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Rev. George H. Gould, D.D., of Worcester, Mass. (Class of 1853), writes : " Brother McGinley was a man of splendid physical build. His whole person- ality likewise was forceful and impressive. He was a natural orator, with a voice of great tenderness, persuasiveness, and sincerity, and could on occasion move large assemblies of people. He was in touch with humanity. He had a kind and sympathetic heart, and thus made a royal pastor. He loved the min- istry. He loved the old Gospel, and desired no greater joy than to be permitted to preach it. For a large part of his life, however, he was handicapped by im- perfect health, and hence could not assume the heavy responsibilities and per- form the large work that otherwise he would have been grandly qualified to undertake. It was the happy ordering of a kind Providence that he could come back in his last years to the church of his first love, for although some months before his death he sought for purposes of health a more congenial clime, yet virtually he began and ended his earthly ministry among the same people - a people he deeply loved and who warmly loved him."
Mr. McGinley was married, July 11, 1860, to Eliza Burton Fay, of Shrews- bury, daughter of Lyman Fay and Judith Batcheller. She survives him, with one son, a lawyer in San Diego, Cal., one son having died in infancy.
Mr. McGinley died of pneumonia, at Chula Vista, Cal., May 25, 1896, aged sixty-five years, three months, and ten days.
CLASS OF 1860.
Charles Edward Milliken.
Son of Cyrus Milliken and Mary Smith; born in Fitzwilliam, N. H., Feb- ruary 5, 1830; prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H .; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1857; took the full course in this Seminary, 1857-60. He was ordained, September 28, 1860, at Littleton, N. H., and was pastor of the church there to the close of 1878; was acting pastor in Maynard, Mass., 1879-82; without charge, 1882-84, spending nearly one year abroad; acting pastor at Penacook (in Boscawen), N. H., 1884-91, and at Swanzey, N. H., from 1891 to the time of his death.
Rev. George I. Bard, of Walpole, N. H., his Seminary classmate, writes : "The man was right who said, ' We do not want more men in the churches, but more man.' For downright manhood Brother Milliken would rank with the first in the Class of 1860; his profession was not allowed to hinder man- hood; he adorned it and was adorned by it. He reached that great honest average which, in the ministry, as in all professions, carries the honor of heaven and of all sensible men. He had none of the instincts of the explorer ; it was not laid on him to be a navigator; he took the map of truth as he found it; he was rooted and grounded in our great, universal Christian history. He
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was anchored in the enduring past. He was an honest man, who put an honest message into the hearing of men. He based his appeals to men on the great unquestionable materials of the faith that was and is and is to be. He had a serene and sturdy understanding, and put out a hand upon general affairs, illustrating in his life the relation of affairs to faith. He maintained a fight for righteousness in civil matters. He battled, too, with inherited physical ills, fighting night and day and in four continents. What he endured in Littleton he endured in Leipzig, but he kept himself a sunny-hearted man. He was one of the eldest and maturest of the graduates of 1860, but I remember the strolls we took into the mountains in his first home and mine, and how he reveled in the free and pure pastimes of the day with the abandon of a boy, with a cheer and an honesty which never failed him. Yet he made work of it to the last ; preaching on Sunday, dead on Tuesday, he fell, as he would, in the harness. From Littleton all round to Swanzey in this State of New Hampshire he put in strenuous work for a strenuous religion."
Mr. Milliken was married, June 18, 1861, to Sarah Woodbury Duncklee, of Francestown, N. H., daughter of Jesse Duncklee and Adaline Cragin. She died December 3, 1875, and he married, second, July 9, 1877, Mary Frances Redington, of Littleton, N. H., daughter of Henry Christopher Redington and Mary Richardson ; she died January 13, 1882. He married, third, August 20, 1888, Ellen Augusta Folger, of Concord, N. H., daughter of Allen Folger and Delia Maria Barney; she died February 12, 1893. Two sons and one daugh- ter : the daughter died at eighteen years of age; one of the sons, Rev. Charles D. Milliken, is a Congregational pastor, lately settled at Canaan, Conn.
Mr. Milliken died of congestion of the lungs, at Swanzey, N. H., June 16, 1896, aged sixty-six years, four months, and eleven days.
CLASS OF 1866.
William Henry Beard. (Resident Licentiate.)
Son of Rev. Spencer Field Beard (Class of 1827) and Lucy Ann Leonard ; born in Norton, Mass., April 1, 1836; prepared for college at Phillips Acad- emy, Andover, graduating in 1861, but was prevented by ill health from pur- suing his college course ; took the full course in Union Seminary, New York, 1862-65; attended lectures in this Seminary, as resident licentiate, 1865-66. He began to preach in Freedom, Me., October 1, 1866, and was ordained there, November 19, 1867, remaining until 1869; acting pastor in Wilton, Me., 1872, and in South Killingly, Conn., from 1873 until his death.
Rev. S. H. Fellows, of Wauregan, Conn., a ministerial neighbor of Mr. Beard during the whole pastorate of the latter in South Killingly, thus writes of him : " Mr. Beard was a lover of nature, and his forcible illustrations, drawn from familiar objects, made his sermons more than usually impressive. He labored with untiring zeal and perseverance in the small field which he was called to occupy. His work there was largely for the youth, whom he stimulated, en- couraged, and helped to make the most of themselves and the opportunities within their reach. Any fitting estimate of his work must take into view his influence in molding their characters, broadening their mental horizons, winning them to the Saviour, and sending them out to do valiant service for Christ. He
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accepted the responsibilities of the trust committed to him in a small field, and was faithful and conscientious in his endeavor to do for his charge all that lay in his power. He was full of courage and hope when others despaired and went steadily forward, content to do his work and leave results with Him who called him to His service. He was a welcome visitor in sick rooms and a 'son of consolation' to bereaved souls. One must have known him intimately to appreciate the sterling qualities of the man, the Christian, and the minister. His was a life ordered 'according to Christ Jesus,' and such a life cannot be a common or unfruitful one."
Mr. Beard was married, June 10, 1869, to Mary Adelaide Parker, of Mont- ville, Conn., daughter of Abishai Alden Parker and Caroline Fellowes. She sur- vives him, with three sons, the oldest of whom is a graduate of Yale College, 1894, and Yale Divinity School, 1897.
Mr. Beard died of Bright's disease, at South Killingly, Conn., October 2, 1896, aged sixty years, six months, and one day.
OLASS OF 1869.
Charles Elliott Harwood.
Son of Abel Harwood and Polly Townsend; born in Enfield, Mass., June 16, 1842 ; prepared for college under instruction of his pastor, Rev. Dr. Robert McEwen, and at Williston Seminary; graduated at Amherst College, IS65; principal of Lawrence Academy, Falmouth, Mass., 1865-66; took the full course in this Seminary, 1866-69; licensed by Andover Association, meet- ing with Rev. William F. Snow (Class of 1864) at Lawrence, December 8, 1868. He was acting pastor at East Machias, Me., 1869-70; began pastoral service at Orleans, Mass., in 1870; was ordained there, June 7, 1871, and remained until 1881 ; traveled in Europe, 1881-82 ; without charge at Orleans, 1882; pas- tor in Wymore, Neb., IS82-84, in Fairfield, Neb., 1884-89, in Presque Isle, Me., 1890-92; special missionary for Aroostook County, Me., 1892-93; in feeble health, at Orleans, Mass., 1893-94; pastor at Cranberry Isles, Me., from Feb- ruary, 1894, to the time of his death.
Mr. Harwood seemed to be a man of one idea - to do good in the name of his Master. For several years he had chosen and occupied the hardest kind of home missionary fields. The climax of this service was in his faithful, untir- ing, almost romantic work for the people of the Cranberry Isles, off Mt. Desert, on the coast of Maine. It was an undenominational work, but he had rescued an old, unused meeting house from destruction, had united the people in reli- gious worship and service, and led them in plans, apparently about to be real- ized, for the further renovation of the edifice and the organization of a church. His devoted work had enlisted the interest and aid of the residents at North- east Harbor connected with the Episcopal Church there, whose rector, Rev. Joseph R. Norwood, sends the following tribute :
" About a year ago I was asked to officiate at a funeral service on Cran- berry Island. On landing I met, at the meeting place of pebble and wave, Rev. Mr. Harwood. He had extended to me the courtesy of his church in which to preach the funeral sermon. We walked together from the beach to the church at the head of the procession. On arriving there I returned his
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courtesy by asking him to take a part in the service. He cheerfully consented. This is the one time in my life that I ever preached in a church not of my own persuasion, and the one experience of my life in conducting a service with a clergyman of another denomination. I shall never forget his kindness and sweetness of disposition. I afterward introduced him at Northeast Harbor to the clergy of Maine and to such men as Dr. Huntington of New York, Arch- deacon Tiffany [Class of 1854], and Dr. Homer [Class of 1851]. They were all unanimous in their estimate of his devotedness to his work and his polish as a gentleman. Bishop Doane often spoke of his labors and faithfulness. In fact, he found a warm spot in the hearts of all the summer residents of this place by his frankness, push, energy, faithfulness, and zeal. . .. I was more than surprised, when going to the island after his death, to find his library one of the best selected libraries that it has ever been my good fortune to see. It was the best confirmative evidence of what I ever found in him; wide in its scope and concentric in its object, containing every form of the best literature, both sacred and secular. Wide as that scope was, there was a subtle blending and gradual narrowing down to the all-important point within - the better knowledge of Christ and His times. . .. I believe that his nature had been possessed by the Holy Spirit. He had in himself the reflex of the perfect humanity of Christ. He was lovingly gentle and transparently unworldly. There was nothing of the unsympathetic or the autocratic about him, whether with the one or the many. While his mind delved in the abstract, yet it had a firm grasp upon the concrete, and his aim was ever the pushing forward of a contiguous duty. There was such a whole-heartedness in his service for Christ that death could at no period come upon him prematurely."
Prof. George Harris, D.D., of Andover Seminary, who knew Mr. Harwood as his classmate here at Andover, and also at Amherst, adds this note: “ Har- wood was a faithful minister of the gospel. His devotion to the people on the Cranberry Isles was remarkable for its sympathy. He was not a brilliant scholar nor a great preacher, but he was a true friend and helper. His inter- est in those who were students with him in Amherst College and in this Sem- inary was such that he knew the full name, the residence, and the occupation of all members of the classes 1862-68, at Amherst, and of the classes 1867-71, at Andover. He had the missionary spirit and rendered the entire service of a consecrated life."
Mr. Harwood was never married. He died of cancer of the liver, at Orleans, Mass., March 22, 1897, aged fifty-four years, nine months, and six days.
OLASS OF 1878.
Charles Crombie Bruce.
Son of Charles French Bruce and Mary Elizabeth Crombie; born in Peterboro, N. H., February 5, 1854; prepared for college at Appleton Acad- emy, New Ipswich, N. H .; entered Amherst College in the autumn of 1871, but was able to remain for a short time only; taught district schools and en- gaged in other work, 1871-75; took the full course in this Seminary, 1875-78 ; licensed to preach by the Derry (N. H.) Association, June 5, 1877. He was
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ordained as pastor at Rowley, Mass., July 2, 1878, and remained there until 1882; was pastor in Haydenville, Mass., 1882-84; pursued a special course of study in Amherst College, 1884-86, and was enrolled as one of the Class of IS75, having previously received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in IS81; supplied the church at South Deerfield, Mass., 1885-86, and at South Amherst, Mass., 1886-87 ; was without charge at Medford, Mass., 1887-89; supplied the church at York, Me., nine months in 1889; acting pastor of Union Church, Medford, 1889-91, teaching also in the Roxbury High School, 1890-91 ; received a stroke of paralysis in January, 1891, and from September, 1891, re- sided at Somerville until his death.
As shown by the above record, he struggled hard against obstacles in the endeavor to complete his education and later to employ himself usefully. Overworking in the attempt to preach and teach at the same time, he broke down without warning, and was for six years an invalid. Rev. James L. Hill, D. D., of Salem, Mass. (Class of 1875), for some years a neighbor of Mr. Bruce in Medford, writes : " His knowledge of the Bible, of doctrinal history and of philosophy, was very accurate, uncommonly extended, and noticeably deep. His mental powers were well disciplined, vigorous, and tenacious. He seemed to engage in study for the love of it. He had from the beginning a very definite purpose of solid improvement, a determination conscientiously made and firmly adhered to. His friends at times were led to fear that he would subordinate the preacher to the student and teacher. His sermons always contained some theological and philosophic truth, and showed the tone and vigor in which his mind was kept. He seemed to the last to have some independent bent in his study. He appeared to feel that the kind of life a minister leads is more marked than in most men, and so all of his faculties were full of activity, in- dolent desultory reading was avoided, and abundant materials being accumu- lated, and preaching only on the great themnes, he kept, by study and daily exercise, his inind up to its highest key, so that it could be effectually employed at any moment upon the exalted matters of revelation, of duty, and of privilege. He filled people full of ideas. Few of our brother graduates have maintained such a studious habit."
Mr. Bruce was married, March 1, 1874, to Irene Bassett Greene, of Peter- boro, N. H., daughter of Simeon Chase Greene and Sarah Ann Hadley. She survives him, with four daughters, a son having died in infancy.
Mr. Bruce died of paralysis, at Somerville, Mass., January 26, 1897, aged forty-two years, eleven months, and twenty-one days.
CLASS OF 1880.
Frank Stone Adams.
Son of Francis James Adams and Susan Fay Stone; born in Westboro, Mass., December 31, 1855; prepared for college at the Westboro High School; graduated at Amherst College, 1877, being the salutatorian of his class; took the full course in this Seminary, 1877-80. He was licensed to preach by the Suffolk South Association, May 14, 1879, and ordained, October 13, 1880, as pastor of the Bethesda Church, Reading, Mass. In 1885 this church and the Old South Church in the same town were united. In this enlarged pastorate
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he labored continuously - with the exception of a rest of nine months in 1894, demanded by his failing health - until his death.
Rev. Charles L. Noyes, of Somerville, Mass., his Seminary classmate and intimate friend, sends the following tribute : " Frank S. Adams was dearly be- loved and admired by all his classmates. He was the youngest of their num- ber, and yet in the peculiar attainments of a minister the most mature. He was a superior scholar, thinker, and writer. He had a delicate and genial humor, a kindly and cheerful temper, a fine native sensibility, and much acquired culture. But it was in spiritual insight and power of expression that he stood apart. He was, even in those years, at home in the regions of the spirit, and a rare inter- preter of the things of Christ. The ministering spirit was already perfected in him; indeed, he seemed one born with it. Association with him was one of the best parts of our training during those three years. We are sure that it strengthened our faith and raised our ideal of the Christian man and minister. A call to the pastorate in Reading came as a direct result of his record as a student and the impression made by his graduating address. In the following fall he began his pastorate, notable for its length, seventeen years, and growing in power, value, and acceptableness even to the end. A delicate constitution did not seem at all to affect the thoroughness of work as a preacher, or his in- defatigable industry in a large and widespread parish. One striking event is naturally singled out-the uniting, after a schism of forty years, of the two Congregational churches of the town. This was the result not simply of patient and judicious effort, but of his character and personality. The two bodies were drawn together by a common attraction to him, and found in him their bond of sympathy and union. He made himself, in the years that followed, so thor- oughly the pastor of all without distinction or partiality that they became joined in more than a formal unity, in a oneness in which the old line of division passed wholly out of mind. But it is an injustice to estimate this pastorate by any one event, for its value lay in its constant service to the hundreds of souls that were gradually being molded under his influence, and its worth to the whole town, of which he became in a recognized sense the minister. As a beautiful testimony of this, on the day of his funeral every business in the place was closed, and a quiet like the Sabbath reigned through all the streets. It was a beautiful and blessed life work. Though he was taken from it in the prime of his powers and usefulness, we cannot call it incomplete. To few is it given to have done so much and so well; to fewer still to have wrought out in character so much of the beauty of the likeness of Christ."
Mr. Adams was married, May 31, 1881, to Anna E. Eells, of Marietta, Ohio, daughter of John Mead Eells and Susan Ann Hooker. She survives him, with one son, who is preparing for college.
Mr. Adams died of heart failure, following an attack of grippe, at Reading, Mass., March 9, 1897, aged forty-one years, two months, and eight days.
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CLASS OF 1886.
Henry Beman Miter.
Son of Rev. John James Miter, D.D. (pastor of Plymouth Church, Mil- waukee), and Elizabeth Denman Ayers; born in Milwaukee, Wis., November 14, 1852 ; prepared for college in preparatory department of Ripon College; grad- uated at Ripon College, 1873; teacher in Elmhurst, Ill., 1873-75; instructor in Latin, Ripon College, 1875-78 ; spent his junior year in this Seminary, 1878-79; instructor in Latin, 1879-80, instructor in Greek and principal of preparatory school, Ripon College, 1880-83; resumed theological study here, 1884-86, and remained as member of Advanced Class, 1886-87; having been licensed to preach by the Essex South and Salem Association, June 1, 1885, he preached at Calumet, Mich, in the summer of 1885, and at Cliftondale, Mass., 1886-87. He attended Curry's School of Expression, Boston, 1887-88, and afterwards devoted himself entirely to teaching in the special department for which he had been carefully fitting himself, being professor of Elocution and Rhetoric in Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., 1888-89; professor of Rhetoric and Elocution in Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., 1889-90; professor of English Rhetoric and Oratory in Marietta College, 1891-95; continued his studies in Boston, 1895-96, giving also private instruction at Middlebury College and elsewhere ; from October, 1896, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Dr. G. H. Miner, in Hutch- inson, Kan.
Mr. Miter's classmate, Mr. Franklin F. Gunn, of Glens Falls, N. Y., thus writes of him: "Mr. Miter joined our class at the beginning of the middle year. I was at once drawn to him, and there grew up between us a friendship which continued close and steadfast until the end. As a student he was earnest and faithful, devout and reverent of spirit, and maintained a manly dignity that won the respect of all his classmates. He believed thoroughly in the continu- ous revelation of the Heavenly Father in all the processes of the natural world and learned many a precious lesson in the woods and fields. He was passion- ately fond of flowers, and had exquisite taste in arranging them. More than one of the homes of Andover has been brightened and beautified by flowers arranged by his hands. I once tramped a number of miles with him to get a particular kind of violet that he used to find when at the Seminary several years before. I well remember his anxiety on the way lest the flower should no longer be in its former place, and his almost boyish glee when he found it growing in great abundance. He was just as fond of birds, and had an unusually good knowledge of their habits and songs. Music he loved with all his soul, and no sacrifice was too great for him to make to satisfy his desire to hear the best artists, while he appreciated also the song of the humblest singer who sang from the heart. His own voice, rich and sympathetic, he had cultivated until it was a perfect instrument of expression. He would often sit at the organ in the chapel just at twilight and sing the sweet old songs that had been taught him by his sainted mother; the feeling with which he reproduced them testified to his loving, filial heart. His experience in the cultivation of his own voice con- vinced him of the great need of proper vocal training for all who were to be- come public speakers. In making the decision to become a teacher of elocution he believed that he was entering upon the line of Christian work for which he was best qualified. His success proved that his choice was a wise one. College
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students and private pupils all agree that in his system there was nothing of artificiality and sham, but a constant effort to develop each individual along the lines peculiar to himself. This is just what we should expect from a person so entirely natural and unaffected as Mr. Miter."
Rev. S. M. Newman, D.D., of Washington, D.C. (Class of 1871), who was Mr. Miter's pastor at Ripon, adds this tribute : "Prof. Henry B. Miter was a man of great individuality. His tastes and ambitions were all singularly clear to himself and others. They all lay in the direction of utter sincerity and right. eousness. He abhorred pretense and sham and artifice of every kind. Noth- ing which had deceit in it was palatable to him. His own character was mod- eled upon genuine Christian faith, and the aim to be righteous was uppermost. He was gentle yet strict with himself first of all. He had a native refinement which kept him from all coarse, extravagant expressions of zeal, and made him a rare worker in many ways. He was gifted in mind and in the accomplish- ments of life. He was fond of music and literature, and could interpret either of them beautifully by the voice. He dies in his prime. Many mourn his loss, for his genuineness, his gifts, his adherence to faith, his sturdy hold on righteous- ness are not always united in one person. Their combination in him was a rare and an admirable one."
Professor Miter was never married. He died of consumption in Hutchin- son, Kan., April 3, 1897, aged forty-four years, four months, and nineteen days.
OLASS OF 1894.
Egbert Smyth Ellis.
Son of Rev. Thomas Long Ellis (who died while a pastor at Paxton, Mass., in 1873) and Mary Angelia Hayes; born in Kittery, Me., May 3, 1866; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; graduated at Williams College, 1890; took the full course in this Seminary, 1891-94; licensed to preach by the An- dover Association, at Lowell, December 5, 1893; supplied the United Congre- gational Church, Lawrence, 1893-94. Receiving appointment from the Amer- ican Board as missionary to Turkey, he was ordained at Andover, June 11, 1894, in connection with his classmate, Samuel C. Bartlett, Jr., under similar appoint- ment to the Japan Mission, ex-President Bartlett (Class of 1842) preaching the sermon and Prof. Egbert C. Smyth offering the ordaining prayer. He em- barked from New York September 26, 1894, arrived at Harpoot in November, and was in active service at that station until his death.
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