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Dr. Crawley died of pneumonia, at his home in Wolfville, N. S., September 27, 1888, aged eighty-nine years and eight months.
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OLASS OF 1832.
Joseph Washburn Sessions.
Son of Dea. John Sessions and Lucinda Washburn; born in Lunenburg, Vt., June 30, 1801 ; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; gradu- ated at Bowdoin College, 1829; in the Seminary, 1829-32. During the year after his graduation he preached at Croydon, N.H., and Boothbay, Me. He was ordained as pastor of the church at West Needham, now Wellesley, Mass., October 2, 1833, and remained there nine years. He was pastor in West Suf- field, Conn., 1842-52; of the Centrebrook Church, Essex, Conn., 1852-54; in West Woodstock, Conn., 1854-63; Durham Centre, Conn., 1863-68; West- minster, Conn., 1868-78. He continued to reside at Westminster, without charge, until 1881, afterwards at Chaplin, Conn. "The many revivals which blessed his labors prove that his genial nature, his energetic disposition, and his warm heart were consecrated supremely to the Redeemer and the work received from his hands. When he had been in the ministry forty-two years, he had only missed preaching five Sabbaths."
Mr. Sessions was married, October 17, 1833, to Mary Sewall, daughter of Andrew Dunning, of Brunswick, Me. She died May 13, 1877. His second wife, Orra, daughter of David Storer, of Chaplin, Conn., to whom he was married June 5, 1878, survives him. His two daughters were educated at Mount Holyoke Seminary ; one died in 1883, and the other resides in Waterbury, Conn.
He died in Chaplin, Conn., of old age, June 10, 1890, lacking a few days of eighty-nine years.
OLASS OF 1833.
William Whiting Newell, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Ebenezer Newell and Anna Whiting; born in South Natick, Mass., September 17, 1807 ; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; grad- uated at Yale College, 1830; studied theology in the Seminary, 1830-32, and afterwards with Rev. Henry Allen, D.D., New York City. He was ordained as an evangelist at Providence, R. I., July 15, 1833, and was installed pastor over the church in Brighton, Mass., August 19, 1834, remaining there three years. From 1837 to 1842 he was pastor of the Maverick Church, East Boston, Mass. He then filled pastorates of Presbyterian churches successively in Montgomery, N.Y., 1842-47; Syracuse, N.Y., 1847-59; Allen Street Church, New York City, 1859-73; 84th Street Church, New York City, 1873-76. From that time he was without charge, residing in New York, in Cambridge, Mass., from 1884, and from 1889 in Andover. One of his little religious books, The Rescue, published by the American Tract Society, had an immense circulation in this country, and was reprinted in Australia, in Paris, and an Arabic edition at Beirût. William E. Dodge aided in the publication and circulation of a larger book entitled, Revivals, How and When ? He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Hamilton College in 1859.
He married, May 25, 1836, Hannah Tuckerman, daughter of John Parkman, of Boston, who died April 10, 1837. He next married, October 2, 1838, Ednah Cushing, daughter of Oliver Shaw, the musical composer, of Providence, R. I.
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She died August 6, 1867, and he married, December 14, 1869, Mrs. Emma J. Bing- ham, of New York. Her death occurred October 2, 1875. Two sons - Rev. W. W. Newell of Paris, and George B. Newell, now a lawyer in New York -- and two daughters are living. Three children died in childhood, and a daughter, the wife of Rev. Henry M. Booth, D.D., in 1867.
Dr. Newell died in Pepperell, Mass., May 12, 1891 ; while in very feeble health he fell and broke his leg, and did not recover from the shock. He was in his eighty-fourth year.
CLASS OF 1834.
Samuel Storrs Howe.
Son of Col. Job Lane Howe and Deborah Barrows; born in Shoreham, Vt., June 20, 1808; prepared for college at Castleton (Vt.) Seminary; graduated at Middlebury College, 1829; entered the Seminary in 1829, but was away for a part of the time, being preceptor of Castleton Seminary, 1830-31, teacher in Edgehill Seminary, Princeton, N.J., 1832-33, and studying one year in Princeton Theological Seminary. He was tutor at Middlebury, 1835-36, and teacher in Canandaigua (N.Y.) Academy, 1836-38; preached at Dresden, N. Y., 1838-39; and was successively in charge of churches at Painted Post, N.Y. (where he was ordained May 6, 1841), 1840-42 ; Ticonderoga, 1843-44; Brasher Falls, 1844-48. Spending one year at Auburn, N. Y., as Secretary of the Western Education Society, he removed in 1849 to Iowa City, Io., and always afterwards resided there, except when temporarily supplying the Congregational church in Eliza- bethtown, N. Y., in 1861, and when for a short time inmate of the Presbyterian Ministers' Home at Perth Amboy, N.J. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church, 1849-51; Secretary of Church Erection for Iowa, 1851-54; editor of the Iowa Temperance Journal, 1854-55; pastor again in 1856; Secretary of Iowa Colonization Society, 1857; editor of the Literary Advertiser, 1859-60; after- wards supplied vacant churches, and was city missionary. He was at one time Librarian of the State Historical Society, and edited its Annals of Iowa in 1863 ; he afterwards edited an independent quarterly publication bearing the same name.
Mr. Howe died of pneumonia, at Iowa City, Io., October 24, 1888, aged eighty years. He was never married.
Daniel Leach, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Apollos Leach and Chloe Dyer; born in Bridgewater, Mass., June 12, 1806; graduated at Brown University, 1830; studied in the junior class of this Seminary, 1831-32, and afterwards with Bishop Alexander Viets Griswold at Salem, where he was ordained deacon, February 7, 1833. After a short service in Northampton, Mass., he became rector of Christ Church, Quincy, Mass., where he was ordained priest April 10, 1834, and where he remained for five years. From 1838 to 1844 he was principal of the Classical School in Roxbury, and carried on a select boarding school there until 1850. He was agent of the Massachusetts Board of Education, under Dr. Barnas Sears, from 1851 to 1855, when he was appointed superintendent of public schools in Providence, R. I., holding that office for nearly thirty years. During that period he published a
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number of school text-books, including the Complete Spelling-Book, the Geo- graphical Question-Book, and an arithmetic. He was a member of the Rhode Island Board of Education from 1870, and trustee of Brown University from 1877. The University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1875.
He married, May 19, 1834, Mary, daughter of Capt. Robert Lawton, of New- port, R. I., who died July 2, 1879. Of three children, one son and one daughter are living, a daughter having died in childhood.
Dr. Leach died of old age, at Providence, R. I., May 16, 1891, having nearly completed his eighty-fifth year.
CLASS OF 1835.
John Orville Taylor. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Edward Taylor and Eunice Curtis ; born in Charlton, N.Y., May 14, 1807; prepared for college at Schenectady (N. Y.) Academy; graduated at Union College, 1830; entered Princeton Theological Seminary, but left soon to teach in Philadelphia, attending also to the study of medicine; in the Seminary, 1832-33. He was for fifteen years constantly and earnestly engaged in the cause of educational reform, residing in New York City, but delivering lectures throughout the State, and in other States. From 1836 to 1840 he edited and published the Common School Assistant. His District School, or National Education, first issued in 1834, went through three large editions. In 1837, as professor of Popular Education in the University of the City of New York, he delivered a course of lectures to a class of seventy young teachers, being the first normal school in the State. He was subsequently in business, but in 1880 removed to New Brunswick, N. J., and was until 1886 engaged in journalistic work.
He was married, December 16, 1835, to Jane, daughter of Andrew Agnew, of New Brunswick. She survives him, but their only son died in. 1883.
Mr. Taylor died of consumption, in New Brunswick, N. J., January 19, 1890, in his eighty-third year.
CLASS OF 1836.
James Bryant Hadley.
Son of Thomas Hadley and Phebe Bryant; born in Goffstown, N. H., January 8, 1805; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; grad- uated at Amherst College, 1833; entered the Seminary at once, from Wenham, Mass. He was ordained September 20, 1837, as pastor of the Union Evan- gelical Church, Amesbury and Salisbury, Mass., continuing in that pastorate until 1848. After a period of ill health, during a part of which he was employed as Bible agent in Essex County, he was installed pastor in Standish, Me., in 1851, remaining there seven years. His last pastorate, from 1858 to 1863, was at Campton, N.H., and in that town he continued to reside until his death, although he supplied the church in Wentworth the following year, and occa- sionally preached afterwards in different pulpits. "He was a man of strong faith, and an active, every-day Christian. He loved his Master's service. He loved to talk of the other home, and for a long time had been waiting patiently for the summons to call him thither." Rev. Daniel Butler, class of 1838,
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writes : "I have known very few to whom the Master's description more properly applies, ' An Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile.'"
Mr. Hadley was married, January 10, 1838, to Louisa, daughter of Eleazer Cowles, of North Amherst, Mass. She died June 20, 1868, and he was married March 29, 1870, to Eliza M. Page, of Warren, Me., daughter of David Page, of Lowell, Mass., who survives him.
He died of influenza, at Campton, N. H., August 10, 1890, in his eighty- sixth year.
Samuel Salisbury Tappan. (Non-graduate.)
Son of John Tappan and Sarah Salisbury ; born in Boston, September 2, 1809; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and Amherst Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1833; in the Seminary, 1834-35. He was ordained at Frankfort, now Winterport, Me., November 11, 1835, and remained there until 1841. He was pastor in Bridgewater, Mass., 1842-44; Holmes' Hole, now Vineyard Haven, Mass., 1845-48 ; Conway, N. H., 1849-52. He resided for twenty years in Providence, R. I., afterwards in Boston, Worces- ter, Halifax, N. S., and from 1887 in Philadelphia. He occasionally practiced as a physician, having studied medicine for a time with the resident physician of Bloomingdale (N. Y.) Asylum before entering college.
He married, November 4, 1835, Eveline L., daughter of Jesse Stearns, of New Ipswich, N. H., who died March 27, 1850. He next married, January 14, 1851, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Sylvester Dana, of Concord, N.H. She died April 19, 1855, and he married, April 7, 1857, Eleanor Hall, daughter of James Hall Butler, of Providence, R. I., who died April 17, 1872. One son and two daughters are living, two children having died in infancy.
Mr. Tappan died of pneumonia, in St. Joseph's Hospital, Philadelphia, Penn., November 26, 1890, aged eighty years, and was buried in New Ipswich, N. H.
CLASS OF 1837.
Calvin Butler.
Son of Samuel Butler and Hannah Lund; born in Pelham, N.H., April 25, 1810; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1834, and took the full course in the Seminary. In 1836 he was instructor of Sacred Music in the Teachers' Seminary, Andover. After graduation he was engaged in home missionary work for a few months at Rich- mond, N.H., and at Saccarappa, Me. He was ordained October 31, 1838, as colleague pastor with Rev. Moses Miller, Heath, Mass., where he remained two years. He preached at Burlington, Conn., for six months in 1840, and for a year at Salisbury, Vt., beginning in 1841 a four years' pastorate in Bristol, Vt. His voice then failing, he spent twenty years in teaching : as principal of Wash- ington Academy, Salem, N.Y., 1845-48 ; of New Paltz (N.Y.) Academy, 1848-51 ; of Somerset Young Ladies' Institute, Somerville, N.J., 1851-62; of Somerset Classical Institute at same place, 1863-64; of Salisbury (Conn.) Academy, 1864-65. He was without charge at Mendon, Mass., 1865-71, with the excep- tion of one year, 1866-67, spent in Eastport, Me., as acting pastor. From 1871 to 1882 he resided in Worcester, Mass. (being city missionary there in 1880), and from 1882 in Schenectady, N.Y. "The last ten years of his life were
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devoted largely to study and Biblical research. His presence in any community was conspicuous by his Christian life and influence."
Mr. Butler was married, May 20, 1839, to Eliza Fairbanks, daughter of Ebenezer Peck, of Mendon, Mass., who died May 13, 1887. Their only child died at the age of three years.
He died of old age, at Schenectady, N.Y., June 11, 1890, being eighty years old. He was buried at Mendon.
CLASS OF 1838.
Burtis Cunningham Megie, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Daniel Hull Megie and Elizabeth Woodruff ; born in New York City, December 4, 1813; prepared for college at Bloomfield (N. J.) Academy ; graduated at the University of New York, 1835; studied in this Seminary, 1835-36; in Princeton Theological Seminary, 1836-37; in Union Theological Seminary, 1837-38. He was ordained as an evangelist by the North River Presbytery, October 31, 1838, and supplied the church in New Paltz, N.Y., one year. In 1839 he was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Dover, N. J., which he filled with great fidelity and success for thirty-seven years. Resigning that charge in 1876, he was pastor at Pleasant Grove, N. J., until 1888. Having the year before been appointed by the State Board of Education as Superintendent of Schools for Morris County, he then returned to his old residence at Dover, and labored in that service until his death. He did not, however, cease from ministerial service, but regularly supplied the Welsh church near Dover, thus emphasizing his last report to the Alumni: " Have done nothing but preach since I left the Seminary." He was a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, and contributed to the press many articles on local history. He served as chaplain under the United States Christian Com- mission in Tennessee in 1863, was for a long series of years the Stated Clerk of his Presbytery, and repeatedly a delegate to foreign ecclesiastical bodies. His alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1875.
He was married, December 4, 1838, to Mary Cass, daughter of Rev. Will- iam Belden, of New York City, who survives him, with their six children.
Dr. Megie died of heart disease, at Dover, N. J., June 12, 1890, in his seventy-seventh year.
James Rosamond. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Samuel Rosamond and Sarah Hodges; born in Pendleton, S.C., September 6, 1806; graduated at Miami University, Ohio, 1833; in this Sem- inary, 1835-36; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1836-37; Columbia (S. C.) Theological Seminary, 1837-38. He was in the home missionary service of the Presbyterian Board in Ripley and Farmington, Miss., 1838-41. For several years afterward he taught in Georgia ; preaching also to churches in Alcovia, Jacksonville, Fellowship, McDonough, and Fayetteville C. H. He was ordained in Newman, Ga., October 22, 1849, and preached for a time at Raleigh, Tenn., in connection with the charge of schools. From autograph letter (1882) : " 1852 found me president of Female College, Kosciusko, Miss., serving the church, and also French camps. In 1855 founded Female College, Starkville, Miss., and served church of Big Springs, also Unity, Hebron, and others. About this
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time the war broke out, during the course of which I resided at Fayette C. H., Ala., and preached and taught as circumstances allowed, everything being in great confusion. After peace, I taught Academy in Union City, Tenn., and served Harmony Church ; 1869, went to the Parker Institute and Church, Troy, Mo .; 1872, had charge of Austin Synodical College, Texas, and the church at Waverly; subsequently had charge of the County High School at Mesopo- potamia." He resided in Memphis, Tenn., from 1878, without charge.
He was married in November, 1839, to Elsie Taylor, of Mississippi. Of nine children, two daughters and three sons are living.
He died of kidney disease, in Memphis, Tenn., April 23, 1889, in his eighty-third year.
Edward Josiah Stearns, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Elijah Stearns and Elizabeth Stearns (the mother being a daughter of Rev. Josiah Stearns, of Epping, N. H., and sister of Rev. Samuel Stearns, of Bedford); born in Bedford, Mass., February 24, 1810; prepared for college at Concord Academy and Warren Academy, Woburn; spent part of his freshman year at Amherst College, and graduated at Harvard College, 1833; taught at Norfolk and Alexandria, Va., 1833-34, and in Dorchester, 1834-35; studied theology in the Seminary, 1835-36, and afterward in private. He was preceptor of Fuller Academy, West Newton, 1839. He was ordained a deacon of the Episcopal church at Newton Lower Falls, June 14, 1840, and was in charge of St. James' Church, Amesbury, Mass., that year. He was professor in Jubi- lee College, Ill., 1841-42, and teacher of a young ladies' school in Richmond, Va., 1842-43. He was ordained priest in Baltimore, Md., December 24, 1843, and spent most of his life in that State. He was rector of Grace Church, Elk Ridge Landing, 1843-45; professor of Modern Languages, College of St. James, near Hagerstown, 1845-46; instructor in Public High School, now City College, Baltimore, 1846-47; rector of St. Peter's, Ellicott City, 1847-48; professor of Modern Languages, St. John's College, Annapolis, 1849-53; instructor in St. Timothy's Hall, Catonsville, 1854-55, and again, 1859-60, and 1864-65; sub-master, Boston Latin School, 1856-57 ; instructor in Mystic Hall Seminary for young ladies, Medford, Mass., 1858; in his native home at Bedford, 1860, but returned to the South soon after the breaking out of the Civil War; rector of St. Paul's Church, Centreville, Md., 1862-63; in charge of St. John's Church, Howard County, 1865-66; rector of Dorchester parish, and principal of classi- cal school, Cambridge, 1866-68; chaplain of Maryland Hospital for Insane, Baltimore, 1869-70; rector of St. Mary's Whitechapel parish, Denton, 1871-78 ; afterwards resided without charge in Easton.
Among his published works were: Notes on Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1853; Afterpiece to the Comedy of Convocation, 1870; Birth and New Birth, a New Treatment of an Old Subject, 1873; The Faith of our Forefathers, an Exami- nation of Cardinal Gibbons's Faith of our Fathers, 1879. He was for a short time associate editor of Bledsoe's Southern Review. Hobart College gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1874.
Dr. Stearns died of old age, at Easton, Md., July 6, 1890, aged eighty years. He was never married.
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OLASS OF 1839.
Charles William Treadwell.
Son of William Treadwell and Hannah Bancroft; born in Salem, Mass., June 25, 1816; prepared for college at Salem Grammar School; graduated at Amherst College, 1836; in the Seminary, 1836-39. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Albany at Cohoes, N. Y., in 1842, and was pastor at Moreau, N. Y., 1841-51; Theresa and Plessis, N. Y., 1851-63; Wheatland, Io., 1863-69 ; Clar- ence, Io., 1869-75. He spent the remaining years of his life in Wheatland, and was at different times the stated supply of the church there. He was accounted the ablest preacher in his Presbytery, and was a man of great hon- esty of purpose and transparency of character.
He was married July 15, 1851, to Ellen, daughter of Seth Hawley, of Moreau, N. Y., who died December 17, 1853. He married, September 14, 1857, Cornelia Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Suits, of Plessis, N. Y. She died Jan- uary 10, 1880. His only daughter resides at Wheatland.
Mr. Treadwell died of congestion of the heart, in Wheatland, Io., July 4, 1888, aged seventy-two years.
CLASS OF 1841.
William Walter Woodworth, D.D.
Son of Walter Woodworth and Mary Sage; born at Middletown " Upper Houses" (now Cromwell), Conn, October 16, 1813; prepared for college by private study ; graduated at Yale College, 1838; was principal of Westfield (Mass.) Academy, 1838-39 ; in Yale Divinity School, 1839-40; in this Semi- nary, 1840-41. He was ordained pastor of the church in Berlin, Conn., July 6, 1842, and remained there ten years. He then filled successively pastor- ates in Waterbury, Conn., 1852-58; Mansfield, Ohio, 1858-60; Olivet Church, Springfield, Mass., 1860-62; Plymouth, Mass., 1862-64; Painesville, Ohio, 1864-66; Belchertown, 1866-70; Grinnell, Io., 1871-75. Being called by the people of his first charge in Berlin, he was there re-installed January 6, 1876, continuing active and efficient service until his death. Mr. Woodworth's cen- tennial address at Berlin, 1875, was published, and a posthumous volume entitled The Lord's Prayer and Other Sermons. He received in 1879 the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Iowa College.
He married, October 26, 1842, Lucy, daughter of Dr. William Atwater, of Westfield, Mass. She died July 4, 1844, and he married, October 9, 1845, Sarah Upson, daughter of Rev. Charles A. Goodrich, of Berlin, Conn., who died March 11, 1858. April 11, 1866, he married Lydia A., daughter of William V. Sessions, of Painesville, Ohio, who survives him. Of eleven children, four died early. One of the sons is a graduate of Yale College; another is the president of Tougaloo University, Mississippi, and two others are students in Amherst College.
Dr. Woodworth died at Berlin, Conn., of injuries received from a carriage accident, June 14, 1890, in his seventy-seventh year.
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CLASS OF 1842.
Robert Stevens Hitchcock, D.D.
Son of Rev. Calvin Hitchcock, D.D. (Andover Seminary, class of 1814), and Eliza Russell Stevens; born in Newport, R. I., January 9, 1818; prepared for college at Randolph (Mass.) Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1837 ; principal of Westminster (Mass.) Academy, 1837-38; entered the Semi- nary in 1838, but was absent one year teaching in the Shenandoah Valley, Vir- ginia. He was ordained July 19, 1843, as pastor of the North Church, New Bedford, Mass., having preached there from the time of his graduation the preceding autumn. He was dismissed in 1846 to take the pastorate of the Maverick Church, East Boston, where he remained four years. From 1854 to 1858 he was pastor of the Fifth Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, Md., and prin- cipal of a classical school for boys in the same city from 1858 to 1861. He then closed his school and entered the Union Army as chaplain of the Second Maryland Regiment, remaining in that service until 1864. He had charge of similar classical schools in Frankfort, Ky., 1864-69, and Lexington, Ky., 1869-76. He was professor of Latin in Centre College, Danville, Ky., 1876 to 1881, and with his wife conducted, from 188r to the time of his death, the Hollidaysburg (Penn.) Seminary for Young Ladies, " which, under his ripe scholarship and educational experience, has come to be one of the best female seminaries in the State, and on which he has left the impress of his character, talent, and life." He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Greenville and Tusculum College in 1881.
He married, December 28, 1871, Jennie Ballinger, daughter of George Madison Adams, of Lexington, Ky., who remains in charge of the seminary at Hollidaysburg.
Dr. Hitchcock died in Hollidaysburg, Penn., of pneumonia, following la grippe, April 6, 1891, aged seventy-three years.
William James White.
Son of Aaron White and Mary Avery; born in Boylston, Mass., March II, 1811; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover; took the freshman year at Brown University, but graduated at Williams College, 1839; spent three years in the Seminary. He was ordained at Boylston, September 20, 1842, and was in the home missionary service at Huntingdon, Can., 1842-43; Con- cord, Mich., 1844; Lubec, Whiting, and Whitneyville, Me., 1845-46; Fairfax and Fletcher, Vt., 1847-49. His health failing, he engaged in the coffee and spice business in Worcester, Mass., continuing it for fifteen years with such marked honesty that a resident of that city writes : " We had the pure article then." He spent the remainder of his life in Worcester. He taught a Bible class in the county jail for over twenty years. He was an outspoken abolition- ist of the early time, and a steadfast opponent of secret societies.
He was married, May 13, 1850, to Harriet R., daughter of Luther Ames, of Boylston. She survives him with one son. An older son died in childhood.
Mr. White died of rheumatism of the heart, in Worcester, Mass., Octo- ber 20, 1889, in his seventy-ninth year.
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Austin Phelps, D.D. (Resident licentiate.)
Son of Rev. Eliakim Phelps, D.D., and Sarah Adams; born in Brookfield (West Parish, now West Brookfield), Mass., January 7, 1820; prepared for col- lege at Geneva, N. Y .; entered Geneva (now Hobart) College, 1833, was in junior class of Amherst College, 1835, and graduated with valedictorian honors at the University of Pennsylvania, 1837. He studied theology at first privately, in 1839 at Yale Divinity School ; was licensed to preach by the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia in April, 1840; was for a short time Resident Licentiate in Union Theological Seminary, 1840-41, and in this Seminary, 1841-42. He was ordained, March 31, 1842, as pastor of the Pine Street (now Berkeley Street) Church, Boston, remaining there until his election, in 1848, to the Bartlet pro- fessorship of sacred rhetoric in this Seminary, made vacant by the transfer of Professor Park to the chair of Christian Theology. This office he filled until 1879, having under his instruction over one thousand young men in preparation for the ministry. He was afterward professor emeritus until his death, retain- ing his residence in Andover, but spending a large part of each year at his home in Bar Harbor, Me.
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