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On the 6th of October a Special Convention of the Diocese for the election of a Bishop was held in Trinity Church, Buffalo. It was preceded by a service at S. Paul's in memory of Bishop Coxe, with a Sermon by the Bishop of Albany. Nearly all the clergy of the Dio- cese attended, and most of the Ministers of other religious bodies in the city. Bishop Doane's text was " I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ ; that in everything ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge." I wish I could give all or most of the Sermon here ; but it was not only printed and widely circulated in the Diocese, but was read in many churches soon after as a just and discriminating as well as loving and beautiful tribute to the great Bishop. "Richness, utter- ance, knowledge," he truly says, were the " three salient features of the dead Bishop's character." Each of these features he depicts at large in words which I would gladly repeat ; but I quote only one almost final remark as illustrating what I have said above of the Bish- op's manifoldness of character.
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* This meeting was not a public one.
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" The very many-sidedness of the man, some sides, seen by them- selves, of course less beautiful than others, makes very difficult his characterization. The philosophy of his life, I think, might well be described as holding in solution almost antagonistic elements, which sometimes came apart. For instance, while he was himself more than precise and punctilious in the details of Divine service, certain phases, perhaps I may say fads, of what is called ritualism, irritated him extremely. While he was absolutely inclusive, in his tolerant spirit, of all sorts and shades of religious thinking and opinion, there was at times in him an outbreak of absolute intolerance, towards those who differed from his strong convictions. And while there was in him a real broadness of thought, of inclusion, of sympathy,-much broader, in my judgment, than a certain phase of thought which is so labelled,-he was essentially and intensely an ecclesiastic ; and, not content only, but constrained, to hold fast by all the limitations of so- called liberty, and all the definitions of positive truth, which the Church lays down. I believe that the near view of those who knew most intimately his daily life, and the far view which men will have of him in the years to come, justify the portrait which I have, however poorly, painted, and the positions which, with careful guardedness of language, I have assigned to him in the American Church.
Today I join with the Church in this city and Diocese to thank our God on this and every remembrance of him with joy ; for his rule over you as Bishop and Shepherd of your souls ; for his pre-eminence of place and power among us his brothers in the Episcopate ; for the beauty of his soul ; for the tenderness of his heart ; for the nobleness of his mind ; for the dignity of his character ; for the courtesy of his person ; for the grace of his manners ; for the charm of his conversa- tion ; for the courage of his convictions ; for the thoroughness of his learning ; for the loyalty of his Churchmanship; for the depth and devoutness of his piety ; for the holiness and masterfulness of his faith ; ' for the praise of him in all the churches '; for the consecrated service of his life ; 'for the happy opportunity of his death'; for his entrance into Paradise and his intercession for us there ; for his ' reasonable and religious hope ' of a 'good answer at the dreadful and fearful Judgment seat of Jesus Christ.'"
Noble words. But I would not have quoted them, did I not believe in my heart, and know that so many others believe, that they are every one words of truth and soberness. It seems like gilding refined gold to add anything of my own to them ; but I must give one word of testimony, one which so many others could give from personal experience, to two qualities which were pre-eminent in Bishop Coxe, I think both by nature and by grace,-absolute sincerity and absolute unselfishness. I doubt if either quality was fairly appreciated, if it
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was even recognized, by those who met him only in official or busi- ness matters, unless indeed they had something of his nature or his ideals of life in themselves. I know that many thought him insincere because he was so apt to act and to promise on impulses, most often noble and generous ones, which proved in the end, to his own disap- pointment as well as theirs, impracticable to carry into full effect. There were others who thought-I cannot imagine why-that he was more or less influenced by wealth or worldly station or success ; if any man on earth habitually despised such considerations, I should say it was Bishop Coxe. With those characteristics was united a tenderness (I can find no other word) to those brought into any close relation with him even by his kindly sympathy, much more by ties of kindred and family, such as very few earthly lives exhibit. Those knew it who only saw him in his home, whether with his accomplished and devoted wife, whose very life was given day by day to guarding his life from sickness and sorrow, or in the happy days when he was gathering his children and his twelve grandchildren in the See House for the Christmas holidays, with a heart as full of joyful anticipation as were theirs. Those knew it who came to him with any grief or trouble in which it was possible for him to give comfort or help, whether it was of mind, body or estate. I fear he was too often him- self the sufferer for the benefit of others ; but even for this I doubt not he had his reward in the very consciousness of entering heart and hand into their trials. But I must not go on ; it seems like intruding into a royal palace to say even thus much of things which belonged at least in part to his innermost life. How many of us in Western New York can thank God daily that our lives were permitted to touch even the outer surface of that life !*
* Perhaps none will feel more deeply the truth of what I have said here of the Bishop's sincerity and unselfishness, as well as his gracious and tender courtesy and kindness, than the Clergy and their families who were happy in having him for their guest on his visitations. I must tell of one summer Sunday afternoon in my study which shows amusingly that impulsive sincerity which took no thought of consistency. Taking down book after book, he came at last on a family his- tory. "I never could see," he said, " why a man should trouble himself about such a dry subject as genealogy. It is all well enough to know who your father and grandfather were, but this looking up all your relations I cannot see is any good." In reply I only called his attention to some facts about the Clevelands and Hydes, with the result that he pursued the subject through one book after
GRACE CHURCH, DUNDEE Consecrated 1903
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I have said that with Bishop De Lancey's death, the Diocese " lost that perfect confidence and unity of purpose between Bishop and Priest and Layman " which under him had given it the name of " The Model Diocese." Why? Not entirely, though partly, from the difference in the power of administration and leadership. For the same thing may be said, I fear, of nearly every diocese in the land,- of some much more than of Western New York. It is the gradual but steady failure in that spirit of loyalty to law, which was in Bishop De Lancey's day a distinguishing characteristic of our Church as com- What has become of it? For pared with other religious bodies.
certainly it is little in evidence now. Each Bishop in his Diocese, each Priest in his parish, seems to be largely a law to himself, in doctrine, in discipline, in ritual ; and this seems to be true, more or less, of all schools, whether they call themselves Catholic or Evan- gelical, High or Low or Broad. I speak of this obvious fact only as it affected the work and success of Bishop Coxe's Episcopate as a whole ; and to show that in this respect it cannot be judged by the standard of earlier, and in that respect, as it seems to an old man, better days.
And on the other hand I have said, and truly, that the Diocese under him " advanced by paths and to heights where Bishop De Lan- cey, the man of a past time, could never have led it." I trust that this is apparent in the story of his Episcopate ; but in some respects I have certainly failed to do justice to his leadership in diocesan work,-for instance in the " Layman's League " of Buffalo, which I fear I have not even mentioned, but which has done for a number of years past a great and most useful work in missions to the neighbour- ing towns and villages, to alms-houses and penitentiaries, and in many other ways .* In this association of the best business and pro- fessional men of Buffalo the Bishop took great interest, often meeting them for conference and instruction. So also to the diocesan branch of the Woman's Auxiliary, another invaluable work unknown to
another with increasing interest ; finally, as he laid down the last book. he said to my astonishment, " Well,a man must be less than a man who wouldn't interest himself in such a study as this !"
* The Reports of the President and Superintendent (Drs. Matthew D. Mann and Henry R. Hopkins) are given in the Journal of W. N. Y. from 1892 on, as are for several years those of the Woman's Auxiliary.
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Bishop De Lancey's day, but now recognized all over the country, Bishop Coxe gave deep interest and much time and labour.
I add only as matter of record that at the Second Special Council of the Diocese, in Trinity Church, Buffalo, under the presidency of the Rev. James Rankine, D.D., LL.D., on Wednesday, October 7, 1896, the Right Rev. WILLIAM DAVID WALKER, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Mis- sionary Bishop of North Dakota, was chosen as Bishop of Western New York in succession to Bishop Coxe. Bishop Walker was en- throned in S. Paul's Church, Buffalo, Dec. 23, 1896; but his first official duty in the Diocese was at S. Peter's Church, Geneva, at the Burial of Dr. Rankine, who entered into rest Dec. 16, 1896. The Bishop had however become known to many of the Clergy and Laity through services often and freely given in aid of Bishop Coxe during the later years of his Episcopate.
And here my long story ends, with a deep consciousness of the many things it has left untold, and the most imperfect way it has told other things. "History " I have tried to tell fairly ; my " Recollec- tions " are after all of things seen from my own point of view, quite different no doubt from that in which they may appear to many others.
" If I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired ; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto."
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WILLIAM DAVID WALKER Third Bishop of Western New York
NOTE
THE ANCESTRY AND EARLY LIFE OF BISHOP COXE
(The following note has been kindly given me by the Bishop's son-in-law, Pro- fessor Francis Philip Nash, of Hobart College.)
" Bishop Coxe was of English descent both on the father's and on the mother's side. On the mother's side he traced his origin through the Clevelands, whose progenitor, Moses Cleveland, emigrated to this country in 1635, and to the Hydes, whose ancestor William came in 1633, and was one of the founders of Hartford and of Norwich, Conn. The Bishop was thus connected with the Sewall, Salis- bury, Perkins, Higginson, and many other prominent families in New England. On the father's side his ancestors were the Coxes and Hansons of Maryland and Delaware.
" It is not without a certain interest to inquire where, in the ancestral line, ap- peared the first clerical vocations. The first clergyman on the Cleveland side appears to have been the Rev. Aaron, a graduate of Harvard, 1735, who married Susannah Porter, a granddaughter of Major Stephen Sewall. His character and career are fully set forth in Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit, V. 164 .* After serving two parishes in New England, he emigrated to Halifax, N. S., where a change in his theological views, which, for some time. had been leaning towards the Church of England, induced him to go to England to take Episcopal Orders. He died August 11, 1757, aet. 42, a clergyman of the English Church, t at the house of his friend Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.
" On the Coxe and Hanson side, the former a family of merchants, and the latter wealthy planters, there appears to have been no clergyman prior to the Rev. Samuel Hanson Coxe, the Bishop's father. He was a famous Presbyterian clergyman, a man of great learning, versatility and eloquence, and long the de- light of New York audiences. He founded the " Laight Street Church," over which he continued to preside until his pronounced abolitionist views, with which the people of New York had little sympathy, led to his acceptance of the presidency of the Auburn Theological Seminary, and his removal to that place.
" Bishop Coxe was born May 10, 1818, at Mendham, New Jersey, where his father held his first pastorate. His early days, however, excepting the time dur- ing which he was at school in Pittsfield, Mass., were spent in New York city, where his father in 1823 had bought from the Corporation of Trinity Church a piece of property, part of the Richmond Hill estate, which he occupied until his removal to Auburn. After this young Coxe lived with his uncle, Dr. Abraham Liddon Coxe, an eminent physician of New York, and it was there that from his early childhood he learned to love the Church of which he was destined to become so bright an ornament .¿ There are constant references in his diary to his attendance at the services at S. Paul's and S. John's Chapels, and S. Thomas's Church, which, plain as it was, he, with most people of that day, regarded as a model of Gothic architecture."
To the above it is to be added that, graduating in 1838 at the University of the City of New York, and in 1841 at the General Theological Seminary, he was
* By Professor Charles D. Cleveland. And much more fully by Dr. Benjamin Rand of Cambridge, Mass., in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Register, XLII. 73.
t And Missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, at Newcastle, Del.
# He says in a letter to Prof. Austin Phelps in 1885, " From tender years I was in heart an adherent of the Fold to which I belong."
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ordained Deacon by Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk, in S. Paul's Chapel, New York, June 27, 1841, and Priest, by Bishop Brownell, in S. John's, Hartford, Conn., Sept. 25, 1842. He was Rector of S. Ann's, Morrisania, N. Y., 1841-2 ; S. John's, Hartford, 1842-54 ; Grace, Baltimore, 1854-63; and Calvary, New York, 1863-5. In 1856 he declined the Bishopric of Texas. He received the degree of S. T. D. in 1856 from S. James's College, Hagerstown, Md., in 1868 from Trinity College, Hartford, and in 1888 from the University of Durham, England ; LL.D. in 1868 from Kenyon College, Gambier. He was a member of the Historical Societies of Buffalo and New York, of the New York Acad- emy of Design, and of the Alpha Delta Phi. A list of his numerous works, for which I regret I have not space here, occupies several pages of the Journal of the Second Special Council of Western New York, 1896, where it is taken mostly from Dr. Batterson's American Episcopale.
Bishop Coxe married Sept. 21, 1841, Katharine Cleveland Hyde, of the same New England families of Hyde and Cleveland from which he was descended. She died at Barnstable, Mass., Feb. 16, 1898, and her remains rest with his near the altar of Trinity Church, Geneva .*
* This note is mostly from the notice in Journ. W. N. Y., Special Council of 1896, p. 8.
EARLY CLERGY
OF WESTERN NEW YORK, A. D. 1787 TO 1838
BISHOPS.
SAMUEL PROVOOST, D.D., consecrated 1787 ; died 1815. BENJAMIN MOORE, D. D., consecrated 1801 ; died 1816. JOHN HENRY HOBART, D. D., consecrated 1811 ; died 1830. BENJAMIN TREDWELL ONDERDONK, D.D., consecrated 1830; resigned W. N. Y., 1839.
PRIESTS AND DEACONS.
1797
Robert Griffith Wetmore. 1798 Philander Chase (D.D.), (Bishop of Ohio and Illinois.) 1800 Ammi Rogers. John Urquhart. 1801 Thomas Hughes. Davenport Phelps. 1802
Daniel Nash. IS04
Jonathan Judd.
Gamaliel Thatcher. 18c6
Amos Glover Baldwin. 1811 Wm. Atwater Clark (D.D.).
Orin Clark (D.D.). 1813 William B. Lacey (D.D.). 1814 Daniel M'Donald (D. D.). Alanson W. Welton.
1815
Ezekiel G. Gear. 1816 Henry Ustick Onderdonk (D.D.), (Bishop of Pennsylvania.) Joshua Moore Rogers. Samuel Johnston.
1817
William H. Northrop.
George Hadley Norton.
Nathaniel Huse. Asahel Davis.
1818
Leverett Bush (D.D.). Amos Pardee. Lucius Smith.
1820 Deodatus Babcock (D.D.).
William Barlow.
Francis H. Cuming (D.D.).
Henry Moore Shaw.
Marcus Aurelius Perry. 1821 Milton Wilcox. Henry Anthon (D.D.). Russel Wheeler.
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1822
Levi Silliman Ives(D.D., LL. D.), (Bishop of North Carolina.)
Palmer Dyer.
William S. Irving.
Thomas K. Peck.
Algernon Sidney Hollister.
Samuel Phinney.
James P. F. Clarke.
1823
Seth W. Beardsley. David Brown.
Rufus Murray. Caleb Hopkins.
1824
William Josephus Bulkley.
Richard Salmon.
Orsamus Holmes Smith.
Augustus L. Converse.
Burton Hammond Hickcox.
Samuel Sitgreaves, Jr.
1825
Addison Searle. Amos Cotton Treadway. William Warner Bostwick. John Seeley Stone (D.D.). Joseph B. Youngs.
1826
William Linn Keese. John M'Carty (D.D.).
John Churchill Rudd, D.D. Eleazar Williams.
William M. Weber (M.D.).
John Alonzo Clark (D.D.). Norman H. Adams.
1827
Edward Andrews (D.D.). Lewis Pintard Bayard ( D.D.). John W. Curtis. John D. Gilbert. George L. Hinton. Albert Hoyt. Jasper Adams (D.D.).
1828
Moses P. Bennett.
Sutherland Douglass.
Reuben Hubbard.
Richard Sharpe Mason (D.D.).
Ephraim Punderson.
John Sellon.
Ralph Williston.
1829
Hiram Adams.
John Wurts Cloud.
Solomon Davis.
William Shelton (D.D.).
Benjamin Dorr (D.D.).
Parker Adams.
Ravaud Kearney.
1830
David Huntington.
James Selkrig.
Henry John Whitehouse, (D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Illinois.)
John Murray Guion.
1831
Henry Gregory (D.D.).
George Bridgeman.
Nathaniel F. Bruce (M.D.).
James Dixon Carder.
Joseph Titus Clarke.
Chauncey Colton (D.D.).
Robert Brown Croes.
Louis Thibou, Jr.
1832
Liberty Alonzo Barrows.
Lucius Carter.
Seth Davis.
George Fiske.
Reuben HI. Freeman.
John Hughes.
Kendrick Metcalf (D.D.).
George S. Porter.
John W. Woodward.
1833
Thomas Meachem.
Ethan Allen. Robert Campbell.
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1833
Thomas Clark. Robert Davies. John Frederick Ernst. Alexander Fraser. William Lucas. Jesse Pound. William Staunton (D.D.). Francis Tremayne. Solomon Blakeslee. James Aaron Bolles (D.D.).
1834
Orange Clark (D.D.). Edmund Embury.
Isaac Garvin.
Stephen M'Hugh.
Timothy Minor.
Thomas Morris.
William Putnam Page. John Palmer Robinson. Richard C. Shimeall.
Erastus Spalding. James O. Stokes.
1835
Johnson A. Brayton. John Grigg. Samuel M'Burney. Henry Peck. Seth S. Rogers. Richard Smith.
1835
James Sunderland. William Tatham. John Visger Van Ingen (D.D.). Marshall Whiting. James Keeler. Nathan B. Burgess.
1836
Alva Bennett.
Charles Wm. Bradley (LL.D.). Benjamin Hale (D.D.). Charles Jones.
Beardsley Northrup. Pierre Alexis Proal (D.D.).
Francis T. Todrig. Nathaniel Watkins.
Gershom Palmer Waldo. 1837
Charles Gardner Acly.
William Allanson.
Henry Smith Attwater.
John Bayley.
Samuel Chalmers Davis.
George Denison.
George B. Engle.
Cicero Stephens Hawks, (D.D., Bishop of Missouri.)
Pierre Parris Irving.
Henry Tullidge (D.D.).
Augustine Palmer Prevost.
Clement Moore Butler (D.D.).
Ferdinand Rogers (D.D.).
Foster Thayer. 1838 Tapping Reeve Chipman.
Samuel Cooke (D.D.).
Ebenezer Harrison Cressey (D.D.).
Wm. E. Eigenbrodt (D.D.).
John Bernard Gallagher.
Humphrey Hollis. George Ogle. Henry Lemuel Storrs. Bethel Judd, D.D. Thomas J. Ruger. Lloyd Windsor (D.D.).
Gordon Winslow.
CLERGY ADDED
IN THE OLD DIOCESE, 1838 TO 1868
BISHOPS.
WILLIAM HEATHCOTE DE LANCEY, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., consecrated 1839; died 1865. ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE, D.D., LL.D., consecrated 1865; died 1896.
PRIESTS AND DEACONS.
1839
Samuel Gilman Appleton.
Washington Van Zandt.
Albert Clarke Patterson. Eli Wheeler. Stephen C. Millett.
John P. Fenner.
Thomas Towell.
Thaddeus Minor Leavenworth.
William Walton. David Huntington.
William W. Hickcox.
Hobart Williams.
1840
Phineas L. Whipple.
William Croswell (D.D.). Isaac Swart. Henry Lockwood.
Fortune Charles Brown.
George De Normandie Gillespie, (D.D., Bishop of Western Michigan.) Stephen Douglass. Benjamin Washington Stone. John Noble. Josiah Moody Bartlett.
1841 Thomas S. Brittain.
Edward Bourns (LL.D.).
Charles De Kay Cooper (D.D.).
Erastus B. Foote.
Major Anson Nickerson.
Andrew Hull ( D.D.).
Asa Griswold. James Sunderland.
Levi Hanaford Corson.
Alfred Louderback (D.D.).
Samuel Goodale. John Fletcher Fish.
Charles B. Stout.
Origen Pinney Holcomb.
John William Clark.
1842
Philemon Elmer Coe.
David M. Fackler.
Edward Ingersoll (D.D.) .
Stephen Henry Battin.
Charles Jarvis Todd.
Edward Dolph Kennicott.
William Sidney Walker (D.D.). James Jay Okill.
1843
Richard F. Burnham.
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1843 Edward De Zeng. George Leeds ( D.D.). Rufus M. White. John Jacob Robertson, D.D.
1844
Montgomery Schuyler (D.D.). Thomas Clap Pitkin (D.D.). Mason Gallagher. Benjamin Williams Whicher. Charles Henry Platt. John Wayland (D.D.). Joseph Ransom. Orrin Miller .
Edward Embury.
Thomas Pickman Tyler (D.D.).
Edward Augustus Renouf (D.D.). Benjamin Franklin (D.D.).
Pascal Paoli Pembroke Kidder.
Samuel Hanson Coxe (D.D.). Henry B. Bartow.
1845
Joshua T. Eaton.
Henry Stanley .. John Nicholas Norton (D.D.).
Charles Edward Phelps.
Justin Field. Charles Seymour.
George Watson. Richard F. Cadle.
William Dexter Wilson
(D.D., LL.D., L.H.D.).
David Pise, Jr. (D.D.). Israel Foote (D.D.). John Sidney Davenport.
1846
William Johnstone Bakewell. John B. Colhoun. William Henry Augustus Bissell, (D.D., Bishop of Vermont.) John Henry Hobart (D.D.). Vandevoort Bruce. William Agur Matson (D.D.). Levi Warren Norton. Timothy Fales Wardwell.
Orlando Frary Starkey. Benjamin Wright, Jr. Samuel H. Norton. Walter Ayrault (D.D.). William Hemans Perry Paddock. Albert Patterson Smith. 1847
Milton Ward. Phineas Manning Stryker. William Henry Hill. Almon Gregory.
Charles Woodward.
Daniel Caldwell Millett (D.D.).
Gardner Mills Skinner.
William Baker. Oliver H. Staples.
David Dubois Flower.
George Bridgeman.
James Radcliffe Davenport(D.D.).
Charles Arey (D.D.). Thomas Newcome Benedict.
1848 Henry Washington Lee (D.D.), (Bishop of Iowa.)
Breed Batchelder.
Henry Budd Walbridge (D.D.). John L. Gay.
Abram Newkirk Littlejohn,
(D.D., LL.D , Bishop of Long Is land.)
Spencer Marcus Rice ( D.D.).
George Champlin Foote.
Henry Lorenzo Low.
Sylvanus Reed. Rufus Doane Stearns.
George Burder Eastman.
David Hazzard Macurdy.
Maunsell Van Rensselaer (D.D., LL.D.).
Edward Meyer. William Bliss Ashley (D.D.).
Moses Eaton Wilson. Loren Wood Russ. Theodore Marsh Bishop (D.D.). 1849 Charles Huntington Gardiner. Alfred Baury Beach (D.D.).
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1849
Noble Palmer.
Oran Reed Howard (D.D.). Edmund Roberts. Caleb Bailey Ellsworth.
George Hamilton M'Knight(D.D.)
Malcolm Douglass (D.D.).
William Allen Fiske (LL.D.).
Henry Benjamin Whipple, (D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Minnesota.) Wentworth Larkin Childs.
Elijah Weaver Hager (D.D.). Richard Whittingham.
1850
Andrew D. Benedict.
Thomas Mallaby.
Robert James Parvin.
George L. Foote.
Samuel King Miller.
Amos Billings Beach (D.D.).
Willis Hervey Barris (D.D.).
Francis John Roach Lightbourne.
William Atwill.
Joshua L. Harrison.
Richard S. Adams.
John B. Pradt.
Martin Moody.
Ephraim Punderson.
Joshua Smith.
George Morgan Hills (D.D.).
Edward Livermore. Anthony Schuyler (D.D.).
1851
George White Horne. Richard Radley.
James Watson Bradin.
Stephen Chipman Thrall (D.D.).
Julius Sylvester Townsend.
Osgood Eaton Herrick (D.D.).
De Witt Clinton Loop.
Daniel Frederick Warren (D.D.). Lawrence Sterne Stevens. Albert Wood. Rolla Oscar Page. John Adams Jerome.
1852
William B. Musgrave.
Edward Bostwick Tuttle.
Carlton Peters Maples.
Robert Nathan Parke (D.D.).
Joseph Morison Clarke (D.D.).
William Paret (D.D., LL.D.), (Bishop of Maryland.)
Charles Wells Hayes (D.D.).
James Andrew Robinson.
George Nathan Cheney.
James Abercrombie (D.D.).
Gurdon Huntington. Henry Cook Stowell.
Peter S. Ruth.
Henry Adams Neely (D.D.), (Bishop of Maine.)
Napoleon Barrows (D.D.). John Leech.
1853
Addison B. Atkins.
Gordon Moses Bradley.
Charles Haskell.
Daniel Murphy.
Josiah Mulford Hedges.
George William Watson (D.D.).
John Woodbridge Birchmore.
William M. Carmichael (D.D.).
George Thomas Rider.
William Thomas Gibson
(D.D., LL.D.).
John Gott Webster. William White Bours.
1854
John Jacob Brandegee (D.D.).
Thomas Levering Franklin (D.D.).
Robert Horwood.
Andrew Oliver (D.D.).
Thomas Applegate. John Edmund Battin.
James Rankine (D.D., LL.D.).
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