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In 1879, President Loomis resigned the pres- ideney, and Professor David J. Hill, A.M., a graduate of the college, and at the time of his appointment Crozer professor of rhetoric, was chosen president of the university, a position which he still ocenpies.
The first step in President Hill's administra- tion was an effort to increase the endowment. This was rendered successful by the liberality of William Bucknell, of Philadelphia, who of- fered to give fifty thousand dollars for this pur- pose on condition that fifty thousand dollars more be raised, the old endowment be reinves- ted and the corporation be reorganized. The town of Lewi-burgh was canvassed by the Presi- dent, assisted by prominent citizens, and ten thousand dollars was subscribed in a few days. The other forty thousand dollars came from friends in other parts of the State, all the condi- tions were complied with and the productive endowment was thus made two hundred thou- sand dollars. Abont twenty-five thousand dol- lars of this was gathered through the exertions of the Rev. Dr. G. M. Spratt, whose services to the institution have been constant and efficient.
The property of the university now amounts to three hundred and fifty-five thousand eight houdred and fifty dollars. Since 1880 Mr. William Bucknell has given to the university twenty free scholarships of one thousand dollars each, and ten thousand dollars for the erection of a new chapel, called " Bucknell Hall," and other friends have bestowed shots of money for the extension and improvement of the grounds and buildings. The university has no debts.
Since 1851, when the first class was gradun- ted, important changes bearing upon the pros- perity of the college have taken place. The Philadelphia and Eric Railroad runs within one mile of Lewisburgh, and the Lewisburgh and Tyrone Railroad passes through it, making a Western connection. The Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburgh Railroad passes through the borough and connects it with the Reading sys- tem. The town is lighted with gas, supplied with pure water and has several miles of well- paved sidewalks. A new church edifice, costing nearly sixty thousand dollars, has been built by the Baptists. The natural beauty of the place has been enhanced by these improvements; yet it remains a quiet, moral and rural retreat, admirably adapted to the seclusion which thor- ough study demands for the young.
The college has developed even more rapidly than the town. It has a library of abont twelve thousand volumes, a museum of more than ten thousand specimens, for the illustration of science, a chemical laboratory and apparatus. There are two flourishing lite- rary societies, with libraries of their own, They publish a monthly journal called The University Mirror. There is also a Young Men's Chris- tian Association. Tuition is free to the sons of ministers in actual service.
On May 20, 1882, the charter was changed by the svart of the county of Union providing for the control of the university by a board of | dard of the best Eastern colleges, and have re- trustees, not exceeding twenty-five, four-fifths of whom must be Baptists. The trustees were chosen by the subscribers to the new endow- ment fund.
There are now two courses leading to a de- gree,-1, the classical course of four years, lead- ing to the degree of A.B. ; and 2, the Latin scientific course, leading to the degree of S.B. Boch courses have been brought up to the stan- cently given some scope to the optional element. Anglo-Saxon, American literature, comparative zoology, analytical chemistry, constitutional law and anthropology have been added to both
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courses. A good collection of engravings, helio- types and casts has stimulated the study of the fine arts, and illustrated lectures are given to the senior class. Lectures on Grecian history, life and literature ; Roman history, life and literature; medieval history ; English history sudd literature; the history of philosophy ; natural theology ; and the evidences of Christi- auity are regularly delivered. The introduction of a short course of lectures on practical ethics and hygiene for the freshman class is believed to be distinctively peculiar to this college. The government is thus based on ethical ideas, and -o far has proved that an appeal to manhood develops it and secures self-goverment.
The following have been presidents, acting presidents and professors from the foundation of the college to the year 1886 :
PRESIDENTS.
Elected. Resigned.
1851. Rev. Howard Malcom, D.D., LL.D ... . .. 1857
1.57. Rev. Justin R. Loomis, Ph. D., LL. D. .1879 1.79. Rev. David J. Hill, LL.D.
ACTING PRESIDENTS.
Stephen W. Taylor, LL.D., prior to 1851.
Rev. Geo. R. Bliss, D.D., LL. D., during 1871-72.
Rev. Francis W. Tustin, Ph.D., for six months in 1879.
PROFESSORS.
Elected. Resigned.
1848. Stephen W. Taylor, LL. D., Mathematics .. 1851 1849. Rov. George R. Bliss, D.D., L.L. D., Greek
and Latin 18744 1849. Rev. George W. Anderson, D.D., Ph.D.,
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1851. Rev. Howard Malcom, D.D., LL.D., Metaphysics 1857
1851. Charles S. James, Ph. D., Mathematics. 1877
1851. Alfred Taylor, A.M., Rhetoric 1853
1854. Rev. Justin R. Loomis, Ph. D., L.L.D., Nat. Sciences, 1858; Metaphysics, 1879
1859. Rev. Francis W. Tustin, Ph. D., Ancient Languages, 1861; Nat. Science, 1874; Ancient Languages.
1865. Rev. Lucius E. Smith, D. D., Rhetoric .... .. 1868 1865 Rev. Lemuel Moss, D.D., LL.D., Logic ... 1868 1869. Rev. Robert Lowry, D.D., Rhetoric ..... .1875
1871. Freeman Loomis, A.M., Mod. Languages
1874. Cornelius W. Larrison, M.D., Natural Science 1875
1875. William T. Grier, A.M., Latin. .188
1877. David J. HTill, 1.1 .. D., Rhetoric, 1870;
Psychology and Ethics.
1878. Charles S. Allen, Ph.B., Nat. Science ..... 1878
1878. 1879. 1881. Rev. Albert . Wattle, A.M., Rhetoric ..... 1885
1882. William C. Bartol, A.M., Mathematics ...
1885. Frank E. Rockwood, A.M., Latin.
1885. William G. Owens, A.M., Physics and Chemi-try
1885. Enoch Perrine, A.M., Rhetoric ...
The Institute .- This department of the uni- versity was begun as a school in 1852, under the principalship of Miss Hadassah E. Seribuer, of Maine, who retained her position for two years. In 1851 two young ladies, the first class of the institute, were graduated. At this time all the teachers resigned, and Miss Amanda Taylor, of Easton, Pa., with a new corps of assistants, undertook the work. In 1858 fifteen young ladies were graduated in the presence of an audience of fifteen hundred people. Since then classes ranging from ten to twenty have been graduated every year. In 1857 six acres of a beautiful grove were appropriated for a suitable building on the university grounds. The build- ing is pleasantly and healthfully situated, warmed with furnaces, lighted with gas and supplied with water on every floor. It will ac- comodate ninety boarders. In 1869 a wing was added, at the cost of ten thousand dollars, containing rooms for students and a large gym- nasium, which has been suitably fitted up.
In 1863 Miss Taylor resigned, and was suc- ceeded by Miss Lucy W. Rundell, of Alden, N. Y. She continued her work ably until 1869, when she was succeeded by Miss Harriet E. Spratt, daughter of the Rev. George M. Spratt, D.D., and a graduate of the institute. This rare Christian woman had already spent fourteen years in the school as a teacher. She continued as principal until the commencement of 1878. A few months later she ended a ca- reer of extraordinary usefulness by death, having been made Emeritus lady principal after her resignation. For twenty-four years her life was devoted to the successive classes of young women that passed through the institute, and hundreds mourned for her as for a sister.
In 1878 Jonathan Joues, A.M., was elected principal, a position which he ably filled until his death, in Jaunary, 1882. Since that time Mrs. Katherine B. Larison has been the
George Phillips, Ph. D., Mathematics .. .... 1882 George (. Groll, M.S., M.D., Nat. Science.
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head of this department and has managed its affairs with marked ability. The institute furnishes superior advantages in music and painting. Students enjoy the use of the library and musemn of the college, and are permitted to attend the lectures of the professors.
The Academy .- When, in 18.19, the college emerged into a distinct department of the uni- versity, the academy was intrusted to the prin- cipalship of Isaac N. Loomis, A.M., sharing the new academy building with the college. This arrangement continued until the college building was completed ; II. D. Walker, A.M., succeeding Principal Loomis in 1853, and George Yeager, A.M., following in 1857. Isaac C. Wynn, A.M., became principal in 1859, and in January, 1860, the academy building being used then solely for that department, it was fitted np for a boarding-school for boys and young men. Until 1868 the academy embraced the classical preparatory classes of the niver- sity, but in that year " The Classical Prepar- atory Department " was organized, with Free- man Loomis, A.M., as principal, the academy being confined to English branches only. This arrangement continned, the English academy having in the mean time a succession of princi- pals, amtil 1878, when the departments were reunited muider the principalship of William E. Martin, A.M. " The Classical Preparatory Department," from 1868 to 1878, was estab- lished in the west wing of the college building.
The academy, as reorganized in 1878, is a thorough English and classical school, designed to prepare young men for college, for business or for teaching in the common schools. The students have access to the college library and reading-room. When prepared, they are ad- mitted to the college upon the certificate of the principal, without examination, Special atten- tion is given to English and commercial branches. Many improvements have been made in the building, rendering it a pleasant home for boys. Students of small means are allowed to board in clubs, which reduces their expenses considerably.
school of theology, however, is the only depart- ment of this kind so far attempted. This was opened in 1855 under the charge of Thomas F. Curtis, D.D., and continued during thirteen years. On the resignation of Professor Curtis, in 1865, the school was reorganized, with Lom- nel Moss, D. D., as professor of theology and Incius E. Smith, D. D., as professor of sacred, rhetoric and pastoral theology, George R. Bliss, D.D., being continued as professor of Biblical interpretation. In 1868 the depart- ment was removed to Upland, Pa., and reor- ganized by the family of the late John P. Crozer as " The Crozer Theological Seminary," under a new corporation, but still retaining a close connection with the university at Lewis- burgh, whose graduates supply its classes in a large measure. While at Lewisburgh the de- partment enrolled thirty-eight graduates. These have been received and enrolled among the ahunni of the Crozer Seminary.
JUSTIN ROLPH LOOMIS, LL.D., for many years president of the college, and the man to whom, more than to any other individual, is due the credit for its success, is a descendant of Joseph Loomis, who came to America from Braintree, Essex County, England, in 1638, and, after a short residence in Massachusetts, removed, in 1639 or 1640, to Windsor, Conn. The doctor was born in Bennington, Wyo- ming County, N. Y., August 21, 1810. Ilis preparation for college was made at Madi- son University, New York, and, being com- pleted, he entered Brown University, at Provi- dence, R. I., from which he graduated with the class of 1835. He taught for one year in the State Agricultural School of Rhode Island, and then became a tutor and soon after professor of natural science in Waterville College (now Colby University), in Maine. He remained there sixteen years, or until 1852. He then traveled for about a year in Bolivia and Peru, South America, after which he came to Lewis- burgh and entered the university as profe -- or of natural sciences. In 1858 he was made presi- dent of the university, succeeding Dr. Howard Malcom, and remaining in that responsible po- sition for twenty-one years, or until 1879, when
The Theological Department .- The charter of the university permits the establishment of any professional school by the corporation. A he resigned, and was succeeded by Dr. David
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Jayne Hill. During his presidency he dis- charged the duties of professor of intellectual philosophy and metaphysics. He has traveled much. In 1871 he was absent from the mui- ver-ity on a trip to Europe, touching also Africa and Asia, returning by way of San Francisco. Ile made visits to Europe again in 1873 and 1879, and in 1882 sojourned in California. Ile has written mueb for the press, and in 1851 published a work on geology, and in 1852 one on human physiology.
Dr. Loomis was first married to Sarah Anne Freeman, of Richfield Springs, N. Y., Jannary 16, 1838. She died March 3, 1852. There was one son by this marriage, Freeman Loomis, now professor of modern languages in the university. Dr. Loomis married, as his second wife, January 17, 1854, Mary Gilbert. Carrie Loomis, now a teacher of modern languages in the Female Institute of the university, was a daughter by this marriage. His third wife, now living, to whom the doctor was married Angust 20, 1873, was Miss Angusta Theker. A son by this marriage, Andrew G. Loomis, is now twelve years of age.
In closing this brief sketch of Dr. Loomis, we cannot do better than to nse a few words of characterization from one who knows him and his work intimately :
" For more than twenty years Dr. Loomis stood as the leading representative of higher education among the Baptists of Pennsylvania. His broad and deep scholarship, his large knowledge derived from ex- tensive foreign travel and careful observation of men, his strong Christian faith and his indomitable resolu- tion combined to fit him for leadership. Hundreds of young men remember him with gratitude, and con- tess that to him, more than to any other man, they owe the discipline of mind and the force of character that have made them successful in the world. The Lewisburgh Baptist Church Edifice stands not only as. a momment to his superior architectural taste, but also to his remarkable self-sacrifice in toiling and giv- ing for its completion. It has been the characteristic of his life to accomplish that which he undertook, and he has devoted a long career to the realization of unselfish ends in the elevation and enlightenment of others."
DAVID JJ. Hna, LL.D., was born in Plain- field, N. J., on the 10th of June, 1850. He was prepared for college at Suffield, Conn., and
Cooper-town, N. Y. Entered the miver-ity at Lewisburgh in 1870. He took the first prize for oratory in 1873, and was graduated with the valedictory addresses, the first honor of his class, in 1871. He was called to the pa-torate of the First Baptist Church of Madison, Wis., but declined, accepting a call as tutor in ancient langnage- in the niversity at Lewisburgh. At the close of the collegiate year Mr. Hill was ap- pointed instructor in rhetoric in the university, and in 1877 Crozer professor of rhetoric. At the same time he published, through Sheldon & Co., of New York, " The Science of Rhetoric," an advanced text-book for colleges, which was adopted in the University of Michigan, Brown University, Vassar College and other first class institutions. At the request of Sheldon & Co., Professor Hill prepared "The Elements of Rhetoric," for schools of lower grade, which is now used in every State and Territory, and has been republished in England. In 1879 Pro- fessor Hill began a series of brief biographies of American anthors, similar to Morley's " Eng- lish Men of Letters." Two volumes, on Irving and Bryant respectively, were is-ned by Shel- don & Co., and were widely sold and noticed. The preparation of this series was interrupted by his election to the presidency of the niver- sity in March, 1879, to succeed the Rev. Jus- tin R. Loomis, LI .. D., the position which he now ocenpies. He has since devoted hiniself. mainly to the interests of the university, but has found time to edit JJevon's " Elementary Lessons in Logie," to write a small work on "The Principles and Fallacies of Socialism," which has been widely distributed among the laboring classes, over ten thousand copies hav- ing been sold, and to prepare original lectures for his college classes on " Economics," " An- thropology " and " Psychology," which have been privately printed. He has also delivered many lectures of a more popular character on literary and scientific subjects, and written many articles for reviews and other periodicals. Under his administration the university has in five years added about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to its funds, and more than fifty per cent. to its students, besides making important progress in other directions.
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Ex-President Loomis says:
" President Hill came into his present position not because he sought it, but because of his recognized fit- ness for it. His high scholarship'as a student, his snecess with classes as a tutor and professor, his dis- passionate and correct judgment and his scholarly aims and attainments all singled him out as the man for the presidency, notwithstanding the extremely early age at which he was called to the position. It was a trying one, and many steps of progress were at once needed, but he has not been under the necessity of making any retrograde movement. He is an expert in the management of classes of college students, and he impresses men in all grades of life so that they trust him and follow him. It is this high phase of manhood that has given him his stronghold on the patrons of the university and strengthened its finan- cial condition beyond the fear of collapse. At the same time the internal administration, both of in- struetion and goverment, encourages the friends of the university to look forward to many years of pros- perity without the thought of change, except such as he shall introduce."
THE LEWISBURGH CEMETERY is controlled by the Lewisburgh Cemetery Association, which was incorporated by an act of the Assembly, approved April 10, 1848, and had as its incor- porators Thomas Hayes, George F. Miller, James P. Ross, Solomon Ritter, John Cham- berlin, William Hayes, Hugh P. Sheller, Stephen S. Lyudell, Flavel Clingan, Sam- uel Wolfe, James Moore, Jr., Levi B. Christ, Henry Noll, Levi Sterner, William Wilson, Peter Nevins, John Gundy, Jacob Gundy. At the organization of the association in the following May, George F. Miller was chosen president ; William Wilson, secretary ; and Thomas Hayes, treasurer. The former has since held his office, and in 1886, D. B. Miller was the secretary and treasurer. At this time the board of managers. is composed of Eli Slifer, F. C. Harrison, J. M. Linn, D. B. Miller, John Walls, W. C. Duncan, Joseph M. Nesbit. The cemetery is in East Buffalo town- ship, on the southwest and just outside of the borough. It comprises twelve acres of well- drained land, six of which were bought of John Chamberlain, June 5, 1818, for nine hundred dollars. The addition was purchased January 2, 1878, and cost one thousand eight hundred dol- lars. The cemetery contains the graves of Colonel Cameron, many other soldiers and
prominent citizens of Lewishurgh and Union County.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
SAMUEL WILSON WYKOFF SCHAFFLE.
The man whose name forms the caption of this sketch (chiefly devoted to his ancestry) has been for many years familiarly known to the people of Lewisburgh as one of its substantial business men, and belongs to a family which for more than three-score years has been prom- inently identified with the interests of the town, in a line of merchandising which verges upon the nature of a profession, and, indeed, involves so much of study, of scientific experiment and of responsibility that it may, perhaps, be more appropriately regarded as belonging to the cate- gory of the latter than as a business vocation. The history of this family, of which three in- dividnals, representatives of as many generations, have followed in Lewisburgh the calling of chemists and druggists, is a matter of record from a time considerably antedating the arrival in America of our subject's paternal grandfather, Charles Frederick Schafile. This man, the progenitor of all of the Schaflle family in America, was born in Durmenz, in the kingdom of Wur- temberg, Oberamt Maulbrun, Germany, August 29, 1796, and was one of seven children-the youngest of five sons-of Simon F. Schaffle and Mary Magdalena Kliner, his wife. His father was a man of influence and position, and for eight years the burgomaster of Durmenz.
Charles Frederick seems carly in life to have acquired that love of liberty and lack of rever- ence for rank which were very proper charac- teristics for a man who was to become a good citizen of the United States, and, in fact, his im- migration to America was brought about through his determination to escape conscription into the Imperial army, which was especially threatened, because of his independence in ignoring a set form of obsequious salutation to some high functionary, or perhaps the crown. The young man sailed for America in 1818, and, after a three months' voyage, landed at Philadelphia
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upon August 29th, -his twenty-second birthday. In the following year (1819) he came to Lewis- burgh, and eventually founded the business to which his son succeeded, and which finally passed into the possession of his grandson. His apothe- cary shop was where Dr. Grier lived and died. The young Gorman had a superior business training, a thorough knowledge of the chemist's and apothecary's art, and good recommendations as to general character and ability. A paper has been preserved which was given him by his employers in Stuttgart, and shows that they held him in high esteem. Literally translated, it reads as follows :
" MR. CARL SCHAFFLE, of Durmenz, two years in our business engaged, has, through the care of the to him entrusted comptoir (counting-house), and other business work, as well as his other good conduct and cultivated, well-bred orderliness our satisfaction earned. " While we hereby witness this, we wish him from our hearts good fortune and the Lord's grace in his future undertakings.
"SOTRELE & SATTLER [ SEAL]. " Stuttgarte, 30 December, 1817."
Schaffle soon began to thrive in business, as his qualifications became known, and he had not been long in Lewisburgh before his condi- tion warranted him in marrying. During the very year that he located here the young woman who was to become his wife had left her home on the German border of France, and had come neross the broad Atlantic by a long and dreary voyage similar to that which Schafile had made. She was Marie Caroline Dickes, daughter of Jean Guillaume Diekes and Marie Elizabeth Felme, his wife, and was born at St. Marie aux Mine, Alsace, France, April 29, 1800, as a copy from the official entry on the "Register of Births" of that commune, " in the District of Calinar, Department of the Upper Rhine," attests. She left France upon her birthday, April 29, 1819, with her parents and only brother, Joseph, who became secretary of Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, and had that position until the mon- arch's death, when he left for other realms.
Charles Frederick Schaffle and Marie Caro- line Dickes were married in Lewisburgh March 12, 1820. Over half a century of wedded life was theirs, and they were parted only by death, the wife passing from the earth chapter of life,
after more than the allotted span, September 25, 1871, while her husband, surviving herten years, died March 7, 1881. They were the parents of ten children, two of whom died in infancy! Charles William Schafle, the oldest son, was born December 3, 1820, and was married, Jan- nary 23, 1815, to Mary Wykoff, daughter of Peter Wykoff and Sarah Nevins, his wife, born November 11, 1823. She was a descendant, on her mother's side, of the Chamberlain family, well known in Union County." Eight children were the offspring of this marriage, the oldest of whom was Samuel Wilson Wykoff Schaflle, born in Lewisburgh November 24, 1845, and named after his maternal uncle.
' It is worthy of remark in this connection that three of the sons of the independence and liberty.loving German pioneer -- John Joseph, Charles Dickes and Franklin Schaffe -responded to the call for men to put down the great Rebel- lion of 1861-65, and gave their lives in defense of the country. John Joseph Schaffe was wounded at the second battle of Bull Bun, a rifle ball entering his ankle near the instep, and passing down into the heel. He was lett npon the field for several days, unable to move, during which time he extracted the bullet with his own hand, cutting away the solid flesh of his heel with a penknife. His hero- ism and nerve, however, did not save him. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital, at Washington, where, after suffer- ing three amputations of his leg, he died. His body was brought to his home, and he was buried in the Lewisburgh Cemetery. In the same barile of Bull Run, Charles Dickes Schaille, who was captain of Company D, Fitth Pennsylvania Reserves, was wounded and taken prisoner. He was con- fined in Libby Prison many weeks, and while patiently awaiting for a truce-boat to exchange prisoners, he, with twenty-two fellow-officers, fell a victim to gangrene, and all died within forty-eight hours of each other. Franklin Schaflle, who was orderly to General Reno, and distin- guished himself on several occasions by riding through the thickest of the fight to deliver orders, contracted, from ex- posure in the service, the disease which ended his life. Ile, too, lies in a soldier's grave at Lewisburgh.
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