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He was ordained at Lincoln, Mass., September 6, 1860, having already preached there for one year. He remained in this pastorate till 1892, and retained the office of pastor emeritus until his death.
Rev. A. H. Plumb, D.D., of Roxbury (Class of 1858), writes of Mr. Rich- ardson : "It was my great privilege to enjoy the confidence of this good man during our Seminary course and through all his ministry. Among his profes- sional associates he was highly esteemed for the transparent simplicity of his nature, his absolute freedom from ostentation, his quiet thoughtfulness, and the remarkable balance of his intellectual traits. In many respects his career seems to be an ideal one, both as to its power and its privilege, and should strongly attract young men to the holy office. For a man to abide through an entire generation with a cultured community in a serene tranquillity of con- tinuous and honored usefulness is certainly to live a successful and a happy life. No pastor could be more deeply enshrined in the affections of his flock than this shepherd, who in life and death could say, 'I dwell with mine own people.'"
Rev. Edward E. Bradley (Advanced Class of 1892), his successor in the Lincoln pastorate, says of him : " His entire absence of self-seeking, his loyalty to the truth as he learned it, his consecrated devotion to the work of Christ, and his love for this church mark his life as one of single-minded service of his Master. His own words, spoken when he knew that his end was near, well sum up his life, ' I have not done a great work, but I have tried to be faithful to the Lord Jesus.'"
He was married, June 26, 1864, to Mrs. Harriet Amelia French, of Lincoln, daughter of Dea. William Colburn and Nabby Reed, and widow of Theodore French. She survives him.
He died of the grip, at Lincoln, Mass., December 19, 1893, in the sixty- fifth year of his age.
CLASS OF 1868.
Philander Thurston.
Son of James Thurston and Maria Gleason; born in Pelham, Mass., May 25, 1837 ; prepared for college at Williston Seminary; graduated at Amherst College, 1865; studied in Bangor Seminary, 1865-67; and graduated from this Seminary, 1868. He was licensed to preach by the Penobscot (Me.) Association, July 9, 1867. He preached at East Machias, Me., 1868-69, being in the meantime ordained to the ministry at Eastport, Me., January 19, 1869. He was installed pastor over the church at South Sudbury, Mass., February I, 1870, and remained there four years. He was pastor of the Village Church, Dorchester, Mass., 1875-80; and resided without charge at Mattapan, Mass., 1880-84, though traveling in Europe in 1881. He was acting pastor in Sutton, Mass., 1884-90, afterwards residing there until March, 1892, when with en- feebled health he removed to Enfield, Mass., the home of his brothers. He supplied the church there from July, 1892, to April, 1893. He published a historical discourse delivered at the Village Church, Dorchester, in 1879.
Rev. Charles E. Harwood (Class of 1869) writes of Mr. Thurston : " I knew him from his ninth year. We were classmates at home, at Easthampton, and at Amherst, and room-mates for a while at Andover. He was always enter-
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prising, wide-awake, progressive in his thought, daring opposition or unpopu- larity in standing up for what he thought to be right. He withheld himself from no labor or self-denial in his course of education. In these somewhat easier days the actual story of his early struggles for self-support would be justly considered romantic. The success of his ministry did not consist in his being able to bring those to whom he ministered up to the standard of his own ideas of duty, but in his maintaining with himself that standard. He contended all his days with physical weakness, doing more hard work than many men of sound health. There was a divine fitness in his death on Forefathers' Day, as he had in his character so much that was best in the spirit of Pilgrim and Puritan."
He was married, June 23, 1885, to Susan Amelia Hammond, of Pittsford, Vt., daughter of Augustus Hammond and Mary Penfield, who, with one son, survives him.
Mr. Thurston died of failure of the digestive organs, at Enfield, Mass., December 21, 1893, in his fifty-seventh year.
CLASS OF 1869.
David Augustus Easton.
Son of Brewster Gould Easton and Sophronia Harriet Farren; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 10, 1843; fitted for college in the preparatory depart- ment of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and took one year of his col- legiate course there; entered the sophomore class of Bowdoin College and graduated in 1865; studied law with Judge Alphonzo Taft, in Cincinnati, 1865-66; deciding to enter the ministry, he took the full course in this Semi- nary, 1866-69; was licensed to preach by the Essex North Association, meeting with Professor Smyth at Andover, December 15, 1868. He was ordained, De- cember 29, 1869, pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Danbury, Conn., and remained there until 1875, although obliged by feeble health to employ an assistant and take long periods of rest. After preaching a short time at Noroton, Conn., he went to Naugatuck, Conn., and was acting pastor there from 1875 to 1879. Prostrated again by ill health, he was reluctantly com- pelled to leave the ministry, and for ten years was engaged in business in New York City. Becoming interested in the doctrines and methods of the Christian Scientists, he investigated and adopted them, graduating from the Massachu- setts Metaphysical College in 1889. In March, 1893, he came to Boston as the pastor of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, worshiping in Chickering Hall, residing at first in Boston, afterwards in Cambridge. This year he called " the happiest year of his life. Hundreds of people testify what was done for them. He helped lay aside their burdens, conquer their fears, and serve their God in ' newness of mind' by preaching to them the Christ-Truth in such a helpful, practical way."
Mr. Easton was married, December 7, 1869, to Margaret Ellen Corser, of Portland, Me., daughter of Solomon Taft Corser and Margaret Fairbanks Saw- yer. She survives him, with one daughter.
He died of consumption, in Cambridge, Mass., March 1, 1894, aged fifty years.
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CLASS OF 1871.
John Hopkins Worcester, Jr., D.D. (Resident Licentiate.)
Son of Rev. John Hopkins Worcester, D.D., and Martha Porter Clark ; born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., April 2, 1845; prepared for college with his father and private tutors at Burlington, Vt .; graduated at the University of Vermont, 1865; taught two years in his father's school for young ladies at Burlington ; entered Union Theological Seminary in 1867 and graduated in 1871, spending one year, 1869-70, in study at Berlin and Leipsic; was licensed to preach by the New York Congregational Association, April 5, 1871. He was acting professor of English Literature in the University of Vermont in 1871, and was ordained, January 10, 1872, as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of South Orange, N. J., remaining there until 1883. He was pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church of Chicago from 1883 to 1891, when he became Roosevelt professor of Systematic Theology in Union Seminary, and continued such until his death.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Ver- mont in 1885. He was a preacher and teacher of divinity by inheritance, as well as by personal character and education. The descendant and relative of ministers and theologians in several generations - Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins, of Hadley, and Drs. Emmons, Austin, and Spring being among them - he worthily fulfilled the promise of his goodly heritage. Rev. S. J. McPher- son, D.D., thus speaks of him in his memorial sermon at Union Seminary : " His greatness consisted in his surpassing perspicuity of mind ; his rare capacity to separate a complex problem into its simple elements ; in his wonderful power of thorough and convincing statement ; in his supreme loyalty to truth, and his courageous advocacy of it under all circumstances; in his genuine humility of soul, which enabled him to see the truth easily, yet never permitted him to seek prominence for himself; in his sincere and unpretentious candor ; in his loving catholicity of spirit, and in the complete consecration of his unusual powers and acquirements to the Light of the World."
Professor Worcester was married, October 29, 1874, to Harriet Williams Strong, of Auburndale, Mass., daughter of Edward Strong, M.D., and Harriet Louisa Hayes. She survives him, with two sons and one daughter, another daughter having died in infancy.
He died of heart disease, at Lakewood, N. J., February 5, 1893, in his forty-eighth year.
CLASS OF 1880.
Theodore Claudius Pease.
Son of Claudius Buchanan Pease and Elvira Ann Smith; born in Pough- keepsie, N. Y., October 14, 1853; prepared for college at Professor Ripley's private school at Somers, Conn., and at Springfield (Mass.) High School; graduated at Harvard College, 1875; instructor in Rev. M. C. Stebbins's Class- ical Institute, Springfield, 1875; assistant professor in United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 1876; took the full course in this Seminary, 1877-80 ; was licensed by the Suffolk South Association, May 14, 1879. He was or- dained at West Lebanon, N. H., September 8, 1880, and remained there four years. He was then pastor of the First Church in Malden, Mass., from 1884
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until his acceptance of the professorship of Sacred Rhetoric in Andover Theo- logical Seminary in the summer of 1893, and his removal to Andover to begin its duties. His only public utterances in connection with this charge were his graceful speech at the Alumni dinner in June and his inaugural address in September. Nine weeks after the delivery of the latter his funeral was at- tended in the same chapel, and a large company followed him to the place of his burial, near the graves of Stuart and Porter, Edwards, Stowe, and Phelps.
Professor Pease was a man of the finest scholarship and culture, and kept up his classical and literary studies to an unusual degree. He followed an extensive and methodical course of reading, the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, the Latin of Thomas a Kempis, and the Italian of Dante (which he had read over seventy times) having their place in every day of the year ; besides which he read freely in the Greek classics and in modern French and Spanish writers. Nearly all of the four thousand volumes of his library had been carefully read by hin, and most of them contained his discriminating annotations. He edited in IS91 the Speeches and Lectures of Wendell Phillips. Many of his lighter poems were printed in the newspapers, and several hymns of his composition are contained in Songs, Old and New, for the Social Meeting and Sunday School. A sermon on The Enigma of Life was published in 1892. The earnestness of his religious life is beautifully shown by the message which he sent on the last day of his life to the students of the Seminary: "Tell them to preach the Lord Jesus. There is nothing else in life that is worth anything except to serve the Lord Jesus. He loves us all, and would save us all. Preach the Lord Jesus and save all you can."
Prof. J. W. Churchill (Class of 1868) writes of his friend and colleague : " His friends in the churches where he had ministered could look back upon his admirable career with them in the light of noble achievement. We at Andover were regarding his future with us in the light of brilliant promise. The fine and peculiar traits of his personality, the lofty ideals of life which they naturally generated, that severity of mental and spiritual discipline, the accumulated fund of ministerial experience, were precisely the combination of qualities which are essential to a well-equipped professor of the theory and the art of preaching. He was not unmindful of the gravity of the task that he was called to assume. In his inaugural address he suggested most vividly and yet with characteristic modesty his sense of the importance of upholding the high ideals of the Christian ministry that have always been cherished in this seat of sacred learning. With felicitous phrase he referred to his three immediate predecessors - Professors Park, Phelps, and Tucker-all of whom he had known, and two of whom survive him.
" Solemn and tender were his closing words: 'To keep these fair ideals fresh and living still, as in the dear and memorable days gone by, and to help my younger brethren to realize the growing opportunities, the urgent claims, the distinctive attractions of the ministry of today, is the task to which, with the blessing of God, I would now devote my life.' It is my sincere belief that Theodore Pease, had God given him the needed years, would have splendidly realized in his life and work ' those fair ideals,' and would worthily have main- tained the traditions of his chair of instruction. That inaugural address itself, in its scope and structure, reminded one of the architectural mind of Park; its clear and limpid style would have won the admiration of the elegant and exact-
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ing Phelps; and his sympathy with the vital relations of the Christian ministry to the social life of mankind declared his kinship with the passion for humanity that characterized the ideal modern minister in the teaching and example of President Tucker.
" The delivery of the inaugural aroused in the students ardent expectations of enjoyment and benefit from coming into contact with the inspiration of his presence and teaching in the class-room, and from his criticism of their ser- mons. His reputation as a Biblical expert and as an accomplished linguist had heightened their admiration of him as a noble Christian scholar. Although his ill health had prevented him from meeting with his class even once in any professional capacity, he had welcomed the students to his home, and they had met him in other social ways. Eagerly they waited for his recovery, but they were destined to a grievous disappointment.
' God's finger touched him, and he slept.'
Never did human willingness answer the divine will with more perfect submis- sion. His was the peace, not of hopes fulfilled, but of hopes uncomplainingly surrendered."
Professor Pease was married, August 25, 1880, to Abby Frances Cutler, of Somers, Conn., daughter of Elijah Cutler and Mary Downing. She survives him, with one son, four children having died in infancy.
He died at Andover, of typhoid fever, November 20, 1893, aged forty years.
CLASS OF 1881.
Albert Francis Norcross.
Son of Dea. Jeremiah Norcross and Mary Pillsbury, and grandson of Rev. Levi Pillsbury, of Winchendon, Mass .; born in Rindge, N.H., April 11, 1853; prepared for college at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N.H .; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1878; took the full course in 'this Seminary, 1878-81. He was licensed by the Essex South Association at Salem, June 1, 1880, and was ordained at Shirley, Mass., August 31, 1881. He remained there three years, and then held pastorates successively at Rockport, Mass., 1885-91, and at Sher- burne, N.Y., from 1891 to the time of his death.
Prof. Charles D. Adams, of Dartmouth College (Class of 1882), writes of him : " Mr. Norcross's life at Andover was from first to last a time of real joy to him. He seemed to find himself in a place where everything ministered to his one supreme desire. His own habit of mind was to put duty in the front of ail thought ; the lectures upon Conscience in the theological course were a rev- elation to him, and he often referred to them afterwards with the greatest pleas- ure. ... In his three pastorates he simply carried out the promise of his student days - absolute fidelity and unselfishness in everything. He preached simple, practical sermons that were the outgrowth of his profound conviction and spiritual experience. But his great power lay in the force of his personal character as it became known to the people in his daily life. In his last parish he organized and led to success a most difficult temperance movement and with a bearing that commanded the respect of the very men whose business was
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stopped. ... His was a short ministry, only twelve years. It was little known in the denomination at large; it was devoted to three small villages with their outlying districts. Unobtrusive, modest, patient, the young pastor labored for individuals ; the fruits of his ministry are as rich as the sowing was faithful."
He was married, August 24, 1881, to Sarah French Stevens, of Wilton, N.H., daughter of David Stevens and Sarah French, who survives him, with two daughters.
Mr. Norcross died of pneumonia, following the grip, at Sherburne, N.Y., November 28, 1893, aged forty years.
CLASS OF 1891.
Edward Hinman Pound. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Col. William Pound and Sarah Ellen Hinman; born in Greens- burg, Ind., June 17, 1863; took his preparatory course and collegiate course at Yankton College, graduating in 1887; preached for several months at Her- mosa, S. D., building a church there ; studied in this Seminary, 1888-89; after laboring four months at Dead Horse Valley, Neb., went to Crawford, Neb., where he was ordained, December 17, 1889, and where he built a church. Ill health driving him to California in the spring of 1891, he supplied the Congre- gational church in Moreno for nine months, when the progress of his disease compelled him to lay down active work. He continued in Moreno until his death.
President Ward (Class of 1868), in presenting Mr. Pound with his diploma, greeted him as the first graduate of the college, "the foremost man of a thou- sand years !" Although he soon followed his president to a better world, his short life was crowded full of earnest service, cheerful self-sacrifice, and heroic endurance. Early bereft of his father, he gave himself to the care of his in- valid mother and sister until their death, and then brought his only brother to Andover when he entered the Seminary. He nursed him tenderly for a few months, and then carried his body to Dakota for burial. He returned to his study, but was soon obliged to seek a change of climate. He sought work too, and did it heartily and successfully. Wherever he went his simple-hearted ear- nestness and fearlessness won men. Miners and pioneers who did not believe in ministers believed in this one and helped him build churches. Into the church which he organized in California he received in the few months he ministered to it nearly fifty members. " While lying at the point of death he was visited, listened to, and loved by the entire community."
Rev. W. B. D. Gray, of Yankton, writes: "Edward Hinman Pound, Yankton College's first graduate, was one of nature's noblemen. He stood at the head in every good word and work - a manly man, true and fearless to a fault. Danger was unthought of if only duty led. Life was not sweet enough to save at the expense of honor, duty, or Christian principle. He died as he lived, an earnest disciple of Christ, satisfied to go in the morning of his life because God called him."
Mr. Pound was married, September 3, 1890, to Agnes Rutherford Mc- Giffert, of Ashtabula, Ohio, daughter of Rev. Joseph Nelson McGiffert, D.D.,
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and Harriet Whiting Cushman, and granddaughter of Rev. Ralph Cushman (Class of 1820), who survives him.
He died of consumption, at Moreno, Cal., June 8, 1893, lacking nine days of being thirty years old.
CLASS OF 1896.
George Pumphrey Martin. (Non-graduate.)
Son of George R Martin and Agnes P Shipley ; born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, December 15, 1865; prepared for college at Mt. Vernon High School and the preparatory department at Oberlin; his college studies were interrupted by service in teaching and by ill health, on account of which he spent two years in California and Arizona, being engaged while there in civil engineering; he re- turned to Oberlin College and graduated in 1893; he joined the junior class in this Seminary in September, 1893, and pursued the usual course of study until March, when he was attacked by the disease which so soon and so sadly ended his earthly plans.
From his Western home, which he was permitted to reach a week before his death, comes the testimony to his pure Christian life and his persistent endeavor against many obstacles to fit himself for the Christian ministry. One of his Seminary classmates expresses the feeling of all: "Mr. Martin was a man of great promise in his chosen calling. Of fine intellect and deep spiritual power, with a remarkable simplicity of nature and thoughtfulness for others, he had won a warm place in the hearts of his Andover classmates and friends. The ministry, toward which he had directed his energies, and, above all, the foreign missionary work in China, to which he had for years planned to devote himself, have lost an earnest, consecrated life."
Mr. Martin died in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, of consumption, May 10, 1894, aged twenty-eight years.
NOT PREVIOUSLY REPORTED.
CLASS OF 1838.
John Jones.
Son of Joseph Jones and Ann Richardson ; born in Lyndeborough, N. H., September 8, 1812; prepared for college at Francestown (N. H.) Academy and Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H .; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1834; taught in Gloucester, Mass, 1834-35; took the full course in this Semi- nary, 1835-38. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Dr. Justin Edwards, Andover, April 10, 1838. After preaching one year at North Underhill, Vt., he began service, in 1840, at Chittenden, Vt., where he was ordained, July 1, 1841, and where he remained till 1844. He preached in Danville, Ind., 1844-45; and afterwards served as agent of the New Hampshire Bible Society for Hillsborough County until 1850. He then taught for four years in Sandusky, Ohio; was acting pastor at Earlville, Ill., two years; he afterwards served as agent of the American Bible Society for Northern Illinois
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until 1862. His health then failing he engaged in various employments in dif- ferent places, residing from 1874 in Colorado Springs, Col. "His heart seemed devoted to his work for Christ, and a deep spiritual-mindedness per- vaded all he did."
He was married, October 28, 1841, to Allethenia Holt Fiske, of Wilton, N. H., daughter of Dea. Abel Fiske and Abigail Dale. She survives him, with one son and one daughter, six children having died in childhood.
He died at Colorado Springs, Col., of kidney disease, June 23, 1889, in his seventy-seventh year.
CLASS OF 1855.
Lucius Delison Chapin.
Son of Joseph Chapin and Fanny Farnum ; born at Butternuts, Otsego County, N. Y., September 23, 1821 ; prepared for college at Monson (Mass.) Academy ; graduated at Amherst College, 1851 ; taught in the Young Ladies' Seminary, Pittsfield, Mass., 1851-52; took the full course in this Seminary, 1852-55, and was licensed to preach by the Essex South Association, March 6, 1855. He was acting principal of the preparatory department of Beloit Col- lege, 1855-56; began his ministry with the First Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor, Mich., in October, 1856, being ordained October 29, 1857, and remained there until 1863; was professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy in Michigan University, 1863-68, spending the last year of that time in Europe and studying at Halle and Berlin; was pastor of an independent Congregational church at East Bloomfield, N. Y., 1868-72 ; was chancellor of Ingham University, Le Roy, N. Y., and professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, 1872-75; in Le Roy, 1875-77, engaged in scientific investigations; resided in Chicago from 1877, preaching often, especially in the Presbyterian church at Hyde Park, and carry- ing on scientific pursuits until his removal to Florida a few months before his death.
His special study in later years was in connection with iron and steel. He discovered and developed a new process of dephosphorizing iron and took out several patents. He published works on the Decarbonization of Pig Iron and the Dephosphorization of Pig Iron. The value of his investigations was recognized on the occasion of his visit to England in 1886 by such men as Sir Lothian Bell and Sir Henry Bessemer. "He had indomitable energy, courage, and perse- verance to grapple with every obstacle which met him in practical business life. The highest hopes and broadest ambitions were his, together with the firmest and most childlike faith in his divine Master."
He was married, July 17, 1856, to Louise White, of Utica, N. Y., daughter of Deacon Noah White and Fanny Moore. She died October 11, 1861. He married, second, December 27, 1864, Mrs. Mary Frances Huggins, daughter of Judge A. D. Smith and Augusta Reed, of Milwaukee, Wis., and widow of Rev. William Sidney Huggins, of Kalamazoo, Mich., who survives him. One of his four sons and a daughter died in infancy; two sons were educated at Amherst College.
Mr. Chapin died of bilious fever, at Philips, Fla., June 18, 1892, aged seventy years.
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FORTY names are placed on the record of the dead for the year 1893-94, as against twenty-nine for 1892-93 and forty for 1891-92. The average age of these forty men is seventy-one years, eight months, and fifteen days. Including two others who died in previous years, but were not reported, the average age would be seventy-two years and sixteen days. One had passed the age of ninety, thirteen were between eighty and ninety, seventeen between seventy and eighty, four between sixty and seventy, and only five below fifty.
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