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He died of neuralgia of the heart, at Wrentham, Mass., April 11, 1891, aged sixty-five years. He was unmarried.
Oliver Westcott Winchester.
Son of Henry Winchester and Isabel O. Foot; born in Madrid, N.Y., April 18, 1826; prepared for college at Castleton (Vt.) Seminary; graduated at Middlebury College, 1849; taught at Madrid and in the St Lawrence Academy, Potsdam, N.Y., 1849-50, at Raleigh, Tenn., 1850-51, and in the Adelphian Academy, North Bridgewater, Mass., 1852-53; in the Seminary, 1851-52 and 1854-56. He was ordained in Shoreham, Vt., September 18, 1856, as a foreign missionary, and was in the service of the American Board in Turkey : in Constantinople, 1857-58; Tocat, 1858-59; Sivas, 1859-65. Returning to this
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country, he was successively in charge of churches at Wadham's Mills, N.Y., 1866-67 ; Beekmantown, N. Y., 1867-69; Manistee, Mich., 1869-71 ; Jeffer- son, Wis., 1872-75 ; Fergus Falls, Minn., 1875-81; Reedsburg, Wis., 1881-87 ; Cambria, Wis., 1887-89 ; Oregon, Wis., 1889-90. These were all Presbyterian churches, except the one first named. " His judicious mind, catholicity of spirit, firmness of purpose, and abounding humor, constituted him a man of unusual power."
He married, October 9, 1856, Janette S., daughter of Noah Jones, Jr., of Shoreham, Vt., who survives him, with two sons and one daughter, one son having died in infancy.
Mr. Winchester died of heart failure, in Oregon, Wis., November 7, 1890, at the age of sixty-four years, and was buried at his former home in Reedsburg.
Lyman Marshall. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Moody Marshall and Sarah Beard ; born in East Weare, N. H., June 20, 1823; prepared for college at Pembroke (N. H.) Academy; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1850; taught in Andover, N. H. and Clinton, N. J .; studied law and was ready for admission to the bar, when he decided to prepare for the ministry; in the Seminary, 1853-55. He was ordained at Manchester, N. H., October 8, 1856, and was city missionary there until 1860; was pastor in Greenfield, N. H., 1860-63, and in Harrisville, N. H., 1864-65. Removing then to the West, he served the Presbyterian church in St. Peter, Minn., for four years, and settled in Lebanon, Ill., in 1871. He resigned this pastorate in 1880, but after preaching a year in Greenfield, Ill., returned to Lebanon, and continued his charge there until 1887, being afterwards pastor emeritus. "A thoroughly consecrated man, zealous for the cause of Christ, and unremitting in his efforts for the moral and spiritual elevation of the community." " His departure was very sudden. On the previous Sabbath he preached with unusual power and eloquence from the text, Go up higher."
He was married, November 25, 1851, to Eliza, daughter of Stephen Win- gate, of Great Falls, N. H. She survives him, with two sons, both college graduates.
Mr. Marshall died of paralysis of the brain, in Lebanon, Ill., November 16, 1890, aged sixty-seven years.
OLASS OF 1864.
Henry Franklin Clough Nichols.
Son of Nicholas Nichols and Mary Jewett Barstow ; born in Kingston, N. H., February 9, 1833 ; prepared for college at Pembroke (N. H.) Academy; grad- uated at Williams College, 1859; principal of Canton (N. Y.) Academy, 1859- 61 ; in Union Theological Seminary, 1861-62; in this Seminary, 1862-64, from Haverhill, Mass. He was licensed to preach at Windham, N. H., January 12, 1864. In the winter of 1864-65 he was in the service of the United States Christian Commission at Fortress Monroe and in front of Petersburg. In the summer of 1865 he preached at Boxboro, Mass., then for two years in Norfolk, N. Y. His health forbidding him to continue in the ministry, he settled in 1868 at New Lisbon, Wis., and carried on extensively and successfully the lumbering business, starting also the year before his death an establishment for forging
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iron at Superior, Wis. He was prominent in public matters in his city, and repeatedly represented it in the State Legislature. A New Lisbon newspaper said : " Mr. Nichols was the chief support in every way of the Congregational church of this city; reading sermons when there was no minister, visiting the sick and the sorrowing, leading the choir, and contributing liberally in money."
He was married, May 12, 1868, to Nettie Williams, of Concord, N. H. She survives him with four sons and one daughter, one son having died in childhood.
Mr. Nichols died of heart failure, at Superior, Wis., June 4, 1890, aged fifty-seven years.
CLASS OF 1871.
Benjamin Stephen Adams. (Special Course.)
Son of Benjamin Adams and Abi Heald; born in Carlisle, Mass., December 16, 1836; was for several years in business at the far West; graduated in the special course of this Seminary, 1871. He was ordained at Cabot, Vt., Novem- ber 22, 1871, and pastor there until 1881; in Glover, Vt., 1881-84 ; in Westford, Vt., 1884-88 ; in Glover again, 1888-90; in East St. Johnsbury, Vt., 1890. Rev. Edward T. Fairbanks (Andover Seminary, 1863), of St. Johnsbury, writes : "From beginning to end his ministry was gentle, wise, effective. That God had called him to be a minister he never doubted, and though his opportunities of liberal education were limited, he made such proof of his ministry as remains and is spoken of now in all places where he lived. The power of gentleness made him great in usefulness to the end."
He was married, June 16, 1875, to Eliza A., daughter of Solomon Cole, of Stark, N. H., who survives him with one son.
He died of rheumatism of the heart, in East St. Johnsbury, Vt., January 2, 1891, aged fifty-four years.
CLASS OF 1886.
John Alexander Macdonald.
Son of Duncan Macdonald and Mary McPhee; born in Hopewell, N. S., November 6, 1849. While working at the carpenter's trade in Boston, he decided to devote himself to the ministry, and began his preparation in the New Glasgow (N. S.) High School. His studies being interrupted by a long illness, he was sent as missionary teacher to the island of Trinidad, W. I., where he labored from 1874 to 1877. He took a special course in Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S., 1877-79, continuing his study at the Pine Hill Divinity School, Halifax, and doing home missionary work in New Brunswick, 1881-82. He was in the Seminary, 1882-84, but seeking a more favorable climate, served as home missionary at Benson, Arizona, for a few months, and afterwards at different places in California. He continued his studies in the Pacific Theo- logical Seminary at Oakland, in the class of 1885, and was ordained pastor at Lincoln, Cal., May 21, 1885. He was soon compelled to relinquish this charge, and returning East, graduated at this Seminary in 1886. Though having charge for a short time of a Presbyterian church in South Framingham, Mass., and afterwards supplying congregations in the vicinity of his Nova Scotia home,
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" the last few years of his life witnessed a continual fight with misfortune and sickness." His ministerial work, though brief and only kept up by an indomi- table will, bore abundant fruit. " He was specially interested in young men, and his own noble life has left its impress on many a young man now living."
Mr. Macdonald died of consumption, in Hopewell, N. S., January 29, 1890, at the age of forty years.
Of the forty-six names recorded above, ten belong strictly to the report of previous years. Twenty-six of the number were full graduates. The average age is seventy-six years, eight months, ten days-a higher average than any reached during the ten years of our printed reports, and larger by nearly six years than the total average for that period. Two men were over ninety ; nineteen, over eighty; fourteen, over seventy; eight, over sixty; two, over fifty ; only one under that age.
Dr. Herman Halsey, of the class of 1815, who has been since 1880 the senior alumnus of the Seminary, died, full of days and of peace, March 23; Dr. Frederic E. Cannon, of Geneva, N. Y., of the class of 1824, passed away a few days later; and Rev. Paul Couch, of the class of 1826, who had served in the active ministry until his eighty-fourth year, a few days earlier. Isaac Watts Wheelwright, of South Byfield, Mass., who graduated in 1825, is now the first on our list, although Peter Kimball, of the next class, still living at Perth Amboy, N.J., is his senior in age, being in his ninety-ninth year. Six men on our record are from the class of 1831, which, although the largest class save one in the eighty years' history of the Seminary, has but one sur- viving member - PROFESSOR PARK.
With a single exception, and that of a man who entered the ministry in middle life, these forty-six men were all college graduates, Dartmouth edu- cating eleven; Amherst, eight; Williams, five; Yale, five; Union, four ; Bow- doin, two; Middlebury, two; Brown, Harvard, Illinois, Miami, Dalhousie, King's, the Universities of New York and Pennsylvania, one each.
The roll is full of honored names : Professor Phelps, the revered teacher of a large majority of living alumni; Dr. Dexter, the learned historian and journalist of the denomination; Dr. Cheever, the elegant writer and eloquent agitator; Dr. Welch, many years professor in Union College and Auburn Seminary; Dr. Greeley, the hard-working Home Missionary Secretary in New Hampshire; Dr. Folsom of the Unitarian Church, Drs. Megie and Newell of the Presbyterian Church, Dr. Cushman of the Episcopal Church, and Dr. Crawley of the Baptist Church; life-long and faithful pastors in our own communion, like Sewall Tenney and Rowland Ayres; men who have given their lives to teaching, like Calvin Butler and Abel Wood; foreign mission- aries and home missionaries, headed by Boutwell, the earnest pioneer among the Ojibways; and "other fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life."
ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
NECROLOGY,
1891-92.
PREPARED FOR THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, AND PRESENTED AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 15th, 1892, BY C. C. CARPENTER, SECRETARY.
Second Printed Series, Number 2.
BOSTON: BEACON PRESS : THOMAS TODD, PRINTER, I SOMERSET STREET.
1892.
ALUMNI COMMITTEE.
REV. PROF. EDWARD Y. HINCKS, D.D.
REV. ERASTUS BLAKESLEE.
REV. EDWARD S. TEAD. REV. HENRY J. PATRICK, D.D.
REV. C. C. CARPENTER, Secretary.
NOTICE.
THIS Obituary Record is published annually in connection with the meeting of the Alumni Association at the June anni- versaries. Alumni are earnestly requested to aid in its prepara- tion by communicating the fact of the death of any past member of the Seminary, together with any newspaper notices or memorial sketches. These, with change of address, or other information relating to the record of living alumni, should be sent to the Secretary at Andover.
INDEX.
Class. IS 53. IS31. IS 57. IS62.
CHARLES A. AIKEN, D.D.
64
52
JONATHAN T. BACKUS, D.D., LL.D.
82
38
JOHN G. BAIRD
65
54
EDWIN S. BEARD
59
55
EDMUND H. BLANCHARD
70
51
JONATHAN BLANCHARD
8I
42
AUSTIN H. BURR
42
61
*HENRY CALLAHAN
77
65
GEORGE CONSTANTINE, D.D.
5S
55
I 863. ALBERT I. DUTTON
60
63 56
IS67.
SAMUEL E. EVANS
50
41 58
I834.
DAVID FOSDICK
78
40
1853.
ROSWELL FOSTER .
67
53 62
1866.
ELBRIDGE GERRY .
54
57
IS51.
JOHN G. HALE
67
50
1873.
ALFRED H. HALL
46
61
1840.
FRANKLIN D. HARRIS
79
44
18 30.
GEORGE W. HATHAWAY
83
37
1838. 1845. 1846.
JAMES HERRICK
77
47
1840. IS28.
ADDISON KINGSBURY, D.D.
91
37
1834.
*ELIAS LOOMIS, LL.D.
78
39 64 39 60
IS40. JOSIAH W. PEET .
83
44 58
1846.
FRANCIS G. PRATT
70
49
1835.
ALEXANDER J. SESSIONS
82
41 45
1887.
WILLIAM J. SKELTON .
35
62
IS43.
THOMAS H. SKINNER, D.D., LL.D.
71
46
1869.
EDWARD P. SMITH, PH. D.
52
59 48
1849.
ALBERT TOLMAN
67
50
18 57.
*ABNER L. TRAIN .
60
66
1844. JEREMY W. TUCK
80
46 64
1851.
ORLANDO H. WHITE, D.D.
72
51
1838. ARTEMAS A. WOOD, D.D.
80
43
1860.
HENRY D. WOODWORTH .
65
54
*Died previous to this year, but not previously reported.
69
49
*GIDEON S. JOHNSON
78
66
1834. LEWIS F. LAINE
85
IS33.
JOSEPH LORING
87
1870.
LUCIAN D. MEARS
53
1868.
SAMUEL W. POWELL
54
I840. CHARLES C. SHACKFORD
76
IS45.
SAMUEL J. SPALDING, D.D.
71
1834.
*SETH H. WALDO
88
Age.
Page.
I852. IS 37 I875 1840. 1862. 1830.
*JAMES T. DICKINSON
77
IS36. LUCIUS R. EASTMAN
82
1887. HENRY A. FREDERICK
37
ASA HEMENWAY
81
43
JOHN S. HOLMES
NECROLOGY.
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CLASS OF 1828.
Addison Kingsbury, D.D.
Son of Joseph Kingsbury and Lois Porter ; born in Coventry, Conn., July 5, 1800; prepared for college under the private instruction of Rev. George A. Calhoun (Class of 1817), Coventry ; entered Amherst College. 1823, but com- pelled by serious sickness to leave after first year; taught at Norwich Falls, Conn .; in this Seminary, 1825-28; licensed by the Andover Association, meet- ing with Rev. Freegrace Raynolds, Wilmington, April 22, 1828. He was ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of Newburyport, September 25, 1828, and labored for one year as a home missionary in Washington County, Ohio; was pastor of the Presbyterian churches of Belpre and Warren, Ohio, 1829-39, and in Putnam (now a ward of Zanesville), Ohio, 1840-78; afterwards pastor emeri- tus, residing at Marietta, Ohio, until his death. He was a member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston, a trustee for thirty-eight years of the Putnam Female Seminary, for thirty-one years of Lane Theological Semi- nary, and for fifty-three years of Marietta College. The last named institution conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1854. He published two historical sketches of his church at Putnam and a History of the Synod of Ohio. He was from the church at Coventry, Conn., in which Harlan Page was reared, and drank largely of the spirit of that devoted man. Mr. Page having married a sister of Dr. Kingsbury, their correspondence was frequent and helpful. Dr. H. M. Field said, in the New York Evangelist : " He was probably the oldest and up to recent years almost the best-known of our ministers west of the Ohio. He was among the most zealous and efficient of those pioneers of the Church who began their ministry at the very front, when Ohio was yet largely a wilder- ness."
He was married, April 27, 1830, to Emma Little, of West Boscawen (now Webster), N.H., daughter of Jesse Little and Martha Gerrish. She died August 11, 1830, and he married, August 20, 1832, Mary Farrar Price of the same town, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer Price and Lucy Farrar, who died January 17, 1888. Of three sons, one died in childhood. The others are graduates of Marietta College.
Dr. Kingsbury died of la grippe, at Marietta, Ohio, January 25, 1892, in the ninety-second year of his age.
CLASS OF 1830.
George Whitefield Hathaway.
Son of Washington Hathaway and Deborah Winslow; born in Freetown, Mass., December 11, 1807 ; prepared for college under Dr. Thomas Bump, of Freetown; entered Brown University in 1822, and took his freshman and sopho- more years there, finishing his course at Williams College, 1827; in this Semi-
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nary, 1827-30; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Milton Badger, Andover, April 21, 1830; spent about a year in the service of the American Board as traveling agent, and as assistant at the Rooms in Boston ; under the auspices of the Massachusetts Missionary Society preached for a few months, in 1832, at Canton, Mass., and also at West Bridgewater, Mass. March 20, 1833, he was ordained as pastor of the church in Bloomfield (now a part of Skowhegan), Me., remaining there twenty-seven years, until 1860. Serving for a year as acting pastor at Grinnell, Io., he returned to his home in Maine at the breaking out of the war in 1861, and resided there until 1877, with the exception of two years, 1863-65, when he was chaplain of the 19th Maine Volunteers. Before that service he supplied regularly feeble churches in the vicinity, and afterwards preached occasionally. He resided in Compton, Cal., from 1878 to 1882, and subsequently in Los Angeles, Cal.
Mr. Hathaway published a Lecture on the Maine Law, and several sermons. He represented his town in the Maine Legislature in 1857, 1863, 1866, and 1871. Rev. Benjamin Tappan, D.D., Norridgewock, Me., said in his memorial address : " He was a man of remarkably clear thought, who knew what he did know - and this was by no means small in amount - very thoroughly, and who had great power of clear and forcible expression. . . . He was a man of very positive and strong convictions, and always bold in uttering them. He was the stuff of which reformers are made. He struck very powerful blows for tem- perance and for liberty in the period of his life when there was so much occasion for such. He was a man of strong and deep feeling, capable of glowing indig- nation at wrong and outrage of every kind, of fervent enthusiasm for every- thing right and good."
He was married, January 8, 1835, to Mary Susannah Weston Locke, of Bloomfield, daughter of Josiah Locke and Susannah Patterson. She died March 4, 1849; and he married, October 24, 1850, her sister, Ann Lucretia Locke, who died September 20, 1876. Of two sons and six daughters, one son and three daughters are deceased. The son, Philo Hathaway, died on the United States Sloop Decatur in 1857, being private secretary to Commander, afterwards Admiral, Thatcher.
Mr. Hathaway died of paralysis, at Los Angeles, Cal., July 1, 1891, in the eighty-fourth year of his age.
CLASS OF 1831.
Jonathan Trumbull Backus, D.D., LL.D. (Resident licentiate.)
Son of Eleazer Fitch Backus and Elizabeth Huntington Chester; born in Albany, N.Y., January 27, 1809; prepared for college at Albany Academy ; graduated at Columbia College, 1827; took the full course at Princeton Theo- logical Seminary, 1827-30; spent the following year in this Seminary as resident licentiate. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New York in 1830, and ordained by the Presbytery of Albany, December 6, 1832, as the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Schenectady, N. Y. After a successful pastorate of forty years, he was compelled by blindness to discontinue active labor in 1873, but still continued his residence at Schenectady.
He was a prominent trustee of Union College from 1852 to 1889, from which institution he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1847, and that of Doctor of Laws in 1875. He was elected by acclamation the moderator of the
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Reunion General Assembly at Philadelphia in 1870. His only publications were the history of his church at Schenectady during its first century, and the sermon at the funeral of his intimate friend and co-worker, Pres. Eliphalet Nott. "His active ministry was one of prayer and power, and his latter years a benediction. During the nine years of his blindness he often preached, repeating the hymns and Scripture lessons with unfailing accuracy. It would be difficult to estimate the value of his life during those sixty years, to his own church, the community in which he lived, and the church at large."
Dr. Backus was married, April 30, 1835, to Anne Eliza Walworth, of Sara- toga Springs, N.Y., daughter of Chancellor Reuben Hyde Walworth and Maria Ketchum Averill. Two sons died in childhood; two sons and four daughters, with their mother, are living. One of the sons is a minister in Kansas City, Kan., and the other a lawyer in New York City.
Dr. Backus died of old age, at Schenectady, N. Y., January 21, 1892, lacking six days of being eighty-three years old.
CLASS OF 1833.
Joseph Loring.
Son of William Loring and Anna Drinkwater; born in North Yarmouth (now Cumberland), Me., March 28, 1804; prepared for college at North Yar- mouth and Gorham (Me.) Academies ; graduated at Bowdoin College, 1828, attending also the course of medical lectures in his senior year; in this Semi- nary, 1830-33. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meet- ing with Rev. Milton Badger, Andover, April 17, 1833, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Newburyport, at Methuen, September 9, 1833, as home mis- sionary. He labored successively for two years in Bainbridge and Andover, Ohio, returning then to Maine, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was pastor in Lebanon eighteen years, from 1836 to 1854, and in Pownal from 1855 to 1859. He supplied at Monson and Blanchard, 1859-60; at West Falmouth, 1861-62; at Raymond and Casco, 1862-63; at North Edgecomb, 1865-74. From 1874 he resided at East Otisfield without charge.
" A man of most unflinching integrity and martyr-like devotion to principle, he never yielded his ideas of right to the pressure of circumstances or of custom. In Otisfield, where he passed his later years, he was highly respected, and was familiarly called ' Father Loring.'""
He was married, August 30, 1837, to Susan Knapp Hancock, of Franklin N.H., daughter of John Hancock and Dorothy Sanborn, who survives him. Of seven children, two sons and four daughters are living.
Mr. Loring died of liver complaint, combined with the feebleness of old age, at East Ot:sfield, Me., February 11, 1892, being nearly eighty-eight years old.
CLASS OF 1834.
Lewis Flanders Laine.
Son of Daniel Lane and Esther Fogg; born in Loudon, N.H., September 6, 1806; prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy ; entered the sophomore class of Dartmouth College, graduating in 1830 ; principal of Woodman San- bornton (N.H.) Academy, 1830-31 ; student in this Seminary, 1831-34 ; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Professor Emerson at
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Andover, April 1, 1834. He entered the home missionary service, and started at once on his " long and arduous journey to Ohio," via the Erie Canal. Feb- ruary 18, 1835, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Bruns- wick, Ohio, having also charge of the church in the adjoining town of Hinckley. He was afterwards pastor at Bath, Ohio, nine years, and at Portland, N.Y., twelve years. From 1860 to 1874 he was acting pastor of the Presbyterian church in Canisteo, N.Y., residing afterward in that place until his death.
He was chaplain of a regiment of militia while in Brunswick, postmaster at Bath, Superintendent of Schools at Portland, and one of the founders of the Canisteo Academy, of whose board of trustees he was the president until his death. It was said at his funeral: " Few lives have made themselves felt in the community in so many directions. He has given shape to, and put in motion, forces which shall move on like the rivers of God, blessing the people."
Mr. Laine was married, July 14, 1834, to Charlotte Mitchell, of Boxford, Mass., daughter of Capt. Daniel Mitchell and Hannah Hovey, who died August 16, 1835. March 10, 1836, he married Vesta Richards, of Chatham, Ohio, daughter of Daniel Richards and Celia Allen. She died March 15, 1844, and his third wife, married October 23, 1844, was Alida Wood, of Madison, Ohio, daughter of Nathan Wood and Sarah Tracy. She survives him. Of seven children, two sons died in infancy, one son was a Union soldier and killed at the battle of Cold Harbor in 1864, two sons and two daughters are living.
Mr. Laine died of paralysis, at Canisteo, N.Y., December 9, 1891, aged eighty-five years.
David Fosdick. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Dea. David Fosdick and Joanna Skelton; born in Charlestown, Mass., November 9, 1813; prepared for college at Bradford Academy; gradu- ated at Amherst College, 1831 ; in this Seminary, 1831-33; resided at his home in Charlestown, at Brookline, at Andover (where he had private classes of stu- dents in German), and at Groton, until 1841. He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in Sterling, Mass., March 3, 1841, remaining there four years. He then succeeded Rev. John Pierpont as pastor of Hollis Street Church, Boston, 1846-47, afterwards residing in Groton until his death. From 1854 to 1860 he ministered to a society which he had organized at Groton Junction, called the "South Groton Christian Union," now the First Unitarian Parish of Ayer, and was subsequently for some time minister at large in Groton.
Mr. Fosdick was a fine classical scholar, and in early years devoted himself largely to study and authorship. He published (mostly at Andover) translations of de Sacy's Principles of General Grammar and of Hug's Introduction to the New Testament (with notes by Professor Stuart), Introduction to the German Lan- guage, Introduction to the French Language, and a German and English Dic- tionary. He also published several sermons, including one preached at the dedication of a meeting-house at South Groton, entitled Sect is Sin, and con- tributed articles to the Biblical Repository and Christian Examiner.
He was married, March 10, 1841, to Sarah Lawrence Woodbury, of Groton, daughter of Rev. Samuel Woodbury and Mary Lawrence. She died November 25, 1860. He married, second, January 28, 1871, Mrs. Mary Jane Applin, daughter of Stephen Munroe Kendall and Ruth Shattuck, and widow of Benjamin Franklin
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Applin, of Groton. The second wife died June 13, 1879. Of nine children, two sons and three daughters are living.
Mr. Fosdick died in Groton, Mass., January 28, 1892, in his seventy-ninth year, having broken his thigh by a fall on the ice four years before, and suffered a stroke of paralysis about a year before.
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