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Dr. Hazen was married, September 18, 1846, to Martha Ramsay Chapin, of Somers, Conn., daughter of Oliver Chapin and Anna Pierce, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, and sister of Miss Mary Chapin, principal of the Seminary, as also of Rev. W. W. Chapin (Class of 1863), missionary in India. She died January 24, 1884. He had three sons and four daughters; one son and two daughters died in infancy, and William O. Hazen, Dartmouth, 1871, while on a voyage to India for his health in his senior year, died at sea and was buried at Malta. A daughter, Mrs. L. S. Gates, is in the Marathi Mission at Sholapur, and another, Miss Mary S. Hazen, has cared for her father ; Henry Allen Hazen, Dartmouth, 1871, is in the Weather Bureau service at Washington.
Dr. Hazen died of cerebral effusion, at Washington, D. C., May 12, 1898, aged seventy-five years, five months, and twelve days.
Edward Webb.
Son of Thomas Webb and Susan Grimsby ; born in Lowestoft, Suffolk County, England, December 15, 1819; studied in King Edward's Grammar School at Bury St. Edmunds, continuing classical and other studies privately with Rev. Thomas Quinton Stow, whom he accompanied to Australia, doing there some mission work; returned to England in 1842 and followed his mother and family to America ; took the full course in this Seminary, 1842-45; licensed by the Brookfield (Mass.) Association, January 8, 1845. He was ordained as a foreign missionary at Ware, Mass., October 23, 1845 (Dr. Rufus Anderson, Class of 1822, preaching the sermon), and for nineteen years was a missionary of the American Board in the Madura District, India, returning to the United States in impaired health in 1864. He was stated supply of the First Presby- terian Church in Darby, Pa., 1864-66 ; pastor of Pencader Presbyterian Church, Glasgow, Del., 1866-71, and at Andover, N. J., 1871-73; was afterwards finan- cial secretary of the Lincoln (Pa.) University (and pastor of Ashmun Church of the University, 1873-76), until his death.
Rev. W. P. White, D.D., says of Mr. Webb in the Presbyterian Journal : " He had remarkable linguistic ability, and was one of the committee on the revision of the Tamil Bible, and along with Dr. Green was the author of rules for the translation of scientific terms into the Tamil language, which are still in use in the mission field. He gave much attention to hymnology, and has been called the father of Christian-Tamil music. He issued, while in India, two editions of native Tamil hymns set to Tamil tunes." Mr. Webb originated and edited the Quarterly Repository in India, and prepared also the Theological Class Book and other books in the Tamil. He read at different times before the American Oriental Society, of which he was a member, valuable papers on Tamil Music.
Rev. Josiah E. Kittredge, D.D., of Geneseo, N. Y. (Class of 1864), writes : "A twenty years' acquaintance with this friend, Rev. Edward Webb, has left with me the memory of a very pure and attractive life. He was a man of accurate scholarship, a clear thinker, and one who spoke only that which he profoundly believed. He was methodical, earnest, genial, and most gracious in spirit and manner. In spite of feeble health for many years he was a pattern of faithfulness and large accomplishment, whether in the service of India mis-
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sions or of Lincoln University. His attachments were strong and his domestic life delightful. It was a charm to have him in the sacred intimacies of the home. He bore about with him the serenity which genuine faith imparts. He was singularly rich in his spiritual experience. He seemed to us who knew him a sort of Enoch. He knew God, he loved Him, he walked with Him, and he was not, for God took him."
Mr. Webb was married, September 30, 1845, to Nancy Allyn Foote, of Cayuga, N. Y., daughter of Lucius Chittenden Foote and Rebecca Saltonstall Allyn. Of four sons and four daughters, two infant sons died of cholera in one night in India, where a daughter of six years is also buried; one son is an editor and publisher in St. Paul, Minn., the other a Presbyterian minister at Lakewood, N. J .; Miss Anna F. Webb, a missionary teacher, has recently been compelled to retire from the American Board's station at San Sebastian, Spain, one daughter is a physician in Oxford, Pa., and a married daughter resides in Delaware.
Mr. Webb died of heart failure, while on his way from Oxford to Phila- delphia, Pa., April 6, 1898, aged seventy-eight years, three months, and twenty-one days.
OLASS OF 1846.
Caleb Emery. (Non-graduate.)
Son of William Emery and Elizabeth Emery ; born in Sanford, Me., March 18, 1813; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1842; studied in the Seminary nearly two years, but having decided to make teaching his profession, left in June, 1846; he had previously taught in Wakefield (N. H.) Academy, 1842, select schools at Westboro, Mass., 1844, and at Nashua, N.H., 1845; was then principal of Pinkerton Academy, Derry, N.H., 1846-48; first principal of the Charlestown (Mass.) High School, 1848-50; sub-master of Boston Latin School, 1850-55; principal of a private school for young ladies, Boston, 1855-63; again principal of the Charlestown High School, 1864-85. Retiring from active service in 1885, he resided in Boston until 1893, and afterwards in Brookline, Mass.
Mr. Charles Cummings, of Medford, Mass., a classmate of Mr. Emery both at Dartmouth and at Andover, who like him has made teaching his life-work, writes of him : " In college Mr. Emery was regarded as a model in judgment, deportment, and scholarship, and was consequently held in high esteem. His influence in the class was superior to that of any other man. He was by nature preeminently qualified for the teacher's chair. Under perfect self-control, patient, discreet, sympathetic, firm, dignified, and scholarly, he was a master of the teaching art. His pupils could but love and obey him."
Rev. Alexander Twombly, D.D. (Class of 1858), who, as pastor of the Winthrop Church in Charlestown, knew Mr. Emery well, sends this tribute : " As a man he was somewhat diffident and unobtrusive, but firm in his princi- ples. When he took a position in morals or religion he defended it to the last. He was progressive in thought, kind in act, benevolent and true. No man was ever more genial at home or more respected abroad. As a teacher his scholar- ship was ripe and his methods of administration gentle but unwavering. He
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won the respect of his pupils by his courtly manners, while at the same time he held the reins of authority with a firm hand. Many a student has been assisted by him in private and encouraged to pursue his studies. To those of his scholars who sought his aid he was a constant and unvarying counsellor and friend. In the church he was a valued officer, and although modest and unas- suming accepted such duties as were requested of him. In his place at all times, he gave dignity to worship by his presence, and in public exercises was edifying and spiritual. In his later years he was faithful to his friends and to his pastor, and his memory will be cherished by many whose lives were exalted by his companionship and whose faith was strengthened by his steadfast piety."
Mr. Emery married, August 16, 1848, Marcia Perkins Choate, of Derry, N. H., daughter of Isaac Perkins Choate and Eliza Jane Harper. She survives him, with one daughter, a son having died at the age of twenty years.
He died of heart failure, at Brookline, Mass., December 1, 1897, aged eighty-four years, eight months, and thirteen days.
CLASS OF 1847.
Jeremiah Taylor, D. D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Capt. Jeremiah Taylor and Martha Shaw Alden; born in Hawley, Mass., June 11, 1817 ; prepared for college in the academies at Worthington and Cummington, Mass .; graduated at Amherst College, 1843; was principal of Amherst Academy, 1843-44 ; studied in this Seminary, 1844-45, and com- pleted his theological course at Princeton Seminary, 1845-47 ; was licensed by the Presbytery of Brunswick, N. J., April 29, 1846. He was ordained pastor of the church in Wenham, Mass., October 27, 1847, and remained there until 1856; was pastor of the First Church, Middletown, Conn., 1856-68; of the church at West Killingly, Conn., 1869-72 ; of the Elmwood Church, Provi- dence, R. I., 1872-77; was secretary of the Rhode Island Missionary Society, residing at Providence, 1876-86; from 1887, the New England secretary of the American Tract Society, residing at Brookline, where for four years previous to 1897 he was pastor's assistant to Rev. Reuen Thomas, D. D.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Amherst College in 1863. He was the descendant of a long line of ministers, including Rev. Tim- othy Alden, of Yarmouth, Rev. Habijah Weld, of Attleboro, Rev. Thomas Weld of Dunstable, Rev. John Fox and Rev. Jabez Fox, of Woburn. Three of his brothers were ministers : Rev. Oliver Alden Taylor (Class of 1829), Rev. Timothy Alden Taylor (Class of 1838), and Rev. Rufus Taylor. He was reared in that hill-country district in Western Massachusetts where, within a few miles of each other as to place and a few days of each other as to time, were born Levi Parsons (Class of 1817), Pliny Fisk (Class of 1818), and Jonas King (Class of 1819), the first American missionaries to Jerusalem. He published The Patriot Soldier (a memoir of Edward Hamilton Brewer), and a few historical discourses.
From a memorial sermon delivered in the Harvard Church, Brookline, on the Sabbath evening after his death, by Rev. Reuen Thomas, D. D., these ex- tracts are made : " He was a type of the old New England clergyman, every inch a gentleman, always sunny, but never frivolous, living as in the great Task-
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master's eye, good to look upon, good to meet with, a smile for every child, and a word for every young man or woman. The very air seemed purer because he breathed it. One could scarcely conceive that he could do wrong if he tried. With a dignified personal presence and a reverential self-respect, it was easy to perceive that at heart he was a self-distrustful, genuinely humble man. . . . His long life had been bright and beautiful. He had passed from one duty to an- other with no indolent periods of transition. Wherever he had been he had been trusted and honored - certainly not less so here, where his last years have been spent. . . . His life was a unit. It was in harmony with itself. Christ was its center and all the radii in it focused themselves there. The intellect, the will, the conscience, the imagination, the affections, were all subordinated to that allegiance he owed to Christ, and all pulled together in one direction. Hence the consistency of his life and the influence which radiated from it."
Dr. Taylor was married, October 17, 1849, to Elizabeth Pride, of Spring- ville, Pa., daughter of Dr. William W. Pride and Hannah Thacher. She survives him, with one son and two daughters ; one son died in infancy and one at the age of sixteen.
Dr. Taylor died of general debility, at Brookline, Mass., April 20, 1898, aged eighty years, ten months, and nine days.
CLASS OF 1848.
Joseph Vanhorn Barks.
Son of Solomon Barks and Jane Shaul (both from Virginia); born in Baltimore, Fairfield Co., O., September 15, 1817; fitted for college at Gran- ville (O.) Academy; graduated at Marietta College, 1845; studied in Lane Theological Seminary, 1845-47; graduated at this Seminary, 1848; licensed by Pataskala Presbytery (New School), at Jersey, O., June 23, 1847; he im- mediately entered the home missionary field in Missouri, his first pastorate at Warsaw (where he was ordained by the Oregon Presbytery in April, 1849) extending from 1848 to 1863, when it was broken up by the conflicts of the war. He was then pastor of the Lick Creek church, Perry, 1863-64; at Troy, 1864-69; at Perry again, 1869-85; at Waverley, 1885-90; afterwards residing at Odessa, but continuing to preach in small churches at different points until his death.
Rev. Henry Bushnell, of Westerville, O., who was a classmate of Mr. Barks at Granville Academy, at Marietta College, at Lane Seminary, and at Andover, writes of him: "He was rather advanced in years when he came to Granville to begin his preparatory studies for the ministry, but he was resolute and diligent. He was an athlete in the sports of the young men, and had a generous spirit that endeared him to his companions. He was at once received into the best society of the place, and always maintained a good standing in scholarship. He was particularly gifted in oratory and generally led the school in such exercises. After graduating at Marietta he went with four of his class- mates to Lane Seminary, and sat for two years under the instruction of Drs. Beecher, Stowe, and Allen. Going with two of these classmates to Andover, he condensed into one year the studies of two, taking Professor Park's lectures in addition to those of the senior course. During the year his sympathies turned
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toward the South, so that after his marriage to a daughter of one of Granville's best families he accepted a commission as home missionary in southwestern Missouri, and within the borders of that State the rest of his life was spent. The impression abides with me of his lovable character. He was a diligent, consecrated, and moderately successful minister. He was fearless and firm in his convictions."
Mr. Barks was married, October 10, 1848, to Diana Lydia Bancroft, of Granville, O., daughter of Judge Samuel Bancroft and Clarissa Rose. She survives him, with three sons - a minister, a teacher, and an editor - and one daughter ; one son, a physician, and two daughters, have deceased.
Mr. Barks died of obstruction of the bowels, at Odessa, Mo., March 29, 1898, aged eighty-one years, six months, and fourteen days.
Ebenezer Cutler, D.D.
Son of Ezekiel Cutler and Betsey Atkins; born in Royalston, Mass., August 21, 1822; the family having removed to Waterford, Vt., in his infancy, he prepared for college at Newbury (Vt.) Seminary ; graduated at the University of Vermont, 1845; took the full course in this Seminary, 1845-48; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, at Andover, April 11, 1848. He supplied successively the churches in Derby and St. Albans, Vt., 1848-49, and was ordained over the latter, March 6, 1850, remaining in that pastorate until 1855. He was installed as pastor of the Union Church, Worcester, Mass., September 6, 1855, and continued in office for twenty-five years, being afterwards pastor emeritus until his death.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Ver- mont in 1866, and was a member of the Corporation of the University, 1853-57 . He was a member of the American Antiquarian Society, and Rev. Daniel Mer- riman, D.D., of Worcester (Class of 1868), read a biographical sketch of him before the Society at its last semi-annual session. Two of his sermons were published : The Rights of the Sword, a Thanksgiving discourse, in 1861, and Social Privileges and Obligations, 1874. He was one of the editors of the Con- gregational Review for three years.
Rev. Amos H. Coolidge (Class of 1856), for thirty-five years pastor at Leicester, adjoining Worcester, sends this tribute : "My acquaintance with Dr. Cutler extended over a period of more than forty years, beginning with the time when, as a timid divinity student, I came to be examined before that august and venerable body of men, the Worcester Central Association, and continuing to the end of his life. It was manifest to all that his thinking was deep and dis- criminating, his scholarship thorough and accurate, and his literary taste severely chaste and critical. It took time to understand him, and only those knew him who knew him well. Such learned that, definite and precise as he was, there ran through his thinking a highly imaginative and poetic vein, and that his grave and reverent manner concealed the play of a keen humor and wit, which at times bubbled up unexpectedly. They recognized, too, as they came into possession of it, the hidden wealth of his faithful, sympathetic, and enduring friendship. He held intelligently and firmly the great central truths of evangelical religion. He scorned sensationalism, but he impressed his hearers by the force and originality of his thought, his clearly cut and incisive
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style, and his earnest sincerity. He bore the trial of eighteen years of feeble- ness and consequent retirement from active service with serene and heroic resignation. Retaining the full vigor of his fertile mind to the end, he awaited in faith and hope the steadily approaching change and then closed his eyes, calmly as to a night's repose.'"
From the memorial discourse preached at his funeral by Rev. George H. Gould, D.D., of Worcester (Class of 1853), the following extract is taken : "Dr. Cutler was preeminently a character builder. He was one of God's master workmen in this city for nearly a generation. He built not with wood, hay and stubble, but with gold, silver and precious stones. He planted his whole ministry unshrinkingly on God's book, and from this inexhaustible quarry he excavated vast foundation principles, with which he has underpinned largely, even down to the present day, the whole domestic, municipal, and spiritual life of Union Church. ... Dr. Cutler was thus called to be largely an educator of educators - an invisible force behind visible forces, a power behind the bench, the school, the bar, the counting desk, the municipality. He believed in the Ten Commandments, in the whole Bible from cover to cover, as an in- errant text-book for the schooling of men in practical righteousness; in the New England Sabbath as the only conservator, in the long run, of American homes, the American church, the American commonwealth. Believing these things, he preached them fearlessly and faithfully, and so that his people could understand them. And let me say to you that the Worcester of today would be a very different city from what it is, if a generation ago Ebenezer Cutler had not lived and wrought for God within its borders."
Dr. Cutler was married, July 25, 1849, to Experience Jane Charlton, of Littleton, N.H., daughter of John Charlton and Experience Mason. She died June 5, 1859. He married, second, January 10, 1861, Marion Chappelle Eaton, of Worcester, daughter of Rev. William Eaton (Class of 1813) and Lydia San- ford, who survives him. A son, George Rutherford Cutler, a graduate of the University of Vermont and of Boston University Law School, resides at the West ; a son died at seven years, and a daughter at fourteen.
Dr. Cutler died of pneumonia, at Worcester, Mass., January 16, 1898, aged seventy-five years, four months, and twenty-six days.
Daniel Herbert Temple. (Resident Student.)
Son of Rev. Daniel Temple (Class of 1820) and Rachel Baker-Dix (sister of Gen. John A. Dix); born in Valetta, Malta (where his father was mission- ary), November 13, 1822; prepared for college under the tuition of his father at Smyrna, and of Nicholas Petrocokino, a native Greek (Amherst College, 1829); came to this country in 1840; entered sophomore class, Amherst Col- lege, graduating in 1843; instructor in Westfield (Mass.) Academy, 1843-44; principal of Monson (Mass.) Academy, 1844; studied in Bangor Theological Seminary, 1844-45, teaching also in a private school there; principal of Wash- ington Academy, East Machias, Me., 1845-47 ; studied in this Seminary as resident student, 1847-48 ; licensed to preach by Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, April 11, 1848. He taught a classical and Eng- lish school in Chicago, 1849-51 ; was ordained at Beardstown, Ill., May 25,
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1851, remaining there as pastor until 1854; preached at Sturbridge, Mass., in 1855; at Dixon, Ill., 1855-56; and at Aurora, Ill., 1856-63. Feeling then compelled, on account of his wife's health, to leave the active ministry, he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., and after one year to Bloomfield, N. J., where he resided until 1872. During this period he was extensively engaged in business, especially in exploring and working oil properties, being connected also with the reorganization of the Ohio and Mississippi and the Atlantic and Great Western railroads and going over the lines with Mr. Wells, of Wells, Fargo and Company, and Sir Morton Pito, an English capitalist. From 1872 to 1884 he resided in San Francisco, Cal., supplying the Presbyterian churches at Concord, Martinez, and Bolines, 1878-80, and at Menlo Park, 1881-83, having also a private school at Menlo Park, with Leland Stanford, Jr., as a special student. He was then honorably retired from the ministry, and afterward resided at Los Gatos, occasionally preaching, teaching in the Los Gatos High School, 1893-95, and having private pupils until within a week of his death.
He published in 1854 the Life and Letters of Rev. Daniel Temple, his father, and was a frequent contributor to the New York Evangelist. Senator E. B. Conklin, an elder in the church at Los Gatos, sends these words of per- sonal tribute : " Laid aside from the active duties of the ministry for the last thir- teen years, Mr. Temple has made his life useful by teaching. As a citizen and patriot he was always interested in affairs of government and faithful in dis- charging his duties as an elector. Affable and courteous in social life, his conversation always showed a wide range of study and observation. He took a deep interest in all our church work, extending to every new pastor, as he came to labor among us, a whole-hearted loyalty and support, and to the younger ministers was as a spiritual father. Mr. Temple was a man of faith and prayer, and held in great reverence the sacred Scriptures. He believed with all his heart in the power of the gospel to regenerate and save sinful man. His life and labors in our midst have been helpful to the cause of Christianity, and his memory is precious to the entire church and community of Los Gatos, where his well-rounded earthly life was closed."
Mr. Temple was married, September 3, 1849, to Louisa Maria Newlin, of Fishkill, N. Y., daughter of Isaac Newlin and Mary North. She died March 1, 1865. He married, second, October 8, 1872, Mary Hubbard Turrill, of Os- wego, N. Y., daughter of Hon. Joel Turrill and Mary Sullivan Hubbard. He had two sons, business men in Mexico, and a daughter, who graduated the present season from Leland Stanford Junior University.
Mr. Temple died of heart disease, at Los Gatos, Cal., September 9, 1897, aged seventy-four years, nine months, and twenty-seven days.
CLASS OF 1849.
George Alvan Howard, D.D.
Son of Joseph Howard (a merchant in New York City) and Anstiss Smith; born in Salem, Mass., January 22, 1816; fitted for college at Eames and Putnam's School, Brooklyn, N. Y .; entered the University of the City of New York in 1835 and remained until the junior year ; studied in Yale Divinity School, 1846-48, and graduated from this Seminary in 1849; was licensed to
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preach by the New Haven (Conn.) East Association, August 1, 1848. He was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian church at Catskill, N. Y., by the Pres- bytery of Columbia, July 17, 1850, and continued in that one charge forty years ; from 1890 was pastor emeritus, still residing in Catskill.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Hamilton College in 1870. He published several discourses of local value, in earlier years prepared book reviews for the Christian Union, and also contributed frequently to the New York Evangelist and the New York Times.
Rev. Christopher G. Hazard, his pastoral successor, sends this tribute : " His preaching increasingly concerned itself with Christ and centered itself upon Him. Always disinclined to abstract and controversial discussion, he yielded more and more to the idea that true knowledge is essentially concerned with personality and character. Continuing to the close of his long life and ministry the clearness, acuteness and vigorous power of his mind, he constantly increased in those rich qualities of style and feeling which are marks of ripe- ness. More and more chastened and subdued in thought, he never lost in force, in the charm of variety, in the purity of purpose. To the grace which was given to him as a minister of truth were added the attraction and power of a most genial and generous social nature, and the fruitful history of his nearly fifty years of labor in a single field is the natural result of the union of those elements. The preacher and the pastor were happily combined in him, and the vast assembly of 'all sorts and conditions of men' that gathered at last about his coffin was a touching and mighty tribute to the wideness of his sympathies, the largeness of his sphere, the true greatness of his character, and the extent of his influence and service. Even in the closing weeks of his life he was abundant in labors, and he was suddenly called out of ministry into rest, and unto reward in the midst of life that refused to submit to time, and to which it was difficult to attach the thought of age."
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