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5. HENRY HILL ANDERSON.
The eldest son of Dr. Rufus Anderson was a native of Boston. He studied at Phillips Academy, Andover; graduated at Williams College, cum laude, 1848, and im-
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mediately began the study of law in New York, where, the next year, he was admitted to the bar. In 1852 he became the partner of A. J. Willard -afterwards chief justice of South Carolina -and remained in that firm till 1857, when he retired and spent two years in foreign travel. On his return, Mr. Anderson became assistant under the Hon. Greene C. Bronson, Counsel to the Cor- poration of New York, and had entire charge of all cases for the city. Such signal success attended his services in that capacity as secured for him a wide and gratifying reputation. His nomination (1871) by the Democratic party for the bench of the Supreme Court failed of suc- cess; and ever after he declined public offices, though solicited more than once to accept appointment. One
position thus declined was a seat in the Court of Appeals. As the counsel of large estate and corporation interests for many years, he exhibited great sagacity and enjoyed the confidence of prominent men, being accounted a lawyer of sound judgment and of uniform regard for the honor of his profession. He stood in the front rank at the bar.
Mr. Anderson had connection with many clubs in New York, but was specially interested in the reorganiza- tion of the University Club, of which he was for nine years the president. He joined the Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, and for a long time was one of its vestrymen. His death occurred at York Harbor, Sep- tember 17, 1896.
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6. JOSIAH WOODBURY HUBBARD.
Like many other members of the Boston bar Mr. Hubbard hailed from New Hampshire, the town of Nel- son being his birthplace, January 3, 1826. The father, a physician, removed when this son was ten years of age to Springfield, Vermont. In 1848 Mr. Hubbard entered the Harvard Law School; but he also studied in the office of Governor Metcalf of New Hampshire, as well as that of Hon. O. P. Chandler of Woodstock, Vermont. On coming to Boston he was for some years in partner- ship with Judge Isaac Storey, and afterwards in business by himself.
When the Walnut Avenue Church was formed Mr. Hubbard connected himself with that; and for a long time conducted a Bible Class of ladies. He was a rever- ent and careful student of the sacred volume; a man of refinement, helpful in religious meetings, and ever ready with kind, judicious assistance for those needing aid. At times his legal knowledge served an excellent purpose in ecclesiastical councils. His death took place September 16, 1892.
7. DAVID BRAINERD GREENE.
The eldest son of Rev. David Greene was born in Boston, November 11, 1830. After enjoying the advan- tages of our excellent Roxbury schools, he matriculated at Yale College, but graduated with honors at Williams in the class of 1852. Almost immediately he went to
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New York City, and worked in a law-office till admitted to the bar. He then became a co-partner in the law firm of Buckham, Smales & Greene for several years. Later he formed another partnership, and also subsequently practiced awhile by himself.
In 1860 he went West, and when the war broke out the next year he enlisted in an Iowa regiment, serving at first as a private. He then raised a company, of which he became captain, and which was mustered into the third regiment of Missouri Infantry Volunteers, and con- tinued in that position, serving with his regiment in Missouri, Mississippi and Arkansas, till the eleventh of January, 1863, when he was killed in an action at the beginning of the battle of Arkansas Post. His brother Roger was with him at the time, but the shot was so instantly fatal that no conversation could be had between them.
This army service reminds us of the ancestral patri- otism. Mr. Greene's grandfather, Thomas Greene, when only sixteen years old, enlisted as a soldier near the close of the Revolutionary War, three of his older brothers being captains in the Continental army. He lived to the age of eighty-four. It may be added that the father of Thomas Greene, William Greene, was born on the Atlan- tic ocean, while his mother, recently widowed, was return- ing from Old England to New England, about 1712.
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8. JEREMIAH EVARTS GREENE.
Like his older brother David, Mr. Greene was born in Boston, November 27, 1834, being the date. Our Roxbury Latin School gave him preparation for the University of the City of New York, where he remained a year; then entering Yale College he graduated in 1853. For four years he was engaged in teaching ; and after that for two years (1857-1859), being acquainted with civil engineering, was occupied in surveying public lands in western Kansas. Returning to Massachusetts, Mr. Greene studied law in the office of his brother-in- law, Louis H. Boutell, Esq., and on being admitted to the bar, opened an office in North Brookfield (1860). The family of Rev. David Greene furnished, as we shall see, not only three lawyers, but also three army officers in the War of the Rebellion. This son, Jeremiah Evarts, aided (1861) in forming a military company, in which he was commissioned as first lieutenant, and of which he became captain. At the battle of Ball's Bluff (October 21, 1861) he was taken prisoner, and was in confinement at Richmond for four months. Being released on parole, and failing to obtain an exchange, he resigned his com- mission and was discharged (1862).
Resuming practice in North Brookfield for several years, Mr. Greene then removed to Worcester (1868) and became editor of the Worcester Daily Spy, and continued in that position twenty-three years. It will give some idea of the exacting demands of such editorship to state that
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Mr. Greene's writing for the paper, if bound up separately, would probably amount to fifty solid octavo volumes. In the meantime he also furnished able papers for the Ameri- can Antiquarian Society, of which he is a member. One of those, which were also published in separate pamphlet form, is an interesting sketch of his early Alma Mater, entitled The Roxbury Latin School, Boston, Massachusetts : An Outline of its History, read at the semi-annual meet- ing of the American Antiquarian Society, April 27, 1887. In 1891 Mr. Greene was appointed postmaster of Wor- cester, and on the accession of President Mckinley was reappointed to the same office.
9. HON. ROGER SHERMAN GREENE.
Another son of Rev. David Greene hails from Rox- bury as his native place, having been born there Decem- ber 14, 1840. The family afterwards removed to West- borough, and when their dwelling-house there was destroyed by fire, they removed to Windsor, Vermont. Roger entered the Sophomore Class at Dartmouth Col- lege, with which he graduated 1859. After some experi- ence in teaching, he began the study of law with Governor Coolidge, then a lawyer in Windsor. Thence he went to New York; and after pursuing study for three years in the office of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate, was admitted to the bar.
The Governor of Missouri having given him a com- mission as second lieutenant in the company of which
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his brother David was captain, he joined the regiment then at Ironton, October 20, 1862. From that time on he served in the western forces of the United States till the close of the war. At the general assault on Vicks- burg he received a severe gunshot wound. In August, 1863, the president appointed him captain of a company of Colored Infantry, and with that body of troops he served till his discharge. For several months he was on staff duty with the general commanding the troops of which his regiment formed a part, and for several months was judge advocate of the District of Vicksburg, and later of the western division of Louisiana. He par- ticipated in the movements of General Canby in his expedition to Mobile. Owing to severe sickness he had to be taken North, and in 1865 received an honorable discharge. The next year, having recovered health, Mr. Greene commenced a five years' practice of law in Chi- cago. President Grant appointed him associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington, which position he held for nine years. After being twice re- appointed to that office he became chief justice of the same court, and continued in the same position till 1887. Since then he has been in legal business at Seattle, never, however, practicing in criminal courts. Mr. Greene was the prohibition candidate for Congress shortly before Washington Territory became a state, and prohibition candidate for governor in 1893. Judge Greene recalls passages of Scripture and the Westminster Catechism
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which he committed to memory in early boyhood while a member of the Eliot Church Sunday School. He is greatly respected in the Northwest as a Christian man and an honorable citizen.
IO. WILLIAM PHILLIPS WALLEY.
Second son of Hon. Samuel Hurd Walley, and grand- son of Miriam, a daughter of Hon. William Phillips of Boston. This accounts for the baptismal name. On the paternal side he was descended from Rev. Thomas Wal- ley, who came to New England in 1663, and declining a call to Boston, settled at Barnstable. His son John commanded the land forces in the expedition against Canada (1690); was for ten years a judge of the Superior Court of the Massachusetts Province; was a member of the Old South Church, Boston ; and his daughter mar- ried Rev. Dr. Sewall, pastor of that church for fifty-six years. A granddaughter of Judge Walley married Hon. John Phillips, the first mayor of Boston. Mr. W. P. Wal- ley was born in Roxbury, April 11, 1843; graduated from Harvard College, and received his degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Harvard Law School, 1856. He died suddenly in Boston, November 26, 1891.
II. GEN. HENRY WILLIAM FULLER.
Was born at Hooksett, New Hampshire, June 30, 1838. Pembroke Academy, Merrimac Normal Institute, and Thetford Academy, gave him training previous to
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entering Dartmouth College, where he was matriculated at the age of sixteen, graduating in 1857. The degree of LL.B. was received from the Harvard Law School in 1859. He began professional practice in Concord, New Hamp- shire. At the first call for volunteers (1861), Mr. Fuller enlisted as a private, but rose to the colonelcy of the 33d United States Infantry, and for meritorious services was brevetted brigadier-general. At the close of the war he commenced the practice of law in the office of his brother-in-law, Hon. William Gaston. For four years he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representa- tives; for three years was in the Senate; and succeeded Mr. Wheelock as judge of the Roxbury Municipal Court. Pneumonia proved fatal to him April 7, 1885.
12. JOHN WENTWORTH PORTER.
He was the son of Rev. William Henry Porter, and grandson of Rev. Huntington Porter. On the mother's side he was the grandson of Hon. John Wentworth - a lawyer well known as a member of the Colonial Con- gress- and Lydia Cogswell, one of nineteen children who were all baptized in the Congregational Church at Haver- hill, Massachusetts. John was an unusually conscientious boy. His older brother said of him, that he was always turning himself inside out to see if he could find any sin in himself. Quarrel or fight with other boys he would not, however much tormented by them. He continued under home instruction till eleven years of age, when he
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began school life at the Comin's Grammar School, and the first day rose from the foot to the head of the class. After a few weeks the principal advised that he be re- moved to the Latin School. After a year spent there his eyesight and general health were permanently injured by disease.
He had a special fondness for committing to memory sacred hymns and portions of Scripture. In reply to the question, "Why do you spend so much time in reciting chapters from the Bible, when your sight is so weak?" he said, "I expect to be blind some day, and am storing my mind with what I love best." At eleven years of age he joined this church, and the evidence of his being more than a Christian in name only was clear. He could not recall the time when he did not love to pray, and love the people and the Word of God. The Sabbath and the Sabbath School were a delight.
Impaired health led to removal (1871) to Rochester, Minnesota, where a hemorrhage of the lungs occurred. Notwithstanding this, he took up the study of law by himself, and afterwards entered a law office in Chicago. But another hemorrhage soon compelled his return to Minnesota, where he was later admitted to the bar. The business, however, consisting chiefly of divorce and liquor cases, had no attractions for him. The pastor at Roch- ester, Rev. Dr. Fuller, now president of Central Turkey College, thought highly of Mr. Porter. After fifteen years at the West, he and his widowed mother returned to
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Boston (1885) and rejoined the Eliot Church. He was also received to the Suffolk Bar and began business in this part of the city, but fatal sickness cut short his days, August 29, 1887. After his mother had kneeled for prayer at his bedside he asked her to kiss him, and then in perfect peace fell asleep in Jesus.
CHAPTER XXI.
PHYSICIANS.
SICKNESS knows no favorites ; pays no compliments ; seldom long compassionates childhood; and less often respects old age. But there are divine designs in all this - admonitions to parents and friends, concerning human frailty, the value of health, the need of wise pre- caution, and that at the longest there can be only a brief residence here. Recovery is only a postponement of mor- tality, and is not sanctified sickness to be preferred to unsanctified health ?
Next to good health we would give thanks for a good physician. But while confiding in him we would beware of unauthorized expectations. As a general thing he is oftener distrusted than the pastor; and if he were as needlessly sensitive as many a minister is, he would probably give up his profession, or at least leave the precinct. The indefeasible Anglo-Saxon right of grumbling seldom has scant scope on these two men.
In reading medical biography it is very gratifying to find that many eminent physicians, like Boerhaave, Syden- ham and John Mason Good, were of decidedly religious character. The medical men of our congregation, though not of great eminence, have been Christian men. The names here follow, and in chronological order, whether
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they were at the time practitioners in Roxbury prior to 1871, or began practice elsewhere between 1834 and 1871 ; both those who were resident practitioners, and those who, earlier or later, devoted themselves to the heal- ing art. At the time our church was organized, Dr. Prentiss had pretty much retired from practice. Dr. Alcott, during his connection with us, hardly became known as a physician. Roxbury and Boston were at the period referred to well supplied ; though the list of names with M. D. attached was very meager compared with that which numbers over a thousand and five hundred at the present date.
I. DANIEL FRANCIS GULLIVER, M.D.
Occasionally an entire household were enrolled in our membership, " All in the ark." One such family was that of Mr. John Gulliver, a man conspicuous for Chris- tian activity, and who attained the age of eighty-seven years - Mrs. Sarah P. Gulliver, a woman of rare excel- lence of character, who died in 1865; the late Professor John P. Gulliver, D.D .; Miss Sarah P. Gulliver, afterwards the wife of the Rev. Dr. Lewellyn Pratt ; and Daniel Francis Gulliver, M.D.
Dr. D. F. Gulliver heads the list of our young men who entered the medical profession, and was born in Bos- ton, May 29, 1826. In the Boston Latin School and Andover Phillips Academy he pursued preparatory studies, and graduated from Yale College in the class of 1848.
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The family having removed to Philadelphia, he attended lectures in the Jefferson Medical College.
Not long after beginning practice at Norwich, Con- necticut, Dr. Gulliver had a severe attack of rheumatism, followed by a heart trouble which endangered life, and from which at length he died suddenly in his carriage, May 24, 1895. The condition of his health interrupted professional practice, but not Christian activity. His presence in church meetings, and his conduct of a Bible Class were highly valued. Later he joined the Broadway Church, Norwich, of which his brother, the late Dr. John P. Gulliver, was pastor, and whose successor at the present time is a brother-in-law, Dr. Lewellyn Pratt.
Dr. Daniel Gulliver became a member of the Eliot Church in 1841, being then fourteen years of age. He was characterized by delicacy of constitution, by sensitive- ness and refinement. A sunny disposition made him a very agreeable companion, and a decided Christian char- acter gave him power.
2. ALFRED C. GARRATT, M.D.
Born in Brook Haven, Long Island, October 3, 1813, and a few months afterwards was rescued by his grand- mother from the British, in one of their coast raids. She carried him in her arms to a place of safety. After grad- uating at Union College he studied medicine with Dr. David Nelson, author of Cause and Cure of Infidelity. which work Dr. Garratt edited and carried through the
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press. He was in the City Hospital of New York dur- ing the entire period of the cholera scourge in 1831. Having had experience in general practice for a dozen years, Dr. Garratt went to Germany for further profes- sional study, and devoted himself especially to what was then a new department, Therapeutic Electricity as applied to nervous diseases. In England he was for a fortnight the guest of the Duke of Devonshire, and was invited by the physician of Queen Victoria to attend a consul- tation upon the case of her Majesty. After the war of Rebellion he treated successfully many army officers and others, who suffered from the strain of that period. Gen- eral Burnside, Charles and George Sumner, and Henry W. Longfellow were among them. He was the author of a work on Electrical Therapeutics, which went through several editions.
Dr. Garratt was a man of very decided religious char- acter. On becoming seriously impressed at the threshold of manhood, his heart rose in vehement rebellion against the character and government of God; but he submitted in penitent acknowledgment of sinfulness, and united (1834) with the First Congregational Church in New York City. He acted as reporter and secretary of Rev. Charles G. Finney during his earlier labors in the Chatham Street Chapel. Dr. Garratt's connection with us began in 1856, but the next year, with two others of the family, he took part in the colonial movement to Vine Street. Later he became a member and an officer of Park Street
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Church, Boston. Without being a member of any tem- perance society, he was an earnest advocate of strict temperance. Prayer with a patient was no unusual thing. To his children he would sometimes say, "I thank God for the faculty of faith." His last days were full of peace, and almost the last conscious act was singing
" Whilst Thee I seek, protecting Power,"
to the familiar tune of Brattle Street.
June 30, 1891, he joined the General Assembly and Church of the first born.
3. HENRY BLATCHFORD WHEELWRIGHT, M.D.
A descendant from Rev. John Wheelwright, well known in colonial days, was a son of Ebenezer Wheelwright, who was for some years a member of the Eliot Church. Dr. Wheelwright was born at Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, May 22, 1824. Having prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, he entered Harvard with the class which graduated in 1844; but ill-health necessitated fre- quent and prolonged absences during the four years' course. His degree of A. M. was dated 1848. After service as master of the Roxbury Latin School, he en- tered the Medical School of Harvard University (1846), ill- health still following him. While a medical student and assistant to his instructor, Dr. B. E. Cotting of Roxbury, he had a large practice among the poor of the town, and in after years elsewhere continued to practice gratuitously
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among the same class. For a long time he had connec- tion with some of the State charitable organizations of Massachusetts, as Commissioner of Alien Passengers and Foreign Paupers ; General Agent of the Board of State Charities, and Superintendent of Out Door Poor. He is credited with an important work in securing valuable amendments of our poor-laws, and in performing much unrequited benevolent labor. Dr. Wheelright's residence was, at different times, in Taunton, Boston and Newbury- port. In the last named place he died of apoplexy, No- vember 2, 1892.
4. ARIEL IVERS CUMMINGS, M.D.
Dr. Cummings was of the typical New England stock, and born at Ashburnham, Mass., June 1I, 1823. Having a tendency to pulmonary disease he was obliged, to cut short his course at Dartmouth College; but after recover- ing health sufficiently he studied with a physician in New York City, and graduated at the medical department of New York University. Before coming to Boston he en- gaged in professional practice for three years at Acworth, New Hampshire. When the Civil War broke out, in 1861, he offered his services and was sent to Yorktown, Virginia, for service in the hospital. Soon, however, he received appointment as surgeon in the 42d Massachu- setts Regiment, Isaac S. Burrill, Colonel. That regiment joined General Banks' expedition to Texas. While landing at Gloucester, Texas, they were taken prisoners
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by the Confederates, January 1, 1863. Dr. Cummings was placed in the rebel hospital, where surgical service was much needed. But he was seized with typhoid dysentery, and after a few weeks of suffering, received his discharge not only from the army, but from all earthly and philanthropic service. Dr. Cummings was a Christian man and a beloved physician.
5. HENRY S. STEELE, M.D.
Dr. Steele, a native of Hartford, Connecticut, was not long a member of the congregation. It was evident from the first of his coming among us that a fatal disease was upon him; but as natural life drew to a close, spiritual life seemed evidently to be imparted. Confinement to his room made it impracticable for Dr. Steele to appear per- sonally in the usual way for a public profession of faith, and the church, by a special vote, suspended its rules, and (March 13, 1857) received him and his wife to its fellowship. The following written communication and an oral statement by the pastor were the basis of that action :
" Within the last few weeks, it has pleased God in his mercy to give me, I trust, a convincing view of my sinfulness and lost estate by nature and by practice, and he has, as I hope, given me by his Spirit a saving view of Jesus Christ, the only and all-sufficient Redeemer, on whose atonement alone do I now rely for pardon and life everlasting. Toward him, his word, his people, and his kingdom, I have such feel- ings as encourage me to regard myself as spiritually a new man in him, and to profess myself a disciple of his. It is my desire to leave on
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record a testimony to his wonderful grace and loving-kindness toward me who till so recently had remained an impenitent sinner. I desire also, if it be consistent, to have my name enrolled among his avowed followers and friends; and should be happy, so far as in me lies, to honor him by such public confession of faith as circumstances will permit ; and that, during the few remaining hours, or at most the few days that I may remain on earth, I may enjoy the prayers and privi- leges of the visible church.
" To the Articles of Faith and the Covenant of the Eliot Church I hereby signify my full assent. My prayer is that God may abun- dantly bless the brethren and sisters in Christ, from whom I am soon to be separated by death; and that, before the eleventh hour every im- penitent sinner may come to Jesus, now while it is an accepted time and a day of salvation."
Dr. Steele had pursued literary and scientific studies with credit to himself; he had taken counsel of others versed in the healing art; had repeatedly tried the air of more genial climates, but came back a baffled consump- tive to die in early manhood. It was not till then that he consulted the Great Physician, and in regard to the worst of all maladies. It was amidst symbolic breaking of bread and shedding of blood, that he seemed to hear the crucified Saviour say, "Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise."
6. STEPHEN WALLACE BOWLES, M.D.
Was born at Machias, Maine, December 21, 1835, the oldest son of Stephen J. Bowles, who, having removed with his family to this place, joined the Eliot Church in
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1846. Stephen W. graduated from Williams College in the same class with Gen. James A. Garfield (1856). Three years later, having completed the course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, he went to Europe for the purpose of studying with Dr. Trousseau and others in Paris. He served as surgeon in the late war, and also practiced his profession in Brattleboro, Vermont, and Yonkers, New York, before establishing himself in Springfield, Massachusetts (1871). He was a prominent physician in that city, holding for some years a position on the staff of the hospital. Dr. Bowles was very much beloved and esteemed. His death occurred February 12, 1895, but interment took place in the family lot at Mount Auburn.
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