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This summary, although incomplete, of the offices held and the laborious work accomplished by Dr. Quint, in addition to his ministry in important pas- torates, suggests the varied and valued service rendered by him to the Congre- gational churches during the forty years of his active public life. Of this, Rev. Henry Hazen, D.D. (Class of 1857), his successor in statistical work of the de- nomination, says : "Dr. Quint came to his work among the Congregational churches at a time when a radical and vital question was, whether fellowship could be organized and made effective in united action, or whether they needed to substitute government for fellowship in order to do the work to which the Master called them. And no man has done so much as he to answer this ques- tion. As secretary and statistical secretary for twenty-five years of the General Association of Massachusetts, he began his work with the editing of their an- nual reports, soon extending this work to the country in the Congregational Quarterly. This prepared the way for the Boston Council of 1865, in which he was a moving spirit; and this led up to the organization of the National Council in 1871 and the International Council twenty years later, in which the Puritan faith stood forth before the world an organism, not of authority, but of fellowship, for the work of Christ among men. As a wise student of church history and of the word of God he saw and seized his opportunity, and never faltered in his devotion to it. Large-minded, large-hearted, with a courage and patience which never wavered, he served his country on the battlefield and in the churches in pastorates and secretaryships; and the value of his work will be permanent and more conspicuous as the years go by."
Rev. S. J. Humphrey, D.D., of Oak Park, Ill., writes of his Andover class- mate : "It is an interesting fact that three young men, classmates at Dart- mouth, unconverted and intending to study law, should have appeared together at Andover, three years after their graduation, to enter the class of juniors in 1849. These were J. J. Blaisdell, Charles A. Aiken, and Alonzo H. Quint. It
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was my fortune to be of the same class. Professor Boardman and Secretary Clark were also of the number (the latter only for a part of the time), and for some part of our course Professor Fisher of Yale and Dr. Vose of Providence were in the Seminary. Quint was always a man of mark - independent, posi- tive, ready to give a reason for his opinions, and, as I recall my impressions, not unwilling to stand in the attitude of being alone in opposition to some points of the theology then taught. He claimed to be " Old School," and did not hesitate to stand his ground, and I think Professor Park rather liked it, as it gave life and piquancy to the lecture hour. But he was, none the less, a royal good fellow, and was held, so far as I remember, in affectionate esteem by the entire class. It was my privilege to mention his name to the then infant church at Jamaica Plain, which I had served for the first six months in which it was in the process of formation. He laid solid foundations there upon which the present goodly structure has been reared. His rare tact in management, joined with a fine literary quality, a general long-headedness, and a piety which no one questioned, gave him the place of prominence and honor toward which he stead- ily grew from the beginning."
A single sentence is added from the tribute given to Dr. Quint as an army chaplain, at the memorial service in Park Street Church, December 7, by Rev. Dr. Arthur Little of Dorchester (Class of 1864), himself a chaplain : " His sympathetic nature, his attractive personality, his capacity for friendship, his comprehensive grasp of the principles and issues involved in the conflict, his unfailing humor, his unflinching courage, his uncompromising devotion to the old flag, his ready assumption of dangerous tasks, his generous estimate of men, his contagious cheerfulness, his out-and-out manliness, his tender and loving care for the wounded and dying, his gentle ministries in behalf of the aching, sorrowing hearts at home, his helpful influence with officers high in rank, his deep joy in the privilege of such consecrated service, his quiet satisfaction in the thought that God's hand was in it all, and his unfaltering confidence in the ultimate result - these were qualities and endowments in the character of Dr. Quint that brought him a distinction and honor in the chaplaincy accorded to few who held that office."
Dr. Quint was married, January 31, 1854, to Rebecca Page Putnam of Salem, Mass., daughter of Capt. Allen Putnam and Eliza Page, who survives him. One of his two sons (Dartmouth, 1887) is a journalist in Boston; the other completed his theological course at Bangor Seminary last year. His daughter (Wellesley, 1890) took a post-graduate year at Dartmouth College, received the degree of Master of Arts there in 1896, and is engaged in teaching. One son died in infancy, and a daughter of rare gifts and promise died in Washington, D. C., during the past year.
Dr. Quint died of angina pectoris, in Boston, November 4, 1896, aged sixty-eight years, seven months, and twelve days.
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OLASS OF 1853.
George Esdras Allen.
Son of James Allen and Abigail Leonard; born in Taunton, Mass., Decem- ber 8, 1829; prepared for college at Bristol Academy, Taunton ; graduated at Brown University, 1850; took the full Seminary course in this Seminary, 1850-53, remaining for a fourth year, 1853-54. He was ordained as pastor of the Second Church, Cambridgeport, Mass., May 19, 1858, Professor Phelps of the Semi- nary preaching the sermon, and continued in that pastorate until 1862; supplied for nearly one year the First Church in Lynn, during the illness of Rev. Parsons Cooke, D.D., retaining his residence in Cambridge until 1864; resided after- wards in Chelsea, East Somerville, and Norton, occasionally preaching, as health and opportunity permitted. He was installed pastor of the church in North Reading, Mass., May 12, 1880, and continued as such until 1886; resided there until 1888. Becoming a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he was ordained as deacon by Bishop Brooks, January 17, 1889, and as priest by the same, February 15, 1890. After brief periods of service in South Boston, and as assistant to Rev. Henry Hague at St. Matthew's Church, Worcester, he became rector of St. James's Church, Fall River, in April, 1890, and there remained until his death.
Rev. Prof. J. O. Murray, D.D., of Princeton College (Class of 1854), Mr. Allen's classmate at Brown University and room-mate three years in the Seminary, thus writes of him : " He had originally purposed to study medicine, but under the influence of a college revival decided to study divinity. In his Seminary, as in his college course, he maintained a high scholarship, and be- came deeply interested in the study of theology. For this he remained a fourth year at Andover. He was a man of somewhat reticent nature, but capable of warm and lasting friendships; a man, too, very frank and outspoken in his con- victions. His ideal of the intellectual demands of the ministry was high. If any man ever coveted the best gifts, it was George Allen. He was a student through and through, and always." Bishop Lawrence (Class of 1875) thus re- ferred to Mr. Allen, in connection with another deceased clergyman, in his annual diocesan address: "The same simplicity and goodness marked the character of Rev. George E. Allen, rector of St. James's Church, Fall River. Of a refined and sensitive nature, he shirked no hard duty, but quietly and faithfully did his work. He held the affection of the people, and was cheerful, courageous, and devoted. Whatever may be said about the church or the ministry by their critics or enemies, such lives as these bear witness to the faith, which no man can deny."
Mr. Allen was married, December 14, 1858, to Mary Arnold Lincoln, of Norton, Mass., daughter of Annes Allen and Nancy Arnold, and she sur- vives him.
He died of tuberculosis of the brain, at Fall River, Mass., February 19, 1896, aged sixty-six years, two months, and eleven days.
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CLASS OF 1854.
Ira Fayette Pettibone, D.D.
Son of Dea. Dorus Pettibone and Eliza Ann Pettibone; born in Stock- holm, N. Y., March 24, 1824; fitted for college at St. Lawrence Academy, Pots- dam, N. Y .; graduated at Union College, 1849; taught in an academy in Sher- burne, N. Y., 1849-50, and in a boys' school in Montreal, Canada, 1850-51 ; took the full course in this Seminary, 1851-54; licensed to preach by the Salem (Mass.) Association, February 14, 1854. After spending some months in the service of the American Sunday School Union, he received appointment to missionary work in Turkey under the American Board, was ordained at East Stockholm, N. Y., February 28, 1855, and embarked from Boston June 9, 1855. He visited the United States several times and returned finally to America in 1893, his service for this long period having been in Constantinople, with the exception of two years in Tocat, 1858-60. He spent the winter of 1893-94 with his classmate and lifelong friend, Rev. Dr. J. E. Rankin, at Howard University, Washington, where he delivered lectures on Armenian Missions to the students. He resided afterwards in very feeble health at Auburndale, Mass., Chicago and Rockford, Ill., and Battle Creek (Mich.) Sanitarium, removing to Rockton, Ill., a few days before his death in 1897.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Middlebury College in 1885. During the War of the Rebellion he could not be content without some part in it; he came to America, was released by the Board, and while in New York City in July, 1864, engaged in superintending the publication of the New Testament in Armenian, received his commission as chaplain of the 74th Illinois Regiment. He left immediately for Georgia, arriving in the midst of the battle of Peach-tree Creek, and remaining in active and valuable service until June, 1865, after which he returned to his missionary field.
Rev. W. A. Farnsworth, D.D. (Class of 1852), for many years an associate in the Western Turkey Mission, and now in this country, sends the following tribute : " Dr. Pettibone was a brother beloved. For nearly forty years he worked very efficiently as a missionary of the American Board in Turkey. Early in his life he did some important pioneer work in the northeast portions of Asia Minor. For a time he was a teacher in the Theological Seminary of the Mission, then in Tocat. The greater part of his missionary life was spent in Constantinople. He had a peculiar power of adaptation. This enabled him to engage successfully in nearly every branch of missionary work. For many years he was treasurer of the Mission. This office at Constantinople is one of great responsibility, and requires much hard work, great business tact, and accuracy. Dr. Pettibone met all these requirements most successfully. A rapid writer and a good penman, he was secretary of the Mission nearly all the time he was connected with it. Much of his time was given to the press, per- haps more than to any other department of work. As proof-reader, editor, translator, his labors were abundant. Yet despite all his hard work he found time for and enjoyed very greatly a game of chess. This love of play never left him. He was a very companionable man. Well up with the times, well read in literature, with a mind stored with an inexhaustible fund of anecdote and illustration, he was an entertaining talker. He had a warm and sympa- thetic nature, which secured for him the friendship of everybody, especially of
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children. He was ever ready to do a kindness to whomsoever needed it. Tried by our Master's standard, service, he may be called great, for he was 'servant of all.' After he returned to Constantinople, in 1865, he worked with all the enthusiasm of his nature till failing health compelled him to seek rest. He hoped that after a little he might be able to renew his work, but in this he was disappointed. The class that graduated at Andover in 1854 included a goodly number of men that have done - some of them are still doing - noble service for the Master. Among them few, if any, deserve a higher place on the roll of honor than the very modest and unselfish, but earnest and faithful man, Ira Fayette Pettibone."
Dr. Pettibone was never married. He died of grippe following paralysis, at Rockton, Ill., March 31, 1897, aged seventy-three years and seven days.
CLASS OF 1855.
Ebenezer Douglass. (Resident Licentiate.)
Son of William Stewart Douglass and Jane Grant Arthur ; born in Ticon- deroga, N. Y., August 7, 1826; fitted for college at Plattsburg (N. Y.) Acad- emy; graduated at Amherst College, 1851 ; taught in Boylston, Mass., and North Hampton, N. H .; took his theological course at Bangor Seminary, grad- uating in 1855; licensed to preach by the Penobscot Association, December 19, 1854; studied as resident licentiate in this Seminary in the summer of 1855. He was ordained as pastor of the church at Oldtown, Me., September 5, 1855, and remained there until 1860; was afterwards pastor of First Church, Bridge- water, Mass., 1860-67; of Plymouth Church, Woonsocket, R. I., 1867-71, and of Spring Street Church in same city, 1871-73; of Anoka, Minn., 1875-77. In addition to this pastoral service he was superintendent of public schools for a part of the time of his residence at Woonsocket, R. I .; was United States Indian Agent, under the American Missionary Association, at White Earth, Minn., 1873-74; was connected with the publication of the Minneapolis Citizen in 1875, and from 1880 to 1893 conducted employment offices in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., residing in the latter city. " He was a successful organizer in church work, was energetic and devoted, and in all of his pastorates his work produced visible results." One of his brothers, Francis A. Douglass, a gradu- ate of Amherst College and Newton Seminary, was a missionary among the Telegus ; another, Richard D. Douglass, a graduate of Amherst and Bangor, was for a long time superintendent of the Children's Aid Society in Brook- lyn, N. Y.
Mr. Douglass was married, October 28, 1855, to Helen Maria Graves, of Chazy, N. Y., daughter of Harry Graves and Charlotte Gregory. She survives him, with one son, a business man in St. Paul, Minn. A daughter died in 1882.
Mr. Douglass died of paralysis, at Minneapolis, Minn., August 4, 1896, aged sixty-nine years, eleven months, and twenty-seven days, his burial being on his seventieth birthday.
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CLASS OF 1856.
Lyman Richards Williston. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Rev. William Richards (Class of 1822, a missionary in the Sand- wich Islands, and an influential and honored counsellor of the king and his ambassador to England) and Clarissa Lyman; born in Lahaina, Maui, H. I., November 7, 1830; brought to America when five years old to be educated ; was adopted by Hon. Samuel Williston, of Easthampton, Mass .; prepared for college at Williston Seminary; graduated at Amherst College, 1850; teacher in Williston Seminary, 1850-53; studied in this Seminary two years, 1853-55, and at the University of Berlin, 1855-57. He was head master of the Cam- bridge (Mass.) High School, 1857-62; principal of the Berkeley Strect Private School for Young Ladies, established by himself, in Cambridge, 1862-70; mas- ter of High School for a second term of service, 1870-81; member of the Board of Supervisors of Boston Schools, 1882-84; master of Girls' Latin School, Boston, 1884-91 ; afterwards residing in feeble health at Cambridge.
Mr. Williston's eminent success in his profession has been recognized by Mr. Francis Cogswell, so long the superintendent of Cambridge schools, who wrote of "his thorough scholarship, pure taste and elegant culture, his quiet, patient vigilance and unwearying industry, by which the whole system is oper- ated with the least possible friction ; " and by Mr. Horace E. Scudder, of Cam- bridge, who testified to his " scholarship, his eminent common sense, his judg- ment, good taste, and familiarity with methods of teaching, his high and honorable character, and his unfailing tact in intercourse with teachers."
Rev. Edward H. Hall, of Brookline, formerly Mr. Williston's pastor in Cambridge, sends the following : " Mr. Williston is remembered by the little group of American students at the University of Berlin in 1855-56 as one of the most scholarly and intelligent of their number. It was at a time when such men as Lepsius, Trendelenburg, and Ranke held professorships at Berlin, drawing students from all quarters to their lecture rooms, and it is safe to say that few of their hearers brought with them better-stored minds or a keener spirit of acquisition than L. R. Williston. Knowing very clearly what he came to Germany to learn, he was able to turn to better account than many of his companions the rich resources and high incentives which German universities offer so freely. At the same time he by no means limited himself during his travels to the routine of the lecture rooms, but while in Berlin, at least, joined with sympathetic companions in courses of reading and investigation, which fostered the wide tastes and fine literary instincts which always characterized him. Few of our teachers of high schools or academies have brought such thorough training or broad and generous culture to their work as Mr. Williston. He consecrated ungrudgingly to preparatory schools the mental discipline and advanced scholarship usually devoted to college work and reserved for that alone. But for the limitations of health by which he was perpetually fettered, and against which he so heroically fought, he would have proved even more conspicuously that our schools may offer as useful and honorable a field, and as high opportunities of distinction, as our colleges. In this respect, if in no other, his example was a memorable one; but in many other ways, as well, his loss is one which all lovers of the higher education in our country have reason to deplore."
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Mr. Williston was married, August 5, 1857, to Annie Eliza Safford Gale, of Rockport, Mass., daughter of Rev. Wakefield Gale (Class of 1825) and Mary Louisa Bigelow, who survives him, with three sons and five daughters ; one of the sons is professor in Harvard Law School, and another in Ohio State University.
Mr. Williston died of consumption, at Cambridge, Mass., March 8, 1897, aged sixty-six years, four months, and one day.
CLASS OF 1858.
John Dolbeer Emerson.
Son of Hon. Abraham Emerson and Abigail Dolbeer ; born in Candia, N. H., May 29, 1828; fitted for college at Blanchard Academy, Pembroke, N. H .; grad- uated at Dartmouth College, 1853; principal of the Academy at Pembroke, 1853-55; took the full course in this Seminary, 1855-58; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Prof. E. P. Barrows, D.D., at Andover, February 9, 1858. He was ordained as pastor of the church in Haverhill, N. H., October 1, 1858, and remained there until 1867. He was the pastor of the Second Church, Biddeford, Me., 1868-76; acting pastor of the church at Under- hill, Vt., 1876-83, and also at Jericho, Vt., 1878-83; without charge at Kenne- bunkport, Me., 1883-88, and at Biddeford, Me., afterwards until his death.
He published about twenty occasional sermons and an address delivered at the sixtieth anniversary of Blanchard Academy, Pembroke, N. H. Rev. A. H. Plumb, D.D., of Roxbury, Mass., a Seminary classmate, writes of him : “ Rev. John D. Emerson has left among his surviving classmates an honored memory for his strict fidelity, his sincere and unswerving devotion to worthy ends. It was my privilege, both before our intimacy at Andover and through all the years since, to have special relations, not infrequently on very memorable occa- sions, with numerous early friends of his, among his own kindred and others, and in those families to which he was allied by marriage, all of them estimable, and some of them eminent, in professional and other walks of life. He had a difficult task to maintain the high standards and meet the large expectations such associations raised. But for incorruptible integrity, for sturdiness and steadiness in moral principle and Christian character, his course commanded genuine respect. His loyalty to his classmates and other friends, his endeavor to keep alive the relationships of earlier years, and to do with his might what his hand found to do of whatever service he might render to God to the last, are pleasantly recalled. . .. This ' faithful brother ' was a good man and true, and he exercised a ministry which was a power for good in building up the ' Church of the living God.'" Rev. W. J. Batt, of Concord Junction, Mass., also of the Class of 1858, writes : " Brother Emerson prized our class meetings very much, and at the last meeting, in 1893, as at others, impressed me with the earnestness and consecration of his ministry. He was also very happy in his work. He saw the bright side of his own life as well as the hopeful aspects of the whole work of the church in the world."
Rev. T. Arthur Frey, Mr. Emerson's successor in the Biddeford pastorate, says of him in the Biddeford Journal : " He went forth to labor with a concep- tion of God, duty, and sin such as so many illustrious men have gained from
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Andover and Professor Park. But as the years went by, and his experience ripened and his thought mellowed, Mr. Emerson saw old truths in a new light. He carried what was best in the old school of theology into the new school of which he was a cautious follower. Hence his thought never grew old, but like the light was fresh and without the wrinkles of age. He enriched his discourses with truths gathered by all waters. He was a hard student, writing his sermons in a close, painstaking way. He never made pulpit exhortations and long- drawn-out wordiness a substitute for hard thinking. . .. Young men will re- member him with peculiar tenderness, for many is the young boy whom he has taught Latin and Greek and encouraged to go to college. His work with our public schools helped as much as anything else to bring them to the efficiency which they have reached today. He was a teacher in his deepest instinct, de- lighting as much in teaching as in preaching, because he believed the sphere of the two was the same, although their functions might be different."
Mr. Emerson was married, June 2, 1859, to Sarah Jane Dudley, of Candia, N. H., daughter of Dea. Samuel Dudley and Judith Pillsbury. She died Sep- tember 15, 1862. He married, second, November 25, 1863, Mrs. Elizabeth French Bell, daughter of Dea. Nathaniel F. Emerson and Clarissa Goodhue, of Chelsea, Mass., and widow of Dr. Charles Bell, of Concord, N. H. She died July 28, 1869, and he married, third, August 19, 1873, Lelia Florence Kendall, daughter of Nathan Otis Kendall and Susan Eliza Lowe, who survives him. Of four sons and four daughters, one son and two daughters have deceased. Two sons are graduates of Dartmouth College, one of whom, Rev. Stephen G. Emerson, is a Congregational pastor in Moreno, Cal.
Mr. Emerson died of heart failure following grippe, at Acton, Me., where he was temporarily supplying the church, April 13, 1897, aged sixty-eight years, ten months, and fourteen days.
William Anderson McGinley.
Son of Hon. John McGinley and Eliza McCormick ; born in Fairfield, Pa., February 15, 1831 ; fitted for college in the preparatory department of Penn- sylvania College, Gettysburg; took the freshman and sophomore years at Washington and Jefferson College, returning to Pennsylvania College for the junior and part of senior years, Class of 1850; studied law at Gettysburg, and was there admitted to the bar in 1854; began practice in Toledo, Iowa; was instructor for a short time in the State University of Iowa ; was engaged in his profession at Muscatine, Iowa, when under the influence of Rev. Alden B. Robbins (Class of 1843) he began the Christian life and preparation for the Christian ministry. He studied one year at Oberlin, 1856-57, and graduated from this Seminary in 1858. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Asso- ciation, meeting with Prof. E. P. Barrows at Andover, February 9, 1858, and ordained pastor of the church in Shrewsbury, Mass., June 2, 1859, remaining there until 1865. His subsequent pastorates were, successively : North Church, Newburyport, Mass., 1865-68; Gloversville, N. Y., 1869-74; Ross Street Pres- byterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1874-78; Second Church, Greenfield, Mass., 1878-79; North Church, Portsmouth, N. H., 1879-89; Emporia, Kan., 1889-91 ; Shrewsbury, Mass., a second term, 1891-95; Chula Vista, Cal., from 1895 to his death.
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Mr. McGinley twice served in the U. S. Christian Commission in the Army of the Potomac, caring for the wounded at the battles of Antietam and Gettys- burg. He edited the Rockingham Standard, a temperance paper, for a year, while at Portsmouth. He published a war sermon in 1860, a historical dis- course at the centennial celebration of the North Church, Newburyport, in 1869, a Report of the Reception of the Greely Arctic Expedition for the Navy Department, in 1884, and several occasional sermons. He received the honor- ary degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1885.
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