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SAMUEL LIVINGSTON BREESE, (1794-1870), Rear Admi- ral U. S. N. Served in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. He was elder brother of Judge Sidney Breese. Their early lives were spent in Whitesboro and Utica, and the Admiral's body rests in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Pioneers, p. 262.
Commodore WILLIAM INMAN, (1797-1874) ; b. Utica. Nat. Cyc. Am. Commodore U. S. N. Saw constant service on the Great Biog. M. H., P. 37. Drake's Dict .. Am. Authors P. 473. Lakes during the War of 1812, and afterward on the African coast, where, in 1859-61, he re-captured and landed 3,600 slaves. In early youth he was a student of law at Whites- boro.
Rear Admiral MONTGOMERY HUNT SICARD, Annapolis, '56, was President of the Naval Board of Direction during the recent war between the United States and Spain, (1898). Residence, Westernville.
BENCH AND BAR.
20. Jones'sAnnals pp. 790-3. Bacon's Early Bar.
JONAS PLATT, (1769-1834). Was successively, from 1796- 1823, Member of Assembly, and of the State Senate, can- M. H., pp. 517- didate for Governor, and Judge of the Supreme Court of New York State; in 1791 appointed Clerk of Herkimer County and held this office until 1798, when the new county (Oneida), was constructed and he became its first Clerk.
Among those who made the earliest Bar of Oneida County remarkably brilliant were : THOMAS RUGGLES GOLD,
Jones's Annals (17 --- ); HENRY RANDOLPH STORRS, (1787-1837); SAM- pp. 795-6. UEL A. TALCOTT, (1789-1836) ; WILLIAM H. MAYNARD, Bacon's Early Bar. (about 1786-1832); GREENE C. BRONSON, (1789-1863), in
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1853 Collector of the Port of New York, but removed on account of refusal to dismiss officials for political reasons M. H., pp. 499- (M. H., p. 524). These five men all served in Congress, 507, 521-6. as well as on the Bench of the Supreme and Appellate Courts of the State.
To their number must be added the names of WILLIAM CURTIS NOYES, (1804-1864), who came to Oneida County as a young man, and the brothers, WILLIAM TRACY, (1805- 1881), and CHARLES TRACY, (1810-1885), who were natives of Whitesboro. These were all lawyers of high reputation whose early professional years were largely spent in Utica. Mr. Noyes bequeathed his fine law library to Hamilton College. Both William and Charles Tracy were zealous students of early local history, and pioneers in its intro- duction.
HIRAM DENIO, (1799-1871 ). Justice of the Court of Appeals, 1853-1866. His decisions are accepted as mod- M. H., pp. 532- els. In politics he was a Democrat. During the Civil + War he voted for Lincoln and steadily supported his admin- istration.
JOSHUA AUSTIN SPENCER, (1790-1857). United States District Attorney for the Northern District of New York, then including nearly the whole State, (1841-45); State Senator; resident of Utica for thirty years. Of him Judge Denio said : " No other man within my knowledge has ac- quitted himself for a lifetime with such universally distin-
M. H., pp. 536- guished ability." The case which secured him widest 47 Bacon's Early
fame was "The People vs. Alexander McLeod, " (1841). Bar. (See III.). His second wife was the daughter of Judge James Dean.
SAMUEL BEARDSLEY, (1790-1860). State Senator; United States District Attorney for the Northern District of New M. H., p. 516. York ; Member of Congress during four terms ; Attorney-
M. H., pp. 534- 5, 551-3.
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Bacon's Early
General of New York, and the last Chief Justice of the old Supreme Court of the State, (1847).
Bar. ·
M. H., pp. 555-6.
PHILO GRIDLEY (1796-1864). b. Paris. Hamilton,'16. Judge of the Supreme Court of New York ; Justice of the Court of Appeals, (1852). As Circuit Judge of the Fifth Judicial District he presided at the trial of Alexander Mc- Leod, (1841). (See III.).
M. H., pp., 553-5.
JOHN SAVAGE, (1799-1863). Union, 1799. Dist. Att'y for Northern N. Y. Member of Assembly from Washing- ton Co. ; Member of Congress for two terms ; Comptroller of the State ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of N. Y., 1823-36. Resident of Utica continuously from 1851.
Ibid .. pp. 527- 32.
WILLIAM JOHNSON BACON, (1803-1889). Hamilton, '22. Member of Assembly ; Judge of the Supreme Court of the State 16 years ; Member of Congress. As a citizen, ident- ified with most of the public enterprises and charitable in- stitutions of Utica.
Ibid , p. 566.
CHARLES MASON, (1810-1879). Judge of the Supreme Court of the State for 22 years ; Judge of the Court of Appeals, (by appointment of Gov. Fenton, to fill vacancy), 1868-71. Resident of Utica from 1870.
Ibid .. pp. 547, 548.
WARD HUNT, (1810-1886). Union, '28. Judge of the Court of Appeals, 1866-73 ; Justice of the Supreme Court of U. S. 1873-83.
M. H., Pt. II., PP. 3-7.
HORATIO SEYMOUR, "the Sage of Deerfield", (1810- 1886). Identified with a great variety of philanthropic, civic and rural interests ; Member of Assembly ; twice Governor of N. Y., (1853, 1863); Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1868, defeated by General Grant.
Daily Papers.
A bronze memorial bust of Gov. Seymour, presented by Dr. George L. Miller, of Omaha, Neb., was unveiled on the grounds of the Oneida Historical Society, Sept. 22, 1 899.
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ALEXANDER SMITH JOHNSON, (1817-1878). b. Utica; Yale, '35. Justice of the Court of Appeals, 1851-60, and M. H., pp. 556, again to fill vacancy, 1874. U. S. Circuit Judge from 557. 1875. Regent of the University from 1864. Resident of Utica from 1860.
MONTGOMERY HUNT THROOP, (1827-1892). Resident of Utica 1851-64. " The Future: a Political Essay ; Adams' Dict. Validity of Verbal Agreements; Annotated Code of Am. Authors. Civil Procedure; The N. Y. Justices' Manual; Digest Contemp. Biog of Mass. Supreme Jud'l Court Decisions; Revised Stat- utes of the State of New York."
FRANCIS KERNAN, (1816-1892). Member of Assembly ; Member of Congress ; U. S. Senator, 1875-81 ; nominated M. H .. Pt. II., for Governor 1872 ; defeated by General John A. Dix. A P 36. Democrat in politics. During the Civil War he strongly supported the Government. Regent of the University from 1870.
ROSCOE CONKLING, (1829-1888). Member of Congress, 1859-67 ; U. S. Senator, 1867-81. His ambitions were forensic and political rather than legal ; he declined the M. H., P. 547, Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court of the United 548. States tendered by President Grant, and the Associate Jus- ticeship, by President Arthur. From 1881, a prominent lawyer of New York City.
HENRY ALIEN FOSTER, (1800-1889). State Senator representing six counties, 1830-4 ; 1840-4 ; President of Contemp. Biox the Senate, also of the Court for the Correction of Errors. p. 250. N. Y., Vol. I., U. S. Senator for a few months, (1845), appointed to fill Wager's Mem. of Early Rome. vacancy ; Judge of the Supreme Court of the State, 1863- 71. Lived a few years at Utica, but chiefly at Rome.
THEODORE W. DWIGHT, (1822-92). Hamilton, '40. Prof. Law and Pol. Econ. at Ham. Coll., 1846-58; Warden Columbia Col. Law Sch., 1858-91 ; Member State Const'l
Ham. Coll. Cat., 1892-3. Convention, 1867 ; Judge N. Y. State Commission of Ap-
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peals ; State Commissioner Charities ; Prison Labor Com- missioner.
Johnson's Cyc. Pioneers, p.
203
SIDNEY BREESE, (1800-1878), b. Whitesboro ; Union, '18 ; lived at Utica in his youth ; attained distinction in an- other State ; U. S. Senator from Illinois, 1843-9 ; Speaker of Ill. Legislature ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of that State.
CHARLES ANDREWS, b. New Hartford, 1827. Judge N. Who's Who in Y. Court of Appeals, 1870-97. Chief Justice from 1881 ; America. residence, Syracuse.
Judges GAYNOR and TRUAX, EDMUND WETMORE and JOHN D. KERNAN, are prominent members of the New York City Bench and Bar. Mr. Kernan served with credit as Railway Commissioner. All are natives of Oneida County.
ARCHÆOLOGISTS AND PHILOLOGISTS.
HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT, (1793-1864). Chemist, philologist and traveller ; was in his youth a resident of Utica. For a time the family home was at Verona. Spent many years among the Indians of the North West Territory, and discovered the source of the Mississippi River, in Lake Itasca. In 1823 he married Miss Johnston, the grand-daughter of a noted Ojibway chief, an accomplished woman who had received her education in Europe.
Mr. Schoolcraft's ethnological writings, says R. G. Gris- wold, "are among the most important contributions that have been made to the literature of this country." Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge ; Notes on the Iroquois ; Algic Researches ; Thirty Years with the Indians ; The Myth of Hiawatha.
EDWARD ROBINSON, (1794-1863), Hamilton, '16, Phil- ologist and Archæologist ; Tutor of Greek and Mathemat- ics, Ham. Coll., 1817-18 ; 1. Eliza, daughter Dr. Samuel Kirkland, and sister Pres. Kirkland of Harvard ; Instructor
Duyckinck's Dict. of Auth ors.
Griswold's Prose Writers. New Am. Cyc. and Cyc. Am. Biog.
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Andover Theol. Sem., 1821 ; studied at Halle and Berlin 1826-30 ; m. the distinguished author, Therese von Jacob, (" Talvi,") 1828 ; Prof. Bib. Lit. Union Theol. Sem. from 1837 ; Member Geog'l, Oriental and Ethnol. Socs .; his Allibone, library of 1200 books and maps was purchased for Ham. Duyckinck Coll. in 1863 ; his great work, Biblical Rescarches in Dicts, of Au- and Drake, Palestine, Mt. Sinai and Arabia Petraea, received the thors. gold medal of the Royal Geog'l Soc. of London as the most learned production of the century, and still possesses great interest ; published also an edition of Six Books of the Iliad ; a Harmony of the Gospels in Greek ; a Greek and English Lexicon ; Greek and Chaldee Grammars of the Old and New Testaments.
SAMUEL WELLS WILLIAMS, (1812-1884) ; b. Utica. Went to China as missionary printer, 1833 ; when the U. S. Gov't. sent an expedition to negotiate for the opening of Japan to free commercial intercourse, 1852, the Com-, mander, Commodore Perry, secured his services as inter- T. W. Seward preter ; was the first U. S. Sec. of Legation in Japan, S. 1885-6, (1854), and the first at the Capital of China, (1862) ; re- turning to the U. S. finally in 1875, was appointed Lecturer on Chinese at Yale Coll. Easy Lessons in Chinese ; Tonic Dict. of the Chinese Language, (the great work of his life) ; The Middle Kingdom.
MEN OF SCIENCE.
ASA GRAY, (1810-1888), b. Paris. Taught the natural sciences in Utica Gymnasium, 1832-4 ; for 30 years Prof. of Botany at Harvard University, to which he presented his herbarium of 200,000 specimens, and a library of over 2,200 Botanical Works ; Pres. A. A. A. S., '72 ; Pres. Am. Chambers' Acad. Arts and Sciences, 1863-73. His researches and publications embraced the flora of North America, which he, with Dr. John Torrey, first arranged upon the basis of
Thomas' Biog. Dict.
in Trans. O. H.
Encyc., Ed. 1890.
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affinity ; he had " equal ability in communicating ele- mentary knowledge, and in elucidating recondite theories." Flora of N. A .; Structural and Systematic Botany ; Man- ual of Botany ; Field, Forest and Garden Botany ; also A Free Examination of Darwin's Treatise ; Natural Science and Religion ; and Gov't Repts. and separate monographs under 200 titles.
Chambers' Encyc., Ed. 1890.
JAMES DWIGHT DANA, (1813-1895), b. Utica ; Yale, '33. Ed. Am. Jour. of Science ; Pres. A. A. A. S., '54 ; Hon- onary Ph. D., Munich, '72 ; his service at Yale College covered more than 40 years ; his books are standard treatises on Zoophytes, Corals and Crustacea. Manual of Geology ; System of Mineralogy ; Rep'ts of Wilkes' Ex- ploring Expedition ; Manual of Mineralogy ; and text books frequently revised and enlarged.
M. H., p, 262.
SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE, (1791-1872). Yale, '10. Made frequent and prolonged visits in Utica while pursuing his early profession of artist ; as Director of the Telegraph Company that was formed here to put in practice his newly invented magnetic telegraph, (see V.), he is mentioned in the directories of 1848-9 and 1849-50 ; he had many rela- tives here, and his second wife was a Utican.
We may mention, in passing, that the first telegraph instruments ever made were manufactured in Utica by SAMUEL W. CHUBBUCK, (1799-1875).
AMARIAH BRIGHAM, M. D., (1798-1849). Came to Utica from Massachusetts in 1842 to become the first Su- Blumer's Half Cent. Med .- Psychol. Lit, Appleton's perintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum ; founded in 1844 at his private expense, the Journal of Insanity, the first journal in the English language devoted to mental Cyc.Am. Biog. medicine ; it soon became the organ of the alienists of the whole country, reported the papers of the American Medico- Psychological Association, and gave purpose and consist-
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ency to the scientific spirit of investigation, at that time almost elementary. Mental Cultivation and Excitement ; Influence of Mental Cultivation on the Health ; Influence of Religion on the Health and Physical Welfare of Man- kind ; and Asylum Souvenir, a small volume of maxims for the use of those who had been under his care, (Utica, '49).
Dr. JOHN PURDUE GRAY, (1825-1886). Dickinson Coll. ; Utica, 1850, as Third Ass't physician at the State Hospital Ibid. under Dr. Brigham ; started "The Opal", a monthly de- signed to be edited and printed by the patients, which con- Biog. tinued for nine or ten years; in 1854 became Superintendent; 1 was one of the earliest advocates of minute pathological study of insanity, and was influential in securing the re- moval of insane paupers from almshouses to State Asylums. Editor Journal of Insanity.
Nat. Cyc. Am.
Contemp. Biog. of N. Y.
CHRISTIAN HENRY FREDERICK PETERS, (1813-1890). Univ. Berlin, '36. Engaged on geodetic survey of Mount Etna, 1838-43 ; artillery officer under Garibaldi, 1849- 50 ; came to America, 1852 ; Director of Ham. Coll. Ob- servatory, 1858 ; Litchfield Prof. Astronomy, 1867 ; under Ham. Lit. the Regents of the Univ., he determined the exact longi Mon., Nov. 1890. tude of various cities of N. Y., and the western boundary Allison's Hist. of the State ; discovered forty-seven asteroids ; published Sketch Ham. Coll., p. 68. two celestial charts in 1882. The King of Sweden con- Lippincott's ferred upon him a gold medal for his discoveries connected Biog. Dict. with the Sun ; the French Government, in similar recog- nition, bestowed the Cross of the Legion of Honor, (1887). He was buried in the College Cemetery, July 21, 1890.
JOSEPH ALBERT LINTNER, (1822-98). Manufacturer at Utica, 1860-7 ; Ass't Zoologist in the N. Y. State Museum Contemp.Biog at Albany, 1868 ; served twelve years ; devoted himself to of New York Vol. IV., p,
research into the relations of entomology to Agriculture 169. and Horticulture ; appointed State Entomologist, 1880 ;
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his publications are embodied in many Annual Re- ports.
G. H. Wil- liams Mem'l. Adams's Dict. Am. Authors.
GEORGE HUNTINGTON WILLIAMS, (1856-94). b. Utica. Amherst, '78 ; Heidelberg Univ, '82; Prof. Inorganic Geology at Johns Hopkins, 1892 ; contributed 68 articles, (1884-90), to German Am. Rev. of Mineralogy, Geol. and Paleon., and several monographs in the J. H. series ; Mod- ern Petrography ; and Elements of Crystallography; member of many scientific societies.
Mr. W. C. Walker.
Among early microscopists, WILLIAM C .. JOHNSON and Dr. A. R. COPEMAN, both then residents of Utica, did original and valuable work (1860-70), the results of which were noted in the London and Edinburgh Microscopical Journals ; Mr. Johnson's mounts and drawings of the Greville-Barbadoes deposits aroused great scientific in- terest.
J. V. Haberer in Trans. O. H. S , 1887-9, pp. 188-9. Cat. Ham. Coll.
HENRY P. STARTWELL, M. D., (about 1791-1867), who lived at New Hartford in his youth, and later distinguished himself as a botanist, left an herbarium of 8, 000 specimens, now owned by Hamilton College.
PETER D. KNIESKERN, M. D., (1798-1871), while living in Trans. O. at Oriskany, compiled a catalogue of the plants of Oneida J. V. Haberer County, published 1842.
H. S., 1887-9. pp. 187, 19I.
GEORGE VASEY, M. D., (1822- ? ). Spent portions of Ibid. his life at Oriskany and Verona, and was intimately asso- J. V. Haberer. ciated with Dr. Knieskern; Botanist of the Dept. of Agri- culture, Washington, from 1872.
J. V. Haberer in Trans. O. H. S., 1887.9, pp. 189-91.
EDWIN HUNT, (1837-1880). Amherst, '58. Professor of Natural Sciences in the Utica Academy for many years from 1865; collected an herbarium of about 4,000 plants, which was bought by the Asa Gray Botanical Club, 1887.
Ibid., p. 191.
Rev. JOHN A. PAINE, JR., compiled a catalogue of plants found in Oneida County and vicinity which was published in the Report of the Regents of the University
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for 1865. It embraces the whole of the central part of the State.
In the living generation a dozen men having present or past connection with Oneida County are doing recognized field-work near or far, or devoting a scanty leisure to study and experiment.
WILLIAM C. WALKER, b. 1847. Since early boyhood a resident of Utica ; microscopist ; specialty, Diatoms ; dis- coverer of nearly twenty species ; member of the London Micros. Soc., (F. R. M. S)., honorary and corresponding member of many Continental Scientific Soc's. Catalogue of Diatoms of Central N. Y., and papers for Microscopical Journals.
GEORGE C. HODGES has done original work in Chemical Analysis ; Dr. WILLIAM RALPH is quoted by Bendire in Life Histories of N. A. Birds, as authority in ornitho- logy and oology ; his gift to the Smithsonian Institution of a collection of Eggs and Nests, the work of over twenty years, is important and valuable. In collaboration with EGBERT BAGG he has published an Annotated List of Birds of Oneida County.
In Butterflies, Dr. MATHIAS COOK is an expert ; on Ferns, both native and foreign, BENJAMIN D. GILBERT, of Utica and Clayville, is an authority ; and Dr. JOSEPH V. HA- BERER, of Utica, is a specialist in Cryptogams, and author of a pamphlet on Flora of Utica and Vicinity for May and June.
Rev. J. W. WHITFIELD, known in local circles for his interest in microscopy, photography, and electricity, is also a skilled maker of lenses and of shell cameos.
ROBERT PARR WHITFIELD, (b. New Hartford, 1828). In employ of Samuel Chubbuck, (see above), 1848-56 ; Ass't Who's Who in in Palæon., and N. Y. State Nat. Hist., 1856-76; U. S. America. Geol. Survey ; Curator Geol. Dept. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.,
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Central Park, N. Y., since 1877; original Fellow A. A. A. S .; Fellow Geol. Soc. of America ; Writer on Geology.
Rev. EDWARD PAYSON POWELL, (b. 1833), Hamilton, '53. A scientific agriculturist, and writer and lecturer Adams's Dict. upon economic and educational subjects ; long resident in Am. Authors. Clinton ; Our Heredity from God ; Liberty and Life ; historical and political pamphlets and addresses ; Nulli- fication and Secession in the U. S.
Ibid. Appleton's Cyc.Am. Biog.
ALBERT HUNTINGTON CHESTER, (b. 1843). Columbia School of Mines, '68 ; Prof. Chemistry, Mineralogy and Metallurgy, Ham. Coll., 1870-91 ; Prof. Chem. and Mineral., Rutgers Coll. since 1892; since '82 connected with the N. Y. State Board of Health. Deposits of the Vermilion District, Minn .; Catalogue of Minerals, with Chemical Composition and Synonyms.
Ibid. Appleton's Cyc. Am. Authors.
CHARLES DOOLITTLE WALCOTT, (b. New York Mills, 1850). Assistant Geologist U. S. Geol. Survey, '79 ; now Director U. S. Geol. Survey, a bureau of the Department of the Interior. The Trilobite ; Paleontology of the Eureka District ; Cambrian Fauna of North America; Utica Slate and Related Formations.
Who's Who in America.
ALBERT P. BRIGHAM, (b. 1855), Colgate, '79. Geolo- gist of the Mohawk and Sauquoit Valleys and Finger Lakes ; Pastor Tabernacle Church, Utica, 1885-91. Now Prof. Geol., Colgate Univer. ; Fellow Geol. Soc. of America. Many articles in scientific periodicals on the geology and physical geography of N. Y., especially in connection with the glacial period.
MEN OF LETTERS.
ALEXANDER BRYAN JOHNSON, (1786-1867). Hamilton, Pioneers, pp. 321-31. Drake's Dict, Am. Biog.
'32. Admitted to the Bar, never practised. Philosophy of Human Knowledge, a treatise on Language ; Physiol-
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ogy of the Senses ; Religion in its Relations to the Present Life ; Treatise on Banking : Guide to the Right Under- standing of our American Union.
The following, while known as authors, were especially noted as Abolitionists :
GERRIT SMITH, (1797-1874), b. Utica; son of the Pioneer, Peter Smith ; Hamilton, '18. About 1803 his father removed to Whitesboro and in 1806 to Peterboro, Madison Co., giving the new home his own name.
Probably no more disinterested philanthropist than Ger- rit Smith ever lived. Refined, intellectual and fastidious, he received into the intimacy of family life and welcomed to his table, despised Abolitionist and runaway black Drake's Dict. Am. Biog. Frothing- ham's Biog. slave. He exposed his health in hiding slaves from their pursuers, and braved the sneers of his class for consorting Gerrit Smith. with " fanatics." Of lands inherited from his father he distributed 200,000 acres to poor settlers, black and white. He served a term in Congress in 1852. The Religion of Reason ; The Theologies ; Nature the Basis of a Free Theology ; Sermons and Speeches ; Speeches in Con- gress.
BERIAH GREEN, (1795-1874) ; Middlebury, '19. Prof. Sacred Lit., Western Res. Coll .; Anti-Slavery and Tem- Hough's Am. perance Agitator ; Pres. Oneida Inst., a Manual Labor Biog. Notes, p. School ; Pastor at Whitesboro, 1833-74. A History of 175. the Quakers ; Sermons and Discourses, with a few Essays and Addresses.
THEODORE DWIGHT WELD, (1803-18-) ; studied at Hamilton ; also at Oberlin and Lane Sem .; left the latter institution on the suppression of the Anti-Slavery Soc. of the Sem., by the Trustees. A resident of Oneida Co. for a few years before 1830 ; licentiate of Oneida Presbytery ; a strong anti-slavery agitator ; m. the South Carolinian
Adams's Dict. Am. Biog.
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Angelina Grimké, also an ardent anti-slavery public speaker, who had emancipated a large number of slaves inherited from her father ; in 1830 became agent of the Soc. to promote Manual Labor in Schools and Colleges. The Bible against Slavery ; American Slavery as it is; Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade.
Several of our Clergymen are known also as authors.
GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE, (1805-1862), Columbia G. W. Bethune and Dickinson, '22; Princeton Theol. Sem .; Pastor Dutch Mem'l. Adams's Dict. Am. Authors. Ref. Ch., Utica, 1830-34. The Fruit of the Spirit ; Hist. of a Penitent ; Early Lost, Early Saved ; Memoirs of Mrs. Joanna Bethune ; Lays of Love and Faith.
M. H., p. 415. Appleton's Cyc.Am. Biog. Trien. Cat. Ham. Coll.
HENRY MANDEVILLE, (1804-1858), Union, '26 ; Pastor Dutch Ref. Ch., Utica, 1834-41 ; Prof. Moral Phil. and Rhet., Ham. Coll., 1841-9 ; author of a series of Readers and of Elements of Reading and Oratory, which is still used as a text book in colleges.
Nat. Cyc. Am. Biog. S. W. Fisher Mem'1.
SAMUEL WARE FISHER, (1814-1874), Yale, '35 ; Union Theol. Sem .; Pres. Ham. Coll., 1858-66 ; Pastor West- minster Ch., Utica, 1867-71. Three Great Temptations ; Sermons on the Life of Christ ; Occasional Sermons and Addresses.
Gen. Cat. Auburn Theol. Sem., 1883, p. 275.
PHILEMON HALSTEAD FOWLER, (1814-1879) ; Hobart, 32 ; Princeton Theol. Sem .; Pastor First Pres. Ch., Utica, 1851-65 ; Presbyterianism in Central N. Y .; Rela- tions of Labor and Capital ; Memoir of Major William Fowler.
Duyckinck's Cyc. Am. Lit. (Supp't) Art. " Ham. Coll.," P. 100. S. G. Brown, Mem'1.
SAMUEL GILMAN BROWN, (1813-1885) ; Dartmouth, '31 ; Andover Theol. Sem .; Prof. Oratory and Belles Letters, Intel. Phil. and Polit. Econ., Dart. Coll., 1840-67 ; Pres. Ham. Coll. 1867-81. Life of Rufus Choate ; Biography of Self-Taught Men, and many addresses and magazine articles on Literature, Art and History. Resident of Utica for a few years before his death.
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WILLIAM THOMAS GIBSON, (1822-1896) ; Hobart, '42. A man of varied learning ; Ass't Rector of Grace Ch., Utica, 1858-62, and, except for brief intervals, of St. George's, 1863-83 ; also of other churches in the county . May, 1895. Chaplain State Hospital ; Ed. Gospel Messenger, 1860-72 ; Ed. and Prop'r Church Eclectic, 1873-95.
Rev. M. Dix
in Ch. Eclectic
ISAAC S. HARTLEY, (1831-1899) ; Univ. of N. Y., '52 ; Pastor Dutch Ref. Ch., Utica, 1870-1890 ; of the Epis. Ch., Great Barrington, Mass., 1892. Prayer and its Relation to N. Y. Times, Modern Thought and Criticism ; Hist. of the Reformed July 4, 1899. Church ; Memorial of Rev. P. H. Fowler ; Old Fort Schuyler in History ; The Twelve Gates ; Verses from Various Authors.
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