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ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
NECROLOGY
SECOND PRINTED SERIES,
1 890-1900,
AS PREPARED FOR THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND PRESENTED AT ITS ANNUAL MEETINGS, BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ASSOCIATION.
Andover Seminary Necrology, 1890-1900.
ERRATA.
1891, page 12.
Dr. Newell studied with Rev. Henry White, D.D., instead of Rev. Henry Allen, D.D.
1893, page 91.
Mr. Butler was born July 21, 1837.
1897, page 266. Mr. Emerson bad twelve children ; four sons and five daughters were living in 1897.
Mr. Parsons died April 25, 1900.
1900, page 387. 1900, page 438. . Mr. Woodruff died at Perth Amboy, N. J.
ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
NECROLOGY,
1890-91.
PREPARED FOR THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, AND PRESENTED AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 10th, 1891, BY C. C. CARPENTER, SECRETARY.
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Second Printed Series, Number I.
BOSTON : BEACON PRESS : THOMAS TODD, PRINTER, I SOMERSET STREET,
1891.
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ALUMNI COMMITTEE.
REV. PROF. GEORGE HARRIS, D.D. REV. B. FRANK HAMILTON, D.D. REV. ERASTUS BLAKESLEE. REV. EDWARD S. TEAD. REV. C. C. CARPENTER, Secretary.
NOTICE.
THIS Obituary Record is published annually in connection with the meeting of the Alumni Association at the June anni- versaries. Alumni are earnestly requested to aid in its prepara- tion by communicating the fact of the death of any past member of the Seminary, together with any newspaper notices or memorial sketches. These, with change of address, or other information relating to the record of living alumni, may be sent to the Secretary at Andover.
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INDEX.
Class.
Age.
Page.
BENJAMIN S. ADAMS
54
30
EDWARD AIKEN, M.D. .
60
27
ROWLAND AYRES, D.D.
73
23
THOMAS BELLOWS
82
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*DANIEL C. BLOOD
86
8
WILLIAM T. BOUTWELL
87
8
80
15
1824.
FREDERIC E. CANNON, D.D.
91
6
1830.
GEORGE B. CHEEVER, D.D.
83
7
1845. 1826. 1831.
PAUL COUCH
87
6
1843.
GEORGE F. CUSHMAN, D.D.
71
21
1856.
SAMUEL C. DEAN
67
28
1844.
HENRY M. DEXTER, D.D., LL.D.
69
21
1831.
NATHANIEL S. FOLSOM, D.D.
84
9
1849.
EDWARD H. GREELEY, D.D.
73
26
1836.
JAMES B. HADLEY
85
I4
1815.
HERMAN HALSEY, D.D.
97
5
1842.
ROBERT S. HITCHCOCK, D.D.
73
19
1834. 1830.
*JOHN B. KENDALL
88
8
1834.
DANIEL LEACH, D.D.
84
13
1886.
*JOHN A. MACDONALD
40
30
18 56. 1838.
BURTIS C. MEGIE, D.D.
76
16
1844.
HENRY C. MORSE
79
22
1833.
WILLIAM W. NEWELL, D.D.
83
12
1864.
HENRY F. C. NICHOLS
57
29
1842.
AUSTIN PHELPS, D.D.
70
20
1844.
CHARLES RICHARDS .
75
23
1838.
*JAMES ROSAMOND
82
16
1832.
JOSEPH W. SESSIONS
88
12
1838.
EDWARD J. STEARNS, D.D.
80
17
1836.
SAMUEL S. TAPPAN
81
15
1835.
*JOHN O. TAYLOR
82
14
1831.
SEWALL TENNEY, D.D.
88
IO
1846.
PHILIP TITCOMB
78
24
18 56.
WILLIAM R. TOMPKINS
65
28
*CHARLES N. TODD
75
25
72
18
66
26
*WILLIAM J. WHITE .
78
19
18 56.
OLIVER W. WINCHESTER
64
28
1848. ABEL WOOD
72 .
25
1841.
WILLIAM W. WOODWORTH, D. D.
76
18
* Died before this year, but not before reported.
5057
1871. 1855. 1845. 1831. 1831. 1831. 1837.
WILLIAM COFFIN
68
24
*EDMUND A. CRAWLEY, D.D., D.C.L.
89
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*SAMUEL S. HOWE
80
I3
LYMAN MARSHALL .
67
29
CALVIN BUTLER
1847. 1839. 1851. 1842.
*CHARLES W. TREADWELL . RANSOM B. WELCH, D.D., LL.D.
NECROLOGY.
CLASS OF 1815.
Herman Halsey, D.D.
Son of Dr. Stephen Halsey and Hamutal Howell; born in Bridgehampton, L. I., July 16, 1793; prepared for college under the instruction of his pastor, Rev. Aaron Woolworth, D. D .; entered the sophomore class of Williams College, and graduated in 1811. After beginning the study of medicine in Troy, N. Y., he decided to prepare for the ministry, and entered the Semi- nary in 1812. He preached a few months in his native town, was ordained with Stephen Mason, his classmate, at Bethlehem, Conn., May 15, 1816, and with him entered the home missionary service of the Connecticut Missionary Society; "after a journey of thirty days, they arrived safely in Kentucky," laboring one year in the northern counties of that State. He was employed by the Domestic Missionary Society of Connecticut to preach in North Ston- ington, 1817-18, and after several months' service in Western New York, under commission from the Young Men's Evangelical Society of New York City, he settled as pastor in Bergen, N. Y., in 1819, continuing there till 1830, preaching also for a part of the time at Byron. He was acting pastor in Cambria, 1830-35; in Middleport, 1835-36; of the Chalmers Church, Niagara, 1836-39; and at Niagara Falls, 1839-42.
Owing to the failure of his voice, he was compelled to relinquish active ministerial labor, and in 1842 bought a tract of land in East Wilson, N. Y., and carried on farming very successfully, personally overseeing its work until within a few years of his death. During all this period he labored quietly but earnestly in behalf of the practical reforms of the time -temperance, anti- slavery, and peace. He was a special supporter of the American Peace Society, coming to its rescue more than once in time of financial need, and leaving to it a generous bequest at his death. " The last three years of his life were spent without disease, but with a gradual yielding of the vital forces to the advance of age. His highest enjoyment was to hear of the 'advancement of Christ's cause on the earth.' When his mind wandered, he seemed some- times to be near his early home, 'waiting for the ship to sail ;' sometimes to be officiating before his people, giving out hymns or dispensing the sacraments." His only publication was a sermon preached in 1829 in connection with the small pox epidemic. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1889 from Williams College. He was, without doubt, the oldest graduate at the time of his death, not only of that college and of this Seminary, but of any similar institution in America.
Mr. Halsey was married, June 15, 1820, to Sophia, daughter of Rev. Aaron Woolworth, D. D., of Bridgehampton, L. I. She died October 24, 1876. They had seven children, of whom three sons and two daughters are living. One son is a physician in Montrose, Penn., and another a teacher in Schenec- tady, N.Y.
He died of old age, at East Wilson, N. Y., March 23, 1891, aged ninety- seven years, eight months, seven days.
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OLASS OF 1824.
Frederic Edwards Cannon, D.D.
Son of Maj. Cornelius Cannon and Mary Weeks; born in Greenwich, Mass., January 20, 1800 ; prepared for college at Amherst Academy ; finished the full course at Williams College, 1821, but owing to the resignation of President Moore took his diploma from Union College, 1822; entered the Seminary in 1821. He was agent of the A. B. C. F. M. in Maine and Vermont, 1824-26; ordained as evangelist at Williamstown, Vt., October 11, 1825; pastor in Ludlow and Cavendish, Vt., 1826-27, and in Ludlow till 1831; pastor of Presbyterian church in Potsdam, N. Y., 1831-35. From 1835 to 1862 he was District Secretary of the A. B. C. F. M., residing at Geneva, N.Y., and accom- plishing an important work among the churches of a large region in the interest of missions. He continued his residence in Geneva until his death. Hamil- ton College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1851.
He was married, September 5, 1827, to Eliza, daughter of Recompense Cary, Esq., of Ward (now Auburn), Mass. She died January 30, 1890. One of their two daughters died in 1866; the other resides in Geneva, the widow of Dr. Andrew Merrell.
Dr. Cannon died in Geneva, N. Y., of acute nephritis, April 7, 1891, at the age of ninety-one.
CLASS OF 1826.
Paul Couch.
Son of John Couch and Sarah Heard; born in Newburyport, Mass., June 21, 1803; prepared for college in his native town; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1823; in the Seminary, 1823-26. He was ordained March 21, 1827, as pastor in West Newbury, Mass., but in 1829 went to Bethlehem, Conn., his pastorate there continuing until 1834. He supplied Dr: Codman's church, Dorchester, one year, during the pastor's absence in Europe, and was installed pastor over the church in North Bridgewater (now Brockton), Mass., October 7, 1835, where he remained for twenty-four years. He was acting pastor at North Cambridge, Mass., 1859-60, and resided in Cambridgeport, 1860-61, sup- plying at different places, as also during the two following years, while resident in Jewett City, Conn. In 1863 he began to supply the Second Church in Ston- ington, Conn., and continued its pastor for twenty-four years, being nearly eighty-four years old when he laid down the work in 1887. He removed his residence from Jewett City to Mystic Bridge (now Mystic) in 1876, and there remained until his death. " During his entire ministry he was a bold and fearless advocate of the cause of temperance, and was an uncompromising champion of the cause of freedom and human rights, at a time when to be such was unpopular, if not positively dangerous." He was for twenty years a member of the school committee in North Bridgewater, and represented that town in the Legislature in 1857 and 1858, as also the town of Griswold in the Connecticut Legislature in 1869. Four of his sermons were published.
He was married, May 28, 1827, to Harriett, daughter of James Tyler, of Griswold, Conn. She died August 23, 1874. Of their seven children, three sons survive.
Mr. Couch died of bronchitis, in Mystic, Conn., March 7, 1891, in his eighty-eighth year.
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OLASS OF 1830.
George Barrell Cheever, D.D.
Son of Nathaniel Cheever and Charlotte Barrell ; born in Hallowell, Me., April 17, 1807 ; prepared for college at Hallowell Academy; graduated at Bow- doin College, 1825; in the Seminary, 1825-26 and 1828-30. After his gradu- ation he preached temporarily in Newburyport and in the Essex Street Church, Boston, and was ordained February 13, 1833, as pastor of the Howard Street Church, Salem, Mass., remaining there until 1836. He traveled in Europe, 1836-38, and was pastor of the Allen Street Presbyterian Church, New York City, 1838-44. Returning from another European tour in 1846, he aided in the formation of the Church of the Puritans in New York, and was its pastor until 1867. He removed from New York to Englewood, N. J., in 1870, and resided there without pastoral charge until his death.
Dr. Cheever was, throughout his whole ministry, fearless, eloquent, and unsparing in his denunciation of evil and his advocacy of political and moral reforms, delivering multitudinous discourses and platform addresses on intem- perance, slavery, the Sabbath question, and the Bible in public schools. His writings, largely though not wholly upon similar subjects, were also voluminous. Before he left Andover, he had published the American Commonplace Book of Prose, and American Commonplace Book of Poetry. During his Salem pastorate the publication of his dream, Inquire at Amos Giles's Distillery, called wide attention to the temperance reform, and secured for its author, on the ground of libel, a thirty days' imprisonment in Salem jail, in addition to a fine of one thousand dollars. God's Hand in America, Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc, and Windings of the River of the Water of Life, published while he was in New York, were very popular and useful books. The Guilt of Slavery and the Crime of Slaveholding, demonstrated from the Greek and Hebrew Scriptures, was published in 1860. As late as 1888 he wrote God's Timepiece for Man's Eternity, and, since his death, a book of Memorial Offerings, in part autobiographical, has been edited by his brother, Rev. H. T. Cheever. The Year-Book gives fifty-eight titles, not including his contributions to the Bibliotheca Sacra, North American Review, and other magazines. He was at one time editor of the New York Evangelist, and an associate writer, with Drs. Bacon, Storrs, Thompson, and Leavitt, for the New York Independent in its early days.
On leaving his New York pastorate, he gave his residence there jointly to the American Board and the American Missionary Association, and left liberal bequests to those and other societies. The University of the City of New York conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1844.
He was married, November 21, 1845, to Elizabeth Hoppin, daughter of Samuel Wetmore, of New York, who died November 19, 1886. Their only child died in infancy.
Dr. Cheever died of inflammation of the bowels, in Englewood, N. J., October 1, 1890, in his eighty-fourth year.
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John Ballard Kendall.
Son of Jesse Kendall and Elizabeth Raymond; born in Phillipston, Mass., December 26, 1799; prepared for college at New Salem (Mass.) Academy, and New Ipswich (N. H.) Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1827; in the Seminary, 1827-30. He was ordained at Hartford, N.Y., in 1831, preached in Hartford, Easton, and Brunswick, N.Y .; was pastor in Bethany, Conn., 1834- 36, and in South Wilbraham, Mass., the following year. He afterwards taught in West Troy, N. Y., and preached a short time in North Granville, N.Y. In 1840 he abandoned the ministry and engaged in farming in Butler, N.Y. He subsequently removed to Eckford, Mich., and was in farming and other busi- ness there. Having become hopelessly insane, he was committed to the Michigan Asylum for the Insane in 1879, and continued there until his death.
He was married, November 14, 1831, to Mary Ann, daughter of Stephen Wyman, of Ashby, Mass. She died in July, 1836, and in December, 1839, he married Mary Covell, of Hartford, N.Y., who died March 1, 1870. He had one daughter, who is still living.
Mr. Kendall died of old age, in Kalamazoo, Mich., March 31, 1888, in his eighty-ninth year.
CLASS OF 1831.
Daniel Cole Blood.
Son of Step hen Blood and Bethiah Cole; born in Orford, N. H., February 2, 1803; prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H .; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1828, taking the full course at the Seminary. He was ordained at Bradford, Mass., by the Presbytery of Newburyport, September 26, 1831, and went immediately to the West in the service of the American Home Missionary Society. He was stationed at Covington and Newport, Ky., 1831-32, and at Cheviot and Cleves, Ohio, 1832-34. In 1834 he was chaplain of the Seamen's Bethel at Cleveland, Ohio, and from 1834 to 1836 labored in the Congregational church at Strongsville, Ohio. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Tecumseh, Mich., 1837-39, and Secretary of the Western Reserve Branch of the American Education Society, residing at Hudson, Ohio, 1840-42. Returning to Strongsville, he was pastor there, 1842-51, and of the Presbyterian church, Massillon, Ohio, 1851-66. From 1866 he resided at Collamer, now East Cleveland, Ohio, occasionally preaching. His Christian life was one of marked piety, and his ministerial service one of marked fidelity.
He was married, August 1, 1833, to Delia, daughter of Wolcott Allyn, of Randolph, Vt., then a teacher in the Female Seminary at Chillicothe, Ohio. Their two children died in childhood. Mrs. Blood is still living.
Mr. Blood died at East Cleveland, Ohio, June 3, 1889, of senile gangrene, at the age of eighty-six.
William Thurston Boutwell.
Son of Nehemiah Boutwell and Elizabeth Jones; born in Lyndeborough, N. H., February 4, 1803; prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1828; and took the full theological course at Andover. Responding, together with Sherman Hall of his class, to an appeal
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made at the Seminary by Rev. Elias Cornelius, Secretary of the American Board, for missionaries to go to the Ojibways of the Northwest Territory, they were licensed by the Suffolk North Association, at the house of Dr. Lyman Beecher, in Boston, April 26, 1831, ordained at Woburn, June 7, 1831, and made the five weeks' journey to Mackinaw. Mr. Boutwell spent nearly a year there and at Sault Ste. Marie, learning the language and laboring among the Indians. In 1832 he accompanied the government exploring expedition under Mr. Schoolcraft, his journal of which was afterwards published in the Mission- ary Herald. After laboring a few months with Mr. Hall at La Pointe Island, Lake Superior, he established in 1833 a station at Leech Lake, in the almost unknown wilderness of the Upper Mississippi, and so "was the first ordained minister of any branch of the Church to become a resident among the Indians of Minnesota." There and at Pokeguma Lake, near the present St. Paul, he remained until 1846, experiencing many privations and perils, especially in con- nection with the warfare between the Ojibways and Dakotas. That region having been ceded to the whites, he removed to a farm near Stillwater, Minn., and labored among the new settlers, establishing Sunday-schools and churches at various points. From 1854 he was without charge.
When the first Territorial Legislature of Minnesota met at St. Paul in 1849, he was elected chaplain. He afterwards served as chaplain of the State Prison at Stillwater. While in the Indian mission, he aided in the translation of the gospels, of a hymn book, and of " Peter Parley's Geography " into the Ojib- way language.
Mr. Boutwell married, September 11, 1834, Hester, daughter of Ramsay Crooks, who was educated at the Mackinaw mission school, and who was at that time a teacher in the Indian school at Yellow Lake. She died October 15, 1853, and he married, September 26, 1855, Mary Ann Bergin, of Lancas- ter, N. H., who died February 5, 1868. Of nine children, five are still living. Three sons were soldiers in the Union army. One daughter studied medicine, and had at one time a sanitarium at Saratoga; another is a teacher in the public schools of St. Paul.
Mr. Boutwell died of old age, at Stillwater, Minn., Oct. 11, 1890, in his eighty-eighth year.
Nathaniel Smith Folsom, D.D.
Son of Nathaniel Folsom and Mary Smith ; born in Portsmouth, N.H., March 12, 1806; prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1828; took the full course in the Seminary. He was ordained as an evangelist by the Newburyport Presbytery at Bradford, Mass., September 26, 1831, and went as a home missionary to Liberty County, Georgia, returning on horseback in 1832. He supplied the Presbyterian church in Cleveland, Ohio, until February, 1833, and was then for one year professor of Languages in the Literary Department of Cincinnati Lane Seminary (afterwards Lane Theological Seminary). From 1834 to 1836 he was professor of Biblical Literature, and preacher in the college chapel, at Western Reserve College. He was pastor in Francestown, N. H., 1836-38, of the High Street Church, Providence, R. I., 1838-40, and of the Unitarian Church, Haverhill, Mass., 1840-46, becoming then minister at large, Charlestown, Mass., and editor of the Christian Register, Boston. From 1849 to 1861 he was professor of Biblical
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Literature in the Theological School, Meadville, Penn., serving also for several years as pastor of the Unitarian church in that town. He was engaged in private teaching from 1862 to 1880, residing in Concord, Mass. (where he served for one year as pastor of the Congregational church), until 1874, and in Boston. He afterwards made his home with his children, and spent the last five winters of his life at Asheville, N.C.
He published an Interpretation of the Prophecies of Daniel in 1842, and a Translation of the Four Gospels in 186g. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth College in 1879. Rev. A. A. Livermore, D.D., writes : His " faithful and honorable service as teacher, pastor, editor, and scholar, will be gratefully remembered in our household of faith and the Church universal."
He was married, September 30, 1832, to Ann Wendell, daughter of Hon. Hunking Penhallow, of Portsmouth, N. H., who died April 9, 1885. They had eight children, of whom four are living; one son fell in the battle of Iuka in the War of the Rebellion, and another is a well-known physician of Boston.
Dr. Folsom died of congestion of the lungs, at Asheville, N. C., Novem- ber 10, 1890, in the eighty-fifth year of his age, and was buried at Ports- mouth, N. H.
Sewall Tenney, D.D.
Son of Silas Tenney and Rebecca Bailey; born in Bradford, Mass., Au- gust 27, 1801, but his home, after he was three years old, was in Chester, N. H .; prepared for college at Atkinson (N. H.) Academy, and Moor's Charity School, Hanover, N.H .; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1827; was precep- tor of Woodman Sanbornton (N. H.) Academy, 1827-28; in the Seminary, 1828-31. He was ordained as an evangelist by the Newburyport Presbytery at Bradford, Mass., August 10, 1831. He was acting pastor at Gorham, Me., 1831-32, and seamen's preacher at the Bethel Church, Portland, Me., 1832-35- He then commenced his pastorate in Ellsworth, Me., which continued until 1877 -a useful and honored service of forty-two years. He still retained his residence in that town. He was a trustee of Bowdoin College, which con- ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1861.
Dr. Tenney was married, October 21, 1833, to Sarah Moody, daughter of John Pearson, of Bangor, Me., who died January 14, 1880.
He died of old age, at Ellsworth, Me., June 6, 1890, in his eighty-ninth year.
Thomas Bellows. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Hon. Thomas Bellows and Eleanor Foster; born in Walpole, N. H., September 23, 1807 ; prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1827; spent two years in the Seminary, and his senior year at Yale Divinity School, 1830-31. He was ordained March 12, 1833, as pastor of the Second Congregational Church, Greenfield, Mass., and dismissed September 2, 1834. Although afterwards instrumental in the forma- tion of an Orthodox Congregational church in Lunenburg, Mass., and serving as its pastor, 1835-36, the failure of his health compelled him to relinquish the ministry, and to retire to a farm in his native town. He served for several
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years as school committee, and represented the town in the State Legislature in 1851. He left the bulk of his estate to the American Board.
He died at Walpole, N. H., of typhoid pneumonia, August 16, 1890, in his eighty-third year. He was never married.
Edmund Albern Crawley, D.D., D.C.L. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Capt. Thomas Crawley and Esther Bernal; born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, January 20, 1799. The father was an officer in the British Navy, and when a midshipman served under Nelson. The mother, whose name, trans- posed, she gave to her son, was a converted Jewess from London ; her brother, Ralph Bernal, marrying Lady Osborne, took her name, and, as Bernal Osborne, became a famous politician and orator in the House of Commons. Captain Crawley settled near Sydney in Cape Breton Island, of which he was for many years Crown Surveyor. Under his instruction the son was prepared for college, and graduated at King's College, Windsor, N. S., in 1820. He studied law with Judge James W. Johnston, Halifax, and practiced his profession several years in that city. As the result of a deep religious experience, he united, in 1828, with a Baptist church in Halifax, and decided to prepare for the ministry. He at once came to Andover, and was in the class of 1831 for one and one-half years, studying also under President Wayland in Providence, R. I., where he was ordained as an evangelist, May 16, 1830. After traveling in this country and visiting England, he was pastor of the Granville Street Baptist Church, Halifax, of which he was a member, from 1831 until he was elected, in 1838, professor of Logic, Mental Philosophy, and Rhetoric, in Acadia College (then called Queen's College), Wolfville, N. S., founded in that year. He acted as associate president until 1847, and after five years' further service in his Halifax pastorate, was president and professor of Theology, 1853-55. From 1855 to 1865 he was in the United States as principal of the Mt. Auburn Young Ladies' Institute, Cincinnati, O., 1856-60, and pastor of Baptist church there ; associate principal of the Limestone Springs Female Seminary, Spartanburg District, S. C., from 1860 until it was closed by the war; afterwards teaching in Shelby, N. C., until the restoration of peace. From 1866 he was professor of Rhetoric and principal of the Theological Department in Acadia College, filling both positions until 1882, when he was made professor emeritus.
Dr. Crawley was a pillar of strength, both as a minister and as an educator, in his denomination in the maritime provinces. A few months before his death he attended the jubilee celebration of the college, of which he had been the principal founder fifty years before, and though in his ninetieth year made a short address and received a splendid ovation. Brown University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1844, and King's College that of Doctor of Civil Law in 1888.
He was married, May 28, 1833, to Julia Amelia Wilby, of Boston, who died August 19, 1842, leaving one son since deceased. He next married, December 5, 1843, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Lewis Johnston, of Annandale, N. S., who survives him, with five of their six children. The eldest son, Bernal Crawley, is a lawyer in Wolfville.
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