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Mr. Worcester died of old age, in Auburndale, Mass., October 23, 1892, lacking only one week of being eighty-four years old.
OLASS OF 1836.
Kendall Flint, M.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Major Elijah Flint and Elizabeth Putnam; born in that part of Dan- vers now West Peabody, February 4, 1807; prepared for college at Hampton (N.H.) Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1831 ; studied in the Seminary during parts of three years, 1832-35, but was compelled by ill health to abandon his preparation for the ministry; studied medicine with Dr. Joseph Osgood, of South Danvers (now Peabody), and graduated at Harvard Medical College, 1839. He settled as a physician in Haverhill, Mass., in 1840, and retired from practice, a very active and successful one, in 1870, continuing his residence in that city.
Dr. Flint was examining surgeon in the time of the War of the Rebellion, and has since held the same office in connection with pension claims. He was one of the original members and one of the first deacons of the North Church, as he had been previously a member and deacon of the Centre Church. Rev. Dr. J. D. Kingsbury, of Bradford (Class of 1856), writes : "Dr. Flint was a thor- oughly good man ; he was a thoughtful man, conservative but progressive; he was a leading member of the Monday Evening Literary Club; he was always on the right side in public affairs; he had the confidence of the people abso- lutely ; he lived a quiet life, did his work faithfully and earnestly, and has gone to his reward."
He was married, June 28, 1842, to Mary Frances Carleton, of Haverhill,
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daughter of Phineas Carleton and Frances Brickett. She survives him; their two children died in early childhood.
Dr. Flint died at Haverhill, Mass., September 29, 1892, of old age, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.
CLASS OF 1838.
Daniel Butler.
Son of Capt. Henry Butler and Chloe Hinsdale; born in Hartford, Conn., June 23, 1808 ; fitted for college under tuition of Rev. Emerson Davis at West- field, Mass., which was then the home of the family ; graduated at Yale College, 1835; spent three years in the Seminary ; was licensed to preach, April 10, 1838, by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Dr. Justin Edwards in Andover. The Sabbath after his graduation in September he preached as a candidate for settlement at the Village Church in Dorchester, Mass., and was ordained its pastor, October 31, 1838. He was dismissed from that charge in 1845, in order to enter upon an agency for the American Bible Society in Massachusetts. In 1852 he became secretary of the Massachusetts Bible Society, and in its service spent the remainder of his long life.
The year after leaving Dorchester he resided at Waltham, from 1847 to 1853 at Westboro, from 1853 to 1863 at Groton, afterwards at Waverly in the new town of Belmont. He was a useful member of the school committee there, and in 1883 represented that district in the Legislature. But his great work, which for nearly forty years he performed with rare judgment and fidelity, was in behalf of the Holy Scriptures and the society which published and circulated them, and there was not a "conference " nor scarcely a town in the whole State where " Bible Butler," as he was familiarly and affectionately called, was not known and welcomed. Prof. Samuel Harris, D.D., his Seminary classmate, writes of him: "He had preeminent qualifications for this work and threw himself into it with all his heart. Few are remembered with so lively interest by so many people. He was a brilliant conversationist, always overflowing with wit and humor ; a man of genial and loving spirit, and of pure and earnest piety. His widespread influence lives after him, and many are they who lament his death as a personal bereavement." Rev. Aaron M. Colton, of Easthampton, Mass., a classmate both in college and seminary, adds: "Brother Butler was our class spokesman, everywhere and always; no classmate was venturesome enough to take his place if he was present. No one was so to be depended on to be present at both the Yale and Andover meetings. ... Though surcharged with wit and humor, he never used it to wound a sensitive spirit - his heart was tender as a woman's. Nor was a 'merry quip' ever heard in one of his sermons. Brother Butler did not mistake his mission. Not one man in a million could so well go forth to sow, or could so well touch men's lives with a kindly light."
Mr. Butler was married, November 8, 1838, to Jane Douglas, of Trenton, N.Y., daughter of James Douglas and Catherine Billings, who died January 16, 1892. Two daughters died in infancy, and a son in 1892. One son and one daughter survive.
He died of catarrh of the bowels, at Waverly, Mass., February 4, 1893, in the eighty-fifth year of his age.
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Charles Dame.
Son of Joseph Dame and Anna Plummer; born in Berwick (now South Berwick), Me., September 12, 1810; prepared for college at Berwick Academy ; graduated at Bowdoin College, 1835; took the full course in the Seminary ; was licensed to preach, April 10, 1838, by the Andover Association, meeting with Dr. Justin Edwards, Andover. The next day after the Commencement at Andover, he went to Falmouth, Me., to preach as a candidate, and remained fifteen years as the pastor of the First Church there, being ordained May 29, 1839, and dismissed August 11, 1853. He was pastor at Brentwood, N.H., from 1854 to 1856, removing then to Exeter, N.H., where he resided for sixteen years, without regular charge, but occasionally preaching and acting as agent for a Boston publishing house in the introduction of a series of school books. From 1872 to 1876 he was in Iowa, two years at Quasqueton, and two years at Centre Point, organizing a church and securing the erection of a house of wor- ship at the latter place. Returning to the East, he preached at West Newbury, Mass. (First Church), 1877-81; at Andover, Me., 1881-85; at West Newfield, Me., 1885-86; at Eastport, Me., 1886-87, and at Phippsburg, Me., 1887-89. His home was afterwards at Falmouth. An old friend in Maine characterizes him as "diligent in all his undertakings, of more than ordinary ability as a preacher, and a loving pastor, genial both in spirit and manner."
He was married, January 28, 1840, to Nancy Jenness Page, of Acton, Me., daughter of Samuel Perkins Page and Theodate Drake. She survives him, with one son, a graduate of Bowdoin College, and three daughters, graduates of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary. Two children died in infancy.
Mr. Dame died at Falmouth, Me., of cerebral hemorrhage, June 26, 1892, in the eighty-second year of his age.
Stephen Sewall Norton Greeley. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Stephen Leavitt Greeley, Esq., and Anna Norton ; born in Gilman- ton, N.H., January 23, 1813; prepared for college at Gilmanton Academy ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1835; studied in this Seminary, 1835-36, and in Gilmanton Theological Seminary, 1836-38, teaching at the same time in Gil- manton Academy. He was ordained over the church at Gilmanton Iron Works, N.H., January 31, 1839, and remained there until 1842. His subsequent pastor- ates were successively in New Market, N.H., 1842-47; Chicopee Falls, Mass., 1847-51 ; Great Barrington, Mass., 1852-56; Grand Rapids, Mich., 1857-62; Oswego, N.Y., 1866-73. His health being much impaired, he then returned to New Hampshire, preaching five years for the church in Pittsfield, although residing in Gilmanton. The Gilmanton pulpit being vacant, after the long pas- torate of Dr. Joseph Blake, he supplied it from 1879 to 1886. Although retiring then from permanent pastoral engagements, he preached for several summers afterward at the Hillville Church in Canterbury, and often at other places. He preached in the Gilmanton church a few days before his sudden death.
Mr. Greeley published several sermons and contributed much to the local press, both in poetry and prose, the latter being mainly articles of historical interest. He represented his native town in the New Hampshire Legislature, 1879-80. Residing in Michigan at the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion, he
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became chaplain of the 6th Cavalry of that State, and for three years did labori- ous and faithful service. The writer well remembers his sun-browned, war-worn appearance when met with "Sheridan's Cavalry " in the woods of Virginia, where they were encamped for a day just before going into the final battles which re- sulted in the capture of Richmond. Of unique and magnetic personality, of marked gifts as a speaker and writer, of genial humor, sincere sympathy, and catholic spirit, Mr. Greeley was everywhere a successful minister and a beloved pastor.
Mr. Greeley was married, September 29, 1840, to Sarah Barker Curtis, of Pittsfield, N.H., daughter of Rev. Jonathan Curtis and Betsey Barker. She survives him, with a son (Rev. Frank Norton Greeley) and a daughter.
Mr. Greeley died of heart failure, at Gilmanton, N.H., October 25, 1892, in the eightieth year of his age.
Eliezer Jewett Marsh. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Dea. James Marsh and Miriam Walbridge; born in Cabot, Vt., March 21, 1811; prepared for college at Randolph (Vt.) Academy; graduated at Middlebury College, 1833; was principal of Jericho (Vt.) Academy, 1833-35; began theological study in this Seminary, 1835-36, but was compelled by sick- ness to abandon it. He was principal of the Concord (Mass.) High School, 1836-37; of Thetford (Vt.) Academy, 1837-40; of Milton (Mass.) Academy, 1840-45; teacher in Dorchester, Mass., 1845-47; and in Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., 1847-55. He resided afterwards in Leominster, Mass., being for some years the general agent for the Student and Schoolmate for New Eng- land. He spent nearly twenty years in the preparation of a Genealogy of the Descendants of George Marsh, which he published in 1887. Mr. Marsh had a long and successful career as a teacher, training more than four hundred pupils and fitting a hundred for college. During his residence of nearly forty years in Leominster he was an honored citizen and an active member of the Congregational church.
He was married, August 28, 1838, to Martha Baker, of Lincoln, Mass., daughter of Jacob Baker and Lavinia Minot. She survives him, with two sons and two daughters, four children having died in childhood. One son is Rev. Francis J. Marsh, Class of 1875, now connected with the Congregational Publishing Society.
Mr. Marsh died of neuralgia of the heart, at Leominster, Mass., March 14, 1893, lacking one week of being eighty-two years old.
CLASS OF 1841.
Henry Laurens Hammond.
Son of Chester Hammond and Fanny Goodrich ; born in Smyrna, N.Y., February 14, 1815; prepared for college at the Oneida Institute, Whitesboro, N.Y .; graduated at Oberlin College, 1838; in Union Theological Seminary, 1839-40; in this Seminary, 1840-41 ; licensed to preach by the Andover Asso- ciation, meeting with Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, Andover, April 13, 1841. He was ordained at Kingston, Mass., December 8, 1841, and was acting pastor of the church there for one year, and of the Presbyterian Church in Homer, Mich.,
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for two years. From 1844 to 1847 he was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Detroit, Mich. (which he had organized) ; preached at Morrisville, N. Y., from 1848 to 1850, and at Grand Rapids, Mich., from 1851 to 1856. He then removed to Chicago, Ill., and edited the Congregational Herald from 1857 to 1861 ; supplied the church in Princeton, Ill., 1861-62; and held the position of treasurer of Chicago Theological Seminary for ten years. After resigning that office in 1872 he was in business in Chicago, removing in 1889 to Evanston, Ill.
Mr. Hammond wrote largely for the religious press, especially for the Con- gregationalist, and was for a time editor of the National Sunday-School Teacher. He published New Stories from an Old Book (a series of Biblical narratives), a Memoir of Philo Carpenter, and several other books mostly of a controversial character. He was an early and steadfast opponent of slavery, and in that, as in other matters affecting truth and duty, held his convictions firmly and main- tained them fearlessly. Rev. S. J. Humphrey, D.D., of Chicago (Class of 1852), writes of him : " Mr. Hammond was a born reformer. He wielded an incisive pen, and was among the foremost of those who, in advance of the age, foresaw and pushed to the front movements which are now accepted as wise and just. He may with propriety be called one of the fathers of the new Congregational- ism of the West."
He was married, September 24, 1843, to Mary Jane Mead, of Smyrna, N. Y., who died June 23, 1849; second, December 2, 1850, to Eunice Johnson Brigham, of Binghamton, N. Y., who died January 28, 1858; third, September 20, 1859, to Frances Elizabeth Jennings, of Brookfield, Mass., daughter of Dea. Calvin Jennings and Laura Hastings, who died March 22, 1863; and fourth, April 18, 1865, to Mrs. Elizabeth L. Wiswall, daughter of Rev. Daniel Lovejoy and Eliza- beth Pattee (and sister of Elijah P. Lovejoy, the antislavery martyr), and widow of Noah Wiswall. She survives him. He left two sons, one an instructor in the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Jacksonville, Ill., the other a banker in Chicago, and a married daughter in Portland, Ore.
He died of heart failure, at Evanston, Ill., March 3, 1893, aged seventy- eight years.
OLASS OF 1842.
Edwin Elisha Bliss, D.D.
Son of Harvey Bliss and Abigail Grout; born in Putney, Vt., April 12, 1817 ; prepared for college at Springfield (Mass.) High School ; graduated at Amherst College, 1837 ; was assistant teacher in Amherst Academy one year; took the full course in the Seminary, 1839-42; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Dr. Justin Edwards, Andover, April 12, 1842. He was ordained at West Springfield, Mass., February 9, 1843, as a missionary of the American Board, and sailed from Boston for Smyrna, March I, expecting to join the Nestorian Mission in Persia. Providentially hindered from reaching that field, he spent his life in Turkey - until 1852 at Trebizond, until 1856 at Marsovan, and thirty-six years afterward at Constantinople. These years were largely employed in literary work, especially in the editorship of The Messenger (the Avedaper) in the Armenian and Turkish languages, and in the translation of many English books into the Armenian. Amherst College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1869. Rev. Dr. Isaac G. Bliss, of the Class of 1847, so long a missionary in the same field, was his brother.
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Dr. Bliss won in a remarkable degree the affection and confidence of every one with whom he had to do from his youth to the close of his life. Hon. Lucius M. Boltwood (Class of 1847), who was under his instruction at Amherst, writes : " He was greatly respected and beloved by his academy pupils." Rev. Dr. Samuel C. Bartlett, his classmate at Andover, says of him: "In the Seminary he was a clear-headed, judicious, faithful, spiritual man, an industrious student, a genial companion, a true friend, a modest, quiet, and effective religious force." Rev. Dr. N. G. Clark (Class of 1852), foreign secretary of the American Board, writes of him : " A man of broad views and generous sympathies ; a wise and safe counselor ; a friend always kind, genial, and true ; a Christian ever loyal to the Master and untiring in devotion to every good work. His very presence at a mission station was a power and a blessing to his associates."
He was married, February 20, 1843, to Isabella Homes Porter, of Portland, Me., daughter of Richard King Porter and Mary Clapp. She survives him, with three children : Rev. W. D. P. Bliss, rector of the "Church of the Carpenter," in Boston ; the wife of Langdon S. Ward, treasurer of the American Board ; and the wife of Rev. Henry O. Dwight, missionary in Constantinople. Their oldest daughter, the previous wife of Mr. Dwight, died at Constantinople in 1872.
Dr. Bliss died in Constantinople, December 20, 1892, of paralysis, aged seventy-five years.
Alfred Stevens, D.D.
Son of Nehemiah Stevens and Deborah Goodell; born in Waterford, Vt., July 31, 1810; prepared for college at Peacham (Vt.) and Kimball Union Acad- emies; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1839; took the full course in the Sem- inary, and was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Dr. Justin Edwards, Andover, April 12, 1842. He went directly from the Seminary to the supply of the West Church in Westminster, Vt., over which he was ordained, February 22, 1843, and in whose service he continued until the time of his death, fifty years afterward, although as pastor emeritus from 1887, when Rev. Henry A. Goodhue (Class of 1862) became his colleague.
Mr. Stevens was for twenty-five years the superintendent of schools in Westminster, and represented the town in the State Legislature in 1872. He was a member of the Vermont Historical Society, and Dartmouth College con- ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1874. His only publications were a funeral sermon in memory of a Westminster soldier, in 1863; a historical address on the fortieth anniversary of his settlement, in 1883; and a history of his parish contributed to Miss Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer. But the fifty years of his service at Westminster were full of scholarly, faithful, suc- cessful work for his church and town, and through association, conference, and convention for the broader public interests of education and religion in the State.
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Rev. Moses H. Wells (Class of 1845), who was his college classmate, writes : "Dr. Stevens had and used effectively the power of staying. He possessed the health of body and mind, the practical common sense, the faith and love, which empowered him to stay and do his life work for a single country parish. He desired no other. He only wished to live for and die with his peo- ple. He was always an independent thinker, and drew his theology mainly from the fountain of divine revelation in God's Word and in his own personal experi-
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ence. He proclaimed fearlessly the truth as he understood it, always cherishing a generous feeling towards brethren having different views. Dr. Stevens was a manly man, a true man among men, moved by a deep sympathy for his fellow travelers on earth's pilgrimage and seeking to do good to every one as he had opportunity."
He was married, August 11, 1844, to Eliza Wright Farrar, of Troy, N.H., daughter of Col. Daniel Warren Farrar and Betsey Griffin. She died Decem- ber 8, 1844, and he married, second, June 23, 1846, Mary Ann Arnold, of Westminster, daughter of Rev. Seth Shaler Arnold and Fanny House. She died March 1, 1857, and he married, third, August 25, 1858, Harriet Newell Wood, of Millbury, Mass., daughter of Capt. Amasa Wood and Sarah For- estall. She died May 30, 1874, and he married, fourth, May 28, 1876, Mrs. Catherine Miller Slate, of Brattleboro, Vt., daughter of Asa Miller and Sally Bemis, and widow of Orrin Slate. She died June 30, 1892. Dr. Stevens had no children.
He died at Westminster West, Vt., of heart failure, January 20, 1893, in the eighty-third year of his age.
Eliphalet Young Swift.
Son of Charles Swift and Eunice Young; born in Fairfax, Vt., January 16, 1815; fitted for college with Rev. Worthington Smith (Class of 1819), St. Al- bans, Vt .; graduated at Middlebury College, 1839; took the full course in the Seminary ; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Justin Edwards, D.D., Andover, April 12, 1842. The first year after grad- uation he was a general agent of the American Tract Society in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky ; and was ordained at Chilicothe, Ohio, January 10, 1844, as pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church there. In 1845 he became pastor of the First Church, Northampton, Mass., and remained there six years, filling sub- sequent pastorates in South Hadley, Mass., 1851-57 ; Clinton, N.Y., 1858-62 ; Williamsburg, Mass., 1862-68; and Denmark, Io., 1868-82. He continued to reside afterward at Denmark, and was acting pastor of the church, 1884-85.
Mr. Swift was for thirty-seven years a trustee of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, and after he removed to Iowa a trustee of Denmark Academy. Rev. Edward P. Blodgett, of Greenwich, Mass., a Seminary classmate, writes : "E. Y. Swift was a servant of God of rare excellence, possessed of a sweet Christian spirit, and a charming man in every way; of more than average ability and a faithful minister of Jesus Christ. His rich voice heard in the songs of the sanctuary still lingers, and his memory will continue to be fresh and fragrant."
He was married, December 7, 1843, to Catharine Spooner Leach, of Pitts- ford, Vt., daughter of Andrew Leach and Deborah Spooner. She survives her husband, together with three of their five children.
Mr. Swift died at Denmark, Io., June 15, 1892, of enlargement of the pros- tate gland, at the age of seventy-seven years.
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Hiram Bingham. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Jeremiah Bingham and Rhoda Fenn ; born in Cornwall, Vt., May 30, 1815; prepared for college at Addison County (Vt.) Grammar School ; grad- uated at Middlebury College, 1839; in this Seminary, 1839-41; graduated at Lane Theological Seminary, 1842. He was ordained by the Ripley Presbytery, Ohio, in June, 1843, and was for two years pastor at Red Oak, Ohio, and for the succeeding two years at Portsmouth, Ohio. From 1846 to 1849 he was professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology in Marietta College. After a brief supply at Watertown, Ohio, in 1850, he was installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Church, at Windham, Ohio, and remained such until 1855. With the exception of one winter, 1855-56, which, for the benefit of his health, he spent in Augusta, Ga., where he supplied the First Presbyterian Church, he continued to reside in Windham. Though often supplying vacant and feeble churches in the vicinity, he spent most of his later years in labors upon his farm, improving his health and securing considerable property, the most of which he left to the Presby- terian Board of Foreign Missions.
Mr. Bingham was married, September 22, 1842, to Abigail Bushnell, of Cornwall, Vt., daughter of Rev. Jedidiah Bushnell and Elizabeth Smith. She died August 23, 1886. They had no children.
He died at Windham, Ohio, November 11, 1892, of chronic bronchitis, aged seventy-seven years.
Justin Field. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Justin Field and Harriet Power ; born in Northfield, Mass., April 10, 1816; prepared for college at Northfield Academy; graduated at Amherst Col- lege, 1835; studied in Union Seminary, 1838-39, and in this Seminary, 1840-41. He was ordained as deacon, January 6, 1842, and as priest (both by Bishop Griswold), September 7, 1842. He was rector of St. Paul's Church, Stock- bridge, Mass., 1846-50; of St. James' Church, Great Barrington, Mass., 1850-52 ; of Grace Church, Medford, Mass., 1852-62; and of Trinity Church, Lenox, Mass., 1862-90. He afterwards spent considerable time in travel in Europe and in the Southern States. While sojourning during the winter of 1892 in the South, especially at Brooksville, Fla., he preached for several weeks; a friend writes that "his labors there were greatly blessed - the crown of his earthly ministry."
" Mr. Field was a man of far more intellectual power than even his acquaint- ances knew, but he always shrank from publicity, and seemed to have no desire for fame, as the world considers fame; but he always did his day's work with a mind to see the intense interest of this life, and a heart to feel the joys and sorrows of others."
He was married, June 26, 1862, to Caroline Cushing Wilde, of Boston, daughter of George C. Wilde, Esq. (Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court), and Ann Jeanette (Brown) Druce. She died March 23, 1888, leaving two daughters. He married, second, April 26, 1890, Louise Hope Irene, young- est daughter of Hon. W. H. and Lady Hylton-Joliffe, of London, England, who survives him.
Mr. Field died of cystitis, at West Newton, Mass., March 5, 1893, in his seventy-seventh year.
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CLASS OF 1846.
James Fletcher.
Son of Dea. John Fletcher and Clarissa Jones ; born in Acton, Mass., Sep- tember 5, 1823; prepared for college at Leicester Academy and New Ipswich (N.H.) Academy; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1843; took the full course in this Seminary, 1843-46; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, Andover, April 7, 1846; preached at Kingston, N.H., from November, 1846, to February, 1848; in the Seminary as resident licentiate, 1848-49. He was ordained as pastor of the Maple Street Church, Danvers, Mass., June 20, 1849, continuing in that service until 1864. He then was principal of the Holten High School in the same town until 1870 ; of the Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., 1871-77 ; of the Burr and Burton Seminary, Manchester, Vt., 1878-81 ; afterwards residing at Acton. In 1883-84 he taught the High School at Littleton, Mass.
He was identified with the interests of education nearly all his life, having been a member of the school committee fifteen years when in Danvers, superin- tendent of schools for five years during his later residence in Acton, and chair- man of the school board at the time of his death. He was a trustee of Acton Memorial Library, and in 1890 published a monograph, entitled Acton in History. In a published political address upon the public schools, delivered in Danvers in 1891, an early pupil, himself an Irish Roman Catholic, paid this tribute to Mr. Fletcher as a Protestant minister: " With all that is beautiful and touching in the memories of my youth his name is linked. No man ever instilled or sought to instill into my mind worthier purposes of life, higher ambitions, or purer motives than Rev. James Fletcher." Rev. Daniel L. Furber, D.D., a class- mate both at Dartmouth and Andover, writes : " Mr. Fletcher's modesty, native refinement, and scholarship made him a favorite with his teachers, and with the best men in his class both in college and in the Seminary. In the Seminary he was president of the Society of Inquiry, and as such he delivered a special ora- tion when he graduated. He was an enthusiastic friend of education. Whether as minister, teacher, or school committee, his presence in the schoolroom was an inspiration to both teacher and pupil. His cheerful and courageous spirit was always ready for any task to which he was called. His character was one of rare sweetness and beauty."
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