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Rev. David L. Yale, of Ellsworth, Me., another classmate, sends the fol- lowing : " During the three years of his Seminary course Mr. Smith sang in one of the Salem churches, this absence withdrawing him from the class life during its leisure hours. Yet his strong, unique personality made for him a large place in the regard of his classmates. Though he had given his voice the best of training, he used it as generously in the smallest of our social meetings as he did in the large Salem church, and for three years his clear, ringing voice imparted to the morning chapel singing a spirit that was hearty and full of faith. The Class of 1892 all remember the evening when, from the steps of Phillips Hall, with a passing organ-grinder for accompanist, he sang his way, impromptu, into all our hearts, and taught us that a strong love of fellowship lay underneath his apparent reserve. Impulsive, forceful, always strong, he has left an impress of himself on our class which must endure and which we all gladly cherish." At Evanston, Ill., where he had only a few weeks before his death selected a home to which he was about to remove his family, he had already won hearty appreciation at the First Congregational Church as a member of its choir and leader of its Sunday school singing. "On the previous Sunday [before his death] he had impressed all by his rendering of Tennyson's pathetic, and for himself prophetic, hymn of faith, 'Crossing the Bar.'"
Rev. De Witt S. Clark, D.D., of Salem (Class of 1868), writes of him : " His death was a great shock to us all here. He was a fine fellow, genuine, earnest, enterprising, and with excellent gifts. I think he had a special fitness for business life, in which he was developing a rather unusual ability. I greatly respected him for not waiting around for a pulpit such as he wanted, but for going right at the thing which offered, in a practical way."
Mr. Smith was married, September 22, 1892, to Mary Evelyn Lyman, of Salem, Mass., daughter of Jabez B. Lyman, M.D. (Class of 1845), and Lucy DePue. She survives him, with one son.
Mr. Smith died of injuries received from an explosion, in St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, Ill., April 19, 1898, aged thirty-one years, one month, and eight days.
CLASS OF 1896.
James Peter King.
Son of Rev. Adam G. King, D.D., and Elizabeth King George; born in Delhi, N. Y., March 30, 1870; prepared for college at Delaware Academy in Delhi; graduated at the College of New Jersey, 1892; studied theology in Berlin, 1892-93, and in Leipsic, 1893-94; was licensed to preach by the Stam- ford (Ont.) Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church, April 9, 1895; preached at Walton, Ont., in the summer of 1895; completed his theological study in this Seminary, 1895-96; was ordained, with three of his classmates, by a special council at the Seminary Chapel in Andover, June 8, 1898, Dr. Lyman Abbott preaching the sermon. Entering the home missionary service, he was pastor of the Congregational churches at Tyndall and Bonhomme, South Dakota, from September, 1896, to March, 1897. The care of these churches,
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twelve miles apart, was too much for his frail body, and in failing health he returned to his father's home in Galt, where he steadily declined until his death.
Mr. King's fine scholarship won constant recognition throughout his edu- cational career. In his preparatory course he took prizes for oratory, and in classics and mathematics. At Princeton he was awarded the Dickinson prize, the Alexander Guthrie McCosh prize, the Chancellor Green Mental Science Fellowship prize, and the English Salutatory at graduation. In the Seminary he received a prize of fifty dollars for an essay on the Theory of Evolution.
Rev. John Comin, a classmate and special friend, sends this tribute from Chamberlain, S. D .: "From the time I knew Mr. King first, as a student in the University of Berlin, until his death five years later, we were fast friends - inseparable in all our work, amusements, and plans. Of him it could be said most truly, 'he coveted the best gifts.' For anything trivial he had neither time nor inclination. He was a man thoroughly in earnest, and found his chief delight in wrestling with the great problems of philosophy and religion. But though he was exceptionally well equipped as a scholar and familiar with the world's best thought on the problems of life, he felt that his work lay along practical lines, and hence resolutely refused to be turned from the actual work of the ministry. As a minister he was faithful, both in his preparation for the pulpit and in the care of his people. If the humblest of his hearers received new light from his preaching he was delighted beyond measure. He saw and thoroughly appreciated the humorous side of life, and was as enthusiastic in his devotion to every kind of legitimate amusement as to the earnest work of life. He was not a man who talked much about his religious experience, even to his most intimate friends; but that he was deeply reverent no one could doubt. A braver, more uncomplaining soul through a long, tedious illness I never saw. To our narrowed vision it would seem that the world could better have spared many another man."
Mr. King died of tuberculosis, at Galt, Ont., November 23, 1897, aged twenty-seven years, seven months, and twenty-four days.
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The roll of our dead for the year includes thirty-six names. Although two of the number died in early manhood - one of these by accident - the average age of all is seventy years, three months, and twenty-two days. Twenty-three had passed beyond the limit of threescore years and ten, and seven beyond fourscore years.
Twenty-one were full graduates, ten took a partial course here, and five were in the Seminary as resident students or resident licentiates. Thirty-three out of the thirty-six men were college graduates, twelve coming from Amherst, five from Dartmouth, three from Yale and three from the University of Ver- mont, and one each from Bowdoin, Harvard, Illinois, Marietta, Maryville, Princeton, Union, Wabash, Waterville, and Williams.
The significant characteristic of the men whose record is here given is the long period of active, useful service which nearly every one was permitted to render. Professor Tyler, the first on the list, the oldest in years, and without question the most widely known of all, taught nearly sixty years in Amherst College, while Caleb Emery and Professor Griggs had each been in educational service for over forty years. Three were missionaries of the American Board - Laurie, Hazen, and Webb - and had labored respectively, either abroad or at home, for forty-three, fifty, and fifty-three years; and to this record should be added the long and devoted service of Ferguson in South Africa. Dr. Poor, Dr. Taylor, Joshua M. Chamberlain, Charles Strong Smith, and Elijah Cutler had for many years given valuable administrative service to the institutions of the church, while Dimond, Salter, and Grassie gave lavishly of their hearts and lives to Christian work in the great West. Ide, Tuttle, McCorkle, Howard, and others spent forty or more years in faithful pastoral service. All were true, earnest, successful men, whose lives have brought honor to their Seminary and borne abundant fruit to the glory of their divine Master.
The following men are still living of classes previous to and including the Class of 1838- sixty years ago; their average age is nearly eighty-eight years :
1831. Rev. Prof. EDWARDS A. PARK, D.D., LL.D., Andover, Mass. 89
1832. Rev. ELIAS RIGGS, D.D., LL.D., Constantinople, Turkey 87
1833. Rev. GEORGE W. KELLEY, Haverhill, Mass. 89
1834. Rev. J. JAY DANA, Housatonic, Mass. 86
Mr. JOSEPH L. PARTRIDGE, Brooklyn, N. Y. 94
Prof. SAMUEL PORTER, Washington, D. C. 88
1835. Rev. BELA FANCHER, Homer, Mich. 91
Rev. JOSEPH W. CROSS, West Boylston, Mass. 90
1836. Rev. Prof. JOSEPH PACKARD, D.D., Theological Seminary, Va. 85
1837. Rev. SAMUEL H. EMERY, D.D., Taunton, Mass. 82
Rev. JOHN WESLEY MERRILL, D.D., Concord, N. H. 90
Rev. JOHN PIKE, D.D., Rowley, Mass. . 84
Rev. EBENEZER G. PARSONS, Derry, N. H. 85
Rev. ERASTUS W. THAYER, Springfield, Ill. 86
1838. WILLIAM C. BURKE, M.D., Cheyenne, Wyo. . 86
Rev. Prof. SAMUEL HARRIS, D.D., LL.D., New Haven, Ct. . 84
Rev. THOMAS S. HUBBARD, Stockbridge, Vt. 86
Rev. WASHINGTON A. NICHOLS, Lake Forest, Ill. . 90
Rev. CHARLES S. SHERMAN, Manchester Green, Ct. 88
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
THE Association was reorganized in June, 1895. Its objects are to maintain a friendly acquaintance among the Alumni of the Seminary and a helpful interest in its welfare, to arrange for the regular meet- ing held during Anniversary Week at Andover, to provide for the distribution of the Seminary catalogue and anniversary programs, and especially to ensure the continued publication of the annual Necrology and Address List of members.
The Committee appointed last year to arrange for a second reunion of the Alumni in Boston decided to postpone the same until autumn, when due notice will be given.
A full Address List of all living Alumni is being prepared, but it was not possible to finish it in time for this anniversary. In order that this list may be complete and accurate, Alumni are specially requested to report any change in their own addresses, and to aid in securing those of their classmates. These addresses, with information coming to their knowledge of the death of any past student of the institution, should be sent to the Secretary.
All past students of the Seminary, including non-graduates, resident licentiates, and members of Advanced Classes, may become members of the Association. The annual fee of membership is one dollar, the payment of which entitles the member to receive the Seminary publications. Remittance of dues should be made to the Treasurer, Rev. W. L. Ropes, Andover.
OFFICERS.
REV. SAMUEL W. DIKE, LL.D., Class of 1866, Moderator, 1897. CHARLES C. TORREY, PH.D., Class of 1889,
REV. GEORGE H. GUTTERSON, Class of 1878, REV. GEORGE E. STREET, Class of 1863,
Executive
Committee,
1897-98.
REV. CALVIN M. CLARK, Class of 1888,
REV. C. C. CARPENTER, Andover, Class of 1875, Secretary, 1895-98.
REV. W. L. ROPES, Andover, Class of 1852, Treasurer, 1895-98.
ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
NECROLOGY,
1 898-99.
PREPARED FOR THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND PRESENTED AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 7, 1899, BY C. C. CARPENTER, SECRETARY.
Second Printed Series, No. 9.
BOSTON: BEACON PRESS : THOMAS TODD, PRINTER, 14 BEACON STREET, 1899.
INDEX.
Class.
Age.
Page.
1843. EBENEZER ALDEN
79
340
1842. DAVID MCGEE BARDWELL S2
339
1842. SAMUEL C. BARTLETT
80
336
1864. HENRY L. BAUGHER
58
362
1869. JAMES BRAND
65
364
1846. WILLIAM T. BRIGGS .
82
346
1870. THOMAS S. BURNELL
76
367
1851. IRA CASE
78
351
I845. A. HUNTINGTON CLAPP
80
342
1894. JOHN S. COLBY
47
371
1853. WILLIAM C. DICKINSON
72
353
1897 NORMAN DUTCHER
28
372
1845. SAMUEL B. FAIRBANK
75
344
1869. EBENEZER N. FERNALD
64 365
1897. WILLIAM C. FESSENDEN
29
373
1880. HARRISON W. FURBER .
48
370
1853. GEORGE H. GOULD
72
354
1849. JOHN H. GURNEY
77
349
1833. GEORGE W. KELLY .
90
330
1842. JOHN S. KIDDER .
86
338
1847. WILLIAM DE LOSS LOVE
78
347
1855. SPENCER MARSH
69
359
1854. JOHN O. MURRAY
71
357
18 57. ROSWELL D. PARKER
72
360
I839. PARKER PILLSBURY .
88
332
1845. GEORGE W. PORTER
81
345
1848. WILLIAM T. REYNOLDS
75
349
1877. WILLIAM C. ROGERS
49
370
1838. CHARLES S. SHERMAN
88
331
1853. ALFRED L. SKINNER
74
356
1871. JESSE P. SPROWLS
53
369
1869. CHARLES A. TOWLE .
61
366
1859. PLINY F. WARNER
67
362
1849. PHILO B. WILCOX
80
351
1840. WORCESTER WILLEY 90
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Trustees.
ROWLAND HAZARD
69
327
THEODORE M. OSBORNE
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NECROLOGY.
TRUSTEES.
Hon. Rowland Hazard.
Son of Hon. Rowland Gibson Hazard, LL.D., and Caroline Newbold; born in Newport, R. I., August 16, 1829; when he was four years old his father's home was removed to Peace Dale, R. I. ; at six years of age he attended the Nine Partners' School in Dutchess County, N. Y., and at seven, Kingston (R. I.) Academy; studied Latin and mathematics under private tuition of Rev. Thomas Vernon, at Kingston, R. I .; in 1845 entered Haverford School, Haverford, Pa., and in 1846, Brown University, graduating in 1849. Traveling and studying abroad, 1850 and 1851, in company with his classmate and inti- mate friend, James B. Angell (now president of Michigan University), he returned to begin his career as a manufacturer at Peace Dale, which continued to be his residence and the scene of his many-sided business and benevolent activities throughout his life.
Mr. Hazard was superintendent of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company from 1855, and in 1864 the treasurer and senior partner. His business interests were extensive and varied. In 1881 he introduced the manufacture of soda, by the ammonia process, into this country, organizing a company for its production in Syracuse, N. Y., of which he was the president. He owned for several years a lead mine in Missouri, and became personally familiar with the details of mining processes and methods. He was president of the What Cheer Insurance Company, and of other business and industrial organizations. He was specially interested in agriculture and the improvement of farming stock ; he was presi- dent of the Washington County Agricultural Society from its foundation in 1876, and built a memorial hall on its fair grounds at West Kingston, where he delivered annual addresses of notable value. He was an expert in architecture ; planned and built, not only in connection with his own works, but the public buildings and picturesque stone bridges of Peace Dale, and was chairman of the committee for construction of the library of Brown University.
He was a member of the Rhode Island Historical Society and of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; a trustee of Brown University, 1875-88, and from 1888 one of the Fellows of the institution; a trustee of the Butler Hospital for the Insane, a corporate member of the American Board of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions from 1877, and one of the Board of Trustees of this Seminary, elected in 1889 to take the place of Hon. Horace Fairbanks of Vermont. He was for many years the moderator of the annual town meeting in South Kingstown, a representative of the town in the State Legislature, and a member of the State Senate. In 1875 he was an independent candidate for governor of Rhode Island, and although receiving a plurality of the popular vote, failed of an election in the Legislature.
Side by side with Mr. Hazard's fidelity to the duties of private business and public trust was his unceasing, untiring devotion to the welfare of others, in
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a wide range of educational and philanthropic interests. He introduced the profit-sharing system into his mills, remodeled the tenement houses of his establishment, and encouraged his employees to purchase their own homes. He was instrumental in establishing a public library and a high school, for which he gave the land, built (with his brother) a stone Memorial Hall at Peace Dale in memory of his father, and a stone edifice for the Peace Dale Congregational Church, which was organized in his own house in 1857, and to which he left a generous bequest. He bequeathed one hundred thousand dollars to Brown University.
Rev. James G. Vose, D.D., of Providence, R. I. (Class of 1854), a fellow- trustee of the Seminary, writes : "The life of Mr. Hazard was full of usefulness and surrounded by great advantages and opportunities, well improved. He led a quiet country life in his boyhood, a keen observer, a thoughtful, modest youth. His father, Rowland G. Hazard, the eminent philosopher, gave him both the example and the precept of great thoroughness and accuracy in all that he did. At Brown University he was fortunate in the companionship of students of high character, who afterwards attained great distinction. The influence of President Wayland was at its height and his colleagues in teaching were eminent men. Brought up a Quaker, Mr. Hazard was always devout, and in college received a new impulse in the Christian life. On his marriage he and his wife founded the Congregational Church in Peace Dale, and their fostering care made it a great blessing to the whole village. It is now one of the most prosperous churches in Rhode Island. Mr. Hazard was deeply inter- ested in missions and a warm advocate of a liberal policy, and a generous giver to the American Board. He was independent in all his views, a man of the highest rectitude and truthfulness. He might easily have attained any office in the State, had he been more pliant in political methods. He once received a plurality of votes for governor of the State, and no man would have better filled the chair of senator in Congress. But he had no fancy for the arts of self- advancement. He aimed to instruct and elevate his fellow-citizens, and his addresses on public occasions were well worth preserving. The memorial ser- vice on the last day of the year 1898 was very impressive. The address of President Angell of Ann Arbor, his life-long friend, was full of deep pathos and a worthy tribute to the noblest qualities. His domestic life was filled with rare happiness and harmony, until clouded by the illness and death of his beloved wife, a woman of rare attractiveness and exalted character. Children and grandchildren grew up around them, and we may hope and believe that the virtues of his noble ancestry will live again in them."
Mr. Hazard was married, March 29, 1854, to Margaret Anna Rood, of Philadelphia, Pa., daughter of Rev. Anson Rood and Alida Gouverneur Ogden. She died August 7, 1895. He left two sons, graduates of Brown University, who succeeded him in the care of his manufacturing interests, and three daugh- ters, one of whom, Miss Caroline Hazard, is the president-elect of Wellesley College.
Mr. Hazard died of degeneration of the heart, at Glen Springs, N. Y., August 16, 1893, on his sixty-ninth birthday.
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Theodore Moody Osborne.
Son of George Abbott Osborne and Hannah Sawyer Moody; born in Peabody (then the South Parish of Danvers), Mass., November 25, 1849; fitted for college at the Peabody High School ; graduated at Harvard College, 1871 ; studied law with Hon. William D. Northend, Salem; studied civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1871-72; in 1872 engaged in engineering in Nebraska, in the employ of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company ; was librarian of the Peabody Institute, Peabody, Mass., 1873-80. Having studied law with Hon. William D. Northend, Salem, he was admitted to the bar in January, 1880, and practiced law in Salem; in 1885 opened an office (Osborne & Marshall) in Boston, retaining his residence in Salem. From 1888 to the time of his death he was assistant clerk of the Supe- rior Court for Suffolk County, in charge as clerk of the equity division of the court.
Mr. Osborne served on the School Board of Peabody, and was a member of the Essex Institute, of the Essex Congregational Club, and of the Salem Oratorio. He was for several years a deacon in the South Congregational Church, Salem, to which he had transferred his membership from the South Church, Peabody. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Phillips Academy (and Andover Theological Seminary) from 1895. He wrote a valu- able history of the town of Peabody for the History of Essex County.
Hon. Robert R. Bishop of the Trustees sends the following tribute to his colleague on the Board : " Mr. Osborne possessed a very beautiful character. To quietness of disposition and simplicity of tastes he added strength of con- viction and marked clearness of mind. He was very thoroughly trained in legal studies, and was without a superior in his knowledge of equity practice. During his occupancy of the position of equity clerk, for more than ten years, he performed a great amount of accurate, painstaking and valuable work, and was of great assistance to the court. By his fidelity, intelligence and skill in that department he won the high regard both of the court and of the members of the bar, and by his demeanor attached himself to many earnest friends, who deplore his loss.
Mr. Osborne was married, October 19, 1882, to Soledad Alicia Machado, of Salem, Mass., daughter of Juan Francisco Machado and Elizabeth F. Jones. She survives him, with a son and daughter.
Mr. Osborne died in Boston, February 6, 1899, aged forty-nine years, two months, and fifteen days.
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ALUMNI.
CLASS OF 1833.
George Washington Kelly.
Son of Nathaniel Kelly and Catherine Surbaugh; born in Greenbriar County, Va. (now West Virginia), August 5, 1808; fitted for college at Lewis- burg (Va.) Academy; graduated at Ohio University in 1830; took the full course in this Seminary, 1830-1833, his graduating address, September 11, 1833, being on "The Influence of Robert Hall on Pulpit Discourse ;" was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Milton Badger, Andover, April 17, 1833. He was ordained pastor over the church in Hamilton, Mass., July 3, 1834, remaining there sixteen years, until 1850. He resided afterwards in Haverhill until his death.
The history of his early years is an interesting one. Born and raised in a slave State, he came to have a strong abhorrence of slavery, which was so intensified by his witnessing, at the age of nineteen, the cruel treatment of a female slave, that he resolved to leave the land of slavery forever. He made his way through the wilderness, forded the Ohio, and entered - one year in advance - the University at Athens. After his graduation he crossed the Alleghanies on horseback to Baltimore, where he sold his horse and continued his journey to Andover by the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to Philadelphia, and thence by stage.
The most active and the happiest part of his life was while engaged in his Hamilton pastorate. "Gail Hamilton " was one of his parishioners there, and in the paper entitled " A Byway of History " in X-Rays - her last work - thus speaks of him: "Rev. J. B. Felt occupied the pulpit but ten years, through failure of health having been unable to preach for almost a year. His successor, Rev. George W. Kelly, of Virginia, was also obliged to resign his pulpit for the same reason, but remained long enough to endear himself to his people as an incarnation of Christian gentleness, patience, and beneficence. Ministered to by loving hands, the serene evening of his life is alight with the coming dawn." Rev. J. G. Nichols (Class of 1894), the present pastor at Hamilton, writes of Mr. Kelly's pastorate there : " His ministry was a very successful one in every way. He was an acceptable preacher and very much beloved as a pastor. The church was stirred by a mighty revival in 1843, a large number joining the church in that and the succeeding years, some of whom remain to this day, so that the church has not yet ceased to feel the influence of his work. All through his life he continued to pray for the welfare of this his only church, and in his last hours, when in a semi-unconscious state, he talked constantly about Hamilton and his people, mentioning the names of many who had been dead for many years."
His life at Haverhill was a very quiet one, but by no means inactive, his counsel and aid being heartily enlisted in carrying out the benevolent plans of Mr. David Marsh, his father-in-law, in the maintenance of religious and educa- tional institutions, as also in writing and speaking in behalf of the anti-slavery
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movement. He lived to see this triumphant and his native Virginia a free State. Mr. Kelly was a member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, and gave much time to the study of early American history. Rev. Calvin M. Clark (Class of 1888), pastor of the Centre Church, Haverhill, writes : "Ever since I have known Mr. Kelly, he has been more than an octogenarian, and of course in failing health and powers. Despite, however, his infirmities, I have always been impressed with his eagerness to keep himself informed of all that was going on, and with his intelligence of opinion on matters of real interest. He was the interested, thoughtful scholar to the last. None who knew him at all could have failed to remark, also, his urbanity of manner. I shall never forget with what considerateness and courtliness of manner the aged parishioner, once himself a pastor, met the young man who had just entered upon the pastorate of the church of which he was a member during all the last years of his life. That church has reason to remember, and with gratitude, its aged member, for in the days of his activity, prior to the memory of most of the present members, he had served it well as deacon, Sunday school teacher, clerk, and in other capacities. Mr. Kelly has added another proof of the correctness of the Word: 'The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.' He gave ample illustra- tion of how one may grow old beautifully. In no small degree, for him, was the best wine reserved for the feast's end."
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