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In June, 1812, Mr. Clark married Eliza, daughter of Dr. Jere- miah Barker of Gorham, Me. Their children were James Henry, Horace Francis, Edward Payson, Frederick Gorham, Mary Eliza- beth, wife of the Rev. Livingston Willard, Sereno Barker, and two daughters who died in infancy.
The Rev. Dr. FREDERICK G. CLARK was born in Waterbury, December 13, 1819. He entered Williams college in 1836, but was obliged to leave it on account of the failure of his health. After two years spent in the study of law, he went abroad, and on his return entered the University of the City of New York. He grad- uated from there in 1842 and from Union Theological seminary in 1845. He was ordained, the same year, pastor of the Second Con- gregational church in Greenwich, but after a brief stay in that parish accepted a call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Astoria, Long Island. It was during his six years' residence at Astoria that the writer of this notice (then a small boy) was one of
* Besides the "Conference Sermons," Mr. Clark published several other volumes. The contents of these were republished in a volume of 933 pages, entitled " The Works of Rev. Daniel A. Clark, edited by his son, Rev. Frederick G. Clark, D. D., with a biographical sketch and an estimate of his power as a preacher, by Rev. George Shepard, D. D. Seventh edition, New York: 1872." The volume contains sixty- five sermons, thirty-four outlines of sermons, some miscellaneous articles, and a few poems. The most famous of his discourses is that entitled " The Church Safe."
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his parishioners, and learned for the first time what it was to have a pastor. He remembers with great interest the youthful yet dig- nified figure and the benignant face of the man who had come to be the minister of a new and struggling parish, and can still recall some of the serious lessons of his Saturday afternoon Bible class.
Mr. Clark's ministry in Astoria continued for six years, after which (in 1852) he accepted a call to the Presbyterian church in West Twenty-third street, New York. Here he remained fifteen years and then returned for a brief time to his first parish, at Greenwich, but was compelled by ill health to relinquish it. His last pastorate (1878 to 1886) was in connection with the Second street Presbyterian church in Troy, N. Y., and continued for eight years, but ill health again compelled him to resign, and he retired to "Fernhurst," his country home at Bennington.
On August 16, 1847, Mr. Clark married Sarah, daughter of Robert M. Blackwell of Astoria. They had six daughters, and a son who died in 1874, aged thirteen years. Dr. Clark died in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 18, 1886. Mrs. Clark survived him until June 5, 1894. The unmarried daughters reside at " Fern- hurst" in Bennington.
Among Dr. Clark's published writings are, "Self-Culture: a Lecture to Young Men," "The Church and Civil Government," and several memoirs. After his death a handsome volume of 130 pages was published by his children, entitled "The Loom of Life and Other Brief Papers." Some of the articles included in it- such as "Christians in Shadow," and "Is He Lonely There?" -have gone far and wide to comfort parents in sorrow.
THE REV. I. PERLEY SMITH.
Isaiah Perley Smith, son of Perley Dennison and Louisa (Bur- gess) Smith, was born in North Bridgeton, Me., February 13, 1836. He graduated from Bowdoin college in 1858 and from the Bangor Theological seminary in 1861, having served in the meantime as principal of the high school in Lewiston, Me. He was ordained to the ministry at Brownfield, and held various pastorates in Maine, and other states, including Nebraska. He became pastor of the church in Wolcott in September, 1890, and held that position for two years. He then removed to this city and opened a preparatory school. He also receives private pupils in the classical and the modern languages. He has been moderator of ministerial associ- ations and church conferences. He has also been a superintendent of schools, and has contributed occasionally to the religious jour- nals.
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On October 11, 1870, he married Clara R., daughter of Charles Smith, of Candia, N. H. Their children are: Perley Dennison, born September 9, 1871; Charles Cogswell, born April 18, 1877; Brainerd Edwards, born August 10, 1881, and one who died in infancy.
CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE.
The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific circle was an outgrowth of an undenominational Sunday School convention held for several years at Chautauqua, N. Y. The Rev. Dr. J. H. Vincent was its prime mover. The grove in which the convention met was for- mally dedicated in the summer of 1878 to the cause of popular education, literary, scientific and religious. The plan embraced a systematic course of home study of the Bible and of subjects taught in colleges, special books being issued for the purpose. Readings were also required from the Chautauquan, the organ of the circle. Students were enrolled in classes at the central office in Plainville, N. J., with distinctive class officers, names, colors, mottoes, etc. The course was for four years, blank examination papers had to be filled out every year and a final examination was held in the same way at the end of the course. A successful exam- ination earned a diploma, and similar examinations in special courses of reading were recognized by the decoration of the di- ploma with seals of different colors, each color signifying a different course of reading.
The Chautauquan idea was brought to Waterbury in the summer of 1878 by a dozen girls who had spent their vacation at Chau- tauqua. A circle was organized with over fifty members, of which Mary M. Abbott was president. Other circles were organized, and from that time to this there has been one circle or more in active study here, and several Chautauqua students in Waterbury graduate and receive diplomas every year. The influence of the organiza- tion is felt in many homes, some of which lack better opportunities of education, and the graduates are assisted in becoming fitted for teaching in the public schools and in Sunday schools by the instruction and discipline thus obtained.
Mrs. Emily G. Smith, of this city, is the "state secretary " for Connecticut.
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.
In the spring of 1894 several lectures were delivered in Water- bury, selected from the course offered by the University Extension centre of the state. There was no local organization effected, but
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the lectures were well received and interest was aroused. On November 27 there was a meeting of those interested in establish- ing a Waterbury centre, which was attended by about 150 persons. Alan C. Risley of Hartford, secretary of the Connecticut Society for University Extension, described the objects and methods of the society. A committee was appointed to formulate and report a plan of organization, which reported at a meeting held December 8. A board of directors, appointed by this committee, organized by the election of officers and an executive committee. It was decided to arrange for three courses of lectures for the season, to be given by Professor Edward B. Rosa of Wesleyan university, on electricity, Dr. Richard Burton of Hartford, on literature, and Professor William North Rice of Wesleyan, on geology. These lectures, with a supplementary course by other instructors, were given during the winter of 1894 and 1895 to large audiences, and were successful pecuniarily as well as in other respects.
JOHN E. LOVELL.
John E. Lovell, a citizen of Waterbury during several of the later years of his life, was a somewhat remarkable man. His par- ents, John E. and Elizabeth (Epes) Lovell, lived in the little town of Colne, near Cambridge, England, where John Lovell was born April 23, 1795. He attended the well-known boarding school of St. Ives, and there formed the acquaintance of Joseph Lancaster, whose system of education attracted great attention a hundred years ago. Lancaster, though a Quaker, was on intimate terms with the no- bility and royalty of England, and possessed much influence. He conceived a warm friendship for young Lovell, and placed him at the head of the Burr Road school in London, which contained over 1000 scholars. Later, Mr. Lovell was engaged for a short time as tutor to the children of the Duke of Bedford. Another member of the nobility, the Duke of Kent, presented him with a silver medal as a token of his esteem. In 1820 Mr. Lancaster induced Mr. Lovell to come with him to America to take charge of a Lancasterian school in Baltimore. When, after many difficulties and delays, he arrived in America, he learned that the hope of his coming had been abandoned and the school opened under other auspices, so that for a while he was forced to teach penmanship in Philadelphia for a living. But within a short time a Lancasterian school was established in New Haven, in the basement of the old Methodist church, and Mr. Lovell was put in charge. The school was after- wards removed to Orange street, and Mr. Lovell remained con- nected with it for nearly half a century, with the exception of an
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interval of two or three years, during which time he held the profes- sorship of elocution at the Mount Pleasant school, Amherst, Mass. Many men who have since become prominent are included in the number of his pupils, and it is said that almost invariably a mutual affection, deep and lasting, existed between his scholars and him- self .*
Mr. Lovell's first wife, Henrietta Fletcher, who is said to have been a most attractive woman, the daughter of a sea captain, died in 1835, leaving two children, one of whom, Aldis A. Lovell, still survives and is a resident of Waterbury. On the occasion of Mr. Lovell's marriage to his second wife, Minerva Camp of Milford, his pupils presented him with the Lovell cottage on Orange street, near East Rock, New Haven, which he afterwards lost in the financial crash of 1872. The second Mrs. Lovell died in 1867, leaving two children, John Lovell, Jr., of New Haven, and a daughter Elizabeth, who in 1873 married F. L. White and came to Waterbury. Mr. and Mrs. White remained here for about fifteen years, during which time the venerable teacher made his home with them. In 1891 they removed to Milwaukee, Wis., and a year later (May 3, 1892), Mr. Lovell died in that place, aged ninety-seven years. He was buried in New Haven.
* Among those to whom Mr. Lovell regularly gave instruction in elocution while at Amherst was Henry Ward Beecher. Not long after Mr. Beecher's death the writer of this had the pleasure of introducing to Mr. Lovell Professor Churchill of the Andover Theological seminary, who had come to Waterbury to call on the man that had had a positive influence in molding the oratory of America's great preacher. Professor Churchill being himself a teacher of elocution, many questions were asked and answered with reference to discovering the secret of Mr. Beecher's power as an orator. Mr. Lovell's extreme deafness, however, was a serious hindrance to conversation. Of the hundreds who were connected with Mr. Lovell's school in New Haven, many have since become prominent in public life. Among these may be mentioned Governor H. B. Harrison, Governor J. E. English, Henry Lewis, Horace Day, Augustus Lines, and Professors Benjamin Silliman, Jr., G. E. Day and E. S. Dana. C. M. Mitchell, of Waterbury, and C. N. Wayland were also under his instruction. The Lancasterian School association, composed of his former pupils, meets annually in New Haven .- J. A.
CHAPTER XXX.
WATERBURY NOT EXCLUSIVELY UTILITARIAN-ITS EARLY LACK OF COL- LEGE MEN -ITS LATER RECORD - THE ROLL, HOW MADE UP - STUDENTS WHO DIED WHILE AT COLLEGE - AN OLD LETTER AND THE LIGHT IT THROWS ON THE PAST - PROMINENCE OF YALE IN THE WATERBURY RECORD - "FELLOWS" OF YALE - THE YALE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION-GIFTS OF WATERBURY MEN TO COLLEGIATE INSTITUTIONS-THE ROLL IN FULL-SOME COLLEGE PRESIDENTS.
I T is very apparent from the long record of its manufactures, inventions and joint-stock corporations that Waterbury has thus far in its history been devoted in an unusual degree to business or the things of practical life. That this devotion has not been exclusive is shown by the history of its schools in the three chapters preceding this, and by the roll of its college graduates which follows here. Bronson, referring to the early condition of the community, says (on page 237): "They had not for a long time what may be called an educated man among them, except their ministers. They furnished no graduate of college for the first forty years, and no graduate settled in the town for the first sixty- three years." Not only is this true; it may be said that with the exception of the elder Samuel Hopkins, Waterbury furnished no college graduate prior to 1740. But in 1741, out of a class at Yale numbering twenty, four belonged to Waterbury, and from that time onward, with the exception of the period extending from 1746 to 1756, there are but few years in which Waterbury is not repre- sented in the subjoined list. Its record in this respect is not remarkable, yet the names here given number 42 1.
It should be remarked, however, that the list embraces (or rather, was intended to embrace) all college graduates and graduates of professional schools who have at any time resided in the town, whether "raised up" here or elsewhere; and in view of the terri- torial divisions that have taken place it ought to be stated that it includes those who lived in Watertown and Plymouth prior to 1780, in Wolcott prior to 1796, in Middlebury before 1807, in Prospect (Columbia society) before 1824, and in Naugatuck before 1840 .*
* Notwithstanding the labor laid out in its preparation, the list is seriously defective, not only so far as the derivative towns are concerned, but as regards present Waterbury. Probably a good many members of the several professions, who have lived here temporarily, have been omitted, and this is especially true of clergymen of the Roman Catholic church. It was found impracticable in many cases to include these and assign dates of graduation. Besides, most of them are graduates of colleges or seminaries that do not con-
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Since the list is confined strictly to graduates, it follows that a good many Waterbury men who have spent one or more years in college are not on record here. Among these are such men as Aaron Ben- edict, of the last generation, and D. F. Maltby of the present. Specially worthy of mention are those whose college course was terminated by death. Among these was James Hopkins, a son of Timothy Hopkins, and a brother of the celebrated Dr. Samuel Hop- kins, who died while at Yale, in 1754, and was buried in New Haven. Another was Uri Cook, a brother of Rozell Cook of the class of 1777 and of Justus Cook of the class of 1779. He was born in 1752, and entered Yale in 1774, but enlisted in the Continental army, and died before the time of graduation. Twenty years later (on February 14, 1806, as a result of scarlet fever), Waterbury lost another Yale student, whose character was described in a New Haven newspaper of the time in the following quaint and stately fashion:
Died in this city, on Monday last, after a short illness, in the twenty-first year of his age, Mr. Isaac Welton, son of the late Mr. Ard Welton, of Waterbury, deceased, and member of the senior class in Yale college.
This melancholy dispensation of Providence has deprived a large circle of friends and relatives of one who possessed their sincerest affections, reasonably excited their fondest hopes and promised to satisfy their highest expectations. It has taken from his fellow students an agreeable companion, and despoiled the seminary of one of its brightest ornaments. The real and unaffected sorrow which pervades all with whom he was acquainted is an honorable testimonial of his worth, and a true representation of his character would be his warmest pane- gyric.
Mention should also be made of the two sons of Arad W. Welton (see page 305), Oliver, who was born August 24, 1820, and Andrew, born August 27, 1823. They were students at Trinity college at the same time, and Andrew died in December, 1841, and Oliver in January following.
No attempt has been made here to include any facts except those pertaining to the college or professional-school record of the various graduates, and even within these limits mention is not made of the degree of M. A., except when it has been conferred honoris causa. Most of these men are mentioned elsewhere in these pages, or if not, they are persons who have resided here only a short time and have made no special impress upon the life of the
fer degrees. Among those who were presumably college graduates, but the date of whose graduation is unknown, are William Magoun, the first tutor at Wesleyan university (1834), who has the degree of M. A. in the Wesleyan catalogue; William Smeaton, who seems to have been a graduate of a Scotch university, and the following clergymen: Virgil H. Barber, William Barlow, Jabez Chadwick, Oliver Hitchcock, James Lyons (probably a graduate of Dublin university), Seth Sackett, John L. Seymour, and Noah J. Simons.
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community. It seems worth while, however, to reproduce here a letter which has been preserved in a Waterbury family, written by one of these men during his course at Yale, because of the glimpse it affords of student life at the beginning of the nineteenth cen- tury, and as revealing the old-fashioned simplicity and prudence of Waterbury households at that time. The letter has neither signa- ture nor date, but it is addressed to "Captain Benjamin Upson, Waterbury," and was evidently written by his only son Stephen, of the class of 1804 (for whom see further in the chapter on the legal profession).
NEW HAVEN, YALE COLLEGE.
DEAR FATHER:
You talked about coming down very soon to New Haven and seeing about get- ting me a coat. I would inform you that the tailors just before commencement are in general very full of work, and it is not probable that I could get a coat made at that time.
SIR:
I likewise have the supreme felicity to inform you that I have an appointment to speak on the stage in the brick meeting-house, the night before commencement. And I hope that you have so much pride with respect to me that you would wish to have me appear decent upon stage and such an occasion. I shall therefore want a new pair of pantaloons and a hat. I told you when I was at home that I should not want a pair of pantaloons. I should not now, had I not have received this appointment.
But with respect to my boarding to Mr. Walter's. Miss Walter was quite unwell, and the [woman ?] who lived with her has gone away, so that she could not take me in at present. We live better in the hall since I came back than they did before.
Our folks-mamma and Aurelia-spoke about my having a new shirt for com- mencement. I would not wish to put you to any more cost than is necessary. If they will, some of them, take off the collar from my best shirt and put on another collar, about an inch and a half or two inches wider, it will do; and I wish some of them to cut one of my neck-handkerchiefs in two before commencement .*
That Yale college should be conspicuous in this list is a matter of course. For many years it was the only college in the state, and being distant from Waterbury only twenty-two miles it would probably have drawn a larger number of Waterbury students than any other, even if it had not become so large and so renowned as it has. With the exception of John Southmayd, who graduated at Harvard before Yale had come into existence, all the men here enrolled, down to 1777, are Yale men, and in fact all enrolled prior
* Dr. Edward Everett Hale, in the Chautauquan of January, 1892, says: "My grandfather, being at Yale college in 1769, received a letter from his father, fifty miles away, directing him to obtain leave of absence, that he might ride home and be measured for clothes, to be made from cloth which his mother had woven for him. He was to be measured for his own clothes and his brother's at the same time, so that only one of them need be absent from his studies."
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to the close of the eighteenth century are Yale men, except five. Of the 457 in the list, 260 are graduates of Yale or of her profes- sional schools. It is also an interesting fact that this list contains the names of eight members of the Yale corporation and a Yale treasurer. It contains also the names of four college presidents and a considerable number of college professors and principals of schools. A Yale Alumni association was organized in Waterbury in 1887, with the Hon. S. W. Kellogg as president. The first "annual " dinner was given on April 19 of that year.
It is fitting that in this connection reference should be made to the gifts that have been received by collegiate institutions from Waterbury men, most of them not college graduates. In this list are the gifts to Iowa college from Deacons P. W. Carter and Aaron Benedict, to Williams college from Charles Benedict and C. H. Car- ter, and to Trinity college from the Brothers Scovill, S. M. Buck- ingham and J. P. Elton. The largest gift, thus far, is that of Dea- con Samuel Holmes in 1868 to the Yale Divinity school, the amount of which was $25,000, for the endowment of a Hebrew pro- fessorship. (See page 251 concerning his provision for a scientific and four academic scholarships at Yale for Waterbury students.)
THE ROLL OF GRADUATES.
1697.
174I.
JOHN SOUTHMAYD, Harvard.
1718.
SAMUEL HOPKINS, Yale.
1723. JONATHAN ARNOLD, Yale. M. A., Oxford, 1736.
1730.
DANIEL GRAINGER, Yale.
I734.
SAMUEL TODD, Yale.
I735.
JOHN TRUMBULL, Yale. Elected a Fellow of Yale, 1772.
1737.
TIMOTHY JUDD, Yale. MARK LEAVENWORTH, Yale.
SAMUEL HOPKINS, Yale. D. D., Brown, 1790.
JONATHAN JUDD, Yale.
THOMAS LEWIS, Yale. M. A., Princeton, 1750. RICHARD MANSFIELD, Yale. D. D., Yale, 1792.
DANIEL SOUTHMAYD, Yale.
1745. JOHN RICHARDS, Yale. M. A., Dartmouth, 1782.
1757. JAMES SCOVIL, Yale. M. A., Columbia, 1761.
1758.
DANIEL HOPKINS, Yale. D. D., Dartmouth, 1809. MARK HOPKINS, Yale.
35
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1759.
ASAHEL HATHAWAY, Yale.
ABNER JOHNSON, Yale.
JESSE LEAVENWORTH, Yale. 1760.
ANDREW STORRS, Yale.
M. A., Harvard, 1765.
1761.
JOHN BLISS, Yale.
WILLIAM SOUTHMAYD, Yale.
M. A., Harvard, 1768.
1763.
EPHRAIM JUDSON, Yale.
1765.
ROGER CONANT, Yale.
ELAM POTTER, Yale.
1767.
ISAIAH POTTER, Yale. M. A., Dartmouth, 1780.
JOHN TRUMBULL, Yale. Treasurer of Yale, 1776-82. LL. D., Yale, 1818.
1770.
ALEXANDER GILLET, Yale.
1771.
MARK LEAVENWORTH, Yale. JAMES NICHOLS, Yale.
1772.
DAVID PERRY, Yale.
LYMAN POTTER, Yale. M. A., Dartmouth, 1780.
I773.
JOHN NICHOLS, Yale.
)774.
NEHEMIAH RICE, Yale.
I775.
ABRAHAM FOWLER, Yale. JOSHUA PERRY, Yale.
1776.
CHAUNCEY PRINDLE, Yale. BENONI UPSON, Yale.
Elected a Fellow of Yale, 1809. D. D., Yale, 1817.
1777. JONATHAN BALDWIN, Yale. ROZELL COOK, Yale.
ELI CURTISS, Yale.
MEDAD ROGERS, Yale.
1778.
DAVID FOOT, Dartmouth.
NATHAN LEAVENWORTH, Yale.
1779.
JUSTUS COOK, Yale.
1780,
DANIEL POTTER, Yale.
1784.
SETH HART, Yale.
LEMUEL HOPKINS, Yale.
Honorary M. A.
MELINES C. LEAVENWORTH, Yale.
1785.
JOSEPH BADGER, Yale. SOLOMON BLAKESLEE, Yale. DAVID HALE, Yale.
1786.
TILLOTSON BRONSON, Yale. D. D., Brown, 1813.
REUBEN HITCHCOCK, Yale. JOHN KINGSBURY, Yale. EDWARD PORTER, Yale.
1789.
ISRAEL B. WOODWARD, Yale.
1790.
STEPHEN FENN, Yale. BENJAMIN WOOSTER, Yale.
1791. WILLIAM GREEN, Dartmouth.
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1794.
JOHN CLARK, Yale. 1795.
JEREMIAH DAY, Yale.
President of Yale, 1817.
LL. D., Middlebury, 1817.
D. D., Union, 1818; Harvard, 1831. Elected a Fellow of Yale, 1846.
HOLLAND WEEKS, Dartmouth.
1797.
BENNET BRONSON, Yale.
DANIEL CRANE, Princeton.
IRA HART, Yale.
BETHEL JUDD, Yale. D. D., Trinity, 1831. President of St. John's, Md.
1798.
ENOS BRONSON, Yale. THOMAS LEWIS, Yale. I800.
AMOS BENEDICT, Yale. Litchfield Law school, 1805.
1802.
MARK MEAD, Yale.
JUNIUS SMITH, Yale. LL. D., Yale, 1840.
1803.
AARON DUTTON, Yale.
Elected a Fellow of Yale, 1825. LUKE WOOD, Dartmouth.
I804.
TIMOTHY P. GILLET, Williams. JOHN MARSH, Yale. D. D., Jefferson, 1852. SAMUEL RICH, Yale. BENNET TYLER, Yale. D. D., Middlebury, 1823.
President of Dartmouth; also of East Windsor Theological seminary. STEPHEN UPSON, Yale. 1805. AMOS PETTENGILL, Harvard.
I806. JOHN CLARK, Yale. WILLARD WELTON, Yale.
1807.
SAMUEL ROOT, Yale.
I808.
DANIEL A. CLARK, Princeton.
Andover Theological seminary, 181I. STEPHEN PORTER, Dartmouth.
1809.
ASAHEL NETTLETON, Yale.
D. D., Hampden-Sidney, 1839; Jef- ferson, 1839.
SAMUEL W. SOUTHMAYD, Yale. Honorary M. A.
1810.
ALEXANDER GRISWOLD, Brown.
D. D., Brown, 1811; Princeton, 1811; Harvard, 1812.
1813.
ALPHEUS GEER, Union.
1817.
MELINES C. LEAVENWORTH, Yale. Medical school.
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