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Dr. Ingalls died at Springfield, Mo., of typhoid fever, August 5, 1892, aged forty-eight years. He was never married.
CLASS OF 1871.
Charles Dana Barrows, D.D.
Son of Ruel Barrows, M.D., and Anne Kimball Dana ; born in Fryeburg, Me., April 21, 1844; prepared for college at Fryeburg Academy; gradu- ated at Dartmouth College, 1864; was assistant teacher in Portland (Me.) High School, 1865; principal of Fryeburg Academy, 1865-67, and of Norway, (Me.) Academy, 1867-68; took the full course in this Seminary, 1868-71 ; was licensed to preach by the Essex North Association, meeting with Rev. Dr. D. T. Fiske, Newburyport, June 14, 1870. He was ordained as pastor of the Kirk Street Church, Lowell, Mass., July 13, 1871, and remained there ten years. He was then pastor of the First Church, San Francisco, Cal., from 1882 to 1890, when he returned to the East, living in his old home at Lowell until his removal to the Insane Asylum in Worcester several months before his death.
Prof. J. W. Churchill (Class of 1868) thus writes of him : "Dr. Barrows was more than a brilliant preacher and sympathetic pastor; he was an admirable type of energetic, public-spirited citizenship. In his zealous efforts to promote the causes of temperance and social purity he met with violent opposition. His chivalrous spirit and disregard of personal consequences while in the path of what he considered to be his duty exposed him to the criticism of his friends and brought upon him the active and malignant malice of his enemies. The insidious growth of the malady which gradually impaired his mental and phys-
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ical health for several years finally culminated in the brain disease of which he died at a comparatively early age."
He was married, May 16, 1866, to Marion Merrill, daughter of Rev. Samuel Hill Merrill and Hannah Prentice. She survives him, with three sons and one daughter.
Dr. Barrows died at Worcester, Mass., of paresis, September 14, 1892, aged forty-eight years.
CLASS OF 1879.
Silas Allen Potter, M.D.
Son of Silas Potter and Caroline Daniels Allen ; born in Boston, May 5, 1854; prepared for college at the Roxbury Latin School; graduated at Harvard College, 1876; studied in the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, 1876-77 ; in this Seminary, 1877-79. He was licensed to preach by the Suffolk South As- sociation, June 3, 1878, but was never ordained. Obliged by throat trouble to give up his chosen profession, he decided to study medicine, and took the full course at Harvard Medical School, receiving his degree in 1884. The following year he began practice in Roxbury, and there remained until his death.
Dr. Potter was a deacon in the Immanuel Church, Roxbury, and superin- tendent of its Sunday school; he was a member of the Boston Congregational Club, and for some years secretary of the Norfolk District Medical Society. Rev. Charles A. Dickinson, a Seminary classmate, writes : " He was a modest, whole-souled man, a fine scholar, and a true friend. He had large ability and a noble Christian spirit. Take him all in all, he was one of the rarest men in our class." Rev. W. A. Leland, also of the Class of 1879, adds : "Dr. Potter, best loved of those that knew him best, was unusually gifted and an excellent scholar. Conscientiously faithful in the use of generous privileges he was fitted in mind, heart, and character for a course of much more than usual usefulness. . . . He devoted all to the Lord. His devotion exceeded his strength. Genial, courte- ous, of unwavering faith, of exalted purpose, he was the first in his class to at- tain his great reward and to enter the church triumphant." .
He was married, January 29, 1891, to Jennie Louise Childs, of Boston, daughter of John Lusk Childs and Sara Van Derlip Merriam. She survives him, with one son.
Dr. Potter died of Hodgkin's disease, at Roxbury, Mass., July 10, 1892, aged thirty-eight years.
NOT PREVIOUSLY REPORTED.
OLASS OF 1832.
William Perkins Apthorp. (Non-graduate.)
Son of George Henry Apthorp and Anna Perkins; born in Quincy, Mass., March 23, 1806; graduated at Yale College, 1829, having taken his freshman year at Harvard; studied in this Seminary, 1829-31, and graduated at Princeton Seminary, 1832; licensed by Third Presbytery of New York; home missionary, Raleigh, N.C., 1832-33 ; preached for a few months in Quincy, Mass., 1834, and
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in Mendon, Mass., 1835. £ He was ordained by the Harmony Association at Ward (now Auburn), Mass., as a home missionary, April 20, 1836; was at Frank- lin, Fort Madison, and Denmark, Io., 1836-38 ; teacher in Dr. Nelson's Mission Institute, near Quincy, Ill., 1838-48; preached at Oskaloosa, Io., 1848-52; at Port Byron, Ill., 1852-53; in Massachusetts without charge, 1853-63, except one year, 1855-56, at Moultonborough, N.H .; at Polk City, Io., 1862-65; Bowen's Prairie, Io., 1865-66; county agent of American Bible Society, Fairfield, Io., 1867-68; from 1869 resided with his sons at Tallahassee, Fla.
Mr. Apthorp was one of the good and faithful pioneers in Western home missionary work. Rev. Julius A. Reed (Reminiscences of Early Congregation- alism in Iowa) says that "he was the first resident Congregational minister in Iowa." While in Massachusetts he was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
He was married, December 1, 1836, to Mary Greene Thurston, of Green- wich, R.I., daughter of John Thurston and Susanna Andrews. She died De- cember 15, 1852. They had three sons and two daughters; two of the sons were graduates of Amherst College, and served in the Union Army in the War of the Rebellion, one falling in battle in Alabama; one of the daughters is a teacher in the State Normal School at Oshkosh, Wis.
Mr. Apthorp died of old age, at Tallahassee, Fla., March 14, 1883, being nearly seventy-seven years old.
CLASS OF 1840.
Moses Mighels Smart, M.D. (Resident Licentiate.)
Son of Gardiner Smart and Sally Mighels; born in North Parsonsfield, Me., May 18, 1812; graduated at Waterville College (now Colby University), 1836, and at Bangor Theological Seminary, 1839; ordained (Free Will Baptist), 1838; resident licentiate in this Seminary, 1839-40; principal of Free Will Baptist The- ological School, North Parsonsfield, Me., 1842-44 ; studied law and admitted to the York County (Me.) Bar, 1843; principal of Free Will Baptist Theological School, Dracut, Mass., 1842-44; and of same, removed to Whitesboro, N.Y., 1844-49; studied at Central Medical College, Syracuse, N. Y., receiving his med- ical degree in 1850. He preached for a few years in Russia, N.Y., and about 1866 returned to Whitesboro, and resided there until his death. He had a pri- vate school for several years, and was afterwards instructor in the ancient lan- guages at Whitestown Seminary, until the failure of his health two years before his death. Mr. Smart was an able and versatile scholar and writer. He was largely the originator of the Biblical School of his denomination. He published a Brief View of Christian Doctrine.
He was married, August 26, 1840, to Caroline H. Matthews. She died October 26, 1856, and he married, second, Mary A. McMaster, who survived him. Of four sons and five daughters, two sons and two daughters were living at the time of his death.
He died at Whitesboro, N.Y., of consumption, October 2, 1885, aged seventy-three years.
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TWENTY-NINE of our number have died during the past year, as against forty reported last year and thirty-six the preceding year. The average age of these twenty-nine men is seventy-three years, two months, and twenty-seven days. Including two others whose deaths occurred in previous years, although not previously reported, the average age would be seventy-three years, four months, and twelve days. Three of the number had passed the age of ninety, six were between eighty and ninety, twelve between seventy and eighty, and all save three were over fifty.
Rev. Peter Kimball, of the Class of 1826, died on the very day of our last annual meeting in the one hundredth year of his age. No other graduate of the Seminary has attained this age, nor so far as known has the graduate of any other theological school in the land. Rev. David L. Hunn (Class of 1816) died at ninety-eight, Rev. Herman Halsey (Class of 1815) at ninety-seven, and Dr. Leonard Withington (Class of 1816) at ninety-five.
Of the thirty-one whose names are recorded above, eighteen were full grad- uates, nine were non-graduates, and four studied here as resident licentiates. All had previously taken the full college course except one, and he had gradu- ated from a medical college. Six came from Dartmouth, five from Amherst, four from Oberlin, three each from Yale and Middlebury, two each from Har- vard and Williams, and one each from Brown, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Marietta, and Colby.
Bliss and Noyes had been lifelong missionaries in the foreign field, Dr. Worcester an almost lifelong helper in the home department of the missionary service, and Daniel Butler (so frequently a participant in these annual gather- ings) an honored secretary of the Bible Society; Flint and Potter were Chris- tian physicians; Tyler a Christian lawyer; Marsh and Fletcher Christian teach- ers ; Ingalls a college president, dying all too soon for the cause of Western education; while most of the others spent their lives as useful, faithful, and successful pastors. Two were in the Episcopal, two in the Presbyterian, and one in the Free Will Baptist communion.
Mr. Isaac Watts Wheelwright, of the Class of 1825, living in his ninety- second year at South Byfield, Mass., is still the senior alumnus of the Seminary ; Dr. Edward Beecher, of the Class of 1827, residing in Brooklyn, N. Y., is two years younger.
Memorial Hall Strong
ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
NECROLOGY,
1893-94.
PREPARED FOR THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, AND PRESENTED AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 13, 1894, BY C. C. CARPENTER, SECRETARY.
Second Printed Series, No. 4.
BOSTON: BEACON PRESS: THOMAS TODD, PRINTER, I SOMERSET STREET. 1894.
INDEX.
Class.
Age.
Page.
1842.
CYRUS BALDWIN
82
II2
1834.
EDWARD C. BULL
86
IO2
1832.
DANIEL C. BURT
85
IOI
1841.
GEORGE W. CLEAVELAND
77
III
1840. 1869. 1842.
DANIEL EMERSON .
75
II3
1837.
THOMAS K. FESSENDEN
80
105
1840.
THOMAS P. FIELD .
80
109
1838.
DANIEL GOODWIN .
84
105
1830.
CHARLES P. GROSVENOR
89
100
1834.
ALDIN GROUT
90
IO2
1845.
JOHN P. GULLIVER
74
II6
1850.
BENJAMIN JUDKINS
73
123
1845.
MARCUS R. KEEP
78
118
1843.
JOHN LAWRENCE
79
II4
1845.
JOHN H. M. LELAND
72
118
1855.
JULIUS Y. LEONARD
66
124
1896.
GEORGE P. MARTIN
28
I33
1847.
JAMES H. MEANS
70
121
1847.
JOSIAH MERRILL
75
122
1853.
THOMAS MORONG .
67
123
1846.
EDWARD D. NEILL
70
I20
1881.
ALBERT F. NORCROSS
40
131
1838.
GEORGE C. PARTRIDGE
80
106
1880.
THEODORE C. PEASE
40
I29
1828.
JEREMIAH PORTER
88
99
1891. EDWARD H. POUND
29
132
18 59.
HENRY J. RICHARDSON
64
I26
1842.
LUTHER H. SHELDON
78
II3
1835.
HORATIO SOUTHGATE
81
103
1839.
CHARLES E. STEVENS
78
IO7
1837.
THATCHER THAYER
82
IO4
1839.
SAMUEL R. THRALL .
83
108
1868.
PHILANDER THURSTON
56
I27
1858.
EDWARD P. THWING .
62
125
1844. RICHARD TOLMAN
76
115
1845. MOSES H. WELLS
79
I19
1844. CHARLES WILLEY .
78
I16
1871.
JOHN H. WORCESTER, JR ..
47
129
Not Previously Reported.
1855. LUCIUS D. CHAPIN
70
.
I34
1838. JOHN JONES .
76
I33
79
IIO
JOSIAH G. DAVIS
DAVID A. EASTON .
50
128
NECROLOGY.
ALUMNI.
CLASS OF 1828.
Jeremiah Porter. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Dr. William Porter and Charlotte Williams; born in Hadley, Mass., December 27, 1804 ; prepared for college at Hopkins Academy, Hadley, and with Rev. Dr. Alvan Hyde, of Lee, Mass .; graduated at Williams College, IS25; studied two years in this Seminary, 1825-27; taught two years in a monitorial high school in Troy, N. Y .; graduated at Princeton Seminary, 1831. He was licensed by the Hampshire Central Association, April 27, 1831. He was ordained at Hadley, October 3, 1831, and under commission of the American Home Missionary Society started at once for service among the soldiers, Indian agents, and traders at Fort Brady (Sault de Ste. Marie), in Michigan Territory. This journey, by stage, Erie Canal, steamer, schooner, and birch-bark canoe (from Mackinaw), consumed two months. In 1833 he accompanied the troops to Fort Dearborn, at the mouth of the Chicago River, where he organized the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. He was stated supply at Peoria, Ill., from 1835 until the murder of Lovejoy in 1837, and at Farmington, Ill., from 1837 to 1840. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church, Green Bay, Wis., 1840-58, and of the Edwards Congregational Church, Chicago, 1858-62. From 1862 to 1865 he was chaplain of the First Illinois Light Artillery, continuing work among the soldiers in Texas, under the auspices of the Christian Commission, 1865-66. He was acting pastor at Prairie du Chien, Wis., 1866-68, and at Brownsville, Texas, 1868-70. He was then appointed by President Grant to a chaplaincy in the regular army, in which he remained until 1882, being stationed successively at Brownsville, Texas, 1870-73; at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, 1873-75; and at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming Territory, 1875-80. He was in California, under leave of absence, 1880-81, preaching for six months at Grass Valley; and afterwards resided with his children at Detroit, Mich., and at Beloit, Wis. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Williams College in 1886.
Dr. Porter's ministerial career was a long and fruitful one. A descendant of godly ancestry, trained in the quietness of New England, his life was spent on the frontier among Indians, half-breeds, traders, soldiers, freedmen, and an eventful portion of it in the tumult of war. His wife, an early missionary teacher at John Jacob Astor's trading post of Mackinaw, was thoroughly identified with all his work, accompanying him to the war, and as field agent of the Sanitary Commission doing an incalculable service in hospitals and among
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freedmen at Cairo, Vicksburg, Memphis, Chattanooga, and in Sherman's army, as later in her Rio Grande Seminary in Texas.
Rev. Prof. Joseph Emerson, D.D., of Beloit (Class of 1845), writes of both : "Dr. Jeremiah Porter and his wife were notable examples of a most remarkable phase of character and influence -spirits of finest nature and nurture, sanctified by grace and appointed to long lives on the border, where the barbaric elements of civilization collide with aboriginal barbarism. Dr. Porter's life was for more than sixty years, half of our nation's life, mingled with the movement of civilization in all its length and breadth, from Mackinaw to Mexico, from Chicago to California. In the frontier post of the Northwest, in Chicago when it was only Fort Dearborn, as pastor of the first church in Wisconsin (except that of the Stockbridge Indians, to whom his ancestor, President Edwards, had ministered a century before) - all his life, in pastorate or camp, or field or hospital, he went about doing good."
Dr. Porter was married, June 15, 1835, to Eliza Emily Chappell, of Rochester, N. Y., daughter of Lieut. Robert Chappell and Elizabeth Knee- land. She died in Santa Barbara, Cal., January 1, 1888. Of nine children, five died in infancy or youth. The three sons graduated at Beloit College. The youngest son, Rev. Henry Dwight Porter, D.D. (Class of 1870), and the daughter, Miss Mary H. Porter, have long been connected with the North China Mission.
Dr. Porter died at Beloit, Wis., of old age, July 25, 1893, in his eighty- ninth year.
CLASS OF 1830.
Charles Payson Grosvenor. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Payson Grosvenor and Prudence Gray; born in Pomfret, Conn., August 12, 1804; fitted for college with the Pomfret pastor and at Rome, N.Y .; graduated at Yale College, 1827, having taken his first two years at Amherst; studied in the Seminary two years, 1827-29, and graduated at Yale Divinity School, 1831. He was agent of the Connecticut Sabbath School Union for several years, traveling as far west as Missouri, and also editor of the so- ciety's publications. He was licensed to preach by the Windham (Conn.) As- sociation, in May, 1831, and ordained as pastor at Waterford, a village in Men- don, Mass., now Blackstone, July 16, 1834. He afterwards served the churches in Kingston, R.I., 1835-38; Scituate, R.I., 1838-47; Rehoboth, Mass., 1847-56; Stoneham, Mass., 1856-58; Canterbury, Conn., 1858-71; West Woodstock, Conn., 1871-74; Ashford, Conn., 1874-81. He afterwards resided at Pomfret until his removal in October, 1893, to the residence of his son at Palmer, Mass.
. Mr. Grosvenor's time and strength were devoted to pastoral service, although he often served on school boards and for a short time as principal of the Academy at Scituate. At one time during the "Dorr Rebellion " in Rhode Island he was compelled to serve as bearer of dispatches, and in the War of the Rebellion gave one winter of willing and effective service to the Christian Commission in Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah Valley. Rev. S. H. Fellowes, of Wauregan, Conn., writes of him: “Father Grosvenor, as he was familiarly called, was a man of genial disposition and loving spirit. He was a wise counselor, and his younger brethren in the ministry rejoiced to sit
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at his feet and learn of one who, like Abraham, was ' the friend of God.' Con- servative in his belief, and loving the old paths, he was not afraid of what was new when it bore the marks of truth. As a preacher he set forth God's Word in a plain and simple way that appealed to the heart and conscience of his hearers. He stood in the forefront of all reformatory movements, having always the courage of his convictions. He took a lively interest even to the last in national affairs, and rejoiced in the success of missionary organizations throughout the world. His memory is fragrant with his brethren in the min- istry and in the places where his life's work was done."
Mr. Grosvenor was married, June 24, 1835, to Cordelia Mathewson, of Pom- fret, Conn., daughter of Darius Mathewson and Mary Smith. She died March 3, 1836. He married, second, April 9, 1838, Hannah Hagadorn Wells, of Kingston, R.I., daughter of Thomas Robinson Wells and Maria Potter. She died November 6, 1840. He married, third, May 19, 1842, Mrs. Elizabeth Eunice Foster, of New Haven, Conn., widow of Rev. Lewis Foster, and daughter of Justus Harrison and Harriet Hotchkiss. She died November 4, IS89. Three children died in childhood. A son and a daughter survive; the latter is connected with the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity, a Protestant Episcopal organization, in Providence, R. I.
Mr. Grosvenor died of grip, at l'almer, Mass., December 23, 1893, aged eighty-nine years.
CLASS OF 1832.
Daniel Crane Burt.
Son of Dean Burt and Polly Crane; born in Berkley, Mass., March 31, ISos; prepared for college at Bristol Academy, Taunton, and under private tuition at Berkley ; graduated at Brown University, 1828, and took the full course in this Seminary, 1829-32. After preaching a few months at Bridgewater, N. H., he began service in the First Church, New Bedford, Mass., over which he was ordained, July 1, IS35, and from which he was dismissed in 1857, after an arduous and faithful ministry of twenty-four years. He resided without charge at Berkley, 1857-65; at Fairhaven, Mass., 1865-71; and at New Bed- ford from 1871 until his death.
Rev. Dr. A. H. Quint (Class of 1852) writes of Mr. Burt : " His daughter was right in telling you that I 'knew and loved him.' I made his acquaint- ance shortly after he had finished his long and useful pastorate near by, and when he came into my church this ripened into an affectionate friendship, which it was a great privilege on my part to enjoy. His purity of life, his tenderness of spirit, his warmth of Christian faith, his wisdom in judgment, and his con- stant devotion to Christian work made him a most valued helper. People in trouble or sorrow always had his warmest practical sympathy. When I returned to New Bedford, as I often did, to call upon 'Father Burt' was a pleasure I always looked for. A blameless and useful life had its fulfillment in a serene and universally honored old age."
Mr. Burt was married, June 6, 1836, to Susan Jenney, of Fairhaven, Mass., daughter of Levi Jenney and Susan Proctor. She died September 8, 1871. Of five children, one daughter alone survives.
He died of heart failure, at New Bedford, Mass., February 25, 1894, in his eighty-sixth year.
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CLASS OF 1834.
Aldin Grout.
Son of Joel Grout and Asenath Wilder ; born in Pelham, Mass., Septem- ber 2, 1803; prepared for college at Amherst (Mass.) Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1831; took the full course in this Seminary, 1831-34; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Prof. Ralph Emerson, D.D., at Andover, April 1, 1834, at the same time with George Champion, Robert O. Dwight, Horatio B. Hackett, William R. Jewett, Phi- lander O. Powers, Asa D. Smith, and others of his class. He was ordained at Holden, Mass., November 19, 1834, as a missionary of the American Board to the Zulus of South Africa, and with eleven others sailed on a Boston bark the following month, but not arriving at Port Natal until a year later. From that time until his final retirement from the mission in 1870, he labored with un- wearied fidelity, zeal, and courage, though subjected to many hardships and difficulties peculiar to a pioneer work in that wild country among a barbarous and degraded people. Twice the mission was broken up by native wars. In one case Mr. Grout came to the United States, but soon returned again ; in the other, he got as far as Capetown, and there aroused so much interest in his work that the colonial governor there sent him back in the name of the queen. From 1870 he resided in Springfield, Mass., until, beloved and honored by all good people, he had filled out his fourscore years and ten.
Rev. Josiah Tyler, another veteran of the same mission, writes from Florida: "Mr. Grout was wonderfully well adapted for the Zulu field. Hope and faith were his characteristics. He could wait a long time if it appeared to be God's will before baptizing his first convert, and he was called to do so. Few African missionaries had to 'rough it' as he did. Probably the greatest trial he ever had was when he was obliged to look upon the massacre of his little band of Christians one Monday at break of day. The Zulu king was jealous of Mr. Grout, who, as he said, 'was stealing away the affections of his people.' Mr. Grout's work in Africa was well done. Many Zulus, some of them now in heaven, regard him as their spiritual father. His memory to me and to multitudes of others will be precious."
Mr. Grout was married, November 17, 1834, to Hannah Davis, of Holden, Mass., daughter of Ethan Davis and Sarah Hubbard. She died in Africa, February 24, 1836. He married, second, November 23, 1838, Charlotte Bailey, of Holden, Mass., daughter of James Bailey and Elizabeth Gleason. She sur- vives him, with two sons and two daughters. One daughter married Rev. Wil- liam Ireland (Class of 1848), and has been for thirty years a missionary among the Zulus; the other is the wife of Rev. Prof. Frank H. Foster (Class of 1877), of the Pacific Theological Seminary.
Mr. Grout died at Springfield, Mass., of old age, February 12, 1894, aged ninety years.
CLASS OF 1834.
Edward Coleman Bull. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Epaphras W. Bull, Esq., and Mary Wells; born in Danbury, Conn., August 7, 1807 ; prepared for college under private tuition at Danbury; gradu- ated at Yale College, 1826; studied law one year at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., com- pleting his course at Canandaigua, N. Y., and admitted to the bar there ; decided
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to enter the ministry, and studied in this Seminary, 1831-32; graduated at the Theological Seminary of Virginia, 1834. He was ordained deacon in the Epis- copal Church by Bishop Griswold, September 26, 1834; officiated at Taunton and Cambridge, Mass., Phillipstown, N.Y., and Woodbury, Conn .; ordained priest in Boston in May, 1838; was rector at Brookfield, Conn., 1838-41 ; at Westport, Conn., 1841-47 ; and at Rye, N. Y., 1847-58. His health failing, he resided afterwards without charge at Brooklyn, N. Y., Bridgeport, Conn., Sara- toga Springs, N. Y., and, from 1872, at Tarrytown, N. Y.
" In character he was quiet, unpretentious, and guileless. His wide range of reading and his clear and original views of men and of affairs made him a delightful companion to the few who were privileged to know him intimately. He was a consistent Christian, and his faith made his life one of absolute serenity, despite the infirmities and deprivations growing out of his extreme age."
Mr. Bull was married, in June, 1847, to Anna Maria Waite, of Westport, Conn. She died in 1864. He married, second, June 26, 1867, Mary Elizabeth Putnam, of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., daughter of Benjamin Risley Putnam and Eunice Morgan, who survives him.
Mr. Bull died of old age, at Tarrytown, N. Y., March 15, 1894, in his eighty- seventh year.
OLASS OF 1835.
Horatio Southgate, D.D.
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