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He was married, October 10, 1849, to Lydia Middleton Woodward, of An- dover, daughter of Rev. Henry Woodward and Lydia Middleton (who both died in the missionary service in Ceylon) and adopted daughter of Samuel Fletcher, Esq., of Andover, then treasurer of the Seminary. She died August 26, 1877 ; two sons died in early childhood, and one daughter resides in Acton.
Mr. Fletcher died at Acton, Mass., March 28, 1893, of heart disease, in the seventieth year of his age.
CLASS OF 1848.
Joseph Thomas Noyes.
Son of Joseph Noyes and Miriam Cheever ; born in Newburyport, March 4, 1818; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover; graduated at Am- herst College, 1845; took the full course in this Seminary; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, An- dover, April 11, 1848. Having been appointed as missionary by the American Board he was ordained in the Old South Church at Newburyport, September 20, '
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1848, and sailed for Ceylon from Boston the next month. He labored in the Jaffna Mission until 1853, when he was transferred to the Madura Mission of Southern India, in which he remained until his death.
Rev. Geo. H. Gutterson (Class of 1878), who was for several years a fellow worker with Mr. Noyes in India, writes of him in the Missionary Herald : "Mr. Noyes spent the greater part of his mission life in one of the largest stations of the Madura Mission, and the name Periakulam became almost synonymous with his. He was a guide and leader of his people in spiritual and in temporal things. .
. . In the beautiful valley lying along the base of the Western Ghauts in South- ern India for forty years save one he found his work. . .. When he entered that valley there were but few Christians, scarcely a schoolhouse or a church ; when he left it there were forty-seven Christian congregations numbering 2,787 members, and six organized churches with 703 communicants ; there were school- houses and churches, family altars and noble Christian lives, the promise and hope of a transformed civilization -the beginning of the kingdom."
Mr. Noyes was married, September 12, 1848, to Elizabeth Achsah Smith, of Amherst, Mass., daughter of Rufus Smith and Betsey Browning. She died in India, April 10, 1880. He married, second, May 30, 1881, in Rome, Martha J. Mandeville, of Claverack, N.Y., who had been for twelve years a missionary of the Dutch Reformed Mission at Arcot in Southern India. She remains still in the service in India. Of three sons and three daughters, one son is a successful and benevolent merchant in Cincinnati; Charles L. Noyes (Class of 1880) is pas- tor of the Winter Hill Congregational Church, Somerville, Mass .; William H. Noyes (Class of 1887) is a missionary of the Berkeley Temple Church, Boston, in Japan ; while the daughters are in India - the two older in missionary service.
Mr. Noyes died at Madras, Southern India, August 9, 1892, of heart disease, in his seventy-fifth year.
Hezekiah Danford Perry.
Son of Hezekiah Perry and Keziah Bliss ; born in Rehoboth, Mass., March 21, 1818; prepared for college at Monson Academy ; graduated at Amherst College, 1845; in the Seminary, 1845-48, and as resident licentiate the following year. He was licensed by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Samuel C. Jack- son, Andover, April II, 1848, but was never ordained. He had a special inter- est in and fitness for the work of reformatory institutions, and spent several years in it, first as teacher and assistant superintendent at the House of Refuge in Philadelphia, afterwards as teacher and superintendent of a similar institution at Cincinnati, and still later as Western agent of the New York Juvenile Asylum. He taught also for some years both in Indiana and in Massachusetts. In 1865 a partial paralysis of the optic nerve compelled him to abandon teaching, and he carried on a farm at "Hillview " in Conway, Mass., where Mrs. Perry, a for- mer teacher in Mt. Holyoke Seminary, had a private school for young ladies.
He was married, February 25, 1852, to Elizabeth Sherwood Howland, of Worcester, Mass., daughter of Southworth Howland and Polly Ware. She died September 15, 1855, and he married, second, June 1, 1871, Mary Elizabeth Childs, of Conway, Mass., daughter of Horace Bliss Childs and Mary Clark Jenney, who survives him. Of two daughters, one died in infancy and the other is the wife of Henry Martyn Howland, of the Class of 1887.
Mr. Perry died at Conway, Mass., September 25, 1892, of paralysis, in the seventy-fifth year of his age.
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OLASS OF 1849.
Henry Martyn Goodwin, D.D. (Resident Licentiate.)
Son of Caleb Goodwin and Harriet Williams; born in Hartford, Conn., June 8, 1820; prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar School, Hartford ; graduated at Yale College, 1840 ; studied in Union Seminary, 1843-45; grad- uated from Yale Divinity School in 1846; and was a resident licentiate in this Seminary, 1848-49, spending much of the intervening time at his home in Hart- ford, although teaching for a time near Richmond, Va. He was licensed to preach by the Hartford Central Association, November 4, 1845. He was ordained at Rockford, Ill., February 19, 1851, and continued the pastor of the First Church there for twenty-one years ; resigning that charge in 1872, he spent two years in foreign travel, and from 1875 to 1887 was professor of English Literature, Rhetoric, and Logic in Olivet College, Michigan, and one of the pas- tors of the college church. In 1892 he removed from Olivet to Williamstown, Mass., and made his home with his daughter.
For many years he was a trustee of Rockford Female Seminary, and very influential as such. Olivet College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1876. He contributed many valuable essays to the Reviews, and published, in 1875, Christ and Humanity. Prof. N. H. Egleston, his school- mate at Hartford and classmate at Yale, writes of him : " He became a great admirer and disciple of Dr. Bushnell, espoused his views completely and zealously, and published not a few articles in exposition, advocacy, or de- fense of them in prose and verse. . . . His letters to me from Williamstown expressed his satisfaction as they told of new subjects under investigation, and new sermons and essays in contemplation. He had one or two volumes of ser- mons in preparation for publication, a portion of which, at least, I hope, may yet see the light in connection with some appropriate memoir of him." Prof. J. M. Hoppin, D.D., of Yale University (Class of 1845), his college classmate, writes : "Dr. Goodwin was a man of uncommon sweetness, purity, and elevation of character. He was a philosophical thinker, and in his book on the Hu- manity of Christ he left his mark on theological science. I have rarely known so unworldly a man who dwelt in the realm of pure and high thinking."
He was married, November 6, 1854, to Martha French, of Bath, N.H., daughter of Dr. John French and Mary Gale. She died March 17, 1876. They had two sons and two daughters. One of the sons is a business man in Chi- cago, the other a Congregational minister at Lombard, Ill. ; one of the daugh- ters is a teacher, the other the wife of Prof. Henry D. Wild, of Williams College.
Dr. Goodwin died at Williamstown, Mass., of pneumonia, March 1, 1893, in the seventy-third year of his age.
OLASS OF 1852.
Obed Dickinson.
Son of Obed Dickinson and Experience Smith ; born in Amherst, Mass., June 15, 1818 ; prepared for college at Ontario (Ind.) Academy; graduated at Marietta College, 1849; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. William T. Briggs in the North Parish of Andover, April 13, 1852. He was ordained in the West Parish Church of Andover, Septem-
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ber 2, 1852, as a home missionary, and sailed from New York in the November following, going around Cape Horn and arriving at Portland, Ore., in March, 1853. He at once took charge of the church in Salem, Ore., which had been formed the year before, and was its pastor until 1867. Leaving the ministry then on account of inadequate health, he carried on a prosperous seed business in that city until the time of his death.
Mr. Dickinson gave faithful service for many years to the public schools of Salem, and was for a long time a trustee of Willamette University at Salem and of Pacific University at Forest Grove. "During his forty years in Salem his life has been an open book, and no man has done more by precept and example to create and promote the best influences in our civilization than he." Several years ago his convictions led him to associate himself with the Seventh Day Adventists, but he still retained the confidence and friendship of his early parishioners.
He was married, September 22, 1852, to Charlotte Dryer Humphrey, of Gilead, Mich., daughter of Luman Humphrey and Philena Dryer. She survives him, with one daughter and an adopted daughter, two other children having died in childhood.
He died at Salem, Ore., of heart disease, November 27, 1892, in his seventy- fifth year.
CLASS OF 1856.
Horatio Nelson Burton, D.D.
Son of Stephen Burton and Judith Noyes Peaslee; born in Washington, Vt., December 17, 1826; prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy ; grad- uated at Dartmouth College, 1853; studied in the Theological Institute of Con- necticut at East Windsor, 1853-55; graduated at this Seminary, 1856; licensed to preach by Salem Association, at Dr. Parsons Cooke's, Lynn, February II, 1856. He was ordained pastor in Newbury, Vt., December 31, 1857, and re- mained there twelve years ; he was acting pastor in Sandusky, Ohio, 1869-76; of the Plymouth Church, Kalamazoo, Mich., 1876-79; at Sycamore, Ill., 1880-83; and at Union City, Mich., 1885-87. While residing at East Burke, Vt., from 1888 to 1890, he supplied the neighboring churches in Lyndon and Kirby, after- wards making his home with his sons at Minneapolis, Minn.
Dartmouth College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1875. Rev. S. L. B. Speare (Class of 1857) writes of him : "Dr. Burton was always zealous for the glory of God among men after the manner of the older divines. His preaching had the plainness of truth, and both convinced the judg- ment and won the affections. He was not much concerned about expedients ; his labors were inspired by deep and abiding principles. He could go in mid- summer among the neighbors of his boyhood home in Vermont with the gospel message so earnest and persuasive as to win many to Christ who had for years neglected all means of grace. He laid deep foundations wherever he built, in the East or West, reproducing his own character and consecration in others. In the last days, when work was no longer possible, he found rest in God's sover- eignty which he had always magnified."
He was married, May 18, 1858, to Amelia Newell, of East Burke, Vt., daughter of Charles C. Newell and Florilla White. She survives him, with two sons and a daughter.
He died at Minneapolis, Minn., of softening of the brain, March 5, 1893, aged sixty-six years.
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Joseph How Tyler. (Non-graduate.)
Son of John Tyler and Jemima Merrill How; born in Pelham, N. H., Feb- ruary 11, 1825; graduated at Phillips Academy, Andover, 1847, and at Dartmouth College, 1851; in this Seminary, 1853-54; having already studied law with Hon. Josiah G. Abbott, of Lowell, commenced practice of law at once, first at Lowell, then at East Cambridge. In 1858 he was elected Register of Probate and Insolvency for Middlesex County, and by successive reëlections held that office until his death. He had also been a Master in Chancery for that county from 1855. He removed his residence in 1870 to Winchester.
Mr. Tyler was called to various offices of trust both in Cambridge and in Winchester, having been in the former city member of the common council, of the board of aldermen, and of the school board, also bank director, savings bank trustee, and president of the Cambridge Railroad Company; in Winchester he was member of the school board, trustee of the public library, and president of the Winchester Historical Society. Rev. D. A. Newton (Class of 1882), his pastor at Winchester, thus writes of him: " Joseph H. Tyler was a man of more than ordinary strength of mind and character, a natural leader, with posi- tive opinions and convictions and a manly courage for their expression, a con- stant reader of the best literature, a respected and honored citizen. He always gave the church of which he was a member the benefit of his wise and thought- ful counsel, and was a lover of God's people. He was active in Christian work, a teacher in the Sabbath school till the time of his death and at one time its superintendent for a term of years, and helpful in all the various benevolences for the spread of the gospel. He was one of that sturdy generation whose pass- ing away makes the world poorer."
He was married, November 4, 1858, to Abby Little Hitchcock, of Win- chester, daughter of Charles Hitchcock and Abby Little Hall. She survives him, with a son, a graduate of Harvard College and a counselor at law in Boston, and a daughter, a graduate of Harvard Annex.
Mr. Tyler died of cerebral hemorrhage, at Winchester, Mass., July 11, 1892, aged sixty-seven years.
OLASS OF 1860.
Henry Chapman Hitchcock.
Son of Joseph Hitchcock and Eliza Wright; born in Fredericktown, Ohio, July 9, 1835; obtained his preparatory education at Central College, near Co- lumbus, Ohio; graduated at Oberlin College, 1856; took his theological course at Oberlin, 1856-59, and a supplementary year in this Seminary, 1859-60. He was ordained at North Amherst, Ohio, December 12, 1860, and was pastor of the churches at North Amherst and South Amherst for nine years. He was pastor in Kenosha, Wis., 1869-77; and of the Hanover Street Church, Mil- waukee, Wis., 1877-78; coming East then in impaired health, he supplied the church in Thomaston, Ct., 1879-80, and the Middle Reformed Church, Brook- lyn, N. Y., 1880-81. From December, 1882, to December, 1892, he was pastor of the Day Street Church in Somerville, Mass., preaching his closing sermon on Christmas Day.
Mr. Hitchcock was from his youth enthusiastically interested in political and moral reforms. While still a college student he was one of the Ohio dele-
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gates to the first national Republican Convention in Philadelphia; in war time was an outspoken advocate of the Union cause, spending a part of one summer in the service of the United States Christian Commission among the soldiers at the front; still later he was an earnest worker in the interests of temperance. Rev. A. E. Winship, of Somerville (Class of 1875), says of him : " Mr. Hitchcock was not only a clear and forcible preacher, but an exceptionally useful citizen and a conscientious champion of municipal reform, heroic and persistent in ac- complishing whatever the churches attempted by their united action." Rev. Dr. Alexander Mckenzie, of Cambridge (Class of 1861), writes : " He was a careful student, with an active and independent mind. He sought by quiet and steady methods to instruct his hearers. He made the children his especial care, and was successful in training them for the church. When he closed his pastorate at Somerville he seemed in the fullness of his strength. Too early, as it appears to those who knew the value of his life, has he rested from his toils. But in some grand employment he will use all which here he made his own."
Mr. Hitchcock was married, June 26, 1862, to Mary Laurette Harris, of North Amherst, Ohio, daughter of Hon. Josiah Harris and Anna Groves Moore. She survives him, with one son and two daughters, two other children having died in early childhood.
He died at Somerville, Mass., of carditis, May 5, 1893, in his fifty-eighth year.
Abel Hastings Ross, D.D.
Son of Phineas Ross and Betsey Marshall; born in Winchendon, Mass., April 28, 1831 ; prepared for college at Winchendon Academy ; graduated at Oberlin College, 1857 ; took the full course in this Seminary, 1857-60. He was ordained as pastor of the church in Boylston, Mass., October 17, 1861, and re- mained there until IS66; he was pastor of the First Church in Springfield, Ohio, 1866-73; of the High Street (now Plymouth) Church in Columbus, Ohio, 1873-75 ; and of the church at Port Huron, Mich., from 1876 to the time of his death.
Olivet College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1884. He was lecturer on Church Polity at Oberlin Theological Seminary for twenty years from 1871, and Southworth lecturer on Congregationalism in this Semi- nary, 1882-86. The lectures under the latter appointment were published under the title of The Church- Kingdom ; he also published The Church of God (a cat- echism), The Ohio Manual, a Pocket Manual of Congregationalism, Immanuel Catechism for Infant Classes, and a volume of Sermons for Children, besides many papers concerning denominational polity. He was an active member of the International Congregational Council at London, which he had distinctly forecast in his plea for " An Ecumenical Council" in the Congregational Quar- terly in 1874.
Prof. W. H. Ryder, D.D. (Class of 1869), writes : " Dr. Ross was a man of remarkably clear and incisive mind, and of unusual logical and comprehensive power. Early in his ministry he was impressed with the conviction that the Congregational churches were suffering serious loss of power from want of a more perfect organization. For thirty years he labored with great industry and patience to correct this defect. Whatever may be the ultimate conclusion con- cerning his theory of the church and his methods of organization, there can be no doubt that our churches owe more to him than to almost any other man of
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his generation for their growing sense of a common life and of the need and the possibility of more perfect union in their fellowship and their activities. With all his devotion to this great work, he was a faithful and beloved pastor. He died as he had lived, a brave, unselfish, Christian man."
He was married, October 15, 1860, to Mary Maria Gilman, of Churchville, N.Y., daughter of Calvin Gilman and Maria Hill, who survives him.
Dr. Ross died of erysipelas, at Port Huron, Mich., May 13, 1893, aged sixty-two years.
CLASS OF 1861.
Samuel Russell Butler. (Non-graduate.)
Son of J. Hunt Butler and Mary Ann Bowers; born in Northampton, Mass., July 23, 1837 ; prepared for college at L. J. Dudley's classical school in North- ampton ; graduated at Williams College, 1858; studied in this Seminary, 1858-59, and afterwards, 1862-64, in Union Theological Seminary. He was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association, meeting at Chesterfield, Mass., May 4, 1864. The following summer in search of health he joined an expedition to Labrador, sojourning there, as he had done in previous seasons, at the missionary station established a few years before by the Canadian Foreign Missionary So- ciety of Montreal. A vacancy occurring in the mission at the close of the sum- mer he volunteered to remain on the coast for the winter, and this led to many years of arduous and faithful service there. He was ordained at the American Presbyterian Church, Montreal, Canada, September 10, 1866, and continued his work among the sailors and shoremen -in the summer at Caribou Island, in the winter at Esquimaux River - until 1870. Returning to the United States he preached as he had strength for short periods at Leeds (in Northampton), 1870-71; at Hutchinson, Minn., 1872-73; and at Washington, Me., 1873. The · Labrador mission again calling for a man, he responded and remained there until compelled to give up work in 1880. Spending five years without charge in his Northampton home, in health resorts, and in foreign travel, he resumed pas- toral work at Mill River (in New Marlboro), Mass., 1885-86, continuing it after- wards from 1888 until a few weeks before his death, when his strength suddenly gave way and he sought help at the Clifton Springs Sanitarium.
Of delicate constitution, Mr. Butler was constantly interrupted in his stud- ies for the ministry and his labors in the ministry by feeble health. But for Christ's sake and the gospel's he undertook work and endured hardship from which many stronger men would have shrunk. Of refined and scholarly tastes, fond of poetry, of music, of flowers, of drawing, of painting, and possessed of ample means to cultivate such tastes, he sacrificed all - except as he could use them to further his work - to labor for years on a rough and uncongenial coast. He loved whatsoever was pure and lovely and of good report, and hated evil with a perfect hatred. Of retiring and gentle disposition, he was unhesitating and uncompromising in following at whatever cost his conscientious convictions of truth and duty. The many who have come under his quiet influence, especially the youth whom he has encouraged and aided, will remember his pure life, his earnest faith, and his Christian fidelity, with grateful affection.
Rev. Geo. E. Street (Class of 1863) writes of Mr. Butler : "That frail body of his held a beautiful spirit, refined, artistic, scholarly, devout. Gentle and affectionate in his ordinary demeanor, he was possessed of most positive con-
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victions, which he could utter on occasions with surprising spirit, while back of him lay a history of work and self-denial which put to the blush what most men in strong, healthy bodies are doing. His memorial is in the abiding affection of those who knew him best and longest and were helped by his saintly influence."
Mr. Butler died at Clifton Springs, N. Y., of exhaustion, March 25, 1893, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. He was unmarried.
CLASS OF 1862.
Lorenzo Johnson White. (Resident Licentiate.)
Son of Robert White (who lost both arms at the siege of Fort Erie in 1814, but lived to be the last survivor of the "Army of the Niagara" ) and Mary Duesbury Johnson ; born in Greenbush, town of Weathersfield, Vt., August 31, IS2S ; the family having removed to Ohio, he took his preparatory and collegiate course at Oberlin, graduating in 1851 ; after a few months of study in law under Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Washington, D.C., and subsequent employment in the Department of the Interior, he entered Oberlin Theological Seminary, graduat- ing in 1855; he was licensed to preach by the Cleveland Conference. at Collamer, Ohio, October 16, 1855. He was ordained over the church in Lyons, Io., June 7, 1858, having already supplied its pulpit for a year. This pastorate he resigned in 1860, and studied as resident licentiate in this Seminary, 1860-62, supplying for a part of the time the church in South Reading (now Wakefield), Mass. He was then successively pastor at Amboy, Ill., 1862-66; of the Plymouth Church, St. Paul, Minn., 1866-71 ; at Ripon, Wis., 1871-76; of the Old South Church, Reading, Mass., 1876-81 ; and at Green Bay, Wis., 1882-92.
Mr. White was chaplain of the State Senate of Minnesota, 1866-68, and later acted as Commissioner of Indian Payments for Northern Minnesota. He published memorial sermons upon President Lincoln and General Grant; a historical discourse at the semi-centennial anniversary of the church at Green Bay in 1886; and another, entitled God's Leadership in our History, at the centennial anniversary of constitutional government in 1889. In a memorial address delivered at Green Bay, President Merrell of Ripon College paid a fine tribute to the intellectual ability, moral earnestness, and godly character of Mr. White. He contended all his life with infirm health, and died in a foreign land while seeking its restoration. His last sermon, preached two weeks before his death in a suburb of London, was from the text, "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness."
Mr. White was married, January 28, 1857, to Eliza Dudley Newhall, of Lyndon, Ill., daughter of Augustine Washington Newhall and Jane Dudley. She survives him, with three sons, one of whom, Rev. Frank N. White (Class of 1881), is a missionary in Japan, and one daughter, a teacher in Boston.
Mr. White died in London, England, January 10, 1893, of bronchial pneu- monia, at the age of sixty-four years.
CLASS OF 1870.
Francis Theodore Ingalls, D.D.
Son of Dea. Elias Theodore Ingalls and Eliza Chase; born in Haverhill, Mass., January 3, 1844; prepared for college at the Haverhill High School; graduated at Williams College, 1864; studied one year in Princeton Seminary, 1864-65; spent three years as a private tutor at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson; and
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finished his theological course at this Seminary, 1868-70. He was approbated to preach by the Essex North Association, meeting at Salisbury Beach, Sep- tember 14, 1869. He was ordained pastor of the church at Olathe, Kan., December 20, 1870, and remained there two years. He was pastor at Atchison, Kan., from 1872 to 1884, and at Emporia, Kan., from 1884 to 1887. He was then elected president of Drury College, Springfield, Mo., and continued in that office until his death.
Williams College and Washburn College both conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1888; he was a trustee of the last named col- lege and a regent of the University of Kansas. Rev. Dr. Henry A. Stimson (Class of 1869), who knew him well both in Andover and at the West, thus writes of him : "Ingalls was always the same unselfish, gentle, lovable man that he was at first ; his character ripening only with the advance of years, but not changing. He attached himself to every one with whom he came in contact, and died as devotedly loved even by the plainest people of the city in which he lived as he was by the students and professors with whom, by reason of his position, he was in most intimate relations. He was taken away just when it seemed that the doubtful years were giving place to those in which his best hopes were to be realized and his strenuous labors rewarded. He has stamped himself upon a large area of Western life, and for a long time his work will follow him in lives made beautiful and guided to high aspirations by his teachings and example. The few words allowed me can be little more than a flower laid upon the grave of one whom we all loved and long shall lament."
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