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Professor Tyler received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Harvard College in 1857, that of Doctor of Laws from Amherst College in 1871, the latter degree being also conferred upon him by Harvard College at its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1886. He was licensed to preach by the Third Presbytery of New York, in session at the lecture room of the Bleecker Street Church, New York City, February 29, 1836, with the intention of going to the West for home missionary service. The stage-coach refusing to take his baggage, he was obliged to wait for the roads to settle, and in the meantime received an invitation to fill for a single term an unexpired tutorship at Amherst, the acceptance of which changed the whole current of his life and gave to that college an uninterrupted and most valuable service of fifty-seven years. He was ordained as an evangelist at North Amherst, October 6, 1859, Professor Phelps of Andover preaching the sermon, President Stearns offering the ordaining prayer, and Rev. Dr. Hitchcock giving the charge. Besides preaching in the college chapel he frequently supplied with great acceptance and power vacant pulpits in the Connecticut Valley. He was for many years a trustee of Williston Seminary, of Mt. Holyoke Seminary and College (for twenty years president of the Board), of Smith College, and in earlier years of Amherst Academy and Maplewood Institute.
The following is a partial list of his publications : Germania and Agricola of Tacitus ; Histories of Tacitus ; Plato's Apology and Crito ; Demosthenes de Corona ; Philippics and Olynthiacs of Demosthenes ; Plutarch on the Delay of
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the Deity (with Prof. H. B. Hackett, Class of 1834) ; Theology of Greek Poets ; Prayer for Colleges (premium essay, several editions) ; Memoir of Henry Lob- dell ; History of Amherst College ; in addition to which are many anniversary and commemorative discourses, tracts, and contributions to quarterlies and other periodicals.
Rev. L. Clark Seelye, D.D., LL.D., president of Smith College (Class of 1860), sends this tribute : " We are not likely to overestimate the value of Pro- fessor Tyler's services to the schools and churches. For over half a century he taught successive classes of college students, and impressed them all by his accurate and thorough scholarship and his manly Christian character. His pupils in many lands will gratefully testify to his worth as a teacher and as a man, and to the benefit they received from his instruction. Among scholars he was respected as an authority, and his edition of Greek classics, and his interpretations of the Greek religion and literature, remain as permanent contri- butions to sound learning, and as aids to students and teachers everywhere. To Amherst College, as an alumnus and a member of its Faculty, he was unswervingly loyal. He gave to it the best energies of his life. Its welfare as an organization he ever considered paramount to his private interests or to the interests of his own department. He was jealous of its honor and assiduous in his efforts to increase its efficiency. In the dark days of its poverty he refused to leave it for more lucrative positions ; and to prolong its precarious existence he cheerfully relinquished part of his own meagre salary. No one, familiar with its history, will deny that to his self-sacrificing devotion and fidelity Amherst College is inestimably indebted for its present prosperity. He was also in hearty sympathy with other educational institutions, and always ready to give them freely the benefit of his counsel. As a trustee of Mt. Holyoke College, Williston Seminary, and Smith College, he had great influence in shaping their policy, selecting their teachers, and securing their funds. As a profound student of educational problems his sagacity was widely recognized, and his opinion highly prized by his associate teachers and trustees. In fact, there have been few teachers in New England to whom the higher education of men and women is more indebted than to Prof. William S. Tyler.
" His deepest interest, however, was in the advancement of the kingdom of heaven. First of all, he was a disciple of Jesus Christ. It was evident to all who knew him that his highest purpose in life was to do his Heavenly Father's will. His learning was subservient to his religion. His prize essay on 'Prayer for Colleges' was the outcome of his own supplications - the expression of his constant fellowship with his divine Lord and Master. He intended to be a home missionary, and he never lost his missionary interest. Although he had no distinct pastoral charge, he was often heard in the college church and in neighboring pulpits, bearing ever on his heart the care of all the churches, and keenly sensitive to their religious condition. As a preacher his style was clear and forcible. He spoke as a messenger of God, with the authority of positive convictions. He lacked, indeed, the graces of oratory, but he rarely failed to impress an audience by his reasonableness, his moral earnest- ness, and his strong religious faith. He was frequently called to assist in ecclesiastical councils, and in them his moderation, good sense and Christian spirit were relied upon to harmonize discordant elements and to secure wise decisions. Without ostentation, but with reverence and persistent faith, he
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diligently sought to establish and strengthen whatsoever things are true and of good report; and when at a ripe old age, respected and beloved by all who knew him, he was called to take his kingdom and his crown, he had the satis- faction of seeing, in the seeds of knowledge and virtue which he had sown, the old marvel repeated -' There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon.'"
Professor Tyler was married, September 4, 1839, to Amelia Ogden Whit- ing, of Binghamton, N. Y., daughter of Mason Whiting and Mary Edwards. She survives him, with four sons, all graduates of Amherst College: Mason W. Tyler, lawyer in New York City; William W. Tyler, mechanical engineer in Dayton, O .; Henry M. Tyler, professor in Smith College ; John M. Tyler, professor in Amherst College. One son died in infancy.
Professor Tyler died of old age, at Amherst, Mass., November 19, 1897, aged eighty-seven years, two months, and seventeen days.
CLASS OF 1841.
Thomas Laurie, D.D.
Son of John Laurie and Jemima Kirk; born in Craigleith, near Edinburgh, Scotland, May 19, 1821; came to this country at the age of nine years with his parents, who settled at Jacksonville, Ill .; studied in the preparatory depart- ment of Illinois College, and graduated at that College, 1838; took the full course in this Seminary, 1838-41 ; licensed by the Andover Association, meet- ing with Rev. Samuel C. Jackson at Andover, April 13, 1841. He was ordained as a foreign missionary by the Presbytery of Illinois, at Jacksonville, Ill., March 6, 1842, and after supplying for a few months the Eliot Church in Roxbury, Mass., entered the service of the American Board, laboring among the Mountain Nestorians until the death of Dr. Grant and the discontinuance of that mission in 1844, afterward in the Syrian Mission until 1846. Returning to the United States, he supplied the Winthrop Church, Charlestown, Mass., 1847; was pastor at South Hadley, Mass., 1848-51, and at West Roxbury, Mass., 1851-67 ; after a long trip to the Mediterranean and to his native land, supplied the church in Arlington, Mass. (during the absence of the pastor, Rev. D. R. Cady, Class of 1845), 1867-68, residing at Chelsea ; supplied the High Street Church, Providence, R.I., 1868-69; was first pastor of the Pilgrim Church, Providence, 1869-85, and afterward pastor emeritus until his death.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Williams College in 1865. He was corporate member of the American Board from 1875, and stated secretary of the Rhode Island Conference for twenty years from 1876. His published books, mostly relating to the missionary cause, are works of perma- nent value : Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians, 1853; Woman and Her Saviour in Persia, 1863 ;. Glimpses of Christ in Holy Scripture, 1868; Ely Vol- ume, or Missions in Science, 1881; Assyrian Echoes of the Word, 1894. In addition to these he published several memorial and historical discourses, and contributed many articles to the Missionary Herald, the Bibliotheca Sacra, and other standard reviews.
Rev. James G. Vose, D.D., of Providence (Class of 1854), in A Fraternal Tribute to the Memory of Dr. Laurie, delivered in the Beneficent and Pilgrim
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Churches, thus speaks of him : " As a preacher he was solemn and devout. His doctrines were of the older theology, making much of the divine govern- ment and extolling the blessedness and the necessity of hearty submission to God. His great central doctrine was the sovereignty of God, and it has some- times been said of him that whatever text he set out from, his discourse always gravitated toward this. His demeanor in the pulpit was always the same - grave and solemn, as in the presence of eternal realities. It was the habit of the early times and the Scottish people among whom he had his birth. Life had always been to him a serious thing, and entering the ministry before he was twenty-one, he had less of the play-time of youth than young men of our day. In fact, he was a marked example, we might almost say, of a different age. . . Yet in the gravity of Dr. Laurie's demeanor there was nothing forced or pre- suming. His prayers were solemn and impressive, enriched by phrases from the Scriptures, breathing the spirit of communion with God and loving sub- mission to His will. His great kindness of heart was manifest wherever he could be of service. . . But though so warmly devoted to the teachings of his youth, he never was intolerant to those of different opinions. If it could not be said that he was disposed to welcome the advanced theories of the times, or to believe in improvements in theology, he kept a warm and affectionate heart for his brethren and a cheerful hope in the future. His face was toward the future, and he had grand anticipations for the progress of Christ's kingdom. Blessed is that union in the Kingdom of Heaven of those tenderly loved on earth, and of the great company who, in this and other lands, enjoyed his fellowship and listened to his preaching and received help from him in the Christian life."
Dr. Laurie was married, July 21, 1842, to Martha Fletcher Osgood, of Chelsea, Mass., daughter of John Osgood and Patty Fletcher of Westford, Mass., a graduate of Ipswich Seminary, under Miss Grant and Miss Lyon. She died in Mosul, December 16, 1843. He married, second, May 25, 1848, Ellen Amanda Ellis, of Chelsea, Mass., daughter of Francis Dana Ellis and Sally Fiske. She died March 2, 1896. Two married daughters survive him.
Dr. Laurie died of paralysis, at Providence, R.I., October 10, 1897, aged seventy-six years, four months, and twenty-one days.
CLASS OF 1842.
Daniel Warren Poor, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Rev. Daniel Poor, D.D. (Class of 1814, forty years missionary of the American Board in Ceylon), and Susan Bulfinch ; born in Tillipally, Ceylon, August 21, 1818; came to the United States to be educated when twelve years old; prepared for college at Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Mass .; graduated at Amherst College, 1837; studied in this Seminary, 1837-38 and 1840-41, having been principal of the Randolph (Mass.) Academy, 1838-40; was in- structor in Pembroke (N. H.) Academy, fall term of 1841. He was ordained over the Central Church, Fairhaven, Mass., March 1, 1843, and dismissed January I, 1849; organized the High Street Presbyterian Church, Newark, N. J., in 1849, and was its pastor for twenty years ; pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Oakland, Cal., 1869-71 ; professor of Church History in San Francisco
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Theological Seminary, 1871-76; secretary of Presbyterian Board of Education, Philadelphia, 1876-93; resided there afterwards, without charge, until his death.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the College of New Jersey in 1857. He published Address Before Students of Pembroke Academy, IS41; Review of Report of Deputation to India, 1856; Address Commemorative of Professor Snell, 1877 ; Select Discourses from the French and German, 1858; Baptism not Immersion, 1896; translated (for American edition) Lange's Com- mentary on I Corinthians, 1868. Dr. Poor was instrumental in organizing the San Francisco Theological Seminary, and, especially, in founding the Theolog- ical School at Newark for Germans, in whose education and evangelization he was ardently interested from the time of his sojourn in Germany in 1848.
Rev. Elijah R. Craven, D. D., LL. D., of Philadelphia, in his memorial address at Dr. Poor's funeral, said : " He was possessed by nature of a strong intellect, capable of receiving and using the highest culture. He was loving in disposition, generous to a fault, honest and true as the daylight. A man of indomitable courage, he had an elasticity of spirit that defied depression. He was the least pessimistic man I ever knew. He inherited from his father a bright and genial wit, a wit which, unlike that of most witty men, was never used to wound. Above all, he was a devoted Christian. Before he entered college, while yet a boy, he confessed Christ. From earliest childhood he had used his opportunities for spiritual strength. He was a man of prayer, studying the word of God, striving to do the duty of the hour ; using the means of grace, he grew in grace. In him was developed, as fully as in any man I have ever known, that crowning grace of charity of which the apostle writes."
Dr. Poor was married, October 20, 1847, to Susan Helen Ellis, of Fair- haven, Mass., daughter of Capt. Benjamin Ellis and Louisa Damon. She survives him, with three sons and two daughters, one daughter having died in childhood ; one son, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is an artist ; another, who graduated at Princeton College and Columbia Medical College, is a physician in New York.
Dr. Poor died of paralysis, at Newark, N. J., October 11, 1897, aged seventy-nine years, one month, and twenty days.
CLASS OF 1844.
Simeon Miller.
Son of Daniel Miller and Parmela Jones; born in Ludlow, Mass., March 20, 1815; prepared for college at Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Mass .; graduated at Amherst College, 1840; took the full course in this Seminary, 1841-44; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Prof. Ralph Emer- son at Andover, April 9, 1844. He was acting pastor in Ireland Parish, West Springfield (now Holyoke), Mass., 1844-46, was ordained there, May 7, 1846, and remained until 1870; was installed pastor of the church in South Deerfield, Mass., April 13, 1870, and continued as such until 1872; afterwards resided in Springfield, although often spending the summers in Ludlow. He preached at Ludlow Mills, 1872-73, at Andover, Conn., 1876-82, at Agawam, Mass., 1883, besides supplying other churches for shorter periods.
Mr. Miller was a member of the School Committee of Holyoke during his twenty-five years' pastorate there, for much of the time chairman of the Board,
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and superintendent of schools 1865-66. He also represented Holyoke in the Legislature in 1865.
Rev. William B. Hammond (Class of 1843) writes from Rome, N. Y .: " More than fifty years ago I was a classmate of Simeon Miller at Amherst College, and recall him as a model Christian man, who lived his religion every day, everywhere." Rev. John L. R. Trask, D.D., of Springfield, Mass. (Class of [867), who knew Mr. Miller well, both at Holyoke and Springfield, writes of him : " Mr. Miller was an acute and vigorous sermonizer. A clear voice and a dignified bearing added to the authority with which he spoke. The fineness of his feeling was evident in the tenderness and warmth of his pulpit manners. The appointments of his nature prevented him from being a stern preacher. But the face and form of his Lord were in all his utterances. What he was in the sanctuary, he was on the street and in his home. If he had an enemy, it was never known. He had more tact than many ministers, and a quiet, sly humor served him well in difficult places. He was the soul of kind- ness. After he ceased to preach, he was a model parishioner. Appreciative, slow to criticise, his heart open to all good, ready to cooperate, he set a good example to all the congregation. He was loving and friendly to the last. Happy as were his years of pastoral service, he made no complaint when old age put its injunction upon him. He passed through grave domestic trials as one whose support was elsewhere. And this lowly faith was his joy unto the end. He used to say that his old teacher, Professor Stuart, admonished the students to preach once each year on Humility. Mr. Miller lived the doctrine his professor wanted him to preach. And because he was so sincerely humble, he was ex- alted amongst his parishioners and friends. And we believe he is exalted still."
Mr. Miller was married, September 11, 1849, to Charlotte Amelia Ewing, of Philadelphia, daughter of Noble Ewing and Miriam Wolcott, who died October 29, 1851. He married, second, January 3, 1860, Lucretia White Lamb, of Delaware, O., daughter of Ezra Lamb and Lucretia Bingham White of Heath, Mass. She died March 17, 1882. Two daughters and four sons; the daughters died in infancy, and one son at the age of seven years ; two sons are in business and one a medical student at Dartmouth College.
Mr. Miller died of apoplexy, at Springfield, Mass., March 29, 1898, aged eighty-three years and nine days.
CLASS OF 1845.
David Dimond, D.D.
Son of David Dimond and Elizabeth Rowe Goodhue; born in Groton, N. H., April 26, 1816; worked on a farm until fifteen years old; lived with relatives in Brighton, Mass .; fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1842; took the full course in this Seminary, 1842-45, serving as teacher of chemistry in Phillips Academy, 1843-45; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. John L. Taylor, Andover, April 8, 1845. He was commissioned by the American Home Missionary Society in the autumn of that year, and with nine other men (five of them from Andover Seminary) went to Missouri with Rev. Artemas Bullard, D.D., of St. Louis (Class of 1829), the journey occupying nearly three
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weeks. He was stationed at St. Charles, Mo., 1845-46, having been ordained by the Presbytery of St. Louis, at St. Louis, April 21, 1846; at Troy, Mo., 1846-50; Collinsville, Ill., 1850-54; professor in Webster College (founded by Dr. Bullard) in St. Louis County, Mo., supplying also for a part of the time the church at Rock Hill, Mo., 1854-60; Brighton, Ill., 1860-65; Shelbyville, Ill., 1865-66; Anna, Ill., 1866-70; Brighton, Ill., 1870-85 (preaching also every other Sunday at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill.), and pastor emeritus at Brighton afterwards.
Mr. Dimond received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth College in 1870. From manuscript notes dictated by him not long before his death the following extracts are made concerning the beginning of his long home missionary experience : "When I was near the end of my studies at Andover in 1845, I heard from Professor Park these words, 'Let us send our men like armies and our money like rivers into the great valley.' From Prof. B. B. Edwards I heard this: 'The young minister who wishes to do most good will place himself with his books and means of influence in some important town in the West.' I mentioned to Professor Emerson my thought of coming to Missouri, and he replied : 'I wish that many of our young men would go to that State with the hope of ultimately doing away with the institution of slavery.' In September, 1845, I took leave of my mother at the house where I was born, and began my journey West. (On her death in 1888, I had the satisfaction of conveying that farm of one hundred and fifty acres to Dartmouth College.) On reaching New York City I went to the rooms of the Home Missionary Society. In a few minutes in came Dr. Artemas Bullard of the First Church in St. Louis ; said his wife and children were in the carriage at the door on the way to the depot and to the West -'Go with us.' I regarded it as providential. I had heard him in public and in private conversation ; he had written to me about coming to Missouri. ... I go back now in my old age to the words of my professor at Andover - ' His kingdom is coming,' and I look on in silence and admiration at the steady on-going of His truth."
Rev. Smith H. Hyde, D.D., of Carthage, Ill., for many years a close friend and co-worker with Dr. Dimond, writes: "Distinguished for modesty, hum- bleness of mind, intimate associates and friends appreciated his scholarly attainments, his great ability and rare worth. With talents and acquirements sufficient for the highest stations, he cheerfully served for the most part in the lowest. He ceased to read in 1870, and lived the rest of his days in almost total blindness, continuing nevertheless his ministerial labors with cheerful courage and marked acceptance until old age prevented further toil. His end was peace ; his final words were: 'Safe in Him, safe in Him.'"'
Dr. Dimond married, August 8, 1848, Mary Augusta Coffin, of Hanover, N. H., daughter of Sewall Coffin and Betsey Gould. She died July 30, 1871. He married, second, October 8, 1872, Mrs. Mary Wingate Waldron, daughter of Dr. Stephen Wingate and Hannah Hanson, of Great Falls, N. H., and widow of Ira Waldron, of Dover, N. H. She died March 20, 1896. He had three sons and two daughters, all dying young.
He died of paralysis, at Brighton, Ill., November 22, 1896, aged eighty years, six months, and twenty-seven days.
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Allen Hazen, D.D.
Son of Rev. Austin Hazen and Frances Mary Dana ; born in Hartford, Vt., November 30, 1822; prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H .; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1842 ; studied in this Sem- inary, 1842-45, being during the whole course a roommate of David Dimond, whose name is now joined with his in this Necrology; licensed by the Suffolk South Association, meeting with Rev. Ebenezer Burgess, D.D., of Dedham (Class of 1815), July 1, 1845. He was ordained as a foreign missionary in his father's church at Berlin, Vt., July 1, 1846, Rev. Selah B. Treat (Class of 1835) preaching the sermon. Sailing for Bombay in the September following, he labored in the Marathi Mission of the American Board in western India until 1872, but spent five years in the United States, 1858-63, residing in Somers, Conn., Springfield, Mass., and Newbury, Vt., and often presenting the cause of missions in the churches. After his return from the foreign field in 1872 he resided in New Haven, Conn., 1872-74, and was acting pastor at Springfield, Mass. (Hope Chapel), 1874; Pomfret, Vt., 1875-77; Norwich, Vt., 1877-79; Agawam, Mass., 1880-81 ; Deerfield, Mass., 1882-89; Hartland, Vt., 1889-91. He was a delegate to the International Council in London in 1891, and from there, accompanied by his daughter, went once more to India and labored three years in his old field, largely at his own charges. Returning to the United States in 1894, he was for a time at Hartland, Vt., but since 1895 has resided with his son, Prof. Henry A. Hazen, at Washington, D. C.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth College in 1873, and in India was a Fellow of the University of Bombay. Rev. Robert M. Woods, of Hatfield, Mass. (Class of 1872), who, from an intimate acquaintance with and recent visit to the Marathi Mission, is well qualified to speak of Dr. Hazen, writes : " Dr. Hazen, with Dr. Bissell and Dr. Fairbank, made at one time a most interesting trio in the Marathi Mission field. They were born within two weeks of one another. They went to India in the same year, Dr. Hazen and Dr. Fairbank in the same ship. During all the years they were associated together as missionaries, their harmony, their devotion to each other, and their mutual enjoyment formed a noticeable feature in the successful working of the Marathi Mission. What Dr. Hazen did and was in India is still gratefully remembered there. His talent as a linguist especially came to view, and one who visited Ahmednagar only recently testifies to the enthusiastic tribute paid by an old Brahmin pundit to Dr. Hazen's superb command of the Marathi language.
" Dr. Hazen was a man of strong affection, full of consideration for others, but yet a man of strong convictions and pronounced views. He was an earnest patriot as well as a Christian missionary, and held decided views on all political questions. The story is told of him that he demonstrated, half in joke and half in earnest, that the Mexican War was caused by the neglect of a fellow theo- logical student to cast his vote - as Dr. Hazen had urged him to do-at an important election. After his return from his service in India Dr. Hazen adjusted himself with tact to pastoral work, and proved himself an able, faith- ful minister, but his heart never left the Marathi Mission. His opportunity to be in the work there for a second time gave him experiences of joy which his friends shared with him, and which might well have made him an object of envy to all observers."
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