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Dr. Spalding died of valvular difficulty of the heart, at Newburyport, April 10, 1892, aged seventy-one years.
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CLASS OF 1846.
John Summers Holmes.
Son of Rev. Sylvester Holmes and Esther Holmes; born in New Bedford, Mass., February 2, 1823; studied two years in Amherst College, 1836-38, and one year in Brown University, 1838-39; took the full course in the Seminary, graduating in 1846, remaining here afterwards as resident licentiate. He preached for a short time in Sandwich, Mass., and then, deciding to change his profession, studied law with Rufus Choate, Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1848, and was a counsellor at law in Boston during his life.
He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1854, and delivered the Fourth of July oration before the municipal authorities in 1858. "In late years, on account of heart trouble, he abandoned the practice of law in the courts, and confined himself to the trial of causes sent to him as auditor in law or master in equity. He had so many of these cases that he was known as ' Judge Holmes.'"
He married Mrs. Minerva Chace Durfee, of Fall River, Mass., daughter of Samuel Chace and Eunice Hathaway, and widow of Joseph Durfee ; and, second, Anne Keenan, of Lynnfield, Mass., daughter of Dr. Thomas Keenan. His children reside in New York.
He died of dilatation of the heart and myocarditis, in Boston, May 14, 1892, aged sixty-nine years.
Francis Greenleaf Pratt.
Son of Capt. Greenleaf Pratt and Lucy Edson ; born at North Middleboro, Mass., January 30, 1821 ; prepared for college at Bridgewater and Amherst Academies; graduated at Amherst College, 1840; was master of grammar school in New Bedford, Mass., 1840-41, and principal of Bridgewater Academy, 1841-43; began his theological course at Union Seminary, 1843-45, and com- pleted it in this Seminary, graduating in 1846, remaining another year as resident licentiate. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, Andover, April 7, 1846, and ordained as pastor of the Winthrop Church in South Malden (now Everett), Mass., October 19, 1849. After a faithful and successful pastorate there of nine years, he retired with impaired health from the active ministry, and removed to the well-known home- stead of his father-in-law, Hon. Zechariah Eddy, at Eddyville, in Middleboro, where he continued to reside, with the exception of one year, 1860-61, when he was acting pastor in Peacedale, R. I.
Of his long residence in Middleboro, Rev. J. W. Kingsbury writes : "To years of usefulness as a preacher of the gospel, he added other years of eminent usefulness as teacher of a Bible class numbering from thirty to forty members. He was not an idle man. Literary work of various kinds engaged his facile pen." He was for many years a trustee of Middleboro Academy, and con- tributed extensively to the Eddy and Pratt Genealogies.
He was married, September 8, 1846, to Charlotte Elizabeth Eddy, of Middleboro, daughter of Hon. Zechariah Eddy and Sarah Edson. She survives him, with two sons, a son and a daughter having died in childhood. One of the sons was for several years connected with the Boston Advertiser, and the other is one of the proprietors of the Youth's Companion.
Mr. Pratt died of rheumatoid arthritis and chronic nephritis, in Middleboro, Mass., August 17, 1891, aged seventy years.
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CLASS OF 1849.
Albert Tolman. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Capt. Stephen Tolman and Mary Pierce; born in Dorchester, Mass., February 13, 1824; prepared for college under the tuition of his brother, Rev. Richard Tolman (Class of 1844), at Hancock (N.H.) Academy, and of Rev. William Wakefield (Class of 1845), at Dorchester; graduated at Amherst Col- lege, 1845; taught at Montague and Wayland, Mass .; spent a part of two years in the Seminary, 1846-48 ; was tutor in Amherst College, 1848-51 ; instructor in Ancient Languages and Natural History at the Young Ladies' Institute (after- wards Maplewood Institute), Pittsfield, Mass., 1851-55; founder and principal of the Taghonic Institute for Boys, Lanesboro, Mass., 1855-68; principal of high school, Pittsfield, 1863-78 ; resided afterwards in Pittsfield.
Mr. Tolman was never ordained, but occasionally preached ; he was deacon and Sunday-school superintendent in the South Church, Pittsfield. His life work was teaching, and was most successfully accomplished. " He was a man of fine scholarship and of rare faithfulness to his duties as an instructor. He loved to study and to teach whatever was true and beautiful and good. In his general character he was distinguished for his sincerity of purpose and expres- sion, and for his simplicity of heart."
He was married, September 23, 1853, to Jane Amelia Tower, of Lanesboro, daughter of Justus Tower and Emeline Talcott. She died September 30, 1871. He was married, second, August 6, 1872, to Mrs. Caroline Amelia Wilson, of Pittsfield, daughter of Chauncey Goodrich and Amelia May, and widow of Dr. Nelson J. Wilson, and she survives him. Two of his five sons were graduates of Williams College, one being a professor in Ripon College.
Mr. Tolman died of inflammation of the bladder, at Pittsfield, Mass., August 17, 1891, aged sixty-seven years.
CLASS OF 1851.
John Gardner Hale.
Son of Harry Hale and Lucinda Eddy; born in Chelsea, Vt., September 12, 1824 ; prepared for college at Royalton (Vt.) Academy; graduated at the Uni- versity of Vermont, 1845; taught successively at Grand Isle, Vt., Kingsport, Tenn., and St. Johnsbury, Vt., 1845-48; in this Seminary, 1848-51; licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. John L. Taylor, Andover, April 15, 1851. He was ordained at Chelsea, Vt., September 30, 1852, as a home missionary, and labored at Grass Valley, Cal., until 1857. Returning then to Vermont, he was acting pastor at Lyndon, 1857-59; pastor at East Poultney, 1860-69; acting pastor at Chester, 1869-76, and at Stowe, 1877-81. He then crossed the continent again, and became the first resident pastor of the Second Church in San Bernardino (now First Church in Redlands), Cal., then worship- ing in a small schoolhouse, and retained that charge until 1885. For a part of the time he also preached to a new congregation, now the Highlands Church at Messina. In 1886 he established Bellevue Academy in Lugonia (now Redlands), of which he was principal until 1889.
He was the town superintendent of schools in Poultney, Chester, and Stowe, Vt. He contributed scholarly articles to the Bibliotheca Sacra, New Englander,
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Boston Review, and Congregational Quarterly. " He has left an enviable record as a preacher, teacher, and thoroughly conscientious, devoted, and self-denying man."
He was married, September 28, 1852, to Phila Jane Dwinell, of Calais, Vt., daughter of Israel Dwinell and Phila Gilman. She survives him, with one son, Rev. Edson D. Hale, a Congregational pastor in California, and three daughters, one daughter having deceased.
He died of pneumonia and heart failure, at Redlands, Cal., March 23, 1892, aged sixty-seven years.
Orlando Henry White, D.D. (Resident licentiate.)
Son of Henry White and Sophronia Waterman ; born at Livermore Falls, Me., January 9, 1820; fitted for college at North Yarmouth (Me.) Academy ; took the first two years of college course at Bowdoin, and graduated at Amherst, 1846; graduated at Bangor Theological Seminary, 1849; clerk for secretaries of American Board, Boston, 1849-50; resident licentiate in this Seminary, part of the year, 1850-51, while supplying the church in Westminster, Mass., over which he was ordained, August 21, 1851. He remained there until 1854; was pastor of the church at Washington Heights, New York City, 1854-58; of the Centre Church, Meriden, Conn., 1858-63; acting pastor at Orleans, Mass., 1863- 66, residing in Boston; pastor of Howard Avenue Church, New Haven, Conn., 1866-75; secretary of Freedmen's Missions Aid Society, London, England, 1875- 81. Returning to this country, he resided for two years in New Haven, Conn., afterwards in Boston. He supplied the church in Middlebury, Vt., 1887-88, and the churches in Essex Junction and Winooski, Vt., 18SS-90.
Mr. White received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Adrian College in 1870. His service abroad was an important one, informing the Christian people of Great Britain of the religious needs of the freedmen in America. He prepared and delivered many valuable lectures on The Divine Footsteps in the Rebellion, Africa, her People and her Future, and kindred subjects.
He was married, April 4, 1852, to Mary Barnes Pomroy, of Boston, daughter of Rev. Swan L. Pomroy, D.D., and Frances Maria Fales. She died August 19, 1855, and he married, December 19, 1859, Mrs. Charlotte Bliss Loomis, daughter of Alfred Bliss and Mary Roberts, of Hartford, Conn., and widow of Samuel O. Loomis, of Windsor, Conn. She died September 10, 1889. One child died in infancy, and a married daughter resides in Dorchester.
Dr. White died of heart failure, at Stratford, Conn., January 8, 1892, lack- ing one day of being seventy-two years old.
CLASS OF 1852.
Edmund Harvey Blanchard.
Son of Edmund Blanchard and Anna Abbot; born in Greensboro, Vt., January 16, 1821 ; prepared for college at Craftsbury (Vt.) Academy ; graduated at Middlebury College, 1848; was principal of Lyndon (Vt.) Academy one year ; spent three years in the Seminary, and a fourth year as resident licentiate. He was licensed by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. William T. Briggs at North Andover, April 13, 1852, and, as his health permitted, supplied
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churches in different places, especially at Epsom, N.H., 1854-55; at Ludlow, Vt., 1857; and at Chiltonville (in Plymouth), 1857-58. He was ordained as pastor at Warwick, Mass., April 25, 1860, and remained there eight years. Failing health compelled him then to leave the ministry, and he removed to Bloomington, Ill., where he was engaged in the drug business until 1887. He was known as a man of earnest Christian character and sterling integrity. Rev. Roswell Foster (Class of 1853), at one time a Seminary room-mate, writes : " I remember Mr. Blanchard as a quiet, self-distrustful man, of excellent Christian spirit, faithful in his daily work of study and self-discipline, seeking not for greatness or renown, but for goodness and usefulness."
He was married, May 16, 1860, to Annie Clifford, of Loudon, N.H., daughter of Joseph Eastman Clifford and Jane Martin, who survives him.
After a long illness, he died of heart disease, at Bloomington, Ill., October 22, 1891, aged seventy years.
CLASS OF 1853.
Charles Augustus Aiken, Ph.D., D.D.
Son of Hon. John Aiken (for many years a trustee of the Seminary) and Harriet Russell Adams; born in Manchester, Vt., October 30, 1827 ; prepared for college at the high school in Lowell, where his father then resided ; gradu- ated at Dartmouth College, 1846; assisted Rev. James Means (Class of 1838) at Lawrence Academy, Groton, 1846-47; taught Latin and Greek under Dr. Samuel H. Taylor at Phillips Academy, Andover, 1847-49; entered the Seminary in 1849 and graduated in 1853, having in the mean time studied two years in Berlin, Halle, and Leipsic, Germany. He was licensed by the Andover Association, meeting in John Street Church, Lowell, June 14, 1853, and retained his connec- tion with the Seminary as resident licentiate, 1853-54. He was ordained pastor of the church at Yarmouth, Me., October 19, 1854, remaining such until 1859. From 1859 to 1866 he was professor of the Latin Language and Literature in Dartmouth College, and occupied the same chair in the College of New Jersey from 1866 to 1869, when he was elected president of Union College. He re- signed that position in 1871, and returned to Princeton to become professor of Christian Ethics and Apologetics in the Theological Seminary. Later, the title of his chair was changed to that of the Relations of Philosophy and Science to the Christian Religion, and of Oriental and Old Testament Literature, and this he held until his death. From 1871 to 1877 he was also librarian of the Seminary.
In addition to this long and eminent service as a teacher of language, the- ology, and philosophy, he performed a large amount of literary work, contribut- ing in earlier years to the Bibliotheca Sacra, and later to the Princeton Review, to the Presbyterian Review (which, as the associate of Professor Briggs, he started in 1880), to the present Presbyterian and Reformed Review, and to the Catholic Presbyterian (London). He translated and edited Zöckler's Com- mentary on the Proverbs for the American edition of Lange's Commentaries, and was a member of the Old Testament Company of the Bible Revision Com- mittee. He was a trustee of the Lawrenceville (N.J.) School, and connected with the American Oriental Society, the American Philological Association, and the Social Science Association. In 1888 he was a delegate at large from the United States to the World's Conference on Protestant Missions, in London.
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The College of New Jersey conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Phi- losophy in 1866, and that of Doctor of Divinity in 1870. Prof. B. B. Warfield, D.D., wrote in the Presbyterian and Reformed Review: " His greatest distinc- tion was philosophy, but to each department of study which it fell to him to cultivate he brought an unwearied industry, an insatiable avidity for learning, and habits of exact scholarship which made themselves felt." Prof. Charles A. Young, LL.D., said in his memorial address : " And he was a good man through and through ; he was strictly honest, upright, and punctual in all busi- ness matters; he was kind and generous, and with a wide range of sympathy he was ready to spend and be spent in the service of his fellow-men."
Dr. Aiken was married, October 17, 1854, to Sarah Elizabeth Noyes, of Andover, daughter of Dea. Daniel Noyes (formerly treasurer of the Seminary) and Eleanor Clark, who survives him.
He died of pneumonia, at Princeton, N.J., January 14, 1892, aged sixty- four years.
Roswell Foster.
Son of Richard Foster and Irene Davis Burroughs; born in Hanover, N.H., June 30, 1824 ; prepared for college at Henniker and Hopkinton (N. H.) Acade- mies; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1849; in this Seminary, 1849-50, and 1851-53. He was ordained pastor of the Second Church at Waltham, Mass., March 14, 1855. He was subsequently pastor at Westhampton, 1856-58; of the South Church, Pittsfield, 1859-61 ; acting pastor of Second Church, Chico- pee (Chicopee Falls), until 1863, and installed pastor until 1867 (doing service under the United States Christian Commission in the summer of 1864); acting pastor, Nebraska City, Neb., 1867-72 ; Fremont, Neb., 1872-75; without charge at Newton, Io., 1875-76, and at Ottumwa, Io., 1876-77; acting pastor, Inde- pendence, Io., 1877-82, and also at Winthrop, Io., 1877-79; Westmoreland, N.H., 1884-85; Templeton and Baldwinsville, Mass., 1885-89; Phillipston and Petersham, 1889-92.
" His influence over young men has been a marked feature in his ministry. Mr. Foster was a strong anti-slavery man, and espoused the temperance reform with invincible determination. Men who would sell rum regarded him as an enemy, and not without reason. He dealt terrific blows at the saloon traffic, and at any interest connected with the infamous business." Though with rap- idly failing strength, Mr. Foster continued to preach as long as he could stand in the pulpit, until within a few weeks of his death.
He was married, March 20, 1855, to Esther Josephine Lewis, of Hunting- ton, Mass., daughter of Gilbert S. and Caroline Lewis. She died August 24 1864, in Washington, D.C., having been prostrated by camp fever while work- ing among the soldiers at Point Lookout. He married, second, July 24, 1867, Mary La Fore, of Chateaugay, N.Y., daughter of John La Fore and Ada Perry. She survives him, with two sons and two daughters, three children having died.
Mr. Foster died of Bright's disease, at Phillipston, Mass., May 7, 1892, in the sixty-eighth year of his age.
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CLASS OF 1857.
John Gunn Baird.
Son of Jonah Newton Baird and Minerva Gunn; born in Milford, Conn., November 27, 1826; prepared for college at Milford High School; graduated at Yale College, 1852; was classical instructor for two years in Judge Hall's famous "Ellington School " at Ellington, Conn. ; took the full course in this Seminary; was licensed by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. C. E. Fisher at Andover, February 10, 1857; from 1857 to 1859 supplied the churches in Fitzwilliam, N. H., Canton and Torrington, Conn., for several months each, attending in the latter year lectures at the Yale Divinity School, as resident licentiate. He was ordained, June 2, 1859, as pastor of the Second Church of Saybrook at Centerbrook (now in the town of Essex), Conn. He continued in this pastorate until 1865, when a bronchial affection compelled him to relinquish the active duties of the ministry. From 1867 to 1883 he was Assistant Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Education, residing first at New Haven, and after- wards, with the change of the State capital, at Hartford. From 1885 he lived at Ellington.
Besides writing considerable portions of the annual reports of the Board, he contributed articles to educational journals and to Johnson's Encyclopedia, and the history of Ellington to Stiles's History of Windsor. He left incomplete a genealogy of the Baird (Beard) family. Rev. Dr. Geo. L. Walker, of whose church at Hartford Mr. Baird was a member, wrote of him : " While with us he was, as ever, a modest, painstaking, kind-hearted man and coöperant parishioner, willing to take his full share of the church's work and responsibilities. He has left the memory of a good man and minister of the gospel behind him." He was borne to his burial by aged men, members of the large Bible class which he had conducted in his last years at Ellington.
He was married, June 15, 1859, to Eliza Hall, of Ellington, daughter of Judge John Hall and Sophia Kingsbury, who survives him.
Mr. Baird died of pneumonia, at Ellington, Conn., December 22, 1891, aged sixty-five years.
CLASS OF 1860.
Henry Dwight Woodworth.
Son of John Martin Woodworth and Mary Waterman Armstrong; born in Lebanon, Conn., February 18, 1826; prepared for college at Monson Academy ; graduated at Amherst College, 1855; was professor of Mathematics, Paducah (Ky.) College, 1855-56; instructor in Smithville Seminary, North Scituate, R.I., 1856-57; in this Seminary, 1857-65; ordained, September 12, 1860, as pastor of the Union Church of East and West Bridgewater, Mass., and remained there until 1862. He supplied the church at West Needham (now Wellesley), Mass., 1863-65: was city missionary in Boston, 1866-67 ; pastor at Westford, Mass., 1867-69; acting pastor at Rehoboth, 1870-73. From 1873 to 1888 he resided in Cambridge, Mass., during ten years of that period carrying on the business of jeweler in Boston, in connection with his son. Returning to ministerial labor, he preached at North Falmouth, Mass., 1888-90, and at East Granby, Conn., from 1890 until his death.
Rev. Dr. G. R. Leavitt, of Cleveland, Ohio (Class of 1863), writes : " He was a man of strong mind, of intense convictions, of a warm heart. More
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clearly than many of us, his brethren, he saw the nature of the ministry as a saving work. He loved to preach and to do personal work, and in his later years, sanctified by heavy trials, returned to the service and died in the harness."
He was married, August 14, 1855, to Sarah Elizabeth Carkin, of Brookfield, Mass., daughter of Luther Carkin and Jane Crockett. She died August 27, 1884. Their three sons are all living.
Mr. Woodworth died of heart failure, following la grippe, at East Granby, Conn., June 27, 1891, aged sixty-five years.
CLASS OF 1862.
Edwin Spencer Beard.
Son of Rev. Spencer Field Beard (Class of IS27) and Lucy Allen Leonard ; born in Methuen, Mass., May 15, 1832; graduated at Phillips Academy, An- dover, 1855, and at Yale College, 1859, having spent the freshman and sopho- more years at Amherst College; took the full theological course at Andover. He was licensed to preach by the Essex South Association at Salem, January 7, 1862, and began service with the Second Presbyterian Church of Easthampton, L.I. (village of Amagansett), soon after graduation. He remained there a year, being ordained, April 2, 1863, by the Long Island Consociation, at Riverhead, L.I., where he had united with the church in his boyhood. From 1864 to 1873 he was pastor of the church in Warren, Me., and from 1873 to his death in Brooklyn, Conn.
He published two sermons - a Fast Day sermon, delivered at Warren, Me., at the close of the War of the Rebellion in 1865, and a Thanksgiving ser- mon, preached also at Warren, in 1876, on The Future of Maine. Rev. S. E. Herrick, D.D., of Boston, writes: " He was true as steel, generous and char- itable, thinking no evil. He was exceedingly modest in his estimate of himself. It would have been a grand bargain to have taken him at his own price, and dis- posed of him at the appraisal of any who knew him as well as I did. He was nothing for show, but everything for substance - not one minutest shred of sham in his make-up."
He was married, June 2, 1884, to Mary Emma Bard, of Brooklyn, Conn., daughter of George J. Bard and Emily D. Hawkes, who survives him.
Mr. Beard died of pneumonia, following la grippe, at Brooklyn, Conn., December 25, 1891, in his sixtieth year.
George Constantine, D.D.
Son of Constantine Kyriakon; born in Athens, Greece, January 1, 1833; came to America in 1850; prepared for college at Richmond, Va., and at East Windsor Hill (Conn.) Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1859; took the full course in this Seminary, 1859-62; was licensed by the Essex South Association at Salem, January 7, 1862. He was ordained at Amherst, Mass., September 10, 1862, as a foreign missionary, and returned to Greece under the auspices of the American and Foreign Christian Union, arriving at Athens on his thirtieth birthday, January 1, 1863. From 1872 to 1880 he labored inde- pendently in Athens; but in 1881 removed to Smyrna, where, in connection with the mission of the American Board, and as president of the Greek Alliance, he
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carried on an important work among the Greeks of that city and of Asia Minor, as well as among his countrymen in Constantinople.
He edited at Athens for several years The Athenaïs, a weekly periodical for young people; and published, also in modern Greek, Commentary of the Gos- pels (in two volumes), Dictionary of the Bible, tracts on The Character of Jesus Christ (for educated people), on The Greek Church, and on Sunday, its Influ- ence on Health and National Prosperity (with introduction by Mr. Gladstone), and many other small books which he wrote or translated, one of which was Thayer's Pioneer Boy (life of Abraham Lincoln). He was United States Vice Consul at Athens, 1864-74, and, at various times, acting Consul at the Piræus. Bates College gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1883.
Mr. Constantine's early history was remarkable, if not romantic: catching the " American spirit " in the classes of Dr. King (for whom his father worked in some capacity); secretly leaving his native land upon a Swedish vessel, with only thirty drachmas; landing in New York City an utter stranger, after- wards finding his way to Boston, and at last to Cambridge, by repeating two words, Sophocles and Comber ; learning the English alphabet in the tailor's shop where he worked; providentially led to begin a course of study, in which he persevered until prepared to return to Greece as a messenger of the gospel. His Christian life was one of unceasing activity, from his zealous labor in mission schools near Amherst College until the day when his boat was over- turned in the Black Sea when attempting, in rough weather, to land at Trebizond on his way to a meeting of Greek Christians at Ordoo - a shock from which he never recovered. Dr. M. M. Dana, of Lowell, a college classmate, writes : "I knew him intimately, and can bear witness to his unostentatious piety, his quenchless zeal, his love for souls, and his untiring efforts to publish the gospel to his own people. His was a brave and useful life, with the lights and shadows born of trial and opposition, but pervaded from first to last with the spirit of Him whom he followed with a courage and devotion that have rarely been surpassed."
Mr. Constantine was married, August 15, 1862, to Susan Amanda Fall, of Charlestown, daughter of Parker Fall and Dorothy Stuart. She died at Smyrna, October 15, 1887. Two sons died in infancy; two daughters have their home in Boston, the elder being a classical teacher. Mr. Constantine married, June 24, 1889, Maud Grimston, an English lady engaged in missionary service at Smyrna, who still continues her work in the " Smyrna Rest."
He died of eczema, at Harrogate, England, October 6, 1891, at the age of fifty-eight years.
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