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Hamilton started its career as a college with $100,000 endowment-a very large sum for those days of moderate wealth. The Academy buildings, grounds and other property were valued at $15,000. To this sum was added subscriptions and parcels of land amounting in all to $50,000. The New York State Legis- lature granted $50,000 more to the new institution, and in later years appro- priated $3,000 annually for the support of the college, but this was withdrawn in 1850. The latest report of the financial status of the college shows assets in buildings, lands, investments, etc., an amount over $1,600,000, with an annual
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expenditure of about $70,000. Endownments have increased rapidly within the last few years, and the finances of the institution are in a very prosperous condition.
Hamilton College has had nine presidents. Dr. Azel Backus, the first presi- dent, was born at Franklin, Connecticut, October 13, 1765, and died December 28, 1816. President Backus opened the college October 22, 1812, and was in- augurated December 3. In his inaugural address Dr. Backus took a decided position in regard to moral education : "Mere science, without moral and religious habits, is a curse, and not a blessing to a community. Better for youth, and for civil society, that he had lived in ignorance, than that he should issue from a col- lege with irreligious and immoral principles. Such as contract vicious habits in an academic course are more dangerous than madmen armed with instruments of death, and let loose among the defenseless inhabitants of a village. Let it never be imagined then that the sole object of an education is to make youth acquainted with languages, sciences and arts. The governors and instructors of a literary institution owe to God and society the sacred duty of guarding the morals of the youth committed to their care. An attention to order, and the early formation of habits of industry and investigation, I venture to assert, are of more importance than mere knowledge."
Dr. Henry Davis, the second president, was born in East Hampton, Long Island, N. Y., September 15, 1770, graduated from Yale College 1796, a tutor in Williams College 1796-98, a tutor in Yale College 1798-1803, professor of Greek in Union College 1803-10, president of Middlebury College 1810-17, elected president of Hamilton College January 21, 1817, and of Yale College February 11, 1817. Dr. Davis declined both of these calls on account of cer- tain conditions at Middlebury College, of which he was then president. On July 21, 1817, the corporation of Hamilton College re-elected Dr. Davis president of the institution, and he began his labors in the college at the end of October in that year. The college had been without a president since the death of Dr. Backus on December 28 of the previous year. President Davis resigned his office August 22, 1832, but upon urgent request of the trustees of the college, he con- tinued to act as president until April 17, 1833, having given fifteen years, five and a half months' service. He died March 7, 1852.
Dr. Sereno Edwards Dwight, the third president, son of President Timothy Dwight of Yale College, and grandson of President Jonathan Edwards, was born at Greenfield, Connecticut, May 18, 1786, graduated from Yale College 1803, tutor in Yale College 1806-10, pastor of Park street church, Boston, 1817-26, and elected president of Hamilton College, beginning his services in the fall of 1833 and serving two years. President Dwight had been a lawyer, practiced his profession successfully, and was a business man. He attempted to secure a substantial endowment for the college, and presented the needs of the college to the citizens of Utica, who subscribed somewhat liberally, but with the under- standing that Hamilton College should move to Utica. President Dwight was in favor of this movement on the ground that Utica was a center of business and geographically right for the growth and financial success of a college. But the trustees vetoed the plan of President Dwight and he resigned. Dr. Dwight died November 30, 1850.
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Rev. Albert Barnes, class of 1820, was elected president of Hamilton College in 1835 to succeed President Dwight, but Rev. Mr. Barnes, who would not accept the degree of "Doctor of Divinity" from any institution on the general ground of unworthiness of any man for such a title, declined the offer.
Rev. Joseph Penney, the fourth president, was born in Ireland August 12, 1793, graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, 1813, and came to America in 1819. Dr. Penney preached in Rochester, and in Northampton, Massachusetts. In 1835 he was called to the presidency of Hamilton College, and resigned the office in the spring of 1839. It was during the presidency of Dr. Penney that the state of New York began to contribute an annual sum of $3,000 to the college. His death occurred in Rochester, N. Y., March 22, 1860.
Dr. Simeon North, the fifth president, was born in Berlin, Connecticut, Sep- tember 7, 1802, graduated from Yale College in 1825, tutor in Yale College 1827-29, professor of languages in Hamilton College 1829-39; inaugurated pres- ident of Hamilton College May 8, 1839. President North resigned his office July 16, 1857, to take effect the 1st of September of that year, after eighteen and one-third years of service as president, and ten years as professor of lan- guages. He died February 9, 1884. President North was a man of genuine classical learning himself, and by example as well as word he defended the classical and disciplinary foundations of scholarship. "A college is not a com- mercial agency." "In dealing with students President North was unwearied in vigilance, patience, courtesy and paternal kindness. He was never known to lose his self-control. His unfailing faith, hope and charity formed a triple cord that bound to his own heart the hearts of his pupils."
Dr. Samuel Ware Fisher, the sixth president, was born in Morristown, N. J., April 5, 1814, graduated from Yale College in 1835, pastor of the Fourth Presby- terian Church in Albany, N. Y., 1843-47, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati 1847-58, elected president of Hamilton College July 6, 1858. He resigned the presidency of Hamilton College July, 1866, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 18, 1874. President Fisher believed thoroughly in the necessity of collegiate training as preparation for life. "We will teach the mathematician how to master languages; we will chasten the poetic imagination by the drill of abstract science; we will assist the man of verbal memory to go through difficult processes of reasoning; we will endeavor to cultivate in all the power of profound reflection and just discrimination, so that when they go forth into life, it will not be with a partial-a distorted-a one-sided intellect -a mind that has ability only in one line, and is prevented by its very training from advancing in any other. A system of collegiate discipline thus seeks to give breadth, solidity, proportion to all the powers. It seeks to prepare a man to enter upon the special training that belongs to each profession, with a mind so exercised and informed as to be effective, according to its original endowments, in that or any other direction. It does not contemplate making this man a Grecian, that one a mathematician, another one a rhetorician, a surveyor or astronomer. It leaves these special attainments for after-study-individual choice. It supposes that the Grecian, the mathematician and the rhetorician will be vastly more accomplished, as scholars, and not at all less accomplished in the
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specialties they have chosen, by having thoroughly mastered the entire circle of college studies."
Dr. Samuel Gillman Brown, the seventh president, was born in North Yar- mouth, Maine, January 4, 1813, graduated from Dartmouth College 1831, pro- fessor of oratory in Dartmouth College 1840-63, professor of intellectual phil- osophy 1863-67. Dr. Brown was elected to the presidency of Hamilton College November 7, 1866; he began services in the college April, 1867, and was in- augurated July 17, 1867. President Brown resigned the presidency June 30, 1881, but occupied the chair of intellectual philosophy in the college from Jan- uary to April, 1882, then became provisional professor of mental and moral philosophy in Bowdoin College from September, 1883 to June, 1885. Dr. Brown died November 4, 1885. He was an uncompromising advocate and defender of classical studies as the foundation of exact scholarship. "What an endless amount of comparison, and reasoning, of balancing, of probabilities, and forming of in- dependent judgments and expressing them in the best forms, the student has gone through with in the careful reading of a single classical author. Hence every student of the higher professions, especially of law and theology, feels the special advantage which he derives from this kind of training. There is no study which calls into play at the same moment so many of the mental facul- ties and those of quite diverse character, as the languages; not only do we ex- ercise the powers of judgment, discrimination and reasoning, but our sympathies, our taste, our sense of the fitting and the beautiful."
Dr. Henry Darling, the eighth president, was born in Reading, Pa., Decem- ber 27, 1823, graduated from Amhurst College 1842, from Auburn Theological Seminary 1845, pastor of Presbyterian church in Hudson, N. Y., 1846, pastor of Clinton Street Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1853, pastor of Fourth Presbyterian church, Albany, N. Y., 1864-81, elected president of Hamilton Col- lege April 12, 1881, and he died on College Hill April 20, 1891. President Darl- ing's conception of education was expressed in his inaugural address: " in the intellectual culture of the college religion should have the first place. I am here to serve God in the cause of Christian education." It was during President Darling's administration that an attempt was made to unite Hamilton College with the Presbyterian church. The plan failed, and Hamilton College remained on her old foundations, a little richer, but no worse for the temporary convulsions through which she passed.
Dr. M. Woolsey Stryker, the ninth president, was born at Vernon, N. Y., January 7, 1851, graduated from Hamilton College 1872, graduated from Au- burn Theological Seminary, Auburn, N. Y., 1876, pastor of Calvary Presbytery church, Auburn, 1876-78, pastor at Ithaca, N. Y., of the Presbyterian church 1878-83, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Holyoke, Mass., 1883-85, pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian church, Chicago, Ill., 1885-92, elected president of Hamilton College August 25, 1892, entering on his work as president November 10 of the same year. Dr. Stryker is one of the most persistent, patient and out- spoken advocates of classical studies within the sphere of education to-day. He holds that the college has a distinctive place in the true education of a man- its function is primarily discipline. In his inaugural address President Stryker spoke thus: "Hamilton is willing to ask confidence strictly as a college, and
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does not aspire to become a university. We are not unwilling to be larger, but a college we remain. The time arrives when the distinctive calling and elec- tion of the college as such comes to appreciation. If its work is introductory it is also indispensable, for there are three obvious stages of study-correlated and distinct-the elementary, the disciplinary and the specializing. There are col- leges that fail because they are willing to be no less than universities. The steadfast, self-respecting, actual college stands between. It neither quarrels nor imitates. It perceives that its pre-eminent task is disciplinary. Its investiga- tions are primarily for the development of the investigator. It is forging men. Its chief work should be upon the mind itself, as the agent and implement. It dwells upon the tactics of thought. It summons to self-knowledge. Its course is a mental athletic."
The presidents of Hamilton College have been quite unanimous in their views of the function of a college. There has been opposition to their seriously clas- sical views by alumni at times and by officers of the college; but there has been stout resistance to any progressive views that would have Hamilton revert to high school standards or assume university aims and methods. Periodically dur- ing her history Hamilton College has passed through times of stormy discus- sion about numbers of students registered and the influence of the curriculum upon the growth of the institution. But the college has kept its standards of admission normal, and administered its courses of study with fidelity to principle. At this date Hamilton has about 200 students, about 1,600 living graduates, has had about 3,000 graduates in all, and some 1,100 students who have not been graduated, and 239 graduates in law from 1855 to 1889. During the one hun- dred years of her history Hamilton has had 130 professors on the faculty.
Hamilton points with just pride to the list of her noble men who were ready in time of the nation's need to offer themselves for the Union. This honor roll is made up of 227 brave and loyal sons, who gave good account of them- selves and shed glory on their alma mater on the field of battle. The list by classes and by positions filled is here offered as a splendid page in Oneida county history-a page that can be read by present and future Oneida county boys with pride and inspiration. Hamilton College has been a powerful factor in the culture, education, civic ideals and morals of the entire county. The citizens of this region have supported the college with their money, some of the noblest and wisest of the county have served faithfully as trustees of the institu- tion, and the young men of the community have received their preparation for useful lives. Oneida county has no equal in the United States-it stands alone with its noted jurists, lawyers, statesmen. Some of the foremost men of the nation to-day are its citizens. The county and the college are bound together by historic ties that cannot be broken.
Hamilton's contribution to the war of 1861 to 1865 is Oneida county's leg- acy, and the names and deeds are written here :
1824-Hon. Morgan Lewis Martin, Paymaster, from Wisconsin. Frederick William Curtenius, Col. 6th Mich. Vols.
1827-Hon. William Matthew Fenton, Col. 8th Mich. Vols.
1828-William Lewis Mather, Chaplain 3d Wisconsin.
1831-Hon. John Cochrane, Brigadier General, U. S. Vols.
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1834-Ebenezer Wicks Robinson, Chaplain.
1836-Marvin Melville Marsh, Surgeon.
1837-Henry Hovey Cozens, 1st Lt. 21st. N. Y. Lt. Art. Charles Dudley Miller, Col. 129th N. Y. Inft.
1838-Samuel Andrew Law, Paymaster, U. S. Vols. Lansing Porter, Capt. 75th N. Y. Inft. Levi Ward Smith, Chaplain.
1839-Gold Tompkins Curtis, Capt. 5th Minn. Vols. Horace Winslow, Chap- lain 5th Conn. Inft.
1840-Linus Merrill Miller, Chaplain 106th N. Y. Vols.
1842-Edwin Lorenzo Buttrick, Col. 39th Wisconsin Vols. Addison Kellogg Strong, Chaplain 7th Mich. Inft. Moses Eaton Wilson, Chaplain.
1843-Ward Wesley Hunt, Chaplain 98th N. Y. Vols. Robert M. Richardson, Col. 15th N. Y. Cav.
1844-Ezekiel Brown Elliott.
1845-Henry D. Barto, Col. N. Y. Vol. Inft. Louis Homri Loss Crane, Lt. Col. 3d Wisconsin Vols. Killed at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 8, 1862. Chester Smith Percival, Chaplain 12th N. Y. Vols.
1846-Levi Parsons Coman, Capt. 76th Ohio Inft. Joshua Cook, Captain 8th N. Y. Artillery. Zacharial Darwin Paddock, Lieut. 48th N. Y. Vols. James C. Rhodes, Priv. 7th Minn. Art .; Surg. 1st Minn. Mounted Rangers.
1847-Emmons Clark, Colonel 7th Regiment N. G. S. N. Y. Hon. Joseph Ros- well Hawley, Brigadier General, Conn. Vols. Henry Tweed Spencer, Surgeon Doubleday's Heavy Art. On Monitor Manhattan, foundered off Hatteras, Dec. 1862.
1848-Harmon Jonathan Cowden, Capt. 9th N. Y. Vol. Cav. Charles Boyd Curtis, Capt. 57th N. Y. Inft. John Curtis Miller. Hazard H. Sheldon, Captain 8th N. Y. Art.
1849-John Jay Knox, Assistant Paymaster. James Andrew Robinson, Chap- lain, 32d N. Y. Vols.
1850-Guy Kimball Cleveland, Paymaster, Lt. Col. 10th Minn. Vols. Daniel Watrous Gillett, Col. and Asst. Quartermaster-Gen. N. Y. Henry Clay Lester, Col. 1st. Minn. Vols. James O. Noyes. William B. Schermerhorn, Surgeon. Benjamin Bradford Snow, Provost Marshal.
1851-Benjamin R. Catlin, Chaplain 115th U. S. Vols. Thomas Evans, Sur- geon. Thomas Boyd Hudson, Chaplain N. Y. Vols. Uriah Smith Lowe, Major and Quartermaster 145th N. Y. Vols. Thomas Franklin Spencer, U. S. Navy.
1852-Frederick Humphrey, Chaplain 12th Iowa. James Edwards Abell, detached service under Gen. Thomas. John Henry Dodge, 1st Lt. Wisconsin Art. Hiram Potter, Quartermaster and Paymaster at New Berne, N. C.
1853-Charles Duncan Gilfillan, Major and Paymaster Vols. Myron Haw- ley Beach, Lieut. 44th Iowa. William Wirt Howe, Lt. 7th Kansas Cav., Adj. Staff Gen. A. L. Lee. William Hopkins Lathrop, Maj. 39th Ohio Inft., Col. 111th U. S. Vols. Killed at Sulphur Branch, Tenn., Sept. 25, 1864. Albert Lindley Lee, Major 7th Kan. Cav., Major General.
1854-Cornelius Evarts Bellington, Asst. Surgeon U. S. Vols. Charles Smith Bundy, Lieut. 5th Wisconsin Inft. Elijah Cone, Sergeant 4th Wisconsin Cav.
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Arthur Fenner Dexter, Captain 2d Rhode Island Vols. Charles Linderman, Lieut. 8th, Iowa Cav. Westel Willoughby, Major 137th N. Y. Vol. Inft.
1855-William Hart, Chaplain 19th N. Y. Inft. Milton Tyler Hills, 130th N. Y. Inft. Sergeant 19th N. Y. Cav. Joel Merwin Mainwairing, 12th N. Y. Cav. Solon Walter Stocking, Capt., Major and Br. Lt. Col. 1st. N. Y. Art.
1856-VanBuren Dutton, Captain 7th Regiment N. Y. Vols. Wm. Jacob Erd. man, Private and Chaplain 2d N. Y. Cav. (Harris Lt.) Jay Elon Lee, Captair 24th N. Y. Battery, 3d N. Y. Art. Seth B. Walworth, Lieut. 15th N. Y. Cav.
1857-James Shaw Baker, Private 13th N. Y. Vols. Roderick Baldwin, Cap- tain 8th N. Y. Art. Asahel Norton Brockway, Asst. Surgeon, U. S. V. George Seymour Hastings, 1st Lt. Col. 20th N. Y. Ind. Bat. Leigh Richmond Janes Chaplain N. Y. Vols. John C. Lathrop, 117th N. Y. S. V. and Signal Corps. Galen H. Ostrom. Port Royal November, 1864. William Mason Robinson, Lt. Col. 26th Mo. Inft. Joseph T. Tompkins, Captain 6th N. Y. Heavy Art. Augus tus Coe VanDuyn, Surgeon U. S. Vols. Augustus Sherrill Seymour.
1858-Edward Payson Adams, Lt. in U. S. Signal Corps. Seymour Fenton Adams, Capt. 5th N. Y. Art., and Staff Adjutant, Henry Newell Avery, Captain N. Y. Ironsides. Lemuel Newton Bates, Asst. Surgeon U. S. N. Temple Em- mett, 88th N. Y. and Lt. Staff of Brig. Gen. T. F. Meagher. Nathaniel P. Bos- well. Albert Erdman, Chaplain 53d N. Y. Vols. Carrington McFarlane, Sur- geon N. Y. Vols. John Norman Root, 15th Michigan Inft. Frederick Scoville, Capt. 8th N. Y. Cavalry. Joseph Sim Smith. Wallace Walter Thorpe, Chap- lain 3d N. Y. Inft. Oliver Morris Wilson, Captain 4th Indiana Inft.
1859-William Cowper Gibson, Farragut's Mississippi Fleet, U. S. N. Sam- uel D. Hubbard, Captain 27th Wis. Inft. George Willis Kellogg, Lt. 3d N. Y. Ind Battery. Harlan Page Lloyd, Brevet Major 22d N. Y. Cav. Dugald Cameron Morrison, Lieut. Michigan Vols. Hubert Francis Peebles, Capt. 32d Iowa Vols. Killed at Pleasant Hill, La., April 25, 1864. Leicester Jotham Sawyer, 6th Conn. Vols. John Knox Williams, Lieut. N. Y. S. Vols. Killed at Chapin's Farm, Va., Sept. 29, 1864.
1860-William Harrison Beach, Adjutant 1st N. Y. Lincoln Cavalry Arba Brookins, Lieut, 24th N. Y. Cavalry. Samuel Miller, 1st Lt. 117th N Y. Vols. Milton Harlow Northrup, Asst. Adjutant General. Isaac Platt Powell Major 146th N. Y. Vols. Francis Edward Hale, 1st Lt. 1st Mich. Art. Battery A William Henry Knapp, Major. John Loveys Paine, 2d Lt. 50th Engineers.
1861-Albert Lucas Childs. Joseph Harvey Durkee, Captain 146th N. Y Vols. James Sandford Greeves, Asst. Paymaster U. S. A. and in Cavalry. Johr Davis Jones, Chaplain 117th N. Y. Vols. William Henry Harrison Miller, Lt 84th Ohio Vols. George Jay North, Major 47th Iowa Vols. Charles Henry Roys Brevet Major 117th N. Y. S. Vols. George Hills Starr, Captain and Brevet Col N. Y. Vols. Francis Asbury Torrey, Captain Excelsior Brigade, 170th N. Y Isaac Newton Wilcoxen, Lt. 3d N. Y. Art. Frank Babbitt Willard, Private 42c Ohio Inft. Arthur Curtis Danforth, Sergeant 7th Ohio Inft. Killed April 26 1862. Aaron McCraken Woodhull, Regimental Quartermaster. Norman Malcon McQueen, Lt. Bates' Ind. Emp. Battery. Gilbert S. Putman, Sergeant 4th Wis Cavalry. George Washington Reynolds, Col. N. Y. Vols. Rooney G. Kimball Col. N. Y. Vols.
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1862-Augustus Underhill Bradbury, Lt. 128th N. Y. Vols. New Orleans, Feb. 25, 1863. Charles Levi Buckingham, Lt. 146th N. Y. Vols. Killed at Weldon Road, Va., Sept. 2, 1864. George Prudden Hart, Major Battery A., 1st N. Y. Lt. Art. Rush Palmer Cady, Lieut. 97th N. Y. Vols. Wounded at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863; died July 24. Charles Wadsworth Cole, Asst. Provost Marshal. Henry Hastings Curran, Lt. Col. 146th N. Y. Vols. Killed in the Wilderness, May 6, 1864. Charles Melville Fay, Captain N. Y. Vols. John Quincy Adams Hollis- ter, Captain 112th N. Y. Vols. Benjamin Franklin Miller, A. A. G., U. S. A. James Johnson Pease. Amos Madden Thayer, Major U. S. Signal Corps. John Robert Moore, 44th N. Y. S. Vols. Henry Ward, Jr., Major 126th N. Y. Vols. Edward Bartlett Wicks, Lt. 101st N. Y. Vols.
1863-Myron Adams, Jr., Lieut. U. S. Signal Corps. Edward Woodbridge Avery, Asst. Surgeon, U. S. N. William Kirkland Bacon, Adjutant 20th N. Y. Vols. Killed at Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Charles Abbott Butts, Captain 121st N. Y. Vols. Killed at Spottsylvania, Va., May 10, 1864. Henry Porter Cook, Sergeant Major 12th U. S. Vols. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. Rees Davis, Pennsylvania Vol. Inft. Charles King Dutton, Private 126th N. Y. and Major 24th N. Y. Cav. Frank Bissell, Paymaster, U. S. N. Abram Hartwell Hamblin, Lieut. 3d N. Y. Art. Nathaniel Barnes Hinckley, Sergeant 117th N. Y. Vols. Died at Norfolk, Va., July 10, 1863. Charles Myron Hol- ton, Lieut. 7th Michigan Cav. Stephen Grosvenor Hopkins, Sergeant 160th N. Y. Vols. George Milton Loomis, Lieut. 3d N. Y. Cav. William Noble Page, Lieut. 11th N. Y. Vols. George Wright Sheldon, Captain 126th N. Y. Vols. Killed at Chapin's Farm, Sept. 29, 1864. Robert Turner, Private Rocket Battalion. Killed at Goldsboro, N. C., Dec. 16, 1862. Horace Webster Fowler, Lieut. Col. 16th N. Y. Heavy Art. Edward Herbert Wardwell, Rocket Battalion N. Y. Vols.
1864-Thomas Williams Barton, Private 117th N. Y. Vols. Morris Brown, Jr., Captain 126th N. Y. Vols. Killed at Petersburg, Va., June, 1864. Sherman Dwight Canfield, Lieut. 145th N. Y. Vols. Phillip Clinton Curran, Sergeant 146th N. Y. Vols. Milton Oscar Dayton, Sergeant 1st N. Y. Art. William Dudley Far- lin, N. Y. Vols. Amos Hammond Dean, Sergeant 3d N. Y. Light Art. Austin V. Eastman, Lieut. 1st N. Y. Vols. John Henry Howell, Captain 3d N. Y. Art. (1866), 2d Lieut. of Artillery, Regular Army. Herman Duthil Jenkins, Private N. Y. Vols. James Edgar Jenkins, Captain 146th N. Y. Vols. Edward Pay- son Johnson, Lieut. 121st N. Y. Vols. Killed at Spottsylvania, Va., May, 1864. Edgar Martin Marble, Adjutant 3d Mich. Inft. James Seeley McVey, Lieut. 121st N. Y. Art. Alfred Ayre Morse, Private N. Y. Vols. Died in Winchester, Va., November 24, 1864. Frank Place, Lieut. Col. 157th N. Y. Vols. Benjamin F. Pope, Surgeon Regular Army. Seth James Porter. Kendrick S. Putnam, Com- missary Clerk, 2d Corps. John Henry Roe, Captain 104th U. S. Black Troops. Darius Carter Sackett, 126th N. Y. Vols. Mason Colburn Smith, Corporal 24th Ind. N. Y. Battery. Died at Andersonville, May 10, 1864. Justin Smith, Jr., 1st Lieut. 1st N. Y. Dragoons. George Galitzin Truair, Captain 149th N. Y. Vols. William Shepard Walton, Captain 34th N. Y. Vols. George Abel Watson, 1st Sergeant 112th N. Y. Vols. Killed at the Blackwater, May, 1863. George Henry West, Lieut. 139th N. Y. Vols. Wilderness, 1864. Ezra Barton Wood, Sergeant 3d. N. Y. Artillery.
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1865-George Henry Allen, Sergeant 145th N. Y. Vols. Killed at the Wild- erness, May, 1864. William James Cosnett, 33d N. Y. Vols. Killed at Chancellors- ville, May, 1863. Morris Powell Brewer, 5th N. Y. Art. Frank Bradley Hart, Lieut. 126th N. Y. Vols. James Peleg Kimball, Surgeon U. S. Vols. Howard Elliott Mitchell, Lieut. 128th N. Y. S. Vols. Morris Fletcher Shepard, Captain 16th N. Y. Art. Eugene Baxter Stull, Captain 151st N. Y. S. Vols. James Nor- ton Taft, 9th N. Y. Art.
1866-John Hamilton Caston. Hiram Huntington Kellogg, Jr., 86th Illinois Vols. John Milton Holley, U. S. Navy. Henry Loomis, Captain 146th N. Y. Vols. Charles Sterling Millard, Lieut. Col. 117th N. Y. S. Vols.
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