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was not made for the righteous, but for the wicked.' The moderator ruled accordingly, and the examination continued, abating an hour at noon, from eleven o'clock until four.
"There was an interesting uniqueness in the life-work of our friend. He devoted his efforts almost exclusively either to laying the foundations of church organizations, or buttressing foundations already laid, and showed himself an excellent workman both as a preacher and a pastor. He was enthusiastic in whatever he pursued, sympathetic and generous toward all, but unqualifiedly indignant at the sight of any form of oppression, or any injustice of man toward his fellowman."
Rev. Henry A. Stimson, D. D., of New York (Class of 1869), writes : " At the time of his death, Mr. Bourne was a member of the Manhattan Church, in whose organization he united. He was remarkable for the sweetness of his temperament and the freshness of his mind. Until prevented by ill health in the last year of his life, he was active in his interest and keen in his sympathy with all Christian work. He was a stalwart advocate of Congregationalism, and spent his life largely in securing its establishment in New York and the vicinage. He was greatly beloved by all who knew him, and was a man of prayer and of rich spiritual experience. He endeared himself greatly to the Manhattan Church, in the prosperity of which he was deeply interested, attend- ing all the meetings, and visiting among the people. He possessed a voice of remarkable sweetness and beauty, which gave charm to his words at the public services. He will be greatly missed in local Congregational circles, as he was almost the last survivor of the men of his day."
Mr. Bourne was married, July 15, 1863, to Susan Ketchum, of New York City, daughter of Judge Edgar Ketchum and Elizabeth Phœnix. She survives him, with four sons and two daughters. One of the sons, Rev. Alexander P. Bourne (Class of 1894), is pastor of the Phillips Church, Exeter, N. H. A son died in childhood.
Mr. Bourne died of Bright's disease, in New York City, March 21, 1900, aged seventy-seven years, two months, and twenty-three days.
CLASS OF 1855.
Hugh McLeod. (Resident licentiate.)
Son of Donald McLeod (elder in Scotch kirk) and Elizabeth Mckay; born at Hardwood Hill, Pictou, Nova Scotia, January 1, 1826; came to Providence, R. I., in 1842; prepared for college at Williston Seminary, graduated at Am- herst College, 1851 ; took his theological course at Bangor Theological Semi- nary, graduating in 1854; was licensed by the Penobscot Association, January 12, 1854, and studied in this Seminary as resident licentiate, 1854-55. He was ordained June 27, 1855, as pastor of the Congregational Church in Springfield, Ohio, remaining there until December, 1857 ; was pastor at Brentwood, N. H., 1857-66, the years of the Civil War, however, being mostly spent in the service of the U. S. Christian Commission, in the 16th and 23d army corps, and in a separate brigade at Brownsville, Texas, seven months after the close of the war. His record of service in the army was that of "a model corps agent," working with great fidelity and under many hardships, in the Army of the Poto-
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mac, at Nashville, at Paducah, at New Orleans, at Dauphin Island, and other places, erecting chapels, caring for the sick and wounded, and correspond- ing with their friends at home. He was afterward acting pastor, Colebrook, N. H., 1866-70; evangelist for the Home Missionary Society in Outagamie County, Wis., residing at Appleton, Wis., 1870-73; pastor of Presbyterian church, Healdsburg, Cal., 1873-76; at Valley Ford, Cal., 1876-84; resided in Lynn, Mass., without charge, 1884-90 (but preaching one year, 1885-86, in Guildhall, Vt.), and in Cambridge, Mass., from 1890 till his death.
Rev. Leonard S. Parker, D. D., of Cambridge, writes of his acquaintance made with Mr. McLeod in his youth, and renewed in his old age: "I first met him during my ministry in Providence between 1840 and 1844. He had been asked, as a young stranger in the street on a Sunday morning, into the church and the Sunday School. We were soon after blessed with a powerful revival, by which one hundred persons, mostly young, were brought into the church, and he was one of the number. From the first he was ready to engage in any Christian service that presented itself. Longing to preach the gospel, he worked his way through the academy, the college, and the Seminary, and was a faithful minister for many years. He served his adopted country in religious work at the front during and after the Civil War. He once told me that he, a lisping, diffident young man, was able to preach to two regiments of soldiers and be distinctly heard by all. It was during this service that he contracted the malarial disease that finally closed his ministry and his life. I saw him several times during his last sickness. His soul was in perfect peace. A touching scene occurred on New Year's Day, when he baptized with his own feeble hands an infant grandchild. I had the privilege of conducting his funeral services, and he was buried at Brentwood, where he had formerly been a pastor, and where he is most affectionately remembered."
Mr. McLeod was married, November 30, 1854, to Harriet Stark Hill, of Brentwood, N. H., daughter of Parmenas Hill and Jane Kimball. She survives him, with one son and one daughter; two sons and two daughters are deceased.
Mr. McLeod died of arteriosclerosis, at Cambridge, Mass., February 20, 1900, aged seventy-four years, one month, and nineteen days.
OLASS OF 1856.
Isaac Smithson Hartley, D. D.
Son of Robert Milham Hartley and Catharine Munson ; born in New York City, September 24, 1830 ; prepared for college at the Grammar School of the University of New York, and graduated at the University, 1852; studied in the Union Theological Seminary, 1853-54; and in this Seminary, 1854-56, gradu- ating August 7, 1856, with a Commencement address upon "The Synod of Dort." He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Amos Blanchard, D. D., at Lowell, February 12, 1856, and continued study in the Seminary as resident licentiate, 1856-57, supplying for a part of that year the Second Church, St. Johnsbury, Vt. He often preached in Dutch Reformed churches in New York City, 1857-62, and traveled in Europe, 1862-63. He was ordained by the South Classis of New York, and was pastor of the Sixth Avenue Reformed Dutch Church, New York City, 1864-69;
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of the Second Reformed Church, Philadelphia, 1869-71, and of the Reformed Church, Utica, N. Y., 1871-89. He then entered the ministry of the Episcopal Church, being ordained deacon, by Bishop Potter of New York, December 21, 1890, and as priest, by the same, May 28, 1891. After temporary service as assistant minister of St. Stephen's Church, New York City, he became rector of St. James's Church, Great Barrington, Mass., in February, 1892, and re- mained such until his death.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Rutgers College in 1873, and was a trustee of that institution from that date. He was vice-president of the Oneida Historical Society at Utica, and a member of the Society of Colonial Wars and of the Victoria Institute of England. While in Europe at the time of the Civil War, he spoke and wrote effectively in regard to the true nature of the struggle, and on his return was specially active in support of the U. S. Christian Commission. He was president of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America in 1881, and later was delegate to the Evangelical Alliance in London. He was directly instrumental in founding the Vedder Lectureship on Modern Infidelity, in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church at New Brunswick, N. J., and delivered, in 1874, the first course, on "Prayer, its Relation to Modern Thought and Criticism," and these lectures were published. He also published History of the Reformed Church, 1860; Memorial of Rev. Philemon H. Fowler, 1861 ; Memorial of Robert Milham Hartley (his father, an eminent philanthropist in New York City, for many years elder in the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, Dr. William Adams, Class of 1830, pastor), 1882; The Twelve Gates (compilation of poems), 1887 ; Sundays in the Adirondacks, 1889. He contributed to the American Theological Review and the Magazine of American History, and many articles to the religious and secular press.
Rev. Arthur Lawrence, D. D., of Stockbridge, Mass., wrote of Dr. Hart- ley, in The Church Militant: "He was a man conspicuously handsome in person, of dignified and manly bearing, courteous and kindly in manner, direct in speech, and gifted with a genial and attractive vein of humor. In his char- acter, strong common-sense and business-like sagacity were blended with a poetic gift, and his spiritual earnestness found enlarged expression in faithful and strenuous public spirit. He was especially interested in the public schools, and gave much time and service to their care. A diligent scholar, a thoughtful preacher, a wise administrator, a Christian gentleman, he has left to his family an honored name and to his church the memory of a beloved pastor. The Diocese is poorer for his loss."
He was married, April 26, 1866, to Isabella Ashton White, of Pittsburg, Pa., daughter of George R. White and Isabella Mccullough. She survives him, with one son, George Derwent Hartley, of the American Deposit and Loan Company, New York City.
Dr. Hartley died of acute indigestion and deterioration of the heart, at Great Barrington, Mass., July 3, 1899, aged sixty-eight years, nine months, and nine days.
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George Edward Sanborne.
Son of Rev. Peter Sanborne and Martha Wakefield; born in Reading, Mass., April 16, 1827 ; fitted for college at Williston Seminary and Monson (Mass.) Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1853; took the full course in this Seminary, 1853-56; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Amos Blanchard, D. D. (Class of 1829), at Lowell, Febru- ary 12, 1856; graduated August 7, 1856, the theme of his Commencement address being "Blaise Pascal." He was ordained pastor of the church in Georgia, Vt., January 1, 1857, Rev. Lyman Whiting, of Portsmouth, N. H. (Class of 1842), preaching the sermon; and remained there until 1861; acting pastor, Portsmouth, N. H., 1861-62; pastor, Mt. Vernon, N. H., 1862-65; at Northboro, Mass., 1865-70. He was then Superintendent of the Hartford (Ct.) Orphan Asylum, 1870-75 ; also preaching at Tolland, Ct., 1870-72, at Wethers- field Avenue Church, Hartford (which he organized), 1873-75, and at Enfield, Ct., in 1875, and steward of the Retreat for the Insane, Hartford, from 1875 to 1895. He continued to reside afterward at Hartford, in feeble health, until his death. His farewell sermon at Northboro, 1870, was published.
Rev. Lyman Whiting, D. D., of East Charlemont, Mass. (Class of 1842), Mr. Sanborne's pastor at Reading, and Mrs. Sanborne's pastor at Portsmouth, sends the following : " Mr. Sanborne had a power for reaching the sensibilities of hearers, a pathos of tone and winsomeness of manner few preachers possess. This was largely hereditary, for his father, Rev. Peter Sanborne, moved assem- blies as few men can do. Hearers of a reflective cast were much drawn and profited by his preaching. In his offices in connection with the Asylums at Hartford, he found a more fitting life-work than in the studious diligence of the ministry. But during those years at Hartford, pulpits in the vicinity often sought his services."
Rev. Charles F. Morse, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., writes : "Mr. Sanborne was my classmate both at Amherst and at Andover. · He was an unusually con- secrated Christian man, as shown by the time spent in private devotions, and by his participation in social meetings. During most of his college course he conducted a meeting in an out-district of Amherst. The same devotion characterized him in the Seminary. He was very useful and beloved in his pastorates. He was an honor to his class and to the cause he so faithfully represented."
Mr. Sanborne was married, June 10, 1858, to Annie E. Knowlton, of Portsmouth, N. H., daughter of Dea. John Knowlton and Nancy Janvrin Frye. She survives him.
Mr. Sanborne died of sclerosis of the spinal cord, at Hartford, Ct., January 7, 1900, aged seventy-two years, eight months, and twelve days.
* Edward Orton, Ph.D., LL.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Rev. Samuel Gibbs Orton, D.D., and Clara Gregory (daughter of Rev. Justus Gregory) ; born in Deposit, N. Y., March 9, 1829; his youth spent at Ripley, N. Y., where his father, an eminent Presbyterian minister, was
* When in the Seminary, he used his full name, Edward Francis Baxter Orton, but later dropped the two middle names.
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then settled; fitted for college under tuition of his father and at academies in Westfield and Fredonia, N. Y .; at sixteen entered Sophomore class of Hamil- ton College (going by " red-line packet boat on Erie Canal "), and graduated in 1848; instructor in academy, Erie, Pa., 1848-49; studied in Lane Theologi- cal Seminary (in which Dr. Lyman Beecher and Prof. Calvin E. Stowe were then the instructors), 1849-50; instructor in Natural Science and Geology, Delaware Literary Institute, Franklin, N. Y., 1851-52, and 1853-54, spending the intervening year in special study under Professors Horsford, Gray, and Cooke at the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University; continued theological study in this Seminary, 1854-55. He had been licensed to preach by the Delaware Presbytery, of the Synod of New York, June 1, 1852, and was ordained by the same body, at Delhi, N. Y., January 1, 1856; he was acting pastor in Colchester, N. Y., 1855-56, but afterward devoted his life to educa- tional and scientific work. He was professor of Natural Sciences in the State Normal School, Albany, N. Y., 1856-59; principal of academy in Chester, N. Y., 1859-65; professor of Geology, Zoology, and Botany, Antioch College (for a short time principal of the Preparatory Department), 1865-72; appointed assistant on Ohio Geological Survey, by Governor (afterwards President) Hayes, in 1869, and held the position till 1872 ; president of Antioch College, 1872-73; president of the Ohio State University, Columbus (at first called the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College), 1873-81, and professor of Geology from 1873 to the end of his life; also, State Geologist of Ohio, and chief of Geological Survey from 1882.
He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Hamilton College in 1875, and that of Doctor of Laws from Ohio State University in 1881. He was one of the founders of the " Old Northwest" Genealogical Society, and its first president; a member of the Ohio Archæological and Historical Society, of the Ohio Academy of Science, of the Geological Society of America, of which he was president in 1897, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which also elected him president in 1899. Besides the publication of many elaborate geological reports, and of many contributions to scientific journals, he was author of Account of Descendants of Thomas Orton, of Wind- sor, Ct.
Rev. Prof. John Bascom, D. D., LL.D., of Williams College (Class of 1855), sends this tribute to his friend : " I first became acquainted with Edward Orton at the Seminary, and was intimate with him most of his life. I raced with him many a winter morning before daylight around the three-mile triangle of which the Seminary is the apex and Indian Ridge the base, to give tone to breakfast and the day's work. He was from the beginning an ardent, industri- ous, and successful student of nature. He came, as state geologist, to wield great influence in the State of Ohio. His exceedingly courteous and concilia- tory manners enabled him to hold fast all that he gained. He was always deeply interested in spiritual truth, though his mind was not easily satisfied on these questions, and the disturbing doubt often loomed above the persuasive to faith. He was a man of choice quality, and one who had once put him among his friends felt that he possessed in him great wealth. He was safer, for all the ends of life, in his hesitancy of faith, than are most men in their assured beliefs. It was the core of truth which he sought for, and which seemed to him to be so deep."
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He married, August 30, 1855, Mary Matilda Jennings, of Franklin, N. Y., daughter of Judge Beach Jennings and Matilda Abell. She died April 8, 1873. He married, second, August 26, 1875, Anna Davenport Torrey, of Millbury, Mass., daughter of Samuel Davenport Torrey and Susan H. Waters. She sur- vives him. He had three sons and three daughters, all living; one daughter is a graduate of the Ohio State University, and two are graduates of Wellesley College; one son, Edward Orton, Jr., is professor of Ceramics in Ohio State University and has been appointed to succeed his father as State Geologist ; the youngest son is a student in college.
Dr. Orton died of angina pectoris, at Columbus, O., October 16, 1899, aged seventy years, seven months, and seven days.
OLASS OF 1857.
Samuel John Austin. (Non-graduate.)
Son of John Austin and Lodemia Daniels (the youngest of three brothers who became ministers) ; born in Becket, Mass., November 22, 1826; fitted for college under Eli A. Hubbard, at the Mountain Seminary, Worthington, Mass. ; graduated at Union College, 1847 ; studied in Auburn Theological Seminary, 1848-49; studied privately with Rev. John H. Bisbee, Worthington, while teaching there, 1850-51 ; had a private school in New Jersey, and was a family tutor in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, 1851-54; studied in the Theological Institute of Connecticut, at East Windsor, 1854-55, and in this Seminary, a part of the year, 1855-56. He was ordained at Mason Village (now Green- ville), N. H., February 25, 1857, and was pastor there, 1857-59; at Gardner, Mass., 1859-64; at Oxford, Mass., 1864-68; at Warren, Mass., 1868-77 ; at Chicopee Falls, Mass., 1877-84; without charge, Newton Highlands, 1884; at Darien, Ct., 1885-99.
Rev. William D. Hart, of Wilton, Ct. (Class of 1873), writes : "I knew Mr. Austin during the last ten years of his life. He was a man of impressive dignity, joined to a most cordial manner. He gave a tone of respectability to whatever cause he espoused, while his genuine warmth and tenderness of heart had a strong drawing power. He believed in and earnestly advocated an intelligent religion, and in his ministry placed particular emphasis on the care- ful study of the Bible and fundamental doctrines. His work in pulpit and prayer meeting trained the young people to become faithful and efficient Christians, so that the church under his ministry constantly grew in intellectual and spiritual power, and the whole community felt that a man of God moved among them. To him the sorrowing and troubled went for counsel and com- fort, and the universal verdict was, ' He was a good man.' One of his pa- rishioners expressed the feeling of the church when he said, 'We had the sort of love for him that springs from unclouded respect.'"
Mr. Austin was married, March 31, 1858, to Jennie S. Clark, of Lancaster, Mass., daughter of Franklin Clark and Marietta Pomeroy. She died Novem- ber 15, 1862. He married, second, December 8, 1863, Susan Maria Miller, of Royalston, Mass., daughter of George F. Miller and Melinda Edgell. She died October 2, 1898. One daughter survives, a graduate of Smith College and a teacher. A son died in early childhood.
Mr. Austin died of Bright's disease and paresis, at Stamford, Ct., August 18, 1899, aged seventy-two years, eight months, and twenty-seven days.
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Edward Chipman Guild. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Benjamin Guild and Eliza Eliot; born in Brookline, Mass., Feb- ruary 29, 1832; prepared for college in private schools of T. Russell Sullivan and William H. Brooks, Boston; graduated at Harvard College, 1853; studied in this Seminary, 1854-56, and graduated at Harvard Divinity School, 1857. He was ordained at Meadville, Pa., September 25, 1859, and was pastor of the Unitarian Church at Marietta, O., 1859-60; at Canton, Mass., 1861-66; at Ithaca, N. Y., 1866-68; acting pastor, Northboro, Mass., residing at Andover, 1868-69; of First Independent Church, Baltimore, Md., 1869-72 ; at Waltham, Mass., 1873-80 ; at Brunswick, Me., 1885-94; at Pembroke, Mass., 1895-96; resided in Europe, 1896-98 ; resided afterwards in Boston, supplying the church in Barnstable, Mass., in the winter of 1898-99, and later the church in Pittsfield, Mass., until his death.
Mr. Guild was a cousin of President Eliot of Harvard University, whose classmate he was in college. While settled in Waltham he delivered a course of lectures on Lyrical Poetry at the Lowell Institute. He was especially esteemed in Brunswick, the place of his longest pastorate. The Pejepscot Historical Society passed resolutions honoring him as "an active and generous supporter of its interests," and the Bowdoin College Library, which had in him " an appreciative patron and a constant benefactor," printed a memorial sermon preached soon after his death by Rev. Edward B. Mason, D. D., pastor of the Congregational Church in Brunswick (Class of 1861), the closing sentences of which are quoted : " This friend, whose name we know, may safely be canonized as one of the saints whose influence continues to bless mankind in the world in which he has lived. This influence remains with us as a benediction, an im- perishable possession which the world can neither give nor take away; and it remains with us to help and comfort, often to inspire with sudden resolution and courage ; it remains with us as a lofty, beautiful ideal, going on before and shining back upon us with a serene and heavenly light."
Rev. Prof. J. Henry Thayer, D. D., of Harvard Divinity School, writes of his classmate : "Edward Chipman Guild will be remembered by the Andover Class of 1857 as a quiet, courteous, studious associate while he was one of their number. Though an avowed Unitarian,, and that, too, in a day when theological jealousies were acute, he was never polemic, and bore himself habitually with such gentle graciousness as to disarm hostility. Not only was he in constant attendance at public prayers, but he participated freely in the more devotional meetings of the class. By nature he was urbane and refined rather than forceful, always kind, affable, and easy of approach, but not inclined to warm intimacies. As a preacher he was never self-assertive or vehement, but by his discourses diffused a calming, elevating, purifying influence like that of a radiant Sunday morning in the country. On one occasion he returned from service in a mood of special exhilaration ; and in reply to a friend's inquiry answered, ' I think I never preached so well in my life, for I had to drown the noise of a steam-roller in the street.' Field preachers have been known to borrow impressiveness for their discourses from an approaching thunderstorm, but few preachers would get stimulus by utilizing a steam-roller as a 'running- mate.' "
Mr. Guild was married, October 5, 1861, to Emma M. Cadwalladar, of
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Marietta, O., daughter of John Cadwalladar, M. D., and Emma R. Rhodes. She survives him, with two daughters.
Mr. Guild died of cerebral hemorrhage, at the City Hospital in Boston, November 6, 1899, aged sixty-eight years, eight months, and eight days.
CLASS OF 1858.
Lucius Erastus Barnard. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Capt. Rufus Barnard and Jemima Kellogg; born in Waitsfield, Vt., June 14, 1828 ; fitted for college at Bakersfield and Montpelier Academies ; graduated at the University of Vermont, 1853; studied in this Seminary, 1855-56, and part of the year 1856-57; completed his theological course at Auburn Seminary, graduating in 1858; was ordained by the Onondaga Presby- tery, at Amboy, N. Y., March 8, 1859; acting pastor, Hannibal, N. Y., 1858-59; Amboy, N. Y., 1859-60; First Church of Christ, Galesburg, Ill., 1860; Waukegan, Ill., 1860-62; Georgia, Vt., 1863-64. He then left the Con- gregational ministry, and later joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. He settled in Galesburg, Ill., in 1874, and has been registered in the Minutes of the Presbyterian Church since 1891, and as honorably retired since 1896. He bequeathed to the University of Vermont two thousand dollars as a library fund, and three thousand dollars for scholarships, and one thousand dollars to Auburn Theological Seminary, for a scholarship, all these gifts in memory of his son, Charles Kitchell Barnard; he left smaller sums to Knox College and to different missionary societies in the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Barnard was married, May 14, 1861, to Emma Louise Barnard, of Detroit, Mich., daughter of Dea. Sherman Sargeant Barnard and Mary Esther Andrus. She survives him. Their son, mentioned above, died at the age of sixteen, and their married daughter resides in Minnesota.
Mr. Barnard died of cerebral meningitis, at Galesburg, Ill., January 30, 1900, aged seventy-one years, seven months, and sixteen days.
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