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1869.




"' THE stars are thickening on our college roll,
Types of their place, perhaps, in other spheres,
And warning signs to bid thee, 0 my soul,
Prepare to join the friends of happier years."




PREFACE.
THIs Class Record has not been prepared as early as I had hoped. Accidents, sickness and death in the family; business taking me away much of
my time from home; a residence remote from New Haven, and from any
center of information convenient for gathering the facts I needed; the difficulty of obtaining replies to repeated letters of inquiry, or definite statements in any way about several of our Classmates, have been some of the
causes of delay. The labor of procuring and distributing more than twenty
sets of Class Photographs, (of from twenty to twenty-five portraits each,)
has been another cause. I shall be happy to give all the further aid that
may be needed to carry out the generous offer of Mr. Burrows, to supply
each of his surviving Classmates and each of the families of the deceased,
with Class Portraits. Let any one, who has not already done so, send on
his Photograph to me, to be copied, (or as several have preferred to do,)
twenty-five or more of the same, prepared by himself, and he may expect to
receive in time, an equal number of portraits for his Class Album.
Most of the Biographical Sketches are condensed from letters received,
since July, 1867; some few are, by request, printed verbatim.
The Secretary will be thankful to any of the Class or of their friends, who
will send him any additional facts about any Classmate living or departed,
graduate or non-graduate. He will also be greatly obliged to any one who
will point out or correct any errors, of which, probably, many can be found
in this Record. Whatever pains may be taken, deficiencies and mistakes.
will exist in a document of this kind. To those, who, in various ways, have~
aided me in preparing this Record, I tender my most hearty thanks.
H. HERRICK, Secretary..
NORTH WOODSTOCK, CONN., July 31, 1869.








CLASS  MEETING,
July 30 and 31, 1862.
THE FORTIETH YEAR FROM OUR GRADUATION.
IT had been resolved at the previous Class meeting, held in
1860, (See the published Record of that year):
1. That the time of the next meeting be changed from five
years to two years hence; i. e. from 1865 to 1862, or forty years
from our graduation, and that a meeting be held every fifth year
thereafter.
2. That those who were for a time members of the Class, but
did not graduate, be invited to meet with us, and that, in the
next Class Record published, a list of them be inserted, with such
statistics as can be gathered.
3. That the Secretary give notice of the next meeting as early
as May, 1862, by advertisement in the N. Y. Papers, and by circular letters.
4. That one of our number be appointed to speak as the Representative of our Class, at the Alumni meeting in 1862.
Twelve of the Class, in accordance with these resolutions, met
in 1862. First, on July 30, the day before Commencement, at
the Alumni gathering, 9 A. M., at which Beecher spoke as the
Representative of the Class; and next, at 4 o'clock of the same
day, at the late residence of the brother of the Class Secretary,
Edward C. Herrick, Esq., recently deceased, formerly Treasurer
of Yale College. Present: Beecher, Bradley, Brainerd, Catlin,
Herrick, Lyman, Peet, Porter, Stillman, Todd, Waterbury,
Wright —12. Beecher was chosen Chairman, and Herrick, Secretary; opened with prayer. After a brief meeting, on motion




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of Todd, adjourned to meet at 7 A. M., July 31, Commencement
day, at Mrs. Martha Shepard's, No. 129 College street, and there
breakfast together. Accordingly, the class met at 7 o'clock A. M.,
July 31, 1862, at Mrs. Shepard's house, and partook of an excellent breakfast, which was generously furnished by Todd.
The Record of the meeting in 1860, comprising a summary of
information then and afterwards received, and most of the details
given in previous printed statements (12 pp. 8vo.) was distributed. After breakfast, the usual personal narratives commenced,
and were listened to with unabated attention till they were cut
short by the ringing of the bell for the Commencement exercises,
which began this year earlier than usual. Adjourned to meet
July 17, 1867, five years from this date, and forty-five years
from the time of our graduation.
H. HERRICK, Secretary.
NEw HAVEN, July 31, 1862.
CLAASS MEETING IN 1867,
FORTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER OUR GRADUATION.
The Class met July 17, 1867, at three different times and
places: first at the Alumni Hall, after the usual general meeting
of the Alumni was closed, at 12- o'clock P. M. Present: Baker,
Benedict, Brainerd, Brinsmade, Herrick, Leffingwell, Lincoln,
Lyman, Peet, Porter, Stillman, Todd, Waterman, Wright-14
graduates; also four others who were for a time members of the
Class, but did not graduate with us, viz.: Austin, Beard, Burrows, and Vermilye, making in all eighteen of the Class present
on this occasion. This was the first time that these, or any others
of our non-graduating Classmates had met with us, and their
presence added greatly to the enjoyment of our Class gathering.
Organized by electing Todd, Chairman, and Herrick, Secretary,
and Stillman, Assistant Secretary. Todd and Herrick were appointed a Committee to make arrangements for a Class Supper
in the evening. Adjourned to meet at Porter's, at 2 P. M.




CLASS MEETINGS.                       7
At 2 P. M. met at Porter's house. The meeting was opened
with prayer by Benedict.  Present sixteen, the same as at our
noon meeting, except Waterman and Vermilye. Letters were read
fromn Beecher, Bliss, Catlin, Clapp, J. S. Law, Norton, Robbins,
Smith, Waterbury, Bullitt and Robert Toombs, of Georgia, relating to his brother, L. C. Toombs, our classmate.t The catalogue
was then taken up and the names of' the absent and the deceased
were gone over, and opportunity given to those present to state
what they knew of them. The three hours that we were together, at this our second gathering of the day, passed away very
pleasantly in these reminiscences.  At 5 P. M. we took a recess
to meet again at 7 P. M. Met at Mrs. Martha Shepard's, No. 129
College Street, and took our class-supper at 7 o'clock, at which
fifteen of the class were present, the same as at our first meeting
in Alumni Hall this noon, except Porter, Waterman and Vermilye.  After supper the Moderator called for personal narratives,
Which were listened to with unabated attention to the last. The
memories of college scenes and attachments, and of our history
for the forty-five years since we had left college, all so vividly
called up by seeing each other, excited emotions that words can
but poorly describe.  The friendly and united feeling that has
ever been so characteristic of the class, was manifest on this occasion. We felt well paid for all the pains we had taken to attend
this delightful class re-union.
We felt it to be an honor and a joy to belong to a class, of
which so large a proportion had been so much distinguished for
their talents, their learning and accomplishments, and for using
them all so earnestly and effectively to make the world better
for their having lived in it.  We met as a band of loving brothers, to mingle our joys and sorrows together after a long separation from each other.  And the more death had thinned our
ranks, the more intensely mutual affection and interest were concentrated on the little band still surviving.  We found that the
"War Record " of the class was very creditable to their patriotism. Their advanced years indeed forbade their becoming themselves soldiers, but the sons of at least fifteen of the class engaged in their country's service in her hour of peril-in some
cases all the sons, or the only son of the family. More than
1' Letters were the next day received from Drs. Reed and Wight.




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twenty were thus engaged-some through the whole war. They
fought bravely. Several rose to high offices in the army, and
some of the most promising became martyrs to the cause on the
battle-field or in the prison pen. It was resolved, That each
classmate be requested to send in his photograph to the Secretary, in order to make up a class Album, to be left for reference at
Porter's house, No. 23 Temple Street, New Haven. We deeply
regretted that for want of time, (the meeting closing at 11 P. M.),
several classmates that we greatly desired to hear from had no
opportunity to give in their " Narratives."
Our next class meeting will be in 1872, or FIFTY YEARS from
the date of our graduation. Let every one who was ever a
member of the class, that shall then survive, make a special effort
to be present. On the day before commencement let us assemble at the Alumni meeting on the college grounds, at 9 A. M.,
and at the close have a brief gathering of the class, and appoint
a place where we will meet in the afternoon and evening. If
any one finds he must be absent, let him send a full and particular letter to the Secretary.
"Hoc est
Vivere bis, vita posse priore frui."
H. HERRICK, Secretary.
NEW HAVEN, July 17, 1867.
N. B. The Post-Office direction of the Secretary is now (1869), North
Woodstock, Conn.




BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF THE
GRADUATE MEMBERS
OF THE CLA SS.
* AvERY, ELIJAH MURDOCK, son of John J. and Nancy A.
Avery, born in Groton, Conn., in 1798; died November 27, 1836,
aged 38; fitted for College at Groton and Colchester Academies;
teacher of a school at the South; professed religion in early life.
He was never married.
BAKER, OS~IYN, son of Enos and Dorothy (Smith) Baker; born
in Amherst, Mass., May 18, 1800; fitted for College at Amherst
Academy with Rev. J. Estabrooks; studied law in Northampton,
Mass., with Mills and Howe; admitted to the Bar in August,
1825, and the same year commenced practice in Amherst; married, August, 1832, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Eliza (Lawrence) Olmstead, of Norfolk, Conn. Mrs. Baker died in August,
1833, leaving a daughter who is still living.
Married in October, 1838, his second wife, Cornelia, daughter
of Alpha and Rhoda (Ensign) Rockwell, of Winchester, Conn.,
who died in February, 1840, leaving a son, William L. Baker;
was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1833-7; of
Congress three terms, 1839-45; of the Governor's Council, 1853-4.
In 1845 removed to Northampton, and recommenced the practice of law. In 1847, when the will of Oliver Smith, bequeathing
property for charitable purposes, was, after a long contest, established, was elected trustee under that will, and has been annually
elected ever since the managing trustee of that large estate. To
this, and to other financial trusts, his time is now wholly devoted,
he having retired from the practice of law in 1859. His only
son, Lieut. William L. Baker, of the 4th Artillery U. S. Regular
Army, was killed in the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862.
* The star signifies deceased.




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* BARNES, EDWARD FORT, from Port Gibson, Miss.; planter,.
Port Gibson, Miss.; died in 1825 or 1826, aged about 25 years.
* BARTHOLOMEW, ISAAC, so1n of Timothy and Abigail Bartholomew, born in Northford, Conn., May 31, 1797; fitted for College'
partly in Northford with Rev. MI. Noyes, and in Guilford with
Rev. A. Dutton, and partly in New Haven; died of consumption,
December, 1822.
PEECHIER, EDWARD, son of Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. ID., (Y". C.
1797), and Roxana (Foote) Beecher, was born at East Hampton,
(L. I.), N. Y., August 27, 1803; moved to Litchfield, Conn., in
1810; fitted for College at South Farms Academy, (Litchfield),.
Berkeley Scholar and Valedictorian of the Class; taught in
Hartford, Conn., for two years after graduating; then for less
than a year, a member of Andover Theological Seminary; Tutor
in Yale College 1825-6; Pastor of Park Street Church, Boston,.
nearly four years, commencing in 18260; President of Illinoi's College, Jacksonville, Illinois, fourteen years, commencing in the fall
of 1830; Pastor of Salem. Street Church, Boston, from the year1844, about twelve years; has been Pastor of the First Cong.
Church of Galesburg, Illinois, ever since the end of 1855.
Besides many articles contributed to various weeklies and
quarterlies, he has published-On the Alton Riots, pp. 159; on
Anti-Slavery Principles, pp. 36; Illinois College, pp. 24; Import
and Modes of Baptism, pp. 342; On the Papal Conspiracy, pp.
420; Conflict of Ages, pp. 552; Concord of Ages, pp. 581.
What he has published in newspapers and quarterlies, (the Inde-,pendent, Bibl. Repository, Bibliotheca Sacra, &c.), would make
at least three or four volumes as large as the largest book le has
published. He was four years the Senior Editor of the Congregationalist.
In 1829 he married Isabella Porter Jones, at Wiscasset, Maine;
has had eleven children, of whom five only are still living;
has had four grandchildren, three of them living; of the six
deceased children, two, (Isabella King and Albert Louis), died
at twenty years of age, and the other four at from two to seventeen months.




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Children still living (in 1868): Edward Lyman, aged 37 years;
Frederick William, aged 33 years; George Howard, aged 32
years; Eugene Francis, aged 22 years; Alice Cornelia, aged 19
years.
*BENEDICT, HENRY, born in Norwalk, Conn., January 22, i1796,
son of John and Jane (Raymond) Benedict; prepared for College
at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; taught the first year after
graduation near Fredericksburg, Va.; was licensed by Fairfield
West Cong. Association in 1825; then preached one year in
Waterbury, Conn., and two years in Saratoga County, N. Y.;
Pastor of the Cong. Church in Norwalk, Conn., 1828-32, during
which time two hundred persons were added to his Church; Pastor in Lansingburg, N. Y., 1834-6; preached one year in Covington, Ky.; in 1838-9 preached in the Bowery Cong. Church,
New York City; 1840-52, (more than twelve years), preached
in Cong. Church, Westport, Conn.; 1853-4 was traveling in
Europe; 1854-64, (ten years), Pastor of the Presb. Church of
Port Chestel, N. Y.; then resigned his charge, still remaining in
Port Chester and living with his daughter, Mrs. Peters. Married
Mary B. Lockwood, September 1, 1823, who survives him; had
seven children, four daughters and three sons; one son died in
Texas, in 1853, aged twenty-four years; two sons now living in
Greenwich, Conn., who do business in New York City; one of
whom, Henry Martyn, is (1867) President of the Gold Exchange
Bank. His four daughters are all living; Mrs. Taylor, in Oakland, Cal.; Mrs. Mead, in Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Todd and 3Mrs.
Peters, in Port Chester.
He died in Saratoga, N. Y., July 18, 1868, aged seventy-two
and a half years, after less than a week's illness, which was contracted by his exercising out of doors and exposing himself to the
uncommonly intense heat that marked the month of July, 1868.
He was buried in Greenwich, Conn.
Says one who was well acquainted with hi'm: "I never knew
one who possessed so complete self-control and so many virtues.
He never seemed despondent at any trials or afflictions; he was
always cheerful and resigned; he retained his vigor of body and
mind till his last illness, and never appeared old." His love for
his Classmates was peculiarly strong, and, as one of his family




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writes, "The memories, sad and joyous, awakened by his attending the Class Meeting in 1867, were so intensely exciting,
that for a few nights after he could hardly sleep."
BLISS, JUDAH LEE, born in Wilbraham, Mass., March 16,
1803; graduated at Williams College, M. D., 1825; lived one
year at Black Rock, N. Y.; then was four years at Blenheim,
C. W., engaged in mercantile business. Went to Adams County,
Miss., in 1830, where he taught twenty years; traveled extensively in Europe, in 1851; also, in 1857; married in 1854;
resides at Copake Iron Works, Columbia County, N. Y.; spends
his winters in the large cities.
* BowEN, GEORGE THOMAS, from Providence, R. I. After a
regular medical education, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in the University of Nashville,
Tenn., where he died October 25, 1828. He early distinguished
himself for rare talent and skill in chemical analysis. Silliman's
American Journal of Science (first series, vol. 15, p. 403) contains an interesting biographical notice of him.
*BRADLEY, JONATHAN DOR-I, son of Hon. William C. Bradley;
born in Westminster, Vt., in April, 1803; fitted for College, in
Charleston, N. H., with Rev. Mr. Crosby. In 1827, began to
practice law at Bellows Falls, Vt., where he married, in 1829,
Susan M. Crosman. In 1831, moved to Brattleboro', Vt.; continued to reside there till his death, which occurred September
8, 1862, at the age of 59 years and 5 months. His widow survives him. He left four sons,-William, who graduated at
Harvard College, in 1851, and lives in Brattleboro'; Richards,
who also lives in Brattleboro', is married and has four children;
Stephen Rowe, who lives in New York City; Arthur C., now 19
years of age, who is in Amherst College, Class of 1870. He was
not only distinguished as a lawyer, but also as a man of unusual
literary and scientific attainments; and, though afflicted with
deafness, was remarkably social and genial in his manners. In
1856 and 1857, he represented the town of Brattleboro' in the




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Legislature. He was an able member of the Board of Education
in Vermont from its first organization till his death.
BRAINERD, JOSEPH H., son of Joseph S. and Hannah (Hungerford) Brainerd, was born in Chatham, (now Portland), Conn.,
March 22, 1801; fitted for college at the Franklin County
Grammar School, St. Albans, Vt.; was two and a half years in
the Vermont University, Burlington. After graduating at Yale
College, taught one year (1823) in Georgia; then studied law in
St. Albans; admitted to the bar in 1825; member of the Executive Council of Vermont, 1.831-33; chosen Clerk of Franklin
County, and of the County and Chancery and Supreme Courts
of that County, April 15, 1834, and has held the office ever
since; has been Deacon of the First Cong. Church of St. Albans
ever since March, 1839.  In May, 1839, married Fanny, daughter
of Deacon Cotton Partridge, of Hatfield, Mass. She died May,
1848. Children by this marriage: Joseph Partridge, born June
27, 1840, who graduated at the University of Vermont, August,
1862, and at once enlisted in the Vermont cavalry; was in many
battles and charges; was wounded and taken prisoner May 5,
1864, in the battle of the Wilderness, and died of starvation and
exposure in Andersonville prison, September 11, 1864, aged 25
years-one of the best of men and soldiers; Elizabeth L., born in
1843, died in 1854; George C., born in 1845, graduated at Yale
College in 1867; Fanny P., born in 1848, was one year a student
at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
* BREWSTER, JOSEPH MARSH, from Worthington, Mass.; ordained Pastor in Peru, Mass., December 29, 1824; dismissed
September 10, 1833; died there, December 29, 1833. Married
Mary Morgan of Northampton, Mass.; left three children; his
eldest son, Charles, graduated at Williams College in 1845, and
died the same year. He was esteemed a zealous and faithful
minister.
BRINsMADE, HORATIO NELSON, son of Dr. Thomas C. and Elizabeth (Goodwin) Brinsmade, born in New Hartford, Conn., December 28, 1798; fitted for College with his Pastor, Rev. Cyrus
Yale, and at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; entered Prince



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ton Theological Seminary in 1822, but not remaining there through
the whole course, completed his preparatory Theological studies
with Rev. Joel Hawes, D. D., of Hartford, Conn.; was for eight
or nine years Instructor in the Deaf and Dumb Institution, Hartford; ordained to the work of the Ministry in 1828, by the Hartford North Cong. Association, and preached one year at the North
Cong. Church, Hartford; in 1831 left Hartford for Collinsville,
gathered a Church there and left in the fall of 1834 for Pittsfield,
Mass.; was Pastor of the first Cong. Church, Pittsfield, till called
in 1841 to the Pastorate of the Third Presb. Church, Newark,
N. J., where he remained twelve years; left on account of his
wife's ill health, in October, 1853, for Beloit, Wis., where he was
Pastor of the First Cong. Church for seven years; also, for three
or four years of the time, teacher of Physiology and of Intellectual
and Moral Philosophy in the College; in 1864 returned to Newark, N. J., where he now lives, and has gathered a Church,
composed in part of members of his former Church; preaches
three times on the Sabbath. Married, September 9, 1825, Maria
S., only daughter of Rev. Joseph Washburn, of Farmington, Conn.,
who died June 25, 1831; his second wife was Amelia, daughter
of Alexander Collins of Middletown, Conn., whom he married
April 29, 1833; she died in Beloit, October 11, 1864. January 1,
1866, he married his third and present wife, Anna, daughter of
Geo. Turner, of Great Barrington, Mass.
For more than forty-four years he has labored almost exclusively in the Ministry, not having been interrupted by ill health
or any other cause, except a visit of several months in Europe in
1846. He has experienced unbroken harmony and happy results
with those he has been connected with. For seventeen years he
was Trustee of Williams College, and for ten years of Beloit College; has published several S. S. books, and assisted S. G. Goodrich in preparing school books. He received the degree of D. D.
from Union College in 1842. He has buried all his children, viz.:
two sons by his first and two sons by his second wife, who died,
respectively, at the ages of seven months, twelve months, two
and two and a half years.
* BUTTS, ASA, son of Asa and Anna (Hudson) Butts; born in
Canterbury, Conn., in 1798; fitted for College in Colchester,




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with Deacon Witter; entered Sophomore; was converted in the
revival in College and joined the College Church. On leaving
College began the study of law with S. P. Staples, Esq., in New
Haven. Died and was buried in Canterbury, Conn., in 1824,
aged twenty-six years. Engraved on his tomb-stone is the following extract from Dr. Young, which he had copied into his
scrap-book:
"All our ambitions Death defeats
But one, and that it crowns."
* CAMP, ALBERT BARLOW, the eldest son of Rev. Joseph E.
Camp, (Y. C., 1787), was born in Northfield, Conn., Feb. 16,
1797. After a Theological course at Andover, which he completed in 1826, he was settled over the First Cong. Church in
Ashby, Mass. In 1832, he left Ashby and returned to his native
place, where he resided two years, supplying various pulpits in
the vicinity. In 1834 he was settled over the Church in Bridgewater, Conn., and continued there ten years; he removed to Bristol in 1845, where he became engaged in book-keeping and writing
for various manufacturers in the vicinity, and continued in this
occupation until the failure of his health, some six years before
his death, which occurred May 17, 1866, at the age of sixty-nine.
He was married in 1829 to Miss Mary A. Wilder, daughter of
Hon. Samuel L. Wilder, of Rindge, N. H. She died in 1831, and,
in 1839 he married Miss Frances A. Stearns, of Leominster, Mass.,
who survives him. Has had three children, all of whom have
died.
*CARRINGTON, GEORGE, son of James and Huldah (Ford) Carrington; born in Canaan, Conn., June 28, 1796; fitted for college in Woodbridge and Huntington, Conn. After completing
his Theological course at Yale in 1825, preached in Middletown,
Colebrook, and other places, from 1825 to 1829; was Pastor of
the North Cong. Church of Goshen, Conn., from August, 1829,
to September, 1833, and the Cong. Church of Hadlyme, Conn.,
from 1835 to 1842; in April, 1:843, went to Illinois; was elected
Pastor of Rushville, Ill., Cong. Church, but was prevented by




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sickness and death from being installed into- the office. He died
in Rushville, of bilious fever, October 31, 1843, aged 47.
Married, June 17, 1835, Catharine, only daughter of Rev.
Frederick Marsh (Y. C., 1805), and Parnal (Merrill) Marsh, of
Winchester, Conn., where she now resides with her father. He
left three children, all born in Hadlyme, and all now living;
George Marsh, born in April, 1836, graduated at Williams College
in 1861, married; Edward Frederick, born in December, 1837,
was three years in 2d Regiment Conn. Heavy Artillery, Volunteers, in the late war, part of the time was Reg'l Q. M. Sergt.;
Louisa Merrill, born June, 1840. He was a man of decided talent,
clear-headed and self-reliant, and a faithful Minister of Christ.
CASE, FRANCIS IIRAMu, son of Titus and Sarah (Eggleston)
Case; Cong. Clergyman; fitted for College in East Granville,
Mass.; married Lucinda, the daughter of Uriah and Eunice (Dill)
Case; has had four children, viz.: two daughters who died under
two years of age, and two sons who are still living; has four
grandchildren; was Pastor of the Cong. Church, Goshen, Conn.,
1826-8; was for eighteen months Agent Am. Tract Society in
the South; returning North, was Pastor of the Cong. Church,
Avon, Conn., 1830-40; soon after went to White Water, Wis.,
preached there two years; health failing, he returned East and
resided in Canton, Conn., for several years; in 1868 returned to
White Water, Wis., where he now resides.
CATLIN, CHARLES TAYLOR, son of Lynde (Y. C., 1786), and
Helen (Kip) Catlin, born in New York City, Dec. 31, 1803. After
graduating, he engaged in mercantile and bank business in New
York City, where he still resides. Married in 1829 to Lucy Ann,
daughter of the late Gen. Derby, of Salem, Mass., who died in
1846; has had nine children, five of whom are still living, (1868),
one daughter and four sons. The four sons have all graduated
at Yale College; Lynde A. in 1853; Charles T. in 1856; Haskel
D. in 1859; Arnold W. in 1862. The two eldest are engaged
in business pursuits in New York City; the third is a Cong.
Clergyman, and has a pastoral charge in Neponset, Mass.; the
fourth is a practicing physician in Philadelphia; the daughter
is married, resides in Paris, France, and has four children.




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* CLAPP, SUMNER GALLUP; Cong. Clergyman; son of Joseph
and Susannah (Lyman) Clapp; born in Easthampton, Mass.
March 10, 1800; fitted for College at Plainfield, Mass., with Rev.
Moses Hallock; at Amherst Academy, and then at Hartford
Academy with Rev. Lyman Coleman; Principal 1823-4 of Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, Me. Studied Theology in Andover,
Mass. 1824-7; Pastor Cong. Church in Enfield, Mass., 1828-37;
Pastor of Third Cong. Church, Cabotville, Mass., 1837-5.0; Pastor of South Cong. Church, St. Johnsbury, Vt., 1850-5; Pastor
of Cong. Church, Sturbridge Mass., 1856-62; then preached one
year in Lyndon,.Vt.; his health failing, he ceased preaching in
1865. Married in 1829 Pamelia, daughter of Phinehas and Eu,
nice Strong, of Southampton, Mass., by whom he had two children; Frances Amelia, born Nov. 2, 1831, who is married to
Franklin, son of Gov. E. Fairbanks, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., and
has had three children, one only now surviving.-Henry Lyman,
born Aug. 2, 1836, was in Amherst Oollege till Junior year,
when he was obliged by ill health to leave; now of the firm of
Fairbanks & Co., 118 Milk street, Boston, and is married to Susie
Taintor, of Brookfield, Mass.-After enjoying, through several
of his declining years, the quiet home in Dorchester, Mass., provided for him by his children, died at his son's house in Boston,
Jan. 26, 1869, aged sixty-eight years. He was " a faithful, truehearted and most affectionate servant of Christ, and wherever he
dwelt attracted the confidence andcllove of many hearts."
* COIT, BENJAMIN BILLINGS, son of Capt. Benjamin and Sarah
(Lathrop) Coit, was born in Norwich, Conn., April 10, 1801,
where he pursued his studies preparatory to entering College;
graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1826;
practiced medicine in Buffalo, N. Y.; in Pittsfield, Mass., and
other places, but principally in New York City, till his removal
to -San Francisco, Cal., in 1849. In 1832 was presented at the
City Hall, N. Y., by the Common Council, through the Mayor,
Hon. Gideon Lee, with an elegant service of silver for his faithfulness and success in his treatment of the cholera, which prevailed
that year. In San Francisco he will long be remembered as one
of the most skillful and experienced of Physicians, and a man of
rare social virtues. He died suddenly of disease of the heart,
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while walking in the streets of San Francisco, April 16, 1867,
aged sixty-six. years. He was, while living in New York City,
for several years Secretary of the N. Y. State Medical Society;
he was elected the first President of the Medical Society of San
Francisco.
He was married in 1832 to Adelaide, datughter of William Johnson, Merchant in New York City; hadc four children, two of
whom have died.  MIrs. Adelaide Coit, his eldest child and the
wife of Capt. S. Milligan, U. S. A., died December, 1861, aged
twenty-four years.  The youngest son, Theodore T. Coit died in
1855, aged eight years. The eldest son, Benjamin H. Coit, the
youngest daughter, Margaret J. Coit, and their mother are still
living.
His professional brethren, at his death, eulogized him as "' an
intellectual and noble-hearted Physician," " an invaluable consulting Physician," "the most genial of men in his social intercourse."  Rev. Mr. Wiley stated at his funeral that " l he started
the first Orphan Asylum on the Pacific coast, and that he was
ever the friend of religious enterprizes arndc religious men."
* COLTON,  WALTER, son of Deacon Walter Colton and Thankful (Cushman) Colton; born in Rutland, Vt., MIay 9, 1797; he
was the third of eleven children, ten of whom were sons. The
family removing in his infancy to the town of Georgia, Vt., he
spent his youth there, till at the age of seventeen he went to live
in Hartford, Conn., with his uncle, Deacon A. Colton, and learn
of him the trade of a cabinet maker.  7Vas converted under the
preaching of Rev. Nathan Strong, D. D., and turned his attention
to preparing for the Ministry; fitted for College in the Hartford
Grammar School, under the charge of Rev. Horace IIooker;
studied for the Ministry at Andover Theological, Seminary 1822-5.
Prevented by ill health from taking charge of a parish, lie accepted the Professorship of Belles Lettres in Capt. Partridge's Military
Academy, in Middletown, Conn.; also officiating there as Chaplain, he having been orcained as an Evangelist in the fall of 1825,
according to the usages of the Cong. Church; resigned his Professorship in 1830, after filling it for four years; became Editor
of the American Spectator and Washington City Chronicle,
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Jackson took a liking to him, notwithstanding his contraverting
his policy in that matter, and offered him a Chaplaincy in the
Navy; which he accepted and entered on in 1831; first cruising,several months with the West India Squadron, and then for
about three years, 1832-4, with the Meciterranean Squadron; in
1835 published " Ship and Shore," and in 1836, "Constantinople
and Athens," volumes mostly written during the voyage; in
1835 was assigned to the Naval Station at Charlestown, Mass.,
and in 1838 to the Chaplaincy of the Naval Station at Philadelphia, where he was for some time Editor of the North American,
a Whig paper; resigned his Chaplaincy during President Tyler's
administration; was appointed Historiographer of the U. S. Exploring Expedition, undcler Capt. Wilkes, but did not accept the
office.
In 1844 was marriedl.to Cornelia B., daughter of 0. Colton, of
Philadelphia; had one child, Walter, by that marriage, who was
born in 1846, and graduated at Columbia College, New York
City, in 1868. In 1845 was ordered to join the Pacific Squadron
in the Frigate Congress, whose officers, landing at Monterey, first
raised the "Stars and Stripes " on the soil of California. He was
twice appointed Alcaldcle of Monterey, an office which he filled
" to universal respect and admiration;" he empanneled the first
jury, raised the first school house, edited the first newspaper, the
Alta Californian, ever seen in California; was also prize judge.
Returned to Philadelphia, in 1849, with his health broken down
by his excessive labors. The U. S. Senate voted his heirs, after
his decease, a handsome sum in recognition of his services. In
1849-50 he published his " Deck and Port " and his " Three Years
in California."  He died in Philadelphia, January 22, 1851, and
was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery. His' Memoir and literary
remains were published in 1851, under the title of " Sea and
Sailor," by Henry T. Cheever, (pp. 437 12mo.)  His death was
calm and peaceful, and marked by penitent faith in Christ Jesus,
and in him alone as his trust and refuge. Rev. Albert Barnes,
who attended him in his last sickness and conducted the services
at his funeral, in addressing the mourners said: "That while by
his dying-bed he felt that he was in the presence of a true Christian who was leaving this world for one more glorious."  His
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* CROSWELL, SHERMAN, son of Rev. Harry Croswell, D. D..
and Susan (Sherman) Croswell, born in Hudson, N. Y., Nov. 10,
1802; prepared for College in New Haven, with Joel, afterwards
Judge Jones, and President of Girard College, Pa.; lawyer in
New Haven, Conn., several years. In 1831 removed to Albany,
N. Y., and became one of the Editors of the Argus; in 1855 he
returned to New Haven, where he resided till his death, March
4, 1859, at the age of fifty-six. He was author of a valuable
Analysis and Classification of the Rules of Proceeding in Legislative Bodies, published in 1858, and adopted by the State of
New York as their Legislative Manual. Married Aug. 14, 1839
to Delia Adams, who died Oct. 21, 1849; his only son died
June 8, 1867, aged 23 years.
CR@OSWELL, WILLIAMr, son of Rev. Harry Croswell, D. D., and
Susan (Sherman) Croswell, born in Hudson, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1804;
prepared for College in New Haven, with Joel Jones; was a
member in 1826 of the General (Episcopal) Theological Seminary,
New York City; 1827-8 Editor of the Episcopal Watchman,
Hartford, Conn.; ordained Episcopal Clergyman, in 1828; Rec —
tor of Christ's Church, Boston, MIass., 1829-40; of St. Peter's
Church, Auburn, N. Y., 1840-4; of the Church of the Advent,
Boston, }Mass., 1844-51. Married Amanda Tarbell Oct. 1, 1840;
had two children; Susan, who died in infancy, and Mary, who,
with her mother, resides in Boston. Received the degree of D. D.
from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1846. Died in Boston
very suddenly Nov. 9, 1851, aged forty-seven; his death was
caused by the rupture of a blood vessel of the brain, while he was
closing divine service in his Church on the Sabbath; he breathed
his last two hours after the close of the service. He was the
author of many excellent hymns and other poems, which are
embodied in an interesting memoir of his life, published by his
father in 1853, (8vo. pp. 528.) Rev. A. Cleaveland Cox, (now
Bishop of Western New York,) published in 1861 a volume of
his poems with a brief memoir. "Some of the pieces from his
pen are among the choicest gems in our language.-In person he
was above the medium size, and a pattern of manly beauty. —He
was a high model of Christian character. His mind was a rare
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*DIXON, SIAMEON FIELD, son of William and Mary (Field)
Dixon, and brother of Hon. James Dixon, late U. S. Senator;
-was born in Enfield, Conn., in 1803, and died in Cambridge, Mass.,
April 8, 1867, aged sixty-four years; after graduation he studied'in the Law School in New Haven, then under the charge of Hon.
David Daggett; practiced Law in Hartford, Conn., and in New
York City; was at one time Editor ofrthe American Law Magazine. For twelve years before his death he resided in Cambridge,
Mass., and was engaged in legal studies and writing. Most of
his publications were anonymous; though a large and very able
treatise on the Law of Subrogation, (Philadelphia, 1862,) bore
his name. He was an accomplished scholar, and his opinions on
difficult legal points were highly valued by eminent jurists; he
was also greatly beloved by those who intimately knew him, for
his generous sentiments and the purity of his heart. He experi-enced repeated attacks of paralysis during the last four years of
his life, till he died of weakness and complete prostration, though
he continued in the possession of his mental faculties to the last,
as far as a person in a paralyzed condition can be. He was never
married.
* DOUGLAS, SUTHERLAND, son of Alanson and Ann (Sutherland) Douglas; born in Lansingburg, N. Y., October 25, 1804;
Episcopal Clergyman. His first year after graduating he spent
in New Haven, and in Troy, N. Y.; his second year at the Andover Theological Seminary; he then completed his studies preparatory for the Ministry at the General Episcopal Theological
Seminary in New York City. Married Harriet L., daughter of
Seth P. Staples, Esq., then recently of New Haven, December,
1827; preached temporarily in Georgetown, D. C.; then about
one year in Rochester, N. Y., which he left in August, 1829; lost
his only child, a son, in 1830; visited Europe on account of his
declining health in 1830, and died in London, May 6, 1831, aged
twenty-six years. His remains were deposited in the family vault.of the Rev. Daniel Wilson, then Vicar of Islington, London, afterwards Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India; who, with
{Mrs. Emma Willard, of Troy, was with him in his last sickness.
His widow married the Right Rev. Benjamin B. Smith, Bishop
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Though he was very youthful in appearance, and believed to,
be the youngest member of the Class, he was, in College, as well
as through the brief period of his subsequent life, universally respected and beloved as a man remarkablyvmature in knowledge,
in piety, and in all the traits that constitute a noble and useful
character. An interesting sketch of his life is given in the Quar —
terly Christian Spectatortor 1832, (vol. iv. pp. 567-597.)
* FANNING, ANDREW  MURDOCK, son of Thomas and Lucy
(Ledyard) Fanning, born in Norwich, Conn., February 20, 1804;
after graduating, spent some time in the Southern States; afterwards was a druggist in New York City; was lost at sea in 1829..
FEILDER, NATHANIEL FREDERICK, from  Orangeburg, S. C.;;.
planter there; said to have been a member of the Legislature of
that State; supposed not to be living.i
*FOWLER, JOSEPH REED, from Charleston, S. C.; died soon
after graduation, in 1822, aged 24.
* FRISBIE, JAMiiES WRENTVILLE, Son of Samuel and Irene (Baldwin) Frisbie, was born in Branford, Conn., Miarch 29, 1798; fitted
for College in Branford under the tuition of Rev. T. Gillette;.
studied law about two years in Htudson City, N. Y., with President Martin Van Buren; his life, after graduation, was mostly
spent in teaching; taught in Hudson, N. Y., about ten years; in
Branford fifteen years; in Orange, N. J., eleven and a half years;
in Metuchen, N. J., one and a half years. He was twice married,
first on November 6, 1822, to Elizabeth Butler, of Hudson, N. Y.,
by whom he had five children, two sons and three daughters, all
deceased but one son; his wife died August 26, 1846. His second
wife was Jane Elizabeth Fountain, of New Jersey, whom he
married in ] 852; had one child by her, a son; he and his mother
are still living.
1 In regard to our Classmates from south of the Potomac, though much enquiry has been
made, very little has of late years been learned; scarcely a single one of them is known to,
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He died in Metuchen, N. J., September 21, 1861; his remains
were brought to Branford for burial. There are two grand-children, natives of the State of Georgia, where his eldest daughter
resided, who was the wife of James Selkirk.
* GRIFFIN, FRANCIS, son of that distinguished lawyer, George
Griffin, LL.D. (Y. C., 1797,) and of Lydia (Butler) Griffin, and
nephew of the eloquent divine, Edward Dorr Griffin, D. D., (Y. C.,
1790,) President of Williams College; born in 1802, in New
York City; was prepared for College by his father, whose profession he adopted and practiced in New York City till his death,
January 12, 1852, at the age of fifty. To quote the words of
Theodore Sedclgwick, Esq., describing him-" Few men had such
friends, none had fewer enemies; his kind temper, liberal heart,
open hand, active readiness to serve his friends, and his fine social
qualities,' endeared him to all who knew him. He was an eminently shrewd and sagacious adviser, and the confidence of his
clients was no greater than that reposed in him by all his professional brethren."
He married in 1832, Mary, the daughter of Joseph Sands, of
the Banking House of Prime, Ward & Sands, (afterwards Prime
Ward & King); had five children, three sons and two daughters;
the only surviving children are two daughters, Teresa, the wife
of Brigadier General Egbert L. Viele, of New York City, and
Emily, the wife of Col. Emil Leghmickh, of the Saxon army,
residing in Dresden, Saxony.
* HART, HENRY CYPRIAN, son of Cyprian and Lucy (Hooker)
Hart; born in Kensington parish, Berlin, Conn., January 30,
1801; physician, Kensington, Conn.; died unmarried in Worthington parish, March 28, 1831, aged thirty.
HERRICK, HEI-INRY, eldest son of Rev. Claudius Herrick, (Y. C.,
1798,) and Hannah (Pierrepont) Herrick, born in Woodbridge,
Conn., March 5, 1803; fitted for College at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.;
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dent Berkeley Scholar, and Teacher of the Hopkins Grammar
School, New Haven, 1823-5; studied Theology in Andover and
Yale Theological Seminaries 1825-8; preached in Middleton
and other places in Mass., 1828-9; in Carrollton, Ill., 1830-1;
was engaged in Sunday School and other agencies in New England 1832-5; Principal of Knoxville, E. Tenn., and Somerville
and Moulton, North Ala., Female Academies 1835-42.
Returned to the North in 1842; since then has been mostly
engaged in preaching, sometimes in agencies, generally in the
State of New York; preached in Clintonville, N. Y., 1845-9;
afterwards in Ticonderoga, Downsville, and other places; 1858-67
resided in Exeter, Otsego County, N. Y., preaching about
half of that time to the Cong. Church in that place; removed
from Exeter November, 1867, to North Woodstock, Conn., his
present home. Married in Dorchester, Mass., February 19, 1835
Sarah Maria, youngest daughter of Dr. Asahel Wright, of Windsor, Berkshire County, Mass.; has had nine children, of whom
seven are now living, his first and sixth child having died in early
infancy. Their ages are respectively 28, 26, 23, 21, 18, 14 and 12
years. His, second child, Lydia Worthington, was born in 1841,
in Somerville, North Ala., on the plantation of Mrs. Mary A.,
mother of Gen. James Longstreet. Lydia, July, 1862, married
Rev. Thaddeus H. Brown, (Y. C., 1860,) late pastor of North
Woodstock Cong. Church.  (He died October 19, 1868.) His
third child is Charles Claudius, Life Insurance Agent in Newark,
N. J., who married Julia A., daughter of Horace C. Peck, New
Haven, May, 1868; his fourth child is Edward Pierrepont, now a
Junior in Yale Theological Seminary; his fifth child is George
Lucius, who is clerk in a commission store in New York City;
the names of his three youngest children are Sarah MIaria, Anna
Caroline and William Wright.
There are four grandchildren, viz.: two sons and one daughter,of Rev. T. H. Brown, and one daughter of Charles C. Herrick.
* HOLLEY, JOHN MILTON, son of John M. Holley, was born in
Salisbury, Conn., in December, 1802; lawyer, Lyons, N. Y.;
member of the Legislature of New York 1838-41; representative
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N. Y. Married Mary Kirkland in Utica, N. Y., May, 1827; had
eight children; the first born, Henry Kirkland, died at the age
*of twenty-six; four others died in infancy or early childhood, the
eldest of them at the age of nine years; three of his children are
still living, 1868, viz.: Harriette Louisa, his third child, the wife
of Hon. John T. Clark, of Portage City, Wis., and the mother of six
children; Julia Kirkland and John Milton, his two youngest
children; John Milton graduated at Hamilton College, N. Y., in
1866, and is now in a bank at La Crosse, Wisconsin. His health
failing, he went to St. Augustine, and while returning, died in
Jacksonville, Florida, March 8, 1848, aged forty-five years.
*HUBBARD, THOBIAS GRAY, son of Thomas Hubbard, M. D.,
Professor of Surgery in Yale College, and of Elizabeth (Gray)
Hubbard, was born in Pomfret, Conn., September 12, 1803.
After graduation he attended medical lectures in New York and
Philadelphia, and received the degree of M. D. at this College in
1825. He practiced his profession for a few years, first in Brooklyn, Conn., and afterwards in New York City.
He was for the last thirty years of his life, an inmate of the
Retreat for the Insane, at Hartford, Conn. He died in Hartford,
August 26, 1863, aged nearly sixty years.
* IVES, THOMAS EARL, son of Thomas Ives, (Y. C., 1797), of
North Haven, Conn., and Ruth (Foster) Ives, of Brookfield, Mass.;
born at Great Barrington, Mass., September, 1802; fitted for
College at Great Barrington and Lenox Academies; lawyer;
studied his profession in Northampton, Mass., and in New York
City; after a temporary residence in Mobile, Ala., went, about
the year 1830, to New Orleans, La., where he practiced his profession with success till the time of his death, which took place
in November, 1843, at the age of forty-one years. He married
Mary Amanda Vaughn, of the parish of Plaquemine, La., who
died before him, leaving no children.
KNOX, JOHN REYNOLDS, son of Joseph Knox, born in Carlisle,
Pa., in 1802; physician; received the degree of M. ]D. from the
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time; has resided for several years in New York City. MarriecI
in 1831, has had one child, a son, who is still living.
* LATIHROP, WVILLIAM, son of Thomas and Hannah (Bill) Lathrop, born in Norwich, Conn., in 1802, where he died September
13, 1825, aged twenty-three; on the clay of our first Class meeting after graduation.
LAw, JOHN STEVENS, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Law; born inl
Liberty County, Ga., -larch 21, 1800; fitted for College at MIt. Zion,.
Ga., and New Haven, Conn.; entered Sophomore; graduated iln
medicine in 1825, after a three years' course of study in Philadelphia, in the University of Pennsylvania; practicing physician three
years in Liberty County, Ga., and about ten years in Savannah,
Ga.; then retired from practice for about eight years; came to
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1847; kept a drug store there for three years;
then became agent for the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, England.
In 1861 bought a farm twenty-three miles from Cincinnati, has
resided there ever since, coming into the city to business every
day by Railroad; present occupation, farming and the insurance
business. Joined the Presbyterian Church at the age of eighteen,
prior to entering College; has been an elder in the same for thirty
years; is now, (1867,) elder in the Loveland Presbyterian
Church, and Superintendent of their Sabbath School. Married
for his first wife, Mlay 1, 1828, Jane E., daughter of Hon. John
Elliot, (Y. C., 1794), Senator from  Georgia; she and her infant
child died in the eighth month of their marriage; married for his
second wife, November 24, 1831, Elizabeth R., daughter of Benj.
Burroughs, merchant in Savannah, Ga., by whom he has had nine
children, six sons and three daughters; two sons and one daughter have died, six are living; their ages, (August, 1867), respectively-31, 28, 24, 22, 15, 13; two sons married. One son is a
member of the Presbyterian Church; one sOln was in the U. S.
Army in the late war. There are three grandchildren.
LAxw, WILLIAM  HIEN:RY: Lawyer by profession. Born at
New London, Connecticut, September 11, 1803. Third son of
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1791, and married Elizabeth Learned, daughter of Amasa Learn —
ed, who graduated at Yale, Class of 1772, and was a Representative of Congress while in session at Philadelphia, 1801, and a
member of the Convention which ratified the Constitution of the
United States. Hon. Richard Law, grandfather of William H.,
graduated at Yale, Class of 1751, and was a member of the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1784, and a member of the Judiciary Committee. He was Chief Justice of the State of Connecticut, and also Judge of the United States Court for the District
of Connecticut. The father of Richard Law, and great grandfather of William H., was Governor Jonathan Law, who gradcuated at Cambridge College in 1695, and was Chief Justice and
Governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1741 until his death
in 1750. It was during his Gubernatorial Term, in 1747, that
thefirst of the present Collegiate Buildings of Yale was erected;
more than one half of the whole cost of which was contributed by
Governor Law personally.,(See the " Oratio Funebris," of the then Senior Tutor, afterwards President, Stiles, delivered before the President and
Faculty of Yale College on the death of Governor Law, and
preserved in Yale College Library.)
William  1H. Law  studied his profession with his father at
New London, Conn., and was admitted to the Bar in 1826. He
practiced his profession until 1830, when he retired from the same,.
and removed to Norwich in 1832.
He was married to Mary Lee, of Norwich, Conn., in February, 1829. She died in October, 1839, leaving one child, a daughter, Elizabeth Leighton Law, who married the Rev. Treadwell
Walden, late Rector of St. Clements Church, Philadelphia, who
have three children, two sons and a daughter. William H. Law
was again married in October, 1855, to Harriet B. Mills, of Mississippi, by whom he has one son, William Henry Law, Jr., born
July 25, 1856. After residing in Norwich, Conn., until May,
1868, Mr. Law removed to New Haven, Conn., where he now
resides. He was a Member of the Connecticut House of Repre —
sentatives in 1832.
LEFFINGWELL, EDWARD HENRY, M. D., son of William and
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~commenced the study of medicine immediately after leaving College, under the direction of Professors Nathan Smith and
Jonathan Knight; attended lectures at Yale and Bowdoin Colleges, and in the Universities of Pennsylvania and Vermont,
and was graduated in Medicine in 1824.
In 1825, went to Lima, South America, where he engaged in
the practice of his profession; remainedl there three years, and
then removed to Lambayeque, in the north of Peru, where he
resided six years. While in Lambayeque he married Maria E.
C. Garcia, a native of that place, and had two childern, both of
whom died in infancy. Returned to the United States in 1834,
and lost his wife soon after his arrival. Visited Buenos Ayres
in 1836, and, returning in 1837, located in Brunswick, Mie., with
the view of pursuing the study of Physical Science, under the
direction of Prof. Cleaveland, of Bowdoin College.
In 1843, he received the appointment of Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in the University of Missouri, and
remained connected with that Institution nearly nine years.
Owing to a bronchial affection, under which he had been laboring for a long time, and which became aggravated to such an
extent that he was unable to continue his course of instruction,
he was compelled to resign in 1852.
He subsequently accepted the chair of Chemistry and Toxicology in the Medical College of Memphis, Tenn., but the condition of his health did not admit of his continuing there.
From 1855 to 1863, he resided in Boston, Mass.; from 1863,
until the present time, he has been in New Haven.
For several years past, he has devoted himself to the subject
of Autography, and, it is said, that with the exception of that of
Rev. Dr. Sprague, of Albany, he has the best collection of
Autograph Letters in the country.
LINCOLN, INCREAsEt SUMiNER, son of Seth and Jemima Lincoln, born in Warren, Mass., June 20, 1800; fitted for college in
Leicester and Amherst Academies, Mass.; clergyman; entered
t. "Increase" has been prefixed since his graduation, that his name might correspond
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his profession in 1824, and with only a few months' interruption,
has continued in it for about forty-five years; for about twentytwo years past has preached Unitarianism as defined by William E. Channing, D. D.; preached in Gardner, Mass., 1824-42,,
and elsewhere, from three to seven years in a place; now
preaching in Winchester, N. H.; was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1863 and in 1866; has published several
sermons, tracts and speeches.  Miarried December 30, 1822,
Gratia Eliza, daughter of Dr. Nathan Smith, professor in the
Yale Medical College, and of Sarah (Chase) Smith. She was
the mother of ten children, and died about the year 1846; married in 1847 his second wife Abbie, daughter of James and
Sarah (Putnam) Comee, of Gardner, Mass. She is the mother
of two children. Of his twelve children, eight were daughters
and four were sons. Four daughters and one son have been
married. Seven only of his children are now living —1868; has
had ten grandchildren, eight of whom are living.
His eldest son, Nathan Smith Lincoln, aged 41, (Dartmouth
College, 1850,) had charge of an U. S. hospital in Washington,
D. C., during the war, and is now Professor of Surgery in the
Medical Institution in Washington. His youngest son, Sumner
H. Lincoln, entered the army at the commencement of the war
as a private, at the age of 20, and returned home a Colonel in
command of his regiment, the Vermont Sixth Volunteers, and is
now First Lieutenant in the U. S. regular army.
LYMAN, SOLOMON, only son of Solomon and Lois Lyman, was
born in Easthampton, Mass., JanuaTy 11, 1795; worked on a
farm till he was 21 years of age, teaching school three winters,
and then, in 1816, went to Phillips Academy, Andover; continued there two years; joined our class in 1819; after graduating, studied theology two years in New York City, with Drs.
Spring, Cox and Baldwin, and was then licensed to preach;
spent three years in preaching, at Pittstown, N. Y., and was
there ordained by the Presbytery of Tioy. In 1826 was married
to Mary Curtis of New York, daughter of Reuben and Silence
Curtis of Danbury, Conn.; was Pastor of the Cong. Church of
Keeseville, N. Y., about eight years, commencing his labors
there in 1828; and for the same number of years-1835-43,
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His aged parents greatly needing his assistance, he then removed to Easthampton; preached for seven years at Wvest
Farms, a village about four miles distant from Easthampton
Centre; continued to preach more or less until he was past 70,years of age. HIe has had three children (sons); one died at the
age of four years; another lives near his parents, and another is
living with them. There are three grandchildren, all daughters,
the eldest about eight years of age.
*3MALTBY, JOIIN, son of John and Elizabeth Maltby; born in:Northford, Conn., March 8, 1795. After his conversion at the
age of eighteen years, he set out to prepare for the Ministry of
the Gospel; fitted for College with Rev. T. Gillette, of Branford,
and at Colchester Academy; entered Yale College in 1817, but,
on account of dangerous and protracted sickness, left College
for one year; then joined our Class, and graduated with us;
studied in Andover Theological Seminary three years —1822-5;
was agent some months for the Am. B13. Comn. For. 3Miss.; was
Pastor in Sutton, Mass., eight years, commencing in 1826; was
the first and only Pastor of the Hammond Street Church, Bangor,
MIe., and the only candidate ever employed by them from their first
organization in July, 1834, till his death 1860, or twenty-six
years, during which time 624 persons were added to its nmembership. At his decease, it embodied more than 300 members, and
was the largest Protestant Church in Bangor. IIe married, May
15, 1827, Margaret Graves Jackson, daughter of Rev. WTillialm
Jackson, D. D., of Dorset, Vt. She died in the spring of 1851.
Mr. Maltby died while journeying for his health, May 15, 1860,
in Worcester, Mass., aged 65 years. According to his wishes,
he was buried in the Northford Cemetery by the side of his wife
and his two infant children.
He had seven children, of whom five are now living. The
eldest, John Rogers MIaltby, was born in Sutton, May 11, 1828;
has been engaged in business pursuits in Melbourne, London,
Paris, New York, &c.; narried Matilda MI. Cooke, of London
England, September 7, 1863.
MIargaretta A. Loraine Maltby was born in Sutton, September
7, 1829, and is the wife of Minott Sherman Crosby, teacher, and
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William Jackson Maltby was born in Sutton, April 13, 1831;
graduated at Yale in 1851; studied about one year in Bangor
Theological Seminary; was elected Professor of Modern Languages in Bowdoin College, Me.; studied about five years in
European Universities, and died in Madrid, Spain, December 31,
1860, while on his homeward journey.-"A very learned and
promising young man."
Susan E. MIaltby was born in Sutton, July 23, 1832, and was
married in 1855, to John A. WVinn, merchant in Boston; resides
in Somerville, Mass.
Samuel C. C. Maltby was born in Sutton, in 1834, and died in
1835.
Henrietta C. Maltby was born in Bangor, December 16, 1836,
acld was married, May, 1861, to Rev. J. P. Cushman, now (1868)
Pastor of the Cong. Church in Granby, Mass.
Daniel J. Maltby was born in Bangor in 1838, and died in 1841.
There are several grandchildren.
Of his published discourses, those that he preached on funeral
occasions are thought to possess a rare and peculiar excellence.
A discourse, commemorative of his life and character, by Prof.
Enoch Pond, D. D., was published at Bangor in 1860.  (Svo.,
PP. 24.)
"His life-work," says Dr. Pond, "was that of the Pastor and
Gospel minister, and it was well done. His name is still fragrant
in Bangor and all that region. He had a strong sense of honor
and honesty-was kind, courteous and sympathetic. The more
closely persons observed him, the more they were satisfied by
his conversation, his prayers, and his unniform Christian example
that he was a Christian, and that his religion was a reality."
" He was constantly growsivzg- as a preacher," " even," (it was
-thought) "to the last year of his life,"  This was the "natural
result of his habits of study, and of close observation and experience."  "I have never heard," continues Dr. P.," more stirring and effective dispensations of Divine truth anywhere, than
I have often heard in this house, (Hammond Street Church,) and
from the lips of our late Pastor. He excelled still more as a
pastor; visiting the old and the young, the rich and the poor,
and entering fully and kindly into their difficulties, fears and.conflicts."




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*MoRsON, ARTHUR ALEXANDER, born in Falnouth, Va.;Lawyer, Fredericksburg and Richmond. Married Maria Scott,
by whom he had four or five children. He is known to have
died a few years since, probably in 1864. His widow survives
him. He was a man of superior talents and eminent in his profession.  (No additional facts gathered in regard to him, though
many enquiries have been made.)
NORTON, LOT, son of Lot and Mary (Hickok) Norton; born,
in Salisbury, Conn., January 15, 1803; fitted for College in
Lenox, Mass.; agriculturist, —cultivating ever since his graduation the old homestead that for 120 years has been owned by thefamily; member of the Legislature of Connecticut in 1857;
married Martha Whittlesey, of Salisbury, Conn., September 6,
1836, who died in October, 1867. On the occasion of her death,
he writes: "She, who, for forty-one years, was my comfort and
joy, the sharer of my joys and sorrows, my ever faithful friend,.
and, I might almost say, my Guardian Angel, has left me for a better and a higher world."  Has had six children; four of them
professors of religion, three only noW living, (1869.)  Cornelia D.
Norton, was born in 1827, and is the wife of John O. Niles, M. D.,
of Housatonic, Mass.; Eliphalet W., was born in 1830, and
died in 1855, in the triumphs of faith, aged 25 years; ArthurNorton was born in 1832, and died the same year; Martha S.
was born in 1836, and died in 1855, at the age of 19 years;
Sarah was born in 1840, and resides with her father; Thomas
L., was born August 11, 1842. He was a soldier in the latewar for three years in Co. G., 7th Regt. Conn. Vol., under Col.
(since General and Governor) Hawley, enlisting at the age of 19,
and after his discharge was offered a place on his staff. He is
now Assistant Treasurer of the Salisbury Savings Bank, and
Postmaster of Lakeville, Litchfield County, Conn., which is L.
Norton's P. 0. direction. He has had five grandchildren, three
of whom have died.
PEET, HARVEY PRINDLE, son of Richard and Joanna (Prindle)
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-for the education and instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, at
Hartford, Conn., as an instructor, where he continued for nine
years, when he was elected the Principal of the Institution in
New York City, and in 1845 was chosen President of the Board
of Directors.
On the 27th of November, 1823, he married Margaret Maria
Lewis, daughter of Isaac Lewis, D. D. She died on the 23d of
September, 1832, leaving three sons, her infant daughter having
died previously, at the age of nineteen months.  In 1835, he
married Sarah Ann Smith, daughter of Matson Smith, M. D.
She died December 30, 1864. He has had six grandchildren,,only three of whom are living.  His oldest son, Isaac Lewis,
graduated at Yale in 1845, and his youngest, Dudley, in 1852,
and died on the 18th of April, 1862. His second son, Edward,
graduated at the New York University in 1847, and died on the'27th of January, 1862.
In 1849, he received the degree of LL. D. from the Regents of
the University of the State of New York. On his return from
Europe, which he visited in 1851, he made a report of his tour,
which contains the fullest collection of statistics of the deaf and
dumb in our language.  He is the author of many important,contributions to the literature of deaf-mute instruction.  The
series of elementary books for the use of the deaf and dumb,
prepared by him, is in very general use among institutions for the
deaf and dumb in this country, and he has considered it his duty,
by occasional addresses, pamphlets and articles in periodicals,
to endeavor to promulgate and defend the true principles of the
art of deaf-mute education, and to disseminate the means of correcting popular errors that are liable to work injury to the cause
to which his life has been devoted. Having reached the limit
usually allotted to human life, he resigned, in 1867, the post of
Principal of the New York Institution for the Instruction of the
Deaf and Dumb, which he had held for thirty-seven years, and.closed forty-six years of professional labor. In January of the year
1868 he married IMrs. Louisa P. Hotchkiss, his present wife. He.occupies a suite of rooms at the Mansion House, on the premises
{of the Institution at Washington Heights, N. Y. His eldest son,
Isaac Lewis Peet, one of the most accomplished of teachers, succeeds his father as Principal of the Institution, which is now
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(1869) the largest of the kind in the world. The two younger
sons gave, for years before their death, in 1862, the brightest
promise of future usefulness in the same department of instruction.
It is believed that there is no man living who has labored more
earnestly and successfully for the education and improvement of
deaf mutes than he has done. His last great labor was the planning and erection of the elegant and well arranged buildings of
the Institution on Washington Heights.
On his retiring from his post, in the semi-centenary year of the
Institution, June 26, 1867, after having taught nearly seventeen
hundred deaf mutes, there was a gathering of five or six hundred
of this class in the chapel of the Institution, August 28, to present
to him a splendid service of plate, their own gift, as a testimonial
of their gratitude and their high appreciation of his services.
This was delivered to him, in their name, by one of their number,
with a graceful speech written out in words and expressed by
signs well known by the assembly, to which Dr. Peet replied in
the same language.  (See Biographical Sketch in Barnard's
Amer. Jour. of Education, June, 1857; also, one with a portrait,
in the Amer. Phrenological Journal, New York, April, 1869.)
* PILLSBURY, ITIIAMAR, youngest of the fourteen children of
Deac. Joshua and Elizabeth Pillsbury; was born in Dracut, Mass.,
August 22, 1794. In 1795 the family moved to Canaan, N. H.
In 1805 he went to Winchendon, Mass., and lived for some
time with his brother, Rev. Levi Pillsbury; during the war of
1812 enlisted as a soldier, and was some months in the army;
commenced preparing for college in 1815 in the Union Academy,
under Rev. M. Dickinson, about which time he professed religion. Studied theology in New York City, unuder the direction
of Rev. Drs. G. Spring and E. W. Baldwin; was licensed to
preach in 1824 by the Presbytery of New York; was ordained
an Evangelist June 19, 1825, by the same body; labored for
about two years as a City Missionary in New York and Boston;
Pastor of the Presbytelian Church in Smithtown, (L. I.), N. Y.,
1827-33; preached one year at Sag Harbor, L. I., 1834-5;
after going on an exploring tour through Illinois in the Spring of
1835, founded a colony and organized a company, with a capital
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they did in the fall of that year. He removed to Andover, in
that county, in 1836, where he resided till 1850-fqulrteen
years; then moved to Princeton, Bureau County, Ill; lived
there about four years. In 1854, being elected President of
Mhacomb College, McDonough County, Ill., he moved to Macomb;
continued there till 1860, when he returned to Andover, Ill.,
where he preached till his death, on Sunday, April 20, 1862, at
the age of sixty-seven years and eight months. He died of lung
fever, after one week's illness.
His first wife was the widow of Capt. John Richards, of New
Haven, whom he married February 2, 1823. She died about a
year after his removal to Illinois. He had no children by her.
December 18, 1837, he married his second wife, Caroline E.
Miller, by whom he had ten children, all living (but one, James
L., who died in 1840, at the age of one year), viz.: Nancy E.,
born October 12, 1838, married to Elisha Morse, 1859; Edward
Payson, born April 27, 1842; A. Nettleton, born November 29,
1844; Mary L., born May 2, 1847; Sarah A., born April 3, 1849;
Francis I., born June 14, 1851; Alfied S., born November 2,
1854; Irenaeus L., born February 3, 1859; Ithamar, born August
19, 1861, the youngest child but one (see p. 44,) born to any one
of the class, though the son of our earliest born classmate. Four
grandchildren reported; three living in 1868.
PORTER, AMIASA GAILLAIrD, son of Rev. Amasa (Y. C. 1793),
and Sarah (Bliss) Porter; born in Derby, Conn., September 20,
1803; fitted for college in New Haven, under the instruction of
Joel Jones; studied law in the Yale Law School; practiced law ill
Hebron, Conn., 1825-35; has lived in New Haven ever since
1835. He resides with his sister, Miss Emeline Porter, No. 23
Temple, corner of Crown street, where the Class Album is left for
reference, according to the Resolution of the Class, at their meeting in 1867, " That the Secretary request each one of the Class to
send him his photograph for a Class Album."
* REED, ELI, from Salisbury, Conn.; physician; died in 1827,
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REED, M[ARO MCLEAN, son of Dr. Elijah Fitch and Hannah
(McLean) Reed; born in East (now South) Windsor, Conn.,
October 18, 1801; fitted for College at East Windsor Hill
Academy and Hartford Grammar School; entered Yale, Sophomore year; taught, for two years after graduating, the East
Windsor Hill Academy; then attended medical lectures at Yale,
at Pittsfield, Mass., and at Castleton, Vt.; received degree of
M. D. from  Middlebury College, December, 1826; practiced
medicine in his native town and in Hartford, 1827-30, and since
then in Jacksonville, Ill., where he still continues in active, successful practice; was five years a partner in the drug, bookstore
and hardware business.
He was converted, and joined the Cong. Church of E. Windsor,
Conn., in 1828; joined the Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville,
Ill., in 1831, and was chosen a ruling elder in that church. He
united, at its first organization, in 1833, with the Congregational
Church of Jacksonville. He has ever been the unflinching advocate of freedom for the slave, and freedom from the use of intoxicating drinks.  He married, September 16, 1830, Elizabeth
Lathrop, daughter of James and Parthenia (Bliss) Lathrop, of
Hartford, Conn. He has had nine children, four of whom died
in infancy, and five are living, viz.: Harriet Reed, born in 1831,
now Lady Principal of Jacksonville High School; Albert Reed,
born in 1836, graduate of Illinois College, Jacksonville, and of
Andover Theological Seminary, who for several years during the
late civil war, labored under the Am. Miss. Association among
the Freedmen in Virginia; married and lives near Waverly,
Ill.; Maria Lathrop Reed, born in 1839, married to Joseph W.
Thompson, whose son is the only grandchild of M. M. Reed;
Julia Reed, born 1846, teacher of Latin and Mathematics in the
Young Ladies' Atheneunm, Jacksonville, Ill.; Mary Eliza Reed,
born in 1849. All of these, his surviving children, professed
religion in early life.
* REYNOLDS, YWALTER, SOn of Israel and Deborah (Dorr)
Reynolds; born in Pine Plains, Dutchess County, N. Y., February, 1801; studied law, and resided in Albany after leaving
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there tillhis death in 1844. Married, May, 1839, Julia W. Husted,
by whom he had a son, C. H. Reynolds, who lives at Pine Plains,,and a daughter who died in 1865.
* RICHMOND, JOHN RILEY, son of David and Lydia (Riley)
Richmond; born in Saugatuck, (now Westport) Conn., January
2, 1802; lawyer in Bristol, R. I., 1824-9; died, unmarried, in
Apalachicola, Fla., November 10, 1830, aged 28.
* RIPLEY, GEORGE BURBANK, son of Dwight Ripley; born in
Norwich, Conn., in 1801; lawyer and agriculturist, Norwich;.Judge of Probate, 1853-56; married Hannah G. Lathrop, (a sis-ter of William Lathrop, our classmate,) October 19, 1825, had
seven children, four sons and three daughters, all living but one.
The eldest son, William Lathrop Ripley, now (July, 1868,) re-,sides in Plainville, Mich.  He was for three years during the
late war in the Commissary Department. He is married and has
three children. The second son, Dwight Ripley, is a merchant
in New York City, (Melius, Trask & Ripley.) The third son, J.
Dickinson Ripley, was in the 18th Regt. Conn. Vol., three years,
acting much of the time as a Surgeon,-and to great acceptance,
though his medical education when he enlisted had not been
finished. While returning home from New York City, where
he was studying to complete his medical education, he lost his
life, December 29, 1865, in the- destruction of the steamboat
Commonwealth,-an event for which, by his Christian life for
years before, he had shown that he was prepared. His fourth
son, George C. Ripley, graduated at Yale in 1862, and entered
on duty January 1, 1863, as Lieutenant on General Terry's staff,
where he remained till the, close of the war. He is now practicing law in Norwich. The three daughters, Hannah, Harriet
R., and Emily Lathrop, are all at home. Judge Ripley died
July 9, 1858, aged 57 years. "For fifteen months before, he
-felt that his hold on life was precarious, but faith and Christian
hope grew brighter, and when at last the Master's call came,,his language was,'I have no fears;' and thus he entered into
rest."
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some years teacher at the South; received the degree of M. D_.
in 1828; for thirty years (1829-59,) practiced medicine in Uxbridge, Mass.; 1859-63 was physician of several copper mining
companies near Portage Lake, Lake Superior; then for nearly
a year for a company onthe Peninsula of Keweenaw. During
his residence near Lake Superior, he made extensive botanical
researches; went on a botanical tour in 1863-4 down the Mississippi to Texas and Cuba, returning to Uxbridge in the spring:
of 1864; has since then mostly retired fromn medical practice
and devoted his leisure to the study of Botany; prepared an
elaborate article for the third edition of Prof. Gray's Botany on,
the genus Potamogeton. He has never been married, and still.
remains, as he says, "in a state of hopeless celibacy,"-" a fact,
the confession of which," he very justly admits, "will not gratify
the Benedict fathers and grandfathers of the class."
* ROCKWELL, JOHN ARNOLD, son of Captain Charles and Sarah,,
(Arnold) Rockwell, born in Norwich, Conn., August 27, 1803.
His mother dying in his infancy, he and his brother Charles W.
were committed to the care and early training of their Aunt,,
Miss- Betsey Rockwell. He fitted for college in Norwich;
studied his profession in the office of Judge Swift of Windham,
Conn., Hon. Calvin Goddard of Norwich, and Colden & Graham,
New York City. After commencing the practice of law in Norwich, he devoted himself entirely to it till 1838, when he was
elected to the State Senate; and also in 1839. He was soon,
after chosen Judge of New London County; in 1847 was Representative in Congress from the Third Congressional District
of Conn. He served two consecutive terms, during the last of
which he was Chairman of the Committee on Claims. The
Court of Claims at Washington owes its existence chiefly to,
him, and for the last ten years of his life his professional labors
were chiefly in that Court. He was retained, after his last term
in Congress closed, as Attorney of the Mexican Commission,.
appointed to adjudicate the claims of American citizens against
Mexico. In this connection he mastered the Spanish language,.
and became familiar with Spanish and Mexican laws, and pub-..
lished a Digest of Mexican Law, which is considered a standard
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He was an active and devoted member of the Cong. Church
for the last thirty years of his life. His fine conversational
powers, his large fund of knowledge, and his gentlemanly bearing, made his society welcome everywhere. His death was a
great loss to the cause of temperance, of education, of Christian
morality and benevolence. His death was sudden.' On Sunday,
February 10, 1861, he dined as usual, and only complained of
feeling slightly ill. As he grew worse, he sent for a physician,
but before he arrived, on the evening of the same day, death
had prostrated him by the side of his bed. He died in Washington, aged 57 years. His remains were brought to Norwich
for interment.
He married Mary Watkinson Perkins of Norwich, September
27, 1831, sister of Dr. Alfred E. Perkins (Y. C., 1830), the distinguished benefactor of the Library of Yale College. She is
still living. Their children were five, three of whom are now
living. Mary Watkinson Rockwell, born in 1832, and Charles
Rockwell, born in 1836, both died young. Alfred Perkins Rockwell was born in 1834; John Arnold Rockwell was born in 1840;
Joseph Perkins Rockwell was born in 1843. Alfred P. Rockwell
graduated Yale College in 1855; entered upon the Professorship
of Mining in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale in 1864, and
in the year 1868 was appointed to a similar professorship in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. He was three
years in the army in the late war; entered as Captain First
Conn. 1-. Battery; was afterwards Colonel of the Sixth Conn.
Infantry, and then was made Brevet Brigadier-General. Married in 1865 to Kate V. Foote, and had one child, (a daughter),
born in 1868. John Arnold Rockwell came home before the
mast from Calcutta to enter the army; Superintendent of the
Schools of the American Missionary Association in Mliddle and
Western Georgia. Joseph Perkins Rockwell graduated in 1868
from  the Sheffield Scientific School; was three years in the
army; entered as Sergeant-Major of Eighteenth Conn.; left the
service as Captain; was nine months in Libby prison. The only
grandchild, daughter of Prof. Rockwell, died August, 1868.
(See a printed discourse occasioned by the death of Hon. J.
A. Rockwell, preached in the Second Cong. Church, Norwich,
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* ROCKWELL, WILLIAXr, son of Samuel Rockwell, M. D.; born
September 20, 1803, in Sharon, Conn., where he fitted for college, and studied law for a while after his graduation; studied
law also with Seth P. Staples, Esq., in New Haven; commenced
practice in Sharon in 1825; went to Brooklyn, N. Y., about
the year 1827; was District Attorney for Kings County, N. Y.,
1833-39; continued in the practice of his profession in Brooklyn for about twenty-seven years, till, in 1854, he became Judge
of the Supreme Court of the State of New York,-an office inl
which he continued till his death. In 1852 he removed his residence to Fort Hamilton; resided there till, after three days
illness, he died July 26, 1856, of yellow fever, which was then
fearfully prevalent on that portion of Long Island.
He married Susan Prince, April, 1840. By her he had six
children, three of whom are still living. He was esteemed an
able Counsellor and an upright Judge, and died universally lamented. His widow is now the wife of Rev. Dr. Strickland, of
Bridgehampton, L. I.
* RUSSELL, ALBERT, from Huntsville, Ala., practicing physician
there for many years; married and had a family. It is reported
that two only of his family, a son and a daughter, are now living,
(1869). He died in Huntsville, Ala., July 14, 1844, aged 45.
* SHEAFFE, GEORGE, from Philadelphia, Pa.; lawyer, Philadelphia; married; died in 1836.
* SHEAFFE, WM. JOHN, from Philadelphia, Pa.; agent of a
manufacturing company in New Jersey; married; died in 1839;
left three children.
* SHELDON, WILLIAM, son of Dr. Daniel and Huldah (Stone),
Sheldon; born in Litchfield, Conn., April 5, 1802. He attended
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where he went in 1824, to assist his two eldest brothers in their
mercantile business. While so engaged, he was attacked with
bleeding at the lungs, which ended in consumption, of which he
died in Paris, (France), May 6, 1826, aged 24. He was never
married.
SMITH, ELIZUR GOODRICH, son of Rev. David (Y. C., 1795),
and Catharine (Goodrich) Smith; born in Durham, Conn., May
30, 1802; fitted for college in part at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn.; entered Middlebury College in 1817, but in consequence of President Davis leaving that institution, entered at
Yale in 1818; was converted in the revival in college, 1820, and
joined the College Church January 7, 1821, with a number of
others all converted in that revival.  After graduating, took
charge of the Second Branch of the Colchester Academy, of
which his kinsman, Elizur Goodrich, Jr., was the Principal;
taught a year, and spent five or six months more there, in which
time there was a powerful revival in the school and town —(four
hundred converts); studied Theology in Yale Theological Seminary 1825-8; pastor in Ogdensburg, N. Y., 1829-31, three years.
Married September 13, 1830, Adeline Denny, of that place, who,
after a blessed experience, died November 4, 1831; her first-born
and only child (a son) died in 1833. Leaving Ogdensburg on account of poor health, he was Editor of the Quarterly Christian
Spectator for five years, 1833-38, and wrote many articles for it.
Married, June 7, 1837, his second and present wife, Susan C.
Wadsworth, a native of Durham, Conn.; has had two children
by her; her first child died in 1839, at the age of about one
year; the last, in 1854, aged 14. After closing his connection
with the Christian Spectator, and selling it out to Rev. Dr. A.
Peters, who united it with the Bibical Repository, he was for one
year editor in a publishing house in New York City, which
failed, causing him a loss of nearly $5,000, besides his salary. In
the winter of 1842-3 was for the first time connected with the
Patent Office in Washington as temporary clerk; after continuing for one year, was, in June, 1844, appointed Chief Clerk; then
after one year, Agricultural Clerk and Librarian for the next
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ents, of some of which 100,000 copies, (a number before unprecedented), were published by Congress and distributed through the
land. They cost him much hard labor —he often, for months
working sixteen hours in a day. Was Clerkin the General Land
Office, 1849-56. After the election of President Buchanan he
continued out of office for more than three years, having been
dismissed for religious and political reasons; employed himself
during this time in various literary labors. Since then, and up
to the present time, 1869, has still resided in Washington, has
been and is now a Clerk in the Patent Office. In 1854, Willie, a
devotedly pious boy, died, aged 14, leaving him childless; in the
commercial catastrophe of 1857 lost all that he had laid up for a
wintry day-some $5,000 (in stocks), and in the same year fell
ten feet through a hatchway, injuring his spine, from the effects
of which he, at times, suffers great pain and agony, and expects
to as long as he lives; has preached occasionally almost every
year since his first going to Washington; besides many other religious services, for ten and one-half years attended regularly
and often conducted the daily Union Prayer Meeting in Washington; has translated several books from the French and German,
some of which he has published, others remain in manuscript;
has a library of over 6,000 volumes, and keeps up his theological
and other studies; has written a tract and book for the American Tract Society, and many reviews of books for " The Era;"
continued in Washington during the whole war, never faltering
in his faith as to the final issue.  He is now a member of the
Cong. Church there.
STILLMAN, T1ImOTHY, second son of Capt. George and MIartha
(Deming) Stillman; born at Wethersfield, Conn., March 21,
1802; after graduating, taught five years, 1822-7, in East Windsor and Glastenbury, Conn.; 1827-30, member of the Auburn
Theological Seminary; 1830-38, Pastor of the Presbyterian
Church in Dunkirk, N. Y., where he still resides. At his settlement it consisted of ten,. and at his dismission of 121 members,
of whom five have entered the Christian ministry; was dismissed
from his pastorate that he might take the office of General Agent
of the American Bethel Society, whose object is to elevate the
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who are employed in the inland commerce of our country, in
which service he continued about thirty years, 1838-68, and
traveled more than 300,000 miles, and is able to show where he
was every day of that time. In 1834 was elected Stated Clerk
of Buffalo Presbytery, which office he still retains, 1868; and
in 1840 was elected Stated Clerk of the Synod of Genesee,
which office he still holds, and besides these offices, has been a
member of the Board of Trustees of the Auburn Theological
Seminary ever since 1851. Received the degree of D. D., from
Yellow Springs College, Iowa, in 1857.
Was married in August, 1832, to Mary Ann Edwards Abell,
whose pedigree is traced in the records of the Hyde family by
Chancellor Walworth; has had six children, of whom one son
and one daughter died in infancy; the survivors, three sons and
one daughter, are all married, and have had among them
eleven children, of whom three died in infancy.
TAINTOR, GILES, son of Charles and Mary (Abbe) Taintor,
born in Windham, Conn., July 17, 1802; fitted for college at
Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn.; after graduating engaged
in mercantile business in New York-1822-32; his father being
advanced in years and wishing his son near him, he has resided since 1832 in Windham. Was married, May 10, 1836, to
Mariann West, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Nowell Williams) West, of Boston, Mass.; has had four children: —Frank
Lathrop Taintor, 32 years of age, is cashier of the Atlantic
Bank, New York City; married Charlotte, daughter of James
Willson, lawyer, Keene, N. H.; has one child, a son. Charles
Taintor, 29 years of age, is a merchant in New York City, and is
married to Mary, daughter of George Jewett, Esq., of Staten
Island, N. Y., and has one child, a son. Henry Sherman
Taintor, the youngest son, was reported, in 1867, as unmarried
and traveling in Europe.  His daughter, Abby Louise Taintor,
died at the age of eleven years. All three of his sons were in
the late war at the same time. His eldest son, Frank, was in
the Seventh Regiment of New York. It was ordered to Baltimore while he was in the American Exchange Bank. He left
the Bank and went with the Regiment as a private.  His
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second Regiment of New York, and went to Harper's Ferry,
Va., as a private. His youngest son, Henry Sherman, was Second Lieutenant in the Twelfth Regiment Conn. Volunteers;
went to Louisiana under Gen. Weitzel; was badly wounded in
the arm, and resigned, but after recovering from his wound,
joined the New York State Volunteers, under Col. Hudson;
was in the battle of the Wilderness, and afterwards, while on
picket duty, was taken prisoner and confined in Libby Prison,
Richmond, then removed to Savannah, thence to Charleston,
and finally to Columbia, S. C., where, while the prisoners, five
hundred in number, were being removed to Charlotte, he escaped
in time to join Sherman's army as he was about entering Columbia. He was in Sherman's army a month, when the latter gave
him a pass home, and he resigned.
There are two grandchildren.
THOMAS, LANDON A., son of Edward and Ann (Chiles)
Thomas; was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, where his parents
moved at an early age from Virginia; lawyer by profession, but
has not practiced law for many years past; has traveled over
Europe and America; has always considered Frankfort his home,
though he is now preparing and expecting to move to Cincinnati, or New York City. Was married, May 26, 1858, in St.
Louis County, Mo., about ten miles from the city of St. Louis,
to Miss Ellen M. Polk, a native of Shelby County, Ky. Has
had five children, four still living: Landon, born June, 1859;
Anne, born June, 1860; Edmond, born Nov. 17, 1861, died July
30, 1862; Emily H., born Nov. 28, 1862, and Western (a son),
born April 18, 1867, the youngest child born to any one of the
Class. He writes in his letter, dated September 14, 1868,
"I have no words to express my feelings on the receipt of your's
of August 17th. It carried me back to the bright and joyful
days of my youth, when all was bright and joyous, and when
we all looked down the vista of the future for the consummation of all our happiness; but alas, how vain to seek or look for
happiness short of heaven! As it regards myself, I have been
greatly prospered. I have everything that is desirable around
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eternity.  I was fortunate in all my speculations; made an
ample fortune; have retired and am living privately and trying
to'train up my children in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord,' that they may be useful in time, and gain immortality
and eternal life beyond the grave."
*THoPrrsoN, EDWARD GARDINER, from  SNew York City;;
merchant and auctioneer, New  York City; married; died in
1835, leaving three children.
ToDD, JOHN, son of Dr. Timothy and Phebe (Buel) Todd; born
in R.utland, Vt., October 9, 1800; fitted for college in Boston,
Mass.; studied for the ministry in Andover Theological Seminary nearly four years; Pastor of Cong. Church in Groton, Mass.,
1827-33; Pastor of the Edwards Church, Northampton, Mass.,
1833-6; Pastor of the Cong. Church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1836-41.
Ever since 1841, Pastor of the First Church in Pittsfield, Mass.
In each place where he has been settled a new church edifice has
been erected for him; received the degree of D. D. from Williams College, and was elected one of its trustees, in 1845;:
chosen corporate member of the A. B. C. F. M. in 1853.
Mtarried Mary Skinner Brace, March 11, 1827, daughter of
Rev. Joab Brace, D. D., and of Lucy (Collins) Brace; has had
nine children, six of whom are living.  John William, died in
infancy. Mary Brace, died in 1863, aged 36 years.  Martha
Collins, born in 1832, married Rev. Charles J. Hill, March 11,.
1857, who is now Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Whit,ehall, N. Y.  John Edwards, born in 1834, married, in 1860,
Lizzie Thomas, of Augusta, Ga. Sarah Denman, born in 1836.
Lucy Brace, born in 1839, married, December 18, 1862, Albert
M. Bigelow, who is a lawyer in New York City. Anna Danforth, born in 1841, married, March 11, 1867, Prof. Frank K.
Paddock, M. D., of Pittsfield.  Samuel Walley, born in 1843,
died in 1846, aged two and a-half years. James Smith, born in'
1848, married May 5, 1869, Jennie Burton of Gloversville, N. Y.
He has had nine grandchildren; all but one (Mary Paddock),
still living, viz: Virginia and Ethel Todd; Annie W., John T.
and Miriam Hill; Paul and J. A. Bigelow and Rose Paddock.
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for nine years, 1860-69, Pastor of the Central Cong. Church,
Boston, Mass.  He is now Pastor elect of the Chapel Street
Cong. Church, New HIaven.
March 11, 1867, Dr. Todd's youngest daughter, Anna D.
Todd, was married by her father to Prof. F. K. Paddock in
the church in Pittsfield, Dr. Brinsmade offering the prayer
on the occasion. In the same connection, the Tenth Anniversary of the marriage of another daughter, Mrs. Hill, was celebrated; and last but not least in interest, the Fortieth Anniversary
of Dr. Todd's marriage, and of the commencement of his pastoral life, all of which occurred on the same day. Cards of invitation were sent, among the rest, to all of his classmates, so far as
their location was known. At the reception held in the Parsonage on the same day, five hundred guests attended, and presents
to the value of $2,500 were received.
In March, 1869, he crossed the Rocky MIountains to California
on the Pacific Railroad, at its first opening; took part in the
services of the union of the two railroads at Promontory Point,
preaching on his return to an audience of five or six. thousand
nMormons in their Tabernacle.
Books by Joh]n Todcl. —Lectures to Children, 2 vols. Student's
nManual.  Sabbath School Teacher.  Simple Sketches, 2 vols.
Truth Made Simple.  The Lost Sister.  The Young Man.
Great Cities.  Summer Gleanings.  The Daughter at School.
Shorter Catechism Illustrated. The Angel of the Iceberg. The
Bible Companion. Mountain Gems, 4 vols. Mountain Rills, 4
vols. Question Books, 3 vols. Nuts for Boys to Crack, Vol. 1.
Hints to Christians, vol. 1. Polished Diamond. Serpents in the
Dove's Nest. Woman's Rights. The Mountain Flowers. The
Sunset Land. (33.)'" Orations, Sermons and Pamphlets, uncounted and un(ac)countable."
* TOWNSEND, ISAAC HENRY, son of Isaac and Rhoda (Atwater)
Townsend; born in New Haven April 25, 1803; fitted for college under the tuition of Joel Jones; studied law in the Yale Law
School; was member of the Legislature fiom New Haven in
1834; visited Europe in 1835; began to instruct in the Yale
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learning eminently fitted him. But soon after this, his bodily
and mental health, which had till the last three years of his
life been remarkably good, rapidly gave way, and after suffering
-severely for fifteen months, he at last died of apoplexy, January
11, 1847, aged 43.  He was the first Secretary of the Class,
-and he continued in the office up to the time of his death. In
1843 he gave to Yale College $1,000, the interest of which is to
be used for five annual premiums of $12 each, in the Senior class,
for excellence in English composition.  "He was" (says Rev.
Dr. Croswell, his classmate-See Life, p. 397), "the foremost of
all his peers. In college he distanced us all. His legal studies
were conducted in the same spirit. In his determined spirit of
acquiring all mysteries and all knowledge he seemed to sacrifice'everything else; to hold himself aloof from the ties of domestic
life, lest they should interfere with his progress; ana I fear that
he has paid the fearful forfeit of taxing his powers beyond their
natural strength."
The remainder of this sketch is taken, with only slight variation, from the address of the late Rev. Dr. S. W. S. Dutton,
at Prof. Townsend's funeral (published January, 1847, 24 pp.
8vo.)  The leading qualities of Prof. Townsend's mind were
love of knowledge, or of the exact truth, penetration, activity,
clearness, discrimination, accuracy and order. He was not surpassed in legal learning by any man of his age, in his native
State.  His opinions on abstruse legal points were highly
valued by men among the most eminent jurists. His strict integrity led to so many important trusts being committed to him,
that he was almost entirely withdrawn from practice in the
courts. He was affable and courteous, gentle, generous and
guileless, possessed of strong social affections and of uncommon
tenacity and fidelity in his friendships. He was strongly attached
to his classmates. He evidently strove to make his profession
and life as useful as possible to his fellow men. His whole character and spirit seemed to be moulded by a living and practical
faith in Christ. "There is consoling evidence that he was a real
child of God."
Though he never united in form with the church, he was a reverent and regular attendant on its services on the Sabbath, and
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WATERBURY, JARED BaELL; born in New York City, August
11, 1799; fitted for college in Wilton, Conn.; studied for the;
ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary, N. J.; Pastor in
Hatfield, Mass., 1827-9; Pastor in Portsmouth, N. EI., 1829-31;
Pastor in Hudson, Ni. Y., 1832-46; Pastor in Boston, 5Mass.,
1846-57; then resided three years in Stamford, Conn., and ever
since then in Brooklyn, N. Y.; received the degree of D. D..
from Union College, N. Y., in 1841. In 1855 traveled in Europe
for his health. His present position is that of " Preacher to the
Masses in Brooklyn," devoting himself to laboring in various
ways for their spiritual good, with the approval and cooiperation
of the resident Evangelical clerg'y; is Editor of the'"Christian
at Work," a widely circulated and highly useful newspaper,
(office 735 Broadway, N. Y.); takes the charge of securing
regular " out-door" preaching in the large tent provided for that
purpose, often himself preaching, and constantly and successfully
engaged in the greatly needed work of city evangelization; was
Secretary of the Brooklyn and L. I. Christian Commission
during the war and was prospered in that work; his daughter
was Secretary of the Brooklyn Sanitary Ladies' Commission,
which was also very useful. His son was all army officer through
the war, and is now an officer in the Regular Army on the Indian Border.
Dr. Waterbury married, in 1827, Eliza S., eldest daughter of
Zachariah Lewvis, Esq., of Brooklyn, NT. Y.; she is still living.
He has had by her six children, five of whom are living-four
daughters and one son —all unmarried.
He is the author of more than thirty works.  The larger
books are:-Advice to a Young Christian-Considerations for,
Young Men-Book for the Sabbath-Who are the Happy?Remains of Mrs. C. Winslow-The Sceptic Refuted —Child of
the Covenant-Voyage of Life-Book of Devotion-Sabbath
Abroad-Sketches of Eloquent Preachers-A Precious Savior(12.)  Besides nine smaller books: —Oak Street Corner-True
and False Courage-Taking up the Cross-Bearing the Cross
-Little Foxes-I will go to Jesus-Ball and Prayer MIeetingChildren Led to the Savior-Cords of Love. Also six books
for soldiers;-Something for the Knapsack-Soldier on GuardSoldier from Home-Officer on Duty-Mustered Out —Some



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thing for the Hospital. Also three books for Sailors:-The Sea
and Sailors of the Bible-Something for the Locker-Ship Ahoy-,
And two books for Freedmen:-Counsels for the FreedmenOut of the House of Bondage.
WATERMIAN, THOMAS TILESTON, son of Rev. Elijah Waterman, (Y. C., i791), and Lucy (Abbe) Waterman; born in
Windham, Conn., September 24, 1801. Was ordained in 1826,
and has been in the ministry forty-three years; was several
years in Providence, R. I., in Philadelphia, Pa., then again in
Providence, in Galena, Ill., Danielsonville, Conn., and other
places, and since 1863 has lived in Monroe, Conn., preaching
there and in other places. Married Delia Storrs, of S. Mansfield,
Conn., December 11, 1827; has had seven children, five of
whom, one daughter and four sons, are still living (1868). His
eldest, Thomas Storrs Waterman, is a merchant in New York
City; is married and has three children. Alfred Tileston Waterman, graduated Yale in 1855; was Pastor of the Cong. Church in
Westfield, Conn., (Middletown) 1864-9; was installed Pastor of
Cong. Church in Berlin, Conn., Rensington Parish, June 23,1
1869; is married and has one child. George Isham WVaterman,,.
a graduate of Beloit College, Wis.; is a lawyer in Chicago; wasin the army through the entire civil war; was wounded and
taken prisoner; was retaken and fought to the end; was aln;
Aid of Generals Morgan and Bradley, and was breveted Lieutenant Colonel.  Lucy Maria Waterman, his only surviving
daughter, is an invalid.  Edwin Southworth Waterman, his
youngest son, is a salesman in the firm of Law, Harriman &
Co., New York City.  Of his wife, and of all his children,.
he writes in language expressive of great satisfaction and
attachment. He adds, " The Gospel I have preached, with itsgreat doctrines of grace, seems more and more glorious to me —
Jesus Christ over all, God blessed forever." He has lately(June, 1869), received a call from Detroit, and also from Marshall, Michigan.
* WEBB, ISAAC, son of Reynold and Catharine (Parmalee)
Webb; born in Chester, (Saybrook), January 15, 1798; fitted
for college at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn.; taught the
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Nichols Academy in Dudley, Mass., 1823-4, studying law at
the same time with Thos. Pope, Esq., of Dudley; commenced
attending law lectures in New Haven, November, 1824; was
Tutor in Yale College 1825-7; opened a law office in Middletown in 1827.  Married Mary Trumbull, daughter of John
IMcLellan, Esq., of Woodstock, Conn, June 28, 1828; went to
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1831, with the intention of settling there
as a lawyer, but returned to Middletown, Conl., after six
months, and opened a family school there for boys, limited to
twenty pupils, in which he taught for about nine years, and was
Very successful and happy. October 26, 1834, an infant son.died at his birth. August 7, 1836, his wife died, leaving an
)infant daughter who died October 22, 1837.
He went to Europe in 1840; traveled extensively in Europe:and the East for nineteen months, enjoying his tour exceedingly
until his health became impaired, he having, while on the Danube,
contracted fever and ague in its worst form.  He suffered,:greatly for several months before his death. IHe was never well,after his return to the UTnited States, March 28, 1842. HIe married his second wife; Sarah I. MIcLellan, sister of his first wife,,May 19, 1842. He took passage from Middletown, September.29, 1842, on the steamboat Kosciusco, bound for New York,
which he never reached, his body being found drowned in
Long Island Sound, at Clinton, Conn., a few miles from the
mouth of the Connecticut River. -Ie was, when he died, nearly
44 years of age. "L He was beloved and lamented by all that,knew him. He was a man of most exemplary habits, and:always enjoyed the highest esteem of his fellow citizens." His
widow married the late Prof. B. Silliman, Sen., anct is still
living.
WELD, CHARLES HUNTINGTON, s011 of Rev. Lewis Weld; born
in Hampton, Conn.; fitted for college with his father, who was
Pastor of the Cong. Church in Hampton; studied for the ministry
at Andover Theological Seminary; preached at Manlius, N. Y.,
but ceased preaching many years ago. His health was poor
while he was in college, and has continued so ever since.
Married, in 1862, a widow lady with children, " which proved to
be a very happy union;" she died in Hamden, Conn., very




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several years in Belleville, N. J., and in Bristol, Conn.; now
lives with his brother near Boston. He has adopted the socalled Second Advent views. Says a classmate with whom he
spent a night in 1868: " The interview I had with him was very
gratifying, notwithstanding his religious views differed somewhat
from mine.  We entered into no warm discussion on points.
Seldom has an interview  with any friend gratified me more,
notwithstanding his peculiarities. I thought he possessed an
excellent spirit and uncommon spirituality."
* WHITTLESEY, FREDERICK, son of Iloger, (Y. C., 1787,) and
Nancy (Smalley) Whittlesey, and grandson of Rev. John Smalley, D. D., (Y. C., 1756); born in Southington, Conn., December
13, 1801; studied law in Connecticut and Ohio; practiced his
profession in Elyria, O., and then in Cleveland, O., where he
spent the last twenty years of his life; was elected to both
branches of the Legislature of Ohio, and won, as a presiding
officer, the admiration of all, by his dignity, his decision and his
familiarity with parliamentary rules. The State is indebted to
him for some of her most clear, explicit, and valuable laws. For
many years he was one of the Associate Judges of Cuyahoga
County, O., performing, for much of the time, the duties of
President Judge. He next was chosen Clerk of the Court of
Commllon Pleas, and, though afflicted with paralysis, served out
the constitutional term of seven years. He was two years Editor of a newspaper in Cleveland, in conducting which he mani-festedlnuch talent.
Married Eliza Burrall, September 9, 1830; had eight children'
one of whom is deceased. Two of his sons served in the late
war-one for two years, and another through the whole war;
two sons have families, and are residents of Cleveland; the remaining son is unmarried, and living in California. Two daughters are married and settled in Connecticut; the two other
daughters are unmarried. The surviving widow gives the following testimony, creditable alike to her husband, herself, and
her children:-" There are many facts of interest in relation to
them, (her children), valuable and sacred to a mother. The
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They inherit a noble legacy, that of an upright Christian father,,
— worth more, and more appreciated by them, than'mints of
gold."' He died in Cleveland, O., November 13, 1854, aged 53..
The number of grandchildren not reported.
Through that long period of fourteen years, in which paralysis made him partially, and at last totally helpless, " cheerfulness,
resignation, and patience adorned his character, and as death
gradually drew around its curtain, he looked on the fading light
of life as the soft twilight of a beauteous summer day."  Almost
his last words were a message to an absent friend. "Tell him,"
said he, "that I bear evidence of the supporting realities of the
Christian religion."
WIGHT, WILLIAIM LEEDS, son of Hezekiah L. and Nancy
(Leeds) Wight; born in Richmond, Va., March 17, 1802,.
where he fitted for college; after graduating at Yale he studied
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia;
having received his diploma, remained one year at the Philadelphia Almshouse, with the view of reducing to practice the
knowledge he had obtained from attendance on the lectures of
the different professors; left the Almshouse in 1830, and sailed
for Europe, and spent a year there.  Since then has lived a
retired life, devoting what time he had to spare from the practice of his profession to his favorite study, that of the natural
sciences, in some branches of which he has made extended and.
successful investigations.
iMarried Grace IM. Hughes, of New  Haven, December 7,
1834; has two sons, both of whom are married,  They graduated at the University of Virginia, and were soldiers in
the army of the Confederacy.  William W., the eldest son,
married Arianna Cunningham, of Powhattan County, and has
four children. Theodore Henry married Harriet Dickens, and
has two children, making in all six grandchildren of Dr. Wight.
Resides at Ingleside.  His Post-Office address is Dover Mills,
Goochland County, Va.
* WILKINS, WILLIAM  WEBB, from  Northampton County,
N. C.; physician near the Roanoke; married and had several
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*WILLIAMiS, JOHN WORTHINGTON, son of John and Sophia
t(Worthington) Williams; born in Wethersfield, Conn., November 17, 1803, where also he fitted for college. His health was
delicate through his whole life; immediately after graduating
he began the study of law  in Philadelphia, with Charles
Chauncey, Esq., where also he practiced his profession through'his subsequent life, making literature his recreation, in which
She became eminent for his attainments.  Ile entered on the
Editorship of the American Quarterly Review, and also of the
National Gazette, about a year before his death, which took
place August 29, 1837. He died of consumption, at the age of
34 years. The cotemporary journalists spoke of his death as
A a great public calamity, breaking off in its beginning a career
which all had prophesied would be alike honorable, useful, and
brilliant."  He married Anne M. Kepele of Philadelphia, April,
1836. She bore him one child, John W. Williams, who gradu-:ated at the University of Philadelphia and studied law, and
during the late war was two years in the Pennsylvania Cavalry
service, in which he received several promotions. Mrs. Williams
4died a few years after the decease of her husband, leaving her,son, then but a young boy, to the care of his excellent grandmother.  After leaving the army he married Miss Keyser of
Baltimore, by whom he has children. They have a delightful,country home a few miles from the city of Philadelphia; spent
-the last winter in the city.
WRIGHT, LUTHER, born in Easthampton, Mass.; was Principal of an Academy in Maryland from September, 1822, to
August, 1824; began to study Theology in New  Haven in
1824; Tutor in Yale College from March, 1825, to September,
1828, in which year he was licensed to preach; Professor of
Latin and Greek in the Military Academy, Middletown, Conn.;
associated with Judge Hall, November, 1829, in establishing the
Classical School at Ellington, Conn.; Principal of the Academy;at Leicester, Mass., from September, 1833, to October, 1839;
-first Principal of Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., from
December, 1841, to July, 1849. This large Institution is one of
ithe most richly endowed and thorough of its kind in New
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laying the foundations of the remarkable prosperity which it.
has so long enjoyed. After resigning his position there, he gave'
classical instruction, in Easthampton, for several years,. to a large.
number of private pupils; is now engaged in agriculture, by
which his health is greatly improved. He has had probably, in
various positions as a teacher, nearly, if not quite, four thousand
pupils. Has been often employed, in the last few years, in the
supply of vacant pulpits.
Married, October, 1829, to Emeline G., daughter of Samuel and:
Anne G. (Warriner) Colton, of Longmeadow, Mass., who died
suddenly, March, 1863, leaving two daughters and two sonse.
The eldest son was a soldier in General Banks' expedition to
Louisiana, and is married; the youngest, on whom his fathergreatly depended, died very suddenly in February, 1866, in his
27th year. Author of a Discourse on Education, delivered at
Leicester, Mass., December, 1833, at the dedication of the newv
Academy building; also, of a Historical Sketch of Easthampton, delivered October, 1851, both of which were published by
request.
* YOUNG, GUILFORD DUDLEY, son of David Young, (Y. C.,.
1798), from Windham, Conn.; lawyer; died in Mieadville, Pa.,,
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OF THE
NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS
OF THE CLASS.
AUSTIN, ROBERT JOHN LOCKE, son of James and Ann (Pivett)
Austin; born in London, (England), August 28, 1795. His
mother was a descendant in the fifth generation from John
Locke, author of Essay on the Human Understanding, whose
name, our classmate modestly remarks, is all that he has in
common with that great metaphysician.
His parents came to the United States in 1800, settled in
Danbury, Conn.; soon removed to New Jersey. He began to
fit for college in 1803 at the Academy in Newark, N. J.; continued till 1808, when his parents returned to Danbury, and he
was obliged to give up the idea of preparing for college; but
in 1816, being encouraged by friends, he resumed study, and
fitted for college, studying mostly by himself, entering in
1818. In May, 1821, his pecuniary resources failing, he left
college and commenced teaching the Classics, which has been
his principal employment ever since; has prepared several
young men for Yale and for other colleges. Married Elleanor
Gedney, of Newburgh, N. Y., February 10, 1838.  Has had
two children: Leander W., who died in 1862, aged 23 years,
leaving a wife and an infant daughter; and Elizabeth, born in
1842, who is still living. After teaching in various places in
New York and New Jersey, he removed in 1852 to the City
of New York, and engaged in teaching with good success;
has fitted young men for Yale, Harvard, Hobart, and Columbia Colleges. He is still engaged as a classical teacher (February, 1869,) in Brooklyn; Residence, No. 237 Thirty-seventh
street, New York. He has the best of references as a teacher.
In 1867 he received the Honorary Degree of A. M. from Yale
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BEARD, SPENCER F., eldest son of Dr. Daniel Beard and
Betsey (Field) Beard; born in West Brookfield, Mass., July 4,
1799; fitted for college in Stratford and Bridgeport, Conn.;
left Yale College in 1819; completed his college course at Amherst College, Mass., and graduated there in 1824, and at Andover Theologioal Seminary in 1827; Agent of the A. B. C. F.
MI. one year, 1827-8; Pastor of the Cong. Church in Methuen, Mass., 1829-32; stated supply in Norton, Mass., 1832-6;
in Greenville, Conn., 1836-7; Pastor in MIontville, Conn.,
1838-46; preached in Waquoit,~ (E. Falmouth) Mass, 1848-53;
revivals in most of these places, and about a hundred souls
converted; since then has resided in Andover, Mass., preaching
more or less, as health and circumstances have permitted.
July 26, 1831, was married to Lucy A. Leonard of Paxton,
Mass, step-daughter of Rev. G. Conant.  She died May 23,
1842, leaving him the following children, viz.: Edwin Spencer,
born May 15, 1832, in Methuen, Mass; graduated Yale, 1859.
Pastor in Warren, lIaine.  Susan Huntington, born in Norton, Mass., February 15, 1834; married and lives in Bridgehampton (L. I.), N. Y.; she has had four children, two only
now living. William Henry, born in 1836; preaching in Freedom, Maine, in 1868.  George Miller, born May 8, 1839, in
Montville, Conn.; graduate of Yale in 1862; married in 1.867
1Miss Alden of Westville, Conn.; studied medicine and received
degree of M. D. at the New York Medical College; resides in
New York City; Office, 914 Broadway; writes for the "Hours
at Home," and other publications of the day; has published a
work on the Medical UTses of Electricity, and one, translated
from the German, on the Diseases of the Throat, which the
Government has purchased for the use of the army. The second
and present wife of our classmate is a daughter of Dr. E. Fellowes of Montville, Conn., whom  he married in 1843.  The
numbel of grandchildren now living is two, as reported in 1868.
BULLITT, ALFRED N., from Louisville, Ky.; entered college
September, 1819, left September, 1821; married and has a
family; lived till within a few years past on his plantation near
Louisville, Ky.; now lives in Missouri.  Dr. Robbins writes
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boat, in which he was going down the Mississippi, was stopping
at a wood station on the Missouri side of the river, and readily
recognized him, though forty-three years had elapsed since they
had met each other. He seemed glad to have the reminiscences
of the class thus called up. In a letter to the Secretary, dated
Portage, Des Sioux, St. Charles County, Mo., July 7, 1867, he
says, "Nothing would afford me more real pleasure than to be
present at the class meeting, and there are few things that I
would prize more than a list of the old class whilst I was a
member."
BURR, PELT'IAII W., of Farminoton, Conn.; entered college
January, 1820, left May, 1822. Reported to have been a lawyer
in Ohio.
BuRRows, ROSWELL SMITH, son of Rev. Roswell Burrows and
Jerusha (Avery) Burrows; born in Groton, Conn., February
22, 1798. Both his father and grandfather were Baptist clergymen. He was fitted for college at Bacon Academy, Colchester,
Conn.; entered Sophomore in Yale College in 1819, and took
a dismission in the fall of 1820, on account of a protracted
season of sickness.
Married, January 16, 1822, Mary Ann, daughter of Jedidiah
and Mary (Burrows) Randall of Groton, Conn., who died of
consumption in 1848, leaving three children, of whom one only,
a married daughter, Mary Elizabeth, is still living. William
Burrows, the second son, died unmarried in December, 1849, at
the age of 21 years and five months. Charles Roswell Burrows,
the eldest of the sons, died in January, 1865, aged 38 years and
seven months, leaving a widow and three children, who are the
only grandchildren of R. S. Burrows.
His second wife, whom he married December 31, 1850, was
Mrs. Louisa Cooke, a widow, and the daughter of James and
Amanda (Clark) Bidwell, by whom he has had three children,
one of whom, Albert Smith Burrows, born in February, 1854,
died at the age of six months. The other two still survive, viz.:
William Burrows, born in 1852; Ida Burrows, born in 1856.
He began business as a cotton manufacturer; was not successful,
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little fortune left him by his grandfather on his mother's side.
He next went to Albion, (Orleans County), N. Y., which is still
his home-then a very small village-and in 1824 engaged in
mercantile business with his younger brother, Lorenzo Burrows,
on a capital of $2000, borrowed from his relatives; continued in
it thirteen years, then sold out; soon after organized the Bank
of Albion; continued in it twenty-seven years, during which
time it passed through all the financial panics which afflicted
the country, without any trouble or loss of credit. About five
years ago he organized the First National Bank of Albion,
which he still manages.
Within the last forty years he has been Director and Trustee
of many corporations and companies, such as Railroad companies, Telegraph companies, one Mining company, and the Niagara
Falls Suspension Bridge Company; and likewise has been a
Trustee of many religious, benevolent, and literary institutions,
and had (1867) contributed, or pledged to sustain them, at least
$50,000.
Since 1844 he has taken no active part in politics, and though
often urged, has uniformly declined being nominated for Representative to Congress, which, in his district, would have been
tantamount to his election. He has, ever since December 22,
1833, been a member of the First Baptist Church in Albion
(Orleans County), N. Y.
Some time ago, the Trustees of the Rochester Theological
Seminary, knowing his liberality, proposed that he should complete the endowment of that Institution, (to which he had
already  donated the Neander Library, worth $15,000 or
$20,000), by paying $250,000, and they then would give it the
name of " The Burrows Theological Seminary of Rochester,
N. Y."  He replied that this was a larger sum than his disposable means would allow him to donate.  HIe, however, made
them the generous offer of $100,000, with the promise of more,
if prospered in business, as he hoped to be.  This offer, it is
understood, is still pending, not having been as yet accepted
by the Trustees, nor withdrawn by Mr. Burrows.
The Honorary Degree of A. M. was conferred on him in 1867
by our Alma )Mater. AWe owe him, as a class, many thanks for
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the families of the deceased, with a set of class photographs, so
far as they can be obtained. Several hundred photographs have
already been distributed, and all at his expense, except where
individuals have preferred to furnish a set of their own portraits prepared under their own supervision. He still continues
to make the same liberal offer.
CARTER, JOHN H., Fauquier County, Va.; entered September,
1818, left May, 1820.. No information received in regard to
him; probably deceased.
* CowLEs, LEWIS S., Farmington, Conn.; entered in the
autumn of 1818, left May 1820; deceased; the date of his death
not reported.
* CRITCHER, EDWIN, Augusta, Ga.; entered September, 1819,
left May, 1820; known to have died several years since; the
exact date of his death not reported.
* DUNHAM, GEORGE, son of Reuben and Betsey (Norton)
Dunham; born in Berlin, Coln., October 17, 1798; entered
college in the fall of 1818, left May, 1820. After being licensed
to preach, he labored as a missionary for several years in
Georgia and other Southern States; returned to the North in
1830, and was married to Mary A. Norton of Berlin, May 13,
1831; taught an Academy in Guilford, N. Y.; taught in other
places; had one child, a daughter, born in 1832, died in 1835.
After teaching and preaching in various places in the North, his
health being poor, he sought again the more congenial climate
of the South, residing with his wife in different States, and
engaging in various occupations-preaching, teaching, the book
trade, and farming; occasionally coming to the North to
visit his friends. He finally took up his abode in Texas. He
seemed to feel attached to the South, and grateful for many
favors received there. He never owned a slave. As nothing
has been heard from him, or his wife, since 1861, though many
letters of inquiry have been sent from the North, it is believed
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their (probable) death were entirely unknown to their friends in
the North, at the date of their letter to the Secretary (August
28, 1868.)
* EDMiOND, WILLIAM[ P., son of Judge William Edmond and
Elizabeth (Pryne) Edmond; born in Newtown, Conn., February
4, 1802; entered college September 1818, left May, 1822; died
in Newtown, suddenly, August 16, 1829, aged 27 years and 6
months.
GRAMMAR, ROBERT WV., of Petersburg, Va.; entered college
September, 1819, left September, 1820; is brother, it is said, of
Rev. John Grammar, D. D., (Y. C., 1817.) No definite information received in regard to him.
* HART, CHARLES THEODORE, second son of Rev. Ira Hart
(Y. C., 1797,) and Maria (Sherman) Hart; born in New Haven
June 14, 1801; prepared for college with his father, Pastor of
the Cong. Church of Stonington, Conn.; entered college September, 1818; died of quick consumption, (bleeding at the
lungs), October 18, 1819, aged 18 years and 4 months. He was
an excellent scholar, particularly in the languages, seeming to
learn his lessons with scarcely an effort. He was naturally of a
kind and amiable disposition, and was beloved wherever he was
known. He had no enemy. He was universally esteemed and
beloved by his classmates in college. His character was with<out a stain. There is good reason to believe that he was pious
from early youth.
The following is an extract from his father's letter announcing
his death to his brother, Dr. David Sherman Hart, then residing
in Knoxville, East Tenn., now living in Stonington, and the sole
survivor of the family.  "He departed without a groan or
struggle.  He appeared to be a humble, penitent believer in
Christ, and was remarkably patient in his sufferings and endearing in his behavior.  He had a deep sense of sin and of the
necessity of heart religion. He cast himself on the mercy of
God in Christ, saying,'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' He is
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away by a compassionate Redeemer."  It is recorded on his
tombstone, that he was "a youth of great promise, and hopeful
piety."'
HOLMES, ADAM T., of Sunbury, Ga.-; entered college September 1819, left September, 1820. No information received in
regard to him; supposed not to be living.
* JONES, JOHN P., of Milford, Del.; entered college September, 1818, left MIay, 1821; died many years since.
KETELTAS, EUGENE, son of Philip D., (Y. C., 1792), and
grandson of Abraham  (Y. C., 1752), Keteltas; born in 1802;
entered college in 1818, left in 1820; lawyer in New York
City; studied his profession in Utica with Judge Nathan Williams, and in New York City with General Robert Bogardus;
was in the practice of law for many years in New York City,
where he still resides-House, No. 37 St. Mark's Place, corner of
Second Avenue. Married in 1828 to Miss Gardner, daughter of
John Gardner of New York City; has had ten children, of
whom seven are yet living.
* LEAVITT, JONATHAN, son of Jonathan and Amelia (Stiles)
Leavitt: born in Greenfield, Mass., April 9, 1803; died in New
Haven in his Junior year, May 10, 1821. His mother was the
third daughter of Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College; fitted
for college in Westfield and Amherst Academies. His superior
talents and accomplishments, his very pleasing and attractive
manners, and his ardent piety, won the respect and love of all
that knew him. He was converted in the revival of 1820, and
joined the College Church in March, 1821. He looked forward
with pleasing anticipations to spending his life as a missionary
among the Aborigines of America.  See his Memoir (with
portrait), published in New Haven, 1822, pp. 283, 18mo, written "by a sister."
"Amiable in his disposition, engaging in his manners, distinguished in his studies, he won the love of his preceptors and
companions. He glowed with an intense desire of honoring
Christ on earth and advancing his kingdom." See letter of
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* MILLS, ASAHEL PHELPS, of Austinburg, O.; entered college
in 1818; his health failing, he was compelled to leave college in
1821, at the close of his Junior year. He returned to the college
in 1825, and graduated with the class of 1826, and died in Septenmber of the same year at Brunswick, AIe., aged 29 years.
* MINTURN, BENJAIMIN GREENE, the son of Benjamin MIinturn,
an extensive shipping merchant in New York City; born'in
New York in 1804; entered college in the autumn of 1818; left
after one year; joined Columbia College in 1819; left in 1820,
and went to sea; was promoted till he became captain of one of
his father's ships; died suddenly in New York City in 1829,
aged 25 years.
PERKINS, CHARLES, from Camden, S. C.; entered college in
the autumn of 1818, left May, 1819.  No communications in
regard to him have been received by the Secretary.
PERKINS, ISAAC, from Ashford, Conn.; entered September,
1819, left MlIay, 1820. No information received in regard to him.
POTTER, WVILLIAMr  W., from Leyden, Mass.; entered September, 1818, left September, 1820. Said to have studied for the
ministry and preached in Ohio.
* THORNTON, JAMES B., from Merrimack, N. H.; entered il
the autumn of 1818, left May, 1822. He was appointed Second
Auditor of the U. S. Treasury; went in 1836 as IU. S. Minister
to Peru; died there soon after.
*TooMBS, LAWRENCE C., from  Washington, Ga.; entered
college in September, 1819, left in September, 1820; died in
September, 1829; was married and left two children: a son,
who is a physician near Florence, Stewart County, Ga., and a
daughter, who married Hon. J. J. Jones, of Waynesboro', Burke
County, Ga.
VERMILYE, THOMIAS EDWARD; born in the City of New York
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licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New York, April 20,
1825; ordained by the same Presbytery January 20, 1826, and settled in the Presbyterian Church in Vandewater street, New York
City; removed to West Springfield, Mass., and settled over
the First Parish, M/ay 9, 1830; removed to Albany and settled
as Pastor of the R. P. Collegiate Church, October 20, 1839;
received degree of A. MI. from  Union College in 1827; and
the same from Yale College in 1867; received degree of D.D.
from  Ru-tgers College in 1836; received the same also from
Union College in 1836; received the degree of LL. D. from
Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1837.  Mfarried  iMrs. E.
B. Rockwood, the only daughter of Ebenezer'Hazard, Esq.,
of Philadelphia; she died January  12, 1861.  He has three
children: Rev. A. G. Vermilye, D. D., Pastor of R. P. D.
Church, Utica, N. Y.; Elizabeth B., the wife of Edward Smith,
Esq., merchant, New York City; T. Edward Vermilye, Jr., of
the firm  of Vermilye & Co., bankers, New York City, unmarried (1867).  Five grandchildren reported, viz.: three children
of Rev. A. G. Vermilye, and two children of Edward Smith,
Esq.
WEEKS, CHI-IARLES, Queens County, N. Y.; entered college in
the autumn of 1818, left January, 1819.  No information received in regard to him.
* WOODBRIDGE, EDWARD, from  Hartford, Conn.; entered college in the autumn  of 1818, left in 1821.  He died, it is reported,
in 1824.
The class graduated in 1822, 76 members, of whom only 29 are known
to be now living. There is little room for doubting that the names of all
the remaining 47 should be starred. Of our 26 classmates that did not
graduate in 1822, we can learn less definitely, but of only six are we certain
that thev are living.
Of the graduates, 57 are known to have been married. Of the rest of
the class, 18 (probably 19) continued single. It is believed that more than
one-fifth of the graduates have publicly professed religion since they left
college. 63 have been more or less in professional life, viz.: 26 lawyers,
23 clergymen, 14 physicians.
Class Secretaries: Isaac H. Townsend, 1825-47; E. G. Smith, 1850-1855;
T. Stillman: 1855-1860; H. Herrick, 1860-1872.




ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
A letter from Miss Catharine E. Beecher, received since the sketch of
Dr. E. Beecher (pp. 10, 11) was printed, states that two sons of his are
clergymen: Rev. Frederick W. Beecher has lately been settled at Kankakee, Ill.; Rev. George H. Beecher is out of health and is unsettled.
On page 14, 16th line from the bottom of page, after " Anna" add " M."
On page 16, 16 lines from top, for " two daughters," read "a son and a
daughter;" also, on same page, 6th line from bottom, for " Haskel " read
"Hasket;" on last line of page, for "resides" read "has resided."  On
page 20, 8th line from top, for " 56" read " 57;" also, 13th line from top, for"June 8, 1867, aged 23 years," read " June 7, 1865, aged 24 years."  On
page 26, 8th line from the bottom, for " 6 " read " 7," and for " 3 " read " 2."
To the sketch of Dr. Stillman, pp. 42-3, add " The American Bethel Society, with which Dr. S. was so long and usefully connected, is now (1869)
merged in the American Seamen's Friend's Society, and has relinquished to
it its field and its work;" also, " Three of his children live in Dunkirk, N. Y.;
one, who was a telegrapher during three years of the war, lives in Tullahoma, Tenn."
On page 44, 15th line from top, for "two grandchildren," read " four
grandchildren."
Since the early sheets of this Record have gone to press, information has.
been received of the births of several grandchildren of the class, too late
to be mentioned in their proper places in the " sketches."  It is very likely
that there are other cases of this sort, no report of which has been sent in.
May the descendants of the class of 1822 be abundantly multiplied, " even
as the sand which is by the sea shore, innumerable."