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He was married, September 26, 1848, to Abba Atherton Spaulding, of Am- herst, daughter of Dr. Matthias Spaulding and Rebecca Wentworth Atherton. She survives him, with one daughter, the wife of Dr. George Atherton Spauld- ing, of New York City.
Dr. Davis died of cerebral paralysis, at Amherst, N. H., March 14, 1894, aged seventy-nine years.
CLASS OF 1841.
George Washington Cleaveland.
Son of John Cleaveland and Rebecca Woodbury, and great-grandson of Rev. John Cleaveland, of Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, now Essex; born in Salem, Mass., December 21, 1815 ; fitted for college under his kinsman, Dr. Nehemiah Cleaveland, at Dummer Academy, Byfield, Mass .; entered the sophomore class of Bowdoin College and graduated in 1837; studied in this Seminary, 1837-38 and 1839-41, having been principal of Orleans (Mass.) Academy during the intervening year. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, Andover, April 13, 1841, and supplied the First Church, Marblehead, Mass., 1841-42, and the Presbyterian church, Waterford, Penn., 1842-43. In the summer of the latter year he made a long tour into the new region of the Northwest with reference to the home mission- ary work, for which he was ordained at Orleans, Mass., September 27, 1843. On his journey westward he stopped for a Sabbath at Waterford, and remained there six years, 1843-49. He removed then to the neighboring town of Harbor Creek, and served as pastor of the Presbyterian church there until his death, supplying also for several years a Welsh Presbyterian church in Green town- ship which he had organized - making in all fifty years of faithful, devoted, successful service.
Rev. William Grassie, of Cambridgeboro, Penn. (Class of 1855), for many years settled near Mr. Cleaveland, writes of him : " He was a man of great faith and implicit trust in God, simple in habits and tender in speech, with an open side to humanity in all its moods, a rare comforter of those in affliction. He was a man of prayer, and showed it in the atmosphere he carried with him in his intercourse with men. He was devoted to his work and his people. The little church to which he had ministered for more than forty years had his best days and thoughts and lay on his mind to the last. He was a rare man - patient, faithful, unassuming, caring not for earthly renown, only for the honor that cometh from God."
Mr. Cleaveland was married, September 27, 1843, to Keziah Sparrow Doane,
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of Orleans, Mass., daughter of Capt. Seth Doane and Abigail Cole. She sur- vives him, with four sons and one daughter, one son and one daughter hav- ing deceased. One of his sons, Edwards Park Cleaveland, is a Presbyterian minister, now professor of Rhetoric in Adelbert College.
Mr. Cleaveland died of nervous prostration and enlargement of the heart, at Harbor Creek, Penn., May 22, 1893, in his seventy-eighth year.
CLASS OF 1842.
Cyrus Baldwin. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Isaac Baldwin and Bethiah Pool; born in Antrim, N.H., May 14, 18II; prepared for college at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N.H., and Phillips Academy, Andover; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1839; studied one year in the Seminary, 1839-40, and then began his long and useful career as a teacher. He was principal of Thetford (Vt.) Academy for one term; in- structor in Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H., fifteen years, 1840-55; principal of Union Academy, Palmyra, N.Y., 1855-57 ; in mercantile business, Providence, R.I., 1857-62 ; principal of Freehold (N.J.) Institute, 1862-68; re- sided in Galesville, Wis., 1868-69; returning to Meriden, taught in the Acad- emy, 1869-71; resided there, 1871-79; at Wilmot, N.H., 1879-86; and after- wards at Hill, N.H.
Mr. Baldwin's longest and best service was at Meriden. When he retired from active teaching he was elected a trustee of the institution and remained such until his death. He attended the annual reunion of the alumni in Bos- ton the year before his death and made a vigorous speech. Hundreds of "K. U. A." pupils all over the land remember with gratitude his strong and helpful influence over them in the class-room, in the conference meetings, and through his occasional sermons in the village church. He published A Manual of Etymology and Syntax.
Rev. Charles H. Richards, D.D., of Philadelphia (Class of 1865), son of Dr. Cyrus S. Richards, for thirty-five years the principal at Meriden, writes : " Mr. Baldwin was a teacher of rare interest and power. With a mind singularly fertile and alert, an eagerness to communicate his knowledge and opinions, and a passion for accuracy, he made a deep impression upon his pupils. He was not content to follow the text-book; he sought to wake up the dormant intel- lect and give it a broader horizon and a higher purpose. He was more anxious to mold character and kindle lofty aspirations in his students than to drill them in the mere technique of learning. His views were often original and ingenious, and he had a lively sympathy with all true progress. A devoted Christian and a painstaking scholar, his long career of usefulness in his chosen profession has had few equals in the academic annals of this country."
Mr. Baldwin was married, November 1, 1841, to Hannah Shattuck, of Meriden, N.H., daughter of William Shattuck and Jane Stevens. She died November 26, 1886. Of eight children, two daughters alone survive; four children died in childhood; two sons, one a lawyer in Providence, R.I., the other a physician in Hill, N.H., died in 1892.
He died of grip, at Hill, N.H., May 30, 1893, aged eighty-two years.
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CLASS OF 1842.
Daniel Emerson.
Son of Rev. Ralph Emerson, D.D. (professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Seminary from 1829 to 1853), and Eliza Rockwell ; born in Norfolk, Conn., August 20, 1818 ; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover; gradu- ated at Western Reserve College, 1839; took the full course in this Seminary, 1839-42. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Dr. Justin Edwards at Andover, April 12, 1842; preached at Newton Falls, Ohio, 1842-43 ; was ordained at Copley, Ohio, June 1, 1844; and was stated sup- ply under the " Plan of Union " in Presbyterian churches at Copley, 1844-45 ; at Flat Rock (in the township of Brownstown), Mich., 1846-49; at Springfield, Mo., 1849-50; at West Ely, Mo., 1853. He taught at West Ely, 1851-52, and at Hannibal, Mo., 1854-55. He resided in Hannibal until 1857, removing then to Peninsula, Ohio. He taught one winter in the neighboring town of Northamp- ton and was for a short time county agent of the American Bible Society, but owing to slender health had no other professional charge. He wrote much for the local newspapers, and was for over twenty years superintendent of the Pen- insula Cemetery, which he tastefully adorned with his own hands. From 1885 to the time of his death he resided in North Kingsville, Ohio.
Rev. E. J. Comings, of Peninsula, who officiated at his funeral, writes : " Flowers were his delight. He was a great lover of everything beautiful in nature, in art, and in human character." Rev. Dr. C. F. Thwing, president of Western Reserve University (Class of 1879), sends this tribute : " It is a privi- lege to recall the characteristics of this blessed man. It is seldom that one finds so much tenderness of heart joined with a nature so manly. There was also in him a keenness of discrimination that is born of a prolonged classical training. He had a breadth of sympathy, too, which should characterize every educated man. It was said of some one that 'he loved God and little children ; ' I may say of this brother that he loved God, his family, and his college."
Mr. Emerson was married, April 9, 1844, to Harriet Newell Wilcox, of Rich- field, Ohio, daughter of Jeremiah Cullen Wilcox, M.D., and Lorena Amelia Bushnell. She died July 4, 1870. He married, second, September 4, 1877, Mrs. Harriet Newell Alford, daughter of Elijah Rockwell and Sarah Hall, and widow of Dr. Melancthon W. Alford, of Galesburg, Mich. She survives him. Of nine children, four died in childhood.
Mr. Emerson died of gastric fever, following the grip, at North Kingsbury, Ohio, December 16, 1893, aged seventy-five years.
CLASS OF 1842.
Luther Harris Sheldon.
Son of Rev. Luther Sheldon, D.D., and Sarah Johnson Harris; born in Easton, Mass., November 22, 1815; prepared for college at Castleton (Vt.) Seminary; graduated at Middlebury College, 1839; took the full course in this Seminary, 1839-42; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Dr. Justin Edwards, Andover, April 12, 1842. He supplied for a few months, 1842-43, the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, D. C., preaching afterwards at South Dennis, Mass., and in New Hampshire. He was ordained at Townsend, Mass., August 1, 1844; was pastor there twelve
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years, and was then settled at Westborough, Mass., for eleven years, 1856-67. He was superintendent of the State Reform School, Jamesburg, N. J., 1867-74 ; resided at Andover, 1874-76; was acting pastor at Easton, Mass., 1876-78; su- perintendent of State Reform School, at Westborough, Mass., 1878-80, residing afterwards in Andover.
Mr. Sheldon was always intelligently and heartily interested in moral reforms and public progress. He was an early advocate of temperance and antislavery, and in the last year of the war went to the front as a Christian Commission delegate. In Townsend, Westborough, and Andover he served on the school committee board, and in Andover was a prominent supporter of the Farmers' Club. His official connection with institutions for criminal boys was an important part of his life work. He successfully inaugurated in New Jersey the system of the "open farm school," then only known in one other institution in the country, but since adopted in many States.
Rev. Lathrop Taylor, of Wheaton, Ill. (Class of 1842), on hearing of Mr. Sheldon's death, wrote: "I loved him dearly. We were classmates four years in college and room-mates three years in Andover. He was a genial companion and a man of pure and noble aspirations. He was a diligent student, not only of the Bible, but of general literature. He had comprehensive views of the work of the Christian minister. He heartily embraced and steadfastly main- tained the Edwardean views of theology. His style of preaching was prac- tical, and he spoke with unction and power. He was a true and godly man, and has finished his work with joy."
Mr. Sheldon was married, July 24, 1844, to Sarah Hicks Flagg, of An- dover, daughter of Capt. Timothy Flagg (of the old-time publishing firm of Flagg & Gould) and Hannah Trow. She survives him, with their two sons and two daughters.
He died at Andover, Mass., of organic disease of the heart, May 19, 1894, aged seventy-eight years.
CLASS OF 1843.
John Lawrence. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Dea. Hubbard Lawrence and Mary Goss; born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., May 21, 1814; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H .; entered Dartmouth College in 1836, but left soon to engage in teaching, first in a family school at Lennox- ville, Canada, 1837, then under Rev. Samuel R. Hall, in Plymouth (N. H.) Academy, 1838; studied in Gilmanton (N. H.) Theological Seminary, 1840, and in this Seminary, 1840-41 ; taught under Ariel Parish in Westfield (Mass.) Academy, 1841-42; under Otis Lombard at Springfield, Mass., 1842-43, and conducting a private school of his own there, 1843-45; taught in Lyndon (Vt.) Academy, 1845. Having been licensed to preach (by the Hampden Association) while at Springfield, in 1844, he was acting pastor at Alstead, N. H., 1846-47, and at Hooksett, N. H., 1847-48; ordained there August 3, 1848; acting pastor at Salem, N. H., 1849-52, and again, 1859-62, after a pastorate in Carlyle, Mass., of six years, 1853-59; acting pastor, Wilmington, Mass., 1862-63; preached at Wilton, Me., and at other churches in that vicinity, 1863-69. He resided afterwards without charge, although occasionally preaching, at
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Reading, Mass., St. Johnsbury, Vt., Cambridge, Mass., and, from 1891, with his daughters, at Elyria, Ohio.
Mr. Lawrence served on school boards in the different towns where he was pastor, and often assisted young men in their classical studies. He was a delegate of the Christian Commission in Virginia in 1863. He published The Family of John Lawrence (a genealogy) in 1847, with supplementary edi- tions in 1857, 1869, 1876, and 1881 (the latter containing also The Family of Philip Goss and The Family of Selah Pomroy), and The History of Stanstead County, Canada, in 1874. A sermon of his on Care for the Soul was printed in 1886. He was a brother of Rev. Edward A. Lawrence, D.D., of the Class of 1838.
Mr. Lawrence was married, July 31, 1855, to Nancy Temple Wakefield, of Reading, Mass., daughter of Dea. Caleb Wakefield and Nancy Temple. She died in Reading, January 6, 1871. He had four sons and four daughters; one of the sons died in infancy ; one of the daughters has been for several years a missionary of the American Board at Smyrna.
Mr. Lawrence died of old age, at Elyria, Ohio, May 15, 1894, lacking six days of being eighty years old.
CLASS OF 1844.
Richard Tolman.
Son of Capt. Stephen Tolman and Mary Pierce ; born in Dorchester, Mass., September 30, 1817; prepared for college at Dorchester Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1839 ; was principal of New Hartford (Conn.) Academy, 1839-40, and Hancock (N. H.) Academy, 1840-41 ; took the full course in this Seminary, 1841-44, and continued his studies as Abbot resident, 1844-45. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Prof. Ralph Emerson at Andover, April 9, 1844, was ordained as first pastor of the Third (now Maple Street) Church, Danvers, Mass., September 17, 1845, and remained there three years. He was pastor at South Dennis, Mass., 1849-52, and at Tewksbury, Mass., 1852-70. In the spring of the latter year severe pulmonary disease obliged him to give up his pastorate, and he went to Hampton, Va. He was so much improved by the climate that before the close of the year he became chaplain of the Normal Institute, being formally installed May 19, 1872, and performing the duties of that position with rare judgment, zeal, and efficiency for eight years. For eight years longer he remained in connection with the school, teaching a large "class of pastors for Bible study," and often preaching in the churches of the vicinity. From 1886 he resided in Arlington, Mass. Mr. Tolman represented Tewksbury in the State Legislature in 1866 and 1867. Three sermons of his were published.
Rev. Leonard Tenney, of Waterbury, Vt., a Seminary classmate, writes : "Mr. Tolman and I were room-mates in the Seminary, and have been intimate friends up to the day of his death. As a man he was frugal, generous, and modest, yet bold and courageous ; a genial companion, always trustworthy - a man of sound wisdom and great capability. As a preacher he was logical, earnest, and persuasive. As a Christian he was devout, hopeful, conservative, and yet always ready to receive new light. It was his endeavor to know his whole duty and to perform it." In filling a statistical blank in 1892 Mr. Tol-
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man wrote against "present employment : " "A cripple, calmly and cheerfully waiting for the dawn of heaven's eternal day."
He was married, December 1, 1845, to Olivia Sweetser, of Reading, Mass., daughter of Thomas Sweetser and Olivia Richardson. She died June 20, 1891. They had eight children, four sons and four daughters, of whom three daugh- ters survive.
Mr. Tolman died at Arlington, Mass., of pneumonia, following the grip, January 2, 1894, aged seventy-six years.
CLASS OF 1844.
Charles Willey. (Resident Licentiate.)
Son of Dea. Jesse Willey and Lucy Perkins ; born at Derby, Vt., Septem- ber 9, 1815; early education obtained at Derby Literary and Theological Insti- tute and other academies; studied theology with Rev. Samuel R. Hall, of Craftsbury, Vt. (previously principal of the "Teachers' Seminary," Andover) ; was licensed to preach by the Orleans (Vt.) Association, August 15, 1843; studied as resident licentiate in this Seminary, 1843-44, while waiting to join the Pawnee Mission, to which he and his wife had been appointed by the Amer- ican Board. War between hostile tribes caused a change of plans, and he be- gan to preach at Chichester, N.H., in 1844, where he was ordained, October 15, 1845, and where he remained until 1850. He was afterwards acting pastor of churches in New Hampshire : Kingston, 1851-52; Loudon (Second Church), 1853-57; Epsom, 1857-59; Barrington, 1859-65; Centre Harbor, 1865-68 ; Greenfield, 1868-69; Nelson, 1869-70; Swanzey, 1871-73. He preached at Bloomington and Blake's Prairie, Wis., 1873-75; and at Newfield, N. J., 1875-88, continuing to reside at the latter place until his death.
Mr. Willey, though prevented from pursuing a thorough course of study, labored for a full half century faithfully and successfully in home missionary fields, in Sabbath schools, and by personal influence. His last sermon, preached on the Sunday morning previous to his death, is said to have touched a large audience by its eloquence and earnestness.
He was married, September 24, 1843, to Harriet Claggett, of Newport, N.H., daughter of Wentworth Claggett, Esq., and Jane McQuesten. She died Au- gust 20, 1847. He married, second, December 4, 1849, Charlotte Esther Kelly, of East Concord, N.H., daughter of Hon. Israel W. Kelly and Rebecca Fletcher. He had a son and a daughter, both deceased.
Mr. Willey died of neuralgia of the heart, at Newfield, N.J., October 26, 1893, aged seventy-eight years.
CLASS OF 1845.
John Putnam Gulliver, D.D., LL.D.
Son of Dea. John Gulliver and Sarah Putnam; born in Boston, May 12, 1819; graduated at Phillips Academy, Andover, 1836, and at Yale College, 1840; was principal of Randolph (Mass.) Academy, 1840-42; studied in this Seminary, 1842-43; in Yale Divinity School, 1843-44, returning here for the senior year, 1844-45, and continuing his studies as resident licentiate, 1845-46; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. John L. Taylor at
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Andover, April 7, 1845. He supplied the Main Street (afterwards the Broad- way) Church in Norwich, Conn., 1845-46; and was ordained as its pastor October 1, 1846, remaining there until 1865; was pastor of the New England Church, Chicago, Ill., 1865-68 ; president of Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., 1868-72; pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Binghamton, N. Y., 1872-78. From 1878 to the time of his death he filled the newly endowed Stone professor- ship of the Relations of Christianity to the Secular Sciences. Although obliged by failing health to relinquish active work in this department in 1890, he de- voted himself to the preparation of a volume in the field of his special studies and kept his place as one of the Seminary preachers.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Iowa College in 1867, and that of Doctor of Laws from Iowa State University in 1869. When resident in Connecticut he was a Fellow of Yale College and was instrumental in the founding of the Norwich Free Academy. His address at the dedication of the Slater Memorial Hall of that institution was published, as well as his inaugural addresses at Galesburg and Andover and several occasional sermons. In early years he was a leading editorial contributor to the Independent, and was prominent in the proceedings of the National Congregational Council of 1865 in Boston.
In a published sketch of Professor Gulliver, Dr. C. F. P. Bancroft, of Andover (Class of 1867), wrote: "There was a strong element of the reformer in his temperament. The antislavery discussions in his academy days kindled his whole soul, and in the more serious and momentous struggle which resulted in the Civil War and emancipation he took a prominent part. Without civil or military appointment he threw himself into the great strife, and used all his powers of argument and eloquence in the maintenance of national unity and the triumph of liberty."
Rev. Prof. J. M. Hoppin, D.D. (Class of 1845), writes : “ Professor Gul- liver was my classmate both in Yale College and Andover Seminary. He was impulsive, bold, and positive, and yet was a truly humble man, desirous above all things to do the will of his divine Master. He was one of the strongest men intellectually of our class and one of our best scholars, but was influenced by his heart as well as his head. He was a born metaphysician, and showed this in the Seminary, delighting to try the edge of his mind on the toughest questions in theology. This did not hurt his style, which was remarkably clear and simple, resting on facts as well as logic. The educational work he did in Connecticut still stands, proving his sagacity and liberality of view. He was a noble man and true believer."
Dr. Gulliver was married, September 8, 1845, to Frances Woodbury Curtis, of Torringford, Conn., daughter of Dea. Elizur Curtis and Amanda Steele, and sister of Rev. Lucius Curtis, of the Class of 1845. She died March 9, 1892. Two children died in childhood. Two sons and two daughters survive - Wil- liam C. Gulliver, Yale, 1870, counselor at law in New York; Francis Gulliver, of Andover; Miss Julia Gulliver, professor of philosophy in Rockford (Ill.) College ; and Miss Mary Gulliver, instructor in art at the Mary A. Burnham School, Northampton, Mass.
Dr. Gulliver died at Andover, of pneumonia, January 25, 1894, in his seventy-fifth year.
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OLASS OF 1845.
Marcus Rodman Keep. (Non-graduate.)
Son of John Keep and Adotia Severance, and descendant of a French Hugue- not who settled in Longmeadow, Mass. ; born in Swanton, Vt., March 27, 1816; fitted for college at Addison County Grammar School, Middlebury, Vt .; in Middlebury College three years, 1836-39, but did not graduate ; studied in this Seminary one year, 1842-43, completing his course at Bangor Theological Sem- inary, where he graduated in 1846. He was licensed to preach by the Penobscot (Me.) Association in September, 1845; commissioned by the Home Missionary Society, June 26, 1846; and ordained at Bangor, Me., January 4, 1847. His whole life was spent in the home missionary service in Northeastern Maine - until 1862 under the auspices of the Maine Missionary Society, after that time inde- pendently. From 1846 to 1848 he labored at Fort Kent and vicinity; from 1848 to 1850, at Burlington and Passadumkeag. From 1850 to the time of his death he lived at Ashland (the town, however, being for a few years called Dalton), doing the work of a missionary at large in most of the towns and settlements of Aroostook County.
He was thoroughly familiar with that whole region, and often served as guide to tourists to Mount Katahdin. He was all his life interested in forward- ing the interests of common schools ; he taught the first school in his town forty years ago; has given talks on geology, which he made a special study, in the schools of the town within the past year; and was buried at last from a new schoolhouse, in the building of which he had taken a deep interest, the school children following him to the grave. A local paper in its notice of Mr. Keep says : " He has probably officiated at over one thousand funerals and married over two hundred couples. He made many of his journeys - some of them a hundred miles or more- on foot and on snowshoes, and this even down to recent years. Being particularly a man of the people, he has tramped the hills, weeping with them that wept and rejoicing with them that rejoiced. Nothing so gave him joy as to encourage the efforts of those struggling for an education and for success in life. He was strong in his opinion, retaining from his an- cestors the inborn love of religion. His influence will endure long years to come, and probably no one will ever take his peculiar place among the thousands who knew and loved him."
Mr. Keep was married, July 29, 1849, to Hannah Maria Taylor, of Burling- ton, Me., daughter of Col. Theodore Taylor and Mary Towle. She survives him, with one son, Rev. Elisha A. Keep, of Merrimack, N.H., of the Class of 1888. Two daughters died in childhood and one at the age of twenty-one.
Mr. Keep died at Ashland, Me., of heart disease, May 2, 1894, aged seventy-eight years.
CLASS OF 1845.
John Henry Martin Leland.
Son of Hon. John Leland and Lydia Leland; born January 25, 1821, in Amherst, Mass .; prepared for college at Amherst Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1840; studied medicine at Rochester, N.Y., 1840-41; in this Seminary, 1841-42 and 1843-45; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. John L. Taylor, Andover, April 7, 1845. He preached in
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Gill, Mass., 1846-47 ; was ordained, October 13, 1847, at South Royalston, Mass .; was pastor there, 1847-49, and at Bethel, Me., 1850-53. He was acting pastor at Norwich (now Huntington), Mass., 1853-55, and of the First Church in Palmer (Thorndike), Mass., 1855-58. He afterwards resided at Amherst without charge, although occasionally preaching -at one time supplying the church in Leverett for a year. He was a leading member of the First Church in Amherst, which he served as deacon, clerk, and Sunday-school superintendent.
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