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GENERAL CATADOQUE
RUTGERS COLLEGE
1770 -- 1885
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"SOL JUSTITIÆE ET OCCIDENTEM ILLUSTRA."
CATALOGUE
OF THE
OFFICERS AND ALUMNI
OF
RUTGERS COLLEGE
(ORIGINALLY QUEEN'S COLLEGE)
IN NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.,
1770 TO 1885.
COMPILED BY IRVING STRONG UPSON, A.M., CLASS OF 1881, LIBRARIAN OF THE COLLEGE.
TRENTON, N. J. : JOHN L. MURPHY, PRINTER. 1885.
Allen County Public Library 900 Webster Street PO Box 2270 Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270
ABBREVIATIONS.
L. S. Law School.
M. Medical Department.
M. C. Medical College.
N. B. New Brunswick, N. J.
P. and S. Physicians and Surgeons.
R. C. A. Reformed Church in America.
R. D. Reformed, Dutch.
S.T.P. Professor of Sacred Theology.
U. P. United Presbyterian.
U. S. N. United States Navy.
W. C. Without charge.
NOTES.
1. The asterisk (*) indicates the decease of the person.
2. The interrogation (?) indicates that the address has not been verified.
3. The list of Honorary Degrees conferred by the College, which has usually appeared in this series of Catalogues, is omitted from this edition, as the necessary correspondence has not been completed at the time set for the publication of this pamphlet.
COMPILER'S NOTICE.
After diligent efforts to secure full information respecting every name in this Catalogue, the compiler finds his knowledge in many cases still imperfect. He most earnestly calls upon every one inter- ested, to aid in completing the record, and in correcting any errors, by sending specific notice of the same, at an early day, to the Librarian of the College, so that the next issue of the Catalogue may be as accurate as possible.
GENERAL CATALOGUE.
TRUSTEES.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE was established by a Charter from George III., in 1770, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, EsQ., being Governor of New Jersey. The name was changed to RUTGERS COLLEGE, December 5, 1825.
TRUSTEES APPOINTED BY THE CHARTER.
The Governor or Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of New Jersey, ex-officio. The Chief Justice of the Colony of New Jersey, ex-officio.
The Attorney-General of the Colony of New Jersey, ex-officio. SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON, BART.
OF NEW JERSEY.
*REV. JOHANNES H. GOETSCHIUS, t. Died 1774
*REV. JOHANNES LEYDT, + Died 1783
*REV. DAVID MAURINUS,t
*HENDRICK FISHER,f. Died 1779
*PETER ZABRISKIE, +
*PETER HASENCLEVER
*PETER SCHENCK,} Died 1800
*REV. JOHANNES MARTINUS VAN HARLINGEN, } Died 1795
*REV. JACOB R. HARDENBERGH, F. Died 1790
*REV. WILLIAM JACKSON. Died 1813
*TUNIS DEY
*PHILIP FRENCH,+
*JOHN COVENHOVEN
*HENRICUS KUYPER. .Resigned 1782.
OF NEW YORK.
*REV. SAMUEL VERBRYK, f. Died 1784
*REV. BARENT VROOMAN. Died 1783
*REV. MAURICE GOETSCHIUS Died 1771
+ Attended a meeting at Hackensack, N. J., May 7, 1771, when the College was fixed at New Brunswick, at which the Hon. Frederick Smith, Chief Justice of the Province of New Jersey, presided.
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*SIMON JOHNSON.
*PHILIP LIVINGSTON Died 1778
*JOHANNES HARDENBERGH, f.
* ABRAHAM HASBROUCK
*JOHN BRINKERHOFF.
*NICHOLAS STILLWILL
*MARTINUS HOFFMAN
*JACOB H. TEN EYCK
*REV. EILARDUS WESTERLO Died 1790
*REV. JOHN SCHUNEMAN. Died 1794
*THEODORUS VAN WYCK.
*ABRAHAM LOTT.
*ROBERT LIVINGSTON.
*LEVI PAULING,+
*JOHN HARING, t.
*ISAAC VROOMAN
*BARNARDUS RYDER
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
*REV. PHILIP WEYBERG.
*REV. JONATHAN DUBOIS, È Died 1772
TRUSTEES SUBSEQUENTLY ELECTED.
APPOINTED.
1771 *ABRAHAM VAN NESTE,+
1771 *BENJAMIN BENSON,+
1771 *REV. CHRISTIAN F. FŒERING. Died 1779
1782 *COL. JOHN NEILSON Died 1833
1782 *JOHN SCHUREMAN. Died 1795
1782 *RULUFF VAN DYKE. Resigned 1783
1782 *JAMES HUDE ..
1782 *COL. FREDERICK FRELINGHUYSEN. Resigned. Died 1804
1782 *LAWRENCE VAN DERVEER, M.D. Resigned 1816.
1782 *COL. HENDRICK VAN DYKE
1782 *ERNESTUS VAN HARLINGEN Resigned 1807
1782 *HON. JAMES SCHUREMAN Died 1824
1782 *HENRY TRAPHAGEN ...
1782 *COL. PETER D. VROOM Resigned 1825 Died 1831
1782 *ABRAHAM DURYEA
1782 *PETER VREDENBURGH, JR.
1783 *REV. SOLOMON FRELIGH, D.D Resigned 1810 Died 1827
+ Attended the meeting at Hackensack, N. J., May 7, 1771, when the College was fixed at New Brunswick.
¿It was made necessary by the Charter that the members of the Board should take certain oaths therein prescribed. How many of the above-named gentlemen complied with this provision, we have no means of determining.
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APPOINTED.
1783 *REV. MATTHEW LEYDT. Died 1783
1783 *REV. SOLOMON VAN ARSDALEN Died 1786
1783 *REV. BENJAMIN DU BOIS Died 1827
1783 *COL. AZARIAH DUNHAM ..
1783 *ABRAHAM VAN BUREN, M.D
Resigned 1811
1784 *PETER VREDENBURGH, SEN
Resigned 1825
1784 *RYNEAR VEGHTE Resigned.
1784 *EDWARD BUNN
1785 *JOHN H. LIVINGSTON, D.D. Resigned Died 1825
1785 *REV. THEODORIC ROMEYN, D.D. Died 1804
1785 *REV. ISAAC BLAUVELT.
Resigned 1831
Died 1840
1785 *WILLIAM VAN DEURSEN.
Resigned 1793
1786 *REV. JOHN DURYEA.
Resigned 1829 Died 1836
1787 *REV. RYNEAR VAN NEST.
Resigned 1813 Died 1813
1787 *REV. ABRAHAM BEACH, D.D
Resigned 1825 Died 1828
1787 *REV. WILLIAM LINN, D.D. Died 1808
1787 *REV. ELIAS VAN BUNSCHOOTEN Died 1815
1787 *REV. JOHN M. VAN HARLINGEN. Died 1813
1787 *ARCHIBALD MERCER
1788 *REV. JOHN BASSETT, D.D Died 1824
1788 *REV. PETER STUDDIFORD Died 1826
1788 *GEN. ANTHONY W. WHITE.
Died 1803
1790 *JOHN HARDENBERGH.
1790 *LEWIS DUNHAM, M.D Died 1821
1790 *ABRAHAM SCHUYLER Resigned 1793
1790 *JAQUES VOORHEES
1791 *REV. HENRY VAN DYKE
1792 *JACOB R. HARDENBERGH, JR.
1792 *HON. ANDREW KIRKPATRICK Resigned 1809 Died 1831
1792 *HON. ROBERT MORRIS, LL.D. Died 1815
1794 *REV. IRA CONDICT, D.D. Died 1811
1800 *REV. WILLIAM R. SMITH. Died 1820
1800 *REV. JOHN S. VREDENBURGH Died 1821
1800 *REV. JAMES S. CANNON, D.D Died 1852
1800 *REV. JOHN SCHUREMAN, D.D Died 1818
1800 *REV. HENRY POLHEMUS. Died 1816
1800 *HON. JOHN FRELINGHUYSEN
Died 1833
1800 *ABRAHAM BLAUVELT
1800 *JACOB TALLMAN Resigned 1807
1800 *ROBERT BOGGS. Died 1831
1804 *FREDERICK VAN DYKE.
1804 *CHARLES SMITH, M.D Resigned 1839 Died 1848
1804 *WILLIAM P. DEARE. Died 1826
1804 *MARTIN SCHENCK Died 1823
1807 *REV. JOHN M. BRADFORD, D.D Died 1827
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APPOINTED.
1807 *REV. WILHELMUS ELTINGE, D.D Died 1851
1807 *STAATS VAN DEURSEN .Resigned 1823
1808 *REV. JOHN N. ABEEL, D.D Died 1812
1809 *REV. JOHN H. LIVINGSTON, D.D.
Died 1825
1809 *REV. JAMES V. C. ROMEYN. Died 1840
1809 *RT. REV. JOHN CROES, D.D.
Resigned 1816 Died 1832
1811 *REV. PETER LABAGH, D.D Died 1858
1811 *REV. JOHN L. ZABRISKIE. Died 1850
1812 *HON. JAMES PARKER. Died 1868
1812 *REV. CORNELIUS T. DEMAREST. Resigned Died 1862
1812 *REV. JACOB BRODHEAD, D.D. Resigned 1845. Died 1855
1812 *REV. CHARLES HARDENBERGH Died 1821
1814 *REV. JESSE FONDA Died 1827
1815 *HON. HENRY RUTGERS. Resigned. Died 1830
1815 *REV. PHILIP MILLEDOLER, D.D. Resigned 1840 Died 1852
1815 *CORNELIUS L. HARDENBERGH, LL.D. Died 1860
1819 *REV. JOHN LUDLOW, D.D Resigned 1837 Died 1857
1819 *REV. SAM. A. VAN VRANKEN, D.D Resigned 1840 Died 1861
1819 *FREDERICK FRELINGHUYSEN. Died 1820
1822 *REV. ISAAC FERRIS, D.D., LL.D Resigned 1840 Died 1873
1823 *REV. JOHN DEWITT, D.D. Died 1831
1823 *WILLIAM VAN DEURSEN, M.D
Died 1873
1823 *ANDREW HOWELL.
1823 *JOHN WYCKOFF.
1823 *HON. PETER SHARPE
Resigned 1831
1823 *ABRAHAM VAN NEST
Died 1864
1823 *ISAAC HEYER.
Died 1827
1823 *JAMES B. ELMENDORF, M.D.
Died 1852
1825 *REV. JOHN KNOX, D.D.
Died 1858
1825 *HON. JAMES S. NEVIUS. Resigned 1858 Died 1859
1825 *GERARD RUTGERS.
Died 1831
1825 *REV. SELAH S. WOODHULL, D.D.
Died 1826
1825 *REV. JOHN GOSMAN, D.D.
.Died 1865
1825 *REV. JAMES B. HARDENBERGH, D.D. Died 1870
1826 *REV. JACOB SCHOONMAKER, D.D Died 1852
1827 *REV. CORNELIUS C. CUYLER, D.D. Resigned Died 1850
1828 *HON. PETER D. VROOM, LL.D Died 1873
1829 *HON. STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER Died 1839
1829 *REV. CORNELIUS D. WESTBROOK, D.D .Died 1858
1830 *REV. JACOB J. JANEWAY, D.D. Resigned 1850 Died 1858
1831 *MAJ. JAMES C. VAN DYKE Died 1843
1831 *JAMES VAN ANTWERP Resigned.
1831 *ANTHONY RUTGERS. Died 1835
1833 *REV. SAMUEL B. How, D.D. Died 1868
1823 *JAMES C. ROOSEVELT
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APPOINTED.
1833 *REV. PHILIP E. MILLEDOLER, M.D. Resigned 1845 Died 1852
1834 *JAMES NEILSON Died 1862
1834 *REV. ISAAC M. FISHER Died 1839
1834 *HON. SEVERYN BRUYN Died 1858
1837 *HON. ABRAHAM B. HASBROUCK, LL.D. Died 1879
1840 *THOMAS G. TALMAGE. Died 1863
1840 *JOSEPH VARICK.
1840 *REV. PHILIP DURYEE, D.D Died 1850
1840 *REV. THOMAS DEWITT, D.D. Died 1874
1840 *GEN. PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT Died 1848
1840 *REV. JAMES ROMEYN. Resigned 1848 Died 1859
1840 *GEN. STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER
Died 1839
1840 *WILLIAM B. CROSBY.
Resigned 1858 Died 1865
1841 *HON. LITTLETON KIRKPATRICK
Died 1859
1841 *HON. FERDINAND S. SCHENCK, M.D
Died 1860
1845 *REV. ABRAHAM MESSLER, D.D.
Died 1882
1845 REV. GUSTAVUS ABEEL, D.D.
1845 *JOHN BARNES, M.D.
1849 REV. THOMAS E. VERMILYE, D.D., LL.D
1849 *HON. PETER VREDENBURGH (3d), LL.D. Died 1873
1850 *HON. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN, LL.D. Died 1862
1851 *REV. ISAAC N. WYCKOFF, D.D. Died 1869
1851 *REV. ROBERT P. LEE, D.D. Died 1858
1851 *REV. ABRAHAM POLHEMUS, D.D. Died 1857
1851 HON. JOHN HOPPER
1851 *HON. FRED. T. FRELINGHUYSEN, LL.D. Resigned 1860
Died 1885
1851 JOHN VANDERBILT ..
1853 *JOHN ROMEYN BRODHEAD, LL.D. Died 1873
1853 MAURICE E. VIELE.
1853 *HON. ROBERT H. PRUYN, LL.D Died 1882
1853 *CHARLES W. SWIFT. Died 1877
1853 *JAMES SUYDAM. Died 1872
1857 *PETER S. DURYEE. Died 1877
1858 *REV. BENJAMIN C. TAYLOR, D.D. Resigned 1878 Died 1881
1858 REV. DAVID D. DEMAREST, D.D.
1858 *REV. E. P. ROGERS, D.D. Resigned 1866 Died 1881
1858 REV. THOMAS C. STRONG, D.D. Resigned 1874
1858 HON. JOSEPH P. BRADLEY, LL.D
1858 *JOHN T. MOORE Resigned 1866
1859 EDWARD N. STRONG. Resigned 1864
1860 *JOSEPH F. BERG, D.D. Resigned 1864 Died 1871
1860 *HON. JOHN A. LOTT, LL. D. Died 1878
1860 *DAVID BISHOP
Died 1876
1860 REV. FRANCIS M. KIP, D.D
1862 HENRY L. JANEWAY
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APPOINTED.
1862
REV. WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL, D.D., LL.D .. Resigned 1882
1862 *JACOB R. WORTENDYKE. Died 1868
1863 *REV. JOHN H. MANNING, D.D Died 1878
1863 EDWARD S. BRAYTON Resigned 1871
1863 *JOHNSON LETSON. Died 1885
1863 *HON. A. O. ZABRISKIE, LL.D ... Resigned 1866 ... Re-elect. 1873 ... Died 1873
1866
REV. GARRET C. SCHANCK
1866 JAMES A. WILLIAMSON. Resigned 1876.
1866 STAFFORD R. W. HEATH.
1866 *HON. JACOB B. JEWETT. Died 1876
1868 REV. TALBOT W. CHAMBERS, D.D., LL.D
1869 REV. JOACHIM ELMENDORF, D.D
1869 *CORNELIUS ESSELSTYN. Died 1881
1869 REV. PAUL D. VAN CLEEF, D.D.
1871 *JAMES W. SCHERMERHORN.
Died 1885
1871 WILLIAM C. FOWLER.
1871 SAMUEL SLOAN.
1873 HON. GEORGE C. LUDLOW.
1873 HON. WILLIAM A. NEWELL.
1873 REV. ISAAC S. HARTLEY, D.D
1874 CORTLANDT PARKER, LL.D. Resigned 1878
1874 *HON. THEODORIC F. RANDOLPH. Died 1883
1875 *S. OAKLEY VANDER POEL, M.D., LL.D. Died 1886
1875 *THEODORIC R. WESTBROOK, LL.D. Died 1885
1876 REV. WILLIAM ORMISTON, D.D
1876 REV. JOHN GASTON, D.D.
1876 HON. HENRY W. BOOKSTAVER.
1876 ROBERT F. BALLANTINE ..
1878 REV. WILLIAM RANKIN DURYEE, D.D
1878 REV. WILLIAM J. R. TAYLOR, D.D.
1878 REV. ABRAHAM R. VAN NEST, JR., D.D.
1878 JOHN LEFFERTS. Resigned 1885
1878 WILLIAM CLARK
1879 HON. GEORGE H. SHARPE.
1882 MERRILL EDWARDS GATES, PH.D., LL.D
1882 DAVID BINGHAM ..
1883 GEORGE C. CHURCHILL.
1883 TUNIS G. BERGEN, PH.D
1884 HENRY R. BALDWIN, M.D.
1885 FREDERICK FRELINGHUYSEN
1885 ERNEST J. MILLER.
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TRUSTEES-TREASURERS.
SECRETARIES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
APPOINTED.
17- * REV. JACOB R. HARDENBERGH Resigned 1782
1782 *PETER VREDENBURGH. . Resigned 1784
1784 *JAMES SCHUREMAN
Resigned 1793
1793 *JACOB R. HARDENBERGH, JR .. Resigned 1800
1800 *ABRAHAM BLAUVELT
Resigned 1807
1807 *WILLIAM P. DEARE.
Resigned 1821
1821 *CORNELIUS L. HARDENBERGH.
Resigned 1825
1825 *JAMES S. NEVIUS
Resigned 1830
1831 *WILLIAM H. LEUPP.
Resigned 1832
1832 *JAMES C. VAN DYKE.
Resigned 1833
1833 *J. R. HARDENBERGH.
Resigned 1835
1835 *THEODORE HARDENBERGH.
Resigned 1844
1844 JOHN P. HARDENBERGH
.Resigned 1849
1849 WARREN HARDENBERGH.
Resigned 1859
1859 THOMAS C. STRONG
Resigned 1866
1866 DAVID D. DEMAREST.
TREASURERS.
APPOINTED.
1780+*JOHN SCHUREMAN. Resigned 1790
1790 *JOHN HARDENBERGH Resigned 1791
1791 *JOHN SCHUREMAN
Died 1795
1795 *JAMES SCHUREMAN
Resigned 1813
1813 *STAATS VAN DEURSEN
. Resigned 1823
1823 *ISAAC HEYER
Resigned 1831
1831 *PETER SPADER (Sub-Treasurer 1824-31) ... Resigned 1853
1853 JOHN C. ELMENDORF
+This is the earliest mention of a Treasurer on record.
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PRESIDENTS.
REV. JACOB RUTSEN HARDENBERGH, D.D. Appointed, 1785; died, 1790.
He was the son of Col. Johannis Hardenbergh, of Rosendale, Ulster County, New York, who was a large landholder, a prominent man in public affairs, an influ- ential member of the Coetus party, and one of the original trustees of Queen's College designated in the charter. The grandfather of Col. Hardenbergh was the first of the name who came to this country, about the middle of the seventeenth century. Jacob Rutsen was born at Rosendale, Ulster County, New York, in 1738. He studied at the Kingston Academy, and completed his theological course with Domine John Frelinghuysen, at Raritan, Somerset County, New Jersey, and suc- ceeded his Preceptor there in his pastoral charge. He visited Holland and other parts of Europe, and upon his return was made D.D. by the College at Princeton. Resigning his pastoral charge at Raritan in 1781, he removed to his native place and took charge of the churches of Marbletown, Rochester and Wawarsing, which he served five years. Dr. Derick Romeyn having, in 1785, declined a call to the presidency of Queen's College, Dr. Hardenbergh was elected the same year. He accepted and entered on his office in 1786, becoming at the same time pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church, of New Brunswick. He died in the discharge of the duties of these offices in October, 1790. He was an ardent patriot in our revolu- tionary struggle, contributing both by his oratory and his pen to the cause of the independence of these States, and was a member of the convention which framed the first Constitution of New Jersey.
After the decease of the REV. DR. HARDENBERGH, the REV. DR. JOHN H. LIVINGSTON was elected to the presidency of . the College, but he declined. In 1791, REV. DR. THEODORIC ROMEYN was elected to the same office, but he also declined.
REV. WILLIAM LINN, D.D. President pro tempore from 1791 to 1794; died, 1808.
He was born in Pennsylvania, February 22, 1752, and was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1772. Three years later he was licensed to preach the Gospel by the Donegal Presbytery, and in 1776 he served as a chaplain in the American army. In 1777 he was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at Big Spring, Pennsylvania, where he labored for a period of seven
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years. He then took charge of an Academy in Somerset County, Maryland, but after an experience of two years in teaching, settled again over a church in Eliz- abethtown, New Jersey. From 1787 to 1805 he preached in the Collegiate Church, New York, and while there he acted also as the President of Rutgers College, of which he had been elected a Trustee in 1787. His interest and wis- dom in matters of education are also reflected in the fact that for twenty-one years previous to his death, in 1808, he served as one of the Regents of the Uni- versity of the State of New York. Dr. Linn was " an ardent and impassioned preacher. On special occasions his performances were masterpieces." Of large and earnest sympathies, he became deeply interested in politics as well as in the cause of education, and extended his influence in many directions.
REV. IRA CONDICT, D.D. President pro tempore from 1794 to 1810; died, 1810.
He was born at Orange, New Jersey, February 21, 1764. After his graduation from the College of New Jersey, in 1784, he studied theology under Dr. John Woodhull, of Monmouth, and was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in 1786. The Presbyterian Churches of Hardwick, Newtown and Shappenock enjoyed his services as pastor for six years until 1794, when he was installed over the Reformed Dutch Church at New Brunswick. Though actively engaged in his church work, Dr. Condict found time and energy to originate a new move- ment for the revival, in 1807, of the College, which, owing to financial embarrass- ments, had been obliged to suspend exercises twelve years previously. Under his leadership the Trustees determined to raise, by the help of the Reformed Churches, $12,000 for the erection of a substantial and spacious building and to open the College immediately. Dr. Condict assumed the duties of President pro tempore, and instructed the highest class, which entered Junior. In 1809 he was regularly appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy and Vice President. Dr. Condict was indefatigable in soliciting subscriptions for the new building, and when $10,000 had been raised it was begun. This edifice, noble and beautiful in its proportions, now stands in the center of the campus which it adorns. Dr. Condict laid its corner-stone with his left hand, in consequence of suffering a temporary lameness in his right. Dying in 1810, he did not live to see the full fruit of his beneficent energies and sacrifices. Honored by being elected to the. presidency, he, however, declined it, deeming "the office," says Justice Bradley, " incompatible with the duties he owed to his church, which he continued to per- form in their fullest extent. The amount of strain on the mind and body of this eminent and faithful man must, at this period, have been immense. He had the pastoral care of one of the largest churches in the denomination. He taught the College classes, the Junior class in 1807-8, and the Junior and Senior classes in 1808-9 and 1809-10. He also, as a leading member of the Board of Trustees, was actively engaged in all the concerns of the College, especially in the efforts to collect funds for erecting the new building. and causing the work duly to progress. He procured by his own exertions subscriptions, in the city of New Brunswick and its vicinity, to the amount of $6,370, during the year 1807, and
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continued his efforts in that direction during the time the College was building. Such an accumulation of labors and responsibilities was more than human nature could bear. Like his predecessor, Dr. Hardenbergh, he was destined to spend and be spent in the cause of the College. No wonder that his face, as it looks down upon us from yonder frame in the chapel, has a sad and wearied look. No wonder that the cord of life snapped under the tension, when he was yet in the very prime of his years and usefulness. Which of us has done what he did before reaching his forty-eighth year? Here again we see exemplified the great truth that ' life is measured by its work.'"
REV. JOHN H. LIVINGSTON, D.D., S.T.P. Appointed, 1810; died, January 20, 1825.
Dr. Livingston was a man of noble character, of extensive and accurate learning, and of large and commanding influence. He was, however, mainly interested in his theological professorship, which he held in connection with the presidency; and indeed he did little more in the College than " to preside on public occasions and sign diplomas." It was during his period of office that the literary exercises of the College were, in 1816, again suspended, and not resumed until 1825. The causes of this were financial distress and divided counsels. He was the son of Henry Livingston and Sarah Conklin, born at Poughkeepsie, May 30, A. D. 1746, gradu- ated at Yale College in July, 1762. In May, 1766, he sailed for Holland, and studied theology at Utrecht. Licensed by the Classis of Amsterdam, June 5, 1769; made Doctor of Theology by the University of Utrecht in May, 1770; returned to New York, September, 1770, having been ordained a pastor of the church in that city by the Classis of Amsterdam; preached there until New York was occupied by the British in September, 1776; preached at Kingston, Albany, Poughkeepsie, and neighboring places during the Revolution; returned to New York soon after the evacuation, November 25, 1783; appointed Professor of Theology by General Synod, October, 1784; inaugurated in the city of New York, May 19, 1785; taught in New York and Flatbush, Long Island, until 1810, when he removed to New Brunswick, New Jersey, having been appointed President of Queen's College. He died in New Brunswick, January 20, 1825.
REV. PHILIP MILLEDOLER, D.D., S.T.P. Appointed, 1825; resigned, 1840; died, 1852.
He was born at Rhinebeck, New York, September 22, A. D. 1775, the only son of John and Anna Milledoler, who had emigrated from Geneva, Switzerland, some years before; graduated at Columbia College in 1792; ordained by the Synod of the German Reformed Church May 17, 1794; called to the German Reformed Church in Nassau street the same year; became pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia in 1800; called to the Presbyterian Collegiate Church in New York, with special care of the Rutgers Street Church, in 1805; in 1813 called to the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church in New York, where he remained until
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he was appointed Professor of Didactic Theology and President of Rutgers College in 1825 He died on Staten Island in 1852, on his seventy-seventh birthday. Dr. Milledoler was distinguished for his early and fervent piety, for catholic sympathies which led him to take an active part in many of the benevolent enterprises of his day, and above all for an unction in prayer that seemed akin to inspiration.
ABRAHAM BRUYN HASBROUCK, LL.D. Appointed, 1840; resigned, 1850; died, 1879.
He was born in Kingston, N. Y., November 29, 1791. After a course of prepa- ration in the Kingston Academy, he entered Yale College in 1806, and was gradu- ated with high honors from that institution in 1810. His law studies were pursued at the Law School at Litchfield, Connecticut, which was in charge of Judge Gould, and then considered the best institution of the kind in the United States. In 1814 he began the practice of his profession in Kingston. Here he soon acquired distinction for legal knowledge, commanding abilities and unflinching integrity. Elected a representative in Congress in 1825, he became intimate with Edward Everett, whom he subsequently welcomed to New York, with a public address when the latter delivered his great oration on Washington. From 1840 to 1850 he was the honored President of Rutgers College. By his Lectures on Constitu- tional Law, his genial manners, his generous hospitality, and his happy influence exerted on manifold public occasions, he contributed greatly to the prosperity of this venerable institution After his resignation he removed to Kingston, where he became president of the Kingston Bank, the founder of the Ulster County His- torical Society, and an energetic advocate of many public and patriotic interests. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him both by Union and Columbia Colleges. Mr. Hasbrouck was always studious in his habits, reading daily some Latin author, and eagerly devouring the latest and most valuable publications on a great varieties of topics. It is said that hardly a quotation could be made from an English author that he could not at once identify and find in the original work. His intellect, clear and powerful to the last, expressed his " long- ing to be at rest," and he passed away triumphant in faith, full of years and honors. He died at Kingston, New York, February 23, 1879. It is worthy of mention that the College is indebted to Mr. Hasbrouck for many of the noble trees that now adorn the campus. He was at much pains in having them planted and cared for; and to-day they stand the beautiful monuments of his forethought for coming generations. " Whoso planteth a tree, laboreth for posterity."
HON. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN, LL.D. Appointed, 1850; Died, 1862.
The son of Gen. Frederick Frelinghuysen, and great-grandson of Rev. Theo- dorus J. Frelinghuysen, was born in Franklin township, Somerset county, New Jersey, March 28, 1787. The home of his boyhood was at Millstone, New Jersey. He attended the Grammar School of Queen's College, and afterward the Academy at Basking Ridge; was graduated from the College of New Jersey in
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1804; studied law with Hon. Richard Stockton, of Princeton ; practiced law at Newark, New Jersey ; was Attorney-General of the State from 1817 to 1829; United States Senator, 1829-1835; Chancellor of the University of the City of New York, 1839-1850, and President of Rutgers College from 1850 to his death, which took place April 12, 1861. President Frelinghuysen was a wise counselor and an eloquent orator. He was successful at the Bar, in the Senate and in the presidency of literary institutions, His patriotism was intense, as his action in 1812 and again in 1861 proved. He was nominated for Vice President of the United States by the Whig convention of 1844, which nominated Henry Clay for President. Mr. Frelinghuysen was a man of simple and ardent piety, ever labor- ing to win souls for Christ. He loved the Church of God, and served long and faithfully in the eldership.
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