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mountain districts and among the poorest and most ignorant class of people. His exposure and hardships in winter were frequently very great, but he re- fused to give up the work until every family in the State had been supplied with a Bible."
He was married, September 13, 1842, to Harriet Malinda Pratt, of Meriden, Ct., daughter of Hon. Julius Pratt and Lydia De Wolfe. She died July 2, 1850 ; and he married, second, June 7, 1854, Elizabeth Huntington, of Lebanon, Ct., daughter of Simeon Huntington and Eliza Jones. She died March 31, 1874. He had four sons and one daughter, one son and one daughter dying in infancy.
He died of pneumonia, in New York City, January 5, 1895, lacking eleven days of being eighty-four years old.
John Milton Mackie. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Dr. Peter Mackie and Fanny Nye; born in Wareham, Mass., December 19, 1813; fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; grad- uated at Brown University, 1832; studied in this Seminary, 1833-34; tutor in Brown University, 1834-35; afterwards studied in the Universities of Heidelberg and Leipsic, Germany; returning to this country devoted himself to literature, residing in New York City until 1859, afterwards at Great Barrington, Mass., where he became a successful agriculturist. He was
widely known for his interest in the importation and raising of Jersey cattle, and was one of the founders of the American Jersey Cattle Club.
Among his publications were the Life of Leibnitz ; Life of Samuel Gorton (in Sparks's American Biographies) ; Cosas de Espana ; Life of Schamyl, the Circassian Chief ; Life of Tai-Ping-Wang, Chief of the Chinese Insurrection ; and Cape Cod to Dixie. He also contributed important articles to the North American Review, American Whig Review, and other magazines.
He married, January 27, 1859, Estella Ives, of Great Barrington, Mass., daughter of Col. David Ives and Pamelia Bushnell, who survives him, with one son, a counselor at law in New York City, a son having died in infancy.
Mr. Mackie died of paralysis, at Great Barrington, Mass., July 27, 1894, in the eighty-first year of his age.
OLASS OF 1837.
Hiram Carleton, D.D.
Son of Jeremiah Carleton and Deborah Edwards; born in Barre, Vt., July 18, 1811; prepared for college under Rev. Justus W. French, minister in Barre (Class of 1821), and Jonathan C. Southmayd (Class of 1822), at Washington County Grammar School, Montpelier; graduated at Middlebury College, 1833; took the full course in this Seminary; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Prof. Ralph Emerson, D.D., at Andover, April 11, 1837. He was ordained pastor of the church at Stowe, Vt., January 4, 1838, and remained there until 1852. He was acting pastor at West Barnstable, Mass., 1852-62; preached at Stoneham, Mass., 1862-63
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(residing at Greenwood) ; at Fairmount (now Hyde Park), 1862-64, the church there being organized in 1863. He was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church, March 6, 1866, and priest, February 15, 1867. He was rector of the church at Wood's Holl, Mass., from 1866 to 1881, afterwards residing with his son on a farm at East Sandwich, Mass.
Mr. Carleton was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. He published in 1875 a Treatise on the Meaning of the Derivatives of the Greek Root bap, for which he received, among other commendations, a complimentary note from Mr. Gladstone. He wrote, but did not publish, a commentary on a portion of John's Gospel, and spent much labor on a family genealogy, a part of which was published in England. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College in 1878. Rev. Dr. A. H. Quint (Class of 1852) writes of him : "I became acquainted with Mr. Carleton before he entered the Episcopal Church, and our acquaintance soon ripened into friendship. During much of his ministry at Wood's Holl I was living in New Bedford, and he was often in my home and always welcome. He was bright in conversation, an extensive reader, and keen in argument. He was gentle, kindly, and courteous, simple and sincere. He was an exceptionally fine scholar, but particularly eminent in Greek. He was a modest man, and I think that his real worth was perhaps best known only to a limited number."
Dr. Carleton was married, May 24, 1838, to Mary Jane Fisher, of Frances- town, N. H., daughter of John Fisher and Lucy Turner. She survives him, with one son.
Dr. Carleton died of paralysis, at East Sandwich, Mass., August 9, 1893, aged eighty-two years.
John Lord, LL.D.
Son of John Perkins Lord and Sophia Ladd; born in Portsmouth, N. H., December 27, 1810; prepared for college at Berwick (Me.) Academy; gradu- ated at Dartmouth College, 1833; took the full course in this Seminary, 1833-34, and 1835-37, teaching in the intervening year at Windham and Norwich, Ct .; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Prof. Ralph Emerson, D.D., Andover, April 11, 1837; served for nearly two years as agent of the American Peace Society, and in 1839-40 preached for a short time suc- cessively at New Marlborough and West Stockbridge, Mass. He then began his remarkable career as a lecturer on history, lecturing for two years in this country, and three years, 1843-46, in Great Britain, France, and Germany. Re- turning to the United States, he devoted his life to lecturing, visiting not only the colleges and schools, but all the larger cities of the land. He was lecturer on History at Dartmouth College from 1869 to 1876. He published at various times works of history : Modern Europe ; The United States ; The Old Roman World ; Ancient States and Empires ; Ancient History for Schools and Colleges ; Points of History. The last ten years of his life were spent in rewriting his works and lectures in a series of nine volumes, the Beacon Lights of History, the last volume, American Statesmen, being issued about a month before his death. He left manuscripts on Men of Letters of the Nineteenth Century and Reminiscences of Fifty Years in the Lecture Field. He received the degree
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of Doctor of Laws from the University of the City of New York in 1864. He had resided for many years in Stamford, Ct.
Rev. Dr. A. S. Twombly (Class of 1858) writes of him in the Independent : " For fifty years Dr. Lord was among the most popular and gifted lecturers in the land. He made little pretension to original research, but assimilating a vast amount of knowledge shaped it to meet the needs of the people. With an un- usual power of satire, he never dipped his pen in gall to wound, and so pure and elevating was his thought that not a single line or sentiment could he desire to blot from his works. He was always a defender of the faith, a stanch patriot, and a faithful friend. He lived to see the grand work achieved, and went to sleep at last in conscious peace and hope."
Dr. Lord was married, May 30, 1846, to Mary Porter, of London, Eng. She died in 1860, and he married, second, Louisa Tucker, who died in October, 1866. He had a son and a daughter; the son died several years ago.
Dr. Lord died of old age, at Stamford, Ct., December 15, 1894, lacking twelve days of being eighty-four years old.
CLASS OF 1838.
Aaron Merrick Colton.
Son of Deacon Walter Colton and Thankful Cobb; born in Georgia, Vt., August 25, 1809; prepared for college in the academy at Georgia and the Franklin County Grammar School at St. Albans; graduated at Yale College, 1835; entered this Seminary in 1835, and graduated in 1838, spending, how- ever, a few months of 1837-38 in Union Seminary ; his graduation piece, “ Bold- ness in the Preacher," was published in the Biblical Repository ; licensed to preach by the Fairfield Association, at Stamford, Ct., May 30, 1838 ; remained at Andover as Abbot Resident, 1839-40; ordained pastor of the First Church in Amherst, Mass., June 10, 1840, and remained there until 1852; installed pastor of the First Church, Easthampton, Mass., March 2, 1853, and served twenty- seven years, being made pastor emeritus in 1880, and continuing his residence there.
Mr. Colton published a Memorial of Dea. Walter Colton (his father), Me- morial of Dr. Gordon Hall, The Old Meeting House and Vacation Papers, be- sides a sermon at the close of the war and several funeral discourses. He was a trustee of Williston Seminary twenty-six years. In addition to the ordinary pastoral ministrations he exerted by his unique sermons and his kindly person- ality a marked influence over thousands of students of Amherst College and Williston Seminary. Rev. Sumner G. Wood (Class of 1880), pastor of the church at Easthampton so long ministered to by Mr. Colton, writes of him : "Mr. Colton was an able minister, a wise, devoted, and deeply loved pastor. He held the pen of a ready writer, and many were the people, the places, the occasions, that laid tribute upon his tactful genius to adorn their assemblies. His poetical taste, the terseness and picturesqueness of his style, his playful humor, his directness and power as a preacher of Jesus Christ and Him crucified, those who knew him will never forget. His pastorates were blessed with remarkable success. He came to Easthampton when the church he was called to serve
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was almost threatened with extinction. He saw it grow into a strong, vigor- ous life. He was a wise master builder in the kingdom of God, and a blessing to the whole community for years after his active ministry was ended. His old age was that of ripened sainthood, cheery, sympathetic, full of joy in the Lord, and Christian stimulus to his friends. Everybody loved him, not only as a minister, but as a true, good man, whose prime was full of power, and whose age was rich in the gathered fruits of Christian grace."
Mr. Colton was married, July 15, 1840, to Zeruiah Elizabeth Gould, of An- dover, daughter of Deacon Abraham J. Gould and Zeruiah Griffin. She died January 8, 1858. He married, second, November 2, 1859, Sarah Ann Bogue, of St. Albans, Vt., daughter of Decius Robinson Bogue and Sarah Hatch. She survives him, with two sons and three daughters. One child died in infancy.
Mr. Colton died of heart failure, at Easthampton, Mass., April 30, 1895, in his eighty-sixth year.
Charles Wilkes Wood.
Son of Judge Wilkes Wood and Betsey Wild Thompson ; born in Middle- boro, Mass., June 30, 1814; prepared for college at Plainfield (Ct.) Academy, and Pierce Academy, Middleboro ; graduated at Brown University, 1834; taught in Rochester and Wareham, Mass., and in Pierce Academy, 1834-35; took the regular course in this Seminary, 1835-38, and an additional year in the Advanced Class, 1838-39. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meet- ing with Dr. Justin Edwards, Andover, April 10, 1838, and ordained pastor of
the church in Ashby, Mass., October 30, 1839. He remained there until 1858, being for one year, 1846-47, agent, also, of the American Sunday School Union. He was then pastor in Campello in North Bridgewater (now Brockton), Mass., until 1872; acting pastor at Lakeville, Mass., 1873-77; in Scotland Parish, Bridgewater, Mass., 1878-88. He resided afterwards in Middleboro, Mass., without charge.
Mr. Wood represented Ashby in the Legislature in 1847, and was superin- tendent of schools in North Bridgewater for two years. His only publications were a funeral sermon preached in Ashby and a historical sermon concerning the Scotland Church in Bridgewater, 1888. At the time of his death he was at work on a town history of Middleboro. Rev. Samuel H. Emery, D.D., of Taunton (Class of 1837), writes : "Brother Wood was highly esteemed in all this region as an eminently good man. He was such a bishop as Paul de- scribes. He honored his profession and his Master. His memory is blessed." The following is quoted from a notice in the Middleboro Gazette : " Every one knew him and respected him and loved him. He was a good representative of the old-school Christian gentleman, and at the same time in full sympathy with the life of today. He embodied the strong points of both eras. Naturally conservative of all past good, he was yet progressive in spirit, ready to receive new truth from whatever source it came. Two notable addresses are recalled in illustration of his felicitous power on public occasions - one at the Com- mencement of Brown University in 1884, in behalf of his class, the other his exceedingly interesting speech at the two hundredth anniversary of the First Congregational Church last year."
Mr. Wood was married, September 20, 1841, to Eliza Ann Adams Bigelow,
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of Rochester, Mass., daughter of Rev. Jonathan Bigelow and Eliza Tappan. She died May 24, 1846. He married, second, July 27, 1847, Mrs. Catherine Susan Lemist, of Gilmanton, N. H., daughter of Jonathan Clarke and Charlotte Johnston, and widow of Capt. Stephen Lemist, of Dorchester, Mass. She sur- vives him, with two sons and two daughters.
Mr. Wood died of old age, at Middleboro, Mass., March 3, 1895, in the eighty-first year of his age.
CLASS OF 1839.
Timothy Green Brainerd.
Son of Joseph Spencer Brainerd and Hannah Hungerford; born in Troy, N. Y., January 24, 1808 ; prepared for college at St. Albans (Vt.) Academy ; entered Middlebury College in 1826, afterwards joining the junior class of Yale College and graduating there in 1830; taught select school in Wethers- field, Ct., and was private tutor in the family of Hon. Samuel A. Law, Meredith, N. Y., also pursuing the study of law under the instruction of Hon. Martin Welles, Wethersfield, Hon. Eliphalet A. Bulkley, East Haddam, Ct., and Mr. Meredith ; preceptor of Randolph (Vt.) Academy, 1832-36; took the full course in this Seminary, 1836-39; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Prof. Ralph Emerson, D.D., Andover, April 2, 1839. Beginning the supply of the Presbyterian church in Londonderry, N. H., in June, 1840, he was ordained its pastor November 5, 1840, and remained there until 1855. He was then pastor of the Congregational church in Halifax, Mass., for ten years, and removed in 1866 to Grinnell, Iowa, carrying on a farm for three years and afterwards residing in the city.
He was superintendent of schools during his entire pastorate in London- derry and for several years at Halifax, being also a trustee of Pinkerton Academy at Derry, N. H. He represented Halifax in the Legislature in the years 1865 and 1866. He was known as an outspoken advocate in the pulpit of the anti-slavery reform and, when the time came, of the war for the Union. At Grinnell he was repeatedly one of the Examining Committee of Iowa College.
Ex-President George F. Magoun, D.D. (Class of 1844), writes of him : " Mr. Brainerd was a man of unusually clear, penetrating, and discriminating mind. What he knew was known with exactness, and used with the firmness and thoroughness begotten of such knowledge. As a man of affairs he acted with precision. His lifelong and scholarly study of the Greek Testament and his definite and strong religious views were characteristic. He could not be anything less than an ardent patriot, an unswerving reformer in respect to intemperance and slavery, a loyal and eager believer in the evangelical faith. To the last he followed the political interests of the nation, the fortunes of prohibition, the criticism affecting the doctrines of orthodoxy, with lively interest and the deepest solicitude. In his conversation, and especially in his prayers, his familiarity with and apt use of 'the words the Holy Ghost teacheth ' were exceptional. Very venerable, and honored in simple ways in keeping with his marked character, was his presence in all the circles in which he moved."
Mr. Brainerd was married, September 6, 1841, to Harriet Poor Cilley, of
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Nottingham, N. H., daughter of Maj. Jacob Cilley and Harriet Poor. She died September 23, 1848; and he married, second, September 2, 1851, Lucinda Rebecca Dewey, of Hanover, N. H., daughter of Elias Dewey and Mary Newell. She died March 25, 1877. Two sons and one daughter died in childhood. Three daughters and two sons-graduates, respectively, of Dartmouth and Iowa Colleges - are living.
Mr. Brainerd died of old age, at Grinnell, Iowa, May 25, 1894, aged eighty-six years.
CLASS OF 1841.
Whitman Peck.
Son of Samuel Peck and Mary Mead; born in Greenwich, Ct., May 16, 1815; prepared for college at Greenwich Academy; graduated at Yale College, 1838; studied in Union Theological Seminary, 1838-40, and graduated from this Seminary in 1841 ; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. S. C. Jackson at Andover, April 13, 1841. He preached at Erving, Mass., 1841-42, and at Gustavus, Ohio, 1842-43; was ordained by the Cayuga Presbytery as pastor at Genoa, N. Y., October 23, 1844, and remained there until 1849; was acting pastor at Auburn, Mass., 1849-50, and at North Branford, Ct., 1851-55. The failure of his health forbidding further pastoral service, he en- gaged in teaching : at North Greenwich, Ct., 1856-58; Newark, Del., 1859-61 ; Ridgefield, Ct., 1862-64; Fishkill, N. Y., 1865-68; New Haven, Ct., 1868-74 ; continued to reside there until 1884, serving as city missionary for a time ; from 1884 at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
He published a book of Latin Lessons (subsequently incorporated in Andrews's Latin Lessons ) ; Practical Business Arithmetic ; Manual of Chris- tian Faith. Rev. James W. Hubbell, of Mansfield, Ohio (Class of 1863), sends the following: "During my pastorate at the College Street Church, New Haven, Mr. Peck was one of my most faithful and helpful members. He had retired from the active ministry and was engaged in teaching, for which his fine scholarship and experience admirably adapted him. He was a conspicuous example of a Christian minister, who had grace enough to be an active lay member of the church without caring for clerical rights or titles. He could act as deacon, as Bible class teacher or scholar, or sit quietly in some vacant place, as occasion seemed to require. He was a faithful Bible student, conservative in his theological views, intelligent and firm in his adherence to what he believed to be truth, and yet open always to the light. Conscientious, charitable in word and deed, kind to every- body, hopeful of the future, his long life was a grateful benediction to many, and his memory, along with that of his sainted wife, will be in sweet remembrance for many a year."
Mr. Peck was married, November 6, 1844, to Ruth Maria Keeler, of Ridgefield, Ct., daughter of Harvey Keeler and Mary Mead. She died January 30, 1881. One daughter is the wife of Rev. Prof. A. E. Todd, of Berea College, and another of Rev. Wayland Spaulding, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The youngest daughter died in 1870, and the only son in 1883, soon after receiving ordination in the Episcopal Church.
Mr. Peck died of heart failure, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., November 9, 1894, in the eightieth year of his age.
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OLASS OF 1842.
Anson Hall Parmelee.
Son of Asaph Parmelee and Hannah Hall; born in Bristol, Vt., Septem- ber 14, 1810; prepared for college at Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vt. ; grad- uated 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; was general agent of the American Tract Society in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, 1842-45; was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian church in Addison, N. Y., October 21, 1846, having commenced there in 1845 and continuing until 1855; pastor at Livonia, N. Y., 1855-69; at Seneca Castle, N. Y., 1869-74, residing afterwards on a farm in the neighboring town of Phelps.
Rev. Edward P. Blodgett, his Seminary classmate, now of Roslindale, Mass., writes: "My remembrance of Brother Parmelee is very fresh and fragrant, though it is over fifty years since we were brought into close fel- lowship as room-mates at Andover. He was a dear man, a true and faith- ful disciple of the divine Master, and gave much promise of being 'a workman that needeth not to be ashamed' - a promise which I have no reason to doubt was fulfilled, though I have known very little of him since we left the Seminary." Rev. S. W. Pratt, of Campbell, N. Y., writes : "He was the pastor of my youth, and won my confidence and affection. He was a faithful pastor, a good preacher, a good business man, a good Sunday school man. He led many young men to enter the ministry. He kept himself informed of what was going on in the world, and his Chris- tianity was above his churchianity. His old age was serene and beautiful."
He was married, October 4, 1843, to Mary Elizabeth Whiting, of Big Flat, N. Y., daughter of Rev. Francis Lane Whiting and Mary Kidder. She died August 5, 1857 ; and he married, second, January 3, 1860, Lycintha Martin, of Rochester, N. Y., daughter of John Martin and Sarah Garber. She survives him. Of three sons and two daughters, two sons died in infancy.
Mr. Parmelee died of Bright's disease, in Phelps, N. Y., August 28, 1894, in the eighty-fourth year of his age.
Lathrop Taylor.
Son of Barnabas Taylor and Hannah Billington; born in Buckland, Mass., August 3, 1813; prepared for college at Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vt .; grad- uated at Middlebury College, 1839; studied in this Seminary, 1839-42, being a room-mate for the entire course of Rev. Luther H. Sheldon, late of Andover, a tribute to whose memory he wrote in the Necrology of last year. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Dr. Edwards, Andover, April 12, 1842 ; and after supplying for one year the Winslow (then the Spring Street) Church, Taunton, Mass., he was ordained its pastor, May 16, 1843, and remained there two years. His subsequent pastorates were : Spring- field, Vt., 1845-51 ; Francestown, N. H., 1851-57 ; Bloomington, Ill., 1857-61 ; Madison, Wis., 1861-64; Farmington, Ill., 1864-75; Wheaton, Ill., 1875-80; Peru, Ill., 1880-83; Rutland, Ill., 1883-86; Gridley, Ill., 1886-88; afterwards without pastoral charge, but often supplying vacant churches, at Rutland, Wenona, and Wheaton, Ill.
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Mr. Taylor was a member of the Bristol County Historical Society while at Taunton, a trustee of the academy and superintendent of schools when at Francestown, a trustee of Wheaton College when in Illinois, and a member of the first board of directors of the Illinois Home Missionary Society, with the work of which he was closely connected from the beginning. He published a sermon on Native Depravity, a sermon at the dedication of the college chapel at Wheaton in 1873, and the Moral Picture Book. His classmate, Rev. Dr. S. C. Bartlett, who preached his installation sermon at Bloomington in 1857, writes of him : "He was a frank, earnest, active, faithful man." Prof. F. W. Fisk, D.D., of Chicago, says: " He made the cause of the downtrodden and op- pressed his own, and toiled for their good as if they were his own brethren in the flesh. He seemed to act ever on the principle that whatever concerns humanity concerned him. He lived to do good, not only to those around him, but also to the human race wherever found. This, he believed, could be only effected through the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ."
He was married, October 10, 1843, to Hannah Tucker Hall, of Chelsea (now Revere), Mass., daughter of Maj. Zechariah Hall and Hannah Tucker. She died December 5, 1854; and he married, second, December 18, 1855, Lucinda Baxter Brickett, of New Ipswich, N. H., daughter of James Brickett and Lucy Woods (sister of Dr. Leonard Woods). She survives him, with one son and four daughters, two sons and one daughter having deceased. Two sons were in the Union Army.
Mr. Taylor died of pneumonia, at Wheaton, Ill., January 25, 1895, at the age of eighty-one years.
OLASS OF 1843.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd, D.D., LL.D.
Son of Rev. Marshall Shedd and Eliza Thayer ; born in Acton, Mass., June 21, 1820; prepared for college at the Westport Academy, near his early home at Willsborough, N. Y .; graduated at the University of Vermont, 1839. While employed as a tutor in a private family in New York City, the year after his graduation, he attended the church of Dr. Asa D. Smith (Class of 1834), and under his influence determined to enter the ministry. He took the full course in this Seminary, 1840-43; was licensed to preach by the Andover Asso- ciation, meeting with Rev. Samuel C. Jackson at Andover, April 11, 1843, and was ordained pastor over the church in Brandon, Vt., January 4, 1844, remain- ing there till the autumn of 1845. He was professor of English Literature in the University of Vermont, 1845-52; professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology in Auburn Theological Seminary, 1852-54; elected Brown professor of Ecclesiastical History and lecturer on Pastoral Theology at Andover Theo- logical Seminary in 1853, and inaugurated, February 15, 1854, his inaugural dis- course on "The Nature and Influence of the Historic Spirit " being published in the Bibliotheca Sacra ; remained at Andover until 1862; pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City, 1862-63 ; professor of Sacred Literature, Union Theological Seminary, 1863-74, and of Systematic Theology, 1874-90.
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