The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-06
THE LATE PROFESSOR o1MsrEAD


 The funeral of the late Professor Ed ward Olmstead of Wilton takes place this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Wilton Congregational church,
 The Record of the class o. 1S45, of Yale college, gives this sketch of MT. Olmstead's life:
 Edward Olmtead (Wilton, Fairfield county, Conn,) second son of Profcssor Hawley Olmstead and Harriet Smith Olmstead, daughter of Phineas Smith, esq, of New Canaan, Conn.,, was born at Wilton, Conn.,, November 22, 1924, His parents on both sides were of Puritan ancestry. Ills father was q lineal de- scendant of Richard Olmstead, first purchaser and settler of Norwalk, Conn.,, and the first representative of that town in the Colonial legislature, and on his mothers side, Sarah Esther Hawley, a direct descendant of Rev. Thomas Hawley, of Northampton, NlSiSS., q 5 ddudtS OL lluL Ne'Ao SSltSe,S VI the class of 17O6, and the first settled minister of Ridgefield, Conn. Professor Hawley Olmstead was graduate of Yale of the class of 1S16 ard a profes- sional educator of high grade; the lec- tor for over ten years of the Hopkins Grammar school in New Haven, Conn. He received from his Alma Mater in | 1862 the degree of ILL. D., deserved | honor, and both as teacher and man was universally esteemed and respect ed.
 Edward Olmstead was fitted for col | lege under the tuition of his father, partly at Wilton academy and partly at the Hopkins Grammar school, of which his father became rector in 1839 By pleasant coincidence James G. Gould, son of his fathers classmate Judge w. T. Gould, of Augusta, Ga, fitted with him for college, and entering Yale with him freshman year in Al was his roommate during that year be- | ing the only members of the class of 45 who were the sons of classmates. 1 After graduation Professor Olmstead taught six months at Essex, Conn, then spent a year in the study of He brew and New Testament Greek at the Yale Theological seminary. At the ex- piration of the year thus spent he be- came assistant of his father for two years, when he succeeded his father in the rectorship of the school in the au- tumn of 1S49. After four years and a half of service as rector his health, be- coming impaired ard needing change, he, in the spring of 1855 removed to Wilton, Conn, where he purchased a small farm and re-opened the Wilton academy, which his father had first es- tablished in 1877.
 In the Wilton academy, which he continued to the present time, he has been prosperous, the institution having become under his assiduous manage ment one of the best in the state He was married December 30, 1854, to Miss Marian Hyde a native of Norwich, Conn, and daughter of the late James Nevins Hyde, of New Orleans, La. They have had ten children, four of whom died in infancy or early childhood
 Those surviving are Mrs. Jane H Merwin, Mrs Josiah Gilbert, Miss Alice B. Marian H. and Chester R., of Will ton, and Hawley Olmstead, of Chicago III.
 Edward Olmstead's life has been un. attended by any remarkable incidents or changes; but full of affective labor none the less, in the department which he so early chose as his life profession Many pupils have been under his care who remember him gratefully as theil kind but thorough educator But the discipline of the school room has de prived him of none of the vivacity an6 geniality, so well remembered by his classmates as characteristic of him ir college. And as for the warmth of his welcome to classmates they have only to test it to be assured that it has ir no wise abated since he gave them eact on graduation day his parting hearty grasp, with unmistakable good wishes for their future. One year after the class graduated he was chosen class secretary in place of o. T. Chester resigned, which office he held for nint years, during which he prepared tn, first class record, At an early age h, united with the Congregational church in New Haven, and soon after his re moval to Wilton was elected a deacor Of the Congregational church in tha place, continuing In that office to th, present time always ready and active ir doing his share in the promotion O good.