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In May, 1871, Dr. Brown lost the devoted companion of his toils, whose health had not, like his, recovered from the effect of the sufferings she had undergone. The awakening of Japan and calls for missionaries to that country soon led the veteran to resume his life-work as a foreign mission- ary ; and in 1872 he was designated by the Baptist Mis- sionary Union to Japan, for which field he set sail from San Francisco, in January, 1873. He had married, in July, 1873, Charlotte Amelia Worth, widow of William Marlitt, Esq. She, with her two little daughters, accompanied him to Japan. Although now sixty-five years of age, he entered upon and completed this third great work of his life with unabated energy; and in August, 1879, his translation of the New Testament, from Greek into vernacular Japanese, was in print. This he afterwards revised and published, both in the vernacular and seholars' editions, and issued other Scriptures and tracts, being assisted for a time in the work of publication and distribution by his son, William Pearee Brown. He believed the Kana, or vernacular, to be the chief reliance of the missionary press, in reaching the great mass of the people ; and his publieations, in this ehar- aeter, as well as in Romanized Japanese, have had a large eireulation.
At the elose of the year 1885, his Japanese Hymn Book was completed, forming an appropriate period at onee to his missionary, linguistic, and literary labors. The poetic " gift and faculty divine " was his, and in the intervals of his mul- tiplied duties, bursts of sacred song welled up from his lov-
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ing and enthusiastic spirit in the Eastern tongues, which had become to him like his own ; and they are sung, to-day, by converts from heathenism, in Assam, Burmah, and Japan. At the age of nineteen, while still an undergraduate at Williams College, he had written that heart-stirring reveille, " The Missionary Call," which strikes the key-note of a life of remarkable unity and completeness, inspired throughout, from youth to age, by a single controlling principle, " the love of man, founded on the love of God." The following is the correet text of the poem as originally published : -
My soul is not at rest. There comes a strange And seeret whisper to my spirit, like A dream of night, that tells me I am on Enchanted ground. Why live I here ? The vows Of God are on me, and I may not stop To play with shadows, or pluck earthly flowers, Till I my work have done, and rendered up Account. The voice of my departed Lord, GO TEACH ALL NATIONS, from the eastern world Comes on the night air, and awakes my ear.
And I will go. I may not longer doubt To give up friends and home and idol hopes, And every tender tie that binds my heart To thee, my country ! Why should I regard Earth's little store of borrowed sweets ? I sure Have had enough of sorrow in my cup To show that never was it ITis design, Who placed me here, that I should live in ease, Or drink at pleasure's fountain.
Henceforth, then,
It matters not, if storm or sunshine be My earthly lot, bitter or sweet my cup; I only pray, God fit me for the work; God make me holy, and my spirit nerve For the stern hour of strife. Let me but know There is an Arm unseen that holds me up, An Eye that kindly watches all my path, Till I my weary pilgrimage have done; Let me but know I have a Friend that waits To welcome me to glory, and I joy To tread the dark and death-fraught wilderness.
And when I come to stretch me for the last, In unattended agony, beneath The cocoa's shade, or lift my dying eyes From Afrie's burning sands, it will be sweet That I have toiled for other worlds than this; I know I shall feel happier than to die On softer bed.
And if I should reach heaven;
If one that hath so deeply, darkly sinned; If one whom ruin and revolt have held With such a fearful grasp; if one for whom Satan has struggled as he hath for me, Should ever reach that blessed shore, oh, how This heart will flame with gratitude and love! And through the ages of eternal years, Thus saved, my spirit never shall repent That toil and suffering once were mine below.
WILLIAM R. BROWN3456, of Larned, Kansas, has held the positions of district judge, member of the House of Repre- sentatives at Washington, and register at United States Land Office at Lawrence, Kan. ; a graduate of Union College, 1862.
WM. G. BRowysh of Steven- Point. Wis. He was fitted for college at New Hampton, N. H., and at Bennington Seminary, of which latter institution his brother, Rev. Dr. Nathan Brown, was then an associate principal. He entered Williams College in 1833 ; poor health prevented his finishing the course. He tanght school at Bennington, Vt., Shel- burne Falls and Holyoke, Mass., and in 1840 became ed- itor of the Vermont Telegraph, afterwards of the Voice of Freedom, both anti-slavery papers, published at Brandon, Vt. 1856 to 1858 was editor of Chicopee Journal. published at Chicopee, Mass. He is the author of several poems that have attained a wide eirculation. The best known of these poems are " A Hundred Years to Come " and "Mother, Home, and Heaven."
CHURCHILL.
GARDNER A. CHURCHILL1513, of Boston. Mass., was ap- pointed an acting ensign, United States Navy, 1862, and served in the navy for three years. He formed, in 1866, with Mr. H. T. Rockwell, the firm of Rockwell & Church- ill, printers, of Boston. He moved to Dorchester, 1868; has represented that town two terms in the Legislature. and was one year trustee of Danvers Hospital.
CROSBY.
SAMUEL COBB CROSBY2721, of Jamestown, N. Y., came to Jamestown in 1832, and for a year thereafter was em- ployed as a clerk in the post-office, E. T. Foote being the postmaster. Subsequently he was in business with Mr. N. Lowry ; afterwards kept a general store, firm name S. C. Crosby & Co. ; also for a time engaged in business with his brother-in-law, Zalmon Keeler. In 1855 he went out of the mercantile trade ; subsequently, however. in 1863. he. with the late Bradford Burlin, established the first coal-yard in Jamestown. This was an experiment. Previous to this, wood had been the only fuel used in this section. Mr. Crosby has held offices of public trust during the years of his active business life, all of which were faithfully admin- istered.
DANIELS.
FRANCIS DANIELS1045. In his early days he was a merchant near Plainfield, Vt. For nearly twenty years he was en- gaged in the cotton trade in Mobile and New Orleans, re- turning to reside in Grafton, Vt .. about 1850. He took an active interest in local affairs, and was a generous supporter of all publie enterprise which seemed worthy in his ju lg- ment. His private benefactions to the poor were liberal and frequent. He contributed largely to the support of the Congregational church. He was an ardent Republican of the original abolition type. He represented his town in the State Legislature. 1858-59, and again in 1863-64. serving
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a part of the time on the Committee on Banking. At the beginning of the war he advocated strongly the poliey of arming the blaeks, and in the latter part of the summer of 1861, at a public meeting in Grafton, Vt., he introduced a series of resolutions, requesting President Lineoln to arm the blacks, and advocated the measure in a spirited speech. He died in Grafton, 1877. His wife was Lucy Barrett1045.
FRANCIS BARRETT DANIELS1049 of Dubuque, Iowa, grad- uate at Phillipsburg Academy, Andover, Mass., class 1867, Harvard College, class 1871, and Columbia College Law School, class 1874. Is practising law at Dubuque, Iowa, where he was a Presidential elector in 1880.
DAY.
LIEUT. MURRAY SIMPSON DAY1771, of the United States Navy, was a son of Hannibal Day, and son-in-law of Gen. George S. Greene. From 1873 to 1876, Lieut. Day, by consent of the United States government, served the Japanese government in organizing and starting a government Coast Survey similar to the United States Coast Survey. Lieut. Day died Dec. 27, 1878, on board the United States ship " Vandalia," on the voyage from Gibraltar to New York.
DANA.
HON. SAMUEL DANA1715, of Groton, Mass., was identified with the history of his native town for nearly fifty years. He studied law at the office of his father and Judge John Lowell in Boston; was admitted to the bar in 1789, and opened an office in Groton, where he gained an extensive practice, becoming a leader of the Middlesex bar. Butler's "Ilstory of Groton " says of him : " He was a popular speaker, able advocate, and successful practitioner. Mr. Dana was the first postmaster of Groton. There was a mail once in each week; the quarterly receipts for the first year (1800) amounted to three dollars. He was also captain of the North Company in Groton, composed of Democrats, the South Company being Federalists. commanded by Hon. Timothy Bigelow, who was the lawyer usually pitted against Mr. Dana in the more important suits of the day. He was appointed county attorney for the county of Middlesex in 1807, holding the office for four years, when he received the appointment of chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, holding the position for ten years. He was representative to the General Court for two years, 1802-3, and was elected to the Senate for nine successive years, during eight of which he was president of that body. In the fall of 1814 he was elected a representative to fill the vacancy in Congress, and was a delegate to the convention for altering and amending the State Constitution in 1820-21. In 1825-26 he again represented the town in the Legislature. Ile removed to Charlestown in 1808, where he, with his family, resided for
five years. Mrs. Dana's health being delicate, and she being unable to bear the east winds, he returned to his native town, purchasing a farm of some three hundred acres, upon which he introduced the most approved agricultural implements. He was one of the first members of the Middlesex Agricul- tural Society at Concord, Mass. He was also mueh inter- ested in the growth of wool, and in company with others imported the first merino sheep into this country. He spent the winter of 1824-5 in Washington, and there organized the New England Society for the Improvement of Wool. Mrs. Dana is remembered as being tall and singularly graceful in her movements, and noted for her beauty of form and fea- ture, her culture and refinement, lovely disposition, and powers of conversation." He died in Charlestown, Mass.
HON. JAMES DANA14 of Boston, Mass. Mr. Dana grad- uated at Harvard College, 1830, and is a counsellor at law in Boston. He was mayor of the city of Charlestown for three years, beginning in 1858. During his term of office the Mystic Water Works, for the supply of Charlestown and contiguous municipalities, was established. also the Charles- town Public Library. He was appointed clerk of the courts in Middlesex County, to fill a vacancy, and served until his successor was elected and qualified. He held a commission as an officer in the Massachusetts State Volunteer Militia for twelve years, viz., commander of the Charlestown Light Infantry, brigade-major on the staff of Gen. Joshual But- terick of Concord, colonel of Fourth Regiment of Infantry, and general in Third Brigade, Second Division.
GEN. JAMES JACKSON DANA1747, of Washington, D. C., received from President Franklin Pierce a commission as lieutenant in the United States Fourth Regiment of Artillery, and was engaged in operations against the Seminole Indians in Florida, and in the disturbances in Kansas, and subse- quently served at various points with his regiment in Nebraska. Minnesota, and Utah. At the outbreak of the Southern Rebellion he was appointed regimental quarter- master. and ordered from Camp Floyd, Utah, where he was serving with the light battery of his regiment, to head- quarters at Fort McHenry. Baltimore. He was soon after appointed assistant quartermaster, with rank of captain United States Army, and placed in charge of the transporta- tion branch of the Washington quartermaster's depot. cov- ering an area of more than one hundred acres, on which were the extensive stables for thousands of horses and mules, hospitals for the treatment of the wounded animals, shops and storehouses where army wagons, ambulances, harness, and articles pertaining to land transportation were received, stored, repaired, and manufactured, and issued to the Army of the Potomae and the troops around Washington. His official expenditures were by the millions, and his em- ployees numbered upwards of five thousand. The lamented Gen. Reynolds, commanding the First Army Corps, hav- ing applied for him as chief quartermaster, with rank of
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colonel, on his staff, he was so appointed, and was engaged in the campaign of Chancellorsville, and at Gettysburg, where Gen. Reynolds received the untimely fatal shot. Capt. Dana was brevetted major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general for faithful and meritorious services in the quartermaster's department during the war, and was promoted major and quartermaster, Jan. 18, 1867, and lieutenant-colonel and deputy quartermaster, Feb. 13, 1882. Gen. Dana served after the war in charge of a division in the office of the quartermaster-general ; subsequently as chief quartermaster Department of the Lakes, of the Department of Arizona and New Mexico, in charge of the clothing depot at Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, and as depot quartermaster at sundry places. He was also in charge, at Nashville, Tenn., of the investigation of claims of loyal eit- izens for property taken by and used for the armies of the United States in Tennessee during the Rebellion ; afterwards he served as chief quartermaster, Department of the South, whence he was ordered to duty in the general office at Washington. On the 9th of April, 1885, having reached the age of sixty-four years, by operation of act June 30, 1882, he was retired from active service, holding at the time the rank of lieutenant-colonel and deputy quartermaster- general, United States Army.
EVERETT.
COL. JOHN M. EVERETT1409, of Foxboro, Mass., was a farmer ; he also held a number of publie offices : colonel of the State militia, justice of the peace, trial justice, and a mem- ber of the board of selectmen and school committee ; in 1846 was representative to the Legislature. In 1850 he made a survey of Foxboro (his native town), and from it drew a map of the town. In 1871, feeling the effect of age upon him, he sold his farin and removed to Wrentham, and soon after be- came blind. After submitting to several painful operations, three of which were unsuccessful in bringing sight, discour- aged by his friends and knowing that his chances were small, he again sought Dr. Sprague of Boston, for the fourth time, and returned to his home rejoicing with sight restored.
FOSTER.
ISAAC FOSTER1184 after his marriage moved to New York State in 1817 to the town of Aurelius, where afterward Fos- terville, a village of the town, was named for him and his brother. Mr. Foster opened the first store in Fosterville in 1819. He was a justice of the peace for eleven years, and was the first postmaster of Fosterville.
FLETCHER.
HON. JOHN FLETCHER4726, of Acton, Mass., was a member of the State Legislature, 1862, State Senate, 1870 and 1871.
REV. JAMES FLETCHER 524, of Acton. Mass., a graduate of Academy at New Ipswich, N. II., Dartmouth College. 1813. Andover Seminary, 1856. Mr. Fletcher has been engaged as a minister in the Congregational society, and also a teacher in academies and seminaries in the State He married Lydia Middleton Woodward, daughter of Rev. Heury Woodward, one of the first missionaries to Ceylon, and a granddaughter of Prof. Bessaleel Woodward of Dartmouth College.
FROTHINGHAM.
REV. WILLIAM FROTHINGHAM1119, a graduate at Harvard College, 1799, in the class with Channing, Tuckerman, and other distinguished Unitarians. He kept a school at Lexing- ton for a time, was licensed to preach June 9. 1801, and or- dained pastor of the church at Saugus. Mass., Sept. 26, 1804, remaining there twelve years, and in July. 1819, he was installed over the Congregational church at Belfast, Maine. where his ministry continued twenty-seven years. Ilis wife was Lois Barrett1119.
GREENE.
CHARLES THRUSTON GREENE17 was a member of the Twenty-second Regiment New York State Militia in service of the United States, also second lieutenant Sixtieth Regiment New York Volunteers, aide-de-camp to his father, Gen. Geo. S. Greene; assistant adjutant-general, 1863. He was in many of the important battles, and lost a leg at the battle of Chattanooga, Tenn., while leading the Third Brigade. Second Division, Second Army Corps, past the batteries at Ringold. He was appointed captain and brevet major in the Regiment of Veteran Reserves for gallant serviec. and when the regiment was disbanded, he was placed upon the retired list of the army, with the rank of captain mounted.
CAPT. FRANCIS VINTON GREENE173 was a cadet at United States Military Academy, West Point. 1866 to 1870, at the head of his elass each year ; lieutenant of engineers, captain engineers, United States Army : assistant astronomer and surveyor on the location of the northern boundary line between the United States and Great Britain : military at- taché to the United States Legation at St. Petersburg. Ile has been assistant engineer for the city of Washington since 1879. In addition to his otheial reports on the movements. organization, etc., of the Russian army in the campaign of 1877-78, he has published " Army Life in Russia." " The Mississippi Campaign of the Civil War."
GEN. GEORGE SEARS GREENERB was born at Apponaug. Warwick, R. I., May 6, 1801. He is a descendant in the sixth generation from Major JJohn Greene, deputy governor of Rhode Island, whose father, John Green. Sr., came from Salisbury. in England. in 1635, settling in Warwick. R. I .. 1643.
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Point, 1823, second in his class, with rank of second lieu- tenant. Lient. Greene left the army in 1836 and became a civil engineer, building many railroads in the States of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Maryland, and Virginia. In 1856 he served in the Croton Aqueduct Department in the city of New York, building the reservoir in Central Park, raising the High Bridge, and increasing its capacity for bringing water into the city.
Gen. Greene was appointed brigadier-general of volun- teers, United States Army, April 28, 1862. Hle commanded his brigade at Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, 1862, and was iu command of the Second Division of the Twelfth Army Corps in the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. Also commanded his brigade at the battle of Chancellorsville, May 1 and 2, 1863; and at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, with a portion of his brigade he held the right wing of the Army of the Poto- mac, at Culp's Hill, against a fierce onslaught of more than a division of Confederate troops, thereby averting a terrible disaster which would have resulted from turning the right wing of the army. Hle was transferred to the Western armies in September, 1863, and in a night engagement at Wauhatchie, near Chattanooga, on Oct. 28, 1863, he was dangerously wounded by a rifle bullet passing through his face and breaking the bones of the jaw. This wound dis- abled him from active service until January, 1865, when he rejoined Sherman's army in North Carolina, and participated in the engagements preceding Johnson's surrender. He was appointed brevet major-general for his distinguished ser- vices, March 13, 1865, and retired from the army in 1866. In 1867 he became chief engineer and commissioner of the Croton Aqueduct Department, and remained such until 1871, when he became chief engineer of public works in Wash- ington, resigning from that position in 1872. He was presi- dent of the American Society of Civil Engineers from 1875 to 1877, and since that date has been engaged as consulting engineer on various engineering works.
GEORGE SEARS GREENE, Jr. 1766, of New York, is a eivil engineer, and has been engineer in chief, Department of Doeks, New York City, from 1875 to the present time.
SAMUEL DANA GREENE1767, midshipman U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 1855 to 1859 ; passed midship- man. 1859, to August 31, 1861, when he was promoted lieutenant U. S. Navy ; seeond in command of the iron-elad " Monitor " under Lieut. Worden, and in command when Lieut. Worden was wounded in the fight with the rebel iron- clad " Merrimae." IFe was attached to the "Monitor " till she sank off' Cape Hatteras. Ile was lieutenant-commander and commander, and constantly on duty until his death.
GOWING.
JOHN KENDALL GOWING2549, of Shirley, Mass., was a prominent resident of Shirley during his life. He was a
selectman four years, was county commissioner, and repre- resented his town in the Legislature one year.
HALL.
EVELYN MAY BARRETT HALL2752, wife of Elial F. Hall, was of unusual mental endowments ; she was thorough in her knowledge, unosteutations in her bearing, and possessed great character as well as the gentlest of spirits. She was a dependence wherever she was placed. Having no children of her own, her sympathy and help went out in a large meas- ure to the families of her brothers and sisters, and entered into the charitable work with which she was connected in New York City. Iler aid here was invaluable. The in- fluence of her character among working women, whom she met with from week to week, was said to have been won- derful for good. She had many devoted friends among these women, who loved her and gained great strength and practical knowledge from her for their common needs. She said to her sister shortly before her death, "This work of mine is not finished ; I shall take it with me into the other world." She had a rare gift for literary work, and wrote many valuable articles, notably the description of the first company that navigated Chantauqua Lake. It will find an honored place in the archives of the country. Dr. Tay- lor, her pastor, elosed in the brief funeral service with the following words : "She so gentle, so even-tempered, and so cultured, tried to walk with God."
HOSMER.
REV. GEORGE WASHINGTON HOSMER4207 was born in Con- cord in 1803. He studied first at the school in Concord, then taught by the Rev. Samuel Barrett (afterwards min- ister of the Chardon Street Church in Boston) ; here he pre- pared for college, and was admitted to the Freshman class in Harvard College, 1822. He taught a school during his college term in Wayland, Lineolu, and Bolton to help pay his expenses. After graduating he taught school success- fully at Plymouth, for about one year, then entering the Divinity School at Cambridge ; after this he preached for seven years at Northfield, Mass. He succeeded the Rev. James Freeman Clarke at Louisville, Ky., in 1835. He re- moved to Buffalo in 1836, and there continued a successful pastorate for thirty years. He became the president of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1866, occupying the chair for seven years, when he removed to Newton, Mass., becoming pastor of the Channing Church.
MAJOR JOSEPH HOSMER4193 of Concord. " In the great events of the Revolution he aeted a conspicuous part, always in favor of liberty. Whilst the preliminary measures were under discussion, one of the townsmen made a powerful speech, in which he attempted to ridicule the doings of the Sons of Liberty.' Mr. Hosmer immediately replied in a
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strain of natural, unaffected, but energetic cloquence (for which he was afterwards distinguished), which particularly attracted public attention, and introduced him to public favor. He was a militia officer on April 19, 1775, and the first captain of the Concord Light Infantry Company, and was afterwards promoted to major. He was a representa- tive five years, a senator twelve, being always an active and influential member. He was appointed sheriff of the county in 1792, and sustained the office fifteen years. . Major IIos- mer was endowed by nature with strong, active powers of mind ; and the character he formed enabled him to meet all events with that fortitude which is an earnest of success. Ardent without rashness, bold without presumption, and religious withont fanatieism, he was eminently a nseful man."
PROF. JAMES KENDALL HOSMER4217, a minister at Deer- field, Mass., 1860 to 1866 corporal Fifty-second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-63 ; professor Antioch Col- lege, Ohio, 1866 to 1872; State University, Mo., 1872 to 1874; at Washington University, St. Louis, 1874.
HUBBARD.
EBENEZER IIUBBARD1864, of Concord, Mass., lived where he boasted that his grandfather had entertained Washington. 'He was always greatly disturbed in mind because the monument to commemorate the fight at North Bridge was not placed on the opposite side of the river, where the Americans stood that April morning. In his will he left one thousand dollars toward the cost of another monument on that side (which has resulted in the present statue of the minute-man). He also placed six hundred dollars in the hands of the town elerk to build a bridge on the site of the old one." He died unmarried.
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