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Robbins, Francis L.
Roberts, Bennett, studied F. M. S.
Robinson, James, M. E.
Rogers. John Almanza Rowley. Rogers, Medad.
Root, Isaac.
Rouse, Lucius C., res. in youth, m. Rudd, Wesley, M. E.
Ruggles, Samuel (miss. to Ha- waii), studied F. M. S.
Salter, John Williams, First Ch. supply. Sanford, Elias Benjamin, D.D., First Ch. P.
Sanford, Isaac, M. E.
Sanford, L. A., M. E.
Schofield, Aaron, M. E.
Scoville, Samuel, b.
Smalley, John, D.D.
Smith, C. J.
Smith, Eben, M. E.
Smith, Gad, M. E.
Smith, Gad N., M. E.
Smith, H. G., Bapt.
Smith, Sylvester, M. E., at Bridge. Smith, Lemuel, M. E.
Smith, Ralph, First Ch. P.
Smith, S. J., Bapt.
Smith, Walter, Second Ch. P. Somers, Alvin.
Spaulding, Wayland, Second Ch. supply.
Stackman, Carl, Second Ch. P. Starr, Edward Comfort, First Ch. P.
Stebbins, William H., M. E.
Stembridge, Alfred E., M. E.
Stephens, Ebenezer, M. E.
Stevens, D. S., M. E.
Stillman, Stephen S., M. E.
St. John, Oliver Starr, taught.
Stock, A. H., Bapt.
Stone, Timothy, First Ch. P., d.
Stone, Timothy Dwight Porter, Prof., etc., b. Stoneman, Jesse, M. E.
Sturdivant, Samuel.
Swain, Matthias, M. E.
Swayze, William, M. E.
Sweet, John, M. E.
Talmage, Asa, b. Taylor, James, M. E.
Thatcher, William, M. E.
Thompson, Richard.
Tracy, S. J., Second Ch.
Trumbull, Henry Clay, summered.
Urmston, Nathaniel Massey, First Church P., m.
Vail, Herman Landon, taught and m.
Van Schoonoven, James, ed.
Wadsworth, Henry F., b.
Wager, Philip, M. E.
Washburn, Ebenezer, M. E.
Weeks, Samuel, M. E.
Weston, Hercules, First Ch. P.
Wetherby, Charles, Sec. Ch. P.
Whedon, Harvey.
White, Samuel Jessup, D.D., First Ch. supply.
Wigton, Samuel, M. E.
(Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, D.D., Pres't Yale, summered. )
Youngs, Timothy C., M. E.
LAWYERS.
Adams, John Quincy, b. Cornwall. Andrews, Rev. Edward Warren, Allen, Elijah, b. (?) and lived taught and lived Cornwall.
Cornwall. Andrews, Rev. Samuel J., in youth lived Cornwall.
*Andrews, Maj. Andre, b.
* From Cornwall town records: "Major Andre Andrews, son of Andrew Andrews and Mary, his wife, born July 8, 1792."
From Field's "Middletown Centennial " (1853), page 207: " Major Andre Andrews, native of Cornwall, studied law, for a time at least,
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Baldwin, Birdsey.
Birdsey, Victory, M. C., b. Corn- wall.
Bierce, Wm. W., b.
Bosler, Wm. D.
Brewster, Nelson, b. Cornwall.
Calhoun, Henry Warner, Corn- wall.
Everest, Daniel, b. Cornwall.
Everest, Sherman, b. Cornwall.
Gold, Thomas, b. Cornwall.
Gold, Thomas Ruggles, b. Corn- wall.
Harrison, Ralph C., b. Cornwall. Johnson, Solon B., b. and lived Cornwall.
Judson, Samuel Wesley, b. Corn- wall.
Kellogg, Theodore, b. and lived Cornwall.
Lewis, Henry Gould, Yale Law School, 1844, b. here. Nickerson, Leonard J., b. and lived Cornwall.
Rogers, Edward, M. C., b. Corn- wall.
Sedgwick, Charles F., b. Cornwall. Sedgwick, John (Judge), sum- mers, lived Cornwall.
Sedgwick, Philo C., b. Cornwall.
Sedgwick, Stephen.
Sedgwick, Theodore, LL.D., M. C., U. S. Sen., in youth lived Corn- wall.
Smith, Walter, b., Sol. U. S. Treas. Warner, Arthur D.
Wheaton, George, b. and lived Cornwall.
Wilson, James A., b. here.
Woodbury, Chas. P., Yale, '78, resided two years.
PHYSICIANS.
Andrews, Timothy Langdon, res. in youth.
Benedict, Abel Carter, b. here, in army, Lt .- Col.
Bolton, H. C., M.D., res. here.
Bolton, Jackson, resided here. Brower, C. S.
Calhoun, John, practiced here, m. Curtiss, Wm. M., m.
Gold, James Douglas, b.
Gold, Samuel Wadsworth, b. here. Hale, Edward.
Hall, Franklin W.
Hamant, Irving L., practiced.
Heady, Elias B., practiced, m.
Hodge, Thomas S., practiced.
Hollister, - -, at Center, prac- ticed.
Holloway, Geo., at Center, prac- ticed, d.
Hubbard, Solon, pr., m.
Hurlburt, Jonathan.
Hurlburt, Gilman H.
Hurlburt, Ulysses.
lves, John Wagner, pr., n1.
Livingstone, Joseph A., pr.
Marsh, Isaac.
North, Burritt B., pr.
North, Hammond.
North, Joseph, pr.
North, J. Howard, res. in youth.
North, Loomis.
Pratt, Arthur M., pr., m.
Pratt, Joseph M., m.
Robinson, Joseph, pr. and m.
Rogers, Timothy.
Russell, Thomas, practiced, m.
Ryder, Chas. A., C. Bridge.
Sanford, Isaac, practiced.
Sanford, Chas. Alson.
Sanford, Edward, pr.
Scoville, John, b., pr.
Sill, Richard Lord. Skiff, Francis S., pr.
Swift, Isaac, pr., in Rev. Army.
Smith, Ralph (Rev.), resided.
Smith, Harvey, b.
Smith, J. Edward, pr.
Spencer, Cyrenius D., pr.
Turner, Uriah, at Center, p.
Welch, (H) John, resided and pr., 1.
with his brother Benajah Andrews, in Wallingford; began practice in Middletown as early as 1815; was appointed state's attorney September. 1818; moved to Buffalo, 1819, where he died during the second preva- lence of the cholera in that place, August 17, 1834, aged 42."
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COLLEGE GRADUATES FROM CORNWALL IN RECENT YEARS.
Beers, Ralph Silas, B.S., Worcester Polytechnic, 1900.
Bolton, Henry Carrington, Columbia University, 1862; later Göt- tingen, Ph.D .; Fellow of A. A. A. S., and sec. and vice-pres. ; member of numerous secret societies; professor in Trinity; author of many books and miscellaneous papers on chemistry, folk-lore, bibliography, travel, and literature; died at Washington, Nov. 19, 1903.
Whitney, Joseph Ernest, Yale, B.A., '82, M.A., '90; instructor in English ; died 1893.
Baldwin, Edward Chauncey, Yale, B.A., '95, Ph.D., '98; professor of Literature, Illinois University, Urbana, Il1.
Calhoun, John Edward, Yale, B.P., '83.
Calhoun, Henry Warner, Yale, B.A., '83; Columbia, LL.B., '85. Gold, Charles Lockwood, Yale, B.P., '83.
Gold, James Douglas, Yale, B.P., '88; M.D., Columbia, '91. Hubbard, William Brewster, Yale, B.P., 1901.
Hughes, Frederic George, Yale, B.P., 1900.
Starr, Charles Comfort, B.P., Yale, 1900; A.M., Col., 1902.
Tibbals, Ralph, Hamilton, B.A., 1902.
GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND PERSONAL HISTORY.
THE ANDREWS FAMILY.
The connection of this family with Cornwall began in 1827, when Rev. William Andrews was settled at South Cornwall, and lasted rather more than a quarter of a century. Mrs. Andrews removed in 1850, but her son, Edward Warren, had become a resident, and his family remained until about 1853.
William Andrews, fifth son of Samuel and Esther (Cone) Andrews, was born in Ellington, Conn., Sept. 28, 1782; m., at Benson, Vt., May 18, 1809, Sarah, second daughter of James and Sarah (Baker) Parkhill (who d. Marietta, O., Feb. 20, 1857) ; d. South Cornwall, Jan. 1, 1838; seven children. Descendant of Lieut. William Andrews of New Haven, one of twelve chosen for the " foundation work " of the church, and builder of the first meeting house. Descent through Samuel, who m. Elizabeth Peck ; Samuel, m. Anna Hall; Thomas, m. Felix Lewis; Benjamin, m. Susanna Morgan, and Samuel, m. Esther Cone. Other ancestors of the first generation: Dea. William Peck and Capt. Nathaniel Merriman, paternal ; Daniel Cone, Mrs. Jared Spencer, and Capt. Robert Chapman, maternal.
Middlebury, 1806; studied theology with Dr. Burton of Thet- ford, Vt., and President Dwight; ordained Windham, Conn.,
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Aug. 10, 1808; installed Danbury, Conn., June 30, 1813, South Cornwall, July 24, 1827. An account of his pastorate will be found elsewhere. He published a sermon, preached Danbury, Nov. 13, 1817, at the execution of a colored man for rape, and various articles in the Evangelical Magazine and the Christian Spectator.
Mr. Andrews had a vigorous, well-furnished, and well-disci- plined mind, and was a good preacher. In 1817, when a compara- tively young man, he preached by appointment before the General Association of Connecticut. In his later years his fellow minis- ters of Litchfield county seem to have recognized him as a leader. Lawyers were fond of listening to his sermons, on account of their logical character, and he in his turn took great pleasure in follow- ing legal argument, as he had opportunity in the county towns of Windham and Danbury. He was recommended to the latter parish by Chief Justice Reeve, who had been among his hearers in the former during official journeys. His theological opinions were essentially those of his teacher, Dr. Dwight, themselves an inno- vation on earlier opinions. But he had a very conservative tem- perament (inherited by his sons), which led him stoutly to resist farther innovations.
+ Foremost among the moral qualities of Mr. Andrews was an inflexible devotion to duty, in the performance of which, as he saw it, he was absolutely fearless. He gave up his first parish in the face of angry protest, and perhaps unwisely, because his people were slow to accept his view of their duty under the Fourth Commandment. He sacrificed his second parish by insisting on strict discipline when, though the church stood by him, not only the society but two ecclesiastical councils were against him. He may even be said to have lost his third parish, with his life, as the result of the exhausting labors which his conscience imposed upon him in behalf of the Theological Institute of Connecticut, estab- lished at East Windsor Hill in 1834, to counteract the influence of the New Haven divines, led by Dr. Taylor.
But, unyielding as Mr. Andrews was in what was to him the cause of righteousness and truth, he was a very lovable man. As a husband and father, as a pastor, as a friend, his affectionate and sympathetic nature inspired the most ardent attachments, while his easy and engaging manners made his society attractive to
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nearly every one. Half a century after he left Windham one of his grandsons was almost rapturously welcomed there by an old man past ninety, who clung to his hand throughout their inter- view. His Cornwall parishioners showed their attachment by their tender considerateness during his long illness and their cheer- ful endurance of unavoidable failures in service. His death, in his fifty-sixth year, was universally mourned, but was mournful to him only for the sorrow which it must bring. If he could not work he had no wish to live, and he smiled his farewells to his friends as they left his bedside. He died "having the testimony of a good conscience," and with it the humility, as inseparable from true virtue as from true piety, which claims nothing from man but kind memories and nothing from God but mercy.
My memory of Mr. Andrews is very pleasant. He was often at my father's house in Goshen, about 1830, when they were dis- cussing the plan of establishing in Litchfield county a manual labor school like that at Oneida, which was then in successful operation. I had recently visited that institution with my father, and I looked forward with pleasure to a school where gardening and farming would in part supplant the confinement of the school- room, then about six and one-half hours per day, with only half holiday on Saturday. Many good men were much interested in the project, but funds were lacking to buy a farm and buildings, and it was abandoned. The school at Oneida got in bad odor from the erratic opinions of those in charge, but the plan was a good one.
From my youth I have known this family, and have noted with interest their lives, so successfully devoted to promote pure Christianity. Though not born in Cornwall this was their boy- hood home, for which they always retained the most loving affection. Litchfield county claims them as the natural product of the social and moral influences of that day.
DESCENDANTS OF REV. WILLIAM ANDREWS - FIRST GENERATION.
I. WILLIAM WATSON ; b. Windham, Conn., Feb. 26, 1810; m. (Ist), Fishkill, N. Y., July 24, '33, Mary Anne, 2d dau. of James and Susan (Van Wyck) Given, who d. Kent, Oct. 23, '48; m. (2d), Wethersfield, Conn., July 21, '58, Elizabeth Byrne,
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4th dau. of John and (2d w.) Mary (Dyer) Williams; d. Wethersfield, Oct. 17, '97; six children.
Grad. Yale, '31; ord. and inst. Cong. Church, Kent, Conn., '34; took charge of Catholic Apostolic Church, Potsdam, N. Y., 49; consecrat. to Episcopate (Cath. Apos.) '54; made evangelist '58; resided at Wethersfield '58-'97.
Published: The Miscellanies of Hon. John Cotton Smith, LL.D., with an Eulogy, etc., New York, '47.
The True Constitution of the Church and its Restoration, New York, '54.
Edward Irving; A Review. Glasgow, 1864 and 1900 (origi- nally published in the New Englander, '63).
Also articles on the Cath. Apos. Church in Schaff's Creeds of Christendom, '77, and in McClintock and Strong's Cy. of Bib., Theo., and Eccle. Lit., '80; paper on his classmate, Noah Porter, as "A Student at Yale," in Life of President Porter, '93; thirty or forty pamphlets (sermons, addresses, etc.), and articles in the Christ. Spec., New Englander, Bib. Sac., Cong. Rev., Am. Church Rev .; innumerable newspaper articles ; during a period of more than sixty years. Several of the foregoing reprinted (or first printed) in Great Britain; one translated into Swedish. Left in manuscript an unfinished volume on " Worship "; some extracts from unpublished writings in a biography prepared by Rev. Dr. S. J. Andrews of Hartford.
The earlier part of Mr. Andrews' career gave promise of dis- tinction. He was among the foremost in the college class of which Pres. Porter, Prof. Atwater of Princeton, Bishop Clark, Bishop Kip and other prominent men were members. During his pastorate in Kent he was several times called on to take part in the commencement exercises at Yale; he was the choice of Dr. Horace Bushnell, when the latter was considering an invi- tation to the presidency of Middlebury, for his own pulpit at. Hartford. But Mr. Andrews had already turned towards a path which led away from honors and preferments. After prolonged examination he had become convinced of the divine origin of a movement in Great Britain which began with the restoration, as was believed, of the supernatural gifts described in the New Testament, and after a while included the presumed restoration of the primitive ministries, especially of the apostleship and of the
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prophetic office. All this was looked upon, moreover, as meant to prepare the church for the second coming of Christ. The new organization styled itself the "Catholic Apostolic Church," not because this name was thought to belong to it exclusively, but because it was unwilling to adopt any sectarian name. But as long as the church exists in fragments, which must somehow be distinguished from each other, sectarian names are inevitable. In this case the name " Irvingite " came into common use among other Christians, in consequence of the early adhesion to the movement of the famous Edward Irving. He was, however, in no sense its originator, and his name was most incorrectly applied to this body of Christians, whose freedom from the sectarian temper, and right at least to describe themselves as "Catholic," are well illustrated by the experience of Mr. Andrews. For years after he acknowledged the authority of the modern apostles they per- mitted him to remain a Congregational pastor, because in that capacity he was acting as a minister of Christ, and serving within the church universal, to the whole of which they believed that they themselves were sent. He was admirably qualified for pastoral work, and the love of his people in Kent was strong after almost half a century of separation. When he left Kent in 1849, after the death of his first wife, he did not leave the Congregational ministry, and he remained for some time longer a member of the Association of Litchfield, North. But he now took charge of a small congregation in Potsdam, N. Y., composed of adherents of the new movement. In 1858 he was given the office of evangelist, and for many years he had the oversight in America of the work of making known to other Christians the principles by which the movement was governed. His duties required frequent journeys in the United States and Canada, and he made several visits to England.
His old age was singularly tranquil and beautiful. His health was good, and his mental vigor scarcely diminished, nor had his life been a failure, though his message seemed to have been re- ceived by few. Very many had welcomed much that he taught about God's purpose in and for the church, and many more had been made better and happier by the influence of his sanctity. And he had come to be recognized by conservative Christians (among whom he himself is to be classed ) as one of the ablest defenders of
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the common faith of Christendom. He had not won the dis- tinguished place among men to which his gifts might have en- titled him, but he had won from those who knew him a love and reverence seldom equaled. And when his own ministerial asso- ciates shared the last offices with Congregational and Episcopalian ministers, all bore witness together that he had lived and died " in the communion of the Catholic Church."*
2. EDWARD WARREN; b. Windham, Conn., July 15, 1811; m., Fair Haven, Vt., Oct. 9, '34, Mary Le Baron, 3d dau. of Maj. Tilley and Martha (Le Baron) Gilbert, who d. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 26, '95; he d. Norwood Park, Chicago, Ill., Sept. 2, '95 ; eleven children.
Studied two years at Union; studied law in New Haven and Litchfield; admitted to the bar in Connecticut July 23, '34; licensed by Litchfield North Association May 23, '37; ord. and inst. (as colleague to Rev. Nathan Perkins, D.D.) West Hart- ford, Conn., Nov., '37; inst. Broadway Tabernacle, New York, Jan. 31, '41 ; inst. Second Street Presbyterian Church, Troy, N. Y., Dec., '44 ; opened Alger Institute, South Cornwall, '48; declined commissionership to China, '49; member of Conn. legislature, '51 ; member from Conn. of Board of Visitors at West Point, '53; lawyer in New York, '53-'63; served in Civil War as captain of artillery, chief of staff, and assistant adjutant-general; lawyer in W. Va. (where he was counsel to B. & O. R. R., editor, and candidate for Congress), '65-'69; more and more employed as pastor and evangelist, especially in Boston, Washington, Virginia, and West Virginia, though obliged to rely for support chiefly on legal practice and political speaking, '70-'88; later, with failing strength, still speaking, preaching, and writing, while resident with or near his brothers and children.
Published various pamphlets, including sermons, legal argu- ments, etc., a contribution to Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, by Distinguished Men of His Time, '86; editorial articles; many reports of his sermons, speeches, etc., printed in newspapers. Left a mansuscript volume, autobiographical, with accounts of promi- nent contemporaries.
* I was present at this funeral, held in the Congregational Church at Wethersfield, and marked the reverent love of all Christian denomi- nations, manifested by their sorrow at the loss of a loving and beloved friend, in their presence and assistance in the exercises.
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Mr. Andrews (he once declined a doctor's degree, and was often known after the war as Colonel Andrews) was distinguished almost from his boyhood for his oratorical gifts, and he had not wholly lost them when he reached fourscore. They doubtless brought the invitation to the Broadway Tabernacle, given when he was under thirty, and accepted partly because men like Drs. Porter, Hawes, and Bushnell believed that he could make Con- gregationalism grow in New York, where it was then called an " exotic." He fully justified the belief, for he soon became one of the most popular preachers in the city, often crowding the great building to the doors, and during his pastorate of less than four years he saw the number of communicants increase more than fivefold (see Tabernacle Manual, 1866) ; but, what was much more important, his " fruit remained ; " he had won it not for him- self but for his cause. Though "many members of the church were tenderly attached to Mr. Andrews few left " when he withdrew, and " the church remained united." ( History of the Broadway Tabernacle, Susan Hayes Ward, 1901, p. 72.) One of the converts of this period was Jeremiah C. Lanphier, founder of the "Fulton Street Prayer Meeting," through whose influence it is believed that thousands began a Christian life. Mr. Andrews could not have done what was done by his diligent, ac- complished, and far more widely known successor, Dr. Joseph P. Thompson. But he did his own work pre-eminently well, and left the Congregational exotic growing vigorously, striking its roots deep as well as bearing rich fruit. His second parish, at Troy, gave him up very unwillingly, and during the continuance of the school which he established and conducted with great efficiency at Cornwall, and to which many members of his last two congregations sent their sons, he was much sought after as a preacher. And when, late in life, he sought to renew the consecration of his powers to their highest uses, he easily proved that they were still great. His work as an evangelist, par- ticularly in West Virginia, produced extraordinary results, and congregations which he served temporarily as pastor often listened to him with delight. But the same congregations might frankly refuse him a "call " because he was too old.
No one regretted more deeply than he the extent to which his life had so long been secularized ; he was in fact a loser thereby,
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even as respected worldly advancement. But he never lost his interest in great religious questions, and in his later years that interest became absorbing. He was intensely conservative in theology, though he acted at different times in several different denominations.
He early became a believer in the nearness of the Second Ad- vent, and towards the last the other beliefs of his eldest brother attracted him powerfully. In his youth, and in his old age, this brother, though less than two years his senior, was his guide and teacher, to whom he looked up with something like veneration.
It was his last strong earthly desire (not gratified) to return to South Cornwall, that he might close his eyes in its quiet valley, and be laid to rest beside his father.
3. SARAH PARKHILL; b. Windham, Jan. 22, '13; m. Corn- wall, Feb. 15, '35, Araunah Waterman, s. of Pitt William and Mary (Kilbourne) Hyde, proprietor of marble and slate quarries near Castleton, Vt., who d. Hydeville, Vt., Sept. 25, '74; she d. Castleton, Jan. 12, '40 ; three children.
4. ISRAEL WARD; b. Danbury, Conn., Jan. 23, '15; m. Dan- bury, Aug. 8, '39, Sarah Hayes, eld. dau. of Curtis and Rebecca (Mygatt) Clark, who d. Marietta, O., Dec. 17, '40; m. (2d) Danbury, Aug. 24, '42, Marianne Stuart, 2d dau. of foregoing, who d. Marietta, March 31, 1900; he d. Hartford, Conn., April 18, 1888; four children.
Williams, 1837; D.D., Williams, '56; LL.D., Iowa, '74, and Wabash, '76; tutor, Marietta College, Ohio, '38; prof. of math. and nat. phil. '39; pres. and Putnam prof. of intellectual and moral philosophy, '55; resigned presidency '85, but prof. of political science till his death; licensed to preach, '50; ord. as evangelist, '62 ; corporate member of Am. Board of Com. for For. Mis., '67 (preaching annual sermon, '75), and member of com- mittee of national council (Cong.) to prepare statement of doc- trine, '80-3. Also a leader in the cause of popular education in Ohio, and member of National Council of Education ; member of various societies, educational and historical, including the Am. Historical Asso .; chief promoter of the celebration of one hun- dreth anniversary of the permanent settlement of the North- west Territory, held at Marietta, April 17, '88, while he was on his deathbed at Hartford.
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Published : Manual of the Constitution of the U. S., '74; revis., '78; second revis., '88; widely used as textbook.
Also more than twenty pamphlets and magazine articles; with contributions to periodicals, editorial and otherwise, not identified. Last paper, on "The Marietta Colony of 1788," read before the N. E. His. and Gen. Soc. March 8, '88, and published after his death, which occurred, on the return journey from Boston, at his brother's house in Hartford.
Of the six sons of the South Cornwall minister President Andrews was thought most nearly to resemble their father. He had eminently the profound sense of duty, taking form in the instinct of religious obedience, which made Puritanism. He was conservative with regard to principles, because he knew them to be eternal, and jealous for the institutions in which he believed them to be embodied, while ready for reform and progress. Bur- dened throughout life by delicate health, and suffering hard trials, among them the death of all his children, he toiled for fifty years in the one great task of his life, yet lending his aid to every good cause which could fairly claim his services. Few men have been more useful, and the college probably owed more to him, in various ways, than to any other one man. He was an admirable instructor, a wise administrator, and an excellent man of business. As kind- hearted as he was true-hearted he was loved as well as honored. He had the sober piety, characteristic of men of his calm tempera- ment, which shows itself most plainly in cheerful obedience and quiet submission.
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