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Mr. Parker married, October 27, 1858, Kittie Bartlett Mills, of Ann Arbor, Mich., daughter of Dea. Lorin Mills and Harriet Grace Parsons, who survives him. They had two sons and two daughters, all of whom received a liberal education. The eldest son died in 1889; the second son, Ernest Cordley, is a printer in St. Louis; one daughter is the wife of Rev. George H. Perry, of Idaho, the other of Prof. W. W. Hutto, of Kansas.
Mr. Parker died of cystitis, at Manhattan, Kan., March 22, 1899, aged seventy-two years, four months, and twenty-one days.
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CLASS OF 1859.
Pliny Fisk Warner.
Son of Dea. Milo Warner and Lucina Kent Sykes ; born in Strykersville, N. Y., December 20, 1830; fitted for college at Springville (N. Y.) Academy ; graduated at Yale College, 1855; studied in Yale Divinity School, 1856-58, and in this Seminary, 1858-59, his graduating address, August 4, 1859, having this theme, "The Relations of the Bible to Science ;" licensed by the New Haven East Association, May 25, 1858. After several months of service as teacher in Mrs. Phillips's Female Academy, and as librarian for the Young Men's Christian Association, in Brooklyn, N. Y., he began preaching in the First Church, Stonington, Ct., in November, 1859; was ordained its pastor, October 31, 1860, and remained until 1863; was successively pastor in Clinton, Wis., 1864-66; Como, Ill., 1866-69; Aledo, Ill., 1869-72; Newaygo, Mich., 1872-74; Fort Scott, Kan., 1874-76; Mattoon, Ill., 1877-78; Aledo, Ill., 1878- 80. He then engaged in editorial service, editing an independent newspaper in Aledo for two years, and the Mason County Republican, in Havana, Ill., 1882-93. From 1896 he resided in Peoria, Ill., preaching occasionally, until his death.
Rev. Oscar M. Smith (Class of 1860), a classmate in academy and college, writes of Mr. Warner : "To one in his circumstances it was no small undertaking to gain an education. After leaving the district school he worked his way by teaching and whatever else offered, not excepting hard manual labor. But having put his hand to the plow, there was no looking back. If not a magnetic man he had a strong and pleasing personality. He made an abiding impression upon those he came in contact with. He was an independent thinker, an easy and forcible writer, and an energetic speaker. In all public questions he took a deep interest, especially if connected with the nation's welfare. Although he did not live to see the end of the late war, he was a firm believer in its justice and was confident that it would contribute to the true glory of the country. He was an optimist by nature, and always inclined to look on the bright side of things. This was one of the secrets of his influence. As a personal friend he will be longest remembered. The affection of the hearts of those who knew him best is the truest index of his character and life."
Mr. Warner was married, April 26, 1863, to Jane Borrodil Denison, of Mystic, Ct., daughter of Gilbert Denison, Esq. (at one time a U. S. Consul in South America), and Sophia Culver. She survives him.
He died of heart failure, at Peoria, Ill., July 8, 1898, aged sixty-seven years, six months, and eighteen days.
CLASS OF 1864.
Henry Louis Baugher, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Rev. Henry Louis Baugher, D.D. (president of Pennsylvania Col- lege), and Clara Mary Brooks ; born in Gettysburg, Pa., August 6, 1840; pre- pared for college by his mother, and in the preparatory department of Penn- sylvania College at Gettysburg; graduated at Gettysburg College, 1857; teacher at Uniontown, Md., and tutor in Pennsylvania College, 1857-58; of Normal and Classical School, Quakertown, Pa., 1859-60; in temporary charge of boys'
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school, Washington, D. C .; and special messenger of the sergeant-of-arms of the House of Representatives, 1860; studied in Gettysburg Theological Semi- nary, 1860-62; and in this Seminary, 1862-63. He was licensed to preach by the West Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church, in October, 1862; ordained by the same body, September 15, 1863, at Newville, Pa. ; co-pastor of mission church in Wheeling, W. Va., 1863-64; pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Trinity, Norristown, Pa., 1864-67 ; after six months of travel and study in Europe, pastor at Indianapolis, Ind., 1868; Pearson Professor of Greek Lan- guage and Literature in Pennsylvania College, from January, 1869, to 1880 ; pastor of mission church, Omaha, Neb., 1880-81 ; afterwards, resided in Get- tysburg until his death. In 1883 he served as Professor of Greek in Howard University, Washington, D. C .; and from 1883 to 1886 was again Professor of Greek in Pennsylvania College. He filled the chair of Greek Exegesis in Get- tysburg Theological Seminary, 1870-74 ; and was acting Professor of Dogmatic Theology for a time in the same institution, after the death of Prof. Charles A. Stork, D.D. (Class of 1860), in 1883.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Pennsylvania College in ISSO. He was editor of the Augsburg Sunday school Lesson Series, issued by the Lutheran Publication Society, from 1873 to 1892; and editor of the Lutheran World, York, Pa., 1897-98. He was president of the General Synod, 1895-96, and of the Luther League of Pennsylvania (corresponding to the Christian Endeavor Society), 1896-97. He was for many years one of the directors of Gettysburg Theological Seminary, and established in the Seminary the Baugher Lectureship on Christian Worship. He published a Commentary on St. Luke's Gospel in the Lutheran Commentary Series. He was one of the compilers of Augsburg Songs, gave much time to the preparation of the General Synod's Catechism, and to the New Hymnal, his last labor being the making of an index for the latter work. He was elected president and Professor of Didactic Theology in the Seminary of the United Synod of the South at Charleston, S. C., in 1898, but his failing health compelled him to decline the position.
The following is quoted from an article in the Lutheran World, written by Rev. Prof. E. J. Wolf, D.D., of the Gettysburg Seminary : "Dr. Baugher was a strong personality, a man of commanding qualities, of noble characteristics, of pronounced Christian virtues, of high, unselfish ideals. He maintained com- munion with God and had no fear of man. He loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and all the more intensely that form of iniquity which wears the livery of heaven. When he was convinced that a cause was right he consulted not with flesh and blood. When duty called he never stopped to count the cost. The Lutheran Church has few if any more spiritual, more Scriptural, more edi- fying preachers. The General Synod never knew a more loyal son, one whose sympathies were more fully commensurate with all her measures and all her work, possibly not one who equaled Dr. Baugher's liberality as long as it was possible for him to give. Pennsylvania College never had a more effective instructor, nor a friend more fully consecrated to its best interests. The com- munity in whose midst more than fifty years of his life were passed never was honored with a purer life, and never had a more public-spirited citizen. It is given to very few men to excel Dr. Baugher in the extent or the permanence of his usefulness."
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Dr. Baugher was married, April 3, 1872, to Ida Smith, of York, Pa., daugh- ter of Dr. William Smith and Mary Elizabeth Boyer. She survives him, with one daughter.
Mr. Baugher died of nervous prostration, in Philadelphia, Pa., February II, 1899, aged fifty-eight years, six months, and five days.
CLASS OF 1869.
James Brand, D. D.
Son of James Brand and Janet Boyes (who came to Canada from Dumfries- shire, Scotland); born at Three Rivers, Que., February 26, 1834; when nine- teen years old, came to Saco, Me., and worked at the carpenter's trade five years; after his conversion determined to enter the ministry, and began his preparation at Phillips Academy, Andover, 1858-61 ; graduated at Yale College, 1866, being in the civil war one year, 1862-63, as color bearer of the 27th Con- necticut Regiment ; was wounded at Fredericksburg, and after three months in the hospital went back to fight at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; took the full course in this Seminary, 1866-69, his graduating essay, July 22, 1869, being on "The Religion of Cromwell." He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. W. F. Snow, at Eliot Chapel, Lawrence, December 8, 1868, and was ordained pastor of the Maple Street Church, Dan- vers, Mass., October 6, 1869, remaining there until 1873; he was then called to the pastorate of the First Church, Oberlin, O., in which he continued until his death.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Iowa College in 1884. He was a corporate member of the American Board from 1884, and trustee of Oberlin College from 1890. He represented the Ohio State Association in the International Congregational Council at London in 1891, where his paper on " Sacerdotalism and Modern Unbelief " was regarded as one of the most notable and impressive addresses delivered before the Council. In the World's Parlia- ment of Religions at Chicago, in 1893, he presented a paper on "Christian Evangelism as One of the Working Forces in American Christianity." He published, in 1883, Sermons from a College Pulpit, and in 1892, The Beasts of Ephesus. He contributed frequently to the Bibliotheca Sacra and to other religious periodicals. The great work of Dr. Brand's life was his Oberlin pas- torate of twenty-five years, and of this Prof. William H. Ryder, D.D., of Andover, his Seminary classmate, and for several years professor in Oberlin College, is specially fitted to speak :
" The Class of 1869 was regarded by its own members as a class of unusual ability and promise. Among the forty-nine men who from first to last were connected with it, no other was believed to give greater promise of high success and large usefulness in the ministry than James Brand. With one exception he was the oldest man in the class ; and his experience in life had given him a cer- tain maturity of character and judgment which commanded universal respect. His tall, gaunt form and striking face, expressive of clearness of thought, defi- niteness of conviction, and firmness of decision, impressed every one who met him. Acquaintance with him deepened this first impression. He was found to be a man of an intense nature, with strong moral convictions and ardent religious devotion. These somewhat rugged qualities were, however, controlled
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and balanced by native kindliness, by wide reading, and a refined literary taste and enthusiasm. The highest anticipations of his classmates were more than realized in the marked success of his first pastorate at Danvers, to which he was called several months before his graduation. There he gained equipment for a still larger field of labor.
" The work at Oberlin, into which he entered in November, 1873, presented a difficult problem to the young pastor. The long and remarkable ministry of President Finney, and his colleague, Professor Morgan, had recently closed. The church, under this ministry, had assumed a unique character, and must make extraordinary demands upon its new minister. The center of population in the village was drifting from the locality of the First Church, and the college interests were tending to gather in the Second Church. But there was a great work possible, and Mr. Brand had a stout heart and an unfailing trust in divine guidance and grace. His twenty-five years of fruitful service more than justi- fied the highest hopes of the church and his own courage and faith. During those years the church steadily maintained its large congregations; the students gathered to hear him from all parts of the village; the membership of the church increased from 465 to 1,098, and more than one thousand souls entered into its communion upon the confession of their faith. The activities and benevolences of the church increased in a similar ratio, and the entire village and the college gratefully recognized the inspiration of his strong and earnest preaching, and gladly accepted his wise and faithful leadership.
"The first feeling of his classmates and friends, after the sense of deep personal affliction, at the report of his sudden death, was that his death was untimely, that he had not been permitted to finish the work that was given him to do. Yet who among us all has begun to do, or can hope to accomplish, however long our years may be, as much as he has done, in these thirty years ? Who else has led so many souls to Christ, and guided and strengthened the spiritual life of such a multitude of young and eager hearts? He has fought a good fight, he has kept the faith, he has finished the course."
Dr. Brand was married, November 30, 1871, to Juliet Hughes Tenney, of Troy, O., daughter of Rev. Daniel Tenney and Mary Adams Parker. She sur- vives him, with two sons and four daughters. The oldest son is Rev. Charles A. Brand, of Huron, S. D .; the oldest daughter, a graduate of Oberlin College, is a teacher in Wisconsin.
Dr. Brand died of apoplexy, at Oberlin, O., April 11, 1899, aged sixty- five years, one month, and sixteen days.
Ebenezer Nichols Fernald.
Son of Joseph Fernald and Polly Nichols; born in Lebanon, Me., March 10, 1833; prepared for college at New Hampton (N. H.) Literary and Biblical Institute ; graduated at Amherst College, 1862 ; instructor in Latin and Greek, Maine State Seminary (now Bates College), 1862; instructor in English Depart- ment, Williston Seminary, 1863; principal of Rockford (Ill.) High School, 1863-65; engaged in educational work under Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission, at Chattanooga, Tenn., 1865-66 ; took the full course in this Semi- nary, 1866-69; licensed by the Boston Quarterly Meeting of the Free Baptist Church, in June, 1868. He was ordained, November 12, 1869, at Winthrop,
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Mass., and pastor of Free Baptist Church there, 1869-70 ; pastor, Auburn, Me., 1870-74; financial secretary and treasurer of Free Baptist home and foreign missionary societies and Education Society, residing at Lewiston, Me., 1874-85; treasurer and publisher of Free Baptist printing establishment, Boston, residing there, 1885-90 ; pastor, Milton Mills, N. H., 1890-97, ill health then compelling his resignation, although he continued his residence at that place until his death.
Mr. Fernald's life work was largely constructive in his denomination, and as such was a most useful one. His intimate friend, Rev. Prof. James A. Howe, D.D. (Class of 1862), of Bates College, writes of him: "Mr. Fernald had to a high degree the qualities that make for usefulness. Devout, trustful, fervent, courageous, there was nothing sluggish in his blood. He was endowed with insight to detect, and capacity to appreciate, the good that had come into his life. What admiring words his friends have heard him lavish on his early home, his schools and teachers, on Amherst and Andover, on his country, faith and church ! Deep convictions were a spur to earnest action. His Christian belief was not an embalmed creed. It was kindled with emotion, gave tone to his thought and public addresses, swayed his conduct, and molded his career. All will remember his abounding cheerfulness, and the ready flow of humor that made his companionship genial. With these various qualities combined in his nature, he was adapted above many to be successful in the pulpit and in going before the churches to appeal for the support of great benevolent causes. The forces of his temperament drove his physical powers at too high pressure. Waste outran repair ; health gave way and death ensued."
Mr. Fernald was married, December 27, 1863, to Anna Bergen Tuxbury, of Saco, Me., daughter of David Tuxbury and Lucinda Hill, who survives him, with a son and a daughter, three other children having died in infancy.
He died of tuberculosis of the liver, at Milton Mills, N. H., January 15, 1898, aged sixty-four years, ten months, and five days.
Charles Augustus Towle. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Benjamin Marden Towle and Hannah Sanborn; born in Epsom, N. H., June 20, 1837 ; fitted for college at Pembroke (N. H.) Academy and Pinkerton Academy, Derry, N. H .; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1864; principal of Appleton Academy (now McCollom Institute), Mt. Vernon, N. H., 1864-66; studied in this Seminary, 1866-68, and graduated at Chicago Theo- logical Seminary, 1869. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Sandwich, Ill., June 9, 1869, and remained there until 1873; pastor of the church at South Chicago, Ill., 1874-76; of Bethany Church, Chicago, 1877-82 ; at Monticello, Io., 1882-86; state superintendent for Iowa of the Congrega- tional Sunday school and Publishing Society, 1886-99, residing at Cedar Rapids, 1886-89, and at Grinnell from 1889 until his death.
While in college he enlisted for nine months' service in the 15th New Hampshire Volunteers, 1862-63. His whole life was a battle for the right. The Congregational Iowa says of him: "Brother Towle was modest and unas- suming, but fully devoted to the cause of truth and righteousness." The Iowa Endeavorer says that " he organized the first Endeavor society in Iowa in the Congregational church at Monticello. The state union was organized mainly
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through his instrumentality, and he was unanimously chosen to serve as its first president." President Homer T. Fuller, of Drury College, Missouri, writes to the Grinnell Herald : "He was a very true man. Faithful and unflinching in the performance of duty, well balanced, industrious, spiritual, he did good work in every place and at every post assigned him. It was so in the college class- room, at the prayer meeting, and at every public exercise. Quietly, modestly, earnestly, to the best of his ability, he took up the work of life and carried it on. He never did work for mere show, he never made excuses in pretense, and he never shirked."
Rev. Cecil F. P. Bancroft, LL. D., of Andover (Class of 1870), writes : " Mr. Towle's life was very evenly divided, thirty years in the stable and con- servative East, thirty years in the enterprising and progressive West. As a boy, a student at Dartmouth, principal at Mt. Vernon (where he succeeded me for two years), and theological student at Andover and Chicago, he made a long and patient preparation of principles, habits, discipline, and acquisitions, all of which he gave over to a faithful and effective Christian ministry. He was always led of the Spirit, and preached with the confidence of a believer, winning men and children by his character and consecration as well as by his words."
Rev. T. O. Douglass, secretary of the Iowa Home Missionary Society, writes : "Mr. Towle was my friend, neighbor, and companion in missionary labors. I knew him well for many years. He was an 'Israelite, indeed,' honest, true, pure, open-hearted, open-faced, without guile, and without hypocrisy. In good measure he embodied in his life Ist Corinthians xiii. He had great force of character. He seemed to speak as one of the holy men of God, moved by the Holy Ghost. He was forceful in address because forceful in character and strong in his convictions. His life was a laborious one, bur- dened above the average, but it was a cheerful life, and one of great usefulness. All the Congregational people of the State, men, women, and children, rise up and call him blessed."
Mr. Towle was married, December 14, 1869, to Mary Jane Lay, of Chicago, daughter of Nelson Lay and Mariette Towsley; she died May 8, 1881. He married, second, August 30, 1894, Ella Reinking of Des Moines, Io., daughter of Conrad D. Reinking and Eleanor Shaver. She survives him, with three sons and one daughter ; one of the sons is a graduate of Iowa College ; a mar- ried daughter died in 1896.
Mr. Towle died of diabetes, at Grinnell, Io., February 22, 1899, aged sixty- one years, eight months, and two days.
CLASS OF 1870.
Thomas Scott Burnell. (Special course.)
Son of Dea. Rufus Burnell and Nancy Kingsley (brother of Kingsley A. Burnell, the evangelist) ; born at Chesterfield, Mass., February 3, 1823; after a common school education at home, learned the printer's trade in the office of the Hampshire Gazette at Northampton, Mass .; joined the Ceylon Mission as printer, going out with Rev. Joseph T. Noyes (Class of 1848) and others in the fall of 1848; was mission printer at Manepy until 1855, then transferred to the
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Madura Mission; was ordained there, September 10, 1856; returned to the United States in 1869, and studied one year in this Seminary, in the Special Course, 1869-70. He returned to the Madura Mission in 1871, and was sta- tioned at Melur until his health completely broke down in 1882. He arrived in this country in January, 1883, and has been an invalid ever since, residing at the hospital in Northampton.
Rev. Thomas Snell Smith (Class of 1869), brought up in the Ceylon Mis- sion and for thirty years a missionary there, writes : "Besides being a good printer Mr. Burnell was a good linguist; he got the colloquial Tamil of India so well that he could talk even with raw heathen and be understood by them, for but few missionaries are at once understood by unintelligent villagers who have not heard missionaries before. Burnell was a great itinerant ; he believed in seed-sowing rather than in educational work. He was a very liberal giver. He gave much more than his tithe, denying himself, perhaps, to an extent that was unwise and an injury to his system. He had a very remarkable memory and a very kind heart. When I called on him at Northampton, though unannounced, he met me at once with the greeting, 'How do you do, Mr. Thomas Snell Smith?' and asked for each of my children by name, although two of them had been born since his mind was eclipsed."
Mr. Kingsley A. Burnell, of Aurora, Ill., writes : "My brother was a born foreign missionary. He loved the heathen one by one. He lived to exalt Jesus Christ, open the Word, and honor the Holy Spirit. 'Though dead, he yet speaketh,' and will speak in the years to come."
Mr. S. E. Bridgman, of Northampton, Mass., adds these words of affec- tionate tribute : "I have known Thomas Burnell from boyhood. He was an earnest, good-natured, sincere, devoted man. Converted from his boyhood, he resolved to give ten per cent. of his small income to God, then fifteen per cent., then twenty per cent. ; then he said, ' This is not enough - I must give myself.' How well his pledge has been redeemed, let life in his early home and life in the tropics tell. In his lucid moments he would speak of life in India, and his longing for health that he might return to his old field, and at times would talk and pray in Tamil. I have had to bear to him at different times tidings of his many bereavements. He would become for a little perfectly sane, the tears would fall, and at parting he would fall on his knees and offer a most tender, loving, confiding, reverent petition - a talk with his Father in heaven."
Mr. Burnell was married, February 4, 1847, to Martha Sawyer, a teacher in Northampton (Mt. Holyoke Seminary, 1839), daughter of Oliver Sawyer and Mary Wilder, of Heath, Mass. She died in Belleville, Canada, March 13, 1885. An infant daughter died in India. Three sons lived to maturity, but are all now deceased, one of them being Rev. Alfred H. Burnell, for several years a missionary of the American Board in India.
Mr. Burnell died of mitral heart disease, at Northampton, Mass., April 16, 1899, aged seventy-six years, two months, and thirteen days.
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CLASS OF 1871.
Jesse Porter Sprowls, D. D.
Son of Cyrus Sprowls and Phebe Jane Post; born in East Finley, Pa., March 11, 1845; fitted for college in the public schools of his native town ; graduated at Waynesburg (Pa.) College, 1868; took the full course in this Seminary, 1868-71, his graduating essay, June 29, 1871, being on " The Rela- tion of Eternal Punishment to Other Truths." He was licensed to preach by the Pennsylvania Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in session at Pleasant Hill, Tenmile, Pa., September 22, 1868, and ordained by the same presbytery in session at Waynesburg, Pa., April 12, 1872. He served as pastor of the church in Lebanon, O., from 1871-83; then of the First Church, Nash- ville, Tenn., 1883-87; at Salem, Ill., 1887-90; of the college church at Waynesburg, Pa., being also Professor of Hebrew and Evidences of Chris- tianity in Waynesburg College, 1890-91; again at Salem, Ill., 1892-98.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1883. He was a member of the Masonic order and of the Royal Arcanum, and filled the office of Grand Prelate of the Grand Commandery of the Knights Templars in Tennessee. The Cumberland Presbyterian, Nash- ville, Tenn., said: "The evening following his death the regular monthly ineeting of the fifteen Christian Endeavor Societies of this city was held, and the fact was gratefully recalled that Dr. Sprowls organized the first society in Nashville, and that from his work the movement had grown throughout the city and state. Even the holding of the great International Convention in Nashville would have been impossible but for his wisdom and foresight in thus early planting Christian Endeavor in the religious center of the South."
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