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Dr. Hubbell was married, September 25, 1861, to Mary Wing Gregory, of Wilton, Ct., daughter of Charles Gregory and Harriet Clark, and sister of Rev. Lewis Gregory (Class of 1868). She survives him, with one son and three daughters.
Dr. Hubbell died of diabetes, at Mansfield, Ohio, May 19, 1896, aged sixty-one years, one month, and twenty days.
CLASS OF 1864.
Daniel Denison.
Son of Daniel Denison and Susan Cunningham; born in Hampton, Ct., September 4, 1838 ; fitted for college at Williston Seminary; graduated at Yale College, 1860; taught in Birdsboro, Pa., one year; studied in Union Theolog- ical Seminary, 1861-62, and in this Seminary, 1862-64; licensed by Essex South Association, Salem, Mass., February 2, 1864. His last year in the Seminary was broken somewhat by a service of six weeks as a delegate of the Christian Commission at Camp Parole, Maryland, and by malarial sickness contracted while in that service. He was in feeble health for several years, although for a part of the time traveling as a canvassing agent for the New York Tribune, ex- tending his travels as far as Texas. He was ordained, December 30, 1873, as pastor of the Second Church, Middle Haddam, Ct., and remained there until 1884. He preached in Hartford, Wis., one year, 1884-85, was acting pastor in Hampton, Ct., 1885-89, and pastor in Pomfret Centre, Ct., from 1889 to the time of his death.
His classmate, Rev. George L. Gleason, of Haverhill, Mass., writes of him : " Denison was a man of rare purity and sweetness. He was never a man of vigorous health, but his humble piety, gentle spirit, and uniform fidelity to duty made him a most delightful and helpful companion and friend." Another class- mate, Rev. S. L. Blake, D.D., of New London, Ct., writes : “ I knew him as a student and later as one of the choicest spirits. He was full of the Holy Ghost, and endeared himself to all who knew him, especially to his own people."
Mr. Denison was married, September 25, 1872, to Augusta Maria Bryant, of Springfield, Mass. (although at that time a worker in an Episcopal mission in New York City), daughter of Samuel Wilder Bryant and Susan Maria Burnap. She died in Middle Haddam, Ct., December 22, 1873.
He died of sarcoma of liver, at Pomfret, Ct., July 7, 1895, aged fifty-six years, ten months, and three days.
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Franklin Burroughs Norton. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Allen Norton and Huldah Thomas; born in Ware, Mass., March 5, 1833 ; fitted for college at Cambridge (Mass.) High School and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H .; graduated at Amherst College, 1856; in business at the West, 1856-57; taught in Missouri and Tennessee, 1857-61 ; studied in this Seminary, IS61-62; graduated at Chicago Theological Seminary, 1864; ordained, July 11, 1864, over the church in Kenosha, Wis., remaining there two years ; acting pastor at Janesville, Wis., 1866-69; Oshkosh, Wis., 1869-70 ; resided there, without charge and in feeble health, 1870-76; in employ of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, 1876-91, with residence at Burling- ton, Wis .; in business there, 1891-94; went to California for his health in 1894, and there died.
Mr. Norton is warmly spoken of by his classmates. He was a useful teacher in the South until his service was ended by the exigencies of war, and he succeeded in escaping from the rebel cavalry in which he had been forced to drill and make his way to the Union lines in Kentucky. He was a useful man in the ministry until ill health compelled him to retire from its service.
Mr. Norton married, July 6, 1865, Harriet A. Dyer, of Burlington, Wis., daughter of Dr. Edward G. Dyer and Anna Eliza Morse. She survives him, with seven children, one of whom graduated at Amherst College in 1893.
Mr. Norton died of tuberculosis of lungs, at Fernando, Cal., April 13, 1895, aged sixty-two years, one month, and eight days.
CLASS OF 1868.
Amos Franklin Shattuck. (Resident Licentiate.)
Son of Amos Shattuck and Margaret Ball; born in Hollis, N. H., July 9, 1832 ; prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H .; grad- uated at Amherst College, 1859, and at Union Theological Seminary, 1862 ; he preached in Charlestown, N. H., 1863-64; in Surrey, N. H., 1864-66; resident licentiate in this Seminary, 1866-68; preached in Durham, Me., 1867- 1868, having been ordained in Durham, June 3, 1868 ; acting pastor, Worcester, Vt., 1870-71 ; preached in Hatchville, Barnstable County, Mass., 1871-72; with- out charge at Hollis, N. H., 1872-83; farmer, New Ipswich, N. H., 1883-91 ; in Concord, N. H., 1891-95.
Mr. Shattuck was on the School Board of New Ipswich four years. He was an excellent scholar and a spiritually minded man, but was lack- ing in some of the elements necessary for success in the profession for which he had with much pains and self-denial fitted himself. The last four years of his life were spent in the hospital for the insane.
Mr. Shattuck was married, June 11, 1883, to Mary Caroline Locke, of New Ipswich, N. H., daughter of William Dana Locke and Miranda Adams, who survives him.
He died of consumption, at New Ipswich, N. H., November 27, 1895, aged sixty-three years, four months, and eighteen days.
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CLASS OF 1870.
Charles Ware Park.
Son of Rev. Calvin Emmons Park (Class of 1835, whose death was recorded in the Necrology of 1895) and Harriet Turner Pope; born in North Andover, Mass., September S, 1845; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; graduated at Amherst College, IS67 ; studied in Bangor Theological Seminary, IS67-68, and in this Seminary, 1868-70; licensed by the Essex North Associa- tion, October 20, 1869. He was ordained as a foreign missionary in the College Chapel at Amherst, Mass., June 15, 1870, and was in the service of the Ameri- can Board in the Marathi Mission, Western India, until ISSI. Was pastor of the Howard Avenue Church, New Haven, Ct., 1883-85, and of the Second Church of Derby, Ct. (Birmingham), ISS5-94. He had just commenced his duties as pastor of the Unity Church (Unitarian), Pittsfield, Mass., at the time of his death.
While in India he edited the Indian Evangelical Review, a quarterly maga- zine. and also the English portion of an Anglo-Indian weekly paper published in Bombay. For several years he compiled and published a large almanac in the Marathi language, which included many original and valuable articles on scientific, historical, and religious subjects. He was secretary of the Bombay Tract and Book Company, IS74-76. His friend and Seminary classmate, Rev. Amory H. Bradford, D.D., of Montclair, N. J., sends this tribute : "It has been said of Mr. Park that he began to preach in the vernacular nine months after landing - something almost unparalleled in the history of mission work in that country. In addition to all his other duties he delivered many lectures among the English-speaking Brahmins. At the end of eleven years, worn out with overwork, he returned to this country for well-earned rest, but his heart was always in the missionary field, and he was never so happy as when preach- ing and teaching in India. His was a rare and noble spirit. The late Dr. N. G. Clark, of the American Board, once said that he never knew an abler or more consecrated missionary than Charles W. Park. More than one competent to speak has since then made the same statement. He was a tireless student, a loyal friend, a man with the highest sense of honor, and with intellectual hon- esty and moral earnestness which are seldom surpassed. Although, for reasons which need not here be mentioned, he cast in his lot at last with the Unitarians, he remained the same loyal, earnest, and devoted preacher of righteousness and of the gospel of Jesus Christ which he had been in his earlier years. He was essentially a missionary, but he was no mere preacher; he was a scholar -a man who took large views and was fitted to be a leader. In the prime of his powers he was called from the ministry which he loved, leaving an honorable record in every field in which he had worked. His name will be cherished alike by his family and his friends. Perhaps it is enough to say that as a scholar and a thinker Charles W. Park was a worthy nephew of his distinguished uncle, whose name has for so many years been associated with Andover Seminary."
He was married, June 16, 1870, to Anna Maria Ballantine, daughter of Rev. Henry Ballantine (Class of 1834) and Elizabeth Darling, of the Marathi Mission. She survives him, with one son (Yale College, 1896) and five daugh- ters.
Mr. Park died of consumption, at Pittsfield, Mass., November 24, IS95, aged fifty years, two months, and sixteen days.
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Arthur Brooks, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of William Gray Brooks and Mary Ann Phillips; born in Boston, Mass., June 11, 1845; fitted for college in the Boston Public Latin School ; grad- uated at Harvard College, 1867 ; studied in this Seminary, 1867-68, and gradu- ated at the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia, 1870; was or- dained deacon in Trinity Church, Boston, by Bishop Eastburn, June 25, 1870, and ordained priest in Trinity Church, Williamsport, Pa., by Bishop Stevens, October 12, 1870. He was rector of Trinity Church, Williamsport, 1870-72; of St. James Church, Chicago, 1872-75; of the Church of the Incarnation, New York City, IS75-95.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of New York in 1891, and from the College of New Jersey in the same year. He was chairman of the Board of Trustees of Barnard College, New York City, and one of the Board of Overseers of the Divinity School in Philadelphia. He was also a member of Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society, of Great Britain. He had published a volume of sermons, The Life of Christ in the World, and a memorial sermon written upon Phillips Brooks.
Dr. Brooks was of honored Andover ancestry, his mother having been a granddaughter of Judge Samuel Phillips, the founder of Phillips Academy, who was the grandson of Rev. Samuel Phillips, the first pastor of the South Church, Andover. He was a brother of Right Rev. Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massa- chusetts, and of Rev. John Cotton Brooks (Class of 1876). Rev. Charles C. Tiffany, D.D., Archdeacon of the Diocese of New York (Class of 1854), fur- nishes the following tribute : "Rev. Arthur Brooks, D.D., was at the time of his death one of the most prominent and influential ministers of the Episcopal communion. The promise given by his energetic and large-minded administra- tion of the parish of St. James, in Chicago, was more than fulfilled in his twenty years' labor as rector of the Church of the Incarnation, New York City. He made his parish strong, reliable, generous, and influential. He made his pulpit a synonym for intellectuality suffused with spirituality. There was no abler preacher of any denomination in the city, though he was not a popular preacher in the common acceptation of the term. One always gained some fresh thought and aspiration from his sermons, and an air of Christian manliness always sur- rounded him. He was a power without as within his church. In the Evangel- ical Alliance, the City Mission, the Church Congress, and Barnard College he was a conspicuous factor. He stood in the front rank of citizens as well as of divines. It is a matter of lasting regret that he did not live to complete the biography of his distinguished brother, Phillips Brooks, whose charm he may not have fully shared, but to whom as a thinker and man of affairs he was an equal. Had he lived longer his fame would have been greater, as he was ripen- ing fast both in character and power, but his work could not have been more healthful or helpful had he lived to be fourscore. "
Dr. Brooks was married, October 17, 1872, to Elizabeth Willard, of Wil- liamsport, Pa., daughter of William Waldo Willard and Sarah Maynard, who survives him.
He died at sea, on the steamship Fulda, bound from Southampton to New York, July 10, 1895, aged fifty years and twenty-nine days.
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OLASS OF 1871. Henry Swift DeForest, D.D. (Resident Licentiate.)
Son of Lee De Forest and Cynthia Storrs Swift; born in South Edmeston, N. Y., March 17, 1833; prepared for college at Delaware Literary Institute, Franklin, N. Y .; graduated at Yale College, 1857; studied in Yale Divinity School, 1857-58 ; tutor in Beloit College, 1858-60; continued theological study in Union Seminary, 1860-61; tutor in Yale College, 1861-63; ordained as army chaplain in New Haven, Ct., August 2, 1863, and served as such in the 11th Connecticut Regiment, 1863-65. He was pastor of Plymouth Church in Des Moines, Io., 1866-70; Council Bluffs, Io., 1871-77; Waterloo, Io., 1877-78 ; financial secretary of Iowa College, 1878-79 ; president of Talladega College in Alabama from 1879 until his death.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Beloit College in 1881, and was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence. He found time in his busy life to write and publish several popular and useful tracts. Rev. George W. Andrews, D.D. (Class of 1867), the coworker of President Andrews in Talladega College as principal of the theological de- partment, sends this tribute : "My acquaintance with Dr. DeForest began in 1879, when he came here to assume the duties of president of Talladega College, and continued until his death. We received from him at once the impression that he was a man of self-reliance and strength beyond the average. Tall, erect, and alert in his movements, he was a commanding figure among his fellow men. Seventh in a class of one hundred and three in Yale University, he was strong intellectually. While a careful student, he was no recluse, but rather a man of practical affairs, devoting himself to the administrative work of the college. His morning chapel talks were full of warnings to the evil-doer and of tearful exhortations to walk in the path of virtue. He sought to develop in pupils self- reliance, courage, pluck, and all manly and Christian qualities. With great earnestness he exhorted to repentance and faith in Christ. He was a preacher of more than ordinary power, always speaking extempore out of a full heart. He was vivid and imaginative rather than doctrinal, expecting immediate results in the conversion of souls. As a platform speaker he seldom failed to secure the applause of his audience. He was gifted in prayer. He often rose early in the morning for a quiet hour with God in his study. The Bible was his daily companion. He was a warm friend of those he loved, happy in his home, de- sired long life, and longed to ' die in the harness.' He worked earnestly to the end, the fatal apoplectic stroke cutting him off in a moment from active service."
Dr. DeForest was married, August 25, 1869, to Anna Margarette Robbins, of Muscatine, Io., daughter of Rev. Alden B. Robbins, D.D. (Class of 1843), and Eliza Catharine Hough. She survives him, with two sons and one daugh- ter ; one son graduates this year at Yale, and the other is in preparation for entrance; the daughter is a graduate of Northfield Seminary.
Dr. DeForest died of apoplexy, at Talladega, Ala., January 27, 1896, aged sixty-two years, nine months, and ten days.
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OLASS OF 1875.
John Wilmath Colwell.
Son of Rev. John Wilmath Colwell and Hannah Wall Wing; born in Providence, R. I., May 3, 1847 ; prepared for college at Mowry and Goff's Clas- sical School, Providence; graduated at Brown University, 1872; took the full course in this Seminary, 1872-75; licensed to preach by the Andover Associa- tion, meeting in the Chapel at South Lawrence, June 23, 1874. He was ordained pastor of the West Church, Concord, N. H., September 22, 1875, and remained there four years ; acting pastor, Pittsfield, N. H., 1879-81; of the Rockville Church, South Peabody, Mass., and the branch church at West Peabody, ISS1-87; installed pastor in Barrington, R. I., July 20, 1887, remaining such until his death.
Mr. Charles E. Steele, of New Britain, Ct., his classmate, room-mate, and intimate friend while in the Seminary, writes of him : " His relations and mine at Andover were very close, as with others we had charge of the Holt district prayer meetings and the last year we roomed together. I knew him as abso- lutely genuine, always manly, full of zeal to win souls, full of enthusiasm in every department of his work, painstaking and conscientious in his studies, of fine social gifts, his leading voice in singing and the playing of his own accom- paniments making him an unusually effective leader in prayer meetings and social gatherings. He had the right spirit to attract men to the church and to Christ. Without any ministerial air, he was sure to commend the ministry of Christ by his manliness, his zeal, and his interest in everything that affected the public welfare. Since graduation our paths have diverged, so that we have not kept up acquaintance for the twenty years out of Andover."
The compiler of these sketches is sure that he represents his classmates who have kept up their acquaintance with Mr. Colwell in saying that what he promised to be as a student he proved to be as a minister. Though modest and unassuming, he was always genuine and true, always firm and faithful for the right. He hated the works of unrighteousness and fought. against them. He loved whatsoever things are honest, and just, and pure, and sought to maintain them, both in the pulpit and in the community. The church buildings at South and West Peabody attest his activity and success in that pastorate. In every pastorate he helped to frame the lives of Christian men and women into the building " which groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord." His early and unexpected death is a great loss to his loving people at Barrington and to the Christian cause. How little we thought in 1875 that Burr and Colwell, so strong and hearty, would be the first to go !
Mr. Colwell was married, September 30, 1875, to Caroline Blanchard Holt, of Andover, daughter of Samuel B. Holt and Caroline L. Abbott. She survives him, with three sons, one of whom had just entered Brown University, for which the others were also in preparation. A daughter died in infancy.
Mr. Colwell died of congestive malarial chill, at Barrington, R. I., March 20, 1896, aged forty-eight years, ten months, and seventeen days.
William Parmenter Bennett. ( Resident Licentiate. )
Son of Josiah Kendall Bennett and Lucinda Hall Nutting ; born in Groton, Mass., November 6, 1836; fitted for college at Lawrence Academy, Groton, and
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Phillips Exeter Academy ; graduated at Williams College, 1862, having entered the sophomore class; was principal successively of high schools in Abington and Millbury, Mass., 1862-64 ; went to Bradford, Io., in 1865, and founded the Bradford Academy there, remaining its principal for five years. He was or- dained, December 8, 1870, in Mason City, Io., and was pastor there until 1874; then came East and studied in this Seminary as resident licentiate, 1874-75 ; pastor of church in Lyndon, Vt., 1875-80; of church in Ames City, Io., 1880- 1884; of church in Crete, Neb., from 1884 until his death.
At his funeral, which was largely attended by the people of the vicinity, by students, and by pastors and educators from a distance, President David B. Perry, of Doane College, with whose interests Mr. Bennett had been thor- oughly identified, said of him : "He was born in an academy town, fitted for college in academies, taught in academies, and to the last was a great lover of that favorite New England institution. His presentation of truth was that of a carefully trained teacher. He proceeded logically in the development of his pulpit theme, was painstaking in his preparation, and the elaboration of his subject was admirable. He was a lover of students, and sought to help them in every way. He knew what it was to contend with great difficulties in getting an education, and made others feel that they could struggle through to the end and so accomplish great things for themselves and the world. He believed most thoroughly in careful training, and had unbounded enthusiasm for Christian education, whether in academy or college. The emphasis that he put upon the Christian element in education cannot be too highly praised. Fidelity characterized him with reference to all public appointments. As col- lege trustee he gave time and thought without stint. He was carefully pre- pared for pulpit ministrations. No one was more regular in attending Sabbath school conventions, local and general associations, and church councils, though such attendance involved large expenditure of thought and time and means." Rev. Lewis Gregory, of Lincoln, Neb. (Class of 1868), writes in a similar vein : "Bennett was a royal good fellow. All who know his work emphasize his educational instincts. He was the friend and confidant of students, and was able to get many started towards a liberal education and to help them through."
Mr. Bennett was married, August 4, 1864, to Harriet Irene Blodgett, of Randolph, Vt., daughter of Eli Blodgett and Irene Blodgett. One daughter died in infancy and one at the age of eighteen. Three sons and two daughters survive, three of whom are graduates of Doane College; one son is intending to enter the ministry.
Mr. Bennett died of pneumonia, in Crete, Neb., March 9, 1896, aged fifty- nine years, four months, and three days.
CLASS OF 1882.
Stephen Weston Webb. (Resident Licentiate.)
Son of Joseph Cushing Webb and Martha Weston; born in Skowhegan, Me., January 10, 1842; removed with his family to Illinois in childhood, and prepared for college in the high schools of Dover and Buda in that State ; studied one year in Antioch College, Ohio, and then entered Amherst College, graduating in 1866; took his theological course in Chicago Seminary, 1866-69;
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ordained by the Presbytery of Oakland at Alameda, Cal., April 19, 1870; pas- tor at Alameda, 1869-72; pastor at Great Falls, now Somersworth, N. H., 1873-81 ; without charge, 1881-83, spending one year in study here as resident licentiate, 1881-82; editor of New England Home Journal, Worcester, Mass., 1883-88; pastor South Hadley Falls, Mass., 1888-94. Ill health then compelled him to resign his charge, and he spent his last year in foreign travel and in the South.
Rev. Henry Hyde, his successor at Somersworth, N. H., writes of him in the Congregationalist : " He threw his whole heart and soul into his work. The keynote of his ministry was expressed to the church committee in Great Falls, ' I had rather be a successful minister of Jesus Christ than king of Great Brit- ain.' ... As a preacher Mr. Webb was eminently practical, presenting truth in a pointed, clear, and pleasing manner, the natural result of which was large congregations wherever he preached. He strove unobtrusively to live the gos- pel he taught and to carry into his daily life something of the great Master's spirit. He was a gifted, devoted Christian."
Mr. Webb was married, November 7, 1871, to Martha Stevenson Boyden, of Beverly, daughter of Wyatt Clark Boyden, M.D., and Lydia Lincoln. She survives him, with two children, one child having died soon after the father.
Mr. Webb died of tuberculosis, following the grip, at Asheville, N. C., November 22, 1895, aged fifty-three years, ten months, and twelve days.
OLASS OF 1893.
Edwin Davidson Blanchard.
Son of Rev. Silas Morrison Blanchard (Class of 1849) and Eleanor Jane Bickford; born in Wentworth, N. H., April 14, 1859; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1890, having previously studied one year at Brown University and two years at Williams Col- lege; took the full course in this Seminary, 1890-93; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting in Bartlet Chapel, Andover; May 2, 1892. He supplied the church in North Groton, N. H., in the summer of 1891, and in Wentworth, N. H., 1892-93; was ordained at Wentworth, July 19, 1893, but after a few months of earnest labor was taken ill with typhoid fever, and in the autumn of 1894 was compelled to seek a change of climate in California, where he spent the last year of his life. His twin brother, Rev. Edward B. Blanchard, of Brookfield, Mass., was a graduate of the Seminary in 1892.
Rev. Fred E. Winn, of Bennington, N. H. (Class of 1893), writes : " It is a sad yet pleasant duty to speak in tribute to the memory and the worth of Edwin D. Blanchard, my fellow townsman, my long-time friend, and my Sem- inary classmate. His way into the ministry was made in face of obstacles that would have disheartened one with less vigorous faith. He reached his majority with hardly more than a district school education. To carry out his resolve to secure a liberal training he was obliged to pay his own way, having almost no aid save that afforded by the usual scholarship helps for those studying for the ministry. By dint of economy and hard toil he finished his preparation with a larger library than most graduates, free from debt, and with sufficient money be- sides to pay the expense of his long final sickness and distant burial. In his manful effort to equip himself for his anticipated work he clearly showed that
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