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His college and seminary classmate, Rev. M. L. Gordon, M. D., D. D., sent from his missionary home in Kyoto, Japan, this tribute : "During a part of his college course and the whole of his life in the Theological Seminary, I was most intimately associated with Dr. Sprowls; but afterwards we were so widely separated that I knew him mainly through others. The valuable work he did in his first pastorate at Lebanon, Ohio, attracted wide attention and eventually resulted in his going to the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tenn., which may be fairly called the highest position in that denomination. His health was never robust, and after a few years there he resigned. Later, he faithfully served the churches at Waynesburg and Salem, Ill., preaching in the latter the Sunday preceding his death, although so weak that he had to cling to the pulpit for support. It would be pleasant to dwell upon the many and varied good qualities of Dr. Sprowls, but as I think of him now, one thing stands out above all else - his exceedingly lovable charac- ter. I am sure that was what impressed itself most strongly upon his class- mates ; and from what I can learn of the attitude toward him of the churches he has served, that quality had most strongly moved them. Month after month found him so feeble that it was uncertain whether he could preach or not, but his loving people urged him to stay with them, even though preaching should become entirely impossible. What higher testimony could a pastor have ?"
He was married, April 16, 1872, to Elizabeth Marian Widney, of Library, Pa., daughter of Dr. John Widney and Elizabeth Boggs. She survives him, with two sons.
He died of diabetes, at Salem, Ill., May 9, 1898, aged fifty-three years, one month, and twenty-eight days.
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CLASS OF 1877.
William Clayton Rogers.
Son of Clayton Taylor Rogers and Hannah Gilbert; born in Strongsville, O., November 17, 1848; studied in the preparatory and scientific departments of Oberlin College, continuing scientific studies at Hillsdale, Mich .; his health favoring his plan of preparing for the ministry, he returned and graduated at Oberlin College, 1873; studied in Yale Divinity School in 1873 and 1874; in Oberlin Theological Seminary, 1875-76; and in this Seminary, 1876-77, gradu- ating here; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting at Lowell, October 24, 1876. He was ordained as an evangelist, at Dwight, Ill., December 18, 1877, and served as pastor there until 1879. His health forbidding continu- ance in pastoral service, he then was engaged with his father in business, resid- ing in Cleveland, O., for ten years, and in Fremont, O., for three years. Regain- ing his health, he was pastor of the church in Brecksville, O., from 1892 to the time of his death.
Rev. William S. Ament, D.D., a classmate both in Oberlin College and Andover Seminary, writes from his missionary home in Peking, China: "The death of my friend Rogers was a great shock to me, being entirely unexpected. He was a good man, 'faithful in spirit, serving the Lord.' He waited for years for strength to preach the gospel, and when it came, worked with such a burn- ing zeal that his life seemed to go out in a flame of fire. He will long be remembered in his two pastorates, Dwight, Ill., and Brecksville, O. As a lay- man in the First Congregational Church in Cleveland, he was in the forefront of every enterprise for the advancement of the kingdom, and no good work ever appealed to him in vain. He was a devoted friend, cordial and sympathetic, and the home-land will not be the same to me now that he, the dearest among classmates, is gone. He was one of the few who appreciated the work of the foreign missionary, and sent him away from his presence cheered and encour- aged. Such pastors cannot well be spared from the Congregational ministry."
Mr. Rogers was married, October 17, 1877, to Martha Minerva Reed, of Warren, O., daughter of Simon Reed and Maria Dudley. She survives him, with two children.
Mr. Rogers died of apoplexy, at Cleveland, O., September 6, 1898, aged forty-nine years, nine months, and twenty days.
CLASS OF 1880.
Harrison Walter Furber. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Samuel Haley Furber and Mary Frost Leavitt; born in Northwood, N. H., January 17, 1850 ; studied in Northwood Seminary, and for a short time in Phillips Academy, Andover; in this Seminary, 1877-79; graduated at Ham- ilton (N. Y.) Theological Seminary, 1880. His health forbidding at that time his entrance upon ministerial work, he was engaged for several years as a traveling salesman. From 1888 to 1896 he traveled for his health, mostly in the South and West. He began to preach for the Baptist church in Pittsfield, N. H., in the summer of 1896, and was ordained its pastor, February 10, 1897, continuing in office until his death.
Rev. J. N. Studley, his successor in the pastorate at Pittsfield, writes of
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him : "Brother Furber came here in July, 1896, and entered on his work with great faith, although a physical wreck. With his sunny countenance and loving ways he aroused the members of the church to greater activity. As a citizen he was respected and loved by all who knew him. I visited him many times during his illness, which was a very painful one. He was like an angel in patience, sweetness, and holiness of life. He was a useful, faithful minister of the gospel and an honor to the Andover Seminary."
Mr. Furber was married, December 30, 1885, to Jennie Augusta Brum- baugh, of Rockford, Ill., daughter of Solomon Brumbaugh and Lydia Neal, who survives him. Their only child died at the age of three years.
Mr. Furber died of sciatic rheumatism, at Pittsfield, N. H., May 14, 1898, aged forty-eight years, three months, and twenty-seven days.
CLASS OF 1894.
John Stark Colby. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Albert Colby and Maria Freeman Dresser; born in Manchester, N. H., November 19, 1851 ; his boyhood was spent in Lowell, in Boston, and in Maine, whither his parents successively removed; studied in Fryeburg (Me.) Academy and, 1868 and 1869, in Boston Latin School; taught a winter school in Andover, Me .; in February, 1870, began work in the office of the Vox Populi in Lowell, Mass., of which he subsequently became editor ; studied in this Semi- nary, 1891-93; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting in Lowell, April 23, 1893. He was ordained pastor in Marlborough, N. H., where he had already preached for several months, October 31, 1893. He resigned there in the summer of 1897, and spent the succeeding fall in Andover as resi- dent licentiate. He began service as acting pastor of the North Park Church, Des Moines, Io., January 1, 1898, but his health completely broke down in July. When it became evident that he could not recover he was removed, in Novem- ber following, to the early home of his wife in Abbot, Me., where he died in a few days.
Mr. Colby served on the School Board in Lowell, and was a trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers until his removal from the State. He fur- nished the poem on the occasion of the semi-centennial celebration of Lowell in 1876, and was often called upon for similar literary services. He published a small volume of poems in 1880, entitled Agatha. Rev. George H. Johnson, pastor of the John Street Church, Lowell (Class of 1876), writes : " During his life in Lowell he was a member of the John Street Church, and prominent in its social life. He was zealously interested in temperance work, and has left behind a tender regard and friendly appreciation, which is a just source of pride to his many and warm friends."
Mr. Colby was married, October 2, 1873, to Harriette Anne Fogg, of Abbot, Me., daughter of Giles Merrill Fogg and Charlotte Louise Hall. She survives him, with three daughters and two sons. Two other children died in early childhood.
Mr. Colby died of paralysis of the brain, at Abbot, Me., November 26, 1898, aged forty-seven years and seven days.
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CLASS OF 1897.
Norman Herbert Dutcher.
Son of Daniel Dutcher and Emily Safford; born in St. Albans, Vt., July 7, 1870 ; fitted for college at the St. Albans High School ; graduated at Williams College, 1894; studied in Union Theological Seminary, 1894-95, and in this Seminary, 1895-97, his graduating essay, June 10, 1897, being upon “The Ideal of Public Worship." He was licensed to preach by the Andover Asso- ciation, meeting in Bartlet Chapel, June 1, 1896. He was ordained as pastor of the Congregational church in Vergennes, Vt., September 14, 1897, and continued in office until his death, although obliged to relinquish active service several months before, when he sought restoration of health in the Adirondacks.
Rev. Bernard G. Mattson, of Medina, O., one of Mr. Dutcher's classmates, writes of him: "The distinctive and to me the most precious characteristic of a friendship between classmates in Andover Seminary is in its common outlook upon the life of high thought and strenuous endeavor which beckons each man onward. No man whom I knew faced such an outlook with clearer gaze than Norman Dutcher. It was from personal conversations in the quiet of many an evening hour that I came to appreciate how profoundly religious was his mind. In no other way could we know it so well, før he had an intensely sensitive dread of cant. Then, as well, came out clearly his eagerness to proclaim to men the truth of God, and to know the privilege of ministering to their need. With these qualities also were joined a humility and teachableness of spirit which both rebuked and inspired those who knew him best. More than once he referred with regret to the meagerness of his experience as a Christian worker during his college and seminary life, and to the natural reserve which had kept his circle of influence, as it seemed to him, too circumscribed. I per- sonally know with what resolute joy he set his face to the work of the ministry, untried though he felt himself to be. Fitted as he was by taste and training to the life of high thought, he was also too genuinely human in his sympathies and ideals to turn aside from the harder path of strenuous endeavor. If this path was short and painful, it was none the less heroic and victorious."
Rev. Alfred V. Bliss, of Ludlow, Vt., another classmate, adds these words of affectionate tribute: "In the death of Norman Dutcher, the highest and best of us all, we are all a company of mourners. Those that were permitted to know him enjoyed the sweet friendship of a rare personality. He was not popular because he did not care for popularity. But his chosen friends loved him more dearly as their intimacy with him increased. His intellect was strong, keen, and exquisitely imaginative with the loftiest poetry. His moral attainments were still more remarkable and admirable. To the truest and ten- derest sensibility and lovableness were added a high and sturdy manhood that equaled the chivalry of the old ideal. In Norman Dutcher were blended, in a manner rarely seen, a strong mind, a beautiful simplicity and modesty of char- acter, and withal a genuine manhood."
Mr. Dutcher died, unmarried, of consumption, at Saranac Lake, N. Y., November 27, 1898, aged twenty-eight years, four months, and twenty days.
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William Chaffin Fessenden.
Son of John Henry Fessenden and Susan Breeze Snowden; born at Col- lege Hill, O., June 8, 1869; prepared for college at Boston Latin School and Malden High School, having a year of residence and study between these schools, in Berlin ; studied in Boston University in the class of 1892, but broke down from overwork in his senior year and was unable to graduate; began the study of theology in Boston University (1893 and 1894-95), and completed it in this Seminary, 1895-97. He had been licensed to preach by the Suffolk South Association, June 13, 1893; was assistant at Berkeley Temple Church, Boston, for six months after his graduation in 1897, subsequently preaching in various churches until he decided to settle in New Boston, in the town of San- disfield, Mass., where he was ordained October 21, 1898, and where he labored devotedly as pastor of the two churches of the town, until seized by the long and painful illness which ended all earthly service.
Mr. Fessenden's short life was a full one. He publicly confessed Christ when nine years of age, and from that time until he fell asleep in his little parish among the Berkshire hills, his simple, faithful, fruitful testimony for Christ never ceased. At one time, when still a college student, "he had a Sunday school class of twelve boys, to whom he gave himself without reserve. They all became Christians. He was the mainstay of the Junior Endeavor and an active worker in the Y. M. C. A."
Rev. Alfred V. Bliss, of Ludlow, Vt., the secretary of his class, represents the class in the following tribute : "Mr. Fessenden's life was one continuous and unbroken round of unselfishness. He went about doing good, making other people happy, giving away his life, not only that he might find it again, but that others might learn how to find their own lives. 'Success by sacrifice ' was the motto and motive of his whole life. It was fragrant with love for others. I know personally of many a boy in Dorchester whose eyes have been opened by Mr. Fessenden to see the possibilities of manhood within them. I believe there are scores of boys and young men who could say of him somewhat as Browning said of Italy : 'Open my heart, and you will find' - Fessenden. He indeed became all things for all men in order to reach them; and when he had reached them, he lifted them up to the level of his own personality, so that he might by all means save them. Measured by days and years, his life was short. But in the light of the divine standard it was a long life, for he did much good to many people."
Rev. Arthur Little, D. D. (Class of 1864), of whose church in Dorchester Mr. Fessenden was a member, said at the funeral service : "'Success through sacrifice' was the subject of his sermon preached in my pulpit last summer. Others listened to it; he exemplified it. When he took charge of two churches among the beautiful Berkshire hills, saw the need on every hand and the way for its relief, he threw himself into the work with an almost reckless abandoning of himself."
Mr. Fessenden died, unmarried, of typhoid pneumonia, at New Boston, Mass., January 3, 1899, aged twenty-nine years, six months, and twenty-six days.
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Our necrology for the past year contains the names of thirty-five of our alumni, in addition to two trustees of the Seminary. Although two of the thirty-five passed away in early manhood, and three others were not yet fifty years old, the average age of all is seventy years, ten months, and thirteen days. Twelve of the number were between seventy and eighty, nine between eighty and ninety, and two had attained the full age of ninety years.
Twenty-one were graduates, eleven had taken only a part of their theological course here, one was a graduate of the special course, and two studied as resi- dent licentiates. Thirty of the thirty-five were college men, six coming from Amherst and six from Yale, three each from Dartmouth and Williams, two from Oberlin, and one each from Hamilton, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Waynesburg, Brown University, Ohio University, Michigan University, Vermont University, Boston University, and Oneida Institute.
The service these men had rendered was specially varied in place, in kind, in duration. Four had spent more or less of their lives in the missionary field, from the fifty-two years of the veteran Fairbank in India to the three years of Sherman in Jerusalem. Four had been home missionaries in the West, Parker of the "Kansas Band " being preëminent in self-denying toil at a critical time and place in national history. Dr. Clapp, " the beloved secretary," and Towle, of the Sunday School Society's work in Iowa, had been in the same service. Others preached long and faithfully in New England, while Alden, Dickinson, Guerney, and Love labored in both East and West. Dr. Bartlett as preacher and college president, and Dean Murray as preacher and college professor ; Dr. Brand, preaching with power in a long-continued pastorate, and Dr. Gould, preaching with power in many pulpits, illustrate further the variety of service accomplished. Several did their work in the Presbyterian Church; the Baptist, the Free Will Baptist, the Cumberland Presbyterian, the Episcopal, the Lu- theran churches had each a representative; Parker Pillsbury worked outside of the Church - he thought, against the Church. Some toiled on twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years. Dutcher and Fessenden fell in the harness before their first year of labor was ended. With all their diversities of gifts and operations, they served the same Lord.
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The following men are still living of classes previous to and including the Class of 1839-sixty years ago; their average age is over eighty-eight years :
1831. Rev. Prof. EDWARDS A. PARK, D.D., LL.D., Andover, Mass. 90
1832. Rev. ELIAS RIGGS, D.D., LL.D., Constantinople, Turkey 88
1834. Rev. J. JAY DANA, Housatonic, Mass. 87
Mr. JOSEPH L. PARTRIDGE, Brooklyn, N. Y. 95
Prof. SAMUEL PORTER, Washington, D. C. 89
1835. Rev. BELA FANCHER, Homer, Mich. 92
Rev. JOSEPH W. CROSS, Worcester, Mass. 91
1836. Rev. Prof. JOSEPH PACKARD, D.D., Theological Seminary, Va. 86
1837. Rev. SAMUEL HOPKINS EMERY, D.D., Taunton, Mass. 83
Rev. JOHN WESLEY MERRILL, D.D., Concord, N. H. 91
Rev. JOHN PIKE, D.D., Rowley, Mass. 85
Rev. EBENEZER G. PARSONS, Derry, N. H. 86
Rev. ERASTUS W. THAYER, Springfield, Ill. 87
1838.
WILLIAM C. BURKE, M.D., Cheyenne, Wyo. 87
Rev. Prof. SAMUEL HARRIS, D.D., LL.D., New Haven, Ct. 85
Rev. THOMAS S. HUBBARD, Stockbridge, Vt. . 87
Rev. WASHINGTON A. NICHOLS, D.D., Lake Forest, Il1. 91
1839. Rev. JACOB CHAPMAN, Exeter, N. Y. 89
Mr. WILLIAM D. ELY, Providence, R. I. 84
Mr. HENRY HURLBURT, Utica, N. Y. 86
Mr. ALONSO KIMBALL, Green Bay, Wis. 90
WILLIAM H. LATHAM, M.D., Indianapolis, Ind. 85
Rev. THOMAS WRIGHT, Fenton, Mich. 84
ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
NECROLOGY,
1 899-1900.
PREPARED FOR THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND PRESENTED AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 13, 1900, BY C. C. CARPENTER, SECRETARY.
Second Printed Series, No. 10.
BOSTON : BEACON PRESS: THOMAS TODD, PRINTER, 14 BEACON STREET. 1900.
INDEX.
Class.
Age. 64
414
SAMUEL J. AUSTIN
72
409
81
392
1858. 1873. 1861.
WALTER M. BARROWS
53
431
1853.
SHEARJASHUB BOURNE
77
402
1869.
WILLARD D. BROWN
60
428
1841. JOSEPH A. CANFIELD
86
390
1851. LUCIAN W. CHANEY
77
401
1868. JOHN W. CHURCHILL
60
423
1834. J. JAY DANA
87
379
1835.
BELA FANCHER
92
382
1846. DANIEL L. FURBER
79
393
1857.
EDWARD C. GUILD
67
410
1838.
SAMUEL HARRIS
85
388
1856.
ISAAC S. HARTLEY
68
405
1894. JOHN R. HORNE, JR.
33
435
1849. JOSHUA HUNTINGTON
88
399
1882. HENRY N. KINNEY .
44
434
1848.
ORPHEUS T. LANPHEAR
79
397
1874.
HENRY MARSH .
57
433
1837. JOHN W. MERRILL
91
383 404
1856.
EDWARD ORTON
70
407
1849. RICHARD OSBORNE
77
401
1867.
CHARLES M. PALMER
62
422
1831. EDWARDS A. PARK
91
441
1847.
HENRY S. PARKER
78
396
1837.
EBENEZER G. PARSONS .
86
386 380
1843. ARIEL E. P. PERKINS
78
391
1837. JOHN PIKE .
86
384
1864.
EDWARD G. PORTER
63
420
1863.
GEORGE A. ROCKWOOD
67
419
ROBERT SAMUEL .
81
413
1859. 1856. GEORGE E. SANBORNE
72
407
1845. RICHARD S. STORRS .
78
443
1870. CHARLES R. TREAT .
57
429
1870. THOMAS J. VOLENTINE .
58
430
18 58. GEORGE L. WALKER
69
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1847.
THOMAS WILSON
77
395
Page.
1861. WALTER S. ALEXANDER
18 57. 1846. JAMES M. BAILEY . I86I. WILLIAM M. BARBOUR .
72
416
LUCIUS E. BARNARD
71
4II
AUGUSTUS BERRY
75
418
1855. HUGH MCLEOD
74
1834. JOSEPH L. PARTRIDGE
95
NECROLOGY.
ALUMNI.
OLASS OF 1834.
John Jay Dana. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Stephen Winchester Dana and Esther Rumsey; born in Poultney, Vt., November 5, 1811; fitted for college at Castleton (Vt.) Academy, under Solomon Foot, afterwards United States Senator ; entered Williams College in 1827, spent two years there, and completed his course at Union College, gradu- ating in 1831; studied in this Seminary, 1831-33, and graduated at Princeton Seminary, 1834; licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New York, in the lec- ture room of the Brick Church, New York City, October 14, 1834. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Troy, at Waterford, N. Y., September 9, 1835; was stated supply at Pittstown, N. Y., from January, 1835, to April, 1836, and at Blissfield, Mich., 1836-38; commenced preaching at Canaan Four Corners, N. Y., in 1838, was ordained pastor in 1840, and remained there until 1848; pastor at South Adams, Mass., 1848-58; without charge, Troy, N. Y., 1858-61 ; acting pastor, Cummington, Mass., 1861-65; at North Becket, Mass., 1866-74; without charge, Hinsdale, Mass., and in the South, 1874-76; acting pastor, Alford, Mass. (supplying also the church at West Stockbridge), 1876-84; without charge, Alford, 1884-89; acting pastor at Curtisville (in Stockbridge), Mass., 1889-91 ; afterwards resided without charge at Williamsville, Mass. (in West Stockbridge, although his postoffice was at Housatonic), until his death.
Mr. Dana's father, who was the son of Rev. Nathan Dana, a Baptist min- ister in Massachusetts and Vermont, removed, in the son's boyhood, to Troy, N. Y., where he was a prominent business man, president of a bank and of one of the first railroads in the country, running from Troy to Greenbush. The son inherited, and preserved to the last, great physical and intellectual energy and vigor. After retiring from the ministry he again took up pastoral work and preached till he was fourscore, being then the oldest minister in Massachusetts in active service. His frequent letters to the secretary, up to the year of his death, spoke of his continued activity both in the exercise of sawing wood and in preaching occasionally in neighboring churches. He found time, during his laborious pastorates, to write four Sunday School books - Caroline Jones, Too Big for Sunday School, Mrs. Marsh's Help, and Humpy Dumpy, -and many newspaper articles on geology, a science in which he was much interested.
Rev. Arthur J. Benedict, of Housatonic, whose church he attended, writes of Mr. Dana : "He once made this characteristic remark, that, having preached for sixty years, he was now trying to be 'a decent sort of a parishioner' - and he certainly succeeded!" From the funeral address of Rev. L. S. Rowland, D. D., of Lee, Mass. (Class of 1863), as published in the Berkshire Evangel,
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the following extracts are made : "Mr. Dana is the last surviving example among us of the old-fashioned country minister. He seemed to me as com- plete a type of that class of men as can well be imagined. Born and nurtured in an age of faith, they were all men of faith through and through, and could preach the gospel without any of the reservations that often hinder pulpit effi- ciency today. ... Mr. Dana was essentially a home missionary all his life, always ministering to weak and struggling churches, and apparently never aspiring to anything else. The value of the service of the country ministers of New England through the earlier and middle decades of the century, in molding the life and shaping the religious ideals of successive generations, is beyond estimate. Mr. Dana's part in this work, however unpretending, perse- vered in for sixty years, must have been of untold value to the churches of this region. . . . A striking peculiarity of Mr. Dana was the easy and happy man- ner in which he bore the burden of his years. Indeed, his age hardly seemed to be a burden at all. He escaped the trials naturally incident to outliving one's own generation by living thoroughly into the next one. Apparently he had no fears from modern changes and new opinions, even when he did not share them, but always seemed cheerful, even optimistic in his view of the future. ... His religion was in almost perfect degree of the typical New England kind, unimaginative, unemotional, undemonstrative, but firm and steadfast as the Berkshire hills among which sixty years of his ministry were spent, and beneath whose shadow his body is fittingly to rest."
Mr. Dana married, July 13, 1836, Mary Abigail Freeman, of Salem, N. Y., daughter of Andrew Freeman and Elizabeth Martin. She died July 17, 1849. He married, second, December 11, 1850, Sarah Esther Converse, of Windsor, Mass., daughter of Amasa Converse and Esther Walker. She died August 28, 1896. His son, Rev. Stephen W. Dana, D. D., has been, for over thirty years, pastor of the Walnut St. Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. His two daugh- ters reside in Morristown, N. J., one of them being the principal of a well-known young ladies' seminary there.
Mr. Dana died of heart failure, at Williamsville, Mass., June 18, 1899, aged eighty-seven years, seven months, and thirteen days.
Joseph Lyman Partridge. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Dea. Cotton Partridge and Hannah Huntington Lyman; born in Hatfield, Mass., June 7, 1804; fitted for college under the tuition of his rev- erend grandfather at Hatfield, and at Hopkins Academy, Hadley, under the tuition of Rev. Dan Huntington (father of Bishop F. D. Huntington) and of Worthington Smith (Class of 1819), afterward president of the University of Vermont ; graduated at Williams College, 1828. He was instructor in a classi- cal school at Freehold, N. J., 1828-29, and in the Berkshire Gymnasium, Pitts- field, Mass., 1829-31 ; studied in this Seminary, 1831-32; was tutor in Williams College, 1832-33, and principal of Leicester (Mass.) Academy, 1834-46; asso- ciate editor of the Puritan Recorder, Boston, 1846-54, living at Auburndale, where he built the first private residence. He was then a merchant in New York City, 1854-58, residing in Brooklyn, and in business at Lawrence, Mass., from 1858 to 1878, being paper manufacturer, 1858-61, superintendent of schools, 1861-63, deputy U. S. collector of internal revenue, 1862-75, and
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