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For twenty-nine years in those troublous times Dr. Eckley labored on alone, often perplexed, and in doubt which way to turn. In 18OS, the Rev. Joshua Huntington, a native of New London, Ct., and a graduate of Yale, was associated with him. He was a strong reinforcement to the Old South ministry. Three years after this colleague relationship was formed, Dr. Eckley died. Mr. Huntington was then a young man only twenty-six years of age, but of great promise. His ministry was, however, destined to be short. He was cut off in the midst of his years, dying September 11, 1819, at the age of thirty-four.
Not a few who hear me doubtless remember the pleasant look and winning manners of Benjamin B. Wisner, D.D., who, as already stated, was pastor of this church from 1821 to 1832. The writer never saw him, but art has preserved a face about which there is such a peculiarly attractive charm, that it seems more familiar than many other faces long seen and known. He left his parish, being called to high and honor- able service as Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions, but died three years afterwards, cut off in the very noonday of his strength.
The next pastorate was attended with still sadder circum- stances, so that in the history of the Old South it makes a chapter, by itself, of tender and mournful interest. Two years after Dr. Wisner's dismissal, the Rev. Samuel H. Stearns was ordained and set over this ancient church. He was one of thirteen children born into the family of the Rev. Samuel Stearns, minister at Bedford, Mass. He was one of four brothers graduated at Harvard College. When called to the pastoral office here, he was thirty-three years old, and was regarded as a young man of very rare gifts. But that fatal disease which destroys so many among us had already begun its insidious work, even before his ordination. The excite-
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ments of that public occasion told heavily upon him. He began his ministry trembling between fear and hope. He preached two Sabbaths, and a single sermon on the third Sabbath, and never preached to his people again. He lin- gered on, however, for three years more in an unavailing effort for health and life. He was deeply beloved, and his people had a most intense sympathy with the youthful sufferer ; but no exemption from labor, no travel, no medical skill could stay the hand of the destroyer, and he died in Paris, France, July 15, 1837, greatly mourned and lamented.
For more than two years after Mr. Stearns's settlement, the Church waited, hoping for his possible restoration to health. But when it was made clear that he could never be expected to enter upon his public duties as pastor, the Rev. George W. Blagden was called, and on the 28th of September, 1836, was installed as colleague pastor with the Rev. Mr. Stearns. Dr. Blagden, a native of Washington, and a graduate of Yale College in 1823, had his first ministry at Brighton, where he served three years, from 1827 to 1830. He was then called to the Salem Street Church in this city, where he remained six years, until 1836. He came directly from the Salem Street Church to his long ministry of thirty-six years in this congregation, which ended by his resignation in 1872. Twelve years have since passed, and Dr. Blagden still lives, in a hale, vigorous, cheerful old age.1
In the year 1857, the Rev. Jacob M. Manning was called in from Medford, where he had been ordained three years before, and was made colleague with Dr. Blagden. In this connection, and as sole pastor after Dr. Blagden's resignation, he continued for twenty-five years, though the last two or three years of his ministry were marked by a long struggle against the disease, which he had contracted while serving as chaplain in the army. He died November 2S, 1882. As a thinker and preacher, Dr. Manning was a man
1 The Rev. Dr. Blagden died in New York, Dec. 17, 1884, and was buried three days later, from the Old South. A com-
memorative discourse was preached at the Old South, Feb. 22, 1885, by the Rev. Chas. A. Stoddard, D.D., of New York.
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of marked force and originality. Not a rhetorician in the ordinary acceptation of that term, he prevailed and held his audiences by the force of his ideas and the clearness and vigor with which they were expressed. He was truly an able minister of the word.
Of these fifteen pastors, six have been graduates of Harvard College,1 four of the College of New Jersey, now more famil- iarly known as Princeton College, two of Yale College, one of Union College, Schenectady, New York, one of Amherst College, and one, the Rev. Thomas Thacher, was, as we have said, educated here under private instructors before Harvard College had come into being. Dr. Blagden received the degree of D.D. both from Union and Harvard.
1 The Rev. George A. Gordon, the Harvard College; he was installed present pastor, is also a graduate of April 2, 1884.
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INDEX OF NAMES.
The names of members of the Old South Church are printed in small capitals. The names of ordained ministers are given in Italics.
Adams (Checkley), Elizabeth, 27, BACON, FOHN, 113, 115, 122 70, 109
Baker, Walter, IOI
Adams (Wells), Elizabeth, 71, 109 Ballantine, John, 27
ADAMS, HANNAH, 70
Adams, Henry, 68
ADAMS, JOHN, 68
Bancroft, George, 80, 85, 96, 106 Bellingham, Richard. 17, 21, 116 Bellomont, Lord, 61
Adams, John (President), 72, 75, Bernard, Sir Francis, 75, 81, 105, 92, 93, IOI
ADAMS, MARY, 68 ADAMS, SAMUEL (1706), 68
ADAMS, SAMUEL (1789), 6, 9, 27, 63-IIO Adams, Samuel, M.D., 70, 97, 110 Addington, Isaac, 27 Alcock, John, 15 Alden, Ebenezer, 7
Blin, Mrs. 44 Bowditch, Nathaniel I. 17
Bowdoin, James, 72, 96 Bowles, Mary, 27 Boyer, Daniel, IOI BRADSTREET, SIMON, 18, 25, 26, 61
Brickett, Nathaniel, 41 BROMFIELD, EDWARD. 65
Brown. William. IOI
Alden, Edmund K. 9 ALDEN, ELIZABETH, 31 ALDEN, ELIZABETH (Walley), 31 ALDEN, JOHN, 7-9, 21. 27-32 Alden, John, 8 Alden. John (Plymouth). 27 Alden. Priscilla. 27 Alden, Zechariah, 32 Amory, Thomas, 10I Ashurst, Sir Henry, 49
Bacon, Ezekiel, 115
I20 BLAGDEN, GEORGE W. 113, 124, 125 BLAIR. SAMUEL, 113, 12I
Blakeman, Benjamin, 26 BLAKEMAN, REBECCA, 26
Chamberlain. Mellen. 101 CHAUNCY, CHARLES, 103 Chauncy, Charles, HIS Checkley, Anthony, 26
CHECKLEY, ELIZABETH, 27, 70, 109
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CHECKLEY, LYDIA, 26 CHECKLEY, MARY, 26
CHECKLEY, SAMUEL, 26
Checkley, Samuel (New South Chh), 26, 68, 70, 71, 102 Checkley, Samuel (Second Chh), 26
Dexter, Samuel, 77 Drake, Samuel G. 27, 70 Duché, Jacob, 90
Dudley, Joseph, 35, 44
Dummer, Stephen, 43 Dwight, Timothy, 15
Chiever, Ezekiel, 31 CHILTON, MARY, 27
Clark, Jonas, 92 Clarke, Thomas, 21
Clymer, George, 93
Colman, Benjamin, 101
COLMAN, LYDIA, 26
Colman, William, 26
Coney, John, 27 Cooke, Elisha, 26 Cooper, Samuel, S2, 93, 103, 104
Cooper, William, 62
Cooper, William, S4
Corey, Giles, 30, 45
Corwin, Jonathan, 28, 30 Cotton, John, 24
Cowell, Mrs. 43
CUMMING, ALEXANDER, 113, 121
CUSHING, THOMAS (1730), 70, 73
CUSHING, THOMAS (1755), 72, 74, 84
Dalrymple, William, 83 Dana, Richard, 74
Davenport, John, 21, 27, 117
DAVIS, WILLIAM, 18
DAWES, THOMAS, 71, 102
DAWES, WILLIAM (1669), 17
DAWES, WILLIAM (1769), 102 Deane, Thomas, IS
Deming, Mrs. 44 Dennis, William, 17 De Redham, Bartholomew, 16 De Scothowe, Jeffrey, 16 De Scothowe, John, 16 De Scothowe, Peter, 16 De Scothowe, Ralph, 16 De Scothowe, Richard. 16
ECKLEY, JOSEPH, 102, 113, 122, 123 Edwards, Jonathan, 69
Eliot, John, 43, 114
Ellis, George E. 9, 33, 81
Ellis, Mrs. 43
Endicott, John, 19, 31, 50
Everill, Abiel, 31
EVERILL, ELIZABETH, 31 Everill, James, 18
Fenton, Colonel, 77 FIFIELD, MARY, 6S
Fifield, Richard, 68
Fitch, Fabez, 26
Franklin, Benjamin, 56, 92
Gage, Thomas, 77, 98 Galloway, Joseph, 91 Gardner, Sylvester, 99 Garfield, James A. 107 Gedney, Bartholomew, 28, 29
Gerry, Elbridge, 103 GIBBS, BENJAMIN, 26 GIBBS, LYDIA, 26
GIBBS, ROBERT, 62
GOOSE, ELIZABETH, 44
Gordon, Charles George, 95 GORDON, GEORGE A. S, 9, 125 Gore, John, 10I Gould, Thomas, 98 Gray, Harrison, 74 Green, Mrs. 44
GREENLEAF, HANNAH, 43
Hallowell, Robert, 94
Hancock, John, 72, 75, 76, So, S4, 86, 92, 97, 98, 104 Harris, Benjamin, 25
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HATCH, ELIZABETH, 44 Hathorn, John, 28, 30 Hawkins, Mrs. 43 Hawley, Joseph, 72 Henry, Patrick, 74 Henshaw, Joshua, 84
Hibbins, Ann, 18-21
Higginson, Francis, 118
Higginson, John, 118, 119 Hill, Captain, 28
HILL, HAMILTON ANDREWS, 9, II HILL, JAMES, 27, 30, 31
Hill, Mrs. 43
Hoar, Joanna, 14 HOAR, LEONARD, 14
Hooker, Thomas, 119
Hosmer, James K. 76, 96
Hubbard, William, 19
Hudson, William, 21
HULL, JOHN, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 28, 36, 41
HULL, JUDITH, 14, 41, 43
HUNT, JOHN, 113, 115, 122
HUNTINGTON, JOSHUA, 113, 123
Hutchinson, Edward, 21
Hutchinson, Eliakim, 26 Hutchinson, Thomas, 19, 76-78, PHILLIPS, ABIGAIL, 14 80-86, 88, 89, 94, 105
Jarvis, Charles, 103 Jefferson, Thomas, 92, 99, 105 JOHNSON, ELIZABETH, 43 JOYLIFFE, JOHN, 22
Langdon, Samuel, 69 La Tour, Claude Etienne, de, 18
Lee, Arthur, 87, 91, 103
Lee, Richard Henry, 103 Loring, Daniel, 68 Loring, James S. 72, 94 Lovell, John, 69 Lynde, Benjamin, 27 Lynde, Mary, 27
MANNING, JACOB M. 60, 72, 113, 124, 125
Mather, Cotton, 25, 38, 56 Mather, Increase, 38, 49 Messinger, Ebenezer, IOI Middleton, William, 7, 8 Molyneux, William, 84 Mullens, Priscilla, 27
Neal, Daniel, 49 Neesnumin, John, 49 North, Lord, 87 Norton, John, 18, 19, 21, 24,
NORTON, MARY, 22 Norton, Samuel, IOI Noyes, Nicholas, 29
Oakes, Urian, 17, 22
OLIVER, PETER, 21, 32 Otis, James, 72, 74, 102 Owen, John, 24
PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, 102 Paine, Thomas, 99 Parker, Thomas, 35 Parsons, Theophilus, 104 PEMBERTON, EBENEZER, 113, 119, 12I
PEMBERTON, SAMUEL, 84 Phillebrown, Thomas, IOI
PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH, 31 Phillips, Henry, 15 PHILLIPS, WILLIAM, 15, 84, 102 Phillips, William, 31
Phipps, Sir William, 61
Porter, Edward G. 9, 63
PRINCE, THOMAS, 60, 69, 113, 114, 119, 120 Prince, Thomas, 69
QUINCY, ABIGAIL, 14
Quincy, Anna, 7, 8, 14, 15
QUINCY, DANIEL, 14, 15
Quincy, Edmund, 14
Quincy, Elizabeth, 14
Quincy, Joanna, 14 Quincy, Josiah, 14, 75, 88, 103 QUINCY, JUDITH, 14
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RAWSON, EDWARD, 21, 22, 32 Rawson, Grindall, 49
Revere, Paul, 90, 99
Ridgeway, James, IOI
Roberts, John, 26
Rogers, John, 119
Rotch, Francis, SS, 89 Rowe, John, 76, 88
Saltonstall, Gurdon, 35 Sampson, Benjamin, 10I
SAVAGE, ELIZABETH, 17, 24
SAVAGE, EPHRAIM, 14
Savage, James, 19 Savage, Mary, 14
SAVAGE, THOMAS, 21
Savage, Thomas, 17, 26
SCOLLAY, JOHN, 102
Scothowe-See De Scothowe
Scottow, Joan, 16 SCOTTOW, JOSHUA, 7-9, 16-27, 32 SCOTTOW, LYDIA, 16
SCOTTOW, MARY, 16, 26
SCOTTOW, REBECCA, 26
SCOTTOW, SARAH, 26
Scottow, Sarah, 16 Scottow, Thomas, 16, 26
Scottow, Thomas, 17 Scottow, Thomasine, 16
SERGEANT, PETER, 26
SEWALL, ELIZABETH, 14 Sewall, Elizabeth, 43, 48
SEWALL, HANNAH (1688), 14, 36, Upham, Charles W. 30 43, 61, 62 SEWALL, HANNAH (1716). 42, 48. 52 Sewall, Jane, 41. 42 Siir.all. JOSEPH, 43. 48. 60. 62. 83. 113. 114. 119-121 Sewall. Judith. 15 Sewall. Mary. 48 SEWALL, SAMUEL (1677), 6, 14, 15, 22. 26, 27, 30, 31, 33-62, 68, 83, 119, SEWALL, SAMUEL (1728), 48. 49
SEWALL, SAMUEL (1749), 14 Sheaffe, Sampson, IS Shirley, William, 70
Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. 7, 18 Shute, Samuel, 62 Sibbes, Richard, 40 Sibley, John Langdon, 17 Skottowe, Britiffe C. 16 Smith, Emaus, 15 Smith, Mrs. 44
Stacy, Thomas, IOI Stearns, Samuel, 123
STEARNS, SAMUEL H. 113, 123, 124
Stephens, Henry, 17 STODDARD, CHARLES A. 124
Stoughton, William, 23, 28, 35, 46
Strong, Caleb, 103 Sullivan, James, 103
TAPPAN, JANE, 48 Tappan, Joseph, 15 Tarbox, Increase N. 9, III THACHER, MARY. 28
TIIACHER, OXENBRIDGE, 72, 74. IO2 Thacher, Peter (Boston), 102
Thacher, Peter (Salisbury), 118 THACHER, THOMAS, 28, 113, 114, IIS, 119, 125 Thacher, Thomas (Dedham) . 77 THAYER, SUSAN, 48 TILLEY, WILLIAM, 62
Usher, Bridget, 43 USHER, HEZEKIAH. I8. 21
Walker, Samuel. 26 WALKER. SARAN. 26 WALLEY. ABIEL. 31 WALLEY. JouN. 26 Walley, John. 31 Walley, John. 31 Walley, Thomas. 23 Warren, James, 89, 91, 93: 95, 103
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Warren, Joseph, 72, 75, 84, 92, 103 Willard, Elizabeth, 31 Warren, Winslow, 89, 91, 93, 95, 99 Washington, George, 92, 93 Waters, Henry F. 17
Wells, Elizabeth, 71, 109 Wells, Francis, 71 Wells, Hannah, 70
Wells, Thomas, 70
WILLARD, SAMUEL, 26, 30, 113, 119 Willard, Simon, 31 WILLIAMS, NATHANIEL, 27, 31 Wilson, John, 21, 117 WINSLOW, JOHN, 27 WINSLOW, MARY, 27 Winthrop, Deane, 41
Wells, William V. 76, 77, 79, 85, Winthrop, John, 16, 18, 41 93, 94 Wentworth, Philip, 69
Wharton, Philip, 19, 20
WHEELER, MARY, 43 Whitefield, George, 69 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 34, 47, 48 Young, Thomas, 88
WINTHROP, KATHERINE, 52, 53 WINTHROP, WAIT STILL, 26 WISNER, BENJAMIN B. 113, 114, 123
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