OBITUARY RECORDOF

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGEDeceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1876,

including the record of a few who died a shorttime previous, hitherto unreported.

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JUNE 28th, 18T6.J

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1821 Adama, Geo E , 2101861 Arnold, Hubbard, 2261844 Barrett, Myron, 2201847 Bassett, Benj F , 2231816 Bird, Isaac 2071872 Blake, Prank W 2321868 Boardman, Herbert, 2301818 Bronson, Oliver, 2091817 Brown, Nehemiah, 2071812 Brown, Solyman, 2041864 Browning, Robert M , 2281823 Buck, David, 2111863 Bull, Cornelius W , 2281827 Bushnell, Horace, 2131808 Chandler, John,. 2031868 Chapman, Timothy P , . . . 2301829 Church, John B , 2141874 t Danforth, Wm B 2341817 Dickinson, Baxter, 2081830 Dorsey, Samuel W, 2151814 Dulles, Joseph H , 2051819 Edwards, Jonathan, 2091847 Ellsworth, Stukely, 221821 Eaty,Isaac, 2101844 Ferry, Orris S., 2201849 Ford,RufusA, 221841 Gillett, Ezra H , 2191875 Gnnnell, Frank L., 2321853 Hall, T Dwight, 2241875* Harris, George, 2341836 Hart, Edward L , 2181835 Hequembourg, Charles L, 211847 TO Hunt, IsaacS, 233

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Johnston, Alex, 229Lamont, Geo D , 218Lowrey, James, 212Miles, James B , , . . 224Mills, Geo L, 217Morns, James W , 233Nolen, Geo A , 225Parker, Edward W , 212Perkins, Geo. C, 227Polk, Trusten, 216Pomeroy, Benj, 233Porter, Edward C, 226Pratt, Mark, 213Raymond, Henry H , 220Rice, J o h n P , 203Richardson, Walker, 224Riddel, Samuel H , 211Ritter, Thomas, 213Roberts, Henry, 229Sandys, Edwin F , 225Schroeder, Ernest, 229Selfndge, Wm W , 218Sharp, John, 228Sherwood, Thomas D , .__ 222Smith, Walter B , 229Sprague, Wm B , 205Taylor, Nath ' lW, 221Thompson, Abijah H , _._ 222Topliff, Stephen, 212Weeks, Robert K.,. _ 227Williams, Orm M , 231Wood, Wm C, 231Woodruff, Lewis B., 216

OBITUARY RECORDOF

GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE

Deceased during the Academical Year ending June, 187ri, includ-ing the record of a few who died previously,

hitherto unreported.

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OP THE ALUMNI, JUNE 28, 1876]

[No 6 of the Second Printed Series, and No. 35 of the whole Record]

ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT.

1808.

JOHN CHANDLER, the eldest child of John and Mary (Campfield;Chandler, was born in Elizabeth town, N. J., Dec. 30, IV 84. Heat first entered the college of New Jersey, but spent the last threeyears of the course here.

After a short period of study at Andover Theological Seminary,he began to preach, but his delicate health and feeble vocal powerkept him from active work in the ministry. He was one of theoldest and most devoted members and officers of the Third Pres-byterian Church of Newark, N. J., in which city he passed thegreater part of his life.

He married, Sept. 16,1818, Margaret, daughter of Samuel Chap-man, of Elizabeth town (and widow of James C, Mulford), whomhe survived fourteen years, and by whom he had four children,three of whom are still living. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, in Brooklyn (E. D.), N. Y., Dec 1, 1875, aged nearly 91years. Of a class of fifty members, he was the last survivor.

1809.

JOHN PARKER RICE was born in Princeton, Mass., Sept. 24,1786,the only son of Soloman and Mary (Binney) Rice He assumed amiddle name (by act of the state legislature) about 1816, in com-

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pliment to his mother who had married Mr. Ebenezer Parker, ofPrinceton, as her second husband. His only half-brother, AureliusD Parker, was graduated at this college in 1826.

Soon after leaving college, Mr. Rice went to Salem, Mass, andengaged in teaching. He was married to Sarah, daughter ofGeorge Crowninshield, Esq , of Salem, Nov. 18, 1816, when here-moved to Philadelphia, at the same time giving up his professionas a teacher In the summer of 1818 he settled in Boston, wherethe greater part of his married life was spent. Here he becameactively interested in the polities of the day and in various benev-olent and public enterprises For a few years he was in businessin Boston as a merchant, removing his residence, however, to Ded-ham a few years after his wife's death, which occurred Feb. 5,1847.

He finally gave up business, and in 1856 lemoved to his nativetown, wheie he resided in honored retirement until his death, Sept.20, 1875, at the age of 89. His only child, a daughter, surviveshim.

1312.

SOLTMAN" BROWN, son of Nathaniel and Thankful (Woodruff)Brown, was born in Litchfield, Conn , Nov. 17, 1790

He studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Litch-field North Association, Sept. 30, 1813, and for seven or eightyears combined the duties of teacher and preacher, until a severehemorrhage of the lungs obliged him to relinquish almost entirelypublic speaking In 1821 he lemoved to New York city,to pursuehis vocation as a classical teacher, and there he embraced the doc-trines of Eraanuel Swedenborg, and was constituted a regularpreacher of the New Jerusalem Church. He continued to teach,however, until 1832, when he took up dental suigery as a profes-sion, and for many years followed his calling in New York city.He showed his enthusiasm for his art by publishing two poems("Dentologia," in 1833, and "Dental Hygeia," in 1838) and sev-eral essays, elucidating its piinciples He also published in 1818" An Essay on American Poetry," and was for many years a fre-quent contributor to the periodical press, and especially to thecolumns of the New York " Mnror."

Dr. Brown married in 1834 Elizabeth, daughter of Amos Butler,for many years editor and proprietor of the New York " Mercan-tile Advertiser." In 1874 they removed to Minnesota, where hecontinued at the residence of his son-in-law, Judge C. D. Tuthilh

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in Dodge Center, until his death, which occurred Feb. 13,18^g, inthe 86th year of his age. His mental faculties continued clear andvigorous until his last illness, which was very bne£ His wife, fivedaughters and one son survive him; two sons having died in earlymanhood.

1814.

JOSEPH HEATLY DULLES, son of Joseph and Sophia (Heatly)Dulles, was born in Charleston, S. C, Febr. 7, 1795.

Almost immediately after graduation, he entered on a mercan-tile career in Philadelphia. Although he had in large measurethe talents which lead to success in business, from the beginninghe never forgot what was due from a liberally educated man tothe promotion of public interests. He was one of the founders ofthe Academy of Natural Sciences and of the Mercantile Library,and one of the earliest and most effl< ient friends of the FranklinInstitute. He was also one of the organizers and for over fiftyyears one of the managers of the American Sunday School Union.Of the Presbyterian Church he was an earnest working member.In business entei prises he was equally active, and in his matureryears was especially interested in the development of the coal andiron interests of his adopted state. He died at his residence inPhiladelphia, March 12, 1876, in his 82d year. He manied, in1819, a daughter of John Welsh, Esq., of Philadelphia, who sur-vives him, with four sons and four daughteis Of his sons tiyjg^were graduated at this college, in 1839, 1844, and 1852. One ofhis daughters is the wife of Charles J. Stille, LL.D. (Y. C. 1839.)

1815

WILLIAM BUELL SPRAGUE, the youngest son of Benjamin andSybil (Buell) Sprague, of Andover, Conn., was born in that town,Oct. J6, 1795, and died in Flushing, N. Y , May 7, 1876.

For a year after graduating, he was a private tutor m the familyof Major Lewis, a nephew of Washington, at Woodiawn, Va.In the fall of 1816 he entered the Theological Seminary at Prince-ton, N. J., and was graduated in the regular course. He was set-tled, Aug. 25,1819, over the Congregational Church in West Spring-field, Mass , as colleague pastor with Rev. Dr. Joseph Lathrop (Y. C.1754), who died in the following year Here he remained until1829, when he accepted a call from the Second Presbyterian Churchin Albany, N. Y., and was installed as their pastor on the 26th of

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August. His settlement in Albany continued for a period of fortyyears, and until he had reached the age of 74. In the fall of 1869he resigned his pastoral charge, and in May, 1870, removed toFlushing, L. I., where he spent the remaining years ol his life.

In 1828 he received the degree of Doctor oi Divinity from Co-lumbia College, and in 1848 the same degree from HarvardUniversity In 1859 Princeton College conferred on him thedegree of Doctor of Laws

The principal literary work of his life was the " Annals of theAmerican Pulpit," of which nine volumes aie published, and aconcluding volume is complete in manuscript and will probably bebrought out at some future time. Among other published writingsmay be mentioned, " Letters to a Daughter," " Letters fromEurope," "(Lectures to Young People,'1 *' Lectures on Revivals,"" Contrast between True and False Christianity," " Life of Dr. E.D. Griffin," " Life of Jedidiah Morse," " Life oi Pi esident Dwight"(in Sparks's " American Biography "). The number of his pub-lished sermons, addresses and orations is about 175. Amongthem are the Phi Beta Kappa address at this college in 1843, andthe oration before the Alumni in 1860.

One of the principal recieatioiis of his life was the collection ofautograph manuscripts. He began this at an early day, and suc-ceeded in accumulating a great quantity of interesting material.A considerable portion of Gen Washington's private correspond-ence was presented to him b) one of the members of the Wash-ington family, and his collection includes two complete sets of theautographs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, acomplete set of the genemls of the Revolution commissioned bythe Continental Congress (the only set in existence), all theEnglish sovereigns from James I, all the French sovereigns fromLouis XIV, together with such individual names as St. Augustine,Calvin, Buuyan, Melanchthon, Erasmus, the Emperor Charles V,Henry IV of France, Henry VIII of England, and most men andwomen of note in this country or abroad during the 18th or 19thcenturies The collection fills four large cases.

Dr. Sprague was first married, Sept. 5, 1820, to Charlotte,daughter of Gen Wm. Eaton, of Brimfield, Mass. She died June25, 1S21 He was married, secondly, Aug. 2, 1824, to Mary,daughter of Hon. Samuel Lathrop, of West Springfield. Shedied Sept. 16, 18tn, and he was again married,. May 13, 1840, toHenrietta B., daughter of Hon. Samuel Lathrop, who is still living.

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All the children of the second and third marriages who survivedinfancy, are still living: they are two sons and one daughter bythe second marriage, and two daughters and one son by the third.

1816.

ISAAC BIRD, son of Isaac and Rhoda (Selleck) Bird, was bornin Salisbury, Conn., June 19, 1793.

He spent the year after graduation as a teacher in the academyin West Nottingham, Md., and in Nov., 1817, entered AndoverTheol. Seminary. His three years there were passed in close com-panionship with his classmates, William Goodell and Daniel Tem-ple, the associates of his future missionary life, and the three friendstogether offered themselves on graduating to the American Boardfor work among tjie heathen. Mr. Bird spent two years in theservice of the Board in this country, and was ordained, with Mr.Temple, at North Bridgewater, Mass, Oct 31, 1821. He wasmarried, Nov. 18, 1822, to Ann, daughter of Capt. Wm. Parker,of Dunbarton, N. H., and they embarked the next month withMr. and Mrs. Goodell for Malta. He passed the succeedingwinter in Jerusalem, and the next 13 years in or near Beirut,Syria. In the summer of 1836 he returned to the United States,on account of the long continued ill-health of his wite, and wasfor the next two years employed as an agent of the AmericanBoard. In Sept., 1839, he began to give instruction in the Theol.Seminary in Gilmanton, N. H., wheie he remained for six years,during the last part of the time serving as Professor of SacredLiterature. From 1846 to 1869 he conducted a family school inHartford, Conn., and then removed to Great Barrington, where hedied at the residence of his son, June 13, 1876, at the age of 83.His wife survives him. Of their ten children four died in infancy.One son graduated at Dartmouth College m 1844, and another atthis College in 1848. The eldest son is a missionary on MountLebanon, and the eldest daughter is the wife of Rev. Dr. VanLennep, so long a missionary in the Tuikish Empire.

1317.

NBHEMIAH BROWN was boin in Canterbury, Conn., June 11,1791, and died in New York City, Jan. 5, 1876, in his 85th year.

After leaving College he studied divinity with Rev. James M.Mathews, D.D., of New York City, and taught in his family asprivate tutor about three years. He was then, for about the same

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length of time, principal of Clinton Academy, in East Hampton,

He was ordained and installed eighth pastor of the First Pres-byterian Church in Huntmgton, L I., Oct 18, 1824. In conse-quence of failing health he resigned this charge June 25,1832, andremoved to New York City Here he was for several years prin-cipal of the Pickett School, and he afterwards taught a collegiateschool in Washington, D.C, but returned to New York to passhis later years.

He mained Henrietta Conklin, of Huntmgton, who died someyears before him. Of their three sons and four daughters, one sonand two daughters survive him.

BAXTER DICKINSON, youngest son of Azariafc and Mary (East-man) Dickinson, was born in Amherst, Mass., April 14, 1795.

He spent a year in teaching in Virginia, and in 1818 enteredAndover (Mass.) Theological Seminary, where he completed thecourse in 1821. He was ordained and installed pastoi of theCongregational Church in Longmeadow, Mass., March 5,1823, andthere lemained until called to the 3d Presbyterian Church inNewaik, N. J , wheie he was installed Kov. 17,1829. He laboredsuccessfully for six years in that I elation, and then accepted aninvitation to the Professorship of Sacred Rhetoric and PastoralTheology in Lane Seminary, Cincinnati After four years ofactive devotion to the interests of that institution, he accepted anappointment to the corresponding chair in the seminary in Auburn,N Y , and held the position eight years. For ten years he servedthe American and Foreign Christian Union as one of its DistrictSecretanes at New York and Boston, and then removed with hisfamily to Lake Forest, neai Chicago, where with them he openeda Young Ladies' Seminary, which was puccessfully maintaineduntil 1867 The infirmities of age rendering necessary a retire-ment from all labor, he lemoved m 1868 to Brooklyn, N". Y.,to spend his closing years, and died in that city, Dec. 5, 1875.

In 1838 he received the degree of Doctoi of Divinity fromAmherst College. He was the author of the paper known as theu True Doctrines," which was adopted in 1837 as the exponent ofthe doctrinal beliefs of the New School branch of the Presby-terian Church, and received the endorsement of both branches atthe late Reunion. In 1839 he was the moderator of the NewSchool General Assembly. He published several sermons, and

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some of these, as well as a volume of " Letters to Students," wererepublished in England.

Dr. Dickinson was married, June 4, 1823, to Martha Bush, ofBoylston, Mass., who survives him Of their nine children, oneson and three daughters are living. Two of the sons graduated atAmherst College, in 1844 and 1848 respectively.

1818

OLIVER BRONSOST died at Richfield Springs, N. Y., after a shortillness, July 21, 1875, in the 76th year of his age.

After graduating at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in1825, he was long a resident of New York City, and had for manyyears made St. Augustine, Florida, his winter home, becomingthus a liberal benefactor of the educational and religious interestsof that State. His widow, Mrs. Joanna Bronson, died in Balti-more, Md., Feb. 13, 1876.

1819.

JONATHAN EDWARDS was born in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 27,1798, and was the eldest son of Jonathan Walter Edwards(Y. C. 1789), a distinguished lawyer of Hartford, and son of theyounger President Edwards. His mother was Elizabeth, daughterof Capt. Moses Tryon, of Wethersfield, Conn.

After leaving college, he studied law with Chief-Justice Zeph-aniah Swift (Y. C. 1778), of Windham, Conn., was admitted tothe bar in 1824, and was for a few years a practicing attorney mHarttord. In 1830 he went to the island of Cuba to reside, butthe death of his father in April, 1831, changed his plans, and in-duced him to return to his native city. In 1835 he was appointedby the state legislature judge of probate for the distnct of Hart-foid, and held the office for one year. In 183o he was nominatedby the whigs for secretary of state, but was defeated, with all hisassociates on the ticket. He removed m 1838 to Troy, N". Y ,where he was subsequently mayor of the city, and for two years(1854 and 1855) a number of tht btaie legislature

He was married, March 1, 1837, to Maria Champion, of Col-chester, Conn. Alter her death he removed in the spring of 18b7with his son to New Haven, Conn., where he spent the remainderof his life in invalid retirement. He died in this city, quite sud-denly, of a congestive chill, Aug. 23, 1875, in his 77th year Hisonly son graduated at this college in 1863.

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1821.

GEORGE ELIASHIB ADAMS, eldest son of Deacon Ehashib Adams,was born in Worlhington, Mass., Oct. 21, 1801. His mother wasAnne, daughter of Rev. John Leland, of Peru, Mass.

In 1808 the family removed to Bucksport, Me , and in 1813 toBangor, from which place the son entered college. He studiedtheology in Andover Seminary, graduating in 1826, and in 1827was appointed Professor of Sacred Literature in the BangorTheological Seminary, which position he retained until ordainedpastor of the Congregational Church in Brunswick, Me., Dec. 30,1829. At Brunswick the students in Bowdoin College were a partof his regular congregation, and after forty years of successfullabor he was apprehensive that a younger man might be betteradapted to the place, and listened to an invitation to remove toOrange, N. J. He resigned his pastorate in June, 1870, and wassoon installed over the Trinity Congregational Church in OrangeHere, though at times quite feeble, he continued his ministry untilhis resignation m March, 1875. He died after a long illness, inOrange, Dec. 25, ^75 , aged 74 years.

He married, in 1826, Miss Sarah Ann Folsom, of Portsmouth,N. H. They had no children, but adopted two daughters About1853, some years after the death of his first wife, he married a MissRoot, who survives him with two daughters. He received thedegree of Doctor of Divinity from Bowdoin College in 1849.

ISAAC ESTY, son ot David and Mercy Esty, was born in West-moreland, Cheshire county. N. H , April 24, 1796.

He spent three years in Andover Theological Seminary, gradu-ating in 1824, and was for some time employed as a home mis-sionary in his native county. He was ordained, Jan. 29, 1829,pastor of a Congregational Church at Cape Elizabeth, Me., where heremained until 1831. He then removed to Bridgeton, Me., wherehe preached until the spring of 1832, when he returned to hisnative place. Here he remained in feeble health, devoting him-self to farming, for eight years. In the spring of 1840 he removedto Westmmstei, Vt , wheie he resided until April, 1846, when heaccepted a call to the Congregational Chuiches in Bethlehem andFranconia, N II , preaching in each pulpit on alternate Sabbaths.This arrangement continued until the spring of 1851, when hereturned to Westminster, where he lived until the spring of 1855,acting during the last two years of this period as pastor of the

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Congregational Church. He then removed to Amherst, Mass.,where he resided until his death, July 31, 1875, at the age of 79.

He was married, Feb. 11, 1829, to Nancy Goldsmith, daughterof Asa Cole, of Westmoreland. She died Bee 13, 1872. Oftheir two sons, one died in infancy; the other graduated at Am-herst College in I860, and is a Professor in that institution

1823.

DAVID BUCK, eldest son of Gurdon and Susanna (Manwaring)Buck, was born in New York city, Jan. 29, 1806

The first year of his college coui se was spent in Columbia Col-lege. He resided in Boston, where he married Matilda, daughterof Henry Hall, Esq., by whom he had five children. He died athis summer residence in Marblehead, Mass,, Aug. 15, 1875.

SAMUEL HOPKINS RIDDEL, eldest son of Rev. William Riddel(Dartmouth College 1793), was born in Bristol, Me, where hisfather was then pastor, Jan. 2, 1800, His mother was Lucy,daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Hopkins (Y. C. 1749), of Hadley,Mass.

He went from college to the Andover Theological Seminary,and finished the course there in 1826. He was called to the pas-torate of the Congregational Church in Glastonbury, Conn., April23, 1827, and was ordained there on the 27th of the followingJune. Having been in 1836 appointed an Agent of the AmericanEducation Society, he was dismissed in February, 1837, from hispastoral charge, and for the next two years devoted himself to theinterests of that Society as its agent for Connecticut and RhodeIsland and as Secretary of the Connecticut branch. In April,1839, having been appointed editor of the " Congregationalist,"a religious newspaper published in Hartford, Conn., he resignedhis agency, but two years later was recalled to the service of thesame society as its Secretary at its general office in Boston. Inthis position he continued until 1850 He was subsequently, from1853 to 1858, an editor and proprietor of the " Puritan Recorder,"and was installed, Aug. 15, 1860, over the Congregational Churchin Tamworth, N. H. While in this office his wife died, Febr. 4,1866, and later the only remaining member of his family, an invaliddaughter, was taken away. Soon after this last affliction heresigned his charge, July 12, 1871. In the fall of 1875 he wentto the West to visit, and was prevailed upon to pass the winter

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with friends in DesMoines, Iowa In the spring he contracted acold which developed into pneumonia, of which disease he died,June 1,1876, in his 77th year.

1824.

JAMES LOWREY, youngest child of Daniel and Anna (Munson)Lowrey, was born in that part of Farmington which is nowPlainville, Conn., Sept. 10, 1802.

He went to Wellsboro, Pa., as the principal of the academy,and there studied law, and entered into partnership with Hon.Ellis Lewis He was at one time a member of the State Legisla-ture He retired from practice several years before his death, andremoved to Burlington, N. J., where he died, Nov. 30, 1875, aged73 years.

He married, in 1830, Mary W., daughter of Hon. Samuel W.Morris, of Pennsylvania, who is still living.

1825

STEPHEN TOPLIFF, son of Cyrus and Mary (Streeter) Topliff,was born in Wellington, Conn , Nov. 9, 1796.

From College he entered directly the Yale Divinity School, andupon finishing the three years' course there was ordained as anevangelist at North Branford, Conn., Oct 15, 1828. His first pas-toral charge was over the 4th Congi egational church in Middle-town, Conn , (Westfield society), from May 27, 1829, to Oct. 3,1838. After serving as stated supply in Columbus, O., in 1839-40, he returned to Connecticut and was settled over the Congrega-tional Church in Oxford, from Sept 1, 1841, to July 1, 1860. Hethen retired to Cromwell, Conn., where he resided until his death,of dysentery, Aug. 7, 1875, at the age of 78.

He was married, Oct 14, 1838, to Almira, daughter of SethWilcox, of Middletown, by whom he had two daughters.

1826.

EDWARD WARING PARKER was born in Charleston, S. C , April13, 1806, and entered college at the beginning of Sophomore yearfrom Spartanburgh I>istrict, S. C.

After graduation he studied law in Edgefield, S. C, and wasadmitted to the bar, May 15, 1828, but never practised. Hespent some years in travel, and in Jan., 1834, married Martha W.Williamson, of Fairfield, S. C , and settled in Spartanburgh,

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where he remained until his death, after six months' illness, Dec.11, 1873, in his 58th year. He lived in the country, and devotedhimself to reading and to the education of his two daughters,who died after they were grown up, within five days of eachother, in the year 1865. His wife survives him.

MARK PRATT, son of Hopson and Delia (Skiff) Pratt, was bornin Kent, Conn., Apiil 15, 1804.

After graduation he taught school at home for a few months,and was then for a time engaged in business. • He finally studiedmedicine, graduating at the Yale Medical School in 1831. Forthe first two years he practiced his profession in Delhi, N. Y., butin 1833 settled in Haverstraw, N. Y., where he remained until hisdeath, Jan. 23, 1876, in his 72d year.

In 1838 he WHS married to Miss Fanny A. Coggswell, of NewPreston, Conn., who survives him, with two of their four children.

THOMAS RITTER, son of David and Lydia (Bailey) Ritter, of NewHaven, Conn., was born in this city, April 28, 1806.

After leaving College he took charge of an academy in Una-dilla, N. Y., but returned to New Haven in 1827 and entered theMedical School, where he received his diploma in the spring of1829. After an interval of further study in New York, he madea brief trial of the practice of his profession in Longmeadow,Mass., and in Wethersfield, Conn., but returned to New York,where he entered upon the retail drug business, continuing alsohis medical practice. He finally gave his whole attention to thepreparation of medical stores for vessels, and published a medicalwork for the use of ships, of which over 30,000 copies have beensold. Dr. Ritter was an active Christian, and the exertions whichhe made in connection with the recent services of Messrs. Moodyand Sankey in New York contributed to shorten his life. Hedied, after an illness of twelve days, of pneumonia, May 12, 1876,at the age of 70.

In June, 1830, he was married to Miss Delia Maria Ayres, ofNew Canaan, Conn., and had nine children, foui of whom, withhis wife, survive him.

1827.

HORACE BUSHNELL, son of Ensign and Dotha (Bishop) Bush-nell, was born in Litchfield, Conn., April 14, 1802. At the time

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of his admission to college, his residence was in the parish of NewPreston, in Washington, Conn. •

On graduating, he went to Norwich, Conn., as principal of theChelsea Grammar School, but in February, 1828, accepted a posi-tion in the editorial office of the N. Y "Journal of Commerce,"which he held until the close of the year. He then returned toNew Haven as a law student, but was diverted from the prepara-tion for his profession by the offer of a tutorship in college, inwhich office he remained for two years, 1829-31. While thenlooking forward to entrance on the legal profession, his religiouslife received a special impulse, the result of which was that hedevoted himself to the study of theology in the Divinity Schoolof this college, and after two years of preparation was ordainedover the North Church in Hartford, Conn., May 22, 183a. Withthis church he remained, until the loss of health obliged him toresign, Nov. 22, 1859 He was then suffering from consumption,which seemed to threaten a speedy decline; but the strength ofhis constitution so far prevailed that he was spared for nearlytwenty years more of unofficial residence among his former peo-ple He died in Hartford, Feb. 17, 1876, in the 74th year of hisage

He married Miss Mary Apthorp, of New Haven, who surviveshim with three of their live children.

His principal publications were: in 1847," Christian Nurture";in 1849, "God in Christ"; m 1851, "Christ in Theology"; in1858, "Sermons for the New Life," and " Nature and the Super-natural" ; in 1864, " Work and Play," and " Christ and His Salva-tion" , in 1865, "The Vicarious Sacrifice"; in 1868, "Moral Usesof Dark Things"; in 1869, "Woman Suffrage"; in 1872, "Ser-mons on Living Subjects"; and in 1874, " Forgiveness and Law."In his repute and influence as an author he was unrivalled amongthe graduates of the college of his generation. The degree ofDoctor of Divinity was given him by Wesleyan University in1842 and by Harvard University in 1852 ; that of Doctor of Lawsby this college in 1871.

1829.

JOHN BARKER CHURCH, eldest son of Philip and Ann MatildaChurch, was born, Feb. 21, 1808, in Philadelphia, during a win-ter's lesidence of his family in that city, their home being on alarge landed property m Allegany County, N Y , near the village

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of Angelica, which was named from his paternal grandmother,Angelica Schuyler.

Mr* Church began his college course in Geneva College, joiningthe Sophomore class at Yale in January, 1827. The first yearafter graduation he spent in the Yale Law School, but then de-cided to devote himself to agriculture and the development of hisproperty adjoining his father's estate. After a residence of twelveyears in Allegany County, he removed to New Haven, passingfive years there, and thence to New York City, where or in thevicinity he remained until his death. For several years his homewas on the Hudson river, near Scarborough, where he found thegreatest pleasure in the improvement of his estate. He enjoyedrobust health during a long life, but during its last year declinedrapidly from failure of the digestive organs, and died, in Scar-borough, July 23, 1875, in the 08th year of his age.

In 1831 he married Maria Trumbull, daughter of ProfessorBenjamin Silhman of Yale College, who with seven children sur-vives him.

1830.

SAMUEL WORTHINGTON DORSET, son of Hon. Thomas B. Dorsey,chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland,and of Milcah (Goodwin) Dorsey, was bom in Baltimore in 1811.

He studied law with John Glenn, Esq., in Baltimore, where hewas admitted to the bar and engaged in practice for two years, afterwhich he removed to Vicksburg, Miss., and there pursued his pro-fession foi about two years longer. During these last years hewas also occupied with cotton planting, and he now abandonedhis profession, and for the rest of his life was extensively engagedas a planter in Louisiana. He went to Maryland for a visit in thespring of 1875, intending also to be present in New Haven at themeeting of his class in June. But the threatened overflow of theMississippi river called him home ; he sank under the exposure towhich he was subjected, and died, October 18, at his residencein Tensas Parish, La Mr. Dorsey enjoyed the confidence andaffection of a wide circle of friends for his high character. Hehad been State Senator for several terms, and was a member ofthe State Convention which passed the ordinance of secession in1861, though he took no active part in the struggle which followed.

He was married in 1853 to Miss Sarah A. Ellis, of Natchez,Miss,, who is still living. Mrs. Dorsey is extensively known inthe South as an author.

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LEWIS BABTHOLOMEW WOODRUFF was born in Litchfield, Conn ,June 19, 1809 His father was Gen. Morris Woodruff, a judge ofthe County Court, and his mother a daughter of Lewis Catlin, ofHarwinton, Conn.

In the fall of 1830 he entered Judge Gould's Law School atLitchfield, and after completing the course there, was admitted topractice in April, 1832. From Oct., 1832, till Jan., 1836, he was inpartnership with Hon. Willis Hall (Y C. 1824) in New YorkCity. He continued in New York in practice by himself for anumber of yeais, and was later associated with Kichard Good-man, Esq., and with George Wood, Esq. In the fall of 1849 hewas elected Judge of the City Court of Common Pleas, and heldthe office for six years He was then chosen a Judge of the Supe-rior Court of the city, and at the close of his term of office, re-sumed the practice of his profession, Jan. 1, 1862. He remainedfor six years at the bar, in partnership with his elder son andwith Charles H. Sanford, Esq (Y C 1847.) He was then, inJan., 1868, appointed a Judge of the Court of Appeals of theState of New York, which office he held until Dec, 1869, whenhe was made Judge of the Circuit Court of the U. S., for the sec-ond judicial circuit, embracing New York, Connecticut, and Ver-mont. This office he held at the time of his death. Both at thebar and upon the bench, Judge Woodruff was very highly es-teemed and respected He received the degree of Doctoi of Lawsfrom Columbia College in 1860. For some years before his deathhe was an elder of the Collegiate Reformed Church. He died athis summer residence in Litchfield, Conn., Sept. 10, 1875, from theeffects of a complicated disorder of the kidneys, which had con-fined him to the house since eaily spring

Judge Woodruff mained, in Nov., 1835, Harriette B , daughterof Chief Justice Jo&eph C Hoinblower, of Newark, N. J. Shedied April 5, 1868 Their three children survive him, the twosons being graduates of this college.

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TRUSTEN POI K, son of Wm N. Polk, of Sussex County, Del.,was born May 29, 1811 His mother was a sister of Gov. PeterF. Causey, of Delaware

Returning home after graduation, he began the study of law inthe office of the Attorney-Genei al of the State, and a year latercame back to New Haven for a two year** course in the law

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school. In 1835 he removed to St. Louis, Mo., and establishinghimself there in the practice of his profession rose by his ownexertions to eminence. He was in 1856 nominated and elected asthe Democratic candidate for Governor of the State. He held theoffice until elected to the U. S. Senate, which he entered on March4, 1857, for a term of six years. On the breaking out of the warhe cast in his fortunes with the Confederate Government and filledvarious offices of responsibility. In 1864 he was taken prisoner,and aftei his exchange occupied the position of Military Judge ofthe Department of the Mississippi. After the close of the war hereturned to St. Louis, and devoted himself to the practice of hisprofession, until his sudden death, April 16,1876, in his 65th year.

Gov. Polk was married in 1837 to Elizabeth N. Skinner, of St.Louis, who survives him with four daughters. Their only son diedin infancy.

1835.

CHAELES LEWIS HEQUEMBOITRG, a native of New Haven, Conn.,died at Fort McPherson, Nebraska, Dec 24, 1875, aged 64 yearsand 5 months.

lie graduated from Auburn (N. Y.) Theological Seminary in1838, and preached for a year or more in the Presbyteiian Churchin Fiedonia, N. Y He was ordained and installed over the Pres-byterian Church in Dunkirk, N. Y., Oct. 27, 1841, from whichcharge he was dismissed in 1846. He subsequently preached inJamestown, N. Y., and in Warren, Pa., and in July, 1870, wasappointed Chaplain in the U. S. army, and was succe&sively sta-tioned at various points in the Territories. In 1874 he was trans-ferred to Fort McPherson, where he died.

His wife, who survives him with three children, was a daughterof Dr. Ezra Williams, who emigrated from Northford, Conn., toDunkirk, JSL Y.

GEORGE LEWIS MILLS was born in 1815, in Becket, Mass , wherehis father, Rev. Joseph L. Mills (Union College 1802) was pastorof the Congi egational Church for over thirty \ears.

After graduation he taught in the academy at Bellpoit, L I.,for nearly two years, and later in New England. In 1840 he wentto Ohio, and took charge of an academy in Windham, which placehad been settled by a colony from his father's parish. Theremainder of his life was devoted to the educational interests of

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his adopted State, where his influence as a teacher and a superin-tendent of schools was widely felt. He died after a brief illness,of congestion of the lungs, at North Liberty, 0., March 2, 1876.

He married, in Windham, in 1842, Mary E. Raymond, who diedin 1865. Of their three children, one daughter is the only sur-vivor.

1836.

EDWARD LUCAS HART, second son of Rev. Lucas and Harriet(MorriB) Hart, of Wolcott, Conn., was born Dec 31, 1813, in EastHaven, Conn., the home of his widowed mother, to which she hadreturned after the death of her husband, two months before.

Having decided on teaching as a profession, he opened a classicalschool in New Haven, from which he removed to the charge of theacademy in Berlin, Conn , where he continued until he settled inFarmington, Conn , as associate principal with his uncle, SimeonHart, (Y. C. 1823) in a boarding school for boys. He remainedin Farmington, occupied mainly in teaching, until his death, May15, 1876.

He married, April 26, 1837, Nancy C, daughter of Wm. G.Hooker, of New Haven. Of their six children, one son was grad-uated at this college in 1872.

1837.

WIIXIAM WILSON SELFRIDGE was born in Kutztown, Pa , March18, 1817. After graduation he was for three years in business inAllentown, Pa., and after a succession of other business pursuits,settled in South Bethlehem, Pa., where he died Sept. 10, 1875, ofinflammation of the brain, consequent on paralysis of over a year'sstanding.

He was married, March 1, 1842, to Maria W. Wilson, and hadfour children, of whom two survive him.

1840.

GEOBGE DARWLV LAMONT was born in Yates, Orleans county,N. Y., Jan. 24, 1819, and entered College at the beginning of theSophomore year from Gaines, in the same county. He left hisclass in April of the Junior year, but received his degree in 1841.He studied law with Hon. J. S. Curtenius, of Lockport, N. Y., andbeing admitted to the bar in 1841, began practice in that placeThe first public office which he held was that of Commissioner of

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public schools in Niagara county, and aftewards in 1850 he waselected District Attorney of the county. In 1859 he was electedState Senator from the 29th senatorial district, to fill a vacancy, andin 1862 was appointed U. S. Attorney for the Provisional Court thenestablished in Louisiana, and performed the duties of that positionuntil the court was dissolved in the summer of 1865. Returningto Lockport, he was elected in the autumn of 1865 County Judge,and in 1868, while holding this office, was appointed a Justice ofthe Supreme Court of the State for the 8th Judicial District, to filla vacancy; in 1871 he was elected to the same position for a fullterm, and died in office, at his residence in Lockport, Jan. 15,1876, of disease of the heart.

He married, in 1842, Mary, daughter of J. Cole, of Chili, N. Y.She, with one son and two daughters, survives him,

1841.

EZRA HALL GILLETT, the second son of Ely H and Mary (Wil-liams) Gillett, was born in Colchester, Conn., July 15, 1823, andafter thorough preparation at the Bacon Academy in his nativetown entered College at the opening of Junior year

After graduation he spent nearly four years in the Union Theo-logical Seminary, New York City, for the last year having chargeof the library. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Pres-byterian Church in Harlem, N, Y., April 16, 1845, and continuedin this relation for just 25 years. In the mean time he wasappointed in 1868 Professor of Political Science in the Universityof the City of New York, and occupied the chair, giving instruc-tion also in Moral Science and Ancient Histoi y, until his death.He continued also to preach almost every Sunday. His publica-tions include a translation of Luther's Commentary on Peterand Jude (N. Y., 1859) ; Life and Times of Huss (Boston, 1863, 2vols.); a History of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S (Phila-delphia, 1864, 2 vols.); God in Human Thought (N. Y., 1874, 2vols.); and The Moral System (N. Y., 1874). He was for more than20 years befoie his death a frequent contributor to the religiouspress; hardly a number of the New York Evangelist for the last15 years had failed to contain editorial or review articles from hisready pen. His contributions to reviews include several exhaus-tive articles which deserve to be counted ae separate historicalmonographs. In recognition of his thoroughness and zeal in hischosen field of research, church history, the degree of D.D. was

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conferred on him by Hamilton College in 1864. His death, whichoccurred at Harlem, Sept. 2, 1875, after an illness of three weeks,was the result of a nervous fever, traceable to overwork.

He was first married, Oct. 15, 1851, to Maria H. Ripley, ofBrooklyn, N. Y , by whom he had no children. She died March28, 1853. June 19,1854, he married Mary J. Kendall, of SaratogaSprings, who with her two sons survives him.

HBNBY HUNTER RAYMOND was born July 2, 1822, in Charles-ton, S. C, and entered College at the beginning of the Sophomoreyear.

He studied law at home, and afterward in the Han ard LawSchool, graduating there in 1845. He settled m Charleston as alawyer, and his residence continued there until his death in thatcity, May 31, 1876, in his 54th year. During the late war he wasa Major in the Confederate service.

He married, in 1849, Miss Taveau, who died about 1865 Oneof their two children survives her parents.

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MYRON BARRETT, third son of Ezekiel and Rhoda (Dakin) Bar-rett, was born in North East, Duchess County, N. Y., Sept. 9,1816

He taught for iour years in Columbus, O., and then studiedtheology for two years in Union Seminary, New York City, andfor one year in Princeton, where he graduated in 1861. The ensu-ing fall he began preaching in Pontiac, Mich., and after sixmonths was invited to supply a pulpit in Detroit, where he con-tinued for over a year, while the pastor was abroad. He wasordained by the Presbytery of Detroit, March 9, 1852, and inJune, 1854, became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in New-ton, N. J He resigned his charge five years later on account ofimpaired health, and after briefer terms of pastoral service else-where returned to Newton, where he died, May 8, 1876, in his60th year.

He was married, April 8, 1856, to Emma E., eldest daughter ofHon. David Ryerson, of Newton, by whom he had three children.His wife, witli one son and one daughter, survives him.

ORRIS SANFORD FERRY was born in Bethel, Fan-field county,Conn., Aug. 15, 1823, and died at his residence in Norwalk, in thesame county, Nov. 21, 1875, aged 52 years.

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He studied law and was admitted to the bar in August^ 1846,and settled in Norwalk, where he married in May of the followingyear, Charlotte E., daughter of Governor Clark Bifisell (Y. C.1806). He retained his connection with the Norwalk bar untilhis death. In 1849 he was appointed Judge of Probate, and in1855 and 1856 served in the State Senate. In 1856 he was madeDistrict Attorney for Fairfieid county, and held this office untilhis election to Congress in 185 H. After one term's service as Repre-sentative he was renominated, but was defeated, and in July, 1861,was commissioned as Colonel of the 5th Regiment of Conn. Vol-unteers, and served through the war. He was promoted to therank of Brigadier General, in April, 1862. In May, 1866, he waselected to the U. S. Senate, and was re-elected in May, 1872. Hewas prostrated by spinal disease in 1868, and for the rest of hislife was an invalid. For a few weeks before his death he hadbeen under medical treatment in Brooklyn, N. Y., and reachedhome in a very feeble condition on Saturday, Nov. 20. The nextmorning a severe attack of hemorrhage of the bowels supervened,from which death in a few hours relieved him. His wife and onlydaughter survive him.

Senator Ferry was recognized as a brilliant debater, conscien-tious and independent in his public career, and gifted with abili-ties which ranked him among the leaders of the SenatorialChamber.

NATHANIEL WILLIAM TAYLOR, son of Rev. Nathaniel W Tay-lor, D.D. (Y C 1807), Professor of Didactic Theology in YaleCollege, and Rebecca (M. Hine) Taylor, was born in New Haven,Conn , July 27, 1823.

He graduated from the Medical Department of this college inJanuary, 1846, and then became a resident physician in BellevueHospital, New York city In March, 1847, he returned to NewHaven, and continued there in the practice of his profession untilthe summer of 1851. The next two years were spent in a voyageto the Southern Indian Ocean for the benefit of his health. FromJune, 1853, until March, 1855, he practiced his profession inSpringtield, Mass. After a trip to England he then returned toNew Haven, and in July, 3 857, his health continuing feeble, hesailed again for the Southern Indian Ocean, and was absent untilApril, 1859. During the next two years he was occupied withfarming in West Hartford and Bloomfield, Conn., and in March.

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1861, removed to Blandford, Mass., and resumed practice. InAugust, 1862, he enlisted in the 27th Mass. Regiment, and con-tinued in active service (mainly employed in hospital duty) untilOctober, 1864, when he was discharged He returned to Bloom-field, Conn., where he remained, engaged in farming, with theexception of another Indian voyage in 1866-67, until his death.

He was married July 7, 1865, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter ofBenoni Hubbard, of Bloomfield, who survives him without chil-dren. He died in Bloomfield after a lingering illness, August 8,1875, aged 52 years.

1846.

THOMAS DUBOIS SHEBWOOD, son of Samuel and Ruth (DuBois)Sherwood, was born in Fishkill, N. Y., Oct. 23, ] 823.

Immediately upon graduation he began the study of law in NewYork city in the office of his brother, John D. Sherwood (Y. C.1889), with whom soon after his admission to the bar (in 1853) heentered into partnership. He continued in this partnership, doinga successful and lucrative business, until 1865, when the firm wasdissolved by the retirement of his brother, on account of ill health.He continued in practice by himself, until appointed, m October,1873, one of the Police Justices of the city, under the new act ofthe Legislature removing those offices from political control. Inthis position he continued, perfoiming its duties with remarkableuprightness and impartiality, until his sudden death, after anillness of a few hours, in New York city, May 25, 1875, in his 52dyear.

Judge Sherwood was married, Jan. 25, 1849, to Mary, youngestdaughter of Judge Samuel J. Hitchcock (Y. C. 1809), of the YaleLaw School, who died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1852, leavingone son In May, 1858, he married Fanny A , daughter of J. S.Fitch, Esq , of Marshall, Mich. She died in New York city, Aug.9, 1868, leaving one daughter,

ABIJAH HULL THOMPSON was born Dec. 14, 1825, and enteredCollege from Black Rock, N Y., at the close of Freshman year.

His life was spent in business pursuits He died after a verybrief lllnesK, of erysipelas, at his residence in his native place,June 19, 1876, in his 51st year.

He married Miss Bird, daughter of the President of the Niag-ara Falls Railroad Company, and had seven children.

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BENJAMIN FBANKLLN BASSETT, son of John Bassett, was bornin Derby, Conn., Jan. 23, 1825. While he was yet young, hisfamily removed to New Haven, and he entered college with the^class of 1846, but on account of ill health joined the next class.

He studied medicine in New Haven and New York city, andreceived the degree of M. D. from this college in 1851. He prac-ticed his profession in Brooklyn, N Y., until May, 1868, whenowing to a failure of health, from the effects of a partial sun-stroke, he removed to Wilton, Conn., where he occupied himselfwith agriculture, in the hope of regaining his full strength. Con-tinuing feeble, he removed to New Haven in 1874, and while on avisit in Warren, Conn., died of billious dysentery, Sept. 4, 1875,aged 50 years.

He was married, Oct 8, 1864, to Mrs. Mary L. Howe, the widowof Lewis Howe (Y. C. 1852), of Greenwich, Conn., who with twoof their three children survives him.

STUKELY ELLSWORTH, eldest son of Dr. Waterman Ellsworth,was born Dec. 18, 1826, and entered college from Stockton, Chau-tauqua County, N. Y. After teaching for a while, he studied law,and after practicing in Stockton, removed in April, 1855, toEugene City, Oregon, where he continued in professional life untilnear the close of his career. He died in LaGrande, Oregon, Jan.28, 1876, at the age of 49.

He married, m July, 1856, Mary C. Stevens, from Cold Water,Mich., and had five children.

1849.

RTTFTJS AIXSTIN FORD was born iu Natchez, Mpi., Feb 27,1827,and entered college at the beginning ot Junior year.

After graduating he studied medicine for a year at home, andfor two years in the Medical Department of the University atLouisville, Ky., where he graduated in March, 1852. Duringmost of the time until 1858 he practiced his piofession in Wilkin-son County, Mpi., and was then occupied as a planter iu the samecounty until the year 1862, when he was obliged to enter theConfederate Cavalry service He served later as surgeon in thearmy, and after the war was over returned to his plantation. In1868 he established himself as a physician m Kansas City, Mo.,where he continued until his death, July 6, 1875, aged 48 years.His death was attributed to the excessive use of tobacco.

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Dr. Ford was married, in June, 1854, to Miss Sarah B. Petti-bone, of Wilkinson County, MpL, by whom he had seven children.

JAMES BROWNING MILES, son of Willard M. and Alice(Browning) Miles, was born in Rutland, Mass, Aug. 18, 1823.

He spent a year in teaching in North F airfield, Conn , and thenentered the Yale Divinity school He subsequently removed toAndover Theol. Seminary, but on receiving the appointment ofTutor m this college, returned to fill that position in Sept., 1852He left the tutorship in July, 1854, having in the meantime con-tinued his theological studies, and was ordained pastor of the 1stCongregational Church m Charlestown, Mass., Jan 2,1855. Heremained with this church until Oct, 1871, when he resigned andremoved to Boston, to accept the Secretaryship of the AmericanPeace Society. He thiew himself into the work of reorganizingthis society with great vigor, and effected a cooperation betweenits fnends and those who were devoting themselves (largely undeihis guidance) to the reform and codification of the law of nationsIn the pursuit of these objects he twice visited Europe to takepart m the Congresses of the International Code Association—forthe last time in July, 1875 The labor of this last Congress provedtoo much for his strength, and on his way home he was attackedwith illness. With difficulty he reached his brother's house inWorcester, Mass., where he died, of peritonitis, on the 13th dayof November, aged 5*2 The degree of Doctor of Divinity wasconferred on him by Beloit College in 1873.

He was married, Aug 7, 1856, to Miss Julia E., daughter ofRev Joseph Hurlbut (Y C. 1818), of New London, Conn. Shesurvives him, with two oi their three children

WALKER RICHARDSON, son of Dr Wm. N. Richardson, wasborn in Elbert County, Oa , in 1825

He was a planter in Glennville, Ala., from the date of gradua-tion until his sudden death from apoplexy, Jan. 20, 1875. Heserved in the Confederate army of Tennessee trom Aug. 1, 1863,to May, 1865.

1853.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT HALL, third son of Daniel and Philena(Lyman) Hall, was born in Perry, N Y., Sept. 3, 1830, andentered college at the beginning of Sophomore year.

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After graduation he taught a school and studied law in Adamscounty, Mpi., and in 1855 settled in Hudson, Wise, as an attorneyand dealer in real estate. Owing to poor health he abandonedhis profession in 1859, and in the spring of 1861 retired to hisfarm a few miles out of town, and devoted himself to scientificfanning. Although remaining an invalid, there was no cause forspecial alarm until a severe attack of congestion of the liver inMarch, 1874 Recovering from this by main force of will, hemade two journeys to Colorado with hopes of improvement, andpurposed to remove thither with his family; but the rapid pro-gress of consumption ended his life, in Hudson, Oct. 19, 1875, atthe age of 45.

He was married, July 22, 1856, to Helen M., daughter of Col.Alvah Jefferson, of Darien, N". Y. She survives him with twodaughters.

1857.

GEORGE AUGUSTUS NOLBN was born in Sutton, Mass, Jan. 9,1831. He remained in Kew Haven as a graduate student, untilhe accepted a tutorship in the College in the summer of 1860. Heresigned this office m July, 1865, when he was appointed Assist-ant Examiner in the U. S. Patent Office. He entered on his dutiesin Jan. 1866, and at the time ol his death held the position ofExaminer-in-chief, having been appointed to that rank by Presi-dent Grant in April, 1875 A few weeks after this appointment hewas attacked with consumption, which first manifested itself by aviolent hemorrhage of the lungs, on the 13th of May He failedsteadily and rapidly, and died in Washington, Aug. 17 Hiswife, who had been struggling for three years with the same dis-ease, survived him but a few hours. They left one son. In ability,integrity and courtesy, no one in the Patent Office was his superior.

EDWIN FRANCIS SAXDYS, son of Rev. Edwin and Mary Sandys,was born at Lebanon Springs, N Y, March 12, 1832 In 1847his parents removed to Pittsfield, Mass., which was his home forthe remainder of his life.

He read law in Pittsfield with Judge Colt, and was admitted tothe bar in 1860. He did not follow his profession for any lengthof time, but was for many years the Secretary of the BerkshiieMutual Fire Insurance Company. After resigning this position,he continued to the close of his life in business as a general insur-

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ance agent, so far as his health, which had long heen poor, wouldpermit. He died in Pittsfield, July 30, 1875, aged 43 years. Hewas unmarried.

1368.

EDWARD CLARKE PORTER, eldest child of James B. and Susanna(Parsons) Porter, was born in Old Hadley, Mass , Dec. 3, 1836.

For the first year after graduation, he studied in the AndoverTheological Seminary, and in the next year taught a parish schoolin Louisville, Ky. In 1861 he taught in Iowa City, Iowa, andlater in Chicago. From July, 1862, he was instructor in meta-physics and English literature in the Chicago High School. InMarch, 1866, he was ordained by Bishop Clarkson, in Racine,Wise, a Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and resign-ing next month his place as teacher, took charge of the parish ofSt. James in Chicago On Sept 23, he was ordained a Presbyter,by Bishop Lee, of Iowa, and iu April, 1867, became rector of St.Luke's Church, in Racine, in which office he continued until com-pelled by ill-health to resign, Feb. 1, 1875. In 1873 he wentabroad and spent nearly a year, in the hope of recovering hishealth, but on his return found himself not materially benefitted,and after a long and very painful illness died in Racine, Jan. 8,1876, leaving record of a singularly pure and winning ministry.

He was married, Oct. 10, 1866, to Julia, daugher of John H.Foster, of Chicago. She survives him, with children.

1861.

HUBBARD ARNOLD, son of Joseph and Clannda (Hubbard)Arnold, was born Jan. 5, 1840, in Westfield, Mass.

The first year after graduation he spent in travel and study inEurope. From Dec, 1862, to Sept, 1865, he was engaged inteaching and in studying law, most of the time in New Haven.He was admitted to the bar in this city, May 10, 1865, but neverpracticed. During the lemainder of his life he was in business inNew York City, and was for some time before his death a memberof the firm of D. Watts & Co., cotton-brokers. He had been indelicate health for some years, and late in the past winter went toPalatka, Fla., to seek relief from a serious inflammation of thethroat. Not improving, he afterwards removed to Aiken, S C,and thence to Charlotte, N. C, ariiving there early in April. Thedisease (consumption of the throat) progressed with great rapid-

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ity, and he died on the 91h of April, aged 36 years. He wasunmarried.

GEOBGE CLAP PEKKINS, son of Henry A, and Sarah (Emmons)Perkins, of Hartford, Conn., was born in that city, Aug. 8, 1839.

He was a descendant in the fourth generation from Rev. ThomasClap, President of the college from 1739 to 1*766.

After graduation he continued to reside in Hartford, during thefirst year studying law, and then entering the banking-house ofGeorge P. Bissell & Co., in which his elder brother, Edward H.Perkins (for a time a member of the class of 1859), was a partner.Here he remained until July, 1869, when he purchased a largeinterest in certain patents for making matresses from woven wire,and became the secretary and treasurer of a joint-stock company,organized to prosecute this enterprise. The remainder of his lifewas spent in developing the business of this company and devisingimprovements in their processes of manufacture, in which he metwith great success.

He was married, Oct. 23, 1873, to Mary, daughter of GeorgeRoberts, of Hartford, who survives him with one son (born afterhis decease) and one daughter. He died after a brief illness, inHartford, Sept. 23, 18*75, aged 36 years.

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ROBERT KELLEY WEEKS, eldest son of Edward C. and Emily(Stephens) Weeks, was horn in New York City, September 21st,1840

After graduating he became a member of* the Columbia LawSchool, where, at the conclusion of the course, in May, 1864, heleceived the degree of LL.B. In the same month he was admittedto the Bar of New York.

His tastes led in the direction of literature, and turning from thepractice of law, he devoted himself to reading and study.

In 1866 a small volume appeared, entitled, "Poems, by RobertK. Weeks," and in 1870 a volume entitled, " Episodes and LyricPieces," both published by Leypoldt & Holt A third volume ofpoems was in press at the time of his death. He also prepared forpublication a book of Extracts from English literature, and madeoccasional poetical and critical contributions to the periodicals ofthe day.

He died at Harlem, unmarried, of consumption, on April 13th,1876, in the 36th year of his age.

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1863.

CORNELIUS WADE BULL, son of Jabez B. and Mary (Ford) Bull,was born April 8, 1839, in Tallahassee, Fla.

After graduation he began the study of medicine in the YaleMedical School, and in the following spring joined the XL S. Navyas acting assistant paymaster, and was assigned to the Mississippisquadron. He remained in this service until August, 1865, whenhe returned to New Haven, and completed his medical course,graduating in January, 1867. He was resident physician at theState Hospital in this city until April, 1868, when he establishedhimself as a practicing physician in Terryville, Conn. Some fiveyears later he gave up practice, on account of the state of hishealth, and removed to Hartford, where he was employed as sten-ographic clerk for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. He diedm Hartford, May 19, 1876, at the age of 37.

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ROBERT MATLACK BROWNING, son of Hon. Abraham Browning,was born in Camden, NT. J , June 5, 1844.

He studied law in his father's office in Camden, and was admit-ted to practice in the November term of 1867. From this date hewas actively engaged in his profession in his native place, untilMay, 1874, when a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism dis-abled him for four months. This was succeeded by other inroadsof disease which prevented his again attending to business Hedied, ot organic disease of the heart, March 8,1875, at his home inCamden, in his 31 st year He was unmarried.

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Jonx SHARP, only son of Jacob and Mary Sharp, was born inCherry Valley, N. Y., Dec. 4, 1844.

He graduated as Doctor of Medicine from the College of Physi-cians and Surgeons, and immediately in Jan., 1868, entered on thepractice of his profession in Ottawa, 111. He remained there twoyears, when his health began to decline, and he returned to his homein Cherry Valley, where he engaged in the drug business. Afterthree yeais in this employment, his lungs showed signs of weakness, and he attempted to ward off disease by a change of climate.He spent the winter of 1873-4 in California, and the succeedingwinter in Florida. In the fall of 1875 he again left home, andarrived in Charleston, S. C , the last of November, and there grad-

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ually grew weaker until the evening of Dec. 23, when he quietlypassed away.

WALTER BUCHANAN SMITH, son of Isaac R. and Caroline E.Smith, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 29, 1844.

Shortly after his graduation he began the study of analyticalchemistry; but never possessing a strong constitution, his lungswere seriously affected by the fumes of his laboratory, and hebecame the victim of a lingering consumption, so that he couldonly pursue as a pastime what he had hoped to engage in as anactive profession. He died at his home in Philadelphia, Oct. 3,1875, at the age of 31. He was unmarried.

1866.

HENRY ROBERTS, son of Samuel Roberts, was born in Sharon,Conn., Jan. 20, 1845.

He entered this College at the beginning of the Junior year,having spent the Freshman year in Amherst College, and a sec-ond year in private stud). After graduation he was for a lewmonths in the Columbia College Law School, and for two yearswas employed as a suiveyor and as a teacher in Illinois and Iowa.He afterwards resumed the study of law, and entered on the prac-tice in Middletown, N. Y., where he died, Aug. 28, 1873, aged 28years.

He was married, in Albany, Dec. 30, 1869, to Mary Blackledge,and left one daughter.

ERNEST SCHROEDER was born in the city of New York, Aug. 4,1845

Alter graduation, he was occupied as a teacher at St. Clement'sHall, Elhcott City, Md., until within a year of his death. He hopedto enter the ministry of the Episcopal Church, and had begun thestudy of theology. He died of consumption at his family resi-dence in Red Bank, N. J., Sept. 24, 1874, aged 29 years. He wasunmarried.

1867.

ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, elder son of Frank Johnston (Y. C 1835)and Mary E. Johnston, was born in Alleghany City, Pa., Oct. 21,1843.

He entered with the class of 1S66, and at the end of the first

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year left college, to return a year later to the class of 1867. Hegraduated at the Yale Divinity School in 1871, having lost oneyear from ill health. He then spent a year in charge of the Con-gregational Church in Quindaro, Kansas, and in the fall of 1872removed to Oberlin, Ohio, where he studied for the following yearin the Theological Seminary. In May, 1873, he sailed for Europe,and devoted himself for two years to the study of logic and meta-physics in Berlin, hoping to spend his future life in studying andteaching these branches He returned to America in the summerof 1875, and in November settled in Boston for the winter. Buthis health broke down in February from overwork, and he wasremoved to the McLean Asylum in Somerville, for what wasbelieved to be only a temporary loss of mental power. Whilethere he was attacked, in April, with diphtheria, which terminatedfatally on the 5th of May He was not married.

1868.

HERBERT BOARDMAN, son of Hon Truman Boardman, formerlyState Senator of New York, died suddenly m Rochester, N. Y ,July 4, 1875, in his 30th year

He was bom in Covert, N Y., Oct 23, 1845, and entered col-lege from Trumansburg, N. Y., where his father still residesAfter graduation he spent some time in fruit-farming at home, andwas later a teacher in the Ithaca Academy. He then went toWashington, D. C, and studied in the Medical Department ofGeorgetown College, graduating in March, 1872 He also held aclerkship in the General Land Office, and remained in Washingtontill Nov , 1873, when he established himself in Rochester for thepractice of his profession. He died in the faithful discharge of hisduty, having contracted malignant diphtheria from a patient whomhe was attending the week before his death.

He was married, June 18, 1874, to Miss U. Louise Cole, of Covert,who survives him.

TIMOTHY PITKIN CHAPMAN, the second son of Timothy P. andRachel (Hartwell) Chapman, was born in New Haven, Conn., June24, 1848.

Pie graduated at the Columbia College Law School in May,1870, and after an eighteen months' tour in Euiope, entered thelaw office of Seward, Griswold, Blatehford & Da Costa, in NewYork City, in the spring of 1872,—at first as a student and later

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as honorary chief clerk. In the spring of 1874 he became juniormember of the firm, and this position he held at the time of hisdeath, which occurred at his residence in Brooklyn, N. Y., after abrief illness, Sept. 13, 1875.

He was married, Nov. 25, 1873, to Leila Trescott Tisdale, ofBrooklyn, who with an infant daughter survives him.

WILLIAM CURTIS WOOD, son of Rev. William Wood (DartmouthCollege, 1842) and Lucy Maria (Lawrence) Wood, was born Apnl20, 1849, at Mahabaleshwar, a health-resort about thirty miles fromSatara, India, where his parents were then stationed as mission-aries of the American Board.

He was prepared for college at the Lawrence Academy, in hismother's native town, Groton, Mass., and graduated with eminentdistinction. For the year 1868-9 he taught in the HopkinsGrammar School of New Haven. From Sept., 1869, to April,1870, he was a tutor in this college, but resigned his position onaccount of apprehended disease of the heart. He remained inNew Haven until his death, with the exception of one year (May1871, to April, 1872) spent in Ohio. During this time he wasemployed in private teaching and in mathematical study, and waslooking forward to the profession of a civil engineer or to thechance of a position in the TJ. S. Patent Office. His death, whichoccurred in New Haven, July 15,1875, was the sudden and unex-pected result of long-continued ill-health and mental depression.He was unmarried.

1869.

ORIN MKRWIN WILLIAMS, the youngest of ten children of thelate Seth Williams, of Ledyard, Conn., was born in Ledyard, Nov.17, 1845, and died in Winona, Minn , March 26, 1875, aged 29years.

During his college course he was quite an invalid from rheuma-tism, and when able to settle in professional life chose the climateof Minnesota as most favorable to his state of health. He beganthe study of law with Hon. Thomas Wilson of Winona, in Feb-ruary, 1871. He was admitted to the bar in April, 1872, andremained in the office of Judge Wilson until Jan. 1,1874, when heformed a partnership with A. Harry Bissell, formerly of the sameclass in College. At the close of the year, Mr. Bissell withdrew,Mr. Williams continuing in successful practice by himseli FromJan. 1875, until his death, he was city attorney. An occasional

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recurrence of his old complaint, rheumatism of the heart, kepthim ID delicate health; and at the time of his very sudden deathhe was apparently recovering from an attack which had confinedhim to his room for about three weeks. He was unmarried.

1872.

FRANK WHITNEY BLAKE, only surviving child of Eli WhitneyBlake, M.D. (Y. C. 1839) and Frances T. (Babcock) Blake, wasborn in Boston, Mass., Sept. 15, 1850.

He was fitted for college in the Boston Latin School and in theHopkins Grammar School, of New Haven; and won a good posi-tion in his class, notwithstanding the fact that during his collegecourse and for some time previous he w as entirely unable to usehis eyes for reading or studying. The year after graduating hespent at the Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Conn., butthe condition of his health and especially a difficulty with thethroat made a change of climate necessary. Accordingly he fin-ished his theological studies in the Divinity School at Fanbault,Minn., where he was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Whip-ple, June 20, 1875 During all this period, however, his nervoussystem had been gradually prostrated under the effects of closestudy, rendered especially trying by the inability to use his eyes,A few weeks aftet his ordination he went to Colorado, in hope ofbeing benefitted by that climate, and during the summer and fallofficiated regularly, most of the time at Idaho Springs. But whilehe was still in feeble health an attack of typhoid fever ended hislife, at Denver, Nov. 11, 1875.

1875.

FRANK LANSING GRINNELL, son of George B. and Helen Lan-sing Grinnell, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 27, 1853, andwas prepared for college by a private tutor in New York City,where his father then resided

He graduated in June, 1875, and was spending the summer athis father's house in Milford, Conn., when on Tuesday, September7, he went to Bridgeport, by invitation, to play as a substitute inthe Milford Base Ball Club, of which, however, he was not a mem-ber. Before the game had begun, while the players were prac-ticing in the field, he was struck at the base of the skull by a balLHe was taken to the residence of Hon. William D Bishop, wherehe died on Satuiday evening, Sept, 11, having been conscious onlyduring a brief portion of the intervening time.

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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

1847.

ISAAC SHAFER HUNT, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Turner)Hunt, was born in Newton, Sussex county, N. J , No\ 1, 1819His early education was acquired in Newton, and after receivinghis medical degree he returned to his native county, establishinghimself in Sandyston township. A malignant form of typhoid fever,styled " Finch fever," was then laging in the vicinity, and aftersome weeks of arduous professional labor he contracted the dis-ease, and only recovered after a serious and prolonged illness. , Onregaining health he secured an extensive practice in NorthernNew Jersey, which he held for eighteen years, when he lemovedto Port Jervis, N. Y., fourteen miles north of his formei residence.In his new field of practice he maintained himself with eminentsuccess, until October 23, 1875, when he was attacked with phle-bitis, or inflammation of the veins of the lower limbs, which ter-minated fatally on the 23d of November.

Dr. Hunt married, Nov. 1, 1848, Miss Saiah A. Fleming, ofSandyston, who with two sons and three daughters survives him

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL.

1873.

BENJAMIN POMBEOY, son of Mary J. and the late BenjaminPomeroy, died at his mother's house in Southport, Conn., Dec. 15,1875, aged 23 years. His death was caused by a sudden congestionof the lungs, resulting from exposure to the night air.

He was at the time of his death the cashier of the Arctic FurCompany of New Haven.

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

1874.

JAMES WILLIAM MORRIS, the first student of African descentwho was ever graduated from the Theological School, was bornin Providence, R. L, Oct. 30,1847. He graduated at Lincoln Uni-versity in 18 71, and after his graduation here engaged in preachingand teaching in Beaufort and Aiken, S. C. He died in the latterplace, of consumption, Feb. 7, 1876, aged 28 years

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WILLIAM BLRKE DANFORTH was born in Barnaid, V t , Feb.21, 1849, and entered this Divinity School on his graduation fromDartmouth College in 1871.

He went from the Seminary to Gilead, a parish of Hebron,Conn , wheie he was ordained over the Congregational Church,July 8, 1874. His faithful labors here were terminated by atedious* illness resulting in his death, July 4, 1875, aged 26

1875

Ga,oBGK HARKKS, son of Joseph C. and Harriet H. Harris, wasborn in Poughkeepsie, N Y., Sept. 17, 1849.

He lost his sight in early childhood, and was thenceforth totallyblind. He was a pupil in the Perkins Institution for the blindin South Boston, Mass, for seven years, and having determinedto enter the mimstiy, completed honorably the regulai course inthe Divinity School of Har\ ard University, where he graduatedin 1874. He then entered the Senior class in this Divinity School,and after giaduatmg purposed to remain another year in advancedtheological study But he was attacked with typhoid lever, andafter three weeks' illness died in New Haven, Nov. 8, 1875, atthe age of 26. In his attainments and his powers of impressinghimself upon others, he wa& already a iemarka,ble instance of thepossibilities open to one of hib peculiar infirmities

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Name and AgeJohn Chandler, 91,John P Rice, 89,Solymann Brown, 85,Joseph H Dulles 81,Wm B Sprague, 80,Isaac Bird, 83,Nehemiah Brown, 84,Baxter Dickinson, 80,Oliver Bronson, 75,Jonathan Edwards, 77,George E Adams, 74,Isaac Esty, 79,David Buck, 69,Samuel H Riddel 76,James Lowrey, 73,Stephen Tophff, 78,Edward W Parker, 67,Mark Pratt, 71,Thomas Ritter, 70,Horace Bushnell, 73,John B Church, 67Samuel W Dorsey,Lewis B "Woodruff, 66,Trusten Polk, 64,Charles L Hequembourg, 64,George L Mills, 61,Edward L Hart, 62,Wm W Selfndge, 58,George D Lamont 57,Ezra H Gillett, 52,Henry H Raymond, 54,Myron Barrett, 59,Orris S Ferry, 52,Nathaniel W Taylor, 52,Thomas D Sherwood, 51,Abijah H Thompson, 50,Ben] F Bassett, 50,Stukely Ellsworth, 49,Rufus A Ford, 48,James B Miles, 52,Walker Richardson, 49,T Dwight Hall, 45,Oorke A Nolen, 44,Edwin F Sandys, 43,Edward C Porter, 39,Hubbard Arnold, 36,George C Perkins, 36,Robert K Weeks, 35,Cornelius W Bull, 37,Robert M Browning, 30,

DEPARTMENT

Place andBrooklyn, N Y ,Princeton, Mass,Dodge Center, Minn,Philadelphia. PaFlushing, N Y ,Great Barrmgton, Mass,New York City,Brooklyn, N Y ,Richfield Springs, N Y ,New Haven Conn,Orange, N JAmherst, Mass,Marblehead, Mass,Des Moines, Iow^Burlington, N J ,Cromwell, Conn,Spartanburgh, S C,Haverstraw. N Y,New York City,Hartford, Conn,Scarborough, N Y ,Tensas Parish, La.,Litchfield, Conn,St Louis, Mo,Fort McPherson, Neb,North Liberty, O,Farmington, Conn,Bethlehem, Pa ,Lockport, N Y ,Harlem, N Y CityCharleston, S C,Newton, N J ,Norwalk, Conn,Bloomfield, Conn ,New York City,Black Rock, N Y ,Warren, Conn,La Grande, Oregon,Kansas City, Mo,Worcester, Mass,Glenville, Ala,Hudson, Wise,Washington, D C,Pittsfield, Mass,Racme, Wise,Charlotte, N CHartford, Conn,Harlem, N Y City,Hartford, Conn.Camden, N J ,

Time of DeathDec 1, '75Sept 20, '75Feb 13, '76March 12, '76May 7, '76June 13, '76Jan. 5, '76Dec 5, '75July 21, '75Aug 23, J75Dec 25, '75July 31, '75Aug 15, '75June 1, '76Nov ^0, '75Aug 7, '75.Dec 11, '73Jan 23, '76May 12, '76Feb 17, 576July 23, '75Oct 18, '75Sept 10,'75April 16, '76Dec 24, '75March 2, '7bMay 15, '76Sept 10, '75.Jan 15, '76Sept 2, '75May 31, '76May 8, '76Nov 21, '75Aug 8, '75May 25, '75June 19, '76Sep 4, '75Jan 28, '76July 6, '75Nov 13, '75Jan 20, r75Oct 19, '75Aug 17, '75July ^0, '7")Jan 8 '76April 9, '76Sept 23, '75April 13, '76May 19, '76March 8, '75

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N«me and AgeJohn Sharp, 31,Walter B Smith, 31,Henry Roberts, 28,Ernest Schroeder, 29,Alexander Johnston, 31,Herbert Boardman,Timothy P Chapman, 27,William C Wood, 26,Onn M Williams, 29,Frank W Blake, 25,Frank L Gnnnell, 22,

Place andCharleston, S C,Philadelphia, Pa ,Middletown, N Y ,Red Bank, N J ,Somerville, Mass,Rochester, N Y,Brooklyn, N Y ,New Haven, Conn,Wmona, Minn,Denver, Col,Bridgeport, Conn,

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT

1847 Isaac S Hunt, 56, Port Jervis, N Y ,

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL

1873 Benj Pomeroy, 23, Southport, Conn ,

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT

1874 William B Panforth, 26,'* James W Morris, 28,

1875 George Harris, 2b,

Grilead, Conn,Aiken, S C ,New Haven, Conn ,

Time of DeathDec 23, 75Oct 3, '75Aug 28, '73Sept 24,'74May 5, '76July 4, '75Sept. 13, '75July 15, '75.March 26, '76Nov 11, '75Sept 11, '75

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The number of deaths reported is 66, and the average age of tho graduates ofthe Academical Department is 55£ years

Of the Academical Graduates, 16 were clergymen, L4 lawyers, 10 physicians,8 in business, and 6 teachers

The deaths are distributed as follows —in New York, 17, Connecticut, 15,Massachusetts, 7 , New Jersey, 5 , South Carolina, 4, Pennsylvania, 3, Minnesota,Missouri, and Wisconsin, 2 each , and the remaining 9 in as many different states.

The only surviving graduate of the last century is (class of 1800) Eev THOMAS

WILLIAMS, Providence, R I , born Nov 5, 1779