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There is a fountain filled with blood.'"
Mr. Clark was married, October 5, 1842, to Julia Pierpont Hollister, of Manchester, Vt., daughter of Alvah Hollister and Mary Munson. She sur- vives him, with one daughter, two sons and one daughter having died in childhood.
Mr. Clark died of heart failure, at Springfield, Mass., August 23, 1896, aged eighty-one years, six months, and nine days.
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Luther Farnham.
Son of Ephraim Farnham (descendant of Ralph Farnum, the emigrant, who settled in Andover) and Sarah Brown; born in Concord, N. H., Febru- ary 5, 1816; prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H .; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1837; principal of Limerick (Me.) Academy for one year, and for a short time assistant teacher at Pembroke (N. H.) Acad- emy ; took the full course in this Seminary, 1838-41 ; licensed to preach by the Hopkinton Association, at Concord, N. H., August 9, 1842. He was ordained, November 20, 1844, as pastor of the church in Northfield, Mass., but in 1845 resigned and moved to Boston, where he has since resided. For some years he supplied, for brief periods, churches in the vicinity of Boston : Marshfield, Con- cord, Tiverton, R. I., Lynnfield, First Church of West Newbury, East Marsh- field, Burlington, New Bedford, and other places. He was assistant editor of the Christian Alliance, 1845-47, was Boston correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce for twelve years previous to 1861, and was a frequent contributor to the Massachusetts Ploughman, Boston Post, Puritan Recorder, and New York Observer. He was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and was its librarian, 1854-56. He was secretary of the Southern Aid Society, 1855-61. It is stated that he first suggested the estab- lishment in Boston of alumni associations of Dartmouth College and Kimball Union Academy. He was the early and chief promoter of the General Theo- logical Library in Boston, and was its secretary from 1862 until his death. His only publications were a Thanksgiving sermon before the First Battalion of Rifles, M. V. M., at West Newbury, 1852, and a Glance at Private Libraries, 1855.
Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, D.D., of Boston (Class of 1844), writes thus of the principal work of Mr. Farnham's life: "The death of the late Rev. Mr. Farnham will be a great loss to the General Theological Library. His life for many years was identified with its struggles and its success. Feeble in its beginning, slow in its growth, it has finally become an important and, indeed, a necessary institution. Mr. Farnham's hand may be seen in every stage of its progress. He was emphatically the father of the corporation. He had the sagacity to plan, the wisdom to organize, and the energy and zeal to carry for- ward the work in the presence of obstacles which, to most men, would have been insuperable. He saw far beyond the obstacles that lay in his path. He knew that they were temporary and would soon pass away, as the portentous clouds that gather on a summer's day. He seemed to see in the distant future a great library, rich in its manifold departments of learning, the ingathering of sacred literature of all time and in all languages, offering to the scholar the best thought and the achievements of the profoundest study in the whole circle of theological science. For this object Mr. Farnham labored on, year after year, dignified, courteous, self-poised, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, removing the obstacles in his immediate presence, and always making a clear and well-defined progress in his undertaking. Thus he laid the founda- tion and reared the superstructure of our Theological Library as it exists today in Boston. When the ideal of a great library, as he saw it, shall be realized, as it doubtless will be, the credit and the honor of laying its foundation will be ustly given to the Rev. Luther Farnham."
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Mr. Farnham was married, June 23, 1845, to Mrs. Eugenia Frink Alexan- der, daughter of Dea. Levi Fay (of Boston) and Lucretia Scott, and widow of Francis Alexander, of Northfield, Mass. She died May 22, 1892; one son, who died in 1854, at the age of eight years.
Mr. Farnham died of heart failure, in Boston, March 15, 1897, aged eighty- one years, one month, and ten days.
Mark Gould.
Son of Capt. John Gould (a native of Tyngsborough, Mass.) and Alice Taylor Woods; born in Wilton, Me., December 2, 1811; fitted for college at Farmington (Me.) Academy; graduated at Bowdoin College, 1837; preceptor of Alfred (Me.) Academy, 1837-38; took the full course in this Seminary, 1838-41 ; licensed to preach by the Franklin Association, at Farmington, Me., March 24, 1841 ; his health having failed in his senior year, he went West, residing with his brother, Rev. David Gould, at Georgetown, Ohio; principal of Female Seminary there, 1842-43; teacher at Felicity, Ohio, 1844-45 ; principal of pre- paratory department in Central College, Ohio, 1846, also supplying the church in the town (Blendon) ; home missionary at Huntingdon, Ohio, 1847-48, and at Wadsworth, Ohio, 1848-49; taught in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 1850. Returning East in 1851, he was ordained at Andover, Me., October 8, 1851, and was pastor there until 1858; acting pastor in Standish, Me., 1858-62; without charge at Standish, 1862-63; acting pastor at West Minot and Monmouth, Me., 1863-64; at Chichester, N. H., 1864-72; at Nelson, N. H., 1872-77; without charge, Ashburnham, Mass., 1877-82, and at Worcester, Mass., 1882 until death.
Mr. Gould served as superintendent of schools when in Chichester and Nelson, N. H. He published a funeral sermon on the death of Mrs. Jeremy N. C. Leavitt, of Chichester, 1872; Pictures of Zion or Symbols Unfolded, 1878; Poems for the Times on Temperance and the Sabbath, 1891 ; The Mosead and Our Nation (in verse), 1894. Rev. Charles M. Southgate, of Auburndale (Class of 1870), former pastor of Pilgrim Church, Worcester, of which Mr. Gould was a member, wrote of him in the Congregationalist : " His years were close upon fourscore and five, yet was not their strength labor and sorrow. His eye saw, his ear heard, thought and memory were clear up to the hour when, murmuring ' Home, home,' he went to his Father's house. Mr. Gould loved life, and strove to lead a full and helpful life. Great interests and great reforms, such as anti-slavery and temperance, he loyally supported." Rev. George H. Gould, D.D. (Class of 1853), said at his funeral : " He was a man of strong convictions, penetrating faith, and clear mind. He was a born Protestant, or, as I might put the accent on the second syllable, his impulse was to protest. He was ready to give a reason for the hope that was in him, and wanted others to do the same. His impulse was to challenge a man, and he planted himself squarely on the Word of God. His heart was full of affection for the whole revelation of God. He didn't want to die; he wanted to live. He was a man of prayer, and had a list of names from his various charges over whom he wrestled to win them to God many years."
Mr. Gould was married, July 5, 1847, to Electa Maria Radley, of Jersey, Ohio, daughter of William Radley and Maria Carter. She died October 16, 1850. He married, second, January 27, 1852, Abbie Abbott Carter, of Bethel,
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Me., daughter of Dr. Timothy Carter and Lydia Russell (and descendant of Jonathan Abbot of Andover). She survives him, with one daughter, two other daughters having died in early womanhood.
Mr. Gould died of chronic gastritis, at Worcester, Mass., August 7, 1896, aged eighty-four years, eight months, and five days.
Charles Kellogg.
Son of Timothy Kellogg and Betsy Mellen; born in Hudson, N. Y., March 31, 1816; fitted for college under private tuition; graduated at the University of the City of New York, 1839; studied in Union Seminary, 1839-40, and graduated from this Seminary, 1841. He was licensed, April 13, 1841, by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. S. C. Jackson, Andover, and was ordained November 10, 1841. He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Richmond (now Memphis), Mich., 1841-46, and in Almont, Mich., 1846-56. Having materially changed his theological views, he then retired from the ministry and practiced law in a quiet way for several years, being judge of probate for Lapeer County for the years 1858 and 1859. He removed to Detroit in 1862, and resided there afterwards, engaged in private banking and other business enterprises.
A notice of him in the Detroit Journal says: "He was president of the Michigan Navigation Company. He was scrupulously exact in his business dealings, and his strict notions of integrity never permitted any compromise between doing what he thought right and what might be deemed expedient." The following is quoted from the Plymouth Weekly of the same city : "Mr. Kellogg did not countenance some of the business methods adopted during the war, and he disposed of his interests [in private banking business]. Dur- ing the latter part of his life he was unconnected with any church, but his sympathies were understood to be largely with Unitarian views. He was a strictly honest man, and rather than occupy a pulpit with which his views had begun to disagree he demitted the ministry altogether - a step wholly to his credit."
Mr. Kellogg was married, May 5, 1842, to Catharine Neafie, of Walden, N. Y., daughter of Peter Neafie and Margaret McEwen, who survives him, with one daughter.
Mr. Kellogg died of paralysis, in Detroit, Mich., March 14, 1897, aged eighty years, eleven months, and thirteen days.
William Walker.
Son of Capt. Aaron Walker and Judith Sanborn ; born in Vershire, Vt., October 3, 1808; fitted for college at Potsdam (N. Y.) Academy; took the freshman year at Middlebury College, 1834-35, and graduated at Amherst College in 1838; took the full course in this Seminary, 1838-41; licensed by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. S. C. Jackson, Andover, April 13, 1841. He was ordained at Greensboro, Vt., November 4, 1841, and sailed the following month, under appointment of the American Board, to the Gaboon Mission in Western Africa, where he remained until 1871, although visiting the
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United States three times during that interval. From 1872 to 1877 he was in the service of the board in this country, visiting the churches in the interest of missions. In 1879, although at the age of seventy-one, he returned to Africa, at the call of the Presbyterian Board, to which the Gaboon Mission had been transferred, in order to complete his translation of the Bible into the native language. Returning to America in 1883, he resided afterwards in the home of his niece at Milton, Wis., often speaking for missions in that vicinity, and serving as pastor of the church in Milton, 1888-1891.
Mr. Walker was a member of the American Oriental Society, and during his last residence in Africa served as United States Vice-commercial Agent at Gaboon. He declined to receive the degree of Doctor of Divinity, which the trustees of Beloit College voted to confer upon him. Rev. S. J. Humphrey, D.D, of Oak Park, Ill. (Class of 1852), so long the western secretary of the American Board, writes of him in the Advance: "In addition to the ordinary work of teaching, preaching, and gathering converts, Mr. Walker reduced the Mpongwe tongue - a branch of the Bantu family of languages - to a written form, made a grammar of it, translated twenty-one books of the Bible into it, and also a small volume of hymns, thus leaving a lasting monument of his learning and patient industry. He was a quietly and unreservedly consecrated man. No nerve force was expended in a conflict between duty and desire. It was his meat and drink, with unquestioning obedience, to do his Father's will. Although apparently of a somewhat sluggish temperament, there was, beneath, a quiet enthusiasm which often flamed up into a burst of real eloquence in his public addresses. The fascination of his quaint way of putting things, irradiated, even in his soberest moments, with the gentle glow of a quiet humor, made him a favorite alike in public assemblies, social circles, and at the family fireside. In visiting the Dahomey village at the " White City " some of the natives, in dis- covering him, broke into the wildest expressions of delight. They had known him in Africa, and could scarcely contain themselves at seeing their old friend and at hearing again from the lips of a white man the words of their native tongue. Who shall say that there was not a more rapturous greeting a few days ago, when he entered the Golden City, from Africa's redeemed ones, dusky- hued, but with souls washed white in the blood of the Lamb !"
Mr. Walker was married, November 30, 1841, to Prudence Richardson, of Dracut, Mass., daughter of Samuel Richardson and Prudence Wood. She died in Gaboon, May 2, 1842. He married, second, October 20, 1845, Zeviah Leavens Shumway, of Oxford, Mass., daughter of Peter Shumway and Sarah Spaulding. She also died in Africa, April 23, 1848. He married, third, September 30, 1851, Catharine Hardcastle, of New York City, daughter of John Hardcastle and Elizabeth Johnston. She died at Milton, Wis., October 27, 1877. His only child died in infancy.
Mr. Walker died of bronchitis, at Milton, Wis., December 8, 1896, aged eighty-eight years, two months, and five days.
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CLASS OF 1843.
Harvey Adams.
Son of Nathan Adams and Julia Almira Richardson ; born in Alstead, N. H., January 16, 1809; prepared for college under Jonathan C. Southmayd (Class of 1822) at the Washington County Grammar School, Montpelier, Vt., taking freshman studies with him while acting as his assistant in Burlington Academy, 1835-36; entered the University of Vermont in 1836 and graduated in 1839; studied in this Seminary, 1839-40 and 1841-43, teaching a select school in Med- way, Mass., during the intervening year. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. S. C. Jackson, Andover, April 11, 1843, and was ordained at Franklin, Mass., September 27, 1843, having been, with ten others of his class, known as the "Iowa Band," recognized as home mission- aries, at a special service in the South Church, Andover, on the Sunday evening before the Seminary commencement in September, when addresses were made by Dr. Leonard Bacon and Dr. Milton Badger. His whole life afterward was spent in pastoral service in Iowa : Farmington, 1843-60; Council Bluffs, 1860-63; Farmington (re-installed), 1863-66; New Hampton, 1866-71; Fairfax, 1871-74; Bowen's Prairie, 1875-83; resided, without charge, afterward with a married daughter at New Hampton.
Mr. Adams received the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1887 from Iowa College, of which he was a trustee from its foundation to the time of his death. He published Our Heritage, a Thanksgiving sermon; Memorials of the Des Moines Valley, in the History of Iowa; The Infidel Celebration, in the History of the Iowa Band. (It is said that Mr. Adams's off-hand defense of the Chris- tian religion on the occasion of this "Celebration " had much to do in ending the influence of Abner Kneeland and his fellow infidels in Iowa.) From a sketch written for the Congregational Iowa by Rev. Ephraim Adams, D.D., of Waterloo, Iowa, a classmate and lifelong fellow laborer in Iowa, the following is quoted : "He was distinguished rather for that symmetrical completeness which produces an even, steady flow of life force into other lives than for any one thing, startling or attractive. He was a man of prayer. It was in prayer that he sought direction as to questions of duty. Thus, in the night watches of a particular date in the Seminary, he decided that his field of labor should be at the West, independently of others, and before he knew that others were con- sidering the question. In intellect he was clear and logical; in investigation, patient and thorough. He knew what he believed and why he believed. His preaching appealed to the reason and judgment rather than the emotions. He sought to instruct. To know God's word and declare it was his great aim. In his later years the Bible was his companion, his joy, his hope, and stay. He read it almost constantly, often in course, not dreamily and carelessly, for his mental vigor was in force almost to the very end. At the time when struck with paralysis, a few days before his death, the stroke came upon him with the Bible in his hands. . .. So when death came and we buried him, it did not seem like death. It was rather the setting of a sun in glory for a more glorious rising, or, to change to a more Scriptural image, like a shock of corn fully ripe being garnered in."
Mr. Adams was married, August 14, 1844, to Rhoda Matilda Codding, of North Wrentham, now Norfolk, Mass., daughter of Josiah Codding and Lois
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Ware, who died June 23, 1893. He had one son, a printer in Des Moines, and six daughters, two of whom survive.
Mr. Adams died of old age, at New Hampton, Iowa, September 23, 1896, aged eighty-seven years, eight months, and seven days.
Alden Burrill Robbins, D.D.
Son of David Robbins and Elizabeth Burrill; born in Salem, Mass., Feb- ruary 18, 1817 ; prepared for college under " Master Oliver," at Salem, having attended also Putnam and Eames's Classical School, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Goshen (Ct.) Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1839; studied in this Seminary, 1840-41, at Yale Divinity School, 1841-42, returning to Andover for the senior year, 1842-43; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meet- ing with Rev. S. C. Jackson, Andover, April 11, 1843. He was ordained as an evangelist (to labor in the Iowa Territory), at the Tabernacle Church, Salem, Mass., September 20, 1843, Rev. (afterwards President) William A. Stearns (Class of 1831) preaching the sermon, and Rev. Samuel M. Worcester (Class of 1825) giving the charge. In October the " Iowa Band," already referred to in the sketch of Harvey Adams above, made their slow journey to that territory, by cars to Buffalo, by the lakes to Chicago, and on prairie wagons to the Mississippi. Mr. Robbins promptly began pastoral service at Muscatine (then Bloomington), November 1, 1843, and, although not formally installed until nine years later, was pastor there until November 9, 1891, a period of forty- eight years, and pastor emeritus from that time until his death.
Through all these years he was prominently and most usefully connected with every good cause in his city, in his State, and in the Northwest. He was a trustee of Iowa College from its foundation in 1847, and for many years the president of the Board, and a director in Chicago Theological Seminary from 1855 to 1891. He was a member of the National Council at Boston in 1865, and a corporate member of the American Board from 1867. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Amherst College in 1869. He took an active part in the great reforms of the time, and in support of the government during the War of the Rebellion. Of his funeral it is said : " It was an affecting sight to see the veterans of the Civil War in a large body and the whole city joining in testimonies of respect and honor."
Rev. Dr. William Salter, of Burlington, Iowa, a Seminary classmate, sends the following tribute : " As to my dear Robbins, we were friends from the time we first met in Union Seminary in 1841, and our lives have been side by side for fifty-five years. We have shared each other's studies, services, sorrows, joys, and hospitalities of home, and for a long term had an annual exchange of pulpits, though sixty miles apart and, until comparatively recent years, without direct railroad communication with each other. In his devotion to the work of the ministry, in his opposition to slavery and the liquor traffic, in his zeal for education, for Iowa College, for the Chicago Theological Seminary, for the American Board and the kindred societies, and in a thousand courtesies and charities, he offered up the daily sacrifice. With Dr. E. Adams and wife he was here in my study on the 14th of April, 1896, and, as had been a habit with members of the 'Band ' at occasional meetings since 1863, when several of them were together in one place, he wrote a few sentences, to which all four
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of us subscribed our names. This is what he wrote : 'At this meeting of three of the four survivors of the Iowa Band of 1843 still residing in the State, we desire to express our sense of the wonderful goodness of God in giving us our home in this goodly State, in sustaining us through the many vicissitudes of our fifty-three years of life here ; and we make special record of our thanks to God for the sweet and cheering remembrance of the dear wives that have been so loving, patient, sustaining, inspiring helpers all the way, and that one, the wife of Rev. E. Adams, is still spared to meet with us, and of the assured sym- pathy with us of other wives of the Band, who, " left of their husbands," still live at different places in our beloved land.' In May, 1861, Dr. Robbins went over to Chicago to aid in procuring uniforms for a company of soldiers recruited in Muscatine, and was successful in the mission ; and that company, belonging to the First Iowa Infantry, fought bravely at Wilson's Creek under General Lyon after their term of enlistment had expired.
"All his life in Iowa, Dr. Robbins's home was upon a high point on the bluff, from which he looked far away upon wide reaches of the Mississippi River. The view never lost its fascination to his mind. The vision was a symbol of the breadth of his outlook for that which never was on land or sea. He lived as seeing Him who is invisible."
Dr. Robbins was married, September 27, 1843, to Eliza Catherine Hough, of Canterbury, Ct., daughter of Capt. Samuel L. Hough and Elizabeth Adams. She died July 16, 1850. He married, second, September 20, 1851, Mary Sewall Arnold, of Bath, Me., daughter of Ebenezer Arnold and Mary Jane Hill. She died June 22, 1894. Of three sons and six daughters, two sons and two daughters survive. One son is the secretary of Iowa College; one daughter is the widow of Pres. Henry S. De Forest (Class of 1871), a sketch of whom was published in last year's Necrology, and another, the wife of Rev. George E. White, of the Western Turkey Mission at Marsovan.
Dr. Robbins died of heart disease, at Muscatine, December 27, 1896, aged seventy-nine years, ten months, and nine days.
CLASS OF 1845.
Dwight Whitney Marsh, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Henry Marsh, Esq., and Sarah Whitney; born in Dalton, Mass., November 5, 1823 ; prepared for college at Lenox (Mass.) Academy and Hop- kins Academy, Hadley, Mass .; graduated at Williams College, 1842; studied in this Seminary, 1842-43; taught in Dr. Edward Wyman's School for Boys in St. Louis, Mo., 1843-47; graduated at Union Seminary, 1849. He was ordained at Dalton, Mass., October 2, 1849, as foreign missionary, Dr. John Todd (Class of 1825) preaching the sermon, and went under the auspices of the American Board to Mosul, Turkey, where he remained until 1860. He was in the service of the Board in this country, 1860-61; acting pastor at Hinsdale, Mass., 1861-62 ; principal of the Rochester (N. Y.) Seminary for Young Ladies, 1862-69, except one year, 1867-68, when he was pastor at Godfrey, Ill .; acting pastor at Whit- ney's Point, N. Y., 1869-71; at Owego, N. Y., 1871-76; at North Amherst, Mass., 1876-78; at Haydenville, Mass., 1878-82; afterwards, without charge, at Amherst.
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He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Williams Col- lege in 1875. He was a member of the American Oriental Society. His pub- lications were The Tennesseean in Persia, a life of Rev. Samuel A. Rhea, 1869; sermon on the Assyrian Mission, 1856; half-century sermon, North Amherst, 1876; Genealogy of Descendants of John Marsh of Salem, 1888; Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, 1895. While in Rochester he was for a time chaplain of the Western House of Refuge, and later for four years (1872-76) the statis- tical and publishing secretary of the General Association of New York. At Amherst he had for several years the charge of Zion Mission Church connected with the college. The first sculptures that came to this country from ancient Nineveh were sent to Williams College by Mr. Marsh, who obtained them from Layard.
Rev. George W. Porter, D.D., of Lexington, Mass., writes : “ Meeting first as strangers in the junior class of Andover Seminary in 1843, we were mutually drawn to each other. Our acquaintance soon changed to a lifelong friendship, and my heart cheerfully responds to the request to send a brief tribute to his memory. Dr. Marsh's natural character, temperament, and tastes were of a superior order. In his personality there was nothing eccentric or abrupt. His mental and moral attributes were well balanced. He was by nature devoid of prejudice, selfishness, and duplicity. His natural temper was gentle, forbear- ing, and loving. His tastes were all refined and elevated. He was an enthu- siastic lover of the works of nature. Ornithology was a favorite study. He was fond of music and was a good singer. He possessed a poetic tempera- ment and sometimes expressed himself in admirable verse. But while the gentler and more winsome traits predominated in Dr. Marsh, there was no lack of moral or mental strength and force. His convictions on ethical and practical subjects were decided and he never shrank from defending them when occasion required. He was strong without anger, decided without dogmatism, firm without obstinacy, and earnest without fanaticism. Under the renewing and quickening spirit of God his religious character was beautiful, strong, and fruitful. His daily life was a vivid illustration of his faith in Jesus Christ. In all the vicissitudes of a long and eventful life, involving much of trial and suf- fering, the image of the Divine Master was manifested in him in ever stronger and more definite lines."
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