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He was twice married; first to Miss Mary Fairchild of Stock-
bridge, Mass., and afterward to Miss Julia A. Reed of New
York, who survives him. Three of his five children are living,
a daughter by the first and two sons by the second marriage.

1836.

JOSIAH MASON CARTER died at Norwalk, Conn., March 22,
1868, aged 54 years.

He was the youngest son of Ebenezer and Rhoda Carter,
and was born in New Canaan, Conn., June 19, 1813.

After his graduation he taught for one year in Fairfield,
Conn., where he also studied law with Judge Thomas B Osborne.
He continued his studies in the Law School at New
Haven, and was admitted to the bar in Fairfield Co., in August,
1839. From 1840 to 1847 he was engaged in the practice
of his profession in New York City. In 1847 he removed
to Norwalk and formed a law-partnership with Hon. Thomas
B. Butler, which continued until 1855, when Mr Butler was
transferred to the bench. In 1856, 1862 and 1863, he was a
member of the State Legislature and during the last term the
Speaker of the House. From 1862 until his death he held the
office of State Attorney for Fairfield County, and was also for
a number of years Chairman of the Board of Education in
the town of Norwalk.

Mr. Carter was once the candidate of his party for the office
of Lieut. Governor, and twice declined a nomination to a Judge-
ship of the Superior Court.

He was married, June 23, 1841, to Miss Julia A. Ayres of
New Canaan, Conn., who with five of their six children, four
daughters and one son, survives him.

DANIEL HIGBIE, son of Abraham and Ann Higbie, was
born at Jamaica, Long Island, Feb. 8th, 1815, and died at
Spencer Springs, Tioga Co., N. Y., Oct. 21, 1867, aged 52
years.

He pursued his theological studies at Princeton, where he
was graduated in 1839, and in October was licensed to preach
by the Presbytery of New York. May 1, 1840, he was settled
as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Mount Pleasant,
Wayne Co., Pa., having preached as stated supply since the
previous December. He was dismissed in 1846 in consequence
of ill-health and for nearly six years preached to the church
at West Milford, N. J. His second settlement, from April
1852 to Dec. 1855, was at Sparta, N. J. Compelled by the

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state of his health to relinquish preaching, he removed to a farm near Petersburgh, Va., where he remained until December, 1857. Returning North he became pastor, July 24, 1858, of the first Presbyterian church of Washingtonville, Orange Co. N. Y., and retained the charge until his death.

He was married, April 23, 1840, to Miss Harriet A., daughter of Moses Sayre of Newark, N. J., and a second time March 9, 1859, to Miss Augusta A., daughter of John C. Richards, also of Newark. All his children, four by the first marriage and one by the second, survive him.

1837.

CHAUNCEY GOODRICH, the eldest son of Prof. Chauncey A. Goodrich (Y. C. 1810), died in New Haven, March 27, 1868, aged 50 years. His mother was Julia, daughter of Noah Webster, and he was born in Middletown, Conn., July 20, 1817.

He spent the first year after his graduation as a private tutor in Virginia, and the two following years in the Theological Department of Yale College. His first settlement, from Aug. 30, 1843, until Nov. 1, 1847, was over the Trinitarian Congregational church in Malden, Mass. He was again settled, Aug. 22, 1849, as pastor of the Congregational church in Watertown, Conn., which charge he relinquished Nov. 1, 1856, on account of an affection of the throat. From this time he was a resident of New Haven, engaged chiefly in literary labors, especially in connection with the revised edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. He also prepared and read before the New Haven Colony Historical Society, of which he was Secretary, several valuable papers.

He was married, Aug. 22, 1843, to Miss Elizabeth E. Coe, daughter of Rev. Noah Coe (Y. C. 1808), at Greenwich, Conn. His son and only surviving child, Edward E. Goodrich, graduated at Yale College in 1866.

SILAS FISHER PLIMPTON was born in Foxborough, Mass., August 26, 1812, and died in Boston, April 22, 1867, aged 54 years.

After graduation he pursued his law studies in the Harvard Law School, where he received the degree of LL. B. in 1839. In this year he visited Mexico, remaining six months. On his return he continued his law studies in Cambridge and in 1841 began the practice of his profession in Boston, where he remained until his death. He was never married.

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### 1847.

EDWARD GRIFFIN PARKER died at the Everett House in New York City, March 30, 1868, aged 42 years.

He entered College from Boston, and on graduating studied law in the office of the Hon. Rufus Choate. Bing admitted to the bar in 1849, he commenced practice in the same city, where he continued until the war. He was prominent in State politics, and a member of both houses of the Legislature. During his residence in Massachusetts, he published "The Golden Age of American Oratory" (Boston, 1857), and "Reminiscences of Rufus Choate" (N. Y. 1860). He was also a contributor to some of the leading literary journals. On the breaking out of the rebellion, Col. Parker (having acquired his title from his position on the staff of Gov. Banks) entered the service as Captain on Gen. Butler's staff. Later he was Adjuvant General and Chief of Staff of Gen. Martindale during the time that the latter commanded the Department of Washington. At the close of the war he settled in N. Y., and went into business in Wall st. Not being particularly successful he took charge of the American Literary Bureau of Reference, and was thus engaged at the time of his death.

He leaves a wife.

### 1848.

EDWIN TYLER, the son of Edwin Tyler, was born in Brooklyn, Conn., Dec. 6, 1827.

He entered Yale College in 1845, joining the Sophomore Class. In February, 1849, he went to California, where he was engaged in mining, assaying, and the business of an Express forwarder, until his death. His residence for a number of years past was at Michigan Bluffs. He died at Oakland, Cal., June 21, 1868, from injuries received three days previously.

He was unmarried.

### 1849.

WASHINGTON MURRAY died in New York City, Sept. 19, 1867, aged 39 years.

He was the son of James B. and Maria (Bronson) Murray, and was born in New York City, July 7, 1828.

He studied law in the Harvard Law School, where he received the degree of LL. B. in July, 1851. He continued his

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from a day's sailing excursion was carried down by a sudden
gust of wind, and only one of the number rescued.

1856.

GEORGE PAYSON BARKER died in Norwich, Conn., Jan. 28,
1868, aged 32 years.

He was the son of Hon. George P. Barker of Buffalo, N. Y.,
and was born in Norwich, Conn., Dec. 24, 1835.

His law studies were pursued with the firm of Welch, Hibbard & Baldwin, and subsequently with George B. Hibbard, Esq., of Buffalo. He was admitted to the bar in September, 1859, and until his death was engaged in the practice of law in Buffalo. In 1863 he was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Erie County, and the three following years was Clerk of the Board.

WILLIAM ELISHA TURNER, son of Elisha Turner, was born at Northampton, Mass., Dec. 9, 1834, and died at the same place, Jan. 26, 1868, aged 33 years.

He studied law in the office of Messrs. Baker & Delano, at Northampton, where he was admitted to the bar, Feb. 3, 1859. He was engaged in the practice of his profession in his native town until his death, which occurred after a few days' illness

From Nov. 1, 1861, to June 1, 1863, he was register of Pro-
bate and Insolvency Courts. He was appointed Clerk of the
Supreme and Superior Courts Oct. 7th, but resigned Dec. 20,
1864.

He was married to Miss Martha A. Clary of Northampton,
Nov. 5, 1863. She survives him with two children.

1857.

LEWIS EMMONS MATSON died at Lyons, France, June 21,
1868, aged 29 years. He was born at Simsbury, Conn., Sept.
24, 1838, and entered College at the beginning of Sophomore
year, from Owego, N. Y.

For the first year after graduation he was occupied in teach-
ing. He then entered the Andover Theological Seminary,
where he completed his course in 1861. The same year, July
31, he was ordained and settled over the Congregational church
at Racine, Wis., where he remained until called to the Con-
gregational church in Madison, Wis., in 1864, from which, in
the fall of 1866, he removed to the Plymouth (Congregational)
church in Chicago. Immediately after the dedication of a new
church edifice in Oct., 1867, he was attacked with hemorrhage

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of the lungs. He sailed for Europe with his wife in February, but his health continued to fail, and they were slowly making their way homeward when death overtook him.

He was married to Miss Helen M., daughter of Walter P Flanders, of Milwaukee, Sept. 9, 1862, and leaves two children.

JOSEPH LYMAN MORTON, son of Moses and Sophia A. (Partridge) Morton was born in Hatfield, Mass., Nov. 15th, 1833.

For one year after his graduation he was engaged in teaching in Stockbridge, Mass. He afterward studied law in Northampton, and was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts June 14, 1860, and in New York City, in November of the same year. He was led by convictions of duty to abandon the profession of law after a few months practice, and having studied theology at Princeton, was licensed by the Hampshire (Mass.) Association, and, Jan. 29, 1863, was ordained and installed as pastor of the Cong. church in Pittsfield, N. H. In January, 1864, he accepted a call to the 1st Presbyterian church in Waukegan, Ill., where he remained until his death. He died suddenly of disease of the heart, Dec. 7, 1867, aged 34 years.

He was married shortly before his ordination to Miss Sophia H. Hyndshaw of Morristown, N. J.

### 1858.

CHARLES NAPOLEON JOHNSON died in New Haven, Nov. 12, 1867, aged 38 years.

He was the son of Sheldon C. and Susan H. (Stoddard) Johnson, and was born in Derby (now Seymour), Conn., March 14, 1829.

He studied law with Judge Waldo of Tolland, Conn., where he was admitted to the bar, April 12, 1859. In August of the same year he opened an office in New Haven, and in 1860 was elected to the offices of City Attorney and Prosecuting Grand Juror, the former of which he held two and the latter three years. In 1866 he became and continued until his death Assistant City Attorney; an office to which are attached the duties formerly performed by the Prosecuting Grand Juror

### 1862.

WILLIAM WILSON GANDY was born in Philadelphia, Oct. 17, 1840, and died in New York City, July 15, 1868, aged 27 years.

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He had resided in N. Y. since graduation, being in business with his brothers. Besides a visit to Europe, soon after leaving College, he made a voyage to China in the summer of 1866 for the benefit of his health.

CHARLES HENRY ROWE, son of Chauncey and Susan (Dickinson) Rowe, was born in Farmington, Conn., March 3, 1841; died at Galveston, Texas, on the 4th of Sept., 1867.

He studied medicine in Hartford and New Haven, Conn., and in Brooklyn, N. Y., receiving the degree of M. D. from the medical department of Yale College in July, 1864. Soon after, being appointed assistant surgeon of the 18th Conn. Volunteer Infantry, he joined the regiment in the valley of the Shenandoah. Here he was assigned to the post of assistant surgeon in the "Island Military Hospital," at Harper's Ferry. After the close of the war, he returned to Connecticut, but soon entered the regular army, and was appointed assistant surgeon of the 17th U. S. Infantry. During the last year of his life he was stationed in the military hospital at Galveston; from June, 1867, the yellow fever prevailed there, to which disease he finally fell a victim.

HENRY WOLCOTT THAYER died in New Orleans, La., Aug. 16, 1867, in the 26th year of his age. He was the son of Obadiah Thayer, deceased, of Newark, N. J., and was born at Middletown, N. J., Oct. 19, 1841.

During the winter of 1862-3 he was engaged in enlisting recruits in N. Y. City. He was made 2d Lieut. in the 14th N. Y. Cavalry, and sent to New Orleans. Upon the storming of Port Hudson he was promoted to a Captaincy, but soon after the regiment was broken up. Early in 1864 he re-enlisted in the 2d N. Y. Veteran Cavalry, and with it passed honorably through all the engagements in the Department of the Gulf. He was promoted to a 1st Lieutenancy, and appointed to the staff of Gen. Lucas, and, as the war drew to a close, served for some months as Acting Ordnance Officer.

On receiving his discharge, he returned home for a visit only, and then settled on Lake Providence, La., expecting to lead the life of a planter. His health soon began to fail, and he took temporarily the position of Chairman of the Board of Registrars for Sabine Parish, in the interior of the State, hoping by the change to regain strength. Contracting there a heavy cold, upon going to New Orleans he was prostrated by an attack of the yellow fever.

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1864.

JULIUS LEONARD PARKE, son of Hudson and Ann (Leon-
ard) Parke, was born at Mt. Vernon, Indiana, March 20, 1843.

Immediately upon graduation he sailed for Europe and after
a few weeks of travel he began the study of Chemistry, Anat-
omy and Physiology at Göttingen. In the autumn of 1865,
he went to Tubingen and in the laboratory of Prof. Hoppe-
Seyler made a series of chemico-physiological analyses, which
were highly spoken of in a German chemical journal. Toward
the close of 1866 he went to Paris, where however his studies
were soon interrupted by symptoms threatening pulmonary
consumption. A few weeks spent in Algiers so far restored
him that he returned to work. In June, 1867, he came back
to America, and in October resumed his medical studies in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons. Though in a very low
state of health he undertook and finished a translation of a
German treatise on Pathology, which has since been published.
He received the degree of M. D in March, and at once sailed
for St. Augustine, Fla. His stay here was without benefit to
his health and after a few weeks he went to Charleston, S. C.,
where he sank rapidly and died April 29, 1868, at the age of
twenty-five.

ALBERT SMITH WURTS, only son of Alfred P. Wurts of
Chicago, Ill., was born in Philadelphia, Dec. 15, 1842.

He studied law in Chicago, first in the office of Messrs.
Scammon, McCagg & Fuller, and afterward with James L.
Stark, Esq., and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1866.
The disease of which he died, an abscess on the lung, soon be-
gan to develop itself, and early in the spring of 1867 he went
to Philadelphia for medical treatment, where he died, July 17,
1867, aged 24 years.

1865.

TUZAR BULKLEY, youngest son of Tuzar and Frances M.
Bulkley, was born at Catskill, N. Y., April 27, 1840, and died
at the same place, Nov. 28, 1867, aged 27 years.

He was prepared for College at the Delaware Literary Insti-
tute, Franklin, N. Y.

Upon graduation he returned home and pursued the study
of law until August, 1866, when an attack of hemorrhage of
the lungs cut short his studies. This attack was followed by
consumption, of which disease he died the ensuing year.

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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1820.

ELISHA HAYWARD died in Raynham, Mass., March 16, 1868, in his 77th year. He was the son of Joseph and Lydia (Barrows) Hayward, and was born in the adjoining town of Easton, June 26, 1791.

He graduated at Brown University in 1817, and soon after commenced the study of medicine with Ebenezer Alden, M. D., of Randolph, Mass. After taking his degree at New Haven he settled in Raynham as a physician in Oct., 1820, where he remained in practice until his death.

He married, Jan. 16, 1821, Miss Betsey Townsend of Middleboro', Mass., who, with two sons and three daughters, survives him.

1826.

HENRY CLINTON BROWN died of disease of the heart in Bridgeport Conn., July 13, 1866, aged 64 years.

He was the son of William W. Brown, of Preston, Conn., and was born Jan. 3, 1804.

He began the study of medicine with William P. Eaton, M. D., of Norwich, Conn., and graduated at the Medical Department of Yale College, in 1826. He practiced medicine successively in Westerly, R. I., North Stonington, Conn., and Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y.—in the latter place from 1833 till 1839. Relinquishing his profession he removed to Pittsfield, Mass., where he remained until 1842, engaged in the drug business. He afterward resided at Lee, Mass., and since 1853 in Bridgeport, Conn.

FEDERAL VANDERBERG was born in Beekman, Dutchess Co., N. Y., May 11, 1788, and died at Rhinebeck, N. Y., Jan. 21, 1868, aged 79 years.

He was licensed by the Connecticut Medical Society, September, 1808. In 1815 he removed to Geneva, N. Y., where he remained in the practice of his profession until 1822, when he changed his residence to the city of New York. In 1826 he received the degree of M. D. from Yale College.

He was one of the earliest among American physicians to adopt the system of Hahnemann, known in this country as Homœopathy. At the time of the change he was forty-five

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years of age and in a large and successful practice. The re-
sults of his previous observation and experience were never dis-
carded, but combined by him with the new system. He con-
tinued in the active practice of his profession in New York
City and at his country residence at Rhinebeck, until the close
of his life.

He was married in 1812 to Miss H. O Boardman, daughter
of Hon. Homer Boardman of New Milford, Conn.

1838.

HANFORD NICHOLS BENNETT died at Bridgeport, Conn.,
April 21, 1868, aged 50 years.

He was the son of Rev. Moses P. Bennett and was born in
Weston, Conn.

He began his professional life in Bethel, Conn., where he
remained with a practice extending into the adjoining towns,
until 1853 In this year he removed to Bridgeport, his resi-
dence for the remainder of his life. He enjoyed a high repu-
tation, especially for skill in surgery, was a student of the
classical as well as of modern languages and made frequent
translations from foreign medical journals for publication.

He left a widow, the daughter of Whipple Williams, Esq.,
of Bethel.

1842.

ROSWELL HAWLEY was the son of Asa and Diademia Haw-
ley, and was born in Farmington, Conn., July 30, 1813.

He commenced practice in Hartford, but soon removed to
South Glastenbury, Conn., where he remained for seven years.
He then went to New Britain, Conn., where he continued the
practice of medicine for five years. For the next four years
he was the Superintendent of the State Reform School at Mer-
iden, Conn., and also for most of the time Acting Physician,
Treasurer, and Chaplain.

In 1859 he removed to Bristol, Conn, much reduced in health
and strength He kept a drug store in that town until his
death, of consumption, Dec 7, 1867, at the age of 54.

He married Miss Mary Crane, of Berlin, Conn., June 8,
1842. She died July, 1852, and he married, Sept. 13, 1853,
Miss Jane B. Rich, of Bristol, who survives him. Four chil-
dren by the first, and four by the second marriage, are also
living.

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

DECEASED DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR ENDING IN JULY, 1869,
INCLUDING THE RECORD OF A FEW WHO DIED A SHORT
TIME PREVIOUS, HITHerto UNREPORTED.

[Presented at the Meeting of the Alumni, July 21st, 1869.]

[No 10 of the printed Series, and No 28 of the whole Record]

OBITUARY RECORD

OF GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academic year ending in July, 1869, includ-
ing the record of a few who died previously,
hutherto unreported.

[No. 10 of the printed Series, and No 28 of the whole Record]

1796.

JOHN HARVEY TUCKER died at Somerville, Bermuda, July 20, 1868, aged 91 years.

He was born in Bermuda in March, 1777, and after gradua-
ting here went to London and became a barrister-at-law of
the Middle Temple or Lincoln's Inn. He then returned to the
Bermudas, but early abandoned the practice of the law, and
lived retired from public life. He retained his mental faculties
unimpaired until a short time before his death He leaves two
children, a son and a daughter. His wife died many years be-
fore him.

1804.

ROYAL RALPH HINMAN, son of Gen. Ephraim and Sylvania
French) Hinman, was born in Southbury, Conn., June 20,
1785; died in New York City, Oct. 16, 1868, aged 83 years.

He prepared for College with Rev. Dr. Azel Backus (Y. C. 1787), of Bethlehem, Conn. He taught in an academy in Virginia, in 1804-5, and then commenced his legal studies with Hon David S. Boardman (Y. C. 1793), of New Milford, Conn. ; the next year he attended the Litchfield Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1807. He soon after commenced the practice of the law in Roxbury, Conn., where he continued for about 20 years, when he removed to Southington, Conn. In 1835, he took up his residence in Hartford, being elected Secretary of the State. For seven years he fulfilled the duties of that office, nor did he afterward resume the practice of his profession.

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In 1842, Mr. Hinman published a "History of the part taken by Conn. in the War of the Revolution" (Hartford, 643 pp. 8°), in 1836 a volume of Official Letters between the Kings and Queens of England and the early Governors of the Colony of Conn. (Hartford, 372 pp. 12°). He was also the author of a "Catalogue of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Conn," in 6 numbers (Hartford, 1852-56, 8°), and of an earlier "Register of Families in Conn" Several volumes of statutes and of public and private acts were compiled and published under his supervision.

In Sept, 1844, Mr. Hinman was appointed Collector of Customs for the port of New Haven, Conn., but retired from office in the following March. His residence during later years was in N. Y City.

Mr. Hinman married, Sept. 14, 1814, Lydia, youngest daughter of Gen John Ashley (Y. C. 1758), of Sheffield, Mass.; she died in N. Y. City, Aug. 27, 1853, leaving one son and four daughters.

Mr. Hinman's first name, Royal, was acquired from a Freshman Catalogue published by his intimate friend and classmate, Rev Dr John Chester, by whom this name was prefixed by way of compliment.

JOHN MARSH was born, April 2, 1788, in Wethersfield, Conn., where his father, John Marsh, D D. (Harv. 1761), was for forty-seven years pastor of the First Congregational Church. His mother was Ann, daughter of Capt. Ebenezer Grant, of East Windsor, Conn. His eldest brother, Ebenezer Grant Marsh (Y C 1795), died in 1803, when Tutor and Professor-elect of Languages in this College.

When only ten years old, John Marsh, Jr., became a pupil of Rev. Dr. Azel Backus (Y. C. 1787) of Bethlehem, Conn.; at twelve he entered College, and graduated at sixteen. After teaching for some years, he began to preach at the age of twenty-one. On the 16th of Dec., 1818, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Haddam, Conn., where he remained until April 1, 1833. While there he prepared and published an "Epitome of Ecclesiastical History," designed for the young, of which sixteen editions have been printed. He early interested himself in the cause of temperance, and by speeches and publications contributed largely to the spread of temperance doctrines in Connecticut. In May, 1829, the Conn Temperance Society was organized, and Mr. Marsh appointed Secretary and General Agent. In the winter of 1831-2, he spent three months in Baltimore and

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Washington in behalf of the cause, and in 1833 was invited to leave his pastoral charge in order to act as agent of the American Temperance Society. In consequence he removed to Philadelphia, where he resided until 1838.

In Oct., 1836, he became Secretary of the re-organized American Temperance Union and Editor of its new monthly Journal, and continued to be thus employed until 1865, when a new organization took the place of the old, and the Journal was discontinued. The office of the Society was removed to New York City, in 1837. In 1846 he visited Europe, as a delegate to the World's Temperance Convention at London. The degree of D D. was conferred upon him by Jefferson College, Pa., in 1852.

Besides his labors as Editor and Secretary, his publications and addresses on the subject of Temperance were very numerous; the most extensive being his "Temperance Recollections, an Autobiography" (N. Y., 373 pp. 12 mo.), published in 1866.

The week before his last illness Dr. Marsh undertook an agency for completing the funds necessary to the erection of a building for the Theological Department of Yale College. On July 30, 1868, he fell into an unconscious state, from which he awoke the next day paralyzed. With little suffering he lingered until Aug. 4, when he died at his house in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged eighty years and four months. His wife, a daughter of Lt.-Gov. Talmadge of N. Y., died in 1852; two sons (one a graduate of this College in 1845) and three daughters survive him.

HENRY SWIFT, son of Seth and Mary Swift, was born at Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y., Feb. 5, 1784, and died at his residence in Poughkeepsie in the same county, Nov. 5, 1866, aged 82 years and 9 months.

He studied law in the office of Judge Van Ness at Poughkeepsie, was admitted to the bar in 1807, and at once entered on a large practice in his native county. He remained actively engaged in the business of his profession until his retirement in 1852.

One of his sons graduated at this College in 1836.

CHARLES HENRY WETMORE died in Columbus, O., Oct. 10, 1868, aged 85 years.

He was the youngest child of Izrahiah Wetmore (Y. C. 1748). His mother was Phebe, daughter of Hon. Robert

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Walker (Y. C. 1730), and he was born May 12, 1783, in Stratford, Conn., where his father had been pastor of the Congregational Church.

He prepared for College with Rev. Samuel Blatchford, of Bridgeport, Conn.

In 1805 he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Henry of Lansingburgh, N. Y., at the same time teaching in the Academy. Having attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in N. Y. City, he commenced the practice of his profession in Troy, N. Y., in 1809, removing to Waterford, N. Y., in 1810. In the war with Great Britain, he was commissioned Surgeon of the 144th N. Y. Infantry, but was only a short time in active service, the war closing soon after his appointment. He then removed to N. Y. City, was quite successful in practice there, and in 1818 removed to Ohio, settling on a farm near Columbus, where for many years he divided his time between the practice of his profession and agricultural pursuits. He died after a brief illness at the old homestead, the residence of his son.

Dr. Wetmore was married, June 1, 1814, to Miss Eliza, daughter of John Rathbone, of N. Y. City. Three sons and two daughters survive him.

## 1805.

EARL SWIFT was born in Mansfield, Conn., April 8, 1784, and died in the same town, June 14, 1869.

He remained on his father's farm until 16 years of age; he then prepared for College under Rev. John Sherman, the minister of the parish, and entered the Sophomore Class in 1802.

Soon after graduation he commenced the study of medicine, attending lectures at Cambridge, Mass. He was licensed to practice in May, 1808, and in the same year established himself in Windham, Conn. About two years later he removed to Wethersfield, and, after another interval of two years, to Mansfield, where he continued in successful practice until past fourscore.

Dr. Swift married, Apr 18, 1810, Miss Laura Ripley: she, with four sons and four daughters, survives him.

## 1806.

SIMEON COLTON died at Ashboro', Randolph Co, N. C., Dec. 27, 1868, aged 84.

He was a son of Jabez Colton (Y. C 1775), and his wife Mary, daughter of Capt. Ebenezer Baldwin of Bozrah, Conn.

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and sister of Hon. Simeon Baldwin (Y. C. 1781) of New Haven. He was born at Somers, Conn., Jan. 8, 1785. When he was about three years old, his father settled at Longmeadow, Mass., and from that place he entered College.

He was absent teaching school during two winters of the College course, and immediately after graduating took charge of the academy just founded at Monson, Mass. He remained but one year, and thence went to Leicester (Mass.) Academy, of which he had charge for one year and a half. After two other brief engagements as a teacher, he removed to Salem, Mass., where he studied theology under direction of Rev. Samuel Worcester, D.D. He was licensed to preach at North Danvers by the Salem Association, May 8, 1810, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Palmer, Mass., June 19, 1811.

In a little more than ten years he was dismissed at his own request, and for the next nine years was again principal of Monson Academy, which he succeeded in placing on a satisfactory basis. From Monson he went to Amherst, Mass., where he had charge of an academy for three years. After this he went by invitation to Fayetteville, N. C., Jan, 1834, to be at the head of Donaldson Academy, an institution just founded under the care of the Presbytery. He held this situation until the close of 1839, when difficulties, produced mainly by the feelings aroused by the division of the General Assembly, caused him to resign. He taught a private school in Fayetteville, until in 1846 he was called to Clinton, Miss., as President of the newly incorporated Mississippi College. This enterprise, under the patronage of the New School Presbyterian Church, required larger funds than its friends could command, and after endeavoring in vain to build up the institution, Dr. Colton resigned in July, 1848. He then returned to N. C., and became Principal of a new Academy, called Cumberland Academy, founded by Fayetteville Presbytery, and located at Summerville, Harnett County. This situation was not favorable, and after five years of trial, he resigned in Nov. 1853. In Jan., 1854, he removed to Ashboro', where after one year he closed his regular teaching, by reason of the infirmities of age, though he continued until near the close of life to hear some recitations in the Female Academy in which his wife was engaged.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Delaware College in 1846.

As a teacher Dr. Colton was eminently useful. He also performed much labor as a minister in the various places of his residence.

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He was married first to Lucretia, daughter of Capt. Gideon Colton of Longmeadow, Mass., Sept. 2, 1812. She died at Palmer, July 14, 1821, leaving one daughter. He married the second time, Aug. 9, 1823, Susan, daughter of Isham Chapman, of Tolland, Conn., by whom he had three sons and three daughters; of these the second son graduated at the University of N. C., and is now a minister in that state. Mrs. Colton died at Summerville, N. C., Nov. 24, 1850. He married the third time, Dec. 21, 1851, Mrs. Catherine E. Fuller, widow of Jones Fuller, of Fayetteville, N. C., who survives him.

HEZEKIAH RUDD died at Norwich, Conn., Sept. 11, 1868, aged 87 years and 7 months. He was the son of Jonathan and Mary (Tracy) Rudd, and was born in Scotland, Conn., Feb. 2, 1781. He worked on his father's farm, teaching some during the winters, until of age. He was fitted for College with John Adams (Y. C. 1795), at the Plainfield Academy, and entered in the second year of the course.

He married, in 1809, Maria, daughter of Othniel and Hannah De Forest, of Huntington, Conn., and in the following year succeeded his former teacher, Mr. Adams, as principal of Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn. He remained there for three years, and was then for a short time at Stratford, Conn. He then took the homestead of his wife's father, in Huntington, and was there a teacher for thirty years. Most of the youth of the town of both sexes for two generations were his scholars, and his house was also usually well filled with pupils from abroad.

When he retired from teaching he removed to the house of his son, Charles D. Rudd, of Brooklyn, N. Y., where he resided for thirteen years. The remainder of his life was passed with other members of his family, and at the time of his death his home was with his nephew at Norwich.

His first wife dying in Feb, 1828, Mr. Rudd married in September of the same year, Mary E, daughter of Nathaniel and Rebecca Coggeshall of Colchester, who survives him. He left three sons and three daughters; one of the daughters is the wife of Professor Allen of Oberlin College

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ALEXANDER HODGDON STEVENS, who died in N Y. City, March 30, 1869, in his 80th year, was a native of N. Y., and a son of Gen. Ebenezer Stevens, an officer of artillery in the

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Revolution. His mother, a sister of Col. Ledyard, was aunt to the well-known traveler of that name. His brothers, Byam K. and John A. Stevens, are graduates of this college of the classes of 1811, and 1813.

Dr. Stevens entered the office of Dr. Edward Miller of N. Y. on leaving New Haven, attended a course of lectures in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, a second in the University of Pennsylvania, and from the latter institution received his medical degree in 1811. The next year was spent in study in London and Paris, and he then began practice in N. Y. City. He was made a Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1813; became Professor of Surgery in the Medical Department of Queens College, now Rutgers College, in 1814, and so continued for two years; was appointed a visiting surgeon to the N. Y. Hospital in 1817; was a Trustee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1820 to 1826, and Professor of Surgery in the same institution from 1826 to 1837, when he accepted the chair of clinical surgery, which he held for two sessions.

Ill health now compelled him to confine his practice to consultations and surgical operations. He also served as consulting surgeon in the N. Y. Hospital, and again from 1840 to 1844 as Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. From 1843 to 1855 he was President of the College, and since 1844 his name has been enrolled among the Faculty as Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery. He was President of the State Medical Society, and, in 1848, of the American Medical Association. He received the degree of LL D. from the Regents of the University of the State of N. Y.

Dr. Stevens married Phebe, daughter of John N. Lloyd (Y. C. 1802) and Phebe T (Coles) Lloyd. They had three sons and two daughters. One son is a graduate of this College in the class of 1864.

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MILTON BARLOW was born in Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y, May 4, 1784, and died in East Chester, Westchester County, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1867, aged 83 years. He was the son of Thomas and Amy Barlow, and spent three years of his college course at Williams College.

He was admitted to the bar in Dutchess County in 1811, but never practiced. He never married. His life was passed in his native state, and was neither specially eventful or useful.

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ELISHA BEEBE STRONG, son of Elisha and Mary Strong, was born in Windsor, Conn., Nov. 29, 1788, and died in Detroit, Mich., after a brief illness, Oct. 14th, 1867, aged 79 years.

He studied law at the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School, and subsequently in Canandaigua, N. Y., where he was admitted to the bar in 1812, and commenced practice in partnership with Wm. H. Adams, Esq. In 1816 he purchased, jointly with Elisha Beach, Esq., one thousand acres of land in the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y., and removed to that place. In 1819-20 he was a member of the State Legislature from Ontario County, and after the organization of Monroe County, in 1821, he was appointed first Judge of the County Court. His sons having settled in the West, Judge Strong moved to Detroit in 1851, and there spent the rest of his life.

He married, June 24, 1813, Dolly G., daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Chaffee) Hooker of Windsor. Shortly after his removal to Detroit, he married Miss Ellen O'Keefe, who survives him.

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FRANCIS GRANGER died in Canandaigua, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1868, in the 76th year of his age.

He was the son of Gideon Granger (Y. C. 1787), and grandson of Gideon Granger (Y. C. 1760), and was born at the family residence in Suffield, Conn., Dec. 1, 1792.

In 1814 his father retired from thirteen years' service as Postmaster-General of the United States, and removed to Canandaigua, where Francis Granger was admitted to the bar in 1816. In 1825 he was chosen a representative from Ontario County in the lower house of the State Legislature, a position to which he was thrice re-elected in the next six years. In 1830 and 1832 he was nominated for Governor of the State, and defeated by a small democratic majority. He was elected by the newly organized whig party a member of the National House of Representatives in 1834, and two years later was the candidate of the Anti-Masonic and of a portion of the whig party for the Vice-Presidency. In 1838 he became again a Member of Congress from the Ontario District, and was re-elected in 1840. On Gen Harrison's accession to the Presidency, Mr. Granger was called into the cabinet as Postmaster-General, and discharged the duties of the office (held by his father under Jefferson and Madison) until the rupture of the Cabinet

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in July, 1841, caused by President Tyler's action respecting
the U. S. Bank.

Having declined the offer of a foreign mission, he was then
again elected to Congress, but refused a renomination at the
close of the session of 1842-3.

Though no longer in public life, Mr. Granger was still a
valued counsellor of his political friends, and deeply interested
in the welfare of the country. He was a delegate to the Peace
Convention which met at Washington in Feb., 1861, and the
record shows how considerable a part he took in the efforts
made to avert the rebellion.

Mr. Granger was married in 1817 to Cornelia Rutsen Van
Rensselaer of Utica, N. Y., who died in 1823, leaving two
children, of whom one is now the wife of Hon. Robert C.
Winthrop of Boston. The other, a graduate of this College
in 1843, died six days after the death of his father, as is noticed
on a subsequent page of this pamphlet.

ISAAC PARSONS was born in Southampton, Mass., Aug. 28,
1790, and died at East Haddam, Conn., Aug. 22, 1868, aged
78 years.

He entered Williams College in 1806, and remained two
years; after a year's interval he joined the Junior Class in Yale
College. On graduating he taught for a year in Hartford,
Conn., and then entered the Andover Theological Seminary,
where he graduated in 1815.

He was settled as colleague pastor with his uncle, Rev.
Elijah Parsons (Y. C. 1768), at East Haddam, Conn., Oct. 23,
1816. After the death of his uncle, in 1827, he remained
pastor of the church till April 23, 1856, when he resigned the
office. He resided until his death in East Haddam.

He was married, Jan. 21, 1819, to Miss Sarah B Lyon of
New Haven, Conn. She survives him with two daughters,
and one son, Rev. Henry Martyn Parsons, who graduated at
this College in 1848.

JOSEPH VAILL was born in Hadlyme, Conn., July 28, 1790.

His father was Rev. Joseph Vaill, who for fifty-eight years
was pastor of the Congregational Church in that place. His
mother was the daughter of Rev. Joseph Fowler of East Had-
dam. His brother, William F. Vaill, graduated in 1806.

The next year after graduation he taught school in Litch-
field (as principal of Morris Academy), and in Salisbury, Conn.
The following winter he studied divinity with his father. He
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1814, and continued in that office until Nov., 1834, when he accepted a call to the Second Church in Portland, Maine, his predecessors being Edward Payson and Bennet Tyler. In 1837 his health gave way, and he felt constrained to ask a dismission. He soon found himself reinstated with his old parish in Brimfield, where he remained for four years. During his first pastorate, he became deeply interested in the establishment of Amherst College in 1821, being from that date until his death one of its Trustees. His second settlement at Brimfield was terminated by a pressing call to undertake an agency in behalf of the struggling College, which occupied his whole time for four years. By his efforts at this time, Amherst College was probably saved from financial ruin. On the completion of this agency, he returned to the office of pastor, first at Somers, Conn., from Aug., 1845 to Dec., 1854, and then at Palmer, Mass., from Dec., 1854, to Feb., 1868.

Dr. Vaill died at his residence in Palmer, Feb. 22, 1869, of heart-disease. At the time of his death he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The discourse preached at his funeral, by President Stearns of Amherst, has been published.

Dr. Vaill married first Miss Ann Kirtland of Hadlyme, by whom he leaves six children, two of them ministers. His second wife, who survives him, was Mrs Nancy Pope Howe of Ware, Mass. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Amherst College in 1851.

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RICHARD CARY MORSE, while on a tour of foreign travel, died at Kissingen, Bavaria, Sept 22, 1868.

He was the fourth son of Jedidiah (Y. C. 1783) and Elizabet Ann Breeze Morse, and was born in Charlestown, Mass., June 18, 1795.

He was fitted for College at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and after graduating, the youngest member of his class, and spending a year with President Dwight as his amanuensis, returned to Andover, completed the three years' course at the Theological Seminary there and was licensed to preach by the Union Congregational Association of Massachusetts, in October, 1817. During the winter of 1817 and '18 he supplied the pulpit of the Presbyterian Church on John's Island, S. C. Returning North, he was for some time associated with his father in geographical labor, and in editing a Universal Gazetteer. In 1823 he removed to the city of New York and engaged with his elder brother, Sidney E. Morse (Y. C. 1811),

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in founding the New York Observer, the oldest religious newspaper in that state. He remained associate proprietor and editor till 1858, and then retiring from active life, continued to reside in New York till 1863, when he removed to New Haven. He left that place for a tour of foreign travel in May, 1868.

Mr. Morse was married Sept. 30, 1828, to Miss Sarah Louisa Davis of Claverack, N. Y., who died in Paris, France, Oct. 17, 1851. They had ten children, nine of whom, 4 sons and 5 daughters, survive them. The sons are graduates of this College in the classes of 1856, 1862, 1867, and 1868. Mr. Morse married again, Aug. 12, 1856, Miss Harriet Hinckley Messinger of Boston, who survives him.

THEODORE STRONG was born in South Hadley, Mass., July 26, 1790. His father was Rev. Joseph Strong (Y. C. 1784), son of Rev. Joseph Strong (Y. C. 1749), of Granby, Ct., and Williamsburg, Mass. His mother was Sophia, daughter of Rev. John Woodbridge (Y. C. 1726), of South Hadley.

On graduation he was appointed Tutor in Mathematics in Hamilton College, then just organized, and in 1816 he was made Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and so remained until 1827, when he was called to a similar position in Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. In this latter place he continued in active duty until 1862. He resided in New Brunswick until his death, which took place, Feb. 1, 1869.

Dr. Strong married Miss Lucy Dix of Massachusetts, who, with one son and two daughters, is still living.

He published various mathematical papers in the first series of Silliman's Journal, and an Algebra of high order in 1859. A treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus was in press at the time of his death. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Rutgers College in 1835. He was a corporate member of the National Academy of Sciences, and an associate of many other scientific bodies.

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THOMAS P. DEVEREUX died at his residence, Connemara, on the Roanoke River, Halifax county, N. C., March 7, 1869.

He was born in the town of New Berne, and was in his 76th year at the time of his death.

He studied law at the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School, but for some years did not seek for practice, a competent fortune rendering that unnecessary until some reverses in business

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changed the course of his life. He then resolved to devote all
his energies to his profession. Not long afterward, he was ap-
pointed U S. District attorney for the District of North Car-
lina, an office which he filled for many years. In 1826 he was
appointed Reporter of the Supreme Court of the State in con-
junction with his classmate, Hon. George E. Badger, and soon
became sole holder of the office by the resignation of his associ-
ate. Four volumes of Law, and two of Equity Reports were
the fruits of his labors in that capacity. Receiving in middle
life by the death of an uncle the care of a large estate, the
remainder of his days he spent on his plantation, while he
served also as one of the presiding Justices of the County
Court of Halifax.

Mr. Devereux was twice married, first to Miss Johnson of
Connecticut, and again to Miss Maitland of N. Y. His
widow, one son (Y. C. 1840), and seven daughters survive him.

BENJAMIN FENN was born in Milford, Conn., Oct. 29, 1792,
and died at the residence of his son in Hartford, Trumbull Co.,
O., June 25, 1869, aged 76 years.

He studied divinity with Rev. B. Pinneo of Milford, and was
licensed to preach in 1816. After laboring as a home mission-
ary in his native State, he moved to Ohio in 1818, and was or-
dained over the Presbyterian Church in Nelson, Portage
County, June 16, 1819. In April, 1835, he was dismissed from
Nelson, and on the 16th of the following June was installed
in Gustavus, Trumbull County. He was installed in Hartford,
Ohio, June 16, 1847, and returned to his first charge at Nelson,
June 14, 1861. At the age of 75, in Oct., 1867, he was dis-
missed at his own request.

Mr. Fenn married, August 3, 1820, Anna Gunn of Milford,
who is still living. Their children were three sons and one
daughter: the eldest son is a graduate of Western Reserve
College, Class of 1854.

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ROGER CONANT HATCH was born in Middletown, Conn.,
Oct. 20, 1784, and died in Warwick, Mass., Sept. 12, 1868.

He was the second child of Dr. Josiah Hatch, a surgeon in
the Revolution, by his wife, the widow of a Dr. Conant.

He entered College at the beginning of the Junior year.
After studying theology with Rev. Dr. Osgood of Springfield,
Mass., for about a year, he spent some time as a missionary
of the Young Men's Missionary Association, of New York.

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He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Hopkinton, N. H., Oct. 21, 1818, and dismissed in 1832. In Jan., 1836, he was installed over the Congregational Church in Warwick, Mass., where he continued to minister for seventeen years. His residence was in Warwick, until his death.

Mr. Hatch married, Sept. 13, 1820, Hannah Fay of Westborough, Mass. She survives him, as also do six of his eight children, of whom one graduated at Amherst College in 1849.

WILLIAM JESSUP, son of Major Zebulon and Zerviah Jessup, was born in Southampton (L. I.), N. Y., June 21, 1797, and died in Montrose, Pa., Sept. 11, 1868, aged 71 years.

In 1818 he removed from his native place to Montrose, where he commenced the practice of the law. He was married, July 4, 1820, to Amanda Harris of Southampton, L. I., who with nine children survives him. In 1838 he was appointed Presiding Judge of the 11th Judicial District of Penn., which position he filled until the Judiciary became elective in 1851, when being a Whig and in a Democratic District, he was removed. From 1851 until his death he was engaged in the practice of law in connection with his eldest son, William H. Jessup (Y. C. 1849). His second son, Rev. Henry H. Jessup, D.D., missionary in Syria, graduated at this College in 1851. His third son, Rev. Samuel Jessup, also a missionary in Syria, after spending two years with the Class of 1860, left College to prepare more speedily for his missionary work, and received the degree of M. A. at the same time with his class. Judge Jessup's fifth son graduated at this College in 1864.

Judge Jessup was foremost in every good enterprise both in church and state, and identified himself with all the educational and temperance movements in Pennsylvania.

He was laid aside from active duties by paralysis during the last five years of his life.

The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by Hamilton College in 1848.

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EDWARD BULL, the son of Edward and Rosanna Bull, was born in Saybrook, Conn., Nov. 26, 1791, and died in Cheshire, Conn., of congestion of the lungs, April 25, 1869.

He was fitted for college by his pastor, Rev. Aaron Hovey. After graduation he was teacher of the Grammar School in New London, Conn., for two years, and tutor in this college for five years. He also studied theology with Professors Fitch

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and Goodrich. He was ordained, Sept. 29, 1825, pastor of the Congregational Church in Lebanon, Conn., and dismissed in 1837. The rest of his life was spent in Cheshire, where he received a few pupils for instruction, chiefly of the children of his friends.

Mr. Bull was married about the time of his ordination to Miss Eliza Ann Hallam of New London, Conn., who survives him. They had no children.

HAWLEY OLMSTEAD, son of Aaron and Sarah Esther (Hawley) Olmstead, was born at Wilton, Conn., Dec. 17, 1793.

He early formed the purpose of acquiring a liberal education, and, as means for study were not at his command, he left his father's farm at the age of fourteen, and taught school three years. The latter part of his preparatory course was passed at the Academy at Greenfield Hill, Conn., as an assistant pupil. He entered College as Sophomore in 1813. Ill health and weak eyes caused him great trouble during his course, and subsequently, so that he was obliged to abandon professional studies. He therefore turned his attention to the instruction of youth, and opened in his native town an Academy for both sexes. Here he taught four and a half years, and at Norwalk, Conn., three years. His health failing he returned to Wilton, and for two years and a half engaged in agricultural pursuits, instructing at the same time a few private pupils. He then reopened the Academy, and taught thirteen years, when he removed to New Haven, to take charge of the Hopkins Grammer School. After a service here of more than ten years, which he regarded as the chief work of his life, he was compelled by ill health to resign the office of Rector, but resided in New Haven until his death. He continued to give private instruction until 1860. In 1862 Yale College conferred on him the degree of LL.D.

He represented his native town in the State Legislature in 1825, '26, '28 and '29, and the Second Senatorial District in 1853. His report, as Chairman of a Select Committee on Common Schools in 1826, forms the basis of the present common School law.

During the last year of his life Dr. Olmstead was very feeble and apprehensive of sudden death. On Thursday morning, Dec. 3, 1868, the "Circle of Retired Ministers and Laymen," of which he was a valued member, held their weekly meeting at his house by his request; and he died suddenly while addressing the meeting on the topic of discussion.

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His wife, Harriet, daughter of Phineas Smith of New Canaan, Conn., to whom he was married, Apr. 30, 1818, survives him, as do also five of their nine children. The second surviving son is a graduate of Yale College in the Class of 1845, and the two younger sons, graduates of the Medical Department in 1851 and 1861.

LUMAN WHITTLESEY, son of Joseph and Polly (Camp) Whittlesey, of New Preston, Conn., was born March 15, 1795.

He was prepared for College by his pastor, Rev. Samuel Whittelsey (Y. C. 1803).

He adopted teaching as his profession, and established himself soon after graduation at Williamston, N. C. His residence continued in that State until 1848, when he removed to Alexandria, Va., where he died Jan. 14, 1868, having been greatly respected and useful in his work. He had an attack of paralysis in 1861, from which he never recovered.

Mr. Whittlesey married, Sept. 15, 1818, Sally I., daughter of Col. Cogswell of New Preston, Ct., by whom he had two sons, now residing in Texas. He lost his wife, June 15, 1821, and married again, July 2, 1823, Elizabeth G Peel, of Williamston, N. C., by whom he had a son and a daughter, now residing in Alexandria.

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THOMAS TUCKER WHITTLESEY died at his residence near Madison, Wisc., Aug. 20, 1868, in the 70th year of his age.

He was the son of Elisha and Mary (Tucker) Whittlesey, and was born in Danbury, Conn., Dec. 8, 1798. His older brother, Elisha D., graduated in 1811.

He spent one year as assistant teacher in a classical school in Trenton, N. J., and then entered the law school at Litchfield, Conn. He settled as a lawyer in his native town, and while resident there was a Judge of Probate, and from 1836 to 1839 a member of the National Congress.

In 1846 he retired from professional life and removed with his family to a tract of some 1,200 acres which he had long owned, near Madison, Wise. Here he devoted himself to the improvement of his estate, building mills and encouraging the settlement of the country. In 1852 he was a member of the Senate in the State Legislature.

Judge Whittlesey married, Nov. 9, 1826, Miss Caroline Holley of Salisbury, Conn., who died June 6, 1841. He leaves five children.

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1818.

JAMES WARHAM CROOKS, son of Deacon John and Katherine Crooks, was born in Blandford, Mass., Aug. 23, 1793, and died in Springfield, Mass., Aug. 5, 1867, aged 74 years.

He taught school on leaving College, but soon commenced the study of law in the office of Hon. George Bliss in Springfield, Mass., where he was admitted to the bar. He began practice in April, 1824, and continued it for more than thirty years. His residence remained in Springfield until his death.

He was a recognized leader in the local Democratic party, and held many public offices.

Mr. Crooks married, Aug. 12, 1849, Miss Ann Jeannette, eldest child of Hon. Harvey and Hannah Chapin of Springfield, who survives him without children.

HENRY DUTTON was born in Plymouth, Conn., Febr. 12, 1796, and died at his residence in New Haven, Conn., April 12, 1869.

He was the son of Thomas Dutton, and the brother of Rev. Matthew R. Dutton (Y. C. 1808), formerly Professor of Mathematics in this College. His boyhood and youth were spent on his father's farm and at the age of twenty he had qualified himself, almost unaided, for admission to the Junior class in College.

On graduation he took charge of the academy in Fairfield, Conn., at the same time studying law under Roger M. Sherman (Y. C. 1792). From 1821 to 1823 he was a Tutor in college, and then began to practice law at Newtown, Fairfield county, Conn. After remaining there 14 years, and becoming well established in his profession, he removed to Bridgeport, in the same county. Ten years later, in 1847, he received the appointment of Professor of Law in Yale College, and transferred his residence to New Haven. He retained this office until his death, being, after the retirement of Hon. Clark Bissell in 1855, the Senior Professor in the department. He was also, to the last of his life, except while upon the bench, extensively engaged in professional business throughout the State, and more especially in Fairfield and New Haven Counties.

Professor Dutton was five times a member of the State House of Representatives, twice from Newtown, twice from Bridgeport, and once from New Haven, and in 1849 a member of the State Senate. In 1853 he was the unsuccessful candidate of the Whig party for Governor, and was renominated in 1854 and elected by the Legislature, no choice having been

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made by the people. After his removal to New Haven he was
for one year Judge of the County Court, and in 1861 was cho-
sen an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Connecticut.
He remained on the bench until he had reached the constitu-
tional limit of 70 years of age.

Judge Dutton published in 1833, an Analytical Digest of
the State Reports, and, in 1848, a revision of Chief Justice
Swift's Digest of the Laws of Connecticut, which is still the
standard edition. He was on two occasions chairman of a com-
mittee appointed to revise the Statutes of the State (editions of
1849 and 1866) and he was also the chairman of the committee
which prepared in 1854 a new compilation of the Statutes.

He married, soon after leaving the Tutorship, Miss Elizabeth
E. Joy, daughter of Capt. M. Joy, who survives him. Their
only son was graduated at Yale College in 1857, and fell in the
battle of Cedar Mountain, near Culpepper Court House, Va.,
Aug. 9, 1862, at the age of 24 years.

For a few months before his death Judge Dutton's health
had been gradually failing, and a severe attack of lung fever,
terminating in hemorrhage of the lungs, brought to a sudden
close his long and well-spent life.

JOHN WILLIAMS SALTER died in Mansfield, Conn, July 6,
1869, aged 71 years.

He was born in Mansfield, Jan. 28, 1798, and was prepared
for College by Rev. Moses Hallock (Y. C. 1788) of Plainfield,
Mass.

Mr. Salter studied law with Chief Justice Williams (Y. C.
1794) of Hartford, and practiced in Mansfield for about two
years. He was also engaged in teaching in Mansfield and Fair-
field, Conn., and Elizabethtown, N. J., for about three years.
In 1825 he married Miss Harriet Byron Stedman, who died in
1837. In 1842 he married Miss Elizabeth Turner, who sur-
vives him.

In 1827, having abandoned the profession of the law, he
commenced the study of Theology at New Haven, and was
licensed to preach in 1829. In the same year, he was ordained
pastor of the Congregational Church in Kingston, Mass. He
was installed over the Congregational Church in Bozrah, Conn.,
in September, 1832, and dismissed in March, 1835. He next
became pastor of the Congregational Church in Milford, N. H.,
and from there was recalled to Bozrah in 1841. He supplied
the pulpit for more than a year, without being settled, and then
took charge of the church in Douglas, Mass. From this place
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served as stated supply from Aug., 1847 to April, 1858. He afterward ministered to the church in Mohegan, in Montville. In 1862, on account of impaired hearing, he purposed to retire from active professional duties, and removed to his native town. The church there, being at that time without a pastor, induced him to become their acting pastor, and he so served for about two years. The last years of his life were also occupied with ministerial labors in neighboring churches.

HORACE SMITH, son of Windsor and Elizabeth Smith, was born in Hadley, Mass., Oct. 15, 1798.

He prepared for college in his native town, and immediately after his graduation entered Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1821. In the same year he was licensed by the Haverhill Association, and was ordained at Hadley, Feb. 27, 1822, as an evangelist, to be sent by the Hampshire County Missionary Society to Trumbull County, Ohio. He returned to Mass., in May, 1823, spent a short time at the Seminary in Andover, preached the next winter in Peru, Mass., then for eighteen months in Dummerston, Vt., and then went back for a life-long service at the West. From 1825 to 1832, he spent in missionary labors in various parts of Ohio and Illinois, with the exception of one year passed in Missouri. In Nov., 1832, he became acting pastor of the Congregational Church in Richfield, O., and so continued until Nov., 1848. From this date until April, 1854, he supplied the pulpits of neighboring towns; he then resumed his former pastorate, which in 1859 he resigned. He continued to preach in the neighborhood (without removing his residence) until near the time of his death, which occurred suddenly, probably from disease of the heart, Nov. 20, 1868.

Mr. Smith married, first, Nov. 2, 1829, Mary D., daughter of Samuel D. Ward, of Hadley, Mass. His second wife was Miss Caroline A. Kellogg, of Hinckley, O., who survives him. Of his three children, all by the first marriage, one died in infancy, and the other two within ten days of each other, at the ages of 17 and 15.

As a pioneer missionary his hardships were often trying, and his support seemingly quite limited; except for the year when he was sent to Missouri at a salary of $400, he never received over $300 per annum.

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1820.

EDWARD FROST was born in Charleston, S. C., April 27, 1801, and died in the same city, July 21, 1868, aged 67 years and 3 months.

His father, the Rev. Thomas Frost, was rector of St. Philip's Church, Charleston, and a graduate of Cambridge University, England, in 1780. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Downes, a merchant of Liverpool, and Mary (Le Jan) Downes, from South Carolina.

He was admitted to the bar in Charleston in 1823, and settled there in practice. In 1832 he was U. S. District Attorney, but resigned his office because he could not conscientiously defend the constitutionality of the Tariff Laws. Having already served several terms in the State Legislature, he was elected by that body, in 1843, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for life, but resigned the position, after a little more than ten years, on account of the great labor involved.

Judge Frost afterward devoted himself mainly to the carrying out of the Blue Ridge Railroad enterprise, being for many years President of the road. He cordially supported his State in her act of secession, and died in the belief that she was right.

He was married Oct. 19, 1826, to Miss Harriet Vander H. Horry, by whom he had eleven children, nine of whom with his widow are now living. One son was destroyed by the explosion of the magazine in Fort Sumter in 1864.

Judge Frost was a brother of the Rev. Thomas D. Frost, who graduated at this College in 1813.

1822.

HENRY BENEDICT was the son of John and Jane (Raymond) Benedict, and was born in Norwalk, Conn., Jan. 22, 1796. He prepared for College at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and after graduation studied divinity privately, and was licensed by Fairfield (Conn.) West Association, May 31, 1825.

He preached for short a time at Waterbury, Conn., and in Saratoga County, N. Y., and in Aug., 1828, was settled over the Congregational Church in his native town. Here he labored until Feb., 1832, with marked success. Between 1832 and 1840 he preached at Lansingburgh, N. Y., Covington, Ky., and for two years in the old Bowery Congregational Church, N. Y. City. From Jan., 1840 to March, 1852, he supplied the pulpit of the Congregational Church in Westport, Conn.

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The next year was spent in Europe for the benefit of his health, which had caused his frequent changes of residence. Before his return to this country, he received a call to the pastorate of the (O S) Presbyterian Church in Port Chester, N. Y.; he remained in this relation until 1863 when he retired from his ministry. He retained his residence in Port Chester until his death, which occurred while on a visit to Saratoga Springs, July 18, 1868, after a week's illness, occasioned by paralysis.

Mr. Benedict married, Sept. 1, 1823, Mary Betts Lockwood, also of Norwalk. He leaves a widow, two sons and four daughters.

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SUMNER GALLUP CLAPP died at his son's residence in Boston, Mass., Jan. 26, 1869, aged nearly 69 years.

He was a son of Joseph and Susan (Lyman) Clapp, and was born in Easthampton, Mass., March 10, 1800.

He taught the Academy in Newcastle, Me., for two years after leaving College, and then entered Andover Theol. Seminary, graduating in 1827. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Enfield, Mass., Jan. 9, 1828, where he remained until March, 1837. April 26, 1837, he was installed at Cabotville (now Chicopee), Mass., and was dismissed, Jan 22, 1850. He preached three months in Orono, Me., and in Nov., 1850, began preaching at St. Johnsbury, Vt., where he was installed pastor of the South (Congregational) Church, Jan 14, 1852. Having continued here for three years, he began laboring in Sturbridge, Mass., Oct., 1855, and was there installed, March 26, 1856. From this charge he was dismissed, Sept 2, 1862. Afterward, for a year or more, he was acting pastor at Lyndon, Vt., and then retired from the ministry, and lived at Dorchester, Mass.

He married, Aug 12, 1829, Pamelia Strong, of Southampton, Mass., by whom he had one daughter and one son.

HIRAM WILDMAN HUSTED, son of Samuel Husted, was born July 9, 1802, at Danbury, Conn. He died at Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 20, 1868.

He went to North Carolina immediately after graduating, and adopted the law as his profession. He settled in Smithfield, N. C., but in consequence of the unhealthiness of the place—losing his children, and his own health giving way—he was induced to remove to Raleigh at the time of the nomination of Clay for the Presidency, and conducted a campaign paper

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called the Clarion, in favor of the Whig party. He gave up
this situation at the close of the contest, but remained in
Raleigh, engaged in the practice of law and in literary pur-
suits. He was a frequent contributor to the newspapers and
periodicals of the day. Among other public offices which he
held, was that of U. S. Attorney for the District of North
Carolina.

Major Husted married Harriet A., daughter of Hon. Jesse
Slocumb, Member of Congress from N C., Jan 3, 1830, who
survives him. By this marriage he had six children, of whom
five died young, and the sixth, Delano Whiting Husted, a
graduate of the University of N. C. in 1854, fell before Rich-
mond, June 27, 1862.

1825.

ELISHA SMITH ABERNETHY was the son of Gen. Russell Cat-
lin Abernethy of Torrington, Conn., and was born in Torring-
ton in Oct., 1805. His mother's name before marriage was
Aurelia Smith.

After two years spent in the Law Department of Yale Col-
lege, he commenced the practice of law in Waterbury, Conn.
He removed to Litchfield about 1836, and was Judge of the
county court. In 1847 he removed to Bridgeport, and was for
many years Judge of Probate of the Bridgeport District. He
was appointed clerk of the Superior Court for Fairfield County
in 1859, and held the office until his death, at Bridgeport, June
4, 1869.

Mr. Abernethy married in 1828 Charlotte M., daughter of
Stephen Huggins of New Haven, Conn. He had four children,
of whom two survive him.

NATHAN BEERS IVES died in New Haven, Conn., June 18,
1869.

He was the oldest son of Prof. Eli (Y. C. 1799) and Maria
(Beers) Ives, and was born in New Haven, June 26, 1806. He
graduated at the Med. Institution of this College in 1828, and
following the example of his grandfather and father entered
upon his profession in his native city, where his talents, industry
and social qualities soon placed him in the front rank. With
his father he was also for many years engaged in private med-
ical instruction.

But the unremitting labors of his profession proved too
severe for a frame never robust, and for the past few years he
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confined to his bed and finally dying of disease contracted in
the duties of his profession.

He was married in 1829, and leaves one son, Dr. Chas. L.
Ives (Y. C 1852), Professor of Theory and Practice of Med-
cine in this College.

JOHN BAYLY McDOWELL was born in York, Pa., Nov. 22,
1804. He entered as Sophomore, in 1822, from Baltimore,
where his father was then a practicing physician.

Dr. McDowell received his medical education at the Univer-
sity of Maryland, in Baltimore, where he graduated in 1828.
He first practiced in Baltimore, and afterward in Hagerstown,
Md, until 1837, when he removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he
continued in the practice of his profession until his death.

In 1833 he married Miss Helen Greetham of Baltimore, by
whom he had six children; a son and two daughters survive
him. His wife died in 1858.

His death, caused by cholera morbus, occurred July 8,
1868.

CHESTER WHITE, third son of Asa and Zilpha (Hayes)
White, was born in Williamsburg, Mass., Sept. 18, 1797, and
died at Racine, Wisc., Apr. 10, 1868, aged 70½ years.

After graduation he studied law, and spent a few years in
Tennessee in the practice of his profession. He then resided
for a few years in Augusta, Ga., and in Alabama, chiefly en-
gaged in teaching. About 1836 he established himself as a
merchant in Penn Yan, N. Y., and in 1839, removed to Ra-
cine, where he continued in mercantile pursuits until his
death. He was at one time Mayor of Racine, and also one of
the Superintendents of Schools in that city.

He married, Oct. 4, 1847, Miss Clarissa W. Spencer, daugh-
ter of William Spencer of Stanstead, C. E. She died Sept.
23, 1854. Her four children, two daughters and two sons, sur-
vive their father.

His brother, Addison H. White, graduated at this College
in 1823.

1827.

GEORGE GOULD, son of Judge James Gould (Y. C. 1791),
and grandson of Hon. Uriah Tracy, (Y. C. 1778), was born in
Litchfield, Conn., Sept. 2, 1807. He died in Troy, N. Y., af-
ter a brief illness, Dec. 6, 1868.

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He studied law in the celebrated Law School conducted by his father, and in 1829 was admitted to the bar, and entered on the practice of his profession in Troy. He was successively associated in partnership with Hon. George R. Davis, Hon. Henry Z. Hayner (Y. C. 1826), and Hon. Job S. Olin. In 1855, he was elected a Justice of the Superior Court of the State of New York, and served for the full term of eight years. On retiring from the bench, Judge Gould devoted himself again to professional practice. He was Mayor of the city in 1852, and filled many other positions of honor and trust in the community.

In November, 1840, he married a daughter of Hon. George Vail of Troy. His wife survives him, with two sons and three daughters.

### 1831.

WILLIAM JAMES BREED was born in Lynn, Mass., June 10, 1809, the son of William and Mary (Denison) Breed.

From College he went to Andover Theological Seminary, where he was graduated in 1834. He was ordained June 10, 1835, over the Congregational Church in Nantucket, Mass., where he remained until 1839, when the state of his health led him to resign, and he undertook for a year the agency for the "American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions" in the Western States. From Dec. 9, 1841 to Nov. 5, 1845, he was pastor of the Congregational Church in Bucksport, Me. After a brief ministry to the First Congregational Church in Cincinnati, he was installed in 1846 as pastor of the High street Congr Church, Providence, R. I., where he continued until May, 1852. From 1853 to 1858 Mr. Breed was Financial Agent of Yale College, and for the next five years pastor at Southboro', Mass. For nearly all the remainder of his life he was acting pastor of the Congregational Church in Raynham, Mass.

Mr. Breed died in West Taunton, Mass., from dropsy in the chest, April 12, 1869.

He was married in 1835 to Miss Mary Smith, daughter of Mr. Jesse Smith of Taunton, Mass., who survives him, with two sons and two daughters. One of the sons graduated at this College in 1859.

SETH CRAIGE HUSTON, third son of Thomas Huston of Philadelphia, was born Dec. 30, 1810, and died at his residence in West Philadelphia, of Bright's disease, Feb. 9, 1867, aged 56 years.

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He commenced the study of medicine with William P. Brinckley, M. D., and was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835. In the following year he began to practice in the village of Attleborough, Pa., but removed to Philadelphia in 1844, where he continued in his profession until his death

Dr. Huston married, Oct. 18, 1836, Miss Lavinia, daughter of Dr. Michael Leib, who, with three sons and three daughters, survives him.

DAVID PLANT JUDSON died in Stratford, Conn., May 23, 1869, aged 60 years

He was the son of Daniel and Sarah (Plant) Judson, and was born in Stratford, April 16, 1809, the sixth in lineal descent from William Judson, one of the settlers of the town.

The two years immediately following graduation, he studied in the Yale Law School, though not with the view of practising law. He then returned to his native town, where the remainder of his life was spent

At the age of twenty-eight, he was chosen Deacon of the Congregational Church, which office he held until his death.

Though choosing a mercantile instead of a professional career, and little desirous of public distinctions, he acquired an influence which made his life, while for many years one of much physical weakness, of great usefulness to the community.

In 1835 he married Elizabeth S, daughter of Rev. Frederick Griddley (Y. C 1816), of East Lyme, Conn., who together with three of their five children survives him.

1833.

DAVID TILTON died in Woburn, Mass., Feb. 10, 1869, aged 62 years. He was born in Gilmanton, N. H., July 6, 1806.

He studied theology for one year with Rev. Alvan Cobb of Taunton, Mass, and for one year at the Andover Theol Seminary, and was ordained, Oct. 14, 1835, over the Congregational Church in Edgartown (Martha's Vineyard), Mass. He remained three years in this charge. He was installed, Aug. 12, 1840, pastor of the Congregational Church in Lanesville, Gloucester, Mass., where he continued till the spring of 1850. His health then demanding more active exercise, he moved to North Chelsea, Mass., and was employed as a canvassing agent for the *Congregationalist*, and for various publishing houses. In 1862 he removed to Woburn. During the latter part of his life, he was agent for Mason Brothers, publishers, of Boston.

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Mr. Tilton married, March 14, 1836, Sarah F. Batchelder of Danvers, Mass., who died Oct. 13, 1848. Their children were three sons and two daughters. He married again, Sept. 20, 1849, Miss Thirza Lee of New Britain, Conn., who survives him.

### 1834.

WILLIAM JUDSON died in Providence, R. I., Aug. 30, 1868, aged 55 years.

He was the son of Daniel and Sarah (Plant) Judson, and was born in Stratford, Conn., June 9, 1813.

He studied law in the Law School connected with Yale College, and after completing the course commenced practice in New York City. He soon, however, left general practice, and forming a connection with Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber, took the direction of the numerous suits in which Mr Goodyear was engaged in defending his patent. This connection not only brought him into contact with the most distinguished legal talent in the country, but was also highly remunerative.

He married late in life, and left no children.

The disease of which he died, softening of the brain, commenced several years previous to his death.

His brother, David P. Judson of the class of 1831, has also died during the past year.

### 1836.

RALPH DAYTON died on Staten Island, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1868, aged 53 years.

He was a native of East Hampton, L. I., and entered College during Junior year.

Mr. Dayton taught, after graduating, for a short time in the Clinton Academy, East Hampton, and subsequently in other Academies and private schools elsewhere.

At the time of his death he was resident as an instructor in the family of his cousin, Mis. Tyler, the widow of President Tyler. —

### 1837.

JAMES AUGUSTUS HAWLEY was born at Farmington, Conn., June 1, 1813, and died at Vicksburg, Miss., Aug. 20, 1868. He was the son of Rufus F. and Betsey (Richards) Hawley, and a brother of Rev. Z. K. Hawley (Y. C. 1833).

He studied theology in Yale Theological Seminary from 1837 to 1840. He was ordained pastor of a Church in Farm-

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ington, Ill., Jan. 13, 1841, but left that position on account of
ill health in August, 1842. From Oct., 1842 to Nov., 1849,
he was settled over the Congregational Church in Ridge-
field, Conn.; for the next three years in Augusta, Ill., and
from 1852 to 1854 in Jackson, Mich. He then left the
ministry, owing to the failure of his health, and engaged in
business in Jackson until the fall of 1859. Thence he went
to Wisconsin, hoping to resume, in that more favorable
climate, his ministerial work. After the experiment of preach-
ing for a year, at Racine and Baraboo, he took charge of the
Congregational Church in Ripon, in 1860. From 1864 to
1866 he was in the service of the U. S., first as Chaplain of the
Sixty-third U. S. Colored Infantry, then as Superintendent of
Colored Schools for the district of Vicksburg, extending 200
miles along the Mississippi. In 1865 he was made Sub-Com-
missioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, and assistant in the
office of the Commissioner for Mississippi. He resigned in
1866, and engaged in planting and in real estate business in
Vicksburg, devoting himself generally to the interests of
reconstruction. He was married, Oct. 21, 1840, to Mary Ann
Trowbridge, of New Haven, who died of cholera, July 3, 1850.
He married as his second wife, Sept. 1, 1852, Ellen C. Acker-
man, of Peoria, Ill., who died Nov. 5, 1863. Of four children
by his first marriage, one son and one daughter are living.

Mr. Hawley died from congestion of the brain, the result of
a cold caught by exposure to a shower four days earlier.

1838.

JAMES BURNET CRANE died in Elizabeth, N. J., Sept. 30,
1868, aged 49 years. He was the son of Rev. John R and
Harriet (Burnet) Crane, and was born in Middletown, Conn.,
Jan. 26, 1819.

He studied law, and was for a time in business; in 1850-51
he studied in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J.,
and was ordained and installed colleague pastor with his father
over the First Congregational Church in Middletown, Conn.,
Jan. 11, 1854. He resigned this charge, April 15, 1856, on
account of ill health.

He entered the United States Army, as Hospital Chaplain,
in April, 1863, and remained until the war's close; at which
time his health began to fail.

He died suddenly, from congestion of the brain, produce
by a fall.

He was married in 1847; and a second time, Dec. 4, 1861,
to Miss Kate W. Field of Philadelphia, who with an only son
survives him.

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THOMAS MARSHALL KEY was the son of Marshall Key—a connection of Chief Justice Marshall, and was born in Mason County, Ky., in 1819.

He graduated at Augusta College, Ky., and entered Yale in Sophomore year.

He went to Cincinnati after graduation and entered upon the practice of the law, as partner of Alphonso Taft (Y. C. 1833). In 1848 the Commercial Court of Cincinnati was established, of which he served as Judge for five years. He resumed his profession in 1853, and continued in it, in partnership and alone, up to the breaking out of the rebellion. In 1858 he was elected a member of the State Senate on the Democratic ticket. While still in this position, the attack on Fort Sumter occurred, and Judge Key took an active and controlling part in securing unanimous action in the Legislature for the support of the National Government. In this he was brought into contact with Gen. McClellan, became Judge Advocate on his staff with the rank of Colonel, and received in an unusual degree the confidence of his commander. He remained in this position while Gen. McClellan continued in command. While stationed in Washington, he drafted, and promoted the passage of, the bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia. When McClellan was removed he returned to the labors of his profession in Cincinnati. He was married, June, 1858, to Mrs. Elizabeth B. Boylan.

He contracted pulmonary disease under the exposure of the Chickahominy and Antietam campaigns, and was never well afterward. He died at Lebanon, Ohio, Jan. 15, 1869.

JAMES MCCHAIN, the son of John and Elizabeth McChain, was born in N. Y. City, Febr. 4, 1819.

He graduated at the Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. City, 1841, and was ordained pastor of the N. S. Presbyterian Church at Franklin, N. Y., Jan. 18, 1843. In Oct., 1843, he became pastor of the (N. S.) Presbyterian Church in Abingdon, Va., a relation which was terminated only by his death, of consumption at Abingdon, March 1, 1869. During his pastorate he was untiring in his labors for the spread of the gospel in his neighborhood, and his life was shortened by these incessant exertions.

He was married in March, 1845, to Miss Jane C. Gibson. They had two children, a son and a daughter, who with their mother survive him.

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1841.

WILLIAM TAYLOR SULLIVAN BARRY was born in Columbus, Lowndes Co., Miss., Dec. 12, 1821, and died in the same place, Jan. 29, 1868, of consumption.

After graduating he took a plantation in Oktibbeha County, adjoining his native county, and commenced studying law. For two or three years he practised law in Columbus, but in 1847 or 1848 returned to his plantation. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1849 and 1851. He afterward removed to Sunflower County, in the valley of the Mississippi. In 1853-5 he was a Representative in Congress, but refused a re-election and settled again in Columbus to practice law. In the latter part of 1855 he was returned to the State Legislature, and was chosen speaker.

He was a seceder from the Charleston Convention of 1860, and participated in the nomination of Breckenridge at Baltimore. In 1861 he was President of the Secession Convention of Mississippi, and member of the Confederate Provisional Congress. In June of the same year he entered the military service, and in the spring of 1862 he raised a regiment (35th Mississippi), with whom as their Colonel he served until captured at Mobile in April, 1865.

He afterward returned to his professional life in Columbus.

His wife (Sallie, daughter of Dr. Thomas Fearn of Huntsville, Alab.), to whom he was married in December, 1851, survives him, with one son

JOHN NICHOLSON WASHINGTON, son of Nicholson and Eliz-
beth (McKinne) Washington, was born Nov 19, 1819, at
Spring Bank, a country seat on the Neuse River, Wayne Co.,
N. C. His grandfather is said to have been first cousin to
Gen. Washington. His brother, William H., graduated at
this College in 1834

He entered Yale College in Jan, 1839, from Randolph-Macon
College, Va., and after graduation remained in the Yale Law
School for one year In Jan, 1843, he commenced practice in
Rutherfordton, N. C.; a year later he removed to New Berne,
N. C., where he practiced till 1854. He then made a long
visit to Europe, and after his return lived in retirement, in the
enjoyment of a large fortune In 1862 he was an officer in
the Confederate army, and afterward he moved to Pitts-
borough, Chatham County, where he taught a private school
until the close of the war He immediately returned to New
Berne, and in the summer of 1865 was elected Mayor of the

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city. After the expiration of his term of office, he resumed
the practice of his profession.

He married, Jan. 12, 1848, Miss Sallie V. Emery. She sur-
vives him, as also eight of their eleven children.

Mr. Washington died at New Berne, Feb. 14, 1869.

1842.

DAVID GOULD SHERMÁN died at Marion, Alabama, August 8, 1868, in the 48th year of his age.

He was the son of David and Lovisa Sherman, and was
born in Ware, Mass., April 13, 1821.

After graduation he taught in Macon, Miss., until 1846, and afterward in Natchez, Miss., until 1848. He then returned to the North, and studied law, partly in his native town, and partly in the Law School of Harvard University. On being admitted to the bar in 1850, he went to the South with the intention of practising law, but his immediate interests and inclination made the profession of teaching more attractive. He had charge of a High School in Macon, Miss., until July, 1854, when he removed to Marion, Ala. Here he taught for a few months in the Judson Female Institute, when he was appointed, in 1855, Professor of Ancient Languages in Howard College (Baptist) in the same place. He remained in this position until 1862. For the next five years he conducted a private school.

In June, 1868, he was re-elected to his professorship, and
was to have entered upon his duties in October; in July he
was prostrated by an attack of typhoid fever, which caused
his death in a few weeks

Professor Sherman was married, Oct. 13, 1850, to Mrs
Mary H Kennon of Marion, who survives him with one son
and one daughter.

1843.

GIDEON GRANGER died in Canandaigua, N. Y., Sept. 3,
1868, aged 47 years.

He was born in Canandaigua, Aug. 30, 1821, and was the
fourth of his family in direct line to graduate from this Col-
lege; a notice of his father may be found on page 300 of
this Obituary Record

He studied law in his native place, where he continued to
reside in the practice of his profession; devoting, from the
outset of his career, the bulk of his professional labors to the
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encouraging enlistments, and in caring for the families of those
who were in the field. The sorrow of the entire community
at his death testified to the rare worth of his life.

Mr. Granger was married, July 2, 1850, to Miss Josephine
Pierson of Canandaigua. His widow with two daughters
survives him.

An address at the funeral, by Rev. Frederic B. Allen, with
other tributes, has been privately printed.

1846.

SAMUEL ROBBINS, son of Samuel and Fanny Robbins, was
born in Woodbury, Conn, Sept. 2, 1822. He died in Glen-
dale, Hamilton County, Ohio, June 8, 1869, of chronic pyæ-
mia, after a long illness.

In his infancy his parents removed to Onondaga County,
N. Y., where his boyhood was spent.

After graduating he was for two years principal of the Walter-
boro' Academy, S C In 1852 he graduated in medicine in
N. Y. City, and was appointed physician of the Nursery
Hospital on Randall's Island. Subsequently he spent more
than a year in study in Paris and London. On his return he
settled as a physician in South Carolina, and about ten years
before his death removed to Glendale, while he continued to be
engaged in his profession. He was also an Elder in the Pres-
byterian Church.

In June, 1858, Dr. Robbins was married to Elizabeth M.
Oliver of Yates County, N. Y., who survives him. Their
children, two sons and one daughter, died in childhood.

1848.

CHARLES DIMON STURGES, son of Lothrop L. and Jane
(Corey) Sturges, was born in New York City, Jan. 14, 1827.

After graduation he entered into business, from which he
retired in 1862.

He resided in New York City until his death, which occur-
red Aug. 27, 1868, in the 42d year of his age.

He was unmarried.

1852.

EDWARD JESUP ALVORD died at Southport, in Fairfield,
Conn., Oct. 16, 1868, in the 38th year of his age.

He was the only son of Jesup and Susan Alvord, and was
born at Southport, March 26, 1831.

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1854.

LUTHER MAXWELL LEE, son of James I. and Mary (Newman) Lee, was born at Meadville, Miss., Jan. 27, 1831.

After graduation he studied law in his native town, and on
being admitted to the bar in March, 1855, commenced practice.
During the rebellion he was in the Confederate army, holding
a commission in a Mississippi regiment, and going through hard
service. At the close of the struggle he returned to his home,
intending to resume the practice of the law, but was delayed
by shattered health and family afflictions.

He married in June, 1859, Miss Mock, who died May, 1866.
She left one son.

Mr. Lee died at Meadville, Miss., Febr. 12, 1869, aged 38
years.

WILLIAM SHERMAN POTTS died at Dubuque, Iowa, Dec. 8,
1868, aged 33 years.

He was the oldest son of Joseph C. and Elizabeth (Sherman)
Potts, and was born at Trenton, N. J., June 3, 1835.

He spent the winter following graduation at St. Augustine,
Fla., for his health, and the summer succeeding was occupied
with a trip across the western plains.

The winter of 1855-6, he was in business in Philadelphia,
at the same time attending Pharmaceutical lectures. A re-
turn of attacks of hemorrhage induced him to try St. Paul,
Minn., as a place of residence, and in the spring of 1856 he
established himself there. He went into the drug business,
in which he remained (with the exception of a year or two
when health did not permit) until the summer of 1868.
Repeated hemorrhages then warned him to try a milder
climate, and he was on his way to Little Rock, Ark., when
he died.

He married Miss Harriet Ingersoll of St. Paul, July 3, 1860,
who survives him.

1860.

THADDEUS HOWE BROWN died in North Woodstock, Conn.,
Oct. 19, 1868, aged 30 years and 4 months.

He was the only surviving child of Dr. Thaddeus Brown
(Y. C 1826, M D. Harvard, 1830) and Susan (Crosby) Brown,
of Billerica, Mass., where he was born, June 17, 1838. Being
early left an orphan, his boyhood was passed in Andover,
Mass., under the care of an aunt, and there he prepared for
College.

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After graduating he returned to Andover for theological study, and finished the course at the Seminary in 1864; in the meantime he married, July 23, 1862, in New Haven, Lydia W., daughter of Rev. Henry Herrick (Y. C. 1822), and neice of the late Edward C. Herrick, Treasurer of Yale College. Immediately after his marriage, he went to Europe, and remained until Sept., 1863, most of the time at Heidelberg, engaged in theological studies.

He preached for six months in Pittsford, Vt., and in 1866, accepted a call to the Congregational Church in North Woodstock, Conn., where he was ordained pastor, April 11. He continued in this relation until his death, which was the sudden result of an illness of less than a week's duration, contracted while at the meeting of the "American Board" at Norwich, Conn.

He leaves a widow with three children.

JOHN RUSSELL PARSONS, son of Col. Edward Parsons, was born in Northampton, Mass., Aug. 24, 1838, and was drowned at Jackson, Miss., Mch. 3, 1869.

After graduation he remained at home until the fall of 1861, when he engaged in enlisting troops in Western Mass. He was made a 2d Lieutenant in the 31st Mass. Volunteers and sent to the Department of the Gulf. With his regiment he was there transferred to the 1st Loyal Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers, as Captain. He was subsequently promoted to the rank of major, and served to the close of the war. He then remained at the South, partly engaged in mercantile pursuits, and for the last three years of his life resided in Jackson, Miss. His intention on graduating was to study law, but the needs of his country appeared more pressing, and continued to demand his time and energies.

At the time of his death he was a member of the House of Representatives from Hinds County.

On the 3d of March, a friend with whom he had passed the evening parted from him at a short distance from his residence; it was not until a week later that his body was found in the river near by.

FRANCIS ROSCOE WAY, the son of Francis D. Way of Philadelphia, was born in that city, April 28, 1840.

After graduation he commenced to study law in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in 1863. In the summer of that year he joined an artillery company (the 1st Philadelphia Light Battery), organized for temporary service in consequence

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of the invasion of Pennsylvania by Gen. Lee. A few weeks of
exposure, combined with the excitement of actual conflict, suf-
ficed to destroy his health, not strong before. He afterward
entered into active business, without being able to check the
progress of his disease. He went in Dec., 1867, to Florida, in
hope of being benefitted by the climate. His strength, however,
failed rapidly, and on the 16th of March, 1868, he died in Jack-
sonville, in his 28th year. His remains were brought home,
and buried at Laurel Hill

1861.

SEXTUS SHEARER, Jr., was born in Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 14,
1838. In 1843, his family removed to St. Louis, Mo., from
which place he entered College.

In December, 1861, he left New York for San Francisco,
(his father's present residence,) via Cape Horn, and returned
by the same route in November, 1866. During the larger por-
tion of the intermediate time, he was in a Law office in San
Francisco; and after relinquishing the idea of making the law
his profession, he spent some time in teaching. On his return
to the east, he entered the Divinity School at Cambridge,
Mass. His studies were interrupted in February, 1868, by a
violent attack of bronchitis, and by advice of physicians he
sailed for California on the first of June.

Notwithstanding the change of climate, the change of sea-
sons, and the most strenuous efforts of friends to baffle disease,
he sank rapidly and died of consumption at San Diego, Lower
California, March 5, 1869. With rare talents, kindness of
heart, and devotion to high purposes, his prospects of useful-
ness were thus terminated, before he had even entered on
his work. His death was sudden, as he rode six miles the day
previous, and had taken more or less exercise every day.

1862.

EBEN THOMAS HALE died in Newburyport, Mass., Sept.
7, 1868, aged 26 years and 4 months.

He was the son of Eben and Lucy (Balch) Hale, and was born
in Newburyport, May 9, 1842.

He entered College at the beginning of the course, and grad-
uated with his class, but was obliged during Sophomore year
to spend two terms at Amherst College, on account of a throat
difficulty aggravated by the climate of New Haven.

A few months after graduating he enlisted in the 45th Mass.
Volunteers, known as the "Cadet Regiment," and served nine
months under Gen. Foster in North Carolina. After his re-

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turn he studied in the Harvard College Law School, where he
received the degree of LL.B. in 1865.

His health, never firm, was further impaired by the exposure
of his military life, and in 1866 he made a voyage to Rio Ja-
neiro, from which, however, only temporary relief was gained.
The disease under which he was laboring, increased by a se-
vere chill occasioned by sea-bathing, finally terminated his life.

1866.

DANIEL WESLEY INGERSOLL, Jr., was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 21, 1843. He was the son of D. W. Ingersoll, now of St. Paul, Minn., formerly of New York City.

He entered College with the class of 1865, but his course
was several times interrupted on account of poor health, and
in Senior year he was obliged to seek change of air. He went
to Minnesota and entered the Quarter-Master's Department, and
accompanied Sherman's army in its march through North
Carolina. He then returned to College, and graduated with
the next class.

He entered the Albany Law School in the fall, and the
next summer received the degree of LL.B. and was admitted
to the bar. The next year he spent in New York City, in the
office of Bangs, Sedgwick & North. His health again fail-
ing, he returned in the summer of 1868 to St. Paul, and was
never able to resume his profession.

He died at St. Paul, Feb. 3, 1869, at the age of 26.

He was unmarried.

RICHARD EDWARD SMYTH, the younger son of Ralph D. (Y. C. 1827) and Rachel (Seward) Smith, of Guilford, Conn., was born in that town, Sept. 2d, 1846, and died at his father's house, Dec. 18, 1868, aged 22 years. His only brother, Walter H. Smyth, graduated in 1863, and died in the same year.

He was fitted for college at the Guilford Institute. After
graduating, in enfeebled health, he remained at home for a few
months, and then went to Mechanicsville, N. Y., as instructor
in an Academy. He returned home, March, 1868, and the re-
maining months of his life were a prolonged struggle with
disease. It was ascertained after death that his sufferings
were caused by a cancer in the cavity of the abdomen.

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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1816.

JOSIAH BOWERS died in Billerica, Mass., Nov. 5th, 1868, aged 77 years.

He was the third son of Benjamin and Silence (Stickney) Bowers and was born in Billerica, Mass., Sept. 1st, 1791.

When about 19 he went to Hingham, Mass., where he pursued his studies with his brother-in-law, the Rev. Joseph Richardson, and was engaged for a while in teaching.

He commenced the study of medicine with the late Dr. Gordon of Hingham, and was for several years the private pupil of the late Prof. Nathan Smith of New Haven.

After graduating he settled in Huntington, L. I., where he gained a high reputation as a physician and Surgeon.

In 1821 he removed to Setauket where he practiced a number of years and subsequently removed to Smithtown, which is between Setauket and Huntington. With a reputation which brought him all the business he cared to attend to, when about 50 years old he made trial of Homœopathy and adopted it on the results of his own experience.

He was one of the original members of the American Institute of Homœopathy.

In 1850, he opened an office in the city of New York. About ten years before his death, becoming tired of the labor and exertions of city practice, he retired to his native place to spend the remainder of his days.

He was twice married, but had no children.

1819.

THOMAS R. BOUTELLE died in Fitchburg, Mass., July 13, 1869, after a long illness, at the age of 74.

He had lived for the last thirty years in Fitchburg, having removed there from Leominster, Mass., about 1838.

1825.

CHARLES MILES FAY died in Charlton, Mass., Dec. 18, 1868, aged 68. He was the son of John and Mehitable (Brigham) Fay, and was born in Westborough, Mass., Sept. 24, 1800.

After leaving the medical school, he pursued further studies with Dr. Bay of Albany, N. Y. In 1826, he commenced practice in Charlton, Mass., where he continued (with the excep-

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tion of five years, from 1846 to 1851, which he spent in South-
bridge, Mass.) until his death.

Dr. Fay was married, April 5, 1827, to Altha R. Waters,
who died June 22, 1828. He was next married, Jan. 1, 1829,
to Lucy M. T. Fitts, who died Feb. 5, 1840. He was next
married, Feb. 10, 1842, to Frances A. Spurr, who survives him.
Two daughters, one the child of the second, and the other of
the third marriage, are his only surviving children.

GUY ROWLAND PHELPS was the son of Noah Amherst
Phelps (Y. C. 1783) and Charlotte Wilcox Phelps. He was
born at Simsbury, Conn., April 1, 1802.

Before taking his medical degree he had studied with Dr.
Bestor of Simsbury, and with Dr. Cogswell of Hartford.

In 1827 he commenced the practice of medicine in the city
of New York, but some two years later a change of location
was rendered desirable by the state of his health, and he re-
turned to his native town. After years of successful practice
here, increasing ill health obliged him to relinquish his profes-
sion. Soon after he removed to Hartford, and from 1845 de-
voted his energies to the business of Life Insurance. By his
exertions the charter of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company was secured in 1846, of which he was the first Sec-
retary, and afterward President. The remarkable success of
Life Insurance in America is perhaps mainly due to the tact
and industry of Dr. Phelps.

Dr. Phelps died at his residence after a week's illness, of
congestion of the lungs, March 18, 1869.

He married Miss Hannah Latimer of Simsbury, April 7,
1833. Their children were one son and three daughters. His
wife with one daughter survives him.

1826.

EDWARD WING GREENE, the sixth son and ninth child of
Dr Rowland Greene, of Cranston, R. I., was born Nov. 18,
1803. His early years were spent on a farm.

After completing his medical studies, he settled in New Bed-
ford, Mass., and pursued the practice of his profession there
for about seven years. His health then being poor, he engaged
in the drug business. Having become warmly interested in
politics, he was appointed Post Master of the city, early in
President Polk's administration, but was removed at General
Taylor's accession in 1849. Owing to the state of his health
he did not again enter active business, except so far as re-

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quired by the care of the estate of his father, who died in
1859. Being unmarried, he spent the latter part of his life
with various relatives in Rhode Island, chiefly in Bristol,
where he died, May 12, 1869, in the 66th year of his age.

DAVID STUART DODGE was the eldest son of David Low
and Sarah Cleveland Dodge, and was born in Hartford, Conn.,
July 14, 1803.

He commenced the practice of medicine in Fairfield, Conn.,
and after three or four years removed to Hartford, where he
pursued his profession till about the year 1848. Not robust in
health, and therefore deeming a change desirable, he relin-
quished his practice, and removed to New York City in the
fall of 1849, where he resided until his death, May 23, 1869.

His wife, to whom he was married in April, 1827, died in
May, 1864. They had ten children, seven of whom were their
survivors. One son is a graduate of this college in the class of
1866.

He left also a widow, to whom he was married in January,
1867.

1829.

ELIAS FRENCH MAYNARD died at Jacksonville, Fla., May
28, 1869.

While pursuing his medical studies here, he resided in
Trenton, N J.

1832.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS HOAGLAND was born May 17, 1810,
in Griggstown, N J., and graduated at Rutgers College in
1828.

He studied medicine with Dr. W. W. Perrine of Harlingen,
N J., and attended two courses of lectures in the University of
Pennsylvania, before coming to New Haven in 1831.

He first practiced medicine in Raysfield, N. J., then in Cats-
kill, N Y., then from 1836 till about 1842 in Readington, N. J.
He then relinquished his profession for other pursuits, and was
for a time Superintendent of Common Schools in N. J. In
Nov, 1855, he removed to Henry, Marshall Co, Ill, where his
family still reside. In Nov, 1863, he entered the service of
the American Bible Society as a County Agent in Illinois, and
was thus engaged till Nov., 1866, when he was appointed State
Agent for Southern Iowa, which office he held till his death.

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He died after two hours' illness, in Des Moines, Iowa, March 19, 1869.

Dr. Hoagland married, Sept. 11, 1832, Gertrude M. Labagh, daughter of Rev. Peter Labagh, of Harlingen, N. J., who survives him. He left four sons and five daughters.

DAVID PRITCHARD, fourth son of David Pritchard, Jr., and Anna (Hitchcock) Pritchard of Waterbury, Conn., was born Oct. 24, 1810, and died at South Norwalk, Conn., Oct. 30, 1868, aged 58 years.

Dr. Pritchard commenced the labors of his profession at Madison, Conn. He subsequently resided in New Haven, Conn., and in several towns in New Jersey. From Highstown, N. J., he removed to South Norwalk, Conn., in 1861, and was there engaged in practice at the time of his decease. The cause of his death was a cancerous affection of the kidneys, which laid him aside from active labor for only a few weeks.

He married while living in Madison, and his wife, with one son and two daughters, survives him.

### 1852.

JOHN SHUTE MOODY was the son of Dr. Anson (Y. C. 1814, and M.D. 1840,) and Clarissa (Collins) Moody, and was born in Belchertown, Mass., where his father was at that time in the practice of medicine, July 26, 1828.

He commenced the study of medicine with his father, then residing in New Haven, and subsequently attended the lectures at the Medical College. After receiving his degree he spent one year in the Conn. General Hospital at New Haven. He then commenced practice in Bristol, Conn., but afterward opened a drug-store, to which he chiefly devoted himself. About 1858 he removed to Norwalk, Conn., where he practiced medicine until his death, Sept. 16, 1868, at the age of 46. He was unmarried.

## LAW DEPARTMENT.

### 1864.

WILLIAM WHITTINGHAM KEHLER, of Denver, Colorado, died in that place, Nov. 22, 1868.

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

DECEASED DURING THE ACADEMICAL YEAR ENDING IN JULY
1870.

*[Presented at the Meeting of the Alumni, July 20, 1870.]*

[No 11 of the printed Series, and No. 29 of the whole Record.]

OBITUARY RECORD

OF GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the academic year ending in July, 1870.

*[Presented at the Meeting of the Alumni, July 20th, 1870.]*

[No 11 of the printed Series, and No 29 of the whole Record]

1802.

JOHN KEEP, the last survivor of his class, was born, 20 April, 1781, in Longmeadow, then a precinct of Springfield, Mass. Of a family of nine children he was the seventh.

For a year after he was graduated he taught a school in Bethlehem, Conn., reading theology at the same time with the pastor, Rev. Dr. Axel Backus. He continued his theological course for another year with Rev. Asahel Hooker, of Goshen, Conn., and was licensed by Litchfield North Association, 11 June, 1805. The next Sunday he preached in the Congregational Church in Blandford, Mass., and immediately received an invitation to settle, which he accepted. Here he remained for 16 years. In May, 1821, he removed to the Congregational Church in Homer, N. Y., and was installed November 7. In 1833 he resigned in consequence of disaffection caused by his sympathy with the "new measures" of revivalists. For the following year he preached in the Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, O., and then organized the First Congregational Church in Ohio City, (now Cleveland, West Side,) and became its pastor.

In 1834, Father Keep (as he now began to be, called) was elected a Trustee of the Oberlin Institute. While resident in Homer, he had been trustee of Auburn Theol. Seminary, and of Hamilton College. Soon after his election as trustee of Oberlin, he gave, as President of the Board, the casting vote which admitted colored pupils to that institution, and has shaped its remarkable history. In June, 1836, he resigned his charge to accept a financial agency for Oberlin College, but the reverses of 1837 caused his return to pastoral work, as supply in

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Wooster, O., and in Lockport and Albion, N. Y. Then, in
view of the pressing needs of Oberlin, he took part in an 18
months' mission to England, and secured $30,000. He resumed
preaching in Mansfield, O., during 1841; then in Hartford, O.,
for over four years; then in Arcade, N. Y., and Litchfield, O.

In 1850, he removed to Oberlin, and aided in raising an
endowment of $100,000 for the College. His after life was
spent in Oberlin, where his only son resides, and he died there,
of old age, 11 Febr., 1870. His wife Lydia, daughter of Adino
Hale, of Goshen, Conn., whom he married in June, 1806, died
in 1865. The address at his funeral, by President Fairchild, has
been published.

Father Keep was the last survivor of the company of minis-
ters who in 1810 organized the American Board of Commis-
sioners for Foreign Missions.

1806.

ALFRED HENNEN was born in Elkridge, Md., 17 Oct., 1786. His father, Dr. James Hennen, removed at an early age from Ireland to the United States, and located himself in Nashville, Tenn., in 1795. In 1801 his son was placed with Dr. Rogers of Newport, R I, to pursue classical studies, and in 1803 he was entered Sophomore in Yale College. He resided in College for two years after graduation, as Berkeley scholar, studying law also with Judge Chauncey

In 1808 he returned to Nashville, but removed in a few
months to New Orleans, where he was admitted to the bar, 1
May, 1809 He practiced in the courts of that city until his
death, interrupted only by a two years' residence within the
Confederate lines during the war. When Louisiana was in-
vaded in 1814, he enlisted in the cavalry company which
formed Gen Jackson's life guard. His earnest and conscien-
tious pursuit of his profession, with his rare zeal for knowledge,
entitled him at the close of life to be called the Nestor of the
New Orleans bar. He was one of the original members of the
1st Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, and a Ruling Elder
from 1828 till his death.

He died in New Orleans, after ten days' illness, 19 Jan., 1870,
in his 84th year. A Discourse, upon occasion of his death, by
Rev. B. M. Palmer, D.D., has been published.

Mr. Hennen married, in Aug., 1809, Miss Anna Maria Nich-
olson, who bore him three children; two died in infancy, and
the third lived to enter his father's profession in New Orleans.

After the death of his first wife in 1818, Mr. Hennen was
married, in May, 1819, to Miss Ann Maria Davison. Mrs.
Hennen survives her husband, after a union of more than fifty
years, with eight of her twelve children.

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1809.

HENRY MATSON WAITE, the eldest child of Remick and Susannah (Matson) Waite, was born in Lyme, Conn., 9 Febr., 1787, and died in the same town, 14 Dec., 1869.

He entered College at the beginning of Sophomore year, from Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn.

Early in 1810, he commenced the study of law with Hon. Matthew Griswold and Ex-Gov. Roger Griswold, of Lyme. He was admitted to the bar in Dec., 1812, and pursued the practice of his profession thereafter in his native town. In 1815, he was a representative in the lower branch of the State Legislature, and after that was repeatedly re-elected; in 1832 and 1833 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1834, he was elected an Associate Judge of the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors, and twenty years later, Chief Justice. In Febr., 1857, having reached the constitutional limit for judicial office, he retired to private life. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Yale College in 1855.

Judge Waite married, 23 Jan., 1816, Maria, daughter of Col. Richard E. Selden, of Lyme. She died soon after the fifteenth anniversary of their wedding day. Of their eight children (seven sons and one daughter), three graduated at Yale College.

A sketch of the life of Judge Waite, with a portrait, was published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for April, 1870.

1811.

DAVID MEAUBEC MITCHELL died in Waltham, Mass., at the house of his son-in law, Rev. E. E. Strong, 27 Nov., 1869, aged 81½ years. He was the second child of Hon. Ammi R. Mitchell, M.D., of North Yarmouth, Maine, and was born in that town, 9 May, 1788.

He studied theology at Andover, graduating in 1814, and after laboring for a year or more in the service of the Maine Missionary Society, he accepted a call from the Congregational Church in Waldoboro', Me. Here he was ordained, 19 June, 1816, and remained until Sept. 1841, when, after the loss of several children by consumption, he felt obliged to seek a change of climate. After residing for three years in Andover, Mass., he went to Portland, Me., as City Missionary, and remained for five years. Then, in 1851, he undertook a similar work, in connection with the Eliot Church, in Roxbury, Mass., where he labored until February, 1860. His later life was spent with his children in South Natick and Waltham, Mass.

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BRYAN KERBY STEVENS, the son of Gen. Ebenezer Stevens, a Revolutionary officer of artillery, and of his wife Lucretia Ledyard, aunt of the well-known traveler, was born in New York City, 20 Apr., 1792, and died in Astoria, L. I., 15 Feb. 1870. His brothers, Samuel, Dr. Alexander H., and John A., graduated at this College in 1804, 1807, and 1813.

Mr. Stevens passed an uneventful life, as a merchant in New York City, beloved and respected by all who knew him.

He married Frances, daughter of the late Hon. Albert Galatin. She is still living, as are also their seven children, of whom two have graduated at this College, in 1854 and 1858.

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS TALLMADGE was born in Litchfield, Conn., 29 Aug., 1792. His father was Col. Benjamin Tallmadge (Y. C. 1773), of Revolutionary celebrity, and his mother a daughter of Gen. William Floyd, a delegate from N. Y. to the Continental Congress, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Graduating at the age of 19, he studied at the Litchfield law school, then under the charge of Judge Tapping Reeve. On 14 July, 1812, he was appointed Adjutant of the 7th Regiment of Conn. Militia, and removing soon after to N. Y. City, he served as Captain of a Company of cavalry upon Long Island, for the defence of the city during the war with Great Britain. He was admitted an attorney of the Supreme Court of the state, 3 Nov., 1814, appointed Ensign in the 142d Regiment of Infantry, 4 March, 1817, Brigade Quartermaster of the 3d Brigade of Infantry in April, 1818, Brigade Judge-Advocate of the 3d Brigade on June 22, 1818, and Captain in the 142d Infantry, 27 March, 1819

He entered early into political life, and for over half a century was closely identified with the prosperity and public improvements of the city of New York. In 1834 he was elected Assistant Alderman, in 1837 State Senator, and from 1841 to 1846 and 1848 to 1851 was Recorder of the city. He was elected to Congress from the 5th district in N. Y. City in 1846. In 1857 he was appointed Superintendent of the newly-organized Metropolitan Police, and was elected Clerk of the Court of Appeals in 1862, retiring from public life at the expiration of his term in 1865. As a politician he was ready, energetic, and fearless; as a judge, dignified, impartial, and courteous.

He married Eliza, daughter of Hon. Judson Canfield, of Sharon, Conn., who, with five children, survives him. He died while on a visit to his daughter, in Litchfield, Conn., 17 Sept., 1869, aged 77.

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1812.

NATHANIEL SHAW PERKINS was born in New London, Conn.,
11 Febr, 1792. His parents were Elias Perkins, M. C. (Yale
Coll. 1786), and Lucretia Shaw, daughter of Rev. Ephraim
Woodbridge (Yale Coll. 1765), of New London.

He pursued the study of medicine with Dr. Elisha North of
New London, and settled in his native place, where he passed
the remainder of his life in the practice of his profession.

He married, in 1818, Ellen Richards, of New London, who
survives him. They were the parents of 14 children, 6 of whom
are yet alive. One fell in the attack on Kinston in the war of
the rebellion. Another graduated at this college in 1842.

After a life of great usefulness, Dr. Perkins died, in the house
in which he was born, 25 May, 1870, aged 78.

The honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine was given him by
Yale College in 1829.

1813.

MOSES BRISTOL was born in Clinton, N. Y., 2 Oct., 1790

He entered the Sophomore class in 1810, and in 1813 the
Medical school, where he received his diploma in 1816.

Returning to his native village, he there began the practice
of his profession, but removed soon after to Manlius, N. Y.
In 1822 he removed to Buffalo, and practiced until 1849, when
he was compelled by failing health to retire. He afterwards
served for one term as County Clerk. For forty-five years he
was a Ruling Elder in the First Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Bristol was stricken with paralysis, Nov. 5, 1869, and
died on the next day.

JOHN MUMFORD WOOLSEY, son of William Walton Woolsey,
of New York City, and grandson of Benjamin Woolsey (Y. C.
1744), of Dosors, L. I, was born, 10 Jan., 1796. His mother
was Elizabeth Dwight, sister of President Dwight.

He was a merchant in New York City until about 1828, when
he removed to Cleveland, O. He resided there, occupied as a
land-agent, until 1852, after which date his residence was in
New Haven, Conn. He died in New Haven, 11 July, 1870,
aged 74 years.

He married Jane, daughter of Dr. John Andrews, of Walling-
ford, Conn., who survives him, with four daughters and one
son.

1814.

SAMUEL PUNDERSON, son of Samuel and Eunice (Gilbert)
Punderson, was born in New Haven, Conn., 22 Jan., 1791,

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studied with Dr. Gilbert, commenced the practice of medicine in
1818, retired from practice in 1860, and died of pneumonia in
the same city, 13 March, 1870. At the time of his death he was
the senior member of the New Haven Medical Association.

He married in 1823 Caroline Swift, who died 3 Oct., 1860,
He had four children, of whom one survives him.

1815.

ALFRED SHEPARD MONSON, son of Dr. Æneas Monson (Y. C. 1780), of New Haven, Conn., was born 23 Sept., 1795, and died in the same city, 22 May, 1870.

He commenced the study of medicine in New Haven, and
received a degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1819.
He practiced his profession in his native place, but retired many
years before his death.

He married, 22 May, 1822, Mary Ann, daughter of Nathan-
iel Patten, of Hartford, who survives him, with four of their
six children.

1816.

WILLIAM HENRY FOOTE, the son of Stephen and Hannah
(Waterman) Foote, was born in Colchester, Conn., 20 Dec., 1794.

His father's means were such that he did not enter College un-
til the Junior year, and he spent part of the Senior year as
tutor in a family in Falmouth, Va., in which position he re-
mained until July, 1818. After a few months passed in teach-
ing in Winchester, Va., he studied for one year in Princeton
Theological Seminary

Having been licensed by the Presbytery of Winchester, in
Oct., 1819, he preached at various missionary stations in Va.,
until in June, 1822, he organized and afterwards became pastor
of a church in Woodstock, where he continued until Nov., 1824.
He then became pastor of the congregations of Mount Bethel,
Springfield, and Romney, fixing his residence at Romney.
About the beginning of the year 1838, he became agent of the
"Central Board of Foreign Missions," residing at Petersburg,
Va. and laboring within the bounds of the Synods of Va. and
N. C. While thus engaged, he gathered the materials for his
volumes, afterwards published, of Sketches, Historical and
Biographical, of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia (2 v.) and
in N. Carolina (1 v.).

In May, 1845, he returned to his old charge, in Romney, and
continued till the beginning of the war in 1861. During his
pastorates, at both Woodstock and Romney, he conducted also
an academy. During the war he was occupied in lower Vir-

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ginia as agent for Hampden Sidney College, also in supplying vacant pulpits, and in Petersburg, during Grant's siege, as Chaplain to the hospital. On Lee's surrender he returned to Romney and Springfield (now in W. Va.) to labor till the close of life. In the summer of 1869 he was prostrated by a sunstroke which laid the foundation of fatal disease. He died in Romney, 22 Nov., 1869, aged 75 years.

Dr. Foote married, 21 Febr., 1822, Eliza Wilson, eldest daughter of Rev. Joseph Glass, of Frederick County, Va. She died before his first removal from Romney, and he married, in 1838, Miss Arabella, daughter of Dr. James Gilliam, of Petersburg, Va., who, with one daughter, and one of the two daughters by his first marriage, survives him.

He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Hampden Sidney College in 1847.

ARATUS KENT, son of John Kent, was born in Suffield, Conn., 15 Jan., 1794, and died in Galena, Ill., 8 Nov., 1869, in his 76th year.

He spent four years in theological study in N. Y. city, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of N. Y., 20 Apr., 1820. He spent the year 1821 as a missionary in Western Ohio. From 21 Nov., 1822 to 11 Apr., 1823, he was a member of Princeton Theol. Seminary. He was ordained pastor at Lockport, N. Y., 26 Jan., 1825, and continued there three years.

He then offered his services to the Amer. Home Missionary Society, desiring that he might be sent "to a place so hard that no one else would take it." He was commissioned to the Galena lead-mines in March, 1829, and arrived in April. Above St. Louis there was not another Protestant minister on the Mississippi; none in northern Illinois. Having performed much labor in preaching and teaching, he was able to organize the First Presbyterian Church of Galena, 23 Oct., 1831; it consisted of six members, of whom two only, and those females, resided within five miles of the village. He acted as missionary, and as stated supply to this church, until 28 April, 1841, when he was installed pastor. In May, 1848, at the urgent solicitation of the friends of the cause there, the Amer. Home Missionary Society asked him to become its agent for northern Illinois. Accordingly, he was dismissed from his pastoral charge (28 Dec.), and entered on his new duties, and sustained them with rare self-denial for twenty years. In November, 1868, he was attacked with gastritis, on returning from a visit to a mission station in Dakota, and never recovered.

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He was married, 4 Sept., 1832, to Miss Caroline, daughter of Daniel Corning, of Hartford, Conn., who survives him. They had three children, who all died in infancy.

In October, 1844, he was the chairman of the committee which sketched the first plan of a College at Beloit; and later, as chairman of the Board of Trustees, he was the first President of that College.

CHARLES PEROT, son of John and Mary Perot, and brother of Edward Perot (Y C 1811), was born in Phila., Pa., 9 Nov., 1797, and died in the same city, 6 March, 1870, aged 72.

He was never married.

OLIVER ELLSWORTH WILLIAMS, son of Ezekiel Williams, Jr., (Y. C. 1785), of Hartford, Conn., was born 19 April, 1796. His mother was Abigail, daughter of Hon. Oliver Ellsworth.

He studied law and began practice in his native city, but was drawn into political life, and was for a time the editor of the Connecticut Mirror, a weekly paper published in Hartford.

He was quartermaster general of the State from 1838 to 1842, and in that way acquired the title of colonel, by which he was afterwards known.

He married Miss Elizabeth B. Croade, of Rhode Island, who is still living, of their four daughters, three survive.

Col. Williams died in Hartford, 18 June, 1870.

1817.

THOMAS BURR OSBORNE, son of Jeremiah and Anna (Sherwood) Osborne, was born, 8 July, 1798, in that part of the town of Weston, which is now Easton, Conn., and died in New Haven, Conn., 2 Sept., 1869, aged 71 years.

He entered the Sophomore Class in 1814.

He studied law with Seth P. Staples, Esq., of New Haven, was admitted to the bar at New Haven in the spring of 1820, and in the same year commenced practice in Fairfield, Conn. From 1826 to 1839 he held the office of Clerk of the County and Superior Courts, at the same time continuing the practice of his profession, and representing the town in the State Legislature in 1836. In 1839 he was elected a Representative in Congress, and re-elected in 1841. In 1844 he was sent to the State Senate, and the same year was appointed Judge of the County Court for Fairfield County, which office he held for several years. In 1850 he was again a member of the General Assembly, and the next year was Judge of Probate for Fairfield District.

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lege. With his resignation of this office he retired from public
life. In 1856 the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon
him by Wesleyan University

Judge Osborne was married, 6 Sept., 1826, to Miss Elizabeth
Huntington, daughter of Ebenezer Dimon, of Fairfield. She
died 19 Aug., 1851. Of their three children, one son (Y. C.
1848) and one daughter survive them.

1818.

ALFRED KELLOGG died in Avon, Conn., 6 July, 1870, aged
74 years He was born in Hebron, Conn., 21 Feb, 1796.

After graduating he taught school, both at the South and
North, and then studied medicine. Marrying one of the
daughters of Rev. Bela Kellogg, of East Avon parish, he
settled there and practiced his profession until obliged by ill
health to abandon it. During the latter part of his life he
kept a drug store, and served as Town Clerk, Judge of Pro-
bate, etc. His wife dying soon after marriage, Dr. Kellogg was
married, secondly, to the daughter of John Brocklesby, of
Avon. She died before her husband, leaving one son and two
daughters who are still living. One son by the former marriage
died before his father.

Dr. Kellogg received the honorary degree of M. D. from this
college in 1843.

1819.

ELIJAH BISHOP, son of Caleb Bishop, was born in Lisbon,
Conn., 27 March, 1797. His mother was the eldest daughter of
Col. Ebenezer Tracy of Lisbon.

Soon after graduating, he had charge for two years of the
mathematical department of Washington College, Chestertown,
Md. He then attended medical lectures in New Haven and re-
ceived the degree of M. D. in 1823. He commenced practice in
Freedom, Baltimore Co., but settled in 1824 in Smithsburg,
Washington Co., Md., where he gained an extensive practice,
and died on April 4th, 1870.

Dr. Bishop married, in May, 1828, Anna, daughter of Wm.
Waller Hoye, of Alleghany Co., Md. They had eight children,
of whom two sons were educated at Marshall College, Pa., and
one graduated at this college in 1863.

1821.

JOHN MITCHELL died in Stratford, Conn, 28 April, 1870,
aged 75 years. He was the son of John and Abigail (Water-
house) Mitchell, and was born in Chester, Conn., 29 Dec., 1794.

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In the autumn of 1821 he entered Andover Theol. Seminary,
but left after about nine months, in consequence of impaired
health. In Jan., 1824, he became the editor of the Christian
Spectator, a religious and theological monthly published in
New Haven. He continued in this employment until 1829, in
May of that year he was licensed, and soon after preached his
first sermon in the pulpit of his brother (Rev. William Mitchell,
Y. C. 1818) in Newtown, Conn.

In Dec., 1830, he was ordained as the first pastor of the First
(Congregational) Church in Fair Haven, Conn. After remaining
there six years, he was settled, 6 Dec., 1836, as pastor of the
Edwards (Congregational) Church in Northampton, Mass. At
the close of the year 1842, ill health compelled him to resign
his charge there, and he spent the following year abroad in the
hope of recovery. Though he was benefited, and his life
doubtless prolonged by this change, he was never able to re-
sume the labors of the ministry. Most of his remaining years
were spent in Stratford, Conn, where he employed himself, as
strength would allow, in literary work. While at Fair Haven,
he had written a manual of the Congregational polity, entitled
"The New England Churches." After his return from Europe,
he published "Notes from Over Sea," 2 vols., in which he aimed
to give, not merely his own experience as a traveler, but a col-
lection of interesting facts relating to the political, religious, and
social status of the countries which he had visited. He after-
wards published "Scenes and Characters in College," "My
Mother, or Recollections of Maternal Influence," and "Rachel
Kell." He also published occasional sermons, and contributed
to periodicals, and was editorially connected with different news-
papers. At the time of his death he had nearly completed a
book of sketches under the title of "Derwent."

He was married, 13 Oct., 1825, to Mary A. Tomlinson,
daughter of Charles Tomlinson, M.D., of Stratford. He had
three sons, two of whom survive him: one graduated at this
College in 1863, and the other received an honorary degree in
1860.

EDWIN BUCKLEY TAINTOR died at his residence in West
Brookfield, Mass., 13 March, 1870, aged 69 years.

He was a son of Solomon and Judith Taintor, and was born
in Hampton, Conn, 18 May, 1800.

After a brief employment in business in his native town, he
became a merchant in West Brookfield, in 1823, where he con-
tinued until his death.

Mr. Taintor married Sally Pennman, of New Braintree, Mass.,
in June, 1826, who died in August, 1841. He married again,

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12 July, 1843, Frances M. Pritchard, of West Brookfield, who survives him. Of his children, three daughters by his first, and two daughters by his second marriage, three survive their father.

1822.

CHARLES TAYLOR CATLIN, son of Lynde (Y. C. 1786) and Helen (Kip) Catlin, was born in New York City, 31 Dec., 1803, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 24 March, 1870, aged 66.

For some years after graduation he was connected with the Merchants' Bank, in N. Y. His residence was in that city until 1834, and afterwards in other parts of the State:—on Staten Island until 1839, then in Plattsburgh and Hudson successively, in Poughkeepsie from 1841 to 1846, and for the rest of his life in Brooklyn with an office as real estate broker in N. Y.

He was married in 1830, to Lucy Ann, daughter of Gen. Derby, of Salem, Mass. She died in 1846. Five of the nine children of this marriage are living,—one daughter and four sons. The sons are graduates of this College:—Lynde A. in 1853, Charles T. in 1856, Rev. Hasket D. in 1859, and Arnold W., M.D., in 1862.

1823.

GEORGE JONES, youngest son of Robert and Elizabeth (Dunnan) Jones, was born on the family estate near York, Pa., 30 July, 1800.

From 1825 to 1828 he was schoolmaster on board the U. S. Frigates Brandywine and Constitution. For the next two years he was a tutor in this college.

On Jan. 16th, 1831, he was ordained at Hartford, Conn., deacon in the Episcopal church by Bishop Brownell, and he officiated for a time in Middletown. He was appointed chaplain in the U. S. Navy, 20 Apr., 1833, and was stationed under orders at the U. S Naval Asylum in Philadelphia at the time of his death, 22 Jan., 1870.

He married, in 1837, Mary Amelia, eldest daughter of Gold S. Silliman (Y. C. 1796), of Brooklyn, N. Y. She died in Washington, D. C., in 1865.

He published in 1829 Sketches of Naval Life (2v. 12°); in 1836 Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus and Balbec; in 1865, Life Scenes from the Four Gospels, and Life Scenes from the Old Testament. He was also known in science by his long and careful observations on the Zodiacal Light, which fill one volume of the report of the U. S. Japan Expedition.

WALTER MITCHELL died at his residence in Port Tobacco, Charles Co., Md., 28 March, 1870.

He was a prominent citizen of Maryland, and several times a Presidential Elector. His son graduated at this College in 1861

1826.

AMOS BLANCHARD, son of Deacon Amos and Elizabeth (Jen-
kins) Blanchard, was born in Andover, Mass., 7 March, 1807,
and was prepared for College at Phillips Academy.

In 1826-7, he studied in the Andover Theological Seminary,
and in 1827-8 in the Theological Department at New Haven.
During the Collegiate year of 1828-9, he was a Tutor in
College.

He was ordained, Dec. 25, 1829, pastor of the First Congre-
gational Church in Lowell, Mass.; May 21, 1845, was installed
pastor of the Kirk Street (Congregational) Church in the same
city, and died in that office He died very suddenly, of heart
disease, on the night of 14 Jan, 1870.

Dr. Blanchard married, in May, 1830, Miss Caroline R.
Draper, of Dover, N. H., of four children, one son only sur-
vives, as does also his widow. He received the degree of Doc-
tor of Divinity from Williams College in 1852.

CHARLES MARSH PUTNAM died in Jersey, Licking Co., O., 17
April, 1870, aged 68. He was the second son of David (Y. C.
1793) and Betsey (Perkins) Putnam, of Marietta, O., and was
born 24 Febr., 1802.

He took a three years' course at Andover Theol. Sem., and
24 Sept, 1829, was ordained in Boston, by the Presbytery of
Newburyport, Mass. On the 4th of Nov., 1829, he entered on
his labors in Jersey, where the whole of his ministerial life was
spent. On 24 Febr., 1832, he was installed pastor of the Pres-
byterian Church in Jersey, and of a Congregational Church in
St Albans, O. After about two years he resigned the charge
of the latter church, and on 4 Nov., 1869, being then the oldest
pastor in Central Ohio, he was dismissed from the charge of the
church in Jersey. He was laid aside from the duties of his pro-
fession by a painful disease (calculi in the bladder) for the last
fifteen months of life.

He married, 22 Oct., 1829, Miss Abby S. Edgerton, of Marietta. They had ten children, seven of whom survive him.

WYLLYS WARNER, son of Lyman and Annis (Welton) War-
ner, was born in Plymouth, Conn., 6 Jan., 1800, and died in
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farm. When past 21 he began the study of Latin, and a year
later entered College.

After graduation, he taught for a year in Norwich, Conn., and then entered the Yale Theological Seminary. In the winter of 1828-9, he spent some time in soliciting subscriptions for the endowment of the Professorship of Sacred Literature in the Seminary, and with such success as to direct his future life. In 1829 he was called to the tutorship, and at the following commencement was appointed the Financial Agent of the College. In June, 1830, with the view of spending the next winter in New Orleans, he was ordained at New Haven as an evangelist. Returning in the spring of 1831, he resumed his labors as Financial Agent. By his personal efforts a general fund of $100,000 was secured, and other large additions were made to the resources of the Theological and Academical Departments.

On the death of Hon. James Hillhouse, in Dec., 1832, Mr. Warner succeeded him as the Treasurer of the College. This office he resigned in July, 1852, on account of protracted ill-health. His residence continued in New Haven. As Secretary of the Corporation (from July, 1858), and as Inspector of the College buildings and grounds (from Dec., 1866), he retained until his death an active and honored interest in the prosperity of the institution.

His death occurred from a disease of the heart, in Chicago, as he had just finished giving evidence in a case involving property of which he was in charge.

In Sept., 1829, he married Miss Elizabeth E. Hazard, of Norwich, Conn. She died, without children, at New Orleans, in March, 1831. In Oct., 1833, he married Miss Elizabeth A. Hart, of Lyme, Conn., and by this marriage left two sons and three daughters. His wife survives him.

1827.

THERON BALDWIN was the fifth son of Elisha and Clarissa (Judd) Baldwin, and was born in Goshen, Conn., 21 July, 1801.

Having spent two years in Yale Theological Seminary, he was ordained as an evangelist by the Litchfield (Conn.) South Association in Sept., 1829, and left Connecticut during the same month for Illinois, under a commission of the American Home Missionary Society. He went as a pioneer of the "Illinois Association," formed (largely by his impulse) at this college, in Dec, 1828, for the purpose of promoting religion and education in the young State of Illinois. For two years he was stationed at Vandalia, then the capital, and was, meantime, active in procuring the charter of Illinois College, of which he was a trustee till his death. He then became the agent of the Amer. Home

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Missionary Society for Illinois. From 1838 to 1843 he was occupied in organizing and conducting the Monticello Female Seminary, near Alton, Ill., acting also as the pastor of the church established in connection with the Seminary.

At the formation of the "Society for the promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West," in June, 1843 (the conception of which was his own), he was appointed Corresponding Secretary, and so continued until his death. Whatever the Western College Society in these twenty-seven years has achieved, has been the work of its Corresponding Secretary.

Dr. Baldwin died at his residence in Orange, N. J., 10 Apr., 1870, aged 68 years. He received the degree of doctor of divinity from Marietta College in 1862.

He married Caroline Wilder of Burlington, Vt., who survives him, with their five children, two sons and three daughters.

One of his sons graduated at this College in 1861, and the other is a member of the present Junior Class.

EBENEZER DENISON, son of Deacon Ebenezer and Jane (Williams) Denison, was born at Mystic Village, in Stonington, Conn., 30 May, 1802. He died in his native village, 26 Dec., 1869.

After graduating he spent some time in fitting for the ministry, but was never licensed to preach. He eventually settled as a farmer in his native village, where he remained till his death. He filled various town offices, and was for some years before his death the senior deacon of the Congregational Church in Mystic Bridge.

He was married, first, to Miss Mary Niles Hazard, of Westerly, R. I., 5 Nov., 1831; secondly, 9 April, 1848, to Miss Lydia S. Noyes, of Stonington. He had twelve children (seven by the first, and five by the second marriage), of whom five are now living, as is also his widow.

## 1828.

HORACE BINNEY, eldest son of Hon. Horace Binney (Harv. 1797), was born in Philadelphia, 21 Jan., 1809, and died of a disease of the heart in the same city, 3 Febr., 1870, aged 61.

He read law with his father, and practiced his profession in Philadelphia to the time of his death, confining himself, however, in great measure, to chamber consultations. In early life he took a keen interest in municipal politics. At the outbreak of the late war he at once came forward to devote his time and energies to the service of the government. He was president of the Philadelphia Associates of the Sanitary Commission, one of the founders of the Union League of the city, and president

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May, 1840, Miss Lizzie W., daughter of Capt. N. Getchell. He afterwards returned to Cincinnati College, and subsequently, from 1845 to 1848, was Principal of the classical school in connection with the Western Baptist Theological Institute, at Covington, Ky. He was also Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Greek Literature in the Institute at its dissolution. He was for some ten years later principal of the High School and superintendent of the public schools in Covington. From Febr., 1862, to Oct., 1863, he was Chaplain of the 8th Regt. Ky. Volunteers. He afterwards taught a private school for a year, and for the last four years of his life was pastor of the Baptist Church in St. Anthony, Minn., where he died, 18 March, 1870, aged 67. Two sons by his second marriage (one of them an educated physician) are living, as well as his widow.

### 1831.

JAMES CLARK STUART, second son and third child of Professor Moses Stuart (Y. C. 1799), of Andover Theol. Sem., and Abigail (Clark) Stuart, was born 1 May, 1812, and entered Yale from Amherst College in the Junior year.

Upon graduation he immediately began the study of medicine, first with Dr. Loring of North Andover, Mass., then in Woodstock, Vt., and finally in the Berkshire Medical School, Pittsfield, Mass., where he took his degree in 1837. He settled in Canastota, N. Y., but remained there little more than a year. He then removed to Syracuse, N. Y., where he acquired an extensive practice.

When the rebellion broke out in 1861, he volunteered his services, and served for the entire war, as Surgeon of the 17th N. Y. Infantry, as Division Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac, and subsequently as Post Surgeon at Decatur, Ala. The war over, he engaged in cotton growing at the South, hoping by a season of rest to regain his impaired health. Finding the climate unsuitable, he returned to Syracuse in March, 1868, where he resumed a laborious practice, which proved too much for his strength. He died 24 March, 1870, after a four days' illness, of congestion of the lungs.

In 1838, Dr. Stuart married Louisa M. A., daughter of Dr. R. R. Davis, of Syracuse, who, with one son, survives him.

### 1833.

NOAH BISHOP, son of Annas and Lois Bishop, was born in Litchfield, Conn., 12 Jan., 1806.

After graduation he taught for two years in Brooklyn, Conn., and studied theology for the next two years at East Windsor Theol. School. In consequence of a bronchial difficulty he re-

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sumed teaching, for two years in Keene, N. H. He was or-
dained, 29 June, 1842, pastor of the Muddy Run Presbyterian
church, in Enon, O., from which he was dismissed in Oct., 1849.
In 1850 he became principal of an academy in Monroe, O., at
the same time supplying the Presbyterian church there, and so
remained for three years. His health having failed, he then
settled near Springfield, Ill., and engaged in farming for more
than two years, removing to Chatham, Ill., in 1855. In 1858
he was sent as a Home Missionary to Murraysville (formerly
Iatan), Ill., where he preached to the two churches of East and
West Union till 1869, and removed on April 1 to Ironton, Mo.
He died in Ironton, 22 Sept., 1869, after six weeks' illness.

He was twice married, first to L. Ann Watson, in Oct., 1842,
who died 24 Aug., 1843; secondly, 5 May, 1845, to Mary J.
McClelland, who survives him. Two daughters and one son
by the last marriage are living.

ZERAH KENT HAWLEY, son of Rufus T. and Betsey (Rich-
ards) Hawley, and brother of Rev. James A. Hawley (Y. C.
1837), was born in Avon, Conn., 16 July, 1806

He studied theology for one year in Lane Theol. Seminary,
and for three years in New Haven, spending one intermediate
year as tutor in Illinois Collage. In 1837 he was accepted by
the American Board as a foreign missionary, but the financial
crisis prevented the Board from employing him. After waiting
a year for an appointment, he was ordained as an evangelist, in
Plymouth, N. H., and was sent to La Harpe, Ill., by the Amer.
Home Missionary Society. From Nov., 1839, to May, 1841, he
was stationed in Dubuque, Iowa; and then, until Sept., 1842,
in Payson, Ill. He next removed to the East, because of ill-
ness in his family, and after preaching in New Hampshire, was
installed over the Second Congregational church in Norwalk
(now in South Norwalk), Conn., in April, 1844. He was dis-
missed in May, 1848, and spent the next three years as pastor
of the First Presbyterian church in Knoxville, Ill., after which
he was pastor of the Congregational church in Payson, Ill.,
until 1856. After laboring as a Home Missionary two years, he
was next installed, in Apr., 1859, pastor of the Congregational
church in Macomb, Ill. This post he resigned in Dec., 1862, to
become chaplain of the (U. S.) Overton Hospital in Memphis,
Tenn. After the close of the war he remained in Memphis, in
the service of the Conn. Missionary Society. He died there of
dysentery, 28 Dec, 1869.

He married, 21 Apr., 1838, Emily P., daughter of Rev. Ebe-
nezer Price, of W. Boscawen, N. H. She survives him, with
one daughter.

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Mr. Hawley published in 1846 Congregationalism and Meth-
odism, and in 1847 Defence of the Fathers of New England.

1836.

FRANKLIN THOMAS BACKUS was born in Lee, Mass., 6 May, 1813 He was the fourth son of Thomas and Rebecca Backus. While he was very young the family moved to Lansing, N. Y. He prepared himself for college while assistant teacher in an academy in Delaware kept by an older brother, and entered Junior in 1834.

On leaving college he established a classical school in Cleveland, O., and at the same time began the study of law. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar.

In Jan., 1842, he married Miss Lucy Mygatt, who survives him.

In 1846 he was member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and in 1848 of the State Senate. In 1861 he was a member of the Peace Convention which met in Washington, with the hope of averting the rebellion. The later years of his life were devoted to the duties of his profession, in which he had become eminent. His services were especially sought for by railroad corporations, and it is to the excessive and exhausting labor thus brought upon him that his death, from a disease of the heart, is to be attributed. He died in Cleveland, 14 May, 1870.

1837.

BNEAS BLAKEMAN was born in Stratford, Conn., 14 Feb., 1813.

He studied in Yale Theol. Seminary for three years, and was licensed to preach by the Hartford South Association in Aug., 1839. In 1841-2, he preached in N. Y. State; then (1843-4) in Jefferson, O., then in Conn.; then (1847-9) in Orient, L. I. From Jan. 1853, to April, 1858, he was stated supply in North Madison, Conn. His next removal was to Maquoketa, Iowa, where he had charge of the Congregational Church for three years. He next spent a year, preaching in Marseilles, Ill., then ten months abroad, and in 1864 went to Leraysville, Pa. At the time of his death he was residing at Tonawanda, N. Y. He died suddenly of heart-disease, 17 Feb., 1870, in a religious meeting in South Wales, Erie Co., N. Y., where he was at the time visiting.

He was married in 1843 to Lucretia D Stillman, of New Haven, who died 18 Oct., 1861.

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FREDERICK AUGUSTUS COE, the second son of Rev. Noah (Y. C. 1808) and Elizabeth (Goodrich) Coe, was born in New Hartford, N. Y., 22 Oct., 1816.

He entered Hamilton College, but removed to this College in the third term of the Freshman year.

He studied law at White Plains, N. Y., in the office of Minott Mitchell (Y. C. 1803), for one year, and for the succeeding year in the Yale Law School. He began the practice of his profession in New York City in 1841, and there practiced until his death. Since 1851, his residence had been at Yonkers. He died in N. Y. City, 9 Jan., 1870, aged 53 years.

Mr. Coe married, 16 Aug., 1841, Ann Eliza, daughter of Minott Mitchell, of White Plains. Their only child, a daughter, died at an early age.

1838.

SAMUEL GOODRICH COE died of Bright's disease, in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 7, 1869, in the 51st year of his age. He was the third son of Rev. Noah (Y. C. 1808) and Elizabeth (Goodrich) Coe, and was born in New Hartford, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1819.

He spent two years in the Yale Law School, and in 1840 began the practice of law in Berlin, Conn., but was hardly established when he was led to devote himself to the work of the ministry. He then spent two years in Yale Theological Seminary.

On July 17, 1844, he was settled over the Congregational Church in Middlebury, Vt., where the Faculty and students of Middlebury College were among his stated hearers. Obliged after seven years to relieve himself by a change of location, he removed, with but a Sabbath's interval, to the charge of the First Congregational Church in Danbury, Conn. The installation sermon preached by President Woolsey, 4 Dec., 1850, was published. He remained in Danbury until May, 1864, when he resigned with impaired health. Removing to Ridgefield, Conn., he preached in the Congregational Church there, as a constant supply during the next four years. The winter of 1868 he spent in New Haven, Conn., for medical advice, and early in the following summer visited the West in the hope of benefiting his health, and preached for six months in the 2d Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, O. While on his return, he was seized with paralysis at his brother's, in Yonkers, N. Y. and after partial recovery came in October to New Haven, where the disease from which he had long suffered closed his life. He married Miss Grace I. Hawley, who survives him with 3 children, of whom one graduated at this College in 1867.

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THOMAS GROSVENOR TALCOTT was born in New Hartford, N. Y., 22 Dec., 1818, and died of pyæmia, after three months' illness, in Hartford, Conn., 7 March, 1870. He was the son of Hon. Samuel A. Talcott (Williams Coll, 1809) late Attorney-General of the State of N. Y., and Mary E (Stanley) Talcott. His grandfather, Samuel Talcott, graduated at Yale College in 1757. He passed the first year of his course at Columbia College, N. Y. City, and entered Sophomore in this College in 1835. On graduation he spent one year in the study of law in the Yale Law School, and completed his studies in the office of Charles P. Kirkland, Esq., of N Y. City. In 1841 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Oswego, N. Y. After about four years, he removed to N. Y. City, where he practiced until 1861, when he relinquished his profession on account of ill health, and transferred his residence to Hartford.

He was married in 1841 to Sarah A., second daughter of William H. Jones (Y. C. 1796), of New Haven, Conn. His wife and only child, a daughter, survive him.

### 1839.

JOSEPH GAY EATON LARNED, son of George and Anna S. (Gay) Larned, was born in Thompson, Conn., 29 Apr., 1819. He was the half-brother of Professor Wm. A. Larned (Y. C. 1826).

He spent a year and a half after graduating in Savannah, Ga., and in Charleston, S. C., teaching. After studying law at home for a year, he then taught in Waterloo, N. Y., until called to a tutorship in this College in Nov, 1842. This office he discharged until Aug., 1847. He was admitted to the bar in New Haven in Dec, 1847 but after a short time became interested in the development of certain inventions, and after 1852 withdrew from practice. In 1854 he removed to N. Y. city, and from 1855 to 1863 was engaged in the manufacture of steam fire engines, on plans of which the leading features were of his invention. He was then appointed by government Assistant Inspector of iron clads, and had charge of work in Brooklyn. During the last year and a half of his life he returned to the practice of the law. He died of disease of the heart, in N. Y. City, 3 June, 1870, aged 51.

He was married, 9 May, 1859, to Miss Helen Lee of N. Y., who survives him, without children.

### 1842.

FRANCIS EDWARD CORNWELL, eldest son of Deacon Chauncey and Mary (Cosslett) Cornwell, was born in New Britain, Conn., 29 Sept, 1822.

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He taught in Hartford, Conn., until July, 1844, when he re-
moved to Lyons, N. Y., and there commenced the study of law
in the office of James C. Smith, Esq. He was admitted to the
bar in Sept., 1847, and practiced in Lyons for about ten years,
becoming a partner of Judge Smith. He then removed to Buf-
falo, N. Y., where he was at first associated with the late Judge
Hoyt, and subsequently practiced alone. He died in Buffalo, 2
Nov., 1869, at the age of 47. It is an evidence of the esteem in
which he was held that at the time of his death he was Republi-
can candidate for the Justiceship of the Supreme Court of the
State.

He was married, 23 Sept', 1847, to Miss Catharine L, daugh-
ter of Hon. Estes Howe of Albany. His widow with six sons
survives him.

Soon after his removal to Buffalo, Mr. Cornwell published a
Digest of Decisions of the Court of Appeals of N. Y.

1851.

FREDERIC MORTON STEVENS, son of Isaac and Nabby (Bulk-
ley) Stevens, was born in South Glastenbury, Conn, 17 May,
1824; and died in Montgomery, Ala., of typhoid fever, 14 Febr,
1870, aged 45 years.

He entered College with the intention of becoming a foreign
missionary; but being much troubled with bronchitis, he was
advised on graduating to go to the Southern States for health.
He became a teacher in Mississippi, first near Port Gibson, and
afterwards as Principal of the Natchez Institute. While in
Natches he studied law, and in 1854 became a teacher in Oak-
land College. Leaving there in 1858, he opened a boys' school
in Vicksburg; this was succeeded in 1859 by a young ladies'
Seminary, in which his wife assisted him.

Mr. Stevens kept up his school until after the fall of Vicks-
burg (4 July, 1863). During the war he lost all his property,
and subsequently moved to New Orleans, where he held office
as head clerk of the State Treasury, Secretary to the Board of
Currency, etc.

In 1866 he removed his family to Middletown, Conn., and
traveled for one year in the employ of a manufacturing com-
pany in Middletown. He then engaged in life insurance, and
at the time of his death was General Southern Agent of the
American Life Insurance Co., of Philadelphia.

He married in New Orleans, 30 Dec., 1858, Mrs Sara Jackson,
daughter of Henry Owen, Esq, Attorney-at law, of Dublin,
Ireland. His widow survives him, with two sons and two
daughters.

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1855.

ALEXANDER MCDONALD LYON, eldest son of Rev. George A. Lyon, D.D., was born, 2 Dec., 1834, in Erie, Pa., where he died, 6 Nov., 1869.

He studied law at Erie, with Judge Thompson of the Supreme Court, and commenced practice in April, 1857. In April, 1861, he enlisted as private in the regiment raised in Erie, but before the regiment moved was promoted to a 1st Lieutenantcy, and in the summer was appointed Paymaster, with the rank of Major. He resigned in the summer of 1865, with shattered health, and resumed his profession in Erie, but failed gradually until his death.

Mr. Lyon married, first, Anna, daughter of Hon. M. B. Lowry, of Erie, 13 May, 1857 Mrs. Lyon died 23 April, 1863, leaving one son and one daughter. He married, 8 Sept., 1865, Maria S., daughter of Hon. Nathan Crosby, of Lowell, Mass., who survives him, with his three children.

ANDREW JACKSON WILLETS, son of Platt Willets, was born in Hempstead, L I., 30 Nov, 1833, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 23 May, 1870, aged 36. His mother was Martha, daughter of Elbert Hegeman.

He attended lectures in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y. City, graduating in October, 1858. On 5 July, 1859, he established himself in Brooklyn, where he practised medicine until his death, excepting a period of service in the army, from 25 Aug., 1862 to 16 Nov., 1863. He was at first surgeon of the 53d N. Y. Infantry, and from 17 Sept., 1862 till his discharge surgeon of 176th N. Y. Infantry, better known as the Ironsides. His army service was confined almost exclusively to Louisiana.

After his return from the army, he was obliged on account of his health to spend one winter in Florida. He was also absent in Europe from July to November, 1869

He married, 5 Dec., 1866, Catharine Webster Edmonds, daughter of Col Benjamin and Eliza Edmonds of Brooklyn. He had no children.

1857.

ORRIN FRINK AVERY was born in Auburn, Susquehanna Co., Pa., 1 May, 1831. His father moved to Illinois in 1843.

After studying law in Belvidere, Ill., and in Dubuque, Iowa, he was admitted to the bar, 1 Oct. 1859, and at once opened an office in Waverly, Bremo County, Iowa.

In August, 1862, he enlisted in the 38th Iowa Infantry, and was appointed Lieutenant; on Jan 8, 1864, he was commis

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sioned Captain, and was mustered out of service, 15 Aug., 1865. During this time, on a trip to Texas, he contracted a cold, which ultimately caused his death. From the army he returned to Waverly, and resumed his profession. In 1865 he was elected County Judge, and reelected in 1867, but resigned in 1868, on account of continued ill-health.

He married, 17 Sept., 1867, Miss Jennie, daughter of Capt. Joseph Gardner, of Elgin, Ill., who survives him, with one son.

Judge Avery left home, April 5th, 1870, on a tour to the Rocky Mountains, undertaken as the last effort for a restoration of health; but he died in Colorado City, Colorado, on the 24th of May.

## 1858.

HENRY EDWARD SWEETSER, son of Joseph A., and Catherine (Dickinson) Sweetser, was born in New York City, Feb. 19, 1837.

The first year after his graduation was spent in the store of his father (firm of J. A. Sweetser & Co.) in New York City, after which he was for a few months a reporter for the *New York Times*. In June, 1860, he entered the office of the *World*, of which he soon became night-editor. In November, 1863, with Mr. C. H. Sweetser, he started the *Round Table*, the publication of which, suspended August, 1864, was resumed June, 1865; during this interval he returned to the office of the *World*. He withdrew from the *Round Table* in May, 1866, and, after a short visit to Europe, in September of the same year again joined the *World* and was connected with it chiefly as city editor and editor of the weekly and semi-weekly editions, until his death.

He died suddenly in New York City, Feb. 17, 1870, aged 33 years.

## 1859.

WILLIAM JAY ROBERTS was born in New Milford, Conn., 1 May 1836, the only son of Deacon Gerardus and Charlotte Roberts.

After graduation he entered the office of Judge Sanford, in New Milford, as student of law. During the summer of 1861 he engaged in enlisting men for the volunteer service, and in September, was commissioned Lieutenant in the 8th Regiment Conn. Infantry and was assigned to Burnside's division. After the reduction of Fort Macon, he was promoted to a Captaincy in the same regiment, 5 May 1862, and was discharged 31 Jan., 1865, on account of wounds received at Fort Harrison.

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vented his practising. He was never well after leaving the
army, and died in New Milford, 30 June, 1870, at the age of 34.

In 1865 he was married to Miss Ann Eliza Horton, of Hartford, who with two daughters survives him.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON STANTON, eldest son of Hon. Benjamin Stanton, was born in Bellefontaine, O., 9 March, 1838, and died at his father's present residence in Wheeling, W. Va., 3 Jan., 1870.

He was studying law in his father's office until the outbreak
of the rebellion, when he enrolled himself as the first volunteer
from the county, and served until 1 July, 1861, first as Cor-
poral, and afterwards as Quartermaster Sergeant, in the 13th
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He then received a Captain's com-
mission, dating from 6 May, in the 16th U. S. Infantry. He
was assigned to the recruiting service until March, 1863, when
he joined the army under Gen. Rosecrans, at Murfreesborough,
and participated in all the battles of that campaign until 19
Sept., when he was taken prisoner at Chickamauga. He re-
mained in Libby prison between four and five months, when he
was exchanged. After his return in April, 1864, he joined his
regiment near Chattanooga, and was for a time in command of
a battalion. He was in all the battles of Gen. Sherman's cam-
paign of 1864, from Chattanooga to Atlanta.

He was afterwards transferred to the cavalry service, and
commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Cavalry. After
Gen. Lee's surrender, he was ordered to Texas, and in the fall
of 1866 was sent to Fort Lapwai, Idaho Territory; thence in
the spring of '67 to Camp Harney, Oregon. For gallantry in
an action with the Indians, he was promoted to a Captaincy,
and, in Dec., 1868, was ordered to Camp Grant, Arizona. Here
he contracted in July, 1869, the diarrhoea, which, terminating
in dropsy of the abdomen, ended his life.

His widow, a daughter of Erskine Douglas, of Bellefontaine,
survives him with one son.

1860.

HENRY LEWIS HALL, son of John and Betsey (Davis) Hall,
was born in Guilford, Conn, 26 Nov, 1835.

He studied in Yale Theol. Seminary, until 30 Oct, 1861,
when he was ordained Chaplain of 10th Regiment, Conn. Vol-
unteers. In August, 1862, he returned home, and went to
Europe, where he studied for three years at Halle, under
Tholuck.

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He was installed over the Congregational Church in Auburn, Me., 23 Jan., 1868, but resigned his charge in less than a year, on account of failing health, though he was not formally dismissed until 24 March, 1869. His remaining days were spent in seeking recovery, but an acute attack of his malady (Bright's disease) caused his death while visiting in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 6 Nov., 1869, at the age of 34.

Mr. Hall was married, 17 Jan., 1868, to Laura Hale Stickney, daughter of Mr. J. N. Stickney, of Rockville, Conn. She survives her husband, with one daughter.

### 1865.

JOSEPH APPLETON BENT, son of Samuel W. and Mary N. Bent, was born in Boston, 22 Feb., 1843. Most of his childhood and youth, however, were passed in New Ipswich, N. H., from which place he entered College, having been prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover.

The year following graduation he spent in Columbia College Law School, N. Y. City. In Oct. 1866, he entered the law-office of Browning & Bushnell, Quincy, Ill. to complete his studies under unusually favorable auspices. But he was unable to throw off a cold, contracted on his journey to the West, and increased by exposure in a campaign speech. His strength was quickly overtaxed, and he was forced to return to New Hampshire, where, after six months' rest, hopes began to be entertained of his recovery. In the summer of 1867 he went to St. Paul, Minn., for a trial of that climate; pulmonary disease, however, had taken too deep a hold, and he returned to Nashua, N. H., in April, 1868, greatly reduced in strength, but with unimpaired vitality. He died in Nashua, 12 Aug., 1869, at the age of 26.

HENRY CLAY MCCREARY was the youngest son of Washington P. McCreary, and was born in Milan, O., 12 Sept., 1842. His mother was the daughter of Col. Hoadley, of Winsted, Conn.

His early life was spent in Sandusky, O., and after 1851, in Sacramento City, Cal. He entered college from Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H.

After graduation he studied law with Judge Clark, of Sacramento, and was admitted to the bar on 8 Jan., 1867. He entered on his profession in that city, and was steadily successful. At the time of his death he was a member of the School Board of the City, and President of the Sacramento Library Association.

He married, 27 Feb., 1867, Miss Mathe Sexton, eldest daughter of James K. Sexton, Esq., of Gloversville, N. Y., and had a son

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who proved to be the "Class Boy," born 18 Jan., 1868. The child died of scarlet fever, 6 Nov., 1869, and his father, exhausted by fatigue and grief, died of the same disease four days later. His wife survives him.

### 1866.

HENRY OTIS WHITNEY, eldest son of Edmund and Esther Whitney, was born in Williston, Vt., 26 Dec., 1840.

The year following graduation he spent in the Yale Theological Seminary, and the next two years in Union Theol. Seminary, NY City, graduating in 1869.

In June, 1869, he was ordained in Williston, and immediately left for the Pacific coast, in the employ of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. After some time spent in surveying the field, he located himself in Elko, Nevada, where he labored till his death, 1st March, 1870. His disease was bilious fever, terminating in a pulmonary difficulty which suddenly proved fatal. He was unmarried.

### 1869.

CHARLES DOUGLASS MCNAUGHTON was born 27 March, 1849, at Jackson, Mich., and died in the same city, 10 Sept., 1869. He was the eldest son of Dr. Moses A. and Mary R. (Turner) McNaughton, both of whom survive him.

He entered the University of Michigan at the age of 16, but at the end of Freshman Year removed to Williams College, chiefly with the hope of greater inducements to physical exercise. One year later, he entered the Junior Class in this college.

Returning home after graduation, in his usual health, he was attacked with typhoid fever, and died after an illness of about two weeks.

## MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

### 1815.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HEYWOOD, son of Hon. Benjamin and Mehitabel (Goddard) Heywood, was born in Worcester, Mass., Apr 24, 1792, and died in the same city, Dec. 7, 1869.

He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1812, and attended the medical lectures of Dr. Nathan Smith, first at Hanover and then at New Haven. He practiced medicine in Worcester from 1815 until his sudden death. He also filled many positions of trust.

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in the community. In 1859, he became a member of the So-
ciety of the Cincinnati, in the right of his father, an original
member.

Dr. Heywood married, Sept. 28, 1820, Nancy, daughter of Dr. John Green of Worcester; and after her decease, he married, June 23, 1837, her sister, Elizabeth R. Green. Two sons by his first marriage, educated physicians, died before him.

1825.

JOEL GILLETT CANDEE was born in Litchfield County, Conn., 16 Dec, 1798, and died in the Home for Incurables, at West Farms, N. Y., 26 Jan., 1870, aged 71. He had been a physician in Meriden, Conn., and in N. Y. City, and was admitted to the Home, 28 July, 1869, suffering from neuralgia of the lower extremities; he died from exhaustion resulting from his disease and an attack of double pneumonia.

1826.

AMES WALBRIDGE died in Greenville, a village in Leicester, Mass., 30 July, 1869, aged 75 years, 6 months, and 22 days. His native town was Stafford, Conn.

For about forty years he had practiced medicine in Green-
ville with success. His sympathies were always active towards
the unfortunate, and he left by his will a small fund for needy
widows and orphans of the town.

He married in middle life, and his wife died some three or
four years before him. He had no children.

1830.

JOHN TODD TUTTLE, second son of Bethel and Hannah Rebecca (English) Tuttle, was born in New Haven, Conn., and died in New York City, where his life had been passed as a physician, 27 Jan, 1870, at the age of 68.

He married Sarah Rogers, of Milford, Conn. She died before
him, as did also their four children.

1850.

ALPHEUS BRYANT CLARKE, son of Bryant and Elizabeth
(Prindle) Clarke, was born in West Haven, Conn., 11 May, 1814.

He settled as a physician in Holyoke, Mass., in 1850, and was
very much esteemed there. He gave up his practice in 1863,
on account of his health, and removed to Brooklyn, N. Y.,
where he confined himself mainly to office practice. He died
in Brooklyn, 15 Dec., 1869, aged 55.

Dr. Clark married Elizabeth C. Little of Branford, Conn., who survives him with one daughter.

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1861.

BENJAMIN THAYER ALLEN, son of Joseph and Ruth (Alden Thayer) Allen, was born, 14 March, 1829, in Mendon, Mass. and died in Worcester, Mass, 20 Jan, 1870, aged nearly 41.

Dr Allen practiced medicine in Worcester from the date of his graduation until his death. He married Elizabeth V., daughter of Joseph P. Emerson, of Parsonsfield, Me., who survives him, with one son.

LAW DEPARTMENT.

1858.

GUSTAVUS ROSE ELLIOT, third and youngest son of William R. and Sally (Clark) Elliot, of Guilford, Conn., was born 5 July, 1822.

He was a practising lawyer in New Haven, and died at his residence in Fair Haven, Conn., 26 Nov., 1869.

He married a daughter of Dr. Sherman C. Johnson, of Seymour, Conn., who survives him.

1862.

WILLIAM DOWNES, the son of Michael Downes, was born at Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland, 27 Nov., 1825, and died in New Haven, Conn., 7 Nov., 1869, at the age of 44.

About two years after his birth, his father came to America, settling in Stratford, Conn., and removing to New Haven in 1832. Mr. Downes learnt a book-binder's trade, and after working at the business in New Haven and New York, became a clerk in the office of the town clerk of New Haven in 1857. From 1859 until his death (excepting two years, 1864-66) he was city clerk.

He leaves a wife and children.

1865.

WILBUR GRISWOLD HOWARTH, son of Thomas H. and Miriam D. (Tuttle) Howarth, was born, 12 Dec., 1843, in New Haven, Conn.

He was admitted to the New Haven Bar in 1865, and commenced the practice of his profession in the office of Hon. Henry B Harrison of this city. When the new Court of Common Pleas was organized, 6 Sept., 1869, he was appointed Assistant Clerk, and acted as Clerk until his death of typhoid fever, after a short illness, 20 Nov., 1869.

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He was elected Captain of the New Haven Grays, 30 June, 1868, and filled that office until his resignation a short time before his death, in consequence of other duties.

He was unmarried.

### 1869.

JOHN BERNARD REILLY, son of Bernard Reilly, was born in New Haven, Conn., 12 Aug., 1848, educated at St. Charles College, Md., and St. John's College, Fordham, N. Y., and died in New Haven, 1 Aug., 1869.

## DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS.

### 1867.

LYMAN STEWART FERRY, son of Addison and Margaret (White) Ferry, was born in Granby, Mass., April 3, 1843, and died, of typhoid fever, Nov. 18, 1869, at his home in New Haven, Conn.

After completing the course in Civil Engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School, he immediately engaged in his profession, and was employed by Gen. E. W. Serrell in making preliminary surveys for various railroads, and for a time upon the plans for the Hudson Highland Suspension Bridge. At the time of his death he was superintending the construction of the southern half of the New Haven, Middletown, and Willimantic railroad.

He was unmarried.

Intelligence of the following death has been received too late to be inserted in the proper place.

### 1815.

JOSIAH HOOKER, third son of Judge John (Y. C. 1782) and Elizabeth (Dwight) Hooker, was born in Springfield, Mass., 17 Apr., 1796. His brothers, John, Dr. George, Dr. Worthington, and Rev. Richard Hooker, graduated at this College in 1810, 1814, 1825, and 1827.

He studied law and opened an office first in Pittsfield, and soon after in Springfield, where he remained until his death. He was prominently connected with the educational interests of the city. For the last three or four years he was an invalid, and he died at his residence in Springfield, 14 July, 1870, aged 74.

He married in middle life Jane W. Judd, of West Hampton, Mass., who survives him. He had no children.

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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT

<table><thead><tr><th>Class</th><th>Name and Age.</th><th>Place and</th><th>Time of Death.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1815</td><td>Benjamin F. Heywood, 77,</td><td>Worcester, Mass,</td><td>7 Dec, 1869.</td></tr><tr><td>1825</td><td>Joel G. Candee, 71,</td><td>West Farms, N Y,</td><td>26 Jan, 1870</td></tr><tr><td>1826</td><td>Ames Walbridge, 75,</td><td>Leicester, Mass,</td><td>30 July, 1869</td></tr><tr><td>1830</td><td>John T Tuttle, 68,</td><td>N Y City,</td><td>27 Jan, 1870</td></tr><tr><td>1850</td><td>Alpheus B. Clarke, 55,</td><td>Brooklyn, N Y.,</td><td>15 Dec, 1869</td></tr><tr><td>1861</td><td>Benjamin T Allen, 40,</td><td>Worcester, Mass,</td><td>20 Jan, 1870</td></tr></tbody></table>

LAW DEPARTMENT

<table><tr><td>1858</td><td>Gustavus R Elliot, 47,</td><td>Fair Haven, Conn,</td><td>26 Nov, 1869</td></tr><tr><td>1862</td><td>William Downes, 44,</td><td>New Haven, Conn,</td><td>7 Nov, 1869</td></tr><tr><td>1865</td><td>Wilbur G Howarth, 26,</td><td>New Haven, Conn,</td><td>20 Nov, 1869</td></tr><tr><td>1869</td><td>John B Reilly, 21,</td><td>New Haven, Conn,</td><td>1 Aug, 1869</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>1867</td><td>Lyman S Ferry, 26,</td><td>New Haven, Conn,</td><td>18 Nov, 1869</td></tr></table>

Intelligence of the following death is received, too late for insertion elsewhere

1818.

RICHARD TAPPING NOTT, born in Saybrook, Conn, in June, 1798, died in Alabama 26 Oct, 1869, after an illness of more than two years duration. He removed to Virginia in 1820, to South Carolina in 1822, and thence to Alabama in 1824, where he resided till his death.

The whole number of deaths reported as occurring during the last year is 66, and the average age of the graduates of the Academic Department is 61 years.

Of the deceased, from the Academic Department 17 were Clergymen, 17 Lawyers, 8 Physicians, 7 in Business, 1 Teacher, and 1 Editor.

The deaths are distributed as follows —in Connecticut, 20, N Y, 14, Mass, 7, Pa, 4, Ohio, 3, Ala, Ill. Md, W Va, 2 each, and the remaining 10 in as many different states.

The surviving graduates of the last century are as for two years past,—
Class of 1794, Hon EZEKIEL BACON, Utica, N Y, born 1 Sept, 1776

“ 1796, TIMOTHY BISHOP, New Haven, Conn, born 29 Oct, 1777

“ 1797, Rev CHARLES GOODRICH, Penn Yan, N Y, born 2 April, 1778

“ 1800, Rev THOMAS WILLIAMS, Providence, R I, born Nov, 1799

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INDEX.

<table><thead><tr><th>Class</th><th>Page</th><th>Class</th><th>Page</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1857</td><td>358</td><td>1865</td><td>361</td></tr><tr><td>1836</td><td>354</td><td>1869</td><td>362</td></tr><tr><td>1827</td><td>349</td><td>1811</td><td>339</td></tr><tr><td>1865</td><td>361</td><td>1821</td><td>345</td></tr><tr><td>1828</td><td>350</td><td>1823</td><td>348</td></tr><tr><td>1819</td><td>345</td><td>1815</td><td>342</td></tr><tr><td>1833</td><td>352</td><td>1818</td><td>367</td></tr><tr><td>1837</td><td>354</td><td>1817</td><td>344</td></tr><tr><td>1826</td><td>348</td><td>1812</td><td>341</td></tr><tr><td>1813</td><td>341</td><td>1816</td><td>344</td></tr><tr><td>1822</td><td>347</td><td>1814</td><td>341</td></tr><tr><td>1837</td><td>355</td><td>1826</td><td>348</td></tr><tr><td>1838</td><td>355</td><td>1859</td><td>359</td></tr><tr><td>1828</td><td>351</td><td>1859</td><td>360</td></tr><tr><td>1842</td><td>356</td><td>1811</td><td>340</td></tr><tr><td>1827</td><td>350</td><td>1851</td><td>357</td></tr><tr><td>1829</td><td>351</td><td>1831</td><td>352</td></tr><tr><td>1816</td><td>342</td><td>1858</td><td>359</td></tr><tr><td>1860</td><td>360</td><td>1821</td><td>346</td></tr><tr><td>1833</td><td>353</td><td>1838</td><td>356</td></tr><tr><td>1806</td><td>338</td><td>1811</td><td>340</td></tr><tr><td>1815</td><td>365</td><td>1809</td><td>339</td></tr><tr><td>1823</td><td>347</td><td>1826</td><td>348</td></tr><tr><td>1802</td><td>337</td><td>1866</td><td>362</td></tr><tr><td>1818</td><td>345</td><td>1855</td><td>358</td></tr><tr><td>1816</td><td>343</td><td>1816</td><td>344</td></tr><tr><td>1839</td><td>356</td><td>1813</td><td>341</td></tr><tr><td>1855</td><td>358</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

PROFESSIONAL DEPARTMENTS

<table><tbody><tr><td>1861</td><td>Allen, Benjamin T, M D</td><td>364</td><td>1815</td><td>362</td></tr><tr><td>1825</td><td>Candee, Joel G, M D</td><td>363</td><td>1869</td><td>365</td></tr><tr><td>1850</td><td>Clarke, Alpheus B, M D</td><td>363</td><td>1865</td><td>364</td></tr><tr><td>1862</td><td>Downes, William, LL B</td><td>364</td><td>1830</td><td>363</td></tr><tr><td>1858</td><td>Elliot Gustavus R LI B</td><td>364</td><td>1826</td><td>363</td></tr><tr><td>1867</td><td>Ferry, Lyman S Ph B</td><td>365</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

The present series of the Annual Obituary Record (begun in 1860) closes with this number, and it is proposed to begin a new series next year. And in preparing these notices is urgently requested by the Librarian of the College.

A Supplement, just printed, can be obtained at the Library, containing an index and title page to this series, with brief notices of some of the graduates who have died since July, 1859, but have not hitherto been commemorated.

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE.

1860--70.

1797.

RICHARD SMITH was born in Sharon, Conn., Jan. 17, 1779. His father, Phineas Smith, was a cousin of Gov John Cotton Smith.

He died at Batavia, N Y, Dec 31, 1859, at the age of 81. A sketch of him will be found in "Brief Memoirs of the Class of 1797," New Haven, 1848.

EPHRAIM TREADWELL WOODRUFF was born in Farmington, Conn., Oct 17, 1777, and died in Wayne, Ashtabula Co, Ohio, Nov 26, 1859, aged 82 years

An account of his life is given in the "Brief Memoirs of the Class of 1797."

1799.

GODFREY SCARBOROUGH was born in Brooklyn, Conn, 22 Dec, 1778, the son of Samuel and Mary (Amadon) Scarborough

He died in Kossuth, Iowa, 15 May, 1867, at the age of 88. He practiced law in East Windsor Hill, Conn, but about 1825 removed to Wheeling, Va, subsequently to Paris, Kentucky, and some twenty years before his death, to Iowa.

He survived the rest of his class.

1805.

RODOLPHUS DICKINSON, son of Col. Thomas W and Thankful Dickinson, was born in Deerfield, Mass, 27 June, 1787

He studied law in Northampton, Mass, with John Taylor, and was admitted to the bar in 1808. He practiced law in Springfield, Mass., until 1811, and from 1811 to 1819 was Clerk of the Courts in his native County.

On Sept 17th, 1819, he was ordained Deacon by Bishop Griswold, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and then removed to the upper section of South Carolina, where he was instrumental in the formation of the parishes of Greenville and Pendleton. During the first eighteen months of alternate service there, he trav-

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eled more than 7,000 miles on horseback He was advanced to the Priesthood
by Bishop Bowen, 20 Feb 1822

In 1832 he returned to Deerfield, and made that his residence for the rest of his life For six years during this time, he preached in Montague, Mass He was a candidate for Congress, in his native county, in 1839 He died at his country-seat, Pine Hill, Deerfield, 29 Oct, 1863, aged 76 years.

He married, 6 Nov, 1809, Miss Nancy Hoyt, daughter of Capt. David Hoyt, of Deerfield His wife survives him, with two daughters. He lost a son in infancy.

Mr Dickinson published several law and school books, and geographical and other works.

## 1807.

JOHN MORSE AUSTIN, the son of Elphalet and Isabella (Dudley) Austin, was born in New Hartford, Conn., in 1783 Before he entered college, his father removed to Ohio, and settled the town of Austinburg

He studied law for two years with Judge Baldwin, of Pittsburgh, Pa. and practiced there till in 1812 he married, and removed to Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pa., where he continued in his profession for over thirty years He died in Uniontown, 8 April, 1863. His widow is still living Of his sons, two are lawyers and one a clergyman

ELEUTHEROS DANA COMSTOCK was drowned on the passage from Sacramento to San Francisco, Cal., on the evening of the 17th of Aug., 1859, aged 69 years. He was at the time on his way to the Eastern States, where his family resided. He was a grandson of Rev. Dr. James Dana, pastor of the First Church in New Haven from 1789 to 1805.

## 1809.

WILLIAM HENRY WINTHROP, son of Francis Bayard and Phebe (Taylor) Winthrop, of NY City, and grandson of John Still Winthrop (Y C 1737), was born in NY in 1792. Two of his brothers graduated in 1804.

Shortly after graduation he married his cousin, Margaret A. Parkin, of New London, Conn., and spent the rest of his life in that town. He followed no profession, but was occupied with the care of his estate, principally Fisher's Island, which had been in the family since 1640 He died in N. London, 3 Sept., 1860, leaving three sons and two daughters.

## 1810.

PAUL CHAPLIN GRIMBALL was born 17 March, 1788.

He came to college from Sunbury, Ga., and settled in Charleston, S. C., as a planter. He was at one time a member of the State Senate. At the breaking out of the rebellion, he resided on John's Island, and in 1862 was driven from his home, and died in 1864, aged 76.

He was married 7 June, 1814, and had five children.

## 1811.

SOLOMON LATHROP, son of Dr. Seth Lathrop of West Springfield, Mass., and grandson of Rev. Dr. Joseph Lathrop (Y. C. 1754), was born in 1790. He studied law, and settled on the family estate in W. Springfield; he also lived for a short time in Bratuleboro, Vt. He removed, probably in the fall of 1837, to Mačomb County, Michigan, where he died in the summer of 1862.

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He married Sophia Pomeroy, of Putney, Vt., who died before him. He had four children born in W. Springfield

EDWARD PEROT, son of John and Mary Perot, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 9 Nov. 1789, and died in the same city, 3 Oct., 1866, aged nearly 77.
He was never married.

### 1814.

WILLIAM JOHNSON RYSAM MULFORD, son of Edward Mulford, was born in East Hampton (L I.), N. Y, Oct 18, 1794.

He was for a number of years engaged in the shipping business in Sag Harbor, L I. Owing to ill health and a naturally reserved disposition, he led a very retired life. His death occurred at Sag Harbor, 24 July, 1865.

He married, 21 Aug. 1827, Harriet E, daughter of Henry B. Havens, of Sag Harbor. He left two daughters, his only son having died the year before him, a victim to the horrors of Andersonville.

### 1815.

ISRAEL SHAILER, son of Lieut. Thomas and Anna (Fiske) Shailer, was born in Haddam, Conn., Nov 22, 1788, and died in Richfield, O., July 2, 1869, aged 80.

He studied theology with Rev. John Elliott (Y. C. 1786) of East Guilford, now Madison, Conn., and was licensed to preach by the Middlesex Association, June 2, 1818. He was ordained as an Evangelist, at Millington, Conn., June 7, 1820, to go to the Western Reserve under the direction of the Missionary Society of Connecticut. He was installed pastor of the Congregational Church in Richfield, O., April 24, 1821, and dismissed Aug. 17, 1830. During this period he spent one-half of the time as a Missionary to other congregations. For some time afterwards he preached in the neighboring churches, and in the last years of active life, was employed as a colporteur. He was laid aside by blindness and infirmity for five years before his death.

Mr. Shailer married, in 1823, Miss Sophronia Mills, of Hudson, O. She survives, with one son and four daughters.

### 1817.

WILLIAM LAWRENCE CLARK died in Winchester, Va., early in 1865, aged about 68. His son graduated in 1848. For a notice, see Biographical Sketches of Class of 1817, 1868, p. 10.

WILLIAM BACKUS HART, son of William S. and Eunice Hart, was born in Norwich, Conn., 17 July, 1797, and died in Washington, D. C., 12 Jan., 1863.

He studied law with Wm. M. Price, of New York City, but never practiced. He was engaged in business in New York and in Philadelphia. He was afterwards an agent for claims in Washington, and during President Tyler's administration, was employed by the government in removing the Choctaw Indians. From 30th Sept., 1855, until his death, he was a clerk in the First Auditor's office of the U. S. Treasury Department. He left a widow.

### 1818.

CHARLES BUFORD was the son of Abram Buford, of Virginia, a Colonel in the Revolution. He was born in Scott County, Ky., June 8, 1797, and died while on a visit in St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 4, 1866, aged 68.

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He devoted himself to farming on a large scale, his residence being at Rock Island, Ill.

He married first a daughter of Gen John Adair, of Kentucky. His second wife, now living in Rock Island, was a niece of Chief-Justice Marshall. Nine of his children are also living.

JAMES KEITH DUKE was born in Mason County, Ky., March 12, 1799, and died Aug 2 1863, in Scott County, Ky., aged 64 years

His father was Dr Basil Duke, and his mother Charlotte, daughter of Chief Justice Marshall

He studied law, but soon after his admission to the bar, in 1821, he married, and settled as a farmer in Scott County, Ky., and there resided till his death. His wife, Mary Buford, was the sister of his classmate, Charles Buford.

Mr Duke was an intimate personal and political friend of Clay and Crittenden, but declined repeated solicitations to serve his district in the State and National legislatures.

His widow and ten children, four sons and six daughters, survive him. The second son, Basil Duke, is a graduate of the Class of 1845.

PICKETT LATIMER died in Norwalk, O., Jan 8, 1862. He was the eldest son of Pickett and Eunice (Douglass) Latimer, and was born in New London, Conn., Jan 20, 1796

His law studies were begun, in 1819, with Hon Matthew Griswold (Y C 1780), of Lyme, Conn., and completed, after Nov, 1819, in the office of Hon. Ebenezer Lane, of Norwalk, O. He was admitted to the bar in the autumn or 1820, and was successful in his profession. Subsequently he left the law for business in which he was unsuccessful.

Mr Latimer married, at New London, Conn., Oct 16, 1825, Louisa I Cox, of North Carolina, who survives him, with three of his five children.

### 1819.

JAMES MONGIN SMITH died in Marietta, Ga., 26 Nov, 1859, at the age of 60.

He entered college from Beaufort, S C, and became a planter in his native state. He subsequently removed to Marietta. His second wife, Mrs Laura M Smith, to whom he was married in Dec, 1837, survived him, with one son and one daughter. By his first marriage he had two sons and two daughters, none of whom are now living.

### 1822.

ARTHUR ALEXANDER MORSON is supposed to have died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1864. (See Class Record, 1869.)

### 1824.

EBENEZER JESUP, the son of Ebenezer Jesup, was born in Saugatuck Village, now Westport, Conn., 11 Aug, 1805, and died in Southport, Conn., 7 March, 1861.

He studied law for four years with Judge Gould in Litchfield, Conn., lived in Ohio for a few years, and in 1835 settled in N Y City. A few years later he went to Southport, where he resided till his death engaged in farming.

MILTON PARDEE ORTON died at Hatteras Inlet, in Feb, 1864, aged 68.

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CHARLES DENISON SHOEMAKER died in Febr, 1863.
For a sketch of his life, see Class Record, 1855, p 37

JOSEPH HEISTER SPAYD died in Reading, Pa., in June, 1865, at the age of 60.
He was a native of Pennsylvania, and spent his life in Reading, in the practice
of law He was never married

1826.

MOSES ATWATER, son of Moses and Panthea Maria Atwater, died in Canandaigua,
N Y, his native place, Aug 8, 1864, aged 59

He passed his life in Canandaigua, not engaging in any profession. In 1854 he
married Miss Margaret Weist, who died in Jan, 1857, leaving one son.

CHARLES BEZALEEL FISK was born in Middletown, Conn, June 14, 1806. He
died in Staunton, Va, Jan 11, 1866. The "Biographical Sketch of the Class of
1826", published in 1866, contains a notice of his life.

JAMES HARMER FRANCIS was born in Wethersfield, Conn, May 28, 1796, and
died in the same town, July 11, 1863. For a sketch of his life, see the Class Re-
cord, published in 1866

WILLIAM MAY was born in Westminster, Vt, June 2, 1808, and died in Palmy-
ra, N Y, Sept 10, 1865. For the events of his life, see the Record of the Class,
published in 1866

THOMAS LEE SMITH died in Bermuda in November 1862

He entered college from Bermuda, first with the class of 1824, joining in senior
year the class with which he graduated.

In 1834 he received the degree of M. D from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in N Y City

1827.

VIRGIL DRYDEN BONESTEL was born in Red Hook, N Y. He fitted for the bar
with James Hooker, Esq, of Poughkeepsie, N Y, and established himself in prac-
tice, first in Red Hook, and afterwards in Poughkeepsie. He early entered poli-
tics as a Democrat, and became an influential leader of his party. About 1850 he
was appointed Surrogate for Dutchess County. In 1856 he visited Iowa for his
health, and was appointed Director and Treasurer of the Chicago, Iowa, and Ne-
braska R R Co, in which office he made many friends. He declined a nomina-
tion for Judge of the supreme court of N Y. State, on account of ill health

He died of a lingering disease, 3 Nov, 1865, aged about 59.

He married Miss Thompson, niece of the late Hon. Smith Thompson. They had
one son, but both his wife and son died before him.

1828.

LEVI SWIFT BEEBEE, son of Levi Beebee, was born in W Hartwick, Otsego
Co, N Y.

He studied Law in the Litchfield Law school and then entered the office of Ster-
ling & Bronson, in Watertown, N Y. He was soon led to abandon the law, and
entered Princeton Theol Seminary in 1831, where he remained for two years. He
was licensed to preach by the Litchfield South Association of Congregational mi-
misters, in 1833, and was settled two or three years later over the 2d Presbyterian

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church in Freehold, N J His pastorate was very brief, though he continued to reside in Monmouth County, where he married a widow lady named Woodhull, for some years. He was afterward engaged as a missionary at the West, and about 1853 was living in Georgia. From February, 1854 to Febr, 1855 he supplied the pulpit of the Congregational church at New Preston Hill, in Washington, Conn. During the war he was a chaplain in the volunteer corps, and he died while temporarily visiting N. Y City, 17 July, 1863, at the age of 53 For some 14 years before his death his general health had been shattered

### 1830.

EDMUND [SMITH] RHETT was born in Beaufort, S C, 15 Mch, 1808, and died in Spartanburg, S C, 15 Febr, 1863, aged 55 years

He studied law with, and became partner of his brother, Hon R Barnwell Rhett, of Charleston. On his brother's election to congress, in 1838, Mr Edmund Rhett established himself at Beaufort, at first in copartnership with his brother Albert. He served as a representative in the State Legislature, and from 1858 till his death was a member of the State Senate. He urged the secession of South Carolina, and served for a time as a private at Port Royal Ferry.

He married in 1842, and left a family.

While in College he was known by the name of Edmund Smith.

### 1834.

JOHN DAVES COLLINS, son of Josiah Collins, of Edenton, N C, and brother of Josiah Collins, a graduate of 1826, resided in Edenton, and died of heart-disease at Henderson, N C, 16 March, 1862, aged 47 He was unmarried

ALEXANDER BLUCHER GORDON, born in Falmouth, Va, in 1814, died in the same place, 28 Nov. 1861

He had a law office in Baltimore from 1835 to 1859

He married, 15 Oct., 1839, Miss Margaret McKim, of Baltimore, who died, 22 Febr, 1844. In 1848 he married Miss Elizabeth Harrison of Baltimore. The children of the first marriage were two sons and one daughter, by the second, two sons and two daughters.

### 1837.

ALLEN FERDINAND OWEN was born in Wilkes Co, N C, in October, 1816, but his family removed to Georgia, when he was four years of age. Having completed the course at Franklin college, Athens, Ga, he entered Yale, in Sophomore year.

After graduation he studied law in Charleston, S C, with Hon James L Petigru, in New Haven and in Cambridge, Mass. He was admitted to the bar in 1839, at Boston, and in 1840 began practice in Talbotton, Ga.

In 1843 he became a member of the State Legislature, and served for two terms, until 1847, when he was chosen Clerk of the House of Representatives. While holding this position, he was elected to Congress, and while a member of Congress was appointed Consul at Havana.

In 1852 he returned to Talbotton, and continued in his profession there until his death, 7 Apr, 1865. For several years before his death he was an invalid from partial paralysis of the left side.

He was married in 1837 to Miss E L Matthews, daughter of Col. R A Matthews of S C. He left a widow, and 6 children, his eldest child having died in the army.

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1839.

LORENZO DOW BIRD, fourth son of Col. Nathaniel and Hannah Bird, was born in Portland, N. Y, in 1814 His father was an officer of the Revolution, a pioneer settler in Chautauqua County, N Y, and the proprietor of the first line of stages from Buffalo westwards to Ohio

He studied law with Mr. Kellogg, of Erie, Pa., and with C. W Lane, in Ypsilanti, Mich. He afterwards entered an office in Chicago, but soon removed to St Louis, and remained in the office of his cousin, Gustavus A Bird, until he was admitted to practice. He married a daughter of his cousin about 1845, and after living in St. Charles, Mo., for about two years, opened a law office in Weston, Mo. He was engaged with others in purchasing government lands, and was one of the originators of the towns of Leavenworth and Atchison, Kansas. He finally removed to Atchison. In March, 1862, he was taken ill while in Leavenworth, and brought home to Atchison, where he died in a few weeks, of a disease of the lungs. He left a widow, with two sons and three daughters.

1840.

JOHANNES BRUYN was born in Ulster County, N Y, May 16, 1820, and died in Kingston, in the same county, Febr 1, 1862

He studied law in Kingston, and subsequently practiced his profession there.
He was married.

1845.

JAMES MONROE died near Benicia, Cal, 20 March, 1861, aged 41. (See Class History, N Y., 1866.)

1847.

WILLIAM HENRY HOWE was born in Millbury, Mass., 5 Jan, 1827

He studied law in the office of Henry Chapin, Esq, of Worcester, Mass, and was there admitted to the bar in 1849, and practiced till 1860, when he removed his business to New York City. In 1863 he accompanied the northern army to N Carolina. In 1864 he resumed his profession at New Berne, and in September of that year was attacked by the yellow fever, of which disease he died in the following month.

ELISHA FRANKLIN PAXTON, from Rockbridge Co, Va, born 4 March, 1828, entered college in Junior year.

In the late war he was Colonel in a Virginia Regiment, and afterwards Brigadier General. He had command of the "Stonewall Brigade", at the battle of Chancellorsville, in May, 1863, and was there killed.

JOHN REYNOLDS STURGES, from Waynesboro, Ga., was born 31 Dec, 1827. He studied law in Augusta, Ga., and is reported to have been killed on the peninsula, in charge of a rebel regiment, early in the war.

1848.

SAMUEL ARMSTID EWING died in Washington, D C, in Aug, 1864. For a sketch of his life see Class Statistics, 1869, p 44

FREDERICK CONE FULLER, born in E Haddam, Conn, 24 May, 1825, killed near Spottsylvania C. H., Va, last of Jan., 1863. [See Class Statistics, 1869, p 47]

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JOHN RANDOLPH HARPER was born in Upson Co, Georgia, 7 Oct, 1828, and died of consumption at his mother's house in Columbus, Ga, 16 July, 1865

He was prepared for college by the Rev Dr E E Beardsley, then Principal of the Episcopal Academy of Conn, at Cheshire

He studied law at the Yale Law School, and in Litchfield, Conn, and began practice in New York City in the fall of 1851. In 1858 he removed to Winsted, Conn, and at the outbreak of the rebellion went South, to serve in the Confederate army. In four years of service he contracted the disease of which he died. His wife, whom he married in Winsted, and two children, survive him.

### 1849.

WILLIAM CRAIG SWOPE was born in Danville, Ky, 8 Nov, 1830

He studied law, and graduated at the Transylvania University Law School, in Lexington, Ky, March, 1852. For most of the subsequent time he was a practicing lawyer in St Louis, Mo. He died in Kansas City, while returning from a journey to Montana, 14 Oct, 1867.

WILLIAM WALLACE WARD was born in Savannah, Ga, 24 June, 1829.

He studied law in Cincinnati, was admitted to the bar, 30 May, 1852, and practiced there until April, 1855, when he sailed for California. After remaining at the mines a short time, he went to Olympia, Washington Territory, and became Clerk of the Supreme Court, and was afterwards occupied in the defence of the settlements against the Indians until Dec, 1856. For the next two years he was a clerk in a bank in Savannah, Ga.

In Jan, 1859, he was appointed Secretary of Legation to China, and immediately proceeded to his post. After about a year he resigned, to become Superintendent of the Chinese Custom House at one of the open ports. In 1863 he returned to Europe, with his constitution very much shattered by the climate. In 1866 he came to the United States, and, after a short visit to S America, made N Y City his home until Jan, 1868, when he died of chronic dysentery.

### 1850.

CHARLES CHAUNCEY DILLINGHAM was born in West Chester, Pa, 22 July, 1831.

He read law with his father, William H Dillingham, in Philadelphia, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania in 1852. He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, but did not engage in practice.

After making the tour of Europe, he made London his residence for six or seven years, and died there 25 Oct, 1867. He is buried in Kensal-Green Cemetery.

WILLIAM HENRY ORSBORN, born in Oxford, N C, July, 1826, entered College first term Junior year from Dickinson College, Pa.

Immediately on leaving New Haven he went to Rapides Parish, near Alexandria, La., where he took a large sugar-cane and cotton plantation. He was also employed as a civil engineer and surveyor. He died of consumption in the latter part of the year 1865, aged 39.

### 1851.

DOUGLASS GRAY, son of James Gray, was born in Richmond, Va, Jan, 1831.

He was teaching in his business in Richmond, until the war, and was wounded in the leg in a battle near Richmond, in June, 1864, while a member of Salem F Artillery, and died in Richmond a few weeks later. He was unmarried.

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1854.

WILLIAM STEPHEN MAPLES was born in Selma, Ala., 24 June, 1833. He died in Richmond, Va., in 1861. See Class Statistics, 1867, p. 59.

1855.

ANDREW JACKSON SPRING, born in Meadville, Miss., was killed in battle at Mobile, Ala., April 11, 1865, at the age of 33.

He taught school and studied law until the autumn of 1860, when he was admitted to the bar. He afterwards taught near Rodney, Miss., until April, 1862, and then enlisted in the 1st Confederate Miss. Artillery.

He was never married.

1856.

ROBERT CHOTARD DUNBAR was born in Natchez, Miss., 16 Sept., 1834.

He was a planter, near Natchez, till forced into the Confederate Army, as a private in a company of the Jeff Davis Division of Hampton's Legion. He was shot in the thigh at Brandy Station, Va., 1 Aug., 1863, and bled to death for the want of medical care.

EMMET ALEXANDER EAKIN was born in Bedford County, Tenn., 26 March, 1836, and died in Rutherford County, Tenn., 27 Dec., 1864. For further particulars see the Class Record, 1867, pp. 37-3.

ROLAND KINZER was born in Lancaster, Pa., 17 March, 1835, and died of inflammation of the liver, in the same place, 25 Sept., 1866, aged 31. For the facts of his life, see Class Record, 1867, p. 45.

1857.

HENRY LUSE FOULES, the son of Wm B Foules, of Kingston, Miss., was born in that place, 8 April, 1837.

He taught school for two years in Washington, and afterwards for one year in his native place. He then studied law.

He entered the Confederate service as Captain of Gen. Breckinridge's Escort, and afterwards held the same relation to Gen Bates.

He died of typhoid fever in Atlanta, Ga., 16 June, 1864, at the age of 27.

He married Miss Mary E Boyd, 20 Sept., 1859.

1859.

ROBERT SENEY MOORE died in Trenton, N. J., 17 Oct., 1866, aged 29. See Class Record of '58, N. Y., 1869, p. 100.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1816.

ABRAHAM BLATCHLY, eighth and youngest child of Aaron and Prudence (Grave) Blatchly, was born in East Guilford (now Madison), Conn., 13 Oct., 1787.

He married, in 1816, Jemima R, daughter of Joseph Marvin, of Lyme, Conn. From April, 1823, to Nov., 1826, he was a missionary of the American Board in Honolulu.

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After his return he was for a while settled in Brookfield, Conn., and then in his native village, where his wife died, 26 Oct., 1856. He afterwards removed to Illinois, where he died in 1860. He was married a second time, in 1858, to a Mrs Ware. He had three children, all of whom died unmarried.

### 1817.

MELINES COOKLIN LEAVENWORTH was born in Waterbury, Conn., 15 Jan., 1796, and died in New Orleans, 16 Nov., 1862.

For a biographical sketch see the Communications of the Conn. Medical Society for 1866, pp. 269-272.

### 1819.

HOLLIS MONROE died in Belfast, Me., 21 June, 1861.

### 1822.

CHARLES CHAUNCEY COOK is reported to have died in Youngstown, O., shortly after the battle of Chancellorsville (May, 1863).

GEORGE ALFRED GILBERT, from Tolland, Conn., settled in Richland, now Pulaski, N. Y., and removed about 1850 to the West. He died in Waukegan, Ill., 26 May, 1865, aged 65 years, 6 months, and 26 days.

### 1823.

SAMUEL WILLIAM BROWN, from Hartford, died in Petaluma, Cal., 30 Jan., 1862.

HOVEY EVERITT, a native of Sharon, Conn., resided as a physician in Chemung, N. Y., where he died in 1860, at the age of 60 years.

### 1825.

ANDREW CASTLE died in Woodbridge, Conn., of chronic gastritis, 26 Aug., 1861, aged 58.

SAMUEL CHESEBROUGH NOYES, from Montville, Conn., died in Utica, N. Y., in Dec., 1865.

JOHN GILKEY PIERCE, from Plainfield, Conn., settled in Westerly, R. I., and died there in Jan., 1862.

### 1826.

CHARLES GUSTAVUS GREEN, son of Dr. Isaac and Ann (Barrett) Green, was born in Windsor, Vt., 1 Sept., 1803, and died in Gordonsville, Va., 21 Dec., 1866.

He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1823. From 1826 to 1830 he practiced medicine in Boston, from 1830 to 1844 was in business in Windsor, Vt., then returned to Boston and opened a drug store.

He married, 1 Nov., 1831, Susan, daughter of Hon. Abijah Bigelow, of Worcester, Mass.

CHARLES BARNEY MCCARTY died in Wallingford, Conn., of typhoid fever, 4 Nov., 1859, aged 55.

### 1827.

HORATIO THOMSON died in Belchertown, Mass., Oct. 5, 1860, at the age of 57. He was born in Tolland, Conn., Oct. 7, 1803, and was the son of Dr. Gurdon and Betsy S. Thomson.

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He practiced as a physician for a year in his native town, and in Dec., 1828, removed to Belchertown, Mass., where he continued till his death.

He married, first, Nov 15, 1827, Cordelia, daughter of Gen Eliakim Chapman, of Tolland, she died in Belchertown, Febr 13, 1834. He was again married, Dec 4, 1834, to Lucy M, daughter of Hon. Mark Doolittle (Y C. 1804). Two sons, by his first marriage, were his only surviving children

His brother, Chas. S Thomson, graduated in the Medical Class of 1822

1828. August 20,

ELISHA HUTCHINSON, from Lebanon, Conn., died in 1862

DANIEL PORTER, son of Daniel and Anna (Ingham) Porter, was born in Waterbury, Conn, May 20, 1805.

He commenced the practice of medicine in his native town, and for fifteen years was very successful. As early as 1843 he began to manifest symptoms of mental derangement, which resulted in confirmed insanity in 1845. The rest of his life was passed in the asylum at Brattleboro, Vt. He died April 25, 1863, aged 58.

1829.

JOEL EDWIN HAWLEY was born in Bethany, Conn., 14 Sept., 1802, and died in Ithaca, N Y, 1 Aug., 1859. For a biographical notice, see Transactions of Med Soc. of N Y State for 1860, p 173.

1830.

JOHN [FOSDICK] FYLER, eldest son of John and Ruth (Dudley) Fyler, was born in North Guilford, Conn, 21 Apr, 1798

He settled first in Concordia, La., and afterwards returned to Conn, and was for some years in Manchester, and then in Vernon. He finally went back to Louisiana, and afterwards moved up the Mississippi River, to a place near St Louis, where he died in Dec., 1862. He married Mrs Clarissa (Munsell), widow of Otis McClean, of Vernon, Conn. They had no children.

1831.

JUNIUS LEAVENWORTH FIELD, son of Dr. Edward Field, was born in Waterbury, Conn, Febr. 1, 1808

After practicing medicine for a short time in Wolcott and in Cheshire, Conn, Dr Field removed in 1835 to Unadilla, Mich, where he pursued his profession until his death, Nov, 1867.

TITUS WILLIAM POWERS, from Albany, N Y, died in 1863. He was originally a member of the Class of 1831, in the Academic Department.

1833.

NOAH BENNET BENEDICT, son of Col Thos B Benedict, born in Woodbury, Conn, died in New Orleans, where he had practiced for 30 years, in 1863, a Surgeon in the Confederate home service.

SAMUEL LLOYD died in Westville, Conn, 2 Aug, 1861, aged 55.

RALPH SMITH was born on Long Island, and graduated at Williams College in 1830.

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He studied theology at Princeton, 1833-35, and was ordained in June, 1836. He preached in Curtsville, Mass., and in Lee, Mass.; in Milton, Cornwall, Trumbull, Wolcottville and New Canaan, Conn.; at Southold, L. I., and died without charge, at Saugerties, N. Y., 2 Nov., 1867, aged 56.

### 1834.

FREDERIC WILLIAM SHEPARD was born in Plainfield, Conn, 18 March, 1812, and died in Essex, Conn, 2 May, 1860.

For a sketch of his life, see Communications of Connecticut Medical Society for 1861, pp. 123-4.

### 1837.

JOHN LANGDON SULLIVAN, third son of Gov James and Hetty (Odiorne) Sullivan, died in Boston, Feb 9, 1865, aged 88 years.

He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Harvard College in 1807.

At the time of receiving his medical degree he was a resident of New Haven, and interested in civil engineering.

He married in 1797 Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Hon Thomas Russell. His son, Rev Thomas R Sullivan, graduated at Harvard in 1817.

### 1838.

MOSES WILLIS OSBORN, son of Moses and Mary (Shaw) Osborn, of East Windsor, Conn, was born 12 Oct, 1809, and died in 1863.

### 1844.

WILLIAM STRICKLER McCORKLE died in May, 1864.

### 1845.

HIBAM HOLT LUMMIS died in Russellville, Ky., 18 June, 1860, aged about 38.

He was born in Windham Co (Woodstock or Pomfret), Ct. He practiced medicine in Russellville, Ky., from 1847 to 1853, when his health failing, he removed to Texas and remained until 1857. In 1858-59 he was a student in Yale College Analytical Laboratory.

### 1846.

JEREMIAH KING died in Williamamtic, Conn, Feb 16, 1863, aged 39 years. He was the son of Capt Joseph King of Lebanon, and studied medicine for three years in the office of Ashbel Woodward, M D, of Franklin, Conn. He commenced practice in Norwich, but afterwards removed to Williamamtic.

DEWITT CLINTON LATHEOP was born in Franklin, Conn, 20 June, 1819, and died in New Berne, N C, 13 April, 1862.

A biographical notice is contained in the Communications of the Conn Medical Society for 1861, pp 64-5.

FREDERIC WILLIAM PERRY, son of Rev David L (Williams College, 1798) and Anna (Strong) Perry, of Sharon, Conn, died in Mendham, N J, of tetanus, occasioned by an injury of the foot, Feb., 1862, aged 38.

He was in the practice of his profession, and had been Coroner in N Y City for three years, not long before his death. He left a widow and two children.

Two of his brothers graduated at this College. Rev. David C Perry, Class of 1833, and Nathan S Perry, Medical Class of 1839.

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1847.

TIMOTHY PHELPS BEERS, son of Dr Timothy P. Beers (Y C. 1808), died in New Haven, Conn, 4 Aug, 1860, in his 35th year

He was unmarried.

1848.

PHILANDER PHELPS HUMPHREY, son of Daniel G and Eliza (Burr) Humphrey, was born in Torrington, Conn, about 1822.

After some practice of his profession in New England, he removed to St Paul's, Minn, near which place he and all his family, except one son, were murdered by the Indians in the massacre of 1862

1850.

DIXON SCIPIO HALL, of Preston, Conn, died in 1863

1851.

DAVID SILLIMAN BURD died in Westport, Conn., of phthisis pulmonalis, 1 Feb, 1865, aged 36 years, 8 months, and 17 days.

1853.

RANSOM PERRY LYON, Surgeon of 28th Conn. Infantry, died at Port Hudson, La, 6 Aug, 1863, aged 36, of typhoid fever

He was previously a practising physician in Bethel, Conn.

1859.

SAMUEL WHITE died suddenly in Springfield, Mass, in Jan, 1867.

1860.

LEWIS HENRY ALLING died at Hampton, Va, 27 Sept, 1864.

JOHN BENJAMIN WELCH died 13 Feb., 1862

1862.

NATHANIEL WELLS FRENCH, Assistant Surgeon of 50th Mass Infantry, died in Baton Rouge, La, 21 April, 1863.

1864.

WILLIAM HENRY HINE, son of Newton Hine, was born in Waterbury, Conn., 19 Oct, 1840

He settled in East Bridgeport, Conn, in 1864, where he died of typhoid fever, 12 Nov, 1866

LAW DEPARTMENT.

1843.

HOMER DE GRASSE IVES, son of William and Polly Ives, was born in North Haven, Conn, 3 Aug, 1814.

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He settled in Eddyville, Iowa, in the practice of his profession and took a lead-
ing part in various schemes for the development of his adopted state. On his re-
turn from a trip to Missouri, undertaken to awaken interest in the construction of
the Iowa Central R. R, he became suddenly ill, and died on board the steamboat
Rob Roy at Keokuk, Iowa, 14 Oct., 1867.

He married in 1849, Mary W, daughter of Rev Olver Eastman, of Oberlin, O,
by whom he had eight children. His widow and five children survived him.

1847.

AARON ELY STONE, son of Heman and Clarissa Stone, was born in North Madison, Conn., 12 Jan., 1824.

He practiced his profession in New London, Conn, until his death, which occurred without any warning, as he was walking in the streets of that city, 11 Aug, 1859 He married, in 1853, Caroline E, daughter of Joel Field, of North Madison. She is still living, with her two children.

1857.

ADDIN LEWIS BISHOP, elder son of Dr Ebenezer H. (Y C 1826) and H. Maria (Lewis) Bishop, was born in New Haven, Conn, 21 Aug, 1834.

He graduated at Trinity College in 1855 and was admitted to the bar of New Haven County, 12 March, 1858 He settled in his native city, where he died unmarried, 21 July, 1863

1858.

HENRY WILLIAM COIT, son of Rev John C. Coit. (Y. C 1818), died at his father's house, in Cheraw, S. C, in March, 1862, of camp fever contracted in the confederate army

PHILOSOPHICAL DEPARTMENT.

1857.

DAVID BIGUM MARTIN, from Keokuk, Iowa, died in Chicago, Ill, 29 May, 1869.
He had been an engineer, in the employ of a railroad in N J.

1858.

EDWARD SACKETT, son of Homer and Flora (Skuff) Sackett, was born in Warren, Conn., 22 July, 1836, and died while in charge of a select school in Torringford, Conn., 9 March, 1861

1863.

IGNACIO M. MEGIA, from Oaxaca, Mexico, is reported to have died by his own hand in 1865.

The average age at death of the 711 graduates of the Academical Department recorded in this series, is 56¼ years. The deaths of Academical graduates in the late war (about 75) were at the average age of 31¼ years, so that the average age of the remaining graduates at decease has been 59¼ years.