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From a letter of Rev. Jay Clizbe, of Mason, Mich. (Class of 1864), to a memorial of Dr. Marsh, recently printed, the following extract is made : " My estimate of him, after close acquaintance for several years, is that he was one of the truest, most pure-minded, and most thoroughly honest men whom it was ever my privilege to know. He was an Israelite without guile. His sincerity was one of his most prominent traits. There seemed to be absolutely no sham or make-believe about him. He simply could not profess a sentiment which he did not feel. In the State of New York, where he labored for some years, he was known in the association as our St. John. Every one who knew him loved him, and the better they knew him the more they recognized both the sweet- ness and the strength of his character."
Dr. Marsh was married, October 19, 1852, to Julia White Peck, of New York City, daughter of Elisha Peck and Mary Jane Averill. She died at Mosul, August 12, 1859. He married, second, August 21, 1862, Elizabeth Le Baron Clarke, daughter of Rev. Eber Liscom Clarke and Sarah Lawrence, she being
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at the time of her marriage a teacher in the Rochester Seminary for Young Ladies. Of three sons and two daughters, all died in infancy or childhood except Rev. William Dwight Marsh, Amherst College, 1888, now preaching at Schroon Lake, N. Y.
Dr. Marsh died of enlargement of the liver, at Amherst, Mass., June 18, 1896, aged seventy-two years, seven months, and thirteen days.
CLASS OF 1848.
Oliver Crane, D.D., LL.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Stephen Fordham Crane and Matilda Howell Smith ; born in West Bloomfield, now Montclair, N. J., July 12, 1822 ; prepared for college at Bloom- field Academy ; entered the sophomore class of Yale College and graduated in 1845; taught in John F. Girard's boarding school, Bordentown, N. J., 1845-46; took the middle year in this Seminary, 1846-47, and graduated at Union Semi- nary, 1848 ; licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Newark in April, 1848, and ordained by same Presbytery as foreign missionary, June 29, 1848. Going to Turkey under commission of the American Board early in 1849, he spent one year in Broosa, and was afterwards in Aintab (where he was instructor in the- ology), Aleppo, and Marsovan, until in 1853 his wife's illness compelled a re- turn to America. He was pastor of Presbyterian churches in Huron, N. Y., 1854-57, and Waverly, N. Y., 1857-60. He was reappointed to service in Tur- key, and was stationed at Adrianople, 1860-63. He was then pastor of Presby- terian church in Carbondale, Pa., 1864-70; without charge at Montclair, N. J., 1870-71; at Morristown, N. J., 1871-91, but in that period spending several months (in 1874) in missionary service at Aintab, preaching for a long time in a schoolhouse at Morris Plains, and as a stated supply at Stirling. From 1891 he resided in Boston.
He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Eclectic Medical College, New York City, in 1867, having attended lectures before en- tering the missionary service. The University of Wooster in Ohio conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1880, and Westminster College in Missouri that of Doctor of Laws in 1889. The latter degree was given in recognition of the scholarship evinced in the Translation into English Dactylic Hexameter of Virgil's Æneid, a work favorably reviewed in the Andover Review of July, 1888, by Principal C. F. P. Bancroft (Class of 1867). He also pub- lished Minto and Other Poems, The Torn Testament (a tract), and various occasional sermons and addresses. As secretary of his college class he pub- lished a remarkably full Class Record in 1881. He was a corporate member of the American Oriental Society.
Rev. William T. Reynolds, of North Haven, Conn., a classmate of Dr. Crane both in Yale College and at Andover, writes : " We early in our college life became somewhat intimate, and he impressed me with his quiet and un- assuming demeanor, his sincere piety, his genial and affectionate spirit, the singular purity of his character, and his scholarly habits. In his subsequent life these qualities characterized him as a man and marked even his later years. Without personal ambitions, he seemed desirous to make the most of his powers and do well whatever he undertook. After his return from the foreign
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missionary field he employed most of his leisure in preparing an elaborate his- tory of his college class. He was a faithful minister and earnest preacher, a warm-hearted, genial Christian man, a sympathizing friend, and an affec- tionate classmate, whose patient, careful labors in their behalf will be long remembered."
Dr. Crane was married, September 5, 1848, to Marion Dunn Turnbull, of West Bloomfield, now Montclair, N. J., daughter of John Turnbull and Mar- garet Gibson. She died July 23, 1890. He married, second, September I, 1891, Sibylla Adelaide Bailey, of Boston, daughter of Henry Bailey and Eliza- beth Bellamy, who survives him; one son (Yale, 1879, a lawyer in Helena, Mont.) and four daughters, the oldest of whom died in infancy at Aintab, Turkey.
Dr. Crane died of paralysis, in Boston, November 29, 1896, aged seventy- four years, four months, and seventeen days.
William Tyler Herrick. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Russell Herrick and Maria Tyler; born in Milton, Vt., Septem- ber 24, 1818; fitted for college at Jericho (Vt.) Academy; graduated at the University of Vermont, 1839; taught successively in Chelsea and Johnson, Vt., in Durham, Canada East, and in Jonesboro, Tenn .; entered the Seminary in 1846, but was obliged to leave on account of trouble with his eyes; returned for a part of the next year, 1846-47, and then abandoned study for two years, working on a farm in Essex, Vt .; afterwards resumed study under the counsel and aid of Rev. Prof. W. G. T. Shedd (Class of 1843), then in the University of Vermont; licensed to preach by the Winooski Association, at Essex, Vt., January 9, 1850. He was ordained pastor of the church at Winooski, Vt., May 28, 1851, and remained there three years; was pastor at Candia, N. H., 1854-58, at Pelham, N. H., 1858-61, at Clarendon, Vt., 1861-72, and at West Charleston, Vt., 1872-82; was without charge at Elizabethtown, N. Y., 1882-85, and at Castleton, Vt., afterwards, until his death.
Rev. A. W. Wild, of Elizabethtown, N. Y., the historian of Vermont churches and ministers, writes of Mr. Herrick: "He was a man of singularly quiet but strong character, very clear and logical as a thinker and preacher, and universally loved and respected as a pastor. One has said of him: ‘A manly man, a manly preacher, nothing weak or effeminate about him, yet so gentle and kind.' He was, in a word, a 'Christian gentleman.'"
He was married, February 17, 1848, to Laura Charlotte Hale, of Chelsea, Vt., daughter of Harry Hale and Lucinda Eddy, who survives him, with one son, three sons having died.
He died of old age, at Castleton, Vt., November 9, 1896, aged seventy- eight years, one month, and fifteen days.
CLASS OF 1851.
William Brooks Greene.
Son of Thomas Greene and Elizabeth Brooks; born in Nantucket, Mass., November 8, 1823; fitted for college at the high school in Nantucket, under the instruction of James B. Thompson (Yale, 1834) ; graduated at Yale College, I845 ;
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taught successively in Milford and Wethersfield, Conn., and Middleport, N.Y., 1845-48; studied in Union Seminary, 1848-49; in Yale Divinity School, 1849-50, and in this Seminary, 1850-51 ; licensed to preach by New Haven East Asso- ciation, in the spring of 1850; in Andover as resident licentiate, 1851-52 and 1853-54, spending the intervening year in the supply of the church at Sterling, Mass. He was ordained, November 15, 1855, as pastor of the church in Water- ville, Me., and remained there three years; was then in charge of the church at Needham, Mass., fourteen years, 1859-73 ; and of the church in Scituate, Mass., six years, 1873-79; resided in Needham, 1879-82 (supplying the church there 1880-81), and after a five years' pastorate in Dighton, Mass., 1882-87, returned to Needhanı, where he remained, without charge and in feeble health, until his death.
Rev. Oliver Crane, D.D. (Class of 1848), Mr. Greene's classmate at Yale and secretary of the class, said of him in the class record of 1881 : " Work is his delight; and yet, with all his abundant labors as teacher and pastor, he has not allowed himself to drift behind the times in anything that stamps the pres- ent as an age of progressive and stirring thought." Rev. Perley B. Davis, of Dorchester (Class of 1861), writes of him: "Mr. Greene impressed me as a man of quiet and unostentatious manner, but of a genial spirit, and scholarly and faithful in the discharge of every duty. He sought the favor of God more than the applause of men. He was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost. Those who knew him best appreciated him most."
Mr. Greene was married, January 3, 1860, to Ellen Maria Bullen, of Need- ham, Mass., daughter of Ichabod Bullen and Rebecca Pedrick, who survives him, with one daughter.
He died of paralysis, at Needham, Mass., September 11, 1895, aged seventy- one years, ten months, and three days.
Henry Wickes.
Son of Gen. Van Wyck Wickes and Eliza Herriman (and brother of Rev. John Wickes, Class of 1846) ; born in Jamaica, N.Y., February 11, 1821 ; prepared for college under private tuition; graduated at Marietta College, 1848; studied in Yale Divinity School, 1848-50, and in this Seminary, 1850-51. He was licensed to preach by the New Haven East Association, August 5, 1850, and was ordained as pastor of the church in Princeton, Mass., June 16, 1862, remaining there three years; was then pastor successively of Congregational churches in Guilford, Conn., 1856-58, and Deep River, Conn., 1858-69; and of Presbyterian Church in Brighton, N. Y., 1869-74. He resided in Rochester, N. Y., from 1874 till the time of his death, with the exception of three years, 1877-80, when in pastoral service at Alden, N. Y., although often supplying churches in the vicinity of Rochester for considerable periods.
Rev. Richard D. Harlan, pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, of Rochester, with which Mr. Wickes was connected, writes of him in the New York Evangelist : " By birth and training a moderate conservative, his mind was singularly sensitive to any new thought which brought its own evidence with it. Although in later years he could take no active part in the strenuous forward movement of Christian thought and work, yet he had no sympathy with those who always said the old days and the old ways were the best, and .
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the modern world was all going wrong. He was one of those men whose faces are always set towards the light. Being serenely confident of the ultimate tri- umph of the truth, he had in him none of the spirit of contention. Utterly unconscious of himself, modest and self-depreciating almost to a fault, he never opened his mouth except to say some wise, considerate, or gentle word. His nature grew mellower with the years until his presence in any company seemed to be felt literally as a benediction. He will live in the memories of all who knew him as a rare type of the perfect Christian gentleman."
He was married, May 8, 1856, to Elizabeth Fawcett Bardwell, of Oxford, Mass., daughter of Rev. Horatio Bardwell (Class of 1814) and Rachel Furbush (of Andover). She survives him, with two sons and two daughters. One of the sons is a graduate of the University of Rochester.
Mr. Wickes died of cerebral apoplexy, at Rochester, N. Y., March 23, 1897, aged seventy-six years, one month, and twelve days.
CLASS OF 1852.
Joshua James Blaisdell, D.D.
Son of Hon. Elijah Blaisdell and Mary Fogg; born in Canaan, N. H., February 8, 1827 ; prepared for college under Prof. Ebenezer Adams, at Han- over, N. H., and at Kimball Union Academy ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1846; taught in private English and Classical School at Montreal, 1847-48 ; read law with his father, at Lebanon, N. H., 1847-49; took the full course in this Seminary, 1849-52, but teaching for one term in Kimball Union Academy, 1850; licensed by Derry (N. H.) Association, April 13, 1852; remained in the Seminary, as resident licentiate, for a short time in the year following. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Cincinnati, Ohio, February 27, 1853, as pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church in that city, remaining there until 1859. He became professor of rhetoric and English literature in Beloit Col- lege in 1859, and was transferred, in 1864, to the chair of mental and moral philosophy, which he filled until the time of his death.
He was superintendent of schools in Lebanon, N. H., 1847-49, and in Beloit, 1861-64. In the Civil War he was chaplain of the Fortieth Wisconsin Regiment in its one hundred days' service in the Army of the Tennessee. He was a trustee of Lane Theological Seminary and of Downer College in Wis- consin. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1873, both from Dart- mouth College and from Knox College. He was a member of the American Oriental Society, and president of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences and Arts, as he was also of the Children's Aid Society and of the Wisconsin Home Missionary Society. He was three times delegate to the International Conven- tion of Charities and Reforms. Among his published works are the following : The Bible in Common Schools ; The Bible in Human Consciousness ; The Cul- tivation of American Forests ; Memorial Address at the Fiftieth Anniversary of Beloit ; The Reformation of Criminals ; Suggestions Concerning Methods of Psychological Study ; Methods of Science as Being in the Domain of Logic ; Lectures on Ethics, on Logic, and on Christian Evidences (the last three being privately printed for the use of his classes).
Rev. George N. Boardman, D.D., so many years professor of theology in Chicago Seminary, furnishes this tribute to his classmate : " Mr. Blaisdell came
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to Andover Seminary in the autumn of 1849 to enter the junior class, having graduated from Dartmouth College three years before. In passing through one of the halls he met unexpectedly his college friend, Charles A. Aiken, and learned that they were to be again classmates in the study of theology. They immediately made arrangements to room together and were from that time most intimately associated. Blaisdell's relations with all his classmates were those of utmost good will and good fellowship. He instinctively threw into a mere salutation on the walk an expression of kindness and interest that im- mediately awakened like sentiments in response. He took from the first a high position as a scholar and maintained it through the entire course in the Semi- nary. He was much interested in Hebrew and continued the study of it in later life. In public addresses, in criticism of sermons, in theologic discus- sions, he manifested a marked individuality and personal power. In our middle year there were six of us who formed a sort of theological club. We all roomed in the north end of Bartlet Hall and met on convenient occasions. Of the six - N. G. Clark, J. R. Herrick, C. A. Aiken, J. J. Blaisdell, A. H. Quint, and myself - none had more pronounced opinions or was more competent to ex- press them than Blaisdell. He was, by common consent, recognized as our representative when any public expression of the sentiment of the class was to be made. There are probably several who remember the paper he prepared on the occasion of the death of our classmate, Ireland. He gave in one of our class prayer meetings a brief account of his religious experience. The point which most impressed us was his regret over his monotonous and mechanical Christian life after leaving college. His expression, once or twice repeated, was nearly this : 'My religious life was without fresh experiences.' This prob- ably indicates his lifelong aim - a constantly renewed spiritual vitality.
" After seven years of ministerial labor as the immediate successor, in Cin- cinnati, of the celebrated Presbyterian preacher, Rev. Thornton A. Mills, D.D., he accepted the professorship of rhetoric and English literature in Beloit Col- lege, and was transferred to the department of mental and moral philosophy in 1865. Here he found his congenial field of labor, and for more than thirty years discharged the duties of his office not only successfully, but with distin- guished honor. His pupils ever regarded him with unbounded admiration and affection. Many who had been under his instruction came to the Chicago Theological Seminary and uniformly bore the impress of his teaching. They were generally among those most thoroughly prepared for professional studies. He grounded his pupils in the broad general principles of true thinking and true living. He aimed more at the formation of character than at imparting information. Philosophy was not to him a scheme of speculation ; he looked upon it rather as a method of life, embracing in his estimate ethics, politics, and religion. He said repeatedly, 'Philosophy is a virtue.'
" Professor Blaisdell's sympathies were not bounded by the college cam- pus. He took a deep interest in the home missionary affairs of Wisconsin ; he gave much thought to educational institutions other than his own; he made a study of the condition of prison convicts and the means to be adopted for their welfare ; the religious wants of our foreign population attracted his atten- tion. He spent no little time in his vacations visiting reformatory schools and schools of instruction for the young. These varied works were performed under many hindrances. His health was not robust in his student life; his
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college work was performed at best under depressing influences and often when he was much enfeebled, while at times he was wholly laid aside by seri- ous and prolonged illness. Any notice of Professor Blaisdell would be very imperfect that should omit a reference to his religious character. Religion was the element in which he lived. He once said that all knowledge implied a knowledge of God. He believed the basis of knowledge to be the Divine Existence. He seemed conscious of the overshadowing presence of God. His prayers gave evidence of a vivid sense of the Divine energy and the Divine goodness. Yet he concentrated his thoughts very much on the Incarnate Deity, and seemed inclined to refer all problems too profound for human solu- tion to the ' Word made flesh.'""
From the memorial address of President J. D. Eaton, of Beloit College (Class of 1875), delivered the day after Professor Blaisdell's death, a brief ex- tract is made : "There was no man more truly a scholar than he, and in the richest and broadest way. All learning was dear to him ; all truth germane to his intellectual life. His mind ranged back and forth through all the ages and found kinship in all thinkers. He came to Beloit College richly furnished, be- yond most men, in wide spheres of human knowledge and activity. Through- out his life he was deeply concerned with truth in many lines; not merely philosophy and theology, but politics, the science of the state in its deepest meaning ; history in its far reach, bringing the peoples of the world close home to his thought and imagination; poetry with all its enkindling power ; art with all its study of the ideal. Range after range of human thought was his. Plato and Aristotle, Æschylus and Sophocles, Dante, Shakespeare and Milton, Mar- tineau and Newman and Pusey -these were a few of his companions on the journey of life. .... He was doubly beloved because of the breadth of his affections. God gave to him a capacious heart. The world of nature, coming to him fresh from God's hand, he looked upon with eager and joyful eye. There was no human condition outside the reach of his capacious heart. . . . He was great in our thought because of his all-absorbing loyalty of faith to Christ his Master. He had deliberately taken the service of Christ as his service in early life, and into that devotion of himself to the Christian life he put the whole force of his being. ... I remember well one day in his study when our conversation led him to say, with kindling eye and as if for a moment his soul were withdrawn in a vision, ' I desire that this life may so train and so discipline me that when I leave it I shall be equipped for any service in the world.'"
Professor Blaisdell was married. February 1, 1853, to Susan Ann Allen, of Lebanon, N. H., daughter of Dea. Abner Allen and Lydia Edgerton Hough. She survives him, with two sons, one of them Rev. James A. Blaisdell, Olivet, Mich .; another son died while a student in Beloit College.
Professor Blaisdell died of nervous prostration, resulting in melancholia, at the Sanitarium in Kenosha, Wis., October 10, 1896, aged sixty-nine years, eight months, and two days.
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Alonzo Hall Quint, D.D.
Son of George Quint and Sally Williams Hall; born in Barnstead, N. H., March 22, 1828 ; prepared for college at Franklin Academy, Dover, N. H., the home of the family ; entered Dartmouth College in the middle of the sophomore year and graduated 1846 (the youngest member of the class) ; engaged in his father's employ, in teaching and in reading medicine, 1846-49; took the full course in this Seminary, 1849-52; licensed to preach by the Pascataqua Asso- ciation, at Dover, N. H., April 20, 1852, and remained in Andover for post- graduate study, 1852-53. He was ordained as the first pastor of the Mather Church, now the Central Church, Jamaica Plain, Mass., December 27, 1853, and was dismissed April 23, 1863, the church having given him leave of absence from May, 1861, when he became chaplain of the Second Massachusetts Regi- ment. He remained in active and arduous service at the front until the sum- mer of 1864; was installed pastor of the North Church, New Bedford, Mass., July 21, 1864, and remained there eleven years. After his dismission in 1875 he supplied various churches in the vicinity of Boston for considerable periods, the longest service being in the Broadway Church at Somerville, 1881-84, and in the church at Allston, which he organized, 1886-90. He was acting professor of Sacred Rhetoric at Auburn Theological Seminary, 1890-91, and lecturer on Homiletics at Andover Seminary, 1893-95. From 1893 he resided at West Rox- bury, although for several years he had chosen to keep his legal citizenship at his early home in Dover, N. H.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth College in 1866, and was a trustee of that college from 1870, presiding at the inauguration of President Tucker in 1893. He was elected member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 1850, while a student in the Seminary, being its youngest member, and became a life member in 1861. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of the New Hampshire Historical So- ciety, and of the Essex Institute, Salem, and corresponding member of the New York Historical Society. He was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1855-61, and corporate member of the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions from 1867. He was one of the Visitors of Andover Theological Seminary from 1892, and secretary of the Board from 1893. He was secretary of the Massachusetts General Association, 1855-56, statistical sec- retary and editor of its minutes for twenty-five years following, excepting for two years during the war, and moderator in 1866, 1882, and 1890. He took a prom- inent part in the National Council held in Boston in 1865, writing the " Burial Hill Declaration " and editing the minutes of the Council. He was a member of the National Council of the Congregational churches of the United States, in all its sessions beginning with 1871, secretary and editor of their minutes until 1883, and moderator in 1892. He was vice-president of the International Council at London, in 1891. He was for forty-three years a member and for thirty-seven years a director in the American Congregational Association, for twenty-two years a manager of the Congregational Publishing Society, and sec- retary of the Board of Ministerial Aid from 1868. He was scribe of the Massa- chusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers, 1868-70, and preached the annual convention sermon in 1870 in Brattle Street Church. He was for eleven years Grand Chaplain of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge of Free Masons, pre- late of the De Molay Commandery of Boston, and also chaplain of the order
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of Odd Fellows. He, General Devens, and another were the first persons in- itiated into the Grand Army of the Republic in New England; he helped to form Post No. I at New Bedford, and was one of the committee to form the national constitution of the organization, and its chaplain-in-chief for four years. He was the chaplain at the dedication of the Army and Navy Monument on Boston Common in 1877. He represented the city of Dover in the New Hamp- shire Legislature in 1881 and 1882.
He published in 1864 The Potomac and the Rapidan, Army Notes ; in 1867, Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry ; and assisted in the preparation of the Wentworth Genealogy, 3 vols., 1878. The following, with other occasional sermons and addresses, were published : The Christian Patriot's Duty, 1861 ; The Trial of Democracy, Massachusetts Election Sermon, 1866; Orations on the Fourth of July, 1876, at dedication of Soldiers' Monument, 1877, at the 250th anniversary of First Parish, 1883, and of First Church, 1888, and at the laying of corner stone of City Building, 1891 (all at Dover, N. H.) ; Things New and Old, Artillery Election sermon, 1884; and address at the dedication of Rollins Chapel and Wilson Hall, Hanover, N. H., 1885. He was one of the editors of the Congregational Quarterly, 1859-75, and editor of the Congrega- tional Year Book, 1879-83. For many years he was a frequent and well-known contributor to the Congregationalist, and wrote a series of more than four hun- dred historical articles for the Dover (N. H.) Enquirer.
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