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CLASS OF 1863.
Albert Ira Dutton.
Son of Ira Dutton and Emmeline Dutton; born in Stowe, Vt., August 5, 1831 ; prepared for college at West Randolph (Vt.) Academy; graduated at Middlebury College, 1858; was principal successively of Missisquoi Academy, North Troy, Vt., Topsfield (Mass.) Academy, and Georgetown (Mass.) High School; studied in the Theological Institute of Connecticut, East Windsor, 1860-62 ; and graduated at this Seminary in 1863. He was licensed to preach, June 3, 1862, by the Tolland County Association, at Tolland, Conn. He was ordained pastor of the church in Shirley, Mass., November 11, 1863, and re- mained there six years, going then to East Longmeadow, Mass., where he was
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pastor for sixteen years, until 1885. Preaching in that year for a few months in Marshall, Minn., he returned to the East, and was acting pastor at Royalton, Vt., 1885-87. Mr. Dutton's health was now so much enfeebled, as the result of injuries received while driving - first during his pastorate in Longmeadow and afterwards at Royalton - that he retired from pastoral service ; but from 1888 to 1890 was superintendent of Mr. R. L. Day's Home for Disabled Clergymen at South Framingham, continuing to reside there after the enterprise was dis- continued.
Mr. Dutton served at two different times in the United States Christian Commission during the War of the Rebellion, the hospital train with which he was connected being at Appomattox Court House at the time of the surrender of Lee's army. He was a trustee of Monson (Mass.) Academy, and a member of the Connecticut Pastoral Union controlling the Hartford Theological Semi- nary. A former parishioner writes : " His fidelity to his Master and devotion to his service have left a lasting impression on the characters of all with whom he labored."
He was married, October 29, 1863, to Helen Abby Reed, of Groveland, Mass., daughter of Jacob Whittemore Reed and Ruhamah B. Tenney, who sur- vives him, with two sons and a daughter, another daughter having died in infancy. The eldest son, Rev. Charles H. Dutton, graduated at Amherst Col- lege in 1887, and is a settled pastor in Ashland, Mass. The daughter is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, 1891.
Mr. Dutton died of heart failure, following bronchitis, in South Framing- ham, Mass., February 14, 1892, aged sixty years.
CLASS OF 1866.
Elbridge Gerry.
Son of Joel Pratt and Eunice Bolton ; born in Braintree, Vt., July 5, 1837 ; his parents dying in his childhood, he was brought up by others, and when he reached his majority had his name changed by the Legislature from Elbridge Gerry Pratt to Elbridge Gerry; prepared for college at the academy in West Randolph (Vt.), where he went to live at the age of sixteen ; graduated at Mid- dlebury College, 1862; in the Seminary, 1863-66; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Geo. Pierce, Jr., at Dracut, February 13, 1866. After two years' service with the church in Sterling, Mass., he was or- dained at West Randolph, Vt., September 24, 1868, as home missionary, and went at once to Oregon City, Ore., where he remained until 1872. He was then acting pastor at Bethel, Vt., from 1872 to 1882, and spent one year, 1882-83, with his former charge in Oregon. Returning to Vermont, he settled in West Randolph, and continued to reside there afterwards, although supplying the church in Rochester for two years, 1886-1888, the church in Braintree several summers, and other churches in the vicinity very often.
Having been employed in a newspaper office when a student, he retained his interest in journalism, working on the local paper while in Oregon, and, after his return to Vermont, being at one time the editor and proprietor of the North- field News. For several years previous to his death he conducted the West Randolph Herald. That journal says : "Mr. Gerry's personal characteristics were those of sterling honesty and extreme industry. It was his habit to stand
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at the case and put in type, without writing, the editorials which have consti- tuted an important feature of this paper." In his letter to his class on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, observed in Andover last June, he wrote : " My life has been one of almost incessant toil. I have known nothing of vaca- tions or holidays; have never been laid aside by sickness." A few weeks after " he preached in Brookfield his last sermon, being hardly able to speak." The theological portion of his large library he bequeathed to the church in West Randolph.
Mr. Gerry was married, September 24, 1868, to Lucia Lucinda Church, of West Randolph, daughter of Horace Church and Lucinda Child, who survives him, living with a married daughter, their only child, in that town.
He died of cancer of the liver, at West Randolph, Vt., December 23, 1891, aged fifty-four years.
CLASS OF 1867.
Samuel Edwards Evans. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Samuel H. Evans and Mary Puffer ; born in Fitchburg, Mass., May 17, 1841; prepared for college at Chelsea High School; graduated at Harvard College, 1863; entered the Seminary in 1863, but in the summer of 1864 enlisted at Andover in the 60th Massachusetts Regiment for one hundred days' service in the war; on his return, taught school in Yarmouth, Mass., and resumed study in the Seminary, 1865-66; graduated at Chicago Theological Seminary, 1867. He was ordained at Chicago, April 18, 1867, with reference to the foreign missionary work, but decided to remain in this country, and was set- tled over the church in Seekonk, Mass. (East Providence, R.I.), 1868-71. He was then pastor of Methodist churches for ten years : Millville, 1871-72; Mystic, Conn., 1872-74; Nantucket, 1874-75; Cotuit Port, 1875-77; East Glastonbury, Conn., 1877-79; North Easton, 1879-80; Dighton, 1880-81. Returning then to Congregationalist pastorates, he preached at Middlefield, 1881-82; Hanover, 1882-86; Duxbury, 1887; Alstead and Langdon, N.H., 1888-90; First Church, West Newbury, 1890-91.
Mr. Evans preached his last sermon at West Newbury in February, 1891, in great feebleness of body, from the words : "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
He was married, November 20, 1867, to Mary Haven Locke, of Boston, daughter of John Goodwin Locke and Jane Ermina Starkweather. She survives him, with two daughters and one son.
He died at the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea, Mass., of disease of heart and kidneys, November 16, 1891, aged fifty years.
CLASS OF 1868.
Samuel Wells Powell. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Rev. Oliver Stanley Powell (pastor of Congregational church at Fort Atkinson, Wis.) and Judith Shaler; born in Phillipsville (now Belmont), N. Y., May 6, 1838 ; prepared for college at Beloit, Wis., and studied in Beloit College (Class of 1863) until the outbreak of the war; private in 4th Wisconsin Regi- ment, detailed as private secretary of Gen. John A. Dix at Fort McHenry,
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and afterwards lieutenant in United States Marine Corps; in this Seminary, 1865-66; in Chicago Theological Seminary, 1866-67; in Yale Divinity School, 1867-63. After two years of home missionary service in Iowa and Wisconsin, 1869-71, he was pastor of the Congregational church at Arena, Wis., 1871-72, being ordained there, February 8, 1872. He was stated supply at Viroqua, Wis., with three other preaching stations, IS72-73; Rio and Wyocena, Wis., IS73-74; Medford, Minn., and two other preaching stations, 1874-75; South Plymouth, Mass .. 1876-77; Rochester, Mass., 1877; Harwich, Mass., 1879; Mt. Washing- ton, Mass., 18So; Madrid, N.Y., 1881-S2; residing afterwards in Brooklyn, N. Y., engaged in literary work, until his installation over the church in Otis, Mass., November 15, 1887. From 1889 to IS91 he preached at Peru, Mass., removing in the fall of 1891 to Chester Centre, Mass.
Mr. Powell is said to have been specially noted while an officer in the Marine Corps under Admiral Farragut for his efficiency in handling heavy artillery. He was a fine linguist, and before his ordination served for short periods as teacher of Hebrew in the Baptist and Presbyterian theological semi- naries at Chicago. He gave special attention to ancient history, and published a chart for the use of Bible students on the Kings of Israel and Judah, but left incomplete a history of the period between David and the Babylonian captivity. He was much interested in the preservation of the Adirondacks and other forests, and translated from the French The Forest Waters the Farm. He con- tributed largely to magazines and newspapers, secular and religious, and for several years before his death had represented the Associated Press in reporting religious conventions.
He was married, September 16, 1869, to Letia A. Hopkins, of Bowen's Prairie, Io., who survives him, without children.
He died of Bright's disease and general debility, at Chester Centre, Mass., May 7, 1892, at the age of fifty-four years.
CLASS OF 1869.
Edward Payson Smith, Ph.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Samuel Smith and Lucina Metcalf; born in Middlefield, Mass., January 20, 1840; prepared for college under tuition of his brothers, Azariah and Judson Smith, at home, and at Lewistown (Penn.) Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1865; principal of High School, Hinsdale, Mass., 1865-67 ; studied in Oberlin Theological Seminary, 1867, and in this Seminary, 1867-68; teacher of Latin and Greek, Williston Seminary, 1868-70; studied at the Uni- versity of Halle, 1870-71 ; going abroad again in 1872 for a few months' special study in Paris. On his return he became professor of Modern Languages in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (then the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science), and remained such until his death, having, also, from 1888, the department of Political Science. Under leave of absence he pursued a special course of study at Johns Hopkins University, 1887-88.
Professor Smith received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Syra- cuse University in 1888. His historical address at the centennial anniversary of Middlefield, in 1883, was published, as also a valuable essay in Professor Jameson's Constitutional History of the United States in the Formative Period. Although not entering the ministry as he had designed, he was licensed to
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preach by the Woburn Association, January 16, 1872, and at various times preached in the churches of Worcester and vicinity. As a member and officer of the Union Church, as a Bible class instructor, and as an active supporter of the Worcester Young Men's Christian Association and Congregational Club, his religious influence was widely felt. His ability as an educator was of a high order, and his success commensurate with his effort. "Into every sphere of life he carried his best thoughts and his most strenuous endeavors. His teach- ing aimed to evoke all the latent power a student possessed, and to inspire him with a desire of symmetry of character and culture. He loved young men, and had no greater delight than in their response to his incentives, and in witnessing their mental and spiritual growth."
Dr. Smith was married, November 26, 1868, to Julia Mack Church, of Middlefield, daughter of James Tallmadge Church and Emily Bates. She sur- vives him, with one daughter and three sons.
He died of heart disease, at Worcester, Mass., May 2, 1892, aged fifty-two years.
CLASS OF 1870.
Lucian Dwight Mears.
Son of Henry Mears and Louisa Clark; born in Beloit, Wis., March 29, 1838; graduated at Beloit College, 1862, having fitted in the preparatory depart- ment of the same institution ; was engaged for some years as a civil engineer on the Northwestern Railroad in Wisconsin and Iowa; taught German for two years in Beloit College; took the junior year of theological study in Chicago Seminary, 1867-68, and the two following years at Andover. He was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. William E. Park at Lawrence, October 19, 1869. He began to supply the church in Sterling, Mass., in 1870, and was ordained, November 8, 1871, as its pastor, continuing such for two years. He resided there without charge, 1873-75, and at South Lancaster, near by, 1875-76. From 1876 to 1887 he was acting pastor at Danby, Vt., returning in the latter year to his native city, and spending the few remain- ing years of his life in the service of Beloit College, being for a time assistant librarian, and, until a few months before his death, acting treasurer.
While in Vermont he represented the town of his residence in the State Legislature, and was the founder of its free public library. As the son of one of the earliest settlers of Beloit, and himself the first white boy born in the town, he was specially fitted to prepare the historical address on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the First Congregational Church, in 1888, a work rendered very valuable by his painstaking exactness and care.
He married, January I, 1873, Harriet Sawyer, of Sterling, Mass., daughter of Alfred Sawyer and Sarah A. Goss. She survives him, with one daughter, their only child.
He died of consumption, resulting from la grippe, at Beloit, Wis., Septem- ber 29, 1891, at the age of fifty-three years and six months.
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CLASS OF 1873.
Alfred Henry Hall.
Son of Dea. Samuel Whitney Hall and Margaret Bass Knowlton; born in Boston, March 7, 1845; prepared for college at the Roxbury Latin School ; graduated at Harvard College, 1867; was for two years private tutor to a young man traveling in Europe, afterwards spending several months of travel in Egypt and Palestine with Rev. Dr. Charles S. Robinson; took the full course in this Seminary, 1870-73. He was licensed by the Suffolk North Association, meet- ing with Rev. Alexander McKenzie, Cambridge, April 16, 1872, and was ordained March 4, 1875, as pastor of the First Congregational Church, Meriden, Conn. He continued in this pastorate for four years, and after a year spent in Boston returned to Meriden to become the pastor of the Centre Church. In this charge he remained from 18So until his death.
Mr. Hall was an earnest and influential leader in religious and philanthropic work in his city and State, being specially active in the Christian Endeavor movement. He was a contributor to the Bibliotheca Sacra, the Sunday School Times, and other religious periodicals, and also to the secular press. He delivered many lectures before the Meriden Scientific Association, of which he was an active member. He published, in 1884, an address entitled, The Mission of the Church to Intelligence and Wealth. He was one of the American delegates to the International Congregational Council at London in 1891, and his sermons in connection with the memorable visit to the English Plymouth made a deep impression there, recalled since his death by the London Independ- ent and Plymouth Mercury. Rev. E. G. Selden, of Springfield, his seminary classmate, writes : " Mr. Hall's distinguishable characteristic was his likable- ness. He had the rare personal qualities which attract. His friendship was one of the choicest blessings of life." Rev. Dr. J. W. Cooper, of New Britain (Class of 1868), said in his funeral address: "He had the Christian grace of cultivated brotherliness - courteous, thoughtful, bright, cheerful, unselfish, generous. Along with this, and equally conspicuous, was the native force of a manly character. He was a brave, strong, manly man, tenacious of duty, chivalrous in devotion, truth-loving, pure, high-minded, determined. He had in him true nobility. Life to him was for large thoughts and noble deeds."
Mr. Hall was married, June 15, 1875, to Mary Delight Twichell, of Plants- ville, Conn., daughter of Edward Twichell and Jane Walkly. She survives him, with two daughters and one son.
He died of acute Bright's disease, following la grippe, at Meriden, Conn., December 26, 1891, aged forty-six years.
CLASS OF 1875.
Austin Hannahs Burr.
Son of Rev. Willard Burr and Sarah Almira Burr; born in Charlestown, Ohio, June 18, 1849; prepared for college at Oberlin, Ohio; graduated at Oberlin College, 1871 ; instructor in mathematics one year in Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn .; in this Seminary, 1872-75; licensed by the Andover Associa- tion at South Lawrence, June 23, 1874. He was ordained November 3, 1875, as pastor of the church at Franklin, N.H., where he remained five years; from 1880 to 1885 he was pastor of the West Church, Andover, Mass., and from 1885
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to 1889 at Peterboro, N.H. His health then failing, he spent a year and a half in rest and travel, in his native State, in the South, and in Colorado, doing home missionary work for a time in the latter State at Highland Lake, and at Harman, a suburb of Denver. In the fall of 1890 he became acting pastor of the church in Mystic, Conn., earnestly laboring there until obliged to desist from labor a year later. In all his life and work he proved himself " a model of truth, of diligent integrity, faithful in his stewardship, and in every sense a strong, loyal patriot."
He was married, December 30, 1875, to Fannie Towne Hammond, of Andover, daughter of William G. Hammond and Frances Thais Albee, who survives him, with four sons and two daughters, an infant daughter having died in 1888.
Mr. Burr died of consumption, December 5, 1891, at Demorest, Ga., whither he had gone a few weeks before for a change of climate, aged forty-two years.
CLASS OF 1887.
Henry Alfred Frederick.
Son of John Frederick and Lydia Heffner; born in Cedarville (now Congo), Douglass township, Penn., August 10, 1854; studied in Phillips Academy, Andover, 1879-82, and in Johns Hopkins University, 1883-84; took the full course in this Seminary, 1884-87; was licensed by the Essex South and Salem Association, May 18, 1886; was acting pastor of the church in Croydon, N. H., 1887-90, being ordained there, June 19, 1889. His health beginning to fail, he relinquished labor there, and returned to Andover for a year of study, 1890-91, in the advanced class. He was able to reach his Pennsylvania home, and to preach once after arriving there ; but although confidently hoping soon to accept a call to pastoral work in Ohio, his strength never rallied. The Christian faith, which he was not permitted to preach to others, made his death one of joyful expectation.
He died of consumption, at Congo, Penn., February 3, 1892, aged thirty- seven years. He was unmarried.
William Jenks Skelton. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Warren Skelton and Mary Ingraham Morton; born in Charlestown, Mass., August 15, 1856; began his preparation for the ministry by studying evenings, while at work in the watch factory at Waltham, and continued it at Oberlin College; spent two years in this Seminary, 1884-86; was licensed by the Essex South and Salem Association at Salem, May 18, 1886; preached for a time at Alna, Me., as he had done in the summer of 1885; began pastoral service at West Brooksville, Me., in January, 1887, and was ordained there, September 13, 1887. For the first six months of 1888 he had charge of a home missionary church at Buffalo, Wyoming Territory. Returning to Maine, he was pastor for two years at Perry, having charge also of the church at Pembroke. In the fall of 1890 he entered the senior class of Bangor Theological Seminary, but was compelled by failing health to seek a Southern climate, and supplied the
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church connected with the American Missionary Association at Wilmington, N.C., from January to June, 1891.
" His last day's work in Wilmington was characteristic of the man. On that day he baptized and received into the church eighteen members, after that rode eight miles and administered the sacrament to an old man, and at midnight started for his home in the North. He everywhere gave himself in a most whole-hearted manner to his work, toiling to the extreme limit of endurance. Everywhere his enthusiasm, perseverance, and cordiality gained the friendship of the people, and everywhere the work prospered under his hands."
He was married, November 8, 1SS7, to Julia Ella Farnham, of West Brooks- ville, Me., daughter of Gershom Farnham and Rubie Rea Farnham. She sur- vives him, with a son and daughter.
He died of consumption, at West Brooksville, Me., September 7, 1891, at the age of thirty-five years.
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CLASS OF 1830.
James Taylor Dickinson. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Horace Dickinson and Mary Ann Taylor ; born in Lowville, N.Y., October 27, 1806; graduated at Yale College, 1826; studied law at Montreal, where his parents then resided, 1826-27; in this Seminary, 1827-29; graduated at Yale Divinity School, 1830. He was licensed by the Litchfield (Conn.) South Association, in 1839, and preached for a time at Burlington, Vt. He was ordained April 4, 1832, as pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Norwich, Conn. He resigned this charge two years later in order to enter the foreign field. After a year of medical study in Bowdoin and Harvard Medical Colleges, he joined the Singapore Mission of the American Board in 1835, re- maining in it until 1840, and in the Singapore Institution as teacher until the close of 1843. After his return to the United States, he settled in Middlefield, Conn., and resided there until his death, teaching, studying, lecturing, and preaching, as his health permitted.
While at the Singapore Mission Mr. Dickinson made an important voyage of exploration among the islands of the Indian Archipelago (where Munson and Lyman, of the Class of 1832, had been murdered three years before), which he reported in the Missionary Herald. He also contributed an article on the Malay language to Appletons' Encyclopedia, other articles to the Christian Ex- aminer and the Chinese Repository, and wrote a short memoir of his brother-in- law, Rev. George W. Perkins (Class of 1829). He gave 15,000 volumes of his library and a fund of $50,000 to Yale College.
He was married, November 21, 1832, to Mary Hickok, of Burlington, Vt., daughter of Samuel Hickok and Elizabeth Whelpley. She died April 6, 1834.
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He married, second, May 15, 1845, Sarah Comstock Lyman, of Middlefield, daughter of William Lyman and Alma Coe, who survived him.
He died of paralysis, at Middlefield, Conn., July 22, 1884, in his seventy- eighth year.
CLASS OF 1834.
Elias Loomis, LL.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Rev. Hubbel Loomis and Jerusha Burt; born in Willington, Conn., August 7, 1811; fitted for college with his father; graduated at Yale College, 1830; instructor in Mathematics in Mt. Hope Institution, Baltimore, Md., 1830- 31 ; in this Seminary, 1831-33 (from Alton, Ill., where his father then resided) ; tutor in Yale College, 1833-36; professor of Mathematics and Natural Philos- ophy, Western Reserve College, 1836-44, spending the first year in study abroad; professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Astronomy in the University of the City of New York, 1844-48; professor of Natural Philosophy, College of New Jersey, 1848-49; returned then to New York and occupied his former professorship there until 1860; succeeded Professor Olmsted in the professorship of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in Yale College, which he occupied from 1860 until his death.
Professor Loomis was the author of a well-known and very successful series of text-books in higher mathematics, natural philosophy, and astronomy, and contributed many learned articles to the American Journal of Science and Arts, and to other scientific publications. He was the first American who saw Halley's comet on its return in August, 1835. Under the auspices of the United States Coast Survey he first used the electric telegraph to determine the differ- ence of longitude between New York and other cities, and thus the velocity of the electric current. He devised the income of $300,000 for the ultimate use of the Astronomical Observatory of Yale University in making and publishing astronomical observations. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of the City of New York in 1854.
He was married, May 14, 1840, to Julia E. Upson, of Tallmadge, Ohio, who died June 13, 1854. Their two sons are graduates of Yale College, and the elder, professor of Physics in Cornell University.
Professor Loomis died at New Haven, Conn., August 15, 1889, aged seventy-eight years.
Seth Hardin Waldo. (Non-graduate.)
Son of John Elderkin Waldo and Beulah Foster ; born in Hampton, Conn., October 4, 1802; graduated at Phillips Academy, Andover, 1827, and at Am- herst College, 1831; in the Seminary, 1831-34, being assistant instructor one year, 1832-33, in the English Department of Phillips Academy (" Teachers' Seminary "); principal of Oberlin Collegiate Institute, 1834-35; preached for short periods successively at Mansfield, Ravenna, and Kinsman, Ohio, 1835-36; lectured at Farmington, Ohio, 1836-37, and was acting pastor there, 1837-42, in the mean time being ordained as an evangelist at Reading, Mass., by the Woburn Association, August 6, 1839. He supplied, from 1842 to 1854, churches in Ash- tabula, Dover, and Bellevue, Ohio, besides teaching in the Grand River Insti- tute in Ashtabula County, and at Bellevue. In 1854 he removed to Geneseo,
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