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(VI) Sylvanus (2), son of Sylvanus (1) and Chestina (Curtis) Wilcox, was born at Nine Partners, Dutchess county, New York, May 26, 1762, died at Fultonville, New York, July 10, 1846. When but fourteen years of age, he entered the continental army, 1776. He was under General Ward at New Haven, Connecticut, and served six months in that portion of the army imme- diately under the direction of General Wash- ington. Subsequently he enlisted from New York state and served as corporal in Captain
Van Rensselaer's company of Colonel Mari- nus Willett's regiment of the New York state militia. He was at Canada Creek when the notorious Butler was killed, and was granted a pension in 1831. It is said that he was present as one of the guard at the execution of Major André. The New York records show a steady line of promotion. He was made captain of the state troops, April 5. 1798: second major of the Twenty-sixth regiment, November 9, 1800; major, Febru- ary 9, 1810; lieutenant-colonel, June 12, 1812, and subsequently colonel and brigadier- general. After his marriage, in 1787, he took his wife and one child to the west bank of the Schoharie creek in the southeast cor- ner of what is now the town of Glen, Mont- gomery county, New York, where he erected a log cabin and shortly thereafter built a sub- stantial house which is still ( 1910) standing. He occupied a large tract of land, probably under a lease for three lives, or ninety-nine years, and subsequently purchased from George Clark the land on which his house and buildings stand. He was a large land owner in Montgomery county, and a man at one time of considerable wealth, in fact, was always of prominence in the community where he lived. Later in life he became in- terested in a dry dock in Fultonville, New York, and in 1837 purchased a house in that village, where he resided until his death. He and his first wife are buried in the private burial ground on his old farm in Glen, and upon his gravestone is inscribed: "Gen. Syl- vanus Wilcox, a soldier of the Revolution."
Sylvanus Wilcox married, April 28, 1785. Sarah Johnson, born March 17, 1765, died July 1, 1830. daughter of Robert and Susan- na (Barnes) Johnson, of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He married (second), Octo- ber 19, 1831, Sally Hamilton, but had no children by her. All of his children, except- ing the first, were born at Glen, Montgomery county, New York. Children: I. Amelia, born August 15, 1786, died, unmarried, Jan- uary 24, 1850. 2. Chestina, April 17, 1788. 3. Asenath, March 17, 1790, died at Albany, New York, July 31, 1857; married, at Glen, New York, June 5, 1811, Edward Woolver- ton, born at Amwell, New Jersey, January II, 1787, died at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, September 4. 1874, (see Woolverton V). 4. Elijah, May 10, 1792; married Sally Shuler, August 26, 1813; died at Elgin, Illinois, April 2, 1876 (see Schuler II). 5. Elisha, May 10, 1792; married Nancy Ellis. 6. Charles, February 25, 1795: married Julia Ann Merrill. 7. Calvin P., October 4, 1796; married Harriet Hubbard. 8. Eliza, June 3,
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1800; married Moses Merrill; died Novem- ber 12, 1882. 9. Oliver Lathrop, June 26, 1809, died March 7, 1880; married, October 2, 1833, Adaline M. Shuler, born August 13, 18II, died at Gasport. Niagara county, New York, September 10, 1892, daughter of John and Hannah (Buck) Shuler (sce Shuler II).
(The McKissick Line).
In 1768 Zebulon and John McKissick, brothers, came to America from Scotland, settling in Maine, where Zebulon located himself in Limerick and John in Cornish. They married sisters named Bettis. Chil- dren of Zebulon McKissick: Zebadiah, Mo- ses, born in Limerick, Maine, November 4, 1781. see forward; Aaron, Molly, Eunice. (II) Moses, son of Zebulon McKissick, was born November 4. 1781, died July 31, 1823. In February, 1817. with Herod Otis, of Boston, and two others, he founded the town of Jordan, Onondaga county, New York, clearing the land and laying out the place. The McKissick family were known as Free-will Baptists, pious and godly people. When Moses McKissick died, his bier was carried on the shoulders of his friends, in re- lays, to the burial ground in Jordan, so very greatly was he esteemed there. He married Abigail, daughter of Samuel Stuart, of Scar- borough, Maine, and she died at Jordan, New York. in 1837. Children: 1. Stuart, born November 27, 1807, see forward. 2. Aaron, married Elzina -; died at Auburn, New York. 3. Moses, married Clara Stevens. 4. James M., married (first) Susan Carson ; (second) Marion White. 5. Orrin. 6. Nan- cy, married Arza Blakeslee. 7. Abigail, mar- ried (first) DeFreest, and (second) Smith ; died in 1875. 8. Caroline.
(IH) Stuart, son of Moses and Abigail (Stuart ) McKissick, was born at Saco, Maine, November 27. 1807, died at Albany, New York, August 29, 1882. When a lad he went with his parents to Jordan, New York, and there remained until about 1833, when he engaged in the running of a boat for a transportation line. In 1838 he came to Al- bany, and there established a transportation and produce commission business, in one or the other or both of which he was engaged until in 1873, when he retired from active work, by reason of his failing health. He was one of the members of the board ap- pointed by the legislature to establish a free school in the city of Albany, and zealously ad- vocated the building of the present high school in that city. He was president of the board of trade of Albany, New York, in 1849, and a member of the canal convention in 1868.
He was a delegate to the national convention of the boards of trade in 1863, and he served on many important committees of the local board. He was a director of the National Ex- change Bank of Albany ; a trustee of the Al- bany Exchange Savings Bank, and a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Albany. He married (first) September, 1835, Julia Ann Norton, of Suffield, Connecticut; she died August 22, 1843, aged thirty-one years. Children: 1. Emily Espiranza, born at Jor- dan, New York, 1836; married, at Albany, | 1858, Charles S. Cutler, of Albany. 2. Caro- line Aldaretta, Jordan, New York, 1838; mar- ried. 1863, Hogan Gibbons at West Troy, New York, died January 12, 1875. 3. Stuart Eugene, Albany, 1839; died there December 13, 1842. 4. Frederick, Albany, April 26, 1842, died there April 30, 1842. He married (second), September 10, 1844, Eliza McIn- tyre, of Northampton, Massachusetts, daugh- ter of Jesse and Margaret (Pomeroy) Mc- Intyre, by whom he had five children, all born at Albany, New York. Children: 5. Mary, born December 17, 1847, died March 24, 1864. 6. Julia Norton, January 11, 1849; married, January 25, 1884, Charles W. Shep- ard, of Albany, New York. 7. Abby Stuart, May 18, 1851, see forward. 8. Edward Pom- eroy, June 22, 1854 : married four times, viz. : Florence Paul, at Rockport, Massachusetts ; Natalie Coffin, at Boston, Massachusetts ; Carrie Packard, at Boston; and Rose Rock- well, at Belgrade, Maine. 9. Jessie, August, 1857, died at Albany, June 17, 1860.
(IV) Abby Stuart, daughter of Stuart and Eliza (McIntyre) McKissick, was born at Al- bany, New York, May 18, 1851. She mar- ried at Albany, January 22, 1873, Walter Mc- Ewan, of Albany, born at Glasgow, Scotland, June 1, 1843 .. died at Loudonville, Albany county, New York, May 10, 1908, son of John McEwan, born in Sterling, Scotland, and Ag- nes Gordon (Lauder) McEwan, born in Glas- gow, Scotland, hoth of whom died in Albany, New York. Walter McEwan came to Albany with his parents in 1849. He attended the public schools of that city, and on the com- pletion of that course, when about seventeen years of age, entered the employ of the Hud- son River Railroad Company. After ten years of service for them, he purchased an interest in the wholesale coffee and spice busi- ness, which for two years was conducted un- der the name of Bailey, Lord & McEwan. At the end of that period, and on March 15, 1872, he purchased his partners' interests and con- ducted the enterprise in his own name until March 15. 1905. when it was incorporated. He was a man much respected in the busi-
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ness and religious circles of Albany. He was president of the Walter McEwan Com- pany, trustee and secretary of the Home Sav- ings Bank, trustee and vice-president of B. Payn's Sons Tobacco Company, treasurer of the St. Andrews Society, and a member of several Masonic bodies. For many years he was an elder of the Third Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Walter McEwan, on their marriage, started housekeeping in Al- bany, but in 1885 removed to Loudonville, a suburb, where they continued to reside until his death. Children, born in Albany, New York: 1. Walter Stuart, born December 20, 1873; married, September 24, 1902, Mary C. Blakeslee, of Menands, New York. 2. Agnes Lauder, January 28, 1876; married, Septem- ber 20, 1899, Charles Sumner Stedman, of Albany, New York (see Stedman IX). 3. Jessie Ellis, June 16, 1878; married, October 7, 1903, Henry Hunt Romer, of Brooklyn, New York. 4. George William, June II, 1882; married, April 21, 1908, Gertrude Marsh Peck, of Albany. 5. Charles Bailey, June 1, 1884.
The family name of Fuller sig-
FULLER nifies one thickens,
who
bleaches, cleanses or whitens cloth at a mill, a clothier. The Fuller arms : Shield : Argent, three bars gules, on a canton of the second a castle or. Crest: A dexter arm embowered, vested argent, cuffed sable, holding in the hand proper a sword of the first hilt of pommel or. Motto: Semper paratus. This is the form adopted commonly by the families in this country, being the one em- ployed in the Isle of Wight. The bar is one of the honorable ordinaries representing a belt of honor given for eminent services. The canton is a subordinate ordinary, representing the banner given to knights-banneret.
Edward and Samuel Fuller, brothers, came to America in the "Mayflower" in 1620, and landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts. They were sons of Robert Fuller, a butcher of Nor- folk county, England. Both signed the cele- brated "Compact," which was drawn up in the cabin of the "Mayflower" just previous to the landing at Cape Cod on November 21.
(I) Edward Fuller, progenitor of this fam- ily in America, was baptized September 4, 1575, in the parish of Redenhall, county of Norfolk, England. It is not known that he was one of that band which, because of the persecutions in the time of Queen Elizabeth for religious belief, sailed to Holland in 1608, where they settled in Amsterdam and a year later were located in Leyden, until they em- barked on the "Speedwell," which left Delft-
haven, Holland, about August 1, 1620; but ·
research makes it appear that it was more likely that he joined the others on the arrival of the "Speedwell" at Southampton, where they joined the "Mayflower," and August 15, 1620, the two vessels started to cross the At- lantic; but the "Speedwell," proving unsea- worthy, was forced to turn back. His brother, Samuel, had gone to Holland, however, and both crossed the ocean together. Their father is recorded as a contributor to the famous chime of eight bells to the Redenhall church in Norfolk county, he helping towards the. purchase of the sixth bell in 1588. Although: it is sometimes stated that Edward had a wife named Ann, the most accurate informa- tion is that her name is unknown. Governor Bradford does not mention her by name; but states "Edward Fuller and his wife died soon after they came on shore." His death oc- curred at Plymouth, Massachusetts, between January 11 and April 10, 1621. His wife died early in 1621, some time after January 11. They left only one child, Samuel, who had come over with them on the "Mayflower."
(II) Samuel, son of Edward and Ann Ful- er, was born about 1612, at some place in Eng- land not yet determined, no record of his birth or baptism having been discovered, and died at Barnstable, Massachusetts, October 31 or November 10, 1683. He married at Mr. Cudworth's house in Scituate, by Captain Miles Standish, magistrate, "on ye fourthe. daye of ye weeke," April 8-18, 1635, Jane, daughter of Rev. John Lathrop, of Scituate, and who was baptized September 29, 1614, at Edgerly, county of Kent, England; died sub- sequent to 1658 and before 1683. He grew up under the direct care of his uncle, Dr. Samuel Fuller, at Plymouth. He received three acres of land at the time of the gen- eral division in 1623, thought to signify one for himself and the shares of his deceased father and mother. On this theory he would have been sixteen years old at that time, and his birth would have occurred in 1608 in- stead of 1612; but there may have been some particular understanding. The land assigned to him was on the south side of the town brook ("to the Woodward") and included what was known in 1900 as Watson's Hill, where he had for neighbors, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Edward Winslow and the Indian Hobomok. When the inhabitants were divided into twelve groups at the town meet- ing held on June 1, 1627, for the purpose of dividing the cattle then owned in the colony, the eighth lot fell to Dr. Samuel Fuller and his company, and joined to him was Samuel Fuller, Jr., son of Edward, the immigrant.
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· "To this lot fell a red heifer, came of the cow which belongeth to the poor of the Colony."
When Dr. Samuel Fuller made his will in 1633, he made provision for his nephew, Sam- tel, and therein is the only mention to be found of Samuel's wife, after her marriage. Therein he wrote: "It. my will is that my Cozen (nephew) Samuell goe freely away with his stock of Cattle and Swine wthout any further recconing wch swine are the halfe of six sowes, six hogges, one boare & four shotes. Also one Cow & one heyfer. It. my will is that in case my sonne Samyell and other my children die before such time as they are fitt to enter upon my land for inheritance that then my kinsman, Sam. ffuller, now in the howse with me, enjoy wtsoever lands I am now possessed of, except my dwelling howse at town or whatsoever shall be due to me or them. It. I give to him my Rufflet Cloake & my stuffe sute I now weare." He dated the will July 30, 1633, and died within three months. As the doctor's children survived, Samuel re- ceived none of the lands and set out with his cattle to seek a home. He became a "Freeman" of the Colony in 1634, and settled in Scituate, Massachusetts, where he joined the church, November 7, 1636. There he had twenty acres, and built the fifteenth house in that place in 1636. All the houses in the town were built alike, and Rev. John Lathrop, accustomed to life at Christ's College, Cam- bridge, styled them "meane." The walls were made of poles filled between with stones and clay, the roof thatched, the chimney of rough stone, the windows of oiled paper, and the floors of hand-sawed planks. He described them as mere "booths," because they were open and the fire had to be piled high con- stantly to keep the occupant warm in winter. His will was made October 29. 1683, was filed with wills of the Plymouth Colony, and is both curious and interesting in its peculiar details.
Children : 1. Hannah, birth date unknown ; married, January 1, 1658-59, Nicholas Bon- ham, of Barnstable. 2. Samuel, baptized at Scituate, Massachusetts, February 11, 1637; married Anna, daughter of Matthew Ful- ler. 3. Elizabeth, married Joseph Taylor. 4. Sarah, baptized August 1, 1641, died about 1651-54. 5. Mary, baptized June 16, 1644, died near Norwich, Connecticut, 1720; mar- ried. November, 18, 1674, Joseph Williams, of Haverhill, Massachusetts. 6. Thomas, born May 18, 1651, died young. 7. Sarah, born December 10, 1654; married Crowe, of Yarmouth. 8. John, born about
1656, see forward. 9. Infant, baptized Feb- ruary 8, 1658, died in fifteen days.
(III) John, son of Samuel and Jane (Lath- rop) Fuller, was born in Barnstable, Mas- sachusetts, about 1656, died in East Haddam, Connecticut, between February 28 and May 20, 1726. He was called "Little John" to distinguish him from his cousin, Dr. John Fuller. He lived on his father's estate at Sorton Neck until 1694, when he removed to East Haddam, Connecticut. He seems to have prospered here, as about 1721 he con- veyed ample lands and farming implements to each of his sons. His will was made Feb- ruary 28, 1725-26, probated May 10, 1726, and in it he speaks of his place of residence as "township of Haddam, County of Hart- ford, npon the cast side of the Great River." He married, about 1678, Mehitabel, daugh- ter of Moses Rowley, and was born in Barn- stable, January 1I, 1660-61, died in East Haddam, Connecticut, about 1732. Children : I. Thomas, born in Barnstable about 1679, see forward. 2. Samuel, born in Barnstable, about 1682. 3. Shubael, born in Barnstable, about 1684. 4. Thankful, born in Barnstable, about 1688, baptized there May 19, 1689; mar- ried, at Colchester, Connecticut, July 9, 1707, Jabez Crippen, of Falmouth, Massachusetts. 5. Deborah, born about 1689: married, Sep- tember II. 1716, John Rowley. 6. Edward, born in Barnstable, about 1691; married, about 1713, - Bates ; died in Colchester, January 7, 1731. 7. Elizabeth, born in Barn- stable, about 1693 : married, March 4, 1713, Samuel Rowley, of East Haddam. 8. John, born in East Haddam, Connecticut, Novem- ber 10, 1697; died there in 1757-58; married, May 1, 1721, Mrs. Mary Rowley, daughter of William Cornwall. 9. Joseph, born in East Haddam, Connecticut, March 1, 1699- 1700, died in Kent, Connecticut, July 19, 1775; married, December 22, 1722, Lydia Day. 10. Benjamin, born in East Haddam, October 20, 1701, died in Sharon, Connecticut, De- cember 20, 1740; married, about 1700, Con- tent Fuller. II. Anne, born about 1703-04; married, March 9. 1727, Jonathan Rowley. 12. Mchitabel, born in East Haddam, April 6, 1706; married Benjamin Kneeland.
(IV) Thomas, son of John and Mehitabel (Rowley) Fuller, was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, about 1679, died in East Had- dam, Connecticut, April 9, 1772. He married Elizabeth - , born about 1689, died No- vember 5. 1784. Children: I. Ebenezer, born October 27, 1715, see forward. 2. Thomas, born East Haddam, April 5, 1717; married (first) Martha Rowley; married (second) Mary Hosmer ; died in East Haddam, Novem-
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ber 12, 1802. 3. Nathan, born in East Had- dam, Connecticut, April 20, 1719; married Abigail ----. 4. Hannah, born March 21, 1720; died June 16, 1777 ; married, 1743, Cap- tain William Church. 5. Jabez, born in East Haddam, February 19, 1722, died there, 1757- 58: married, October 10, 1754, Lois Hub- bard. of Middle Haddam, Connecticut. 6. Jonathan, born January 12, 1725, died in 1758; unmarried. 7. Elizabeth, born March, 1727; married, November 12, 1747, Samuel Church.
(V) Ebenezer, son of Thomas and Eliza- beth Fuller, was born in East Haddam, Con- necticut. October 27, 1715, died in Hebron, Connecticut, September 30, 1749. His will bears date September 13, 1749. He married, September 30, 1738, Mary, daughter of Moses and Martha ( Porter) Rowley, of Colchester, Connecticut, born there December 5, 1708, died in Hebron, February 5, 1798. Chil- dren: I. Ebenezer, born in Hebron, May 8, 1739: married, March 20, 1764, Abigail Hen- dee. 2. Dimmis, born October 1, 1742; mar- ried Solomon Huntington, of Hebron. 3. Mary, born August 25, 1743; married John Filer. 4. Ozias, born in Hebron, September 25, 1745, and might have been the one of that name who enlisted as a drummer, March 20, 1762, in the First Connecticut Regiment, Twelfth Company, Captain King. 5. Roger, born in Hebron, July 21, 1747, see forward. 6. Elizabeth, born April 5, 1750.
(VI) Roger, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Rowley) Fuller was born in Hebron, Con- necticut, July 21, 1747, died there, Septem- ber 21, 1819. He married (first), Decem- ber 21, 1766, Martha Phelps, who died Feb- ruary 13, 1785, by whom nine children ; mar- ried (second), November 17, 1785, Violette Taylor, of Coventry, Connecticut, who died January 14, 1806, by whom three children ; married (third), January II, 1807, Lois Tay- lor, who died August 23, 1809; married (fourth), June 21, 1810, Susannah Keeney, who died in 1852. Children, all born in He- bron, Connecticut : I. Martha, born June 7, 1768; married, April 20, 1784. Talcott Hors- ford. 2. Ozias, born January 12, 1770; mar- ried, in 1794, Desire Barber. 3. Mary, born November 1, 1771. 4. Roger, born Septem- ber 7. 1773, died in Barnstable, Massachu- setts, June 23, 1834; married, at Clarendon, Vermont, February 4, 1796, Rachel Free- man Hodges. 5. Frederick Augustus, born March 1, 1775. 6. Erastus, born January II, 1777; married, January 27, 1801, Sybil Barber, of Hebron. 7. Anna, born June 25, 1779; married. August, 1798, George O. Cook, of Windsor, Vermont. 8. John, born
June 30, 1781 ; see forward. 9. Luna, born January 23, 1785. 10. Humphrey T., born July 29, 1786. II. Amelia, born January 7, 1788. 12. Cynthia, born March 26, 1790.
(VII) John (2), son of Roger and Martha (Phelps) Fuller, was born in Hebron, Con- necticut, June 30, 1781. It is believed that he removed to near Rome, New York, where he probably died. He married, New Balti- more, New York, in 1813, Isabel Anderson, and resided there. Children : 1. John, died at age of twenty-four. 2. William, born in New Baltimore, New York, September 7, 1814: see forward.
(VIII) William, son of John (2) and Isa- bel (Anderson) Fuller, was born in New Bal- timore, Greene county, New York, Septem- ber 7, 1814, died on a train at Port Henry, New York, August 16, 1894, and was buried in New Baltimore, where he had resided with his large family all his life, the place known as the Fuller homestead, and its occupants the leading people of the locality. He mar- ried at New Baltimore, New York, October 20, 1840, Lydia Allen Swezey, born at Cox- sackie, New York, May 9. 1815, died at New Baltimore, New York, May 5, 1887, daugh- ter of Stephen and Gertrude (Wilson) Swezey. Gertrude Wilson was the daughter of Josiah Wilson, a captain in the revolu- tion, and Jane Dickinson ( Plum) Wilson. Jane Dickinson was the daughter of Jonathan and Joanna (Melyn) Dickinson. Jonathan Dickinson, who was the founder and the first president of Princeton College, was the son of Hezekiah Dickinson, who was the son of Nathaniel Dickinson (one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Connecticut) and Abigail Blakeman, daughter of Samuel Blakeman and granddaughter of Adam Blakeman, the first minister of Stratford, Connecticut, and a grad- uate of Oxford University. Joanna Melyn was the daughter of Jacob Melyn, who owned Staten Island and a part of Manhattan Island and was a Patroon. Josiah Wilson was one of twenty-one children, and the descendants of this family were numerous and most dis- tinguished, including the Sargeants, Runyons, Belmonts, Greenes, Alexanders, Perrys and Bigelows. One of Josiah Wilson's sisters was the mother of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, famous in the battle of Lake Erie, and therefore Commodore Perry was Howard N. Fuller's third cousin. Another sister was the mother of the. Hon. John Bigelow. William and Lydia Allen (Swezey) Fuller had the following children, all born at New Balti- more, New York : 1. Emma Louise, born No- vember 7, 1841 ; unmarried. 2. De Witt Al- lison, born February 17, 1844; married, Jan-
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uary 13, 1868, Mary Christine Hotaling; died in Albany, New York, September 19, 1894. 3. Franklin Carey, born December 28, 1845, died in New Baltimore, New York, August 15, 1846. 4. William Dickinson, born June 24, 1847; married, February 11, 1885, Jennie Springsted, living in New Baltimore in 1910. 5. Gertrude Amelia, born August 14, 1849, died in New Baltimore, New York, January 21, 1852. 6. Perry James, born September 4. 1851 ; married, September 10, 1879, Lydia A. Stewart, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, residing at 105 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, New York, in 1910. 7. Howard Newton, born October 29. 1853, see forward. 8. Jennie Antoinette, born March 6, 1856; married, January 7, 1885, Wessel Ten Broeck Van Orden, of New Baltimore, New York.
(IX) Howard Newton, son of William and Lydia Allen (Swezey) Fuller, was born in New Baltimore, Greene county, New York, October 29, 1853. He received his education first at Miss Griffith's private school in New Baltimore, then attended the Coeymans Acad- emy, after which he went to Rutgers College Grammar School, and then entered Rutgers College, graduating therefrom in 1874, and receiving the degree of A.M. in 1877. While at Rutgers he won the Philoclean Literary prize, as also the Senior prize for English composition. In his junior year he wrote "On the Banks of the Old Raritan," which is con- sidered the best of all American college songs, of which the New York Sun, of May 15, 1907, said: "For genuine go, martial swing, a real soul-stirrer, one that gingerizes the student anatomy from head to heel, there is no other college song equal to the Rutgers 'On the Banks of the Old Raritan." The following, by him, is called the finest homiletic poem in the English language, and was written by him while at college in response to the request of a college friend for a motto to go on a school- room wall :
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