Historical catalogue of the Northampton First Church, 1661-1891, Part 6

Author: Clark, Solomon, 1811-1902
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Northampton, Mass. : Gazette Print. Co.
Number of Pages: 272


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E. Y. SWIFT'S MINISTRY. 185


Harriet E. Davis.


IIclen M. Clark.


Sarah W. Allen. Ann Sophia Allen.


Mrs. Hannah D. Clark and Helen M. Clark. Mother and daughter, Maple street.


Mrs. Experience D. Kellogg.


Frances C. Bascom.


Mary Bascom. Martha A. Strong.


Sophia Chester.


Franklin Stiles.


Mrs. Roxana Stiles.


Mrs. Sophia P. Strong. Wife of William, Hawley street.


Nancy J. Parsons.


Martha S. Damon, Boston.


Frances S. Lyman.


Mrs. Harriet A. Abbott.


George Kellogg.


1848.


Eliza M. Cook. Julia Elliot. Mrs. Frances E. Stoddard. Widow of Prof. Solo- mon, who deceased 1847, at Middlebury, Vt. Mrs. Amelia P. Warner.


18 FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Charles H. Dickinson, Martha C. Dickinson, Mar- ket street. Mrs. Emma Graves. Mrs. Princes Wood.


1849.


Mrs. Harriet IIntchins.


Mrs. Lucy B. Lyman.


Horace Clark. Mrs. Mary Clark. Truman Meekins.


Polly Meekins.


Luthera Meekins.


Cordelia A. Case.


Eliza M. Barnard. Sally Ann French. Mary E. French. Lucy M. Burnell.


Francis Williams.


Sarah B. Delano.


Moses Clark.


Allison H. Palmer. Teacher of music, chorister in the First Church. Removed to Chelsea.


Mrs. Ruth G. Palmer. Thomas Green. Mrs. Sarah Green. Sarah P. Green.


187


E. Y. SWIFT'S MINISTRY.


1850.


Nathaniel Phelps.


Mrs. Sarah Phelps.


Lois E. Dow.


Mary H. Wotton.


Sarah K. Warren.


Minerva C. Brewster. Married, 1856, Rev. Iliram Bingham, Jr. For several years has lived at the Sandwich Islands. Hlas lately translated the Bible for the Hawaiian Foreign Missionary So- ciety. Mary C. Dewey.


Samuel V. Sykes.


Mrs. Caroline Sykes.


Mary E. Sykes.


Catharine B. Wood.


Cornelius D. Wood.


Joseph Kellogg. IIervey J. Smith. Mary Smith.


Lovisa C. Allen.


Samuel Freeman. Lois Freeman.


Catharine Gilfillan. Graduated at Mt. Holyoke Seminary 1852.


Anna C. Edwards. Graduated at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, 1859. Assistant Principal of that institution. Traveling in Europe in 1891.


188 FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Minerva Smith.


Elizabeth H. Tenny.


Sarah P. Kingsley, Judith B. Kingsley, of South street.


Charles C. Rust.


Catharine Davis.


Esther A. Graves.


Louisa Healey. Married, 1855, Rev. Stephen C. Pixley, a missionary to South Africa.


Caroline Lawrence.


Joseph H. Parsons.


Edwin G. Durant.


Elizabeth Adams.


Charles B. Kingsley. Druggist, successor to An- drew Wood. Chosen deacon in 1873.


John Warner.


David Allen. Removed to Davenport, Iowa.


Laura Day.


Harriet Hunt.


Sarah E. Allen.


1851.


Mrs. Esther A. Loomis.


Sarah C. Bray.


Camillus M. Chapin. Eliza White. -


Maria Hubbard.


189


E. Y. SWIFT'S MINISTRY.


Mrs. George Kingsley.


Mrs. Susan F. Clark.


1852.


Mrs. Frances P. Clark. Removed to Plainfield in 1873. Deceased 1891.


Mrs. Martha B. Whittelscy. Mother of cashier Whittelsey, also of Julia W. and Mary W., South street. Mrs. Julia Parsons.


Ruth Wolcott.


Rev. S. S. Smith. Pastor at Westminister. Agent for one of the benevolent societies. Lived at Northampton. Mrs. L. B. Smith,


Cornelia E. Smith. Caleb Wright. Mrs. Sarah L. Wright. Amanda S. Wright.


CHAPTER XI.


Ministry of Ree. J. P. Cleaveland. April 20, 1853-July 11, 1855. ADMISSIONS,-HISTORICAL ITEMS. 1853.


James Williams.


Nancy Williams.


Mrs. Elvira Parsons.


Mrs. Charlotte P. Edwards, at Pine Grove.


Rev. John P. Cleaveland. Pastor at Detroit. Sa- lem, Cincinnati, and Providence.


Mrs. Juliana C. Cleaveland.


Susan P. Cleaveland.


William M. Lathrop. Graduated at Yale, 1825. First a lawyer at Enfield, next in mercantile business. Later in the insurance work, Boston. Mrs. Diana Dumont.


Julia Butler. Widow of Elihu, editor of Commer- cial Advertiser in New York.


Rial Claflin.


Hannah W. Claflin, Cherry street.


(190)


J. P. CLEAVELAND'S MINISTRY. 191


Charles C. Claflin.


Alfred IInnt. Son of Dr. David. For many years lived in Auburn, N. Y.


Sarah W. Hunt.


1854.


Caroline S. Moore, Warner District.


Clarissa Trumbull.


Chloe M. Hunt.


Lois P. Lyman.


Cornelia Collins.


Graduated at Mt. Holyoke Sem-


inary, 1857. Afterwards Cornelia C. Ward, Holyoke.


1855.


Theodore Burt. Sarah H. Burt. Mary B. Dwight.


1856.


Mary W. Newton. Adelia C. Phelps.


1857.


Mrs. Helen V. Searle. Mrs. Emeline C. Wright, West Farms. Mrs. Caroline Hillman. Spencer Parsons, Pine Grove.


19%


FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Daniel Strong. Son of Joseph, Hawley street, He reserved one acre for his homestead.


Rachel Strong. Susan D. Phelps.


Mrs. Clarissa M. Smith.


Mrs. Sarah Ann Parsons.


Mrs. Harriet E. Parsons. Mrs. Pamelia Fitts, Removed to Sunderland. Emeline C. Bourne.


CHAPTER: XIL.


Ministry of Rer. Zachary Eddy, March 3, 1858-April 1, 1867. ADMISSIONS .~ HISTORICAL ITEMS.


1858.


Rev. Zachary Eddy. Twelfth pastor of North- ampton First Church. Published a Church Manual in 1860.


Mrs. Malvina R. Eddy.


George L. Wright, from Westhampton. Chosen deacon 1877. Residence 42 South street.


Betsey Bentley.


Leonard H. Field. Went into business in Jackson, Michigan.


Submit Field and Deney L. Field. Resided on Union street.


Samuel T. Spaulding. Settled in Northampton, 1856. District Attorney for nine years. Ap- pointed Judge of Probate, 1872.


Isabella Simpson. 13 (193)


194


FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Haynes K. Starkweather, Jr. Chosen deacon in 1873. Martha P. Starkweather, Maple street.


A. Lyman Williston. President First National Bank. One of the deacons of the First Church. Home on Round Hill.


Hannah M. Williston. Married, 1864, Rev. George S. Bishop, D. D., pastor at East Orange, N. J. Martin L. Williston. Pastorates in several places. Professor at Carleton' College, Northfield, Minn. John Whittelsey. Cashier Northampton National Bank. Trustee and Treasurer of Cooley Dickin- son Hospital.


Henry Roberts.


Addison W. Beals. Removed to Warren, Mass. Edward L. Bartlett. Residence New York City. Theodore Bartlett.


Mary Jane Church. Julia E. Clark.


David B. Claflin.


Mary J. Perigo.


Charles Hillman.


Mindwell K. Parsons. Charles T. Parsons.


Mary S. Lathrop, Abby P. Lathrop, Elizabeth D. Lathrop, Hawley street.


Caroline M. Kingsley, Nancy E. Kingsley, West street.


ZACHARY EDDY'S MINISTRY. 195


Maria A. Bliss.


James H. Searle. One of the First Church dea- cons.


John B. Augur and Charles Smith. Associated together in the tailoring business.


George Shepherd.


Theodore P. Clark and Charles Edgar Clark, brothers. Sons of Elijah and Mrs. Frances P. Clark. Both died several years ago.


Lyman N. Clark, at Pine Grove.


Webster Bartholomew. Residence at Canton, N. Y.


Elizabeth Simpson, Spring Dale.


L. Maria Merwin.


Lucy A. Kellogg.


John W. Ilubbard.


Thomas W. Levake.


Anna E. Levake.


Charles C. Wells. Druggist at Saratoga Springs. Ruth S. Breck.


Sarah M. Burt, Fanny H. Burt, Harriet E. Burt, Home on Union street.


Elias A. Pike, Elizabeth M. Pike, and Mary A. Pike. Residence on Maple street.


Lucy Parsons.


George B. Drury, Sarah P. S. Drury, and Sarah H. Drury, at Loudville. Superintendent of Schools. Recently deceased.


-


196


FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


William B. Hale. Formerly President of First National Bank, Northampton.


IIarriet A. Hale.


Mary S. Lee.


J. S. Lathrop.


Elizabeth S. Lathrop.


Albert H. Kingsley.


William M. Barnard.


William Bliss.


Martin L. Clapp.


Frederic C. Hillman. Removed to South Deerfield.


Edward M. Kingsley.


J. Dwight Kellogg.


Elijah D. Clapp.


Mary Clapp.


Martha A. Clark.


Emma C. Bliss.


Frances C. Hunt.


Mary E. Shepherd.


Frances A. Phelps.


Martha M. Phelps.


Ellen W. Converse. Helen M. Clapp.


Mary Edwards.


Elizabeth H. Clark.


Abby P. Lathrop.


Elizabeth D. Lathrop.


197


ZACHARY EDDY'S MINISTRY.


Alfred J. Munyan.


Jonathan E. Collins.


Laurentia P. Collins. William P. Derby.


Susan E. Clark.


Helen E. Phelps.


Sarah T. Stoddard. Daughter of Prof. Solomon, Married, 1861, Hon. A. L. Williston, President First National Bank.


Louisa G. Stoddard. Daughter of Prof. Solomon, married, 1869, Martin Luther Williston, who studied in Germany. Prof. in Carleton College. George W. Edwards, at Pine Grove.


Frances A. Clark.


Ozro C. Wright.


Ellen M. Kingsley.


Sarah W. Lyman.


Mary Jane Simpson.


Sarah B. Foster.


Sarah E. Parsons.


Emily Kingsley. Sarah C. Bridgman.


Elizabeth P. Knapp. Joseph B. Whitehouse. Martha A. Whitehouse. Mary Elwell. Lizzie H. Stockwell.


198 FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON. Emily S. Love. Martha R. Birge.


1859.


Edward W. Curtis. Removed to Cambridgeport.


Mary E. Ferry.


Anna E. Clark.


Elizabeth C. Kingsley.


Mary Baker.


Jane A. Baker.


Clarissa E. Clark.


Jemima II. Thayer.


Elizabeth B. Lyman.


George W. Perigo.


Sally H. Perigo.


Elbridge Kingsley.


Mercy Moody.


Clarissa Hancock.


Laura A. Perkins.


Sarah C. Strong.


Ebenezer W. Strong.


Mrs. E. W. Strong.


George D. Clark. Druggist, under the firm of Clark & Parsons.


1SGO.


Elizabeth Wood. Mary S. Claflin.


ZACHARY EDDY'S MINISTRY. 199


Nathan Clark. Polly W. Clark. Edson P. Clark. Betsey Cutler.


1861.


Mrs. Fleming. Reuben II. Nims.


Catherine E. Tyler.


Grand-daughter of Ilon. Eliphalet Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Manly.


S. Russell Butler. Graduated at Williams, 1858. A missionary for twelve years on the Labrador coast.


George L. Shaw. Mary Ann Shaw. Chloe Parsons. Erasta K. Wells.


1862.


James C. Arms. Mary S. W. Arms. Achsah G. Gaylord. Cyrus White.


James L. Warriner, from Springfield. Connected with Northampton National Bank. Removed to Pittsfield.


200


FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Isaac R. Clark.


Sarah R. Clark.


M. Josephine Kellogg. Mrs. Catharine J. Prince.


Elizabeth P. Wright. Graduated at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, 1869.


Charlotte E. Graves.


HIeman White, Jr.


Clarissa White.


Mrs. Maria Noble.


Mrs. Amanda Edwards.


Almira A. Eames.


Mrs. A. W. Olmsted.


Heury Tucker and Amelia E. Tucker. Removed to the west.


1863.


Timothy P. Phelps.


Anna Phelps, West Farms.


Sophronia Starkweather.


William Richardson.


John M. Knox.


Jerusha E. Warner. Elizabeth O. Baker. Edith M. Eddy, daughter of Rev. Dr. Eddy. Known by her writings.


ZACHARY EDDY'S MINISTRY. 201


Henry A. Dwight. Sou of Cecil. Graduated at Williams, 1829. Tanght at Norfolk, Va. After the war he lived in Northampton. Lucia D. Dwight.


Achsa L. Shumway.


IIelen Gilfillan, graduated, 1854, at Mt. Holyoke Seminary. Afterwards Mrs. H. G. Collins, Elizabeth, N. J.


Luthera F. Norton.


Eliza Towne.


Willis W. Clapp.


Charles F. Warner.


Lucy A. Ayres.


George Bennett.


Francis P. Searle.


Everett R. Sanders.


Harriet E. Brooks.


Henrietta Strong, Hospital Hill.


Abby P. Burnham.


1864.


Julia H. Strong. Harriet Williams. Henry F. Williams and Sarah F. Williams, 21 Pomeroy Terrace. Margaret Dickey. William A. Clark.


202


FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


George E. B. Howard.


Helen D. Howard.


S. W. Lee, Jr. Organist of First Church in 1884. Hephzibah Lee.


Frances Livermore.


Lucy Phelps.


Rosetta E. Crossett.


Sarah Norris.


Milo Loveland.


Mary M. Loveland.


James Allen. Otis A. Skilton.


Adaline M. Skilton.


HIattie C. Davis.


Ella S. Thompson.


Sarah J. Strong.


Effie Warner.


L. W. Joy. From Hawley. The fourteenth post- master in Northampton. HIeld the office twenty- four years. Rebecca W. Joy.


John Hunt Hastings.


E. Williams Tyler, lawyer, Peckham & Tyler, Trinity Building, N. Y. City.


Wilbert A. North. Mary A. Knapp. Eliza Ring.


ZACHARY EDDY'S MINISTRY. 203


Josiah Bakeman, Helen E. Bakeman, Lincoln avenue.


Mary E. Wright.


Allen S. Clark.


Charles S. Thayer.


Theodore Gladden, Jr.


Joseph P. Pray.


Esther E. Moody.


Nathaniel S. Graves.


Mary J. Graves.


Harriet C. Graves.


Viola M. Graves.


L. Myron Kidder.


Josephine E. Kingsley.


Lucinda Cook.


Susan L. Hillman. Pelatiah Pray.


J. Edwards Parsons.


Alvah L. Bartlett. Grandson of Preserved, who built on South street 1792.


Edward French. William S. Kingsley.


Fanny M. Strong. Susan A. Pray.


Obadiah Hastings.


Sarah R. Hastings.


Jennie J. Corser.


204


FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Marietta C. Copeland.


Rev. Ephraim Lyman. Removed to Northampton 1864. Spent his last years in Minnesota.


Hannah D. Lyman.


Lucy D. F. Lyman.


George R. Lyman.


Ellen II. Lyman.


Minerva Hart.


Julia Brown.


1865.


IIenry J. Walker.


Pbila A. Walker.


Jonathan P. Strong. By occupation a mason. Long a member of the First Church choir.


Levi Parsons Morton.


Lucy E. Dewey.


Mary E. Clark.


Noah H. Lee.


Caroline A. Nutting.


H. J. Rudd.


Annie C. Rudd.


Orrin E. Livermore.


Elizabeth L. Livermore.


Andrew S. Cook.


Marion A. Cook.


Elizabeth L. Baker.


ZACHARY EDDY'S MINISTRY. 205


Julia Prentiss.


Lewis H. Fellows.


Elizabeth R. Fellows.


William P. Strickland. Graduated at Williams 1858. Admitted to the Bar 1861. Clerk of the Courts 1864. Judge of the District Court. Dea- con of First Church.


Mary Strickland.


Sarah Strong. Daughter of Jonathan, South street. A teacher ; taught in the same school building on Center street over a quarter of a century. Shortened her days by teaching.


Sarah C. Phelps.


J. Hunt Butler. Bookseller on Shop Row. Father of several graduates. President of Northampton National Bank.


Sarah M. Butler.


1866.


Mrs. E. P. Strickland.


Laura L. Davenport.


Mary H. Northam.


Harriet W. Harrington.


Erastus C. Hall.


Elizabeth Hall.


Oliver Walker. Secretary and Treasurer of the Hampshire Mutual Fire Insurance Co.


206 FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Virginia Clark.


· Catharine Slate. Catharine S. Kingsley. George S. Seymour. Mary F. Clark. Gradnated at Mt. Holyoke Semi- nary, 1865. Lizzie A. Clark. Taught Kindergarten School in Northampton.


Ella L. North.


Mary Anna Parsons.


Harriet Lyman, Sarah C. Lyman, Bridge street and Grant avenue.


Horace Lamb, Ilarriet II. Lamb, 14 High street. Emily S. Church.


1867.


James O'Neil.


Eunice C. Walcott.


Sarah J. Prouty.


Mrs. Margaret J. Hooker.


David E. Phillips.


Mrs. Lucy E. Morton.


Emily W. Fairman.


William P. Starkweather.


Charles D. Hastings.


Farnum E. Sawin.


John A. Prentiss. Formerly Sexton of First Church.


ZACHARY EDDY'S MINISTRY. 207


Fred W. Lyman.


Albert M. Loyd. Phebe Loyd.


Egbert I. Clapp. City Clerk of Northampton. Austin Hayden. Mrs. E. B. Hayden.


Mrs. A. E. Converse.


Mrs. Mary Saulsbury.


Mrs. Alma I. Day.


Mrs. Betsey S. Livermore.


Anna E. Price.


Mrs. Elizabeth D. Kirkland. Susan A. Williams.


CHAPTER XIII.


€ Rer. William S. Leariffs Ministry, 1867-1881. ADMISSIONS .- HISTORICAL ITEMS.


1867. Mrs. Theodosia II. Leavitt.


18GS.


Sarah J. Gibbs.


Mrs. Felicia S. Burt.


Mrs. Clarissa Fox. Mrs. Martha A. Turner, Maria N. Dewey. Daughter of Judge Charles A. Dewey. Mrs. Sarah Marshall. Mrs. Lucretia Smith.


James Dickson Clark. Son of Charles, grandson of Dea. Luther. Graduated at Williams, 1848. Studied law and admitted to practice, 1851. Taught in Brooklyn, 1855-64. Published Bio- graphical Record of Kappa Alpha Society of Williams College, 1881. (208)


WILLIAM S. LEAVITT'S MINISTRY. 209


Mrs. Catharine A. Edwards.


Mrs. Susan R. Boies. Wife of William Boies, who practiced law in Northampton. In 1871 he re- moved to Troy, N. Y. Evans B. Harding. Graduated at Medical Depart- ment of Bowdoin College, 1863. Located in Northampton, 1864. Mrs. E. B. Harding.


1869.


Mary C. Dickinson. Hlad a private school on King street.


Ann MeLaughlin.


Mrs. Lydia W. Williams.


Fred G. Hastings.


Isaac D. Smith.


Mrs. I. D. Smith.


Fanny J. Walker.


J. B. Ackerman.


Mrs. E. G. Ackerman.


Mary II. Ackerman.


Henry A. Wright. Jennie Wright. George S. Hunt, Mrs. Fanny S. Hunt, 19 Sonth street. He originated in Goshen.


Newton Thayer. 14


210


FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Frank Clifford Lyman. Graduated at Yale, 1876,


Taught in New York City, also in Peeksville, N. Y.


William HI. Nowell, Mrs. W. H. Nowell. He was chosen deacon of the First Church in 1877.


Elizabeth Anna Dwight.


1870.


Mrs. Henry R. Hinckley. Wife of Henry Rose II.


By profession a lawyer. He was lientenant in Mass. Cavalry in the Rebellion.


Mrs. Lucy M. Webb.


Maria I. Wood.


Alfred Starkweather.


Mrs. Fannie A. Starkweather.


Eliza J. Witherell.


Mrs. I. R. Miner.


Catharine D. F. Sergeant.


Nellie E. Kellogg.


Fanny A. Edwards.


Mary G. Leavitt.


Elizabeth L. Fairman.


Susie H. Lyman.


Jennie Jenkins.


18:1.


Charles II. Chandler.


Mrs. Stella S. Chandler.


211


WILLIAM S. LEAVITT'S MINISTRY.


Mrs. M. E. Ockington.


Mrs. Jane S. Benjamin. Home on Hawley street, daughter of William Butler, who started in 1786 the Hampshire Gazette.


Simeon Dickinson, Martha G. Dickinson, 11 Pom- eroy Terrace. He lived to be over ninety. Also Martha E. Dickinson.


Mrs. Sarah T. Lacore.


1872.


Mr. Elijah H. Bartlett.


Mrs. Elijah H. Bartlett.


Anna Wright, Olive A. Wright, 14 Bridge street. Samnel A. Fisk, Jr. Graduated at Yale, 1877.


Studied medicine in Boston. Physician at Den- ver.


Mary J. Dawson.


Anna E. Fowle. Home at Michigamme, Mich.


Mr. Franklin Howes.


Mrs. Franklin Howes.


Julia L. Wolcott. Submit Clark. Julia R. Tyler. Anna Wilkinson. Widow Daly. Margaret Daly.


212


FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


1873.


George W. Hubbard. Treasurer of Smith College, Trustee of Savings Bank and of Forbes Library ; also of Hampshire Mutual Fire Insurance Co. President of Cooley Dickinson Hospital ; Presi- dent of Smith Charities.


Mrs. Philena T. Hubbard.


Mrs. Caroline B. Alvord. Removed to Worcester. Mother of Rev. James C. Alvord.


Willis W. Clapp.


Frederic A. Hildreth.


H. K. W. Dickinson.


Angeline Dickinson.


Sidney Dickinson. A journalist. In 1885 lectured on Art at Smith College.


Edward Dickinson. Son of Henry. Graduated at Amherst College, 1876. In the musical profes- sion at Elmira, N. Y.


C. H. Dickinson, Jr. Graduated at College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1878. Practiced at Faribault, Minn.


Andrew Sawin. Mrs. Mary J. Stone.


Mrs. Sarah J. Bates.


Mrs. Sarah W. Lyman. Home at Montreal. Mrs. Kitty L. Hill.


Mrs. W. P. Abernathy.


213


WILLIAM S. LEAVITT'S MINISTRY.


1874.


Francis H. Stoddard. Son of Prof. Solomon. Graduated at Amherst College, 1869. At Oxford University 1885. Professor in University of New York. Lucy M. Stoddard.


Jenny Spaulding.


Nancy L. Miller.


Sarah M. Butler.


Clara W. Lathrop.


Bessie Lathrop, 21 Bridge street.


Etta Theresa B. Krans. Home in Boston.


Mrs. Sarah B. Smith.


Mrs. Harriet A. Kingsley.


Arthur W. Clark. Removed to Hartford, Ct. Lucy L. Strong.


Lucy R. Rutherferd.


John M. Turner.


Mrs. J. M. Turner.


Lizzie Turner.


1875.


E. W. Higbee, M. D. Began medical practice at Northampton, 1871. Made European tour, 1881.


Ida J. Parsons. Lizzie G. Parsons. Jennie W. Kellogg.


214


FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Elias C. Lyman.


Mrs. Jane B. Crouch.


Mrs. Hannah Belden.


Rev. L. Clark Seelye, D. D. Graduated at Union College, 1857. Studied Theology at Andover and in Germany. Pastorate at Springfield. Profes- sor of English Literature at Amherst College. Became President of Smith College, 1873. Mrs. Henrietta C. Seelye.


Lucia G. Loveland, Annie B. Loveland, 35 Mar- ket street.


Myra G. Strong.


1876.


Mrs. Fanny B. Seymour.


Elizabeth P. Breck.


Alvah Foote.


Mrs. L. Elizabeth Foote.


Ruth A. Parsons.


1877.


Myra Nowell. William M. Parsons. Removed to New Haven. Mrs. E. F. Comstock.


Mrs. Harriet R. Abbott. Ella B. Parsons. Sarah W. Hillman.


WILLIAM S. LEAVITT'S MINISTRY. 215


Mrs. Caroline E. Tyler and Mary E. Tyler, on King street.


Frances M. Tyler. Graduated at Smith College, 1884. Sarah D. Kellogg. Graduated at Smith College, 1881. Minnie M. Parsons.


Frank B. Parsons. Home at Lorain, Ohio.


1878.


Mrs. F. E. G. Stoddard. Mrs. Mary G. Pelton.


D. D. Gorham. Graduated at Middlebury College, 1847. Taught in various institutions about forty-three years. One of First Church deacons. Formerly Principal of High School.


Mrs. D. D. Gorham.


Mary E. Gorham. Graduated at Smith College in the class of 1879.


Nina P. Fisk. Graduated at Smith College, 1884. Mary A. Burnham, Sarah L. Burnham, 17 Elm street. Catherine E. Worcester.


Charles Smith, Mrs. Angelina Smith, 40 King street.


1879.


Mrs. Lucy A. Mantor. Mrs. Ophelia A. Pelton.


216


FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Emma J. Rice.


Arthur L. Fisk. At New Haven. Graduated at Yale, 1883.


Mrs. Mary P. Bruce, Maria E. Bruce, 3 Market street.


Mrs. Nettie B. Rust.


IIattie B. Comstock.


Dr. John T. Stoddard. Graduated at Amberst, 1874. Studied in Europe. Chosen Professor of Physics and Chemistry in Smith College, 1878.


1880.


Harriet E. Strong.


Alvin L. Clapp.


George P. Dickinson.


Mrs. Mary R. Dickinson.


Anna M. Dickinson.


Charles E. Williams.


Mrs. Sarah M. Shipman.


Mrs. C. E. Laidley.


Mrs. Alvira A. Clary.


Mrs. Katharine S. Leavitt.


Mrs. Amelia P. Warner.


Mrs. Sophia H. Parkhurst.


Ceylon Moody, Mrs. Lucy E. Moody, 72 South street.


Mrs. Mary C. Maynard.


217


WILLIAM S. LEAVITT'S MINISTRY.


1SS1.


Ephraim L. Hastings, Mrs. Julia D. Hastings, 23 Market street.


Charles E. Stevens, Nettie M. Stevens, 9 North street.


Mrs. K. M. Wright.


Lucy H. Smith.


James C. Alvord. Graduated at Williams College, 1885. Grandson of Judge Charles A. Dewey. Pastor at Hamilton.


Sally M. Bush.


Stephen D. Hadley. Superintendent of Sabbath School of the First Church.


CHAPTER XIV.


Ministry of Rev. Herbert W. Lathe, 1882-1891. ADMISSIONS .- HISTORICAL ITEMS.


1882.


Mrs. Mary A. Jones.


Ruth B. Dickinson.


Zerviah C. Hillman.


Jennie D. Smith.


Sarah A. Clapp.


Harriet L. Hillman. Graduated at Smith College, 1884.


Harriet C. Seelye. Graduated at Smith College, 1888. Abigail T. Seelye, Elm street.


Minnie D. Gibbs.


Fred W. Connolly. Home in Boston.


Irene F. Pratt.


Rev. Herbert W. Lathe. Graduated at Yale 1873, and at Andover, 1877. Pastorate in Portland, 1877-81.


Mrs. H: W. Lathe.


(218)


Bof B. ocak.


Pastor Lalhe,


AL frelisir.


4. L. right PASTOR LATHE AND DEACONS,Y JAN 1, 1891,


HERBERT W. LATHE'S MINISTRY. 219


Mrs. Letitia D. Parsons, Sarah D. Parsons, 34 Bridge street. Almira E. Parsons.


Sophia C. Clark. Graduated at Smith College, 1882.


Ellen P. Clark.


Carrie E. Strong.


Mrs. Eunice B. Knowlton.


Josephine M. Clark.


Nellie S. Fairman.


William S. Clark, Mary E. Clark, and Abbie L. Clark, 4 School street.


John Hill. Adam Hill.


Joel A. Connolly.


Dr. William A. Trow. The third of three physi- cians, brothers. Dr. Trow of Sunderland, Dr. Trow of Buckland, and the above, 29 Pleasant street.


Mrs. Lizzie A. Trow.


William Trow. Graduated at Amherst, 1886, and at Yale Theological Seminary, 1890.


Mary E. Trow. Graduated at Smith College, 1889. Mrs. Adriana S. Hammond.


Mrs. Julia A. Thayer.


Wealthy A. Bradford.


William Dearden, Elizabeth Dearden, Margie Dear- den, 25 Pleasant street.


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FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Mrs. Esther P. Phelps.


Mrs. Electa Nims.


A. L. Williston. A corporate member of the


A. B. C. F. M.


Mrs. S. T. Williston.


Lucy Williston.


Prof. J. B. Clark. Graduated at Amherst, 1872. Professor in Carleton College, Minn. Now Pro- fessor at Smith College.


Mrs. Myra S. Clark.


Charles H. Dickinson. Graduated at Amherst, 1881. Took the Ely Prize for Composition, Ju- nior year, 1880. Graduated at Yale Theological Seminarý, 1884.


Samuel D. Smith, Lavinia M. Smith, 23 King street.


Mattie C. Burnham.


Heloise E. Hersey, Hatfield House.


Mary B. Safford.


Caroline Thayer.


Mrs. Marietta K. Smith.


1883.


Charles B. Kingsley, Jr. Druggist. Son and suc- eessor in business of his father, Dea. Charles B. Kingsley. Helen A. Hillman.


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HERBERT W. LATHE'S MINISTRY.


Sarah D. Woodruff.


Sarah M. Marsh.


Julia Parsons.


Theodore C. Gladden, Harriet C. Gladden, 36 Bridge street. Mrs. Maria Porier.


Elijah Allen, Lovisa C. Allen, Miriam L. Allen, 43 Elm street. Mary E. Clark. Waldo II. Lamb, Helen O. Lamb, 15 Franklin avenue.


Helen W. Shute, and Mary A. Shute, members of Smith College, 1883.


Kate B. Shipman.


Mary P. Fisher.


Mary B. Dwight.


Henry E. Smith.


Dora C. Smith.


Harriet N. Rowland, Olivia J. Rowland, Juliette Rowland, 7 Fruit street.


1884.


Prof. Benj. C. Blodgett. Born in Boston. Grad- nated 1861, at University of Leipsic, Germany. Professor of Music at Smith College. Mattie B. Blodgett. Annie B. Bacon.


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FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Louisa B. Adams.


Anna W. Edwards. Graduated at Smith College, 1888.


Carrie G. Brigham.


Elizabeth A. Wright.


Mary J. Herrick.


Mary L. Spaulding.


Nellie B. Spaulding. Graduated at Smith College, 1886. Mary A. Maynard.


Annie P. Kellogg. Graduated at Smith College, ISS8.


Harriet L. Billings.


Martha L. Hadley.


Josie P. Robertson.


Laura E. Sawin.


Mabel D. Kingsley.


Mrs. Mary L. Lyman.


Harry Norman Gardiner. Graduated at Amherst, 1878. Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Smith College.


1885.


Mrs. Lydia A. Clark. Caroline R. Clark. Bertha M. Clark. Anna B. Strong.


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Mary A. Carter. Mrs. Mary Clond. Emma E. Walker. Annie O. Parsons. Graduated at Smith College, 18S5. .


Harriet E. Parsons.


Edward M. Mills.


Alice C. Mills.


Sarah M. Mills.


Mattie M. Hitchcock.


Mabel L. Leeds.


Euretta L. Damon.


Edward P. Seymour. Graduated at Amherst, 1884.


1SS6.


Mary A. Simison. Myron Day. Helen E. Day.


George W. C. Stockwell.


Clarence W. Alvord. Graduated at Williams Col- lege, 1891. Has the ministry in view.


1887.


Marville M. Lec. Robert G. Williams. Melinda B. Hawley. Louise O. Patterson.


FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Bessie H. Kellogg.


Emma B. Starkweather.


Mary F. Merrick. Katherine E. Phelps.


Mand E. Parsons.


Mrs. Martha A. Clark.


Mrs. Esther M. Wetherell,


Eliza A. Wilder.


Ella M. Platt.


Harriet F. Copeland.


Eva M. Robinson.


Theresa B. Williams.


Walter C. Kingsley.


Robert L. Williston. A member of Amherst Col- lege.


Harry S. Williston. Entered Amherst College, 1891 ; brother of the preceding. Both sons of Hon. A. L. Williston. Charles A. Clark.


Mary Hussey. Mrs. Mary E. Staab. Charlotte Webber. Jessie Peasely. Nellie C. Moody.


1888.


Susie Lathrop. Mary L. Roberts.


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Maud E. Strong.


Lottie B. Strong.


Mrs. Netta E. Higbee. Mrs. E. A. Simison.


Charles M. Starkweather. Graduated at Amherst College, 1886. Connected with a University pa- per in New York City.


Sarah J. Edwards.


Clementine M. Davis.


Ellen A. Watson.


John L. Clapp.


Annie G. Snell.


Mrs. Martha M. Rolfe.


Cornelia B. Strong.


Bertha F. Clapp.


Myron L. Elwell.


Mrs. K. M. Elwell.


1889.


Mrs. Elizabeth A. Wright.


Charles M. Wright.


Fanny I. Hussey.


Thomas B. Ewing.


Ada L. Ewing.


Mrs. Clara Fletcher.


Annie F. Fletcher.


Hewitt G. Fletcher. 15


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FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON.


Mrs. Elizabeth Spear.


Mrs. Lillian D. Fitts.


Mrs. Harriet E. Bates.


Mrs. Diantha L. Graves.


Mrs. Ellen Clark.


Mrs. Sarah L. Clark.


Mrs. Annie A. Parsons.


Mrs. Alice M. Walker.


Anna M. Strong. Etta M. Locke.


Sarah L. Daly.


Elizabeth Simison.


George H. Walker. Allen L. Strong.


Walter C. Seelye. Preparing to enter college.


William G. Bassett. Judge of Probate Court.


Mrs. Mary C. Bassett. Daughter of Rev. A. M. Colton, Easthampton.


Mrs. Mary Swift. Rufus Ames.


Mrs. Sarah A. Ames.


Lucy J. Ames. Estie B. Ames. Addie Pease. Mrs. Elizabeth N. Luques. Mrs. Ella M. Bradley.


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1890.


Mrs. Elizabeth S. Prindle. Julia Imogene Prindle. Gertrude Eusebia Flagg. Mrs. Charlotte Flagg. Frances Darling. Josephine Spanlding. Mrs. Fanny Arnold. Agnes L. Williston. Mary M. Dole. William H. Smith.


Mrs. N. Gertrude Smith. Mrs. Mary L. Fay.


Mrs. Hannah M. Moody. Mrs. D. Lewis. HIarriet C. Mills. Frances E. Thompson. Mrs. Nellie E. Clark. Mary L. Allis.


1891.


Charles N. Fitts. Mary E. Bement. Bertha L. Clark. Caroline B. Roberts, daughter of a former cashier of the First National Bank. Henrietta S. Seelye, daughter of President Scelye of Smith College.


CHAPTER XV.


Ministers settled since the organization of the First Church.


Eleazar Mather,


Ordained 1661-1669


Solomon Stoddard,


1672-1729


Jonathan Edwards,


1727-1750


John Hooker,


66 1753-1777


Solomon Williams,


1778-1834


Mark Tucker,


Installed 1824-1827


I. S. Spencer,


Ordained 1828-1832


Joseph Penney,


Installed 1833-1835


Charles Wiley,


Ordained 1837-1844


E. Y. Swift,


Installed 1845-1851


J. P. Cleaveland,


66


1853-1855


Zachary Eddy,


1868-1867


William S. Leavitt,


..


1867-1881


Ilerbert W. Lathe.


1882-1891


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CHAPTER XVI.


Elders and Deacons Since the organization of the First Church, June 18, 1661.


ELDERS.


John Strong, ordained 1663.


Preserved Clapp.


Ebenezer Strong.


DEACONS.


William Holton,


Chosen 1663 66 1668


Thomas Hanchet,


Removed to Westfield.


Medad Pomeroy,


1675


Jonathan Hunt,


1680


Nathaniel Phelps,


1691


John Clark,


1691


Thomas Sheldon,


:


1702


Ebenezer Wright,


1704


Samuel Allen,


1725


John Clark,


1730


Noah Cook,


1739


Ebenezer Pomeroy,


1739


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Stephen Wright, Chosen 1739


Removed to Easthampton.


Ebenezer IInnt,


1754


Supply Kingsley, 66


1754


Joseph Hawley, 66


1762


Jonathan Hunt,


1764


Aaron Cook, 1774


Josiah Clark, 66


1774


Elijah Clark,


66 1785


Moses Kingsley,


1785


Removed to Chesterfield, 1794.


Enos Wright, 66


1791


Solomon Allen,


1797


Became a minister, 1804. Preached in Western


New York till 1821.


Israel Clark, chosen 1804


Luther Clark,


1805


Ebenezer S. Phelps, Removed to Illinois, 1831. -


66 1816


Enos Clark, 1818


Dismissed to the Edwards Church.


Eliphalet Williams, 1831


1831


Dismissed to the Edwards Church, 1858.


David S. Whitney,


chosen 1831


John P. Williston,


1838


Aaron Breck,


1839


Lewis Strong,


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ELDERS AND DEACONS.


Chosen 1839


Daniel Kingsley,


66


1864


Haynes K. Starkweather,


66 1873


Charles B. Kingsley,


1873


George L. Wright,


1877


William P. Strickland,


1877


William H. Nowell,


1877


A. Lyman Williston,


1883


John B. Clark,


66


1883


D. D. Gorham,


66


1884


Silas M. Smith,


66


1SS4


J. H. Searle,


1884


William M. Trow,


1887


Jared Clark,


CHAPTER XVII.


Home and Foreign Missionaries of the North- compton First Church.


Job Strong labored in company with David Brainerd among the Indians in New Jersey.


Solomon Allen. 1804-21, a pioneer preacher in Western New York. Planted several churches.


Ebenezer Wright, 1809-14. Under the patron- age of the Hampshire Missionary Society in St. Lawrence County, N. Y.


Clarissa Lyman, daughter of Esq. Levi. Married, 1822, Rev. William Richards of the Sandwich Islands Mission.


Jerusha Lyman, married about 1825, Jackson Kemper, missionary Bishop of the Northwest.


Ansel Bridgman. Home Missionary in Michigan. Henry Lyman, martyr missionary to Batavia. Joseph Hunt Breck and wife, both of North- ampton. Home Missionaries on the Western Re- serve.


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MISSIONARIES.


Timothy Dwight, son of Cecil. His early death prevented him from being a foreign missionary.


Robert Ogden Dwight, son of Major Josiah, mis- sionary to Madura.


Miss Hetty S. Butler, married Rev. Eli Smith, missionaries to Syria.


Susan Wright Clark, married Rev. Josiah Tyler, about forty years in South Africa.


David T. Stoddard, missionary to Persia.


Clara MI. Brewster, or Mrs. Hiram Bingham, over thirty-five years in the foreign field. Now at the Sandwich Islands.


S. Russell Butler, for twelve years on the Lab- rador coast.


Sarah M. Cooke, married Prof. Silsby. Five years at Siam.


CHAPTER XVIII.


Deceased Members of First Church and Parish who left large bequests to Home and Foreign Missions and offer Charitable Objects.


Benjamin Tappan.


John Hopkins.


Asahel Lyman.


Mrs. Asahel Lyman.


Dr. Benjamin Barrett.


Dr. Edward B. Barrett.


Dea. J. P. Williston.


Mrs. J. P. Williston.


John Clarke, the banker.


William Allen, D. D.


Solomon Stoddard, third Clerk of Courts.


George W. Hubbard.


Tamesin Clark. Silas M. Smith.


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BEQUESTS.


and seven pounds to promote the spread of .the gospel among the heathenish natives in the viein- ity. His nephew, Joseph Allen, on King street, great-grandfather of Judge William, left a tract of land in Southampton, to the President of Dart- mouth College, to be expended in propagating the gospel among the Indians. When these amounts were given, it was a day of small things in mis- sionary movements.


CHAPTER XIX.


Churches aided in their Formation and Mem- bership, during the last century and since. by the Northampton First Church.


Almost a score could be mentioned, indebted to this Mother in Israel. Begin with some near at home. Sonthampton, Westhampton, Easthampton, settled largely from the mother town. They were model communities and the churches in them. Count up the graduates, ministers, authors, teach- ers, professors, valuable men, they have sent out into the world, more than one hundred and twenty.


Lebanon, Ct., settled previously, stands high on the roll of educated communities. But that place received its first start from families connected with the Northampton First Church. The same re- specting Durham, Coventry, Woodbury, of that state. One of the first ministers of Woodbury, Rev. Anthony Stoddard, was a Northampton boy. Settled in 1702, preached nearly sixty years, was Clerk of Probate forty years, acted as lawyer and


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physician, managed one of the largest farms in town, reared a family of eleven children, admitted 500 to the church.


It is proper to say that the intelligence of some Northampton families which settled in Amherst about 1750 and earlier, had something to do in bringing into existence that noble institution, Am- herst College.


Recall the influence of the First Church in the early times of Northfield, Pittsfield, Skaneate- les, N. Y., Princeton, Ill., Brecksville, O. The churches in those places were much indebted for their excellent beginning to families of the North- ampton First Church.


Coming back to the Connecticut Valley, the Edwards Church, so efficient, far reaching in its influence for good, owns and acknowledges the First Church as Mother. Has not this been the feeling on the part of both toward each other from the first till now ?


Will conclude by adducing the Florence Congre- gational Church. In aiding its early membership, did not the Northampton First Church perform an important part ?


CHAPTER XX.


Whid Hath God Wrought ?


Two hundred thirty years ago, A faithful few, a little band, Wishing to serve their God below, And thus confess his guiding hand,


United all with willing mind To form a church, a sacred band, Rejoicing in a pastor kind, To guide them to the better land ..


The little ones were gathered in By Cov'nant vows of parents dear, And early taught to hate all sin, As from these records doth appear:


First Mather came, a holy man; And Stoddard next, of earnest mien, And many souls took a firm stand, Whose names within this book are seen.


Edwards, a wonder of logie rare; His preaching, earnest, faithful, sound, His books profound beyond compare, Have spread his fame the world around.


Gifted Hooker in manhood's prime, Well served his three and twenty years; And Williams preached a longer time, E'en six and forty busy years. (238)


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WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT ?


Tucker and Spencer, brief their stay, Though much belov'd and cherished here, Were call'd by God another way; Grieving people they lov'd so dear.


Penny and Wiley, ten years more, Both quite learn'd and doing good, Their loss this ancient church deplored, And sought from others gospel food.


Swift soon came to relieve their stress. And tarried five good years or more; Cleveland remained two years to bless, And troubled hearts to peace restore.


Next beloved Dr. Eddy came, The church was happy in her choice Nine pleasant y ars did he remain, Causing large numbers to rejoice.


Soon was he torn from their embrace; In the midst of God's work he left; Then Mr. Leavitt filled his place Fourteen years. 'Twas again bereft.


Pastor Lathe then came to the fold, With wisdom garnered from the past; May numbers be by him enrolled, Adorning his bright crown at last.


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