Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-02

Yale in California.
The Religious Herald, Hartford, has the
following interesting contribution from
s. d. Wiley, San Francisco:
The following from Rev. Samuel H.
Wiley, D. D., one of the early settlers of
California, who went to Monterey in 164s,
before the discovery Of gold, and has been
an active citizen and Christian laborer
ever since, being, at the present time, the
proprietor and principal of the Norcross
institute, boarding school for ladies, will
interest some of our readers. The article
comes to us by favor of Rev. Dr.. F. L.
Reid of the Collins street classical school,
Hartford:
As I was sitting in the audience the
other day at Berkeley when Professor
Martin Kellogg was inaugurated president
Of our state university, it occurred to me
that Yale, his alma mater, had done we'll
for California.
When got home looked the matter
up, and I found it emphatically true.
To begin with, when San Francisco had
not quite 800 inhabitants and not over 2O0
buildings in all, and the citizens wanted
school for their sixty children of school
age-this was in the year 1s4S, at which
time there was not school of any kind In
all California found among them a
graduate of Yale, Thomas Douglass Of the
class of 81, and employed him as teacher.
Mr.. Douglass opened the school In April !,
but no sooner had he commenced his work
than the news of the discovery of gold
broke it up, and in May it was closed. 1t
was reopened, however, in the month OF
December following.
In November of that same year, 1S48,
Rev. I. Dwight Hunt of the class of 40 in
Yale came here from the Sandwich Islands
| and became the first resident Protestant
| clergyman in California. He subsequently
organized the First Congregational church
| of San francisco and was its pastor TO-
several years.
In February of the following year 1s4s
| only about three months later, Rev. JohI
W. Douglas, also of the class of 40, ar
| rived from New York by way of the 18th
mus. He was one of the first two Presby
terrain clergymen to come to this country
He commenced the First Presbyterian
church in San jose, and afterward in 1856
| became editor of our first religious paper
| The Pacific.
In July of that same year, 1S40, Rev
| Joseph A. Benton of the class of '42 ar
rived and organized the First Congrega
tional church in Sacramento, of whicl
he remained pastor fifteen years. Then
| after passionate of six years in Plymouth
| Congregational church, San Francisco, fl
the year 1869 he was chosen pastor in tn
Pacific Theological seminary, then jus
established, in which service he oantinuet
till his death, which occurred in April
1882.
In tho spring of 1853 Rev. Henry Duran
come to California. He Was of the olas
graduated in 49,. He devoted himself t.
educational work, founding first the Col
lege school In Oakland, afterwards becom
ing professor in the College of California
which grew out of it, and still later presi
dent of the State university at Berkeley.
Early IN the same year, 1858, Bishol
William Ingraham Kip of the class of g.
arrived. He found q few small Episcopa
churches and began the work of building
them up and adding to their number. Hi
success and that of the ministry under hin
was fully in proportion with that of tn
other Christian denominations In the state
Only recently he died, respected and hon
ored by all and greatly beloved by thos
who knew him intimately.
Rev. Martin Kellogg came to Californi
in the year 1924. He was of the clas
of 80. He was for several years paste
of the Congregational church in Gras
| Valley. IN 1859 he was called
the professorship of Latin in the College {
California. In the year 1868 hs was az
| pointed to the same profsssorship in th
atate university.
| After having been recently for a yes
or two acting president he has just bee
chosen president of that institution, an
L 1an &L1 LIT oE =
In the year 1866 Rev. DIR. A. L Stone c
the class of ~ came to California at th
call of the Fret Congregational church
San Francisco, and became its pastor. b
was then in the prime of life, possessed {
rare power "a a preacher and pastor. Tn
church prospered greatly under his mini
try, which continued something over f
teen years, when his health gave way ar
he died in 1892.
In mentioning the names of some of IL
graduates of Yale who have done goo
service in California, cannot omit that {
Hon. Sherman Day, of the class of '26, {
that of Rev. DR.. Bushnell, who osm
to California in 1855 for the ben
| fit Of his health, but who, viii
here, was able to do much in the II
terest of religion and the higher learnin,
or that of D. j. Gilman who was Gale
from Yale, think, in 1870 to take Il
| presidency of the University of Califerni
but who, unfortunately for US, after fe
| years was induced to resign in order
become president of the Johns Hopki1
University.
could mention many more names {
| graduates of Yale who have distinguish
themselves in the several professions Q
this coast, but these are enough to justii
my impression that Yale in particular hi
done we'll for California and the Pacif
| states.
Many other colleges and universities a
not far behind her In this respect, howe
err, and the progress of these states in r
ligion, education and civil order is large
| due to the influence of the good men the
have sent as.