remain, to hold fixed forever the old associations. God’s
smile will ever play along these valleys, and his angels will ever rest
on these hill-tops. The same broad fields will open upon you with
their quiet beauty, and the same old boulders will look out upon you
from their resting-places. The fountains at which you drank in
your youth shall offer their waters to you in your old age. The very
trees which your hands have planted shall greet you at your coming,
and the forests shall but change with your change, marking the
growth of advancing years. Thus nature will gather and garner for-
ever even the gleanings of our great harvest.
We gratefully, then, accept our location. The quiet of the coun-
try invites to repose; and repose is essential to high culture. Easy
intellectual growth, free from the taint of self-conceit, and from the
ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 21
weakness of hurried thought, is best secured apart from the heated
life of great cities. Crystallization takes place most readily and most
completely when free from every disturbing influence. Besides,
what is great in humanity can be known in seclusion. What is little
can best be left to the experience of later years. The study of the
weaknesses of our nature in early life tends to undermine all faith in
that nature. The student will know man as he knows himself; and
he will become a saving power among men in proportion to the
purity and loftiness of his ideals. To adopt any other principle, and
to follow any other method, is to substitute the arts of vulgar am-
bition for the innate power of conviction, and for the moral force of
a symmetrical character. Solitude, then, in the months of study,
and society in the weeks of vacation, are the chief outward conditions
of an ample intellectual growth. They are the foci which determine
the sphere of a full human life. All this we secure in Hamilton.
So much we may claim for ourselves without pretension on the one
hand, or detraction on the other.
The school has its distinctive type. As it grows from youth to
maturity, it will follow the idea and the law of its own life. Its gen-
ius is indicated in the close union of culture and of religion. Open
to all, impartial in its dealings with all, and offering to all a gener-
ous course of study, the University is yet a child, and so a representa-
tive of the Baptist faith. We ought not to disguise from ourselves,
or from the public, that we have fixed religious opinions, and that
these opinions are in full accord with the denomination to which we
belong. They are not voiced in the lecture-room ; but, as convic-
tions, they will find utterance in the privacy of domestic life, in the
freedom of social intercourse, and often on occasions incident to a
public position. In these ways the religious faith of a faculty tells
for that branch of the Christian church which it represents. iºr But,
besides all this, and better than all this, there is the unconscious in-
fluence of a body of men who, however they may differ on other
points, are one and the same in their churchly relations. Their char.
acters are a standing witness to the truth. Their united profession
constitutes a moral foree, silent, continuous, and potential. All this
is secured when the unity of the denominational life of an Institution
is unbroken. Such is the case with your Alma Mater.
Gentlemen: Madison University is to have a future. Our great
memories are more than balanced by greater hopes. The Centennial
will witness larger endowments, larger faculties, larger attendance,
higher grades of study, and more ample accommodations and facili.
ties of instruction. Let us, then, forgetting the narrowness of our
selfish ends, seek to contribute to that grand consummation.
O TD THE
FOR THE
JUBILEE OF MADISON UNIVERSITY,
ATU G-UST, 1869,
B Y T H O M A S A. T. H. A N N A . .
****
AIR —“ The Star Spangled Banner.”
From thy hill-girdled throne, ALMA MATER, we hear
Thy trumpet of Jubilee, gloriously swelling;
And thy children from all the wide earth now appear,
To greet thee at home, in thy beautiful dwelling;
Where in years of our prime, in the old hallowed time,
Glad as children we strayed o'er these hillsides sublime—
Where we gazed till the red light of sunset was spread,
Like a crown of all glory, adorning thy head—
Where we watched, till the red light of sunset, far shed,
Like a blood-crimsoned mantle around thee was spread.
II.
So around thee a blood-crimsoned robe hath been thrown,
By the Monarch of Life, at whose word thou wast founded;
And the Victor who treadeth the winepress alone,
By the arm of his might hath thy ramparts surrounded;
So through time mayst thou stand, as a light to our land,
Enkindled and fed by his infinite hand;
So by reason of thee, the far isles of the sea,
And the peoples in darkness, illumined shall be—
The deserts, the wastes, and the isles of the Sea,
Shall blossom, and sing, and be gladdened by thee.
JUBILEE ODE. 23
III.
Lo, thy children not all can salute thee to-day,
For the voice, sweet and strong, of salvation’s Commander,
From the clang of life's battle hath called them away,
They have left our grand host for an army far grander;
Where their arms are laid down at the terrible throne,
And their rest hath a sweetness whose depth is unknown.
For thy dead on the field, let thy high song be pealed,
For thy sons who by death have their testament sealed—
Ye who yet bear the shield, and the double sword wield,
Haste to fill the ranks thinned of the dead on the field.
IV.
ALMA MATER, thy children rejoice with thee now,
For the words writ in fire and in gold on thy pages;
With one heart of profoundest thanksgiving we bow
To the Lord of the stars, and the Fountain of Ages;
Arise, then, and shine in a splendor divine,
And put on the fair robes of God’s gift that are thine—
For his word has been given, thou art blazoned in heaven,
And thy work shall stand fast when creation is riven;
As FOR GOD AND FOR TRUTH through the years thou hast striven,
So thy record is graved on the pillars of heaven.
#istorical àiscourse
SEMI-CENTENARY OF MADISON UNIVERSITY,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5th, 1869.
IBY
F. E.V. G-H.O. W. EATON, D.D., LL.D.,
President of the Hamilton Theological Seminary.
——º-
IN addressing myself to the task assigned me in this day's proceed-
ings—a historical sketch of the Institution, whose Semi-Centenary
We are gathered to celebrate—I am profoundly impressed with the
fact that rarely in the history of any Christian enterprise has the
hand of God been more signally and affectingly manifested than in
that of the “Hamilton Institution.” I use this designation for the
whole system of education, especially of the ministerial part, which
has been in operation here for the last fifty years.
Its true and full history would be among the grandest monuments
ever constructed by the hand of man to the Divine interposition,
favor, and care in the labors of His servants in behalf of His cause
in the earth. Amid all the errors and infirmities of the human
agents in this work, we seem to be treading on holy ground (so clear
and indelible are the foot-prints of the Divine Leader) all along the
pathway in which the Institution has been led from its feeble incep.
tion through varying vicissitudes to its present expansion and
world-power. It has had its trials and reverses—its days of darkness
and depression, when the strongest faith of its devoted friends stag-
gered and almost failed within them. But time and again it was
most impressively demonstrated that all this was but a trial of faith
and trust in the superintending care of Him whose face was tem-
HISTORICAL DISCOURSE. 25
porarily hid, and that the darker the hour, the more brightly shone
out His face unveiled.
In the highest sense of a history you cannot on this day expect
me to furnish anything worthy the name. That would require a
large volume with years of careful labor in its preparation. You
will not demand of me more than a brief and running sketch of the
principal events and changes which have marked the origin and
growth of this enterprise. Yout have a right, however, to claim some-
thing more than a dry chronicle of naked facts, simply connected by
the law of contiguity of time and place. There is a philosophy or
science in history—in the history not of nations only but of Institu-
tions. There is an inner spirit which gives significancy and living
organism to the facts, and makes the history itself a consistent
whole, instinct, and all aglow, with a pervading intelligence and
the radiant evolutions of mind, purpose and will, in its ever unfold-
ing progress.
Before entering upon details, I propose to submit a general view
setting forth a series of comparisons, or rather of contrasts, between
the then and the now, of the beginning and ending of the period
under review, as relating directly or indirectly to the Institution at
Hamilton. 7%en the Baptist denomination in this State numbered
twenty-eight thousand members with three hundred churches and
two hundred and thirty ministers; now over one hundred thousand
members, with between eight and nine hundred churches and one
thousand ministers, pastors and otherwise. 7%en there were but
three liberally educated Baptist ministers west of the Hudson river;
now, taking all the “West,” they may be counted by the thousand.
Then originated the Baptist Education Society of the State of
New York, with a capital to begin with of thirteen dollars, and
expenses the first year of its existence amounting to forty-one dollars
and twelve cents, twenty-seven dollars and twelve cents being for
Jonathan Wade, its first beneficiary; now the Institution established
by the Society, embracing the entire system of its operations, has a
productive endowment of over two hundred and sixty thousand
dollars, and a valuable property besides, making the whole amount
of assets four hundred thousand dollars, with no liabilities, not a
cent of debt, and the Society expending annually, in its sphere of
3
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aiding young men in their preparation for the ministry, some fifteen
thousand dollars.
Then the “School,” as it was called, opened in the third story of a
brick building of very moderate dimensions in the village; now in
the way of material accommodations for this “school” there are three
large stone edifices located upon a domain of some one hundred and
forty acres—edifices ample and commodious for the purpose de-
signed, and adequate to accommodate-two hundred students, admira-
bly arranged and fitted up, besides a President’s House and other
buildings amounting altogether in value to eighty thousand dollars.
Then there was one teacher and one student, with a three years'
course dimly shadowed out; now there are twelve teachers, and for
the last thirty years the average number of students has been one
hundred and sixty annually—rising as high as two hundred and
forty and falling as low as half that number—the diminution from
causes not affecting the essential elements of its prosperity. There
is now a regularly organized University of the first-class with char-
ter privileges of the amplest range, and a Theological Seminary giv-
ing a full and critical course of theological study—the whole
together affording to the student for the ministry an eight years'
course of literary and theological training not inferior to that
obtained anywhere else.
The Institution within the fifty years of its existence has sent forth,
educated in whole or in part, fifteen hundred ministers of the
Gospel, besides hundreds who have entered other professions, law,
medicine, teaching, and business avocations. Herein is the crown
of rejoicing and the palmary glory of the Institution, for which we
would to-day challenge in its behalf the admiration, gratitude and
love of this great assembly gathered on this sacred hill to celebrate
with special and appropriate ceremonies its fiftieth anniversary.
This glorious mother of so many sons would not on this occasion
make much account of her material riches and possessions, and
multiplying facilities, steadily accumulating as they have been
through her history. These are indeed exponents of her gratifying
progress. But as the noble Roman matron in the mantling pride of
a sublimely conscious motherhood, she would point to her sons and
exclaim, “These are my jewels l’” Judge of the worth of the mother
by the sons she has borne and reared to intellectual and moral man-
HISTORICAL DISCOURSE. 27
hood. Verily, “their lines have gone out into all the earth, and their
words to the ends of the world.” In what part of the world will
you not find some son of Hamilton, and wherever found, is he not a
prince of God—a workman that needeth not be ashamed—whose
power in the cause of truth and righteousness is deeply felt and
gratefully acknowledged 2 Go to Central Asia where tens of thou-
sands of converts from the darkness and bondage of heathenism are
witnesses of their effectual working for God and His Kingdom. Go
to China, to Japan, to Africa. There you will find their living
forms amid sacrifices and privations, and the toil and sweat of their
great work; or if not their living forms, their foot-prints on the sur-
face, and their consecrated bones beneath the soil of the dark land
they came to illuminate and bless with the light of the Gospel, and
where they have left seeds of immortal life in Christ to spring up
and bloom and bear fruit in coming days.
That these sons of Hamilton, are as a body, no ordinary men, is
attested by the positions which they have been, and are occupying,
and the work they have wrought in their respective fields of occu-
pancy. Many of them have been, and are now, pastors of the largest,
and most intelligent, most cultivated, and most influential churches
in city and country. Some have been Evangelists whose labors
have been Wonderfully blest in the conversion of many thousands of
souls. One veteran Evangelist alone has been the honored instru-
ment in hopefully converting more than one hundred thousand
souls.
One of the best evidences of the success of a ministry is the number
of immortal souls truly converted under its ministrations. I say one
of the best evidences, for a minister of Christ may do much in mak-
ing “full proof of his ministry” in training souls to a meetness “for
the inheritance of the saints in light ° and in defending and enforc-
ing the “truth as it is in Jesus,” and in the inculcation and diffus-
ion of the principles and spirit of the Gospel, “for the defence of
which he is set.” In both these respects the Alumni of Hamilton
have shown their power and success in the “things of the Kingdom.”
We cannot conjecture how many souls have been converted under
their ministry—the number would reach several hundred thousands,
including the tens of thousands of converts from heathenism. They
have, in countless ways, demonstrated their ability to explain and
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defend the cardinal truths of the Gospel of the Grace of God, and
their steadfast attachment to, and loving appreciation, in their own
experience, of these truths. Verily the consecrated sons of Hamil-
ton have been “valiant for the truth in the earth”—the truth of God
as manifested to the world by his Son Jesus Christ. They have
been standard bearers in the “sacramental hosts of God’s elect,” they
have stood firm and steadfast in the faith, they have been guides
and bulwarks in a sound and living orthodoxy. There have, indeed,
been defections and desertions from the ranks, but only here and there,
and not enough to break the solid and shining array of the faithful
host embattled for the conquests of truth and righteousness. They
have been true to the doctrines of the Christian people they repre-
sent, and in their instructions and guidance have been faithful to
their highest and holiest interests.
I have thus far been speaking of the pulpit and pastoral labors of
the Alumni in their active ministry; but I have a few words to
offer in respect to other relations. I have an analysis to present
which I have wrought out with great care, and which I believe to be
below rather than above the truth. I have been careful to get
names and so indentify individuals.
There have been connected with the Institution from its origin
about two thousand young men, and of this number I count among
the Alumni all who have spent a sufficient length of time under its
instruction and influence to receive something of its distinguishing
mark—its imprimatur, and to imbibe somewhat of its peculiar spirit.
I find among the number some seventy missionaries to the heathen
(headed by Wade and Kincaid as its first fruits) who by their charac-
ter, spirit, and devotion, and the extent of their labors, have indisso-
lubly blended the history of the Institution with the history of
foreign missions in connection with the Baptist denomination. I
have not been able to ascertain the number who have gone into the
home-field. They count by hundreds, and have bravely encountered
sacrifices and trials scarcely less than their brethren in the foreign
fields, and have made “the wilderness and solitary places glad for
them.”
I count among the number twenty-one Presidents of chartered
Colleges and Universities, eighty-eight Professors of Colleges, and
Principals of our higher Academies and Female Seminaries, and sixty-
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three authors. The list includes only such as have published books of
mature thought and permanent value, or have contributed elaborate
articles discussing in a thorough and scholarly manner some theme
of great importance and interest, to the higher periodical literature,
denominational, Christian, and secular. And here, by the way, I
have noted one hundred and one Doctors of Divinity and of Law,
(mostly the former), the honor having been conferred by different
Institutions of the most respectable order. There have been twenty
editors of religious and secular journals. The Institution has also
had representatives in our State and National Councils who proved
themselves worthy of their high position.
The whole country, too, owes a debt to Hamilton for the patriot-
ism of her sons in the terrible war for the Union. Multitudes
of the Alumni all over the country left their peaceful and
sacred vocations, and hastened to the field of conflict as chap-
lains, officers and privates. More than fifty of our best students
from the different classes, from the Senior in the Theological Semi-
nary to the Junior of the Grammar School, laid aside their books,
and went forth armed for the fight. Nearly one-fourth of them were
left “dead on the field,” with their faces to the foe, and their death
wounds in front. As many more were badly wounded—some shot
through—and their lives saved as by miracle. Their bravery,
intelligence and devotion secured promotion to many, passing up
from rank to rank as captains, majors, colonels, and even to a briga-
dier generalship. Not one failed to do his whole duty in camp, in
field, and in the thickest of the fight. The record of Hamilton in
the awful crisis of our nation’s agony and peril is of the brightest,
noblest, and purest kind.
But the Hamilton Institution has not only been the mother of
ministers, missionaries, presidents, professors, doctors, legislators,
and soldiers;–she has been the means of bringing into being sev-
eral noble Institutions of Learning worthy of herself. One of her
strongest professors and subsequently her honored president may be
said to be the founder of Lewisburg University—an Institution
which takes rank among our best. And where, I would respectfully
and kindly ask, would the “University of Rochester” have been,
had it not been for Hamilton Where 2 I hear echoed from these
surrounding hills. The University of Rochester, it has been said,
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was a perfect thing from the start, springing in full armor from the
old Institution, as Minerva from the head of Jupiter. This is good.
We accept the classical figure; but it has also been said by some,
that Rochester was the Phoenix springing from the ashes of the old
“concern.” Ashes! Never was more of immortal and unextin-
guishable fire covered by ashes before in the world’s history.
We may take in a still wider sweep in this view of the influence
of Hamilton in our educational enterprises. Numbers of excellent
Institutions have been established by her Alumni, taking the model
and plan from their Alma Mater, and these are now centres of grow-
ing power for good to the cause of sound learning and religion.
It would seem clear enough from the analysis I have given of the
Hamilton Alumni that the education and culture here received have
been of the most substantial, thorough, and comprehensive kind,
adapted to make strong men, men of thought, men of action and
influence, and that in the most important and beneficent spheres in
the Church and the world.
It will not be an impertinence or even a digression from the pur-
pose of this historical discourse to draw out and set forth just here
the reigning type of the IIamilton Alumni as it lies in the concep-
tion of the speaker.
When I speak of a type in this connection, I am far from meaning
something moulded and shaped by an exterior power acting on
passive materials. It has been stated as an objection to Theological
Seminaries that their graduates are of one uniform type and “as
much alike as candles run in the same mould.” This is, of course, a
gross caricature as applied to any Institution of the kind; as applied
to Hamilton, it has not a single element of truth. In nothing is the
Hamilton student more signalized than in a strongly-marked and
sharply-defined individuality, which continues to develop itself more
and more through his whole course. His fault, if it be a fault, is
that he is too emphatically self-asserted. His receptive capacity is
slightly contracted and weakened by his keen sense of an independ-
ent egoism and a strong self-consciousness. He might perhaps
receive and appropriate more from without, if he were not quite so
self-reliant upon his own native efficiency. This is a failing, how-
ever, that “ leans to virtue's side.”
Both the teacher and the student are at fault, if, in the course of
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training, the original norm of personality in the latter is not pre-
... served in its integrity, elicited, and educated up to a full and manly
stature of freedom and spontaneity. It is a poor ambition in the
instructor to aim to reproduce himself in his pupil, and a miserable
slavery in the pupil to yield submissively to such an operation.
Great original force in an instructor tends unconsciously to dis-
charge itself into a receptive mind; but unless the mind reacts with
its native energy upon the force, and works it in among its own
living elements, there is really no power accumulated.
The excellence of any product is tested both by its material and
by its making. If either is defective, the value is diminished. Now
the formation of character is the result of two distinct forces mutu-
ally operating upon each other. There is the original force of
the mind itself and the force of external circumstances and influences
—the native material with its active emergies, and the formative
and moulding appliances from without.
What is the nature of the elements which, in combination, form
the character of the Hamilton student 2 The great body of the
young men who resort hither for an education, are from the poorer
and middling classes of pious families where they have from early
childhood received Christian nurture. They have not been sophis-
ticated by the profane artificialities of the gay and godless life
predominant in wealthy and fashionable society. They are
already, in most part, consecrated to a sacred vocation, and com-
mence and pursue their studies under the over-shadowings of
a high and holy purpose and the solemnity of a conscientious
sense of their individual responsibility to God. They have first
given themselves to Christ, and then come here to prepare for his
service. This is the material we have to deal with. I say nothing
of exceptions. We have had some rich and some wayward youth
among us. We welcome them to our number, and do all we can
for their moral and intellectual culture; and many have been the
instances of the consecration of such to a Christian life and to the
Christian ministry in the course of their studies. I am speaking
now of the ascendant characteristics of the Hamilton students,
which give spirit and tone to the mass.
On the other hand, they find here the very best instruction
adapted to their demands, from teachers who endeavor conscien-
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tiously to do the most for the intellectual and moral training of
their pupils, and so to prepare them for the activities and solemni- º
ties of their life-work. They aim to elicit the native powers and
peculiar tendencies of the students—to make them think for them.
selves, and stand up firmly, independently and self-reliantly upon
their own mental and moral basis. The Hamilton student is
therefore prečminently self-centred, self-poised, self-pronounced
and self-regulated. He is natural, manly, serious, earnest, loves
to study, loves to investigate and think, is practical, intrepid,
prompt to take hold of hard work, to go anywhere and endure any-
thing, whereby God is glorified, and man benefited. And so he
goes forth from these consecrated walls a living, spontaneous and .
active power, to take his proper place in the vast and mighty move-
ments of the church and of the world.
It has been depreciatingly said of him that he lacks polish and
refinement, and though strong, it is rude strength and not adapted
to the culture and grace of the “higher ” society. If this be inter-
preted in its proper meaning, it is a solid compliment. He is not a
dandy or a dilettante. He does scorn the fopperies and finicalities,
the affectations and facile accommodations to fashion and artificial
etiquette of some who desecrate the name of God’s ministers. Your
regular dandy, wherever found, is one of the smallest of God’s crea-
tures, if indeed he be a creature of God at all, and not rather the
creature of the tailor and milliner but a clerical dandy is not only
an impertinence. He has
a small creature, he is an irrelevancy
no proper place in God’s kingdom of nature or of grace. But
as very small molecules of matter may exhale a diffusive odor, he
is a stench in the nostrils of God and of every sensible man, Christian
or infidel. If it be charged that the Hamilton alumnus is not of
this order, we are obliged for the compliment; but if it be meant that
he is not a gentleman, a Christian gentleman who knows how to be
gentle and courteous to all men, and perfectly meet the proprieties
and demands of good, considerate, and delicate behavior to men and
women of sense and refinement, it is a monstrous libel. The society
of this beautiful village into which the Hamilton student is freely ad-
mitted, and where he is cordially treated as an equal, is not inferior
in intelligence, social culture, and refinement to any other elsewhere
found, and its heart is not eaten out by hollow conventionalisms,
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and artificial modes. Now put these two great elements in the forma-
tion of character together—the native force of mind, and the extran-
eous influence brought to bear upon it through instruction and the
diversified range of auxiliary agencies, and there results a type of the
educated man which, though endlessly varied and modified by individ-
ual peculiarities, may be taken as a general characteristic common to
the whole class. It is in this sense that we speak of the type of the
Hamilton alumni. We consider it one of the finest types of a full
and complete man.
The highest praise of an Institution of learning is that its educa-
tional influences in their kind, amount, and practical efficacy, are
adapted to draw forth, develop, and form out of the living rudi-
ments of immortal mind brought within its range, a character
exemplifying the highest style of man. High scholarship and liter-
ary culture may exist in connection with a very perverted moral
character, and the possession of the former can in no sense atone for
the latter.
There is a peculiar spirit belonging to every Institution, the pro-
duct of the dominant influence of men and of modes, the conditions,
habitudes, and customs of the place, the combination in short of
all the elements which affect the growth of mind and heart. It is
of the highest importance that this spirit should be of the right
kind. Students in general will leave the Institution with its
imprimatur deeply impressed upon them. Princely endowments of
millions, the ablest and most accomplished instructors, and all auxiliary
resources which can be made available for the efficiency of the fullest
educational apparatus, will all fail if there be a failure in the grand
product of men formed under those influences. If they have received
an impress of the wrong kind and an impulse in the wrong direction,
from the combined result of the intellectual and moral influences which
have surrounded them as the air they breathe, there is no remedy.
The teachers may not always be responsible for this result, though
they cannot be excused altogether. There are many agencies besides
direct instruction which enter into the formation of a student’s charac-
ter. That Institution is to be preferred, though wanting in the fullest
means for intellectual culture, in which these agencies are of the most
healthful kind to the moral and religious nature, and to the general
disposition and tone of the whole man.
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But it should be taken note of in this connection that while the
student cannot, in the nature of things, resist the effect of surrounding
influences and the pervading spirit of what is classically termed the
“genius loci.” of the Institution, if he would be a man at all, he must
do the greater part of the work of his own education. We hear of
self-taught men in distinction from those taught in the schools.
There are no men not self-taught. It requires the same individual
effort to become truly educated in the school as by one's self; the
simple difference is in the superior helps furnished in the school.
Now it is characteristic of the Hamilton student to work out his
OWn education. He is taught to educate himself under the favorable
influences that surround him. There is more of self-education and
mutual education among the students of Madison University and of
the Theological Seminary, I dare to say, than in any other Institution
of like kind and compass.
TEIF) DIETAILED HISTORY.
PREHISTORIC F ACTS.—ORIGIN.
An Institution with such a beginning, so feeble in outward appear-
ance, and with such a growth and such fruitage during its brief
existence (counting by the ages of institutions) with such present
strength and amplitude, and such elements of promise of unlimited
expansion in the future, must surely have a history of extraordinary
interest, embracing the evolutions of a great life blending heaven and
earth. A little fountain at first, the course of whose tiny rivulet
might be changed by the finger of a child, now a broad, deep and
majestic river pouring its mighty volume into the ocean with a fulness
of power that is felt far and wide through the billowy main. A spark
that a breath might extinguish, now a great light that sends its
illuminations and warmth around the world. This is the ordinary
course of the Divine working, alike in the kingdoms of nature and of
grace. The germ that may be held on the point of a needle becomes
the monarch of the forest. The least of all seeds grows into a tree
on whose branches the birds of the air make their nest and their
home. A handful of corn in the earth on the top of a mountain
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springs up into a wide waving harvest that shakes like the cedar
forests of Lebanon tossed by mountain tempests. The kingdom of God
destined to absorb the kingdoms of the world was once comprised in
the helpless infant in the manger-cradle of Bethlehem,-the church, in
a small group of fearful saints in an upper room.
Of the multitudinous facts which I have collected together for this
discourse, I can only cull one here and there of special significance,
and hold it up to throw its light onward and indicate the track of
historic progress. The facts connected with the origin and early his-
tory of the Institution have been recorded with considerable minute-
ness by different pens, and are probably known to most of the
alumni. But there are some events prehistoric in time which,
though having no visible connection with the written history, are
yet worthy of a passing reference, as having a real and important
bearing upon the subsequent developments. As early as the year
1794, Deacon Samuel Payne and Elisha his brother settled in the
valley below. They were godly men, and Baptists. They were soon
joined by the Olmsteads, Pierces, Osgoods, and others of like spirit
and religious persuasion. Together they founded, in 1796, the First
Baptist church of Hamilton, then known as “Payne's Settlement.”
The farm of Deacon Payne is now this fair domain spreading in such
surpassing beauty on every side, the Baptist Education Society
having been made his sole heir. A most interesting incident is
authentically related of Deacon Payne, on felling the first tree in the
virgin forest on this very spot, it is said, where the structures of the
Institution rest. When the tree had fallen he kneeled down by its
trunk and consecrated himself and all that he possessed to God. He
prayed especially that God would be pleased to grant him in this
wilderness a people and a church to worship him in spirit and in
truth. All that he was, and all that he had, should henceforth be wholly
the Lord’s. In this solemn act of consecration alone in the solitude
of the wild woods, may we not discern not only a personal consecra-
tion of a good man, but a prophecy as well? God answered that
prayer, and accepted the offering; and how answered and accepted ?
Bethink you of this noble Institution resting as is affirmed upon the
very spot where the consecration was made. Bethink you of all that
the Institution, taking up into its life the sacredness of the very soil
sanctified by the consecrating act, has accomplished and is yet to
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accomplish, and see how God in the plenitude of his boundless grace
answers openly the secret prayer of his devoted servant. Another
preliminary fact is worthy of note here. It is that in the providence
of God a cluster of men of unusual mark was found among the early
settlers of Hamilton, and the region round about. They belonged to
a preéminently godly race, men of faith and prayer, earnest Bible
students, and so “wise in the things of the kingdom.” Though few of
them were men of literary culture, yet their strong native sense, in-
formed, imbued, and illumined with the knowledge of God's Word and
Spirit, gave them large conceptions and prophetic forecast of the signs
of coming times, and of things to be accomplished in advance to meet
the increasing demands of the spreading kingdom of the Redeemer
which by faith they saw in the distance. Hamilton, through these men
and their coadjutors at that early day, became the radiating centre
of wide-spreading, beneficent and permanent influences. The
“Hamilton Baptist Missionary Society’’ was formed in the year 1807,
at first named the “Lake Baptist Missionary Society,” but sub-
sequently chartered under the former name. This society engaged
the best men, of the best preaching talent in all Central New York,
and we may add of the whole State, to perform tours of missionary
labor in the destitute regions of the West, all along the frontiers of
the rapidly settling country, and among the Aborigines. We need
name only such men and powerful preachers as Bennet, Peck, Law-
ton, Hosmer, Root, and Morton. Some of these men penetrated
westward far beyond the limits of the State. The writer well recol-
lects, when a little boy living in a log-house in the interior of Ohio,
the visit and the preaching of the venerable Lawton, then a missionary
of the Hamilton Society. This society expanded into the “New
York Baptist State Convention,” which has done so much for the
spread of the gospel in destitute portions of the State, and for the
general advancement of the denomination, and is still full of vigor and
good works. Again, the society had an organ called the “Vehicle’
edited by Daniel Hascall, John Peck, and John Lawton. Afterward
it took the more imposing and distinctive name of “Western Baptist
Magazine,” and was ultimately merged in the “New York Baptist
Register” and transferred to Utica, with Bro. Alexander M. Beebee
as editor, and became the great organ not only of the Convention,
but of the Baptist denomination of the State, and the most staunch and
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most efficient advocate of the interests of the Hamilton Institution.
Mark the character, extent, and permanence of the influences of which
Hamilton was the centre before an Institution of learning for the
education of Baptist ministers was thought of How appropriate that
such men should comprehend and appreciate the wants of the rising
ministry of the denomination. They were adequate to conceive,
project, and put into operation great enterprises for the advancement
of Christ’s kingdom.
In whose mind of all these men first emerged the idea of an Institu-
tion for the education of the Baptist ministry, cannot now be
definitely ascertained. It is certain that, as early as the year 1816,
Daniel Hascall suggested the idea of a Literary and Theological
Institution in Central New York to Nathaniel Kendrick, who visited
Hamilton in that year, and in the next became pastor of the Baptist
Church in Eaton Village. Prof. Hascall himself told me that the idea
of such an institution first rose in his mind, while reading a circular
letter of Dr. Jeremiah Chaplin before an Association in Massachusetts.
If this be so, how fitting in the providence of God that this venerable
man (Dr. Chaplin) should spend his last days at Hamilton (where
Thos. J. Conant, his son-in-law, was an honored professor in the In-
stitution), and his body be laid to rest in yonder cemetery that over-
looks the Institution of which he furnished the original idea. But it
is not improbable that the thought might have simultaneously and
independently risen in several minds of kindred mould and spirit. It
is often so in regard to the birth of a great enterprise. The idea
comes up in different minds independently, and is pondered separately,
each one fearful of speaking out, lest the imputation of a visionary
be incurred, until some incident brings to light what is common, and
all are prepared to act together in realizing the common conception,
like as subterranean rivulets meandering apart and unperceived flow
together and come to the surface in a gushing spring of crystal water,
destined to become a mighty stream to refresh and fertilize a wide
region. Seven brethren of like thought came together in the north
room of Deacon Payne's house, (the same now occupied by Esquire
Simons on the corner below) in the month of May, 1817, to converse
and pray over the subject of the want of a more enlightened ministry.
This meeting led to another (called by a circular issued by the seven)
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on the 24th of the following September. Thirteen brethren answered
the summons, six being added to the original seven.
The names of the thirteen are as follows: DANIEL HASCALL,
NATHANIEL KENDRICK, P. P. Roots, JoHN BosTwick, JoEL W.
CLARK, ROBERT Powell, JonATHAN OLMSTEAD, SAMUEL PAYNE,
SAMUEL OSGOOD, THOMAS Cox, ELISHA PAYNE, CHARLEs W. Hull,
AMos KINGSLEY.”
They met in an east room of Deacon Olmstead's house south of
the Boarding Hall, and now occupied by Mr. Ball, and then and
there, after prayer and consultation, they formed themselves into a
society named “The Baptist Education Society of the State of New
York,” with a constitution, the preamble of which runs thus:
“Impressed with the vast importance of the Christian ministry as
connected with the conversion of sinners and the edification of the
church, and desirous to furnish to young men of piety and gifts the
means of acquiring an education with a view to their public useful-
ness, we do hereby associate, and adopt the following constitution.”
The characteristic article of the constitution is as follows: “The
object of this Society shall be to afford means of instruction to such
persons of the Baptist denomination as shall furnish evidence to the
churches of which they are members, and to the Executive Commit-
tee hereafter named, of their personal piety and call to the ministry.”
A subsequent article requires that all the members of the Board of
Trustees and of the Executive Committee and other officers shall be
members in good standing in some Baptist church. After com-
pleting their organization, and each paying one dollar, the money
consideration of membership, they kneeled down together and with
one heart besought the Lord in humble submission to his will to
accept and bless their work and carry it on for his own glory. The
Ilord did answer and accept while they were yet speaking, and they
rose from their knees with a loving union of hearts, smiling through
their tears from a blessed assurance alike in each one's deepest con-
sciousness, that the Lord had condescended to hear and to own and
* Of these, Robert Powell, now living in the State of Michigan, is the sole
survivor. He was providentially present at the Jubilee, having come all the
way from his distant home for the special purpose, though the frosts of eighty
winters had made his yet full locks “a crown of glory.” At this point in the
discourse, the speaker turned toward Father Powell, who was sitting conspicu-
ously on his right, and addressed him in a few appropriate remarks.
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to bless. Thus was the germ started into life whose mighty growth
we are here to rejoice and glory in to-day. It is interesting to
notice here that the spirit of prayer, faith, and dependence on the
blessing of God in which the enterprise was commenced was carried
through all the subsequent efforts of these pious men to build it up.
I have been deeply affected in reading the successive reports of the
Board and Executive Committee and agents, by the strength and
fervor of their expressions in acknowledging the divine favor on the
work of their hands, in recognizing their solemn responsibilities, their
personal unworthiness, and their insufficiency of themselves to
accomplish anything worthy of the sacred cause without God's help
and guidance. From the beginning onward this spirit breathes
through all their communications. They profoundly felt the sacred-
ness of the mission to which they were committed.
Some remarks in this connection on the special object and Seope
of this Society will be pertinent. I. It had one object only and
exclusively—namely, to furnish means for the education of young
men who shall give evidence of a call to the ministry. II. As the
most efficient means to accomplish this object, it contemplated at the
outset the establishment of an Institution of learning to be subject to
its control. Such an Institution was embosomed and distinctly
recognized in its organic law. In this respect, it differed from all
other educational societies existing at that time or since, except those
modelled aſter this peculiarity. Its provisions did not look, as did
those of other societies, to the education of its beneficiaries at any
Institution they might choose to attend, but exclusively to the Insti-
tution to be created under its own auspices. The Society therefore
cannot be detached from and exist apart and independently of the
Institution for the education of students for the Baptist ministry
established by itself. Let this peculiarity be kept in view. The life
of the Society is bound up in that of the Institution. Through all the
changes and modifications of this educational enterprise the relation
of the Society to its original purpose has been sought to be preserved
in all its integrity. Any material change in this respect strikes at its
very life. III. The education designed for students of the ministry
was designed to include not only a thorough theological education,
but also a full literary and scientific course of training and culture.
We shall see how faithfully this purpose has been adhered to.
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The Society began its work by sending out broadcast printed
copies of its constitution and address to the denomination. I have
read this first address of the Society, followed by one from the Execu-
tive Committee of like tenor, with the liveliest admiration. The
author's name is not given, but the address itself would do honor to
the most honored names in the denomination of to-day. The compre-
hensive, just and pertinent views set forth are quite up to the present
demands, and so were considerably in advance of the prevalent senti-
ment of the Baptists of that period, not only in regard to the import.
ance of an educated ministry, but also of an Institution expressly for
their education. It is not historically true that Baptists were ever
opposed to an educated ministry, and were not thankful to God if he
were pleased to choose a man of learning, as he did Paul, to preach
his gospel and explain the word of eternal life. But an Institution
for the special purpose of educating ministers, many good and influ-
ential brethren when the Society was formed considered as a human
device, and to be regarded with suspicion, as if dispensing with the
necessity of the gifts of grace, and so likely to inflict upon the
churches the curse of a coldly intellectual and graceless ministry. A
public sentiment had to be created in favor of the infant Institution,
nor did explanations, arguments and protests prove sufficient to
remove the serious obstacle. It was not until the rich fruits of the
school were experienced by the churches in the godly preaching and
earnest and successful labors in the winning of souls to Christ, of
those educated in it, that the honest and conscientious objections
gave way, and opposers were converted into its warmest friends.
This was the case of that noble-hearted Christian and powerful
preacher, Alfred Bennett. He held himself aloof from the early
efforts of the founders until he saw the precious fruits in the “living
epistles, known and read,” among the churches and people. There
were other good men of the same class. They frankly confessed
their mistake and labored more abundantly to advance the interests
of the enterprise because of their mistaken fears and opposition at
the beginning. The report of the Executive Committee at the first
annual meeting contains three noteworthy records: I. “On the 12th
of February, 1818, they convened for the examination of Bro.
Jonathan Wade, who exhibited a letter of his membership and
liberty to preach from the Baptist Church in Hartford, Washington
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Co., N. Y. After examination he was received to the privileges of
the Institution.” (Mark the language. As yet there was no Institu-
tion visible. Its idea, soon to be realized, was an elementary and
essential one in the plan of operation.) “Since this time he has
been studying under the instruction of Elder Hascall.” II. A vote
to apply to the Legislature at its next session for an act of incorpora-
tion under the name of the “Baptist Education Society of the State
of New York.” The charter was subsequently obtained, March 5th,
1819. III. The appointment of a “committee of seven to make
inquiries and report at the next annual meeting on the situation
which they may think most proper for a site for locating permanently
the Institution.” This committee was constituted from a wide ex-
tent of country, Sangerfield, Westmoreland, Norwich, Schuyler,
Camillus, Franklin and Hamilton– one member from Hamilton—
Elisha Payne—a proof that local partiality had no influence in this
important measure. This committee took for some reason no decided
action, and at the next meeting the appointment of a new committee
was referred to the Board (two only of the ten being from Hamilton,
Elisha Payne and Jonathan Olmstead), with directions to give the
committee full power for determining the site. This committee
reported to the Board, and, at a second meeting held at Peterboro on
the 3d of November, 1819, decided in favor of Hamilton in prefer-
ence to several other competitors, on the condition that six thousand
dollars should be paid to the Society in a specified mode. The
condition and mode were accepted and the securities given. These
were perfectly fulfilled by the people of Hamilton one year be-
fore the time named, leaving a balance in favor of the covenantees
of thirty-two dollars, seventy-two cents. The report of the final
adjustment as to permanent location is signed by Alfred Bennett,
Seneca B. Burchard, and Charles Randall. The pecuniary condi-
tion is fully equal to sixty thousand dollars at the present time, an
amount, it would seem, amply sufficient to secure the permanent
location, beyond all fear of removal, of an Institution of the highest
grade at any locality.
On the first of May, 1820, the school was formally opened in the
third story of the brick building already mentioned, the first story
being occupied by the district school, and the second by the Hamilton
Academy under the charge of Prof. Zenas Morse. Under the convic-
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tion that much depended on the judicious choice of a teacher, the
Executive Committee in their report say: “They sought counsel from
abroad, and the direction of Providence, and not having succeeded
in obtaining a permanent teacher, they have opened the school under
the instruction of Prof. Hascall, whose services thus far have been ac-
ceptable.” This was the visible commencement of the “Hamilton
Literary and Theological Institution,” though virtually, as we have
seen, it had its beginning with the Society, but hitherto without “a
local habitation and a name.” Some half dozen students were in at-
tendance at the opening, among whom were brethren Wade and Kin-
caid. These and others of the early students were taught partly by
Prof. Hascall, and partly by Prof. Morse, in charge of the Hamilton
Academy in the room below. Prof. Morse's co-operation in giving
instruction was of special value.
In a general survey of the progress of the Institution onward from
this beginning we may recognize three distinct eras: The first closing
with 1839, when other than students for the ministry were admitted
to its literary and scientific privileges; the second closing with the
year 1846, when the charter of Madison University was made availa-
ble to the literary and scientific department, and the provisions for
instruction and the support of instructors committed to its Board
under certain restrictions, reserving the control of theological instruc-
tion to the Board of the Society, and securing the usual accommoda-
tions to its beneficiaries and to all students for the ministry; the
third, the subsequent history of the University and the Theological
Seminary, now two institutions in law and in reality, but connected
by intimate social bonds and a substantial moral unity, to the present
time. In order to comprise the chief events of these several epochs
in as brief and intelligible a presentation as possible, I shall not
follow strictly the chronological order, or go much into minute de-
tails. I propose to group facts under several distinct heads, as:
I. A general history proper. II. Principal human agencies employed.
III. Some of the special providences intervening in the course of
eVelhtS.
Through the first epoch, namely, from the beginning to the year
1839, the original idea, pure and simple, was strictly adhered to—i. e.,
the Institution was purely a ministerial school, admitting only those
professedly looking forward to the Christian ministry, and formally
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approved by their respective churches as such. In addition, each
student before admission was examined and approved, at first by the
Executive Committee, and, according to a subsequent arrangement,
by the Faculty, as to his Christian experience and call to the ministry.
These conditions served to soften objections to the Institution as an
enterprise, as was alleged, designed to “make ministers,” and greatly
relieved from a grave responsibility its directors and instructors—
the chief responsibility being thus thrown upon the churches in rec-
ommending their own members, whom they must personally know
to the privileges of the school, and the examiners of the Committee
and of the Faculty simply requiring for themselves evidences of an
actual call to the ministry, as attested by the churches. If they
could not on a thorough examination obtain such evidence they re-
served the right to send them back to their churches for reconsider-
ation. Here was a double guard against unworthy applicants. The
Institution could not be justly charged with making ministers, as it
received to its privileges only such as came with authenticated
credentials from the churches that they were approved and accepted
of God for the work of the ministry, and were passed under an in-
itiatory examination by the Faculty. The Board were earnest in
their Reports in pressing upon the attention of the churches the im-
portance of great caution in recommending young brethren to the
Faculty for proper ministerial training.
Students soon began to come in from the churches in numbers
quite beyond all expectation, and that “third story” became too
strait for their reception. A large building was a necessity. This was
completed and occupied in 1823 under the superintendence of Prof.
Hascall, and was one of the conditions of permanent location. The
building is now known as the “Old Stone Academy,” on the plain,
C &
being used for many years after the “school of the prophets” vacated
it for the male department of the Hamilton Academy, which flour-
ished vigorously so long under the principalship of Prof. Zenas Morse,
the lamented Munro Weed (his son-in-law,) and Profs. Osborn and
Buell. The new edifice was soon filled to overflowing, and another
and larger was demanded. Deacon Samuel Payne had made over his
farm March 11th, 1826, to the Society, and here the new building
was erected as the permanent home of the “school of the prophets.”
It is named the “Middle or Western Edifice.” Its construction, as the
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former, was intrusted to Prof. Hascall. This was a grand advance
in the material progress of the enterprise, and the opening and dedi-
eation of the new edifice on Tuesday preceding the anniversary of
1827 was a great day of rejoicing and spiritual edification to its
friends. Dr. Stephen Gano, of Providence, R.I., preached the dedi-
catory sermon, and was followed by Prof. Hascall, who delivered an
address embracing a review of the providence of God which had con-
ducted the Institution to its present elevation. “The singing,” it is
recorded, “was conducted by Bro. Eli Buell, in superior style, and the
whole performance appeared to partake of that life and spirit of the
Gospel which are grateful to the devotions of the humble and reflect
honor upon the God of grace. There appeared an unction from the
Holy One which rendered the whole transaction in the highest degree
interesting, and many could say “it is good to be here.’” The day
following was the “Commencement ’’ held in the new chapel. Nine
students graduated, most of them subsequently distinguished in the
ministry. In this number I notice the name of Jabez Swan, whose
praise for years was in so many churches. The audience was esti-
mated in number at two thousand. The editor of the Baptist Reg-
Žster in the issue of June 16th, 1827, notices in very complimentary
terms the exercises of the occasion. He remarks that “The exhibi-
tion held an equal footing with that of any Institution with which he
was acquainted (the editor was a graduate of Columbia College in
N. Y. City, and a man of accomplished culture), the enunciation of
the speakers being distinct, manly, and remarkably free from the
masal twang of the east and from the disgusting imitations of theat-
rical rant and mouthing, the gesticulation easy and natural, and
sufficiently liberal without excessive action.” Hamilton students
have always been distinguished as a body for this sort of elocution,
and this description equally applies to-day as forty years ago. At
the same time with the erection of the Western Edifice a commodious
Boarding Hall was built in the immediate vicinity and provided with
the necessary arrangements and appurtenances. The spirit of pro-
gress has swept this building away, and this noble edifice called the
“Hall of Alumni and Friends” which we are now occupying stands
in its place. The present Boarding Hall is at a more healthy distance,
requiring no little bodily exercise to go to and return from it. It
was erected in 1838 under the superintendence of Bro. James Edº
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munds, who as agent and steward of the Society rendered the most
valuable and efficient service. He was a man of remarkable energy,
sagacity, and good judgment. The steady increase of students re-
quiring another building, in 1833 the “Eastern Edifice” of nearly the
same dimensions as the Western, 100 by 60 ft., and four stories high,
was built under the superintendence of Deacon Seneca B, Burchard,
the funds for the purpose being collected mostly by elder Elon Galusha
(long known to the denomination for his eloquence in the pulpit and
activity in all Christian work) without drawing upon the current ex-
penses. The edifice was completed six months before the time speci-
fied in the contract and for two thousand dollars less than the
original estimates. The rooms for students in these ample edifices
were furnished by the churches or by benevolent individuals, the good
sisters taking a chief part in this necessary work. Every article suited
to the convenience and comfort of the occupants was put into the
rooms without expense to the student or the Society.
Thus far, the material progress of the school during the first period
under review. The intellectual progress was not less steadily onward.
At first the course was three years mostly in theological study, provid-
ing for a longer stay according to the wishes of the student. The de-
mand of the students for more extensive and thorough instruction
(their intellectual appetite “growing by what it fed on ”) continued
to rise, and in 1829 the course was extended to four years, in 1832 to
sic, and in 1834 to eight years (as it has remained since) for the whole
period of ministerial study, including classical and theological. This
course was divided into three distinct departments, Academic, Col-
legiate and Theological, designed as a whole to furnish as complete an
education, literary and theological, as is usually acquired in academies,
colleges, and theological seminaries separately, and saving one year of
time. The studies of the departments were so adjusted that in eight
years as much was accomplished as elsewhere in nine, and the whole
being more continuous and harmonious. Thus in fourteen years
after the opening of the school it had expanded into an academy, col-
lege, and theological seminary, each of the first class, and the best ed-
ucation from beginning to end was furnished to candidates for the
ministry. To carry out this progressive arrangement able teachers of
Superior qualifications were from time to time appointed as the exi-
gencies demanded. In 1821 Prof. Hascall, who had been instructing
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students from the beginning, was formally appointed Professor of An-
cient Languages, and Dr. N. Kendrick, Professor of Theology. In 1823
Beriah N. Leach and Chancellor Hartshorn were appointed tutors for
a specified time. In 1828 Seth S. Whitman, an alumnus, and also a
graduate from Newton Theological Seminary, was elected Professor
of Biblical Interpretation and Criticism, and in 1829, Barnas Sears,
(vemerabile nomen) in the loss of Daniel H. Barnes, by his sudden and
tragic death, who had accepted the appointment, was elected Pro-
fessor of the Ancient Languages, Prof. Hascall having been transferred
to the chair of Natural Philosophy, with that of Sacred Rhetoric, and
the chair of Mental Philosophy added to that of Theology under Dr.
Kendrick. In 1831, Joel S. Bacon, recently called to the Presidency.
of Georgetown College, Ky., was called to the chair of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy, but declined at the time to enter upon the duties
of the former position. In 1833, after a presidency of two years at
Georgetown, on the renewal of the call to Hamilton, he accepted and
acceded to the chair in the spring of that year. He was subsequently
transferred to the chair of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. In 1832,
Asahel C. Kendrick, a graduate of Hamilton College, on the transfer
of Prof. Sears to the chair of Biblical Theology (Dr. Kendrick still
holding that of Systematic Theology) was appointed Prof. Sears' suc-
cessor in the chair of Languages. The next year, 1833, George W.
Eaton, an alumnus of Union College, who had spent two years as Pro-
fessor of Languages in Georgetown College, the last six months of
which he was its acting President, was chosen to the chair of Mathe-
matics and Natural Philosophy. In 1834, Stephen W. Taylor, an
alumnus of Hamilton College, and for years the principal of one of the
first academies in the State, was chosen principal of the academic de-
partment with the title and equal position of professor in the col-
legiate department. Thus we see that as early as 1834 there was a
complete course of Literary and Theological study, and seven pro-
fessors. The literary character of the Institution was up to an equal
standing with the best colleges, and the attainments and culture of
the alumni would not suffer in comparison with those of any of these
Institutions. Before the close of the period under consideration some
other changes are worthy of note. In 1835, Prof. Whitman” resigned
% Prof. Whitman occupied the chair seven years. He was a fine scholar and
a most amiable Christian gentleman. He removed with his family to Belvidere,
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the chair of Biblical Interpretation and Criticism, and Thos. J. Conant
(illustrenomen) was chosen his successor. Dr. Sears, on his accession to
the chair of Biblical Theology in 1833, left for Germany, where he spent
two years in the great universities in that country. In consequence of
the extension of the course there was no class in his department, and he
could leave without detriment to the interests of his chair. He re-
turned in 1835 laden with the richest lore of that classic land, but
alas for us, he was coveted by a sister Institution and taken from us.
No man ever connected with the Faculty was more admired and loved,
and on whom higher hopes were reposed than Prof. Sears. He was
the pride and glory of the Institution in its intellectual and literary char-
acter, to which his short connection had most powerfully contributed.
Immediate measures were taken to fill the vacancy. Dr. Williams was
at once appointed, but would not consent to leave the pastorate; then
Dr. Crawley, of Nova Scotia, President of Acadia College, was elected,
and Prof. Conant despatched in midwinter all the way to his distant
home to secure him. He visited the Institution and expressed himself
greatly pleased with its character, condition, and prospects, and gave
hope of his acceptance, but was finally prevailed upon by his friends at
home to remain in his position. Dr. Hackett, then of Brown Univer-
sity, was next elected, and he too, on visiting the Institution, expressed
his gratification with its state and prospects, but was also prevented
from coming by opposing influences. It was not until the year 1838
that the vacancy was filled by the choice of Rev. John S. Maginnis.
Students immediately rallied to his instructions, and the full tide of
prosperity in all the departments flowed on as if nothing of a disastrous
nature had occurred. In the same year, 1838, John F. Richardson,
a graduate of the Institution, was appointed to the chair of Latin,
leaving Greek exclusively to Prof. Kendrick.
T)uring all this period, the Institution was sustained by contribu-
tions from the churches and benevolent individuals, and mainly
through the energetic efforts of agents with the unsolicited aid from
generous patrons who had learned to appreciate its value. It had no
endowment, and had consequently to ask continually for its daily
bread, and the prayer was often answered in a remarkable manner,
in Illinois, and for years exerted a conspicuous influence in the movements of
the denomination in that State, and died esteemed and loved by all who kne
him.
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though at times great embarrassment was experienced. While the cur-
rent expenses amounted to a few thousand dollars per annum, we find
from the reports that the Society kept out of debt, but that when, from
the patronage extended to the increasing number of students needing
it, and other drafts, the expenses annually ran up to twelve or fifteen
thousand dollars, the Board found themselves not unfrequently in
painful arrears, and extraordinary measures had to be adopted to re-
plenish an exhausted treasury, and carry on the ever-growing burden
of accumulating responsibilities. But they never faltered. Trusting
in God, they found ever “strength equal to their day.”
It would leave a hiatus in the history of the period now passing in
review if all reference to the personal labors of the students in the
material progress of the Institution was omitted. They rendered the
most efficient aid in various ways to Prof. Hascall and others in the
erection of the material structures and in the general improvement
of the premises. Look abroad over this beautiful hill, and con-
sider how much of human labor must have been expended in
making it what it is. The greater part is due to the labor of stu-
dents Their memorial is imbedded in the soil and lives in the clus-
ters and rows of beautiful trees which adorn the scene. The greater
part of this useful ornamentation was done gratuitously by the Stu-
dents’ Association—the students cheerfully taking their accustomed
exercise in this kind of occupation. A system of manual labor was
instituted by the Board during a portion of this period by which stu-
dents could pay their way in whole or in part in agricultural or
mechanical employment. The Payne farm furnished convenient scope
for the former, and shops were erected for the latter. Much work
was done on this plan, but in the progress of affairs it went into
desuetude as in most other places. Without depreciating in any
sense the power and efficiency of the alumni of later times, the Insti-
tution through its first, second, and third decades sent out a body of
men of rare practical energy, tact, and earnest devotion to the Mas-
ter, who have exerted an influence at home and abroad, in the pulpit,
pastorate, and personal contact with their fellow-men—in the councils,
movements, and progress of the denomination in all its departments
of benevolent and evangelizing work, and in lands of heathem dark-
ness, where they have indeed been as “lights shining in a dark place”
—an influence for the highest good of which no created mind can
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form an adequate conception. Merciful God, may the spirit of these
men abide with their successors, who have enjoyed and are enjoying
superior literary advantages, but who, without that spirit, will be
weak as water “in the things of the Kingdom.”
1 8 39 – 4 6.
In the year 1839 the doors of the Institution were opened to stu-
dents of good moral character not having the ministry in view. A
new element was thereby introduced, not immediately producing any
perceptible change, but fraught with grave consequences in the future
progress of affairs. The original idea of a purely ministerial school
had up to this point been adhered to with singular tenacity. A pro-
ject was started at an early period in its progress to found, in connec-
tion with the Institution proper, a preparatory school for pious
students, including others than those professedly studying for the
ministry. This project was entertained with much interest by some
of the most earnest friends at Hamilton, as adapted to furnish helps
to the central element of the School, and draw into the ministry a
younger class of students already partly trained; but before anything
was committed, the brethren in the City of New York were con-
sulted, as they were generally in all cases of more than ordinary
importance. After prayerful consideration (in those days prayer was
mixed with everything), the measure was deemed by them inexpedi-
ent, and it was dropped. They were of opinion that the Institution
should not even in appearance swerve from its primitive design. Al-
though there were occasionally students connected with the families
of the professors and other officers pursuing studies with the classes,
even these were not recognized as members of the school, and were
excluded from the catalogue and from graduation. My own brother,
who was strongly inclined to the ministry, but not ready to avow his
purpose, was not permitted formally to graduate with his class, though
confessedly among the first in scholarship. It was the same with a
brother of Dr. Asahel C. Kendrick, now the Rev. John Ryland Ken-
drick, D. D. Both of them subsequently became distinguished
Preachers. The former died in his prime, while President of the
Union University, Tennessee. The latter still adorns the sacred pro-
fession as the popular and beloved pastor of the Tabernacle Church in
the City of New York. I mention these things to indicate the
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strength and tenacity with which the purely ministerial idea was
held. However, as a full collegiate course was established affording
a liberal, classical and scientific education, the question began to be
agitated among the patrons of the Institution, whether the privileges
of this department might not, without jeopardy to the sacred object,
be extended to those not having the ministry in view. The Rev. Dr.
Backus, who was about this time performing an important agency for
the Society, reported that he found a wide-spread and increasing feel-
ing on this subject among the friends of the Society. Those having
sons to educate and desirous to place them under healthy moral and
religious influences, inquired with deep solicitude, whether an ar-
rangement was not possible whereby their sons, though not designed
for the ministry, might enjoy the privileges and superior instruction
of the Collegiate Department. The discussion could not be evaded
or postponed, and it came before the Board in the form of the follow-
ing resolution : “Jºesolved, That the great object at which this
Society is aiming will be promoted by allowing the Faculty, for the
time being, to receive into the Collegiate Department of the Institu-
tion a limited number of young men who have not the ministry in
view.” Mark the caution in the wording of the resolution. Not-
withstanding the caution, Dr. Kendrick opposed the resolution with
all the vigor of his powerful intellect, and the fervor of his great soul.
He deemed it an entering wedge to a change in the object and char-
acter of the Institution, portending the most serious consequences.
His colleagues took the other side with several members of the
Board, and the resolution was finally passed—the remarkable man
exemplifying in this case, as in all others of difference of opinion and
policy, the noble characteristic of yielding gracefully to defeat, and
never flagging in his zeal and labor for the cause whose course he
could not control. In deference to his views, the new measure was
severely qualified by providing— 1st. That none of the class to be
admitted should be received without satisfactory evidence of possess-
ing a good moral character. 2d. The payment of bills must be made
in advance, without any remission of charge for privileges free to
ministerial students. 3d. That the income so accruing should go to
the support of the latter. 4th. That the number should in no case
exceed that of students for the ministry. 5th. That no change should
be made in the course of study, nor any class formed except with the
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direct and exclusive design of promoting the one great object for
which the Institution was established; and 6th. That in no way
should the accommodations and conveniences of students for the minis-
try be abridged or infringed on. The measure was thus hedged
round, it would seem, by every restriction demanded by the most
scrupulous advocate of the old regime. Students of the new order
began to come in and take their places in the regular classes. Many
of these afterward gave themselves to the ministry, and still continue
to do so. Now that the Institution was doing an important work for
general education, besides its peculiar mission, the question arose
why it might not share in the patronage of the State. Application
was made to the Legislature for an appropriation, but was rejected
on the ground that the Institution had no recognized relation to the
State, not being a chartered college, though having a full and orga-
nized college course. This fact, in connection with the desire of the
students taking the college course for the usual recognition, by way
of regular diplomas of the prescribed degree, induced an application
for a college charter. This was first made in 1840, and failed. The
desire of college graduates for the ordinary degrees was met, for the
time, by an arrangement with Columbian College, in the District of
Columbia, which generously admitted Hamilton graduates from the
collegiate course (whose competency was certified by the Faculty) to
an equal footing with their own. We owe a debt of gratitude to that
noble college for the favor and courtesy thus shown, which I am
happy on this occasion to record and commemorate. In 1843 a
second application was made for a college charter. This also failed,
as it was alleged, for the want of a proper body to receive the charter.
The Education Society, being a popular organization, spread over
the State, was not such a body, and its Board, being annually elec-
tive, was equally incompetent. There appeared to be no other way
than to constitute an entirely new body, and that too a close corpora-
tion, to receive the charter, and come into the same relation to the
State as other chartered corporations for literary purposes. On such
a basis, the corporation being named and organized into an independ-
ent close corporation under the title of “Madison University,” the
application was renewed and granted, March 26, 1846. This was al-
together a unique proceeding. The Board of the Education Society,
having charge of an Institution expanded to the largest scope for
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literary and scientific acquisitions, apply to the State to create an in-
dependent corporation, invested with the amplest college powers,
with a prospective but direct view of making it available in some
way to their existing Institution, and not for the creation of a new
one. Undoubtedly the University Corporators might legally estab-
lish an independent Institution under the provisions of their charter,
but their action was to be directed and guarded by two specific regu-
lations inserted in the body of the document. 1st. The seat of the
University was to be located permanently at Hamilton. 2d. The
Baptist Education Society was authorized by a separate article to
make such arrangements with the University for the transfer of the
property of said Society or any part thereof, either absolutely or con-
ditionally, to the said University as the said Society shall deem
proper. A further guard was provided in the fact that in naming
the corporators a majority were also members of the Board of the
Education Society, and it was in the power of the Society forever to
Secure this proportion.
Thus guarded, the charter came before the Board of the Society,
and after much earnest discussion as to the particular method of mak-
ing it available to their existing Institution (some good brethren see-
ing so much difficulty in the business, and entertaining such fears of
its disturbing influence on the character and operations of the Institu-
tion, as to suggest that it had better be returned to the Legislature),
it was resolved finally by the Board, and the resolution subsequently
ratified by the Society, that an arrangement should be made with the
Board of the University, whereby their charter should be made
available to the Literary Department of the “Hamilton Literary and
Theological Institution,” leaving out the Theological Department. A
small minority advocated the extension of the charter over the latter,
but this was at once met by a most emphatic and uncompromising
resistance by an overwhelming majority, who took the ground that
theological education must not be subjected in any wise to the
supervision of the State or a purely secular corporation, but kept
strictly and exclusively under the control of the “Baptist Education
Society,” the proper organ of the denomination in the education of
its ministry. But how was it possible under this arrangement to pre-
serve in its integrity the original object of the Institution ?
This vital point was secured in the “Terms of Compact” between
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the Education Society and the Board of the University, one condition
of which is that the University should ever sustain a course of secular
education adapted to the proper training of the ministry, and another
that the control of theological education proper should be reserved
exclusively to the Board of the Society, and third, that in default of
fulfilling these conditions, the University Board was subjected “to a
notice to quit” within two years. Henceforth, theoretically and in law,
there were two Institutions in Hamilton, a University and a Theolo-
gical Seminary, as at the present time. The “terms of compact ’’ pro-
vided by other arrangements for concurrent and harmonious action
between the two bodies which have been happily carried out thus far.
While doing a great work for secular education, the University Board
have been faithful to the compact and maintained, extended, and en-
forced a system eminently adapted to meet the highest demands of the
ministerial student. It is no degradation for the University thus to
act as handmaid to the Education Society. The education of the
ministry is the sanctifying and saving element in the whole scheme
and scope of their functions and operations. It is also the unifying
element in the entire system of educational training. The sacred
object of the original founders, if kept in view, will secure and con-
secrate a substantial moral wivity between all departments of our
educational system at Hamilton.
HISTORY OF THE “REMOVAL CONTRoversy.”
The University, thus bound by a solemn marriage to the Education
Society, had not advanced in its career but little more than one year,
when an extraordinary crisis was precipitated by what is historically
known as the Removal Controversy. I am not without a feeling of
perplexity and misgiving in approaching this portion of the history
of our beloved Institution. I have no disposition whatever to rake
over the cold ashes of a spent conflagration now happily incrusted
over and covered by a luxuriant growth of beautiful verdure of rich-
est promise, and thereby, it may be, to hurt the growth and bring to
the upper air slumbering sparks of the old fire, to be rekindled by
the contact, and scorch anew hearts healed and cicatrized by time
and gracious providences. There are bitter memories often associated
With exceptional crises in human affairs, which, when buried, should
never be evoked from their tomb and galvanized into seeming ghastly
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life. I am restrained from using the present opportunity for such a
purpose, not only by my own feelings long since discharged of every
unkindly element, but by considerations of the most propitious nature
connected with the results of the unhappy conflict. Both parties are
now, I believe, of one mind in a thankful acceptance of these results
We can, together, render thanks to God for the exercise of his
peculiar prerogative in this matter of bringing good out of evil, and
in “making the wrath of man to praise him and restraining the
remainder.” There are now two Institutions instead of one, each
Stronger and far richer in resources than the one around which the
conflict raged, their localities sufficiently far apart, and their charac-
ters so distinctly marked by their own peculiarities, as not necessarily
to interfere with each other's appropriate sphere. There is a feeling
of amity and good will between the two, and the friends of each are
on the best terms mutually, and exchange hearty congratulations on
the success of their favorite enterprises. I see before me now, while
o, alumni and friends who took different sides in that
I am speaking,
memorable controversy, sitting together with hearts beating in unison
with the same love to the old Institution, and with their hands alike
open to supply all its needs. Some of the most honored brethren
earnestly committed to “removal,” have since rendered very valuable
personal services as preachers, orators, patrons and liberal benefactors
to the enterprise here. They have sent their sons hither to be educa-
ted, and in various ways have evinced their abiding and even
augmented interest in the old Institution. How irrelevant and
ungracious to utter harsh words to grate unpleasantly upon any heart
which, though for a while under peculiar circumstances alienated from
its old love, is here and now under the sound of my voice glowing
with all the original fervor of its restored attachment. I shall inten-
tionally do no such thing.
But, on the other hand, shall that portentous period be passed over
without any special notice in the history of to-day ? Shall a histori-
cal hiatus be left, which hides from view events and doings fraught
with the deepest and strangest interest, and of abiding and far-reach-
ing consequences to the character and career of the Institution far
into coming time 2 There are points of profound significancy to be
noted, principles involving vital elements of right and justice, and of
true denominational policy in regard to educational interests, to be
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stated, from which lessons of great value may be drawn to be treas:
ured up for future use. Above all, the movings of God's hand from
time to time so marked in the course of the controversy demand a
fitting record and memorial. The Removal Agitation has a history
of stupendous interest to the friends of the Institution and to Bap-
tists generally, on whichever side they may be ranged. It shook the
sacred structure to its granite foundations—it shattered it from turret
to foundation-stone, and would have swept the falling wreck clean
away from its consecrated ground, had not a mightier power than
man's strengthened and upheld the feeble hands of devoted friends in
a persistent resistance to the last. If man could have destroyed it,
it would have been destroyed from the face of the earth. I verily
believe that a more powerful array of human influences, energized by
the strongest intellect, the most intense determination, and the most
indomitable will, never was brought to bear npon any institution of
man, and it not withstanding bore up and emerged in triumph at last
to the unbounded joy and gratitude of its friends, and to the disap-
pointment and amazement of opponents and lookers-on. And how
came it to pass that the old vessel outrode the storm, not one plank
or beam removed, and only a part of the crew fled ” It was because
God took care of it. It seemed good to Him to permit the storm to
rage and spend its utmost fury until the precious structure was
reduced to a condition beyond human help, that he might in the
extremity show his hand “mighty to save,” and prove the faithful-
ness of his oft-repeated promises to its sainted founders that their
prayers, labors and toils should not be in vain, and that no arm
wielded for the destruction of their work should ultimately succeed.
So we have seen that he ruled the tempest and directed the storm,
stilled the winds and waves that had so long been beating against the
filling and sinking ship, and brought her safely to land “God was
in the midst of her,” and therefore, beloved alumni, your Alma Mater
was neither removed nor destroyed.
And now in what I shall say in a brief sketch of the salient points
of the “removal” history, my aim is twofold. First, to vindicate
the motives and course of the opponents of removal, and second, and
prečminently to commemorate the Divine interpositions in bringing
the Institution safely through the terrible crisis. No one can justly
blame the historian for so much as this, and the demand for an apolo-
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gy would be an impertinence. He has a right, and it is his solemn
duty to speak on this day to these intents. But while claiming purity
of motives on the part of the opponents of removal, he freely con-
cedes the same to its advocates. Without hesitation he admits that
both parties alike were animated by sincere and earnest convictions,
and verily believed that they were acting for the best interests of the
cause of education secular and sacred among Baptists. Both, how-
ever, could not be right, and it cannot be improper by a kind and
candid statement of facts to indicate on which side was the right
and on which the wrong. There may have been much of wrong-
doing on both sides, but, back of the actions of the opposing parties,
the radical and fundamental question must be considered in its
inherent and intrinsic merits. It is taken for granted that the per-
sonal relation of the historian to the facts will almost of necessity,
in the minds of some, impair the strict impartiality of his state-
ments. He does not claim to be exempt from the common
infirmities of the human mind. It is not easy for him to record
certain facts, even at this day, without a glow of moral indignation.
He claims however to be honest, and earnestly disposed to speak
the pure and simple truth. He must speak from his own stand-point,
and state matters as they really stand in his own view, setting down
naught in malice. The historian of the other side would, no doubt,
state matters differently, but as to facts I give them as they occurred.
If I should broadly assert that the advocates of removal were
wrong, I should find concurrence and confirmation strong and
decided, in letters and oral deliverances from leading removalists
confessing the fact. After it was all over and the smoke of the
battle cleared away, and it was seen how God in his gracious provi-
dence was bringing good out of evil in shaping results, the strongest
expressions were made to me by the most determined of the
promoters of removal, that a great mistake had been made by them,
not, of course, in establishing a new institution, of which they were
proud and well might be, but in attempting, and persisting in the
attempt, to remove the old. “I thank God,” wrote one of the most
sincere of removalists, and subsequently a member of the Rochester
Board, “that your convictions were different from mine. I see now
how entirely wrong was the whole scheme of removal.” “We are
convinced,” said the gifted, impulsive and generous Wilder, in a
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personal interview with me a short time before he was stricken
down by the hand of death, “that you were right in holding on to
the old Institution, and I do sincerely rejoice in its rising prosperity.
There is ample room for both.” My memory gratefully recurs to this
interview with this distinguished and ardent promoter of the removal
enterprise, without whose early and energetic personal efforts and
generous contributions, the enterprise must have expired in its birth-
throes. We had long been estranged by the intense friction of our
opposing views. That interview was a perfect reconciliation. The
next I heard of John N. Wilder he had been suddenly stricken by
death, in the prime and vigor of generous manhood. I never
doubted his honesty, sincerity and disinterestedness in all that he did
for removal and the interests of Rochester University. I prized his
friendship and mourned its loss, and it is a source of mournful pleas-
ure that we came together before “God took him.” Another
brother, very zealous in the early efforts at removal, said to me, “One
of the greatest errors of my life was going into that pernicious hum-
bug.” I shall not be likely, therefore, to offend any considerable
number of my removal brethren by speaking plainly of the nature
and tendencies of the ill-starred enterprise. It is in place in
this connection to state most explicitly that the friends of this lo-
cation never opposed the founding of an Institution of Learning at
Rochester in the interest of the denomination. This was the very
thing they urged upon Removalists—namely, to abandon the unnat-
ural, impracticable and disastrous efforts to remove the old, and to
occupy the caerut field (as was alleged), by a wholly new institution.
This they ultimately had to do, and years of the saddest conflict
might have been saved by a timely occupancy of the open field
Without disturbing the “Old Landmarks.” I must not therefore be
understood as in the least reflecting upon the Rochester Institutions,
Literary and Theological, in what I say of “Removal.” They stand
clear of any essential implication in the great commotion. They
have indeed an eventual relation to it in their origin. They are in
an important sense the consequent of the movement, but as distinct
enterprises they do not necessarily share in the animus and range of
removal measures. Among all those who are now connected with the
Faculties of those flourishing institutions, only one (and he, it gives
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me pleasure to say, a star of conspicuous brilliancy in the firmament
of Christian literature) took part in efforts for removal.
Having thus cleared the subject of offensive personalities, I shall
deal with Removal impersonally on its merits, or rather demerits, and
solely for the purpose named. It was a baleful meteor that hung for
a while on the sky of this sacred enterprise, and flung from its train
the pestilential elements of strife, distraction and desolation. I shall
not spare it, though no individual person need feel himself hit or aim-
ed at. I have no private griefs to avenge by “setting down aught
in malice.” I have none but the kindest feelings toward all my breth-
TěIn engaged in the movement. I see nothing in the past of this mat-
ter but the retreating meteor growing “small by degrees and beauti-
fully less.” It has, however, left a history, the facts of which are too
significant to be passed over. Let the facts speak. Whence origina-
ted the idea of removal 2 I mean no personal depreciation of any one
when I assert that the origin was local and personal. The idea was
born in a storm of personal indignation raised by an act of the Edu-
cation Board in adjusting the new relations between it and the Board
of the University. The act related to the distinguished Professor of
Biblical Theology, a personal friend, at that time, of the writer. I had
no sympathy with the act. I sincerely deplored it, but I never doubt-
ed the honesty and conscientiousness of the actors. As in the novel
and peculiar circumstances, the wrong, however great it might have
been, was rectified by rescinding the act or vote at the same sitting,
the storm of excitement in its fury and prolongation was altogether
disproportioned to the offence. Here at Hamilton and then in that
tempest of feeling, did the thought of removal come into being. This
was an ominous beginning. “The wrath of man worketh not the
righteousness of God.” The elaborate reasons alleged for removal and
the objections raised against this location, were after-thoughts.
Nothing is more certain to my mind than the relation of cause and
effect existing between the feeling engendered by that unfortnnate act
of the Education Board and the removal movement. If the former
had not occurred the latter would never have been thought of. It
was admitted by removalists at the time that one was the occasion of
the other, by which they meant that there were valid reasons for re-
moval behind the occurrence, and that this merely opened the way
for their assertion and enforcement. But my position is that the feel-
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ing excited by the act of the Education Board was the substantial and
efficient cause of the subsequent movement. There was absolutely noth-
ing behind which had any force in raising the question. Had it been
raised on its merits it would have been scouted by the general voice.
Whatever secret opinion any one might have entertained as to the
preferableness of another location, they never would in the natural
course of things have caused any serious suggestion or stir about re-
moval. The vague talk years before of removing to Buffalo in flush
times in consideration of a magnificent endowment, had no significance
whatever. It is a simple historic fact that those who became the most
interested in the measure had a short time before its origin uttered
the most glowing eulogy upon the present location. “Its healthiness
and beauty, the refinement and intelligence of its citizens, and cheap-
ness of living, aud other things, made Hamilton the very spot for a
great Institution of learning. Its original selection was especially
providential.” No wonder, when the project of removal transpired
and came abroad, it took the whole denomination and the public by
surprise, except those who had been let into the secret. It is proper
to say just here parenthetically that we never supposed that the peo-
ple of Rochester had anything whatever to do with the origination of
the removalenterprise. This child, without a recognized parentage,
was carried thither and secretly presented to them. It seemed a
goodly child, and they adopted it, without anticipating the “sea of
troubles" which finally obliged them to turn it out of doors. The
project, however originated, came before the public with such prestige
of novelty, grandeur of proportions, magnificence of promise, and em-
blazonry of bright names of “good men and true,” that many leading
minds of the denomination were interested, charmed and enlisted at
once. Some of the ablest and most accomplished, the most powerful
in position and influence, and personally the most honored, revered
and loved, urged it forward by voice, pen and resources. It is a fact,
however, capable of illustration in every sphere of moral action, that
the merit of a cause is not necessarily guaranteed by the personal ex-
cellence of its advocates. The best men, personally, have sometimes
been the earnest advocates of causes intrinsically bad, and have vain-
ly thought they were doing God service. The cause seemed good to
them at the time. The idea, as first put forth, took this form. The
“&eloved Institution ” was to be taken up bodily with its Faculty,
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students, Board, funds, movable property, history, associations, yea,
even the remains of its sainted founders, and transferred unmutilated
and totally in substance and form, to Rochester, with the addition of
an endowment of $100,000 or $150,000, and noble buildings of archi-
tectural grandeur and beauty, leaving nothing behind but unsightly
structures of shale and mortar fit only for the abode of owls and bats!
it is not strange that thousands were dazzled by the apparition of such
a meteor on the horizon of our Zion. What lover of the Institution,
what loyal alumnus might not well be excused for hailing with en-
thusiasm such glorious promise for the object of his warmest affec-
tions ° What a contrast between the present of its condition and the
“to be " of its career | For its site, a flourishing city on the great
thoroughfare of the nation, instead of a small village among the retired
hills of Madison quite shut out from the great centres of human inter-
course—an ample endowment instead of a precarious life fed by the
stinted favors of the churches, and so on. I frankly confess that I
myself was at first affected by the glamour of the novel and brilliant
phenomenon. I pondered much as to its real significancy. I could
not commit myself to the portentous movement, nor did I feel at lib-
erty to oppose it. I stood in doubt and silence. I said to my col-
leagues that I thought that we as a Faculty would best consult our
duty and dignity by taking a neutral position and in the issue we
could gracefully acquiesce in whatever that issue might be. A major-
ity did not acquiesce in this view, but actively interested themselves
in the movement, and deemed it the most judicious policy to precipi-
tate its consummation before opposition could be organized and made
formidable. Just here I took my first position. It was this : In a
question so grave and radical, and involving so great changes, there
should be no haste, but ample time and opportunity given for the
freest and most exhaustive discussion before the whole denomination.
This course I deemed fair to both sides, and due to the proportions
and proprieties of the extraordinary crisis. It was not offensive an-
tagonism to any person or party. In this attitude of mind I visited
New York, as usual during the holidays. I found Deacon Colgate
adverse to the whole movement. With his rare sagacity and common-
sense he pointed out the serious evils involved in removal. I told
him my own position without committing myself even to him any
further. Two of my worthy colleagues hastened to the city “to
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counteract the influence of Prof. Eaton against the removal move-
ment l’’ Deacon Colgate told them that he had conversed very freely
with Bro. Eaton on the subject, but he could not learn from any
thing that he said “on which side he was /* I did, as long as I could,
hold my mind in equipoise, but the more I reflected the more I was
impressed with the force of the reasonings against the change, and
finally yielded to this overwhelming force. It is not pleasant to me
to speak of myself as I must in this painful history. It is not egotism.
In the providence of God I became so livingly and actively identified
with the history that it can not be written without including these
personal allusions. Facts require it, and I would humbly and un-
boastingly submit the historic facts. I did not at first oppose removal,
and this perhaps should be put down to my discredit, or at least abate
the credit some have set down to my account. It was one of the
sorest trials of my life to separate on this question from long-loved
friends, my colleagues, brethren in Rochester, in Western New York,
in New York City, and elsewhere, who were bound to my heart by
the ever-strengthening bond of loving communion for many years. I
couldn’t help it. A strange, invisible, but distinctly felt power pressed
me onward in the course my sense of right and duty dictated. Those
who bitterly condemned me and cruelly impeached my motives, had
they known the soreness of my heart the while, would have from sheer
pity turned their bitter censure into indulgent sympathy. But there
were some who from the first viewed the whole thing with distrust and
alarm. Among these were Dr. Kendrick, Prof. Hascall and Deacon
Colgate. The issue was soon made up before the public, and parties
formed and the conflict begun. * -
It was carried on through the first year by moral weapons, by ar-
guments and prudential considerations embodied in appeals and coun-
ter-appeals issued as the voice of mass-meetings at which earnest
speeches and determined resolves were uttered and formulated, by
personal correspondence, communications pro and con in the religious
and secular papers, and in an animated contest in the Legislature over
an application for an act granting liberty to remove the University to
Rochester. A compromise was finally agreed to by both parties, the
main condition of which was that in case $50,000 was raised by a
specified time by the friends of Hamilton, then the University was
not to be removed. In default of this the Board should be at liberty
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to decide the question. It was distinctly understood and a positive
assurance given, that no hindrances should be interposed by the ad.
vocates of removal to the raising of this fund. The extension of time
from June to August, in the final action of the Legislature, for com-
plying with the moneyed condition, was used as a reason to justify the
disregard of the pledge made at Albany by the representatives of re-
moval. The reason was not sufficient. The sentiment of the Legis-
lature on reflection was decided that the time named in the first draft
of the bill was unreasonably and oppressively short to raise such an
amount. The committee of the Hamilton citizens had no doubt of
their power to defeat the permissive bill, but they accepted the com-
promise by the wish and advice of Dr. Kendrick and myself. I sol-
emnly pledged the honor of my removal brethren to the reluctant
committee who anticipated opposition and obstructions, that they
would not oppose the raising of the proposed fund. It was, however,
opposed through the appeals to Baptists throughout the State not to
tie the hands of the Board by fulfilling the condition of the com-
promise
The controversy gathered bitterness as it proceeded in this mode.
At the anniversary in 1848, after a whole day’s discussion of intense
earnestness on the merits of the case, conditional votes, under extra-
ordinary appliances, were obtained, first in the Board and subse-
quently in the Education Society, in favor of removal. The peculiar
circumstances attending these decisions in the view of the opponents
of removal deprived them of all moral force.
The Board of the University had rejected on a mere technicality
the fulfillment of the condition of the Legislative Compromise in as
good a subscription and bond (whatever cavilling criticisms might
have been passed upon its validity) as was ever made and executed.
The friends of Hamilton drew up, therefore, a new bond for $50,000,
under a penalty in the failure of its fulfillment of $100,000, signed by
men representing in the aggregate more than a million of money.
It will be seen that the friends of Hamilton did not confine them-
selves to verbal arguments and legal technicalities to thwart removal,
but were ready to bind themselves to a boma fide pecuniary obliga-
tion of $50,000, to sustain the Institution in its original location.
They brought it for submission to the Society at its final meeting,
when the “snap judgment" of a few removalists was taken, forestall-
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ing further negotiations on their part. The bond was subsequently
submitted to the Board of the University, but declined on the
ground that it was too late to consider and act on it. I am pained
to be obliged to record here the proceeding called the “snap judg-
ment.” It was the assembling of leading removalists in the pit of
the Chapel in anticipation of the time designated for the adjourned
meeting of the Education Society, and with parts assigned, and
watches in hand, seizing the first moment (as they supposed) of the
appointed hour, and in the space of about five minutes, organizing,
passing four resolutions, making two prayers, and adjourning sine
die / In the mean time, members of the Society were hastening to
meet the time, old men such as John Peck, Alexander M. Beebee,
and others toiling up the hill to vote against removal. When we
arrived at the door of the building, the appalling announcement met
us that the Society had met, acted for removal, adjourned, and all
was over ! But few of the friends of Hamilton had reached the
Chapel, yet a vehement protest was uttered by one of them against
the hurried and unfair proceeding, but it was unheeded. Theenty-one
removalists, all told, did the business in this way, at the final meeting
of the Society No, it was not the Society at all, but an irregular
body of excellent men acting in the name of the Society, for it was
proved by the affidavits of a score or more of good men that the
legal time had been anticipated, namely, the town-clock had not
struck the hour before the whole transaction had been consummated
It was a remarkable instance of over-reaching. It was alleged as a
justification of this extraordinary proceeding that the friends of
Hamilton had rallied the members of the Society from neighboring
towns, and removalists would inevitably be defeated in a full vote.
The question naturally occurs, was there anything unlawful or unfair
in this 2 But it was in great part rumor and exaggeration. The
singular character of the previous proceedings had strengthened and
determined the opposition, and a fair vote would have overwhelming-
ly defeated the project. Removal, therefore, was never carried in
any legal form.
It belongs to this part of the sad history that some “40 ° of the
citizens of Hamilton had constitutionally made themselves members
of the Education Society, in order to arrest removal measures. This
was done under the homest conviction that they had a right to use
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legal means to defeat an illegal purpose. The only question that
could properly arise was as to the expediency of using the means
under the peculiar circumstances. The Constitution was explicit as
to the right, and a standing custom opened the way for its exercise.
I knew nothing of this proceeding at the time, but Dr. Kendrick did,
and suggested it as a legal remedy in the last resort. He had uni-
formly, for years, at the annual meeting of the Society, invited mem-
bership on the constitutional requirement, and it was no novel thing.
The votes of these new members with others defeated the prelimi-
nary resolution for removal, but to the number of “40° were arbi-
trarily rejected by the chairman, and the resolution declared carried
by the remaining votes | Though these men had as much right legally
to vote as the worthy chairman, they begged to have the right settled
by a competent committee, made up of both parties, whose decision
they would abide. Their earnest entreaty was disregarded. They
then declared that they would waive their right, and leave the final
result to be decided by Baptists whose right could not be questioned
either on legal or moral grounds, and they did abstain from all fur-
ther attempts to vote. I subsequently took the pains to analyze the
questioned votes. There were 36 and not “40,” and singularly
enough, twelve were found to be from Baptists in good standing,
twelve from members of the Baptist Society, and the remainder from
worthy citizens not Baptists, but not “unknown to the Baptist
denomination,” as the hospitable doors of most of them had ever
been open to Baptist representatives at our Anniversaries. Some of
those whose votes were summarily rejected were afterwards found to
be life-members of the Education Society, but the fact had fallen out
of their memory, and they paid their dollar for the privilege that
was already theirs. I am happy to have this opportunity before this
great assembly of representative Baptists, to vindicate my fellow-
citizens from aspersion in their honest and legitimate measures, to
retain the Institution on its old ground.
The friends of Hamilton felt justified, nay, compelled to carry the
case into the courts, where removal measures were thwarted by suc-
cessive decisions, and Hascall and Rogers' injunction finally pro-
nounced “perpetually confirmed.” The case was argued with con-
summate ability on both sides, for the removalists by SAMUEL
STEVENs and HAMILTON HARRIs, of Albany, and against, by TIMOTHY
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JENKINs, CHARLEs P. KIRKLAND, and JAMES W. NYE. These
jurists and advocates had no superiors in the State. The great
principles, legal and moral, underlying the questions involved, were
enunciated and elucidated with rare power and eloquence. A very
intelligent removalist said to me that he “never listened to an abler
and clearer legal argument of two hours' length than Judge Kirk-
land's, before Judge Allen of the Supreme Court, at Oswego, on the
motion to dissolve Havens' and Beardsley’s Injunction. The injunct
tion was, it is true, dissolved, but it was on the ground of the incom-
petency of the plaintiffs, and not on the merits of the case. As
renewed by Hascall and Rogers, it was triumphantly sustained.
The final hearing of the case was before Judge Philo Gridley, April
23, 1850, at Morrisville, when the decree was uttered establishing
forever both the Seminary of the Education Society and Madison
University in their location at Hamilton. While the case was in the
courts, two so-called “Educational Conventions,” called at the in-
stance of removalists, were held in Albany, one June 12th (in default
of a meeting of the Education Society), and the other Oct. 9th, 1849.
At the latter the final “compromise” was adopted, whereby the
University was to be separated from the Education Society, and
taken to Rochester, and the Theological Seminary was to remain at
Hamilton, but in case the friends of Hamilton refused to acquiesce in
this arrangement, then to establish a new educational enterprise,
literary and theological, at Rochester, and leave the old Institution to
its fate, or rather, as was sarcastically said by some, “to the tender
mercies of God.” The last clause gave a wholly one-sided character
to the compromise, and was in spirit a threat to non-removalists that
in case they would not accept so much, they should lose all. I think
that this brief synopsis of the great controversy up to this crisis (at
best but a shadowy sketch of the main facts) will serve as an ade-
quate basis for the vindication of the course of the friends of Hamil-
ton. I shall weave in other important facts as I proceed, and touch
points with which they have special connections.
Removal was resisted mainly on the following grounds: I. It was
unnecessary; II, inexpedient, III. perilous ; IV. acrong, and V.
Sacriległows. Every one of these grounds became a conviction in the
minds of the opponents of removal, intense and absorbing as their
mental and moral nature admitted of. They believed, and therefore
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spoke and acted. In such a grave crisis, with these burning convic-
tions, they could not be turned from their course by the opinions of
men, however reputedly wise aud conspicuously eminent. That
removal was not necessary was argued from the fact that the Institu-
tion had wonderfully prospered from its origin, steadily keeping in
advance of the most sanguine expectations of its warmest friends.
Indeed, its very prosperity was used as an argument on the other
side. It had “outgrown” its original location, and demanded a
larger place for its ever-widening expansion. “Hamilton was but a
green-house pot,” said a prominent removalist in a public and elo-
Quent speech, “it had answered well enough while the tree was in its
early stages of growth, (a sapling, as it were,) but it had now
become so large and was growing so rapidly, the pot was inadequate,
and must necessarily cramp further developments ſ” I have repeat-
edly heard in the edifying and no doubt earnest prayers of my
respected colleagues enlisted in removal, in the chapel service, the
petition that the Lord would “bring the beloved Institution into a
' The figure was ingenious, and the prayer devout with-
large place.”
out question, but both were misleading rhetoric as applied to the
subject. The strange position was taken by some, indicative of the
sophistry that ran through the most of the removal argument, that
the Institution had grown so vigorously, and was so buoyant with
life and health that it must die if it had not change of place and air
It was alleged that “an endowment had become essential,” (this was
admitted,) and that “it could not be endowed where it stood.” This
was “denied totally and emphatically.” Taking into account the
sacrifices of property and the expense necessarily attending a new
location, it was much easier to endow it on the old ground than on
the new. It was held on our part to be a pure assumption that there
was anything really in the way of endowment here. The churches
and friends had always given to the Institution what it had asked,
though it had been all too modest in the amount asked for. If now
it must be endowed, it would be done for the asking. An endow-
ment had been projected, but no effort worthy of the name had been
made to raise it before the “removal” was sprung upon the denomi-
nation.
The inexpediency was urged on the ground that in addition to the
sacrifices of property and the expenses of removal and preparations
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for new accommodations—grounds, buildings, and so forth–offsetting
in great part the proposed endowment at Rochester, a rural location
for a seat of learning, if reasonably accessible, was altogether to be
preferred to one in a city. In respect to favorable circumstances for
study, health, morals, and cheapness of living, the advantages were
all clearly on the side of the former, and that other influences ema-
nating from city life were not favorable to the best development of
youthful character.
The perils of removal were argued on the ground of the utter im-
practicability of taking the Institution in its integrity to Rochester.
The idea was a chimera. The change would be too great. It was
an untried experiment. Such a thing had never been known as an at-
tempt to remove a great Institution, with a growth and history of
thirty years, from its old ground to a distant location. Brown and
Yale were referred to as examples to the contrary; but when these
institutions were removed only a few miles (not out of their original
neighborhood) they had existed but a short time, and all belonging
to these now gigantic concerns could have been carried from place to
place in a pedler's cart. These cases furnished no analogy. We did
believe that the proposed attempt at removal would prove very much
like that of taking a mighty oak from its native forest, and transplant-
ing it to a far-off land, expecting it to live and flourish.
The question of the acrong of removal divided itself into two parts,
legal and moral. There were vested rights in the matter of location,
in a solemn contract, fulfilled perfectly on the part of the original cov-
enantees, and declared by our most eminent jurists to be “a good and
valid contract,” and “its fulfilment complete.”
Our courts have uniformly given the most liberal construction to
such rights, in so far that the principle seems settled that all dona-
tions, legacies, etc., bestowed upon a locally established Institution,
are made upon the condition, whether expressed or not, that it is to
remain permanently where located at the time of such benefaction,
and if removed to a distant locality, such gifts are forfeited, and may
be reclaimed by donors, or their heirs.
The people of Hamilton were to be commended in contending for
these rights. They did, to their immortal honor, fight right nobly,
Baptist and non-Baptist alike, as a community, and their victory was
deserved. The objection that it was a material defect in the Consti.
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tution of the Education Society, that its original constituency was
not confined to members of the Baptist denomination, lies equally
against several others of our great benevolent organizations. There
is a moneyed consideration, but no denominational qualification re-
quired to become members of the popular body. The control of the
organizations is deposited with the official working force, and cannot
be reached except in the line of their organic law. There is, therefore,
an insuperable barrier againstall control, other than Baptist, in the coun-
cils and management of the educational enterprise at Hamilton. The
people of Hamilton, not Baptist, again and again protested against
the allegation that they desired, in any way, to interfere with the
character and management of the Institution. In the simple matter of
location they had rights guaranteed by the fulfilment of a valid con-
tract. The lapse of time could not weaken their legal claim. They
were, as might be expected, profoundly excited upon the subject so vit-
ally connected with all their dearest interests, and might be indulgently
judged for some more than ordinary ebullitions of the passions and in-
firmities common to human nature. Individually, no doubt, things
were said and done in a state of excitement, which sober reflection
would not approve. But as a body, acting for the defeat of removal,
they presumed to take no measures without consulting Dr. KENDRICR,
Prof. HASCALL, and some others of us. The committee of the citizens
were in constant communication with Dr. KENDRICR, gathered round
his bed of pain, and receiving reverently his opinions and advice. They
repeatedly yielded their own judgment to his, and did not do a single
thing to defeat removal, without his and HASCALL’s concurrence and
approval. Judge MAsON and Senator NYE, who know the minute his
tory of the removal agitation in its connection with the people of
Hamilton, will bear me out in these statements. These gentlemen,
the one a profound jurist of spotless reputation, personal and judicial
—an ornament of the highest judicial tribunal of the State;—the
other, one of the shrewdest and most eloquent advocates at the Bar
and in the Senate, drew out and elucidated the legal argument with
a clearness and force which no subsequent assaults could impair.
The legal difficulty was insuperable. The connection of moral and
legal wrong is very intimate. There is a condemnatory ethical ele-
ment in the infraction of legal obligation, except under the most im-
perative counter obligations of a moral or religious kind. But there
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was an independent moral wrong in this case. It was a disregard of
the plain intentions and expectations of founders and donors, who
had labored and given of their abundance, and also “out of their
” to sustain the Institution at Hamilton, without the most
poverty,
remote thought of its ever being removed. I have recently been in-
formed, by the witness to the bequest of Deacon PAYNE, that the
matter of permanently locating the Institution on the ground be-
queathed, as a condition, was discussed by those present, and Mrs.
PAYNE and Judge Stow ER (one of the collateral heirs) insisted upon
its insertion in the document. This was not done, in fact; but the
witness declared that the condition was the clear and distinct under-
standing of the parties. Its insertion was not deemed necessary, from
the total improbability of any attempt at change.
Lastly, that removal was sacrilegious was pressed on the ground
that it was not only a violation of the most sacred compacts, but, in
its consequences, a perversion of the whole purpose of the educational
enterprise at Hamilton. We have shown that the acceptance of the
charter of the University was not designed in the least to limit or in-
fringe upon the original purpose of the Society, namely, to educate
the Baptist ministry, but to serve as an agency to accomplish this
work more completely and effectually. It was an element to be ap-
propriated and worked into the scheme of its operations with a view to
make stronger the power for carrying out its sacred object. The
University was really the creature of the Society, and though, from
the necessities of the case, made a complete whole of itself, the Soci-
ety breathed into it the breath of life, and identified it with its own
existence. The ultimate control of the Society over the University
was secured by the “Terms of Compact.” It became, in fact, liv-
ingly and indissolubly bound up with the Society, and was not com-
petent to act independently for a purpose of its own, unless the Society
should think proper to dissolve the connection formally entered into,
and dispense with its services. This was provided for in the contract
between the two parties, the Society being required to give two
years' notice for the dissolution, when convinced that the original ob-
ject and interest of the Society demanded it. Such an exigency, how-
ever, was not anticipated by the contracting parties. Now, I state
as a simple and historical fact that it was early disclosed by those
who would have the shaping of affairs, if removal was accomplished,
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that the purpose was to disrupt the bonds between the Society and
the University, and to make the Theological Seminary organically
distinct, and wholly independent of the University, having nothing in
fact essentially to do with it; and the University, thus set free from
all connection and control of the Society, was to be remodelled and
reconstructed so as to admit into partnership, in the government
and instruction, other denominations—a majority of the Board and
Faculty remaining Baptists. Now, whether right or wrong, the anti-
removalists did honestly believe, on what they regarded as reliable au-
thority, that this programme would be carried out if removal were
effected; and hence a new element of ten-fold intensity was intro-
duced into the opposition. It was henceforth a contest not so much
against removal, as for the very easistence of the Institution, as it was
at Hamilton—an Institution thoroughly and exclusively Baptist
throughout all its departments, from the beginning to the end.
Dr. KENDRICK, though on his back with his whole physical frame
a mass of excruciating pain, and every breath an agony, rallied all
the energies of his still powerful intellect, and wrote scores of letters
with his own trembling hand, bolstered up in bed, or dictated to his
daughter, sitting by his bed-side, to the old friends of the Institu-
tion, calling their attention to this aspect of the removal question,
and expressing strongly the conviction that it involved the destruc-
tion of the “cherished School.” This appeal of the dying saint
produced a powerful effect, and induced many, who had favored
removal as a measure to provide more liberally for the Institution
of their affections, supposing it was to remain unchanged in its new
location, in its identity, character, and relations, to pause and hold
back. This effect was attempted to be neutralized by a public state.
ment from removalists, not denying that other than Baptists were to par-
ticipate in the management of the University, but asserting generally
that it was to be “as much Baptist at Rochester as at Hamilton.”
We have no imputation to cast upon their honesty in this public mani-
festo, but we know the impression made by it was not in accordance
with the theory foreshadowed. How the University at Rochester,
with three Paedobaptists in its Faculty, and a number of the promi-
ment members of the Board of like denominational standing, could be
as much Baptist as it was at Hamilton, where the whole Faculty and
Board, with the exception of the legal counsel of the latter, were con-
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scientious Baptists, we were too simple-minded to comprehend. We
deeply felt the conviction that it was an utter impossibility. A lead-
ing removalist wrote to me that the University at Hamilton was too
sectarian, and ought to be “liberalized” by admitting other denomina-
tions to share in its management. Another one of equal standing said,
in my hearing, that it was to be the “Union College" of the western
portion of the State. These men were leaders in the enterprise. A
distinguished Paedobaptist, Dr. DEwBY, also wrote to me in reply to
an inquiry as to what was the understanding of the Paedobaptist com-
munity in Rochester, relative to the prospective character of the Uni-
versity, if removed. (I was compelled to make this inquiry to repel
a charge of misrepresentation.) The reply was that “while no formal
pledge had been given, it was the clear understanding that in case the
University was removed to that city, it was to be unsectarianized,
and other denominations to be invited to a representation in its direc-
tion and instruction—that these denominations were contributing to
the enterprise with this understanding, and that if Madison University
came to Rochester, “to teach immersion,” they could have nothing to
do with it, and would establish another University beside it, that a
charter for a University had previously been obtained by Paedobap-
tists in Rochester, and was to be set aside to give place to Madison
University, if it should be adjusted to a satisfactory liberal policy.
We could not be mistaken on this head, and I am the more explicit,
because Dr. KENDRICR, and others of us, were charged with misrep-
resentation in this thing. I would vindicate truth and the memory of
the dead. There was no misrepresentation, and this has been dem-
onstrated by the actual historical fact, that the proposed arrangement
has been carried out at Rochester, in respect to the new Institutions;
à. e., the Theological Seminary, with the Society for Ministerial Edu-
cation, exclusively Baptist, is entirely separated from the Rochester
University, and the University so shaped in policy as to take into
partnership other denominations in its conduct and instruction.
Finally, let me add, in concluding this history of that period of
disastrous agitation, the friends of Hamilton rejected the Compromise
proposed at the Albany Convention, whereby the Theological Seminary
was to be retained, and the University go to Rochester. They were
Severely censured for this as “audaciously disobeying the voice of the
denomination.” They did no such thing. They always held to the
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belief, whether founded on truth or not, that the great body of the
denomination did not, in their judgment and hearts, favor removal.
There were members of the Board even that voted for removal who
assured me that they did not, in their hearts, favor the project, but
under the circumstances it had come to seem to them a dire necessity.
Much less did the denomination under any circumstances favor the
destruction of the Institution. The apparent sentiment for removal
we regarded as in great part manufactured, and that the contempla-
ted results were not understood. We could not accept the decision
of the Convention as authoritative. It was called by removalists, and
for removal purposes. The friends of this location had nothing to do
with the call. They were not even consulted in the measure. After
it was called however, they did issue a “Fraternal Address” to Bap-
tists, (drawn up by my worthy friend and co-worker against removal.
Dr. Spear,” whose efficient and invaluable services in that great con-
flict merit emphatic and distinguished recognition), concurring, in the
call, and requesting the friends of Hamilton to attend.
In this Address, signed by a considerable body of brethren in and
out of Hamilton, it is submitted (mark the language), “that the only
ground for harmony in the proposed Convention on the question to
come before it, is to let the old Institution alone, and start a new
enterprise at Rochester, if its friends should think proper so to do.”
The Convention was wholly an irresponsible body, not made up of
representative men from churches and associations, or any recognized
societies connected with the denomination. It was simply a mass
meeting, composed indeed of the most respectable and influential in-
dividuals, but as a body acting without any binding authority whatever.
The influence of its decisions could only be of a moral kind, and that
depending upon their intrinsic justness and wisdom. Again, anti-
removalists never committed themselves to accept its decision, and
especially if it bore malignly against the integrity and best interests
of the old Institution. The compromise was never fairly and fully dis-
cussed. It was drawn up by a committee of seven, all of whom save
one, (the editor of the Register, who was added after the committee
was formed) were removal men, and introduced and carried within
* The Reports for several successive years, after the new order of things was
inaugurated, were prepared by Dr. Spear. They contain a thesaurus of
authenticated facts, historical and biographical, of incalculable value, in illustra-
tion of the progress of the enterprise.
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an hour of final adjournment, the previous discussions having been of
a general character, and mainly upon the question of removal proper.
Notwithstanding, the anti-removalists were willing to consider
deliberately and prayerfully, the state of the question in its new form.
This was all to which they committed themselves. The chief repre-
sentatives of Hamilton, immediately after the final decision, came to
gether with Deacon Colgate, to consult as to future action. A form of
adhesion was presented to us by the chairman of the committee on
the compromise as the organ of the majority, to be adopted at once,
and foreclose further discussion on the whole question. We considered
this movement as offensively obtrusive, and respectfully declined
the overture by answering, “We must have time for the consideration
of so great a question.” It is true that many of the friends of
Hamilton at first thought the acceptance of the compromise the best
thing we could do under the circumstances, but they had no authority
to commit the Boards. When the Boards came together by special
call on the 4th of the following December to consider the comprom-
ise, in an unusually full meeting, the whole question was reviewed,
and the ultimate bearing of the compromise on the interests of the
enterprise at Hamilton carefully and solemnly considered. They
came to see clearly, that the acceptance of the compromise would be
disastrous, even to the extent of the virtual destruction of the whole
enterprise at Hamilton; and after fervent supplication for Divine
direction, and committing the interests of their sacred trust to God,
who had in the darkest time in its past history appeared for its
deliverance and enlargement, they did with the most perfect
unanimity reject the ALBANY COMPROMISE.
The formal rejection is embodied in the following Preamble and
Resolutions taken from the Report of 1850:
“Whereas, While we recognize the right of our brethren, in con-
vention assembled, to instruct us on all open questions, we are at
the same time convinced (after mature deliberation) from the exercise
of our own sober, and, we think, candid judgment, confirmed by the
opinions of those favoring, as well as those opposing removal, that by
yielding the charter of Madison University, as advised, we should
greatly impair the vitality of what remains, and probably insure its
total destruction, thus defeating the expressed intention of the Albany
Convention, therefore
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“Jęesolved, That as Baptists and as a Board appointed to be the
guardians of sacred rights, we dare not assume the responsibilty of
surrendering a charter which was granted especially for the Hamil-
ton Literary and Theological Institution, which by the Legislature
was adapted to the relations it sustains to the Education Society, and
which has become identified with its influences, resources and sup-
ports that for thirty years have been gathering around the School.
“Resolved, That in view of our responsibilities, we see no way open
but to leave our Literary and Theological Institution (now known as
Madison University) as Providence has organized it—an Institution
with a college course, and college powers ; not only not divesting it of
its present elements of growth and usefulness, but, if possible, adding
to it new elements of life and vigor.
“Resolved, That it would give us the highest satisfaction to follow
literally the course marked out by our brethren in the Albany Con-
vention, if we could do it consistently with a sense of our obliga-
tions to the trust eommitted to us.”
And were they to blame for this 2 That “Albany Conven-
tion ” never designed that in any event the Hamilton Institution
should be destroyed. I believe to-day, and have always believed,
that if removal had been submitted to it pure and simple,
though called by removalists for removal purposes, it would
have been voted down. It did favor a new enterprise at Rochester,
and the friends of Hamilton, when this question was submitted,
voted with the body; I did so myself, heartily. It was in accord-
ance with what I had urged, from the beginning, i. e., to drop
all attempts to remove, and to build anew. Let the old remain on its
consecrated ground to go on with its heaven-appointed mission, and
add to our educational power by a wholly new enterprise. I had no
doubt that the denomination could and would support both. This
question of a new enterprise at Rochester was subsequently repre-
sented as a test question on removal in the Convention | And the
vote was proclaimed by an enthusiastic removalist as standing 594 to
6 How preposterous! There were not more than three hundred
voted, all told, and I heard no nays at all. The vote was the real
exponent of the only true harmonizing element in the Convention, as
declared in the “Fraternal Address.”
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THE LAST ACT IN THE “REMOVAL * DRAMA,
This act was so extraordinary, and every way so out of all regard
to justice and moral propriety, that I submit its simple history with
the naked authenticated facts (drawn up by Dr. SPEAR) taken from the
Report of the Education Board for the year 1851. The author of this
history is marked by great equanimity of temper, and moderation of
expression. The extract is as follows: “It has been the study and
prayer of your Board to learn and do the will of that great people in
the State of New York, whose interests under you they have been
attempting more especially to subserve. In every form in which they
could hear a voice that seemed to utter a “ distinct sound ’’ they have
attentively listened. They have heard no other voice than one bid-
ding them to “go forward ” in this work, building upon the spot
consecrated by the labors and sacrifices of a Kendrick, a Hascall, an
Olmstead, a Payne and others, and still glorious by the manifested
presence of the Most High. This voice, very emphatic, has come
from the East and West as well as from the centre, from the North
and the South. It has come from churches, associations, and conven-
tions, from alumni, patrons and friends. It has come from the field
of missions in the East and from the broad valley of the West, from
Texas, California and Oregon. It has been too clear to be misunder-
stood, and we dared not turn our backs upon an enterprise with
respect to which the cry “Onward ” was so loud and long. Nor of
the Albany Convention called by removalists was the voice at all
different. Though this may have authorized the establishment of a
new enterprise, it never required or advised the abandonment of the
old. The deliberations of that Convention were all in answer to the
question presented by the Board of Madison University, namely:
Shall we leave at Hamilton what is now at Hamilton, while on the
other hand we secure the advantages which invite us to the occu-
pancy of the Western site, by at once organizing an entirely new
educational movement, Collegiate and Theological, at that point? In
following the proceedings as they issue from this point, it is clear that
if the Convention authorized anything, it authorized removalists to
drop all controversy, to terminate the legal case, and allow the friends
of Madison University to rally round it for support in its old location
at Hamilton. We regret to record that our removal brethren after
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f
the Convention, and without the least authority from it direct or im-
plied, instructed the counsel for removal to bring the case on before
the Supreme Court of the State, and that it was prosecuted thereafter
as far as there was any reasonable ground of hope that they would
succeed. They had no authority from the Convention for an attempt
to embarrass or crush the enterprise at Hamilton, but only to “leave”
it. We had authority in a quiet and peaceful m anner to stand by
those interests which our removal brethren were either leaving, or
were extremely reluctant to leave. We did it, not only because we
found denominational authority, but because we had the fullest con-
viction that the cause of ministerial and general education in the State
required it. We have done it with no unfriendliness of feeling or oppo-
sition to the new enterprise or its friends, but wishing them the
highest success and striving on our part to cherish between the two
enterprises the most amicable relations. There is work enough for
both which can be accomplished without strife, and fields of patronage
and influence sufficiently broad and distinct. We shall endeavor by
Divine grace to emulate those generous and exalted sentiments which
actuated the early founders of this noble Institution, and say to all
who are engaged in the same work, whether in this State or out,
“Jet there be no strife, we are brethren.” There are men, there are
benevolent hearts, there are candidates for the ministry both of the
poor and wealthy who are thirsting for knowledge, “to be taught the
way of God more perfectly,” there are churches and missionary sta-
tions eagerly waiting for laborers, and the prize in this great work
lies between us. It is for the meek and humble who can “take suffer-
ing wrongfully,” for the active and resolute.
It remained for the Board more especially to set forth the train of
events and the acts with which they have been identified during the
past year. Immediately upon their election, it fell upon them through
a committee appointed for that purpose, consisting of the Secretary
and Treasurer, to negotiate an adjustment of the University Board to
the Hamilton relations. The adjustment was happily, though with
no small difficulty, secured. To understand the nature of the trans-
action, the following things must be observed :
1. The former Education Board, as early as December 4th, 1849,
in a large meeting well, represented from New York City and other
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parts of the State, with perfect harmony and in due form, had dropped
the defence of the right to remove the Education Society, instructed
their counsel at Albany to proceed no further, and empowered the
Executive Committee to use all proper measures to free the Univer-
sity Board from the removal embarrassment.
2. In view of the proceedings of the Education Board above al-
luded to and subsequently to them, the Counsel at Albany being
instructed by removalists, and choosing their own time and judges,
proceeded to “move" the University case before the Supreme Court
of the State. This motion of theirs resulted in a decision against
removal and a Decree of the Court, April 23d, 1850, issued on
grounds which in the opinion of able counsel on both sides rendered it
irreversible. Inasmuch as this decree enjoined upon the University
Board to fulfil specifically the Contract with the Education Society
(see terms of arrangement) and in accordance with it, to go forward
in the management and support of the University “upon the prem-
ises” at Hamilton, the then existing members of the Board must go
forward and do this, or put men in their places, who from their sym-
pathies and confidence in the location would do it.
3. About three weeks after this decree (May 10th), the Madison
University Board met at Rochester (ten being present and they
removalists) and a friend of the Hamilton location, who attended for
that purpose, proposed to have the adjustment then and there made
in order to give suitable time to make arrangements for the following
Academic year, before the present should close upon them. But it
was deemed expedient or necessary to postpone such action till
another meeting of the Board at the close of the year in August.
4. The University Board during a three years' removal controversy
having filled vacancies made by deaths, and resignations and change
of residence with removal men, had left upon it scarcely enough in all
to make a quorum of those who were friendly to the location at
Hamilton. It was under these circumstances that the University
Board met in August with just a quorum and no more, and most of
that number removal brethren. They knew the nature of the decree
and what it required. We also knew that if the Board dispersed
Without adjusting the quorum to the location at Hamilton, it would
be extremely difficult, if not impossible, again to gather a quorum of
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that Board, and we might be under the necessity of applying to the
Supreme Court and Legislature to regain the use of the Board. The
Board were aware that a committee in behalf of Hamilton was in
readiness to attend to the adjustment, and previously to the adjust-
ment they passed the following:
“I’esolved, That the account of the Legal Committee at Albany
for Attorneys and other agents be allowed to an amount of six hun-
dred and twenty-five dollars.” And again, “Whereas a majority of
the Trustees present propose now to resign their seats in this Board,
“Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to elect substitutes on the
nomination of Deacon WILLIAM Cobb of Hamilton, provided a written
pledge be first given by responsible individuals, that the Professors
who shall resign shall be paid in full on or before the 10th of Septem-
ber next, and that the bill of the Legal Committee at Albany, not to
exceed six hundred and twenty-five dollars, be paid by the first of
November next.”
To this bill, which was presented as connected with the above
proviso, no serious objection was made, save to the payment of the
counsel for removal at Albany. It was admitted that the Board of
Madison University whatever the constitution of its membership, W. H.S
technically holden for the payment of arrearages on the salaries of
the retiring Professors; but under the circumstances, as they had
been identified with the retiring members of the Board in the interest
of removal and to the serious detriment of Hamilton, it did seem hard
that individual citizens should be required to pay out of their private
pockets in so short a time so large a sum as nearly $3000. However,
they were willing to stand in place of the Board for this amount,
hard as the requirement was. But to pay the counsel for removal
was another thing. It was reasonably objected that the University
IBoard itself chartered for sustaining an Institution at Hamilton, were
not legally or morally bound to pay a bill which had been made by ºt
fruitless attempt to remove, much less should individuals who
were opposed to removal be compelled to pledge their individual
responsibility for the payment of removal counsel !—that security
for such payment, if looked for anywhere, should be found in the
Board that made it, and not in individuals—that IIamilton friends
expected to pay their own bills, though these had been brought
upon them, not by themselves, but by others, and that Rochester
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friends ought to pay theirs. These objections, however, Were waived,
and weinformed the members of the Board that though we regarded
it unjust to require us while in a strait to pay the bill for the removal
counsel, still if it was required we should generously meet it. It
was required, and the following paper drawn up by the Secretary to
to meet the case was produced :
Due to the retiring Professors for residue of salaries, . . . . . . $2,700.00
Due to counsel at Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625.00
Due in all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,325.00
The subscribers become responsible to see that the above sums are
promptly paid—that due the Faculty by the 10th of September next,
and that due at Albany by the 1st of November, provided that the
present members of the Board shall duly elect such men as Dea.
Cobb shall nominate:*
P. B. SPEAR, - WM. CoEB, *
ALVAH PIERCE, J. O. PIERCE,
C. C. PAYNE, A. G. SLoCUM.
The paper was declared satisfactory. The adjustment immediately
took place by seven of our Rochester friends one by one leaving
their seats, and seven Hamilton friends one by one taking their
places. In each instance too there was the least number to act that
could act and render the transaction legal. The act was over and the
Board was transformed. It had still a bire quorum present, but that
quorum was made up of men who believed that God had chosen the
University site at Hamilton, and that this site in his eyes would ever be
glorious. The moment of transition was one of deep, and to your
committee, one of solemn and overwhelming interest. It was a
moment of “darkness that could be felt.” But behind that darkness
we saw the gleaming of a bright day. We introduce this transaction
to the Society for no other purpose than to show another and signal
instance of the over-ruling providence of God in this enterprise,
Just three years from the time the removal project was originated it
a resurrection
was settled. The Institution emerged as if into a new
life, but it emerged through a way the narrowest possible, and yet
* The speaker feels that it is simply justice to say that to the loyalty and
firmness of Dr. Spear and to his clear comprehension of the crisis, as well as his
readiness and ability to assume pecuniary risk, was prečminently due the con-
Summation of this adjustment.
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came forth unhurt, with its organization sound and departments pre- .
served in their integrity.”
Thus far from the official record. The strange facts are undisputed.
This last act was declared to be “magnanimous” on the part of the
retiring removalists. To an unprejudiced mind, we think the mag.
nanimity does not visibly emerge
1850–1869.
Relieved of the crushing incubus of removal by the crowning act
aiready detailed, the Institution rallied under unexpected inspirations.
The new Boards organized at once and filled the vacancies in the
Faculty as follows:
THE OLO C ICAL SEM INARY.
GEO. W. EATON, D. D., Professor of Théology and Lecturer in Church History.
EDMUND TURNEY, D.D., Professor of Biblical Criticism, &c.
UNIVERSITY.
GEO. W. EATON, D. D., Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy.
EDMUND TURNEY, D. D., Professor of Evidences of Revealed Religion.
PHILETUs B. SPEAR, A. M., Professor of Hebrew and Latin Languages.
EZRA S. GALLUP, A. M., Professor Qf Greek Language and Literature.
ALEXANDER BEEBEE, A. M., Professor of Logic and English Literature.
WM. MATHER, A. M., M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Geology, and Mineralogy,
L. M. Os BoFN, A. M., Principal of the Academic Department.
WM. T. BIDDLE., A. B., Tutor in Mathematics.
The fall term of 1850 opened with the teachers at their posts, and
33 students in attendance ; but every class was represented, from the
senior theological down to the junior academic. The organization
was unbroken throughout. Dr. Taylor, the head of Lewisburg
University, acceded to the Presidency of the University in the fall of
1851. He brought with him great strength and popularity. It was
indeed the most felicitous choice for the University which could
have been made from the whole denomination. His reputation as an
educator and a disciplinarian was second to that of no other—he had
for years previously been connected with the Institution, and knew
minutely all its history. During the first year of the new regime, the
number of students increased from 33 to 84. Within the three
subsequent years under the administration of President Taylor, the
number reached 216 l—considerably over the number at the begin-
ning of the removal agitation. Friends and resources multiplied and
augmented. Hundreds, yes, thousands, who had gone into removal,
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returned with new affection to the old and revived Institution. An
endowment of over $60,000 was secured before the end of the first
year. In four years after the secession to Rochester, the University
and Theological Seminary were stronger in men and means than for
many years previous to the conflict. The rapidity of the rise was
astonishing to friends and all others. In the early part of the year of
1856 (January 6th), after nearly five years of vigorous administration
(notwithstanding his lingering and painful illness during the latter
part, through all which his powerful brain and indomitable will held
the reins), Dr. Taylor died, lamented by all the friends of the Univer-
sity. (See under head of “ Human Agents.”) The succession was
urged upon me. I did most sincerely decline even to entertain the
question, and begged my friends to look elsewhere. I had no am-
bition in that direction, and was more than content with my
assigned sphere. The subject was pressed again and again. It was
said that public sentiment demanded my appointment, and I must
yield to the wishes of my friends and the friends of the University.
I finally consented to rest in this attitude: If the Board, unbiassed
by external pressure, should deem it wisest and best for the interests
of the University to appoint me to the Presidency, I would take the
subject into prayerful consideration, but I did most earnestly desire a
different arrangement. The Board made the appointment at their
meeting in August, 1856, when I supposed the whole subject of the
presidency had been deferred to a future day, and so was taken
entirely by surprise. I sought for divine direction, and with humble
trust in that direction entered upon the new responsibilities. For
four years up to the opening of the war for the Union, the number of
students remained much the same as under Dr. Taylor, and the gen
eral interests of the University prospered. At the opening of the
third year of my administration there was a larger accession of stu .
dents than ever before or since, some 80 during the first term. In
1859 there was a movement, into which I threw my whole soul, to
secure Gov. Briggs as Chancellor of the University. A paper in
regard to this movement, signed unanimously by my colleagues,
declared that they favored the measure, from no want of energy
and efficiency in the presiding officer of the University, but in concur-
rence with him, to secure the accession of a man of such conspicuous
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and commanding worth and influence to the controlling forces.of the
Institution. Influential friends in New York City and elsewhere
pressed the matter upon the Governor’s consideration. He became
deeply interested in the question, though shrinking from acquiescence.
He visited the Institution and declared himself highly pleased with
its condition and prospects, and that no position could gratify him
more, if he could believe he was the man for the place. This he
could not see. I begged him to yield to the unanimity of all con-
cerned. He replied modestly that he never recollected a case in his
life when he had yielded to the wishes of others against his own con-
victions, that he was not convinced subsequently that he had made a
mistake. He frankly confessed that no question that had ever been
submitted to him had more deeply interested him, but if he could not
be brought to see from his own point of view that he was the proper
person to occupy the position, he must decline. The movement,
therefore, failed. At the close of the Academic record of 1853, Prof.
Turney resigned the chair of Biblical Interpretation and Criticism,
which he had filled with earnest devotion and entire acceptance for
three years, and on the 10th of November following, Rev. Ebenezer
Dodge, of New London, N. H., was called to fill the vacancy. The
war opening with the year 1861 seriously affected the University,
mostly in the diminution of the number of students, but slightly in
the integrity of its acting organism. The abstraction of over 50
young men with a professor and tutor to fight for their country, and
the infrequency of additions from the same cause reduced the attend-
ing members nearly one-half. The decrease of members was due
solely to the war, as the previous and subsequent history demon-
strates. All the great institutions of learning in the land suffered
more or less in the same way. In the winter of 1863 the President's
health broke down, and he was threatened with a fatal malady—the
consequence, as the physician declared, of an “over-worked brain.”
He was advised to go abroad to arrest the morbid tendency. After
an absence of a year he returned with restored health, but was
anxious to retire from the Presidency, and pursue the more quiet and
less annoying vocation of a theological instructor. It was thought
by the most judicious friends of the University best for its interests
that he remain in the office until a change could be made under more
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propitious circumstances. In 1865 the circumstances occurred in a
large accession to the endowment, and he did most gladly tender his
resignation as President of Madison University, reserving his position
as President of the Theological Seminary, and Professor of Homilet-
ics and Practical Theology. The Board accepted his resignation
with the request that he would retain the Presidency of the Univer-
sity until his successor should be inaugurated. Complimentary
resolutions of an unequivocally strong and emphatic character were
passed by the Board in respect to the fidelity and efficiency of the
retiring President. Prof. Osborn was associated with the President,
more especially to take charge of the internal discipline of the
University, and performed the difficult task with high credit. In
1860, Prof. William I. Knapp, an alumnus of the University, was
appointed to the chair of Modern Languages, and for five years held
it with distinguished favor, and then resigned to accept a similar
position in Vassar College. Prof. Gallup, who had occupied the
Greek chair from the year 1859, resigned in 1867. He was a supe-
rior Greek scholar, and rendered important service to the University.
Prof. Andrews, the present incumbent, succeeded to the chair. In
the spring of 1864, Dr. Harvey, who had occupied first the chair of
Ecclesiastical History, and afterwards that of Biblical Interpretation
and Criticism, resigned to assume the pastorate of the First Baptist
Church of Dayton, O. Rev. A. N. Arnold, D. D., an accomplished
Greek scholar, was chosen to fill the vacancy, and entered upon his
duties in the fall of the same year. He resigned in 1869, for a simi-
lar position in the Baptist. Theological Seminary at Chicago. He has
the well-earned reputation of an eminent Biblical scholar and exe-
gete. The Board have recalled Dr. Harvey to the chair, and he has
accepted the position. Recent events in the history of the enterprise
are so fresh in the minds of its friends that they hardly need
to be noted. Rev. Ebenezer Dodge, D. D., LL. D., acceded to
the Presidency in 1868. Every chair in the University and Theolog-
cal Seminary has been filled to general satisfaction, and under
the most auspicious omens the whole enterprise enters upon its
second half-century, with the determination on the part of its friends
to carry it on and up, for God's glory and the advancement of his
truth, to the amplest expansion and power,
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THE HUMAN AGENTS.
I have thus far been giving a general record of facts, entwining
occasionally comments with the thread of the record. I now proceed
With some notices of the personal agents acting a prominent part in
this eventful history. Facts and events are the exponents of the
movements of intelligences, and are without meaning until the con-
nection is seen between the outward act and the intelligent agent. It
is no affectation when I say that I feel very inadequate to this part of
my appropriate task. I can give but a few strokes for the representa-
tion of each agent and his work, and yet the lines must needs be so
drawn, that some true likeness come out, otherwise the sketch will be
Worthless. It often happens that in the achievements of artistic
genius the few first rough lines will bring out a likeness as readily
recognized as the finished picture elaborated by thousands of the most
careful strokes of the pencil. This is the prerogative of genius, to
which I have no claim, and I fear I shall make a sad failure in this
attempt at sketching out my conceptions.
I have, in a former part of this discourse, touched upon some gen-
eral traits in the character of the first settlers of Hamilton, including
the originators of the Baptist Education Society and their coadjutors.
I need not repeat those touches here. They were remarkable men,
and loom up to the eye of my retrospection, in the clear light of faith-
ful memory, as men worthy of the most undissembled reverence and
everlasting remembrance, for what they were and for what they did.
It was my good fortune to know the most of them personally, when
not my youth only, but a deep impression of their superior worth
moved me to accord to them the most sincere and profound apprecia-
tion. The poet says “’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,”
but I am not conscious, at a distance of a quarter of a century since
most of them passed to their eternal reward, of profounder respect to
their memories, than I felt for their persons while moving among the
living. They are before me as I gaze down the vista of the past
generation, a group of grave and godly men of the most impressive
aspect. Surrounding the immortal thirteen with look of warm sym-
pathy and ready co-operation, I notice a Peck, a Bennett, a Beebee, a
Hatch, the Munroes, father and son, the Burchards, and others.
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These, and such as these, were not only the founders and the early
friends of the Hamilton Institution, but they gave the mould, the
character and the spirit, to the Baptist denomination of their time,
and their influence still lives to animate us to deeds worthy of their
example. They were nearly all of them men of stalwart physical
frames. The Paynes were not tall, but solidly built and thickly set.
The others, with the rest of the thirteen, averaged six feet in height,
with large heads and high foreheads. -
# Dr. Kendrick was about six feet four inches, and towered among
his brethren as Saul in Israel, though like him only in bodily height.
His forehead was so high as to be a deformity, had not his frame
been in due proportion. Take them together, this group of remarka-
ble men in outward contour would have precipitated an enthusiastic
phrenologist into “a fine phrensy.” Their brains were of the largest
volume, and were I a professor of the cranial science (which I am
not), I should find no higher proof of the truth of the science than
these men's heads afforded. Their intellects were broad, sound, sa-
gacious and practical. They were well fitted to be legislators and
counselors in a great, comprehensive and far-reaching movement.
But their piety was the crowning excellence of the assemblage of
noble endowments, deep, but not morbid, fervent, but not enthusias-
tic, earnest, but still conservative. Their whole nature was under the
dominion of a sanctified sense of loyalty to God and his truth, and of
a faith that took firm hold of heavenly things. Hence, they were
men of singular unselfishness, ready to make any sacrifice of time and
money, to do any service (without pausing to consider whether it
might not compromise their dignity, personal or positional), that
promised to advance the interests of the Redeemer's Kingdom. This
is no random sketch and indiscriminate eulogy. Deacons Olmstead
and Burchard were men honored by their fellow-citizens, by public
and political preferment, and represented them in the Legislative
Councils of the State. Both were large everyway, body, brains,
mind and soul. .
Standing in advance of the general group of grave, earnest, Saintly,
and grand countenances beaming with benignity and benevolence, who
that looks with me in this retrospection, does not see the noble forms
of HASCALL and KENDRICK ? How can I faithfully sketch these truly
great and good men P
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To Hascall is undoubtedly due, more than to any other one man,
the origin of the Institution. The praise of founder, by common con-
sent, is accorded him, but to IXendrick, more than to any other, is due
the massive structure in its peculiar form as originally shaped and
constructed. Both alike clearly comprehended and absorbingly felt
the vast importance of the sacred enterprise; both gave their whole
hearts to the work—nay, they lived in it and it in them. They em-
bodied the Institution in their own individualities, and would have
sacrificed their own lives for it, if necessary, to keep it in life and
power.
These distinguished men, to whom we owe such an incalculable
debt of gratitude, had very marked characteristic differences. Their
intellects were of different order and habitudes of thinking, and their
theology was not of the same school. Though both strong Calvinists,
Hascall belonged rather to the General Atonement, and Kendrick to
the Particular Atonement school. And yet I do not find the least
intimation in all the records of these men in their intimate association
as the principal instructors and workers for years in the school, of any
strife, dissension or divided counsels. They were both decided and
firm in their views, but not opinionative nor obstinate. They
could gracefully yield when the majority was against them. They
loved the truth most devoutly in the aspect presented to each,
and spoke it out decisively and cleanly cut, but they moved together
in their common work amicably and harmoniously, having “one mind
and one way.” Both had not only the gift of sound judgment as to
what was demanded in a crisis, as well as in the ordinary progress of
affairs, but also remarkable executive ability. Hascall was the more
supple, lithe and diffusive in action, Kendrick more steady, slow and
concentrative. Hascall's restless and impatient energy might drive
him too far, and make it necessary to reconsider and review. Ren
drick's energy was perhaps a mightier force, but never controlled his
clear and comprehensive judgment. The result hardly ever failed to
justify the correctness of his opinion, and the judiciousness of his
action.
These men, indeed, might be said to be complements of each other
during their direction of the school. I have said “Hascall was a
man of diffusive action.” I do not mean, by this, so spread out as to
be inefficient—far otherwise—but as applied to many and various and
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almost incompatible objects. He was almost ubiquitous in the divers
operations going on, now in the recitation-room, solving a linguistical
difficulty, and now in the quarry prying up materials for the building
he was superintending, sitting on the sill of the raised window of his
lecture-room, giving instruction to his class in one breath, and in the
next giving orders to workmen outside. He was pre-eminently the
man of action, forgetting self, and laboring incessantly for the great
objects of his heart’s desire. For a time he resided a mile out in the
country, and yet, winter and summer, he walked in with lantern in
hand, if too dark to see his way, at half past four o’clock in the
morning regularly, to attend chapel service at five. What degener-
ate successors are we of such men | Dr. Kendrick was more the
man of study and profound thought, but not wanting in action.
Both were familiarly known and loved among the churches. They
were present in all the public gatherings of the denomination,-Associ-
ations, Conventions, Councils—taking part, and making their personal
influence felt in behalf of the Institution, and in the general ecclesias-
tical and benevolent movements in the denomination. Their services
were constantly in requisition in councils and church difficulties.
Dr. Rendrick did more with his pen than Prof. Hascall; in fact
he was the scribe of the enterprise. He was for a quarter of a cen-
tury the corresponding secretary of the Board, and wrote its succes-
sive annual reports. These reports were carefully drawn up, and
contained not only a resumé of the history of each passing year, but
powerful pleas and arguments for the education of the ministry, into
which he had thrown unreservedly his great soul. These reports
collected in a volume would be a most valuable contribution to the
literature of ministerial education, in addition to a faithful history of
the Institution. He, also, through the Baptist Register, was ever
and anon sending out to the denomination fervent and pressing
appeals in behalf of the Institution, and was heeded as no other man
would have been. In fact, he was the living bond between the
churches and the “School of the Prophets,” as he generally called
the Institution.
This great and good man, after more than two years of intense
suffering, from a fall on the ice, producing, his physician said,
a lesion of the spine, and being literally consumed by pain, was
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relieved by his Master, and called home to rest in glory, on the
11th of September, 1848. The memories which cluster around his
bed of long agony, are the most sacred and awe-inspiring of my
whole life. God was pleased, in the early part of his illness, to
manifest himself in a wonderful and overwhelming manner to his
suffering servant. Dr. Kendrick was no enthusiast in his religious
emotions. His piety was singularly free from irregular outbursts of
feeling. It was ever calm and deep, altogether simple and rational.
This divine manifestation, so clear, so glorious, so gracious, SO 31SSUll"-
ing of his acceptance with God, was one of the most decisive proofs,
that the religion of Christ is not a “cunningly devised fable.”. It was
in mercy given, to sustain the man of God, through the years of
exhausting agony that awaited him, and it did. The remembrance of
that gracious visitation, and the divine help he experienced after-
wards, made his dying room one of the most heavenly and cheerful
spots I was ever permitted to enjoy. It was indeed a Bethesda, and
the pious students who watched and waited with him felt it to be a
privilege of unspeakable preciousness. He was always cheerful, and
greeted me with smiling welcomes, when I knew by the contraction
of his muscles he was suffering excruciating pain. When one said, “I
wish I could offer you some relief, even by sharing your pain,” he
replied, with a smile, “I have no pain to spare. It is an inalienable
gift from my heavenly Father, who is infinitely wise and kind, and I
need the undivided use of it, in order to finish the preparation for my
exit.” Wonderful and triumphant Christian patience | Not a mur-
mur escaped him during that long weary trial, not a harsh or unkind
word towards those whom he believed to be tearing to pieces his
beloved Institution, in which his great heart was bound up. He
labored most earnestly to thwart their efforts to the last moments of
his consciousness, and never did I feel more keenly the sacrilegious
element of removal, than in listening to the pathetic and touching
appeals of Dr. Kendrick and Mother Payne, to the Boards before
their action, and I said to myself, “Surely good men will not trample
upon such hearts, ripe for their home in heaven, and turn a deaf ear
to their beseeching and plaintive voices, in a matter in which, of all
persons living, they had a right to speak and be heard.” Their voice
was unheeded, though it came from heaven through them. I trust
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God has forgiven these very good men. I believe he has, but the
spirit that drove them to the deed could not have been from above.
After removal was voted on, and thought to be triumphantly carried,
I went to the bedside of Dr. Kendrick. “Well, Brother Eaton,
what do you think of this?” “What do you think of it, Brother
Rendrick 2 I want to hear your opinion.” He replied : “It is all
dark ; I cannot see the hand of God in it.” “Nor I,” I said ; “but
what can be done 2 Would it be worth while to call a convention
of the friends of this location ?” He answered, with his eyes bright-
ening, “I think it would, and circulars to that effect should be issued
immediately.” I soon rose to leave. “Stop, Brother Eaton, there
is no time to be lost. Prepare the circular at once.” I had to leave
for a distant part of the State the next morning, but, I replied, “I
shall return in a few days. In the mean time, let us note what it
would be proper to say in this circular, and compare notes on my
return, and send out the call at once.” “Very well, I will do my
part.” It was the last time my eyes rested upon that colossal man,
great, superlatively great in all his attributes of mind and soul.
Intelligence met me on my way back, to hasten home to preach, at
his desire, his funeral sermon ; but it was too late. When I reached
home, Dr. Kendrick's body was sleeping in yonder cemetery, and his
spirit rejoicing in the presence of his Redeemer. Father Bennett
providentially performed the service, requested by the dying man of
me, his bosom-friend, and co-worker in resisting removal. But the
remembrance of that last interview—what a well-spring of inspir-
ation it was to me in the future of the terrible conflict It
was a voice from the sainted dead, urging me onward to do
what I could to save the Institution.
Prof. Hascall died, June 28th, 1852, in Hamilton. He resigned his
professorship in the Institution in 1836, and removed to Vermont,
where he resided eleven years, until the fall of 1847, when he was
invited to the pastoral care of the church in Lebanon, and removed
to Hamilton. His return occurred contemporaneously with the open-
ing of the removal controversy, and all through the strife he rendered
the most essential service in breasting removal efforts. He was the
only person after Dr. ICendrick, in and about Hamilton, who could
properly stand forth as the legal representative of this location, and he
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boldly and firmly, though of singular mildness and amiability of spirit,
took this stand in the courts. He knew the strength of the position.
He felt, as no man living could, the moral and legal wrong of removal.
The removalists knew he presented the most serious obstacle to their
success; and after the vote to remove, he was personally plied with
the most pressing appeals to abandon his position. Every considera-
tion adapted to move a mind not immovably intrenched in the most
solemn convictions of right and justice, was urged by brethren
whom he greatly respected and loved. He listened calmly and re-
spectfully to all that was suggested and pressed. He was finally told
that “his opposition would be unavailing”—that removal was “a fore-
gone conclusion ”—a virtually accomplished fact—that he would only
bring upon himself reproach and personal inconvenience and abandon-
ment by his brethren in his old age, by holding out by virtue of un-
tenable but vexatious legal technicalities against a favorite measure of
the Baptists of the State—that the Institution itself would be abandoned
and left to die, if it could be retained by such means—he had every-
thing to lose, and nothing to gain by his factious course.” He
remained silent, seated at a table, with eyes cast down under these
appeals. It was believed that a decided impression had been made,
and that he had yielded. A pause ensued. He raised his eyes and
his right arm, and brought down his clenched fist with startling
energy upon the table, and slowly with unfaltering voice and solemn
emphasis, uttered these words, “IT SHALL NoT BE MOVED.” The
utterance was as the voice of God against the removal enterprise. It
sealed its fate. Efforts were indeed continued. The case was car-
ried into the courts (Daniel Hascall the leading plaintiff), and argued,
as we have said, pro and con by the ablest counsel in the State. The
legal objections were sustained, and Madison University fixed
irrevocably in its present location. Now mark the result. Some of
the very individuals who had vehemently pressed upon Daniel Hascall
to give up his position, and were shocked at his audacious utterance,
have thanked God and blessed the man for that utterance, and the
firm and indomitable spirit that made it good against the fearful odds
seemingly arrayed upon the other side. There is not a sublimer moral
spectacle, than that of a man with a conscious sense of right and
justice on his side, standing up, “firm as the surge-repelling rock,”
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against all adverse influences of whatever kind and amount, though his
own personal consideration and interest are in apparent peril of utter
annihilation. These brave words of Hascall in that awful crisis sunk
deep into the heart and memory of the alumni and friends of the old
Institution. In view of the result, they accepted it as the voice of
God through his honored servant; and when a monument was
erected by these alumni and friends to the memory of Daniel Hascall,
in the centre of the University cemetery on the hill overlooking the
edifices which were raised under his own superintendence, it was
deemed altogether fitting that the grand words he spoke out under
such trying circumstances, into 'which so much of the peculiar spirit
of the man was breathed, should be engraven conspicuously on the
side of the shaft facing the edifices. And there, shall be read in honor
of the memory of Daniel Hascall, by successive generations of alumni
and friends through all coming time, and his memory be blessed in the
reading: “Illa non movebitur.” “It shall not be moved.” In the
midst of the hottest of the controversy, when his labors and anxie-
ties seemed too great for a man of three score and ten, and apprehen-
sions were expressed that he might suddenly break down under the
pressure, he replied, “I shall live to see this conflict end and the In-
stitution saved; then I shall die.” This was prophetic.
These men of precious memory in the history of this enterprise
both died beneath the shadow of the Institution, invoking heaven’s
richest blessing upon it. Kendrick died in the hour of its deepest
darkness, but, as my last interview shows, still strong in the faith of
its reviving fortunes. Hascall was preserved to see it rising in the
renascent energy of a new life, and joined Kendrick in the realms of
glory. Their glorified spirits, methinks, are looking down upon us
now and rejoicing with us in the triumphs of this day.
I cannot name and commemorate in this discourse all who
deserve, as generous patrons, the meed of grateful recognition,
though it would give me heart-felt pleasure to do so. There are
a few, however, whose friendship and services were so signal that
I may individualize them without a charge of invidious partiality.
Among the earliest and most useful was Deacon Jos ATHAN OLM-
STEAD. On the 24th of September, 1817, the Society was Organ-
ized in his house, as previously noted, and from that time to the day
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of his death, with the exception of a brief interval, he was a member
of the Board, and of the Executive Committee. He was for years
the President of the Board, and notwithstanding his growing bodily
infirmities in his later years, his interest in the work of the Society
never flagged. He was prečminently a pillar in the Church and
Society of Hamilton, and distinguished for his power in prayer,
doctrinal Orthodoxy, living spirituality and deep religious experi-
ence. He presided for the last time at the semi-annual meeting of
the Society in January, 1842, and in a touching address took leave of
his brethren, as it was the last time he expected to meet them in the
flesh. He suffered greatly during his remaining days with excrucia-
ting neuralgia, received a shock of palsy on the 4th of April, and fell
asleep in Jesus on the 3d of May following, in the seventy-fifth year
of his age. In the history of this Institution, the labors and counsels
and offerings of Deacon Jonathan Olmstead hold a conspicuous
place. “The memory of the just is blesed.”
The name of Deacon SENECA. B. BURCHARD is worthily coupled
with the foregoing in the Church and Society of Hamilton, and in the
counsels and work of the Education Society and the Institution.
He was not one of the original thirteen—not being a resident of
Hamilton until the year 1826, but as early as 1822 he entered warmly
into the enterprise (as did his father, JABEZ. BURCHARD), and was
regarded from that time onward as one of the main supports in
council and in action. For ten years he served as Treasurer of the
Society, and in 1846 was made one of the original Corporators of
Madison University, and was chosen the Vice-President of the Board.
IIe was also President of the Education Board, from 1842 to 1846.
In 1858 he was again elected to the same office, and remained in it
until February, 1861, when God called him home, in his seventy-first
year. Deacon Burchard was no ordinary man. As we have said
incidentally in another place, he was a strong man every Way. He
was eminently a good man, as well as honored and beloved in all the
relations of life, wise in council, firm in all his convictions of right,
and ready to make every reasonable sacrifice for the promotion of
peace and harmony in Zion. His connection with any organization
promotive of human good, was regarded as a guaranty of its efficient
working. Unambitious of place or power, his friends and the com-
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munity were ever urging upon him important responsibilities in
Church and State, which he always discharged with ability and
success. His name is associated with others that will never be for-
gotten while Madison University shall exist to bless the world with
Learning and the Gospel.
Eminent among other patrons is the great and noble-hearted FRIEND
HUMPHREY—long a prominent member of the Board of the Education
Society, and the President of the Board of the University at the time
of the secession to Rochester. He was claimed on the side of re-
moval, but he never was a partisan, and personally had no heart in
the controversy. And when the separation was effected he said
emphatically, “Hamilton must be sustained. Both Institutions can
flourish and do a great work in their respective fields.” When he
resigned his place in the Board of Madison University, he declared it
was from no dissatisfaction toward Hamilton—he proposed to do the
same in regard to Rochester, and for the same reason—his business
would not permit him to serve either interest as he could wish. He
continued, to his death, his gifts to Hamilton. His portrait properly
adorns these walls. His sons have nobly followed his example in his
friendship for the old Institution.
There is another name, the mention of which awakens the tenderest
and most grateful memories of a warm personal friendship to me in-
dividually, (I never had a better friend,) as well as distinguished ad-
miration and affection, as an enlightened and generous patron of
Hamilton. Surely it is not necessary to name him. WILLIAM Col-
GATE will rise at once to every mind.
He comes into the history of the Institution as early as the year
1823, when a union was effected between the Education Society and
a society formed in New York called the “Baptist. Theological Semi-
nary,” to act in cooperation for the promotion of the interests of the
Hamilton Institution. This union was one of the great eras of the
enterprise. It brought into the number of its patrons besides the
Colgates (four brothers, William, John, George and Bowles, of like
mind and heart) such names as Gilbert, Purser, Maclay, Williams,
Bleecker, Cone, Stokes, Caldwell, Raymond, Withington, Hunter,
Stanford, Marsh, and many others, sisters as well as brethren. I find
opposite the name of William Colgate, heading a long list, as his first
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subscription, $210, and followed in the like sum by Gilbert, Purser,
Williams, Maclay, Raymond, Caldwell and Marsh, with others with
less but liberal sums. This was a great day for Hamilton, and un-
bounded expressions of thanks to God and the brethren of New York
are found in the report for that year. Henceforth New York City
was a mine of rich resources to the Hamilton Institution, and William
Colgate ever took the lead in its liberal contributions. His sagacious
and practical mind and his pious and devoted heart comprehended
and appreciated the inestimable value of the Institution to the minis-
try and the Church, and he took it to his inmost heart and made it to
the day of his death one of the special objects of his generous bounty.
I have heard him say that the Hamilton Institution could not be over-
estimated for its usefulness to the Baptist denomination. But not
only his bounty, but his counsel, was an invaluable help to the enter-
prise. a
He was great in counsel, in all difficulties in the church and in
society. Again and again was he sent for to come up from his
distant home to Hamilton to aid by his counsel and advice in trying
emergencies. His sound and practical judgment, penetrated and im-
bued with the law of love and kindness, generally suggested a satis-
factory solution. He was sent for in the unhappy difficulty between
Dr. Maginnis and Elder Knapp, and never did I listen to a more
pertinent, powerful, and melting appeal to the distinguished parties,
than came from the lips of Deacon Colgate on that occasion. It broke
us all down, and was enough to break a heart as hard as the nether
millstone. He said that he regarded them both as eminently useful
men to the cause of God, in their respective spheres, and they must
cease, for the sake of that cause, their unhappy variance. It did bring
those men together with tears and sobs and expressions of mutual
forgiveness, and if they did not stay together, the wonderful effect
was not less the demonstration of the power of this good man in one
of the most trying cases of personal difficulty of which I ever had
knowledge. Deacon Colgate was opposed to removal from the first.
He saw no necessity for the measure, and apprehended only evil to
the Institution from its prosecution. He fully sympathized with Dr.
Kendrick and the rest of us in deprecating the effect of changing the
policy of the University, as was contemplated by the leading and con-
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trolling removalists. He believed that it must necessarily wholly
change its relation to the denomination. He was our counsellor
through all the controversy, and when the measure was pressed to a
decision, he spoke earnestly against it, and voted accordingly in the
informal ballot by which the cause of removal was decisively lost.*
In a brief recess of a few minutes, there was a most extraordinary
and unwarranted pressure brought upon him, as the representative
and strongest man against removal, to waive his objections. An ap-
peal was intensively addressed to the tenderest point of his nature—
“The great majority of the denomination was for Rochester and de-
termined to go there, and by holding out, he would only split and
distract the body, leaving a small and inconsiderable fragment to rally
round the sinking concern.” He would have “to sustain it himself
if it went on.” He yielded for the moment, and on coming together
he spoke kindly but firmly—that he yielded for the sake of peace, but
his convictions were decided as ever against the measure | No won-
der that the good man took hold anew with redoubled interest, of the
Old Institution when relieved of the pressure of the direful conflict,
and helped most powerfully to raise it again from its prostrate condi-
tion. He was in principle opposed to endowments, and held that the
Institution would fare better to throw itself upon the hearts of the
churches, and link itself with their good will and cordial sympathies.
They would give to it all it might need. This had been good advice,
had all had like mind with him and been as ready to give according
to their ability. Notwithstanding, he gave two thousand dollars
towards the first endowment of sixty thousand dollars, and would
probably have continued such amount from year to year as his annual
contribution, had it been asked of him. Iſe died March 25th, 1857,
after the keenest bodily suffering. Oh, how these good men suffer on
their dying beds ! It would seem that God so orders that there
should be the greater contrast between earth and heaven in the glo-
* The informal vote stood in the Education Board 12 against, 10 for removal.
In the University Board 12 for and 6 against. As it required a majority of both
Boards in the case, the measure was lost. This was the sentiment of the two
bodies in conjunction. Nay, the vote did not cover the whole of the real senti-
lment. There were those who voted for removal who afterwards assured me, as
I have Said, that they were in heart opposed, but felt that it had come to be a
painful necessity.
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rious change on which they are soon to enter. Deacon Colgate was a
Baptist of the straitest kind, but of kindliest and most fraternal feel-
ing to the whole of the household of faith. He left his large estate,
accumulated in a long life of industry and simple living, to his children,
with the injunction to imitate his example of generous giving in the
care and disposition of it. Were I not fearful of giving offence to the
living, I would speak a word as to the fidelity with which the children
have sacredly obeyed the dying injunction of the revered father.
They have remembered the Institution so dear to him, by favors of
extraordinary generosity. They have financially lifted both the Uni-
versity and Seminary up to a level with the strongest Colleges and
Seminaries in the State. The broad and immovable foundations laid
by them are amply sufficient to sustain the noblest superstructure
which the resources of the denomination can rear. May many others
be emulous of their example in the same way. - *
With the name of Colgate, that of GARRET N. BLEECKER should
be gratefully mentioned. He died in the prime of manhood. The
sun of his earthly life went down “ere it was noon,” but he left be-
hind him memorials of Christian benevolence placing him in the front
rank, according to his means, of generous benefactors to the cause of
Christ. He belonged to the best class of Christian merchants and
men of business. When Dr. Spear and myself were endeavoring to
raise the sixty thousand dollars of the first endowment (after the
Rochester secession) we were advised by Deacon Colgate to call upon
Mr. Bleecker. We did so, but were altogether uncertain of the re-
sult of our call. We were ignorant of his means and his feeling
towards Hamilton. He received us courteously, and listened to our
plea, and then asked if we considered sixty thousand dollars sufficient
to ensure the continued life of the Institution. We replied in the
affirmative. He said, he never had any sympathy with the efforts to
remove it to Rochester. From the first they had seemed to him all
wrong, and then he took our little book and went to his desk. Five
hundred dollars was the highest sum in our expectation. He handed
the book back with a subscription of three thousand—the highest
subscription by a thousand we had obtained Our surprise and joy
you may conjecture. He subsequently gave twelve thousand dollars
more, and with the fifteen thousand dollars endowed the Bleecker
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professorship of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, thus indissolubly
and for all time blending the name of Bleecker with Madison Univer-
sity.
Another most effective agency was the New York Baptist Regis-
ter, under the editorial conduct of ALEXANDER. M. BEEBEE, LL. D.
Bro. Beebee was originally of Presbyterian family, and a graduate
from Columbia College, in New York city. He studied law with the
celebrated jurist, Judge Josiah Hoffman, then at the head of the New
York bar, and had Washington Irving for his fellow-student. He
commenced practice with brilliant prospects of assured success. He
belonged, by birth and social position, to the aristocracy of intellect
and wealth in the metropolis. When converted, however, he cast his
lot, from strong and clear convictions, with the humble and demo-
cratic Baptists. He was in every way a man of broad intellect and
generous culture, and, had he remained in his early associations,
might have achieved a high position in his profession. He conse-
crated all his talents, resources and property to Christ, among a
despised people. When the Register became the organ of the State
Convention, in the year 1825, he was appointed its editor, and
remained in that very responsible and influential position until a short
time before his death, in Nov., 1856. The paper, when put into his
hands, was 6 x 12 inches, of 8 pages. It increased to the largest sized
sheet of the times. I need say nothing of its superlative merits,
as a religious journal, to the great body of this assembly who enjoyed
its invaluable matter and teachings. Bro. Beebee's character and
spirit are so well known to thousands now living, both men and
women, and his memory so freshly and lovingly cherished, that
a sketch of his likeness is not needed. He was one of the noblest and
gentlest of men, and a “burning and shining light ° in our Zion.
The Christian spirit he breathed through his editorials was an antidote
to the bitterness of sectarian and social reform controversy which
raged so furiously at times through the country during his editorship.
He was firm in his own convictions, but was ever pouring the sweet
oil of Christian love upon the troubled waters. How much he did to
assuage the asperities of fraternal strife, and inculcate the maxims and
spirit of the loving Saviour, the old alumni and friends here well
remember. The Register, in his hands, was no war-bugle, giving the
blast for the onset of battle, except against sin and error. Bro.
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Beebee's memory should be cherished in our “heart of hearts” for
the sweet “charities of the gospel” poured out over the denomina-
tion through the Register. As might be expected from his culture
and devotion to Baptist principles, he took an early interest in the
Hamilton Institution. In the first number of the Register published
under his auspices, we find this sentence in his salutatory: “The
interests and operations of our Institution at Hamilton are among the
important subjects to which our regard is pledged.” And the
Register was ever true to this pledge. When it became his
own property, we may say, it became the organ of the Institution as
well as that of the denomination in the State. He was ever ready
and happy to admit the appeals of its secretary and agents, and to
advocate himself most earnestly its interests. I never knew of his
charging anything for inserting appeals, communications, notices, or
any other matter for the benefit of the Institution. I knew he was
strongly opposed to removal, but in the peculiar relations of the
parties to each other and to the denomination, he dealt equally and
fairly with both. He made a fervent and eloquent appeal against
removal at the Albany Convention, but was finally induced to favor
the compromise, mainly on the ground that something in this way
could be saved at Hamilton. But no one rejoiced more heartily than
Bro. Beebee at the rising fortunes of the old Institution in all its
entireness on its old ground.
Another name comes up here. It is that of my predecessor in the
Presidency of Madison University—STEPHEN W. TAYLOR (magnum
momen). He had the well-earned reputation of standing in the very
first rank of educators and disciplinarians. He graduated from Ham-
ilton College (Clinton) in the year 1817 with the highest honors,
being the valedictorian of his class. He entered, soon after, on his
life work as an educator, as the Principal of Lowville Academy, and
raised it to the highest rank of academic institutions. No academy
in the State stood higher than Lowville Academy while under his
principalship. In 1834 he accepted the principalship of the Academ-
ic Department of the Hamilton Institution. The Department at that
time was considerably demoralized, from the want of adequate care
occasioned by the paucity of instructors, and serious dissatisfaction
prevailed among its pupils. Dr. Taylor revolutionized the whole
Department, drew a clear line of distinction around it, with himself
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the controlling and independent head, brought order out of chaos,
and organized a system of instruction and discipline of most admira-
ble efficiency. In the year 1838 he was transferred to the professor-
ship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, for which his clear and
methodical mind eminently fitted him. He resigned in 1845, to the
great regret of Board, Faculty and students, and repaired, soon after,
to Lewisburg, Penn., where a seat for a university was in contempla-
tion. Through the resources of his mind and indomitable energy, he
planned and put into operation, with others, that noble University,
and remained at its head until he had carried the first class to its
graduation. He was then called to the Presidency of Madison Uni-
versity in 1851, at the time slowly recovering from the blow of
Removal. His very name was a tower of strength. No man in the
denomination had a larger share of public confidence as an instructor
and disciplinarian. His occupancy of the Presidency in a Wonder-
fully short time restored the University to its former strength. In
three years after his entrance upon the office, it rose in numbers to
the palmiest days of its prosperity before the Removal storm. He
died, Jan. 6th, 1856, at the age of 64, and by a singular coincidence
namely, a fall—to that of Dr. Kendrick. His
from a similar cause
wonderful energy and iron will refused to yield to his infirmities, and
he continued to discharge his duties to within a few weeks of his
death. Dr. Taylor’s body sleeps in yonder cemetery on the hill. He
was a man of great elements of character. Originally endowed with
a huge mass of brains and a corresponding breadth of intellectuality
that would have insured distinction in whatever sphere of mental
activity he might have engaged, he chose as his vocation the profes-
sion of educator. There is no more honorable and useful profession,
and his conscientious purpose and indomitable will made everything
subserve this end, and so he attained to the highest eminence in this
line. He had, what few supposed from his singularly mathematical
and methodical mind, the gift and inspiration of poetry, and success-
fully courted the muses in his early years. “Dr. Taylor a poet !” some
may exclaim, who remember him. Yes, he was a poet; and the gift
suppressed in himself for what he regarded as a higher and more
useful vocation has reappeared in his sons. He was not ambitious of
public demonstrations, and spoke but seldom in public, but always
with pith and pertinency when he did. His recitation and lecture
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room Was the chosen field of his power. Here was his “throne and
sceptre * and unrivalled dominion. In short, Dr. Taylor was the syn-
onym of massive and unadorned mental power. His character
Was a Doric pillar of marble for solidity and simplicity. He might
have made it Corinthian or Composite, but he deliberately preferred
to be solid rather than brilliant, to be useful rather than ornamental,
and trimmed away all superfluities of mere grace and decoration, and
stood forth in the grandeur of simplicity and utility.
There is another name still to add to the list. Deacon WM. Cobb,
whose portrait adorns these walls, was the meekest and most
unassuming of men, and the loveliest and most exemplary Christian,
on Whose head honors had to be thrust, and it was hard to hold them
there. He was the President of the Education Society during the
Removal strife, and though the most self-depreciating of men, he rose
in a “reserved might,” and breasted the storm most courageously
through all its blasts and howlings. He gave largely of his means to
sustain the Institution in all its trials, and no one appreciated its
value more than he. When he was smitten with a stroke of paral-
Ysis, and regarded his days as ended, I called on him, and was
Surprised at the energy and fervency of his expressions of interest and
attachment to the Institution. With tears streaming from his eyes
he said the time had come when he could do no more for it, but leave
to it his blessing. He, in a measure, recovered from this severe blow,
and for some time longer remained to give his prudent counsels. He
died a triumphant death in the spring of 1864.
DEVOTED WOMEN.
There are still other coöperative agencies in the great work, less
obtrusive, but hardly less influential, the commemoration of which, if
omitted, would leave this history imperfect. Devoted women,
mothers and sisters in Israel, from the beginning have borne a most
effective part in the building of this sacred temple to God. The elder
alumni gathered here to-day have not forgotten, nor ever can forget,
BETSY PAYNE, wife of Deacon Samuel Payne, and SoPHIA IIASCALL,
wife of Prof. Hascall. The former was known in the early annals as
the “student’s mother,” and the latter as the “student’s friend.”
They were women of great strength and excellence of character, and
of devoted and lovely piety. They took as much interest in the
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enterprise as their husbands, and were emphatically—in prayers,
counsels and labors—their efficient helpmates. They worked assidu-
ously with their own hands for the comfort of the students, sympa.
thized and counselled with them in all their straits and trials, and
encouraged and cheered them in their times of discouragement and
despondency. Their example was imitated as far as circumstances
allowed, by hundreds of others throughout the State. Female socie-
ties, associated for the purpose of aiding the Education Society, were
multiplied in city and country. Needles, sewing and knitting, were
busily plied by old and young, money and clothes and other needed
articles were collected and forwarded, rooms furnished, and in count-
less ways women's hearts and hands all over the State were engaged
in praying and working for the “School of the prophets.” I cannot
refrain from naming in this connection, Mrs. DEACON Colg ATE. She,
like her husband, took the Institution into her heart, and was in
labors abundant, to supply its wants, and the necessities of the
students. She was evermore busying herself about the Hamilton
Institution, gathering funds, endowing scholarships, furnishing rooms,
and in other ways contributing efficiently for its benefit. The Female
Society in the City of New York, auxiliary to the Education Society,
was for years, through her agency and that of others, a bountiful
source of help to the Institution. Simple justice to the facts of his-
tory require, along with the mention of the mother's name, that of
her daughter SARAH, who was, in full sympathy and kindred work, a
true yoke-fellow with the indefatigable mother, and when the latter’s
illness laid her aside, went on bravely with work for Hamilton. She
was a remarkable instance in which physical infirmity, that would
have seemed to justify an entire cessation from bodily labor, was not
allowed to interfere with ceaseless activities for the advancement of
benevolent objects in the family, church, and society. In all these
she was a “burning and shining light.” So deep was her interest in
the Institution, that she came to visit it, to attend its exercises, and
inspect its rooms and general condition for herself, notwithstanding
the peculiar inconveniences to her of travel. She was greatly
endeared to many of the students who had enjoyed her counsel and
encouragement and good offices in her father's house. She richly
deserves special mention among the sisters who effectually served the
cause of ministerial education at Hamilton. Mrs. HULDAH THOMP-
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SON, of Troy, whose portrait looks benignly upon us from these walls,
was also a liberal patron of the School, and deserves grateful mention
in this history. She endowed two scholarships, besides giving gener-
ously in other ways. Others also deserve mention commemorative of
their deeds of beneficence. But time fails me to speak of the Dor-
cases, Priscillas, Chloes, Loises and Eunices who were fellow-helpers
in the cause. They are remembered, though time fails to record their
names and deeds. Their “record is on high.” If the hands of men
have given strength and solidity, the hands of women have given
grace and beauty to the noble structure we this day celebrate.
THE ALUMNI.
Finally, under the head of Human Agents, I must speak emphatic-
ally of the alumni themselves. In the early history of the Institution
we have seen that the personal character, work and influence of the
alumni as “living epistles,” sent forth by their Alma Mater, success-
fully conciliated the confidence and attachment of the churches
toward her. They naturally inferred that the tree that produced such
fruit must be good and worthy to be nurtured and cherished by their
warmest affection and care. The providential fact that the first fruits
were offered to God on the altar of Missions, in the persons of Wade
and Kincaid, soon to be followed by others whose “praise is in all the
churches” and throughout the realm of Christian Missions, served
most effectually to render the Institution sacred in the sight of the
whole denomination, and to draw to it the respectful regards of the
lovers of missions generally. As a body, the alumni have ever been
loyal to their Alma Mater. Many of them, indeed, favored removal,
but only as a measure, which, in their view, would aggrandize the
Institution they loved, and when it was determined it could not be
moved, and that hostile influences were set to work to destroy it,
most of them rallied with new devotion and enthusiasm to its defence
and support. There is a sacred and significant incident connected
with the doings of loyal alumni in that hour of darkness. It perhaps
ought to be reserved for mention under the head of “Special Provi-
dences,” but as the alumni were the principal actors, it comes in
appropriately here. It was spread about very confidently, and no
doubt sincerely, by those in the interest of removal, that the
Old Institution could not live after the secession. It would be left to
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die and be buried on the ground on which it had been forced to
remain by the strong arm of the law. That was all that the friends
of the location could get by their “factious resistance” to removal.
Indeed, “it was a virtual removal.” “All worth anything had been
secured. The old, dilapidated, rickety buildings would be all that
remained to tell that there ever was an Institution at Hamilton.
The commencement of 1850 was to be the last held at Hamilton, and
that would be a small affair. It was to be the last dying throes of
old Hamilton.” But in this they overreached. The anti-removal
alumni, to the surprise of both sides, came up in unusual numbers,
with sad and heavy hearts, to attend the funeral of their cherished
Alma Mater, and see her decently buried. They were prepared, as
the devout men of Jerusalem in respect to Stephen, “to carry her to
her burial, and make great lamentation over her.” Now mark what
occurred. These mourning sons gathered round the prostrate and
pallid form of their mother, bleeding at every pore from the cruel
blows she had received, and assuring themselves there was yet life and
restoration possible, they tenderly lifted her up, and wiped away the
crimson stains streaming from her brow, and administered restorative
cordials, and, lo l she looked up and Smiled upon them in renewed life
and benignity. This, it may be said, is florid fancy; but it does not
reach the fact. Hear the plain prose of this matter. These noble
men gathered together in the Baptist church to consider the condition
of the old Institution. They could not give it up to death. They
saw that there was yet life, and felt that it must be preserved and
perpetuated, if within the range of possibility.
There were representatives at that meeting from many successive
classes. John Newton Brown, one of the earliest alumni, a name
dear to every Baptist throughout the land, whose blessed memory
still exhales the richest aroma of a holy and heavenly life, was called
to preside, and after a prayer which seemed to go right up to the
throne of God, he poured out his whole soul in “thoughts that
breathed and words that burned.” He spoke of his own indebted-
ness to his Alma Mater; how when a poor boy, in his early teens,
she took him to her bosom and nursed him with maternal tenderness.
He rehearsed her early history, and recounted the sacred memories
of the past, and declared that such an Institution had an immortal life
and could not die.' He seemed to be inspired of Heaven. Others
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caught his inspiration and followed in the same strain until the
whole assembly, as one great heart, heaved and throbbed with
strange and undefinable emotions of filial love and tenderness to their
Alma Mater. Under this feeling, inspired, I believe, by a gale from
the heavenly hills, these alumni solemnly pledged themselves and their
churches to stand steadfastly by their Alma Mater, and abide her for-
tunes “through evil and through good report.” I witnessed this
thrilling scene, not only with unspeakable joy, but with solemn awe.
To me it was fraught, not alone with moral sublimity, but with divine
pathos as well. I was called on to speak, but I could speak only in
broken sentences. I recall some fragments of that short address. I
said, quoting the words of a greater man under similar circumstances
of another Institution, declared to be dead by its enemies, that if the
Institution was dead, as was affirmed, “it was the most beautiful
corpse I ever beheld,” and then occurred to my recollection that
magnificent stanza of the Christian poet, which I pronounced as I
cannot now, for my deeply stirred spirit was poured into it:
“See truth, love and mercy in triumph descending,
And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom,
On the cold cheek of death smiles and roses are blending,
And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.”
There have been many saviors of the old Institution, either self-
styled or pronounced so by others. It has no single Saviour but God,
who used various agents for the purpose, some for this kind of work,
and some for that. In a vast complicated machinery, many different
parts may be termed essential in the sense of their necessity to the
right working of the whole combination. But, if called on to point
to a single event as an index to the turning tide in the history of the
downward course of affairs, and an earnest of a glorious future, I
should point to the extraordinary demonstration of the Alumni on that
memorable night. It decided the Board to proceed at once, to com-
plete arrangements to go on with the affairs of the University and
Theological Seminary, confidently relying on the solemn pledges of
sympathy and co-operation by such a body. I was permitted, in the
providence of God, to do something to defeat removal, and save the
Institution from its disastrous effects. But, beloved alumni, gathered
on that night and gathered here to-day, with your ranks broken—
(John Newton Brown is in heaven, and others of that sacred band are
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with him)—I lay any claims I have on that score at your feet. It
was you that saved your Alma Mater on that ever-to-be-remembered
night. After all my exhausting labors, with those of faithful co-work-
ers through years of weary conflict, seemed likely to prove vain, you
did it, or rather it was God through you. You put your shoulders
to the falling fabric, and in the strength of the divine arm, restored it
to its original firmness and stability. This leads me to pass to the
last group of facts in order.
SPECIAL PROVIDENCES.
The whole history is so marked by these providences that the
Institution has been well named in the record of the past—“the child
and nursling of Divine Providence,” and no less conspicuous are
those providences in the course and results of the removal contro-
versy than in any portion of its history. Perhaps they are more
crowded in this short period, than in any other of greater length.
What a wonderful record would that be, which should fully and
clearly show the revelations of the Divine hand through the fifty
years of the history we are briefly sketching. I can give but a few
examples.
In the year 1826, when the Western edifice was in the course of
erection, the funds for the purpose failed and could be replenished from
no known source. The workmen became impatient for their wages
and refused to go on. Professor Hascall who had charge of the work
and felt the vital importance of its speedy accomplishment, sought
counsel and sympathy, as usual in difficulties, from his peerless wife.
They betook themselves to prayer, and continued their supplications
through most of the night. Now see what came of their “strong
crying and tears.” Dr. Stephen Gano, of Providence, R. I., came
unexpectedly on a visit to Hamilton, to inquire into the condition of
the affairs of the Institution, personally knowing but little previously
about it, and gave as the cause of his visit the following strange
occurrence. Nicholas Brown, that noble Christian philanthropist,
whose munificence to Brown University had given his name to that
venerable Institution, came to him at the close of an evening prayer-
meeting and said, “I have had no enjoyment of this meeting. I
could not sleep last night for thinking about Hamilton. I have been
much exercised in relation to it. I do not know but that I have some
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duty to do there. I wish you would go and see what they are doing
and ascertain if they are in special need of assistance.” On the
return of Dr. Gano, Mr. Brown immediately sent his check for a
thousand dollars for the new Edifice and the work went rapidly on.
Was not that as much an answer to prayer as in the case of Cornelius
and Peter ?
“God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform.”
He heard the agonizing cries of his servant and hand-maid at
Hamilton in the still watches of the night, and He put his finger on
the soul of Nicholas Brown five hundred miles away and troubled
him about Hamilton, and from that unexpected source the needed
relief came.
Other instances may be related of a similar character. I have my-
self witnessed remarkable things of this kind both with the Board
and students. I have seen the Board of the Society in great depres-
sion and perplexity—the treasury exhausted, liabilities accumulating
—students leaving for want of means, and others coming, turned
away. Under the oppression they have bowed down in supplication,
and led by such men as Deacon Olmstead, a man mighty in faith
and prayer, they have cried together “out of the depths” and were
heard. A sense of relief was given, and they have risen from their
knees with brightening faces. Some one would rise and say, “Brethren,
it has occurred to me that such a measure would meet the exigency.”
All would respond “Yes, that is it, the same has occurred to us,” and
the measure would be adopted unanimously, and the Board would
adjourn with light hearts under the assurance that means would be
forthcoming, though not a dollar was yet visible. The means would
come, often from wholly unexpected sources. And so as to students
in great straits. The private histories of such in their course at
Hamilton have been illustrated by remarkable answers to prayer.
Most affecting have been such instances coming within my personal
knowledge.
Passing over other things of this kind, I come to note some special
“Providences” connected with the “removal controversy.” This
was the crucial crisis in the life of the Institution, and fully justifies
my long history of the events appertaining to it. The vital—the “life
and death” significance of the events obviates the necessity of apo-
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logizing for the space covered by the record, long as it is. Why that
awful convulsion was permitted, we may perhaps now see in the light
of subsequent disclosures. What do I mean by a “special providence 3’
God is especially present at all times in the movements of human
affairs. When, however, there is a singular conjunction or striking coin-
cidence of events originating, or essentially connected with, a train of
consequences, deeply affecting the destiny of individuals or In-
stitutions, which no human sagacity could foresee, or human agency
of itself bring about, we say that is a special Providence. There is
unmistakably the “finger of God.” Now we believe that the
singular conjunction of two events, namely, of Prof. Hascall’s return
to reside at Hamilton after eleven years of absence, and the origin of
the removal movement, was a special providence to thwart the meas-
ure. The events were almost precisely contemporaneous, though
Hascall knew nothing of the latter at his coming. He was the foun-
der or prečminently one of the founders of the Institution, and so the
only competent person living, after Dr. Kendrick, to represent the
present location in a suit in the high courts of law. God saw that in
the madness of the coming strife, moral considerations would be im-
potent to arrest the lawless proceeding. The “powers that be
ordained by him " would be demanded in the awful crisis. He called
his servant from Vermont back to Hamilton to stand in the final
breach, to save from ruin the Institution which he had the immortal
honor to found and help to rear. He fearlessly and determinedly cast
his whole soul into the strife, exhausted the moral argument, and
when that failed, utterly disregarding all reproach and obloquy, he
did with unflinching firmness persistently push the case to a final de-
cision in the high court of impartial law. This was Hascall’s mission
in that tremendous conflict. It was essential. Others could talk and
write, argue and plead, and wield all the forces of logic and rhetoric
as well as he. He alone had the right to clothe himself in the panoply
of irresistible law and organized justice.
Again, when the edict of the Supreme Court had been uttered, the
brethren in Hamilton who had been waiting for the legal issue before
adopting measures for raising funds absolutely necessary for resusci-
tating and starting anew the enfeebled enterprise, met and appointed
a committee to draw up a subscription as a basis to start upon. The
committee deeply felt the responsibility of the crisis, and nobly met
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it by subscribing themselves on the spot $7500 for the beginning of
an endowment. The record says, “God seemed to be present, tears
were shed, and prayers offered.” Now the coincidence here is that
this meeting at the beginning of the “regeneration” consisted of just
seven; the same number that met thirty-three years before at Deacon
Samuel Payne's, anterior to the formation of the Education Society,
to consult about founding the Institution. This in itself may seem a
trifle, but the notice of the coincidence touched the hearts of the
brethren, and they accepted it as an omen of success, as if “the still
small voice ’’ was saying “in like manner as I have blessed the enter-
prise of the original seven, I will abundantly bless yours.”
Further, there was a most impressive and affecting manifestation
of the Divine Presence at the meeting of the Boards when the “Al-
bany Compromise ’’ was declined. Especial grace was needed in this
trying hour. There was an unusually full meeting, and a number had
been inclined to accept the compromise as the best and perhaps the
only thing for the friends of Hamilton. They prayed most earnestly
for Divine direction. They felt willing to follow that direction what-
ever might be their own preferences. After a full, earnest and solemn
consideration of all the elements and bearings of the question, they
were brought to a unanimity of view not shadowed by a single doubt.
“The whole Institution must remain in its integrity as the Providence
of God had shaped it, on the old ground.” Their official and moral
responsibility absolutely forbid their consent to its disruption. This
cordial unanimity they believed to be due to divine influence and di-
rection, and with awed and melting hearts, in the sublime confidence
of the faith of the dead founders, they committed the interests of the
sacred enterprise anew to the care and blessing of Him, who out of
the weakness of man, makes His own strength perfect. On his way
home, Deacon Colgate, as he told me, met a friend at Utica who said,
“How dared the Boards at Hamilton to disobey the voice of the de-
nomination, expressed through the Albany Convention ?” IIe
meekly replied, “We dared not do otherwise. We must obey the
voice of God rather than the voice of the denomination. He is wiser
and stronger than man. The voice of the denomination will in the
end answer to the voice of God.” And so it has proved. The cry
of the “voice of the denomination ” in favor of removal has been
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demonstrated by stubborn facts to have been a most fallacious and
misleading assumption.
Once more, was there no divine intimation of good to Hamilton in
the fact that the first graduating class here after the separation was a
missionary class, as was the case at the beginning 2 It consisted of
two, Biddie and Burnett. The hearts of both were given to the
work of missions among the heathen. Biddle was mysteriously called
to his heavenly home just as he was on the eve of sailing. Burnett's
purpose was changed by circumstances not under his control. But
mark how the mystery of Biddle's death was in some measure solved.
It determined others to step forward and fill the breach. A number
of brethren at Hamilton were proximately led by Biddle's death to
consecrate themselves to foreign missionary labor, for which his fer-
vent soul so burned and panted. God spoke in this coincidence.
The restored Institution was to be continued and blessed as a school
for missionaries to the heathen.
I pause here in my responsible task. Enough has been said, though
a tithe has not been told, to vindicate the claims of the Hamilton Insti-
tution to the highest honor and deepest love of all her old and new
friends gathered here on this auspicious day to celebrate her fiftieth
anniversary. And now in closing, I trust I shall be pardoned for
presuming to address a few personal remarks to Alumni, Boards and
Patrons.
BELOVED ALUMNI : All hail to this Semi-centenary of your
Alma Mater | You have in her name been welcomed in fitting
words to her house and home as the children of her love. I have
nothing to add to that welcome. Words refuse to convey to you the
profound emotions which stir in my bosom on this occasion ; and I
doubt not, you are more or less subjects of feelings to whose ex-
pression no language is adequate. You have, after years of absence,
many of you, come up from your several fields of toil, to renew your
vows of loyalty and devotion to your Alma Mater, and to lay your
offerings of filial love at her feet. What a throng of fond, tender
and sacred associations must crowd upon your hearts pressing
through the long avenue of receding years | Some of you went forth
to your life's solemn work, in the days of “long ago,” and present
yourselves now as hoary veterans from the battle-field of the world
where you have nobly fought and won. Others are in the prime of
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manhood with the marks of hard service, and the scars of strenuous
conflict with the powers of darkness on your manly fronts, and still
others in the buoyancy of youthful energy and hope, but crowned
already with the laurels of early victories. You are all here with the
same mind and soul, to bear living witness to your unabated attach-
ment for your Alma Mater, and to crown her with the chaplets of
your heart's devotion. The filial attachment of alumni for the Insti-
tution in which they have received the rudiments of their mind's life
and growth, is the richest treasure it can possess. The vital warmth
of such attachment has revived and reanimated Institutions when ap-
parently in the gasp of death. We have noted a signal instance of
this in the present history. From her “heart of hearts '' your Alma
Mater thanks you for all your love and service in the past. She re-
lies upon you for the future. She is just as worthy of your confidence.
and love now as ever. Nay, in all the resources, material and mental,
which command respect and confidence from Patrons and the public
generally to an Institution of Learning, she is to-day richer and more
powerful than in all the past of her fifty years’ history. The future
fortunes of your Alma Mater are ensured. She will remain a power
in the land, but how great, mighty and grand that power may be
must depend vitally upon your continued loyalty and effective service
in your several spheres. She cannot live and flourish without you.
You are an integral part of her. You and she are one in interest,
purpose and work. Let this day reinvigorate the vital bond. I
pledge to you the warm undying affection of your Alma Mater, as of
old, so now and forever. And I charge you, gather from this day’s
doings around the “old hearthstone,” new inspirations of love,
gratitude and devotion to that venerated and loving mother, to carry
back with you to your homes and centres of personal influence. Be
ever prompt to commend, defend and aggrandize her. You who are
pastors, send the sons of your churches, and your own sons, to drink
at the fountains where you have drank such healthful and inspiring
draughts of knowledge and rich experience, and to enjoy the smiles,
caresses and blessings of the same mother, who has so richly blessed
you.
GENTLEMEN OF THE BOARDS OF TRUST : “Others have labored,
and you have entered into their labors.” The legacy they have be-
queathed to you is of priceless value. No body of men have received
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in trust an interest more sacred and precious. It comes to you bear-
ing not only the º image and superscription ” of men of God of the
noblest stamp, but as moulded by a Divine hand, and fragrant with
the breath of Heaven. You are charged with the grave responsibility
of preserving, in its original integrity and purity, the inheritance
transmitted, and also of enlarging, developing and applying to the
widest extent within the limits of your resources, the capabilities of
the capital in your hands. To meet this responsibility, you have
special need to inherit the spirit as well as the estate of your prede-
cessors. You must robe yourselves in the mantles they dropped when
they ascended to heaven. They were eminently distinguished for
two moral qualities, without which no one is fitted to take a leading
part in carrying on a great enterprise, especially when beset with
formidable difficulties, namely: Faith in God, and Faith in the En-
terprise itself. They communed with God and received the promise
of success. Nothing henceforward could quench or daunt the ardor
of pursuit. They could walk on firmly in the dark, and work and
wait, assured, if man failed, the faithfulness of God could not. There
is nothing more essential to efficiency in any enterprise of man, than
confidence in its ultimate success. Distrust on this point unfits for
effective co-operation and turns a help into a hindrance.
BRETHREN OF THE BOARD OF THE EDUCATION SocIETY: You
are charged with the care of theological education, and the support of
the rising ministry in their preparation for their sacred vocation. In
view of the transcendent importance of the object, you cannot feel too
deeply your responsibility. It is a cheering sign of the times that the
churches are giving greatly increased attention to this object, and are
appreciating its imminent necessity beyond anything of former exam-
ple, though still far from reaching an adequate measure of interest.
All that is good and hopeful in the movements of the church and the
world, is connected directly or indirectly with the work of an able
and faithful ministry of the Gospel of the Grace of God. The world
is to be converted and the dark kingdom of error and sin overthrown
and demolished more by this agency than all others combined. On a
powerful, faithful and devoted ministry, the destinies of the world
hang to-day. “By the foolishness of preaching, God is pleased (as much
to-day as ever) to save those who believe.” This is His immutable
ordination until the consummation of the scheme of human red emption.
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GENTLEMEN OF THE BOARD OF MADison UNIversity : You are
charged with a twofold responsibility in the great educational sys-
tem with which you are officially connected. 1st. You are bound by
solemn compact to the Education Society to maintain a course of edu-
cation in the University adapted to the wants and demands of the
Christian ministry. You are co-workers with the Society in the prime
object of its constitution. They have entrusted to you not only to
sustain, so long as your relation to them exists, a suitable course of
intellectual training for students enjoying their patronage, but to pro-
vide for them the best instruction, and all other accommodations and
facilities necessary to make available the highest practical results of
the instruction given. You share in an eminent degree the sacredness
of the Society’s trust, and you must not fail, with God’s help, to be
faithful to your charge. 2d. You are charged by the State which has
given you ample charter powers and authority for the purpose, to
make the University one of the prime agencies in promoting the com-
mon cause of Literature and Science. I need present no considera-
tions to quicken your zeal on this behalf. The princely munificence of
some of your number has already laid deep and broad the foundations
of a noble University of the first class, which ensures a superstruc-
ture of grand and magnificent proportions, not inferior to any in our
country. Let that superstructure, by the imitation on the part of
others of the example so nobly set, be continually rising towards the
zenith of the moral heavens.
A word to patrons, and I have done. If I have been even in a
small degree true to history in my sketch of this seat of learning, you
will respond : “It is eminently worthy of our patronage. It is an
honor to be its friends and supporters. We will take it to our hearts,
and cherish and nourish it up to the highest perfection of which it is
capable.” The patrons of this Institution in its twin character of a
University and a Theological Seminary are Baptists, almost without
exception. From its peculiar relation to the Baptist ministry and
churches, identified with them in its origin and history, instituted by
and for Baptists, it has no special claims upon the patronage of other
denominations, and we make no appeal to them. All the claims we
may have upon them are found in the rich and ample provisions we
furnish for the best instruction in literature and science. We cor-
dially welcome their sons to these provisions, and the University has
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always had in its number of students representatives from other
denominations. But we shall firmly maintain the right, privilege, and
practice of being out-spoken Baptists in all relations official and per-
sonal, of managers and instructors, throughout the whole enterprise—
not in any narrow sectarian sense, but in honest loyalty to the Truth
of God as we hold it, and in generous Christian charity to all who
“hold the Head.” We now submit the whole case of this sacred
enterprise—its Theological Seminary and University, with its
divinely guarded and thrilling history, its present conditions,
relations and prospects—to the consideration of its special patron,
and the whole denomination. Wonderful as is the past, inspir-
ing as is the present, we believe the future is fraught with
hopes of an expansion, amplitude, power, and wide-spreading in-
fluences for the highest good to our denomination and the world,
which will be to the past as the midday sun to the brightening dawn.
There is no limit to its progress across the vista of coming time, on
which is inscribed the divine fiat, “Thus far shalt thou come and no
further,” but rather, voices from heaven are speaking, “Onward and
upward now and forever until the millenial morn breaks upon a re-
deemed world !” I may be deemed over-enthusiastic, but in closing
I must be allowed to say, that the eye of my mind kindles, and my
spirit exults to-day in the prospect of the future destiny of this God.
sanctioned enterprise. My prospective gaze rests upon a vision of
grandeur and glory—this beautiful hill consecrated by the prayers and
footsteps of holy men, crowned with noble edifices of imposing archi-
tectural simplicity and beauty glittering in the earliest rays of the
rising sun, and reflecting the latest splendors of his golden setting,
with surrounding grounds adorned with all the appliances of tasteful
art blended with the rich profusion of nature's bounteous hand, where
every branch of useful knowledge shall have a home and an altar, and
anointed priests at every altar feeding their sacred fires, and all work-
ing together “Deo ac veritati,” for God and His truth, making the
whole a glorious union of the highest learning with the deepest piety
—a light to enlighten the nations, and the glory of our Israel.
Patrons and friends ! the realization of the vision rests with you and
your successors,
*
J U B TT, E E PO E. M.
BY
R E.W. WILLIAM C. RICHARDS, A. M., P H. D.,
CLASS OF 1840.
T. E. T. F. O E S TO M .
A POET's song, the festival to grace,
Keeps now, as in the olden time, its place;
A measure light, like dessert after meat,
Quick to digest, if profitless to eat;
A round of rhymes, like grapes whose nectar drips
Its fresh delight on pleasure-sated lips;
Bubbles of breath, like ruby-beaded wine,
That heavy eyes from sleeping woo to shine:
A poet’s song, thus framed, is just the thing,
I come upon the stage (ten miles') to sing.
If but in Greece this wood-crowned hill arose,
Or eke the stream that through yon valley flows,
Parnassian strength and sweet Castalian grace,
Blent in my song, you'd fitly seek to trace;
But these green heights Apollo’s feet ne'er trod;
The lovely Nine ne'er danced upon their sod;
No Delphic frenzy in their bosom burns,
That common breath to inspiration turns,
Nor any muse, invoked beneath their shade,
The laboring bard could hear or give him aid.
Ask then of me no lays the gods inspire,
I give you Saxon hail and not Greek fire.
And “WELCOME” first Match me this Saxon word,
By any phrase Hellenic ever heard;
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Match me its force, with honest fervor fired,
By any thought of Helicon inspired.
This hearty word, this “Welcome,” here to-day,
Who than your bard has better right to say?
Welcome, ye sons, in Alma Mater's name.
Aye, welcome all, to share or swell her fame;-
With happier pride than erst she ever knew,
With wider arms, she bids me welcome you !
In other years she called you to her feet,
And answering scores received her greeting sweet;
To-day she calls, and legions climb the height,
Where stands her shrine all lovely in our sight;
Her sons fresh girt with armor from her walls,
Others who bring fair trophies for her halls,
And graybeards more, who at their mother's beck,
Come back to fling their arms around her neck;
While here and there are heads so reverend grown,
As fathers, more than sons, of all they’re known.
Yet their white locks and thin, like tattered flags,
Attest the love that ne'er in fealty lags.
A thousand sons, and from a thousand fields,
Bearing rich spoils upon their well-worn shields.
Not spoils of blood, not rapined gems and gold,
And seldom wealth, in glittering symbols told ;
But in God's book, I rede ye, tears and toils,
Patience and prayers, are counted priceless spoils'
Whence come ye not at this auspicious time?
This to unfold would burden less my rhyme,
Than the dim paths of distance which your feet,
Or slow or swift, have trod ere thus we meet.
In your glad smiles to-day are mirrored bright,
Of all earth's skies some stolen rays of light;
With tropic glare the northern twilights fuse,
And morning’s glow melts into sunset's hues.
“No pent up Utica” suffices you,
(Save for an hour or more, as you came through);
But this, “whole boundless continent” and more,
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Your toils enrich, your eager feet explore;
Yet, far or near, your Alma Mater's hill
O'ertops the Alps and proves your Mecca still.
Pilgrims of joy the call you heed to-day,
Binds you but once on Time's swift-trodden way.
It has not been ; it shall not be again,
While drop apart the links of Life's frail chain,
That here we keep, with mingled smiles and tears,
High festival of fifty rounded years.
Alumnus O beatus! be there one
So young this happy day to see its sun,
Who yet shall live the vision to behold,
When fifty years by two for one are told,
Of Alma Mater's growth and glory great,
Crescent and crowned with a full century's state;
That shall her fame to-day, eclipse as far
As sunlight whelms the glimmer of a star :
When here at once a thousand sons are nursed,
And by ten thousand tongues, with pride, rehearsed
Her just renown for classic lore, nor less
For secret laws which Nature's lips confess;
When men shall count it honor to endow
Her thronging chairs, and nevermore, as now,
Be chiefly heard our Alma Mater's sighs
Of need, that swell to (thousand) dollarous cries.
Your rich largess, CoLGATE and TREVOR, flows
With healing balm for her pecunious woes:
And kindred gifts in scores or decades told,
Would usher in her happy “age of gold.”
Are there to-day those happy eyes that see
Our Alma Mater's fair prosperity,
Which saw through clouds her little struggling star,
But dared not hope 'twould shine so bright and far?
Too deep their joy for other sign than tears,
Seeing what God has wrought in fifty years!
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It was God’s work; man’s patience and his strength
Had wearied both, if tried at such a length;
Harvest so slow his hands had left to spoil,
Had not the Lord inspired and crowned his toil!
Honor unspared to those great-hearted ones,
Our Alma Mater’s fathers, not her sons ! *
A radiant band, remembered as “THE SEVEN,”
Who living less for self and earth than Heaven,
Thought, prayed and toiled, and wept, and freely spent,
And built of all their loss this monument.
Honor be theirs; immortal every name,
And unto God the glory all the same.
No Pleiad group, these starry names I ween,
For looking yet again, we count thirteen;
More like the stars our flag's blue baldric bore,
When first it waved this land of freedom o'er ;
Thirteen true souls, in league for noble ends,-
Of God and man and sacred learning friends,-
Planted a germ, a mustard-seed of faith,
Watered with tears and fanned by praying breath,
Which grandly grown, a tree of Knowledge stands,
And yields its fruit for near and distant lands.
And in the shade of this symbolic tree,
Our hearts and tongues are keeping jubilee.
I pray you all a little legend heed,
Ilegend, I say, but it is true indeed:
Upon this classic hill-side stood,
A hundred years ago,
A tree than whose, wide leagues of wood
No kinglier crest could show :
A stately elm of wondrous girth,
And triple arms outflung;
Whose shadows half a rood of earth,
Like giant clouds o'erhung.
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Erelong the startled valley broke,
In echoes far and wide,
From the swart settler's lusty stroke,
Scarring the elm-tree's side.
The fatal axe its grandeur felled,
And laid its proud head low;
Nor pitying eye the ruth beheld,
Nor quivered with each blow.
Yet in the godly woodman’s soul,
He nursed a holy aim :
To till the ground and gain his dole,
In God’s most blessed name.
And kneeling in the elm-tree's shade,
Its deep-scarred heart anear,
A solemn vow to Heaven he made,
With Heaven alone to hear :
“If on my toil and tilth shall fall
God’s increase and His smile,
To Him again I’ll render all,
With joyful heart the while.”
The forest fell beneath his hand,
His seed brought sixty fold;
Peace crowned his hearth and wealth his land,
While thirty years were told.
The good man's wife his vow had shared,
Tender of heart and true ;
Since God for him and her had cared,
Their debt to God was due.
All their broad lands, with one sweet will,
They gave to God again:
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To hallowed learning consecrate ;
And where the elm had grown,
This day, in anti-typal state,
It stands transformed in stone.
The godly pair had ne'er forgot
Their tree of triple stem;
Which wailed, that they discerned it not,
A parable for them.
That secret sense at last grew clear,
The parable was known;
Three sacred schools in one appear,
Shrined in those walls of stone.
If the old elm-tree bourgeoned still,
And on its bole, graved deep,
The names which this fair legend fill,
Their memory dear to keep :
Not half so sacred, half so grand,
That monument, I rede,
As are yon rude old walls that stand,
Vocal with saintly deed.
Yet ere my song in silence dies,
Sound, harp of mind, one strain,
That through its lapsing harmonies,
We'll think with joy of PAYNE.”
Fifty round years shrink to a little span,
Measured alone, when Time's vast course we scan;
But fairly judged by what they bring about,
The span may stretch so far that if left out
Of History's scope, the blank might wider seem,
Than five dull centuries’ space along the stream.
To such acclaim as this, their record swells
The five decades our Alma Mater tells.
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The self-same year that saw her race begun,
Brought store of fame to Copenhagen's son ; *
Who, with keen thought and quick discerning glance,
Saw VOLTA’s pile the needle's pole entrance;
And married then, with bonds of mystic wire,
The magnet’s force and weird electric fire :
Than which no married myth of old Greek days
Bore progeny that grew to such amaze.
By Jupiter (your pardon, but I do not seek
In phrase profane with emphasis to speak),
By Jupiter this fame was not outdone,
When Maia gave him Mercury his son,
A famous god, skilled both of hand and heel,
With this to speed his flight, with that to steal.
But Jove's fleet errand boy (the arrant rogue !)
Lived when the telegraph was not in vogue;
And living now, he’d trade cap, wings, and cloak,
For fifty shares of Western Union stock,
Or cheat the Company, if he were able,
Out of a right in the Atlantic cable,
And spare his heels by flashing o'er the wires
Olympian messages and, chief, his Sire's.
To OERSTED’s ken, just fifty years ago,
WHEATSTONE and MORSE their splendid honors owe ;
Not they had linked our speech to Heaven's fleet fire,
Had he not forged that mystic ring of wire.
Thy grandest works, O potent Steam, belong
To this great orb just rounded in my song;
Its earliest days, scarce conscious of the might,
Like wizard spell, locked in thy pinions light.
The venturous youths who came, a single pair, “
The first to seek our nursing mother's care,
Nor thought a little lore a dangerous thing, L
Of railroad routes had no imagining.
I little doubt they hither came afoot,
Such locomotion best their means would suit :
Poor students they—I mean in worldly pelf,
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And no reproach, I came of such myself,
And later twenty years, when railroads still
Kept far away from this secluded hill!
Ah! while I sing of marvels accomplis,
Within the scope of our glad jubilee,
Why is it not, O Steam, my happy lot,
To sing a railway at this favored spot?
An end so long desired, so long wn done,
Had filled my theme with wonders, all in one.
Then, blest relief! despite Alumni's call,
I had not come upon the stage at all !
But now, alas ! no railway in our vale,
My verse must not of other marvels fail,
Achieved by Steam since, on this happy height,
Fair Learning plumed her wings for sacred flight.
Athwart the land a thousand meshes spread,
Steam’s iron nets to catch the gains of trade,
And, comet-like, the flying cars are hurled,
With fiery trains, half round the reeling world;
While, scarcely chilled to-day, the fervors glow,
Struck to white heat by that electric blow,
Which smote the golden spike and zoned the land,
From dawn to sunset with an iron band.
Great on the land, O Steam, thy marvels grow,
And never more shall Time be reckoned slow,
Since thy fleet wheels like circling planets spin,
And everything is done amid their din;
While o'er the seas thy potent spell is flung,
And, prongs reversed, old Neptune's trident hung,
All rusted now, upon his cavern walls,
As deep to deep at thy enchantment calls.
Across his emerald floors thy footsteps glide,
And all his nymphs their charms in terror hide.
Beneath his rage and heedless of his ire,
Thy fingers weave the tracks of hidden fire,
That glow with speech, two continents atween,
And round the globe flash “Peace, good-will to men.”
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And wonders still come trooping to my verse,
As fifty years with Memory I rehearse,
Whose thither bounds lie back of arts to-day,
Familiar grown as toys in childhood's play.
In olden time, with rare and patient skill,
The painter wrought the portrait at his will;
Go now, and look defiance at the Sun,
And, winking once or twice, your picture's done !
With magic box and subtle, chemic plate,
No more the slow caprice of Time you wait:
A dozen cards your honest likeness bear,
And she may bless the Sun, whose face is fair
For neither gold nor rank his pencil trips
At the plain truth, in homely eyes and lips.
And not “the human face divine” alone,
But face and form that Phidias wrought in stone,
The Sun, turned artist, draws with magic grace,
And doubly paints for us the moon’s fair face,
While on our walls, and in our albums glow
Bright photographs of all things fair below.
Nor these alone; great deeds of science wrought,
And trophied arts with social marvels fraught,
Our jubilee among the ages crown,
Peerless in rank and matchless in renown
Dearer to us, Alumni of this hill,
One triumph more, my verse must help to fill.
Reverent, I sing, with glad and grateful lays,
Yet awed the while, Jehovah's lofty praise,
For what His hand omnipotent has done
In the dark lands beneath the Orient sun.
For victories there vouchsafed to godly men,
Armed here for fight in days beyond our ken;
The earliest fruits of toils and tears and prayers,
The oldest crowns our Alma Mater wears;
WADE and KINCAID, “nobile fratrum par,”
Yet only first of a long line they are.
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It is not here, though fair the landscape lies,
And tall and strong these classic buildings rise,
I tis not here the chiefest work is done,
That gives us joy to-day for Hamilton.
Where first her sons as Christ's true heralds went,
On Burmah's plains stands her best monument.
Just tithe of those whom she in knowledge nurst,
Their steps pursued whom she to God gave first,
And for her fifty years, her annals shine
With fifty names in that illustrious line.
Blessed half century of years and men,
And fit to blazon with a seraph's penſ
For mine too high but that my verse were naught
With not one gleam of all their glory caught.
Hark, how amid the jubilant strains I pour,
There claims brief space this sacred measure more:
Jubilee
To Heaven's high throne send up the song,
In holy praise the hour prolong;
Sweet tribute from this mighty throng,
To Christ the Saviour be,
Who gives us Jubilee;
And to the lands beyond the sea;
Jubilee
Jubilee
Lifted both heart and voice again,
For holy gifts to humble men;
For fire of tongue and skill of pen,
To Heaven in harmony
With our glad jubilee,
The voice of Burmah’s ransomed be:
Jubilee
'Twas in the good old days I came, a boy,
To these green heights, with warm ingenuous joy;
Eager to learn, and doubting not the skies,
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The very air I breathed, would make me wise;
And when I heard yon streamlet’s music first,
Odes sweeter far than Castaly's it versed.
To this dear hill I thought Olympus low,
And had the choice been given me to go
To this or that, a little Greek to get,
My heart was here, and has not wandered yet.
For Jove's great name but little awe I knew,
But to myself and truth, let me be true;
When him I saw who ruled this hill-top then,
I deemed him more than Jupiter of men;
His lofty mien, his locks like wing of night,
His piercing eyes, “dark with excess of light; ”
His beetling brow which o'er their splendors hung,
On my young soul a spell of wonder flung,
Which later grew to love with reverence blent,
Through all his life and o'er his grave unspent.
Dead on our rolls, and on the stone his name;
Yet KENDRICK lives in Alma Mater’s fame.
Unlike our chief, yet mating him in good,
In my young eyes the sainted HASCALL stood
Dauntless in zeal and patient in his trust,
In temper Christ-like, in his actions just ;
No blazonry his simple deeds display;
He trod a steep and self-renouncing way:
Greater in love than lore, yet skilled to teach
The precious truths Christ's ministers should preach;
Worthy to bear that Belteshazzar's name
Whose loyalty to God made lions tame;
His prayers and faith and charities and tears
With sheaves are crowned, the fruit of fifty years.
Before me throng, while thus the vail I draw,
The living men whom first with fear I saw ;
Yet living now, though older, greater grown,
I see again, with all my terror flown.
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CoNANT no more, like Hebrew Saul for height,
Seems head and shoulders up above my sight,
And although strange enough my word appears,
I do not tremble now before our Sears!
To EATON once I bent with timid bow,
And by the arm I dare to take him now,
And tell him soon how well his speech was done,
Though to long metre, like my verse, ’twas run ;
While with our Grecian master, KENDRICK hight,
I cracked my jokes at tea, the other night,
As if his voice had not been erst to me
More fearsome than ) froAvºgloto/30s—sea.
And the keen SPEAR, whose thrust I sought to shun,
Pricks me no more, though ill my task be done.
Good masters all, I pray your pardon be,
That time has made you look less tall to me;
Not less indeed, but only less to fear,
Your wit and worth in older eyes appear.
A very boy I sought this prophets’ school,
Exception rare, nay, single, to the rule,
That they who came to study in its balls,
Must have, beside their own, their church’s calls.
Except my youth, I know no reason why
They let your poet slip unlicensed by,
Unless the rhymes I wrote in Raymond’s class,
With large poetic license, helped me pass.
However this may be, erelong I know,
The College doors began more broad to grow;
The license-law—a figure, soon, of speech—
Was honored less by keeping than by breach;
And embryo lawyers, doctors, merchant-men,
With preachers, mixed in incubation then;
While here and there, pardon my plainness, please,
Our Alma Mater nursed a few M. C.’s,
Though had she known the work she was about,
I must believe she had not turned them out /
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Ah, fatal hour that let the rabble in,
And sprinkled sanctity, alas ! with sin.
Then college tricks, unknown here in the past,
From single germs grew up and bourgeoned fast;
Till in their shade grave theologues reclined,
And found their wmbrage rather to their mind:
And thus it fell this College chrysalis—
An institution sui generis—
Lapsed from its larva folds, essayed to fly,
And soared a full blown b— University
But all this sin was after I was done,
And I went out a poor, unlettered son ;
Though to our mother’s credit be it said,
When she her larva skin had fairly shed,
And from her wings could drop her own degrees,
And let them fall wherever she should please,
She pitied me and taught me how to say
My A. B.-ab ; or sometimes B. A.—ba.
And finding me a scholar apt to learn,
In two more years gave me another turn;
And higher still the alphabetic stem
I climbed, until my range became A. M.
Though, let me own, with undisguised chagrin,
I missed some letters that occur between ;
I don’t know why—I never asked indeed.—
She did not teach me any more to read:
But I suppose it was for want of time,
At least this reason helps me to a rhyme;
Or since the D's and L’s in doublets go,
She may have run so short of them, you know,
That only those who couldn't do without,
She thought worth while to have a care about;
Good mother, evermore be this your rule;
Doctor the sick and make the empty full.
But yesterday, I flattered me I'd made
A happy hit in what I’ve just now said;
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And little dreamed of aught my sport to spoil,
And make my shot upon myself recoil.
It chanced on this wise—to be very brief:
Among her sick and neéding quick relief,
Our mother counted me and sent her leech,
To Doctor me with curious art and speech.
My symptoms puzzled him and on his face
A fine perplexity, inspired my case.
When looking grave and shaking his wise head,
“I think you must be—Ph. D.” he said.
Trembling in every limb, I stammered, “W-what?”
But he was gone and answer there was not.
This formula of cabalistic guise,
Perplexed in turn my wide distended eyes:
What could it mean but physicked written short 2
Arsenicum et Wuw, perchance, I thought—
(And took the dose as GIFFORD said I ought);
And now again—I’m quite myself, you see,
And thank our Mother for her Ph. D.
Some six sick brothers in the same sad need,
With simpler symptoms, only got D-D’d.
I hope they’re well to-day and bless the leech
Who Doctored them, though with such common speech.
I know some patients make a great ado,
And quite refuse to take the med'cine too;
But the prescription, somehow, they hold fast,
And swallow it behind the door at last.
For my own part, I don’t refuse the pill,
But I protest I do not take it ill!
And for the good our mother did to me—
I ask her frankly, “Mother what's your fee?
Here are these rhymes, my only current notes,
I know such scrip but light adventure floats;
Yet these I bring, to pay for my degree—
Where rests the bargain, pray—with you or me?”
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This tedious pace, at which my verses go,
“Heroic ’’ may be, but I call it slow ;
Suppose in quicker and alternate rhymes,
I dwell a moment on the good old times.
The good old times at Hamilton,
When I was here a boy;
I never pause to think upon,
Without a thrill of joy.
That things were somewhat primitive,
I must indeed allow:
Those good old times, you may believe,
Were different from now.
The village was a rural place,
And rural fashions ruled ;
Its maidens they were fair of face,
And very sweetly schooled.
And we who dwelt upon the hill
Were deemed such safe young men,
The girls would visit us at will;
'Twas quite the fashion then.
We were so good their dear mammas
Invited us to tea;
Our credit with their wise papas
Was good as good could be.
We got up chapel lectures then,
With missionary ends:
And found it sweet to go at ten,
Home with our village friends.
'Twas very nice, in those old days,
Our Chemistry to get
In Mather's good old-fashioned ways:
I’d like to do it yet.
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Down in the brick Academy,
With all its pretty girls,
And naught of Quaker rule, you see,
Beards this side—that side curls'
But beards and curls most fitly mixed,
We learned Affinity;
And in our hearts its laws were fixed,
As firm as firm could be.
If Carbon were the theme, we’d find
Diamonds in sparkling eyes,
Brighter and purer to our mind
Than Golconda supplies.
The air was five parts Oxygen,
Whate'er the books might say ;
Ah! Chemistry, we learned it then,
In quite a charming way.
We lived in “Commons” on the hill;
Naught could more common be ;
I would the “cottage” stood there still,
Type of frugality
Three tables there, of various grade,
Three times a day were set ;
One goodly meat and drink displayed,
And one was plainer yet.
The third (I never tried its fare);
'Twas porridge day by day;
Though many went, none lingered there,
But gulped—and rushed away.
For eighty cents a week they fed,
That porridge on per se;
For ninety, there was meat and bread;
And for a dollar—teal
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No luxury beyond this last,
No higher cost we knew ;
If chargeable with living fast,
'Twas hurrying to get through.
Great fault with colleges is found,
That nothing fresh they teach;
Only dead languages abound,
And ancient modes of speech.
The clamor rings for modern arts,
And practical ideas;
Till Homer's ghost, and Livy’s starts,
And Euclid's stops his ears.
Now let me sing in these rude rhymes,
To Alma Mater’s praise,
How bravely, in the good old times,
She led in these new ways.
She had a manual-labor shop,
With implements at will;
Where those who chose to hew and chop,
Could have of Art their fill.
While some of frugal living plained,
Some others planed to live;
Those nothing saw but leanness gained,
These by the saw did thrive.
Those halls of Industry no more
Their scanty wage afford;
Boards helped her sons to pay before,
And now they pay for board.
Then Architecture too she taught—
Not theories alone:
Our hands her solid precepts brought,
And built them up in stone.
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Our skill was shown in yon gray walls—
Scarce grayer now than we ;
And in these woods fair dwelling halls
Mark our free-masonry.
All honor then to Hamilton,
Whose technics led the van ;
And may she reap a wide renown
In works she well began.
Too long my lays of those old times,
Those dear old times to me;
Of which I weave a thousand rhymes,
And sing to Memory.
One theme too few this festal song would zone
If with its warblings free should blend no tone
Of Jubilee, no gratulation sweet,
That on this hill, this happy day we meet:
That these green slopes, hallowed by prayer and vow,
To sacred use, have lapsed not to the plough ;
That we, the sons of Alma Mater named,
Are not in orphanage, bereaved and shamed.
Such fatal harm, in Fate's dread balance hung,
A sickly gloom o'er our fair history flung;
And thousands sat oppressed within the shade,
Wept for the woe, and God’s deliverance prayed.
Their tears and prayers availed, God’s succor came,
The peril passed, all glory to His name !
Oh! had these lands divorced from Learning been,
And these fair halls despoiled of Wisdom's sheen,
Though from the wrack another school had sprung,
What should have hushed the taunts of Time's true tongue?
What fame of Rochester, though broadly toned,
Had the deep wrongs of Hamilton condoned ?
Better to us, Alumni of this hill,
That plenteous fruits our mother's lap should fill,
Than honors heap to flout the stars above,
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Fain would I sound a strain of later years,
And sing how Alma Mater now appears,
As with the pilgrims of the past I trace
The old and new in her beloved face,
Loving the old, but giving yet the new,
Just meed of praise and approbation due.
But should I pay my measures out at will,
The shades of night would find me singing still,
Though much I doubt but I should sing alone,
Daylight and you together spent and gone.
So lest my lay mock the new Cable's length,
And lack alone its thrilling life and strength,
I’ll cut it soon, and at the welcome halt,
Yours be the task (not mine) to find the “fault; ”
Yet let it run, a few more knots of time,
Since still they come, the signals flashed in rhyme;
While from my heart, through all your glistening eyes,
The swift electric pulse of feeling flies.
One message more, or be it two or three,
You'll not refuse, so that you get them “free.”
O happy youths! (thus runs dispatch the first),
Who by our Alma Mater now are nursed,
Her fifty years of age and lore and skill,
Which shed their glory on this ancient hill,
Demand of you by scholarship to show
How more she's wise to teach and you to know ;
Not less indeed than Crichtons you should be
Who take her high degrees Post-Jubilee;
Below her attic honors none should lodge,
Her chief’s wise laws none ever seek to DODGE.
And though whom EATON leads may well be quick
Nor they be slow who feel the SPEAR’s sharp prick,
Let none in folly or in vice be “fast,”
Or noble gifts in ways ignoble waste;
With BEEBEE roam Ecclesiae terras o'er,
Like other bees, still gathering precious store ;
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With OSBoRN learn of science more than we,
In MATHER's simple days, of Chemistry :
At sweet Siloa’s brook with HARVEY scan
God’s holy Oracles revealed to man
By LEwis led, from English letters learn
The knack ºf “thoughts that breathe and words that burn; ”
With ANDREws wage Homeric battles o'er,
Or from the “Clouds' draw down Hellenic lore;
Of birds and bugs in every clime that fly,
With BICKMORE trace their genealogy;
While JUDsoN woos you to Etrurian fields,
Whose classic soil rich sheaves of learning yields;
Till Latin, Greek, and Hebrew well rubbed in,
With Physics mixed and Logic, clear and thin,
Like Greek athletes in old Olympian strife,
You start to win the crowns of noble life.
But hush ! in vain the keys my fingers urge,
The signs drop slow and sink into -
* A DIRGE.
Aye, muffle the joy-bells and sadden their tone,
Our hearts and our memories belong not alone
To themes of delight, till these moments are flown.
Ring a knell for our heroes who fell in the fight,
That thickened to woe in Rebellion’s dark night,
And palled with its fears Freedom's banner of light.
For their courage of heart and their prowess of hand,
For their high faith in God and their love of their land,
For their life-blood poured forth like the ebb on the strand.
Ring a knell for our loss of such brothers as they,
Whose places of honor are vacant to-day;
And only their dear names we wreathe with the bay.
Stelligeri sunt, on the roll of the head,
Stelligeri sunt, in the heavens o'erhead,
Where their souls on the pinions of victory fled.
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A knell for our loss, but a paean of pride,
That so noble they lived, so heroic they died ;
And shrined in our love their sweet virtues abide,
Words for the hour are crowding on the line !
Brothers, this place is only not divine, º
Not Heaven’s gate, but far along the road—
A Beulah whence we glimpse the best abode,
The higher school, where Wisdom's pillars rise
And prop the dome of broad, unfathomed skies;
Of whose pure light the shadows here alone,
Science, Philosophy, and Art are known :
To whose degrees of honor who would reach,
Must catch the Shibboleth of Heaven's sweet speech,
Drink at the fount of Love divinely free;
And of the school of Christ a graduate be.
We have come up from earth's turmoil and dust
(Too brief our stay to let our weapons rust),
And duty's strife ere yet again we wage,
Hand clasped in hand, be this our mutual gage,
That for the Right alone the sword we wield ;
That to the Wrong our flag we never yield;
That by the cross on which our Master died,
We victory win o'er Passion, Sin and Pride;
That at the grave we conquer when we fall,
And all our life-work gain in losing all :
True to the last, to God and self and her,
Our mother, teacher, friend, and Truth’s interpreter.
Faint grow the throbs of the electric bond,
That holds us here in love and friendship fond.
One tender message more, and soft and low,
From heart to heart the failing signals go :
We are glad and sad together:
Glad for this dear meeting,
Sad that time's so fleeting;
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But we scarce know whether
Most to joy, or most to sorrow,
When we think upon the morrow.
We shall be sad to-morrow,
When the Jubilee is finished;
But grief will be diminished,
And solace come to sorrow,
In the thought of all the glory
Of our Alma Mater’s story.
Our farewells must be spoken,
Spoken low to-morrow,
But, above all sorrow,
There will swell unbroken
Vows, that time and distance never
Shall our faithful hearts dissever.
When we to Graduation
From Life’s stern school are bidden,
Our weaknesses all hidden
In Gods divine salvation ;
May we take degrees in glory,
Nor vain nor transitory.
And when of God’s great college
High festival is holden,
*Before its altars golden,
We'll stand complete in knowledge;
While Heaven's jubilee chorus—
Breaks with its raptures o'er us.
ADDRESS OF REV. ROBERT POWELL,
BRETHREN AND FRIENDS : *
I stand before you, almost a solitary remnant of a by-gone age. The frosts
of seventy-nine winters have made the almond-tree to flourish and those that look
out of the windows to be darkened and fears are in the way, because man goes to
his long home. I look around for my fathers and compeers, and look in vain.
Where are my old pastors, Hosmer and Hascall, my early friend and helper,
Kendrick, whose certificate of my ordination I still hold, and whose encouraging
words on the day of my public consecration can never be forgotten ? Where are
the fathers, Payne and Olmsted, and others whose counsels and prayers I once so
much enjoyed 2 They sleep their last sleep. I have visited their monuments,
but they are not there. How enchanting is the power of memory ! It calls up
their once familiar forms, they flit before me as a shadow, and are gone, and noth-
ing of interest remains, but a melancholy reflection on scenes that can never be
reënacted.
Fourteen years of the early part of my life were spent in this vicinity. Here
I entered the ministry, under peculiar embarrassments, with a shattered consti-
tution and with limited scientific advantages, so necessary in my sacred calling.
Thirty-six years I have been the resident of a western State, and have had some
small experience in the struggles of pioneer life, and God has made me under-
stand somewhat the profits of his chastening rod, that I might not be left to
glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. It can be no matter of wonder
to you, brethren, that I should be the friend of education, having suffered so much
and so long for the want of it. More than fifty years this want has been felt. I
have now come more than five hundred miles and for the last time to join with
you in thanksgiving to God for his favors to this people in their struggles and
efforts in sustaining and promoting the cause of education on this mount of the
prophets. The ordeal through which this Institution has passed in by-gone years
is a sure token of divine favor. It has passed the Rubicon, and all is well. Com-
ing events cast their shadows before. The tempest that once threatened desola-
tion and made these hills to tremble and the forest to bend, found some whose
faith failed not, but with eagle eye and eagle wing they rose directly toward the
SUll).
“As some fall cliff that lifts its awful ſorrm
Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm,
While round its base the whirling storm is sped
Eternal sunshine settles on its head Î ”
These storms are sometimes necessary to purify the atmosphere and stir the
turbid water beneath. A calm is sure to follow. “Faith bides the shock blind
nature cannot shun, and lands thought smoothly on the farther shore.”
Here lies our only safety, trust in God, fidelity in the discharge of duty, and
all will end in success and a large reward.
I have surveyed your heights, and the quarry God has bequeathed to you. I
see it is not exhausted. Abundant material for future enlargement still remains.
I have taken a bird's eye view of your beautiful vale and village which lies nestled
amid these fruitful surrounding hills, and which I have admired for more than
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60 years. I feel somewhat the spirit of inspiration and prophecy. My age seems
renewed, like the eagle's ; the pulsation and vitality of earlier days are for the
time being felt and enjoyed. Thanks be to God for this farewell view of these
consecrated walls and cherished friends, whom I trust to view ere long from a
higher sphere with immortal eyes and with untold interest.
Being the last, the least, and the youngest of the thirteen that started this en-
terprise, you will indulge me in a brief allusion to its origin. From the time
Dea. Payne knelt at the foot of his first fallen tree some 70 years since, and con-
secrated his all to God near these gushing springs, a marked providence is visi-
ble in tracing events to the present time. Some 52 years ago a few brethren, 13
in number, assembled at the house of Dea. Jonathan Olmstead, of precious mem-
ory, a little down this vale, seated in a middle room, mostly on the east side, my-
self and one or two others on the opposite side, Father Bostwick in the chair.
The image of that meeting is still deeply impressed on my mind. It was an
hour of thought. Not a smile played upon a single countenance. Every mind
seemed to reel under the weight of the responsibility we were about to assume.
Every knee bowed; our weakness and needs were poured out by solemn prayer
into the bosom of Him who gives power to the faint, and to them that have no
might. We then plighted our faith and gave our pledge, small though it was.
We had put our hand to the plough, and we could not, we dare not look back.
Here then was planted the small seed, the least of all, that has produced this great
tree under whose branches so many birds of paradise have plumed their wings to
bear with angel speed the good tidings of salvation to our sin-cursed race.
I leave to others to note the instrumentality and progress of subsequent events.
We have reached a period of brilliant sunshine and cheering hope; the winter is
past, the time of the singing of birds is come. A voice comes in thrilling tones :
“Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon
thee; the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minis-
ter ulı to thee! ”
Let me close by a remark to the rising ministry. Your uneducated fathers and
brethren congratulate you in view of your cheering prospects and advantages ; .
advantages for which they sighed, and sighed in vain. Your present privileges
are the fruits of wearisome toil, prayers and tears. But this ordeal was the ap.
pointment of heaven. God chose not the learned and the mighty. He chose
men of muscular and mental nerve, inured to toil and hardship. They were men
for the times, men of faith and power, and mighty in the Scriptures, well adapted
to lead the van in the march of emigration, to prepare the way of the Lord,
to grade the highway, and bridge the streams and marshes and dangerous gulfs
and glens for the ransomed of the Lord to pass over. Hosts of such men in their
native and unpolished dress will still be needed, and God will employ them for
an indefinite period in the sublime future as long as the star of empire leads to
the great west. Fifty years since our educated uninisters in all Middle and
Western New York were numbered with half my fingers, yet our then numerous
churches grew and prospered, because prayers and efforts were combined. These
must be continued or we are fated to decline. We must not lean upon out
learning or wisdom. It is a broken reed. Christ alone is our wisdom and strength.
Let me exhort, then, the rising ministry in view of what God hath wrought, to
imitate the zeal and activity of those who have gone before. Let all, then, of the
various grades of mental and literary culture strike hands and lead on God's
marshalled hosts, till they reach the goal of eternity, and all will be well.
138 ADDRESS OF REW. ROBERT POWELL.
Brethren, our calling is a life warfare. The enemy is not dead nor asleep, or on
a journey. Sturdy men, armed for the contest, are wanted, and we must have
them, to meet his marshalled hosts and drive him from his stronghold. “No
rest, no rest, this side of Jordan,” is our watchword. The rest, the reward, the
crown, lies beyond. We must die to live, if we would live to die no more. I am
now to bid adieu to all that has cheered me on this visit, my task is done. I have
given vent to a few of my pent-up feelings.
And now, brethren and friends of this great assembly, I bid you farewell !
Farewell to loved Hamilton and these consecrated walls, to the tombs of my
fathers and brethren, to this pleasant grove and these gushing springs, to all the
enchanting scenery which has stirred my spirit within me ! The end of earth is
at hand. I shall see you no more. I now return to my friends and family in my
adopted State to finish my closing day, to lay aside my armor and await the call of
my Father, “Child, come home !”
* This venerable minister, whose presence at the Jubilee gave so much satisfaction, after his
removal from the neighborhood of Hamilton, labored at Newburg and Cornwall on the Hudson.
He was then about ten years pastor in Milton and Palmyra. In 1836 he began his pioneer work
in the west—settled nine or ten years as pastor, but chiefly engaged as exploring missionary of
the B. H. M. Society, ranging from the lakes to the Missouri, and from the north to the
south of Miichigan, Illinois and Iowa. His last reported residence is Clinton, Mich.



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BY H. HARVEY, D. D., PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION,
IN HAMILTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
This sacred Institution was born and nurtured in the spirit of missions. “The
Hamilton Baptist Missionary Society,” which preceded the N. Y. Baptist State
Convention, was formed in 1807, when this region, now so rich in population and
culture, was still almost a wilderness. Among its earliest officers were Ashbel
Hosmer, Jonathan Olmstead, Elisha and Samuel Payne, and others of the revered
founders of this community. For many years, devoted men of God, under its
direction, published the gospel through the new settlements in Central and Western
New York. This spot was thus early consecrated as a radiating centre of Christian
light, and many a church, now among the most vigorous and honored in the
land, sprang from influences here originated.
These men of God early felt a profound interest for the heathen world. For some
years before our foreign missions begun, it is said, the church here wrestled with
God, in fervent faith and prayer, pleading that salvation might come to the nations
sitting in darkness. When, therefore, in 1812, Judson and Rice were baptized in
India, and the voice of God so signally summoned the Baptists of America to the
foreign mission work, they received the call as the answer of prayer, and at once
responded with holy enthusiasm.
It was in that spirit the Institution was founded. The fundamental idea was
the training of men for work among the destitute ; a God-called ministry, like
the Apostles, who should preach Christ Where he was not already known. This
was the underlying distinctive thought, and hundreds of godly men here
trained have gone forth with intrepid zeal, as pioneer ministers to the East
and the West, the North and the South.
During the half-century life of the Institution, our own country has itself been
one vast Missionary field. The immense foreign immigration, the mighty move-
ment of population westward, and the wonderful growth of new centres of life
and activity across the continent, have created a demand for earnest, educated
men in the home work. Hamilton has responded nobly to this call. The
Spirit of self-sacrifice has ever been fostered within these walls, and the men here
trained have sought, not positions of learned ease or pastoral distinction, but of
hard work, where they endured hardness in the pioneer service of the gospel.
A multitude of its students have entered States west of us. They have there
published the gospel, have reared institutions of learning, and have gathered
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churches, many of which are now among the strongest in the land. Among the
noblest minds in chairs of instruction and in the pulpit, now giving direction
to the mental and religious character of the West, the sons of our revered Alma
Mater are everywhere distinguished.
In sketching the Foreign Mission Work of Hamilton, it will be convenient to
divide the half-century into decades.
FIRST DECADE—1819–29.
The first class, which graduated in 1822, sent forth two of its noblest men to
Burmah, Jonathan Wade and Eugenio Kincaid. The earliest fruits of the Insti-
tution were thus consecrated to Missions.
JONATHAN WADE, D. D., now the venerable senior missionary in Burmah, was
born in Otsego, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1798. He entered at Hamilton before its full organi-
zation, Feb. 14, 1818, and graduated in 1822. After a year spent in the study of
the Burman language, he was set apart as a Missionary at Utica, June 11, 1823,
where Nathaniel IXendrick, Daniel Hascall, Alfred Bennett, John Peck, and Elon
Galusha officiated, all of whom have long since gone to their reward. He sailed,
the same year, June 22, 1823, with his late devoted wife, Deborah B. Lapham, for
Burmah, commended to their work in a remarkable prayer on the wharf at Bos-
ton, by the venerated Dr. Baldwin.
Dr. Wade has spent almost half a century among the heathen, interrupted
only by two brief visits to this country for health, in both of which he gave a
powerful impulse to the Missionary work in the churches. His labors have been
incessant and arduous. As a preacher, he is marked by clearness, power, and
spirituality. As a counsellor and guide of the native churches, his sound, dis-
criminating judgment has been invaluable. In literary work, his labors have
been abundant. He gave to the Karens a written language, he prepared a Karen
dictionary, and aided in several of the Karen translations of the Scriptures, and
has published numerous books and tracts in the Burman and Karen languages.
Now in old age, having recently buried the noble wife who so long toiled by
his side, he still labors at his post revered through Burmah and in the churches
of our own land ; but is in great feebleness of body, waiting for the call of the
Master to heavenly rest.
EUGENIo KINCAID, D. D., was born in Wethersfield, Ct., in 1797. He entered
the Institution among its first students, in 1819, and graduated in the class of
1822. After preaching some time in Galway, N. Y., and as a Houme Missionary in
Pennsylvania, he sailed for Burmah, May 24, 1830.
The life of this intrepid Missionary has been one of intense activity. Ardent
and fearless, he has encountered much hardship and peril. He reëstablished
the Mission in Ava in 1833, after the death of Dr. Price, and baptized the first
converts there, Surrounded by constant peril, he exhibited a tact and judgment
and courage in his delicate and difficult post such as won warmest admiration
alike at the Court of Ava and among the friends of Missions. When civil war
compelled at last the relinquishment of that Mission in 1840, he was sent to Ar-
racan. Here his labors in preaching were abundant, but the illness of Mrs.
Kincaid compelled their return to this country in 1842, where he was detained
until 1850. His eloquent, thrilling addresses during this visit produced the
most powerful effect upon the missionary spirit of the churches, and are still re-
membered by multitudes. Some of his descriptions of life and perils among the
heathem are worthy to rank among the classics of our language. On his return
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to Burmah, he labored at Rangoon, Prome, and finally at the capital, where he
acquired the confidence of the Royal Court to such a degree that he was sent in
18.6 as bearer of despatches from the Burmese monarch to our government.
Returning in 1857, he resumed his chosen work with accustomed ardor. He has
recently returned, and is at present in this country, venerable in years, and re-
vered as one among those “who have hazarded their lives for the name of the
Lord Jesus.”
BENJAMIN R. SKINNER, of the class of 1827, was earliest among the costly sac.
rifices laid on the altar of African evangelization. He was born at Killingworth,
Conn., Jan. 7, 1803. He was ordained at New Ipswich, N. H., 1827. He married
Eliza Reed, of Killingworth. He sailed for Monrovia, Oct. 12, 1830. Soon after
reaching his destination, his wife and two children sickened and died. He was
himself attacked with the coast fever, and died while on the voyage homeward,
March 5, 1831. He was a man, like Samuel Pearce, of seraphic Christian spirit
and consecrated zeal, but fell thus early a martyr to the cause of Africa.
EVAN TUCRER, class of '24, JESSE ELLIOT, of ’26, and LEMUEL STANNARD, of
’27, were sent as missionaries to the North American Indians—a work then in-
volving great self-sacrifice, toil and danger.
SECOND DECADE—1830-39.
During this period the missionary life of the Institution was greatly promoted
through organizations. The Society for Inquiry and the Western and Eastern
Associations, which exerted so wide an influence in after years, were formed at
this time. The Eastern Association, organized Oct. 2, 1831, embraced among its
earliest members all the now revered men who went forth in this decade to the
foreign field ; and its meetings were often scenes of intense and hallowed inter-
est, as company after company of these holy men consecrated their lives to the
salvation of the heathen. Twenty-four went forth in this period.
ABNER P. WELLS, of the class of 31, was the first of these. He was a native of
Watertown, N. Y. He was appointed July 11, 1831, but did not reach Burmah
till July 16, 1833. He was stationed at Maulmain and Rangoon, rendering very
effective service to the Mission. But the failure of Mr. Wells' health compelled
lis return home, March 24, 1838.
The class of ’33 sent four of its noblest men to the foreign field, Comstock,
Vinton, Howard, and Dean. It was the period of Mr. and Mrs. Wade's first visit
to this country, and their earnest words and holy zeal stirred the hearts of
thousands. Their influence was specially felt in Hamilton, where for nine months
these brethren and their wives were under their instruction in the Burman lan-
guage; and many received their first impression of personal duty to go to the
heathen from intercourse with these devoted servants of Christ. The whole com-
pany, consisting of eleven new Missionaries, sailed from Boston with Mr. and
Mrs. Wade, July 2, 1834—an occasion of hallowed interest never forgotten by
those who witnessed it. Mrs. Sigourney contributed one of her beautiful hymns,
Written for the parting hour ; and they went forth amidst the prayers and bene-
dictions of the churches throughout the land.
GROVER S. CoMStock was born in Ulysses, N. Y., March 24, 1809. He grad.
uated at Hamilton College, studied law, and entered, with brilliant prospects, on
his chosen profession in the city of Rochester. During the great revival in that
city in 1831, he was converted, and at once consecrated his talents to the Chris-
tian ministry. He entered the theological seminary here, and, after spending
two years, was set apart to the work of Missions. The field assigned him was
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Arracan, where he founded the Mission, and labored for ten years with great suc-
cess. Multitudes were gathered to Christ in his intensely earnest ministry.
Many even now remember the thrilling appeal made to the American churches
by this toil-worn servant of Christ, when he shouted to a returning Missionary,
as the vessel which brought him was receding from the Arracan shores—“Six
men for Arracan Six men for Arracan l’” He died of cholera, April 25, 1844.
His last words, uttered to Mr. Stilson, were, “My trust is in the Lord. He who
has been with me thus far will still be with me and take care of me. I have no
fear to die; my faith is fixed on Jesus. I wish you to state distinctly to my
friends at home that I have never in the least regretted having come to this coun-
try.” And when no longer able to speak, he wºuld point upward, seeming to
say, “There is my home, and there Ilong to be.”
JUSTU's H. VINTON was a native of Connecticut, born at Willington, in 1806.
He entered Hamilton in 1826. His life in Burmah was spent among the Kar-
ens; in the rainy seasons, devoting himself to the work of instructing the native
ministry ; and in the dry, making extensive tours for preaching. He was pre-
eminently a man of revival power, and great numbers were added to the Lord.
At the close of 1846, there were eighteen stations under his care, extending
north and south from Maulmain, 140 miles, embracing fifteen churches, with
nearly 700 members. He made a brief visit to this country for Mrs. Vinton's
health in 1848. On his return he was stationed at Rangoon. A school of un-
precedented numbers gathered round him at Kemmendine, and from that centre
he made extensive preaching tours, everywhere attended by remarkable out.
pourings of the Holy Spirit. In the course of twenty months, he baptized 441,
Returning from one of these tours, he was peculiarly exposed to a scorching
sun, which, in his exhaustion, resulted in a fever, from which he died, in peace-
ful assurance of his interest in Christ, March 31st, 1858, terminating a life of
twenty-three years of consecrated toil for the heathen. “He was an able and
successful missionary, a man of faith and prayer, possessed of unusual mental
activity and indomitable perseverance, and was wholly consecrated to the work.”
Probably no single life in Burmah has shown larger results in the ingathering
of souls to Christ.
HoseA HowARD was born in West Springfield, Mass., 1802. On reaching
Burmah, his life was devoted to the superintendence of the boarding School in
the rainy season, and preaching tours in the dry season. He was a worthy
coadjutor of the noble men with whom he was associated, though his life was
passed in a quieter sphere of labor, where his fidelity and usefulness met rather
the eye of the Master than of the public Ill-health at last compelled him to
retire from the mission ; and he returned to the United States, August 7th,
1850. He resided in New York, Pittsfield, Mass., Missouri, and Bloomington,
Ill., where he died about 1869–70.
WILLIAM DEAN, D. D., was born at Morrisville, N. Y., June 21st, 1807. Or-
dained at his native place, Morrisville, June, 1834. He was designated to the
Chinese Mission at Bangkok, Siam, and has through life labored with great
effectiveness and power either in Siam or China. As an author in the Chinese
language, he is known in connection with Christian books and Scripture transla-
tions. Failure of health compelled him to return to this country, in 1853. Af-
ter full recovery, some years since he renewed his toil at his chosen post among
the Chinese, where with apostolic earnestness and marked success he is now
laboring. In a letter, dated Bangkok, March 25th, 1869, he writes - “In reply
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to your inquiries, I may state that my reminiscences of Hamilton Institution go
back to the time when it was wrapped in swaddling-clothes and laid in a man-
ger. In those days the venerated Nathaniel Kendrick preached at Morrisville,
my native town, and at his settlement with that infant church, it is recorded
that ‘ one fortnight from this, we take a collection for Foreign Missions.' To
this missionary man, and President of Hamilton Institution, I look as to my
spiritual father. When I was sixteen, he preached my mother's funeral sermon.
That sermon and my mother's death were connected with my first Christian
experience. Soon after that I went to Hamilton to study ; first, at the Academy
under Prof. Morse, at the same time enjoying a home in the family of Dr. Ken-
drick. His explanations of the Scriptures and personal counsels had much to
do in planning my future course of life. He was my first adviser in regard to
preaching the gospel. With the trembling hope that I might do some good to
the heathen—my first and last object of preaching—I entered the Institution,
where I enjoyed the instructions of Kendrick, Hascall, Whitman, Sears, Bacon
and Eaton, to each of whom I am largely indebted for influences and lessons
which have aided me till now. During my course of study were organized the
Eastern and Western Associations. Among the members of the latter were
John L. Moore, Wm. Chaffee, Alvin Bailey, and Bartlett, who went to the mis-
sionary fields of Ohio and Illinois; while my roommate, Allen B. Freeman, was
the first to plant a Baptist Church in Chicago. Among the original members of
the Eastern Association were Howard, Vinton and Comstock, my fellow-passen-
gers to India, in 1834. The meetings of this Association were for prayer and
conference, and the discussion of questions connected with the missionary work.
These meetings were of a Holy Ghost character, and aided to increase in the As-
sociation and Institution generally a spirit of prayer and consecration to Christ.
The then prevailing characteristic of the Institution was the spirit of missions;
and to that, perhaps more than anything else, may be attributed the prosperity of
that school of the prophets. Hamilton men, whether they have gone abroad or
settled at home, have generally been missionary men. Hence their success. It
is now too late in the day for Hamilton to question the wisdom of sending her
sons to the heathen. Those who have gone abroad have perhaps done more
good at home than if they had remained in America; and then from the camp-
fires of Hamilton Hill has been kindled a light in many of the dark places of the
earth, which shall continue to shine till the grand illumination of the world.
Some of the sons of Hamilton, that honored mother of missionaries, have fought
a good fight, and gained a glorious victory, and await their exaltation from
many a pagan land; and she is yet to raise up a numerous seed, in which the
Inations of the earth are to be blessed.
“I may not be with you in person at the coming anniversary, but I shall rejoice
in all your good things, and in spirit greet many an old friend there; and, after
fifty years more, I expect to meet you at a still more jubilant gathering, on a
still more hallowed spot, with even more joyous memories. There we may in-
troduce to each other the ransomed ones brought with us to the ‘general as-
Sembly from various tribes and peoples under heaven, to be presented to him
who redeemed them to God by his precious blood, and to whom they and we
may offer ourselves anew, and give our services forever.”
In the year 1835, another large company went forth from Hamilton to the
heathen world, Ingalls, Abbott, Reed, Haswell, Day and Phillips. They sailed,
together with five other missionaries, and Rev. Howard Malcom, D. D., Septem-
ber 21st, 1835.
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LOVELLING ALLS was born in Worcester, N. Y., August 21st, 1808. He spent
three years at Hamilton, as a member of the Class of '37, but left in 1834, and
became pastor at Cummington, Mass. He was designated to Arracan ; but,
through persecution, was obliged to labor first in Pegu and Me gui, where
he accomplished an immense work. Great numbers were converted and bap-
tized ; and in 1840 an association of six Karen churches was formed. The ill-
health of Mrs. Ingalls at this time compelled him to retire to Maulmain. On
her death, in 1845, he went to Akyab, Arracan, where his ministry was attended
with a similar blessing. His own health amidst incessant labors at last failed,
and compelled him to visit this country, in 1850. On his return, with the pres-
ent Mrs. Ingalls, he resumed his post with marked success. More than seventy
Burmans were baptized in eight months. His last post was Rangoon, to
which he was assigned in 1854. Here he labored with his usual power, and
many were led to Christ. Overwork at last destroyed his bodily power. “The
duties of twenty men,” he wrote, “devolve on me.” He died March 14th, 1856,
“diseased in all the important organs of the body;” a martyr to an unquencha-
ble zeal for Christ and souls. Not long before his death, he wrote these words
to a friend in America : “That interview, which would be so sweet to my soul,
with you and many beloved ones in America, I anticipate round the Throne.
There, my brethren, we shall commingle our joys in a union never to be severed.
And may we not hope, that the presence of happy Burmans and Karens, Saved
by infinite grace, aided in the heavenward course by our prayers and preaching,
will add to the happiness of our eternity ? Were I transferred to my native
land, with a knowedge of all I have experienced of trial, and all I have suffered
from being severed from Christian society, and all I have seen of the pagans’
vileness and hardness of heart, I would hasten with more willingness than at
first to rescue them from death and hell. I make allusion to myself only to let
you know that the course, upon which I have embarked so much, has lost none
of its interest to me, nor has ever produced a sigh of regret.”
ELISIIA. L. ABBOTT was born at Cazenovia, N. Y., Oct. 23, 1809. He was a
member of the class of '37, but was appointed a missionary at the close of the
Sophomore year, Aug. 3, 1835, and designated to the Teloogoos. After reaching
Burmall, however, his destination was changed, and he was sent to the Karens.
Here, for many years, his career was one of distinguished success, both as a
preacher in the jungles, and as an educator and guide of the native ministry.
He has been called the Apostle to the Karens. His missionary life extended
through nineteen years, interrupted by one visit to this country for health. A
broken constitution compelled him, finally, to retire from his field ; he died peace-
fully at Fulton, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1854, loved and revered in our churches, but most
of all, among the multitudes in Burmah whom he had led to Christ. Rev. Dr.
Mason, his associate on the missionary field, makes the following record of his
character and work —“The death of Bro. Abbott is a great public loss; for he
was remarkably successful in every branch of missionary labor. He preached
the gospel, and great numbers were converted ; he educated native preachers,
and they are among the ablest that have entered the ministry; he established
churches, and they are distinguished above all others for recognizing the obli:
gations that rest upon them to support their own pastors; he wrote books, and
they remain among our best specimens of Karen literature. His first station
was Rangoon, and he travelled in the neighboring districts of Maubee, Pan-
tanau, and Bassein, where he raised up several churches; but the persecutions to
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which the Karen Christians were subjected, induced him, for their sakes, to
remove to Sandoway, where they could visit him without interference from gov-
ernment, and where he could educate for them an indigenous ministry. Noth-
ing could have been more judicious than this arrangement. He was immediately
joined by a select class of fifty promising students, and from his school in
subsequent years went forth some of the most efficient pastors now in Burmah.
The charge he gave them when they graduated, was: ‘You are to lead the host of
God in Burmah; you must not lean on missionaries, but on God;’ and well have
they observed it, not shrinking from martyrdom itself. After his return fi om
America, he met with thirty-five native preachers from the districts west of Ran-
goon, all of whom he had baptized, all had been his pupils; and under their
teachings churches had arisen embracing more than four thousand members,
besides five thousand other hopeful converts, in connection with their congrega-
tions who had not been baptized. It would be difficult to find in the whole
range of modern missions another man to whom God has awarded an equal
measure of visible success. He rests; but the minds upon which his impinged
still move on, destined to communicate their power to other minds from age to
age in a multiplying progression. Then he is not dead. He lives in those to whom
he has imparted life, and will there live in all coming generations of redeemed
Rarens.”
ALANSON REED was a native of Chesterfield, Mass., born 1807. He was of the
class of 1836. He was assigned to the Chinese department in Siam, and reached
Bangkok July 1, 1836. His mind was of high promise, careful, judicious,
earnest; and he rapidly became familiar with the Chinese language. But when
just entering on the work he fell in death. He died calmly resting in Jesus,
Aug. 29, 1833.
JAMES M. HASWELL, D.D., was born at Bennington, Vt., Feb. 4, 1810. He was
a member of the class of '38, but sailed for Burmall in the company of 1835.
He has now labored in the missionary field thirty-four years, as preacher, theo-
logical instructor, and translator, He translated the New Testament into the
Peguan dialect; and has done much other service through the press, in the midst
of arduous and widely extended labors in preaching and superintending the
native ministry and churches. Much of this work is necessarily hidden from the
eye of the public; but his earnest spirit, sound judgment, and persistent toil
have been of incalculable value to Burmah. He has revisited America for health
three times, on each visit greatly useful in promoting the missionary spirit.
Few that heard can ever forget his judicious, noble address made in New York
at the meeting of the Missionary Union in 1863; while his worn, trembling
form attested a long life of self-sacrifice, love, and toil in Asia. He has just re-
turned anew to the work, to spend his last years and lay his body annidst the
scenes where his devoted life has been so blessed to the multitudes of the
perishing.
SAMUEL S. DAY is a native of Upper Canada, born in Leeds Co., 1808. He be-
longed to the class of 1836 of this Institution, but sailed in 1835 for the Teloogoo
mission in India. He was founder of that important mission; and for nearly
twenty years, his clear judgment, earnest zeal, and unremitting toil were devot-
ed to its establishment and success. Few men have done harder work, or
encountered more perils from climate and hostile heathen influences, Ill health
and overwork compelled return to the United States in 1846. But he returned
in 1848, leaving his family here, Willing to labor on alone if need be, in his
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chosen work among the heathen. He finally returned in 1853, and with his
devoted wife, now resides in Homer, N. Y., widely revered and loved as a faith-
ful servant of the Lord Jesus. It cannot be doubted, that the success with which
God is now crowning that mission, is connected with the years of self-sacrificing,
judicious toil he expended there.
JEREMIAH PHILLIPS was a member of the class of 1838, but left in 1835,
under appointment as a missionary of the General Baptists. He sailed for
Orissa, India, with Amos Sutton and Eli Noyes. After a considerable period of
successful missionary labor he returned, and with a large family settled in the
West.
HORACE T. LOVE entered in 1829, and remained two or three years. He sub-
Sequently graduated at Brown University. He was appointed to Greece, and
Sailed October 24, 1836. After ten years of useful toil, ill-health compelled his
return. He afterwards served as pastor at North Adams and South Abington,
Mass.
RUFUS F. BUEL, a graduate of 1835, was born in Plymouth, N. Y., Nov. 5,
1812. He studied theology at Andover, and sailed for the mission in Greece,
April 27, 1841. Without much apparent fruit, and once driven from his field by
violent persecutions, he wrought cheerfully and patiently on through fourteen
years, until the discontinuance of the mission in 1855, confident to the end of
the early success of the Gospel among the Greeks. He was a man of sterling
integrity and great steadiness of aim. He was also a scholar of varied learning,
and during his missionary life translated various books into the Modern Greek,
among which were Wayland's Moral Science, Pilgrim's Progress, and publica-
tions of the American Tract Society and Sunday-school Union. One of the con-
verts under his ministry, Sakellarius, afterwards came to this country, studied
theology at Newton, and is now in Athens, laboring with marked promise under
the auspices of the American and Foreign Christian Union. Mr. Buel died some
four years since in the City of Washington, where, with his accomplished wife,
Mary Jane Raymond, sister of Rev. Lewis Raymond, he had conducted a Female
Seminary of high reputation. His death was more than peaceful; it was trium-
phant.
SAMUEL S. ALDRICH, of the class of 1837, but leaving in 1835, was sent to
the West Cherokees, Sept., 1834; but fell an early victim to exposure and toil.
He died Nov. 22, 1835, at Fairfield, Indian Territory.
Another company, consisting of Messrs. Thomas and Bronson, of the class of
'36, went forth Oct. 17, 1836, designated to the mission in Assam.
JACOB THOMAS was a native of Elbridge, N. Y. His life, while a member of
the Institution, was marked for its deep and earnest piety. “The bower of
prayer,” in a neighboring grove, where he resorted for communion with God,
was for many years a spot of hallowed interest, as a memorial of his godliness.
After reaching Assam, on ascending the Brahmaputra, Mr. Bronson was taken
seriously ill, and Mr. Thomas went in advance toward their destination, to
secure medical help. Fearful floods prevailed and made navigation dangerous;
and while he was already within sight of Sadiya, where Brethren Brown and
Cutler were joyfully waiting their arrival, an immense tree suddenly fell across
the boat and instantly killed him. He was permitted to see the land for which
he had prayed, and in which he hoped to toil for Christ, but was not allowed to
enter. Instead of the sacrifice and toil of earth, the Master summoned him to
the joy and rest of Heaven. But his holy life and lofty missionary spirit were
long felt as a blessed power in the Institution, and inspired others to gird them-
Selves for the work he was denied. -
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MILES BROxsox, D.D., was born in Norway, N. Y., July 20, 1812. Thus sud-
denly bereft of his associate, he reached Sadiya, July 17, 1837. He founded the
fºr 3 ſ.
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mission in Nowgong; and, in addition to extensive labors in Treachin
translating, he established the Nowgong Orphan School, which for many years
was a fountain of blessing. Besides the Assamese. he has labºred among the
Ka-Kyens, the Nagas and the Garos. He baptized the first Assarnese. Miri,
Mikir and Garo converts. He has prepared elementary books in the Singpho,
1.
besides several smaller works and translations, he has published a dictiºnary,
with English definitions, a work of much labor and value. His missiºnary life
extends over a period of 33 years; during which his sound judgment. riſe
scholarship and intrepid faith and zeal have made him a tower of strength in
that nission, as a preacher, educator, translator, and guide of the r
try and churches. He is at present with us, on a visit to this country for the
health of Mrs. Bronson, but hoping soon to return, to devote his ripened I- D
the work which has engrossed his life. Mrs. B. died Sept. 30, 1869—a saintly
woman. Dr. Bronson, accompanied by one of his daughters, returned to Assam
in Dec. 1869, and is prosecuting his labors with great energy and sºccess.
LYMAN STILSON, of the class of '36, was born in Meredith, N. Y. 1S65. He
sailed frºm Boston, Oct. 28, 1837, in company with Messrs. Stevens and B-25-on
K-, * *- : * *
i
i
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ments of missionary work : but was finally compelled by ill-he
from the mission. He reached this country in 1852. Resides in Nºr:da, N. Y.
His wife, Lucretia Brownson, died in Maulmain, Aug. 4, 1851. * -
CORY DON. H. SLAFTER, of the class of '38. was a native of Vermoriz. barn at
Norwich, Jan. 31, 1811. He sailed with Mr. Goddard. Dee. 6. 1S2s, de
to the mission in Siam. His missionary life, though brief, was intense!
He fitted up a family boat, in which he and his wife made several t
intended in this way to carry the gospel to every accessible part of Siam. Al-
ready he had penetrated further into the country than any previous missionary .
but on one of these journeys he was stricken with disease, and died after reach-
ing Bangkok, April 7, 1841. When informed that he must die. he at first
evinced disappointment at so early an end of his work; but soon remarked,
“God is able to carry on his work without me.” Among his last words, he
said, “I am going to dwell with the Lord Jesus in heaven.”
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:
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North American Indians, then an essentially foreign field, and under the Foreign
Board. These were CHARLEs R. KELLAM, of the class of '36. to the Choctaws
and Creeks; AMBLER EDSON, of the class of '38, to the Otoes: and J. O. M. Asºs,
D.D., of the class of '36, to the Creeks. All these, however, served only for a
short season ; but some of them have been widely known for ministerial useful-
ness on the home field. (See sketches.)
About this period, several went from the Institution into missions among the
The class of 1838 contributed three of its number to the foreign field–Bsrker.
Van Husen and Constantine.
CYRUs BARRER was born March 27, 1807, at Portsmouth. R. I. He sited Oct.
22, 1839, designated to the Nagas, a hill tribe of Assam ; but ultims tely lo-
cated at Gowahatti, in Western Assam. Here his work was greatly blessed in
the conversion of souls and in the establishment of Christian seboots, over which
he watched with tenderest interest. But his labors were too arduous, and fail-
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ing health compelled him to seek his native shores. He died and was buried at
Sea, June 31, 1850. Though not profound in intellect or brilliant in learning,
he was distinguished for deep humility, quiet earnestness, and thorough devo-
tion to his great work. Shortly before his death, he said: “I have tried to
devote myself devoutly and faithfully to my Saviour; but I make no account
of anything I have done, but all account of what my precious Saviour has
done.”
STEPTIEN VAN HUSEN was born Dec. 5, 1812, in Catskill, N. Y., and united
With the church in Homer, Aug. 1836. He sailed Oct. 22, 1839, designated to
the Teloogoos. He was associated with Mr. Day at Nellore for more than five
years. But his health was from the first impaired. He labored ardently and
effectively; but was compelled by the utter failure of his powers to return to
this country, Oct. 1, 1845. He resided at Brattleboro, Vt., until his death, Dec.
13, 1854. Thus “God buries his workmen, but carries on his work.” The
field, where he toiled with so many discouragements, is now beginning to yield
an abundant harvest.
ALFRED A. CONSTANTINE of the class of '38 and '40, was born in Ashburnham,
Mass., May 5, 1812. He sailed Sept. 25, 1840, designated to Africa, in company
with Joseph Fielding. Mr. Fielding and wife died soon after reaching Edina;
and Mr. Constantine, being prostrated by disease, after ineffectual efforts to en-
dure the climate, was compelled to return in 1842. Present residence, Jersey
City, N. J.
THIRD DECADE, 1840–49.
During this period, the agitation on the subject of slavery was widely €X-
tended through the churches, dividing the missionary interest, and greatly
impeding collections. This state of facts affected the missionary spirit of the
Institution, discouraging young men from thoughts of engaging personally in
the foreign work, by the general impression that they could not be sent out.
Nevertheless, a number of the noblest sons of Hamilton belong to the missiona-
ries of this decade.
ASA BENNETT, of Homer, N. Y., was a member of the class of '40. He was
appointed Sept. 6, 1841, to the work in Burmah ; but disease fastened on him,
and he died before leaving this country. He was distinguished for his ardent
piety and great usefulness during his life at the Institution.
EDWIN B. BULLARD was born in Shrewsbury, Vt., Sept. 12, 1813. He entered
the class of '40, but left at the close of the Junior year, and was several years
pastor at Foxboro’, Mass. His missionary life was in Burmah, where he began
his labors among the Sho Karens in 1844. He died of cholera April 5, 1847. He
had, in his short term of service, shown such zeal and ability, that Mr. Vinton,
writing of his death, said: “A more dreadful blow could hardly have fallen
upon our mission.” His son, a graduate of Newton, has just joined his mother
in this field.
EDMUND B. CIROSS, D.D., of the class of '39 and ’41, was born at Georgetown,
N. Y., June 11, 1814. He sailed from Boston, Oct. 30, 1844, designated to Burmah.
He has been stationed at Tavoy and Toungoo, where his life has been marked
by great activity and usefulness among the heathem, as a preacher, author,
theological instructor, and guide of the native pastors and churches. His mis-
sionary life has extended over twenty-five years, broken by one visit to this
country for Mrs. Cross' health in 1853, and the visit he is at present making
here. [Since returned to Burmah..] Of his connection with this Institution, he
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says: “I can record that the seven years spent in Hamilton, without interrup-
tion and almost without the loss of a recitation, was the happiest part of my past
life. I cannot expect that any part which still remains can find the precious,
peaceful hours which belong to that period. Hamilton has been emphatically a
“school of the prophets.” It was not only a place of ardent piety and Christian
enthusiasm, which as an atmosphere pervaded its immediate circle and filled its
own walls, but it was for a long time the mother of all the missionaries to the
West and East. It was the glory of the Institution that it begun with the
spirit of self-denial. It called for young men who did not cherish worldly aims.
It pointed to the rugged path which the Saviour himself trod and into which
he led his apostles. It renewed especially for the churches the great Com-
mission ; and made itself a rallying point, where the understanding of young
men might be opened that they might understand the Scriptures, and where
they should “tarry till they were endued with power from on high.”
Rev. Dr. Dean, of China, with Ko A Bok, a Chinese convert, visited
America in 1845; and his elevated missionary spirit proved an awakening
power far and wide through our land, rousing the churches to a ligher conse-
cration to the work of evangelizing the world.
ERASMUS N. JENCKS, of the class of '45, accompanied Dr. Dean on his
return, designated to the Chinese department of the mission in Siam." He
Sailed for the East, June 22, 1846. The climate, however, proved unfavorable to
Mrs. Jencks, and he was compelled to return the following year. Mrs. J. died
on the return voyage. See class of 1845. -
Rev. Dr. Judson, after an absence of 33 years, visited the United States
in 1845. The event produced a profound impression upon the churches, enlarg-
ing contributions, and enabling the Union to extend its operations. On his
return to Burmah, he was accompanied by Brethren Harris and Beecher from
Hamilton, designated to the Burmall mission. They sailed July 11, 1846.
NORMAN HARRIs, of the class of '42 and '44, was born at Beckett, Mass., Feb.
19, 1818. His missionary life has been spent among the Karens, as preacher
theological instructor, and superintendent of the native churches. His judg:
ment, piety and zeal, have rendered his life one of great usefulness, and
endeared him alike to his missionary associates and the wide circle of native
Christians, among whom he has labored. Modest, unobtrusive, he has ever
been a quiet, but effective worker; and hundreds once in heathenism recognize
him as their spiritual father and guide. The state of his family compelled a
|protracted visit to this country in 1857; but, having provided for bis children,
he has since returned to his post in Burmah, to consecrate the remainder of life
to the Salvation of the heathen.
JOHN SYDNEY BEECIIER, of the class of '44 and '46, was born at Hinesburg,
Vt., Feb. 19, 1820. His missionary life was connected with the Rangoon and
Bassein missions. As a preacher, teacher, and superintendent of native
churches, he attained a high rank, and his work was greatly blessed. He re-
turned to America in 1854, in consequence of Mrs. Beecher's ill health ; but soon
after Went back to Burmah, and continued his labors there, with much earnest-
ness and fidelity, until failing health compelled him to turn his face again
homeward. But he died on his way to this country, at Plymouth, England,
cared for and ministered to most tenderly by many friends whom God provided
for him there.
EDWARD C. LORD, D. D., of the class of '44 and '46, sailed for China, Jan. 5,
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1847. He was born in Carlisle, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1817. At the Institution, he was
distinguished for his consistent, thorough piety, and exact scholarship. His
missionary life has been spent at Ningpo, and has now extended through 24
years. He has been a quiet but successful worker as a preacher in Chinese, but
is especially eminent for the extent and accuracy of his Chinese scholarship, in
which he ranks among the ablest of the missionaries to China. He is now en-
gaged on a translation of the Scriptures into one of the common dialects of that
empire, under the auspices of the American Bible Union. Unostentatious, and
averse to sensationalism, few men have made their lives more useful, or reached
results of such permanent value to the heathen world.
W. H. HUSTED, of the class of '44, served as missionary among the North
American Indians : and WM. M. JONES, also of '44, was missionary in Hayti and
Palestine. See Sketches.
The class of '45, in addition to Mr. Jencks, contributed two others of their
number to the heathen world, Brethren Danforth and Stoddard. They were
room-mates in the Institution for years, and sailed together for Assam, Nov. 3,
1847, where they lived and labored side by side for a long period with warmest
affection.
APPLETON H. DANFORTH was born in Pelham, Mass., July 8, 1817. His mis-
sionary life was spent chiefly at Gowahatti, the largest and most important
station in Assam. Possessed of a mind of unusual clearness and logical power,
he excelled as a preacher, especially in the colloquial method, so necessary
among the heathen. Dr. Bronson says of him : “Few of the Hindoo priests
were disposed to meet him a second time in argument ; and his sermons and
addresses awakened much discussion among the leaders of the different leathen
sects. He was greatly interested in Christian education, as a means of over-
throwing caste and the idolatrous system of worship.” A man of warm heart,
self-forgetting, and full of generous sympathy, he was a true friend, attaching
all to him by the sterling worth of his character. Few men have been so suc-
cessful, if judged by the difficulties overcome, and the effective work done. The
failing health of Mrs. Danforth required their return to America in 1858. He
settled as pastor in Milestown, near Philadelphia, attended with much success.
His heart, however, was in Assam, and he prepared to return. But when his
arrangements for sailing were nearly complete, he was called from the labor of
earth, deeply lamented by all who knew him, but by none more than the
orphaned church in Gowahatti, many of whom he had baptized.
IRA. J. STODDARD, his companion, was assigned to Nowgong, with a special
relation to the educational Institution there, but also preached extensively and
successfully. Thoroughly devoted to his work, he accomplished much as a
preacher and educator, and will long be remembered in Assam. Ill health com-
pelled his return to this country in 1856, and several years of most important
and successful labor were given to the cause of foreign missions in the West,
and to the Central University at Pella, Iowa, where his accomplished, devoted
wife was preceptress. In 1866, however, leaving their children in America, they
sailed again for Assam, to spend the rest of life in that dark land of heathenism,
He was stationed at Gowahatti, but on the breaking out of the wonderful work
among the Garos, he removed to Gowalpara, where he is gathering in many
precious souls from that hitherto wild and unpromising people. His work has
hardly been excelled in interest in any part of the mission field. Ill health
has compelled the recent return Of Mrs. Stoddard, leaving our brother to stand
alone, with impaired bodily strength, at that distant post.
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In 1848, the University sent forth four of its members into the foreign work,
three to the East, and one to the Indians in the far West; Messrs. Moore, Van
Meter, Smith and Bingham. º
CALVIN C. MOORE, Of the class of '46, is a native Of Massachussetts, born at
Chesterfield, Dec. 26, 1818. He sailed Oct. 21, 1848, designated to the Burmese
department of the Mission in Arracan. He was stationed at Akyab, associated
with Ingalls, and subsequently with Campbell, Knapp, and Rose, and was
enabled to perform much valuable labor among the heathen. But failure of
health obliged him to return to this country in 1855, and he has not since been
able to resume missionary work. A letter recently received from him, dated at
Ontario, Knox Co., Ill., says: “My own and Mrs. Moore's health is quite poor, and
unless better, I shall not be able to attend the Jubilee meeting, which I much
regret. I hope good to the University may result from the meeting, and also
to the lost, for whom Christ died and his people labor.”
HENRY L. WAN METER was a native of Philadelphia, born Sept. 21, 1824.
He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a member of the Theo-
logical Class of '48 in Hamilton. He sailed Oct. 21, 1848, for Burmah, appointed
to Bassein. The Pwo Karen department was ultimately assigned to his care,
over which he presided with great zeal and effectiveness for many years.
His work in 1868, as stated in the annual report of the Missionary Union, is a
marked example of missionary earnestness. We record it as a specimen of his
missionary life. The report says: “Mr. Van Meter has been very active and
very busy, giving almost the entire time to jungle labors at all seasons of the
year, going out into the jungles in all thirty-two times, making eighty distinct
visits, and travelling for the purpose two thousand three hundred and forty
one miles, preaching from three to five times a day, making five hundred relig-
ious services.” The statistics for last year in his department are : 18 churches,
52 preachers, 782 members, and 75 baptisms. His missionary life was ended in
1870. He was compelled to return. He had only time to renew his acquaint-
ance with his children from whom he had been several years separated, when
he was called away. He died at Mottville, N. Y., Aug. 1S, 1871).
SAMUEL J. SMITH, of the class of '46 and '4S is a native of Cananore, Hindostan.
He sailed, Oct. 9, 1848, for Bangkok to join Dr. Jones and Mr. Chandler in the
Siamese department of the mission to Siam. He has ever since labored at that
post. Many difficulties have embarrassed the work, and one after another of the
laborers has fallen ; so that large success has not attended the work. At pres-
ent Mr. Smith has the sole charge of the mission.
A. JUDSON BINGHAM, of the class of '46 and '48, was born at Wheatland, N.Y.,
April 5, 1820. He was sent Sept., 1848, to the Ojibwa Mission at St. Mary’s,
where his venerated father, Rev. Abel Bingham, labored with apostolic zeal
for nearly thirty years. He resigned, however, his appointment in 1850, and
subsequently labored in different fields as a pastor. He left at Hamilton a
worthy memory as an earnest, true man, devoted to Christ and His church. His
death occurred in 1868, See Sketch.
HARVEY M. CAMIPBELL, of the class of '42 and '48, sailed for Burmah, Oct. 1S,
1849, designated to the Burmese department in Arracan. He was born in
Lebanon, N. Y. June 8, 1823. On reaching Arracan, he was assigned to
Kyouk Phyoo, the chief military station of the province, and here commenced
the vigorous study of the Burman language. But just as his usefulness was be-
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coming widely felt, he was suddenly attacked with cholera, and died Feb. 22,
1852. His memory as a noble, true Christian man is still cherished by many in,
Burmah and America. © -
HARVEY E. KNAPP, of the class of '47 and '49, was born in Denmark, Ohio,
May 14, 1820, and sailed in company with Mr. Campbell for Burmah, designated
to the Kemmees in Arracan. He settled at Akyab, and had only fully mastered
the language and entered on his chosen work, developing all the qualities of a
useful missionary, when an attack of jungle fever, followed by pulmonary diffi-
culties, compelled his return. He died at sea, Nov. 9, 1853, and was buried in
the Indian ocean, the tomb of so many noble missionaries. He was a man of
gentle, but earnest spirit, fervently devoted to the Master's work.
WILLIAM WARD, D. D., of the class of '48 and '50, was born Aug., 28, 1821, and
sailed for Assam, July 25, 1850. His life has since been spent in connection
with that mission chiefly at Gowahatti and Sibsagor ; interrupted by a brief
residence in the United States, from 1858 to 1861), occasioned by the ill health of
Mrs. Ward, during which he was pastor at Wellsville, N. Y. Besides extended
usefulness in preaching, and editing the Onunodoi, a periodical published by the
mission, and superintending the mission press in the Assamese, he is at present
engaged also in the translation of the Old Testament, one sixth of which he has
already completed and printed. With health feeble and precarious, he still
clings with noble devotion to his post, pressing forward his important work.
Visited U. S. in 1870. w
WILLIAM T. BIDDLE, of the class of '49 and ’51, was born in England, June 8,
1824. He was appointed to the Burman Karen Mission, but died before setting
out, Sept. 16, 1851. Possessed of talents and scholarship of very high order, he
had been assigned. a post of instruction in the University, and his prospective
life in Burmah had presage of much success. Few men have passed through
the Institution whose mental and moral promise seemed higher ; but God called
him to an early grave. Among the last prayers offered by this earnest, conse-
crated man, were these words: “O Lord, pour out a missionary spirit upon all
the rising ministry throughout the land. Bless that dear Institution I have
left ; and grant that if I should be taken away, my death may lead many of the
dear young men to consecrate themselves to the missionary work ” Just be.
fore he breathed his last, he whispered, “HAPPY, HAPPY, BRIGIIT, ALL BRIGHT!”
FOURTH DECADE, 1850–59.
As A B. CABANIss, of the class of ’50, after completing his theological course,
was sent out by the Southern Baptist Board as a missionary to China. See
Sketch, class of 1850.
THOMAS ALLEN, of the class of '50 and ’52, sailed Sept. 18, 1852, designated to
the Burman Karen Mission. He was stationed at Tavoy, and labored earnestly
and effectively as a preacher and guide of the native churches. The state of Mrs.
Allen's health, however, compelled his return in 1859. See sketch, 1850.
A. TAYLoR Rose, of the class of '50 and ’52, was born in Steuben Co., N.Y.,
April, 1823. He sailed Jan. 17, 1853, designated to the Burmans in Arracan
where he settled at Akyab. After much valuable labor, he was called to the
clarge of the government school, still continuing, however, to preach to the
Burmans and perform much other missionary work. He resumed full mission
work in 1862 at Rangoon, with which station he is still connected. His life has
been one of great activity and usefulness in all departments of missionary labor.
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A fever contracted in one of his preaching tours in 1868 has at length com-
pelled him to seek relief by change. Leaving his family in Rangoon, this
laborious, earnest missionary is now in this country, seeking health for future
work.
J. LORIMER DOUGLAss, of the class of '50, sailed December 12, 1853, designa-
ted to the Burman mission at Bassein, where for fifteen years his life has been
mostly spent, interrupted only by a visit to America on account of Mrs. Doug-
lass' health, in 1860. Mr. Douglass is a man of commanding powers. His
many and masterly addresses during this visit, inspired as they were with a
holy enthusiasm, will be remembered during the lifetime of a generation. His
labors have been largely blessed in the ingathering of souls and in the work of
education. (See sketch, class of ’50).
DANIEL WHITAKER, of the class of '50, was born at Downs, N J., November
17, 1822. After completing his college course at Hamilton, and his theological
at Rochester, he sailed for Burmah in company with Messrs. Bixby and Rose,
January 17, 1853. He joined the Maulmain Karen Mission, but was afterwards
transferred to the Toungoo, to preside amidst the wonderful scenes of ingather-
ing connected with Sau Quala's ministry. Self-forgetting, and wholly devoted
to the salvation of the Karens, he was early worn down with over-work, and
died in Maulmain, August 18, 1857. The life of this consecrated servant of
Christ was one of apostolic activity in preaching tours, in training native teach-
ers and preachers, and in guiding the native churches. Under date of January,
1857, the year of his death, he writes: “In my late tour I baptized 233, admin-
istered the Lord's Supper 12 times, constituted seven new churches, occupied
ten new stations with teachers, besides attending the Paku association. It is
the Lord's doings, and it is marvellous in our eyes.”
MESSRs. LEWIS SMITH and H.W. REED, of the class of '46, and J. MILTON SHAw,
of the class of '50, went forth to New Mexico, then essentially a foreign field, though
under the auspices of the Home Mission Society. After much earnest labor, all
Some years since retired from the mission.
H. B. SHERMER, of the class of '50, was a native of Philadelphia, and sailed
for the mission to the Bassas, West Africa, November 27, 1852. But the climate,
as in the case of nearly all white missionaries, forbade his stay. His wife fell an
early victim and died, and his own health became so impaired as to compel him
to return to America in 1853, and relinquish further mission work.
ROBERT TELFORD, of the class of '51, as far as the Senior year, was designated
to reinforce the Chinese department of the mission in Siam, and reached Bangkok,
June 24, 1854. He was subsequently transferred to the mission in Southern
China. After a career of great usefulness, extending through ten years, he was
obliged to return to this country on account of Mrs. Telford's health, where he
still remains, but continuing to labor effectively for the cause of missions.
MILES J. KNOWLTON, D. D., of the class of ’51 and ’53, is a native of Vermont,
born at West Wardsboro, February 8, 1825. He sailed for China December 10,
1853, designated to Ningpo, where he has had an unbroken ministry of more
than fifteen years. He has baptized over 260 Chinese converts, being an average
of about 17 per year. His energy, tact, and thorough consecration have rendered
his work in the highest degree effective in all the departments of the service,
In a letter recently received he makes the following estimate of the influ-
ence of Hamilton on his life: “ The influence of Madison University on my
life and life-work, in a literary and intellectual point of view, has probably beca
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as beneficial as could have been derived from any similar institution in the
United States; while in its religious and missionary influence—that influence
which is peculiarly adapted to the moulding of the ministerial and missionary
character—it is my settled conviction that Madison University stands superior
to any similar institution in the world. Its power in these respects, upon my
own mind, was most profound and abiding. If I were to attempt to analyze the
religious and missionary influences of the Institution, I would name :
“First, the spirit of evangelical piety that pervaded its every department. Most
of the students were not only pious, but were also studying for the ministry;
and their daily devotions in their rooms, their frequent devotional social meet-
ings were marked by hearty devotion, thorough Christian experience, and deep-
toned piety. They were mostly from the middle walks in life, and came, not to
squander money or foster ambitious schéºnes, but with the simple desire to be
better prepared to do service for God and truth. They found a congenial atmos-
phere around them. They came to an Institution born and reared in answer to
the prayers and tears and strong faith of its founders and patrons. They found
a body of men occupying its professors' chairs, possessing a like spirit with its
founders, men of God, of evangelical piety, of prayer and faith, and deeply im-
bued with the missionary spirit. Dr. Nathaniel Kendrick, though languish-
ing on a bed of pain and suffering, still labored for the spiritual good of the
institution, counselling and praying with the students, who visited his bedside,
with paternal interest. Those visits are among my most cherished recollections
of Hamilton.
“Secondly, the missionary spirit constituted another vital element in the atmosphere
of the Institution. This was fostered by the early founders, and from the very
beginning was an essential feature in the Institution. The devout student could
not fail to catch the prevailing spirit. In my own experience, I soon came to
feel that I occupied high and holy ground, where my mind was constantly di-
rected to every part of the missionary field, and where at length I was constrain-
ed to lay myself on the foreign missionary altar.” A premium tract on “China
as a Missionary Field,” written by Dr. Knowlton, has been issued by the Bible
and Publication Society.
GEORGE P. WATROUs, of the class of ’52, as far as the Junior year, sailed for
Burmah, October 15, 1854. He was born in Chester, Conn., January 10, 1825.
He joined the Mission in Shwaygyeen in 1855, but, after much useful labor, he
was compelled by ill health to return to America in 1860. (See class of 52).
Joſſ N B. Jon Es, of the class of ’52, as far as the Junior year, was designated
to the Cherokee Indians in 1855. He is the son of the venerable Evan Jones,
for forty years a devoted missionary apostle among the Cherokees, and was bap-
tized in 1844, by John Wickliffe, a native preacher. After devotedly working
with his father five years, he resigned September 20, 1860. (See Sketch, 1852.)
Cyr Us F, TGLMAN, of the class of '56, went to Assam. He was born in Me-
ridian, N.Y., October 25, 1832, and sailed for Nowgong, November, 1858. He had
just entered effectively on the work, having already made a tour of exploration
on the Mikir Hills, when disease prostrated him, and made return to America
necessary in 1861. He is now one of the efficient secretaries of the Missionary
Union in the Western District.
JAMEs R. IIAswRLL, of the class of '57 and '59, son of the veteran missionary
Haswell, was born in Amherst, Burmah, in 1836. He sailed for Burmah, Sep-
tember 26, 1859, to toil side by side with his father, in the Maulmain Burman
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mission. Here he at once entered on labor with great power and success, hav-
ing already full command of the language. Ill health, however, obliged him to
return February, 1863. Having partially recovered, his ardent spirit induced
him again to accept an appointment, and on February 5, 1870, he a second time
reached his chosen field, and is laboring in Maulmain and vicinity with success.
HORACE JENKINs, of the class of '57 and '59, was born in Ashfield, Mass., in
1832. He arrived at Ningpo, China, March 22, 1860, and has continued without
interruption earnestly engaged in Chinese evangelization. His heroic, persistent
efforts to establish a mission at King-hwa, continued through two years
past, demonstrate his earnestness, tact and energy. In 1869 he was located at
Shou-hing, an inland city said to be larger than Ningpo, and situated in a
densely populated district. He is now doing effective service for the gospel at
Hang Chou, having charge of three churches, four stations, and seven native
helpers.
EBHNEZER EDWARDs, of the Jun. Theo. class in '59, is a native of Wales,
born March 7, 1825. He was some time under appointment for Assam ; but, in
consequence of the Indian mutiny, was detained, and the subsequent failure of
Mrs. Edwards' health compelled him to relinquish the work.
FIFTH DECADE, 1860–69.
J. GoBLE, a member of the Theo. class of 1860, is a native of England. He
was connected with the expedition of Com, Perry to Japan, some years since,
and became deeply interested in the spiritual welfare of that wonderful people.
After spending some time in preparatory studies at this Institution, he sailed for
Japan, relying on his own resources, under God, for support. Possessed of great
energy of character, he has performed much effective missionary work there,
and is now engaged in the translation of the Bible into the Japanese language.
JUSTUs B. VINTON, of the class of '60, son of the veteran missionary of that
name, was born in Burmah, March, 1840. He sailed for Burmah Aug. 17, 1861.
as an independent missionary to the Karens, near Rangoon. The younger
Haswell says of him : “The Karens under his care have advanced wonderfully
in ability and disposition to help themselves. He is sustained entirely by them
and his own means, without any help from this country. He has great success
in setting the natives themselves at work; has established a school system
which is beyond anything of the kind in all the East, and has about 2000
pupils. He has himself, with the Karens, set up a complete printing office, for
the publication of books and papers for the Karens. He cut the punches,
punched the matrices, and cast the type himself. The office is worked entirely
by Karens, under his supervision, and the work turned out is equal to any in
Burmah. His principal work has been in preaching to the heathen, and the
care and direction of some two thousand Christians, gathered in 34 churches,
with over 40 native preachers.
EDWARD P. Scott, of the Theo. class of '60, was born in Greensboro, Vt., 1832.
He graduated at Knox College, Ill., and, after completing a course of theology
here, after some detention, he sailed for Assam, June 9, 1862. He labored with
great zeal among the Mikirs; but died of cholera at Nowgong, May 18, 1869.
Rev. Dr. Warren, secretary of the Miss. Union, writes of him : “A manly man
was he, and a fully developed Christian. In missionary character he stood pre-
eminent; few equalled, and none, so far as the range of our vision extended, sur-
passed him. He had breadth, tact, facility of movement, persistence, and genu-
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ine force, I think he possessed uncommon power to lay hold of men, and mould
their character. His crowning excellence was his Christian spirit, moving
through all, giving tone to all, never forsaking him. His devotion was whole-
hearted, exclusive, a fire that burned to the last moment of life. To my mind,
his only fault was overwork.” Dr. Bronson, his senior colleague, says of him :
“Multitudes of inquiring heathen, especially those of the better educated class,
were drawn around him. With rare talent in teaching, he was raising a com-
pany of efficient teachers and preachers. He has done a good and great work.
The sickle has fallen from his hand, while the ripe harvest field still waves
before us. Who will take up the work he has so successfully begun ?”
Within the last decade, a wonderful work of God has been in progress in
Sweden, under the leadership of the devoted Wiberg. The sleep of formalism,
so long continued there, has been broken; and God's pure word, uttered with
singular power, has moved the souls of multitudes. State persecution has been
in vain. Churches of Apostolic model have everywhere sprung up. In 1868, so
widespread and mighty had been the movement, there were in Sweden 201
Baptist churches, with 7900 members. To aid in this great work, especially in
the training of a native ministry, our Alma Mater has sent forth three of her
sons, Broady, Edgren, and Truve. -
KNUT OSCAR BROADY, of the class of ’61, is a native of Sweden, and was con-
verted in New York, under the labors of the devoted city missionary, George
Hatt. At the close of his college course, during the late war, he patriotically
enlisted in the cause of his adopted country. At the close of the war, he entered
into a pastorate. His heart, however, was in Sweden ; and in 1867, he was
sent to Stockholm, as preacher and instructor in the Theological school. Pos-
sessed of a mind of no ordinary power, and a high order of Scholarship, he gives
much promise of extended usefulness.
JOHN A. EDGREN, of the Theo. Class of '67, is a native of Stockholm, Sweden.
He sailed with Mr. Broady in 1867, and was also appointed to the Theological
School in that city. He removed to Upsala, the seat of the national University.
In 1870, the poor health of Mrs. Edgren compelled his return to the United
States, and he is laboring successfully among his countrymen, in Chicago, Ill.
THEODORE TRUVE, of Gottenberg, Sweden, spent two years and a half in
studies at Hamilton, connected with the class of '69. He went out in the spring
of 1868, and is now stationed as pastor in his native town. His work has
already been followed with cheering results.
MoUNG KYAw is a native of Burmah, born in Rangoon, March 5, 1843. He
was converted after reaching this country, and united with the Baptist church
in Hamilton. After spending nearly ten years in study, four of which were con-
nected with the University, he sailed for Burmah. Few men have given more
evidences of consecration, self-reliance, persistent energy, associated with men-
tal ability, than this devoted young Burman. (See Sketch, Class '68.)
W. I. KNAPP, class '60, and J. W. TERRY, Theological class of '65, are labor-
ing with marked zeal and success as missionaries in Spain, amidst the wonderful
revival of God’s work in that land of Catholic superstition. (See Sketch, class '60.)
RECAPITULATION.
The Institution, during her half-century life, has consecrated seventy-five of
her sons on the altar of foreign missions; in the first decade, six ; in the second,
twenty-four; in the third, twenty-one ; in the fourth, fifteen ; in the fifth, nine.
Of this number, nineteen have died in the foreign service ; [twenty-two, 1871].
*
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Thirty have returned mostly with shattered health, after years of toil and sacrifice;
and twenty-six are still at work, earnestly laboring at different posts in the
heathen world.
It is impossible to survey this long array of noble names, many of them
among the most distinguished in the annals of modern missions, without a
grateful sense of what our Alma Mater has done, under God, for the evangeliza-
tion of the heathem. The work they have accomplished for Christ, no human
mind can measure ; and the influences they have set in motion through the
press, through the native churches and ministry, and through many thousands
of souls converted to God, must continue, with ever widening power, a blessing
in the earth till time shall end.
God grant that this sacred Institution, now entering with increased power
its second half-century, may ever be true to its high and holy mission ; and
that, in the years to come, a host of other eonsecrated men, trained here amidst
holy influenees for their great work, may go forth to the nations sitting in dark-
ness; until the work of missions is done, and “the kingdoms of this world are
become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ J"
W. A TR R. E. C. O F D .
BY PROF. LUCIEN MI. OSIBORN.
The Stars (*) indicate those who died in the army, or from wounds or sickness.
ALLEN, G. C., was three years a private in 5th Kansas Cavalry. Acting chap-
lain a year and a half.
* ARROWSMITH, GEORGE (59). Captain in '61 of Company M, 26th N. Y.
Volunteers. Lieut.-Col. of 157th. Died on the battle-field at Gettysburg, July
1st, 1863.
BACON, C. L. (38). Appointed chaplain of the 85th N. Y. Volunteers; but
before he reached them they were taken prisoners.
BAUMES, J. R. ('57), Chaplain of the 61st N. Y. Regiment, which he was
largely instrumental in enlisting. Resigned because of ill health.
BALDWIN, C. J. ('64). In 1863, first Lieut. and Adjt. of 157th N. Y. Volunteers.
Also A. A. G., on general staff.
BATES, J. P. ('61). Enlisted as private in '61; made 2d Lieut. ; elected chap-
lain, but declined. Served nine months.
BEEBEE, F. M. ('70). Enlisted in 114th N. Y. Volunteers, July, '62. In Banks'
expedition. At Port Hudson and Red River. In battles of Sabine and Pleasant
Hill. September 19th, '64, received a severe wound in right leg. Ball not ex-
tracted till after his return to the Institution. Discharged May, '65.
BENTLEY, E. D. ('57). Served in Christian Commission at two periods.
BILLINGS, HENRY (38). Was in the army and baptized a considerable num-
ber.
BINGHAM, A. J. (’46). Chaplain of the 10th Mass. Volunteers. Malarial fever
compelled him to resign.
BLISs, A. H. (55). In 203d Penn. Volunteers, August, '64. Before Richmond.
In North Carolina. At storming of Fort Fisher and at Wilmington.
BLIss, G. R. ('88). Served in hospitals, at Gettysburg, after the battle.
Booth, C. M. In 27th N. Y. Volunteers, August, '61, Disabled. Discharged
March, '62.
Bow EN, B. F. ('64). Chaplain of the 84th Colored Regiment. At Port Hud-
son. Took part in Red River Campaign. Was disabled. March, '65, enlisted
as private in 8th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. Before Petersburg.
Wounded by a minnie ball, which entered the neck, and lodged near the heart.
This wound yet causes intense pain. -
BRIGGs, MoRRIs ('56). In 36th Ill. Volunteers in '61. First Lieut. in '62.
Wounded in shoulder in battle at Perryville, Ky., October 8th, 62. Present
at capture of Morgan ; in command of a company. At Chicago till end of war
in Veteran Reserve Corps.
BROADy, K. O. ('61). Captain in 61st N. Y. Volunteers in '61, Lieut. Colonel.
Colonel. Brevetted Colonel U. S. Volunteers by President Lincoln in '64. In
thirty battles with army of the Potomac. Hip injured at Gettysburg, and
shoulder shot through at Ream's Station. Resigned, October, '64, while in
command of Brigade. Brigadiership offered him.
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* BROOKs, ARTHUR L. ('61). Capt. in 61st N. Y. Volunteers, October, '61.
Major, April, 62. He died in hospital at Yorktown, May 13th, 62.
BRowN, JR., P. P. (55). Col. 157th N. Y. Volunteers. July, '65, to February,
'66. Col. of the 7th U. S. Veteran Volunteers of Hancock’s Corps.
* BRowN. S. P. (57). Enlisted in the Army of the Potomac January, '64,
and served eleven months. Died December 3d, '64, from wounds received at
the battle of Cedar Creek, October 19th, '64.
BUELL, C. C. (52). Was three years 1st Lieut. and Quartermaster of 14th Iowa
Infantry. Engaged at Donaldson, Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Pleasant Hill,
Old Oaks. Was in the raid from Vicksburg to Meridian. In Red River expedi-
tion. Last service, chasing Price out of Missouri.
BURDICK, W. P. ('63). In 149th N. Y. Volunteers, August, 62. Promoted to
Lieut. First Lieut. in 102d N. Y. Volunteers. In Army of Potomac and of the
Cumberland. With Sherman to Atlanta.
BURLINGHAM, H. D. (54). Entered U. S. Navy as assistant surgeon, June, '61.
Few weeks at Brooklyn Navy Yard; then upon blockade duty along the Atlan-
tic coast, as far as the West Indies and New Orleans. In December, '63, upon
U. S. Receiving Ship, North Carolina. In April, '63, was promoted to the rank
of Passed Assistant Surgeon U. S. Navy. In April, '64, resigned.
BUTLER, Joseph C. ('65). Acting Master Mate U. S. Navy, '62. Mate in
March, '65. Sent in pursuit of Rebel Steamer Sumter, and in the South At-
lantic blockade. Resigned in '65. -
CARR, HoRACE M. (56). Chaplain 3d Ill. Cavalry, Gen. E. A. C., Commander.
In Fremont's army in Missouri. In the battle of Pea Ridge, and the long march
to Helena, Ark; battle of Chickasaw Bayou and Ark. Post. At surrender of
Vicksburg. Chaplain of hospital at Memphis, till close of term of service.
CHILDs, T. P. (Entered '36.) Chaplain 44th Ohio Volunteers. In engage-
ments at West Virginia, and in the terrible retreat to the Ohio river. Then
in Kentucky against Bragg and Forrest. After typhoid fever, entered Sanitary
Commission. At Washington and Richmond, helped over a thousand sick and
wounded soldiers home.
CLEGIORN, A. (37). Raised a company of Artillery, and served as its Captain
two and a half years. Was in the siege of Petersburg. Fever compelled his
resignation in January, '65.
CookE, C. A. October, '61, enlisted in the 11th Maine; Sergeant. On hospi-
tal duty at Washington, and Point Lookout, Md. Health failed in spring of '63.
Re-enlisted in fall in 30th Maine. In Red River expedition. Taken prisoner at
battle of Pleasant Hill, La., April, '64; exchanged in October; mustered out
August, '65. -
* CoRBIN, H. P. ('63). In 114th N. Y. Volunteers. Sergeant and 2d Lieut.
Killed in assault on Port Hudson, January 14th, '63, while in command of the
company.
CRUMB, J. W. (38). Chaplain of the 8th N. Y. some months.
DANFORTH, A. H. (’45). Labored in '64 in Christian Commission with much
Zeal and success, but was prostrated with typhoid fever from which he never
recovered.
DAVIS, J. B. ('57). Chaplain 20 N. Y. Cavalry in '61. In '62, Major 122d N. Y.
Infantry, for which he recruited. In battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg.
Severely wounded last day at Gettysburg, and on this account discharged
Jan., '64.
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DAY, H. M. (56). Private in 157th N. Y. Volunteers. Severely injured; dis.
charged March, '63.
DAY, L. P. In 3d N. Y. Cavalry, July, '61; seventeen months in Va., Md., and
N. C.; seven months chaplain of 174th Pa. Volunteers, at Beaufort, N. C.
* DEMING, E. M. In 71st N. Y. Volunteers. In battle of Bull Run. Returned
and raised a company mear Fabius, N. Y., and as captain was engaged before
Richmond. He was wounded, captured, and put into the hospital of Libby
Prison, where he died July 19, 1862.
DoRRANCE, G. W. ('87). In 1861 was Chaplain in the Wabash, flag ship of Ad-
miral Dupont, and served with him and Admiral Dahlgren during the war. In
'65 on board receiving ship at New York.
DOWNEY, G. D. ('59). Served four months in Christian Commission in 1864–5.
DUNBAR, J. L. ('55). Was one year in the army.
* EARLY, GREGORY. Raised a company in '62. June 2, '64, while leading his
men in a charge he was wounded, taken to Washington, and thence to his home,
Ontario, Wayne Co., where he soon died.
EATON, HERVEY E. ('66). Sept. '64, entered 3d N. Y. Cavalry as Quarter-
master Sergeant. Promoted to 2d Lieut. With Sheridan in the Shenandoah
Valley.
EDDY, H. J. (Entered '32). Chaplain of the 33d Ill. Volunteers 2 years, the
last year under General Grant. Was the first to enter Vicksburg after its sur-
render. -
Eva RTs, W. W. (37). Served as Chaplain at Camp Douglass, Chicago.
FISH, J. W. (43). Served in Virginia as member of Christian Commission in
winter and spring of ’65—many inquirers, and some conversions.
FootB, E. J. (49). Leaving his church, wrote and spoke for the Union, and
labored for soldiers in hospitals and prisons in St. Louis.
FULLER, C. A. (Entered '60). In 61st N. Y., Sept., '61. In battles around
Richmond, at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Private, Sergeant,
2d Lieut. At Gettysburg was wounded so as to lose his left leg and part of left
shoulder bone. Discharged Jan., '64.
#GAMBLE, A. (45). Entered as a soldier. Sickened and died in the service.
GILLETTE, A. D. (29). Had four sons in the National Army. Himself served
in the hospitals, and was more than once amid flying bullets while aiding the
wounded.
GooDELL, S. T. (65). In 157th N. Y. Volunteers Aug., '63; at Morris and
Folly Island against Sumter and Charleston. In Oct., '64, 2d Lieut. 21st colored
troops; Aug., '65, 1st Lieut. Mustered out Sept., '66.
GoRIAM, G. W. (47). Entered the army Sept., '62, and continued in it until
the close of the war, with the exception of six months. Served as Chaplain in
North Carolina, under Gen. Foster, in the 46th Mass. Infantry. Afterward Chap-
lain of the 1st Mass. Cavalry, under Sheridan and Grant, in Va.
# HAscALL. A. F. Sergeant in 61st N. Y. Volunteers. Was wounded at An-
tietam, and died Nov. 11, 1862, at Smoketown.
HARRIs, E. L. (43). Chaplain 3d Tenn. Heavy Artillery, and afterwards of
6th U. S. H. A., at Natchez.
HUNTINGTON, JAY, (54). Private in the army eight months, till close of the
war; on detailed duty.
Hickok, E. P. ('66). Entered in 1864, N. Y. Heavy Artillery, Co. E, then in de-
fences of Washington. Entered the field as infantry the following Spring. Was
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in fifteen general engagements. After the surrender of Lee was again on garri-
son duty about Washington. Discharged Oct., 1865, as Quartermaster's Sergeant.
JoBNSON, C. J. Entered 148th N. Y. Volunteers Aug., 62. Rose from private
to captain. Severely wounded. Provost Marshal. Made 1st Lieut. in Regular
Army, and Captain by brevet, for services at Cold Harbor and Fair Oaks.
Resigned Jan., '69.
KEMPSEY, M. C. ('58). Captain of a company he had raised in '63. Chaplain
176th N. Y. Volunteers. Colonel 16th Regiment, C. D. A. Charge of colored
schools in La.
LAMB, T. G. ('40). Enlisted in 29th Ohio Volunteers. Rejected on account of
imperfect vision, but served five months as Chaplain.
LASHER, G. W. ('57). Chaplain 5th Conn. Volunteers in ’61.
LEAMING, R. G. ('58). In army over three years as 1st Lieut. of Cavalry. On
Staff of Gen. Pleasanton and other Generals.
LIVERMORE, L. S. (48). Chaplain 16th Wis. Volunteers. Seven times under
fire. In '63 Supt. of contrabands at Lake Providence, La. Conceived the plan
of enlisting contrabands and of leasing plantations to be worked by them—plan
approved, and he and two others were appointed a commission from which arose
the Freedman's Bureau. Chaplain 5th Heavy Artillery in '64. In '65 Provost
Marshal of Freedmen at Grenada, Miss.
Low E, U. S. (51). Was Lieut. and Quartermaster N. Y. Volunteers in '63;
in '64, Captain and Assis’t Quartermaster U. S. Volunteers. On account of ill
health resigned Nov., '64.
LOCKHART, W. E. ('63). Toward the close of the war served under the Chris-
tian Commission in the army around Petersburg. Witnessed the final struggle
and surrender.
LYForD, E.T. ('64). Chaplain 11th N. Y. Volunteers from Sept. '63 to end of the
War.
MATCHETT, W. B. (55). Chaplain 10th N. Y.
MEECH, W. W. (55). Hospital Chaplain at Newport News, Va., Louisville,
Ky., and Bowling Green. In Freedman's Bureau at Nashville, Tenn., and then
Chaplain of colored Heavy Artillery in different States till after April, '66—four
years of hard service. Baptized nineteen soldiers and their wives Jan. 1, ’66.
* MCINTIRE, WM. ('61). First Lieut. in 61st N. Y. Volunteers in Oct., '61.
Fell at Fair Oaks while cheering on his men, June 1, 1862. Remarkable for
bravery and generosity.
MIDDLEBROOK., E. R. ('59). Five years in U. S. Army in N. Carolina.
MITCHELL, S. N. About three years in 17th Penn. Became Quartermaster
Sergeant, and 2d Lieut. With Gen. Sheridan in the East. Before Lee's surren-
der, captured at Dinwiddie Court House, and three days prisoner at Richmond.
MINER, S. G. (Entered '30). Chaplain of 7th Ill. Cavalry from Oct., 1861, till
Oct., 1864. Was in battle of Corinth. Taken prisoner at Colliersville, West
Tenn., and has marched through almost all the Southern States, and finally
lodged in Libby Prison. Being soon released, rejoined the Regiment in West
Tenn., in Dec., 1862. While in Rebel hands was subjected to all sorts of abuse
and privations, being nearly starved to death, and from effects of these has never
Yet recovered. Had two sons in the army ; one was wounded six times, and is
crippled for life.
Moon, W. P. ('57). In April, '62, sent as surgeon to army at Yorktown, Va.
In June in charge of St. Joseph's Hospital, Philadelphia. March, 63, at
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Monroe U. S. A. Hospital, as Executive Officer—there till July, '65. Now at
Penn. Hospital for Insane.
MUDGE, WAREHAMI ('50). Served over two years as Army Chaplain.
NEWTON, A. R. ('56). Declined captaincy of Company B, 11th Ill. Cavalry,
Which he had largely enlisted. Served in hospitals in Chattanooga, Tenn.
* NICHOLS, A. A. Of 114th N. Y. Volunteers, died of typhoid fever, January 7,
'63, at Carrollton, La.
ODELL, TTIOS. B. ('66). October, '63. 2d Lieutenant, 8th Regiment Corps
d'Afrique, Aid to Gen. Hamlin, Ordinance officer to Gen. Dennis, Assistant
Adjutant to Gen. Shutz. Mustered out of service with rank of Major, March
1, ’67.
OSBORN, T. W. ('60). In 61 raised Battery “Dº” attached to 1st Regiment,
N. Y. Artillery. Soon Captain. Took part in the Peninsular campaign. His
battery was complimented by Gen. Meade for having taken part in more battles
than any other. On the staff of Gen. Berry. After Chancellorville made Major
and Chief of Artillery in Reserve Artillery Corps, and soon had same position on
Gen. Howard's staff. Served with Sheridan before Chattanooga. Made Colonel
and Assistant Commissioner of Bureau of Refugees in Florida. Mustered out
August, '66.
* OVIATT, JOHN F. In 64th Ohio Volunteers. Died of typhoid fever, Febru-
ary 18, 62.
* PACKER, P. G. ('61). In regular army, '64—'66. Died at Fort Randall, Da-
kota Ter.
PALMER, FRANCIS, (59). Four years in 114th N. Y. Rose to 1st Lieut.
PECK, REV. D. A. (46). Enlisted in the 8th Wisconsin Battery, December, '63.
Discharged August, '65.
RANDALL, W. H. ('50). Raised a company of which he was captain until the
battle of Chancellorsville, when he was promoted to Major. At Gettysburg his
left arm was broken by a musket ball and he was honorably discharged.
* RANDOLPH, REv. Moses M. Who entered Madison University in '56 and was
ordained in '59, was 1st Lieutenant in 104th Ill. Volunteers. He was shot in the
lead December 7th, '62, near [Hartsville, Tenn., and died on the ninth,
READ, H. W. ('45). Accepted a situation in the Treasury Department at
Washington, in order to spend his Sundays and evenings among the soldiers.
He went to Libby prison, Richmond, to visit the sick and dying, suffered much
and nearly lost his life there. º
* READ, C. B. ('50). Went down the river after the battle of Pittsburg Land-
ing and became so exhausted with his labor for the sick and wounded that his
life was probably shortened by it. -
REMINGTON, C. H. ('54). In 62 chaplain 11th Iowa, on account of illness re-
signed August, '63.
RICHARDSON, C. H. ('60). Chaplain of 92d N. Y. Volunteers, March, '64. At
City Point, Petersburg, &c. Chaplain N. Y. 98th. One of the first to enter Rich-
mond. Mustered out August, '65. -
ROBERTs, T. B. ('57). Served in South Western states three years, from
January '62, as member of 1st Wis. Cavalry. Promoted from private to 1st
Lieutenant. In over 30 engagements, but never wounded nor in hospital.
RobTNSON, L. D. (58). Spent the year '64 in Quartermaster's Department.
“Ranked as civilian and drew captain's pay, out of danger but in the fray.”
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Rogers, ORLo. (Entered '34). Orderly Sergeant in the 6th Min. Volunteers
from August, '62 till October, '64. Discharged on account of disease from which
he has never recovered.
# Rogers, JAMEs B. Chaplain of the 14th Regiment of Wis. Volunteers, Octo-
ber 61. Remained in service, having charge of the contrabands much of the
time, until his death, which occurred at Davis Bend, La., July 1st, '64, from dis-
ease contracted in the service.
SAGE, J. H. (62). Agent of Christian Commission at Newberne, N. C., in '63-4.
Previously served at Norfolk, Fortress Monroe, and Hampton Roads.
Scott, F. ("57). Two years chaplain of 148th N. Y. Volunteers.
SEELEy, T. P. (52). Surgeon of 16th Mich. Prisoner at Gaines Mill, and sent
to Libby Prison and Belle Island. Exchanged Aug. 3d, '63. Served a year in
hospitals at Washington. Sent with Gov. Godwin to Arizona as Assistant Sur-
geon U. S. Volunteers.
SKINNER, H. C. (29). Chaplain from the beginning to the end of the war.
SKINNER. D. W. (65). September, '61, 61st N. Y. Volunteers. Promoted to
ergeant. At Yorktown and Antietam. Wounded at Fair Oaks, June, '62, and
discharged in November.
SLAYSMAN, G. M. (46). Was chaplain of 130th Penn. during term of service ;
was in the battle of Chancellorsville.
SMITH, F. C. In '62, captain in 102d Ill. Volunteers; made Lieutenant Col-
onel, Colonel, Brevet Brigadier General in '65. In army of the Cumberland.
With Sherman to the sea and to Richmond. Mustered out June '65.
STONE, E. W. (56). Was for a time in the military service.
SPENCER, W. H. (64). Enlisted September, '61, in 61st N. Y. Volunteers. Ser-
geant; 2d Lieutenant; 1st Lieutenant ; Captain. Elected Major, but declined.
Lost his right leg at Charles City Cross Roads, Va., June 30th, 62. Discharged
in December.
STARK WEATHER, ASHER, ('63). Private soldier eight months.
* SUNNEY, C. F. Enlisted in Company G of 114th Regiment N. Y. Volunteers,
under Captain Tucker. Died at New Orleans.
TAFT, E. A. (65). Enlisted January, '64. Clerk in Draft and Rendezvous
office. Chaplain 179th N. Y. Volunteers, till end of the war.
TEN BROOR, A, (39). As member of Christian Commission served in winter
and spring of '64 at Vicksburg and Davis Bend, Miss.
TIIoMPSON, C. J. ('50). In the last year of the war was Chaplain of 15th N. Y.
Engineers.
TILDEN, A. ('53). Was Chaplain of 59th N. Y. Veterans in '65.
* TUCKER, CHARLEs E. (Theological 62). Captain in 114th N. Y. Volunteers,
August '62. Provost Marshal at Franklin and near New Orleans, Killed in
charge on Port Hudson, June 14, '63,
UNDERHILL, CIIARLEs W. ('63). 1st Lieutenant, Company G, 114th Regi-
ment, N. Y. S. W., in September, '62. In Maryland and Virginia three months.
December, '62, Adjutant of Regiment. In department of the Gulf under Banks.
Commissioned captain of Company G, at Port Hudson, June, '63, and appointed
Judge Advocate of 1st Division, 10th Army Corps. Returned to Va., in summer
of '64. At battles of Winchester and Cedar Creek. Taken prisoner in latter
battle, and detained at Richmond and Danville until February 22d, '65. Mus-
tered out with Regiment at the close of the war.
164 WAR RECORD.
WOGELL, H. C. (27). Was in the army during the entire war, first as Chaplain
then as Surgeon.
WARREN, HIRAM, ('58). Entered the army as Surgeon in '63 and performed
service for which the State Legislature rendered special acknowledgment.
WEED, E. P. ('57). Served a period in Christian Commission.
WHEELER, E. S. (Theological '63). Private in 66th N. Y. Volunteers in April,
'62. Soon Captain. Afterwards Chaplain of 3d Colored Infantry at Port Hudson.
Discharged July, '64.
WHITEHEAD, W. M. (50). Assisted in raising 97th Penn. Volunteers of which
he served as Chaplain ten months, when sickness compelled his resignation.
WooD, H. A. (64). In 61st N. Y. Volunteers, September, '61. In the battles
of the Peninsula. Severely injured while working on fortifications at Harri-
son's Landing. Discharged at Newark Hospital, February, '63.
One hundred and ten men. Others are known to have been in the army, of
whom there is no written report.
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TER O THX M
DELIVERED BEFORE THE ADELPHIAN AND AEONIAN SOCIETIEs,
By B. F. TAYLOR, Esq., Class of 1838.
—sº-º-º-o-º-
ALL HAIL, old Chenango ! Grand fallow of God
For He ploughed this one bout—turned grandly this sod,
And some spring, like a lamb, broke away from its tether,
And they went—this first Baptist, born of wet weather—
The Lord and His river down the furrow together
Blue sky to green hills so lovingly bent,
That azure and emerald melted and blent,
And so, to this Valley is graciously given
A little of Earth and a great deal of Heaven.
When beatitudes fell, angels hovered and heard;
Oh, give me one breath of the air that they stirred,
One gasp of their grandeur, those stately old psalms :
Fresh from Lebanon's cedars or Palestine's palms
I would fashion them all into words if I might,
And lay them alive on this altar to-night—
I would say, “Let us sing ! JUBILATE, AMEN ' "
Be the Sixty-sixth Psalm born over again
For the Fathers who followed this furrow of God,
And planted a germ where Divinity trod;
For the old-fashioned Hearts no woman survives,
That beat full and warm all the days of their lives,
Whose tears softened Bethel's cold pillow of stone,
Whose prayers bore their sorrows straight up to the throne,
Whose love wrought the rounds in the ladder of glory,
And angels descended to write down the story.
166 DR. TAYLOR'S POEM.
From this hill of the Prophets that ladder is lifted,
Forms dawn their way down, as when daybreak has drifted
To the rim of the world and right over the bar,
On a breaker of glory, its darling and star.
As a lark bursts away from the clod to the cloud,
And the folds of white silence are throbbing aloud,
So they sing a glad anthem like spirits forgiven,
In the sweet and unwritten Ionic of heaven:
For the strange inspiration that kindled the twain.”
Who took fire from Isaiah in bosom and brain,
And embroidered the age on whose border they stood,
When they deeded this homestead forever to God.
Ay, old-fashioned pair | Not three-fourths of an age
Can cloud up your grand story that blazons the page—
How ye bowed on this hill and bequeathed with a vow
That faith of the “ then * to this hope of the “now.”
Old Sexton, begone ! Strike their names from the stone—
Hearts were made before tablets | We’ll give them our own
For the grand old. Thirteen fifty-two years ago,
Their graves with the amaranth lovingly strow—
Who stood in this Valley with breast and brow bare,
And warbled a song and wafted a prayer,
And then passed in a breath—each Issachar's son,
Each wilderness Baptist, a sturdy old John,
From the flush of the cross to the flash of the crown,
For they said: of this handful of silver we bring,
By and by shall be fashioned a key for the King,
That shall wheel back the bolts and sublimely unlock
In the heart of these hills God’s ledges of rock.
Swing them out to the light ! They’re a temple begun,
Whence round the broad planet flaming heralds shall run
* Hon. SAMUEL PAYNE and his wife, seventy-five years ago, knelt on the hill where the
University buildings now stand, and vowed that if prospered, they would devote all to God.
They were prospered, and the vow was fulfilled.
+ The thirteen men who met at Hamilton in 1817, and contributed one dollar each, the first
offering towards founding the University.
DR. TAYLOR'S POEM. 167
From foundation to dome the temple is done,
And the clock of the Jubilee just striking “one !”
The key is a sceptre, the sceptre a sword,
And the mite of the widow the might of the Lord.
Thirteen stars to the flag, grown so broad and so bright,
'Tis a fragment of heaven outwatching the night !
Thirteen men to the Vale yoke the world with a chime,
Till thousands are bidding good-morning to Time !
Thirteen dollars to God . Thirteen kernels of corn
Earth rustles with harvests—the reapers are born
Ho, warder aloft Strike the ages again
God bless the Thirteen JUBILATE, AMEN
The aloe that blossoms in beauty to-night,
And flashed all at once on the soul and the sight,
Had made ready to bloom ere these quarries began
To the glory of God and the levers of man
To give up their dead; ere these thresholds grew sweet
As a rose in the rain, to the music of feet.
And yet, fifty years catch their breath as they come,
Strike eight hundred millions all dusty and dumb,
Bid them fall into line front face to the stars,
Make the gentle earth brave with millions of scars,
And so wrap the great globe in those mantles of theirs
That it ought to grow kin with the garments it wears.
Stately Mother of men, forever good-morn
Call the roll loud and clear ! Thou art never forlorn :
Thy boys by battalion are coming and going—
Bearded grain all the while and not a flower growing.
On thy fiftieth year, oh, Mother of ours,
Bless the booted brigades with a handful of flowers;
With thy boys give the world now and then a sweet girl,
And we’ll name thee anew dear “ Mother of Pearl | *
Sarah's children were nations—thy children are men,
The roll is resplendent–oh, call it again.
Ho, ABBOTT and V INTON | HO, THOMAS and REED !
168 DR. TAYLOR's POEM.
Is Arracan dumb 2 Will Burmah take heed ?
Give them up, oh ye realms Unlock the dead lips,
Where ye sit with your gods in a mighty eclipse.
A song flutters up to the world’s drowsy brim
As I live 'tis a breath of sweet Bethlehem's hymn,
Drifted out from God’s choir when His gates were ajar,
Floated down to the earth upon Bethlehem's star;
'Tis Silver Street, Corinth, Coronation or Mear,
The dead speak with tongues and the answer is “HERE l’”
Ah, melodious tongues | Fifty heralds abroad,
Who marched hence out of Christendom grandly for God
Oh, Mother of Spartans, awake or asleep
Those heralds of glory thy calendar keep.
Dash the records aside and banish all fear,
For it beats like a clock, a herald a year !
My heart, oh ye Brothers, runs over the brim,
And the prose of my life breaks into a hymn,
When I think of the feet that have trodden these halls,
When I think of the words that enchanted these walls:—
The beautiful feet of the radiant throng
Who walked upon thorns with a smile and a song,
Whose route, all the way, you can follow along,
As if with red roses their footprints had blushed,
Which they as they went had scattered and crushed,
Till it sweetened the air and reddened the dust.
The eloquent words, that did never give token
Their old Saxon bondage would ever be broken,
And they turn to such tones as the Tropics can speak,
And lighten in Latin and thunder in Greek.
My heart is a Hebrew as I think of those men,
And I slowly read backward life's volume again.
I see KENDRICK's grand form towering up like a king's,
I hear accents at first, like the waving of wings;
Now he warms with his theme into true welding weather,
DR. TAYLOR'S POEM. 169
And the word and the blow are delivered together;
The thought and the thinker are all in a glow,
The glasses he whirls from his dome of a brow,
His words that were halting grow freer and bolder,
And he strikes for the truth straight out from the shoulder:
It is Gabriel’s trumpet and Gideon's sword,
'Tis the pillar of fire and the breath of the Lord,
It is crash after crash with the tables of stone,
'Tis the thrill of the thunder, the dread of the throne,
The gloom of the tempest, Jehovah alone.
Now a shaft of pure sunshine shivers the cloud
And splashes with glory the woof of the shroud;
Bow blazing above, birds singing below,
How softer and sweeter his cadences grow !
It was Sinai before, it is Calvary now !
Then the splendor aslant of the afternoon sun
Built through the church windows, when sermon was done,
Of brave timbers of gold a visible stair,
As if he would follow hard after his prayer.
Then the girls that sang alto, the girls that sang air,
Stood up in their place in the old-fashioned choir,
And they floated my heart—they all had it before—
Straight outward to sea and right up to the shore,
“The bright shining shore” where they all stand in light—
Oh, Prince of thy tribe Oh, Singers, good night !
There's a flock of white tablets flecking this hill,
Lettered sheep of the Lord's, so solemn and still.
Break the strange breathless charm Ye living, make room t
Behold hand in hand the pale Fathers do come—
Where else should they be when their children get home
Look where the Pleiades glow before God,
Look where Arcturus is spangling the sod :
Oh, strange contradiction—so far and so near !
The star is in Heaven but the dew-drop is here !
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170 DR. TAYLOR'S POEM.
How dead comrades glide back in hushed Indian file,
And a tear, like old Jacob, prevails with a smile.
They have gone out of time and they walk in disguise—
They have faded away as the summer day dies,
When the pearl, gold and crimson all tempered and blended
Strike through into heaven, and the pageant is ended.
Do ye think we are crushed out of loving and living
By the fall of a clod, when the planet is giving
To the delicate foot of an ounce of a wren,
And then surging right up as she lifts it again?
Oh, Gibeon’s Sun He is yet under orders,
You can halt him to-day on death's gloomy borders:
Bid brave thoughts and grand deeds the dead Joshua play—
“Stand still, mighty Sun ” and the blaze shall obey.
Take a page of blind JoHN that angels have tramped
Till it looks as if stars broke ranks and encamped—
So strown about with fine gold from Ormus and Ind
That you wonder how angels could ever have sinned,
When old English brocade at such exquisite cost,
To tell the strange story of “Paradise Lost"
Did bankrupt the bard, and so nothing remained
To tell us the story of Eden “Regained.”
Look down on the page and declare if you can
What business the grave-digger had with the man
Dare Hamlet’s own sexton or one of his tribe
Lay an ounce of dead clay upon Cromwell’s old scribe 2
Those angels of his—they have put them to rout !
Those angels of his—they have lifted him out !
As free of the ages as the winds of the waves,
And abolished that gloomy old fashion of graves |
In this August of grace, in some year of our Lord,
Men attacked with a fagot the soul of a word;
Ah, hundreds of years Christmas carols were sung
Ere they dwelt in this world and spoke in our tongue
DR. TAYLOR'S POEM. 171
Who groped in the ashes where martyrs were chained,
If perchance a live coal of the embers remained,
And they blew it to life in the name of the kings,
And the books of this MILTON took to their wings
Like his own bird-of-paradise crimson and gold,
And the princes grew warm as the ashes grew cold !
—’Twas as if some old Vandal should vainly aspire
To strike David dumb by just burning his lyre;—
The books played Elijah—left their mantle behind,
And it fell and unfurled, till it kindled mankind.
And that Prince of all Pilgrims, the other twin JoHN,-
He will walk in his sleep till the ages are gone.
Blow softly, oh, Angel ! Let him slumber right on,
With the swing of the sledge for the music of flutes
He beat up the world for celestial recruits;–
He dreamed himself through to the “Beautiful Gate,”
With “Christian " for comrade and “Mercy’” to wait. '
Time's sentries cry “halt l” Hark the sturdy reply:
Oh, be lifted, ye gates, for old BUNYAN goes by
Pass on, grand crusader | Hearts warm to thy name,
Good-night to thy form but good-morn to thy fame !
Augustan-born Month of the loose golden zone,
There is more in thy heart and far sweeter in tone
Than the rasp of the scythe and the rustle and sweep
When they rock in their cradles the harvest to sleep.
Oh, yellow-haired Laura, richest Roman of time !
There is that in thy story to make thee sublime.
August-born to some world, HALLECR gave thee his lyre,
And BoMAPARTE, thunder, and FREDERICR, fire,
DRARE flaunted his flag in the face of the foe,
Scott lifted his harp from the heather below,
And WALTON, the Angler, in shadow reclined,
Dropped a line in thy brooks and a line to mankind.
The bard of all “Seasons” with thee is at rest,
172 DR. TAYLOR'S POEM.
And the sword-song of KoRNER is laid on thy breast
Where WALLACE takes breath and where RICHARD is dead—
Oh, blue-bells of Scotland Oh, roses of red
What pulses immortal have shaken thy soul:
When the blacksmith of Bennington “beat the long roll”—
When the squadrons of Marlborough clouded the air,
Swooped down on the Gaul as he lay in his lair
And crushed him to death with the clash of their wings,
Till Britain with Blenheim exultantly rings,
Why, the breath of great guns was first blended with thine,”
When that gone August day was baptized with such wine
As was poured out at Cressy by Philip of France
"Mid the shock of the charge and the flash of the lance.
'Twas the tongue of artillery learning to talk,
First audible beat of the gray friar's clock
That rang them all dumb, just beginning to tell
How near it can “ time ’’ a great battle to hell.
In August, the ocean was sprinkled with Spain
As if her Armada came down in the rain,
And Herschel so grandly bombarded the night
That her squadrons all swung battle-lanterns a-light,
When his telescope broke through the welkin's blue shell
And he went where the angels began to rebel, -
And strange stars blossomed round him like daisies in June,
Two mornings at once, on the splendor of noon
And death-proof it all made him if anything could !
'Twas in August, they say, when Columbus's brood
Slipped silently out from the earth's azure eaves,
—Like a flock of young swallows when summer-time leaves,—
And plumed up their pinions and parted the blue,
And the sky was unrent and the trinity through !
*Cannon invented by a Franciscan, were first fired in August and at Cressy.
DR. TAYLOR'S POEM. 173
Shook off the old world and shook out for the new
Were they shrived ere they went 2 Were their sins all forgiven 2
For they’ll flutter their wings at the windows of heaven
Hark! The Admiral's hail: “World ahoy! Whither bound **
And the answer comes back on a breaker of sound,
And the flag of the Andes in fire is unfurled,
And Niagara's thunder of welcome is hurled,
“We’re at anchor, your honor It is Liberty's World !”
Magnificent Age | When water and fire,
The lamb and the lion, together conspire,
And the atom of rain the robins are drinking
Can set the dull iron to throbbing and thinking.
It enters the heart of a ship in her sleep—
There’s a cloud on the sky—a wake on the deep—
There’s a soul in the oak that would kindle a king,
And she crashes away without lifting a Wing !
Take the old “Franklin Press '' where the dead were laid out,
And the printer in mourning-went plodding about,
Till a creak and a groan broke the pages' repose,
And the spectres in sheets, one by one, in their clothes,
To a late resurrection reluctantly rose !
Now inspire the machine with flood and with flame,
And call it a brother and give it a name !
It comes down to the work with a will and a clank,
Smites the type in the face and the wrong in the flank;
In the flash of an eye the creature has caught
And kindled and glowed with the life of the thought !
Stand clear of the thing ! It is nearing the brink
Where a being unborn is beginning to think
It flutters its plumage, and drifts the world white—
And it snows down the ages its treasures of light !
It flutters its plumage—this marvellous bird,
Put a lock on your heart and beware of the word
That it pulses abroad, for creation has heard
174: DR. TAYLOR'S POEM.
The lightning's vernacular thunder is dumb,
The bolts strike the word, talk English and come,
The surge tells the billow, the breakers repeat,
Till the waves of the sea wash the word to your feet,
Dry-shod from the anchorage down in the brine,
Swung up by the cable, a creature divine.
See the forge's first born with its sinews of steel,
A nerve at each lever and axle and wheel,
All ready to fly and just ready to feel,
Pluck out of its caskets great handfuls of power,
The flocks of mankind all shorn in an hour
And the fleeces just granted this thing for a dower,
To weave as it went a wonderful robe
To be flung on the sea and apparel the globe
Born last of a furnace and first of a dream,
It learned elocution from eagles that scream ;
Lo, the flash of its eye as it kindles the track
With the wild at its front and the world at its back '
I beg you to think of the pioneer’s stroke
That the sleep of the wilderness lazily broke:
The blow of that axe was the beat of the clock
That timed the whole route from Plymouth’s gray rock.
Now you bend your ear down to the marvellous wire,
That orbit man strung for articulate fire,
For globe and for lightning a nerve and a lyre,
And you start at a grander chronometer's beat,
As strong and distinct as a step in the street,
Away there in the desert, away here in the mart,
So near that you think it the beat of your heart,
When the silver-bound laurel lay fast in its place,”
And they gave to the work its finishing grace,
And you heard with your Soul when the hammer let fall
3.
* The ceremonies of laying the last rail of the road across the Continent.
DR. TAYLOR'S POEM. 175
Drove the golden spike home for good and for all !
That couplet of iron—match the line if you can,
The grandest of epics yet uttered by man—
Has heaved up the sky, reft the blue from the green
See the western horizon sublimely careen
To let in the East and its kingdoms between
Now thanks be to God for the “Holy Alliance”
That flings down the glove to the grave in defiance ;
For the fine gold of truth, for the blesséd Mount Zion ;
For the water and fire, the lamb and the lion ;
For the thunder that whispers as westward it wheels,
The earth at its heart and the sun at its heels.
With these angels of record all ready to write,
With these heralds of wonder all ready for flight,
We can never be dead. There is nothing at rest
From the thought in your soul to the Blue of the Blest
The Moon in her mourning will cross the great Sun,”
And the dews will be shed for the glory undone,
Like the clasp of an arm the horizon will bend,
And the sky will come down like an intimate friend,
And the stars will look out as the pageant goes by,
And, withdrawn for a breath from the glance of his eye,
They will wonder to see the meridian line
All tarnished and dim forgetting to shine.
She will walk without song, and the trail of her robe
Like a zone of stray night will be swept round the globe,
And will cleave the broad day and will part it in twain
As if Jordan and mantle were meeting again
Do ye fear that magnificent spark of the Lord
Is sheathed in the shadow to rust like a sword 2
Now see him put on his imperial crown,
Like the “glory” that curved in the vision of J ohn,
* Alluding to the total eclipse of the sun, which occurred August 7th, 1869,
176 DR. TAYLOR'S POEM.
And, a king's counted ransom right royally told,
Behold “Bailly’s beads” of ineffable gold !
With one flash of his falchion shall glory be born,
From the bosom of day break forth the young morn,
And the moon wander on disrobed and forlorn ;
Of her garments of gloom not a tatter or trace,
The frailest of flowerets stand up in their place;
The hope that was budding, yet yours if you will;
The tear you were shedding is clinging there still ;
The shadow is gone like the ghost of a night,
Like the column by day to the Israelite -
Then the birds to their songs and the dews to their wings'
And the glory we give to the KING OF THE RINGs.
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THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL FUND.
The Subscription was conditioned on the raising of $100,000 within five
years, and then payable in five equal annual payments. But the sum was filled
up within the first year, and nearly all collected on the following year. Thanks
are due to the subscribers for this promptness.
A Colgate & Trevor, New York, 2,892 56
George W. Abbe, New York, 100 Robert Colgate, New York, 5,000
Rev. A. J. Allen, Ticonderoga, 50 Samuel Colgate, New York, 5,000
R. K. Amory, Binghamton, 100 T. Colman, New York, - 60
W. M. Van Antwerp, Albany, 1,000 Rev. Chas. A. Cooke, Franklin,
Miss Anna M. Anable, Philad'a, 100 N.H., 100
Hon. Geo. H. Andrews, New York, 100 Rev. David Corwin, Worcester, 100
Abram Ansted, Oneida, 50 Benj. Crissey, per Dr. W. S. Mik-
Dr. A. N. Arnold, Hamilton, 25 els, N. Y. e 1,200
Mrs. Dr. Arnold, Hamilton, 100 Dr. E. B. Cross, Springfield, Mass., 200
Rev. W. S. Apsey, N. Cambridge, I D
Mass., 100 - *
Rev. A. Armstrong, Frenchtown, *: ; s º* New York, :
New Jersey, 100 Mrs. Eleanor F. Dodge, Hamilton,
Alumni Dinner Tickets, 606 (Bond) 1,000
|Bº Mrs. Eleanor F. Dodge, Hamilton, 100
Dr. E. Dodge, Hamilton, (Bond) 1,500
Colgate Baker, Yokahama, Japan, 100 $ tº { % &t 200
Dr. A. M. Beebee, Hamilton, 100 Charles Downer, Utica 100
Dr. A. S. Bickmore, Hamilton, 100
Rev. S. S. Bidwell, Lima, 100 IE
Miss Mary L. Bonney, Philad'a, 100 Prof. Jas. R. Eaton, Liberty, Mo.,
Rev. E. P. Brigham, Franklin- (100) - 40
dale Church, 15 50 Hervey Edwards, Fayetteville 1,200
Rev. W. R. Brooks, Hamilton, 100
Rev. J. J. Brouner, N. Baptist IF
Church, New York, 100 Rev. W. W. Ferris, Brewster Sta-
Dr. A. H. Burlingham, St. Louis, tion, (100) 25
Mo., 100 Rev. E. J. Fish, Adrian, Mich., 10
Rev. J. N. Folwell, Brooklyn, E.
O D., (100) 45
Rev. Leroy Church, Chicago, Ill., Hon. John J. Foote, Belvidere, Ill., 100
(100) 16 John C. Foote, {{. 100
Dr. Adams Cleghorn, Ottawa, Ill., 100 Mrs. Ann Foreman, New York,
Mrs. Jas. B. Colgate, New York, 1,000 (B. E. S.) 360
James B. Colgate, New York, 34,266 Rev. C. A. Fox, Middletown, 100
178 DR. SPEAR's REPORT.
Hon. Albert R. Fox, Sand Lake, 100
Rev. M. P. Forbes, Elba, 50
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Prof. M. M. Goodenough, Hamil-
ton, 100
Rev. A. D. Gorham, Wenham, Mass., 10)
Dr. S. B. Grant, Fitchburg, Mass., 100
Mrs. Guest & Woy, New York, 2
Dr. Sam'l Graves, Grand Rapids.,
Mich., 100
Mrs. S. B. Gregory, Whitesboro, 100
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Jas. E. Hadnett, Esq., New York, 100
Rev. T. A. T. Hanna, Cent. Bap.
Ch., Brooklyn, 150
Hon. Alrick Hubbell, Utica, 200
G. N. Harris, Syracuse, 1st Baptist
Church, 107
Rev. J. M. Harris, Rome, 100
Dr. Sam’l Haskell, Kalamazoo, 10
Dr. E. Hiscox, Brooklyn, 10
Mrs. (Dr.) A. M. Hopper, Bridge-
port, Ct., 100
Mrs. J. Hunt, Syracuse, 200
Rev. L. P. Hornberger, Philad'a, 50
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David W. Ingalls and wife, Ham-
ilton, 1,000
Special Improvements—25 donors, 3,415
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Rev. T. E. James, S. Wales, Eng., 30
Mrs. D. James, Albany, (B. E. S.) 1,000
Rev. H. Jenkins, Ningpo, China, 100
Rev. Russel Jennings, Deep Riv-
er, Conn., 100
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Rev. Jacob Knapp, Rockford, Ill., 100
Rev. Farnham Knowlton, Sand-
wich, Ct., 30
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C. Lamont, New York, 225
Rev. Geo. W. Lasher, Trenton, N.
J., (Bond) 500
Dr. E. C. Lord, Ningpo, China, 100
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W. T. Manchester, Hamilton, 25
Hon. Joseph Mason, “ 25
Dr. J. O. Mason, Greenwich, 100
Mrs. A. Martin, Maryland, 100
Rev. A. Martin, { { 100
Rev. J. E. Maynard, Massena
Springs, 100
Dr. J. L. Moore, Piqua, O., (100) 40
1)avid A. Munro, Camillus, 3,000
Jas. B. Murray, (B. E. S.) Bridge-
water, 1,500
Rev. J. H. Morrison, Ionia, Mich., 100
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Rev. J. W. Osterhout, Webster,
Mass., (100) 20
Rev. J. W. Osborne, Columbus,
O., (100) 20
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Rev. E. B. Palmer, Skaneateles, 100
Dr. W. H. Parmly, Jersey City, 100
N. W. Parker, Hamilton, 25
Mrs. Alonzo Peck, Hamilton, 100
Mrs. John Peddie, Philad'a, (100) 50
Hon. Thomas B. Peddie, Newark,
N. J. 500
Mrs. Alva Pierce, Hamilton, 200
Alva Pierce, “ (B.E.S.) 1,000
Rev. J. D. Pope, Norwich, 100
The President's House, 18 donors, 6,600
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Rev. W. H. Randall, Amherst, 100
Alexander Rankins, (B. E. S.)
New York, 3,000
Mrs. (Rev.) E. D. Reed, Eaton, 50
Dr. W. C. Richards, Pittsfield,
Mass., (200) 20
Miss S. Elizabeth Rogers, Provi-
dence, 100
Mrs. Eliza B. Rogers, Providence,
(Bond) 1,500
Rev. Edward Royce, Hamilton, 25
Mrs. N. A. Rogers, Ithaca, 100
Rev. A. T. Rose, Miss'y, (200) 100
Rev. W. H. Rugg, Shaftsbury, Vt., 100
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Dr. John W. Sarles, Brooklyn, 500
Dr. Dexter P. Smith, Iowa City, 200
Mrs.(Rev.) L. Smith, Preston Hol-
low, 50
Rev. L. Smith, Preston Hollow, 50
Adon Smith, Hamilton, 50
Col. Morgan L. Smith, 1,000
Rev. J. H. Sage, (B. E. S.) Greene, 50
Dr. Conant Sawyer, Bedford,
(Bond) 1,000
Mrs. Conant Sawyer, Bedford, 100
Rev. John T. Seely, Clifton, 25
Dr. W. H. Shailer, Portland, Me., 100
Dr. C. P. Sheldon, Troy, (note 50) 100
Mrs. Eliza B. Somers, New York, 10,000
Hannah H. Summers, Chittenango, 50
Mrs. (Rev.) Lanson Steward,
Huntington, (100) 20
Samuel R. Syms, New York, 800
Summit Baptist Church, 4 25
Frank B. Spear, Marquette, L. S., 100
Allen & Spear, { % 100
John W. Spear, { % 100
Charles R. Spear, Negaunee, Mich., 100
Mary Spear Keith, Hamilton, 100
Mrs. Esther J. Spear, “ 300
Dr. P. B. Spear, { { 200
DR. SPEAR'S REPORT. 179
T g W
Rev. J. W. Taggart, Wheeling, Va., 100 A. M.Ward, Charter Oak Ins. Co.,
Rev. J. N. Tolman, Fabius, 100 Albany 5)
Rev. Edward Tozer, Fort Ann, 100 ID. B. West Hamilton. 25
Dr. H. A. Tupper, Washington, Russell Wheeler, Utica, 100
Ga., 130 Mrs. Russell Wheeler, Utica, 100
John B. Trevor, New York, 25,000 Rev. H. C. Woods, Fayetteville, 50
Trevor & Colgate, “ 5,000 Rev. L. Wright, Binghamton, 100
U *º-mº
C. W. Underhill, Esq., Hamilton, 125 - Total collected, $132,944 71
Mrs. S. S. Utter, Morrisville, (100) 25
ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Unpaid above, $979
Mrs. Amy C. Allin, Providence, R. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Rev. Almond Barrelle and wife, Meriden, Ct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Rev. W. F. Benedict, Broadalbin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Ovington Benedict, New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Mrs. (Rev.) Edwin C. Cady, St. Johns, N. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Dr. Jireh D. Cole & Son, Chicago, Ill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Rev. Ebenezer Edwards, Shelby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,- - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Rev. B. B. Gibbs, Spencer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Prof. E. O. Hovey, Newark, N. J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Rev. David T. James,” Whitehall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Rev. W. C. McCarthy, Cattskill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Charles A. Mott, Hamilton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Charles C. Payne, Hamilton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Dr. R. Jeffery, for Danforth & Stoddard, Cincinnati, O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Rev. O. E. Mallory, Batavia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Rev. H. W. Reed, Washington, D.C., for C. E. I. Dudley,” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Rev. F. G. Reineman, Pittsburg, Pa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
J. Crocker Foote, Belvidere, Ill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 .
Wellington & Risley, Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Edwin H. Risley, Esq., Utica. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
$2,939
The sum collected has been applied according to the respective wishes of the
Donors, as follows:
For Chemical Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $825 00
Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,242 56
Improvements on Buildings, &c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,978 97
Department of Natural History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,959 95
The Jubilee Dinner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,415 85
The “Baptist Education Society, S. N. Y.”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 7,710 00
Investinents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,912 38
• + $132,044 71
The above, added to the previous assets, gives the following property:
180 DR. SPEAR'S REPORT.
Prize Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 00
Scholarship Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .............. 9,300 00
Trevor Scholarship Fund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,000 00
Library Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000 00
Colgate Improvement Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,000 00
Bleecker Professorship Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 00
Coray { { " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 00
Colgate Presidential Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,000 00
Trevor & Colgate Professorship Fund ................... . . . . . . . . . 50,000 00
General Endowment Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,820 36
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $266,620 36
B. E. S. Invested Funds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,610 00
Lands and Fixtures, unproductive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,000 00
Total Estimated Value. . . . . . . . . . . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * e º e º º $405,230 00
THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE.
Professor Spear, in the name of Eighteen Ladies, presented to the Corporation
of M. U. a Deed duly executed, of a Lot of ten Acres of Land, and a two-story
stone House, as a “PRESIDENT's HousE,” whereupon, on motion of Senator
ANDREWs, of New York, it was
Resolved, That this gift be hereby acknowledged, and that our thanks be ten-
dered to the fair Donors, for so conspicuous a monument of “Female Patronage,”
a patronage which, from time to time, has been liberally bestowed, and contri-
buted largely to the success of this enterprise.
The following are the Donors:
Mrs. Eliza B. Sommers, New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500
Mrs. Ann M. King, New Haven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Mrs. Thomas Cornell, Rondout ....................................... 500
Mrs. David A. Munro, Camillus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Mrs. James B. Colgate, New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,300
Miss Harriet T. Weed, New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . s e e s - s e 250
J. B. Trevor, in memory of wife, New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751)
Mrs. Samuel Colgate, New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Bowles Colgate, for his mother, New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Mrs. George W. Abbe, New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Mrs. Sarah M. Freeman, Camillus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Mrs. Eliza M. Austin, Syracuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Mrs. Thomas W. Hill, Elbridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
P. S. Velasto, (a Greek,) New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Mrs. P. B. Spear, Hamilton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Mrs. Harriet S. Armstrong, Clinton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Mrs. Albert R. Fox, Sand Lake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Mrs. E. Dodge, Hamilton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Mrs. Harriet M. Bond, Oswego. . . . . . tº e s s e º 'º e is º º e e s tº e º 'º e s e º s * . . . . . . . . 100
DR. SPEAR'S REPORT. 181
SPECIAL IMPROVEMENTS.
J. B. Colgate, Yonkers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $275
Mrs. J. B. Colgate, Yonkers......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Dr. Samuel Creswell, Philadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Charles Colgate, New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
John B. Trevor, New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
D. D. Chamberlain, New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Robert Colgate, Riverdale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Ebenezer Cauldwell, New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Friend Humphrey’s Sons, Albany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Samuel Colgate, New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Lispenard Stewart, New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Alva Pierce, Hamilton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... e. g. e. e. e. e º 'º º e º e º 'º e º 'º e e º e º 'º $ tº a tº 100
Alonzo Peck, Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Harvey Bancroft, Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Norman Felt, Hamilton. . . . . . . . . . . . . ._> → • - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 25
Hon. Joseph Mason, Hamilton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Rev. Samuel T. Hillman, New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Charles Fox, New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Hon. Gerrit Smith, Peterboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Rev. J. W. Schofield, St. Louis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Hon. E. R. Bates, St. Louis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Dr. S. B. Grant, Fitchburg, Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Rev. Charles Bacon, Reading Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Alumni Hall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * * * * * * * * * * * * . § s tº e s & 25
Interest Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Sum total paid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,415
HISTORY OF THE ENDowmENT—On the settlement of the Removal Contro-
versy, August, 1850, the UNIVERSITY had no funds, but the following Liabilities:
P. B. Spear's Pledge to Removalists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,325 00
Notes against Madison University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,017 32
Debt of the Baptist Education Society, S. N. Y. . . . . . . .... © & © e º 'º º ºs e e g 14,283 60
Soon also accrued of Expenses about . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,000 00
Before interest on endowment accrued making . . . . . * tº º e º g º e º 'º $30,625 92
which the University from time to time paid off, clearing from debt both the
University and Education Society. The above sum has no representation.
But the following, paid by the University, though unproductive, has a repre-
sentation of permanent value:
For the Hall of the Alumni and Friends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,057 63
President's House and other Real Estate....................... 12,242 56
Building Improvements and Natural History. . . . . . . . . . * * g º ºs º $ tº º 16,938 92
Baptist Education Society, Apparatus, &c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,950 S5
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $59,189 96
182 DR. SPEAR'S REPORT.
Independently of the above, and with no agency for the past seven years ex-
cept that of the Treasurer, the Invested Funds have moved as follows:
There were secured from the subscription of 1850–1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $53,859 37
In August, 1864, this became . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,832 36
& & & 4 1865, “ 4 & • * * * * * * * * * * * * * e e s e s e - e. e. e. e. e. e º e º e < * * * * * 121,143 99
& 6 & 4 1866, “ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,053 33
{ % { { 1868, “ “. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177,800 00
& 4 “ 1870, “ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255,130 00
“ “ 1871, “ “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266,620 36
Or thus, To the Old Endowment of 1850–1 add that of the “Colgate Plan”
of 1864, netting, after paying debts, $43,736.23; to this add Spear's Special Sub-
scription of $82,594, and to this the Jubilee Fund, less $6,481.62, and you make
the sum of $266,620.36. - -
We have not gone back beyond 1850, because “the Endowment” had no place
in history previous to this date. The UNIVERSITY, in 20 years, besides the heavy
current expense account, has raised $356,000, nor does this include the B. E. S.
aCCOunt.
P. B. SPEAR,
Treasurer M. U.
R E B O R. T
ON
3ſucreasing the facilities of the ºlniversity,
The views of your Committee on this subject are shaped by one
leading idea: The idea that education at Hamilton was conceived,
has been conducted, and should ever be modelled with the design of
supplying laborers for the Lord’s fields. However worthy and hon-
orable it may be for states, communities, or public-spirited men to
establish eminent seats of learning for merely secular purposes, we
do not suppose it desirable or desired, that Hamilton should leave
its work of God to serve such an ambition. The increased facilities
sought for, therefore, are only such as will furnish the Institution to
do more and better in its characteristic work, wherein it has already
done so much and so well.
In attempting to indicate the directions where this sacred design
calls for enlargement in the means for its execution, we begin where
the Fathers began, with the Theological Seminary. *
If anywhere on this continent Baptists should have a Theological
Seminary fully equipped and completely manned, it is at Hamilton,
where, in fact as well as in theory, in the present life as well as in
the past history, ministerial education is the all-pervading purpose
and spirit. For this our Institution is and was created. For this
the primary care must be exercised.
It is a joy to see, in the large classes pursuing the preparatory
and college courses, the scores of manly sons of the churches, all
animated by the one spirit of consecration to the work of preaching
the Gospel. And where should these on-moving ranks of consecrated
men be able to see a better theological seminary than that which is
the crown of their own University ? Here, last of all places, should
this department be of secondary rank. The student of highest
Christian aims and aspirations should be able to see here before him
a theological course whose extent in the years allotted to it, in the
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breadth of its studies and the eminence of its chairs, may challenge
comparison with the best. -
To attain this, in these times when high Christian enterprise and
unexampled liberality are rearing or perfecting such noble seminaries
over the land, will call for immediate and generous provisions for en-
largement. To fail of this is to fail of bringing to its proper fruit
the entire spirit and life of our educational work.
The good stewards must be found—and who will not covet to be
one of them —who will endow another theological chair. And the
best ability of the denomination must be brought to occupy the new
seat, and to continue in the old ones as they become vacant.
In the judgment of the Committee, another direction where the
design of our Institution requires enlargement of facilities, is in the
provision for a broader study of the languages. Especially that the
course in Modern Languages may embrace a wider range and higher
practical thoroughness. The leading languages of all the nations to
be evangelized might well claim to be taught here—not only for
the preparation of laborers for foreign fields, but in view of the gen-
eral immigration, which makes the gift of tongues necessary for the
most successful labor in numberless portions of our own country.
Why should not the Chinese language and the Burmese, if not
other leading tongues of Asia, be here taught 2—relieving the for-
eign missionary of some of those tedious years of toil and waiting
after getting upon his field, that now oppress and sometimes exhaust
him before he can break his message to those to whom he is sent,
and qualifying others to work amid the millions of visitors and
residents in our country who speak those languages. Especially why
not this, when veteran laborers from these foreign fields, with their
languages thoroughly mastered, are often obliged to spend years
amongst us, which it would rejoice them to devote in some part to
the drilling of new recruits for their departments of service
The languages of Europe, for similar reasons, as well as to open
a direct access to their science and literature, are urging increasing
claims for a more adequate practical study.
These better facilities should be an increase in the department of
languages, not at all a displacement of the ancient classics and
vehicles of Bible inspiration, which must ever lie amid the founda-
tions of that culture that makes a Christian laborer master of his
work.
Another manifest direction where enlargement is demanded is the
domain of the natural sciences. Christian workers in all spheres,
must be placed by their education on more advanced ground in this
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field. Natural science is becoming more and more vitally practical,
controlling and elevating all the industries of life, and inspiring the
most varied and skilled researches. Christian leaders must be able
to hold their place in the front here, or be unscrupulously pushed to
the rear.
The fact, too, that men of skeptical and infidel character arrogantly
appropriate the natural sciences to themselves as their specialty,
demands of institutions like ours a full vindication of the title of
genuine Christianity, as the only true interpreter of nature, no less
than of revelation.
An adequate Laboratory is a first and most urgent necessity. A
well-furnished Observatory is scarcely behind or less pressing in its
claims. An enlarged and suitably accommodated Cabinet Collection
for illustrating all the studies of nature, is indispensable.
The liberal beginning which has been made in this direction, by
those most generous and intelligent friends of the University, the
brethren Colgate and Trevor, should inspire a similar wisdom in
others, and make speedily sure such a furnishing of all the branches
of scientific study as shall place them on their just eminence.
It is probably felt by all, also, that the department of History and
Literature should have a considerable increase of its facilities. The
writers for the Press, as well as the Pulpit, in the present and com-
ing generations, should have here one of their leading schools. For
the left wing of the army of the Lord will be turned, when liberal-
ists, and rationalists, and contemners of regenerate piety are in the
lead, as the writers of an age; as the right wing would be turned if
such minds led in the preaching of an age. Our journalists, review-
ers, book writers, lecturers, (if they are to be perpetuated,) and
other literary authors, must work from the Christian starting point
and toward Christian ends, whatever other forms than religious their
work may take. What so likely to secure such writers as that they
come out from the mould of a really Christian Institution ? º
The broad scholarship, essential in fitting for the profession of
teaching, and so desirable in those who practise the other profes-
sions of the learned, should be offered most of all by such Institu-
tions as look primarily to the Christian usefulness of those whom
they educate.
Our Library here should be of the best. Our Art Illustrations of
history, literature and the fine arts, should be at least respectable;
and the leadership of able instruction be offered to such as desire,
and are permitted to extend their culture in these directions.
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And of course the library and other choice collections should have
an appropriate fire-proof building, under the supervision of a pro-
ficient librarian.
The means for useful physical exercise in labor, or play, or both,
should be perhaps more adequately furnished, and placed under such
supervision as to secure their regular and most beneficial use.
It is to be wisely considered whether the means of increasing the
salaries of the professors, should not be made available from this
day. Are the men who are expending their lives here, placing at
our service all that they have invested in their life-studies and
literary accumulations, receiving that generous compensation which
the Christian spirit in their brethren would prompt 2 Or are they
cramped for the means to furnish themselves liberally with the im-
plements of their work, and provide justly for their households 2 If
the latter, a half-century should suffice for such burden-bearing—to
which no longer, as once, the plea of necessity can reconcile them or
their supporters.
Finally, with all increase of facilities, corresponding increase of
the living spirit of godly life and service, to act with the multiplied
wheels, must be ever sought. The policy of the Institution so early
adopted to a peculiar degree, of encouraging students in the practice
of moral and Christian well-doing, in teaching, preaching and other
labors, it is hoped may characterize it through all its future widening
prosperity. -
Our report brings but the hints of toiling sons of the University,
inured to other work than planning improvements which shall per-
fect a great seat of Christian learning and training. But it brings
these hints with a love that cannot be satisfied by a mere looking
over the homestead, and telling what our mother ought to do. We
see how lovingly and well she has served her wedded work through
fifty years—long in poverty, and often in affliction. To her and her
work we would gladly, upon this honored day, offer a golden-wed-
ding celebration, so golden, that all which we see her to need, and
all which more practised eyes than ours, see her immediately to
need, she shall have in her hands the means to supply, as to-morrow
she bids us another, and to many of us her last, “Good-by, and God
bless you.”
Then, with her richer endowment of the abiding Spirit of God,
her next generation should rise up with voices more and more hon-
ored than ours, to call her blessed. And she would go out of the
nineteenth century with the silver of fourscore years on her “beam-
ing brow,” to be yet a more blessed mother—a Sarah, Princess,
FACILITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY. 187
whose olden life shall laugh, as her God makes sure to her his prom-
ise. “Yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations.
Kings of people shall be of her.”
Respectfully submitted,
SAMUEL HASKELL,
A. H. BURLINGHAM,
REUBEN JEFFERY,
Committee,
PROFESSORS AND TEACHERS,
1819 – 1869.
REv. DANIEL HASCALL, A. M., born in Bennington, Vt., Feb. 24th,
1782. Graduated from Middlebury College, Vt., in 1806. Subse-
quently a teacher, studying theology privately, in Pittsfield, Mass. In
1808 ordained as pastor at Elizabethtown, Essex Co., N. Y. Became
pastor in Hamilton, N. Y., in 1813. Elected Principal and Professor
of Rhetoric in Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution in 1820.
Resigned pastorate in 1828. Resigned professorship in 1835. Re-
sided for some years in Castleton, Vt. In 1848 returned to Hamilton,
and became pastor in Lebanon, N. Y. Died in Hamilton, June 28th,
1852. (See “Historical Discourse.”) (See also “Sprague's Annals of
the Baptist Pulpit.”)
REv. NATHANIEL KENDRICK, D. D. Born in Hanover, N. H., April
22d, 1777. Baptized in 1798. During four years after, engaged in
farm labor and academic studies. His tutor in some literary studies
was Rev. Mr. Burroughs of Hanover, N. H. In 1802 spent six months
in the study of theology with Rev. Asa Burton, D. D., of Thetford,
Vt. In 1803 studied three months with Dr. Emmons, of Franklin,
Mass. Subsequently pursued theological study in Boston under Drs.
Stillman and Baldwin. Preached one year in Bellingham, Mass. Or-
dained as pastor at Lansingburgh, N. Y., Aug., 1805. In 1810 be-
came pastor in Middlebury, Vt., dividing his time between this and
three other feeble churches. From 1805 to 1817 was obliged by
meager support to engage more or less in teaching. In July, 1817,
became pastor of the churches in Eaton Village and Morrisville, N.Y.
In 1820 resigned the charge of the Morrisville church, and in connec-
tion with the pastorate of the Eaton church, lectured on theology in
the Ham. Lit. and Theol. Inst. In 1821 elected Prof. of Syst, and
Past. Theol. and Mor. Phil. In 1823 received the degree of D. D.
from Brown University. In 1824 transferred residence to Hamilton.
From 1825 to 1837 was one of the Overseers of Hamilton College,
Clinton, N. Y. In 1836 was chosen President of Ham. Lit. and Theol.
Inst., but did not formally accept the office, although virtually acting
as such. Cor. Sec. N. Y. Bapt. Ed. Soc. from 1834 to 1848. Died
PROFESSORS AND TEACHERS. 189
Sept. 11th, 1848. (See “Historical Discourse.”) (See also “Sprague's
Annals of the Baptist Pulpit,” and “Life of Nathaniel Kendrick,”
Amer. Bapt. Pub. Soc.)
ZENAs MoRSE, A. M. Born in Woodstock, Ct., in 1795. Gradu-
ated at Hamilton College in 1821. Appointed teacher of Latin and
Greek in Ham. Lit. and Theol. Inst., continuing until 1825. From
1824 to 1848, Principal of the Hamilton Academy. Trustee in Board
of M. U. from 1847 to 1850. In 1852 removed to Wyoming, N. Y.
From 1854 to 1870, trustee, treasurer, and teacher of Math. in Mid-
dlebury Academy.
REv. BERIAH. N. LEACH, D. D., Tutor, 1824–5. (See Alumni Sketches
—Class of 1824.)
REv. CHANCELLOR HARTSHORN, Tutor, 1825–6. (See Alumni
Sketches—Class of 1825.)
Rev. SETH S. WHITMAN, A. M., Prof. of Hebrew and Biblical Criti-
cism, 1828–1835. (See Alumni Sketches—1822.)
REv. BARNAs SEARs, D. D., LL.D. Born in Sandisfield, Mass., Nov.
19th, 1802. Graduated at Brown University in 1825. Received A. M.
from Hamilton College, D. D. from Harvard, and LL.D., from Yale.
After studying at Newton Theol. Inst., became pastor of 1st Bapt.
Ch. in Hartford, Conn. From 1829–1836, Prof. in Hann. Lit. and
Theol. Inst.; first of Languages, and subsequently of Biblical The.
ology. From 1836 to 1847, was connected with Newton Theol. Inst.
as Prof. of Christian Theology and President. Subsequently Secre-
tary of the Mass. Board of Education. From 1855 to 1867, Presi-
dent of Brown University. Since 1867, General Agent of the Pea-
body Educational Fund. Residence, Staunton, Va.
REv. JoEL S. BAcon, D. D. Born in Cayuga Co., N. Y., Sept. 3d,
1802. Graduated from Hamilton College in 1826. In 1827 and 1828
engaged in teaching in Virginia and New Jersey. Entered Newton
Theol. Institution in 1829. From 1831 to 1833 President of George-
town College, Kentucky. In 1833, elected Prof. of Math. and Nat.
Phil. in Ham. Lit. and Theol. Inst., but shortly transferred to Chair of
Int, and Mor. Phil. Resigned in 1837. Pastor in Lynn, Mass., 1837–
1839. President of Columbian College, Washington, D. C., 1843–
1854. Received the degree of D. D. in 1845. From 1855 to 1866,
was at the head of various Female Institutions in Georgia and Louis-
iana, and finally at Warrington, Va. Labored for Amer. and For.
Bible Soc., 1866–1869. Died in Richmond, Va., Nov. 9th, 1869.
REV. ASAHEL C. KENDRICR, D. D. Born at Pultney, Rutland Co.,
Vt., Dec. 7th, 1809. Graduated at Hamilton College in 1831. Re-
190 PROFESSORS AND TEACEIERS.
ceived A. M. from Ham. Coll. in 1834. Classical Tutor in Hamilton
Academy, 1831–2. Prof. of Languages in Ham. Lit. and Theo. Inst.,
1832–1838. Prof. of Greek Lang, and Lit., 1838–1850. In 1848 re-
ceived D. D. from Union College. In 1850 elected Prof. of Greek
Lang, and Lit. in Rochester University. Prof. pro, tem. of Hebrew,
and N. T. Lit. and Interpretation in Rochester Theo. Sem., 1864–1868.
REv. GEORGE W. EATON, D. D., LL.D. Born July 3d, 1804, near
Huntingdon, Pa. Family removed to Ohio in 1805. In 1822 entered
Ohio University at Athens, and remained two years. From 1824 to
1827 engaged in teaching in Prince Edward Co., Va. In 1827 entered
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. Graduated in 1829, elected Fel-
Iow, and appointed Tutor. In 1830 Principal of Union Academy,
Belleville, N. Y. From 1831 to 1833 Prof. of Anc. Lang. in George-
town College, Kentucky, during the last six months its acting Presi-
dent. From 1833 to 1837, Prof. of Math. and Nat. Phil. in Hamilton
Lit. and Theol. Inst. From 1837 to 1850 Prof. of Ecc. and Civ. Hist.
From 1850 to 1861, Prof. of Systematic Theology. President of
Madison University, and Prof. of Int, and Mor. Phil., from 1856 to
1868. President of Ham. Theo. Sem., and Prof. of Homiletics from
1861 to 1871.
STEPHEN W. TAYLOR, LL. D. Born in Adams, Berkshire Co.,
Mass., Oct. 28th, 1791. Baptized in 1810 at Edmeston, Otsego Co.,
N. Y. Graduated at Hamilton College in 1817. Principal of Low-
ville Academy, 1818 to 1832. Principal of the Academic Department
of Ham, Lit, and Theol. Inst., 1834 to 1838. Prof. of Math., Nat.
Phil., and Astron., 1838 to 1845. In 1846 founded University of Lew-
isburg, Pa., and was its President five years. President of Madison
University, 1851 to 1856. In 1851 received LL.D. from Hamilton
College. Died Jan. 7th, 1856. (See “Historical Discourse.”)
REv. THOMAs J. CoNANT, D. D. Born in Brandon, Vt., and grad-
uated at Middlebury Coll., Vt. Tutor in Columbian College, Wash-
ington, 1825–1827. Prof. of Languages in Waterville College, Me.
(now Colby University), 1827–1833. In 1834 taught in Newton Theol-
Inst., to supply the place of an absent Prof. From 1835 to 1850, Prof.
of Hebrew and Bib. Criticism in Ham. Lit. and Theo. Inst. For sev-
eral years subsequently Prof. in the same department of the Roches-
ter Theo. Sem. For the last fifteen years, engaged in the revision of
the English Scriptures, in connection with the Amer. Bible Union.
WILLIAM MATHER, M. D. Born in Fairfield, Herkimer Co., N.Y.,
in 1802. Graduated from Coll. of Physicians and Surgeons, Fairfield,
N. Y., in 1826. Popular Lecturer on Chemistry, 1828–1868. Ap-
pointed Instructor in Chemistry in Ham. Lit. and Theol. Inst, in 1838.
PROFESSORS AND TEACHERS. 191
Prof. of Chemistry and Pharmacy in Castleton Medical College, 1841–
2. From 1852 to 1868, Prof. of Chemistry, Geology and Mineralogy
in Madison University.
John F. RICHARDson, A. M. Classical Tutor, 1835–1838. Prof
of Lat. Lang. and Lit., 1838–1850. (See Alumni Sketches—Class of
1835.)
REv. John S. MAGINNIs, D. D. Born in Butler Co., Pa., June 13th,
1805, of Scotch-Irish parentage. Studied in Waterville College, and
in Brown University to the close of Soph. year. Graduated from New-
ton Theol. Inst. in 1832. From 1832 to 1837, pastor in Portland, Me.
In 1837, pastor of Pine St. Ch., Providence, R. I. From 1838 to 1850
Prof. of Biblical Theology in Ham. Lit. and Theol. Inst. In 1850,
elected Prof. of Bib. and Past. Theol. in Rochester Theo. Sem, and
of Int, and Mor. Phil. in Rochester University. Received D. D. from
Brown University in 1844. Died Oct. 15th, 1852. (See “Sprague's
Annals of the Baptist Pulpit.”)
REv. John H. RAY MoRD, L.L. D. Tutor 1837–1840. Prof. of
Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1840–1850. (See Alumni Sketches—
Class of 1836.)
REv. PHILETU’s B. SPEAR, D. D. Tutor 1837–1842. Adjunct Prof.
of Hebrew and Prin. of Grammar School, 1842–1850. Prof. of He-
brew and Latin Languages, 1850–1866. Since 1866 Prof. of Hebrew
and Treas. M. U. (See Alumni Sketches—Class of 1836.)
ANTHONY LAMIB. Tutor in Greek, 1838–1840. (See Alumni Sketches
—Class of 1835.)
Rev. GEORGE R. Bliss, D. D. Tutor in Greek, 1840–1844. (See
Alumni Sketches—Class of 1838.)
REv. B. F. BRONso N, D. D. Tutor in Mathematics, 1845–6. (See
Alumni Sketches—Class of 1844.)
REv. SAMUEL GRAVEs, D. D. Tutov in Miath. and Nat. Phil., 1845–
1847. (See Alumni Sketches—Class of 1844.)
REv. WILLIAM T. BIDDLE, A. M. Tutor in Math. and Nat. Phil.,
1850–1. (See Alumni Sketches—Class of 1849.)
REv. EDMUND TURNEY, D. D. Prof. of Bib. Crit. and Christian
Evidences, 1850–1853. (See Alumni Sketches—Class of 1838.)
REv. ALEXANDER M. BEEBEE, D. D. Prof. of Logic and Eng. Lit.,
1850–1861. Lecturer in Sacred Rhetoric, JS57–1861. Prof. of Eee.
and Civ. Hist, 1861–1865. Prof. of Logic, Eng. Lit. and Civ. Hist.,
1865–1868. Since 1868, Prof. of Ece, and Civ. Hist. (See Alumni
Sketches—Class of 1847.) w
REv. EzRA S. GALLUP, A. M. Prof. Greek Lang, and Lit., 1850–1867.
(Class of 1843.)
192 PROFESSORS AND TEACHERS.
LUCIEN M. Osborn, A. M. Principal of Gram. School and Adj.
Prof. of Mathematics, 1851–1856. Prof. of Math. and Nat. Phil.
1856–1868. Since 1868, Prof. of Natural Sciences. (See Alumni
Sketches—Class of 1847.) &
REv. EBENEZER DoDGE, D. D., LL.D. Born at Salem, Mass., April
22d, 1819. Graduated at Brown University, 1840. From Newton
Theol. Inst., 1845. Pastor at New Hampton and New London, N.H.,
from 1846–1853. Prof. Bib. Crit. and Int. in Ham. Theol. Sem., and
Prof. Evidences of Christianity in M. U., 1853–1861. Since 1861,
Prof. Christian Theology in Ham. Theol. Sem., and Prof. Evidences
of Christianity in M. U. Since 1868, President of Madison Univer-
sity, and Prof. of Metaphysics.
PHILIP P. BROWN, JR., A. M. Principal of the Grammar School
1855–1862. (See Alumni Sketches—Class of 1855.)
REV. HEZEKIAH HARVEY, D. D. Tutor, 1847–1849. Prof. Ecc.
and Civ. Hist., 1858–1861. Prof. Bib. Crit. and Interpretation, and
Past. Theol., 1861–1864. Re-elected to Professorship, 1869. See
Alumni Sketches—Class of 1845.)
WILLIAM. I. KNAPP, A. M. Prof. of Modern Languages, 1860–
1865. (See Alumni Sketches—Class of 1860.)
REV. ALBERT N. ARNOLD, D. D. Born in Cranston, R.I., Feb.
12th, 1814. Graduated at Brown University in 1838, and from New-
ton Theol. Inst. in 1841. Ordained in Newburyport, Mass., Sept. 14th,
1841. Missionary in Greece, 1844–1855. Prof. of Ecc. Hist. in New-
ton Theol. Inst., 1855–1857. Prof. of Biblical Criticism and Inter-
pretation, and of Pastoral Theology in Ham. Theol. Sem., 1864–1869.
Since 1869, Prof. of Biblical Literature and Exegesis in the Baptist
Union Theol. Sem., Chicago, Ill.
N. LLOYD ANDREws, A. M. Prof. of Greek Lang, and Lit. (See
Alumni Sketches—Class of 1862.)
REv. John JAMES LEwis, A. M. Prof. of Logic and Eng. Lit.
(See Alumni Sketches—Class of 1864.)
EDw ARD JUDSON, A. M. Prof. of Latin and Modern Languages.
(See Alumni Sketches—Class of 1864.)
ALBERT S. BICKMoRE, Ph. D. Prof. of Natural History. Born
in St. George, Maine, March 1st, 1839. Graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1860. In same year became student of Natural History,
and Assistant, under Prof. Agassiz in Cambridge. Served nine
months in the Mass. 44th, in North Carolina, as a private. In 1865
sailed to the East Indies, and passed three years in the East Indian
Archipelago, China, Japan, Siberia, and Russia-in-Europe. Appoint-
PROFESSORS AND TEACHERS, 193
ed in 1868 Prof. of Nat. Hist. in M. U., and Curator of the American
Museum of Natural History in Central Park, New York. Received
Ph.D. from Hamilton College in 1870. Life Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society of London. In 1869 published “Travels in the
East Indian Archipelago,” in New York, London, and Jena, Ger-
many.
JAMEs M. TAYLOR, A. M. Principal of Gram. School and Prof. of
Mathematics. (See Alumni Sketches—Class of 1867.)
SLSCETCHES OF A LUMNI.
This volume has room for no more than mere outlines of lives and labors. Not
only a careful selection of facts, but much abbreviation of Sentences, as well as
of words, has, therefore, been a necessity.
Churches and ministers are here Baptist unless otherwise denominated. When
no State is given, it is New York.
After 1834 most of the non-graduating students are sketched in connection with
the classes to which they belonged ; not, as unavoidably before, under the year
; entrance. The general catalogue shows under what year each sketch will be
ound.
Nearly all the men sketched were converted when between sixteen and twenty
years of age. The exceptions are noted. They were commonly baptized and
licensed either in their native towns or in the places from which they came to
the Institution.
FIRST DECADE, 1819– 29.
CLASS OF 1822,
JONATHAN WADE was the first Hamilton student. He came from a church
in Hartford, Washington Co., N. Y., where he had been baptized in 1816. He
was ordained in Broadalbin, Feb. 13, 1823. See Foreign Mission Work.
JASON CORWIN. Born in Franklin, Ct., Feb. 1792. Entered the Seminary,
from Cazenovia, in 1820, and graduated in June, 1822. Ordained at N. Woodstock,
and preached awhile at Coventry. Pastor in Deposit, Penfield,Webster, and Bing.
hamton, N. Y. ; Great Bend, Pa.; Earlville, Bridgewater, Augusta, Clinton,
Webster, N. Y. ; Belleville and Washington, Ill. Agent for Bible Union in the
West. Died of malignant sore throat in Washington, Ill., May 15, 1860, leaving
a widow and several children. Built meeting-houses and enjoyed revivals.
EUGENIO KINCAID. Born in Wethersfield, Ct. Baptized, when eighteen, in
De Kalb, N. Y. In 1819 he joined Wade at Elder Hascall's. During his course
he was ordained at Westmoreland, where he supplied a year and a half. After
his graduation, in 1822, he was settled at Galway, Sar. Co., N. Y., two years.
Then from Milton, Pa., as his head-quarters, he preached in Central, Pa., in which
there were only two Baptist Ministers and less than 150 church members. La-
bored thus four years, preaching six or seven times a week—allowing no public
contributions to be taken for his support. In 1830 he sailed for Burmah. See
Mission Work.
JOIIN G, STEARNS. Born in Ackworth, N. H.,Nov. 22, 1795. Converted when
about 15 years old, and when 19 was baptized in Rutland, N. Y. He became a
member of the first class, in 1819, and graduated June, 1822. Married Rebecca
Smith, in Sangerfield. Ordained in Waterville, 13th of June. Pastor in Syracuse,
Paris, East Avon, Gorham, Clymer, Dewittville, Clinton, and New Hartford, N. Y.
Impaired health has interfered with his labors in the ministry. His first wife died
April 3, 1824. He married Miss Silena Post, in Marshall, N. Y., March, 1826.
She died March 31, 1854. He married Miss Lovina Drake, in Clymer, N. Y., Sept.
27, 1854. Author of a work on the Immortality of the Soul, and one on Free
Masonry. Resides in Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. ; retired from pastoral labor.
CLASS OF 1822. 195
VAN RENssELAER WALL, entered this Seminary in 1819 from Norwich, and
graduated 1822. In 1823 ordained pastor of Locke Church, Cay. Co., N. Y. In
Steuben and Alleghany Co.'s, N. Y., preached for 18 years to three churches,
planted under his labors as a missionary. In 1850, removed to Seneca County,
Ohio, where he preached to the Reed, West Lodi, and Republic churches. Sub-
sequently removed to Illinois, and died in Christian County, Sept. 12, 1866, aged
69 years.
THE FoELowING ENTERED IN or BEFORE 1822, BUT DID NOT GRADUATE :
HARVEY BLOOD. Born in Conway, Mass., in 1798. Came from Windsor,
Vt., in 1819. Preached in Aurelius (now Fleming), Throopsville, Phelps, Ogden,
and Oakfield. One year Missionary of the Convention in Orleans, Gen., and Niag.
Counties. From 28 to '50 a supply, residing on his farm in Carlton, Orleans Co. In
July, '29, his wife, Eliza Cooley, died. His second wife was Gracella Miles, of Carl-
ton. From 1850 he gave himself to the practice of medicine. From '57 he was
an invalid. He died very suddenly July 24, 1865.
JoELN I. FULTON. Born in Pictou, N. S., Sept. 23, 1798. Brought to New
York in 1802. His father dying in 1814, he enlisted in the army. Joined
church in North East, Dutchess Co.; entered Seminary in '22. In 1824 pastor
in Sherburne, N. Y. Was married in Great Barrington, Mass., to Miss C. Dewey.
Ordained in Aug., 1824. Afterwards pastor in Vermon and Mendon, N. Y. In 1836
he became pastor in Brooklyn, Mich. ; preaching also in Napoleon. Pastor also
in Manchester, Mendon, Stony Creek, Mt. Clemens, and Saline, Mich. ; Still-
water, N. Y. ; and Tecumseh, Mich. In the early history of the Bible Union, he
labored as its agent. In “protracted meetings” labored much, and multitudes
were hopefully converted. He died Nov. 10, 1867, in Tecumseh, Mich. “Highly
distinguished for his extenporary pulpit oratory. He loved to descant on the
mysteries of redeeming love, which he did with a felicity peculiarly his own.”
He left four children, one of whom is J. D. Fulton, D. D., of Boston, Mass. His
widow died March 9, '71, in Oswego, N. Y.
NORMAN GUITEAU. From Whitesboro. Preached in Holland Patent, and Den-
mark, where he was ordained in Feb., '21. At an early period in the history of the
Baptist interest in Watertown, he labored with great ability and efficiency. He
was the pioneer of Temperance in Northern New York. He performed much
missionary work, getting little or no compensation. He was doing excellent
*y
service in Pulaski, N. Y., when he died in the summer or fall of 1827.
CHARLEs H. GOODALE, son of Eld. Solomon G., of Bristol, Ontario Co., N. Y.
Before closing his studies he died of fever at his father's.
John D. HART, entered from Mulberry Street Church, N. Y. Ordained in ’23.
Settled in Cairo, Lansingburg, N. Y. ; Southwick, Mass, ; Waterville, Hillsdale,
Tully, Penn Yan, and Jerusalem, N. Y. : Grass Lake, and other places, Mich. :
Patterson, and Kingston, N. Y. While on his way to San Francisco, he died on
ship-board off Point San Blas, July 4, 1849, aged 47.
EBENEZER S. HUBBEL. Born, March, 1798. Entered the Seminary from one
of the churches in Butternuts, Otsego Co., April, 1820, Left in Sept., 1823. Soon
after adopted the views of Alexander Campbell. Died in a few years.
JAMES NICKERSON. Converted in the village of Cazenovia. Was a short
time in the Seminary. Returned to Cazenovia and engaged in secular business.
196 SKETCHES OF ALUMNI.
Ordained in 1836, was an acceptable preacher, never a pastor. Oct. 13, 1865, be-
ing then in his 64th year, he died in triumph, leaving a widow and several chil-
dren, one of whom is the wife of Rev. G. J. Johnson, D. D., of St. Louis, and
another the wife of Rev. T. S. Griffith, of Holmdel, N. J.
GIDEON B. PERRY. Came to the Seminary from Brookfield, N. Y. Was a
popular preacher. Pastor in Stonington, Ct., New Bedford, Mass., Philadelphia,
Pa. Became an Episcopalian, preached in the West, where he is reported as
having died some years since. In 1866 “G. B. Perry, D.D., LL.D.,” was rec-
tor in Natchez, Miss.
LUTHER SAXON. Of the class of '22. Belonged in Sherburne. Left before
the class graduated.
PHILIP S. SLOCUM. In 1820 entered the class of 1823, did not graduate nor
Serve long, if at all, as a minister.
SETH. S. WHITMAN. Born in Fairfield, Vt., Feb. 5, 1802. Entered the Semi-
mary in 1820. In June, 1823, he entered Hamilton College, at Clinton, N. Y., to
prepare for a professorship in the Institution. He graduated in '25, and at New-
ton in '28. In March, 1829, he became Professor of Languages and of Bib'l In-
terpretation at Hamilton. He was ordained Aug. 18, 1839. Aug 4, 1831, he was
married to Miss Matilda Nicholas, of Utica. In 1835 he resigned his professor.
ship. In 1836 he went to Rock River Valley, Ill., as missionary. Twelve years in
Belvidere, Ill. Church grew from 11 to 300. Preached statedly also to a
church he had organized in Rockford. In 1848 was about removing there, but
was prostrated by sickness from which he never fully recovered. In 1851 pas-
tor in Madison, Wis.; labors much blessed; but he died Jan, 2, 1852. A good
preacher and a faithful pastor.
WILLIAM WATKINs. Born in England in 1793. Entered the Seminary in 1818,
left in 1821. Married Rhoda Lamb, Liverpool, N. Y. First pastorate not known.
In 1828 he was pastor in Hannibal ville, N. Y., where he died of consumption
March 29, 1831. A devoted and useful man.
CLASS OF 1823.
JOHN B. BALLARD. Born in Dudley, Mass., Oct. 25, 1795. Came to this Semi-
nary, from Thompson, Conn., in 1820. Graduated in 1823. Married soon after
in Hamilton. Ordained in Masonville, N. Y., Nov. 13, 1823. After two years
of Sucessful labor there he was called to the church in Dudley, Mass., now known
as the church in Webster. He began the first Sunday School ever held there.
Pastor in Bloomfield, Conn., baptized many. Agent of the American Sunday
School Union thirteen years. He established Sunday Schools in nearly every
town in N. Carolina and Kentucky. While recruiting in Conn. he supplied des-
titute churches. Then Tract Missionary in New York City six years. He died
Jan. 29, 1856, of a fever contracted in the discharge of his duties in Bellevue
Hospital. His last words to his children, in tears around him, were, “Blessed
be the name of the Lord l’’
PARLEY BROWN. Born in Granville, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1788. Converted and bap-
tized in Loraine, Jeff. Co., 1816. Entered the Seminary in 1821, graduated in
1823. Ordained at Loraine May 6, 1824. He served several churches in Jeff.
and Lewis Cos. In his old age he became nearly blind, but retained his mental
powers remarkably, especially his memory, and continued to preach. He died
in Philadelphia, Jeff. Co., March 17, 1870.
CLASS OF 1823. 197
JOHN NEWTON BROWN. Born in New London, Conn., in June, 1803. Bap-
tized in Hudson, N. Y., when 14 years of age. In 1819 entered this Institution.
Graduated in 1823. Ordained in Buffalo, June 23, 1824. In 1825 he labored as a
missionary in Rhode Island. Pastor in Malden, Mass., 1827. Married to Miss
Skinner, of Hudson. In the winter of 1828 his health failed. In Sept., 1829, be-
came pastor of a church in Exeter, N. H. In 1833–4 edited the “Encyclopedia of
Religious Knowledge.” In 1838 Professor of Theology and Pastoral Relations in
the New Hampton Institution. He was the author of the “New Hampshire Con-
fession,” so generally used by Baptist churches. In 1844, his health failing, he
passed the winter in Georgia. In Sept., 1845, he took the pastorate of the church
in Lexington, Va., remaining four years. In Sept., 1849, he was appointed Edito-
rial Secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society, which position he held
until 1859. He died in Germantown, Pa., May 14, 1868, aged 64 years and 11
months. He received the degree of D.D. from * * College. “One of the
most heavenly-minded men I ever knew.”—DR. STOW.
FRANCIs H. JoHNSON. Born Sept., 1795. Came to Hamilton from Delaware,
O., and graduated in June, 1823. Not long in the ministry.
ELIAS JoEINSON. Born in Deerfield, opposite Utica, N. Y., Feb. 21, 1797.
Soon after graduation married Bulah Buckingham, of Mt. Upton. Successful
pastor in N. Sunderland, Cummington, and Princeton, Mass. Health poor. Only
supplied churches in and around Fredonia, N. Y. In a revival under his labors
in Cassadaga, Lucy Lyon, afterwards Mrs. Lord, of China Mission, was converted.
Powerful revival in Pittsburg, Pa., during his supply there. Resides in Fredonia,
retired from the ministry.
GRIFFITH JONEs. Born in Wales, G. B., July, 1794. Pastor of the church at
Holland Patent, Oneida Co., N. Y., where he was ordained, June 10, 1824.
Afterwards pastor at Vienna and South Trenton. After many years he removed
to the western part of the State, preaching occasionally. He spoke the Welsh
better than the English. Residing with his son in Rochester, he died there
many years ago.
CHARLES H. LA HATT. Born in Otsego County, in Feb., 1796; son of Elder
Charles La Hatt. Not long in the ministry.
ELEAZER SAVAGE. Born in Middletown, Conn., July 28, 1800. He entered
this Seminary in 1820, graduating in 1823, became Pastor in Rochester, where
he was ordained in 1824. Married, in 1825, Harriet Crowl, in Lockport. Three
years in Rochester. Pastor in Medina, Oswego, Kendall, Albion, York, and
Chili, in which he baptized 401 members. Labored 11 years as Agent for be-
nevolent societies. Published a valuable work on Church Discipline. One of
his daughters is the wife of Rev. A. H. Strong, D.D., of Cleveland, Ohio. Now
lives in Fairport, Mon. Co., N. Y., unable to have a pastoral charge.
REUBEN WINCHELI. Born at Turkey Hill, (E. Granby), Conn., Aug. 20,
1789. Married, in 1809, Chloe Ludington, of Suffield, Conn. For a time a
merchant in Whately, Conn. Then a teacher in Jersey City. Graduated in 1823.
Soon pastor in Avon, N. Y. In 1825 removed to Lockport. There he publicly
renounced Masonry, by which he made bitter enemies. In 1828 removed as pas-
tor, to Wethersfield, Conn., but returned after a year to Lockport. While living
here he travelled as Sunday School Agent, and Missionary, organizing Schools
and Churches. Removed to Kalamazoo, Mich., and back again in 1831. In 33,
pastor in Tully, N. Y. ; in '35, in Queenstown, Canada. Then Agent of H. M.
Soc. till '42. Throat disease interfered with continuous public speaking. He
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resided on his farm near Lockport until 1848, when he removed to Tully again,
where he died, Jan. 5, 1850, aged 60 years. Under his labors many were con-
verted. .
IN 1823 THE FOLLOWING ENTERED, BUT DID NOT GRADUATE :
AVERY CASE. Born in Burlington, Conn., March, 1803. Entered Seminary,
1828. An excellent brother, giving large promise of future usefulness, but died
at Hamilton, in Nov. 1826, being the first case of death in the Institution.
RICHARD C. SHIMEALL. From one of the Churches in New York City. Had
been a Methodist, became a Baptist. Ordained pastor of Cairo and Greenville
churches, N. Y., Dec. 16, ’25. In 26 pastor in Westerloo, N. Y. Joined the
Presbyterians; afterwards the Episcopalians; is now a Dutch Reformed Minister
in or near New York City. Author of “Age of the World, and Signs of the
Times,” “Treatise on Prayer,” etc.
CLASS OF 1824.
JOHN BEAVER. Born in Middlebury, Gen. Co., July 23, 1796. Entered in
’21 ; graduated in '24. In 1832 Pastor in Gerry, Chaut. Co. After 1850, he
lived on a farm near Aurora, Ill. Removed to California years ago.
PHARCELLUS CHURCH. Born Sept. 11, 1801, in Seneca, now Geneva, N. Y.
Converted in his 14th year. After graduating, he was settled four years in
Poultney, Vt., where he married Chara E. Conant, of Brandon. Pastor of the
Pine St. Baptist Church, Providence, R. I., six years. Then preached a short time
in New Orleans, La. Pastor in Rochester thirteen years. In 1848, Pastor of Bow.
doin Square Church, Boston, Mass., which he left, on account of failing health, in
1852. Preached a while in Montreal, C. W., and also in Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y.
In 1855, Editor and Publisher of the W. Y. Chronicle, which he sold in 1865.
Since which time he has resided abroad some years with his family. Feels increas.
ing interest in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. In 1847 he received the
degree of D.D., conferred by M. U. Author of “Philosophy of Benevolence ;”
“Religious Dissensions” (prize essay); “Antioch ; or, Increase of Moral Power in
the Church ;” “ Pentecost ;” “Life of Mrs. Dean ;” “Maplewood ; or, More
Work for the Maine Law ;” “Seed Truths; or, Bible Views of Mind, Morals
and Religion.” He was several years co-editor of the Watchman and Reflector,
and has written much for other periodicals. Present residence Tarrytown, N. Y.
WM. B. CURTIs. Born in Fort Ann, May 10, 1796. In 1820, while teaching
and studying law in Whitesboro’, was converted and baptized. Entered in '22,
and graduated in '24. Ordained in June, '24, and went to Ashtabula, O. Church
soon organized and a revival enjoyed. Remained two years. Jan. '27, married
Priscilla St. John, of Galway, N. Y. Six years pastor in Richfield ; 4 in Nor-
way ; 4 in Broadalbin ; 6 in Milton ; 4 in East Avon ; 6 in Newport. His throat
becoming diseased, he retired from pastoral work, and preached but occasionally.
He died of typhoid fever in Utica, Oct. 19, 1865. A faithful and successful
minister.
FRANCIs W. EMMONs. Born in Clarendon, Vt., Feb. 24, 1802. Oldest grad-
uate present at the Jubilee. Entered in 1821, graduated in '24. Afterwards studied
at Columbian College. Graduated at Brown University in 1828. Subsequently
received Degree of A.M. Ordained iu the First Baptist Church Providence, R.
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I., in May, 1829. Has been pastor in Eastport, Me., Wellsburg, W. Va., and
Noblesville, Ind. The great study of his life inas been the revision and interpreta-
tion of the Scriptures. Has written much for Reviews and other periodicals. The fail-
ure of his health led to the study of medicine, and in 1855 he took the degree of
M.D. in the Metropolitan Medical College, N. Y. In 1829 he married Mary Ann,
daughter of Rev. Z. Leonard, of Sturbridge, Mass. Present residence near Globe
Village, Southbridge, Mass.
EDWARD HODGE. Born in Rumney, N. H., Sept. 18, 1798. Entered this Semi-
nary in 1822 as a beneficiary of Deacon Jon. Olmstead. Graduated in 1824.
Preached in Farmersville and in Spafford. Married Betsey Pitts, of Onondaga.
Ordained at Onondaga in 1825, and in the fall of that year removed to Ovid, N.
Y. Organized a church at Scott's Corners, which he served ten years. In 1836
a Home Missionary, in “the vicinity of Bear Creek,” Mich. With the Fairfield
and Seneca church and neighboring churches he labored 20 years. In 1859 in
Kansas. Returned to his old field, where he died Feb. 16, 1861. A sound Gospel
preacher.
WM. HUTCHINSON. Born in Drumlamph, Ireland. Aug. 1795. Came to Unit-
ed States 1818. Entered from Cazenovia in 1821. Ordained there immediately
after graduation, and set out for Ireland. Received in London appointment as
missionary in Ireland, where he iabored three years. “In Oct., 25, he married
Eliza Hetherington. In '27 he returned to United States. Has been pastor in
Brandon, Vt.; Amenia, Fayetteville, Oswego, Amsterdam, Schuylerville, N. Gran.
ville, N. Y.; Lower Dublin, Pa.; and Sandy Hill, N. Y., his present residence.
Since 1859 he has been unable to preach constantly.
JACOB KNAPP. Born in Otsego Co., N. Y., Dec. 7, 1799. Converted in 1816.
Taught school and studied till he entered Hamilton in '22, Graduated in 24.
Settled in Springfield, Otsego Co. Married Electa Payne, of Hamilton. In 30
pastor in Watertown, Jefferson Co., where he remained three years. Then began
to hold protracted meetings with weak churches in Lewis and Jefferson Coun-
ties. Soon called to labor in large towns and cities. In 35 removed to Ham-
ilton and went thence in all directions through the land. In 49 removed to
Rockford, Ill., where he still resides. Continues to hold protracted meetings
all over the continent. He has published his Autobiography; the volume also
containing some of his sermons and his “Views on Various Subjects.” He has
baptized “between four and five thousand persons.” He has preached “16,000
times.” “It is estimated that at least one hundred thousand have been convert.
ed under his ministry, of whom 200 are now preaching the gospel.”
BERIAH. N. LEACH. Born in Middletown, Vt., April 28, 1801. Converted
When 14 years old. Entered this Institution in 1820. Tutor in 1823–4, Mar.
ried Priscilla Barber, of Middletown, Vt., in 1825. Ordained pastor in Cornwall,
Vt., in Oct., 1826. Pastor in Middlebury, Fredonia, Wyoming, Hamilton ; Mid-
dletown, Conn., and Brooklyn, N. Y. Once Principal of the Wyoming Academy.
Five years Secretary of the Education Society of the State of New York, resid-
ing at Hamilton. He received the degree of D.D. from the University in 1859.
A laborious and successful pastor. Three years retired from active labors. He
died of heart disease in Middletown, Conn., Jan. 23, 1869, in the triumphs of
Christian faith.
EBER TUCKER. Born in Nassau, Rens. Co., N. Y., Jan. 12, 1798. Entered
from Schodack in '21, graduated in '24. Married Martha Cox, of Hamilton. Or.
dained in Milton, Feb. 13, 25. Pastor also in Camilius (or Marcellus) and Canaan
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(two churches). Missionary of the Baptist Board to the Creek Indians in ’43–
'45. He died Oct. 22, 1858, in Newark, Knox Co., Mo., leaving a widow and four
children.
HOLLAND TURNER. Born in Walpole, N. H., Nov. 9, 1798. Entered the Semi-
nary in 1821, and graduated in 1824. Married Amanda. Wheeler, in Hamilton,
July, '24. Ordained there on the 20th of July, of the same year. Pastor at
Rouse's Point, Plattsburg, Brookfield, and Otselic. Here he lived more than 30
years, sometimes serving the church as pastor. He died in the autumn of 1869.
ENTERED IN 1824, BUT DID NOT GRADUATE :
JOSEPH ALDEN. Entered from Cairo, N. Y., in '24. Went to Brown Univer-
sity. Professor in Williams College, Mass.
JAMES BERRY. Born in 1798. Came to the Seminary from Ohio in '24; re-
mained two years. In 31 married Miranda Eaton, in Granville, O., where for
four years and a half he served as pastor half of the time. Six years served in
McKean one half the time. He died suddenly with brain fever, in Granville,
July 28, 34. His memory is very highly cherished. “He had formed two
churches and baptized seventeen persons.” Where he toiled and died Denison
University now stands.
JAMES BLOODGOOD. Born in Columbia, Her. Co., Jan. 5, 1801. Came to the
Seminary in '24 and left in ’27. Settled as a farmer in Springfield, Erie Co.
Married in 1829 Nancy Vaughan, of Queensbury, N. Y. Has taught school much
in connection with his farming. His only son graduated at Madison University
in 1852.
GEO. B. DAVIS. Born in Maryland, Dec. 18, 1790. Married Maria Russel in
1813. Pastor in N. Penfield and Lyons. Being in '24 pastor in Peterboro, he
studied at Hamilton. In 26 pastor in Colosse, in '27 Agent of American Bible
Society; in 31 pastor in Yates; in '34 Agent of Bible Society in Ill. ; in ’40 Agent
of Shurtleff College. Preached to several churches near Bunker Hill, Ill. Agent
for Indian Missionary Association. Died at Bunker Hill, Aug. 26, 1852. An
efficient minister.
HEMAN H. HAFF. Born in Nassau, Rens. Co., Oct. 8, 1802. He graduated at
Union College, and entered Seminary in '24. Much of his life was devoted to
teaching as well as preaching. He was ordained in Stillwater, Feb. 1, ’32. Mar-
ried there Sarah Farbell, Sept., 32. Pastor in Stillwater, Middlebury, Vt.; Green-
field, N.Y.; Augusta, Springfield, West Schuyler, Seneca Falls, Mendon, and
Henrietta. Two years Agent of Baptist Publication Society. From '54 to ’58
taught in Paw Paw, Ill. Then preached to feeble churches in Ill. and Iowa. He
died at Grundy Center, Iowa, Sept. 1, 1868.
PAUL S. RICHARDS. Born in Jericho, Vt., Nov. 15, 1800. In 23 married
Almira, daughter of Elder Churchill, of Pleasant Valley, N. Y. In the Semi-
nary Oct., '24, to June, 28. Then taught and preached in Williamsville. Pastor
in Hamburg, Aurora, Forestville, Palmyra, N.Y.; in Kingsville, Jefferson, Garretts-
ville, Andover, Ohio. Revivals in all these except Jefferson. His wife died in
April, 1836. Second wife, Hester Ann Hempsted. In 47 settled on a farm in
Johnson's Creek, Wis., where he died Sept. 16, 1870.
CoNANT SAWYER. Son of Elder Isaac Sawyer, was born in Monkton, Vt.,
May 23, 1805. Baptized when 16 years old. Entered Hamilton in June, '24, and
left it in Sept., 26. Ordained in Keesville, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1829. Pastor in Jay,
Schenectady, Lowville, Canton, and Gloversville ; Randolph, Mass.; and Bedford,
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Westchester Co., N. Y. Revivals repeatedly enjoyed under his ministry. He
has been married three times. His first wife was Miss Harriet Y. Wetmore, of
Vernon, N. Y. He received the degree of D.D. from M. U. in 1869.
BENJAMIN ST. JOHN. Came to the Seminary from the Greenfield church, in
Saratoga Association. Remained about a year. Pastor in Corinth, Sheldon, and
China, N. Y.; and New Lime, O.
STEPHEN WILKINs. Entered the Class of '27 in '24. Has been pastor in Gal-
way and Albany, N. Y., also in Fentonville, Mich. In South Church, Albany, he
baptized 300 in 1843–4.
CLASS OF 1825.
DAVID CORWIN. Born in Damascus, Wayne Co., Pa., Nov 15, 1796. From his
first specially serious impressions till he was rejoicing in a Saviour, he did not
hear a sermon, or prayer, or word said on the subject of religion. The first meet-
ing he attended after his conversion, was a prayer meeting originating in his
own exertion, where there were few religious people. Without a word of en-
couragement, he found his way to a covenant meeting of the church in Damas-
cus, and was baptized, Entered this Seminary in '22. In '24, health failing, he
took charge of the churches in Providence and Edinburgh. Ordained in Edin-
burgh, Sept. 20, 25. In 28 he began missionary work in the Mohawk Valley
and in Schoharie Co. Then pastor in Westerloo, Gloversville, Cohoes, and
Duanesburgh 29 years of great prosperity. Next a supply for two years, then
pastor in Rensselaerville and Worcester, Otsego Co. He has been twice mar-
ried. Residence Gloversville.
JARED DooDITTLE. Born Sept., 1798. Came from Mt. Holly, Vt., in 1823.
Graduated in 1825. Never settled nor ordained.
CHANCELLOR HARTSHORN. Born Jan. 16, 1801, in Exeter, Otsego Co., N. Y.
Converted on his 17th birthday. Entered in ’21. Graduated, having the Wal-
edictory, in ’25. Tutor over two years. Ordained in Hamilton in ’25. Pastor
in Leyden, Parma Corners, Waterville, Franklin, Del. Co.; Delphi, Madison,
Adams, Waterville again, Mexico, and Sardinia. His labors have been interrupt-
ed by asthma. Married Susan B. Damon, of Madison, in 1829. Resides in Ann
Arbor, Mich.
JoFIN C. HoLT. Born Nov. 25, 1793. Entered from Waterford, Conn., in
1823, and graduated in 1825. First settled in Romulus, N. Y. Married Dorcas
Clough, of Madison, N. Y. Pastor in De Ruyter, Onondaga South Hill, Still-
water, First Galway, Moreau, and Fleming. Went to Tennessee, where his wife
and only child died. Here he performed much labor as a minister, and, after a
protracted sickness, died at Shelbyville, Tenn., Feb. 12, 1860.
ASAHEL PELTON. A Collegiate graduate, had studied law before his conver-
sion. Entered from a church in Westmoreland in '24, graduated in ’25. Went
to Washington, to labor for the colored people, but died in ’25.
JoEL PECK. Born in Conn., Feb. 14, 1791. Married Rosamond Purmont, in
Jay, '22. He entered the Seminary from Jay church, in ’23. Graduated in 1825.
His pastorates were in Jay, where he was ordained, and Canton. Five years pas-
tor of Thompson and Lyme churches, Ohio, dividing his time between them. In
'38 he located on Bear Creek, now Mendon, Adams Co., Ill., and suddenly, in the
midst of a great revival, he died of lung fever, Sept. 8, 39. No minister near
enough to attend his funeral.
DANIEL PLATT. Born in Rensselaerville, July 13, 1798. Converted and bap-
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tized in Union, N. Y., when 14 years old. In the fall of '22, came to Hamilton,
and began his course of study, living alone and supporting himself for two years
by shoemaking. Joined the 2d Church in Hamilton, three miles from the vil.
lage. Like Carey, he had his book open before him as he worked. Graduated in
’25. Married Almira Skinner, of E. Hamilton. Ordained in Tioga, Pa. Labor-
ed many years among churches along the line of N. Y. and Pa., supporting him.
self mainly. In '43 in Ohio; Orangeville and Vienna, enjoyed a revival. In '46
began to labor in Allegan Co., Mich. After a brief, painful illness he died, Sept.
18, '67, in Allegan, leaving a widow and four children.
WILLIAM WEST. Born Sept. 5, 1795. Entered from a church in Chenango,
Broome Co., in '22, and graduated.
THE FOLLOWING ENTERED IN 1825, BUT DID NOT GIRADUATE :
RUSSEL JENNINGS. Born in 1800, in Weston (now Easton) Conn. Entered Ham-
ilton in '25 ; afterwards took the course at Newton. Served as Missionary of the
Conn. State Convention. Afterward pastor at Saybrook (first), Meriden, Water-
bury, Norwich (first), then of Deep River, where he stills resides. Still preaches
and baptizes. He is known to give thousands of dollars yearly to make up
deficiencies in the salaries of pastors, and to clear meeting-houses of debt. In
'70 he presented the church in Chester, Conn., with an edifice costing over $15,000.
WASHINGTON KINGSLEY. Born in Lyme, Conn., April 18, 1800. Entered Ham-
ilton in '25. Ordained pastor of West Meredith church, N. Y., Oct. 24, 27; re-
mained six years. Pastor in Oxford three years. Then became “Evangelist.”
Has preached in several States, with small and feeble as well as with strong
churches. Residence, Taylor, Cortlandt, Co., N. Y.
CLASS OF 1826.
MARVIN ALLEN. Born Nov. 4, 1800, in Fabius. Entered the Seminary in
’22, graduated in '26, and soon settled as pastor in Williamson, N. Y. Ordained
in spring of '27. Married Miss Julia Ann Green, in Auburn. Pastor in Manches.
ter and Canandaigua, N.Y.; in Adrian and Ann Arbor, Mich. Five years General
Agent of the Mich. State Convention. In '50 removed to Detroit. In '48 took
general charge of “Mich. Christian Herald, in which work he continued till his
death in Detroit, June 13, '61, of congestion of the lungs, which had always
been weak. “He was the ‘Apostle of Mich., more widely known than any other of
the Baptists—his face and form most familiar in all their assemblies.”
NorMAN BENTLY. Born in Berlin, Rens. Co., Oct. 23, 1800. Entered Seminary
in '22. Graduating in '26, he was ordained in Guilford, N. Y., Second Ch., Jan.
18, '27. Pastor also in Penfield, Geneva, Rush, and Otselic. Served other church-
es as supply. After long sickness, he died in Rome, May 18, '44.
AMASA CLARK. Born and baptized in Westfield, Mass. Entered Seminary in
June, 24; graduated in '26; became pastor in Russel, Mass. Settled in Mantua,
Hiram, and Troy, Ohio. Made journey from Ohio to Mass., on foot, in ’32. He died
many years since in N. Ohio,
JIRAHI DELANO COLE. Born Jan. 14, 1802, in Catskill, N. Y., where he was
baptized, March 4, 21. He entered this Institution Aug., '22. He graduated in
'26, and was married Sept. 13, 26, to Miss Frances Leonard, in Sennett, N. Y.
having previously entered upon pastoral work in Greenville, N. Y. He has been
pastor in Greenville, Ogden, Fredonia, Fabius, Ithaca, Whitesboro’, and Nunda,
N. Y. Ordained in Ogden, Sept. 11, 27. He was two years associated with Rev.
Alfred Bennett, in an agency for Foreign Missions, in N. Y., and the Western
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States. He has also served the N. Y. Baptist Missionary Convention, as their
Corresponding or Executive Secretary for six years. Again Agent of the Mission-
ary Union, in the North Western District, seven and a half years, from '50.
Then his wife died, and he returned to pastoral work, serving the following
churches: Delavan, Wis.; Barry, Ill. ; Valparaiso, Ind. ; Galva, Cordova
and Atlanta, Ill. He was married the second time in Delawan, Wis., to Miss
Elizabeth C. La Bar, Sept. 2, '58. He has written much for periodicals, and for
Public Conventions and Ministers' Meetings. He has written the “History
of the Rock Island Association, in Ill., and its Churches,” which the Association
has had issued from the press in book form. He is now pastor at Atlanta, Lo,
gan Co., Ill. In '52 Shurtleff College gave him the honorary degree of A. M., and
in '58 Denison University gave him that of D. D.
WILLIAM Collins. Born in Enfield, Conn., Sept. 24, 1799. Entered the Semi-
nary in '23, from Chardon, Ohio. Married in Chardon, Ann Eliza Haynes, in 25.
Graduated and returned to Ohio in '26. Ordained at Chardon as pastor Oct. 26,
’26. In 28 he embraced the sentiments of Alexander Campbell. After this he
preached occasionally for churches in four counties; but the cultivation of his
farm was his main work until his death, which took place in Chardon June 6.
'60. He had a popular gift.
JESSE ELLIOT. Born Dec. 24, 1799, in Mason, N. H., where his father was
many years pastor of the Baptist Church. Baptized in Roxbury, Mass., in 23
by his brother, pastor of the church there. Entered in '24; graduated in '26.
Ordained as Preacher and Teacher of Oneida Indians, Aug. 29, 26. Married
Miss Phoebe Yeomans, in Greenville, N. Y. Second wife, Mary C. Willis, of
Western, N. Y. Successful pastor of the following churches : Henderson and
Smithville, Pulaski, South Richland, La Grange, Wyoming, Almond, Mayville
Stockton, Bethany, and Churchville, his present pastorate. Agent of A. and F,
Bible Society one year.
JAcoB FISRE. Born May 3, 1796. Entered the Seminary in '24, Graduated
in '26. Pastor in Lodi, Spring port, and Williamson, N. Y. His wife died in
Williamson. He afterwards lived in Rochester, N. Y., where he died in '86
or '37.
JAIRUS HANDY. Son of Elder Jay Handy. Born in Brookfield, N. Y., in
1803. Baptized in Fredonia. Entered Seminary in '24. Graduating June 1,
’26, he was married the same day to Achsah, daughter of Deacon Lapham, of
Hamilton, sister of Mrs. Wade of the Burman Mission. Ordained in Fredonia,
having previously begun pastoral care in Mayville, N. Y. In '29 became pastor
of a church he had gathered in Dunkirk. In 30 pastor in Buffalo. Greatly bless.
ed here, but died Nov. 7, 31, at Fredonia, in the same room in his father's house.
in which, during long illness, he had become a Christian. He had baptized over
a hundred. Among the fruits of the revival in B. was J. N. Granger. “Measured
by time his pastorate was brief, but measured by results it was long. His mem.
ory is fresh and fragrant.”—DR. HoTCIIKIss.
WAKEMAN G. Johnson. Born in Frankfort, Herkimer Co., Feb. 7, 1797, Bap.
tized in Loraine, by his father, the pastor. Married Betsey Lampson, in '18. En.
tered this Institution in '24, and graduated in '26. Ordained in Pittsford, Vt., in
June, 27. Pastor in Pownal, Stamford, Lanesborough, Whiting, Hinesburg
Churches, all in Vt., except Lanesborough, Mass. Pastor in Ravenna and Bedford,
Ohio; Yorkville and White Pigeon, Mich., organizing a church in both places, and
building a meeting-house at Yorkville. After six years of labor in Mich, he was
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pastor at Morris, Clinton, Princeton, and Geneseo, Ill. After a season of rest he
resumed pastoral laborin Maumee City, Ohio, where an almost extinct church was
resuscitated. In Aug., '69, his wife died. He is able yet to labor, and resides in
Rochester, N. Y.
FARNIIAM KNOWLTON. Born in Amenia, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1800. Entered in '22,
graduated in '26. Engaged in teaching, preaching occasionally. Ordained
in Stamford, Conn., March 20, 28. Pastor in Wallingford afterwards. Since ’31
has resided on his farm in Greenwich, supplying churches, as occasion has re-
quired. Married in '20 to Sarah Ingersoll, who died in ’51. His address is Stan-
wich, Conn.
PETER LATIMER. Born in Waterford, Conn., March, 1800. Entered Seminary
in 23 and graduated in '26. Married (the same day) to Miss Fanny Wheeler, of
Hamilton. Settled over six years with first church, Brookfield, N. Y. Has since
been engaged in business in Norwalk, Ohio.
WILLIAM GEORGE MILLER. Born in Halifax, N. S., April 25, 1803. Resid-
ing in N. Y. City in 19, he was converted under the preaching of the eccentric
Elder Vanvelzor. Entered Hamilton in ’23. Graduated in '26. Ordained pastor
of a church then meeting in Orange St., now “Bethel Baptist Church,” N. Y.
City ; remained 14 years. In '40 pastor in Essex, Conn, Died of consumption in
N. Y., April 13, '45. His wife was Cynthia Bacon, of Hamilton. “As a pastor
lme had few equals.”
SILAs PRATT. Born in Willsborough, Essex Co., July 9, 1802. Converted
when 13 years of age. Entered Seminary in '25. Married and graduated in '26.
Ordained in Madrid, Jan., '27, Pastor also in Champion, Rodman, Stockholm,
and Lawrenceville. In '29 his wife died. In '32 he became pastor of the church
in Nicholsville. Here he has resided since then ; and has served the church
at different times about 14 years. He has also served Madrid, Canton, Ogdens.
burg, Richville, and Edwards churches.
PETER SIMONSON. Born in Blenheim, Schoharie Co., April 9, 1801. Entered
Seminary in '23. Ordained soon after graduating, and was employed as Missionary
by the New Jersey Association. In 30 he married Sarah Allen, of Burlington, N.
J., being then settled in Catskill, N. Y. In '32 Agent of the Baptist General
Tract Society; then of the Rhode Island State Convention; organized a church
and built a meeting-house at Woonsocket Falls. In 34 pastor of the Fourth
Church in Providence. In '37 again in service of N. J. State Convention. He
originated the Christian Record, a cheap monthly religious paper. Preached
awhile in Lower Freehold Church. Settled in fall of '38 with Cohansey Church.
He died suddenly Jan. 9, 39. Rev Geo. A. Simonson, of La Crosse, Wis., is his
youngest Son.
SETII SMALLEY. Born Feb. 10, 1799. Came from Stephentown, N. Y., to
the Seminary in ’22. He graduated in '26, and was married to Miss Maria Payne,
of Hamilton. He went to New York City, where he was ordained and settled.
He was pastor also in Amsterdam, Watertown, and Pitcher. While at Pitcher
he united with the Presbyterians. Resides now in Kansas.
THos. A. WARNER. Born May 5, 1799, in Claremont, N. H. Entered in '22,
graduated in '26, and ordained in Copenhagen, N. Y., Sept. 25, 26. Pastor of
the following churches: Lowville and Denmark, Le Ray, La Fargeville, N. Y.;
Cass, Lost Creek, Ohio. Five years Agent of the Ed. Society of the State of N.Y.;
after leaving Le Ray. He died of typhus fever Nov. 19, '45, at Lost Creek. He
was a man of vigorous mind, an able and successful preacher and pastor. He was
the author of a valuable work on the “Two Covenants,” and other works. He
married Berinthia Caldwell, of Lowville.
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THE FOLLOWING ENTERED IN 1826, BUT DID NOT GRADUATE :
DAVID CARLISLE. In 1828 was in the midst of a great revival in Marion,
Wayne Co., N. Y. He died in Rush, Monroe Co., March 27, 1832, aged 32 years.
Probably pastor there.
MARTIN LUTHER FULLER. Born in Grafton, Vt., Feb. 7, 1803. Converted
when 13 years old. Married Edna Converse in 1823. Entered Hamilton, in June,
1826. Compelled by ill health to leave in 1828, became pastor at Crown Point,
N.Y., and was ordained Jan., 1831. Here and at Ticonderoga helabored four years
with much success. He was also pastor at Weston, and then at Rupert, Vt. In
1836 pastor of the First Church in Galway, N. Y., but was soon laid aside from
labor by an affection of the spine, which continued six years. Resumed labor in
Westville, then in Hillsdale, N. Y. One year a missionary in Rensselaer
Co., N. Y., and then pastor of the Grafton Church, N. Y. In 1850, missionary on
the N. Y. and Canada line. Here in two years sixty French Catholics were
converted, baptized, and organized into a Church, and among them were four
priests, who became Baptist Ministers. He was Agent of the Bible Union five
years, and in the time removed to Woodford Co., Ill. After closing his agency
in 1857, he preached much in the surrounding country, at his own charges. In
1860 he took charge of the church at Waupacca, Wis. There 4 years, and then
returned to Ill. His wife died in 1865, and he became pastor of the Kickapoo
Church, in Peoria Co., serving it until 1868, since which time he has been an
invalid. He resides at Kickapoo, and preaches occasionally. He has had some
practice as a physician. He was married March 1, 1866, to Miss Mary J. Bacon.
PETER LEONGLOIs. Was a Miami Indian ; Madore Beaubien and Joseph
Bourassa were Ottawas ; Luther Rice, John Jones and John Laleme were
Chippewas ; and Nucko, (alias Andrew Fuller,) was a Potawatomie. These
were a company of Indian young men, who were brought to the Seminary by
Rev. Isaac McCoy. They came from the Carey Mission Station, located 100
miles Northwest of Fort Wayne, Ind., in what was then Michigan Territory
(Miss. Mag., vol. 6: p. 274). They made their way to IIamilton on Indian ponies,
and were all received into the Seminary. In 1828 it was reported that they
were “prosecuting their studies with exemplary diligence, and giving flattering
promise of future usefulness.” In 1832–3 Luther Rice was teaching the Indian
School at the Carey Station. Peter Leonglois is now a worthy member of the
Baptist Church, residing on his own farm not far from Lafayette, Ind. He has
been an invalid for many years. An Indian minister, named John Jones, is said
to reside at or near Ottawa, Kansas.
JOSEPH WYCKOFF. Son of Rev. C. P. Wyckoff, then of Auburn, N. Y. He
entered the Seminary Jan. 16, 1826, but did not remain long, and died in a few
years. *
CLASS OF 1827.
EZR.A. W. CLARK. Born in Milton, Saratoga Co., Sep. 18, 1800. Entered the
Seminary in 1825; and graduated in 1827. June 4, 1828, ordained Pastor in
Greece, Monroe Co. Married Mary P. Stiles in Lebanon, N. Y., April, 1828.
Ten years in McLean and Nunda. To the latter church, 300 members were
added. In 1838, pastor in Genoa, Ohio. Then Agent for Granville College :
then for Franklin College, Ind.; then for the Missionary Union. Pastor in
Sidney. Missionary of the Upper Miami Association, his labors resulting in the
organization of two churches. In 1856, Pastor in Republic. Agent of Ameri-
can Baptist Publication Society ; of American Bible Society; Missionary within
Seneca Association, Ohio. Died in Tiffin, Ohio, Oct. 19, 71.
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HENRY DAVIS. Born in Charlton, Saratoga Co., April 23, 1800. In 1823 he
relinquished flattering business prospects in New York City. Entered Hamilton
in '24, and graduated in '27. Ordained June 8, in Bridgewater, where he had
gathered a church, and served it as preacher during his senior year. June 14 he
married Eliza Healey, in Sennett, Cayuga Co. As Missionary of the N. Y. Bap-
tist State Convention, he went to Detroit, Mich., planted the church there,
and secured the lots on which the First Baptist Meeting-house is built. On
account of the health of his wife he returned to N. Y. Was pastor in Palmyra,
Brockport, Jordan, Cannon St., N. Y. City ; Second Rochester; Columbus, Ohio,
New Corydon, Ind., and Rock Island, Ill. Into these churches he baptized over
Seven hundred persons. Served the American Baptist Home Missionary
Society as Agent and Secretary, also the Mission Union in Ohio. Several years
Pres’t. of the Board of Trustees of Rochester Theo. Seminary. Also an active
member of the Board of Denison Univ'y, Ohio. He received the honorary
degree of A. M. from M. U., and that of D. D. from Denison U. He published
several sermons and wrote much for the periodical press. He died at Danville,
Ill., Aug. 21, 1870, of bilious intermittent fever, after an illness of seventeen
days.
ZELORA EATON. Born in Fairfield, Herkimer Co., April 29, 1797. In 19 mar-
ried Elmira Eaton. Entered Hamilton, in ’25; graduated in '27. Ordained
pastor in Newport, Oct. 31, ’27. There five years; in Cassville five years. In
Troy, Ohio, in ’38. Resigned pastorate, but supplied churches till his death, in
Troy, Oct. 25, '59. Many were converted under his ministry.
ADRIAN Foot F. Born in Pittsfield, Mass., April 2, 1787. In '92 his father re-
moved into the forests of Chenango Co., twelve miles beyond a road. In 1806,
married Sarah Sole, whose Christian life was subsequently the means of his
conversion in '17. The next year he began preaching in Butternuts. Ordained
there in '20. Entered Seminary, June, ’25, at thirty-eight years of age. Graduated
in '27. Labored with poor churches in Chautauqua Co. Revivals enjoyed.
Built m. h. in Caroll. Organized a church and built m. h. in Ripley, the most
western town in the State. Same was done in Meadville, Pa., in ’31. The only
ordained minister in a wide region. Pastor in Farmersville, Franklinville,
Ellicottville, N.Y., Jefferson and Madison, Ohio, his last pastorate. Has supplied
and held protracted meetings since. His wife died in '30. Married again in
'32. Resides in Marmont, Ind.
ISAAC D. HoSFORD. Born in Charlotte, Vt., Jan. 7, 1799. Entered in '23 :
graduated in '27. Went immediately to Italy, N. Y. Here, Oct. 10, 27, he was
ordained pastor. Married in Marcellus, N. Y., to Miss Livona Brown.
Pastor five years at Butler, Wayne Co.; at Lyons Village two years.
Settled at Grass Lake, Mich. The remaining years of his ministry were spent
with the churches in Jackson and Washtenaw Counties, except two years at
Door Village, Ind. A devoted and very successful minister. Not having been
able to preach for the last three years of his life, he waited patiently and died
peacefully in Parma, Mich., July 31, ’65.
CHARLEs MoRTON. Born in Augusta, N. Y., June 10, 1798. He made
the journey from Fredonia to Hamilton, a distance of two hundred and sixty
miles, on foot. Entered in March, 25 ; graduated in '97. Pastor in Manlius
Square, Fayetteville, Owego, Penn Yan and Corning; Erie, Pa.; Ashtabula
and Wooster, Ohio; Huntington, Ind., and Dundee, Ill. He has also labored
much in “protracted meetings.” Has served the Am. Bp. Hm. M. Soc. as their
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Agent, in all, more than nine years; and also the Ed. Society of the State of N.
Y. two years and a half. In '68 he removed to Chicago.
THOMAS J. PILGIRIM. Born Dec. 19, 1805, in East Haddam, Conn. Licensed
to preach. Entered in '24; graduated in '27. On account of impaired health
went to the South and now resides in Texas.
BENJAMIN RUSH SKINNER. See “Mission Work.”
LEMUEL STANNARD. Born in Dorset, Vt. Entered Seminary in '24. A lovely
man with missionary spirit. After graduating went at once and took charge of
the Oneida Mission Station. Died of consumption in Aug., '28.
JABEZ. S. Swan. Born Feb. 23, 1800, in Stonington, Conn., where he was con-
verted and baptized in '21. He entered Hamilton in ’25; and graduated in '27.
He was married before entering the Seminary. He was ordained in Stonington,
June 20, 27. He has been pastor in Lyme, Stonington, New London (three
churches, eighteen years), and in Waterford, Conn.; and Norwich, Preston and
Oxford, N. Y. State Missionary in Conn. four years. He has also labored as an
Evangelist more or less each year since his ordination. He says, “According to
my best knowledge, between nine and ten thousand have been converted under
my ministry, the larger part of whom I have baptized. To attempt details
would be useless. A man's true life is written only in heaven.” His residence
is New London, Conn.
ZACCHEUS TRIPP. From Wilkesbarre, Pa., died in ’28.
ROBERT Z. WILLIAMS. Born in Barmouth, Wales, 1803. Entered from
Steuben in '25 ; graduated in 27 Feb. 13, 28, ordained at Holland Patent,
where he remained sixteen years. Married there Eliza Guthrie. Pastor also in
Floyd, and Augusta, N.Y.; Redford and Clinton, Mich.; Batavia, Ill.; North Bay,
N. Y. Now resides in Mich.
THE FOLLOWING ENTERED IN 1837, BUT DID NOT GRADUATE :
JEROME S. ANDERSON. Entered in 1827 from New York City. He was a
successful pastor in Stonington, Conn., from '32 till about '42. He died in ’51.
Jon N O. BIRDSALL. Entered in 1827. Ordained in Plainfield, Conn., Nov. 7,
’29. In '32 pastor in Coventry, N. Y.; in '35 in Monroe, Mich.; in ’39–41, in
Perrysburg, Wood Co., Ohio, where he died June 11, ’46.
ANTHONY CASE. Born on the Island of Prudence, R. I., Oct. 1, 1803. Con-
verted when twelve years old, in Plainfield, Conn. Entered Seminary in '26.
Impaired health obliged him to leave in the fall of '29, failing by only one term
to finish his course of study. Ordained in Heath, Mass., Jan. 19, 31. Married
Ann Gorry, of Heath, in ’34. Pastor in Heath ; Salem, N. Y.; Cornwall, Vt.;
Malone and Ogdensburgh, N.Y.; and Wilmington, Vt. Labored one year as a
missionary in Franklin Co., Mass.; including the establishment of Shelburne Falls
Academy. Pastor in Kenosha, Berlin and Fox Lake, Wis. In '57 he organized
a church in Minnesota, from which four or five others have been formed. Still
preaching at different places; Garden City, Minn., his residence.
SAMUEL R. CLARK. Born in Granville, Washington Co., N. Y., May 16, 1805.
Subject of deep religious impressions at ten years of age. Entered in '27. Left
in 31 to labor in revival in Pitcher, where he was ordained pastor, May, 31. In
that year he baptized ninety-nine, and thought he “witnessed the conversion of
a thousand souls.” In '32, greatly blessed in missionary labors in Jefferson and
Oswego Cos. In Miami Valley, Ohio, in '34. Preached for Staunton and Buck
Creek and New Carlisle churches. Organized “regular ” Baptist church in
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Dayton. In Aug., 35, he died, after seventeen days' illness, of fever. His wife
Was Nelly G. Northup, of Deerfield, N. Y., who survives him. Each of his two
daughters is the wife of a Baptist minister.
WHEELER I. CRANE. Born in Richmond, N. H., Feb. 13, 1806. Converted
When thirteen years of age, and joined Second Church in Hamilton, N. Y.
Came to this Institution in '27. Pastor of Summerhill church in ’29. Married
Almira Riddle, of Hamilton, in '29. Ordained in March, 30. Pastor in Fabius,
Marion, Palmyra, Le Roy, Springville, Hartland, Watertown, Copenhagen and
Pulaski, all in N. Y. Removed to Adrian, Mich., remaining more than three
years, then returning to N. Y. He has also been pastor in Cassville, Middlebury,
Warsaw, Pike, and East Pembroke, N. Y. Now retired from pastoral work. Has
baptized over four hundred persons. Cephas Bennet Crane, D.D., pastor of the
South Church in Hartford, Conn., is his son.
GERSHOM B. DAY. Born in Cazenovia, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1802. Experienced
renewing grace when fourteen years of age, and united with the Presbyterian
Church. In 1826 he was baptized and joined a Baptist Church. In June 25,
1837, he entered this Institution, and remained until 1832, when he became
pastor in Middletown, Vt., where he was ordained in 1833. In 1836, he per-
formed pioneer work in South Western Michigan, at his own charges. He
gathered the churches in Sturgis and Centerville. He also made two successful
trips into the Eastern States, to collect funds to aid in building houses of wor-
ship. In 1851–2, he went to California. Misconstruing his aims, and supposing
he sought their injury, six Indians combined and took his life, Oct. 13, 1852.
An able and successful minister. His widow and one daughter, the wife of
Rev. L. H. Trowbridge, reside in Kalamazoo, Mich.
ALFRED GATES. Born in East Granville, Mass., in September, 1803. Entered
the Seminary in 1827, and left in 1831. Ordained in Willimantic, Conn., in
June, '81. Married Sarah Champlin, in Lebanon, Conn., in 1832. He has been
pastor in Homer, N. Y., Southwick, Mass., and of ten churches in Connecticut,
and has supplied six others for longer or shorter periods. He has baptized
more than two hundred persons. He lost a son in the late war. He resides in
Norwich, Conn.
JACOB GRANTS. Entered in '27. Ordained pastor in Burlington, N. Y., Jan.
23, '33. In '35 was pastor in Waterville ; in ’38, in Westville; in '45, in Litch-
field ; in ’51, in Hartwick.
ABNER GOODELL. Born in Westminster, Vt., Feb. 9, 1805. Entered Hamil-
ton in '27. In '32 he was pastor of the Mayville and second Ripley Churches in
Chaut. Co. Afterwards pastor in Avon, N.Y.; Great Falls, or Somersworth,
N. H.; Paris, New Castle, Frankfort and Georgetown, Ky. ; and Hamburg,
Miss. In '32 he married Mary E. Carter, in Auburn, N. Y. In connection
with preaching he taught school, in which his wife aided him. She died in
Jan., '58, in Hamburg, and he died Oct. 1, ’58. “He was a clear, practical,
pungent, successful preacher.”
EBENEZER HOPKINs. Born Dec. 28, 1808. Entered Seminary a licentiate
from Edmeston, Otsego Co., in '27.
STEPHEN HUTCHINs. Born in Springfield, N. Y., July 5, 1803. Awakened
when fourteen years old by the accidental death of an associate, and probably
converted then. For lack of health and funds left Seminary; disappointed in
not being able to return. Ordained in Springfield, in '29. Pastor in Exeter
four years. Labored also as Evangelist. A diligent student. Pastor in Schuyler,
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'33–36. Engaged about a year as a missionary of the Convention, on a section
of the Mohawk Valley. Pastor in Bennington, Vt., five years. Next in Coop-
erstown, N. Y. He died Jan. 31, 1843, with consumption. Greatly mourned
as an able, laborious and eminently useful minister.
HERVEY LITTLE. Born Jan. 6, 1803. Entered Seminary from Brownsville,
Jefferson Co., in '26. Died at Hamilton in 1828.
AARON PARKER. Born in Coventry, Dec. 1, 1801. Married Nancy A.
Miner in 1824. Entered Seminary in '27, but was unable to take the full course.
Ordained in Sept. 28, at Guilford. Pastor also in Coventry, North Norwich,
Fenner and Coventry again (eighteen years). Last twelve years unable to be
pastor. He was many years extensively engaged in protracted meetings.
Resides in Greene, Chenango Co., N. Y.
DANIEL M. Root. Born in Columbia Co., N. Y. In July, 22, he married
Esther Parker, in Coventry, where for several years he labored as a mechanic,
struggling against the call to preach. Entered Seminary in '27 and left in
'31. A revival attended his preaching in Chenango Forks; a church was
formed; and he ordained Oct. 5, 31. Other pastorates were in Troy, Howard,
Nichols, Montrose, Pa.; South Bainbridge, Barrington, Cuba, N. Y. ; Howard
again, and Amity, Pa. He held many protracted meetings with other churches.
Led in the organization of five churches, and the building of five meeting-houses,
Gathered a church at Strawberry Point, Iowa, meeting-house built. Pastor
in Delhi, Iowa. Present residence, Eldora, Iowa.
SHELDoN N. SMITH. Born in Augusta, N. Y., April 2, 1808. Entered in '27.
Returned to his farm in Augusta, where he still resides, never having been a
pastor.
JoBIN TEASDALE. Born in Wantage, N. J., Nov. 12, 1806. Entering in '27,
ill health prevented his remaining more than four years. In 31 pastor of
Hamburg and First Newton churches. Next pastor of Schooley's Mountain and
Second Newton—organized the latter. In Virginia, as Agent of American Sun-
day-school Union in '36. Pastor in Fredericksburg four years. Agent of Vir-
ginia Baptist Publication and Sunday-school Society. In '42 at Schooley's
Mountain again. Labored extensively as evangelist at the same time. In
'51–52 Agent of American and Foreign Bible Society, residing in Upper Alton,
Ill., holding protracted meetings in winter season. Then Agent for Shurtleff
College. Pastor Third Church St. Louis, to which he was wholly devoted at
the time of his death, in the terrible railroad calamity of Nov. 1, 1855, at Jeffer-
son City, Mo., in which thirty persons lost their lives. In 1831 he married
Susan B. Losey, whom he left a widow, with seven children.
MELANCTPION TURNER. Born Oct. 17, 1801. Entered from West Granville
in '27. When near the end of his course he died of consumption in ’30 or ’31.
He had consecrated himself to missionary life in Burmah.
REUBEN WINEGAR. Born Dec. 7, 1805, in Rensselaerville, N. Y. Entered in
’27, and remained three years. Married Phoebe Ann Houdley, of Swanton, Vt.,
in Dec., 1830. Ordained at Williston, Vt., in 1831. Pastor in Brandon, Vt. ;
Coxsackie, Rensselaerville, Westerloo, Baldwinsville, Amsterdam and Clifton
Park. The longest pastorate ten years, and the shortest, one and a half. He
has enjoyed many revivals. He served the Education Society two years as its
agent, and has also performed some missionary work at intervals between his
pastorates. Residence, Clifton Park, N. Y.
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HENRY C. VOGELL. Born in New York City June 1, 1806. Under him as a
leader the first Sabbath School in Jersey City was established. Entered the
Seminary in '24, and graduated in 27. Married in Vernon soon after his gradu-
ation. Impaired health prevented his entering immediately on the active
duties of the ministry. Ordained at Vernon, April 27, 31. Pastor in Groton,
Seneca Falls, Elmira, and Rome, where he remained more than twenty-one
years. See War Record. When the war closed he became attached to the
Freedman's Bureau, as Superintendent of Education for North Carolina, continu-
ing in the service four years. Present residence, Brooklyn, N. Y. Received
the degree of D. D. from Union College.
CLASS OF 1828.
ORSAMUs ALLEN. Born in Westfield, Mass., Nov. 8, 1801. Entered Semi-
nary '24. Graduating in ’28, he was ordained in Seneca Falls, N. Y. Had
another pastorate in New York. Many years settled in Bristol, Conn. On
account of poor health, he entered into business in Columbus, Ohio, preaching
only occasionally. Over twenty years treasurer of the Ohio Bap. Conv. Mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees of Denison Univ'y, and also one of its Executive
Committee. Died instantaneously May 19, '70. In his religious life he was
remarkably even and straightforward.
HENRY F. BALDWIN. Born Jan. 3, 1800, in Bridport, Vt. Entered in '25 ;
graduated in ’28. Ordained pastor in Bennington, Vt., Dec. 17, 28. Pastor at
North Adams, Mass.; of South Church in Hartford, Wash. Co., N. Y., where he
remained eleven years, until his health failed. In '44, pastor at Arcadia, Wayne
Co., where he labored until he died, Sept. 20, 45. An able preacher and a suc-
cessful pastor. He was twice married. First, to Miss Sarah M., daughter of
Eld. Ephraim Sawyer, and last, to Miss Mary Eldredge, of Bridport, Vt.
VERAMIS BEMIS. Born in Marlboro, N. H., Dec. 9, 1802. Baptized in '16.
March, 26, entered the Seminary. Graduated in ’28. Ordained in Newfield,
Tompkins Co., May 6, ’29. Successful pastor many years in Almond, Alleghany Co.
He also aided other churches in protracted meetings with happy results, until his
mind became overtasked. After a long perid of mental rest, with manual labor,
he became pastor in Cattaraugus Co ; also in Clear Creek, Chautauqua Co., and
finally in Ashville, where, after an illness of four days, he died, Oct., 56. A
man of great spiritual worth. Under his earnest ministry many souls were
won to Christ.
Joseph H. CHAMBERLAIN. Born in Thetford, Vt., Feb. 25, 1800. Entered
this Seminary, Jan., 25. After graduating, he became at once pastor of the
South New Berlin Church. Ordained July 23, '98. Married Esther N. Hillman,
March 1, ’29. He remained with this church as pastor twenty-three years.
Served the Education Society as its agent eighteen months. Then pastor in
New Lisbon eleven years; then pastor four years in New Berlin Village church.
He then returned to the church with which he began his ministry, and still
remains there. Large numbers have been gathered into the churches of which
he has been pastor. He has also aided most of the churches in the surrounding ,
country in protracted meetings.
DANIEL ELDREDGE. Born in Salem, Washington Co., N. Y., July 31, 1801.
Entered Seminary in '24; graduated in '28. At once pastor in Sherburne. Mar-
ried Permelia Short, in Eaton, Nov., '80. He has been pastor in Hamilton, Perry,
Brockport, Rochester, Wheatland, and Broad St., Utica; again in Perry. In
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'44 pastor in Columbus, Ohio; then pastor in Elyria, serving each church three
years. Resided in Salem from '50 to ’61. Now resides on a farm in Afton,
Rock Co., Wis. Since '50 he has supplied churches, but has not been pastor.
He has been married twice. Before '50 he had baptized four hundred converts.
MICHAEL FREDERICK. Born in Florida, Montgomery Co., N. Y., Sept. 8, 1794.
Entered Hamilton from Penfield in '25. Soon after graduation he settled with
the churches in Great Bend, Pa., and Binghamton, N. Y. Also in Deposit,
N. Y., and Bridgeton, N. J. He died suddenly Nov. 13, '37, greatly lamented as
a minister, leaving a widow and four children.
CRARLEs H. HUBBARD. Born May 18, 1800, in Sandisfield, Mass. Entered
Seminary April, 25. Became pastor in Bethany, Pa. Pastor afterwards at
Damascus, still residing at Bethany. He had great domestic, business and
church trials. Went to Mississippi, taught a few months; then to Indiana,
where he soon died.
LEVI KNEELAND. Nephew of the notorious Abner Kneeland, of Boston and
Iowa. Born in Masonville, N. Y., where he was converted when fifteen years
of age. Entered in 24; graduated in ’28. His pastorate of a newly-formed
church in Packersville, Conn., was one of extraordinary interest. His labors
were of the boldest character and were attended by great blessing. He died
Aug. 23, 34, thirty-one years of age. His message to his church from his
death bed was this : “Tell them to be Christians throughout ; to be ashamed of
nothing but sin, and to act for God in all things.” He had baptized between
three and four hundred, including some in other places.
HoRATIO PRATT. Born July 21, 1801. Entered Seminary from Greenwich,
’26. Married a sister of Rev. Adrian Foot, and became pastor in Jamestown.
But in March, '29, he was taken from his brethren, by whom he was greatly
beloved, leaving his wife a widow while she was yet a bride.
WM. W. SMITH. Born in Sangerfield, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1802. Entered Semi-
nary in '25. After graduating, preached for sick pastor in Aurora; ordained in
March, 29. Married Fanny C. Stoddard, of Manlius, in ’28. Has been pastor
in Wheatland, Bethany, Batavia and Geneva, N. Y. ; Camden, N. J.; Bridgeport,
Conn.; Jersey City, N. J.; Broadalbin and Berlin, N. Y. ; Cambridge, Oxford,
Newark, and Wheaton, Ill. Baptized five hundred and twenty-five, the young-
est eight years, and the oldest one hundred and two ; several households, three
in one church. His second marriage was to Mrs. Rachel Barmes. Now without
pastoral charge, residing in Chicago, Ill.
LEV1 WALKER. Born March 4, 1802, in Whiting, Vt. Entered in '26. After
graduation, in ’28, became pastor at Hubbardton, Vt. Ordained Sept. 24, '29,
Pastor in Hebron, N. Y., Unity, Campton, Hebron, again. In '43 or ’44 removed
to Clarion, Bureau Co., Ill., supplied for a time the Lamoille Church ; pastor of
Perkins Grove Church five years, closing in Oct. 1854. After this he supplied
churches. He died in Lamoille, Ill., Jan, 16, 1869. He was a successful pastor.
Never received a salary of more than $250 per annum.
THE FOLLOWING ENTERED IN 1838, BUT DID NOT GIRADUATE :
ELIHU BARBER. A minister of this name was settled in Greenwich, N. Y., in
1825. The E. B. of the Seminary entered in 1828. After leaving he joined the
Presbyterian denomination, and no further trace of him is found.
JAMES M. COOLEY, son of Rev. J. Cooley. Born in Cazenovia, N. Y. Came
to this Seminary in ’28, and was afterwards at Newton. Ordained in Charlemont,
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Mass. Married Achsah Stow, of Conway, Mass. Pastor in Randolph, Mass.;
Binghamton, First Church Albany, and Carmel, N. Y. ; First Church Norwich,
Conn.; Oswego and Wellsburg, N. Y. Having buried his wife and all his chil-
dren, he removed to Illinois, seeking retirement. He preaches, but is not a pastor.
In Albany he baptized 400 persons. Resides in Auburn, Sangamon Co., Ill.
NOAH FULLER Born in Dorset, Vt. Preached but little. Taught many
years in Ohio and Virginia. Married Margaret Hand, in Mason County, Va., in
1845. In 1863 removed to Joyfield, Mich., where, injured by a fall, he died Dec.
2, 1864.
A. D. GILLETTE. Born in Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y. Sept. 8, 1807.
Entered Hamilton in ’28, left in ’31, on account of failing eyesight. Preceptor of
High School and Academy in Arlington and Manchester Vt., and teacher in
Granville Academy. Ordained pastor in Schenectady, and for three years en-
joyed the privileges of a student in Union College. Pastor of Sansom
Street Church, Philadelphia, Pa., 35; Eleventh Church '39; Calvary, N. Y.,
'42 : First Washington, D.C., '64; Gethsemane, Brooklyn, N. Y., '70. Married
Hannah Jenkins, N. Y., in July, 1835, Spent 1868–69 in Europe. Chaplain of
Insane Asylum, D. C. President of Theological Institute, now Wayland Uni-
Versity. Trustee of several colleges. Government chaplain for conspirators
against life of President Lincoln. Has written much for periodicals, and has
published pamphlets, sermons, and volumes. Received the degree of A. M. from
Union Col. in '42, and D. D. from M. U. in ’56. Has baptized about 1,800. See
War Record.
CHAUNCEY HAWLEY. In 31 he died of fever at his father's house in Cole-
brook, Conn.
J. R. LOOMIS. Born in Bennington, N.Y., Aug. 21, 1820. Entered in April,
’28 ; left in ’31. Graduated from Brown Univ. in 35. In 36 became Tutor in Wa-
terville Col. In 38 Prof. of Natural Science. In '52 spent one year on a scien-
tific tour in Bolivia, South America. Prof. of Natural Science in the University
of Lewisburg, Pa. In '58 President of the University, still holds that office. Was
married in Warren, Herkimer Co., N.-Y., to Sarah Anne Freeman, Jan. 26, ’38,
who died in 52. Married the second time in Utica, N. Y., Jan. 17, '54, to Mary
Gilbert.
EDWARD MACOMBER. Born in Saratoga Co., Nov. 12, 1799. Removed to
Pennsylvania in early life. Married, 1822, to Miss Mary Gardner. Came to Ham-
ilton when 29 years of age. Returned to Pa. and preached for a time without
any settled pastorate. Became the pastor of the Cherry Valley Church, Ohio,
and two others in connection with it. Settled in Armstrong Co., Pa., six years.
Here his wife died Dec. 15, 1835. In '38 he married Miss Jane S. Orr, of Milton,
Pa. Removed to Cook Co., Ill., where he supplied without pastorate. He la-
bored as an Evangelist. He died in ’55.
BRADLEY MINER. Born in North Stonington, Conn., July 18, 1808. Converted
when thirteen years of age. When seventeen years of age he preached his
first sermon. Was at Hamilton two years, from '28. Ordained at Fall River,
Mass., in ’30. Had previously married, in his native town, Phoebe Esther Pen-
dleton. Pastor at Pawtuxet and Woonsocket, R. I., and at Dorchester and Pitts-
field, Mass. Ilast pastorate South Church, Providence, now the Friendship
Street Church. Here he died Oct. 28, '54. A man of deep piety, and of great en-
ergy. In every place where he was pastor, except Pawtuxet, a meeting house
was built or enlarged, and the membership greatly increased. He baptized
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nearly 400 persons. He received an honorary degree of A. M. from M. U. He
buried his first wife in Dorchester, Dec. 17, 39. He married Louisa Tucker, of
Canton, Mass., in ’41.
REUBEN MOREY. Born in Fabius, N. Y., Feb. 21, 1805. Converted when very
young. Entered Hamilton in ’28. Remained three years. Graduated at Brown
University in '35. Ordained in the autumn of this year at Lime Rock, R. I.,
where he was missionary of the State Convention. In '36 he married Abby C.
Bogman, of Providence. Pastor in Madison, Ind. ; Louisville, Ky., second ; No.
Attleboro, Mass.; Homer, N. Y. ; Wyoming. Resided in W. nineteen years,
and supplied different churches. Three years agent of Miss. Union. Pastor in
Delevan, Ill. ; Tonica, and Merton, Wis. Mrs Morey died Aug. 4, '71.
NATHAN E. SHALLER. From Conn. Many years Missionary of Conn. Bapt.
State Convention. Resides at deep River, Conn.
ANDREW M. SMITH. Came to the Institution in ’28. Health failed. In Jan.,
'31, he was ordained in Westfield, Mass. Remained three years ; then in North
Lyme, Conn., two years. In Colchester commenged a new interest. After rest he
was three years pastor in North East, N. Y. Obliged to give up pastoral work.
Residence Hartford, Conn.
THOMAS C. TEASDALE, Born in New Jersey, Dec. 2, 1808. Entered the In-
stitution in ’28. On account of poor health left in ’30. Married, °31, Delia Lott-
ridge, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. Ordained Nov., '30. Fields of labor : Bennington,
Vt. ; City Missionary, Philadelphia, Pa., four years; Newton, N. J., four years,
teaching boarding-school and preaching to three churches; New Haven, Conn.,
five years, baptized four hundred there ; Pittsburg, Pa., five years, baptized over
three hundred ; Springfield, Ill., two years; Washington, D. C., over seven
years, organized Thirteenth Street Church and built edifice; Columbus, Miss.,
in '58; there during the war ; resigned pastorate in '63 and preached to Confed-
erate Soldiers, baptized many of them ; established a Home for the children of
deceased Confederate soldiers. Now Sec. of the S. S. Board of the Soutern Bap-
tist Convention, and editor of Kind Words ; residence, Memphis, Tenn. Re-
ceived honorary A. M. from Columbian College, and D. D. from Union College
in '52. Has published a volume of “Revival Discourses,” “Baptist Church
Manual,” and “Memoir of Rev. John Teasdale.” Has baptized two thousand ;
it is supposed that ten thousand have been converted in connection with his
labors.
DANIEL WIERs. A minister. Died in Ohio many years since.
ABRALIAM WooDARD. Was not long in the Sem'y. In '32 he was pastor in
Schroon, Essex Co.; in Pawlet, Vt., in '35. Many years near Chardon, Ohio.
Now resides in Illyria, Fayette Co., Iowa.
CLASS OF 1829.
SALMON CLOUGH. Born in Mass., Aug. 21, 1796. Entered the Seminary
from Madison, Feb. 27, and graduated in '29. Married Lucy Whitman.
Preached in Perrysburgh, Ohio, and surrounding country, till he died, May 28,
'32. Greatly beloved.
Joshua FLETCHER. Born in Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y., April 27,
1804. Entered the Inst. in '25. Graduated in '29. Married June 4, ’29, to
Mary Parmely, of Hamilton. Ordained pastor at Saratoga Springs, Sept. 29,
’29, and remained nineteen years. Has since been with the churches in Amenia;
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Southington, Conn.; Cambridge, N.Y.; and is now pastor of the church in East
Wallingford, Vt. Received degree of D. D. from M. U. in '66. Had four sons in
the army.
EDMUND S. GOODENOUGH. Born May 1, 1802, in Rochester, Vt. Converted
when fourteen years of age. Entered the Seminary 25. Graduated in ’29. Mar-
ried, at Hamilton, Susan Judd. Ordained in Orwell, Vt., in ’30. Spent five years
of Very successful labor here, and in New Haven, Oswego Co., N. Y. To im-
prove failing health, was two years agent of the Publication Society. Five years
bastor in Ohio. Health again failing he retired to Bloomville, Seneca Co., Ohio,
At last he calmly said, “I am at peace,” and died at his house in Bloomville,
April 30, '64.
ABSALOM MINER. Born Jan. 7, 1806, in Madison Co., N. Y. Preached to Sec.
ond Church in Brookfield in '25. Entered Sem. in '26. Grad. in ’29. Ordained
in Friendship, Dec., 27. After graduation continued in Friendship three years.
Pastor in Rushford, fourteen years, ranged widely in the region; pastor in Perry
Village ; in Waukesha, Wis., four years; meeting-house built, church much
enlarged. Six years exploring agent for Home Mission Soc. Health now
poor, has preached but little for fifteen years. Married Maria M’Call of Rush-
ford, in '30. Married twice since. Since failure of health has been engaged in
farming, banking, and land agency. Has baptized over 400. Resides in Charles
City, Iowa.
DYER A. NICHOLs. Born in East Greenwich, R.I., May 1, 1803 (May 13, 1804).
His parents were Friends. When very young he joined the Baptist Church in E.
G. Came to Hamilton in May, '25. Graduated in ’29. Ordained soon after and
preached awhile in Auburn, N. Y.; then some time in New Jersey; in ’30 in
Harrisburg, Pa., as missionary ; founded the Baptist Church there. About ’32
pastor at Roxborough, founded the church in Chestnut Hall; held protracted
meetings, which did much toward the formation of churches in Norristown,
Hatborough, West Chester, and Schuylkill Falls. In 37 pastor of Phoenix-
ville and Valley Forge churches; remained six years; aided in formation of
the churches in East Nantmeal, Caernarvon, and West Calm ; afterwards pastor
of the two former ; then of the Bethesda and Danville churches ; was at one
time pastor in Dover, Del. Was not pastor during the last few years of his life,
but continued preaching to its close. Died in Philadelphia, Nov. 6, '67. During
the first thirty years of his ministry he preached six times a week on the average.
ISRAEL ROBORDS. Born June 11, ’99. Entered from Amsterdam, N. Y., in '27,
graduated in ’29. Ordained at Milford, Otsego Co., N. Y., in ’29. Pastor in Pen-
field 31, Broome St., N. Y. City, Hudson '34–5, Galway, N. Y.; New Haven,
Conu. Removed to Missouri and died there many years since. He became a “re-
vivalist.” Went to England. Author of a book on Baptism. Very large ad-
ditions were made to the churches of which he was pastor. A man of rare
abilities and of great power in the pulpit. He was naturally eccentric and his
mind became impaired.
HENRY C. SKINNER. Born in Braintrim, Wyoming Co., Pa., Dec. 13, 1802. En-
tered in '26 ; graduated in ’29. Settled in Sandisfield, Mass.; ordained in ’30.
Pastor afterwards in Greenfield, and Fenner, N. Y.; in Cleveland, Ohio (37);
Berlin Heights, La Grange, Wellington, Fremont, Perrysburg, and Maumee.
Before '51 he became pastor at Huntington, Ind., afterwards at Logansport, and
then at Wabash. See War Record. Chaplain in the Northern Penitentiary of
Indiana, at Michigan City, in which office he died Nov. 10, '67. He was married
at Hamilton, soon after graduating, to Miss Mary Beach.
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ORSON SPENCER. Graduated in '29 ; became pastor of the Third Church in
Saybrook (Deep River), Conn.; and a few months of Second Church in Danbury,
Conn., '35; then in Middlefield, Mass.; afterwards a leading man among the
Mormons. “His ministry here (Danbury) was unusually faithful, he was blame-
less in the private and public relations of life. His defection should, in the judg-
ment of charity, be, in part at least, attributed to a morbid mental condition.”—
History of the Church in Danbury.
CULLEN B. Towns END. Graduated in the Class of ’29. He was pastor of the
Middlefield Church, Mass., in ’32. He died in Plainfield, Will. Co., Ill., Oct. 7, 37.
LEVI TUCKER. One of a family of preachers. Born in Broome, Schoharie
Co., N. Y., July 4, '04. Graduated in ’29. Married Jannette A. Lee, of Butter-
nuts, N. Y. Settled in Deposit two years; West Philadelphia, Pa., five years;
Cleveland, Ohio, seven years; Buffalo, N. Y., six years; Baldwin Place, Boston,
Mass., four years. Resigned pastorate in ’52 on account of ill-health. A tour
through Europe and Egypt gave little relief. Died in Cincinnatus, N. Y., Aug.
20, '53. Buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, near Boston, where his wife had been
laid two years before. He was a man of much popular power; revivals attended his
preaching, and he baptized about eight hundred. He had received the degree of
D. D. from * * College.
RODOLPHIUS L. WILSON. Born in Eaton Jan. 26, 1799. Converted when ten
years old. Entered Hamilton from Lockport Church in '27. Graduated in ’29.
Ordained pastor of the church in Somerset, N. Y., Jan. , 30. During the ten years
of his pastorate here he baptized 105, and 75 were added by letter; ten of these
have been licensed to preach. In '26 he married Harriet Davis, of Lockport. In
Nov. '39 physicians forbade further study and preaching on account of disease
connected with the brain, Present residence Somerset, Niag. Co., N. Y.
THE FOLLOWING ENTERED IN '29, BUT DID NOT GRADUATE :
WILLIAM T. BOYNTON. Ordained as pastor of the Second Church in Butter-
nuts, at Gilbertsville, Dec. 6, 32. About 37 pastor in Middletown, Ohio, and
afterwards in Franklin, Warren Co., Ohio, where he died Jan. 1, 46. A good
man and an able preacher.
WILLIAM DENISON. Born in Winthrop, Conn., June 2, 1806. Entered Ham-
ilton in '29. Left in '32. Ordained in Winthrop, Conn., in ’31. Married in
Franklin, Conn., March 19, 34, to Sally H. Loomis. Settled with the First
Baptist Church in Saybrook (Winthrop) three years, with the church in Weston,
(now Easton), Conn., thirteen years. Missionary of Conn. State Convention four
and a half years. In '52 commenced a school for young ladies, known as Win-
throp Institute, and continued it ten years, supplying the church at Saybrook
for eleven years. In '64 State Missionary ; labored four and a half years, since
which he has been settled with the First Baptist Church in Saybrook.
RUSSEL HERVEY. Son of Rev. Herman H., twenty-five years pastor in Dur-
ham, Greene Co., N. Y. Born Feb. 6, 1807. Entered the Semly in '29. Remained
nearly four years, his class breaking up by an extension of the course of study.
Ordained pastor in Henderson, N. Y., Feb. 18, 34; and was married in Bellville,
N. Y., Aug. 18, 34, to Miss Rebecca Noyes. Pastor at Knowlesville. Pasto-
rates in Michigan, Clayton ; second Rome, Franklin, Prairie Creek; first Rome.
Labored in New Settlements, and some churches were organized as the result.
P. O. address, Adrian, Mich.
HORACE T. LOVE. Entered in 1829; pursued preparatory studies; graduated
at Brown Univ'y. Missionary to Greece. After his return, was pastor in North
Adams, and South Abington, Mass., and in Rhode Island.
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LEVI M. MACK. Born in Lebanon, Madison Co., N. Y., Jan. 29, 1810. Mar-
ried, in Smyrna, Elizabeth J. Potter, in ’27. Entered the Seminary in ’29. In
'30 commenced laboring in Harford, Pa., and also in Lenox, in which a church
was soon organized. Ordained Sept. 14, 31. In '34, removed to Ohio, and
engaged in pioneer work largely for four years; then in Indiana ; then back
again to Ohio. Pastor of the Lodi Church until '46, and then went to Michigan
and repeated pioneer work. In '50, back to New York. Pastor at Patterson,
Providence, and Rosendale. In '56, in Wisconsin, locating in Kewaunee Co.;
did pioneer work for eight years. In '64 located in the new country of the
Northwestern Counties of Iowa, and engaged in work among the destitute. In
’70, removed to Missouri, and is preaching to four churches. Address, Rural
Dale, Grundy Co., Mo. He has baptized more than one hundred.
STEPHEN B. PAGE. Entered in 1829. Graduated at Waterville College and
Newton. Labored chiefly, if not entirely, in Ohio. Resides in Cleveland.
Received degree of D. D. from * * College.
DAVIS T. SHAILER. Born in Haddam, Conn, March 18, 1802. Entered Ham-
ilton Institution in the spring of ’29, but, on account of ill-health, left in the
autumn of '30. Afterwards at Newton. Was pastor in Brandford, Conn., Dor-
chester and North Becket, Mass., and Haddam, Conn., where he now resides.
R. SLAYTON. “He was a splendid scholar.” During his course he was taken
with insanity, and died shortly after, probably in Otsego Co., N. Y.
LORENZO STRONG. Member of the church in Scipio, Cayuga Co. A very
promising man. Died while a student.
THOMAS THAYER. He was pastor of the Northmoreland and Exeter Church
in Penn., in 1832.
As ILEY WAUGHN. Came to the Seminary in 1829. Became pastor in West
Troy, N. Y. Labored in a revival there in ’31. On account of failing health, he
went to Mississippi in '34 or '35—originated a College, State Convention and
religious newspaper. A zealous and efficient promoter of Foreign Missions and
every good work. Died in Natchez, Miss., March 29, 39.
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JULIUS C. BARLow. Born in Kent, Conn., April 22, 1798. Married Pamelia
Smith, at Shoreham, Vt., in ’22. Entered Seminary in ’27. Graduated in ’30.
Ordained at Hubbardton, Vt., Aug. 3, 31. Died in Fredonia, Ohio, May 3,
'43. Pastor also in Crown Point, N. Y., and Streetsborough, Ohio. Labored
also as a missionary in Ohio. On account of poor health he preached but little
during the last years of his life. Baptized one hundred.
NORMAN G. CHASE. Born in Guilford, Vt., May 6, 1802. Graduated in ’30.
Settled in Frankfort, N. Y., two years, Smithville four years, Michigan City,
Mich., two years. After long and severe suffering, his wife died, in '68, at
Smyrna, Mich., where he still resides in feeble lealth without pastoral charge.
He has baptized between one and two hundred.
JoHN DOTY. Born in 1800. Baptized in early life. Graduated in 30. In '32
ordained as pastor in Smithfield, Penn. After seven years' service he relinquished
his pastorate, still preaching in destitute places, and residing in Smithfield,
working his farm, and being several years a teacher. May 17, '67, after years of
suffering, he died peacefully, lamented as a truly good man and minister of
Christ.
WILLIAM DRow N. Born Oct. 26, 1793. Entered from Foster, R. I., in '25.
Graduated in ’30. f
JoEL H. GREEN. Born Sept. 18, 1806, in Wallingford, Vt. Married M. C.
Richardson in '24. Entered Seminary in '27; graduated in ’30. Ordained in
Pittsford, Vt., Feb. 8, 31. Pastor in Weybridge, ’32; Parishville, N. Y., '33;
Belleville, '40; Salisbury, '45; Lagrange, '48; Hunt's Hollow, '50 ; Belfast, '54;.
Franklinville, '56. In '64 he removed to Castile, and on account of poor health
has only preached as a supply. Baptized two hundred and eight.
JoHN GREENE. Born in Belchertown, Mass., June 17, 1801. Entered Hamil-
ton in '27; graduated in ’30. Married Mary Thompson, of Monson, Mass.
Settled in South Leicester thirteen years, where his ministry was much blessed.
Several years pastor in Shutesbury, Bernardston, and Florida; a short time in.
Huntington and North Leverett. Very energetic and judicious. From the age.
of sixteen to the day of his death he suffered from a fever sore below the knee.
The leg was amputated in June, '65, and he died the following Oct. 12, in Mon-
tague, Mass.
CHARLEs RANDALL. Born in Bridgewater, Oneida Co., N. Y., Aug. 17, 1805.
Entered Hamilton in '25; graduated in ’30. Ordained as pastor at Arlington,
Vt., in the fall. Married Lucy Ann Evarts, of Mexicoville, N. Y. In a revival,
which immediately followed his settlement he baptized thirteen times in nine.
weeks. Mrs. R. died in 1834. He served as missionary of the N. Y. State.
Convention two years; then resumed pastoral labor; from 1852 to 1857 was.
agent for the Publication Society; then six years pleaded the cause of Home.
Missions. In 1845 he married Hulda C. Allen at West Tisbury, Mass. He.
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baptized a daughter six years of age. His eldest son, a Lt.-Colonel, fell at
Atlanta, Ga. Since ’67 Mr. Randall has been Agent of the Bible Union in
Michigan. Baptized about two hundred.
JOHN WILDER. Born in Lancaster, Mass., June 15, 17.6. Entered the Semi-
nary in 1828. Graduated from the English Course in June, 1830. Married in
Rome, N. Y., to Mary Wright, April 5, 1821. Settled with the church in Becket,
Mass., two years; Sandisfield, six years; Spencer, Tioga Co., N. Y., two years;
Henderson, N. Y., two years; Philadelphia, N. Y., and Champion, five years;
Herman and Russell, two years; Canton, four years; Potsdam, one year; Stock-
holm, one year. Removed to Ill. in 1855, preaching in various places; for the
last six years in La Salle. Having had good health most of the time, he has
been able to attend divine service nearly every Sabbath for fifty years, still doing
much pastoral labor.
THE FOLLOWING ENTERED IN 1830, BUT DID NOT GIRADUATE :
ISRAEL C. BOURN. Born at Paris, now Marshall, Oneida Co., N. Y., March 20,
1815. Fitted at Hamilton Ac. Dept. for College in Clinton. Studied medicine in
Hamilton with Drs. J. and E. Babcock, '37, 38, 39. Took degree and began practice
in Masonville, 1839. In Jan., '41 married Mary A. Thurber, who died in April, 48.
In July, '49, married Jane C. Whitman. In '52 received honorary M. D. from
N. Y. Med. Col., and honorary A. M. from M. U. in ’56.
ROBERT BRISBAINE. Entered in ’30. Became an Episcopalian minister. Is
reported dead.
ABEL BROWN. For many years a laborious minister. A leader in the anti-
slavery movement. Died in Canandaigua, Nov. 8, 1844. *
WILLIAM A. BRONSON. Born in Trenton, Oneida Co., Sept. 3, 1808. Entered
Seminary in ’30. Remained four years. Married in July, '33, N. Anna, daughter
of Dea. Wim. James, of Trenton. Ordained as Evangelist at Steuben, July 17,
'33. Under H. M. Soc., pastor in Dexter, Mich., five years; preaching there half
the Sundays, and the other half in Detroit, Monroe, Northfield, Kensington,
Unadilla, Lima, Whittemore. When the churches obtained permanent supplies
he pushed westward, and raised the banner in new places. Health required his
return to N. Y. in ’38, Pastor at Annsville about three years. Returned to
Mich. ; pastor in Marshall two years. Enfeebled health caused his retnrn to
Dexter, where he was pastor four years. Change of climate again became a
necessity, and he was four years in Litchfield, Herk. Co., N. Y. Then two years
and a half at Brookhaven, L. I., under State Conv. ; finally at Piermont, on the
Hudson, where he died May 14, 1858, leaving a widow and eight children. His
labors and sufferings were great, and so was his usefulness. He baptized over
four hundred.
CLEMENT HAVEN. Born in Brookfield, Vt. Married Susan Howard, sister of
Rev. Leland Howard, in 1825. Was at Hamilton 1830–31 ; was ordained at
Morristown, N.Y., Sept. 1831, whence, after three years, he removed to Gouver-
neur, and then to Canton, St. Lawrence Co. The next twenty years were spent
in Denmark, Leyden, and Boonville. Health failing he removed to New London,
Conn., and preached in Groton and Noank. In 1862 became pastor in Hunting-
ton, Ind. ; health failing he removed to Sandusky, Ohio. Resumed pastoral
labor in Bloomfield, Ohio. Sandusky was his last reported residence. Baptized
more than four hundred and fifty.
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LUMAN W. WEBSTER. Entered the Limited Course from Potsdam in 1830.
Ordained pastor in De Ruyter, June 26, 1833. Pastor in Amenia in 1835. Died
at Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Aug. 5, 1840. A very godly and promis-
ing young minister.
CLASS OF 1831.
ALVIN BAILEY. Born in Westminster, Vt., Dec. 9, 1802. At the age of four.
teen joined church in Coventry. Came on foot to Hamilton. Graduated in ’31.
Ordained at Coventry June 29, 31. Married Emily, sister of G. B. lae, D. D.
Pastor in Alton, Ill. Opened a school, the germ of Shurtleff College. Pastor in
Carrollton, Ill. : Winchester and Jacksonville; East Lansing and Belfast, N.Y.;
Carrollton (again, '53), and Kane, Ill. ; McGrawville, N. Y. (55), and Dryden,
where he died of pneumonia, May 9, '67. A man of superior personal character,
and of much pulpit power. His wife died during his first residence in Carroll.
ton, and he married the widow of Rev. A. B. Freeman. In Jacksonville he
published the Voice of Truth, and The Western Star, periodicals.
GARDNER BARTLETT. Born in Thetford, Vt, April 27, 1799. After teaching
several years entered Hamilton, and graduated in ’31; ordained at Coventry
June 29, 31; in the following Sept. married Sarah Hurd, of Newport, C. E.
Labored in and around Lebanon, Ill. ; Winchester, Canton, Knoxville, Monmouth,
and Oxford; having to do with the formation of a church in each of these places.
In '48 he resided in Chicago, and was connected with the Western Christian. In
250 organized a church in Hobart, Ind., supporting his family by his labor on a
farm. He died in Lebanon, Ill., Nov. 4, '65; his wife died the following Dec.
One of his sons died a prisoner of war at Columbia, S. C. He was a man of great
simplicity of character; very self-denying and devoted.
WILLIAM CHAFEE. Born in Ashford, Conn., April 22, 1801. Entered in '26;
graduated in ’31. Ordained in Ashford, in Sept., 31. Married Abigail Thayer,
in Winfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y. Devoted with others of his class to Home
Missions. Began his labors in Allen Co., Ohio. A church was soon organized
at Lima, with which he labored eight years. In Finley one year. In Lima again
several years; teaching also a part of the time. In Hartford City, Ind. After
‘52 he preached only as a supply. He died at the Insane Asylum, Indianapolis,
March 4, 1867.
MosFS FIELD. Born at Chester, Vt., May 11, 1805. Entered Hamilton in 1827;
graduated in 1831. Settled at Factory Point, in Manchester, Vt., three years; two
years in Kinderhook, N. Y.; and two in Hudson. Then in Cavendish and
Brattleboro’, Vt. From '43 to '45 pastor in Coxsackie, N. Y. In '45 resided in
N. Y. City for medical aid. Settled in West Haven, Vt., from 1845 to 1853.
Obliged by poor health to give up the pastorate. Preached as a supply until
1862, when he resumed pastorate of church in West Haven, and held it till his
death in March, 1870. He represented his town in the State Legislature of
1861, ’2, ’3. His own health compelling much study of medicine, he once
entered upon the practice of the healing art, but relinquished it when he found
it to interfere with his duties as a minister. He was an able preacher, and a
sympathizing pastor. “Ready to go” were among his last words.
J. W. MCDONALD. Born in Princeton, Schenectady Co., Oct. 20, 1801.
Entered in '26, graduated in ’31. Married Miss E. M. Cady, at Hamilton.
CLASS OF 1831. 221
Ordained at West Springfield, Mass., May 14, 31. Pastor there and at Fitch-
burg five years; in Gaines, Avon, Leicester, and Eaton, N. Y., sixteen years.
Bronchitis silenced him. Began the practice of medicine. In three years could
preach occasionally, and still does so. Happy in the thought that the best of
lis life has been spent exclusively in preaching. Residence, De Pauville,
Jefferson Co., N. Y.
JOHN L. MOORE. Born in Turin, Lewis Co., N. Y., Feb. 17, 1803. Entered the
Institute in ’26. Graduated in ’31. Ordained at Watertown, N. Y., June 9,
1831. Married, in ’34, Nancy Greene, of Watertown, who died Nov. 29, 1857.
Married, in '59, Mrs. H. L. French, widow of Rev. Enos French. In Oct., 1831,
with three classmates, Bartlett, Bailey, and Chaffee, started on a missionary tour
to the Mississippi Valley, but while in the Miami section of Ohio fell into the
fire, while in a swoon, burning himself severely. After his almost miraculous
restoration, he labored in the region of the accident, news of which had widely
spread, preparing hearts, by sympathy, to receive the truths presented by him.
After a six years' pastorate in Piqua and Troy, he labored at different periods in
Dayton, Springfield, and Lima. For ten years foliowing 1841 was Missionary
Agent of O. B. Convention ; has also served other benevolent and educational
interests. For nine years his sight has been so impaired that he has not engaged
in responsible public service, but has supplied destitute churches; aiding also
in special and protracted meetings. Denison University conferred on him the
honorary degrees of A. M. and D. D. Had three sons in the war. Present resi-
dence Topeka, Kansas.
ISAAC D. NEWELL. In 1839 he was Home Missionary at Bloomington, Ill.,
building a meeting-house. In 1840 the church sustained him. “When he
began his work there was but one church, of seven members, in the vicinity ; in
three years there were twelve churches with four hundred members. With this
change he had much to do.” In '42 he was in Canton, Ill. ; in '45 in Peoria. In
’71 removed from Upper Alton to Moline, Ill.
ABNER R. WEBB. In the Seminary in 1827. Graduated in '81. See Mission
Work. |
THE FOLLOWING ENTERED IN 1831, BUT DID NOT GRADUATE
JOSHUA E. AMBROSE. Born in North Sutton, N. H., July 5, 1810. On account
of poor health left in ’32. Studied for a time afterwards in Wyoming Academy.
In '34 married Miss P. Johnson. Ordained March 12, 34, in Wyoming, as evan-
gelist. One of the first four Baptist ministers who entered N. W. Ill. as a field
of labor. Reached Chicago in June, 34, and in less than a month his wife died.
Labored in Yankee Settlement, Plainfield, Batavia, Warrenville, St. Charles,
Elgin, Dundee, Genoa. After death of A. B. Freeman, supplied First Church
in Chicago, and the Second in 1844. In preaching he has ranged widely in Ill.,
Ind., and Mich. Resides in Chicago.
JOHN H. BAKER. Died in R. I., Jan. 16, 1869, aged sixty-three. He was a
very devoted and successful pastor in the State, and had baptized several
hundred.
JAY S. BACKUS. Born in Granville, Washington Co., N. Y., Feb. 17, 1810.
Entered Hamilton 1831; extreme ill health caused his early departure. In 1831
married Mercy Williams, of Groton, N. Y. Pastor in Groton seven years;
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Auburn, seven ; New York City, seven ; Syracuse, five ; Sec. of Am. Bap. H. Miss
Soc'y since 1862, Honorary degree of A. M. conferred by M. U. in 1848. Degree
of D. D. conferred by * * * College. Has baptized about one thousand.
WATERMAN BURLINGAME. From Pitcher, N. Y. Afterwards studied at New-
ton. Ordained at Hingham, Mass., Sept. 29, '36, where he remained five years.
PHILO FORBEs. Born in Willsborough, Essex Co., N. Y., Sept. 30, 1806.
Left on account of failing health early in the course. Beginning with 1834, has
been pastor in Gaines, Sandy Creek, and Macedon, N. Y.; Centreville, Colon,
Sturgis, Liberty, Wheatland, Quincy, Medina, Mt. Vernon, Mich, Married Ach-
Sah Gregg, in Ontario, Wayne Co., N. Y., in 1834. Baptized about two hundred.
C. A. FOX. Born in Ballston, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Nov. 5, 1808. Entered
the Partial Course. Left with impaired health in 1833. Ordained at Lacyville,
Braintrim, Wyoming Co., Pa., Nov. 21, 1833. Other pastorates: Deposit, Gil-
bertsville, Second Guilford, Smithboro’, Spencer, Binghamton, Middletown,
N. Y., and Abington, Pa., where he remained about 12 years. In the spring of
’70 he became pastor at Wilkesbarre, Pa., where he died on the 11th of Feb.,
(Jan. 7) 1871, of congestion of the brain. He was a man of large native endow-
ments, and a minister of more than ordinary power. He received honorary A. M.
from Lewisburg Univ. in 1858. He married, in 1833, Julia A. Benedict, of De-
posit. He baptized over nine hundred, among them all his children.
DAVID SEARL. Born in Cavendish, Vt., Oct. 16, 1798. Married Emily McCall,
in Rushford, N. Y., in 1821. Entered this Seminary in 1831. Ordained at Rush-
ford, in Sept., 1831. Left the Institution in June, 1833, and became pastor of the
churches in Springville and Boston, Erie Co., N. Y., serving them alternately.
Sunday School Agent. Pastor in Hamburg, Springville, Portage, Franklinville,
and Arcade, N. Y. Six years Agent for the A. B. Home Miss. Society. While
travelling in Missouri he was prostrated with bilious fever, and died among
strangers, Aug. 21, 1861.
AMOS D. WATROUS. From Saybrook, Conn. Has resided chiefly in Conn.
Has labored much in protracted meetings.
CLASS OF 1832.
On account of the extension of the Course, no class graduated. The following
entered in this year:
JAMEs R. BOISE. Born in Blandford, Mass., Jan. 27, 1815. Entered Mad.
Univ., March, 1832. Left, Nov., 1834, Married in Holyoke, Mass., in 1843, to
Sarah Goodyear. Graduated at Brown Univ. in 1840, having previously to this
date spent one year as teacher of languages in the Conn. Lit. Inst., at Suffield.
After graduation remained in Brown Univ., first as Tutor, then as Professor,
till 1850. Then spent a year and a half in Europe. In '52, Professor in Univ. of
Michigan. Visited Europe in '57, and again in '58. Since '67 in Univ. of Chi-
cago, as Professor of Greek. He always looked back on his brief stay in Hamil-
ton as among the pleasantest and most profitable years of his life. Received
Ph. D. from Univ. of Tübingen, and LL.D. from Univ. of Michigan. Published
“Greek Prose Composition Book ;” “First Six Books of Homer's Iliad;” “First
Lessons in Greek.”
CLASS OF 1832. 223
HENRY CLARK. Born in Canterbury, Conn., Nov. 12, 1810. Entered Semi-
nary in ’32. Married Mary T. Dorrance, of Conn. Has baptized over two hun-
dred. Ordained at Seekonk, Mass., in ’34; settled also at Taunton, Canton, and
Randolph. Health failing, he removed to Pittsfield, where he worked a farm,
preaching occasionally or as stated supply, until his removal, in '69, to Kenosha,
Wis., where he is pastor of the First Baptist Church.
PROSPER DAVISON. Entered the Ministry. Died in Lyme, Conn., Sept. 24,
1838, aged 32 years.
WM. MORTIMER DOOLITTLE. From New Lebanon. Preached before he was
18 years old. His passion for preaching took him away after two or three years
of study. Ordained in Greenville, Green Co.; received many to the church.
Then in Sing Sing; large additions to the church ; part of the time Chaplain of
the Prison. Next in Northampton, Mass. Labored much in protracted meetings.
Preached in Conway thirty times in ten days; did the same in Whately. His
zeal consumed him. Pneumonia ended his life in Feb., '42, at the commence-
ment of a powerful revival, in which his brother (H. D. D., of ’35,) reaped a great
harvest. He was 27 years of age, and had been married less than a year.
H. J. EDDY. Entered in 1832, from Marion, where he was ordained in '35.
He has been pastor in Scipio, N. Y. City, Michigan, Illinois, now in Syracuse,
N. Y. Mad. Univ. conferred honorary A. M. in ’52, and he received D. D. from
* * * College. See War Record.
HIRAM. H. EvKRTs. Born in Granville. Entered in ’32. A very promising
Scholar. Compelled to leave on account of poor health. Taught in Chicago,
Ill., where he died, in '36, aged 30 years.
WM. H. RICE. Entered from Martinsburg, and remained three years. In
'45 or ’46 he was pastor of the Tabernacle Church in Chicago, Ill., where he
died of cholera, July 31, ’49.
JAMES M. STICKNEY. Born in Ellisburg, Jefferson Co., March 3, 1809. En-
tered the Inst, in ’32. Left in June,'34. Studied with Rev. N. N. Whiting two
years. Married at Northfield, N. J., in ’39, to Cynthia R. Gill. Has been settled
as pastor in Lyon's Farms, N. J.; Stamford, Conn. ; Greenville, N. Y. ; Oak
Creek and Rochester, Wis.; Toulon, Franklin, Galesburg, Hollis, Metamora,
Richland and Wyoming, Ill., his present residence. In two instances, being pas-
tor of three or four churches at the same time. Has performed much missionary
work, both for State organizations, and the American B. H. Mission Society,
much of the time laboring at his own expense. Has organized five churches in
the West, and has been the first pastor of three of them. Baptized one hundred
and fifty-two.
HORACE SPENCER. Born in Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N. Y. Entered Semi-
nary in ’32. Ordained pastor in E. Hillsdale, Oct. 14, 35. Pastor of Second Ca-
naan and Austerlitz churches at the same time, Cairo, Warsaw, Bath, Avoca,
Montezuma. Here his health entirely failed. Resumed labor in Gorham, but
health again gave way, his reason failed, and he died in the Asylum, in Utica,
Feb. 19, 1854.
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CLASS OF 1833.
GROVER S. COMSTOCK. Son of Rev. O. C. Comstock, who was converted while
a Member of Congress, and was long a very useful minister in N. Y. and Michi-
gan. See Mission Work.
WM. DEAN, See Mission Work.
ALLEN B. FREEMAN. Son of Rev. Rufus F. of Mad. Asso. He probably em-
tered in '27. Graduated in ’33. Ordained with others, June 6, at Hamilton. He
was married, and went as Home Missionary to Chicago, Ill., then a small village
—the first Baptist minister who entered No. Ill., as a field of labor. On the 19th
of Oct., '83, he organized the First Baptist Church of Chicago, which was also the
First Baptist Church north-west of Peoria. An edifice for a meeting-house and
school-house was soon erected. There being no other Baptist minister within
150 miles of Chicago, he went in all directions preaching and organizing churches.
He baptized the first person known to have been baptized in Lake Michigan,
and also the first baptized in Fox River. Returning after the formation of a
church in Bristol, his horse failed and he was obliged to make part of the jour-
ney on foot. The exposure and fatigue brought on fever, of which he died
Dec. 15, 34. “Tell my revered father,” said he, “that I die at my post, and in my
Master's work.”
HOSEA HOWARD. See Mission Work.
LEWIs RANSTED. Born in Weathersfield, Vt., Sept. 14, 1806. Entered in '27;
graduated in ’33. Married Minerva C. Baldwin, of Hartwick, Otsego Co. Or-
dained at Frankfort, Herkimer Co., Sept. 11, ’33. Pastor also in Macedon, Canan-
daigua, Ovid, Groton, Fulton; in Warren, Ohio; Elyria; in Montrose, Pa.; in De-
posit, N. Y., and Ovid (again). Unable to preach in '87–'38. Agent of the Am
and For. Bible Soc., and N. Y. Ed. Soc. In '66, resided near Trumansburg’
where he died of congestion of the lungs, March 7, '67. A man of well-furnished
and well-disciplined mind, as well as of great devotion to the Master.
JUDAH. L. RICHMOND. Son of Rev. Edmund R. Born in Durham, Greene
Co., April 17, '07. Converted when 11, and baptized when 12 years old in Mil-
ford. Entered in '27, and graduated in ’33. Ordained with Freeman and others,
June 6, in Hamilton. June 23, married Julia Maloy (Meloy). Pastor in Cleve-
land, Ohio, Jefferson and Conneaut; in Stockton, N. Y. ; Fredonia, Forestville,
Warsaw, Fairport, Deposit. Agent of Penn. Bapt. Convention five years; of
Am. and For. Bible Soc. one year. Pastor in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Agent for
Denison Univ. a year. Pastor in New London (preaching also in Fitchville and
Hartland), La Grange, Madison. Died at Kingsville, Ohio, May 14, '68. Able
and successful.
VERNON SMITH. Of Sturbridge, Mass., where he was born, and baptized.
Studied at Amherst College. Entered Hamilton in '80; graduated in ’33; went
to teach in Virginia, and soon died there.
JOSEPH. W. TAGGART. Born in Middletown, R. I., Aug. 10, 1807. Entered
in '28 ; graduated in '33. Married Harriet M. Stilwell, at Manlius, N. Y., July
2, 33. Ordained same day. Pastor in Fayetteville (2), Homer (6), Syracuse,
First (6), N. Y. City, 16th (9); Detroit, Mich., '57 (4); Wheeling, Va., First
Church (2), '67–68. Now resides in Manlius, N. Y. Baptized large numbers.

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JUSTUS H. VINTON. See Mission Work.
ALONZO WHEELOCK. Was in the Seminal y in 1827, from Panton, Vt. ; grad-
uated in ’33. In '35, was a resident graduate. Has been pastor in Delphi,
Owego, Elbridge, N. Y. City, (16th,). Fredonia, his present residence. Madison
Univ'y conferred D. D. in ’57. Has written much for periodicals.
RICHARD S. WITHERELL. Son of Rev. Geo. W., pastor of the church in
Hartford, Washington Co., N.Y. Graduated in '33. He had been travelling for
his health, returned to his father's at Door Prairie, Ind., and died in Nov., '88.
JAMES J. WOOLSEY. Born in Austerlitz, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1806. Converted early
in life. Supplied Cassville before graduation. Ordained in Pike, May 28, '84.
Pastor also in Phila., Pa., several years; then in West Phila., in Norwalk, Conn.,
8 years. Five years in service of Am. and For. Bible Soc. Again pastor in Nor-
walk 2 years. Returned to Bible Soc. as Sec'y. Has been connected officially
with Freedman's Relief Association. In '37 he was married and buried his
wife within less than a year. He was married again in ’42. Resides in Stam-
ford, Conn., preaching as occasion requires.
THE FOLLOWING ENTERED IN 1833, BUT DID NOT GRADUATE :
THOMAS BENEDICT. Born in New Marlboro’, Mass., Nov. 9, 1803. Entered
“English Course,” in ’33. Left in Dec., 35. In '24 married Betsy Prindle, who
died in '58. Married Angeline R. Bunnell, in '63. Ordained Nov. 9, '36, at Tor-
rington, Conn. Preached there and in the region around. Church formed in T.
in '42. In '49, settled in West Stockridge, Mass.; remained 9 years. Supplied
pulpits till '63, when he became pastor of two churches, one in Cornwall, Conn.,
and the other in Bantam Falls, Litchfield. Present residence, No. Colebrook.
Still preaches.
WM. D. CORBIN. Entered from Cazenovia, in 1833. Residences and fields of
labor, Henrietta, So. Alabama, Ontario, Oswego.
DANIEL G. COREY. Entered in 1833. Ordained in Georgetown, Madison Co.
Has now been more than 25 years pastor of Second Baptist Church, Utica,
(Bleecker st.) He received honorary A. M. from M. U., in '47, and D. D.
from * * * College. He has for many years been a member of the Board of the
N. Y. Education Soc'y. He has baptized large numbers.
JOHN W. CRUMB. Born in Plainfield, Otsego Co., March 22, 1812. Converted
when 11 years old. Entered in '33. In '35 was crushed by a falling horse.
Partially recovering, he taught in Troy and vicinity ten years. Many of his pu-
pils were converted. In 36 he married Julia Ann Close, of Pleasant Valley,
Fulton Co. She died in ’43. Married Miss Rosa Finch. Preached in Exeter,
Mohawk, Herkimer Co.; ordained there, Feb., 44; Kingsbury, Clifton Park; in
Middletown Point (now Matawan), N. J., Red Hook and Rhinebeck. Chaplain
of 8th N. Y. Reg't. Health failed. Preached but little since. Baptized over
one hundred in Clifton Park, and many in other places. Resides at Peekskill,
N. Y.
HEZERIAH. D. DEGOLYER. Entered the Seminary in 1833, from Galway. Was
ordained in Ashland, Ohio, Oct. 30, 36.
JOHN J. FULLER. A licentiate of Knowlesville Church. Entered in 1833. Was
ordained, in Oakfield, N. Y., Nov. 29, 36. In '51 he was in Pennsylvania. He
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has since served the following Churches : First Fredonia, Boston and Concord
Cassadaga, Canal, and Ira, all in N. Y., closing in '48.
CHARLES PLATTS. Entered in 1833, from Saybrook, Conn. Now laboring as
minister in Illinois. .
SILAS B. WEBSTER. Born in Jefferson, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, Nov. 17, 1813. In
March, 33, started for Hamilton, with a knapsack on his back, and less than a
dollar in his pocket. Left in '35. Taught in Aurora, Ohio. Most of his pupils
were converted. Preached and taught in Bellevue and Monroeville. Ordained
Feb. 2, 37; mainly supported himself. In 37 married Harriet Lucinda Morse,
near Norwalk. Settled in Norwalk four years; three in Lockport, N. Y. ; next
in Mansfield, Ohio. Served Ohio State Convention and Am. B. Union till '58 ;
pastor in Painesville till '68. Has baptized 348. During his residence in P. has
“ kept Zion's Hotel and had a good share of custom, having furnished company
about a thousand meals a year.”
CLASS OF 1834.
NO class graduated in ’34, on account of the extension of the course. The fol-
lowing entered in this year, but did not graduate :
ALPHEUS. W. BAKER. Entered in 1834, from Medina, N. Y. Ordained in
Elba, N. Y., May 3, '37. In '48 pastor in Farmington, Mich. ; in '54 in Moore-
ville, in '68 in Ovid, in ’71 in Pewamo.
AsA. M. BUTTON. Entered the Seminary in 1834, from Oakland. Was Or-,
dained at Oakfield, N. Y., April 26, ’37.
WM. CORBIN. Born Dec. 11, 1809, in Woodstock, Conn. Entered the Semi-
nary, in ’34, from New Woodstock, N. Y. While a student supplied the Church
in De Ruyter. In 38 preached in Fort Wayne and Logansport, Ind. Continued
as pastor in L. till his death, Nov. 8, '41. In 39 he married Harriet E. Pettit,
in Fabius, N. Y. Her death preceded his a few weeks. They left an infant son,
H. P. Corbin, of class of '63,
JUSTIN W. DENNISON. Died in 1834, aged 39.
RANSOM C. Dwy ER. Came to Hamilton in 1834, from Essex, N. Y. Pastor
in Stamford, Vt., in ’38; Moreau, N. Y., 41; Hartford and Kingsbury, 43 ; Wil-
ton, '51, and afterwards in several places in Sar. and Wash. Union Assoc's. He
died at Queensburg, Warren Co., N. Y., June 30, '65, aged 64 years.
, CLASS OF 1835.
RUFUs F. BUEL. See Mission Work.
E. W. DICKINSON. Born in Salem, N. J., Jan. 28, 1810. Entered the Inst, in
summer of '30. Graduated in '35. Ordained in Poughkeepsie in autumn of '36.
Married, June 19, 38, in Poughkeepsie, to Caroline A. Atkinson. Has labored in
Poughkeepsie, Danvers, Burlington, N. J., Elmira, Lewisburg, Pa., Pittsburg,
Dayton, and Marcus Hook. Baptized about 300. Received the degree Of D. D.
from * * * College.
JAMEs N. GRANGER, son of Judge G., of Buffalo. Born in Canandaigua, Aug.,
1814. Under appointment as a cadet at West Point, but when converted at
CLASS OF 1835. 227
once began to prepare for the ministry. Grad. in '35, and from Theo. Dep’t. in
'38, in the first class that took what is now the full course. Married Anna
Davis, of Thompson, Conn. In Dec., 39, he was ordained pastor in Avon Springs.
In 41 pastor in Buffalo, and in '42 pastor of First Baptist Church in Provi-
dence, R.I., where he remained till his death, Jan. 5, '57. In 46 he received the
degree of D. D. from Brown Univ. In 1852 he went with Solomon Peck, D. D.,
to the Asiatic Missions of the Union, during which service he received
injury from which he never recovered. “He leaves behind him,” wrote Dr. Cas-
well, “a character for integrity, for benevolence, for self-sacrificing devotion to
his high calling, which is an honor to human nature. As a counsellor he had
few equals. He was a careful biblical scholar, a sound theologian, an instructive
preacher, and a true friend.”
ANTHONY LAMB. Born Dec. 22, 1803, at Albany, N. Y. Entered Hamilton in
'30. Graduated in '35, Studied in Germany. Was tutor in Greek in M. U. from
°37 to ’39. Present residence, Saratoga Springs.
WM. E. LOCRE, from New York City. In 1835 reported as a licentiate of the
Lebanon Church in Madison Co., N. Y. Ordained as pastor of the Massena
Church, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Aug. 18, 36. In 38 he was in Governeur.
Pastor in Trumansburgh. Removed to New Jersey about '42, and became a
member of the Presbyterian Church. He taught in Lancaster, Pa. He died
over ten years since in New Jersey.
JOHN F. RICITARDSON. Born in Vernon, Oneida Co., Feb., 1808. Tutor and
Prof. of Latin from his graduation till he accepted the same position in the
Univ. of Rochester, in' 50. He was Secretary of Faculty during all his professional
life. He published a work entitled “The True Roman Orthoepy,” for which
Mr. Gladstone, the English Scholar and Statesman, thanked him by an auto-
graph letter. He died in Rochester, Feb. 10, '68. He married Catharine Elizabeth
Sayles of Vernon, in '38. He was characterized by mingled delicacy and firm-
ness, as well as superior scholarship.
WM. H. SIIAILER. Was born in Haddam, Conn., Nov. 20, 1807. Entered
Hamilton in ’30. Graduated in '35. Was married in Hamilton, N.Y., May 22,
'36, to Elizabeth Payne, only daughter of Prof. Hascall. Studied at Newton
Theo. Institute for some time. Principal of the Conn. Literary Institution at Suf.
field, till September, '37. Pastor of Baptist Church in Brookline Mass. In '54
he became pastor First Baptist Church, Portland Me., and continues his pastor-
ate there till present time. Baptized about 300 persons. Received honorary
degree of A. M., in '36, from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and degree of D.
D. from Madison University in '53.
NON-GTRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1835.
JAMES R. ELDR1DGE. Born in Salem, Washington Co., 1807. Entered in '29
with the first class that commenced the eight years' course. Left in ’33, and
was ordained in Sept, as pastor at Parma Corners, Monroe Co. Next in Holley;
over 100 baptized and a meeting-house built within a year. In 35 married Mary
Ann McKee, of Perry, Wyoming Co. In '36–7 engaged for N. Y. Ed. Soc. Raised
over $7,000 in six months. His health forbids pastoral care, and he is engaged
in business at Evansville. Has baptized 542,
228 SKETCHES OF ALUMNI.
THE FOLLOWING ENTERED IN 1835, BUT DID Not GRADUATE :
SAMUEL S. BARRETT. Entered from Bedford Church. Ordained in Bedford,
May 26, 36. In '51 pastor of Church in Middletown, N. Y.
CHARLEs K. COLVER, son of N. Colver, D. D. Graduated at B. U. and New-
ton. Pastor in Watertown, Mass.; Worcester and S. Abington ; Detroit, Mich. ;
Mt. Caroll, Ill.
ROBERT A. FYFE. From Lower Canada. Studied also at Newton. Ordained
in Brookline, Mass., Aug. 25, 1842. Pastor in Warren, R. I., and in Canada.
Now President of Canada Literary Institute, and Prof. of Theology. Received
degree of D. D. from * * * College.
GEORGE N. ROE. Entered from Ballston Spa. Ordained at Hopewell, N. Y.,
in Feb. 39.
CLASS OF 1836.
MILES BRONSON. See Mission Work.
WM. BROWN. Born in Smithfield, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1816. Entered in '30. Gradu-
ated in '86. Dr. Sears being absent, he did not study theology. Married Louisa
E. Wright at Westford, Vt., in '37, Ordained pastor in Richfield, N.Y., Oct. '37.
Pastor in Newport, from '38 (except two years) till '52. In Eaton three years and
a half; year and a half in Pittsford; four years in Stratford; six years in Fort
Edward. In '67 pastor in Rockwood, where he died Aug. 9, '69. He was of a re-
tiring disposition, amiable and conciliatory, yet a searching preacher and faith-
ful pastor. He baptized nearly 300.
GEO. C. CHANDLER. Born March 19, 1807, in Chester, Vt. Entered in ’31.
At Newton till '38. After graduating he married Persis W. Heald, in Springfield,
Vt., Sept. 5, 38. Ordained same day and place. Pastor in Indianapolis, Ind.,’39–43.
President of Franklin College till '50, serving four years as pastor of the Church in
F. In '51 went overland to Oregon. Taught seven years and preached constantly,
without much compensation, but training the churches to support pastors. Re-
ceived honorary A. M. from Columbian College in '44, and D. D. from Franklin
in '53. Address, McMinnville, Oregon, more recently, Amity, Oregon.
WILLIAM C. CRANE. Born at Richmond, Va., March 17, 1816. Studied at
Richmond College, at Amherst, Mass.; Columbian, D. C. Three and a half years
at Hamilton. Studied theology. Married, June 18, 38, Alcesta Flora Galusha,
of Rochester, N. Y. Married, second time, Aug. 22, 41, to Jane Louisa Wright, of
Rome, N. Y. Married, third time, April 26, '45, to Catharine Jane Shepherd, of
Mobile, Ala. Ordained in Baltimore, Md., Sept. 23, 38. Pastor at Montgomery,
Ala., 39 ; at Columbus, Miss., 44; Vicksburg, Miss., '47; Yazoo City, Miss., '48;
Hernando, Miss., Jan. '51–57. Principal of Yazoo Classical Hall, Yazoo City, '48–
'51; President of Miss. Female College, 51–57; President of Semple Broaddus
College, Centre Hill, Miss., '57–60; President and Prof. of Theology, Mt. Le-
banon Univ., La., '60–63; President of Baylor Univ., Independence, Texas, July,
'63 to date. Howard College conferred degree of D. D., in '60. During his con-
nection with above-named institutions, has preached constantly at various places.
Has published two volumes and many addresses. Has been editor, or co-editor
of Banner and Pioneer, The Baptist, Nashville, Tenn., Miss. Baptist, Louisiana
Baptist, Christian Repository, and N. Y. Chronicle.
CLASS OF 1836. 229
SYLVESTER DAVIS. Born in Royalston, Mass., Oct. 30, 1808. Entered in ’32,
graduated in ’36. Ordained pastor at Evans's Mills, Jefferson Co., June, '37.
Married Sophia Smith in '38. Five years in Cassville, from '42. Strength failed
in attempted pastorates in Middletown, Conn., and Holland Patent, N. Y., and
Carthage. Became agent for Am. and F. Bible Soc'y. In Sept., 51, he sailed
from Boston, and reached Honolulu, where he had friends, in Jan., '52. He
preached in the Seamen's Bethel on the love of God to Man, “Such a sermon,”
said to himself a clergyman present, “as I would wish to preach, if I knew it
were my last.” Mr. Davis died of typhoid fever, Feb. 6, ’52. He was a hard
student and an able preacher.
S. S. DAY. He died in Homer, N. Y., Oct., 1871, after six months of almost
uninterrupted suffering. See Mission Work.
JAMES SAURIN HASCALL. Born at Elizabethtown, Essex Co., N. Y., Oct. 7,
1811. Graduated in ’36. Married at Florence, N. Y., March 4, 39, to Angeline
Storm. Has been Principal of Manual Labor Institution, at Florence, N. Y. ; Fe-
male Seminary at Rome, N. Y. ; Dellton Academy, Dellton, Wis., also Prof. in
Wayland University, Beaver Dam, Wis. Is now on a farm in Badger, Wis.
JAMES M. HASWELL. See Mission Work.
LUCIEN HAYDEN. From Bethany, Pa. Was at Hamilton in or before 1832.
Graduated in ’36. Ordained in Dover, N. H., June 5, 38. Afterwards pastor at
Saxton's River, Vt., from '43 to ’58; in New London, N. H., from '59 to '69; when
he began services as teacher of colored preachers and teachers in Augusta, Ga.
Now at the head of Indianapolis Female Institute. In '65 M. U. conferred the
degree of D. D. -
FREDERICK KETCHAM. Born in Lisle, Broome Co., Nov. 4, 1809. Entered in
'30. Graduated in '36. One year in Theo. Dept. Married in Lebanon in '37.
In '48, to Elizabeth P. Brown, of Philadelphia, Pa. Ordained in Sayville,
Conn., in Oct., '37, preached in Clinton also. Labored in New Jersey as evan-
gelist. Pastor in Burlington ; then in Philadelphia, Pa.; next in New Haven,
Conn. From '50 to '56 missionary in Ill. Settled in Galena, Panola, Peoria. In
'60–62 Miss. of General Assoc. of Ill. In '63 injured by the runnning away of a
horse. Able only to supply pulpits in connection with business. From '35 to
'63 participated in revivals every year. Baptized about 1,000. Resides in Pon-
tiac, Ill.
ASA MARSH. Born in Weybridge, Vt., Sept. 13, 1807. Entered Seminary in
'30. Graduated in ’36. Ordained at Jeffersonville, Ind., Nov., 39. Married Fi-
delia Millard, at Blairsville, Ind., in '42. Preached in several Western
States. Settled in Riceville, Iowa, in '59. In '70 found it necessary to suspend
pastoral labor.
A. P. MASON. Born in Cheshire, Mass., Jan. 19, 1813. Entered in '32, from
Brockport, N. Y. Graduated in '36 and '38. Married to Sarah E. Robinson, at
South Gardner, Mass., Aug. 30, 38, and in '58 to Mrs. Phoebe R. Howell, at
Deep River, Conn. Ordained at North Penfield, N. Y., (now Webster) Oct. 30,
'38. Other pastorates, Clockville, Groton, Binghamton, Williamsburg; Fall
River, Mass.; and Chelsea, 13 years. Received degree of D. D. from M. U. in '59,
Seven years member of Board of Harvard University, by appointment of
Mass. Legislature. Baptized 527. District Sec. of Am. B. H. M. Soc'y. Resi-
dence, Chelsea, Mass.
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for the State ; then of the Bap. State Convention three years. Now and for several
years Sec. of Iowa Bap. Union for Min. Education. In 1870 M. U. conferred
degree of D. D.
PHILETU’s B. SPEAR. Born in Palmyra, N. Y., May 23, 1811. Entered the
University in 1831. Graduated in '36 and '38. Married Esther Jackson in 1838
at Palmyra, N. Y. Ordained Aug. 29, 1838. Tutor in 1837. Prof. in 1842.
Received degree of D. D. from Colby Univ'y. Since 1864 Treasurer of Uni-
versity Board, still retaining his professorship of Hebrew. For twenty years he
has been greatly devoted to the endowment of the University, with what
success the reports in this volume show.
JACOB THOMAS. See Mission Record.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1836.
RALPEI I. BROWN. Born in No. Stonington, Conn., Nov. 20, 1811. Entered in
1830, and reached the Sophomore year. At the time of his death, which occur-
red Oct. 24, 1833, he was Principal of a Young Ladies’ Institute in Pawtuxet,
R. I. He was remarkably genial in his spirit, and engaging in all his ways.
Prof. S. S. Whitman wrote of him : “You know not what high hopes and
glowing expectations we had cherished of him.” His death was triumphant.
“Why,” said he, “ was I ever afraid to die? Dying is pleasant—pleasant—
pleasant.” A memoir was published.
SOLOMON CARPENTER. Entered in ’30 from Stephentown, Rensselaer, Co.
He was a Seventh Day Baptist, and it is known of him only that he labored as a
minister in that denomination.
EDWIN A. DOOLITTLE. Came to the Instºn from Lebanon. Entered the
class of 1836; remained four or five years. Afterwards studied law in Albany,
and entered into partnership with Wheaton, of that place, remaining twelve
years, when he removed to New York City, where he is still practicing law and
doing a successful business.
H. D. DOOLITTLE. Born in New Lebanon, Columbia Co., N. Y., March 10,
1807. Entered in '29, left in '35, a little before graduation. Settled in Colebrook,
Conn., First Church ; West Springfield, Mass.; Northampton. Revival in N.,
held meetings every evening for eleven months. Large accessions made to the
church. After these ten years of labor, he spent two years in Key West, Florida,
Seeking health, and forming a church of over 100 members. Supplied in Wes.
term Mass. Settled in Williamstown and Hoosie Corners, Mass. , in Burnt Hills,
Saratoga Co., N. Y., and Wappinger's Falls. Now pastor in Sounerville, N. J.
Never left a church in a divided state, or without an increase of members.
FRANKLIN D. PIERSON. Entered from Canaan, in 1830, remained four years
in class of 35. Physician or dentist in New York City.
ANSON ROOT. From Middlebury, N. Y. Entered in 1833. Died Sept. 18, 36,
in Middlebury, twenty-six years of age.
GEO. L. RUSSEL. Born in Branford, Conn., August 15, 1806. Entered the
class of '36, in '30; and left at the end of the Sophomore year. May 15, 36, he
married Jane M. Hull, of Hamilton. He taught some years at Danbury and
Suffield, Conn. He prºached at N. Stonington, Avon, Waterbury, Conn.; Gar-
rettsville, Ohio; and Matteawan, N. Y. He died Aug. 11, ’47.
232 SKIETCHES OF ALUMNI.
EZEKIEL SAXTON. Born in Plumbsted, N. J., about 1809. In '29 he entered
the class of '36. Ordained in Jacobstown, N. J., in '35, Pastor in Manahocking
in '36, and in Allowaystown in ’39. On account of poor health, resigned in '42,
preached only as a supply. He died at Jacobstown, Nov. 19, '45. His short
ministry was eminently successful. He left four orphan children.
JULIUS S. SHAILER. Entered from Haddam, Conn., in 1834. Afterwards at
Brown U., and Newton. Pastor in Roxbury (Boston Highlands), Tremont
Church, '46 to ’54. Still resides there.
GEORGE M. SPRATT, son of Rev. George Spratt. Born in Quebec, Canada, April
7, 1813. Converted when seven years old. In 30 came from Penn, to Hamilton,
on foot, with less than five dollars besides his bundle of clothing. Went through
the Sophomore year, in the class of '36. Compelled to leave for want of funds.
Was ordained as Missionary in Central Penn. Married Miss Abigail Reed. Dur-
ing his missionary labor, he organized three churches, built three meeting-houses,
and baptized many. Was four years pastor in Towanda, Bradford Co. Ill health
compelled long rest. Pastor in Elmira and Fairport. He has been twenty-one
years in the service of the Penn. Bapt. Ed. Soc. Has received the degree of
D. D.
DANIEL C. WAIT. Entered from Ithaca in 1831. Left during Junior year.
Ordained at Homer, June 3, 36. Married in New Jersey. Died in Lansing, N.
Y., Nov. 3, '42, aged thirty years, being then pastor of the Lansing and Groton
Church.
JoEIN H. WALDEN. Entered from Le Ray in 1833. In '35 was pastor in Mas-
sena. In '50 he was in Portsmouth, Ohio. In '53 pastor in Dunkirk, N. Y. ;
then in Brockort, Massena, Ogdensburg. Labored for a time in Michigan. Died
in Brockport, Sept. 29, '67, aged 59 years. Very successful.
HENRY WOOSTER. Born in Oxford, Conn., Nov. 8, 1808. Entered in ’30.
Went through the Junior year, in the class of '36. In '35 ordained pastor at
Deep River, Conn. Loss of voice compelled his resignation in ’39. Entered
into business, and held various offices of trust, preaching frequently until his
death, Aug. 12, '66. In 38 he married Aurelia S. Read, of Deep River.
GRADUATES OF THE SHORTER COURSE—1836.
ALMIRON BROWN. Entered from Bridgewater in 1833; completed the Shorter
Course in ’36. Ordained at Norwalk, Ohio, Jan. 31, '88.
H. B. EwBLL. Born in Genesee Co., N. Y., April 13, 1811. Entered in '84,
from Bridgewater, N. Y. Finished course Aug., '86. Ordained Jan., '37. Mar-
ried, April, 38. Married again, Feb., '45. Settled as pastor of Baptist Church
in Dunkirk, N. Y., Nov., '86. Remained two years. He then made an engage-
ment with the church in Pavilion, Genessee Co, where for fifteen years he re-
ceived and accepted an annual call; then concluded to settle with the people.
At the end of thirty years service he resigned. A new call was given and ac-
cepted ; there he still remains.
CHARLEs R. KELLAM. Of Irasburg, Vt. In Hamilton in 1882. Graduated
from Shorter Course in '36. Married Elizabeth Pearson, of Haverhill, Mass.
Ordained at Irasburg, Aug. 17, '36, Set out for his field among the Creek Indians
CLASS OF 1837. 233
in October. Mrs. Kellam died Feb. 2, 37. He became a teacher under the U.
S. Gov't. In January, 1840, the opposition of the Indians to mission efforts be-
came so violent, that he retired to Arkansas. He died in Franklin Co., Ark.,
April, 6, ’54. See Mission Work.
LYMAN B. King. Born in Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1809. Entered in
'32. Graduated from the Shorter Course in ’36. Married Almina Jackson, of
Eaton, N. Y. Ordained in Belvidere, Ill., in '38 [June, '89]. For five years he
preached for churches newly organized, and in destitute settlements in Cook,
Kane, and Boone Counties. Health failing, he returned to N. Y. Labored two
years at Pompey Hill, and then two years with the Church in Lawrenceville,
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. From '46, labored eight years in Cook and De Kalb
Counties, Ill. Since '54 preached but occasionally. Residence in De Kalb, Ill.
PETER ROBIN son. Born in Greenfield, Saratoga Co., in 1809. Entered in '32.
Graduated from Shorter Course in '36. Labored successfully as missionary and
pastor in Marion, Lyme Co., Iowa, where he died Sept. 11, 46.
JOHN M. RASCO. Entered in 1836. Ordained in Batavia, Dec. 19, 38. Pastor
of several churches in N. Y. Pastor in Howell, Mich., in '48 ; then in Otisco, in
Wheatland in ’52, then in Keene, in [Iartland in '61, Base Line in '68, Bloom-
ingdale from '69 till now.
LYMAN STILLSON. See Mission Work.
CLASS OF 1837.
ADAMS CLEGITORN. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Jan., 1814, Came to this
country in '28. Entered from Utica in ’32, Graduated in ’37. One year in
Theol. Department. Taught high school in Lockport, where, in '40, he mar-
ried Asenath E. Stone. Ordained in Lewiston, Apr. 14, '41. Seven years there
and at Niagara Falls. Organized a church on each side of the river at the
Falls. In 40 removed to Paris, C. W. Pastor in Adams, N. Y., in ’54; in
Belleville in '57. See War Record. Since the war, pastor in N. Y. City, and
in Ottawa, Ill., his present residence. Received honorary degree of A. M., from
Rochester Univ'y, and of D. D., from Mad. Univy in '69. Has baptized large
numbers. *
IRA CORWIN. Born in Cazenovia, Dec. 12, 1809. Entered in ’31. Graduated
in ’37. As there was a vacancy in a professorship, he remained only a year
in Theol. Dept. Ordained pastor in Medina, Ohio. Also settled in Erie, Pa.;
Canal Dover, Ohio; Marietta, ’44; North Fairfield, '53, and South Bend, Ind.,
'56. In '63, his health failing, he removed to Norwalk, Ohio, where he still
resides, preaching occasionally. He baptized about three hundred.
GEO. W. DORRANCE. Born Feb. 11, 1811, in Lebanon, N. Y. Entered the In-
stitution in ’31. Graduated in ’37. Studied theology one year, and left in ’3S.
Ordained in Springfield, Ala., in ’39 ; taught and preached there, and in Missis-
sippi till '46. In 46 married Bartella McDuell, in Washington, D. C. Till '5S
pastor in Southington, Ct. ; Fiskdale and Webster, Mass. Principal of Central
Academy, Washington, D. C. In 60 chaplain of the U. S. Navy. See War
Record. He was three years in the Flag Ship Hartford, with Admiral Bell, in
the waters of China and Japan. Buried the Admiral and five officers. In '69
16 * - to
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on Receiving Ship Vermont, N. Y. ; in ’70 on the Guerriere, with European
Squadron. Has baptized about forty.
H. A. DUNCAN. Of Barnwell District, S. C. Entered in '35. Graduated in
'37. Was several years president of the Female Seminary at Greenville, S. C.
Affection of the throat led to his retirement from public life. He resided not
long since near Augusta, Ga., conducting his farm ; his health so far restored
that he hoped to resume teaching or the pastorate.
JosLPH. H. EATON. Brother of Geo. W. Eaton, D. D., president of Mad.
Univ'y. Born in Berlin, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1812. Entered in '35. Graduated in '37.
Principal of Fayetteville Academy, Tenn., '37–41. Married Esther M. Tread-
well, Plattsburg, N. Y., in '40. In 41 Professor of Mathemathics in Union
Univ'y, Murfreesboro’, Tenn. Ordained in '43. Pastor of Baptist church in M.,
'44–54. In 46 President of the University, which position he held till the day
of his death, Jan. 12, '59. He was an eloquent preacher, and many souls were
converted under his ministry. In '51 Mad. Univ'y conferred the degree of LL. D.
JUSTIN O. EDMUNDs. Born at Clarendon, Vt., Sept. 17, 1810. Entered from
Hartland, N. Y., in ’34, graduating in '37 and '39. Became Agent of N. Y. Bap. Ed.
Soc. Married Philena Spear, of Palmyra, N. Y., Jan. 15, 40. She died Jan. 15,
'41. Became pastor in Jersey City, N. J. In a year and a half his health failed.
He went into the family of Dr. Grady, of Snickersville, W. Va. He died on his
way to Hamilton, on board the steamer off Point Lookout, May 10, 43. He was
buried in the University Cemetery. The Baptist Memorial of Dec., '43, contains
a sketch by his classmates, Drs. Everts and Taylor. A man of great promise.
W. W. EVERTs. Born in Granville, Washington Co., N. Y., March 13, 1816.
Entered in ’31; graduated in '37 and '39. Pastor in New York City eleven
years; in Wheatland two years; in Louisville, Ky., seven years, and in Chicago,
Ill., since '59. Received degree of D. D. from * * * College. Served three
months as chaplain in Camp Douglass. Visited Europe in '69. Published
“Pastor's Hand Book,” “Compend of Christian Doctrine,” “Tracts for the
Churches,” “Life and Thoughts of Foster,” “Manhood: Its Duties and Respon-
y
sibilities,” “The Theatre,” “Temptations of City Life,” and sundry sermons
and pamphlets.
V. R. IIoTCIIKISS. Born June 5, 1815, in Spafford, Onondaga Co., N. Y.
Graduated in 37 and '39. Married Sabrina C. Powers, in Hamilton, '39. Pas-
torates: Poultney, Vt., 39–42; Rochester, N. Y., '42-'46; Fall River Mass.,
'46–49; Buffalo, N. Y., '49–54. Professor in Rochester Theol. Sem'y, 54-65.
From 65 till now, pastor in Buffalo. Degree of D. D. conferred by Mad. Univ'y,
in '56.
J. F. Jon Es. Born in Patterson, Putnam Co., N. Y., June 3, 1812. Entered
in 33; graduated in '87 and ’39. Resident graduate in '40. Ordained in Philadel-
phia, Pa., Dec. 24, '40. Two years missionary of the Penn. State Convention in
the central part of the State. Supplied Wappinger's Falls, N. Y., a year. In
April, '43, married Joanna Luckey. Two years at Newton, N.J., as missionary.
Pastor three years in Northville, N. J. Taught private school five years in
Williamsburg, N. Y. Pastor at Northville, Conn., three years. One year with
Bantam Falls and College st. Church, Litchfield Co., Conn. In Montville and
Ware, Mass., each three years. In 60 could not speak a loud word. Preaches
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occasionally. Lectures on General Education and Public Schools. Baptized
about one hundred and fifty. Envies his brethren who are able to make full
proof of their ministry, and rejoices in their success. Residence, Westfield,
Mass.
WM. M. PRATT. Born in Fenner, Madison Co., Jan. 13, 1817. Son of Daniel
Pratt, M. D., and brother of Senator Pratt, of Indiana. Baptized when fourteen
years old. He entered Hamilton in ’33; graduated in '37 and '30. The day
after his graduation, he married Julia Ann M., daughter of Rev. John Peck.
In a buggy they made their journey of four weeks to his previously explored
field at Crawfordsville, Ind. Within two weeks after their arrival, he laid his
bride in the grave—the only heavy stroke of Providence that has ever fallen
upon him. He aided in conducting a Female Seminary—erected a meeting-
house—established a church at Middletown, and one at Covington. In connec-
tion with Rev. S. G. Miner, held a meeting at Logansport—over twe hundred
were added to the church. Removed to Logansport, still visiting the churches
he had established below—a circuit of 200 miles. Received little money, but
had full saddle-bags and a happy heart. Became General Missionary for the
Home Mis. Soc'y, with South Bend for headquarters. He “ rode his old mare
further than around the globe ; swam half the large rivers in the State ;
preached 1,855 times, baptized 454; and aided in building five meeting-houses.”
His health requiring a change, in '45 he became pastor of First Baptist Church
in Lexington, Ky., where he continued till '62. Church harmonized : new
house built; burnt and rebuilt. Then took charge of a small country church, and
gave his chief attention to the Sunday School and Book Concern of the denomina-
tion. In '68 he removed to New Albany, Ind. Up to July, '69, he had preached
5,353 sermons; an average of three and a half a week ; 600 funeral sermons ;
married 377 couples ; baptized 923 ; aided other pastors in protracted meetings;
received as compensation, presents included, an average of $SS4 a year. as
much as his preaching is worth, he thinks; has never asked for any definite
amount, but has demanded and had prompt payment ; and has always lived
within his means. With his present experience he could correct many mistakes
of the past, but could not do more hard work. In '58 his Alma Mater conferred
the degree of D. D.; but how she ever thought of doing that to him, is to him
a mystery. In 46 he married the daughter of R. T. Dillard, D. D., of
Fayette, Ky.
EDW. G. SEARS. Nephew of Rev. Dr. Barnas Sears. Entered from Sandisfield
Mass., in ’33. Graduated in '87. Ordained in Marshfield, Mass., March 20, 39.
Served also as pastor in North Marshfield, Sharon, and North Wrentham. In
'49 editor of the Christian Review. The failure of his voice has prevented his
continuance in pastoral labor, and he conducts a newspaper in Springfield,
Mass.
E. E. L. TAYLOR. Born Sept. 25, 1815, in Delphi, Onondaga Co., N. Y.
In 31 entered the Class of '36. On account of illness and absence, he entered
the Class of '37, with which he graduated, and also in theology in ’39. Resident
graduate till '40, when he became pastor of Pierrepont St. Church, Brooklyn
N. Y. Oct. 5, '40, he married Mary Jane, daughter of Rev. A. Perkins, D. D.
She died in April, '71. Dec., '49, he became pastor of Strong Place Church,
South Brooklyn, a relation which continued till his health, in '65, compelled
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his church to accept his resignation, on which occasion they emphasized the
expression of their regret by the gift of $20,000. He received the degree of
D. D. from * * * College. He has baptized in Brooklyn over 1,100. Now one
of the Secretaries of the Am. Bapt. Hom. Mis. Soc'y.
NON-GTRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1837 :
ELISHA L, ABBOTT. Entered in 1833. See Mission Work.
SAMUEL S. ALDRICTI. Entered in 1832 from Hoosick. See Mission Work.
ROMANZO I, ELLIOT. Son of Rev. Joseph E. Born in Rockingham, Vt.,
March 1, 1814. Entered in ’33 from Middlebury, N.Y. Health failing he left
in two years. Went to Natchez, Miss., and engaged in teaching. Graduated at
Georgetown College, Ky., in ’44. Became pastor of a newly-formed church in
Louisville, Ky., and was there ordained. He died after a week's illness in April,
'45. To his relatives he sent this message: That “the happiest days of his life
were while on his death-bed.”
LovEL ING ALLs. Of Concord, N. Y. Was in the Seminary from '32 to 35, in
the class of '37. See Mission Work.
T. G. KEEN. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 4, 1815. Entered Hamilton in
'34. As Dr. Sears was in, Germany, did not graduate in Theology, but staid till
'38. Married Eleanor H. Jones, in Franklin, Tenn., in ’39. Ordained in Nash-
ville ; became at once pastor of church in Hopkinsville, Ky. ; one year in Mays-
ville; two years with the second church in Louisville ; seven years pastor in
Mobile, Ala: ; mine years in Petersburg, Va.; in '64 returned to Hopkinsville,
Ky., his present charge. He has been President of Female College in Hopkins.
ville. Bethel College, IKy., conferred the degree of D. D. in '68.
M. W. LELAND. Born in Chester, Vt., 1810; in ’33 entered Hamilton in the
Class of '37 ; dismissed during the senior year before graduation. Entered
Columbian College, D.C., and graduated in '38. Soon ordained as pastor of the
Navy Yard Baptist Church ; also taught classical school. After a year and a
half, labored as Evangelist in Eastern Virginia ; had great enjoyment and suc-
cess. In May, '40, married Julia H. Anson, of Cuba, N. Y. After this he was
pastor in Hamburg, Erie Co.; Port William, Ohio; Door Village, Laporte Co.,
Ind. Here his lungs failed, and he is engaged in farming in Rochester, Minn.
CHARLEs TUCKER. Born in Broome, Scholarie Co., N. Y., April 19, 1809.
Entered Sem'y in '30, Class of '37. Left in ’34, compelled by ill-health. Or-
dained and settled in Milesburg, Pa., in '35 or '36. Married Margery Gregg.
Died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 18, '50. Honorary A. M. conferred by Lewis-
burg Univ'y in '48.
CLASS OF 1838.
CHARLEs L. BACON. Born in Spafford, N. Y., Jan. 12, 1813. Entered in
May, 34. Graduated in '88. Married Mary L. Baker, at Hamilton, (?) N. Y., in
'88. Pastor in Medina, Mich. (ordained Feb. 12, '40); Brooklyn, five years; Mt.
Morris, N. Y., five years; Trumansburg, fifteen years, '50–65; Reading, four
years; Townsend and Big Flats, till date. See War Record.
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HENRY BILLINGs. Born in Leyden, May 6, 1808. Entered in ’32, graduated
in '38. Studied in Theo. Dep’t a year or more. Taught and preached. Or-
dained in Pa., at session of Northumberland Asso. Became pastor in Pa. In
Washington Co. married Elizabeth Brown. Preached several years in Ohio.
Nearly retired from the ministry. See War Record. Resides in Rockford, Ill.
GEO. R. BLTss. Born in Sherburne, N. Y., June 20, 1816. Entered in ’37;
graduated in '38 and '40. Married M. A. Raymond, in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept.,
'42. Tutor in Mad. Univ'y, three years. Pastor in New Brunswick, N. J., from
Dec., '43, to May, '49. Since then Prof. of Greek in Univ'y of Lewisburg.
Two years President of Theo Dep’t. Received D. D. from Mad. Univ'y in '60.
Has baptized nearly 300. See War Record.
ALFRED A. CONSTANTINE. See Mission Work.
LURE DAVIS. Born Jan. 11, 1808, in Wardsboro’, Vt. Entered Hamilton in
'32, and graduated in '38 and '40, being the first student who took the whole
present course. Of thirty-seven who commenced with him the Lower Aca-
demic Year, a few graduated from the Col. Dep’t., but not one from the Theologi-
cal. He was married in Wilkesbarre, Pa., to Julia Louise Harrington, who
died April 25, '63. Ordained in Truxton, N. Y., Dec. 23, '40. Has not been
pastor for several years on account of deafness. Now engaged chiefly in book
business. Baptized 200. Residence, Binghamton, N. Y.
EzTA DEAN. Born at Middlefield, Otsego Co., N. Y., August 14, 1808. En-
tered Mad, Univ'y in ’33, in the Class of '38; left in '38. Married Clarissa
Branch, in Aurelius, Cayuga Co., May 23, 1839, Ordained at Fosterville, Cayuga
Co., Aug. 29, '3S. Settled at North Norwich, Chenango Co., in ’39 ; there four
years. Pastor in Milan in ’44; in Auburn in ’47. Supplied several churches in
the vicinity of Auburn, some three years. Preached in Fleming, Cayuga Co.,
nearly seven years, and about the same time, at intervals, in Owasco, Cayuga
Co. Commissioner of Common Schools, during this time, two years. In '59
Mad. Univ'y gave him the honorary degree of A. M. Baptized about fifty.
His health is such that he cannot take a pastorate. Residence, Auburn, N. Y.
WILLIAM DICKENs. Entered from Utica in '32; graduated in 38. Studied
theology, but did not graduate. Ordained in Middletown, Ct., Sept. 18, 39. In
°46 pastor in Marshall, Mich. ; in '65 in Fort Ann, N. Y.; in '69-'71, in Olm-
steadville, N. Y.
ELEAZER C. EAGER. Born in Swanton, Vt., Jan. 13, 1813. Entered in '34.
Graduated in ’38 and '41. Ordained at Passumpsic, Vt., Sept. 22, '41. Married
Harriet Ide. Detained by sickness at Cincinnati till spring of '42. Some
months in Memphis, Tenn. Pastor in Grenada, Miss., Fellowship, Antioch and
Mt. Alban. Health being poor, in ’52 became travelling agent for So. Bap. Pub.
Society. Then for the Mississippi College. In 6 years raised over $100,000; the
college had six Professors and two hundred students. In '58, agent for the
Bible Revision Association. During the war he preached and held protracted
meetings. Three sons in the war, one of whom died near Richmond. Two are
studying for the ministry. Lost his MSS—cannot tell number of baptisms.
Residence, Clinton, Hinds Co., Miss.
EDWARD ELY. Born in Upper Middletown (now Cornwall), Ct., Sept. 17, 1811.
Entered in ’33. Graduated in 38 and '40. Ordained in Troy, Pa., Nov., 1841.
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Remained three years in Lancaster, O., and Wheeling, Va., eight years. In April
3. te ſºms” & g º
46, married Jane W. Barker. In 52 went to Winona, Minn.; organized the
now large church; still resides there, but not pastor. Has baptized three
hundred and fifty.
THOMAS HOLMAN. Entered in 33 from Union, Ct. Graduated in '88. Left
Theol. Dep’t in winter of 39–40. Ordained Sept., '40, at Southbridge, Mass.
Married Louisa Crawford, of Woodstock, Ct. Taught in Carthage, Ill., eight
Years; also preached most of the time. Pastor in Stafford, and W. Woodstock,
Ct. Beloit, Darlington, Madison, Oshkosh, Wis. Now has a charge near Rock-
ford, Ill., where he resides. Baptized about two hundred. Has had much Super-
intendence of public schools.
BUCKLEY C. MORSE. Born in Rahway, N. J., April 2, 1811. In 35 entered
Hamilton, in class of '38. Lost the last summer term owing to ill-health. For
same reason obliged to leave the Theol. class. Ordained pastor of ch. in Lyon's
Farms, N. J., Feb. 20, 1839. Married Eliza Shotwell, of Plainfield, N. J., Jan.,
1841. Pastor at New Albany, Ind. In April, 1843, while returning from New
Orleans, his wife died on board the steamer, near Memphis. Agent of the
Indian Mission Association, laboring in the Southern States. Aug., 1844, married
Jane Sibley, of N. Y. City. Pastor in Sing Sing till '47. Pastor in Franklin,
Ind., Piqua, O., and New Albany, Ind. (2nd ch.), two years each ; in 12th church,
Philadelphia, six years. Death of three children and health of the mother made
change necessary; removed to Rahway, N. J. Served Publication Society in
N. Y. From '60 through '65 pastor in Somerville, N. J. Two years in Montrose,
Pa., then settled in Great Valley. Address, New Centerville, Pa. Has baptized
about 400.
EARL P. SALISBURY. Born in Fairfield, Herkimer Co., Feb. 25, 1812. Entered
Hamilton in '35. Graduated in '38 and '40. Ordained at Martinsburg, Jan., '41.
Soon on shipboard in quest of health. Winter of '41–42, preached in Groton,
Ct. ; then in Leeds, Me. Married in June, '43. Agent N. Y. Ed. Soc., '45–46.
Preached none for several years. In '53 preached once a Sunday in Plank Road,
Onondaga Co. Then sick again. Preached little since. In '67 removed to
Plymouth, Delaware.
RANSOM M. SAWYER, son of Elder J. W. S.; grandson of Elder Isaac S., who
had five sons in the ministry. Entered in 31 from Gouverneur. Studied theology
a year after College graduation. Married Flavilla E. Curtice of Chautauqua
Co., in ’39. Ordained in Hanover, N. H., April 7, '40. In a great revival he had
an attack of bronchitis; suffered greatly from the enforced silence. In '42 went
to Jackson, La. A year in Baton Rouge, teaching; also preaching there and at
a distant station. Compensation small, but labors much blessed. Taught and
preached in Franklin, St. Mary's Parish. Compelled to give up preaching :
served as Supt. of Public School six years. Then engaged in drug business till
his death, Aug. 25, 1855. He was universally beloved and lamented.
HARVEY SILLIMAN. Born in Easton, Ct., in 1812. Entered in ’34. Graduated
in '38 and '40. Ordained in Lowville, N. Y., in June, 41. In '41 married Laura
A. Calhoon, in Pittsford. For benefit of his wife's health he spent a part of '42
in Natchez, Miss., preaching. Mrs. Silliman died a few hours after returning
home. He preached in Medina, N.Y.; Pittsburg, Pa.; Lockport, N.Y.; Erie, Pa.;
Panama, N.Y.; Mystic, Ct. ; Sweden, N. Y., and Ogden, where he gave his last
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sermon. These pastorates were broken up by his continued poor health. He
died in North Bergen, Gen. Co., Feb. 15, 186), leaving a widow and six children.
His second wife was Elizabeth Powers, of Medina. In 1855 he had baptized
about 250.
JAMEs SQUIER. Born in Hopkinton, St. Law. Co., Sept. 21, 1808. Fntered
in '32. Graduated in '38. Ordained in Tyringham, Mass., Oct. 17, 38, together
with Alex. Bush. Settled in Sandisfield, Mass. Married Eliza Hull, in Deer-
field, Oneida Co., N. Y., in ’39. Pastor in Bristol, Ct., in ’41; in Tolland, in '42.
In 46 had a severe sickness, from effects of which he has not entirely recovered.
In '47 preached in Southhold, L. I. ; in '50, in Head of Mystic, Ct. ; in '51, in East
Troy, Wis.; in ’53, in La Crosse Co., itinerating and mostly supporting himself.
In '64 pastor in Trempeleau. Still there. Baptized 130.
B. F. TAYLOR, son of S. W. Taylor, LL.D., President of M. U. Graduated
in 1838. Gave himself to teaching, literature, and journalism. For many years
connected editorially with the Chicago Journal. Lectures in prose and poetry.
Gave the poem before the Literary Societies at the Jubilee. Present residence,
Chicago, Ill., (La Porte), Ind.
EDMUND TURNEY. Born in Weston (now Easton), Ct., May 6, 1816. Entered
in '33. Graduated in ’38 and '40. Pastor in Hartford, Ct. (South ch.), Granville,
O., 42–47, and Utica (Broad St.), N. Y. Married Sarah Caroline Robins, of
Hartford. In '50 Professor of Bib. Crit. in Seminary, Hamilton ; also of
Evidences of Revealed Religion in Coll. Dept. From '53, five years Professor in
Fairmount, Theo. Seminary, Ohio. Throat disease required cessation of teaching
and preaching, and he had charge of a Charitable Institution in N. Y. City
several years. In 1865 he commenced his labors for the education of colored
teachers and preachers of the Freedmen in Washington, D. C., thus originating
the first organized effort for this specific purpose; in this work he is still
engaged. He received the degree of D.D. from * * * College. He has
published a work entitled “The Scriptural Law of Baptism :” also “Baptism in
the Import and Explicitness of the Command; ” also “Ministerial Culture; ” a
volume of original “Baptismal Hymns; ” a volume of “Memorial Poems,”
and one of “Memorial Hymns,” both original.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1838.
W. H. ANDERSON. Entered the Class of '38, from Frankfort, Pa., in '32.
Went through Freshman year. Many years pastor in Natchez, Miss. Has
resided in St. Joseph, La. Present address, Rodney, Miss.
JOHN C. DYER. Born in R. I. Entered Hamilton in '35 from Philadelphia,
Pa. Left in Spring of '37. Opened school in Vincent town, N. J. At same time
preached at Columbia till his death, which occurred in 1838, after an illness of
22 hours. *
TIMOTHY FULIER, Born in Penfield, Monroe Co., N. Y., April 9, 1811.
Entered Hamilton in ’33, class of 1838. Left in fall of 1836. Married Betsy
Eldridge, Sept., 1837. Ordained at Penfield, March 9, 37. Settled in Friend,
ship, Alleghany Co., till '44; in W. Henrietta, Monroe Co., till 1851; in Newfane,
Niagara Co., till '56. Supt. of Home for Truant Children, Rochester, till 1866-
Now Supt. of Albany Orphan Asylum. When not pastor, has preached often.
Has baptized about six hundred.
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DAVID GODDARD, son of Rev. David Goddard, of Wendell, Mass. Entered in
’85; finished the Junior year. Graduated at Brown U., in 1839. Married
Charlotte B. Davenport, at Boylston, in 1840. Ordained as pastor at Leominster,
June 3, 1840. Died of consumption at Athol, April 6, 1844. He baptized about
forty in Leominster. -
WILLIAM Hol.IROYD, son of Rev. Mark H., of England. Born in Wadsworth,
York Co., Eng., April 10, 1812. Came to U. S. in 1830. Entered class of '38,
from Pitcher, N. Y. Health failing he left in '87. Ordained in Cincinnatus, Feb.
7, '88. In 39 married Amelia M. Knickerbocker. Other pastorates, Solon,
Linklaen, South Otselic. Since ’46 the asthma has allowed him to preach but
little. Residence, Wyanet, Ill.
HARVEY MILLER. Born in Wallingford, Ct., April 3, 1814. Entered Hamil-
ton in 1832. Remained four years. Left on account of poor health. Ordained
at Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov., '36. In 38 returned to the neighborhood in which
he had been brought up, and became his father's successor as pastor of church in
Meriden, where he died, Aug. 27, 1856, greatly beloved and lamented in the
State, as well as in the church and the town.
ROSWELL C. PALMER, grandson of Elder Reuben Palmer, 40 years pastor in
Mottville, Ct. Born May 10, 1816. Baptized in Gorham, N. Y., when ten years
of age. Entered in ’34; finished Soph. year. Ordained at Hermitage, N. Y.,
1837. There three years. Married Anna Sayles. Also in Bethany (2d),
Middlebury, Alabama, Wyoming, and Holley, N. Y. : El Paso, and Panola, Ill.,
where he now resides. Greatly blessed in his own churches, and has aided
pastors in protracted meetings.
JEREMIAH PHILLIPs. Of Plainfield, N. Y. See Mission Work. After some
years’ labor in the East, he returned with a large family and settled on a farm
in the West. -
OLIVER POTTER. Born in Boston, Mass., a brother-in-law of Prof. Bacon,
entered the class of '38 in '84, went through the junior year, graduated at
Columbian College. He died in Charlestown, Mass., soon after, not having on-
tered the ministry.
J. W. SPOOR. In '32 entered class of '38, remained about five years and left
on account of poor health. Pastor in Elbridge, Cato, Nunda, Perry, Moscow,
Newark (N. Y.), and Nunda again. For a time preached only occasionally and
in protracted meetings. Resumed pastoral labor in Wellsville. Next in Arcadia.
Then in Oil City, Pa. Meeting-house built and mission stations occupied. Has
baptized about 600.
CALVIN S. TOTMAN. Born in Colerain, Mass., Jan. 13, 1811. In '34 entered
class of '38. Left in '37, a broken down invalid. Married Mary Babcock of
Leyden, Mass., in ’39. Studied medicine and settled in Syracuse, N. Y. Pros-
pered beyond his expectation. Adopted from the first the rule of tithing his
income for religious purposes, and has never regretted it.
ERASTUs WESTCOTT. Born in Milford, Otsego Co., March 27, 1816. Entered
in '33. Left the class of '38 at the end of the Soph. year. Married Lucy Ann
Rockwell, Hartwick, in ’37. Pastor in New Berlin, Richfield, West Meredith, 4,
Delhi, 9, Otego, Oneonta, N. Y.; Rochester, Minn., '58. Since '61 he has gather-
ed six churches and served them as pastor, raised the funds and superintended
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the building of six meeting-houses, and seen them all paid for. Has baptized
280. Residence, Concord, Dodge Co., Wis.
GRADUATES OF THE SHORTER COURSE IN 1838.
CYRUS BARKER. See Mission Work.
IsAAo BLooMER. Entered from N. Y. City in '35 and graduated from the
Shorter Course in '38. Ordained in Mansfield, Richland Co., O., March 16, ’39,
HENRY BROMLEy. Born in Norwich, Conn., Dec. 5, 1812. Entered early in
1835, Shorter Course. Left latter part of 1837. Married in Whitesboro', Oct., 1883,
to Jane M. Balis. Ordained Feb., 1838. Pastor in Mansfield, Willimantic,
Wethersfield, Killingly, Woodstock, Conn. For the last fifteen years engaged
in church extension, Sunday School and missionary work in N. Y. City, Brooklyn
and vicinity; the last six years missionary of Strong Place Baptist Church in
Brooklyn.
C. E. BROWN. Born in Augusta, Oneida Co., Feb. 13, 1813. Entered Institu-
tion 1831. Attended Manual Labor School, under Prof. Hascall, in Florence.
Re entered Hamilton in ’36 and graduated from Shorter Course in '88. In Sep-
tember, married Frances Lyon, Little Falls. Ordained September 24, in Litch-
field. Pastor in Norway. In '42 began labor as missionary in Iowa. Has been
County Supt. of Public Schools. Served one year as chaplain in the War of the
Rebellion. Residence, Lime Springs, Howard Co., Iowa.
EDWIN C. BROWN. Born in New London, Conn., Nov. 28, 1807. Married
Catherine Skinner, at Hudson, N. Y., in '33. Entered Shorter Course in '34 and
graduated in ’38. Ordained in Hudson, September, '88. Went as missionary to
Franklin, Mo.; his anti-slavery views caused him to leave the State, and he was
pastor in Quincy, Ill., till '45. Had to leave Galena on account of sickness.
Pastor in Lonsdale, R. I., Port Richmond, Pa., Beverly, N. J. Missionary in
Wabash, Ind. Ill-health drove him back to N. Y. In Bath and Westmoreland.
Supplied churches in Ill., from '57, several years; then engaged in business.
Is AAC R. BROWNSON. Born in Smithfield, Madison Co., July 6, 1810. Joined
church in Peterboro' when 10 years old. At Hamilton in ’35. Graduated in
'38. Ordained as Evangelist at P., September, '88. Two years as missionary in
Circleville, Frankfort, Bethany and Rockville, O. Four years pastor in Green-
field, Highland County, dividing his time, as usual, between two or more
churches. Then three years in Hillsboro’; Brick m. h. built. Here Mrs. B.
died. Pastor in N. Woodstock, N. Y., two years. Health impaired. Married
in 1850. In Saline, Mich., and Chittenango, N. Y., two years each. From '54 to
'61 again in Greenfield and Frankfort, O. After brief pastorates in Georgetown
and Sherburne, N. Y., he removed to New Woodstock, in '64. Resides in
Fayetteville, Onondaga Co., N. Y. Still “delights to preach, but is willing to be
superseded by younger and better men.”
ALEXANDER BUSII. Born in Lowville, Lewis Co., N. Y., Jan., 1810. Entered
Inst. in '35, and left in the spring of 1838. Ordained pastor in Tyringham, Mass.,
Oct. 17, 1838. Married Susan Miller, in Constableville, Lewis Co., N.Y., Jan. 10,
1839. He divided his labors between the churches of Tyringham and Lee, six
years. He died in Tyringham, June 17, 1844. A brief, but useful ministerial life.
242 SKETCHES OF ALUMNI.
JOSHUA CURRIER. Born in Canaan, N. H., March 7, 1810. At Hamilton in
'35. Graduated in 38. Married in Sept., at Guilford, Vt., to Mila S. Carpenter,
principal of Female Sem'y, Townsend, Mass. Ordained in Canaan, Sept. 25, 38.
Two years missionary in Steuben Co., Ind., with Orland as centre. Eight years
in Decatur and other counties, residing at Greensburg. His labors were
greatly blessed. Secretary of General Association of the State. Failure of health
led him in '48 to La Motte, Jackson Co., Iowa, where he labored over 8 years.
From '57 to '69 he was pastor in Monroe, Jasper Co.; laboring also with other
churches. Now pastor in Harlan, Shelby Co. His experience as a minister has
been most blessed. About 1,000 have been added to the churches under his care.
He has baptized about 475, of which number twelve have entered the ministry.
He rejoices that thus he has sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons who will
preach Jesus and the Resurrection.
AMBLER EDSON. Born in Brandon, Vt., May 31, 1811. Entered in '36, grad-
uated in ’38, from Shorter Course. Married Temperance P. Bruce in Clarion,
Ill., in ’39. Had intended to go on an eastern mission, but the way was closed.
Pastor in Plymouth, Vt. Two years missionary to the Otoe Indians in Nebraska.
Gave up the work on account of health. Preached in Griggsville, Ill.; Spring-
field and Chicago; commenced an interest in Aurora, now grown to two churches;
pastor in Cambridge; raised a church in Oswego, Ill.; performed mission work in
Orion. Revivals attended his work in these places. Has labored in East Taun-
ton, Mass.; now pastor of a mission church in Fall River.
H. B. HAYWARD. Entered from Palmyra, in 1834, and graduated from the
Shorter Course in 1838. Ordained in Macedon, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1838. For
more than 20 years pastor in Preston, Yalabusha Co., Miss. Suffers much from
rheumatism, but very efficient.
S. S. HAYWARD. Entered from Cazenovia in 1835, and graduated from the
Shorter Course in 1838. Ordained at Etna, Tompkins Co., N. Y., July 10, 1839.
ABEL HASKELL. Son of Rev. Eli H. Born in Belchertown, Mass., May 7,
1809. Married Esther Green in Jerusalem, N. Y., in'34. Graduated from Shorter
Course in ’38. Ordained in Middlesex, Ontario Co., June 20, 39. Other past0-
rates were in Victory, Geneva, Yates, Penfield. He died in Penfield, Dec. 21, ’65.
“A faithful, diligent, devoted, prudent minister.”
John JoHNs. Of Swansea, So. Wales. Entered the Shorter Course in '35
and graduated in '38. Ordained at Branch, Chesterfield Co., N. C., June 8, 39.
ELI KIM BERLY. Born in “Middlebridge” (Middlefield 7), Mass. Entered in
'34, from Otis, Mass. In 37 had completed three years of the Shorter Course.
Ordained in Middlefield, Otsego Co., N. Y., July 2, 1839. Married Jane H.
Hutchins, of Spafford, Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1838. Pastor at Clarksville, Otse-
go Co., N. Y., a year and a half, and died of consumption, a triumphant death,
Oct. 30, 1840. “A devoted and successful preacher.”
DAVID J. LLOYD. Entered from Erie, Pa., in '35, graduated from Shorter
Course in ’38. Ordained at Erie, Sept. 12, 38. For 20 years he has lived retired
from the ministry, on a farm near Rock Island, Ill.
EDWARD MATT.IIIºws. Of English birth. A licentiate of Oliver St. Church,
N. Y. city. After graduation he was ordained by that church, Sept. 1, '88,
Preached as a missionary in Milwaukee and other places in Wisconsin. Becaume
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an anti-slavery and temperance lecturer. Had hard treatment in Kentucky.
About 20 years since he returned to England, and has been especially engaged
in the promotion of temperance. His autobiography has been published.
DANIEL MCPHAIL. Born in Scotland, in 1811. In 1821 his father, a clergy-
man, settled in Chatham, Province of Quebec. Daniel entered Hamilton in
1835, graduated in ’38. Began preaching in the wild region of Ottawa. In 1839
settled over the church in Osgood, and remained twenty-six years. In 1866 set-
tled in Ottawa City. Has ranged widely. In 1840 married Miss C. McGregor, of
Chatham, C. E. Once feared he could do no good, but remembers with grati-
tude the encouragement received at Hamilton. Has baptized about 1,000 per-
sons. In '69 had not lost a day by sickness. In '71 prostrate with paralysis.
I. POWERS. Born in Worcester, N. Y., June 19, 1811. At Hamilton in '35, left
sick, March 38. Married Eumily Freeman, Aug. 22, '38. Ordained in Jefferson,
N. Y., Sept. 14, 38. Pastor in Summit (first eb.), in ’40; West Meredith, 43.
Middlefield, '53; Worcester '63, present residence. In '65 married Mrs. R. A.
Davis. Baptized 447.
EDWIN D. REED. Born in Shutesbury, Mass., March 22, 1811. Entered
Hamilton Lit, and Theol. Sem'y, in spring of 1836, Graduated in Aug., 1838.
Married Sept. 20, 1838, to Sophia Redfield. Settled at Morrisville, N. Y., con-
tinuing three years and a half, at Lebanon four years and a half, at Truxton
eight years and nine months, at Oneida four years, at Cassville seven years and
two months, at Eaton one year and five months, at Lebanon again, until now.
Not a Sabbath has been lost, and in all these churches precious ingatherings
have been enjoyed. Baptized 264.
CORY DON F. SLAFTER. See Mission Work.
STEPIIEN VAN HUSEN. See Mission Work.
GEO. C. WALKER. Entered from Petersham, Mass., in '35. Graduated in
'88. Now over twenty years pastor at Johnson's Creek, Hartland, Niagara Co.,
|N. Y. w
RODOLPHUS WESTON. Born in Willington, Conn., Jan. 29, 1811. Entered
in '83, went through Sophomore year, then entered the Theo. Class in the Shor-
ter Course and graduated in '88. Ordained Aug., '88, at Burlington Flatts,
Otsego Co., N. Y. Made Carthage, Ill., and vicinity his first field—remained ten
years. In 40 married Minerva Holman, of Union, Conn. She died in ’51. He
married Nancy Grover, of Tolland, Conn. In Nov., 52, he reached Oregon, over-
land, and took charge of Union Church, in Tualatin Plains. In '59 itinerated
as missionary in Willamette Asso. In 63 went to Washington Territory.
Till 70 saw no Baptist minister. His residence is Olympia, Washington Terri.
tory.
LYMAN WILDER. Born in Hamilton, Sept. 12, 1811. Married Amelia Wil-
son, of Bloomfield, Conn., Sept., 32. Entered Institution in 34. Entered
Shorter Course in '36, and graduated in '38. In '40, Domestic Miss, in Geauga
Co., Ohio. Ordained in Chester, Ohio, '41. Pastor in Troy in '42. Afterwards
of Mentor and Willoughby Plains church ; Euclid, Berlin Heights, and
Auburn. Since '55 in Columbia City, Ind., part of the time pastor, three years
exploring Agent of H. M. Soc. Two sons in the war. Preaches nearly every
Sabbath ; farms a little. Baptized over 200.
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THE FOLLOWING ENTERED IN 1838:
LUMAN C. BATES. Born in Amenia, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1814. Began preaching
in Westville, Otsego Co., in ’37. Entered Hamilton in ’38. Ordained in Rich-
mondville in ’41. There six years, part of the time preacher of Seward and
Decatur churches, also. Pastor in Canal, Memphis, '50; Madison, '52; Groton,
Manchester, '65; Walworth and Parma, ’70. His health had become poor and
he removed to Chicago, Ill., where he died Oct. 5, 71. Able, earnest and suc-
cessful. -
NEWELL BOUGHTON. Born Nov. 15, 1817. Baptized in Nunda when fourteen
years old. Entering in ’38; disease of the eyes compelled what he hoped
would be but a temporary absence. Ordained in Gouverneur, in '40. Pastor also
in Colosse and Frankfort, N. Y.; Chester, Canton, Norwalk, Conn.; Delevan,
Wis. On a farm near Delton, Wis., in ’52. He suffered much from asthma, and
died with consumption, Oct. 6, ’54. *
CHARLES WAN LOON. Entered in ’38. Pastor at Westfield, Mass.; Albany
and Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Died before 1851.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF THE COL. DEP'T, THE FOLLOWING BELONGED TO THE
THEO, CLASS OF 1838.
R. K. BELLAMY. Graduate of Middlebury College, Vt. Entered Theo.
Seminary, in 1836, in the first class formed of graduates alone; remained but a
year, and continued study with a clergyman. Became pastor at Groton, N. Y.,
and remained two years. Then two years at Medina, N. Y.; one year at Ron-
dout, N.Y.; four years with Second Church in Danbury, Conn. Since 1848 pas-
tor of Baptist Church in Chicopee Falls, Mass. Baptized hundreds; had peace-
ful Settlements, and very few so-called “ministerial trials.”
NORMAN NELSON WOOD. Born in Fairfax, Vt., May 1, 1808. Graduated at
Middlebury, Vt., in '35. Principal of Black River Academy, Vt., 35–36. En-
tered Theo. Class of '38 in '86. On account of impaired health was unable to
finish the course. Ordained at Lebanon Springs, in ’38. Pastor in Vicksburg,
Miss., in 42 ; Zanesville, Ohio, in '45. President of Shurtleff College, Ill.,
'50–55. Pastor in Palmyra, Mo., till the Rebellion. See War Record. Now
Professor of Philosophy and Logic in Athenaeum, Jacksonville, Ill. In '51 he
married Emily Ellen, daughter of Col. James Dunlap, of Jacksonville. Denisèn
Univ. conferred degree of D. D. in ’51.
CLASS OF 1839.
LERoy CHURCH. Born in Ontario, Wayne Co., N. Y., June 8, 1813. Entered
M. U. in '34. Graduated in ’39 and '41. Ordained in Schenectady, in Nov., '41.
Married Jane, daughter of Welcome Esleeck, Esq., of Albany. In '45 settled in
Hudson ; remained till '52. Spent a few months in service of State Convention.
In '53 united with Rev. J. A. Smith in editing and publishing the Christian
Times, Chicago. The absorption of the Indiana paper made it the Times and
Witness, and on the addition of the Michigan paper, the name became The
Standard. In '71 the subscription list was about 18,000. Baptized 100 in
Schenectady and many in other places. Received degree of D. D. from * * *
College. Burnt out in the Great Fire of Chicago, Oct., '71; only the sub-
- scription books saved. Cast down, but not destroyed. -
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PETER COLGROVE. Born in Tompkins Co., June 10, 1817. Entered from
Mecklenburg, in ’34, and graduated in ’39 and '41. Ordained at Mecklenburg,
Aug. 25, 41. Pastor in Canandaigua, Reading, Mead's Creek, Woodhull,
Townshend Settlement, Branchport, Italy Hill and Bath. In these places he
received 300 members. In May, '59, settled near Fairbank, Fayette Co., Iowa,
where a church was organized ; aided in the formation of three other churches.
After an illness of two days he died, Aug. 1, ’60.
PETER CONRAD. Born in Franklinville, Catta. Co., N. Y., July 15, 1813. En-
tered M. U., May, '34; graduated in ’39 and '41. Married Eliza Jane Bennett,
April 25, 41, at Nunda. Ordained at Hinsdale, Catta. Co., Oct. 14, '41. Reached
Milwaukee, Wis., as Miss., Nov., '41. Milwaukee had then about 2,400 inhab-
itants. Preached there and at Greenfield on alternate Sundays. At Greenfield
the church wept for joy as they welcomed him to their meeting in a private log
house. At Milwaukee, had seventeen hearers at the first service. Hired a
school-house for Sundays. Was his own sexton. Soon had a church of thirty
members. In June, '42, ill-health required that he should leave the lake shore.
Went to Geneva, Walworth Co.; meeting-house built there within a year. He
then became general Exploring Missionary of the Territory. Ranged far and
wide. Preached the first sermon ever heard in Wausau (formerly Big Bull
Falls), Marathon Co., to a hundred lumbermen in their sleeping shanties,
Indians peering through the windows and cracks of the door. Organized the
churches in Medina and Rutland, Dane Co.; Fond du Lac and Baraboo, Sauk
Co. Established prayer-meetings and Sunday Schools in various places, which
bore much fruit in later years. After ’46 made Prairie du Sac, Sauk Co., his
home, where he preached half the time, sixty miles from any other Baptist min-
ister ; the other half he spent ranging among the new villages and settlements.
In '51 he removed to Baraboo, county seat of Sauk Co., laboring also at Reeds-
burg and Delton, Sauk Co Settled in Delton in '53, expecting to do a little
more work and then die, but became invigorated and resumed labor in a wide
region around. Had the work of establishing an Academy in Delton in '53 '54.
Labored successfully in Newport, a town which rose, flourished and vanished in
two or three years. Settled next in East Troy, Walworth Co. A trip to N. Y.,
in '59, required by Mrs. C.’s health, as well as his own, resulted in his settling
in Scipio, where he remained till '62; when he became pastor in Berlin, Wis.
In '64 he became Gen. Miss. of the H. M. Soc. In '67 became pastor in Omargo,
Ill. He has been Superintendent of Schools; Principal of Academy; Pres, and
Cor. Sec. of State Convention, and Education Society.
E. B. CROSS. See Mission Work.
ELIJAH. B. GALUSIIA. Son of Rev. Elon G. Born in Whitesboro’, May 5,
1817. Entered in '34; graduated in ’39. Married Lydia M. Huntington, at Cas-
tile, in '48. Taught, after graduation, till health failed. Took a sea voyage,
Employed with bankers in Philadelphia, Pa., '40–44. Went into book business
in N. Y. In '45, nervous system shattered by a gas explosion. In '46–4S in U.S.
Treasury, N. Y. Several years in San Francisco, Cal., in foundry business. In
'59, had care of aged parents of his wife in Western N. Y.; farming till '62.
As Asst. U. S. Assessor and Military Commissioner, aided in raising regiment
for the war. In '68 connected with Custom House, N. Y. “Officially decapitated
in '66 for radical utterances.” Went to Minneapolis in '67 in feeble health.
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“God bless old Alma Mater and her sons * * * in conflict with Satan's kingdom
in all the world.”
A. P. How ELL. Entered from Allison, in 1834. Graduated in ’39. A year in
Theo. Dep’t. Ordained in Onondaga, Onond Co., N. Y., Sept. 8, 1841. Married
Catherine St. Johns, of Fabius. In two years went to Ohio. His wife died in
'47. His second wife was S. Ann Rowe, of Onondaga. Removed to Mich; pas-
tor at Flighland, Hudson and Lowell, where he died of congestion of the lungs,
Jan. 8, '56.
GEORGE KEMPTON. Born in South Carolina, Aug. 29, 1810. Entered in '35.
Graduated in ’39. Returned to S. C. in the fall. Ordained in early part of '40,
and preached a year for Smyrna church, From 41 to ’44 pastor in Robertsville.
Eight years with Spruce St. Church, Philadelphia, Pa.; five years in New
Brunswick, N. J.; three years in North East, N. Y.; five years with Lower
Dublin Church, Twenty-third Ward of Philadelphia, Pa. In '63 located on a
fruit farm in Camden Co., N.J., near Hammonton, to the church in which place
he has preached since May, '65, but has not strength for full pastoral labor. In
'59, M. U. conferred the degree of D. D. Nov., '41, he married Sarah E. Mott,
of Hamilton, N. Y.
EDWARD LATHOROP. Born in Savannah, Ga., March 12, 1814. Entered M.
U. in '35; graduated in ’39. Spent a year in Theo. Dep’t. Married Jane Eliza-
beth Davis, May 7, '41, in Charleston, S. C. Ordained in Savannah, and became
associate pastor of Richard Fuller, D. D., of Beaufort, S. C., in '41. Jan. 1, ’44,
pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, New York City. On account of poor
bealth resigned in Oct., '65. In '54 married Emily E. Bleecker, of N. Y. In Feb.,
'66, pastor in Stamford Conn. Degree of D. D. conferred by * * * College.
LAWSON MUZZY. Born in Dublin, N. H., Jan. 12, 1812. Entered M. U. in
'34. Graduated in ’39 and '41. During his course supplied E. Hamilton, con-
ducted protracted meeting in Georgetown ; labored a summer term and fall vaca-
tion in powerful revival in Charleston, Montgomery Co. Aug. 15, '41, married
Orvilla S. Read, of E. Hamilton. At once pastor of Bethel Church, Williams-
burg, now First Baptist Church, Brooklyn, E. D.; then at Deep River, Conn.;
Greenville, Conn.; Pulaski, N. Y.; Henderson and Mexico, present residence.
Baptized 125.
JOHN T. SEELEY. Born in Carlisle, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1814. Entered Institution
June, '33. Graduated in ’39 and '41. Ordained pastor of the North Baptist
Church, Staten Island, N. Y. Married Harriet M. Seely, of Elmira, N. Y., Sept.
25, 1841. Pastor of the Sixth Street Church, N. Y., Aug., '45; of the Dundee
Church, Aug., '52; of the Second Church, Syracuse, May, '55; of the Lima Church,
Aug., '61 ; of the Newark Church, N.Y., April, '67; of the Clifton Church, April,
'68. Pastor since May, '41, without a single Sabbath vacancy. Baptized 858.
Married 409 couple.
ALFRED H. TAYLOR. Born in Delaware Co., Jan. 4, 1812. Entered in ’33 ;
graduated in ’39. In '40, married Miss P. E. Taylor, in Charlton, Saratoga Co.
Ordained in Lansingburg, Aug., '40. Pastor also in Hatboro' and Willistown,
Pa.; Wickford, R.I.; Norwich and Mansfield, Conn.; Hollidaysburg and Saltz-
burg, Pa. In '47 he went to Iowa as Home Missionary, but his wife's health
required his return after a year and a half. He was Chaplain of 139th Pa.
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Wols., in '63. He received honorary A. M. from Lewisburg Univ. He baptized
large numbers in Wickford and Hollidaysburg, and some in all his pastorates.
His health failed several months before his death which occured at Hollidays-
burg, Sept 23, '66. “A preacher of much power.”
HENRY J. TALBERD. Born Nov. 7, 1811, on Hilton Head Island, S. C. En-
tered in '35; graduated in ’39 and '41; remained some time as resident graduate.
Pastor in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in '42 ; Montgomery, '43 to ’51. In '52, Professor of
Theology in Howard College, Marion. Same year became President of the
College. In Oct., '54, the College edifice was burned. Extraordinary efforts of
the President and others had, in '60, resulted in the erection of three edifices,
each larger than the one destroyed, and in an Endowment Fund of $225,000.
During the war the students were scattered. His health was such that on the
return of peace he felt obliged to decline resuming his place in the University.
Took a quiet country charge, Carlow ville, Dallas Co., Ala. In '08 he became
pastor in Henderson, Ky. Believing in the right of the South to secede under
the Constitution as it was, though doubting its expediency even then, he did all
he could to secure Southern Independence. He was made Captain and Colonel
in the Confederate Army and served till his health required his retirement from
the field. He sheathed his sword in good faith and religiously observes the
conditions of the surrender. He does not believe that under the Constitution
as it now stands any State has a right to secede. He received the degree of D. D.
from Howard University. He has baptized about 1,450 persons, of whom over
800 were colored. In '45 he married Mrs. Mary C. Griffin. Residence, Hender-
son, Ky.
ANDREW TEN BROOK. Born at Elmira, N. Y., Sept. 21, 1814. Entered Insti.
tution in '34. Graduated in ’39 and '41. Married Sarah Gilbert, in Utica, in '42.
Pastor in Detroit three years from Oct., 41. In 42 started the lſieh. Chris.
JHerald, which he edited till '44. Then Professor of Mental and Moral Philoso-
phy in Univ'y of Mich. Served till '50–51. In '53 co-editor and co-publisher of
M. Y. Brip. Register. In '55 purchased the entire paper, and united it with the
N. Y. Recorder. In '56 went with his family to Europe. Till '62, most of the
time U. S. Consul in Munich, Bavaria. Returned in '62 and settled in Ann Arbor.
In '04 Librarian of State University. Detroit his only pastorate. Supplied
church in Ann Arbor several years. There and in Detroit baptized 75. In 1868
married Mrs. Emma, widow of Dr. S. C. Smoot, of Washington, D. C.
CHARLEs W, WATERIOUSE, or WATRous. Born in Ridgefield. Conn., sept. 16,
1811. Graduated in ’39 and '41, having entered in '35. Ordained in Guilderland,
N. Y., Nov. 11, ’41. In 42 married Amanda M. Merell, of Glenn, Montgomery
Co. In '43 settled in Delphi, Carroll Co., Ind. His wife died Oct. 2. He spent
much of his time in destitute regions. In '44 he settled in Rockville; taught
the County Sem'y in summer and preached occasionally. He married Sarah
Selina, daughter of Elder Silas Kingsley, in '44. Preached in Terre Haute and
taught a high school. In 46 pastor in Norfolk, Conn. In 49 pastor at Piermont,
on the Hudson. In '53 Baptist City Missionary in Newark, N. J. Had a
hemorrhage of the lungs, and was silent several months. In 53 located at
Mount Vernon, near N. Y. City; pastor there for a while ; still preaches occa-
Sionally. Gives some time to teaching. Is fond of the study of the Bible in the
º languages. Has made much use of phonography. Has baptized thirty-
eight.
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NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1839.
ALFRED H. BURLINGAME. Born in Pitcher, 1812. Entered in ’33, went
through Sophomore year, left on account of ill-health. Pastor in Penfield
(ordained Feb., '88), and Palmyra, ’41. In Oct., 1839, he married Julia Ann Cal-
hoon, of Pittsford, who died soon after removal to Palmyra. In '42 ill health
suspended his labors, and he died of consumption, in Pittsford, Monroe Co., Feb.
11, 1844. His short ministry was very successful.
Joseph H. SHERWIN. From Weathersfield, Vt. In 1836 entered the Sophomore
year of the class of 39. On account of poor health he left after or during the
junior year. Ordained at Wallingford, Vt., May 30, 1840.
GRADUATES OF SHORTER COURSE, 1839.
DAVID M. BURDICK. Son of Rev. Henry B., Sabbatarian, of Newport, R. I.
Born 1805, in R. I. Married in 1827 to Miss M. Castoff. Engaged in business
till 1835, in which year, adopting the prevalent view of the Christian Sabbath,
he joined the 2d Bap. Ch. in Newport. With Cyrus Barker, the missionary, he
entered Hamilton in 1836, and graduated from the Shorter Course in 1839.
Ordained Jan. 9, 1840, as pastor of the Arkwright and Fiskeville Church, R. I.
In '42 missionary in Providence; '43–45 in Rehobeth, Mass.; ’45–47 missionary
pastor of the Indians in Marshpee, Mass.; '48–50 in Cotuit Port, (Barnstable ;)
then three years in Tiverton, R. I. Here he married Julia C. Osborn in ’51. His
last charge was in Smithfield. He suffered much for several months before his
death. He died April 28, 1855. “Jesus,” he exclaimed, with his last breath, “I
have trusted thee in life and I will trust thee in death—a step more and I am at
home.” He had brought many souls unto Jesus.
COLLIN's A. HEWITT. Born in IIyde Park, Dutchess Co., Oct. 1, 1810. Entered
in '37, graduated from Shorter Course in 39, Ordained in Milton, Pa., Jan. 18,
'40. Married daughter of Dea. James Moore, of Milton, the first Pennsylvanian
contributor to Hamilton Inst'n. #During his five years at Milton, churches were
raised up under his ministry in Northumberland, Lewisburg and McEwinsville.
The establishment of the church at Lewisburg was the result of extraordinary
divine blessing upon unusual efforts. An organized effort for the establishment
of a school at Milton, under his influence, had much to do with that afterwards
founded at Lewisburg. A five-years pastorate at Wilkesbarre followed. Nervous
prostration compelled partial rest—spent two years in supplying churches—then
went West, labored fourteen years mostly in one field, rested again a few
months, then pastor a year; then returned to his old field and supplied Lower
Providence Church ; now in Norristown, Pa.
BESIDEs GRADUATES OF THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT, TIE FOLLOWING
BELONGED TO THE THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1839:
JEREMIAFI CHAPLIN, JR., son of Jeremiah C., D. D., first President of Water-
ville College, (now Colby Univy) Me. Born in Danvers, Mass. Graduated at
Waterville. Professor at New Hampton, N. H., and in South Carolina. Entered
Theol. Dep't in '37, graduated in '39. Married Jane, daughter of Rev. Duncan
Dunbar, of N. Y. City. Pastor in Bangor, Me., '40–46; Providence, R. I., Nor-
walk, Conn., E. Abington and Newton, Mass. Waterville College conferred degree
of D. D. Professor in Institute for Colored Teachers and Preachers in New
CLASS OF 1839. 249
Orleans, La. Has written much for periodicals. Author of “Evening of Life,”
“Riches of Bunyan,” “Life of Duncan Dunbar,” “Hand of Jesus,” etc. Resides
in Boston, Mass.
WILBUR TILLINGHAST. Born in Norway, Herkimer Co., Feb. 3, 1810. Grad-
uated at Brown Univ'y in ’36. Entered Hamilton Theol. Sem’y in '37, and
graduated in ’39. In Oct., '88, married Clarinda M. Dewey, at South Richland,
Oswego Co. Ordained in Franklinville, Alleghany Co., Nov. 14, 1838. From,
'51, several years Professor of Mathematics in Central College, McGrawville,
N. Y. Resides at Evan’s Mills, Jefferson Co., N. Y.
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250 SKETCHES OF ALUMNI.
T H I R D DE CAD E, 1840 - 49.
CLA S S OF 184 ().
EBENEZER. S. DAVIS. Born in Carroll, now Kiantone, Sept. 11, 1817. Entered
in '86, graduated in ’40 and '42. In 41 and '42 taught Mathematics in the Vil-
lage Academy. Married Angeline E. Parmely, of Stockbridge, Madison Co.
Held meetings in Carroll, in which many were converted. Preached in Columbus,
Ohio, and declined a call. Ordained in Cincinnati, 5th St. Church. On account
of Mrs. D.'s health returned to N. Y. One year in Morrisville, four in Little
Falls, '45–49. Tried water cure for throat disease; in connection with Dr. Foster,
founded the Water Cure Establishment at Clifton Springs. Pastor in Brooklyn
of the interest now Hanson Place. Also taught ; edited and published The
Christian Cosmopolitan. Health broke down. Edited Home Mission. Record a
year. Then pastor in Holland Patent, '57–64, in Madison '65. In '67 took charge
of the Advanced School in Utica, the largest in the city. Since ’68 obliged to
seek restoration of health, as his leading occupation, preaching occasionally.
While in Brooklyn several editions were published of a work written by him,
the design of which was to show what page of prophecy is realized in our period
of history. Member of the Education Board several years. Poor health has
been a great obstacle to his professional purposes. “Even so, Father, . . . good
in thy sight.”
DANIEL H. GILLETTE. Born in Cambridge, Washington Co., March 25, 1813,
of clerical and Huguenot ancestry ; youngest of four brothers in the ministry.
Entered Hamilton in '35; graduated in '40. Ordained July, '40, in Rahway, N.
J., where his preaching excited unusual attention and was greatly blessed. He
also taught in the Female Seminary. In '42 he had hemorrhage of the lungs,
resigned, visited Virginia, and settled in Danbury, Conn. In the evening of his
second Sabbath another heumorrhage occurred, and his work there was done. He
settled in Charlottsville, Va., in Oct., '42. In '43 he married Mary Ann Wells,
of Plainfield, N. J. In Nov., '43, pastor in Mobile, Ala. ; visited the North in the
summer of '44; returned to his people and preached several times. As he was
rising to preach from the words, “A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief,”
he sank in the pulpit and was borne to his house, where he died, Feb. 9, 1845,
not only conscious, but triumphant. Rev. Rufus Babcock, D.D., with other min-
jsters, attended his funeral. An elegant Italian-marble monument marks his
resting-place in Mobile. His character was peculiarly lovely, his address
enlivening, and his whole bearing and manner in every way engaging. A
memoir of him was published by his brothers. In Charlottsville he baptized 130.
GEO. W. HARRIS. Born in Schodack, Rensselaer Co., Jan. 8, 1813. Entered in
'35; graduated in 40 and '42. Married Susan Jilson, at South Adams, Mass.,
Nov. 7, 43. Ordained in Pittsfield, Mass., in Jan., '43. Pastor in Jackson, Mich.,
44 '48. From '48 to '62 editor of the Michigan Christian Herald. Has since
supplied South Battle Creek and other Churches. Resides in Kalamazoo.
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CHARLEs T. JOHNSON. Born at Williamstown, Mass., Dec. 27, 1818. Entered
the Institution Oct., 1836. Graduated in ’40 and '42. Married at Lebanon, N.
Y., Aug. 18, 1842, to Miss Irene B. Buell, and ordained in the Lebanon Church,
of which he was a member, on the same day. Became pastor of the Baptist
Church in Washington, Pa., Sept., 1842, but within a year failing health obliged
him to resign. In the fall of 1843 he settled with the Baptist Church in Norwich,
N. Y., remained nearly two years. Went to Tennessee, where he spent three
years in teaching, and in other literary and religious employments, but failed to
regain health, and returning to the North died in Norway, N. Y., March 7, 1849.
He was buried in the University Cemetery, as he desired. He was scholarly, ami-
able devoted; an excellent pastor and preacher.
JAMES S. LADD. Born in Sutton, Vt., Aug. 23, 1811. Studied in Middlebury
Academy, he and another student boarding themselves at an expense of nineteen
cents a week. Entered Hamilton in '37; graduated in '40. Ordained pastor at
Weedsport, Cayuga Co., N. Y., in the autumn of 1840. In June, ’41, married C.
Ann Barber, of Middletown, Vt. In Jan., 1847, pastor in Sag Harbor, L. I. In
June, '51, began twelve years service as Financial Agent of the Am. Bap. H. M.
Society. Then served as pastor of Bergen City Bap. Church, N. J., and Hudson
City Church for a short time. Resided three years in Westfield, N. J., and aided
in forming church and building meeting-house. In '67 Cor. Sec. of the Mariner's
Guide and Wanderer's Aid Society, N. Y. City. In '68 general missionary of
the Long Island Baptist Association, residing at Blue Point, L. I. Has baptized
Over 600.
THOMAS G. LAMB. Born at Lenox, Madison Co., N. Y., Nov. 6, 1811. Entered
M. U. in '34. Graduated in '40 and '42. Married at Carlisle, Schoharie Co., Aug.,
'42, to Ann E. Seeley, and in '46 to Mary I. Wilson, of N. Y. City. Ordained at
Lenox, Aug. 4, '42. Preached six months in Pittsburg, Pa.; ten years in Alex-
andria, Licking Co., O.; five and a half years at Newark, and one and a half
years Agent of Am. and For. Bible Society, making seventeen years in Licking
Co. Afterwards at Jefferson, County Seat of Ashtabula Co.; Brooklyn, Jackson
Co., Mich. ; Lima, La Grange Co., Ind. ; Rochester, County Seat of Fulton Co.;
Ind. ; Schoolcraft, Mich., and Salem, O. There have been twenty-one revivals in
these churches during his pastorates. He has been Sec'y and President of the
Ohio Bap. Ed. Soc'y ; was for ten years Sec'y of Board of Denison Univ'y.
County Examiner of Teachers in Ohio and Michigan. See War Record.
LEVI PARMELY. Born in New Hartford, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1818. Entered in
'84. Graduated in '40. Married Catherine Hall, Saratoga Springs, in Jan., '43.
Ordained in Galway, Oct. 27, '41. In '45 was pastor in Hartford, N. Y.
field, Ionia, Mich.
WILLIAM C. RICHARDS. Born in London, Eng., in 1818. Entered the Insti-
tution in 1834. Graduated in 1840. Married, Sept., 1841, to Cornelia H. Bradley.
Ordained in 1855. Pastor of Brown St. Church in Providence, R. I., for seven
years ; and in Pittsfield, Mass., three years. Pursuits have been Scientific,
literary, and scholastic, as well as theological and clerical. He gave the Jubilee
Poem. Had received the degree of Ph. D. on the previous day.
scientific subjects; preaches. Resides in Pittsfield, Mass.
EDWARD SAVAG.E. Born in North Granville, N. Y. Entered
Graduated in ’40 and '42. Ordained at Bristol, Ct., Sept. 28, '42.
Present
Lectures on
in '36.
Pastor in
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Fitchburg, Mass., '46–’51. Leaving the pastorate on account of ill health, he
served the Missisonary Union several years as preaching and collecting agent,
in New England. In '54 pastor in Pawtucket, R. I. The Association printed
10,000 copies of a Circular Letter written by him on Covetousness. Health
again failed. He visited England and the West Indies. Then opened a book-
store in Joliet, Ill., and preached occasionally. He died Feb. 26, 1863. He had
joy in view of the approaching end of life. “I feel,” said he, “as if the river of
death was all dried up.”
RUFUS SEARs, son of Rev. Benj. S., of Meredith, Delaware Co., N. Y. In 37
he entered the class which graduated in '40 and '42. On a journey he was taken
sick, and died in Bath, Steuben Co., July 7, '42, just before the graduation of his
class in theology.
SAMUEL R. SHOTWELL. Entered from Ballston in '35. Graduated in '40 and
'42. Married a daughter of Rev. Samuel Bloss, of Annsville, Oneida Co.
Ordained in Eaton, July 28, '42. In 49 pastor in Whitesboro’, in ’51 in Anns-
ville. Died after a short illness in Whitesboro’, April 6, 1853.
WM. R. W.E.B.B. Born in Caledonia, Livingston Co., Nov. 14, 1814. At the
age of 14 was baptized in Le Roy. Entered in ’36. Graduated in '40. Ordained
in Canandaigua, Feb. 3, 41. In Jan., '42, married Sarah W., daughter of Rev.
A. Ennis, of Bethel. Was afterwards able to take the theological course, and
graduated in ’47. Pastor in Lyons and Palmyra, N. Y. ; in Dixon, Amboy,
Canton, and Tiskilwa, Ill. The degree of D. D. was conferred by * * *
College. Has baptized over 500. -
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1840.
EDw [N B. BULLARD. See Mission Work.
EDw1N [W.] CARTER, of Penfield. Entered in 1835, and went through Soph.
year with the class of 1840. Ordained in Penfield, N. Y., July 22, 1839. He
died many years ago near Coldwater, Mich.
PETER Goo, from Schuyler. Entered in '84, and finished the Sophomore year
in the class of '40. Ordained at Frankfort, Herkimer Co., Dec. 5, 38. Was in
Vernon in '50; in '65 in Knowlesville; in ’70 and '71 in Ovid Village.
JAMES RYLAND KENDRICK. Born in Poultney, Vt., April 21, 1821. Began
his career at Hamilton, in 1834. Was converted there in 1838. In same year
went to Brown University, where he graduated in 1840. Went to the South in
'40, but did not return, as he intended, to take the Theological Course. Ordained
in Forsyth, Ga., in Oct., '42. In '43 pastor in Macon. In Nov., '44, married
Arabella Randle, of Monroe Co. In '47 pastor of First Baptist Church in Charles-
ton, S. C. In '54 left with a Colony to form Citadel Square Church, which was
broken up by the war in '62. Preached in Madison, Ga., till '65, when he became
pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in N. Y. City, which relation he still holds.
While in Charleston, he edited for some time the Southern Baptist. Has
published several addresses, tracts, and sermons. The degree of D. D. was
conferred in '66 by University of Rochester. Visited Europe in 1871.
IsAAc B. LAKE. Born in Braintrim, Wy. Co., Pa., Sept. 2, 1811. Entered
class of 40 in '36. Left in '38. Ordained in Braintrim, Nov. 6, ’39. Supplied
pastorless churches and communities. Nov., '41, pastor in Mehoopany, Wy.
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Co.; in 46 in Smithfield, Bradford Co. Dec. 29, 41, he married Mary Bixby, of
Frenchtown, Bradford Co., Pa. She died Oct. 4, 1860. He married Hannah
Moore, at Horse Heads, N. Y., Sept. 17, '64. Since May, '48, has been, with
exception of 3 years, pastor in Le Roy, Bradford Co., Pa. Has baptized 300.
IsAAC LAwToN. From Griswold, Conn. A licentiate of Canterbury Church.
Entered in 1834. Ordained at Kinderhook, N. Y., April 14, 1840. Afterwards
pastor at Geneva, N.Y.; then at Oswego, where he became deranged. He died
at the Asylum in Utica. -
BELA PALMER. Born in Bridgewater, Oneida Co., Feb. 19, 1812. Entered
class of 40 in '36. Had to leave in 40 on account of failing health. Married
Nancy A. Palmer. Settled in Centreville, Allegany Co., in '40, where he was
ordained Jan. 14, '41. Pastor in Morganville; Bethany, Gen. Co.; Fenner, Mad.
Co., '47; Lebanon, '51–’64; Moscow ; Hamilton (second) since '68. His wife
died in 1844. His second wife was L. Anna Palmer. Baptized 119.
SILAs TUCKER. Born in Schoharie Co. in 1813. His father and three
brothers, Elisha, Levi and Charles, were ministers. He entered Hamilton in '84
in the class of '40, and left in 37 on account of failing health. Ordained in Ohio
City, O., in '37. Married Maria D. Stow in ’38. Has had six pastorates. Now
11 or 12 years in Logansport, Ind. Degree of D. D. was conferred by * *
College. Charles E. Tucker, theological graduate of '62, was his son. Has
baptized more than a thousand.
BEN.J. S. WILLIAMs. Born Feb. 22, 1812, in Canterbury, Ct. Entered class
of '40 in '34, and left in ’38. Ordained in May, '38, in Smithville, Chen. Co.
There three and a half years ; in Plymouth seventeen ; in N. Norwich four and
a half. In Oct., 38, married Eunice M. Wood, of Canterbury, Ct. Baptized 160.
Resides in Sycamore, De Kalb Co., Ill.
FRANKLIN WOODWARD. Born in Stratton, Vt. Entered Seminary in '33. In
’25 married Elizabeth Ross, in Clarkson, N. Y. Ordained at Carlton, Oct. 29, 37.
Pastor in Sweden, Holley, and Fairport, where he died in '37 or ’38, greatly
beloved.
GRADUATES OF THE SHOuTER COURSE, 1840.
ASA BENNET. See Mission Work.
CHAUNCY DARBEY. Entered in '36 from Homer. In 38 entered the Shorter
Course, and graduated in ’40. In May, '41, he was in Green Village, Chen. Co.
Now in Fairfield, Iowa.
STILLMAN A. FISHER. Came from Danville, Vt., in '36, and graduated from
the Shorter Course in '40. Ordained in Albany, Vt., March 11, ’41. After a
successful pastorate, he died in Huntingdon, Pa., Sept. 9, '45 ; aged 30 years.
HIRAM HUTCHINs. Entered from Springfield, N. Y., in ’38. Graduated from
the Shorter Course in '40. Ordained in Richfield, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1840. Pastor
in Charlestown, Mass., in '50; in Roxbury in '5S ; in Brooklyn, N. Y., in '60—still
there, Has baptized many. Several years President of Am. Baptist Free Mission
Society.
Joſſ N Jon Es. Born in Carmarthen, Wales, March 29, 1812. Began to preach
in '27. Came to U. S. in ’28. Ordained in Lower Dublin, Pa., and preached
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there. Entered in '84. Left in ’37. Eleven years pastor of 2d Church, Cape
May, N. J. Married Deborah Gandy (Gaudy) in ’41. Pastor in Willistown, Pa.,
four years. Laid aside by hemorrhage of lungs. In business 15 years at Cape
May. Removed to Sauk Centre, Stearms Co., Minn., on a farm. Health improved.
Preaches nearly every Sunday. A church lately organized there. Has baptized
300.
ABRAM KNAPP. Born at Harrisburg, Lewis Co., N.Y., June 1, 1815. Entered
in '36, and graduated from Shorter Course in '4). Ordained in Becket, Mass.”
Aug. 26, ’41. In N. Y. State from '42 to ’54. Then preached 7 or 8 years in new
settlements in Wisconsin, mostly at his own charges, laying foundations of
churches. Married in Aug., 40, to Semantha Tuttle, of Norway, Herk. Co.,
N. Y. Dec. 28, 1851, he married Adaline Mason, in Palerimo, Oswego Co. In
1866 he began to labor in Illinois. Now in Princeton, Bureau Co.
ISAAC MARVIN. Born in Milford, Ots. Co., N. Y., March 7, 1812. Entered
Hamilton in ’36. Graduated from the Shorter Course in ’40. Married Sarah
Brown, Aug., '40, in Manchester, Vt. Ordained Sept. 1, ’40, in Sherburne
Village, N. Y. Went to Illinois as missionary. Pastor at Marengo, Henry Co.
Church constituted with seven members, now numbers 400. After four years
there, he preached and aided in organizing churches in Albion, Hampshire,
Shadrach's Grove and Huntley Grove. Recalled to Marengo, where a new
meeting-house needed to be built ; hewed the timber and superintended the
raising. He did the same in Black River Falls, Wis. In 1870, on account of his
wife's health, he took residence in Orange, N. J.
WARREN B. MoREY. Born in Fabius, May 24, 1811. Entered in '37, and
graduated in '40. Ordained as Evangelist in Cazenovia Village, Aug. 27, '40.
In '40 pastor in Galena, Ill., and at the same time in Dubuque, Ia. In Sept.,
'41, married Sarah Crandall, in N. Y. City. Had success in Galena. Dubuque
given up to another pastor. Transferred to Iowa City, Ia., in Oct., 41. Had
wide range, preaching in new settlements, baptizing and organizing churches;
fording rivers or crossing on ice at risk of life. In '54 the health of his family
required his return to N. Y. Pastor in S. Otselic. Colporteur two years in Mad.
Co. Has resided several years on a farm in Georgetown, preaching occasionally.
ABRAHAM PLATT. Came to Hamilton from Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1838, and
graduated from the Shorter Course in 1840.
FRANCIS PRESCOTT. Born in New Hartford, Oneida Co., May 14, 1813. He
was converted through the agency of an old Ottawa Indian Chief, Noonday-
Graduated in '40. Never forgot what Noonday Said to him when he was setting
out for Hamilton, “Be not like the guide-posts, which point the way, but never
go themselves.” In 37 he married Mary Bond, and Olive Wright in '44. Or-
dained in Cedarville, Otsego Co.; there three years; in Cooperstown, four ; in
Norway, four ; in Grand Rapids, Mich., four ; in Laphamville (now Rockford,
Mich.), five; in Oakfield till he died, in Jan., '64. Baptized over five hundred.
GEORGE SILVER. Born in Montreal, Canada, June 24, 1815. Entered in '35;
graduated in '40, from Shorter Course. Ordained in Beamsville, C. W., in Nov.,
'40. There over seven years. One year Agent of Grand Ligne Mission. Pastor
in Waukesha, Wis., 48–52; three years in Valley Falls, R. I. ; in Peekskill,
N. Y., two years. One year Agent of Canada Literary Institute. Pastor in
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Bunker Hill, Ill., '58–'66, also at the same time of church in Woodlawn. In '67,
pastor in Barry, Ill.; but sickness kept him a year from preaching. Preaches in
Troy, Ill., still residing at Bunker Hill. Married Nancy Kelly, in '40, and Eliza
Cornwall, in ’47.
MARVIN SIMONs. Of Ira, N. Y. A licensed preacher, but never engaged ac-
tively in the ministry. Resided in Wisconsin, and Southern Illinois. He died in
Jacksonville, Fla., in Oct., '70.
LYMAN WHITNEY. Born at Locke, Oct. 30, 1806. Entered Shorter Course in
'36. Graduated in '40. Married Elizabeth Weatberby, at Hinsdale, in 28. Or.
dained in Hinsdale, Cattaraugus Co., in Oct., '40. Pastor in West Union, Ohio,
in '40. Till '70, most of the time pastor of different churches. Now farming in
Springfield, Ohio. Baptized about three hundred.
Beside graduates of the Col. Dep’t, the following was a member of the Theo.
Class of 1840 :
SAMUEL SILLSBEE. A graduate of Bowdoin College, Me. Entered the Theo’l.
Dep’t, in 38, and left a short time before his class graduated, in '40. He was a
candidate for a foreign mission field. It is reported that he died a few years
after leaving the Seminary.
CLASS OF 1 S41.
SAMUEL M. BAINBRIDGE. Born in Romulus, March 23, 1816. Entered in
'36; graduated in ’41. Ordained at Stockbridge, in '40. Married Mary P. Fol-
well, of Romulus. Pastor in Stockbridge, East Avon, York, Wheatland, Penn
Yan, Painted Post and Elmira. Many were added to these churches. He died
in Elmira, Jan. 1, ’61. Able, faithful, fearless.
WM. BRANCH. Entered from Middlebury, Vt., in 1837, and graduated in ’41.
Was two or more years in the Theo'l. Dept. Ordained at Williamsville, Erie
Co., N. Y., Sept. 2, '47. Is not now in the ministry. Resides at Springfield, Ill.
Joseph A. BULLARD. Born in Shrewsbury, Vt., May 31, 1807. Entered in
'36. Graduated in ’41 and '42. Ordained in Buffalo, soon after. Went as Home
Missionary to Knoxville, Tenn.; only one professed Baptist there. Within a
year there was a church with one hundred members. Then two and a half
years in Nashville. Church grew from twenty to 150 members. Married, in
Columbus, Ohio, to Miss Cynthia Maynard, of Greenfield, Mass. Preached in
Grand Gulf, Miss; Middleton, Ohio ; Ware, Mass. ; Sandy Hill, Penfield and
Schuylerville, N. Y. Resides in Elmira, N. Y. Preaching occasionally.
ORRIN B. JUDD. Entered from Fabius, in '35. Graduated in ’41. Spent a
year in Brown Univ. Graduated from Theo'l Dep't, in ’44. Ordained at New
Haven, Conn., June 15, '45. Afterwards connected editorially with the New York
Weekly Chronicle. Pastor in N. Y. City, and again in New Haven. In '54, Mad.
Univ. conferred the degree of LL. D.
NEHEMIAEI M. PERKINS. Son of Rev. A. Perkins, D. D. Born in Marl,
borough, N. Y., Oct. 20, 20. Graduated in ’41 and '44. Ordained in Westfield,
Mass., Nov. 20, '44. Married Harriet B. Clark, of Monroe, Conn., in '46. Pastor
also in Waterbury, Conn ; Brookline, Mass., (55–58); and Utica, N. Y., first
church. For several years his health had been failing, and he died Aug. 21, ’63.
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Buried in Greenwood, Brooklyn, N. Y. A man of fine literary taste, a devoted
pastor, and a forcible preacher. He published the “Vestry Harp,” a selection of
hymns and tunes.
ROSWELL R. PRENTICE. Born in Norwich, N. Y., in 1819. Entered in '37;
graduated in ’41 and '44. Married Harriet A. Calkins, in Hamilton, in '45. Set-
tled in Berwick, Pa. Principal of Cedar Park Seminary, Mich., three years
Professor in Scientific Department in Kalamazoo College. Pastor in Maumee.
City, Ohio; Schoolcraft, Mich; Beloit, Wis.; Brookfield, N. Y.
SIDNEY WILDER. Of Spencer, N. Y. Entered in ’39, and graduated in '41–
'44. Ordained at Cohoes, Nov. 24, '46. Pastor in No. Norwich, ('50), Arcadia,
Montezuma, Loraine.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERs of THE CLASS OF 1841.
JOSEPH. C. FOSTER. Of Milford, N. H. Entered in ’36. Ordained in Brattle.
boro’, Vt., Jan. 19, '43. Remained till '56, when he became pastor of First Church
in Beverly, Mass., where he is still pastor. Baptized several hundreds.
BENJ. F. LEAVETT. From Gouverneur. Entered in '37, and left during junior
year. Ordained in Bethany, Ohio, May 17, 43. Pastor of Buffalo Grove Church,
Ill., in ’47. Many years in Iowa.
CHARLES J. RADFORD. Entered the class of '41, in 35, from N. Y. City. Left
in '40. His life has been devoted to teaching in the Middle and Southern States.
Took A. M. in course.
GRADUATES OF THE SHORTER COURSE IN 1841.
JonATHAN BRAYTON. Born in Cranston, R.I., June 12, 1811. Several years
a teacher in Fall River, Mass. Entered the Shorter Course in ’39, and graduated
in '41. Ordained by the Seminary Church, in ’41. Pastor in Phenix Village,
Warwick, R.I., six years. Health then required his removal to Centreville, in
the same town, where he still resides. Has been pastor also of Coventry and
Warwick Church, and of the church at Natic, both in Warwick, and of Quidnic
Church, in Coventry. Two years pastor of High Street Church, Pawtucket, R. I.
The churches in Centreville and Quidnic were constituted under his administra-
tion. Before leaving Hamilton, he declined calls, feeling that he must go to
Phenix, though there was no church there. Held evening meetings almost con-
tinually for three months in the fall of '41, and that winter baptized one hundred
and ten. Whole number baptized, four hundred and ten. Preached often during
the last twenty years; though on account of health not pastor. President of
Centreville National Bank ten years. Has represented the town in State
Legislature. Member of State Board of Charities.
NATHANIEL CUDWORTII. Born in Putney, Vt., Jan 2, 1814. Joined church
when thirteen years old. Entered in ’39 ; graduated in ’41. Married Mariah
Bennett, at Brookline, Vt., Sept., 41. Ordained at Putney, and settled in Jamaica,
Oct., 41; also in North Springfield, Ludlow and Perkinsville, ('59–71). After
suffering six years with chronic disease, he died Aug. 2, '71. Baptized one hun-
dred and thirty-two. -
JoHN BUEL SACKETT. Born in Fabius, Onondaga Co., N.Y., Jan. 8, 1812. En-
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tered Hamilton, in '88. On account of bronchitis, he left in ’41. Ordained at
Kingsville, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, in ’41, served there nine years. One year
Financial Agent of Ohio State Convention. Pastor at Mt. Vernon, three years;
Lancaster, six years; Fredericktown, three years. Mad. Univ. conferred the hon-
orary degree of A. M., in ’52. In 62 he became Secretary of the Convention,
and Superintendent of Missions, and sustained this relation till his death, with
the exception of one year's pastorate at Oberlin. While on his Mission Work,
at Clyde, he fell on the sidewalk in an apoplectic spasm, from which he never.
recovered. He died Dec. 24, '70. Among those converted while he was at
Kingsville, were Brethren Knapp and Ward, and Mrs. Hubbel, of our Foreign
Mission Corps. He was himself converted under the labors of Missionary Vin-
ton, in ’31.
A. B. STOWELL. Ordained in Factoryville, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1842. There till
‘52 or later. On account of poor health has retired from the ministry, and re-
sides in Chester, Vt.
ALANSON M. TYLER. Born in Broadalbin. Entered in 1836. May 16, 1844,
ordained pastor at Marlton, N. J. Died July 22, 1844.
A. WHITMAN. Entered the third year of the Shorter Course, from Jackson,
Mich., in ’39. Settled in Byron and Parma, N. Y.; Belleville, Mich. ; Argyle,
Belleville, Union Rock, Portage City (Fall River also), Oconomewoc, Wis.; Du-
buque, Iowa. Baptized about three hundred.
NATHAN WooD. Born in Rensselaer Co., Aug. 6, 1807. Entered in 1835.
Went through Sophomore year, '38–39. Then entered Theo'l Dep’t, and left in
'41. Ordained in Georgetown, N. Y., in Sept., 41. Married B. M. Brown, in
May, '48. Pastor in Forestville, '46–’51. Pastor in Wyocena, Wis., '53--'57. In
Baraboo, three years. Returned to Wyocena ; pastor there still. Baptized over
two hundred and fifty.
CLASS OF 1842.
GEO. C. BALDWIN. Of Paterson, N. J. Entered in 1837, and graduated in
'42 and '44. His whole ministry since his graduation, has been with the First
Baptist Church, Troy, N. Y. The degree of D. D. was conferred by Union Col-
lege. He has published, the “Representative Men of the Bible;” “Representa-
tive Women of the Bible ;” “Discourses on the Lord's Prayer,” and other vol-
ll.II, 68. -
WILLIAM D. BUNNELL. Born in Newark, Tioga Co., N. Y., June 29, 18. Grad-
uated in '42, Taught, 13 years, in Townshend and Black River, Vt.; Yates and
Nunda, N. Y. Married Elizabeth Livermore, in Townshend, in ’44. Ordained in
Pekin, Ill., Feb. 21, ’55. He labored in destitute regions with little compensa-
tion. Preached for a time in connection with his farming in Minniska (above
Winona) Minn. Was obliged to relinquish public work. Being run over by a
loaded wagon, he died in a few hours, April 22, '69. He did much to incline
and prepare young men for the ministry. He had much pleasure in close inves-
tigation. As a preacher he was a teacher rather than an orator.
HARVEY M. CAMPIBELL. Born in Lebanon. Graduated in '42 and '48. See
Mission Work.
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H. K. EVERTs. Born in Granville, Washington Co., N. Y. In '89, joined
the class of '42; graduated ; studied theology in '43 and 44, but did not graduate
with his class. Went to Oregon and California soon after leaving the Seminary.
Lectures on Scientific subjects and preaches occasionally. Residence, Chicago,
Ill.
OTIS HACKETT. From Rochester in '37. Graduated in '42 and '44. Ordain-
ed in Rochester, Aug. 28, '44. Pastor in Galena, Ill.; Janesville, Wis.; Alton, Ill.
He became an Episcopalian minister and in '66 was in Helena, Ark. Said to be
now in Thibadeaux, La Fourche Parish, La.
NORMAN HARRIS. See Mission Work.
CYRUS L. HARTWELL. Born at New Marlborough, Mass., Jan. 30, 20. En-
tered in ’36; graduated in '42. Taught in N. M. in '42–3; in McConnelsville,
Ohio, in '44. Principal of Seminary in Madison, Ohio, '44–47, also in '49--'50.
Married, in ’51, Juliana E. Young, of Madison. Several years Superintending
School Committee. Member of Mass. Legislature in '61. Engaged in agricul-
ture and cheese manufacture in New Marlborough.
SAMUEL STILLMAN KINGSLEY. Son of Rev. Silas K. Born in Chester, Mass.,
Dec. 17, 14. Entered in '38; graduated in '42. Some time in Theol. Dep’t. Or-
dained at Plainfield, Mass., Aug. 30, '44. Pastor also in Warwick and Guilford,
Vt.; Dell Prairie, Wis. Married Elizabeth Cudworth, in '45, at Chesterfield,
Mass. She died in '49. In '51 he married Almira B. Worden, in Guilford, Vt.
He died of consumption on his farm in New Haven Township, Adams Co., Wis.,
Aug 5, '64. An instructive and earnest preacher.
J. A. NASEI. Born in Sherburne, Chenango Co., July 11, ’16. Entered in ’36,
Graduated in '42 and '44. Married Miss C. J. Calhoun, in Pittsford, Mon. Co.,
in '46, and Miss Mary E. Hepburn, in Augusta, Lee Co., Iowa, in 53. Settled in
Watertown, N. Y., '44--'50. New meeting-house built, burnt and rebuilt. In
'51 organized a church in Des Moines, Iowa, of which he was pastor over 15
years. Has seen 20 or 30 churches formed more or less directly under his labors.
Resigned to take Financial Secretaryship of Des Moines University. Has preach-
ed continually to churches in adjoining places.
ARTEMAS ROGERS. Entered from Greenwich in ’38 and graduated in '42.
ZEBINA SMITH. From Fabius. Entered in ’36. Graduated in '42 and '44,
In '65 and '66 was in North East, Erie Co., Pa.
ALFRED TAYLOR. Son of Stephen Taylor, LL.D., President of M. U. Born
in Lowville, Lewis Co., July 11, '24. Entered in '36, graduated in '42. In July,
'58, married Eliza A. White, of Philadelphia, Pa. Teacher in Grammar School at
Lewisburg from '47 to ’51. Then Professor of Belles-Lettres in the University,
of Lewisburg. Associate Principal of Lock Haven Academy in '54--'55. Super-
intendent of Common Schools for Clinton Co., Pa. Now Professor of Elocution in
Hamilton, N. Y.
GEORGE V. TENBROOK. Born in Elmira, Jan. 27, 17. Entered Hamilton
in '36, Graduated in '42 and '44. Taught a year in Detroit, Mich. Ordained
in Niles, March 30, '45. Pastor also in Hillsdale, Battle Creek, and Centerville
where he died, April 3, '57. Soon after graduating he married Charlotte Treat,
of Niles. She died three years afterwards. His second wife was Mary Brown,
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of Battle Creek. He was a Trustee of Kalamazoo College. His work was much
blessed.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE GLASS OF 1842.
ALMOND C. BARRELLE. Born in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., July 15, '13.
Entered in ’36. Ordained at Laona, Chaut. Co., Feb. 8, 39. Pastor also in Fre-
donia, Aurora, Warsaw, Le Roy, Albion, Ogden (Adam's Basin), his present resi-
dence. Married on the day of his ordination to Kesiah E. Barber, of Fredonia.
WM. T. BLY. Born in Norway, Herkimer Co., Jan. 20, 12. Entered in '36.-
Health poor. In 39 married Elizabeth R. Miller. Settled in Lagrange, Mich.
(ordained Sept., '40); Comstock, Kalam. Co.; Mottville ; Valparaiso, Ind.; Wash-
ington, and Berwick, Ill. ; Oquaweka and Fall Creek; Etna, Minn., '57-’64, and
Blue Earth City. Frequently pastor of two or three churches at the same time.
Has itinerated much and preached in new settlements at his own charges.
One year missionary of Mich. Convention. Preached in protracted meetings.
Baptized 400 or over.
THOMAS P. CHILDs. Born in Windham Co., Conn., Jan. 8, 17. Entered class
of '42 in '35, from Cassville, N. Y. Left on account of poor health. Began his
ministry in a Free Will Baptist Church near Cherry Valley, N. Y., which soon
became a “regular ’’ Baptist Church. Ordained in the fall of 39. Locating in
Troy, Ohio, in '42, he labored as an Evangelist and Missionary. Married Miss A.
E. Eaton, of Troy, in '40. In 43 removed to Xenia and began a mission which in
four years resulted in two churches in the town. Gathered a church of which
he was pastor six years in Covington. Again in Troy six years. Army Chaplain
two years. Then four years Agent for the Freedmen. Rallied a scattered church
in Salem, Ohio. In '69 returned to Troy, where he still resides. He has bap-
tized nearly a thousand—has aided in gathering ten churches and in building
ten meeting-houses.
ISAAC FARGO. Born in Salem. Conn., Jan. 10, '17. Entered class of '42 in
'39. Failing health interrupted his course of study. Ordained pastor of Mt.
Morris Church, N. Y., July 2, 45. Pastor in Hamburg, Romulus, and Fairport ;
Cherry street Church, Gälesburg, Ill. ; Lamoille; Lake Mills, Wis., in '69;
church organized and meeting-house built. Baptized 261. Married Elizabeth
Chapman, in N. Y. City, in 46. *
VICTOR M. KINGSLEY. Born in Floyd, N. Y., Nov. 14, 21. Entered in ’39, left
in '41. Married Abigail Travis, of Fayetteville, in '45. Principal of Pittsford
High School, Vt. in '47. Tutor and Professor in N. Y. Central College '49-53.
Received A. M. from M. U. in '50. Married Mary Goodfellow, in '65, at Fayette-
ville, where he bas since resided. Has been engaged since '53 in the manufac-
ture of all kinds of optical instruments of improved construction invented by
him.
JAMES H. STEBBINS. Entered from York in '36. Left in '40. He died in
Bath, Steuben Co., May 24, '47, 32 years of age, being then pastor of the Phelps
Village Church.
SAMUEL S. WHEELER. Entered in '88, from Eaton. Ordained Nov. 26, 39,
in Athens, N. Y. Died at Butler, N. Y., Oct. 1, '67, aged 56 years.
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GRADUATES OF THE SHORTER COURSE IN 1842.
EDWIN H. BAILEY. Entered in ’39, from Sharon, Conn., and graduated from
the Shorter Course in '42. He died in West Hartwick, Otsego Co., Feb. 6, ’47
aged 33 years.
PRENTICE FRINK. Born in Brookfield, Madison Co. Graduated from the
Shorter Course in '42. Ordained in Auburn, Susq. Co., Pa., May 24, 43. A suc-
cessful minister. He died in Kansas, in '59.
ALBERT GUY. Born in Westford, Otsego Co., Dec. 3, 12. Entered in ’39.
graduated in '42. Ordained pastor of Coventry and Greene Church, Nov. 9, '42.
Pastor also in Guilford (Fayette), 5 years; South New Berlin, 3 years; Middle-
town, Ohio, 6 years ('54--'59); Xenia five and a half years ; Sublette, Ill., '65
to '71. Now in Brimfield, Peoria Co. In '42 he married Anna Allis, of Coven-
try. She died in Sept., '54. In '59 he married Mary Elizabeth Carpenter, of
Lebanon, Ohio. She died in Dec., 62. In July, '64, he married Amelia Bennett,
of Homer, N. Y. Baptized about 250.
†DAVID P. MARRYATT. Born in Franklin, Susq. Co., Pa., April 29, 15.
Entered in 39; finished Partial Course in '42. Ordained as Evangelist at
Montrose, Pa., Sept. 18, '42. Pastor at Franklin and Charlestown, Milton and
Seville, and Wing, Ohio; Richford, Harford, Rossville, Tioga Co., N.Y.; Rich-
mond, Mansfield, Covington, Tioga Co., Pa.; New Hartford and McGregor, Iowa.
Delegate of Chris. Commission during the war. Preaches yet and also practises
medicine. Baptized 65.
A. L. L. Potter. Of Boston, Erie Co. Entered in '40 and graduated from
Shorter Course in '42. Was ordained pastor in Evans, Erie Co., Nov. 16, ’42.
Teaching in Nunda.
J. J. TEEPLE. Born in Schoharie, March 11, "16. Entered in ’39. Absent part
of last year. Pastor in Preston Hollow, Morrissville, Chittenango, Adams, Adams
Centre, and Skeneateles, where he died Oct. 18, '55. Married Miss S. P. Kellogg.
Baptized about 300. g
JEREMIAH. W. WEATHERBy: Born in Fabius, July 23, 14, Entered in '37,
graduated in '42. Ordained pastor at Erieville, Sept. 7, '42. Married Jennette
S. Coolidge, at Cazenovia, May 11, ’43. Pastor in Madison, Conneaut, Kingsville,
Xenia, Centerville, Ohio ; North East, Pa.; Union and Lisbon, Ohio; now resid-
ing in Springfield. Served Ohio St. Conv. about a year. Mrs. Weatherby died in
'55. Second wife, Mrs. J. A. Alexander, of Erie, Pa. Has labored with pastors
in protracted meetings. Baptized from his own congregations about 250.
HENRY WESTCOTT. Born in Cumberland Co., N. J., Aug: 17, 16. Entered
in '39, graduated in '42. Ordained June 8, '43, in Cedarville, N. J.; other pasto-
rates, Millville, Blackwoodtown, Fairfield, Bethlehem, N. J.; Hollidaysburg,
Mannayunk, Pa.; Warrenville, Ill. Married Mary Mathews, Feb. 7, 37. Under
his ministry three churches have been constituted and five meeting-houses
built and paid for. Baptized over 300.
I. H. WooD. Born in Coleraine, Mass., April 9, '09. Entered in '87. Health
being poor, entered Shorter Course and graduated in '42. Married Julia A.
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Franklin, in N. Y., in '47. Ordained pastor in Jamaica, Vt., in June '50. Pas-
tor in Cuttingsville, in '54, in Weston ’55, in Pittsford '59, Jamaica ’65. Resides
in Brandon, Bible Agent. Health poor. Has enjoyed revivals and baptized
every year, with one exception.
STEPHEN WRIGHT. Born March 22, 1813, in Cambridge, Washington Co.,
(now White Creek.) Began to preach in 1836; and was ordained as Evangelist,
at Stillwater, 1837. Married, in '37, to Miss Harriet Taylor. Became pastor in
Williamstown, Mass, in '37 ; in Sempronius, N. Y., in ’38. Entered Hamilton
in '39, and graduated from Shorter Course in '42. Pastor also in Conklin,
Broome Co.; South Westerlo, Albany Co.; Lakeville, Washington Co.; Man-
chester, Vt. ; Whiting, Vt. ; Ticonderoga, N. Y.; Essex Village ; Westport;
South Glenn's Falls; Fort Miller, Washington Co.; Warrensburg and Caldwell.
A considerable part of this service has been of a missionary character. Published
a history of Shaftsbury Assoc'n. Residence, Glenn's Falls. Baptized 140.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT, THE FOLLOWING
WERE MEMBERS OF THE THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1842 :
SEYMOUR W. ADAMs. Born in Vernon, Oneida Co., Aug. 1, 1815. A graduate
of Hamilton College. Preached in Durhamville and Johnstown. Settled in his
native town in ’44; in Cleveland, O., in '46, First Church, where he remained
till his death, Sept. 7, 1864, of typhoid fever, occasioned by service in hospitals
at Washington. He was married to Caroline C. Griggs, who died in 1847; to
Mrs. Cordelia Kendrick Peck, who died in 1852; and to Augusta Hoyt, in 1855.
A memoir of him was published by his church. He published a memoir of N.
Kendrick, D.D. He was a man of uncommon selidity of character and judgment.
His attainments were large and varied. He received the degree of D. D., from
* * * College.
LUTIIER HUMPHREY. Born in Glover, Vt., Aug. 19, 1809. Graduated at
Amherst, Mass. Then taught three years. Was married in Canton, N. Y., in
1840, to Miss Sarah Abbot. Spent ’41–42 in Theol. Department. Pastor in
Loraine, Sodus, Ft. Covington, and Massena, N. Y. He also taught three years
at Ft. Covington. In 1858 he removed to Mazomanie, Wis., was pastor there
and afterwards at Augusta, Wis., where he now resides, retired from pastorai
labors.
MYLON MERRIAM. Born in Brandon, Vt., July 5, 1811. Graduated from
Waterville College, (Colby Univ'y,) Me., in ’39. Entered Hamilton Theol.
Sem'y in '40, and graduated in '42. Ordained Oct., '42, in Grafton, Vt. Married
Diantha Russell, of Waterville, in same month. In Grafton four years. In
Waterville on account of wife's parents; preached in West W. Then in New
Gloucester, Me. In 1851 Mrs. M. died. Spent winter of ’51 in the South. In
Sharon, Mass., six years from Oct., 52. Married Hannah Greene, of Warwick,
R. H. Pastor in Newport, N. H. : Cavendish and Shaftsbury, Vt. ; Peterboro’, N.
H.; New Hartford, Conn., present residence. His wife died March 22, 1869.
RoBERT R. RAYMOND. A native of N. Y. City. Graduate of Union College,
Studied law; resided in Cincinnati, O. In '40 entered Theol. Course, and gradu-
ated in '42. Led the College Choir, and in connection with T. G. Wright,
inaugurated a new era in the history of music in the Institution. Ordained
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Sept, 12, '42, in Hartford, Conn., as pastor of Second Church. In '48 pastor in
Syracuse, N. Y. In '58 Professor in Brooklyn Col. and Polytechnic Institute.
Spent '69-'70 in Europe.
HUMPHREY RICHARDS. Born in Rowley, Mass., Sept. 17, 1816. His health
was greatly injured in his preparation for college under difficulties. He was
converted in Brown Univ'y, which he entered in '33. Lack of health prevented
his graduation. Taught Classics at Suffield Lity Inst'n, Conn. He graduated
from the full course of theological study at Hamilton, in 1842. Was ordained
pastor in Springfield, Mass., May 10, 1843. In 46 pastor of the First Church in
Dorchester, (now Boston,) of which he was pastor when he died, in Rowley,
Sept. 4, 1854. “A man of unblemished character and of ripe gifts and graces.”
Modest without timidity, and decided without dogmatism.
PERLY Work. Born in Williamstown, Vt., Sept. 11, 1813. Pursued Colle-
giate Course at Oneida Institute. Entered Theol. Sem'y in '40, and graduated
in '42. Ordained pastor of Lansing and Groton Church, Tompkins Co., Sept.
28, '42. There five years. In '47 pastor in Sheboygan, Wis.; a new interest
with many difficulties. After nine years there, health failing, he spent two years
on a farm ; preached in Omro and Fairwater; and after five years absence
returned to Sheboygan as pastor. In '64 in Ripon. In '71 in Oshkosh. Baptized
over 150.
THOMAs GoDDARD WRIGHT. Son of Rev. David Wright. Was born in West-
field, Mass., Jan. 18, 1820. Graduated at Waterville College in 1839, and from the
Theol. Department at Hamilton in 1842. Had charge of the Musical Department
in the Institution, associated with Robert R. Raymond, a classmate, as leader of
the choir. With Mr. R's assistance, prepared a book of Sacred Music, arranged
for male voices exclusively, for Chapel Service, called “The Chapel Choir,”
which was printed at the expense of members of the Institution and used for a
number of years. Supplied at Avon Springs, N. Y., one year; then removed to
Lyons, N. Y., where he was ordained Aug. 7, 1844, and married Aug. 30, 1846,
to Miss Julia A. S. Green, of Ithaca, N. Y. From Lyons removed to Claremont,
N. H., in 1847; thence to Sandisfield, Mass., in 1851; thence to Newark, N. J.,
in 1853; thence to Westport, N. Y., in 1855; thence to Wappinger's Falls, N.Y.,
with the Franklindale Church, in 1857; and thence to Roadstown, N. J., with
the First Cohansey Church, in 1860. In 1871 he removed to Philadelphia, to
engage in Mission and Sunday School work. He has a son in the ministry.
CLASS OF 1843.
SPENCER S. AUNSWORTII. Entered from Cazenovia in ’39 ; graduated in '43
and '45. Ordained in Panama, Nov., '45, where he was several years pastor.
Then in Penfield ; in Delphi in ’55. Now practising law in Iowa.
H. DANIELS Born in Scipio, May 24, 1814. Entered in '42 ; graduated in '43.
Married Elizabeth E. Crittenden, Geneva, Aug., '42. Settled at Le Roy, Genesee
Co., May, '43 ; ordained the next April. Remained six and a half years. In one
revival baptized forty. Health failed ; did not preach for six months. Then
two years Agent of Rochester Theol. Sem'y; also served N. Y. State Convention.
Pastor in Wyoming four years, '56; La Grange three years, '61. In '64 Financial
Agent of Shurtleff College, Ill.; labored five years chiefly for an endowment:
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In '69 Dist. Sec'y of Am. Bap. Publication Soc'y for North west. Residence,
Winona, Minn.
PETER C. DAY FOOT. Born in Bristol, Vt., Jan. 27, 1816. Entered in ’37,
graduated in '43 and '45. April, '50, married Rosina Lyon, in Cassadaga.
Ordained in Medina in June, '47. Pastor also in Norwalk and Kingsville, O.;
Lansing and Howell, Mich. In '65 became Sec'y and Financial Agent of Fenton.
Seminary, Genesee Co., Mich. His wife, the first Principal of Fenton Sem'y, died
Aug. 26, 1869. He has baptized between one and two hundred.
Joseph A. Dixon. Came from the church in Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y.
Graduated in '43 and '45. Was ordained by the Litchfield Church in Oct., 1845.
Soon went to Terre Haute, Ind., as Home Miss'y. Here he labored till Sept.,
1850, and then became pastor at Evansville, where he died in three or four years
afterwards. His ministerial life was short but successful.
JoEL W. FISH. Born in Cheshire, Mass., Feb. 1, 1817. Graduated in 43 and
'45, having entered in '88. Ordained in Oct., '45, in Maysville, N. Y., in the
church which he joined when fourteen years old. In '45 pastor in Geneva, Wis.;
Racine, '51. In '52 Gen. Miss'y of H. M. Soc'y, residing in Geneva. Pastor in
Fox Lake '55–66. Since then Dist. Sec'y of H. M. Soc'y and Wisconsin Bap. State
Convention. Married Rachael W. Stone, at Pulaski, N. Y., in Sept., '46,
Received honorary degree of A. M., from Rochester Univ'y. Has baptized
over 450.
STILLMIAN B. GRANT, son of the Rev. Wm. Grant. Was born in Bolton,
Warren Co., N. Y., Oct. 22, 1818. Entered Hamilton in ’39 ; graduated in ’43
and '45. Settled in Granville, N. Y., where he was ordained in June, '46. In
Aug., '47, he married Mary W., daughter of Henry Tower, Esq., of Waterville,
N. Y. In '50 he became pastor in South Adams, Mass. In '54 hope of benefit
to Mrs. Grant's health induced him to accept the pastorate of the church in
Wallingford, Conn., where his stay was brief, on account of his acceptance of a
call from the Academy St. Bap. Church, New Haven, where three years of
arduous labor seriously impaired his health. Under his pastoral care the con-
gregation secured the splendid church edifice in Wooster Place. A period of
rest was followed by a nine years pastorate of the Huntingdon St. Bap. Church,
New London, Conn. A bronchial affection rendering an inland residence
desirable, he became pastor in Fitchburg, Mass., his present residence. He
received the degree of D. D. from M. U., in '61.
EDWARD LANSING HARRIs. Born Jan. 12, 1816, in Ira, Cayuga Co. Entered
in ’39 ; graduated in '43. Ordained at Pike, Wyoming Co., Aug. 31, ’43. Same
day he was married to Miss Sarah M. Fuller. Was pastor at Pike two years;
then at Rushford, N. Y., five years; then moved to Beloit, Wis., in the fall of
1850, and was pastor of the church there more than three years, and baptized
forty-seven converts. Health failing he removed to his farm in Delawan, Wis.,
March 1, 1854. Has since served the Walworth Church three years; Burr Oak
and Lawrence Churches in Ill., alternately on Sabbath, one year. March 6, 1858,
organized a church at Dariem, Wis., and was its pastor ten years, except absent
twice among the freedmen. Was recalled to the pastorship of the Walworth
Church in the spring of 1868, and labored eighteen months. In Feb., 1870, took
the oversight of the East Delavan Church, Wis., and serves it now. Has labored
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with constant infirmity for fifteen years. A confirmed asthmatic. Baptized 154.
See War Record.
EDWARD THURSTON HISCOX. Born in Westerly, R.I., Aug. 24, 1814. Con.
verted when fifteen years old. In 38, while teaching in Lebanon Springs, N.Y.,
supplied the pulpit several months. Entered Hamilton in '40; graduated in '43.
In 44 pastor in Westerly, R. I. ; Norwich, Conn., '47; N. Y. City, Stanton St.,
'52, remained nearly fourteen years. In '66–67 travelled extensively in South
and West and East. In '68 pastor of Clinton Avenue Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
In May, '44, married Caroline Orne, of N. H. In 1857 Shurtleff College conferred
the degree of D. D. He has baptized large numbers.
WM. S. MIKELs. Entered from N. Y. City in '37; graduated in '43 and '45.
Ordained at Rondout, Oct. 2, '45. Pastor in Sing Sing in '50. Many years pastor
of 16th Church, N. Y. City, his present charge. ln '64 M. U. conferred the degree
Of D.D.
J. W. OsBORN. Born Jan. 10, 1816, in Harpersfield, Delaware Co. Graduated
in '43, having entered in '88. Ordained Jan. 10, '44, pastor in Scipio. In 49
pastor in Marion; in '55 in Piqua, O.; in '60 in Mansfield ; in '68 in Columbus,
first church. New meeting-house and many converts at Marion. At Mansfield
a house built worth $35,000, and church increased from 40 members to 200.
Sec'y of Board of Denison Univ'y four years, and six years Rec. Sec'y of State Con-
vention. In Feb. '44, married Malintha S. Short, of Madison Co., N. Y.
W. F. PURINGTON. Born in Jefferson Co., N. Y. Left an orphan at ten years
of age. Converted in 1831 or ’32. Under great difficulties began preparation for
the ministry. In 1839, with wonder and delight, found himself a member of the
lowest class of the Institution. Graduated in 1843, and also in theology in 1845.
Went to Geneva ; preached to the Bap. Church and attended the Medical
College. Ordained in Montezuma, Cayuga Co., March 17, 1846. In 1849 settled
in Prattsburg, remained eight years. In 1853 married Miss R. J. Smith. He has
had four pastorates, and been happy in them all, and not without divine bless-
ing. He has in all his ministry suffered from poor health, and is now quite laid
aside—though he can preach occasionally. He cherishes fond regard for his
Alma Mater. “May thy half century's success be followed by still nobler
achievements and still larget rewards.”
W.M. RONEY. Born in Hatboro’, Pa., Sept. 6, 1815. Entered Oct., '39, and
graduated in 43 and '45. Married Irene B. Buel, of Hamilton, Aug., '45.
Ordained at Hamilton, O., in April, '46. Pastor in Bellefontaine, '49 ; Willistown,
Pa., 52; Arcadia, N. Y., '56; Skeneateles, '57; Pekin, Ill., '64; Fulton, '66;
Clinton, Iowa, ’67; Sheboygan, Wis., '71.
DANIEL FRANKLIN TWIss. Born May 5, 1818, at Sharon, N. H. Entered
Hamilton, 1840; graduated from College 1843; theology, 1845. Settled with 1st
Wantage Church, Sussex Co., N. J., Oct., 1845. Married Miss Eliza M. Webb, at
Phila., Nov. 27, 1845. Ordained Jan. 22, 1846. Resigned Oct., 1849, and went on
a farm, with health impaired. April 1, 1851, took charge of church at Middle-
town Point, Monmouth Co., N. J. June 28, 1853, was prostrated with hemorrhage-
and after four years of suffering, died, June 30, 1857, at the house of his father-
n-law, Rev. G. S. Webb, D.D., New Brunswick. He was a man of good attain-
iments and of high tone of character.
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PHILIP Voor.HEEs. Born Jan. 24, 1816, in Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. Entered
in '36, and graduated from Col. Depar’t in ’43. Studied law, and was admitted
to the bar in '53. Commenced practice in ’53, at Binghamton. Removed to
Scranton, Pa., in '55. Not now in the law. Remains a bachelor.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1843.
WALTER R. BROOKs. Entered class of '43 in ’38, from Mayville. Ordained
at Ashville, Chaut. Co., July 5, '42. Pastor also in Media, Perry, and Hamilton.
Since '59 Secretary of the Education Board. In '68 visited Europe, Egypt, and
Palestine, with his family. M. U. conferred degree of D. D.
O. C. WHEELER. Born March 13, 1816, in Wolcott, (now Butler,) Wayne Co.
Immersed when fifteen years old. Entered in ’38; graduated in ’43 and '45.
Ordained in E. Greenwich, R. I., in Nov., '45. Meeting-house built and church
increased. In Nov., '47, removed to Jersey City, N. J. One church formed from
three small and inharmonious bodies. In '48 pressed by H. M. Soc'y into service
in San Francisco, California. Their first missy there. Founded the first Bap.
S. S. and built the first church edifice in the State. In '54 visited the East and
travelled in N. E., recruiting health and speaking for Home Missions. Return-
ing to Cal. in the autumn, his throat disease was worse than before, and for
more than ten years he was unable to speak in public. Kept in work of general
interest, such as Sanitary Commission. In '65 resumed, and continued preaching.
Engaged in denominational work, supplying vacancies and gathering fragments,
that nothing be lost. Residence, Sacramento. His wife, Elizabeth H. Hamilton,
whom he married in ’45, at Harpersfield, N. Y., was the first female missionary
to California. Having faithfully shared in all the toils of his pioneer work, she
died, “with every possible preparation for heaven,” July 1, 1869.
HENRY D. BUTTOLPH. Son of Rev. John B., pastor in North East, N. Y.
Born in N. E. Entered in ’38, from Troy, Mich. Ordained in Ionia, Oct. S, '40,
Died in Troy, Mich., Sept. 24, '47, aged 29 years.
EZR.A. S. GALLUP. From Cassville in '41. Graduated from Col. Dep't in 43.
Ordained in Hamilton August 14, '53. Pastor in Delhi in ’70. See Professors.
T. S. GRIFFITHS. Entered in ’39 from Philadelphia, Pa. Nearly completed
the Col. Course in Class of '43. Ordained at Red Bank, N. J., August 21, ’44,
Several years Home Missionary in Iowa. Pastor of Central Church, Trenton,
N. J.; in ’70 in Holmdel.
D. F. LEACH. Born in Conklin, Broome Co., June 27, 1817. Baptized when
fifteen. Entered Class of '43 in '38. Went in 40 to aid in a revival in Damas-
cus, Pa. Providence held him there and in the region. Ordained Sept., '40,
over a church formed from converts in a revival at Ten Mile River. From this
place as centre he performed missionary labors for four years, preaching six
times a week; only one other Baptist minister within forty miles. Many were
converted; two new churches organized. At Hawley sixty-nine were baptized,
and a meeting house built. In '45 he began a pastorate at Port Jervis, N.Y.,
the results of which were cheering. Next took charge of a church in Colesville,
Broome Co., N. Y. After five years' labor there, he became a self-appointed
missionary in the Deposit Asso. In two years the result was most encouraging.
Two new churches were founded, and some of the churches doubled their num-
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ber of members. He was then appointed District Missionary of the N. Y.
State Convention. In 62 he returned to Colesville as pastor. In '65 he began
service as General Missionary of the Convention—continued about two years.
Now pastor at Unadilla. He was married to Miss Levantia Guy, of Middlefield,
Oct., 41. One son is a pastor, and another has the ministry in view.
BUTLER MoRLEY. Born April 7, 1818, in Brutus (now Sennett), Cayuga Co.
Began to preach in '37. Entered in 38, Class of '43; left in '42, Married Mary
Ann Leet, in Rochester, in Jan., '44. Ordained in Rose, Wayne Co., Jan., '53.
Pastor also in Victory, South West Oswego, North Manlius, Tully and Vesper,
Throopsville, and 1st Cazenovia. Baptized about 200.
John T. MoRLEY. He was born in the town of Brutus (now called Sennett),
Cayuga Co., N. Y., May 28, 1820. He entered in ’39, and took his dismission
in '42. He was married in ’44 to Mrs. Fuller. He owned and cultivated a
small farm in West Almond, Alleghany Co., where he died in '65. He was a
good man, and died in hope of a glorious resurrection at the last day.
WILLIAM JAMES NICE. Was born in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa., August
16, 1818. He was converted and baptized in Milton, Pa., in '33. In '39 he
entered the Univ'y, and left at the close of the Sophomore year. Graduated at
Columbian College, D. C., in '46. He was ordained in Canton, N. J., as their
pastor, August (July) 7, '42 ; and was married Sept. 20, '42, to Miss E. N. Mat-
son. His pastorates were : three years in Canton ; four years in Holmdel ; and
three years at Upper Freehold, when he found it necessary to resign. He died
at Imlaystown, N.J., Oct. 13, '55. He was characterized by “conscientiousness
and sterling common sense.”
EDWARD ROYC.E. Born in Clinton, Oneida Co., Sept. 21, 1815. Entered Ham-
iłton Inst’n in ’39. Entered college at Clinton in '42, and graduated in '43.
Ordained at New Berlin, Sept., '43. In Oct. pastor in Henrietta, Ohio. In Sept.,
'46, married Clara A. Elamore, graduate of Oberlin Col., at Elyria. Oct., '47,
pastor in Bellevue; in 51 in Tecumseh, Mich. On account of Mrs. R.'s health
he returned to Ohio, and taught ; also preached in Birmingham. Pastor in
Altay, N. Y., '54–60. Baptized 98 there. Next in Morrisville, then in Wales-
ville. Two years uriable to preach at all. Then three years pastor in Watkins,
from 65. Obliged to give up hope of being pastor again, entered into book busi-
ness at Hamilton. Has aided pastors in protracted meetings. Baptized 157.
GRADUATEs of THE SHORTER COURSE IN 1843.
ELBA FULLER. Graduated from the Shorter Course in '43, entering from
Forestville, Chautauqua Co., where he was ordained, March 27, '44. He died
Oct. 16, of the same year, in Laona, 26 years of age, being at the time pastor of
the church in that town.
L. J. Hunt LEY. Born in Chelsea, Vt., June 12, 1815. Entered Theol. Class
of the Partial Course in '41, and graduated in '43. In Sept., married Anna N.
Mason, in Utica. Ordained in Sanbornton, N. H., soon after graduating. Agent
for Bible Socy and Publication Soc'y nearly ten years. Has gathered three
new churches, viz., in Oneida, N. Y. ; Monroe City, Mich. ; and Janesville, Mich.;
each now strong and flourishing. Collected the funds and superintended the
erection of three good places of worship. His wife died in Utica, in Nov., '62.
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In '59 he was burned out in Utica—lost his library and household goods.
Then he was prostrated with sickness two years. In '63 he married Henrietta
E., daughter of Rev. Dr. Rounds, of Tioga Co., N. Y. Baptized nearly 400.
Residence, Elkhorn, Ind. -
S. S. MARTIN. Born in Colesville, Broome Co., April 15, 1820. Entered in
'41. Health failing he went into the Partial Course, and graduated in ’43. Soon
ordained in Colesville, and settled as missionary in Knoxville, (now Galesburg,)
Ill., two years. There he married, in Oct., '45, Almira Palmer, from Exeter,
Otsego Co., N. Y. Four years in Lamoile, one in Dixon, two in Fremont, eight
in Delavan and vicinity, four in Washington, and six in Mason City, all within
Ill. River Asso. In Lamoille, Delavan, and Mason City, the first meeting-houses
were built during his pastorates. Baptized 100. In '69 he was suffering with
catarrh and neuralgia, “waiting orders from headquarters.”
JESSE N. SEELEY. From Granville, Ohio. Graduated from Shorter Course
in '43. Missionary and pastor in Bloomington, Ill., and Keokuk, Iowa, and
other important fields in the West. s
SAMUEL WARD. Entered in ’40 from Baltimore, Md. In '42 he entered the
Shorter Course, and graduated in '43. He was ordained in Baltimore, Oct. 18,
'43. He settled with the church in Galway Village, and remained there till the
fall of '45, when he became pastor at Coxsackie, Green Co. He took a severe
cold at a picnic on the 4th of July, and died of consumption April 8, '47. He
married a niece of General Toucey of D. C.
JOHN WARREN. Born in Worcester, Otsego Co., Oct. 25, 1814. Took the
last year of Shorter Course, in Class of '43, and was a resident graduate till
August, '44. Ordained in Fishkill in '45, and remained till '52, when he became
pastor in Easton, Conn., where he still continues. Married Eliza Wiley of
Fishkill, in '36. She died in '53. His second wife was Marion Adams of Orange
County, N. Y.
CLASS OF 1844.
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GEO. W. ANDERSON. From Philadelphia, Pa. Entered the Class of '44 in
'89; graduated in due time, and also from Theo. Dep’t in '46. At once took edi
torial charge of the Christian Chronicle, Philadelphia, Pa. In 49 became Pro-
fessor of the Latin Lang. and Lit., in the University at Lewisburg, Pa.; in '54
pastor at North East, Dutchess Co., N. Y.; in '5S, pastor of Lower Merion
Church, Montgomery Co., Pa.; in '68, editor for the “Am. Bap. Pub. Society.”
He was married in April, '47, to Maria Frances, daughter of Thos. F. Hill, Esq.,
of Exeter, England. Lewisburg Univ'y conferred the degree of Ph. D., and in
'69 or '70, that of D. D. He visited Europe in ’71, and several years previously.
Author of “The Way to Christ, and The Walk in Christ,” besides sundry
pamphlets and reviews.
JOHN S. BEECHER. Of Vermont; graduated in 44 and '46. See Mission
Record. He married Martha Foote, of Smyrna, N. Y. She died on the Voyage
from Burmah to U. S., March 8, '54. Before Mr. Beecher returned to Burmah, he
married a daughter of Rev. Dr. Roe, of Ill. She, with her children, reached the
U. S., in June, '68.
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SAMUEL JENNINGS BRONSON. Son of Rev. A. B. Born in Danbury, Conn.
1819. Entered Mad. Univ'y, in ’39; graduated in '44 and '46. College organist
through the course. Ordained in Millbury, Worcester Co., Dec. 16, 46. Re-
moved to Hyannis, Barnstable Co., '54; to Winchester (near Boston), '67. Re-
turned to Millbury in '70. Married Mary Lincoln, daughter of Rev. Dr. Chap.
lin, July 14, 47, at Hamilton. Had much superintendence of schools.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BRONSON. Son of Rev. Asa B., 35 years in Fall River,
Mass. Born in North Salem, Westchester Co., N. Y., April 1, ’21. Entered
in '89; graduated in ’44 and '46. Tutor in mathematics, in '45–46. Ordained
in Ashland, Worcester Co., Mass., Dec. 17, '46. Meeting.house built. Pastor
in Methuen, '50; Woburn, '58; Roxbury (now Boston Highlands), '62, South-
bridge, '67. Served as Sec'y of Freedmen's Aid Commission, and of State Con-
vention. In constant service on School Boards. Mad. Univ'y conferred degree
of D. D., in '69. June 30, '47, married Annie Hasseltine, daughter of Rev. J.
Chaplin, D. D., Sr., in Providence, R. I.
MELVILLE K. CALKINs. Of Hamilton. Entered Mad. Univ'y in 41, and
graduated in '44. He soon went South as a teacher, and died in ’53, at War.
renton, Miss., aged 30 years.
SAMUEL GRAVES. Born in Acworth, N. H., March 25, 1820. Futered Mad.
Univ'y in 39; graduated in ’44 and '46. Married at Troy, N. Y., Sept. 23, '46,
to Mary W., sister of Rev. G. C. Baldwin, D. D. Three years Tutor in mathe-
matics in Mad. Univ'y. Ordained pastor in Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 3, '49. Pro-
fessor of Eccl. Hist., Kalamazoo Theo. Sem'y, ’51 ; also Professor of Greek Lang.
and Lit., '53. Pastor of Central Bapt. Church, Norwich, Conn., Nov., '59.
Remained ten years. Jan., 70, pastor in Grand Rapids, Mich. Has done much
service on School Committees and Denouminational Societies. Received degree of
D. D. from Shurtleff College and from Mad. Univ'y in '66.
GEO. W. Holbrook. Had lived in Lowell, Mass. Came from N. Y. City to
Hamilton in ’39. Graduated in ’44. Studied theology; left before the end of
the senior year. Had preached often ; but did not enter the ministry. Studied
medicine; wrote for the press, and is reported as having died in Elumira, N. Y.,
everal years since, leaving a widow,
EDwARD C. LoRD. Entered in ’39 from Charlestown, N. Y. Graduated in
'44 and '46. In Sept., 46, he married Lucy T. Lyon, six years teacher in
Mount Holyoke Sem'y, Mass. She died in Fredonia, N. Y., May 5, '53. In '71,
a daughter, aged 18 years, died in this country. He sailed the second time for
China, Jan. 10, '54. He received the degree of D. D. from Mad. Univ'y in '69.
JOIIN H. MORRISON. Born in Williamson, Ont. Co., April 4, 1815. Entered
in '40. Graduated in ’44. Ordained in Holland Patent, Oct. 9, '44. Pastor in
N. Y. 12 years; in Illinois, 5; in Wisconsin, 2.; Michigan, 8. Residence, Holly
Oakland Co., Mich. He received honorary A. M. from Shurtleff College in '58,
In Jordan, N. Y., he married Lucetta Lawson, in Sept., 44. Baptized 227.
LEVI MORSE. Born Aug. 23, 1817, in Jefferson, Schoharie Co., N. Y. Entered
Hamilton Oct., 39. Graduated, '44. Preached much during Col. course. Ordained
pastor in Athens, Pa., Sept., '44, over a church which arose as one result of a series
of meetings he held in '43. Pastor at Athens, five years; Franklin, N. Y., over
seven ; Deposit, two ; North Ch., Newark, N. J., over three and a half; Newton,
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N. J., five; and Pittsgrove, three and a half. Now of Orange, N. Y. Has held
protracted meetings almost every fall and winter with his own and other
churches. Has preached over four times a week for 27 years. Has baptized
about 600—never having baptized when laboring with other pastors. April 17,
'39, married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Cooper, of Jefferson.
LEWIS PECK. Born in Phelps, N. Y., May 13, 1816. Entered in ’41.
Graduated in ’44. In '44–5, taught in Port Byron, N. Y. ; '45–6, in Milwaukee,
Wis.; then ten years in Phelps Union and Classical School. Then settled on a
farm in Phelps, his present residence. Supervisor of the town in ’56–60. In '60
member of State Legislature. Assessor of Internal Revenue for 25th District
'62–69. Has been in constant practice of land surveying. Oct 27, '54, married.
Sarah E. Long, in Phelps.
LINUs M. PECK, son of Elder John P. Born in Cazenovia, Feb. 3, 1818. Con-
verted when 15 years old. Graduated at Hamilton College, Clinton, in ’41
Taught in Hamilton Village Academy. In '42 studied law with his brotner in
Hudson, N. Y. In 44 entered Theol. Seminary, and graduated in '46. Soon
married Cordelia C., daughter of N. Kendrick, D. D. He had intended to become
a foreign missionary, but the condition of Dr. Kendrick deferred his departure.
Preached several months to the church in Lebanon. In 47 took temporary
charge of the church in Hamilton, of which he would doubtless have become
pastor but for his much lamented death, Oct. 4, 1847. See Philetus B. Peck,
class of '36.
CLESSON P. SHELDON. Born in Bernardston, Mass., May 9, 1813. Entered
Ac. Dept. in '33. Left on account of diseased eyes in '35. Ordained pastor in
Whitesboro’, Oct. 21, ’36; remained till Oct., 43. In Jan., '37, married Mary
Ann Wetmore, who died in May, '43. Re-entered M. U. and graduated in 44 and
'46. Pastor of 1st Hamilton church in '45. In May, '45, married Charlotte A.
Cole, of Rome. M. U. conferred honorary A. M. in '46. Pastor of Niagara
Square Church, Buffalo, in ’47. In '54 pastorin Hamilton again. In '56 in Troy,
5th St. ; still there. M. U. conferred D.D. in '59. In '69 had baptized 739.
OSCAR L. SPRAGUE. Born Dec. 12, 1820, at Fabius, Onon. Co. Entered in
'40. Graduated in '44. Studied law with Judge Nye, of Hamilton. Admitted
to the Bar in ’47. Commenced practice in Fabius in '4S : Surrogate, of Onon. Co.,
in '63. In May, '48, he married Sarah A. Cadwell, of Fabius. He was Supt. of
the Baptist Sunday School some years before his death. Consumption had long
been undermining his constitution, and he died very suddenly of hemorrhage of
the lungs, Aug. 25, 1865.
THOMAS SWAIM. Born at Pemberton, N. J., March 30, 1817. Entered from
Brown University in ’43. Graduated in ’44 and '46. Married, May 17, '47, to
Miss Eliza M. Wilson, of Washington, Pa. Ordained Nov., 46, as pastor of the
Baptist Church at Washington, Pa. After four years of successful labor there,
accepted an agency of the Am. Bap. Missionary Union for six months, at the
end of which service became pastor of the Baptist Church at Flemington, N.J.,
where he remained 16 years, in which time five extensive revivals of religion were
enjoyed by the church. Nearly 300 were baptized. The congregation SO
increased that a very large house of worship became a necessity and was built.
in 1867 entered upou the Financial Secretaryship of the N. J. Classical and
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the Scientific Institute, at Hightstown, N. J. Received the degree of D. D. from
College at Lewisburg, Pa. In '68 became District Secretary of the Am. Bap.
Home Mission Society, for Pa., N. J., and Delaware—residing at Philadelphia–
which position he now holds.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1844.
ELI3RIDGE C. ALLEN. Born at Colosse, Aug. 27, 1821. In '40, entered the
class of '44. Left before graduating, but received degrees of A. B. and A. M. in
course. Was eight years Professor of Mathematics in Brooklyn Collegiate and
Polytechnic Institute. Five years Supt. of Sub, agencies of the Aetna Fire Ins.
Co., at Branch, in Cincinnati, O. In '71, one of a corps of civil engineers for
improvement of navigation of St. John's River, Florida. In Aug., '59, married
Harriet M. Hardy, N. Andover, Mass. Brooklyn, N. Y., 27 Willoughby St.
EDGAR CADY. Born in Corinth, Sarat. Co., N. Y., Feb. 9, 1817. Entered in
°40 the class of '44. Married at Greenfield, Sar. Co., July 2, 43, to Emily Augusta
Hines. Ordained in Savoy, Mass., Feb. 3, '48. There two years. Pastor at
Spencer, Mass; Chesterfield, Ct. ; Augusta, South New Berlin, Upper Lisle,
N.Y.; Lake City, Owatonna, Minn. Has been also an itinerant missionary in
Minn. Now pastor in Pleasant Grove, Minn.
JAMES. P. COOK. A native of N. Norwich, Chen. Co., N. Y., and was born
March 22, 1818. He came to the University in ’38, and remained three years.
Became pastor at Smithville, N. Y., in '42, Was ordained there, June 1, ’43.
Was married to Miss Rebecca Hartwell, at N. Norwich, June 2, '42. Afterwards
was pastor at Stockbridge, Unadilla, and Meredith, N. Y.; Smithfield; Rome;
and Oak Hill, forming a church ; these all in Pa. In '52 served the church at
Burlington Hill, N. Y. In '53 removed to De Witt, Iowa, and was pastor one
year. Eyes and general health failing he retired upon a farm, and has since
preached only occasionally. Resides at Wheatland, Clinton Co., Iowa. Baptized
108.
Jofrn EDMINSTER. Born in Cato, Oct. 18, 1820. Entered in '88. Ordained
pastor in Birmingham, Pa., in '42. Pastor also in White Deer, Clinton, Union,
Muncy, Derry, Moreland, and Madison, Pa.; often pastor of three churches at the
same time. In '5) removed to Oregon, Ill., and raised up two churches. In '54
gathered the Adams St. Church, Peoria. Pastor in Camanche, Iowa, from '57 to
'66. Then in De Witt 3 years. In '67 Supt. of Missions in Iowa. Then pastor
of Stillman Valley Church, residing at Hale, Ogle Co., Ill.
John FULTON, of Ellisburg, Jeff. Co., entered the class of '44 in ’40. In '42-'43
he took theol. studies, and graduated with the class of the Shorter Course in '43.
M. U. conferred honorary A. M. in '57.
Joseph HAMMET. Entered from Philadelphia in 1839. Was ordained in
Blockley, Penn., Sept. 16, ’41. In 46 graduated at Columbian College, D. C.
WM. H. HustED. Born in New Canaan, Conn., May 31, 1818. Entered Ham.
Lit. and Theol. Institution in May, '89. A member of class of '44. Left in Jan.,
'43, Graduated at Union College, July, '44. Married at Franklinville, N. Y.,
in Aug., '44, to Martha A. Partridge. Ordained at Italy Hill, N. Y., in Dec., '45.
Preached there and in Prattsburg, an adjoining town, 3 years. Health failed.
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Went to Kentucky; engaged in teaching and occasional preaching for 2 years.
In May, '51, settled as pastor of the church in Sinclairsville, N. Y., and resided
there 10 years. Subsequently preached in Randolph, N. Y., 2 years. Was a
missionary of the N. Y. Baptist State Convention to the Cattaraugus Indians 4
years. Pastor of the Church in North East, Penn, 2 years. Is now pastor of the
Baptist church in Panama, N. Y. Has baptized over 100.
WM. M. Jon Es. Born in Fort Ann Village, Wash. Co., May 2, 1818. Entered
in '38. Ill health sent him away early in the course. Ordained pastor in Mill
Creek, Huntingdon Co., Pa., Feb. 21, ’41. Pastor and evangelist in Central, Pa.,
till '44; 2 years as missionary of the Convention. During this time travelled
12,000 miles in meeting his appointments, preaching 3 to 9 times a week.
Organized the Lewiston church, the Huntingdon and Stone Creek church.
Aided in the formation of churches in Altoona, Shirleysburg, and Lockport.
During six and a half years, from Jan., '45, he was missionary to Hayti, under
the direction of the Am. Bap. Free Mission Society. Organized a church at Port
au Prince. Then for two aud a half years pastor of Shiloh Seventh Day Baptist
Church “in this country.” He was over seven years missionary in Jerusalem.
Palestine, under the S. D. Bap. Society. In May, '59, he baptized in the pool of
Siloam, Youhaund El-Kary, an Arab, of the Greek Church, a native of Nablous
(ancient Sichem), and subsequently a student of Regent's Park College, London,
now a missionary at Nablous, under London Union Chris, Mission. After his
return to America he lectured on the Lands of the Bible. Has been pastor in
Walworth, Wis., and of the S. D. Bapt. Church in Scott, Cortland Co., N. Y. In
his varied service he has had to make use of Latin, Greek, French, Hebrew,
Italian, Arabic, and German. In Hayti he preached in French ; in Palestine in
Arabic, of which he is an enthusiastic admirer. He has made ten voyages at sea,
none of them for health or pleasure, but for preaching. Though his labor has
been pioneer work, he has baptized about 150. Feb. 21, ’41, he was married to
Miss Elizabeth Postlewait, of Huntingdon, Pa. She died at Jerusalem, Oct. 10,
1860, and was buried in the American Cemetery, on Mt. Zion. June 19, 1860, he
was married to Theodora W., daughter of Rev. W. H. Black, F. S. A., of London,
England. In '69 he located in Rosenhayn, near Vineland, N. J., seeking health
and a home. Is gathering a church, without salary.
RICHARD SIMSON. From Worcester, N. Y. Entered in ’39, and died at the
beginning of the Sophomore year, Oct. 31, ’41.
C. A. SKINNER. Born in Wheatland, Monroe Co., N. Y. Entered the class
of '44, from Marion, and left at the end of Soph. year. Ordained at Jonesville,
Mich. Pastor in Lyons, and Chili, N. Y. ; Middletown, Conn.; married there to
Helen A. Minor; Coldspring on the Hudson, N. Y.; Easton, Pa., (100 baptized);
Glenn's Falls, N. Y. ; also Groton (Junction), Hyde Park and Millbury, Mass.
Chaplain of Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, Mass. Several
years engaged in General S. S. Work in W. Canada. Has labored with much
success for churches that had become depressed. Cleared five churches of crush-
ing debt—two in N. Y., and three in Mass. Has enjoyed ten revivals in the last
15 years. Has baptized about 300. Now supplying churches. Residence,
Worcester, Mass.
W. S. TITUS. Entered in '39, from Victory Co. He left the class of '44 dur-
ing the Soph. year. Graduated at Union College, and at Union Theol. Sem'n'y,
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N. Y. City, and entered the ministry of the Meth. Episcopal Church. Has been
minister in Penn. and N. Y. In '69 and '70 he was pastor of the Methodist
church in Hamilton.
JOHN N. TOLMAN. Born Oct. 16, 1819, in Junius, Seneca Co., N. Y. Entered
the Institution in fall of '38. Left in '41. Married on July 19, '47, in Carrolton,
Ill., to Miss Jerusha Allen, of Addison Co., Vt. His wife died in Carrolton,
Nov. 11, ’50. He was again married in Springfield, Ill., Sept. 29, 52, to Nancy
Judson Burns. After leaving the Institution he engaged in teaching about two
years in Alabama and in Illinois. Ordained in Plainfield, Ill., Aug. 27, '46, hav-
ing labored in that place one year previously. In Dec. 46, settled with the
church in Carrolton, Ill., and remained in that place nearly five years. Next
bastorate in Upper Alton, two years. Secretary of Board of Shurtleff College.
Pastor in Decatur, Ill., 5 years; in Mariner's Harbor Church, Staten Island, 3
years ; 5 years with 2d church, Brooklyn, E. D.; 1 year in Monmouth, Ill. ; 2 in
Canandaigua, N.Y.; then in Fabius.
GRADUATES OF THE SHORTER COURSE IN 1844.
J. V. DEWITT. Born in Wawarsing, Ulster Co., Dec. 18, 1817. Entered from
Cooperstown in ’41. On account of poor health left the full for the Partial Course,
and graduated in '44. Having been ordained in Cooperstown, Sept. 24, '44, he
was settled in Tioga Centre, four and a half years, in Virgil 5 years, in Marion,
Iowa, 6 years. In 60 he entered into business, on account of throat disease. In
'68 he again became pastor in Marion. He has baptized a “goodly number.”
C. B. Post. Born in Meredith, Del. Co., N. Y., April 26, 1820. Entered
Hamilton in '40. Graduated from the Shorter Course in '44. M. U. conferred
honorary A. M. in '57. In Dec., 44, was married to Mary Ann, daughter of
Augustus Simmons, Esq., Registrar and Steward of the University. Resident
graduate till he removed to Sherburne, Chen. Co., where he had supplied and
where he was ordained, Dec. 3, 45. In '49 pastor in Fulton, Oswego Co. In the
fall of '50 was engaged in an agency in behalf of fugitive slaves. In '51, pastor
at Morris, Ots. Co.; in ’52, in Albany, State St. Church ; in '55, in Dover Plains,
Dutchess Co. ; in '62, in Oneida, Madison Co.; in '65, in Marshall, Mich. ; and
in Washington, D. C., as member of the Chris. Commission. Labored in '66 in
Fox Lake and Sparta, Wis. In '67 agent for Kalamazoo Theol. Semin'y, Mich.
Having effected the special purpose of his appointment, he preached in Several
places in Mich., and then settled as pastor in Bronson. In '71 went to California.
In '69 he had baptized over 400.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF THE COLL. DPT., THE FOLLOWING GRADUATED IN THE
THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1844.
WHEELock H. PARMLY. Was born in Braintree, Vt., July 27, 1816. Grad-
uated at Columbia College, New York City, '42. Entered Theo. Dep’t. at Hamil-
ton, and graduated in ’44. On account of weakness of the eyes he was for a
year and a half private tutor in the family of Dr. Eleazer Parmly, of New York
City. Going to Louisiana for his health, he became co-pastor with Rev. J. B.
Smith, Clinton, La.; was ordained April 19, '46. Had pastoral care of three
churches, Clinton, Jackson, in La., and Fort Adams, in Miss.; preached contin-
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ually and baptized fifty-three persons. In Nov., '47, pastor in Shelburne Falls,
Mass.; in '50, in Burlington, N. J.; in Sept., '54, in Jersey City, N. J., where he
still remains. May 22, 48, married Katherine, daughter of Rev. Duncan Dun-
bar, of Macdougal street, N. Y. Has baptized over 600.
CLASS OF 1845
APPLETON H. DANFORTH. Graduated in '45 and '47. See Mission Work,
and War Record.
J. R. Down ER. From Zanesville, Ohio, in '42; graduated in '45. Was
several years pastor in Allegany, Pa. In Granville, Ohio, as pastor or profes-
sor, or both, till '66. Since then in Salina, Kansas, and in Kirkwood, Mo.
Edward PHINEAS FLETCHER Entered the Class of '45 in ’41, and grad-
uated. He is said to be in California.
HEzEKIAH HARVEY. Born in Hulven, Suffolk Co., England, Nov. 27, 1821.
Came to America in '30. Entered in '40, and graduated in '45 and '47. Intended
to be a foreign missionary, but health would not allow. Married Lucy W.
Loomis, of Manlius, Oct. 6, ’47. Tutor of Languages in M. U. in ’47. Ordained
pastor in Homer, Aug., '49. Pastor of First Church, Hamilton, in '57. Profes-
sor of Eccl. Hist., etc. See officers and Professors. Pastor in Duyton, Ohio. in
'64, till '67, when ill health compelled resignation. Colby Univ. conferred
D. D. in '61. Baptized about 450.
Joseph P. HAY. Entered from Richmond, Va., in ’43, and graduated in '45.
Ordained at Deep Run, Henrico Co., Va., Nov. 15, '45.
REUBEN JEFFERY. Born in Leicester, England, Feb. 15, 27. Entered in '40,
the class of '44. Was out one year and graduated in '45 and '47. Ordained at
Nantucket, Mass., Sept. 15, '47. In Albany, First Church, '49–57; Phila-
delphia, Pa., '57–67; Chicago, '67–69; Cincinnati, '69. In 49 married
Julia M. Hubbard, Norwich, N. Y. M. U. conferred degree of D. D. in '61.
Baptized about 1,200.
ERASMUs N. JENCRs. Born in Springfield, Mass., Dec. 24, 1821. Baptized
when fourteen years of age. Entered from Brown Univ., and graduated in '45.
Became Principal of Academy in Bethlem, Conn. In Feb., '46, married Caro-
line, daughter of Rev. Daniel Baldwin, New Milford, Conn. Ordained at Hart-
ford, June 10, '46. See Mission Work. After his return from Siam, be became
pastor in Cornwall Hollow, Conn., where, in '49, he married Sarah A. Nettleton.
In May, '50, pastor in Farm Ridge, La Salle Co., Ill., and at same time Associate
Principal of Mount Palatine Academy, fourteen miles distant. Baptized several
pupils. Then Principal of an Academy which he originated in Farm Ridge.
Baptized pupils there. The church, now Deer Park Church, increased from
nine to forty. In '54 pastor, under H. M. Soc., of church in Brimfield, Peoria
Co.; church edifice finished and membership doubled in a year. Thence to
Farmington, Fulton Co., Ill. Gathered new church at Brookfield, La Salle Co.;
there four years, baptized fifty. During the war supported himself by farming,
teaching, surveying, and serving as enrolling officer for the Government. June,
'65, pastor First Cape May Baptist Church, N. J.; in two years baptized sixty-
five and built parsonage. In '67 in service of Bible Union in Mass.; April, '68,
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took charge of church in Ashfield, Mass.; in first year church grew from seven-
teen to fifty-two members; in second year new M. H. built. Now in North
Leverett, Mass. See Mission Record. -
GEO. M. LAWTON. Entered from Robertsville, S. C., in '42, and graduated in
'45. He was at one time Principal of an Academy at Beach Island, near Ham-
burg, S. C.
ISAAC. N. LOOMIs. Born in Manlius, June 3, 1818. Entered in ’41, and grad-
uated in '45. Resident graduate one year, at same time having charge of the
music of the Univ. In '46 he taught an Academy in Tenn. In '47 became
Professor of Greek in the Univ. of Lewisburg, Pa. Remained six years, and
conducted through the course in Greek the first Class that graduated there.
Taught Academy at Lock Haven, Pa., and High School in Harrisburg. Then
called to the homestead ; lives in the house in which he was born. Taught
Manlius Academy four years. Now a farmer. Has taught music almost contin-
ually. In Sept., '50, married Agnes Heron, of Lewisburg, Pa.
E. W. PIERCE. Entered in ’39, and graduated in '45 and '47. He had sup-
plied the church in Waterville, where, after a long and painful sickness, he
died, at the residence of Henry Tower, Esq., April 25, '48, in the twenty-seventh
year of his age. Dr. Maginnis preached at his funeral in Waterville, from a
text selected by Mr. Pierce, 1 Peter 1 : 24, 25, “The grass withereth,” etc. He
was buried in the University Cemetery.
J. W. SARLEs. Born in Bedford, Westchester Co., N. Y., June 26, 1817.
Baptized by Dr. Cone, April 5, 35. Entered M. U. in ’39; graduated in 45 and
°47. Settled at once as pastor of Central Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., and
is still there. He was married in Prattsburg, Steuben Co., N. Y., Sept. 14,
'47, to Miss Cornelia A. Babcock, who died, after long suffering, Oct. 31, ’57.
Nov. 15, '59, in Bloomfield, N.J., he was married to Miss Mary E. Smalley, who
on the 31st of May, '66, was borne away as in a chariot of fire. A memoir of her
has been printed, but not published. M. U. gave him the degree of D.D. in '60.
His church has had over 1,000 members since its formation in ’47. He has
baptized over 400. Considers the statistics of baptisms a very unreliable
criterion of ministerial success. “ Fidelity in Sowing will yet roll up its successes
before an admiring universe.”
JESSE B. SAXTON. Born in Northumberland Co., Pa., Aug. 14, 1818. Entered
the class of '44 in ’39. On account of absence, entered and graduated with the
class of '45. Married Miss M. A. Drake, in Plainfield, N. J., in ’45. She died
Oct. 12, '47. In March, '50, he married Miss M. T. Kellum, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ordained in Towanda, Pa., Nov. 26, ’45. Except one year as supply of the
Fourth Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and eighteen months in Hights-
town, N.J., his work has been pioneer or mission work ; five years as Mission-
ary of the Pennsylvania Baptist State Convention, and for the last nineteen
years in California and Nevada. His fields on the Pacific coast have been
Stockton, San Francisco, Oakland and Healdsburg, Cal., and Esmeralda, Nev,
Baptized 200.
IRA. J. STODDARD. Born in Eden, N.Y., 1820. Entered in ’39; graduated in
'45 and '47. Married Miss D. C. Allen, at Collins, Erie Co., Aug. 28, '47. See
Mission Work.
CLASS OF 1845. 275
J. B. ToMBEs. Born in Albany, Feb. 24, 1821. Graduated in '45 and '47,
having entered in ’42. In '47, pastor of Fourth Baptist Church, Richmond, Va.
Ordained in May, '48. Then pastor in Halifax, Va. In '54, head of Academy
at Meadsville, Va. Pastor in Buffalo, Va., three years. In '59, Principal of
Female College in Liberty, Mo. Left in '64 on account of the war. Pastor of
North Church, Philadelphia ; of Berean Church, Carbondale, Pa.; Tiffin, Ohio;
Delaware, Ohio. American Univ. of Philadelphia, Pa., conferred D. D., in ’70.
Baptized over 230.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1845.
ADAM BAUSH. Entered from Milton, Pa., in ’39. Went through the Junior
year in the class of '45. He was ordained in Baltimore, Md., Aug. 22, '46. He
has taught in Cumberland, Md., and is said to be now in Piedmont, W. Va.
FREDERICK CHARLTON. From Norwich, Conn., was a member of the class,
and also studied in the Theo. Dep’t till end of '46 or later, though he seems not
to have graduated. He was ordained in Plainfield, Conn. From '50, three years
successful pastor in Webster, Mass. Pastor in Wilmington, Del., where a new
meeting-house was built and large accessions made to the church. Then Agent
of the Amer. Bap. Pub. Soc. in Pa. and N. J. In '60, pastor in Sacramento, Cal.,
till his death, Aug. 9, '71, after a short, distressing illness of malignant erysipe-
las. During his delirium he seemed much of the time to be preaching, fre-
quently giving connected passages of great beauty and power. He was about
fifty years old. He had great strength of mind and a high order of executive
talent, with ardent devotion to his high calling.
J. W. E. COVEY. Born in Fenner, Madison Co., Feb. 11, 1821. Entered class
of '45 in ’39. Nearly completed College Course; took degree of A. B. in ’53,
and of A. M. in '56. In '46, married Mrs. Louisa Eastwood, in Wilkesbarre, Pa.
President of Campbell Academy, Lebanon, Tenn., '46–49. March, '47,
Ordained pastor. In '49, removed to Lexington, Tenn. Instrumental in forma-
tion of two churches. Raised the funds for the establishment of Brownsville
Female Baptist College ; declined the presidency. In '54, pastor in Palestine,
Texas, organized three churches and preached monthly to each of them. Presi-
dent of Masonic College three years. Then removed to Halletsville, Western
Texas, where he has constituted five churches. Pastor of Live Oak Church
seven years previous to 64, when he became pastor in Concrete, De Witt Co.
Since his ordination, has been almost continually an instructor in some seminary
of high grade and preached at least twice a week. Is now President of Con-
crete College, which has six teachers and 135 students, with a growing demand
for more room and facilities. The College is under his control in connection
with his son-in-law, Rev. W. Thomas, A. B., in the interest of the Baptist
denomination. He has baptized over 400.
JAMES GOODRICII. In Elizabethtown, Essex Co., N. Y., he was born, Nov. 11,
1818. Entered in ’39, the Class of '45, and left it in '43. Was ordained at
Crown Point, N. Y., in the autumn of '44, Was married to Miss Julia A.
Aldrich, in Dover, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, June 11, ’46. Has labored as pastor of
the following churches : Crown Point, N. Y.; Rockport, Dover, Clarksfield,
Sunbury, Huntington and Avon, Ohio; and Huntington, Ind. Health failing
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required the suspension of pastoral labors for eight years, yet preached more or
less all the time. Is now pastor of Burr Oak Church, in Michigan.
GEORGE N. HARRIS. Born in Vt., March 19, 1821. Left the class in '42 on
account of his father's death. He has devoted himself to teaching in Syracuse.
In '57 M. U. conferred the honorary degree of A. M. Now in mercantile pur-
suits.
Josia.H HATT. Entered from New York City, in '40, and went through the
Sophomore year. Ordained in Hoboken, N. J., in '46. In '54, removed to Mor-
ristown, N. J., where he died of pleurisy and inflammation of the lungs, June 16,
'57; aged thirty-six years.
JAMES M. HoPE. Of New York City. Entered in 1840 the Class of '45. Left
in '42. Was ordained in Middleton, Orange Co., N. Y., Aug. 12, '47. In '48 he
Was pastor in Keokuk, and resigned on account of diseased eyes ; still reported
there in '50. In '55 he was in Catskill, N. Y.
JACOB KENNEDY. Born in Elmira, Feb. 22, 1822. Entered Hamilton in '45.
He had studied law. He was pastor in Tioga Village, Pa., where he was or-
dained. Pastor of Monroe and Towanda Church, Bradford Co., Pa.; Mehoopany,
alternating lais labors between that and Forkston Church, six years. In '64 pas-
tor in Factoryville. In '66 member of Pennsylvania Legislature, also Chaplain
of the House of Representatives At the time of his death, April 13, '69, he was
pastor of Monroe and Russel Hill Churches. “As a preacher he had few su-
periors, clear and forcible in argument, a natural sermonizer.”
NEWTON PAULIN. Entered the class in ’39, from Cedarville, N.J., where he
died in ’42.
COLUMBUS C. SHIRES. Entered class of '45, in 1839, from Liberty, Pa. He
died in Green, Chenango Co., N. Y., April 16, ’47, aged 29 years.
MYRON B. WILLIAMs. Born at Lockport, N. Y., July 8, 1820. Entered the
Institution October, '41, in Class of '45. Left in February, '43. Entered upon
the practice of law in Watertown, Wisconsin, June, '44. Married at Lebanon,
N. Y., September, 45, to Miss Mary L. Owen. Was elected State Senator in
April, 48. Was appointed Postmaster at Watertown in April, '53, and held
the office six years. Was chosen Mayor of the City of Watertown in April,
'60, and was re-elected in '61. Was elected prosecuting-attorney in '64, (and
was again elected to the same office) in '68, and (re-elected) in ’70, which position
he still holds. Present employment, practising law at Watertown, Wisconsin.
GRADUATES OF THE SHORTER COURSE IN 1845.
ANDREW ARMSTRONG. Born near Dublin, Ireland, May 22, 1816. Entered
Hamilton in ’42. Graduated from the Shorter Course in '45. Ordained pastor
in Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., N. J., remained five years, baptized over 50.
Married Mary, daughter of Judge Swaim, of Pemberton, N. J., in March,
'47. In '51 pastor of Church in Lambertville, Hunterdon Co.; M. H. reconstruct-
ed, parsonage built, congregation increased ; remained ten years. Served Bap.
Convention and Ed. Soc. one year. Next year pastor of Kingwood Church, at
Baptisttown, N. J., ; also had charge of a mission interest in Frenchtown. In
,66 pastor of new church in Frenchtown, where he is laboring successfully.
CLASS OF 1845. 277
ALEXANDER GAMBLE. Intered from New York City in ’40; entered the
Shorter Course in '43, and graduated in '45. Ordained in Lewistown, Pa., Jan.
7, '46. In '56 he was a member of the church in De Kalb, lll. See War Record.
He left a widow and several children on his farm in De Kalb, Ill.
ISAAC F. HERRICK. Born in Gloucester, Mass., July 10, 1814. Entered the
Shorter Course in ’41, and graduated in '45. Soon commissioned by the Am.
Tract Society as a colporteur in Alabama, and afterwards in the State of New
York. After teaching school in Connecticut and Illinois, was again sent by the
Am. Tract Society as a colporteur. He was a student in Howard College two
years, and then was engaged in the Indian Mission Board's service as agent and
missionary. Feb. 13, '52, he was married to Miss Huldah Ellen Kimball. In
'53 went to Iowa, in the service of the Tract Society. Has been for many years
a resident of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Is at present employed in the Iowa Hospital
for the Insane, ministering to these sufferers.
LUCIUs W. NICHOLs. Born in Waitfield, Vt., Feb. 22, 1817. Baptized when
14 years old, in Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. Studied at Pottsdam
Academy. Elder Luman Webster on his death bed told him of Hamilton and
how to get there. Entered in ’40. Trouble in the eyes led him to enter the
Shorter Course, from which he graduated in ’45. Settled at Antwerp, Jefferson
Co., at once. In Oct., '45, was married to Mary Philena Putnam, of Hopkinton,
St. Lawrence Co. Aug. 26, ’46, was ordained, and on the 27th his young and de-
voted wiſe died, happy in the Lord. His other pastorates have been in Ft. Cov-
ington, Burke, Evans' Mills, Onondaga, McGrawville, Virgil, and Brookfield. In
'61 his throat failed, and he entered into secular business. He travelled
through Canada and the West, and made a trip to Europe. Has twice tried to
resume pastoral labor, but voice failed. In '69 supplied South Trenton. Has
done much in circulation of Bibles and good books. Baptized about a hundred.
RANSOM WALKER. Born in Greene, Chenango Co., Oct. 23, 1818. Entered
the Partial Course in '42, Graduated in '45. Married Mary Snider, at Virgil,
in Sept., '45. Preached six months at Arcadia, Wayne Co. Never ordained. In
'46 engaged in mercantile business. In '54 turned his attention to dentistry,
a profession for which his sympathizing nature specially qualifies him. Located
in Oswego in '54; still has an office there, though practising in Philadelphia,
Pa. In '66 he received the title of D. D. S., from Penn. College of Dental Sur-
gery.
H. WALTER READ. Born in Jewett City, Conn., July 17, 1819. Entered in
'41. In consequence of over work outside of the course of study, was obliged to
leave in ’44. Married Anna A. lngham, of Meridian, in June, '44. Ordained
June 12, 44, in Oswego. In August, settled with the Whitewater Church, Wis.
In 3 years the church grew from about a dozen to more than a hundred. Sup-
plied seven stations regularly, and several others occasionally. In 47 located in
Madison, Wis. Chaplain of the Convention which formed the State Constitu-
tion. Chaplain of the Senate. A Revival soon came. Organized
a church. In April, '49, started for California, chaplain for the troops on the
way. Compelled to remain at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Became chaplain of Fort
Marcy, with proviso that his missionary labors should not cease. Explored the
Territory, and made arrangements for missions. Returned to U. S. in ’51, and
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visited cities and seminaries to stir up interest. In '52 back to New Mexico, and
built a chapel at Santa Fe, with funds collected mainly by Mrs. Read among her
friends. Aided three missionaries and their wives in fixing upon their stations,
and then explored all the region adjoining. Nearly a hundred converted Catho-
lics were baptized. In '55 the health of his wife compelled his return. Labored
for the Am. and For. Bible Soc. Settled in '56 in Falls Church, Va., with a
church of nine members, which soon numbered over a hundred. Labored in
Eastern Va. four years, holding protracted meetings. So in Oneida Co., N. Y.,
in '60. Many were converted. In '62 was connected with the U. S. Treasury
Dep’t. In '63 carried $200,000 from St. Louis to Santa Fe. Visited Missions.
Explored Arizona and Southern California. His wife, worn out with missionary
labors, and with care during the war, died in New York, June 12, '64. In '66
labored in Hannibal, Mo. Baptized nearly 70. Had a mission school of 300,
and another (colored) of 800 members. Next labored at Falls Church, Va., annong
colored people. Five Sunday Schools and three churches established, nearly
a hundred baptized. In '66 married Miss Lizzie Sanderson in New York.
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BESIDES THE GRADUATES OF THE COLLEGE DEPARTMENT, THE FOLLOWING
GRADUATED IN THE THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1845:
CANTINE GARRISON. Of Holley, N. Y. Entered the Full Theological Course
in 1843, and graduated in '45. In '47 he took degree of A. M. in course. Or-
dained in Holley, Orleans Co., N. Y., June 25, '45. He was married in '48 in
Hartland, while pastor there. Pastor also in Rantoul, Ill., of a church organized
under his labors. He also organized a church in Mt. Pleasant, Ill. His wife
died Sept. 18, '71, in Chicago.
JOSEPII O. METCALF. Born in Lebanon, Conn., March 12, 1815. Graduated
at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., in ’42. Spent the next year teaching in
Academy, Richland, Ky. Licensed in Coventry, N. Y. Entered Theo. Sem’y
in '43. Graduated in '45. Ordained in Clinton, Aug. 21, ’45. Married Ruth E.
White, Floyd, Oneida Co. Pastor in Knoxville, Tenn.; Perry, Payson, Macomb,
Avon, Ill.
CLASS OF 1846.
A. JUDSON BINGHAM. Born in Wheatland, April 5, 1820. Entered in '41;
graduated in '46 and '48. In Oct., '48, married Emily, daughter of Elder Jacob
Knapp. Ordained at Hamilton, Aug. 20, 48. After being associated two years
with his father in the Indian Mission, at Saut Saint Marie, Mich., he served as
pastor in Grand Rapids, Galesburg and Allegan ; Jacksonville, Ill.; Holyoke,
Mass.; Montville, Conn.; Cohoes, N. Y. He was chaplain of the Tenth Mass.
Reg't. Declining health forced him to relinquish the pastorate and devote him-
self to teaching. He continued to preach while he served as Principal of
Egbert's Institute, Cohoes, which position he held when, on a journey, he died
suddenly of hemorrhage of the heart, Aug. 3, '68, in Scottville, near Rochester.
He was always and everywhere greatly beloved. See Mission Work and War
Record.
CHARLEs A. BUCKBEE. Was born in Penn Yan, N. Y., April 3, 1824. When
thirteen years old was converted and joined a Methodist Class in New York
City. He became a Baptist in '88, and in ’39 joined the Tabernacle Church.
CLASS OF 1846. 279
His desire to study for the ministry becoming known, Mr. Bowles Colgate, his
uncle by marriage, said, “Go to Hamilton.” In less than a week (1840) he was
studying on the hill where he graduated in ’46 and '48. Sept. 16, 48, he was
married to Miss Laura N. Griggs. Oct. 5, '48, he was ordained in Conway, Mass.,
where he immersed about forty converts. In March, '51, he became connected
with the New York Chronicle, as one of its business agents and corresponding
editors. In June, ’52, he became General Assistant in the Rooms of the Am.
Bible Union ; soon Assistant Treasurer; then Recording Sec'y; still holds official
connection with the Union. He has travelled and discoursed on revision in
twenty-three States, and in the British Provinces. In '67 and '68 he went to
California. While there held a debate on the revision question with Rev. F.
Buel, which was reported and has had wide circulation. His services in connec-
tion with the Bible Union have not kept him from constant preaching. He was
eleven years stated supply for the West Hoboken Baptist Church, near N. Y.
Eight members when he began his service ; 131 when he left. He immersed
just that number there. In '69 pastor of a new church in San Francisco ; means
to give the rest of his life to that field.
JOHN DUER. From Westchester, Pa. Entered in '44, and graduated in ’46.
Pastor several years at Montrose, Pa. Many years co-editor of the American
Baptist, New York City.
B. BARZILLAI GIBBS. Born in South Lansing, Jan. 13, 1822. Entered in ’40.
Graduated in ’46 and '48. Married Eliza E. Poyer, North Norwich, in ’51. Or.
dained in Ithaca, Aug. 29, 48. Pastor in Franklin, St. Mary’s Parish, La., in '48.
Soon became pastor of Flower Hill, Bethel and Ogden churches, in Central
Mississippi. Had also a congregation of slaves the same year, during which he
travelled, by horseback and steam, over 5,000 miles. Over four years pastor of
Wall Street Church, in Natchez. The death of his wife brought him north.
Pastor in Geneva, four years; Jordan, three years; Geneva (again), three years;
Union Springs, over three years. Two years recruiting on the homestead.
Now in Spencer, Tioga Co. Married, in '57, Minerva C. Hartwell, of Plymouth,
Chenango Co. Baptized 250.
BENJAMIN GRIFFITII. Entered from Baltimore, Md., in '40. Graduated in
46. Married a daughter of John P. Crozer, Esq., of Upland, Pa. Several
years pastor in Philadelphia, Pa. Since '57, Sec. of Amer. Bap. Pub. Soc.
Lewisburg conferred the degree of D. D.
CHANCELLOR HARTSHORN. A native of Exeter, Otsego Co., N. Y., and
born July 20, 1824. Came to the University in '44, entering the Junior Col.
legiate Class, and graduating in '46. His health being poor he became a
travelling agent for merchants a year, and then taught a year, after which he
studied law. He finally settled in law practice in Napa City, California, in '51,
and in a few months was made District Attorney; and after two years was elec-
ted Judge, holding the office four years. In '55 he was married, in Chautauqua
Co., N. Y., to Miss Electa Burnell. Retiring from the judgeship, he resumed
his law practice, and was almost immediately elected to the Legislature; first
in the Assembly, and then in the Senate. For many years past he has been also
engaged in farming on a large scale, putting in annuall y 1,000 acres of wheat.
His residence continues at Napa, Cal. •.
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LEONARD ILLSLEY. Of Portland, Me. Entered in '42; graduated in '46 and '48.
Ordained at South New Berlin, N. Y., Sept. 7, '48. Has labored in the South.
Now resides in Belmont, Gonzalo Co., Texas.
GEO. J. JOHNSON. Born in Vernon, Oct. 9, 1824. Baptized before he was
fifteen years old. Entered in '42 ; graduated in 46 and '48. Soon ordained at
Trenton Falls. In '50, married Maria L., daughter of Rev. James Nickerson, of
Cazenovia. Pastor in Burlington, Iowa, in '48. Remained ten years; organized
the church, which numbered 300 members in '58. He performed arduous and
continued labors in connection with Burlington College. Organized a church at
Fort Madison, which numbered 206 when he left it, after a pastorate of five
years. Returned to Burlington as District Sec. of Amer. Bap. Pub. Soc., for the
North-west. Now in St. Louis, in same relation to the South-west. M. U. con-
ferred D. D. in ’71. Has baptized over 550.
Solo MON B. JOHNSON. Born in Loraine, Jefferson Co., July 30, 1823. Grad-
uated in ’46 and '48, having entered in ’41. Ordained in Bedford, Ohio, in Sept.,
°48. At once pastor in Bloomington (now Muscatine), Ill. In '52, Assoc. editor
and publisher of Western Watchman, St. Louis, Mo. After four years, became
Sec. of the German Mission Soc. of the Mississippi Valley. In '54, married Mrs.
Lizzie E. Force, of Winchester, Mo. in '56 he “shook off the dust of town
life, and retired to the country, where he has since tried to make an honest
living by raising pigs, peaches and potatoes.” Residence, Oak wild, Alton P. O.,
Ill.
IRA. E. KENNY. Born in Truxton, Jan. 12, 1820. Baptized when fifteen
years old. Entered in '42, and graduated in ’46 and '48. Ordained in Truxton,
Aug., '48. Pastor in Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; Cohoes and Amsterdam, N. Y.;
Concord, N. H.; Niles, Mich.; Chicago, Ill. Resides at Hyde Park, Senior
partner in Baptist Book House, Chicago. Supplies pulpits. In July, '49, mar-
ried Mary E., “ of the Smith family,” Cazenovia, N. Y. Baptized 312.
FREEMAN LILLYBRIDGE. Was born in Vienna, Oneida Co., N. Y., Nov. 2,
1824. He entered the Univ. in '42 ; graduated in '46, and was married the
same day, in Hamilton, to Miss Mary Bryant. Resided in Annsville, two years,
teaching and farming. Removed to Ill, and settled near Rockton, Winnebago
Co., in the spring of '47, on a new farm, where he died Jan. 4, '55 (Feb., '53).
CALVIN C. MOORE. Born in Chesterfield, Mass., Dec. 26, 1818. Entered in
'44. Graduated in '46 and '48. Married Laura C. Irish, South Livonia, Livingston
Co., N.Y., in '48, and Emily Francis Whitehead, in ’51, at Calcutta, India. See
Mission Work. Since '56, he has resided in Ontario, Knox Co., Ill.; has preached
to three churches; his health being very poor.
SHUBAEL STILES PARKER. Born at Russel, Mass., May 7, 1821. Entered the
Institution, in '41. Graduated, Aug., '46. Served as assistant, during the suc-
ceeding winter, to the Rev. George Benedict, pastor of the Norfolk Street Bap.
tist Church, New York. Married at New York, June 8, '47, to Miss Harriet
Newell Tilyou. Ordained at Burlington, N. J., April, '47. Remained three
years. Became pastor of the church in New Brunswick, N. J., April, '50. AS-
sumed charge of the First Church in Paterson, N. J., May, '52. Removed to
Southbridge, Mass., June, '55, remaining there as pastor of the Central Church
twelve years. Settled with the Friendship Street Church, Providence, R. I.
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Feb., '67, and there at present laboring. In '69, received the degree of D.D.
from Madison University. Baptized about 200.
DAVID A. PECR. Entered in '42, from Clifton Park. Graduated in '46 and '48.
Ordained at Clifton Park, Sept. 6, '48. In '54, he was a Missionary in Waupaca,
Wis., which is his residence in '71. See War Record.
LEWIS SMITH. Entered in '42, from Philadelphia, Pa. Graduated in '46.
Pastor in N. J., and Missionary to New Mexico. See Mission Work.
SAMUEL J, SMITH. Born in Siam or India. Entered Hamilton, from Phila-
delphia, Pa., in '42. Graduate of both Departments. Ordained in Philadelphia,
Sept. 23, '48. See Mission Work.
Monroe, WEED. Was born at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1817. . Under
great difficulties fitted for M. U., which he entered in ’41, Class of '45. On
account of teaching a year at Middlebury, he graduated in '46. Continued
teaching in Village Academy, Hamilton, of which, in '47, he became Principal
July 19, '48, he married Miss Mary A., aughter of Prof. Zenas Morse, of Ham-
ilton. In '50 took charge of Academy in Fairfield, N. Y., which he left from
religious considerations, and in ’51 opened a Classical School in Leroy, N. Y.
Soon Principal of Middlebury Academy ; remained fifteen years ; declining pro-
fessorship of Latin, in Chicago Univ., and of Nat’i Science, Normal School,
Albany, N. Y. In '66, Principal of Academy in Fisherville, near Concord, N. H.
Here he died, June 27, '67. He had been approbated as a preacher and had in-
tended to be a missionary to the heathen, but concluded that teaching was his
vocation. To that he was consecrated soul , and body. He was in every
respect a strong man, and all his strength was given to the service of the Mas-
ter.
WM.*WILDER. Entered in ’41, from Leicester, N. Y. Graduated in '46. Or.
dained in Baltimore, Sept. 5, 47. Pastor in Philadelphia, Pa.; Bridgeton, N. J.;
Minneapolis, Minn.
WM. H. WINEs. Of Hamilton, entered in '42; graduated in '46; studied
Theology in 47. Ordained at Coxsackie, N. Y., Aug. 3, 48. Pastor also in
Boston, Mass., 53–56; Tarrytown and Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
GEORGE W. YoUNG. From Chestnut Hill, Pa. Graduated in 46 and '4S.
He was ordained and settled in Washington, Pa. In '50, he was in Hightstown,
N. J. Early in '64 he became the pastor of the First Church in Zanesville,
Ohio. Previous to his removal to Ohio he had held the honorable position of
Chancellor of the University of Lewisburg for ten years. In the maturity of his
strength and usefulness he was called away, having died Nov. 20, '64, in the
forty-eighth year of his age.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1846.
JULIAN W. ATIONE. A. Chinese, born in Canton, his father a Hong merchant
Came to this country in boyhood. Converted while Elder Rnapp was in Balti-
more, Md., in ’39. Entered the Class of '46 in ’40. His health failed when
about the middle of the Full Course, and he was for awhile under private tuition.
His mind suffered also, and he returned to Baltimore and then to China. When
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last heard from, his mental condition was not such as to fulfil the cherished
hopes of his own heart and of his friends, that he would be a minister of Christ
to his fellow-countrymen. He gave proof of talent and piety.
JOEL BALDWIN, Entered in '42 from Meredith. Ordained in Bronson, Ohio,
June 20, '49. In '51, pastor in Columbia, Ohio.
EDWARD G. BRADBURY. Of New York City, left the Class in ’44. He died
triumphantly, of consumption, in New York, March 11, ’65.
WILLIAM S. CLAPP. Entered the Sophomore Year of the Class of '46, from
|Ballston Spa, in ’43. He reached the Senior Year, but left in '45. Ordained in
Albany, March 17, '46. Pastor also in New York City ; Danbury, Conn., and
Sarmel, N. Y., his present pastorate.
WM. L. CHALLISS. Entered in 1842 from Bustleton, Pa. Went through the
Junior Year, and graduated at Columbian College, D. C., in '46. Said to be a
physician in Atchison, Kansas.
M. R. For EY. Born in Troy, Dec. 24, 1817. Entered from Tabernacle Church,
N. Y. City, in '40. Left in ’44. At once Principal of Barnwell Academy, S. C.
Teacher in Female Seminary in Charleston, '45–48; assistant pastor in Went-
worth st. Church, part of that time. Ordained pastor of church in Newbern,
N. C., in '48. Principal of Chowan Female College Institute, Murfreesboro’, N.
C., from '49 through '54, preaching most of that time as pastor of the church in
Murfreesboro’. Labored to establish Female College at Fortress Monroe, Va.
Returned to the North in '57. In '59 pastor in Delhi, N. Y. ; '60–63 in Oswego.
General Agent of Chicago University, '63–67. Baptized 70. Author of “Fe-
male Fducation,” “Premature Church Membership,” “Bible in Advance of
Science.”
GEORGE WINIFIRED HERVEY. Born in South Durham, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1821.
Had begun studying law, but was converted and turned to preaching the Gos-
pel. In 41 entered Madison University, Class of '46. Left at close of Junior
Year. Graduated from Columbian College, D.C., '47. Was ordained by Amity
st. Church, N. Y., April, '50. Pastor in Middletown, Conn.; Hudson, N. Y.;
Canton, Mass., '58. Spent '56 in Europe. He has since been in Oppenheim, N.
Y. He has been “doing the work of an Evangelist "in and around N. Y. City,
which is his present residence. He is the author of a work entitled “The Print
ciples of Courtesy,” and also the “ Rhetoric of Conversation,” the latter repub-
lished in London. He has written for the Christian Review and other
periodicals.
LyMAN HUTCIIINS. Entered in 1840, from Richfield. Nearly finished the Col.
lege Course. Ordained at Litchfield, Herkimer Co., March 17, '57. Died in
Dartfort, Wis., Aug. 26, '54.
R. PERsons, Jr. Born in Cortlandville, April 21, 1818. In '43 entered the
Class of '46. Left at the end of '44, suffering with dyspepsia, which has troubled
him ever since. Ordained in Georgetown, Aug. 22, '48. Pastor in Victory, '52
—54; Henderson, '54–57; Johnson's Grove, De Kalb Co., Ill. ; at same time in
Clinton (Centre) eight years. Last six or eight years a “kind of Home Mission-
ary in that field,” with small compensation. Baptized 200.
LUKE SHERwſN. Born in Whitingham, Vt., Oct., 1821. Converted when 14
years old. On account of poor health left the class in '44. Graduated at New
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Hampton in '46. Settled in Londonderry and Pecksville, Vt.; Warner, N. H.
On account of heart complaint had to give up the ministry. Engaged in busi-
ness in N. Y., residing at Hastings. He telegraphed to friends in Vt. to prepare
a grave for his child who had just died, but before the time of that funeral his
own was appointed. He died Aug. 19, '54.
GEORGE MAJOR SLAYSMAN. Born in Lewiston, Pa., March 9, 1822. Entered
Class of '46, from Punxsutawney, in '40. Completed the Soph. Year, and was
afterwards in the College till '46. Practised dentistry from '46 to ’51 in Holli-
daysburg, Pa. In '48 married Mary Barton Diven, Shirleysburg. Ordained in
Williamsburg, Jan. 16, ’51. In '50 began missionary work in York and region
round about. Organized a church of eleven members. Preached in a hall rented
and fitted mainly at his own expense. Finished lecture-room of a meeting-house
and a parsonage in 52–’53, doing much of the carpentry himself. Church organ-
ized in Stewartstown in ’56. Left York in '62. See War Record. In '63 pastor of
Gibeon and Jackson Church. Returned to York in '65 and left in '69, making
17 years in that field, having in part supported himself by dentistry, book-sell-
ing, and music teaching. In 70 pastor in Pottstown. Baptized 128. In '68
published “ Independent or Democratic Church Government.” Second edition
in '70.
DAVID TAYLOR. Born in N. Y. City, Dec. 11, 1822. Entered in ’40. Asthma
broke up his course of study, pursued at intervals after leaving Hamilton in '42.
Married Selina Gray, of N. Y. City, in ’46, who died in '55. Ordained Dec., 46,
in Leominster, Mass. Settled also in E. Brookfield, Mass.; Suffield, Conn.,
(First Church); Rondout, N. Y.; Dundee and Truxton. Supplied when not able
to be pastor ; Cannon St., N. Y. City ; Lansingburg, Poughkeepsie, West Ho-
boken, Flushing, Albany (South), and many others, from three months to two
years, often without remuneration. Has aided pastors in special meetings. Has
been successful in business. His second wife was an adopted daughter of A.
Meneeley, of West Troy. He next married Annie C. Smith, of Pawtucket, R. I.
CHARLEs E. WoOLVERTON. Born in Canada West, Aug. 24, 1820, Joined
Baptist Church. Entered Class of '46, in '42, left Junior Class in '45. Married
Delight S. Bennett, of North Brookfield. She died about seven years afterwards.
Then spent a year in the Institution. Returned to Grimsby and married Miss
Amanda Smith, of Lockport, N. Y. Entered upon his present occupation of
fruit-grower and nurseryman. For 25 years has been Sup’t of a Union Sunday
School ; gives time and energy to promotion of temperance.
BESIDES THE GRADUATES OF THE COLL. DEPARTMENT, THE FOLLOWING
GRADUATED IN THE THEOL. CLASS OF 1846.
EGBERT BOERENOOGEN. Born in Harlem, Holland, May 4, 1809; of Men-
nonite parentage and training. Designated for the ministry in his childhood,
he graduated from the University of Amsterdam, proficient in several languages.
Entered the ministry, but felt a loathing for it; took ship for America, reached,
the wilds of Herkimer Co., N. Y.; married Margaret Bourquin, a French maiden.
They heard S. Hayward, Missionary of the State Convention, preach. He ac-
cepted an invitation to visit at their house, a storm shut them in for three days,
which were spent in prayer and study of the Bible. Boekenoogen and his wife.
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were soon converted and baptized. He felt that to preach Christ would now be
a pleasure. G. J. Johnson (Class of '46 and '48) met him, and lie was soon in the
Theol. Class at Hamilton, where he graduated in '46. Ordained at Philadelphia,
Pa., Nov. 11, ’46. Pastor in Muncy, Pa., Lycoming Co., three years. Three years
in and around Rockford, Ill. On to Muscantine, Iowa. There he and his
family suffered much from sickness. Next in Pella, Iowa, laboring among a
large population of Hollanders, preaching to them as he had opportunity, labor-
ing especially as a colporteur four years. His interest was great in the American
ſ!hurch, also in the Institution of Learning, of which he was for several years
Treasurer and member of the Board. Having suffered severely a long time from
scrofula, he died, more than conqueror, July 8, '62. He left his widow with
seven children. A fitting tribute to his memory was made for the Iowa State
Convention by Rev. G. J. Johnson.
WILLIAM CECIL DUNCAN. Born in N. Y. City in '25. His boyhood was spent
in Grenada, Miss. In '43 he graduated with high honors from Columbia College,
N. Y. Began to study law. Entered Hamilton Theol, Seminary in '45, and
graduated in '46. Immediately settled in New Orleans, La., where he was or-
dained Jan. 2, 48. For some years senior Editor of South-Western Baptist
Chronicle. Afterwards conducted the New Orleans Baptist Chronicle. Between
the times of these services he was Professor of Languages in the University of
Louisiana. He visited Europe for his health in ’51. He was pastor of the Col-
iseum Place Church, and had much to do with the erection of their fine Place of
Worship. His health was poor for many years. He travelled in Texas, but found
no relief, and died Sunday, May 1, ’64, Rev. J. W. Horton, the martyr of '65,
wrote that “the sufferings of Dr. Duncan in Texas were those of a martyr.”
Author of “Life and Character of John the Baptist,” “Tears of Jesus,” and
some other works. He was a fine scholar and a man of most excellent Spirit.
Columbia College conferred the degree of D.D.
LINUS M. PECK. Son of Rev. John Peck, was born in Cazenovia, Feb. 3, 1818.
Baptized April, '33. Studied at Academies in Cazenovia, Lockport, Hamilton.
Entered Hamilton College (Clinton) in ’38, where he graduated in ’41, and in
which he subsequently received appointment as Tutor. Studied law with his
brother in Hudson. In '43, taught in the village Academy in Hamilton and
studied Hebrew in the Theol. Seminary. In '44 entered Junior Theol. Class and
graduated in '46. Sept. 17, married Miss Cordelia C., daughter of Dr. N. Kendrick.
Dr. Kendrick’s lingering sickness prevented his entering at once on a mission
to Asia. He preached in Lebanon about a year; then several months to the
congregation in Hamilton, of which it was expected that he would become pas-
tor, but he died, October 4, '47, as related in the sketch of his brother, Philetus
B. Peck, of the Class of '36.
Cyrus SILook. Of Red Hook, N. J. Had pursued collegiate studies before
entering the Theo'l Department, from which he graduated in '46. He had
been ordained in Saugerties, N. Y., in '42. He has been pastor in Kingston and
Lackawack (Naponock, P. O.), Ulster Co., N. Y.
CLASS OF 1847.
ALEXANDER. M. BEEBEE. Son of A. M. Beebee, LL.D., of the N. Y. Baptist
Register. Born in Utica, Feb. 6, 20. Entered the Class of '44 in '89. Absent
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two or three years. Graduated in Class of '47 and '49. Pastor in Jordan, '49–50.
In '50 married Miss E. J. Hall, of Sullivan, Madison Co. Since '50 Professor in
University and Theo'l Seminary. See Officers and Teachers.
TERRY BRADLEY. Born in Missouri in '21. In '45 entered; graduated in ’47
and '49. Ordained in Rhinebeck, June 14, '49. Having recovered from typhoid
pneumonia, he returned to Mo. in '50 and settled in Palmyra. Soon Professor
in William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. He was teaching and preaching in
Trenton, Mo., when he died, in '59 or '60, aged 38 years.
ELI W. BROWNELL. Born in Albany, July 8, 19. Determined, D. V., that
he would have a collegiaté education, if not till he should be 40 years old.
Entered Madison University in ’44; graduated in ’47. Ordained pastor in Cam-
bridge, Jan. 15, '49. In May, '48, married Sarah J. Couch, of Schoharie, N. Y.
Other pastorates, Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N. Y., '50–53; Still water, Saratoga
Co., N.Y.; North Hebron, Wash. Co., N. Y., '54; West Rupert, Vt., 58. On ac-
count of throat disease, he did not preach for two years. In spring of '62 be-
gan pastorate of five years in Northampton, Fulton Co., N. Y. Pastor in Provi-
dence, Saratoga Co., present residence.
A. J. BUELI. Born in Delphi, N. Y., Oct. 30, 20. Entered Madison Univer-
sity in '43. Graduated in ’47. Principal of Academy, Montrose, Pa., two years.
Superintendent of Public Schools of Newark, Ohio, one year; of Portsmouth,
Ohio, three years. In '54 entered Fairmount Theol. Seminary ; graduated in '55.
Ordained pastor in Salt Creek, Ohio, Oct., '55. Has been pastor of other
churches in Ohio. In Jan., '51, was married to Miss Susan Davey, of Ports-
mouth, Ohio. Has baptized about two hundred. Residence, Jackson, Ohio.
WILLIAM CORNELL. Born in Romulus, N. Y., Oct. 2, 19. Entered from
Pontiac, Mich., in '43, and left in the spring of '48, when in the Junior Theo-
logical Class. Was married in Beekman, Dutchess Co., N. Y., to Miss Phebe
Miller, in Nov. '48. Was ordained by the church in Ovid, N. Y., in March or
April, '49. From May, '50, served three years as itinerant and exploring mis-
sionary of the A. B. H. M. Society, in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Pastor of the
Mayville and Hartford Churches, each four years. Then Agent of the Wis.
Bap. State Convention one year, and of the Wis. Bap. Education Society three
years. Then pastor of Merton church two years, in which their meeting-house
was built. In '68 went to Iowa, and was pastor of the Jessup Church one year.
Now resides in Waterloo, Iowa.
M. P. FORBEs. Born in Fort Ann, June 2, 20. Entered in ’41. Graduated
in '47. Married Fanny J., daughter of Rev. A. P. Draper, of Ontario, Wayne
Co. Ordained in Phelps, April 11, '49. Pastor of Second Church five years.
Pastor also in Sodus, ’52; Reed's Corners, ’54; Canandaigua, ’55; Painted Post,
'57; Galesville, '59; Adamsville, '61; East Penbrook, '65; Elba, '68, present
residence. In '55 Rochester University conferred honorary degree of A.M.
Baptized 217.
GEO. WHITEFIELD Gorſt AM. Born at New Haven, Conn., Oct. 18, '20. En-
tered in ’41; graduated in ’47 and 49. Ordained Oct., '49, at New Haven. In
'49 pastor in Dubuque, Iowa. Preached in Seymour, Chester, and Rockville,
Conn., '51–’54. Pastor of Second Church, Holyoke, Mass., and then of First,
eight years in both. See War Record. Since ’65 pastor in Chester, Conn.
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In '53 married Emily, sister of Rev. G. P. Watrous, formerly missionary to
Burmah. -
L. O. GRENELL. Son of Rev. Z. Grenell. Born at Mount Salem, N.J., Jan. 1,
’21. Graduated in ’47 and in '49, having entered in ’41. Ordained at Elbridge,
May, '49. June, '50, missionary in San Jose, Cal. In '54 settled in Arcadia,
N. Y.; in Middletown, '56; Honesdale, Pa., '59 ; New Market, N.J., '65. Married
C. Amelia Waring, in Scipio, in ’49. Rochester University conferred honorary
A.M. in ’55. Baptized about 400.
ELIHU GUNN. Born in Montague, Mass., Jan. 3, 18. Graduated in ’47 and
'49, having entered in ’44. Married Amy B. Barrett, of Granville, N. Y., in
Aug., '49. Ordained in Montague. Settled first in Keokuk, Iowa. The town
in eight years grew from 1,500 to 16,000 inhabitants, and the church from a
few scattered Baptists to an efficient body of 200 members. Next in Pella,
Iowa, where he had a hard, if not useless, struggle to build up a college located
there. In '62 pastor in Mt. Pleasant; church grew from 90 members to 225; in
'69 a spacious house built. Removed to Atchison, Kansas, in 1870.
JOSIAH. M. HEDGES. In 1841 he entered the Class of '46, from Albany, but in
'43 entered the Class of '47 and '49. He became an Episcopalian minister; was
settled in Little Falls, N. Y. His name was not on the list of Am. Epis. clergy-
men in '66.
J. K. HORNISH. Was born at Greensburgh, Westmoreland Co., Pa., May 24,
’21. He entered in ’41 and graduated in ’47. Was soon settled with the church
in Elizabeth, Alleghany Co., Pa., and ordained pastor in Jan., '48. Was married
at Elizabeth, in '48, to Miss Harriet Wyckoff. Served this and the Salem
Church until the autumn of '49, and then removed to South Pittsburg, and
became pastor of the First Church. Removed to Keokuk, Iowa, in ’51. Super-
intendent of the Burlington and Southwestern Railway of Iowa, Missouri, and
Nebraska. His residence is Fort Madison, Iowa.
H. E. KNAPP. See Mission Work.
JOHN D. MEEson. Born in N. Y. City, Feb. 14, 1822. Entered the Institu-
tion, Oct., 41. Graduated Aug., '47. From Theology, '49. Married Miss
Louise Covington, of Middleborough, Mass., May 11, ’52. Ordained March 12,
'50. Pastor of churches in Fort Wayne, Ind.; Haddonfield, N. J.; Winchester,
Mass.; Flushing, N. Y.; and Hastings-on-Hudson, where he is now pastor. Bap-
tized many, but has kept no account.
LUCIEN M. Os BORN. Born in Ashtabula, Ohio, July, '23. Entered in ’43;
graduated in ’47. In '50, married Phebe Brown, in Bridgewater, N. Y. See
Officers and Teachers.
JAMES H. PRATT. Born in Salisbury, N. Y., April 23, 19. Entered in ’44;
graduated in ’47 and '49. Ordained at Owego, Oct. 18, '49. On account of
health, changed pastorate to North Granville, in ’51. In Bloomfield, N. J., in
'53. North Granville (again), in '58. Dixon, Ill., in '64; still there. Received
honorary A.M. from Rochester University in ’54. Baptized two hundred and
fifty-five.
Bow LES C. Towns BND. Born in Delaware Co., N. Y., Aug. 2, 20. Entered
in '40, and graduated in ’47 and '49. Married Calista A. Barry, at Ovid, in ’49.
Ordained in Lodi, in October. Pastor at Port Richmond, Staten Island, in '50;
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also in Mechlinburg, Peach Orchard, Gorham, Hempstead. Being in attend-
ance upon the meetings of the N. J. State Convention, at Newark, he was taken
with inflammation of the lungs, and after seven weeks of Severe suffering, died
in Newark, Dec. 18, 61. He was buried in Greenwood, Brooklyn, L. I. He had
baptized fifty. He was studious, warm-hearted, guileless, faithful.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERs of THE CLASS OF 1847.
NORMAN B. BALDWIN. Entered in ’41, from New Milford, Conn. Left in
'45. Ordained in Monticello, Sullivan Co., Jan. 20, 47. Has been pastor in
Philadelphia, Pa., and N. Y. City. Present pastorate in Line Lexington, Pa.
ARCIIIBALD BRYANT CAMPBELL. Born in Lebanon, Madison Co., March 11,
’27. Entered in '42, left during the year of graduation. Married Aug. 11, ’60,
to Amy E. Beach, of Columbus, N. Y., “prior to which he travelled in South
America and the United States for seven years very pleasantly ; thereafter was
Principal of Hamilton Academy not profitably : after marriage was Principal of
three academies nominally; then speculated one year successfully ; since which
he has lived in Hamilton quietly, and is yours respectfully.”
JOHN DORSEY COLLINS was born in Alfred, Alleghany Co., N. Y., April 6, ’23.
In Aug., '44, he entered the Class of '47; the first that ever entered college from
that town. Lack of funds compelled his departure when he had finished but
half the College Course. In 46, Principal of Phoenix Academy, Ky. Next year
was private tutor in Adams Co., Miss. In '48, Principal of Beach Island Aca-
demy, near Hamburg, S. C. From Jan., '49, to July, '53, Principal of Cherokee
Co. Academy, Canton, Ga. June 25, '51, married Miss Elizabeth Sarah Gris-
ham, of Canton. In '53–54, principal teacher in the Woodland Female Semi-
nary, Cedar Town, Ga., being Prof. of Latin and Nat. Science. In '58 became
Prof. of Nat. Science and Eng. Ilit., in Cherokee Baptist College, Cassville, Ga.
In June, '61, its doors were closed by the war, but he taught a village school in
the building. In Aug., '59, was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church in Cass-
ville. In '64 taught Randolph High School, at Cuthbert, Ga. While Gen.
Sherman was marching thro' Georgia, all the military force of the State was
called out, and he, as a private, was in an engagement at Macon and Atlanta,
but was discharged by special instance of Gov. Brown. In Sept., '64, began ser-
vice in Montpelier (Episcopal) Female Institute, but Gen. Sherman's approach
suspended its operations. In Aug., '65, he opened a High School in Atlanta ; in
'66, taught in Canton ; since then he has been connected with the Stilesboro’
Institute, now the chief school in Cass Co. He has been Examiner of School
Teachers for Cass Co., and Visitor to the University of Georgia. Honorary A.M.
conferred by Mad. Univ., in ’59.
EDWIN DIBELL. Was born June 1, 20, in Kingsville, Ashtabula Co., Ohio.
Entered Mad. Univ. in '43, in Class of '47, left at end of Sophomore Year, '45.
Graduated at Brown Univ., in '47. Married at Belgrade, Me., May 27, 52, to
Miss F. E. Mills. Was ordained in Gardiner, Me. Settled also in Cherry field,
Me..; New Ipswich, N. H.; and Aroostook Co., Me., and Kingsville, Ohio, his
~present residence.
ALBERT C. INGHAM. Was born in Meridian, Cayuga Co., N. Y., Dec. S, '2S,
and entered the Class of '47 in '43, left during Junior Year, and graduated at
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Union College, in ’47. Taught for one year, and then removed to Madison,
Wis., and was connected with the Press, and was also admitted to the Bar.
Was for years Secretary of the Wisconsin Agricultural Society. Resigning in
'56, he went to N. Y. City, and engaged in commercial pursuits, in which he
still continues. In July, '66, he was married to Miss Cynthia A. Van Wic, of
Meridian ; since which time he spends most of his time in the country at Merid-
ian, occupying himself as an amateur horticulturist.
E. H. PAGE. Entered in ’44, from Brooklyn, N. Y. Graduated at Brown
Univ., in ’47. Pastor in Brooklyn, Charlestown (Bunker Hill), Mass.; Milford,
South Groton. Married Stella, daughter of Rev. J. M. Graves, of Mass.
ORRIN T. WALKER. Entered in '42, from Conn. Ordained in Orleans, Mass.,
Dec. 5, '54. Pastor also in Tisbury, Mass.; Trenton, N. J.; Boston, Mass.; Chi-
cago, Ill.; West Meriden, Conn. Chaplain of Mass. House of Representatives,
in '64.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT, THE FOLLOWING
WERE MEMBERS OF THE THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1847:
SAMUEL HASKELL. Born in Bridgeton, Me., March 20, 18. Having gradu-
ated at Brown Univ., in ’45, he at once entered the Theo'l Seminary; where he
graduated in ’47. Ordained at Suffield, Conn., Aug. 4, '47, and there married
Elizabeth H. Granger, same year. Pastor in Detroit, Mich., five years, to ’52,
Kalamazoo to ’71. Now in Ann Arbor. Mad. Univ. conferred D.D. in '67. Bap-
tized seven hundred and fifty.
Joseph TR. MANTON. Born in Providence, R. I. Entered Seminary from
IBrown Univ., in ’45, left in '46. Ordained in Gloucester, Mass., Feb. 14, '49.
Married Miss Helme, in Providence. Enjoyed a revival in Gloucester; soon left
on account of health. Pastor in Quincy, Ill.; Minneapolis, Minn.; St. Josephs,
Mo. Preached in other places, in South and West.
CLASS OF 1848.
J. G. Bow EN. He was born near Mercersburg, Pa., Sept. 7, 20. Baptized in
Dayton, Ohio, 31. Went through Sophomore Year in Granville College. En-
tered Mad. Univ., in ’46; graduated in '48. Ordained in Norton, Mass., Feb. 1,
°49. Pastor in Middletown, Ohio, in '50. Married Miss Mary J. Gibson, April 2,
'52. Next in Cincinnati, with the (now) Freeman Street Church. Attended
Fairmount Theo'l Seminary. In '54 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and at Danville.
From '56 to ’60 missionary at Nebraska City. In '61 pastor in Mt. Gilead.
Next in Delphi, itinerating. In '66, in Bloomington, Ill., where he now resides
as ex-pastor.
WM. C. BURCHARD. Born Sept. 2, 29. Entered Univ. in ’44. Graduated
from College in '48. Studied law, but did not adopt it as a profession. Spent
several years in California. In '60, was appointed American Consul to Honduras,
C. A., which position lie still holds. Married, in Honduras, to Miss Francisca
Bustillo.
JAMES STOKES DICKERSON. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 6, 25. Con-
verted under the preaching of Elder Jacob Knapp in New York, when twelve
years of age. Entered in '42; graduated in '48. Several years connected with
the New York Recorder, afterwards with the Am. Bap. Pub. Soc'y. Ordained
in Philadelphia, Pa., in Jan., '61. Pastor in Wilmington, Del. ; Pittsburg, Pa.;
and Boston, Mass. In '71 he made the tour of Europe. He received the degree
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of A.M. (honorary), from Rochester Univ. in ’51, and in '68 that of D.D. from
the Univ. of Lewisburg. His present wife is a daughter of Prof. J. F. Richard-
son, of Rochester Univ.
A. H. BURLINGITAM. He was born Feb. 18, '22, in Castile, Wyoming Co.,
N. Y. Entered Mad. Univ. in ’43. Graduated in '48 and '50. Married, in Ham-
ilton, Nov. 11, ’51, to Miss Emma I. Starr. Ordained in Pittsburg, Pa., in '50,
pastor of Grant Street. Church Pastor in Owego, in Boston, Mass, (Harvard St.),
°52–56; New York (South Church), '56–65; American Chapel, Paris, France,
'66; St. Louis, Mo., '67. Degree of D.D. was conferred by Shurtleff College.
Baptized over five hundred.
ALEXANDER W. CARR. Born in Jamestown, R. I., Feb. 7, 22. Entered from
Fall River, Mass., in '42. Graduated in '48. Entered Newton Theo'ſ Seminary
in '49. In '50, married Eliza, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer Nelson, of Middleboro’,
Mass. Ordained in First Church, Fall River, in Oct., '50. Pastor in Rowley,
Mass., eleven years from '51; in Framingham Centre, three years; Medfield,
four years. Resigned on account, of poor health in ’70, and resides in Boston,
Mass. Baptized sixty.
JOHN D. GREENE. Was born in Brookfield, Madison Co., N. Y., Nov. 5, 18.
Entered Mad. Univ. in '45. Graduated in '48. Studied in Theo'l Dept. In
Sept., '49, supplied at Stillwater. After that, settled at Half Moon. Ordained,
May 7, '50 ; preaching also in Waterford at the same time—afterwards preaching
to the two churches in Half Moon. In '52, pastor of the Second Church in Half
Moon only. Married Jan. 5, '53, to Miss Nancy Philo, granddaughter of Elder
Abijah Peck. In '53, pastor of Glenville Church, in Scotia Village, near Sche-
nectady. Died there of apoplexy, Feb. 16, ’54. Buried at Clifton Park.
O. N. GORTON. Born in Brookfield, Madison Co., Feb. 4, 25. Entered in
'44. Graduated in '48. Married Miss H. M. Palmer, at Clarksville, in '49. From
'48 to ’54, Prof. of Ancient and Mod. Languages in Brockport Co) lege. In '52,
received honorary A.M. from Univ. of Rochester. Then two years in charge of
Coll. Institute, in Janesville, Wis. Since then he has resided in Fox Lake ;
three years in book business, and eleven years as farmer. Has taught or super-
intended schools almost every year. Nearly fourteen years Sec. of Board of
Wis. Female College. Deacon of the Baptist Church.
L. W. HAYITURST. Born at Newhope, Pa., April 3, 23. Entered in July, '44,
and graduated in '48. Studied Theology a year. Married Elizabeth H. Tower,
in Waterville, in '50. Pastor in Sangerfield, Mohawk, Ballston Spa. Head of
High School, Waterville, eight years. Took charge of Burlington Coll. Insti-
tute in '65. Pastor at Des Moines, in '66. His wife died, March 17, '65. Has
married Miss R. A. Cole, of Newton, Iowa. In Burlington in ’70.
JOHN STANFORD HOLME. Entered from Holmesburg, Pa., in ’44. Gradu-
ated in '48 and '50. Pastor in Watertown, N. Y. (ordained there, Nov. 12, '50);
Brooklyn, Pierrepont St., and New York (Trinity Baptist Church). Mad. Univ.
conferred degree of D.D. in '66. Made a European tour in ’71.
A. M. HOPPER. Was born at Long Branch, N.J., Jan. 12, 22. Entered Mad
Univ., 41. Graduated in '48 and '50. In Aug., '50, married Levantia, daughter
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of Dr. Lewis, of Hamilton. Ordained pastor of Academy Street Baptist Church,
New Haven, Conn., in fall of '50. Pastor in Charlestown, Mass., First Church,
'55; in Auburn, N. Y., in '57; in Bridgeport, Conn., '61, his present pastorate.
In '70, Mad. Univ. conferred degree of D.D. Has baptized over five hundred.
JAMEs E. KIMBALL. Born in Albany, May 5, 1828. Entered in '46; gradu-
ated in '48. Married Susan Frances Wheeler, at Troy, in '50. Soon engaged
and still continues in the wholesale flour and grain trade, Troy, N. Y.
WM. LEET. Born at Beaver, Pa., June 14, 1820. Entered in ’44; graduated
in '48. One year in Theology. Preached to the “Antislavery Baptist Church"
in Cincinnati, '49–50. Ordained in Milford, O., June 14, '50. Married Mrs.
Lydia Turner in '51. Pastor in Aurora, Ind., Greenville, Pa., '53; Alliance, O.,
'55; Bedford, '58; North Camden, '63. While in C. he collected a church at
Oberlin, of which he became pastor in '67. Raised a church in Bellevue and one
in Savannah. While pastor he has done much work as a missionary. He has
baptized 657. Residence, Savannah, O.
L. S. LIVERMORE. Born at German, Chenango Co., Oct. 12, 1820. Entered in
'44; graduated in '48. In '48 married Mrs. Jane H. Kimberly. Former name of
present wife, Sarah J. Rexford, of Sherburne. Ordained at Earlville in Nov.,
'48. There four years. In Fabius till fall of ’58. Then in Berlin, Wis., till fall
of ’61. See War Record. In '66 pastor in Grinell, Iowa; in Chariton in '69.
W.M. WAIRD. See Mission Work.
CHARIES C. WELLINGTON. Born at Troy, N. Y., in 1830. Entered M. U.
Oct., 46, in the Junior Class; graduated in '48. He died April 30, '53, at Chatham
Four Corners, N. Y. He was regarded as a young man of remarkable abilities
and great promise. He had just completed his studies preparatory to entering
upon the profession of law. Was editor of the Madison County Journal, and had
already achieved considerable local distinction as a writer and speaker. He called
upon his classmate, J. E. Kimball, at his office in Troy, on the morning of the
day he died, apparently as well, sane, and cheerful as ever, remained a few min-
utes, and stepped aboard a southern-bound train passing the door. In a few days
the papers contained accounts of an inquest upon the remains of an unknown
man, who seemed to have died by suicide, at Chatham. It proved to be Welling.
ton. His untimely death was mourned by a large circle of friends besides his
relatives. Funeral services were held at Hamilton, N. Y. ; a discourse was
delivered by Rev. Dr. Baldwin, of Troy, which was printed at the time. His
remains were interred at Troy.
NON-GTRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1848.
WARREN B. CLAPP. Born in N. Y. City, Sept., 1827. Converted at sixteen
years of age. Entered in '45; graduated at Brown Univ'y. Was four years in
business. Studied at Rochester. Ordained in Dover, N. H., '56. In 62 removed
to Milford, N. H. Compelled to resign by disease which ended his life, in his
father's house, Wappinger's Falls, N. Y., April, '65. Very genial, apt, vivacious.
JACOB FREAM. Born in Frederick Co., Md., Jan. 3, 1819. Entered the
Institution in Oct., '44, in the Freshman Class. Left on account of failing health
in June, '45. Taught school in Maryland until '48. Married in Fulton Co., Pa.,
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Dec. 21, ’47, to Miss Abby Stillwell. Removed to Pruntytown, W. Va., in '48,
and taught in Rector College, and afterwärds in the Female Institute. Came to .
Independence, W. Va., in '55, and engaged in mercantile business until the
present time. Has been a licentiate since '42, but his lungs are too weak to allow.
much public speaking.
MINER FRINR, JR. From Rensselaerville, where he was born July 28, 1818.
Entered the Class in '45, left in '47, and graduated at B. U. in '48. Counsellor-at-
law in San Francisco, Cal.
D. GARTH waſ T. Born in Warwick, Orange Co., Jan. 17, 1821. He entered
the Univ'y in Oct., '43, and left the Junior Class in Jan., '47. Was licensed to
preach, but never ordained, and never married. From the time of leaving the
Univ'y has been employed in farming up to '69. Served the First Church in
Elmira, N. Y., as deacon, ten years. He has occasionally supplied churches for
a limited time. He is at present engaged in business at Horse Heads, N. Y.
J. T. MASON. Born in Fort Ann, Feb. 14, 1821. In 45 he entered the Class of
'48, and left in '46. Began his labors with the church in Galesville, Washington
Co., April 1, ’45. Ordained Nov. 4, '47. Married Miss L. Greene, of Union
Village, Washington Co., in '48. Settled in Sterling, Whiteside Co., Ill., Nov.
21, ’56. The church then was small and without a meeting-house. Has built a
good church edifice, and since enlarged it, and he still is pastor there.
R. F. PARSHALL. Born in Middlefield, Otsego Co., Aug. 30, 1823. Converted
in Cooperstown, in a meeting held by Elder Jabez Swan. Joined the Class of
'48 in ’41, but left early in the Course. Ordained pastor in Westford, Otsego
Co., July 11, ’45. There four years. Married Amanda Bailey, of Clarksville,
in '45. Other pastorates, Sloansville, Scholarie Co., seven years. Fort Ed-
ward, five years, part of the time supplying Sandy Hill; Afton, Rock Co., Wis.,
five years; then West Salem, Wis., till or after ’69. Every church has more
than doubled its numbers during his pastorate. From the first decided that
he would not remain with any church more than a year without a revival and
additions. Held protracted meetings with other churches. Has the names of
three thousand persons seemingly converted in connection with his ministry.
Of these, twenty-one are now in the ministry, or preparing for it. In '69 he had
baptized 1,132.
HIRAM. A. PRATT. Born in Shutesbury, Mass., Jan 21, 1819. A graduate of
Amherst College. Was a member of the Class of '48, in ’46–47. Taught Shel-
burne Falls Academy, Mass., three years; Norwalk Inst., Ohio, two years; Shel-
burne Falls again three years; Principal of Conn. Lit. Institution, Suffield, five
years from '56; had charge of Hartford High School ’61–65. Three years in
business in Cleveland, O. From '68 till now, Principal of N. J. Classical Inst.,
Hightstown.
ISAAC T. RATHBONE. Of Buffalo, N. Y. Entered the Class of '48 in ’44;
passed through the Sophomore Year. Graduated at Yale College in '48. En-
gaged as tutor in the family of the late Senator Ewing, of Ohio, and died of the
cholera in '48.
DANIEL READ. Born in Orangeville, Wyoming Co., April 11, 1S25. Entered
in '43, and left Class in Junior Year. In April, '47, married Susan A. Moore, and
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in '51, Miss L. B. Daniels. Pastor in Big Flats, Chemung Co., one year; Medina,
four years; St. Louis, Mo., four years. President of Shurtleff College from 56
to "70, in which year he became pastor in Winona, Minn. In '58 M. U. conferred
the degree of LL.D.
MALCOLM ROBERTS. Born in Tyringham, Mass., Dec. 29, 1819. In 44 entered
Class of '48. Left in '46. In 47 married Phebe Roloson, Wantage, N. Y.
Settled in Ripley, West Portland, Salem Cross Roads; Madison, Ohio; Con-
neautville and Carmel, Pa.; Albany, N. Y. (South Church); Berean Church,
West Phila., Pa. Retired awhile for needed rest. Returned to Madison, O., in
'59; three years pastor. Got a home there, recruited, and supplied pulpits. In
'67 pastor in Ashtabula ; still his field. Baptized 160.
BURT WAN HORN. Was born in Newfane, Niagara Co., N. Y., Oct. 28, 1823.
Came to the University in '44, and at the close of his Freshman Year failure of
health obliged him to leave the Institution, and return to the labors and cares
of a farm. He was married in Niagara Co., N. Y., July, '51, to Miss Charlotte
T. Goodell. Was a member of the N. Y. Legislature successively for three years,
his last election being in '59. In '60 he was elected a member of Congress, again
in '62, and again in '64, and served through the three terms. He has resided for
many years in Lockport, N. Y., and is engaged in business, and is an active
member of the Baptist Church there.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT, THE FOLLOWING
WERE MEMBERS OF THE THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1848:
SOLOMON. S. RELYEA. Of New Paltz, Ulster Co. A graduate of N. Y. Univ'y.
Entered Theol. Dep't, in ’46, and graduated in '48. Ordained in Harlem, N. Y.,
Jan. 11, '49. In Kingston in ’56; in '65 in Liberty, Miss.
MILTON S. SHIRK. A graduate of Miami Univ'y, O. Graduated from the
Theol. Sem’y in '48. He taught in Female Sem'y, Clinton, La., was Principal
of Pearl River Institute, Monticello, Miss. In '52, established, at his own
expense, “Amite Female Seminary,” Liberty, Miss., and continued it twelve
years with great success. The war compelled suspension in '64. Though a non-
combatant and opposed to secession, U. S. Cavalry, without military necessity,
burned his property, and reduced him from affluence to poverty. He had beeri
ordained in Columbus, Miss., in April, '46. He has preached to Ebenezer Bap.
Church, New Providence and Galilee, Mount Vernon (or Liberty)—800 members
added in twelve years. Since the war he has resided chiefly in New Orleans,
supplying Coliseum Bap. Church. Is now President of Shreveport Univ'y, a
new Bap. College in Jua.
J. B. STITELER. Was a native of Philadelphia, Pa.; a graduate of the Univ'y
of Penn. Graduated from the Theol. Dept. M. U., 1848. He had been ordained
in Phila., Pa., June 9, '46. He was pastor of Bap. Church, Jackson, Miss. ; Gal-
veston, Texas; Professor in Baylor Univ'y, Independence, Texas; pastor in
Savannah, Ga. Went to Florida for his health, and about Jan. 1, '57, died of con-
sumption in Savannall.
R. G. To LEs. Born in Durham, Green Co., Sept. 29, 1813. Entered in ’43, and
graduated in Theol. Class of '48. Married in '35 to IIarriet Mattram. Ordained
in Cooperstown, Nov., '48. Five years pastor in Frankfort, from '49; baptized
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83 there. Then served Am. Bap. Publication Soc'y. General and Financial
Agent of N. Y. Bap. Ed. Soc'y, till Oct., '60, when he became Principal of the
4th Ward Mission, New York City, in connection with W. C. Van Meter. They
organized the Howard Mission. In service of Christian Commission while Gen.
Grant was before Petersburg. Labored for homeless children in New York. In
'65 at head of Little Wanderer's Home, Boston, Mass. Up to Feb., '71, had de-
livered 1,872 addresses, and received to the Home 2,838 children. Edits Little
Wanderer’s Advocate. o
HENRY L. WAN METER. See Mission Work.
CLASS OF 1849.
CHARLEs AYER. Was born at Charlestown, Mass., March 16, 1826. Entered
M. Univ'y in the Senior Year, and graduated in '49. Ordained pastor of the Bap.
Church in Turner, Me., in ’51. Married at Amherst, Mass., to Miss E. Caroline
Fish, in ’51. Has preached in Maine, Mass., and New York.
WILLIAM T. BIDDLE. Son of Rev. W. B. See Mission Work.
JosłPH BURNETT. Entered in '45, and graduated in '49 and ’51. His Class
commenced the Senior Year with twenty-nine members, and graduated but
seventeen. Owing to the removal controversy only W. T. Biddle and himself
completed the Theological Course. He became pastor of the Bap. Church in
Pitcher, N. Y., where he was ordained. He left Pitcher in ’53, and supplied
the church at Little Falls, N. Y., and soon after settled as pastor of the Mt. Ver-
non Church, N. Y. In Feb., '54, he was married at Whitestown, N. Y., to Miss
E. A. Newcomb. From Mt. Vernon he removed to Hastings, on the Hudson,
and remained there until '57, When he removed to Conn., where he served the
churches at Lyme, New London, and Tariffville; this last church he served as
pastor for six years. His next residence was South Gardner, Mass. Now pastor
in Wethersfield, Conn.
ERASTUs H. BURR. Was born in Preble, Cortland Co., N. Y., Feb. 9, 1820.
He entered in '45, and graduated in '49. He entered the Rochester Theological
Seminary the same fall, and graduated in '51. He was married at Ogden Centre,
Monroe Co., in ’51, to Miss Susan Voorhies. Entered the ministry at Massillon,
Ohio, Oct. 5, '51. The following June, in consequence of the severe sickness of
his wife, he returned to N. Y. State, and settled at Durhamville, Oneida Co.,
where he labored with success, until failing health compelled his resignation,
May 1, ’54. He died at Homer, of consumption, March 11, ’57. Mr. B. was
man of excellent spirit, modest almost to a fault; he had fine natural abilities,
which he had carefully cultivated by close study.
ISAAC NEWTON HILL. Was born May 19, 1828, near Plattekill, Ulster Co.,
N. Y. He was converted in '42. Entered M. U. in '49, and graduated that year.
He had previously pursued his studies at the Univ'y of the City of New York.
Ordained Sept., '50. Pastor of the Cross River Church, Westchester Co., April,
'50. In June, ’52, he became pastor of the church at Dover Plains; Aug., '54, of
the South Church, Albany, N. Y.; April, '57, of the First Church, Elizabeth,
N. J.; '59, of the New Market Church, N. J.; '65, of the Bap. Church at Jersey-
ville, Ill., where he now resides. He was married Dec. 12, '50, to Miss M. M.
Pierce, of Newark, N.J., who died in ’54. His second marriage was at Danbury,
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Conn., June, '55, to Miss Annie M. Andrews. He is a member of the Board of
Trustees of Shurtleff College, Ill.
CHARLES KEYSER. Was born at Albany, N. Y., May 13, 1827. He entered
M. U. in '44, and graduated in ’49. Spent one year in the Theol. Sem’y, and
completed his studies in the Rochester Theol. Sem'y, graduating in ’51. Settled
at Wallingford, Conn., Aug., '51. Was married at Hanuilton, N. Y., to Miss
Lizzie Bacon Bartholomew, in '51. Was ordained at Wallingford, Nov. 6, ’51.
Settled at Mt. Morris, N. Y., in ’53; at Niagara Fails in ’54. Pastor of Jefferson
Street Church, Providence, R.I., in '57; of the First Baptist Church, Binghamton,
N. Y., in '64; of the Eleventh Bap. Church, Philadelphia, Pa., in '68. In 65
Mr. K. received the prize offered by the Aumerican Baptist Publication Society
for “The Bap. Catechism.” In '70 pastor of the Central Church, Trenton, N. J.
JoHN R. MURPHY. Born Dec. 8, 1820, near Goshen, Cape May Co., N. J. En-
tered in '44, and graduated in '49. Was ordained in Philadelphia, Nov. 13, '49.
Pastor of the Baptist Church, Greenwich, Cumberland Co., N.J., Feb., '50. Was
married to Miss Sophronia S. Mott, at Montrose, Pa., April 18, '50. Poor health
laid him aside from the ministry one year. In Oct., 53, took charge of the
church at Marlton, N. J., and remained there six years. Oct. 1, ’59, became pas-
tor of the church at Salem, N. J., where he still remains. Mr. M. has received
into the church where he is now pastor 580 additions from various sources. He
received the degree of A.M. from Rochester University in ’52, and D.D. from
the University at Lewisburg in '67. Mr. M. was a member of the Christian
Commission, and spent some time at White House and City Point, Va.
NELSON PALMER. Born in Greenville, N. Y., April 16, 1816. Entered the
Institution in '45. Graduated from College Department, Aug., '49. Married at
Rensselaerville, N. Y., May 18, '41, to Miss Almira Frink. Became pastor in
Aug., '49. Ordained, Madison, N. Y., Feb., '50. Pastor of church, Oneida Depot,
Jan., '52; of the Harlem Church, N. Y., Jan., '55; of the church, Greenville, N.
Y., Jan., '62 ; of the Athens Church, N. Y., Oct., '65, where he still remains. Has
baptized 175. Assisted in protracted meetings resulting in 232 baptisms. En-
dowed a scholarship at the University. Received A.B. and A.M. in course.
WILLIAM A. REED. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 27, 1827. Entered
M. U. in '49, and graduated with the College Class of that year. He was mar-
ried at Philadelphia, Pa., in '49, to Miss Mary D. Brown. He is a physician in
successful practice in Philadelphia. He received his Master's degree from the
Lewisburg University at its first Commencement.
HENRY M. RICHARDSON, brother of Prof. J. F. Richardson. Born in Vernon,
N. Y., and graduated in the College Class of '49. Was converted in '48, in
Rochester, N. Y., and became a member of the 2d church there. He abandoned
the law, and was licensed by the church to preach in Dec., '48. Began his Theol.
studies in this University, and finished them in Rochester. Was married to
Miss Smith, of Rochester. He was settled with the church in Hamilton, Ohio,
in Nov., '51, remaining eleven years; then with the church in Oswego, N. Y.,
continuing three years; then with the church in Columbia, Mo., commencing in
Sept., '67. Has received into the churches on experience and baptism 179.
LEMUEL WAITON. Born in Philadelphia, Pa. He entered M. U. in ’44.
Graduated in '49. He entered upon his ministry as pastor of the Chestnut Hill
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Church, but his labors were soon terminated by consumption, within the year
ending May, '53. Mr. W. was a good scholar and much beloved.
WARREN S. W.E.B.B. Graduated from M. U. in the Class of '49, and imme-
diately took charge of an academy ten miles from Murfreesboro’, Tenn., where
he taught two years. He married the daughter of Jonas W. Wheeler, of
Canandaigua, N. Y. While teaching he supplied a church near his school, of
which he afterwards became the pastor, and by which he was ordained. He
also served the Franklin Church, Williamson Co., Tenn., as pastor. Soon, how-
ever, he was elected Principal of the Yalobusha Female Institution at Grenada,
Miss., where he remained six years, and built up a fine school, the building cost-
ing over $30,000. He removed to Oktibbeha Co., and took charge of a Female
Institution there ; he remained two years, preaching as well as teaching. He
took no part in the War of the Rebellion. He is still in the ministry, but com-
pelled on account of the poverty of the church to give some time to secular busi-
ness. For some years past he has been laboring with others to establish a home
for destitute orphans, acting as Secretary to the Board. He has baptized between
500 and 600, 300 of whom are blacks.
MERIWETHER WINSTON. Born in Richmond in 1828. Entered the Institu-
tion in '47, in the Class of '49. Left in '49. Married at Hamilton, N. Y., to
Chiffonette L. Lewis, daughter of Dr. B. Lewis. Entered the ministry, settled
and ordained, in Charlottesville, Va., as pastor of the Baptist Church in that
place. Was afterwards pastor in N. Y. City ; also in Norfolk, Va.; then in
Savannah, Ga.; and last in Philadelphia, Penn. He died in '66. He was a most
able and eloquent minister of the Gospel. In pulpit ability he had but few
equals.
WILLIAM C. WRIGHT, son of Rev. David Wright, was born in Westfield,
Mass., Jan. 2, 1825. Entered M. U. in '48, and graduated in '49. Married Miss
Permelia Holcomb, at Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y., Aug. 4, 1851. Entered the
musical profession at first, and was teacher and organist at Utica, N. Y., and
Hartford, Conn. In the latter place he studied law, and was admitted to the Bar
in '57. In '59 he removed to Lone Rock, Wis., where he practised law for
4 or 5 years. Was licensed to preach by the Baptist Church at Lone Rock.
Ordained by the same church, Aug. 5, '63. He filled the office of County Superin-
tendent of Schools in 1864–65. His wife died at Lone Rock, April 6, '64,
Organized the Rockland Centre Bap. Ch., Wis., in '66, and married Miss Hannah
L. Jones. Served as Home Missionary, '66 to '69. In '69 became pastor of the
church at McGregor, Iowa, where he still resides. He has baptized 28, two of
whom are now preaching the Gospel.
NoN-GRADUATING MEMBERs of THE CLAss of 1S49.
JABEZ P. DARE. Born at Johnston, N. Y., April 22, 1827. Entered M. U. in
May, '47, in the Sophomore Class. Left the Institution, Dec., '4S (during the
difficulties about the removal to Rochester), and graduated at Union College,
July, '49. Graduated in medicine at the Homoeopathic Medical College,
Philadelphia, March, '51. Began practice of medicine at Pittsburg, Pa., March,
'51, and resided there till '63, when, owing to impaired health, removed to his
farm at Salem, Ohio. Married at Pittsburg, Pa., April 3, '51, to Miss Elizabeth
Church. Elected to Professorship of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, in the
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Homoeopathic Medical College, Philadelphia, ’55, and held it for two years,
resigning on account of pressure of private practice at Pittsburg, and impaired
health. Elected President of the Am. Institute of Homoeopathy at its session in
Chicago, June, '57, Received A.M. from Union College, '54. Elected Vice-
President of the Halineman Life Ins. Co., Cleveland, O., '68. In June, ’69,
removed to Nashville, Tenn., where he is now engaged in the practice of medi-
cine. He is the author of a work on “Acute Diseases and their Homoeopathic
Treatment,” and numerous addresses and contributions in medical journals.
ELIAS JOHN FootB. Was born June 22, 1824, in Olean, N. Y. Entered M. U.
in '46. In '49 he entered the Senior Class at Union College, where he graduated
in '49. In the Fall of the year he began the study of law at Mt. Morris. Felt
it his duty to preach, but was unwilling. From May, 1850, seven years absent
in Central America and California. In '58 entered Rochester Theol. Sem’y, and
graduated in '60. In Aug., '60, he took charge of the 3d church in St. Louis,
Mo., where he was ordained, Feb., '61. He soon resigned, and labored in prisons,
hospitals, and in writing and speaking for the Union. August, '62, he accepted
a call from the 2d church, Syracuse, N. Y., where he labored until '66, when he
settled with the Penfield Church, where he now resides. He has baptized
114. He was married in '61, to Miss Eliza A. Spink. Rochester University con-
ferred the honorary degree of A.M.
ISAAC E. FOSTER. Entered from Carmel in 1844. Went with the Class of
'49 through the Soph. Year, and died in the Fall vacation of '47.
S J. FOWLER. Born at Geneseo, N. Y., Feb., 1825. Entered in '45. Left
in '49, and graduated at Union College. Married Elizabeth M. Crawford, at
Geneva, O., in '50. Principal of Academy at Kingsville, O., '50 to ’54. In '56
entered upon his present position of Prof. of Mathematics and Nat. Philosophy in
Hillsdale College, Mich. In '67 he was ordained minister in the Free-Will
Baptist denomination, with which he had been associated from childhood.
GEORGE HAND. Born at Cape May, N. J., Sept. 2, 1821. Entered from
Philadelphia in July, '44. In '47 entered University of Penn., where he graduated
with the first honor in ’49. Had meanwhile preached to Passyunk Church. In
'47 married Mary A. Robbins, of Philadelphia. Nov. 7, '49, ordained pastor of
West Kensington Church, Phila. Pastor in Hatboro’, Pa., '52–62. In '59 he
established, and till '69 taught, the Hatboro’ Young Ladies' Institute. From '66
was managing principal of Loller Academy, Hatboro'. Since giving up pastorate,
in '62, has continued to preach. *
S. HEMINGWAY. Born near Whitney's Point, Broome Co., N. Y., March 22,
1S16. He studied medicine, and was engaged in the practice for 8 years. He
was married Dec. 30, 41, to Miss C. E. Willbur. From his wife's desire that
they should become missionaries to Burmah, he gave up his practice as a
physician, and in 45 entered the Class of '49 to prepare for missionary labors.
In 48 he went to Union College and graduated. Studied theology at Hamilton
in '49. He was ordained at Owego, N. Y., July 18, '49. For the two years of
'50 and ’51 he served the churches of Bellefontaine and Hillsboro’, Ohio. In '52
and ’53 he was pastor of New Carlisle Church, Ohio. He then became pastor at
Dexter, Mich. The failure of Mrs. H.’s health caused the abandonment of the
purpose of being missionaries abroad. In '55, he commenced again the practice
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of medicine in Hillsdale, Mich., as Homoeopathic Physician. In the spring of
'66 he removed to Nebraska City, Neb., and in July following, on the 28th, died
with the cholera, aged 50 years. He died as he had lived, an earnest Christian.
BYRON E. HUNTLEy. Born in Colosse, Oswego Co., N. Y. Entered in ’42.
On account of failing health, left in '46. Manufacturer in Brockport, N. Y. Un-
married. An active member of the Baptist Church.
F. W. INGMIRE. Born at Margate, England, Sept. 11, 1822. Entered in 43
and left in '48, at the end of Junior year. Married Mary J. Farnham, in Albany,
in '48. Ordained there, Oct. 8, '48. Pastor in Lockport, 3 years; in Joliet, Ill.,
3; in Pittsfield, 3; Havana, 5; Springfield, 10. Has baptized about 100.
BEN.J. D. MARSHALL. Born at North Egremont, Mass., Oct. 14, 1826. En-
tered Hamilton in '45. Was converted there in '46, and baptized into the fel-
lowship of the University Church, March 22, '46, by Dr. G. W. Eaton. At the
close of his Sophomore year, left the University, and engaged in teaching
school at Scipio, Cayuga Co., N. Y. From '48 to '51 taught music, painting, and
drawing, most of the time in Virginia, the last year being at Richmond. En-
tered Rochester University, and graduated in '53. Then entered the Theo.
Sem. connected with Rochester University, and graduated in ’55. In '55 settled
as pastor at Lockport, N. Y. Ordained Oct. 11, ’55. In '56 married Miss Catha-
rine R. Woods, of Lockport. In 60 pastor of the Cedar Street Baptist Church
of Buffalo, N. Y., where he still remains. Under his administrations 324 have
been added to the church. Received degree of D.D. from University of Ro-
chester in ’71. Same year visited Europe.
H. G. MASON. From North Granville. Entered Theo. Dep’t in '47, and
graduated in ’49. Ordained at Glenn’s Falls in ’49. Pastor also in West
Meriden, Conn., and Salem, N. J.
ALFRED S. PATTON. Entered from Philadelphia, Pa., in ’44. Afterwards a
student in Columbian College, which in '56 conferred the honorary degree of
A.M. He was ordained in Philadelphia, March 2, 48. He married a daughter
of Rev. Dr. Kennard of Tenth Church. He has been pastor in West Chester,
Pa.; Hoboken, N. J.; Roxbury (Boston Highlands), Mass., Watertown ; Utica,
N. Y. Author of “Lectures on Bunyan's Holy War,” “The Hero Missionary,”
and sundry smaller works. M. U. conferred the degree of D.D. in '65.
HERMON PERRY. Born at Wyoming, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1824. Entered the
Institution in ’44. Remained there five years, leaving in the spring of '49—a
term short of graduation. Married at Richburg, N. Y., July 1, ’51, to Miss
Merina A. Follet. Principal of Richburg Academy three years. Removed to
Wyoming ; resided there two years; taught in Middlebury Academy one
year, under the principalship of Monroe Weed. In the fall of ’54 removed to
Allegan, Mich., where he and his wife established, and had charge of Pine
Grove Seminary eight years. In the spring of '63 they went to Sacramento,
Cal., where they became founders, principals, and proprietors of Sacramento
Seminary, a boarding-school for young ladies, employing eight teachers, be-
sides themselves, and averaging one hundred pupils. Rochester University
conferred on him the honorary degree of A.M. in ’52.
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HARVEY PETTIT. Born in Broadalbin, Oct. 30, 1816. In 44 entered the
Shorter Course, which he did not complete, on account of failing health.
Seven years pastor in Somerset, Niagara Co. In Royalton three years; in
Shelby ten years; in Portland, Mich., from '65 to ’71. He married Sallie M.
Robinson, of Wilson, N. Y., who died before he entered the Seminary. In '45 he
married Lucy Eaton, of Wilson. He has baptized 122.
JOSIAH PHILIPS. Born Sept. 10, 1817, in East Nantmeal, Pa. Entered Class
of 49 in '45. Went through Sophomore year. Left with impaired health, and
never sufficiently recruited to return, but prepared as best he could for the
ministry. Pastor in Radnor, Delaware Co., Pa., seven years; over seven in
Euclid, near Cleveland, Ohio; now in Milestown, in 22d Ward of Philadel-
phia, Pa. -
GEORGE G. RITCHIE. From Rochester, in '45, went through the Sophomore
year. He was not ordained ; but preached and lectured on various subjects, be-
ing especially interested in the abolition of slavery. He died in Salisbury in the
early part of ’53, aged 33 years, and was buried in Clinton. He was married
before entering Hamilton.
L. L. STILL. Born in West Vincent, Pa., Jan. 17, 1826. Baptized when
twelve years old. Entered Class of '49 in '44, and left in ’47. Preached and
taught. Ordained in Ohio in '49, in which year he married Harrietta Kirk-
ham, at Glenn's Falls, N. Y. In '50 settled in Bethany, Pa.; in ’54, in Freeport;
in '56, in Car wensville ; in '60, in Colerain, where he died Dec. 20, '63. He was
four years Sup’t of Schools in Carwensville.
OSCAR F. A. SPINNING. Was born at Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1824. He en-
tered in ’43, and remained until the second term of the Senior year, when he
took a dismission to Union College, and graduated in '49. He was ordained at
Northville, Fulton Co., Sept. 5, '49. Was married at Lebanon, Madison Co.,
Oct. 14, '49, to Miss Clara Olivia Lillibridge. In the spring of ’52 he removed
to Shusan, Washington Co., where he remained two and a half years. In the
fall of '54 he became pastor at Gilbertsville, Otsego Co., where he remained six
years. While here his health failed, and he was obliged to relinquish all public
speaking, and even conversation. In the fall of '60 he became pastor at Le Roy,
Genesee Co. In the spring of '62 he became pastor of the Church of Gains and
Murray, where he remained seven years. In 69 he removed to Grass Lake,
Mich. He has baptized between 300 and 400. He is now wholly devoted to
Sunday-School work in Michigan.
J. H. STINSON, Entered from Jeffersonville, Pa., in the Junior year of the
Class of 1849. Has been pastor in Cincinnati. Was in Savannah in ’70.
JoHN WILLIAMS, J.R. Born in Lockport, Feb. 9, 1822. Entered in '44. Left
near the end of the Senior year, and graduated at Union College. Ordained
in Lockport, N. Y., Aug. 22, '49. Married there in '50, to Julia A. Baker. Pas-
tor at Madison, Wis.; Marion, Iowa; Lockport and Fairport, N. Y. ; Wampun,
Whitewater, and Delavan, Wis. He died at Delavan, Dec. 25, '61. A useful
minister,
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CLASS OF 1850.
THOMAS ALLEN. Born at Luzerne, Warren Co. Entered in 1845. Gradu-
ated in '50 and ’52. Married Almira Newton, of East Hamilton. See Mission
Work. After his return from Burmah he labored two years as agent for the
Missionary Union in Central New York. In July, '61, he settled as pastor of
the First Baptist Church at Groton, N. Y., where he remained three years; dur.
ing that time eighty were added to the church, forty-six by baptism. In the
spring of '64 he settled with the Second Church of Milo, N. Y. ; and during a
pastorate there of three years, thirty were added by baptism. In the spring of
'67 he took charge of the “Rolling Mills Mission,” Chicago, Ill., under his
labors here forty-six were baptized. In '67 he was Agent for the Educational In-
terest of the West; a part of the time for the Chicago Theological Seminary,
a part for the Female College at Indianapolis. Then pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church at Benton Harbor, Mich., where twenty-three put on Christ by
baptism.
As A B. CABANIss. Born at Nottoway City, Va., March 12, 1821. Entered
in '46, and graduated in '50. Married Almira Adkinson, and sailed for China
in '52. See Mission Work. On account of health, returning to the U. S. in
'59, Mr. Cabaniss began giving addresses to awaken deeper interest in mis-
sions. The war closed for a time his missionary labors. He returned to
Virginia, and, with his wife, took charge of the Black Walnut Academy, Hali-
fax City. In the last year of the war, they removed to Harmony, and taught.
Mr. C. preached regularly during the war. The war having so embarrassed the
South that they could not return Mr. C. to his mission, he became President of
the Baptist Female College at Brownsville, Tenn. Failing health compelled
him to resign in '68. His residence is now Russellville, Ky., where he preaches
every Sabbath, although engaged in secular pursuits.
THOMAS P. CAMPBELL. Was born in Philadelphia, March, 1823. He en-
tered in ’46, and graduated in '50. Studied Theology at Rochester Theo. Sem.,
and graduated there in ’52. Married at Wallingford, Vermont, Dec. 6, ’52,
Miss Maria, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Packer. Settled as pastor at East
Avon, N. Y., where he was ordained, Feb. 2, 1853, but was obliged to close his
labors in August, '55, in consequence of hemorrhage of the lungs. Spent the
time until March, 1857, in seeking a restoration to health. Pastor in St.
Charles, Mt. Carroll, and Waukegan, Ill. ; and South Bend, Ind. Baptized 89.
WILLIAM CARPENTER. He was born in Johnstown, N. Y., October 24, 1822.
Entered in ’46 and graduated in '50 and ’52. He was married Oct. 9, '55, to Miss
Amanda H. Holman, of Lancaster, Mass. Settled as pastor at Ogdensburgh, N. Y.
He was ordained at Gloversville, N. Y., Dec. 16, ’52. In Dec., '54, he became
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pastor of the church at Westfield, Mass. Pastor at Sterling, Mass., Oct., '59, and
served the church over three years. Returned to Ogdensburg in '63, and re-
mained four years. He then took charge of the church at Westerloo, N.Y., where
he still remains. He has baptized 57.
AMOS H. COVEY. Was born in Fenner, Madison Co., N. Y., Feb. 4, 23. En-
tered in 44. Left on account of failing health within one month of his gradua-
tion. Died Jan. 21, ’54, aged 31 years. He selected the text for his funeral ser-
mon, and asked to be buried at Hamilton, beside a classmate who had died some
Years before. His end was peace. “Death has no terrors, Jesus has robbed
Death of his sting, the grave has no victory,” were among his last words.
MYRON M. GOODENOUGH. Was born at Belleville, Jefferson Co., N. Y., Feb.
18, 28. Entered the Sophomore class in '47, graduated in '50. Was married in
'51, at East Hamilton, to Miss Mary E. Brigham. He commenced teaching in-
mediately after graduating, and has since been constantly employed in the
same profession. For twelve years he was vice-principal in the “Hudson River
Institute,” at Claverack, N. Y. In '66 he became the principal proprietor of the
Hamilton Female Seminary, at Hamilton, N. Y., where he still labors with good
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AUSTIN HARMON. Was born in Wheatland, Monroe Co., Feb. 3, 28. He
entered in ’44 and graduated in '50. He graduated from the Theo. Sem. at Ro-
chester in '52. Married Miss Caroline, daughter of Rev. C. P. Grovesnor, at
M’Grawville, in July, '52. He was ordained at Wheatland, Aug. 11, ’53, and
entered upon the pastoral care of Summer Hill. Afterwards pastor at Michigan
City, Ind. In '55 he visited the lake shore of western Michigan, and founded a
church at Ganges. He labored here beyond his strength, often going ten miles
on foot to his appointments, and preaching week-days and Sundays without due
rest. In '60, in poor health, he returned to N. Y. State, and became pastor of the
church at Wheatland. In '65 he returned to Michigan, but his work was done,
and on the 7th of Sept. his Master called him to rest.
THOMAS C. HARTSHORN. Was born in Montrose, Pa., March 1, ’30. En-
tered in '46, and graduated in '50. He entered the ministry in the fall of '53.
Soon became Assistant Agent of the American Bible Society. He labored thus
for three years, when he was called to the General Agency of this Institution
for Ohio, making Cleveland his headquarters. In '59 he married Miss Catha-
rine Williams, of Wheeling, Va., and removed to Ravenna, Portage Co. In
July, '62, the degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by the College at Mount
Upton, Ohio. In '66 he removed to Pontiac, Ill., where he now resides. He
has raised more than half a million of dollars for the diffusion of the Sacred
Scriptures, and superintended the supply of more than twenty thousand desti-
tute households with the Word of God.
OsCAR How Es. Born near Carmel, April 30, 1830. In 46 entered Hamilton,
where he was converted and joined the University Church. Graduated in '50.
Spent a year at Rochester University. In Aug., '52, he went to Europe, and
was abroad two years, devoting his time, with the exception of a few months
spent in travelling, to the study of the German and French languages. In '55
Prof. of Greek and Latin Languages in Shurtleff College. In Aug., '58, he was
married to Miss A. E. Hazen, daughter of Rev. H. C. Hazen, at Faribault, Minn.
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In the summer of '63 he made his second visit to Europe. He spent six months
in Athens, in the study of the Greek, ancient and modern, attending daily lec-
tures in Modern Greek, at the University of Athens. After a tour through
Greece, Egypt and Palestine, he returned to his duties as Professor, where he
still labors.
GEORGE JoHNSON, Was born in England, Jan. 19, 1824. Entered in ’44 and
graduated in '50. Married in New York City, Oct. 19, '52. His first settlement
was at Hector, Schuyler Co., N.Y. Ordained in Sept., 52. In Oct., '54, moved
to Memphis, where he remained two years. Settled in Greece, Monroe Co.,
N.Y., Oct, '56, where he remained twelve and a half years, when he was com-
pelled, on account of ill-health, to resign. Studied theology at Rochester. He
has baptized 111.
SAMUEL T, LIVERMORE. Was born in German, N. Y., 1824. Entered in 1845
and graduated in 1850. He was married at Fall River, Mass., in 1853, to Miss
Melvira T. Brown. He has been pastor of the Baptist churches at Livonia,
Cooperstown and Lowville, N.Y.
John R. NISBET. Born in Haddington, Scotland, Oct. 14, 1822. Entered in
'47; graduated in '50, and from Rochester Theol. Sem'y in 52. On account of
health he was obliged to return from his mission in Burmah and to give up the
ministry altogether. He is engaged in real estate business.
LUKE OSBORN. Born in Ashtabula O., May 22, 1826. Baptized when eleven
years old. Entered in '46 and graduated in '50. Professor in Kalamazoo Col-
lege, Mich., in ’51. . In the same year married Martha Luce, in August, and died
Nov. 4.
WM. J. PARKEIURST. Born in Milford, Mass., Nov. 3, 1821. Entered in '45
and graduated in '50 and ’52. In '53 married Sarah Jane Dudley in Davenport,
Iowa. Ordained at Camanche, in May, '54. Pastor there three years, then at Prince-
ton two years. Settled in a destitute region north of Marysville, California.
Preached in various places, and organized a church of newly baptized believers
which he served as pastor until '68. Then removed to Petralia, Humboldt Co.,
where there is no church, but labors as a self-supporting missionary in hope of
success. He has baptized 102. While a student he raised several thousand of the
sixty thousand dollar endowment.
DARIUS H. PAUL. Born at Java, Wyoming Co., Feb. 18, 1826. Entered in
'45 and graduated in '50 and 52. Married at New Berlin, Chenango Co., N. Y.,
August 22, 1852, to Miss Charlotte E. Cady. Ordained at Strykersville, N. Y.,
Sept. 14, 1853. Became pastor of the Bap. churches at St. Claire and Camanche,
Iowa, in Oct., 1852. Three meeting-houses have been dedicatcd under his pas-
toral care.
WILLIAM H. RANDALL. Was born at Stonington, Conn., Aug. 11, 1818. En-
tered in '46 and graduated in '50. At once pastor of the Baptist church at
Truesburgh, N. Y., where he remained until 1853, when he took the charge of
the churches at Angelica and Philipsburgh jointly. Next in Boston, Erie Co.;
then in Williamsville, where he remained till the war. See War Record. In the
Spring of 1864 he moved his family to Murfreesboro’, Tenn., where death de-
prived him of his wife, daughter-in-law and grandson. In 1865 he again be.
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came pastor of the church at Williamsville, N. Y., where he now labors. Mr.
R. has been twice married—1st, to Miss Harriet H. Miner, of Stonington, Conn.
Nov. 30, 1837; 2d, to Miss Helen M. Hutchinson, of Williamsville, Dec. 31, 1865,
Baptized 90.
ABRAM. T. ROSE. See Mission Work.
HENRY B. SHERMER. Was born at Philadelphia, Pa., July, 25, 1823. Entered
in 1844 and graduated in 1850. He finshed his theological studies at Rochester
Theol. Sem'y, 1852. He was married to Miss Mary J. Lawson of Pultneyville, N.
Y., July 20, 1852, and was ordained in the Spruce street Church, Philadelphia,
Sept. 23, 1852. Nov. 24, 1852, they sailed as missionaries to the Bassa Tribe,
West Africa. Mrs. S. fell a victim to the African fever, Sept., 1853. Mr. Shermer
arrived in this country in Jan., 1854, so broken down in health that he was never
restored. In 1856 he became pastor of the Newton Baptist Church, N. J., and re-
mained four years, and then became pastor at Woodstown, N. J., where he la-
bored two years. In 1864 became pastor of the Schooley's Mountain Church, N.
J. June 9, 1864, he married Miss Annie M. Riley of Woodstown, N. J. He died
with his larness on, March 22, 1869.
FRANKLIN A. SLATER. Was born at Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Feb.
11, 1823. Entered in 1846 and graduated in 1850. Ordained at Mystic, Conn.,
Nov. 14|1850., Married at Coventry, Vt., in 1850, to Miss Sophrona E. Hovey.
He has labored at Mystic, Conn.; New Rochelle, N. Y.; Keyport, N. J.; Green-
port, L. I.; at Matawan, N. J. and Rome, N. Y. . While at Keyport, where he
labored six years, there was erected one of the finest edifices in that part of the
State. At Greenport he lost his wife and youngest son. While riding on the
Long Island R. R., the cars were thrown from the track and he received severe
injuries by which his right side was completely paralyzed, from the effects of
which he was laid aside for some time, but he recovered, excepting the use of his
right hand.
JESSE D. SPRAGUE. Born in Fabius, Jan. 13, 1830. Entered in ’46 and grad-
uated in '50. Married Theodosia, A., daughter of Rev. W. C. Dye. Throat dis-
ease compelled him to abandon teaching for business, in which he has been suc-
cessful. Resides in Cortland, N. Y.
AMOs H. STARK WEATIIER. Graduated in the College class of 1850. He was
ordained as pastor of the Bethany Church, Genesee Co., N. Y., Oct. 23, 1850, and
was married to Miss Arvela Burroughs, sister of Dr. Burroughs of Chicago. In
1853, he became pastor of the church in Corning, Steuben Co., N. Y.; and in 1855
he removed to Illinois, and settled in Fulton, Whiteside Co., a place then prom-
ising very rapid growth. Here he labored with great industry and zeal to build
up a church, and erect a house of worship. After some years he removed to
Lyons, Iowa, directly on the opposite bank of the Mississippi River, where he lar
bored with great devotion to the cause of religion until his death in Jan., 1867.
His wife died about three months before him, and they left two young orphan
daughters. He was a patient, earnest, laborious and successful minister of
Christ.
ORLANDo B. STONE. Was born at Homer, N. Y., in 1823. Entered in 1847
and graduated in 1850. He was married in 1851 to Miss Julia A. King. Or
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dained at Xenia, Ohio, in 1852. Went to California as a missionary in 1853.
Did pioneer work, using even the bar-rooms as preaching places; his labors were
successful, and as the result he founded four churches and baptized a hundred
persons. In 1864 he returned to N. Y. State and acted as District Secretary of
H. M. Socy for two and a half years. In 1867 he settled at Lafayette, Ind.,
where, in 1869, he had baptized 125.
GEORGE N. THORNTON. Was born at Meredith, Delaware Co., N. Y., Jan. 27,
1822. Entered in 1846 and graduated in 1850. Was married at Madison Village,
in 1851 to Miss Rosetta F. Chadwick. Settled as pastor at New London, Huron
Co., Ohio, in 1852, where he remained two and a half years, but was compelled
to resign in consequence of poor health. He purchased a farm in Haskins, Ohio,
on which he now resides. He still preaches as his health permits. He was or-
dained Feb. 15, 1866. Souls have been converted and Zion built up.
JOHN C. WARD. Was born in New York City, September 6, 1825. Entered
from First Church, Brooklyn, in 1844, graduated in 1850 and ’52. He has been
married twice, first, to Miss Lucy A. Henry, of Lebanon, Madison Co.; second, to
Miss Jane E. Hadnett, of Constableville, Lewis Co. His fields of labor are, Marion,
Linn Co., Iowa ; Potsdam, Sandy Creek, Frankfort and Cazenovia, N. Y., where
he now resides. He has baptized 253. Gathered two churches, built three
places of worship and two parsonages.
DANIEL WHITAKER. See Mission Work.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1850.
SAMUEL STILLMAN CONANT. Son of Prof. T. J. Conant, D. D. Born in Water-
ville, Maine, Dec. 11, 1831. Member of class of 1850. Married Helen C. P. Stevens,
Methuen, Mass., in 1858. Went to Europe with Mrs. C., June, 1858, travelled in
Germany, Austria, Italy and France. Correspondent of Boston Journal and N.
Y. Commercial Advertiser. Returned, September, 1860. Teacher in Brooklyn
Collegiate and Polytechnic Inst., till 1862. From July, '62 to Jan., '63, Asst.
Editor N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. Was engaged on N. Y. Times in May,
1863; became Managing Editor in 1865; left in 1869, and became Editor of
Barper's Weekly. Resides in Brooklyn, N. Y.
JOHN LOREMER DOUGLASS. Born Feb. 8, 1823. Entered in ’44 from Beaver
Co., Pa. Left before graduation. Ordained at Fort Ann, N. Y., in Oct., '50.
Pastor there and at Pittsburg, Pa. Died at Bassein, Burmah, July 23, 1869.
His illness was brief. “If this be death,” said he, “it is easy to die.” See Mis-
sion Work.
WAREEIAM MUDGE. Entered in ’44 from Kendall. Left in '4S. Preached in
Kendall, Carlton, and Tonawanda. Pastor in Horse Heads, Palmyra and Wil-
son. In Nunda in ’70. Between two and three years chaplain in the army. Has
enjoyed many revivals and welcomed many to the church.
LEMUEL C. PAINE, JR. Was born in West Galway, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1831. He
entered in 1847, went to Union College, and graduated in 1850. After this for
years he was associated with his father in the drug and book business in Albion,
Orleans Co., N. Y., and still later has been in the business in Chicago. His
present residence is Fort Wayne, Ind.
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OSSIAN C. PETTITT. Was born at Fabius, Dec. 17, 1829. Entered in 1846;
at the close of the Sophomore year entered Union College, where he graduated in
1850. He was never married. He read law at Oxford, Chenango Co., N. Y.,
One year and completed his studies at Buffalo, N. Y., where he was admitted to
the bar in April, 1852. Died at Wabash, Ind., August 17, 1852, aged 22 years and
8 months. Mr. P. was the son of Hon. Geo. Pettitt, of Fabius, a liberal patron
of Hamilton Lit. and Theo. Inst., and for many years a member of the Board of
the Bap. Ed. Soc'y of the State of New York.
CHARLES B. READ. Was born in Orangeville, N. Y. He entered in 1846.
With limited means and poor health he struggled through the Sophomore year
and left. He was soon after married to Miss C. C. Moore, and ordained as pas-
tor in Mendon. Subsequently pastor in Chatauqua Co., then in Richburg, Alle-
ghany Co. Here, with immense labor and rare financiering, he secured the erec-
tion of a house of worship. He removed to Lowell, Michigan, as pastor, and
then to Winchester, Scott Co., Ill., where he died of consumption in the 41st
year of his age. See War Record. He was naturally modest and shrinking,
but a solemn sense of his responsibility and his zeal for the truth, gave him
the degree of boldness requisite for success in public life. He was an excellent
preacher.
CALVIN ROBINSON, of Jefferson. Entered the class of '50 in ’44. He died dur-
ing the year 1847–8.
WM. M. W.IIITELIEAD. Born Dec. 12, 1823. Entered in ’44 and went partly
through the Senior Col. year. Married at Philadelphia, in 1851, to Miss Eleanor
J. Beaston. Entered upon the ministry in 1851. Under his pastoral care two
church edifices have been built and a third bought, while a fourth has been freed
from an old debt. Baptized nearly 300. Lewisburg University conferred hon-
rary A. M. See War Record.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT, THE FOLLOWING
WERE MEMBERS OF THE THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1850.
AARON POTTER. Born April 9, 1820, at Fort Edward. Graduated at Union
College. Five years engaged in teaching and other business. One year in
Union Theol. Sen’y, N. Y. City. Entered Hamilton Sem’y in '48 and graduated in
'50. Married Frances Augusta Shaw, at Fort Edward in '51. Ordained Jan. '51,
at Albion, Mich.; there three years and a half; in Clarkston two and a half
years; in Centerville, nearly two. Preached in Lockport and Three Rivers.
In '59 pastor in Sheboygan, Wis.; ’61 in Lamartine, Fond du Lac Co. Took
residence in Darien and served the Am. and Foreign Bible Soc'y in the North
West. In 68 removed to Champaign, Ill., and became steward of the Industrial
University. Now resides in Urbana, in book business, preaching as occasion
requires.
H. ALLEN TUPPER. Born in Charleston, S. C., Feb. 29, 1828. Student in
Charleston College. Took degree of A. B., with class of '48 of M. U. and grad"
uated from Theol. Sem'y in '50. In 49 he married Nancy J., daughter of Hon.
Ker Boyce of S. C. Three years pastor in Graniteville, S. C. In '58 pastor in
Washington, Ga., from which repeated offers of professorships and secretaryships
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and other pastorates have failed to remove him. He once proposed to become
head of a Christian Colony to Japan, but other counsels prevailed, and he con-
Soled himself by supporting from his own resources a missionary among the In-
dians, and one in Africa, besides giving all possible attention to the colored peo-
ple around him. It is his custom to preach to children every Sunday afternoon.
He publishes sermons for them in the Sunday School Banner, a monthly. Visited
Europe in 1855. He has baptized between two and three hundred. In 1870 M.
U. conferred the degree of D. D.
E. H. SCARFF. Born in Va., Feb. 11, 1821. In 41 he entered Granville Pre-
paratory Department and graduated frona Denison University, Ohio, in ’47.
Taught a year in West Jefferson, O. Entered Hamilton Theol. Dep’t in '48, and
graduated in '50. Two years in charge of Judson College, West Jefferson, O.
In '50 married Mary A. R. Bowen, of Dayton, O. Ordained at New Carlisle,
July 18, 1850. Pastor in Gallipolis, in ’52. Then in Delphi, Ind. In '54 began
15 years of service in charge of Central University, Pella, Iowa, being also most
of that time pastor of the First Church. Baptized about 200.
CLASS OF 1851.
MILES J. KNOWLTON. See Mission Work. In 1870 Mr. K. visited this coun-
try on account of the health of his family. M. U. conferred the degree of D. D.
in 1871.
HEMAN H. SANFORD. Was born in Madison, N. Y., Sept. 29, 1829. Entered
Madison University in the Sophomore class of 1848, graduated 1851. He re-
mained the following year as a resident graduate and tutor in the Grammar
School of M. U. He then became a teacher in the Hamilton Academy. In
1852 he took charge of the classical and rhetorical departments of Cortland
Academy, Homer, N. Y. He resigned in the spring of 1856, and spent the sum-
mer and fall in visiting institutions of learning in the Eastern States. Was mar-
ried June 17, 1857, to Emily, only daughter of Stephen W. Taylor, LL. D. He
then took charge of the Monroe Collegiate Institute as principal, but was soon
recalled to his old post at Homer, where he was chosen principal in 1868.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1851.
JoHN QUINCY ADAMs. Born in Philadelphia, Feb. 25, 1825. Entered from
N. Y. city in '46. On account of pecuniary losses, left within two years, intend-
ing to return, but was disappointed. Studied at “Cornelius Inst.,” N. Y. City.
Then thrust into the ministry. Ordained Jan. 31, '49, pastor of Caldwell and
Bloomfield Church, N. J. Pastor at Keyport, N.J., '55; North Church, N. Y.,
'56; Antioch Church, N. Y., '59 ; Cannon St., N. Y., '68. Married in '53 to Maria
McKinley of N. Y. city, and in '56, to Carrie E. Quimby, of N. Y. city. Edited
and published “The Christian,” a monthly magazine; “Baptists Thorough
Religious Reformers,” 162 pp.; and 400 pp. of Sermons, etc. M. U. conferred
honorary A. M. in '54. In '69 had baptized 540, of whom thirteen have been
preachers, nine ordained, and seven Hamilton students.
GEORGE BYRON BRAND. Came to the University from Charleston, N.Y., pur.
sued his course up to the close of the Junior year, and then went to Rochester
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University, where he graduated in 1851. He remained in Rochester and studied
law, and entered upon his profession, forming an advantageous legal partner-
ship. He died in Rochester, N. Y., about Feb. 10, 1871. He was never married.
A man of brilliant talents.
LUMAN B. CHAMBERLIN. Born in Montrose, Pa., Feb. 17, 1823. Entered in
'45. Nearly completed the Col. Course and graduated in theology in '53. Took
A. M. in course in '53. Married at Oxford, N.Y., to Miss L. C. Carpenter. Has
baptized about 200. Last reported residence, Columbus, Kansas.
ANDREW L. FREEMAN. Born at Shandaken, Ulster Co., April 17, 1828. En-
tered in '46. Left at the close of Junior year, in '50. Graduated at Rochester in
'51 and from R. Theol. Sem’y in '53. Married Margaret E. Bingham at Ca-
millus, in '54. Ordained pastor in August, '53, at Camillus. In '59, pastor in
Ann Arbor, Mich.; in Deposit, N. Y., '60; Stockton, '61; Southington, Conn., his
present pastorate, in '64. Sec'y of Conn. Ed. Soc'y. Baptized 118.
GEORGE OSMAN IDE. Son of Rev. Geo. B. Ide, D. D. Born in Passumpsic, Vt.,
in 1832. Entered class of ’51 in ’47. In '50 entered Univ'y of Lewisburg,
where he graduated. Studied law in the Law School of the Univ'y of Penn.,
and then three years with Judge Chapman, of Mass. Now practising law in
Princeton, Ill.
U. S. LOWE. Born at Southport, Chemung Co., N. Y., Dec. 16, 1829,
Entered Madison University, Oct., 46. Left Institution July, '49, and entered
Junior class of Hamilton College, Sept., '49, and graduated there, July, '51.
Admitted as Attorney and Counsellor of Sup. Court, State of N. Y., at Coopers-
town, N. Y., July, 1853. Elected Clerk of Chemung County, Nov., '58. See
War Record. Since the war has pursued his profession at Elmira, N. Y.
MAJOR C. MANNING. Born in Milton, Saratoga Co., May 24, 1822. He
entered from Watertown in '48. Went through Sophomore year with class of
'51. Ordained pastor in Adams in ’51, and married, March 4, the same year, to
Miss Sarah Angeline Butts, of Syracuse. Pastor two years in Cooperstown, N.
Y. Having taught when pastor in Adams, he resumed teaching there, supplying
the church at Loraine, and also at Smithville. In '58 he gave up teaching and
again became the pastor of the Adams Church. In Jan., '60, he became pastor of
the 1st church in Elmira, N. Y. Here he labored with great faithfulness, but
only for a comparatively short time before health failed, and he died in Elmira ,
May 2, 1861, with the reputation of a devoted Christian, and successful
minister.
GEORGE PHILIPs. Born in West Fallowfield, N. J., May 28, 1824. Entered
M. U. in ’45, in class of ’51. His course was interrupted by sickness. Reached
the Junior Coll, year. He preached frequently though in bodily weakness. Died
March 6, ’51, of hemorrhage of the lungs.
THOMAS PURINTON, son of Rev. D. Boardman Purinton, was born in Free-
town, Cortland Co., N. Y., Aug. 29, 1828. He entered the University in the
autumn of '46, remaining a year and a half, when failing health required him to
leave the Institution. He was married to Miss Julia M. Peck, in Groton, N. Y.,
Aug. 2, '49. In 1850–51, he taught in an academy in Morgantown, W. Va.,
after which he returned for a period to the University. Again leaving, he
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taught in Gorham and Phelps, N. Y., and then a Grammar School in N. Y. City.
He subsequently became a travelling agent for business men in New York, Boston,
and Baltimore, and later was in Life Insurance agency. Was a victim of
the great calamity on the N. Y. and Erie Railroad, being instantly killed, April
25, '68.
JAMEs B. SIMMONS. Born at Nörth East, Dutchess Co., N. Y., April 17, 1827.
Entered Higher Academic Class in Madison University, fall of '46. Left, and
entered Brown University, spring of '49. Graduated from Brown University in
'51. Married Miss Mary E. Stevens, of Providence, R. I., Oct. 28, '51. Studied
theology at Rochester, Andover and Newton, a year each, graduating at Newton
in ’54. Ordained as pastor of Third Church, Providence, R. I., in July, '54, con-
tinuing till Oct., '57. Pastor of First Church, Indianapolis, Ind., from Oct., '57,
to Oct., '61. Pastor of Old Sansom St. (now Fifth) Church, Philadelphia, from
Oct., '61, to April, '67. Elected Corresponding Sec'y of Am. Bapt. Home Mission
Society, in spring of ’67. Received degree of A. M. in course from B. U., in ’54,
and honorary degree of D. D. from Lewisburg University, in June, ’70.
JAMES EDMUNDS SPENCER. Born in Pike, Wyoming Co., N. Y., July 7, 1826.
Entered the Aca. Dept. of the University in Oct., '45, and left at the close of the
Junior Coll. year in '50, graduating at Rochester in ’51, and remained as teacher
in the Grammar School two years. Taught about three years in Louisville, Ky.,
first in a private school, and then as Principal of the Louisville Female High
School. Resigned this position and entered upon a business life in Rochester,
N. Y., and is so employed in that city now. Was married to Miss Helen Augusta
Fling, in Rochester, July 17, '54.
ROBERT TELFORD. Born in Seneca Township, Ontario Co., Feb. 16, 1820.
Entered the Second Class in the Grammar School of Madison University in '45.
Left at the close of his Junior year, in '50. Graduated at the University of
Rochester in ’51; from Rochester Theol. Semn’y in '53. Was appointed mission-
ary to the Chinese by the Am. Bapt. Missionary Union in ’52. Sailed from
Boston, Feb. 16, '54. Arrived at Bangkok, Siam, June 24, '54. Labored nine
years among the Chinese in Siam. Was transferred to Swatow, China, in '63.
Spent one year at that station, and returned to the U. S., on account of his wife's
health, in July, '64. He is at present pastor of the First Bapt. Church, Warren,
Ohio. Baptized 70.
CLASS OF 1852.
DELEVAN BLOODGOOD. Born at Springville, Erie Co., N.Y., Aug. 20, 1831.
Entered in '48. Graduated in ’52. Married at Washington, D. C., in °57, to
Jennie, daughter of late Hon. John Ruger. After study of medicine in Ann
Arbor, Mich., and Philadelphia, Pa., took M. D. from Jefferson Md. College.
Studied at medical schools in Pittsfield, Mass., New York City, and Buffalo, N.Y.
Visited Europe in '55. In '57, Asst. Surgeon in U. S. Navy. His first cruise was
of two and a half years in the flag-ship of the Pacific Squadron, the steam frigate
“Merrimac,” afterwärds the rebel iron-clad. Visited principal ports on
Western Coast of N. and S. America, and the Islands of the Pacific. In '60, at
Boston Navy Hospital. Next in steamer “Mohawk,” among W. India Islands,
captured two slavers. In arduous service during the war. In the Gulf. After
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battle at Port Royal, on transport Atlantic, conveying sick and wounded north.
In '62, “Surgeon” in the “Dacotah,” watching the rebel ram “Merrimac.”
Cruised after Semmes and other privateers. Two years on coast of the Carolinas
in chase of the “Chesapeake.” Detached from “Dacotah; ” caught by rebel
raiders at Gunpowder River, Md., but soon escaped. Recruited in N. Y. In '65.
made cruise on the lakes in the Michigan. In '66 on Receiving Ship “Vermont,”
N. Y. Harbor. In '67 sent to the “Jamestown,” at Panama, which was suffer-
ing from yellow fever; the passage of 66 days from Panama to San Francisco a
terrible one, every sixth person having died. Spent following winter in Alaska;
next Summer, cruising on coast of N. America. Had a cruise on coast of Mexico
in the “Lackawana.” Then ordered to Navy Yard, N. Y., where he still
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CLINTON C. BUELL. Born in Lebanon, Madison Co., 1828. Entered in '50,
and graduated in ’52, having the first honor. Had charge of Hamilton
Academy four years. Established, and for four yea, º conducted, Hamilton
Female Seminary. During this time 39 young ladies graduated from the Full
Course. In '59–61 he was in business in Anamosa, Iowa. Since ’65 he has been
engaged in teaching. Residence, Sterling, Ill. In '53 he married Mary A.,
daughter of John Niles, Esq., of Lebanon, Madison Co., N. Y. See War Record.
HIRAM. A. MORGAN. Born at Springfield, Mass., May 9, 1825. Studied at
Wesleyan University, Conn. Entered M. U. in ’51. Graduated in ’52; from the
Theol. Sem’y, ’53. Was ordained at Gouverneur, N. Y., the same year, and
remained pastor two years. Was married at Middletown, Conn., April 18, '54.
Has been pastor of the churches at Becket, Lee, and Cheshire, Mass., where he
now resides. He has baptized about 100.
N. J.EROME NORTON. Born in Guilford, Conn., Nov. 4, 1820, and died at
Cordova, Ill., Nov. 12, 1857, at the age of 37 years. He was eager to pursue an
extended course of study, but poverty and the duty of aiding his parents in their
declining years, prevented the full accomplishment of his desire. He struggled
manfully and cheerfully with these difficulties. He attended the Literary Instit
tution at Suffield, Conn. He entered M. U. in '48, and graduated in ’52. He
was married in Granby, Conn., Sept 10, '52, to Miss Anna Holcomb. Was ordained
at South Adams, Mass., in March, '53. After a pastorate of 2 years and 8 months
he went to Cincinnati, O., remaining a few months in the Fairmount Theological
Seminary, supplying churches on the Sabbath, and finally settled at Cordova, Ill.
Here he continued for a year and a half, when he was suddenly removed in the
fullness of his strength, and in the midst of his usefulness. He baptized not far
from thirty during his brief ministry. Modest, studious, earnest, uniform in
his piety, he constantly grew in intellectual and spiritual strength.
HENRY STEELMAN. Born at Stanton, New Castle Co., Del., March 8, 1819.
Entered Madison University in '46. Graduated in ’52 and '54. In '54 he married
Deborah Ann, daughter of Dea. Daniel Bolton, of Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y.
Commenced his ministry with the Baptist Church at Norway, Herkimer Co.,
N. Y., soon after leaving the Seminary. Was ordained at Burlington, N. Y. He
has since labored with the churches at Sheakleyville, Pa.; Springfield, Pa.; Jay,
N. Y. ; and is now pastor at Elizabethtown, Essex Co., N. Y.
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lsAAC T. WHITTEMORE. Born July 12, 1824, at Essex, Conn. Entered
Grammar School in ’47. Graduated from College in ’52. Married Miss Mary A.
Stillman, of Hamilton, N. Y., J uly 31, ’55. Entered the Presbyterian ministry.
Since graduation from College has been pastor in Ira, N. Y. ; Pontiac, Fairburg,
Rushville, and Plymouth, Ill.; and Solomon City, Kansas. Now (1871) at
Womego, Kan.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1852.
EDWARD LUCAS BAILEY. Entered in ’46, from Liberty, Pa. Went through
Sophomore year. Afterwards at Union College and Rochester Theol. Seminary.
Pastor in Carbondale, Pa., 13 years. In '66, in Harrisburg. Several times
Chaplain of the State Senate. Returned to Carbondale in '69. May 2, when he
had begun to preach the morning sermon, he was taken with neuralgic pains,
and died the following Saturday ; aged 46 years. “Leaning only on Jesus,” he
said. Author of a “History of the Abingdon Association.”
STEPHEN HASKINS CARPENTER, son of Rev. Calvin G. Carpenter. Born at
Little Falls, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1831. He entered the University, Freshman class, in
'48, and left at the close of the Sophomore year, in '50. He graduated from
Rochester University in ’52. Tutor in the University of Wisconsin from 52 to
'54. Was married to Miss Frances Catharine Curtis, at Richland City, Wis.,
May 14, '56. Was Asst. Supt. of Public Instruction in Wis., from '58 to '60.
Was Prof. of Ancient Languages in St. Paul's College, Palmyra, Mo., in '60 and
'61. Was appointed Prof. of Logic, Rhetoric, and English Literature, in the
University of Wis., in '68, which position he still holds. Residence, Madison,
Wis.
GEO. S. CHASE, son of a Baptist minister, was born in Penn Yan, N. Y.,
March 9, 1829. Entered the class of ’52 in '48. Left with others in '50. Graduated
at Rochester. Settled in Warren, R. I. ; Pittsburg, Pa.; Columbus, O.; Detroit,
Mich. In '71 he was on his way to an accepted pastorate in Middletown, Conn.
Visiting at New Bedford, Mass., where he had preached previously some months,
he was taken with bilious fever and died, after a long illness, June 27, 71. He
died in triumph after the well-fought good fight of a faithful pastor. He was
buried in Rochester, N. Y., in the lot of his father-in-law, Carlos Dutton, Esq.
JOHN B. JONES. Born Dec. 24, 1824, in the old Cherokee Nation, in what is
now Cherokee Co., N. C. Entered Academic Dept. of Madison University, May,
'47. Left at the close of his Sophomore year for Rochester University. Ordained
by the First Bapt. Church of Rochester, July 14, '55. Was married at Rodman,
Jeff. Co., N. Y., July 31, ’55, to Miss Jennie M. Sumith. Entered the mission to
the Cherokees, Oct. 25, '55, and labored in connection with his father, Rev. Evan
Jones, under the patronage of the Missionary Union. Edited a Cherokee
magazine called The Cherokee Messenger. Translated into the Cherokee language
a large part of the New Testament, a part of the Old Testament, Pilgrim’s Pro-
gress, portions of Parley’s School History, sermons, tracts, &c. At the same time
preached in almost every part of the Cherokee Nation, and aided his father in the
instruction of native preachers. At the breaking out of the war he was obliged
to leave the nation on account of his Union sentinents, and he went to Upper
Alton, Ill., where he spent six months, meanwhile continuing his translations.
In May, '61, removed to Jefferson Co., N. Y., and took charge of the churches at
South Rutland and Harrisburg. June 1, ’62, entered U. S. army as Chaplain of
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the 2d Indian Regt., Kansas. In July, '62, reached the Cherokee Nation and
sent a secret messenger into a Cherokee Regt., which had been virtually com-
ºpelled to enter the Confederate service, and invited them into the Union army.
The regiment immediately fell to pieces, most of the line officers, the major and
chaplain, and nearly all the men came over, bringing a large number of other
Cherokees with them, and thus 2,500 men were added to the Union army.
Served to the close of the war. Was appointed delegate to Washington, and
assisted in securing the Treaty of '66. Re-entered the Cherokee Nation as
missionary, Nov., '66, under the patronage of Am. Bapt. Home Mission Society.
They have now six Cherokee churches and two colored churches, all gaining
ground and growing in strength and numbers.
FRANKLIN S. LYON, JR. Born in Buckland, Mass., Feb. 27, 1819. Entered the
University in Aug., '47, and remained three years. Graduated from the Univer.
sity of Rochester in class of ’52, Was married in Albion, N.Y., in Aug., '53, to
Miss Harriet A. Johnson. Had charge of the Male Seminary among the Cherokee
Indians two years. Taught in Albion Academy, N. Y., eight years. Was
elected to a Professorship in West Virginia University in June, '67, and became
Vice-President of the University in '68. Resigned, July, '70. Is now Principal
of Fenton Seminary, located in Fenton, Genesee Co., Mich.
CHARLES COLE NORTON. Born at Washington, Conn., July 16, 1827. Entered
the Institution at Hamilton, Oct., '47. Left in ’49. Graduated from Rochester
University in ’52. Graduated from Rochester Theol. Sem’y in ’54. Married at
Penn Yan, N. Y., May, '59, to Miss C. D. Noble. Was ordained pastor of the
Sixth St. Bapt. Church, N. Y. City, March, '55. Pastor of Central Park Baptist
Church, N. Y. City, Oct., '63. Baptized into the fellowship of the above churches
as pastor, 560.
HENRY A. ROSE. Born at Jersey, Steuben Co., N. Y., Dec. 31, 1825. Entered
M. U. in '48. Left in '50. Graduated at Rochester in ’52 and ’54. Married at
Colesville, in ’54, to Zada A. Martin. Pastor in Greece, Monroe Co., '53–56; in
Hamellsville, '56–’59; in Wayne Hole, Steuben Co., '59; Clifton, '61–65; St.
John’s, Mich., '65. Baptized 250.
J. V. SCHOFIELD, son of a Baptist minister. Born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y.,
Dec. 4, 1825. Dr. Boone, of Chicago, gave him a home in his family to encourage
him in preparing for the ministry. Three years in M. J. In '50 entered Roches-
ter University, and graduated in ’52; and in '54 from Rochester Theol. Sem’y.
Married Julia E. Frary, daughter of a Baptist clergyman. Ordained Oct. 24, '54,
in Louisville, Ky., Jefferson St. Church, which, during his pastorate of 4 years,
beginning with 16 members, received 87 by baptism and 94 by letter. Four
years pastor in Quincy, Ill. ; 130 added to the church. Pastor of Third Church,
St. Louis, Mo., 62–69. Baptized 138 there. Meeting-house built. Mission
established from which a church has grown. In '69 pastor in Des Moines, Iowa.
Baptized about 100. In '71 removed to New Britain, Conn. Has baptized about
400.
THADDEUs P. SEELY. Born May 27, 1831, at Canton, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.
Entered in '48. Went to Union College in '50, and graduated in '52. In '54–55,
Trincipal of Prep'y Dept. of Knox College, Ill. In '56 received degree of M. D.
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at Mich. University, and began practice at Dowagiac, Mich. After the war be-
gan practice in Chicago, Ill., his present residence. Married Josephine Bennett,
in '66, at Evans, N. Y. See War Record.
J. BYINGTON SMITH. Born in Vermont, May 1, ’30. Entered in '48. Left in
'50; graduated at Rochester University in ’52 and from Rochester Theo'l Semi-
nary in ’54. In '56 married Elizabeth, daughter of Hervey Edwards, Esq., of
Fayetteville. Ordained Nov. 23, '54. Pastor in Fayetteville '56–60; Farmer Vil-
lage, '60–'66; Chaplain of Sing Sing Prison, '66-'69. Preached in Dunkirk, '54–
'56. Baptized 169. Now in Geneva, N. Y.
GEORGE STARKs. . Entered the Class of ’52 in '46, from Sweden, N.Y., and
reached the Soph. year. Joined the Hamilton Church while a student. He was
married ; was in business in Iowa, then in Union, Union Co., Oregon, where he
is supposed to be now residing.
A. B. STILL. Born in West Vincent, Pa., Oct. 15, 23. Baptized when 15
years old. Entered in '46. Graduated at Lewisburg University in '52. In
March, '53, ordained in Logan Valley, Blair Co., Pa. Pastor in Huntingdon,
Pa., in ’54. In '58–60 General Missionary of the Central Baptist Association.
Pastor in Danville and Lawrenceville, Pa.; Pittsgrove Church (Salem), N. J. In
'67 returning to Danville as a residence has continued to labor for feeble churches
in Northumberland Association. Baptized 261.
GEORGE POMEROY WATROUS. Born in Chester, Conn., Jan. 10, 25. Entered
Class of ’52 in '48. Graduated from Theo'l Seminary of Rochester, in ’54. Mar-
ried Prudence M. Knapp, of Lawrenceville, Pa., in '54. Ordained in Chester,
Conn., Sept. 6, ’54. Sailed in October for Burmah. See Mission Work. After
his return he became pastor in Covington and Mansfield, Tioga Co., Pa.; still his
field of labor; residing in Covington. He baptized 67 in Burmah and 117 in
his present field.
CLASS OF 1853.
IRA. W. BUELL. Son of Dea. Elijah Buell, was born in Lebanon, Madison
Co., N. Y., Dec. 9, 30. Entered in '50. Left one term before graduation. Read
law in the office of Hon. Charles Mason, of Hamilton. He then assumed the
Principalship of Medina Academy. In the spring of ’55 he went to Rochester,
N. Y., and read law in the office of Hon. Judge Humphrey, and in Sept. was ad-
mitted to the Bar. Practised law in Rochester until April, '56, when he opened
an office at Chicago, Ill., where he still remains. He was married in '58 to
Miss Lydia A., daughter of Dr. Alfred Gillette, of Steuben, Oneida Co., N. Y.
In Sept., '64, his wife died. In Aug., '67, he was married to Miss Anna M.
Averell, of Chicago, Ill. In the practice of law Mr. Buell has met with dis-
tinguished success. In the autumn of ’60 he was elected Supervisor of North
Chicago, and in the spring of ’61 was elected City Attorney of the city of
Chicago.
HORACE BURCHARD. Born at Remsen, N. Y., April 5, '33. Entered the
Freshman Class in '49 and graduated in '53. Has been Principal and Professor
of languages for thirteen (13) years in schools in N. Y., Tenn., and Wt. He
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married, in '66, Miss Kate, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Fletcher, of Townshend, Vt.
He was ordained by and served the 2d Bennington Baptist Church four years.
Now pastor at Woodstock, Ill.
EZRA J. FISH. Born in Macedon, Wayne Co., N. Y., Sept. 29, 28. Entered
Junior Academic Class and remained three years. Has been pastor in Lima,
Ind., and Sturgis, Mich. (two years alternating), and in Adrian, Mich., where he
has been over six years ('71). His pastorate in Sturgis was broken by sickness
into two periods, making in all five and a half years. Has been blessed in his
labors beyond his expectation, having been called especially to the resuscitation
of declining churches. Never married.
JOSEPH. W. HAMMOND. Born in Jamestown, N. Y., July 13, 23. Converted
in his fifteenth year. In 47 entered Grammar School, graduating from Collegi-
ate Dep’t Aug. 15, '53, and from Theological Dept., Aug., '55. On the day after
graduation was married to Miss A. A. Bronson, of Hamilton. In Sept., '55, en-
tered upon the pastorate of Baptist Church at Akron, Ohio, where he soon after
was ordained. He has since been settled at Erie, Pa.; Springfield, Westmore-
land, Adams Centre, and No. Greenbush, N. Y.
ELLIOT P. MERRIFIELD. Born in Newfane, Windham Co., Vt., Feb. 8, '24.
Entered M. U. in '50 and graduated in '53. Studied Theol. at Ham. Theo'l
Seminary and graduated in ’55. Married, in '56, Miss Judith Huntington, of
Newfane, Vt. He has been pastor of the following churches: West Wardsboro’,
South Windham, East Wallingford, and East Franklin, his present pastorate.
Two years from June, '63, he was in Louisiana, most of the time, under the
Christian Commission, laboring between Moyanzia and New Orleans, with Ba-
ton Rouge as headquarters. For six months he was missionary among the
Freedmen. Organized five churches, licensed three preachers, ordained two.
Heard the relation of the Christian experience of over five hundred persons
given in connection with baptism or joining church. Started schools among
the Freedmen and had protracted meetings with them. Baptized over 200.
See War Record.
N. L. REYNoLDs. Born in Troupsburg, July 28, '27. Entered in ’52, Gradu-
ated in '53. One year in Theology. In '52 married Emily Knox, of Knoxville,
Pa. Ordained March 11, '57, in Tioga, Pa. Three years Sup’t Common Schools
Tioga Co. Six years pastor in Mansfield; five in Blossburg; Wellsburg, his
third pastorate. Baptized about 200.
HENRY L. SIMPson. Born in Columbia Co., N. Y., Sept. 10, 24. Entered
Ac. Dep’t, '47. Graduated in '53 and '55. Ordained, July, '56. Pastor of Union
Baptist Church, Cincinnati, four years from Aug., '56. Three years in Chatham,
C. W., from '60. Married Miss H. E. Bogart, at Auburn, N. Y., in '57; in
Chatham, '62, married Miss C. Z. Shadd. In '65–66 Missionary of the Free Miss.
Society in Memphis, Tenn. Then three years pastor again of the same church
in Cincinnati. In '69 Agent for and President of Am. Baptist Consolidated
Missionary Convention. Next pastor of Second Church, Savannah, Ga. Bap-
tized 575.
ALANSON TILDEN. Born July 29, 28, in Verona, Oneida Co. Converted in
his 15th year. Entered M. U. in ’51 ; graduated in '53. Pastor in Troupsburg,
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where he was ordained, July 1, ’54; Woodhull, East Canaan, and Howard, N.Y.:
and Flushing, Mich. Over 200 added to these churches during his pastorates.
(See War Record.)
BESIDES GRADUATES OF THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT, THE FOLLOWING
WERE MEMBERs of THE THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1853.
GEORGE H. BRIGHAM. Born at Eaton, Madison Co., N. Y., Aug. 13, 23. En-
tered the Shorter Course in '50, and graduated from the Theo'l Dept. in '53.
His first settlement was with the Baptist Church at Scipio, N. Y., where he re-
mained three years. In Dec., '53, he was ordained. In '53 he married Eliza A.
Perry, of Wyoming, N. Y. In '56 he removed to Manlius, where he labored
three and one half years; '59 to Homer, and served as pastor seven years. In '66
he became District Secretary of the American Bap. Miss. Union for Ohio, Ind.,
and West Virginia, and labored in that field until April, '69, when, in consequence
of poor health, he sought the quiet of a pastorate, and settled with the Baptist
Church at Groton, N. Y., where he now labors. In '69 he had baptized 150.
EMMON's P. BOND. Born in Canterbury, Conn., Sept. 6, ’24; prepared for
college in Suffield; entered Brown University in Sept., 46; in Feb., '49, teach-
er in the Academy at Worcester, Mass.; he returned to college in Sept., '50, and
graduated in the class of ’51. He entered the Hamilton Theological Seminary
in Oct., 51, and remained for one year. In Oct., 52, pastor in New Britain,
Conn., ordained Dec. 2d following, and remained until Aug., '65. He was mar-
ried to Miss Mary Howes, in ’53, at Madison, N. Y. He was member of the
Conn. Legislature in '64. He was Chaplain of the 14th Reg. Conn. Volunteers
in Nov., '64, the church granting him leave of absence. He returned to New
Britain in May, '65, after the surrender of the Confederate Armies, but became
Principal of the Conn. Literary Institution at Suffield, where he remained five
years. In Oct.,”70, pastor in Agawam, Mass. He has baptized over one hun-
dred.
CLASS OF 1854.
EDWARD RUTLEDGE BATEs. Born in Utica, N. Y., Aug. 12, 34. Entered M.
U. in '50, and soon obtained a high reputation for talent and scholarship. He
graduated in '54 with the first rank in his class. He then entered upon the
study of law at Utica, and after his admission to the Bar practised his profes-
sion in that city with signal ability, being at one time City Attorney. In Oct.,
°58, he removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he secured an enviable reputation as
an able lawyer and literary man, but in the midst of his career he was cut off by
death, Sept. 21, '66. He was married, July 11, '65, to Miss Mary Ella, daughter
of Rev. Daniel G. Corey, D.D., of Utica, N. Y.
HARVEY DUDLEY BURLINGHAM. Born in Pike (now Genesee Falls), Wyo-
ming Co., N. Y., July 14, 33. Entered the Freshman Class in '50 and graduated
in '54. He immediately commenced the study of medicine under the tuition
of Charles H. Stillman, M. D., at Plainfield, N. J., attended medical lectures at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. In '57 he received the
degree of M.D., and in '58 entered upon his profession in West 23d St., N.Y,
City. Soon after he was appointed Physician to the “ Northern Dispensary
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in that city, which appointment he held for three years, building up at the same
time a large private practice. On Jan. 4, '60, was married to Miss Lucy M.,
daughter of Gen. E. Holbrook, of Sturbridge, Mass. In 62 Ass’t Surgeon in
the Navy. (See War Record.) In '64 located and practised in Galesburg, Ill.
Is now Chief Physician of Blackwell's Island, N. Y. City.
DE WITT CLINTON CRONK. Born in Somers, Westchester Co., N. Y., Aug.
11, '81. Entered in '49 and graduated in '54 and '56. Immediately entered on
an Agency for the Am. Bible Union. Served seven or eight years, visiting
several States, but spending most of his time in New York and Philadelphia.
During the last three or four years of his life ill-health kept him from active
service, and he resided at Sing Sing, where he died in '69 or ’70.
LEWIS HOWE DAVIS. Born near Amsterdam, Montgomery Co., N. Y., Aug.
19, '33. Entered the Freshman Class in ’51 and graduated in ’54. He entered
upon the study of law and practised his profession for some time at Utica,
N. Y. He subsequently removed to Chicago, Ill., where he has met with success
both as a lawyer and Ins. Agt., and where he still resides. In '60 he was mar-
ried to Miss Harriet W-, of Chicago. -
SILAS BELDEN GREGORY. Born at Sand Lake, N. Y., Oct. 28, '26. Entered
the Sophomore Class in ’51 and graduated from the College Aug., '54, and from
the Theological Seminary, Aug., '56. In '56 was married to Miss Martha Hunt-
ington, of Rome, N. Y. In '56 entered upon the pastorate of the Baptist Ch.
at Little Falls, N. Y., which in four years increased from about fifty members
to one hundred and fifty. In Nov., '66, resigned his pastorate and labored at
Portsmouth, Va., as missionary for six months, where, through the blessing of
God, he was enabled to resuscitate a large Baptist interest—Court St. Baptist
Church —wholly broken to pieces by the war, and also to organize a Colored
church of three hundred members, secure them a meeting-house, and train
and ordain a pastor. Then became pastor of the Baptist Church at Niles,
Mich., where there was a revival of religion, in which ninety souls were con-
verted, the majority of whom were baptized by him. Jan. 1st accepted the
Presidency of the Wayland Theological Seminary, at Washington, D.C., where
he had the training of Freedmen as preachers. In '71 pastor in Whitesboro’,
N. Y.
Moses HEATH. Born in Kingwood, N.J., in '27. Entered M. U. in '53 and
graduated in ’54. In Sept. following he married Isaline Hughes, of Flemington,
where he taught two years and was ordained in Sept., 56. Immediately set-
tled with the church at McKeesport, Pa., remaining two and a half years, and
receiving more than sixty into the church, and fifty by baptism. As a mission-
ary of the H. Miss. Society he then settled in Belle Plaine, Minn., where a
church was soon organized. For six years he served this and the Jordan City
Church, eight miles distant. Health failing, he was compelled to leave the
post, and immediately engaged as pastor of the Anoka Church, though unable
to preach but once a Sabbath. In two years he was Principal of the Education-
al Institution at Hastings, Minn., and also the pastor of the Hastings Church.
But in a few months disease reduced his voice to a whisper. This compelled
his return to N. J. After a period of rest his health improved, so as to permit
taking charge of an Academy at Hatboro’, Pa., where (in '71) he still remains.
Has baptized 130. Hopes to be able to resume pastoral labors.
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JAY HUNTINGTON. Born at Western, Oneida Co., N. Y., March 29, 29. Enter-
ed the Freshman Class in '50; graduating from the College in '54 and from the
Theological Seminary in ’56. Married, in '56, to Miss Caroline Scott, of Berk-
shire, Tioga Co., N. Y. On the 23d of the following month was ordained as
pastor of the Baptist Church at North Bennington, Vt., where he labored until
April 1, ’60; then pastor at Canton, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., until Feb., 62. In
the Fall of '62 supplied pulpit at Seneca Falls, N.Y., in the absence of the pas-
tor as Chaplain in the army. He was himself eight months in the service.
From Nov., '65, to Jan., '68, pastor at Sardinia, Erie Co., N. Y., then in Bucyrus,
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THOMAS MESSITER IND. Born Dec. 27, ‘26, in Tetbury, England. Entered
Senior Academic Class of M. U. in ’49 ; graduating from the College in ’54 and
from the Theological Seminary in ’56. Married to Miss Mary Smith Uncles, at
Chippenham, England, April 14, '63. On leaving college he took charge of Bur-
lington University, Burlington, Iowa, and, with the assistance of Rev. G. J.
Johnson, was successful in building up that Institution. After two years he
undertook the erection of a house and the gathering of a Second Baptist Church
at Burlington, under the auspices of the H. M. Society. In less than three
years reaped the fruits of his labors in the baptism of nearly one hundred in.
to the membership of the church. Health then failing, he travelled as agent of
the college, and in the Fall of '59 embarked for England in prosecution of this
object. But this work, auspiciously begun, was soon interfered with by sym-
pathizers with the Southern Rebellion. In 62 he preached at Farmington, Berk-
shire, England, baptizing six. During the next three years he preached to the
Corsham Baptist Church, near Barwell, England, where his labors were bless-
ed in the uniting of a distracted church and the gathering of a large congrega-
tion. Here also he enjoyed the privilege of baptizing his own aged mother (70
years old) and his wife, together with fifteen others. In the Spring of '66 re-
turned to the United States and preached for seven months at Litchfield, Ill.
Then in the service of the Am. Bible Union, but at the expiration of a year, the
failure of his health obliged him to cease from mental labor, and he retired to
a farm, and afterward to his old home in England to recruit. He trusts to be
able to return to this country and resume active service.
ABIJAH RITTENHOUSE. Born in Hunterdon Co., N.J., Sept. 20, 25. Enter-
ed M. U. in May, '53; graduated in ’54. Married, in ’55, to Miss Alice B. Had-
nett, at Constableville, Lewis Co., N. Y. Has followed the profession of teach-
ing. Has taught at Lowville, N. Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; in the State Normal
School, N. J.; and also in the Trenton Classical Academy, N. J. Confined by
sickness the greater part of the year ’61. For two and a half years he was
Sup’t of Public Schools in Hunterdon Co., N. J. For three years he was en-
gaged in business in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. Principal of the Reed
Institute in '67. In '70 opened the Union Classical Academy in Reedsburg,
Pa., where he now resides.
WERWIN WELTON SHARTS. Born in Oxford, Chenango Co., Aug. 31, 30.
Brought up in sight of Hamilton. Entered M. U. in ’51 and graduated in '54.
Studied in Theo'l Dep't one year. Two years in Auburn Theo'l Seminary. Or.
dained by the Presbytery of Catskill, at Greenville, N. Y., Sept. 23, '57. Two
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years pastor of Presb. Church at Malden, on the Hudson; preached one year for
Cong'l Church at Suspension Bridge; five for Cong'l Church at Madison; three
for Cong'l Church in Solon, Ohio; from '68 pastor of East Presb. Church at
Cleveland, Ohio. Married, in '61, in Lockport, N.Y., to Julia Frances, daughter
of late Judge Saxe, of Clinton Co., N. Y.
WALTER NEWTON WYETII. Born in Wendell, Mass., May 17, '33. Entered
Junior Class of M. U. in ’52; graduated in ’54. Was married, in '59, to Miss
Belle Wait, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and in '66 to Miss Climena Munson, of Har-
mar, Ohio. Entered ministry on graduating from college, and labored from
'56 to ’69 at Montrose, Pa.; Portsmouth, Ohio; Sunbury, Ohio; and McConnels-
e ville, Ohio. For a time he was in the service of the Christian Commission.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1854.
HORACE S. HUTCIIINS. Born in Manlius, Jan. 5, '29. Entered M. U. in ’50,
and left at the end of the Junior Year. Completed course of study in Califor-
nia and began practice of medicine. Returned in '57. Married Harriet M.
Babcock, of Cortland Co., N. Y., in Sept., '57. Attended lectures in New York
and took degree of M.D. Engaged in his profession in Batavia, N. Y.
WM. LURE. Born in Esopus, N. Y., Nov. 27, 21. Entered Hamilton in '48
and finished a partial course at Rochester Theo'l Seminary in ’54. Pastor in
Forestville, Eighty-third St., N. Y., Scotch Plains, N. J., and Greenport, L. I.
Died at Wappinger's Falls, N. Y., May 16, '69. He baptized eighty-one in New
York.
BESIDEs GRADUATE OF THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT, THE FOLLOWING
WAS A MEMBER OF THE THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1854.
Josepil JULIAND BABcock. Born in Brookfield, Madison Co., Sept. 19, 25,
Converted and baptized at the age of twelve. In '50 entered M. U, and gradu
ated from the Theo’l Dept. in ’54. In Sept. following married Esther IX. Cogges-
hall, of Newport, R. I., and was ordained in Jay, N. Y., Oct. 23, '54. After a
pastorate there of ten years, he labored a year in Western Va., where he died,
June 7, '65. His first wife died in '57, and hc married Sarah C. Burwell, of
Moriah, N. Y., in '59.
C]_ASS OF 1855.
JAMES LADD ANDRUS. Born June 2, 1817, in Lebanon, Madison Co. Bap-
tized when 14. A severe sickness resulted in his consecration of himself to
the work of the ministry. Entered Preparatory Department of University of
Michigan. Had to struggle with poverty. Once lived twelve weeks on three
dollars. Entered Freshman Class. Sick at end of Freshman Year. Taught.
and preached seven years. Entered M. U. in ’51 ; graduated in ’55 and ’57.
Married in '57 to Miss E. C. Lake. Ordained in Martinsburg, N. Y., Jan. 6,
1858. Next in Lewis Co.; then in Howard. Agent of Bible Union in Michi-
gan. Pastor in Towanda, and Wilkesbarre, Pa. Preaches to feeble churches,
as his health will allow.
PHILIP PERRY BRowN. Born in Smithfield, Madison Co., N. Y., Oct. 8, 1823
Entered M. U. in '53, graduated in '55. Principal of Univ'y Gram. School from
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'55 to '62. (See War Record.) In '66 he established himself in an extensive
bakery business in St. Louis, his present residence. In 1845 he married Sarah
Jackson, in Louisville, Ky.
JAMES CHRYSTAL. Born in N. Y. City, May 20, 1832. Entered in '50; grad-
uated in '55. Spent some time teaching. Studied theology privately, and in
Episcopal Sem’y in N. Y. Ordained deacon in Burlington, N. J., in '59, and
presbyter in '60. Preached in Brandywine Village, Del., '59–62, as assistant.
Rector in Westminster, Md., '62–64, and Montclair, N. Y., '64—’67. Now pastor
in Baltimore, Md. Taught Greek and Latin in Preparatory Department in
Burlington College. Classical teacher in Churchill's School, Sing Sing, N. Y.
Has declined professorship in College. Author of “A History of the Modes of
Chris, Baptism, from the Holy Scripture, the Councils, CEcumenical and
Provincial, and the Rubrics of the Whole Church, East and West,” which
work is a plea for the restoration of immersion. He has done what he could
to bring about a closer union of the Anglican and Greek Church.
ABNER DAVIS GORHAM, was born at Tisbury, Mass., April 14, 1826. Entered
the Freshman Class of Madison University in 1851, and graduated in 1855,
Married, at Hyannis, Mass., Nov. 29, 1849, to Sarah M. Patterson. Was ordained
at Tisbury, Nov. 8, 1855, and settled as pastor at Nantucket, Mass. Thence
called to Edgartown, thence to Long Plain, thence Jan. 1, 1863, to Wenham,
his present pastorate.
JAMEs E. HADNETT. Born Oct. 15, 1829, at Constableville, Lewis Co., N. Y.
Entered M. U. in '50, taking the Scientific Course, including Latin and German.
After the Sophomore Year he was four years in dry-goods business in Peters-
burg, Va. Made a tour of the Southern States, and delivered literary lectures.
Studied law in the office of Hon. Greene C. Bronson, New York City, and was
admitted to the Bar in May, 1859. In August, '59, M. U. conferred the honorary
degree of A.M. Practises law in New York City. Writes for journals. Hates
politics. Is unmarried.
FREEMAN PARKER LANG, was born in Woodstock, N. H., Dec. 13, 1829.
Entered Senior Academic Class of M. U., Feb., 1850, graduating in 1855. One
year in the Theological Seminary. In Sept., 1857, he was married to Miss
Jennie E. Law, of Westmoreland, N. Y. Became pastor of the Bap. church at
Westford, Otsego Co., New York, Sept., 1856, which position he retained three
years; then three years at Westport, Essex Co., N. Y. Conversions and bap.
tisms every year. Failing health then compelled Mr. L. to resign pastoral
labor, and he entered into business with Fuller, Warren & Co., extensive stove
dealers, Troy, N. Y., his present address.
WILLIAM ELY LYON, was born in Napoli, Cattaraugus Co., N.Y., April 2,
1837. Entered the Senior Academic Class in 1850, and graduated from the
College in 1855. Entered the Theological Seminary, but soon left, and was
connected with the Fairmount Theological Seminary at Cincinnati, Ohio. Was
married in 1856 to Miss Sabrina A. Chamberlain, of Grafton, Ohio, and in
Nov., 1856, settled as pastor of the Bap. church in Seville, Medina Co, Ohio.
Ordained in the following month, Remained with this church until Jan. 1st,
1857, when he accepted a call to the church in Richfield, Summit Co., Ohio,
where his pastorate of five years was greatly blessed. After this he labored
nine months as missionary in the Cleveland Baptist Association, and then
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accepted, for the second time, the pastorate of the church at Seville, Ohio
where he labored three years. In May, 1866, he became pastor of the Baptist
church in Clyde, Sandusky Co., Ohio. Has baptized into the church 139 persons,
among them his own brother, Rev. A. J. Lyon.
W. B. MATCHETT, son of a Methodist preacher, was born in Geddes, N.Y.,
April 25, 1829. Edited a newspaper in Stillwater. Sold out and entered M.
U. in 1850. He left in 1852 to continue his studies at Fairmount Theo. Sem.,
Ohio. He began preaching in New York City in 1855. He afterward took pas-
toral charge of the Bank Street Baptist Church, New Albany, Ind. ; and then
of the First Baptist Church, Orange, N. J. He stated a newspaper called the
New Jersey Baptist. (See War Record.) At the close of the war he took up his
residence in Washington, D.C., where he now resides, and where he has done
all in his power for the freedmen, for the nation, and for the denomination.
WM. WITTER MEECH, son of Elder Levi Meech. Born in No. Stonington, Conn.,
June 23, 1825. Baptized when nine years old. Ordained at North Lyme,
Conn., in June, '50. Entered Scientific Course in ’53, but, on account of health
left before graduating. Became Agent for the Bible Union. In '56 preached,
in Anthony, R. I. In '57–59 pastor in Long Plain, Mass. Served on School
Board. Church doubled. In 60 pastor in Burlington, N. J. In '61 he mar-
ried Janet Dubois, of Frankford. In 62 chaplain in army. (See War Record.)
Since the war labored in Oil City, Pa.; Jersey Shore, Pa.; Cumberland, Md.
M. U. conferred honorary A.M. in '60. Has throat disease. Now Superin-
tendent of Maryland Industrial School for Girls, at Orange Grove, eleven miles
from Baltimore.
ABRALIAM COLES OSBORN. Born at Scotch Plains, N. J., Feb. 20, 1831.
Entered M. U. in ’51. Tutor to Mrs. Judson's son. After graduation in '55,
he was one year Prof. of Mathematics in High School at Columbia, S. C.
Graduated from Hamilton Theo'l Sem’y in '58. Ordained pastor of Jefferson
St. Church, Louisville, Ky. Spent '61 in Europe, chiefly in study of the German
language. In '61 he married Sarah E. Matthews, of Louisville, who died Aug.
20, 1868. In 62 pastor of Fourth Baptist. Church, St. Louis, Mo. In '67
Shurtleff College conferred the degree of D.D. The church in Louisville
more than doubled its numbers during his pastorate, and that in St. Louis
increased from 59 to 400 with a Sunday-school of more than 1,000 members.
His present pastorate is in Brooklyn, N. Y.
WM. TERRILL POTTER. Born Sept. 1, 1824, in Madison, Ohio. Entered M.
U. from Granville College in ’52. Graduated in ’55 and '57. In Oct., '57, mar-
ried Mary A., daughter of Rev. Thomas Brown, of Vesper, Onondaga Co., N.
Y. Ordained Dec. 16, '57, pastor of church in Oxford, Chenango Co. In '64
removed to Yates, Orleans Co., still his field. Baptized thirty in Oxford, and a
considerable number in Yates.
JoBIN FERRIS PATTON. Born April 30, 1830, near Cincinnati, Ohio. He
studied three years at Granville College, completing the Freshman Year, and
entered the Sophomore Class of M. U. in 1852, and graduated in 1855. Employed
as teacher of Greek for a time in Fairmount Theological Seminary near Cin-
cinnati, Ohio; then, for three years, instructor in the Public Schools at Walnut
Hills, and at Fairmount, as Principal. During the last year at Fairmount the
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conversion of many of his pupils innpressed him with a sense of duty to enter
the ministry. He packed his trunk for Hamilton to enter upon the study of
Theology, but just before he designed starting, he received a sun-stroke, and fell
exhausted and helpless to the ground. For three years he was an invalid, for
much of the time on the verge of the grave; but, after several years spent in
travelling and secular labor, it pleased God to restore him partially to health, and
by a singular train of providences he was lead to New York City, where he enter-
ed upon general missionary work among the alleys and by-ways of that metropo-
lis, in which glorious work he is still engaged with many tokens of his Master's
approval. He married Mrs. Emily Thompson.
MILAN LESTER WARD, was born Dec. 24, 1829, in Meredith, Delaware Co.,
N.Y. Entered Senior Class of Madison University in the Fall of 1854, graduat-
ing from the Collegiate Dept. in 1855, and from the Theological Dep’t (after
one year spent in teaching in Norwich Academy, N. Y.), Aug., 1858. Married
Miss Sarah J. Meeker, of Newark, N. J., in 1859. He at once attempted to
found an Institute in Southampton, Va., preaching at the same time, having
been previously ordained as an evangelist. Foreseeing, however, the civil
troubles which were likely to arise, he left Virginia, and entered upon the
Dep’t of Natural Sciences in Delaware Literary Institute, the school in which
he had pursued his pre-collegiate course. In 1862 he accepted an appointment
as Principal of the Norwich Academy, Chenango Co., N. Y., which institution
he still conducts. He found the academy in a very low state, but according to
the Report of the Regents, it had become the fifth in the State in the number
of its students,
CLASS OF 1856.
CHARLES AGER. Born in Albany, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1831. Entered in ’52,
graduated in '56. Married Mary A. Sherril, in Niles, Mich., Nov. 1858. Or-
dained in Goshen, Ind., Jan. 26, 1860. After three and a half years became
pastor in South Bend; then in Aurora. Had abundant success.
ROBERT ATKINSON. Entered in ’53, and graduated in ’56 and ’58. Nearly
ten years pastor of North Church, Newark, N. J.; received over four hundred
to the church, most of them by baptism ; new meeting-house built, the greater
part of the cost raised by him outside of the congregation. In 68 took charge
of the affairs of the Ottawa University, Kansas. Soon raised over $50,000
needed to pay debt and finish college edifice. Besides his care of the Institution,
he acts as Dist. Sec'y of the H. M. Soc'y in Kansas and adjoining States. In
'59 he married Margaret Northrup, of Newton, N. J.
DANIEL PRATT BALDWIN. Born in Lenox, Madison Co., N. Y., March 22,
1837. Having been member of Hamilton College (Clinton), he entered M. U.
in '55, and graduated in '56, the youngest of the class. Taught in Fayetteville,
N. Y. In '57 began to read law in Syracuse—for the first time studied hard ;
after teaching, entered law school connected with Columbia College, N. Y.
City; in '60 took the degree of LL.B., and entered into partnership with Hon.
D. D. Pratt (U. S. Senator), in Logansport, Ind. In 1863 married Miss India
Smith, of Logansport. Received honorary A.M. from Wabash College, Ham-
ilton College, and Madison University. In 1870 Gov. Baker appointed him
Judge of the 21st Common Pleas District. A Logansport journal says: “There
is probably not a man in the district better qualified for the position.”
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MORRIS BRIGGS. Born in Lebanon, Madison Co., N. Y. Entered M. U. in
°52, and graduated in '56. Spent Winter at home. Then in West in prospecting,
teaching, and agriculture. In '58 appraised land in N. W. Wisconsin for
“Improvement Co.” Taught in Batavia, Ill., as before. In '59–61 taught and
farmed at Crystal Lake, Ill. (See War Record.) While lying wounded in the
hospital at Perrysville, Ky., he first met his wife, Flora E. Gay, to whom he
was married in Louisville, Ky., Oct. 26, '64. In Lebanon two years. In '68
engaged in flourishing business in Philadelphia, Pa., in the firm “George Gay
& Co., importers of glass, china,” etc.
WILBER MASON BROWN. Born in Oneida Co., July 2, 1833. Entered the
Sophomore class of Madison University in the Fall of 1853. Graduated in
Aug., 1856. Commenced the study of law immediately in the office of Goodwin
& Mitchell, at Hamilton, N. Y. Was admitted to the Bar in the Fall of 1858.
Soon became associated with Hon. D. Pratt and D. J. Mitchell in the practice
of law at Syracuse, N. Y., and with whom that success usually attending
reasonable industry has been enjoyed. Was never married, and at present
entertains no such “great eaſpectations.”
HORACE M. CARR. Born March 7, 1834, at Boston Corners, Erie Co., N. Y.
Entered the Senior Collegiate Class of Madison University, Oct. 1855, graduat.
ing from the College Aug., 1856, and from the Theological Sem, Aug., 1858.
Immediately on graduation became pastor of the Bap. Church at Ogdensburgh,
N. Y., at which place was soon after ordained. After a successful pastorate
of two years resigned in order to enter the military service. (See War Record.)
He was married at Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 3, 1863, to Miss Sallie Houston, niece
of Gen’ſ Sam. Houston, of Texas. Became pastor of the South Baptist Church,
at Belvidere, Ill., where he remained one year. Then accepted a call from the
church at Springfield, Ill. During his service with this church, between 40 and
50 were added to its membership by baptism. Next in Verdin, Ill.
JAMES RODOLPHUS EATON, son of George W. Eaton, D.D., was born Dec. 11,
1834, in Hamilton. Baptized when twelve years old. Entered Freshman Class
of M. U. Oct. 1850. At the end of Junior Year, in 1853, left the University, and
went to Tenn. Taught there two years, for a short time being connected with
Union University, Murfreesboro’, Tenn. Oct. 1855, entered Senior Class M. U.,
and graduated from Collegiate Dept., Aug., 1856, and from Theological Dep’t
Aug., 1858. At once Prof. of Mathematics and Natural Science in Union Uni-
versity, Murfreesboro’, Tenn., where he remained one year, when he accepted a
call to the chair of Ancient Languages in Bethel College, Russellville, Ky.,
but owing to ill-health procured a substitute and went to sea. Health restored,
in Fall of 1860 assumed the duties of his chair at Bethel College, and continued
there until June 1, 1861, when the college being broken up by the war, he
returned North, and after a year at home accepted an appointment in the New
York City Post-Office. Remained here until Aug. 1866, when he accepted the
chair of Nat. Science in the University of the P. S. of Louisville, Ky. Re-
unained in Louisville until May 1, 1869, when he accepted the chair of Natural
Science in “William Jewell College,” Liberty, Missouri, his present field of
labor. He has never married, but is still in bachelor “meditation fancy free.”
GEORGE B. EATON, Son of President Eaton. Born in Georgetown, Ky., June
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10, 1832. Entered University in 1850, but was subsequently absent two years
teaching in Illinois. Graduated in 1856. Went West and entered the employ-
ment of the Wisconsin & Fox River Improvement Co., as surveyor and explorer.
Married, June 12, 1858, at Aztalan, Wisconsin, Miss Hattie Philips. In 1861 was
appointed a Custom-House inspector at New York, which position he still
retains.
Moses GILBERT FELLOws. Born in Orange, Orange Co., Vt., Dec. 27, 1825.
Entered Senior Ac. Class in 1851. Graduated Aug., 1856, and immediately
assumed Principalship of Brookfield Academy, Madison Co., N. Y. From Fall
of 1857 to March, 1858, taught school in Cleveland, Ohio. Then became con-
nected as compositor and editor with the Democratic Union, at Hamilton, N. Y.
In Dec., 1859, engaged with the proprietors of the New Jersey Standard, at Red
Bank, N.J., to edit and superintend that paper. In the Fall of 1860 he was
employed to superintend the publication of the Vermont Patriot, at Montpelier.
In July, 1862, assumed the superintendence of the Democratic Republican, pub-
lished at Hamilton, N. Y. In 1866 was selected on the editorial staff of the
Utica Morning Herald. Health failing he resigned and assumed the manage-
ment of the Clyde Times, at Clyde, N. Y., Spring of 1867. Here he remained
but a short time, owing to ill-health of his wife, and soon became connected
again with the Democratic Republican, at Hamilton, N. Y. He was married, May
1, 1860, to Miss Ellen McDonald, of Hamilton.
OLIVER WOICOTT GATES. Born at Preston, New London Co., Conn., Feb. 24,
1830. Made profession of religion Nov., 1842, Commenced a course of study
in May of the same year at the Conn. Lit. Institution at Suffield, Conn., where
he remained five years, one year as teacher. In the Autumn of 1854 entered
the Junior Class of Madison University, and graduated Aug., 1856. After
spending a few months in Kentucky, returned to Hamilton, and entered the
Theological Seminary. From Jam, to April, 1857 supplied the Baptist Church
at Whitesboro’, New York, at the same time continuing his studies in the
Seminary. During the same year accepted the call of the Greenville Bap.
Church, Norwich, Conn. Ordained pastor of the church Sept. 2, 1857. On the
same day married to Miss Mary Gertrude, daughter of Rev. John Paine. Pas-
tor in Norwalk, Conn., in '61. Baptisms every year.
WILLIAM M. HARTSHORN, was born Sept. 7, 1833, in Lebanon, Madison Co.,
N. Y. Entered Freshman Class in the Fall of 1852, and graduated from the
college Aug., 1856. Inmediately assumed the Principalship of Susquehanna
Academy, at Montrose, Pa. Resigned at the end of a year, and read law a year
and a half at Hamilton. In 1859 commenced the practice of law at Delhi,
Iowa. In 1868 he changed his residence from Delhi to Delaware in the same
county (Delaware), where he still remains, with every prospect of high success.
On Aug. 1, 1864, he was married to Miss Emily A. Beebe, of Hamilton, N. Y.
EDWIN JAMES HATCII. Was born in Eaton, Madison Co., N. Y. Entered the
Senior Academic Class in 1850, and the Freshman Class in ’52, and graduated
from College, Aug., '56. Was converted during the “great revival" of ’52–53
at Hamilton. After graduation spent some time in teaching. Was married in
'58, to Miss Jennie M. Crocker, at Dover Plains, N. Y. After various changes
Mr. H. “drifted into the milling business,” in the Fall of '59, which he still
carries on successfully, at Eaton, N. Y.
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T. R. HOWLETT. Born in Cambridgeshire, England, March 19, 1827. Con-
verted when fifteen, in Richfield, O. Entered in ’52, and graduated in '56 and
'58. Married, in Sept., '58, to Mary E. Fellows, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Pastor soon
in New Brunswick, N. J.; then of Pearl St., Albany, N.Y.; Central, Trenton,
N. J.; Calvary, Washington ; Hudson City, N. Y., and Second, Plainfield, N. J.
During his seven years pastorate in Washington, a place of worship costing
$120,000 was built and paid for ; burnt, rebuilt at same cost and paid for.
Baptized over 219.
ELI BLAKESLY LAW, Born April 18, 1830, in Westmoreland, N.Y. Entered
in '51 ; graduated in '56. A year in Theol. Dep’t. In '57 married Mary Louisa
Payne, of Hamilton. Pastor in Hampton Falls, N. H.; Durhamville, N. Y. ;
Burlington, Wis., five or six years; Tafton (now Bloomington), Wis.; Han-
nibal, N. Y. Accessions to all these churches were made during his pastorates.
ALBERT RUSSEL NEWTON. Born in Warren, Herkimer Co., April 20, 1826.
When converted in Wisconsin, he gave up intention to study law, and entered
M. U. in ’51, and graduated in ’56. At once settled in Farmington, Fulton Co.,
Ill. Married Elvira E. Washburne, of Afton, Wis. In '57–58 nearly 100
seemed converted. Remained ten years. (See War Record.) In '68 pastor in
Seneca, La Salle Co., Ill. Now in Geneseo, Ill.
WILLIAM LEDYARD PALMER. Was born Jan. 21, 1820, in Lenox, Madison
Co., N. Y. Entered Senior Academic Class Oct., 51. Graduated from College
Aug., '56, and from the Theol. Sem'y Aug., '59. From Oct., '59, to Aug., '65, he
was settled as pastor of the Bap. Church, at Poultney, Vt. During his pastor-
ate at that place he baptized twenty-two. In Jan., '66, took charge of the Bap.
Church in Cornwall, Vt., where he still remains, having welcomed into the
church twenty-eight by baptism. He has never married.
ISAAC NEWTON PEASE. Was born in Windsor, Broome Co., N. Y., May
25, 1827. He entered the Academic Department of Mad. Univ'y May, '51, and
graduated in the class of '56, and from the Theol. Sem'y in '58. He was mar-
ried in Westfield, N. Y., March 28, '59, to Aurilla M. Root; and in the May
following he settled with the Bap. Church in Boston, N. Y., where he was
ordained Aug. 17, '59. In May, '60, he removed to Busti, N. Y., where he
labored until his health failed—some two and a half years. He then returned
to Panama, his former home, and when his health had sufficiently recovered,
he became the pastor of the Bap. Church in that place. Here he labored nearly
three years, until his health again failed, since which time he has been able
to preach only occasionally. During his ministry he has baptized twenty-
three.
JOHN D. POPE. Was born in Edmonston, N. Y., Jan. 9, 1829. Entered
Mad. Univ'y in '51, in the Second Class of the Grammar School. Graduated in
'56, and spent one year in the Theol. Sem'y. He became pastor of the Bap.
Church at St. Paul, Minn., Oct., '57. The church doubled the number of its
members in six months. Continued that relation nine years. Was pastor of
the First Bap. Church at Peoria, Ill., one year and six months. Oct. 1, '68, he
accepted a call from the Bap. Church at Norwich, N. Y., where he now resides.
He was married to Miss Lucy A. Morrison in '57, at Centre Village, N. Y.
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W. A. SMITH. Was born in Hunterdon Co., N. J., June, 1829. Entered the
Freshman Class of M. U. in ’52; graduated in '56, Married at Bergen, N.J.,
in '63, to Susan H. Diehl. Ordained at Burlington, N.J., June 30, '59. Serving
one year, failing health compelled his resignation. Gave himself to secular
pursuits and to teaching for seven years. In Sept., '69, he settled as pastor of
the Bap. Church, Canton, Ohio, where he still resides. Has baptized sixty
persons.
ELI WILLIAM STONE. Was born in Owego, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1836. Entered
the Sophomore Class of M. U. in ’53, and graduated in ’56. Was married at
Clarksville, N. Y., Sept., '61, to Miss Charlotte L. Metcalfe. During the
Scholastic Year, '61–62, he occupied the chair of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres in
Mad. Univ'y. He was in the military service. Since the war he has been en-
gaged in mercantile pursuits, as a member of the house of “Stone & Buckbee,”
Owego, N. Y.
CYRUs F. To LMAN, son of Rev. J. T. Tolman. Was born at Meridian, N.
Y., Oct. 25, 1832. Entered Sophomore Class of M. U. in '54, Graduated from
the Collegiate Dept. in '56, and from the Theol. Sem’y in '58. Was married at
Hamilton, N. Y., Oct. 4, '58, to Miss Mary R. Bronson, daughter of Rev. Miles
Bronson, Missionary to Assam. Was appointed Missionary to Assam, and Nov.
20, '58, sailed from Boston. Carried on the Assam Mission, preaching his first
sermon six months after his arrival at the station. He commenced the Mikir
Mission, prepared a few primary works, and was about to move with his family
into the hills for more direct and efficient labor, when he was prostrated by
malarious fever, and was carried out of Assam a helpless invalid in ’61. Leav-
ing his wife and child alone to follow him, in case the sea voyage did not
restore his health, he returned to this country. Prudence forbade his return
to Assam, and having been joined by his family, he settled in Lawrence, Mass.,
as pastor of the Second Bap. Church, Oct., 62. After a delightful pastorate of
about two years, health again failing, he settled in Fort Madison, Iowa, in '64.
In Jan., '66, entered the service of the Am. Bap. Miss'y Union as District
Secretary in the Western District, in which capacity he is still doing good
service. Residence, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM NORMAN WILBUR. Born in Griswold, Conn., Nov. 28, 1825.
Entered M. U., from Suffield Inst’n, Conn., in ’54, and graduated in 56. At
once Principal of Saxton's River Sem'y, Vt. Married Huldah T. Richards, at
Preston, Conn., in ’56. Ordained pastor at Saxton's River, Feb. 11, ’58, Still
there as pastor. Baptized ninety-four; congregation doubled. His wife died
in '67. In '68 married Harriet Richards, of Preston, Conn.
GRADUATES OF THE SCIENTIFIC COURSE, 1856.
EDWARD PIERSON BRIGHAMI. Born in Madison, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1828.
Entered the Scientific Course in ’52, Graduated in '55, and from Theol. Dep’t
in '57. In '55 married Mary A. Hopkins, at Lebanon, N. Y. In '6S married
Calista L. Hazen, of Penn Yan, N. Y. Pastor in Shusan, Washington Co.;
Manlius, Camillus, Penn Yan, Wappinger's Falls, and Le Roy. Has baptized
every year.
MARSHALL JAMES L. DUNBAR. Was born in Truxton, N.Y., March 8, 1825.
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He entered Univ'y in Oct., '50, in the Academic Department, and graduated
from the Scientific Course in '55. Studied theology, but health failing, left the
Institution in '56. Was married at Phelps, N. Y., to Miss Mary M. Myers, in
'59, and was ordained at Tiskilwa, Ill., in March, '59. Spent one year at Ham-
monton, N. J., and was able to preach part of the time. Then was three years
on a farm. In the army. Iłis wife died in Washington, D.C., in '64. Became
pastor of the church at Waterloo, Mich., in July, '65, where he is still in gervice.
Has baptized forty-one. Was married in Oct., '65, to Miss Mary D. Robinson,
of Waterloo. |
WILLIAM BOW DOIN SMITH. Born in Salem, Mass., Oct. 21, 1825. Entered
Freshman Class in Spring of ’52. In '54 he entered the Theol. Dep’t, and
graduated in '56, being among those who first received the degree of B.P. In
'51 he married Mary A. Edgecomb, of Mystic Bridge, Conn. Ordained pastor in
Hudson, Conn., Sept., 56. Pastor in Upper Alton, Ill., in '59 ; in Benton, Ill., in
'62 ; in Long Island City, N. Y., in '69. Meeting-house built and many converted.
LANSON STEWARD. Son of the late Ira Steward, of the N. Y. Bethel. Was
born at Green's Harbor, near New London, Conn., Sept. 30, 1824. Baptized at
Groton, Conn, at the age of fifteen. In Sept., 46, was married to Miss Abby
Jane Smith, of New London, Conn. Entered the Junior Academic Class in ’52.
Entered Scientific Course of the College, Oct., 52, graduating in ’55. Then took
one year in Theology. Lack of means preventing a further prosecution of
studies, he left in '56, and accepted a call to the Bap. Church at Cambridge,
Washington Co., N. Y. Ordained Oct. 23, '56. During this pastorate of five
years he baptized eighty persons, and the little church of 26 increased to 112
members. In Nov., '61, pastor of church at Port Jefferson, L. I., a new organiza-
tion of thirty-one members. This church he served for five and a half years,
during which he baptized 74, and left the church with 100 members. In July,
'67, accepted the call of the North Bap. Church, of Port Chester, Westchester
Co., N. Y., and continued with them one year, baptizing five. Commenced his
pastorate at Huntington, L.I., with the organization of the church, Sept. 6, '68.
Baptized 163. -
WILLIAM STEWART. Was born at Cutler, Me., June 18, 1830. Married at
Payson, Ill., July 25, '50, to Miss Sarah E. Kay. Entered M. U. Feb., '54. Grad-
uated (Scientific Course) in '55. Entered the Theol. Dep't in '55. Left in April,
'56. Ordained at Payson, Ill., Aug. 6, '56. Became pastor at Littleton, Ill., Oct.,
'56. Resided there two years. Then took charge of the church at Camp Point.
Ill., Oct., 58. His wife died at this place, Aug. 30, '60. Married Margaret R.
Kay, at Payson, '61. Supplied the Vermont St. Bap. Church, at Quincy, Ill., from
Oct., '60, to July, '61. Then returned to Camp Point Church as pastor. He has
a fruit farm at Quincy, Ill. Baptized 150 persons.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1856.
How ARD MALCOM DAY. Son of Rev. S. S. Day, formerly Missionary among
the Telegoos, British India. Was born June 6, 1836, at Vizapatnam, India. At
the age of ten years he came with his father to this country, and entered Cort-
land Academy, pursuing the full classical course. In Oct., '52, entered the Fresh-
man Class of M. U., and during a powerful revival of religion was there converted
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and baptized. On account of ill-health he left the Univ’y in June, ’53, and
travelled in the book business until Jan., '56. From '56 to ’62 he was engaged
in teaching school, in Brock Township, Ontario Co., Canada. (See War Record.)
In '62 he was married to Miss Lizzie Watson, of Homer, N. Y. Had charge of a
school in Empire, Whitesides Co., Ill. In Nov., '64, he entered the Junior Class
in the Theological Dep't connected with Shurtleff College, at Upper Alton, Ill.,
from which Sem’y he graduated in June, '68. In Oct., '68, accepted a call to the
pastorate of the Bap. Church at St. Charles, Winona Co., Minn., his present field,
and was ordained Feb. 11, ’69. In March his labors were blessed of God, in the
conversion of twenty-five souls, of which he has baptized eleven, having baptized
three previously. -
FRANK J. GLAZIER. Of Stratton, Vt., died during his Sophomore year.
R. J. REYNOLDs. Born in Knox, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1830. Entered Acad. Dep’t in
'50; left in '53. Taught in St. Lawrence Co. tilſ '59. In that year ordained
pastor in Woodstock, N. Y. In 60 married Margaret Tootill, at Ringston, N.
Y. Has labored chiefly in Delaware County.
TiroMAS BENJAMIN ROBERTs. Was born in Chanceville (now New Mon-
mouth), N. J., March 17, 1838. Entered the Junior Academic Class of M. U. in
51, and the Freshman Class of the College in ’53, taking the Scientific Course.
He left the Univ'y in ’56. After three years spent at his old home he went West
in '59, and was in Minnesota at the breaking out of the civil war. (See War
Record.) After leaving the army accepted a responsible situation in March, '65,
in the Continental Insurance Co., N. Y. City, residing in Brooklyn, N. Y. He
was married on the 26th of Sept., '66.
CARLOS SWIFT. Born in Fabius, Jan. 12, 1829. In '54 entered M. U. from
Union College. Left in '55, being, during his residence at Hamilton, pastor in
Clinton, and having been ordained in South Trenton, Nov. 6, ’54. In '52 he
married Elvira M., daughter of Rev. P. P. Brown. In '56 he settled in Water.
ville ; in '60 in Madison Village; in '64 in Mount Carroll, Ill. ; in '67 in Fairbault,
Minn. ; in '68 in Normal, McLean Co., Ill., in ’71 in Mount Carroll. In '69 he
had baptized about 200.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT, TIIE FOLLOWING
WERE MEMBERS OF THE TITEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1856.
JEROME B. MoRSE. Born in Haverhill, Mass., April 14, 1830. Entered Theol.
Class in ’54; graduated in ’56. Married Sophia B. Cross, in N. Y. City, in '64.
Ordained pastor in North Orange (?), Nov. 5, '57. In California in '60. Formed
nucleus of Second Church in San Francisco—also one in San Pablo—organized
church in Napa City. Pastor three and a half years of Bunker Hill Church,
Charlestown, Mass. ; three and a half of Essex Church, Conn. One year with
Howard Mission, N. Y. Building up new church at White Plains, N. Y. Bap-
tized 200.
CIIARLEs J. THOMPSON. Born Sept. 19, 1830, at Annapolis, Md. Entered
Junior Theo, Class of M. U., in '54, and graduated in ’56. Settled as pastor of
Baptist Church at Bridgeport, Pa., in '56, and resigned in '61. Was pastor of
church at Port Jervis, N. Y., two years. Became pastor of church at Morris, N.
Y., in the Fall of ’65 and continues that relation still. (See War Record.) Mar-
ried in '60 to Miss Susie A. Peggs, of Rome, N. Y.
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CLASS OF 1857.
MoSES BARKER. Born in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., May 2, 1829.
Entered Freshman Class in '53. Graduated in ’57. Married Miss Helen M,
Morton, of Richville, N. Y., Oct. 7, '58. Ordained Nov., '58. Pastor in
Knowlesville, N. Y., three years; in Pittsford, N. Y., four years; in Danville,
N. Y. (present pastorate), three years.
JOHN ROSS BAUMEs. Born Dec. 28, 1833, in Carlisle, N. Y. Entered Mad.
Univ. in ’52, and graduated in '57. Read law in N. Y. City; returned, and
graduated from Theo'l Seminary, in '59. At once settled in Westfield, Mass. ;
ordained Dec. 28, '59. In Oct., married in Jersey City, N. J., to Miss R. G. Will-
cox, who died at Springfield, Ohio, March 29, '65. (See War Record.) In April,
'62, became pastor in New London, Conn., First Church ; in '65, in Springfield,
Ohio; in '68, pastor of newly-organized Trinity Baptist Church, in same city.
In '68 he married Miss S. Jennie Hayward, of Springfield. He has baptized
one hundred and forty-seven.
EDWIN. D. BENTLEY. Born at Stonington, Conn., Oct. 29, 1829. Entered the
Institution, in '59, in the Junior Acad, Class. Graduated in ’57; from Theo. Sem.
'59. Married, at Newark, N.J., '61, to Miss A. Augusta Lindsley. Ordained in
Willimantic, Conn., Oct., '59 ; resided there six years. Went to Missouri, Nov.,
'65, for general missionary work for Am. Bapt. Home Mission Soc., one year.
Settled in Lawrence, Kansas, two and a half years. Settled in Morristown, N.
J., in '68. Has baptized two hundred and seventy-five. Served in Christian
Commission. Chaplain of House of Reps. of Missouri Legislature—session of
'65 and '66.
EDw IN C. CADY. Was born in Brookline, Conn., Nov. 1, 1833. Entered
Mad. Univ., '53; graduated, '57, and entered the Theo'l Seminary, graduating
'59. Ordained pastor of the Portland Baptist Church, St. Johns, New Bruns-
wick, Dec. 4, 59. Was married in '61, to Miss Augusta Dodge, of Weston, Vt.
In '69, he had baptized one hundred and sixty-seven. Pastor in Washington,
Iowa, in ’71.
WILLIAM DUNBA.R. Born in Albany Co., N. Y., March 12, 1829. Entered
Mad. Univ., in ’51 ; graduated in '57 and '59. Ordained in Bennettsburg, N.Y.,
Dec. 14, '59. Pastor in Milo, '61; Prattsburg, 63; Sennett, '67. Baptized one
hundred and thirty-three.
JAMEs RUSSELI, HASwhDL. Son of Rev. Jas. M. Haswell. Born in Am-
herst, Burmah, Sept. 4, 36. Received early education in Burmah. Entered
Junior Acad. Class, '51. Converted in “Great Revival,” in '53. Entered Col-
lege, ’53; graduated '57, and from Theo'l Seminary, '59. Married Miss Eliza-
beth S. Miller, of Rome, N.Y., Aug. 23, '59. Ordained at Troy, N. Y., Sept. 6,
'59. Reached Maulmain, Burmah, Jan. 18, '60. Preached first sermon in Bur-
mese, from Dr. Judson's old pulpit, May, '60. (See Mission Work.)
EDMUND OTIs Hovey. Born in Norwich, Vt., May 24, 1829. Entered Fresh-
man Class, Mad. Univ., in ’53, and graduated in '57. Married Miss Julia B.
Huntley, of West Winfield, N.Y., Dec. 28, '58. Principal of Amsterdam Acad.,
two years; Winfield Acad. about five years : of New York Central Acad., at
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McGrawville, one year; of Rome Acad., three years. Became General Agent
of the Globe Insurance Company for Utica, N. Y., his present position.
HoRACE JENKINs, Born in Ashfield, Mass., Dec. 13, 1832. Labored in a cot-
ton mill. Baptized when fourteen years old. Entered in ’51 ; graduated in
'57 and '59. Married H. Minerva Jones, of Harrisburg, N. Y., in '59. Ordained
in Jersey City, N.J., Oct., '59. (See Mission Work.)
GEORGE WILLIAM L.AsHER. Born in Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., N. Y.,
June 24, 1831. Entered Mad. Univ. in ’53, and graduated in '57 and '59. Or-
dained in Norwalk, Conn., Sept. 30, '59. In '60, married Lizzie C., daughter of
President Eaton. Pastor also in Newburgh, N. Y. (First), '62 ; Haverhill, Mass.
(Portland St.), '64 : First Trenton, N. J., '68. In '69, had baptized one hundred
and twenty-four. (See War Record.)
WILLIAM PARKINSON MOON. Born in Schenectady, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1825.
Removed with parents to Michigan, 28. Converted when fifteen years old.
Began preparation for College at Kalamazoo, Mich. Entered Acad. Dep’t, in
‘52. Entered College, '53; graduated, '57. Studied medicine, and received de-
gree of M.D., Spring of '59. Married Miss Susan Jackson, of Hamilton, N. Y.
Has published several articles and treatises relating to surgical operations.
Now Assistant Physician to Female Department of Pennsylvania Hospital for
the Insane. (See War Record.)
FERRIs SCOTT. Born in South East, Putnam Co., N. Y., May 8, 1830. Baptized
at Carmel, N. Y., Feb., '42. Entered College, ’53; graduated, '57. Married Miss
Elizabeth Robinson, of Massilon, Ohio. Principal of Brookfield Academy, '57.
Ordained at Brookfield, N. Y., July, '58. Became Principal of Danville Female
Academy, Ky., '59. Supplied Baptist Church at Danville, six months. Prof. of
Mathematics in Brownsville Female College, Tenn., '59. Principal of Phelps
Union and Classical School, Ontario Co., N. Y. Pastor of Baptist Church, at
Seneca Falls, N. Y., April 1, ’62. Chaplain 148th Reg’t N. Y. Vols. for two
years. Pastor of Baptist Church, Hamlin, N. Y., Oct., '67.
WILLIAM CLARK TILDEN. Born in Lebanon, Conn., May 1, 1827, Taught
common school from '46 to ’52. Entered Freshman, '53 : graduated, '57. Mar-
ried Miss Amelia F. Russell, of Jessup, Pa., in '50. Became pastor of Forest
Lake and Middletown Churches, Pa., and ordained, Nov. 11, ’57. Added charge
of Liberty Church, April, '58. Still acts as pastor of the above churches.
In '69, had baptized ninety-five. Travelled 30,000 miles with horse and carriage.
Has taught a school for teachers. Also Superintendent of Public Schools for
Susquehanna County.
SAMUEL S. UTTER. He was born at North Granville, Washington Co., N.
Y., Jan. 7, 1830. Entered the Grammar School of Mad. Univ., '51. Graduated
from the Collegiate Dep't, in '57, and from the Theo'l Seminary, in '59. He was
married at Sherburne, N. Y., to Miss Olive P. Ames, Sept. 13, '59. Ordained at
Greenwich, N. Y., Sept. 20, '59. In the same year, settled as pastor of the
Baptist Church, Shakopee, Minn., where he labored two years, assisting in the
formation of two new churches. On account of ill-health he returned East and
settled in Mexico; then at Parma, N. Y., where he labored three years. Settled
at Morrisville, N. Y., in '66. His health was restored in ’71. Residence, John-
son's Creek, N. Y. In '69, he had baptized forty or fifty.
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E. P. WEED. He was born at Hyde Park, N. Y., April 4, 1828. Entered
Sophomore Class of Mad, Univ., '54; graduated from College, '57, and from the
Theo'l Seminary, '59. Married, at Parma, N. Y., '59, to Miss A. M. Sawyer.
Ordained at Half Moon, Sept., 58, and resided there two years. Pastor of the
First Baptist Church at Cornwall, N. Y., five years; of the Baptist Church at
Lafargeville, N. Y., eighteen months, when he became pastor of Church at
Carthage, N. Y., where he now resides. Served in Christian Commission
during the war.
REUBEN HAFF WEEKs. Born at Schenectady, N. Y., Sept., 1833. Converted
and baptized at Canton, Ill., '48, Prepared for College at Shurtleff College,
Ill., and entered Freshman Class, Mad. Univ., in '53. Graduated, '57 and '59.
Ordained at Troy, N. Y., Sept. 6, '59. Married Miss Samantha Reed, of Cort-
land, N. Y., Sept. 12, '59. Pastor of Baptist Church in Monticello, Minn., Nov.,
'59; of Baptist Church in Henrietta, N.Y., July, '63; in Carlton, N. Y., Nov., '66;
at Sand Lake, N. Y., March, '69. Baptized twelve.
HENRY OSBORN WIIEELER. He was born at East Bloomfield, N. Y., May
23, 1831. Entered Mad. Univ., Jan. 20, '52; graduated, '57. Was married to
Miss Harriet L., daughter of Dea. Alvah Pierce, Hamilton. Taught at Bowling
Green, Ky. Engaged in agricultural pursuits at Clinton, N. Y. Returned to
Hamilton, in '62, and was occupied in forwarding and commission business
until '68. Elected a member of the Board of Mad. Univ. In '68 entered again up-
on agricultural pursuits in Gorham.
CHARLEs PIERSON WINEGAR. Son of Rev. Reuben Winegar, was born
Nov. 10, 1835, at Coxsackie, N. Y. Entered Mad. Univ., '51. Left in May, '57.
Was married, Nov. 10, '58, at Amsterdam, N. Y., to Miss Mary E. Sammons.
Was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, May,
'59. Engaged in the profession of law, and also editor of the Amsterdam Re-
corder.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1857.
SAMUEL B. BURCIIARD. Born in Remsen, Oneida Co., N. Y., April 6, 1836.
Entered the Institution, Oct., '53, in Freshman Class. Left, Dec., *č6. Married
at Oswego, N. Y., Nov. 15, '60, to Miss Frances P. Allen. Principal of New
Windsor Seminary, Maryland, '57 and ’58. Entered mercantile and manufac-
turing business in Oswego, N. Y., '60.
J. B. DAVIS. He was born in Lysander, N. Y., March 19, 1833. Fintered
Mad. Univ., '51, Class of '57, but left in ’56. He married, in 38, Miss Harriet
King. Graduated at Williams College, in the Class of '58. Returned to the
Hamilton Theo'l Seminary, and graduated in '60. Settled as pastor, First
Baptist Church of Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. (See War Record.) Published
the Onondaga Gazette, from '64 to 66. Appointed Ass’t U. S. Assessor, Internal
Revenue, in Feb., '66. Temoved by A. Johnson, Nov., '66. Elected one of the
Officers of the New York Assembly in the Winter of ’67. Removed to Topeka,
Kansas, in '69, and engaged in publishing the Commonwealth, the official paper
of IXansas, where he now resides.
JUSTUs VINTON LAWSON. A nephew of J. H. Vinton, born in Union, Conn.;
died at his home in Conn., in his Sophomore year, July, '54—twenty years of
age.
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SAMUEL SMALE. From Markham, Canada West; died in the Sophomore
Year, and was buried in the University Cemetery, where his classmates erected
a tombstone to his memory.
E. H. UNDERWOOD. Born Oct. 13, 1827, in Clymer, Chautauqua Co., N. Y.
Was in the Scientific Course, in Sophomore and Junior Year. Left, on account
of failing health, in '55. Labored as S. S. Missionary in Northern Illinois. Or-
ganized a large number of Sunday-Schools, many of which have grown into
churches. Was married in '58, at Clinton, DeKalb Co., Ill., to Miss Lavina El-
mer, of Jefferson Co., N. Y., Licensed and supplied pulpit at Clinton, Ill., for
one year. Ordained as pastor of Baptist Church at Lee, Fulton Co., Ill., March,
'60. After a pastorate of two years, was pastor at Oxford, Ill., two and a half
years. In May, '64, received commission from Am. S. S. Union, to labor in
Northern Iowa, and in this work he is still engaged with great success. In the
three months before his sketch was given, he had travelled 1,346 miles, visited
454 families, delivered 80 addresses and sermons, and organized 29 schools.
Residence, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
GRADUATES OF THE SCIENTIFIC COURSE, 1857.
SIMEON P. BROWN. Born at Masonville, Delaware Co., N. Y., May 2, 1832.
• Entered the Institution in '56, in the Senior Class. Graduated in '57; from
Theo'l Sem. in '58. Married at Coventry, N. Y., to Miss Lucia E. Everts. Or-
dained in Scott, Pa., Feb. 17, '59. Served as pastor of different churches until
the Autumn of '63. Died in '64. (See War Record.)
WILBER M. INGERSOLL. Born at Evans, Erie Co., N. Y., March 7, 1828.
Entered upon the Scientific Course in ’54, and graduated in '57, and from Theo’l
Seminary in '59. Married at Cleveland, Ohio, in '60, to Miss R. C. Stone. Or-
dained in Youngstown, Mahoning Co., Ohio, June 20, '60; pastor of a church
organized the same day. Still their pastor. Baptized 220. There was no Bap.
tist church ; none in the county, except a Welsh church. There were but
fourteen Baptists in the place. The church now numbers about 300, and has a
place of worship which cost $30,000.
KELSEY WALLING. Was born Aug. 15, 1830, at Middletown, Monmouth Co.,
N. J. Entered in ’52. Graduated from the Scientific Course, Aug., '55, and
from the Theo. Seminary, Aug., '57. Married Dec. 9, '57, to Miss Harriet R.
Sally, of Holmesburg, Pa. Located as pastor three years in Greenpoint, L. I. ;
three years in Middletown, Essex Co., N. J., and six years in charge of the First
Baptist Church at Burlington, N. J., his present pastorate. Baptized 150.
CLASS OF 1858.
JoHN S. APPLEGATE. Born in Middletown, N. J., Aug. 6, 1837. Entered
Academic Dep’t in '53. Graduated in '58. Studied law and admitted to the Bar
in Nov., '61. Has practised law in N. J., being now located at Red Bank. Mar-
ried in '65 to Deborah C., daughter of Charles G. Cellen, of Red Bank.
STILLMAN S. BIDWELL. Born in North Clarendon, Vt. Entered Academic
Dep’t in ’52; Col. Dep’t in ’54; graduated in '58, and from Theo'l Dep't in '60.
Ordained pastor at Milo (Second), N. Y., in Feb., '61, having commenced labor
there in previous Oct. Married in '60, to F. Genette, daughter of Rev. Ira Ben-
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nett, of Webster, N. Y. Six years pastor in Centreville, from '62; in '68, pastor
in Lima, Livingston Co., N. Y. Baptized a good number in each of these fields.
Now pastor in Morrisville, N. Y. &
SAMUEL BISHOP. Born Dec. 3, 1826, in Springfield, Ohio. Entered in ’53,
from Bloomington, Ill. Graduated in '58 and '60. In '60, he married Miss Ann
E. Baker, of Greenville, N. Y. He preached as long as health would allow. In
the practice of medicine in St. Louis, Mo.; now in Moline, Ill.
JAMES EDMUNDs, J.R. Was born July 15, 1837, within the walls of Madison
University, his father at that time being Steward, and occupying what was then
known as the “Cottage Edifice.” Entered the Sophomore Class in '55, and gradu-
ated in '58. Profession, Journalist; one of the editors of the Missouri Républi-
cam, St. Louis, Mo.
WM. W. FERRIs. Born at Grand Isle, Vt., Feb. 26, 1830. Entered M. U.
from Rock Island, Ill., in ’52; graduated in '58 and '60. Nov. 23, '61, ordained
as pastor in South Durham, N. Y. Church doubled its membership. New
meeting-house built. Married Nancy C. Lounsbury, of Rensselaerville, N. Y.,
in '61. Pastor in Dover Plains, three years. Voice failed, and he is now engaged
in Life Insurance business, but has hope that he may resume the work of the
ministry.
ISAAC E. GATEs. Born in Preston, Conn., Jan. 3, 1833. Entered Sophomore
Class in '55, and graduated in '58 and '60. Pastor in Milwaukee, till '63, when
he settled in Beaver Dam. He was married in '61 to Ellen M. Huntington.
DAVID EDWIN HOLMEs. Was born at Stonington, Conn., Aug. 12, 1832. En-
tered M. U., '54; graduated '58. He taught school and studied theology one
year at Meridian, N. Y., and completed his studies at Newton Theo. Seminary;
graduating in '61. In '61, he took charge of the First Baptist Church, at Peoria,
Ill. ; was ordained in May, '62, and remained as pastor until '64, when a union
between the First Church and the Tabernacle Church led to his resignation.
He then became pastor of the First Baptist Church, Berlin, Wis., in April, '64,
where he remained until Jan. 1, '66, when, in consequence of failing health, he
stopped preaching. After some months he became Principal of the Berlin High
School. He was married in '65 to Miss Mary E. Smith, of Peoria, Ill. He has
baptized twenty-four persons.
JOHN M. LANGWORTHY. Born in Brookfield, N. Y., March 6, 1831. Entered
in '54, and graduated in '58. In same year married Diana A. Dennison, at
Erieville. In June, '58, was ordained pastor of First Free-Will Baptist Church
in Prospect, Oneida Co., N. Y., at the same time supplying a church in Russia
Centre. In '60, pastor of F. W. B. Church in Franklin, Delaware Co. There six
years and a half. Returned to Prospect, becoming also Principal of Prospect
Academy. In two years health required his resignation of the principalship.
Supplies two churches besides that in Prospect, Has baptized fifty-eight. Was
nearly a year in the army, '64–5, as a soldier.
JOHN MATHEWS. Born in Jay, Essex Co., N. Y., Dec. 29, 1833. Entered
Hamilton, in ’53; graduated in '58 and '60. Five years pastor of Lafayette
Avenue Church, Detroit, Mich. Over a hundred were added to the church and
a new house of worship erected. Health failed. Became pastor in Marquette,
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Mich., where, in two and a balf years, one hundred were added to the church.
Next in San Francisco, Cal. Now settled in Detroit, Mich.
LEONARD J. MATTESON. Born in Laurens, Otsego Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 1833.
Entered M. U. in Fall of ’54. Graduated from the University in Class of ’58,
and from the Theo. Seminary in Class of '60. Accepted a call to the pastorate
of the First Baptist Church in Watertown, N. Y., in June preceding gradua-
tion. Sept., '64, accepted a call of the Baptist Church in Sing Sing, N. Y. Dec.,
'68, resigned, and labored for six months in New York and Brooklyn as Dist.
Sec. of Bap. Ed. Soc. of State of N. Y. June 1, ’69, settled as pastor of the
First Baptist Church in Brattleboro’, Vt. Baptized in Watertown, fifty-one ; in
Sing Sing, sixty-eight; in Brattleboro’, ninety-nine. Sept. 18, '60, married
Miss Nellie M. Baker, a graduate of Hamilton Female Seminary, and only child
of Deacon Nelson Baker, of Hamilton, N. Y.
JUSTUs E. MAYNARD. Born May 27, 1833, in Hartford, Washington Co., N. Y.
Entered M. U. in ’53; graduated in '58 and '60. In May, '62, married Anna
M. Woodworth, in Sterling, N. Y. Ordained March 12, '62. Labored in
Antwerp, N. Y. In Owasco, N. Y., four years or more ; enjoyed a revival in '69;
has baptized every year.
WILLIAM C. McCARTHY. Son of Rev. Wm. McCarthy. Born in Colebrook,
Conn., March 11, 1835. Entered M. U. in ’52; graduated in '58 and taught a
year. May 31, '60, ordained pastor in Factoryville (now Waverley), Tioga Co.
Pastor in Wyoming, '63; Catskill, '66; in '67 added the principalship of
Catskill Academy. In '59, married Frances A., daughter of Rev. H. West,
at Watkins, N. Y. In '69, had baptized sixty-six.
EveRETT W. MOORE. Borº at York, Mich., August, 1834. Entered Institu-
tion in 1856, in the Junior Class. Graduated August, 1858. Married at Clifton
Springs, N. Y., in 1861, to Miss Lottie A. Brockway. Began business in Detroit,
Mich., 1863, as a produce commission merchant. Still engaged in same busi-
IlêSS.
DAVID C. MOTT. Born at Hamilton, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1838. Entered the Insti-
tution in Oct., 1852, in the Junior Academic Class. Graduated Aug., 1858. Mar-
ried at Utica, N. Y., in 1864, to Miss M. E. Hughes. Entered the profession of
law April, 1860, in New York City; resided there one year; removed to St.
Louis and started in business; resided there nearly four years; returned to
Hamilton in 1866, his present residence.
ALFRED W. PECK. Son of Rev. Mr. Peck, a Universalist minister of West-
ern New York. Born at Middleburg, N. Y., Nov. 22, 1828. When sixteen
years old sailed on a whaling voyage and was several years on the Pacific Ocean.
Taught in Mass, and N. J. Baptized at Keyport, N. J., in 1850. Entered M. U.
in '53, graduated in '58. Before entering college married Electa Raymond at
South Adams, Mass. Ordained at Keyport, N. J., Sept. 1, ’58. Three years mis-
sionary of Am. Bapt. H. M. Soc'y at Superior, Wis. One year pastor in
Rensselaerville, N. Y. Missionary to California in '63. On account of insuffi-
cient support took charge of High School, in Benicia. Hopes soon to be pastor.
again.
332 SIKETCHES OF ALUMNI.
RALPH PENDLETON. Born in Qxford, N. Y., Dec. 25, 1827. Entered M. U. in
1855, graduated in 1858. Taught in Troupsburg and Binghamton till 1866.
Then on a farm in Norwich, N. Y. In '58 married Corinthia Kelsey.
FREDERICK G. REINEMAN. Born July 25, 1825, in Rühlhause, an ancient,
walled, free city of Germany. Brought to the U. S. in 1836. Brought up under
Rationalistic influences exclusively. Converted in '50 in a revival at McKeesport,
Pa. Entered M. U. in ’52, and graduated in '58 and '60. Then several years
Agent of the Bible Union and preaching to feeble churches. In '64 Agent for the
Alleghany Bible Soc'y. Assisted in organizing a German Baptist Church. Now
in book business, Pittsburg, Pa., doing all he can for Christ in other ways, such
as German Mission Schools.
HIRAM WARREN. Born in Patterson, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1828. Entered M. U. in
'54, graduated in '58. Graduated from New York University Medical School in
'63. (See War Record.) After the close of the war he settled in private practice
in Warwick, N. Y.
NON-GRADUATING MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1858.
WILLIAM P. DECKER. Born in Troy, N. Y. Entered Acad. Dep’t in '53, and
Freshman Class of M. U., 1854. Left college, on account of failing health, in
1855. First settlement, 1855, at Evans' Mills, Jefferson Co., N. Y. Second settle-
ment, May, 1857, at Malone, Franklin Co., N. Y. Third settlement, May, 1859,
at Throopsville, Cayuga Co., N. Y. Fourth and present pastorate at N. Dover,
N. Y., commenced July, 1862. Was ordained at Evans' Mills, Sept. 26, 1855.
Was married Dec. 25, to Miss Julia S. Johnson, of Evans' Mills, N. Y.
JOHN S. FULLER. Born in New Hartford, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1835. Entered M.
U. in ’54; graduated in '58. Reached Soph. Year and left on account of health.
Studied music. Four and a half years organist in First Presbyterian Church,
Utica. Seven years or more organist of First Baptist Church, Albany. Married
Sarah M. Brayton.
GRADUATES OF THE SCIENTIFIC COURSE, 1858.
SAMUEL J. DOUGLAss. Born July 4, 1833, in Watson, N. Y. Entered Senior
Year of the Scientific Course and graduated in 1858, and from Theology in 1860.
Married in 1860 to Annie S. Jackson, at Delta, N. Y. Pastor in Liberty, N. Y., three
and a half years; Naples, two years; Bristol, three years. April 1, ’69, pastor
in Springfield, N. Y. In '69 had baptized 25.
RUSH. G. LEAMING. Born July, 1835, at La Porte, Ind. Entered Scientific
Dep’t in ’56; graduated '58. (See War Record.) Two years member of Missouri
Legislature. Admitted to the Bar in '65, in which year he married Mattie R.
Rogers, at Warrensburg, Mo. Residence, Pleasant Hill, Mo.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT, THE FOLLOWING
WERE MEMBERS OF THE THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1858.
EBENEZER EDWARDS. Born in March, 1825, in North Wales, Great Britain.
Three years a student in the Baptist Sem’y in Haverford-West. Three years pastor
of an English Church in Pembroke. In the first year of his residence in this coun-
try he formed a Welsh Church and secured a place of worship in Pittstown, Pa.
Pastor of a church in Cincinnati and member of Covington Theol. Sem'y. From
CLASS OF 1859. 333
'53 spent four years at Hamilton pursuing an Eclectic Course, belonging in theol.
to the Class of '58. He was married before coming to Hamilton. Intended
to go on a foreign mission, and was in '57 appointed to Assam, but reluctantly
gave up the purpose. Settled over the church in Wales of which his father
had been pastor. Returned to the U. S. in 1868, and is pastor in Brewster, N. Y.
HoRACE G. HUBBARD. Born in Champion, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1829. After pre-
paratory studies at Suffield, Conn., he entered the Theol. Dep’t, from which he
graduated in '58. Ordained at Milford, Mass., Sept. 22, 1858. In Bristol, R. I. ;
Chatham, Ma S.; Brentwood and East Washington, N. H.
ROBERT A. PATERSON. Born Nov. 11, 1829, in St. Andrews, Scotland. Pur-
sued Collegiate Course at Univ'y of Rochester and Edinburgh Univ'y, Scotland.
Two years in Theol. Sem’y of Edinburgh. Finished Theol. Course in Sem'y at
Hamilton in '58. Married in '59 to E. Fannie Smith, of Galway Ladies' Sem’y,
N. Y. Ordained in Norwich, N. Y., Oct., '58 ; removed to Newburyport, Mass.,
and settled again in Norwich in '64. On account of his wife's health went to
Minnesota in '66. Pastor of First Church, St. Paul. Has labored much in pro-
tracted meetings. He has baptized 475. In connection with his labors 1,200
persons have professed conversion.
JoHN B. T. PATERSON. Born in Baltimore, Md., May 22, 1833. Entered M.
U., in '54, left the Class in 1858. Ordained Oct. 28, '58. Missionary in Cumber-
land, Md., and pastor in Wilmington, N. C., till 1860, when he settled with Wal-
nut Grove Church, Hanover Co., Va., where he remained till Richmond was in-
vested by the Union Army, by which he lost books and furniture. Had a serious
and protracted illness in '62, after which he served several months in the Con-
federate Army as missionary. Health failed, and he “refugeed,” preaching in Not-
toway and Lunenburg Counties. In '67 settled with Burress and Taylorsville
Churches, but in '68 returned to Walnut Grove Church. In connection with his
ministry several hundreds have confessed conversion. In 1858 M. U. conferred
the honorary degree of A.B. July 4, 1860, he married Mary M. Vaughn, in Han-
over Co., Va.
CLASS OF 1859.
ADONIRAM JUDSON ALLEN. Was born in Albany, N. Y., July 15, 1832. En-
tered M. U. in 1855 and graduated in 1859 and 1861. In 1862 he supplied the
church in Mahopac, Putnam Co., N. Y., eight months, and baptized 23 persons.
Jan., 1863, he commenced his labors with the Baptist Church at Banksville, Conn.,
by which church he was ordained April 20, 1864, and continued their pastor two
years and six months. Settled as pastor of the Ticonderoga Baptist Church,
Oct., 1865, where he still labors. He was married at Kingston, N.Y., in 1865, to
Miss Marianna C. Nichols. In '69 he had baptized 16.
GEORGE ARROWSMITH, Born in Monmouth, N. J., in ’39. Graduated in '50.
Tutor in the Preparatory Grammar School. At the same time studied law with
Judge Mason. (See War Record.)
ALMOND BARRELLE. Born in Hartford, Washington Co., N. Y., Aug. 26, 34.
Entered M. U. in '53; graduated in '59. Taught in N. Carolina one year. In
'63 graduated at the Theo'l Seminary at Rochester. Was two years in Colorado
Territory, where he organized the Baptist Church of Central City. He married
334 SKETCHES OF ALUMNI.
Miss J. Lizzie Merchant, in Central City, Col., Sept. 25, '64. In Sept., '65, returned
East. June 1, '66, became pastor of the 2d Baptist Church in Brooklyn, E. D.,
N. Y. June 1, '68, settled with the Baptist Church at Meriden, Conn. He has
baptized 60 persons. In '71, removed to Melrose, Mass.
SAMUEL S. CHASE. Born at Lebanon, Madison Co., N. Y., March 20, 36. En-
tered M. U. in ’55 and graduated in '59 ; married at West Eaton, N. Y., May 15,
'61, Miss Emerilla E. Hopkins. With the exception of three years’ teaching he
has followed agriculture.
ENOs CLARKE. Born in Belmont Co., Ohio. Entered M. U. in ’54; graduated
in '59. Studied law with Judge Beardsley, of Utica, N. Y. Admitted to the Bar
in '60. In '62 associated with Ed. R. Bates in St. Louis, Mo. In Sept., '62, mar-
ried Mary Annette, daughter of Hon. Jno. J. Foote, of Hamilton, N. Y. In '64
and again in '65 he represented St. Louis County in the State Legislature.
Chosen Curator of the State University. In '67 appointed Registrar in Bank-
ruptcy for the U. S. District Court of Eastern District of Missouri.
HENRY A. CORDO. Born at Brunswick, N. J., Dec. 14, '36. Entered M.U. in
'53. Graduated from the Collegiate Department in '59 and from the Theo'l Sem-
imary in ’61. Ordained at New Brunswick, N.J., Oct. 12, '59. Married at New
Brunswick, in '59, to Miss Mary L. Sanderson. Settled as pastor of the Baptist
Church at Lambertville, N. J., May 1, ’61. Served this church three years and
five-months. Became pastor at Meriden, Conn., Oct. 1, ’64; remained here two
years. Became pastor of the North Baptist Church, Jersey City, Oct. 1, '66. Re-
turned to Meriden, same church, in ’71.
GEO. D. DOWNEY. Born at Marcellus, N. Y., March 2, 32. Entered in '53;
graduated in '59 and '61. Married Mary Bishop, in '61, at Cleveland, Ohio. Or-
dained pastor in Fredonia, N. Y., in Oct., '61. Pastor in Sinclairsville, N. Y., in
'63. Served in Christian Commission in '64 and '65. Pastor at Hamburg, N.Y.,
in '65. In paired health made retirement from the pastorate necessary, and in
'67 went into business in Skaneateles. In '71 pastor in Scipio, N. Y. Bap-
tized 21. *
DAVID T. JAMEs. Born in Wales, Gt. Britain, April 1, ’80. Converted and
baptized when 12 years old. Entered Ac. Dep't in '53; graduated in '59 and '61,
At once labored with the church in Newport, N. H., though not ordained till May,
'62. In '66 he removed to Whitehall, N. Y., where he remained till his death,
the date of which is not given. (It must have been in '69 or ’70.) He was
taken with hemorrhage of the stomach and died in a week. His last words were:
“Happy I happy : ” In '62 he was married, at Evans' Mills, to Cordelia A. Hines,
whom he left with three little children. “He was a noble spirit.” “An able
preacher.” Baptized about a hundred.
WILLIAM A. LEWIS. Porn in Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., N. J., May 16, ’36.
Entered the second class of the Grammar School in ’54; graduated in '59. He
studied law one year in Jersey City, N. J. Entered the Law School at Albany
and graduated in '61. In '62 he opened a law office in Jersey City, where he is
now in practice.
WARREN MASON. Born in Fort Ann, N. Y., Feb. 18, 35. Entered in ’55 ;
graduated in '59. Spent a few months in Rochester Theo'l Seminary. Settled in
CLASS OF 1859. 335
Ira, Vt. ; North Hebron, N.Y., '66; Poultney, Vt. ; Sandwich, Ill., '68. Not mar-
ried. Has suffered much from poor health. Now in Branford, Conn.
EGBERT R. MIDDLEBROOK. Born at Ballston Spa, N. Y., Feb. 1, ’34. Entered
M. U. in ’55; graduated in '59. Married Emily S. Payne, of Hamilton, in '62.
Served in the army five years. Afterward a broker in Wall St., N. Y.
FRANCIS PALMER. Born in Centreville, N. Y., June 25, 26. Entered M. U.
in '52. Graduated in '59. Taught High School in '61. (See War Record.) Has
not been married. Graduated from Albany Law School in '67, taking degree of
LL.B. Spent one year in practice at Hume, N. Y. Then removed to Stanton,
Mich., his present residence. Holds judicial and town offices in Day, Mich. He
is Circuit Court Commissioner of Montcalm Co., Mich.
DANIEL EATON POPE. Born at Villenova, Chautauqua Co., Aug. 5, 33. Enter-
ed M. U. in '55. Graduated in '59. Associate Principal in Gloversville Union
Seminary '59–60. Read law with Judge Mason in Hamilton. Taught in Penn.;
in Cornwall, N.Y. as Principal of Young Ladies’ Institute; in Middletown, N.Y.,
and three years as Principal and Proprietor of Red Bank Institute, N. J. Read
law '66, and in '67 was admitted to the Bar. Since which time, pursuing Law
and Literature conjointly, he has resided on Cornwall Heights, near Idlewild,
his business being in Newburgh, N. Y. In 62 he married Anna Silliman Dusin-
berre, of Seward Institute, Florida. º
GEORGE M. STONE. Born at Strongville, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, Dec. 10, 34.
Entered Freshman Class of M. U. in '55; graduated in '59. He remained one
year in Ham. Theo'l Seminary, and then became pastor at Danbury, Conn., in '60.
Enjoyed a great revival in '66-'67. He married Miss Abbie B. Seeley, at Bethel,
Conn., in '61. In '62 he visited England, France, Germany, and Switzerland.
He resigned his pastorate in Danbury in '67, after seven years of successful labor.
He then accepted a call to the 1st Baptist Church at Winona, Minnesota. In '71
pastor in Milwaukee, Wis. University of Chicago conferred degree of D.D.
in ’71. * - -
DAVID VAN FRADENBURGH. Born at Rhinebeck, N.Y., Dec. 28, '30. Enter-
ed the Freshman Class in '55, and left in '58. Married at Hamilton, N. Y., in
'58, to Miss Amanda H. Weaver. Settled as pastor of the Shenandoah and 1st
Fishkill Churches, N. Y., in '60. Was ordained June 21, '60. Resigned the pas-
toral care of the 1st Fishkill Church in '61; of Shenandoah Church in '63. Sup-
plied the 1st Pawling Church, N. Y., from 63–65. Settled with the Liberty and
Parksville, N. Y., Baptist Churches in '66; resigned the pastorate of Parksville
in '69; remains still with the Liberty Church, Sull. Co., N. Y. He has bap-
tized 76 persons.
MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1859 IN THE SCIENTIFIC Course.
J. JUDSON BARRELLE. Born in Gouverneur, N. Y., Feb. 18, '33. Entered the
Scientific Course in '56; graduated in '59. In '60 married Marietta Beal, at
Evans. Became Principal of Rankin Masonic Institute in Fannin, Miss. Kept
his position till '63; then settled in Riverside, Plaquemine Parish, La., and en-
gaged in the raising of cotton. He died Oct. 25, '64.
336 SKETCHES OF ALUMNI.
GEORGE A. BISHOP. Born near Springfield, Ohio, Sept. 14, 28. Deeply affected
religiously when ten years old, and converted when 15. Long struggle with
sense of duty to preach. In '51 married Emily Esther Hodge, near Morris, Ill.
Entered Hamilton in ’54; graduated from Scientific Course in '59, and remained
one year in Theol. Dep’t. In 60 pastor in (Buda Ž) Ill. ; in '62 preached in
Sandwich, Ill, ; in '63 pastor of Bloomington and Ringgold Churches. Broke
his leg, and after recovery preached for Hudson and McLean Churches, and at
Dwight, where a church was organized. His health is poor, Baptized 25.
THE FOLLOWING SKETCH WAS IN ADVERTENTLY OMITTED FROM
ITS PROPER PLACE IN THE FIRST DECADE.
REUBEN SAWYER. Born in Monkton, Vt., March 11, 1798. Converted in boy-
hood. In 1819 married Laura Wyman, of West Haven, Vt. After this, was
baptized by his father, Elder Isaac Sawyer, in Brandon, Vt. Entered the
Seminary in 1822, but on account of failing health took but a part of the
course. Ordained pastor of church in West Haven in 1824, and remained four-
teen years. In New London, N. H., nine years; in Chester, Vt., ten years.
Then in Leyden, N. Y., Panton and Hinesburg, Vt. After a long sickness, he
died in Leyden, N. Y., June 29, 1869. A laborious and successful pas-
tor and preacher. Two of his sons are in the ministry, Rev. E. R. Sawyer,
Sandy Hill, N. Y., and Rev. A. W. Sawyer, D, D., President of Acadia Col-
lege, N. S.
CLASS OF 1860, 337
F I F T H D E O A. D. E. 1860 – ’69 .
CLASS OF 1860.
AUGUSTUS ARMAGNAC. Born in Hayti, W. I., March 5, 1839. Entered the
Grammar School in Oct., 1854, College in 1856. Left the University in Aug.,
1859. Graduated at Princeton College, N. J., in 1861. Returned to Hamilton,
and entered Jun. Theol. Class, remaining one year. Taught at Irving Institute,
Tarrytown, N. Y., from 1863–1865. From 1865 to the present, Professor of Nat.
Phil. and Chemistry in Penn. Military Academy, Chester, Pa. Married Miss
Hattie D. Rowe, at Tarrytown, N. Y., April 12, 1870.
HENRY D. BURDICK. Born Aug. 18, 1835, at Oswego, N. Y. Entered the
Freshman Class in Feb., 1857. Graduated with Class of 1860, and from Theol.
Sem, in 1862. Ordained in Watertown, Wis., June, 1863. Was drafted, paid
the commutation, and then entered the army as chaplain to 61st Reg’t N. Y. S.
V. At the close of the active campaign of 1864, entered the service of the
Christian Commission. Since the war, served as pastor at Camillus and Coopers-
town, N. Y., and Millville, N. J. Married in Syracuse, N. Y., April, 1868, Miss
S. A. Corey. Failing health compelled him to relinquish his duties. He died in
Ithaca, N.Y., May 30, 1871. In lais family and social relations he was singularly
self-forgetting and devoted, and in his ministry was instructive, conscientious,
and earnest.
JoHN W. Col.Bx. Entered Freshman Class from Albany in 1856. Since grad-
uation has engaged, first, in teaching at White Plains, N. Y., and since in busi-
ness at Old Bridge, N. J.
CARROLL E. I. DUDLEY. Born in Victory, N. Y., April 18, 1835. Experienced
religion when seven years old, but was not baptized until the age of fourteen at
Delavan, Wis. In 1852 accompanied his uncle, Rev. H. W. Read, on a mission-
ary tour to New Mexico, where he remained three years and a half, becoming
proficient, in Spanish, and performing much useful service. In Oct., 1855, he
entered the Sen. Ac. Class, and continued in the University until near the close
of the Soph. Year, July 10, 1858, when he was drowned while bathing in the
Madison Reservoir. His loss produced profound sorrow, for his winning man-
ners, his thorough scholarship, his rare ability as a writer, and his genuine re-
ligious character, endeared him to all. He entered the University with the
intention of becoming a foreign missionary.
EDWARD B, EDMUNDs. Born in Hamilton, N.Y., June 18, 1839. Subsequently
resided in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., N. Y. Entered Sen. Ac. Class in 1855, gradu-
ated from College in 1860, and from Theol. Sem. in 1864, having spent two years
as private soldier in the 61st Reg't N. Y. S. V. Married at Fort Atkinson, Wis.
Sept. 15, 1864, Miss Mary A. Hovey. Has served in the ministry at Fort At-
kinson, Oconomowoc, and elsewhere in Wisconsin, Present residence, Fort
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JAMES M. FERRIS. Born in Greenwich, Conn., March 27, 1833. Two years a
member of the Institution. Married Lucy D. Whitcomb, June 25, 1857, in Ham-
ilton. Ordained in Dec., 1856. IIas been pastor in Durhamville, Lowville, Pres-
ton Hollow, Glenn's Falls, N. Y. Baptized (up to 1869) about 250. Now settled
(1871) at Marion, N. Y.
MOSES J. GOFF. Born Sept. 6, 1831, in Lenox, Madison Co., N. Y. Entered
the Class of '58, but, from the close of Junior Year, was absent two years teach-
ing. Returning, graduated from College in '60, and Theol. Sem. in '62. Ordained
in Pecatonica, Ill., May, 1865. In April, 1866, settled in Stillman Valley, remain-
ing three years. Now pastor in Chittenango, N. Y.
WILLIAM JAMES, Born in Frederickton, New Brunswick, Oct. 15, 1830. Entered
the University Oct., '56, graduated from College in '60, and Theol. Sem. in '62.
Married, at Wassaic, N. Y., Nov. 9, 1864, Miss C. A. Bailey. Has been pastor at
Dover Plains, and is now at Cold Spring, N. Y.
WILLIAM I. KNAPP. Born at Greenport, L. I., March 10, 1835. Entered
Freshman Class in 1853. Absent three years (1855–58) in N. Y. University, and
in Europe. Returning to M. U., graduated in 1860. Married, at Greenport, L.I.
Dec., 1860, Miss Adaline Roberts. At graduation, was appointed Prof. of Modern
Languages in M. U., in which he successfully continued until Aug., '65. From
1865–67 was Prof. of Anc. and Mod. Ianguages in Vassar College. In 1867 received
from New York University the honorary degree of Ph.D. Since July, 1867,
has resided in Europe, and for two years past has engaged in very successful
missionary labor at Madrid, Spain, the mission being begun independently, but
since assumed by Miss. Union.
SILAs H. LA RUE. Born in Milford, N. J., Oct. 6, 1834. Bmtered Gram. Sch.
in 1855, and continued in Inst. to close of Soph. Year: Taught two years, and
graduated at Princeton, N. J., in '61. Married, at Stockton, N.J., June 27, 1863,
Miss Lizzie C. Ely. IIas been Prin. of High School, Mauch Chunk, Pa., Ass’t in
Allentown Sem., Prof. of Math, in Penn. Mil. Acad., and Prin. of Ac. Dep’t
Lewisburg University. Since April, 1868, engaged in manufacture of school
furniture in Allentown, Pa.
THOMAs W. OSBORN. Born at Scotch Plains, N. J., March 9, 1836. From
1842 resided in Jefferson Co., N. Y. Prepared for College at the Gouverneur
Sem. Entered M. U. in 1857, and graduated in 1860. Studied law in Water-
town, N. Y. In Summer of ’61 entered the army. (See War Record.) In 1866
began the practice of the law in Tallahassee, Flor., and took a prominent part
in the Reconstruction movements in that State, himself drafting the Constitution
adopted by the Const. Convention. Was solicited to become a candidate for
Governor, but declined, and at the first session of the Legislature under the new
Constitution, was elected. United States Senator, which position he now holds,
acting with the Republican party.
ETHAN B. PALMER. Born in town of Austerlitz, N. Y., March 12, 1836.
Entered the Gram. Sch. in Feb., 1855. Graduated from College in '60, and from
Theol. Sem. in '63, having meanwhile preached a year in Bennington, Vt. Re-
ceived calls to the pastorate, but accepted appointment from Bapt. Pub. Soc. to
labor among the freedmen in N. C. Ordained in New York, Jan. 6, 1864.
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Labored in Newbern, N. C., but in July went to Wis., preaching at La Crosse,
and settling at Delavan. Within a year an attack of measles produced a state
of the eyes which prevented reading for nearly fifteen months. Consequently,
resigned pastorate in April, '66. While still under treatment, began to preach
in Cornwall, N. Y. Remained there until Spring of '69. Since pastor at
Skaneateles, N. Y.
Jon N. A. Pick ARD. Born March 14, 1833, in Esquessing, Ontario. Entered
Gram. Sch. M. U. in ’53, and after a year's absence, College in '56. After grad-
uating in '60, took Sem. Course also, graduating in '62. Married Miss Jane
Cruikshank, May 13, 1855, at Esquessing, Ont. Ordained May, 1863. Has since
preached in various places in Province of Ontario. Is now settled on a farm in
township of McGillivray, Park Hill, P. O., preaching more or less of the time.
CHARLEs H. RICHARDsoN. Born at Saxton's River, Vt., Oct. 20, 1833. En-
tered Freshman Class, M. U., Dec. '56, and continued till close of Soph. Year.
Married Miss Laura A. Scott, of Townshend, Vt., Aug. 22, 1858. Engaged with
wife in teaching until May, 1859. Then entered Junior Class of Amherst Col-
lege, graduating in '60. Studied Theol. two years at Newton, Mass., and settled
at Massena, N. Y., July, 1862. Ordained Jan., 1863. In March, 1864, entered
the army. (See War Record.) Pastor at Felchville, Vt., 1865–1871. Now at
Pittsfield, N. H.
SAMUEL H. SAYLER. Born in town of Hector, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1829. Entered
Jun. Ac. Class, May, 1855. Graduated from College in '60, and Theol. Sem. in
'62. Married, at Reynoldsville, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1863, Miss Kate L. Reynolds.
Ordained at Mecklenburg, N. Y., April, 1864. Spent six months following in
Vicksburg, Miss., in service of Christ. Com. Removed to Mich., in Spring of
1865, pursuing the occupation of a farmer, but preaching most of the time to
feeble churches, without remuneration, residing at Yuba, Mich. Has never been
pastor, but has baptized sixty-five persons.
JUSTUs B. VINTON. Entered Freshman Class in 1856, and graduated from
College Course. (See Miss. Record.)
SCIENTIFIC COURSE, CLASS OF 1860.
JAMES A. ONDERDONK. Born in Sharon, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1840. Entered
Scientific Course, Oct. '56, and graduated in Aug., '60. Studied law in Hamil-
ton and at Albany Law School, at which he was admitted to the Bar. Began
practice in Hamilton, Dec., '63, but health failing, he died of consumption, July
17, '64. His character was blameless, his manners winning, and his life Chris-
tian. All who knew him mourned his loss, as a young man of much worth and
promise to society.
JIREH TUCKER, JR. Born in Royalton, Vt., Jan. 30, 1835. Entered Scientific
Course in Jan., '59; graduating in Aug., '60. Married, at Rome, N. Y., Aug. 22,
'60, Miss Laura Huntington, Settled as pastor in North Bennington, Vt., in
Oct., '60. Ordained Dec. 5. Resigned Oct., '65, and settled at Newton Corner,
Mass., Jan., '66. In Oct., '70, became pastor in Lebanon, N. H. In Jan., '71, his
health failed, and he soon after went to Upper Alton, Ill., in hope of relief from
change of climate. This expectation proved groundless, and he died April 24,
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’71. He was a man of unassuming manners, of good mind, and of genuine
earnestness. He had the universal and unvarying respect of the communities
in which he labored, and was a devoted and useful pastor.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF THE UNIVERSITY, THE FOLLOWING GRADUATED IN,
OR BELONGED TO, THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1860.
CHARLEs W. CLARK. Born at Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1834. Entered
Grammar School, May, '52. Left University at the close of First Term, Senior
Year, '58. Married, Jan. 19, '58, at Hamilton, N. Y., Miss Rilla A. Clark. Took
one year of Theol. Course, with Theol. Class of '60, and then settled over a mis-
sion interest in Newark, N. J. Ordained Jan. 19, '60. Organized the Fair-
mount Baptist Church. Resigned pastorate, Dec. 1, '67, and took charge of
church at Red Bank, N. J. Removed ('70) to Galva, Ill.
JAMES DEWAR. A member of the Junior Theol. Class, '58–'59, and a native
of Canada. Ordained in Osgoode, Ont., in '59. Preached at Thurso, Quebec,
and Clarence, Ont. In Jan., '60, was taken with hemorrhage, and soon died,
triumphant in the faith. He was an earnest man and an impressive preacher,
and both before and after his studies at Hamilton, was instrumental in the con-
version of many souls.
JOHN C. FOSTER. Born in Lebanon, Conn., Nov. 3, 1822. Married, Oct. 31,
’52, at Willimantic, Conn., Miss Sophronie E. Hanover. Came to Hamilton and
took select studies with Senior College Class of ’58. Graduated from Theol.
Senninary in '60. Ordained soon after as pastor of Second Baptist Church,
Edmeston, N. Y. Subsequently settled with church at South New Berlin, N. Y.
Now pastor of Second Baptist Church, New London, Conn. During a portion
of his ministry has labored somewhat in special efforts.
A. CLEMENT LYON. Born in Bedford, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1833. Entered Fresh-
man Class, Oct., 52. Completed the Sophomore Year. Graduated at Brown, in
'57. Entered Theol. Seminary at Hamilton, in '58, and graduated in '60.
Married, in Newark, N.J., April 30, '62, Miss Mary J. Johnston. Was pastor of
Baptist Church in Fayetteville, N. Y., from '60–65; subsequently for fifteen
months of church in Amenia, N.Y. Left with impaired health, and spent some
time in Minn. Baptized during ministry, 106. Condition of his throat still
prevents return to pastorate. Now engaged in business in New York, residing
at Newark, N. J.
D. N. MASON. Member during 1858–59 of Theol. Class of '60. Born in La-
porte Co., Ind., Feb. 9, 36. Married, at Chatfield, Minn, May 2, '61, Miss Eliza-
beth J. Thickstun. Ordained and settled the same month at Rochester, Minn.
Removed May, '68, to Cedar Falls, Iowa. Baptisms, one hundred and twelve.
Since pastor at Des Moines, Iowa. Graduated at N. Y. State Normal School be-
fore entering at Hamilton. Residence ('71), Indianola, Ind.
ERANK E. MILLER. Born Feb. 7, 1834, in Wallingford, Conn. Entered
Hamilton Theo'l Seminary, Oct., '58, and graduated in '60. Soon after settled
at Waterloo, Iowa, and was ordained the next Spring. Married, July 31, '61,
Miss Jerusha A. Williams, of that place, his first convert in the ministry. Re-
turning in the Fall to Conn., preached for a year as supply at Wethersfield and
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other places. In Fall of '62, became pastor at Nashville, N. Y. In Jan., '64,
under the pressure of debt, and to meet family necessities, resigned pastorate,
and entered business life. Residence at Forestville, N. Y.
MORTIMER S. RIDDELL. Born at East Hamilton, N. Y., May 8, 1827. “Con-
secrated from birth to the Christian ministry by a pious mother.” In 41 entered
Hamilton Academy under Prof. Zenas Morse, and remained three years. At the
age of fifteen was converted and baptized. In 44 became clerk in book-store at
Hamilton ; subsequently proprietor. Removed to Watertown, N. Y., in '49, and
successfully carried on the same business for nine years. Married, Oct., 53, Miss
Maria D. Otis, of Galway, N. Y. “Impressed by the long-cherished wish of his
mother, and by appeals of a faithful pastor,” he abandoned business, and entered
Hamilton Theo'l Seminary in '58. Graduated in '60, and settled with Baptist
Church in New Brunswick, N. J. The eight years of his ministry were “years
of signal success, on account of the rich displays of God's Saving grace.” In Aug.,
'67, received from Mad. Univ. the degree of D. D. Impelled by failing health to
seek a change of climate, he became pastor of the Ind. Ave. Baptist Church,
Chicago, Ill., in Fall of '68. A year later he again sought relief by removal to
Ottawa, Kansas, where he at once gained a warm place in the affections of his
church. But God was calling him not to the further service for the sake of
which he clung to life, but to his reward. He died Feb. 1, ’70, in peaceful and
triumphant Christian confidence. Dr. R. was a man of brilliant intellectual
gifts, intensely laborious in his ministerial work, and of peculiarly warm and
genuine sympathies. Few men have gained, in so short a period, so strong a
hold upon the affections, confidence, and admiration of all who knew him. His
remains lie, as he desired, “among his dear people in New Brunswick.”
EDWARD P. SCOTT. A graduate of Knox College, Ill. Pursued the full
Course in Theo'l Seminary. (See Miss. Record.)
CLASS OF 1861.
FRANK ADKINS, Born in Marietta, Ohio, Nov. 21, 1841. In Fall of '57, entered
Freshman Class of Marietta College, and, at the end of two years, entered Junior
Class of Mad. Univ., graduating in Aug., '61. Converted when twelve years
old, while at School in Upper Alton, Ill. Spent two years after graduation
mostly in teaching. Took Theology at Rochester, graduating in May, '66.
Married, June 7, '66, Miss Alice Ewart, of Marietta, Ohio. Soon after settled as
pastor at Akron, Ohio, and was ordained Jan. 23, '67; resigned, April, '69.
Present pastorate ('71), at Iowa City, Iowa.
WILLIAM. S. APSEY. Born in Wimborne, Dorsetshire, Eng., May 22, 1836.
Entered Grammar School at Hamilton, Oct., '55, and graduated in Aug., '61.
Married, Aug. 27, '61, at Hudson, N. Y., Miss Jennie E. Hermans. Pastor, '61–
'62, at Preston Hollow, N. Y. ; ’62–'68, at Bennington, Vt., and since at No. Cam.
bridge, Mass. Baptisms (up to '68) sixty-five.
SIDNEY S. BABCOCK. Born in So. New Berlin, N. Y., 1842. Entered Sen.
Ac. Class in '56. After graduation from College, '61, studied law in Hamilton
under Judge Mason, and was for a year Tutor in Mad. Univ. Subsequently be-
came clerk in Treas. Dep't at Washington. Married, June 7, '63, Miss Mollie
Kendall, daughter of Amos Kendall. Died in '66, while engaged in practice of
law in Ill.
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JONATHAN BASTOW. Born in Brad ford, Yorkshire, Eng., in 1835. Began life
as a collier boy. Learned to read at thirteen in Sunday-school, to which he was
invited by a pious lady, who furnished him a suit of clothes. Converted in '50,
and felt a strong desire to preach. In Dec., '54, met in Bradford, Dr. Maclay, of
New York, who offered to send him to Mad. Univ., and to secure support. In
Nov., '55, entered Jun. Acad. Class at Hamilton, and continued until graduation
from College in '61. After one year in Theology, went to England, preached in
town of Halifax, and baptized forty-nine. In Oct., '63, returned to Hamilton, and
graduated from Seminary in '64. Has preached in Brockville, Ont.: Faribault,
Minn.; Winona, Minn. (receiving here seventy-four), making frequent removals,
due to ill-health. Now ('69) pastor at Port Chester, N. Y.
WILLIAM F. BENEDICT. Born in Walton, N. Y., July 31, 1836. Entered
Freshman Class in ’57. After graduation in '61, married, in Hamilton, N. Y.,
Miss Elvina Atkins, Aug. 27, '61. Became pastor at Duanesburgh, N. Y. ; or-
dained Oct. 16, '61. In Fall of '62, settled at Sloansville, N. Y., and three years
after in No. Greenbush, N. Y. Baptized (up to '69) 110. Present pastorate ('71)
at Broadalbin, N. Y.
JoHN S. BLANDEN. Born at Gouverneur, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1831. Began Acad.
studies amid struggles and privations due to want of means, and was converted
while at school in Gouverneur, '57. In Oct., '57, entered Freshman Class at
Mad. Univ. All through the Course was greatly straitened for support, and
graduated owing $400. Married Aug. 26, '61, Miss Cornelia Darrow, of West
Eaton, N. Y. For some time Principal of Fort Covington Academy. From
May, '64, was pastor of church in Lyme, N. Y., nearly four years. Ordination,
Oct., '64. In March, '68, settled as pastor in Frewsburg, N. Y., where he still
('69) resides. *.
KNUT. O. BROADY. Entered Jun. Ac. in 1855; graduated from Coll. Course
in '61. Immediately went into the army. (See War Record.) After the war
returned to his native country, Sweden, as a missionary. (See Miss. Record.)
ARTHUR L. BROOKS. Born in Harmony, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., July 4, 1843.
Was a member of the State Univ., at Madison, Wis., where his father, Rev.
Walter R. Brooks, then preached, to the middle of Sophomore Year. In Jan.,
'59, entered Mad. Univ., and graduated in '61. Inmediately joined the army.
(See War Record.) Although at his death not yet nineteen years of age, he had
a character remarkably symmetrical and mature. He enjoyed the high respect
of superior officers for military genius and efficiency. His demeanor was modest,
but a quiet self-assertion marked him as born to command. A noble nature,
sustained with manly self-reliance, gave promise of a bright career.
JEROME P. BATES. Born at Dudley, Mass., May 6, 1837. Belonged two
years to Class of ’61. Left the Univ. for want of means. Married Miss Josephine
V. Payne, of Hamilton, May 16, '60. Ordained at Woodstock, Conn., Fall of '60.
(see War Record.) Pastor successively at Woodstock, Conn.; East Marion, L.
I. ; Hastings, Groton, and Weedsport, N. Y.
WILLIAM N. CLARKE. Born in Cazenovia, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1841. Entered
Sophomore Class in Mad. Univ., in Oct., 58. Graduated from College in Class
of '61; from Theo'l Sem'y, in '63. In Sept., '63, settled at Keene, N.H., and or-
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dained Jan. 14, '64. Accepted a call to Newton Centre, Mass., and settled there
May 16, '69. Married Miss Emily A. Smith, of Waverley, Pa., Sept., 1, ’69.
THOMAS CULL. Born in Southrope, Gloucestershire, Eng., May 5, 1834. At
thirteen became a shoemaker's apprentice, and at eighteen experienced religion.
In '54 came to New York. Worked at his trade in Troy, and joined church under
care of Rev. J. G. Warren, whose counsel that he should preach strengthened
his own convictions. After short study in Troy, entered Sen. Ac. Class at Ham-
ilton, in ’56. Continued in Mad. Univ. until the close of Junior Year. Took
Sen. Year at Rochester. Returned to Hamilton for Theology, and graduated
from Sem’y in '63. Immediately became pastor at Malone, N. Y. ; was married
the same year. In Spring of '66, settled with church at Adams Village. In
Sept., '68, became pastor in Albany. Baptisms (up to '69) 50. Now settled ("71)
in Stillwater, N. Y.
WALTER R. GILLETTE. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 17, 1840. Entered
Mad. Univ. in '57, and graduated in '61. Graduated from College of Physicians
and Surgeons, N. Y., in '63. Was Ass’t Surgeon in the army one year. Now
practising physician in N. Y., lecturer in Univ. Med. Coll., surgeon to Charity
Hospital, and other eleemosynary institutions.
SILAs P. KOONTs. Born in Duanesburgh, N. Y., in 1832. Entered Sen. Ac.
Class in '56, and graduated from College in '61. Became pastor of church in
Salisbury, N. Y., where he married, Oct. 13, Miss Sarah Reynolds, and was or.
dained Jan. 8, '62. Continued in Salisbury until his death, Sept. 15, '65. Was a
favorite in College with all his class, and as a minister was successful and
greatly beloved by his church and by brother ministers.
ORSON E. MALLORY. Born in Ripley, N. Y., July 15, 1835. Entered Sen. Ac.
Class, from Castile, N. Y., in ’56. In great part supported himself by preaching,
Sabbaths, and in vacations. About one hundred were added to churches around
Hamilton, in connection with labors of his brother (N. C. Mallory) and himself.
Graduated in '61, and settled at Westfield, N. Y. Ordained Jan. 8, 62. Married,
March 25, '62, Miss Laura A. Belden, of Castile, N. Y. Remained pastor at West-
field four years; then settled in Batavia, N. Y., where he is still pastor. Bap.
tisms (up to '69) one hundred and twenty.
NORMAN C. MALLORY. Born Sept. 23, 1837, in Ripley, N. Y. Entered Sen. .
Ac. Class, from Castile, N. Y., in '56. Graduated from College in '61, and from
Theo'l Sem'y in '63. Married Miss Lydia M. Anderson, of Sherburne, N.Y.,
March 7, '64. Pastor at Morrisville, N. Y., from '63 to Jan., '66. Since settled
about four years in Manchester, N. H., and now ('71) pastor of First Baptist
Church in Lowell, Mass.
WILLIAM McINTYRE. A native of Ireland, Coming to America in 1838 at
the age of ten, he received his early education in the N. Y. Public Schools. On
his conversion, united with Oliver St. Church, afterward with Stanton St. En-
tered the Univ. to prepare for the ministry, in '55, Jun. Ac. Class, and graduated
in '61. Immediately joined the army. (See War Record.) Hardly any other
sacrifice in the war was so much lamented by his fellow-students. He Was, in all
his relations, generous, enterprising, fearless. Few students have been more
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beloved, or more readily followed, as a leader in all that pertained to the public
spirit of the University. Many external improvements were largely indebted to
his energetic leadership. He had powers that would have rendered him influen-
tial in society and in the church,
PERRY G. PACKER. Born at Wallingford, Vt., March 4, 1840. Entered
Freshman Class in Mad. Univ., and graduated in ’61. Studied law in Marshall,
Mich., and was admitted to the Bar. In Fall of '64, enlisted as a private in U. S.
service, and in Fall of '66, died at Fort Randall, Dakota Terr. He was a genial
companion, and made warm friends.
CHARLEs G. A. PATTERSON. Born in Middletown, N. J., March, 1841. His
father, James Patterson, was a prominent citizen in N. J. The son entered the
Grammar School of Mad. Univ. in Spring of '56, and graduated in 61. Soon after
entered the Albany Law School, and graduated in '63. In '63 began to practise
law in Paterson, N. J. Died in Newark, N. J., at the residence of S. S. Abbott,
Esq., after a brief illness, from typhoid fever. He had fine powers, held a high
place in College, and would have been a man of mark.
ROBERT PICKARD. Born in Esquessing, Ont., April 12, 1835. Entered Junior
Acad. Class, Oct., '55. After graduation, married in Canada, Aug. 24, '61, Miss
M. J. Foreman. Taught one year, and studied Theol. in Woodstock a year and
a half. Ordained Oct., '64. Pastor in Wellington Square, Bronte, and Hanover.
Has also done missionary work in Canada.
JEPTIIA C. PRALL. Entered the Inst. from Elmira, N. Y., in 1856. After
graduation, preached a few months at East Lyme, Conn. Soon disabled by con-
sumption ; he died, after a lingering illness, at Elmira, N. Y., Sept. 30, '62. He
was a good student, an earnest, consistent Christian in College, thoroughly
respected, and promised to be a preacher of rare power. Died when about
twenty-six years of age.
JOHN D. PULIs. Born in New York, Dec. 25, 1833. Entered Junior Acad.
Class in ’55. After graduating in '61, became pastor at Russell, Mass. There
married, March 12, '63, Miss Jennie Dickinson. Removed West, and until Jan.,
'66, pastor at Paw Paw, Ill. Subsequently pastor three years at Princeton, Ill.
Jan., '69, removed to Oneida, Ill. Baptized (up to '69) about one hundred. Now
('71) pastor at New Salem, Wis.
WILLIAM E. STANTON. Born in New London Co., Conn., Feb. 12, 1839.
Converted at the age of thirteen. Soon went to Suffield Inst. There impressed
with duty to preach. Came to Hamilton, Senior Acad., '56. Graduated from
College in '61. Health failing soon after, suspended Theol. study, and in '62,
spent some months in Europe. Returning, preached six months at Jewett City,
Conn. Over 100 united with the church. Married, in Norwich, Conn., July 1,
'63, Miss Sarah C. Kinney. In Fall of '63, returned to Hamilton, and graduated
from Theol. Seminary in '65. Settled, in Sept., '65, with First Baptist Church in
Lowell, Mass. Baptized (up to '69) about 150.
CHARLES E. SIMMONS. Born in Worcester, Mass. Entered Freshman, Class
of '61, and left at close of Sophomore Year. Married, at Hamilton, N. Y., Aug. .
31, '60, Miss Victoria Waldron. Entered the army at President's first call.
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(See War Record.) At close of the war, began to preach in Woodville, Mass.
Subsequently, studied Theology in Hartford, Conn. Since April, '71, pastor at
Southwick, Mass.
SAMUEL D. WADSworth. Born in town of Catlin, N. Y., March 16, 1834.
Entered Grammar School in ’55, from North Fairfield, Ohio. Graduated from
College in ’61. Studied medicine. Resident physician in Bellevue Hospital, N
Y., from April, '63, to April, '65, Ass’t Surgeon to Ninth Cong. District, '64–65.
Subsequently, Ass’t Sanitary Inspector under Metropolitan Board of Health, and
attending physician to Central Dispensary. Still a physician in New York.
EDw1N R. WARRINER. Born in, Smyrna, N. Y., July 22, 1838. Connected
with University in classes of ’61 and '62. Left, from Junior year, March, '61
Married, April, '65, Miss Mary Dargavel. By profession a teacher. Has been
Principal of New Berlin Academy, and of Union School, Verona, N. Y.
HARDIN WHEAT. Born Nov. 1, 1835, at Franklin, N. Y. There prepared
for College. Entered M. U., and graduated in ’61. Settled as pastor in Eaton,
N. Y. Ordained, Oct. 30, '61. Married Miss Eliza A. Howes, of Hamilton, June
19, '62. In June, '63, resigned at Eaton, and removed to Norristown, Pa. Bap-
tized (up to ’69) about 125. Settled in ’71 at Millville, N. J.
CHARLEs E. WILSON, JR. Entered Senio, Acad. Class, from Holmdel, N. J.,
in 1856. After graduation in '61, went to Union Theol. Seminary, New York,
and graduated in '64. In May, '65, became pastor of Calvary Baptist Church,
Cape May, N. J. Ordained, Dec., '65. From Feb., '67, to Feb., '69, pastor of Mt.
Pleasant Mission, Newark, N. J. Now pastor ('71) at Cape Island, N. J.
SCIENTIFIC COURSE, CLASS OF 1861.
CHRISTIE W. BURNIIAM. Born in Bow, N. H., Sept. 19, 1832. Entered M
U., Jan., '60, took Scientific Course, and graduated in '61; from Theol. Seminary,
in '63. Married at Manchester, N. H., Sept. 9, '63, Miss Frances A. Works.
Ordained as pastor in Hopkinton, N. H., Oct. 14, '63. Removed in ’71 to Valley
Falls, R. I.
SEYMOUR D, CARPENTER. Born in Bellevue, Mich., Nov. 24, 1841. Spent
one year in M. U., Scientific Course ; graduated at Union, and served about a
year, '62–63, in 177th N. Y. S. V. Since a druggist in New York and Brooklyn.
Still pursues business in latter place.
DAVID C. OATMAN. Born in Hartford, Washington Co., N. Y., Sept. 11,
1840. Was a student in the Scientific Course, M. U., from Oct., '58, to April, '60.
Since in business at Angola, Erie Co., N. Y. Married, May 3, '66, at Newark, N.
J., to Miss Alletta J. Arneson.
THE FOLLOWING, NOT GRADUATES OF THE UNIVERSITY, GRADUATED IN
THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1861.
Josia.H. B. CONYERS. Born in Bath Co., Ky., March 4, 1812. Studied med
icine, and took degree of M. D., at Lexington, Ky. Married, April 26, '40, Miss
Nancy R. McCullough, in Miami Co., Ohio. Practised medicine seven years in
Quincy, Ill., and six years in Piqua, Ohio. Constrained to enter the ministry, he
abandoned a lucrative practice, and was ordained at St. Mary's, O, Preached
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also at Delphos and Zanesville, Ohio, until, in '59, he entered the Theol. Sem-
inary, at Hamilton. After graduating in '61, he studied also at Princeton, N. J.
In Jan., '63, returned West, and settled at Oneida, Ill. Subsequently, preached
two years at Berwick, Ill. In '69, he retired to his farm in Oneida, Ill., intend-
ing, while seeking rest, to supply feeble churches without compensation. In the
summer of ’70, while visiting in Missouri, he died, after severe illness, Aug. 6,
’70, in the triumph of Christian hope. He was a good man, laid strong hold
upon Divine truth, and impressed it forcibly upon others.
FRANK JOHNSON. Born in Frankfort, Ohio, Nov. 2, '36. His father, Rev
Hezekiah Johnson, removed in ’38 to Iowa and in '45 to Oregon, laboring as a
missionary. The son obtained such beginnings of culture as were possible, and
learned the printer’s art. In '48, a boy of 12, was the only printer in Oregon,
others having hastened to the gold-fields of California. Printed the Organic Act,
by which Congress constituted Oregon a Territory. Converted in '55. Came
East, in '59, in search of health. Becoming stronger, entered Ham. Theo'l Semi-
nary in '59 and graduated in '61. Settled at Bay City, Mich. In '63 married
Miss Mary A. Barton, of Buffalo, N. Y. In '64 became pastor at Dambertville, N.
J., and in '66 at Passaic, N. J., where he still continues. In '69 visited Europe,
remaining some months. While there received degree of D. D. from University
of Jena.
CLASS OF 1862.
N. LLOYD ANDREws. Born in Fabius, N. Y., Aug. 14, 41. Removed to New-
ark, N.J., in ’51. Entered Freshman Class in Oct., 58. Graduated from Coll.
in '62 and from Theo'l Seminary in '64. Principal of Grammar School of M. U.,
'64—'69. Married, in Hamilton, N. Y., Sept. 6, '65, Miss Cynthia S. Burchard.
Held Latin Professorship in M. U., '66-'68. Elected Professor of Greek Lan-
guage and Literature, Aug., '68.
WILLIAM P. BURDICK. Born in Willurgsburg, Pa., May 8, '38. Entered
Class of '62, May, '59, and graduated from Coll. in '62. Married, April 16, '64,
in Canton, Pa., Miss Frances M. Elliott. Profession, teaching. Has taught in
Port Byron and Jordan, N.Y.; in Brunswick, Bowling Green, and Salisbury,
Mo, Served in the army. (See War Record.) Present residence, Liberty, Mo.
SAMUEL K. DEXTER. Born Sept. 6, ’37, in Providence, R. I. Entered Fresh-
man Class in '58 and graduated from Coll. in '62. Studied Theol. at Hamilton
six months. Married in Providence, R. I., May 9, '65, Miss Henrietta D. Allen.
Pastor in Windsor, Vt., three years. Settled in Bennington, Vt., Nov., '68. Now
('71) pastor at Warren, R. I. -
John DONNELLY, JR. Born in Troy, N. Y., June 11, ’36. Entered Grammar
School in '55 with Class of ’61; absent a year; returned in '57, and graduated
from Coll. in '62, and from Theo'l Seminary in '64. Married, in New Berlin, N.
Y., June 1, '63, Miss Addie Elwell. Pastor of Baptist Church, Port Huron, Mich.,
since June, '64. Baptized (up to '69) about 125.
LEMAN Q. GALPIN. Born Nov. 23, '37, in Mecca, Ohio. Entered Sen. Ac.
Class from Falls Church, Va., in '57. Graduated from Coll., Aug., '62. Married,
in Centreville, N. Y., Sept. 25, '62, Frances C. Look. Preached six months in
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Clinton, N. Y. Entered Hamilton Theo'l Seminary in May, '63, and graduated
in '64. Became pastor at Colosse, N. Y., Sept., '64. Ordained Aug. 25, '65.
Settled at Paw Paw, Mich., Apr., '67. Since at Charlotte, Mich. Now pastor
('71) at Naples, N. Y.
ZELOTES GRENELL, JR. Born in New York, Feb. 25, 41. Converted, Oct.,
56. Entered Junior Ac, Class, April, '57, Graduated from Coll, in '62 and from
Theo'l Seminary in '64. Immediately became pastor at Kingston, N. Y. Ordain-
ed, Nov. 24, '64. Married Miss Inez A. Budington, of Kingston, Oct. 14, '68.
Still pastor at Kingston, N. Y.
CHARLEs H. Johnson. Born Aug. 15, '37, in Norwich, N. Y. Entered 3d
Term Freshman, May, '59. Graduated from Coll. in '62 and from Theo’l Sem-
inary in 64. Married, in Bainbridge, N. Y., Miss Olive A. Scott, Dec. 28, '64.
Pastor in Westmoreland, N. Y., from Sept., '64, to Nov. '68. Since pastor in
Clinton, N. Y. Baptized (up to ’69) 110.
ANDREW J. MoRSE. Born in Wallingford, Conn., June 23, 34. Entered Sen.
Ac. in '57. Left M. U. at close of Soph. year. Preached at Waverly, N. Y., one
year. Subsequently entered Episcopal ministry. Died, in Conn., Aug. 27, '62.
John PEDDIE. Born May 24, 38, in Ancaster, Ont. Entered M. U., Fresh-
man Class, Oct., '58, Graduated from Coll, in '63. Absent preaching one year.
Returned and graduated from Theo'l Seminary in '65. Pastor in Watertown, N.
Y., three years. Settled, spring of '68, in Albany, N. Y. Married, in Watertown,
Jan. 2, '68, Miss Mary H. Wilson. Baptized (up to ’69) over 200. Now pastor
('71) of Fourth Baptist Church, Philadelphia.
Pr[ILANDER REYNoLDs. Born in Troupsburg, N. Y., Oct. 14, '33. Entered
M. U. in '58. Graduated in '62. Married Aug. 25, '62, in Summit, N. Y.,
, Miss Nettie Dayton, Has been pastor in Wellsboro’, Pa.; Ransomville, N. Y.;
Flushing and Allegan, Mich.
WILLIAM H. RUGG. Born in So, Londonderry, Vt., April 9, '38. Entered
Freshman, Nov., '58. Graduated from Coll, in '62. Engaged in teaching and
preaching in Vt. Entered Ham, Theo'l Seminary in Dec., '63. Graduated from
Seminary in '65, Since pastor at Shaftsbury, Vt. Married in Wallingford, Vt.
April 6, ’70, Miss Fannie Webster.
JAMES H. SAGE. Born in Norwich, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1837. Entered Freshman
Class, May, '59, and graduated in '62, Married, in Lebanon, N. Y., Aug. 21, ’62,
Miss Lucy J. Shapley. Pastor in Springfield, N. Y., one year; Willett, N.Y.,
three years; Marathon, N. Y., two years. Pastor ('69) in Greene, N. Y.
AsFIER STARK WEATHER. Born in Worcester, N. Y., June 20, 1838. Entered
Jun. Ac., '56, Graduated from College in '62. Married, in Omro, Wis., March
22, '64, Miss E. C. Ambrose. Served as private soldier in the army eight months.
Occupation, horticulture, at Manchester, N. J.
J. WARD STONE. Born March 18, 1834, in Thorold, County of Holland, On-
tario. Engaged in teaching, '50–57. Was connected with Class of '62 about
two years. Left for want of funds. Subsequently connected with the Canadian
Literary Institute. Married, Aug. 14, '61, Miss Elizabeth Cooper, of Niagara,
Ontario. For three years employed partly in agriculture and partly in preach-
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ing. From Nov., '62, to Jan., '64, pastor of Queenston Church. Was for some
time confined at home, near Buffalo, by ill-health of father-in-law, but pursued
medical studies, and graduated from Buffalo Medical College in '69. Sept. 1,
’70, became pastor at East Aurora, N. Y.
CHARLEs Y. SWAN. Son of Rev. J. S. Swan. Born Aug. 5, 1840, at Oxford,
N. Y. Belonged one year to the Class of '62. Ordained in So. Norwalk, Conn.,
Dec. 10, '66. Has preached also in Cornwall Hollow, No. Stonington, and So.
Ashford, Conn., and Gloversville, N. Y. Married March 24, '69. Now settled
('71) at Northampton, Mass.
FRANCIS W. TOWLE. Born in New London, N. H., Nov. 21, 1835. Entered
Freshman Class, Oct., '5S. Graduated from College in '62, and from Theo'l
Sem’y in '64. Settled and ordained at Claremont, N. H., Nov., '64, where he is
still pastor.
CHARLEs W. UNDERHILL. Born in Bedford, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1839. Two years
in Troy Univ. Spent Junior and Senior Years in Mad. Univ. After graduation,
entered the army. (See War Record.) At the close of the war engaged in law
studies with Judge Joseph Mason, Hamilton. Admitted to the Bar in '67. In
Jan., '68, became partner with J. Mason. Married, June 28, '71, Miss Marion
E. Root, of East Hamilton.
EDGAR WESTCOTT. Born in Lewis, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1832. Studied mostly
under private instructors until '61. Took Senior Year in Mad. Univ. Graduated
in '62. Since engaged in business at Cleveland, Ohio.
MONSON A. WILLCox. Born Aug. 12, 1841, in Bainbridge, N. Y. Entered
Grammar School in '56, and College in '58. Graduated Aug., '62. Studied law
two years in New York. Married, May 21, '63, Miss Sarah E. Mason, Jersey
City, N. J. In Sept, '64, entered Newton Theo'l Institution; in Nov., '65, Union
Theo'l Sem'y, N. Y. I'rom Feb. 1, '67, pastor of Baptist church, Burlington, Vt.
Baptisms (up to '69) about sixty.
GRADUATES FROM SCIENTIFIC COURSE IN 1862.
THOMAS A. BATSON. Born in Westford, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1837. Studied several
years, from '56, in Wayland Univ., Beaver Dam, Wis., up to end of Sophomore
Class. After a year's private study and labor, entered Mad. Univ., Oct., '61, and
graduated from Sci, Course in '02. Entered Theo'l Sem'y, but was compelled,
by condition of his eyes, to leave in April, '63. Pastor two years in Maryland,
N. Y. Married Miss Amanda Wightman, Feb. 19, '65. In April, '65, became
pastor of Milford Church, and remained three years and a half. Since Nor., '68,
pastor in Omro, Wis. Baptisms (to '69) sixty-five.
Edwin I, BENNETT. Born in Bainbridge, N.Y., Dec. 6, 1832. Entered Mad.
Univ. in '59. Graduated from Sci. Course, '62, and from Theo'l Sem'y, '64. Mar-
ried, in Franklin, N. Y., Nov. 17, '57, Miss Mary E. McCall. Was pastor first at
Walled Lake, Mich. Then settled in Atlas, Mich. Baptized (to '69) about fifty.
Now ('71) in Salem, Mich. &
BESIDES GRADUATES OF M. U., THE FOLLOWING GRADUATED IN, OR BELONGED
To, THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1862.
WILFRED DEAN. Born in England, 1829. Entered Ham. Theo'l Sem'y, '60 ;
graduated in '63. Soon after ordained pastor at Tolland, Conn. Married Miss
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Lizzie Powell, of Meriden, Conn., in '63. Preached also in N. H., and in South-
bridge, Mass. Entered Episcopal ministry in '68. Now rector ('71) in Kinsman,
Ohio.
WAYLAND HOYT. Born Feb. 18, 1838, in Cleveland, Ohio. Entered Fresh-
man, Mad. Univ., '55. Remained two years. Graduated at Brown, '60. Took
one year in Ham. Theo'l Semy. Graduated in Theology at Rochester, '63. In
Aug., '64, married Miss Maud Mansfield, of Salem, Mass. Pastor at Pittsfield,
Mass., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Brooklyn, N. Y. -
CHARLEs H. JAMEs. Born in Gloucestershire, Eng., April 19, 1831. Entered
Ham. Theo'l Sem'y, '60, and remained one year. Married Miss Mary B. Stewart,
Belmont, N. Y., Feb. 6, '62. From Nov., '61, pastor two years at Deposit, N. Y.
From '63--'66, at Attica, N. Y. Since at Alden, N. Y.
John TRENAMAN. Born in St. John, N. B., in 1827. Entered Mad. Univ.
from Blenheim, Ont. Took select studies two years, '58-’60. Entered Theo’l
Sem'y, and graduated in '62. Ordained pastor in Yarmouth, Ont., Feb., '64. Re-
mained three years. Married, in Dec., '66, Miss Maggie A. Montross, of Union,
Ont. In '67 settled at Peru, Ind. Now ('71) pastor at Goodland, Ind.
CHARLEs E. TUCRER. Born in Laporte, Ind., July 22, 1841. From his earli-
est years a favorite with all who knew him, of rare intellectual promise, and
strong social sympathies. At the age of eighteen, graduated from Knox College,
Ill. Pursued the regular course in Ham. Theo'l Sem'y, and graduated in '62.
Entered the army. (See War Record.) His death was deeply lamented, for both
in the Univ. and in the army he made warm friends. He had an able mind,
and a genial, noble, and earnest spirit. Son of Rev. Silas Tucker, D. D., Logans-
port, Ind.
CLASS OF 1863.
JoHN L. BENEDICT. Born in Clyde, Wayne Co., N.Y., Feb. 2, 1838. Entered
Jun. Ac. Class, '55. Absent two years. Left Mad. Univ., '60. With $200 at the
right time could have graduated. Married, Aug. 29, '59, Miss Frances Luding-
ton, Ludingtonville, N. Y. Pastor at Mariner's Harbor, and Matteawan, N. Y.,
and Belvidere and Macomb, Ill. Now ('71) at Rosetta, Ill.
JAMES M. BERRY. Entered Grammar School from Washington, Ind., in '57,
Graduated from College in '63. Married Miss Amelia Casler, of Hamilton, N. Y.
Pastor at Middlefield and Westville, N. Y., and Green Valley, Ill. Now at Meta-
mora, Ill.
ALEXANDER T. CoMPTON. Born May, 1842, in Newark, N. J. Entered Sopho-
more, '60. Remained two years. Graduated at Union College, '63. Studied
law. Graduated at Law School, N. Y. Univ., '64. Admitted to N. J. Bar, '66.
Practised law in Newark, N. J. Married Miss M. E. Ingersoll, of New York,
Dec. 23, '68. Now lawyer in New York.
JONATITAN B. CIIILD. Born in Fitchburg, Mass., July 1, 1835. Entered
Sophomore, Oct., '60. Graduated from College, '63, from Theo'l Semºy, '65.
Married, in Hopkinton, N. H., Sept. 5, '65, Sarah J. Burnham. Pastor at Caze-
novia, N. Y., three years, afterward at Gouverneur, N. Y. Settled in ’71 at
Pawtuxet, R. I.
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HENRY P. CORBIN. Born in Logansport, Ind., Jan. 24, '41. Son of Rev. Wil-
liam Corbin, and foster-son of J. Pettit, Fabius, N. Y. Entered Sen. Ac. Class in
'58. At the close of the Junior Year, entered the army. (See War Record.) He
had a manly nature, quiet but winning manners, and was thoroughly patriotic
in his military devotion. He fell so near the enemy's works at Port Hudson
that his body was never found.
THOMAS T. EATON. Born at Murfreesboro’, Tenn., Nov. 16, ’45. Took Sopho-
more Year with Class of '63. Served in Conf. Army. Graduated at Washington
College, Va., '67. Prof. of Mathematics in Union Univ., and pastor in Lebanon,
Tenn. -
ERI B. HULBERT. Born in Chicago, Ill., July 16, 1841. Entered Sen. Ac.,
Oct., '58. Left M. U. at the close of Junior year. Graduated from Union Col-
lege, '63. From Ham. Theol. Sem’y, '65. From Sept., '65, pastor in Manchester,
Vt., three years. Pastor Coventry St. Bap. Church, Chicago, Ill., Jan., '69. Mar-
ried, at Troy, Pa., June 23, '69, Miss E. E. Spencer. Now (1871) at St. Paul,
Minn.
WILLIAM H. MooRE. Born in Greenwich, N. J., Aug. 26, 1841. Entered
Freshman, '57. Absent two years. Left at close of Junior year. Engaged in
manufacturing, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
CHARLES H. NASII. Born Dec. 6, 1835, at Granville, N. Y. Entered M. U.,
Oct., '59. Graduated from College in '63. Studied Theol. six months at Hamil-
ton. Married, in Granville, Oct. 26, 1864, Miss Marion E. Mason. Pastor over
four years at Westport, N. Y. Now at Glenn’s Falls, N. Y.
MERRITT A. POTTER. Born in Waterford, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1842. Entered
Sen. Ac., Oct., '58. Left at the close of Junior year. Married Feb. 14, '69. In
business in New York, Un. Pac. R. R.
RICHARD V. W. SNOW. Born in New York, Oct. 16, 1841. Came to Hamilton,
Oct., '57. Graduated from College in '63. Took Theology in Hamilton and
Union Theol. Sem. Married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., Miss Mary R. Shipman,
March 27, '65. Spent six months in Europe for his health. From March, '66, to
March, '68, a successful pastor in Hamilton, O. Went home to die, in Orange,
N. J., June 25, '68. A genial mature, rare literary talent, and genuine Christian
character, gained warm friends, who deplore the blighting of his early promise
Yet in heaven “His servants shall serve Him.”
FRANK B. SPEAR. Born in Hamilton, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1842. After graduation
in '63, read law in Detroit, Mich. In '64 became clerk, and since April, '66, has
been Commission Merchant in Marquette, Mich. Married, in Allegheny, Pa.,
Miss Sara Kennedy, June 14, 1871.
WILLIAM. F. TTIOMPSON. Entered Gram. School in '58. Graduated from Col-
lege in '63. Studied law. Now practising in Washington, Ind.
Owen A. WILLIAMs. Born in Wales, March 25, 1837. Came to M. U., Oct.,
'57. Graduated from College, '63, and from Theol. Sem'y, '65. Since pastor in
Mt. Vernon, N. Y. -
E. ARTHUR WOODs. Born in Homer, O., July 24, 1839. Entered Junior Class.
M. U., Jan., '62. Graduated from College, '63; from Theol. Sem'y, '65, Married
in Hamilton, N. Y., Sept. 12, '65, Miss Mary B. Kennedy. Pastor in Little Falls,
N. Y., two years. Since in Flemington, N. J. Baptized (up to 1869) 125.
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GRADUATED FROM SciFNTIFIC COURSE IN 1863.
william E. LockHART. Born in Moncton, N. B., Dec. 11, 1832. Came to M.
U., Oct., '61. Graduated from Scientific Course, '63, and from Theol. Sem’y in
'65. Married Miss Isabella Ritchie, of Moncton, N. B. Pastor at Unadilla Forks
N. Y., two years and a half. Since settled in Camillus, N. Y. M. U. conferred
Hon. A. M. in 1871.
BESIDEs GRADUATES OF M. U., THE FOLLOWING GRADUATED IN, OR BELONGED
TO, THE THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1863.
WILLIAM. A. BRIggs. Born in Pittsfield, Mass., July 12, 1834. Graduated at
Williams College, and from Ham. Theol. Sem'y in '63. Ordained pastor in South
Adams, Mass., Sept. 10, '63. Married, in Cassville, N. Y., May 18, '64, Miss
Frances A. Reed. Resided in S. Adams, Mass., seven years. Now (1871) pastor
in Homer, N. Y.
Edwin S, WHEELER. Born in Groton, Conn., Aug. 4, 1836. In Ham. Theol.
Semºy, Oct., '61, to April, 62. Married Miss Eliza Lowen, Sag Harbor, N.Y.,
Dec. 18, '60. Ordained in Port Chester, N. Y., Sept. 5, '60. Chaplain in the
army. (See War Record.) Since pastor in Willimantic, Conn., and Wakefield,
R. I. Now (1871) in Morrisania, N. Y.
THEODoRE S. WooDEN. Born July 17, 1835, in Pawlings, N. Y. Married, at
Fishkill Plains, N. Y., Nov. 18, '57, Miss Sarah E. Nostrand. Took Eclectic
studies in M. U., '60–61. Graduated from Theol. Sem'y, '63. Pastor in Troy
Mich., three years. Since '66 in Romeo, Mich.
CLASS OF 1864.
CHARLEs J. BALDWIN. Born at Charlestown, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1841. Entered
Sen. Ac., Oct., '59. Left M. U. at the close of Junior year, '63. Entered the
army. (See War Record.) Received A. B. with class of '64. Graduated in Theol.
at Rochester. Since Sept., '68, pastor at Chelsea, Mass. Baptized 47. Married,
at Groton, Mass., Aug. 3, '70, Miss Adelaide Fosdick.
HENRY H. BAw DEN. Born Jan. 17, 1839, in Totness, Devonshire, Eng. En-
tered Senior Class, '63. Graduated from College in '64, and from Theol. Sen’y
in '66. Married, in N. Y., Sept. 4, '06, Miss Hattie N. Day. Since fall of '66,
pastor in Elyria, O.
BENJAMIN F. Bow EN. Born at Swansea, Wales, April 3, 1840. Entered
Sophomore, spring of '62. In Aug., '63, entered the army. (See War Record.)
Married in New Orleans, Sept. 22, '64. For a time disabled by wound, but has
preached in Mich. and Wis., and in Salem, O. t
J. CROCKER FOOTE. Born Sept. 20, 1841, in Hamilton, N. Y. First entered
Class of '63 in 1857. Graduated in Class of '64. Merchant in Hamilton, N. Y.,
three years. Married, in New York, April 22, 1867, Miss Helen Garvin. Present
residence, Belvidere, Ill. -
THOMAS A. T. HANNA. Born Aug. 6, 1842, near “ Giant's Causeway,” North
of Ireland. Entered Gram. Sch., Oct., 1858. Graduated from College in '64,
and from Theo. Sem, in '66. Ordained pastor Central Bapt. Church, Williams-
burgh, N. Y., Sept., 1866. Baptized (up to 1869) 71. Married Miss Emily F.
Judson, at Philadelphia, Pa., June 14, 1870. “An uncompromising advocate of
the duty of revising the English translation of the Holy Scriptures.”
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EDWARD JUDSON. Born at Maulmain, Burmah, Dec. 27, 1844. Entered
Freshman, M. U., 1860. Left at close of Soph. Year. Graduated at Brown, 1865.
Subsequently Principal of Leland and Gray Sem., Townshend, Vt. In 1867
entered Ham. Theo. Sem. College tutor one Year. In 1868 appointed Prof.
Latin and Mod. Lang., M. U. Married, April 6, 1874, in Lebanon, N. Y., Miss
E. Nettie Barstow.
JOHN J. LEWIS. Born in Utica, N. Y., Dec. 25, 1833. Entered Gram. Sch.
Oct., 1859. Left M. U. at close of Jun. year. Graduated at Hamilton College,
1864. Two years Prof. Belles-Lettres and Elocution in Brooklyn Collegiate and
Polytech. Inst., N. Y. Married, in Marcy, N. Y., July 26, 1865, Miss Phoebe F.
Lloyd. In Sept., 1866, resigned Professorship to attend only brother's last ill-
ness, Syracuse, N. Y. Began preaching in Miss. Chapel. Settled as pastor of
First Bapt. Church, Syracuse, N. Y., March, 1867. Baptized 75. Since Oct., 1868,
Professor of Belles-Lettres and Elocution in M. U.
GEORGE W. MASGN. Born in Medfield, Mass., March 26, 1838. Entered
Freshman Class in 1860. Graduated from College, 1864. Married at Covington,
N. Y., Aug. 24, 1864. Has taught in Brandon, Vt., and Stoneham, Mass. Since
1867, in the insurance business, Troy, N. Y.
WILLIAM MULDER. Born in Holland, July, 1833. Married, in New York
Mills, N. Y., Jan., 1859. Elizabeth Downward. Entered M. U. as Eclectic
student in 1861. Left in 1864. Since 1866 Cong. minister in Mich. Now pastor
in Laingsburgh, Mich.
AUSTIN S. MERRIFIELD. Born in Newfane, Vt., in 1837. Entered Freshman
Class, 1860. Graduated from College in 1864, and from Theo. Sem. in 1866.
Married, in Dover, Vt., Aug. 8, 1866, Lizzie R. Hills. Pastor in Sherman, N. Y.
Oct., 1866. Now (1871) at Sublette, Ilj.
AsA E. REYNOLDs. Born in Granville, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1840. Entered Fresh-
man Class, 1860. Graduated from College in '64, and from Theo. Sem. in '66.
Married, in Hamilton, N. Y., Aug. 2, 1866, Miss Franc M. Bancroft. Pastor in
Jaffrey, N. H., till March, 1869. Now (1871) in Natick, Mass. First wife died
in '69. Married again, Dec. 27, 1871, in Natick, Mass., Mary C. Babcock.
WILLIAM. H. SPENCER. Born in town of Knox, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1838. Entered
Jun. Ac., Oct., 1858. Left M. U. in Aug., 1861. Entered the army. (See War
Record.) Entered Soph. Class at Drown, Sept., '63. Graduated 1866. From
Newton Theo'l Inst., 1869. Since Sept., 1869, pastor at Foxborough, Mass.
Married, at Brookline, Mass., Oct. 12, 1869, Miss Mary E. Stevens.
HUDSON A. WOOD. Born at Smyrna, N. Y., May 10, 1841. Entered Sen. Ac.
Class in 1859. In 1861 entered the army. (See War Record.) Re-entered M. U.
in March, '63. In Sept., '63, entered Michigan University, and graduated there
in 1866. In Oct., '66, became Principal of Milton Academy, Del. Married, at
North Greece, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1868, Miss Mary Hicks. Since 1868, Principal of
Middletown Academy, Del.
GRADUATED FROM SCIENTIFIC COURSE IN 1864.
Joſſ N S. McKEEN. Born at Mabou, N. S., May 27, 36. Graduated from M.
U., Scientific Course, in '64. From Theol Seminary in '67. Died in Dansville,
N. Y., Feb. 1, '69. He was a devoted Christian and faithful laborer. Had preach-
ed in Springfield and Lowville, N. Y., and Rowley, Mass.
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B. F. Wrilliams. Born in Cardiff, So. Wales, Sept. 25, 37. Graduated from
Sci. Course, M. U., in '64. Preached to Coventry and Greene Bap. Ch. Ordain"
ed at Franklin, N. Y., Feb., '66. Baptized (to '69) 96. Since April, '69, at Port-
landville, N. Y. Married, April 11, ’69, Miss Eunice J. Brewster, at Verona,
N. Y.
BEsſop's GRADUATES OF M. U., THE FOLLOWING GRADUATED IN THEOLOGICAL
CLASS OF 1864.
SylvestER. J. Lusk. Born in Walworth, N. Y., June 27, 35. Entered Ham.
Theo'i Seminary, Oct., 62. Graduated, Aug., '64. Married, Oct. 31, '66, Miss
Hattie E. Brown, East Avon, N. Y. Has been pastor at East Avon and Orleans,
N. Y. Now at Towanda, Pa.
JAMEs D. Tucker. Born in East Hamilton, N. Y., March 5, '87. Graduated
at Williams College. From Ham. Theo'l Seminary in '64. Married, Sept. 28,
'64, in West Haven, Conn., Miss Elizabeth S. Tallmadge. Pastor in McGraw-
ville, N.Y., two years, Vernon, N.Y., one year. Since Chaplain of Young Men's
Christian Association, Troy, N. Y. Now ('71) pastor at Fort Edward, N. Y.
CLASS OF 1865.
WILLIAM F. BASTEN. Born in Marbletown, N. Y., March 5, 38. Entered Sen-
Ac., Oct., '60. Graduated from Coll., M. U., '65. From Rochester Theo'l Semi-
nary, '68. Married, in Rondout, N. Y., June 2, '68, Miss E. M. Crosby. Pastor
two years in Le Roy, N. Y. Since July, '70, pastor of Third Baptist Church,
Cleveland, Ohio. Baptized 35.
JoFIN J. BROUNER. Born in New York, Sept. 2, 39. Entered Junior Ac., '59.
Left M. U. at the close of Soph. Year. Married, in New York, April 19, '65, Miss
Martha W. Hall. Ordained, Nov. 17, '64. Pastor of Mariner's Harbor Baptist
Church, S. I., four years. Since Feb., '69, pastor of North Baptist Church, New
York, where his father preached twenty years.
ADONIRAM. J. FROST. Born in Parishville, N. Y., Sept. 12, 37. Entered Fresh-
man, '61. Graduated from Coll. in '65 and from Theo'l Sem, in '67. Married, at
Cornwall, N. Y., Oct. 17, '67, Miss Jenny P. Rich. Pastor of Second Baptist
Church, Syracuse, N. Y., '67–69. Since pastor at Bay City, Mich.
MARIs GIBSON. Born in Buckingham, Pa., Oct. 31, ’41. Entered Freshman,
'61. Left in Junior Year, May, '64. Married, at No. Lansing, N. Y., Sept. 7, '64,
Miss Ellen A. Rhodes. Ordained over Gwynedd, Pa., Baptist Church, Jan., '65.
Since at Pottstown, and now ('71) at Guthrieville, Pa.
SABIN T. GooDELL. Born, May 22, '36, in Norway, N. Y. Entered Sen. Ac.
May, '61. Left M. U. at close of Soph. Year, '63. Entered the army. (See
War Record.) Graduated from Brown, '68. Since at Newton Theo'l Institution.
Under appointment ('71) as foreign missionary.
Louis P. HoRNBERGER. . Born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 25, '41. Entered
Grammar School, '58. Graduated from Coll. in '65. Since pastor of Spring Gar-
den Baptist Church, Philadelphia. Baptized (up to '69) 282.
Jon N. W. HoRNER. Born in Baptist-Town, N. J., Feb. 27, '87. Was two
years a member of the Class of '65. In '63, Principal of Mauch Chunk High
354 SKETCHES OF ALUMNI.
School, Pa. In '65 removed to Colorado. Married, Dec. 20, 1870, Miss Tillie
Browning, of New York. Attorney and counsellor in Denver City, Col.
HENRY W. JONES. Born in Fabius, N. Y., Feb., 13, 1842. Entered Junior Ac.,
June, 1860. Graduated from Coll. in 1865 and from Theo'l Seminary in 1868.
Married, in Hamilton, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1865, Miss Isadore Coan. Pastor at Ilion,
N. Y., 1865–1866, one year. From 1868–1870 at Valley Falls, R. I. Now (1871)
in Home Mission Rooms, N. Y. {
A. JUDSON LYON. Born in Napoli, N. Y., Aug. 30, 1837. Entered Freshman
Class in 1861. Graduated from Coll. in 1865 and from Theo'l Seminary in 1867.
Married, at Fabius, N. Y., June 24, 1868, Miss Mary E. Wheaton. Pastor in
Delaware, Ohio, from Aug., 1867, to Feb., 1870. Since at Lancaster, Ohio.
DANIEL W. SKINNER. Born in Farmersville, N. Y., Sept. 29, 1837. En-
tered Gram. School, 1858. Graduated from Coll. in 1865, having been absent
one year in the army. (See War Record.) Graduated from Ham. Theol. Sem'y
in 1867. Has since preached as supply, but, health being poor, has not settled
as pastor. Residence, Hamilton, N. Y.
BUEL A. SMITH. Born in Gouverneur, N. Y., June 3, 1837. Entered Fresh-
man, 1860. Absent one year. Graduated 1865. Married, at Depeyster, N. Y.,
Aug. 8, 1865, Miss Martha A. Tuttle. Became Prin. of Belleville Acad., N. Y.
In Feb., 1867, resigned from ill-health. Died in Dewitt, N. Y., March 8,
1857. Preached while at Belleville. Never ordained. Had great force of
character.
LEONARD SMITII. Born in Rensselaerville, N. Y., June 8, 1833. Entered
Gram. School, 1859. Graduated from Coll., 1865. Studied Theol. One term.
Married, at Preston Hollow, N. Y., May 2, 1866, Miss Mary Purrington. Since
Aug., 1866, pastor at Preston Hollow, N. Y. º
CIIARLEs R. SPEAR. Born in Hamilton, N. Y., April 25, 1844. Entered
Gram. School, 1858. Out of Course one year. Graduated from Coll., 1865.
Clerk in Oswego and Syracuse, N. Y., two years. Since 1867, commission mer-
chant, Negaunee, Mich.
EDWIN A. TAFT. Born in Smithfield, R. I., Dec. 1, 1837. Entered Jun. Ac.
Jan., 1860. In Jun. Coll. Year, Jan., 1864, entered the army. (See War Record.)
Graduated from Roch. Un., 1867; from Roch. Theol. Sem'y, 1869. Since pas-
tor of Cottage Baptist Church, Cleveland, O. Baptized 68. l
HUBERT C. WooDs. Born in Burlington, O., July 11, 1842. Entered Soph.
1862. Graduated from Coll. in '65, and from Theol. Sem’y in '67. Married at
Granville, O., Aug. 20, 1867, Miss Fannie Rose. Pastor, since 1867, at Fayette-
ville, N. Y.
GRADUATED FROM SCIENTIFIC COURSE IN 1865.
WILLIAM C. GUNN. Born in Caitness, Scotland, April 23, 1838. Graduated
from M. U., Sci. Course, 1865; from Theol. Sem'y, 1867. Pastor in Springfield,
N. Y., nearly two years. Settled, May, 1869, in Clinton, Mich. Married, in
Springfield, N. Y., June 29, 1869, Miss Harriet B. Cotes. Now (1871) in Leslie,
Mich.
CLASS OF 1865. 355
John W. HENRY. Born in Tahiti, Society Islands, Nov. 10, 1840. Paternal
and maternal grandfathers, Presbyterians, among first missionaries of London
Miss. Soc. to Tahiti. His father self-supported there. Came to U. S., 1857.
Became Baptist at conversion. Entered M. U., Sci. Course, 1865. Graduated
1865; from Theol. Sem'y, in 1867. Married, Aug. 27, 1865, Miss Cornelia A.
Dunn, Fairfax, Vt. Intended to return to Tahiti, but the way was not open.
Has been pastor at Mansfield, Pa., Whitney's Point and Clayton, N. Y. In fall
of 1871 accepted a call to Rome, Mich.
HENRy H. PEABODY. Born in Melrose, Mass., Sept., 1841. Entered M. U.,
Scientific Course, 1863. Graduated 1865; from Theol. in 1867. Married, in
Hamilton, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1867, Miss Lucinda M. Reed. Pastor in Brattleboro’,
Vt., one year. Supplied in Buffalo, N.Y., one year. Now (1871) pastor in Rome,
N. Y.
IsAAC F. Port BR. Born in Wenham, Mass., June, 1839. Entered M. U.,
Scientific Course, 1863. Graduated in 1865. Spent three years in Unitarian
Theological School, Meadville, Pa. Now pastor of Liberal Christian Society,
Princeton, Ill.
PRESTON K. SHELDON. Born in Lisbon, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1837. Entered M. U.,
Scientific Course, May, 1865. Graduated in 1865. Married, in Potsdam, N. Y.,
Sept. 19, 1865, Miss Laura Abernethy. Until March, 1869, pastor in Russell,
N. Y. Now in Hermon, N. Y.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF M. U., TIIE FOLLOWING GRADUATED IN, OR
BELONGED TO, THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1865.
JoEI, E. BITTING. Born Aug. 23, 1831, in Hilltown, Pa. Entered Ham. Theol.
Sem'y, Oct., 1863. Graduated Aug., 1865. Married, at Wellsburg, N. Y., May,
17, 1866, Miss Emma Salisbury. Has been pastor at Greenwich, N. Y. and
Euclid, O. Now (1871) settled in Romeo, Mich.
EDWARD M. BLANCHARD. Born in Charlestown, Mass., Sept. 15, 1835. Mar-
ried, in Goffstown, N. H., Miss Sophronia Tewks. Graduated from Hamilton
Theol. Seminary, '65. Pastor in Morris, N. Y., three years. Since in Mara-
thon, N. Y.
STEPHEN O. RHODEs. Born in Lansing, N. Y., June 11, 1828. Studied in
Hamilton Theol. Seminary, one year, '63–'lj4. Left on account of failing health.
Married in Reading, Pa., Dec. 24, '67, Miss Linnie Liggett. Since June, '68,
pastor in Berwick, Pa.
JoHN W. TERRY. Graduated from Shuttleff College. Entered Hamilton
Theol. Seminary, 1863. Graduated, '65. Settled at Centralia, Ill., then at
Madison, Ind. Has since travelled in Europe. Now ('71) missionary in Spain.
CLASS OF 1866.
JOSEPH. C. BUCHANAN. Born at Ringoes, N. J., March 27, 1841. Entered
Sophomore, from Clinton, N.J., Oct., '63. Graduated from College, '66. Mar-
ried, Sept. 18, '66, Miss Hannah S. Rea, of Quakertown, N. J. Settled in Scotch
Plains, N. J., in July, '67, and since pastor there. Baptized (to '69) about 40.
356 CLASS OF 1866.
J. EUGENE COOPER. Born at Red Bank, N. J., June 24, 1844. Entered
Grammar School in spring of '60. Left College from Sophomore Year, '63.
Graduate of College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y., '67. Practising medi-
cine at Colt's Neck, N. J.
HERVEY E. EATON. Born at Fayetteville, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1843. Entered
Grammar School, '61. Left College at the close of Sophomore Year. Entered
the army. (See War Record.) Married, at Eaton, N. Y., Oct. 3, '67, Miss Olivia
Wood. Druggist at Fayetteville, N. Y.
GEORGE L. C. HANNA. Born near Coleraine, North of Ireland, Nov. 1, 1840.
Came with parents from Glasgow, Scotland, to New York, '49. Converted in 56.
Next year labored as colporteur among sailors in N. Y. In '60, entered Junior
Acad. at Hamilton. Graduated from College, '66. Inmediately settled with
Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Philadelphia. Married, in April, '67, Miss Elizabeth
McDade, of Philadelphia. Baptized (up to '69) over 50.
ELISIIA P. HICROK. Born in Troy, Pa., Dec. 11, 1835. Entered Sophomore
Class, '62. In Jan., '64, entered the army. (See War Record.) In Oct., '65,
returned to College, and graduated in '66. Married, in Whitesville, Mo., Aug.
10, '66, Miss Sibbie R. Holcomb. Two years, Prof. Math. and Nat. Sci., Bur-
lington Col. Inst., Iowa. Since Sept., '68, Principal Olive-Street Seminary,
Leavenworth, Kan.
WILLIAM T. LowRY. Born at Wheatland, N. Y., March 3, 1840. Entered
Senior Acad., Third Term, May, '62. Graduated from College, '66; from Theol.
Seminary, '68. Pastor at Minneapolis, Minn., nearly three years. Married, '70,
at Utica, N. Y., Mrs. Mary E. Bates. Now pastor in Cold Water, Mich.
WILLIAM S. MITCHELL. Born at Montrose, Pa., Sept. 15, 1844. Entered
Senior Acad., Third Term, May, '62. Graduated from College, '66. Since en-
gaged in teaching. Intends medical profession. Residence, Montrose, Pa.
THos. B. ODELL. Born in New York, Feb. 28, 1842. Entered M. U. Gram-
mar School, Oct., '60. In Oct., '63, went into the army. (See War Record.)
Admitted to the Bar, Nov., '67. Now lawyer in New York.
JOHN V. OSTERITOUT. Born in Lackawack, N. Y. Entered Junior Acad.
May, '61. At the close of Junior College Year, took dismission. Graduated at
Brown, '66; from Newton Theol. Inst., '69. Now pastor at Webster, Mass.
WILLIAM H. PEASE. Born in New York, March 29, 1812. Entered Jun. Ac.,
from Verona, N. J., '60. Graduated from Coll., '66, and from Theo. Sem'y, '68.
Married, Aug. 11, '68, Miss Frances L. Hyatt, of Hancock, N. Y. Became pastor
at Cold Spring, N. Y. Now (1871) settled at Jay, N. Y.
WILLIAM M. ROBINSON. Born in Leonardsville, N. Y., and entered Sen. Ac.,
May, 1862. Graduated from College, '66, and from Theo. Sem., '68. Since,
pastor at Tom's River, N. J. Settled in ’71 at Waterloo, N. Y.
ROBERT G. SEYMOUR. Born in New York, Feb. 27, 1841. Entered Jun.
Acad., '60, from Newark, N. J. Left M. U. in Aug., '63. Ordained Dec., '64.
SKETCHES OF ALUMNI. 357
Pastor in New Orleans, La., and Great Falls, N. H. In '66 received from M. U.
A. B. ea-honore. Married, in Newark, N. J., Oct. 2, '65, Miss Annie E. Hedden.
Since ’68 pastor in Boston, Mass. M. U. conferred Hon. A. M. in 1871.
HARVEY R. TRAVER. Born in Schodack, N. Y., Aug. 18, 1843. Entered
Grammar School, '61. Graduated from Coll., '66, from Theo. Sem'y, '68. Mar-
ried, Sept. 30, '68, Miss Mary E. Rhodes, of Hamilton, N. Y. Settled at Fort
Edward, N. Y. Now ('71) pastor at No. Bennington, Vt.
WILLIAM G. WALKER. Born in Whitesboro’, N.Y., July 3, '42. Entered Fresh.
Class, from Johnson's Creek, N. Y., Oct., 62. Graduated from Coll. in '66, from
Theo. Sem’y in '68. Became pastor in St. Albans, Vt. Now (1871) at Fox Lake,
Wis.
© SCIENTIFIC COURSE.
CHARLES T. EATON. Born in Sherburne, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1846. Entered M. U.
Sci., Course, '64. Graduated in '66. Studied law in Ann Arbor and Grand
Rapids, Mich., and died in the latter place, April 6, '68. He possessed good
ability, and was ambitious for the profession in which he bid fair to succeed.
OSCAR R. MCCLEAN. Born in Moundsville, Va., May 30, 1847. Entered M.
U. Sci. Course, from New Orleans, Oct., '63, expecting to graduate in '66. In
Feb., '66, was obliged to return South. Now engaged in foundry business,
New Orleans, La.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF M. U., THE FOLLOWING GRADUATED IN, OR
BELONGED TO, THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1866,
GEORGE CoopFR. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dec. 10, 1840. Graduated
from University of Toronto, Canada. Entered Ham. Theo. Sem'y in '64, and
graduated in '66. Became pastor at No. Attleboro’, Mass. Married, at Niagara
Falls, June 12, '67, Miss S. E. Cole. Baptized (up to '69) 43. Now (1871) pastor
at Gloversville, N. Y.
SAFFORD D. MoxLEY. Born Sept. 18, 1840, at Plattsburgh, N.Y. Spent one
term in Ham. Theo. Sem'y, '64—'5. Compelled to leave by impaired sight. Since
pastor at Chateaugay and Keeseville, N. Y.
CLARK B. OAKLEY. Born in New York, Dec 10, 1840. Graduated at Roch.
Un., and took part of Roch. Sem'y Course. Entered Ham. Theo. Sem'y, '65,
and graduated, '66. Pastor of Enon Baptist Church, Philadelphia, until Jan.,
'69. Married, in Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 27, '67, Miss Adelaide F. Crane. Bap.
tized (up to 1869) 33. Now pastor at West Haverford, Pa.
L. L. WELLMAN. Born Dec. 20, 1833, in Western N. Y. Married Miss
Melissa E. Lowell, at Nunda, N. Y., Sept. 22, '61. Graduated at Denison Un.
Ohio, in '64. From Hamilton Theo. Seun'y, '66. Since death of first wife, narried
Miss Sylvia Seymour, March 17, '67. Became pastor in Masonville, N. Y. Since
settled in Brookfield, Mo.
358 CLASS OF 1867.
CLASS OF 1867.
ALBERT A. ARNOLD. Born in Corfu, Ionian Islands, Jan. 17, 1846. Belonged
to Jun. Class, M. U., '65–6. Entered business in New York. Now in Chicago,
Ill.
CHARLEs E. BECKER. Born in Bennettsburg, N. Y., Sept. 15, 1839. Entered
Jun. Ac., Third Term, May, '62. Graduated from College in '67. Since gradu
ated from Crozer Theo. Sem'y. Married, at Upland, Pa., June 8, '70, Miss Mary
E. Curtiss, of Sheffield, Mass. Now pastor at Niantic, Conn.
JOHN BRANCH. Born in Barton, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1837. Married, April 14, '59,
Miss Rhoda Nelson. After her death, married, Nov. 8, '65, Miss Libbie Robbins.
Spent three years in the Inst. Since pastor at Centre Lisle, Newark Valley, and
Painted Post, N. Y. ©
DAVID B. JUTTEN. Born in New York, Jan. 7, 1844. Entered Jun. Ac., Third
Term, May, '62, Spent two years of College Course in N. Y. Un. Returning to
Hamilton, graduated from Coll. in '67, from Theol. Sem’y in ’70. Has preached
in Turkey, N.J., and Butternuts, N. Y. Now (1871) pastor in Washington, D. C.
HORTON G. MILLER. Born Aug. 29, 1834, near Red Creek, N. Y. Pursued
preparatory studies at Auburn, N. Y. Served in the army during the Rebellion.
In Jan., '66, entered Junior Class, M. U., and graduated in '67. Married, Aug.
20, '67, Miss S. M. Knight, Sauquoit, N. Y. Since Principal of Wilson Col.
Inst., and now of Macedon Academy, N. Y.
ALBERT M. PRENTICE. Born in Norwich, N. Y., July 2, 1848. Entered
*2Ereshman Class, Oct., '63. Graduated from College, ’67; from Theol. Sem'y, '69.
Since, pastor at Rhinebeck, N. Y.
EDWARD C. ROMINE. Born at Stockton, N. J., June 19, 1842. Entered Gram.
School, Nov., '62. Graduated from College, Aug., '67; from Theol. Sem'y, Aug.,
'69. Has since labored as an Evangelist. Married, in Hamilton Square, N.J.,
May, '70, Miss Carrie Watkinson. Residence, Philadelphia, Pa.
DANIEL B. RYDER. Born in Sing Sing, N. Y., July 15, 1845. Entered Fresh-
man Class, Oct., '63. Graduated from College, '67. Now teaching at Sing Sing.
N. Y.
CHARLEs C. SMITH. Born in Piscataway, N. J., Dec. 31, 1838. Entered
Junior Ac., '60. Absent one year, and graduated from College, '67; from Theol.
Sem'y, '69. Married, in Hamilton, N. Y., June 22, '70, Miss Alcesta Lewis.
Since Nov., 69, pastor at Cooperstown, N. Y.
JAMES M. TAYLOR. Born Sept. 19, 1843, in Holmdel, N. J. Entered Freshman
Class in Oct., '63. Graduated from College, '67, and from Theol. Sem’y, '69.
Since Principal of Grammar School and Prof. of Math. in M. U. Married, Aug.
3, 1871, in Hamilton, N. Y., Miss Mary Paddock.
HERVEY E. WILLIAMs. Born in Saratoga, N. Y., May 25, 1847. Entered
Junior Ac., Third Term, May, '62. Graduated from College in '67. Died after a
few days' illness, while visiting his father in Greensboro’, Md. He was a universal
favorite, a fine student, a genial friend. His life was manly, pnre, and Christian,
and the loss to earth of a nature 80 gentle and so noble was no common bereave-
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BESIDES GRADUATES OF M. U., THE FOLLOWING GRADUATED IN, OR
BELONGED TO, THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1867.
JOHN A. EDGREN. Born in Sweden, Feb. 20, 1839. Entered Ham. Theol.
Sem'y, Sept., '65, and remained two terms. Married, in Hamilton, N. Y., April
10, '66, Miss Annie A. Chapman. Before coming to Hamilton, was two years
Acting Ensign, U. S. N. Since '66, missionary in Stockholm, and Upsala,
Sweden. In May, 1870, returned to America, and since Aug., 1870, pastor of
Swedish Baptist Church in Chicago, Ill. Church edifice burned in the Great
Firc.
LYSANDER. L. WOOD. Born in Southboro’, Mass., June 20, 1840. Entered
Ham. Theol. Sem'y (previously graduated at Vermont University), in Feb., '66.
Graduated from Theol. Sem’y, '67. Married at West Boylston, Mass., Sept. 5,
'65. Ordained pastor in Ogdensburgh, N. Y., Sept., '67. Now (1871) pastor in
Lawrence, Mass.
CLASS OF 1868.
JAMES H. ANDREws. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1845. Entered Junior
Ac., Second Term, Jan., '63. Graduated from College, '68; from Theol. Sem’y,
’70. Married, in Hamilton, N. Y., Sept. 27, '70, Miss Gertrude A. Swift. Pastor
in Ilion, N. Y. * -
EDGAR M. BARNEs. Born at Versailles, IXy., Oct. 2, 1847. Entered Junior
Ac., 62. At the close of Second Term, Junior College Year, left M. U. Married,
May 9, '67, Miss Jessie A. Prentice, of Hamilton, N. Y. Entered Senior Class,
Oct., '67, Graduated from College, '68, Studying law at Versailles, Ky.
CIIARLEs H. BRooks. Born in Ashville, N. Y., May 13, 1845. In Jan., '59,
removed with his father to Hamilton, N. Y. Entered Senior Ac., '63. Died in
1Iamilton, Oct. 22, '65. He had much strength of character, promising talents,
and was sincerely mourned.
EMORY D, CRAFT. Born at Carmel, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1840. Entered Sen. Acad.
'63. Graduated, '68. Took Jun. Year in Ham. Theol. Sem'y. Married, in Ham-
ilton, N. Y., Miss Ruth Woodman, Pastor in Addison, Vt.
CLAYTON M. PARKE. Born Dec. 2, 1847, at Clifton Park, N. Y. Entered Sen.
Acad., '63. Graduated from Coll., '68, Began study of law, Dec., '68, at Troy,
N. Y. Studied afterward at Johnstown, N. Y. Admitted to the Bar in fall of
’70. Now practising (1871) in Gloversville, N. Y.
JOSEPH F. SHOARDS. Torn in New York, Jan. 1, 1845. Served in the army
four months in 12th Regiment, N. Y. S. N. G. Entered Jun. Coll. Class, M. U.,
'66. Graduated from Coll., '68; from Theol. Sem'y, '70. Residence, New York.
ABRAM. P. SPRAGUE. Born in East Fishkill, N.Y., Aug. 27, 47. Entered Fresh.
Class, '64. Graduated from Coll., '68, Studied law in Hamilton, with Judge
Charles Mason, and afterward in Johnstown, N. Y. Admitted to the Bar in '71,
and began practice in Troy, N. Y.
360 CLASS OF 1869.
DAVID R. WASTON. Born in Argyleshire, Scotland, April 1, 1842. Came to
U. S., '52. Entered Fresh. Class from Whitesboro’, N. Y., '64. Graduated from
Coll., '68. One year in Ham. Theol. Sem’y. Graduated from Rochester Theol.
Sem'y, ’71. Now pastor in Lowville, N. Y.
GRADUATED FROM SCIENTIFIC COURSE IN 1868.
MoUNG KYAW. Born in Rangoon, Burmah, March 5, 1843. Entered Jun.
Acad., '64. Graduated from M. U. Sci. Course, '68. Entered Theol. Sem’y, but
left in March, '69. Married, in Chicago, Ill., March 12, '69, Mah Shway Mai, of
Burmah. Sustained himself during course by lecturing on Burmah. Now mis-
Sionary in his native land.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF M. U., THE FOLLOWING GRADUATED IN
THEOLOGICAL CLASS OF 1868.
JEFFERSON H. AUSTERMIELL. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 30, 1838. En-
tered Ham. Theol. Sem’y, Oct., '66. Pursued also some College studies. Grad-
uated from Theol. Sem'y, and received A. B. from M. U., '68. Married, Oct. 6,
'68, at Alton, Ill., Miss Alice I. Dunford. Pastor at Fort Covington, N. Y.
CLASS OF 1869.
EDWARD K. CHANDLER. Born in Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 21, 1842. From
'51 to '65, lived with his parents in Oregon. Entered M. U., Freshman Class,
Oct., '65. Graduated from College, '69. In '71, graduated from Chicago Theol.
Seminary. Settled as pastor at Indianapolis, Ind.
WILLIAM C. EATON. Born Feb. 4, 1851, in Hamilton, N. Y. Entered Junior
Acad., Oct., '63. Graduated from College, '69. Pursuit not decided.
JAMES W. FoED. Entered Junior Acad., from Preston Hollow, N. Y., Oct.,
'63. Graduated from College, '69. Since pastor at Mannsville, N. Y.
SILAS W. HATCH. Born at Brownville, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1847. Converted when
thirteen years old. Learned the printer's trade. Entered Freshman Class, '65,
and graduated from College, '69. Married, in Mannsville, N. Y., Oct. 26, '69,
Miss Emma Wheeler. Since Oct. 1, ’69, pastor in Smithville, N. Y. Residence
('71) at Adams, N. Y. -
NELSON SUTTON. Born at Webster, N. Y., June 3, 1842. Served in the
Union army. Entered Freshman Class, '65. Graduated from College, ’69
In the ministry (Methodist). Pastor of Reading and Starkey churches, N. Y.
Married, in Hamilton, N. Y., Miss Frances Simmons.
JABEZ SNASIIALL. Entered Senior Acad. from Sherman, N. Y., Oct., 1864.
Graduated from College, '69. Married, in Hamilton, N. Y., Miss Julia Shapley.
Now student in Chicago Theok, Seminary.
GEORGE A. THOMAs. Born in Norwich, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1847. Entered
Sophomore Class, Oct., '66. Graduated from College, Aug., '69. Has since
taught. Intends the legal profession. Residence, Norwich, N. Y.
CLASS OF 1869. 361
THEODORE TRUVE. Born in Sweden, Jan. 6, 1838. One of the first converts
to the Baptist faith. In spite of persecution preached several years from place,
to place. Came to Ameriea, to secure better preparation, in '65, and entered
Grammar School at Hamilton. Spent three years in Acad, and Coll, studies.
Left M. U., June, '68. Married, June 5, '68, Miss Cornelia Short, of Hamilton
N. Y. Since July 1, ’68, missionary in Gottenburg, Sweden.
GEORGE O. WHITNEY. Born in Fairfield, Conn., Sept. 26, 1844. Entered
Grammar School, May, '64. Graduated from College, '69; from Theol. Semi-
nary, '71. Pastor at Tarrytown, N. Y.
GRADUATED FROM SCIENTIFIC COURSE IN 1869.
CHARLEs PRATT. Born March 23, 1850, in Earlville, N. Y. Entered Senior
Acad. Class, '66. Graduated from Sci. Course, M. U., '69. Intends profession of
Civil Engineering. Residence, Hamilton, N. Y.
BESIDES GRADUATES OF M. U., THE FOLLOWING GRADUATED IN THEO-
LOGICAL CLASS OF 1869.
A. H. BALL. Born in Amherst, N. H., March 10, 1843. Graduate of Am-
herst College, Mass. Entered Senior Class, Hamilton Theol. Seminary, Oct.,
'68, Graduated in '69. Married, Aug., '70, Miss Helen M. Savage, of Stowe,
Vt. Since Aug., '70, pastor in Greenfield, Mass.
24
FIRST ADDRESS
OF
THE EDUCATION SOCIETY,
|N 1817,
To the Baptist Denomination throughout the State of New York.
BELoved BRETHREN,
It has pleased the God of all grace to call his children to a con-
current operation with himself, in transmitting the Gospel, with
all its saving benefits, to the perishing inhabitants of this fallen
world. He has lodged with his militant church the volume of
inspiration, which contains the purposes of his grace to millions
for whom the Saviour has died, discloses the etermal destinies of
his incorrigible foes, and reveals the ultimate end of all his opera-
tions. This book of God is now circulating through the world,
by the zeal and agency of men, with a rapidity hitherto unknown.
God has also appointed the administration of his word, by instru-
ments which he has chosen among men. He commits to them a
dispensation of his Gospel. He gives them his grace, his spirit,
and his word; and requires them to go and preach the Gospel to
every creature. He gives them no new revelation, but the means
of becoming acquainted with the one which is handed down from
the apostles and prophets. If they speak not according to this,
they stand anathematized by God, and are guilty of the blood of
souls. The Spirit that calls them to preach, sends them to the
Bible, that they may know what to preach. To know the Bible
they must understand its language; and in order to this, they
ADDRESS OF THE EDUCATION SOCIETY. 363
must understand language in general. It is not enough that they
become acquainted with a few common-place words; but the root
and diversified meaning of terms, together with the structure of
language, should be well understood. The Spirit of God is not
the teacher of language; the gift of tongues has ceased. God has
furnished the means of acquiring this kind of knowledge, and
rendered its acquisition dependent on human endeavors.
A like application is necessary to a clear understanding of the
doctrine of Scripture. Although it is by the teaching of the
Spirit that men understand spiritual things, yet this instruction
is usually conveyed through the medium of the letter. Timothy
received the following command: “Study to show thyself ap-
proved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.” Apollos, knowing only the
baptism of John, began to speak boldly in the Synagogue; whom
when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them,
and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. He then
went into Achaia, and helped them much which had believed
through grace.
Ministers are stewards of the mysteries of God, and they should
be scribes well instructed unto the kingdom of Heaven; and
should be able to bring forth out of their treasure things new and
old. They have assigned to them the most important and
responsible rank below the heavens; they are called to reflect
the light of revelation through the dark regions of the world; in
a word, they are commanded to go into all the world, and preach
the gospel to every creature.
Is not a.knowledge of divinity an indispensable prerequisite for
the sacred ministry 7 Ask our venerable fathers in the Gospel,
who have been searching for it as for hid treasures; many of whom,
in the absence of ordinary means, by the dint of exertion, have
attained to much wisdom. Ask the churches when they repair to
the house of God to be taught from the sacred oracles. Ask every
inquiring soul apprized of his ruin, and applying to the ministers
364 ADDRESS OF THE EDUCATION SOCIETY.
of the New Testament to know the way of salvation. Their
answer is decisive: Knowledge must not be withheld from those
that are appointed to teach all men.
But how is the necessary knowledge to be obtained 2 We
have well-regulated schools, academies, and colleges, in which
Various sciences, highly useful, are taught. But they are far from
affording all the advantages which are desirable, and which, by
our united exertions, may be obtained for those young men whom
God calls to the Gospel Ministry. We are fully of the opinion
that a different institution may be established for them, better
adapted to the little time many of them have to study, and the
means of defraying their expenses, as well as to the preservation
of their morals and the promotion of their piety; an institution in
which they shall be assisted in the pursuit both of literary and
theological knowledge; and in which they shall be directed to
such a course of studies as shall be deemed most conducive to
their usefulness.
Our brethren in Great Britain, in the Eastern and Middle States,
are already engaged in providing such institutions, and are begin.
ning to reap the fruit of their labors. Our brethren in the city
of New York and its environs have not been inattentive to this
duty.
The duty of establishing one in some more central place in the
State, has of late been strongly impressed, we believe, by the
Divine Spirit, upon the minds of many of our fathers and brethren.
A Society for this purpose has been formed, the constitution of
which accompanies this. The outlines are taken from the con-
stitutions of other societies having a similar object. . We have
endeavored to give to it all that maturity which the examples of
others and our own observations could afford. A suitable number
of assistant agents are appointed in different parts of the State,
who, we apprehend, will esteem it a duty and a pleasure to co-
operate with us in this undertaking. The numerous calls for
preachers of our denomination, and the great number of young
ADDRESS OF THE EDUCATION SOCIETY. 365
men of piety whom God is calling to the Gospel Ministry, render
such an institution necessary. The increasing numbers and
wealth of our churches render them abundantly able to support
OI) e.
BELOVED BRETHREN,
While we pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth faithful
laborers into his harvest; while we desire that they should be well
instructed unto the kingdom of Heaven; that they should be able
to bring forth things new and old; and “able by sound doctrine,
both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers,” shall we not ac-
company our prayers with exertions to provide a suitable seminary
for their instruction, and funds for the support of such as are indi-
gent? Those who desire to assist in promoting these objects,
may have an opportunity, by presenting their offerings at our first
annual meeting, when, by the Divine approbation and blessing, it
is expected efficient measures will be adopted.
PETER P. ROOTS, President.
JOEL W. CLARK, Secretary.
A DIDERESS
OF THE
E X E O U T I V E C O M M I T T E E .
| E3 I L'7.
THE education of those whom GoD has designed for the Gospel
Ministry, is an object of such importance, and so intimately con-
nected with the future prospects of the Church, that no apology
will be deemed necessary for addressing the public on this subject.
Arguments urged in favor of an object, which is acknowledged by
many to be self-evident, may, indeed, seem superfluous; yet this
consideration does not forbid an address earplanatory of the
object in view ; and nothing more than this, we trust, will be
requisite, in order to Secure the patronage and support of all our
friends.
We shall, therefore, attempt little more in our present remarks,
than to exhibit, fully and explicitly, the design of our institution,
and to obviate some probable objections.
In the first place, then, we do not presume that we have a right
to dictate to Divine Wisdom on the question, Who shall be
devoted to the service of the Sanctuary 7 . This right, we con-
ceive, is the prerogative of GOD-" No man taketh this honor to
himself, but he that is called of GOD, as was Aaron.” Ministers
of the Gospel are the ambassadors of CHRIST. An ambassador
who is self-appointed, or one who is not specially commissioned
by his King and Sovereign, acts without authority, and is answer-
able for the consequence of “running without being sent.”
ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 367
The Gospel Ministry is not on a level with other callings; nor
is it left at the option of men to decide according to the dictates of
their own feelings or interest, whether they shall set foot on that
holy ground or not. *
On the subject of preaching the Gospel, St. Paul observes: “If
I do this thing WILLINGLY,...I HAVE a reward;” that is, if I do it
of CHOICE, I have a reward in the gratification of my own feelings,
or in the advancement of my interest and reputation in the world:
“but if AGAINST my WILL, a dispensation of the Gospel is com-
mitted unto me.”
Those who take this honor to themselves without being called
of GoD must answer for their presumption; while those who have
been called and commissioned by the Great Head of the Church,
cannot, without incurring much guilt, neglect their high and holy
calling.
These being decidedly our sentiments, our friends and brethren
will perceive at once that we have no idea of MARING MINISTERs
merely by giving men education. Those who carefully peruse
the Constitution, will doubtless be fully satisfied on this point.
They will see, at least, that evils of this nature are as effectually
guarded against, as they could have been ; as those who are to
receive the benefit of this Society, must furnish evidence, first to
the Churches of which they are members, and afterwards to the
Executive Committee, not only of their personal piety, but of
their call to the Gospel Ministry.
We do not conceive, that, in order to a man's being usefully
employed in the service of the Sanctuary, it is INDISPENSABLY
requisite that he should possess very great literary attainments.
Such a sentiment would be contradicted by experience. We
know, indeed, that some men, without the advantages of classical
Science, have preached the Gospel with great success, and have
been instrumental of much good to the Churches. This being
the fact, what is the inference? May we hence infer that learn-
ing is wholly useless? By no means. It only proves that very
368 ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
great difficulties have been surmounted, or that men, laboring
under serious embarrassments, have been divinely assisted to over-
come them. *
If, in some instances, the most formidable difficulties have been
encountered with success, may we conclude that such difficulties
are not to be regarded as evils, against which provision ought to
be made?–And if some men of ardent piety and unwearied zeal,
though illiterate, have been very useful, is it certain that they
would not have been more useful, nay, is it not highly probable
that with the same piety and zeal, and the advantages of educa-
tion, they would have been MORE EXTENSIVELY useful in the
world than they were 7–If some men, without the sense of seeing,
have been able to perform surprising acts of mechanical ingenuity
—HAVE been able to distinguish colors by the sense of feeling,
and have been useful members of society—shall we hence con-
clude that our eye-sight is not a blessing, or that a man is as well
without it as with it?
It is often said “that men are not always benefited by learning;
that it is calculated to render them proud and imperious; and to
create, in ministers, self-confidence and self-dependence.” That
some learned ministers have possessed these characteristics, we
readily admit. But are these the NECESSARY consequences of
scientific knowledge? and do they invariably flow from it?—No
one, we presume, will say they do.
Should any one hazard the assertion that learning is incompati-
ble with humility and usefulness, we would simply suggest the
names of a Watts, a Doddridge, a Gill and a Carey, with a host of
others which might be enumerated, who have been alike celebrated
for their fervent piety, their extensive usefulness, and their literary
attainments.
It is, doubtless, a very true saying, “That learning makes good
men better, and bad men worse;" that is, by extending their in-
fluence, it enables good men to do more good and wicked men to
do more evil in the world, than they would be capable of doing
ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 369
without it. If the maxim just quoted be true, then there is no
danger to be apprehended from educating GOOD MEN.
Learning, like every other blessing, is liable to be abused; and
this is assigned by some as a reason why ministers should not be
assisted to an education—“perhaps they will make a bad use of it.”
But is this a solid and sufficient reason for withholding from them
the means of instruction ?
The argument stands thus: SOME ministers have made an
improper use of their learning, therefore, it must be WITHHELD
from ALL; or in other words, more evil than good may POSSIBLY
result from education, therefore, it is not best to incur the risk.
Now, if this be a sufficient reason for not educating those who
are called to preach the Gospel, the same reason requires that we
should not give our children a COMMON EDUCATION. We know
not whether it will be to them a blessing or a curse. We teach
them to read, yet possibly in consequence of this, by means of some
ill-chosen books, their moral taste may become more vitiated,
their minds corrupted, and their souls destroyed. We teach them
to write, yet who can foretell, but in consequence of this faculty
they may betake themselves to certain habits of vice, may forge
and counterfeit, and do a thousand wicked things, of which they
would have been utterly incapable, had they never been taught the
art of writing.
That men should be able to read and write, is, in our days,
thought to be highly necessary and desirable, yet, the fact that
numerous evils have resulted from those acquired faculties, is un-
deniable. Is it, therefore, best, on the whole, that children be taught
the art of reading and writing? We answer, Yes; and the reason
is, that in all probability they will derive advantages from those
attainments. So in respect to the education of the pious, whom
GoD has designed for his own peculiar service, we have the strong.
est probability that a year or two spent under the tuition of some
suitable instructor, would be to them, and to the churches of our
LORD, a source of lasting benefit.
370 ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
We are fully sensible that we are not required to bestow learn-
ing upon every one. Men who are wanting in point of modesty
and humility—men of a haughty and self-confident spirit, or
those who appear not to realize their dependence on GOD for
strength and ability to act in his name, if any such have been
licensed, or approbated as preachers—are not to expect the aid of
this Society.
The design of this Institution is to assist those, and those only,
who are humble, pious, and devout, who with good sense and a
sound judgment unite an aptness to teach, and whose hearts'
desire and prayer to GOD is that they may be usefully employed
in building up the Redeemer's kingdom in the world. That there
are in our Churches young men of this description, is a fact well
ascertained. Their hearts expand with love to GOD and the souls
of men; the state of a perishing world weighs down their troubled
spirits; the voice of the Spirit sounds continually in their ears,
“Go thou, and preach the kingdom of GOD.” Gladly would they
obey the heavenly mandate, but a sense of their insufficiency,
realized in view of the greatness of the work; inability to exhibit
the mystery of godliness; their ignorance of language and the use
of words ; all these embarrassments, added to a sense of their own
unworthiness, seem to them obstacles too great to be surmounted.
They sink, perhaps, in discouragement; their worth is not fully
known, and their usefulness is greatly contracted. If such men
had suitable persons to take them by the hand, to strengthen and
encourage them, and to afford them that instruction which they
need, is it not in the HIGHEST degree PROBABLE that both they,
and the people to whom they should afterwards minister, would
realize the benefit of it through life?
Would it not be calculated to enlarge the sphere of their influ.
ence, of course, to increase their power of doing good? Would
it not be conducive to soundness of faith as well as Soundness of
speech? both of which are inculcated by the apostle. Improving
their gifts occasionally under such instructors, would they not, in
ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 371
a short time, be enabled to correct themselves of a thousand erro-
neous notions, awkward habits, and inaccurate expressions? Al-
though the matter of a man's preaching is the point of greatest
importance, yet it must be confessed that not a little depends on
the manner.
Another argument, sometimes suggested as a reason why it is
needless that ministers should be educated, is the following: “If
a man is called to preach, GOD will qualify him for the work.”
Though we are well persuaded that no man ought to approach
the altar of the LORD unless he has been called of GOD and com- .
missioned for that office, we are equally well persuaded that a man
who is thus called has a duty TOWARD HIMSELF, as well as a duty
toward GOD and his people. He must “take heed to himself and
to his ministry, that he fulfil it.” He must “study to show him-
self a workman that needeth not to be ashamed; RIGHTLY dividing
the word of truth, not handling it UNSKILFULLY.” He must be
able, by sound speech and “sound doctrine, both to exhort and to
convince the gainsayers.” For this purpose he must enrich his
mind with useful knowledge, and especially with a knowledge of
language. Being apt to teach, this aptitude must be cultivated and
improved. In order that his “profiting may appear unto all,” or
in other words, in order that his improvement in knowledge and in
the science of salvation may be manifest to all, he must, according
to St. Paul, “give attendance to reading,” as well as to exhorta-
tion and to doctrine. He must not only “meditate upon these
things” occasionally, but he must “give himself WHOLLY to
them.”
That man acts a presumptuous part who says, “I can do nothing
of myself, therefore I will make no exertion, but will depend alto-
gether on the blessing of GOD and the aids of his Spirit to render
me useful in the world.” The memorable words of the excellent
Dr. Watts are not to be forgotten: “Study without prayer is inft-
delity; prayer without study is presumption.”
It is said, “The apostles, who preached the Gospel with un-
372 ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
rivalled success, were illiterate men.” It is doubtless true, that, in
respect to human science, the most of them were unlearned. It is
equally true, however, that they enjoyed many important advan-
- tages, with which preachers of our days are not favored ; for, in
addition to a personal acquaintance with their Divine Master, they
were aided by the extraordinary influences of the Holy Spirit, had
the power of working miracles, the gift of prophecy, and the gift
of tongues. Ministers, we trust, do still enjoy, in common with all
believers, what may be denominated the ordinary influences of the
Spirit, and some exercises peculiar to themselves as ministers, but
that they are inspired, in the same manner and in the same degree
as the apostles were, is not to be supposed. “The apostles spake
with tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance;” but now, if the
Gospel is preached in any foreign language, that language must be
acquired by patient and laborious study.
Learning, like edged tools, is a bad thing in bad hands. There
are some men who would not be benefited by literature, nor with
it would they be useful to others. There are others again, who
would derive from it the most essential benefit, as every candid man
will readily allow. This being the case, the only question of im-
portance which remains to be determined seems to be this:
Have we men of sufficient judgment and discernment to determine
on the candidates who ought to be assisted 7
The question, Who are proper subjects of pecuniary assistance?
must, we are sensible, be a very important one; but we trust there
are men who are not only competent to judge in respect to this
matter, but who are every way worthy of our highest confidence.
It is only for the Society to place such men in office, and they are
safe as to the use that will be made of their money. Who would
not blush to acknowledge that he was afraid or unwilling to trust
his friends and brethren, even the best of them, with the disposal
of a small proportion of his property 7
Nothing more, we trust, need be said, in order that our friends
should be convinced of their duty. It remains with them to
ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 373
decide whether our worthy, pious, and promising young brethren,
of indigent circumstances, be assisted or not—whether they shall
remain in obscurity unassisted, their labors circumscribed to a
narrow circle, or whether they shall be extensively known and
usefully employed in the world—whether with aching hearts, they
shall continue struggling under difficulties and embarrassments,
and looking in vain to their unfeeling brethren for help, or whether
those difficulties shall be removed. They have also to decide the
important question, whether we shall have a respectable Seminary
for the education of young men of our persuasion, as well those
who are able as those who are indigent; or, whether we shall have
none at all.
The Baptists are, probably, as numerous in this State as any
denomination, perhaps more so; and yet they have not a single
President or Professor in any of the Colleges. Other denomi-
nations have taken the lead, and we have consented to remain
inactive.
As to the practicability of the object contemplated by this Society
nothing can be more easy, provided our friends and brethren see
fit to Sanction it. Let every person of our sentiment, through the
State, do his duty; let the efforts and the energies of all be com-
bined or concentrated in one point, and where is the difficulty 7
It vanishes; it is gone.
From what little has been done, we see what, with suitable
exertion, may probably be done in other places. In one small
town and its vicinity, where, till of late, the Baptist interest was
very low, more than $900 have been collected, and this is probably
the only town in which a thorough trial has been made to see
what might be obtained. The object, we are sensible, will not be
carried into effect without active exertion and proper manage.
ment on the part of its friends. But we feel safe in supposing an
object of such importance, and one which promises so much utility,
will find friends and patrons in every part of our State; and no
374 ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
one, we are confident, will oppose it, who rightly understands the
design of the Institution.
Friends of Truth and Religion —As it is in behalf of indigent
young men in the ministry that we ask your aid and solicit your
bounty, you will permit us to remind you of the Divine promise,
“He that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the LORD.” Let those
who are satisfied with the Security thus offered, evince it by their
conduct.
THE CHARTER
OF THE
Baptist Education Society of the State of N. Y.
An Act to Incorporate the Baptist Education Society of the State
of New York, passed March 5, 1819.
Whereas, the members of a Society instituted in this State for the
purpose of educating pious young men to the gospel ministry, have
petitioned for an act of incorporation, the better to enable them to
attain the objects of their association : Therefore,
I. Be it enacted by the people of the State of New York, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, That Obed Warren, Joshua Bradley,
John Bostwick, John Peck, Silas Spaulding, Eliada Blakeslee, Elijah
F. Miller, Thomas Cox, Charles Babcock, Charles W. Hull, and such
other persons as now are, or hereafter may be, associated with them,
shall be, and hereby are, constituted a body corporate and politic, in
fact and in name, by the name of the “Baptist Education Society of
the State of Wew York,” and by that name shall have succession, and
be in law capable of sueing and being sued, defending and being de-
fended, in all courts and places, and in all manner of actions and cases
whatsoever, and may have a common seal, and change the same at
their pleasure, and by that name and style be capable in law of pur-
chasing, holding, and enjoying, to them and their successors, any real
estate in fee simple, or otherwise, and any goods, chattels, and per-
sonal estate, and of selling or otherwise disposing of the real and per-
sonal estate, or any part thereof, at their will and pleasure; Provided,
nevertheless, that the clear annual value or income of such real and
personal estate shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.
II. And be it further enacted, That the said associates and their
successors may, from time to time, make such Constitution, By-Laws,
ordinances, and regulations for the appointment of officers, the govern-
ment of the Seminary, the management of their property, and con-
376 CHARTER OF THE BAPTIST EDUCATION SOCIETY.
ducting all their concerns, as to them shall appear proper; Provided
the same be not inconsistent with the laws or constitution of this
State or of the United States.
III. And be it further enacted, That this act be, and is hereby, de-
clared a public act, and that the same be construed in all courts and
places, benignly and favorably, for every beneficial purpose therein
intended, and that no misnomer of the said corporation in any deed,
gift, grant, devise, or other instrument of contract or conveyance,
shall vitiate or defeat the same ; Provided the corporation shall be
sufficiently described to ascertain the intention of the parties; and
provided always, that if the said Society appropriate their funds, or
any part thereof, to any purpose or purposes other than those intend-
ed and contemplated by this act, or shall at any time pass any law or
regulation affecting the rights of conscience, that thenceforth the said
corporation shall cease and be void ; and also the Legislature may at
any time alter or repeal this act, as in their discretion shall seem
proper.
Amendment, April 17, 1842.-The Baptist Education Society of
the State of New York, incorporated by act of the Legislature,
March 5th, 1819, may take, hold, and enjoy by gift, grant, or by de-
vise, real and personal estate, to an amount the clear annual value or
income of which shall not exceed ten thousand dollars.
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THE CHARTER
OF
M A D IS ON UNIVERSITY.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE MADISON UNIVERSITY.
PASSED MARCH 26, 1846, BY A Two-THIRD WOTE.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows :
1. Friend Humphrey, Seneca B. Burchard, William Colgate, and
their associates, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the
name of “THE MADIsoN UNIVERSITY,” for the purpose of promoting
literature and Science. The said corporation shall have perpetual
succession, with power to sue and be sued ; to make and use a com-
mon seal, and alter the same at pleasure; to hold real and personal
property; but it shall not, at any one time, own real estate yielding
an annual income exceeding ten thousand dollars. The location of
the said University shall be at the village of Hamilton, in the County
of Madison.
2. Friend Humphrey, Seneca B. Burchard, William Colgate, Wil-
liam L. Marcy, Palmer Townsend, William Cobb, Ira Harris, Henry
Tower, Nathaniel Kendrick, Alvah Pierce, Bartholomew T. Welch,
Edward Bright, Jr., William R. Williams, Robert Kelley, Hervey
Edwards, Charles Walker, Smith Sheldon, Joseph Caldwell, John
Munro, John N. Wilder, George Curtiss, Elisha Tucker, Pharcellus
Church, James Edmunds, Joseph Trevor, Amos Graves, and Alonzo
Wheelock, are hereby appointed Trustees of the said corporation,
with power to fill any vacancy in their Board; of whom nine mem-
bers shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
3. The said Board of Trustees shall appoint the professors, and
such other instructors as they may deem necessary, subject to removal
by a majority of the votes of all the members constituting the Board.
25
378 CHARTER OF MADISON UNIVERSITY.
4. The said University may grant to students under its charge diplo-
mas or honorary testimonials, in such form as it may designate. It
may also confer such literary honors, degrees, and diplomas as are
usually granted by any University, College, or Seminary of learning
in the United States.
5. Diplomas granted by the University shall entitle the possessors
to the immunities and privileges, allowed by usage or statute, to the
possessors of like diplomas from any college or seminary of learning
in the State.
6. No diploma shall be conferred by the University but in con-
formity with the laws of the State, in force at the time of conferring
the same.
7. The said University shall be subject to the visitation of the
Regents of the University of this State, in the same manner, and to
the same extent, as the various colleges in this State.
8. The Corporation hereby created shall possess the powers, and
be subject to the provisions, of the third title, eighteenth chapter of
the first part of the revised statutes, so far as the same are applicable
and have not been repealed.
9. The Baptist Education Society of the State of New York is
hereby authorized to make such arrangement with the said University,
for the transfer of the property of the said Society, or any part
thereof, either absolutely or conditionally, to the said University, as
the said Society shall deem proper.
10. The Legislature may at any time alter or repeal this Act.
STATE OF NEW YORK : IN AssBMBLY, March 17, 1846. This Bill
having been read the third time, and two-thirds of all the members
elected to the Assembly voting in favor thereof: Resolved, that the
Bill do pass.
By order of the Assembly,
WM. C. CRAIN, Speaker.
STATE of NEw York: IN SENATE, March 25, 1846. This Bill
having been read the third time, two-thirds of all the members elected
to the Senate voting in favor thereof: Resolved, that the Bill do pass.
By order of the Senate,
A. GARDINER, President.
Approved, this 26th day of March, 1846.
SILAs WRIGHT.
CHARTER OF MADISON UNIVERSITY. 379
STATE of NEw York: SECRETARY's OFFICE. I have compared
the preceding with an original law on file in this office, and do certify
that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of
said original.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of this office at
the city of Albany, the 7th day of April, in the year of our Lord
1846.
ARCH'D CAMPBELL, Dep. Sec. of State.
At the annual meeting of the Education Society, Aug. 18, 1846,
Hon. IRA. HARRIs, of Albany, offered the following resolution, which
was unanimously adopted : -
Resolved, That this Society approve of the recent successful effort
made by their Board of Trustees, to procure from the State Legisla-
ture an Act of Incorporation for Madison University, and also the
subsequent arrangement entered into with the Board of the Univer-
sity, whereby the said charter has been made available to the Liter.
ary Department of the Hamilton Institution.
THE
FIR S T C O M P A C T.
THE following Terms of Arrangement were agreed upon in joint
conference of the two Boards, adopted by each Board, June 9th, 1847,
and ratified by the Education Society, August 18th, 1847:
Resolved, That this Conference recommend to the Board of the
Education Society and to the Board of the University, such terms of
arrangement as shall preserve, under the charge of one faculty, the
several departments; and that shall, at the same time, secure to the
Education Board the control of the Theological Instruction.
Resolved, That we suggest the following as the outline of such
arrangement:
1. That to the appointment of the Theological Professors, the act
of the Education Board shall be sufficient ; but to the removal of
such Professors, the joint action of both Boards shall be requisite.
2. That to the Education Society shall be reserved the exclusive
control of any endowments for Theological Professorships, and to
the Board of the University the exclusive control of any endowments
for Literary Professorships.
3. The Education Society to grant to the University the use of
their property, [a schedule of which is attached, to be employed for
purposes of instruction. The Education Society to have the power
of reclaiming the property thus granted, after two years' notice given
of their purpose, and with the reasons assigned therefor, in such
notice.
4. The University shall sustain on the premises an Institution, in
which candidates for the Christian Ministry may receive suitable in-
struction. The Education Board to have the privilege of rooms free
of rent, for all their Beneficiaries, among such candidates, paying,
however, for such Beneficiaries, the regular charges for tuition, and
sending none of the Beneficiaries to any other Institution.
5. The University shall sustain the whole expense of instruction,
both in the Literary and Theological departments, receiving, how-
THE FIRST COMPACT. 381
ever, from the Education Society, the income of their endowments
for Theological education ; such endowments to include the existing
permanent funds for the support of Professorships, (and any funds
hereafter to be collected, for the support of Theological Professor-
ships,) as also the legacy of JoBN FLEETwoOD MARSH.
6. The University Board is to make earnest and extended efforts
for the collection of an endowment sufficiently large, to exempt from
the necessity of continued appeals to the Churches, but never so in-
creased as to foster inaction in the Faculty, or independence of the
Churches. The sum at present contemplated to be fifty thousand
dollars, of which twenty-five thousand dollars shall be invested by
the Education Society, with the advice of the University Board, for
the endowment of Theological Professorships. The remaining
twenty-five thousand to be invested by the University, the proceeds
to be applied to the support of literary and scientific instruction.
The Conference farther resolved :
1. That these arrangements take effect Sept. 1st, 1847.
2. That the cities of New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, and Al-
bany, be surrendered to the Board of Madison University, for the col-
lection of the current expenses of said Board, for two years from the
first of September next.
3. That no new Professorship shall be constituted by the Board of
the Education Society without the consent of the University Board.
The Education Society, August 18th, 1847, made the following
amendment to the first Article, and the same was adopted by the
University Board : -
“That the Board of the University shall appoint such Professors
in the Theological Department as may be nominated by the Baptist
Education Society of the State of New York, and shall also remove
such Professors in that Department as that Society may direct.
THE
SECOND COMPACT,
THE following Articles of Agreement were recommended in joint
conference of both Boards, and adopted by each Board separately,
Feb. 9th, 1853:
1. The Institution consists of a Theological Seminary, a University
proper, and an Academic Department organized under one Faculty,
with one Code of Laws, the maintenance and general management of
which, until otherwise directed by the Education Society, are in the
hands of the Board of Madison University.
2. The power to make laws for the general regulation and discipline
of the School in all its Departments resides with the Board of Madi-
son University; but to prescribe the course of study in the Theological
Seminary, including the text-books, belongs to the Board of the Edu-
cation Society. While the President shall direct in the government
and discipline of the University proper and Academic Department,
the senior Theological Professor and the President shall be associated
as Peers in the government and discipline of the Theological Semi-
nary; but cases of suspension and expulsion shall be referred to the
whole Faculty. -
3. The Laws to be given by the University Board, as a guide to the
Faculty in governing the School, shall fully recognize the prerogatives
of each Professor, in his respective Department.
4. The University having been created by the Education Society,
through the State Legislature, to carry out its design in reference to
Education, is bound to frame all its laws, and conduct all its operations,
in harmony with the terms of compact existing between it and the
Education Society.
MEMORIA LS
OF
EARLY COMMENGEMENTs.
THROUGH the kindness of Rev. F. W. Emmons, class of '24, we are
enabled to reproduce certain interesting documents connected with
the first few classes in the Institution. As nearly as possible, they
are reprinted in the same style as the original.
THE FIRST I) IPLOMA.
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THIS Certifies that
has been a Member of the LITERARY AND THEOLOGI-
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eatercises prescribed in the Institution, has sustained a Christian
character, and having finished the course of studies assigned him.
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On the next five pages will be found programmes of the first four
Anniversaries. Their interest is due not only to their early date, but
also to the fact that so many whose names appear in them have been
eminently useful.


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OF THE PUBLIC, EXERCISES OF THE SEMINARY OF THIE *
“ BAPTIST EDUCATION SOCIETY OF THE
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COMMENCING AT 1 O'CLOCK P. M. 5TH JUNE, 1821.
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1. SACRED MUSIC. 2. PRAYEIR.
3. Latin Oration. ...BERIAH. N. LEACH,
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4. English do.—On Slavery. . . . HoLLAND TURNER. §
5. DO. On the Crucifia’ion. . . . JOHN B. BALLARD. #:
6. DO. The present State of the Religious World contrasted
acith the former. ...CHARLEs H. LA HATT.
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7. DO. The Kingdom of CHRIST....EBENEZER S. HUBBILL.
8, DO. The Duty of Prayer. ... WAN RENSSELAER WALL.
9. DO. On the BIBLE. . . . PHILIP S. SLOCUM.
10, SACRED MUSIC.
11. Greek Oration. . . . SETII S. WHITMAN.
12, English do.—The Benefits of the Sacred Scriptures....JonATHAN
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13. DO. On Christian Foytitude. . . . JASON CORWIN. §
14. DO. On the Deluge. . . .ELEAZIER SAVAG.E. S.
15. DO. On the Obligations of Christians to send the Gospel to §
the Heathem. . . . EUGENIO KINCAID, §:
16. DO. On the Obligations of Americans to Enlighten the In- §
dians. . . . FRANCIS H. JOHNSON. §
17. DO. On the Evcellency of the Christian Religion in melior- ſº §
ating the Condition of Man in this Life. ....JortN
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JOHN B. BALL.A.R.D.
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Do. On the Harmony of
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1. SACRED MUSIC.
2. PRAYER.
3. ORATION – On the Cru-
Sades. BERIAH. N. LEACH.
4. DO. On the State
of the Jews. EBER TUCKER,
5. DO. On the Fall of
Babylon. W.M. HUTCIIINSON.
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of Human Reason.
ſº FRANCIS W. EMMONS.
7. DO. Design
Advantages of Revelation.
PIIARCELUS CHURCH.
S. SACRED MUSIC.
9. ORATION — On the Ineces-
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JACOB RNAPP.
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EDWARD HODGE.
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moral aspect of the world.
WILLIAM B. CURTIS.
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7. ORATION.—On the Philoso-
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CHARLES H. LA HATT. §
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Agency in the formation of the
Christian character.
PARLEY BROWN. :
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JOHN N. BROWN.
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D. PLATT. C. HARTSHORN. “
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J. DOOLITTLE.
Religious Revivals.
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J. KNAPP, Jr.
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H. TUIRNER.
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Association on Moral Character. §§
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8. Address to the Class, by --
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MADISONIAN ANNALS.
1795.
1796,
1807.
1812.
1 S16.
1817.
1818.
PREPARED BY PROF. P. B. SPEAR, D.D.
I.
INCEPTION.
JUDGE SAMUEL PAYNE and his wife, BETSEY PAYNE, removed
to Hamilton while it was yet a wilderness, and settled on
the present University ground.
DEACON JONATHAN OLMSTED removed to Hamilton.
The FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH was organized.
“THE HAMILTON BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY 2’ was formed,
from which originated the Baptist State Convention.
April 1st, REv. As HBELL HosMER died, aged 54, having been
ten years pastor of the Baptist Church.
REv. DANIEL HASCALL was chosen his successor.
II.
BIRTH.
Oct. DR. NATHANIEL KENDRICR, of Vermont, visited Hamil-
ton, and to him Hascall suggested the idea of locating a
Literary and Theological Institution in Central New York.
DR. IN ENDRICK settled as pastor over the church in Eaton.
May, “THE SEVEN” met at Judge Payne's and issued a
Call. -
Sept. 24th, “THE THIRTEEN” met at Deacon Olmsted’s and
organized the “J3aptist Education Society of the State of
New York.”
Feb. 14th, JonATHAN WADE, the first student received, then
EUGENIo KINCAID—both missionaries.
MADISONIAN ANNALS.
1821.
1823.
1824.
1826.
1827.
1828.
1829.
1831.
1832.
1833.
1834.
June 3d, The first Annual Meeting was held at Sangerfield.
March 5th, The Charter granted for the Bap. Ed. Soc. S. N. Y.
June 2d, The second Annual Meeting was held at Whitestown.
Three subscriptions raised for “the permanent location of the
Seminary,” dated May 28th, July 27th, and Aug. 24th.
Nov. 3d, The Board located the Seminary in Hamilton, on
condition that $6,000 be raised, the condition being fulfilled.
May 1st, The Seminary was formally opened as a permanent
school under Prof. Hascall.
June 6th, The date of THE BOND signed by six men.
June 7th, The third Annual Meeting was held at Hamilton—
and at this place every subsequent meeting has been held.
DR. N. KENDRICK was appointed Instructor in Theology.
June, The new stone building on the plain was erected.
REv. CLARK KENDRICK, President of the Board, died.
Dec. 7th, The “Society of Inquiry” organized.
March 15th, The “Payne Farm donation ” made.
June 6th, The WESTERN EDIFICE, 100 by 60, opened, DR. S.
GANO preaching.
SETH. S. WHITMAN elected Professor of Hebrew and Biblical
Criticism.
BARNAs SEARs elected Professor of Languages. Faculty ar-
ranged—a Four YEARs' course organized.
JoBL S. BACON elected Professor of Mathematics and Natu-
ral Philosophy.
III.
ORGANIZATION.
Course of study extended to SIX YEARs. The Faculty newly
arranged. The first Catalogue published.
As AHEL C. KENDRICK elected Professor of Languages. Re.
signed 1850.
GEORGE W. EATON elected Prof. Math. and Nat. Philos. and
subsequently transferred to the department of History.
EASTERN EDIFICE erected. An EIGHT YEARs' course organized.
MADISONIAN ANNALS. 391
C &
1839.
1840.
1842.
(.6
1843.
1846.
STEPHEN W. TAYLOR elected Principal of the Acad. Dep’t,
and afterwards Prof. Math. and Nat. Philosophy.
JAMES EDMUNDs appointed agent; Prof. Sears visits Germany.
Aug. 18th, Change of the Annual Meeting and Commence-
ment from June to August. A. Pierce, Treas. B. E. S.
THOMAs J. ConANT elected Professor Heb. and Bib. Crit.
Resigned 1850.
Professor’s house No. 1 erected on “CLAREMONT.”
May 26th, SoPHIA HASCALL, Prof. Hascall’s wife, and “The
Student’s Friend,” died.
Professor’s house No. 2 erected on “WOODLAND HEIGHT.”
The Boarding Hall erected, also Professor's house No. 3 in
“BEECEI GROVE.”
John F. RICHARDsoN elected Prof. Lat. Resigned 1850.
JoELN S. MAGINNIS elected Prof. of Theol. Resigned 1850.
The Institution opened to those not studying for the ministry.
First application for a College Charter.
John H. RAYMOND elected Professor Rhet. and Eng. Lang.
Resigned 1850.
PHILETU’s B. SPEAR elected Prof. of Hebrew.
May 3d, DEACON OLMSTED dies, aged 75.
Feb. 4th, ELISHA PAYNE dies, aged 80—“The founder of
Hamilton village.”
May, Second application for a Charter.
Aug. 19th, JUDGE SAMUEL PAYNE dies, aged 83.
Nov. 5th, The new Baptist meeting-house in Hamilton was
dedicated.
Columbian College applied to for degrees.
IV.
INCORPORATION.
March 26th, “MADison UNIVERSITY " incorporated.
June 18th, The Charter made available by an incipient organ-
ization.
392
MADISONIAN ANNALS.
1846.
1847.
1847.
Aug. 18th, The Education Society approves of it by passing
Judge Harris' resolution.
June 9th, “TERMs of ARRANGEMENT’’ are entered into by
the Ed. Board and by the University Board.
Aug. 17th, These terms are ratified by the Ed. Society.
Aug. 19th, The Ed. Board ballot for the Theological officers
under the new arrangements. Dr. Williams nominated for
chair of Theology.
V.
A GITATION.
Sept. 1st, The special meeting of the two Boards; difficulties
affecting the chair of Theology are settled ; the University
Board comes into management of the “Hamilton Literary
and Theological Institution.”
Sept. 7th, The question of “THE REMovAL.” intróduced into
Rochester from Hamilton.
Sept. 13th, The first meeting of Baptists in Rochester.
Oct. 28th, A general meeting of citizens at the City Iſall.
Dec. 6th, At a meeting held in Hamilton, Dr. Eaton’s “CAN-
DID APPEAL ''
was reported.
April 3d, The REMOVAL ACT with the CoMPROMISE passed
the Legislature.
Aug. 14th, “The informal vote” and the Removal resolutions
were passed by the Board at Hamilton.
Sept. 11th, DR. KENDRICK dies, aged 72, and is buried in the
cemetery on the hill.
Jan. 26th, Dr. Havens and Esq. Wiley serve injunctions on
the Boards.
Feb. 16th, The Senate is memorialized To REPEAL the Removal
Act, (final vote 16 in favor and 8 against.) *
March 28th, HoN. THOMAS BOND’s SPEECH delivered in the
Senate.
April 11th, The two Boards held special meetings at Utica;
the first time for 30 years that such meetings were held
away from the seat of the Institution.
MADISONIAN ANNALS. 393
1849.
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June 12th, Meetings of the two Boards and the annual meet-
ing of the Ed. Society, having been called at Albany by the
Boards at their meetings in Utica, were interrupted by an
order of the Supreme Court, and instead thereof,
THE “EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION’ was organized and a second
Compromise proposed.
Dr. Spear’s “FRATERNAL ADDREss”
was sent to Albany from
a meeting held in the Baptist Church at Hamilton on
June 9th.
July 28th, An application having been made, May 22d, to set
aside the Board of the Ed. Society, and for other relief, the
case was argued at Oswego before Judge Allen.
Aug. 10th, A decision was rendered setting aside the Board.
Aug. 14th, The annual meeting of the Ed. Society and a new
election ; Rev. John Peck, chairman.
Aug. 29th, Judge Allen grants a new injunction to Prof.
Hascall and M. Rogers, Esq.
Aug. 30th, The University Board being called together at
Albany to “perfect removal measures,” were met by Has-
call’s inj unction.
Oct. 4th, Dr. Spear's Address to the Baptist Denomination was
sent to the Albany Convention.
Oct. 9th, The second Educational Convention convened at
Albany, and a third Compromise scheme was drawn up.
Oct. 22d, Dr. Spear's Answer to the third, or Dr. Williams’
Compromise scheme.
Dec. 4th, The Board of the Ed. Society, being convened at
Hamilton, drop the defense of the right to remove the Insti-
tution, and disapprove of the surrender of the University
charter.
Dec. 15th, Rev. John PECR died at New York City, aged 70.
Jan. 1st, BETSEY PAYNE, Judge Payne's widow, died, aged
86—" The Students’ Mother.”
Feb. 1st, The University case argued before Judge Gridley at
Utica.
MADISONIAN ANNALS.
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Feb. 14th, The decision confirming the injunction.
April 23d, The University case tried, and a decree issued for a
PERPETUAL INJUNCTION.
May 26, A great meeting at Hamilton to start subscription
jor University Endowment.
Aug. 1st, The LAND MARK published.
Aug. 20th, Spear's Pledge and the final Adjustment.
VI.
RESTORATION AND INVIGORATION.
Aug. 20th, The University Board reorganized and rallied.
Aug. 21st, The Faculty was newly organized and new impulses
given.
Aug. 21st, Notice—that the University would open its next
term as usual in Hamilton.
Aug. 21st, G. W. EATON, D. D., elected Prof. Int. and Mor
Phil, and of Theology.
Aug. 21st, P. B. SPEAR, D. D., elected Prof. Heb. and Latin
Languages.
Aug. 21st, E. TURNEY, D. D., elected Prof. Bib. Interp. Re-
signed 1853.
Aug. 21st, A. M. BEEBEE, D. D., elected Prof. Logic and Eng.
Lit.
Aug. 21st, W. T. BIDDLE, A. M., elected Tutor Math. and
Nat. Phil. Died 1851.
Oct. 31st, E. S. GALLUP, A. M., elected Prof. Greek Lang. and
Lit. Resigned 1867.
Jan. 6th, L. M. Osbor N, A. M., elected Prof. of Math.
and Prin. Gram. School.
Feb. 6th, S. W. TAYLOR, LL. D., elected President and Prof.
Nat. Phil.
Aug. 20th, W. MATHER, M. D., elected Prof. Chemistry. Re-
signed 1867.
Aug. 20th, First Endowment Subscription declared binding.
Total, $69,847.
MADISONIAN ANNALS. 395
1854.
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1856.
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1857.
1860.
1861.
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1864.
Aug. 20th, Students construct first “Plank Walk” to the
village. Cost, $802.
Feb. 8th, Terms of Arrangement, or Second Compact.
May 28th, Garrat Noel Bleecker, of New York City, died at
38, leaving to M. U. 815,000.
June 17th, The Gram. School of M. U. duly chartered.
Aug. 17th, The Three Years predicted more than restored M.
U. in all departments. Faculty, 10. Students, 220. A
jubilant Commencement.
VII.
IEXPANSION.
Nov. 10th, E. DoDGE, D. D., elected Prof. Bib. Interp. and
the Evidences of Christianity.
March 15th, Hon. FRIEND HUMPHREY, of Albany, died at 67,
and left M. U. 31,000.
Aug. 15th, P. P. BRowN, A. M., elected Prin. Gram.
School.
Jan. 7th, Dr. TAYLOR died at 65, and was buried on the hill.
Aug. 19th, G. W. EATON, D. D., LL.D., elected President.
March 25th, Dea. WILLIAM Colgate, of N. Y. City, died at
74—THE FIRM PATRON.
Aug. 20th, H. HARVEY, D.D., elected Prof. Ch. Hist. and Sac.
Lit. Resigned in 1864. Returned in 1869.
Hall of Alumni and Friends erected.
Col. BROWN, Captains BROADY, BROOKs, ARRowsMITH, McIN-
TYRE, and many students as privates, enlisted.
Feb. 9th, Hon. SENECA. B. BURCHARD, died at 71.
“ “ JAMES EDMUNDs, died at 55.
June 12th, W. I. KNAPP, A. M., elected Prof. Modern Lang
Resigned 1865.
Aug. 21st, E. W. STONE, A. M., elected Prof. Rhet. and
Belles-Lettres. Resigned 1862.
July 4th, Dr. EATON returned from Europe.
3.96 MADISONIAN ANNALS.
1864. Aug. 17th, A. N. ARNOLD, D. D., elected Prof. Bib. Interp.
and Sac. Lit. Resigned 1869.
“ Aug. 17th, N. L. ANDREws, A. M., elected Prin. Gram. School.
VIII.
FINANCIAL EXTENSION.
1864. Aug. 17th, H. Tow ER, 18 years T. reas. M. U., resigned, and
Dr. Spear elected.
1865. Endowment on “Colgate Plan " collected in-$56,000.
“ Debts of the Bap. Ed. Soc. paid off—$15,000.
“ July 1st, The Trevor Educational Fund secured—$40,000.
“ Aug. 1st, Rev. H. A. SMITH, elected Fin, and Cor. Sec. B. E. S.
1866. Nov. 3d, The Colgate Presidential Fund secured—$30,000.
1867. July 1st, The Colgate Improvement Fund secured—$11,000.
1867–8. The College Buildings reconstructed and repaired.
1868. President’s House and 42 Acres of Land purchased by gifts.
“ Aug. 7th, Dr. EATON resigns the Presidency of M. U.
& C C 4 EBENEZER DODGE, D.D., LL.D., elected President
of Madison University.
“ August 7th, L. M. Osbor N, A. M., elected Prof. Nat. Sci.
& C August 7th, N. L. ANDREWs, A.M., elected Prof. Greek
Lang. and Lič.
“ August 7th, A. S. BICRMoRE, Ph. D., Elected Prof. Nat. Hist.
£6 “ J. J. LEwis, A. M. elected Prof. Log, and Eng. Lit.
C & 6 4. E. JUDSON, A. M. elected Prof. Lat. and Mod. Lang.
1869. The Museum of Natural History arranged.
“ Aug. 4th, H. HARVEY, D.D., re-elected to Professorship of
Exegesis and Pastoral Duties.
“ Aug. 4th, J. M. TAYLOR, A. M., elected Prin. Gram. School,
and Prof. of Pure Mathematics.
1869. Aug. 4th, JUBILEE. Semi-centennial Fund’—$135,000.
1870. May 1st, Fifty Years, from the opening of “The Seminary.”
C O N S T IT U TI O N
OF THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Adopted August 1st, 1871, on the reorganization of the Allºt Association
in place of the former “Association of Alumni and Friends.
ARTICLE I.
JVanze.
This Society shall be called the Alumni Association of Madison University.
ARTICLE II.
Object.
The object of this Association shall be to cultivate fraternal fellowship, and to,
promote the interests of the University.
ARTICLE III.
Membership.
1. The members of this Association shall consist of graduates from any one
of the courses of study in this College or Theological Seminary, and such persons
as have received honorary degrees from the University.
2. Other persons who have spent at least one year in connection with the
College or Theological Classes may become members upon the recommendation
of the Executive Committee by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at
any regular meeting.
3. Any person may become an associate member upon the recommendation of
the Executive Committee by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any
regular meeting, and shall be entitled to all the privileges of the Association
except that of voting. -
4. The sum of one dollar shall be paid into the treasury by all persons upon
becoming regular or associate members. -
ARTICLE IV.
Officers.
The officers of this Association shall consist of a President, four Vice-
Presidents, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, who shall be elected annually, and
who sliall constitute the Executive Counmittee, three of whom shall be a
quorum. The President, Secretary, and Treasurer shall be elected by ballot.
398 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
ARTICLE V.
Duties of Officers.
1. The President, or, in his absence, the Vice-Presidents in their order, shall
preside at all the meetings of the Association, nominate all committees, unless
otherwise ordered, and discharge the other duties usually incumbent upon that
officer. - -
2. The Secretary shall record the proceedings of the Association, and keep a
list of the members, in a book provided for the purpose. He shall reside in
Hamilton, and shall conduct the correspondence of the Association.
3. The Treasurer shall have charge of all moneys and pay all bills ordered by
the Executive Committee, who shall audit his accounts, and he shall report
annually to the Association.
4. The duties of the Executive Committee, in addition to those named above,
shall be to appoint a Necrologist, who shall report annually, and, in connection
with the Faculty, they shall fix the time and place of the annual meeting, at
which they shall nominate the orator and alternate for the succeeding year, who
shall be elected by the Association.
ARTICLE VI.
Amendments.
This Constitution may be amended at an annual meeting by a vote of two-
thirds of the members present, provided that notice has been given in writing
one year previous.
NoTE.—The minutes of the Alumni Association are published yearly in the Annual Report
of the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York, also Qbituary Notices of Alumn
deceased during the Year. Facts relative to such are earnestly solicited.
GENERAL VIEW
OF THE
Present Organization, Condition, and Prospects.
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NoTE. The Faculties of Instruction, as given below, are as they existed in Aug.,
1869. For changes since the Semi-Centenary, see the University Catalogue.
I. HAMILTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
This Seminary, founded in 1819, is under the care of the “BAPTIST
EDUCATION SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.” Established and
sustained by Baptists, it has remained true, alike to the great doc-
trines held in common by evangelical Christians, and to the distinctive
principles of the Baptist denominatio , to which it has ever given an
unfaltering, decided expression. Its graduates number more than six
hundred.
Location.—Hamilton, located in one of the healthiest and most
beautiful regions of Central New York, in the midst of an intelligent
and cultivated community, offers to the student the advantages of a
quiet and congenial retreat for study, exempted from the interruptions
necessarily incident to life in the city; while, by its ample railroad
facilities, it is in direct and speedy communication with the great
centres of commercial activity.
FACULTY.
Rev. GEO. W. EATON, D.D., LL.D., President and Professor of
Homiletics and Practical Theology. -
REv. EBENEZER DODGE, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Biblical
Theology.
REv. A. M. BEEBEE, D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History.
REv. HEZEKIAH HARVEY, D.D., Professor of Biblical Criticism
and Pastoral Theology.
400 GENERAL VIEW.
ADMISSION.—Students from all Christian denominations are ad-
mitted. They are required to furnish letters from their respective
Churches, either licensing them to preach, or approving of their study-
ing for the ministry. They are also expected to submit to the officers
a statement of their Christian experience and call to the ministry.
CourtsB of STUDY. —The regular Course of Study is designed for
Graduates of Colleges, and others whose attainments may enable them
to pursue it with profit. It is completed in two years. It embraces,
however, a thorough investigation of all the topics usually pursued in
the more extended period, and is compressed within two years only
as the result of special advantages—provision being made in the Uni-
Versity for the study of the elements of Hebrew, and of the Christian
Evidences, and the favoring circumstances of the location enabling
students to prosecute their work with less interruption. -
SPECIAL COURSE.-Students, whose age or attainments do not permit
the completion of the regular course, are admitted to a special course,
embracing Sacred History, Interpretation of the English Scriptures,
Church History, Systematic Theology, Pastoral Duties, and Prepara-
tion and Delivery of Sermons.
INSTRUCTION.——The object of instruction in this Seminary has been,
not to impress a common stamp upon the minds of its students, but to
secure the best development of individual power, consecrated to
Christ. The spirit illustrated and inculcated has been in harmony
with the sacredness of the ministerial calling, and with that unselfish
devotion to spiritual results which “covets earnestly the best gifts”
for the best usefulness.
EXAMINATIONS.—Public Examinations are held at the close of each
year, conducted in the presence of a Committee appointed by the
Board of Trustees, and the favorable report of this committee is, in
each case, necessary to graduation. Graduates from Colleges, who
have received their first Degree, are entitled, on completing the course
in the Seminary, to the degree of A.M., from the University.
BENEFICIARIES.—To those whose circumstances require, aid is
furnished by the “J3aptist Education Socie/y of the State of New
York,” in sums suited to their needs. Address Rev. II. A. Smith,
Fin. and Cor. Sec., Hamilton, N. Y.
ExPENSEs.-No charge is made for tuition or room-rent. Inci-
dental expenses, $3.00 per Term. Board varies from $3.00 to $4.00
per week. In clubs it is obtained at a lower rate. The Utica, Clinton,
and Binghamton R. R., and the N. Y. and O. Midland R. R., connect
GENERAL VIEW. 401
Hamilton with all points north and south, east and west, and furnish
abundant facilities for Sabbath preaching, by which the student may, to
Some extent, aid himself.
CALENDAR.—The year commences on the second Thursday in Sep-
tember. The Commencement of the Seminary occurs Tuesday, June
18th, followed by a vacation of twelve weeks.
ADDRESS.—All communications in reference to entering the Semi-
nary should be made to Rev. E. Dodge, D.D., Hamilton, N. Y.
II. MADISON UNIVERSITY. §
REV. E. DODGE, D.D., LL.D., President.
This University, reckoning from the foundation of the “Hamilton
Literary and Theological Seminary,” has reached the FIFTY-SECOND
year of its history. Never before has it been so well officered, or so
amply furnished with the facilities for thorough Collegiate instruction.
It embraces two courses, the Classical and Scientific. Its ten pro-
fessorships are ably filled by men of established and growing reputa-
tion. The LIBRARY contains about 8,000 volumes of choice works,
mainly selected with reference to the aid which they would directly
render both to Faculty and students. For its size, it is one of the
very best collections of works in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Modern
Languages, in History, Natural Science, English and Classical Liter-
ature, Ethics, and Theology.
The CIIEMICAL and PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUs are excellent, while
the CABINET of GEOLOGY and MINERALOGY, and a very rare and val-
uable Collection in ORNITHOLOGY and CoNCHOLOGY are admirably
adapted for thorough instruction in Natural Science.
PRIZEs for best Entrance Examinations, for Declamations, for
English Essays, for Original Orations, and for Excellence in Classical
Study, are so distributed throughout the Course as to encourage and
recognize distinguished literary, oratorical, and scholarly merit.
FACULTY.
EBENEZER DoDGE, D.D., LL.D., President and Professor of
Metaphysics and Evidences of Revealed Religion. -
GEORGE W. EATON, D.D., LL.D., Bleecker Professor of Moral
Philosophy.
402 GENERAI, WIEW.
PHILETUs B. SPEAR, D.D., Professor of Hebrew, and Treasurer.
ALEXANDER M. BEEBEE, D.D., Professor of Civil History.
LUCIEN M. OSBORN, A.M., Professor of the Natural Sciences.
N. LLOYD ANDREws, A.M., Professor of the Greek Language and
Literature, and Librarian.
John J. LEWIS, A.M., Professor of Logic and English Literature.
EDWARD JUDSON, A.M., Professor of the Latin and Modern Lan-
guages. -
ALBERT S. BICRMoRE, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Natural His-
tory.
HEZEKIAH HARVEY, D.D., Professor of Sacred Literature.
JAMES M. TAYLOR, A.M., Professor of Pure Mathematics.
Course OF STUDY.-The University aims to impart the largest dis-
cipline and power to all the mental faculties, and by a well-arranged
course of instruction, designed both to conserve the old and to recog-
nize the new, in the processes and subjects of study, so far as
approved by enlightened experience, to prepare the student for pro-
fessional studies or for other pursuits in life. By improved methods
of classical teaching, it is sought to make room for the Natural Sciences,
without loss of true classical culture.
ExPENSEs.--Tuition is $30 per year, payable each Term in advance.
Incidental expenses, $9 per year. Room-rent $9 per year. Minis-
terial students are not charged with room-rent. All students furnish
their own rooms.
Board at the University Boarding Hall is furnished for $3 per week.
In clubs it is obtained at a still lower rate. In private families, table-
board ranges from $3 to $4 per week.
AID.—The Education Society aids ministerial students in sums
which vary according to their necessities. No one of approved
talent and character will fail of adequate assistance. Address Rev.
H. A. Smith, Hamilton, N. Y. The University has seven general
scholarships, from $30 to $105 each, and forty Trevºr scholarships,
for soldiers, their sons, brothers, etc., at $30 to $90 each. Respect-
ing these, address Prof. P. B. Spear, D.D.
ACCESS.—Railroads are penetrating the vicinity of Hamilton from
all directions. 1. The Utica, Clinton, and Binghamton R. R., now
the Utica Division of the Midland Railroad, passes directly through
GENERAL VIEW. 403
Hamilton, and with its branch, the Rome and Clinton R. R., fur-
nishes easy transit to and from the New York Central R. R., and
connects with the Midland for the south. 2. The Wew York and
Oswego Midland R. R. passes through Smith's Valley, two miles
from the University, and all trains on the Utica Division make con-
nections with it. This trunk-road to New York, with its branches
and connections, affords excellent facilities. It is the proper route for
those on the line of the Albany and Susquehanna R. R. 3. The
Utica Division of the Delaware and Lackawanna R. R., running
through trains to and from New York, and connecting with the
Erie R. R. at Binghamton, passes through Poolville, four miles
distant, and at Norwich connects with the Midland R. R.
LOCATION.—Hamilton is no less beautiful than ever, and is improv-
ing by the laying out of new streets, which will afford healthful and
delightful building-sites for city or country patrons who wish to re-
move hither for the education of their sons and daughters in a well-
graded system of schools, or, for any purpose, wish a village resi-
dence.
ENLARGEMENT.-The University is not indifferent to the new ele-
ments of growth and power which a few years have introduced, but
intends to make them available in furnishing means of culture which
shall, in this consecrated spot, meet the highest demands of the age.
While the raising of the Jubilee Fund has brought financial aid, large
sums are still needed to provide for an expansion that shall keep pace
with the progress of the age. It is hoped that the attention of patrons
and friends will be directed to the importance of increasing the Li-
brary Fund and the General Endowment Fund, or to creating other
distinct Funds and Chairs of Instruction which the growth and high
est usefulness of the University demand.
CALENDAR.—CoMMENCEMENT—The third Wednesday in June.
FALL TERM-Begins twelve weeks after Commencement. WIN-
TER TERM-Begins the third day of January, and closes the fourth
Wednesday of March. SUMMER TERM-Begins the Monday fol-
lowing the fourth Wednesday in March.
404 GENERAL VIEW.
III. GRAMMAR-SCHOOL.
PROF. JAMES M. TAYLOR, A.M., Principal.
*GEORGE F. ARNOLD, A.B., Tutor of Languages.
The Grammar-School, or Academy, has a well-balanced Classi-
cal and English Course, designed to fit young men for College
or for the active pursuits of life. It is under the general supervision
of the President and Faculty of the University, and special direction
of the Principal. No pains will be spared to make it meet its
design. # ; :
ENLARGEMENT.—The course of preparatory study will hereafter
embrace three years, and it is intended to arrange a parallel course of
three years in English and Scientific studies for those who do not pro-
pose a college course. While the preparatory course will remain
equally prominent and thorough, provision will be more fully made
for a general academic training. Measures are in progress for so
setting apart the Grammar-School, by a distinct building and separate
appliances, as to afford facilities for this wider scope.
ExPENSES AND AID.—Tuition in the Grammar-School is $20 per
year. ‘ Other expenses the same as in the University. The provis-
ions made for pecuniary assistance in the University are, for the most
part, equally applicable to the Grammar-School.
CALENDAR.—The Academic Year is uniform with that of the Uni-
versity, ending with the Grammar-School Exhibition the Friday be-
fore Commencement.
* Appointed Aug., 1871.

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The following is a complete Catalogue of the Officers connected
with the “BAPTIST EDUCATION SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW
York,” from its organization, Sept. 24, 1817, to the present time,
showing:
I. The Annual Meetings, with the Moderators and Clerks.
II. The Board of Trustees, with the Officers chosen by the Board
itself till 1834, and subsequently elected by the Society; but con-
sidered in both cases, intermediate to the Annual Meetings, the
Officers of the Society ; also the additional Directors.
III. The Executive Committee, elected by the Board of Trustees.
T. ANNUAL MEETINGS,
MODERATORS. CLERIKS.
1817. Rev. John Bostwick, Charles W. Hull, M.D.
1818. Obed Warren, { { { {
1819. Hon. Squier Munro, Charles Babcock, M.D.
1820. Rev. Obed Warren, Benjamin I. Lane.
1821. “ ( { Rev. Daniel Putnam.
1822. Hon. Squier Munro, Hon. Ebenezer Wakeley.
1823. Rev. Joseph Cornell, Rev. Elijah F. Willey.
1824. “ Sylvanus Haynes, “ Horace Griswold.
1825. Hon. Squier Munro, “ Elon Galusha.
1826. Rev. Daniel Hascall, “ Elisha Tucker, D.D.
1827. Hon. Squier Munro, “ Horace Griswold.
1828. “ ( { “ Chancellor Hartshorn.
1829. Rev. Elon Galusha. Charles Babcock, M.D.
1830. “ Lewis Leonard, D.D. Rev. John Smitzer.
1831. “ Alfred Bennett, “ Horace Griswold.
1832, “ Lewis Leonard, D.D. “ Cyrus M. Fuller.
406 OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF EDUCATION SOCIETY.
1833. Hon. Salmon Childs, Rev. Lewis Leonard, D.D.
Hon. George Pettit.
1834. Rev. Alfred Bennett, Rev. Joseph Elliott.
1835. Hon. Jonathan Olmstead, “ John Smitzer.
1836. “ ( { “ Aaron Perkins, D.D.
1837. { { ( & {{ { {
1838. {{ ( { { { { %
1839. “ { { | “ Daniel Eldridge.
“ Willard Judd.
1840. “ { { Prof. S. W. Taylor, LL.D.
1841. “ { { Rev. Leonard Fletcher.
1842. “ Seneca B. Burchard, “ Nath. Kendrick, D.D.
1843. “ § { “ Beriah N. Leach.
“ Philetus B. Peck.
Dolphas Bennett.
1844. “ {{ |
1845. Rev. H. N. Loring, }. W. Walker.
D. G. Corey, D.D.
1846. “ John Smitzer, Prof. S. W. Taylor, LL.D.
Rev. E. E. L. Taylor, D.D.
1847. Hon. Charles Walker, “ Henry Davis, D.D.
1848. Rev. Elisha Tucker, D.D. “ Geo. C. Baldwin, D.D.
1849. “ John Peck. “. S. R. Shotwell.
“ Isaac Bevan.
1850. “ Henry C.Vogell, D.D. Rev. William Clarke.
1851. “ Lewis Leonard, D.D. “ Geo. C. Baldwin, D.D.
1852. “ ( { “ Clesson P. Sheldon, D.D.
1853. Hon. Palmer Townsend. “ Daniel G. Corey, D.D.
1854. Rev. John Smitzer. “ William Clarke.
1855. Hon. Charles York. “ D. Henry Miller, D.D.
1856. “ Alrick Hubbell. “ J. T. Seeley.
1857. Rev. John Smitzer. Jas. B. Colgate, Esq.
1858. “ H. C. Vogell, D.D. Rev. Reuben Jeffery, D.D.
1859. Hon. Rufus F. Andrews. “ D. G. Corey, D.D.
1860. Rev. H. C. Vogell, D.D. “ A. H. Burlingham, D.D.
1861. “ Lyman Wright. “ W. S. Mikels, D.D.
1862. “ T. O. Lincoln, D.D. “ Samuel T. Hillman.
1863. “ John Smitzer. {{ ( [.
1864. “ William Clarke. “ C. B. Post.
1865. “ John Smitzer. “ Lyman Wright.
1866. “ { { “ E. D. Reed.
OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF EDUCATION SOCIETY.
407
1867.
1868.
1869.
1870.
1871.
{ {
“ D. G. Corey, D.D.
{ { {{
Hon. Albert R. Fox.
Rev. W. S. Mikels, D.D.
Rev. Lyman Wright.
“ T. A. T. Hanna.
“ S. T. Hillman.
“ E. S. Davis.
“ S. T. Hillman.
II. BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
1. PRESIDENTS.
. Rev. Peter P. Roots.
“ John Bostwick.
“ Joshua Bradley.
“ Obed Warren.
. Hon. Squier Munro.
. Rev. Clark Kendrick.
“ Sylvester Haynes.
. Hon. Squier Munro.
1831. Hon. Jon'n Olmstead.
1842. “ S. B. Burchard.
1846. “ William Cobb.
1848. “ Henry Tower.
1850. “ William Cobb.
1858. “ S. B. Burchard.
1861 to ’71. S. Colgate, Esq.
2. FIRST WICE-PRESIDENTS. [This office was first constituted in 1834.]
. Hon. George Pettit.
“ Palmer Townsend.
“ S. B. Burchard.
“ William Cobb.
1849. Hon. Henry Tower.
1858. Rev. H. C. Vogell, D.D.
1862. Ralph Johnson, Esq.
1863 to '71. Rev. J. Smitzer.
3. OTHER WICE-PRESIDENTS.
. Hon. William Colgate.
. Robert H. Hyde.
. Hon. Friend Humphrey.
. Oren Sage.
N. Coe.
. Alvah Pierce.
. John N. Wilder.
Hon. James Edmunds.
Rev. John Peck.
. Rev. Daniel Putnam.
“S. H. Cone, D.D.
“ E. Lathrop, D.D.
“ A. M. Beebee, LL.D.
“ Jirah D. Cole, D.D.
1851. Rev. B. N. Leach, D.D.
“ Hon. John Munro.
1852. James Wager, Esq.
“ Gardner Townsend.
1853. Rev. A. D. Gillette, D.D.
“ “ J. L. Hodge, D.D.
Abraham Spear, Esq.
1854. Rev. G. C. Baldwin, D.D.
1855. “ Aaron Perkins, D.D.
1856. “ P. Church, D.D.
“ Hon. Charles York.
1857. “ E. Litchfield.
“ Rev. T. O. Lincoln, D.D.
1858. “ Lyman Wright.
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408 OFFICERS AND THUSTEES OF EDUCATION SOCIETY.
1858. William G. Boardman.
“ Z. Mi. Mason.
“ J. D. Reid.
“ Hon. R. Fletcher.
1859. R. K. Amory.
“. S. White.
“ Rev. R. Jeffery, D.D.
1860. “ T. Armitage, D.D.
{ { “ W. H. King, D.D.
{ { “ W. Hague, D.D.
“ J. M. Cassels. -
Nelson Payne.
1861. Peter Balen.
“ Chas. C. Colgate.
Rev. Charles Graves.
1862. “ H. G. Weston, D.D.
{ { “T.D. Anderson, D.D.
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‘W. S. Clapp.
{ { “ J. D. Fulton, D.D.
{ { “ IIalsey W. Knapp.
{{ “ E. S. Davis.
“ FIon. Alrick Hubbell.
4. CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES.
1834. Rev. N. Kendrick, D.D.
1849. “ Zenas Freeman.
1850. Prof. P. B. Spear, D.D.
1851. Rev. Chas. Morton.
1864. E. N. Barbour.
“. Rev. John N. Webb.
1866. “ A. S. Patton, D.D.
“ J. G. Whipple, Esq.
“ E. A. Coray, Esq.
1867. Erastus Vilas. -
“ Cornelius W. Thomas.
1869. Col. Morgan L. Smith.
“ Hubbard Russell.
Ira Crane.
“ Rev. G. C. Lorimer, D.D.
{ { “ Jas. M. Harris.
{ { “ W. Pope Yeaman.
( { “ Geo. H. Brigham.
“ Arnold Champlin.
1870. Rev. A. H. Burlingham,
[D.D.
A. Cleghorn, D.D.
Thompson Kingsford.
1871, Rev. John Peddie.
“ George C. Law.
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[This office was first constituted in 1834.]
1853. Rev. B. N. Leach, D.D.
1856. Prof. P. B. Spear, D.D.
1861. Rev. Lyman Wright.
1865. “ H. A. Smith, to 71.
5. SECRETARIES.
1817. Rev. Joel W. Clark.
1818. Charles Babcock, M.D.
1819. Rev. N. Kendrick, D.D.
1834. “ John Smitzer.
1835. “ A. Perkins, D.I).
1839. Prof.S.W. Taylor, LL.D.
1840. Rev. Leonard Fletcher.
1842. Rev. B. N. Leach, D.D.
1845. Joseph Trevor, M.D.
1848. Rev. Zenas Freeman.
1850. Prof. P. B. Spear, D.D.
1859. Rev. W. R. Brooks, D.D.
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1817.
1821.
1822.
1824.
1825.
6. TREASURERS.
Hon. Jona. Olmstead. 1826. Hon. S. B. Burchard.
Samuel Osgood. 1829. Theodore Burchard.
Rev. Daniel Hascall. 1830. Hon. S. B. Burchard.
Samuel Osgood. 1837. Alvah Pierce, to 71.
Hon. Jona. Olmstead.
7. DIRECTORS.. [With the date of their first election.]
Peter P. Roots. 1821. Esq. Richardson.
Joel W. Clark. 1822. Sylvanus Haynes.
John Bostwick. “ Joseph Moss.
Daniel Hascall. “ Guy Carter.
Nath. Kendrick. “ S. B. Burchard.
Amos Kingsley. 1823. Clark Kendrick.
Samuel Payne. “ Calvin Swain.
Jona. Olmstead. “ Elon Galusha.
S. W. Osgood. 1824. Daniel Hatch.
Charles W. Hull. “ Horace Griswold.
Obed Warren. “ Elijah Herrick.
Joshua Bradley. “ John Munro.
E. F. Willey. 1825. Charles Brockway.
John Peck. 1826. Thomas Cox.
Eliada Blakesley. “ J. G. Stearns.
Silas Spaulding. “ Charles Randall.
Thomas Cox. 1827. George Pettitt.
Charles Babcock. “ John Blain.
Squier Munro. * Lewis Leonard.
John Jeffries. “ Alex. M. Beebee.
Caleb Douglass. 1828. John Smitzer.
Elisha Payne. “ Asher Fairchild.
David Norton. 1829. Elisha Litchfield.
Daniel Putnam. 1831. Theod. Burchard.
Amasa Smith. 1835. Aaron Perkins.
James Sheffield. “ William Cobb.
Jabez Burchard. “ Palmer Townsend.
Washington Winsor. “ Samuel Pike.
Nathan Peck. “ John E. Burton.
Benjamin T. Lane. “ Edward Bright.
Calvin Philleo. 1836. Benjamin Bonney.
Ebenezer Wakely. “ Artemas Osgood.
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OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF EDUCATION SOCIETY.
William Colgate.
Charles York.
Uriah Hobby.
Hervey Edwards.
Charles Walker.
Erastus Vilas.
Albert G. Smith.
Nathaniel Garrow.
Friend Humphrey.
Jonatham Samford.
Alvah Pierce.
. James N. Cassels.
Joshua Gilbert.
Wm. S. Ingham.
. Steph. W. Taylor.
Robert H. Hyde.
Abraham Spear.
Chas. W. Houghton.
Charles N. Griffin.
Archibald Campbell.
. Leonard Fletcher.
Daniel Eldredge.
Augustus Simons.
George Curtis.
William Coolidge.
J. Griggs.
. Smith Sheldon.
T)avid McWhorter.
James Edmunds.
. Beriah N. Leach.
P. R. Gorton.
. M. J. N. Haskins.
John N. Wilder.
Joseph Trevor.
. Elisha Tucker.
Amos D. Graves.
David R. Barton.
Jay S. Backus.
. Jirah D. Cole.
1846. Marsena Stone.
1847. Charles C. Payne.
“ James Gove.
“ Garrat N. Bleecker.
1848. Henry Tower.
“ Zenas Freeman.
Roswell S. Burrows.
Oren Sage.
“ Elijah T. Smith.
“. S. M. Fish.
“ A. Mosely.
“ Elisha Harmon.
Theron Brown.
1849. Thomas D. Chollar.
James Nickerson.
“ Daniel G. Corey.
“ Clesson P. Sheldon.
1850. Henry C. Vogell.
Jesse Armstrong.
“ J. Osgood Pierce.
“ H. H. Hawley.
“ E. Reed Ford.
Ralph Johnson,
James B. Colgate.
“ P. B. Spear.
Chancellor Hartshorn.
1851. Jabez S. Swan.
“ David A. Munro.
James Wager.
* William P. Stone.
Ephraim Palmer.
Charles Morton.
1852. William Clarke.
“ T. O. Lincoln.
Richard Peggs.
1853. Charles Graves.
Charles Olmstead.
1854. Reuben Jeffery.
Samuel Colgate.
OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES
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OF EI)UCATION SOCIETY.
1817.
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1820.
1821.
. Lyman Wright.
. Alonzo Peck.
Rufus K. Amory.
Peter Balen.
D. M. Croell.
Russell Wheeler.
J. C. Loomis.
. James B. Colgate.
Charles C. Colgate.
A. H. Burlingham.
William S. Clapp.
John Fulton.
Edward Chapman.
. A. M. Hopper.
R. J. Wilson.
. W. S. Mikels.
W. H. King.
. G. C. Baldwin.
S. T. Hillman.
G. H. Andrews.
Lyman Wright.
. C. W. Thomas.
John G. Whipple.
S. B. Burchard, Jr.
. I. N. Hobart.
1862
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1863.
1865.
1866.
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. N. M. Perkins.
E. D. Reed.
Wells Russell.
E. S. Davis.
E. A. Coray.
J. E. Pettit.
Adams Cleghorn.
Lewis Wickwire.
. M. C. Palmer.
Wm. H. Pendleton.
Thompson Kingsford.
John C. Ward.
. Stillman B. Grant.
John D. Pope.
Solomon Baker.
Frank T. Pierce.
Wm. Van Antwerp.
Charles Ayer.
J. Lucas.
Wm. F. Bonney.
E. Bean.
C. O. Maltby.
. J. M. Harris.
Warren J. Buell.
L. J. Matteson.
III, TEIE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
(THE MEMBERS ARE GIVEN wrTH THE DATE OF THEIR FIRST APPOLNTMENT.)
Bev. N. Kendrick, D. D.
“ Daniel Hascall.
Samuel Osgood, Esq.
Chas. W. Hull, M. D.
Rev. Elon Galusha.
“. Joel W. Clark.
Chas. Babcock, M. D.
Rev. John Peck.
“ Obed Warren.
1821
1822
1826.
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1828.
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1831
1833,
Rev. Elijah F. Willey.
. Hon. Jona. Olmstead.
“. S. B. Burchard.
Rev. Chan. Hartshorn.
“ John Blain.
L. Leonard, D. D.
. Prof. B. Sears, D. D.
“ J. S. Bacon, D. D.
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1834. Rev. John Smitzer.
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OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF EDUCATION SOCIETY.
1835.
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1836.
1837.
1839.
1840.
1842.
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1845.
1846.
1847.
1848.
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1850.
Hon. Samuel Payne.
Rev. A. Perkins, D. D.
Alvah Pierce, Esq.
Wm. Cobb, Esq.
Prof.S.W. Taylor, LL.D.
Rev. L. Fletcher.
“ B. N. Leach, D. D.
Aug. Simons, Esq.
Jos. Trevor, M. D.
Arch. Campbell, Esq.
James Gove, Esq.
Henry Tower, Esq.
Rev. Z. Freeman.
Chas. C. Payne, Esq.
Prof. P. B. Spear, D. D.
1851
1854.
1858.
1859.
1860.
1861.
1862.
1865.
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1866.
1868.
1869,
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Rev. Charles Morton.
“ C. P. Sheldon, D.D.
Alonzo Peck, Esq.
Rev. W.R. Brooks, D.D.
“ H. C. Vogell, D. D.
Samuel Colgate, Esq.
Ralph Johnson.
Wells Russell.
Rev. H. A. Smith.
Lewis Wickwire.
E. H. Risley, Esq.
W. F. Bonney, Esq.
Rev. Charles Ayer.
“ John C. Ward.
“ E. D. Reed.
CONSTITUTION
Of the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York.
ART. 1. The object of this Society shall be to furnish the means of instruction
to such young men of the Baptist denomination as shall give to the Churches of
which they are members, and to the Faculty of the Institution under the pat-
ronage of the Society, satisfactory evidence of their personal piety, and of their
call to the Gospel Ministry.
ART. 2. Any person may become a member of this Society by paying into the
Treasury, annually, the sum of one dollar; or a member for life by paying twenty
dollars, at any one time, or in four equal annual installments.
ART. 3. The offiers of the Society shall consist of a President, Vice-President,
a Corresponding Secretary and a Treasurer. These, with thirty Directors, shall
constitute a BOARD OF TRUSTEES, who shall be elected at each annual meeting
of the Society, seven of whom shall be a quorum. All the members of the Board,
and other acting officers, as well as the immediate beneficiaries of the Society,
shall be members in good standing of some regular Baptist Church.
ART. 4. The BOARD OF TRUSTEEs shall transact the business of the Society :
take charge of its property, fill vacancies in their own body; appoint beneficia-
ries and necessary Agents; keep a faithful record of their proceedings, and make
an annual report of the same to the Society. The Board shall have the especial
oversight of the THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY connected with the Madison Univer-
sity; shall direct the course of instruction in this department; secure, as far as
practicable, endowments for it; and appoint Professors and Teachers; doing all
things in accordance with arrangements authorized by the University Charter
and existing between the two Boards.
ART. 5. The Treasurer shall receive all moneys and other property belonging
to the Society, and make investments of the same in the name of the Society, in
the safest and most productive forms, under the direction of the Board; shall
make payments of money from time to time agreeably to the order of the Board;
shall render to the Society, annually, a written account of all the receipts and ex-
penditures within the year; of the amount of its funds and the manner in which
they are invested ; he shall give to the Board, whenever they request it, a par-
ticular account of the state of the treasury, or of any portion of its funds; he shall
also give full and ample security to the Board for the faithful discharge of the
duties of his office.
The Treasurer's accounts, before they are presented to the Society, shall be
audited by a committee appointed by the Board for that purpose.
ART. 6. The Society may appoint a discretionary number of Honorary Vice.
Presidents, and any person may become an Honorary Life Director by paying
into the treasury the sum of fifty dollars, and shall have a right to sit aud delib-
erate in all meetings of the Board.
ART. 7. The President, and, in his absence, the Vice-President, shall have
power, at the request of three Directors, to call special meetings of the Society,
by giving due public notice thereof.
ART. 8. The annual meetings of the Society shall be held at such time and
places as the Board may direct, unless the Society shall have otherwise deter-
mined.
ART. 9. Any alterations may be made in this Constitution at an annual meet-
ing by a vote of three-fourths of the members present, provided that notice shall
have been given one year previous.
CORPORATION OF MADISON UNIVERSITY.
1846–1871.
With dates of appointment, and resignation or death.
1846. . . . . . . FRIEND HUMPHREY. . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1850.
1846. . . . . . . SENECA. B. BURCHARD . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1850.
l846. . . . . . . WILLIAM CoI.GATE. . . . . . . . . . . Died, 1857.
1846. . . . . . . WILLIAM L. MARCY. . . . . . . . . . Died, 1857.
1846. . . . . . . PALMER Towns RND. . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1868.
1846. . . . . . . WILLIAM Cobb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Died, 1864.
1846. . . . . . . IRA. HARRIs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1850.
l 846. . . . . . . HENRY ToweR . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1846. . . . . . . NATHANIEL KENDRICK. . . . . . . . Died, 1848.
1846. . . . . . . ALVAH PIERCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1847.
1846. . . . . . . BARTHOLOMEw T. WELCH . . . . Resigned, 1851.
1846. . . . . . . EDWARD BRIGHT, J.R. . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1851.
1846. . . . . . . WILLIAM R. WILLIAMs. . . . . . . Resigned, 1850.
1846. . . . . . . ROBERT KELLEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1851.
1846. . . . . . . HERVEY EDWARDS. . . . . . . . . . . Died, 1869.
1846. . . . . . . CHARLES WALIXER. . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1855.
1846. . . . . . . SMITH SHELDON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1864.
1846. . . . . . . JOSEPH CAULDWELL. . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1847.
1846. . . . . . . John MUNRO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1855.
1846. . . . . . . JOHN N. WILDER. . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1852.
1846 . . . . . . GEORGE CURTISS . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1859.
1846. . . . . . . ELISHA TUCKER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1851.
1846. . . . . . . PHARCELLUS CHURCII . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1851.
1846. . . . . . . JAMES EDMUNDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1850.
1846. . . . . . . Joseph TREVOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1849.
1846. . . . . . . AMOS GRAVES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1850.
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1846. . . . . . . ALONZO WHEELOCK. . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1850.
1847. . . . . . . ZENAS MoRSE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1850.
1847. . . . . . . DAVID R. BARTON. . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1852.
1849. . . . . . SPENCER H. Con E. . . . . . . . . . . Died, 1855.
1849. . . . . . . Roswell, S. BURRows. . . . . . . . Resigned, 1852
1850. . . . . . . ALVAH PIERCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1850. . . . . . . ALFRED G. SLOCUM . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1855.
1850. . . . . . . THEoDoRE R. BURCHARD . . . . . Resigned, 1854.
1850. . . . . . . CHARLES C. PAYNE. . . . . . . . . .
1850. . . . . . . AUGUSTUS SIMONS. . . . . . . . . . . .
1850. . . . . ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL. . . . . . . . Died, 1863.
1850. . . . . . . JAMES NICKERSON. . . . . . . . . . . . Died, 1855.
1850. . . . . . . JAMES Gove. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Died, 1866.
1851. . . . . . . JESSE ARMSTRONG. . . . . . . . . . . . Died, 1852.
1851. . . . . . . ALRICK HUBBELL. . . . . . . . . . . .
1851. . . . . . . HENRY C. VogFLL. . . . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1862
1851. . . . . . . GARRAT N. BLEECKER. . . . . . . . Died, 1853
1851. . . . . . . E. REED FORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1852. . . . . . . HENRY S. ARMSTRONG . . . . . . . . Resigned, 1866
1852. . . . . . . DAVID A. MUNRo. . . . . . . . . . . .
1852. . . . . . . CALEB VAN HUSEN. . . . . . . . . . .
1852. . . . . . . CHARLES YORK. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1853. . . . . . . EBENEZER CAULDWELL. . . . . . .
1854. . . . . . . ALONZO PECR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1855. . . . . . . CHARLES MASON, . . . . . . . . . . . .
1855. . . . . . . JoHN MUNRO, J.R., . . . . . . . . . .
1855. . . . . . . ALBERT R. Fox. . . . . . . . . . . . .
1856. . . . . . . SENECA. B. BURCHARD . . . . . . . . Died, 1861.
1857. . . . . . . RUFUs F. ANDREws. . . . . . . . . . -
1857. . . . . . . SAMUEL Co.GATE. . . . . . . . . . . .
1857. . . . . . . THEODoRE F. HUMPHREY. . . . .
1859. . . . . . . WILLIAM CLARRE . . . . . . . . . . . . Died, 1871.
1861. . . . . . . JAMES B. Colg ATE. . . . . . . . . .
1862. . . . . . . GEORGE H. ANDREWs. . . . . . . .
416 CORPORATION OF MADISON UNIVERSITY.
1864. . . . . . . THOMAS D. ANDERSON. . . . . . .
1864. . . . . . . PHILETU’s B. SPEAR. . . . . . . . . .
1866. . . . . . . THOMAS CORNELL. . . . . . . . . . . .
1866. . . . . . . HENRY O. WHEELER. . . . . . . . .
1868. . . . . . . John B. Trevor............
1869. . . . . . . MoRGAN L. SMITH . . . . . . . . . . .
HONORAFRY DEGREES
CONFERRED BY
MADISON UNIVERSITY,
1, 8 4- 6 – 1 8 7 1.
l 8 4 6.
A.M.
R. R. Raymond, M. Stone,
R. M. Richardson, A. Wheelock,
C. P. Sheldon, T. G. Wright.
I 8 4 7.
A.M.
D. G. Corey, Zenas Freeman,
Henry Davis, Absalom Miner, Jr.,
Charles W. Sanders.
D,D,
Rev. P. Church, N. Y.
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l 8 4 8.
A.M.
C. B. Adams, J. L. Burrows,
J. S. Backus, W. L. Dennis.
D, D,
Rev. Elisha Tucker, Ill. Rev. George B. Ide, Pa.
LL.D,
Hon. Ira Harris, N. Y. Rev. Thomas Price, D.D., England.
418 DEGREES CONFERRED BY MADISON UNIVERSITY.
David Bellamy,
T. Armitage,
Amos Crocker,
J. G. Collum,
l 8 4 9.
A.M.
J. S. Douglass, M.D.,
Thomas N. Walter.
D, D,
Rev. S. Bailey, President G. C., Ohio.
LL.D.
Robert Lusk, Esq., England.
1 8 5 O ,
A.M.
William Hutchinson,
A. G. Palmer.
1 8 5 1 .
A.M.,
H. V. Jones,
Charles Morton,
John N. Murdock.
D, D,
Rev. Robert Turnbull, Conn., Rev. S. D. Burchard, N. Y.,
W. R. Brooks,
Rev. J. L. Hodge, N. Y.
LL.D,
Rev. J. H. Eaton, President U. U., Tenn.
1 8 5 2.
A.M.,
Harvey Hubbard,
W. H. Burleigh,
C. G. Carpenter,
William Clarke,
S. J. Drake,
H. J. Eddy,
Joseph T. Evans,
Richard Girard,
D. T. Hill,
Rev. J. Wade, Missionary, Burmah,
Rev. T. F. Caldicott, Mass.,
B. N. Leach,
James W. Nye,
J. B. Sackett,
Elisha Sawyer,
J. W. Spoor,
John Teasdale,
William Tracy,
H. C. Vogell.
D, D,
Rev. B. M. Hill, N.Y.,
Rev. J. Pyper, C. W.
DEGREES CONFERRED BY MADISON UNIVERSITY. 419
| LL.D.
Hon. Charles Mason, N. Y., Rev. D. R. Campbell, Pres’t G. C., Ky.,
Alexander M. Beebee, N. Y., Hon. G. R. Davis, N. Y.
I 8 5 3.
A.M.
Sylvester Abel, D. H. Miller,
D. C. Bates, E. S. Olney,
Jesse Clement, D. S. Parmalee,
C. Graves, John D. Post,
C. T. Harris, M.D., F. Sanders,
M. M. Jones, R. G. Toles,
F. Kidder, J. H. Stone.
D, D,
Rev. L. Leonard, N. Y., Rev. C. G. Somers, N. Y.,
Rev. W. Shadrach, Pa., Rev. W. H. Shailer, Me.,
Rev. D. Ives, Conn., Rev. J. A. B. Stone, Pres’t K. C., Mich
LL.D.
Rev. B. F. Tefft, D.D., Pres’t G. C., N.Y., Rev. J. L. Waller, Ky.
l 8 5 4 .
A.M.
Charles Colburn, J. N. Webb,
H. C. Goodwin, A. C. Wheat,
Conant Sawyer, W. Wilkinson,
Samuel Taylor, R. J. Wilson,
W. H. Woodbury.
- D, D,
Rev. J. L. Burrows, Pa., Rev. Lemuel Porter, Mass.,
Rev. S. D. Phelps, Conn.
LL.D,
Rev. O. B. Judd, N. Y.
1 8 5 5.
A.M.
Adams, H. D. Doolittle,
C. M. Fuller,
. Barber, N. P. Henderson,
420
DEGREES CONFERRED BY MADISON UNIVERSITY.
Henry Carver,
W. W. Chubbuck,
A. J. Conant,
B. Barker,
C. Bourne, M.D.,
L.
I.
A. G. Chester,
Rev. A. D. Gillette, N.Y.,
T. R. Palmer,
S. E. Sheperd, M.D.,
J. Hyatt Smith.
1 8 5 6 .
A.M.
Charles A. Clark,
W. S. Franklin,
Caleb Greene, M.D.
S. N. Kendrick.
D, D,
Rev. V. R. Hotchkiss, Prof.R.T.S., N.Y.
Rev. T. O. Lincoln, N. Y.
John Fulton,
G. N. Harris,
L. J. Huntley,
E. T. Jacobs,
Rev. W. S. Curtis, Prof. H. C., N.Y.,
1 8 5 7 .
A.M.
W. H. King,
C. A. Mott,
C. B. Post,
F. Remington,
J. C. Van Benschoten.
D.D.
Rev. S. P. Hill, D.C.,
Rev. A. Wheelock, N. Y.
LL.D.
Hon. E. B. Fairfield, Pres’t H. C., Mich.
E. F. Carter,
John J. Foote,
C. J. Hopkins,
Rev. G. S. Boardman, N. Y.,
Rev. R. A. Fyfe, C. W.,
Rev. Daniel Read, Pres’t S. C., Ill.,
| 8 5 8.
A.M.
R. T. Middleditch,
C. H. Remington,
B. Thomas,
P. G. Williams.
T), D,
Rev. W. B. Maxon, N.Y.,
Rev. W. M. Pratt, Ky.
LL.D.
William H. Wyckoff, N. Y.
DEGREES CONFERRED BY MADISON UNIVERSITY.
421
H. H. Boone,
J. L. Buckley, M.D.,
H. G. Burlingame,
J. D. Collins,
Ezra Dean,
J. A. Delke,
H. Doane,
G. J. Fisher, M.D.,
J. E. Hadnett,
Rev. A. P. Mason, Mass.,
Rev. C. P. Sheldon, N. Y.,
Rev. G. Kempton, N.Y.,
Rev. D. C. Eddy, Mass.,
Hon. Hiram Denio, N. Y.,
Hon. C. F. Abbott,
W. W. Meech,
Rev. G. R. Bliss, Prof. L. U., Pa.,
Rev. J. W. Sarles, N. Y.
I 8 5 9.
A.M.
W. D. Huntley,
Joseph Mason,
A. McDougal,
George Pierce,
Warren Randolph,
H. J. Sherrill,
G. W. Smith,
Samuel Williams,
John Warren, Jr.
D,D,
Rev. B. N. Leach, Vt.,
Rev. J. M. Richards, Pa.,
Rev. W. M. Cook, England,
Rev. Daniel Davis, England.
LL.D. •
Hon. Timothy Jenkins, N. Y.
1 8 6 O.
A.M.
D. McFarland,
... J. Van Voorhies.
D, D,
Rev. H. Fletcher, Vt.,
LL.D.
Rev. Thos. Rambaut, Pres’t C. C., Ga., Hon. Josiah Randall, Pa.
E. G. Bush, M.D.,
J. B. Conyers, M.D.,
S. G. Creswell,
G. W. Curtis,
Rev. S. B. Grant, Conn.,
D. W. C. Grove,
B. H. Lincoln,
W. C. Van Meter,
A. A. White.
D.D.
Rev. R. Jeffery, Pa.
LL.D.
Ullman, N. Y.
422 DEGREES CONFERRED BY MADISON UNIVERSITY.
G. H. Ball,
S. Gorman,
G. W. Demers,
W. I. Gill,
Rev. A. G. Palmer, Conn.
T. M. Merriman,
Rev. S. J. Creswell, Pa.,
I 8 6. 2 .
A.M.
J. E. Jones,
W. H. Pendleton,
W. P. Robinson.
1 8 6 3 .
A.M.
S. M. Ostrander,
T. Richardson.
D,D,
Rev. W. R. Brooks, N. Y.
l 8 6 4.
A.M.
A. F. Willey,
L. M. Woodruff.
D.D.
Rev. W. S. Mikels, N. Y.,
Rev. S. Talbot, Pres’t D. U., Ohio.
Hon. Geo. Wm. Curtis, N. Y.
R. H. Lyon,
D. Steele,
Rev. L. Hayden, N.H.,
. LL, D.
John Hebb, Pres’t H. C., England.
1 8 6 5.
A.M.,
A. J. Swain,
G. Wilson.
D,D, s
Rev. R. T. Middleditch, N.J.,
Rev. A. S. Patton, N. Y.
LL.D.
Hon. J. M. Gregory, Pres’t K. C., Mich,
Edward Haas,
J. Henderson,
l 8 6 6.
A.M.,
E. D. Jones,
T. R. Timbey.
DEGREES CONFERRED BY MADISON UNIVERSITY. 423
D.D.,
Rev. J. Fletcher, N.Y., Rev. J. M. Haswell, Miss’ry, Burmah.
Rev. S. Graves, Conn., Rev. J. S. Holme, N.Y.
l 8 6 7.
D.D.
Rev. S. Haskell, Mich., Rev. W. H. Parmly, N.J.,
Rev. M. S. Riddell, N. J.
LL.D.
Rev. John Stock, England, Hon. Thurlow Weed, N. Y.
1 8 6 8.
A.M.
E. M. Blanchard, J. N. Folwell,
G. E. Osborne.
&
D.D.,
Rev. J. Cooper, C. W., Rev. J. Freeman, Vt.,
Rev. W. R. Webb, Ill.
1 8 6 9.
A.M.,
S. W. Culver, T. E. James.
Ph.D.
Rev. W. C. Richards, Mass.
D,D,
Rev. B. F. Bronson, Mass., Rev. E. C. Lord, Missionary, China,
Rev. A. Cleghorn, Ill., Rev. S. S. Parker, R. I.,
Rev. W. H. King, N.Y., Rev. Conant Sawyer, N. Y.
LL.D.
Rev. J. C. Burroughs, D.D., Pres’t C, U., Ill.
1 8 7 O.
A.M.,
G. F. Pentecost.
Ph.D,
J. S. Douglass, M.D., Wis,
424 DEGREES CONFERRED BY MADISON UNIVERSITY.
D.I),
Rev. E. B. Cross, Missionary, Burmah, Rev. D. P. Smith, Iowa,
Rev. A. M. Hopper, Conn., Rev. H. A. Tupper, Ga.
1 8 7 1 .
A.M.,
L. Burrows, - - W. E. Lockhart,
T. A. Kinney, R. G. Seymour.
D.D.
Rev. G. J. Johnson, Mo., Rev. M. J. Knowlton, Miss’y, China,
Rev. W. Ward, Missy, Assam.
Honorary Degrees
IRECEIVED FROM DIFFERENT COLLEGES
BY ALUMNI OF MADIS ON - UNIVERSITY,
J. Q. Adams,
E. C. Allen,
J. S. Backus,
C. L. Bacon,
D. P. Baldwin,
I. C. Bourn,
W. R. Brooks,
G. C. Chandler,
A. Cleghorn,
J. D. Cole,
J. D. Collins,
J. B. Conyers,
D. G. Corey,
H. Davis,
E. Dean,
J. S. Dickerson,
H. D. Doolittle,
H. J. Eddy,
J. W. Fish,
E. J. Foote,
M. P. Forbes,
3. §l.
C. A. FOX,
John Fulton,
A. D. Gillette,
O. N. Gorton,
Charles Graves,
L. O. Grenell,
J. E. Hadnett,
G. N. Harris,
Wm. Hutchinson,
V. M. Kingsley,
B. N. Leach,
W. W. Meech,
Absalom Miner,
Bradley Miner,
J. L. Moore,
J. H. Morrison,
Charles Morton,
J. R. Murphy,
A. S. Patton,
G. B. Perry,
H. Perry,
ill. §.
W. C. Richards.
C. B. Post,
J. H. Pratt,
W. M. Pratt.
Lewis Ransted,
R. R. Raymond,
J. B. Sackett,
Conant Sawyer,
R. G. Seymour,
W. H. Shailer,
C. P. Sheldon,
J. W. Spoor,
A. H. Taylor,
John Teasdale,
T. C. Teasdale,
R. G. Toles,
Charles Tucker,
H. C. Vogel,
A. Wheelock,
W. M. Whitehead,
T. G. Wright.
426
ALUMNI.
DEGREES RECEIVED BY
S. W. Adams,
G. W. Anderson,
J. S. Backus,
G. C. Baldwin,
A. M. Beebee,
G. R. Bliss,
Miles Bronson,
B. F. Bronson,
W. R. Brooks,
J. N. Brown,
G. C. Chandler,
J. Chaplin,
L. Church,
P. Church,
A. Cleghorn,
J. D. Cole,
D. G. Corey,
W. C. Crane,
E. B. Cross,
H. Davis,
W. Dean,
J. S. Dickerson,
E. W. Dickinson,
H. J. Eddy,
W. W. Everts,
J. Fletcher,
R. A. Fyfe,
A. D. Gillette,
J. N. Granger,
S. B. Grant,
S. Graves,
J. C. Burroughs,
J. H. Eaton,
B. Griffith,
H. Harvey,
C. Hartshorn,
S. Haskell,
J. M. Haswell,
L. Hayden,
E. T. Hiscox,
J. S. Holme,
A. M. Hopper,
W. R. Hotchkiss,
R. Jeffery,
G. J. Johnson,
T. G. Keen,
George Kempton,
J. R. Kendrick,
E. Kincaid,
M. J. Knowlton,
E. Lathrop,
B. N. Leach,
E. C. Lord,
B. D. Marshall,
A. P. Mason,
J. O. Mason,
W. S. Mikels,
J. L. Moore,
J. R. Murphy,
A. C. Osborn,
S. B. Page,
S. S. Parker,
W. H. Parmly,
O. B. Judd,
J. R. Loomis,
J. R. Boise.
A. S. Patton,
G. B. Perry,
W. M. Pratt,
J. M. Purinton,
M. S. Riddell,
J. W. Sarles,
Conant Sawyer,
W. H. Shailer,
C. P. Sheldon,
J. B. Simmons,
D. P. Smith,
P. B. Spear,
G. M. Spratt,
G. M. Stone,
Th. Swaim,
H. Talbird,
E. E. L. Taylor,
T. C. Teasdale,
A. Ten Brook,
J. B. Tombes,
Levi Tucker,
Silas Tucker,
H. A. Tupper,
E. Turney,
H. C. Vogel,
Jonathan Wade,
W. Ward,
W. R. Webb,
A. Wheelock,
N. M. Wood.
J. H. Raymond,
D. Read,
THEOLOGICAL (FRADUATES.
Under any year, names below the line are of those who took only
a portion of the Theological Course.
1822.
Jason Corwin, John G. Stearns,
Eugenio Kincaid, Jonathan Wade,
Van Rensselaer Wall.
1823.
John B. Ballard, Francis H. Johnson,
John Newton Brown, Elias Johnson,
Parley Brown, Griffith Jones,
Charles H. La Hatt, Eleazer Savage,
Reuben Winchell.
1824.
John Beaver, Edward Hodge,
Pharcellus Church, Jacob Knapp,
William B. Curtis, Beriah N. Leach,
Francis W. Emmons, Eber Tucker,
William Hutchinson, Holland Turner.
1825.
David Corwin, Asahel Pelton,
Jared Doolittle, Joel Peck, -
Chancellor Hartshorn, Daniel Platt,
John C. Holt, William West.
428 THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES.
Marvin Allen,
Norman Bentley,
Jirah D. Cole,
William Collins,
Amasa Clark,
Jesse Elliott, .
Jacob Fisk,
Jairus Handy,
Ezra W. Clark,
Henry Davis,
Zelora Eaton,
Adrian Foote,
Isaac D. Hosford,
Charles Morton,
R.
Orsamus Allen,
Henry F. Baldwin,
Veramis Bemis,
Joseph II. Chamberlain,
Daniel Eldridge,
Caleb Brown,
Solomon Clough,
Joshua Fletcher,
Edmund S. Goodenough,
Absalom Miner,
Dyer A. Nichols,
1826.
Wakeman G. Johnson.
Farnham Knowlton,
Peter Latimer,
William G. Miller,
Silas Pratt,
Peter Simonson,
Seth Smalley,
Thomas A. Warner.
1827.
Thomas Pilgrim,
Benjamin R. Skinner,
Lemuel Stannard,
Jabez S. Swan,
Zacheus Tripp,
Henry C. Vogel,
. Williams.
1S2S.
Michael Frederick,
Charles H. IIubbard,
Levi Rºneeland,
Horatio Pratt,
William W. Smith,
Levi Walker.
| 829. is
Israel Robords,
IIenry C. Skinner,
Orson Spencer,
Cullen Townsend,
Levi Tucker,
Rudolphus L. Wilson.
THEOLOGICAL GPADUATES. -> 429
1830.
Julius C. Barlow, Joel H. Green,
Norman G. Chase, John Green,
John Doty, Charles Randall,
William Drown, John Wilder.
1831.
John L. Moore,
Isaac D. Newell,
Samuel Read,
J. T. Whitmore,
Abner Webb.
Alvin Bailey,
Gardner Bartlett,
William Chafee,
Moses Field,
John MacDonald,
1832.
No Theological Class was graduated, on account of the extension of
the Course.
1833.
Grover S. Comstock,
William Dean,
Allen B. Freeman,
Hosea. Howard,
Lewis Ranstead,
Judah L. Richmond,
Vernon Smith,
Joseph W. Taggart,
Justus H. Vinton,
Alonzo Wheelock,
Richard S. Witherell,
James J. Woolsey.
1834--7.
No Theological Class was graduated, on account of the extension of
the Course. w
183
Ralph M. Prentice,
John H. Raymond,
Philetus B. Spear.
S
James N. Granger,
Alanson P. Mason,
Philetus B. Peck,
430 THEO
LOGICAL GRADUATES.
Rufus K. Bellamy,
William C. Crane,
Edmund W. Dickinson,
Frederick Ketchum,
Jeremiah Chaplin, Jr.,
Justin O. Edmunds,
William W. Everts,
Velona R. Hotchkiss,
Rufus F. Buell,
Adams Cleghorn,
George R. Bliss,
Alfred A. Constantine,
Luke Davis,
Henry Billings,
William Dickens,
Leroy Church,
Peter Colgrove,
Peter Conrad,
Edmund B. Cross,
Eleazer C. Eager,
Abraham P. Howell,
William E. Locke,
James O. Mason,
Dexter P. Smith,
Norman N. Wood.
1839.
Josiah F. Jones,
William M. Pratt,
Elisha E. L. Taylor,
Wilbur Tillinghast.
Ira Corwin,
George W. Dorrance.
1840.
Edward Ely,
Earl P. Salisbury,
Harvey Silliman,
Edmund Turney.
Thomas Holman,
Ransom M. Sawyer,
Samuel Silsbee.
1841.
Lawson Muzzy,
John T. Seeley,
Henry J. Talbird,
Andrew Ten Brook,
Charles W. Watrous.
Edward Lathrop,
Alfred H. Taylor.
THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES. 481
Seymour W. Adams,
Joseph A. Bullard,
Ebenezer S. Davis,
Henry L. Graves,
George W. Harris,
Luther Humphrey,
Charles T. Johnson?
1842.
Thomas G. Lamb,
Mylon Merriam,
Robert R. Raymond,
Humphrey Richards,
Edward Savage,
Samuel R. Shotwell,
Perly Work,
Thomas G. Wright.
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Levi Parmely, Rufus Sears.
1843.
No Class was graduated in Theology this year.
1844.
George C. Baldwin,
Otis Hackett,
Norman Harris,
Orrin B. Judd,
John A. Nash,
William Branch,
Henry K. Everts,
Spencer S. Ainsworth,
John C. Burroughs,
Adoniram J. Chaplin,
Peter C. Dayfoot,
Joseph A. Dixson,
Wheelock H. Parmly,
Nehemiah M. Perkins,
Roswell R. Prentice,
Zebina Smith,
George W. Ten Brook,
Sidney Wilder.
****
S. S. Kingsley,
Isaac Niles, Jr.
1845.
Joel W. Fish,
Stillman B. Grant,
Joseph O. Metcalf, .
William S. Mikels,
William F. Purington,
432 THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES.
William Roney,
Daniel F. Twiss,
O. Church Wheeler.
Xantine Garrison,
George W. Anderson,
John S. Beecher,
E. Boekenoogen,
Samuel J. Bronson,
Benjamin F. Bronson,
William C. Duncan,
J. Wheeler Osborne.
1846.
Samuel Graves,
Edward C. Lord,
Linus M. Peck,
William Shelton,
Cyrus Shook,
Thomas Swaim,
Clesson P. Sheldon.
George W. Holbrook.
Appleton H. Danforth,
Hezekiah IIarvey,
Samuel IIaskell,
Reuben Jeffery,
Joseph R. Manton,
Adoniram J. Bingham,
Charles A. Buckbee,
Harvey M. Campbell,
John Duer,
Barzilia B. Gibbs,
Leonard Ilsley,
George J. Johnson,
Solomon B. Johnson,
1847.
Elisha W. Pierce,
John W. Sarles,
Ira J. Stoddard,
Jonathan B. Tombes,
William R. Webb.
1848.
Ira E. Kenney,
Calvin C. Moore,
David A. Peck,
Solomon S. Relyea,
Milton S. Shirk,
Samuel J. Smith,
J. B. Stiteler,
Henry L. Van Meter,
George W. Young.
THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES. 433
william Wilder, William H. Wines.
1849.
Alexander M. Beebee, Jr., Elihu Gunn,
William C. Brown, Harvey E. Knapp
George W. Gorham, John D. Meeson,
Levi O. Grenell, James H. Pratt,
Bowles C. Townsend.
William Cornell, J. G. Lyman,
Silas Hemingway, H. G. Mason,
Lucian M. Osborn.
1 S50.
Aaron H. Burlingham, Albert H. Mixer,
J. S. Goodman, Aaron Potter,
J. Stanford Holme, E. H. Scarff,
Alexander M. Hopper, H. Allen Tupper,
William Ward.
John D. L. Greene, William Leet,
Luman W. Hayhurst, Lucian S. Stowell.
sº
1851.
William T. Biddle, Joseph Burnett.
Erastus H. Burr, C, J. C. Phelps,
Asa B. Cabaniss, IIenry M. Richardson,
Peter Irvin, William W. Sawyer,
Charles Keyser, A D. S. Snodgrass.
434 THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES.
1852.
Thomas Allen, Darius H. Paul,
William Carpenter, Abram T. Rose,
William J. Parkhurst, John C. Ward.
Amos H. Covey, George N. Thornton.
l 853.
George H. Brigham, Miles J. Knowlton, vX^
Luman B. Chamberlain, Hiram A. Morgan.
Emmons P. Bond. V’
1854.
Courtland W. Anable, v^ Peter F. Jones,
Joseph J. Babcock, O Henry Steelman.
Emmet D. Craig, N. Jerome Norton.
Isaac T. Whittemore.
1855.
Harmon Dyke, Joseph W. Hammond,
George E. Hatch, Elliott P. Merrifield,
*
Henry L. Simpson.
Reuben Jones.
1856.
Jonas H. Browne, CX Jay Huntington,
Dewitt C. Cronk, Q. Thomas M. Ind,
Silas B. Gregory, J’ John La Grange,
ºxº-
THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES.
435
Jerome B. Morse,
William B. Smith,
Charles J. Thompson,
Walter N. Wyeth.
mºmºmºsºmº º
Derwin W. Sharts.
James L. Andrus
Alanson H. Bliss,
Edwin P. Brigham,
Marshall J. L. Dunbar,
Freeman P. Lang,
William E. Lyon,
Robert Atkinson,
Putnam P. Bishop,
Simeon P. Brown, O
James R. Eaton,
Thomas R. Howlett,
Horace G. Hubbard,
Hinton S. Loyd,
Ebenezer Edwards,
Oliver W. Gates,
John R. Baumes, V
Edwin D. Bentley,
Edwin C. Cady,
Horace M. Carr,
Gordon A. Daugharty,
1857.
William T. Potter,
Richard M. Rhoades,
Kelsey Walling.
H. E. W. Palmer,
Lanson Steward,
William Stewart.
1858.
William H. Maynard, p /D
Abraham C. Osborn,
Robert A. Paterson,
John B. T. Patterson,
Isaac N. Pease,
Cyrus F. Tolman, Le sº
John W. Ward,
Milan L. Ward.
Eli B. Law,
John D. Pope. 12"
1859.
William Dunbar,
James R. Haswell, V
Wilber M, Ingersoll,
Horace Jenkins,
George W. Lasher, ºr
-" b />
436 THEOLOGICAL GRAI) UATES.
William L. Palmer, Reuben H. Weeks,
Samuel S. Utter, Edmund P. Weed,
Mortimer V. Willson.
Leonard B. Hatch, Albert Martin,
David Morse.
1860.
Stillman S. Bidwell, John Mathews,
Samuel Bishop, Leonard J. Matteson, vº
Joshua B. Davis, Justus E. Maynard,
Samuel J. Douglass, Frank E. Miller,
William W. Ferris, David O. Parker,
John C. Foster, & Ira O. Pierce,
Isaac E. Gates, Frederick G. Reineman,
Aaron C. Lyon, NZ Mortimer S. Riddell, º, J) D
Edward P. Scott. O
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Charles W. Clark, David E. Holmes,
James Dewar, Levi J. Lincoln,
J. Goble, D. N. Mason,
Hiram Warren.
I S61.
A. Judson Allen, Henry S. Day,
Josiah B. Conyers, M. D., George D. Downey,
Henry A. Cordo, v’ David T. James, C}
Solomon Culver, Frank Johnson, V b Jº
- George R. Pierce.
George A. Bishop, Thomas P. Coulston,
Samuel S. Chase, George M. Stone. Y ^ º
THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES. 437
1862.
Henry D. Burdick,
Wilfred Dean,
Moses J. Goff, Ö
William James, o
Andrew Lindsay,
John A. Pickard,
Samuel H. Sayler,
John Trenaman,
Charles E. Tucker. Cy
Augustus Armagnac,
Wayland Hoyt, v’
Charles H. James.
William A. Briggs,
Christie W. Burnham,
William N. Clarke, V’
Thomas Cull,
1863.
Norman C. Mallory, 12°
W. W. Merriam,
Ethan B. Palmer,
Thomas Pattison,
Theodore S. Wooden.
Edwin S. Wheeler.
N. Lloyd Andrews, v2.
Jonathan Bastow,
Edwin I. Bennett,
John Donnelly, Jr., wº
Edward B. Edmunds,
1864.
Leman Q. Galpin,
Zelotes Grenell, Jr., vº
Charles H. Johnson,
Sylvester J. Lusk,
Francis W. Towle, v/
James D. Tucker.
Thomas A. Batson,
Samuel K. Dexter,
John R. Haskins.
J. Evans Bitting,
Edward M. Blanchard,
Jonathan B. Child,
1865.
Eri B. Hulbert, v/
William E. Lockhart,
John Peddie. y^
4.38 THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES.
William H. Rugg, John W. Terry,
William E. Stanton, Owen A. Williams,
E. Arthur Woods.
Frank Adkins, Charles H. Nash,
W. W. Huntington, Thomas W. Powell,
John Ringdon, Stephen O. Rhodes,
Richard W. W. Snow. C)
1866.
Henry H. Bawden, Clark B. Oakley,
George Cooper, vº" Asa E. Reynolds,
Thomas A. T. Hanna, vº Thomas Thompson,
Austin S. Merrifield, T. L. Wellman.
Safford D. Moxley.
1867.
J. Bartlett Barry, John S. McReen,
A. Judson Frost, V Henry H. Peabody,
William C. Gunn, Daniel W. Skinner,
John W. Henry, Iysander L. Wood.
A. Judson Lyon, Hubert C. Woods, y
John A. Edgren, Leonard Smith.
º 1868.
Jefferson H. Austermell, William H. Pease,
Henry W. Jones, William M. Robinson,
William T. Lowry, Y Harvey R. Traver,
William G. Walker.
D. D. Owen.
THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES. & 439
1869.
% A. H. Ball, tº Edward C. Romine,
& Albert M. Prentice, º, Charles C. Smith,
6 James M. Taylor. vº
Charles E. Becker, Edward Judson, V
George Keely.
1870.
* . James H. Andrews, vº *: David B. Jutten, vT
P. C. Bentley, John Love, Jr.,
3 Joseph F. Shoards.
Emory D. Craft, Moung Kyaw,
* David R. Watson.
1871.
William H. Dorward, Halsey Moore,
William M. Lawrence, v- Rudolph R. Riddell,
& George O. Whitney.
GRADUATES OF THE FULL THEOLOGICAL COURSE, 415.
CoLLEGE GRADUATES WHO Took A YEAR OR MORE OF THE THEo-
LOGICAL COURSE, 104.
Graduates of the Shorter Course and of the Scientific Course who
also graduated in theology, more than a hundred ; making a total of
over six hundred theological students besides those who are on the list
of non-graduates, many of whom studied Hebrew and theology.
COLLEGIATE (RADUATES.
THE course of study in the Hamilton Lit. and Theol. Inst. being
gradually developed and extended, the present division into Grammar-
School, University, and Theological Seminary, was not made until
1833, and no Collegiate Class was graduated until 1835.
The mark (|) indicates, up to 1856, what was known as the Shorter
Course; since 1856 it indicates the Scientific Course, and implies the
degree of B. P.
1835.
Rufus F. Buell, Anthony Lamb,
Edmund W. Dickinson, William E. Locke,
James N. Granger, John F. Richardson,
William H. Shailer.
1836.
Miles Bronson, | Lyman B. King,
| Almiron Brown, Asa Marsh,
William Brown, Alanson P. Mason,
william C. Crane, James O. Mason,
George C. Chandler, Philetus B. Peck,
Sylvester Davis, Ralph M. Prentice,
Samuel S. Day, John II. Raymond,
| Henry B. Ewell, Alanson Read,
Ilucien Hayden, | Peter Robinson,
James M. Haswell, Dexter P. Smith,
James S. Hascall, Philetus B. Spear,
| Charles R. Kellam, | Lyman Stilson,
Frederick Ketchum, Jacob Thomas.
COLLEGIATE GRADUATES. 441
Adams Cleghorn,
Ira Corwin,
George W. Dorrance,
Hansford A. Duncan,
Joseph H. Eaton,
Justin O. Edmunds,
1837.
William W. Everts,
Hiram A. Gardiner,
Velona R. Hotchkiss,
Josiah F. Jones,
William M. Pratt,
Edward G. Sears,
Elisha E. L. Taylor.
| Cyrus Barker,
Charles L. Bacon,
Henry Billings,
George R. Bliss,
| Isaac Bloomer,
| Charles E. Brown,
| Edwin C. Brown,
| Isaac K. Brownson,
Alfred A. Constantine,
| Joshua Currier,
Luke Davis,
Ezra Dean,
William Dickens,
Eleazer C. Eager,
Edward Ely,
| Ambler Edson,
| Abel Haskell,
| Hiram B. Hayward,
| Samuel S. Hayward,
| David M. Burdick,
Leroy Church,
Peter Colgrove,
| S3S.
Thomas Holman,
| John Johns,
| David J. Lloyd,
| Edward Mathews,
| Daniel McPhail,
Buckley C. Morse,
| Edwin D. Reed,
Demas Robinson,
Earl P. Salisbury,
Harvey Silliman,
| Corydon H. Slafter,
Ransom M. Sawyer,
James Squier,
Benjamin F. Taylor,
Edmund Turney,
| Stephen Van Husen,
| George C. Walker,
| Rodolphus Weston,
| Lyman Wilder.
1839.
Peter Conrad,
Edmund B. Cross,
Elijah B. Galusha,
29
442 COLLEGIATE GRADUATEs.
| Collins A. Hewitt,
Abram P. Howell,
George Kempton,
Edward Lathrop,
Lawson Muzzy,
| Asa Bennett,
Ebenezer S. Davis,
| Stillman A. Fisher,
Daniel H. Gillette,
George W. Harris,
| Hiram Hutchins,
Charles T. Johnson,
| Abram Knapp,
James S. Ladd,
Thomas G. Damb,
| Isaac Marvin,
| Warren B. Morey,
Samuel M. Bainbridge,
William Branch,
| Jonathan Brayton,
Joseph A. Bullard,
Samuel Cross,
| Nathaniel Cudworth,
| Charles Graves,
| O. Adams,
George C. Baldwin,
William D. Bunnell,
| Edwin H. Bailey,
John T. Seeley,
Henry J. Talbird,
Alfred H. Taylor,
Andrew Ten Brook,
Charles W. Watrous.
1840.
Levi Parmely,
| David Phillips,
| Abraham Platt,
| Francis Prescott,
William C. Richards,
Rufus Sears,
Samuel R. Shotwell,
Edward Savage,
| Marvin Simons,
| George Silver,
William R. Webb,
| Lyman Whitney.
I S41.
Orrin B. Judd,
Nehemiah M. Perkins,
Roswell R. Prentice,
| John B. Sackett,
| Elisha Sawyer,
| A. B. Stowell,
| A. M. Tyler,
Sidney Wilder.
l 842.
Harvey M. Campbell,
William Dwinelle,
Henry K. Everts,
| Prentice Frink,
COLLEGIATE GRADUATES. 443
Albert Guy,
Otis Hackett,
Norman Harris,
Cyrus L. Hartwell,
S. S. Kingsley,
| David P. Marryot,
John A. Nash,
Isaac Niles, Jr.,
| A. L. L. Potter,
Artemas Rogers,
|
|
Spencer S. Ainsworth,
| A. Cornell,
| O. L. Cruttenden,
H. Daniels,
Peter C. Day foot,
Joseph A. Dixson,
A. J. D winelle,
Joel W. Fish,
| Elba Fuller,
| John Fulton,
Ezra S. Gallup,
Oliver W. Gibbs,
Stillman B. Grant,
John B. Halstead,
E. L. Harris,
George W. Anderson,
John S. Beecher,
Benjamin F. Bronson,
Samuel J. Bronson,
Melville K. Calkins,
| J. V. Dewitt,
| D. W. Smith,
Zebina Smith,
| Augustus T. Teal,
| John J. Teeple,
Alfred Taylor,
George W. Ten Brook,
| Jeremiah Weatherby,
| Henry Wescott,
| I. H. Wood,
| Stephen Wright.
1S43.
Edward T. Hiscox,
| L. J. Huntley,
| S. S. Martin,
William S. Mikels,
J. Wheeler Osborn,
William F. Purington,
William Roney,
| Jesse N. Seeley,
| J. W. Starkweather,
Daniel F. Twiss,
Philip Voorhees,
O. Church Wheeler,
| Samuel Ward,
| John Warren.
1844.
| Cantine Garrison,
Samuel Graves,
George W. Holbrook,
Edward C. Tord,
John H. Morrison,
Levi Morse,
444
COLLEGIATE GRADUATES.
John Munro, Jr.,
Lewis Peck,
| Charles B. Post,
| Andrew Armstrong,
Appleton H. Danforth,
John R. Downer,
Edward P. Fletcher,
| Alexander Gamble,
Hezekiah Harvey,
Joseph P. Hay,
| Isaac F. Herrick,
Reuben Jeffery,
E. N. Jencks,
John L. Appleton,
| Henry D. Bardwell,
A. Judson Bingham,
Charles A. Buckbee,
John Duer,
Barzilia B. Gibbs,
Benjamin Griffith,
Chancellor Hartshorn,
John J. Higgins,
Leonard Ilsley,
George J. Johnson,
Solomon B. Johnson,
Ira E. Kenney,
Alexander M. Beebee, Jr.
Terry Bradley,
Eli W. Brownell,
, Oscar L. Sprague,
Thomas Swaim,
Clesson P. Sheldon.
1845.
George M. Lawton,
Isaac N. Loomis, Jr.,
| Lucius W. Nicholls,
Elisha W. Pierce,
John W. Sarles,
Jesse B. Saxton,
Ira J. Stoddard,
Jonathan B. Tombes,
| Ransom Walker,
| Alfred Wells.
1846.
Freeman Lillybridge,
| Levi L. Mann.
Calvin C. Moore,
Stiles S. Parker,
David A. Peck,
Columbus C. Shires,
Lewis Smith,
Samuel J. Smith,
Munroe Weed,
William Wilder,
William H. Wines,
William A. Wright,
'George W. Young.
1847.
A. Judson Buell,
William Cornell,
Thomas A. Dodge,
COLLEGIATE GRADUATES. 445
Michael P. Forbes,
George W. Gorham,
Levi O. Grenell,
Elihu Gunn,
Josiah M. Hedges,
Joseph K. Hornish,
Harvey E. Knapp,
John D. Meeson,
Lucian M. Osborn,
James H. Pratt,
Bowles C. Townsend.
John G. Bowen,
William C. Burchard,
Aaron H. Burlingham,
Alexander W. Carr,
James S. Dickerson,
John D. L. Greene,
1848.
J. Stanford Holme,
Alexander M. Hopper,
James E. Kimball,
William Leet,
Lark S. Livermore,
Albert H. Mixer,
Orrin N. Gorton, | Russell G. Toles,
Luman W. Hayhurst, William Ward,
Charles C. Wellington.
} S49.
Charles Ayer,
William T. Biddle,
Joseph Burnett,
Erastus H. Burr,
Daniel J. Freas,
Augustus W. Goodnow,
Isaac N. Hill,
Peter Irvin,
Charles Keyser,
Thomas Allen,
Asa B. Cabaniss,
Thomas P. Campbell,
William Carpenter,
Watson Clark,
John R. Murphy,
Nelson Palmer,
Henry M. Richardson,
William A. Reed,
William W. Sawyer,
Lemuel Walton,
Warren S. Webb,
Meriwether Winston,
William C. Wright.
Amos H. Covey,
Myron M. Goodenough,
Levi S. Hancock,
Austin Harmon,
Thomas C. Hartshorn,
446 CO}_LEGIATE {}RADUATES.
Oscar Howes, Abram T. Rose,
George Johnson, John M. Shaw,
Commodore P. Jones, Henry B. Shermer,
Samuel T. Livermore, Franklin A. Slater,
John R. Nisbet, Jesse D. Sprague,
Tuke Osborn, Amos H. Starkweather,
Morris A. Page, Orlando B. Stone,
William J. Parkhurst, George N. Thornton,
Darius H. Paul, John C. Ward,
William H. Randall, T)aniel Whitaker.
1851.
Miles J. Knowlton, Heman H. Sanford.
1 S52.
Clinton C. Buell, N. Jerome Norton,
Delavan Bloodgood, Henry Steelman,
Hiram A. Morgan, Isaac T. Whittemore.
1853.
Horace Burchard, N. L. Reynolds,
Joseph W. Hammond, Madison Riddlebarger,
John H. Kent, - Henry L. Simpson,
Elliott P. Merrifield, Alanson Tilden.
1854.
Edward R. Bates, Jay Huntington,
Jonas H. Browne, Thomas M. Ind,
Harvey D. Burlingham, Horace B. Loomis,
Dewitt C. Cronk, Elial Rice,
Lewis H. Davis, Abijah Rittenhouse,
Silas B. Gregory, Derwin W. Sharts,
Moses Heath, Walter N. Wyeth.
COLLEGIATE GRADUATES. 447
1855.
Augustus W. Alexander,
James L. Andrus,
Alanson H. Bliss,
Philip P. Brown,
James Chrystal,
Abner D. Gorham,
Freeman P. Lang,
James W. Leverett,
William E. Lyon,
Abraham C. Osborne,
Henry E. W. Palmer,
Jerome B. Patch,
John F. Patton,
William T. Potter,
Milan L. Ward.
Charles Ager,
Marinus N. Allen,
Robert Atkinson,
D. Pratt Baldwin,
| Edwin P. Brigham,
Morris Briggs,
Wilber M. Brown,
Horace M. Carr,
| Marshall J. L. Dunbar,
George B. Eaton,
1856.
Thomas R. Howlett,
Eli B. Law,
Hinton S. Lloyd,
Albert R. Newton,
William L. Palmer,
Thomas Pattison,
Isaac N. Pease,
John D. Pope.
Eli W. Stone,
William A. Smith,
| William B. Smith,
| Lanson Steward,
| William Stewart,
R. Le Grand Thatcher,
Cyrus F. Tolman,
William N. Wilbur.
James R. Eaton,
Moses G. Fellows,
| Caleb H. Gallup,
Oliver W. Gates,
William M. Hartshorn,
Edwin J. Hatch,
1 S5 7.
| Nathaniel A. Adams, | Simeon P. lxrown,
Moses Barker,
John R. Baumes,
Edwin D...Bentley,
Edwin C. Cady,
Gordon A. Daugharty,
William Dunbar,
448 COLLEGIATE GRAIDUſ ATES.
Lorenzo Fish,
James R. Haswell,
Edmund O. Hovey,
| Wilber M. Ingersoll,
Horace Jenkins,
George W. Lasher,
William P. Moon,
John S. Applegate,
Stillman S. Bidwell,
Samuel Bishop,
| Samuel J. Douglass,
James Edmunds, Jr.,
William W. Ferris,
Isaac E. Gates,
David E. Holmes,
John M. Langworthy,
| Rush G. Leaming,
Andrew Tindsay,
A. Judson Allen,
George Arrowsmith,
Almond Barrell,
| J. Judson Barrell,
| George A. Bishop,
Samuel S. Chase,
Enos Clarke,
Henry A. Cordo,
Solomon Culver,
| Henry S. Day,
George M. Stone.
Ferris Scott,
William C. Tilden,
Samuel S. Utter,
| ICelsey Walling,
Edmund P. Weed,
Reuben H. Weeks,
Henry O. Wheeler.
1 S58.
John Matthews,
Leonard J. Matteson,
Justus E. Maynard,
William C. McCarthy,
Ev. W. Moore,
David C. Mott,
David O. Parker,
Alfred W. Peck,
Ira O. Pierce,
Ralph Pendleton,
Frederick G. Reineman,
Hiram Warren.
*
1859.
George D. Downey.
Milton E. Fisk,
David T. James,
William A. Lewis,
Warren Mason,
Egbert R. Middlebrook,
Francis Palmer,
George R. Pierce,
Daniel E. Pope,
Thomas E. Stillman
2
coLLEGIATE GRADUATES. 449
1860.
Henry D. Burdick,
John W. Coley,
Edward B. Edmunds,
Moses J. Goff,
William James,
| James A. Onderdonk,
Thomas W. Osborn,
Ethan B. Pahmer,
John A. Pickard,
Samuel H. Sayler,
| Jireh Tucker, Jr.
Justus B. Vinton,
| Louis H. Woodruff.
Matthew C. Kempsey,
William I. Knapp,
1861.
Frank Adkins,
William S. Apsey,
Sidney S. Babcock,
Jonathan Bastow,
William F. Benedict,
John S. Blanden,
Rnut O. Broady,
Arthur L. Brooks,
| Christie W. Burnham,
William N. Clarke,
Walter R. Gillette,
Silas P. Koonts,
N. Lloyd Andrews,
| Thomas A. Batson,
| Edwin I. Bennett,
William P. Burdick,
Samuel K. Dexter,
John Donnelly, Jr.,
Leman Q. Galpin,
Zelotes Grenell, Jr.,
Charles H. Johnson,
Orson E. Mallory,
Norman C. Mallory,
William McIntyre,
Perry G. Packer,
Charles G. A. Patterson,
Robert Pickard,
John D. Pulis,
Jeptha C. Prall,
William E. Stanton,
Samuel D. Wadsworth,
Hardin Wheat,
Charles E. Wilson, Jr.
1862.
John Peddie,
Philander Reynolds,
William H. Rugg,
James H. Sage,
Asher Starkweather,
Francis W. Towle,
Charles W. Underhill,
Edgar Westcott,
Monson A. Willcox.
450 OOLLEGIATE GRADUATES.
James M. Berry,
Jonathan B. Child,
| J. Hammett,
j| William E. Lockhart,
Charles H. Nash,
Henry H. Bawden,
John C. Foote,
Benjamin F. Gifford,
Thomas A. T. Hanna,
| Benjamin F. Williams.
J. Bartlett Barry,
William F. Basten,
| Peter J. Crofoot,
Adoniram J. Frost,
| William C. Gunn,
Louis P. Hornberger,
| John W. Henry,
Henry W. Jones,
A. Judson Lyon,
Joseph C. Buchanan,
#| Charles T. Eaton,
George L. C. Hanna,
Elisha P. Hickok,
William T. Lowry,
1863.
Richard W. W. Snow,
Frank B. Spear,
William F. Thompson,
| Samuel Vanton,
Owen A. Williams,
. Arthur Woods.
1864.
George W. Mason,
| John S. McKeen,
Austin S. Merrifield,
Asa E. Reynolds,
i865.
| Henry H. Peabody,
| Isaac F. Porter,
| L. Louis Settle,
| Preston K. Sheldon,
Daniel W. Skinner,
Buel A. Smith,
Teonard Smith,
Charles R. Spear,
Hubert C. Woods.
1866.
William S. Mitchell,
William H. Pease,
William M. Robinson,
Harvey R. Traver,
William G. Walker.
COLLEGIATE GRADUATES. 451
Charles E. Becker,
David B. Jutten,
| George Keely,
Horton G. Miller,
Albert M. Prentice,
James H. Andrews,
Edgar M. Barnes,
Emory D. Craft,
| George D. Jewett,
Edward K. Chandler,
William C. Eaton,
James W. Ford,
Silas W. Hatch,
| Charles Pratt,
George K. Allen,
William H. Bright,
Corydon Crain,
Nathan H. Dimon,
William T. C. Hanna,
John D. Kelley,
1867.
Edward C. Romine,
Daniel B. Ryder,
Charles C. Smith,
James M. Taylor,
Hervey E. Williams.
1868.
| Moung Kyaw,
Clayton M. Parke,
Joseph F. Shoards,
Abram P. Sprague,
David R. Watson.
1869.
Jabez Smashall,
Nelson Sutton,
George A. Thomas,
Ezra Tinker,
George O. Whitney.
1 S70.
| William M. Lawrence,
Edward F. Meredith,
John F. Marphy,
Joseph M. Smith,
James J. Townsend,
Gould J. Travis.
452 CôLLEGIATE GRADUATES.
1871.
George F. Arnold, Alexander Peloubet,
Wardwell Beach, Charles B. Perkins,
Woodley W. Campbell, Daniel Rogers,
| Gates S. Comstock, Philo W. Sackett,
Leonard J. Dean, E. Fayette Smith.
TOTAL OF COLLEGIATE GRADUATES, 641.
INON-GTRADUATE STUDENTS.
THE year is that of entrance. Up to 1830, no data exist by which to ascer.
tain the length of time spent in the Institution. To this point, therefore, the
names are alphabetically arranged. From 1830 onward, they are arranged
according to the relative length of their student-life in Hamilton, varying from
one to five years.
Names at the beginning of each group under the respective years of entrance
are of those who remained longest , names at the end of each group, of those
whose stay was most brief; names in the right-hand column follow the last of
the left-hand column. The gradation is believed to be, if not absolutely, at
least substantially, accurate.
Such as pursued theological studies only, or in addition to previous literary
studies, will be found, after the year 1838, also under the head of “Theological
Graduates,” appropriately distinguished from them. A few of such, before enter-
ing the Theological Seminary, had graduated from some other college. Others
of the following list subsequently graduated from other institutions. In both
these cases, the fact of graduation elsewhere, if known, is stated in the sketches
of all such from whom reports have been received.
1820.
Harvey Blood, James Nickerson,
Norman Guiteau, Luther Saxon,
Charles H. Goodale, Philip S. Slocum,
Ebenezer S. Hubbell, William Watkins,
Joseph Monroe, Seth S. Whitman.
I 821.
Gideon B. Perry.
1822.
John I. Fulton, J. D. Hart,
Ruben Sawyer.
1823.
Avery Case, - Richard C. Shimeall,
David Tower.
454
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS.
Joseph Alden,
James Berry,
James Bloodgood,
George B. Davis,
Michael Frederick
2
Madore Beaubien,
Joseph Bourassa,
David Carlisle,
Martin L. Fuller,
John Jones,
Jerome S. Anderson,
John O. Birdsall,
Anthony Case,
Samuel R. Clark,
Wheeler I. Crane,
Gershom B. Day,
Alfred Gates,
Ansel Griffith,
Jacob Grants,
Elihu Barber,
James M. Cooley,
1824.
Heman H. Haff,
Paul Richards,
Conant Sawyer,
Benjamin St. John,
Stephen Wilkins.
1825.
Russel Jennings,
Washington Kingsley.
1826.
John Laleme,
Hervey Little,
Peter Leonglois,
Andrew Fuller (Nucko),
Luther Rice,
Joseph Wickoff.
1827.
Abner Goodell,
Ebenezer Hopkins,
Stephen Hutchins,
Aaron Parker,
Daniel M. Root,
Sheldon N. Smith,
John Teasdale,
Melancthon Turner,
Teuben Winegar.
1828.
Noah Fuller,
A. D. Gillette,
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS. 455
Chauncey Hawley,
Justin R. Loomis,
Edward Macomber,
Bradley Miner,
Reuben Morey,
Charles Robinson,
Nathan E. Shailer,
Andrew M. Smith,
Thomas C. Teasdale,
Daniel Wiers, s”
Abraham Woodward,
William T. Boynton,
William Denison,
Edwin A. Doolittle,
Horace D. Doolittle,
James Eldredge,
Sidney Estee,
Levi Foster,
Russell Hervey,
John C. Keene,
Horace T. Love,
Ralph I. Brown,
Solomon Carpenter,
Franklin D. Pierson,
George L. Russell,
Henry Wooster,
Simon G. Miner,
Jesse M. Purinton,
William A. Brownson,
Enos C. Myers,
Charles C. Park,
Elihu Robinson,
Luman W. Webster,
Abel Brown,
1829.
Levi M. Mack,
Stephen B. Page,
Davis T. Shailer,
Ezekiel Saxton,
R. Slayton,
Lorenzo Strong,
Thomas Thayer,
Orrin Vaughn,
Ashley Vaughn,
George Walker.
1830.
Israel C. Bourn,
William Beckwith,
Holmes Beckwith,
Samuel Beckwith,
Robert Brisbain,
Clement Havens,
Truman Hendryx,
Alvin Kingsley,
Silas Morse,
Thomas E. Purinton,
Jonathan Simmons,
G. Simmons,
Alexander Smith.
456
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS.
George M. Spratt,
Daniel C. Wait,
George A. Curtis,
Ilovell Ingalls,
James McClallan,
Charles Tucker,
Daniel Wait,
Waterman Burlingame,
Luke Colby,
Charles Fisk,
Charles A. Fox,
Alfred B. Hubbard,
Joseph W. Spoor,
Adam Bullock,
Harvey Miller,
Samuel Aldrich,
William H. Auderson,
James R. Boise,
William H. Rice,
Alfred G. Slocum,
Joseph Belden,
Abraham C. Brownson,
Crary Brown,
Henry Clark,
William M. Doolittle,
Herman J. Eddy,
Hiram H. Everts,
Tewis T. Ford,
Deicester Ferguson,
Alfred Harvey,
Ziba Howard,
1831.
David Searl,
Amos D. Watrous,
Jay S. Backus,
Joseph Clark,
Philo Forbes,
Palmer Hymes,
Calvin Horton,
Richard Griffing,
James Nye,
George W. Warren,
J. E. Ambrose,
John H. Baker.
1832.
John B. Quackenbush,
Giles Quick,
Benjamin Rice,
James M. Stickney,
Stephen Tower,
Zacheus Tower,
Hervey Ward,
Jonathan N. Webb,
Robert Young,
Manning Blakesly,
Charles Bolles,
Jacob W. Cole,
Ansel Crocker,
Temuel Fitch,
William Frary,
Nelson Ferguson,
Solomon Gale,
Frederic Glanville,
Oliver T. Hammond,
NON-GTRADUATE STUDENTS. 457
Merrit House,
Guilford Palmer,
Edwin R. Reynolds,
James Salmon,
Marshall W. Leland,
Demas Robinson,
Timothy Fuller,
William Holroyd,
Alfred H. Burlingame,
Lorenzo Rice,
Erastus Wescott,
Wm. D. Corbin,
Thomas G. Keen,
Anson Root,
Romanzo I. Elliott,
John J. Fuller,
John Holliday,
George J. Hyde,
Thomas Benedict,
Silas B. Webster,
Elisha L. Abbott,
George W. Beardsley,
Hezekiah Degolyer,
Pelatiah W. Mills,
Anson L. Ranney,
James B. Townsend,
Horace Spencer,
George W. Walling,
Benjamin Winchell,
Nathan Brown.
1833.
Franklin Woodward,
Hezekiah West,
John H. Walden,
Comfort W. Lane,
Daniel W. Burrows,
Daniel G. Corey,
John W. Crumb,
Harlow Chapman,
Salem T. Griswold,
Thomas Jones,
John Kelley,
Felix H. Levy,
John Porter,
John L. Thompson,
Charles Platts,
Ebenezer V. P. French,
William R. Green,
Daniel Hubbell,
Joseph H. Haughwout,
Calvin Horr,
George H. Lake,
Aaron Graham,
William A. Smith.
Peter Goo,
George F. Post,
Edwin T. Jacobs,
Eli Kimberly,
1834.
Calvin S. Totman,
Oliver Porter,
Benjamin S. Williams,
Isaac Lawton,
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458
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS.
Harlow S. Orton,
Roswell C. Palmer,
John Jones,
La Fayette Baker,
Lucius S. Baker,
Noah Fox, Jr.,
Orlo S. Rogers,
Jeremiah Philips,
James B. Olcott,
George Pennel,
David F. Newton,
Julius S. Shailer,
John J. M. Butler,
Horace L. Hutchins,
Isaac Dodge,
Charles C. Hull,
William N. Hervey,
Charles J. Radford,
Edwin B. Bullard,
Joseph A. Lawton,
Ingraham Powers,
Alexander Bush,
Edwin Carter,
Francisco Smith,
Hiram C. Paddock,
Erastus R. Wilsey,
Nathan Wood,
John V. Ambler,
Henry Bromley,
John C. Dyer,
David Goddard,
Alpheus W. Baker,
Asa M. Button,
John S. Button,
Joshua D. Cook,
Marsena Stone,
Andrew Darling,
R. C. Dwyer,
W. H. H. Dwyer,
Justin W. Denison,
Joseph B. Friend,
Solomon Friend,
Dyer Woodworth,
Robert Leavenworth,
Harvey Munger,
Epenetus Webster,
Alonzo Wadhams,
Samuel P. Way.
1835.
George N. Roe,
Silas Tucker,
Edward E. Whipple,
Lyman Wright,
Ebenezer J. Scott,
William A. Wells,
Benjamin B. Baxter,
Charles K. Colver,
Sylvester Emmons,
Matthew Ker,
James Delany,
Robert Fyfe,
Zara W. Joslyn,
Stephen Pierce,
Daniel Reed.
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS. 459
1836.
Thomas C. Risler,
James H. Stebbins,
Nathan G. Collins,
Chauncey Darby,
Samuel R. Leonard,
Horace Packer,
Charles N. Richmond,
Benjamin Robbins,
Bela Palmer,
Egbert R. Pinney,
Alfred Pinney,
Isaac S. Parsons,
Samuel Adsit,
Joseph H. Sherwin,
Isaac B. Lake,
A. C. Barrell,
William T. Bly,
| Thomas P. Childs,
Henry L. Webb,
Benjamin F. Leavett,
William H. Douglass,
Eliada Tuttle,
Thomas J. Muzzy,
James Clark,
C. N. Woolworth,
Nicholas M. Havens,
Butler Morley,
Wicks S. Titus,
William Dick,
Johnson Howard,
Robert Dick,
Rufus K. Bellamy,
John M. Coe,
Jonathan H. Cotton,
Joseph C. Foster,
Stillman Harrington,
J. B. Leonard,
J. S. Leonard,
Alexander H. Niles
Norman N. Wood,
Howard Willis,
Chauncey Standish,
Zenas Whitney,
John H. Rasco, &
John Upton,
Justus Tailor,
Harry Smith.
1S37.
Ansel G. Jones,
Walter Levisee,
Burton B. Carpenter,
Leonard Swain,
Solomon Wedge,
William H. Eddy,
John H. Ludlam,
Benjamin Warren.
1838.
D. F. Leach,
James P. Cook,"
460 NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS.
John Edminster,
Charles Berry,
Henry D. Buttolph,
John N. Tolman,
Sidney A. Corey,
Walter R. Brooks,
Samuel Silsbee,
Adam Baush,
Jacob Harder,
James Goodrich,
Thomas S. Griffiths,
Edward Royce,
William H. Husted,
Roswell D. French,
Elbridge C. Allen,
Horatio S. Cobb,
Isaae Fargo,
Freeman Gregory,
Victor M. Kingsley,
William J. Nice,
John M. Richards,
Ellis B. Hall,
Theodore Kent,
John M. Coggshall,
Samuel Hough,
Jeremiah B. Taylor,
Martin W. Holmes,
James M. Hope,
J. V. E. Covey,
William W. Carpenter,
J. W. Weatherby,
William M. Jones,
S. S. Wheeler,
Luman C. Bates,
H. Hesler,
Newell Boughton,
Charles Von Loon.
1839.
Chichester Mills,
Joseph Hammett,
William Parker,
Jonathan F. Leaming,
Richard Simpson,
Thomas R. Taylor,
William G. Raymond,
O. C. Warner,
R. M. Richardson,
Hylan Doty,
W. H. Cruttenden,
John J. Teeple,
A. K. Bell,
Riley Beman,
Charles H. Judson,
Newton Paulin,
John W. Reynolds,
Warrem Rice,
A. Whitman.
1840.
Martin R. Forey,
John H. Colgate,
Isaac S. Parker,
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS. 461
Josiah Antisdel,
Edward Conover,
Aaron Gates, Jr.,
John T. Morley,
Harry A. Sears,
Cortland A. Skinner,
Thomas Theall,
J. H. Porter,
Robert M. Ludlow,
M. D. Hayes,
J. J. Estee,
Edgar Cady,
Henry Card,
B. F. Burr,
Colburn Preston,
Josiah Hatt,
Allen J. Hires,
David Taylor,
Julian W. Ahone,
H. D. Barto, Jr.,
Augustine H. Pease,
John S. Warner,
Albert B. Putnam,
Samuel Winterton,
Jedediah Scott,
Jonas Townsend,
Jonathan Marble,
Jonathan Melvin,
Myron T. Wadsworth,
E. L. Benedict,
H. Essex,
G. C. Milman,
James Lyon,
Robert Snow,
Chauncey A. King,
Orren Shipman,
John J. Eberlee,
G. W. Freeman,
Lorenzo Ingham,
Charles Kain,
Daniel L. McGear,
Myron H. Negus,
Rufus H. Thurber.
Emerson W. Bliss,
Daniel G. Aber,
E. W. Goodrich,
Norman B. Baldwin,
Edward G. Bradbury,
Dewitt C. Colgrove,
George W. Hervey,
George M. Slaysman,
Melancthon Stillwell,
Myron B. Williams,
Thomas H. Willingham,
1841.
Henry S. Compton,
Hezekiah L. Smith,
Cutler J. White,
Reuben Brown,
James Rogers,
Hiram W. Read,
J. J. Singleton,
Revilo F. Parshall,
David Osborn,
A. S. Kneeland,
Joseph E. Putnam,
462 NON-GTRADUATE STUDENTS.
Wells S. Darling, George N. Harris,
Nathaniel Potter, Jonathan S. Ross,
George C. Eaton, Asa F. White,
George D. Crocker, James Winship, Jr.,
William Huntley, Alfred Draper,
Benjamin Putnam.
1842.
Charles E. Woolverton, Telemachus A. Jones,
Jared Warren, Gustavus A. Mills,
J. H. Chapman, Barzilla M. Alden,
William L. Challiss, Lucian Canniff,
A. Bryant Campbell, Lyman G. Dean,
William B. Shrope, Merrill Forbes,
Luke Sherwin, John H. W. Toohey,
Jacob L. Pope, - George Webster
Francis T. Cailhopper, Orrin T. Walker,
Benjamin F. Williams, William M. Young,
John B. Wasson, Joseph Colgate,
Joel Baldwin, S. Case.
1843.
Daniel Read, William S. Clapp,
William W. Mershon, R. H. Land,
Jirah B. Moseley, Cornelius B. Compton,
Oscar F. A. Spinning, Hiram Hamilton,
Henry C. Hazen, Ewan Merritt,
Daniel Garthwait, E. W. Ferris,
George W. Curtiss, Thomas C. Hooper,
Byron Huntley, L. Mason,
Samuel K. Whitson, William H. King,
E. H. Page, William S. Lawton, Jr.,
J. Pierce Osgood, Lucius Loring,
Edwin Dibble, IPhilander Pierce,
Reuben Persons, Jr., John D. Candee,
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS. 463
L. S. Scott,
N. V. Stedman,
Alanson J. Cleaveland,
Lyman Palmer,
Melville A. Brown,
Samuel Ely,
Ebenezer Hall,
John H. Latshaw,
John Lippincott,
William J. Lippincott,
Charles R. Pattison,
James B. Trevor,
Hiram Robbins,
J. L. Scott,
Franklin C. Smith.
William M. Whitehead,
Davis H. McCoy,
Joseph I. Grimley,
John L. Douglass,
Caleb Davison,
John Williams, Jr.,
Hermon Perry,
Frederick W. Ingmire,
Morgan J. Davis,
Burt Vanhorn,
Bethuel Dodd,
Warren B. Clapp,
James L. Brooks,
James M. Bruce,
John G. Cownhoven,
Albert C. Ingham,
John Fream,
Isaac T. Rathbone,
Isaac E. Foster,
George Hand,
Ransom Marean,
George G. Ritchie,
Harvey Pettit,
1844.
Lewis L. Still,
Benjamin P. Ward,
George Yeager,
Benjamin H. Edsall,
James F. Doolittle,
Moses Staples,
George W. Cooper,
John Dunn,
Daniel Hayner,
Wareham, Mudge,
Calvin Robinson,
John D. Collins,
Luke Blackmer,
Leonard F. R. Fletcher,
C. A. Gilbert,
Nathaniel Merritt,
David Osborne,
Malcolm Roberts,
Alfred S. Patton,
Elias M. Buck,
D. B. Tucker, -
John N. Morrison,
B. L. Willingham.
464
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS.
Lucian S. Stowell,
William C. Philips,
Silas Hemingway,
George Philips,
James E. Spencer,
Robert Telford,
Gustavus N. Philips,
Robert K. Scott,
Miner Frink, Jr.,
Jerome T. Mason,
Philander L. Wood,
Calvin C. Bliss,
Lemuel P. Crane,
Benjamin D. Marshall,
Josiah Philips,
Charles A. Mott,
Lucius H. Paddock,
Andrew L. Freeman,
James B. Simmons,
Robert J. Willingham,
Edward L. Bailey,
George Starks,
George W. Davis,
Charles B. Read,
Ossian C. Pettit,
Groves P. Jenks,
Edward P. Hotchkiss,
Alexander A. Brooks,
John H. Stinson,
Elias J. Foote,
John Q. Adams,
1845.
Frederick Charlton,
Daniel Dodge,
Francis B. Ames,
Lucius F. Ames,
Orlando F. Dunlap,
Matthew Fuller,
Lewis M. Purrington,
Justus H. Wells,
H. P. Messinger,
Alexander Wiley,
Eber Loomer,
David W. Hunter,
Thomas Davis,
Joshua A. Collett,
James W. Baldwin,
Halstead C. Compton,
Daniel R. Gardner,
Jacob Kennedy.
1846.
Uriah S. Lowe,
Runyon F. Randolph,
John R. Smith,
Charles F. Williams,
Samuel Buell, Jr.,
Reeder M. Fish,
Delanson A. Overton,
Edward Spaulding,
Alvan Stewart, Jr.,
Hiram A. Pratt,
Amos N. Benedict,
George Good,
George W. Hazelton,
Amos B. Still.
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS. 465
1847.
David Scofield,
William D. Hedden,
James V. Scofield,
Franklin S. Lyon,
John B. Jones,
N. Judson Clark,
George O. Ide,
Frederick Mott,
Thomas Purinton,
Erastus A. Scott,
Henry A. Rose,
Charles I. Robords,
L. C. Paine, Jr.,
Stillman S. Conant,
Spencer J. Fowler,
Jabez P. Dake,
Samuel S. B. Carraway,
Emmett D. Craig,
Anson R. Arnolds,
Edward J. McKendrie,
John B. Smith,
George P. Watrous,
Thaddeus P. Seeley,
S. H. Carpenter,
George S. Chase,
M. C. Manning,
G. B. Brand,
W. C. Hubbard,
D. Elliott Lent,
Henry F. Smith,
E. Stillman Bailey,
J. G. Lyman,
H. G. Mason,
J. Jervis Thompson,
George A. Ames,
Ezra J. Fish,
Charles C. Norton,
William Purdy,
William D. Conklin,
Leonard G. Calkins,
Joel Hendrick,
James Hague,
Asa McIntire,
Daniel C. Miner,
Allen B. Chase,
Stephen L. Maryot,
James J. McIntire,
James H. Lee.
1848.
C. Carroll Whitney,
C. H. Wisner,
A. P. Mitchell,
E. J. Peck,
Addison A. Sawin,
Delavan Delong,
Franklin Wiley,
E. Canfield,
Hoyes Lloyd,
William Luke,
William H. Ross,
John Steelman,
James G. Barrows,
466
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS.
James Harper,
R. C. Brant,
R. A. Wight,
Antonio J. Gonsalves,
Alexander Grimes,
C. H. Remington,
Hamilton Bigelow,
W. A. Smith,
John C. Drake,
James W. Chase,
James D. Balen.
1849.
L. Arnold
C. H. Carpenter,
G. M. Condron,
George W. Cook,
George Scott,
C. A. Votey, Hoyes L. Snowdon,
D. S. Snodgrass, James Wightman,
J. C. Phelps, J. S. Cole,
Erastus Rainboth.
1850.
Marshall J. L. Dunbar, John Pyne,
Ira W. Buell,
Anthony Scott,
James E. Hadnett,
Abijah Hall,
William B. Matchett,
John H. Crawford,
W. H. Gifford,
G. T. Dougherty,
Charles G. Terry,
Samuel B. Seaman,
Charles P. Winegar,
Francis T. Pierce,
Charles D. Lewis,
Roger J. Reynolds,
Judson Davis,
G. W. Watrous,
Henry Hunt,
Francis L. Robbins,
John R. Burlingame,
John Montgomery,
George K. Knapp,
William J. Lyon,
John J. Paterson,
Virgil Smith.
I851.
John Scott,
Reuben Jones,
M. M. Gardner,
Horace S. Hutchins,
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS. 467
C. Carroll Bitting,
Russell P. Brown,
Justus W. Lawson,
Hiram Olmsted,
Richard R. Roberts,
Thomas B. Roberts,
Albert F. Skidmore,
Samuel Smale,
Joseph C. Crandall,
William I. Gill,
R. B. Godfrey,
Daniel D. Gregory,
Henry S. Stevens,
Emmons P. Bond,
J. G. Miller,
Wesley P. Wright,
Lucian L. Gage,
J. W. Chase,
James Cruikshank,
Delos White,
D. D. Woodworth,
John H. Abrams,
John K. Abrams,
Charles W. Clark,
Albert L. Clark,
William M. Fee,
David Morse,
Alfred S. Hubbell,
John C. Earl,
Howard M. Day,
John P. Shumway,
Vanness A. Pierce,
Peter N. Jacobus,
Lyman J. Fisher,
Charles T. Armstrong,
Gilbert Brainard,
Amos G. Emery,
George Fortmeyer,
Thomas M. Grenell,
William B. Gonsalves,
John F. Hoyes,
James Johnston,
Ephraim T. Perkins,
Henry Smith,
James M. Throop,
M.3L. Stephens,
John McClintock,
James H. Gates,
Charles A. Cooke,
Ela C. Bardwell,
George W. Abrams,
F. J. Frank,
Jacob H. Enders,
Richard S. Johnson.
1852.
Judson W. Truesdell,
George B. Muzzy,
Frank J. Glazier,
Cotesworth P. Head,
Hascall Winegar,
William P. Decker,
Edwin D. Larkins,
John White,
468
NON-GTRADUATE STUDENTS.
Luman P. Day,
Amos Lawrence, Jr.
David N. Kinne,
Sherman J. Goodsell,
Albert P. Graves,
Leonard D. Robinson,
James R. Ford,
Benjamin Gray,
Harvey S. Hutchins,
George Howell, Jr.
J. W. Stevens,
Melvin Tripp,
Philemon P. Shirely,
John R. Adams,
Richard Armstrong,
John Atkinson,
John Baskwell,
Ephraim P. Barker,
Hiram Hathaway,
Edward G. Calkins,
Harrison L. Chase,
John G. Curtiss,
Charles J. Tucker,
Ebenezer Edwards,
Seth C. Rice,
Samuel B. Burchard,
Horace D. Whitford,
Stafford C. Lockwood,
Albert Niles,
Charles H. Perkins,
S. Quackenbush,
William H. King,
Michael N. Kramer,
Isaac Kramer,
George W. Lyle,
Clinton Loveridge,
Loylson M. Newell,
Henry D. Baker,
Howard H. Edwards
Allen B. Freeman,
Chester Clark,
Edward P. Perkins,
Andrew B. Schreuder
Edward O. Whipple,
Charles A. Burgess,
James Duguid,
David Lawrence,
Wilson Newman,
W. Clinton Newman,
John S. Nye,
Carroll Humphrey
George S. Seeley,
Miles G. Smith,
Milton Stone.
1853.
Edward T. Tompkins -
Richard Leonard,
John L. Logmis,
Francis G. Jaques,
William W. Meech,
John H. Chapman,
Thomas Potts,
J. N. Walker,
Charles F. Anderson,
NON-GRADUATE STU I) ENTS. 469
John C. Greene,
James Lake,
Enos H. Talmage,
George D. B. Miller,
John D. Bostic,
David Doremus,
Ira D. Hopkins,
Thomas C. Russell,
Franklin B. Seeley, *
Charles B. Summer,
Augustus Armagnac,
Joseph N. Fairchild,
Phineas F. Allen,
Richard B. Gwathmey,
Andrew F. Litchfield,
Carlos Swift,
Elias H. Underwood,
Cyrus Olmstead,
Edwin T. Robinson,
William A. Shaw,
Wayland W. Wait,
James Dewar,
Samuel D. Burchard,
Joseph C. Weeden,
Judson J. Cross,
John S. Fuller,
Joel A. Gridley,
S. B. H. Nichols,
Benjamin S. Wheeler,
Francis J. Allen,
Joseph Bell,
Lewis A. Main,
William R. Taylor,
William H. Volk,
Seth R. Wright,
Spencer M. Ainsworth,
John W. Aikin,
Joseph Bullard,
Francis W. Doolittle,
William E. Hughes,
George W. Hull,
Thomas Rose,
Thomas Rogers.
1854.
David Bowman,
James B. Doolittle,
James M. Ferris,
Erasmus D. Fish,
Joseph M. Grover,
Edward M. Heath,
Henry S. Johnson,
E. T. Leverett,
Alpha H. Simons,
Albert H. Smith,
David S. Wykoff,
Enos Cushwa,
J. F. P. Wehrung,
Charles W. Stickney,
Lyman M. Nichols,
John McRay,
Samuel S. Maynard,
George H. Larison,
John F. Joseph,
Christopher C. Burrows,
James C. Bennett,
Charles H. Baker.
470
NON-GTRADUATE STUDENTS.
John L. Benedict,
Charles W. Palmer,
David Van Fradenburgh,
Carroll E. I. Dudley,
Wayland Hoyt,
George O. Atkinson,
Silas H. LaRue,
Albert Martin,
Charles L. Niles,
Clark J. R. Smith,
David Stone,
Albert N. Griggs,
A. T. Lounsbury,
Edward P. Payne,
Philo A. Orton,
Isaiah Rider,
Isaac D. Newell,
Alfred R. Quaiffe,
Charles F. Nash,
Moses H. Bliss,
Gilbert E. Pratt,
Earl W. Bailey,
Edwin Park,
William L. Card,
Absalom G. Hickerson,
John R. Haskins,
Charles E. Simmons,
Lyman W. Bates,
Daniel H. Thickstun,
John V. Hilton,
1855.
Moses M. Randolph,
Henry L. Robinson,
Lewis T. Dayton,
Silas G. Eddy,
John J. Ely,
Jonathan Goble,
Arthur F. Hascall,
Charles S. Hutchinson,
Robert F. Jackson,
Samuel H. Patterson,
IHiram H. Shapley,
Samuel Lockwood,
Hollis Thompson,
Charles H. Todd,
William E. Walkley,
James F. M. Brown,
William B. D. Cardell,
Lucius B. Hinman,
Henry Goble,
Eli Hunt,
Austin G. Lewis,
William H. Montgomery,
Samuel Sintharo,
Ephraim Z. Smith,
Alfred D. Thomas.
Delos Rockwell,
Adelbert D. Eldridge,
Asa G. Folwell,
Charles H. Richardson,
Leander J. House,
NON. GRADUATE STUDENTS. 471
Edward Tanner,
Linn Babcock,
Samuel L. Cox,
Wayland F. Ford,
George S. Watkins,
Reuben H. Robertson,
Robert F. Stobo,
Isaac F. Bangs,
William M. Hickey,
Harrah J. Reynolds,
Henry O. Bates,
John Adams,
Edwin Ashley,
William J. Russell,
Daniel G. Gillette,
Augustus Freeman,
Andrew J. Morse,
William H. Moore,
Edwin R. Warriner,
Jerome P. Bates,
N. R. Everts,
William H. Runyon,
Darwin Wood,
Joseph T. Chaves,
Leonard B. Hatch,
Charles H. Savage,
Eri B. Hulbert,
Henry P. Corbin,
Merritt A. Potter,
B. H. Brasted,
Thomas W. Conway,
Charles J. Hill,
Hardy Kingsbury,
George W. Ketcham,
Shepard K. Linscott,
A. J. Summers,
R. W. Summers,
Oscar Barrell,
Aaron M. Knebel,
Alexander McDonald,
John L. Piper,
Ingham T. Townsend.
B. R. Skinner,
Eugene M. Kempton,
William W. Vail,
John A. Cameron,
William D. Rockey,
John S. Ross,
Isaac T. Thompson,
Gideon Moore,
Freeman Way,
William Brown,
Miller M. Fogg,
Spencer W. Leach,
Harry Martin, Jr.
George H. Hulbert,
William H. Spencer,
John W. Hartley,
472
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS.
Charles D. Platt,
Asher B. Evans,
James I. Burns,
Oscar F. Hewitt,
William B. Arnold,
William W. Bacon,
Charles Y. Swan,
Martin L. Laws,
David C. Oatman,
Levi J. Lincoln,
Alonzo L. Seward,
Henry S. Seaman, .
Frank Benedict,
Richard Bostick,
Joseph M. Childs,
Joseph W. Stone,
Edward Willingham,
Albert J. Hellwig,
Melville D. Landon,
D. N. Mason,
John J. Lewis,
Charles J. Baldwin,
Edward Judson,
Hudson A. Wood,
John J. Brouner,
Lorenzo S. Lapham,
Spafford Tryon,
Dewitt C. Bates,
Morris J. Blakeman,
William II. Hakes,
George A. Atwater,
Henry M. Blount,
George R. Burnside,
A. F. F. Lee,
George B. Snyder,
James D. Van Patten,
John H. Bradley,
Wallace B. Childs,
William R. Laws,
James M. Mets,
R. B. Myrick,
Charles A. Smith,
J. B. Fenton,
I. T. Hopkins,
Thaddeus G. Ingersoll,
Edward H. Landell,
W. F. Le Roy,
Eugene Paddock,
Gustavus S. Reiener,
H. A. Smith,
N. S. Smith,
Alfred Watkins.
George D. B. Cosnell,
James W. Parkhurst,
Augustus F. Mason,
Charles F. Nicholson,
Samuel S. Young,
Samuel F. Hancock,
Thomas P. Coulston,
John L. Hyde,
Henry H. Anderson,
Henry H. Turner,
Silas C. Burdick,
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS. 473
Clinton E. Ford,
David Lincoln,
John Harmon,
Andrew Leavenworth,
Isaac F. Putnam,
William H. Bergfels,
Cyrus M. Booth,
John F. Buell,
Frederic Clatworthy,
Herota A. Dart,
Robert Fanning,
William D. Hall,
Moses M. Hinds,
Sheldon D. Lord,
Henry T. Weber,
Jesse Eddy,
Henry M. Teſt,
Henry M. Dean,
Lloyd O. Woodruff.
Edwin A. Taft,
Crammond Kennedy,
William Mulder,
Alexander T. Compton,
John H. Smith,
J. Eugene Cooper,
Frank Fletcher,
D. Carlos Babcock,
Thomas T. Eaton,
Edward T. Lyford,
Sereno E. Payne,
Miner R. Deming,
Albert P. Esselborn,
Andrew Cowan,
John W. Horner,
David M. Lewis,
Isban Hess,
Thomas B. Odell,
Samuel H. Weaver,
Augustus P. Mead,
Charles H. James,
Seymour D. Carpenter,
Charles E. Harris,
1860.
J. Elisha Hopper,
J. M. Parker,
E. J. Stronach,
Robert C. Blair,
E. Macy Deming,
J. M. Sprague,
Isaiah Braddick,
Samuel Cunningham,
Charles A. Fuller,
David B. Patterson,
Charles J. Pratt,
Samuel Sampson,
D. Edson Smith,
Cornelius D. Thomas,
Edward Brownson,
Lewis N. Chapin,
James E. Dockrey,
George W. Holman,
Albert G. Lawson,
Edward P. Shavor,
Albert E. Foote,
Amos B. Adkins,
‘Clark Anderson,
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474
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS.
Calvin G. Beach,
William P. Brown,
A. R. Brown,
Luther J. Casler,
Frederic Churchill,
Chester Clapp,
John P. Clark,
Noble M. Cornish,
Homer Eddy,
Charles C. Fisk,
John Green,
Isaac G. Hopkins,
Henry S. Hull,
Charles R. Lewis,
Henry P. Miner,
Lyman Osgood,
Joseph E. Parker,
Charles R. Payne,
Frederick G. Rice,
James C. Stout,
Robert B. Wallace,
Lester H. Wilcox,
Robert D. Williams.
John V. Osterhout,
Alfred S. Targett,
Hervey E. Eaton,
Albert J. Davis,
Maris Gibson,
Sabin T. Goodell,
Gilbert N. Sears,
William H. Shepard,
Jabez T. Sunderland,
A. Manly Persons,
Addison R. Whitmore,
Frank Whitmore,
John H. Granniss,
William W. Johnston,
George W. Kershaw,
Stanley N. Mitchell,
Albert A. Nichols,
Duane V. Bowen,
Lewis D. Burdick,
Joseph C. Butler,
I 86 I.
Edwin S. Wheeler,
J. H. Nason,
D. H. Boggs,
Frank K. Paddock,
John W. Spear,
John L. Howard,
John F. Oviatt,
Harvey Alley,
S. H. Harrington,
Rufus Rundell,
Charles F. Sunny,
C. E. Van Meter,
Zinah Dutton,
Dwight Furman,
Marion Hakes,
C. P. Howard,
Edwin Spike,
John Weimer,
W. H. Reed,
Alvah F. Cole,
Jerome A. Clark.
NON-GRADUATE STUDENTS. 475
1862.
Joseph B. Lewis,
Judson W. Harris,
James Parker,
Benjamin F. Bowen,
L. Guiteau Turner,
John Branch,
John M. Hunter,
Edward A. Field,
Charles J. Johnson,
Egbert D. Doolittle,
Isaac W. Thompson,
Oscar J. Mosely,
H. H. B. Angell,
W. J. Green,
J. E. Fowler,
J. B. Wilds,
H. P. Blair,
G. W. Firth,
W. H. Jeens,
F. M. McWhorter,
W. Tallman,
J. H. Van Ness,
F. K. Van Tassel.
Ira E. Chapin,
Charles H. Brooks,
Oscar R. McClean,
Judson H. Palmer,
James E. Totten,
Oncken W. Cole,
William T. Nock,
Joseph N. Harris,
Chauncey R. Kelly,
Alvin F. Bailey,
Jenkin Jones,
W. W. Huntington,
Thomas W. Powell,
Stephen O. Rhodes,
William A. Kingsbury,
George G. Willis,
John Kingdon,
Safford D. Moxley,
1863.
Leonard A. Brockett,
William J. Conklin,
Milton F. Hoag,
William W. Brooks,
John R. McClean,
Byron J. Ormsby,
Miller K. Reading,
Albert J. Adams,
DeLancy Lauderback,
William H. Onderdonk,
Edwin H. Raymond,
Thomas Stradling,
Morgan L. Vail,
Job Wolverton.
1864.
Gilbert F. Tabor,
Alexander M. Beebee, Jr.,
Alanson M. Haswell,
Parley D. Root,
John G. Skelly.
476 NON-GRADUATE STUDENTs.
Francis M. Beebe,
Wayland W. Pattengill,
Henry C. Leach,
Alfred G. Dunsford,
E. Lanson Dunklee,
John H. Schultz,
Albert Clark,
Alfred B. Tucker,
William L. Church,
Albert A. Arnold,
Augustus C. Ballou,
Z. Hibbard Owen,
Waldo B. Smith,
John A. Edgren;
Charles F. Hull,
Edward Ellis,
William B. Hurd,
Eugene M. Searl,
Thomas H. Tuson,
Alfred Free,
Marcellus A. Churchill,
D. D. Owen,
Charles D. Devine,
Charles O. Buts,
William M. R. Smith,
John L. Ray, -
George W. Bower,
1865.
Theodore Truvé,
Theodore S. Chapman,
John B. Pettit,
Edward B. Van Fradenburgh,
James H. Watkins,
George S. Davis,
Thomas A. Pope,
Charles C. Smith,
Sidney D. Smith,
Arthur J. Smith,
Francis N. Tompkins,
John G. Welander,
Silas R. Woodworth,
William P. Yallalee.
1866.
Frederick A. Benedict,
James W. Turner,
Frederick W. Andrews,
William E. Boone,
Samuel G. A. Fields,
Delos Finch,
George C. Morey,
N. Randolph Morey,
Christian Neidig,
George C. Taylor,
Samuel Thompson,
Eugene J. Warriner,
William H. Williamson.
NoN-GRADUATE STUDENTS. 477
George T. Dowling,
George W. Clough,
Hendrick S. Holden,
George E. Leach,
Harrison Miller,
Oscar G. Olin,
Benjamin F. Owen,
William A. Smith,
William C. Simmons,
George O. Walker,
James H. Fairchild,
A. K. Batchelder,
A. H. Emmons,
William L. Parker,
William J. Simmons,
Charles E. Sherwood,
Addison E. Barber,
Orsino Beebe,
Alfred A. Berow,
Andrew J. Briggs,
John G. Campbell,
James M. Carpenter,
Duane M. Cone,
Lester M. Davis,
1867.
George E. Smith,
Henry S. Vanderhoff,
Amos Wheeler,
Isaac L. Barrett,
L. B. Blakeman,
Sau Boganau,
Myron D. Case,
William F. Denmuer,
Jedediah Harris,
George L. Lewis,
William A. Toles,
Herbert M. Vaughn.
I 868.
D. Cady Durfee,
Charles H. Hayes,
William B. Holmes,
Orestes T. Hull,
Nelson Jenkins,
Edgar L. Lattin,
William C. Philips,
William H. Purdy,
R. Westcott Rockwell,
Howard C. Rockwell,
John M. Shopp,
Earl S. Smith,
Charles M. Van Woert.
ToTAL OF NoN-GRADUATE STUDENTs. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1448.
G ENER AL CATAL O GUE .
IN this Catalogue a date following a student's name indicates the year of
the Collegiate Graduation of the class to which he belonged; but does not
necessarily imply that the student himself graduated. This can be ascertained
by referring to the preceding lists of Graduates. Students who belonged
to different classes are generally here placed in those with which they were
last connected. -
A date with the prefix “ent” signifies the year of entrance, and commonly,
but not invariably, has reference to the Academic Department.
The prefix “thl” denotes the year of class graduation from the Theological
Department, and is applied to those only who were not graduates of the Colle-
giate Department, but usually of some other College.
A fully-written date shows under what year a sketch of the student will be
found. An abbreviated date implies that there is no sketch.
The number of sketches is about eleven hundred. The number of students
is over twenty-three hundred. This Catalogue includes not only non-gradu-
ate students, but all under-graduates who had entered the Institution before
the Jubilee. w
There are about three hundred names marked with the sign (*) of decease.
No names are so accompanied without authentic information. The number of
the deceased is doubtless much greater than that here given.
A. Ainsworth, S. M. . . . . . .ent. . . . '53
Abrams, J. H. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '51 Albright, L. . . . . . . ... “ . . . . '35
“ J. K. . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '51 Alden, Jos. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1824
‘‘ G. W. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '51 “ B. M. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '42
* Abbot, E. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837 * Aldrich, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837
Aber, D. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '47 Alexander, A. W. . . . . . . . . . . . '55
* Adams, S. W. . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1842 * Allen, Marvin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1826
“ O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '42 * “ Orsamus . . . . . . . . . . . . 1828
“ J. Q. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851 “ E. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
“ J. R. . . . . . . . . . . ent '52 “ Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
“ John . . . . . . . . . . & & '56 “ F. J. . . . . . . . . . Gºlnt '54
“ N. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '57 “ M. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '56
“ A. J. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '63 “ A. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59
Adkins, A. B. . . . . . . . . § { '60 “ P. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59
4 & F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861 “ A. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1854)
Adsit, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ent '36 “ C. E. . . . . . . . . . ellt '68
Ager, Chas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856 “ G. K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Ahone, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846 Alley, Harvey. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '61
Aiken, J. W. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '53 Ambler, J. V. . . . . . . . . . ‘‘ . . . . '35
Ainsworth, S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843 Ambrose, J. E. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1831
GENERAL CATALOGUE. 479
Ames, F. B. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '45 Bailey, Earl W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59
“ L. F. . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '45 “ A. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '66
“ G. A. . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '48 *Bainbridge, S. M. . . . . . . . . . . . 1841
Anable, C. W. . . . . . . . . thl.... 1854 | *Baker, J. H. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1831
*Anderson, J. S. . . . . . . . ent 1827 “ A. W. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1834
{{ W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838 | “ Lafayette. . . . . . . “ . . . . '34
& 4 G. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844 “ Lucius. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '34
& & C. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '57 “ H. D. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '52
& 4 Clark . . . . . . . ent '60 “ C. H. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '54
* { H. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '62 Balen, J. D. . . . . . . . . . . . & & '48
Andrews, N. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1862 Ball, A. H. . . ... . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1869
* & & F. W. . . . . . . . ent. ... '66 *Baldwin, H. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1828
“ J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868 “ J. S. . . ... . . . .ent. . . . '34
Andrus, J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855 & 4 Geo. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
Angell, H. H. B. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '62 4 & J. W. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '45
Antisdel, J. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '40 & 4 Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
Appleton, J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °46 & 4 N. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847
Applegate, J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858 & & D. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
Apsey, W. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861 & & C. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864
Armagnac, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IS60 *Ballard, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1823
Armstrong, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845 Ballou, A. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '68
& 4 C. T. . . . . . . ent. . . . '51 Bangs, I. F. ... . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '56
f{ Richard. . . . “ . . . . '52 Barber, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1828
Aruold, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 49 “ A. E. . . . . . . . . . . ent '6S
& 4 W. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65 Bardwell, H. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '46
& £ A. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867 & & E. C. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '51
“ G. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71 *Barker, Cyrus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
Arnolds, A. R. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '48 “ E. P. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '52
* Arrowsmith, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859 & & Moses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
Ashley, Ed. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '56 *Barlow, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1830
Atkinson, John . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '52 Barnes, E. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868
& 4 Robert. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856 Barrelle, A. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
& & G. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859 { { Oscar. . . . . . . . ent . . . '56
Atwater, G. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65 * { Almond. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859
Austermel, J. H. . . . . . . thl. . . . 1868 * : « J. Judson. . . . . . . . . . . 1859
Ayer, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849 Barrett, S. S. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1835
“ I. L. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '67
|B. Barrows, J. G. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '48
Babcock, J. J. . . . . . . . . .thl. . . . 1854 Barry, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65
& & Linn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °59 *Bartlett, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831
$3: 4 & S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861 Barto, H. D. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '40
& & D. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '64 Baskwell, J. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '52
Backus, J. S... . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1831 Basten, W. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865
Bacon, C. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S3S Bastow, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861
“ W. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '64 *Bates, L. C. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1838
*Bailey, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831 * “ E. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1854
* “ E. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842 “ L. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '61
“ F. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '49 “ J. P 1861
* “ E. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852 “ D. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '64
480
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Bates, H. O. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Batchelder, A. K.
Batson, T. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Baumes, J. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Baush, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bawden, H. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Beach, C. G. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
“ Wardwell. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Beardsley, Geo... . . . . . . ent. . . .
Beaubien, M.. . . . . . . . . . “ . . .
Beaver, J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Beebee, A. M., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ J. H. . . . . . . . . . . ent . .
“ A. M. . . . . . . . . . “
iſ & Orsino . . . . . . . K &
“ F. M... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Beecher, J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Becker, C. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Beckwith, H. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
. Samuel... . . . “ . . . .
& 4 Wm. . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Bell, A. K.... . . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Belden, Jos.. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Bellamy, R. [.. . . . . . . . thl. . . .
Beman, Riley. . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
*Bemis, V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Benedict, Th. . . . . . . . . . ent
& £ E. L. . . . . . . . . { {
& 4 A. N. . . . . . . . . & &
* { W. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
d : J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
§ { F. A. . . . . . . . . ent
*Bennet, Asa. . . . . . . . . . . .
4 : J. C. . . . . . . . . . ent. .
& ſº E. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Bently, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6 & E. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& iſ P. C. . . . . . . . . . thl
Bergfels, W. H. . . . . . .ent
Berow, A. A. . . . . . . . . . . { {
* Berry, James . . . . . . . . ent
“ Chs. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
“ J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Biddle, W. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bidwell, S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bigelow, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billings, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bilman, G. O. . . . . . . . . . ent . . . .
*Bingham, A. J
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1846.
*Birdsall, J. O.. . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1827
Bishop, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
“ P. P. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . '58
" G. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859
Bitting, C. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’53
“ J. E. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1865
Bixby, Smith. . . . . . . . . .ent. ... '33
Blackmer, Luke. . . . . . . “ . . . . '44
Blair, R. C. . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '60
“ H. P. . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '62
*Blakesley, M. . . . . . . . . “ °32
Blakeman, M. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '64.
& £ L. B. . . . . . . ent . . . . '67
Blanchard, E. M. . . . . . . thl. . . . 1865
Blanden, J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861
Bliss, G. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
“ E. W... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '46
* C. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °49
* A. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’55
“ M. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '57.
*Blood, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822
Bloodgood, J. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1824
« ( Delavan. . . . . . 1852
Bloomer, Isaac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
Blount, H. M. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '58
Bly, W. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
*Boekenoogen, E . . . . . . thl. . . . 1846
Bogamau... . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67
Boggs, D. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *64
Boise, J. R. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1832
Bond, E. P. . . . . . . . . . . th] . . . . 1853
Boone, W. E., . . . . . . . . . ent . . . . '66
Booth, C. M. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '59
Bostic, J. D.. . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '53
Bostick, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °62
*Boughton, N... . . . . . . . ent 1838
Bourassa, J . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . 4826
Bourn, I. C. . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . 1830
Bower, G. W. . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '66
Bowen, J. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
“ B. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864.
“ D. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *64.
Bowman, D. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '54
*Boynton, W. T....... “ . . . . 1829
*Bradbury, E. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
Braddick, I. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '60
*Bradley, Terry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847
GENERAL CATALOGUE. 481
Bradley, J. H. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '58 Brown, Simeon P. . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
Brainerd, G....... . . . . . ent. ... '51 “ William. . . . . . . ent. . . . '57
*Brand, G. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851 “ WIm. P. . . . . . . “ . . . . '60
Branch, Wm. . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . 1841 “ A. R. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '60
& & John... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867 Brownell, E. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847
Brant, R. C. . . . . . . … ent. . . . '48 *Brownson, W. A. . . . . . ent. . . . 1830
Brasted, B. H. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '56 * & & A. C. . . . . . . “. . . . . '32
Brayton, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1841 & & I. K. . . . . . . . . . ... 1838
Briggs, Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856 & & Edward. . . .ent. . . . '60
“ W. A. . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1863 Brotherton, H. . . . . . . . . . . - - - - - *72
“ A. J. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68 Brouner, J. J.. . . . . . . • * g º º ºs º º º 1865
Brigham, G. II. . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1853 Bruce, J. M. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '44
& & E. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856 Buchanan, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866
Bright, W. H. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . ’70 Buck, E. M. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '44
Brisbain, Robt. . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1830 Buckbee, C. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
Broady, K. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861 *Buell, R. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1835
Brockett, L. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '67 * “ A. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847
Bromley, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838 “ Samuel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '49
Bronson, Miles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836 “ C. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
{ { S. J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844 “ I. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1853
& 4 B. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844 “ J. F. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '59
& & E. H. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67 *Bullard, E. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
Brooks, W. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843 { % J. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1841
“ J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °48 K & Joseph. . . . . . . ent . . . '53
“ A. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '50 Bullock, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °36
* “ A. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861 * Bunnell, W. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
“ W. W. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '63 Burchard, W. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
* “ C. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S6S & & Horace. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1853
“ F. E. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67 & & S. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
*Brown, J. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1823 { { S. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °57
* “ Parley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1823 *Burdick, D. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S39
“ Caleb . . . . . . * g g g is g g º º ’29 $ & 4 H. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860
* “ Abel . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1830 & ( W. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S62
“ Nathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '32 {{ S. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '63
“ George . . . . . . . ent . . . . '32 & & L. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65
“ Crary.. . . . . . . . “. . . . . '32 Burgess, C. A. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '52
* “ Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836 Burlingame, W. . . . . . . “ . . . . 1831
“ Almiron. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836 º: & & A. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S39
* “ Ralph I. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836 & & J. R. . . . . . ent. . . . '50
“ Charles E. . . . . . . . . . . . 1838 Burlingham, A. H. . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
“ Edwin C.. . . . . . . . . . . . 183 { { H. D. . . . . . . . . . . . 1854
“ Reuben. . . . . .ent. . . . '41 Burnham, C. W. . . . . . . . * * * * * * 1S61
“ M. A. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '43 Burnett, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
“ Wm. C. . . . . . . .thl. . . . '49 Burns, J. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '62
* “ J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '54 Burnside, G. R. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '58
“ Philip Perry. . . . . . . . . 1855 Burr, B. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '40
“ Russel Pitts. . . . . . . . . . '55 * “ E. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S49
“ J. F. M. . . . . . . . ellt '55 Burroughs, J. C. . . . . . . thl. . . . 1845
“ Wm. Mason . . . . . . . . . 1856 Burrows, Daniel, . . . . . . ent. . . . . '33
482 GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Burrows, C. C. . . . . . . . . ..ent. . . . '54 Challis, W. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
*Bush, Alex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838 Chamberlain, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . 1828
Butler, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65 Chamberlin, L. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851
Buts, C. O. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '66 Chandler, G. C. . . . . . . . e tº * * * * * 1836
*Buttolph, H. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843 4 & F. K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1869
Button, A. M. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1834 & 4 A. J.-. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '72
“ J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '34 Chaplin, J., Jun. . . . . . . thl. . . . 183
Buxton, B. B. . . . . . . . . . ent. ... '35 & & A. J. . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . 1845
Chapin, L. N. . . . . . . . . . ent . . . . '60
“ I. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '67
C. Chapman, H. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '33
Cabaniss, A. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850 { { J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '47
Cady, Edgar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844 “ Th. S. . . . . . . ent. . . . '65
“ E. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857 *Charlton, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
& & A. W. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68 Chase, N. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1830
Cailhopper, F. T. . . . . . . “ . . . . '42 “ J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . ent . . . '48
*Calkins, M. K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844 “ H. L. . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '52
& & L. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '51 * “ Geo. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
& ſº E. G... . . . . . . . . . . . . . '52 “ S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859
* Campbell, H. M. . . . . . . . . . . . 1842 Chaves, Theoph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '63
( & A. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847 Child, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863
a ſ T. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850 Childs, T. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
“ J. G. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68 “ W. B. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '58
& 4 W. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71 “ J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °62
Cameron, J. A. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '57 Chrystal, Jas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855
Candee, J. D. . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . 243 Church, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1824.
Canfield, E. . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '48 “ Leroy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839
Camniff, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '42 gº W. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71
Card, H. . . . . . . . . . . . ... “.... '40 Churchill, F. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '60
*Carlisle, D. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1826 “ M. A. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '66
Carpenter, Sol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836 Clapp, W. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
& & W. W. . . . . . ent . . . . '38 # “ W. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S4S
& & B. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '40 “ Chester. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '60
& & C. H. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '49 *Clark, Amasa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1826
* & Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850 * “ E. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S27
{ % S. II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852 * “ S. R. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1827
“ S. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861 “ Joseph. . . . . . . . “ . . . . .31
& & J. M. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68 “ Henry. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1832
Carr, A. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848 “ John. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '35
“ H. M... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856 * “ James.. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '87
*Carter, Edwin W. . . . . . . . . . . . 1840 “ Watson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '50
Carraway, S. S. B. . . . . . . . . . . . 49 “ N. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '51
*Case, Avery... . . . . . . .ent. . . . 1823 “ Chester. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '52 -
“ Anthony . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1827 “ A. L. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '52
“ S. . . . . . . . . . . . ... “ . . . . '42 “ Enos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859
“ M. D. . . . . . . . . ... “ . . . . '67 “ J. P. . . . . . . . . . ent . . . . '60
Casler, L. J. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '60 “ C. W. . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1860
Center, G... . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '83 “ W. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861
*Chaffee, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831 “ Albert. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '65
GENERAL CATALOGUE. 483
Clatworthy, F. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '59 Corbin, Wm. D. . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1833
Cleaveland, A. J.. . . . . . “ . . . . '43 # tº Wm. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1834
Cleghorn, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837 * “ H. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863
*Clough, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829 Cordo, H. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859
“. . G. W. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67 Corey, D. G. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1833
Cobb, H. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °43 “ S. A... . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . '38
Coe, J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '36 Cornish, N. M. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '60
“ D. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *72 Cornell, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
Coggeshall, J. M. . . . . . . ent. . . . '39 “ Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847
Colby, Luke. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '31 “ G. D. B. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '59
Cole, J. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1826 “ H. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '72
“ J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '32 *Corwin, J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822
“ J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '49 & 4 David . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1825
“ O. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '68 & & Ira... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837
Coley, J. M.. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1828 Cotton, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '36
“ J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860 * Cottrell, J. P. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
Colgate, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '46 Coulston, T. P. . . . . . . . . thl . . . . '61
& C Joseph...... . . .ent. . . . '42 Councilman, J. F. . . . . . .ent. . . . '68
& & J. H. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '47 Covey, J. W. E... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
*Colgrove, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839 * “ A. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
& & D. C. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '41 Cowan, Andrew. . . . . . . ent. . . . '60
Collett, J. A. . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '45 Cownhoven, J. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . °47
*Collins, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1826 Craft, E. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 1868
“ N. G. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '36 Crain, Corydon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
“ J. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847 Craig, E. D. . . . . * * * - - - - thl. . . . '55
Colquhoun, F. S. . . . . . .ent. . . . '68 Crandall, J. C. . . . . . . . . ent . . . . '51
Colver, C. K. . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . 1835 Crane, W. I. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1827
Compton, C. B. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '43 “ W. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
“ H. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '47 “ L. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
& & A. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863 Crawford, I. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °54
*Comstock, G. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833 & & John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '56
“ G. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71 Crocker, A. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '32
Conant, S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S50 “ Geo. D. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '41
Condron, G. M.. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '49 Crofoot, P. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65
Cone, D. M. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '6S *Cronk, D.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S54.
Conklin, W. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '52 Cross, E. B. . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839
& & W. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '6S “ Samuel. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '41
Conley, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67 Cruikshank, J . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '51
Conover, E. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '40 Crumb, J. W. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1S33
Conrad, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839 “ A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '6S
Constantine, A. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S3 *Cruttenden, W. H. . . . “ . . . . '39
*Conyers, J. B. . . . . . . thl. . . . 1861 4 & O. L. . . . . . . . . . . . °43
Cook, J. D. . . . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '34 *Cudworth, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 S41
“ J. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844 Cull, Thomas.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S61
“ G. W. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '49 Culver, Sol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °59
“ C. A. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '51 Cunningham, S. ..... . . . ent . . . . '60
Cooper, G. W. . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '44 Currier, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183S
“ J. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866 *Curtis, W. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1824
“ George. . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1866 “ G. A. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '31
484
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Curtis, G. W. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '43
“ J. G... . . . . . . . & & '52
D.
Dake, J. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
* O. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’51
Daniels, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
*Danforth, A. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
Darby, C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
Darling, A. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '34
& & W. S. . . . . . . . . “ °41
Dart, H. A. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '59
Daugharty, G. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '57
*Davis, G. B. . . . . . . . . ent. 1824
* “ Henry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827
* “ Sylvester. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
“ Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
“ E. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
“ Thomas... . . . . ent '45
“ M. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '49
“ Geo. W °51
“ Judson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '53
“ L. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1854
“ J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
“ Geo. S. . . . . . . ent. . . . '65
“ A. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '67
“ L. M.. . . . . . . . . . ent '6S
*Davison, Prosper £ 4 1832
{< Caleb... . . . . . . . . . . . . '50
*Day, G. B. . . . . . . . . . ent 1827
* “ S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
“ L. P. . . . . . . . . ent '52
“ H. Malcolm. . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
“ H. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859
Dayfoot, P. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
Dayton, L. T. . . . . . . . . ent. . '55
Dean, Wm... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833
“ Ezra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
“ L. G... . . . . . . . . . . ent. '42
“ H. M. . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '59
“ Wilfred. . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1862
“ L. J... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71
Decker, W. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
Degolyer, H. . . . . . . . . . . ent 183
Delany, James. . . . . . & 8 °35
Delong, Delavan... . . . . . . . . . . . . '50
Deming, M. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65
& & E. M. . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '60
Denison, W. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
* : « J. W. . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Denmuer, W. F. . . . . . . “ . . . .
Devine, C. D. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Dewitt, J. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Dewar, J. . . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . .
Dexter, S. K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dibble, E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dick, Robert. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
* “ Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . .
Dickens, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dickerson, J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dickinson, E. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dimon, N. H. . . . . e º a s a e º e > *
*Dixon, J. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dodd, Bethuel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Dodge, Isaac. . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
& & T. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & F. W. . . . . . . “ . . . .
& Cº Egbert D. . . . “ . . . .
Doremus, D. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Dorrance, G. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dougherty, G. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Douglass, W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . .
+ & 4 J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ S. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Downer, J. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dowling, Geo. T. . . . . . . ent . . . .
Downey, G. D... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drake, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . ent . . .
Drown, W... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Dudley, C. E. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Duer, John... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Duguid, Jas. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Dunbar, M. J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
« & Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Duncan, H. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
* * * Wm. C. . . . . . . .thl. . . .
Dunklee, E. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dunlap, O. F. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
1837
1846
’71
'45
GENERAL CATALOGUE. 485
Dunn, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '51 Ely, Edward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
Dunsford, A. G. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '65 “ Samuel. . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '43
Durfee, D. C. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '68 “ J. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '55
Dutcher, D. C. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '58 Emery, A. G.. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '51
Dutton, Z. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '61 Emmons, F. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1824
Dwinelle, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °42 “ Sylvester. . . .ent. . . . '35.
& & A. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '43 & & A. H. . . . . . . . “. . . . . '68
*Dwyer, R. C. . . . . . . . . ent. ... 1834 Emory, A. G. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '52
( & W. H. H. . . . . “ . . . . '34 Enders, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °51
*Dyer, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838 Esselborn, A. P... . . . . . . . . . . . . *65
Dyke, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . thl. ... '55 Estee, Sidney. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '29
“ L. J. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '65 “ J. J. . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '40
Evans, A. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '60
E *Everts, Hiram. . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1832
tº “ Brownell. . . . . . “ . . . . '33
Eager, E. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838 “ W. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837
Earl, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '55 “ H. K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
Eastman, W. W. . . . . . . ent. . . . '67 “ N. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '61
Easton, D.C. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '67 Ewell, H. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
*Eaton, Zelora. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827
* “ J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837 F.
“ G. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856 Fairchild, J. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59
“ J. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856 & & J. H. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67
“ Thomas T. . . . . . . . . . . 1863 Fargo, I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
* “ C. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘. . . . 1866 Fee, W. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '58
“ H. E... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866 Fellows, M. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
“ W. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1869 Fenton, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '58
Eberlee, J. J. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '40 *Ferguson, L. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '32
Ekings, F. O. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 267 & & Nelson. . . . . “ . . . . '32
Eddy, H. J.. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1832 Ferris, W. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S58
“ W. H. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '37 “ J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860
“ S. G. . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '55 *Field, Moses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831
“ Jesse. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '59 “ Wm. R. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '39
“ Homer . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '60 & £ E. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '66
Edgren, J. A. . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1867 Fields, S. G. A. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '66
Edminster, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844 Finch, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '66
*Edmunds, J. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837 Firth, G. W. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '62
& & James, Jr. . . . . . . . . 1858 Fisher, Thomas. . . . . . . “ . . . . '32
& © E. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860 * “ S. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S40
Edsall, B. H. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '44 “ L. J. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '51
Edson, Ambler... . . . . . . . . . . . 1838 Fish, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . 1843
Edwards, H. H. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '52 “ E. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '47
4 & E. . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1858 “ R. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °50
Eldridge, Daniel. . . . . . . . . . . . 1828 “ E. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1853
g tº James R. . . . . . . . . . . . 1835 “ E. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '54
& £ A. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °60 “ Lorenzo... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '57
Elliot, Jesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1826 *Fiske, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1826
* “ R. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 1837 “ Chas . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '31
Ellis, Ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71 “ M. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °59
486 GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Fiske, Chas. C. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '60 Fuller, J. J. . . . . . . . . . . . ent.
Fitch, L. ... . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '32 “ Timothy. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fletcher, Joshua. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829 * “ Elba...... . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & E. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °45 “ Matthew. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& g L. F. R. . . . . . . . . . . . '48 " J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65 " C. A. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Fogg, M. M. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '57 *Fulton, J. I. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Folwell, A. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '60 “ John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Foote, Adrian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827 Furman, D. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . .
“ E. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849 Fyfe, Robert........... “ . . . .
“ A. E. . . . . . . . . . . elnt '60
“ J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864 G.
Forbes, Merill. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '42 Gage, L. S. . . . . . . . • * * * * * * * * * *
“ Philo... . . . . . . . “. . . . . 1831 Gale, Solomon. . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
“ M. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847 Gallup, E. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ford, L. T. . . . . . . . . . . . ent *32 & ( C. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '54 Galusha, E. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ W. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59 Galpin, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ C. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '63 “ L. Q. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ E. R. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '66 *Gamble, A... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ J. W... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1869 Gardiner, E. D. . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Forey, M. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846 Gardner, H. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fortmeyer, G. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '51 & & D. R. . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Foster, Levi. . . . . . . . . “. . . . . 1829 { { M. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& Joseph C. . . . . . . . . . . . 1841 Garrison, C. . . . . . . . . . . . thl. . .
* * * I. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849 Garthwait, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & John C. . . . . . . .thl. . . . 1860 Gates, Alfred. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Fowler, S. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849 “ Aaron. . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
* Fox, C. A. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1831 “ Horace. . . . . . . . & &
“ Noah, Jr. . . . . . . . 4 & . 34 “ O. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Frank, F. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °56 “ J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Frary, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '32 “ I. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fream, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848 Gibbs, O. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Freas, D. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °49 “ B. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Frederick, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182S Gibson, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Free, Alfred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71 Gifford, W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Freeman, Alvah. . . . . . ent. . . . '32 & & B. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
* * * A. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833 Gilbert, C. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & G. W. . . . . . . ent. . . . '40 Gill, W. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& ſ A. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851 Gillette, A. D. . . . . . . . . . ent. . .
& & Allen B... . . . ent . . . . '52 * “ D. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & Augustus. . . . . . . . . . '62 “ W. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Friend, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '34 & & D. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& 4 Solomon. . . . . . . “. . . . . '34 Glanville, F. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . .
*Frink, P., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842 *Glazier, F. J.. . . . . . . . . . . • & q' e t
“ Miner, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . 1848 Goble, Henry. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Frost, A. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865 “ Jon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fuller, M. L. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1826 *Goddard, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
* {< Noah. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1828 Godfrey, R. B. s, e < * * * * * * * * * * * *
GENERAL CATALOGUE. 487
Goff, M. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gonsalves, W. B. . . . . . . €17 U. . . .
& 4 A. J.
{ { M. M. . . . . . . . .
Goodnow, A. W. . . . . . . . . . . .
Goodman, J. S. . . . . . . . . thl. . .
tº a E. W. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Goodsell, S. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gordon, C. I. . . . . . . . . . . ent . . . .
Gorham, G. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
§ { A. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gorton, O. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gould, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . elit. . . .
4 &
Graham, A. . . . . . . . . . . .
*Granger, J. N. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Granniss, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Grant, S. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Grants, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Graves, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
{ { H. L. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . .
& & Samuel
{{ A. P
* “ J. D
{ % S. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
{ { D. D
Grenell, L. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & T. M. . . . . . . . ent. . . .
& & Zelotes, Jr. . . . . . . . .
Gridley, J. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Griffith, A. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . .
£ & Benj. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Goo, Peter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Good, Geo . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
*Goodale, C. H. . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Goodell, A. . . . . . . . . . . . ent . . . .
& & S. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
* * * * g º 'º is tº ſº º tº #
* tº sº e º e < * * * * * * * * *
Gray, B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*. .
*Green, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
u & e & s º & # s g º ºs s tº s s
• e º is e tº e s m e s tº s &
. . 1860
'51
'55
1840
'46
1822
1827
1865
1829
1850
'49
Griffing, Richard. . . . . . ent. . . . '31
Griggs, A. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °58
Grimes, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °53
Grimley, J. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '50
Griswold, S. T. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '33
Gross, L. J. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '6S
Grover, J. M. . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '54
*Guiteau, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822
Gunn, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847
“ W. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865
Guy, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
Gwathmey, R. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . °58
II.
Hackett, O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
Hadnett, J. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855
*Haff, H. H. . . . . . . . . . . ent 1824
Hague, James. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '47
Hakes, Marion . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '61
“ W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '64
Hall, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '39
“ Ebenezer. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '43
“ Abijah. . . . . . . °55
“ Wm. D. . . . . . . . . . GInt °59
“ W. D. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '67
Hallock, H. . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '34
Halsted, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '43
Hamilton, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °48
Hammett, Jos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
Hammitt, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '63
* Hammond, O. T. . . . . . ent. . . . '32
“ J. W............. 1853
Hancock, L. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '50
Hand, Geo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
*Handy, Jairus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S26
Hanna, T. A. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864
“ G. L. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866
“ W. T. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’70
Harder, Jacob. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °45
*Harmon, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
& & John . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '59
Harper, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . £ 4, *49
Harrington, S. . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '36
{ { S. H. . . . . . “. . . . . '61
Harris, G. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
& 4 Norman.... . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
“ E. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
“ Geo. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
“ C. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °62
488 GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Harris, J. N. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '63
“ Jedediah . . . . . . “. . . . . '67
“ J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '67
*Hart, J. D. . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822
Hartley, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '64
Hartshorn, Chancellor. . . . . . . . 1825
& & Chancellor. . . . . . . . 1846
{ { T. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
& & W. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
Harvey, Alfred. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '32
& & Hezekiah. . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
Hartwell, C. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
Hascall, J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
* , a A. F. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '55
*Haskell, Abel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
- & & Samuel. . . . .thl. . . . 1847
Haselton, G. W. . . . . . . .ent. . . . '46
Haskins, J. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '62
Haswell, T. T. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '32
& & J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
4 & J. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
& 4 A. M. . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '64
Hatch, G. E. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . '55
“ E. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
“ L. B. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . '59
“ S. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 1869
Hathaway, H. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '52
*Hatt, Josiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
Havens, Clement. . . . . . ent. . . . 1830
{ { N. M. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '37
*Hawley, Chauncey... “ . . . . 1828
Hay, J. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
Hayden, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
Hayes, M. D. . . . . . . . . . . ent . . . . '40
“. C. H. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '68
Hayward, H. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
§ { S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838 .
Hayhurst, L. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
Hayner, D. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '44
Hazen, H. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '48
Head, C. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '56
Heath, Moses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1854
“ E. M. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '54
Hedden, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '51
*Hedges, J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847
Heffron, J. L. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
Hellwig, A. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '64
*Hemingway, S... . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
Hendrick, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '50
Hendryx, T. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1830
Henry, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865
“ W. T. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
Herrick, I. F. . . . . . . • * * * * * * * * g. 1845
* { J. R. . . . . . . . . . ont. . . . '68
Hervey, Russell. . . . . . . & 1829
& & G. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
Hess, Isban. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '67
Hewett, H. W. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '36
Hewitt, C. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839
& & O. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '62
Hickerson, A. G. . . . . . . ont. . . . '55
Hickey, W. M. . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '56
Hickok, E. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866
Higgins, J. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ”46
Hill, I. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
“ C. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '56
Hilton, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59
Hinds, M. N. . . . . . . . . . . ent . . . '59
Hinman, L. B. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '55
Hires, A. J.. . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '40
Hiscox, E. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
Hoag, M. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '67
*Hodge, Ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1824
*Holbrook, G. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
Holden, H. S. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67
Holliday, J.. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '33
Holman, Thos.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
{ { G. W. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '60
Holme, J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
Holmes, M. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '46
“ D. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
“ W. B. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
Holroyd, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
* Holt, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1825
“ A. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent . . . '40
Holton, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '68
Hooper, T. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '66
Hope, J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
IIopkins, Ebenezer. ...ent. ... 1827
& & I. D. . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '53
& 4 J. T. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '58
& & I. G. . . . . . . . . “ . 60
Hopper, A. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
& 4 J. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '62
Horner, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865
Hornberger, L. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1S65
Hornish, J. K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847
*Horr, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '33
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
489
Horton, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '31
*Hosford, I. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827
Hough, Samuel. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '39
Hotchkiss, V. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837
{{ E. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . °50
House, Merrit. . . . . . . . . ent. . *32
“ L. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °61
Hovey, E. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
Howard, Ziba. . . . . . . . . ent °32
* “ Hosea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833
4 & J. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. °36
“ C. P. . . . . . . . . . “.... '61
“ J. L. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '61
*Howell, A. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839
& & George . . . . . . . . . . . . . °56
Howes, Oscar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
Howlett, T. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
Hoyes, J. F. . . . . . . . . . . ent '51
Hoyt, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1862
*Hubbard, C. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1828
& & A. B. . . . . . . ent. . . . '31
§ { W. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . °53
& & H. G. . . . . . . thl 1858
*Hubbell, E. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822
{ { A. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °55
Hughes, W. E. . . . . . . . ent '53
Hulbert, E. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863
: (& G. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °64
Hull, G. W. . . . . . . . . . . ent °53
“ H. S. . . . . . . . . . . . { { °60
“. C. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71
“ O. T. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
Humphrey, L. . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1842
& & Carroll....ent.... '53
Hunter, D. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °51
4 & J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65
Hunt, N. F. . . . . . . . . . . ent '36
“ H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '54
“ Eli. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '55
Huntley, L. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
& £ B. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S49
Huntington, J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1854
* { W. W. . . .thl. . . . '65
Husted, W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
Hurd, W. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71
Hurn, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67
*Hutchins, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827
{ % Hiram. . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
* & 4 Lyman. . . . . . . . . . . 1846
Hutchins, Horace S... . . . . . . . . 1854
& & Harvey S. . . . . . . . . '55
Hutchinson, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1824
& & C. S. . . . . . . ent. . . . '55
Hyde, G. W. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '33
“ J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °61
Hymes, P.. . . . . . . . . . . . ent '31
I.
Ide, Geo. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851
Illsley, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
Ind, T. M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1854
*Ingalls, Lovell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837
Ingersoll, W. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
& & T. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '63
Ingham, L. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '40
“ A. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847
Ingmire, F. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
Irvin, Peter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °49
J.
Jacobus, P. N. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '51
Jacques, F. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °58
Jackson, R. L. . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '55
*James, D. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859
& & Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860
{ { C. H. . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1862
Jaynes, A. W. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
Jeens, W. H. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '62
Jeffery, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
Jenkins, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
{& N. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
J enks, G. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '50
Jencks, E. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
Jennings, R. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1825
Jewett, G. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *68
Johns, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
Johnson, F. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1823
“ Elias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1823
“ W. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1826
* “ C. T.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
“ S. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
“ G. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
“ George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
“ R. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °55
“ C. H. . 1862
“ C. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '66
“ H. S. . . . . . . . . . ent '54
“ Frank. . . . . . . . . thl 1861
Johnston, W. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . '66
490
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Kimball, J. E. . . . . ... .
Johnston, James. . . . . . . ent. . . . '51
*Jones, Griffith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1823
& & John. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1826
& K Thomas . . . . . . “ . . . . '33
& & A. G. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '37
& & J. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837
{ { John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
& W. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
{ { T. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °46
* c < C. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '50
& 4 J. B... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
{ { Peter F. . . . . . . thl. . . . '54
“. . Reuben. . . . . . . & & °55
( { H. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865
( & Jenkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '66
& & R.T. . . . . . . . . & & '67
Joseph, J. F. . . . . . . . . . . ent °54
Joslyn, W. Z. . . . . . . . . . & { °35
Judd, O. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1841
Judson, C. H. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '39
{ { Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864
Jutten, D. B... . . . . . 1867
K.
Kah-Chur... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’72
Kane, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ent '40
Keene, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1829
“ T. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837
*Kellam, C. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
Kelly, John. . . . . . . . . . . ent °33
“ C. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °69
“ John Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '70
Kempsey, M. C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860
Kempton, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839
{ % E. M. . . . . . . ent. . . . '57
Kendrick, J. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
Kenney, I. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
*Kennedy, Jacob. . . . . . ent. . . . 1845
& & C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65
Kent, Th... . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '39
* J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '41
“ J. H., Jr... . . . . . . . . . . . . . '53
-Ker, Mat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '35
Kershaw, E. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '66
Ketchum, F................... 1836
& . G. W. . . . . . . ent . . . . '56
Keyser, Ch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
. . . . . . . . 1848
*Kimberly, E......... . . . . . . . . 1838
Kincaid, Eugenio............. 1822
King, L. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
“ W. H. . . . . . . . . ... ent . . . . '52
Kingdon, J. . . . . . . . . . . . thl. ... '65
Kingsbury, W. A.............. '71
Kingsley, W... . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1825
* : « Alvin . ... “ . . . . 1830
{& V. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
* c < S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
& & H. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '56
Kinne, D. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '58
Knapp, Jacob. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1824
& & Abram 1840
é & H. E. e tº $ tº º 1847
{{ #. K. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '50
& & W. I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860
*Kneeland, Levi... . . . . . . . . . . . 1828
& 4 A. S. . . . . . . ent. . . . '41
Knebel, A. M.. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '56
Knowlton, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1826
& & M. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851
*Koonts, S. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861
Kramer, M. N. . . . . . . . . ent °52
& K Isaac. . . . . . . . . & 4 '52
Kyaw, Moung... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868
L. g
Ladd, J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
La Grange, J.. . . . . . . ...thl. ... '56
La Hatt, C. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1823
La Rue, S. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860
*Lake, I. B.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
“ James. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °57
Laleme, John... . . . . . . .ent. ... 1826
Lamb, Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1835
“ T. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
Land, R. H... . . . . . . . . . . • * * * * * °46
Landell, E. H. . . . . . . . ...ent. . . . '58
Landon, M. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '63
Lane, C. V. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '33
Lang, F. P....... . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855
Langworthy, J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
Lapham, L. S... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '63
Larison, G. H. . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '54
Larkins, E. D... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '57
Larowe, S. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '60
Lasher, G. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
Lathrop, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Latimer, P. . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . 1826
Latshaw, J. H. . . . . . . ent °43
Lattin, E. L. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '68
Lauderback, D... . . . . . . “ . . . . '63
Law, E. B. . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
Lawton, J. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °39
* * * Isaac. . . . . . . . . 1840
& 4 G. M. tº e - . 1845
& £ W. S... . . . . . . . . . . . . . '46
* { W. N. B. . . . .ent. . . . '68
Lawrence, David. . . . ... “ . . . . '52
& & Amos. . . . . . . . . . . . . '58
*Lawson, J. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
& & A. G. . . . . . ent. . . . '60
Laws, M. L. . . . . . . . . . . .
“ W. R. . . . . . . . . . .
*Leach, B. N. . . . . . . .
& & D. F. . . . . . . . . . . . .
& 4 S. W. . . . . . .
“ . . . . '58
“ . . . . . '58
tº º e º e º 'º º e 1824
. . . . . 1843
. . .ent. . . . '57
( & G. E. . . . . . . . . .
“ . . . . '67
£ & H. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’70
Leaming, J. F. . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '39
4 & R. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
Leavenworth, R. . . . . . . .ent. ... '34
& s A. A . . . . “ . . . . '59
Leavitt, B. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1841
Lee, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '47
“ A. F. F. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . . '58
Leet, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
Leipsner, B. . . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '6S
Leland, M. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837
Lent, D. E. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '4S
Leonard, J. B. . . . . . . “. . . . . '36
& & J. S. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '36
& 4 S. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '42
& 4 Richard , . . . . . . . . . . . '5S
& ( H. B. . . . . . .ent. . . . '67
Leonglois, Peter..... “ . . . . 1826
Leroy, W. F. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '58
Leverett, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '55
Levisee, W. . . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '37
Levy, F. H. . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '33
Lewis, A. G. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '55
“ C. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '57
“ W. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859
“ C. R. ent '60
“ J. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864
“ D. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65
“ J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *67
Lewis, G. L. . . . . . . . . . . .ent.
“ C. H. . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
*Lillybridge, F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lincoln, L. J. . . . . . . . . . thl. .
§ { D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lindsay, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Linscott, S. K. . . . . . . . . ent.
Lippincott, J. . . . . . . . . . & &
& k W. J . . . . . . “ . . . .
Litchfield, A. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Little, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent.
Livermore, L. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & S. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lloyd, D. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ Hoyes. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
“ H. S. . . . . . . . . . s e s m s e º e
*Locke, W. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lockhart, W. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lockwood, S. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& t Samuel... . . . ent
Loomer, E. . . . . . . . . . & 4
Loomis, J. R. . . . . . . . & &
& 4 I. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & H. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
£ 4 J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lord, E. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ S. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent.
Loring, Lucius. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lounsbury, A.T. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Love, H. T. . . . . . . . . . . . .ent.
Loveridge, C. . . . . . . . . . & &
Lowe, U. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lowry, W. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ludlam, J. H. . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Ludlow, R. M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Luke, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lusk, S. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . .
Lyford, E. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lyon, James. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
“ W. J.. . . . . . . . & C
“ F. S
“ W. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ A. C. . . . . . . . . . thl.
“ A. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lyle, G. W. . . . . . . . . . . .ent.
Lyman, J. G. . . . . . . . . . .thl.
M. .
Mack, L. M. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
492 GENERAL CATALOGUE.
*Macomber, Ed. . . . . . . ent. . . . 1828 Matteson, L. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
McCarthy, W. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858 Mathews, Ed.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
*McClean, J. R. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '63 & & John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
& & O. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866 4 & Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '72
McClintock, J . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '51 May, S... . . . . . . . . . . ...ent. ... '34
MacClymont, D. T... . . . “ . . . . '67 Maynard, S. S... . $ 4 . '54
McCoy, D. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '50 { { J. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
*McDonald, John. . . . . . . . . . . . 1831 & & W. H. ...thl °58
& 4 Alex . . . . .ent. . . . '56 Mead, A. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65
McGahen, J. H. . . . . . . . “. . . . . '68 Meech, W. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855
McGear, D. L. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '40 Meeson, J. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847
McIntire, Asa. . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '47 Melvin, Jon. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '40
& 4 J. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '53 Meredith, E. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’70
* c & Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861 Merritt, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '48
McKay, John . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '54 “ N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '48.
McKendrie, E. J . . . . . . . . . . . . . °53 Merriam, M. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1842
*McKeen, J. S... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864 4 & W. W. . . . . . . “ . . . . '63
*McLallen, Jas... . . . . . .ent. . . . '31 Merrifield, E. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1853
& 4 J. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '72 & & A. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864
McPhail, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838 Mershon, W. W... . . . . . . . . . . . . '49
McWhorter, F. M. . . . . . ent. . . . '62 Metcalf, J. O. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1845
Main, L. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59 Mets, J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . .ent. ... '58
Mallory, O. E. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861 Middlebrook, E. R. . . . . . . . . . . . 1859
“ N.C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861 Mikels, W. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
Mann, L. L. . . . . . . • * * * * * * * * * * °46 *Miller, W. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1826
“. . J. B. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68 % & 4 Harvey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
*Manning, M. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851 ( & J. G. . . . . . . . . . ent '51
Manton, J. R...........thl. . . . 1847 & 4 G. D. B. . . . . . . “ . '53
Marble, Jon. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '40 & 4 F. E. ...thl. . . . 1860
Marean, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '49 4 & H. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867
Marsh, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836 “ Harrison . . . . . ent. . . . '67
Marshall, B. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849 Mills, P. W. . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '33
Marryat, D. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842 “ Chichester . . . . . “ . . . . '39
& 4 S. L. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '47 “ G. A. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '42
Martin, S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843 *Miner, Bradley ....... “ . . . . 1828
“ Harry, Jr. . . . . . ent. . . . '57 “ A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829
“ A....... . . . . . . .thl. . . . 1859 “ S. G. ent. . . . 1830
*Marvin, I........ . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840 “ D. C. . . & 4 °47
Mason, A. P....... . . . . . . . . . 1836 “ H. P. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '60
“ J. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836 Mitchell, A. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '51
“ L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '47 “ W. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866
“ J. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848 & 4 S. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '66
“ H. G. . . . ...thl 1849 ( & James . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67
“ Warren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859 Mixer, A. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '48
£ 6. D. N. . . . . . . . . . thl '60 Monroe, Jos.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’22
“ A. F. . . . '63 Montgomery, John.....ent. . . . '50
“ G. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864 {{ W. H. . . . . “ . . . . '55
“ M. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '72 Moon, W. P... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
Moore, J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Moore, C. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
“ E. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
“ Gideon ent '57
“ Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '61
* “ W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863
More, H. L. . . . . . . . . . . . ent °33
Morey, R... & & 1828
“ W. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
“ G. C. . . . . . . . . . . . ent '66
“ N. R. . . . . . . . . . . & 4 '66
Morgan, H. A. 1852
Morley, B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
* “ J. T... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
Morrison, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
Morison, J. N. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '44
Morse, Silas. . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . 1830
“ B. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
“ Levi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
“ J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . thl 1856
“ David. . . . . . . . . . & & °59
* “ A. J.. . . . . . . . e < * * * * * * e e '62
Morton, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S27
Moseley, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °49
& & O. J. . . . . . . . . . ent '62
Mott, C. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °51
“ F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '51
“ D. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
Mudge, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
Mulder, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864
Munger, H. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. '34
Munro, J., Jr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '44
& & I. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71
Murphy, J. R... 1849
& & J. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’70
Muzzy, L... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839
“ T. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °43
& 4 G. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °56
Mya-Sah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '72
Myers, E. C. . . . . . . . . . . .ent. '30
Myrick, R. B. . . . . . . . ... “ '58
Moxley, S. D. . . . . . . . . . .thl 1866
N.
Nash, J. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
“ C. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °59
“ C. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S63
Nason, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '62
Negus, M. H. . . . . . . . . . .ent. '40
Neidig, C. . . . . . . . . . . . ( & *66
Newell, I. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1831
« L. M....... . . . .ent. ... '52
( & J. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '60
Newman, W. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '52
a & W. C. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '52
Newton, A. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
& & F. H. . . . . . . .ent. '67
Ney, W. C. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '41
*Nice, W. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
*Nickerson, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822
*Nickols, D. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829
Nichols, Lucius W. . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
4 & L. M... . . . . . . .ent. . . . '54
& & S. B. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '58
# * * A. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '66
4 & S. W. . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '68
Nicholson, C. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '63
Niles, A. H. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '86
“ Isaac, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '42
“ Albert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '58
“ C. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '60
Nisbet, J. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
Nock, W. T.. . . . . . . . . . . ". . . . . . '68
*Norton, N. J... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
( & C. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
Nucko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1826
Nye, Jas.. . . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '31
“ J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '52
O.
Oakley, C. B. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1866
Oatman, D.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861
Odell, T. B., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866
Olcott, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '34
Olin, O. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . & ſº '67
Olmstead, H. . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '51
& 4 Cyrus. . . . . . . . . . . . . °58
*Olney, D. B. . . . . . . . . . ent.'... '42
*Onderdonk, J. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860
& & W. H. . . .ent. . . . '63
Ormsby, B. J.. . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '63
Orton, H. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °39
“ P. A... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59
Osborn, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
“ D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '47
“ Lucien M. . . . . . . 1847
* “ Luke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
“ A. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855
“ T. W.. 1S60
494
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Osgood, J. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '47
“ Lyman. . . . . . . .ent. . . . '60
Osterhout, J. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866
Overton, D. A... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '50
Oviatt, J. F. . . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . , '61
Owen, Z. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '69
“ B. F... . . . . . . . . . ent '6S
“ D. D. . . . . . . . . . . .thl. '68
P.
Packer, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '42
* c : P. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861
Paddock, H. C. . . . . . . . . ent '85
4 & L. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °52
« & E. H. . . . . . . . ent '5S
& & F. K.. & 4 '61
& & W. L. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '67
Page, S. B. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1S29
“ E. H. . . . 1847
“ M. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '50
Pah-kau-too . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67
Paine, L. C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
Palmer, G. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent °32
“ John . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '35
“ R. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
* “ Bela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
“ Lyman . . . . . . . ent. . . . '43
“ Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
“ H. E. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . '55
“ Wm. Ledyard. . . . . . . . 1856
“ Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . : , 1859
“ E. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860
“ C. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '61
“ J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °68
Park, C. C. . . . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . 1830
“ Edward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59
Parke, C. M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868
Parker, Aaron... . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1827
4 & I. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '45
4 & S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
& & D. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '58
& & J. E.. ..ent. °60
& & James. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65
& 3 W. L. . . . . . . . . ent '68
Parkhurst, W. J.. . . . .
& 4 J. W... . . . . . . . . . . . .
Parmely, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Parmly, W. H. . . . . . . . thl...
Parshall, R. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 1850
'62
1840
. 1844
. 1848
Parsons, I. S. . . . . . . . . . . tº º s
Patch, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '55
Pattengill, W. W..... . . . . . . . . '70
Paterson, R. A.... . . . . .
thl . 1858
Patterson, J. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *55
& 4 S. H. . . . . . . ent *55
{ { J. B. T. . . . .thl 1858
+& & & C. G. A... 1861
Pattison, C. R. . . . . . . . . ent, °43
& & Th:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °56
Patton, A. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
“ J. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855
Paul, D. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
*Paulin, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
Payne, E. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59
“ Charles ... . . . . .ent. . . . '60
“ S. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '64
Peabody, H. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S65
Pease, A. H. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '40
“ I. N... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
“ W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866
*Peck, Joel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1825
* “ P. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
“ Lewis 1844
* “ L. M. thl . . . . 1846
“ D. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
“ E. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °51
“ A. W. . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
Peddie, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1862
Peloubet, Alex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71
*Pelton, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1825
Pendleton, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858
Pennel, Geo. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '34
*Perkins, N. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1841
{ { E. T. . . . . . . . . ent '51
( & E. P. . . . . . . & 4 °52
& ſº C. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °58
& & C. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71
& & J. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '72
Perry, G. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S22
“ H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
Persons, R., Jr... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
& & A. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '66
Pettit, H. . . . . . . . . 1849
* “ O. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
“ J. B. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '65
Phelps, J. C.. . . . . . . . . .thl. . '51
Phillips, Jeremiah... . . . . . . . . . . 1838
& C David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '40
GENERAL CATALOGUE. 495
Phillips, Josiah...... . . . . . . . . . 1849
4 & W. C., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '49
* 4 & George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851
& & G. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °51
& & W. C., Jr.. . . . ent '68
& C E. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '72
Pickard, J. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860
iſ g Robert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861
Pierce, Stephen. ... . . . .ent. . . . '35
* “ E. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
“ Philander. . . . . . . . . . . . . °46
“ Francis . . . . . . . ent '51
“ V. N. A. . . . . . . ** °51
“ F. T. '57
“ I. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °5S
“ G. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °59
“ J. A. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67
Pierson, F. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
Pilgrim, Thomas J. . . . . . . . . . . 1827
*Pinney, E. R. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '36
& ſº A. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '36
Piper, J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '56
*Platt, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1825
“ Abrahaum . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
“ C. D. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '63
Platts, Chas... . . . . . . . . . ellt 1833
Pope, J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °46
“ J. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
“ D. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859
“ T. A. . . . . . . . . . . . ent *65
Porter, John. . . . . . . . . . {& '33
“ W. L. . . . . . . . . . {{ . 235
* “ Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S38
4 & I. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865
Post, G. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °4()
“ C. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
Potter, A. L. L....... . . . . . . . . . 1S42
* “ Nathaniel . . . . . . . . . . . '46
“ W. T. . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . 1855
“ M. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863
“ D. C. . . . . . . . . . ent. * (* *y
“ Aaron. . . . . . . . . . thl. 1S50
Potts, Thos.. . . . 5 * * * * * * * * * * * * * °56
Powell, T. W. . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . '65
Powers, I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
*Prall, J. C. . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . *61
Pratt, Silas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
* “ Horatio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S2S
“ Wm. M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837
Pratt, J. H... . 1847
“ H. A.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
“ G. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '57
“ C. J.. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '60
“ Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1869
*Prescott, Francis............. 1840
*Prentice, R. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
& & R. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1841
& & A. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867
*Preston, Colburn. . . . . ent. . . . '40
Pulis, J. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S61
Purdy, Wim. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '47
“ W. H. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '68
#Purinton, T. E... . . . . . “ . . . . 1830
# * * J. M. . . . . . . “ . . . . 1830
* * * Thomas.. . . . . . . . . . '51
Purington, W. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
( & L. M. . . . . . . ent. . . . '45
( & Levi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '50
Putnam, A. B... . . . . . . . ent. . . . '40
* c & B. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °45
( & J. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '45
& & I. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59
Pyne, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °56
Q.
Quackenbush, J. B. . . . .ent. . . . '82
& & S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '5S
Quaiffe, A. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '60
*Quick, Giles. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '3?
R.
Radford, C. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S41
Rainboth, E. . . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '49
Rand, Thos..... . . . . . . . “ . . . . '85
Randall, Charles.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
( & W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
Randolph, R. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °52
( & M. M.. . . . . . ent. . . . '56
Ranney, A.... . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '83
*Ransted, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {S33
Rasco, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . .ent . . . .1836
*Ratlıbone, I. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184S
Ray, J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . . '66
Raymond, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S3
Jonathan . . .ent. . . . '39
& 4 R. R. . . . . . . .thl. . . . 1842
( & E. H. . . . . . . .ent. . . . '63
496 GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Read, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °31 Robbins, G. R. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
“ Alansom... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836 Robinson, Charles. . . . . “ . . . . '28
“ H. W., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845 * * * Peter... . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
“ Daniel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848 & f Demas... . . . . . . . . . . °38
* “ C. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850 * : « Elihu. . . . . . . ent. . . . 1830
Reading, M. K. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68 * c : Calvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
Reed, D. D. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '32 £ & H. L. . . . . . . . .ent. ... '55
“ Daniel. . . . . . . . . . { { °35 ( & E. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '58
“ E. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838 & ſº L. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °58
“ W. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849 , cc William . . . .ent. . . . '59
Reineman, F. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858 & & W. M... . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866
Reiener, G. S. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '58 Roberts, M. . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848
Remington, C. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . '54 & 4 T. B. . . . ... . . . . . . . . . 1856
Relyea, Solomon. . . . . . . thl. . . . 1848 6 & R. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '57
Reynolds, E. R. . . . . . . . ent . . . . '32 Robertson, R. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '60
{& John. . . . . . . “ . . . . '39 *Robords, I. . . . . . . . . . . . * * * * * * 1829
{ { N. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1853 & & C. I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '52
§ { R. Jones. . . . . . . . . . . 1856 Rockey, W. D. . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '58
4 & Harrah J. ...ent. . . . '56 Rockwell, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '62
{ { Philander . . . . . . . . . 1862 & 4 R. W. . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
* { A. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864 { { H. C. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '68
Rhoades, R. M.. . . . . . . .thl. . . . '57 Roe, Geo. N. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1835
Rhodes, S. O. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1865 Rogers, O. S. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '34
Rice, Luther. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1826 “ James . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '41
“ Benj. . . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '82 “ Artemas . . . . . . . . . . . . . '42
* “ W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1832 { { Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . '5S
“ Lorenzo. . . . . . . . ( & °33 & & Daniel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
“ Elial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '54 “ E. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71
“ S. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °57 Romine, E. C. . . . . . . . . . * * * * * * 1867
“ F. G. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '60 Roney, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
*Richards, Paul S. ..... “ . . . . 1824 Root, D. M.. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1827
& C J. M. . . . . . . .ent. . . . '39 * “ Anson . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . 183
& & W. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840 “ P. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent . . . . '64
3% & 4 Humphrey...thl. . . . 1842 Rose, A. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
*Richardson, J. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1835 “ H. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
& 4 R. M. . . . . ent. . . . '39 “ Thomas . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '53
{ { H. M. . . . . . . . . . . . 1849 Ross, J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '41
§ { C. H. . . . . . . . . . . . J860 “ W. H. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '49
*Richmond, J. L. . . . . . thl. . . . 1833 “ J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '57
* < * C. N. . . . . . ent. . . . '3 Royce, Ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843
Riddlebarger, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . °53 “ W. E. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
*Riddell, M. S. . . . . . . . . thl . . . . 1860 Rowlands, H. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Rider, Is... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59 Rugg, W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1862
Risler, Th. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °42 Runyon, W. H... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’61
*Ritchie, G. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849 Rundell, R.. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '61
Rittenhouse, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1854 *Russel, G. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
Robbins, B. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '36 * { T. C.. . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '58
& & Hiram . . . . . . . “ . . . '43 & & W. J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °63
{{ F. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '54 Ryder, D. B... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
*Sackett, J. B. . . . . . . . . . - - - - -
* “ Phi
Sage, J. H.
Salisbury, E
Salmon, Jas.
Sampson, S.
P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
* * * * * * * * * *
Sanford, H. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sarles, J. W.
a * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ~ *
Savage, Eleazer. . . . . . . . . . . . -
* {< Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ C. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sawin, A. A. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . .
Sawyer, Reuben.... (p. 336). . . .
Saxon, Luther... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Saxton, Ez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
( & J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sayler, S. H.
Scarff, E. H. .
e e s - - - - - - a tº * * * * * *
Schultz, J. H. . . . . . . . . ent. . .
Schreuder, A. B. . . . . . . “ . . . .
Schofield, D.
& & J.
“ J. L. . . . . . .
* - - - - - - 6 tº º e º e º g º º
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* tº e - - - - © tº 8 tº e º e º s is e
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
& 4 S. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 & H.
*Searl, Davi
d. . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
“. S. B............ “ . . . .
* “ E. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sears, E. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
* “ Rufus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ H. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ G. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Seeley, J. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& 4 J. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
'65
1843
Seeley, T. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
* & G. S. . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '52
« & F. B. . . . . . . ... “ . . . . '53
Sentharo, Samuel... . . . . “. . . . . *55
Settle, L. L. . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . '65
Seward, A. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *60
Seymour, R. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866
Shailer, N. E. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1828
& & D. T. . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . 1829
& 4 W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1835
& & J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
Shapley, H. H. . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '55
Sharts. D. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1854
Shavor, E. P.. . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '60
Shaw, J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
“ W. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '58
Sheldon, C. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S44
& 4 P. K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S65
4 & A. C. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
Shelton, Wm. . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1846
Shepard, W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *65
Sherman, C. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
*Shermer, H. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
Sherwin, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1839
* . & Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
Sherwood, C. E. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '68
Shimeall, R. C. . . . . . . . “. . . . . 1S23
Shirely, P. P. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '52
*Shires, C. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
Shirk, M. S.,. . . . . . . . . . thl... . . . 1848
Shoards, J. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S6S
Shook, Cyrus. . . . . . . . . thl. . . . . 1846
Shopp, J. M.. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '6S
*Shotwell, S. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
Shrope, W. B. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '43
Shumway, J. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . °5S
*Silliman, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
Silver, Geo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
Simmons, Jon. P. . . . . . . ent. . . . 1830
& G. . . . . . . . . . . • { °30
& 4 J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S51
4 & C. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S61
{& W. C. . . . . . . ent '67
( & Wm. J § { ... '6S
*Simons, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
4 & A. H. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '54
*Simonson, P. . . . . . 1S26
*Simpson, Richard. . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
ſ & H. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S53
498
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Singleton, J. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . °45
Skelly, J. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '69
Skidmore, A. F. . . . . . . . s a tº e º ſe e °57
*Skinner, B. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827
* ca. H. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829
* { C. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
{ { B. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '61
é & D. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865
*Slafter, C. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
Slater, F. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
Slaysman, G. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
*Slayton, R.. . . . . . . . . . ent 1829
Slocum, P. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822
{ { A. G. . . . . . . . . ent. . . '32
*Smale, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
Smalley, Seth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1826
Smith, Sheldon N. . . . .ent. . . . 1827
“ Andrew M. . . . . “ . . . . 1828
“ Wm. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1828
“ Alexander . . . . . .ent. . . . 1830
* “ Vernon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833
“ Wm. A. . . . . . . . ent . . . . . '33
“ Sidney P. . . . . “ . . . . '33
“ Francisco. . . . . . “ . . . . .35
“ Dexter P. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
“ Harry. . . . . . . . . ent, °36
“ Zebina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
“ D. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '42
“ Franklin C. . . . ent . . . . '43
* “ Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
“ Samuel J. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
“ H. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °47
“ Virgil. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '50
“ Henry. . . . . . . . . “ . . . '51
“ John Ripley. . . . . . . . . . '52
“ J. Byington . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
“ Miles G. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '52
“ Henry F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '53
“ Albert Henry. .ent. . . . '54
“ Ephraim Z. . . ... “ . . . . '55
“ Wm. Augustus. . . . . . . . 1856
“ Wm. Bowdoin. th] . . . . 1856
“ H. A. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '58
“ N. S. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '58
“ D. Edson. . . . . . “ . . . . '60
“ Clark J. R. . . . . . . . . . . . '60
“ J. Henry.. . . . . . . . . . . . . '64
* “ Buel A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865
“ Leonard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865
Smith, D. Kendall.....ent. . . . '65
“ Sidney D. . . . . . “ . . . . '65
“ Arthur, J. . . . . “ . . . . '65
“ C. C., . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '65
“ Wm. M. R... . . . “ . . . . '66
“ Charles C. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867
“ G. Emory. . . ...ent. . . . '67
“ W. A. . . . . . . . . . & & '67
“ Geo. A... . . . . . . . “ . . . . '68
“ Earl S. . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '68
“ Joseph Moss. . . . . . . . . '70
“ Waldo B. . . . . . . . . . . . . ’70
“ Edwin Fayette. . . . . . . . 271
Snashall, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1869
Snodgrass, D. S. . . . . . . thl. . . . '51
Snow, Robt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’43
* “ R. W. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863
Snowdon, H. L. . . . . . . . ent °49
Snyder, G. B. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '58
Spaulding, Ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... '50
Spear, P. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
“ J. W. ...ent. . . . '61
“ F. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1863
“. C. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865
*Spencer, O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829
{ { Horace. . . ... ent . . . . 1832
& & J. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1851
& & W. H. . . . . . . . . . . 1864
Spike, Edwin. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '61
Spinning, O. F. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
Spoor, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
*Sprague, O. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
4 £ J. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
{ { J. M. . . . . . . . ent . . . . '60
& 6 A. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868
Spratt, G. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
Squier, Jas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
St. John, Benj. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1824
Standish, C.. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '86
*Stannard, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827
Stanton, W. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861
Starks, Geo... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
Starkweather, J. W. . . . . . . . . . 1843
º § { A. H. . . . . . . . . . 1850
& & Asher. ... . . . . . . 1862
Staples, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '40
Stearns, J. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822
*Stebbins, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
Steadman, N. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '47
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Steelman, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
Stevens, M. L. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '52
tº gº H. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '56
& & J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °56
teward, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
Stewart, A. Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '40
a « Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
Stickney, J. M. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1832
& & C. W. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '54
Still, L. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °49
* “ L. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
“ A. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1852
Stillman, P.. . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '33
4 & T. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '59
Stillson, L. . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . 1836
Still well, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '45
Stinson, J. H... . . ... . . . . . . . . . . 1849
*Stiteler, J. B. . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1848
Stocker, L. H. . . . . . . . . .ent. . . . '32
Stobo, R. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '60
Stoddard, I. J. ........ . . . . . . . . 1845
Stone, Marcena. . . . . . . .ent. . . . '34
“ O. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
“ Milton . . . . . . . . . elht °52
“ E. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
“ G. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1859
“ David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '60
“ J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S62
Stout, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '60
Stowell, A. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1841
4 º' L. S. . . . . . . . . . .thl °50
Stradling, Thos.. ... . . .ent. . . . '63
*Strong, L. . . ... . . . . . . “ . . . . 1S29
Stronach, E. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *62
Sumner, C. B. . . . . . . . . . ent °53
Summers, A. J. . . . . . . . . “ °56
c { It. W. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '56
Sunderland, J. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '65
Sunny, C. F. . . . . . . . . . . ent *61
Sutherland, T. J. ... . . . “ °61
4 & F. P. . . . . . . “. . . . . '68
Sutton, N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1869
Swaim, Thos.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
Swain, L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °41
Swan, J. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1S27
“ C. Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1862
Swift, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
T.
Taber, G. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Taft, E. A... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Taggart, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Talbird, H. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tallman, W. . . . . . . . . . .ent. . . .
Talmadge, E. H. . . . . . . & &
Tanner, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Targett, A. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tailor, Justus. . . . . . . . . ent.
Taylor, E. E. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ B. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ J. B. . . . . . . . . . . ent
“ Thomas R. . . . . & &
“ David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
* “ Alfred H. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ Alfred . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ VV m. R. . . . . . . . ent
“ Geo. C. . . . . . . . “
“ James M. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Teal, A. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Teasdale, J. . . . . . . . . . Cnt. . . .
§ { T. C. . . . . . “ . . . .
*Teeple, J. J.. . . . . . . . • & e - © e º e
Teft, H. M... . . . . . . . . . ent....
Telford, R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ten Brook, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
* “ Geo. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Terry, C. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ J. W. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . .
Thatcher, R. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Thayer, Th.... . . . . . . . . ent
Theal), Th. . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Thickstun, D. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Thomas, Jacob. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
{{ A. D. . . . . . . . . . ent
& a Cornelius D. . “ . . .
& 8 G. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Thompson, John L. . . .ent.
* { J. Jervis. . . “
& & Hollis. . . . . “ . . . .
& & Charles J...thl. . .
tº g Isaac T. . . .ent. . . .
& & W. F. . . . . . . . . . . . .
{ { Samuel.... . el)t
( & Thomas. . . .thl. .
( & Isaac W. . . . . . . . .
{ { Henry. . . . . . . . . . . .
{ { N. B. . . . . . . . . . . . .
500
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Thornton, G. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850
Throop, Jas. M. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '51
Thurber, R. H. . . . . . . . “ . . . . '40
Tibbits, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '3
Tilden, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1853
& & W. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
Tillinghast, W. . . . . . . . thl . . . , 1839
*Tinklepaugh, P. E. . . . . . . . . . . '72
Titus, W. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘. . . . 1844
Toohey, J. H. W... . . . .ent. . . . '42
Todd, C. H. . . . . . . . . . . “. . . . . '55
Toles, R. G. . . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1848
“ W. A... . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '67
Tolman, J. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1844
. . . C. F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1856
Tombes, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1845
Tompkins, Ed. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . '58
§ { F. N. . . . . . . ent. . . . '65
Totman, C. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838
Totten, J. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '69
*Tower, David. . . . . . . . ent. . . . 1823
* * * Stephen. . . . ... “ . . . . '32
* t < Zaccheus. . . . . “ . . . . '82
Towle, F. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1862
*Townsend, Cullen B. . . . . . . . . 1829
& 4 J. B. . . . . . . . ent ’83
4 & Jonas. . . . . . “ . . . . '40
* & & Bowles C. . . . . . . . . . 1847
& & Ingham D..ent. . . . '56
& ſº James J. . . . . . . . . . ’70
Traver, H. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866
Travis, G. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’70
Trenaman, J. . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1862
Trevor, J. B. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '43
*Tripp, Z. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827
“ Melvin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °56
Truesdell, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '58
Truve, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1869
Tryon, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '62
*Tucker, Eber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1824
* * * Levi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829
* * * Charles... . . . . . . . . . . 1837
& 4 Silas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840
4 & Charles J. . . . . • * * * * * '60
* * * Jireh, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . . 1860
-X. & & Charles E. . . . th! . . . . 1862
§ { D. B. . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '44
ſ & James D. . . . . thl. . . . 1864
§ { A. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '71
Tupper, H. A. . . . . . . . . thl. . . .
*Turner, Holland
-X- & &
& 4 H. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
{ { L. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & J. W..... . . . .ent. ...
Turney, E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tuson, T. H.
* * * * * * * * s e s e is e º e s
Underhill, C. W. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Underwood, E. H. . . . . . . . . . . . -
Upton, John. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Utter, S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vail, W. W. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Vanderhoff, H. S... . . . . “ . . . .
Vanton, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vaughn, O.. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
ex t ( Ashley. . . . . . . “ . . . .
& & H. M.. . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Van Fradenburg, David. . . . . . .
& 4 Ed. B.. ent. .
Van Horn, Burt. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Van Husen, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Van Loon, Chas... . . ... ent . . . .
*Van Meter, H. L. . . . . . thl. . . .
{ { C. E. . . . . . . ent. . . .
Van Ness, J. H. . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Van Patten, J. D. . . . . . “ . . . .
Van Woert, C. M. . . . . . “ . . . .
Van Tassel, F. K. . . . . . “ . . . .
Vedder, Levi... . . . . . . . “ . . . .
*Vinton, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Voorhees, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . .
Votey, C. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Volk, W. H...... . . . . . G11t . . .
Vogel, H. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
W. Watrous, G. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& 4 G. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wade, Jonathan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822 Watson, D. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wadhams, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '40 & & Chas. H. . . . ...ent.
Wadsworth, M. T. . . . . ent '40 Way, S. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . “
& 4 S. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861 “ Freeman . . . . . . . gº º
*Wait, Daniel . . . . . . . . . ent °31 Weatherby, J. W. . . . . . . . . . . .
* “ D.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836 Weaver, S. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ W. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '58 Webb, Abner R. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wagner, H. W... . . . . . . . . . . . . '71 “ J. N. . . . . . . . . . ent.
Wakefield, W. F. . . . . . .ent. '68 “ Wm. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Walden, J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1836 “ H. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Walker, Levi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1828 “ Warren S. . . . . . . . . . . . .
{ { George. . . . . . ent. . . . '29 “ J. C. . . . . . . . . . . .ent.
( & G. C. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . 1838 Weber, H. T. . . . . . . . . . & &
4 & Ransom. ... . . . . . . . . 1845 Webber, J. S. . . . . . . . . . * {
& & Orrin T. . . ... . 1847 *Webster, L. W... . . . . . & 6
£ & W. G... . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866 4 & S. B.. . . . . . . & 4
& & J. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '56 ( & Epenetus. ... “
& & G. O. . . . . . . . . ent. '67 é & George. . . . . {{
Walkley, W. E........ “ °55 Wedge, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . & 4
*Wall, Van R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822 * Weed, Munroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Walling, G. . . . . . . . . . . .ent. °32 “ E. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & Kelsey . . . . . . . ... . . . 1857 Weeden, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Walton L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849 Weeks, R. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ward, Hervey . . . . . . . . ent. ’82 Wehrung, J. F. P. . . . . ent.
* c < Samuel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843 Welander, J. G... . . . . . “ . . . .
“ William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848 *Wellington, C. C. . . . . . . . . . . .
“ Benj. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . '49 Wells, W. A. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
“ John C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1850 “ J. H. . . . . . . . . . . d &
“ M. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855 “ Alfred. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ J. W. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . °58 Wellman, L. L. . . . . . . . thl...
*Warner, T. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1826 Wescott, Erastus . . . . . . . . . .
& & J. S. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . '44 4 & Henry. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& 4 O. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °45 & Edgar
Warren, G. W. . . . . . . . ent °31 West, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& 4 Benj. . . . . . . . . . “ '37 “ Hezekiah. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& ſº John... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1843 Weston, R. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & Hiram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1858 Wheat, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Warriner, E. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861 *Wheeler, S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
( & E. J. . . . . . . . ent. '66 { { O. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wasson, J. B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °45 & & H. O. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Watkins, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1822 tº º B. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 & Alfred. . . . . . ent. °58 & & E. S. . . . . . . . thl
{{ G. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °59 { { Amos . . . . . . ent. . . .
& s J. H. . . . . . . ent '65 Wheelock, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Watrous, A. D. . . . . . . . “. . . . . 1831 *Whipple, Ed... . . . . . . . ent
gº C. W. ... . . . . . . . . . . . 1839 { % Ed. O. . . . . . { {
502
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
Whitaker, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
White, A. F. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
“ C. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“ Delos. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
“ J. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Whitford, H. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Whitman, S. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Whitmore, J. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
( & A. R. . . . . . . . . . . . .
& 4 Frank . . . . . . . . . . .
Whittemore, I. T. . . . . . . . . . . .
Whitson, S. K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Whitney, Zenas . . . . . . . ent . . . .
& C C. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wight, R. A. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Wickoff, J. . . . . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Wikoff, D. S. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
*Wiers, D. . . . . . . . . . ... “ . . . .
Wightman, Jas. . . . . . . “ . . . .
Wilbur, W. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wildman, E.......... ent. . .
“ Lyman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
& & Sidney . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wiley, Alexander. . . . . ent. . .
“ Franklin . . . . . . “ . . . .
Wilkins, S. ... . . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Willcox, M. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wilcox, A. J. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . .
Williams, R. Z. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
* & 4
Williamson, W. H. . . . .ent. . . .
Willingham, B. L. . . . . “ . . . .
{& R. J. . . . . . . . . . . .
44 Edward . . . . . . . .
e
Willis, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '36
“ Geo. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '68
Willson, R. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1829
& & M. V. . . . . . . . .thl 1859
( & C. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1861
Willsey, E. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ’41
*Winchell, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1823
{{ Benj. . . . . . . ent °32
Winegar, R... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1827
& 4 Chas. P. . . ... . . . . . . 1857
$4 Hascall. . . . . . . . . . . . °56
Wines, W. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
*Winston, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
Winship, Jas. . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '41
Winterton, S. . . . . . . . . . “ . . . . '40
Wisner, C. H. . . . . . . * @ Q tº e º 'º a °52
*Witherell, R. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833
Wolverton, Ch. E. . . . . . . . . . . . 1846
& 4 Job. . . . . . . ent. . . . '63
Wood, N. N. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1838
“ Nathan. . . . . . . . “ . . . . 1841
“ I. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
“ P. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '48
“ Darwin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '61
“ H. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1864
“ L. L. . . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1867
Wooden, T. S. . . . . . . . . & & 1863
Woods, E. A. . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . 1863
“ H. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865
Woodward, Ab.... . . . .ent. ... 1828
# ( & Franklin. . . . . . . . . 1840
Woodworth, Dyer. . . . . ent. . . . '34
& & D. D. . . . . . . . . . . . '56
gº º S. R. . . . . .ent. . . . '65
Woodruff, Lloyd O. ... “ . . . . '59
& 4 Louis H. . . . . . . . . . . *62
Woolsey, J. J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1833
Woolworth, C. N. . . . . . ent. . . . '37
*Wooster, Henry. . . . . ... . . . . . 1836
Work, Perly. . . . . . . . . . thl. . . . 1842
Wright, Lyman . . . . . . . ent. . . . '35
& & S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842
4 & Thos. G. . . . . . thl. . . . 1842
& a Wm. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . '46
& & W. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849
& & W. P. . . . . . . . ent. . . . '51
Wyeth, W. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1854
GENERAIL CATALOGUE.
Y.
Yahbah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ent. ... '66 Young, Robert... . . . . . ent. . . .
Yallalee, W. P,. . . . . . . “ . . . . '65 “ W. M. . . . . . . . “ . . . .
Yeager, Geo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . °49 * “ G. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
York, Dyer. . . . . . . . . . . ent. . . . '40 “ S. Stokes. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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