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Son of Judge Horatio Southgate and Abigail Mclellan; born in Portland, Me., July 5, 1812 ; prepared for college in Portland ; graduated at Bowdoin Col- lege, 1832; took the full course in this Seminary, 1832-35; was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church, July 12, 1835, at Trinity Church, Boston, by Bishop Griswold. In 1836 he was sent by the Board of Missions on a tour of investi- gation among the Mohammedans of Turkey and Persia. On his return he was ordained to the priesthood in St. Paul's Chapel, New York City, by Bishop Onderdonk, October 3, 1839, and was missionary in Constantinople, 1840-44. He was then consecrated missionary bishop for " the dominions and depend- encies of the Sultan of Turkey," October 26, 1844, in St. Peter's Church, Phila- delphia, and exercised the episcopal office in that country until 1849. In 1850 he was elected bishop of California, but declined. In 1851 he organized St. Luke's Church in Portland, Me., now the cathedral church of that diocese. He was rector of the Church of the Advent, Boston, 1852-58, and of Zion Church, New York City, 1859-72. He afterwards resided at Falls Church, Va., at Ravenswood, L. I. (officiating for a time there at St. Thomas's Church), and from 1885 at Astoria, L. I.
Besides his varied service in the church, at home and abroad, Bishop Southgate published several books : Narrative of a Tour through Armenia, Persia, etc., Narrative of a Visit to the Syrian Church of Mesopotamia, A Trea- tise on the Antiquity, Doctrine, Ministry, and Worship of the Anglican Church, The War in the East, The Cross Above the Crescent : a Romance of Constanti- nople, and other volumes. He also contributed largely to magazines and re- views. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Columbia College in 1845.
Dr. Southgate was married, January 29, 1839, to Elizabeth Southgate Brown,
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of Portland, Me., daughter of William Brown and Octavia Southgate. She died August 10, 1850, and he married, second, December 28, 1864, Sarah Elizabeth Hutchinson, of New York City, daughter of Hiram Hutchinson and Mary Ann Luffberry. She survives him. Of thirteen children, nine are living. One son is a priest in the Roman Catholic Church and another is a lawyer in New York City.
Bishop Southgate died of typhoid malaria, in Astoria, L. I., April 12, 1894, in his eighty-second year.
CLASS OF 1837.
Thatcher Thayer, D.D.
Son of Capt. Nathaniel Thayer and Charlotte Baker; born in Boston, December 9, 1811; prepared for college at Leicester (Mass.) Academy; grad- uated at Amherst College, 1831; teacher in Mt. Pleasant Institute, Amherst, 1831-32, and at Hartford, Conn., 1832-33; tutor in Amherst College, 1833-34 ; took the full course in this Seminary, 1834-37; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Prof. Ralph Emerson, D.D., at Andover, April 11, 1837. He was ordained, February 13, 1839, at South Dennis, Mass., where he had already preached for some time, and remained pastor of the church there until 1841. He was installed over the United Congregational Church in Newport, R. I., November 16, 1841, and continued in that pas- torate until 1873, being afterwards pastor emeritus.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the College of New Jersey in 1857, and was from 1860 one of the trustees of Brown University, as also of the Rogers High School at Newport, which he was instrumental in founding. He had been for many years the chaplain of the Newport Artillery, and his annual discourses before that body were notable utterances.
Rev. Prof. J. O. Murray, D.D., of Princeton, N. J. (Class of 1854) sends this tribute: "Dr. Thayer was eminently a scholar, to the very last keeping up his studious habits. He had a passion for history, philosophy, and the classics. During his active ministry his pulpit was his throne. Slipshod preparation for the Sunday services, either in sermon or devotional exercises, was his pet abhorrence. His library, which was very extensive, was chosen from all departments of learning except modern science; to that he was as little drawn as Cardinal Newman. Dr. Thayer's conversation was one of his marked points. It was charged full of pithy suggestion, sometimes flashed with keen sarcasm or was tempered with a more general humor. He had great power in story-telling, using it with singular effect. His temper was conserv- ative. Trained in early life as a Unitarian, he became a warm advocate of the older theology, disliked 'new departures,' was possibly wanting in sym- pathy with progress. But most of all he disliked what he called 'fuss' in religion. He liked the quiet ways of the fathers. 'O that men would be good and keep still,' he said on a public occasion. He loved the society of young men. Some of the brightest men in the New England college or pulpit or bar, men like Professors Putnam, of Dartmouth, Dunn and Diman, of Brown, and Judge Dwight Foster, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, were among his ' boys,' as he used to call them."
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Dr. Thayer was married, May 8, 1850, to Eliza De Wolf Vernon, of New- port, daughter of William Vernon, Esq., and Eliza De Wolf, who survives him.
He died at Newport, R. I., of Bright's disease, March 17, 1894, aged eighty- two years.
CLASS OF 1837.
Thomas Kendall Fessenden. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Joseph Fessenden and Sibbel Holbrook, and grandson of Rev. Thomas Fessenden, of Walpole, N.H .; born in Brattleboro, Vt., September 10, 1813; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at the Berkshire Gymnasium, Pittsfield, Mass .; entered the junior class of Williams College, graduating in 1833; in this Seminary, 1834-35; in Yale Divinity School, 1835-37, having also studied at Princeton Seminary a short time in the winter of 1837 ; was licensed by the Windham County (Vt.) Association in 1837, and preached at Hatfield, Mass., 1837-38. He was ordained at Norwich Falls, Conn., October 16, 1839, and was dismissed from that church in 1841 ; preached at Cazenovia and Homer, N.Y., in 1842, and was installed pastor at Homer in 1843, remain- ing there till December, 1853; pastor at Ellington, Conn., 1855-64. He after- wards resided at Farmington, Conn., without pastoral charge, but engaged in varied and effective public service. He was a member of the State Legislature for three years and, as chairman of the Committee on Humane Institutions and State Commissioner appointed for the purpose, was instrumental in establishing the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls located at Middletown, of which he was a director for seventeen years and for ten years the secretary. He was for ten years the financial secretary and for a long time a trustee of the Hamp- ton (Va.) Normal and Agricultural School, and devoted himself with great earnestness and success to the interests of that institution.
Rev. George L. Clark, of Farmington, reviewing in his memorial address Mr. Fessenden's long career of usefulness as a pastor and philanthropist, said : " With all his courtesy and gentleness he was a Puritan. He obeyed his con- science and he believed in God. The deep secret of his power and success was his moral and spiritual worth. With all that was genial and kindly, with the sparkle of wit and the flash of humor, his sense of duty was stern and immov- able, and the basis of this was his loyalty to Christ. His friendship with Jesus was tender and joyous. Almost his last articulate words were, 'The Lord is my shepherd.'"
He was married, October 23, 1839, to Nancy Cowles, of Farmington, daugh- ter of Martin Cowles and Mary Wallis. She died February 10, 1888.
Mr. Fessenden died of bronchitis, following the grip, January 18, 1894, in Farmington, Conn., aged eighty years.
CLASS OF 1838.
Daniel Goodwin.
Son of Dea. Joshua Gooden and Elizabeth Jones; born in Londonderry, N. H., January 25, 1809; prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, N. H .; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1835; took the full course in this Sem- inary, 1835-38 ; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Dr. Justin Edwards, Andover, April 10, 1838; was ordained at Brookline, N. H.,
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February 27, 1839, and continued in that pastorate sixteen years. After sup- plying for short periods successively the churches at Hillsboro' Bridge, London- derry, and Derry, he served as pastor in Mason, N.H., twenty-one years, from 1857 to 1878, residing there subsequently without charge.
His long life in Mason, during his pastorate and after its close, was one of marked usefulness. In 1885 he represented the town in the State Legislature ; served at different times as superintendent of schools, as town clerk five years, as postmaster eleven years, as notary public twenty-one years, and justice of the peace twenty-six years. Of pious ancestry and training, he was earnest and strong in his faith, in his character, in his preaching, and in his influence. A memorial paper, read before the Hollis Association by Rev. C. F. H. Crathern, says of him : "The love of Christ was the great constraining and restraining and sustaining influence of his life, and to make it known was the passion of his soul. Although he was a strong preacher, writing more sermons than he ever preached and preaching more sermons than he ever wrote, yet as a man of prayer he was mighty. He believed in prayer intensely. Prayer with him was talking with God, fellowship with the Eternal."
He was married, February 12, 1839, to Julia Ann Shute, of Derry, N.H., daughter of Benjamin Shute and Lucy (Cross) Orr. She died September 10, 1845. He married, second, August 24, 1846, Martha Boynton, of Pepperell, Mass., daughter of Maj. Eli Boynton and Mary McDonald. She died April 14, 1875. He married, third, Mrs. Lucy Jane Boynton, of Pepperell, daughter of John Blood and Susan Jewett, and widow of Eli Boynton, 2d. She survives him. He had three sons and four daughters, one son and one daughter having deceased. One of the daughters has been for many years a teacher under the American Missionary Association.
Mr. Goodwin died of bronchitis, at Mason, N. H., December 30, 1893, being nearly eighty-five years old.
OLASS OF 1838.
George Cotton Partridge. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Dea. Cotton Partridge and Hannah Huntington Lyman, daughter of Rev. Dr. Joseph Lyman, for fifty-four years pastor in Hatfield ; born in Hat- field, Mass., August 27, 1813; fitted for college at Hopkins Academy, Hadley ; graduated at Amherst College, 1833; taught in Princeton (N.J.) Latin School, 1833-34; in this Seminary, 1835-36; tutor at Amherst College, 1836-38, con- tinuing his theological study under President Humphrey. In 1838-39 he preached for a few months in Rochester, N.Y., and at the Seamen's Bethel, Portland, Me. He was ordained at Nantucket, Mass., November 21, 1839, and remained there two years; was pastor at Brimfield, Mass., 1842-47 ; and of the Second Congregational Church, Greenfield, Mass., 1848-54. From 1854-60 he resided in Rockford, Ill., without charge, but often preaching without compen- sation in villages and hamlets for miles around. He was acting pastor at Batavia, III., 1860-66, and afterward resided there until his death. He was col- lector of internal revenue, 1866-67, and afterwards for many years a general insurance agent. He was for thirty years treasurer of the school funds for the township.
Prof. William S. Tyler, D.D., of Amherst (Class of 1836), says of him :
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"George Partridge was to me a friend indeed, true and near and dear. Those were sunny days when he and Bullard and I boarded together at Professor Snell's, and sung together half an hour after dinner or supper almost every day, and then went singing in our hearts to our college work. Shall not 'we three meet again' with songs of everlasting joy upon our heads? ... Mr. Partridge loved to preach the gospel, and intermitted preaching and finally relinquished it only when his voice became too weak or his general health failed. He preached the great central truths of Christianity as they were held by his grand- father, Dr. Lyman, and his theological teacher, Dr. Humphrey, in their simplic- ity and purity, with great earnestness and often with much pungency and power. Tall, erect, of commanding form and attractive features, with a heart as large as his body and as warm as it was large, courteous in his manners, fastidious in his tastes, a Christian gentleman of the old school, he made friends, select, perhaps, rather than numerous, of the best men and women, and bound them to himself with hooks of steel. We give him joy of his long life of fourscore years, of his good work, and when, by reason of bodily infirmi- ties, life had become a weariness, we give him joy of his peaceful and happy entrance into rest."
He was married, June 9, 1840, to Sophia Harmer Johns, of Canandaigua, N.Y., daughter of Rev. Evan Johns and Frances Lyman. She died January 31, 1874. He had one son and two daughters, one of whom is the wife of Rev. A. J. Chittenden, of the Class of 1874.
He died of bronchial pneumonia, in Batavia, Ill., November 8, 1893, aged eighty years.
OLASS OF 1839.
Charles Emery Stevens. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Hon. Boswell Stevens and Catherine Hale Emery; born in Pem- broke, N. H., March 24, 1815; prepared for college at Pembroke Academy ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1835; studied law with his father until the death of the latter, in 1836; studied in this Seminary two years, 1836-38; resided with his brother-in-law, Rev. Seth W. Banister (Class of 1839), at Hins- dale, Mass., 1841-46, being principal for a short time of the Mountain Semi- nary, Worthington, Mass .; was editor of the New Hampshire Statesman, Con- cord, 1846; principal of Fitchburg (Mass.) Academy, 1847, and of the Barre (Mass.) High School, 1847-49. He edited the Barre Patriot, 1849-52, and the Worcester Daily Transcript as an organ of the Whig party in the presidential campaign of 1852. He was clerk in the Secretary of State's office, Boston, 1853-54 (assisting to edit the Massachusetts Colonial Records), and literary reader and editor for Gould & Lincoln, publishers, Boston, 1855-58. He was Assistant Register of Probate and Insolvency for Worcester County, 1859-69, and Register, 1869-84, subsequently practicing law, especially in connection with wills and the administration of estates.
Mr. Stevens possessed a fine taste in art, literature, and history. A nota- ble instance of his critical acumen deserves special record. While a student in this Seminary, in 1838, he read Macaulay's essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review, that author being then comparatively little known in America. He carefully examined the late volumes of the Review, and, guided by the style
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alone, discovered several articles which he felt sure came from the same pen. His list was given to a young publishing firm in Boston, the genuineness of each article subsequently confirmed by correspondence with the editor and author, and the series issued in two volumes at Boston in 1840, being the first collec- tion of Macaulay's essays published on either side of the Atlantic. He pub- lished in 1856, Anthony Burns : a History ; in 1857, New Biographies of Illustrious Men, an original introduction to which, modestly signed "S. C. E.," contains a full account of the Macaulay publication ; in 1878, Church and Parish : a Club Essay, made by Rev. Dr. Samuel Wolcott (Class of 1837), a part of the pro- ceedings of the National Council; in 1890, Worcester Churches ; and other smaller books. Mr. Stevens was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the American Geographical Society, and one of the founders of the Worcester Congregational Club. Judge P. Emory Aldrich, in a memorial trib- ute read before the above named club, says of Mr. Stevens : " And so our friend and fellow member of this Society came to the close of a long and useful life - a life full of good deeds, of good thoughts, of wise and benevolent endeavor ; full of modest and sweet courtesy, and without the remembrance in the closing hours of that life, as I verily believe, that he had ever designedly done a wrong to any human being."
He was married, September 7, 1852, to Caroline Elizabeth Caldwell, of Barre, Mass., daughter of Capt. Seth Caldwell and Catherine Monroe Woods. She survives him, with one son, a graduate of Amherst College and a physi- cian in Worcester, and one daughter.
Mr. Stevens died of pneumonia, at Worcester, Mass., December 13, 1893, in his seventy-ninth year.
CLASS OF 1839.
Samuel Rowley Thrall. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Chauncey Thrall, Esq., and Mary Chipman ; born in West Rutland, Vt., January 16, 1811 ; prepared for college at West Rutland Academy ; grad- uated at Middlebury College, 1835. After teaching in St. Lawrence Academy, Potsdam, N.Y., for one year, he studied in this Seminary, 1836-39, although compelled by ill health to leave before graduation. He was licensed by the Rutland (Vt.) Association in the summer of 1839, and preached at Perkins- ville and Wells River, Vt., 1839-42; was ordained April 13, 1842, and con- tinued as pastor at Wells River until 1847. He was acting pastor at Hub- bardton, Vt., 1848-52; Cuttingsville, Vt., 1852-53; Weathersfield, Ill., 1854-55; Tremont, Ill., 1855-57 ; Bristol, Il1., 1857-59 ; Rockport and Summer Hill, Ill., 1859-65; La Harpe, Ill., 1865-69. In 1869 he removed to Galesburg, Ill., in order to educate his children at Knox College, and served as traveling agent of the American Bible Society until 1880. From 1887 he resided with his daughter at West Salem and Boscobel, Wis.
Rev. Joseph E. Roy, D.D., said of Mr. Thrall in the funeral sermon : " Of New England stock, from 1630 down, he was a manly man, a strong preacher, and a loving pastor. He had lived through this wondrous era in our country's history, his life nearly measuring the century, and he had had a hand in the molding of it. His record is on high. It was made on the earth; it was written upon human hearts; it was built into the character of individuals and
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of churches where he had labored in the gospel. His sermons were after the old New England style, and that was the style for his day - a style that built up New England character and made it a blessing to our age and to all our land. He loved his profession and loved to honor it, and by it to honor his chief, the Saviour of the world."
He was married, October 12, 1842, to Miriam Hunt Bowman, of Perkins- ville, Vt., daughter of Thaddeus Bowman, 3d, of Lexington, Mass., and Anna Hunt, of Concord, Mass. She died November 22, 1886. Of eight children, four died early. The three sons became Congregational ministers: Rev. Joseph B. Thrall, of Albany, N.Y .; Rev. George S. Thrall, who died in 1886; Rev. William H. Thrall, home missionary superintendent for South Dakota; the daughter is the wife of Rev. E. W. Jenney (Class of 1873), formerly mis- sionary in Turkey, now pastor in Boscobel, Wis.
Mr. Thrall died of old age and kidney disease, at Boscobel, Wis., February 27, 1894, aged eighty-three years.
CLASS OF 1840.
Thomas Power Field, D.D.
Son of Justin Field and Harriet Power; born in Northfield, Mass., Jan- uary 12, 1814; prepared for college at Northfield Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1834; studied in this Seminary, 1836-37 and 1839-40, being tutor in Amherst College in the intervening years, 1837-39. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, Andover, April 7, 1840, and was ordained over the South Church in Danvers (now Peabody), Mass., October 8, 1840, remaining there ten years. He was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Troy, N. Y., 1850-53; professor of Rhetoric, Oratory, and English Literature at Amherst College, 1853-56; pastor of the First Congregational Church, New London, Conn., 1856-76; professor of Bibliography and Librarian, Amherst College, 1878; and from 1878 to 1886 Samuel Green professor of Biblical History and Interpretation and the college pastor ; continued to reside in Amherst until his death.
Amherst College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1861. Ex-President J. H. Seelye, D.D., in a letter read at the memorial service in Amherst, thus spoke of him: « .. . I confided in his literary taste, which, originally keen and discriminating, was kept polished and incisive by an ac- quaintance, rarely equaled in amplitude, with the best products of literature, especially in the highest ranges. I confided in his theological knowledge and his knowledge of the Scriptures, always clear and broad and reverent. But most of all, I confided in himself, in the purity of his conduct and the upright- ness of his character and the strength and genuineness of his Christian life. Of unfailing courtesy, his manners were never put on, but aptly appeared as the kindly expression of a kind soul. He was broad-minded, full of tolerance and sympathy, but with his own deep convictions of what was right and true."
Prof. William S. Tyler, D.D. (Class of 1836), kindly sends an extract from his tribute which is to appear in the Obituary Record of Amherst College : "He was unquestionably the best read man and the best Hebrew scholar, and had the largest and choicest library and the widest knowledge of books in
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every department of literature, ancient and modern, of any man in Amherst or vicinity. He has preached ably and acceptably in the college and in the neigh- boring churches, but his best sermon, which he has preached every day of every week, has been his beautiful every-day life. . . . The whole community mourns his loss. But we give him joy that he has gone, through so short and easy a passage, from so long and beautiful a life to a world where, like himself, all is beauty, purity, and peace."
Dr. Field was married, January II, 1844, to Maria Augusta Daniels, of South Danvers (now Peabody), Mass., daughter of Hon. Robert Shillaber Daniels and Lydia Abbott. She died July 2, 1864. He married, second, May 9, 1866, Charlotte Coit, of New London, Conn., daughter of Robert Coit, Esq., and Charlotte Coit. She died February 21, 1890, and he married her sister, Ellen Coit, November 4, 1891. She survives him. Of nine children, three are living.
Dr. Field died of heart failure, at Amherst, Mass., May 16, 1894, aged eighty years.
CLASS OF 1840.
Josiah Gardner Davis, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Josiah Davis, Jr., and Elizabeth Gardner Waters, and grandson of Rev. Cornelius Waters, of Ashby, Mass .; born in Concord, Mass., February 23, 1815; prepared for college at Concord Academy ; graduated at Yale College, IS36; taught a private school for a few months in the academy building at Concord, 1836-37; studied in this Seminary, 1837-38; taught at Margaretta Furnace, Penn., 1838-39; finished his theological course at Union Seminary, 1839-41. He was ordained, May 22, 1844, over the church at Amherst, N. H., and remained its pastor until his resignation in 1879, a period of thirty-five years. He continued to reside there afterwards until his death.
In addition to the duties of this important pastorate he always bore a prominent and influential part in the affairs of the town. He superintended for many years the public schools, and was a prime mover in the foundation and enlargement of the public library. When a young man in Concord he was instrumental in founding there a Sabbath School Missionary Association, and always maintained an earnest and intelligent interest in the cause of missions, being for twenty years one of the corporate members of the American Board. He was for several years the secretary of the General Association of New Hampshire. Dartmouth College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1866, and he was a trustee of that institution from 1871 to 1891. He represented the town in the Constitutional Convention of 1876. He published historical discourses delivered at the centennial anniversaries of the Hollis Association of Ministers, 1862, and of the dedication of the meeting house at Amherst, 1874, besides other occasional sermons.
Ex-President Samuel C. Bartlett, D.D. (Class of 1842), writes : "Dr. Davis was a modest man, of a genial spirit, kindly in all his intercourse, and a fast, unwavering friend. He held well-defined and matured opinions, was firm and conciliatory in the maintenance of them, and open to conviction. As a minister, he was to an unusual degree methodical and faithful in pastoral labor, and held all church and parish matters thoroughly in hand. Though he was ready and
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fluent in speech, his sermons were prepared with great care and were both thoughtful and practical. He had a sound judgment and marked business abilities, which made him a wise counselor both in deliberative and practical matters. These qualities were recognized in his long membership on the board of trustees of Dartmouth College, of which body he was for many years the clerk and one of its committee of finance, never failing to be promptly present and to give constant and earnest attention to the work in hand. In view of his long pastoral labors and his well-balanced qualities, it may be safely said that few ministers in New Hampshire have done a more faithful work or exerted a more evenly healthful influence."
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