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Dr. Maclean had been vice-president so long before he succeeded to the presidency that there was little change of administration when he assumed the latter office. It was expected that his term would be marked by striking de- velopment, but circumstances were to militate against him. Together with Professor Mat- thew B. Hope he had devised a "Plan for the Partial Endowment of the College of New Jersey" (published in 1853), and arrangements had been made to put this plan into operation. But he had been in office scarcely a year when Nassau Hall, the chief building on the cam- pus, was destroyed by fire (1855). At great expense it was rebuilt and rearranged to be of greater usefulness. Two years later the finan- cial panic which seized the country necessitated the temporary abandonment of the plans for the increase of the endowment. Money was scarce during the following four years of busi- ness depression, and then in 1861 the Civil war broke out. The enrollment at this time was larger than it had been during Dr. Car- nahan's time, three hundred and fourteen stu- dents being in residence, but as one third of them came from the South and immediately left for home on the opening of hostilities, the en-
rollment in 1862 fell to two hundred and twenty-one. During the next five years the number remained almost stationary, and when Dr. Maclean resigned the presidency in 1868 the college numbered only two hundred and sixty-four students. Remarkable progress had, however, been made during the fourteen years of his office. The endowment had grown from $15,000 to $250,000, while gifts amounting to another $200,000 had been made and the college library had gained 5,000 vol- umes. In view of the fact that at three dif- ferent previous periods efforts had been made to increase the endowment and had met with total failure, Dr. Maclean's success was aston- ishing, especially if the general financial con- dition of the country during his administration be borne in mind. At the end of the war a great change was coming over the country in regard to the requirements of higher educa- tion, and the day of great gifts for such pur- poses was dawning. Dr. Maclean had spent his life holding the institution together, teach- ing in practically all the departments at dif- ferent times, and sacrificing to the general good whatever ambitions he may have had to eminence in any one department ; he had seen the college successfully weather the storm of the Civil war and emerge on a new career of increased endowment and wider aim. His strength, however, was exhausted, and he felt that a new hand should hold the reins of gov- ernment. In 1868 therefore he resigned. A pension was granted him by the trustees and he lived in Princeton until his death in 1886. His last public appearance, at the annual Alumni Luncheon in June, 1886, the seventieth anni- versary of his graduation, was the occasion of a magnificent ovation. He was too feeble to respond for himself, and his words of greet- ing and farewell were read to the assembly by a friend and then he slowly withdrew. Two months later he died.
Dr. Maclean's leading trait of character was his kindness. This was shown not alone in his deeds of philanthropy but also in his rela- tions with undergraduates as the officer of col- lege discipline. Some of his methods might seem now to belong to a bygone age ; but such modern developments as undergraduate self- government and the honor system were un- heard of in his day, and during the earlier years, especially of his connection with the college, its atmosphere was anything but aca- demic. He had the faculty of administering discipline without alienating the culprit. He was the soul of sincerity and a remarkably
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keen judge of men. His individuality was strongly marked and his personal appearance striking-tall, muscular, with flowing hair, and clean shaven face and he usually wore a long cloak. It was not without reason that he was commonly said to be "the best loved man in America."
MACLEAN George Macintosh Maclean, M. D., Ph. D., deceased, who had achieved an enviable rep- utation in professional circles, is a descendant of an old Scotch family. The ancestry of this family can be traced back to Gillean, the founder of the clan in the thirteenth century.
(I) Rev. Archibald Maclean, great-grand- father of George Macintosh Maclean, was a minister of the parish of Kilfinichen, in Scot- land, which included the island of lona. He died March IO, 1755.
(II) John Maclean, son of Rev. Archibald Maclean (I), was a surgeon by profession, both in civil and military service. He was present at the capture of the city of Quebec from the French, and was the third man who succeeded in scaling the famous Heights of Abraham, which were considered an invinci- ble barrier to the conquest of the city. Upon his retiremet from the army he devoted him- self to the practice of surgery in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, and resided there until his death. A short time before going with the British army to Canada he married Agnes Lang, of Glasgow, April 28, 1756.
(III) John Maclean, M. D., son of Dr. John (2) and Agnes (Lang) Maclean, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, March I, 1771. He was very young when he lost both of his par- ents, but was fortunate in having for his guar . dian George Macintosh, Esq., a gentleman who took the greatest interest in his welfare. He was sent to the Glasgow Grammar School, then to the University, which he entered be- fore the age of thirteen years. Young Mac- lean was awarded a number of prizes and pre- miums in both of these institutions. He re- moved to Edinburgh to attend special lectures, and later prosecuted his studies in chemistry and surgery in Paris and London. He re- turned to his native city about 1790, and was regarded as having no superior in the depart- ment of chemistry in Scotland, and scarcely an equal in the New or French chemistry. He became a member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons when he was in his twenty-first year and his diploma authorizing him to practice surgery and pharmacy is dated August I, 179I.
Shortly after his arrival in this country, in the spring of 1795, Dr. Maclean settled in Princeton, New Jersey, and entered upon the practice of physic and surgery in connection with the leading physician of the place, Dr. Ebenezer Stockton.
October Ist, 1795, Dr. Maclean was chosen professor of chemistry and natural history. In April, 1797, he was appointed to the pro- fessorship of mathematics and natural philoso- phy in the college, and was thus obliged to re- sign his private practice. Dr. Maclean was the first professor of chemistry in a literary in- stitution in the United States. He tendered his resignation to the college faculty in 1812, and shortly after accepted an invitation to the chair of natural philosophy and chemistry in the College of William and Mary, Williams- burg, Virginia. His death occurred Febru- ary 17, 1814. His grave is in Princeton ceme- tery contiguous to those of the college presi- dents and professors. As a gentleman, scholar and teacher, Dr. Maclean held an eminent po- sition among his contemporaries. In teach- ing, his aim was to make his pupils perfectly familiar with what they professed to study, rather than to impart to them a smattering of a great variety of knowledge.
Dr. Maclean married, November 7, 1798, Phoebe Bainbridge, eldest daughter of Absa- lom and Mary (Taylor) Bainbridge, and sis- ter of Commodore William Bainbridge, United States navy. Absalom Bainbridge was the fourth son of Edmund and Abigail Bainbridge, of Maidenhead, now Lawrenceville, Mercer county, New Jersey, and a grandson of John Bainbridge, an original settler of the same town. John Bainbridge was one of the mag- istrates present when the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions met at Maidenhead on the second Tuesday of June, 1714. He was buried at Lamberton, in 1732. Absalom Bainbridge graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1762 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Dr. Bainbridge was elected secretary of the New Jersey Medical Society in 1771, and president of the society in 1773. In 1778 he was sur- geon in the New Jersey Volunteers (British service). He became a medical practitioner in the city of New York, was one of the earl- iest members of the New York Medical Soci- ety, and he held a high rank in his profession. Mary (Taylor) Bainbridge was the only daughter of John Taylor and Phoebe Heard Taylor, a sister of General Nathaniel Heard, of Middletown, New Jersey. He was grand-
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son of Edward Taylor, of London, who pur- chased about one thousand acres of land in Middletown, New Jersey, and in 1692 came over and settled there. John Taylor was born in 1715, was one of the judges of His Maj- esty's court at Monmouth, and received a com- mission from the King of England, Lord Howe being the bearer, appointing him lord high commissioner of Monmouth county. He was a descendant of a family which settled in Eng- land at the time of the Norman invasion. John Taylor died November 23, 1798.
Children of Dr John and Phoebe ( Bain- bridge) Maclean were: John, who was the tenth president of the college, born March I, 1800, died August 10, 1886, unmarried. Mary Bainbridge, born October 23, 1801, died Sep- tember 9, 1849, unmarried. William Bain- bridge, born November 6, 1803, died August 2, 1829, unmarried. George Macintosh, born February 19, 1806, died March 8, 1886. Agnes, born February 5, 1808, died April 7, 1843, unmarried. Archibald, born February 18, 1810, died November 19, 1894, unmarried. (IV) George Macintosh Maclean, M. D., Ph. D., third son of Dr. John (3) and Phoebe ( Bain- bridge ) Maclean, was born in Princeton, New Jersey, February 19, 1806. He early evinced a strong inclination for scientific studies, and became a student at Princeton University, from which he was graduated with honors in 1824. After graduating from the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons in New York City, 1829, he established himself in the practice of medi- cine and surgery in Princeton, New Jersey, and in New York City, 1843-46. Subsequently he went west and was professor of chemistry and natural history in Hanover College, In- diana; professor of chemistry in Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery ; and taught chemistry in New Albany, Indiana, and Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania. Returning to Princeton he retired from active professional work. Dr. Maclean was the president of the Medical Society of Middlesex county, New Jersey, 1837; third vice-president and censor of the Medical Society of the State of New Jersey ; and vice-president of the Alumni Association of Nassau Hall from June, 1880, until his death. He contributed many papers on scien- tific subjects which were regarded with interest by the professional world.
Dr. Maclean was an elder in Duane Street (now Fifth Avenue) Church, New York, and in the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton. Rev. H. G. Hinsdale wrote: "As a christian man he always seemed to me unselfish and un-
assuming, the soul of courtesy and honor, orthodox in his beliefs, frank and courageous in the avowal of his opinions, and earnest in the endeavor to live in accordance with the Word of God and to fulfill the obligations of his high calling. As a church officer he was diligent and exact, intensely loyal to his church, an intelligent and competent member of her judicatories, and deeply interested in her prog- ress at home and abroad. In short our de- ceased brother belonged to a class of men- would that it were a larger class-who are more anxious to be than to seem, and who so cordially busy themselves with well-doing in the service and for the honor of the Lord Christ as to be little disturbed by the ambition of pre-eminence among men." Dr. Maclean died March 8, 1886, and his remains were in- terred in Princeton.
Dr. Maclean married (first) Catharine O. Smith, July 2, 1836. They had one child, John. born August 1, 1837. Mrs. Dr. Maclean died June 15, 1840: John graduated from College of New Jersey, 1858, and Princeton Theological Seminary, 1870. He married Mary Louise Sisty, who died July 6, 1867; he died July 27, 1870. Their only child, Phoebe, was brought up by her guardian, Mrs. P. A. Olden, and married Fritz Schultz. Dr. Maclean married (second), November 10, 1847, Jane V. D. H. Van Winkle, who died June 24, 1849. Dr. Maclean married (third), April 3, 1856, Caro- line M. Williams (nee Fitch). They had four daughters-Mary Agnes, Louisa B., Caroline Fitch and Susan Bainbridge. Susan Bain- bridge died in infancy, December 19, 1865. Caroline M. Williams was the widow of Rev. Mason D. Williams, of Louisville, Kentucky, and daughter of Mason Cogswell and Anna M. (Paxton) Fitch. Mr. Fitch was a lawyer and president of the First Bank of New Al- bany, Indiana. Rev. Ebenezer Fitch, grand- father of Mrs. Maclean, was the first president of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachu- setts, to which he went from Yale College where he had been a tutor. Mrs. Maclean had two children by her first husband: I. Anna M. Williams, married Henry E. Hale, a grad- uate of Princeton University, now a horticul- turist, having a large estate on Mercer street. Mrs. Hale died in 1898. Their living children are: Henry E., Jr., M. D., demonstrator in anatomy in the College of Physicians and Sur- geons in New York City ; married Frances M. Ward, of Chicago. Anna W., married Rev. George H. Bucher, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Pennington. Titus, A. B., now
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(1907) engaged in business (irrigation) in the state of Washington, and Mary Otis. 2. Rev. Mason Fitch Williams, M. D., now residing in Muskogee, Indian Territory, married Mrs. Mary (Worcester) Mason, and has one living son, Leonard W., Ph. D., instructor in Har- vard Medical College, who married Martha R., daughter of Professor Benjamin Franklin Clark, of Brown University.
Charles Hodge, D. D., LL. D.
HODGE The Hodge family of Princeton trace their descent from North Irish ancestry, the earliest progenitor of whom record is known being William Hodge, died January 14, 1723, and Margaret, his wife, died November 15, 1730. Their children were: William, born November 24, 1704; Hugh, born July 28, 1706, died 1711 ; Elizabeth, born March 28, 1709, died 1711; Andrew, born March 28, 1711, died 1789; Hugh, 2d, born January II, 1713, died 1783, and Jane, born February 15, 1714, died ante 1730. Soon after the death of their mother, William, Andrew and Hugh emigrated to America, settling in Philadelphia and becoming successful mer- chants. William married Mary died November 13, 1737; had a daughter, Mary, born November 6, 1737, who married William West, August 18, 1757, and became ancestor of the Wests, Conynghams and Fraziers of Philadelphia, Wilkes-Barre and New Orleans, and the Stewarts of Baltimore. Hugh, the youngest of the three emigrant brothers, be- came a trustee of the second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, and in 1745 married Hannah Harkum, born Philadelphia, January, 1721, died December 17, 1805, daughter of John Harkum, of English descent. Her mother was a Miss Doe, or Doz, of Huguenot ances- try, and connected with the French fugitives who were founders of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. Hugh and Hannah (Harkum) Hodge had a son Hugh, born 1757, died 1783, who was graduated from Princeton in 1774, and is believed to have been lost at sea on a mercantile enterprise.
Andrew Hodge, the second of the three original emigrant brothers became a wealthy merchant at Philadelphia, owning his wharf, store, and city residence on Water street, and a country residence in the suburbs. He was long conspicuous as possessing one of the six carriages in Philadelphia. In 1739 he married Jane McCulloch. Her brother, Hugh was a father of Colonel Hugh McCulloch, of the revolutionary war, and the war of 1812. An-
drew Hodge and Jane (McCulloch) Hodge had fifteen children. 1. Their eldest child and daughter Margaret, born 1740, married John Rubenheim Bayard, of Maryland, and later of Philadelphia, who became a colonel in the revolution. After her death Colonel Bayard married a daughter of the Rev. Dr. John Rodgers, of New York City, and thirdly a Mrs. White, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, who survived him.
One of Colonel John and Margaret ( Hodge) Bayard's sons was Andrew, merchant of Phila- delphia and first president of the Commercial Bank and the Philadelphia Savings Institution. He married Sara Pettit, daughter of Colonel Pettit, of the Revolutionary army. Another of Colonel Bayard's sons by his first marriage was Samuel Bayard, of Princeton, afterwards judge of common pleas, and trustee and treasurer of the University, who married a Miss Pintard. Judge Samuel Bayard's second daughter mar- ried a Mr. Washington, of Virginia, and had a daughter Augusta who married the son of At- torney General William Wirt, of Maryland. Judge Samuel Bayard's third daughter Caro- line, married Albert B. Dod (Princeton, class of 1822), professor of Mathematics at Prince- ton. One of Professor and Mrs. Dod's daugh- ters married Edward Stevens, of Hoboken, while still another married Richard Stockton, . of Princeton, for many years United States senator from New Jersey. Professor and Mrs. Dod's oldest son Albert Baldwin was graduated from Princeton in 1854, and became a captain of the United States Fifteenth Infantry in the civil war. He died in 1880. Their second son, Samuel Bayard, a graduate of Princeton of the class of 1857, and a trustee of the uni- versity, married Isabella Williamson Green, daughter of Jacob Green, and granddaughter of President Ashbel Green, of Princeton, and became himself president of the board of trus- tees of Stevens Institute at Hoboken. Pro- fessor and Mrs. Dod's third son Charles Hodge, (Princeton, 1862), was a Captain on the staff of Major General Hancock during the civil war, and died in service, August 27, 1864.
Returning to the children of Andrew and Jane ( McCulloch) Hodge, their second daugh- ter was Agnes, born 1742, who married Dr. James Ashton Bayard, of Delaware, the twin brother of Colonel John R. Bayard, above men- tioned. Their daughter Mary died single. A son John was a physician and died in Cumber- land. Maryland. Another son was James Ash- ton. Jr., a lawyer who was congressman from Delaware and died at Wilmington, Delaware.
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August, 1815, leaving a son, James Ashton, who married a Miss Francis, of Philadelphia, became a United States senator, and the father of the distinguished ambassador, Thomas F. Bayard.
The third daughter of Andrew and Jane (McCulloch) Hodge was Jane, born 1757, married a Mr. Phillips, of the West Indies and England.
The fourth daughter of Andrew and Jane ( McCulloch) Hodge was Mary, born 1761, who married Major Hodgdon, commissary in the revolutionary army, and had a numerous family.
Andrew and Jane ( McCulloch) Hodge's sons were: John, born 1747, died 1770, a physician. William, born 1750, died 1780, secret agent for the United States during the revolution. An- drew, Jr., born 1753, died 1834, who was grad- uated from Princeton in 1772, was educated for the law, but entering the army was captain in the Pennsylvania line during the revolution. and afterwards became a merchant in Philadel- phia. He married Anne Ledyard, and their eldest son, John Ledyard, becoming a merchant settled at Marseilles, France, and made a for- tune. President Fillmore appointed him Amer- ican consul at Marseilles. A daughter Jane, born 1786, died 1866, married Dr. Robert H. Rose. Another son, William Ledyard, born January, 1790, died January 22, 1868, became a merchant and eventually assistant secretary of the United States treasury.
The fourth son of Andrew and Jane (Mc- Culloch) Hodge was Hugh, born Philadelphia, August 20, 1755, died Philadelphia, July 14, 1798. He was graduated from Princeton in 1773, studied medicine with Dr. Cadwalader, was appointed surgeon in the Third Pennsyl- vania Battalion in February, 1776, was taken prisoner at Fort Washington in November, 1776, and was released on parole. He follow- ed the family calling and went into mercantile life, but after the war returned to the practice of medicine and was prominent in Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemics of 1793 and 1795, succumbing in 1798 to the results of his over-exertions at that time.
The fifth son of Andrew and Jane ( McCul- loch) Hodge was James, who went into mer- cantile service and is believed to have been lost in shipwreck in the East Indies in 1793.
Hugh Hodge, above named, the fourth son of Andrew and Jane Hodge, married, in 1790. Mary Blanchard, of Boston, born 1765, died April 14, 1832, the sister of Samuel Blanchard,
who married the niece of Colonel Timothy Pickering, of the revolutionary army and sec- retary of war under Washington. Mary Blanchard was the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Hunt) Blanchard. Her father was probably of Huguenot extraction.
Hugh and Mary (Blanchard) Hodge had children : Elizabeth, born December 19, 1791, died August, 1793. Mary, born September I, 1792, died 1795. Hugh, born August 24, 1794, died 1795. Hugh Lenox, born June 27, 1796, died February 23, 1873, who was grad- uated from Princeton in 1814, received the degree of M. D. from the University of Penn- sylvania in 1818, was appointed professor of Obstetrics at that university in 1871, and mar- ried, in 1828, Margaret E. Aspinwall, died 1866, daughter of John Aspinwall, merchant of New York. Charles, born at Philadelphia, December 28, 1797, who was graduated from Princeton in 1815, and became the celebrated Presbyterian theologian.
Dr. Charles Hodge's early education was re- ceived in Philadelphia, and in 1810 with his elder brother, Hugh Lenox, he was sent to Somerville Academy, New Jersey. In the spring of 1812 Hugh entered Princeton and Charles entered the Princeton Academy. He entered college in the autumn of 1812 as a sophomore, and was graduated valedictorian of his class in 1815. In November of the following year he entered the Princeton Theo- logical Seminary, being graduated in 1819. During the winter of 1819-20 he preached at the Falls of Schuylkill, at the Philadelphia Arsenal and at Woodbury, New Jersey. In May, 1820, he was appointed assistant in- structor in Oriental Languages at Princeton Seminary, a position he retained for two years. He was ordained November 28, 1821. In May, 1822, the general assembly elected him to the chair of Biblical Literature in the Semi- nary, and in May, 1840, transferred him to the chair of Exegetical and Didactic Theology, which he occupied until his death in 1878. In 1846 he was moderator of the general assem- bly. In addition to his professorial work he founded, and until 1868 edited, the Biblical Repertory or Princeton Review, which under varying names has been issued to the present time, principallly as the organ of the Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Hodge's most bril- liant writing was done for the Review where he was compelled to defend the old school divinity of the seminary against the advanced move- ments of the day. He is said to have written
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nearly one-third of the contents of the forty- three volumes of the Review which appeared during his editorial connection with it.
In order to complete his preparation for the great life work which lay before him on his election to the chair of Oriental and Biblical Literature, in 1822, he was sent abroad by friends in 1825 to pursue a course of study in the universities of Halle, Berlin and Paris, re- turning to America in 1828. In Europe he made the acquaintance of many of the leading theologians of the day, and laid the founda- tions for the wide personal friendships with foreign scholars which he was to enjoy during the remainder of his lifetime. On April 24, 1872, half a century after he was made a pro- fessor in the seminary, his friends and pupils commemorated the event by a jubilee gather- ing which in some respects has had no equal in American academic history. Honor was paid him from all parts of the world. He lived in Princeton for seventy years, and died June 19, 1878, in the eighty-first year of his age. He is buried in Princeton cemetery.
Dr. Hodge was a close student and a superbly equipped scholar. The lameness from which he suffered proved perhaps a veiled blessing in that it compelled him to find his recreation amid his books. As a theological author he enjoyed a foremost reputation, won partly by his work in the Biblical Repertory or Princeton Review. Assisted by a brilliant corps of fellow writers he placed the Review in prominence among the leading quarterlies of the age ; it became a great formative power in the theology of the Presbyterian church and its career is part of the literary history of the country. Dr. Hodge edited the Review from 1825 to 1868, and his massive learning, coupled with the logic clearness and force of his style, won for him his position as a leader in Orthodox Presbyterian thought. But his reputation does not rest on his editorial work alone. His "Com- mentary on the Epistle to the Romans" issued first in 1835 and again in 1866 enlarged and revised, has been accounted one of the most masterly commentaries in existence, while his "Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in America" (1840), his "Way of Life" (1841), his "Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians" (1856), his "Commentary on First Corinthians" (1857), and on "Second Corithians" (1859), and his great "Systematic Theology" ( 1871-1873) are monuments to his scholarship, his simple piety and his literary vigor. His "Systematic Theology" is the great work of his life. It has been republished in
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