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HISTORY 
 
 BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 GRADUATES 
 
 B^ROM: 1806 TO 187-9, I^f Ci,TJSI^E. 
 
 NEHEMIAH CLEAVELAND, 
 
 Class or 1813. 
 
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 ALPHEUS SPEING PACKARD, 
 
 Class of 1S16. ' 
 
 BOSTON: 
 
 JAMES EIPLEY OSGOOD & COMPANY. 
 1882. 
 
Press of Alfbkd Mutgb & SoH, 
 Boston, 1882. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 At the celebration of the semi-centennial of the college in 1852, Nehe- 
 miah Cleav eland, LL. D., of the class of 1813, delivered the historical 
 discourse. This, and a paper by John S. Tenney, LL. D. (1816), and a 
 poem by Ephraim Peabody, D. D. (1827), were requested for publication. 
 After more than a year's delay, the project of publication having failed, 
 Mr. Cleaveland, with an amount of material on hand, conceived the idea 
 of a. more extended history of the college, with biographical sketches of 
 its early trustees and overseers, its instructors and graduates of the first 
 fifty years, with engravings of its prominent men. He prosecuted the 
 work with characteristic energy and care to near the close of his life early 
 in 1877. In August of that year his manuscripts and an accumulation 
 of papers and letters were placed in the hands of the writer to complete 
 for the press. The history, so far as Mr, Cleaveland contemplated, and 
 most of the sketches of graduates to 1837, were ready for the press, A 
 committee was appointed by the Alumni Association at their annual 
 meeting in 1880 to arrange for publication, and to bring the history down 
 to such a date as they might deem expedient. The writer has devoted the 
 last five years to the work committed to him, aided by Prof, Chapman, 
 who consented to prepare sketches of the last ten classes, and has ren- 
 dered valuable assistance in preparing the index of graduates, as well as 
 in other ways; and he now commends it to the friends of the college, 
 assured that, in the words of Ex-President Quincy in his history of Har- 
 vard College, " No duty is more incumbent upon seminaries of learning 
 than the commemoration of the virtues and labors which have contributed 
 to their existence and prosperity," 
 
 The portion of the work executed by Mr, Cleaveland is published as he 
 left it in his clear, beautiful manuscript, with scarce an erasure. Such 
 vacancies as were left in the biographical portion for another hand are 
 indicated by the writer's initial. From 1837 the sketches drawn by Mr, 
 Cleaveland are ' indicated by the initial C, The editor has followed the 
 method of his predecessor, but some embarrassment unavoidably attends 
 an effort to complete what another has begun. Whoever has had hke 
 experience can estimate the labor, delays, and perplexities involved in a 
 work the materials of which are in distant archives or dependent on 
 circulars and correspondence, "It is not easy," Mr, Cleaveland once 
 
IV PEEFACE. 
 
 wrote, "to collect information respecting graduates whether living or 
 dead, owing in part to their wide dispersion. Many have been wanderers; 
 others have settled in remote States, or beyond the limits of the Union: 
 but the main cause is the want of interest." Class feeling has not Men 
 cherished until a comparatively recent date, when classes have had re- 
 unions and class secretaries have been appointed, without whom the 
 editor could not have accomplished nearly what hc'has done. He regrets 
 that in any case he had been compelled to state that his circulars have 
 met with no response. They may have met with the common fate of 
 such issues, or from ignorance of the proper address, or from reluctance 
 to write concerning one's -self. In no instance has effort on our part to 
 reach one been omitted. 
 
 The birthplace of graduates as given in the history cannot be entirely 
 depended upon, inasmuch as the record of admissions, untU quite recently, 
 gives sometimes residence and not thsplace of birth. 
 
 The main interest and value of this work, its conception, and whatever 
 of felicity appears in its execution, are to be accredited to Mr. Cleaveland, 
 whose taste and skill with a delicate humor have been conspicuous in other 
 publications. The writer has been conversant from the first with the 
 progress of the work in the hands of his college friend, and has been his 
 correspondent to the close. 
 
 Most of the engravings, by an artist of reputation in New York, were 
 obtained from the subjects of them or their friends by Mr. Cleaveland 
 twenty or more years ago. 
 
 The editor would express his obligations for valuable aid in his work 
 from Messrs. Herrick (1844), Fogg and IVaterman (1846), S. F. Hum- 
 phrey and Sewall (1848), Williamson (1849), Wheeler (1853), Linscot 
 (1854), Palmer and WUliamson (1856), Eastman (1857), A. S. Bradley 
 (1858), Burbank (1860), Emery (1868). 
 
 A. S. PACKAKD. 
 
 ADDITIONAL ERRATA. 
 
 Page 199, Edward Theodore Bridge should read Edmund T. 
 Page 612, Ralph Waldo Johnson should read Alfred W. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 BowDoiN College. 
 
 BRUNSWICK. 
 
 The great river on which Brunswick lies, rises in the northeastern 
 corner of Maine ; and after spreading itself out in several fine sheets 
 of water, issues from the last, Lake Umbagog, to find that it has 
 wandered into New Hampshire. Re-enforced by the Margalloway, a 
 respectable stream which has come down for that purpose from Sun- 
 day- Mountain, it runs south to the very foot of Mount Madison. As 
 farther travel in this direction is out of the question, the sensible river 
 turns short to the left, and soon re-enters its native State. Proceed- 
 ing eastwardly as far as Jay, it makes another right angle and again 
 runs southwardly, until, in Merry Meeting Bay, it mingles its rapid 
 and ruffled waters with the gentler current of the Kennebec. The 
 course of this stream is far from smooth. At Brunswick, in the space 
 of a, third of a mile, it falls forty feet, making the descent in three sepa- 
 rate plunges. Dams and sawmills and heaps of lumber and crooked 
 wooden bridges are not specially promotive of the picturesque. I 
 remember when the river was but partially obstructed, and can at 
 least imagine the sublime spectacle it presented when, rushing in all its 
 might through the primeval forest, it dashed and foamed and roared 
 down the precipitous and rugged channel. 
 
 According to the late Loammi Baldwin, an engineer of distinguished 
 abilit}^, no other river of New England conveys to the sea so large a 
 body of water as the Androscoggin. To me this seems hardly cred- 
 ible, as the stream is sometimes very low ; but 1 shall not attempt to 
 refute a man of figures. If this cataract under the torturing hand of 
 man has lost something of its beautjr and grandeur, it has gained in 
 usefulness. For manj' years the lumber business was a source of profit 
 to the villages of Topsham and Brunswick, which it may indeed he 
 
Z HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 said to have created ; but the forests above, on which that business 
 depended, have mostlj' fallen, and little comparatively is done now. 
 The attempted manufacture of cotton goods met with a series of dis- 
 asters, and was for years abandoned It has lately been resumed with 
 better auspices : a motive force so great and so well situated cannot 
 always remain idle. The day is perhaps not remote when the Bruns- 
 wick Falls, like those of the Merrimack, will have become the parent 
 of large and prosperous cities. Latterly, ship-buUding has been carried 
 on quite extensively in Brunswick. 
 
 The site of the college is unquestionably salubrious, and railroads 
 have made it very accessible. To a literary institution these are 
 advantages of indispensable necessity. Its climate, which is that of 
 Maine, seems severe to the native of milder latitudes. If, however, 
 the winters are long and cold, they have the merit of consistency ; 
 sudden and violent changes of temperature are less frequent here than 
 in Southern New England, and the fact is conducive both to health 
 and comfort. The snow usually falls early, and lasts long. On the 
 whole, I think we enjoyed the season, excepting perhaps the periodi- 
 cal midwinter thaw when the slush and water often stood knee-deep 
 all over the plain. 
 
 In summer the herbage usuallj- becomes very thin and very brown.' 
 But the sandy porosity which makes the soil unproductive is a positive 
 boon when rains prevail ; mud is a nuisance almost unknown to the 
 happy denizens of Brunswick. 
 
 Within the last forty years, much has been done to improve the gen- 
 eral aspect of the place. Not that I so regard the stripping away of 
 the trees, which formerly hid from view the unsightlj^ plain, and shut 
 in the quiet hamlet with their ever-verdant wall. But for the protect- 
 ing arm of the college, and the conservative care of the McKeens, 
 which have preserved two invaluable remnants of the forest once so 
 broad, scarcely a pine would have been left to remind us of old times. 
 As some atonement for the injury, shade trees have been successfully 
 planted, not only throughout the college grounds, but along the pleas- 
 ant streets, and round the generally comfortaljle and often handsome 
 homes of this little village. 
 
 To all its other claims on our grateful remembrance and regard, 
 Brunswick has long added the possession of an intelligent and agree- 
 able society. 
 
 When I first knew Brunswick, the college and the modest settlement 
 below it literally occupied only a small clearing among the indigenous 
 evergreens. On every side but that which the river bounded, the 
 dwellings stood in close proximity to the forest, which stretched out 
 
BEDNSWICK. 3 
 
 for miles, a shady and unobstructed promenade. The earlier gradu- 
 ates must have many recollections of social and solitarj^ walks through 
 these quiet grounds. Their memories have sadly failed, if they do 
 not still recall the chief features of the scene, — the level earth, 
 through whose slippery carpet of scanty herbage and withered pine 
 leaves shot up, in their season, the frequent blueberry and winter- 
 green ; the air charged with resinous odors ; the blackened tree trunks 
 which told of former fires ; the subdued and sombre light ; the tink- 
 ling cow-bells .; and the gentle rustle of the breeze in the branches 
 above. The river is another Brunswick image which none of us can 
 forget. We remember our walks upon its banks, both above and 
 below the falls ; our frolics in its waters and on its floating logs ; the 
 awe with which we gazed on its might and fury, when, swollen by the 
 Spring flood, it rushed down and by, sometimes carrying with it bridges, 
 mill, and dam ; and that low, continuous roar which always pervades 
 the still night air. It would be idle to deny that Brunswick lacks the 
 charm and the freshness which belong to more diversified landscapes 
 and to more fertile soils. It can boast no sweet variety of hill and 
 dale, no wide extent of prospect, no sublimity of mountain scenery, 
 near or distant. Still, the general aspect of the place is pleasing, and 
 seldom fails to impress strangers agreeably. It has an air of quiet 
 and sobriety well suited to academic pursuits. The college buildings, 
 standing in calm isolation on their own ample grounds, seem to assure 
 us that within that hallowed precinct there is no danger of interrup- 
 tion, no serious impediment to mental or to moral progress. 
 
 I have indeed sometimes regretted, and have heard others regret, 
 that some spot more favored of nature was not selected, as the home 
 of our Alma Mater. An expression to that eft'ect in my historical 
 discourse of 1852 touched, as I was sorry to learn, the sensitiveness 
 of my Brunswick friends. The probability is that we are prone to 
 overrate, in cases of this kind, the influence and importance of mere 
 scenery.* Our great schools of learning vary much in their position 
 and surroundings, as well as in their internal advantages and disci- 
 pline. , "Williams from her mountain amphitheatre and Amherst from 
 her commanding watch-tower send forth excellent classes ; but so 
 also from their less ambitious plains do the halls of Dartmouth and 
 of Union. With such results it is evident that scenery has little to 
 do. On the side even of imagination, — and here, if anywhere, we 
 might expect to see a difference, — it is not easy to say where the 
 
 * See some striking remarks on the influence of scenery in the Life of Dr. ArchJ-- 
 bald Alexander, page 25, " 
 
4 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 advantage lies. If the muse of Bryant was first wakeued amid the 
 grandeur and beauties of Berkshire, it was beneath our own " whis- 
 pering pines" that Longfellow began to " lisp in numbers." 
 
 Again, what merely local attachment is stronger than that which we 
 feel for the spot, however homely, where our youth was passed, and for 
 those objects, however rude and simple, with which we then connected 
 scenes and employments and joys and friendships that no change 
 of place, no lapse of time, can rase from our remembrance? In this 
 particular I acknowledge, without reserve, my allegiance to Brunswick. 
 In other climes and on distant shores, I have often found myself 
 beneath the solemn shadow, of the pine, but never when its soft 
 and soul-like sound did not speak to me of happy college days. 
 Amid the impressive solitudes of the high Alps, with the ineffable 
 splendors of Mont Blanc or of the Jungfrau in full view, the roar of 
 a hundred waterfalls, as it came blended with the multitudinous tink- 
 lings of the cow-bells, has owed its sweetest charm to the loved mem- 
 ories of youth, and to imperishable associations with the monotonous 
 plains of Brunswick, its noisy river, and its roving kine. 
 
 THE COLLEGE FOUNDED. 
 
 Previously to the Revolution and for some time after that event, 
 the Province and District of Maine was for the most part an unin- 
 vaded wilderness. Rich as it is in harbors, only two or three ports, 
 and those mostly in the northern part, had attained to any commercial 
 importance. The population was not only small, but sparse and com- 
 paratively poor. Yet even before the war of Independence some 
 movement towards founding a collegiate institution was made in the 
 county of Lincoln. In 1788. the first actual step was taken in Cum- 
 berland Countj'. The justices of the peace assembled as a court of 
 sessions, and the Congregational ministers in their associated capacity, 
 respectively petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts to incor- 
 porate a college in the District of Maine. •In February, 1790, the 
 committee to whom this petition was referred reported in favor of 
 granting the prayer. A bill was accordingly brought in, which passed 
 in the Senate but failed in the House. After three j^ears, the subject 
 of an Eastern college again came before the Legislature. A bill for 
 the purpose went up and down several times before the two houses 
 could agree, but was finally passed on the 28th of March, 1793. This 
 Act the governor, John Hancock, refused or neglected to sign, and so 
 another year was lost. At the winter session in 1794, the subject was 
 
THE COLLEGE FOUNDED. O 
 
 again agitated and again put by. The summer proved more favora- 
 ble : the charter of Bowdoin College dates from June 24, 1794. 
 
 The act which established the college exhibited its first practical 
 result at Portland on the 3d of December, 1794. The trustees, sum- 
 moned by Judge Thatcher, met in the Court House. There were 
 present four clergymen, — Thomas Browne, Samuel Deane, Thomas 
 Lancaster, and Tristram Gilman ; and four laymen, — John Frothing- 
 ham, Josiah Thatcher, David Mitchell, and William Martin. Judge 
 Thatcher presided ; Mr. Frothingham was secretarj'. They tried to 
 elect a president of the college, but could not agree. The next day 
 they met at Dr. Dearie's house, and their only action was to choose 
 Eev. Mr. Gilman president for one year. On the third daj"- they dis- 
 covered that the overseers were an independent body, in their refusal 
 to confirm the Eey. J. Fairfield as a trustee. William Martin, 
 Stephen Longfellow, and John Dunlap were chosen to lay out the 
 five townships which had been granted by the State. To this com- 
 mittee, Mr. Thatcher and Mr. Freeman were afterwards added. A 
 cheering result of the legislative Act giving the na.me of Bowdoin to 
 the college was a letter from Hon. James Bowdoin, of Boston, in 
 which, alluding to the name of the college, as a tribute of respect to 
 the name, character, talents, and virtues of his late father, he promises 
 his aid to the college, and calls a donation of 81,000, and a thousand 
 acres of land in the town of Bowdoin, " a first step to the design." 
 During the year 1795, the board held three meetings in Portland. A 
 meeting called at Brunswick in August failed for want of a quorum. 
 In May, 1796, they met at Mr. Martin's, in North Yarmouth. Dur- 
 ing this period they had but little to do. Reports and discussions in 
 regard to the college lands occupied the meetings. 
 
 Where the college should be was not easily settled. In the bill as 
 first reported to the Legislature, North Yarmouth was inserted. This 
 was erased and the question left open. Judge Thatcher, of Gorham, 
 who had done more than any other man in getting the incorporation, 
 pleaded earnestly for his own town, and was much disturbed by his 
 failure. Dr. Deane contended that Portland was the only place for a 
 college, and might perhaps have carried his point, but for the oppo- 
 sition of his clerical brother and townsman, Mr. Kellogg. North 
 Yarmouth, Freeport, Brunswick, had each its advocates ; while others 
 were for Turner, in favor of which it was said that the great land- 
 owner, Mr. Little, of Newbury, would make a liberal donation. The 
 counties of Lincoln and Kennebec had also their favorite spots, and 
 saw no reason why Cumberlahd should have all the advantage. To 
 settle the matter, a convention, consisting of the two boards and of 
 
fa HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 other gentlemen friendly to the college, met at Brunswick. The meet- 
 ing was held in John Dunning's Inn, on the 19th of July, 1796. Here 
 they resolved themselves into a committee of the whole, and walked 
 out to see for themselves. 
 
 Let us, in imagination, go back for a moment to that hour. Bruns- 
 wick has witnessed many academical processions, but this was the 
 precursor and predestinator of them all. No ordinary promenaders, 
 these who move down the narrow lane from John Dunning's, spread 
 out on the twelve-rod road, wind up the little hill, and then wander in 
 groups over the open plain and beneath its bordering pines. What 
 dignity, what picturesqueness , in their very costume, — the cocked hat, 
 the white wig, the broad-skirted coat, the tight knee-breeches, and the 
 large bright buckles ! Well may they' look grave, for a grave question 
 is before them. They are to determine, for all time, where a great 
 seat of learning is to have its home. With them it rests to say 
 whether that tame, uninteresting plain shall become classic ground, 
 enriched thenceforth and hallowed by all delightful associations. 
 
 On reassembling, the committee reported in favor of thirty acres, 
 the property o'f William Stanwood, provided said land should be 
 given to the college, and provided also that three hundred acres of 
 the adjoining land could be obtained on the same terms. Though it 
 does not appear from the record, these conditions, in part at least, 
 were subsequently fulfilled. Stanwood and others gave the thirty 
 acres, and the town of .Brunswick gave two hundred acres. This 
 grant was afterwards confirmed by legislative action, and also by a 
 vote of the Pejepscot proprietors. As this tract, with all its pines 
 and blueberries, was then estimated at two shillings an acre, the en- 
 tire value of the donation was $76.67. 
 
 The decision thus made had probablj' very little to do either with 
 the charming landscape or the^ tempting donation. It was a foregone 
 conclusion, which had been reached by a compromise of the different 
 county claims. In other words, the place selected was in Cumber- 
 land County, it adjoined the county of Lincoln, and was not far from 
 Kennebec. • 
 
 On account of hindrances and delays in accomplishing the work 
 intrusted to them, some were disposed to attribute the responsibility 
 of the alleged neglect to the Board of Trustees, — to represent them as 
 inefficient and dilatory ; and on this ground, petitioned the Legisla- 
 ture to increase the number of its members. The trustees remon- 
 strated, alleging in reply that they had done all they could do. The 
 townships given to the college had been explored, and one of them 
 had been laid out in lots for sale. They had solicited donations, and 
 
THE COLLEGE FOUNDED. I 
 
 had received some books and some money. To nurse the college 
 fund, they had given their time and borne their own expenses . It was 
 not true that they had failed to get a quorum in many instances. 
 They had attended the meetings, and had done all the business 
 that came before them, although their most important votes had been 
 frustrated by the overseers. To the charge that they are old and super- 
 annuated, they reply that only one of their number is very old. 
 Want of money was their only serious trouble, — $1,500 being all 
 that they as yet had to work with. To make more trustees would 
 not help the matter. A better plan would be to reduce the over- 
 seers. The complaint, it is to be presumed, found no favor with 
 the Legislature. It was undoubtedly groundless, if not ill-natured. 
 A college could not be started without money, and the only means in 
 the hands of the trustees were five townships of wild land. This 
 article was not then appreciated as we have known it to be since. 
 Prices were low, sales infrequent, the taxes and expenses burden- 
 some ; so that it became a common saying that the more one had of 
 Eastern land, the worse it was for him. Alden Bradford, in a letter 
 dated Feb. 3, 1835, says: "It required time and effort to prepare 
 the way, to sell lands without an entire sacrifice, to raise funds from 
 the sales, to get the pay, to beg money and books, and to arrange for 
 opening the seminary. There was much land in the market selling at 
 twenty cents and even lower, and it was difficult to sell at any price. 
 . . . The trustees were, in fact, a sort of executive committee to pre- 
 pare all and propose all and devise all ; and they thought it better to 
 proceed slowly that the progress might be sure." 
 
 Another competent witness and prominent actor, Mr. Kellogg, in a 
 letter of nearly the same date, bears testimony to the efficiency and 
 fidelity of the committee which managed the business of the college 
 lands. Indeed, it is enough for us to know that the leading member 
 of that committee was Isaac Parker, afterwai-ds the able and excellent 
 Chief Justice of Massachusetts. The lands, considering the circum- 
 stances, were well sold. One township (now known as Dixmont) 
 brought $20,000. All honor to the memory of those good men, to 
 whose disinterested care and toil, pursued in the midst of discour- 
 agements and reproaches, the infancy of the college was so largely 
 indebted ! 
 
 At the meeting for choice of a president, a number of candidates 
 were put in nomination. Dr. Deane named Rev. Dr. Morse, Charles- 
 town, Mass. ; Mr. Lancaster was for Prof. Tappan, Harvard College ; 
 Mr. Frothingham brought forward his own minister. Dr. Deane ; Judge 
 Parker gave in the name of Alden Bradford, Wiscasset ; Rev. Mr. 
 
i HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Johnson, of Freeport, that of Mr. Pemberton, formerly principal of 
 A-ndover Academy, Massachusetts ; and Mr. Kellogg that of Mr. 
 McKeen, Beverly, Mass. The final agreement on the successful can- 
 Jidate appears to have been reached without difficulty. 
 
 On the 2d of September, 1802, a president and a' professor were in- 
 augurated, and the college was duly opened. Some particulars of the 
 Say may be found subsequently in the notice of Dr. McKeen. Imme- 
 iiately after, eight young men were admitted into the Freshman Class, 
 and this was Bowdoin College fairly started in the world. Few events 
 af historical importance marked its early years. Jts growth was slow at 
 irst, — a fact which may be ascribed to other causes than want of con- 
 adence in the young college. It had scarcely entered on its career 
 prhen the commercial prosperity of the country received a stunning 
 blow, and sank under a long paralysis. Nowhere was the suffering 
 greater than in Maine, at that time largely engaged in trade and navi- 
 gation, and entirelj' dependent on these interests. During those years 
 of general depression and poverty, few comparatively were able to meet 
 the expense of a liberal education, moderate as that expense then was. 
 
 Notwithstanding its paucity of numbers, the college, from the first, 
 commanded respect. Its standard of requirements, of study, and of 
 discipline was high for that day. Its officers were men of tried abil- 
 ity and excellence. Even its tardy development, though discouraging 
 in some respects, was better than the rapid expansion of sudden pros- 
 perity, as insuring a growth more solid and more uniform. 
 
 In 1803, the trustees found difficulty in getting possession of certain 
 lands which had been given to the college by Mr. Bowdoin. The 
 trouble was caused by " squatters,'' — a class at that time numerous in 
 Maine, and who often made themselves forminable by their lawless 
 tiabits and combined opposition. To secure the rights of the college 
 In the case referred to, it was found necessary to get aid from the law, 
 a,nd from the executive authority of the State. 
 
 In 1804, a tutorship was established and Samuel Willard was the 
 Irst incumbent. In 1806, the professorship of mathematics and natu- 
 ral philosophy was founded, and filled by the election and acceptance 
 of Parker Cleaveland. 
 
 The first Commencement came the first Wednesday of September, 
 1806. Such occasions were then kept as holidays, to which multitudes 
 resorted, as they would go^to a militia muster. Besides this promiscu- 
 3US throng, a higher curiosity and the novelty of the scene brought a 
 (fast multitude to Brunswick from near and from far. Alas ! the long- 
 srished-for day broke on the young aspirants for honor, and on the 
 3rowd of visitors, in a furious tempest of wind and rain. The new, un- 
 
THE COLLEGE FOUNDED. » 
 
 finished meeting-house was filled, notwithstanding, with a drenched and 
 eager audience. The boards, appalled by the violence of the weather, 
 and certain that it could not last long, postponed the exercises to the 
 following day. Thursday came, and the storm, regardless of the ad- 
 journment, still raged ; and so Commencement went on, and was followed 
 by the ball and by a wet night of darkness, filled with blunders, annoy- 
 ances, and disasters innumerable. Happily, there was no fatal acci- 
 dent ; and in after years the first Brunswick Commencement was .re- 
 called by thousands with a sense of the ludicrous, which outlived that 
 of discomfort. 
 
 ' In 1807, the second large building was erected and finished. Dur- 
 ing that summer, the college met with its first great affliction in the 
 death of President McKeen. Several candidates for a successor were 
 brought before the trustees at their meeting of Sept. 1, 1807. At the 
 second trial, Isaac Parker, afterwards Chief Justice of Massachusetts, 
 was elected, but the overseers said no. On the following day they 
 chose Eliphalet Nott, long and honorably known as the president of 
 Union College. Him also the overseers rejected. On the third tiial, 
 Jesse Appleton was elected and confirmed. Mr. Appleton was inau- 
 gurated in December, 1807, and entered forthwith on his duties. The 
 Commencement of 1809 was honored and enlivened by the presence of 
 Governor Gore, who attended by invitation of the board. 
 
 During the first eight years, the students took their meals in a few 
 private houses, which were opened for that purpose. In 1810, by vote 
 of the board, a commons hall was established in Nichols's Inn. The 
 experiment, lUie all such attempts in American colleges, was an utter 
 failure. Justly or not, there was' almost constant complaint of the 
 living, and frequent quarrels with the purveyor. As a school for bad 
 manners, it was wonderfully successful. After a short trial, the 
 nuisance was abated, and private boarding-houses were again in use. 
 By the death of Mr. James Bowdoin, in 1811, the college came into 
 possession of his valuable library and collection of pictures. At the 
 Commencement of 1812, the Eev. William Jenks, by request of 
 the board, delivered a eulogy on this distinguished benefactor of 
 the college. The same year, a professorship of the Oriental and 
 English languages was created, and Dr. Jenks was appointed. 
 
 In 1815, there was some trouble of a financial character. The pri- 
 vate aflTairs of Dr. Porter, who had been the college treasurer for ten 
 years, were found to be hopelessly involved. As the college funds 
 were believed to be in immediate danger, Mr. Benjamin Orr, as agent 
 and counsel for the trustees, went to Bath, and spread an attachment 
 over the entire property of William King, who was surety for his 
 
10 HISTORY OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 3rother-in-law. Gen. King was largely engaged in commerce, and this 
 egal drag-net stopped everything, even his vessels ready for sea. He 
 pt rid of the impediment by securing the college ; but his indignation 
 igainst the immediate actors, in what he called a needless and mali- 
 3ious transaction, was vast and loud. Nor can this be wondered at ; 
 'or besides all the damage it caused to his business, it was a direct 
 mpeachment of his integrity. Party feeling had not then ceased to 
 iisturb with its heat and bitterness the ordinary dealings of men, or 
 3ven their social intercourse. Politically, Orr and King were unre- 
 entlng foes, strong and daring leaders both. I can believe that Mr. 
 3rr was thinkuig mainly of the college, and that he took what he 
 •egarded as the only certain course to save it from ruin ; but Mr. 
 King did not, and perhaps could not believe this. The worst of it 
 ivas, that he became ofjenly hostile to the college, which he looked upon 
 IS a Federalist institution ; and especially to President Appleton and 
 Mr. John Abbot, whom he wrongly regai'ded as Mr. Orr's prime 
 nstigators and abettors. The affair caused no little commotion and 
 ;alk at the time. The friends of the college rejoiced that it had been 
 matched from the verge of bankruptcy. Gen. King resolved that he 
 ivould be revenged, and bided his lime. 
 
 In 1816, the trustees resolved to petition the Legislature to grant a 
 ottery for the benefit of the college. This extravagant and iniquitous 
 ivay of raising money was, at that period, often resorted to by literary 
 md even by benevolent institutions. The overseers, who seem to 
 lave been in advance of the moral sentiment of their day, refused 
 ,heir sanction. Let it be remembered to their credit ! This year Mr- 
 4.bbot resigned his professorship, and was chosen treasurer ; still 
 •emaining librarian, as he had been from the beginning. 
 
 In 1817, the chair of ancient languages remaining unfilled, the 
 lumber of tutors was increased to three. 
 
 President Appleton died in the autumn of 1819. When the boards 
 issembled in the following spring, there was much to consider and 
 nuch to do. An organic change had taken place in the State, which . 
 nust seriously affect the college. Maine ha(J become independent, 
 md was just setting up for herself. The politics of the new State 
 iiffered essentially from those of Massachusetts, and the feelings of 
 ;ome who would now become leaders were' known to b6 unfriendly 
 ;o Bowdoin College. In anticipation of what might happen, some 
 'riendly member of the Massachusetts Legislature had procured 'the 
 nsertion of a clause in the Constitution of Maine which insured to 
 Bowdoin College the continued payment of the legislative grant, and 
 jrovided that the president and trustees and overseers should " have, 
 
THE COLLEGE FOUNDED. 11 
 
 hold, and enjoy their powers and privileges in all respects ; so that 
 the same shall not be subject to be altered, limited, annulled, or re- 
 strained, except by judicial process, according to the principles of 
 law." This clause in the Act of June 19, 1819, had been hailed by 
 President Appleton and others as an invaluable boon, —as offering, 
 in fact, a haven of shelter from the threatening blasts of party and 
 personal animosity. Had that great man been spared, the college 
 would undoubtedly have gone on under the protection of the clause ; 
 nor can we imagine that under his guidance, it would have been suf-' 
 fered to languish through the want of support from without. But the 
 new Constitution contained another important clause, which restrains 
 the legislative body " from making any donation, grant, or endow- 
 ment to any literary institution, unless the said Legislature shall have, 
 at the time of making such endowments, the right to gTant any further 
 powers, to alter, limit, or restrain any of the powers vested in any- 
 such literary institution." No aid could ever come from the State so 
 long as the college should take refuge under the special provision. 
 Should it give up this, it must pass under the control of the Legisla- 
 ture. It would be subject to the caprices of a constantly changing 
 body, and to the uncongenial influences of party prejudice and pas- 
 sion. Such, briefly, was the state of the question presented to the 
 boards at their meeting in May, 1820. 
 
 President Allen, who had been elected with some reference to con- 
 ciliation and compromise, was strongly in favor of the change. The 
 subject elicited an animated discussion. In the lower board, espe- 
 cially, the step, which to some seemed little better than suicidal, was 
 opposed with earnest and even pathetic eloquence. But a majority 
 was in favor of submission, and " the college boards passed a vote, 
 which, after reciting the clause of the Constitution of Maine as to 
 endowments, declared that the consent of the boards be given, that 
 the right may be vested in the Legislature of the State of Maine ; that 
 is, the right to enlarge, alter, limit, or restrain the powers given by 
 the college charter." President Allen was on the committee appointed 
 to carry this vote into effect. Application was immediately made to 
 the Legislatures of Massachusetts and Maine " for their assent to such 
 modification of the college charter as should enable the college con- 
 stitutionally to receive patronage and endowment from the Legislature 
 of Maine." Each Legislature passed resolves in accordance, — Mas- 
 sachusetts on the 12th of June, 1820, and Maine on the 16th of the 
 same month. Massachusetts consented to any modification of the 
 protecting clause which the authorized agents of the college should 
 make with the consent of the Maine Legislature. Maine enacted that 
 
L2 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 he terms and conditions of the clause should (provided the Legislature 
 if Massachusetts shall agree thereto) be so far modified that the 
 Qanagers of the college should hold their power subject to alteration, 
 imitation, restraint, and extension by the Legislature of Maine. The 
 ihange here attempted was one which, according to the express terms 
 if the Act, could be made only by the subsequent agreement of the 
 legislatures of both States. The legislative Acts above mentioned 
 lid not constitute such an agreement. The Maine Act makes no 
 eference to the Massachusetts resolve passed four days before, but 
 loes look to some future act of that State, an act which was never 
 )erformed. This discrepancy or miscarriage, which seeins to have 
 )een unnoticed at the time, turned out, in later years, a matter of 
 lonsiderable importance. 
 
 The Maine Legislature, and the leaders of the party then dominant 
 n the State, soon proceeded to take the college into their own hands. 
 iy the Act of Marcli 19, 1821, the number of trustees was nearly 
 loubled, and that of the overseers was increased by more than a 
 hird. The appointment of these new members, in the first instance, 
 ras given to the governor and council. It may be presumed that Gov- 
 irnor King performed, without reluctance, this particular duty. As 
 he college had now become constitutionally eligible, and politically 
 irthodox, the fond hope was indulged by some that thenceforth it 
 vas to be a nursling of the State, and to bask in the bright sunshine 
 )f legislative bounty! 
 
 A continuance of the grant which had been made to the college by 
 klassachusetts, and which had been appropriated from a tax on banks, 
 vas granted by the Legislature of Maine until the charters of the 
 )anks should expire in 1831. 
 
 At the same time an Act of the Legislature established the Medi 
 )AL School in connection with the college, with an annual grant 
 )f $1,000 during the pleasure of the Legislature.* The project 
 )riginated with President Allen, who had fortunately secured the ser- 
 vices of the eminent Dr. Nathan Smith, of the Medical Department of 
 iTale College, to inaugurate the enterprise. Dr. Smith was a member 
 )f several societies in this country and Europe, was the founder of the 
 yiedical School at Dartmouth College, and distinguished as a physi- 
 ;ian and surgeon. Another gentleman of reputation was appointed 
 ecturer on anatomy and surgery, but had declined, and instruction in 
 ;hat branch was assumed by Dr. Smith. He was, however, assisted 
 )y Dr. John D. Wells, who had just graduated in medicine at Har- 
 
 * The grant ceased ia 1834. 
 
THE COLLEGE FOUNDED. 13 
 
 vard. Dr. "Wells at once gave proofs of dexterity and skill as a dem- 
 onstrator of anatomy, and as a lecturer, which justified his appointment 
 to the chair of anatomy a:t the close of the term ; and he immediately 
 sailed for Europe, -where he spent nearly two years preparing himself 
 for the position. The Faculty appropriated a fund to be expended by 
 him in purchase of books and anatomical preparations for the school, 
 and thus the school was set forth on its way. The third story of 
 Massachusetts Hall had been fitted up for the lectures in anatomy and 
 surgery, and theory and practice ; while the lectures on chemistry and 
 materia medica were given by Prof. Cleaveland on the lowest floor 
 of the building. Subsequent changes were made in that hall for the 
 accommodation of the school, until a gift from Mr. Seth Adams, of 
 Boston, of several thousand dollars, enabled the boards in 1862 to 
 erect, for the accommodation of the school, Adams Hall on what is 
 called the Delta, outside the college grounds In the plan of this 
 commodious and sightly structure, as well as in furtherance of its 
 erection, much was due to the energy and counsel of Prof. Chad- 
 bourne, now president of Williams College, who succeeded Prof. 
 Cleaveland in the chair of chemistry. A detailed history of the growth 
 of this school our limits will not allow. Its character and value may 
 be estimated from the roll of its professors, sketches of whom in the 
 earlier years of the school are given on subsequent pages. It has 
 exerted an important influence on the interests of medical science and 
 general intelligence in the State, thus having far more than repaid the 
 amount expended hj the State in its endowment. 
 
 Various causes combined to increase the number of students, so 
 that in 1822 it was found necessary to erect an additional dormitory, 
 to w'hich was given the name of Wiuthrop Hall. In March, 1821, 
 Maine Hall took fire, and the whole interior was burnt, while the walls 
 were not essential^ impaired. This severe blow to the prosperity of 
 the college was averted by the liberality of the public. Contributions 
 were received in a large number of the Congregational churches in 
 Maine and Massachusetts, and the loss full}' repaired. This hall was 
 burnt a second time in 1836, and rebuilt with better accommodations 
 for its inmates, but with a less pleasing front ; the pediment and 
 entrances in front are missed by the older graduates. 
 
 In September, 1824, were established professorships of moral phi- 
 losophy and metaphj'sics, and of rhetoric and oratory. Rev. Thomas 
 Coggswell Upham, a son of Dartmouth, and who was pastor of the Con- 
 gregational church, Eochester, N. H., was chosen to fill the former, 
 and Prof. Samuel Phillips Newman the latter; Alpheus S. Pac!<ard, 
 then a tutor in the college, was chosen to succeed Prof. Newman in that 
 
14 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 of ancient languages and classical literature. The new professors were 
 inducted into office in February, 1825. Prof. Newman conducted also 
 instructions in civil polity and political economy, and soon published 
 a treatise on the last-named subject, which was well received. In 
 1825, William Smyth, tutor in the college, became associate professor 
 of mathematics and natural philosophy, and soon after entered on a 
 full professorship. In 1829, Henry W. Longfellow (1825) was elected 
 first professor of modern languages, towards the foundation of which 
 $1,000 had been bequeathed by Mrs. Dearborn, formerly Mrs. James 
 Bowdoin. In 1835, Mr. Longfellow accepted an invitation to succeed 
 Prof. Ticknor in a similar position at Harvard. 
 
 The year 1831 was to the college a year of special interest. Dur- 
 ing the eleven years which had elapsed since President Allen was 
 inaugurated, the favor which at first attended him had suffered abate- 
 ment. Though a man of high character, and an officer of unques- 
 tioned ability and fidelit3-, he had somehow become in some - quarters 
 unpopular. There was no chance of removing him by impeachment. 
 The mode adopted was of a kind that only politicians would devise. 
 On the 31st of March, 1831, the Maine Legisla;ture passed an Act 
 making the office of college presidents annually elective, and requir- 
 ing for an election or re-election two thirds of the votes cast. It 
 decreed that this office should thenceforth be held at the pleasure of 
 the electing board, and that fees for diplomas should no longer be 
 regarded as perquisites. 
 
 In the meeting of the boards in September, this Act at once came 
 up. The trustees voted " to acquiesce " ; the overseers " disagreed." 
 The trustees were willing to re-elect Dr Allen, if he would only prom- 
 ise to decline. A committee waited on him, and asked whether he 
 would accept, if elected ; but he refused to consider the question. 
 Of seventeen ballots cast, William Allen had seven. The election of 
 a president was then postponed to the next regular meeting, and the 
 duties of the office were devolved upon the professors. In the pre- 
 sumption that the case would be carried into the courts, Mr. Longfel- 
 low was appointed solicitor in behalf of the trustees, and instructed 
 to ask the Legislature to look after the affair. A committee which 
 tiad been appointed the year before to petition the Legislature for a 
 continuance of the annuity reported that they had performed the 
 duty, and without success. 
 
 A joint committee was appointed to ask the repeal of the recent 
 " Act respecting Colleges," so far as it relates to the two-thirds vote, 
 and also to renew the application for pecuniary aid. It consisted of 
 Gen. King and Reuel Williams, trustees, and of R. P. Dunlap, Charles 
 Dummer, and Williams Emmons, overseers. 
 
THE COLLEGE FOUNDED. 15 
 
 At the next annual meeting, Sept. 5, 1832, Mr. Longfellow informed 
 the trustees that the Legislature had declined to malte, in the courts, 
 any defence of its own Act. Gen. King and his colleagues had also 
 failed in both parts of their application. So far as the two-thirds vote 
 was concerned, the trustees wished to petition again ; but the over- 
 seers said no. 
 
 Meanwhile, President Allen had been taking measures for the recov- 
 ery of his position He removed his family to Newburjport, and by 
 residence in Massachusetts qualified himself to bring an action in 
 the United States courts. The case came on for trial at the May 
 term of the Circuit Court, holden at Portland in 1833, Judge Story 
 on the bench. The district judge, Ashur Ware, being a trustee, did 
 not sit. The defendant in the action was Joseph McKeen, the col- 
 lege treasurer, and the alleged object was recovery of the salary which 
 belonged to the plaintiff as president of the college. Mr. Simon 
 Greenleaf , for Dr. Allen, presented his case with great clearness and 
 strength. Mr. Longfellow, with a weaker cause, pleaded ingeniously 
 on the side of the trustees. The Court decided that tlie plaintiff could 
 recover his fees, but not his salarj'. None the less, however, did this 
 decision completely reinstate him in the presidential chair. But the 
 Court went much further. In an argument that carries conviction at 
 every step. Judge Story shows that the entire action of the Maine 
 Legislature in its tampering with the coUege had been unconstitu- 
 tional, and of course invalid. The thirteen trustees and the fifteen 
 overseers who were added at one time to the boards, and the gov- 
 ernor, who was made an ex officio trustee, had really no title to the 
 seats which they occupied. In fact, the college was restored to the 
 very position which it held under the protecting clause in the Separat- 
 ing Act. Not only in consideration of the change which this great 
 legal opinion wrolight in the fortunes and prospects of the college, Tjut 
 as being an invaluable exposition of fundamental law for all col- 
 leges and all time, I give in the appendix a condensed statement of 
 its main points.* 
 
 The question in regard to President Allen being thus decisively set- 
 tled, he resumed at once his place and duties The decision and the 
 opinion of Mr. Justice Story were somewhat differently regarded by 
 the two boards. The overseers, at their annual meeting in 1834, 
 voted that the number of their board ought not to exceed forty-five, 
 and chose a committee to report the names of all those who were not 
 legally members, with a plan for reducing the number, if found to 
 
 * See Appehdix No. 1. 
 
16 HISTORr OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 exceed forty-five. This committee consisted of George Evans, Charles 
 S. Daveis, and "William Cutter. 
 
 The trustees appear to have taken another view of the matter. 
 They regarded the judge's opinion, so far as it related to the increase 
 of the boards by legislative action, as extra-judicial, and therefore as 
 not binding on them. They took -no measures to reduce their num- 
 ber ; still, there was a tacit understanding that the places of any who 
 might die or resign should not be filled until the board, by this pro- 
 cess, should be brought down to its original thirteen. This result 
 was reached ten years later, when only one of the twelve who came 
 in together in 1820 remained in the board. This gentleman, Judge 
 Weston, held his seat until his death in 1872. 
 
 The overseers, at their regular meeting in 1835, resolved, in effect, 
 that the appointment of members to their board, under the Act of 
 March 19, 1821, gave no right to seats there; also, that elections 
 made when the board consisted of the full number of forty-five — 
 elections which included the president of the college and the secre- 
 tary of the trustees — were equally invalid ; also, that certain persons, 
 forty in number, whose names had been reported by their committee, 
 were entitled to seats, thus leaving five vacancies to be filled. 
 
 The religious historj' of the institution deserves special notice. The 
 truths and duties of morality and religion, in accordance with the 
 design of its founders, have always been faithfully and ably inculcated. 
 Near the close of the last and the earlier part of the present century, 
 it is well known, there was in the community a low state of religious 
 principle, the influence of which was felt in its colleges. The private 
 diary of President Apple ton records his deep solicitude on this account 
 regarding the college. Graduates of that period have often referred 
 to his efforts in the church, where he often preached, and in chapel, to 
 resist the evil and awaken interest in religious truths. When there was 
 not a professed Christian among the students, he was greatly encour- 
 aged by the admission of a student in 1810, who to highly respecta- 
 ble scholarship added the charms of a piety deep, fervent, yet unob- 
 trusive. Alone among his fellow-students f he yet sustained, in the 
 midst of thoughtlessness, and at times open immorality, a Christian 
 character without reproach to the end of his college course, which to 
 him was almost the end of life, as he almost literally descended from the 
 Commencement platform to the grave.* The memory of Cargill was 
 long cherished with respect and affection by contemporaries in college. 
 He could warn and counsel without exciting aversion to the truth or 
 
 * See the president's allusion to the event in his baccalaureate, 1815, near the close. 
 
THE COLLEGE FOUNDED. 17 
 
 himself. In 1812, Frederic Southgate (1810) was appointed tutor, — 
 lovely in Christian character, respected as a scholar and a man. 
 His fervent piety always shone with mild radiance. Many for 
 years could recall the affectionate counsel and earnest exhortation 
 to a life of purity and devotion which fell from his lips even in 
 the class-room. It seemed a mysterious Providence which removed 
 him by pulmonary disease before he had completed half his year 
 of service. He established the Saturday-evening religious meeting, 
 at first often conducted by students, which has been sustained and 
 has contributed much to the moral and religious life of the institution. 
 In the following year, two or three students of decided religious char- 
 acter were admitted to college, — an accession which, the diary reveals, 
 was regarded as of great importance and encouragement. In the 
 autumn of 1816, there were indications of unusual interest in religious 
 things ; and several gave evidences, as the diary of President Apple- 
 ton testifies, " of being transformed bj- the renewing of the mind, while 
 others were serious." The college has been thus favored repeatedly 
 in subsequent j'ears. 
 
 President Allen, on his return to the college in 1833, had been met 
 with much of that sympathj- and welcome which men usually give to 
 him who has made a manly and successful struggle. And all the more 
 cordially was he thus regarded, as having won the battle not for him- 
 self alone : In his restoration, man}' saw the vindication of great prin- 
 ciples, and the deliverance of the college from that political thraldom, 
 under which his own early influence had done so much to place it. But 
 the warm flush of grateful emotion soon passes awaj'. In the course 
 of four or flve years, President Allen became convinced that he could 
 no longer be useful or happy at Brunswick. Accordingly, on the 5th 
 of September, 1838, his resignation, to take place in 1839, was ten- 
 dered and accepted. 
 
 By vote of the boards, the tenure of the presidential ofHce was 
 changed from " good behavior" to the pleasure of the boards, under 
 certain conditions of hearing and notice. The salary was flxed at 
 $1,500 and a house free. 
 
 On the 15th of November, 1838, the tmstees, at a special meeting, 
 elected for president the Rev. Chauncej' A. Goodrich, one of the most 
 distinguished scholars and professors of Yale College ; but he was not 
 acceptable to the overseers. The trustees concluded to let winter pass 
 before they would try again. 
 
 Maj- 8, 1839, the boards were again in session, and the trustees sent 
 down the name of William G. Goddard, a professor in Brown Univer- 
 sity. The overseers declined to confirm the choice. Leonard Woods, 
 
18 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 then a professor at Bangor, was chosen the next day, and was 
 accepted by the lower board. 
 
 The Commencement of 1839 was diversified and brightened by the 
 inauguration of the new and youthful president, wliose address on that 
 occasion was much admired. On the other hand, many were made sad 
 by the resignation and departure of Prof. Newman, who had been for 
 twenty years a very active and useful college officer. 
 
 At the May meeting of this year, the students, undeterred by former 
 failures, again presented their grievance to the boards, in an earnest 
 petition tliat the system of ranking as to Commencement parts should 
 be abolished. This persistent action of the undergraduates does not 
 seem to accord with. common experience. The question will arise. 
 How could such opinions and such wishes prevail among a large body 
 of young men, — a class usually so quick to feel the promptings of 
 ambition, and so eager for those distinctions which reward successful 
 competition ? That indolence and incapacity might not object to being 
 put forward as on the same footing with industry and tdlent, all can 
 understand ; but that the laborious and accomplished scholar should 
 ask to stand on a level with the lazy and the dull is something con- 
 trary to nature. Yet this Brunswick phenomenon is not wholly inex- 
 plicable. During the third and fourth decades of our century, a good 
 deal was said and a good deal was written on the subject of education. 
 In many parts of New England, a desire for reform and a spirit of 
 improvement took possession of the public mind. As usually happens 
 in such movements, the zeal of some soon outran their discretion, and 
 carried them to absurd extremes. Among those writers and talkers 
 were two or three amiable men who imagined that they had found in 
 the principle of emulation the grand disease of school and college, — 
 a virus fatal to the moral constitution, which had too often been 
 inserted and nursed by teachers themselves. Once rid of this, the 
 path of improvement would be comparatively smooth. These views, 
 urged with great earnestness and evident sincerity, influenced man}^. 
 Among those who adopted them in full was a distinguished son of 
 Bowdoin, — President Lord, of Dartmouth College. Through his com- 
 manding influence, the ranking system at Hanover was done away, 
 and the Commencement parts were made all alike. Here, then, the 
 j'outhful advocates of reform at Brunswick had example as well as 
 precept. 
 
 And, now let it be remembered that there are undeniable evils — 
 misapplications and abuses, in fact — which attend every effort to 
 encourage merit by means of discriminating honors ; that many young 
 men, overrating the value of these distinctions, make them the highest, 
 
THE COLLEGE FOUNDED. 19 
 
 if not the sole motive to exertion, dwarfing mind and character by the 
 narrowness of their aims, and losing, perhaps, all ambition when this 
 factitious stimulus is gone ; that the dispensers of honor are not infal- 
 lible, and that their most judicious awards not uufrequently fail to com- 
 mand approval ; that angry rivahies, jealousies, disappointments, and 
 resentments are too often witnessed in the strife for " parts.'' Eemem- 
 ber, also, how easilj- public opinion is sometimes created and diffused in 
 the compact community of a college ; that an active pai-tj- once formed 
 grows fast ; that more than half of every class would be lifted up, rather 
 than depressed, by the removal of all distinctive honors ; and finally, 
 that the few who would be losers might put their names to such a 
 petition rather than incur the odium of refusal, or in the hope to be 
 praised for their generous self-sacrifice. 
 
 On this occasion the boards referred the whole subject to a commit- 
 tee, whose report, adverse to the petition, was rendered and accepted 
 at their meeting in September, thus putting the question to rest. As 
 this subject is one of great importance and of universal interest, I 
 must refer, in conclusion, to the calm and admirable statement of the 
 case which was made by Mr. Ebenezer Everett in the report of the 
 visiting committee of 1836, to a brief and pithj- paragi-aph from Judge 
 Preble's caustic pen in the report of 1839, and to the report of the 
 committee to whom the matter was finallj' assigned.* 
 
 Financiallj', at this time, the college was in straits. To meet cur- 
 rent expenses, the treasurer was authorized to borrow $2,600. The 
 visiting Committee of the j'car, by their chairman Preble, refer to this 
 condition of affairs with some significant and important suggestions. 
 The plan proposed was to pay quarterly, from the treasury, §1,000 
 to the president and $500 to each professor, and then to divide the 
 whole of the tuition money equallj- among those officers. The mode of 
 compensation thus recommended was adopted by the trustees ; but the 
 overseers non-concurred, — unwisely and unfortunately, as it appears 
 to me. The reasoning of that report is conclusive and irresistible. 
 The method proposed is in accordance with experience, and com- 
 mends itself to common-sense. The opportunity was favorable for 
 the experiment, which might at least have been tried. 
 
 This lynx-eyed committee of 1839 found a good many things out of 
 order. Some parts of the old college dormitory were unfit to live in. 
 The law in regard to the college library was violated by everybody, 
 but especiallj- by the members of the executive government. Its vol- 
 umes were scattered all over the State ; and all this in spite of its 
 
 * Appendix No. 2. 
 
20 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 energetic librarian, Prof. Goodwin. The law was peremptory that no 
 student should enjoy the privileges of the college until he had given 
 bonds to the treasurer; yet sixteen young men who had given no 
 bonds were in actual enjoyment of those privileges. The boards had 
 appropriated S20 annually as a prize for the best declamations ; but 
 there had been no declamations. After specifying other, neglects of 
 duty and violations of law, the committee soothingly added that few 
 colleges were favored with oflScers more intelligent and faithful, and 
 concluded with this remark, of general application: "There is so 
 much of mere routine in a college life, so little to excite, to stimulate, 
 to awaken, that when the head ceases to be vigilant, remissness, and 
 abuses even, will creep in." 
 
 During the eight years which preceded 1837, tutors were dispensed 
 with ; the instruction being given wholly by professors, who had rooms 
 in college, which they occupied more or less during the day. "While 
 this regimen, induced by sheer necessity, was in force, it was some- 
 times claimed as a special advantage, which colleges with tutors did 
 not possess, — it being a great thing that mature intellect and' ripe 
 scholarship should thus constantly be brought into contact with the 
 pupil. Notwithstanding this, there had been for some time a grow- 
 ing conviction that the interests of the college required a return to its 
 former practice in regard to tutors. The need and the utility of this 
 -class of officers were presented in the report of 1839, with that ability 
 which characterized every effort of Judge Preble. The considerations 
 there presented relate to a policy of permanent importance, and deserve 
 a permanent record.* 
 
 THE DECLARATION. 
 
 During the disastrous years which immediately followed the great 
 land speculations in Maine, the college suffered not a little in its 
 finances. The banks, in which a considerable part of its small prop- 
 erty was placed, paid no dividends, while some of them lost their cap- 
 ital. The institution was in distress. To' all who knew its situation, 
 it was evident that some increase of its funds had become a matter of 
 the first necessity. The recent separation of. the college from all 
 State management, in consequence of the decision and the super- 
 added opinion of Judge Story, entirely precluded hope of aid from 
 that quarter. Under these circumstances, one of the professors was 
 sent out to present the case and ask for help. His mission proved 
 
 * Appendix No. 2. 
 
THE DECLARATION. 21 
 
 abortive * Among the Orthodox Congregationalists, to whom the col- 
 lege naturally looked for its principal patronage and support, doubts 
 had arisen in regard to its denominational position, and its probable 
 future in that respect. For all they cared, the impoverished college 
 might still go a-begging, unless it should be put, in this particular, on 
 a known and sure foundation. It was under these circumstances, and 
 for the purpose of removing this impediment, that the Declaration 
 was put forth. This paper was signed by eleven of the trustees, and 
 by thirty-four overseers. Through its consequences, direct and inci- 
 dental, it has already acquired historical importance. It runs as 
 follows : — 
 
 DECLAKATION.f 
 
 Whereas, It has been deemed desirable by some of tlie friends of Bowdoin 
 College that it's position in relation to the religious instruction which shall 
 be given in the college, and in regard to the denominational character which 
 it shall profess, should be clearly understood, and also that some reasonable 
 assurance of its fliture policy should be furnished to those who are disposed 
 to contribute to its support : now, the undersigned, members of the trustees 
 and overseers of the college, do hereby declare, — 
 
 First, That they regard it as a permanent principle in the administration of 
 the college that science and literature are not to be separated from morals and 
 religion. Against such a separation the charter of the college has guarded, 
 by requiring that its funds shall be appropriated, not only for improvement in 
 the "liberal arts and sciences," but also In "such a manner as shall most 
 effectually promote virtue and piety." 
 
 Second, That they are of opinion this object can be most fully accom- 
 plished, and at the same time the pecuniary ability of the college increased, 
 by a known and established denominational character and position, whereby 
 the college may be entitled to appeal for support to some particular portion 
 of the community, by whom the corresponding obligation to afford it is recog- 
 nized. 
 
 Third, That although there is nothing expressly said in the college charter 
 which requires it to have any particular denominational position ; yet, from 
 its foundation, it has been and still is of the Orthodox Congregational denom- 
 ination, as indicated by the state of the religious community in Maine when 
 the college was established, by the religious instruction which has heretofore 
 
 * The editor, one of the professors referred to in what follows, may be justified in 
 adding that near the close of 1841, in pursuance of a vote of the boards at the annual 
 meeting in the September preceding, the Taculty issued a circular, setting forth the 
 wants of the college, and appealing to its alumni and friends. During the winter 
 vacation, the president and three of the professors visited the principal towns of the 
 State ; and in the following spring, Hon. S. P. Benson was requested to act as special 
 agent for the object. The result of these efforts was so meagre that the project was 
 abandoned. 
 
 t The original of this Declaration is left in the keeping of Prof. Smyth. 
 
22 HISTORY OF BOWJ;OIN COLLEGE. 
 
 been given, and by the opinions of its former and present presidents, and of 
 a large portion of tliose who have been engaged in its government and instruc- 
 tion. 
 
 Fourth, That they consider any attempt to modify or change the character 
 which it has so long maintained, unwise and inexpedient, and they have no 
 purpose or expectation of making such an attempt. 
 
 Fifth, That in their opinion the boards of trustees and overseers and the 
 academic Faculty should be composed of those who are competent and willing 
 to perform their respective duties in a manner not to impair or restrain, or 
 in any degree conflict with the moral and religious instruction which is de- 
 signed to be given in the college, in harmony with its denominational charac- 
 ter as herein defined, care beipg taken that such instruction be given by ofil- 
 cers of that religious faith. 
 
 Sixth, That although no purpose or expectation is entertained of attempt- 
 ing any change in the character of the college in the foregoing particulars, 
 yet if, in the progress of opinions and events, it shall result that the " liberal 
 ai'ts and sciences, virtue and piety," can be more successfully advanced by 
 some modification or changes, nothing herein expressed is to be understood 
 as forbidding the trustees and overseers of that day from adopting such 
 measures as shall best promote the ends of the college, and the advancement 
 of religion and knowledge, a proper regard being always had to the circum- 
 stances and motives which induced this Declaration. 
 
 Seventh, The undersigned make this Declaration as a basis of action, in the 
 expectation and hope that it will secure the highest results of literature and 
 piety ; and that it will not only fUrnish a basis for pecuniary aid, but will also 
 effect a conciliation of different views and interests, and thus present the col- 
 lege in the most favorable and satisfactory light before the public. 
 
 With this document, and a subscription paper in accordance, the 
 same agent (Prof. Upham) again went fprth to ask aid for the col- 
 lege. The result was favorable. Subscriptions for more than 870,000 
 were obtained, and almost wholly from Congregationalists. 
 
 Thus far, tlie Declaration seemed to work well. The drooping insti- 
 tution revived. Its offlcers could again get their annual stipend, which, 
 though small, was important. The chapel, long unfinished, could now 
 be completed. A professorship devoted to religious instruction and 
 pastoral care was established, and abeady filled by a distinguished 
 man. • 
 
 But a difficulty soon arose, relating mainly to the true interpretation 
 of the declaratory document. A majority of the upper board were 
 known to differ, either doctrinally or ecclesiastically, from the Orthodox 
 Congregationalists. Three of them, indeed, having declined to sign 
 the paper, acknowledged no fealty towards it. Some of those who 
 had been active in bringing forward the new basis, and in raising funds 
 upon the strength of it, now contended that in order to make it certain 
 and to insure public confidence, a majority of the trustees should indi- 
 
THE DECLARATION. 23 
 
 viduall3- belong to the denomination in which the college was classed. 
 This result they wished to see accomplished, not by resignation of 
 existing memberS, but by the choice of orthodox men as vacancies 
 should occur. Something like this was required, they said, by the 
 spirit, if not by the very letter of the Declaration. While this view 
 ■was held by a large proportion of the overseers, it was resisted by a 
 majority of the trustees. They maintained that they had not bound 
 themselves, and had never thought of binding themselves, to such an 
 extent. In the choice of president or theological professor, they were, 
 as individual signers of the paper, under obligation to vote for an 
 Orthodox Congregationalist. Beyond this, and especially in filling 
 their own vacancies, they felt at liberty to take such course as would, 
 according to their best judgment at the time, be most for the interests 
 of the college. In this respect they believed that a liberal policy, such 
 a policy as they professed to have always aimed at, would secure for 
 the institution the widest influence and the highest usefulness. 
 
 This difference of interpretation and of feeling soon ripened into 
 action. Two or three members elected as trustees were rejected by 
 the overseers, and the vacancies remained unfilled. For three or four 
 3 ears the breach continued to widen. Though the trustees were the 
 executive power, the body in which every act must originate, thej^ 
 were entirely dependent on the lower board, not for efficiency only, 
 but for their very existence, so absolute and so comprehensive was 
 their veto found to be. The prospect was alarming. The trustees, a 
 small band, were growing old, and could neither beget nor adopt those 
 who, in the order of events, might make their places good. The over- 
 seers, on the other hand, were numerous and strong, with full power 
 to bring in new blood of the right quality as fast as wanted. If mat- 
 ters were to go, on so much longer, nothing could save that venerable 
 bod}- from gradual extinction under the ever-tightening embrace of 
 this overseeing anaconda. 
 
 But even in the most terrible crisis, whether of church, college, or 
 state, there is one infallible remedy. As a step towards compromise, 
 the trustees elected a worthy layman of the Orthodox Baptist persua- 
 sion ; he was accepted. Two Orthodox Congregational clergymen 
 have since become members of the board, and the controversy, we 
 trust, is happil}- ended. It has filled too large a space in the public 
 eye, and in the life of the college, not to be mentioned in its annals. 
 In the brief statement above, I have endeavored to give fairly' the 
 grounds on which it rested, without attempting to touch the merits of 
 the question, or meaning to write a word that might tend to revive or 
 to perpetuate feelings which cannot too soon be forgotten. 
 
24 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 * The year 1844 was made memorable in the college history by the 
 sharp contest involving the reyersionary interest of the college in cer- 
 tain property bequeathed by Mr. Bowdoin, the patron of the college, 
 to his nephew, James Temple Bowdoin, by whose death in England 
 the property was supposed to revert to the college. A more detailed 
 statement of the matter, which excited great interest among the 
 friends in Boston, is given in the sketch of President Woods. A 
 paper entitled " The Bowdoin Property Case " is found in Appendix 
 No. 3. 
 
 The year 1852 was signalized by the celebration of the semi-centen- 
 nial of the college ; the first of the kind, we think, except that of the 
 bicentennial of Harvard, in 1836. A committee had been appointed 
 at the preceding Commencement to arrange for the occasion, consist- 
 ing of John O'Brien (1806), John McKeen (1811), Eobert P. Dun- 
 lap (1815), and A. S. Packard (1816). Hon. George Evans, LL. D. 
 (1815), was selected to preside on the occasion ; N. Cleayeland (1813) 
 and Judge John S. Tenney (1816) to deliver addresses on the history 
 of the college and its course of instruction, respectively, and Rev. 
 Ephraim Peabody (1827), a poem. A tent was to be raised on the 
 college grounds for a public dinner. These arrangements were suc- 
 cessfully executed. At 10.30 on the day before Commencement, a 
 procession was formed at the chapel and moved through the front 
 entrance of- the grounds, nearly reaching the church when the rear left 
 the chapel. The alumni filled the floor of the church. After the 
 exercises the procession returned to the tent, and dinner and post- 
 prandial speeches occupied the afternoon to a late hour. The large 
 gathering of graduates, the good-fellowship and cheerful and animat- 
 ing spirit throughout, made this a memorable day in the college 
 annals. „ 
 
 THE CHAPEL. 
 
 The accession, it may be added, to the resources of the college, from 
 the Bowdoin estate, justified the eSbrt to supply a pressing need, which 
 Dr. Woods had felt from the first, — a new cjjapel. Measures were at 
 once taken for this object. The granite was obtained in Brunswick, a 
 few miles from the college ; a plan in the Romanesque style was ob- 
 tained from the well-remembered architect of New York, Mr. Upjohn ; 
 the corner-stone was laid with imposing Masonic ceremonial, Jul}', 
 1845 ; the exterior was raised by workmen from New York ; the interior 
 finished in black-walnut by tlie Messrs. Melcher, of Brunswick, the 
 
 * The items of college history which follow are briefly recounted by A. S. P. 
 
MEMORIAL HALL. 25 
 
 walls in fresco bj' German artists ; and tiie chapel dedicated with ap- 
 propriate services June, 1855, when a discourse was delivered by the 
 Collins professor, Rev. Dr. R. D. Hitchcock. 
 
 The panels were filled subsequently through the gifts of Mr. 
 Walker, Mrs. President Sparks of Cambridge, Nathan Cummings of 
 Portland (1817), Mrs. Wm. Perry of Brunswick, by friends in 
 Brunswick in memory of Dr. John D. Lincoln, and by the class of 
 1866. 
 
 MEMORIAL HALL. 
 
 At the Commencement of 1865, a meeting of the alumni was con- 
 vened at the chapel, the object of which was stated to be, " To con- 
 sider what measures could be taken for a monument or memorial of the 
 sons of Bowdoin who had fallen or taken part personally in the war." 
 After some discussion, on motion of Prof. Harris, of Bangor, subse- 
 quently president of the college, it was resolved unanimously that 
 " In the opinion of the meeting, a memorial building is the form the 
 monument should take." It was urged that in a building, inscrip- 
 tions, busts, portraits, flags, etc., could be presei-ved, and that the 
 college was in need of lecture-rooms, especially of a. hall for exhibi- 
 tions, and one for its collection of paintings, and a common rallying 
 point for the alumni ; and that a committee should be raised, of which 
 Prof Smyth should be chairman, to carry the resolution into effect. 
 The following committee was appointed at the Commencement of 
 1866 : Prof. Smyth, H. H. Boody, New York ; W. L. Putnam, 
 Portland; Joseph Titcomb, Kennebunk; F. M. Drew, Brunswick; 
 D. A. Hawkins, New York; John M. Brown, Portland. At Com- 
 mencement, 1867, it was resolved that the building should be granite, 
 and that a sum not less than 850,000 should be raised for the object. 
 Before Commencement, 1868, plans by S. B. Backus, an architect of 
 New York, French Gothic in style, were accepted, contracts made, 
 and the work of erection begun. Prof. Smyth, who had by personal 
 effort obtained subscriptions to the amount of $30,280, had suddenly 
 died in the spring of that year. Hon. S. P. Benson was chosen treas- 
 urer and agent to collect and procure subscriptions, which eventually 
 amounted to $49,044 ; and Mr. Putnam having retired from the build- 
 ing committee on account of the pressure of other duties. Prof. J. B. 
 Sewall was appointed in his place. The exterior of the hall was com- 
 pleted at the cost of $47,027.53 ; but all the subscriptions not having 
 been collected, the committee — which, on account of distant residences 
 of the rest, virtually consisted of Messrs. Titcomb, Sewall, and Brown 
 — settled the bills by giving their notes for more than $10,000. 
 
26 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 After all efforts of treasurer and committee, the failure of some sub- 
 scriptions being caused by death or adversity, there remained a balance 
 of $6,500, which, at the Commencement of 1880, was assumed by the 
 college. Mrs. Stone, of Maiden, Mass., widow of the late Mr. Daniel 
 P. Stone, of Maiden, Mass., has pledged the amount needed to finish 
 the interior, which will be accomplished, it is hoped, before the Com- 
 mencement of 1882. 
 
 ADAMS HALL. 
 
 The need of the medical school for better accommodations led to 
 the erection of this structure, which owes its name to a generous gift 
 of the late Seth Adams, of Boston. The hall was completed in 1862, 
 and affords every convenience for chemical and medical lectures, ana- 
 tomical cabinet, dissecting-rooms, and medical library ; an extensive 
 herbarium collected by Rev. Joseph Blake (1835), and given to the 
 college by his brother, Hon. Samuel H. Blake (1827) ; and a labora- 
 tory and apparatus rooms. 
 
 The removing of the medical school from Massachusetts Hall opened 
 the way for great changes in that hall in 1873, through the munificence 
 of Peleg W". Chandler, LL. D. (1834), especially for the proper dis- 
 posal of the cabinet of minerals and shells, collected mostly by Prof. 
 Cleaveland ; the two upper stories being thrown into one, and the roof 
 raised a few feet, it became a spacious apartment, which for beauty 
 and effect is unsurpassed. The porch on the eastern side was also 
 raised a story, and a tasteful and commodious entrance afforded to 
 what is called the Cleaveland cabinet An admirable inscription pre- 
 pared by N. Cleaveland, LL. D. (1813), on a marble slab, and a son- 
 net (autograph) of Prof. H. W. Longfellow, LL. D., J. C. D. Oxon. 
 (1825), with photographs of Prof. Cleaveland and Prof. Long^llow, 
 adorn and grace the vestibule. The opening of Adams Hall and this 
 renewal of the oldest of the college halls were celebrated by appro- 
 priate exercises and made memorable by the addresses, in the former 
 of President Woods, and in the latter of N. Cleaveland. The lower 
 floor of Massachusetts Hall is devoted to a i;pcitation and lecture room 
 and the treasurer's offices. 
 
 ' COLLEGE GROUNDS. 
 
 The "college yard" during the first forty years contained scarcely 
 more than a fourth of its present area. The south fence ran from the 
 north end of Appleton to Maine Street in front ; and the rest of the 
 present grounds to College Street, and the whole area in rear of 
 the halls to the pines and to Cleaveland Street was open common. 
 
SOCIETIES. 27 
 
 The interior,. with the exception of what constituted the president's 
 garden in the southwestern portion, was an uncultivated barren waste, 
 without shade, except from the balm-of-G Heads and a single elm on 
 the borders. 
 
 At the opening of the college, a plan of the yard was prepared by 
 a Mr. Parris, a Boston architect, which the writer once saw, but 
 which, it is supposed, was burnt with the treasurer's office, in the 
 building that stood at the corner of Cleaveland and Maine Streets. 
 This plan provided for a planting of the yard with trees on the bor- 
 ders, and in square and diamond figures ; and trees were set in the 
 sandy soil, but the balm-of-Gileads had alone sui-vived. At a later 
 period the attempt of tree planting was renewed under wiser methods, 
 by college authority or by successive classes of students as a holiday 
 service, with better success. Somewhat later, a landscape gardener 
 from Massachusetts was employed, who devised the tree border in 
 waving lines, which now adorns (some may say conceals) the halls 
 and grounds from the passer-by ; shrubbery and flower beds have 
 been set, the area enlarged and enclosed, and well-kept walks been 
 laid, the whole college campus being thus rendered spacious and at- 
 tractive to the visitor. Ivy day, a recent institution, promises to clothe 
 the walls of the chapel in living green. 
 
 SOCIETIES, 
 
 Literarj' or social, were formed in the early jears of the college ; 
 the3' had a, temporary existence only, and need not be more partic- 
 ularl3- referred to. Two, however, have made an important portion 
 of its history. 
 
 The Pencinian dates from Nov. 22, 1805. Eight students, conspic- 
 uous on its catalogue as founders, from social motives and for literary 
 purposes, united in what was called the Philomathian, in the j-ear fol- 
 lowing changed to Pencinian, and adopting as a motto, Pinos loquentes 
 semper habemus, thus indicating the source of the new name. Its 
 first public meeting, September, 1807, was addressed by Mr. Charles 
 S. Daveis (1807) , whose performance attracted attention, and was pub- 
 lished in the " Boston Anthology '' with a highly complimentary notice, 
 ascribed to Eev. Joseph S. Buckminster, one of the editors, then a 
 brilliant star in the firmament of Boston In 1814, a new organization 
 was made into what was called the " General Society," embracing 
 graduates and undergraduates, which was to be supeiTisor^-, while the 
 undergraduate societj' was to make its own regulations, subject to the 
 approval of the general society. 
 
28 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 The Athencean had existed at an earlier date, but had dissolved, 
 and some of its members were received into the Penciaian. The 
 rivalry which had existed between the two societies was gracefully (as 
 we of the time thoiight) referred to in the acceptance of one of the 
 disbanded rivals of this invitation to the survivor: "Having been 
 grievously pierced by the spear of Minerva [Athena], I with pleasure 
 take refuge under the shadow of the pine." In consequence of what 
 was regarded an exclusive spirit in its choice of members on the part 
 of the Pencinian, when it had the whole field to itself, and the jeal- 
 ousies and irritation thus awakened, the Athensean was revived in 
 1815 ; a movement which, as was natural, excited a lively interest in 
 the college world. A spirited rivalry was at once awakened in mem- 
 bership, literary character, libraries, and public exhibitions. Both 
 societies had the same general organization, and their anniversaries, 
 both graduate and undergraduate, next to Commencement, were the 
 notable public occasions of the college year. Each society secured 
 an act of incorporation. Next to securing members, their zeal was 
 expended on their libraries, largely gifts of undergraduates. In the 
 second burning of Maine Hall, the flre having taken in " north end" 
 on the same floor with the Athenaean library, that treasure was con- 
 sumed, while the Pencinian in the "southern end" was saved; but 
 earnest devotion and enterprise of graduates and undergraduates rap- 
 idly supplied the loss suffered by the former. Their libraries at last 
 numbered from five to six thousand volumes each, and did credit to 
 the judgment and taste as to the zeal of the members. Each society 
 issued catalogues of graduate and undergraduate members. Their 
 reunions at Commencement drew past members to the annual holiday, 
 and freshened and brightened college ties. Older graduates testify to 
 the value of these associations in their debates and literary exercises ; 
 and are apt to regard it as unfortunate, to say the least, that the 
 introduction, begun in 1842, of what are termed the Greek-letter soci- 
 eties has so monopolized the college spirit as to supplant at last the 
 older and venerable associations. 
 
 An outgrowth of each of these societies may be referred to, — the 
 Caluvian and the Alpha Phi, each designed especially for the cultiva- 
 tion of science. They were short-lived, but had collected cabinets 
 and a few paintings, which were transferred to the college. 
 
 The Praying Circle, which has existed more than sixty years, is 
 referred to in the religious history of the college. 
 
 The Theological Society, although more a moral than a theological 
 society, wjis in active life in 1812 ; its object, as stated in its constitu- 
 tion, being the pursuit of truth. It accimiulated a library, which was lost 
 
SOCIETIES. 29 
 
 in the conflagration of 1821, but was renewed and enhanced in value 
 by gifts of friends in college and from without. The society ceased its 
 existence in 1848, and its library now maj' be seen in an alcove of the 
 college library. The report of a committee ascribed its decline to the 
 interest engrossed by other associations. 
 
 The. Benevolent Society, instituted in 1815, designed to afford relief 
 to such students as needed it, was composed of members of college, 
 graduates, and Mends, and for several 3-ears rendered aid by loans. 
 Its resources were donations in money, furniture, text-books, etc. On 
 the evening before Commencement, a public address was delivered 
 before the society in the church, after which a contribution was taken 
 for its benefit, and the liberally minded made it an object to be pres 
 ent for the advantage of this contribution. The records show that a 
 large number of undergraduates were thus helped on their way. The 
 society received an act of incorporation in 1826, but it did not long 
 survive this public recognition of its worthy object. 
 
 The Phi Beta Kappa, the most vqnerable of college societies in the 
 country, dates from 1776, when it was formed at William and Mary's, 
 Williamsburg, Va. It was an association of young men, with no thought 
 of its extension beyond their own college. In 1779, Elisha Parmelee, 
 who had been two years in Yale and graduated from Harvard, on a 
 visit at Williamsburg was introduced into the society. This suggested 
 the idea, it would seem, of establishing branches or Alphas in Harvard 
 and Yale, and on his return he took a charter for each. It is singular 
 that the society which thus originated and propagated an institution 
 that took root and flourished elsewhere in many vigorous stems, itself 
 soon after died, in consequence probably of the closing of William and 
 Mary in 1781 by the war of the Revolution. It became extinct ; the 
 original records were sealed tip and placed in the custodj"- of the stew- 
 ard of the college. Seventy years after, they were found and opened, 
 and the society was revived by the grandsons of its original founders. 
 The charter party,, ui^der which the Alpha of Maine was founded, 
 came from the Connecticut Alpha, of course sanctioned by the other 
 affiliated branches, and bears the date of Oct. 25, 1824. Unlike other 
 branches, this Alpha made it a rule that no undergraduate should be 
 admitted, thus modifying much its character. A literary committee 
 was created, to assign subjects connected with useful knowledge and 
 the public good to different members, and papers were to be read at 
 the annual meeting. Papers were accordingly read at several of the 
 earlier meetings by prominent members. But in time this promising 
 design fell into disuse. Of later years, the only public occasion has 
 been the address, and at times a poem on the day following Commence- 
 ment. 
 
30 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 '^Music, vocal and instrumental, has been alwaj's cultivated more or 
 less in the college. A society for the cultivation of sacred music was 
 in active operation during the college life of the writer. In subsequent 
 years the LocJchart Society was sustained by an unusual amount of 
 musical talent, furnishing music for chapel services, and leaving proof 
 of its enterprise and spirit in the organ, for which it raised three hun- 
 dred dollars, and left it in trust to the boards of the college. In still 
 later years, instrumental music has at times been successfully cultivated j 
 and furnished music for exhibitions. 
 
 BENEFACTIONS. 
 
 It becomes the college, as it is due to those who have contributed 
 to its means of instruction, to make special mention of those who 
 have in later years, by their benefactions, manifested interest in its 
 welfare. Mr. Cleaveland prepared with care a statement of earlier 
 donations, which it is thought best not to embrace in the history, for 
 want of space. His record will be deposited with the treasurer of 
 the college. In the account of the library, subsequently in " Eemi- 
 niscences," mention is made of the more considerable accessions from 
 time to time. It remains to refer to other tokens of friendly interest 
 in the college. 
 
 The heart of Prof. Cleaveland was made glad several years ago by 
 a beautiful and extensive eonchological cabinet, the gift of the late 
 Dr. George Shattuck, of Boston, which enabled him to embrace in 
 his lectures that department of natural history, to the great gratifica- 
 of his pupils. 
 
 In 1858, Henry B. Haskell, M. D. (1855), a missionary physician at 
 Mosul on the Tigris, under the American Board of Commissioners for 
 Foreign Missions, offered, through Prof. Cleaveland, to obtain a set 
 of Assyrian sculptures from the buried remains of Nineveh, provided 
 the college would bear the expense of transportation. At an outlay 
 of five to six hundred dollars, these interesting relics were received 
 and placed in the vestibule of the north entrance to the library. 
 
 John Bundy Brown, Esq., of Portland, founded four scholarships, 
 and gave $10,000 for the general purposes of the college. 
 
 The donations of Mr. Seth Adams, of Boston, and of Hon. Samuel 
 H. Blake have been referred to elsewhere. 
 
 When the Cleaveland cabinet was removed to its new hall, friends 
 in Brunswick and vicinity purchased for its gallery the collection of 
 birds made by Dr. N. S. B. Cushmau, of Wiscasset. 
 
 In 1875, Mrs. Margaret Elton, of Boston, and Miss Hannah F. 
 
JAMES BOWDOIN. 31 
 
 Allen, daughters of the late Frederic Allen, LL. D, of Gardiner, 
 gave a valuable geological and mineralogical collection, which was 
 their mother's, and which now fills an alcove in the cabinet, — a me- 
 morial of their mother's interest in science and of the connection of 
 their family with the history of the college. 
 
 It should also be stated that the late Mrs. Amos Lawrence, of Bos- 
 ton, sister of Mrs. President Appleton, gave $6,000 as a fund for the 
 aid of deserving students. By the liberality of other friends, twenty- 
 two scholarships have been founded for the same purpose. 
 
 In 1880, Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, Maiden. Mass., endowed the Stone 
 professorship of intellectual and moral philosoph}' ; and Henry Wink- 
 ley, Esq., of Philadelphia, the Winkley professorship of the Latin 
 language and literature. Mrs. Stone's liberality in favor of the Me- 
 morial Hall has been already referred to. 
 
 JAMES BOWDOIN. 
 
 The Rowdoin family are of Huguenot descent. On the revocation of 
 the Edict of Nantes, among the refugees from France who took refuge 
 in America was Pierre Baudouin, who came from the famous town of 
 Eochelle, and landed at Casco, now Portland, in 1687. Soon after their 
 arrival, the family name, as was common with the French refugees, 
 was anglicized by them into Peter Bowdoin. Two years after, they 
 abandoned a region constantly exposed to attacks from Indians, and 
 removed to Boston. The father soon died, and the son, becoming a 
 thrifty merchant;, laid the foundations of the fortunes of the family. 
 His portrait, as well as those of son and grandson, now adorns the 
 college gallery of paintings. The son of the merchant became the 
 eminent James Bowdoin of Revolutionary fame, who succeeded in 
 IT-'o Gov. Hancock in the gubernatorial chair of Massachusetts, and 
 by his patriotism, energy of character, and liberal and scientific at- 
 tainments gained an honorable name in history. When by legislative 
 act the college received the historic name it bears, Hon. James Bow- 
 doin, son of the governor, became its munificent patron by gifts of 
 lands, apparatus, and money in his lifetime, and at his death bj^ mak- 
 ing it a residuary legatee by will. 
 
 Mr. Bowdoin was born in Boston in 1752 ; graduated at Harvard, 
 1771. On account of his health, he went to England, prosecuted, 
 study nearly a year at Oxford University, and travelled on the Conti- 
 nent until the news of the battle of Lexington hastened his return to 
 take his part in the threatened conflict; but his infirm constitution 
 unfitted him for the service and exposure of the camp. On the night 
 
32 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLBGK. 
 
 on which Washington threw up the redoubt on Dorchester Heights, 
 which compelled the British to evacuate Boston, he was accompanied 
 by this young man. He also crossed over from Cambridge in the 
 same boat with Washington after the departure of the British, and 
 took him to dine at his grandfather Erving's, where we are told the 
 greatest delicacy the town afforded was only a piece of salted beef. 
 Mr. Bowdoin was subsequently delegate from Boston to the Massa- 
 chusetts convention called to consider the Constitution, just framed by 
 the national convention at Philadelphia. He was repeatedly member 
 of both branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, and was ap- 
 pointed successively, by President Jefferson, minister plenipotentiary 
 to the court of Spain, and associate minister to the court of France. 
 It was during his residence abroad that he accumulated his very valu- 
 able library, a gallery of paintings, — large for the time, — a cabinet 
 of minerals and fossils, with a collection of models of crystallography 
 which he afterwards bequeathed to the college. He was for some 
 years a fellow of Harvard College, and was elected president of the 
 Board of Overseers of this college ; which, however, his distant resi- 
 dence compelled him to decline. Mr. Bowdoin married a daughter of 
 his father's half-brother, who shared in his interest in the college, and 
 was, as long as she survived, a generous patron, of which several 
 works in its library give evidence. Mr. Bowdoin had been in diplo- 
 matic service three years when the state of his health, which had never 
 been firm, led him to request a recall, and he returned in 1808. He 
 died in 1811. A eulogy, commemorative of his life and munificence, 
 was pronounced before the trustees and overseers of the college at the 
 ensuing Commencement. 
 
 THE EARLY TRUSTEES. 
 
 Thomas Browne, whose name will lead forever the lengthening list of 
 Socii, was born in 1733, in Haverhill ;' graduated at Harvard in 1752 ; 
 for nine years was minister of Marshfleld, and of Stroudwater in Fal- 
 mouth from 1765 to 1797, when he died. ',' A man," saj's Willis, " of 
 keen wit and fine understanding." 
 
 Samuel Deane was born in 1733, in Dedham. and graduated at Har- 
 vard in 1760, where he was tutor in 1763. The next year lie was set- 
 tled as colleague of Rev. Thomas Smith, in Falmouth. The burning 
 of the town in 1775 drove him out to Gorham. There he became a 
 skilful farmer. There too he wooed the rural Muse, and brought out 
 the once famous song of Pitehwood Hill. In 1795 he became sole 
 pastor. From 1809 to his dedth in 1814, he was relieved from duty. 
 
THE EARLY TRUSTEES. 33 
 
 He was tall, erect, and portly, a man of dignified manners, social, 
 agreeable, and witty. His sermons were brief, plain, and practical, 
 well written, and calmly delivered. His theology was supposed to be 
 that of the Arminian school. In 1790, Dr. Deane published a work 
 on " Husbandry," which was well received, and long regarded as 
 authority. 
 
 John Frothingham was born in 1750, in Charlestown ; graduated at 
 Harvard, 1771 ; went to Falmouth about 1773, to teach children. 
 There he and Theophilus Parsons studied law with Theophilus Brad- 
 bury. His useful life, until he lost his sight, was devoted in numerous 
 offices to the public service. He died in 1826. 
 
 Daniel Little, a Newbury man, was pastor of the Second Church 
 in Wells (now Kennebunk), for half a century. If not a great man 
 in any sense, he seems to have been a very good one. He died 1801, 
 aged seventy-seven. 
 
 Thomas Lancaster was bom in Eowley ; graduated at Harvard, 
 1764 ; became the minister of Scarborough in 1775. After a pastor- 
 ate of fifty-six years, he died in 1831, aged eighty-seven. " His was 
 not a brilliant, but an eminentlj' useful career." 
 
 JosiAH Thatcher was born in Lebanon, Conn. ; graduated, 1760, 
 at Nassau Hall; became, 1767, minister of Gorham. After a few 
 years, he gave up preaching and went into civil life. He represented 
 the town and the countj' in the Legislature, and was a judge of the 
 Common Pleas. It was to him as senator that the petition for a col- 
 lege in Maine was intrusted. He died in 1799. 
 
 David Mitchell was a distinguished citizen of North Yarmouth ; 
 a judge of the Common Pleas, and the first treasurer of the college. 
 
 Tristram Gilman, a native of Exeter, was settled, 1769, as minis- 
 ter of North Yarmouth, where his forty years of service were filled 
 with usefulness. He died 1809, aged seventj'-four. 
 ' Alden Bradford was of Duxbury ; graduated at Harvard, 1786, 
 and was the minister of Wiscasset for eight years. Of the college 
 trustees he was probably the most energetic and useful member. 
 Returning to Massachusetts, he was made Secretary of the Common- 
 wealth. He was much interested in historical researches, and pub- 
 lished several works of value. He died 1843, aged seventy-eight. 
 
 Thomas Rice, a resident in Wiscasset, graduated at Harvard, 1756 ; 
 practised medicine ;, was also judge and chief justice of the Court 
 of Common Pleas, and a register of deeds. He died in 1812. 
 
 Williajm Martin was the son of an eminent London physician, 
 and was in business there before and during the war with the colonies. 
 That over, he came to Boston, and thence to North Yarmouth, where he 
 
34 ' HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 lived six years. Being unsuccessful in business, he removed to Port- 
 land, where his daughters had already established a school for young 
 ladies. In that school, once well known throughout the State, old 
 Mr. Martin aided his accomplished daughters, Eliza, Catharine, and 
 Penelope, — ladies honored and revered by many, and whose names it 
 is a pleasure to recall and repeat. Mr. Martin died 1814, at the age of 
 eighty one. 
 
 Samuel Freeman, of Portland, was the first elected trustee and sec- 
 ond treasurer of Bowdoin College. During his three years in the board , 
 he was very active and very useful. He lived to the age of eighty- 
 eight years, dying in 1831. Few men even in that day — none in our 
 time — could exhibit a record of lifelong public service and duty 
 comparable to that of Mr. Freeman. He began as a trader, a teacher, 
 and an attorney at law. He was an ardent and active Whig before and 
 during the Eevolutionary contest. He was a member and secretary of 
 the Provincial Congress. From 1776 to 1822 he was clerk of the courts 
 for Cumberland County, except in Governor Gerry's year: During 
 the same time he was first the register, then the judge of probate. 
 From 1776 to 1805, he was postmaster for his native town. Many 
 knew Mm through his useful manuals entitled "The Town Officer," 
 " The Clerk's Magazine," and "The Probate Directory." His latest 
 performance in this line was the revision and publication of the now 
 famous " Smith Journal." The manuscript was submitted to him 
 with power to select and then destroy. He obeyed the injunction. 
 For many a precious item of the quaint old journalist, we have instead 
 the editorial statement, "No occurrences proper to be noticed." 
 Mistaken fidelity ! Too cautious reviser ! He little suspected that 
 the very reason assigned for omission would but enhance the regret 
 occasioned by the loss. It was indeed extremely provoking. ' What 
 would not William Willis gladly have given to save those precious 
 papers from the flames? 
 
 I can still recall the venerable features of this good man (features 
 which reminded men of Washington), as I often saw him in 1816 and 
 1817, sitting in the deacon's pew in the hid, venerable First Parish 
 meeting-house. 
 
 Chaeles Tdenee (graduate of Harvard, 1752) was for several 
 years minister of Duxbury. He became a resident of Turner, in the 
 District of Maine, was a land-owner there, and sometimes preached. 
 
 Ai.vBED Johnson, of Plainfield, Conn. (Dartmouth, 1785), the first 
 minister of Freeport, 1789 to 1805. As one of the Cumberland 
 County ministers, and also as a member of the Massachusetts Legis- 
 lature, Mr. Johnson was influential in procuring the college charter ; 
 
THE EAELT TRUSTEES. 35 
 
 and subsequently, as a trustee, took an active part in the establish- 
 ment and organization of the young institution. After leaving Free- 
 port, he was for a time the minister of Belfast, and in that town he 
 spent his closing years. 
 
 Elijah Kellogg, of South Hadley (Dartmouth, 1785), became, 
 in 1787, the first minister of the newly organized Second' Church, 
 in Portland. Twenty j-ears later, Edward Paj'son was ordained 
 as his colleague. Then came trouble, and at length secession. 
 From 1811 to 1821, Mr. Kellogg ministered to another congrega- 
 tion, known as the Third. The latter part of his life was ^ven 
 to missionary work and to philanthropic labors. A man of ardent 
 temperament, he gave himself wholly to whatever business he 
 had in hand. During one part of his checkered career, he entered 
 largely into speculation. He bought lands, and put up buildings, 
 and incurred heavy losses. For a while he was " careful and troubled 
 about manj' things," and too much withdrawn from his clerical duties. 
 He\ returned to them, however, from the disappointments of the 
 world, with renewed interest and zeal. He died in 1842, in his 
 eighty-second year. He was a trustee for twenty-six years, and 
 through all the organizing period was active and useful. The Rev. , 
 Elijah Kellogg, Bowdoin College, 1840, is his son. 
 
 Charles Coffin, of Newbury, graduate at Harvard, 1785; at first 
 practised medicine in Newburyport, then removed to Brunswick, and 
 went into trade. Unsuccessful in this, he took charge (1811) of the 
 Portsmouth Academy. Then he went to South Carolina, but died in 
 1820, when he had just entered on his duties as the principal of 
 Beaufort College. Dr. CoflBn was secretary of the Board of Trustees 
 from 1801 to 1811. I remember him well ; a man of grave aspect, of 
 few words, and of excellent sense. , If he lacked the talents or the 
 tastes that fit men for success as physicians or as merchants, he was 
 highly valued as an instructor. 
 
 Silas Lee, Harvard, 1784, was a su6cessful lawyer in Wiscasset. 
 He served as representative in Boston and in Washington. He was 
 judge of Probate and of the Common Pleas, and during the last thirteen 
 years of his life was the United States district attorney for Maine. 
 For several years Mr. Lee was the financial agent of the college. 
 
 DuMMER Sewall was born in York. He served as lieutenant of a 
 provincial company during the old French War, 1758 and 1759, set- 
 tling afterwards at Bath. In 1775, he commanded a regiment at Cam- 
 bridge, and subsequently acted as quartermaster in the Continental 
 service. From 1799 to 1805, this stanch and true old man was the 
 college treasurer. He died in 1833, at the age of ninety-sLx. 
 
36 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Isaac Parker was born in 1768, in Boston ; graduated at Harvard, 
 1786 ; began as 'a lawyer in Castine, and soon came into notice. He was 
 sent to the Legislature and to Congress. In 1799, he was appointed 
 United States marshal, removed to Portland, and entered on an exten- 
 sive and successful practice. Eight years later, he was made Associate 
 Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and thenceforward lived in 
 Boston. In 1814, he succeeded Parsons as Chief Justice. In 1820, 
 he presided with great ability over that illustrious convention which 
 revised the Constitution of Massachusetts. A stroke of apoplexy in 
 1830 brought his useful career to a sudden close. 
 
 Judge' Parker, as I remember him in the seat of justice, and in 
 the president's chair, and especially as I recall the contemporary esti- 
 mate of others who knew him well, was a remarkably complete man. 
 There were no prominent qualities that outshone the rest. His men- 
 tal powers seemed to be evenly balanced and in perfect harmony. 
 Everything that he said or wrote evinced scholarly culture and taste, 
 without the slightest tinge of pedantry. If any one would know, at 
 this late day, how great and good a man held for sixteen years the 
 highest judiciaf position in Massachusetts, let him find and study the 
 admirable portrait of Isaac Parker, which was drawn by his illustrious 
 successor. 
 
 Let it be remembered that Mr. Parker was an influential trustee, at 
 a time when the services of a man so able were of peculiar value. 
 
 JosiAH WiNSHip was bom in Cambridge ; graduated at Harvard, 
 1762 ; minister of Woolwich for fifty-nine years ; died there in 1824, 
 aged eighty-six. 
 
 Benjamin Jones Porter was born in 1763, in Wenham. His 
 father, Billy Porter, entered the Continental army as a lieutenant, and 
 was a major when the war ended. In 1780, the son entered the' same 
 service as surgeon's mate, and served through. He practised medi- 
 cine for a time at Stroudwater. In 1793, he settled at Topsham, 
 dropping his saddle-bags for a more lucrative pursuit. In partnership 
 with his brother-in-law, William King, of Bath, he became a builder 
 and owner of vessels, went largely into the* lumber business, and was 
 soon known as a prosperous merchant, who lived in handsome and 
 hospitable style. Though brought up a Federalist, his connections 
 and sympathies carried him very naturally into the opposing ranks. 
 He was chosen to represent his town and county at Boston, and sat 
 for a year in the Governor's Council. After separation, he was on 
 the joint committee for dividing with Massachusetts the public lands. 
 From 1805 to 1815, he was the college treasurer ; then some trouble 
 occurred and his connection ceased. In 1820, he again became a 
 
THE EAELY TRUSTEES. 37, 
 
 trustee, and so continued for twentj'-four years. His last years were 
 spent in Camden, where he died in 1847. His wife, Elizabeth King, 
 shared largely in the talent and virtues of the distinguished family from 
 which she came. She outlived him about four years. Of their five sons, 
 William K. and Charles R. graduated at Bowdoin College. 
 
 Samuel Sumner Wilde was born in 1771, in Taunton, Mass. Hav- 
 ing graduated at Hanover, in 1789, he studied law with Hon. D. L. 
 Barnes, of Taunton, and was admitted in 1792. He was married the 
 same 3'ear, and immediatelj' settled with his young wife in Waldoboro', 
 Me., where he practised two years. Then, for five years, he lived in 
 Warren, which town he represented in the State Legislature. In 1799, 
 he removed to Hallowell, where he at once became a prominent mem- 
 ber and conspicuous ornament of its bright and genial society. His 
 reputation as a lawyer rose rapidly, and a few years of successful 
 practice sufficed to place him in the foremost rank of his profession. 
 In 1815, he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 
 of Massachusetts. The duties of this high station he continued to 
 discharge with great ability, and to general acceptance, for more than 
 thirtj'-flve jears. With a mind still clear and vigorous, he resigned at 
 the age of seventj^-nine. He died in Boston in 1855, aged eighty-four. 
 
 At the separation of Maine in 1820, Judge Wilde removed to New- 
 buryport. Here he lived eleven years, after which time his home was 
 in Boston. Of political life he knew and desired to know but little. 
 He was once a State councillor, and twice a member of the Electoral 
 College. In 1820, he shone among the great men who revised the 
 Constitution of Massachusetts. For a short time before he died, "He 
 was the last surviving member of that convention * which had the sin- 
 gular fortune to be largelj' composed of the wisest, ablest, and most 
 patriotic men of New England, and which popular opinion, with the 
 pertinacious bitterness of partj- prejudice, has regarded as having 
 been made up of traitors." 
 
 With talents which would have made him powerful and renowned in 
 any department of life, with literary tastes and attainments of a high 
 order, it was as a lawyer and jurist^ that he won his fame. The fol- 
 lowing resolution is taken from the proceedings of the Suffolk bar on 
 the occasion of Judge Wilde's retirement : — 
 
 " Resolved, That in the review of his services, virtues, qualifications, 
 and traits of personal and official character and mind, to which the 
 occasion naturally turns our thoughts, we appreciate and record, with 
 special admiration, his exact and deep knowledge of the common law 
 
 * Known as the Hartford Convention. 
 
38 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 of real property, the fruit of his earliest studies under our greatest 
 teachers of that learning ; his later mastery of the theory and practice 
 of equity ; the rapidity as well as soundness of his perception of legal 
 truth ; the fidelity, quickness, and capaciousness of his memory ; the 
 sagacity, firmness, and kindness of heart, the habits of despatch, and 
 the instantaneous command of the law, both of evidence and of prin- 
 ciples, with which he presided over the trial by jury ; his absolute and 
 remarkable impartiality towards all the practisers before him, too just 
 and too manly for antipathies or favoritism ; and to sum up all, his 
 devotion to everj' duty of his oflHce, which seemed to gain strength to 
 the last hour of his judicial life, and to which all his tastes and all his 
 enjoyments were kept ever subordinate." 
 
 From the response of Chief Justice Shaw I draw a single para- 
 grap'h : — 
 
 " Of his absolute and entire impartiality, a close and daily observa- 
 tion of more than twenty years enabled me to speak with entire confi- 
 dence. He seemed to have as little regard for parties as if they were 
 expressed in algebraic characters ; nor did he seem to have anj' other 
 interest in the result than the mathematician in the solution of his com- 
 plicated problem. Eigidly scrupulous in ascertaining the truth and 
 soundness of his premises, conducting the process by the strictest rules 
 of legal deduction, his solicitude was that his conclusion should be right, 
 not whom it might affect." 
 
 I give another resolution from the classic pen of George S. Hillard, 
 as adopted by the same bar, five years later : — 
 
 " Resolved, That the priviate and personal worth of this eminent 
 magistrate was in strict harmony with his. official merits, and indeed 
 formed part of them. His bearing upon the bench indicated the man. 
 If he loved the law, it was because by it truth and justice were indi- 
 cated and maintained. Simple in his tastes, of industrious habits, of 
 warm domestic affections, and strong religioua faith, he never lost his 
 interest in life, and nothing of him but his hoAj grew old. He was 
 frank, direct, calmly courageous, and of unalloyed simplicity ; caring 
 as little to conceal what he was, as to a£feeit what he was not. His 
 intellectual tastes were healthy, and his legal studies had not closed 
 his mind to literature ; so that when the burden of accustomed toil 
 was removed, he found constant delight in the reading and discussing 
 of good books. His long and valuable life was crowned bj- a serene 
 and beautiful old age, brought to a close by natural decay, and 
 released by a touch so gentle as to leave more of gratitude than 
 grief in the hearts of those who stood by his side." 
 
 From the impartij|,l ^nd beautiful delineation of Judge Wilde's -char- 
 
THE EARLY TRUSTEES. 39 
 
 acter which was made by his pastor, the Eev. Dr. Peabody, a short 
 extract must suffice : — 
 
 " In the extren^e simplicity of his tastes and his honest frank- 
 ness, in his respect for law, in his estimates of social duty and 
 usefulness, his character was one which might have been set be- 
 fore the world as presenting in its best form the true idea of an 
 American citizen, — such a one as should be legitimately formed under 
 our institutions. The first impression he made on a stranger was, 1 
 think, that of sternness, almost of severity ; but it was soon seen, as 
 is often the case with strong and upright men, especially as they grow 
 older, that underneath the force and the courage was a heart full of 
 tenderness and sensibilitj', — in the granite cliff was a fountain of 
 pure, unfailing kindness. He was one whose life bore a daily testi- 
 mony to the beaut}- of simple tastes, and an unpretending, unexacting 
 independence, and to the worth of integrity and truth and kind affec- 
 tions, and faith in God." 
 
 In the contour and expression of his face, he bore a marked resem- 
 blance to the great Duke, of Wellington. An innate nobleness, an 
 unaffected air of dignitj' and firmness sat ever on his countenance, 
 and well befitted the bench of justice. During the thirteen years that 
 he was a trustee of the college, he was truly one of its right-hand men. 
 
 He married Eunice, daughter of Gen. David Cobb, of Taunton, 
 Mass., and had five sons and four daughters. , For two of the sons, 
 see 1812 and 1819. 
 
 Hezekiah Packard was born in 1761, in North Bridgewater, Mass. 
 Wh^ the war began, he enlisted as a flfer, and served for several 
 months in Massachusetts and New York. At a later period also, he 
 served under Gen. Sullivan in his unsuccessful attempt to get posses- 
 sion of Newport. From the arm^' he went home to become a farmer. 
 For this occupation he soon became disqualified bj- an accidental injury, 
 so he went to Cambridge, where he graduated in 1787. Then he kept 
 the grammar school in that place 'for a year. Then he was made 
 assistant librarian of the college, and aided in preparing the first 
 printed catalogue. In 1789 he became mathematical tutor, and held 
 that ofBce very acceptably for four years. At the close of his tutor- 
 ship he was settled in the ministry at Chelmsford, Mass. After eight 
 years of faithful service there, he removed to Wiscasset. Here his 
 labors were numerous and arduous. He not only discharged with 
 fidelity the duties of a preacher and pastor, but for many years taught 
 successfully a large school. For this employment he was admirably 
 adapted ; he was a thorough teacher and an excellent disciplinarian. 
 After he gave up the public school he received lads into his fam- 
 
40 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 ily, and his high reputation brought him many pupils from other and 
 distant places. Dr. Packard became a trustee of the college in 1813, 
 and was an efficient member until 1830. For ten years he was 
 vice-president. At the commencement in 1819, President Appleton 
 being disabled by sickness, Dr. Packard supplied his place. In the 
 year 1830, at his own request, he was dismissed from his charge in 
 Wiscasset, and soon after became the pastor of a small church in Mid- 
 dlesex Village, a part of his former parish of Chelmsford. After six 
 years at this place, he concluded to retire from active duty, and to 
 live thenceforth with his children. Dr. Packard lived thirteen years 
 longer, principally in Salem, RIass., in Saco, and in Brunswick. His 
 last days were cheered by filial kindness and general respect. He 
 died at Salem, April 25, 1849. He was married (1794) to Mary, 
 daughter of Eev. Alpheus Spring, of Kittery (West) , now Eliot. This 
 superior woman died in 1829. They had two daughters and six sons. 
 Dr. Packard sent his six sons to Bowdoin College, — 1816, 1817, 
 1821, 1825, and 1831. The youngest, William, who would have 
 graduated in 1835, died in college. 
 
 To those who would know more of a truly capable, pious, and char- 
 itable man, I commend the tribute to his memory — equally just and mod- 
 est — which his children prepared and printed for the use of their friends. 
 Prentiss Mellen was born at Sterling, Mass., October, 1764 ; son 
 of Eev. John Mellen and Kebecca Prentiss, daughter of Rev. John 
 Prentiss, of Lancaster. He graduated at Harvard, 1784 ; pursued 
 legal studies in Barnstable, Mass., and was admitted to the bar in 
 Taunton in 1788. He began practice in his native town, but soon 
 removed to Bridgewater, Mass., and again in 1792 to Biddeford, Me., 
 where he ' ' entered upon a sphere of successful practice which placed 
 him at the head of his profession in Maine, and at the head of its 
 highest judicial tribunal. He practised in every county in the District 
 of Maine, and was engaged in every prominent cause." In 1806, he 
 removed to Portland, thus entering "on a wider sphere, in which he 
 found competitors of high legal attainments and eminent ability, and 
 was accounted a leader in that assemblage of legal talent. His voice 
 was musical, his person tall and imposing, and his manner' fascinat- 
 ing." He was thrice a member of the executive council of Massachu- 
 setts, Maine being then a district; in 1816, was an elector at large in 
 the Presidential elections ; in 1817, was chosen a senator in Congress 
 from Massachusetts ; in 1820, Maine having become a separate State, 
 was appointed chief justice of its Supreme Court. For twenty-five 
 years he was a trustee of the college, and in 1820 received from it the 
 degree of LL. D., as in the same year from Harvard, He was pres- 
 
THE EARLY TRUSTEES. 41 
 
 ident of the Maine Historical Society. In 1834J having reached the 
 age of sevent}^, he became by the Constitution of the State disquali- 
 fied for the oflSce, and retired from a position which he had honored 
 and adorned. He was soon appointed at the head of a commission 
 to revise and codify the statutes of the State. 
 
 In 1795, he married Miss Sally Hudson, of Hartford, Conn., who 
 died in 1838, leaving six children, of whom Frederic graduated from 
 the college in 1825. Judge Mellen died in 1840, and is remembered 
 as a gentleman of eminent social qualities, of a cheerful, gay temper- 
 ament, abounding in wit and anecdote, and an ornament of society. 
 
 Bekjamin Okr was born in Bedford, N. H., where his Irish grand- 
 parents .settled about 1735. His father, a brave man, who had fought 
 under Stark at Bennington, was a small farmer, and could do but little 
 in the waj' of outfit for his sixteen children. Benjamin, the eldest of 
 them, was apprenticed to a house carpenter. Before his term expired, 
 his master failed, went off, and left him free. Shouldering his tools, 
 he set out with a fellow-apprentice, to hew his own way in the world. 
 Travelling north, they found work in Lancaster, Coos Countj-, where 
 they contracted to do the joiner work of a meeting-house, and per- 
 formed their contract. After this, he went to Portland and worked 
 some time on houses there. While thus employed, his purposes and life 
 received a new impulse. In intervals of labor, his eager curiosity 
 sometimes carried him to the court-house. It was then and there that 
 he decided to become a lawyer. The mind involuntarilj- recalls the 
 contrast which that old forensic hall exhibited within the space of a 
 few brief years. The young carpenter in coarse, working garb, on 
 some unnoticed back seat, watching, as though he were all eye and ear, 
 the progress of the trial, weighing with keen though uncultured 
 acumen the arguments of opposing counsel, and the judicial summing 
 up, and inwardly resolving that he would yet cross weapons with those 
 doughty champions of the bar ; and not long after, the same individ- 
 ual on the same spot, a commanding presence and an acknowledged 
 master. At the close of 1793, he put himself under the tuition of 
 Paul Langdon at the Fryeburg Academy. Though his exigencies still 
 compelled him to use his tools in the vacations, and to employ his 
 winters in teaching,*his progress in study was rapid and thorough, so 
 that he entered Dartmouth College as Junior, and graduated there the 
 vale<iictorian of 1798. His law teachers were Samuel Dinsmore of 
 Keene, N. H., and Samuel Sumner "Wilde at Hallowell". From 1801 
 to 1822, his home and office were in Topsham. After that time he 
 lived in Brunswick, where he died Sept. 5, 1828. Two years excepted, 
 during which he represented his district in Congress, his life was one 
 
42 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 of earnest and successful professional labor. Of this great man and 
 truly original character, Chief Justice Mellen, soon after Mr. Orr's 
 decease, spoke as one " who had long stood confessedly at the head 
 of the profession ... in Maine; who had distinguished himself by 
 the depth and solidity of his understanding, by his legal acumen 
 and research, by the power' of his intellect, the commanding energy 
 of his reasoning, the uncompromising firmness of his principles, and 
 the dignified and lofty sense of honor, truth, and justice which he 
 uniformly displayed, in his professional career and in the walks of 
 private life." Another, who knew him well, informs us that Mr. 
 Orr was always a pleasant and honorable practitioner, considerate and 
 obliging towai'ds his younger brethren. He knew, indeed, — none bet- 
 ter than he, — how to be severe ; and hard was the case of that pre- 
 varicating witness on whom he hailed the short, pithy sentences of 
 his concentrated sarcasm. But his powers appeared to most advan- 
 tage in discussing points of law before the court. Here, laying aside 
 all display of wit and sarcasm, all superfluous illustration and circum- 
 locution, all skirmishing at the outposts and dallying with his adver- 
 sary, he seized at once upon the question at issue. His argument was 
 dense and brief, proceeding in regular procession from commence- 
 ment to conclusion ; so that it was dangerous for one who would com- 
 prehend its full force to withdraw the attention from him even for a 
 moment. He was an eflicient trustee of the college, and its legal 
 adviser on more than one occasion of great importance. 
 
 Mr. Orr married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Richard Tappan of 
 Brunswick. Of their large family, Elizabeth married John A. Poor, 
 Esq., now of Portland ; Laura T. married Mr. Davis of Wellfleet, 
 Mass. ; Margaret C. is the wife of Col. A. J. Stone of Brunswick ; 
 Catharine is married and lives in Andover. Me. ; Benjamin S. went to 
 sea and died; Richard J. and Francis are farmers; John (Bowdoin 
 College, 1834) is a Congregational minister in Alfred ; Henry (Bow- 
 doin College, 1846) lives in Brunswick, lawyer, and judge of the 
 municipal court. 
 
 Francis Bkowk was born in 1784, at Chester, N. H., and 
 graduated at Dartmouth College, 1805. He was settled at North 
 Yarmouth in 1809. He was appointed soon after Professor of' 
 Languages in Dartmouth College, but declined the honor. '■' For 
 the succeeding five j'ears he labored with great zeal and success among 
 his people, while his influence was sensibly felt in sustaining and" 
 advancing the interests of learning and religion throughout the State. 
 He was the intimate friend of President Appleton ; and no one, 
 perhaps, co-operated with the president more vigorously than he in 
 
THE EARLY TRUSTEES. 43 
 
 increasing the resources and extending the influence of Bowdoin Col- 
 lege." During this period he preached occasionallj' in Brunswick. 
 Though manj' years have since passed, they have scarcely dimmed the 
 impressions which he made on my 3'oung mind, — his aii- of quiet 
 strength, his modest demeanor, and his manly heauty. Mr. Brown 
 was soon called to put forth his powers on a wider field. Dartmouth 
 College was in trouble. " President Wheelock, in June, 1815, brought 
 a series of charges against the trustees before the Legislature of the 
 htate. In August of the same year, the trustees, acting on a pro- 
 vision of the charter, removed Dr. Wheelock from the presidency ; 
 and at the same time elected Mr. Brown in his place. At the next 
 session of the Legislature, an act was passed to ' amend the charter, 
 and enlarge and improve the corporation of Dartmouth College,' 
 changing the name of it to a university, and adding to its trustees a 
 sufficient number to control its corporate action. This act was not 
 acknowledged by the trustees of the coUege as valid. . . The treasurer 
 of the college adhered to the university part}-, taking with him the 
 college seal, charter, etc." For the recovery of these an action was 
 brought in the State court. It was argued by Jeremiah Mason, Jere- 
 miah Smith, and Daniel Webster, for the college ; by John Sullivan 
 and Ichabod Bartlett, for the university. The validity of the acts was 
 the turning point. The Court decided against the college, and an 
 appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. Daniel 
 Webster and Joseph Hopkinson appeared for the college, John 
 Holmes and William Wirt for the university. Feb. 2, 1819, Chief 
 Justice Marshall gave the decision for the college. I need not apol- 
 ogize for giving here, almost in the words of Dr. Sprague, this brief 
 account of a controversy which excited at the time a deep and general 
 interest, and which will be ever memorable, not only for the great 
 men whom it enlisted, but still more for the great principles which it 
 involved and settled, — principles of the highest import to the whole 
 community, and especially to literary institutions. Into this fight, 
 Mr. Brown, then a little more than thirty-one years old, was called at 
 once to plunge. He came out of it with the college triumphant, but 
 found himself prostrated by labors too severe. He complied with the 
 customary usage in consumptive ^ cases : he travelled to the West 
 and to the South, in vain. He came back to Hanover, and died July 
 27, 1820, in the serenity of Christian faith and hope. His widow, 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Tristram Gilman, of North Yarmouth, 
 died in 1851. Samuel Gilman Brown, D. D., now a professor in 
 Dartmouth College, is one of their three children. To the sketch of 
 I'resident Brown, which Dr. Sprague has given in his " Annals of the 
 
44 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Pulpit," he has appended two letters from two of that great man's 
 most accomplished and distinguished pupils, — the Rev. Dr. Had- 
 dock and the Hon. Rufus Choate. No one can read these beautiful 
 tributes of admiration and love, without the conviction that it was no 
 common power and no ordinary worth which made such impressions 
 and won such regard. I give a brief extract from each. " The mind 
 of Dr. Brown was of the very highest order, — profound,, comprehen- 
 sive, and discriminating. Its action was deliberate, circumspect, and 
 sure. He made no mistakes ; he left nothing in doubt where cer- 
 tainty was possible ; he never conjectured where there were means of 
 knowing ; he had no obscure glimpses among his ideas of truth 
 and duty. Always sound and always luminous, his opinions were 
 never uttered without being understood, and never understood with- 
 out being regarded. His heart was large. Great objects alone 
 could fill it, and it was full of great objects. There was no littleness 
 of thought or purpose or ambition in him, — nothing little. On 
 the whole, it has been my fortune to know no man whose entire 
 character has appeared to me so near perfection, — none whom it 
 would so satisfy, me in all things to resemble." (Prof. Haddock.) 
 "He was still young at the time of his inauguration, but he had 
 already, in an extraordinary degree, dignity of person and sentiment ; 
 rare beauty, almost youthful beauty of countenance ; a sweet, deep, 
 commanding tone of voice ; a grave, but graceful and attractive 
 demeanor, — all the traits and all the qualities, completely ripe, 
 which make up and express weight of character ; and all the address 
 and firmness and knowledge of youth, men, and affairs which, consti- 
 tute what we call administrative talent." After a short account of the 
 varied struggle through which President Brown was called to pass, Mr. 
 Choate adds: " This contest tried him and the college with extreme 
 and various severity. To induce students to remain in a school dis- 
 turbed and menaced ; to engage and inform public sentiment ; . . . 
 to confer with the counsel of the college, two of whom, Mr. Mason 
 and Mr. "Webster, have often declared to me their admiration of 
 the intellectual force and practical good sense which he brought to 
 those conferences, — this all, while it withdrew him somewhat from 
 the proper studies and proper cares of his office, created a necessity 
 for the display of the very rarest qualities of temper, discretion, tact, 
 and command ; and he met it with consummate ability' and fortune." 
 JosiAH Stebbins, the youngest son in a large family, was born 
 in 1766, in Brimfleld, Mass., where his father was a farmer. He 
 graduated in 1791, at Yale, in the same class with Stephen Elliott, 
 James Gould, Peter B. Porter, and others who afterwards rose to 
 
THE EARLY TRUSTEES. 45 
 
 eminence. From 1792 to 1796, he was a tutor in Yale College, and 
 had for colleagues James Gould, Eoger Minott Sherman, and Jere- 
 miah Atwater. In consequence of the death of President Stiles in 
 1795, it fell to Mr. Stebbins, as senior tutor, to act for some time as 
 the presiding officer of the institution. Mr. Stebbins, having studied 
 law with Judge Goodrich at New Haven, was there also admitted to 
 the bar, at the close of his tutorship. 
 
 In 1797, he settled at New Milford, now Alna. In 1813, he was 
 appointed by Gov. Strong a judge of the Common Pleas. In 1816, 
 Governor Brooks being then in the executive chair, he was chosen one 
 of the council, — an office to which he was successively re-elected two 
 or three times. He was one of that famous convention which met at 
 Brunswick in 1816 to count votes and form a constitution. It is 
 hardly necessarj' to add that he objected to the new arithmetic. After 
 the separation. Judge Stebbins returned to professional practice. In 
 the first Legislature pf Maine he had a seat in the House of Repre- 
 sentatives. He afterwards served three tenns as State senator. He 
 died at Alna in 1829. He married Laura Allen, of New Haven, 
 Conn., and lefb a daughter who is living in Bangor. 
 
 "Judge Stebbins," saj-s a competent witness, "was a zealous and 
 faithful lawyer, an able counsellor, a patient, discriminating, impartial 
 judge. In the private relations of life he is remembered only with 
 kindness and respect." 
 
 Long an overseer of Bowdoin College before he became a trustee, 
 he felt a warm interest in the institution, and was seldom absent from 
 its solemnities. 
 
 EuPHALET GiLLET was bom in 1768 in Colchester, Conn. ; gradu- 
 ated at DartmouthCollege in 1791 ; studied with Rev. Dr. Spring, of 
 Newburyport ; and was settled, in 1795, the first pastor of the church 
 in Hallowell. Here he labored to good acceptance until 1827, when, 
 at his own request, the connection was dissolved. Settled as he was 
 " in a new and rising community, it devolved on him to lay the foun- 
 dations, and to give not only to the church and people under his care, 
 but to some extent to the region around him, an impress and char- 
 acter" for good. From the organization of the Maine Missionary 
 Society in 1807, until his death in 1848, Dr. Gillet was its secretary. 
 The last twentj' years of his life were given to the cause of home 
 missions. In his official capacity, a large and constant care rested 
 upon him, " and for the assiduity and faithfulness with which he ful- 
 filled his trust, he was greatly and deservedly honored." " He was," 
 writes Dr. Tappan, " a man of bland and courteous manners, of 
 refined and delicate sensibility. His mind was of a superior order," 
 
46 HISTORY OF BOWDOnsr COLLEGE. 
 
 and "he had a fine, classical taste. ... He possessed all those moral 
 and social, as well as intellectual qualities, that were fitted. to make 
 him a general favorite in society." Dr. Tappan bears ample testi- 
 - mony to the excellence of his Christian life and character. 
 
 In- 1805, Mr. Gillet married Mary, daughter of Rev. John Gurley, 
 • of Lebanon, Conn. Of eleven children, three daughters survived their 
 father. 
 
 IcHABOD Nichols, son of Capt. Ichabod Nichols, was born in 
 Portsmouth, N. H., July, 1784 ; graduated at Harvard with high 
 honor in the distinguished class of 1802. He began theological 
 study with Rev. Dr. Barnard, of Salem, Mass., and continued it 
 while in the tutorship at Harvard. In 1809 he was settled as col- 
 league pastor with Rev. Dr. Deane, at Portland ; after the death of 
 the latter he came into the full pastorate in 1814, which he held until 
 himself received a colleague in 1855. Near the close of that year he 
 resigned the pastoral ofl3ce ; but the parish, " unwilling to dissever the 
 interesting and affectionate relation which had' existed so long, ex- 
 pressed a desire that while he should be relieved from all the duties of 
 the ofBce, the oflJcial character might not be sundered, — which he 
 acceded to." He however soon removed to Cambridge, Mass., where 
 he died in 1859. He was a trustee of the college forty-two years ; 
 received from it the degree of D. D. in 1821, and the same honor 
 from Harvard ten years later. He was a member of the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Maine Historical Society, of 
 which he was president six years. Besides other publications, he gave 
 to the world his last and ablest work, " Hours with the Evangelists," 
 2 vols. 8vo, — a valuable contribution to the evidences of Christianitj'. 
 
 Dr. Nichols was a constant student, of wide culture apart from his 
 professional studies, conversant with European literature, with math- 
 ematical and natural science, for which his earlier life had decided 
 inclination. He was a man to be greatly respected and beloved, an 
 ornament and honor to the city in which he lived, and the State. 
 
 He twice married : first, in 1810, a daughter of Gov. John Taylor 
 Gilman, of Exeter, N. H., who died ifl 1831, leaving two sons ; 
 second, a daughter of Stephen Higginson, Esq., of Boston. 
 
 Stephen Longfellow was descended, five generations down, from 
 "William Longfellow (the first New-Englander of the name), who, in 
 1678, married Anne Sewall, and settled in Newbury (Byfteld Parish), 
 Mass., " as a merchant." So runs the legend, though it certainly pro- 
 vokes a smile to think of a merchant operating on such a field. Ste- 
 phen, a grandson of this patriarch, born in 1723, in Byfield ; graduate, 
 1742, of Harvard College; removed, 1745, to Falmouth, where he 
 
THE EAELY TRUSTEES. 47 
 
 kept, at first, the grammar school, and became a very useful and 
 influential man. When the town was destroyed he removed to Gor- 
 ham, and there remained until he died in 1790. By his wife, Tabitha 
 Bragdon, he had three sons, Stephen, Samuel, and William ; and one 
 daughter, Tabitha, who married Capt. John Stephenson. Of these, 
 Stephen became judge of the Common Pleas ; he was also an over- 
 seer of Bowdoin College. He died in 1824, at Gorham, in venerable 
 age. By his wife. Patience Young, he had two sons, Stephen and 
 Samuel; and two daughters, — Tabitha, who married Lothrop Lewis, 
 and Abigail, wife of Col. Samuel Stephenson. The celebrity of our 
 present subject, the third Stephen Longfellow, and the far wider fame 
 of his poetic son, are m3' apology for this genealogical minuteness. 
 
 Stephen Longfellow was born in Gorham, in 1776. He graduated 
 with honor at Cambridge, in 1798, with Channing and Story for class- 
 mates. His professional instructor was Salmon Chase. "He soon 
 secured a successful practice, which never left him until its accumu- 
 lating weight broke down the colossal power which had sustained it. 
 His mind, taxed to its utmost strength through a long series of years 
 by the constant pressure of engagements in the most important cases 
 litigated in our courts, at length gave way. For several years before 
 his death, which occurred in 1849, he was subject to fits of epilepsy, 
 which gradually compelled him to withdraw from the profession he 
 had so amply honored." 
 
 Mr. Longfellow had no taste for political life, and never sought it. 
 In one dark and perilous crisis of the country, he did indeed accept a 
 public charge. With many other true patriots and great men, he was 
 a member of that much-abused bod3', the Hartford Convention. In 
 1822, he was elected to Congress. But it was to his profession that 
 he gave his heart, and it was there that " he -found his fame." The 
 record of his labors through a period of thirty years is contained in 
 the first sixteen volumes of the " Massachusetts Reports," and in the 
 first twelve volumes of the " Maine Reports." At a bar of unsur- 
 passed ability, he ranked always with the first. But more than by 
 his talents, his learning, or his high position, was Mr. Longfellow 
 distinguished for his goodness. He was one of the kindest and best 
 of men, respected and beloved wherever known. In his domestic 
 relations he was most happy. His faithful companion of more than 
 forty-five years was Zilpah, daughter of Gen. Peleg Wadsworth. 
 Of their eight children, three are mentioned elsewhere in this volume. 
 Their youngest son. Rev. Samuel Longfellow (Harvard College, 
 1839), is the well-known and beloved pastor of a society in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y. 
 
48 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 James Bridge was a son of Edmund Bridge, of Dresden. He grad- 
 uated in 1787, at Harvard College; established himself at Augusta, 
 and had a very extensive practice, especially in cases relating to real 
 estate. He was at one time a judge of the Common Pleas. He died 
 in 1834. 
 
 John Chandler was born in 1762, at Epping, N. H. His father, 
 Joseph Chandler, a nd,tive of Amesbury, Mass., commanded a com- 
 pany in actual service during the greater part of the French War, so 
 called ; and holding the same rank in the Revolutionary army, died at 
 Fort Independence in 1776. 
 
 In the year 1777, John Chandler, being only fifteen years old, 
 enlisted for three months, and was enabled to bear a part in the 
 capture of Burgoyne. Prevented from re-enlisting in the army by 
 his mother's anxieties, he at length found his way, without her knowl- 
 edge, on board an American privateer. This vessel, after some hard 
 fighting, and after making numerous captures, was herself taken by a 
 British ship of war and sent into Savannah, then under English con- 
 trol. Confined here in noisome prison ships, with some five hundred 
 of his countrymen, this hardy youth saw his fellow-prisoners rapidly 
 sink under the horrors of their prison-house, until, of the whole num- 
 ber, only forty remained. These, under the promptings of despair, 
 determined to escape. Forming two bands, one of which was com- 
 manded by young Chandler, they rose and bound their Tory guard, 
 seized the boats, and, finally, after the severest hardships and dan-, 
 gers, got beyond the reach of their cruel foe. With two companions 
 he now started for home. Long and weary was that foot journey. 
 One comrade died in 'North Carolina, the other in New Jersey. He 
 at length got back to Imping. Notwithstanding all this bitter experi- 
 ence, he soon after went again into the army and served through the 
 war. 
 
 Mr. Chandler, having married in 1,783 Mary Whittier, of South 
 Hampton, removed to Maine, and became one of the first settlers of 
 Monmouth. From the organization of the town to 1805 he repre- 
 sented it in the Legislature. Then he was sent to Congress. In 
 1808 he resigned his seat to become high sheriff of Kennebec County. 
 At the breaking out of the war of 1812, he was appointed brigadier- 
 general. After the return of peace, he was again sent to the Legisla- 
 ture, as representative iEind senator. He was the first president of the 
 first Maine Senate, and one of the first two members from Maine in 
 the Senate of the United States. In 1829, President Jackson gave 
 him the coUectorship of Portland. He held the office until 1837. 
 Old, at length, and infirm, he declined a reappointment, removed to 
 
THE EARLY TRUSTEES. 49 
 
 Augusta, and there died in 1841, in his eightieth year. During his 
 long life, he was more than twenty times appointed to office by the 
 State and the national executive ; and besides the municipal trusts 
 which he held, was more than fifty times elected to office by the peo- 
 ple. In politics, Gen. Chandler was a Democrat of the straitest sect. 
 "Manliness, sagacity, amenity, dignity, hospitality, and good faith 
 distinguished him as a man. No trace of duplicity or of littleness 
 was to be found in him." 
 
 He left a widow, and one of the seven children she had borne him, 
 namely, Anson G. Chandler, at that time United States Consul at 
 Lahaina, in the Pacific. 
 
 JuDAH Dana was born in 1772, in Pomfret, Vt., to which place his 
 father, John W. Dana, had removed from Pomfret, Conn. His mother, 
 Hannah Pope, was the eldest daughter of the Revolutionary hero, 
 Israel Putnam. He graduated at Hanover in 1795, and began the 
 practice of law in 1798 at Fryeburg. TTith distinguished associates 
 and competitors at the bar, he soon became eminent among them, and 
 received the usual awards of professional fidelity and skill. He was 
 Commonwealth's attorney for Oxford, and also judge of probate. In 
 1811 he was made judge of the Court of Common Pleas. After the 
 separation he held a seat in the Executive Council. In 1836 and 
 1837 he went to Washington, as senator, by executive appointment, 
 and took an active part in debates there. "Judge Dana was an acute 
 lawyer, with ready perceptions and nice powers of discrimination, 
 and in a larger sphere of professional action might have acquired a 
 more brilliant reputation. But he loved the country and its retire- 
 ment, and there chose to act his part in the drama of life." In pri- 
 vate, he was genial and uniformly courteous. " An unwavering dem- 
 ocratic faith, strong religious hope, and Christian zeal cheered and 
 sustained him to the last. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Sjivanus Eiplej', professor in Dartmouth College. The generals Elea- 
 zar W. and James W. Eipley were her uncles, and the first President 
 Wheelock was her grandfather. John W. Dana, late governor of 
 Maine and United States minister to Bolivia, is the onlj' son who 
 sui-vived infancy. Judge Dana's second wife was the widow of Gen. 
 McMillan, of Fryeburg. He died Dec. 27, 1846, aged seventy-three 
 years. 
 
 Erastus Foote was a Connecticut man, born in Waterbury. His 
 father came from Bradford, and Ms maternal grandfather was Rev. 
 Samuel Todd, first settled minister of Northbury. After receiving 
 a good academical education, he read law with Samuel Hinkley 
 of Northampton, Mass. ; was admitted to the bar in 1800, and at 
 
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50 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 once entered on successful practice at Camden, Me. In 1811 he 
 was appointed county attorney for Lincoln. In 1812 he served as 
 a senator in the Legislature. Three years later, he removed to Wis- 
 casset. In 1820 he again became a senator, on the organization of 
 the State government. In that year, also, he was appointed by Gov. 
 King attorney-general of Maine. " This office he held twelve years, 
 and gave a tone and character to the criminal jurisprudence which 
 were honorable to him and highly appreciated by the public." 
 
 " The late distinguished Chief Justice Mellen had a very high opin- 
 ion of his talents and learning in that department ; and the eloquent 
 Benjamin Orr, then at the head of the bar in Maine, and scarcely sur- 
 passed in New England, used to say, ' It is almost impossible to 
 wi-est a criminal out of the hands of Brother Foote.' But no man 
 could be more kind when he thought an individual was unjustly 
 accused. He was the prosecutor of the guilty, not the persecutor of 
 the poor and friendless. As a counsellor and advocate he stood in 
 the foremost rank." 
 
 " In all the relations of life, as a husband, father, citizen, and neigh- 
 bor, Mr. Foote bore an exemplary character. In a word, he was 
 truly a good man. For twenty-four years he was a trustee of Bow- 
 doin College, and through life he manifested a deep interest in its wel- ' 
 fare." In 1812, Mr. Foote married Susan, daughter of Hon. Moses 
 Carleton, of Wiscasset. In 1820, he married Eliza Carleton, a sister 
 of his deceased wife. She stiU lives, with three daughters and a 
 son. The latter is Erastus F., Bowdoin College, 1843, a lawyer in 
 Wiscasset, and register of probate for the county. Wr. Foote, when 
 he died in 1836, was seventy-eight years old. 
 
 Maek Langdon Hill was born in Biddeford,.in 1772. His father, 
 James Hill, died when he was quite young. His mother, a sister of 
 Gov. Langdon, and nearly related to Governors Sullivan and Eustis, 
 married in 1782 James McCobb, of Georgetown, now Phipsburg. In 
 this place Mr. Hill lived until his death in 1842, at the age of seventy. 
 He married in 1797 Mary McCobb, a daughter of his mother's hus- 
 band. She died in 1817, and four years afterward he married Abigail 
 daughter of the late Daniel Sewall of Kennebunk. Many children 
 and grandchildren still cherish his memory. 
 
 Judge Hill possessed great activity both of mind and body. He 
 was a man of good judgment ; skilful, energetic, and persevering in 
 all that he undertook. The want of a liberal education he in good 
 measure supplied by assiduous self-culture. His well-known ability, 
 his tried integrity, and his agreeable manners early secured for him 
 the confidence and good- will of his fellow-citizens. For several years 
 
THE EAELT TRUSTEES. 51 
 
 he was in the Massachusetts Legislature, a member first of the House 
 and then of the Senate. In 1810, he was made a judge of the Com- 
 mon Pleas. From 1818 to 1822, he was a member of Congress. In 
 1824, he was appointed collector of the port of Bath. He was elected 
 an overseer of Bowdoin College in 1795, and a trustee in 1821. For 
 thirty-six j'ears his tall form was but once missed from the Com- 
 mencement stage. In the various relations of private life, he was 
 truly exemplary. With unvarjang cheerfulness he met the claims of 
 religion and benevolence. " To sustain an established ministry, he 
 freely used his money, his influence, and his talents. He died as one 
 who was at peace with the world, with himself, and with God." 
 
 John Holmes. This celebrated man was born in 1773 in Kingston, 
 Mass., where his father, Malachiah Holmes, had an iron foundry. To 
 this business John was put. A schoolmaster found him working at 
 the furnace, perceived his capacities, and advised the father to educate 
 him. He was then almost twenty years old. A year afterward he 
 entered Brown University, as a Sophomore. This was rapid progress, 
 though it must be remembered that the Providence standard of admis- 
 sion was not at that time very high. In college, he had for class- 
 mates Dr. Benjamin Shurtleff, the powerful Tristram Burgess, and 
 others who afterwards rose to renown. He studied his profession with 
 Benjamin Whitman, a lawyer of eminence in the old colony. 
 
 Having gained admittance, Mr. Holmes went into Maine and 
 planted himself in Sanford. In this new place (subsequently called 
 Alfred) he at once found business. There were many unsettled 
 land titles. Squatters were numerous, and the young lawyer's talents 
 were turned to good account in aid of the proprietors. As his abili- 
 ties became known, his practice extended and grew important. In 
 conflicts with such men as Parker, Symmes, Davis, Mellen, Emery, 
 and WUde, he proved himself no mean antagonist. Could Mr. 
 Holmes have contented himself with the more quiet as well as sub- 
 stantial honors and advantages of the legal profession, he would 
 undoubtedly have been a leaderj if not facile princeps, among the 
 great men who shed such lustre on the bar of Maine, and especially of 
 Cumberland, during the first third of the present century. It seems, 
 however, that he could not resist the charms of public life. He got 
 his first taste of it in 1802, when he represented Alfred in the Legis- 
 lature at Boston. From the beginning of the great party distinction, he 
 had been on the Federal side . Asa young, ambitious, eloquent Federal- 
 ist, he first made himself known to the public men of Massachusetts. 
 As such, by voice and pen, in eloquent prose and keen satiric verse, he 
 often distinguished himself during those years of feverish agitation 
 
52 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 and frequent alarm, and even through the dark period of the Embargo 
 and Non- Intercourse. But Federal politics were not those of York 
 County, nor of Maine itself. The policy of Jefferson was the policy 
 of the nation, and likelj"^ to continue such. Mr. Holnies went over to 
 the Democratic side. His conversion was sudden and complete. His 
 former enemies hailed with joy the accession of so much power, and 
 sent him at once to the General Court. There he was run, unsuc- 
 cessfully, as candidate for speaker. The next year (1813) he was 
 elected to the State Senate. In the discussions of that body, which 
 assumed a national importance, Mr. Holmes stood up boldly and ably 
 for the administration and for the war, against a strong majority, 
 including men of the highest talent. "For wit he returned wit, and 
 full measure ; for argument, argument ; and on all occasions pre- 
 served his coolness." 
 
 In 1815, he was appointed by President Madison a commissioner, 
 under the Treaty of Ghent, to apportion beween the two countries 
 the islands in Passamaquoddy Bay. In 1816, and again in 1818, 
 he was sent to Congress by the electors of York district. His repu- 
 tation soon became national, as one of the most ready and able 
 debaters in the House of Eepresentatives. His labors at "Washington 
 and on the northeastern boundary did not prevent him from taking an 
 active part in home affairs. He was a leader in those movements 
 which led to the separation of Maine. He was in the first Brunswick 
 Convention, and reported a constitution, on the assumption that the 
 requisite five-ninths majority had been obtained. For this he was 
 much abused, and John Holmes's new arithmetic was proverbial for 
 a while among the opponents of separation. It was afterwards ascer- 
 tained that he did not invent the political calculus " which converted 
 five ninths of the aggregate majorities of the corporations into five 
 ninths of the legal voters in the district." " At the convention of 
 1819, Mr. Holmes was chairm!in of the committee that drafted the 
 Constitution, and took an active part in all the discussions." 
 
 In 1820, he was chosen by the first Legislature of Maine to repre- 
 sent the new State in the Senate of the* Union. In this illustrious 
 conclave he filled a conspicuous place until 1833, with the exception 
 of a single year. After a brilliant and successful public career of 
 more than twenty-two years, he returned to Maine, and to the practice 
 of law. With strength unabated, with a freshness like that of youth, 
 he took his place once more at the bar. In 1836, he represented 
 Alfred in the Legislature. In 1841, President Harrison made him dis- 
 trict attorney for Maine. He held this office at the time of his death, 
 which occurred at Portland, July 7, 1843, in his seventy-first year. 
 
THE EABLY TRUSTEES. 53 
 
 Mr. Holmes was unquestionably a man of great ability. Of states- 
 manship in its highest sense, I am not aware that he gave any remark- 
 able proof. He could hardly be called original or profound ; but he 
 was quick to perceive, energetic in act, never unprepared or embar- 
 rassed or afraid. He possessed those bold and leading qualities of 
 mind, of temperament, and of character, which qualify men to be the 
 champions of party in times of iierce excitement. Arijied at all points 
 with the dreaded weapons of keen retort and sarcastic wit, he was 
 everywhere a formidable antagonist. His political opponents proba- 
 bly regarded him with that peculiar and unforgiving dislike which 
 is the common lot of those who are viewed as apostates, either in 
 religion or politics. 
 
 In private circles, where I repeatedly met him, Mr. Holmes was 
 easy and affable. His flow of anecdote and agreeable humor seemed 
 inexhaustible. Exemplary in all domestic and social relations, a good 
 neighbor and citizen, he gave his ready co-operation to every insti- 
 tution and effort designed for the advancement of intelligence and 
 virtue . 
 
 By his first wife, Sally Brooks of Scituate, Mass. , whom he married 
 in 1800, he had two sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter 
 married Judge Goodenow, now of the Supreme Court of Maine. For 
 William B. Holmes, see Class of 1823. The other son, Charles H., 
 entered Bowdoin College, graduated at Brown University, and lives 
 in Topsfield, Mass. 
 
 Albion Keith Parris was born in 1788 at Hebron, Oxford County. 
 To that spot, then a wilderness, his father, Samuel Parris, had just 
 before removed. This brave and good man lived to witness and share 
 the prosperity of his son, and was cheered in his last days by filial 
 reverence and love. At the age of fourteen, young Parris left the 
 hard work of the farm to prepare for college. Having graduated at 
 Hanover in 1806, and, having studied, law with Hon. Ezekiel Whit- 
 man, he established himself in practice at Paris. " Within two j'ears 
 he was appointed county attornej', and three j'ears later was elected a , 
 member of the Fourteenth Congress, having in the mean time served 
 one year as a representative, and one year as a senator in the Legis- 
 lature of Massachusetts. In 1816 he was member of a convention 
 for forming a State constitution. Then followed his re-election to 
 Congress, a place which' he resigned in 1818, to accept an appoint- 
 ment as judge of the United States Court for Maine. At this time 
 he became a resident of Portland. In 1819 he was in the convention 
 and on the committee which devised a constitution for Maine, and 
 under the new organization was immediately made judge of probate 
 
04 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 for Cumberland County. He vacated both judicial places in 1822, on 
 becoming governor of Maine, "an office which he held for five years, 
 by successive re-elections, the later of them almost unanimous." 
 From the gubernatorial chair, he went in 1827 once more to Con- 
 gress as senator frorii Maine. After a year's service in this capacity, 
 he resigned to accept an appointment as judge of the Supreme Court 
 of Maine. Eight years of service on the bench succeeded. In 1836 
 he was made second comptroller of the United States treasury, and 
 during the next fourteen years he lived in Washington. In 1850 he 
 returned to Portland, and as he hoped, to private life. But two years 
 afterwards the people of Portland insisted on his being their mayor. 
 In 1854, he reluctantly consented to run as candidate for governor, 
 was not elected, and was not sorry. " This rapid sketch of his pub- 
 lic life presents him before us as one whom, for some reason, the 
 people delighted to honor, and who also found favor in the eyes of 
 those in authority, so that both the electing and the appointing power 
 seemed to vie with each other in elevating him. That reason was not 
 to be found in his possessing the arts of -the demagogue, or in any 
 unscrupulous pliancy in matters of principle. His conscience was his 
 pole, star ; and if he was faithful to his party, it was because he thought 
 hisparty was right. . . . In allthe duties of his long and marked career, 
 he was noted for high ability, clearness, and scope of mind, and rare 
 fidelity to the interests committed to his charge. Conscience was his 
 unfailing guide and monitor. His great aim in life was to do right, 
 and his history will verify the fact that this purpose was accom- 
 plished." In politics he was a consistent and unwavering Democrat 
 of the Jackson school. 
 
 As a judge, Mr. Parris was better known and more valued than he 
 was as a lawyer. He was an efficient and popular magistrate, and as 
 a financial officer he was able and faithful. Through his whole career 
 his regard for the Sabbath and for the institutions of religion and 
 benevolence was uniform and conspicuous. During his last years he 
 made a profession of his Christian faith, and adorned it by a walk of 
 humble j'et ardent and active piety. « 
 
 Judge Pan-is married, in 1810, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Levi Whit- 
 man, of Wellfleet, Mass. This lady and six children still live. 
 
 William Pitt Preble was born in York in 1783, graduated at 
 Harvard in 1806 with high standing, and in 1809 was tutor in the 
 same. He read law in the offices of Benjamin Hasey and Benjamin 
 Orr, Esqs., of Topsham. He began practice in York, soon removed 
 to Alfred, and again to Saeo. On the death of Hon. Silas Lee in 
 1814, he was appointed United States district attorney for the Dis- 
 
THE EARLY TRUSTEES. 55 
 
 trict of Maine, and distinguished himself in that office. He became 
 resident in Portland in 1818, and in a short time rose to the front 
 rank in the profession. In 1817 he was a member of the five-ninths 
 convention, as it was called ; on the elevation of Maine to a State, 
 was appointed associate justice of its Supreme Court, and occupied 
 that station eight years, when he was appointed by Gen. Jackson 
 minister plenipotentiary to the Hague to represent the United States 
 on the northeastern boundary question. He protested vigorously 
 against the award of the king of HoUand. On his return he was 
 appointed agent of the State at Washington, to enforce her rights ; 
 in 1832, on the copimission to negotiate with the United States on the 
 subject ; and on the issue of the "Webster- Ashburton treaty in 1842, 
 was chosen by the Legislature one of the commissioners to adjust the 
 terms of settlement. He was one of the projectors of the Atlantic 
 and St. Lawrence Railroad, did much to accomplish it, and was its 
 first president. His great exertions in furtherance of the project, 
 involving a winter's journey from Portland to Montreal through the 
 wilderness, and a voyage to England, where he had to combat heavy 
 opposition, broke down a strong constitution, and after a languishing 
 illness he died October, 1857. He was of strong logical powers, clear 
 and discriminating ; well informed in his profession ; of imperious will ; 
 of warm temperament, easily aroused, — unfortunately for himself, and 
 uncomfortably for those who experienced it. 
 
 Judge Preble married twice : first, Nancy Gale Tucker of York, by 
 whom he had two daughters and a son (Bowdoin College, 1840) ; sec- 
 ond, Sarah A. Forsaith, by whom he had a son. 
 
 Arthdk Ware was born at Sherburne, Mass., February, 1782 ; 
 graduated at Harvard in 1804. After graduation, he was assistant 
 teacher in Phillips Exeter Academy, under Dr. Abbot, a year ; was 
 private tutor for a year in the family of his uncle. Prof. Henry 
 Ware, of Harvard. In 1807 he was appointed tutor, and in 1811 
 professor of Greek in Harvard College, and held that office four 
 years. Resigning the professorship, he entered upon the study of 
 law with Joseph E. Smith, of Boston, — meanwhile being an asso- 
 ciate editor of the "Boston Yankee," — and was admitted to the Suf- 
 folk bar in 1816. The year following he came to Portland, was 
 admitted to the Cumberland bar, and opened an office. He at once 
 took charge of the " Eastern Argus," and his vigorous pen gave new 
 character to that print. When Maine was elevated into a State, he 
 became secretary of state ; and in 1822, on the resignation of Judge 
 Parris, was appointed to succeed as judge of the District Court of the 
 United States for Maine. He held that office forty years with great 
 
illiSlUKi 'JJ! mjnuuia <jur.iji!i«j:i. 
 
 ability, his opinions and decisions coiTimanding highest respect for 
 "profound research, amplitude of learning, clearness and extent of 
 judicial powers." He contributed articles on important legal questions 
 and topics to Bouvier's " Dictionary " ; an introduction to the first vol- 
 ume of "Collections of the Maine Historical Society," and published 
 an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of the college, both 
 admil'ed for thought and style. He was a trustee of the college 
 twenty-four years, and in 1837 received its highest honor, LL. D. He 
 was a corporate member of the Maine Historical Society, held respon- 
 sible positions in Portland institutions, and was president of the An- 
 droscoggin and Kennebec Railroad. 
 
 In 1831, Judge Ware married Sarah Morgridge, by whom he had a 
 son, Joseph A. (Bowdoin College, 1851), and two daughters. He 
 died in 1873. 
 
 NathXn Weston, born at Augusta, July, 1782 ; graduated at Dart- 
 mouth in 1803. He read law in Augusta and Boston, and was admit- 
 ted to the Suffolk bar ; ibut, with the exception of a year or two in 
 New Gloucester, his professional career, prolonged and honorable, 
 was pursued in his native town, his permanent residence from 1810. 
 What is noticeable, nearly the whole of his professional life was spent 
 on the bench, he having been appointed in 1811, by Gov. Gerry, of 
 Massachusetts, chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, embra- 
 cing Lincoln, .Kennebec, and Somerset Counties, and discharging its 
 duties to general acceptance until 1820, when, on the organization of 
 the new State of Maine, he was appointed associate justice of its 
 Supreme Court. In 1834 he was elevated to the chief-justiceship, 
 and in 1841 retired from the bench. He represented New Gloucester 
 in the Legislature of Massachusetts, and was a delegate to the Bruns- 
 wick Convention of 1816. He was a trustee of the college nearly 
 forty years. In 1843 he was honored with the degree of LL. D^, hav- 
 ing alreadj' been thus complimented by Dartmouth and Waterville. 
 He was also a trustee of Waterville College for several years. He 
 was a corporate member of the Maine Historical Society. 
 
 Judge Weston married a daughter of Judge Cony, of Augusta, and 
 had four sons and three daughters, of whom three sons are graduates 
 of the college. He died in 1872, at the advanced age of ninety. 
 
 Joshua Wingate was born in Haverhill, Mass., graduated at 
 Harvard College in 1795, and settled as a merchant in Hallowell. 
 Having married Julia, the daughter of Gen. Henry Dearborn, he 
 went in 1801 to Washington, as chief clerk in the War Department, 
 of which his father-in-law was the head. Finding the climate unfavor- 
 able, he returned, after a few years of service, to Maine, and became 
 
THE EARLT TRUSTEES. 57 
 
 collector of the port of Bath. This place he resigned, in 1822, and 
 settled in Portland, where he died Nov. 6, 1843, in his seventy-first 
 year. Gen. Wingate was a member of the convention which framed 
 the Maine Constitution ; and while a branch of the United States 
 Bank existed in Portland, he was its president. " Throughout his 
 whole life he was distinguished for his integrity, independence of 
 opinion, and rectitude of deportment ; while the able and satisfactory 
 manner in which he discharged all the duties of the various public 
 stations which he successively filled, secured for him the confidence 
 of the State and national governments, and the respect of his fellow- 
 citizens." "Wealthy and influential, he was also enlightened and lib- 
 eral. Dignity and urbanity marked his manners, while justice and 
 kindness controlled him in all the relations of life. His only son, 
 George R. D., died while a member of Bowdoin College. His only 
 daughter, Julia, is the wife of Mr. Charles Q. Clapp. His widow, 
 in person, mind, and manners scarcely touched by time, still survives. 
 
 William King was born in Scarborough in 1768 ; son of Eichard 
 King, a merchant, and brother of Hon. Eufus King of New York 
 City, and Hon. Cyrus King of Saco. Without the advantages for 
 education of his eminent brothers, he devoted himself to the pursuits 
 of business ; was in j'outh placed in a store in Portland ; in 1791, or 
 about that date, removed to Topsham, where he engaged in trade and 
 lumbering ; in a few years he removed to Bath, where he ever after 
 lived, conducting for many years a large mercantile business ; became 
 prominent in political action, a gentleman of eminent personal endow- 
 ments, of large frame and imposing presence, distinguished natural 
 powers, and wide, commanding influence ; a leading member of the Re- 
 publican party of that time. He held important positions in the State 
 and national governments, was in both branches of the Legislature of 
 Massachusetts, was major-general of the State militia, was active in 
 eflfecting the separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts, 
 president of the convention which framed the Constitution of the new 
 State, and was elected by a large majority its first governor, — a posi- 
 tion which he resigned before his term had expired, to accept his 
 appointment on a commission from the United States to adjust the 
 Spanish claims. His administration as governor, important as giv- 
 ing direction to the policy of the new State, was firm, efficient, prov- 
 ident, and wise, and has been regarded as highly honorable to himself 
 and to the State. Subsequently he was appointed collector for the 
 port of Bath. 
 
 He was trustee of the college nearly thirty years, and devised lib- 
 erally by will for its welfare. He was also a trustee of Waterville 
 
58 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 College, which was largely indebted to his agency in its establishment 
 at the first. 
 
 He married, in 1800, Miss Frazier, of Boston. They had a daugh- 
 ter who died in early life, and a son, Cyrus W., now living in Bruns- 
 wick. Mr. King died in 1852. 
 
 E.EUEL Williams was born in June, 1783, in Augusta, then embraced 
 within the limits of Hallowell, where he spent a long, active, and influ- 
 ential life. His childhood and youth, with advantages of education 
 afforded only by the public schools of his town and the academy at 
 Hallowell, afford an example of the value of early training in habits of 
 promptness to duty, untiring industry, and forecast beyond his years. 
 By invitation of the late Judge James Bridge, a prominent lawyer in 
 Augusta who discerned the promise of the youth, he entered on legal 
 study in his office when only fifteen years old, and the kind interest of 
 his teacher gave him opportunities in the business of the office, with 
 his own thrift, of more than paying his way. Admitted to the bar 
 just as he reached his majority, he declined a tempting proposal to 
 join t'^o fellow-students to emigrate to Cincinnati, then a land of hope 
 for the enterprise of a young lawyer ; fortunately for his native town, 
 he decided to remain there, and thus through life identified himself with 
 its interests. In due time he became prominent in its affairs, and by 
 shrewd forecast, power of influence, and ever- wakeful energy, through 
 a period of nearly sixty years, contributed more perhaps than any 
 other citizen to elevate what was only a suburb Of Hallowell, when he 
 opened his office, to an influential city and the capital of the State. 
 *" No work of public importance, no enterprise affecting the Kennebec 
 Valley, was carried forward without his direct participation." Mr. 
 Williams soon secured a lucrative- practice in his profession ; became 
 eminent especially in questions affecting titles to real propertj' as under 
 the Kennebec Purchase, and as agent for the Bowdoin Lands. His 
 name is a familiar one in Eeports of both Maine and Massachusetts of 
 the period. 
 
 Mr. Williams was active in effecting the elevation of the District of 
 Maine into an independent State. He represented his town or dis- 
 trict in both branches of her Legislatures for seven successive years ; 
 and at a later period^ his town for three years. In 1825, he was 
 appointed oii a commission to divide the public lands lield in common 
 with the mother State; in 1831, was made commissioner of public 
 buildings and superintended the completion of the State Capitol ; in 
 1832, was placed on the commission for settling the northeastern boun- 
 dary controversy ; in 1857, was elected to fill an unexpired term in 
 the United States Senate, and in 1839, to a full term; but in 1843, 
 
THE EAELY TRUSTEES. 59 
 
 resigned his seat, but not his interest in affairs of the State or country. 
 He became interested in railway projects involving matters of deep 
 concern to leading minds, and prolonged discussion and effort ; was 
 president of the Kennebec and Portland Eailroad. Other enterprises 
 of local or personal concern engaged his active mind and energies 
 until late in 1862, his strong constitution received a shock from some- 
 what prolonged and threatening iUness ; and in July following,' on his 
 return from a visit of business to Boston, friends discovered evidences 
 of failing strength, and death ensued on the 25th of the month. Mr. 
 Williams was a trustee of the college, 1822 to 1860. In 1855, the 
 college conferred on him the degree of LL. D. He was one of the 
 corporators of Maine Historical Society. In 1807 he married Sarah 
 Lowell Coney, daughter of Hon. Daniel Coney of Augusta. They had 
 nine children, a son and eight daughters. 
 
 Thomas Bond was born in 1770 in Groton, Mass., and at an 
 early age removed with his father to Hallowell. After graduation at 
 Cambridge in 1801, he studied law with Mr. (afterwards Judge) 
 Wilde, whose partner he became on being admitted to the bar. Mr. 
 Bond " had a very successful business, and stood high in the profes- 
 sion." As representative and as senator, he served his town and 
 county several j'ears. In 1806, he married. Lucretia F., daughter of 
 Dr. Benjamin Page. He died in 1827, leaving two daughters and a 
 son. 
 
 Nathaniel Hill Fletcher was born in 1769 at Boxboro', Mass. ; 
 graduated at Harvard College in 1793 ; and was settled at Kenne- 
 bunk, 1800, as colleague of the Rev. Mr. Little. He became sole 
 pastor the following year by the death of Mr. Little. Here he 
 labored until 1828, when he was released from his engagements, hav- 
 ing the j-ear previous received a colleague. He then returned to his 
 native town, and spent his six remaining years on the old homestead. 
 Mr. Fletcher is said to have been "quick in his perceptions, liberal 
 in spirit, independent in thought and speech, a prompt and fearless 
 rebuker of iniquity. In his religious opinions he was Unitarian." By 
 bis wife, Sally, daughter of John Stover, of Wells, he had five sons 
 and three daughters. His eldest son is a clergyman. 
 
 Edward Payson was born in 1783 in Rindge, N. H., where his 
 father, the Eev. Seth Payson, fulfilled a long and useful ministry. 
 After his graduation at Harvard College in 1803, he took charge of 
 the academy in Portland, a charge which he held very acceptably for 
 three years . His theological studies, begun m Portland, were contmued 
 under his father's direction until 1807, when he was licensed. A few 
 months later, he was settled in Portland as colleague pastor with the 
 
(JU HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Kellogg. ^ Three years afterward, he became sole pastor. 
 Here he soon built up a large and strong society, and became widely 
 known, not only as a preacher of uncommon power, but as a man of 
 rare piety. "Wealthy churches in Boston and in New York repeatedly 
 but vainly tried to draw him away from his beloved flock. He possessed 
 a delicate and diseased physical organization, and during his entire 
 ministry suffered much from ill health, — a fact which should not be for- 
 gotten by those who read the story of his spiritual conflicts. He lived 
 and labored in Portland for twenty years with wonderful success. He 
 died Oct. 22, 1828, with a faith whichwas indeed triumphant. Dr. 
 Payson married, in 1811, Anna Louisa Shipman, of New Haven. Of 
 eight children, six survived him. His eldest daughter is the wife of 
 Prof. Hopkins, of Williamstown. Another daughter married the 
 Rev. Dr. Prentiss, now pastor of the Mercer Street Church, in New 
 York. One son, Edward, is a graduate of Bowdoin College, 1832. 
 
 In Sprague's "Annals of the American Pulpit," there is a letter 
 from Rev. Dr. Peters, which gives his impressions of Edward Payson. 
 According to my own recollections of that remarkable man, — whom 
 it was my privilege often to hear, — Dr. Peters has described him 
 felicitously and truly. 
 
 " He was of medium height, good proportions, a little stooping in 
 posture, hair black, face angular, features strongly marked with 
 expressions of quiet benevolence and decision, e3'es dark and full, 
 slightly retired under a broW somewhat raised and a prominent 
 forehead, placid and a little downcast in their ordinary expression, 
 but keen and scrutinizing when raised and fastened on an object". . . . 
 His power of conversation was perhaps among the most reinark- 
 able of his gifts. Like_the ' philosopher's stone,' it seemed to turn 
 everything it touched into gold. He was often facetious, playful, 
 quaint, and witty. His facetiousness, indeed, was ever a near neigh- 
 bor to his piety, if it was not a part of it. His sermons, which arfe 
 already before the public, show the richness and fertility of his mind ; 
 his deep knowledge of the Scriptures and experience of the truth, 
 his faithfulness, his happy, various, and brilliant powers of illustra- 
 tion, and the deeply earnest and evangelical tone of his ministry. 
 His appearance in the pulpit was meek and unpretending. His voice 
 was not remarkably smooth, nor was it trained to the rules of art ; 
 yet it was full, animated, and distinct in its enunciations, and of 
 more than ordinary flexibility and compass. His action was not' 
 exuberant. His manner was his own, a part of himself. Its leading 
 characteristics were affectionateness, earnestness, and sincerity. He 
 administered the most pungent, direct, and uncompromising rebukes 
 
THE EARLY TKUSTEES. 61 
 
 and denunciations, in tones of tenderness and afifection. His elo- 
 quence, then, was not vaunting nor studied, but simple and honest ; 
 an eloquence which is ever destined more to be felt by the hearer than 
 to be admired. The people did not know that he was eloquent, but 
 they loved to hear him preach. As a pastor. Dr. Payson was affec- 
 tionate, solicitous, and laborious. He possessed in the highest degree 
 the affections of his people, and thsee affections were but a suitable 
 return for his own." 
 
 His works have been published in three octavo volumes, prefaced 
 by an interesting and faithful memoir of the author, by his intimate 
 friend, the Eev. Asa Cummings. 
 
 Ebenezer Everett was born in Dorchester, Mass., in 1788, son 
 of Rev. Moses Everett, and graduated at Harvard in 1806. Having 
 been admitted to the bar, he practised law in Beverly, Mass., until 
 1817, when he removed to Brunswick, henceforth his residence ; where, 
 in the successful practice of his profession, he gained reputation as an 
 able counsellor, and a man of incorruptible integrity and great ex- 
 actness in every duty. He was employed as a master in chancery 
 and a referee, and enjoyed the unlimited confidence of the community. 
 In 1838, he was appointed, in co-operation with Judge Mellen and 
 Ex-Governor Samuel E. Smith, to revise and codify the public stat- 
 utes of the State. He was cashier of the Union Bank, Brunswick, 
 fourteen years from its establishment. He represented the town in 
 the Legislature of 1840. He never aspired after office ; was a man of 
 culture, of keen wit, and genial humor, respected and esteemed as a 
 citizen. He was on the Board of Trustees of the college thirty-six 
 years ; was a member of the Maine Historical Society. In 1819, he 
 married Miss Prince, of Beverly, Mass., by whom he had children, of 
 whom Charles Carroll (1850) now lives. He died February, 1869. 
 
 Isaac Ilslet was born in 1 765 ; was son of Daniel Ilsley, and 
 grandson of Capt. Isaac Ilsley, a carpenter, who, in 1735, came from 
 Newbury to Falmouth, "and became a noted partisan officer in the 
 Indian wars." Daniel Ilsley was also a man of note, to whom his 
 fellow-citizens were accustomed to intrust their most important inter- 
 ests. His son Isaac was educated in the Portland schools, and 
 trained to business habits. In 1790 he was made register of deeds 
 for Cumberland County. In 1791 he was appointed by President 
 Jefferson collector of the port of Portland ; this office he held up til 
 1829, when he was displaced by President Jackson. "He conducted 
 the responsible offices which he held for thirty-nine years with perfect 
 correctness and integrity. The government never had a more faith- 
 ful servant. In his public and private intercourse he lived without 
 
62 HISTOKT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 reproach." In early life he married Augusta, the daughter of his 
 uncle, Enoch Ilsley. Of several children, Mrs. Nathan Cummings is 
 the only survivor. 
 
 Ether Sheplet was b6rn in Groton, Mass., November, 1779; 
 graduated at Dartmouth, 1811. He read law with Dudley Hubbard, 
 Esq., South Berwick; Zabdiel B. Adams, Esq., Worcester; and 
 Solomon Strong, Esq., Northampton, Mass. Admitted to the bar, 
 he came to Saco, and entered upon a successful practice in 1814 ; in 
 1819 was chosen delegate to the convention which formed the Con- 
 stitution of Maine ; in 1821 was appointed to succeed William Pitt 
 Preble as district attorney of the United States, and held that position 
 until his election to the United States Senate in 1833 ; in 1836 was 
 appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of Maine ; in 1848 
 succeeded Chief Justice Whitman on that bench, and continued -in the 
 able, faithful, arid vigorous discharge of its duties until 1855, when he 
 retired. He had declined all attempts to entice him, by offers of official 
 station under government, from his judicial position. His last public 
 office was that of sole commissioner, in 1856, to revise the public laws 
 of the State. Few have left public office with reputation so unsullied, 
 and a memory so honored in all relations. For thirty-three years he 
 .was a trustee of the college, ever watchful, wise in counsel, and 
 beneficent as a patron. He received the honorarj' degree of LL. D. 
 from Dartmouth. He was one of the original members of the Maine 
 Historical Society. He married Anna Foster, by whom he had five 
 sons, of whom John R. (1837) alone survives, a distinguished lawyer 
 in St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Jeremiah Bailey was born at Little Compton, K. I., 1773 ; grad- 
 uated at Providence, 1794, and came immediately to Maine. He 
 read law with Silas Lee, and opened an office in Wiscasset, where, in 
 1853," be died at the age of eighty. During this long life he held 
 various offices of honor and trust. As a representative to the Legis- 
 lature and to Congress, as judge of probate for many years, and 
 finally as collector of the customs in Wiscasset, — from the duties of 
 which he was relieved by President Pierce jiist before his death, — he 
 showed himself to be "a man of ability and sterling integrity." 
 
 Benjamin Hasey was born in 1771, in Lebanon, Me., where his father, 
 of the same name, was minister. He was fitted by Master Moody 
 at Dummer Academy for Harvard College, where he graduated in 
 1790. In 1794 he settled in Topsham, for the practice of law. He 
 represented the town a number of years in the Legislature of Massa- 
 chusetts. But politics were not to his taste, and he declined thence- 
 forth all public employ. For many years he had a large practice in 
 
THE EARLY TRUSTEES. 63 
 
 Lincoln and Cumberland Counties. His opinions as a counsellor were 
 sound and valuable. Naturally diffident and reserved, he rarftly 
 appeared at the bar as an advocate. In regard to his profession 
 Mr. Hasey was eminently conservative. The innovations of later 
 j'ears, the altered manners and practice of the bar, the absence of the 
 old decorum and of forensic courtesy " fretted his nerves. The abol- 
 ishing of special pleading annoyed him, and the adoption of the 
 Revised Statutes so thoroughly confused his ancient notions of the 
 law that it drove him from the practice. Codification in any shape 
 he could not endure. It displaced his accustomed authorities, and 
 cast him afloat in his old age on what seemed almost a new profes- 
 sion. He lived in the past, and believed in it, and strove as much as 
 mortal could do to keep himself from the degeneracy of modern 
 ideas." Though he kept his office and resorted to it as long as he 
 lived, he had withdrawn from active business a good many years before 
 he died. At his death, in 1851, he was the oldest lawyer in the State. 
 Mr. Hasey lived a bachelor all his days, boarding for thirt3--eight 
 years in one famUy. He was reserved in manners, retiring in his . 
 habits, and in all his modes of thought and action as regular as clock- 
 work. He was a man, moreover, of the strictest integrity. As over- 
 seer and as trustee, his small, prim body was duly seen for nearly half 
 a century on the Commencement stage. 
 
 Daniel Goodenow was born in Henniker, N. H., in 1793. He 
 came with his father to Maine in 1802 ; was a member of Dartmouth 
 College, but left college before graduation of his class. He studied 
 law in the office of Hon. John Holmes, Alfred, was admitted to the 
 bar, began practice in that town in 1818, and became partner of Mr. 
 Holmes. In 1838 he was appointed attorney-general of the State ; 
 in 1841 was appointed judge of the District Court for the Western 
 District, and held that position for seven years, the term fixed by the 
 Constitution. In 1855 he was elevated to the bench of the Supreme 
 Court. In 1820 he received the honorary degree of A. M. from the 
 college, and in 1860 that of LL. D., and was trustee of the college 
 from 1838 until his death in 1863. He was a member of the Maine 
 Historical Society. ' ' He had taken a distinguished part in the politics 
 of the State, was a firm supporter of its good institutions, and retired 
 to private life with unsullied reputation." 
 
 Judge Goodenow married twice: first, a daughter of Hon. John 
 Holmes, who died leaving two sons, John H. (1852) and Henry C. 
 (1853) ; second, Mrs. Henry B. Osgood, daughter of Hon. Judah 
 Dana of Fryeburg, by whom he had a daughter. 
 
 EOBEKT Hallowell Gakdinek was a native of Bristol, England, 
 
64 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 only son of Robert Hallowell of Boston, who held responsible ofl3ce 
 unfler the Crown and retired to England on the breaking out of hos- 
 tilities with the mother country. He inherited, when but five j'eara 
 old, property from his grandfather, Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, on condi- 
 tion of his taking the name bj"^ which he has been known. The family 
 having returned to this country in 1792, the son was placed in the 
 best schools the country afforded, entered Harvard College, and grad- 
 uated in 1801. After graduating and spending a year or two in for- 
 eign travel, in 1803 he established himself on his estates on the Ken- 
 nebec. The story of his first coming to the town which bears liis name 
 by water, — the only tolerable mode of conveyance even for social 
 visits at any considerable distance, — the embarrassments he met in 
 organizing and even recovering his large inheritance, which, through 
 neglect of many years, had fallen into a ruinous condition, his trials 
 and controversies with intruders who had settled upon choice lands 
 with no legal titles; atod, through wise and benevolent action, of his 
 relief from many perplexities, is given in a sketch of his life by Hon. 
 .William WUlis, in the fifth volume of " Collections of Maine Histori- 
 cal Society," for which the writer is indebted for many of his state- 
 ments concerning him. 
 
 " Mr. Gardiner's energies were not limited to improving the physi- 
 cal condition of the territory over which he became trustee and guar- 
 dian. He took a broad and comprehensive view of his duties and 
 privileges, and early commenced a series of measures to advance the 
 intellectual and moral condition of, the people." Reared in the com- 
 munion of the Episcopal Church, he contributed generously to the 
 establishment and welfare of that church in the town and the State ; 
 was earnest and efficient in promoting the cause of education, of which 
 the Gardiner Lyceum, designed as an industrial institution, and' which 
 for "some years was the best of its class in the State and depended 
 largely on his munificence, afforded ample proof. He also gave coun- 
 seland support to other public improvements in the town. His own 
 spacious mansion and grounds, the home of elegant and cultured hos- 
 pitality and wide social infiuence, contributed to its attractions and 
 its name. He manifested his interest in the college, having been a' 
 member and for a time president of its Board of Overseers, and for 
 several years on its Board of Trustees. He was a corporate member 
 of the Maine Historical Society, and for a time its president. 
 
 Mr. Gardiner married Emma Jane, daughter of Judge Tudor of 
 Boston. They had six daughters and three sons, of whom one daugh- 
 ter and two sons (the second graduating, B. C. 1842) are now living. 
 Mr. Gardiner died in 1864. 
 
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THE EARLY TRUSTEES. 
 
 Asa Cdmmings was born in 1790, in Andover, Mass His gra 
 father, Joseph Cummings, who died in Topsfleld in his one hunc 
 and third year, was a remarkable man; one who, "after he 
 completed his orb of j-ears, could mount his horse, unaided, from 
 ground, and ride many miles. To the last his memory was strong 
 exact, his judgment clear and sound, his retorts equally quick 
 keen." This wonderful old man had a son and a daughter. ' 
 latter married a Lamson, settled in Exeter, N. H., and gave rise 
 numerous posterity Asa, the son, was a soldier of the Eevolut 
 and fought at Saratoga. From Andover, where he lived awhile 
 removed about 1798 into the Maine woods. Albany, in Oxford Cou 
 was then a new settlement. Here the comforts, the privileges, 
 embellishments of cultivated life were nearlj- all wanting. But tl 
 was a better part, which Deacon Cummings carried with him 
 those wilds. Much he was compelled to leave behind, but his fai 
 altar went with him It was thirtj' j-ears before the little commu 
 was strong enough to have a settled pastor ; yet during all this t 
 they met weekly to join with the good deacon in prayer and pra 
 He died (1845) in his eighty-sixth year, leaving descendants of : 
 generations, — one hundred and twenty-seven in all. Jt is aln 
 needless to add that young Asa's boy life was hard and dre; 
 Specially such was his sojourn in a little New Hampshire town am 
 the White Mountains, where he was placed for a winter to earn 
 living. On one occasion this lad of ten years was sent off on ho 
 back to procure food for the household. After an absence of 
 daj'S, and a ride of more than fifty miles through the almost u 
 habited woods, he returned to the log-cabin with a single bnshe 
 grain ; and this he regarded as pastime, when compared with 
 daily life. But amid these scenes his mind was expanding, and 
 aspired to something higher. 
 
 At eighteen his father released him from further service, and 
 began to labor and study with reference to an education. At the 
 of twenty-one he entered Phillips Academy, Andover, where he s 
 made friends and found assistance Through the kind aid of otl 
 and his own strenuous efibrts, he was enabled to pass comfortably 
 creditably through the usual course at Cambridge. His class, tha 
 1817, contained many names which have since grown great, bu 
 had no kindlier or better soul than Asa Cummings. 
 
 He taught school for a little while in Western Danvers, where 
 had some deyoted friends, whom 1 have often heai-d him name ■> 
 gratitude. Then, for two years, he was in the Divinity Schoo 
 Andover. While compellad by failing health to suspend his stuc 
 
&6 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 he was invited to a tutorship at Brunswick. Gf the large, awliward, 
 homely, but ever genial, sensible, and excellent man who then came 
 among them, the students of that time, and the few survivors who 
 were his colleagues in ofHce, retain, I am sure, only pleasant mem- 
 ories. After one year in the college, he was settled at North Yar- 
 mouth. He had given to his ministry six useful years, when he was 
 compelled by physical infirmity to abandon preaching. It so hap- 
 pened that the Ghrisiian Mirror was then in want of an editor, and 
 ftJ r. Cummings was selected. This paper, which had been originated 
 and published by Arthur Shirley, passed, in 1833, out of his hands 
 into the ownership and control of the Maine Missionary Society. By 
 general consent Mr. Cummings was retained as editor. His reputa- 
 tion in this department was already high, and invitations had been 
 received by him to similar positions elsewhere that in some respects 
 were far more eligible. " But his heart and his sympathies were ever 
 with Maine, and he determined to abide by the Mirror." Twelve 
 years afterwards another change was made in the ownership of the 
 paper. The causes of its transfer from thle Society to Mr. Cummings 
 are thus briefly given by the present editor: "The question of 
 slavery was warmly agitated ; and as must necessarily be the case in 
 a country which allows free thought and speech, there were diversities 
 of opinion as to the best mode of meeting the question, and as to the 
 agencies to be employed for its removal. The editor of the Mirror 
 dift'ered from some of his brethren on these points, and expressed his 
 opinion honestly and boldly. They, in turn, felt aggrieved that the 
 organ of the Maine Missionary Society should express opinions which 
 they regarded as erroneous, and the decision was finally arrived at to 
 sell the paper to Mr. Cummings, that the responsibility of its position 
 might fall on him alone." Thenceforward, "sustained by an unwa- 
 vering conviction of the truth of his position, and by an unfaltering 
 faith in God," he maintained his post, — an able, independent, and 
 truly Christian editor. His place was no sinecure. His means were 
 far from being abundant. The hindrances and trials which he en- 
 countered were neither few nor small. Great, therefore, was the 
 satisfaction of his friends, when at length they heard that a provi- 
 dential accession of property had given to him and his family an ample 
 competence. 
 
 At the close of 1855 his connection with the Mirror ceased. " He 
 had been its editor for nearly thirty years, and, by his eminent ability 
 and rare skill,' had given it a name and rank, among the first religious 
 papers in the land. Its volumes are his memorial." Soon after this 
 retirement, he received a letter from his editorial brethren of the 
 
THE EARLY TRUSTEES. 67 
 
 Portland press, indorsed by many of the citizens without distinc- 
 tion of party or sect, inviting him to a public entertainment, as a 
 ma,rk of the high respect in which they held the editor and the 
 man. In a grateful answer, judicious and beautiful, he declined the 
 proffer. 
 
 In March, 1856, Dr. Cummings went to Panama on a visit to 
 his daughter, wife of Rev. J. Rowell. At first he was improved in 
 health and spirits ; but staying in the tropics a little too long, he was 
 taken sick. Still it was thought he could return. On reaching 
 Aspinwatl he grew worse. For him to stay there was regarded as 
 certain death ; at sea, he might possibly rally. The steamer in which 
 he was placed sailed June 4, and plunged at once into a rough sea. 
 On the second night out this good man calmly breathed his last, and 
 his remains now rest beneath the waves of the Caribbean. 
 
 Dr. Cummings would have been distinguished as a preacher, had his 
 power of delivery been equal to his power as a thinker and writer. 
 His voice lacked strength and clearness, but his sermons were rich in 
 thought, expressed in a simple, natural, lucid style, of great beauty. 
 Several of his discourses were published. His well-written memoir of 
 the eloquent, gifted, saint-like Edward Payson has been read by mill- 
 ions. But the great labor of his life was performed at the editor's 
 desk. This was the pulpit from which he delivered his weeklj' ser- 
 mon to many listening thousands. In this important department of 
 Christian duty and efficiency, he was equalled by few, surpassed, per- 
 haps, by none. Good sense, sound judgment, independent thought, 
 vigorous reasoning, a clear and beautiful style were all at his com- 
 mand and in constant use to advance the great cause to which he 
 had early consecrated his heart and life. In the animated discussions 
 to which he was at one time compelled, he showed equal temper and 
 ability. Quick to discern the weak point of his adversary, he knew 
 exactly when and where to deal the fatal blow. At one of those min- 
 isterial meetings in which the course of the Mirror was discussed, 
 several persons charged it with unfairness, although it was shown 
 that their communications had been allowed much more than their 
 share of the paper. " I see," said old Jotham Sewall, — "I see how 
 it is. The trouble is not that your side is not heard. You send in your 
 articles, very strong and very long, and Brother Cummings prints the 
 whole ; and then he sticks in a little paragraph of five or six lines and 
 tips it all over." The present able editor of the Mirror is preparing 
 to give the public a volume of Dr. Cumming's editorial papers. It 
 will be a work of general and permanent value. Of its author we can' 
 have no better memorial. 
 
68 HISTORV OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 In person, Asa Cummings was tall, angular, and somewhat un- 
 gainly. But his homely features grew almost handsome to his friends, 
 lighted up, as they so often were, by his large brain and larger heart. 
 
 OVERSEERS. 
 
 At the head of the charter list stand the brothers Edward Cutts 
 of Kittery, and Thomas Cutts of Saco. names at that time eminently 
 aristocratic. Richard Cutts, a son, and James Madison Cutts, a grand- 
 son of Thomas, were long in high office at Washington. 
 
 Simon Frte was one of the first settlers of Fryeburg. This patriot, 
 legislator, judge died in 1822, aged eighty-two. 
 
 David ISewall of York graduated at Harvard in 1755; a lawyer 
 from 1759 to 1777 ; then for twelve years judge of the Supreme 
 Court; and then, for more than thirty years, judge of the United 
 States Court for Maine. He died in 1825 at the age of ninety. He 
 was a man of the highest integrity, of simple manners, sociable and 
 kind-hearted. His name is recorded among the first benefactors of 
 the college, and the Sewall prize is annually awarded. 
 
 William Goeham, judge of probate, etc., lived in the town which 
 took from him its name. He died in 1804! 
 
 Joseph No yes, from Newbury, died in Portland, 1795. 
 
 Pbleg Wadsworth was born in Duxbnry, 1748; graduated at 
 Harvard in 1769 ; in 1775 joined the armj' before Boston, as a cap- 
 tain of minute-men. In 1779, being adjutant-general of Massachu- 
 setts, he was in the unfortunate Bagaduce expedition as second in 
 command. Many thought that the result would have been very dif- 
 ferent, had Gen. Wadsworth been in Lovell's place. In 1780 he was 
 appointed to the command of the entire coast of Maine, and bad his 
 headquarters at Thomaston, where, unfortunately, being left in winter 
 with only a small guard, he was surprised, taken prisoner, and carried 
 to Castine. After a confinement of four months he made his eseape. 
 In 1784 Gen. Wadsworth removed from Plymouth to Portland, and 
 became one of its most active and useful citizens. In 1792 the Cum- 
 berland District chose him as its first representative in Congress ; and 
 this place, which was then truly one of honor, he continued to hold 
 until 1806, when he declined to stand longer. Possessing in the town 
 of Hiram a large tract of land, bestowed on him by the government for 
 Revolutionary services, he settled upon it in 1807, and there, in 1829, 
 he died at the age of eighty-one. " His wife was Miss Bartlett, of 
 Duxbury or Plymouth, a lady of fine manners and all womanly virtues, 
 who was alike his friend and comforter in his hours of trial, the grace 
 
OVERSEERS. 69 
 
 and ornament of his house in the days of his prosperity. They had a 
 large family. Two sons, Henry and Alexander, went into the navj' : 
 the former perished bravely before the batteries of Tripoli ; the 
 latter rose to high command, and lived to a good age. Zilpha Wads- 
 worth became the wife of Stephen Longfellow and the mother of 
 another Henry Wadsworth, who has given immortalitj' to the name of 
 that heroic uncle who fell before he could himself write it on the page 
 of fame. The house built by Gen. Wadsworth in 1785 was the first 
 edifice of brick erected in Portland. When he left, it became the 
 residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Longfellow, who added a third «tory. 
 It is a plain, unpretending structure, but how rich in memories ! 
 When, in the course of events, it shall be on the point of passing into 
 foreign hands, let grateful Portland make it her own, and keep invio- 
 late forever the house which sheltered a patriot, warrior, and civil- 
 ian, which was the home and the office of her best, if not greatest 
 lawyer, and which was the honored birthplace and cradle of a poet 
 world-renowned. 
 
 William Widgert was another of those original and striking char- 
 acters that marked an age gone by. Nobody knows when he was 
 born or where. It was war time when he came, a poor boy, to New 
 Gloucester. He soon engaged in the privateer service, and rose to be 
 lieutenant of an armed vessel. On the return of peace he opened an 
 office in New Gloucester for the practice of law. With no legal train- 
 ing but such as the deck could give, and in spite of lawyers and bar 
 rules, he persevered and carried the daj*. He was one of the Massa- 
 chusetts convention that adopted the national Constitution, but that 
 instrument could get neither his voice nor vote. He was sent often 
 to the Legislature ; "and his speeches there, whether to the purpose or 
 not, were frequent and loud. About 1800 he went to Portland and 
 engaged in commerce. In 1813 he was placed on the bench of Com- 
 mon Pleas, with Greene and Dana, and actually sat there nine years. 
 He died in li*22, leaving a handsome estate. " Mr. Widgery," says 
 Willis, "was a man of great energy and of infinite humor, and the 
 success which attended all his plans is sufficiently indicative of his 
 tact or force of character." His first wife was Miss Eandall of 
 Lewiston. The second was the Widow Dafforne of Boston, whose 
 daughter (Eliza) by a former husband married Nathan Kinsman. 
 His daughter Elizabeth married Elias Thomas and became the mother 
 of a large family. His grandson, John W., graduated at Bowdoin 
 College in 1817. 
 
 Edmund Bridge was a pa,triot of the Eevolution. From 1781 to 
 1815 he was high sheriff of Lincoln County. He died in 1825 at 
 Dresden, at the age of eighty-six, leaving an honored name. 
 
70 HISTORY OF BOWJ)OIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Heney Dearborn was bom in 1751 in Hampton, N. H. He studied 
 medicine, and practised for three years in Nottingham. Then came 
 Lexington. The young doctor marched at once with sixtj^ volunteers, 
 and was appointed a captain under Stark. Of course he was in the 
 thicli of the fight on Bunker Hill. He accompanied Arnold in his ter- 
 rible journey through the pathless forest, was taken prisoner during 
 the assault on Quebec, and after four months' close confinement was 
 released on parole. "When exchanged, a year later, he went to Ticon- 
 deroga a major in Scanimel's regiment. He was praised by Gates 
 for gallant conduct in the actions of Sept. 19 and Oct. 7, 1777. At 
 the battle of Monmouth he was lieutenant-colonel of Cilley's regi- 
 ment, which, after Lee's strange retreat, charged the enemy by 
 Washington's own order and drove him back. In 1779 he went 
 with Gen. Sullivan against the Mohawks. He took part in the siege 
 of Yorktown and witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis. After the 
 return of peace he settled as a farmer on the Kennebec. Washington 
 made him marshal of Maine. The people twice elected him to Con- 
 gress. In 1801 Jefferson called him to his cabinet as Secretary of 
 War, which high office he held for eight years. Then, for two or 
 three j'ears, he was the collector of customs in Boston. In February, 
 1812, he was made senior major-general of the array of the United 
 States. In the following spring he captured Ybrk in Upper Canada, 
 and soon afterwards took Fort George at the' mouth of the Niagara. 
 Shortly after this he was virtually set aside on the ground of "ill 
 health." Feeling injured, he asked for a court of inquiry, but asked 
 in vain. In 1822 Gen. Dearborn was sent as United States minister 
 to Portugal. He died in 1829. 
 
 Gen. Dearborn was for many years a very conspicuous man. A 
 supporter and pet of the administration, he found, as might be 
 expected, little faVor among the Federalists. Yet none could justly 
 question his general ability, his courage as a soldier, or his intimate 
 acquaintance with military affairs. By many his recall was regarded 
 as needless and unjust. Gen. Dearborn's third wife was the widow of 
 James Bowdoin. 
 
 Samuel Thompson, generally known and well remembered as 
 "Brigadier Thompson," was born in Biddeford in 1735. His 
 father fenioved to Brunswick and lived on the Peterson farm at 
 New Meadows, keeping tavern at the same time. Samuel succeeded 
 both to farm and inn, and soon became a man of note. At the very 
 beginning of hostilities with England, he figured for a moment quite 
 characteristically. In the spring of 1775 Capt. Mowat of the Brit- 
 ish navy came into Portland (then Falmouth) Harbor with a war 
 ship called the " Canceau." His position and intentions were sup- 
 
OVERSEERS. 71 
 
 posed to be hostile. The people of the countiy around, who had 
 nothing to fear, were anxious that he should be attacked and de- 
 stroyed ; while the inhabitants of the town, which lay at his mercy, 
 very naturally inclined to more conciliatory measures. ]t was while 
 things were in this state that Col. Thompson went from Brunswick 
 to Falmouth with a company of fifty men all bent on serving their 
 country. With no standard but a small spruce-tree stripped of its 
 lower limbs, and no uniform but a sprig of the same evergreen on 
 each man's hat, the patriots encamped beneath a clump of pines on 
 Munjoy's Hill. It so happened that Capt Mowat, the Eev. Mr. Wis- 
 wall, and the ship's surgeon, soon after, all unconscious of the lurk- 
 ing danger, walked up the hill. Hardly had they begun to enjoy its 
 delightful prospect when they were pounced upon by the zealous 
 colonel and made prisoners of war. The lieutenant in command of 
 the ship threatened to burn the town if they were not released. The 
 leading men of the place interceded with Thompson, who very reluc- 
 tantly gave them up. The captured officers went back on their parole 
 and broke it. This affair, which seemed laughable at the time, was 
 connected, in the popular apprehension, with very serious conse- 
 quences. The infamous destruction of Falmouth, a few mouths later, 
 by this same Mowat, though authorized by his superiors, was always 
 ascribed to the resentment of a little soul on account of a very slight 
 indignity. While the war lasted, Thompson continued to be active, 
 but his special achievements are unknown to me. He afterwards 
 became conspicuous in conventions and legislatures, where he never 
 hesitated to speak his mind, though his blunders and solecisms often 
 provoked a smile. Though a person like the brigadier would not 
 shine much in society now, he was undoubtedly a eelebritj- in his own 
 way and time. He belonged, evidently, to a class of men not uncom- 
 mon then, — illiterate and 3'et sensible, coarse, free-spoken, profane, 
 perhaps, yet often brave and useful amid those scenes of trial and 
 hardship and conflict in which their lot was cast. 
 
 John Dunlap, son of Eev. Robert Dunlap, was born in 1737 in 
 Di'acut, and came with his father to Brunswick in 1747. The familj^ 
 was poor and John had to look out for himself. In 1758 he served 
 in the provincial contingent under Abercrombie, near Lake George. 
 Then he became a famous trapper and hunter, taking many a beaver, 
 which were abundant at that time in the woods and streams of Maine. 
 With money thus severely earned he went into navigation. In short, 
 
 .he became rich. By his first wife, Miss Dunning, he had a daughter 
 who died unmarried : John, who became a shipmaster ; and David, 
 
 mentioned elsewhere. The children of his second wife, MarvToppaa 
 
72 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 of Newbury, were Richard, Robert T. (Bowdoin College, 1815), and 
 Marcia, wife of Dr. Lincoln. 
 
 Francis Winter, a graduate of Harvard College in 1765, was set- 
 tled, 176S, in that part of Georgetown which is now Bath. A man of 
 eloquence and learning, but of views too liberal for the people and the 
 time, he was dismissed in 1787. He lived untU 1826, respected as a 
 tried patriot of the Revolution, and useful as a jnagistrate, legislator, 
 and citizen. 
 
 Nathaniel Thwing was a judge in the Court of Common.Pleas for 
 Lincoln County, and lived in Woolwich 
 
 Alexander Campbell was a judge of the Common Pleas. He lived 
 in Steuben. 
 
 Padl Dudley Sargent was one of the original forty-two. He was 
 then living in Sullivan. Born on Cape Ann, he had lived awhile in 
 Boston, and had commanded a regiment in the War of Independence. 
 His wife, Lucy Sanders, was a grand-daughter of Eev. Thomas Smith 
 of Falmouth, and daughter of Capt. Thomas Sanders of Gloucester, 
 a distinguished naval officer in the Colonial service. Col. Sargent died 
 in 1828, leaving a large family. 
 
 Daniel Davis in 1782 rode from Boston into Maine on horseback 
 in search of a place where he could practise law. He fixed on Port- 
 land, there being at that time in the entire district only five lawyers 
 beside himself. Mr. Davis, though not liberally educated, possessed 
 ability and learning, and rose early into notice. In 1796 he was ap- 
 pointed a commissioner, viith William Shepherd and Nathan Dane, to 
 treat with the Eastern Indians. He represented town and county in 
 the Legislature, and was United States attorney for the district. Dur- 
 ing this period he was active and useful in the affairs of the college. 
 On being appointed solicitor-general for, Massachusetts, he removed to 
 Boston. From 1801 to 1832 lie was the principal prosecuting officer 
 of the State, and met the obligations of his office with fidelity and 
 success. He was a man of mark at a time when great men were far 
 "from being scarce. Mr. Davis was not without faults, but he had 
 many redeeming qualities. His wife was Louisa Freeman of Quebec, 
 and he had a large family. 
 
 Daniel Coney of Augusta, born in 1776, began life as a merchant. 
 He was the first adjutant-general of the State of Maine. 
 
 Joshua Fabyan was a Scarboro' farmer and a justice of the peace. 
 
 Nathaniel Wells was on the governor's council, and for some 
 years in the Senate of Massachusetts. - 
 
 Fifteen of the forty-two overseers named in the college charter were 
 clergymen. Three of them — Johnson, Kelloqg, and Turner — 
 
OA'ERSEEES. 73 
 
 became trustees. Silas Moody of Arundel, John Thompson of 
 Berwick, Nathaniel "Webster of Biddeford, Paul Coffin of Bux- 
 ton, Benjamin Chadwick of Scarboro' (Dunstan), Samuel Fox- 
 CEOFT of New Gloucester, Caleb Jewett of Gorham, Ebenezer 
 Williams of New Casco, and Ezekiel Emerson of Georgetown, 
 were all, I believe, good ministers and good men. Jonathan Ellis 
 graduated at Yale in 1786 ; ordained at Topsham in 1789 ; dismissed 
 in 1810 ; was for some time secretary of the board. Two yet remain 
 who claim special remembrance here. 
 
 Moses Hemenwat was born in 173? in Framingham ; graduated at 
 Harvard in 1755 ; was the minister of Wells from 1759 till just before 
 he died in 1811. He was confessedly one of the great men of that 
 day, and by-far the ablest thinker and writer among the ministers of 
 Maine. His theological learning was extensive and accurate. In 
 profound investigation, patient thinking, and close reasoning he was 
 unsurpassed. Such men as Hopkins and Emmons knew and acknowl- 
 edge his power as a controversialist. A good linguist, he never lost 
 his familiarity with the classic authors of Greece and Rome. As a 
 preacher he was both faithful and able, while his judicious counsel was 
 greatly valued by the churches. His theology was Calvinism in its 
 milder form, and he resisted strenuously what he regarded as the dan- 
 gerous innovations of the New England school. This gi-eat man, so 
 learned and so strong, had 3-et the simple heart and manners of a 
 child. He was below the middle size, was rather careless of his 
 attire, went with head inclined sideways, and had a stooping gait. 
 Of personal appearance he was undoubtedly too regardless ; but the 
 quickness and sharpness of his retort made it a little hazardous to 
 advise on this point, as good Dr. Deane once found to his cost. The 
 stoiy deserves to go down. Dr. Deane : " My dear Iprother, do be a lit- 
 tle more particular ! A nice black coat and a full-bottomed wig would 
 add to jour dignity as a man and to your influence as a minister. ' ' 
 Dr. Hemenway : "Perhaps it would. I do not know how I should 
 look in a wig ; but it is undoubtedly wise in you. Brother Deane, as it 
 certainly is Scriptural, to bestow more abundant honor on the part that 
 lacketh." 
 
 Samuel Eaton was no prodigy of learning, no colossus of logic or 
 of divinity. Still his long connection with the college, his frequent 
 appearance in Brunswick, his singular appearance and manners, his 
 odd sajings, and his undoubted virtues made him with all the earlier 
 students a prominent figure in the scene, andsecured for his name and 
 image a lasting place in their memories. How few, alas, of those to 
 whom that vision was familiar are left to recognize in my slight sketch 
 
74 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 the well-remembered lineaments of the queer old parson, whom they 
 could never see nor even think of without a smile ! 
 
 Mr. Eaton was born in Braintree, and graduated at Hai'vard in 
 1763. The next year he succeeded his father as minister of Harps- 
 well, and kept his post fifty-eight years. The parish which he served 
 so faithfully is a long, narrow promontory, with a small archipelago of 
 islets. To visit his widely scattered parishioners and patients (for he 
 was to some extent their physician also) must have been a task often 
 of peril as of hardship. In questions of difficulty it was to him thej- 
 went for advice. In their disputes, not infrequent, he was usually 
 the umpire. With these various and ever-recurring demands upon his 
 time and talents he complied cheerfully. To the large influence de- 
 rived from these secular duties and relations was superadded his spe- 
 cific authority as a Christian minister, — an authority which he was 
 careful to keep unimpaired. Well might Parson Eaton seem a very 
 great personage to his simple-hearted, piscatory fiock. 
 
 Peculiarities apart, Mr. Eaton was a man of good native powers 
 and of genuine common-sense. He could be logical, was often witty, 
 and was always good-tempered. " He was a man of fearless inde- 
 pendence, of strict integrity, and of unquestioned piety.'' 
 
 It was during tjie last twentj' j-ears of his long life that Mr. Eaton 
 used to figure occasionally at Brunswick, to the great entertainment 
 of the students. Imagine a rather stout and plump man, of dignified 
 carriage, wearing a spacious broad-skirted coat with deep cuffs, wide 
 pocket flaps, and large square collar ; a waistcoat flaring in front and 
 falling almost to the knees ; breeches ; high shoes secured by large sil- 
 ver buckles ; the whole surmounted with a capacious wig- and a cocked 
 hat, — and before you stands Parson Eaton as we were wont to see 
 him. Is it strange" that, such a spectacle drew all eyes, as, with' hat in 
 hand and with an air of dignity, he walked up the broad aisle, bowing 
 courteously to right and left? His first demonstration, as he rose in 
 the pulpit, was a long, loud throat-clearing, -^ Ahem ! Then, with eyes 
 raised obliquely towards the students' gallery, — his mouth twisted in 
 the same direction, — and with a sharp, percussive accent on each 
 pausing word, he would thus begin : " Let us sing' — unto the praise 
 of God' — and with an eye to our own mutual ed-i-fi-cas-si on' —the" 
 — etc. Such a commencement, it will perhaps be thought, was not 
 very well adapted to "the use of edifying." I? till I think he was 
 always heard with respectful attention. He was known to be a, man 
 of excellent sense, character, , and life. His praj-ers, though some- 
 times startling in their peculiarities, were generally fervid, often 
 pathetic, and his sermons were sound and sensible. Mr. Eaton died 
 
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 at the age of eighty-six. Spragae, in his " Annals of the American 
 Pulpit," has a graphic sketch of Samuel Eaton from the pen of Prof. 
 Packard. To that let me refer for manj- of the anecdotes which used 
 to amuse us, and for a full description of this latest clerical represent- 
 ative and relic of old times and manners.* 
 
 George Thachkk graduated in 1776 at Harvard College. After a 
 year or more of practice in York, he removed to Biddeford, where lie 
 lived during nearly his whole professional career. He had a large prac- 
 tice, and was a popular and successful advocate. He was a learned 
 lawyer and a man of general science, which he often used with effect 
 in illustration and argument. He hkd a large library, and was an in- 
 defatigable reader. He was distinguished also for his social qualities. 
 With a vein of wit and satire peculiarly his own, and which never 
 failed, he always amused and delighted aud often instructed his audi- 
 tors. "There was a spice of ironj' in his humor that marked his 
 character with a degree of eccentricity which he was always able to 
 turn to good account." In his private life he was remarkably benevo- 
 lent and hospitable. The public estimation of his talents and virtues 
 was abundantly shown. Before the adoption of the Federal Constitu- 
 tion he was a delegate to Congress ; and after that event he was suc- 
 cessivelj' elected until 1801, when he was appointed a justice of the 
 Supreme Judicial Court. At the separation of Maine he removed to 
 Newburyport, retaining his seat on the bench until 1824. That year 
 he returned to Biddeford and died. 
 
 Amjii Ruhamah Mitchell, a son of Judge David Mitchell, was born 
 in 1762 in North Yarmouth (now Yannouth). He studied medicine 
 in Portsmouth: When our government at the close of the war sent a 
 Seventy- four- gun ship as a present to Louis XVI., Dr. Mitchell ac- 
 companied its surgeon, Dr. Maubec, to Brest, where he stayed some 
 time with professional advantage. Settling in his native town, he 
 soon had a large practice. He was efficient and useful as a civilian, 
 nad, as a Christian, much respected and revered. He was killed by 
 being thrown from his carriage. 
 
 Salmok Chase from Cornish, N. H., was a graduate (1785) of 
 Dartmouth College. In 1789 he settled in Portland, where he prac- 
 tised the law, and where he died in 1806 at the age of forty-five. 
 
 * The following gentlemen named in the charter are not included in the preceding 
 sketches: Hon. Isaac Parsons of New Gloucester; he was in the Senate of Massa- 
 chusetts. Dr. Eobert Southgate of Scarboro', a physician and also judge of the 
 Couft of Common Pleas. John Wait, Esq., of Portland. Jonathan Bowman, Esq., 
 of Dresden, judge of the Court of Common Pleas and of Probate. Dummer Sew- 
 all, Esq., of Bath, treasurer of the college, 1 799-1805. 
 
76 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 "He was not distinguished as a belles-lettres scholar; but in legal 
 science, in mathematical and physical learning, he had few superiors. 
 He rose to high rank in his profession, but was much more distin- 
 guished as a learned and safe counsellor than as an advocate. In the 
 social circle few were able to cope with him in argument ; but he was 
 not equally successful when he exercised his talents as an advocate 
 at the bar." He could not talk in court. However well prepared, 
 the slightest incident would throw " all his ideas into the utmost 
 disorder." He was, notwithstanding, so good a lawyer as to be called 
 familiarly " the great gun of the Cumberland bar " 
 
 "William Symmes graduated at Harvard College in 1779. He was 
 a son of Eev. Mr. Sj'mmes of Andover, Mass., where his first pro- 
 fessional years were honorably passed. He practised law in Portland 
 from 1790 until 1807, when he died* He " was a well-read lawyer 
 and an able and eloquent advocate. He was also a fine classical 
 scholar, of cultivated literary taste, and ^uncommonly learned as a his- 
 torian." His communications to the newspapers of the day, on topics 
 of the highest interest, were numerous and valuable. 
 
 Matthew Cobb came from Barnstable where he was born in 
 1780 ; went into business first at Biddeford ; settled in Portland in 
 1798, and was at one time in partnership with Asa Clapp. He was 
 one of the few rich men who lived through the hard times of embargo 
 and war, and left something behind them when they died. His two 
 sons were graduates of the college, and are still remembered with 
 honor. His only daughter, Mary, married Charles Dummer, Esq. 
 
 Jacob Abbot was of the old Andover stock, and was born there in 
 1746. He lived for some time in Wilton, N. H., where there was an 
 Abbot colony. But Lieut.-Gov. Phillips wanted a good man to look 
 after his townships on and near Sandy River, so he sent Mr. Abbot 
 down. The result was that he settled in Brunswick in 1806. He was 
 sensible, substantial, and useful, while his vigor lasted. As 1 knew 
 him he was a gentle and sage old man, — a patriarch, calmly waiting 
 for leave to go. When he went (it was in 1820) the aged Parson 
 Eaton preached his funeral sermon. His^wife was Lydia Stevens. 
 
 Jacob Abbot, son of the preceding, and his fac-simile as near as 
 could be, was bom in Wilton, and lived successively in Andover, 
 Mass., in Hallowell, Brunswick, Weld, aud Farmington. He was a 
 large land-holder, and a man greatly respected and beloved. His five 
 sons graduated at Brunswick, and three of them are now men of mark. 
 He had also two daughters. 
 
 Robert D. Dunning became an overseer in 1805. Mr. Dunning, a 
 highly respectable citizen of Brunswick, was born in 1780. He mar- 
 
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 ried a daughter of Capt. John O'Brien, who survived him. Rev. 
 Andrew Dunning (Bowdoin College, 1837) is a son. One son is an 
 oflScer in the United States Assay Office, New York, and another is in 
 the mint at Philadelphia. The house in which Mr Dunning lived, 
 and which after his premature decease continued to be occupied as a 
 boarding-house by his excellent sisters, Margaret and Susan Dunning, 
 long since disappeared. In memory, however, it still stands, a loved 
 mansion. There lived our esteemed " Uncle Johnny." Thither, duly, 
 as the hour of breakfast, dinner, or tea arrived, we turned our willing 
 steps. There we found — what students, alas ! do not always find — a 
 cheerful and well-spread board ; and there, as twilight deepened into 
 evening, we had many a pleasant chat. 
 
 Isaac Lincoln was born in Cohasset, Mass., Jan. 26, 1780. His 
 father was Deacon Uriah Lincoln. He was fitted for college by Kil- 
 bourne Whitman of Pembroke, and graduated at Cambridge in 1800. 
 For a year or two he taught school in Hingham, pursuing at the same 
 time his professional studies with Dr. Thomas Thaxter. At the com- 
 pletion of his medical course he was invited to Topsham, where he 
 settled in the summer of 1804, and entered at once on an extensive 
 practice. In May, 1805, he was chosen a member of the Board of 
 Overseers, a place which he still retains. In neither of the college 
 boards has any other man held a membership so long. In 1820 he 
 married Marcia L., daughter of Capt. John Dunlap, and took up his 
 residence in Brunswick. On the establishment of the medical school, 
 Dr. Lincoln was made a member of the medical faculty, and still 
 retains the place. Although no partisan, he grew up in the school of 
 Federalism, and/never disguised his sentiments. In 1848 the Whigs 
 of Cumberland nominated him for Congress, but the Democrats 
 carried the day. Almost from the beginning. Dr. Lincoln has been 
 intimately connected with the college. The beloved and trusted phy- 
 sician of the first two presidents, his skill and kindness soothed their 
 last days. For many years he w^s almost exclusively the phj^sician of 
 the college, and many a Bowdoin graduate must recall with gratitude 
 the cheering look and tone, as well as the judicious treatment, which 
 brought hope and health again to his lonely sick-room far from home. 
 Time has dealt gently with the doctor. He shows very few marks of 
 age or of inflrmitj-. His only daughter, Mary, is the wife of Mr. John 
 G. Eiehardson, of Bath His son, John Dunlap (Bowdoin College, 
 1844), is associated with him. The fidelity and ability with whichDr. 
 John Dunlap Lincoln discharges the duties of an extensive practice 
 need no commendation from me. 
 
 Reuben Nason was a good scholar in a distinguished class at Cam- 
 
YO HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 bridge, that of 1802. When I first heard of him he was at Gorham, 
 and had charge of the academj- ; then, I think, the most prominent 
 school in Maine. This place he resigned to become the minister of 
 Freeport. But he was not well fitted for pastoral duty, nor much at 
 home in the pulpit. After a few years he went back to Gorham, and 
 resumed the care of boys and girls. Here he continued a good many 
 years, and sent many pupils to Brunswick. At length he left Gorham, 
 went to Clarkson, N. Y., took charge of a school, and there died sud- 
 denly in 1835. By his first wife he had a daughter, Apphia, who 
 survived him about a year. His second wife was Miss Coffin of Bid- 
 deford. Of their eight children, one son, Reuben, graduated at Bow- 
 doin College in 1834. In person Mr. Nason was not attractive. , His 
 figure was short, ungainly, almost humpbacked. His face and brow 
 retreated rapidly from a far-projecting chin, and he had a heavy eye- 
 lash which he seemed to lift with difficulty. Though uneven and often 
 injudicious in his discipline, he was an excellent Latin and Greek 
 scholar, taught well, and did much toward raising the standard of 
 classical study in Maine. I have heard with grief that his later days 
 at Gorham were made uncomfortable through increasing irritability 
 of temper, — an unfortunate diathesis, which no doubt was needlessly 
 and wantonly aggravated by others. When I beat knew him, — it was 
 in the frosty and smoky summer of 1816 that I assisted him in the 
 academy and lived in his family, — he seemed happy enough, and 
 tried to make me feel so too. I foUnd him very social and full of 
 anecdote. Some of his stories, indeed, came more than once ; yet I 
 enjoyed them all. His narration was a little slow and heavy, but his 
 own delighted appreciation of the point was perfectly contagious. At 
 that moment he would bend forward, stretch out his leg, shake his 
 yellow bandana, and grin and snicker till 1 found myself laughing 
 quite as heartily over the fifth repetition as at the first hearing. I 
 remember Mr. Nason with affection and respect. He was a good 
 man, and the blessing, I doubt not, of many a grateful pupil rests 
 upon his distant grave. 
 
 Levi Cutter. For nearly forty years Jilr. Cutter was an overseer 
 of the college. At the time of his death and for a good while previous 
 he was the vice-president of the board. There was no member more 
 constant. There are few members, if any, who would be more missed. 
 
 Mr.Miutter was a grandson of the Eev. Ammi Ruhamah Cutter, the 
 first minister of North Yarmouth, and was born in that place in 1774. 
 He was but two years old when his father died . He early showed energy 
 and capabity, and even taught a school at the age of fourteen. He 
 went into business ; trusted his property on the sea, and lost it, — not 
 
OVERSBEES. 79 
 
 by shipwreck, but by robbery. For nearly sixty years, and to his 
 dying hour, Mr. Cutter was one of the original, unfortunate, and we 
 must add, ill-treated claimants under French spoliations. His first 
 commercial enterprise having thus failed, he went to Portland in 1806 
 as secretary of an insurance company. During the hard years of 
 embargo, non-intercourse, and war, tie was the cashier of the Cumber- 
 land Bank. In 1817 he again went into mercantile business, as one 
 of the firm of N. & L. Dana & Co. But in that time of general disas- 
 ter which followed the great speculating fever, Mr. Cutter was among 
 the sufferers. Though he then ceased to be (^strictly speaking) a busi- 
 ness man, he was active and useful almost to the end of his days. In 
 1834 he was chosen maj'or of Portland, and held the office hy succes- 
 sive elections for seven years. He " was eminently distinguished for 
 his thorough knowledge of business, his enlarged philanthropy, and 
 his generous public spirit." 
 
 Amid these activities of commercial and of civil life, he was also an 
 influential and respected member of the religious communitj^ In the 
 church to which he belonged for sixtj'-flve years, and in which he was 
 long an humble yet honored officer, and in many of the great enter- 
 prises of associated benevolence, he was ever conspicuously and j-et 
 modestly useful. Mr. Cutter died in March, 1856. His first wife was 
 Lucretia, daughter of Hon. David Mitchell, of North Yarmouth. This 
 good woman died in 1827. Of their ten children, six still live. Two 
 sons, William and Edward F. , are graduates of Bowdoin College. Two 
 of' the daughters are married to merchants in Massachusetts. One of 
 them is the widow of Rev. Mr. Tenbroeck ; another is the widow of 
 Col. J. D. Kinsman. In 1833 Mr. Cutter married Mrs. Euth Jenkins, 
 who survives him. 
 
 Woodbury Storer was yet a j'outh when he came to Portland from 
 Wells. He was a portly and gentlemanly man ; " led a life of activ- 
 ity and usefulness, held many responsible offices, and brought up a 
 large family of well-educated and respectable children." He died 
 in 1825 aged sixty-five. His first wife, Anne, was daughter of Ben- 
 jamin Titcomb. One of their daughters married Barrett Potter, 
 Esq. ; another married William Goddard. Their son, Woodbury S. 
 Storer, still lives in Portland. Mr. Woodbury Storer's second wife 
 was a daughter of James Boyd of Boston. Four sons by this mar- 
 riage are named elsewhere in this "Memorial," and there are two 
 daughters. 
 
 Peleg Tallman, elected an overseer in 1802, was one of the marked 
 men whenever he appeared on the college stage. He was born in 
 1764 at Tiverton, E. I., and followed the sea. He was in the frig- ■ 
 
80 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 ate "Trumbull" in 1780, when she fought the British ship "The 
 Watt," and lost his arm in the engagement. In 1785 he settled in 
 Bath, but still went to sea. Some ten years later he commanded a 
 letter-of-marque of twenty guns and one hundred men, in which he 
 followed the St. Domingo trade, fighting his way when necessary. He 
 was a man of great courage, persevering energy, and his bold enter- 
 prise was crowned with wealth. In 1812 he was a representative in 
 the Congress which made war on Great Britain. Though a fierce 
 Democrat, this was too much for him. Consigning President Madison 
 and the two houses of Congress to the care of a very unamiable per- 
 sonage, he turned his heel- on Washington and went straight home. 
 This strong-willed and stern old seaman died (1842) in Bath at the 
 age of seventy-eight, leaving four sons and four daughters. 
 
 Rev. George Eliashib Adams was born in 18"1 at Worthington, 
 Mass., son of Eliashib Adams and Anna (Leland) Adams ; fitted at 
 Andover ; graduated at Yale College in 1821 ; graduated at Andover 
 Theological Seminary in 1826, having been engaged in the mean time 
 nearly two years in teaching ; then for three years was professor of 
 sacred literature in the Theological S'eminary at Bangor. He was 
 installed at Brunswick Dec. 30, 1829. He married, first, in 1826, 
 Sarah Ann Folsom, of Portsmouth, N. H., who died February, 
 1850 ; second. Dec. 30, 1851, Helen M. Root of North Reading, Mass. 
 Of three children by this marriage, two survive. An adopted daugh- 
 ter is the wife of President Chamberlain. From 1829 to the midsum- 
 mer of 1870, a large proportion of the forty classes who graduated 
 from the college constituted an important and interesting part of the 
 congregation to which he preached. His attractive person, his bear- 
 ing as a gentleman, his liberal culture and fine taste, his generous 
 interest in whatever affected the welfare and good name of the GoUege, 
 his gentle courtesy and uniform friendliness, and especially his emi- 
 nently devout spirit and his standing among the clergy of the State, 
 conspired to give him access to confidence and respect. In 1870, 
 apprehending the near approach of such infirmity as age brings with 
 it, and feeling the pressure of an important parochial charge, he sought 
 relief, and, amidst the tears and regrets of his people, he removed to 
 Orange, N. J , where with renewed vigor he undertook, as a supply, 
 the charge of a new Congregational church and society. His pastoral 
 relation, however, to his Brunswick people was not dissolved except 
 by his own death in Orange, December, 1874. At the earnest request 
 of the church he had so long served, his remains were interred in the 
 Brunswick cemetery. In 1849 he received the degree of D.D. from 
 the college. 
 
BENJAMIN VAUGHAN. 81 
 
 BENJAMIN VAUGHAN. 
 
 Among those whose names are agreeably associated with the 
 early years of the. college was Dr. Benjamin Vaughaa. Though 
 not a member of either board, he was a constant friend of the 
 institution, and his advice and aid were often sought and readily 
 given. Mr. Vaughan was the son of a rich planter in the island 
 of Jamaica, where he was born in 1752. His parents soon after 
 went to London, and placed this son at Warrington in that famous 
 academy of the Dissenters where Enfield, Barbauld, and Priestley 
 taught. While here, he was a member of Dr. Priestley's family, 
 and formed with that great man " a friendship and correspond- 
 ence which were terminated only by the death of the latter." To 
 Mr. Vaughan Dr. Priestley afterwards dedicated his " Lectures on 
 History," a valuable work, formerly used as a text-book at Bruns- 
 wick and in other colleges. Mr. Vaughan was educated at Cam- 
 bridge, though, being a Dissenter, he could not conscientiously take a 
 degree. " After leaving the University he studied law at the Temple, 
 at London, and medicine at the University of Edinburgh. The latter 
 science he pursued with success ; and though he did not practise it as 
 a profession, he never ceased to study it, nor ever withheld his gratu- 
 itous advice." It was an eventful and exciting period for England 
 and Europe when Mr. VaUghan came on the stage of action. To 
 state that he was intimate with Price and Priestley, and the trusted 
 friend of our own immortal Franklin, suflaciently indicates the views 
 and feelings with which he must have contemplated the great issues of 
 that day. He was much interested in the American Revolution ; and 
 during the negotiations for peace between England and her late colonies, 
 he rendered valuable aid, — possessing, as he did, the confidence not 
 only of the American envoys, but of the English ministry. His corre- 
 spondence with the American ambassador (see Vols. IV., VIII., and 
 X. of Franklin's Works, Sparks's Edition) gives a pleasing idea of the 
 relations between them. In one of the letters from Passy he intro- 
 duces to Mr. Vaughan Count Mirabeau, a few years later the mighty 
 orator of the National Convention, but then a young author, who had 
 written a piece on hereditary nobility which he was not allowed to 
 publish in monarchical France. Franklin asks his friend to recom- 
 mend this young man, who "has some agreeable talents," to an hon- 
 est English bookseller. More interesting and important, as showing 
 Franklin's estimate of his friend, is the fact that he sent to him the 
 manuscript of his autobiography with the request that he and Dr. 
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82 HISTORY OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 Price would read and correct it. In 1792 Mr. Vaughan was elected 
 a member of Parliament, where he supported zealously the Whig 
 cause. But the French Kevolution, which, in common with all good 
 men, he had hailed with delight, soon took a sad turn. A violent 
 reaction came on in England, exposing to popular odium all who 
 could not go with it. From the blind frenzy which drove such a 
 man as Priestley from his native land it was natural that his pupil and 
 friend should wish to escape. Mr. Vaughan came to this country in 
 1797, planting himself on the banks of the Kennebec in the then new 
 town of Hallowell, where his pleasant home was for many years a 
 seat of elegant hospitality" and a centre of wide attraction. Near 
 him lived his brother Charles, who was at one time an overseer of 
 the college ; and his brother-in-law, John Merrick, long an active 
 member of the overseers, and still living with his son-in-law. Rev. Dr. 
 Vaughan of Philadelphia, in vigorous and venerable age. Five miles 
 down the river was the beautiful and genial home of Mr. Robert H. 
 Gardiner. Under such influences the rising settlement could not but 
 prosper. The society of Hallowell and its vicinity became distin- 
 guished for its intelligence, refinement, and cordiality. Of this 
 society, by the tacit courtesy of all, Dr. Vaughan was long the 
 acknowledged head. Learned, affable, and unaffectedly benevolent, 
 he won universal respect and love. If the doctor had a weakuiess, 
 (and who is exempt?) it was his ambition to prove that his favorite 
 town was the coldest place in the United States. For this somewhat 
 questionable honor there was a protracted but friendly rivalry 
 between Hallowell and Brunswick. The former carried the day, or 
 rather the night, which was generally the period of greatest severity. 
 In his zealous desire to see it cold enough for the congelation of 
 quicksilver, the good doctor sometimes sat up till morning, running 
 out bareheaded every half-hour to inspect the thermometer. His 
 winter bulletins were copied far and wide in the papers, untUl Hal- 
 lowell gained a reputation similar to that afterwards enjoyed by 
 Franconia in New Hampshire. Whether its growth, as some as- 
 serted, was actually checked by the character thus given to it, — 
 which, however kindly, was certainly rather "frosty," — is more than 
 I can say. Besides Charles, Mr. Vaughan had a brother William, a 
 banker, who remained in London ; Samuel, a Jamaica planter ; and a 
 brother John, well known in Philadelphia as a man of learning and 
 philanthropy. He died in 1^35, aged eighty-four. The first Eng- 
 lish edition of Dr. Franklin's miscellaneous writings was edited by 
 Mr. Vaughan, and published in London in 1779. It contained that 
 famous "Parable on Persecution" which brought upon Franklin the 
 
COLLEGE EEMINISCENCE8. 83 
 
 charge of plagiarism, the whole history of which has been so recently 
 and pleasantly told by Mr. Edward Everett. 
 
 Mr. Vaughan married, in 1781, Sarah Manning, daughter of "Wil- 
 liam Manning, Esq., governor of the Bank of England, by whom he 
 had seven children, all of whom have died ; Mrs. Vaughan died in 
 1834, and Mr. Vaughan in the year following. 
 
 COLLEGE REMINISCENCES. 
 
 [The writer, to whom was committed the charge of completing what Mr. N. Cleave- 
 land left unfinished at his death in 1877, prepared in 1879, for what was called the 
 Philosophical Club, composed of the Faculty and other friends, his reminiscences of 
 the college. The paper was repeated by request of the undergraduates, and an invita- 
 tion to read it to graduates in Portland indicates that it ha^ excited interest. It was 
 read to one of the trustees of the college, a summer resident in town ; and by him and 
 other friends it was suggested that it would properly have a place in the history of the 
 college. The writer deems it due to himself to give this explanation of what might 
 otherwise subject him to the imputation of unseemly egotism and vanity, — of which 
 he very likely has his share, but he hopes has sense enough to hold in proper restraint. 
 The paper is given as it was read, although at the expense of some repetition of what 
 appears elsewhere in the volume.] 
 
 The college reminiscences of a graduate, admitted Freshman sixty- 
 seven years ago, who, with the exception of the interval between his 
 Bachelor's and Master's degree, has been constantly connected with the 
 institution, may not be without interest, even though the first-person 
 pronoun will be somewhat conspicuous. 
 
 I was appointed to a tutorship September, 1819 ; but a few personal 
 recollections of the college date back to the summer of 1807, when 
 the former church edifice near by was dedicated, and myself, a child, 
 accompanied my father, then a clergyman in Wiscasset, who partici- 
 pated in the services on the occasion. The first Commencement of the 
 college, which occurred the year before, was of itself memorable, as 
 being the first occasion of the kind in the then District of Maine, and 
 attracted prominent personages from the District and from Massachu- 
 setts. It was, however, made noticeable by a long and violent storm, 
 which caused the postponement of the public exercises one day, and 
 had not abated its fury on the second day. The exercises were held in 
 the church building, j^et unfinished and affording but poor shelter from 
 the pouring rain. President McKeen presided in the pulpit with an 
 umbrella over his head ; what the audience did in that shower bath 
 has not been recorded. The novelty of Ihe occasion, it has just been 
 mentioned, attracted a large company of visitors ; wealth, position, 
 fashion, and beauty honored the infant college on its first gala day. 
 Brunswick has not since witnessed, if tradition may be trasted, such 
 
84 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 and so many brilliant ^uipages ; wliere and how the small villages of 
 Brunswick and Topsham harbored that influx of strangers has not 
 been fully reported. The adventures under the pelting rain and tem- 
 pest of those days through gullied and muddy streets in the moonless 
 nights ; mishaps of overturns in the Egyptian darkness (Gen. Knox's 
 carriage, with its company of gentlemen and ladies, was upset down 
 the bank on the side of the bridge, — a lady in our neighborhood has 
 confirmed the tradition quite recently) ; foot passengers groping in 
 uncertainty, and often losing their way ; houses crowded with guests, 
 floors by night covered with sleepers or by those trying to sleep ; the 
 Commencement balls (for that on Commencement eve proper was not 
 hindered by the storm, and the postponement of the exercises justified, 
 it was decided, one on the second evening also) , thronged with guests, 
 escaping from the merciless tempest withoilt, — all together made a series 
 of scenes, of misadventure, fun, and jollity, such that many declared 
 - they would repeat it year by year. It was a tradition for years. 
 
 The writer may be allowed to quote a passage from an address before 
 the alumni at the Commencement of 1858, in which he endeavored to 
 present the college as it was at the first Commencement ; for the main 
 features of the picture were scarcely changed six years later, when he 
 entered : — 
 
 "The son of a Massachusetts home, destined for the college, was 
 perhaps committed with bed and bedding to the custody and tardy 
 progress of an Eastern coaster lying for freight and passengers at the 
 T Wharf, Boston ; and after a week's — he might congratulate himself if 
 it were not a two- weeks' — voyage, he and his reached this far-ofl" place, 
 of exile. A letter posted in Boston, heralded along its slow and winding 
 way by the rumbling of the lumbering coach and the echoes of the 
 driver's horn at every village, after four days arrived at its destination 
 in the semiweekly mail. Or did the Boston parent of a son about to 
 graduate, or some zealous friend of learning and of the rising college, 
 purpose to be present at Commencement, — after more ado of prepai'a- 
 tion than a voyage of these days by ocean steamer to Liverpool, his long 
 apd toilsome journey in his private carriage, »f four or five days, afforded 
 more of incident and variety than a journey now to Washington or 
 Niagara. The passage of the impetuous, at times perilous Piscataqua 
 in a scow introduces him to the endless forests, the hills, rocks, and 
 gridiron bridges of Maine, evil report of which has reached his ear. 
 He makes his slow progress over the long, rugged, toilsome miles of 
 Cape Neddick and Wells, — relieved indeed by enchanting views of the 
 broad Atlantic which burst, as by enchantment, on the eye at York, 
 and then of the magnificent beaches and inrolling waves breaking in 
 
COLLEGE KEMINISOENCES. 85 
 
 long sheets of foam (all now lost to railway travelling *) ; he passes the 
 fine falls of the Saco, and the dense gloom of Saco woods ; admires 
 the charming site of Portland, its thrift and promise ; then on this 
 hand catching pleasant views of Casco Baj^ of which the eve cannot 
 tire (the wayfarer of to-day loses all that) ; at length, wearied and 
 dusty, after the last long ten miles, slowly emerging half a mile or 
 more on the plain south of us, he gets sight of a single three-story 
 edifice of brick, a plain unpainted chapel of wood, a church and spire 
 yet unfinished, a president's house of most modest pretension in build- 
 ing, and a few humble scattering dwellings. This was Bowdoin Col- 
 lege as it was at the Commencement of 1806." 
 
 I said that my first sight of the college was in 1807. In 1810 I, 
 a boy of ten, was at Commencement, and in 1812 was admitted Fresh- 
 man. The college buildings were four : the president's house, which 
 stood near what is now the front entrance of the grounds ; Massachusetts 
 and Maine Halls ; and the chapel, of wood, two-storied, the trimmings 
 only painted, which stood in front of Maine Hall, on the right of the 
 intersection of the walk from the present chapel and . that which leads 
 to Massachusetts Hall. It had a portico and entrance facing the west. 
 On one of these visits, that in 1810, by the kindness of Mr. Bradford, 
 a trustee, a parishioner of my father, I was introduced into the college 
 library ; a great collection, it seemed to me, occupying one end of the 
 second story of the old chapel, and coiinting more than 1,000 volumes. 
 It must have been, I think, in 1807, Prof. Cleaveland showed my father, 
 •who led me bj^ the hand, the cabinet of Bowdoin College in a case in an 
 apartment of Massachusetts Hall on the lowest floor, which had been 
 President McKeen's parlor, and is now embraced in the lecture-room. 
 The general organization of the infant college was after the model 
 of Harvard. Most of the active members of the boards of trust and 
 oversight, the professors and tutors, were, for the first ten or twelve 
 years, Harvard men. For the accommodation of the students, as an 
 economical arrrangement (although the latter failed to appreciate the 
 motive), board was provided in "commons," as it was called, in tlje 
 hall in the L of the tavern that stood for twenty or more j'ears in the 
 northwest corner of the present college grounds, the landlord of which 
 was Col. Estabrook, a respectable citizen of the town. No student 
 could board out of commons except on the ce.rtifieate of a regular 
 physician ; various ills used to invade the college dormitories, and 
 some portion, although not the most lucrative part, of the excellent 
 Dr. Lincoln's practice was in cases the remedj' for which was a certifi- 
 
 * When tUis was penned the Boston and Maine Bailioad had not been extended into 
 Maine. 
 
86 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 cate that the health of A or B would be promoted by his securing his 
 sustenance elsewhere than at the commons table. One of my class, 
 for withdrawing without permission from the board thus provided, 
 and who was too hale and hearty (for he was the Hercules of the 
 class) to plead infii-mity, was suspended. The table was presided 
 over by the tutors ; the students sat in the order of classes, and 
 alphabetically, Seniors at the head. Grace was said by a tutor, or, in 
 absence of a tutor, by a Senior. The table was' apt to be a subject of 
 criticism, especially from those who fared better than at their own 
 homes. Col. Estabrook was the caterer, and his daughters assisted 
 the father in serving, all of whom were invariably treated with respect. 
 But the authorities were not long in discovering that the college gained 
 by the arrangement less than they expected in economy or comfort. 
 The method was abandoned in my Junior year. 
 
 A change in the mutual bearing of teacher and pupil may -be men- 
 tioned, not indeed confined to college, but one of the general changes 
 in manners. There is now less of observance, greater freedom in 
 intercourse than in former days. We, as well-bred students now, 
 always touched the hat when we passed an instructor, and we 
 received a salute in return ; although we fancied that Prof. Cleave- 
 land, from aversion to such demonstration, would turn one side, if it 
 were possible, to avoid the salute. I have in my mind's eye the dig- 
 nity and grace with which President Appleton uniformly raised his hat 
 to return our bow. Scarcely a generation had gone by at Harvard, 
 when it was a tradition that tutors and Faculty, as well as students, 
 uncovered if President Willard appeared in the college grounds. At 
 chapel, the bell, which in my day was on Massachusetts Hall, ceased 
 its toll when the president left his door (his residence being, as already 
 stated, within the grounds near the present front entrance) , thus giv- 
 ing sthdents and tutors time to reach their seats before his entrance. 
 When he entered the door, we rose from our seats and stood until he 
 entered his desk. Should an officer enter afterward, we paid him the 
 same token of respect. I recall distinctly Prof. Qleaveland's hurried 
 entrance and steps through the aisle to his "seat on the left of the desk ; 
 for (as his house was farther removed) his attendance was a little 
 tardy ; but we arose, if he would allow us time. In the same way we 
 received our teachers 4n the reciting-room. 
 
 No one, probably, has heard of tutor's Freshmen. Freshmen occu- 
 pied the rooms on the ground floor. Those in the room below a tutor 
 were tutor's Freshmen, and were required to answer his call for some 
 college service, as the summoning a student to the tutor's room, or 
 bearing a message to some of the Faculty. The Freshman was sum- 
 
COLLEGE REMINISCENCES. 87 
 
 moned by three stamps on the tutor's floor. It was not regarded as a 
 menial service, but, in a measure, as a privilege. It gave greater 
 nearness to good counsel, and parents considered it favorable for over- 
 sight, and in the light of a safeguard. I can testify to that : for I was 
 Tutor Brigham's Freshman, and besides his faithful oversight, he once 
 called me to read to him a paper in the " Spectator," as an exercise 
 in the standard of that day. The first year of my service in the tutor- 
 ship, in consequence of President Appleton's sickness (an additional 
 tutor being appointed, and the regular tutor's room being occupied) , 
 I was obliged to take a third-story room over Tutor Asa Cummings ; 
 and his Freshman was doubly honored, for he had to obey my occa- 
 sional behests as well as his. I gave my three stamps. Brother Cum- 
 mings below replied with his three, and in due time Patten (1823) was 
 at my door to do my bidding. 
 
 On my admission, I had scarcely found my seat in chapel in the 
 alphabetical order, when I was greatly surprised at an evening service 
 by president, tutors, and students resuming their seats after service, and 
 the president, in his peculiarly formal and commanding tone, announ- 
 cing, " Declamator primus ascendat" and Dunlap, from the seat before 
 me, rising and advancing to the small platform in front, on the side 
 near the desk, declaiming a selected piece. Once or twice at evening 
 prayers, the three upper classes in rotation thus exhibited. The 
 speakers paused, after declamation and the students had retired, to 
 receive the comments of the president. Subsequently, on the appoint- 
 ment of our first professor of rhetoric and oratory, declamations were 
 held before the college in chapel, Wednesday, at 2 p. m., and so con- 
 tinued for several years. 
 
 I may add that during my college life, and for some time at least 
 under President Allen, at Sunday-evening prayers, a Bible lesson 
 was conducted by the president, in which the , whole college partici- 
 pated, varied occasionally by a lecture or discourse. A course of 
 theological lectures also was given by President Appleton, Wednes- 
 day, 2 p. M., at which attendance was required of all the students. 
 These lectures were published after bis death constituting a portion 
 of his works. President Allen also delivered lectures on theological 
 and Biblical topics. 
 
 Commons Hall was erected in 1828, as a boarding-house for stu- 
 dents, who managed it themselves for several years. 
 
 Among the reminiscences of those early years, it may be of interest to 
 refer to the course and style of instruction. I was not examined for 
 admission at the regular time, the day after Commencement, but at the 
 opening of the college year, in the evening near the close of September, 
 
88 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 in the president's study, by the president, Prof. Cleaveland, and Tutors 
 Brigham and Southgate, in the Greek Testament, Virgil, Cicero, and 
 the four fundamental rules of arithmetic. My first recitation was in 
 Sallust, which was followed in the Latin department by the Odes of 
 Horace. Our Greek, as also through the Sophomore and Junior years, 
 was " GraBca Majora," and our mathematics was " Webber's Arithme- 
 tic." Our class was the first to study Hebrew, but without points, 
 "Willard's Grammar" and the psalter, thus following the curricu- 
 lum of Harvard. Our teacher was the learned and accomplished Rev. 
 Dr. Jenlis, then pastor of one of the Bath churches, who came from 
 Bath once a week to inculcate Hebrew and correct our themes. The 
 Hebrew did not amount to much, although the Commencement of 
 1814 was dignified by what was called a Hebrew oration, by King, of 
 the graduating class. King was a tall, raw-boned, rather ungainly 
 man ; he gained the nickname of Melech, the Hebrew word, as then 
 pronounced, for King. Melech after graduation went South, and is 
 one of the very few of our a]lfmni'who has disappeared from all 
 access from his Alma Mater, and even from the place of his birth. 
 
 Classical teaching in my day was altogether inefficient. The first 
 professor was more skilful in exploring the wild lands of the college 
 on the Piscataquis, and in introducing choice fruits in this and neigh- 
 boring towns, than in inspiring students with love for Greek. It should 
 be remembered, however, that the classical teaching of that day was 
 very inferior. President Appleton took our class in the Sophomore year 
 for a short time in the " Satires "and " Epistles" of Horace, and the 
 class of 1818 in the Junior Greek, " Medea" of Euripides, and made 
 in each cas?, you may be sure, something of it. Hedge's "Logic" 
 was a Sophomore, and " Locke on the Human Understanding " a Jiinior 
 study, both committed to a tutor. In the Senior year, Stewart's " Ele- 
 ments of the Philosophy of the Human Mind " comprised, with Locke of 
 the year before, our metaphysics ; and " Paley's Evidences " and " But- 
 ler's Analogy" our course in Christian evidences, which under President 
 Appleton left ineffaceable impressions. We read forensics before the 
 class under President Appleton on subjects' suggested by our studies. 
 Enfield's "Natural Philosophy," " Chemistry," and "Mineralogy" were 
 all under charge of Prof. Cleaveland. Chaptal was the text-book in 
 chemistry, soon followed by Henry. The professor began his lectures 
 oil that branch, so far as could be done, with a few retorts, a gas appa- 
 ratus presented to the college by Prof.'Dexter of Cambridge, and a few 
 other articles. That gas apparatus had peculiar interest ; for it was 
 made in the laboratory of Dr. Beddoes, of the Pneumatic Institution, 
 Bristol, England, and at its construction young Davy, afterwards, the 
 
COLLEGE EEMINISCENCE8. 89 
 
 eminent Sir Humphrey, was an assistant. At first the professor h^d 
 a scanty cabinet, for mineralogy had not fairly seen the full light of 
 day. This new science, when I entered college, had been added to 
 the curriculum ; but the professor soon, with surprising diligence (his 
 night studies often breaking upon the small hours) , published a text- 
 book in one volume wliich I think my class was the first to use, 
 which soon, in a second edition, extended into two large octavo vol- 
 umes, and made his name and that of the college a familiar one 
 throughout the scientific world. We students were proud when we 
 heard of diplomas of membership coming to him from learned socie- 
 ties at home and abroad, and (what we relished less) invitations from 
 Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, I think also, to a professorship. We 
 were fearful that he would yield to such seductions ; and I recall the 
 great satisfaction I felt when he told me — and I repeat his words — 
 that he should, he believed, " stay by old Bowdoin." 
 
 In the Senior year " Burlamaqui on Natural and Politic Law" was 
 a text-book, recited to a tutor. Mr. Cleaveland sent an advertise- 
 ment of our course to the Boston Sentinel, edited by Major Eussell. 
 It was announced in that pi-int that Burlamogus was one of our text- 
 books. Mr. Cleaveland, who knew the major well, wrote him that we 
 had substituted Burlamaqui for Burlamogus. 
 
 Political economj' was first introduced by Prof. Newman ; at first by 
 lectures, and then by his own publication on that branch, which, sev- 
 eral j'ears after, Amasa Walker, of considerable repute in that depart- 
 ment, told me was the best book that had been published on the sub- 
 ject. Prof. Newman had published his " Rhetoric," which went through 
 sixty or more editions in our country and several in England. 
 
 When I entered college the prevailing orthoepy, were it heard now, 
 would seem archaic and unrefined. President Appleton was a man of 
 high culture, and moved in the most cultivated circles, but he read 
 and spoke of naioor, natooral, edoocation, envy ; so we all did. Now 
 and then we heard from some one of a more southern latitude, nature, 
 etc., and we called that th^ " chewing" mode., It was regarded as a 
 Southern fashion. Sometimes it was carried, hy those who took pains 
 to show that they were not of the vulgar and rustic class, to an amus- 
 ing excess. In my tutorship I was asked by a Massachusetts lady, 
 who took the highest wave of the coming style, if I was a " chutor " in 
 Bowdoin College. The new mode, however, was to prevail. It was 
 the transition period we soon found. At the first chapel of the second 
 term the president gave decided indications that he had meanwhile 
 been disciplining his organs of speech in the new waj' ; and he pro- 
 nounced — although with some efl'ort, we thought — such words as I 
 
90 HISTOiir OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 have mentioned according to Walker, the new standard. Now it was 
 nature, education, and we never heard more of envy. 
 
 A word or two of the style of instruction of our primitive period. 
 And let me remark that reminiscences of the teaching at Harvard, 
 lately given by Dr. Peabody in the " Harvard Register," were in all 
 respects the same : in the languages limited much to construing and 
 grammar and syntax, — and by construing I mean taking word by 
 word and giving the sense, not permitting the student to " phrase it," 
 a refuge sometimes resorted to by a shirk who could not have con- 
 strued the passage. Scarce anything was done in the way of interpre- 
 tation by the teacher, orof discussing the literature of the author or 
 his times. In 1825 I was at Cambridge, Prof. Smyth and myself hav- 
 ing gone thither to inquire into the manner of teaching in the best ap- 
 pointed of our colleges ; I was present at the recitations of the eminent 
 Dr. Popkin in Pindar, and of Tutor (afterwards Prof.) Noyes in Homer, 
 and the same was their method. Subsequently, as I was informed, con- 
 struing was required at Exeter Academy under Dr. Soule, as being 
 recommended by the method at Harvard. The method of translation 
 — i. e., reading a paragraph and then translating — was early adopted 
 with us ; a method to which the celebrated William Pitt in his ma- 
 ture life affirmed that he owed, more than to any other training, his 
 remarkable fluency and felicity in parliamentary debate. As to the 
 teaching in ethical and kindred subjects, Prof. Hedge, father of the 
 present Dr. Hedge of Harvard, it used to be said, in his branch en- 
 joined on his class the importance of reciting in the words of the 
 author, raising a smile when in Hedge's "Logic" the author was him- 
 self. During my college course I did not hear a lecture or a discus- 
 sion of the subjects we studied, excepting in brief occasional remarks, 
 and those rare. In natural philosophy, astronomy, mineralogy, and 
 chemistry, however, we had courses of lectures. I need not remark 
 how much advance in the class-room, in the particulars referred to, 
 has been made. The science and methods of instruction have greatly 
 advanced in all our institutions, and Bowdoin has not been left behind. 
 
 A student of these days would look with dismay on the discomforts, 
 as he would regard them, of the most liberally furnished rooms" of 
 those years. Without carpet, paint, or wall paper, our rooms in win- 
 ter were at once study and sleeping apartment ; in summer they were 
 varied bj' the use of what we called a study for each occupant, — a 
 closet of small dimensions with table and chair, where the, student, 
 could shut himself in from visitors ; an open fireplace for fuel, which 
 he bought at his best bargain from the wood-sled, which, driven from 
 the outskirts of the town to the rear of the college hall, stood with 
 
COLLEGE REMINISCENCES. 91 
 
 invitation. The green youth, who perhaps scarcely knew the dis- 
 tinction of woods, made his sharp trade of measure and quality and 
 price, and secured, it might be after much " dickering," popple, or 
 bass, or white maple for genuine rock maple, sometimes soggy or pow- 
 der-posted for dry or sound. Billy Mitchell, it is likely, —for he was 
 the choice wood-cutter, he was so diligent and honest, — after cutting 
 the wood, carried it by armfuls to the student's room, to be piled in the 
 entry at his door if he occupied a corner room ; or if it was a middle 
 room, to be deposited in the wood closet. Mitchell was industrious ; 
 his axe was to be heard from sunrise to late in the evening, if the 
 moon favored. To correspond with my description of the corner 
 rooms, it should be said that Maine Hall was constructed on a differ- 
 ent plan from the present one. 
 
 During the first twenty years of the life of the college, students 
 recited in their private rooms in rotation by weeks, except that in 
 summer the recitations were held in unoccupied rooms, if there were 
 such, on the ground floor or in the third story of Massachusetts Hall. 
 Seniors had the distinction of reciting at the morning hour to Prof. 
 Cleaveland, in his lecture-room, and the rest of the day in the chapel. 
 Alphabetical order of sitting was not enjoined. First come first served 
 was the rule, — an inconvenience in winter to some. In a cold winter's 
 morning we were summoned at sunrise to chapel, which, it may be 
 mentioned, knew no artificial heat for at least the first twenty or thirty 
 years. As we left the chapel, the longest or fleetest legs had the ad- 
 vantage of securing chairs nearest the fire blazing on the hearth ; while 
 the shortest legs, as the speaker had abundant experience, must be 
 content with the chair that was left in the centre of the semicircle. 
 The blackboard was not known then ; that was introduced by Proctor 
 — afterwards Prof. — Smyth in 1824. That novelty, let me here say, 
 made a sensation. When he had tested the experiment in the Sopho- 
 more algebra, and with great success, a considerable portion of the 
 Juniors requested the privilege of reviewing the algebra under the new 
 method at an extra hour, — a wonder in college experience ; and that 
 blackboard experiment, I am sure, led to his appointment as assistant 
 professor of mathematics a year after. Of this also I am sure, that 
 he had then first detected a mathematical element in his mental equip- 
 ment. His forte had been Greek. The distinguished teacher who 
 fitted him for college at Gorham used to call him his Greek giant. 
 Prof. Smyth, by his teachings, and more \>y his works, gained wide 
 reputation for himself and the college. 
 
 The blackboard caused an important change in the manner of teach- 
 ing generally, but especially in mathematical branches. In arithmetic, 
 
92 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 a Freshman study, and algebra, to whidi we were introduced at the 
 opening of the Sophomore year, each student had his slate, and when 
 he finished his work he took the vacant chair next the teacher's and 
 underwent examination of process or principle involved. In geometry 
 we kept a manuscript in which we drew the figures, and demonstrated 
 from that. I have been shown the very neat manuscript kept at Har- 
 vard by the late Dr. Lincoln, the father, and bearing date 1800 ; and 
 we have in the library the manuscripts of the late Seba Smith (1818), 
 afterwards widely known as Major Jack Downing. It may surprise 
 mj- hearers that I professed to teach the algebra of the Sophomore 
 class in Webber's Mathematics, — the first tutor, I believe, to whom 
 the duty was intrusted That was the class of 1824. Franklin Pierce, 
 of the class, in his earlier years of college life more fond of fun than 
 of .surds and equations, took his seat by my side for a quiz with his 
 slate and solution of a problem. When asked how he obtained a cer- 
 tain process, he replied very frankly, " I got it from Stowe's slate." 
 The blackboard, under the keen inspection of the teacher, makes such 
 transfers of processes and results less easy. It will cause more sur- 
 prise when I say that conic sections in Webber, a Junior branch, fell 
 under my charge. The manner of reciting was simply to explain the 
 demonstration in the text-book. 
 
 I have already stated that during my college and tutorial life, reci- 
 tations were held in the private rooms. It was a step in advance 
 when the two middle rooms on the ground fioor of each entrj' of Maine 
 Hall were appropriated for reciting-rooms and the use of the two 
 rival societies, Pencinian and Athensean, for their meetings and their 
 libraries. Folding doors in the partition between the two, on occa- 
 sion, could be opened or slid back, and so a considerable hall be made. 
 This change was made in 1821, after the burning of the interior of 
 that building, and by the arrangement, the place of recitation became 
 fixed and the societies accommodated as we shall soon see. 
 
 It will be interesting, I suppose, to refer to the surroundings of the 
 college during my daj's. 
 
 The college campus was scarcely one fourth its present area. The 
 president's house was within our present grounds near the present front 
 entrance, and his garden included the Thorndike Oak, — coeval, as 
 you know, with the actual life of the college. The campus had no 
 vegetable growth except the scanty herbage of a sand plain and a row 
 of the balm-of-Gilead trees in front and on its northern border, to the 
 present entrance on the side. Experience had shown that our forest 
 trees will not live in sand ; for the grounds were early planted — such 
 was the tradition — according to a plan furnished by a Mr. Parris, of 
 
COLLEGE REMINISCENCES. 93 
 
 Boston, who had a name as architect and landscape gardener, with 
 forest trees in geometrical figures, of which a single representative 
 remains in an elm on or near the north side ; and for nearlj' thirty 
 years the campus was barren of tree or shrub, with the exception of 
 the Gileads. The whole area, moreover, in the rear of Maine and 
 Winthrop Halls had not then been erected, and from Maine south to 
 my house was open to the pines. Two militia general musters were 
 held on that wide expanse of commbn in my remembrance ; one in my 
 college days, signalized by a mock battle, Major-Gen. King the com- 
 mander in chief, who was accompanied by Gen. Boyd, United States 
 Army, who had just come out from the war of 1812, and as was 
 reported, suggested the plan of action after one in which he was 
 engaged, on the Canada frontier. We watched the affair from the 
 college windows. The second muster was in 1829 or 1830, which I 
 have occasion to remember, as I was on the field and served under a 
 commission as chaplain of a regiment. 
 
 As to the other surroundings of the college of the earlier lime : The 
 church edifice was a respectable structure, in the best style of the day. 
 It was fortunate for both college and town that they had at command 
 the services of Mr. Samuel Melcher, a man of genius and taste, as shown 
 in several of the edifices of that period. He was a man of ambition 
 and enterprise, once walking to Boston for the purpose of observing 
 new styles in the metropolis and intervening towns. That was proof 
 of enterprise and vigor. The story was current that he once drove in 
 a chaise to Bath, accomplished his errand, and, forgetting the faithful 
 animal he had securely hitched, left him at the post and walked home. 
 He was the architect of the church edifice, of the first Maine, of Win- 
 throp, and Appleton Halls. The original Maine, architecturally, had 
 an aspect decidedly more agreeable than the present halls. 
 
 On Maine Street in front of the college grounds were but three build- 
 ings on the western side from the church southward : a one-story un- 
 painted dwelling near the site of the store now opposite the church ; 
 Blaisdell's blacksmith shop, near the present residence of Mr. Martin, 
 whence the ring of his diligent anvil was to be heard in winter months 
 from earliest dawn until 9 p. m., and never idle in summer; and the 
 two-storied building now occupied by a boarding club near the dwell- 
 ing of Mrs. Pennell and Mrs. Perry, then plastered on the exterior, 
 begrimed by the dust of the plain, and tenanted by the ISIullens, 
 an Irish family, whose services were in request in spring and before 
 Commencement, when with pail, soap and sand, and mop they were 
 called to wash our unpainted college floors. I recall no occupied 
 buiiding on that side to Mere Brook. A frame stood midway below. 
 
94 HISTORT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 which was subsequently removed and became the residence of Col. 
 Estabrook, and now of Prof. Chapman. The only dwelling on the 
 eastern side of the twelve-rod road, or Maine Street, from the church 
 to Mere Brook was the president's, and a two-story building. on the 
 bank of the brook. Cleaveland Street, then as until later years with- 
 out a name, had four residences on its northern side ; on its southern 
 one only, which stood opposite the Pierce house, unpainted, of one 
 story, —the mansion of "Aunt Nelly," the college sweep for many 
 years. With the exception of the one-story dwelling and cabinet 
 shop of Mr. Lappan, for years the church sexton and undertaker, on 
 or near the present laboratory, an open common embraced the whole 
 area to the residence of Prof. Cleaveland and the woods below. East 
 Brunswick was not then, and the pine forest was unbroken for a mile 
 or, two below except by the Bath and Harpswell roads. 
 
 Changes in the village have made what when the speaker entered 
 college had few attractions, one which visitors now admire. Outside 
 Maine and Federal Streets were few dwellings ; not a tree except a 
 large maple or elm in front of the residence of the late Dr. Lincoln, 
 and very scanty shrubbery, and what there was of the common class. 
 The mall was an unsightly, unreclaimed (and supposed to be irreclaim- 
 able) bog, and continued so for thirty years ; and so was Pleasant 
 Street in spring and fall, — a mere lane, with I think no building 
 until you came to the rising ground and terrace on which, on the right, 
 was Mr. John Dunning's house, recently Mr. Jackson's, and now Mr. 
 Allen's. Above and beyond Mr. Gilman's was an oak grove ; and the 
 western skirt of the village, now clustered with dwellings from Mr. Gil- 
 man's to Mrs. Jos. McKeen's, — i. e., the area west of Maine Street, 
 or as it used to be called, Twelve-Eod Road, — was for the most part 
 forest. At the junction of Maine and Mill Streets (Berry's furniture 
 store occupies a portion of that lot) was the most attractive residence 
 of the village, — Mr. Jotham Stone's, with lawn and shrubbery and 
 garden ; all swept away by the conflagration of that portion of the vil- 
 lage, December, 1825. At the corner, on Mr. Stone's premises, stood 
 a building at once store and post-offlce. Mr. Stone was postmaster ; 
 a gentleman of some taste in shrubbery and gardening, — or perhaps 
 that pertained more especially to his lady, — but he was of limited 
 culture. The story was current in college, that among the few books 
 for sale on an upper shelf were, according to his reading, "Priest's 
 Lectures on History," or as we read it, "Priestley's Lectures," — a 
 text-book in the college curriculum ; and " Slabs in Scratch of a 
 Wife," the more familiar reading being " CoBlebs in Search of a Wife," 
 — not a text-book indeed, but one of Hannah More's works, quite 
 popular at that time. 
 
COLLEGE REMINISCENCES. 95 
 
 On the river, what attracted our notice more than the small factory 
 or mills on both sides, was the "sluiceway," as it was called, con- 
 structed for conveying sawn lumber from the upper dam a quarter or 
 half a mile above, now obliterated, to the river on the Topsham side 
 for transportation to Bath. There was interest attached to the work, 
 as the story was that in opening the ledges for its passage, curious 
 rocks, perhaps indicating mineral treasure, were thrown open, which 
 were cautiously submitted to the inspection of Prof. Cleaveland, which 
 put him on investigation ; and as a result, of more importance than if 
 gold or silver or lead were revealed, made him the father of Ameri- 
 can mineralogy. 
 
 Changes in Massachusetts Hall are among the reminiscences of the 
 speaker. When President McKeen came to office, the presidential 
 mansion, if it could be so styled in its best estate, was not ready for 
 occupancy; and the hall, as has been said, was his temporary resi- 
 dence. The porch on the eastern side was the kitchen of the family, 
 subsequently Prof. Cleaveland's furnace-room. The two eastern 
 rooms of the main building on the ground floor, now constituting the 
 apartment we axe in, were sitting-room and parlor. The western 
 half, or a part of it, was the college chapel. The few students occu- 
 pied rooms above, and were summoned to prayers and exercises by 
 raps of the president's cane on the stair banisters. Not long after, 
 a bell was placed in the cupola of the hall. 
 
 In my first year, the western half of the second story was fitted to 
 receive the Bowdoin gallery of paintings ; and in my day the philo- 
 sophical and mineralogical lectures in summer and the annual exami- 
 nations of classes were held in that hall. The ground floor was made 
 a lecture-room at the farther end of the present apartment, and the 
 rest of that floor was divided into rooms for apparatus, minerals, chem- 
 icals, etc. In 1817 or 1818 a philosophical lecture-room was prepared 
 on the second floor, southeast corner, which we graduates greeted at 
 Commencement as a welcome indication of progress. When the medi- 
 cal school was established in 1820, greater changes still were made for 
 its accommodation, the third floor being devoted to the new depart- 
 ment, and the chemical lecture-room enlarged to embrace the eastern 
 half of this floor. The cabinet of minerals was placed in the western 
 half of the second story, and the paintings were removed to the east- 
 ern half, which was fitted up for them. When the present chapel was 
 erected, the paintings were transferred to its northern wing, and the 
 whole second floor of Massachusetts Hall became the sole possession 
 of the mineralogical cabinet. 
 The earlier Commencements exhibited noticeable diflerences from 
 
96 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 those of later years. Stage-coaches and extras came crowded to the 
 great festal day. Visitors, however, came for the most part in pri- 
 vate conveyances. "Wagons were not then known. We estimated 
 the probable concourse by the close array of chaises, with an occa- 
 sional phaeton, that lined the college fence its whole length from the 
 tavern I have spoken of, in the northwest corner of our present 
 grounds, down towards the woods. Booths were erected at available 
 points for pies, gingerbread, and small and stronger drinks. There 
 was a notable difference in costume. The aristocracy of knee- 
 breeches and silk hose had not given place to what Jefferson had 
 styled the democracy of pantaloons. The graduating class appeared 
 in this dress of the nether limbs, and in silk robes borrowed from 
 neighboring clergy ; president and professors in like array, with the 
 addition of the Oxford cap. The Commencement platform showed 
 an imposing array of personages of distinction in church and state, 
 more appreciated then than now. I recall the notable appearance of a 
 clerical gentleman who graced the platform for several years, the 
 relic of what was fast becoming a bygone age, ~ the broad-skirted 
 coat with heavy cuffs and flaps, slashed doublet or waistcoat reach- 
 ing almost to the knees, kjiee-breeches, shoe buckles, a full-bottomed 
 wig, and a cocked hat, — Father Eaton, of Harpswell. 
 
 I am reminded of a ludicrous incident in this connection. Chesley 
 (1819), a stout fellow, rotund in person and voice, and of sufficient 
 conceit, in a college performance made reference in a peculiar way 
 to Magnus Taurus, which figures in a Kentucky Indian legend, and 
 hence obtained the nickname of "Magnus Taurus." One forenoon, 
 a few days before his Commencement, Magnus Taurus, anticipating 
 the Commencement costume, came marching up from town in knee- 
 breeches, white hose, and Commencement robe. As he came in sight 
 around Massachusetts Hall, the cry was raised from the college win- 
 dows "Heads out!" and so "Magnus Taur^is" (much, it was sup- 
 posed, to his gratification) was received with demonstration. 
 
 TheJ student of earlier years had not the resources for healthful 
 physical recreation of the present day. We had football 'and base- 
 ball, though the latter was much less formal and formidable than the 
 present game. That was long before gymnastic training. John 
 Neal, Esq., of Portland, was the first to direct our attention to ath- 
 letic exercises, ha^ang come down for the purpose. Boat clubs had 
 not been heard of. We had favorite walks down to " Consecrated 
 Rock," at the river bank in front of Mr. Daniel Stone's residence, the 
 name given from a traditionary flirtation in which Thorndike of the 
 first class was an actor ; or we often continued our walk down the 
 
COLLEGE REMINISCENCES. 97 
 
 river-side to what was called the "intervale." Near the present rail- 
 road bridge was our bathing-place. It soon ceased to be such, and 
 we found a very convenient place for a swim half a mile above the 
 falls ; but that has been rendered unsuitable by changes caused by the 
 currents of the river. From the " intervale" we returned by a pleas- 
 ant wood-path, which issued in the rear of Prof. Cleaveland's. Some 
 of our explorers discovered a bubbling spring of clear, cool water in 
 a dell in the forest b6low Prof. Cleaveland's, which soon was much 
 frequented. Some, sentunentally inclined, named it " Paradise." 
 Labor was given to the spot in clearing, terracing, and constructing 
 seats. The class of 1818 celebrated July 4 there. Scarce a sum- 
 mer's evening passed without parties visiting this retired nook, and 
 the crystal, ever-flowing, and healthful waters. The intrusive railroad, 
 not respecting taste or sentiment, has entirely obliterated all that. 
 
 Our blueberry plains are left for us, though abridged considerably 
 from what they were ; as much frequented in the season by berry 
 pickers, but not, as in those daj's, by the wUd pigeon. They were 
 quite a resort for that beautiful visitor, a temptation to sportsmen, and 
 the early morning recitation suffered from the seduction. The lawyer 
 Henry Putnam, Esq., grandfather of the Putnams, publishers in New 
 York (who lived in the house now Mrs. Dr. Lincoln's), who loved the 
 sport more than the law, and was zealous of anjrthing that should 
 repel the pigeon from his summer haunt, was watchful against any 
 mad fire setters on the plains. He was noted for his pigeon stand and 
 booth of brush, and his game. 
 
 Early years had no saloons with their temptations. The first 
 engraving of the college, in 1821, shows a man trundling a wheel- 
 barrow on the open common south of Maine Hall. It is a fair repre- 
 sentation of " Uncle Trench," with gingerbread, plain and sugared, 
 and his root beer, making his way from his home a mile or so down 
 the Maquoit road, to tempt us with the products of his bakery and 
 home brewing. It is forenoon ; he rests his barrow in the shade of 
 the hall, and soon is relieved of his cargo. We liked the quiet, pains- 
 taking old man for his sweets and for his own sake. On our return 
 from our salt-water bath at the bay, we stopped at his humble dwell- 
 ing in the pine and fir woods at the roadside, to rest from our walk 
 and refresh with his bread and beer. Maquoit Bay was shallow for a 
 satisfactory bath, and we occasionally took twice the walk on the Bath 
 turnpike to New Meadows, where, when the tide was fuU, we found 
 all we desired for plunge or swim in water salt as the ocean. 
 
 When I entered college the Peucinian was the prominent society. 
 The Athenaean was indeed of an ' earlier date, but had been dis- 
 
98 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 banded. The rival society was revived in my Junior year. Meetings 
 of the Peucinian were held in alphabetical rotation in our private 
 rooms. Contributions were levied on neighboring rooms for tables 
 and chairs, and members gathered around the tables. I recall no 
 exception to the order and gravity of the meetings, and the exercises 
 of essay, forensic, and debate were regarded as a source of valuable 
 discipline. A prominent professional gentleman of this State, a gradu- 
 ate of 1845, has quite recently assured me that he recalled the meet- 
 ings of the Peucinian as among his best means of discipline and 
 improvement. Their libraries were their pride ; that of the Peucin- 
 ian in my Freshman year was contained in a single case in the room 
 of the librarian. The annual election of oflSeers was as momentous to 
 us as a presidential election now, but with none of the corrupt doings 
 of the latter, nor with the unfortunate conflicts of society cliques of 
 the present day ; the custom having been borrowed from that of the 
 nation in its better days, of the secretaryship being the stepping-stone 
 to the presidency. At this election a new librarian was of course 
 elected, and that involved the transfer of cases and books, it might 
 be, from the fourth story of onejentry to the same story in the other, 
 There was, however, public spirit enough for hearty co-operation in 
 the cumbersome duty. 
 
 These societies celebrated their anniversaries in the autumn. Nov. 
 22 was the anniversary date of the Peucinian, and was the most 
 important event of the college year, next after Commencement, and 
 was anticipated with expectation. I was present at that in my flrst 
 year, November, 1812 ; not as member, for that honor could not be 
 attained until the Sophomore year. The only suitable apartment 
 for the public exercises was a hall in the L of Mr. John Dunning's 
 house, now Mr. Allen's, then among the considerable edifices of the 
 village. Thither members decked with the society medal and blue 
 ribbon, president and officers with broad blue scarfs, and the elite of 
 the town tramped from Maine Street, through the dark, muddy lane, 
 and listened to the oration by the president of the society, and a poem, 
 if the Muse had inspired any one with the ^ift of song. At the cel- 
 ebration I have just referred to, the orator was Nathan Dane Appleton 
 of 1813, and the poet was Nehemiah Cleaveland of the same y&ar. 
 I recall what I thought was a happy turn of the poet : he could not 
 well accommodate to his rhythm the name of our river, Androscoggin, 
 and he escaped from his dilemma by leaving it, as he said, to Indian 
 poets to weave the unmanageable word into their song. After exercises, 
 members had a supper served in the best style of the favorite boarding- 
 house of the village in the parlor below. 
 
COLLEGE REMIMSCENCES. 99 
 
 The great ceremonial of the year with these societies was the annual 
 meeting of what were the general societies the afternoon before Com- 
 mencement daj\ The first in which the speaker realized the distinction 
 of membership was in 1814. To make as much of themselves and the 
 occasion as might be, the societj"^ met in a room provided in the town ; 
 on the occasion I have just referred to, a room had been secured in a 
 long, one-storied, red house, which stood on the site of what is now the 
 O'Brien Block. We marched, — members in their scanty paraphernalia, 
 medals and blue ribbons, officers in more sumptuous array of scarf and 
 medals, — headed by such music as the times afforded, to the church for 
 the public exercises. The same occasion in 1808 was memorable in 
 the history of the Peucinian by the oration by Charles Steward Daveis, 
 which attracted much attention, was published in the Boston Anthology, 
 a periodical conducted by Joseph Stevens Buckminster and others. 
 The motto was " iwfisv eh 'y^Oi'/vag," and the editor announced the pro- 
 duction as coming from what some thought the Bceotia of our land ; but 
 added that the contribution might lead such to think that the region 
 whence it came might be nearer Attica than they were themselves. 
 
 The only other society of those early daj's worth recalling was in 
 Theological, which was disbanded in a few j'ears, and its library now 
 constitutes an alcove in the college library. 
 
 The accession of President AUen in 1820 seemed to open new 
 promise for the interests of the college. He was a graduate of Harvard 
 of the distinguished class of 1802 ; had spent some j-ears after gradua- 
 tion in subordinate positions in the college ; had published the most 
 copious biographical dictionary which had appeared ; and was a man 
 of culture and ability. His wife was daughter of President Wheelock 
 of Dartmouth College, and on her mother's side of Huguenot descent. 
 She was of great personal attractions in social life, and had brought 
 her husband copsiderable estate. The new president came to Bruns- 
 wick in his two-horse carriage, in a style new to the college and town. 
 The president's house was enlarged, and an annex containing his study 
 was added for his reception. But the chief source of new hope for the 
 college was the fact that it was the year of new life for Maine, which 
 from an appendage of Massachusetts now became a separate, inde- 
 pendent State. The Constitution of the new State requiring of any 
 institution that would receive legislative patronage to surrender itself 
 to the control of the State, at the urgency of the new president, the 
 boards of the college acquiesced and yielded the charter, an action 
 which the college found reason in subsequent years to regret ; but by 
 a decision of Judge Story its great error was retrieved. One of the 
 most influential promoters of the separation of Maine from Massachu- 
 
100 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 setts and the rearing of a new State, and the author of that clause in 
 the State Constitution, was Gen. William King. He had become dis- 
 affected with the college on account of legal measures under President 
 Appleton to secure the interests of the college, which were involved, 
 it was supposed, by the financial embarrassments of the treasurer, on 
 whose bond Gen. King, his brother-in-law, was principal indorser. Gen. 
 King could not brook the act of the president, — who, however, acted as 
 was his duty, entirely under the advice of Hon. Benjamin Orr of emi- 
 nent standing in the bar of the Slate ; and in a spirit of retaliation was 
 active in establishing Waterville College, which, from what was styled 
 by an act of incorporation in 1813 " Maine Literary and Theological 
 Institution," was bj' the new Legislature of Maine made a college, 
 February, 1821, and is now Colby University. But on the accession 
 of President Allen, and his agency in promoting the surrender of the 
 college to the State, Gen. King with his political friends greeted the 
 promising change in the aspects of the college, and exerted his influ- 
 ence as the first governor of the State in promoting its interests. 
 The Commencement of 1821 witnessed an unwonted display of what 
 seemed the public favor in behalf of the college. The governor with 
 his aids and an escort of cavalry honored the occasion ; concord 
 seemed restored, and new hopes were excited. The medical school, 
 a project of the new president, was established with a legislative 
 endowment ; the services of the eminent Dr. Nathan Smith, who 
 founded Dartmouth Medical School, and had become a professor in 
 the medical department of Yale College, were secured to open the 
 school, and he had engaged the young Dr. Wells, a graduate of 
 Harvard of 1818, who had just taken his degree in medicine in the 
 Harvard School, to be his assistant as demonstrator in anatomy. 
 Dr. Wells is remembered as the charm of a social circle, and brill- 
 iant in the lecture-room. His career was soon cut short by a disease 
 of the brain, caused by excessive enthusiastic labor when he had, 
 against prejudice and opposition as a New England man, won brill- 
 iant success in the anatomical theatre in Baltimore. The new im- 
 pulse the college had received was shown by increased numbers, the 
 establishing of two new professorships (of rhetoric and oratory and of 
 jnental philosophy), and the introduction of a new member to its corps 
 of instructors in Prof. Upham, who became a power in the literary and 
 religious history of the institution. 
 
 I stated that the college library, when I first saw it in 1810, con- 
 taioed a thousand or eleven hundred volumes. The Hon. James Bow- 
 doin, who had but a little while before returned from his United States 
 ministry to Spain, died in Boston, 1811. The college received its 
 
COLLEGE REMINISCENCES. 101 
 
 name in memory of Ms father, Governor Bowdoin of Massachusetts ; 
 and the son was thus moved to make liberal bequests in its behalf, and 
 among them the valuable library and gallery of paintings which he had 
 collected in Europe. In my Freshman year, 1812, the library and 
 paintings came to the college'. The library was rich for that day in 
 works of science and general literature. I used to hear Prof. Cleave- 
 land say that it was richer in science than that at Harvard, when he 
 knew it a few years before. When Dr. Allen acceded from the pres- 
 idency of Dartmoath University, the life of which was quenched by 
 the famous argument of Daniel Webster and the decision of Chief Jus- 
 • tice Marshall, — a decision which all colleges in the land, and our own 
 especially, next to Dartmouth, regarded as establishing their immu- 
 nity from legislative interference, — he (Dr. Allen) induced a lib- 
 eral donor of that defunct institution to transfer his gift of five 
 hundred volumes to Bowdoin ; and thus the college obtained several 
 valuable, curious, and rare books. A few years after, a deposit was 
 made in the librar}' of 1,200 volumes from Mr. Samuel Vaughan, a 
 J.amaica planter ; brother of the distinguished Dr. Benjamin "Vaughan 
 of Hallowell, an earnest friend and patron of the college in its early 
 life, also of Mr. John Vaughan of Philadelphia and Mr. Charles 
 Vaughan of HaUowell, and brother-in-law of Mr. John Merrick: all 
 familiar and honored names, dear to the college in the first quarter of 
 the century. The volumes were sent to a cooler climate to rescue them 
 from cockroaches. A nephew, Eev. Dr. John A. Vaughan, a graduate 
 of 1815, inherited them, and himself gave them to the college. The 
 speaker has occasion to remember that deposit, and to become ac- 
 quainted with the outside and titles of its contents ; for he spent some ' 
 weeks of a winter term and vacation in the room now occupied by Mr. 
 Johnson in Winthrop Hall, in cataloguing them. The catalogue was 
 printed, and I should like to see a copj"^ of that work, but for years 
 have lost sight of it. Not long after, the British government selected 
 Bowdoin as one of thirty institutions to receive the munificent dona- 
 tion of the publications of the Record Commission, one hundred and 
 twenty folio volumes and several in octavo. Still more recently, the 
 library, through the agency of Hon. Abbott Lawrence, our minister to 
 England, received as a gift all the versions at their command which 
 the British and Foreign Bible Society had published ; and by the kind- 
 ness of Dr. William H. Allen, president of Girard College, of the class 
 of 1833, the versions issued by the American Bible Society ; and the 
 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, through Rev. 
 Dr. Eufus Anderson of the class of 1818, gave those published by that 
 board. I doubt whether any college library is richer in versions of the 
 
102 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Scriptures. Another considerable donation to the library was from the 
 Hon. Judge George Thacher. of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 
 a resident of Saco, who, on the separation of Maine from Massachu- 
 setts, removed to Newburyport, thus retaining his seat on the Massa- 
 chusetts bench. Among other donors to the library in its early history, 
 it is pleasant to mention Dr. Benjamin Vaughan, Major-Gen. Knox, 
 and Madam Sarah Bowdoin, relict of Mr. James Bowdoin. 
 
 I can only refer to changes which have made the barren, unsightly 
 grounds and the conveniences of the college now attractive to the 
 visitor: the considerable enlargement of the campus, by which the 
 southern portion to College Street and the pine grove in the rear were 
 enclosed ; the belt of trees, due in a degree to the agency of Rev. Dr. 
 Chickering, then of Portland, who interested himself in the matter, 
 and with a landscape gardener from Boston devised that feature of the 
 place ; the chapel erected 1846-1854 or 1855, from a fund the college 
 received as residuary legatee of the Bowdoin estate ; the enclosing of the 
 Delta ; erection within its area of Adams Hall ; and last of all, the 
 changes in Massachusetts Hall through the munificence of Mr. Chand- 
 ler (1834), by which the roof was raised a few feet, the second and 
 third stories thrown into one for the Cleaveland cabinet, the eastern 
 projection elevated a story, thus giving a tasteful entrance to what, 
 with the chapel, constitutes the pride of the college. 
 
 I fear I have wearied mj' hearers with some of these details. You 
 will excuse the garrulity of one who is sometimes called an old man, 
 and whose long connection with the college of his jealous devotion 
 may allow him the pleasure, perhaps the luxury, of reviewing the now 
 distant past, and who when his memory and tongue have the liberty 
 scarcely knows when or where to stop. 
 
APPENDIX I. 
 
 OPINION OP JUDGE STORY IN THE CASE OF ALLEN V. MoKEEN. 
 
 A college, Uke Bowdoin, is an eleemosynary corporation, a private 
 charity, and none the less so because chartered by the State, nor 
 because it has been partly, or even wholly, endowed by the State. 
 
 The government has certainly the visitatorial power, an incident 
 necessary, to all such corporations. This, however, is onlj' a power 
 to arrest abuses and enforce the statutes of the charity ; not a power 
 to revoke the gift, to change its uses, or to devest the rights of the 
 parties entitled to the bounty. The founder may part with his visit- 
 ing power and vest it in others. When trustees are incorporated to 
 manage a charity, the visitatorial power belongs to them in their cor- 
 porate capacity, and when it is thus vested, there can be no amotion 
 of them from their corporate capaqity ; no interference with them in 
 the just exercise of their authority, unless it is reserved by the statutes 
 of the foundation. For any abuse of trust, the remedy lies in a court 
 of chancery. 
 
 When the charter of Bowdoin College was accepted and acted on by 
 the trustees and overseers named in it, they acquired a permanent 
 right and title in their offices, which could not be devested, except 
 in the manner pointed out in the charter. The Legislature which 
 granted could not resume their grant, nor touch the vested rights and 
 privileges of the college, except so far as the power to do so was 
 reserved by the sixteenth section. That section says that the Legis- 
 lature " may grant further powers to, or alter, limit, annul, or restrain 
 any of the powers by this act vested in the said corporation, as shall 
 he judged necessary to promote the pest interests of the college." Under 
 this reservation, the Legislature cannot meddle with the property of 
 the corporation, nor can it extinguish its corporate existence. It can 
 merely enlarge, alter, annul, or restrain its powers, and even these it 
 can meddle with only for the best interest of the college. Though sole 
 judge of what that interest is, it could certainly do nothing plainly 
 destructive of that interest. 
 
 But the present case does not rest upon the effect of the sixteenth 
 clause. The Act of Separation gives a complete guarantj"^ to the 
 powers and privileges of the boards, under the charter ; so that they 
 can be altered, limited, or annulled only through judicial process, 
 
104 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 unless that act has been modified by the subsequent agreement of the 
 Legislatures of the two States. 
 
 Has such modification been made, and if so, what is its extent? 
 The Massachusetts resolve of June 12, 1820, gives the consent of that 
 Commonwealth to any modification of the protecting clause, not affect- 
 ing the rights or interests of Massachusetts, which those who have 
 authority to act for the corporation may make therein, with the con- 
 sent of Maine. Massachusetts, it seems, did not make an uncondi- 
 tional surrender of her rights and interests under the charter ; and she 
 certainly had rights, privileges, and interests which might be affected 
 by certain alterations in the charter. She had founded the charity, 
 and had given lands for its use. She had a right and interest in the 
 perpetual application of these funds to their original object. As 
 founder, she had the visitatorial power ; and, having delegated this 
 power to certain trustees and overseers in perpetual succession, she 
 had a right and interest in having that power exercised by those very 
 bodies, and by no others. 
 
 This resolve authorizes no modifications of the college charter 
 which shall divert the funds of the»founder from their original objects, 
 or shall vest the visitatorial power in other bodies than the trustees 
 and overseers marked oat in the original charter, and certainly does 
 not justify the transfer of their powers to any other persons not in 
 privity with them. Nor does it authorize the Legislature of Maine 
 to assume to itself the powers of the trustees, or to appoint new trus- 
 tees and overseers, as that would affect the rights and interests of 
 the founder. 
 
 It is also more than probable that this resolve contemplated only 
 certain alterations to be made uno flatu, and not subsequent changes 
 from time to time, and through all future time. Be this as it may, it 
 is very clear that Massachusetts has not agreed to any alterations 
 which Maine on its own authority might make, but to such only as the 
 president and trustees and overseers of the college may make with the 
 consent of the Legislature of Maine. If this Legislature has made 
 laws altering the college charter, without making the validity of such 
 laws dependent upon the adoption of the boards, before or after, those 
 laws have not been assented to by Massachusetts, and are unconsti- 
 tutional and void. 
 
 To repeal or modify the protecting clause, the Legislatures of both 
 States must concur ad idem. But the Maine Legislature has passed 
 no correspondent resolve in totidem verbis, nor has it, in terms 
 assented to the resolve of Massachusetts. To constitute such an 
 agreement as was contemplated, both parties must assent to the same 
 
APPENDIX I. 105 
 
 thing. If Massachusetts and Maine have not agreed to the same 
 identical thing, the casus fcederis has not arisen. Nay, more, it is 
 greatly doubted whether any modification can be made in any of these 
 fundamental articles, unless the specific modification has been ex- 
 pressly assented to by both States. Neither Legislature can agree ab 
 ante to any modifications which third persons may make. 
 
 The Maine act of June 16, 1820, is in the very form contemplated 
 by the Act of Separation, for it presents a specific alteration for the 
 consideration and assent of Massachusetts. The act is to take eifect, 
 provided the Legislature of Massachusetts shall agree thereto. But 
 that specific modification has not been agreed to by Massachusetts. 
 In no just sense can this act be construed as an adoption of the 
 Massachusetts resolve. This miscarriage of the parties was probably 
 unintentional, but not on that account the less fatal. 
 
 Not, however, on this ground, though deemed impregnable, does the 
 case rest. Grant that the Maine act of June 16, 1820, is constitu- 
 tional, and has become part of the college charter, a very important 
 question still remains ; to wit. What is the actual extent of legislative 
 authority over the college as conferred b}' that act? The words are, 
 ' ' That the president and trustees and overseers of Bowdoin College 
 shall have, bold, and enjoy their powers and privileges in all respects, 
 subject, however, to be altered, limited, restrained, or extended by 
 the Legislature, etc., as shall, etc., be judged necessarj- to promote the 
 best interests of said institution." The word " annul," which occurs 
 in the sixteenth section of the original charter, is omitted in this act, 
 showing that the authority to annul was designedly withheld from the 
 Legislature. Even the words of the sixteenth section, in their actual 
 connection, exclude any authority to annul the charter ; for to anni- 
 hilate the college would not be exactly the way to promote its best 
 interests. Under this act the powers of the existing boards maj' be 
 extended, limited, or altered, but they cannot be transferred to others. 
 No authority is given to the Legislature to add new members. If the 
 Legislature cannot put itself in the place of the charter boards, neither 
 can it confer such authority on others. I am not prepared, there- 
 fore, to admit that the act of March 19, 1821, enlarging the boards, 
 or the act of Feb. 27, 1826, making the governor, ex officio, a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Trustees, can be maintained as constitutional 
 exercises of authority. 
 
 The act of March 31, 1831, is,, in its terms, an act of positive and 
 direct legislation. It legislates the presidents of Bowdoin and Water- 
 ville Colleges out of ofllce. The Legislature thus exercises that 
 power of amotion from oflice which the original charter gave exclu- 
 
106 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN OOLLEfiE. 
 
 sively to the boards. Massachusetts has consented to no such 
 transfer of this power, for the alteration affects her rights and 
 interests. The Maine act of June, 1820, gave no such power to 
 the Legislature or anj' one else. 
 
 It is alleged that the act has become binding on the college by the 
 assent and adoption of the boards. The boards have not adopted it, 
 they have merely acquiesced. This is not the same as approval. Yet 
 if it were, that approval could not give effect to an unconstitutional 
 act. 
 
 Again, President Allen held an office under a lawful contract with 
 the .boards, by which contract he was to hold the same during good 
 behavior, with a fixed salary and certain fees. This was a contract 
 for a valuable consideration. The act of 1831, so far as it seeks the 
 removal of President Allen, seems unconstitutional and void. 
 
 APPENDIX II. 
 
 FROM THE REPORT OF THE VISITING COMMITTEE OP 1836, SIGNED BY 
 EBENEZER EVERETT. 
 
 In regard to the students' petition for the abolition of the ranking- 
 system, the committee say that they " have not been convinced by the 
 arguments of the memorialists." " That certain incidental inconven- 
 iences result is no doubt felt by the instructors, as well as by the 
 students ; but we are reluctant to believe that under the practical oper- 
 ation of the system, the only pr even the strongest actual motive to 
 exertion in a course of college studies is to gain the good opinion of 
 the instructors for the sake of college distinctions. We believe — 
 anything in the memorial to the contrary notwithstanding — that the 
 love of learning for its own sake, zeal for the approbation of parents 
 and friends, its effect on their future prospects in life, and still more 
 an honest sense of duty, are strong and powerful lAotives operating 
 much more on the minds of those most ccjncerned than the former. 
 But as these motives are not always present, nor equally active, some 
 immediate motive, even in reality of less weight, is needed to be sup- 
 plied as an occasional stimulus. It cannot be the wish of the memo- 
 rialists that no such present inducements to a diligent use of time and 
 opportunity should be presented to them. For these purposes there 
 seem to us to be but two general alternatives, — praise and censure. 
 Both are alike distinctions, — one of the ascending and the other of 
 the descending grade. Each is liable to the same objections, as oper- 
 
APPENDIX II. 107 
 
 ating unfairly on students of different capacities from misapprehen- 
 sions in tlie application. Between these two alternatives, it would 
 seem that all must choose the more generous inducements, which effect 
 the object by rewarding the deserving without a direct censure on the 
 others, to that which inflicts the more direct and therefore deeper 
 wound. To doubt that emulation may be an innocent inducement to 
 exertion would be to complain of almost every situation in which a 
 man designed for extensive usefulness in after life can be placed. It 
 is, no doubt, implanted in our dispositions for wise purposes, and is 
 only dangerous when carried to excess. A college life is one of pro- 
 bation and discipline, and the minor collisions and jealousies which 
 sometimes intervene among the students should be viewed as exer- 
 cises to enable them to attain that command, not only of their actions 
 but also of their emotions, which is so necessary to their success in 
 any high undertaking, and, what is still better, as an occasion of self- 
 discipline and improvement of the heart. The error lies in mistaking 
 the design of these distinctions by giving them an undue importance 
 in their own eyes ; and the remedy lies with the students themselves, 
 by cherishing the higher motives, and giving the factitious ones the 
 humble ofHce of reminding them of duty when forgotten." 
 
 EXTKACT FROM THE BEPOKT OF THE VISITINR COMMITTEE IN 1839, BT 
 JUDGE PREBLE, IN RELATION TO THE PETITION FOR THE ABOLITION 
 OF THE RANKING SYSTEM. 
 
 " The committee understand the petitioners to ask that no distinc- 
 tive reward should be bestowed on superior scholarship, superior tal- 
 ents, and superior attainments ; that all appeals to the principle of 
 emulation in our nature should be discarded ; and that, so far as the 
 world at large is concerned, the dunce and the scholar — aspiring 
 mediocrity, commanding talent, genius, even — should be placed on 
 the same dead level. A system like this is at variance with the first 
 principles of our free institutions. Doubtless it is painful for the man 
 of power and wealth to see the laurels won from his own son by the 
 son of his less conspicuous and more humble neighbor. Aspiring 
 mediocrity always has combined and always will combine to deprive 
 talent of its just honors and rewards, and if possible throw it into 
 the shade. It is the levelling down of intellect instead of the level- 
 ling up." 
 
108 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN OOI.LEGE. 
 
 APPENDIX III. 
 SETTLEMENT OP THE BOWDOIN ESTATE, ETC. 
 
 James Temple Bowdoin, when six or seven years old, came to this 
 countr3' ; studied at Andover Academy ; graduated at Columbia Col- 
 lege ; went into business in Boston, and had a store on Long Wharf ; 
 failed ; went to New York ; thence to England, where he obtained 
 office ; went into the army ; served in Egypt ; grew tired of the ser- 
 vice ; came to this country in April, 1805 ; naturalized, probably ; 
 went soon after to England. 
 
 It appears that he was living about 1819 with his family in Flor- 
 ence ; that wishing ■ to increase his income, he applied to the courts 
 of Massachusetts for leave to cut the trees then standing on Nashawn, 
 etc. James Bowdoin and the college being residuary legatees, it was 
 necessary to obtain their consent. 
 
 By the will of Mr. Bowdoin the college was made residuarj' legatee 
 in reference to the valuable property which he bequeathed to his 
 nephews, James Temple Bowdoin and James Bowdoin Winthrop. In 
 case of their dying without male issue, or whenever such issue should 
 fail, the estates would revert to the college. The legacy to young 
 Winthrop, afterwards known as James Bowdoin, was a largfe and 
 valuable tract of land in Bowdoinham, now Richmond. In 1823 the 
 right of the college in this contingent remainder was sold to Mr. 
 Bowdoin for $2,000. The sale was made by a committee duly author- 
 ized by the boards, and consisting of Benjamin Orr, Reuel Williams, 
 Sandford Kingsbury, and John Dole. In this transaction Mr. Williams 
 appears to have acted at the same time as the fiduciary of the college 
 and the stipendiary of Mr. Bowdoin. The college must have felt poor 
 and sorely bestead when it parted with a valuable inheritance for such 
 a mess of pottage. Mr. Bowdoin, who never married, died ten years 
 afterward, leaving a property which would tave made the college rich 
 had it simplj- held^on to its rights. 
 
 The share of Temple Bowdoin was the old mansion house in Beacon 
 Street, and valuable lands in Dukes County, including the island of 
 Nashawn. As early as 1819 Mr. Bowdoin, who was then living in 
 Florence, applied to the courts of Massachusetts for liberty to cut the 
 wood on the Elizabeth Islands. Due notice was given to the college, 
 which took action in regard to the proposition. Distinguished lawyers 
 were consulted and employed ; there was considerable correspondence 
 
APPENDIX III. 109 
 
 between the parties in interest, but it all resulted in nothing. In 1823 
 the committee which bartered awaj the flve-mile lots iu Richmond 
 was authorized by the boards to make a similar bargain with Temple 
 Bowdoin ; but I find no evidence that they had any negotiations with 
 him at that time. Mr. T. Bowdoin appears from his letters to have 
 been greatly dissatisfied with the course taken by his cousin J. Bow- 
 doin, and by the college managers, in reference to his petition of 1819. 
 If any otfers were made to him, he probably rejected them ; at any 
 rate, the college interests were not sacrificed. But as Mr. Bowdoin 
 continued to live in Europe, and was known to have a male heir, the 
 slight chances of the college gradually passed out of thought. On the 
 31st of October, 1842, Mr. J. T. Bowdoin died at Twickenham in 
 England. A newspaper notice of the event drew the attention of Presi- 
 dent Woods, who applied through the treasurer to Mr. Reuel Williams 
 for information. Mr. Williams replied that IVIr. Bowdoin and his son 
 had lately been in America, and had taken the necessary steps for 
 breaking the entail, and consequently the college had " nothing to 
 expect in that quarter." On a visit to Boston soon after, the presi- 
 dent, in conversation with one of the Bowdoin heirs, was iuformed that 
 Mr. James Bowdoin never meant that his property should leave this 
 country ; an ardent Jefiersonian Democrat, he had no love for England, 
 and would have left nothing to Temple Bowdoin had he supposed 
 that he would remain an Englishman, and the same was indicated by 
 the expression of the will. On this hint, President Woods requested 
 Mr. Jeremiah Mason to look into the subject. That great lawj-er 
 gave it as his decided opinion that the college was entitled to its remain- 
 der both in equitj' and law. Mr. Charles G. Loring, whose conscience 
 would allow him to engage in no cause which he did not believe to be 
 just, was willing to act for the college. The mode advised by Mr. 
 Mason was, that the college should take and keep actual possession 
 of the property, leaving it to the opposite party to eject them as it 
 could. As the English claimant could be shown to be an alien, his 
 position would be embarrassing whether he should attempt to dispos- 
 sess the college by force or by law. 
 
 Through the urgencj' of the president and the en,ergj- of the college 
 treasurer, Mr McKeen, the plan was carried out. Great was the aston- 
 ishment of neighbors and passers-by to find one morning in March, 
 1843, that the vacant Bowdoin lot on Beacon Street had been enclosed 
 during the previous night, and alreadj' contained an inhabited shanty. 
 As soon as the object of the transaction was known, much indigna- 
 tion was wasted in the upper circles of conversation, and the news- 
 papers were unsparing in condemnation of the college. Legal gentle- 
 
110 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 men denounced the proceeding as a specimen of sharp and dishonorable 
 practice, which might do in New Hampshire, but was totallj' at vari- 
 ance with the high-minded and courteous usages of the Suffolk bar. 
 It was mildly urged in reply that the docking of the entail was an 
 attempt by mere legal technicality to rob the college of its just rights, 
 and they who had done this could not complain if they were met by 
 technicalities in return. 
 
 Not in Boston only was the proceeding censured. In Maine several 
 of the most influential friends of thes college regarded it as futile ; and 
 learned judges, themselves trustees, pronounced it all moonshine. To 
 persist in the contest under such circumstances called for both faith and 
 courage. It was not long before the agents and friends of Mr. Bowdoin 
 entered with force the premises, demolished the structures, and drove 
 off the college tenant. As the sagacious counsellor for the college 
 expected and hoped, there had been a forcible entry, a dispossession 
 by violence ; and steps were taken for bringing the riotous actors 
 before the proper tribunals, and for restitution of actual possession. 
 
 In this stage of the business, the college received proffers for an 
 amicable settlement. The vigorous warfare had brought the enemy 
 to terms. From the first, the counsel for college had regarded it as 
 eminentlj' a case for compromise ; though they were too prudent to say 
 so aloud, even to their client. If the court should decide that Mr. 
 Bowdoin was not an alien, ths college would be cut off entirely. If 
 his alienage were proved, the estate would go to the Commonwealth, 
 and its disposition would be in the hands of the Legislature. It would 
 indeed be strange if that body should not give it to the residuary lega- 
 tee of James Bowdoin's will ; still, it would bring into the question a 
 new and disagreeable element with all the uncertainties that belong to 
 political action and intrigue. An arrangement was accordingly made : 
 the college consented to relinquish its claim on receiving three tenths 
 of the entire property ; sale of the property was immediately made, 
 and $31,696.69 were added to the college fund. 
 
 In this short record of a transaction so important to our poor college, 
 I have been compelled to omit much that Was curious in itself, and 
 much that was singularly characteristic of the prominent actors. In 
 addition to the distinguished men already mentioned, the college was 
 favored through the whole affair with the faithful and filial services of 
 Mr. Peleg W. Chandler, and with the able advice of Simon Greenleaf 
 and Benjamin R Curtis. Above all, the efforts of President Woods, 
 whether in collecting information, in exploring the intricate problems 
 of contingent remainders, in urging to action the timid and the dis- 
 heartened, or in consultations with those great masters of the law, were 
 efficient, untiring, and invaluable. 
 
riTiST ERESniENT 07 BOWBOIN COLLEGE 
 
 '^.1 bv H.WBiiatLii.r ft* BowrUiiii Mi!m..nLLl 
 
academic! faculty. 
 
 PRESIDENTS. 
 
 Joseph McKeen was born in 1757 in Londonderry, N. H. His 
 father John and his grandfather James were among the first set- 
 tiers of the place, to which they came from the North of Ireland 
 about 1718. Some forty years earlier the family, to avoid the brutal 
 cruelty of Claverhouse's dragoons, had fled from Argyleshire to Ulster. 
 Yet even there, as Presbyterian dissenters, they found themselves in 
 unpleasant relations with the Established Church, and, as foreigners 
 and Protestants, they came often into conflict with the native Celtic 
 population. Such considerations were quite sufl3cient to induce those 
 sturdy Scotchmen, the McKeens, the McGregors, the Nesmiths, and 
 others, to exchange the fertile and pleasant valley of the Lower Bann 
 for the cold, hard hills of New Hanipshire. To the town which they 
 founded, these hardy adventurers gave the name of a place, where 
 some of them had fought and suffered during those terrible hundred 
 and five days which made the siege of Londonderry the most memo- 
 rable event of the kind in all the British annals. In this remarkable 
 colony James McKeen was the leading man. John inherited his 
 father's abilities and virtues, and passed them on to his more distin- 
 guished son. Joseph McKeen graduated at Hanover in the class of 
 1774, at the age of seventeen. During the following eight years of 
 Revolutionary turmoil he was quietly teaching school in his native 
 town, excepting a short period of voluntary service in the atmy under 
 Gen. Sullivan. From Londonderry he went to Cambridge, and as a 
 private pupil of the celebrated Prof. Williams spent some time in the 
 prosecution of his favorite studies, — mathematics and astronomy. 
 Dr. "Williams of "Windham, who had fitted him for college, was his 
 instructor in theology. After a few terms spent in assisting Dr. Pear- 
 son at the Phillips (Andover) Academy, he began to preach It was 
 not long before the large and wealthy parish of lower Beverl}' — whose 
 last minister, Joseph Willard, had been stolen from them by Harvard 
 College — sent for and secured him. This was in 1785. The duties 
 imposed by a large congregation, made up of merchants and farmers 
 and traders and mariners, were discharged with impartial fidelity and 
 to general acceptance. The society was not without its divisions ^ 
 
112 HISTORY OF BOWDOI^ COLLEGE. 
 
 ■ political and religious. McKeen was not quite orthodox in thp opin- 
 ion of some of his parishioners, nor so liberal in his theological views 
 as others would have liked. But he was candid, upright, prudent, 
 and conciliatory. He soon showed^himself to be a man of great abil- 
 ity and learning, and of excellent judgment! Under his faithful and 
 peaceful ministry the discordant elements subsided, and for the most 
 part seemed to coalesce. In those days a few great cities had not 
 acquired the art of absorbing all the wealth and talent of the country. 
 Among Dr. McKeen's parishioners were several men of more than 
 common ability and influence, master spirits of the once far-famed 
 Essex Junto-men, whose influence was felt in State, and even in 
 national councils. It was no common tribute to the good sense of 
 their pastor, that such men as Nathan Dane and Israel Thorndike 
 and Eobert Rantoul and the Cabots not only reverenced him as their 
 spiritual guide, but sought and prized his opinions on those matters of 
 politics and business which had been the study of their lives. In the 
 warm conflicts of the time he sympathized with the Federal party, 
 but he was not blind to its faults, nor unfaithful. It was in the 
 smarting hour of its first great defeat, when many of Mr. McKeen's 
 parishioners were indulging in the bitterness of what seemed to them 
 a righteous anger, that he preached his celebrated Fast Day sermon, 
 afterwards published. It was a rebuke, most manly and Christian, 
 addressed to those who speak evil of rulers. 
 
 Thus faithful in his pastoral and pulpit duties, he still found time to 
 prosecute his fayorite studies. Some evidence of this may be found 
 in the early transactions of the American Academy. On one occa- 
 sion, long remembered in Essex County, his mathematical science 
 was most humanely employed. A man was on trial for house-break- 
 ing. On the question whether it occurred by night or by day, his life 
 depended. A nice calculation by Dr. McKeen in regard to the pre- 
 cise moment of dawn saved the culprit from the gallows. 
 
 It is not strange that the trustees of Bowdoin College, when looking 
 round for a man competent to start and carry on their new enterprise, 
 soon fixed their eyes on Dr. McKeen. Thi separation from his peo- 
 ple was painful on both sides, as such separations always must be. 
 He took his family to Brunswick, and began housekeeping in Massa- 
 chusetts Hall, the only building then on the ground for officers or 
 pupils. The small projecting room on the eastern side, which has 
 since witnessed the birth of so many noxious gases and poisonous 
 compounds, was then an innocent kitchen. It was a very compact 
 establishment. One of the rooms served as a chapel. The oaken cane 
 whose punctual raps used to summon all college to prayers is still in 
 
PRESIDENTS. 113 
 
 existence. The expectations which had been formed of his presi- 
 dency, say Mr. Parker and Dr. EUingwood, "were not disappointed." 
 " His discreet management of the college in its infancy contributed in 
 no small degree to lay the foundation of its future prosperity." 
 
 This testimony of men who knew him well, I have in substance 
 heard confirmed by many who had been the pupils or associates of 
 President McKeen during the short period of his life in Brunswick. 
 It was short indeed. He carried one class through the four-years' 
 course, and conferred upon its six pioneers their bachelor's degree. 
 Before the next Commencement came, he had ceased to live. His 
 sickness had been long and distressing, and had been borne with 
 Christian fortitude and submission. 
 
 I never saw President McKeen ; but I have distinct impressions 
 of the man, derived from conversations with those who had known 
 him intimately, ^ conversations dating back to a time when he was 
 yet fresh in memory. He was tall, of robust frame, and of athletic 
 vigor. He had a countenance that was both winning and command- 
 ing. The engraving does him only partial justice, having been made 
 up from a simple profile outline. In manners he was gentlemanly, 
 easy, aflfable, — a man whom everybody liked and respected too, for he 
 could not have been more correct in his deportment or more upright in 
 conduct had he been ever so stiffly starched. He was mild and yet 
 firm. He was dignified yet perfectly accessible. He was serious 
 and yet habitually cheerful. Such was the admirable union of quali- 
 ties that fitted him for his" high station. 
 
 On all those great questions which involve man's responsibility and 
 duty to his neighbor, his country, and his Maker, Dr. McKeen was 
 earnest and decided in opinion and feeling, but at the same time per- 
 fectly tolerant. In theology he belonged to the milder school of the 
 moderate Calvinists. No one who knew him could doubt the sincerity 
 of his Christian profession, or the genuineness of his piety. 
 
 In 1785 Mr. McKeen was married to Alice Anderson, a faithful 
 companion while he lived, and his faithful widow for twenty-seven 
 years. They had three sons and two daughters. Alice, the j'ounger, 
 married WiUiam J. Farley (Bowdoin College, 1820), and died with- 
 out issue in 1827. . Her sister Nancy married David Dunlap, well 
 known in Brunswick as a wealthy and respectable merchant and citi- 
 zen. She survived her husband but a short time, and died (1849) 
 leaving one child, Alice McKeen, now the wife of Hon. Charles J. 
 Oilman of Brunswick, a representative in Congress. Of his three 
 sons, Joseph, John, and James, mention is made in their respective 
 places . 
 
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114 HISTORY or BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Jesse Appleton was born in 1772 at New Ipswich. He was fifth in 
 descent from Samuel Appleton, the pioneer, who came over in 1635. 
 His father, Francis Appleton, had emigrated from old Ipswich. In 
 his family plan, Jesse was set down for a mechanic ; but the boy had 
 higher aims, and through the generous aid of an elder brother was 
 enabled to go to college. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1792 with 
 the best repute for scholarship and character. Then for two years he 
 was an instructor of youth in D9ver and in Amherst. "In both 
 places he was successful as a teacher, and popular in his general inter- 
 course. His amiable disposition, his winning manners, and keen but 
 delicate wit, always discreetl}' employed, gave him favor wherever he 
 was known." 
 
 The celebrated Dr. Lathrop of "West Springfield was his theologi- 
 cal teacher, and thus became his friend and model and guide. Mr. 
 A.ppleton was licensed in 1795, and from the first was regarded as a 
 pireacher of more than common power and promise. ' Two years after- 
 ward he received simultaneous invitations to settle in Leicester and in 
 Hampton : the former a fertile and growing place near Worcester, 
 Mass., the latter a comparatively poor town on the New Hampshire 
 seaboard. Had secular considerations ruled exclusively in his decis? 
 ion, he could hardly have chosen as he did. His ministry at Hamp- 
 ton lasted ten years, during which his reputation was constantly 
 rising. His systematic and unremitted application enabled him, while 
 with scrupulous fidelity he performed all the pastoral duties of a wide 
 country parish, to write with great care one sermon each week, to pre- 
 pare many able articles for the religious periodicals of the time, and 
 successfully to pursue the theological, the philosophical, and the clas- 
 sical studies which he enjoyed so highly. He became an active and 
 useful trustee of the Phillips (Exeter) Academy. Young as he was, 
 many students for the ministry placed themselves under his guidance. 
 In 1803, the theological chair at Cambridge became vacant by the 
 death of Dr. Tappan ; and Mr. Appleton, though only thirty years 
 old, was an all but successful candidate for the high station. When, 
 four years later, the prospects of our young college were suddenly 
 blasted by the lamented death of Dr. McKeen, the selection of Mr. 
 Appleton as his successor was hailed with a unanimity of approval 
 which showed an exalted estimate of his talents and character. He 
 went to Brunswick late in the autumn of 1807, and was inaugurated 
 in December. 
 
 I was at Brunswick when he came, witnessed the first impressions 
 made by the new president, and shared in them as a boy, not unob- 
 servant, might share. For two years, while fitting for college, I saw 
 
H.EV, JESSE APPLETOH-, D.D 
 
 SECOND PSESWENir OF BOWDOm CanLEOE 
 
 Sngrtw^' iTxr ihA' Eow^TjvMemryJy. 
 
PRESIDENTS. 115 
 
 and heard him often, with increasing respect not entirely free from 
 awe. Then as an undergraduate, and espeeiallj' as a pupil, I learned 
 to admire the scholar and teacher, and deeply to venerate the man. 
 A little later I was associated with him in the government and instruc- 
 tion of the college, and for nearly two years met him weekly in the 
 pleasant familiarity of the Faculty meeting, and saw him often in his 
 studj^ and in his family. Many years have elapsed since I marked 
 the sad steps of his decline, watched at his dying couch, and saw him 
 breathe his last ; but the impress which he made on all who came into 
 contact with him was not a fleeting one. No image in my memory 
 is more distinct than that of President Appleton, as I saw him in 
 those eight years of my early life. Nor has it lost anything in the 
 light of later reflection and comparison. I may say, rather, it has 
 gained both in beauty and greatness. In the pulpit, where I first 
 beheld him, his aspect was most impressive. An early and unusual 
 baldness, while it revealed the fine contour of his head, gave also to 
 his brow an air of dignified and thoughtful serenity. His face when 
 he was speaking became highly expressive, and his mild blue eye 
 would kindle to a glow. He had a good voice, , and an elocution 
 exceedingly earnest and emphatic. His language was always concise, 
 exact, transparent, — the fit medium of his strong and lucid thought. 
 He had great faith in reason. It was to the understanding that he 
 chiefly appealed, and few can do it so effectively. There was no difii- 
 culty in following his argument, which he made as clear to the hearer 
 as it was to himself. There was no parade of dialectic skill, no dis- 
 play of technical or abstruse terms to make a show of learning, no 
 endeavor to seem profound by being obscure. Like Paul, he " rea- 
 soned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come" ; and his 
 preaching, like that of his great Master, was convincing and persua- 
 sive. 
 
 In the beautiful address of Kev. Dr. Sprague commemorative of the 
 Eev. Joseph Lathrop, lately delivered, I find the following passage : 
 ' ' The doctor used to speak of many of them in terms of warm regard ; 
 but there was one in whom I always thought he especially gloried, and 
 of whose fine intellectual and moral qualities he could never say 
 enough, — I refer to the late lamented President Appleton. He 
 regarded him, as well he might, as one of the lights of his age ; and 
 the letters which President Appleton addressed to him, some of them 
 letters of inquiry on perplexed subjects, show that he did not outlive 
 his reverence for his teacher, or grow weary of sitting at his feet. 
 The death of the president occurred a few months after my ordination ; 
 and when I read to Dr. Lathrop the sermon preached at his funeral, on 
 
116 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 the text ' One star differeth from another star in glory,' he listened to 
 it with intense interest, and expressed the opinion that a brighter star 
 rarely sets on earth to rise in heaven than he who formed the subject 
 of that discourse." 
 
 It was the high privilege of the Senior class to have President 
 Appleton as instructor, with "Butler's Analogy" and "Dugald 
 Stewart's Philosophy" as text-books. His style as a teacher bore 
 hardly any resemblance to the diversified comments and diffusive 
 eloquence which charmed the pupils of President Dwight. Clear, con- 
 cise, exact, Dr. Appleton made everything perfectly plain, while every 
 lesson opened some new inquiry and put us in the way of thinking for 
 ourselves . 
 
 No college oflScer could surpass him in zeal for the welfare of the 
 institution under his care. The intellectual progress and moral condi- 
 tion of the students were with him an object of intense and incessant 
 solicitude. I thought then, and still think, that his administration would 
 have been more successful, and that he consequently would have been a 
 happier man, could hopefulness and confidence have held the place in 
 his mind which seemed so often occupied by mistrust and fear. In 
 entering on his duties at Brunswick, it is not strange that he accepted 
 those ideas of government and discipline which had always prevailed 
 in the colleges of New England, — ideas which have now so generally 
 given way to milder and wiser modes of action. From the Faculty 
 record of that day, — a record which shows no want of accord among 
 the members, — it is not easy to avoid a feeling that the cases of sum- 
 mary punishment bore an undue proportion to' the whole number of 
 students. However this may be, very few, I am sure, of those who 
 fell under the censure of President Appleton ever thought of ascribing 
 his course of action to any other motive than an imperative sense of 
 duty. 
 
 Dr. Appleton rarely if ever ventured an extemporaneous speech. 
 In conversa;tion he was ready and fluent, copious and easy, abounding 
 in anecdotes which he told delightfully, and occasionally evincing a 
 witty felicity of retort which would have Been formidable in any one 
 not so discreetly kind. But in public, even' before the small public of 
 the college, he seldom spoke anything which he had not previously 
 written. 
 
 His farewell address to the graduating class was delivered always 
 on Commencement Day, and brought the exercises to a fitting close. 
 It was indeed the prominent and by far the most interesting feature 
 of the occasion. For that all waited through the long and tedious sit- 
 ting. To that all listened with admiration, and not a few with profit. 
 
WQILILDARifl ^[LD=E Mp [ffiomn- 
 FresidenL of Bowdom College. 
 
PRESIDENTS. 117 
 
 Soon after his death these addresses were published, and that book 
 was the first product of the Brunswick press. The little volume should 
 be reprinted. The young men of our college are not likely to find 
 many things of the sort that are better done. 
 
 In person, Dr. Appletoh was tall, slender, and narrow-chested. A 
 close student, he rarely sought exercise or the outward air. With 
 such a frame and such habits, it is not strange that disease fastened 
 on his lungs, and that its course was sure and rapid. He died Nov. 
 12, 1819., 
 
 A selection from his sermons and lectures, with a memoir by his 
 son-in-law, Prof. A. S. Packard, was published in two volumes. ' 
 
 It is much to be regretted that we have no satisfactory likeness of 
 President Appleton. The engraving gives some idea of his appear- 
 ance, but is far from doing justice to to a head and face which were 
 wonderfully fine and impressive. 
 
 He married Elizabeth Means of Amherst, N. H. From this happy 
 union came Mary, who married John Aiken of Lowell and Andover, 
 and still lives his widow ; Frances, the first wife of Alpheus S. Pack- 
 ard, now CoUins professor and librarian, who died June, 1839 ; Jane, 
 who married Franklin Pierce, the twelfth President of the United 
 States, and died December, 1863 ; William, Bowdoin College, 1826, 
 who died in 1830 ; Robert, merchant, died in Boston in 1849 ; John, 
 died in infancy. 
 
 William Allen was born in 1784, in Pittsfield, Mass. His father, 
 Thomas Allen, was the first settled clergyman in that beautiful fron- 
 tier town, and a man of much note in his day. In the Revolutionary 
 time he was a glowing patriot. Twice he went out as chaplain of a 
 regiment. When Baum with his Hessians advanced upon Benning- 
 ton, Mr. Allen with many of his parishioners joined Gen. Stark ; and 
 his warlike speech to that hero is preserved in the pages df Lossing 
 and Irving. That it was not mere bravado he proved soon after in 
 the thickest of the fight. The second day after the battle he preached 
 from his own pulpit. At a later period, when parties had sprung up, 
 and Massachusetts was strongly Federal, and the clergy were of that 
 party almost to a man, the Rev. Thomas Allen was conspicuous as a 
 stanch partisan of the other side. 
 
 WilUam Allen graduated at Cambridge in the celebrated class of 
 1802. After two years of theological study with the Rev. Dr. Pierce 
 of Brookline, and with his own venerable father, he was licensed to 
 preach. In December, 1804, he became a regent or proctor in Har- 
 vard College, and so continued for six years. His duties in the college 
 
118 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 police being light, he devoted much of his time to the preparation of 
 the "American Biographical and Historical- Dictionary," which he 
 brought out in 1809. The work had an extensive sale, and was re- 
 garded as a valuable contribution to American literature. At the 
 close of his connection with the university he appeared as the orator 
 of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. 
 
 In October, 1810, he was ordained pastor of the church in Pitts- 
 field, — succeeding his father in the sacred office. Here for seven 
 years he discharged the duties of a Christian minister with fidelity 
 and ability and marked success. 
 
 In 1816 the Legislature of New Hampshire passed its celebrated 
 act amending the charter of Dartmouth College, and establishing in 
 its stead the Dartmouth University. Mr. Allen was a son-in-law of 
 the ejected President Wheelock ; he accorded in political opinion with 
 the ruling party ; he had already become favorably known as a 
 preacher, scholai-, and author. To him was offered, very naturally, 
 the presidency of the new university, an office which he took and dis- 
 charged acceptably during the two years of its existence. The decis- 
 ion of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1819, restoring the 
 old order of things, of course disbanded the -University. 
 
 In the autumn of that year died the excellent Appleton. Among 
 the distinguished men named as fit to be successors. President Allen 
 soon became prominent. The senior professor of the college, who 
 had been associated with him at Cambridge, favored his election ; and 
 while the reputation of Mr. Allen justified such a choice, considera- 
 tions of expediency were not withoYit influence. In the peculiar cir- 
 cumstances and relations of the college and Commonwealth at that 
 time, it is not strange that the trustees and overseers regarded it as 
 an additional and important qualification in President Allen that he 
 would, politically speaking, be acceptable to the dominant party in the 
 new State. 
 
 President Allen was inaugurated at Brunswick in May, 1820. The 
 important changes which, with ready co-operation on his part, were 
 made in the constitution of the two boards^, have been duly chronicled 
 elsewhere. One of his first efforts under the new order of things was 
 the establishment of a medical school in connection with the college. 
 To this end he obtained the sanction and aid of the State. With the 
 able assistance of his friend, Nathan Smith, M. D., of Hanover, N. H., 
 he had this important department fuUy organized and in actual opera- 
 tion before lie had been a year in his seat. For ten j'ears the presi- 
 dency of iDr. Allen was unmarked by any special incident. While he 
 kept up his habits as a student, he was vigilant a^nd efficient as a 
 
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 college officer. B3' example, by precept, by action when necessary, he 
 inculcated order and good morals and the obligations of religion. 
 Under his administration the number of students was increased, and 
 mapy young men were graduated with a promise of ability and useful- 
 ness which they have since more than fulfilled. 
 
 The State act of 1831 and the ejection under it' of President Allen 
 have been mentioned in another place. By what means the change of 
 sentiment and feeling which that act evinced had been brought about 
 it would be useless to inquire. That it was founded rather on personal 
 animosity and party prejudice than on any supposed dereliction from 
 duty may be safely inferred from the roundabout course by which 
 the removal of President Allen was attempted. Restored to his office 
 in 1833 by the decision of Judge Story, he continued for six years 
 longer to perform its duties. 
 
 In 1838, at the commencement of the academic year, Dr. Allen 
 sent in his resignation of the presidency, to take effect in 1839. After 
 accepting the resignation, the two boards unanimously adopted and 
 entered on their records a resolution expressive of high respect and 
 regard for the retiring president. 
 
 From Brunswick, President Allen removed to Northampton in 
 Massachusetts. After so many j^ears of responsibility and care, — and 
 we must add, of vexations also, — he now found himself in a condition 
 to take his ease amid scenery and society alike delightful. But though 
 he undoubtedly enjoyed highly this pleasant home of his old age, it 
 was through no indolent indulgence. Resuming the studies of his 
 early years, he devoted himself to the preparation of the third edition 
 of his "Biographical Dictionary." This great work, involving a vast 
 amount of research and labor, he completed and gave to the public 
 early in 1857. It is by far the most extensive collection of American 
 names which had then appeared. 
 
 During his residence at Brunswick, President Allen published a Vol- 
 ume of " Addresses to the Graduating Classes " ; a " Memoir of Dr. 
 Eleazar Wheelock"; "An Account of Remarkable Shipwrecks"; 
 "A Collection of Psalms and Hj'mns," many of which were original ; 
 a second and enlarged edition of the " Biographical Dictionary" ; and 
 a work called " Junius Unmasked," ascribing the authorship of those 
 famous letters to Lord George Sackville. He also published numer- 
 ous discourses given on special occasions. In 1853 he gave to the 
 press a short memoir of his friend and classmate, the Rev. Dr. Cod- 
 man ; and in 1856 appeared " Wunnissoo ; or. The Vale of the Hoosa- 
 tunnuk," a poem " with valuable and learned notes." 
 
 Dr. Allen is still a vigorous man, with slight indications of age, if 
 
IZU HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 we except his venerable and snowy locks. This very 'winter (1858) 
 the Ngrthampton paper informs us that he has been conspicuous among 
 the skaters of that village, and that none of his j'outhful or middle- 
 aged playmates of either sex surpassed him in agility and grace. 
 
 In 1812 Mr. Allen was married to Maria Malleville,* only child of 
 the second President Wheelock. The connection was, singularly 
 happy. Lovely in person and in mind, in manners and in character, 
 Mrs. Allen was admired by all who saw her, and beloved by all who 
 knew her. She died at Brunswick in the summer of 1828. 
 
 Dr. Allen married again, in 1831, Sarah Johnson, daughter of John 
 Breed, Esq., of Norwich, Conn., who died in 1848. Dr. Allen, after 
 a brief illness, died July 16, 1868. A commemorative discourse was 
 delivered on the Sabbath succeeding his funeral in the First Congre- 
 gational Church, Northampton, by Kev. Dr. William B. Sprague of 
 Albany, N. Y., which was publi&hed with notices of the funeral 
 service. 
 
 Leonakd Woods was born Nov. 24, 1807, in Newbury (now West 
 Newbury), Mass. It was soon after this event that his father. Rev. 
 Leonard Woods, left the " New Town" parish, to become the first pro- 
 fessor of Christian theology in the new school at Andover. From 
 Phillips Acadeiny he went first to Hanover. After a short sojourn 
 there he left Dartmouth for Union College, where he graduated in 
 1827. In 1830 he had completed the Andover course, and was 
 licensed to preach. During the year 1831 Mr. Woods was an assist- 
 ant teacher in the Theological Institution. While thus employed, he 
 translated and published an edition of "Knapp's Theology." In 
 1833 Mr. Woods received ordination from the Third Presbytery in 
 New York. From 1834 to 1837, he conducted as editor the Liter- 
 ary and Theological Review, in the city of New York. In 1836 he 
 became professor of Biblical literature in the Theological Seminary at 
 Bangor; and from this place, in 1839, was called to preside over 
 Bowdoin College. 
 
 It needs but a comparison of the dat^ which begin and end this 
 brief outline to show that Mr. Woods had early risen to a high place 
 in public estimation. It was a rare reputation for profound and ele- 
 gant scholarship, for power and beauty as a writer, and for great con- 
 versational ability, which he brought with him to Brunswick. If in 
 other respects his qualifications were yet to be tested, there was noth- 
 
 * Mrs. Allen's maternal grandfather was Gov. Suhm of the Danish West Indies. 
 Her greait-grajidfather, Thomas Malleville, was also governor of the Danish islands. 
 
■^"ed -by J,C .Bmae iom i3»?>«="^° 
 
 REV, LEOirAH.D TWO O D S , D .D , 
 I'RESmEliT OF BOWDOm COU^GJi 
 
 En^ra^sA -fsr Sia'So-a ^vi.J\Js 
 
PRESIDENTS. ' 121 
 
 ing in his past to forbid the brightest hopes, but all good omens rather. 
 In behalf of the "youth" thus high advanced, his venerable father 
 addressed a letter to the trustees, which they recorded in their book, 
 and which commends him to their kindness and bespeaks their en- 
 couragement. " I hope," writes the doctor, " he will prove a bless- 
 ing to the college. If uniform dutifulness from a child, if a habit of 
 diligent, persevering study, and scrupulous fidelity in discharging the 
 duties of the private and public relations which he has heretofore sus- 
 tained can give any assurance that he will be faithful in this new rela- 
 tion, that assurance you have." That he did not shrink from labor 
 appears from the fact that one of his first suggestions to the board 
 was that they should assign to the president a larger share in the 
 instruction than had for some time been customary. 
 
 In the autumn of 1840 President Woods, by permission of the 
 board, sailed for Europe. He was absent about a year, giving much 
 attention to institutions of learning. The English universities, and 
 Oxford in particular, were carefully studied and made lasting impres- 
 sions. 
 
 In the early spring of 1843 a newspaper paragraph, accidentally 
 seen, made known to President Woods the death of James Temple 
 Bowdoin. As the college had a reversionary interest in the estate 
 which that gentleman received from his uncle, James Bowdoin, the 
 president took immediate measures to ascertain its rights. In the 
 prosecution of this claim to a successful issue, and in carrying out the 
 singular process through which it was accomplished, the president 
 evinced energy and perseverance. It gave for the time a new direc- 
 tion to his studies, until the great lawyers, whose consultations he 
 attended, were surprised to find him as much at home as themselves 
 in the nice questions and problems which are presented by the law of 
 "contingent remainders " and "docked entails." The "constancy, 
 fidelity, and prudence" which he exhibited on this occasion were duly 
 acknowledged by the two boards.* 
 
 Another college enterprise in which President Woods took deep 
 interest was the erection of the chapel. This oft-delayed and long- 
 protraeted work owes much to his persistent effort, and the noble 
 structure will be a lasting memento of his taste aud perseverance. ^ 
 
 As an author President Woods came forw^ard early. His transla- 
 tion of Knapp has been mentioned. For a few j'ears he contributed 
 largely to periodical literature. Since that time the public has only 
 seen enough from his pen to make it wish for more. After the death 
 
 * Appendix No. 3. 
 
122 HISTORr OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 of Daniel Webster he delivered in Portland, at the request of its 
 municipal authorities, a discourse on that great man, which was pub- 
 lished, and which ranks among the best productions of its class. His 
 address at the funeral of Parker Cleaveland, a,fterwards elaborated 
 into 3, memoir and published by the Maine Historical Society, is an 
 admirable delineation of the learned professor, and a truly felicitous 
 specimen of biographical writing. For some time past President 
 "Woods has been engaged upon a history of Phillips Academy, Ando- 
 ver, and especially of its engrafted scion, the theological seminary. 
 The work was begun and left unfinished by his father. In prosecut- 
 ing it the son has resorted to the original sources of history. All the 
 papers and correspondence of the men who originated and established 
 these successful schools have been submitted to his inspection, and he 
 can tell us, if anybody can, what it was that the Phillipses and Pear- 
 son and Woods and Morse and Spring and others thought and meant 
 and hoped for when they were laying the foundations of these instil 
 tutions. We trust that the appep-rance of this long-expected work 
 will not much longer be delayed. 
 
 President Woods is popular with the students, and has been so 
 from the first, nor is it strange that they should highly appreciate the 
 affability and kindness which mark his whole intercourse with them. 
 I have indeed heard it alleged that he sometimes carries these amiable 
 virtues too far. Between kindness and severity there is undoubtedlj' 
 a happy medium, if it can only be found. But in the management of 
 the young, is it not better to err — if err we must — upon the softer 
 side ? The pupil whose love is gained will not long withhold his obe- 
 dience. "I cannot help doubting," saj's the biographer of one who 
 knew how to blend strictness with indulgence, "if in any department 
 of human operations, real kindness ever corapromised real dignity*.'' 
 
 I have heard another complaint against President Woods, in which 
 his warmest friends readily join. They say that a scholar so accom- 
 plished, a writer so pleasing, should more frequently give to college 
 and to the public the ripe results of his study and meditation. They 
 recall the baccalaureate addresses, of former ipresidents, and wonder 
 that the present incumbent should depute to anybody else a task 
 which belongs to him, and which he can so well perform. They con- 
 sider him, in a word, too much of a recluse. They would drag him 
 from the luxurious retirement of his study into the arena of life and 
 action. They would have him study less and speak more. 
 
 President Woods, being unmarried, after his return from Europe 
 took lodgings in a pleasant house and family near the foot of Federal 
 Street. It was evidently too far from college to be convenient, but 
 
PRESIDENTS. ] 23 
 
 of course the arrangement was temporary. He wbuld soon need a 
 house, and the college was bound to give hhn one. How many pleas- 
 ing hopes and plans in regard to this coming event were one after 
 another laid to rest by the inactivity of the chief actor, it would not 
 be easy to estimate. When this all failed, other steps were taken. 
 Professors and tutors petitioned to have their president nearer to 
 them. Visiting committees reported that he ought to be nearer, and 
 even the boards resolved that it was desirable he should be nearer. 
 I do not know whether President Woods ever said anj'thing or did 
 anything in reference to these movements. I do know that he still 
 lives at the foot of Federal Street.* 
 
 Dr. Woods had designed to retire from the presidency when he 
 should reach his sixtieth year. This purpose was confirmed by indi- 
 cations of the infirmity which in a few years developed itself, to the 
 grief of his friends, and accordingly he resigned his position in 1866. 
 In the year following, at the instance of the Maine Historical Society, 
 of which he had from the year of his accession to office been an 
 active and influential member, he received a commission from the gov- 
 ernor of tlie State to collect materials in Europe for the early history 
 of the State. Important facilities were aflTorded him from the Depart- 
 ment of State, Washington. Bearing with him also letters from our 
 most eminent historical students, he spent a year or more in prosecut- 
 ing his inquiries, gaining access to public and private collections, and 
 cordially received by eminent men in England and on the Continent of 
 Europe. The fruits of his commission appeared in the first and second 
 volumes of the " Documentary History of Maine," the second contain- 
 ing the "Discourse oil Western Planting," by Hakliiyt, the manuscript 
 of which had been lost to the world for three hundred years, until dis- 
 covered by the rare address and persistent eflTorts of Or. Woods in a 
 private collection, and of which he was fortunate enough to secure a 
 copy. After his return he devoted himself to the work of reducing 
 to order and making available for public use the historic riches he had 
 accumulated. With great diligence he was approaching the end of his 
 enthusiastic labors, when a fire, August, 1873, consumed most of his 
 library and manuscripts. He never recovered from that disaster. He 
 had felt premonitions for some time of a tendency which developed 
 itself at last in a paralytic shock, which was repeated a year or two 
 later. His conflict with a form of disease he had dreaded, the gradual 
 decay of brilliant powers, and the end which came Dec. 24, 1878, are 
 portrayed with pathos and exceeding beauty by Prof. Park in his 
 
 * What follows, relating to the president, is from the editor. 
 
124 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 memorial discourse. Agreeably to the wish of Dr. Woods, the inter- 
 ment was made in the cemeterj- of the Theological Seminary, Andover, 
 where his dust mingles with that of his family ; and an impressive 
 monument is erected, for which provision was made in his will. 
 
 The death of Dr. Woods was appropriatelj' notice by discourses 
 before the Maine Historical Society and the college in a public ser- 
 vice during the week of Commencement in 1879, by Prof. Charles C. 
 Everett, D. D., and by Prof. Edwards A. Park in the chapel of the 
 seminary in Andover, both of which have been published. 
 
 Rev. Db. Hakeis (1833), professor of theology in the seminary at 
 Bangor, at the suggestion of Dr. Woods himself was elected to suc- 
 ceed him, and was inaugurated at the Commencement of 1867, the 
 first alumnus to hold that position. He also -took charge of the de- 
 partment of mental philosophy, for which he had decided predilec- 
 tions, and discharged its duties with vigor and success. He habitually 
 at Sunday-evening prayers gave familiar discussions of topics in reli- 
 gion, morals, and the conduct of life, of great value, always command- 
 ing attention by his facility, power of illustration, and proofs of wide 
 culture. He sustained the dignity of the station honorably tp himself 
 and the college four years, when a call to the professorship of system- 
 atic divinity in Yale College, in which he would be exempt from the 
 peculiar and often trying responsibility of a college presidency, and for 
 which the studies and duties of his life had eminently fitted him, was 
 too tempting to be resisted. 
 
 Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1852) was elected to the 
 presidency with entire unanimity of the boards and the general expec- 
 tation and approval of the friends of the college. Dr. Harris had 
 devised an extension of the college curriculum which President Cham- 
 berlain was active in promoting, introducing a special scientific depart- 
 ment, and also adding a system of military discipline and science under 
 an officer of the United States army. At tjje Commencement of 1880 
 the whole course of instruction, which during the year, by request 
 of the boards, had been revised by the Facultj', was remodelled, and 
 the scientific course as a distinct department was abolished.* 
 
 *For more detailed sketches of Presidents Harris and Chamberlain, see their 
 classes, 1833 and 1852. 
 
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 In the first years of the college, nearly all who took part in its man- 
 agement were men from other colleges. As we come down, we find 
 the ofHces of government and instruction falling more and more into 
 the hands of Bowdoin alumni. In regard to all such, I have thought 
 it the better way not to separate them from their classmates. What- 
 ever is said of them wUl be found under the year to which they 
 belong. 
 
 John Abbot was an elder brother of Benjamin Abbot, LL. D., of 
 Exeter, and of Abiel Abbot, D. D., of Beverly. He graduated in 
 1784, and was a tutor in Harvard College from 1787 to 1792. He 
 studied for the ministry, but want of health prevented him from 
 preaching. He then engaged in business, and was employed as the 
 cashier of a bank in Portland when appointed a professor in Bowdoin 
 College. After fourteen years in this service he resigned, and was made 
 a trustee and the college treasurer. Having become at length disqual- 
 ified for public duty, from mental rather than physical infirmity, he 
 relinquished his posV^nd left Brunswick. For a few years he resided 
 with his nephew, the Rev. John A. Douglass of WaterfoTd, Me. 
 Many evidences of mental aberration finally justified his consignment 
 to the McLean Asylum, where he remained till a short time before his 
 death, which occurred in 1843 at the old, ancestral Abbpt home, in 
 Andover, and at the ripe age of eighty- four years. 
 
 For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Abbot was an officer of 
 the college. With him, as professor, librarian, or treasurer, every 
 undergraduate of that time held direct and frequent communication. 
 His peculiar habits and manners no less than his unquestioned vir- 
 tues left an impression on our minds not easily effaced. I cannot say 
 that he shone as a teacher. His early reputation for classical scholar- 
 ship, if measured by the standard of that day, was probably not unde- 
 served ; but amid other and possibly more congenial pursuits, his 
 learning had become somewhat rusty, and he was not the man to 
 renew, still less to heighten its lustre. Unfortunately for him, and still 
 more unfortunately for some at least of his pupils, he was easily 
 imposed on. I say unfortunately ; for however amusing at the time 
 might be those practical jokes which so long furnished the staple 
 material of laughter, in the anecdotal traditions of the college, to the 
 actors in those scenes they doubtless became in maturer years a source 
 of perpetual and unavailing regret. 
 
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 As treasurer, Mr. Abbot did a great deal of work. The condition 
 of the college property, much of it being in wild land, imposed duties 
 such as rarely devolve on the fiscal agent of a literary institution. In 
 discharging these he visited the distant and pathless forest, spending 
 weeks sometimes in exploration and survey, beyond the outer limit 
 of the settlements. To guard and nurse the scanty fund was equally 
 his duty and pride. Whatever might be thought of his judgment and 
 financial skill, none questioned his zeal or his fidelity. 
 
 He had a taste for farming and horticulture, and did much for 
 Brunswick by the introduction of superior varieties of fruit. 
 
 Mr. Abbot had some of those habits into which the solitary bachelor 
 is apt to fall. A sort of absent-minded awkwardness often brought 
 him into embarrassments which were perplexing to him and amusing 
 to others. To those who saw much of him, these things must always 
 recur with the very mention of his name. But the smile which they 
 used to provoke never impaired our regard. Through them and above 
 them all shone ever a gentle and kind spirit. Let his early connection 
 with the college, and his well-tried devotion to its interests, be held in 
 long and grateful remembrance. 
 
 Though his mental faculties had become unbalanced, his closing 
 years were not unhappy. A harmless and cheerful delusion still 
 prompted him to labors of usefulness. His old hobby of planting and 
 grafting was resuscitated, and carried him into many grand and costly 
 schemes of improved gardening. In the asj'lum at Somerville, where 
 he was under the respectful care of Dr. Luther V. Bell, himself a 
 distinguished son of Bowdoin, though he sometimes complained of 
 restraint, he was generally in a state of ecstasy. The gallantry and 
 the visions of his youth returned; and his wedding-day was always 
 near at hand. 
 
 Parker Cleaveland was born in Eowley, Byfield Parish, Jan. 15, 
 1780, a winter long afterwards remembered in New England for the 
 depth of its snow and the severity of its cold. His father, of the same 
 name. — a sensible and excellent man, and a judicious phj'sician, — 
 was the son of Rev. John Cleaveland of Ipswich, and fifth in descent 
 from Moses Cleaveland of Woburn, — the emigrant patriarch of the 
 American Cleavelands. He was prepared for college in Byfield at the 
 old Dummer school, and was sent to Cambridge by its amiable and 
 learned preceptor, the Rev. Isaac Smith. His first essay in teaching 
 was made in Boxford, Mass., during a winter vacation. He afterwards 
 taught a district school in Wilmington. In 1799 he graduated with a 
 high reputation for ability, and went immediately to Haverhill, Mass., 
 
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PROFESSORS. 127 
 
 where he took charge of the town school. At the same time he entered 
 his name in the law oflSce of Ichabod Tucker. After a few months 
 spent in Haverhill as schoolmaster and law student, he went to York 
 in the District of Maine, and took charge of the central town school, 
 where he taught for nearly three years with marked success. During 
 this period, still having in view the legal profession, he assisted Mr. 
 Daniel Sewall, clerk of the courts, in his official duties. In 1803 he 
 was summoned to Cambridge as a tutor. Two years later his reputa- 
 tion as a scholar and ^instructor had reached the curators of the young 
 college in Maine, and he was appointed its first professor of mathe- 
 matics and natural philosophy. He went to Brunswick in the autumn 
 of 1805, and entered on that routine of active duty and punctual, effi- 
 cient performance which down to his last hour experienced no inter- 
 mission. The sciences of chemistry and mineralogy, then almost in 
 their infancy, soon arrested his attention and gradually became the 
 chief objects of his pursuit. In 1816 he brought out his work on 
 mineralogy : a work which was warmly welcomed through all the 
 domains of science and education, and which made the college as well 
 as the author far more widely known than before. The second edition 
 of this work has long been out of print ; but a third edition, though 
 promised and much desired and impatiently waited for, has not yet 
 appeared. In the winter vacation of 1818 Prof. Cleaveland gave a 
 course of chemical lectures in Hallowell. During the three succeeding 
 winters he gave two courses in Portland and one in Portsmouth, N. H. 
 These lectures were attended by the best society in those towns. No 
 better test of the lecturer's peculiar abilitj' could perhaps be given 
 than the fact that, though highly scientific and instructive, these exer- 
 cises commanded throughout the undivided and gratified attention of 
 those large and popular audiences. His fame as a lecturer soon 
 brought him applications from other places, but they were all declined. 
 The establishment of the medical school in 1&20 added largely to 
 Mr. Cleaveland's official labors, and fortunately increased somewhat 
 his pecuniary means. About this time he was invited to a professor- 
 ship at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Soon after, the 
 chair of chemistry and mineralogy at Cambridge was tendered him, — 
 a far more alluring offer. For a time the supervisors and friends of 
 Bowdoin College were alarmed at the prospect of such a loss, and did 
 what they could to retain him. The question was finally decided in 
 favor of Brunswick. During the long period of his connection with 
 the college, Mr. Cleaveland has instructed every class that has received 
 its honors. About 2,000 young men, graduates of the academic and 
 medical departments, have attended his recitations and lectures. 
 
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 Could they — the living and the dead — be called to the stand, there 
 would be, we think, but one voice in regard to the ability and the fidel- 
 ity of those instructions. As a lecturer, especially, Mr. Cleaveland 
 has been eminently distinguished. He is always clear, exact, concise. 
 He indulges in no rhetorical flourishes, no needless episodes. The 
 subject is prominent and not the man. His illustrations, whether 
 addressed to the eye or the ear, are always appropriate. Invariably 
 methodical, skilful, cautious, his experiments never fail. More than 
 this need not be said here ; to have said less would have seemed an 
 injustice not only to those whose youthful minds were trained to order 
 and power under his precise and lucid teachings, but to many others, 
 of every profession, who have heard him and admired him, — them- 
 selves mature in learning and judgment. 
 
 Mr. Cleaveland has received many degrees of honor and certificates 
 of membership from learned bodies abroad and at home. For these 
 we refer to catalogues and title-pages. Though his ardor and industry 
 as a college officer and teacher have experienced little if any abate- 
 ment, it must be acknowledged that he has failed to maintain the 
 distinguished position which he once held before the public eye. Nor 
 is this strange. His bump of caution is of prodigious size. Unlike 
 some of his brother and contemporary savants, he is eminently a 
 " keeper at home." So far from venturing across the Atlantic, he would 
 not cross a river except bj' bridge, and then only after a careful investi- 
 gation of its strength. As to steamboat and railway travel he is more 
 innocent of it than many a child unborn. These well-known facts 
 while they give comfortable assurance that his valuable life will never 
 be sacrificed to the insatiable demons of carelessness and speed, show 
 also, in part at least, why he has won no fame on the broad but 
 dangerous field of geological survey, and why his name has never 
 figured in the doings and sayings of scientific convocations But 
 though the Bowdoin man may sometimes indulge a momentary regret 
 that the idiosyncrasy of our oldest and most venerated professor has 
 perhaps kept him from standing, where his talents and attainments 
 should have placed him, among the foremost of the great scientific 
 celebrities, this at least we are bound with gratitude to remember, 
 that at his chosen post of duty he has remained ever steadfast, useful, 
 and honored. 
 
 In, 1806 Prof. Cleaveland was married to Martha Bush. Mrs. 
 Cleaveland died May 2, 1854, aged sixty-six years. Of their eight 
 children five survive. Two of the deceased are mentioned in their 
 respective years as graduates. Of thirteen grandchildren seven are 
 living. Prof. Cleaveland died suddenly October, 1858. The following 
 
PROFESSORS. 129 
 
 passage is taken from the report of Dr. "Woods's address at his funeral, 
 in the Christian Mirror of Oct. 26, 1858 : — 
 
 "A few j'ears since there appeared to be a momentary failure of his 
 powers ; but he soon rallied, and from that time till within a few weeks 
 his physical and mental powers have been in such perfect action that 
 he seemed to have taken a new lease of life, and almost to have begun 
 a new career of dut}'. Within a few weeks past more alarming syrajj- 
 toms began to appear. But though his years by reason of strength 
 had become almost fourscore, he still kept on, and walked to his 
 laboratory to hear his recitations ; and after his disease had become 
 so far developed as to require him to stop several times on the way to 
 rest himself and get breath, when his limbs had become swollen and 
 his chest suffused, and his sight almost gone, and he could no longer 
 walk, he would ride. After further failure, and he could not get out 
 before breakfast to hear his class, the hour was changed to a later one. 
 At last, when he could not hear the whole recitation he persisted to 
 hear what he could, and went as far with the exercise as his strength 
 allowed. Though thus driven from one resort to another, he did not 
 quit the ground, but still kept on. The day before his death he was 
 prevented from attending recitation, for the third time only since the 
 term began. When urged to rest, as he was met the day before his 
 death while riding out to recruit a little that he might be able to attend 
 his recitation, he replied with great emphasis that ' there had not been 
 an absence in his class since he had been sick, and that he should not 
 be absent himself if he could help it.' 
 
 ' ' After a night of comparative rest he was getting ready to go to his 
 recitation, when his discharge came from the onlj^ power from which 
 he could accept it. He died with his harness on. No rust had gath- 
 ered on his burnished armor. His lamp was trimmed and burning. 
 AVell done, good and faithful servant, will be the spontaneous verdict 
 of aU who have followed this aged teacher to the last. ' Well done,' 
 will be the verdict of the thousand graduates of this college when 
 they shall learn how true he was to himself, how faithful even unto 
 death. ' Well done, good and faithful servant,' we cannot doubt, has 
 been already the verdict of that higher tribunal before which he has 
 gone to appear." 
 
 William Jesks, Harvard College, 1797, was born in 1778 in New- 
 ton, Mass. After graduating, he remained, in Cambridge for several 
 j-ears, engaged in teaching, and also acting as laj- -reader in the Epis- 
 copal Church. In 1805 he was settled over a Congregational society 
 in Bath. He was soon chosen an overseer of the college, and in 1811 
 
130 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 became a trustee. In 1812 he was invited to Portsmoutli, N. H., as 
 successor to Dr. Buckminster, and would have gone had not the col- 
 lege stepped in to detain him. He was appointed professor of the 
 OHental languages and of English literature, with a small stipend, and 
 with the understanding that he was to retain his relations with the 
 parish until the college should be in a condition to claim him wholly. 
 That time never came. His connection with the college, which from 
 its very nature was unsatisfactory on both sides, came to an end four 
 years later, when Dr. Jenks left Bath for Boston. There he was for 
 several years pastor, of a church. 
 
 He was a man of unwearied industry. From 1832 to 1838 he was 
 occupied with the " Comprehensive Commentary," a work in six huge 
 volumes, which purported to be the quintessence of all previous com- 
 ments on the Bible. In 1847 he brought out in royal quarto an 
 "Explanatory Atlas of the Bible." Though neither profound nor 
 brilliant, he was a man of extensive erudition and of much linguistic 
 lore. All loved him for his amiability and respected him for his unaf- 
 fected goodness. Long after he had ceased to preach, his venerable 
 form and big ear trumpet were familiar objects in the pulpits of Boston. 
 He died in 1866. 
 
 Samuel Phillips Newman was born in 1797 at Andover, Mass. 
 His father, the Eev. Mark Newman, for many y^ars the principal of 
 Phillips Academy, long survived his son. His mother was a daughtei 
 of William Phillips of Boston. This superior woman died while he 
 was young, but left a deep impression on his heart. After graduating 
 with honor in the Cambridge class of 1816, he spent a year or more as 
 private instructor in a family near Lexington, Ky. In 1818 he became 
 a tutor in Bowdoin College, pursuing at the same time his theological 
 studies under the guidance of President Appleton. In 1819 he was 
 chosen professor of ancient languages. On the establishment in 1824 
 of a new professorship, Mr. Newman was transferred to the chair of 
 rhetoric and oratory. After twenty-one years of faithful service at 
 Brunswick, he yielded to an application frorfl the Massachusetts Board 
 of Education, and assumed the charge of a normal school, then just 
 established at Barre. Upon this work he entered with his wonted 
 ability and fidelity. But his health, which had long been declining, 
 soon broke down under the pressm-e of new responsibilities and labors, 
 and perhaps also through the loss of occupations and enjoyments to 
 which he had long been accustomed. He returned to his birthplace, 
 where he died early in 1842. 
 
 Prof. Newman was far from being a common man. His Intel- 
 
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PEOFESSOES. 131 
 
 lect was active and of wide capacity. He was a systematic reader 
 and thinker. His knowledge was various and solid, and what he 
 knew he could convey easily and clearly. His treatise on rhetoric, 
 published soon after he became professor of that branch, was an origi- 
 nal and able work, and gave to its author an extensive reputation. In 
 several colleges and in a multitude of schools it has been and still is 
 a text-book. It has been republished in England, and has passed 
 through more than sixty large editions in this country. Mr. New- 
 man also prep0,red and published an elementary work on political 
 economy. 
 
 As a critic he was discriminating and candid ; as a writer simple, 
 perspicuous, pure. His delivery, though not remarkable for energy 
 or grace, was yet impressive. He was, says one who had the best 
 opportunity to know, ' ' a most valuable officer of instruction and gov- 
 ernment ; ever faithful, self-denying, prompt and firm in the discharge 
 of duty, prudent and sagacious, enjoying the confidence alike of his 
 pupils and his associates." Mr. Newman had a decided business 
 talent. He understood, and very naturally he enjoyed, the manage- 
 ment of aflfairs and of men. Frpm the time of Dr. Allen's removal 
 to his restoration, Mr. Newman acted as president of the college by 
 appointment of the boards. Indeed, during the whole period of his 
 professorship at Brunswick he was probably the most influential mem- 
 ber of the college government. 
 
 Though licensed to preach, he did not often appear in the pulpit. 
 His occasional performances in that way were always excellent and 
 acceptable. All who knew him still love to remember how true and 
 tender he was in the domestic relation, how warm-hearted in his 
 friendships, how amiable and engaging in social life, how full of sym- 
 pathy with every form of suffering. I hardly need to add that reli- 
 gious principle and unaffected piety gave consistency and completeness 
 to his character. His Christian hopes, as life drew towards its close, 
 seemed to be converted into calm assurance and perfect peace. 
 
 Mr. Newman was married in 1821 to Caroline, daughter of Col. 
 William Austin Kent of Concord, N. H. They had five daughters. 
 Of these the eldest, Chfirlotte, was the wife of Ex-Prof. H. H. Boody, 
 and died February, 1876. Caroline married Capt. Leonard P. Mer- 
 rill and is now a widow. Mary married Rev. Benjamin W. Pond. 
 
 Thomas Cogswell Upham, who graduated from Dartmouth College 
 in 1818, was born in 1799 in Deerfield, N. H., where his grandfather, 
 the Rev. Timothy Upham was minister. His father, Nathaniel Upham, 
 removed about 1800 to Rochester, N. H., where he engaged in trade, 
 
134 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 1859 ; Chapman, 1866 ; Robinson, 1873. Those not alumni are now 
 briefly mentioned : — 
 
 In 1877 John Avery (Amherst College, 1861) succeeded Prof. 
 Jotham B. Sewall in the Greek and Latin professorship. After 
 graduation he had prosecuted at New Haven, with Prof Whitney, 
 studies in Sanscrit, Hebrew, and Arabic, had spent a year in Ger- 
 many at Tubingen and Berlin, and had been seven years professor of 
 Greek in Iowa College. Mr. Avery has contributed papers to the 
 New Englander and other periodicals on philological topics. 
 
 From 1852 to 1855 Rev. Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (Amherst, 
 1836, and tutor), pastor of one of the Congregational churches, Exeter, 
 N. H., succeeded Prof. Stowe in the Collins professorship. He re- 
 signed the position at the invitation of Union Theological Seminary, 
 New York, to its professorship of ecclesiastical history. He received 
 the degree of D. D., Bowdoin, 1855, and in 1873, LL. D. from 
 Amherst. He has published "A New and Complete Analysis of the 
 Bible," sermons, addresses, and numerous articles in reviews on 
 subjects connected with his special department. He has been presi- 
 dent of the Palestine Exploration Society, and has been elected presi- 
 dent of Union Theological Seminary, New York. 
 
 On the death of Prof. Cleaveland the college was fortunate in secur- 
 ing at once the services of Prof. Paul A. Chadbotjkne (Williams, 
 1848), in the department of chemistry and natural history, 1859 to 
 1865 ; and subsequently,, on the retirement of Prof. Upham in that of 
 moral philosophy and metaphysics, 1871 and 1872. He has since been 
 chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, and is now president of 
 Williams. Besides volumes on natural theology, etc., he has been a 
 frequent contributor to reviews and journals. 
 
 R-om 1862 to 1865 Rev Eliphalet Whittlesey (Yale, 1842) , pastor 
 for several years of one of the Congregational churches of Bath, was 
 invited to succeed Prof. Chamberlain in the professorship of rhetoric 
 and oratory. He entered the United States service in 1862, as chap- 
 lain ; became assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. O. Q. 
 Howard ; was brevetted brigadier-general ;* at the end of the war 
 resumed his ddties in college, but after a time resigned his position, 
 being made commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. He has since 
 been assistant secretary of the Board of Indian Commission, and by 
 personal inspection and annual reports has rendered important 
 service. 
 
 George Lincoln Goodale (Amherst, 1860) , a graduate from the 
 medical schools of Harvard and Bowdoinj and who had practised in 
 Portland and assisted as teacher of anatomy and surgery and materia 
 
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PROFESSORS. 135 
 
 medica in tbe Portland schools for medical instruction, was elected in 
 1868 Josiah Little professor of natural science and materia medica. 
 After four years' service he accepted an invitation to become university 
 lecturer at Harvard, and is now professor of botany and director of 
 the botanical garden of the university. While connected with the col- 
 lege he with Prof. Brackett conducted the Bowdoin Scientific Review, 
 and translated " Birnbaum's Chemistry.'' Dr. Goodale also prepared 
 manuals on mineralogy, etc., for use in his classes. He is preparing 
 the text for a sumptuous work on the " Wild Flowers of America,'' 
 and also the second volume of Gray's " Botanical Text-Book." 
 
 In 1868 Charles Greene Rockwood (Yale, 1864; Ph. D., 1866) 
 was appointed adjunct professor, and in 1872 full professor, of mathe-, 
 matics and natural philosophy. In 1873 he accepted the professorship 
 of mathematics and astronomy, Rutgers College, New Jersey, and in 
 1878 that of mathematics in the College of New Jersey, Princeton, 
 which he still holds. Mr. Rockwood has contributed papers to the 
 American Journal of Science and Art. 
 
 In 1874 Charles Henry Smith (Yale, 1865, and tutor), born in 
 Beirut, Syria, where he lived until his fifteenth year ; son of Rev. Eli 
 Smith, missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for For- 
 eign Missions ; an eminent Arabic scholar, succeeded Prof. Rockwood 
 in the mathematical chair and still occupies that position. 
 
 In 1873 Henry Carmichael (Amherst, 1867), on the retirement 
 of Prof. Brackett, was elected professor of chemistry and mineral- 
 ogy. He had spent five years in Germany at Gottingen, and one 
 year as professor of the same branch in Iowa College. 
 
 The Josiah Little professorship of natural history having become 
 vacant by the resignation of Dr. Goodale, Charles Abiathar White, 
 who had held a professorship in the University of Iowa, was elected 
 in 1873 to succeed. He had published the " Geology of Iowa," two 
 volumes, quarto. He remained two years, and became United States 
 paleontologist in the National Museum. In 1875 was issued from 
 the museum his report on the " Invertebrate Fossils collected by the 
 Geological and Geographical Explorations, etc.. West of the One Hun- 
 dredth Meridian." For the last four years this department has been 
 in charge of Mr. Leslie Alexander Lee, A. M. (St. Lawrence Uni- 
 versity, N. Y., 1872). He had been a " special student" in natural 
 science at Harvard, and also with Prof A. S. Packard, Jr., Salem, 
 Mass., and a teacher of natural sciences in seminaries at Barre, Vt., 
 and Franklin, Mass. 
 
 From 1870-72 Edward Sylvester Morse was professor of com- 
 parative anatomy and zoology. Mr. Morse has been connected with 
 
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 the Peabody Academy of Science,' Salem, Mass., and more recently 
 with the University of Japan. He received the degree of Ph. D. 
 from the college in 1871. He has been an industrious contiibutor to 
 seientiflc journals on subjects of natural history. 
 
 From 1871-73 James Bkaineed Tatlob (Harvard, 1867) was col- 
 lege professor of elocution and oratory. 
 
 The scientific department of the college having been enlarged in 
 1872, Geoege Leonard Vose was elected professor of civil engineer- 
 ing, and still remains in that position. Mr. Vose has published a 
 " Manual for Eailroad Engineers," two volumes ; a work on " Oro^ 
 graphic Geology"; "A Graphic Method of solving Algebraic Prob- 
 lems " ; " Elementary Course of Geometric Drawing" ; besides papers 
 on geology, etc., in scientific journals and other periodicals. 
 
 A department of military science and discipline was established in 
 1871 on the accession of Gen. Chamberlain to the presidency, which 
 has been in charge of Joseph Sanger, A. M., Brevet Major U. S. A., 
 1872-75 ; Louis V. Caziac, Brevet Captain, U. S. A., for three years ; 
 and Medoeem Ceawfoed, 1st Lieut., U. S. A., the present incumbent. 
 The course of instruction has embraced, besides military drill, civil 
 polity and international law. 
 
 In 1879 Rev. Geoege Tetjmbull Ladd ("Western Reserve College, 
 Ohio, 1864), who had pursued a theological c6urse at Andover, 
 Mass., been settled in the pastorate in Edinburg, Ohio, and then over 
 the Spring Street Congregational Church, Milwaukee, Wis., was 
 elected Stone professor of mental and moral philosophy. He has 
 published two lectures on the " Unknown God" of Herbert Spencer, 
 and the " Promise and Potency of every Form and Quality of Life " of 
 Prof. Tj'ndall, beside articles on kindred and theological subjects in 
 the Biblivtheca Sacra. July, 1881, Mr. Ladd resigned his professor- 
 ship, having accepted a similar professorship in Yale College. 
 
 MEDICAL PROFESSORS. 
 
 Nathan Smith was born in 1762 at Rehoboth in Massachusetts. 
 He was still a child when his parents removed to Chester in Vermont. 
 Before the Revolutionary War was over, he was called as a militia 
 man to do service on the frontier, then exposed to savage incursions. 
 From this hard and dangerous life he returned to farm labor, which 
 occupied him until his twenty-fourth year. About this time a surgi- 
 cal operation of some importance was performed in the neighborhood. 
 Young Smith happened to witness it.. A new ambition seized him, 
 and he at once resolved to master a profession whose utility and dig- 
 
MEDICAL PEOFESSORS. 137 
 
 nity he then for the first time felt. Dr. Goodhue, whose sliilful steel 
 had Jiindled this spark in his breast, decUned receiving him as a pupil 
 unless he would first qualify himself for admission into Harvard Col- 
 lege. "With this condition he complied, and after three years of pro- 
 fessional study under Dr. Goodhue, settled as a physician in Cornish, 
 N. H. As soon as he could raise the means he went to Cambridge, 
 where he attended lectures and took a medical degree. 
 
 It was not long before his superiority to most of the medical men 
 around him was readily conceded. Dr. Smith himself could not but 
 see and deplore the generally low attainments of his professional 
 brethren in that region. The medical, schools of Philadelphia and 
 New York were too remote and too costly to be of much avail to the 
 1 young men of New Hampshire and Vermont, while that of Cambridge 
 was as j'et but a feeble institution. Under such circumstances Dr. 
 Smith projected a medical school at Hanover, and his design was 
 seconded by President Wheelock. To qualify himself more thor- 
 oughly for this enterprise, he went in 1796 to Edinburgh, where he 
 attended a full course of lectures, and enjoyed the instructions of Dr. 
 Black and the elder Munro. He subsequently spent several months 
 in London, where he walked the hospitals. " His course after his 
 return was one of almost unrivalled success. The enterprise was 
 indeed a bold one." To many it must have seemed "presumptuous 
 rashness for a young physician, without what is called a liberal edu- 
 cation, to ui^dertake to rear up by his single arm an institution such 
 as those learned professors at the first college in New England could 
 with difficulty sustain. For twelve j-ears he lectured himself on all 
 the branches usually taught in medical schools, assisted only in two 
 courses on chemistry." The men whom he trained '• gradually occu- 
 pied the stations rendered vacant by death and through the loss of 
 business by those who were incompetent. Thus that portion of the 
 country became filled with a race of young, enterprising, intelligent 
 physicians, who all justly looked up to Dr. Smith as their friend and 
 professional father. This, with his deservedly high and continually 
 increasing reputation as a kind, attentive, and skilful physician and 
 surgeon, necessarilj' drew upon him a vast amount of business. The 
 labor which he endured in traversing, for the most part on horseback, 
 such an extensive country, then stUl in part a wilderness, over moun- 
 tainous regions and roads often nearly impassable, at. all seasons and 
 through every vicissitude of weather ; the good which he accomplished 
 by affording advice and instruction, and imparting a' portion of his 
 own zeal and energy to the younger members of the profession, as 
 well as the more direct benefits conferred on the sick and distressed, 
 can scarcely be estimated." 
 
it50 HISTOET OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE, 
 
 In 1813 Dr. Smith was invited to New Haven, where the medical 
 school of Yale College had just been established. His department 
 there was the theory and practice of physic and surgery, on which he 
 lectured annually during the remaining sixteen j-ears of his life. " To 
 trace the career of Dr. Smith as an instructor and as a practitioner of 
 physic and surgery," after his removal to New Haven, "would be," 
 saj's his distinguished and still- surviving colleague, Dr. Knight, " only 
 to repeat the account which has been given of him while residing at 
 Hanover." 
 
 In the spring of 1821 the medical school of Bowdpin College started 
 into being. Its establishment was mainly due to. the foresight and 
 influence of President Allen, then newly inaugurated ; yet even he 
 would hardly have attempted it but for the promised and powerful aid 
 of Dr. Nathan Smith. Dr. Smith had been the steadfast friend of 
 the venerable Wheeloek, and though no pa,rtisan, he had deeply felt 
 for him in those troubles which saddened his last days. This feeling 
 had made him willing to leave Hanoverand the beloved school which he 
 had built up there. His friendship for President Wheeloek extended, 
 to the son-in-law, and made him the more willing to give his name 
 and strength to a work v>rhieh was in other respects congenial to his 
 spirit. To that first class he lectured not only^ on medical theory and, 
 practice, but also on anatomy and surgery ; assisted however in the 
 anatomical preparation, and often in the demonstration, by Dr. John 
 D. Wells. As I was at that time studying medicine, I joined the class, 
 attended the lectures, was present at most of his operations in the 
 neighborhood, and saw much of him in general society. The course 
 over, I accompanied him, in that most sociable of vehicles, a one-horse 
 chaise, on a professional tour to Wiscasset and up the Kennebec, 
 Of my intercourse — at once pleasing and profitable — with that ..great 
 man the impressions are still vivid. Dr. Smith's connection with the 
 school at Brunswick lasted five years. He died at New Haven, Jan. 
 26, 1829, in his sixty-seventh year. 
 
 Dr. Smith was a "large man, a little clumsy, and of a somewhat 
 shambling gait. His expressive and genial countenance, his very 
 attitude and air, were a,dmirably caught by the great artist who fixed 
 them on his canvas, and whose picture will reproduce his image to 
 all who knew him. Those to whom Dr. Smith had been known only 
 by fame might.be disappointed in their first impressions. He was 
 rather slow of movement and of speech, and' in his manners often 
 there was an air of indifference. There was no show of learning, no 
 attempt at brilliancy, no assumption of dignity or superiority. The 
 admiration which was felt for his ability and wisdom — a feeling shared 
 
MEDICAL PROFESSORS. 139 
 
 by all who knew him — could be accounted for only by his possession 
 of those attributes. He was remarkable for the quickness, clearness, 
 and soundness of his judgment, and for plain, practical, common- 
 sense views. Few subjects came up on which he could not talk, and 
 talk instructively. Though more widely known and more renowned, 
 probably, as an operator than as a phj-sician, it maybe doubted in which 
 department he excelled. His diagnosis seemed to have the quickness 
 and the certainty of intuition. The steps of the process were so rapid 
 and so wide that he. could not always retrace them. His decision and 
 firmness at the sick-bed commanded confidence aiid insured compli- 
 ance ; while his unvarying gentleness and kindness brought to him rich 
 returns of love and gratitude. 
 
 As a surgical operator his name long stood foremost through all the 
 New England States. To his duties in this regard "he brought a 
 mind enterprising but not rash ; anxious yet calm in deliberation ; 
 bold j'et cautious in operation. His first object was to save his 
 patients if possible from the necessity of an operation, and when this 
 could be no longer avoided to enter upon its performance without 
 reluctance or hesitation." He had no ambition to be called a rapid 
 operator. Such aspirations in others he always condemned. Sat cito, 
 si sat bene, was evidentlj' in his opinion the true rule. Indeed, he 
 never did anything for mere applause. Everything necessary was 
 quietlj' prepared and all parade was avoided. Once in the work his 
 whole mind was given to it. He guarded carefully each step, watched 
 narrowlj' every occurrence, asked advice in emergencies, and never 
 lost confidence in himself. We cannot wonder at the almost uniform 
 success of one who was so skilful, so courageous, so cautious, and so 
 self-possessed. And yet many did wonder when thej' first saw the 
 surgeon's knife or needle in his tremulous hand. The arm would 
 shake for a moment, but there was unerring certainty in the stroke of 
 the instrument. 
 
 " In the practice of surgery Prof Smith displayed an original and 
 inventive mind. His friends claim for him the establishment of scien- 
 tific principles and the invention of resources in practice which will 
 stand as lasting monuments of a mind fertile in expedients and 
 unshackled by the dogmas of the schools. It is believed that he was 
 the first in this country to perform the bold operation of extirpating 
 the ovarian tumor. He was also the first to perform here the opera- 
 tion of staphyloraphj^" 
 
 Asa lecturer and teacher he was perfectly simple, perfectly natural. 
 " He sought no aid from an artificial style, but merely poured forth. in 
 the plain language of enlightened conversations the treasure's of his 
 
140 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLIiEQE. 
 
 wisdom and experience. He occupied but little time with the theories 
 and opinions of other men, referring to books only for the facta which 
 they contain. Nor did he often indulge in theoretic speculations of his 
 own, but gave principally the results of his practice and experience." 
 In a word, it was the leading principles which he endeavored to instil, 
 rather than minute details of practice. Both by precept and example 
 he taught his pupils how such principles could be best applied. 
 
 He was eminently social in feeling and habits. His stores of infor- 
 mation, his fund of anecdote, his ready remarks, — often acute, always 
 judicious and practical, — his unaffected good-nature, and affable man- 
 ners made him everywhere a welcome companion and guest. 
 
 Unimpeachable integrity, purity, and honor marked his course 
 throughout. By word and example he commended always a high 
 morality. But his benevolence was proverbial. Over his entire career 
 of laborious and wide-extended usefulness, 
 
 " Humanity shed rays 
 That made superior skill but second praise." 
 
 John Doane Wells, a native of Boston and a graduate of Har- 
 vard (1817), studied medicine with the late Dr. George C. Shattuck, 
 by whom he was recommended to Dr. Nathan Smith as an assistant 
 in his first course of lectures at Brunswick. Though his engagement 
 only required him to prepare the subjects of the lecture- table, he was 
 repeatedly called by Dr. Smith at a few minutes' notice to take his place 
 before the class\ Young as he was, and modest withal, he showed in 
 these emergencies a readiness and ability which commanded admira- 
 tion. So well, -indeed, did he acquit himself in every respect that he 
 was elected at the close of the course professor of anatomy and surgery. 
 In the summer of 1820 he went to Europe. After studying, listening, and 
 observing for nearly two years in the best schools of France and Great 
 Britain, he came home to enter on his short and brilliant career. His 
 success as a lecturer far more than equalled the high expectations which 
 he had excited. In 1826 he was appointed professor of anatomy and 
 physiology in the Berkshire Medical School. Three years later he was 
 elected to the anatomical chair in the University of Maryland. 
 
 It is not enough to say that he soon became popular as a lecturer 
 Earnest and even enthusiastic in his' devotion to science;, familiar with 
 every topic which he attempted to discuss, and able to make such dis- 
 cussion perfectly clear to his hearers ; fluent, neat, copious, yet never 
 wandering or prolix, he was admired for the animation and the instruc- 
 tiveness of his discourse. At the age of thirty-one he had already 
 attained* to a distinguished .place among medical men. Prospects of 
 
JOmsT DOATSTE IffELlB , MI.D, 
 
 PSOmaSOR OFJOIATOMTicaURBISILYmBaWIlOmCOLlSBE. 
 
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MEDICAL PROFESSORS. 141 
 
 fame and fortune, and of what he prized far more, extensive useful- 
 ness, opened a bright vista before him. But it was suddenlj' shut in. 
 Impelled by an exalted and almost romantic sense of duty, he incurred 
 toils and exposure which undermined his constitution and led to an 
 early death. A rapid consumption terminated his life in the summer 
 of 1830. 
 
 Dr. "Wells always made Boston his home, but had been too much 
 occupied as an instructor elsewhere to have acquired much practice. 
 It would have been otherwise had he lived, for with the exception of 
 experience he possessed all the qualifications of an eminent practi- 
 tioner both in medicine and surgery. 
 
 This premature extinguishment of large attainments and of fine 
 abilities was deeply deplored and appropriately noticed in all the insti- 
 tutions with which he was connected. At Brunswick especially, with 
 whose medical school and all its interests he had from the first been 
 identified, it was felt to be no common disaster. But it was not only 
 or mainly the departure of an accomplished scholar and teacher that 
 those who had known Dr. Wells felt so deeply. A true man, of 
 exemplary life, of a genial and affectionate nature, and of the best 
 social qualities, he had endeared himself to all ; and thousands 
 mourned when he was gone as for a personal and dear friend. It is 
 almost needless to add that the pure Christian principle and hope 
 which governed and prompted the activities of his short but brilliant 
 life continued to soothe its declining hours, and sustained, him to the 
 last. 
 
 Reuben Dimoitd Musset was born in 1780 in Pelham, N. H., where 
 his father was a respectable phj-sician. In 1791 the family removed to 
 Amherst, N. H., and there Ecuben grew up, like many a New Eng- 
 land 3'outh, — working in summer time, studying and teaching during 
 the winter months. In 1803 he graduated at Dartmouth College, and 
 then put himself under the care of Dr. Nathan Smith. Having ob- 
 tained in 1805 his degree in medicine, he settled in a parish of Ipswich, 
 Mass., long known by its aboriginal name of Chebacco, and now called 
 Essex. After three years of practice here he went to Philadelphia, 
 where for nearly a year he made diligent use of its great medical advan- 
 tages. While there he not only listened and studied, but experimented 
 also. To test the correctness of Dr. Rush's doctrine that the human 
 skin had no absorbent property, Dr. Mussey immersed himself for 
 hours at a time in infusions of various colored substances. The result 
 proved beyond a doubt that Rush's theory was untenable. In one 
 instance Dr. Mussey lay for three hours in a strong infusion of 
 
142 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 nutgalls, and then for three hours more in a solution of copperas. 
 Strange to say, no ink appeared in the secretion. He then opened a 
 vein, and from the peculiar aspect of the blood inferred that the gallic 
 acid had found its way into the circulation. These experiments 
 attracted much notice and modified the subseciuent teachings of that 
 school on the subject of absorption. 
 
 Dr. Mussey returned to Massachusetts and settled in Salem, where 
 he soon formed a partnership with Dr. ' Daniel Oliver. His practice 
 in Salem was large and lucrative. While there he began to operate 
 successfully as a surgeon. . In 1814 he was chosen professor of physic 
 and surgery in the school at Hanover. In 1819 he was appointed to 
 the chair of anatomy and surgery. During the next nineteen sessions 
 of this medical institute he gave two lessons daily, — sometimes also 
 in , emergencies addin'g to his other labor the courses of materia 
 medica and obstetrics. Nor was this all. A course of lectur.es at 
 Middlebury (1817), four courses at Brunswick (1831-1835), and 
 two courses in Fairfield, N. Y. (1836, 1837) are to be added. In 
 1838 he accepted an invitation to become professor of surgery in the 
 Medical College of Ohio, and removed to Cincinnati. After lectur- 
 ing fourteen years in that institution he became professor of surgery 
 in the Miami Medical College in the same city. 
 
 During this whole period of duty as a public instructor, Dr. Mussey 
 has been in constant and laborious practice as a physician and surgeon. 
 His eminence in both departments is well known. As a surgeon, 
 especially, t"he fame of his skill has not been confined to his own 
 country. 
 
 "That his life for many years has been controlled by the principles 
 of an earnest and conscientious Christianity is its best testimony. 
 His attention was early roused to the necessity of a temperance reform, 
 and his agency in the movement, prominent from the first, has been 
 consistently progressive with the growth of public sentiment, — at 
 times perhaps even in advance of it. For many years he has been a 
 water drinker and a practical vegetarian, in accordance with what he 
 believed to be the true doctrine of hygiene." fHe published in 1862 
 " Health :Tts Friends and its Foes." He died in 1866. 
 
 Henry Halset Childs succeeded Dr. Smith in 1826 as lecturer on 
 the theory and practice. He also gave the course in 1835 and 1837. 
 Dr. Childs is a resident of Pittsfield, Mass., where he has long prac- 
 tised his profession. The medical school in that beautiful town owes 
 in no small measure its origin and its continued prosperity to the exer- 
 tions and the public spirit of Dr. Childs. The doctor's energies have 
 
MEDICAL PEOFESSOES. 143 
 
 not been confined within the circle of his profession. For many years 
 he was an active and distinguished politician in the Democratic ranks, 
 and at one time held the office of lieutenant-governor of Massachu- 
 setts. He still practises, still lectures, — a hale, cheerful, kindly old 
 man. His son, Dr. Childs of Pittsfleld, is a successful practitioner 
 and an able lecturer on surgery, and bids fair even more than to make 
 good his father's place. 
 
 Dk. William Perry was born in 1788 in Norton, Mass. ; grad- 
 uated from Harvard College in 1811, and studied his profession 
 under Dr. Thatcher of Pljmouth and Dr. John Warren of Boston. 
 He has been a successful practitioner in Exeter, N. H., since 1815. 
 In 1818 he married Anna GUman, daughter of Col. Nathaniel Oilman. 
 They have several children. 
 
 " Dr. Perry is regarded as a skUful practitioner, perhaps the most 
 so in this region ; not a man of much science, but a good share of 
 practical knowledge, and a highly respected citizen. He has lost one 
 son, has two living, — one practising with him, the other an editor in 
 Cincinnati ; two daughters well married, with families of children." 
 
 William Sweetser is a native of Boston, where he was born in 
 1797. He is a graduate of Harvard College, 1815. He has practised 
 his profession in Boston, in Burlington, Vt., and more recently in New 
 York. His present residence is in that still rural part of the city 
 known as Fort Washington. In 1855 Dr. Sweetser married Hannah 
 Langdon, daughter of Mr. J. A. Haven of Fort Washington. Dr. 
 Sweetser has had large experience as a medical teacher^ his chair 
 having been for the most part that of theory and practice. The Uni- 
 versity of Vermont, JeflFerson College in Philadelphia, the medical 
 school at Castleton, and that of Geneva, have had the benefit of his 
 teachings. He lectured at Brunswick in 1833 and 1834, and also from 
 1842 to 1845, when he was appointed to the professorship which he 
 still holds. 
 
 Not to mention, particularly, numerous essays and papers of a 
 medical character. Dr. Sweetser has published a work on " Consump- 
 tion and Change of Climate," one on " Indigestion," and one on 
 "Mental Hygiene." The last named, which is about passing to a 
 third edition enlarged, has been republished in Europe. 
 
 [He died in 1875.— p. J 
 
 Edmund Eaxdolph Peaslee was born in 1814 at Newtown, N. H. ; 
 graduated from Dartmouth College in 1836. He taught for one year 
 in the academy at Lebanon, N. H , and for two years in Hanover as 
 tutor of mathematics and Latin. Graduated M. D at Yale in 1840, 
 
144 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 he spent several months in the hospitals of London and Paris. In 
 1841 he gave the course on anatomy and phj'siology in the medical 
 school of Dartmouth College, and being soon after elected professor 
 of those sciences, he settled in Hanover as a practitioner. In Bruns- 
 wick his first lectures were given in 1843. In 1845 he was made 
 professor of anatomy and surgery, and so continued until 1857. He 
 now lectures on surgery only. Since 1851 Dr. Peaslee has been pro- 
 fessor of physiology and general pathology in the New York Medical 
 College. For the j^ear ending June, 1855, he was president of the 
 New Hampshire State Medical Society. In 1858 the New York Patho- 
 logical Society elected him president. The same year he delivered 
 before the New York Academy of Medicine its annual oration, an 
 elaborate and able discourse since published. For three years he was 
 one of the conductors of the American Medical Monthly. In medical 
 addresses, reports, and monographs he has done his share. In 1857 
 Dr. Peaslee gave to the public a work on " Human Histology," the 
 first complete treatise on that subject in our language. Dr. Peaslee 
 has just resigned his professorship at Brunswick, to meet the demands 
 of an increasing practice in the city of New York. It is not merely 
 as a talker on science that Dr. Peaslee is celebrated. His practical 
 skill both as a physician and surgeon is of a high order. He has a 
 wife and daughter. 
 
 [He died in 1878.— p. j 
 
 Daniel Oliver succeeded Dr. Childs in 1828 as lecturer on 
 theory and practice. Born in Marblehead, educated at Cambridge, 
 he began practice at Salem, Mass., in partnership with Dr. R. D. 
 Mussey. From 1820 to 1837 he held with high reputation the oflBce 
 of professor in the medical school at Hanover. From Hanover he 
 removed to Cambridge, Mass. Having been appointed professor in 
 the medical school of Ohio, he lectured at Cincinnati in the session of 
 1841 and 1842. He died of a cancerous affection a few months after 
 his return. 
 
 Dr. Oliver practised but little. As a medical lecturer and instructor 
 he was learned and able. " The First Lines of Phj^siology," a work 
 written by him, "is well known and highly esteemed." But his 
 studies were not confined to his profession. Such were his attain- 
 ments in intellectual philosophy that he was elected professor of that 
 science for Dartmouth College. "He was an excellent classical 
 scholar, well versed in the Greek and Latin languages and literature, 
 and particularly delighted in the perusal of Greek classic authors, 
 which he read for amusement. With French and German literature 
 he was also familiar. 
 
MEDICAL PROFESSORS. 145 
 
 He was a tnan of sensitive nature and delicate feelings. He shrunk 
 instinctivelj' from the bustle and pressure of general society, to find 
 comfort in the quiet occupations of the study or in the intimacies of 
 friendship. He was an exemplary member of the Episcopal Church, 
 iu'which his father had been a minister. 
 
 John Delamatek was born in 1787 at Chatham, N. Y., and there 
 first practised medicine and took medical pupils. In 1823 he began 
 his career as a lecturer in the Pittsfield school. In 1827 he went to 
 Fairfield, N. Y., as professor of surgery in the college there, and re- 
 mained sixteen years. Geneva had him two j'ears in the chairs of 
 pathology and materia medica. Cleveland, Ohio, made him a medical 
 professor in 1843, and he held the position for many years. Between 
 1828 and 1844 he also gave six full courses at Brunswick, four at 
 Hanover, four at Willoughby, Ohio, and one course at Burlington, Vt. 
 In addition to the subjects named above, he has lectured on the theory 
 and practice, on midwifery, and on the diseases of women and chil- 
 dren. As a lecturer his manner is simply colloquial, but his subject 
 is thoroughly studied, well arranged, and easily followed. Through 
 this long period and in all these different fields he has been regarded 
 as a good, practical surgeon and physician. In all of them, also, his 
 praise was in the churches as well as in the schools. 
 
 Dr. Delamater married Euth, daughter of Col. Joshua Angell of 
 Kinderhook, N. Y. One son, Dr. J. J. Delamater, is a professor in 
 the school at Cleveland. 
 
 Charles Alfred Lee is a grandson of Eev. Jonathan Lee, the 
 first minister of Salisbury, Conn. ; a grandson also of Capt. Jacob 
 Brown, who commanded a company in Arnold's expedition to Canada 
 and died at Quebec. In the same war his father, Samuel Lee, com- 
 manded a company of calvary. Born in 1802 in Salisbury, he grad- 
 uated at Williams in 1822. After a j'ear spent in teaching in the city 
 of New York, he studied medicine and attended the lectures at Pitts- 
 field, where he also acted as demonstrator of anatomj\ In 1826 Dr. 
 Lee opened an ofl[ice in the city of New York, and soon entered on a 
 large practice. In the northern dispensary for the sick poor, first 
 started by him and Dr. James Stewart, he was the attending phj-si- 
 cian for ten years. In 1832 he was appointed phj'sician to the Green- 
 wich Children's Hospital. Elected in 1839 professor of materia 
 medica in the University of New York, he accepted ; but owing to a 
 difficulty with the trustees the Faculty all soon after resigned. In 
 1846 Dr. Lee was appointed professor of materia medica in the medi- 
 
146 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 cal school at Geneva, N. Y., and began the same year to lecture in 
 Brunswick. Since that time he has been for the most part a public 
 teacher of medical science. In addition to the schools just named, 
 those of Buffalo, of Columbus, Ohio, of Woodstock, Vt., of Pittsfleld, 
 Mass., and of the New York University, have enjoyed the benefit of 
 his prelections. From five other colleges he has received invitations 
 which he was compelled to decline. Beside the subjects already 
 named. Prof. Lee has lectured on therapeutics, on obstetrics, and on 
 medical jurisprudence. Amid these occupations of an industrious and 
 useful life he has found time to write much for the press. He has 
 been a large contributor to the medical monthlies and quarterlies, and 
 for four years (1844-48) was editor of the New York Jouxnal of 
 Medicine. In 1836 he wrote by request the first popular work on 
 physiology. It was adapted to school purposes, and came into gen- 
 eral use throughout the country. For " Harper's Family Library " he 
 wrote a small treatise on geology, which is also well known. Among 
 the numerous works which have come out under his supervision and 
 editorship are the following: "Copland's Medical Dictionary," three 
 volumes octavo; "Pereira on Food and Diet" ; " Pharmacologia " ; 
 "Bacchus"; " Thompson's Conspectus " ; "Guy's Medical Jurispru- 
 dence." 
 
 Dr. Lee was married in 1828 to Hester A. Mildeberger of New 
 York. Of their three sons, one is a physician and one a student of 
 law. When not lecturing to the young doctors in Buffalo or Pitts- 
 fleld or Brunswick, Prof. Lee is at his pleasant home in Peekskill on 
 the Hudson. Here, in the bosom of his family, in the communion of 
 the Episcopal Church, in attention to professional calls, and in the 
 pleasing solitude of an ample library, he finds no difliculty in passing 
 away the time. 
 
 [He died in 1872.— P.J 
 
 Of Ebenezek Wells, who from 1840 to 1845 gave instruction to 
 the incipient doctors of the Bowdoin Schqpl in a very important 
 branch of their business, I am informed that " he is a highly respec- 
 table practitioner in Freeport, and has several times represented that 
 town in the Legislature." 
 
 Amos Notjkse was born in 1794 in Bolton, Mass. Dr. John Ran- 
 dall of Boston was his medical teacher; he graduated M. D. at Har- 
 vard in 1817 ; he made a voyage. to the Mediterranean as the medical 
 attendant of a sick friend. Dr. Nourse settled first in Wiscasset, and 
 soon after in HaUowell, where he was the jnedical partner of Dr. Ariel 
 
MEDICAL PEOFESSOES. 147 
 
 Mann until the latter died in 1828. In 1845, being in impaired 
 health, he removed to Bath and was for a time in the custom-house. 
 From 1846 to 1854 he was the obstetrical prelector in our medical 
 school, and from that time to 1866 was the professor in that branch. 
 Dr. Nourse occupied for a few weeks a seat in the Senate 6f the 
 United States, being elected by the Legislature to complete the unex- 
 pired term of Governor Hamlin. 
 
 His first wife, Clarissa, was a daughter of the Hon. John Chandler. 
 She died in 1834, leaving two sons and three daughters. His present 
 wife was Mrs. Lucy Clarke, a daughter of Major Melville of Boston. 
 While the places of usefulness and honor which he has held may be 
 regarded as ample attestations to the abilities and high character of 
 Dr. Nourse, I will add the following testimony from one who has known 
 him long and well : ' ' He is a gentleman of high-toned moral senti- 
 ment, of unblemished character, of quick perception, of an uncom- 
 monly clear and discriminating mind, and possesses in a superior 
 degree the faculty of imparting to others, in a lucid and forcible man- 
 ner, the convictions of his own understanding." 
 
 [He died in 1877.— P.J 
 
 William Warren Greene, professor of surgery, 1866 to 1881, 
 was a native of Waterford. He graduated M. D. at the University of 
 Michigan ; began the practice of his profession in his native town, 
 subsequently removed to Gra3' and lastly to Portland. He was pro- 
 fessor of surgery in the University of Michigan, in Long Island Col- 
 lege Hospital, New York, and at Pittsfield, Mass., with the addition 
 of materia medica before his connection with the Medical School of 
 Maine. He stood in the first rank as an operator and a lecturer. 
 He had visited England, where he was received with marked attention, 
 and on his return passage in the " Parthia" died Sept. 10, 1881, at 
 the age of fifty. The event was appropriately noticed at a meeting of 
 the physicians of the city held at their medical school on the reception 
 of the news of his death, and subsequently memorial services were 
 held in the High Street Church, Portland, where Dr. Greene was 
 an attendant, and an impressive address was delivered by the pastor, 
 Eev. W. H. Fenn. Dr. Greene was twice married. 
 
148 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 TUTORS. 
 
 Samtel Willahd, Harvard College, 1803 ; tutor, 1804 and 1805. 
 Two years later Mr. Willard was settled over the Congregational 
 parish in Deerfield, Mass., and held the olHce for twenty-two years. 
 In 1829 his sight, which had long been failing, left him entirely and 
 he resigned. After this, in spite of blindness, he taught for several 
 years at Hingham, Mass. Then he returned to Deerfleld, which was 
 ever afterwards his home. Excellent health, a Cheerful and even 
 temjier, with never-failing faith and hope and love, made him, not- 
 withstanding his one great misfortune, a truly happy man, and contrib- 
 uted undoubtedly to the prolongation of his life. He was eighty-three 
 years old when he died in 1859. ' 
 
 Nathan Parker, Harvard College, 1803; tutor 1805 to 1807. 
 In 1808 he was settled in Portsmouth, N. H., as successor to the Rev. 
 Dr. Haven. There, as a preacher and pastor excelled by few, he lived 
 and labored to the end of his days. Dr. Parker died in 1833. IJe 
 left a son, now a lawyer in Boston and eminent in his profession. 
 
 Benjamin Bcege, Harvard College, 1800 ; was tutor in 1807 and 
 1808. I remember him well as a frequent and welcome visitor at Prof. 
 Cleaveland's. He became a practitioner of medicine, and died in 1816. 
 
 Jonathan Cogswell, Harvard College, 1806 ; tutor 1807 to 1809. 
 From Brunswick he went to'Andover, and from Andover to Saco, 
 where he was the Congr'egational minister for eighteen :years. Some- 
 what later in life he occupied for a time the chair of ecclesiastical 
 history in the theological school at East Windsor, Conn. His last 
 years were spent in New Brunswick, N. J., where he died in 1864. 
 
 John White, Harvard College, 1805; tittor 1808 and 1809. He 
 was settled (1814) over the Congregational Church in West Dedham, 
 Mass., where he died in 1852. His long ministry was singulai-Iy 
 peaceful, and he is still fondlj' remembered as a man of excellent 
 common-sense, and of goodness as genuine as it was unpretending. 
 
 Andrews Norton, Harvard College, 1804 ; tutor 1809 and 1810, 
 He went back to Cambridge, and was a college tutor in 1811 and 1812. 
 He soon came prominently forward as editor of the General Beposi- 
 
TUTORS. 149 
 
 tory and Review, — assailing the prevailing doctrines of orthodoxy 
 with a degree of boldness and ability which drew much attention to 
 the work and to himself. When the divinity school was established 
 he was made professor of sacred literature, and held that position for 
 eleven 5'ears. As a teacher and writer Prof. Norton stood in the 
 foremost rank of American scholars. His published works, some of 
 which did not appear till after his death, are the enduring evidence of 
 his abilities and learning. He died in 1853. Charles Eliot Norton — 
 a name of note in our American literature — is his son. 
 
 Benjamin Tappan was bom in 1788 in Newbury, Mass. His 
 father, the Rev. David Tappan, was the professor of divinity in Har. 
 vard College from 1792 to his death in- 1803. He graduated at Har- 
 vard College in 1805. In 1809 and 1810 he was a tutor in Bowdoin 
 College, and none who then came under his instruction can have for- 
 gotten his ability and fidelity as a teacher. In 1811 he became pastor 
 of the Congregational church in Augusta, and held that important 
 position for thirty-eight 3'-ears. From 1849 until he died in 1863 h^ 
 was the secretary of the Maine Missionary Society. For more than a 
 half-century he was an active overseer of the college ; and to the end 
 of his life he ranked among the most honored and useful ministers in 
 the State. 
 
 By his wife — only daughter of Thomas L. Winthrop — he had 
 seven children. Two sons are graduates of Bowdoin College. One 
 of his daughters married the Kev. E. B. "Webb, now of Boston, and 
 another married the Rev. John O. Fiske of Bath. 
 
 Winthrop Bailet, Harvard College, 1807; tutor, 1810 and 1811. 
 Before his year of tutorship expired he was settled as pastor of the 
 Congregational church in Brunswick. Two years later he served as 
 provisional tutor for a few months. His Brunswick ministry soon 
 came to an end, and he was next settled at Pelham, Mass. From 
 this post he was dismissed on the ground of having become heretical. 
 In 1825 he began to minister to a small Unitarian societj^ in Green- 
 field, Mass. He died at Deerfield, Mass., in 1833, having been for 
 two years in charge of the academy there. Mr. Bailey had few ora- 
 torical gifts ; he was simply a plain, unimpassioned, argumentative 
 preacher. He published a small volume of sermons on the points in 
 discussion between Unitarians and Trinitarians. While in Brunswick 
 he was married to Martha, a daughter of William Stauwood, and had 
 a large family. 
 
150 HISXOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Nathaotel Whitman (Harvard College, 1809) was at Brunswick 
 in 1811 and 1812, and I remember him well as a kind college officer. 
 After twenty years of ministerial service in Billerica, Mass., he 
 preached awhile in Wilton, N. H., awhile in Calais, Me., and awhile 
 in East Bridgewater, Mass. In 1852 he became a private citizen 
 of Deerfleld, Mass. By his first wife, Sarah Hohnan, he had eight 
 children. His second wife was Miss Pollard of Bolton. He died in 
 1869. 
 
 Stephek Faies, Harvard College, 1810; tutor in 1811 and 1812. 
 From Brunswick, where all esteemed and loved him, he went to Ports- 
 mouth, N. H., as a law student in the office of Jeremiah Mason and 
 as a teacher in his family. He afterwards practised law in Dayton 
 and in Cincinnati, Ohio, with no great success. Mr. George H. Pen- 
 dleton, so well known in the political world, was at one time his pupil. 
 Mr. Fales was sixty-four years old when he died in 1854. - 
 
 David Brigham, Harvard College, 1810 ; tutor from 1812 to 1814. 
 From Fitchburg, Mass., where he practised the law for several years, 
 he removed to Madison in Wisconsin, being one of the first settlers of 
 that beautiful lake-girdled town. There in 1843 he died. 
 
 Fkedekic Southgate ; tutor, 1812 and 1813. (See class of 1810.) 
 
 Enos Mekkill; tutor, 1814-16. (See class of 1808.) 
 
 Alvan Lamson, Harvard College, 1814 ; tutor, 1814-16. He was 
 settled over the First Parish in Dedham, Mass., in 1818. There 
 with uninterrupted health for nearly forty years he labored with quiet 
 and faithful diligence. Then came illness and impaired power, com- 
 pelling him to resign in 1860. He died in 1864. " He was,'^ says 
 Dr. Peabody, " pre-eminently a scholar. Well read in the classics 
 and versed in the methods and results of Biblical criticism, he devoted 
 himself chiefly to the study of the Christian fathers and Christian 
 archaeology." He published a volume of sermons, and also a work 
 entitled " The Church of the First Three Centuries." 
 
 Henkt Eobinson, Yale College, 1811 ; tutor, 1816 and 1817. 
 After having ministered to good acceptance as a Christian pastor in 
 several parishes of his native State, he returned to Guilford, Conn., 
 the place of his birth, where he still lives, an object of universal 
 respect and love. Mr. Eobinson has been twice married, with chil- 
 dren by both wives. ' : 
 
 John Paekee Botd'Storeb. (See class of 1812.) 
 
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 Charles Briggs, Harvard College, 1815 ; tutor, 1816 and 1817. 
 He was settled in 1819 in the historic village of Lexington, where he 
 stayed sixteen years. For twelve years more he lived in Boston as 
 secretary of the American Unitarian Association. He died in 1873. 
 
 Nehemiah Cleateland; tutor, 1817-20. (See class of 1813.) 
 
 Samuel Green, Harvard College, 1817 ; tutor, 1817 to 1819. 
 He was settled (1820) over a Congregational society in Eeading, 
 Mass. In 1823 he became pastor of the Essex Street Church in 
 Boston. He died in 1834, having been for three or four years unable 
 through ill health to discharge the duties of his office. He was a man 
 of undoubted ability, and in earnestness and devotedness was sur- 
 passed by few. By his wife Louisa, daughter of Samuel Ropes, he 
 had a son and two daughters. 
 
 Joseph Huktington Johes was born in 1797 in Coventry, Conn. ; 
 was nearly related on his mother's side to a number of distinguished 
 men, and was a brother of Joel Jones, a learned Pennsylvania judge 
 and president of Girard College. He graduated in 1817 at Harvard 
 College, and went directly to Brunswick. At the end of his year, 
 in obedience to his sense of filial duty, he rejoined his parents, then 
 just settled at Wilkesbarre, Pa., and took charge of an academy 
 there. From 1825 to 1838 he was pastor of a Presbyterian society in 
 New Brunswick, N. J., and then for many years had charge of the 
 Pine Street Church in Philadelphia. For a few years before his death 
 he held a special commission by appointment of the General Assem- 
 bly. He died in 1868. 
 
 Mr. Jones was a man of good ability and accurate scholarship, but 
 of a nature rather too sensitive for his own comfort as a college officer. 
 There are some positions in which it is a great disadvantage, to be very 
 thin-skinned. As I make this brief record, it is pleasant to recall the 
 amiable, social, friendly companion of almost sixty years ago. 
 
 Fresh as he was from college life, and full of college memories, is it 
 strange that he had much to tell of a class which had upon its roll such' 
 men as George Bancroft, Caleb Cushing, Francis William "Winthrop, 
 Alva Woods, Stephen H. Tyng, Asa Cummings, John Doane Wells, 
 and last but not least, as George B. Emerson and Samuel J. May, 
 who were his dearest friends ? 
 
GEADUATBS. 
 
 1806. 
 
 Richard Cobb, following the example of his father, Matthew Cobb, 
 became a successful merchant in his native Portland. Having early 
 retired from active business, lie removed in 1825 to Boston. In 1837, 
 while on the tour of Europe with his family, he died suddenly in Lon- 
 don at the age of forty-nine. Besides a name universally respected 
 for integrity and benevolence, he left liberal bequests to several char- 
 itable and religious institutions, in which he bad long taken an active 
 interest. His wife was Elizabeth "Wood of Wiscasset. A daughter of 
 theirs married Henry J. Gardiner, once a Bowdoin undergraduate, 
 and in " Know-Nothing " times a Massachusetts governor. 
 
 Isaac Foster Coffin was a son of Dr. Nathaniel Coffin, a distin- 
 guished physician in Portland. Mr. Coffin studied law and was 
 admitted in Boston ; but falling into habits of dissipation was induced 
 to go to South America. After many years of absence he returned, 
 and soon a,fter published a small volume under the title "Residence 
 in Chili, by a Young American." After a while he became a teacher 
 in Mr. Greene's school at Jamaica Plains in Roxbury. A few years 
 since Mr. Coffin married Anne, daughter of Capt. John Prince of Rox- 
 bury. They have no children. He died in 1861. 
 
 John Davis was a protege of Mr. Israel Thorndike, a man of ami- 
 able temper and good abilities, who had made himself a skilful 
 mechanic before he went to college, and who subsequently returned 
 to handicraft. Though his patron meant well, the change was unfor- 
 tunate for poor Davis, and it had been probably better far for him 
 had he never left his workshop in Beverly. He was sixty-two years 
 
 old when he died in 1841. 
 
 * 
 
 John Maurice O'Brien was a son of Capt. John O'Brien. His 
 grandfather, Morris O'Brien, came in 1740 from Cork in Ireland, 
 and settled as a tailor in Scarboro'. Twent^'-flve years later he re- 
 moved to Maehias, and in the war which soon came on his sons were 
 conspicuous for their patriotism and bravery. John M. O'Brien was 
 born in Newburjport, where his law studies were pursued and where 
 he practised awhile with good reputation for ability as an advocate. 
 He then came with the family to Brunswick, where he has ever since 
 
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 lived. His life has been a verj^ quiet one. He soon got out of the 
 law, and he never got into politics. His favorite reading is among 
 the deep writers on theology. His ecclesiastical relations are with the 
 Baptists. It is said that he has condensed the results of his observa- 
 tions and his meditations into a small volume of aphoristic maxims. 
 This work, though long expected from the Brunswick press, is still in 
 manuscript. Mr. O'Brien has recently found a companion for his age, 
 and they have two children. 
 
 [Mr. O'Brien died in 1865, in his eightieth year. — p. J 
 
 Moses Quinbt died May 6, 1857, at the age of seventy-one. After 
 studying law with Mr. Longfellow he practised awhile, not without 
 success. Then for some years he fell into habits of ruinous indul- 
 gence ; but he threw oflf the chains, became a practical, earnest farmer 
 in "Westbrook, and a man of exemplary life. Thenceforth he was the 
 ardent advocate of every good cause. All who knew him respected 
 him for his high integrity, and honored him for his benevolence. He 
 left a widow (daughter of Hon. Andrew Titcomb), two sons and 
 three daughters. 
 
 Of Bowdoin graduates, George Thorndike's name was the first to 
 wear the fatal star. His father was the wealthy and well-known Israel 
 Thorndike of Beverly' and Boston. George died in St. Petersburg, 
 Russia, four years after he graduated. His name and memory are 
 stiU preserved at Brunswick in the tree which he planted. The 
 "Thorndike Oak" stands on a central spot in the college grounds. 
 The auspicious acorn from whiclf it sprang was accidentally picked 
 up hy George Thorndike and placed in the earth, on the first day of 
 the first college term, as the little company came out from evening 
 praj'ers. Long together may the tree and its coeval live and flourish ! 
 
 Benjamin Titcomb was a sou of the Rev. Benjamin Titcomb, a 
 Baptist clergyman in Brunswick, whom every student of the j^^llege 
 in its first half-century must remember. Having graduated with 
 honor, Titcomb studied the law, but did not practise it. After a few 
 wasted years he became a preacher, served faithfully the Baptist church 
 in Freeport, and died unmarried in 1829. 
 
 1807. 
 
 Charles Stewart Daveis was born in 1788 in Portland. His 
 father was an officer of the Revolution and a member of the Society 
 of the Cincinnati. Of the New England branch of this society the 
 
154 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 son was at one time president. Mr. Daveis graduated with good repu- 
 tation as an elegant scholar and writer.* While studying law with 
 Mr. Nicholas Emery he found time to indulge his literary tastes. To 
 this fact the periodicals of the day bore creditable testimony. I well 
 remember the boyish wonder with which I perused one or two num- 
 bers of the Abracadabra, a sort of northern Salmagundi, which was 
 ascribed to .his pen. In 1808 he delivered in the college chapel the 
 first public address before the Peucinian Society, of which he had 
 been the virtual founder. In those silver tones — then first heard by 
 me — now so familiar to every Bowdoin student, he thus began : " In 
 the evening the Athenian exiles used to sing "lafisv s4" AOrnixt?. Let 
 us, my friends, return to Athens this evening, though separated from 
 it by two great seas and two thousand years." The Monthly An- 
 thology, then conducted by such scholars as Kirkland and Buckmin- 
 ster, soon after published this discourse of Mr. Daveis on the " Liter- 
 ature of Greece," with a preliminary compliment which made the 
 young college feel proud indeed. 
 
 These recreations, pleasing as they were to himself and to others, 
 did not withdraw him from the severer toils to which he had devoted 
 his life. " He pursued the study of the law in its principles and its 
 details to the highest sources, and his untiring devotion to the learn- 
 ing of the profession and his acquisitions in it placed him in the fore- 
 most rank with the learned men who filled the judicial seats^ or were 
 struggling at the forum." Especially was his attention given to 
 admiralty law, in which department he had perhaps no equal. Mr. 
 Daveis was for a short time a member of the State Senate. Gov. 
 Lincoln appointed him agent for the State in the important matter of 
 the United States boundary. President Jackson afterwards sent him 
 to the Hague as a special agent in the same business, while the ques- 
 tion was before the king of Holland. He was gone about a year. 
 He was early made an overseer, and for nearly thirty years was a 
 prominent and active member of the trustees. During this long 
 
 * I have copied from an original in the possession of Prof. Cleaveland the order of 
 exercises for the second Bowdoin Commencement. In those days men were com- 
 pelled to spread themselves : — 
 
 "Commencement. Bowdoin College. Sept. 2, 1807. Tpmei^a^os 'Epjiijs. Order of 
 Exercises : I. Salutatory. Latin oration, by Seth Storer. IL English oration : On 
 the Progress and Influence of Literature. By Eobert Means. III. Tradition : A 
 Poem. By C. S. Daveis. IV. Forensic : Whether the Light of Nature without the 
 Aid of Revelation be Sufficient Evidence of the Immortality of the Soiil. By R. 
 Means and Seth Storer. V. Oration : On the Infirmity of Theory. Valedictory, by 
 Charles Stewart Daveis.'' 
 
GRADUATES. 155 
 
 period the course of events in regard to the college and the action of 
 his colleagues was not always such as he could approve, nor did he 
 ever fail to protest against measures which he regarded as prejudicial 
 to the institution. For several years before his death he suffered from 
 bodily infirmity. His voice ceased to be heard, but the best efforts 
 of his mind and pen were still at the command of that Alma Mater 
 to whom he had ever shown so steadfast an affection. Mr. Daveis 
 died in 1865 at the age of seventy-seven. 
 
 Mr. Daveis was married in 181^ to Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of 
 Governor Nicholas Gilman of Exeter, N. H. They have four chil- 
 ^dren: Gilman Da,veis, M. D. (Bowdoin College, 1837), a practitioner 
 in Portland ; he is married and has two children, a third having died 
 in infancy. (He died in 1873.) , Edward Henry Daveis (Bowdoin 
 College, 1838), practised law for some years, and then became presi- 
 dent of the Portland Company of Engine Builders, etc., and Gas 
 Company in Portland ; he has a wife and two children. Mary C. 
 Daveis, married Rev. David G. Haskins ; they have three children 
 and live in Cambridge, Mass. Anna T. Daveis, wife of Charles 
 Jones, has one child; they live in Portland. 
 
 Robert Means was a son of Robert Means of Amherst, N. H. 
 He practised law for a while in bis native town. During the last 
 years of his life he was superintendent of the Suffolk Mills in Lowell. 
 He died suddenly in 1842 at the age of fifty-six. He was a man of 
 genial aspect, manners, and temper, beloved by many, respected by 
 aU., Mr. Means was one of the eight founders of the Peucinian Soci- 
 ety. His first wife, a daughter of Governor Dinsmore of Keene, died 
 young. He afterwards married Abby, a daughter of Amos Kent of 
 Chester, N. H. She survived him fifteen years. 
 
 Seth Stoeee was born in 1787 in Saco, and is now the oldest grad- 
 uate of the college. He fitted for college at Exeter, N. H., under Dr. 
 Abbot. Having studied with his brother-in-law, Hon. Cyrus King, 
 he practised law in Saco until 1821, at which time he removed to 
 Scarboro' and settled down as a farmer. He has been commis- 
 sioner for the county, president of its agricultural society, an oflBcer 
 in the church, and superintendent of the Sabbath school ; in a word, 
 he has been useful and respected. Mrs." Storer, a lady of literary 
 tastes, was Sarah, daughter of Hon. Daniel Gookin of New Hamp- 
 ton, N. H. They were married in 1812, and have two sons. The 
 elder, Henry Gookin, graduated at Bowdoin College in 1832, theirs* 
 grandson of Bowdoin. He is a graduate of the Bangor Theological 
 
156 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 School. During intervals of comparative health he has supplied pul- 
 pits in Maine and in New Brunswick usefully and acceptably. He 
 was at one time an overseer of the college. The other son, Frederic 
 T., medical graduate of Bowdoin College in 1840, has practised med- 
 icine, was for four years the postmaster of Saco, and since 1863 has 
 held a position, in the custojn-house, Boston. Mr. Storer died at 
 Scarboro', March, 1876, aged eighty-nine. 
 
 1808. 
 
 Alfred Johns6!n was born in Newburyport, Mass. His father. Rev. 
 Alfred Johnson, removed to Freeport, and while living there took an 
 active part in the founding of Bowdoin College. In 1805 he became 
 an inhabitant of Belfast, and to this place the son returned after com- 
 pleting with honor his college course. He became a lawyer and 
 practised ably. He was a member of the Legislature before the 
 ' ' separation," of the convention which framed the State Constitution, 
 and subsequently of the Legislature. In 1820 he was made judge 
 of probate, and so continued for eighteen years. From public life, 
 where he played well his part, we follow him with pleasure to his retire- 
 ment. This with him was no scene of rusty or luxurious repose. All 
 who knew Judge Johnson speak of him as a student of rare assiduity. 
 He read much, and nothing that was worth retaining ever seemed to 
 escape from him. And better still, while his vast and various learn- 
 ing was always completely at command, he was ever most ready to 
 impart its wealth to others, and especially to the young. This made 
 his society equally instructive and delightful. As overseer and after- 
 wards trustee of the college whose feeble beginning he had witnessed, 
 he preserved to the last an active interest in its welfare. His 'death, 
 which was sudden, occurred just before the semicentennial celebration, 
 1852. Judge Johnson married Nancy, daughter of Amos and Anna 
 Atkinson, Newbury, Mass. They had four sons and three daughters, 
 of whom two sons and two daughters are living. Alfred W. graduated 
 at Bowdoin College in 1845 and died in 18©9. 
 
 Ends Merril was born in 1786 in Falmouth. He had been trained 
 at Andover, and had begun to preach when in 1814 he was made a 
 tutor. After two years of acceptable service in that capacity he be- 
 came the Congregational minister of Freeport, where he stayed thir- 
 teen years. Then for nine years he preached at Alna. Mechanicsville 
 had him as pastor for nine years more. His closing years were spent 
 in Orford, N. H. His work as a minister was often interrupted by 
 
[i^„._j\ iL r m E 'm::^:m:m kisid) m ; 
 
GRADUATES. 157 
 
 ill health, but this did not prevent him from leaving behind Mm the 
 record of a long and useful life. He died in 1 861. 
 
 John Patten was a Topsham boy, born in 1875. After graduation 
 he studied theology a little, and then for five years taught school in 
 North Carolina. From 1824 he lived in Bowdoinham : first as a 
 trader, afterwards as a farmer. At the time of his death in 1866 no 
 other graduate of the college had attained to so great an age. 
 
 Joseph Sprague was a Topsham man. From college he went into 
 the law office of the celebrated Benjamin Orr. He settled in Thomas- 
 ton, where he practised his profession for more than a dozen years, and 
 died in 1826, "leaving a fair reputation as a man, a lawyer, and a 
 Christian." Mr. Sprague left children. His widow, originally Mis^ 
 Marsh, married again. 
 
 David Stanwood was bom in Brunswick, where his father, Col. 
 Stanwood, was a prominent citizen. He opened a law office in his 
 native town ; there lived, and there died in 1834. He married Miss 
 Lee, who with five sons and three daughters survived him. 
 
 "W1L1.1AM A. Thompson was born in 1787, son of Eev. John Thomp- 
 son of Berwick. He was educated for the ministry at Andover. He 
 preached awhile, but declined a stated charge on account of feeble 
 health. For a number of years he was principal of the Berwick Acad- 
 emy. Then he went upon a farm. To the close of life (1835) he 
 preached occasionally. "He possessed respectable talents, had an 
 amiable disposition, and was mach respected and beloved by his 
 numerous friends." 
 
 1809. 
 
 LiTHGOw Hunter was born in 1787 in Topsham. Lithgow studied 
 law, opened an office in Union, and waited three months for a client. 
 Being disappointed in this matter, he went back to his paternal acres. 
 At the mature age of sixt^' he married, and when he died, fifteen years 
 later, left several children. 
 
 Nathan Lord was a son of John Lord, a prominent citizen of Ber- 
 wick. He was but seventeen years old when he graduated, after a 
 college course distinguished by good scholarship and great vivacit}'. 
 He went at first to Exeter as an instructor in Phillips Academy. 
 Then for a year he studied at Bath under the direction of the Eev. 
 Dr. Jenks. He completed in 1815 the three-years' course at Andover, 
 
158 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEOB. 
 
 and was soon settled over the Congregational society in Amherst, 
 N. H. His ministry there of twelve years was marked by a constant 
 advance in power and usefulness. In 1828 he was chosen president of 
 Dartmouth College. The condition of that institution at that time 
 was far from being prosperous. Its students were few, its fund was 
 small, and all its accommodations were poor and mean. Under the 
 vigorous administration of the new president it improved rapidly, and 
 long before that administration closed it ranked among the most suc- 
 cessful of the New England colleges. 
 
 With great ability, very decided opinions, and a very firm will, he 
 combined a conscientious sense of duty and warm benevolence. As a 
 college president few have surpassed him. In some of his views ; — 
 theological and ethical — he differed from the majority of the ortho- 
 dox community. His firm belief in Christ's premillennial advent — 
 while it certainly modified his estimate of the present condition and 
 future prospects of mankind — could at worst be regarded as only a 
 harmless delusion. His confident assertion of the divine origin and 
 perfect lawfulness of slavery was a more serious affair, and as the agi- 
 tation of that question became intense, brought upon him — and as 
 many believed, on the college also — no small amount of odium. Under 
 this pressure of public opinion he felt it to be his duty to resign, and 
 in 1863 he retired from the office which he had so long adorned. 
 Until he died in 1870 he continued to live in Hanover, an object of 
 affectionate regard and respectful veneration. 
 
 Dr. Lord was happy in his domestic relations. His wife, Elizabeth 
 K. Leland, died a few months before him. Of their sons, several 
 have long been men of distinction, and their two daughters are well 
 connected. . 
 
 John Musset was born in Portland in 1790. John Mussey, his 
 father, had been an enterprising ship-master and became a wealthy 
 merchant. Mr. Mussey has been prospered, and ranks among the 
 rich men of Portland where he has alwaj's lived. He married a 
 widowed lady, Mrs. Rand, whose son, John R., is a graduate of 
 Bowdoin College (1831). They have had two sons, John Fitz Henry 
 and Edward, and two daughters. Harriet T. married a son of Judge 
 Preble, Margaret is the wife of Hon. Lorenzo DeM. Sweat. 
 
 Benjamin Randall was born in 1788 in Topsham. Having studied 
 law with Benjamin Hasey,.he settled in Bath. He became learned in the 
 law, and though not distinguished by eloquence or force, stood well at 
 the bar, where he was always courteous and dispassionate. His attain- 
 
GRADUATES. 159 
 
 ments as a scholar were not confined to the field of his profession. He 
 engaged to some extent in political life. In 1833 he was a member 
 of the State Senate. In 1838 he represented his district in Congress. 
 By Gen. Taylor's administration he was made collector of Bath. His 
 connection with the college was long and close. He was at his death 
 one of the oldest members of the overseers. He was one of the eight 
 founders of the Peucinian Society, and an active member for many 
 years. Mr. Randall, after several months of suffering from paralysis, 
 died in 1857. He was twice married : first to Miss Jones, who died 
 without children; secondly to Sarah "Whitman of Boston, who had 
 eight children. 
 
 "William Richaedson was born in Boston in 1788. He practised 
 medicine from 1813 to 1817 in Slatersville, R. I., and then for twenty 
 years at Portsmouth in the same State. In 1838 he settled as doctor 
 and farmer in Johnston, a town five miles west from Providences His 
 first wife, Mary Almy, died in 1825. The second wife, Jane Lawton, 
 outlived him. There were seven children of the first marriage, and 
 five of the second. Dr. Richardson died in 1864. 
 
 1810. 
 
 A sketch of this class embracing the personal history of each mem- 
 ber, drawn up by their Commencement valedictorian, the Rev. Robert 
 Page of Lempster, N. H., was read at the meeting of the survivors 
 in Brunswick, August, 1852, and has since been printed. It was pre- 
 pared by request of the Committee of Arrangements for the semi- 
 centennial celebration. It is much to bef^-egretted that Mr. Page's 
 valuable memoir is almost the sole fruit of this laudable effort to col- 
 lect and preserve a history of the alumni. 
 
 John Emery Abbot, a son of Dr. Benjamin Abbot of Exeter, N. H., 
 died in 1819. In college he was modest, amiable, and scholarly. His 
 theological studies were pursued partly at Cambridge and partly with 
 the illustrious Channing. In 1815 he succeeded Dr. Barnard as pastor 
 of the North Church in Salem, Mass. Here he made himself greatly 
 beloved. But close application and anxious care soon impaired a 
 frame which had always been delicate. Travel and voyaging were 
 tried in vain. He returned to Exeter and died in 1819 at his father's 
 in holy peace. A volume of his sermons was published with; a memoir 
 by his friend, Henry "Ware. To this just and beautiful sketch of a 
 charming and good man we must refer those who would know more of 
 John Emery Abbot. 
 
160 HISTORY or BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 George William Boyd was born in 1791 in Portsmouth, N. H. ; 
 fitted at Exeter; in college preferred belles-lettres to science, and 
 gave a poem when he graduated. Soon after he went abroad, and 
 spent a year in St. Petersburg at the time when Eussia and all Europe 
 were convulsed with war. Touched by the military contagion, he 
 returned in the midst of our difficulty with England, and in the spring 
 of 1813 entered the army as lieutenant of infantry. He soon became 
 aide-de-camp to Gen. Thomas A. Smith, and served on the northern 
 frontier at the time when the pompous ineificiency of Wilkinson was 
 bringing ridicule on himself and on the American cause. In those ill- 
 managed campaigns our colonel had hardly a chance either to win 
 promotion or die gloriously for his country. Yet he was constantly 
 occupied, and became acquainted with hardship. That his conduct 
 was approved appeared at the close of the war, when he was retained 
 in the service as assistant adjutant-general of ■ the eighth military 
 department. 
 
 In 1817 he retired from the army to engage in commerce. ' Still 
 later he edited a paper in New Orleans, and entered zealously into 
 the politics of the day. In 1831 he married Miriam F. Guerlain, the 
 widow of a Parisian banker. She died in 1839. As he had now 
 retired from business and had no family, he left New Orleans and 
 became thenceforward a cosmopolite, — living here or there, as whim 
 or convenience dictated. Col. Boyd is a cheerful valetudinarian, of 
 philosophic temperament and kindly disposition. He has an adopted 
 son who bears his nanie, and who lives in Mobile, Ala. 
 
 Such our brief sketch of the living man ! Let it stand. The kind- 
 hearted colonel died in Po|^and in 1859, bequeathing to the college 
 his whole property (more than $10,000), burdened only with a small 
 annuity to an infirm old lady. This gift,, to be called the " Boyd fund," 
 he leaves to the college to be applied at its own discretion. Col. Boyd 
 is the first of our alumni who has thus remembered in death his foster 
 mother. His bright example will not be lost. His honored name^ 
 will assuredly stand at the head of a long ling of benefactors. 
 
 William Clark was born in 1788 in Hallowell, and there he settled 
 as a lawyer. For a good many years he was active and successful in 
 his profession, and discharged with faithful ability various public 
 trusts. In consequence of a harassing disease which destroyed his 
 comfort and impaired his energies, he gradually withdrew from the 
 activities of life, and spent in seclusion all his declining years. Sor- 
 row for his wife, who died in. 1836, increased his disinclination to 
 mingle with the busy world around him. But while he withdrew from. 
 
GRADUATES. 161 
 
 its business, its pleasures, and its converse, liis mind became more 
 active than ever before. He found a keen delight in studying and 
 sometimes in discussing abstruse points of law. He studied chemistry 
 and made experiments. Geology, mathematics, natural philosophy," 
 theology even, gave constant and varied occupation to his inquiring 
 intellect. Competent judges well acquainted with Mr. Clark regarded 
 him as a man of great mental acumen and of immense learning. He 
 seems to have lacked nothing but a sound physical organization to 
 make him one of the most distinguished of our alumni. He died in 
 1855. He left a son, William Henry (Bowdoin College, 1837), and 
 three daughters. 
 
 Edwakd Henky Cobb, Southgate's intimate, and congenial friend, 
 survived him but a few years. He was the only brother of Eichard, 
 already named, and like him devoted himself to a mercantile life. 
 His admirable qualities of mind and temper, and above all his con- 
 sistent piety and exemplary life inspired the hope that his would be a 
 long and beneficent career. Alas ! the same fatal malady which has 
 sent so many of our countrymen to die within the tropics, carried Wm 
 to Cuba and, left him there. He was twenty-six yearfe old. His 
 widow, a daughter of the great lexicographer Noah Webster, subse- 
 quently married Prof. Tyler of Amherst CoUege. 
 
 Jeeemiah Fellows was a native of Exeter, N. H. In college he 
 cultivated literature more than science, and showed a strong propen- 
 sity for rhyming. He was in fact the poet of his class. Some time 
 after he left college he put forth a small volume of verses. He opened 
 a law oflBce in Exeter, but did little or no business. " At length he 
 lost the balance and power of his mind," and for the rest of his life 
 was an inmate of the State Asylum for the insane. He died in 1865, 
 in his seventy-fifth year. 
 
 Benjamin Lincoln Leak came from another college, and entered 
 just in season to receive his degree. His father, Tobias Lear, was the 
 private and trusted secretary of Washington during the last years of 
 his life, and as such his name can never be forgotten. Subsequently 
 he was United States agent in the Barbary States, where he figured to 
 less advantage. The son, a young man of good appearance and 
 address, after a visit to Spain and Northern Africa, settled as a lawyer 
 in Washington, D. C, and had already secured a good practice when 
 he was suddenly cut off by disease in 1832. 
 
162 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Arthuk McAethdk was born in 1790. If his college course was 
 of doubtful -promise, his subsequent career has made all right. In 
 1817 he began to practise law in Limington,his native town, and for 
 more than half a century he has been an active and respectable mem- 
 ber of the bar. By his wife, Sarah, daughter of Rev. "William Milti- 
 more, he has had sLsf children. Two of his sons are graduates of 
 Bowdoin. He died in Limington, 1874, having nearly completed the 
 eightj'-flfth year of his life. 
 
 RoBEET Page was born in 1790 in Readfield. In a class of good 
 scholars he received the first honor, and his right was not disputed. 
 He taught awhile the academy in North Andover, Mass. Then in 
 South Andover he studied theology. Among the places in which he 
 has been a settled minister are Hanover and Lempster, N. H. In 
 Hanover the officers and students of the college belonged to his con- 
 gregation. He is now laboring in Farmington, Ohio. His ministry 
 has not been without valuable fruits. If he has not in all respects 
 fulfilled the high promise of his youth, we cannot better account for 
 the fact, than by using his own words in reference to another : " Self- 
 distrust, somehow produced, was an obstacle in the way of his prog- 
 ress." He married Olivia Adams of New Ipswich, N. H. They 
 have five daughters and two sons. He died in West Farmington, 
 Ohio, in 1876, in bis eighty-sixth year. 
 
 Henbt Smith was from Durham, N. H. In college he was the 
 room-mate of the gentle Abbot. Unlike in some things, both were 
 models of industry and integrity. For two years after graduation 
 Mr. Smith taught in the Portsmouth Academy. Here he enjoj'ed the 
 ministrations and counsel of the venerable Buckminster, and was his 
 privileged companion during the journey on which that good man 
 died After three years at Andover he became a successful mission- 
 ary in Western New York. In 1817 he was settled over a Presby- 
 terian society in Camden, Oneida County, where his labors were 
 greatly prospered. During the eleven years of his ministry in Cam- 
 den his admirable talents were in almost constant request elsewhere. 
 Manj^ invitations he felt compelled to decline ; but hfe sometimes 
 yielded, with the consent of his people. The theological school at 
 Auburn, then just struggling into life, was largely benefited by the 
 funds which he raised for it. In 1826, at the request of the Piscataqua 
 Association, he visited his native place and the towns adjacent, and 
 devoted six months of earnest and successful labor to the revival and 
 advancement of the great cause on which his heart was set. In July, 
 
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 REV, HEISIRY SMITH. 
 
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GRADUATES. 163 
 
 1828, his useful life was suddenly terminated by a fever. Though not 
 brilliantly endowed, Mr. Smith was certainly a man of more than 
 common power. Nor is it difRcult to see in what that power con- 
 sisted. He was evidently sincere ; his fidelity and earnestness were of 
 the gentle, affectionate, yet persistent sort ; his piety was elevated 
 and his whole character uniformly consistent. Mr. Smith married 
 (1819) Hannah J., eldest daughter of Hon. George Huntington of 
 Rome, N. Y. - A daughter and son survive. The latter, Henry S. 
 Huntington, who at his father's death was only two months old, is a 
 graduate of the college and the seminary at Princeton, N. J. 
 
 • 
 This class soon lost several of its best men. Frederic Socthgate 
 was first removed. His father. Dr. Robert Southgate, came from 
 Leicester, Mass., to Scarboro' on horseback, with all his pi'operty 
 in his saddle-bags. He was an able man ; became an extensive, enthu- 
 siastic, and wealthy farmer, a useful magistrate, and a judge of the 
 Common Pleas. Of his twelve children but one outlived him. He 
 died in 1832 at the age of ninety-two. Frederic's mother was Mary, 
 daughter of Richard King and Isabella Bragdon, sister to Rufus King 
 of New York, and half-sister to William and Cj'rus King of Maine. 
 Frederic, born in 1791, the flower and hope of this large family, went 
 through college with honor, and began in Portland the study of law. 
 His fine personal qualities, his talents and generous ambition awa- 
 kened high expectations, and betokened a bright career. But the 
 preaching of Edward Payson, then in his full strength, arrested the 
 young man's attention. A new motive took possession of his ardent 
 spirit. All secular pursuits became in his estimation comparatively 
 insignificant, and he resolved to devote himself to the preaching of 
 that gospel which had filled his own soul with such a fiood of light 
 and love. The sinceritj' of the change, the honesty of his convictions 
 and purposes none could doubt, formed as they were, and persevered 
 in, amidst much opposition from those who were nearest and dearest 
 to him. While engaged in theological studies- under the direction of 
 Mr. Payson he was appointed to a tutorship in the college. He was 
 respected bj;^ the students as a faithful college officer, and venerated, 
 youth though he was, for his deep, earnest piety. Such talent so 
 early sanctified seemed to justify high hopes of future usefulness. 
 But these also were doomed to disappointment. Compelled by 
 failing strength to abandon his duties, he went home, sank under a 
 rapid consumption, and died in Christian peace at the age of twenty- 
 two. 
 
164 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 James Weston was born in Augusta, Nov. 9, 1791 ; brother of 
 Judge Nathan Weston. He studied theology and began to preach, 
 but before entering the pastoral relation he was employed as a teacher, 
 principally in his native town. He supplied the pulpit in Litchfield a 
 year or two, and was then in 1824 settled over the Congregational 
 church in Lebanon, where he remained thirteen years of a successful 
 ministry. His last years were spent with his children in Standish, 
 himself having retired from active duty; His classmate Page, in his 
 sketch of his class, testifies that "he had superior native talent, was 
 energetic, if not even vehement." He died suddenly, January, 1870, 
 leaving the record of a humble Christian, 9,nd eminently an excellent, 
 noble-hearted man. 
 
 John Wise. What college contemporary does not remember his 
 room, its chimney-piece garnished with a hundred tobacco pipes, the 
 odorous vapors which usually surrounded the occupant, and the loud 
 contagious laugh which so often broke from the cloud ? This good- 
 humored fellow became a physician, and practised first as a surgeon 
 in privateering vessels. He was twice made prisoner, and in th6 
 second instance was carried to India. After the war he established 
 himself in professional business at Sherburne, Mass. He died in 
 1829 at the age of forty, his last years having been sadly darkened 
 by the loss of sight and intellect. 
 
 1811. 
 
 Cornelius Dennison was engaged in cutting out and making up 
 clothes for the good people of Freeport, when the sudden rise of a 
 college in the neighborhood awoke his ambition to shine in a different 
 sphere. He was, of course, mature in years when he first appeared on 
 the academic stage . The uniform dignity or rather solemnity of his 
 look and manner, his feats in geometry, his graceful dalliance with 
 the Muses, his amiable weaknesses and amatory effusions, and his 
 invincible love of Latin quotations, can never be forgotten by those who, 
 had the honor of being in the same institution with him. 
 
 He read law one year with Mr. Mitchell of Freeport. Then he went 
 to the South and became a teacher. A few years later we find him 
 in Brookville, Ind., trying to turn his law studies to some account. 
 Failing in this, he went to Virginia, and once more became a peda- 
 gogue. In 1835 he removed with a colony of his friends to the State of 
 Illinois. The farm which he bought is on the Illinois River, opposite 
 Beardstown. Here he spent the remaining ten years of his solitary 
 
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 life. His small property was divided among twelve surviving brothers 
 and sisters. 
 
 John Barton Deebt, born in 1793, was the eldest son of John 
 Derby, a Salem merchant. In college he was musical, poetical, and 
 wild. He studied law in Northampton, Mass., and settled as a lawyer 
 in Dedham. His first wife was a. Miss Barrell of Northampton. After 
 her death he married a daughter of Horatio Townsend. They soon 
 separated. A son by this "marriage, Lieut. George Derby of the 
 United States army, became well known as a humorous writer under 
 the signature of " John Phoenix." For many years before his death 
 Mr. Derby lived in Bogton. At one time he held a subordinate office 
 in the custom-house. Then he became a familiar object in State. 
 Street, gaining a precarious living by the sale of razors and other 
 small wares. He was now strictly temperate, and having but little 
 else to do, often found amusement and solace in those rhyming habits 
 which he had formed in earlier and brighter years. His Sundays were 
 religiously spent — so at least he told me — in the composition of 
 hj'mns. The sad life which began so gayly came to a close in 1867. 
 
 JosiAH Little was born in 1791 in Newbury. His energetic father, 
 Col. Josiah Little, was a large landed proprietor, well known in Maine 
 at the beginning of this centurj'^. His grandfather was a noble patriot of 
 the Revolution, and commanded a regiment in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
 After he graduated Mr. Little studied law, but did not go to the bar. 
 In 1813 he settled in Newbury, Vt., where he engaged in land busi- 
 ness and looked after a farm. A few j^ears later he returned to his 
 native Belleville, which has since been his home. He has been a mem- 
 ber of the Legislature, and was for several years an overseer of Bow- 
 doin College. There are more active and more noisy, but there are 
 few better citizens than Mr. Little.' The town of Newburj^port has 
 experienced his judicious liberality, nor has his Alma Mater been 
 forgotten. His wife was a daughter of the Eev. Mr. Miltimore. They 
 have no children. He died in 1860. 
 
 John McKeen was born in Beverly, Mass., in 1789. He was a 
 resident graduate for two years. In 1813 he entered the Andover 
 Seminary. Ill health soon compelled him to leave, and he returned 
 to Brunswick, which was ever afterwards his home. For a good many 
 years he kept a small "store," well known to all college men and 
 boys. Subsequently he engaged in a business of a more general 
 character, and became a successful administrator and agent. For a 
 
166 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 long period he served as town clerk, and for many years he was sec- 
 retary of the Board of Overseers. In 1838 he was county commrs- 
 sioner for Cumbeiiand. He was postmaster in Brunswick for about 
 four years. He was fond of antiquarian research, took great interest 
 in the Maine Historical Society, and made valuable contributions to 
 its published volumes. 
 
 Proceeding with characteristic deliberation, Mr. McKeen, in 1821, 
 married Frances, daughter of Eichard Toppan, Esq., of Brunswick. 
 Their only child, a daughter, still lives with her mother. 
 
 For half a century, Mr. McKeen, in the minds of Bowdoin grad- 
 uates, especially those of the earlier classes, was in a sense identified 
 with Brunswick and the college. He knew them all, remembered 
 them all. Did they revisit their Alma Mater, he was ever first on the 
 ground to recognize and greet and welcome them. To many of us 
 his absence from the scene in which he so long had a prominent part 
 has caused a void never to be filled. His death occurred in 1861. 
 
 John Merrill, born in 1793, was the son of a leading shipbuilder, 
 Orlando B. Merrill of Newbury, Mass., where he died at the age of 
 ninety-two. Soon after his graduation John engaged in trade. Hav- 
 ing a talent for public business, he was much employed in town affairs ; 
 served as a representative and senator in the State Legislature, and 
 was a member of the governor's council. He was two or three times 
 a candidate for Congress. After 1841 he lived in New Jersey, in 
 Baltimore, in Newbury, and finally in Brooklyn, N. Y. He died in 
 1861. 
 
 In 1814 he married Elizabeth Dodge. Of three sons, Robert D. is 
 United States consul at Sydney in Australia ; Merrill A. and GeSrge 
 are merchants in New York. 
 
 Asa Redington was born in 1789. His father, Asa Redington of 
 Vassalboro', an energetic man, who died in his eighty-fourth year, 
 had been one of Washington's guard, and was with him at the sur- 
 render of Yorktown. He had also an uncle, Samuel Redington, who 
 was for years a conspicuous member and debater of the Massachu- 
 setts Legislature. He entered college near the close of the second 
 year, and stood there at once fmle princeps. He was reserved in his 
 manners, strong of muscle, and quick in temper ; a man, in short, not 
 to be trifled with. After graduation he took charge of Gorham Acad- 
 emy, establishing a strictness of discipline previously unknown there, 
 and seldom equalled in educational annals. After a year or two he 
 went to Waterville and became cashier of the bank, studying law in 
 
GEADUATES. 167 
 
 the intervals of duty, and likewise fitting lads for college. He soon 
 found ample employment as a lawyer. It was not Often that he ar- 
 gued a case, though he did it well whenever he attempted it. After a 
 while he took Randolph Codman for a partner, giving him generally 
 the talking part, and the rather as Codman was not unwilling. Mr. 
 Redington moved after a while to Augusta, and was soon appointed a 
 judge of the Common Pleas, a seat which he filled with great ability. 
 His eminent qualifications, universally acknowledged, entitled him to 
 expect a place on the Supreme Bench at the first occurrence of a 
 vacancy ; but the executive power decided otherwise. For several 
 3'ears he held the office of reporter in the courts. In the strife of 
 politics he does not appear to have mingled. For several years he 
 acted as a member of the overseers, but for a good while past he has 
 shown no apparent interest in the college. Mr. Redington is a con- 
 stant and devout worshipper among the Orthodox Congregationalists. 
 His first wife was Caroline, daughter of Elnathan Sherman of Water- 
 ville. Their only child married Isaac Reed, and died leaving a little 
 boy. His present wife was the widow of Mr. Samuel Longfellow of 
 Gorham, and her daughter by the former marriage is the wife of Rev. 
 Mr. Balkam of Lewiston. 
 [He died in 1874. —P.J 
 
 1812. 
 
 John Parker Boyd is the only survivor of his class. His father, 
 Robert Boj-d, was a man of wealth and influence in Portland. The 
 son studied law, and opened an office in his native town, where he has 
 ever since resided. Easy in disposition and in circumstances, he has 
 kept " the noiseless tenor of his way " at a safe distance from the 
 heated arenas of litigation and of polities. For many years he re- 
 mained a dignified and impregnable celibate. At length he surren- 
 dered to Mrs. Head, widow of Mr. James Head of Portland, and now 
 lives happy dann le sein de sa famille. They have three children, a 
 son who died some years since, a daughter who married Prof. Cooke 
 of Harvard, and another who married Mr. F. R. Barrett of Portland. 
 We commend his example to all the veteran bachelors of Bowdoin, 
 from her president down. He died in 1871. 
 
 Charles Freeman was the brother of George, and older. In col- 
 lege and through his whole life he was an admirable exemplification of 
 simplicity, sincerity, and solid worth. He studied law with Nicholas 
 Emery, and opened an office ; but his tastes and affections soon drew 
 him into another sphere. He read theology with Dr. Payson, and 
 
168 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 settled in Limerick, where his death in 1853 terminated a useful min- 
 istry of nearly thirty-four years. Mr. Freeman never ceased to be a 
 student. He not only kept up, but largely increased his knowledge 
 of Greek and Latin ; he was a good Hebrew scholar, and read the 
 German with ease. 
 
 Mr. Freeman was twice married : first to Nancy Pierce, daughter of 
 Hon. Josiah Pierce of Baldwin ; secondly, to Salva Abbot, daughter 
 of Benjamin Abbot, Esq., of Temple. Charles Marsden, his son by 
 the first wife, graduated at Brunswick in 1845. Samuel, who was of 
 the second marriage, graduated at Bowdoin College in 1854. 
 
 George Freeman was of Portland, where his father, Samuel Free- 
 man, was a man of note to the end of a long life. In college, though 
 n mere boy in age and stature, he showed uncommon maturity and 
 excellence both of mind and character. He studied law with Mr. 
 Longfellow, but died in the third year of the course, being then only 
 nineteen years old. Long and deeply was his death lamented. Nor 
 was this strange : few 'young men combine as he did the finest intel- 
 lectual qualities with the best affections of the heart. I have many 
 testimonials that show how fondly he was loved; let one suffice. It 
 was written long after his death by my classmate and friend, Eufus 
 King Porter: "George Freeman was my most valued and intimate 
 friend ; and a warmer, purer heart never occupied human breast. His 
 mind, active and discriminating, was guided by a delicate taste, and 
 his reading and acquirements corresponded with these qualities." 
 
 George Lamson, a native of Exeter, N. H., was a good scholar, an 
 insatiable reader, and a readj* writer. From college, which he left 
 with bright anticipations, he went into the office of George Sullivan, 
 and in due time was admitted to the bar. It was not long before he 
 became an editor, and conducted with considerable success a news- 
 paper in his native town. He next published law books, but the busi- 
 ness did no't succeed. In 1823 he removed to the city of New York, 
 where, after three years of hard and hopeiess struggle, he died. 
 Those who witnessed in college his talents, his successful industry, 
 and high aspirations beheld with sad surprise the termination of a 
 career which had begun so fair. Mr. Lamson left a widow and three 
 children. 
 
 William Pilsbukt, son of a Boston shipmaster, had been well 
 trained by the Eev. Joseph Chickering of Woburn. He had rich 
 endowments of mind and person. But his ardent and susceptible 
 nature was easily led astray. The father was imprudently indulgent, 
 
GRADUATES. 169 
 
 and the consequences, as usual in such cases, were most injurious to 
 the son. He entered his name as a student of law, but died within a 
 year from his graduation. His classmate, the Rev. Charles Freeman, 
 forty years afterward, wrote a notice of Pilsbury, which ends as fol- 
 lows: " A generous, noble-minded, talented, affectionate, and social 
 college friend prematurely left a world which presented to him her 
 fairest earthly prospects. He was a striking example of the classic 
 remark — 
 
 " Video meliora, proboque, 
 Deteriora sequor.'' 
 
 Joseph Sewall of Bath, grandson of Hon. Dummer Sewall, grad- 
 uated at the age of seventeen and became a lawyer in his native 
 town. In this profession he showed decided ability, and there is lit- 
 tle doubt that he could easily have placed himself in its first rank. But 
 , politics drew him aside. He became a man of business and a holder 
 of offices. He was president of a bank, selectman of the town, chair- 
 man of the court of county commissioners, and adjutant-general of 
 the State. Under the administrations of Jackson and Van Buren he 
 was collector of the port of Bath. His discharge of duty in these 
 various public employments commanded the approval of all. Gen. 
 Sewall died in 1851, leaving four children. One son, Frederic D., is 
 a graduate of Bowdoin College. 
 
 John Paekek Boyd Stoker was son of the Hon. Woodbury Storer 
 of Portland by his second wife Margaret, daughter of James Boyd 
 of Boston". After an exemplary college course he became a resident 
 graduate, and for some time studied theology under the guidance of 
 President Appleton. In 1816 he was appointed tutor, but had hardly 
 entered on his duties when he received and accepted an invitation to 
 go abroad with his uncle Gen. Boyd, who went to England in pros- 
 ecution of a claim for military services in British India.* Soon after 
 
 *Gen: Boyd spent many years in Hindostan. At that time the native princes 
 were in the habit of employing European talent in the conduct of their wars. Gen. 
 Boyd raised a corps of Sepoys, whom he equipped, paid, and commanded. He had 
 under him several English officers, and was well provided with artillery and elephants. 
 With this mercenary force he served several of the great Indian fchiefs, being hired 
 successively by llolkar, by the Peshwar, and by the Nizam, Ally Khan. Eeturning 
 to his native country about 1812, he was appointed a brigadier-general in the army of 
 the United States, and in more than one engagement with the British displayed the 
 courage and skill of a veteran soldier. After the war Gen. Boyd was appointed 
 navy agent for Boston. In 1816 he published several documents and facts relative 
 to military events of the recent war. 
 
170 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 his return from Europe Mr. Storer was licensed to preach, and some 
 time after he was settled as colleague pastor of the First Church in 
 Walpole, Mass. In 1840 he went from Walpole to Syracuse, N. Y.^ 
 and ministered to a Unitarian society in that place until 1845, when 
 he died suddenly at the age of flfty-one. He was truly amiable, a 
 man of unblemished fame. No gentleman of the old school could be 
 more uniformly or systematically polite. He was never married. 
 
 1813. 
 John Anderson. For forty years our little band though scattered 
 widely was still unbroken by death. The first taken was he yrho 
 once seemed the strongest. Anderson was a native of Windham, 
 and a lineal descendant of the reverend patriarch Thomas Smith of 
 Falmouth. He was industrious in college, — a fair scholar, frank, 
 generous, kind-hearted, — and in the eyes of his classmates and com- 
 rades the very personification of strength and courage. In our Junior 
 summer began the second war with England. Men of later and jnore 
 quiet days can only faintly conceive the excitement of that time. As 
 for Anderson he was all on fire. To engage somehow in the conflict 
 seemed to be his fixed resolve ; and moulded as he certainly was for a 
 hero, we all expected that he would become a general or a commodore. 
 Whether adverse circumstances or cool reflection prevented him from 
 following his bent I cannot say. On leaving college he became a law 
 student with Mr. Stephen Longfellow, opened in due time an office 
 in Portland, and soon found ample occupation. It was not long before 
 he was set up as the Democratic candidate for Congress, and ran 
 unsuccessfully in opposition to his late instructor. In 1823 he served 
 as State senator for Cumberland County. At the next trial for Con- 
 gress he was chosen, though Simon Greenleaf was his competitor- 
 From 1825 to 1833 he was in the House of Representatives, an able 
 and useful member. From this time to 1836 he was United States 
 district attorney for Maine. He was then made collector of Portland, 
 — an oflflce which he lost under Harrison, but received again from 
 Tyler. When Mr. Bancroft left the secretaryship of the navy for the 
 embassy to England, the President gave Mr. Anderson to understand 
 that he could have the vacant post, but he declined the honor. Mr- 
 Anderson was three times chosen mayor of Portland, and discharged 
 the duties with his accustomed ability. In Congress he occasionally 
 spoke, and always with judgment and effect. His style of elocution in 
 the House and at the bar was plain and simple, but it had the strength 
 which belongs to good sense and to earnest sincerity. His genial and 
 
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GRADUATES. 171 
 
 generous spirit, which he never lost even amid the heats of political 
 strife, his uprightness and courtesy in the performance of official duty, 
 and his acknowledged excellences as a citizen and neighbor, made him 
 universally popular, and Called forth, when he died in 1853, expres- 
 sions of regard and regret from men of every sect and party. Mr. 
 Anderson was twice married : first to Lucy, daughter of Capt. John 
 Farwell of Tyngsboro', Mass. ; secondly to Ann Williams, daughter 
 of Capt. Samuel Jameson of Freeport. Mrs. Anderson and her two 
 sons, Samuel Jameson A. (Bowdoin Qollege, 1843) and Edward 
 Watson A., reside in Portland. 
 
 Nathan Dane Appleton was born in 1794 in Ipswich, Mass., 
 on the farm which was bought in 1634-5 by his emigrant ancestor 
 Samuel Appleton. This farm, which should be dear to all the 
 Appletons, is still owned by a brother of my classmate. Adjoining it 
 was the farm on which the renowned Nathan Dane was born and grew 
 up. There was affinity as well as intimacy between the families, and 
 hence the honored name which my classmate received and which he 
 never discredited. Mr. Dane assisted his early neighbor and friend in 
 giving his son an education. During his college life be was in the 
 family of President Appleton, who was his cousin. Having studied 
 law with Joseph Dane of Kennebunk, he practised for two years in 
 Standish, and then settled in Alfred. There, with a steadiness which 
 was his characteristic even in youth, he held for more than forty years 
 the unbroken tenor of his way. He repeatedly represented the town 
 in the Legislature, and was once in the Senate of Maine. Three times 
 he was the candidate of his party for Congress ; but unfortunately for 
 the district, if not for him, that party did not happen to be in the 
 majority. In the winter of 1857 he was chosen by the Legislature 
 attorney-general of the State. He was plain, simple, and unpretend- 
 ing ; a man of great industry and of rare fidelity to duty. He mar- 
 ried in 1826 Julia Hall of Alfred. Mr. Appleton died in 1861. 
 
 Nehemiah Cleaveland. In the course of this my long biographi- 
 cal task, I have often been vexed at what seemed to me a needless 
 reluctance and superfluous modesty on the part of men ifrom whom I 
 sought a little information in regard to themselves. Now, however, 
 when I find myself under a sort of autobiographical necessity, I am 
 inclined to more compassionate feelings. My father, who gave me his 
 own Bible prsenomen, was a physician in Topsfield, Mass., where he 
 died in 1837 in his seventy-seventh year, leaving a memory still 
 cherished there. My mother, a daughter of Dr. Elisha Lord of Pom- 
 
172 HISTORY OE BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 fret, Conn,, survived her husband several years, and died like him 
 with blessings on her name. When I was eleven years old I was sent 
 to Brunswick. My cousin, then the young professor, received me into 
 his family- and directed my studies preparatory for college, which I 
 entered at the immature age of thirteen. On leaving college I went, 
 at my father's desire, to the school pf theology in Andover, where I 
 stayed through the Junior year. During the years 1814 and 1815 I 
 taught boys and girls in my native town, in Dedham and "Wrentham, 
 Mass., and in the academy at Gorham, Me. In 1815 and 1817 I had 
 charge of the Preble Street School in Portland. This was a private 
 boys' school, and my predecessors in it were afterwards known as 
 Judge Wright of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Judge Emery of Paris, Me. 
 In the autumn of 1817 I left that pleasant town and its delightful 
 society to become jigain a denizen of Brunswick. Busy, happy, and 
 not, I trust, unuseful were the three years of my tutorship. I had 
 begun the study of medicine and had attended a course of lectures, 
 when the preeeptorship of Dummer Academy was offered me. In 1821 
 I settled in Bj^fleld, and in that still retr£at passed nearly -nineteen 
 years. Having resigned my post in 1839, I went to Exeter as pro- 
 fessor of ancient languages in Phillips Academy. From that charming 
 village and admirable institution I was invited to Lowell, where for 
 more than a j'ear I had charge of the boys' high school. From 1842 
 to 1848 I kept a very pleasant school for young ladies in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. Since I left Brooklyn I have lived in the city of New York, 
 at the old homestead in Topsfleld, and in Westport, Conn., — my 
 present abode. Twice, also, I have visited Europe. 
 
 I have written some things which were printed. An address 
 delivered in 1821 before the Peucinian Society, and "published by 
 request," was I believe the first academical performance thus honored 
 at Brunswick. A lecture on lyceums before the American Institute, 
 an article on ancient and modern eloquence in a periodical, memoirs 
 of George Peabody and of Erastus Brigham Bigelow in the Merchants' 
 Magazine, address (1849) before the New England Society of Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., two Fourth of July orations, historical discourse (1850) 
 at the bicentennial celebration in Topsfleld, historical discourse in 
 Byfield (1863) at the centennial celebration of Dummer Academy. 
 Five volumes, descriptive and historical, in regard to Greenwood 
 Cemetery; " The Flowers Personified," a translation from the French 
 of " Les Fleurs Animees," in two volumes, royal octavo. 
 
 This brief enumeration, which might be considerably extended, 
 though it amounts to very little, may yet perhaps save me from the 
 suspicion of having been only an idler. 
 
GRADUATES. 173 
 
 In 1823 I married Abby Pickard, daughter of Dr. Joseph Manning 
 of Charleston, S. C. Children, — Joseph M., a graduate of Prince- 
 ton, now superintendent of the State Hospital for Insane at Pough- 
 keepsie, N. Y. ; George N., a graduate of Yale, now a farmer in 
 Westport, Conn. ; Henry W., an architect in San Francisco; Abby 
 E. My wife died in 1836. In 1842 I married Katharine Atherton, 
 daughter of David Means of Amherst, N. H. ; she died in 1846. Her 
 only child, Katharine L., is the wife of Robert Means Lawrence of 
 Boston.* 
 
 Rupus King Portek was born in 1794 in Biddeford, where his 
 father, Dr. Aaron Porter, then lived. His mother was a sister of the 
 illustrious statesman whose name she gave to her son. His sister 
 Isabella married- the Rev. Lyman Beecher. Another sister, Lucy, 
 married the Rev. Charles L. Brace, and was the mother of Chai-les K. 
 Brace, the well-known traveller, author, and philanthropist.. As a 
 scholar, when in college, he was both quick and accurate ; but while 
 in some departments we all conceded the first place to him, he had a 
 difficulty of utterance and a deficiency of executive power which pre- 
 vented him from being fuUy appreciated. He settled as a lawyer at 
 Machias in 1817, where he had for many years an extensive and lucra- 
 tive practice. He was a sound lawyer, a judicious counsellor, and a 
 strictly upright man. He did not meddle with politics, he sought no 
 office, but was ready for any service in the parish or the schoolSi 
 Above all things he loved his home, and made it bright and happy by 
 his cheerful kindness. In the decline of life he sufi'ered much from 
 deafness and other infirmities. He died suddenly in 1856. 
 
 In 1820 Mr Porter married Emma, daughter of Gen. John Cooper 
 and niece of Hon. James Savage. She died in 1827, having borne 
 to him four children, of whom Charles W. is a Bowdoin graduate of 
 1842. In 1829 he married Lucy Lee Hedge, and there were four 
 children by this marriage. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Salter was a son of John Salter, a shipmaster 
 in Portsmouth, N. H. He was born in 1792, and was fitted for col- 
 lege by Dr. Abbot of Exeter. Having graduated, he engaged in com- 
 mercial pursuits. Soon after peace was restored he sailed for Europe 
 on a trading voyage. Upon his return he- planted himself at Faj-ette- 
 ville, N. C, where, in connection with a brother, he engaged in the 
 
 * Mr. Cleaveland delivered an address at the opening of the Cleaveland Cabinet of 
 the college, July, 1873, which was printed. He died at Westport, April 17, 1877, in 
 his eighty-first year. p. 
 
174 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 cotton trade. Fayetteville was then an important mart, and the Sal- 
 ters for many years were greatly prospered. But the sudden reverse 
 of 1837 overtook and overwhelmed them. Since that time Mr. Salter 
 has regarded the city of New York as his home. The prosecution of 
 the cotton business has, however, led him to spend most of his win- 
 ters in the Southern States. If his commercial operations have not 
 all been successful, and if rheumatic affections of late have somewhat 
 limited his movements, neither circumstance seems to have impaired 
 the cheerfulness of his spirit, or to have ruffled that quiet philosophy 
 which distinguished him even in youth. 
 
 About 1828 Mr. Salter was married to Harriet C Tibbits of Ports- 
 ^^outh. Of ten children seven are living. One son, a phj'sician, is 
 married and lives in New York. Two younger sons, yet at home, are 
 preparing to become traders. Of their four daughters two are mar- 
 ried, one living in Florida and the other in New York. From motives 
 of convenience, Mr. Salter long since omitted the "Franklin" from 
 his name. 
 
 It was in the spring of 1858 that I made the above written record. 
 I had just had a long and pled.sant interview with my classmate and 
 friend. Though he was lame and weak to a degree that excited my 
 fears, he was in spirit the same calm and cheerful man I had always 
 known. Returning after an absence of several months in Europe, I 
 made an early call at his house, hoping that he might still be there. I 
 saw only an afflicted daughter. Three months before her father had 
 been laid by the side of his parents in his native town. 
 
 1814. 
 
 Jambs Bowdoin was the second son of Thomas L. Winthrop of 
 Boston, and a grandson of Governor James Bowdoin. He studied 
 the law and entered on its practice in his native city ; but having 
 received from the distinguished uncle whose name he had assumed a 
 competent estate, he relinquished the profession for more congenial 
 pursuits. Mr. Bowdoin " was a man of retired habits and disposition, 
 and shrank from public display." In the State Legislature, in the 
 Boston school committee, and in several benevolent institutions his 
 useful services were enjoj'ed and prized. But he devoted himself 
 more especially to subjects erf an antiquarian and historical character, 
 and the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society bear 
 repeated testimony to the diligence and discrimination of his re- 
 searches. In the winter of 1832 he was compelled to abandon his 
 pursuits and his home, and to seek rdief from pulmonary affections in 
 
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GRADUATES. 175 
 
 a milder climate. A tropical air seemed only to develop his disease, 
 and lie died in Havana March 6, 1833. He is remembered yet as a 
 scholar, a philanthropist, and a Christian. 
 
 John Bush was born in 1792 in Boylston, Mass. He had charge 
 of the academy in Wiscasset for a time. Having studied medicine, he 
 lived awhile in Ipswich, awhile in Danvers,' and then settled in Vas- 
 salboro', which has since been his home, with occasional sojourns 
 in Augusta. Dr. Bush was married in 1819 to Anne Wayne. They 
 have two sons married and settled at Skowhegan, and one son who 
 lives in WaterviUe., A letter received from the doctor a few years ago 
 informed me that he had then ready for the press a work entitled 
 " Light from the Spirit Land." The survivors of the class of 1814 
 may be interested to know that Dr. Bush has " received several com- 
 munications from Atkinson, Bowdoin, and Cargill, perfectly identi- 
 fied." He died at Vassalboro', 1876. 
 
 James Cahgill was a son of Col. James Cargill of Newcastle, 
 where he was born in 17ijO. Large and somewhat ungainly in person, 
 he had a good mind, great kindness of disposition, and the fervor of 
 a true piety. To the character and influence of this solitary religious 
 pioneer. Prof. E. C. Smyth has done full justice in his sermons on the 
 religious history of the college. Cargill came to Brunswick with a 
 consumptive habit already fixed ; he took little or no exercise, sank 
 gradually under the disease, and dropped into the grave a few days 
 only after he received the honors of the college. 
 
 Charles Northend Cogswell graduated with honor at the age of 
 seventeen, studied law in his native town, South Berwick, and on 
 admission to the bar formed a partnership with his instructor, Wil- 
 liam A. Hayes. This connection, agreeable and profitable to both 
 parties, remained unbroken until the death of the younger partner. 
 Mr. Cogswell soon acquired a high reputation for promptness and 
 accuracy, for knowledge and skill. " In every sphere of labor in his 
 profession save that of the advocate, the duties of which he never 
 attempted (not for want of talent, but from excessive modesty) , he was 
 almost without a rival, and had no superior." His extraordinary 
 faculty for business became extensively known, was in constant 
 requisition, and secured a Jucrative reward. During the latter part 
 of his life he served two terms in the State Senate, and one term in 
 the House of Representatives. In these bodies he had the weight 
 which always belongs to a man of solid learning and judgment, and of 
 
176 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 useful business habits. He was now an acknowledged leader in the 
 ruling Demoeratio party, and popular among men of all opinions. At 
 the time of his death they were talking of him for governor. The 
 event which ended in a moment all these labors, plans, and hopes was 
 caused by an apoplectic stroke, Oct. 11, 1843. As a man he was 
 social, generous, public-spirited, and benevolent ; as a husband and 
 father always true and tender. His first wife, a daughter of Elisha 
 Hill, Esq., of Portsmouth, N. H., left no issue. ' His second wife was 
 the daughter of Gen. Edward Kussell, formerly of Portland. 
 
 John Abbot Douglass, nephew by the mother's side to Prof. John 
 Abbot, was bom in Portland, February, 1792. He was fitted for col- 
 lege at the academy, then under Edward Payson, afterwards the emi- 
 nent Dr. Payson, and Ebenezer Adams, who became professor of 
 mathematics at Dartmouth, and during his last year at Exeter under 
 Dr. Abbot. After his graduation he taught school three years in 
 Portland. His theological studies, begun with Dr. Payson, were con- 
 cluded under his uncle. Dr. Abbot of Beverly, and he received license 
 to preach from the Essex Association, Massachusetts, in 1819. In 
 1821 he was settled at Walerford, a Congregational minister, and thei-e 
 he still is, having spent in that quiet spot fifty useful years. In 1822 
 Mr. Douglass married a daughter of Rev. Abiel Abbot. She soon 
 died, but her venerable father long survived, and was for a time the 
 oldest living name on the catalogue of Harvard. In 1824 Mr. Doug- 
 lass married a daughter of Benjamin Abbot of Temple, who died in 
 1872. Of ten children two sons and three daughters survive. One 
 daughter is married to John M. Eveleth, M. D. (Bowdoin College, 
 1849). One son, John A. D., graduated at Bowdoin College in 1854 ; 
 M. D., New York, 1861 ; and is in the practice of his profession at 
 Amesbury, Mass.* 
 
 * The above having been written several years since, with the exception of one or 
 two insertions of recent date, it is fitting to add thak Mr. Douglass continued in the 
 pastorate, though in the few last years with a colleague, until his death, August, 
 1878, greatly respected and beloved. He was, as testified by one who from long per- 
 sonal experience knew of what he wrote, a, man " of marked individuality, of true 
 natural independence of character, respectful to all, and self-respectful also " ; mod- 
 est and discreet withal, systematic, stable, and confided in. He exerted a command- 
 ing influence and left an impression on his people and the town. He was much 
 blessed in his ministry. 
 
 Mr. Douglass was a member of the board of trustees of Bridgeton Academy forty, 
 seven years, and its president twenty-seven, and usually in attendance at its meet- 
 ings, p. 
 
GRADUATES. 177 
 
 Charles Dummer was born in Hallowell, to which place his parents 
 removed from Newbury (Byfield Parish), Mass. His mother was a 
 sister of the celebrated mechanicians and inventors, Paul and David 
 Moody. The name of Dummer is honorably associated with the his- 
 tory of Massachusetts. The Bay State can boast of few abler men 
 than Jeremy Dummer, so long her provincial agent in England ; of 
 few better men than "William Dummer, so long her first magistrate at 
 home. At Dummer Academy in Newbury may still be seen a por- 
 trait of its founder, the governor. It must have been taken while he 
 was in his prime, and displays the elaborate costume of that day. 
 For nearly twenty years this picture daily met my eye, and almost as 
 often did it remind me by its .resemblance of my college friend, Charles 
 Dummer. With such fidelity does nature sometimes preserve and 
 reproduce a family type ! It must not be inferred that Mr. Dummer 
 is descended from the governor, who had no children. Charles Dum- 
 mer was sent first to Middlebury College in Vermont. After two 
 years of ambitious and indefatigable study at Brunswick, he gradu- 
 ated with high honor. Then he spent three equally industrious years 
 in the law ofl3ce of the distinguished William Preseott of Boston. He 
 returned to Hallowell and found business in his profession. He was 
 sent to the Legislature and took part in its debates. He was made an 
 overseer of the college and became an active member of the board. 
 About this time he married Mary, only daughter of Matthew Cobb of 
 Portland. But here misfortune soon overtook him : his wife survived 
 her marriage but little more than a year. He was again united in 
 marriage to Miss Cleves of Saco, still living ; they have no children. 
 
 About twenty years ago Mr. Dummer became a clerk in the Treas- 
 ury Department at Washington, and thenceforth disappeared from the 
 professional and political scene in which he came forward with so 
 much promise. But useless or unemployed he has not been. Through 
 all the changes of party and of administration he retained his oflBce, 
 for no better reason perhaps than that such ability and such integrity 
 could not conveniently be spared. So high in these respects was his 
 standing in Washington that Secretary Guthrie in 1855 detailed him 
 to New York on a special duty connected with the customs. He dis- 
 charged the arduous and delicate commission to the satisfaction of all. 
 After several years' service as deputy collector in New York, Mr. Dum- 
 mer resigned and returned to his native Hallowell. There he lives in 
 the pleasant house which he built forty years ago, and superintends 
 the little farm which his father owned. Friend of my youth, may 
 thy decline be gentle, and serene its close ! : 
 
 [Mr. Dummer died in 1872. — p.J 
 
178 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Stephen Emery, born in 1790 at Minot, was the son of Mo=,l 
 Emery. Like many a poor boy in those days, he had to work his own 
 way through school and college. Having graduated with a high 
 reputation for scholarship and taste, he took charge of the academy 
 in Hallowell. After one year there and another year as master of a 
 private boys' school in Portland, he went to Paris and entered on the 
 study of law. In this science his teachers were Albion K. Parris and 
 Enoch Lincoln. He was admitted in 1819 and opened an oflSce in 
 Paris. By appointment of Governor Lincoln he held the office of 
 probate judge for Oxford County for a number of years. Governor 
 Fairfield made him attorney-general. For several years he was chair- 
 man of the State Board of Education. By appointment of Governor 
 Hubbard he held the office of district judge, until the district courts 
 were abolished by act of Legislature. 
 
 To these evidences of the esteem in which Judge Emery has long 
 been held both as a lawyer and a citizen, it were easy to add others. 
 
 By his first wife, Sarah Stowell, he had three children : one died in 
 infancy ; one married Hannibal Hamlin, United States senator ; one, 
 George F. (Bowdoin College, 1836), is United States Circuit Court 
 clerk for Maine. Mrs. Emery died in 1823. In 1825 Mr. Emery 
 married Jeannette Loring of Buckfield. Of her three children, one is 
 the wife of Rev. Nathaniel Butler of Eockland, with whom Mr. Emery 
 now resides ; one has succeeded her sister as wife of Senator Hamlin ; 
 and one is fitting for college. The second wife died in 1855. Judge 
 Emery has retired from the activities of life He has suffered much 
 from ill health, and has known in other ways what it is to be afflicted. 
 Yet few, I apprehend, among those whom I describe have known 
 more happiness than he. Happy he still is in his books, his children, 
 and his friends. Time and care have left their marks upon his person, 
 but have not chilled his spirit. Among all my friends of those pleasant 
 college days, I know no fresher memory or warmer heart than his. 
 
 [The notice above was written more than ten years ago. I leave it 
 unaltered, except the addition that Judge Emery died in 1863. — p. J 
 
 John Eyeleth was born in 1786 in New Gloucester. After his 
 graduation he kept the academy in Hebron about two years. Having 
 studied law he settled in Windham, where he still lives. Besides 
 attending to his professional duties Mr. Eveleth has kept the Wind- 
 ham records for a quarter of a century, and has been three times a 
 member of the Maine House of Representatives. In 1824 he married 
 Rebecca Merrill of New Gloucester. They have had two sons : Samuel 
 A. graduated at Bowdoin College in 1847, studied law and practised 
 
GRADUATES. 179 
 
 with his father until his death in 1856 ; John M. (Bowdoin College, 
 1849) is now a practitioner of medicine. 
 [Mr. Eveleth died in 1859.— p.J 
 
 Nathaniel Gkoton of Waldoboro' was bom in 1791. His grand- 
 father, William, came to America a soldier in Wolfe's army, and saw 
 his gallant general fall. Several years later he settled on a large 
 tract of wild land in what is now known as Nobleboro'. By his wife, 
 Prudence Giddings of Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, he had a son Wil- 
 liam. To Waldoboro' in 1774 came Nathan Sprague from Marsh- 
 field, and he was a great-grandson of that Peregrine White who 
 became immortal by the accident of his birth on board the ' ' May- 
 flower." Nathan's daughter Mary married William Groton and 
 became the mother of our Nathaniel. At the age of fourteen or fifteen 
 he was possessed with a passion for a sailor's life ; but a wreck at sea 
 made him wiser, and having earnestly prepared at Hebron Academy 
 he entered college. After graduation, having studied law, he opened 
 an oflOice in Bath. For two years he was in the Senate of Maine, and 
 for fourteen years he was probate judge for Lincoln County. In the 
 latter j'ears of his life he spent much time in collecting facts of local 
 history and biography, which he made pubhc though the newspapers 
 and in the collections of the Maine Historical Society. By his'wife, 
 Elizabeth W. Kittredge, he had a son, who died young, and daughter. 
 This daughter married F. O. J. Smith. Judge Groton died in 1858. 
 
 Samuel Hale, son of Judge Samuel Hale of Barrington, N. H., 
 was born in 1793. The eight years which followed his graduation 
 were spent mostly at his paternal home in Uterary pursuits or in work 
 on the farm. In 1822 he formed a partnership with Ichabod Rollins, 
 settled in Portsmouth, engaged largely in navigation, and was highly 
 successful. He was for some time president of the Piscataqua Bank, 
 and the efficient treasurer of the Portsmouth Cotton Manufacturing 
 Company at South Berwick. He was a deacon in the Unitarian 
 church at Portsmouth, and held for many years the office of trustee in 
 Phillips Academy, at Exeter. 
 
 He married Nanc^^ Rollins, who died several years ago. Of four 
 children three survive, two daughters, and a son who is in the firm of 
 Wm. Hale & Co., Dover, N. H. Mr. Hale died in 1869. 
 
 WiNTHROP Hilton from Deerfield, N. H., was born in 1794. He 
 came from ancestors some of whom were men of renown in the early 
 days of the colony and in old Indian wars. His father. Col. Joseph 
 Hilto held a command and did good service in our Revolutionary 
 
180 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 war. On leaving college Winthrop became a farmer. Unambitious 
 of political distinction, lie has been content with a place on the school 
 committee and in the board of selectmen. He has repeatedly repre- 
 sented the town in the State Legislature, and holds a commission as 
 justice of the peace and the quorum. For many years the cause of 
 temperance has had in him an earnest and consistent advocate. He 
 married Mary Tilton of Epping, N. H., in 1823, and they have had 
 ten children.* 
 
 Elijah King, born in 1789, came from Minot. He rubbed along 
 through college in some unaccountable way, as others have done 
 before and since. If he had but little either of wit or fun, he was 
 highly provocative of those qualities in others. Having obtained his 
 degree he heard — or thought he heard — a Macedonian call from the 
 benighted South. At the last accounts he was teaching school some- 
 where in Georgia. But this was long ago. Whether he still walks 
 the earth, or sleeps beneath it, or as his classmate Groton used to 
 insist, went off like another Elijah in a car of flre, are problems of 
 interest yet to be solved. 
 
 Edwakd Orne was born in 1791 in Salem, Mass. After his grad- 
 uation he studied medicine awhile ; but with the return of peace he 
 took to the sea, and for twenty years followed with few interruptions 
 the China and East India trade. Then, at the solicitation of a com- 
 pany in Boston and New York, he became their financial agent for the 
 purchase and location of Chickasaw Indian claims in Northern Mis- 
 sissippi. In this business he invested a large capital, and acquired a 
 good estate. His subsequent operations were less successful. He 
 died at the age of fifty-four, " leaving as a legacy to his children little 
 beside an untarnished reputation for honesty and generous liberality." 
 He left two sons and two daughters by his first marriage, and a son 
 and daughter by the second marriage. In 1860 his eldest son was a 
 lawyer in Memphis, Tenn., and his second son was in China with the 
 prosperous house of Eussell & Co. at Canton. 
 
 William King Porter, a young man of pleasing person and man- 
 ners and of most amiable temper, was the eldest son of Dr. Benjamin 
 J. Porter of Topsham. Through the lavish indulgence of his distin- 
 guished uncle, whose name he bore and whose presumptive heir he then 
 was, he came near being spoiled ; but his own good sense and the 
 
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 * Mr. Hilton died in Deerfield, August, 1869, his widow in 1875, and five only of the 
 children survive at this writing -(1882 J. . p 
 
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GRADUATES. 181 
 
 timely failure ot his worldly expectations saved him from ruin. He 
 settled in 1818 in Turner, where he practised until he died, sustain- 
 ing alwaj'S an honorable rank in his profession, and respected for his 
 private virtues. A fever terminated his life in 1834. He was married 
 in 1823 to Sophronia, daughter of Col. Cyrus Clark. His widow and 
 her four daughters are still living in Portland. Of the latter, one is 
 married to Charles P. Kimball. 
 
 William Heney Egbbins. This young man was of Hallowell. In 
 college he was rather poetical than profound. His appearance and 
 performance at that time excited only moderate expectations. He 
 studied law with Hon, S. S. Wilde and practised awhile in Hallowell, 
 " but with little success." From that place he removed to Cheraw in 
 South Carolina, where he almost immediately went into a lucrative and 
 extensive practice. He became "a highly respectable lawyer and 
 advocate, regularly going the circuits and constantly engaged in im- 
 portant causes. He acquired property as well as reputation, and left 
 a competency to his widow and two children." He died at home of 
 consumption in 1843, after a fruitless endeavor to find relief in the 
 climate and from the physicians of France. "As a man of lasting 
 friendships, of kindness of heart, of firm integrity, and as a Christian 
 of consistent character and clear spirit and experience, W. H. Rob- 
 bins was appreciated by those who knew him, especially during the 
 later years of his life." For this pleasing picture of the man I am 
 indebted to his early friends George C. WUde, Esq., of Boston, and 
 Rev. Dr. Vaughan of Philadelphia. 
 
 1815. 
 
 Robert PiNCKNEr Ddnlap was the youngest son of Capt. John 
 Dunlap of Brunswick. His mother was Mary Tappan from New- 
 buryport. He studied the law in his native town, and there opened an 
 oflSce. His first forensic efforts attracte/i some notice, and are still 
 remembered ; but coming soon afterwards into the possession of a 
 handsome patrimony, he gradually slipped out of his profession. His 
 country meanwhile, or that portion of it known as the Democratic 
 party, began to call for his services, and Mr. Dunlap readily re- 
 sponded to that call. Beginning as a member of the lower house, he 
 soon went into the upper chamber, and young as he was, became pres- 
 ident of the Maine Senate. During one year he was a councillor 
 and advised the governor, and then for four years he filled with great 
 dignitj' the gubernatorial chair. The excellent spirit that dictated and 
 
182 HISTORY OF BOWDOJN COLLEGE. 
 
 pervaded his proclamations for fast and thanksgiving attracted notice 
 and commendation far beyond the limits of the State. From 1842 to 
 1846 Governor Dunlap represented the Cumberland District in Con- 
 gress. He was afterwards appointed collector of Portland, and dis- 
 charged for a time the duties of that oflSce to general acceptance. He 
 lost the place when the Whigs came in. On the accession of Presi- 
 dent Pierce, Governor Dunlap had the Brunswick post-oflBce given 
 him. He very early took an interest in Freemasonry, and through 
 all its vicissitudes was true to the faith. In that mystic fraternity he 
 ranked as Most Excellent, and has held the national and exalted posi- 
 tion of General Grand High Priest. At the triennial meeting of the 
 General Grand Chapter of the United States at Hartford in 1856, this 
 distinguished hierarch delivered an address, which was published by 
 order of the Chapter, and which is excellent both in spirit and taste. 
 A handsome piece of plate with complimentary inscription was given 
 him when he left the priesthood. For fifteen years past he has been 
 president of the Board of Overseers. In regard to the integrity and 
 consistency of his life I have heard from his neighbors only one testi- 
 mony, and that the highest. In 1825 he married Lydia, daughter of 
 Abner Chapman of Beverly, Mass. They have three sons and a 
 daughter. Charles R. P. Dunlap graduated at Bowdoin College, 1846, 
 now M. D. ; Henry Dunlap, Bowdoin College, 1854, and LL. B., 
 Albany. 
 
 Leaving unchanged this notice of Mr. Dunlap as written two or 
 three years ago, I must add a word or two now that he has left us. 
 Mr. Dunlap died in Brunswick, October, 1859, after a short illness. 
 He had just before returned from a visit in lUinois. He was interred 
 with Masonic honors, and many demonstrations of aflFection and respect 
 from those who had known him long and well. Dr. Adams in his 
 funeral discourse paid an affectionate tribute to the piety and Chris- 
 tian excellence of the man who had so long been a member and a 
 deacon of his church. This praise, it is believed, none can refuse 
 him. Even those who sometimes smiled at his foibles or disliked his 
 political principles and action were compelled to acknowledge that 
 Governor Dunlap was a truly good man. 
 
 Geokge Evans was born in 1797 ; came to college from Hallowell, 
 having fitted at the academies in that town and in Monmouth, and 
 entered as Sophomore in his sixteenth year. He was respectable as 
 a scholar, with a marked tendency to poetry. Having studied law 
 with Frederic Allen, he settled in Gardiner just after he had entered 
 the twenty-first year of his age, and entered at once on a career in 
 
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GEADUATES. 183 
 
 which he won distinction. He became the peer of the most prominent 
 members of the very able bar of his county. As a criminal lawyer 
 and advocate he attained eminence, and his ability and eloquence in 
 certain cases have become traditions ; but he gained national reputa- 
 tion in political life, on which he entered at an early period. Elected 
 to the Legislature in 1825, he acted a leading part for four consecu- 
 tive years ; in the last was Speaker of the House, and exhibited great 
 skiU and address in the duties of that chair. In 1829, after a hotly 
 contested canvass and on a second trial, he was elected representative 
 to Congress over a formidable rival. He served seven successive 
 terms and was then elected to the Senate of the United States. During 
 his twelve years in the House, his party being in the minority and he 
 second only on the Committee of Ways and Means, he exerted a 
 commanding influence. His address and ability often carried meas- 
 ures in a body of which a large majority were politically opposed to 
 him. He took his seat in the Senate in the palmiest days of its 
 history, when Webster, Calhoun, Clay, Crittenden, Dayton, Silas 
 Wright, Rives, Benton, and Preston made it illustrious. In questions 
 of political economy he maintained prominent position; was chairman 
 of its Committee of Finance, Mr. Clay having declined that responsi- 
 bility, assigning the reason that Mr. Evans knew more about the tariflf 
 than any other public man in the country. In 1846 Mr. We^'ster in 
 .one of his speeches, referring to what he stj-led "the incom rable 
 speech " of Mr. Evans delivered just before, declared that he under- 
 stood the subject (of finance) as well as any gentlemen connected with 
 the government since the days of Crawford and Gallatin, — nay, as well 
 as either of those ever understood it. Mr. Evans'p power in debate 
 was universally admitted, and his speeches on the most important and 
 complicated questions were among the most effective in the memorable 
 debates of that period. He was a prominent candidate for the Vice- 
 Presidency when Gen. Taylor was put in nomination for the Presi^ 
 dency. On the accession of President Taj'lor it was what has been 
 regarded an ungracious secret influence of a few from his own State, 
 to whom his decided agency in securing the ratification of the Ash- 
 burton Treaty, together with other causes, had rendered him obnoxious, 
 that prevented his appointment to the head of the Ti-easury, for which 
 he had shown rare qualifications. President Taylor, however, appointed 
 him chairman of the Commission on Mexican Claims. 
 
 After eighteen years of service in Congress, Mr. Evans returned to 
 his own State and his profession. He was attorney -general of the 
 State for three years, and took position at the head of the bar. In 
 his large practice are ascribed to him entire freedom from the artifice 
 
184 HISTOEY QF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 which not unfrequently disgrace the profession, and a courtesy to 
 court and bar which won for him general respect, confidence, and 
 regard. He was chosen the first president of the Portland and Ken- 
 nebec Eailway, and the enterprise received the benefit of his strong 
 powers of organization and administration. 
 
 Mr. Evans had qualities which insured pre-eminence. Ready per- 
 ception, power of concentration, and the faculty of presenting a 
 subject, however complicated, with a clearness, a -compactness of 
 statement and argument, and a copiousness of illustration that 
 secured attention and appealed to the reason. It is said he never 
 revised or prepared a speech for the press, nor would ever look at the 
 proof-sheets of a reporter. On the occasion of an important public 
 gathering he was asked for the manuscript of the speech he was to 
 deliver. Laughing at the request, he declared that he had never in 
 his life written a word of any political speech. 
 
 Mr. Evans was a devoted son of his Alma Mater. Early a member 
 of the Board of Overseers, and for twenty-two years on the Board of 
 Trustees, he was influential, uniformly active in duty, a prominent 
 object on the Commencement platform, present at the public exercises 
 of the occasion when not engaged at the board. In 1847 the college 
 bestowed on him its highest honor. 
 
 When Mr. Evans retired from congressional life he took up his res- 
 idence at Portland. His last years were burdened with infirmity and. 
 he died in 1867, leaving a wife and three children, a son and two 
 daughters. 
 
 Peeez Beyant Mann, born in Hallowell in 1798, lived but three 
 years after he left college. He had joined his father, who was engaged 
 in business at Augusta, Ga. In a season of unusual mortality in 
 1818 both died, leaving " a much reduced and truly afflicted house- 
 hold." 
 
 RiCHAED Elvins Oene, brother of Edward (1814), was a son of 
 Josiah and Alice Allen Orne of Salem, Mass., where he was born in 
 1795. The Rev. Richard Elvins of Scarboro' was his great-great- 
 grandfather, for whom he was named. He was fitted for college at 
 Phillips Exeter Academy, and by Rev. Dr. Eaton of Boxford. For 
 several years Mr. Orne followed the sea, making Salem his home. 
 Since that time he has lived in the Southwestern States in the capacity 
 of a land agent, and for several years has resided at Memphis, Tenn. 
 He was married in 1823 to Ann Allen. Of three married daughters 
 two have been taken from them. Two unmarried sons yet live with 
 
GEADUATES. 185 
 
 their parents. Mr. Orne, with a heart still warm and true to memory 
 and friendship, revisits occasionally the scenes of his youth. 
 [Mr. Orne died in 1860. — p.] 
 
 Chandler Robbins was a brother of William H. R. (class of 
 1814). "While preparing to be a physician, he had an opportunity to 
 avail himself of the great medical advantages which are found in Paris. 
 On his return he settled in Boston, and soon gained a highly respecta- 
 ble standing. " He was," says Prof. D. H. Storer, " a good physician 
 and a good man, much respected by our profession and the commu- 
 nity.'' An attack of pleurisy closed in 1836 his promising career. He 
 married a daughter of Barnabas Hedge of Plymouth, and left two 
 daughters and a son. 
 
 Levi Stowtell was born in 1793. In 1818 he began to practise 
 law in Paris. He was made register of probate, and was at one time 
 county treasurer. From 1845 to (1853 he was engaged in farming. 
 But his health was poor and his tendencies were consumptive, and so 
 he fled from the cold skies of Maine to the banks of the Wabash. 
 But the Wabash was not wholly friendly : whUe it relieved his cough, 
 it burned him with fever and shook him with ague. From Vincennes 
 he removed to Knox County, Ind., where he was postmaster and magis- 
 trate and county school examiner. Eight children were the fruit of 
 his early and happy marriage. He died in 1865. 
 
 Solomon Thayer was born in 1789 in Bridgewater, Mass. After 
 working awhile at the anvil with his father, who had moved to Sidney, 
 Me., he entered Hebron Academy. His law studies were pursued in 
 the office of Benjamin Orr, of whose business he had charge during 
 Mr. Orr's absence as a member of Congress. In 1818 Mr. Thayer 
 settled at Lubec. He was for some time inspector of customs. He 
 also represented the town in the State Legislature. As a business man 
 he was prosperous. He died in 1857 in Portland, where he had been 
 living for five j-ears. He is represented as a man of '' stern Puritan 
 principle and religious character.'' IJe married Eliza Faxon of Quebec ; 
 they had no children. 
 
 John A. Vaughan, a son of Charles Vaughan of Hallowell, went soon 
 after he graduated to London, where he was employed for a time in the 
 banking house of his uncle, William Vaughan. He came home, mar- 
 ried the daughter of John Merrick, and took his wife to Jamaica, West 
 Indies, where for several years he had the charge of an estate belong- 
 ing to his uncle. Then he returned to Hallowell, and opened there a 
 
186 HISTOET OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 school for young ladies. He was highly esteemed as a teacher, and 
 his school was popular. Meanwhile, however, he was looking to 
 another, if not to a wider field of usefulness. In 1833 he was ordained 
 deacon, and took charge of .the church in Saco. In 1834 he was 
 ordained priest, and was settled at Salem, Mass., as rector of St. 
 Peter's Church. In 1836 he was appointed secretary of the Episcopal 
 Board of Foreign Missions, and for six j'cars discharged it? duties 
 with good acceptance, when, resigning the office on account of his 
 health, he went South for two years. In 1845 he went to Philadel- 
 phia, and became superintendent of the Institution for the Blind. In 
 this most interesting charity he labored faithfully and usefully for three 
 years. In 1848 Dr. Vaugban returned to his earlier vocation, by 
 establishing in Philadelphia a school for young ladies, but was com- 
 pelled by ill health to resign the position in 1854. In 1861 he became 
 professor of pastoral theology in the Philadelphia Divinity School, and 
 -so" continued till his death in 1865. Through life in every situation he 
 was profoundly respected and deeply beloved. The college owes him 
 giateful remembrance for a gift of 1,200 volumes, most of them valu- 
 ble and some of them rare. 
 
 1816. 
 
 Edwakd Emerson Bourne of Kennebunk began in 1819 to prac- 
 tise law in his native town. To the profession which he chose and 
 which he loves he has devoted himself steadily and successfully. He 
 has served in the Legislature, has twice been appointed county attor- 
 ney, and has been judge of probate for York County. He has been 
 a trustee of the college since 1866, and is president of the Maine His- 
 torical Society. Judge Bourne is fond of historical research, and an 
 enthusiastic explorer in the dim regions of the past. He has long 
 been an active laborer in the cause of temperance, and for many 
 yeai-s the superintendent of the Sabbath school in the First Congrega- 
 tional parish, a situation which he justly prizes above all civic and 
 academic appointments. He has been twjce married : first to Mary 
 H. Gillpatrick) and secondly to Mrs. Susan H. Lord. Of four chil- 
 dren by the first marriage, Edward E., a lawyer in Kennebunk, alone 
 survives. A beloved daughter, Lizzie G., died Sept. 14, 1855, in an 
 attempt to ascend Mount Washington, and under circumstances which 
 caused the event to be widely known, and which enlisted unwonted 
 sympathy for the afflicted father and other friends.* 
 
 * Besides several papers contributed to the transactions of the society and to peri- 
 odicals, he delivered a historical discourse at Bath on the occasion of the two hundred 
 and fifty-seventh anniversary of the Topsham settlement, which was publie^hed. For 
 
GRADUATES. 187 
 
 Randolph A. L. Codman was from Gorham. In college his 
 abilities were acknowledged, but lie could not be called industrious. 
 The first year after graduation was spent in teaching at Limerick. 
 From Mr. Longfellow's office he went- to Standish and stayed three 
 years. He then became a law partner with Asa (afterwards Judge) 
 Redington, at WatervUle. Here he remained until about 1830. Dur- 
 ing this period he was constantly engaged in able conflict with such 
 men as Sprague, Evans, and Boutelle, and established a high reputa- 
 tion as an advocate. He settled afterwards in Portland, where his 
 affability and eloquence commended him at once to popular favor. 
 In 1837 he entered into partnership with Edward Fox, Epq-j a con- 
 nection which lasted nearly ten years. He died in Portland in 1853, 
 at the age of fifty-seven. He was a man of ready and brilliant tal- 
 ents. Had he joined to these equal strength of character and steadi- 
 ness of purpose, he would have stood foremost among the successful, 
 the useful, and the honored. His first wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter 
 of Col. Samuel Stephenson of Gorham. His second wife was a Miss 
 Porter of Portland. He left five daughters, one of whom has since 
 died ; one is married to J. Q. Day of Portland, one to George Fay- 
 son, Esq., of Chicago, one to Mr. Shaw of Portland. 
 
 Rodney Gove Dennis, born in 1791 in New Boston, N. H., was the 
 youngest of thirteen children. When in 1813 he entered as a Sopho- 
 more, he found in college but one professing Christian brother. Hon- 
 orable mention of his example and influence as an undergraduate is 
 made in Prof. E. C. Smyth's religious history of the college. Soon 
 after leaving the Andover school Mr. Dennis was settled in Topsfield, 
 Mass., and after nine years of earnest .service there he asked and 
 received a dismission. In 1830 he was settled at Somers, Conn. 
 Here too he spent nine years with a church and congregation which 
 grew under his ministry. After his retirement from Somers he had 
 no permanent charge. He bought a farm in Grafton, Mass., on 
 which he lived and which he tilled, still preaching here and there as 
 he was called for. He was married in 1820 to Mary Parker, and 
 they had ten children. Mr. Dennis died in 1865. 
 
 Stephen Longfellow Lewis was a son of Hon. Lothrop Lewis of 
 Gorham, He studied law with his uncle Longfellow in Portland, and 
 
 sereral years he devoted his time not occupied by professional labors to an extensive 
 history of Wells and Kennebunk, — a work of eight hundred pages, the fruit of faith- 
 ful research and patient industry, which was published under the editorial care of his 
 son in 1875, the father having died in 187.3. p. 
 
188 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 established himself in Athens, where he obtained at once a good prac- 
 tice. He was a kind-hearted, cheerful, companionable man. The 
 " Athenians " liked him, and sent him to the Legislature as their 
 representative. But sickness overtook him ; he returned to Gorham, 
 and died in 1825. He left a widow and one child. 
 
 Dudley Noekis was not only a good scholar, but also kind and 
 true-hearted. He chose the medical profession and entered on the 
 study, but died within a year at his home in Hallowell. 
 
 Alpheus Spring Packard, eldest son of Rev. Dr. Packard, was 
 born in Chelmsford, Mass., in 1798. To the good training which he 
 got at home was added a year under Dr.^ Abbot at Exeter. After a 
 correct and creditable college course, he was an assistant teacher in 
 Gorham Academy, taught iil Wiscasset, then a year in Bucksport 
 where he taught the public school with great" success, and was princi- 
 pal for a short time of Hallowell Academy. From 1819 to 1824 he 
 was a tutor in Bowdoin College. From 1824 to 1865 he was pro- 
 fessor of the Latin and Greek languages, and for three years (1842- 
 1845) had charge of rhetoric and oratory. For the twelve years last 
 past the department of natural and revealed religion has been in- 
 trusted to his care. He is also the college librarian. 
 
 Of Prof Packard's substantial and sterling excellence I may hardly 
 trust myself to write, influenced as I might seem to be by the partial- 
 ity of a lifelong friendship. Should I go out and gather testimony 
 from the large army of Bowdoin men who have enjoyed his instruc- 
 tions, I could undoubtedly present ample and grateful attestation to 
 his ability as a teacher and' to the unswerving fidelity with which he 
 has discharged every duty of his station. For more than fifty years 
 he has stood at his post, the "steadfast supporter of learning, order, and 
 virtue. His strength, we rejoice to see, seems still unabated. Long 
 may it be ere the grateful institution which he has so faithfully served 
 shall be called to place him among her honored and beloved emeriti. 
 
 The following communication was presented to Prof. Packard at 
 the Commencement of 1869 at the public dinner : — 
 
 Dear Sir, — The subscribers to this paper, graduates of the college in 
 which you have so long been an instructor, are unwilling that this your 
 flfiieth year of official servicb should pass without some special recognition 
 on our part. Accept our congratulations on that kind Providence which has 
 favored you wilh so many useful, happy years. Accept also our thanks for 
 the fidelity, the kindness, the constant courtesy whiCh marked all your Inter- 
 course with us while we were your pupils, as well as for the pordial welcome 
 
^^■517 j.c,B,.te to i^n*^-'"'^ 
 
 ALPHEIJS S.PACKAOT.M.A, 
 rnoFESSoR oFAUcmnr j^mmoES fe =^Bcrmm c ^:z3SE- 
 
GEADUATES. 189 
 
 which you have never failed to give us when we revisited the old classic 
 ground. 
 
 As a testimonial, inadequate indeed, of our gratitude and regard, we tender 
 you herewith a small pecuniary contribution. With it please receive the 
 assurances of our best wishes for your health and happiness, and of our hope 
 that for years to come it may still be your privilege not only to enjoy but to 
 promote the prosperity of the institution which you have so faithfully served. 
 July, 1869. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 N. CLEAVELAND, 
 R. ANDERSON, 
 FRANKLIN PIERCE, 
 WM. H. ALLEN, 
 WM. P. FRYE, 
 P. W. CHANDLER, 
 In behalf of the Subscribers to the Fund. 
 
 The amount of the fund was $1,220. 
 
 Prof. Longfellow in his " Morituri Salutamus," at the semi-centen- 
 nial of his class at the Commencement of 1875, refers to Prof. Pack- 
 ard, their only surviving teacher, who was seated at their invitation 
 with the class on the platform. After apostrophizing the college 
 scenes and halls that yet gave no response, — 
 
 " Not so the teachers who in earlier days 
 Led our bewildered feet through learning's maze. 
 They answer us, — alas ! what have I said? 
 What greetings come there from the voiceless dead? 
 What salutation, welcome, or reply. 
 What pressure from the hands that lifeless lie? 
 They are no longer here ; they all are gone 
 Into the land of shadows — all save one. 
 Honor, and reverence, and the good repute 
 That follows faithful service as its fruit. 
 Be unto him whom living we salute." 
 
 For many years past Prof. Packard has been a licensed and or- 
 dained preacher of the gospel, and his services in this capaeit3' have 
 been numerous and valuable. Many vacant pulpits in the neighbor- 
 hood have thus been well supplied. For a quarter of a century the 
 Sabbath school of the Brunswick Congregational Society enjoyed his 
 able and constant superintendence. Latterly, for a good many j-ears, 
 he was one of the most efficient members of the Brunswick school 
 committee. 
 
 In 1839 Mr. Packard edited an issue of the "Memorabilia Xeno- 
 phontis," and a second edition in 1841. He also edited the works of 
 Dr. Appleton in two volumes, and wrote the memoir prefixed. A his- 
 
190 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 tory of the Monument on Banker Hill was contributed to the collections 
 of the Maine Historical Society, and a memoir of Kev. Mr. Eaton of 
 Harpswell, of President Appleton, and of his own father, to Sprague's 
 " Annals of the American Pulpit." He has contributed two articles to 
 the North American Review and one to the Bibliotheca Sacra. A lec- 
 ture before the American Institute of Instruction is to be found in their 
 proceedings. He has published an address before the alumni in 1858, 
 eulogies on Profs. Smyth and Upham, and the discourse at the semi- 
 centennial of Maine Conference of Congregational churches in 1876, 
 besides a few occasional addresses. He received the degree of D. D. 
 from the college in 1869. He is a member of the Maine, and honorary 
 member of the New York and Royal (England) Historical Societies. 
 
 In 1827 he married Frances E., second daughter of President 
 Appleton, a woman of rare excellence. She died in 1839, leaving 
 five children : Charles A. (Bowdoin College, 1848), practising physi- 
 cian in Waldoboro', and now in Bath ; William A. (Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, 1851), professor of modern languages, and then of Greek lan- 
 guage and literature in Dartmouth College, and now professor of Latin 
 and the science of language in the' College of New Jersey, Princeton ; 
 George L. ; Alpheus S. (Bowdoin College, 1861) , lecturer on compara- 
 tive anatomy and zoology in the college, and now professor of zoology 
 and geology. Brown University ; Frances A. In 1844 he married 
 Mrs. C. W. McLellan of Portland. They have one child, Robert L. 
 (Bowdoin College, 1868), instructor in the French and assistant pro- 
 fessor of chemistry in the coUege, and now first examiner United 
 States Patent Office. 
 
 Chaeles Richard Pokteh, son of Dr. B. J. Porter of Topsham, 
 born in 1797, studied law under the distinguished counsellor and 
 advocate, Benjamin Orr ; practised in Topsham for a time, and then 
 removed to Camden, where he devoted himself assiduously to his 
 profession for several years, and gained reputation as a sound law- 
 yer ; was attorney for the county of Waldo. Through impaired health 
 rendering it necessary to relinquish a portion of a laborious practice, 
 he removed to Bath in 1847. In 1850 he was elected probate judge 
 for Sagadahoc County. Throughout he was faithful to the principles 
 of the strictest integrity, and secured the respect of the community as 
 a citizen, a man, and a Christian. He married a Miss Smith, and 
 they had two children who have died. Mr. Porter died in 1860. 
 
 Ebenezee Shillaber, born in 1797 in Salem, Mass., was the son of 
 a ship-master. His mother, who died while he was young, was an 
 Endicott. In college he ranked high as to scholarship and taste. 
 
GRADUATES. 191 
 
 Neat in his person, gentle in his manners, kindly in disposition, he 
 was universally esteemed. He studied law with Leverett Saltonstall, 
 and won his high regard. At the close of the year 1819 he opened 
 an office in Newburyport. Here he stayed a few years, during which 
 he served the town once or twice as a member of the Legislature. 
 From Newburyport he removed to Salem, where he continued to prac- 
 tise his profession until 1841, when he was appointed clerk of the 
 courts for Essex County. This oflSce he held for ten years. The last 
 five years of his life were passed in the State of Maine. He died at 
 Biddeford, Nov. 9, 1866. 
 
 As a lawyer, Mr. Shillaber during the period of his professional 
 career was acknowledged to be both learned and able. He was not 
 distinguished as a jury advocate, or in the ordinary and practical busi- 
 ness of the courts ; but in an argument before the full bench, the 
 thoroughness of his research and the closeness of his logic were 
 always conspicuous. 
 
 But alas, how unfortunate ! Freshly before me stands the image of 
 his youth, ever modest, ever amiable ; and again I see him in the ful- 
 ness of manhood, so intelligent, so courteous, so fastidiously correct, 
 and finally — but I can look no longer. 
 
 William Augustus Staples was born in 1795 in Eliot ; studied 
 medicine with ardor and success, and took his degree in due course 
 at Philadelphia. He was determined to succeed, and had no fears of 
 the result. In all the strength of youthful courage and hope and high 
 health he went to Havana, resolved there to achieve a fortune. The 
 yellow fever seized him, and in less than two weeks from his arrival 
 there he was no more. 
 
 John Seaele Tennet was born in 1793 in Eowley, Mass. After 
 graduating at the head of his class he devoted himself to the law, 
 settled in Norridgewock, and was successful. In 1841 he was made 
 a justice of the Supreme Court of Maine. In 1855 he became chief 
 justice, and held the oflice until 1862, when he had arrived at the 
 constitutional limit. For twenty years he was a trustee of the col- 
 lege, and also its lecturer on medical jurisprudence. He was twice 
 a member of the Maine Legislature. Judge Tenney was a man of 
 large frame. His intellect was solid rather than imaginative, and if 
 somewhat slow was remarkably strong and sure. By his wife, Mar- 
 tha H. Dennis of Ipswich, he had a son, Samuel G. (Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, 1854), and a daughter. "The last years of his life, which 
 terminated in 1869, were shaded by domestic sorrow and bodily 
 infirmity." 
 
192 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 WiLMOT Wood was born in "Wiscasset, and there he always lived. 
 He began life as a lawyer, but soon went into mercantile business. 
 As a merchant and as a citizen he stood deservedly high. He mar- 
 ried a Miss Page of Hallowell. Their only son became a ship-master'; 
 their only daughter married Erastus Foote, Esq. Mr. Wood died in 
 1865 at the age of sixty-nine. 
 
 1817. 
 
 Ebenezer Cheetee was born in 1791 in Vermont. Dr. Payson of 
 Rindge and the New Ipswich Academj' prepared him for college. Dr. 
 Tappan of Augusta and Mr. Wines of Maine Charity School were 
 his theological. teachers. He has been settled as a minister in Mt. 
 Vernon, N. H., in Waterford, N. Y., in Newark, N. J., in Ypsilanti, 
 Mich., and in Putnam, N. J., his present home. When on the verge 
 of forty he martied Abby M. Mitchell, of Saybrook, Conn., and has 
 had seven children, four of whom are living. Two sons are lawyers 
 in Detroit ; one daughter is married to B. L. Baxter, a lawyer in 
 Tecumseh, Mich. ; another lives with her husband in Newark, N. J. 
 He has also six grandchildren. To his fellow-students Mr. Cheever 
 seemed like an old man when in college. He is now probably as 
 young as any of them. His health, which had long been poor, was, 
 restored by his eight years' residence in the West. He has given up 
 his manuscript sermons, preaching three times a week from a sched^ 
 ule only, carefully studied. Blessed in his family, young again in 
 health and strength, he seems to have entered on a green old age. 
 
 [Mr. Cheever died in 1866. — p.] 
 
 Nathan Cummings, born in 1796 in Waterford, whence the family in 
 his childhood removed to Portland, where his father was long known 
 as a distinguished physician, studied law with Stephen Longfellow, 
 Esq., and opened an office in Portland, where he has constantly re- 
 sided. He has been collector of the port, and ranks among the most 
 respectable and wealthy citizens of Portland. He married Emily, 
 daughter of Hon. Isaac Usley (see Trustees), on whose death Mr. 
 and Mrs. Cummings inherited his large estate. They have children: 
 Isaac (Brown University), a phj-sician in New York; Charlotte, Ste- 
 phen, and Augustus.* 
 
 * For forty-six years he was a director of Casco Bank, Portland. He was an active 
 Whig politician, and in ISIO was appointed collector of the port, but was removed 
 for political reasons in 1843. He engaged for a few years in a commercial firm, but 
 his inclinations led him to renounce active business, and his remaining years were 
 
GRADUATES. 193 
 
 Samuel Johkson of Winthrop, bom in 1792, stood in college at 
 the head of his small class. After graduation he succeeded me in the 
 Preble Street School, Portland. He was trained for the ministry by 
 Rev. Edward Payson ; was settled at Alna where he remained nine 
 years, and then at Saco where he staj'ed seven years. Being chosen 
 corresponding secretary of the Maine Missionary Society, he removed 
 to Hallowell, and there died in 1837. Mr. Johnson was a good 
 preacher and faithful minister. He had a vigorous mind and a pleas- 
 ant wit. His person as well as name sometimes reminded us of the 
 great lexicographer. He was twice married. His first wife, Hannah 
 Brooks of Augusta, lived but a year. The second wife was Hannah 
 Whittier of Andover, Mass. Of their seven children, Samuel W. (Bow- 
 doin College, 1843) practises medicine in Bristol ; William (Jiowdoin 
 College, 1856) was a teacher with the ministry in view, for a while, 
 then pursued theological study at the Bangor Seminary, and began to 
 preach with promise of an able ministry, but died. The four daugh- 
 ters : Hannah B., Anne E. (distinguished as a teacher) , Susan, and 
 Lucy. Since 1840 Mrs. Johnson has lived in Brunswick. 
 
 James McKeen, the president's youngest son, born in Beverly, 
 Mass., in 1797, on leaving college engaged with great ardor in the 
 study of medicine under Dr. Matthias Spaulding of Amherst, N. H., 
 Dr. John "Ware of Boston and Dr. Lincoln of Brunswick ; and suc- 
 ceeded his last-named teacher, who had removed to Brunswick, as the 
 practitioner of Topsham. Both here and in Brunswick he early 
 attained to a good reputation and extensive practice. In 1825 he was 
 made professor of obstetrics in the medical school, and continued to 
 perform the duties of that office until 1839. During the last two of 
 these years he also lectured on the theory and practice. Upon the 
 decease of Prof. Cleaveland, Dr. McKeen was made dean of the 
 Faculty. Prof. McKeen a few years ago evinced his interest in the 
 coUege and in science by the offer of 8500 towards an observatory. I 
 am not aware that there has been even an attempt to carry this liberal 
 proposition into effect. Dr. McKeen's first wife was Sarah Farley 
 of Waldoboro'. They had one child who died. He has no offspring 
 by his present wife, Octavia Frost of Topsham.* 
 
 given mostly to his home and friends. In 1834 he was elected a, member of Maine 
 Historical Society. Mr. Cummings had suffered for some time from an attacic of 
 paralysis, which eventually caused his death, July 15, 1878, at the age of eighty-two 
 years. p. 
 
 *Dr. McKeen suffered from protracted disease and died Nov. 28, 1873. A few 
 passages may be added to the above which was written several years ago, from 
 13 
 
194 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Joseph Geeen Moody, a son of Joseph and Maria Barrell Moody, 
 was born at Kenuebunk in 1797. Having lived saecessivelj' in Ken- 
 nebunk, Augusta, and Bangor, he moved in 1840 to Boston. Mr. 
 Moody is engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was married in 1826 
 to Elizabeth C. Currier of Dover, N. H. A daughter and a son sur- 
 
 remarks at his funeral suggested by the intimate friendship of college and subsequent 
 life: — 
 
 "He was distinguished among his brethren for nice observation, discriminating 
 diagnosis and prognosis, for sagacity especially in cases of disordered mental action, 
 and for excellent judgment in the treatment of disease. A physician and surgeon 
 often needs true courage. I have thought there was much of the hero in our friend. 
 He showed this when Asiatic cholera first invaded our land. Some can remember 
 the dismay which filled the land ; how we had watched its deadly progress from Indi^ 
 to Europe* and hoped the broad Atlantic might prove a barrier to its course, and how, 
 when it had struck our shores and was plainly on its baleful way and had reached 
 New York, our cellars, sewers, and all our premises were visited by health commit- 
 tees in order to prepare for the dread visitation. Apprehending its visit to our towns 
 and wishing to arm himself for the conflict, with his professional ardor and fearless- 
 ness Dr. MoKeen resolved to repair to New York that he might see with his own 
 eyes that strange and most formidable foe of human life, and the best methods 
 of science in arresting or vanquishing it. He left without a lisp of his purpose to 
 . his neighbors, — " ran away," as he expressed it ; and his story of the delays and 
 embarrassments he experienced in securing conveyance through Connecticut (for 
 terror had almost entirely arrested public travel), his night at the New Haven Hotel, 
 where he spent most of the night conversing mostly on the object of his journey with 
 one whom he thought an uncommon man, and whom the next morning he found 
 to be Daniel Webster, was full of interest. His persistent resolution and genuine 
 courage bore him on, thus displaying high devotion to the interests of his profession, 
 honorable to him as a physician and a man, and moreover laying this community 
 under oWigations which they could not have estimated too highly. 
 
 " To refer to other traits of his mind and character as I learned them from long 
 and of late years most intimate converse with him, — his conscientious and high 
 professional honor: Medical practitioners are sometimes tempted to measures in- 
 volving nice considerations of propriety, as also to practices illegal and even criminal. 
 I doubt whether any suspicion of infringing on the courtesies of the profession, or 
 of yielding to such trials of his integrity, however urgent, ever attached to his name. 
 Hfe set his face as a flint against all approaches of the kind. 
 
 " He once told me in one of our confidences that for years it had been his habit, 
 before leaving home for professional service, to medftate on the cases he was to visit 
 __ and to seek divine guidance and blessing of the great Physician in the work before 
 him. 
 
 " Dr. McKeen was not a mere professional man. No one could be conversant with 
 him and not be impressed with the proof of his tenacious memory of men and events. 
 In modern political history, whether of our own or other lands, few surpassed him in 
 general statement or minute detail." 
 
 Dr. McKeen made the revealed "Word his companion, and in later years seemed 
 to be girding himself for the end which he weU knew could not be far off. He never 
 swerved from the faith of. his fathers ; and with profound humiliation of spirit and 
 humble hope committed his soul into the hands of his Redeemer. ' p. 
 
GRADUATES. 195 
 
 vive. The latter, George L. Moody, is employed as a civil engineer 
 by the city of Chicago, III. In 1834 Mr. Moody was again married 
 to Martha, daughter of Henry W. Fuller of Augusta. There are two 
 daughters by this marriage. 
 
 [Mr. Moody died at Cambridge, May 30, 1879. — p.j 
 
 Charles Packard, second son of Rev. H. Packard, was born in 
 1801 in Chelmsford, Mass. When his class graduated he did the 
 saluting in classical Latin ; and three years afterwards, on the same 
 stage, he bade us all an affecting farewell in the same sonorous lan- 
 guage. During the interval between these two speeches he had held 
 the office of private tutor in the family of Mr. R. H. Gardiner, and 
 had also studied law under the able guidance of Frederic Allen and of 
 Benjamin Orr. Mr. Packard opened an office in Brunswick, and was 
 successful. But as the years rolled on his views of life and its respon- 
 sibilities underwent a change. He thought he could work more sat- 
 isfactorily and usefully in a different profession. He left the bar, and 
 after some time spent in Andover, and at Walnut Hills in Ohio, he 
 began to preach. After two years of service' in Hamilton, Ohio, he 
 was settled (1840) over the Orthodox Congregational Church in Lan- 
 caster, Mass. Here he stayed fourteen years. Then for a year he 
 preached in Cambridgeport. In 1855 he was settled at North Middle- 
 boro', Mass. He is now stationed at Biddeford and seems well 
 content. I have seen Mr. Packard in the pulpit, but have never 
 heard him preach.' I cannot doubt that he is a useful minister, as 
 I know him to be a good man. I have doubts, however, whether he 
 did wiselj' in relinquishing a profession which needs men of high 
 principle quite as much as the ministry needs them. Mr. Packard, 
 in 1829, was married to the youngest daughter of Hon. W. A. Kent of 
 Concord, N. H. Of their five children living the eldest is a daughter. 
 The sons : C. W. was an assistant physician in the Emigrants' Hos- 
 pital on Ward's Island, N. Y. , subsequentlj' physician at St. Luke's ; 
 Edward N. was pastor of the Congregational Chui-ch, Evanston, 111., 
 now of the Second Church, Dorchester, Mass. ; George T. rector of 
 St. John's Church, Bangor, Me. 
 
 Phineas Pratt was born in New Ipswich, N. H., May, 1789. 
 After graduation he took charge of Thornton Academy, Saco, pursu- 
 ing theological studies during the intervals of school work with Rev. 
 Jonathan Cogswell, pastor of the Congregational church. He received 
 a license to preach, and as opportunity offered exercised his gift ; 
 but infirm health compelled him to relinquish the work of the minis- 
 
196 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 try. He gave himself to more active life, engaged in the lumbering 
 business, not always with success. In 1843 he removed to the Kenne- 
 bec, at Gardiner, in furtherance of his purposes. Respected as a 
 citizen, he held municipal offices, which he discharged with character- 
 istic care and accuracy. Having connected himself with the Episco- 
 pal church at its establishment in Saco, at his new residence he 
 became warden of Christ Church and superintendent of its Sunday 
 school, in which offices " his punctuality, constancy, careful super- 
 vision, and devout example produced the happiest results. His whole 
 character and feelings were those of a just, sober, and religious man." 
 He married Miss Baehelder'of New Ipswich, but had no children. He 
 died December, 1865. 
 
 John Widgbrt, born in Portland in 1802, was a grandson of 
 the noted William Widgery. He read law in the office of l^is uncle, 
 Nathan Kinsman, and soon after wandered away into the Southwest. 
 After sojourning awhile in the Cherokee country, he settled at Little ' 
 Rock in Arkansas, of which city he was chosen mayor. For several 
 years past, St. Louis has been his home. He has been employed in 
 the office of the State surveyor. His wife was Anna Woodward of 
 Boston. They have no children. 
 
 [Mr. Widgery died in Portland in 1873. — p. J 
 
 1818. 
 
 RuFus Andbkson's father, of the same name, a descendant from one 
 of the Scotch-Irish settlers of Londonderry, and brother of Mrs. (Pres- 
 ident) McKeen, was minister of a large parish in North Yarmouth, 
 where in 1796 the oldest son was born. Isaac Parsons of New 
 Gloucester was his maternal grandfather. At the age of thirteen 
 Ruf us ' entered Bradford Academy (Rev. Mr. Hardy). Subsequently 
 he was in the family of Rev. Asahel Huntington of Topsfleld. In his 
 sixteenth j'ear he kept successfully a large and difficult school in 
 Manchester, Mass., and had a similar school in Beverly two years 
 afterward. Notwithstanding the death of his father at Wenham in 
 the spring of 1814, he entered college that year. Of the religious 
 revival in 1816 he and his brother were subjects. Dr. Anderson's 
 estimate of that great fact in the history of the college is given in Prof. 
 Smyth's first discourse. In an uncommonly good class Mr. Ander- 
 son held a high rank. His Peucinian brothers chose him to preside 
 over them. He arrived in Beverly after his graduation in so poor a 
 state of health that his friends prescribed a sea voyage, and started 
 
nyj 
 
 ^ -Biittre ftom a Dafl-J-"' 
 
GRADUATES. 197 
 
 t 
 
 him off for India. A short sojourn at Rio Janeiro proved so beneficial 
 that he resolved to go no farther. At this place his passport was 
 demanded. Being unprovided with such a document, he began to 
 apprehend serious trouble. Fortunately he had taken his college 
 diploma. This was presented to the officer on duty, and was pro- 
 nounced sufficient. It is not often, I believe, that this coveted bit of 
 parchment proves so useful. On returning to the United States, Mr. 
 Anderson gave in the Panoplist his impressions of the Brazilian- 
 capital. Soon after he entered the Andover Seminary, intending 
 there to prepare himself for a mission among the heathen. About that 
 time he devised the Christian Almanac, and prepared for the press its 
 first two numbers. This serial (now Called the Family Christian 
 Almanac) is still continued, and has a circulation of over 300,000. 
 Mr. Anderson was first connected with the American Board as an 
 assistant of Mr. Evarts. In 1823 he was elected assistant correspond- 
 ing secretary. Soon after this he published the " Memoir of Cath- 
 arine Brown," and the work had a large circulation both here and in 
 England. Mr. Anderson was ordained in 1826. Two years later 
 he was sent on a special exploring agency to the missions around the 
 Jlediterranean, with a particular reference to Greece. He was gone 
 somewhat over a year, and soon after gave the results in a volume 
 called " Observations upon the Peloponnesus and the Greek Islands." 
 Since 1832, when he was chosen a secretary of the board, he has 
 had charge of its immense foreign correspondence. In 1843 the 
 prudential committee again sent him to the East, with a commission 
 to visit the missionaries in Greece, Turkey, and_ Syria, and conifer with 
 them in regard to their worli and prosp'^ts. For an account of this 
 voyage and tour, in which he was accompanied by Dr. Hawes of 
 Hartford, see Missionary Herald, 1843. In 1854 Dr. Anderson and 
 Mr. Thompson of Roxbury were deputed by the board to visit its mis- 
 sionary stations in India. Before they returned from this long journey, 
 representations came to America from some of those distant posts 
 which awakened in many minds suspicion and doubt in regard to the 
 action of the deputation. In the course of missionary labor and 
 development a grave question had arisen : "Was the system of 
 schools for heathen children, as adopted in the East Indian sta- 
 tions, a wise and good one? The deputation, it was said, had de- 
 cided against it, and had ordered its discontinuance. Dr. Anderson 
 returned to find no little agitation in the religious world. At an 
 excited meeting of the board in Albany not a few hard things were 
 said, which the good doctor bore with much equanimity. The entire 
 s abject w-as referi-ed to a special committee. At the next regular meet- 
 
198 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN CbLLEGB. 
 
 ing of the board (in Newark) , a report was made and accepted which 
 settled the controversj'. All parties professed to be satisfied, and the 
 venerable secretary received, Instead of abuse, so many compliments 
 as to make him a little uncomfortable. The good name and the solid 
 reputation of Dr. Anderson are identified with the great cause to which 
 he has devoted his life. That he has been a disinterested, untiring, 
 and most useful laborer ih the field of foreign missions, can be denied 
 by none but men of jaundiced eyes. His health, formerly feeble, has 
 rather improved with advancing years. Long may it enable him to 
 continue the active, honored patriarch of a great and holy enterprise ! 
 In 1827 Mr. Anderson was married to Eliza, daughter of Richard 
 Hill of Essex, Conn. Of seven children five are living. One son is a 
 successful lawyer in the city of New York.* 
 
 Isaac Paksons Andekson, brother of Eufus, was born in 1798 in 
 North (Yarmouth. His excellent parents died while he was yet a boy. 
 He had not been long in college when the symptoms of inherited 
 disease made their appearance in him. "With many interruptions, and 
 in much weakness, he struggled on with his class until the spring of 
 their Senior year. With reference to this hopeless and probably fatal 
 struggle one of his classmates remarks : " In endeavoring to keep up 
 with his class in the latter part of his college life, he seemed much like 
 ' a lamb led to the slaughter.' " In the following December he died 
 at Beverly, Mass. His " Memoirs," a small volume, which appeared 
 soon after, show that he was a youth of excellent promise. To good 
 mental powers he added strong affections and rare piety. " More than 
 thirty years," writes Judge Pierce, " have elapsed since we saw him ; 
 but his classmates will never forget his kind words, his tall, erect 
 frame, fine blue eye, and gentlemanly deportment. He was a close 
 student, a good scholar, an amiable companion, and a devoted 
 Christian." 
 
 Israel Wildes Bourne, brother of Edward E. (1816), studied law 
 awhile and then engaged in teaching. He was a private tutor in 
 Maryland for about two years. He taught in Hebron, in Kennebunk, 
 in Dover, and in Portsmouth, N. H. At length he engaged as a clerk 
 
 * Dr. Anderson, after thirty-four years of service, resigned the office of correspond- 
 ing secretary of the American Board in 1866, but was on its prudential committee 
 until 1875. Since his retirement from the secretaryship he has given courses of lec- 
 tures at different theological institutions on foreign missions, which were published 
 in a volume in 1869, and published a history of the missions of the board in four vol- 
 umes. The " Memorial Volume," " The Hawaian Islands,'' with minor works, had 
 appeared before. He had shown the physical infirmities of advanced years ; but with- 
 out marked disease, apparently from gradual decay of the vital force, he died May 30, 
 IBbO. p. 
 
GRADUATES. 199 
 
 in the counting-room of Henry Eice & Co., and subsequently in that of 
 J. M. Paige & Co. of Boston. In this position, which he still holds, t 
 his great skill as a penman has been turned to good account. In 
 1820 he married Eliza, daughter of Dr. Jacob Fisher of Kennebunk. 
 Of their four sons two survive and occupy places of trust orr some of 
 the Western railways. 
 
 [Mr. Bourne died in 1862. —p. | 
 
 Edward Theodoke Bkidge was a son of the Hon. James Bridge of 
 Augusta. He began to practise law in Augusta, but the confinement 
 injured his health and he sought a more active life. For some time 
 he edited the Augusta Patriot, and served the county of Kennebec 
 as register of probate. In 1834 he commenced with others an 
 attempt to create a water-power by building a costly dam across the 
 Kennebec. A little later he was made president of the Granite Bank. 
 For the benefit of his health he spent the winter of 1835-36 in Cuba, 
 and for the same reason in the following 3'ear removed to Philadelphia. 
 The magnificent dam at Augusta was finished and was beginning to 
 3'ield an income when an unwonted rise in the river (June, 1839) swept 
 around and carried away the structure. This heavj^ loss threw him 
 back on his personal resources. He removed the following winter to 
 Washington, where he had many friends. He was made secretary to 
 the Senate Committee on Claims, and aided his friend Major Hobble 
 of the Post-Offlce. After nearly two years of hard and useful labor 
 here he was made special agent of the Post-Offlce Department for 
 New England, and removed to Hartford, Conn. The duties of this 
 arduous office, not open to public observation, he discharged to the 
 entire acceptance of the department. In 1845 he removed to Charles- 
 town, Mass., and the following year to Jersey City to become superin- 
 tendent of the Morris Canal. This post, after two or three years of 
 successful management, he resigned in order to engage in business on 
 his own account. Among other projects he took a leading part in 
 forming the Guj'andotte Land Company. He died in 1854 at Jersey 
 City, by disease of the kidney. " Of courteous manners and an 
 amiable temper, and of health never robust, he was yet a. man of 
 untiring energy, and by the successful discharge of his varied duties 
 proved himself to be one of great resources. In every position he 
 maintained a high character for integrity, and in his last illness was 
 sustained by a firm religious faith." He married in 1822 Miss Ann 
 King, the niece and adopted daughter of Gov. William King of Bath. 
 This lady and three daughters still live. One daughter died about a 
 year before her father. One son, a lawyer of promising talents, died- 
 
200 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 suddenly a , few weeks before his father's decease. Another son not 
 less promising, a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, while navigating in 
 the West India waters, disappeared with the small vessel which he 
 commanded. 
 
 Carleton Dole of Alna, born 1798, was a son of John Dole. 
 He entered the ministry and preached awhile, then he traded for 
 about ten years in his native town. After a short trial at farming he 
 returned to books, which he bought and sold in Augusta. Then he 
 became cashier of the Citizens' Bank. MeanwhUe his pursuits, 
 though diversified, had been successful, so that in 1840 he retired 
 from business. Since 1847 he has been a citizen of Massachusetts, 
 residing successively in Salem, Newburyport, and South Reading, 
 which is his present home. While living in Alna he represented the 
 town and also the county in the Legislature of Maine. Mr. Dole was 
 married in early life to Eliza Carleton of Alna. They have had nine 
 children, and six still live : one son is in Amherst College ; one 
 daughter married a son of Eev. Justin Edwards ; another daughter 
 is the wife of Mr. Stanwood (Manning & Stanwood), Boston. 
 
 [Mr. Dole died in 1870. — p. J 
 
 Moses Emery's parents lived in Minot, and meant that he should 
 livethere too, and grow up a good farmer. But the boy had a very 
 different end in view, and found time for study in the intervals of 
 labor. In this way — with occasional aid from Mr. Hill, a kind law- 
 yer at Minot Corner, and without the knowledge of his parents — 
 he fitted himself for college. At the Commencement of 1814 his 
 uncle Stephen was to graduate, and Moses was sent to Brunswick on 
 horseback, leading a horse for his uncle to ride back. His relative 
 advised him, being thus on the ground, to apply for admission. 
 Accordingly he was examined and went in. When his father learned 
 that Moses had taken this step, he sent him to Brooklyn, N. Y., where 
 another uncle of his was then living. Uncle Nathan, who was a Meth- 
 odist minister, in compliance with his brother's orders, found a place 
 for his nephew in a store on Broadway. Here for n,early a year he 
 performed with fidelity the duties of an accountant. Late at night he 
 found time for study, keeping up with his class. Just before Com- 
 mencement (1815) he retired suddenly and silently from the employ 
 of Messrs. Munson, soon reappeared in Brunswick, was examined and 
 received as a Sophomore. His father no longer objected to college, 
 but refused all assistance. He was not a belles-lettres scholar, but 
 led his class in mathematics and the philosophies. Mr. Emery having 
 
GRADUATES. 201 
 
 studied law with Judge Bailey of Wiscasset, became his partner in 
 business. In 1815 he removed to Saco, his present home. " In my 
 practice," he says, " I have made it a rule never to encourage litiga- 
 tion, never to prosecute an unjust cause, or to aid an unjust defence ; 
 and as a consequence I have lost many a fat fee that others have en- 
 joyed. But I retained what I like better, a good conscience." Happy 
 the lawyer who can witness such a confession. Mr. Emery's profes- 
 sional career has been somewhat impeded by the want of firm health, 
 and his speculations have not always succeeded. In politics he was a 
 Whig while there were Whigs, and now he is a Eepnblican. Of the 
 temperance cause he was an earnest advocate. Mr. Emery, born 
 1794, was married in 1823 to Sarah Cutts, second daughter of Mar- 
 shall Thornton of Saco. Three of their seven children are living. 
 Thornton C. was a member of Bowdoin College, but was compelled 
 by sickness to leave in the Junior year. He now lives in California, 
 is a trader, and is married. His second son, also married, lives in 
 Lawrence, Kansq,s, where he has a large farm. George A. graduated 
 at Bowdoin College in 1863.* 
 
 Joseph Palmer Fessenden was a son of the first minister of Frye- 
 burg, where he was born in 1792. His father, William Fessenden, was 
 a graduate of Harvard College, 1768. He studied professionally in 
 part at Brunswick under President Appleton, and many a pleasant 
 walk and talk we had in those days. In 1820 he was settled over 
 the Congregational church in Arundel (now Kennebunkport) . After 
 nine years of arduous and successful labor he removed to South 
 Bridgton, where he took charge of a small congregation and where 
 he lives still. " I have lived," he says, " to bury most of those who 
 took part in my installation, and am now in my old age kindly cared 
 for and supported by their sons." Enjoying almost uninterrupted 
 health, he has found time and strength and occasion for labors a good 
 way beyond his parish bounds While the cause of temperance and 
 that of anti-slavery were yet in their infancy and comparative weak- 
 ness, his addresses in their behalf among the people of York and 
 Oxford Counties brought on him frequent opposition and reproach. 
 He has lived to see a very difierent state of feeling prevail, and now 
 looks back with satisfaction on that part of his life " which has been 
 devoted to the cause of temperance and the slave." Mr. Fessenden 
 
 *Mr. Emery died in Saco, May 12, 1881. He had failed in health some months, 
 showed further signs of weakness during the last fortnight, and at last fell dead from 
 his chair. He served on the school committee several years, and represented his city 
 in the Legislature in 1836 and 1837. p. 
 
202 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 was married in 1819 to Phebe P. Beach of Canaan, Vt. Having 
 no children, they supplied the want as best they could. William G-. 
 Barrows (Bowdoin College, 1839) , a highly respected lawyer in Bruns- 
 wick, and judge of probate for the county,* was brought up and edu- 
 cated by Mr. and Mrs. Fessenden. One adopted and beloved daughter 
 has been taken from them by death, and one is still with them. 
 
 Benjamin Hale was born in 1797 in Belleville parish, Newbury, 
 now a part of Newburyport. His father was Col. Hale, a much- 
 respected citizen. His mother was a daughter of Col. Josiah Little 
 (see J. Little, 1811). Of Mr. Hale's six brothers three — viz., Moses 
 L., Thomas, and Josiah L. — became honorably known in the mercan- 
 tile circles of Boston and New York ; Eben was a physician ; Joshua a 
 ship-master; Edward a farmer. Of his three sisters two died un- 
 married, and one is the widow of Rev. Mr. March. Benjamin Hale 
 was fitted at Atkinson, N. H., and entered Dartmouth College, from 
 which he went to Brunswick in the Sophomore year. Here in a class 
 of uncommon excellence he stood high, and gave at Commencement 
 the Latin salutation. Then for one year he had charge of Saco 
 Academjr. Another year, was spent in theological study at the semi- 
 nary in- Andover. From 1820 to 1822 Mr. Hale was tutor at Bruns- 
 wick in mathematics and natural philosophy. At this time, through 
 the agency mainly of Hon. E. H. Gardiner, an institution for the 
 education of mechanics and farmers had been established in the town 
 which bears his name, and which owes so much to his wise and liberal 
 policy. High scientific attainments and a mind remarkably practical 
 led to the selection of Mr. Hale as the first principal of this school. 
 Under his administration, which lasted four years, the Gardiner 
 Lyceum had a wide reputation and was eminently useful. Among 
 other fruifs of his labor there was an elementary treatise on the 
 "Principles of Carpentry," published in 1827. Soon after he went 
 to Gardiner, Mr. Hale, whose Views on ecclesiastical matters had 
 changed somewhat, returned to the association of York County the 
 license to preach which they had given hin\ a year before. In August, 
 1827, he was inaugurated as professor of chemistry and pharmacy in 
 Dartmouth College. The duties of this professorship Mr. Hale for 
 eight years discharged ably and faithfully. Not only as a scientific 
 teacher and lecturer but as an intelligent and courteous college officer 
 he was highly esteemed by his classes, both in the academic and the 
 medical departments. But unfortunately Mr. Hale was an Episcopa- 
 lian, having been ordained deacon soon after he went to Hanover. It 
 
 *Now on the Supreme Bench. Mr. Fesseuden died in 1861. — p. 
 
'^^^JC^^. ^ .l^ague.^^^" 
 
 BmJ7\iVim HALE. D. D. 
 
 EEESWJnhfT OF SOBART FUSE COZEB6E. GENEVA , NT, 
 
 J-htffmved. ibr rt/ Bf!H'3^!in Wf.mori(d. 
 
GRADUATES. 203 
 
 was not enough that he carefully avoided the obtrasion of his opinions 
 or that he made no attempt at proseljtism . He at length discovered, 
 and somewhat abruptly, that the existence of such an anomaly in the 
 Orthodox Faculty of Dartmouth CoUege could no longer be tolerated. 
 Without asking him to resign, without even warning him of their in- 
 tention, the trustees of the college at the Commencement in 1835 abol- 
 ished the professorship of chemistry. Mr. Hale, thus turned out, pub- 
 lished soon after a " Valedictory Letter to the Trustees of Dartmouth 
 College." It was a calmly written narrative of the case, and showed 
 very plainly the extreme incivility, not to say injustice, of the treat- 
 ment which he had received. To this no answer was made by the 
 reverend and honorable body who did the deed. There was however 
 an anonymous reply, which called forth a rejoinder prepared by Dr. 
 Oliver, a professor in the same college, under the title of " Prof. Hale 
 and Dartmouth College." There are those, I suppose, who adopt the 
 principle and who would justify the motive which led to the removal 
 of a competent college oflScer solely on the ground of difference in 
 rehgious matters ; but how any one can commend the way in which 
 this was accomplished by the Hanover trustees is inconceivable to 
 me. An attack of bronchitis induced Mr. Hale to spend the winter 
 that followed his dismissal on the island of St. Croix. Soon after his 
 return in the summer of 1836 he was elected to the presidency of 
 Geneva CoUege, in Western New York. Here for ten years he labored 
 with great industry and encouraging success ; but in 1848 the State 
 of New York adopted a new Constitution, which among other improce- 
 ments cut off the annual grants to the colleges. But for the courage 
 and perseverance of President Hale the result would undoubtedly have 
 been fatal to Geneva College. The institution, though suffering griev- 
 ously for want of means, was kept in operation. An application to 
 Trinity Church for permanent aid was made by Dr. Hale, and pressed 
 through four years of struggle and discouragement to a successful 
 issue. Hobart Free College, as it is now called, received from the 
 vestry of Trinity an annuity of $3,000. For the restoration of his 
 health, Dr. Hale in 1852 visited Europe, being absent about six 
 months. Subsequently finding his health and strength inadequate to 
 the duties of the presidency, he resigned the post which he had held so 
 long and honorably, and with strongest testimonials of regard and 
 respect from the government and alumni of the institution. He has 
 since secured a pleasant home near the spot where he was born, and 
 there died in 1863.* 
 
 *Dr. Hale married in 1823 Mary Caroline King, daughter of Hon. Cyrus King of 
 Saco. They had seven children, of whom four still (1877) survive. He received the 
 degree of D. D. from Columbia CoUege, New York, 1836. 
 
204 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Fkedekic Benjamin Page, son of Dr. Benjamin Page of Hal- 
 lowell, was bom in 1798. Having studied medicine with his father 
 and attended lectures at Brunswick, he settled in Portland. After a 
 year there he went to Louisiana and planted himself at Donaldsonville, 
 once the capital of that State. Here he entered on a successful prac- 
 tice, which continued almost as long as he lived. He was an industri- 
 ous student in his own science and art. He liked to discuss the great 
 questions which interest and divide medical men ; and upon many of 
 these he gave his own views in the periodicals of the day. Dr. Page 
 was a man of strong passions, ardent, impulsive, generous to a fault. 
 He is said to have lost both time and money by speculating in Texas 
 lands. He married in Washington, D. C, a daughter of John Davis, 
 formerly of Augusta. He died at his brother's house in Edwards, 
 Miss., July 26, 1857, leaving a widow and one child. 
 
 Geokgb Dummek Pbrlet, a son of Nathaniel Perley, a lawyer and 
 wit well known at Hallowell. George studied with his father, but 
 scarcely entered on the practice of law, for which he had neither taste 
 nor fitness. His friends still recall the neatness of his person, his 
 modest demeanor, and his intercourse always polite and friendly. He 
 survived his graduation but eight years. He married in Boston a 
 daughter of Dr. Jackson of musical fame. 
 
 JosiAH Piekcb was bom in 1792 in Baldwin, where he grew np on 
 a farm. Fitted at Bridgton by Bezaleel Cushman, he entered Bow- 
 doin College a Sophonaore. Mr. Longfellow taught him law, and 
 then he went into the practice at Gorham. Being one of those men 
 whom office seeks, he has been much before the public : he has held 
 commands in the militia ; the town has had a great deal for him to 
 do ; he has occupied a seat in both branches of the Maine Legisla- 
 ture, and for years presided over the Senate. At length he was raised 
 to the judicial bench, having been since 1846 the judge of probate for 
 Cumberland. Long an overseer of the college, he was chosen a trus- 
 tee in 1855. Ecclesiastically, Judge Pierce is connected with the 
 Baptists, but regard for him as a man and a Christian is not confined 
 to that denomination. Married in 1825 to Evelina, daughter of Hon. 
 Archelaus Lewis, they have six children: viz., Josiah (Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, 1846), lately attached to the United States legation at St. 
 Petersburg, and now resident in London, England ; Lewis (Bowdoin 
 College, 1852), lawyer in Portland ; George W. (Bowdoin College, 
 1857), Commercial Agency, New York, civil engineer ; Evelina, wife 
 of John A. Waterman (Bowdoin College, 1846) ; Nancy, wife of 
 
GRADUATES. 205 
 
 Edward N. Whittier, M. D. ; Eliza L., now residing with her brother 
 in England. 
 
 [Mr. Pierce died in 1866. —p. J 
 
 GEOEaE Baerell Sewall, a HaUoweU boy. "A pleasant, fair- 
 faced youth, bright, active, intelligent, but wild as the untamed 
 fawn," He was very companionable, with little taste for mathe- 
 matics or philosophy, but a good proficient in the classics and espe- 
 cially in the Greek. He read law with Hon. Thomas Bond, and went 
 afterwards to Mobile, Ala., where he died in 1825 at the age of 
 twenty-six years. 
 
 Seba Smith was born in 1792 in a log-house put up by his father 
 in the woods of Buckfleld. When he was ten years old the family 
 removed to Bridgton, where he grew up, working hard, sometimes on 
 a farm, sometimes in a grocery, sometimes in a brickyard, and some- 
 times in an iron foundry. At eighteen he had made so good use of 
 his scanty opportunities for learning as to be employed in teaching 
 school. He went to the new academj' in Bridgton, and Mr. Cushman, 
 perceiving his talents, put the idea of college in his head. A kind 
 Portland gentleman offered to loan the monej' for his expenses, and 
 so he went. In college he was frugal, industrious, and highly success- 
 ful, graduating with the first honor in the best class which Brunswick 
 had then seen. Then one year was devoted to teaching in Portland. 
 Then, being in poor health, he travelled extensively in his own 
 country, and made a voyage to England. On his return he became 
 copnected with the Eastern Argus, first as assistant editor and soon 
 after as joint proprietor. After being thus occupied for four years, he 
 sold his interest in the paper. But he soon became tired of inaction. 
 In 1830 he started the Portland Daily Courier. It was a small sheet, 
 but the enterprise is memorable as the first daily paper published 
 east of Boston. For seven years, under the management of Mr. 
 Smith, the Courier flourished. Much of its success was due to the 
 " Downing" letters. The ability, the good sense, the genuine humor, 
 and more than all the unmitigated Yankeeism of the kind-hearted 
 " Major" soon made him popular, and his effusions reappeared in all 
 the papers. These were sought with avidity and read by everybody. 
 During a period of intense political strife the " Downing " letters, with 
 their good-natured satire and admirable irony, furnished matter that 
 both sides could laugh at, and thus did much to allay the bitterness 
 of party. 
 
 These once famous letters have all been republished in Emerson's 
 
206 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 United States Magazine, and are now before the public in an illus- 
 trated volume entitled " My Thirty Years out of the Senate, by Major 
 Jack Downing." Like all writings that dwell on passing occurrences, 
 they have lost much of their piquancy by the lapse of time and the 
 remoteness of those exciting scenes amid which thej' were produced ; 
 but there is much in them which is independent of time and circum- 
 stance, and they may still be read with pleasure and advantage. 
 While Mr. Smith stuck to his paper and his pen he got along well ; 
 but the land fever broke out, and he in common with his neighbors 
 took the disease. The consequence was that he had to sell out the 
 Courier and begin anew. A brother-in-law having invented a 
 machine for separating cotton from its seed, Mr. Smith became his 
 agent for selling it at the South. Full of hope he went with his 
 family to South Carolina. The enterprise failed, and in January, 
 1839, he landed in New York, as poor as when he started in life, with 
 the added care of wife and children. He turned again to his pen, 
 Mrs. Smith coming bravely to the rescue, and carrying perhaps even 
 more than her end of the yoke. Among the publications of that time 
 to which he contributed were Godey's Lady's Book, Graham's Maga- 
 zine, the 8aticrday Courier, the Knickerbocker, New York Mirror, 
 Ladies' Companion, New World, Brother Jonathan, and Southern Lit- 
 erary Messenger. Hard work it was and moderately rewarded, but it 
 kept the pot boiling. Then he became editor in whole or in part of 
 the Mover, a magazine, of the Bunker Hill and the Budget, which 
 were weekly papers, and of the American Republican, which was a 
 daily. He had been for some time the editor of the United Stales 
 Magazine, when in 1857 Putnam's Monthly was merged in it. The 
 combined magazine is still under the editorship of Mr. Smith and of his 
 wife. In 1854 a collection of his humorous stories was republished in 
 12mo, and entitled "Way Down East; or. Portraitures of Yankee 
 Life." Other volumes of his collected miscellanies will in due time 
 appear. Mr. Smith early showed a marked poetic vein : ' ' The 
 Mother perishing in a Snow Storm " (see Bowdoin Poets) is an exam- 
 ple of beautiful simplicitj'^ and pathos. A small volume of his poems 
 is soon to appear. But Mr. Smith's studies and lucubrations have 
 not been confined to the realms of story and song. All other labors 
 he regards as trifling when compared with his " New Elements of 
 Geometry," an octavo volume of two hundred pages, published in 1850. 
 This work was the result of three years devoted to the subject, with 
 intense application, during which he worked in the ancient Greek 
 method, by rule and compass and arithmetical calculations. I regret 
 that my limits do not allow me to present the ingenious statement and 
 
GRADUATES. 207 
 
 explanation of its peculiarities which lie before me. I might do it 
 injustice were I to curtail or condense it. In a word, however, Mr. 
 Smith denies that " there are three kinds of quantity in geometry, as 
 represented 'hy lines, surfaces, and solids in the works of all mathema- 
 ticians heretofore," and contends that it " has but one kind of 
 quantity, and requires but one kind of unit to measure quantity," 
 which unit is the cube. He holds that " every geometrical expres- 
 sion, whether in arithmetical numbers or in algebraic symbols, essen- 
 tially gives to every unit the form of the cube," and that in this fact 
 may be found an explanation of many hitherto unfathomable difficul- 
 ties in mathematics, such as the impossible problem of the duplication 
 of the cube, and the impossibility of solving an algebraic equation of 
 the fifth degree. He believes that the fundamental idea of his geome- 
 try is sustained by some of the greatest names in science, — by Barrow, 
 by Newton, and even by the author of the "Positive Philosophy," 
 although the latter rather positively objected to Mr. Smith's views, 
 in a letter which appeared in some of the American newspapers. 
 Besides its peculiar ideas in regard to lines, surfaces, and solids, the 
 book contains many original problems and demonstrations, and points 
 out numerous instances of harmonious and beautiful relation and 
 agreement.- One proposition he deems scarcelj' inferior in geometri- 
 cal interest to the great theorem of Pythagoras in regard to the 
 square of the hj-pothenuse ; it is this : "In all triangles whatever, the 
 whole circumference or the sum of the three sides bears the same 
 proportion to the base as the perpendicular of the triangle bears to 
 the radius of the inscribed circle." As yet this work has not secured 
 among the learned that attention and approval which its author hoped 
 for. Perhaps they have not studied it with sufficient care. Perhaps 
 the prejudicing power of old ideas has prevented a candid estimate of 
 its merits. On such points it were presumptuous in me to give an 
 opinion. But I may admire and do admire the unshaken faith with 
 which this cool, clear-headed man looks forward to the da}' when the 
 ideas developed in his geometry shall be accepted as true and 
 acknowledged as useful. Maj' he live to behold it ! To his wife allu- 
 sion has alreadj' been made. She was Ehzabeth Oakes Prince, and 
 they were married in 1823. As a writer, both of prose and poetry, 
 she is widely and favorably known. On a few occasions she has 
 appeared as a public lecturer. For many j-ears she and her husband 
 otherwise still united, have borne different names. She is Mrs. 
 Oaksmith by courtesy, and her sons are Oaksmiths by act of Legis- 
 lature. Of these she has had six, four of whom are living and two 
 of >^hom are married. The eldest, Appletou Oaksmith, after many 
 
208 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 wanderings by sea and land, after having unsuccessfully presented 
 to our court at Washington his credentials as ambassador plenipoten- 
 tiary from a foreign power, (now extinct) , has settled quietly in New 
 York, and publishes the magazine which his parents edit. The years 
 have dealt gently with Mr. Smith. His has been a life of toil, not 
 unattended with disappointment and care ; but a calm temperament 
 has neutralized their corrosive power. To me he looks much as he 
 did on that far-off summer eve, when in the little, old wooden chapel 
 I heard him read before the Theological Society his beautiful poem 
 of the " Nazarene." 
 
 [Mr. Smith died in 1868.— p.] 
 
 Gideon Lane Soule. The Soules date back to Plymouth, and 
 have for their ancestor George Soule, one of the "Mayflower" pil- 
 grims. Gideon Lane Soule was born in 1796 near the college, on a 
 little farm in Freeport, and his parents were Moses and Martha (Lane) 
 Soule. His minister, Eev. Reuben Nason, started him in the classics, 
 and then he went to Exeter and was for two years under Dr. Abbot. 
 Having graduated with credit, he returned to Exeter and became 
 Greek professor in the academy. This position, which became more 
 important as Dr. Abbot grew old, he held for many years. On that 
 great Exeter day of jubilee, when amidst many hundreds of grateful 
 pupils, some of whom had come to be the first men\in the land, the 
 venerable doctor closed by resignation his half-centurj"^ of faithful 
 service, Mr. Soule was elected his successor. This honorable and 
 important post he yet occupies with undiminished strength and still 
 increasing reputation. To his abUity and success as a classical in- 
 structor I could testify from my own knowledge. Lest, however, the 
 partial pencil of friendship should be suspected of coloring, I will call 
 another witness. Eev. Dr. Peabody of Portsmouth, who has long been 
 a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy, in a recent letter says, " We 
 hold Dr. Soule in the highest esteem, both as a teacher and disciplina- 
 rian. As the principal of the school he maintains perfect dignity 
 without undue severity, always commands respect, and is eminently 
 equable in temper and impartial in his administration. Out of school 
 he takes a paternal interest in his pupils, and seeks opportunities, 
 various and frequent, for exercising a good influence over them. As a 
 classical teacher it is impossible to give him higher praise than he 
 deserves. He confines himsejf principallj' to the Latin ; and I have 
 heard Prof. Bowen of Cambridge, who is one of our trustees, repeat- 
 edly speak of him as the best Latin teacher in the country. When- 
 ever he has a class in Greek he shows similar ability and thoroughness 
 
GRADUATES. 209 
 
 there. What is very much to the purpose, in the classical languages 
 and literature he is still a diligent student. At Cambridge it is 
 admitted that better prepared scholars enter from Exeter than from 
 any of the Massachusetts schools." In 1856 Harvard conferred on 
 Mr. Soule the degree of LL. D. 
 
 Soon after he settled in Exeter Mr. Soule was married to Miss Eliz- 
 abeth Emery, a sister of the distinguished lawj^er Nicholas Emery. 
 They have three sons : Charles E. graduated at Bowdoin College in 
 1842, practises law in New York, lives in Brooklyn, has a wife and 
 little ones ; Nicholas Emery graduated at Harvard College in 1845, 
 and also an M. D., now a teacher of j'outh in Cincinnati, Ohio ; Au- 
 gustus L. graduated at Harvard College in 1846, lawyer in Spring- 
 field, Mass.,* himself a grandfather.f 
 
 David Stakret. The two Starrets came- from "Warren. David was 
 the elder ; so old, indeed, that he was known in college by the affec- 
 tionate appellation of "Uncle." " Nobody," says his classmate Major 
 Jack Downing, " expected ' Uncle David' to understand a lesson that 
 was in the least difficult ; but as he always did his best, the professors 
 and tutors generally screwed him easy." But though not much of a 
 ~ scholar, he was conscientious and good. He became a Congregational 
 minister and was settled for a while in Weld. He probably discovered 
 at length that he had mistaken his vocation, for he retired upon a farm 
 in Augusta, where he died in 1851. He was married. 
 
 Geokge Starret was bom in 1798. In college " ever kind, truth- 
 ful, and unpretending." "He was compact," says President Hale, 
 "in body and mind, prompt in everj' duty, a good scholar in every 
 department." He settled as a lawj'^er in Bangor, gained a high repu- 
 tation for legal knowledge and ability, and was greatly respected as a 
 citizen and Christian. A brief illness brought his life to a close in 
 1838. He was three times married: first to Eliza N. Hammond of 
 Bangor; a son by this marriage died in 1858. Secondly to Martha 
 
 * Now on the Supreme Bench of the State. 
 
 t Dr. Soule continued his efficient and successful labors until his resignation in 
 -1873, when, as at the close of the same prolonged term of service of his eminent 
 predecessor, the event was commemorated by a large gathering of his pnpils and 
 friends. The health of Dr. Soule has. been gradually failing since his active duties 
 ceased, and he died suddenly on the evening of Wednesday, May 28, J 879. A dis- 
 criminating and just tribute to his memory was rendered by Rev. John H. Morison, 
 D. D. in a commemorative sermon preached in the Second Congregational Church, 
 Exeter, soon after his decease, with a biographical sketch of Dx. Soule. f. 
 
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210 HISTOBT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Burgess of Wareham, Mass. ; she left a son and daughter ; the 
 former lives in Illinois. His third wife, still his widow, was Caroline 
 E. Morrill of Bangor. 
 
 James Paeker Vance was the son of James Vance, a self-made 
 man of considerable ability, and for many years quite a conspicuous 
 pei'sonage in Maine. The young man graduated with fair reputa- 
 tion, studied law in Portland with Stephen Longfellow, Esq., and 
 opened an office in Calais. But ardent and susceptible, he yielded to 
 temptation, and for a time dark clouds rested upon his character and 
 prospects. His reform, which was sudden, seemed also to be thorough. 
 He became an earnest and eloquent advocate of virtue and temperance. 
 From Calais, where he lived several years, esteemed as a citizen and 
 regarded as a Christian, he removed to Elgin, 111. Renouncing the 
 profession of law, he became a minister of the Methodist communion 
 in the State of Illinois, and when last heard from was still active in 
 Christian work. 
 
 Joseph Walker was a native of Townsend, Mass. He had stud.ied 
 medicine, and was about ready to begin the practice when a change in 
 his views and feelings led him to seek a college education with ultimate 
 reference to a different profession. Having studied theology with 
 Mr. Cogswell of Saco, he was settled in 1822 at Paris. Here he died 
 in 1851, after a ministry in the same place of nearly thirty years. 
 The following estimate is from one of Mr. Walker's parishioners, and 
 a competent judge : " He was a man of fair intellect, moderate, logi- 
 cal, and sound. He had no imagination, though his sermons abounded 
 in affectionate appeals ; but he chose to address the understanding. 
 His style was plain, his manner not interesting ; but his sincerity, 
 his deep and all-pervading piety, his sober, solemn anxiety to do good, 
 supplied any want of brilliancy, and bound him to his people with 
 bands of steel. Though not of great distinction intellectually, he was 
 a man of sound talents and of great moral worth ; and this is his 
 crown of glory." He was married in 1822 to Clarissa Eobinson, and 
 in 1829 to Elinor Hopkins. By the last wife he had six children. Of 
 his five sons the eldest, Joseph, entered college in 1850. 
 
 William Bicker Walter. His father was William Walter, a 
 merchant of Boston. His grandfather was the Rev. William Walter, 
 D. D., an Episcopal clergyman of considerable celebrity in his day. 
 William B. was fitted for college at Wiscasset by that good man and 
 excellent teacher, the Rev. Dr. Packard. His college life could hardly 
 
GEADUATES. 211 
 
 be called happy. He seemed always to feel that his superior refine- 
 ment was not appreciated by those around him. He wore, for the 
 most part, an air of Byronic gloom, and generally kept himself se- 
 cluded. It is needless to add that he was not very popular. For the 
 severer studies he had little aptness and less inclination. His great 
 ambition was to shine as an orator and as a poet. His style of speak- 
 ing was highly theatrical. When in the heat and torrent of his passion 
 he endeavored to harrow up the feelings of his auditors, his attitudes 
 and contortions often became irresistibly ludicrous. He possessed 
 considerable imaginative power, and wrote verses readily and in great 
 abundance. Odes, sonnets, and translations from his pen made their 
 appearance in newspapers and magazines. Soon after his graduation 
 he published a small volume of poems. "Fanny," that singular and 
 beautiful production of Mr. Halleck, was about this time given to the 
 world, and Mr. Walter essayed an imitation in a poem of some length 
 which he called " Sukey." This with several smaller pieces consti- 
 tuted subsequently a second volume. On taking the master's degree 
 at Brunswick in 1821, he entertained the audience with a poem styled 
 the " Dream of the Sepulchre." The collection called the " Bowdoiu 
 Poets " contains three specimens of Walter's poetry. From some 
 impressions, probably of a hereditary calling, he began to prepare 
 himself for taking orders in the Episcopal Church. This he soon gave 
 up. In 1822 he went into the Southern States with the view of giving 
 lectures on poetry, etc. The attempt was unsuccessful. " He was 
 discouraged, became the prey of a morbid melancholy, and died sud- 
 denly in Charleston, S. C," in the spring of 1823. 
 
 1819. 
 
 Thomas Pekkins Bodrne, another brother of Edward E. (1816), 
 studied medicine with Dr. Samuel Emerson of Kennebunk, where he 
 practised a year or two, and where he married Eowena P. Beckley. 
 He then settled as a physician in Calais, where he lost his wife. 
 Being married again to a daughter of Dr. Weston of St. Stephens, he 
 removed to Newcastle in New Brunswick, and there on the banks of 
 the Miramichi he still practises the healing art. He has two daugh- 
 ters by the first marriage. A son by the second wife is a clerk in 
 New York. 
 
 [Mr. Bourne died in 1863.— p ] 
 
 Jonathan Hammond Cheslet was born in Paris in 1793, and died 
 in Saco in 1826. In college he made quite a marked figure. He was 
 a stout inan, fond of display, of moderate scholarship, but of very 
 
212 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 considerable pretensions. "In solemn importance," says one of his 
 classmates, " I really believe he never was surpassed. He was as 
 industrious as his physical indolence would permit. We used to say 
 that he was too lazy to take his hat off, he was so fond of wearing it 
 on all occasions at home and abroad." From college he went to Lim- 
 erick and taught awhile in the academy In the following j'^ear one 
 of his classmates very unexpectedly met him in Boston. The scene 
 is characteristic: " It was winter, — a misty, muddy, chilly day. I 
 was walking round the State House seeing what' I could see, when 
 suddenly I came upon Chesley doing the same. He had on a tight 
 dress coat with bright buttons, buff-colored small-clothes, silk stock- 
 ings, and slippers." He went with Chesley to his lodgings, and ascer- 
 tained that he wished to go South, but could not leave for want of 
 funds. He requested a small loan, and it was granted. When we 
 next hear from him he is in Louisiana, teaching at Baton Eouge. 
 This information comes through the pleasant medium of a young lady 
 in Saco, with whom he maintained a tender correspondence. In the 
 fall of 1826 he came back to New England. Consumption had wasted 
 his once portly frame. Weak in body and utterly destitute of means, 
 he visited his friends in Paris and Westbrook, and reached Saco only 
 a few days before his death. Poor fellow ! It is pleasant to know 
 that the sympathy of a loving woman solaced his last hours. 
 
 David Hates has forgotten to tell me when and where he was born. 
 Since 1824 he has lived in Westbrook, where he has a law office 
 and a fann, of the two much preferring the latter. Mr. Hayes is ■ 
 a straightforward man, and seeks no professional business of the 
 crooked sort. He is an office-holder ; having been " first proved " he 
 has used " the office of a deacon," and has been " found blameless." 
 He has also filled for forty -five years the honorable station of superin- 
 tendent of the Sabbath school. He married happily in 1826, has 
 seven children and five grandchildren. 
 
 [Mr. Hayes died in 1870. —p. J 
 
 Edward Tyng Ingraham. His father was from Portland, where 
 he died recently. Edward T. Ingraham was a most amiable and pious 
 youth. He had consecrated himself to the gospel ministry, and was 
 studying for that end when his death occurred in 1823. 
 
 George Means Mason, eldest son of Jeremiah Mason, one of the 
 greatest men this country has produced, was born in 1800 in Ports- 
 mouth, N. H. In college he pursued to a great extent his own routine 
 
GEABUATES. 213 
 
 of study, reading everj'thing that came to hand. Having pursued the 
 usual law course he remained in his father's office, to whom, by his 
 extensive acquaintance with books and cases, he made himself useful 
 so long as Mr. Mason continued in active business. But for active 
 business he had himself no taste. He still lives in Boston, and stUl 
 possesses that philosophic calmness of demeanor which even in boy- 
 hood won th« admiration of his teachers and his comrades. 
 • [Mr. Mason died in 1866. —p. J 
 
 John D. McCbate, son of Col. Thomas McCrate, a merchant of Wis- 
 casset, was born there in 1802. Susan, his mother, was the daughter of 
 Hon. David Dennis of Nobleboro'. Having taught school for a year, 
 he studied law with Judge Bailey in Wiscasset, with Jo. E. Smith in 
 Boston, and with Peleg (now Judge) Sprague in HalloweU. From 
 1823 to 1835 he practised law at Damariscotta. During five of these 
 years he was in the Legislature. He was also Commissioner of Insol- 
 vency, by appointment from President Jackson. In 1835 he removed 
 to Wiscasset, where he was collector of the customs. In 1845 the dis- 
 trict of Lincoln and Oxford sent him to Congress. In 1850 Mr. 
 McCrate removed to Massachusetts, and is now living very quietly on 
 a farm in the town of Sutton. In 1852 he married Susan M., daughter 
 of Jonas L. Sibley, formerly U. S. Marshal for Massachusetts. They 
 have no children. 
 
 [Mr. McCrate died in Sutton, Mass., September, 1879. — p. J 
 
 John Lotjvillb Megquier was from New Gloucester. Substan- 
 tial rather than brilliant, he practised law in Portland with a fair 
 measure of success. " He was a man of sound judgment and had 
 much firmness of purpose." He was an active politician in the 
 Democratic ranks, and was for a time a member of the State Senate. 
 He was undoubtedly in the line of promotion, but at the age of forty- 
 four death arrested his career. He was married but had no children. 
 
 Israel Newell, born in 1794, labored on his father's farm in Dur- 
 ham during the summer, and for six successive years taught school 
 in winter before he was of age. Having fitted himself for college in 
 the midst of all this work, he entered as Sophomore. In college he 
 was confessedly the foremost man of his class. Next came two years 
 of theological study in the Andover school ; then on the island of 
 Nantucket he had charge of an academy one year. In 1822 he was 
 appointed principal of the " Kimball Union Academy " in Plainfield, 
 N. H. To this work he devoted himself with earnestness and success. 
 
214 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 During his thirteen years at Plainfield he gave instruction to twelve 
 hundred young persons and fitted about two hundred fpr college. 
 This employment, for which he was so well fitted and which he loved, 
 he was compelled through ill health to give up. He returned to his 
 native town and became again a farmer. Here he lived until his death 
 in 1846. During aU this period of teaching and farming he was also 
 a preacher, averaging, it is thought, a sermon each week. And these 
 sermons "were well studied, well arranged, clear, instructive, and 
 aflfecting." All this, which seems a task for the highest physical and 
 mental energy, was accomplished by a man who suffered long and much 
 from feeble health. " He was a man of marked character. His intel- 
 lect was clear, discriminating, well trained. He had great decision, 
 perseverance, and energy. All his movements were characterized 
 by remarkable punctuality and precision. He did not suffer himself 
 to be borne along passively by the tide of circumstances ; he always 
 knew what he was doing and why he was doing it. He was distin- 
 guished for scrupulous veracity, unbending integrity, and transparent 
 frankness. His piety was of a uniform, well-balanced, heathful 
 character." He married (1824) Ester M. Whittlesey of Cornish, 
 N. H. They had no children. By will he bequeathed $600 to the 
 American Educational Society for the benefit of poor students in 
 Bowdoin College, and gave the residue of his estate to the Congrega- 
 tional Society in Durham. 
 
 James Stackpole was born in 1798 in that part of Winslow which 
 is now called Waterville. His name he inherits from both father 
 and grandfather. Eev. James Hall of Farmington Academy and 
 Judge Eedington of Waterville were his first teachers. In law he had 
 for instructor the Hon. Mr. Boutelle of Waterville. After one year's 
 practice at Sebasticook Falls, he returned to Waterville, where he has 
 ever since lived, " engaged in professional or other business, as health 
 or' necessity required." For five years he was town treasurer, and for 
 seventeen j'^ears he served Waterville College in the same responsible 
 capacity. He has been agent also and representative of Waterville 
 at Augusta. His wife, still living, was Hannah Chase of Fryeburg. 
 They have had no children. 
 
 [Mr. Stackpole died July 18, 1880. — p.J 
 
 Geoegb Cobb Wilde, a son of Hon. S. S. Wilde, was born in 
 Hallowell in 1800. His law studies, begun under his brother Wil- 
 liam in Hallowell, were concluded under Ebenezer Mosely of New- 
 buryport. Mr. Wilde opened »n office for the practice of law in 
 
GRADUATES. 215 
 
 "Wrentham, Mass., but soon after removed to Boston, where for more 
 than twenty-flve years he has been clerk of the Supreme Judicial 
 Court. An acquaintance with him which dates from his college days, 
 when our pleasant relations began, authorizes and impels me to say 
 that he possesses in a high degree the sterling qualities which make a 
 good officer, citizen, and friend. In 1829 he married Ann J. Druce, 
 widow of John C. Druce of New York, and daughter of Lemuel 
 Brown of Wrentham, Mass. They have a daughter and a son. 
 [He died in 1875. — P.J 
 
 Adam Wilson was born in 1794 in Topsham, where, before enter- 
 ing college, he joined the Baptist Church. From college he went to 
 Philadelphia, and studied theology under distinguished teachers, the 
 Rev. Dr. Stoughton and Rev. Alvah Chase. Then he supplied a 
 Baptist pulpit in New Haven, Conn. , and continued his studies under 
 Dr. Fitch, the divinity professor in Yale College. His first regular 
 charge was in Wiscasset, where he stayed four years. During the next 
 four years Turner and New Gloucester alternately shared his minis- 
 trations. In 1828 Mr. Wilson established at Portland a religious 
 newspaper called Zion's Advocate, being its proprietor as well as 
 editor. For nine years he conducted the paper and preached regu- 
 larly on the Sabbath. He then removed to Bangor and took charge 
 of the First Baptist Church in that city, where his labors were soon 
 followed by a " rich revival." Having given to Bangor three and one 
 half years, and to his former flock in Turner two years. Dr. Wilson 
 returned to Portland and resumed the direction of Zion's Advocate. 
 In 1848 he disposed of his proprietorship in the paper, having held 
 the same for twenty years. Dr. Wilson then went to Hebron, where 
 he was pastor for three years. He now resides near the college in 
 Waterville, and stiU finds that his services are in request. As a 
 preacher, a pastor, and an editor, Dr. Wilson must rank among the 
 most useful and able men of his day, and is well entitled to the high 
 place which he holds among the Baptist clergy of Maine. In 1823 he 
 married Ann F. Patten of Topsham (sister of George F. Patten of 
 Bath). Mrs. WUson died in 1825. In 1833 Mr. Wilson married 
 Sally H. Ricker of Parsonsfield (sister of Rev. Joseph Ricker, now 
 chaplain of the Massachusetts State Prison) . They have four chil- 
 dren.* 
 
 *Dr. WUson received the degree of D. D. from Waterville College in 1851. He 
 died in 1870. p. 
 
216 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 1820. 
 
 Jacob Abbott was born in Hallowell in 1803, and bears the name 
 of sire and grandsire already mentioned. His college course was not 
 particularly distinguished. He went at once to Andover, where he 
 soon became a man of mark in his class. He had not completed his 
 theological studies when he was named by his instructors as a suitable 
 candidate for a professorship in Amherst College, and was elected to 
 the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy in that institution. 
 He discharged its duties for a few years, and then went to Boston and 
 established there the Mount Vernon School for young ladies. His 
 plan for teaching and managing a school had some novel features, 
 and was very popular, at least with his pupils. His system was fully 
 explained in " The Teacher," a valuable work which he published not 
 long after. He had evidently discovered where his strength lay, and 
 giving up his school while in the full tide of success, he joined the 
 guild of authors. " The Young Christian " soon after made its appear- 
 ance, and was an immediate and great success. It was republished in 
 England, was translated into other languages, and still ranks among 
 the standard volumes in religious libraries. "The Corner Stone " and 
 '^The "Way to do Good" were works of similar aim and character, 
 but fell far short of their predecessor in power and popiJarity. Feel- 
 ing, perhaps, that he had exhausted this particular vein, Mr. Abbott 
 next turned his attention to the preparation of books for the young. 
 As a story teller his invention is wonderfully fertile. Millions of lit- 
 tle boys and girls have found amusement in the " RoUo Books," the 
 "Jonas Books," the "Lucy Books," the " Franconia Stories," the 
 " Voyages and Travels of Marco Paul," and I know not how many 
 other products of the same prolific pen. If these popular little fic- 
 tions would suffer in some respects when compared with those beauti- 
 fully instructive tales which, in our boyish days, came to us from 
 Edgeworthtown, they still impart much useful information, combined 
 with moral and religious lessons of inesfSmable value. Mr. Abbott 
 has also compiled a series of historical books designed for youthful 
 readers and for the use of schools. These are mostly biographies of 
 monarchs, and acording to the fashion of the daj' are full of pictorial 
 illustrations. These works are thrown off rapidly, and meet with a 
 ready sale. It must be acknowledged that they are easy and pleasant 
 reading. They are evidently compiled from the sources nearest at 
 hand, with a direct view to immediate and popular effect. Careful 
 investigation, judicious comparison, the correction of historical errors, 
 
^ojryivojj fhrtudJUxj 
 
GRADUATES. 217 
 
 a presentment of the latest and best considered views, fonn no part of 
 his theory or practice. As a historical writer he must be ranked with 
 Goldsmith rather than with Prescott. 
 
 While supplying the press with this constant flow of matter, Mr. 
 Abbott has not been stationary himself. He lived awhile in Koxbury, 
 near Boston; then in Farmington, where he had land on which he 
 sometimes worked, hard ; then he went to New York, and with his ■ 
 brother John established a school for young ladies on a very broa^ 
 scale. His connection with this establishment lasted two or three 
 years. Since that time New York has been his home. He has how- 
 ever visited Europe repeatedly, making long sojourns in England and 
 on the Continent. His " Summer in Scotland," " RoUo's Tour," the 
 " Florence Series," etc., are fruits of these peregrinations. Judicious 
 in his affairs as well as fortunate, Mr. Abbott is supposed to be 
 wealthy. He has been twice maMed. His first wife was Harriet, 
 daughter of Charles Vaughan, Esq. , of Hallowell. She left four sons : 
 Benjamin Vaughan, Austin, Lyman, and Edward. Benjamin and Aus- 
 tin are now a successful law firm in the city of New York. Lyman and 
 Edward are clergymen. He married a second time Mrs. Mary Dana 
 Woodbury, daughter of Eev. Mr. Dana, of Marblehead, Mass.* 
 
 Samuel Bradley, an ardent and impulsive youth when he came to 
 college from Fryeburg, where Robert Bradley, his father, was a pio- 
 neer farmer. He scarcely did himself justice in college. In fact, it 
 took several disciplinary years to curb him into habits of usefulness 
 and steady power. His law teachers were John S. Barrows and Sam- 
 uel A. Bradley. The latter was his uncle and patron, and himself a 
 man of note and influence. From- 1824 to 1845 Mr. Bradley resided 
 
 * Mr. Abbott has more recently resided in Parmington. In 1874 he received from 
 Amherst College the degree of D. D. His last few years betrayed infirmity. During 
 the summer of 1879 he had a paralytic seizure, which terminated life Oct. 31. It should 
 be added that Mr. Abbott in early life held a short pastorate in Eoxbury, where he 
 laid the foundation of a large and strong church, but preached only occasionally in 
 subsequent years. I quote from anobituary notice of him from one a native of I'arra- 
 ington, and wBo had opportunities of observing him closely. After referring to the 
 versatility of his powers, the writer adds : " He was the embodiment of the noblest 
 and rarest politeness. Neighbors loved him ; children revered him ; strangers admired 
 him. He united the civilities of Paris — a city which in certain respects he admired 
 — with the heartiness and good sense of New England politeness. The poo'r and 
 suffering found in him a friend. With his courtesy he combined extreme modesty. It 
 was with apparent reluctance that he ever spoke of himself or his works. I once 
 asked him, seeing a case containing all his books, which his elder sister had collected, 
 how many volumes he had written. ' So many,' was his reply, ' I never dared to 
 count them.' Though he has written more volumes than any other American (over 
 
218 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 at Hollis. Thence he removed to Saco, where he died four years 
 afterwards. ]?or some time before this event he ranked among the 
 first men of his profession in York County, and was retained in a 
 large proportion of the cases. To the reputation of being a good 
 lawyer and an able advocate he added the better praise which belongs 
 to integrity of character and a life of active benevolence. In 1831 he 
 married Jane, daughter of Hon. Isaac Lane ; his widow still lives. 
 They had a son and a daughter ; the latter is now the wife of Edwin 
 R. Wiggin, Esq., of Saco. 
 
 Theodokb SedgIwick Bkown, born in 1803, was a son of Benja^ 
 min Brown of Vassalboro'. Thomas Rice of Winslow and Reuel Wil- 
 lianis of Augusta were his instructors in the law. He settled in his 
 native town, and had for a time a large and lucrative business; but 
 early in his career, Mr. Brown, as I learn from himself, became 
 deeply absorbed in the subject of religion, in the cause of temperance, 
 and that of anti-slavery. He took an active part in organizations 
 designed to promote these objects, and gave to their advocacy more 
 attention than he bestowed on his profession. In 1837 he removed to 
 Bangor, where he still lives. For many years he has been broken 
 down in health. He ascribed his paralytic condition to a dose of tar- 
 tar emetic injudiciously taken. Since that fatal hour he has looked on 
 the drug shop as the great enemy of mankind. Should he ever regain 
 his strength he is resolved what to do. Others must fight the battle 
 with slavery and with alcohol : he reserves himself for a grand 
 onslaught upon the whole materia medica. Mr. Brown was married 
 in 1829 to Sarah Sylvester of Norridgewock. Of three daughters one 
 is married. Two of their four sons survive ; the eldest boy was lost 
 at sea. Mrs. Brown is dead. 
 
 [Mr. Brown died in 1862. — p. j 
 
 two hundred), a conversation of hours might awalieu no suspicion that he had pub- 
 lished a single book. Though the literary success of his works was exceptionally 
 great, it never occasioned the least sign of that vanity which distinguishes not a few 
 authors. He always remained the same simple, courteous, modest Jacob Abbott. I 
 must Fpeak of one more element of his character, — his interest in and love for the 
 young. He delighted in the companionship of children. He employed boys to 
 shovel his snow^paths, to bring his mail, to .work on his grounds. He taught French 
 to little girls. He enjoyed watching children as they played their games, and occa- 
 sionally shared in their sports. The photographs of himself usually contain one- or 
 more children. In one a little girl, sits by his side in his library; in another he stands 
 in his grounds with a half-dozen children around him who are coasting. The men 
 and women who were ' brought up ' on his books in childhood cannot but feel deep 
 sorrow when they read, 'Jacob Abbott is dead.' " 
 
GRADUATES. 219 
 
 Jedediah Cobb came from Gray. He studied medicine with Dr. 
 George C. Shattuck of Boston, and took his degree at Branswick. 
 He had not been long in Portland, where he had stationed himself for 
 the practice, when he was appointed a professor in the Medical Col- 
 lege of Ohio, at Cincinnati. From the theory and practice he was 
 soon at his own request transferred to the chair of anatomy and sur- 
 gery. The medical school which he thus joined in its infancy soon 
 became a large and prosperous institution. Among his colleagues 
 here were Dr. John Eberle, Dr. James C. Cross, and Dr. John Locke, 
 all men of note and worth. In 1830 Dr. Cobb visited Europe to procure 
 for the college apparatus and a library. In the j^ears 1836 and 1837 
 he lectured on anatomy and surgery at Brunswick. In the latter part 
 of 1837 Dr. Cobb removed to Louisville, in -Kentucky, to engage in a 
 medical school just started there. Here, with a constantly rising rep- 
 utation, he held for fifteen years the professorship of anatomy. Under 
 him and his distinguished colleagues, Caldwell, Drake, Yandell, Miller, 
 and others, the Louisville school became the greatest medical institu- 
 tion of the West. 
 
 In 1852 Dr. Cobb returned to Cincinnati and to the school with 
 which he had first been cohnected. His chief inducement to this step 
 was to aid the professional advancement of his eldest son, who had 
 been appointed demonstrator of anatomy for the college. But the sit- 
 uation did not meet his expectations. His health moreover had 
 become impaired. Accordingly he gave up forever the teaching of 
 anatomy. At this time (1853) he received unasked from Secretary 
 Guthrie, who had long been his friend, the appointment of melter and 
 refiner in the newly established assay oflSce in New York ; but he 
 declined to assume the responsibilities of this very important office. 
 He purchased soon after in Manchester, Mass., a seat upon the sea- 
 shore, which has since been his home. 
 
 To Dr. Cobb's qualifications as a medical instructor, I have received 
 the following testimony from his former colleague. Dr. Yandell: 
 " Added to a clear, impressive, fluent, graceful manner as a lecturer, 
 the neatness with which he made his dissections, and the fulness of 
 his material illustrations, rendered him as acceptable a teacher as per- 
 haps has evesr lectured in our country to a class on anatomy. Nor 
 were his attractions confined to the anatomical theatre.. As an officer 
 of the university he combined in a remarkable degree suavity and firm- 
 ness, social grace and talent for business. Aifable, genial, cordial, 
 generous, he won universally and without an efibrt the admiration, 
 esteem, and aflfection of his pupils." 
 
 Dr. Cobb married Anne M. Morrill of Wells. They have a daughter 
 
220 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 and two sons living. One of these is a clerk in New York, and the 
 other in Louisville, Ky. The son already referred to, a young man of 
 uncommon promise, died when he had just entered on a bright career. 
 [Dr. Cobb died in 1860. — p. J 
 
 Philip Eastman was born in 1799 in Chatham, N. H., his father 
 having been one of the first settlers of the town. In 1817 he went 
 from Fryeburg Academy to Hanover and entered Dartmouth Univer- 
 sity, a Sophomore. But the university was demolished and her chil- 
 dren were scattered. In the spring of 1819 young Eastman entered 
 the Junior class of Bowdoin College. His teachers in the law were 
 Stephen Chase and Judah Dana of Fryeburg, and Nicholas Baylies of 
 Montpelier, Vt. From 1823 to 1836 Mr. Eastman practised law in 
 North Yarmouth. During the next nine years he lived in Harrison. 
 Since 1845 he has been an inhabitant of gaco. Mr. Eastman has 
 made his profession the main business of his life. From 1831 to 1837 
 he was chairman of the county commissioners of Cumberland. He 
 has been twice in the State Senate, and in 1840 was chairman of the 
 committee for revising the statutes. In 1843 and 1844 he served as 
 commissioner under the treaty of Washington of 1842, to locate grants 
 and possessory claims to settlers on the St. John and Aroostook 
 Rivers. He published in 1849 a digest, of the " Maine Reports " 
 Assiduous, faithful, upright, and unassuming, he has the confidence 
 and respect of all who knew him. He was married in 1827 to Mary, 
 daughter of Stephen Ambrose of Concord, N. H. Of seven children, 
 two sons and two daughters remain.* 
 
 William Jewett Faelet was born in Newcastle, but grew up in 
 Waldoboro', where his father, Joseph Farley, was collector of the 
 port. He entered college young from Exeter Academy, and received 
 at Commencement the third honor in a class which now shows on its 
 list a judge, a professor, and an author of wide renown, not one of 
 whom then stood so high as he. Among his classmates he was con- 
 spicuous for his commanding spirit. From the law oflBce of his 
 instructor, Hon. J. G. Reed, he went first to Camden and then to 
 Thomaston, where he remained till his decease in 1839. Mr. Falrley 
 was highly gifted. His mind was quick and versatile, his disposition 
 generous, social, manly. Few possess more of that prompt and per- 
 suasive eloquence which moves an audience and sways a jury. There 
 
 *The sons — Ambrose (Bowdoin College, 1854) and Edward (Bowdoin College, 
 1857) — adopted the profession of their father. Mr. Eastman died in 1869. p. 
 
GRADUATES. 221 
 
 were drawbacks certainly : yet those who knew him could not doubt 
 that should his life continue and should he prove just to himself, dis- 
 tinguished eminence awaited him whether in politics or in the law. 
 His first wife was Alice, youngest daughter of President McKeen, who 
 died childless one year after her marriage. His widow, a daughter of 
 Robert Foster of Thomaston, is living with her daughter in West 
 Chester, Pa. 
 
 Joshua Waeren HATHAVfAr was born in 1797 in the Province of 
 New Brunswick. He claims descent, notwithstanding, from the best 
 of Puritan and Pilgrim stock. His parents, Ebenezer and Elizabeth, 
 were natives of Freetown in Massachusetts. While he was j'et a child 
 they removed to Conway in New Hampshire. During their last years 
 these worthy and venerated persons lived in New Gloucester, where 
 they died not long ago. In due time Joshua was sent to Fryeburg to 
 be fitted, and thence in dae time to college. His three years of pro- 
 fessional preparation were passed at Alfred in the office of Mr. 
 Holmes. ■ He settled first at Bluehill, then at Ellsworth, where he 
 lived twelve years, practising law and now and then representing 
 town or county in the State Legislature. Since 1837 he has been a 
 resident of Bangor. In 1849 he was appointed one of the judges of 
 the District Court for the State. In 1852 he was made a justice of 
 the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and when the sevfin appointed 
 years were completed he returned to the bar. 
 
 Within a few months from his settlement in BluehiU, Mr. Hathaway 
 married Mary Ann, daughter of Dr. C. Hathaway of New Brunswick. 
 Of their three children, one boy died in early childhood ; their daugh- 
 ter became a wife and mother, but died at the age of twent;^-two. The 
 survivor has adopted his father's profession, and is a member of the 
 bar. 
 
 [He died in 1862. —p. J 
 
 JosiAH Hilton Hobbs of Effingham, N. H. He fitted himself for 
 college mainly at home, and without help from anybody, and in 1817 
 entered the Sophomore class in Dartmouth University. When this 
 institution, through the decision of the United States Supreme Court, 
 fell back again into Dartmouth College, Hobbs came to Brunswick, 
 joining the Junior class in the spring of 1819, and stepping at once 
 into its foremost rank. In due time he became a practising lawyer in 
 Wakefield, N. H., in partnership at first with William Sawyer, Esq., 
 and here he passed the rest of his life. At one period he ventured 
 somewhat deeply into speculations in lumber and timber lands, and 
 
222 HISTOKY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 like many others " had his losses." But he was more fortunate than 
 some, for he got out of the' woods at last. In 1826 he was married 
 to Rhoda, daughter of A. McC. Chapman, Esq., of Parsonsfleld. Of 
 their nine children, four sons and three daughters, together with their 
 mother, still live. "Mr. Hobbs had a vigwous mind. In mathemati- 
 cal and metaphysical studies and in the discussion of abstruse and 
 difficult topics he took great delight. Professionally he loved and 
 sought the less travelled paths of legal kno:wledge. He was indefati- 
 gable in the investigation of vexed questions and knotty cases. No 
 object engaged his attention which he did not pursue with enthusiastic 
 ardor and perseverance. As a lawyer he had the reputation of being 
 sound and skilful. He was thoroughly read in equity principles and 
 practice, and as a solicitor in chancery was thought by many to be 
 primus inter pares, the field of his practice extending over the most 
 populous and active business portion of his State. He was impulsive 
 in his feelings and rather eccentric in some respects, but he possessed 
 many generous and honorable traits of character, and at his death left 
 man^r sorrowing friends." To Mr. Hobbs's classmate and my kind 
 ftiend, Hon. Philip Eastman of Saco, I am mainly indebted for the 
 foregoing sketch. 
 
 [Mr. Hobbs died in 1854. —p. J 
 
 William McDougall was a farmer's son from Gorham, where he 
 was fitted for college by Mr. Nason. He was a studious and exem- 
 plary young man ; but with talents and attainments of a high order, 
 he possessed unfortunately a cold, slow temperament and a constitu- 
 tional tendency to gloom, the result probably of a diseased frame. 
 To this perhaps must be ascribed the fact that Mr. McDougall, though 
 always respectable, never fulfilled the promise of his youth. ' He 
 studied medicine in Boston in the oiHce of George Parkman, now so 
 tragi,cally famous. He was an assistant teacher in Dummer Acad- 
 emy, Byfield, Mass. For two years he was a tutor in Bowdoin Col- 
 lege. At Dixmont and at Saccarappa he practised medicine, a short 
 time in each place. Then seeking a milder tlimate, he dwelt awhile 
 in Athens, Pa. During the year 1828 he was teaching in Savannah, 
 Ga. A few years later, taking with him his family which had hitherto 
 remained at the North, he settled as a physician in the new town of 
 Wetumka, Ala. In 1842 he became principal of an Episcopal school 
 in Charleston, S. C. Three years afterward he was compelled by ill 
 health to relinquish this position. After a year devoted to travel he 
 went back to Wetumka, where as a teacher he continued until he died 
 in 1852. His wife was Isabella L., daughter of the now aged Samuel 
 
GRADUATES. 223 
 
 Melchior of Brunswick, a man well known to all the students of 
 Bowdoin. Their son and only child, Charles E. McDougall, gradu- 
 ated at Brunswick in 1847, and is a practising physician in Florida. 
 
 Samuel Mokrill, son of Nahum Morrill of WeUs, and grandson 
 of KcT. Moses Morrill (Harvard College, 1737), minister of Bidde- 
 ford, studied medicine with Dr. Gilman of Wells and Dr. Shattuck 
 of Boston. In 1824 he settled in Boston, where he still practises his 
 profession, a successful and much-esteemed physician. He married 
 in 1828 Anne R. Carter of Boston, and has three children. Katharine 
 R. is the wife of Stephen H. "Williams ; Anne R. of George M. 
 Hobbs, Esq. 
 
 [Dr. Morrill died in 1872. — p.] 
 
 Caleb Fessenden Page, son of Robert Page, was born in 1797, 
 and was fitted for college in the academy of his native Fryeburg. 
 His teacher in theology was the Rev. David Thurston. His first set- 
 tlement was in Limington in 1823. Ten years afterward he became 
 the colleague of Rev. Mr. Church of Bridgton, where he ministered 
 for sixteen years. Nest in Granby, Conn., he was a settled pastor 
 for about four years. He has since supplied the church in East Gran- 
 ville, Mass., preaching there for the aged and venerable Dr. Cooley ; 
 and he now supplies a pulpit in the adjoining town of Tolland. 
 Amid this somewhat changeful course of ministerial service, he has 
 the satisfaction of believing that Tiis labors have not been without a 
 blessing. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of Daniel Feleh of Lim- 
 erick, and sister of Governor Felch of Michigan. Three of her five 
 children yet live : Dr. Alpheus F. practises at Bucksport ; Helen M. 
 is wife of Gilbert A. Taylor, a New Haven merchant ; and one daugh 
 ter is yet single. He lost by death in less than two years his second 
 wife, who was Mary Jefferds of Kennebunk. His third wife is Mary, 
 widow of Joseph Coddington and daughter of Enoch Dow of Salem, 
 Mass. They have one son. 
 
 [Mr. Page died in 1873. — p. J 
 
 Thomas Tkeadwell Stone was born in 1801 in Waterford upon 
 ground which his father had redeemed from the primeval forest. 
 Enfeebled health that threatened to spoil him for the farm soon turned 
 him into the path of learning. Among his early teachers were the 
 Rev. Lincoln Ripley, still living in Waterford, greatly venerated; 
 Bezaleel Cushman, then over Bridgton Academy; and John Eveleth, 
 then in Hebron Academy. From college, in which his proficiency 
 
224 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 was commendable, he went to Augusta, where he studied theology 
 under the guidance of Rev. Dr. Tappan. Licensed in 1821, he was 
 ordained at Andover in 1824. In 1830 he took charge of the acad- 
 emy in Bridgton, and held it for two years. From 1832 to 1846 he 
 was the Congregational minister of East Machias. Then for nearly 
 six years he ministered to the First Church in Salem, Mass. In the 
 latter part of 1852 he went to Bolton, Mass., where he still preaches. 
 It will be seen from this account that Mr. Stone ranked at the 
 outset of his ministry among the orthodox. That his views after- 
 wards underwent considerable modification may be inferred from the 
 fact that his later ministrations have been in congregations known as 
 Unitarian. I am not however aware that the Unitarian body does or 
 can claim him as distinctly and avowedly of their faith. That he is a 
 man of perfectly sincere convictions, of a spirit most benevolent and 
 catholic, of the gentlest manners, and of exemplary life, all rtiust con- 
 cede. Mr. Stone early distinguished himself as a writer. Thirty 
 years ago the Christian Mirror was often enriched by his contribu- 
 tions. In 1829 appeared six sermons on "War," a small volume, 
 and soon after a book of sketches for Sunday schools. In 1854 was 
 published a volume of sermons, twenty-four in number. " The Rod 
 and the Staff," published in 1856, is the third of a series called " The 
 Devotional Library." The religious and literary quarterlies have 
 contained many articles from his thoughtful and graceful pen. It is 
 in this field perhaps that his strength chiefly lies, and those who have 
 read him with profit and delight cannot but hope that they have 
 pleasures of the same kind yet in reserve. In 1858 Mr. Stone " gave 
 a valuable course of lectures before the Lowell Institute, in Boston, 
 on English literature, displaying uncommon familiarity with his sub- 
 ject, which was handled with marked and acknowledged ability." 
 Mr. Stone was married in 1825 to Laura Poor of Andover. Of 
 twelve children, two daughters and six sons remain. One of these, 
 Henry Stone, graduated at Bowdoin College in 1852, and is now with 
 his uncle, Henry V. Poor (Bowdoin College, 1835), in the oflSce of 
 the Railroad Journal in the city of New York. 
 
 1821. 
 
 John Barrett is well remembered by the writer as having been his 
 pupil in Portland, and subsequentlj'^ for three years in college, — a lad 
 then of grave demeanor and good promise. He was born in North- 
 field, Mass. He studied medicine in Portland with Dr. John Merrill, 
 and in Boston under Dr. George C. Shattuck. From 1824 to 1842, 
 
GRADUATES. 225 
 
 the year of his death, he practised his profession in Portland. " He 
 was a man of superior talents and attainments, peculiarly fitted by 
 nature for his profession, possessing skilful tact and sound judgment 
 in an unusftal degree. He was liberal to a fault, kind and attentive 
 to the poor both with his purse and his professional services, very 
 much beloved by his patients and highly esteemed by his medical 
 brethren. I always loved him, as did every one that knew him, and 
 now I can think of him only as the kind friend and attentive and skil- 
 ful physician. Poor Jack ! 
 
 ' Green be the turf above thee.' " 
 
 I can add nothing to this affectionate tribute from Dr. Barrett's 
 pupil and brother in the healing art. Dr. Barrett married Abby, 
 daughter of Horatio Southgate. She died early, leaving a daughter 
 who still lives. 
 
 [Dr. Barrett died in 1842. —p. J 
 
 Pldmmek Chase was born in Newbury, Mass , and was somewhat 
 advanced when he joined his class. He was a man of moderate 
 abilities but of excellent spirit. From college he went to Andover. 
 In 1825 he was ordained at Macliias to act as an evangelist, and in 
 this capacity assisted the Rev. Mr. Moseley of New Gloucester during 
 a period of revival. In 1828 he was settled at Carver, Mass., and 
 remained there about seven years. Here, and in many other places 
 where he ministered, his faithful labors bore rich and visible fruit. 
 Says one of his classmates, — a kindred spirit, though bearing ecclesi- 
 astically a diflterent name : "I cannot allude to Chase without recall- 
 ing his devoted piety, which always ap;f)eared to be his most striking 
 characteristic. Others excelled him in talents and learning, but for 
 singleness of heart in the service of his Lord and Master he ' was 
 unequalled. He was recognized as a man of prayer by the most 
 thoughtless of the students. He carried these peculiarities with him 
 into the sacred ministry." He died in Newbury in 1857, at the age of 
 forty- three years. 
 
 Daniel Claeke was from Windham. Though not distinguished 
 by personal graces, he had a good mind and some poetic power. In 
 the midst of obstacles that would have discouraged many, he stUl 
 hoped and persevered. He began the study of law with Mr. Ander- 
 son in Portland, but consumption intervened and in 1825 he died. 
 
226 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 John Patne Cleaveland is a half-brother of the late professor of 
 chemistry, being about twenty years his junior. His college fitting 
 was at Dummer Academy. From Brunswick he went to Andover and 
 studied nearly six months in the divinity school. Appointed to the 
 Wolfeboro' Academy, he passed two years on the shore of the Winni- 
 piseogee teaching and studying. From Wolfeboro' he went to Roches- 
 ter to be with his friend Upham, then the pastor there. Being licensed 
 in the autumn of 1824, he preached three months at Barrington. He 
 afterwards supplied the Eochester pulpit, Mr. Upham having gone to 
 Brunswick. During his residence in Eochester Mr. Cleaveland not 
 only studied and preached, but taught also. In the autumn of 1825 
 he succeeded Hosea Hildreth as professor of mathematics in Phillips 
 Exeter Academy. Here for a year and a half he performed the duties 
 of the professorship, and preached regularly on the Sabbath. Early 
 in 1827 he was ordained pastor of the Tabernacle Church in Salem, 
 Mass., succeeding the Eev. Dr. Cornelius. After seven years of ser^ 
 vice in Salem he accepted a call from the First Presbyterian Church in 
 Detroit. After a popular ministry of about four years he was selected 
 by the Presbyterians of Michigan to preside over a college which they 
 felt it their duty to establish. The incorporated institution was located 
 at Marshall, lands supposed to be valuable were given, and President 
 Cleaveland (unwillingly relinquished by his people in' Detroit) was 
 sent to the East to raise funds. But this was in 1837. It was no 
 time to get money for any purpose. Their land, so lately rated at 
 fabulous values, could now hardly be given away. Dark as the pros-- 
 pects of the college had become, Mr. Cleaveland managed to biiUd at 
 Marshall an academy and boarding-house. Taking charge himself of 
 this preparatory department, he got together a large school, and had 
 at the same time a respectable class of students in theology. With- 
 out money, however, the college could not be started, and this article 
 was scarce as ever. He then preached for about a year at Ann Arbor, 
 building up there a large Presbyterian society. Then returning to 
 Marshall he performed a similar labor there. At the beginning of 
 1844 Mr. Cleaveland went to Cincinnati, wliere he succeeded the ven- 
 erable Dr. Beecher in the Second Presbyterian Church'. In 1846 he 
 became pastor of the Beneficent Congregational Church, a large and 
 wealthy society in Providence, E. I. After a successful ministry here 
 of seven years he removed to Northampton, Mass., as pastor of the 
 First Congregational Church, once under the care of the gi-eat Edwards. 
 Since the autumn of 1854 he has been minister of the Appleton Street 
 Church in Lowell. During the year 1857 Mr. Cleaveland served as 
 chaplain to the Senate of Massachusetts, and during a part of the ses- 
 sion to the House of Eepresentatives also. 
 
GEADUATES. 227 
 
 The mere enumeration of positions held and duties performed is 
 sufflcient to show that Dr. Cleaveland's services have been in wide 
 demand, and that he has energies of no common order. In theology 
 he belongs or did belong to what the Presbyterians call " new school." 
 In that celebrated meeting of the General Assembly at Philadelphia 
 which resulted in the separation, Mr. Cleaveland was a prominent de- 
 bater and actor. Possessing a good voice, much earnestness of man- 
 ner, and a fluent elocution, he has been a frequent and effective 
 speaker on anniversary platforms, and even on the floors of political 
 meetings. Soon after he was settled in Salem he married Susan, 
 daughter , of Moses Dole of Newbury. Of their two daughters the 
 younger, Caroline, died during the sojourn at Ann Arbor. Upon this 
 aflliction came a year later^the mother's death. While living in Cin- 
 cinnati, Dr. Cleaveland was married to Julia Chamberlain of Exeter, . 
 N. H. 
 
 [Dr. Cleaveland died in 1873 in Newburyport. — p.] 
 
 RoFDS King Gushing is a native of Brunswick, where his father, 
 Caleb Gushing, was well known to the earlier students. His medical 
 instructors were Dr. James McKeen and Dr. John D. Wells. Dr; 
 Gushing practised for a time at Appalachicola in Florida, and also for 
 a time in Bangor. His pi'esent home is Brewer. He needs no 
 voucher for his respectability as a physician or as a man. His wife is 
 a daughter of the eminent surgeon and physician, Hosea Rich of Ban- 
 gor. They have a son and a daughter. 
 
 William Gutter, born in 1801, son of Levi Gutter, already men- 
 tioned, graduated with the highest honors of his class, studied theol- 
 ogy awhile at Andover, left on account of diseased eyes, spent much 
 on the doctors, passed a winter in Guadaloupe, and then went into 
 mercantQe business in Portland. When that place became a city, Mr. 
 Gutter was one of its common council. For several years he was 
 an active and eflJeient overseer of Bowdoin College. But the days of 
 mad speculation came, and so also came their inevitable consequent, 
 the day of enlightenment and disaster. Under the irresistible pres- 
 sure, the respectable flrm to which Mr Gutter belonged went down. 
 Mr Cutter removed soon after to New York. There he has been a 
 bank clerk, an author, and a real-estate broker. At present he is 
 the editor and publisher of a magazine. As an easy and elegant 
 writer both of prose and poetry, Mr. Cutter has long been distin- 
 guished. He wrote a valuable life of Gen. Putnam and one of Gen. 
 La Fayette, which were published. Many small works written for 
 
228 HISTORY OF BOWDOESr COLLEGE. 
 
 others have appeared under the names of his emplojjers, and have 
 passed to their credit. He has made numerous contributions to periodic 
 literature, which evince a pen of equal fertility and grace. For many 
 years he has resided in the rural outskirts of Brooklyn, among neigh- 
 bors who know him well, esteem him highly, and love him much. 
 Mr. Cutter in 1828 married Margaret Dicks of Portland. They 
 • have two sons and three daughters, all now adult. 
 [Mr. Cutter died in 1867. — p.] 
 
 Daniel Evans, brother of George (see 1815), was born in 1802. 
 He died in Cornville in 1867. 
 
 GoDFBET John Grosvenok was a native of Minot. " Strange 
 fellow in college : eccentricj unrefined, indolent." He began the prac- 
 tice of law in Hudson, N. Y., and removed afterwards to Geneva 
 in the same State, where he spent the rest of his life. " He was 
 esteemed a good lawyer, and especially before a jury. He had a» good 
 deal of readiness and natural eloquence and a genial disposition, which 
 made him very popular. He was a warm political partisan, but I do 
 not know that he held any public office except that of postmaster in 
 this village. He held that office when I came to Geneva in 1836, and 
 so remained, I think, till ' Tip ' and ' Ty ' came in." The story of his 
 later years is a melancholy one, and sadly did they end. On the 21st 
 of June, 1849, he went into his garden in the morning, and there in 
 the afternoon he was found prostrate and dead. He left alvidow and 
 several children. 
 
 Isaac Geoton, a brother of Nathaniel (see 1814), studied law with 
 Gorham Parks of "W'aldoboro', and practised his profession in that 
 place for about nine years. He had attained to a lucrative business, 
 when in 1833 he was suddenly taken away. Mr. Groton " had a fine 
 taste for music, and skilfuUy played the vi»lin in his leisure moments." 
 He was not married. 
 
 Charles Harding, son of David Harding of Gorham, practised 
 law for ten years in Eaymond. He then removed to Portland, where 
 for several years he acted as notary public and clerk of the common 
 council. Not only as a man of business but in other walks he had 
 a fair reputation. His death, which occurred at the hospital in 1851, 
 wfis also a sad one. A widow and thi-ee children survive him. - 
 
GRADUATES. 229 
 
 Joseph Howard's father, of the same name, having served his 
 country in the War of Independence, went into the Maine woods as 
 one of the settlers of Brownfield. There he became a man of note 
 and influence, closing in 1851 his long and useful life of ninety -three 
 years. The son was fitted at Fryeburg, spent eighteen months at 
 Hanover until the " university" died, and then entered Bowdoin Col- 
 lege. Having read law with Daniel Goodenow and with Judge Dana, ■ 
 he practised for twelve years in York County, being for ten years dis- 
 trict attorney for the county. In 1837 he was appointed United 
 States attorney for Maine, and since that time has resided in Port- 
 land. In 1848 Mr. Howard was appointed justice of the Supreme 
 Judicial Court of Maine. At the close of his seven years' term he 
 returned to the practice of the law, in which he is stiU actively and 
 extensively engaged. In a private letter Judge Howard makes the 
 following allusion to his judiciary career : " My episode on the bench 
 was on the whole satisfactory ; yet I am quite as well pleased with 
 practising as dispensing law. The former has more variety, more that 
 interests the heart, and rewards better. The latter is less exciting, 
 more dignified, and more respected among men." Though- utterly 
 exempt both by nature and habit from the violence and bitterness of 
 partisanship. Judge Howard was born and brought up in the Demo- 
 cratic party, and his allegiance to it has never been shaken.* 
 
 He was married in 1826 to Maria Annette, daughter of Hon. Judah 
 Dana. Of their four surviving children two are sons Joseph D. 
 (Bowdoin College, 1852) is a lawyer in the city of New York.f 
 Henry R. (Bowdoin College, 1857) is preparing for the ministry in ' 
 the Episcopal Church. | 
 
 Lot Jokes was born in 1797 in Brunswick. His grandfather, Lem- 
 uel Jones, an approved minister among the Friends, left twelve chil- 
 
 * Judge Howard was elected mayor of Portland in 1860, and in 1864-65 was the 
 Democratic candidate for governor of the State. For several years he was president 
 of the Cumberland bar. For several years he was a member of the board of over- 
 seers of the college. He was of genial and gentle temper, modest and retiring, a 
 friend of young men (as many a younger member of the profession can testify), of a 
 pure and high-toned character, of strong religious sentiment, and for several years a' 
 communicant in the Episcopal Church. Monday, Dec. 12, 1877, he went to Brown- 
 field to visit a brother. Having arrived at noon and dined, he took an afternoon 
 walk in the wood near by, and was found dead by the roadside from disease of the 
 heart, of which he had felt symptoms, as was shown by arrangements which he had 
 made in apprehension that he might be the victim of sudden death. p. 
 
 t Died suddenly in New York in 1872. — p. 
 
 t Settled at Potsdam, N. Y. — p. 
 
230 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 dren, all of -whom lived to advanced age. His father, Thomas, now 
 almost ninety years old, is still an active minister in the same religious 
 body. His mother, Esther, was the daughter of Jeremiah Hacker, a 
 Salem merchant who removed to Brunswick at the close of the Revoi 
 lution. He was fitted for college by Ebenezer Everett, Seba Smith, 
 and Eeuben Nason. Under new convictions of duty he early .termi- 
 nated his ecclesiastical relations with the people among whom he was 
 born. After graduation he studied theology with Bev. Thomas Carr 
 lisle, rector of St, Peter's in Salem, Mass., and was admitted to orders 
 in 1823. After two years of missionary labor in Marblehead and 
 Ashfleld, Mass., he went to Georgia for his health. While in that 
 State he organized a church at Macon, and bad charge for a time of 
 Chathain Academy in Savannah. Eeturning to Maine, he supplied 
 Christ Church in Gardiner during a long absence of its rector, and 
 then accepted the rectorship of the Episcopal Church in Leicester, 
 Mass. From this place in 1833 he went to New York, which has 
 since been his home. The Church of the Epiphany, which has enjoyed 
 for twentyrfive years his faithful ministrations, is strictly a missionary 
 enterprise. It sprung from an effort of benevolence to supply the 
 wants of a populous but comparatively poor neighborhood. Its sit. 
 tings are all free, and its religious privileges have been blessed to mul- 
 titudes of that shifting population. Long as it is since Mr. Jones 
 renounced the tenets of Quakerism, he retains much of the manner 
 and tone which mark the members of that placid community. Among 
 the rectors of the Episcopal Church in this city, few are older than 
 he ; none more respected. Besides several discourses in pamphlet 
 form he has published a small volume, the " Memoir of Mrs. Sarah 
 L. Taylor." In 1825 Mr. Jones was married in Augusta, Ga., to 
 Priscilla, daughter of Alexander McMillan. Her father was a native 
 of Edinburgh in Scotland, her mother the daughter of Col, Mead qf 
 Bedford County, Va., and her sister was the wife of Judge Wilde of 
 Richmond County, Ga. Mrs. Jones died in 1829 in Leicester. In 
 1831 he married Lucy Ann, one of the ten children of Dr. Artemas 
 BuUard of Sutton, Mass. A brother of hers, the Rev. Dr. BuUard 
 of the First Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, was killed Nov. 1, 
 1855, in the terrible railroad accident of Gasconade River. Another 
 brother, the Rev. Asa BuUard, is the worthy secretary of the Massa- 
 chusetts Sunday-School Society. One of her sisters is Mrs. Judge 
 Barton of Worcester, Mass., and another is Mrs. Henry Ward 
 Beecher. Of seven-children Mr. Jones has lost five. Ellen M. died 
 in 1853, the wife of Rev. John A. Paddock. Louise M. is the wife 
 of George E. Moore of New York. Henry Lawrence is a graduate 
 
GRADUATES. 231 
 
 of Columbia College, July, 1859. Mr. Jones has just been dubbed 
 D. D.,b3' the college last named. 
 
 [Dr. Jones died in Philadelphia in 1865. — p. J 
 
 James Larry was from Gorham. In 1822 he went to Virginia and 
 engaged in teaching. In this capacity he has lived in Hanover, Cul- 
 pepper, and King George counties. He now has a school in Henrico 
 County, about twelve miles from Richmond. Many of his earlier 
 pupils -have become men of distinction. His religious connections 
 are with the denomination known there as the Old Baptists. In the 
 important matter of wedlock Mr. Larry took time. At the discreet 
 age of fifty-five he married a Virginia lady, not so old by considerable. 
 Only one of their two children is living. 
 
 Joseph Libbet was the son of Francis and Lucy (Moulton) Libbey, 
 who lived in Buxton, where he was born in 1793. He was fitted at Gor- 
 ham. In college he was so steady and so mature that I used to regard 
 him with a sort of veneration, even when he stood before me to recite. 
 Mr. Larry devoted himself to teaching. The high school in Portland 
 was under his charge for twenty-nine years. Then for five years he 
 kept a private school. Since 1855 he has held the office of county 
 treasurer one year, of alderman one year, and of treasurer to the 
 York and Cumberland Railroad. For several years he was on the 
 Board of Overseers of the college, and one of its committee on exam- 
 inations. He is now engaged in active business, and appears to be 
 growing young again. He was married in 1822 to Miss R. M. *bavis, 
 who died in 1824, leaving a son, Francis A., graduate of Bowdoin 
 College, 1843. F. A. Libbey engaged in the express business, and 
 was killed by a railroad accident Aug. 14, 1848. In 1826 Mr.' Libbey 
 was married to Lucy Jenkins of Barre, Mass. Of their six children, 
 a son and three daughters are living. 
 
 [Mr. Libbey died itf 1871. —p.] 
 
 WiNTHEOP Gray Marston was from Portland. I knew him in 
 college, but can remember nothing worth recording. Of what hap- 
 pened afterwards I have only learned that he was married, and that 
 his death occurred in 1825. 
 
 George Packard was the Rev. Dr. Packard's third son. In 1825, 
 after the usual preparation, he established himself in Saco as a physi- 
 cian. For this profession he seemed to be well adapted both by nature 
 and culture. After a successful practice of seventeen years he found 
 
232 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 himself unable longer to resist the theological proclivities of his family; 
 Accordinglj' he abandoned medicine, joined tor a time the school at 
 Alexandria, and was ordained in 1843 by the bishop of Virginia. 
 For about two years he had charge of an Episcopal church, which 
 stands under the shadow of Andover Theological Seminary. He then 
 served as a missionary in the eastern part of Massachusetts. Since 
 1846 he has been rector of a church in Lawrence^ Mass. In addition 
 to professional duty, which as physician or as pastor he has faithfully 
 discharged. Dr. Packard has always taken an active part in the cause 
 of education. The schools of Saeo long shared his care, and in Law- 
 rence he has held the office of school superintendent. He was married 
 in 1833 to Sarah M., daughter of Jonathan Tucker of Saco. Of 
 eleven children they have lost six.* 
 
 ICHABOD Plaisted was from Gardiner. n "His collegiate life was 
 not always smooth. The position assigned to him by others fell short 
 of that to which he supposed himself entitled. Fluent in conversation 
 and eloquent as a speaker, he aspired to the highest offices in the gift 
 of his country. He chose the law and prepared to engage in the 
 study with enthusiastic ardor. Having graduated he went to South 
 Corolina, visiting on his way thither the sage of Monticello. His 
 interview with that remarkable man aided in confirming his already 
 sceptical modes of thought. The aged veteran conversed freely with 
 the young disciple, and communicated the results of his long expe- 
 rience with reference to men, books, and opinions. This event was 
 regardfid by Plaisted with .much complacency, as foreshadowing in 
 some degree his future career. The philosophical statesman, he said, 
 had like himself relinquished the authority of the sacred volume, and 
 clung to. the sages of antiquity. One after another of the authors who 
 were once his daily companions had been laid aside. Homer alone 
 remained on the mantel near his chair, the joy and solace of his 
 declining years. f 
 
 "Filled with a train of glowing anticipations, our young friend 
 entered a law office in Charleston, and applied himself day and night 
 to his studies. Never was a student more completely engrossed by 
 
 * Since the above was written Mrs. Packard has died, and the oldest son in the 
 naval service in the late war. One son and three daughters now survive. The father 
 died in 1876. p. 
 
 t How unlike the sentiment of Homer's translator in his later days ! 
 " The grief Is this, that sank in Homer's mine, 
 I lose my precious years, now soon to fail, 
 Handling his gold, which howsoe'er it shine. 
 Proves dross when balanced in the Christian scale." 
 
GRADUATES. 233 
 
 any pursuit. He did not reflect that there are limits to human effort 
 and achievement, and physical laws which if violated produce painful 
 results that cannot be averted. His intense application and want of 
 prudent care led to the entire loss of his sight. When I first met 
 him on his return from the South, his mind was as much in the dark 
 with regard to revelation and providence as his body was in refer- 
 ence to surrounding objects. His prospects all blighted, his cherished 
 hopes destroyed, he reproached the Author of his being, and was ready 
 to curse the day in which he was born. I never witnessed a more 
 painful spectacle. A few words of sympathy and consolation were 
 uttered in his hearing and such suggestions were made as his trying 
 condition seemed to demand. Months passed before our next inter- 
 view. Then, — joyful change ! It was my privilege to find him a 
 professed disciple of the Lord Jesus. The darkness of his mental 
 vision had been removed. That volume, of which he had before 
 spoken with disrespect, furnished his only ground of hope. Humbled 
 before the majesty of Jehovah, he desired to proclaim to others the 
 riches of that grace by which he had been rescued." 
 
 Mr. Plaisted was licensed to preach in 1826, and was soon after 
 settled over a small society in North Rochester, Mass., receiving his 
 support in part from the Home Missionary Society. After about four 
 years of service here his health gave way. A severe cough put a 
 stop to his preaching. He went back to his paternal home in Gardi- 
 ner, and died in peace, June 3, 1831. About a year before his death 
 Mr. Plaisted was married, and his widow is still living in Braintree, 
 Mass. 
 
 Charles Soule, brother of G. L. Soule (see 1818), and born in 1794, 
 was fitted at Exeter. After leaving college he went to Andover, but 
 did not graduate there. He was settled for a while over a parish in 
 Belfast, and for a while over one in Norway. Compelled by bronchial 
 disease to leave off preaching, he spent several years in Portland 
 engaged in bookselling. Mr. Soule is now settled in Amherst, a new 
 town on Union River, far back in the " forest primeval" ; which forest, 
 however, is fast disappearing beneath the sturdy strokes of the lumber- 
 men. About forty years since Rev. Samuel Veazie (Harvard College, 
 1800) was settled in Freeport, married Miss Bartol, and soon after 
 died. His young widow became in 1824 the wife of Mr. Soule. 
 They have had two daughters. One of them died in 1847 at the age 
 of twenty-one ; the other is married and lives in Portland. From 
 what I remember of Mr. Soule's temperament and from what 1 have 
 oecasiopally heard others say of him, I believe him to be one of those 
 
234 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 who go quietly about their business, and who under all circumstances 
 take life easily. 
 
 [Mr. Soule died in Portland in 1869. —p.] 
 
 Stephen McLellan Staples of Gorham. He was ungainly in 
 person and manners, and while in college, though uniformly diligent, 
 made no special demonstration of power. But he kept his eye fixed 
 steadily on the future, and was silently but surely preparing himself 
 for action. Soon after he graduated he went to Mexico, and obtained 
 a situation under government as surveyor and civil engineer. This 
 respectable and lucrative post he held about ten years, when the fail- 
 ure of his health compelled him to return. He now married Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Col. Lothrop Lewis of Gorham. Being a good linguist 
 he undertook to prepare a grammar of the Spanish language and made 
 considerable progress ; but in the midst of all death came. He died 
 in 1832 in Philadelphia, aged thirty-two. He had no offspring. 
 
 Isaac Watts Wheelwright is seventh in descent from the famous 
 Eev. John Wheelwright of Exeter, N. H. If the reader has never 
 heard of John Wheelwright, it is not my fault. I. W. Wheelwright 
 is only four generations down from the distinguished judge, John 
 Wheelwright of Wells. Jeremiah Wheelwright of Newburyport was 
 one of Arnold's men, and went with that brave fellow through the 
 Maine woods to take Quebec. His son Ebenezer, a respectable mer- 
 chant, married Anna Coombs. This worthy couple, having reared a 
 large family, died near together in 1855, having both entered on their 
 tenth decade. Isaac Watts was their youngest .son. Graduating 
 with a good reputation for classical scholarship, he went to Andover 
 for theological study. Then he acted as an assistant teacher in Phil- 
 lips Academy and also in Dummer Academy, at that time under my 
 care. At length he was licensed and attempted to preach ; but a 
 temperament peculiarly excitable threw such difliculties in his way 
 that he soon found his path in this direction hedged in. He again 
 turned his attention to teaching, and for a time had a school in New 
 Orleans. His oldest brother, William Wheelwright (now a distin- 
 guished name in South America) , was then United States consul at 
 Guayaquil. With a commission of inquiry from the Bible House, 
 Isaac visited our great southern peninsula, and traversed the countries 
 on its western coast. At length he reached Quito, where he was 
 kindly received by the president of the republic and invited to stay. 
 He was there two years, having apartments in the palace and giving 
 lessons daily. But it was cold and uncomfortable on that grand 
 
GKADUATES. 235 
 
 plateau, and he soon grew weary even of the awful splendors of 
 Pichincha and Chimborazo. He came home, but there was nothing to 
 be done here, so he went back to South America. For several years 
 he taught a school in Valparaiso, then his brother's residence ; but 
 feeling lonely, he came home and persuaded a young lady (daughter 
 of Eev. Dr. Dana of Newburyport) to return with him. It is now 
 several years since thej' came back from Valparaiso. CaiTying into 
 effect one of those dreamy wishes which are sometimes formed in 
 youth, he bought the old parsonage house and glebe in Byfield. It 
 was a venerable, rickety mansion where some great men have lived, 
 and where some good people have been near freezing. Mr Wheel- 
 wright has modernized the ancient structure and made it comfortable. 
 After a day of considerable travel and fatigue and of some disappoint- 
 ment, my friend is passing the evening in this still spot. He sees to 
 his apple-trees, tends his cows, weeds his garden, and sits under the 
 elms that once shaded Trowbridge and Parsons, — the great master 
 and greater pupil. Since he settled in Byfleld, he has lost one wife 
 and found another. He has three or four children, all daughters.* 
 
 Joseph Abiel Wood, born in 1803, was a son of Joseph Wood of 
 Wiscasset. He practised law in Ellsworth, where he died in 1844. 
 "Wood," writes one of his classmates, "possessed many excellent 
 qualities. He had a mind well balanced, and the disposition to do 
 what was right. His life afforded a beautiful Ulustration of the exem- 
 plary and consistent Christian." He married a Miss Hodges of Taun- 
 ton, who afterwards became the wife of Col. Black. Mr. Wood died 
 in 1844. 
 
 1822. 
 
 Joseph Hale Abbott was born in 1802 in Wilton, N. H., being 
 sixth in degree from the ancestral George, who came from Yorkshire 
 
 *JoHN Wheelweight, before he came to America, had been a schoolmate and 
 friend of Oliver Cromwell. Ann Hutchinson was his sister, and he held the doctrines 
 which brought such odium on that famous woman. Banished from Boston for his 
 heresy, he went to Exeter as one of its first settlers. There also trouble came, and 
 he moved about 1643 to Wells, then just begun. Four years later he revisited Eng- 
 land, when he made a partial confession of error. He returned with recommenda- 
 tions to favor from his old friend, now the great " Protector," and was kindly received 
 in Massachusetts, and soon after settled as the minister of Hampton, N. H. He died 
 in Salisbury, 1679, in advanced age. 
 
 Christopher Lawson, who was banished at the same time with Wheelwright and 
 for the same reasons, settled at Brunswick under Purchase, who it seems had no 
 objection to Antinomianism. 
 
236 HISTOKT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 in 1640, and settled soon after in Andover. His father Ezra, an 
 intelligent and good man, originated in connection with a brother, 
 Samuel A. Abbott,' the manufacture of potato starch in this country, 
 now a business of great magnitude. Maternally he is descended from 
 Rev. John Hale, first minister of Rowley, who iat a time when his breth- 
 ren and neighbors generally seemed to be out of their senses, wrote a 
 sensible book on witchcraft. His mother, Rebekah Hale, was a 
 native of South Coventry, Conn., and was a niece of the' brave 
 patriot Capt. Nathan Hale. Joseph H. Abbott was fitted mostly 
 at Dummer Academy, where his uncle Abiel (now just deceased) 
 was preceptor. His going to Brunswick was accidental. He was 
 thinking only of Cambridge, when Mr. John Abbott "dropped in." 
 He had with him two chaises and two sisters bound for Maine, and 
 another driver was much wanted. Joseph could perform this ser- 
 vice, enter Bowdoin College, stay one year, and then go to Cambridge. 
 So it was decided, and thus slight often are the incidents that give a 
 lasting direction to our lives. During the three years which followed 
 his graduation he taught private schools in Beverly and in Watertown, 
 and resided awhile in Cambridge, where he studied and attended lec- 
 tures. From 1825 to 1827 he was tutor and bibliothecarius at Bruns- 
 wick. Then for six years he was professor of mathematics and 
 teacher of modern languages in Phillips Exeter Academy. Since 
 1833 be has had a school for young ladies in Boston, except that from 
 1855 to 1857 he was interrupted by want of health. Since 1838 
 Mr. Abbott has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences, and for two years he was its recording secretary. The pro- 
 ceedings of the academy contain abstracts of several communications 
 from Mr. Abbott, with accounts of certain discoveries made by him 
 in hj'draulics and in the motions of air. An article by Mr. Abbott 
 on the " pneumatic paradox," or adhesion of disks, was published in 
 the American Journal of Science, giving the true explanation of a phe- 
 nomenon which had before been erroneously or imperfectly accounted 
 for. He is the author of several articles in the North American 
 Review ; and in June, 1848, Liltell's Living Age contained an article 
 from him entitled " Principles recognized by Scientific Men applied to 
 the Ether Controversy," in which the pretensions of W. T. G. Mor- 
 ton and his advocates are shown to be wholly unfounded. Mr. Abbott 
 was appointed to give a course of lectures on meteorology before 
 the Lowell Institute in 1855, but was prevented by illness. While 
 Mr. Abbott has been so useful as an instructor, and not to the j'oung 
 only, he has been highly favored in his domestic relations. He was 
 married in 1830 to Frances B., daughter of Henry Larcom, and 
 
GRADUATES. 237 
 
 a grand-niece of the great Nathan Dane. They have five sons and a 
 daughter. Three of these boys have passed through the Boston Latin 
 School with distinguished honor. The eldest, Henry L., graduated in 
 1854 at the National Academy of West Point, second scholar of his 
 class, is now a lieutenant in the corps of the United States Topo- 
 graphical Engineers, and has already seen active and dangerous ser- 
 vice in exploratory surveys of our vast regions in the West. Lieut. 
 Abbott is married to a daughter of Kev. Stevens Everett. The second 
 son, Edward Hale, graduate of Harvard College in 1855, became a 
 tutor in 1857. Francis EUingwood A. (third son) has just graduated 
 at Camhridge. Edward Stanley (fourth son) is in a wholesale store 
 in Boston. 
 
 [Mr. Abbott died in 1873. — p. J 
 
 James Anderson was youngest of the Rev. Eufus Anderson's three 
 sons. He died June 1, 1823, in Charleston, S. C, having gone there 
 for the benefit of his health. He was a young man of " guileless 
 temper" and social disposition, a proficient in music, and a general 
 favorite. 
 
 John Appleton, born in 1804 at New Ipswich, N. H., was a son of 
 John Appleton and nephew of President Appleton. After his gradu- 
 ation he was for a few months an assistant teacher in Dummer Acad- 
 emy, Byfield, Mass. He taught also in Watertown. He studied law 
 with George F. Farley of New Ipswich, and with Nathan D. Appleton 
 of Alfred. After living a short time in Dixmont he settled in Sebec. 
 In 1832 he removed to Bangor, where he became the law partner of 
 E. H. AUen, now chief justice in the kingdom of Hawaii. During 
 the year 1841 Mr. Appleton was reporter of decisions, and published 
 two volumes of reports. In 1852 he was appointed one of the jus- 
 tices of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and on the death of 
 Judge Tenney, chief justice, a position which he still holds. 
 
 In 1860 he published a work, "The Rules of Evidence Stated and 
 Discussed." His legal learning is extensive and varied. He has cher- 
 ished a taste for the classics from his college days, is conversant with 
 general literature beyond what is usual in his profession, and may 
 indeed be called a devourer of books. Mr. Charles Sumner, in a let- 
 ter to a friend, May, 1837, wrote : " Mr. Appleton is a writer of great 
 nerve, boldness, and experience, with a Benthamic point and force." 
 
 Judge Appleton has been a trustee of the college for several years. 
 In 1860 the college conferred on him the degree of LL. D. 
 
 He was married in 1834 to Sarah, daughter of Samuel Allen of 
 
238 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Northfleld, Ma,ss.« who was for many years a member of Congress. 
 They have had four sons, John F. (Bowdoin College, 1860), died in 
 1870 ; Frederic H. (Bowdoin College, 1864) ; Edward P , died in 1869 ; 
 Henry A. : and one daughter, who died in childhood. Mrs. Appleton 
 died in 1874. In 1876 Judge Appleton married Ann Greeley of Port- 
 land. 
 
 Chakles Barrett, brother of John (see 1821), was born in 1804. 
 He studied law with his brother-in-law, Woodbury Storetfj but he did 
 not like the practice. For sOme time he was treasurer of the Oxford 
 and Cumberland Canal Company, and also of the Institution for 
 Savings. He was president of the Canal Bank for ten years. He 
 was treasurer of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad before it was 
 leased to the Canada Company. Since that time he holds virtually 
 the same office, under the title of accountant. He has been an alder- 
 man of the city of Portland, and president of the common councili 
 His wife (married in 1826) was Eliza Mary, daughter of Joseph 
 Baker of Portland. They have had five children. John Henry died 
 while in the Senior class of Yale College. Charles W. graduated at 
 Bowdoin College in 1847. He is a railroad engineer, and is married. 
 Franklin R. (Brown University, 1857) is with his father. George 
 P. is in Brown UniveMty — partial course. 
 
 James Bell, born in 1804 in Francestown, N. Hi, was the third son 
 of Samuel Bell, a distinguished citizen of New Hampshire^ having 
 been a judge of the Superior Court, governor of the State, and senator 
 in Congress. His great-grandfathfer, John, was one of that famous 
 Irish colony that settled Londonderry. His grandfather, John, ended 
 an honored and useful life at the age of ninety-flve. Maternally, 
 James Bell came from the Danas. In college he was distinguished 
 by substantial scholarship and by his staid demeanor. His brother, 
 Samuel D. Bell of Concord, N. H., now a judge of the Superior 
 Court, directed his early reading in the law, after which he attended 
 the once celebrated law school in Litchfield, Conn. His first law office 
 was opened with characteristic modesty in Gilmanton, a small town of 
 Strafford County. But he could not keep concealed. His business 
 soon became extensive and important, and he removed in 1831 to 
 Exeter. He had not been here long before he took rank among the 
 ablest lawyers in the State. For several years scarcely a case of 
 importance that came within the range of his professional employ- 
 ment was tried in New Hampshire in which he was not engaged. 
 While he was thus in the full tide of. success, he accepted a proposi- 
 
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GEADUATES. 239 
 
 tion which led to a change of residence, and in some measure of pur- 
 suit. -jiThe manufacturing towns of Lowell, Lawrence, and Manchester 
 had for some time suffered much inconvenience and loss from the 
 diminished supply of water in the Merrimac during the dry season of 
 the year. To remedy this it was resolved to dam up the outlet of the 
 "Winnipiseogee and other lakes, thus raising and retaining the waters in 
 these reservoirs of nature, to be let down at pleasure in time of need. 
 It was a bold enterprise, but one which required the most delicate and 
 wise management. Scarcely ever in New. England has the smallest 
 river or mill brook been dammed for use, that the obstruction did not 
 cause damage, real or imaginary, far up the stream, involving an in- 
 definite amount of hard feeling and vexatious litigation. What then 
 might be expected when the farmers and proprietors on several hun- 
 dred miles of lake and river shore should think, or pretend to think, 
 that their rights were about to be sacrificed to make richer the rich 
 lords of the spinning jenny down below ? To carry out the enterprise 
 there was wanted at its head a man of scientific and of legal knowl- 
 edge, a man of sagacity and prudence and high character. Such a 
 man they found in James Bell. He entered on the service, settling 
 at Guilford, and devoting himself untiringly to the great and complex 
 duties of the position ; " to such entire acceptance as to have warded 
 off the ungracious attacks of political zealots," securing for the enter- 
 prise the consent, if not the approval, of those whose interests seemed 
 to be threatened. The waters of the lakes were mostly bought up, 
 and the spindles and looms below have had the benefit. In 1846 Mr. 
 Bell represented Exeter in the Legislature. In 1850 Guilford sent 
 him to the convention for revising the State Constitution. More than 
 once his political friends set Mm up for governor and gave him their 
 votes. But New Hampshire was then in other hands. The sceptre 
 so long and so firmly held by the Democrats at length departed, and 
 Mr. Bell was at once chosen to represent his native State in the 
 national Senate. In this high position he served during the Thirty- 
 fourth Congress and in the extra session of the Senate in 1857. On 
 the 26th of May that year he died at his home in Guilford. During 
 his brief period in the Senate, Mr. Bell hardly engaged in debate ; 
 when he did so engage, the excellence of his judgment and the clear- 
 ness of his intellect were distinctly shown. If his career at Washing- 
 ton fell short of expectation at home,' it must be remembered that it 
 " was checked and oppressed from the beginning by the malady which 
 terminated his life." Under no circumstances, however, was he the 
 man to aim at a rapid or brilliant popularity. Had life and health 
 been continued to him, the sterling qualities of his mind and character 
 
240 HISTOET OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 would yearly have become more manifest to the Senate and to the 
 country. Early in the session which followed occurred one ofrthose 
 days when eulogies are in order, and which are too often seized by 
 Congressional speakers for the repetition of trite monitory aphorisms, 
 the recitation of poetical scraps, and the display generally of rhetori- 
 cal flowers. On the occasion referred to, when Messrs. Butler and 
 Bell were commemorated, the praise of the latter fell into excellent 
 hands. The tributes paid to him by Senators Hale and Fessenden 
 were not only discriminating and beautiful, but they were touched with 
 true feeling. Mr> Seward added a few kind words. In the House, 
 also, his modest virtues were well presented by Mr. Tappan of New 
 Hampshire and Mr. Washburn of Maine. Through the kindness of 
 Judge Bell I have been favored with a sketch of his brother prepared 
 by Chief Justice Perley for an expected meeting of the bar at Guilford, 
 though for some cause it was not presented. Gladly could I do so 
 would I give entire this admirable delineation of a great lawyer and 
 good man, as drawn by a kindred and master mind. A few extracts 
 must sufHce : " Mr. Bell was a man of large attainments and great 
 variety and versatility of powers. Considered as a lawyer it would 
 not be easy to name one more completely furnished for all exigencies 
 in the different departments of his profession. He was an advocate 
 fully equal to the conduct of the weightiest and most difficult causes. 
 As a legal' adviser no man gave a sounder and safer opinion on a 
 naked question of law. His prudence and excellent good sense, his 
 sagacity and intimate knowledge of men and business, made his coun- 
 sel of the highest value. There was an even balance in his mind, and 
 a just proportion in all the parts of his character. His power consisted 
 not so much in the prominence of individual faculties as in the sym- 
 metry and united strength of the whole." " There was nothing for 
 which he was more remarkable than the variety and amount of labor 
 which he was able to perform . Without hurry or confusion he disposed 
 of his work with unrivalled ease and despatch." "He was entirely 
 free from all low craft and disingenuous artifice ; yet his dexterity and 
 fine tact in the handling of a cause have* not been surpassed by any 
 contemporary in this State." " He was the most modest and unobtru- 
 sive of men, yet was never known to fail in self-possession, and in the 
 perfect mastery and control of his faculties. Of professional deport- 
 ment a more perfect model could hardly be proposed." It would be 
 easy to accumulate such testimonials, but it is needless. I knew Mr. 
 Bell During his first two years in college he was my much-esteemed 
 pupU. At Exeter in 1839-40 I .renewed the acquaintance, and saw 
 him in the rich maturity of his powers. I last met him in Brunswick 
 
GRADUATES. 241 
 
 at our semi-centennial. His short but kindly speech at the dinner 
 board must be remembered bj' many. I do not know that Bowdoin 
 has upon her record any worthier name than that of James Bell. Mr. 
 Bell was married in 1831 to a daughter of Hon. Nathaniel Upham of 
 Rochester. He left her a widow with five children.* 
 
 John Botnton, born in 1801 in Wiscasset, was a son of Capt. John 
 Boynton (see Alden Boynton, 1825). He was fitted for an advanced 
 standing by Rev. Dr. Packard, and entered a Sophomore. He 
 studied for the ministry with Rev. Asa Rand, and was for a short 
 time at Andover. To secure a home for the family, now reduced by 
 misfortune, he incurred obligations which made it necessary for him 
 to teach, and interfered with his professional studies. In 1827 Mr. 
 Boynton was settled at Phipsburg, where he remained thirteen years, 
 a faithful, successful pastor, fearing God and not man. He then 
 returned to Wiscasset, his present home. On a farm he finds occupa- 
 tion congenial to his taste and favorable to his health ; and as occasion 
 calls he still performs the duties of a Christian minister. He was 
 married in 1828 to Charlotte, daughter of Hon. Sa«uel Freeman of 
 Portland. Of eight children six remain. Three sons are engaged in 
 teaching ; one is in California. He removed to Delaware in 1864, 
 and died at Felton in 1876. 
 
 Otis Livingston Bridges was born in 1798, studied law and settled 
 in Calais. He afterwards removed to Worcester, Mass., and finally 
 went to California. While he lived in Maine Mr. Bridges was an 
 active politician, and had the reputation of being an able advocate. 
 He was attorney-general of the State from 1842 to 1845. Mr. Bridges 
 now lives in Stockton, Cal., and still practises his profession. He has 
 two daughters, one of whom is the wife of Joseph H. Wildes, son of 
 the late Asa W. Wildes of Newburyport, Mass. Mr. Wildes is a civil 
 engineer. 
 
 [Mr. Bridges died in 1870. — p. j 
 
 Charles Parsons Chandler was born in 1801 in New Gloucester. 
 He was fitted at the academies of Hebron and North Yarmouth. 
 His legal studies were pursued in the office of his father, Peleg Chand- 
 ler, and he was admitted at Portland in 1825. The following year he 
 opened an office in Foxcroft, his home from that time. Here for 
 thirty j-^ears as a lawyer, a citizen, and a neighbor he more than met 
 
 * His son, Charles TJ. Upham, graduated at Bowdoin College in 1863. — p. 
 16 
 
242 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 every requisition of duty, and won the esteem and love of all. Tlie 
 trait which more perhaps than any other gave a charm to Mr. Chand- 
 ler's character was the admirable grace and patience with which he 
 bore one of the most trying of all bodily infirmities. He had not 
 been long in active life when his hearing became seriously impaired. 
 The- way in which he sustained this great affliction was a lesson of 
 beauty for all, and one of the highest encouragements to those who 
 are in like condition. The following extract is made from a tender, 
 fraternal tribute to his memory, which appeared soon after his death. 
 Apart from the deep instruction it conveys, it derives a special inter- 
 est from the fact that the distinguished writer has for years been him- 
 self a learner in the school he so well describes : — 
 
 " Educated for the bar, and entering upon the profession with the 
 zeal and energy and laudable ambition of an ardent spirit, and with 
 prospects as fair as any man of his age, he soon perceived that a 
 hereditary and increasing tendency to deafness must greatly impair 
 his usefulness in this occupation, if it did not entirely debar him from 
 the practice. For years lie strove in silence against this strengthening 
 conviction, and <feien at length it became certain that anj' cure or even 
 slight mitigation was not to be expected, he calmly submitted to this 
 darkening shadow of his professional life. He felt as all deaf men 
 must and do feel, that this infirmity affects the mind as well 'as the 
 body ; that one debarred from all the ordinary intercourse of society, 
 hearing only what is specially addressed to himself, is like a traveller 
 who looks on a beautiful scene in nature through an inverted telescope 
 or a colored glass, receiving no adequate impression of its real char- 
 acter, — or like one whose only impression of a landscape is derived 
 from the sketches of an artist. He felt, too, as deaf men naturally 
 feel, a sensitiveness for the defect, and a desire to withdraw entirely 
 from society, from the feeling of repugnance at the prominence which 
 it is apt to give them, and an indisposition to annoj' their friends by 
 taxing kindness to excess in the casual intercourse of life. But he 
 did what many deaf people are unable to do, — he resisted and suc- 
 cessfully resisted these feelings and this "course of action ; and great 
 was his reward in so doing. Of a gentle and retiring nature, he could 
 never force himself upon others. He never made himself or his infirm- 
 ity prominent ; and although entirely conscious of the overshadowing 
 misfortune of his life, and often suffering intensely on account of it, 
 he suffered in silence, and alwaj's maintained an outward tone of 
 cheerfulness that made him a most desirable companion for the grave 
 or the mirthful. Such was his manner, the delica-cy, simplicity, and 
 truthfulness of his character, that no one felt bound to make special 
 
GRADUATES. 243 
 
 exertions on his behalf; and when he was present there was no em- 
 barrassment because he did not hear. He was never in the way, and 
 no man's society was more eagerly sought by those who knew him, 
 although it was quite difficult to converse with him at aU. But he 
 always preserved a just and proper self-respect. . . . Nor did he re- 
 linquish his profession. Having become thoroughly fitted for its 
 practice by long years, of study, and experience, he had no idea of 
 sacrificing the advantages so painfuUy acquired, but determined to 
 persevere in the same direction, although fully conscious of the diffi- 
 culties and mortifications to be encountered ; and this he did^with fair 
 success for thirty years, although, of course, debarred from some por- 
 tions of its multifarious duties. He always found enough to do. A 
 well-read lawyer, a safe counsellor, a sagacious man, he was consulted 
 far and near. No man was more deservedly trusted with the dearest 
 rights of others. He was universally regarded as a peacemaker, and 
 he annihilated in his own community the prejudice against the bar, 
 and forever destroyed the vulgar error that a lawyer is necessarily the 
 promoter of strife or the exciter of angry passions in men. 
 
 *' Although not destitute of ambition for public life, he for many 
 years discouraged all attempts to thrust him forward, but of late he 
 was induced to accept some positions of honor and of trust. He had 
 been a member of both branches of the Legislature, and he performed 
 the duties to the great satisfaction of his constituents ; and what some- 
 times seemed singular, no member seemed better posted in the daily 
 proceedings of those bodies, or was listened to with greater respect in 
 debate, although he could not hear one word that was said by others. 
 
 " The departure of this good man was in harmony with his life, — 
 calm, kindly, without a struggle to prevent the passing spirit from 
 leaving its last impression of peace upon his features. He was sit- 
 ting by his fireside, almost engaged in conversation, when he appeared 
 to drop asleep, as was not unusual at this time of the day. His man- 
 ner of breathing attracted attention, and it was soon found that the 
 spirit had passed on, and the ear that heard not was unstopped for- 
 ever." 
 
 Mr. Chandler was married in 1830 to Sarah Murray Wheeler of 
 Garland. She has two daughters, and a son Charles P., graduated at 
 Bowdoin College in 1854 and is now settled as a lawyer in Boston.* 
 
 Richmond Loring came from North Yarmouth, where he was born 
 in 1801. In college he made rather a poor figure. He pursued the 
 
 * Tliis son fell in battle in 1862. — r. 
 
244 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 study of medicine with Dr. Timothy Little, then of New Gloucester, 
 a surgeon of some note in his day. Having obtained his M. D., 
 Loring went to the island of Hayti to practise medicine and make a 
 fortune. How well he practised is not known ; he undoubtedly suc- 
 ceeded in the other purpose. He liv€|d at Aux Cayes, where for 
 several years he was commercial agent. In that wretched and ill- 
 governed country he had, in common with other whites, more or less 
 of trouble. "Once he was pursued and narrowly escaped with his 
 life." Dr. Loring never revisited his native land. His name and 
 existence were kept alive with some by means of commercial transac- 
 tions, and with others through his two sons whom he sent to North 
 Yarmouth for an education. At length an incident with which he 
 was connected brought his name into disagreeable publicity. The 
 " Abby Hammond," Capt. Martin, had sailed from Aux Cayes, hav- 
 ing as a part of her alleged lading $16,000 in specie belonging to Dr. 
 Loring and insure^ in Boston. , The vessel went down somewhere on 
 the Haytian coast and was abandoned. The insurance companies in 
 Boston resisted payment on the ground of fraud. Capt. Martin was 
 arrested. Black witnesses from Hayti testified in court that holes 
 were found in the vessel, but no money. The captain was acquitted, 
 but the general impression was that there had been a conspiracy to 
 defraud,' and that the vessel had been scuttled accordingly. On the 
 other hand, it has been said that Martin always, and to his most con- 
 fidential friends, asserted Loring's innocence ; that the blacks who 
 testified were imported for that purpose, and that such witnesses could 
 he had in Hayti at any time ; that Martin,' being in prison, was unable 
 to procure rebutting testimony ; and that Loring's counsel took but 
 little pains with the case. Mr. George Woods of Auburn, who had 
 dealt largely with Dr. Loring, states that he always found him honest 
 and honorable, and that, so far as he knows, his character for morality 
 and integrity (apart from the above-named imputation) was a good 
 one. To what extent this view of the matter should avail towards a 
 removal of the stigma, I am not prepai;ed to say. Such as it is, I 
 feel it to be just that the doctor's memory should have its benefit. 
 He died in 1854 while travelling in France for the benefit of his health, 
 leaving a widow and four children. 
 
 Charles H. P. McLellan was born in 1803. His parents were 
 Hugh and Rhoda McLellan of Gorham. His maternal grandfather, 
 Morris, was a native of Cardigan in Wales. At the proper time he 
 was handed over by Mr. Eeuben Nason to the college authorities, and 
 from them in due course he went under the medical direction succes- 
 
GEADUATES. 245 
 
 sively of Dr.'Folsom in Gorham,Dr. Merrill in Portland, and Dr. John 
 D. Wells in Boston. Having received his diploma he practised med- 
 icine, first at Gray five years, and then as many years in Portland. 
 But the climate of Maine did not agree with his constitution, and he 
 found air more congenial in the pleasant village of Poughkeepsie on 
 the Hudson, where he settled in 1836. Here he soon became a teacher 
 in the celebrated collegiate school of Mr. Charles Bartlett. In 1843 
 he was made principal of the Poughkeepsie Female Academy. In 
 1849 Dr. McLellan established a private school for young ladies, 
 which has now grown into a large and fiourishing institution. To this 
 well-conducted enterprise he devotes himself with unremitting ardor 
 and energy and with flattering, success. His health, which was misera- 
 ble when he left Maine, was long since fuUy restored. For six years 
 he was elected by the citizens of Poughkeepsie to the superintendency 
 of their common schools. He belongs to the Reformed Dutch Church 
 and is an elder in that communion. He was married in Brunswick in 
 1825 to Rebecca S., daughter of Capt. Joseph McLellan. They have 
 had and have lost three children. 
 [Dr. McLellan died in 1862. —p. J 
 
 MosES Paksons Parrish commemorates in his name two distin- 
 guished men who for almost eighty years were ministers in sacred 
 things in the humble precinct where he was born. The Rev. Moses 
 Parsons was a truly good man, but is now remembered chiefly on 
 account of his sons, and especially of Theophilus, perhaps the greatest 
 jurist ever reared in New England. The Rev. Elijah Parrish was well 
 known in his day as an author of historical and geographical school 
 books, as an able and eloquent^ preacher, and as an ardent politician 
 of the Federal school. Moses Parsons Parrish was born in Byfleld in 
 1803 ; was fitted at Dummer Academy, and entered the university at 
 Hanover. On the dissolution of that institution he went to Bruns- 
 wick.' He studied law two years in Windham, Conn., and one year 
 in Newburyport, where in due time he opened an ot&ce. During the 
 years 1830 and 1831 he represented that town in the Legislature. He 
 subsequently took charge of the High School in Portsmouth, N. H., and 
 taught for a year or two a private school in Salem, Mass., and for a 
 short time also an academy in Dorchester, Mass. Having skill and 
 taste in music, he was more than once a leader in church choirs. In 
 1840 he became the associate of Dr. Charles Jewett and Nathan 
 Crosby in a temperance agency for Massachusetts. Then he became 
 the principal agent for the same cause in Vermont, and conducted for 
 some time a temperance journal at Woodstock. In this position he 
 
246 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 was active and useful. He next became a coadjutor of the late Col. 
 Skinner in the Plough^ Loom and Anvil, of which Mr. Parrish was the 
 Boston publisher. After the death of Col. Skinner he removed to 
 New York and became an assistant editor of that periodical. From 
 this he has just retired, and now thiijks of resuming his original pro- 
 fession. Success attend him ! Mr. Parrish was married in 1829 to 
 Mary Sigourney, daughter of Enoch Sawyer of Newbury. Of two 
 daughters, one survives, a teacher in the celebrated school of Miss 
 Haines. 
 
 [Mr. Parrish died in 1865. — p.] 
 
 Simeon Perkins, born in 1795 in Bridgewater, Mass., was the son 
 of a worthy blacksmith, and came to Minot with his father while yet a 
 boy. He studied law, then took charge of Hebron Academy, which he 
 kept acceptably for several years. Then he practised a little in Hebron 
 and also in Otisfleld. His wife was a daughter of Marshall Washburn 
 of Minot. Mr. Perkins died in 1842. 
 
 Milton Pieece was a native of Monmouth. He began the study 
 of law with Joseph Adams of Portland. Sickness arrested his studies ; 
 he lingered for a year or two, and then died where he was born. " A 
 worthy young man." 
 
 SiLVANUs Waterman Robinson was the son of John Eobinson, a 
 farmer in Litchfield. He was an early and apt scholar. While yet 
 too young for pen and paper he was perpetuaUj' ciphering with chalk 
 on shingles, or drawing pencil maps on birch bark. At eleven j'ears 
 he mastered Pike's Arithmetic in six weeks without aid. At sixteen 
 he was appointed to teach a ■ winter school in Bowdoin. The school 
 had the name of being very unmanageable. It had become &' matter 
 of boastful pride among the scholars to turn the master out the first 
 week. Before the day of opening young Robinson invited the oldest 
 and largest of his expected pupils to visit him at his own room. He 
 told them what he had heard, and proposed a trial of strength. One 
 after another they came on, and he floored! them all. It is needless to 
 add that he was "master" of that school. In his college class he 
 was ranked second, but it must be remembered that William Smyth 
 was his competitor there. Mr. Bond of Hallowell was his law teacher. 
 After practising for a few years in Portland he removed, on the death 
 of Mr. Bond, to Hallowell. Here he subsequently formed a partner- 
 ship with Peleg (now Judge) Sprague, which continued until the latter 
 went to Boston. During a portion of this time he edited a newspaper 
 called the American Advocate. He was twice elected to represent 
 
'7 JC. Buttle ftom a.Lagu8rreol-TE' 
 
 "WILLIAM SMYTH, M , A 
 
 PROFESSOR Oi-MATBEUATICS isc rf BOWDOni CO.'ZSSE 
 
 ETi^nwsifar fhyBawSau^MhmaruiL 
 
GBADUATES. 247 
 
 Hallowell in the Legislature. From 1839 to 1847 he practised his pro- 
 fessioa in Bangor. He then removed to Boston ; but soon after this 
 his failing health compelled him to relinquish business. In the sum- 
 mer of 1849 he sought rest and restoration in his native town ; but it 
 was now too late. A few months afterward, in all the tranquillity of 
 Christian faith and hope, he expired in that quiet home where he 
 drew his first breath. Though a man of unquestioned ability, he does 
 not seem to have been very ambitious. It is not improbable that his 
 frequent removals were prejudicial to his profes.sional advancement. 
 Both mentally and morally his constitution was healthy. Mr. Robin- 
 son loved music, and found his recreation in its practice. His integ- 
 rity was above suspicion. His religious connections were with the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. " A Christian gentleman" he is called 
 by one who knew him well, and there is no higher praise. He was 
 married in 1827 to Mary O. McLellan, daughter of Gen. McLellan of 
 Bath, where with her two daughters she still lives. 
 
 Benjamin Sanborn was son of Dr. William Sanborn of Falmouth, 
 where he was born in 1800. He was sent, an active, sprightly lad, to 
 Fryeburg Academy. There in wrestling he wrenched his knee ; the 
 consequence was a lameness which lasted through life. Nor was this 
 the only effect : " Ever after he was remarkably grave in his conver- 
 sation and demeanor." As a physician he settled first in Belgrade, 
 and had a good practice. But his father had become old and wished 
 to be relieved, and Benjamin returned to the place of his birth. Use- 
 ful and respected both as a physician and a citizen, he labored here 
 until his death in 1845. His last days, though passed upon a bed of 
 pain, were bright with hope and peace. His wife was a Miss Pitts of 
 Belgrade. With five surviving children she now lives at Port Huron 
 in Michigan. 
 
 William Smyth is a native of Pittston, where he was born in 
 1797. His father, a ship-carpenter, removed soon afterwards to Wis- 
 casset, where he died in 1816. His early and strong desire for a col- 
 lege education met with' many obstacles. To aid in this design he 
 enlisted in the army of the United States, and served during the last 
 year of the war with England, as quartermaster-sergeant in Col. 
 McCobb's regiment. The service was stationary and peaceful, leav- 
 ing some leisure for studj'' and yielding a small pecuniary recom- 
 pense. His military duties having ended with the war, Mr. Smj'th 
 became a teacher and opened a private school in Wiscasset, prosecut- 
 ing his studies for college often beyond midnight, and supporting a 
 
248 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 brother and sisters from his scant earnings. By such unseasonable 
 studies he so impaired the health and strength of his eyes that his 
 daily lessons through college were read to him by his room-mate. 
 For two years he assisted Mr. Nason at Gorham. Then he entered 
 college a Junior, and graduated in due course with the first honors. 
 After one year of theological study at Andover he was wanted as a 
 tutor at Brunswick. His success as a teacher led to his appointment 
 in 1826 as adjunct professor of mathematics. Three j'ears later he 
 was advanced to the full charge of that department. In 1845 he 
 became also adjunct professor of natural philosophy. "He at once 
 devoted himself with enthusiasm to his work, and very soon began 
 the preparation of text-books for students in his own department. 
 This series, now complete and republished lately after careful revision, 
 consists, 1st, of an " Elementary Algebra," designed for schools; 2d, 
 of a '' Treatise on Algebra" ; 3d, " Analytical Geometry " ; 4th, ''Ele- 
 ments of the Differential and Integral Calculus " ; 6th, " Trigonome- 
 try, with its Applications to Surveying and Navigation.'' " In clear 
 and full development of the science and in^ adaptation to the wants of 
 pupils this series is probably unsurpassed by any now in use. As a 
 teacher Prof. Smyth has succeeded in inspiring his classes with a rare 
 spirit and energy in mathematical study, and in this department has 
 thus placed his Alma Mater in the foremost rank of American col- 
 leges. In the discipline of college he is decided, fearless, and effi- 
 cient. As a man he is warm-hearted, sincere, and steadfast. He has 
 quick sympathies with his fellow-men, and is ready for every good 
 work. Especially have his eiforts in the cause of popular veducation 
 been most earnest and efficient. To his unsparing exertions the town 
 of Brunswick is largely indebted for its present liberal and improved 
 school system. In works of benevolence and Christian philanthropy 
 he has been ever prominent. As a Christian he has maintained under 
 all circumstances a consistent character for decided doctrine, unwaver- 
 ing faith, and uncompromising fidelity to all the claims of duty." 
 
 In 1827 Prof. Smyth married Harriet P., eldest daughter of 
 Nathaniel Coffin, Esq., of Wiscasset. Of nine children six sons and 
 one daughter are still living. * 
 
 *Mrs. Smyth died in 1865; the daughter, Mary C, in 1867. Of the sons, E. C. 
 (Bowdoin College, 1848), William H. (1856), F. K. (1867), G. A. (1868). Prof. 
 Smyth conceived the idea of the Memorial Hall, .procured by his own efforts nearly 
 the amount expended in its erection to its present condition, and designs from an 
 architect ; and while engaged in laying out the foundations was seized with a parox- 
 ysm of angina pectoris, with difficulty reached his dwelling, and in a few minutes 
 expired, — March, 1868. — p. 
 
f a), ^yh^i.^i^-^lJi-L-^^y'^ i^/c^e.4^ 
 
 Keinfi.'it.isi:IljJi"u:.UL-..; .<• : i.-fVi-^vil;^ ColJcwTaiL 
 
GRADUATES. 249 
 
 Timothy Walker Stone was born in Brunswick, where his father, 
 Jotham Sawyer, as postmaster and shopkeeper, was well known to 
 the students. He was a gentle and most amiable youth, of fine talents 
 and honorable aspirations, manly in feeling and character, though a 
 mere boy in j'ears. He read law for some time at Alfred with Hon. 
 John Holmes. In 1826 at the age of twenty-one he fell, like so manj- 
 others, the victim of hereditary phthisis. 
 
 David Humphreys Storbr, born in 1804 (brother of J. S. B. Storer, 
 see 1812), studied medicine with Dr. John C. Warren, and settled in 
 Boston, where he had full experience of the hard struggle through 
 which the young physician in a large city is generally doomed to pass. 
 From the heights of a crowded practice and eminent position, he can 
 now look back and rejoice that his heart did not fail him. In 1837 
 Dr. Storer originated the Tremont Street Medical School for the 
 instruction of students in medicine. This school, in which he has had 
 abje coadjutors, has been highly ijseful to a great number of young men. 
 Since 1854 Dr. Storer has filled the chair of obstetrics and medical 
 jurisprudence in jthe medical department of Harvard University. He 
 is also dean of the Faculty. Amid the engrossing toils and cares of 
 his profession. Dr. Storer has found time for other studies. As long 
 ago as 1837 the Massachusetts Commissioners, who had charge of the 
 botanical and zoological survey of the State, assigned to Dr. Storer 
 the departments of zoology and herpetology. His report was made in 
 1839, and is mentioned by Dr. DeKay in his " Zoology of the State 
 of New York," as a masterlj' and invaluable document. In 1845, at 
 the meeting of American naturalists in New Haven, Dr. Storer pre- 
 sented a " Sj^nopsis of the Fishes of North America." This paper, 
 with others of kindred character, has since ajjpeared in the volumes 
 of the American Academy. A more elaborate report on the same 
 subject will hereafter be given to the public through the same medium. 
 Dr. Storer is favorably known not only as a scholar and writer, but as 
 an easy and eflfective speaker. 
 
 He married in 1829 Abby Jane Brewer of Boston. They have five 
 children; Horatio R., graduate of Harvard College, 1850, is a physi- 
 cian ; Francis H., graduate of the Scientific School in Cambridge, is a 
 practical chemist.* 
 
 *Dr. Storer retired from his professorship in 1868, but is still in the practice in 
 Boston. The following tribute was rendered to him by his colleague, Dr. 0. W. 
 Holmes, in his introductory lecture in the fall of that year. , After referring to their 
 connection with the Tremont School, " I can speak to many of you as late pupils of 
 Dr. Storer. Tou know the energy and enthusiasm with which he taught you in the 
 
250 HISTOKT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Daniel Dana Tappan. Benjamin, David, and Samuel were sons 
 of Eev. Benjamin Tappan, who for nearly flftj' years' was minister of 
 Manchester, Mass. David became Hollis professor at Cambridge. 
 Benjamiij lived at Northampton, and had- sons, Benjamin, Arthur, 
 , Lewis, John, names not unknown to fame. Samuel kept school and 
 sojourned here and there. Of his two sons the Rev. William B., long 
 connected with the Sunday-school cause, was also held in high esteem 
 as a Christian poet. The other, Daniel Dana, was born in 1798 in New- 
 buryport. Soon after his father's death (in 1806) he went to live with 
 his uncle Benjamin in Northampton, where he was well, trained for 
 several years by his energetic aunt. He then became a clerk in a 
 New Haven store. While here the desire was awakened in him to 
 become a preacher of the gospel. After some time at Phillips Acad- 
 emy, Andover, and some time in the family of his cousin, Mr Tappan 
 of Augusta, he entered college as a Sophomore. From Brunswick he 
 returned to New Haven and became a pupil of his former pastor, Dr. 
 Taylor, in the newly opened divinity school. Mr. Tappan's first pas- 
 toral charge was in Biddeford, where he stayed a year. He was 
 settled afterwards in Alfred, and still later in East Marshfleld., Mass. 
 During the last five or six years he has been laboring in Farmington, 
 N. H. In this ministry of more than thirty years Mr. Tappan has 
 enjoyed a good measure of that success which is the dearest wish of 
 every faithful pastor. His first wife was Catharine, daughter of Elisha 
 Whidden of Portsmouth, N. H. She died childless in 1834. In 1837 
 he married Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel Marsh of Newburyport. 
 Of six children a daughter and three sons are living. Mrs. Tappan 
 died in 1857. 
 
 Noah Tebbets. I regret that 1 cannot give in full the beautiful 
 and appreciative memoir of Judge Tebbets that lies before me, pre- 
 pared as it was for this work. As it is printed (though hot published) , 
 I presume that anj' of the judge's classmates and friends may obtain 
 a copy by applying to Eev. Theo. Tebbets, Medford, Mass. Noah 
 Tebbetts was born in 1802 in Rochester, N. H., where his ances- 
 
 lecture-room. You know the interest he took in the personal welfare of every young 
 man to whom he thought he could be useful. And throughout the long period that 
 I have been his fellow-worker, it pleases me to remember that no word of difference 
 ever rose Ijetween us, that whether we agreed or disagreed on this or that point of 
 policy, we always labored together in perfect harmony, and that whatever be the pain, 
 of parting company, we can both look back on an unbroken record where our names 
 have stood together for a whole generation. My regrets, our regrets and affectionate 
 remembrance follow him as he leaves us." p. 
 
GRADUATES. 251 
 
 tors had been for a century before him. His father, James, was a 
 hard-working, sensible blacksmith, who outlived the son ten years. 
 His mother, Mary (Nutter), a delicate and genial woman, died when 
 Noah was in his twelfth year. As a boy he was feeble in body and 
 diffident. Being apt to learn, he was sent to the Wakefield and Saco 
 academies. He was a member of the Dartmouth University when it 
 expired, and went from Ilanover to Brunswick with his classmates, 
 Parrish and Willey. In college his health became more vigorous, his 
 shyness wore off, his intellectual and social nature strengthened and 
 expanded. ' ' His classmates remember him as a quick and exact 
 scholar, an inspiring companion, and a sj-mpathizing, wise friend." 
 Having studied law with Mr. Woodman of Eochester, he began its 
 practice in North Parsonsfield. In 1827 he formed a law partnership 
 with Eufus Mclntyre, then a member of Congress. His field of prac- 
 tice was York Count}' in Maine and the old county of Strafford in 
 New -Hampshire. Here he passed seven happy and useful j-ears. 
 " Throughout the town he was respected and loved in a manner which 
 is in itself the highest honor a man can attain." But Mr. Mclntyre 
 came back from Congress ; the business would not support two, and 
 Mr. Tebbets returned to Rochester. "The life of a country lawj'er 
 who is exclusively devoted to his profession has but few memorable 
 incidents. However great his ability and however extensive his suc- 
 cess may be, the fame of his best efforts, the reputation of his pro- 
 foundest learning, pass away with the occasions which test his power, 
 and leave nothing but a brief and indefinite tradition for future chroni- 
 clers to gather up." During the next eight years Mr. Tebbets's life 
 was unbroken by anj^ remarkable events. " He was not ambitious 
 of a reputation for managing difficult cases, and never allowed his 
 clients to become involved in law if he could keep them out of it. He 
 always considered it the privilege and the duty of a lawyer to be a 
 peacemaker ; he reverenced his profession too much to prostitute it to 
 venal or ambitious purposes. . . . As a citizen he was early in sug- 
 gesting and active in carrying out all social enterprises, even when 
 his public spirit interfered with his private interests." He revived the 
 social library of the village, did much to improve the common schools 
 of the town, taught in Sundaj' schools and sometimes superintended 
 them. _ In the cause of temperance, at a time when it cost something 
 to be known as its advocate, he took an early and very active part. 
 By lectures and addresses, not only near home but throughout the 
 State, he sought to rouse his fellow-citizens to prompt action. " His 
 zeal could make no compromises, but every word and act were tem- 
 pered with Christian charity." In politics Mr. Tebbets was known 
 
252 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 as a Democrat. He was not, however, a partisan. " From the rough 
 encounters of such warfare he shrank instinctively. He regarded 
 politics as a science to be calmly studied and reduced to practice, 
 rather than an art dependent for success on shrewd devices and crafty 
 management." He was often urged to accept nomination to office, 
 " in days when such nomination was equivalent to election, but refused 
 to leave the peace of private life and the duties of his professional 
 career." In 1842, however, in the hope that he might thus advance 
 the struggling cause of temperance, he consented to go to Concord. 
 Of the Legislature for that year he was one of the most able and 
 active and useful members. In January, 1843, he was appointed cir- 
 cuit justice of the Court of Common Pleas." Though his judicial 
 career was soon cut short, it lasted long enough to show his eminent 
 fitness for the bench. His health seems to have been severely shaken 
 by the long trial of Cummings, in Grafton County, — a trial for mur- 
 der which lasted twenty-one days. In August, 1844, he opened the 
 court at Guilford, which illness soon compelled him to adjourn. He 
 went home and died of typhus a few days afterward. He was in his 
 forty-second year. The following estimate of Judge Tebbets is from 
 the pen of his early and steadfast friend. Senator Hale : " His charac- 
 ter, disposition, and habits of thought eminently qualified him for suc- 
 cess in the office to which he was promoted. His great integrity, his 
 even temper, his suavity of manner, his clear perception, his modest 
 distrust of his own powers which induced him to listen patiently and 
 respectfully to the arguments and suggestions of others, and the clear- 
 ness and distinctness with which he announced the results to which 
 his reflections had led him, were such rare and estimable qualities for 
 a judge that his friends and the public had already formed and were 
 cherishing the most favorable anticipations of his reputation and use- 
 fulness in his judicial career." " His early love of Latin and English 
 literature," remarks his son, " never died out amid the engrossing 
 cares of later life. He kept himself critically familiar with the ora- 
 tions, the letters, the moral and speculative philosophy of Cicero, and 
 his knowledge of the scientific structure of Latin was both extensive 
 and exact. ... In English literature he was a universal but discrim- 
 inating reader. . • . His own writings were direct and forcible, fuU of 
 glow and warmth, enlivened by apt allusion and striking illustrations, 
 and expressed in simple, idiomatic, and melodious English. ... He 
 had an. intense love and a large knowledge of nature." No tribute to 
 his memory should leave unmentioned " his indefatigable and tender 
 thoughtf ulness for the sick in his family and neighborhood. ... In his 
 family Judge Tebbets was all that the most sensitive affection could 
 
GRADUATES. 253 
 
 desire. ... In society his extensive information, ready but never 
 paraded, his constant humor, his playful imagination, his affluent com- 
 mand of language, his quick sympathy, his simple and transparent 
 manners, his cordial deference to others, and his utter unconsciousness 
 of his own powers, charmed and astonished all who knew him." "My 
 memory recalls Judge Tebbets," says another of his friends, " as a very 
 fine-looking man, with a large head ; dark-brown hair ; a very massive 
 forehead, high, broad, and full, having, as a phrenologist would say, 
 eventuality and causality quite fully developed, as well as the ideality 
 and benevolence which had play in his life and character. His eyes 
 were of a dark gray, and at the beginning of an interview were apt to 
 turn away a little furtively, perhaps restlessly, from the encountering 
 eye of another, not with a secretive or reserved expression, but as if a 
 ■natural diffidence struggled with a very social nature." "The fine 
 qualities of Judge Tebbets's character were harmonized by a religious 
 consecration. His beautiful life among rnen had its root in the love 
 of God. He reverently attributed all that was true in his character 
 to God working in him to will and to do, while he humbly confessed 
 how far he fell below the standard of manliness presented in the gos- 
 pel and the life of JeSus." 
 
 Noah Tebbets in 1828 married Mary Esther Woodman. Of their 
 eix children four sons and a daughter are living. The eldest, Theodore, 
 graduate of Harvard College, 1851, was first settled in Lowell, and is 
 now minister of the First Parish (Unitarian), Medford, Mass. 
 
 Richard Hampton Vose was born in 1803 in Northfield, Mass. 
 The year after he graduated was spent in teaching at Augusta. His 
 three years of preparatory law study were passed at Worcester, Mass., 
 in the ofpce of Governor Lincoln and "Honest John Davis." He 
 attended also the law lectures of Judge Howe, then at Northampton. 
 Admitted to practice, he formed a copartnership with Pliny (now 
 Judge) Merrick of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Mr. Mer- 
 rick, being at that time county attorney, Mr. Vose's attention was 
 very naturally directed to the study of the criminal law. After two 
 years' practice in Worcester, Mr. Vose returned to Augusta. Between 
 1834 and 1839 he was four times elected to the House of Representa- 
 tives of the Maine Legislature. In 1840 and 1841 he was senator for 
 Kennebec, and president of the Senate in the j'ear last named. Since 
 that time he has adhered to his profession. For several years past, 
 as prosecuting officer for. Kennebec, he has turned to good account 
 his early Worcester experience. Mr. Vose, if I understand him, does 
 not belong to the restless and aspiring class. His duties he is careful 
 
54 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 3 know and to perform, and with the consciousness of such per- 
 jrmance he rests content. Not only as a politician and a lawyer, but 
 s a man also, his reputation is of the enviable kind. In 1831 he was 
 larried to Harriet Chandler of Boston. Of their two children the 
 Idest, George L.,* graduated as civil engineer at the Scientific School 
 1 Cambridge. The "Hand-Book of Civil Engineers" lately pub- 
 shed by him is highly praised in the North American Review and 
 ther periodicals. Gardiner C. Vose graduated at Bowdoin College 
 1 1855, and is soon to enter on the practice of law. 
 
 John Hubbard White was born in Dover, N. H., November, 1802. 
 le studied law, and opened an oflSce in his native town, where he still 
 esides. Of a retiring disposition and rather avoiding the severer con- 
 ests of the profession, he has sustained the reputation of a prudent ' 
 nd wise counsellor, and on all occasions the character of a courteous 
 entleman. For several j^ears he was register of probate for the 
 ounty, and when Dover became a city was chosen 'judge of the 
 lolice court, discharging the duties of both offices to general satisfac- 
 ion. His kind, gentle disposition, fidelity to trusts, and upright char- 
 cter have won for him universal esteem. 
 
 He married a daughter of Hon. Andrew Peirce, and has bad a fam- 
 ly of children. p. 
 
 Benjamin Glazier Willey was born in 1796 in Conway, -N. H. 
 lis father, Samuel Willey, a man of great strength and endurance, 
 ras among the first who penetrated and laid open those, wild glens 
 nd passes of the mountains which are now the favorite haunts of so 
 lany summer visitors. Samuel Willey, who perished with all his 
 amily beneath the great avalanche of August, 1826, was hia brother. 
 Jenjamin G. Willey was one oi those who came from Hanover to 
 Jrunswick at the downfall of the university. Rev. Asa Cummings 
 ?as his theological instructor. He preached for eight years in his 
 lative town. Then followed a successful ministry of fourteen years 
 ,t Milton, N. H. Farmington, an adjoining town, had his services 
 or three years. Then he lived in Gilmanton and in Pembroke, and 
 ent his children to school. For eight years past East Sumner in 
 ilaine has been his home, and there too his efforts have been crowned 
 rith success. In 1824 he was married to Rachel, daughter of Deacon 
 acob Mitchell of North Yarmouth. They have had two sons and a 
 
 * Now professor of civil .engineering at Bowdoin College. The ^father died in 
 864. p. • 
 
GRADUATES. 255 
 
 daughter. The youngest son alone survives. The eldest, S. Ten- 
 Broeck Willey, had entered on medical studies when he died at the age 
 of twenty-five. Mr. Willey's book, " Incidents in Wliite Mountain 
 History," was prepared at the suggestion and with the assistance of 
 this son. To this book, well known to the summer residents of Con- 
 way and to White Mountain tourists, I refer those who would know 
 more of Mr. Willey, and his family. 
 [Mr. Willey died in 1871. — p.] 
 
 Jabez Cushman Woodman was born in 1804 at New Gloucester, 
 where his father, Moses Woodman, was a farmer. He is seventh in 
 descent from the emigrant Edward Woodman, who settled in Newbury . 
 in 1635. Through his mother, Sally Cushman, eight generations carry 
 him back to Robert Cushman, who as agent of the Plymouth Colony 
 chartered the "Mayflower" and came himself to Plymouth in 1621. 
 Jabez C. Woodman was brought up to work. At school he showed 
 early a strong predilection for numbers, ciphering by stealth before 
 he was permitted to begin regularly, and working out by himself the 
 rules and operations of fractions before he had seen the same in 
 books. Having picked up, partly at home and partly at Hebron 
 Academy, a little Latin and a little Greek, he went to college and 
 so through. Then he studied law with Peleg Chandler and with Simon 
 Greenleaf. During his course both of collegiate and law study, he 
 taught several district schools, and he had some practice in law busi- 
 ness before he began on his own account. He first opened an office 
 in Gray, then in Poland, where he stayed till 1832, when he removed 
 to Minot. From this place in 1848 he removed to Portland his pres- 
 ent residence. Although he has found in his profession the main 
 business of his life, it has not engrossed him wholly. Farming and 
 land speculation have helped him in spending what he had laid up in 
 his practice. He has from the first felt a deep interest and taken an 
 active part in the great questions of politics and reform which have 
 divided and agitated the community. While in Poland, where Jack- 
 son men were in the majority, he came out for Adams and sufiered in 
 consequence. 
 
 For manj' years he was a zealous Whig ; but finding that the party. 
 did not come up to his views on the slaverj' question he joined the 
 free Democrac3-. He was a delegate to the Buffalo Convention of 
 1848, and to the Convention in Pittsburg in 1852. He now acts with 
 the Republican party. As a member of the Maine House of Repre- 
 sentatives in 1843, he introduced resolutions on the constitutional 
 prohibition of slavery in the Territories, which were voted for almost 
 
256 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 unanimously by the Whigs, and defeated by the Democrats. In other 
 measures of great importance which were passed during the session, 
 he took an active part. Mr. Woodman early adopted and has alwaj's 
 observed the total-abstinence principle in regard to alcoholic drinks. 
 While in Poland he became interested in religious subjects, and with 
 his wife joined the Congregational church. Though he "has since 
 outgrown their system of doctrines, he has never regretted a step 
 which first put him on the road of religious inquiry." His printed 
 writings have been mostly anonymous communications in the news- 
 papers. These were devoted to politics and reform. In 1857 the 
 Rev. Dr. D wight of Portland published a sermon on Spiritualism. To 
 .that sermon, Mr. Woodman, at the request of the Portland Spiritual 
 Association, replied in three lectures which were published in a vol- 
 ume, " and have been received with great favor." In 1830 Mr. Wood- 
 man married Louisa Rich of Chiiia. Mrs. Woodman died in 1856. 
 Of their nine children seven " are living in the material body." One 
 son is married and is in a store in Boston. The eldest daughter has 
 been a teacher, and is a proficient in severg,l languages. Three sistere 
 and two, brothers are still inmates of the home over which she presides. 
 [Mr. Woodman died in 1869. — p. J 
 
 1823. 
 Charles Shaw Adams was bom in Bath in 1797. His father, 
 Samuel Adams, after six years spent as surgeon in the Continental 
 army, settled as a physician in Ipswich, whence in 1796 he removed 
 to Maine. He was four times married, and had twenty children. 
 Charles Shaw was one of thirteen borne by the- fourth wife, who was 
 a daughter of William Dodge of Ipswich, and an Appleton by descent. 
 He studied for the ministry under Dr. B. Tappan, has been a mission- 
 ary both in the Ilast and the West, and has been settled in Wells, 
 Me. ; Coventry, R. I. ; and Westford, Conn. Here he stayed thirteen 
 years. He is now acting as "stated supply" in Strongsville, Ohio. 
 Mr. Adams has published a dedication sermon, a "Poem on Temper- 
 ance," and a "Poem on the use of Tobacco." His wife is Jane, 
 daughter of Capt. John Parker of Georgetown. They have had seven 
 children, four of whom survive, all daughters, three of them married.* 
 
 George Washington Bachei-der, a native of Hallowell, settled as 
 a lawyer in Gardiner. He joined the Democratic party, took an active 
 
 * Subsequently Mr. Adams, having performed missionary service in other Western 
 States, died at Hillside, Mich., in 1873. p. 
 
L.V, HE tL,BD.iB.= in)X.lL. 
 
GRADUATES. 257 
 
 part in politics, and was appointed to sundry offices of trust He was 
 a man of military turn, and held in the militia of Maine the high ranlc 
 of major-general. Among mere students and literary men such qual- 
 ities are rare, and on certain occasions highly appreciated. At the 
 Commencement festivals in Brunswick, Gen. Bachelderwas a prominent 
 figure For many years he was our grand field marshal. He was fifty 
 years qld when he died in 1852. He married Miss Emily Bradstreet 
 of Gardiner. She still lives with two sons and a daughter. 
 
 John Macclintock Baetlett derived his middle name from his 
 maternal grandfather, Eev. Dr. Macclintock of Greenland, N. H. 
 His parents were poor. He had however an elder brother Richard, 
 who had educated himself to be a lawyer, and politician, who edited 
 a newspaper in Concord, N. H., and was at one time secretary of that 
 State ; and another brother, Caleb, who was a successful bookseller in 
 New York. By them John M. was taken up and helped through col- 
 lege. It was perhaps a mistaken kindness. From Brunswick he 
 went to Concord and studied law awhile with his brother Richard. 
 Then in Troy, N. Y., he taught children. Then, being an admirable 
 penman, he kept his brother Caleb's books. But constancy was not 
 his forti'. Lured by some ignis fatuus of hope, he went to Louisiana, 
 surveyed land, studied more law, and was taken into partnership by 
 an aged practitioner, who soon after died and left for him a good busi- 
 ness. Had it been possible for him to stick to anything, he might have 
 succeeded here ; it was not possible, and back he came. Again in 
 New York he found occupation as a book-keeper, and continued it for 
 some time. The last four or five years of his wandering life were 
 spent mostly on the sea. As clerk or supercargo he made several 
 long voyages. He died by disease at Gibraltar in 1849, aged forty- 
 six. 
 
 LuTHKR V. Bell was the fourth son of Governor Bell, and was 
 born in 1806 . Obeying an early predilection, he had no sooner grad- 
 uated than he entered at once on the study of medicine. This he 
 pursued in the city of New York, where his brother John was already 
 settled. As he was not quite twenty when he received his medical 
 degree, he wiselj' concluded to spend one year in a New York count- 
 ing-room. The exactness and the punctuality which he must there 
 have acquired, and the business habits which he formed, could not but 
 be useful to him in the very responsible situation which he afterwards 
 held so long. He had concluded to practise his profession in the great 
 city where he studied it. But just then death entered the family : 
 
258 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 his sister and his gifted brother (Dr. John Bell) died, both at thi 
 South and both of consumption. The promptings of ambition yieldec 
 to those of affection. Settling in Londonderry, he entered forthwitl 
 on the hard routine of country practice. Both as a physician and sur 
 geon he soon became favorably known. Special circumstances ere 
 long occurred to raise and spread his reputation for skill. The small 
 pox, after an absence of more than fifty years, suddenly appeared ii 
 that healthy district. In their fancied security, the community hac 
 neglected to protect themselves by vaccination, and the doctors of th( 
 vicinity were wholly inexperienced in its nature and treatment. Dr 
 Bell, having seen much of the disease during his residence in Nev 
 York, was very naturally called upon in this emergency. The epl 
 demic displayed some very singular features, which were subsequently 
 described by Dr. Bell in a small volume entitled ' ' An Attempt U 
 investigate some Obscure and Undecided Doctrines in Eelation tc 
 Small-Pox and Varioliform Diseases." This was not the only produc 
 of his pen. A dissertation by him on the dietetic regimen best fittec 
 for the inhabitants of New England received the Boylston prizt 
 medal for 1834. Jt Was a refutation of the vegetarian theory of Gra- 
 ham, at that tim.e perniciously prevalent. A dissertation from th< 
 same hand on the " External Exploration of Diseases" was publishec 
 in 1836 by the Medical Society of Massachusetts. The success oi 
 these essays introduced their author " very favorably to the professior 
 in New England." "About this period the attention of certain phil- 
 anthropic citizens of New Hampshire began to be turned towards 
 making some provision for its insane." In this inquiry Dr. Bel 
 engaged with active zeal. The more effectually to aid it, he accepted 
 a seat in the Legislature, and was appointed one of the special com- 
 mittee which had the subject in charge. Their report was written bj 
 him and drew general attention. In the mean time he was engaged 
 with oth/ers in obtaining from every town in the State the statistics ol 
 insanity. He kept the subject before the public by well-written arti- 
 cles in the newspapers, and urged it eloquently in assemblies called 
 for its consideration. But before the ca'use in which he labored so 
 eflSciently was finally carried. Dr. Bell received an unexpected and 
 important call. Early in 1837 he entered on his duties as superintend- 
 ent of the McLean Asylum for the Insane. This conspicuous posi- 
 tion he held for nearly eighteen' years, with a constantly growing 
 reputation. His annual reports " contain a vast body of information 
 and experience upon the character, treatment, and jurisprudential 
 relations of the insane." As other institutions of the same charactei 
 were successively called into being, his experienced sagacity was often 
 
GEADtTATES. 259 
 
 put in requisition to help them start. When Messrs. Butler, Brown, 
 and others had resolved to endow a Rhode Island hospital for the 
 insane, and wished, before proceeding to build, to avail themselves of 
 the latest and best results. Dr. Bell was induced to visit England for 
 that purpose. Almost every hour of his absence was devoted to the 
 object of his visit, and the result of his assiduous and successful 
 exploration was the admirable plan which was adopted by the Butler 
 Asylum. The beneficial influences of that visit were not confined to 
 the Rhode Island establishment. The plans and models of foreign 
 asylums thus made known to the American public were turned to good 
 account in the construction and arrangements of other institutions 
 among us. Especially is the community indebted to Dr. Bell as hav- 
 ing been among the first to call its attention to the system of coercive 
 ventilation, now generally adopted in our great hospitals. His views 
 on this point and on heating by steam and hot water were published 
 and widely circulated. To Dr. Bell belongs the honor of having first 
 brought to the notice of his professional brethren a new form of disease 
 which seems to be peculiar to the insane, and which has since been 
 designated among them as " Bell's disease." 
 
 ' ' Among the most responsible duties which ha^e fallen on those 
 who have been at the head of our asj'lums for the insane may well 
 be reckoned their constantly demanded services in the courts of 
 justice. For the last fifteen years the cases both civil and criminal 
 involving the medical jurisprudence of insanity have been very fre- 
 quent, and the opinions of experts have assumed a controlling influ- 
 ence in such adjudications. ... It is an honorable and deserved 
 testimony to the caution, sagacity', and integrity of the professional 
 witnesses who have pronounced opinions in favor of insane ' irrespon- 
 sibility in the somewhat numerous class of criminal cases in New Eng- 
 land where this defence has been, set up, that in every example the 
 subsequent history of the acquitted has fully verified the correctness of 
 the verdict. ... In discharge of this most painful, responsible, and 
 thankless duty, Dr. Bell has been called upon the witness stand^more 
 frequently, in all probability, than any other individual in this or any 
 country." 
 
 On various occasions — literary, scientific, and political — Dr. Bell's 
 ability as a thinker and speaker have been successfully shown. In 
 1850, during the administration of Governor Briggs, our doctor was 
 one of his official advisers. In the last Massachusetts convention 
 for revising the State Constitution, Dr. Bell sat as a delegate. He 
 was a member of the convention at Baltimore which nominated 
 Gen. Scott for President. Subsequently the Whigs of the seventh 
 
260 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 congressional district set him up for representative and almost elected 
 him. But these have been mere incidents and slight episodes in 
 the current of an earnest and useful life. His great work was in 
 the hospital, and his best praise is that he has had the disposition and 
 the ability to do something for the cause of science and humanity. In 
 1855 Dr. Bell, though solicited to remain, resigned the oflSce he had 
 held so long and ably. In a home which he built for himself beneath 
 the shadow of the great Monument, he now lives on Bunker Hill. 
 His retirement, however, has been but partially successful. The asy- 
 lum calls him in to supply sudden vacancies, the courts summon him 
 as an expert, and the State insists that he shall help her build and 
 organize new institutions of benevolence. Happy the Stat.e which 
 has such sons ! Dr. Bell was married in 1834. Of seven children he 
 Las lost three. One of them (his eldest) died soon after entering 
 Harvard College. Mrs. Bell died in 1855.* 
 
 Edmund Bridge Bowman, son of William and Phebe (Bridge) 
 Bowman, was born in 1804 at Wiscasset, where he was prepared for 
 college by Eev. Dr. Packard and others. After studying law with 
 Frederic Allen, he practised it successively in Pittston, Dresden, and 
 Bowdoinham. In 1847 he was appointed clerk of the courts, an 
 office which he still holds, and since that time he has lived in Wiscas- 
 set. In 1838 Mr. Bowman was married to Hannah D. Norris ol 
 Whitefleld, N. H. 
 
 [He died in 1864. —p.] 
 
 William Browne, born in 1806; called also George William Graj 
 Browne, is a son of William Browne, still living in Portland, aged 
 eighty. After he graduated he went to Virginia and settled at Taze- 
 well Court-House, where he held the office of clerk of the court. Being 
 a man of earnest piety, he was accustomed to preach on the Sabbath 
 to the Methodists of the neighborhood. After a life of thirty years 
 in Virginia he removed to Texas, and settled as a lawyer at San An- 
 tonio, his present residence.! He has been twice married, and a sor 
 of his is a cadet at West Point. 
 
 Jonas Burnham is a native of Kennebunkport. His parents wen 
 Seth and Lydia Burnham. Trained to farm labor, he grew up stoui 
 
 * Dr. Bell was elected president of the Massachusetts Medical Society. In 1847 h( 
 received the honorary degree of J. C. D. from King's College, Nova Scotia ; aud ii 
 1855, of LL. D. from Amherst. He died in 1862. p. 
 
 t From a graduate residing in Texas we learn that Mr. Browne removed subse 
 quently to Austin, where he died in 1877, or about that time ; that under the Con 
 federate government he held a clerkship in the courts, aud was held in high esteem 
 
GEADUATE8. 261 
 
 and strong. Desires for a wider usefulness impelling him to seek 
 an education, he went to Phillips Academj' in Andover, then in charge 
 of John Adams. In college he was industrious and successful. I 
 still remember with pleasure the accuracy and fluencj' of his classical 
 recitations. His life has been almost wholly devoted to teaching. 
 Several academies in Maine have had the benefit of his intelligent and 
 efficient supervision. For several j'ears past he has had charge of the 
 academy in Farmington. Being a licensed preacher, he often supplies 
 the pulpit in destitute churches of the neighborhood. By his wife, 
 Jane Merrill of Kennebunkport, he has a daughter who is married, 
 and one son, Seth Cornelius (Bowdoin College, 1855), now a teacher 
 in New .Hampshire. 
 
 Egbert Benson Coffin, born in Bath in 1805, was son of Nathan- 
 iel CoflSn, Esq. He died in 1827. I learn nothing respecting his 
 course since graduation that calls for special mention. 
 
 John Crosby was a native of Bangor. In early youth he conse- 
 crated his life to the Christian ministry. His college course was one 
 of industry, virtue, and well-merited honors. Then- a year was spent 
 in teaching at Hallowell. He received his theological training at the 
 Andover school. In 1828 he was ordained as pastor of a church in 
 Castine. About the same time he was most happily united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Catharine Hills. The prospects of eminent useful- 
 ness with which his ministry began were soon clouded. After an 
 interruption of several months, occasioned by an attack of pleurisy, 
 he resumed his labors at Castine in the summer of 1831. It was, 
 however, deemed unsafe for him to encounter the rigors of a winter so 
 far north. He then labored for a year with acceptance and success in 
 the State of Pennsj-lvania, as agent of the American Colonization 
 Society. This change seemed to recruit his feeble frame. But Mrs. 
 Crosby's health had now become delicate, and a warmer clime was 
 recommended. While they were passing the winter months in Savan- 
 nah his own complaints returnad in an aggravated form, and induced 
 him to seek the tropical air of Barbadoes. He died in about three 
 months afttr his aiTival on the island in 1833, and was buried there 
 with many demonstrations of respect. The following estimate of Mr. 
 Crosby appeared in the Eastern Republican soon after his decease. 
 It was written by his classmate, Nathaniel Haj-nes, Esq., at that time 
 editor of the paper : "Mr. Crosby possessed talents of the first order, 
 — solid, discriminating, and comprehensive. His powerful mind and 
 unremitting application, had his life been spared a few years longer. 
 
262 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 would have placed him in the first ranks of a profession to which he 
 was ardently attached and piously devoted. We knew him, well in 
 his earlier years ; in the exercises and ordeal of college life, true to 
 himself and his religious principles, — sincere, consistent, and chari- 
 table." The following is from a lady who knew him well: "With 
 great nobleness and integritj' of heart was mingled the very milk of 
 human kindness. In his friendships he was most generous. His 
 piety was deep and equable, pervading the minutiae of his whole life, 
 and sustaining him in calmness amid the sundering of the dearest 
 earthly bonds." Combining, as he evidently did, strong affections 
 with a strong intellect, his death at the age of thirty years might well 
 be deplored. He left a little boy about three years old. 
 
 William George Crosby began life in 1805 at Belfast, and was 
 fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover. He was admitted to 
 the bar in Boston, and practised there from 1826 to 1828, when he 
 returned to Belfast. In 1846 Mr. Crosby was elected secretary of the 
 Maine Board of Education, and held this important and honorable 
 oflBce three years. In 1850 he was voted for as governor, but failed 
 of an election. In 1853 and 1854 he held the office of chief magis- 
 trate of the State in both instances, by election of the Legislature. 
 After he retired from this high position Governor Crosby resided for 
 a while in Boston, editorially connected with Mr. Littell in some of 
 his publications. He has since returned to Belfast and resumed his 
 profession, in which he held high rank at the bar. _He was a Whig in 
 politics, was active in the campaign which resulted in the election of 
 President Harrison, and was a delegate to the convention that nomi- 
 nated Henry Clay, and his ardent supporter. On the dissolution of 
 that party he acted with the Democrats, although refraining from 
 prominent participation in the canvass. In 1866 he was a delegate to 
 the National Union Convention, and the same year received the ap- 
 pointment of collector for the district, his last public position. He 
 was active in educational, literarj', and charitable enterprises, and was 
 for several years a member of the Unitarian Church. On retiring 
 from the profession he devoted himself to the calls of social life, to 
 Lis favorite studies, and the cultivation of his grounds and their 
 fruits. His literary tastes were cultivated in college. His Commence- 
 ment part was a poem, and subsequently he contributed poetical effu- 
 sions to the public press. He delivered a poem- before the Lyceum in 
 Belfast. He published a series of fifty -two papers entitled ''Annals 
 of Belfast for Half a Century, by an Old Settler," and delivered one 
 of a popular course of lectures. In 1870 he received the degree of 
 
"^*»*iJrJCBulte4™ iDagao«<W°' 
 
 HOM. WILLIAM PITT FESSENDEN. 
 US. SENATOR FROMMAIXB. 
 
GRADUATES. 263 
 
 LL. D. from the college, and was for a time on its Board of Over- 
 seers. He was a member of the Maine Historical Society from 1846. 
 In It 31 he married Ann M, , daughter of Capt. Robert Patterson of 
 Belfast, and had children, of whom four sons and two daughters sur- 
 vived infancy. 
 
 [He died in Belfast, March 21, 1881. .^p.] 
 
 Joseph Dowte was the son of a farmer in Durham, N. H., where 
 he was born in 1796. He was fitted for college in part at Exeter. 
 After receiving his degree, he taught in Boston for several years a pri- 
 vate school for boj-8. The Rev. Dr. Channing, Daniel Webster, 
 Nathan Hale, the Appletons (William and Nathan), and others sent 
 their sons to him. Mr. Dowe afterwards became a publisher and 
 seller of books. He is still a citizen of Boston, though no longer 
 engaged in business. Mrs. Dowe was the daughter of Charles Cook 
 of Boston, and niece of the Rev. Amos A. Cook of Fryeburg. They 
 have had no children.* 
 
 RiCHAKD William Dommer, Hallowell, 1802, brother of Charles 
 (see 1814). t 
 
 William Pitt Fessenden was bom Oct. 16, 1806, in New Glouces- 
 ter, where his father, Samuel Fessenden, then practised law. His 
 grandfather, the Rev. WiUiam Fessenden, was long the loved and 
 honored pastor of a church in Fryeburg. His father " still lives, an 
 honor to his honorable profession." At the immature age of twelve 
 years William Pitt Fessenden entered Bowdoin College. His father 
 wisely kept him away for a couple of years. He returned to college 
 in 1820, and though full of ardor and buoyancy of spirits, which dis- 
 played themselves in many a boyish prank, he sustained a respectable 
 rank in his class. His legal studies were pursued in the ofHce of his 
 father, in that of " Hon. Charles S. Daveis, then probably the best 
 admiralty and chancery lawyer in Maine," and for a few months with 
 Ketchum & Fessenden in New York. He was admitted in 1827. 
 The young student's course of life was entirely changed after he 
 commenced his law studies. " Consideration like an angel came." As 
 his mental powers gradually unfolded, he found within himself the 
 
 * His last years were spent in South Natick, where he died May, 1873, his last days 
 cheered by the hopes of the gospel. p. 
 
 t The writer, after repeated efforts, gives all that is known of him since he left 
 college. He studied law, pursued the profession for a time, it is thought in Kennebec 
 County, then removed with his brother Henry in 1 827 to Illinois, still in the law, and 
 subsequently to Kansas, where he purchased a farm and married. p. 
 
2^64 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 plements of a higher being and of higher satisfactions than his former 
 life had indicated or disclosed. In the science of the law he found 
 something which full_y exercised and deeply interested his mind, and 
 was congenial with it. Probably few j'oung men have entered the 
 conrts better prepared for their duties than he was. He began the 
 practice at Bridgton, but after two }'ears of fair success removed to 
 J'ortland and "became a partner with his father and Thomas A. 
 Deblois, Esq., who were then enjoying the largest and most lucrative 
 legal business in the State." 
 
 "Mr. Fessenden was not unworthy of this confidence. He had 
 already* taken a position at the bar which not only gave him present 
 fame, but preshadowed his future eminence. But finding in this con- 
 nection the truth of the maxim, ' Juniores ad labores, seniores ad 
 honores,' he preferred to seek his fortune single-handed. In 1833, 
 therefore, he opened an office in Bangor, a busj' and enterprising town 
 which afforded ample verge for a talented lawyer. He had but fairly 
 entered on the practice there when the failing health of his wife com- 
 pelled him to return to Portland, where in 1835 he formed a connection 
 with William Willis, Esq., which continued a successful and most har- 
 monious partnership for nearly twenty 3-ears, and until Mr. Fessenden 
 was elected to the Senate of the United States and Mr. Willis to the 
 Senate of the State. 
 
 " At the age of twenty-five Mr Fessenden was elected by the Whig 
 party as a representative from Portland in the Legislature. Thus 
 commenced a parliamentary career which he allowed at intervals, 
 although reluctantly, to draw him from his chosen and beloved pro- 
 fession, and from a family still more beloved. In 1839 he was again 
 chosen to the Legislature, having previously declined a nomination to 
 Congress in favor of an eminent citizen whom he esteemed more 
 worth}' of the situation. That gentleman declining a nomination at 
 the next election, Mr. Fessenden was unanimously nominated and 
 triumphantly chosen to the first congressional term of Gen. Harrison's 
 administration. For many j'ears previous no Whig had been elected 
 to Congress from that district. Though he declined a renomination, 
 his party showed their confidence in him by giving him all their votes, 
 and soon after by supporting him for United States senator, though 
 in both cases unsuccessfully. Honors thus thickly coming on so j'oung 
 a man convey an unequivocal testimony to his worth and talents, and 
 are the more to be valued as he was, and is, far removed from the arts 
 and intrigues by which demagogues often achieve temporary triumphs. 
 Appropriate to him is the striking language of the poet of nature, once 
 applied with admirable justice to the younger Pitt : — 
 
GRADUATES. 265 
 
 " ' He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one, 
 Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading ; 
 Lofty and sour to those who loved him not, 
 But to those men who sought Mm sweet as summer.' 
 
 " He was returned to the Legislature in the j-ears 1845, 1846, 1853, 
 and 1864. In 1850, notwithstanding his earnest protest, he was 
 nominated for Congress in opposition to John Appleton, Esq., and 
 actually received a plurality of votes ; but by the defective return of 
 one town, the certificate was given to his opponent. He was urged 
 by his political friends to contest the election, buthaving.no desire for 
 the situation he declined the conflict. 
 
 " In February, 1854, while holding his seat as a representative in the 
 Legislature of Maine, he was elected to tlie Senate of the United 
 States for the term of six years. It is worthy of remark that though 
 always an avowed and decided Whig, this honor was conferred upon 
 him by a Legislature strongly Democratic in both branches. 
 
 " His parliamentary efforts both in Congress and our own Legisla- 
 ture have been able and honorable. He has shrunk from no labor nor 
 responsibility, and to whatever subject he has applied his clear and 
 discriminating understanding he has added new light. In the Legis- 
 lature of Maine he was regarded as one of the clearest and most able 
 debaters, and during his first term in Congress in 1841 and 1842 he 
 made forcible and impressive speeches on the bankrupt law and army 
 bill, which placed him among the prominent men of that distinguished 
 Congress. His brilliant impromptu speech on the Nebraska bill, soon 
 after taking his seat in 1854, at a long and wearisome night session, 
 secured to him the respect of that honorable body as a man of ability, 
 and gave him a national reputation. 
 
 " The salient points of Mr. Fcssenden's oratory are clearness of 
 statement and directness of application. He keeps the attention fixed 
 upon the line of his argument, and leads the hearer by compact and 
 close reasoning straight to his conclusions. There is no bj'-play nor 
 wayside flower-gathering in his addresses, but the whole force of his 
 mind and all his power of expression are concentrated upon his sub- 
 ject with an honesty of purpose and an elevation of sentiment which 
 seldom fail to carry conviction with them. He is very happy too in 
 repartee, and by a sudden and unexpected reply often disarms his 
 opponent, and gives redoubled force and weight to his own argument. 
 Occasionally, when it suits his purpose, he is severe and sarcastic, 
 wielding a keen and polished weapon. His promptness, skill, and 
 self-possession make him a dangerous adversary and an eflicient ally, 
 whether in parliamentary debate or at the bar. At the latter he is 
 
266 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 justly esteemed among the first, if not the leading advocate and coun- 
 sellor in Maine. 
 
 " We cannot omit in this connection to award to Mr. Fessenden the 
 high praise of being not only a great lawyer, but a good one ; by which 
 we mean that while he is ever faithful to his clients, he is honest toward 
 the court and them. He will never for any selfish consideration stoop 
 to do a mean action to gratify the passion or promote the cause of 
 those who seek his services ; but after a patient and impartial exami- 
 nation of their case, he gives such counsel as consists with a good con- 
 science and fidelity to their best interests. 
 
 "In 1832 Mr Fessenden married Ellen Maria, a daughter of James 
 Deering. They have had five children, four of wliom are living, all 
 sons. 
 
 ' ' We have endeavored in this brief way to present the prominent 
 features in the life of the distinguished senator from Maine. But as 
 he has not far passed the meridian of life, filled though that life be 
 with high and useful achievements, his biography is yet to be written, 
 containing, we do not doubt, a narrative of events and triumphs to 
 come of higher import than any we have now set forth." 
 
 The most important public services of Mr. Fessenden were rendered 
 after ,the preceding was written, and deserve special mention.* As 
 has been stated, when he took his seat in the Senate, he at once met 
 questions which agitated Congress and the whole country, and at once 
 took his stand as a strenuous, uncompromising, and fearless advocate 
 of. free institutions, which were seriously assailed. As was remarked 
 by his colleague in his speech in the Senate in announcing the death 
 of Mr. Fessenden : ' ' His views were given upon most questions of 
 importance, and his infiuence upon the .legislation and policy of the 
 country during its eventful struggle of civil war was conspicuous. 
 Internal revenue, the currency, the banking system, and, finally, recon- 
 struction, all received the touch of his hand and the influence of his 
 genius. In sentiment Mr. Fessenden was thoroughly anti-slavery. 
 It was his inheritance, and through life he was faithful to it. In all 
 the attempts of slavery for recognition and protection his opposition 
 was inflexible ; when to be anti-slavery was to be anti- American he 
 was anti-slavery ; when his party would compromise he dissented ; 
 when repeal was demanded in its interest he protested ; when later, 
 on the eve of rebellion, conference and concession were proposed, he 
 would have no. participation in it and would yield no assent ; and 
 when war came for separation and independent slave power, he saw in 
 it the nation's opportunity, and that initial measure for universal 
 
 * What follows is from the editor. — p. 
 
GEADUATES. 267 
 
 emancipation, abolition of slaverj' in the national capital, had his 
 approval and support." His independence of judgment and action 
 was a marked feature in his character. "He did not defer to the 
 decision of the popular judgment as the sum of political wisdom and 
 the inevitable law of duty. His own and not the public sense was his 
 rule of action as a senator." This was signally manifested in his 
 action on the impeachment trial of the President. It brought upon 
 him censure and obloquy, but his patriotism and integrity were never 
 questioned by sober-minded men. The writer, soon after that event, 
 met him at his home, and having referred to his part in that transac- 
 tion, Mr. Fessenden, with great solemnity and his peculiar earnest 
 look, declared that he never had acted with a clearer conscience. 
 
 In the frequent sharp conflicts of that period, Mr. Sumner, in his 
 memorial speech on the same occasion, aflirmed that Mr. Fessenden 
 "was without a peer." And again, "he came in the midst of that 
 terrible debate on the Kansas and Nebraska bill, by which the country 
 was convulsed to its centre, and his arrival had the effect of a re- 
 enforcement on a field of battle." As another senator on the same 
 occasion, Mr. Trumbull from Illinois, said, " It was a time of high 
 party excitement. The majority were domineering and often offensive 
 to members of the minority. They controlled the business of the 
 Senate, and could take their own time to assail minority senators or 
 the views they entertained, and it was not uncommon for thern to go 
 out of their way to seek controversies with and assail certain senators ; 
 but they never sought controversies with Mr.. Fessenden." 
 
 As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee he was the steady, 
 ever-wakeful guardian of the national treasury, as the testimonj' of his 
 colleagues and the public records bear witness. With great reluctance 
 and at earnest solicitation, on the retirement of Secretary Chase, he 
 consented to undertake the secretar3'ship of the treasury, with what 
 relief to an anxious country is well remembered. As was said by Sen- 
 ator Morrill from Vermont in his memorial address, " Tlie circum- 
 stances under which he was called to that department will not soon 
 be forgotten. The public had confidence in the man and his sterling 
 integrity, and it was this confidence which enabled him to carry the 
 treasury safely through one of the most gloomy periods in the history 
 of the late Rebellion." Mr. Fessenden accepted the onerous trust as 
 a temporary arrangement, and at the end of a j'ear tendered his resig- 
 nation to resume his place in the Senate, to which his State had again 
 returned him. 
 
 Mr. Fessenden took a leading part in the diflScult work of restoring 
 order to a country rent asunder by four years of reniorseless intestine 
 
268 HISTORY OF BOWnOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 war. His report from the large joint committee on reconstruction has 
 been pronounced as among the ablest state papers of the nation. 
 
 The accomplished senator from Rhode Island, Mr. Anthony, in his 
 memorial address said : " He will long be held in grateful and affec- 
 tionate remembrance for his masculine and vigorous intellect, for his 
 pure and honest statesmanship, for his careful and exact acquirements, 
 for the iudependence which nothing could shake, for the integrity 
 which nothing could corrupt ; and underlying all, for the sound com- 
 mon-sense, that intellectual as well as moral rectitude, upon which, as 
 upon a basis of enduring granite, rose the beautiful superstructure of 
 his character." An associate senator who knew, him intimately wrote 
 from a foreign land : "He was the highest toned man I ever knew, 
 the purest man I ever knew in public life, and the ablest public man of 
 my day." 
 
 Mr. Fessenden was elected in 1860 trustee of the college. In 1858 
 it gave him the degree of LL. D., and in 1864 he received the same 
 honor from Harvard. 
 
 He was with others victim of a malarious influence at his hotel in 
 Washington, from which he never fully recovered. He died in 1869. 
 
 Geokge Paesons Giudings was born in 1801 at Pejepscot, now 
 Danville, of which place his father Andrew R. Giddings was an origi- 
 nal settler and a large owner. His ancestor, George, came from 
 England about 1635 and settled in Ipswich (Chebacco Parish). 
 That indomitable champion, Joshua R. Giddings of Ohio, is one of 
 his descendants; Another married Rebecca, the daughter of Capt. 
 Andrew Robinson of Gloucester, to whom the schooner owes its rig 
 and its name. Their son Andrew, in 175S, commanded a company of 
 Gloucester men in Abercrombie's ill-starred expedition, and tfie fol- 
 lowing year went with the same company to Louisburg, to guard the 
 newly captured place. He afterwards took to the sea, and during 
 tlie war of the Revolution commanded letters of marque which were 
 highly successful. Even from his last cruise the prizes came in, 
 though he and his war ship returned no more. His eldest son was 
 the Pejepscot pioneer, himself a man of mark. Col. Isaac Parsons 
 of New Gloucester, the honored progenitor of several well-known 
 Bowdoin alumni, was the maternal grandfather of George P. Gid- 
 dings. Like so many others, George had to force his way into and 
 through college. After looking first at law and then at medicine, he 
 thought he would rather teach ; so he went to Maryland, where he 
 had a school for two years. Then for three, years he presided over 
 the academy in Germantown, Pa. Being admitted to orders in the 
 
GRADUATES. 269 
 
 Episcopal Church, he served awhile as missionary in Kentucky and 
 Tennessee. Settling in Hbpkinsville, Ky., he preached and taught 
 there for nine years. Health failing, he gave up his school. In 1841 
 he took charge of a parish in Qnincy, 111. Here he labored sixteen 
 years, during which he built up a strong parish and saw a city grow 
 up around him In 1856, his eyes troubling him and his work being 
 too severe, he resigned his post and accepted a smaller charge at 
 Boonville in Missouri, his present home. Here he has presided over 
 the Adelphi College, a female school. In the several branches of 
 the church with"which he has been connected and also in the general 
 convention, Dr. Giddings has shown himself an active member, a res- 
 olute and able contender for what he believed to be right. His stj'le 
 as a writer exhibits vigor and good taste. He was married in 1828 
 to Penelope Haj'es of North Yarmouth. Their family consists of one 
 adopted daughter. 
 
 [Dr. Giddings died in 1861 —p.} 
 
 James Gooch, born in North Yarmouth, preached awhile in Alton, 
 N. H., was settled in 1828 as pastor in Hebron and West Minot, 
 where he labored for six years, and then for a time he held the same 
 relation to churches in Hiram and Denmark. In 1839 he went into 
 the Aroostook region, gathered a church in the town of Patten, and 
 spent there another six j-ears. Meeting at length with reverses and 
 domestic troubles, he went back with his family to his native town. 
 He died in 1848 while on a visit to Oxford. "Without personal 
 attractions or the graces of eloquence, and with some undesirable con- 
 stitutional qualities, yet having a devoted heart and a blameless life 
 he was favored with at least ordinary success as a minister. He was 
 respected b3' men of whatever religious persuasion, for integrity, 
 benevolence, and piety." 
 
 EoMXTLus Haskins, born in 1801, came from Hampden. He has 
 long lived in Bangor, where he is engaged in trade, and sustains a 
 good reputation for integrity and usefulness. He married a Miss 
 Parsons of Wiscasset. They have a son and two daughters. 
 
 [Mr. Raskins died in 1863. —p. J 
 
 Nathaniel Hatnes was born in 1799 in Hebron, where his father, 
 Eev. John Haynes, was a Baptist clergyman. He had to work his 
 own way to and through college, where "his quick apprehension and 
 vigorous intellect won the respect of his companions and teachers," 
 and gave favorable omens of his future. On graduating he became 
 principal of the Gardiner Lyceum, and while thus occupied he trans- 
 
270 HISTORY OF BOWDOtN COLLEGE. 
 
 lated from the French and published, with improvements, an arith- 
 metical work. Nor was this all, for at the same time he carried on 
 his legal studies under the direction of Hon. George Evans. He 
 was admitted in 1826, and established himself in Oldtown. Soon 
 after he removed to Bangor, which was thenceforth his home. His 
 health not sufficing for the practice of the law, he became editor and 
 proprietor of the Eastern Republican. " During the stormy period 
 that preceded the election of Jackson to the Presidency, his abilities 
 as a political writer made themselves widely known, and his polished 
 irony and keen sarcasm were equally admired and dreaded. The 
 Eastern Republican was regarded as one of the most efficient sup- 
 porters of the Democratic party in New England ; yet he was no mere 
 political partisan. Convinced of the truth and importance of the senti- 
 ments he had adopted, he battled for them manfully, seeking no other 
 reward for his labors than the consciousness of having contributed pro 
 virili parte to their establishment. He refused to take the first step on 
 the political ladder, and heartily despised the mean subterfuges and 
 underhand manoeuvres of politicians. His sole ambition was to im- 
 press his own views of public policy upon the common mind, and to 
 exert on the statesmen of his country that influence to which his abil- 
 ities entitled him." For many years Mr. Haynes suffered almost con- 
 stantly from a severe asthmatic affection. This great barrier to hope 
 and usefulness stood ever in his way. ' ' It was a source of wonder 
 to his friends that he accomplished so much, liable as he was at every 
 moment to be stricken down with disease. The severest physical suf- 
 ferings were unable to repress his mental energies, and his ablest 
 political articles were often composed while laboring under such tor- 
 tures as those only who have experienced them can understand. In 
 the hope of alleviating his sufferings, he passed the winter of 1833-34 
 in Cuba. He employed his leisure in 'Studying the history, the re- 
 sources and condition of the island, and embodied the results in his 
 correspondence with the paper. He returned with health partially 
 improved, but on resuming his former habits of application his troub- 
 les assumed a more alarmihg form." In the autumn of 1835 he 
 went by land to New Orleans, and thence sailed to Europe, visiting 
 England, Belgium, and France. It was of no avail ; he returned the 
 following spring in a confirmed consumption, and died in December, 
 1836. " His writings, though, all intended for the ephemeral columns 
 of a newspaper, were characterized by great strength and perspicuity 
 of thought." His style was chaste and graceful. He was familiar 
 with the French language and literature, and found them a source of 
 pleasure to the last. He was a great reader, and loved the seclusion 
 
GRADUATES. 271 
 
 of his study. Yet he knew how to mingle with men, and well under- 
 stood the springs of human action. " Under all circumstances he 
 showed himself the same high-minded, honorable man, whose integ- 
 rity was raised above the shadow of suspicion." 
 
 HiKAM Hates Hobbs, born in 1802, was the son of Nathaniel and 
 Patience Hobbs of North Berwick. He was fitted for college at Exe- 
 ter. Edwin Smith of Warren and William Burleigh of South Ber- 
 • wick were his law teachei's. With the exception of two years spent 
 in Alfred while he was clerk of the courts for York County, Mr. 
 Hobbs has lived in South Berwick, assiduously and successfully de- 
 voted to his profession. In 1826 he was married to Mary, daughter 
 of John Gushing. Their only son graduated in 1855 at Cambridge, 
 and is ready to enter on the practice of law. Their only daughter is 
 the wife- of Horace H. Soule, a merchant of Philadelphia. 
 
 William Bradford Holmes, eldest son of the late Hon. John 
 Holmes, was born in 1801 at Alfred. In college he held a respectable 
 rank. He read law in the office of his father, and became his partner 
 in business. This connection continued until 1837, when his father 
 removed to Thomaston. " Notwithstanding he suffered through life 
 from a frail physical constitution, he possessed an acute and active 
 mind, a literary taste, and a strong desire for acquiring knowledge. 
 He was particularly interested in the study of history, and possessed 
 a large fund of historical infoi'mation. He was kind and amiable 
 in his deportment, and for many years an exemplary member of the 
 Congregational Church in Alfred." He was married in 1835 to Miss 
 Phebe W. Little of Castine. He died in 1850. 
 
 JosiAH Stacy Hook was a physician. All that I can learn respect- 
 ing him is that he " established himself in practice at Adrian, Mich., 
 and died in that vicinity in 1844, aged forty-one." 
 
 William Rufus King was the only son of Hon. Cyrus King of 
 Saco. He studied law with the Hon. F. Allen in Gardiner, and com- 
 menced the practice of it in Sullivan, county of Hancock. He re- 
 mained there but a few years. At the age of thirty- two he died in 
 Shiloh, a small village of Camden County, N.-C., where he taught a 
 private school. , 
 
 William Allen Lane, born in 1798 in New Gloucester, was helped 
 to a liberal education by the kindness of his older brothers, Ebenezer 
 and Andrew. Of these, Ebenezer went many years ago to Illinois 
 
272 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 and taught school near St Louis. Andrew soon after joined him with 
 intent to trade in St. Louis ; but not liking the prospect, he dropped 
 down with his goods to New Orleans, where he and Ebenezer were 
 soon engaged in a lucrative business. While here Andrew made the 
 civU. law his study, and was appointed to a' judicial office equivalent to 
 the station of the old Spanish alcalde. After ten prosperous years 
 the two brothers removed to Cincinnati, where they founded the " Lane 
 Literarj' and Theological Seminar^' " Ebenezer Lane now lives in 
 Oxford, Ohio ; Andrew Lane is a resident of New Haven ; William ' 
 A. Lane passed reputably through college and then joined his brothers 
 in New Orleans. He is now a cotton planter in East Feliciana, La. 
 Of five children by his first wife, James T. Lane, graduate of Yale 
 College (1855), and now practising law in Richmond, Va., is the sole 
 survivor. There are eight children by the second wife. The eldest, 
 William A. (Yale College, 1858), is in a mercantile house at Clinton, 
 La. 
 
 Benjamin Lincoln. His father was the Hon. Theodore Lincoln of 
 Dennysville ; his grandfather was Gen. Benja,min Lincoln of Revolu- 
 tionarj- name and fame. As a student in college, and for a time my 
 pupil, I well remember him, — bright, manly, musical. The late Dr. 
 Shattudk of Boston was his medical instructor. In 1827 he began 
 the practice of his profession in Boston. In the year following he 
 was invited to lecture on anatomy and physiology in the college at 
 Burlington, Vt. So satisfactorj' were his services that he was elected 
 to the professorship, an office which he held with increasing reputation 
 to the last year of his life. From this time Burlington was his home. 
 In 1830, when Dr. Wells from failing health was compelled to leave 
 his post at Brunswick, Dr. Lincoln took his place. The next year he 
 didthe same at Baltimore, where Dr. Wells had lectured in the Univer- 
 sity of Marj-land. Here too, like his predecessor, he made himself 
 highly acceptable. Though strongly urged to become a candidate- for 
 the professorship, and though there was no doubt that he would be 
 chosen, he saw fit to decline. He continu6d to lecture in Burlington, 
 and was gaining a valuable practice there when his health gave way. 
 He went back to Dennysville an evident and conscious victim of pul- 
 monary consumption. "There, amid the attentions of his friends, 
 with the cares and promises of life behind, and the haven of eternal 
 rest before him, he spent some of the happiest moments of his exist- 
 ence." There he died Feb. 26, 1832, aged thirty-two years. Soon 
 after Dr. Lincoln's death the New England Magazine contained a 
 sketch of his short life, with a careful delineation of his intellectual 
 
GRADUATES. 273 
 
 and moral traits. It was written by Dr. Isaac Ray, now superintend- 
 ent of the Riiode Island Asylum for tlie Insane. That it is judicious 
 and trustworthy none can doubt who know its author. I wish that my 
 limits would allow me to draw largelj' on this beautiful tribute to a 
 beautiful character. A few sentences must suffice: "The events of 
 his life were few indeed and of no extraordinary kind ; but what they 
 especially impress upon our notice is the ardor of disposition and 
 severity of industry, seldom if ever equalled, that enabled him to 
 triumph over every obstacle in his course, and carried him through 
 with credit to himself and satisfaction to all with whom he was con- 
 nected. . . . An idle moment- was a thing unknown to the last eight 
 years of his life ; every moment had its duties, and he was never hap- 
 pier than while engaged in the severest labor of body and mind. . . . 
 If such industry constrains our admiration, what shall we think of it 
 when told that he was a martyr to rheumatism and neuralgia, that 
 from his twentieth year he scarcely knew what it was to be an hour 
 without pain, and that very often it was excruciating? From the time 
 we mention, his back became so bent that he never afterwards was, able 
 to assume the erect position. . . . The distinguishing trait in Dr. 
 Lincoln's character — that which endeared him to as large a circle of 
 warm personal friends as a man of his age could leave behind him — 
 was his active benevolence. Its spirit was manifested in every thought 
 and action. It pervaded and animated his whole being. . . . No man 
 ever lived more for others and less for himself Had it been otherwise 
 we should not now be mourning his loss. . . . In the practice of his 
 profession his benevolent spirit found ample scope. His time and 
 counsel were at the service of all who chose to ask for them. The 
 more destitute and helpless thej' were, the more strongly did they seem 
 entitled to his personal attentions and to all the resources of his art. 
 . . . Every one much acquainted with him must have been struck with 
 a certain purity and elevation of character, and a strict, unwavering 
 conscientiousness in all his dealings with mankind. This integrity of 
 principle and purpose was admirably supported by an unaffected, un- 
 flinching independence of character that added tenfold to the force and 
 prominence of his example. . . . Another important trait, which as 
 we are writing for the living it would be unpardonable not to notice 
 here, was a fixedness of resolution, and an indomitable perseverance 
 under every form of difficulty and discouragement. Whatever he 
 undertook he accomplished. Obstacles which would have effectually 
 deterred other men seemed only to increase his energies " Dr. Lincoln 
 was not only a contented and happy man, but had a buoyancy of spirit 
 which in such a sufferer seems little less than wonderful. " The good 
 
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274 HISTORY OF BO WDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 of life he enjoyed with a keen relish ; its ills he considered as matters 
 of course, and bore them without fretfulness or repining as if they were 
 unworthy of a thought. . . . His talents were naturally of the highest 
 order, and their power was ^ greatly increased by a rigid system of 
 mental discipline." His love of truth was ardent, scrupulous, unwa- ' 
 vering. Not less striking was his perception and love of the beautiful. 
 " As an anatomist his attainments were profound and extensive. A 
 few more years would have given him a reputation second to that of 
 no other man in the country. Natural history in all its departments 
 received much of his attention, and his love of botany in the last year 
 or two of his life had attained all the strength of a passion, ... As 
 a lecturer he had all the qualities necessary to confer on him great and 
 undisputed excellence. The clearness and order of his views enabled 
 him to present them clearly to others ; while his fine elocution and com- 
 mand of simple and precise language invested them with an interest 
 that enchained the attention and impressed them strongly on the 
 mind." He was a good physician, a judicious and skilful operator. 
 In mathematics he was a proficient, and found in the study a recreation 
 from other toils. " Of music he was all his life a passionate admirer. 
 Until he entered on the active labors of his profession he studied it 
 more than anything else ; and probably no person in the country was 
 better acquainted with its principles." 
 
 John McDonald, born in 1800 in Limington, was fitted at Lim- 
 erick and Exeter. He had charge of the Limerick Academy a little 
 while, and pursued his law studies under Gen. F^ssenden and Mr. 
 Mclntyre. From 1826 to 1835 he practised in Limerick. He settled 
 in Bangor in 1835, and in 1838 he was judge of the municif)al court 
 in that place. For several years past the purchase and sale of lum- 
 ber lands has been his principal occupation. His wife, Olive Jefferds, 
 whom he married in 1827, was a granddaiughter of Major Jeflferds of 
 Kennebunk. Their only daughter is married to Isaac Eeed of Waldo- 
 boro' ; one son is married and lives in Portland ; the other son resides 
 at St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 [Mr. McDonald died in 1867. — p.J 
 
 Samuel Millet was born in Norway in 1801 ; having gone through 
 college he went South, and was heard of in New Orleans and also in 
 Texas. He is supposed to be dead. Though this is all that I have 
 been able to gather in regard to his career, it is certain that his name 
 will go down to the latest times upon the Latin catalogue. 
 
GRADUATES. 275 
 
 LoRT Odell was born in 1801 in Conway, N. H. The ancestors of 
 his father, Richard, lived in ijalem, Mass. His mother, Molly East- 
 man of Concord, N. H., was descended from Roger Eastman, one of 
 the grantees of Salisbury, Mass. In 1816 and 1817 he was my pupil 
 in Portland, and he afterward attendecl the Portland, Fryeburg, an4 
 Wakefield Acadeinies. His law studies, begun under Judge Dana of 
 Fryeburg, were continued in the office of Jeremiah Mason at Ports- 
 mouth. After a short practice in Conway he became a resident of 
 Portsmouth, He was made collector of the customs for that port by 
 President-Tyler, and kept the office under Taylor and Fillmore. Mr. 
 Odell has never been married. In all other respects I have reason to 
 believe he has discharged his duties to society ably and acceptably. 
 
 John Otis was born in 1801 in Leeds, studied under PelegSprague, 
 and became a respectable lawyer, though not known as an advocate.. 
 He went early into politics, and was a leader among the Whigs when 
 Whigs were in fashion. He was sent to Congress in 1848, and repre- 
 sented his district with credit to himself and to general satisfaction. 
 In his last years he went into speculation and was unfortunate. He 
 is said to have been " eminently kind and charitable." He died in 
 Hallowell in 1856. His first wife was a daughter of William O. 
 Vaughan, his second ■ wife a daughter of Samuel C. Grant, both of 
 Hallowell. He left children by both marriages. 
 
 Geobge Lessley Parsons was of Norway and was born in 1801. 
 His classmate Jonas Burnh am writes that he "possessed talents of 
 a high order, and cultivated them with vigorous study. He was kind, 
 dignified, and noble-hearted." After thi-ee years of professional 
 study in Bath with Hon. Benjamin Ames, he established himself in 
 Exeter, Penobscot County, and a few months afterward died of con- 
 sumption. 
 
 Isaac Parsons was a native of New Gloucester. After an exem- 
 plary college course he went to Cambridge as a theological student. 
 He stayed but a little while. In a little more than a year from his 
 graduation he died and was buried in his native village. He is said 
 to have been " a young man of great intellectual promise and good- 
 ness of heart.'' The Portland Advertiser contained an affectionate 
 notice of Parsons, written, it was said, by his classmate and neighbor, 
 William Pitt Fessenden. In this he calls his departed friend " a poet, 
 a scholar, and a Christian." 
 
276 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 James Patten, born in 1795, is a native of DeiTy, N. H., and like 
 tlie McKeens and Bells, of Scotch-Jrish descent. He entered college 
 at the mature age of twenty-four, was a respectable scholar, spoke 
 with a decided brogue, and played ball admirably. Having graduated 
 he joined his brother Moses, who was living in Albany County, New 
 York ; here he studied law but never practised. When last heard from 
 he was an acting magistrate and a rich old bachelor. 
 
 William Jeffrey Read was a son of Hon. Nathan Reed of Bel- 
 fast. After studying law in Bangor with John G. Dean, Esq., he 
 settled in Eastport. He was beginning to occupy a respectable posi- 
 tion at the bar when failing health compelled him to desist. He went 
 home and died in 1829 at the age of twenty-nine. " Mr. Read," says 
 his classmate. Governor Crosby, " stood deservedly high as a man 
 and a law^'er in the estimation of all who knew him." 
 
 Jacob Smith, son of Jacob Smith, who was a native of Epping, 
 N. H., was born in 1803 in Hallowell, was fitted at Gorham, was 
 trained to the law under John Holmes and Joseph Sewall, and prac- 
 tised it at China and at Bath. From 1836 to 1846 he lived in Wis- 
 casset and was clerk of the courts for Lincoln. Since 1848 Bath has 
 been his home, where he is' judge of the municipal court. He has 
 been twice married : first to Julia Lambard of Bath, seeondlj' to Ann 
 Robison of Portland. He had five children: four sons — of whom 
 Thomas R. (Bowdoin College, 1850) settled in the practice of law 
 in Memphis, Tenn., and died in 1872, — and one daughter, Mrs. 
 Jameson. 
 
 [Mr. Smith died in 1876. — p ] 
 
 William Tyng Smith was born in 1802 in Gorham. The Hon. 
 John Anderson was his law teacher, and in 1826 he opened an oflice 
 for business in Portland. In 1843 Mr. Anderson, at that time col- 
 lector of the port, made him an inspector and clerk in the custom- 
 house. This office he held until within orite year of his decease, which 
 occurred in 1854. Mr. Smith was the son of Col. John Tyng Smith 
 and the great-grandson of the Rev. Thomas Smith, first minister of 
 Portland. He married in 1827 Margaret E., daughter of George Dun- 
 can. Two sons and a daughter with their mother survive. 
 
 1824. 
 
 Harrison Allen was a native of the town of Industry, Franklin 
 County. He had attained the ripe age of twenty-eight when he 
 
GRADUATES. 277 
 
 entered college. '' He was a most conscientious, persevering, amiable, 
 and upright man, though not a classical scholar, and could not be." 
 He was three years at Andover, entered the service of the American 
 Board, and was sent in 1829 as missionary to the Choctaws. He was 
 stationed at a place called Elliot, where he labored for more than a 
 year. His death was caused by a bilious fever. He left a widow in 
 that distant region to testify how faithfully he had lived and how 
 peacefully he died. 
 
 Frederic Wait Burke, son of Solomon W. Burke, was born in 
 1806 at Woodstock, Vt. Having studied law with George and Ed- 
 ward Curtis of New York, he opened an offipe in that city, and still 
 practises his profession there, much respected as a lawyer and as a 
 man. He was married in 1833 to Ann C. Potter of New York. Thej' 
 have a son and two daughters. Of these, one is the wife of William 
 Stewart. Mr. Burke resides in Brooklyn. 
 
 Zenas Caldwell was born in 1800 in Hebron. His father, Wil- 
 liam Caldwell, was from Ipswich, Mass., where the name still aboundf. 
 Brought up by his pious mother in the Methodist faith, and having 
 early consecrated himself to the work of doing good, he resolved to 
 widen his sphere of usefulness by a liberal education. It was a 
 remarkable step, for at that time the American Methodists had shown 
 but little favor to learning. He had the good fortune to be well 
 started in his preparatorj^ studies by Mr. E. L. Hamlin, then teacher 
 of a district school in Hebron. Zenas had poor health, and was poor 
 in purse, yet with Yankee energy he worked his own waj' into college 
 and through it. He entered the Sophomore class. It must have been 
 a year later when he invited Franklin Pierce to be his room-mate. The 
 fact is mentioned by Hawthorne (page 15) : "His chum was Zenas 
 Caldwell, several j-ears elder than himself, a member of the Metho- 
 dist persuasion, a pure-minded, studious, devoutly religious character, 
 endowed thus early in life with the authority of a grave and sagacious 
 turn of mind. The friendship between Pierce and him appeared to be 
 mutually strong, and was of itself a pledge of correct deportment in 
 the former." Prof. Vail, in his memoir of Zenas Caldwell, assures us 
 that the President still thankfully acknowledges " the fact that from 
 this time a now era commenced in his college life." In the winter of 
 their senior j'ear, through the agency of Zenas Caldwell, his chum 
 taught the district school near Mr. Caldwell s house in Oxford, which 
 was his home during the time. They parted at Commencement in 
 1824 with the kindest feelings, and corresponded afterwards. There 
 
278 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 was a beauty in this college friendship and its fruits honorable to both 
 parties, and to which the illustrious career of the survivor imparts a 
 peculiar interest. Mr. Caldwell spent one year acceptably as princi- 
 pal of the Hailowell Academy, and at the close of the period began to 
 preach. About this time the Maine Wesleyan Seminary was estab- 
 lished at Kent's Hill in. Readfleld, and Mr. Caldwell was set over it. 
 It was one of the first attempts to create a manual-labor school, and 
 had many imitators, but in this respect they all alike failed. Mr. 
 Caldwell had charge of the literary department. He had a large 
 school to begin with, and engaged in his task with ardor and ability. 
 " The first principal proved himself abundantly equal to his post. He 
 was admired and beloved by his pupils, and the church had begun to 
 regard him as A special gift of Divine Providence to meet the exi- 
 gency." He entered on the second year, but he had already over- 
 tasked himself; his health soon gave way, he sent an aflfectionate 
 farewell to his pupils, went home and died, as one just ready to enter 
 " into the joy of the Lord." He was but twenty-six j-ears old. A 
 good scholar and writer, a good teacher and preacher, he was the edu- 
 cational pioneer among the Methodists of Maine. Great things were 
 expected of him, and justly ; but the important lesson of hum^'b 
 dependence is one which needs " line upon line." 
 
 William Heney Codman, born in Portland, September, 1806, son 
 of WUliam Codman, Esq. He studied law with Charles S. Daveis, 
 Esq., began the practice of his profession in Portland, and in 1840 
 removed to Camden, which has since been his residence. He held the 
 oflSce of county attorney for some years. During the administration 
 of Gen. Pierce he was appointed to a clerkship in the treasury depart- 
 ment, which he held eight or nine years. He married a daughter of 
 John Eager, Esq., of Camden. They have had eight children, of 
 whom two onlj', a son and daughter, now survive. The son is a ciivil 
 engineer in Philadelphia. Another son studied medicine, was assist- 
 ant surgeon in the late war, took his degijge in medicine at the Bow- 
 doin Medical School in 1867, and had entered a promising field of 
 practice when he suddenly died. Mr. Codman, in consequence of a 
 paralytic affection, relinquished active engagements of business the 
 last years of his life. He was found dead in his bed on the morning 
 of May 3, 1879. p. 
 
 Ebenezer Furbush Deanb, writes his classmate Stowe, " was a 
 man of amiable temper, of very superior talent and scholarship, excel- 
 lent social qualities, of great physical strength, tall and muscular ; 
 
GEADTJATES. 279 
 
 and had we been called upon to select a United States President from 
 our class, I think Deane would have been the unanimous vote." He 
 established himself at Gardiner as a practitioner of law. For a time 
 he was successful in business and had much influence ; but his sky soon 
 became overcast, and the fair promise of his morning was never ful- 
 filled. Mr. Deane was from Minot, and in 1848 when he died was 
 forty-eight years old. He left a widow and five children. 
 
 William Hatch was born in 1806 in Exeter, N. H., where his 
 aged parents still live. Mr. Hatch's father was formerly much in 
 public life and a man of influence. William Hatch was fitted at 
 Phillips Academy. On leaving college he took Charge of the private 
 school or " academy" in Brunswick which had been got up by President 
 Allen and his neighbors. Having fixed on the profession of medicine, 
 he entered his name with Dr. Jonathan Page, and subsequently with 
 Prof. J. D. Wells. After a medical practice of four years at Sidney 
 in Maine, Dr. Hatch removed to Georgetown in Kentucky. Here he 
 practised for a while and then became a Christian minister. During 
 the last nineteen years his time and eSbrts have been given alternately 
 to preaching and to teaching. At the present time he is president of an 
 institution in Bloomington, 111. , and pastor of the Christian Church in 
 that place. Mr. Hatch was married in 1827 to Mary R., daughter of 
 Dr. Samuel Adams of Bath. They have one daughter ; two sons who 
 are lawyers, one of them in Missouri and one in Kentucky, and two 
 sons at Chicago in business.* 
 
 William Avert Little " was a native of Castine. Hei entered 
 college young. He was amiable, liyely,. bright ; of good scholarship 
 and unblemished character ; a universal favorite, and Franklin Pierce's 
 most intimate friend. He settled as a physician in his native town, 
 and there died in 1828, — an early death universally lamented." The 
 truth of this brief and pleasing sketch by an eminent classmate is fully 
 corroborated by others. " Besides his chum, Dr. William Mason, 
 now of Charlestown, Mass., his most intimate friend was the present 
 President of the United States. In Hawthorne's '' Life of Mr Pierce," 
 page 15, occurs the foUoVing passage : " His chief friend, I think, 
 was a classmate named Little, a young man of most estimable qualities 
 and high intellectual promise ; one of those fortunate characters whom 
 
 * In subsequent years Dr. Hatch exercised his' ministry in Hannibal and St. Louis, 
 Mo.; in 1868 became medical adviser o£ Mound City Life Insurance Company; in 
 1873 returned to Hannibal with shattered constitution, to spend his remaining days 
 with his children. He died 1876, leaving a wife and five children. p. 
 
280 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 an early death so canonizes in the remembrance of their companions 
 that the perfect fulfilment of a long life would scarcely give them 
 a higher place." And again in note A, at the end of the book, 
 Mr. Hawthorne alludes to the happy influence exerted by Little over 
 his friend at a turning period, — the very crisis of his career. The 
 gentle interceding actor soon passed away. But how wide the circle, 
 how many the years through which the Results of that aflfectionate 
 agency have already reached ! From Mr. George B. Little, the 
 doctor's brother, I learn that late in 1827 he sought relief from his 
 pulmonary complaints in the often tried but generally disastrous 
 experiment of a visit to the West Indies ; that in May, 1828, he 
 returned from Havana, " injured rather than benefited," and that on 
 the 8th of August, at the age of twenty-two, he " fell asleep, trusting 
 in Jesus for pardon, with a meek and trembling hope of eternal salva- 
 tion through him." 
 
 William Mason, Castine, 1805, was a son of William and Abigail 
 (Watson) Mason. After his graduation he taught school several years 
 in Castine. He studied medicine under Dr. Gay of Boston and Dr. 
 Stevens of Castine, and practised in Bucksport nearly twenty years. 
 He now practises in Charlestown, Mass. In 1837 he married Sarah 
 P. Bradley of Bucksport, and they have two daughters.* 
 
 Thomas McDougall, born in 1799, brother of William (see 1820), 
 went immediately to the South, and is now at Wetumka, Ala., a 
 pedagogue and a bachelor. 
 
 [He died in 1869. — p. j 
 
 Theodore Ltman Moody, brother of Joseph G.-(1817), was bom 
 in Kennebunk, June, 1804. On leaving college he engaged in busi- 
 ness with his brother Joseph G. (1817) for a time, and then removed 
 tc> New York, where he was eventually induced to enter with another 
 in a wholesale dry-goods businiess in Mobile, Ala., which continued 
 several years. The enterprise proving»unfortunate, through one of the 
 periodical revulsions in the commercial world and the unfaithfulness 
 of those with whom he had been connected, he removed to Washing- 
 ton, D. C, where he had married Adelaide Hellen, a niece of Mrs. J. 
 Q. Adams. He fortunately obtained the appointment to a clerkship 
 in the Department of State, which he held more than twenty years. 
 He died of pneumonia in Washington, February, 1878. His wife 
 
 *Dr. Mason died of pneumonia in Charlestown, Mass., March 13, 1881, " one of 
 its most respected and beloved physicians." F. 
 
'/T/P^i l/u^ .jii-^i^ 
 
 VSlxSlSSSl OP THE TTHITSTJ STATES 
 
GRADUATES. 281 
 
 died several years before, leaving a son, Theodore Barrell, and a 
 daughter who died a short time before her father. 
 
 Franklin Pierce was born Nov. 23, 1804, in Hillsboro', N. H. 
 His father was a marked character, a sterling though rugged speci- 
 men of our Revolutionary men. He was one of the heroes of Bunker 
 Hill, and continued in the army till the war was over. Left poor in 
 everything but spirit, he plunged into the forest and set up his log- 
 cabin. A man of so much energy and impulse and experience could 
 not remain in obscurity. He filled successively various offices, civil 
 and military, and at length became governor of the State of New 
 Hampshire. This generous, warm-hearted, patriotic soldier, this 
 stanch Democrat of the Jefferson school, transmitted to his sons his 
 spirit and his principles. Of this patrimony Franklin evidently got 
 his full share. His college preparation *as made at the academies in 
 Hancock and in Francestown. In 1820 he entered Bowdoin College. 
 He was then sixteen years old. As yet he had formed no literary 
 tastes or habits of study, and the first half of his college, career was 
 idled or played away. But he suddenly woke up to a sense of dutj- 
 to a true manhood. The entire change in his student life is thus hap- 
 pily related by his friend and biographer Hawthorne, and afibrds a 
 valuable lesson for youth. " When the relative standing of the mem- 
 bers of the class was first authoritatively ascertained in the Junior 
 year, he found himself occupying precisely the Ipwest position in point 
 of scholarship. In the first mortification of wounded pride he resolved 
 never to attend another recitation, and accordingly absented himself 
 from college exercises for several days, expecting and desiring that 
 some form of punishment, such as suspension or expulsion, would be 
 the result. The Faculty of the college, however, with a wise lenity, 
 took no notice of his behavior ; and at last, having had time to grow 
 cool, and moved by the grief of his friend Little and another class- 
 mate, Pierce determined to resume the routine of college duties. 
 ' But,' said he to his friends, ' if I do so, you shall see a change ! ' 
 Accordingly from that time forward he devoted himself to study. 
 His mind, having run wild for so long a period, could be reclaimed 
 only by the severest efforts of an iron resolution ; and for three months 
 afterwards he rose at four in the morning, toiled all day over his books, 
 and retired only at midnight, allowing himself but four hours for 
 sleep. . . . From the moment when he made his resolve until the 
 close of his college life, he never incurred a censure, never was absent 
 but from two college exercises, and then unavoidably, never went into 
 the recitation-room without a thorough acquaintance with the subject 
 
282 HiSTOEr OF bowdoin college. 
 
 to be recited, and finally graduated the third scholar of his class " 
 An instructor of the class remembers distinctly his recitations in 
 Locke, the text-book in the metaphj'sics of the Junior year, in which 
 he showed a mastery of the subject not surpassed by an^- of the class. 
 This striking experience of the young Junior reminds one of a similar 
 transforination in his life at the university of Paley, who became the 
 eminent Archdeacon of Carlisle. 
 
 In college, Pierce attached himself to the Athensean Society, and 
 was one of its managers ; and that respectable fraternity, while it 
 lived, had reason to be proud of a brother so distinguished in subse- 
 quent years. It is still remembered that he was commander of the 
 short-lived and only military company which has ever existed among 
 the students of our college, and that the spirit with which he performed 
 his part fully evinced those predilections and capacities which were'after- 
 wards developed on a broader field. After graduation he began at 
 once the study of law with Judge Levi Woodbury at Portsmouth, 
 N. H. ; the last two years of study he spent at the Law School, North- 
 ampton, Mass., and in the office of Judge Parker, Amherst, N. H. ; 
 and in 1827 he was admitted to the bar and opened an office in his 
 native town. In view of his reputation in later years as an advocate, 
 it maj- be a good lesson for those entering on a legal career to know 
 that his first attempt was an utter failure. But the same indomitable 
 resolution which had availed so much in his Junior year at college 
 did not fail him in this emergency. " To a friend, an older practi- 
 tioner, who addressed him with some expi:ession of condolence and 
 encouragement. Pierce replied (and it was a kind of self-assertion no 
 triumph would have drawn out) , ' I do not need that. I will try nine 
 hundred and ninety-nine cases, if clients will continue to trust me ; and 
 if I fail just as I have to-daj', will try the thousandth. I shall live to 
 argue cases in this court-house in a manner that will mortify neither 
 myself nor my friends." The success, however, in his chosen profes- 
 sion was held in abeyance by the enticements of political life. Reared 
 in the atmosphere of polities, his father now having become governor 
 of the State, the heated contest for the Presidency having terminated 
 in the triumph of Gen. Jackson, the young lawyer, himself an earnest 
 partisan for the successful candidate; could not or did not resist the 
 tendencies of the time. In 1829 his native town sent him to the State 
 Legislature and in three successive years ; and during the last two years 
 he was elected speaker of the House. He was but twenty-seven years 
 old when he accepted that responsible position, for which he proved 
 himself to be eminently qualified by his courtesy, firmness, ready 
 action^ and mastery of parliamentary law. In 1833 we find him at 
 
GRADUATES. 2^3 
 
 Washington, a member of the House of Kepresentatives ; and in 1837 
 in the Senate of the United States, the youngest member of that body, 
 when it was dignified by names which have given it its highest renown 
 for ability, statesmanship, and eloquence, — Calhoun, Clay, Webster, 
 Wright, and others. In either house he participated in debate only 
 when his sense of duty demanded. His native tact and sense of the 
 fitness of things withheld him from thrusting himself into debate where 
 such men were acknowledged leaders ; but whenever he did rise in 
 debate he gained close attention and high respect. He never coveted 
 notoriety, but gave his time and energies to the less conspicuous but 
 more important labor of committees, of which he was an able and 
 much-valued member. He was a vigorous, unshrinking supporter of 
 the Jackson policy, predisposed to a strict interf)retation of constitu- 
 tional law ; sympathized with the South in questions which were agitat- 
 ing the country and becoming prominent in national polities. He 
 enjoyed the entire confidence of his associates, and as one affirmed, 
 " It needed only a few years to give him the front rank for talents, 
 eloquence, and statesmanship." He resigned his seat in the Senate 
 at the close of his term. When about to leave the chamber for the 
 last time, " senators," writes his biographer, " gathered around him, 
 political opponents took leave of him as a personal friend, and no 
 departing member has ever retired from that distinguished bodj' amid 
 warmer wishes for his happiness than those that attended Franklin 
 Pierce." He left the public service with the intention of devoting 
 himself to his profession, which had been intermitted for the most part 
 for ten years. His political career had been singularly successful. 
 As is well said by his college friend and biographer, " He had never 
 in all his career found it necessary to stoop. Office had sought him : 
 he had not begged it, nor manoeuvred for it, nor crept towards it, — ^ 
 arts which too frequently bring a man morally bowed and degraded 
 to a position which should be one of dignity, but in which he will 
 vainly essay to stand upright." He probably anticipated as little as 
 did his friends the higher honors that awaited him. 
 
 Mr. Pierce possessed eminent qualities to attract personal regards 
 and win popularity : an attractive person, frank and gallant bearing, 
 fascination of manner, genuine kindliness of nature, with entire absence 
 of stateliness and reserve that repel. He was ever accessible to the 
 humblest as to- the highest in social position, free and generous in dis- 
 position, one in whom even those diametrically opposed to him in polit- 
 ical strife could not but see much to admire. He had removed his 
 residence from HUlsboro' to Concord, where he resumed his profession, 
 and at once entered with characteristic zeal and energj' upon full prac- 
 
284 HISTORY OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 tice, and rapidly gained brilliant reputation at a bar distinguished for 
 its ability. He was engaged in most important suits. His defence of 
 the "Wentworths on a capital charge, and his part in the case of Morri- 
 son V. Philbrick, one of great public interest, in which he was asso- 
 ciated with and opposed by eminent counsel, are traditions of the New 
 Hampshire bar. The latter case is referred to in a sketch of James 
 Bell of the class of 1822, who was associated with him in the trial. 
 His characteristics as a lawyer are given in the following extracts, in 
 Hawthorne's biography, from the letter of a gentleman who at one 
 period was frequently opposed to him at the bar : " His vigilance 
 and perseverance, omitting nothing in the preparation and introduc- 
 tion of testimony, even to minutest details, which can be useful to his 
 clients ; his watchful attention, seizing on every weak point in the 
 opposite case ; his quickness and readiness, his sound and excellent 
 judgment, his keen insight into character and motives, his almost 
 intuitive knowledge of men, his ingenious and powerful cross-exami- 
 nations, his adroitness in turning aside troublesome testimony and 
 availing himself of every favorable point, his quick sense of the ridic- 
 ulous, his pathetic appeals to the feelings, his sustained eloquence 
 and rematkably energetic declamation, — all mark him for a • leader.' " 
 The chief justice of New Hampshire thus testified to his character and 
 qualifications as a lawyer and advocate, in a communication also found 
 in the biography : "His argumentative powers are of the highest order. 
 He never takes before the court a position which he believes unten- 
 able. He has a quick and sure perception of his points, and the 
 power of enforcing them by apt and pertinent illustrations. He sees 
 the relative importance and weight of different views, and can assign to 
 each its proper place, and brings forward the main body of hjs reason- 
 ing in prominent relief without distracting the attention by unimpor- 
 tant particulars. And above all, he has the good sense, so rarely 
 shown by many, to stop when he has said all that is necessarj' for the 
 elucidation of his subject. . . . The eloquence of Mr. Pierce is of a 
 character not to be easily forgotten. He understands men, their pas- 
 sions and their feelings. His language always attracts the hearer. 
 A graceful and manly caiTiage, bespeaking him at once the gentleman 
 and the true man, a manner warmed by the ardent glow of earnest 
 belief, an enunciation ringing, distinct, and impressive beyond that 
 of most men, a command of brilliant and expressive language, and an 
 accurate taste, together with a sagacious and instinctive insight into the 
 points of his case, are the secrets of his success." 
 
 In 1846 Mr. Pierce received from President Polk the tender of the 
 post of attorney-general- of the United States, which he declined. Just 
 
GRADUATES. 285 
 
 before, Governor Steele of New Hampshire had proposed to appoint 
 him to the Senate of the United States, but he declined this offer also. 
 During this period he was placed in nomination by a Democratic con- 
 vention for the office of governor, but his friends could not obtain his 
 acquiescence. In his letter replying to the offer of President Polk he 
 had declared it to have been his purpose, when he resigned his seat in 
 the Senate, never again to be voluntarily separated from his family for 
 any length of time, except at the call of his country in time of war. 
 That contingency actually occurred in 1847 in consequence of the 
 Mexican war, when he at once enrolled himself as a private, the first 
 volunteer of a company raised in Concord, and drilled in the ranks. 
 He soon was commissioned colonel and shortly afterward brigadier- 
 general, and in June, 1847, arrived at Vera Cruz, wience he led his 
 command to re-enforce the army under Gen. Scott atPuebla. For his 
 energy and skill in the conduct of an adventurous march he received 
 encomiums from militarj- men and the flattering commendation of the 
 commander-in-chief. He was actively engaged in the battles of Con- 
 treras, Churubusco, and Chapultepec, exhibiting bravery and conduct 
 which were recognized and won respect from older generals of the 
 army. On a proposal from Santa Anna for an armistice, as proof of 
 the estimation in which he was held. Gen. Scott appointed him on the 
 commission to arrange the terms. On the termination of hostilities 
 Gen. Pierce returned to Concord and to the laborious exercise of his 
 profession. He had, however, been too prominent in political life to 
 escape calls for co-operation in the movements of the time ; to address 
 conventions, a service for which he had peculiar gifts, and in other 
 ways. He was an earnest supporter of the compromise measures of 
 1850. His advice was sought in the counsels of his political party. A 
 convention for the revision of the State Constitution being assembled 
 in Concord, to which he was chosen a delegate, he was elected presi- 
 dent of that body by the nearly unanimous vote of an assemblage 
 comprising the most eminent citizens of the State, — a mark of the con- 
 fidence cherished for him by the State at large. His bearing in the 
 chair and in debate was sketched by Prof. Sanborn, Dartmouth Col- 
 lege, in the following terms : " As a presiding .officer it would be dif- 
 ficult to find his equal. In proposing questions to the house he never 
 hesitates or blunders. In deciding points of order he is prompt and 
 impartial. His treatment of everj' member was characterized by uni- 
 form courtesy and kindness. ... He possesses unquestioned ability 
 as a public speaker. Few men in our country better understand the 
 means of swaying a popular assembly or employ them with greater 
 success. His foi-te lies in moving the passions of those whom he 
 
286 HISTORY OF BOWnOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 addresses. He knows how to call into vigorous action both the sj'm- 
 pathies and antipathies of those who listen to him. I do not mean to 
 imply that his oratory is deficient in argument or sound reasoning ; 
 on the contrary, he seizes with great power upon the strong points of 
 his subject, and presents them clearly, forcibly, and eloquently. As a 
 prompt and ready debater, always prepared for. assault or defence, he 
 has few equals. . . . He is most thoroughly versed in all the tactics 
 of debate. He is not onlj- remarkably fluent in his elocution, but 
 remarkably correct. His style is not oveTloaded with ornament, and 
 yet he draws liberally upon the treasury of rhetoric. His figures are 
 often beautiful and striking, never incongruous. From his whole course 
 in the convention a disinterested spectator could not fail to form a 
 v.ery favorable opinion, not only of his talent and eloquence, but of his 
 generosity and magnanimity.' 
 
 In January, 1852, the Democracy of New Hampshire declared its 
 preference of Gen. Pierce as a Presidential candidate in the approach-, 
 ing canvass. On the 12th of June the Democratic National Conven- 
 tion was held at Baltimore. A circular letter was addressed to the 
 gentlemen whose claims had been publicly discussed, requesting a 
 statement of their opinions on the points at issue, and inquiring what 
 would be the course of each in case of his attaining the Presidency. It 
 is to the credit of Gen. Pierce that he alone of those addressed made no 
 response. He received the nomination, and was elected to this great 
 civic honor by a majority unprecedented in our annals ; and so as its 
 fourteenth President his name is recorded for all time in the great 
 dynastic roll of the republic. 
 
 The administration of President Pierce was throughout disquieted 
 by the violent struggle in Kansas between those who plotted to make 
 it a slave-holding and those who were resolved it should be a free 
 State, — a contest which involved and convulsed the whole country. 
 Whatever action the President took in measures touching the great 
 points at issue, he iras consistent with his previously pronounced 
 opinions and all his previoiis political life. However men may differ 
 regarding the policy of his administration in this particular, there can 
 be no hesitation in ascribing to him. high integrity and honor, and in 
 affirming that the dignity and proprieties of the station were never 
 more strictly or more gracefully maintained. 
 
 Soon after the close of his term of office he visited Madeira with 
 Mrs. Pierce, chiefly on account of her delicate health, and then with 
 her made a protracted tour of Europe, returning in 1860 to his home 
 in Concord. Henceforth he abstained from professional labor, as also 
 from participation in political aflTairs. He was visited with impaired 
 
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 REV. CAX"VIN E , STO^WE, D.D. 
 
 ASSOC. PSDF. OF S^C, LIT. m TEEOZ. SBM. jtBDOVER: 
 LATS COLLINS FEOF. OF RmUGIOll Uf BOWBOm COLLEeE . 
 
 iln^roji/ed ibr Ste SsvickmvJ^amjjriiLL. 
 
GRADUATES. 287 
 
 health two or three years, which resulted in a brief but violent illness 
 and in his death Oct. 8, 1869. 
 
 In 1834 Mr. Pierce married Jane Means, third daughter of Rev." 
 Dr. Appleton, a former president of Bowdoin College. Three sons 
 were the fruit of this marriage, the first of whom died in infancy ; the 
 second, Frank Robert, died in 1844, aged four years, of rare beauty 
 and promise ; the third, a lad of eleven years, the hope of his parents, 
 was killed January, 1852, in the wreck of a railway train near 
 Andover, Mass., at their side, ^ a calamity which called forth the 
 deep sympathy of the country, and which cast a shade over their re- 
 maining years. 
 
 Calvin Ellis Stovfe was born in 1802 at Natick, Mass. At the 
 age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a paper-maker, and worked in 
 his mill two j-ears. He fitted for college partly at Bradford, Mass., 
 and partly at Gorham. In college he was soon known as the first 
 man in his class, — witty, brilliant, popular, and withal an acknowl- 
 edged and consistent Christian. At Andover his literary tastes were 
 rapidly developed. He ti-anslated from the German and published 
 Jahn's *' History of the Hebrew Commonwealth," and brought out 
 with copious notes an edition of Lowth's " Lectures on Hebrew 
 Poetry." In 1828 he was appointed assistant teacher in Prof. Stuart's 
 department. In 1830 he had the editorial charge of the Boston 
 Recorder. From 1831 to 1833 he was in the chair of languages at 
 Hanover. Lane Seminary in Cincinnati next obtained him, and here 
 he remained seventeen years as professor of Biblical literature. In 
 1850 the Collins professorship at Brunswick was established, and Mr. 
 Stowe was selected for its first incumbent. At the end of the year, 
 An'dover, more wealthy and more attractive, laid her hands upon the 
 doctor and placed him in her seat of sacred literature, a seat which 
 he still occupies. During his residence in Ohio, Prof. Stowe visited 
 Europe, partlj' to buy books for the library of the seminary and partly 
 by appointment of the Legislature, and with reference to the general 
 interests of education. He examined many European institutions of 
 learning, and especially the schools of Prussia. The results of his 
 observation appeared in a valuable report which was published by the 
 State. In addition to the works already mentioned, Prof. Stowe pub- 
 lished an introduction to the study of the Bible. He has also made 
 numerous and valuable contributions to the literary and religious peri- 
 odicals. 
 
 Mr. Stowe, it will be seen from our record, has spent the most of 
 Ms life in teaching, his principal theme being the language and litera- 
 
288 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE, 
 
 ture of the Bible. In this department he has undoubtedly been suc- 
 cessful. As a public speaker Mr. Stowe is ready and forcible rather 
 flian elegant or graceful. That he might have attained to eminence in 
 this line had he given himself wholly to preaching, I see no reason to 
 'doubt. 
 
 The removal of the family to Brunswick seems to have been an 
 epoch in its history. Cincinnati had not made them rich, and their 
 apparent poverty when they came into Maine excited surprise and 
 dompassion. They lived in the house which had been' the home of 
 Parson Titcomb, at that time a decayed and uncomfortable mansion. 
 Here, without even a servant to aid her in the care of house and chil- 
 dren, Mrs. Stowe wrote a serial tale for the Washington Era, and this 
 tale, republished in book form, soon carried her name to the farthest 
 corners of the earth, gave her a place among the great authors of the 
 day, insured her a welcome in ducal halls, and raised the impoverished 
 family to ease and independence. Mr. Stowe accompanied his wife 
 on her first visit to England, and made some speeches there which, 
 with all my regard for him, I could not approve. He has since twice 
 crossed the Atlantic with Mrs. Stowe, but his home, duties have soon 
 called him back. Though a divinity professor, Mr. Stowe does not 
 confine himself to theological topics or to ecclesiastical occasions. 
 Earnest and able, his voice is often heard in conventions, moral or 
 political, and he has even been talked of for CongresSi 
 
 Mr. Stowe's first wife, married in 18^2, was Elizabeth E., daughter 
 of Rev. Dr. Tyler ; she died in 1834. In 1836 he married Harriet E.,' 
 daughter of Rev. Dr. Beecher.* 
 
 Samuel Talbot, born in Freeport in 1801, after graduation taught 
 in Biddeford three years, graduated at Andover in 1831, and was set- 
 tled in Wilton, where he remained ten years. From 1842 to 1839 he 
 was the Congregational minister of Alna, about eighteen years. He 
 died suddenly and awaj' from home, leaving a widow (his second 
 wife) and one son. The Rev. J. N. Parsons (Bowdoin College, 1828) 
 speaks of him as follows : " As a man and as a Christian, his promi- 
 nent characteristics were those that constitute goodness. In eveiry 
 relation of life he found his happiness in contributing to the happiness 
 of others. These lovelj' traits made him, with but ordinary intellect- 
 
 * They have had seven children : three daughters, — Harriet E., Eliza T., and 
 Georgiana M., the last married to Rev Mr. Allen, rector of the Church of the Mes- 
 siah, Boston ; four sons, — Henry E., Frederick W., Samuel C, and Charles E., the 
 first three deceased; the last spent some time at the University of Bonn, Prussiaj and 
 is now ordained over the Congregational Church in Saco. p. 
 
GEADUATE8. 289 
 
 ual endowments, highly respected among all classes during both his 
 pastorates, useful and successful as a minister, and beloved as a friend. 
 His preaching was clear, practical, and solid, rather than showy or 
 brilliant." 
 
 1825. 
 Chakles jEFFREr Abbott is a native of Castine, born in 1806. 
 His father, William Abbott, was a counsellor at law of high standing. 
 His mother was a daughter of Dr. Israel Atherton of Lancaster, 
 Mass. After graduation Mr. Abbott was for some time a family tutor 
 in Charleston, S. C. F"or a while also he taught schoql in his native 
 town. Then in his father's oflSce he studied the law, which he has 
 ever since practised in Castine. With the schools of Castine, which 
 are highly prosperous, he has had much to do as town agent and chair- 
 man of committee. He claims also an active agency in the passage 
 of the public-library law of Maine. For about eight years Mr. 
 Abbott was the collector of customs for the port of Castine. In 1835 
 he married Sarah A., daughter of Josiah Hook of Castine. Of four 
 children which she left at her death in 1843, only one survives. In 
 1856 Mr. Abbott was married to Mrs. T. J. Whitney, daughter of 
 Daniel Johnston, formerly a merchant in Castine. 
 
 John Stevens Cabot Abbott, born in Brunswick in 1805, brother 
 • of Jacob (see 1820), was fitted for college by Rev. Dr. Packard. He 
 was principal of the academy at Amherst, Mass., one year, and then 
 went through the course at Andover, was pastor of the Calvinist 
 Church in Worcester, Mass., five years, then for five years over, the 
 Eliot Church in Roxbury, then three years in Nantucket First Congre- 
 gational Church. The seven years which followed were passed in the 
 city of New York, where he was associated with his brother in a large 
 and flourishing school for young ladies. Mr. Abbott then returned to 
 Maine, having bought the house in Brunswick which had been his 
 father's. Here he lived eight years, busily engaged in writing for the 
 press and supplying, as occasion called, the vacant pulpits of the 
 neighborhood. At Farmington, his present residence, he also writes 
 and preaches. As a speaker, whether in the pulpit or before the 
 occasional assemblj', Mr. Abbott is widel}' and favorably known. In 
 this respect he is always ready, easy, showy, popular ; but it is mainly 
 on achievements as an author that his far-spread reputation rests. 
 He began early. His "Mother at Home" and "Child at Home" 
 were long ago enrolled among the religious tracts, the former having 
 passed through several editions at home and abroad, and been trans- 
 lated into other European languages and even some of Asia. Then 
 
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200 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE, 
 
 came a series of small biographies: "Kings and Queens," "Marie 
 Antoinette," "Josephine," "Madame Roland," " Th6 Fourth Henry 
 of France," " The Conqueror of Mexico," and " Philip, the Wampa- 
 noag Chief." The " History of Napoleon Bonaparte" first appeared 
 as an illustrated serial in Harper's Magazine. It was followed by 
 " Napoleon at St. Helena," " The Private Correspondence of Napo- 
 leon," and " The French Revolution as viewed in the Light of Repub- 
 lican Institutions." Mr. Abbott is now engaged on the " Monarchies 
 of Continental Europe. " Austria"- and "Russia" have already 
 come out. His latest publication has attracted considerable notice. 
 Something in regard to its tone and purport may be inferred from the 
 fact that Republican editors and leaders recommend its circulation as a 
 suitable and effective tract for the pending Presidential canvass. As 
 a historical writer Mr. Abbott has been widely read and much admired. 
 In this field, however; he belongs to the school of Headley rather than 
 of Macaulay. Aiming more at immediate effect than at the solid 
 fame which comes only from accuracy and completeness and long and 
 deep research, Mr. Abbott's works are rapid compilations made from 
 the nearest sources, and owe their attractiveness partly to the glow 
 and smoothness of their diction, partly to the enthusiasm of the 
 author. This quality, indeed, brightens and tinges almost everything 
 he does, — a circumstance which his readers have need to remember. 
 This trait is specially conspicuous in the " Life of Napoleon," whom 
 he presents as an almost faultless hero of the Bayard type. The jus- 
 tification or extenuation of acts which' had long and widely been re- 
 garded as crimes, and the general tone of indiscriminate praise, called 
 forth many public and sharp critiques. It is, however, undoubtedly 
 true that during the passionate and blinding conflicts, the fury and 
 terrors of the scene when that great man was chief actor on the 
 stage, he was often misunderstood and misrepresented both in Eng- 
 land and America. Mr. Abbott's strong and indignant conviction of 
 this injustice may have impelled him too far in the other direction. 
 In the matter of style, if I may be allowed an opinion, Mr. Abbott's 
 later works show a marked improvement, though a critic of the severer 
 cast might still find occasion to lop here and there. It is pleasant to 
 add, what all who know him will indorse, that few men possess more 
 largely the qualities which make one esteemed as a citizen and be- 
 loved as a neighbor and friend. He married in 1830 Jane W. Bourne 
 of Boston. They have had six daughters aud two sons.* 
 
 * From Maine Mr. Abbott removed to Cheshire, Conn., and subsequently to the 
 pastorate of the Howe Street Church, New Haven, Conn., and as acting pastor at 
 Fair Haven, where for a few years his labors, as in other places, were greatly blessed. 
 
^"^"•^WJ-CB^^ £«,«. a.D.1*****"" 
 
 SOW. SAMUEL PAGE. BEI^ SON" 
 
 MEMBEB. OF CON'ORESS I^QU AOnm 
 
 Eivj'iiiicJ. !ar the Oai/^ma i^iwuil 
 
GRADUATES. 291 
 
 Thomas Ayer was born in 1797 in Plaistow, N. H. As a Latin 
 and Greek scholar he stood among the first in this distinguished class. 
 He went into the ministry and for a short time had a parish. For 
 many years, however, he has lived in Litchfield, the owner and culti- 
 vator of a small farm. Here he works, smokes, reads the classics, 
 and fits boys for college. His wife was Hepsibah Smith. They have 
 three children. 
 
 [Mr. Ayer died in 1863. — p. J 
 
 Elisua Bacon, born in Freeport in 1799, was prepared for the 
 ministry under private tuition, and was settled successively at Hyannis 
 in Massachusetts and at Sanford and Eliot in Maine In consequence of 
 weak lungs he gave up preaching, and now keeps a boarding school at 
 Centreville, Mass. By his wife, Emeline Basset of Hyannis, he has 
 three children. 
 
 [Mr. Bacon died in 1863. —p. j 
 
 Samuel Page Benson was born in Winthrop in 1804. His worthy 
 father, Dr. Peleg Benson, was a native of Middleboro', Mass., and 
 settled in "Winthrop in 1792. His mother was Sarah, daughter of 
 Col. Simon Page of Kensington, N. H. He was fitted ifor college 
 under Mr. Joslyn of Monmouth Academy. Gen. Benson and Samuel 
 S. Warren of China were his law teachers. After practising success- 
 fully for two years in Unity, Waldo County, he returned to Winthrop 
 that he might be near his aged parents. Here for sixteen years he 
 continued to work in his profession not without success, yet with many 
 interruptions to which he submitted with a patient grace that showed 
 he was not all a lawyer. During this period school committees, 
 agricultural societies, academy and college boards contrived to get a 
 gopd deal of work out of him. The town used Mm constantly as 
 selectman, agent, or representative in the Legislature. The county 
 had him in the Senate for a while, and the State employed him for 
 several j'ears as its secretary. Soon after the death of his wife in 
 1848, Mr. Benson discontinued his legal practice and devoted himself 
 to railroad business and agricultural pursuits. But his fellow-citizens, 
 fearing perhaps that he was falling into idle habits, seat him to Wash- 
 ington. Having done good service in the Thirty-third Congress, he 
 was re-elected by a large majoritj'. During the memorable nine weeks' 
 
 His Alma Mater conferred on him the degree of D. T). in 1875. He died in 1877 
 after a year of great nervous prostration, but of singular peace of mind, often rising 
 to rapturous, exultant assurance of the blessedness that a\Yaited him, on which he 
 knew he might enter any hour. p. 
 
292 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 struggle for a speaker Mr. Benson acted as one of the tellers, and we 
 have no reason to suppose that he felt very badly when at length it 
 devolved on him to announce the election of Mr. Banks. During that 
 Congress Mr. Benson held the important position of chairman of the 
 Committee on Naval AflTairs. His entire career at Washington was 
 creditable to himself, to his district, and to the State. For a number 
 of years after his retirement from public life Mr. Benson lived with 
 his daughter, Mrs. Sewall; first at "Wenham, Mass., where, the Eev. 
 John S. Sewall was settled as a clergyman, and afterward in Bruns- 
 wick, Me., where Mr. Sewall is now an active and honored professor 
 in the college. Latterly Mr. Benson has lived in Yarmouth with his 
 second wife. Mr. Benson has long presided over the Board of Over- 
 seers of Bowdoin College. Though strong and active still, he has bid 
 adieu to political life and to the pressing cares of business. Maj' his 
 decline be gentle and his setting bright. 
 
 Mr. Benson married, in 1831, Elizabeth, only daughter of Dr. Ariel 
 Mann of Hallowell. Of four daughters but two survive. 
 
 [He married a second time in 1872, Esther, daughter of the late Dr. 
 Eleazer Burbank of Yarmouth. After a protracted illness Mr. Benson 
 died in Yarmouth in 1876. — p.] 
 
 Alden Botnton dates his beginning from Wiscasset, 1805; John 
 and Sarah his parents' names. Mr. Boynton, a ship-master at first, 
 had become a ship-owner, and the embargo and war found him in 
 possession of several vessels. At the close of that disastrous period 
 he sailed to Portugal in the only ship that remained to him. Keturn- 
 ing with a cargo of salt, his vessel sprung a leak in mid-ocean and 
 soon went down. The captain and crew took to their bqats, were 
 picked up, and he came home penniless to spend the rest of his days 
 upon a mortgaged farm. On this farm, which was two or three miles 
 from the village, Alden grew up a hard-working boy. At length a high 
 school was established in the village, and though it was quite a walk, 
 Alden was glad to attend it. There, learning many of his lessons on 
 the road, he was fitted for college by a youthful but thorough teacher, 
 Alpheus S. Packard. At fifteen this strong, healthy lad went to 
 Brunswick. Like many both before and since he shut himself up in 
 his college room, took no regular exercise, soon got sick, and finally 
 graduated a good scholar and a confirmed dyspeptic. Having thus 
 through his ignorance and neglect of natural laws spoiled a good 
 farmer, he went forth to engage in that intellectual strife which de- 
 mands in its recruits a healthy body as well as healthy mind. The issue 
 might have been foretold. He taught school awhile, then went back 
 
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 HON. JAMES W.BKADBURY 
 
 LATE us SEliATORFROM M/Umi 
 
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GRADUATES. 293 
 
 to the farm in search of health but found he could no longer labor ; 
 then spent a year in the law office of John H. Shepard ; then took 
 charge of an academy. Meanwhile new views of life and duty had 
 taken hold of his mind. He applied for license to preach ; and the 
 Kennebec Association, dispensing in his case with the usual require- 
 ments, granted his request. After some missionary labor on the 
 Penobscot he was settled at Industry, preaching alternately there and 
 in New Portland ten miles distant. Here he stayed seven years, his 
 health growing poorer and at length wholly failing. To their sorrow 
 and his own he found himself compelled to leave an attached and in- 
 dulgent people. Mr. Boynton returned to Wiscasset, where he bought 
 a house and small patch of ground on which he has since lived, his 
 mother keeping house for him. He has been supervisor of the schools, 
 has twice represented the town in the Legislature, has officiated at 
 funerals and supplied vacant pulpits until increasing infirmities of 
 lungs and speech have put it out of his power. Mr. Boynton has 
 given me a minute narrative of the ailments which have made his life 
 " one long disease," and of the way in which they frustrated all his 
 efforts to be useful ; and it is quite evident that the foundation of all 
 this mischief was laid at Brunswick. There is no evidence that 
 either his college guardians or his comrades warned him of the ruinous 
 process, or even suspected its existence. Those were days of darkness 
 • in regard to the whole subject of physical training. The student who 
 is bent on the slow suicide of inaction should at least be informed that 
 he cannot commit it on college ground. Had I money to bestow on 
 my Alma Mater, (would I had!) I am convinced that I could render 
 her and her future children no more essential service than by providing 
 facilities and encouragements for the best forms of athletic sport, and 
 for those kinds of gymnastic exercise which have been proved to be 
 safe and salutary. Mr. Boynton died in 1858. 
 
 James Ware Bradbuet is a native of York County, where his 
 father, Dr. James Bradbury, was a physician of eminence. He 
 taught the Hallowell Academy for a year, and then studied law with 
 Mr., afterwards Judge Shepley and with Eufiis Mclntyre. In 1830 
 Mr. Bradbury settled in Augusta, where he gave himself with great 
 devotion to his profession for many years. He edited for a time the 
 Maine Patriot, and was also attorney for the county. In 1844, first 
 as a nominating delegate at Baltimore, and afterwards as president of 
 the Maine electoral college, he assisted in making Mr. Polk President 
 of the United States. In 1847 he was elected a member of the United 
 States Senate. Scarcely had he taken his seat when the death of his 
 
294 
 
 HISTORY or BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 colleague, Senator Fairfield, called him to the painful dut^' of pro- 
 nouncing the customary eulogy. During his entire connection with 
 the Senate he held a place in the committee on the judiciary. When 
 President Taj-lor, following the example of his immediate predeces- 
 sors in office, proceeded to displace manj' of the Democratic in- 
 cumbents, Mr. BrMbury introduced a resolution on the subject of 
 removals from office, and supported the same in the debate which fol- 
 lowed. He was chairman of a select committee on French spolia- 
 tions, and reported a bill for the relief of the long-enduring and much- 
 abused sufferers, which he advocated in a speech of much research. 
 Before the expiration of his term he declined in a public letter to be 
 a candidate for re-election. Since the close of his senatorial term, 
 he has been engaged as before in the pi-actice of his profession, and 
 ranks among the ablest lawyers in the State. He was an overseer, 
 and for several j'ears has been a trustee of the college. On the death 
 of Prof. Cleaveland was chosen corresponding secretary of the Maine 
 Historical Society, and on the death of Judge Bourne was cho'sen its 
 president. He married in 1834 Eliza A., daughter of Thomas W. 
 Smith of Augusta. Their oldest son, James W. (Bowdoin College, 
 1861), had engaged in the practice of law, and was rising in his pro- 
 fession when he died in 1876. 
 
 Richmond Bradfokd was born in 1801 in Turner. His parents' 
 were Martin and Prudence (Dillingham) Bradford. Dr. Bradford 
 studied medicine in Minot and in Brunswick, took his degree in 1829, 
 and settled in the practice at Lewiston Falls. He now lives in Au- 
 burn. The same year he married Miss A. Gary. Their oldest son 
 died at the age of twenty-three ; another son is a physician at Lewis- 
 ton ; the youngest son is a graduate of Bowdoin College, 1861, and is 
 a physician in New York, having received his medical 'degree from the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1865 ; and there is 
 a daughter unmarried. 
 
 [Dr. Bradford was highly esteemed as a physician and a Christian 
 man. After long illness he died in 1874. — p.] 
 
 Horatio Bridge, brother of Edward T. (1818), began life as a 
 lawj'er, practising first in Skowhegan and afterwards in Augusta with 
 James Hradbury for his partner. About 1840 he became a purser in 
 the United States, navy, and for some sixteen j-ears was mostly on the 
 sea. Under President Pierce he was appointed chief of the bureau 
 of provisions and clothing in the navy department, — a yerj' impor- 
 tant office which he has filled and still fills with great fidelity and to 
 
GRADUATES. 295 
 
 general acceptance.* He married about 1844 Charlotte Marshall of 
 Boston. They have had and lost one child. 
 
 George Barrell Cheever, born in Hallowell in 1806, was the 
 son of Nathaniel Cheever who came from Salem to Hallowell, and 
 Charlotte Barrell of York. The father was a well-known and re- 
 spected printer and publisher, and established the American Advo- 
 cate in Hallowell in 1810. The son was prepared for college ^t the 
 academy, Hallowell; after graduating pursued a theological course, 
 graduating at Andover in 1830, and was ordained pastor of the 
 Congregational Church, Howard Street, Salem, in 1832. While at 
 Andover and Salem he contributed in prose and verse to the North 
 American Review, Biblical Repository, and other periodicals. He also 
 published a "Defence of the Orthodoxy of Cudworth," "Common- 
 place Books of Prose and Poetry," " Studies in Poetry," and edited 
 ' ' Select Works of Archbishop Leighton." He engaged with character- 
 istic energy and ardor in the temperance movement, and by his publi- 
 cation entitled "Inquire at Deacon Giles' Distillery," which was 
 interpreted to have a personal bearing, brought on himself obloquy, 
 was assaulted in the street, was prosecuted for libel, and imprisoned 
 thirty days in the Salem jail. Resigning his pastorate, he went abroad, 
 travelling in Europe and the Levant, and contributing letters to the 
 New York Observer. In 1839 he was installed pastor of the Allen 
 Street Presbyterian Church, New York, meanwhile giving courses of 
 lectures on "Pilgrim's Progress," and on " Hierarchical Despotism," 
 which were published. In 1846 he visited Europe again as corre- 
 sponding editor of the New York Evangelist, of which he became on 
 his return chief editor. The same year he was installed over the Church 
 of the Puritans, New York, remaining until 1870, when he resigned 
 the pastorate, and has since resided in p]nglewood, N. J. Besides 
 contributing to periodicals, in 1843 and 1846 there appeared from his 
 fruitful pen "Journal of the Pilgrims, Plymouth, New England, 
 1620," reprinted from- the original volumes with historical illustra- 
 tions, "Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc and 
 also of Jungfrau," and "Windings of the Water of Life," in 1849. 
 Subsequently he published "The Eight of the Bible in Common 
 Schools," " Voices of Nature to her Foster Child, the Soul of Man," 
 "Lectures on the Life, Genius, and Sanctity of Cowper," "God's 
 
 *Mr. Bridge resigned this position to become inspector-general, which he held 
 until the passage of the law debarring navy officers from active duty ou reaching the 
 age of sixty-two, when he retired with the " relative rank " of commodore. p. 
 
296 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Hand in America," " Guilt of Slavery and Crime of Slaveholding," 
 "The Punishment of Death: Its Authority and Expediency," and 
 recently "Faith, Doubt, and Evidence." Several discourses, etc., 
 have been published by Dr. Cheever not embraced in the above enu- 
 meration. Dr. Cheever has shown great literary activity in the midst 
 of parochial cares and responsibilities. He has been a zealous worker 
 in different fields, has made himself known and felt in the discussions, 
 vehement and unsparing, of problems which have agitated the country, 
 as well as in energetic, persistent, and fearless action ; and now, with- 
 out clerical charge, he is engaged, it is said, with the earnestness of 
 younger days in a defence of the truth against the assaults of science. 
 Dr. Cheever received the degree of D. D. from the University of New 
 York in 1844. In 1846 he married Elizabeth C. Wetmore of New 
 York. They have had one child, — a son, dying in infancy. Dr. 
 Cheever has given proof of his devotion to the interests of his Mas- 
 ter's kingdom in the liberal gift of his New York dwelling to the 
 American Board of Commissioners and the American Missionary 
 Association, to be held jointly. p. 
 
 JoNATHAiq^ CiLLET was bom in 1802 at Nottingham, N. H. His 
 grandfather, Joseph Cilley, commanded a regiment in the war of the 
 Eevolution. His father, Greenleaf Cilley, died in 1808, leaving four 
 sons and three daughters. Joseph, now the only survivor of the sons, 
 served with distinction in our second war with England. In college 
 Jonathan was a respectable scholar. As a debater and speaker he 
 stood in the first rank. " Nothing could be less artificial than his 
 style of oratory. After filling his mind with the necessary informa- 
 tion, he trusted everything else to his mental warmth and the inspira- 
 tion of the moment, and poured himself out with an earnest and 
 irresistible simplicity. ... In few words, let us characterize him at 
 the outset of life as a young man of quick and powerful intellect, 
 endowed with sagacity and tact, j^et frank and free in his mode of 
 action, ambitious of good influence, earnest, active, and persevering, 
 with an elasticity and cheerful strength of mind which made diffi- 
 culties easy, and the struggle with them a pleasure. Mingled with 
 the amiable qualities that were like sunshine to his friends, there 
 were harsher and sterner traits which fitted him to make head against 
 an adverse world ; but it was only at the moment of need that the iron 
 framework of his character became perceptible." From college Mir. 
 Cilley went to Thomaston, and began the study of law with John 
 Ruggles, afterwards United States senator from Maine. Into the 
 warm partisan contests of the place and the time he at once entered 
 
GRADUATES. 297 
 
 with great zeal. " At a period wlien most young men still stand aloof 
 from the world, he had already taken his post as a leading politician. 
 He afterwards found cause to regret that so much time had been 
 abstracted from his professional studies, nor did the absorbing and 
 exciting nature of his political career afford him any subsequent 
 opportunity to supply the defects of his legal education." In 1829 he 
 began to practise at Thomaston, and the same year was married tp 
 Deborah, daughter of Hon. Hezekiah Prince of that place. In 1832 
 Mr. Cilley took his seat in the Legislature, as representative from 
 Thomaston. To the Legislature of 1833 he was also sent, although 
 vehemently opposed by many who had been his political and personal 
 friends. In 1834 these new opponents attempted to read him out of the 
 Democratic party, but the effort signally failed, and he soon became 
 " the acknowledged head and leader of that party in the Legislature." 
 During the latter part of the session of 1836 he was speaker of the 
 House. "All parties awarded him the praise of being the best pre- 
 siding officer the House ever had." In this year, after a severe 
 struggle which abundantly proved his great popularit3', he was chosen, 
 to represent his district in Congress. " In the summer of 1837," 
 writes his classmate and friend, Hawthorne, " a few months after his 
 election to Congress, I met Mr. Cilley for the first time since early 
 j'outh, when he had been to me almost as an elder brother. The two 
 or three days which I spent in his neighborhood enabled us to renew 
 our former intimacy. In his person there was very little change, and 
 that little was for the better. He had an impending brow, deep-set 
 eyes, and a thin, thoughtful countenance, which in his abstracted 
 moments seemed almost stern, but in the intercourse of society it was 
 brightened with a kindly smile that will live in the recollection of all 
 who knew him. His manners had not a fastidious polish, but were 
 characterized by the simplicity of one who had dwelt remote from 
 cities, holding free companionship with the yeomen of the laud. I 
 thought iim as true a representative of the people as ever theory 
 could portray. His earlier and later habits of life, his feelings, par- 
 tialities, and prejudices, were those of the people. The strong and 
 shrewd sense which constituted so marked a feature of his mind was 
 but a higher degree of the popular intelligence. He loved the people 
 and respected them, and was prouder of nothing than of his brother- 
 hood with those who had intrusted their public interests to his care. 
 His continual struggles in the political arena had strengthened his 
 bones and sinews ; opposition had kept him ardent ; while success had 
 cherished the generous warmth of his nature, and assisted the growth 
 both of his powers and sympathies. Disappointment might have 
 
298 HISTORY or bowdoin college. 
 
 soured and contracted him ; but. his triumphant warfare had, it seemed 
 to me, been no less beneficial to his heart than to his mind. I was 
 aware that his harsher traits had grown apace' with his milder ones, 
 that he possessed iron resolution, indomitable perseverance, and an 
 almost terrible energy ; but these features had imparted no hardness 
 to his character in private intercourse. In the hour of public need 
 these strong qualities would have shown themselves the most promi- 
 nent ones, and would have encouraged his countrymen to rally round 
 him as one of their natural leaders. In his private and domestic rela- 
 tions Mr. Cilley was most exemplary, and he enjoyed no less happi- 
 ness than he conferred. He had been the father of four children, two 
 of whom were in the grave, leaving, I thought, a more abiding im- 
 pression of tenderness and regret than the death of infants usually 
 makes upon the masculine mind. Two boys — the elder seven or 
 eight years of age, and the j-ounger two — still remained to him ; and 
 the fondness of these children for their father, their evident enjoyment 
 of his society, was proof enough of his gentle and amiable character 
 within the precincts of his family. In that bereaved household there 
 is now another child whom the father neVer saw. Mr. Cilley's domes- 
 tic habits were simple and primitive to a degree unusual in most parts 
 of our country, among men of so eminent a station as he had attained. 
 It made me smile, though with anything but scorn, in contrast to the 
 aristocratic stateliness which I have witnessed elsewhere, to see him 
 driving home his one cow, after a long search for her through the vil- 
 lage. That trait alone would have marked him as a man whose great- 
 ness lay within himself. He appeared to take much interest in his 
 garden, and was very fond of flowers. He kept bees, and told me 
 that he loved to sit for whole hours watching the labors of the insects, 
 and soothed by the hum with which they filled the air. I glance at 
 these minute particulars of his daily life, because they form so strange 
 a contrast with the circumstances of his death Who could have be- 
 lieved that with his thoroughly New England character, in so short a 
 time after I had seen him in that peaceful and happy home, among 
 those simple occupations and pure enjoyments, he would be stretched 
 in his own blood, slain for an almost impalpable punctilio?" 
 
 * The story of Cilley's tragic end, so fully recorded and commented on in the press 
 of the time, and one of the saddest traditions of our political history, need not he 
 repeated. That the man whose young life and lofty ambition were thus suddenly 
 quenched in blood was in some respects eminently fitted for a public career, it seems 
 impossible to doubt. Indeed, there is the best reason for .thinking that but for his 
 untimely end his name might have been enrolled among the brightest and most 
 famous, not only of his class and college mates, but of his countrymen. P. 
 
GKADUATES. 299 
 
 Cyrus Hamlin Coolidge, born in Canton in 1800, entered Sopho- 
 more ; settled as a phj-sician in BuckSeld, where he tried both practice 
 and business with moderate success. Here he married and had chil- 
 dren. In 1852 he removed to California ; in 1860 to Austin, Nev , 
 where he practised his profession six years, and thence returned to 
 California and died in 1871, and was buried with Masonic honors. 
 
 GoRHAM Deanb, born January, 1803, was the son of the late Dr. 
 Ezra Deane, formerly of Biddeford, and subsequentlj' of Cambridge, 
 Mass. From an early age his love of readjng was intense. Twice 
 during his boyhood he was placed in a store ; but so prone was he to 
 get absorbed in some book, that all idea of making him a business man 
 was abandoned. Being permitted at length to devote himself to studj', 
 he took for sleep but four hours of the twenty-four. He entered 
 college at eighteen, having already taught school acceptably a winter 
 in Baldwin and a summer in Kennebunkport. Though his nervous 
 and sanguine temperament made a large amount of exercise essential 
 to his health, he continued at Brunswick the sedentary and fatal course 
 which he had previouslj' pursued. The consequences soon appeared. 
 More than once he was interrupted by disease ; but rallj'ing, returned 
 to his studies only to break down again. At the Senior exhibition he 
 received the second appointment in the class, and the same in the 
 assignment for Commencement. He went home the evident victim 
 of dj'speptic consumption, feeble, emaciated, sinking rapidly, and died 
 in Providence, R. I., whither he had gone to seek relief, Aug. 11, a 
 few weeks before his classmates took their degrees. In his disposition 
 he was uncommonly amiable : he was seldom depressed and seldom 
 excited ; even in his last illness he was calm and cheerful, and hopeful 
 and resigned. In every action he appeared to have been governed by 
 the strictest and highest principles. His fondest hope was to devote 
 his life to the service of his Master as a minister of the gospel. 
 
 Jeremiah Ddmmer, brother of Charles (see 1814), was born in 
 1805, graduated in medicine in 1828, and practised a while somewhere 
 in Kennebec County. He went in 1833 to Jacksonville, 111., and soon 
 after to Boonville in Missouri. After a year he pushed still farther 
 west and made Westport, Kan., his home. Here he died in 1856. In 
 faith and life he was an earnest Methodist and a man of warm piety. 
 He practised largely among the Indians, and did much for their spirit- 
 ual welfare. Dr. Dummer died unmarried. 
 
300 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Nathaniel Ddnn was born in Poland of this State in 1800. From 
 childhood he was conversant with narrow circumstances and a con- 
 stant struggle ; was fitted for- college chiefly at Hebron and Gorham 
 Academies, and entered Sophomore. At his commencement he was 
 assigned a conference with Cilley. The lives of the two young men 
 thus connected soon became widely sundered. Dunn, after graduating, 
 received a flattering invitation to study law in the office of Judge 
 Euggles of Thomaston. Having just accepted a position at the Wes- 
 leyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., and embarrassed by debt, he 
 declined ; Cilley took the place, and the young men began their re- 
 spective careers in quite opposite directions. At Wilbraham Dunn 
 taught chemistry and natural philosophy. In 1829 he opened a private 
 school in the city of New York, which he continued five or six years. 
 In 1840 he opened a family school in Tarrytown, N. Y. ; in 1844 
 was made principal of a seminary at Hampstead, L. I. ; in 1849 re- 
 turned to New York and again established a school for seven years. 
 He then turned his attention to lecturing on scientific subjects, chiefly 
 chemical, travelling with his apparatus through different States until 
 1869, when he was appointed to lecture for a time in Rutgers College, 
 New York, on chemistry and natural philosophy. He has since relin- 
 quished the labor of teaching, has written for the press, and in 1875 
 published a poem bearing the title " Satan Unchained," now in a second 
 edition. 
 
 Mr. Dunn has been twice married and has four children living, two 
 sons and two daughters : one son a lawyer in Minnesota, and another 
 a lawyer in New York. 
 
 Mr. Dunn has from early life maintained a Christian profession in 
 the Methodist communion. p. 
 
 Joseph Jekkins Eveleth, Augusta, 1805 ; studied law with Hon. 
 Reuel Williams of Augusta, and spent a year at the law school of 
 Judge Howe, Northampton, Mass. He then emigrated south to Wil- 
 kinson County, Miss., and engaged in his profession. "His ability," 
 writes a classmate, " integrity, and irreproachable character, his frank 
 and gentlemanly bearing, secured signal success." After four years, 
 prompted by filial aflection, he relinquished brilliant prospects and 
 returned to his native town to minister to the comfort of his parents 
 in their declining years. His kindness of heart and his steadfast 
 integrity won the confidence of his townsmen. For more than twenty 
 j'ears he was cashier of the Augusta Bank ; was also treasurer of a 
 savings bank ; at diflferent times he filled other positions of trust and 
 importance. In 1867 he travelled in Europe for a year. He was then 
 
GRADUATES. 301 
 
 employed for several j'ears in the office of the Kennebec Land and 
 Lumber Company of Augusta, and for two successive terms was 
 ma3-or of the city. In 1873 he made a second and more extensive 
 tour abroad. On his return he declined to enter again on active busi- 
 ness. Mr. Eveleth inherited a spirit of ready co-operation in what- 
 ever promotes the welfare of society and the institutions of religion. 
 He led the choir in the Congregational church for nearly twenty j'ears. 
 His generous sympathies and gentle .benevolence can be testified to by 
 the widow and orphan whom he has befriended. 
 
 . David Haley Foster was a native of Topsham. From 1830 to 
 1839 he practised law in Kennebec County, having " a respectable 
 share of business," and being " highly esteemed for his urbanity.'' 
 During the last twelve years of his life he was employed as a teacher 
 of languages and of music in the States of Virginia and Maryland. 
 In this capacity he is said to have been " highlj- popular and success- 
 ful." Late in 1851, from Berlin, Md., where he had charge of a 
 female seminary, he went in quest of health to his paternal home, and 
 there died soon after. Mr. Foster left a widow and three children. 
 
 Patrick Henry Greenleaf, born in Gray in 1808, studied law 
 with his distinguished father, Simon Greenleaf, then living in Port- 
 land, and practised in the courts of Maine about seven years. Hav- 
 ing become in 1830 a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 Mr. Greenleaf engaged with ready activitj' in church duties, and soon 
 became a conspicuous lay member. Through the Children's Guide, a 
 monthly paper which he started and published at Portland, Mr. Green- 
 leaf became known to Bishop Doane. At the suggestion and request 
 of that ardent prelate, and in conformity with a long-cherished wish, 
 he left his profession and joined the bishop at Burlington in 1835. 
 Here he became at once a student in divinity, editor of the Mission- 
 ary, editor of the Spirit of English, Magazines, and superintendent of 
 St. Mary's Sunday school. Not agreeing entirel}^ with the right rev- 
 erend doctor, and declining a nomination to the chair of languages in 
 Bristol College, Pa., Mr. Greenleaf returned to his father's in Cam- 
 bridge, and completed his studies under Bishop Griswold. He was 
 ordained deacon in 1836, and soon after became the first pastor of the 
 Church of the Ascension at Fall Eiver, Mass. From 1837 to 1841 he 
 was rector of St. John's Church, Carlisle, Tenn. ; then until 1850 of 
 St. John's in Charlestown, Mass. ; and then for three years rector of 
 St. Mark's in Boston. In 1853 Mr. Greenleaf became rector of 
 
302 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Christ Church in Madison, Ind., and in 1855 of St. Paul's, Cincin- 
 nati. In this important position Dr. Greenleaf appears to be actively 
 engaged, and prosecuting no less earnestly than in youth ^e- great 
 and useful work to which he has devoted his life. Dr. Greenleaf has 
 written much for the press, as might be shown by reference to the 
 Ptrtland Magazine, the Portland Gazette, the Maine Wesleyan Jour- 
 nal, the Episcopal Watchman, and the Mis ionary. To these may 
 be added numerous tracts and sermons, with several small volumes 
 original or edited. He was married in 1829 to Margaret, daughter of 
 Capt. W. P. Johnson of Newbur3-port, Mass. They have six chil- 
 dren : Henry L. Greenleaf is a merchant in New Orleans, married, 
 with three children ; James E., merchant in Boston, married, two chil- 
 dren: George H. is a partner of James ; Charles E., student in medi- 
 cine ; Henrietta T., wife of Rev. Charles W. Homer, Lowell, Mass., 
 three children ; Charlotte, at home. 
 
 [Mr. Greenleaf received the degree of D. D. from the University of 
 Indiana. He died in 1869. — p.] 
 
 William Hale, son of Hon. William Hale, was born at Dover, 
 N. H., Dec. 10, 1804, where he has always resided. He fitted for 
 college at Phillips Exeter Academy. After graduation he engaged 
 in the hardware business, in which, at this writing, he retains an in- 
 terest, and is well known and highly respected in this as well as other 
 relations as a business man. He was the first president of the Cocheeo 
 Railroad, and is now president of the Dover and Winnipiseogee Rail- 
 road. He represented his native town in the State Legislature in 
 1833 and 1864. p. 
 
 Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem in 1804. The family 
 came from England, and settled in Salem early in the last century. 
 The men in successive generations followed the sea. His father was 
 a ship-master, who died in Cuba of yellow fever when the son was yet 
 a child. ■ His mother " was a woman of[ great beauty and extreme 
 sensibility." At the age of ten, on account of feeble health, the boy 
 was sent to live on a farm on the borders of Sebago Lake in Maine, 
 and at the proper age was sent back to Salem to complete preparation 
 for college. In college, though singularly retiring in his habits, as 
 described by a classmate, " dwelling in unrevealed recesses which his 
 most intimate friends were never permitted to penetrate," his winning 
 countenance and igentle manners won esteem and even popularity. 
 Though fond of being present at festal scenes, " he never told a story 
 or sang a song. His voice was never heard in any shout of merri- 
 
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GRADUATES. 303 
 
 ment ; but the silent, beaming smile would testify to his keen appre- 
 ciation of the scene and to his enjojment of the wit. He would sit 
 for a whole evening xwith head gently inclined to one side, hearing 
 every word, seeing every gesture, and yet scarcely a word would pass 
 his lips. But there was an indescribable something in the silent pres- 
 ence of Hawthorne which rendered him one of the most desired guests 
 on such occasions. Jonathan Cilley was probably his most intimate 
 friend in the class ; and yet his discrimination would lead him to say, 
 ' I love Hawthorne ; I admire him : but I do not know him. He lives 
 in a mysterious world of thought and imagination which he never per- 
 mits me to enter.' " 
 
 In later years, it may here be stated, the same singular trait was 
 equally noticeable. One winter evening at the residence of Mr. 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson there was a gathering of friends, Hawthorne 
 among them, and the well-known G. W. Curtis of New York, who 
 thus refers to Hawthorne: "I, who listened to all the fine things 
 which were said, was for some time scarcely aware of a man who sat 
 upon the edge of the circle, a little withdrawn, his head slightly 
 thrown forward upon his breast, and his bright eyes clearly burning 
 under his black brow. This person, who sat silent as a shadow, 
 looked to me as Daniel Webster might have looked had he been a 
 poet. He rose and walked to the window, and stood quietlj' there 
 for a long time watching the dead white landscape. No appeal was 
 made to him ; nobody looked after him. The conversation flowed as 
 steadily on as if every one understood that his silence was to be re- 
 spected. It was the same thing at the table. In vain the silent man 
 imbibed aesthetic tea. Whatever fancies it inspired did not flower at 
 his lips. But there was a light in his eye which assured me that noth- 
 ing was lost. So supreme was his silence that it presently engrossed 
 me to the exclusion of everything else. There was brilliant discourse ; 
 but this silence was much more poetic and fascinating. Fine things 
 were said by the philosophers, but much finer things were implied by 
 the dumbness of this gentleman with heavy brows and black hair. 
 As Hawthorne retired, Mr. Emerson remarked with a smile, ■■ Haw- 
 thorne rides well his horse of the night. ' " 
 
 to return to his college life : he was a great reader, and gave indi- 
 cations of the facility and felicity so marked in subsequent years. 
 His Latin and English exercises were specially commended by his 
 teachers ; one of them certainly. Prof. Newman, being a competent 
 judge. If the writer had the gift of the pencil he could portray Haw- 
 thorne as he looked in the recitation-room of those days, eastern side 
 Maine Hail, with the same shy, gentle bearing, black, drooping, full, 
 
SO-f HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 inquisitive eye, and low, musical voice that he ever had. Little did 
 the teacher imagine what work he might be doing for the budding 
 genius near the end of that front bench, or for the other genius, even 
 then bursting into bloom, two seats back, — Longfellow, — and others 
 in that group. "Would that teachers could realize the possibilities of 
 their pupils ! 
 
 After graduation Hawthorne returned to his Salem home. He had 
 no fancy for either of the professions. ' For some time he lived a soli- 
 tary life of reading and meditation, walking out by night, passing the 
 day alone in his room, writing tales which he burned or some which 
 appeared in newspaper, magazine, or annual, " leading a wandering, 
 uncertain, and mostly unnoticed life." His classmate again records 
 what he stj'les a rumor, the accuracy of which he does not vouch for, 
 though aflSrming the truth of the main fact. "The Rev. George B. 
 Cheever became pastor of one of the Salem churches. He hunted up 
 his classmate, Hawthorne, and found him solitary and forgotten in his 
 chamber." Eecalling his promise in college, he urged him to write 
 for the press, and infused into his desponding friend somewhat of his 
 own life and spirit. Hawthorne sent an article to Goodrich, who was 
 editing an annual in Boston. Goodrich discerned the promise of his 
 genius, and sought for more contributions from his pen, and thus Haw- 
 thorne was set forth on his shining way. In 1832 he published anony- 
 mously a romance, which however he never acknowledged. Contri- 
 butions to periodicals were collected in 1837 in a volume with the title 
 " Twiee-Told Tales," of which Mr. Curtis wrote, " They are full of 
 glancing wit, of tender satire, of exquisite natural description, of 
 subtle and strange analysis of human life, darkly passionate and 
 weird." The new star was thus hailed with generous enthusiasm by 
 his classmate Longfellow in the North American Review of July, 
 1837 : " This star is but newly risen, and erelong the observations of 
 numerous star-gazers, perched upon arm-chairs and editors' tables, 
 will inform the world of its magnitude and its place in the heaven of 
 poetry ; whether it be in the paw of the Great Bear, or on the fore- 
 head of Pegasus, or on the strings of the Lyre, or in the wings of the 
 Eagle. Our own observations are as follows : To this little work we 
 would saj"-, ' Live ever, sweet, sweet book ! It comes from the hand of 
 a man of genius. Everything about it has the freshness of the morn- 
 ing and of May. These flowers and green leaves of poetry have not 
 the dust of the highway upon them. They have been gathered fresh 
 from the secret places of a peaceful and gentle heart. There flow 
 deep waters, silent, calm, and cool, and the green leaves look into 
 them and God's blue heaven. The book, though in prose, is never- 
 
GRADUATES. 305 
 
 theless written by a poet. What is worthy of mention, he never 
 wrote poetry, not even a carrier's address." * 
 
 In 1838 Mr. George Bancroft, then collector of Boston, appointed 
 Hawthorne weigher and ganger in the customs. A change of admin- 
 istration, respecting neither rising genius nor oflScial fidelity, displaced 
 him for political reasons. He then joined the association at Brook 
 Farm, Roxbury, of which he was' one of the founders. He confesses 
 to dislike of the physical labor in his " Mosses from an Old Manse" : 
 " It has been an apophthegm," he wrote, " these five thousand years, 
 that toil sweetens the bread it earns. For my part (speaking from 
 hard experience acquired while belaboring the rugged furrows of Brook 
 Farm), I relish best the free gifts of Providence." Yet he took satis- 
 faction in his small garden : ' ' My garden that skirted the avenue of 
 the Manse was of precisely the right extent. An hour or two of 
 morning labor was all that it required ; but I used to visit it a dozen 
 times a day and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable 
 progenj-, with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had 
 never taken part in the process of creation." After a few months' 
 trial of Brook Farm he returned to Boston, was soon happily married, 
 then removed to Concord and took up his abode for three years in the 
 " Old Manse," its first lay occupant, where "in the most delightful 
 little nook of a study that ever afforded its snug seclusion to a scholar," 
 in which Emerson wrote " Nature," he wrote " Mosses from an Old 
 Manse." In 1845 appeared " The Journal of an African Cruiser," by 
 Horatio Bridge of his college class, and intimate friend, which he 
 edited for the press. In 1846 another political change made Mr. Ban- 
 croft Secretary of the Navy, and by his instrumentality, Hawthorne 
 
 * The following is from Horatio Bridge, Esq., of Washington, late chief of bureau 
 of provisions and clothing, navy department, a classmate and intimate friend of Haw- 
 thorne : "It was not until 1836 that S. G. Goodrich agreed to publish a volume of 
 Hawthorne's writings, but postponed its publication from time to time until Haw- 
 thorne's friend Bridge, suspecting the cause of the delay, interposed and guaranteed 
 the publisher againstloss ;but knowing the unwillingness of Hawthorne to allow a 
 friend to assume pecuniary risk on his account, he exacted a pledge that the arrange- 
 ment should be carefully concealed from Hawthorne. Soon afterwards the book 
 came out. In his beautiful prefatory letter in ' The Snow Image,' addressed to 
 Bridge, he thus alludes to the transaction just mentioned : ' For it was through your 
 interposition, and that moreover unknown to himself, that your early friend was 
 brought before the public somewhat more prominently than theretofore in the first 
 volume of " Twice-Told Tales," ' etc. The book was well received in England as well 
 as in this country. Hawthorne became reassured, and never thereafter despaired of 
 ultimate success as an author. For some reason, however, he chose another pub- 
 lisher, and had no further business relations with Mr. Goodrich." 
 
306 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 surveyor of the port of Salem. During the years of service which 
 followed, he wrote "The Scarlet Letter," which critics extolled as 
 " exhibiting extraordinary powers of mental analysis and graphic 
 description." A second time removed from office, for like cause, 
 in 1849, he became resident at Lenox, Mass., and here wrote 
 " The House of Seven Gables," soon followed by " The Blithedale 
 Romance." His peculiar and intense individuality, it may be here 
 remarked, is shown in these, as well as all his productions ; a trait in 
 his character thus referred to as giving a prominent, perhaps the chief 
 charm to his writings, by a reviewer in the April number of the North 
 American Review for 1853: "They are, in the truest sense of the 
 word, autobiogi-aphical ; and with repeiated opportunities for cultivating 
 his acquaintance by direct intercourse, we have learned from his books 
 immeasurably more of his mental history, tastes, tendencies, sympa- 
 thies, and opinions, than we should have known had we enjoyed his 
 daily converse for a lifetime. Diffident and reserved as to the habi- 
 tudes of the outer man, yet singularly communicative and social in 
 disposition and desire, he takes his public for his confidant, and 
 betrays to thousands of eyes", likes and dislikes, whims and reveries, 
 veins of mirthful and of serious reflection, moods of feeling both 
 healthful' and morbid, which it would be beyond his power to disclose 
 through the ear, even to the most intimate of friends or the dearest 
 kindred." 
 
 " The Snow Image," " True Stories," "Wonder Book for Girls and 
 Boys," and other volumes for the young followed at different dates 
 from his fruitful pen in successive editions and alwaj's welcome to 
 youthful readers. 
 
 In 1852 Concord became his home for the remainder of his life. 
 During the Presidential campaign of that year he published a " Life 
 of Franklin Pierce," one of his few intimate friends, who was the suc- 
 ciessful candidate, and President Pierce appointed him to one of the 
 most lucrative posts in his gift, the United States consulate at Liver- 
 pool, England. 
 
 Mr. Hawthorne, having resigned his consulate in 1857, spent two 
 years in travel with his family on the Continent, residing some time in 
 Rome and Florence, and then returned to his Concord home, where he 
 lived the same sort of life he had lived before, mingling seldom in 
 village society, but ever kind, winning, welcoming friends, loving 
 the gentle river and woodlands. " The Marble Faun" was one of the 
 fruits of his Italian travel, published in 1860 ; and " Our Old Home," 
 sketches of England contributed to the Atlantic Monthly. Passages 
 from American, English, French, and Italian Note Books, are posthu- 
 
-J CBuJiro fiim a.OJi®*^'^ 
 
 HOH JOSIAR STOVEE. LITTliE 
 
 En0rw^edfi)r A^Jion'i&'Ot- ^Hem^naZ 
 
GRADUATES'. 307 
 
 mous publications, " exhibiting the same exquisite charms of style," 
 ease and grace, delicate satire and refined humor, fidelity of touch and 
 subtile insight, that characterize all his writings. " Septimius Felton ; 
 or. The Elixir of Life," a psychological romance, the scene laid in 
 Concord in 1775, was found among his papers, and was edited by a 
 daughter and published in 1872. 
 
 In the spring of 1864 to regain health, which had been failing for 
 some time, he set out on a journey through New Hampshire, accompa- 
 nied by his lifelong friend Ex-President Pierce. They reached Plymr 
 outh. Hawthorne once in a moment of weakness said that his work 
 was about done; The two occupied adjacent chambers, and parted, 
 each to rest and sleep. Not a groan was heard from Hawthorne's bed 
 during the night. At early morning the ex- President went to the bed- 
 side of his friend and found him dead. His wife, Sophia Peabody, 
 had died in London. He left two daughters and a son Julian, p. 
 
 John Dafforne Kinsman was the onlj' son of Nathan Kinsman, a 
 respectable lawyer in Portland. In 1816-17 he was my pupil, and 
 well do I remember the bright, amiable boy. He settled a lawyer in 
 his native town and practised for a while with considerable success. 
 He could speak with ease and effect ; his manners were affable, his 
 talents popular. He gave some attention to military affairs and much 
 more attention to politics. In the famous electioneering campaign of 
 1840 he took an active part, and under the administration then elected 
 became United States marshal for Maine. In 1845 he removed to 
 Wisconsin, but subsequently returned to Maine and died in 1850 at 
 Belfast, aged forty-four. Mr. Kinsman married Angela, daughter of 
 Levi Cutter. She and her son still live. 
 
 JosiAH Stover Little is a son of Michael Little, and was born in 
 Minot in 1801. In consequence of his mother's death, which immedi- 
 atelj' followed his birth, he was taken into the family of his grand- 
 father. Col. Josiah Little of Newbury, Mass., where he grew up. He 
 was early destined for business, but an accident befell him and he was 
 sent to college. To his studies, preparatory and collegiate, he gave 
 himself with an ardent and persevering ambition ; nor did he fail to 
 attain his object. To be proclaimed the best scholar in the best class 
 that had graduated at Brunswick was no mean honor. Having studied 
 the usual term in the office of Fessenden & Deblois, he practised law 
 in Portland four years and then relinquished the profession for more 
 active business. Mr Little has repeatedly represented Portland in 
 the Leo'islature, and twice at least has been Speaker of the House of 
 
308 HISTOET OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Representatives. He has been also several times a candidate for 
 Congress, tut has not yet been run by a party which had the majority. 
 In politics, a Whig while that party existed, when it broke up he pre- 
 ferred the Democrats to the Republicans ; but it is chiefly with the 
 railroad enterprise that Mr. Little has identified his exertions and 
 fortune and name. By appointment of the city in 1844 he was 
 associated with Judge Preble to present to the authorities and citizens 
 of Montreal the project of a railway communication between that 
 place and Portland. When in 1848 Judge Preble resigned the presi- 
 dency of the company, Mr. Little was chosen in his place and held 
 that office seven years. It was he who first suggested to the board of 
 directors the idea of leasing the road to the Grand Trunk Railway of 
 Canada. With all the negotiations for that lease, which has proved 
 so great a relief to the stockholders and so beneficial to the city and 
 State, he was from his official position intimately connected. Mr. 
 Little attends the Episcopal service, and has been an active contrib- 
 utor to the building and sustaining of St. Luke's Church. He was 
 married in 1833 to Miss Chamberlain, a daughter of Daniel Chamber- 
 Iain of Boston. Their daughter and only child is married. By an 
 accession of propertj' at the death of his grandfather Mr. Little was 
 early placed at his ease, and thus missed the stimulus which might 
 have pressed him forward to eminence in the forum, or which might 
 have drawn him into the more dazzling and turbulent arena of politics. 
 It is probably quite as well that things happened as they did : Mr. 
 Little's life has been neither inactive nor unuseful. 
 [Mr. Little died in 1862. — p.J 
 
 Stephen Longfellow, born in 1805 in Portland, was th,e oldest 
 son of the Hon. Stephen Longfellow. " On leaving college he entered 
 immediately on the study of the law in the office of his father. But 
 he had no fondness for this occupation ; all his thoughts and fancies 
 were centred on military aflairs. It was in the navy that his uncle 
 Henry had acquired an imperishable name ; and there another uncle, 
 the gallant Commodore Wads worth, had gained a high_ reputation and 
 was still enjoying his laurels. In the army too the example of his 
 maternal grandfather. Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, excited his enthusiasm, 
 and from his early boyhood his greatest pleasure was in drawing plans 
 of fortifications and reading of military achievements. But he sacri- 
 ficed his cherished inclinations to the wishes of his honored father, 
 who earnestly desired that his eldest son should share the burdens and 
 transmit the honors of a profession to which he was himself devotedly 
 attached and which he had highly adorned. Stephen therefore entered 
 

GRADUATES. 309 
 
 into business with his father as a partner, albeit his mind was averted 
 from its duties and responsibilities. Within a year from that time 
 — viz., in December ,*1829 — Judge Preble of Portland, having been 
 appointed ambassador extraordinary to the Hague in the matter of the 
 New England boundary, took Longfellow with him as his private 
 secretary. He returned in 1830 to the cold embraces of his profes- 
 sion, and in 1831 he was united in marriage with Mary Ann, the 
 eldest daughter of Judge Preble. By her he had six children, five 
 of whom survive, viz., Stephen, a lieutenant in the revenue service ; 
 "William P. Preble, Ellen T., Henry W., and Mary Ann. It cannot 
 be disguised that Longfellow in the profession of his life was in a 
 false position. He was unsuited by taste and temperament to the rude 
 conflicts of the forum. He was amiable, exceedingly sensitive, diffi- 
 dent of his own powers, and of a fine literary taste. His mind was 
 " quick and forgetive," his memory excellent, and he had a far greater 
 ease in acquiring knowledge than in applying it or turning it to account. 
 His fine disposition and gentlemanly manners endeared him to his 
 friends ; but like many other well-read and accomplished men of quiet, 
 retiring habits, and lively sensibility, he failed to accomplish important 
 ends in life. Had his lot been east in a more favorable sphere, a 
 different fate and a higher fame would have awaited him. He died in 
 Portland in 1850, at the age of forty-five. 
 
 'Henrt Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland in 1807, a 
 younger brother of Stephen. In his school-days when he was entering 
 on his fourteenth year, we are informed by a schoolmate, he gave 
 decided indications of poetic taste, anonymous pieces from his pen in 
 the poet's corner of a Portland newspaper having attracted atten- 
 tion. During his college life he contributed to periodicals of the time. 
 " An April Day," "Autumn," " Hymn of the Moravian Nuns," " The 
 Spirit of Poetry," " "Woods in "Winter," and " Sunrise on the Hills" 
 belong to this period, and were received with favor as " early blos- 
 soms "of a spring of promise.* An. incident of- his college days 
 is related by his classmate, J. S. C. Abbott, of interest as it had 
 important influence in determining his future career. At an annual 
 examination of his class, his fine rendering of an ode of Horace 
 attracted the notice of one of the examiners, a trustee of the college, 
 the eminent counsellor and advocate, Benjamin Orr, himself a lover of 
 
 * The editor of the United States Literary Gazette, the late James G. Carter, Esq., 
 asked me once about a young man in our college who sent them so fine poetry. It 
 was Longfellow, a Junior in the college,[a fair-haired youth, blooming with health and 
 early promise. I reported of him as one whose schdarship and character were quite 
 equal to his poetry. 
 
310 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOESr COLLEGE. 
 
 Horace. At this Commencement the professorship of modern lan- 
 guages was established, and Mr. Orr proposed the name of Long- 
 fellow for the place, referring to that examination as his warrant for 
 the young man's fitness for the position. Subsequently Mr. Longfellow 
 received the appointment with the privilege of going abroad to prepare 
 himself for his duties. He had entered his father's oflflce to study law ; 
 but his predilections were in another direction , and the flattering call from 
 the college was cheerfully accepted. He soon took passage for Europe, 
 where he spent from three to four years in Spain, France, Italy, and 
 Germany. With unusual facility in acquiring language, he faithfully 
 and successfully improved his opportunities, rare at that period, and 
 returned to assume his duties in the college in 1829, accomplished in 
 French, Italian, and German, and subsequently added rare familiarity 
 with more northern languages of Europe. 
 
 In 1835, to the great regret of his associates and the authorities of 
 Bowdoin, he accepted the professorship of French and Spanish lan- 
 guages and literature and belles-lettres at Harvard, succeeding Prof. 
 Ticknor, who had resigned the position. He again went abroad, spend- 
 ing two years in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany, the Tyrol, 
 and Switzerland. In 1842 he visited Europe the third time. Mr. 
 Longfellow was greatly esteemed and respected as an instructor during 
 his twenty-two years of service. In addition to his labors in the class- 
 room, he contributed articles to the NoMh American Review which gave 
 him reputation. During his Bowdoin professorship he published a 
 translation of the French grammar of L'Homond for his classes, 
 which passed through repeated editions. " Proverbes Dramatiques," 
 Novelas Espanolas y Coplas de Manrique," a translation of Coplas de 
 Manrique, with an essay on the moral and devotional poetry of 
 Spain, referred to by Mr. Ticknor, in his " History of Spanish Litera- 
 ture," as a " beautiful version " ; "Syllabus de la Grammaire Itali- 
 enne"; and "Outre Mer." While in the Harvard professorship he 
 gave to the world ' ' Hyperion " and ' ' Voices of the Night," which gave 
 him extended reputation ; " Ballads and other Poems " ; " Poems on 
 Slavery " ; " The Spanish Student" ; " Poets and Poetry of Europe," 
 with bjographical sketches and translations of selections from about 
 three hundred and sixty authors in ten languages, himself giving 
 versions in all but two of them ; ' ' The Belfry of Bruges and other 
 Poems " ; " The Waif and the Estray " ; " Evangeline," in hexameter, 
 — the first considerable attempt at that metre in this country, which he 
 managed with remarkable skill and success ; " Kavanagh " ; " The Sea- 
 side and Fireside " ;. " The Golden Legend," which was highly com- 
 mended by " Blackwood" and Raskin. 
 
GRADUATES. 311 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Longfellow resigned the professorship at Harvard, but 
 stiU continued his residence in Cambridge. In 1837 the historic man- 
 sion, the Craigie House, became his home, noted as the headquarters 
 of Washington, and in later j'ears the temporary residence of Presi- 
 dents Everett and Sparks. Though retired from official duties, it was 
 not to gratify a spirit of self-indulgence. In 1855 appeared what, 
 from its immense circulation, has seemed his most popular as it has 
 been pronounced his most original work, " Hiawatha." It was soon 
 translated into German. Then followed " The Courtship of Miles 
 Standish," "Tales of a Wayside Inn," "Flower de Luce," "New 
 England Tragedies," a " A Translation of the Divina Commedia of 
 Dante," " The Divine Tragedy," " Christus," " Drames et Poesies," 
 "Aftermath," and "The Hanging of the Crane." In 1875, at the 
 reunion of his class on the fiftieth anniversary of graduation, he read 
 his " Morituri Salutamus," which was received with great interest at 
 home, and was regarded in England as not inferior in conception and 
 execution to his best. This poem is published in "The Masque of 
 Pandora," 1876. At this writing several volumes of his "Poems of 
 Places " have been given to the public. 
 
 The works of Mr. Longfellow have been translated into several of 
 the languages of Europe, have passed through numerous editions 
 at home and abroad, and have called forth admirable specimens of 
 contemporary art in their illustration. Their popularity may be judged 
 from the fact stated by AUibone that in 1857 the sales of them in this 
 country alone had amounted to 325,550. Besides those collected in 
 his volumes, many have appeared in periodicals, which have not been 
 thus collected. His wide culture and unwearied industry are manifest 
 from their number and variety, the rich thought which they contain, 
 their cosmopolitan character, and the exquisite finish and the melody 
 of versification which mark all the productions of his pen. His 
 translations show unsurpassed facility in transfusing the ideas and 
 spirit of the original, and extraordinary mastery over the rhythmical 
 resources of the language. In his own and other lands and from high- 
 est sources his productions have received most cordial and discrimi- 
 nating commendation. 
 
 A critic of high reputation in Edinburgh, quoted by AUibone, thus 
 remarks : " The distinguishing qualities of Longfellow seem to be 
 beauty of imagination, delicacy of taste, wide sjnmpathy, and mild 
 earnestness, expressing themselves sometimes in forms of quaint and 
 fantastic fancy, but always in chaste and simple language. . . . One 
 of the most pleasing characteristics of this writer's works is their in- 
 tense humanity. A man's heart beats in his every line. . . . He loves, 
 
312 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 V 
 
 pities, and feels with, as well as for, his fellow human mortal. . . . 
 He is a brother, speaking to men as brothers, and as brothers they 
 are responsive to his voice." 
 
 The Irish Quarterly Review expresses its estimate of his merits : 
 "In golden harmony, mellifluous diction, and erudite polish, Long- 
 fellow can sudcessfuUy compete with our most fastidious poets ; and 
 few can surpass him in richness of fancy, imaginative capacity, and 
 elevation of thought. The admiration which his poetry must necessa- 
 rily elicit from us will be heightened considerably when we reflect 
 that this elegance and unalterable deference to the laws of beauty is 
 altogether unattended by any poverty of substance, contracted range 
 of thought, tameness in origination of idea or its embodiment. Phi- 
 losophy, and that generally of the purest and the most hopeful kind, 
 enhances the value of his poetry." 
 
 Cardinal Wiseman's estimate of him is worth a record : " There is 
 no greater l^ck in English literature than that of a poet of the people^ 
 of one who shall be to the laboring classes of England, what Goethe 
 is to the peasant of Germany. It was a true> philosopher who said, 
 ' Let me make the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its 
 laws.' There is one writer who approaches nearer than any other to 
 this standard, and has already gained such a hold on our hearts that it 
 is almost unnecessary to mention his name. Our hemisphere cannot 
 claim the honor of having brought him forth ; but still he belongs to 
 us, for his works have become as household words wherever the Eng- 
 lish language is spoken. And whether we are charmed by his imagery 
 or soothed by his melodious versification, or elevated by the moral 
 teachings of his pure muse, or follow with sympathizing hearts the 
 wanderings of Evangeline, I am sure that all who hear my voice will 
 joinme in the tribute I desire to pay to the genius of Longfellow." 
 
 In 1868-9 Mr. Longfellow revisited Europe and was received with 
 such welcome from royalty, nobles, and the cultured classes generally, 
 as few if any of his countrymen have experienced. This visit to 
 England was signalized by the highest univ^sity honors of Cambridge 
 and Oxford, each conferring on him the degree of D. C. L. 
 
 The unmingled respect and warm aflfection cherished for him were 
 pleasantly and gracefully testified on his seventieth birthdaj', Feb. 27, 
 1877, when hearty congratulations from near and distant friends 
 poured in upon him during the Aa,y. His Alma Mater expressed her 
 interest in the event by sending a greeting to her distinguished son. 
 
 At a meeting of the Faculty and students, a committee having been 
 raised for the purpose, the following note was addressed to him : — 
 
GKADTJATES. 313 
 
 The president, Faculty, and students of Bowdoin College embrace the oppor- 
 tunity to convey to Prof. Longfellow their sincere congratulations on reaching 
 his seventieth birthday. We congratulate him that from " the snowy summit 
 of his years " he may look back on a career of usefulness, honor, and fame sel- 
 dom realized ; on manifold productions of his own genius and cultured taste, 
 which are household treasures wherever the English language is spoken or 
 read; above all, that by elevation and purity of sentiment, and by tender sym- 
 pathy for the lowest no less than for the highest of his fellow-men, enshrined 
 as they are in verse of matchless simplicity and beauty, he has won for him- 
 self a home in human hearts. We would add our cordial wishes for the health 
 and happiness of Prof. Longfellow and family, and that his last days may yet 
 be his best days. 
 
 (Signed) Joshua L. Chamberlain. 
 
 Alphbus S. Packard. 
 
 Henry L. Chapman. 
 
 To which Mr. Longfellow returned the following reply : — 
 
 March 10. 
 
 Dear Mr. Chamberlain : Pardon my long delay in answering your most 
 kind and friendly letter communicating to me the resolutions of the Faculty 
 and students of Bowdoin College on my seventieth birthday ; I have been pre- 
 vented from writing sooner by an unusual amount of occupations and inter- 
 ruptions. 
 
 Believe me, I am deeply touched by these tokens of remembrance and regard, 
 and beg you to say to the Faculty and students how much I appreciate such 
 expressions of sympathy and good-will. 
 
 Nothing my birthday brought me was more agreeable or more highly valued 
 than these kind words and good wishes. They are sincerely reciprocated and 
 many fold by Yours faithfully and truly, 
 
 Henry W. Longfellow. 
 
 The winter which Mr. Longfellow spent in Holland, 1835, was sad- 
 dened by the sudden death of his wife, who was Miss Potter of Port- 
 land, and had been the companion of his travels. In 1843 he married 
 Miss Appleton of Boston. The distressing event which made him a 
 widower the second time threw a deep shadow on his charming home. 
 Two sons and three daughters are now living. 
 
 The class of 1825 had a reunion in 1^75, the fiftieth anniversary 
 of their graduation. Of the thirteen surviving members, eleven were 
 present. Their public exercises were held in the Congregational 
 Church the afternoon before Commencement, the class being seated 
 on the platform with Prof. Packard, the only survivor of their college 
 instructors. The exercises were introduced by Prof. Egbert C. Smyth 
 of the theological seminary, Andover, Mass., president of the associa- 
 tion of alumni. Prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. John S. C. Abbott 
 of the class. A poem was pronounced by Prof. Henry "Wadsworth 
 
314 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Longfellow, and an address by Rev. Dr. George Barrell Cheever. An 
 occasion so notable in the history of the college, which attracted a 
 large number of the alumni and of visitors, justifies the introduction 
 of the poem in the history of the class. p. 
 
 MOEITTIBI SALTJTAMTIS. 
 
 Tempora labuntur, tacitieque seneBcinms annis, 
 Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. 
 
 Ovid, Faatorum, Lib. vi. 
 
 " O Csesar, we who are about to die 
 Salute you ! " was the gladiators' cry 
 In the arena, standing face to face 
 "With death and with the Eoman populace. 
 
 O ye familiar scenes, — ye groves of pine, 
 That once were mine, and are no longer mine; 
 Thou river, widening through the meado'ws green 
 To the vast sea so near, and yet unseen; 
 Ye halls, in whose seclusion and repose 
 Phantoms of fame, like exhalations, rose 
 And vanished, — we who are about to die 
 Salute you; earth and air and sea and sky, 
 And the imperial sun that scatters down 
 His sovereign splendors upon grove and town. 
 
 Ye do not answer usl ye do not hear! 
 We are forgotten ; and in your austere 
 And calm indifference ye little care 
 Whe&er we come or go, or whence or where. 
 What passing generations fill these halls, 
 What passing voices echo from these walls. 
 Ye heed not; we are only as the blast, '" 
 A moment heard, and then forever past. 
 
 Not so the teachers who in earlier, days 
 
 Led our bewildered feet through learning's maze; 
 
 They answer us — alasl what have I said'? 
 
 What greetings come there from the voiceless dead? 
 
 What salutation, welcome, or reply? 
 
 What pressure from the hands that lifeless lie? 
 
 They are no longer here; they all are gone 
 
 Into the land of shadows, — all save one. 
 
 Honor and reverence, and the good repute 
 
 That follows faithful service as its fruit, 
 
 Be unto him whom livins; we salute. 
 
GEADUATES. 315 
 
 The great Italian poet, when he made 
 
 His dreadful journey to the realms of shade, 
 
 Met there the old instructor of his youth. 
 
 And cried, in tones of pity and of ruth: 
 
 " Oh, never from the memory of my heart 
 
 Your dear, paternal image shall depart, 
 
 Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised, 
 
 Taught me how mortals are immortalized; 
 
 How grateful am I for that patient carfe. 
 
 All my life long my language shall declare." 
 
 To-day we make the poet's words our own, 
 
 And utter them in plaintive undertone : 
 
 Nor to the living only be they said, 
 
 But to the other living called the dead, 
 
 Whose dear, paternal images appear 
 
 Not wrapped in gloom, but jobed in sunshine here; 
 
 Whose simple lives, complete and without flaw. 
 
 Were part and parcel of great Nature's law; 
 
 Who said not to their Lord, as if afraid, 
 
 " Here is thy talent in a napkin laid," 
 
 But labored in their sphere, as those who live 
 
 In the delight that work alone can give. 
 
 Peace be to them; eternal peace and rest, 
 
 And the fulfilment of the great behest: 
 
 " Ye have been faithful over a few things, 
 
 Over ten cities shall ye reign as kings." 
 
 And ye who fill the places we once filled, 
 
 And follow in the furrows that we tilled, 
 
 Young men, whose generous hearts are beating high, 
 
 We who are old, and are about to die. 
 
 Salute you; hail you; take your hands in ours, 
 
 And crown you with our welcome as with flowers! 
 
 How beautiful is youth I how bright its gleams 
 With its illusions, aspirations, dreams I 
 Book of beginnings, story without end, 
 Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! 
 Aladdin's Lamp, and Fortunatus' Purse 
 That holds the treasures. of the universe! 
 All possibilities are in its hands, 
 No danger daunts it; and no foe withstands; 
 In its sublime audacity oi faith, 
 " Be thou removed! " it to the mountain saith, 
 And with ambitious feet, secure and proud. 
 Ascends the ladder leaning on the cloud! 
 
316 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 As ancient Priam at the Sciean gate 
 
 Sat on the walls of Troy in regal state 
 
 "With the old men, too old and weak to fight, 
 
 Chirping like grasshoppers in their delight 
 
 To see the embattled hosts, with spear and shield, 
 
 Of Trojans and Achaians in the field; 
 
 So from the snowy summits of our years 
 
 We see you in the plain, as each appears, 
 
 And question of you: asking, " VVhois he 
 
 That towers above the others? Which may be 
 
 Atreides, Menelaus, Odysseus, 
 
 Ajax the great, or bold Idomeneus? " 
 
 Let him not boast who puts his armor on 
 As he who puts it off, the battle, done. 
 Study yourselves; and most of all note well 
 Wherein kind Nature meant you to excel. 
 Not every blossom ripens into fruit: 
 Minerva, the inventress of the flute, 
 Flung it aside, when she her face surveyed 
 Distorted in a fountain as she played; 
 The unlucky Marsyas found it, and his fate 
 Was one to make the bravest hesitate. 
 
 Write on your doors the saying wise and old, 
 " Be boldl be boldl and everywhere be bold; 
 Be not too bold I " Yet better the excess 
 Than the defect ; better the more than less ; 
 Better like Hector in the field to die. 
 Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly. 
 
 And now, my classmates, — ye remaining few 
 That number not the half of those we knew; 
 Ye against whose familiar names not yet 
 The fatal asterisk of death is set, — 
 Ye I salute I The horologe of Time 
 Strikes the half-century with a solemn chime. 
 And summons us together once again. 
 The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain. 
 
 Where are the others? Voices from the deep 
 ■ Caverns of darkness answer me, " They sleep! " 
 I name no names; instinctively I feel 
 Each at some well-remembered grave will kneel. 
 And from the inscription wipe the weeds and moss, 
 For every heart best knoweth its own loss. 
 I see the scattered gravestones gleaming white 
 Through the pale dusk of the impending night; 
 
GRADUATES. 
 
 O'er all alike the impartial sunset throws 
 
 Its golden lilies mingled with the rose ; 
 
 We give to all a tender thought, and pass 
 
 Out of the graveyards with their tangled grass, 
 
 Unto these scenes frequented by our feet 
 
 When we were young, and life was fresh and sweet. 
 
 What shall I say to you? What can I say 
 Better than silence is? When I survey 
 This throng of faces tQrned to meet my own, 
 Friendly and fair and yet to me unknown. 
 Transformed the very landscape seems to be; 
 It is the same, yet not the same to me. 
 So many memories crowd upon my brain, 
 So many ghosts are in the wooded plain, 
 I fain would steal away, with noiseless tread, 
 As from a house where some one lieth dead. 
 
 I cannot go: I pause; I hesitate; 
 My feet reluctant linger at the gate ; 
 A s one who struggles in a troubled dream 
 To speak and cannot, to myself I seem. 
 
 Vanish the dream 1 Vanish the idle fears! 
 
 Vanish the rolling mists of fifty years! 
 
 Whatever time or space may intervene, 
 
 I will not be a stranger in this scene. 
 
 Here every doubt, all indecision ends; 
 
 Ilail, my companions, comrades, classmates, friendsl 
 
 Ah me! the fifty years since last we met 
 Seem to me fifty folios bound and set 
 By Time, the great transcriber, on his shelves. 
 Wherein are written the histories of ourselves. 
 What tragedies, what comedies, are there; 
 What joy and grief, what rapture and despair! 
 What chronicles of triumph and defeat. 
 Of struggle and temptation and retreat! 
 What records of regrets and doubts and fears! 
 What pages blotted, blistered by our tears! 
 What lovely landscapes on the margin shine. 
 What sweet, angelic faces, what divine 
 And holy images of love and trust, 
 Undimmed by age, unsoiled by damp or dust! 
 V^'hose hand shall dare to open and explore 
 These volumes, closed and clasped forevermore? 
 Not mine: with reverential feet I pass; 
 I hear a voice that cries, " Alas! alas! 
 
 317 
 
318 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Whatever hath been written shall remain, 
 Nor be erased nor written o'er again; 
 The unwritten only still belongs to thee; 
 Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be." 
 
 As children frightened by a thunder-cloud 
 
 Are reassured if some one reads aloud 
 
 A tale of wonder, with enchantment fraught, 
 
 Or wild adventure, that diverts their thought, 
 
 Let me endeavor with a tale to chase 
 
 The gathering shadows of the time and place. 
 
 And banish what we all too deeply feel 
 
 Wholly to say, or wholly to conceal. 
 
 In mediaeval Rome, I know not where, 
 
 There stood an image with its arm in air, 
 
 And on its lifted finger, shining clear, 
 
 A golden ring with the device, " Strike here! " 
 
 Greatly the people wondered, though none guessed 
 
 The meaning that thejse words but half expressed, 
 
 Until a learned clerk, who at noonday, 
 
 With downcast eyes, was passing on his way, 
 
 Paused, and observed, the spot, a6d marked it well, 
 
 Whereon the shadow of the finger fell; 
 
 And coming back at midnight, delved and found 
 
 A secret stairway leading under ground. , 
 
 Down this he passed into a spacious hall, 
 
 Lit by a flaming jewel on the wall; 
 
 And opposite a brazen statue stood. 
 
 With bow and shaft in threatening attitude. 
 
 Upon its forehead, like a coronet. 
 
 Were these mysterious words of menace set: 
 
 " That which I am, I am; my fatal aim 
 
 None can escape, not even yon luminous flame! " 
 
 Midway the hall was a fair table placed, 
 
 With cloth of gold, and golden cups enchased 
 
 With rubies, and the plates and knives were gold, , 
 
 And gold the bread and viands manifold. 
 
 Around it, silent, motionless, and sad, 
 
 Were seated gallant knights in armor clad. 
 
 And ladies beautiful with plume and zone. 
 
 But they were stone, their hearts within were stone; 
 
 And the vast hall was filled in every part 
 
 With silent crowds, stony in face and heart. 
 
 Long at the scene, bewildered and amazed, 
 The trembling clerk in speechless wonder gazed; 
 Then from the table, by his greed made bold, 
 He seized a goblet and a knife of gold, 
 
GEADUATES. 319 
 
 And suddenly from their seats the guests upsprang, 
 The vaulted ceiling with loud clamors rang, 
 The archer sped his arrow at their call, 
 Shattering the lamhent jewel on the wall, 
 And all was dark around and overhead; — 
 Stark on the floor the luckless clerk lay dead I 
 
 The writer of this legend then records 
 Its ghostly application in these words : 
 The image is the Adversary old. 
 Whose beckoning finger points to realms of gold; 
 Our lusts and passions are the downward stair 
 That leads the soul from a diviner air; 
 The archer, Death; the flaming jewel, Life; 
 Terrestrial goods, the goblet and the knife; 
 The knights and ladies, all whose flesh and bone 
 By avarice have been hardened into stone; 
 The clerk, the scholar whom the love of pelf 
 Tempts from his books and from his nobler self. 
 
 The scholar and the worldl The endless strife, 
 
 The discord in the harmonies of life ! 
 
 The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, 
 
 And all the sweet serenity of books; 
 
 The market-place, the eager love of gain, 
 
 Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain! 
 
 But why, you ask me, should this tale be told 
 To men grown old or who are growing old? 
 
 It is too late! Ah, nothing is too late 
 
 Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. 
 
 Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles 
 
 Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Simonides 
 
 Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers. 
 
 When each had numbered more than fourscore years; 
 
 And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten. 
 
 Had but begun his Characters of Men. 
 
 Chaucer, at Woodstock with the 'nightingales. 
 
 At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; 
 
 Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, 
 
 Completed Faust when eighty years were-past. 
 
 These are indeed exceptions,; but they show 
 
 How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow 
 
 Into the arctic regions of our lives. 
 
 Where little else than life itself survives. 
 
320 HISTOEY OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 As the barometer foretells the storm 
 
 While still the skies are clear, the weather warm, 
 
 So something in us, as old age draws near, 
 
 Betrays the pressure of the atmosphere. 
 
 The nimble mercury, ere we are aware. 
 
 Descends the elastic ladder of the air; 
 
 The telltale blood in artery and vein 
 
 Sinks from its higher levels in the brain; 
 
 Whatever poet, orator, or sage 
 
 May say of it, old age is still old age. 
 
 It is the waning, not the crescent mooo, 
 
 The dusk of evening, not the blaze of noon: 
 
 It is not strength, but weakness; not desire, 
 
 But its surcease; not the fierce heat of fire. 
 
 The burning and consuming element. 
 
 But that of ashes and of embers spent, 
 
 In which some living sparks we still discern. 
 
 Enough. to warm, but not enough to burn. 
 
 What then? Shall we sit idly down and say, — 
 The night hath come; it is no longer day? 
 The night hath not yet come; we are not quite 
 Cut off from labor by the failing light. 
 Something remains for us to do or dare; 
 Even the oldest tree some fruit may bear: 
 Not CEdipus Coloneus, or Greek Ode, 
 Or tales of pilgrims that one morning rode 
 Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, 
 But other something, would we but begin; 
 For age is opportunity no less 
 Than youth itself, though in another dress. 
 And as the evening twilight fades away. 
 The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. 
 
 Alfred Maktin was a native of Hallowell, where after his gradua- 
 tion he studied law with William Clark. " He settled in Winthrop, 
 was a good lawyer, had begun well and Jbade fair to become highly 
 respectable, but consumption carried him off- in 1831." 
 
 Alfred Mason was born in Portsmouth, N. H., where his father, 
 the justly celebrated Jeremiah Mason, then lived. His mother, a lady 
 still living and belSved, was a daughter of Col. David Means of 
 Amherst, N. H. Dr. Abbott of Exeter trained him for college. At 
 Brunswick in a class of rare ability he exerted a commanding influ- 
 ence, due not only to his noble and generous nature, but to his liter- 
 ary and scientific acquisitions. He selected the medical profession, 
 
GRADUATES. 321 
 
 for which his taste and talents alike fitted him. Under Dr. Pierre- 
 pont of Portsmouth and other instructors and in the best medical 
 schools of the country, he pursued his object with great ardor and 
 success. He had passed through the course prescribed, and deemed 
 himself fortunate in obtaining a position as assistant in the New York 
 Bellevue Hospital. But he had breathed its contagious air only a few 
 weeks when he was himself cut down. Such was the rapidity of the 
 fever that his familj' were unable to reach him before he died. He 
 was twenty -four years old. From the oral testimony of many who 
 knew and loved him, I have always been led to think of him as one 
 who, had time and opportunity been given, would have shone even 
 among the brilliant names of the year 1825. An address occasioned 
 by his death was delivered by Dr. C. A. Cheever in the Forensic Hall 
 at Portsmouth, and now lies before me in pamphlet form. This 
 address and several obituary notices which appeared from different 
 hands and in different places confirm the impressions otherwise re- 
 ceived. Especially interesting is the tribute of his classmate George 
 W. Pierce, a young man of kindred worth, but destined soon to fol- 
 low him, whom he so well depicted and so truly mourned. A few 
 extracts from this notice will do something toward reviving the mem- 
 ory of both : " Those who are wont to form their estimate of scholar- 
 ship by observing the displays of the recitation form, and who point 
 to the order of exercises as to a magic scale whereon every degree of 
 intellectual character is nicely graduated and accurately ascertained, 
 will hardly believe that a young man who possessed an ascendant 
 influence injiis class, who was generally acknowledged first in general 
 information and indisputably first in natural science, and who pos- 
 sessed t6e most happy and impressive manner of communicating what 
 he knew, — they will hardly believe that such a one should not have 
 received the highest collegiate distinctions. The mystery is to be 
 solved, not by pointing out any moral blemishes or meutal defects, 
 but by the existence of rare excellences which will long be remem- 
 bered with a kind of admiration by his classmates and instructors, 
 and which invested him with a beautiful and moral elevation of char- 
 acter. Very early in college life Mason came to the conclusion that 
 the recitation-rOom was at best but a doubtful and limited field for 
 the exercise and development of talents, and he was endowed with a 
 noble and self-denying disposition that would not permit him to con- 
 tend for objects which he deemed, of inferior worth, however high they 
 might stand in the estimation of others. He discovered in boyhood 
 a decided partialitj^ for natural science, and as he increased in years it 
 ripened into the mo'st devoted and exclusive attachment. He flung his 
 
322 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 arms around her inanimate form, and lilce Pygmalion's statue, nature 
 grew into life and beauty and intelligence beneath his warm embrace. 
 Neither mathematics nor poetry, politics nor pleasure, could shake his 
 constancy or estrange his love from those charms that won his youth- 
 ful heart. . . . When the light of a bright and joyous morning is 
 quenched in an early storm, we sigh not only for the beauty that has 
 departed, but we sigh to think what its beautj^ would have been. 
 "When a bitter frost cuts off the budding promise of the year, we 
 mourn for summers gay livery and autumn's golden stores. When, 
 therefore, the storm of disease has quenched the brighter dawning of 
 genius, when the bitter frost of death has nipped the budding glories 
 of intellect, shall not the wounded spirit outrun its immediate calam- 
 ity and weep over the ruin of well-grounded anticipations ? It is no 
 less an act of justice to say what Mason would have been, than to 
 speak of what he was whUe living. . . . Patriarchs in science, whose 
 increasing years gave warning that the places which had known them 
 should soon know theiii no more, cast their eyes upon him as one of 
 those favored young men who might be called to fill the high places 
 which thej' occupied and on whom their descending mantles might fall. 
 It was the language of one whose commendation of itself is fame, 
 that ' of all his pupils he ha:d never known one whose prospects for 
 eminence were fairer than Mason's.' " He then dwells a moment on 
 his friend's "sympathy for distress in every form, whether real or 
 imaginary, mental or bodily," and fancies the almost fortunate sick- 
 chamber that might have been cheered by so much skill and such 
 manly tenderness: "He would have hung round the bedside, turn- 
 ing the heated pillow, shutting out the too brilliant light, a;id care- 
 fully administering those minor comforts which rarely fall from the 
 hand of skilful eminence. . . . He was very remarkable for his con- 
 versational powers. In a class the largest that had ever graduated from 
 Bowdoin, and certainly not deficient in wit or attainments, he was 
 acknowledged the first talker. Of all the men I ever knew, he had the 
 greatest love for truth, and showed the most intrepid perseverance in 
 its pursuit. . . . No man could long remain in his company without 
 being let into a discovery of what important information he possessed. 
 But while his deep, sagacious, and pointed queries * formed easy and 
 delightful avenues for the egress of substantial truth and real knowl- 
 edge, they opened before the eyes of aspiring ignorance and shallow 
 pedantry like so many gaping pits of destruction. . . . His good 
 
 * Those who knew the father can easily understand how the young man came by 
 this trait. 
 
GRADUATES. 323 
 
 breeding was of higher descent, and his powers of pleasing rested on 
 a surer foundation than, mere companionable qualities. With the 
 greatest kindness and generosity of nature he united the most manly 
 firmness and the noblest principles of honor, and the most lively and 
 social disposition with the gentlest and warmest affections." 
 
 Frederic Mellen was a son of the distinguished jurist, Chief Jus- 
 tice Mellen, and younger brother of Grenville Mellen, who had repu- 
 tation as a poet. The following extract from an obituary notice is 
 given b}' Mr. E. P. Weston : " With a native character of great suav- 
 ity, simplicity, and instinctive correctness of moral sentiment, an 
 intuitive perception of poetic beauty, and peculiar quickness of ap- 
 prehension and susceptibility to the influences under which he was 
 reared from infancy, and imbibing at home the purest principles of 
 virtue, he seasonablj^ received the advantages of an education at Bow- 
 doia College, which nourished a love of classic and polished literature, 
 and enabled him to cultivate those powers with which he was gifted, 
 with an upward aim to excel in whatever belonged to mental or pro- 
 fessional accomplisliment. A pervading taste for one favorite art 
 early discovered, and displaying a peculiar aptitude for the finest 
 combinations of forms and colors, — the art of painting, — obtained 
 the mastery of his pursuits and purposes, and he bade fair to arrive 
 at distinction in the most elegant branches of this polite department. 
 He also possessed a very delightful and delicate poetic talent. A 
 number of gems have been preserved among the choicest and sweetest 
 which grace the annuals." Three pieces by Mr. Mellen given in the 
 volume of the " Bowdoin Poets " seem to justify this praise. He died 
 in 1834. 
 
 Mark Haskell Newman was a younger brother of Prof. Newman. 
 After graduation he lived awhile in Amherst, Mass., where he sold 
 books and let horses to the students, and where he married a Miss 
 Dickinson. He next went into business in Andover as a publisher 
 and seller of books, at first with his father and afterwards with Flagg 
 and Gould. A few years later he removed to New York, where the 
 business was continued and greatly extended. Though not specially 
 literary he was a good judge of books, sofar at least as their salable- 
 ness was concerned, and as a natural result he was highly prospered. 
 A painful disorder which for many years scarcely left to him an hour 
 of ease was seldom deemed by him a suflScient reason for omitting 
 any personal or social duty. He is said by his friend, the Rev. Dr. 
 Badger of New York, to have been " a man of consistent character 
 
324 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 and piet^, really benevolent, without display." He continued to work 
 almost to the day of his death, which occurred in 1852. His wife's 
 decease preceded his own. After providing quite moderately for his 
 five children, of whom four were daughters, he devised the bulk of 
 his handsome estate to missionary societies. 
 
 Hezekiah Packakd, brother of Alpheus S. (see 1816), was born 
 in 1805 ; taught in Warren ; chose phj'sic and studied two years ; pre- 
 sided over Saco Academy eight years ; taught Portland boys (a pri- 
 vate school) eight years, and Portland girls for thirteen years more. 
 This veteran teacher and worthy man, compelled by ill health to aban- 
 don a work which he loved, is now a bookseller in Portland. "His 
 liteVary attainments, his cordial manners, and his unswerving integ- 
 rity made him universally popular." The bronchial affection which 
 had driven him from the school-room pursued him with relentless 
 severity until his death in 1867. He was for several years an active 
 member and an officer of the Congregational Church. His wife, whom 
 he married in 1833, was Charlotte Montgomery of Haverhill, N. H. 
 They have had a son and a daughter. 
 
 George Washington Pierce, born in 1805 at Baldwin, was the 
 eleventh and youngest child of Josiah and Phebe Pierce. His father, 
 born in Wobum, Mass., and half-brother of Benjamin Thompson 
 (Count Rumford) by the mother's second marriage, was the great- 
 great-grandson of John Pierce of Wobum, born in 1643. It is not 
 certain whether John Pierce of London, the grantee in trust of Wil- 
 liam Bradford and his associates of the first Plymouth charter, was 
 the father or grandfather of the ancestor last named. Mrs. Phebe 
 Pierce was a daughter of Daniel Thompson, who at the fight of Lex- 
 ington was shot through the heart by a retreating British soldier. 
 George Wasfiington Pierce " from his earliest childhood was remark- 
 able for an ardent temperament, a desire for noble distinction, for 
 lively fancy and quick intelligence, for 'prepossessing manners and 
 social tact, for becoming the especial favorite of his old friends and 
 for easily gaining new ones." He was prepared for college partly in 
 the academies of Fryeburg and Saco, and partly at home under the 
 tuition of Mr. Joseph Howard, now judge of the Supreme Court of 
 Maine. His chum throughout the college course was the Rev. David 
 Shepley. "As a member of the Peucinian Society he diligently im- 
 proved its opportunities for debate and practice in writing, and among 
 the many Bowdoin students of that day, since so distinguished at the 
 bar, in the pulpit, and in general literature, as writers and speakers, 
 
GRADUATES. 325 
 
 he was soon acknowledged eminent for ability in discussion and for 
 vigor and elegance in composition. He observed strictly the maxim 
 of Apelles, ' Nulla dies sine linea,' in permitting no day to pass with- 
 out studiously writing at least a page on some subject of present 
 interest. Although he ranked well in the recitation-room, he became 
 a greater proficient in the libraries, and was doubtless a more earnest 
 student of the English classics than of the college text-books. Being 
 among the youngest of his class, and ver^' social, active, and mirthful, 
 he was a loved and constant companion in the joyous and open-hearted 
 intercourse of college gayety and sports, but wisely and fortunately 
 avoided college disgrace, and was graduated honorably." His Com- 
 mencement exercise was a " Discussion" with George B. Cheever, 
 and the two disputants were thought to be well mated. "After leav- 
 ing college he never ceased to manifest a worthy and reciprocated 
 attachment and respect for the officers and the fellow-graduates of his 
 Alma Mater." He chose the law. One j'ear of the required period 
 was passed at Gorham in the office of his brother Josiah, part of 
 another year in Portland with Mr. Longfellow, and more than a year at 
 the law school in Northampton, Mass. "At Northampton Frank Pierce 
 of the preceding class (now President) was his room-mate, fellow- 
 student, and most intimate friend. The learned and clear-minded 
 Judge Howe was his instructor, and encouraged him with many 
 marked expressions of interest and praise. A refined society, of 
 which the historian George Bancroft, residing at Round Hill, was a 
 leader and example, admitted him to the communion of its courtesies 
 and enjoyments." He passed the spring and summer'of 1828 at his 
 brother's house in Gorham, an invalid but an active one. It was a 
 time of warm political confiict. The Presidential canvass was pend- 
 ing ; Mr. Pierce advocated the election of Gen. Jackson, and "no one 
 wrote ,more circulars, or spoke at more caucuses, or communicated 
 more articles to the newspapers than he did." In looking for a place 
 to settle, the great "West seemed most strongly to invite him, and he 
 determined to go and see for himself. Taking "Washington on his way 
 he remained there several weeks. "His letters to his friends at this 
 time are filled with most animated and graphic descriptions of the 
 men he met and heard, -:- of Clay and Calhoun and McDuffle and 
 Adams and John Randolph, — of his conversations with them, of 
 their personal appearance and manners, of the Congress generally, 
 the Capitol, the city, and Mt. Vernon, which he visited with deep 
 emotion." His Western tour was extended to St. Louis. In April 
 he returned from the slow, difficult, and sometimes dangerous journey, 
 quite willing to be governed by the friends who advised and besought 
 
326 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 him to stay where he was. In July, 1829, he opened an office in 
 Portland. " After thus committing himself to his profession, distinc- 
 tion in it became the chief object of his care. He read law diligently, 
 and never ceased to do so while he lived. He admired physical 
 accomplishments and acquired some skill in fencing, boxing, and other 
 manly exercises ; became tolerably versed in the French language, 
 and was a prominent actor in the literarj' society of the town. He 
 had already become known to the Democratic party in the vicinity as 
 a ready and able writer, and the services of his pen were soon desired 
 and freely given for political articles in the Portland Argus, the chief 
 journal of that party in Maine. Newspapers of that day, and indeed 
 during both terms of Gen. Jackson's administration, were savage in 
 their attacks on men and measures connected with the hotly disputed 
 questions between the two great parties. It was a time of revolution- 
 ary excitement throughout the world ; of intense discord in the United 
 States regarding the bank, the tariff, internal improvements, and the 
 right of secession, to which was added extraordinary local agitation 
 in Maine upon the negotiations respecting the northeastern boundary, 
 and from the new current of speculation in her State lands. Mr. 
 Pierce was an unceasing contributor to the Argus in these contro- 
 versies, and once so enlisted he could no't withdraw from it. The 
 applause of his party, his warm personal feelings, his facility in 
 writing, the necessity of defending positions he had taken, secured 
 him and made him well known as a political disputant. . . . Many 
 young men of great ability who have since attained high national dis- 
 tinction were then in Maine as rivals or opponents ; and the leading 
 Whig journal was then edited by the Hon. James Brooks, now of the 
 New York Express, with his well-known ability in the keenest opposi- 
 tion to the Argus. 
 
 "Thus led into political strife, Mr. Pierce continued actively en- 
 gaged in all the public movements of the Democrats in his county dur- 
 ing the years 1831 and 1832. At their caucus meetings, conventions, 
 and festivities, he was constantly in requisition for speeches, resolutions, 
 etc. On the 4th of July, 1832, at a great Democratic celebration he 
 delivered the oration." But amid all this he endeavored to give " his 
 best thoughts and work to his profession." In September, after a 
 warm contest, he was elected a representative to the Legislature. In 
 November " he married Anne Longfellow, daughter of his former 
 instructor and sister of his classmates, and at once began house- 
 keeping." During the session of the Legislature he was constant in 
 attendance and active and useful. One speech in particular on the 
 " South Carolina Eesolutions " was thought to be very able. In March, 
 
GRADUATES. 327 
 
 1833, he was appointed county attorney for Cumberland and entered 
 at once upon the duties of the office. At the following city municipal 
 election he was chosen a common councilman. Such was his popu- 
 larity that the Democrats insisted on again sending him to the Legis- 
 lature : he resigned, not without reluctance, the county attorneyship, 
 and was elected by a large majority. After another busy and useful 
 winter at the seat of government he returned to Portland, quite re- 
 solved " to give himself thenceforward strictly to his profession and 
 to the beneficial influences of his happy and refined home. His legal 
 practice increased and extended to all the courts, but he most esteemed 
 and sought the liberal and less technical system of civil law in the 
 Admiralty Court. Evidences of his industry and abilitj* may be seen 
 in the law reports of the time. Sometimes he appears to have relieved 
 the severe labors of his profession by literary writing for the magazines. 
 Late in the summer of 1835 the Argus was enlivened by a series of 
 lettei's from his pen, descriptive of a northern journey in which he was 
 accompanied by his wife and her parents. At that time Canada and 
 the White Mountains were not quite so familiar as they are now. . . . 
 • On the 14th of October he was appointed reporter of the decisions of 
 the Supreme Court of Maine, an important and then a lucrative office. 
 . . . His reputation as a lawyer, as an influential and public-spirited 
 citizen had become well and widely established. Conscious of matured 
 abilities and accomplishments, certain of devoted political and per- 
 sonal friends, of a dignifled and pleasant professional position, and of 
 means to secure him from want, and secure in the possession of sooth- 
 ing and ennobling domestic life, he was now suddenly cut off by death, 
 — making an impression so striking and sad of bereavement to his 
 friends and of loss to the whole society of which he was a part that it 
 has never yet changed its hue. He was attacked with typhus fever, 
 and after a painful illness of four weeks died on the fifteenth day of 
 November." For the preceding sketch (slightly abbreviated in parts), 
 I am indebted to Josiah Pierce, Jr., Esq., a nephew of George W. 
 Pierce, and now secretary of legation in the United States embassy at 
 St. Petersburg. 
 
 Edwakd Deering- Prbple was the only child of Commodore 
 Edward Preble and Mary, only daughter of Nathaniel Deering of 
 Portland. In the' summer of 1807, when the whole nation mourned 
 the premature death of his heroic father, Edward D. was but a year 
 old. The mother survived her son, dying in 1851 at the advanced age 
 of eighty-one years. 
 
 ' ' Young Preble was prepared for college principally at the Portland 
 
328 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Academy, under the tuition of Master Cushman. On leaving college, 
 at the age of nineteen, he formed a connection in mercantile business 
 with his relative Nathaniel F. Deering ; but the details of trade and 
 the drudgery of business had no charms for him, and he returned to 
 literary pursuits which were more congenial to his tastes and habits. 
 To indulge these more freely he broke away from business connections 
 and sought recreation and intellectual improvement in foreign travel. 
 In 1828 he became matriculated as a member of the University of 
 Gottingen. Here he devoted himself diligently to the study of 
 languages, of science, and philosophy. After an absence of over two 
 years he returned and entered the office of the Hon. Charles S. Daveis 
 as a student at law. He did this, not with a view to make law his 
 profession, but for the purpose of general cultivation, to dignify his 
 leisure hours, and to have the benefit of the example and guidance of 
 the able counsellor and excellent scholar with whom he wisely asso- 
 ciated himself. What many young persons consider a favorable cir- 
 cumstance in life was to Mr. Preble, as it has been to countless others, 
 its greatest evil. He was born to a fortune which, however, he did 
 not live to possess ; but the expectation of it, and the gratification of 
 every desire, paralyzed exertion, rendered him versatile, morbid, and 
 unhappy. With talents capable of high achievement, with consider- 
 able literary attainment, he failed of accomplishing anything useful 
 by irresolution and want of a settled purpose of action." In a brief 
 obituary notice published soon after his death, Mr. Daveis, who knew 
 him intimately, thus speaks : " He was a gentleman in every sense, — 
 of great courtesy and urbanitj' in his demeanor, although rather shun- 
 ning than seeking the intercourse of general society ; and though thus 
 failing to fill up the sphere for which he seemed qualified, he "was not 
 only distinguished for the acquirements he had made in those pursuits 
 to which he was most devoted, but he was no less fond of promoting 
 their cultivation and improvement in the daily paths of his fellow- 
 citizens." 
 
 "In 1833 Mr. Preble married Soph*a E. Wattles, daughter of 
 Nathaniel Wattles, Esq., of Alexandria, Va., by whom he had one 
 son bearing the same name, and two daughters, all of whom, with 
 their mother, survive. He died Feb. 12, 1846, at the age of forty." 
 
 CuLLEN Sawtelle, bom at Norridgewock in 1805, studied law and 
 opened an office in Norridgewock, was made register of probate, and 
 being a popular man was sent to Congress for four years. For sev- 
 eral years past he has been connected in some way with a mercantile 
 house in the city of New York, his residence being' at Englewood, 
 
GRADUATES. 329 
 
 David Sheplet was a son of Daniel and Eunice (Blood) Shepley 
 of Solon. He graduated at the age of twenty-one, went through the 
 Andover School of Theology, and was settled in 1829 as the successor 
 of Asa Cummings at North Yarmouth. After a faithful ministry of 
 twenty years, during which the church and congregation received 
 large accessions, he left North Yarmouth, and was resettled (1851) 
 in Winslow. After twenty years of useful and honored labor in 
 Winslow, he retired from the active duties of the ministry and 
 removed to Providence, R. I., where he now resides. His name is 
 cherished with high respect and warm affection for his active sj-mpa- 
 thy, his excellent judgment, calm wisdom, unflinching integrity and 
 firmness, and steadfast devotion to truth and the duties of his high 
 calling. He- was for several years an overseer of the college, and for 
 ten years on its Board of Trustees. In 1868 the college honored him 
 with the degree of Doctor of Divinity. His wife, Mj'ra Nott (married 
 in 1830), was of Saybrook, Conn., where her great-grandfather, Eev. 
 Abraham Nott, was the first minister of Pettipaug. They have had 
 six children, of whom two are not living. A daughter is the wife of 
 Mr. ^Charles Parsons, merchant in Savannah, and at this writing a 
 broker in New York. Another daughter was a teacher in the semi- 
 nary, Blairsville, Pa., under Eev. S. H. Shepley, and subsequently in 
 Brooklj'n, N. Y. ; and a third is in the home at Providence, where 
 also a son resides. 
 
 [Dr. Shepley died in Providence Dec. 1, 1881. — p. J 
 
 Charles Snell, born in Winthrop in 1805, was a Monmouth 
 Academy scholar, and entered a Sophomore. His father. Dr. Issa- 
 char Snell, taught him medicine. After five years given to his pro- 
 fession in Augusta he settled in Bangor, where he has seen a fine city 
 and a valuable practice grow up around him. I believe he is a good 
 doctor, but I cannot praise him as a correspondent. Of several chil- 
 dren by his wife, Charlotte R. Palmer of Waterville, one daughter 
 alone survives. 
 
 [Dr. Snell died at Bangor in 1868. — p.] 
 
 William Stone was born in Livermore in 1804. An obituary 
 notice in a newspaper states that " for fifty years he was a public 
 man of Southern Mississippi, and for seventeen of them a representa- 
 tive in both houses of the Legislature, also judge of the Circuit Court. 
 The greatest grief of his later days was being prevented by sickness 
 from attending the meeting of the survivors of his class at Bruns- 
 wick in 1875." He died at Hazelhurst, Copiah County, Miss., 
 November, 1877. p. 
 
330 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Edward Joseph Vose of Augusta was from a family which sent 
 several sons to Brunswick, all good. He read law in Worcester, Mass., 
 with Governor Davis, and there opened an office. " But consumption, 
 which attacked him during his Senior year in college, rendered him 
 unfit for professional life, and he died in 1831, about three years after 
 being admitted to practice, at the age of twenty-four. He was 
 regarded by his friends as a young man of uncommonly fine promise." 
 His widow, originally Miss Burling of Worcester, is now the wife of 
 Rev. Thomas S. Vail of Westerly, R. I. He left also a son, Edward 
 J., now living in Westerly, and a daughter who is the ■(vife of Dr. 
 Burge of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Eugene Weld was born in Boston. His father, Benjamin- Weld, 
 Esq., was deputy collector in Boston under Gen. Lincoln, and in 
 1821 settled with his family in Brunswick, and Eugene in due time 
 went to college. He was graduated as doctor of medicine in the city, 
 of New York. In 1834 he stationed himself at New Iberia in the par- 
 ish of St. Martinsville, La., and there he labored usefully and faith- 
 full j' for fifteen years. In the winter of 1849 a malignant epidemic 
 raged around him. Dr. Weld went fearlessly into the midst of it, 
 and while, many through a miserable dread of the infection abandoned 
 their own kindred, he gave to comparative strangers his kindest atten- 
 tions and best skill. To the friends who still hold' his virtues in fond 
 remembrance, it must be a consolatory thought that he fell in so good 
 a cause. 
 
 Sewaed Wyman was born in 1808 at North Yarmouth. His father, 
 Capt. Robert Wyman, was a ship-master. His mother was Prudeiice, 
 daughter of William Reed. Reuben Nason prepared him for college. 
 During the year 1826 he had charge of the North Yarmouth Aead- 
 emy. He graduated at the Andover Seminary, but want of health 
 compelled him to abandon his profession and to let study alone. For 
 ten j'ears he was discount clerk in the Phenix Bank of New York. 
 Since that time he has lived in PortlancT, and is engaged in the West 
 India trade. He was married in 1837 to Louisa F., daughter of 
 Joseph Hoole and Huldah Fischer of Portland. They have three 
 daughters. He died in 1860, 
 
 1826. 
 
 GoRHAM DuMMER Abbott, bom in Brunswick in 1807, was brother 
 of Jacob (1820) and of John S. C. (1825). Five brothers of the 
 family graduated at the college, pursued a theological course at 
 
GRADUATES. 331 
 
 Andover, exercised the ministry of the gospel, and became successful 
 teachers. Gorham, after graduation, taught for a time in Castine. 
 For several years he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church, New 
 Rochelle, N. Y. ; was then employed for a time in the literary depart- 
 ment of the American Tract Society, New York ; in I'SiS, in connec- 
 tion with his brothers Jacob and Charles, opened a seminary for 
 young ladies in New York. This enterprise was ■ very successful. 
 The school became at length the well-known Spingler Institute, Union 
 Square, and with him at its head one of the honored and eminent 
 features of the city. Nothing was spared to insure its efficiency. A 
 gallery of paintings, an ample philosophical apparatus, a full and able 
 corps of teachers, and courses of lectures from men of reputation 
 were provided. Mr. Abbott made repeated visits to Elurope in its in- 
 terests, and its reputation attracted pupils from all parts of the coun- 
 try. The school was removed eventually to what was known as the 
 " Townsend Mansion," and took the name of the Abbott Collegiate 
 Institute. Mr. Abbott rendered important service to the cause of 
 education by his more than twenty years of active and enterprising 
 labors. Amidst the manifold cares and anxieties of such a life he 
 devoted himself to Biblical study, published the results of such re- 
 search and of his experience as a teacher, leaving manuscripts j-et 
 unpublished" in the field of Biblical literature. He was active also in 
 promoting the interests of the Evangelical Alliance. His interest in 
 useful inventions and a tendency to enlist in ventures in that direction 
 led him into enterprises which proved unfortunate. He suffered many 
 misfortunes, some of them following him to the last, and among them 
 the unfaithfulness of trusted friends ; but his severest disappointment 
 was that his school would not survive him. Failing health compelled 
 him to relinquish the charge of the institute, and he retired to South 
 Natick, where he was acting pastor of the Congregational Church for 
 a year. It should be stated that he had been in fact pastor of the 
 seminary in Union Square for several years, and thus exerted an im- 
 portant influence in hundreds of homes in the land. • The gradual 
 wasting away of physical powers, attended by frequent attacks of 
 severe pain and prolonged suffering, at last terminated in paralysis 
 and death in 1874. In 1860 Mr. Abbott received the honorary degree 
 of LL. D. from Ingham University. p. 
 
 William Appleton, born in 1808, was the president's elder son. 
 As a boy, most prepossessing in appearance and amiable in temper. 
 In college he was respectable, though, entering as he did at thirteen, 
 he was quite too young to do himself justice there. After graduation 
 
332 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 he remained awhile at Amherst, N. H., where his mother then lived, 
 reading law in the office of his uncle, Eobert Means. He then en- 
 gaged as an assistant teacher in the Pinkerton Academy at Derry, 
 N. H., and so continued for about two years. During this period he 
 kept up a correspondence with his college classmate and chum. Sear- 
 gent S. Prentiss. Several of his letters are given in the published 
 memoir of Prentiss, and may still be read with interest, boyish though 
 they are, as the unpremeditated effusions of a good head and warm 
 heart. From Derry he went to Portsmouth and studied law about six 
 months under the able direction of his uncle, Jeremiah Mason. But 
 having determined to plant himself in the West, it was thought best 
 that he should there complete his legal preparation. Accordingly in 
 midsummer, 1830, he bade adieu to his friends and set out for Ohio, 
 in company with his cousin, Eobert Means. This journey was not 
 then the work of a few hours ; it occupied our young travellers just a 
 month. One week was spent at Detroit, where they were kindly re- 
 ceived by Gen. Cass, Gen. Root, Mr. Schoolcraft, and the Masons, 
 father and son. Some ten days more were passed very delightfullj' at 
 Columbus, Ohio, and on the road to Cincinnati. At Columbus they 
 • found Henry Clay, who took them along as his guests. This journey, 
 which was but an every-day affair to that great man, seemed to his 
 j'oung admirers much like a triumphal march, being daily enlivened 
 by a public dinner and speeches. Mr. Clay manifested a warm inter- 
 est in young Appleton, nor is it strange that the feeling was more 
 than reciprocated. William Appleton immediately became a student 
 in the office of Stephen Fales, Esq. Two months afterward he was 
 attacked by brain fever, and died on the 19th of October. His re- 
 mains were placed in the private lot of Hon. Bellamy Storer, and a 
 monument was erected over them by his uncle, Mr. Amos Lawrence 
 of Boston. Thus early perished this son and brother and friend of 
 manj- hopes. The Eev. G. L. Prentiss thus introduces him in his 
 Memoir, Vol. I. page 35.: " William Appleton was my brother's chum 
 during his last year in college, and one of his most intimate and be- 
 loved friends. He accompanied him home to spend the vacation pre- 
 ceding Commencement, and charmed the whole household as well as 
 neighboring families by his gentlemanly bearing and quiet, scholar- 
 like tastes. His name for many years was closely associated with 
 that of my brother." "He had," says one who knew and loved him, 
 " great depth and tenderness of feeling." Another intimate friend of 
 his thus writes : " My memory of him is most pleasant. As a com- 
 panion and friend he was agreeable and true. His manners were 
 refined and gentlemanly, his conversation was always entertaining 
 
GRADUATES. 333 
 
 and instructive. He was a person of good height, with a fine figure 
 and a strongly intellectual face and head. When I recall what he was 
 I cannot avoid fancying what he might have become. There are other 
 men who went from New England to Cincinnati about the same time 
 with William Appleton who have now a national reputation, but who 
 were then much less promising than he was." 
 
 Leonard Fostbk Apthoep, born in 1805, was a son of Col. J. T. 
 Apthorp of Boston. The Rev. Dr. East Apthorp, rector of Christ 
 Church, Cambridge, Mass., well known in the controversies of that 
 daj', was Col. Apthorp's uncle. For two or three years Leonard served 
 in a mercantile apprenticeship ; but he had higher aspirations, and at 
 length obtained consent that he should go to college. From the judi- 
 cious training of Dr. Packard of Wiscasset he went to Brunswick, 
 where his rank as a scholar was high, and as a writer the highest. 
 In the respect last named he obtained what is very uncommon in col- 
 lege, — a reputation that reached a good way be3'ond its walls. This 
 was specially due to his '_' Confessions of a Country Schoolmaster," 
 first published in the Escritoir. and copied afterwards in a multitude of 
 periodicals. It was a ludicrous description of his own experience in 
 "boarding round" while he was teaching a school among the then 
 primitive people of Harpswell. Unintentionally on his part, it came 
 out with names or initials which left no doubt as to the locality. All 
 Harpswell was aroused. One man actually brought a libel suit against 
 the author, in order to vindicate the fair fame of his ' ' pork and dough- 
 nuts." It was thought best to compromise the matter. In the neigh- 
 borhood these circumstances added much to the zest of the story, 
 which elsewhere on its own merits was widely copied, read, and 
 praised. Mr. Apthorp was constitutionally shy, and suffered the em- 
 barrassment of a slight deafness. But his disposition, social and 
 kindly, his pure morals, and his conversation genial with humor and 
 spicy with wit, made him a charming compapion and friend. "His 
 habits," writes one who knew him, " were prematurely and peculiarly 
 methodical, though he was anything but a formalist." He was as 
 remarkable for industry as for natural ability. With powers of close 
 observation, with a quick sense of the ludicrous, and with the skill of 
 a true artist in delineating for others what he saw and felt so keenly, 
 he possessed also a logical mind. The productions of his pen, not a 
 few of which were published, gave undeniable promise of rare excel- 
 lence. What he would have become had life and health continued we 
 shall never know. What he might have accomplished we can easily 
 conceive, and stiU must we regret the early death which blighted so 
 
334 HISTOEV OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 many hopes and so fair a prospect. He died of consumption near the 
 close of 1827. 
 
 Samuel Stillman Boyd was born in 1803 in Portland. His father, 
 Joseph C. Boyd, was a respectable merchant and magistrate. His 
 mother was a daughter of Dr. Robert Southgate. In college he was a 
 close student, and at his graduation he stood first on the roll. Follow- 
 ing the western star, he went at once to Cincinnati, where his cousin, 
 Bellamy Storer, was already in successful practice. Here, with great 
 assiduity and thoroughness, he studied law for two years. Early in , 
 1829 he went to Mississippi, where he soon attracted the attention of 
 John Henderson, a distinguished lawyer, and subsequently United 
 States senator. From Mr. Henderson he received attentions and 
 facilities which cheered and smoothed his opening career. ' ' Obtain- 
 ing a special license, he accompanied the judge of the circuit to his 
 several courts in the district, familiarizing himself with the duties of 
 his new profession, and taking part therein as opportunity presented." 
 His earliest case was decided on a new point of law, then first raised 
 bj^ him in Mississippi. He had been engaged by the courtesy of Mr. 
 C. S. Sm.ith, afterwards judge, etc., to assist in the defence of several 
 suits brought against certain indorsers upon notes. The point raised 
 was upon the plaintiff's proof. Mr. Boyd sustained his positions in 
 a speech of an hour or more. Mr. Smith and Mr. R. H. Adams — 
 then at the head of the bar, and also engaged in the defence — were 
 so well satisfied with this efibrt of the young debutant, that they 
 declined to argue the case further. The judge charged in favor of 
 Mr. Boyd's positions, and the jury found accordingly. After this 
 brilliant outset, Mr. Boyd never lacked a case in Wilkinson County, 
 where he passed his next six years in uninterrupted success. 
 
 During the year 1832, being then only twenty-five years old, he 
 declined the oflHce of attorney-general, and also an appointment as 
 judge of the Supreme Court, successively tendered to him with flatter- 
 ing urgency by Governor Scott. In 1837 Mr. Boj'd became a resi- 
 dent of Natchez, and formed a partnership with Alexander Mont- 
 gomery. A vast amount of important and profitable business was 
 transacted by this firm, during the fourteen years that the connection 
 lasted. During the year 1837, Mr. Boyd held for a short time, by 
 temporary appointment of the governor, a seat on the bench of the 
 Supreme Court. 
 
 The number of constitutional arguments and of difficult cases in law 
 and equity in which Judge Boyd has taken a leading part has not 
 probably been surpassed by any member of the bar in our Southwest- 
 
^ V J.O^mtt. fina I DagiiEr"W 
 
 HOir, SAMDEL S.BOYB, 
 OFITAXCEEZ, MISSISSIPPI, 
 
 I^u..au^n!rih£ Bjw 
 
 L^^ Il'.^'r^-jr^uU.. 
 
GRADUATES. 335 
 
 era States. Few if any have evinced a higher ability or won a more 
 distinguished success. Among the great questions referred to may 
 be mentioned the Colonization Cases, involving the riglit to send 
 slaves to Liberia ; the Bank Usury Cases, turning on the use of 
 Roulett's interest tables, and implicating, as was supposed, the entire 
 bank capital of the State ; the " slave clause " in the State Constitution, 
 and the right to receive the purchase money for slaves introduced 
 into the State as merchandise, involving many nice questions of law 
 and equity, as presented not only in the State but in the Federal 
 courts, between whose decisions (to complicate matters still more) 
 there was a serious conflict ; the Quo Warranto and Bank Cases, in 
 which the right of garnishees of banks to pay in bank paper was 
 thoroughly discussed ; the law prohibiting suits on bank paper trans- 
 ferred ; the thousand questions in law and equity growing out of the 
 Anti-Bank Laws passed in Mississippi, from 1840 to 1845 ; also the 
 controversy with the trustees of the Commercial Bank, a most inter- 
 esting and difHcult case decided by the high court in favor of the posi- 
 tions assumed bj^ Judge Boyd, against the general opinion of the bar 
 and five of the ablest counsel in the State. 
 
 During his arduous professional career, Judge Boyd sometimes 
 encountered in the lists of forensic combat, and not always unsuccess- 
 fully, his gifted friend and classmate Seargent S. Prentiss. To the 
 masterly and wonderful powers of that extraordinary man no one 
 testifies more cordially than Judge Boyd. 
 
 When in 1852 a place on the Supreme Bench of the United States 
 was opened by the death of Judge McKinley, the name of Judge 
 Boyd was strongly pressed on President Fillmore for the vacant seat. 
 "The Supreme Court," says Mr. Hillyer, "is a 'position for which 
 he is peculiaily fitted by severe powers of analysis, by long and pro- 
 found study, by thorough acquaintance with every branch of the law, 
 by a ripe scholarship, by high integrity, and unbending firmness." 
 
 During his whole professional course. Judge Boyd, as a lawyer, 
 never forgot that he owed a duty to the court as well as to his client, 
 and thus by his candor, no less than by his talents and learning, he 
 secured a right to be regarded by the bench as a judicious and safe 
 adviser. Having achieved, at an age comparatively early, a reputa- 
 tion and a fortune that might well satisfy a far more ambitious man, 
 he retired from the more active labors of his profession to enjoy the 
 ease which he had so fairly won, and amid the endearments of a 
 pleasant home to revive and cultivate anew those literary tastes wMch 
 have slumbered only amid more engrossing cares. , 
 
 On the fierce arena of political life Judge Boyd has never figured ; 
 
336 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 not, however, from want of opportunity or. urgent solicitation. Though 
 never a partisan, his relations were with the Whig party. During the 
 excited strife of 1849 and 1850 he attended by legislative appoint- 
 ment the famous Nashville Convention. " No abler man," says Mr. 
 Hillyer, " no man of more sound, national, and conservative senti- 
 ments, attended that convention." 
 
 In 1838 Judge Boyd married Catharine C. Wilkins, daughter of Col. 
 James C. Wilkins, who was a distinguished citizen and soldier. They 
 have a large family.* 
 
 Peter Allan Brinsmade was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1804. 
 After the usual course at Andover he was licensed and began to 
 preach. From failure of voice he left the pulpit and sold books in 
 Augusta. After a while he went to the Sandwich Islands, and with 
 his brother in-law Ladd established a commercial house at Honolulu. 
 While living here he was commissioned as United States consul for 
 that port. Mr. Brinsmade settled afterwards in San Francisco and 
 was connected with one of the newspapers. Of his subsequent life 
 and present abode I can learn nothing. His wife was a Miss Good- 
 ale of Hallo well. 
 
 [He died in Lowell, Mass., in 1859. — p. J 
 
 Samuel Lewis Clark, born in 1807, was son of Capt. Samuel 
 .Clark of Winthrop. He pursued medical studies in Philadelphia, and 
 settled as a physician in Bangor about 1834. Subsequently he went 
 to the South and stayed a few years, returning in 1844 to Bangor. 
 The last years of his life were years of suffering. In 1851 he went to 
 Northampton, Mass., hoping to find relief from constantly recurring 
 attacks of acute rheumatism in the severe remedy of the water cure. 
 But the heroic treatment proved too much for him, and he sank under 
 the terrible infliction. Dr. Clark is said to have been " frank, manly, 
 and generous, a man of good sense and of a kind heart, highly esteemed 
 among those who knew him." 
 
 to 
 
 John Cleaveland, born in Topsfleld, Mass., in 1804, brother of N. 
 Cleaveland (see 1813) , was fitted at Dummer Academy. In the autumn 
 of 1826 he took charge of the academy in Andover (North) but soon 
 after entered the office of Hon. Hobart Clark in Andover (South). 
 Having completed the course of law study under Elijah (afterwards 
 
 * Judge Boyd had suffered nearly eighteen months from a disease of the heart 
 which had confined him most of the time to his house. He died very suddenly in 
 May, 1867. p. 
 
GRADUATES. 337 
 
 Judge) Paine of New York, he was admitted to the bar in that city 
 in 1831. His first law partner was "William W. Campbell, afterwards 
 member of Congress and judge of the Superior Court, city of New 
 York, and at this time judge of the Suprem'e Court of the State of 
 New York. 
 
 John Cleaveland' formed a second partnership in business with 
 George N. Titus, Esq., which lasted several years. The amount of 
 legal business transacted by this firm was very great. As counsel for 
 the receiver of the North American Trust and Banking Company, John 
 Cleaveland became engaged in a series of litigated cases involving vast 
 amounts of property and an almost endless complication of persons and 
 interests, during a sharp, incessant confiict of sixteen years. The 
 weight of care and the immense labor, too unremittingly and I must 
 add quite imprudently pursued, have been disastrous to his health. 
 Although he has been for some years crippled in his lower limbs, and 
 subject to occasional severe attacks of rheumatic gout, he still attends to 
 business, and does a great deal. Confining himself to his profession, 
 he has sought no office. In 1836 he was assistant alderman for the 
 Third Watd, a position at that time which it was no discredit to hold. 
 
 In 1837 he married Ellen Maria, daughter of William Stone of New 
 York. She died in 1842, having previously lost a little daughter. In 
 1847 he married Harriet Hoyt of New York. Of five children by 
 this marriage, two daughters and a son remain. 
 
 [Mr. Cleaveland died in 1863. — p.J 
 
 Obadiah Emery Frost, a native of Topsham, born in 1807, left col- 
 lege with a fair reputation, studied and practised law for a short time, 
 was appointed register of deeds for Lincoln County (West) , and for 
 many years discharged the duties well. He then went into trade, and 
 so continued until his death in 1849. He left a wife and several chil- 
 dren. " Though not eminent, he was a worthy man." 
 
 John Taylor Gelman was born in Exeter, N. H., in 1806. His 
 father, Nathaniel Gilman, lived to the verge of ninety. His mother, 
 Dorothea (Folsom) Gilman, died recently. Dr. Gilman, after study- 
 ing for his profession with Dr. Perry, completed his course in Phila- 
 delphia. Since 1832 he has lived in Portland in the constant and 
 successful practice of medicine, highly esteemed as a man of integrity 
 and skill. His wife (married in 1837) was Helen Augusta, daughter 
 of Keuel Williams of Augusta. They have one daughter.* 
 
 * He has been an overseer, and is now a trustee of the college and one of the 
 Faculty of the Medical School. p. 
 
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338 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Daniel Tristram Granger, born in 1807, was from Sfico After 
 studying law with Mr. (afterwards Judge) Sliepley, he began its prac- 
 tice in Newfleld, but soon removed to Kastport. Here, in the discharge 
 of his professional duties and in the cultivation of every social, domestic, 
 and personal virtue, he spent his days, with a steadily advancing repu- 
 tation and usefulness. Not long before his death he was appointed by 
 the executive of the State a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. 
 Considerations partly of health, and partly it was supposed of mod- 
 esty, prevented him from accepting the well-merited honor. His 
 death was sudden and peculiar. For a year or more his health had 
 been delicate. On the 27th of December, 1854, having papers of 
 importance to prepare, he returned after dinner to his ofHce, though 
 manifestly unwell ; an hour or two afterward he was found where he 
 had fallen upon the oflBce floor, just breathing his last. The paper 
 which he had been writing evinced by the faltering penmanship the 
 effort which he had made to continue his work after his power began 
 to fail. Examination showed that his heart was diseased. It does 
 not appear that brilliancy was ever claimed for Mr. Granger ; few, it 
 is certain, leave behind them stronger evidence of solid worth. At the 
 opening of the Supreme Court soon after his death, Mr. George F. 
 Talbot introduced the resolves with a prefatory speecii of much beauty 
 and feeling, after which Judge Hathaway briefly but fully confirmed 
 the discriminating eulogy. We are informed that as a lawyer Mr. 
 Granger was punctual, thorough, logical, and learned ; that towards 
 his brethren he was ever urbane and considerate ; that his orderly 
 habits enabled him to economize both time and brain ; that he was 
 never absent-minded or forgetful or perplexed ; that as a counsellor, 
 if not bold, he was yet safe and sagacious. " As an advocate Mr. 
 Granger was fluent, earnest, and dignified ; hig weight of character, 
 the candor and sincerity of conviction that shone in his face, carrying 
 deeper impressions to the minds of jurors than all the elaborate graces 
 of oratory. As a practitioner and legal tactician he was above all sus- 
 picion of duplicity and finesse. He had*no art but the justice of his 
 cause, and no management but the presentation of truth As a citizen 
 Mr. Granger will always be remembered with affectionate admiration. 
 He never made his profession an instrument of elevating and enriching 
 himself at the expense of his fellow-citizens. He freely gave time, 
 mind, and money to all the great accredited objects of benevolence. 
 As a man, it will be no exaggeration to assert that for many years Mr. 
 Granger has been generally pointed to as a model of integrity." Be- 
 sides and more than all this, we are assured that Mr. Granger was a 
 man of consistent, unaffected piety. He was married in 1836 to Anna 
 
GRADUATES. 339 
 
 Maria Bartlett, daughter of Jonathan Bartlett, Esq., and left five 
 children. 
 
 "William Ttng Hilliakd, born in Gorham in 1806, son of Rev. 
 Timothy Hilliard, an Episcopal clergyman, was fitted by Mr. Nason, 
 studied law in Gorham with Hon. Josiah Pierce, and in Thomaston 
 with Judge Ruggles, and began the practice in Buxton. Then he 
 lived at Oldtown until 1840, when he became a citizen of Bangor, 
 where he still lives and practises. He has been clerk of the courts. 
 He was married in 1831 to Frances O. Smith of Warren, and thej'^ 
 have two daughters. 
 
 [Mr. Hilliard died in Bangor, Nov. 19, 1881, of pneumonia. — p.] 
 
 Edward Davis Learned was born in Gardiner in 1800. After 
 teaching for a while in Maine, settled in 1830 at Monticello, Miss., as 
 a practitioner of law. In 1832 he went into partnership with a law- 
 yer in Gallatin. Two years later he was elected prosecuting attorney 
 for the district in which he lived. In 1836 he removed to Jackson, 
 the capital of Mississippi, where he formed a new partnership and 
 entered on a very extensive business. He died September, 1837, 
 aged thirty-seven, of an epidemic fever, and after an illness of nine 
 days. He was " a man much esteemed." He left five sons, three of 
 whom still live. His Vidow is now Mrs. Andrew Brown of Natchez. 
 
 Joseph "Warren Leland was born in Saco in 1805. His worthy 
 father had been an oflEicer in the army of the Revolution ; his mother, 
 a sister of Rufus King, was " distinguished for her domestic virtues, 
 her piety, and her good works." His preparatory studies, begun at 
 Saco Academy, were completed at Amherst, N. H., under his 
 brother-in-law. Dr. (now President) Lord. His law studies, begun 
 in Lowell under another brother-in-law, Hon. B. B. French, were 
 completed at Saco in the office of George Thacher and John Fair- 
 field. He practised law in his native town from 1829 until he died in 
 1858. During eight or nine of these years he held the office of 
 county attorney. "As a lawyer he was courteous and honorable in 
 his deportment towards his professional brethren ; he was quick in 
 his perceptions, ready and earnest and often eloquent in debate, and 
 considerably distinguished as an advocate. . He was genial in his 
 temperament, social in his disposition, and popular with his friends 
 and the community." He was married in 1835 to Hannah P., daugh- 
 ter of John F. Scamman. They had no children. Mrs. Leland is 
 still living. 
 
340 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Charles Austin Lord was born in Kennebunkport in 1806, son of 
 Nathaniel and Phebe (Walker) Lord. His energetic father died early, 
 leaving a large estate ; Ms venerable mother still lives. He passed 
 the preparatory course under Mr. Nason in Gorham, and in Phillips 
 Academy, Andover. Ill health precluding the idea of a profession, 
 he engaged in book publishing in the city of New York. He was in 
 the firm of Lord, Leavitt & Co. five years. The nine years that fol- 
 lowed were passed in Missouri : first as principal of a high school in 
 Marion County ; secondly as professor of languages in Marion College ; 
 thirdlj' as head of the classical department of a high school in St. 
 Louis ; and fourthly as editor for four years of a temperance news- 
 paper. In 1849 and 1850 Mr. Lord returned to Maine, and soon 
 after became the associate of Dr. Cummings as secular editor of the 
 Mirror. In 1855 Mr. Lord became sole proprietor of the paper, and 
 held the position until 1874. During the year previous he held, by 
 appointment from Governor Crosby, the office of State superintendent 
 of common schools.* 
 
 Isaac McLellak was born in Portland in 1806. He studied law, 
 opened an office in Boston and practised his profession a few years ; 
 was associate editor of the Daily Patriot, afterwards incorporated with 
 the Advertiser; began the publication of a monthly which was subse- 
 quently merged in the WveMy Pearl; was a frequent contributor to 
 Willis's Monthly Magazine, the New England Magazine, the Knicker- 
 bocker, etc., both in poetry and prose. At different dates he wrote 
 " Fall of the Indian, and other Poems,'' ',' The Year, and other Poems," 
 "Miscellaneous Poems," " Journal of a Residence in Scotland, and 
 a Tour through England and France," compiled from manuscripts of 
 H. B. McLellan. His productions were favorably noticed in Gris- 
 wold's " Poets of America," and in Blackwood's Magazine. He made 
 a two-years' tour in Europe, and on his return renounced his profession 
 and withdrew to the country. Devoted as ever before to field sports, 
 he wrote on subjects which they suggested. This taste especially 
 made him familiar with resorts on the Massachtisetts coast, and 
 brought him into intercourse with lovers of the sport, and especially 
 
 * Mr. Lord led a life of activity and energy. He cultivated literary tastes and a 
 public spirit. From early years a Christian man, he cherished a lively interest in 
 whatever concerned the progress of the kingdom of Christ. He was a faithful officer 
 of the Williston Church from its beginning. For several years he was on the Board 
 of Overseers of the college. 
 
 In 1831 he married Miss Ernestine Libby of Scarboro'. They. had six children, 
 daughters. He died Aug. 7, 1878, at the age of seventy-two. P. 
 
GRADUATES. 341 
 
 with Daniel "Webster at his summer retreat at Marshfleld, where he 
 passed two seasons at one of the farm-houses of the statesman. He 
 removed to New York, exercising his inveterate passion in its neigh- 
 borhood, passing a part of the season for several years on the Vir- 
 ginia and North Carolina coasts. Of late years he has made his 
 residence at Greenport, L. I. His poems suggested by his favorite 
 amusement alone would make a volume. p. 
 
 Jonas Meriam, born in Topsfield in 1804, was thought in boyhood 
 to resemble in person and promise the gifted Henry Kirke White, and 
 was accordingly sent to college. After leaving college he taught a 
 school in Amherst, N. H., with considerable success. But his eyes 
 became diseased, so that for a long time he was nearly blind and 
 utterly helpless. He went afterwards into Maine, where he joined some 
 new sect and became a preacher. Still later he lived in Lowell, a,nd 
 edited a small paper which advocated Millerism or some kindred doc- 
 trine. "When the utter failure of all their predictions put an end to 
 the power of these ill-omened prophets, Jonas Meriam found his way 
 to Concord, N. H. Here a kind-hearted widow with some property 
 made him her husband and took him to her home. His classmates and 
 friends will all rejoice that this simple-hearted and well-meaning man, 
 after so many woes and wanderings, has dropped at last into so snug 
 a harbor. 
 
 [Mr. Meriam died in 1871. — p. J 
 
 Benjamin Moody was born in Falmouth. " In college he sustained 
 a good character, had quite a fondness for some branches of natural 
 science, and allowed his predilection for them to withdraw him from 
 the regular studies. He was a young man of very fair talents, but did 
 not take high rank in the class. After graduating he studied medi- 
 cine with Dr. Mussey, and completed his studies in France. I think 
 he went at once to Peruambuco, S. A., where for some j'ears he had 
 an extensive practice, and where he died." (D. T. Granger. ) Another 
 classmate confirms the above with added particulars : "He would often 
 neglect the college studies, absent himself from recitation, and devote 
 himself most assiduously to studies not included in the regular course. 
 On one of these occasions he , made himself master of the science of 
 astrology and qualified himself to calculate nativities according to the 
 ancient formulae. His favorite study was mathematics, and he was 
 undoubtedly among the ablest mathematicians in college. He was also 
 an acute metaphysician and quite a proficient in natural philosophy 
 and chemistry. Owing to his ecceiitricities he was not appreciated 
 
342 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 while in college, except by a very few who were intimate with him. By 
 those few he was highly respected for his talents, and beloved for his 
 really good qualities which he seemed to endeavor to conceal. The 
 officers of the college government knew nothing of him ; his careless- 
 ness and frequent absences from recitation precluded him from receiv- 
 ing any college honor, and although he was of a high order of intellect, 
 I doubt not those but slightly acquainted with him thought him below 
 mediocrity." Dr. Moody died in 1839 at the age of thirty-two. 
 
 HoKATio Nelson, born in 1 807, was a son of Judge Nelson of Castine. 
 The first use which he made of his college training was as a foremast 
 hand in one or two sea voyages. Then in company with a brother he 
 settled at Gross's Point in Bucksport, put up a small cabin which 
 sheltered them tolerablj' when it did not rain, and, living.in more than 
 primitive simplicitj', undertook to farm on scientific principles ; but 
 the climate seemed to be unpropitious. In fact, the winter sometimes 
 locked up his entire crop of potatoes before he found time to dig them. 
 He got discouraged at last, and left Bucksport with a high reputation 
 for integrity, though (through a prejudice but too common) his neigh- 
 bors failed to discover his merits as a " gentleman farmer." Mr. 
 Nelson then bought a farm in Franklin, Mass., where he pursues his 
 favorite science under somewhat milder skies. I think I hear some 
 classmate asking whether any " Triptolemus " has yet appeared to 
 inherit a father's tastes as well as acres. Unfortunately Nr. Nelson is 
 still single. 
 
 [Mr. Nelson died in 1861. — p.] 
 
 William Paine, born in Portland in 1806, son of Seth Paine, well 
 known in his day as a mail contractor and lai-ge stage-coach proprie- 
 tor. William Paine studied law under Nicholas Emery, and prac- 
 tised awhile in partnership with J. Stover Little. From Portland he 
 moved to Bridgton, and from Bridgton to Bangor, where he staid sev- 
 eral years, sometimes representing the town in the State Legislature. 
 He went back to Portland in 1849. Under President Fillmore he was 
 United States marshal for Maiue. He has also been judge of the 
 municipal court in Portland. His wife was Martha L. Chamberlain of 
 Boston. Their only child Daniel, a graduate of Harvard College (1858) , 
 intends to be an architect. 
 
 [Mr. Paine died in 1861. — p.] 
 
 Seakgent Smith Prentiss, born in Portland in 1808, was descended 
 from the Puritan emigrant, Henry Pi'entice, who settled at Cambridge, 
 
GRADUATES. 343 
 
 Mass., before 1640. His grandfather, Samuel Prentiss, who was a 
 graduate of Harvard College,' spent his last years in Gorham. His 
 father, William Prentiss, who lived for some time in Portland, fol- 
 lowed the sea, a much respected ship-master. An early fever left his 
 infant son with crippled limbs, and made him for many years the spe- 
 cial object of his mother's care. The use of his right leg he never 
 fully recovered. Among the earlier influences which gaVe impulse 
 and color to his mind may be named the ardent preaching of the elo- 
 quent Payson, to whose church Captain Prentiss's wife belonged. In 
 his early youth the family removed to G-orham, where lived his maternal 
 grandfather George Lewis and his uncle Lothrop Lewis, and took up 
 their abode ou a farm. Seargent' was nearly ten years old before he 
 could walk without crutches. From that time a cane answered all 
 his needs. His habits then became intensely active. He grew up a 
 keen sportsman, an indefatigable angler. He sometimes worked with 
 the other boys, but not if he could avoid it. An eager reader, he 
 devoured every book within his reach, and knew almost by heart the 
 " Pilgrim's Progress " and large portions of the Bible. When occu- 
 pied with none of these things he would often give a greedy ear to the 
 animated talk of his veteran grandfather, Major George Lewis. This 
 brave old man could tell him stories of the tented field. He had 
 borne a command among those rustic heroes who fought the battle of ■ 
 Bunker HUl. With the narrative of daring and of suffering which is 
 so captivating to a generous boy, he mingled often warm discussions 
 of political topics. It was not without important issues in later days 
 that the bright-eyed grandchild was wont to hear this stanch old 
 Federalist dilate with pride on the virtues and the principles of Wash- 
 ington and Hamilton, while he denounced with unsparing severity the 
 policy and the conduct of Jefferson and his party. 
 
 From the district school — that humble institution whose picture 
 his gratefi^l and graceful pencil drew long afterward beneath a sky 
 more indulgent but not more wholesome — he was sent to Gorham 
 Academy. There, under the classic . teaching and vigorous ferule of 
 the venerable Reuben Nason, he was prepared for the Junior class in 
 college. At the age of fifteen he entered Bowdoin, and seldom if 
 ever, unless all testimony is fallacious, have its walls received a hand- 
 somer, braver boy, a brighter intellect, or a warmer heart. On the 
 two years which he spent at Brunswick it is not necessary to dwell. 
 Young as he was, they gave large promise of the eminence which he 
 afterwards attained. After his graduation in 1826 he passed several 
 months in the law office and in the family of Judge Pierce of Gor- 
 ham. Of his studious and his social habits, his literary and his physi- 
 
344 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 cal recreations at that time, the judge has given a pleasing description. 
 " In my ofl9ce he read law studiously in the former part of the day, 
 but in the afternoon perused other works. The writings of Walter 
 Scott, Washington Irving, Cooper, Byron, afforded him much amuse- 
 ment and pleasant instruction. His favorite author was Shakespeare, 
 and I think a week never passed without his perusing more or less of 
 the productions of the great dramatist." 
 
 While he was jet in college his thoughts had been turned toward 
 the rapidly growing West. In the summer of 1827 he put those 
 thoughts into act. He paused first at Cincinnati. He was received 
 kindly by Bellamy Storer, who introduced him to Nathaniel Wright. 
 After a few weeks spent in Mr. Wright's office, and an ineffectual 
 endeavor to find some employment that would support him, he turned 
 his face toward the Southwest, and in due time we find him at Natchez. 
 Here he was more fortunate. Mrs. Shields, a widow lady living on 
 a plantation near that city, engaged him as a private tutor for her 
 children. As the house contained the valuable law library of her late 
 husband, his position was peculiarly favorable. A few months later 
 , he took charge of an academy with a more liberal salary. In June, 
 1829, he was admitted to the bar, and immediately went into partner- 
 ship with Gen. Felix Huston, a gentleman of high standing and 
 extensive practice in Natchez. This connection continued until 1832, 
 when he removed to Vicksburg. During these early years of prepara- 
 tion and action in Mississippi, he was ill reconciled to the idea of 
 making that region his permanent home. But as the prospect opened 
 and brightened before him, he relinquished his fond intention of return- 
 ing to New England. As a lawyer his success was. instantaneous and 
 brilliant. In the winter of 1833 he spent several weeks at Washing- 
 ton, called there by a case in the Supreme Court of the United States, 
 which he argued at length with marked ability. His life at this time 
 was very laborious. His attendance on the State courts compelled 
 him to ride much on horseback, the only mode of conveyance then 
 existing. Fortunately he was remamkably strong and well. He 
 formed a law partnership with Hon. John I. Guion, whom he speaks 
 of as " a good lawyer and a very excellent man." As an advocate 
 his success was great and his services in constant requisition. In 
 1834 he received a decisive proof of his rapid advance in public esti- 
 mation in being urged by men of influence throughout the State to 
 allow his name to be presented as candidate for Congress. The sig- 
 nificance of the movement is the greater as Mississippi then consti- 
 tuted but one congressional district, and sent only two representatives, 
 who were chosen by general ticket. He declined at once, having no 
 
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 desire for office and taking little interest in the party questions of the 
 time, though observant of the course of public affairs. But he could 
 not maintain his seclusion. Having been elected to the Legislature of 
 the State in 1836 from his county, reluctantly yielding to the urgency 
 of friends, he entered on a political career of eight years. In 1837, 
 having consented to stand at a critical period as a candidate for Con- 
 gress, he engaged in an electioneering campaign, as was the custom 
 of the Southern States, and visited, he writes, forty-iive counties, and 
 performed a labor in riding and talking unparalleled, he thought, in 
 electioneering annals. " For ten weeks I averaged thirty miles a day 
 horseback, and spoke two hours each week day. My appointments 
 were made in advance, and I did not miss a single one, rain or shine." 
 His seat and that of his colleague being contested, — ungenerously and 
 unjustly, he always maintained, — in the nearly balanced state of parties 
 in the House of Eepresentatives, the greatest interest was felt in the 
 issue throughout the country. Prentiss and his colleague appeared and 
 claimed their seats, and were allowed to defend their claim before the 
 House. Prentiss made the argument, which lasted into the third day. 
 He was a young man and as yet a stranger to a large portion of his 
 hearers, although vague reports of his uncommon powers had pre- 
 ceded him. On the day assigned for him to address the House 
 " nearlj' all the members were in their seats, and the galleries were 
 crowded with eager expectation. Soon after he began the lobbies and 
 every vacant spot on the floor were thronged by senators, ex-merabers 
 of Congress, officers of the army and navy, eminent jurists, and foreign 
 ministers." He had confessed to a friend fears lest he should not be 
 able to sustain himself, but the event proved such fears to be ground- 
 less. " He had never before addressed such an audience ; and when 
 he witnessed the rapt attention and caught in their look the "mystic 
 signs of delight and approval from such veteran statesmen and orators 
 as John Quincy Adams, Clay, and "Webster, whose names and elo- 
 quence had been the inspiration of his boyhood, no wonder if he was 
 greatly excited and somewhat astonished at himself. Still both the 
 excitement and surprise were chiefly those of unusual pleasure, the 
 pure gaudia certamitiis. His entire self-possession never failed him ; 
 there was no straining for efiect, no trick of oratorj', but from the 
 first to the last senteuce, everything, in manner as in matter, seemed 
 perfectly natural, as if he were addressing a jury on an ordinary ques- 
 tion of law. Indeed, the great charm of this as of all his speeches 
 was the simple, unfeigned sincerity which marked his whole bearing 
 and every word he uttered. He felt that he was asserting a great 
 principle, and in his devotion to that seemed to forget all personal 
 
346 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLIiEGE. 
 
 claitD." As Mr. "Webster left the hall on the conclusion of the speech 
 he said to a friend, " Nobody could equal it." Mr. (afterwards 
 President) Fillmore thus wrote regarding it : "I can never forget that 
 speech. It was certainly the most brilliant that I ever heard, and as 
 a whole I think it fully equalled, if it did not exceed, any rhetorical 
 effort to which it has been my good fortune to listen in either House." 
 By a strictly party vote the claimants lost their seats by the casting 
 vote of the Speaker, Mr. ( subsequently President) Polk. Immediately 
 after he wrote, " I am sick of the whole matter, and shall be greatly 
 obliged to the people of Mississippi if they will allow me to retire." 
 But he yielded from a sense of obligation to his constituents and sub- 
 mitted to the trial of another election, with the explicit avowal that he 
 would not go into a general canvass of the State again, adding, " I am 
 as thoroughly cured of ambition as were the Spartan youths of drunk- 
 enness by viewing its effect on others." He was elected with his col- 
 league and they took their seats in Congress, June, 1838, but with 
 the aflSrmation that they held by the preceding election, which they held 
 to be the only legal one. Mr; Prentiss's speech on the Sub-Treasury 
 Bill was his only special effort in that session. 
 
 After Congress rose he made a visit North to Portland, and while 
 there was invited to participate in a public dinner to Mr. Webster in 
 Faneuil Hall, one of the most brilliant political festivals ever known 
 in this country. He accepted, and great curiosity was excited to see 
 and hear him. In the prospect of being called upon to speak on that 
 occasion, he was not a little excited by the anticipation of speaking in 
 that renowned place and in presence of such an assemblage. An ex- 
 tract from a letter of Governor Everett, who presided on that occasion, 
 gives the impression which he made. " The company was much the 
 largest"! ever saw assembled at dinner in any permanent building, and 
 with the exception of the guest of the day no one was received with 
 so much enthusiasm as Mr. Prentiss. Much was anticipated from his 
 speech, but the public expectation was more than realized. He rose 
 at rather a late hour and after a succession of able speakers ; for 
 these and some other reasons it required first-rate ability to gain and 
 fix the attention of the audience. I never had the good fortune to 
 hear your brother, and I must own that I feared he would find him- 
 self obliged, after a few sentences of customary acknowledgment, to 
 give up the idea of addressing the company at any length. He was, 
 however, from the outset completely successful. ... It seemed to me 
 the most wonderful specimen of a sententious fluency which I had ever 
 witnessed. The words poured from his lips in a torrent, but the 
 sentences were correctly formed, the matter grave and important, the 
 
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 train of thought distinctly pursued, the illustrations wonderfully happy, 
 drawn from a wide range of reading and aided bj- a brilliant imagina- 
 tion. . . . Sitting by Mr. Webster, I asked him if he had ever heard 
 anything like it. He answered, 'Never, except from Mr. Prentiss 
 himself.'" 
 
 During this visit at Portland he had invitations to public dinners 
 from various places, but to avoid such calls he returned by a sea voy- 
 age to New Orleans. When he landed committees met him at New 
 Orleans and at Vicksburg ; he was urged to address his fellow-citizens ; 
 and he was welcomed by national salutes and unusual demonstrations 
 of respect, regard, and admiration. 
 
 In 1839 Mr. Prentiss was urged to be placed in Domination for the 
 Senate of the United States. He consented, but failed of an election 
 owing to the political complexion of the Legislature. Had he been 
 chosen his purpose was, as he assured a friend, " to make the develop- 
 ment of a broader and deeper sentiment of nationality a special object 
 of his senatorial career." In the Presidential campaign of 1840 he 
 had urgent invitations from a dozen different States, all assuring him 
 that were it known that he was to be present, the people far and near 
 would turn out en masse to hear him. The account of a meeting in 
 Portland, Me., where he was on a visit that year, 'gives a vivid impres- 
 sion of the enthusiasm excited wherever it was known he was to be 
 present. ' ' To four fifths of the assembly then congregated he was 
 an entire stranger ; they had never heard and few had ever seen him. 
 A considerable portion of his auditors were from neighboring towns, 
 and some from a distance of fifty and even a hundred miles. .... He 
 spoke three hours ; he was listened to without a sign of impatience to 
 the last sentence, and the assemblage with one heart united at the 
 close in giving him twelve cheers ; and after cheers for Mississippi 
 and .Maine, three more for Seargent S. Prentiss." 
 
 One of his most effective speeches was made at Newark, N. J. , on 
 his return to Mississippi, of which Governor Pennington of New Jei"- 
 sey thus writes : " I cannot pretend to describe the speech, but it made 
 an impression I have never forgotten. After hearing many political 
 addresses from the ablest men in our country, I consider and have 
 often said that this speech surpassed them all. He spoke between 
 three and four hours." It is not needful to refer to other occasions in 
 which he was equally successful. In this remarkable campaign he 
 advocated. the election of Gen Harrison, although his known decided 
 preference was for Mr. Clay, of whom he was an ardent and constant 
 admirer. 
 
 Mr. Prentiss, as may be infeiTed, was far above the level of a mere 
 
348 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 politician. He never sought ofHce : it sought him. He despised and 
 loathed the arts of the demagogue : was a bold, vehement defender of 
 fundamental principles ; ever manifested profound veneration for law 
 and public order. "An act which appeared to him palpably wrong, 
 whether perpetrated by one man or by a million, was certain to en- 
 counter his open and unqualified hostility. Never, indeed, was his 
 oratory more effective than in denouncing the violation or vindicating 
 the sanctity of contracts, chartered rights, and constitutional obliga- 
 tions." Of acute moral perceptions, and with a high standard of 
 conduct, on occasion, as often occurred, " he lashed, as with a whip of 
 scorpions, all gross departure from the principles of honor and mo- 
 rality, maintaining that in public affairs a man should not act on any 
 less elevated principles than in private life." Repudiation, which 
 after a long and severe struggle became the lasting disgrace of Missis- 
 sippi, at home and abroad found in him a determined, uncompromis- 
 ing, relentless foe ; and when the dishonesty was consummated he 
 could no longer dwell on its soil, and removed to another State. He 
 still, however, '* cherished a deep faith in the substantial intelligence, 
 virtue, and good sense of the American people," attributing such mis- 
 chief to the intrigues of unscrupulous, selfish demagogues. 
 
 Of the uncommon powers of Mr. Prentiss in public speech sufficient 
 proofs have been given. Reference has been made to his remarkable 
 fluency of speech. He never faltered for a word, and had a rich 
 vocabulary. The most cultured were never offended bj' inaccuracy 
 of expression, lack of arrangement or of taste. He had a brilliant 
 fancy, vigorous imagination, and great power of comparison and 
 illustration. " His figures never halted or limped," he told me him- 
 self. ~ His brother testifies " the year before his death, that he never 
 found any difficulty in completing or carrying out the most complicate 
 metaphor." He was widely conversant with literature, and a faithful, 
 ready memory aflbrded abundant and felicitous allusions. He had a 
 robust understanding, and with all his moving appeals and play of sar- 
 casm and humor he never lost the thread of close and powerful argu- 
 ment. He had a genial temper, inexhaustible animal spirits, and 
 marked impressibility. There was peculiar magnetism in his face, 
 voice, and bearing. "Prentiss," once said a friend, "you always 
 mesmerize me when you speak." He answered, " Then it is an affair 
 of reciprocity, for a multitude always electrifies me." When he saw 
 before him, as he sometimes did, five, ten, or twenty thousand people, 
 gazing on him as if spellbound, or heard their responsive shouts, it 
 almost maddened him with excitement. " I feel at such times," he 
 once said to me, " a kind of preternatural rapture : new thoughts come 
 
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 rushing into my mind unbidden, and I seem to myself like one utter- 
 ing oracles. I am as much astonished at my own conceptions as any 
 of ray auditors ; and when the excitement is over, I could no more 
 reproduce them than I could make a world." Mr. Prentiss never 
 wrote a speech, though doubtless he generally premeditated. His wit 
 and humor never failed him and were often available in emergency, as 
 will appear from one or two incidents. 
 
 In one of his electioneering tours he declared that he owed his votes 
 to a menagerie, as he related in a speech at a New England dinner in 
 New Orleans. 
 
 " At the appointed hour he found a large company assembled to 
 hear him. He was in ' high feather,' and began with more than 
 usual energy. The audience listened with marked attention. He had 
 spoken some time when he noticed some of the outsiders looking over 
 their shoulders, and graduall3' more of them doing the same. He 
 thought he was growing dull and endeavored to rouse himself to more 
 animation, but in vain. He looked in the popular direction, and to 
 his dismay, just coming over the hill was the elephant in scarlet trap- 
 pings and Oriental splendor, howdah on his back filled with musicians, 
 and in the rear a long line of wagons and cages. He would not be 
 outdone by elephant and. train, and continued to talk and appeal in the 
 name of the State, of patriotism, etc., etc., but in vain. ' Well,' 
 said he, ' ladies and gentlemen, I am beaten, but I have the consola- 
 tion of knowing it is not by my competitor. I will not knock under 
 to any two-legged beast, but I yield to the elephant.' A few days after 
 he had his revenge. A political gathering was a harvest day for a 
 caravan. He came to an understanding with the caravan, agreeing 
 with the proprietor that he would address the people for one hour 
 under the great awning and then give way to monkey and clown. 
 Accordingly between himself and caravan a large assembly gathered. 
 One of the cages was converted into his rostrum. He heard a low 
 sound resembling a growl, and learned that the hyena was his nearest 
 listener. There were large auger holes in the top of the box for the 
 admission of air. He commenced speaking, and when he reached the 
 blood-and-thunder portion of his speech, he ran his cane into the cage, 
 and called forth a most horrible yell from the enraged animal, at the 
 same time gesticulating violently with the other hand. ' Why, fellow- 
 citizens,' he^ exclaimed, 'the very wild beasts are shocked at the 
 political baseness and corruption of the times. See how this worthy 
 fellow just below me is scandalized ! Hear his yell of patriotic shame ! ' 
 The effect was electric ; he called down the house in a perfect tempest 
 of enthusiasm. The hyena he declared was good for a hundred votes. 
 
350 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 ' ' The next time it was decided that Prentiss should speak from the 
 lion's cage. Never was the menagerie more crowded. Prentiss was 
 as usual eloquent, and as if ignorant of the novel circumstances with 
 which he was surrounded, went deeply into the matter in hand, his 
 election. For a while the audience and the animals were quiet, the 
 former listening, the latter eying the speaker with grave intensity. 
 The first burst of applause electrified ' the menagerie: the elephant 
 threw his trunk into the air and echoed back the noise, while the 
 tigers and bears significantly growled. On went Prentiss, and as 
 each peculiar animal vented his rage or approbation, Prentiss most 
 ingeniously wrought in his habits as a fac-simile of some man or pas- 
 sion. In the mean while the stately king of beasts, who had been 
 quietly treading the mazes of his prison, became alarmed at the foot- 
 steps over his head, and placing his mouth upon the fioor of his cage, 
 made everything shake by his terrific roar. This, joined with the 
 already excited feelings of the audience, caused ladies to shriek, and a 
 fearful commotion for a moment followed.. Prentiss, equal to any 
 occasion, changed his tone and manner, commenced a plaj'ful strain, 
 and introduced the fox, the jackal, and the hyena, and capped the 
 climax by likening some well-known political opponent to a grave 
 baboon that presided over the cage with monkeys. The resemblance 
 was instantly recognized, and bursts of laughter followed that liter- 
 ally set manj' into convulsions. The baboon, all unconscious of the 
 attention he was attracting, suddenly assumed a gri,mace and then a 
 serious face, when Prentiss exclaimed, ' I see, mj' fine fellow, that 
 your feelings are hurt by my unjust comparison, and I humbly beg 
 your pardon.' The effect may be easUy imagined." 
 
 Mr. Prentiss was not, as may be inferred from statements already 
 made, in any sense a mere successful declaimer or " stump" orator. 
 He never addressed the people merely to please them or himself. 
 "As a robust understanding was the substratum of his mind, so 
 knowledge, refiection, logical method, judgment, good sense, and the 
 other proper fruits of mental and pracMcal culture were the substra- 
 tum of all his speeches. Enliven £hese solid properties with wit, 
 humor, imagination, and those other ethereal gifts which are the off- 
 spring of genius ; let the countenance, voice, and action all corre- 
 spond, and we have certainly a cause bj' no means out of proportion 
 with the specific effect." there was added, what his look and air • 
 showed when he rose to speak, as characteristic of his speeches, 
 " sincerity and depth and fervor of personal conviction." What is 
 worthy of special notice, he never lost his' self-possession, and once 
 (he rarely spoke of himself) declared : "If I were of a sudden to be 
 
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 transported to Old England, and let down through the roof into the 
 assembled House of Lords, 1 doubt not the instant I found myself on 
 my legs I could begin a speech on any subject which I understood, 
 without the slightest hesitation or embarrassment." 
 
 Mr. Prentiss had rare conversational powers. His inexhaustible 
 fund of anecdote, gay humor, genial spirit, gentle courtesy, his origi- 
 nality of thought and readj' flow of language made him the charm of 
 a social circle. He had quick sensibilities, strong affections, of which 
 the admirable memoir by his brother, Eev. Dr. George L. Prentiss of 
 New York, affords ample proof. The scenes of his early home were 
 ever fresh in his mind, and his occasional visits to them he enjoj'ed 
 with the fondness and enthusiasm of a child On his last visit North 
 " he was greatly disappointed in not being able to attend Commence- 
 ment at Bowdoin, and had arranged his plans for that purpose ; but a 
 temporary lameness compelled him to keep his room. He spoke with 
 warm affection of his Alma Mater, and said the sombre aspect of the 
 old pines which surround it, and the sighing of the wind through the 
 branches, had made an indelible impression upon him while at college. 
 He used to saunter through them or lie down under their summer 
 shade, and project fancy sketches of the future. His reminiscences 
 of the lecture-room of Prof. Cleaveland were particularly vivid, and 
 he delighted to expatiate upon the genial gifts and acquirements of 
 that veteran in natural science." 
 
 In 1845 he removed, as has been stated, to New Orleans, and at 
 once entered on lucrative practice. But though of strong constitu- 
 tion, of power of endurance beyond most men, his health had been 
 affected seriously by his unsparing labors and his often reckless ex- 
 posure. He still persisted against advice in professional work almost 
 to the last, though prostrated by incurable disease, and died at a 
 country seat near Natchez, July 1, l^i50. 
 
 In 1842 he married Miss Mary Jane Williams, daughter of the late 
 James C. Williams of Natchez. His married life was exceedingly 
 blessed, and his home became the centre of comfort, joy, and hope. 
 They had four children : two sons and two daughters. 
 
 Mr. Cleaveland having left his sketch unfinished, the last half or 
 more of the above has been prepared by A. S. Packard from mate- 
 rials .partly obtained by Mr. Cleaveland himself, and the memoir of 
 Mr. Packard by his brother. 
 
 James Samuel Eowe was born at Exeljer, N. H., in 1807, studied 
 law with George Sullivan in his native town, and practised for five 
 years in Dover, since which time Bangor has been the busy scene of 
 
352 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 his life and labors. I have it from the highest authority that he is 
 " one of the best read lawyers in Maine, a fine advocate of unques- 
 tioned integrity and worth." In 1857 Mr. Rowe married a MissGoss 
 of Bangor. 
 
 Jonathan Maltbt Eowland was born at Fairfield, Conn , in 
 1804. He " studied theology two years at Princeton, the third at 
 Andover. He served with honor and success as a missionarj' for 
 several years, and was settled about seven years as pastor of the 
 Presbyterian Church in Union, near Binghamton, N. Y. He was 
 one of the commissioners on the floor of the General Assembly, in 
 1837, when by the unhappy aotion of the exscinding measures his 
 seat was vacated, and he with many others was ordered to leave 
 the house. In the early part of the year 1841 he removed to Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., where, for eleven years, he performed witli assiduity and 
 usefulness the arduous duties of city missionary." In 1851 he became 
 pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Gowanus, Brooklyn, where 
 in October, 1853, he died of congestion of the brain. " Mr. Rowland 
 was a man of retiring and amiable manners, of sound judgment and 
 clear views of truth, of practical sincerity, consistency, and useful- 
 ness. As a preacher he was Scriptural, faithful, and solemn, yet ten- 
 der and sympathizing. He was a man of prayer as well as of faith, 
 and hence his example and his influence were so excellent. He was 
 beloved as far as known. Especially the poor whom he visited, the 
 mariner, the felon in his cell, the neglected, the ignorant, and the 
 young, whose wants he explored and to whom his ministrations 
 reached, the sick, the widow, and the orphan feel that in him they had 
 and have lost a friend indeed. His death was calm, coroposed, and 
 Christian." His remains rest in his native Fairfield. He left a 
 widow and two children. Tlie daughter is married. The son has 
 been United States consul at Riga in Russia 
 
 John Brown Russwurm was born in 1799 at Port Antonio in the 
 island of Jamaica of a Creole mother. When eight j'ears old he was 
 put at school in Quebec. His father meanwhile came to the United 
 States and married in the District of Maine. Mrs. Russwurm, true 
 wife that she was, on learning the relationship, insisted that John 
 Brown (as hitherto he had been called) should be sent for and should 
 thenceforth be one of the family. The father soon died, but his 
 widow proved herself a faithful mother to the tawny youth. She sent 
 him to school, though in consequence of existing prejudices it was not 
 always easy to do so. She procured friends for him. Marrying again. 
 
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 she was careful to stipulate that John should not lose his home. 
 Through his own exertions, with some help from others, he was at 
 length enabled to enter college and to complete the usual course. It 
 should be remembered to the credit of his fellow-students in Bruns- 
 wick, that peculiar as his position was among them, they were care- 
 ful to avoid everything that might tend to make that position unpleas- 
 ant. From college he went to New York and edited an abolition 
 paper. This did not last long. He soon became interested in the 
 colonization cause, and engaged in the service of the society. In 
 1829 he went to Africa as superintendent of public schools in Liberia, 
 and engaged in mercantile pursuits at Monrovia. From 1830 to 1834 
 he acted as colonial secretary, superintending at the same time and 
 editing with decided ability the Liberia Herald. In 1836 he was 
 appointed governor of the Maryland Colony at Cape Palmas, and so 
 continued till his death in 1851. With what fidelity and ability he 
 discharged the duties of this responsible post may be gathered from 
 the following remarks of Mr. Latrobe, at that time president of the 
 Maryland Colonization Society, ,and now president of the American 
 Colonization Society. He was addressing the board of managers. 
 " None knew better," he said, " or so well as the board under what 
 daily responsibilities Governor Russwurm's life in Africa was passed, 
 and how conscientiously he discharged them ; how, at periods when 
 the very existence of the then infant colony depended upon its rela- 
 tions with surrounding tribes of excited nations, his coolness and 
 admirable judgment obviated or averted impending perils ; how, when 
 the authority and dignity of the colonial government were at stake in 
 lamentable controversies with civilized and angry white men, the. 
 calm decorum of his conduct brought even his opponents over to his 
 side ; how, when popular clamor among the colonists called upon him 
 as a judge to disregard the forms of laW and sacrifice an oflfending 
 individual in the absence of legal proof, he rebuked the angry multi- 
 tude by the stern integrity of his conduct ; and how, when on his 
 visit to Baltimore in 1848 he was thanked personally by the members 
 of the board, he deprecated the praise bestowed on him for the per- 
 formance of his duty, and impressed all who saw him with the 
 modest manliness of his character and his most excellent and cour- 
 teous bearing.'' Resolutions expressing similar sentiments and the 
 highest approval of his administration were passed by the board. 
 Dr. James Hall, a graduate of the Bowdoin Medical School, the 
 friend of Russwurm, and his predecessor in the chief magistracj' of 
 African Maryland, has delineated him with apparent candor. I con- 
 dense the picture. A man of erect and more than ordinary stature, 
 
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354 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 with a good head and face and a large, keen eye. In deportment 
 always gentlemanly. Of a sound intellect, a great reader, with a 
 special fondness for history and politics. Naturally sagacious in 
 regard to men and things, and though somewhat indolent himself, 
 exceedingly skilful in making others work. A man of strict integ- 
 rity, a good husband, father, master, and friend, and in later life a 
 devoted member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He married 
 a daughter of Lieut.-Gov. McGill of Monrovia, and was succeeded 
 in his office at Cape Palmas by his brother-in-law. Dr. McGill. He 
 left three sons and a daughter. Honor to the coUege which, disre- 
 garding a general but illiberal prejudice, admitted to its privileges this 
 member of a proscribed caste ! Honor especially to the memory of 
 him who turned to so good account his discipline at Brunswick ! 
 
 Geoegb Yeaton Sawter, born in 1805, is a son of William Saw- 
 yer of Wakefield, N. H., graduate of Harvard College, 1800, and 
 living still. George Teaton Sawyer was fitted at Exeter, studied law 
 with his father, and practised three years at Meredith Bridge. Since 
 that time Nashua has been his home. He served for several years as 
 a representative in the Legislature, adhering with that slight excep- 
 tion closely to his profession. His success and eminence at the bar 
 justified his appointment in 1851 to the office of circuit judge. He 
 resigned this seat in 1854 and returned to the practice. The next 
 year he was made a justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, 
 and this high position he still holds. These simple facts might pass 
 for ample evidence of the high estimate set upon Judge Sawyer; 
 stiU, a more specific view may interest his classmates and college 
 friends. The following is the testimony of an expert : " In the prac- 
 tice of his profession he exhibited in a marked degree strength and 
 acuteness of mind and power of argument, being free from the light 
 and fanciful modes of address often adopted by the advocate. His 
 words were well chosen, and his efibrts were characterized by a direct- 
 ness and earnestness of manner whicjj carried to the minds of a jury 
 such conviction of his truthfulness as made him a formidable oppo- 
 nent at the bar.- His reasoning was plain and comprehensive, his 
 research profound, his elucidation clear and convincing ; he readily 
 detected error or sophistry ; and to these features of his strong and 
 well-balanced mind, more than to brilliancy of thought, may be attrib- 
 uted the marked success which attended his later efforts at the bar. 
 At the time of his appointment to the bench he had, by character, 
 learning, and professional success, attained a position in the front rank 
 of the Hillsborough County bar, then numbering among its active 
 
GRADUATES. 
 
 355 
 
 members some of the ablest men in the State. In his present position 
 on the Supreme bench, his firmness and decision, his habits of patient 
 hearing and inquiry, and the urbanity of his manners have won for 
 him with the people and with the bar a well-deserved reputation 
 throughout the State. To the opinions delivered by him and now pub- 
 lished his friends may safely refer as evidence of the learning, ability, 
 and industry which he has brought to the high office he now holds." 
 
 Joseph Sherman was born at Edgecomb, March 3, 1800. For six 
 years after leaving college he had charge of the academy in North 
 Yarmouth. After two years of theological stud}"^ at Andover he went 
 in 1834 to Columbia in Tennessee as professor of ancient languages 
 in Jackson College. In the duties of this office he spent the remain- ' 
 ing fifteen years of his life, and during three of them he was also 
 president of the institution. In June, 1849, he started with his wife 
 (formerly Miss Mitchell of North Yarmouth) to visit their friends in 
 Maine. On the second day, as they were leaving Nashville and 
 about to cross the Cumberland Eiver, the brake of the coach gave 
 way, the driver fell, and the horses rushed unchecked upon the bridge. 
 There the heavily loaded vehicle went over. Mr. Sherman being on 
 the outside was thrown among the timbers of the bridge, and survived 
 the accident but a few hours. Mrs. Sherman, who was uninjured, 
 returned with the remains to Columbia, where they were buried with 
 many demonstrations of grief and respect. That he well deserved 
 them there can be no doubt. On receiving the news of his death, 
 the citizens of Columbia together with the trustees and Faculty of the 
 college held a meeting to express their sense of the common calamity. 
 A short extract from their proceedings will show how Dr. Sherman 
 was regarded by the community in which he lived : " Several j'ears ago 
 he came to this State as a minister of the gospel and an instructor of 
 youth. Becoming identified with this community, he devoted his time 
 and his talents to the instruction of our young men and the cause 
 of the Redeemer, to which he was most ardently attached. From his 
 first settlement among us he became connected with Jackson CoIt 
 lege as one of its professors, a station which he filled with distin- 
 guished ability and success. Next to the cause of his Heavenly 
 Master, that of education seemed to be predominant in his affections. 
 He was universally beloved in this community, and in more than 
 ordinary degree respected for his profound learning, exemplary piety, 
 exalted virtue, and sincere devotion to truth. His mild and unob- 
 trusive manner, singleness of purpose, and benevolent heart secured 
 the confidence of all who knew hinj." 
 
356 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Manasseh Hovet Smith was a son of Manasseh and Olivia (Hovey) 
 Smith of "Warren, and was born there in 1807. In that town until 
 quite recently he has been a practising lawyer and advocate. He was 
 one of the executive council in 1848 and 1849. Mr. Smith was nom- 
 inated for governor of the State in 1857, 1858, and. 1859. Though he 
 failed in the canvass he is far from having been an unsuccessful man. 
 He now lives in Portland. A paragraph in one of the papers not 
 politically friendly, announcing the fact that he had purchased a fine 
 residence in that city, gave him the following welcome : " Personally 
 we would extend a heartj' welcome to Mr. Smith in becoming a resi- 
 dent of our city. He is well known as a gentleman of ability, high 
 character, and of a very genial and social disposition." In 1837 he 
 married Mary M. Dole. They have three sons and as many daugh- 
 ters. 
 
 [He died in 1865. —p. J 
 
 Robert Southgate was born in 1808 in Portland. His father, 
 Horatio Southgate, was brother to Frederic Southgate (see 1810). 
 His mother was Abigail McLellan. Having graduated at Brunswick, 
 he passed through the three years of theological study at Andover, 
 and then squared the circle of his education by a fourth year under 
 the great Dr. Taylor of New Haven. His life has been given exclu- 
 sively to the work of the gospel ministry. He has been successively 
 pastor of a Congregational church in Woodstock, Vt., of one in 
 Wethersfleld, Conn., of a Presbyterian church in Monroe, Mich., and 
 of the First Congregational Church in Ipswich, Mass. This old pul- 
 pit of historical renown he still occupies, — respectably, I believe, and 
 usefully. In 1832 he married Mary Frances, daughter of Benjamin 
 Swan of Woodstock, Vt. Of four surviving children three are yet 
 at home. The oldest son is in a Boston counting-room. 
 
 [Mr. Southgate died suddenly in Woodstock, Vt., in 1873. — p.] 
 
 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, born in 1809, was a son of Col. Sam- 
 uel Thatcher (Harvard College, 1793), who settled as a lawyer in 
 New Gloucester, but soon reinoved to Warren, where he became use- 
 ful and distinguished, was high sheriff of Lincoln County, was for 
 several terms in the Legislature and two terms in Congress, was an 
 overseer of the college and one of the founders of Warren Academy. 
 Mr. Thatcher adopted the law for his profession, had an oflSce in 
 Court Street, Boston, and did enough in that line to give promise of 
 eminence as a lawyer; but literature had greater charms, and very 
 soon engrossed all his time and power. During his short but honor- 
 

 JS/iyr-a^ad. f'jj Uui ISawdowr, M.r?!i^- 
 
GRADUATES. 357 
 
 able career he attached to himself many warm friends. From one of 
 these, like himself " a man of letters and of manners too," I have 
 received the following pleasant sketch. Mr. Tuckerman's estimate 
 corresponds with my own impressions otherwise received, and has 
 been approved by some to whom the name and memory of its subject 
 are still dear : " The thought and time, the ambition and taste, of Mr. 
 Thatcher were chiefly devoted to literature. He was an indefatigable 
 writer, always engaged upon a review, a lecture, a book, newspaper, 
 magazine, or some other literary enterprise. While the NoHh Ameri- 
 can Review was under the control of the late A. H. Everett, Mr. 
 Thatcher was a frequent contributor to its pages. He wrote several 
 ■articles for the Essayist, a magazine published by Mr. Light, among 
 them critiques on American poets, which attracted considerable atten- 
 tion. He edited the Colonizationist, a periodical- which advocated the 
 Liberian project, and delivered many eloquent speeches in behalf of 
 that object. He edited a volume of Mrs. Hemans's poetry, for which 
 he wrote an eloquent preface. For ' Harper's Family Library ' he 
 wrote the ' Lives of the Indians,' and for their ' Juvenile Series ' a 
 work called ' Indian Traits.' He wrote a life of Phillis Wheatley and 
 one of J. Osgood Wright, a missionary. An article in the Quarterly 
 Review on ' Atlantic Steam Navigation ' was contributed by him 
 while on a visit to England. On his return the journals contained 
 sketches of his travel, with interesting descriptions of eminent indi- 
 viduals whom he visited abroad. Mr. Thatcher cherished the most 
 genuine poetical sympathies and aspirations ; he not only had a keen 
 appreciation of poetry in general and an enthusiasm for certain bards, 
 but it was a deep instinct of his heart to embody his own emotions in 
 verse. Some of his pieces were recognized as the genuine oflTspring 
 of sentiment, and are graceful utterances of love, sorrow, and faith. 
 For several years he labored under a complication of disorders, and 
 though often prostrated by disease, continued to write, plan, labor, 
 travel, and keep up incessant mental activity to the last. A very 
 creditable selection of prose and verse might easily be made from his 
 miscellaneous writings. His religious convictions, philanthropic zeal, 
 devotion to literature, great industry, and attachment to bis friends 
 form material for a biography of uncommon interest. He died in 
 Boston, July 14, 1840. It was thought that his end was hastened 
 by unremitted application, and I have always considered the great 
 error of his life an overestimate of literature as a profession and 
 source of reputation. Still there is reason to believe that a morbid 
 tendency of constitution would have soon terminated his career, even 
 had his health been less drained by cerebral activity, and that he 
 
358 HISTORY OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 habitually sought by intellectual occupation an antidote to the bane of 
 disease." 
 
 The portrait from which the engraving is taken was painted while 
 Mr. Thatcher was in England by his friend Osgood; then well known 
 as one of our best artists. ' I am indebted to his relative, Miss Put- 
 nam of Peterboro', N. H., for the opportunity to reproduce it here. 
 
 [Thip portrait was bequeathed by Mr. Thatcher to the college, and 
 is in its gallery of paintings. — p.'] 
 
 Geokge Trask first saw the light in Beverly, Mass., somewhere 
 in the latter part of the last century. His parents, Jeremiah and 
 Hannah (Wallace) , were '•' Israelites without guile, and Ciilvinistic to' 
 the hub." Mr. Trask has explored his pedigree a good way back, but 
 cannot find that any of his progenitors were hung. He was somewhat 
 mature when he began to prepare for college. Reuben Nason was his 
 teacher. Of his scholarship at that time he speaks modestly. He said 
 his lessons in the recitation-room, and got his education elsewhere. 
 He mixed with his fellow-students in democratic simplicity. He 
 " paced his room diagonally, studj'ing metaphysics with a vengeance." 
 Once a week he debated great questions in a small club, brightening 
 and invigorating his intellect by conflicts with such men as Little, 
 Bradbury, Cilley, Theodore Wells, and John P. Hale. He got but 
 few compliments from the college officers. The learned professor of 
 chemistry alone seems to have had a peep into the future. " Trask," 
 said he to some one, "will be the useful man of his class." In due 
 course Mr. Trask began to preach. He was settled first in Framing- 
 ham, then in Warren, then in Fitchburg, aU in Massachusetts. In 
 each of these places religion revived under his ministrations. For 
 several years he figured conspicuously in the abolition cause, speaking 
 often and sometimes presiding in its societies and conventions. To 
 play this part required not only courage but fortitude, in times when 
 opponents not unfrequently corroborated their arguments with the logic 
 of the brickbat, or with the nose-con■^Jincing syllogisms of perished 
 eggs. Latterly Mr. Trask's moral and utilitarian eflTorts have been 
 mostly in a different direction. It is now a good many years since he 
 came out the uncompromising enemy, of tobacco in all its styles. In 
 the use of this article he'sees one of the great weakeners and cor- 
 ruptei s of mankind, One of the most formidable obstacles to human 
 virtue and progress. To assail it with tongue and pen has been for 
 some time the chief business of his life. He has made innumerable 
 speeches and has written and printed many books and tracts full of 
 ' argument and warning, of exhort;ation p,nd entreaty. " His mission," 
 
GRADUATES. 359 
 
 he says, " has been a painful one. Many wise men as well as fools 
 laugh about it, and do nothing more." He has been "not only the 
 song of the drunkard, but the jest of smoky drones of his own call- 
 ing." Such too often, alas, is the bard fate of the earnest reformer ! 
 And yet his labors have not been fruitless ; far from it. Multitudes 
 of clergymen and thousands of laymen have renoiinced the poison, 
 while millions of the young have enlisted in the vast anti-nicotian 
 army of which George Trask may be called the grand pioneer and 
 generalissimo. As a writer and speaker Mr. Trask is direct, if not 
 blunt. He does not think it necessarj' to weaken his attack on a 
 great vice by the use of eloquent euphemisms. He never employs 
 grass, when stones are the missiles indicated. As a moral practi- 
 tioner he adheres to the allopathic rule ; and when he gives his patient 
 a dose it is usually of the drastic order. A recent anti-tobacco tract 
 (No. 19) is addressed to Rev. Dr. Spring of New York. The tobacco 
 box of the reverend doctor, brought out upon the stage of the Acad- 
 emy of Music in the Tract Society meeting of 1859 and courteously 
 tendered to Rev. Dr. Bacon, just after the latter had made some unkind 
 allusion to the narcotic weed, suggested to Mr. Trask this personal 
 appeal. He is grieved to see such a man give the weight of his char- 
 acter to so loathsome a vice, so monstrous an iniquity. The com- 
 batants in this cause expect a hard time ; thej^ expect to meet the 
 enemy in smoke-rooms and dens of infamy, and here they are pre- 
 pared for the fight : but to find him boldly flaunting his banner in 
 high and holy places is really dreadful. When such a man as Dr. 
 Spring, with his " polished sanctity," is seen sporting with the " great 
 curse," " we poor reformers are for the moment sick at heart ; and did 
 not God give us grit, ka well as grace, we should give up the ghost." 
 After a tremendous bombardment of four close-printed pages, he 
 coolly asks the demolished doctor for his tobacco box to be preserved 
 as a trophy. In 1831 Mr. Trask was married to Ruth F., daughter of 
 Rev. Asa Packard of Lancaster, Mass. Of five children, one son tills 
 the soil in Fitchburg, two sons are in Kansas, two daughters still glad- 
 den the parental home. 
 
 [He died very suddenly of disease of the heart in 1875. — p. J 
 
 Charles W. G. Wilcox was born in Elliot in 1807. His father, 
 David Wilcox, lived subsequently in York, where he kept a public 
 house. He read law with Peleg Sprague in Hallowell, and opened an 
 office in that town. Soon after, abandoning the law which he did not 
 like, he became cashier of the Franklin Bank in Gardiner. About 
 1835 he joined a company of emigrants from Maine and went to 
 
360 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Illinois, where he resumed the banking business. He now lives in tl 
 flourishing town of Kankakee. Mr. Wilcox has been twice a memb< 
 of the Legislature of Illinois. His first wife, Elizabeth Leonard 
 Hallowell, died childless soon after the removal to Illinois. He afte 
 wards married Mrs. Peebles, a widowed lady of German origin, wl 
 died leaving an infant daughter, who has lived ever since with h 
 father's friends in " Old York." His present wife was a Miss Chesh 
 of New Hampshire. They have one daughter. 
 
 Moses Emeet Woodman was from Fryeburg, 1806. " He was fltt« 
 for college mainly by his own exertions, sustained an excellent cha 
 acter, and held good rank as a scholar. He studied law and open« 
 an oflSce in Brunswick. He was a man of solid worth, not brilliai 
 but of sound good sense." (D. T. Granger.) " He was a good cc 
 lector, a good conveyancer, a good counsellor, and a trustworthy mai 
 — qualities you know which go to make a useful and a good citize: 
 but which do not give a man so much notoriety at the bar as son 
 other qualities. In 1836 he was chosen cashier of the Brunswi( 
 Bank and gave up the law. In this sphere he excelled : every hoc 
 liked him. Accurate, faithful, accommodating, everybody had co: 
 . fidence in him. He resigned his cashiership in the fall of 1839, ai 
 died of consumption in the March following. I saw much of him 
 his last days, which were made happy and cheerful by the Christis 
 hope. He was beloved and respec);ed by all, and his name is j'et frei 
 in the memory of many of our best citizens. He died a bachelor 
 (A. C. Robbins, Esq.) 
 
 1827. 
 
 John Stevens Abbot is a native of Temple, born in 1807. I 
 left college with the first honors of his class, and took charge of t 
 academy in China, which for nearly three years he taught successfull 
 reading law at the same time. He concluded his law course und 
 Mr. Belcher in Farmington and Mr. Longfellow in Portland. Aftei 
 short stay in Union, he went to Thomaston, entering at once on a lar; 
 practice, and contending successfully with such opponents as Cille 
 Farley, and Ruggles. After the advancement of Mr. Tenney to t 
 Supreme bench, Mr. Abbot removed to Norridgewock, where he i 
 mained a few years in full and highly successful practice. His remo^ 
 from Thomaston to a smaller and less important field is not wholly ine 
 plicable. In 1835 Mr. Abbot was married to Elizabeth, onlydaught 
 of William Allen of Norridgewock. Mr. Abbot was the leading mi 
 in the Legislati;re of 1854, and was active in the election of his friei 
 
GEADUATES. 361 
 
 Fessenden to the United States Senate. This is the sum total of his 
 public life. He was attorney -general for the State in 1855, and this 
 is the entire list of his appointments. As a lawyer Mr. Abbot ranks 
 among the first. The following characterization is believed to be 
 just : ' ' He has not the talent of talking hour after hour to a jury 
 without saying anything. While I consider him a good jury lawyer, 
 one that can bring out and state clearly all the facts, yet his great 
 skill and power are seen in a law argument before the court. The 
 whole is stated as clearly as any mathematical demonstration. Every 
 point is fortified by authorities, and the whole is as close and compact 
 as an acorn in its shell. No mere words, no declamation, but the 
 closest reasoning and the sternest logic. Abbot is every inch a law- 
 yer, and the traces of his mind are to be found in the Maine Reports. 
 But the man who is a lawyer only must be content with a moderate 
 fame. In the strife for notoriety, a politician, though of but one- 
 mouse power, will go far ahead of him." Mr. Abbot has a large 
 family. One son is in Bowdoin College.* 
 
 Joseph Adams was born in West Newbury, Mass., in 1803. He 
 was in Dummer Academy when I took charge of it in 1821, and went 
 from it to Brunswick. He studied law in Hallowell and practised in 
 Pittston until 1835, when he removed to Gardiner. From 1840 to 
 1849, Mr. Adams was cashier of the Gardiner Bank and treasurer of 
 the savings bank. Then he resigne'd and went to California, hoping 
 thus to recover his health. Disappointed in this respect, he soon 
 returned and resumed his post in ibhe savings bank. In 1853 he was 
 appointed cashier of the Cpbbossee-Coutee Bank. These offices he still 
 holds. Mr. Adams has suffered a good deal from feeble health and a 
 too sensitive nervous system. These circumstances compelled him to 
 exchange his profession for a less exciting employment. The simple 
 story of his life is sufficient evidence that he has the confidence of 
 those who knew him best. He married in 1832 Catharine, daughter 
 of Major Edward Swan of Gardiner. They have four sons and three 
 daughters.! 
 
 HoBATio O. Allen was born in Sanford in 1810. The following 
 extract is from a letter which I received from one of Ms classmates, — 
 
 * Graduated in 1858. Mr. Abbot removed from Norridgewock to Beaton in 1860, 
 where he has since steadily pursued his professional labors. He died suddenly June 
 12, 1881, at his residence in Watertown, Mass., leaving four sons and four daugh- 
 ters, p. 
 
 t Three of his sons have been cashiers of banks. AD have died within about a 
 year of the date of the father's' death, April 26, 1879. p. 
 
362 HISTORY OF BOTVDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 now himself no more: "He was the youngest member of the clas, 
 He entered too young and was too far removed from the parent 
 eye. I can see him now distinctly, as he appeared to me for tl 
 first time: a countenance indicative of health, youth, and gooc 
 nature ; a boy in gray roundabout jacket, with his shirt ruflG 
 turned over the collar. Unfortunately, Allen fell into bad compan; 
 Soon the jacket gave place to a coat and the ruffle to a dickej 
 Above all loomed a hat. He became a man, and of necessity pi 
 away childish things ; and with them went the innocence of childhooc 
 — and never returned. . . . He worried through college, but did nc 
 receive his degree till a year or two afterwards." Mr. Adams selecte 
 the law for his profession, and died at the age of twenty-seven. 
 
 Lewis Bailbt. Few Bowdoin men can see his name and not reca 
 the image, of her who gave him to the catalogue and to the world. A 
 a very early period, and through many revolving academic years 
 Nelly Bailey was an official personage about college ; and thoug 
 not publicly recognized as of the Faculty, she was in her own esti 
 mation no mean member of that august body. At length, emeriti 
 non utilis annis, she laid aside the broom and retired from public life 
 She long survived her active labors, and many a returning graduate 
 under the promptings of kindness or curiosity, has called at her Ion 
 cottage to behold in that bent and shrivelled form a still livinj 
 remembrancer of his college days. Strange to say, the poor oli 
 body fell at last a victim to the fire-breathing railroad monster. Sh 
 had just crossed the river, was upon the track, got bewildered, an( 
 was run over. 
 
 In college her son Lewis "was more distinguished for diligence 
 amiabUity, and good conduct than for scholarship." He settled as i 
 teacher of youth in Utica, N. Y., and was successful and wel 
 esteemed. An almost total loss of sight darkened his last years 
 He died in 1862, leaving a widow and children. 
 
 Abraham Chittenden Baldwin was born in 1804 at North Guil 
 ford, Conn. His grandfather, Timothy Baldwin, fought for liberty ii 
 1876., His father was Col. Benjamin Baldwin. His maternal grand 
 father, Abraham Chittenden, was also in the war, a staff officer o 
 Gen. Ward, and died at the age of ninety-six. Having passee 
 through the New Haven Seminary, Mr. Baldwin was settled in Berlin 
 Mass., succeeding there the venerable Dr. Puffer. From 1833 t( 
 1837 he was pastor of the Olivet Church in Springfield, Mass. Ii 
 1839 he became the associate principal of a young ladies' school ii 
 
GEADFATES. 363 
 
 Newburg, N. Y. Two years afterward he accepted a call to the 
 Howe Street Church in New Haven, Conn. From this place he went 
 to Hartford as family guardian and steward of the American Asylum 
 for the Deaf and Dumb. Compelled by ill health in his- family to 
 resign this office in 1854, he acted for a year or two as superintend- 
 ent of the Guilford Institute, supplying, at the same time, the pulpit 
 of his native parish. Since 1857 he has been pastor of the First 
 Congregational Church in Durham, Conn., and also of the church at 
 Black Rock, a portion of Bridgeport. He thence returned to spend 
 his remaining days at Hartford. Without pastoral charge he has con- 
 tinued to preadh as opportunities presented. In addition to several 
 sermons and contributions to the periodicals, Mr. Baldwin has pub- 
 lished a work entitled " Themes and Texts for the Pulpit," which has 
 had a good circulation ; also " Helen and her Cousin," a Sunday- 
 school book; also "Friendly Letters to a Christian Slaveholder" (a 
 premium essay), and three prize essays ; "Liberty and Slavery, the 
 Great National Question" ; also a " Dictionary of Phrases for Secret 
 Telegrapliing," of which Prof. Morse and others speak well ; as also 
 an article on Joel Barlow in the New Englander for July, 1873. He 
 was married in 1830 to Emily, daughter of Dr. Joseph Foote of North 
 Haven, Conn. They have no children.* 
 
 Samuel Hakwabd Blake was born in 1807 on a farm in Hartford. 
 He studied law in Buckfield, in Portland with Fessenden and Deblois, 
 and at the Law School in New Haven. Since 1831 he has practised 
 his profession in Bangor. Politicallj' he is and has alwaj's been a 
 Democrat. In 1839 and in 1841 he was a member of the State Sen- 
 ate, and for the year last named he was president of that body. Sub- 
 sequently he was attorney-general of the State for about ope year. 
 In 1854 he was the candidate of his party for Congress, but he was 
 beaten under the question of " bleeding Kansas" by his friend and 
 competitor Washburn, the present member. Mr. Blake was mar- 
 ried late to a daughter of Capt. Joshua Hines of Frankfort. Mr. 
 Blake has one brother, William A. Blake, who is president of the 
 Merchants' Bank in Bangor. That these two men have obeyed the 
 injunction to live in fraternal unity may at least be inferred from the 
 fact that since they came of age they have had an entire community 
 of goods and estate. Though one has been trading and the other 
 practising law, and though each has a famO}-, their property, both 
 
 * Mr. Baldwin has, through the Congregational Publishing Society, published in 
 1 880 " A Pastor's Counsels to Young Christians.' 
 
364 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 real and personal, has always been held and used in common. The 
 entire estate has been managed by one or hy the other as if he were 
 sole owner, and as chanced to be most convenient ; nor has any 
 account, whether of earnings or expenses, been kept as with each 
 other. Very pleasant this. Verily, the charming story of the Cheer- 
 yble Brothers is not an impossibility ; nor is it wholly a myth. 
 
 Enoch Emery Brown was born in 1806 in Taunton, Mass., where 
 his father, Enoch Brown, a graduate of Brown Universitj'', was then a 
 practising lawyer. His mother was Melinda, a daughter of Judge 
 Padelford of Taunton. Enoch E. Brown was a mere child when his 
 father went to Maine and settled in Hampden. He studied law with 
 his father, and made a beginning in Frankfort, county of "Waldo. 
 Then he stayed three years in St. Albans Village. In 1835 he be- 
 came a partner in law business with Warren & Brown of Bangor. 
 After two years in that city he went back to St. Albans, now called 
 Hartland, and there he lives now. As he looks back on this last step 
 he seems to think it was a mistake, Mr. Brown has held no oflBce, 
 but there was a time when he would have been a senator if his friends 
 the Whigs had only been more numerous. In 1835 he married Eliza- 
 beth, daughter of Jared Whitman of South Abington, Mass. They 
 have three daughters. 
 
 Moses P. Cleateland is kindly remembered by his classmates. 
 The Rev. Dr. Peabody speaks of him "as the son of our revered 
 professor, distinguished for his amiable temper, and his strict, faith- 
 ful, punctilious discharge of all duties laid upon him." To the same 
 purport wrote Dr. Dorr: " He never missed a recitation of any kind 
 or a chapel exercise for the whole four years. He was alwstys gen- 
 tlemanlj' in his deportment and kind in his bearing towards others. 
 I never knew him to speak a harsh word, or to give utterance to an 
 unkind feeling." Mr. Cleaveland studied medicine and established 
 himself for a time in Bucksport. His next abode was in Newmar- 
 ket, N. H. While here he married hiS cousin, Martha Richardson 
 of Duxbury, Mass., and had two daughters who died in childhood. 
 He had just settled in Natick, Mass., when he was seized with typhus 
 fever, which proved fatal in 1840. His widow is now the wife of 
 Capt. E. Treat of Livermore Falls. 
 
 John Codman, son of William Codman and grandson on the 
 mother's side of Dr. Nathaniel Coffin, fitted partly at Dummer Acad- 
 emy and partly under Capt. Partridge, and entered Sophomore. 
 Having studied law in the offices of Leverett Salstonstall and Rufus 
 
GKADUATES. 365 
 
 Choate and in the school at Cambridge, he settled in Boston, where 
 he still practises his profession and has been master in chancery. 
 He has been several times a member of the Legislature. That he 
 retains and cherishes an interest in letters may be inferred from the 
 fact that he is an active member in the Greek department of the 
 examining committee at Cambridge, and also chairman of the com- 
 mittee of the Boston Latin School. In 1855 Mr. Codman married 
 Isabella, daughter of Hon. Samuel D. Parker of Boston. They have 
 one child. 
 
 [He died in Boston June 8, 1879. — p. J 
 
 Asa Dodge was of a family which settled in Essex County, Mass., 
 as early as 1639. " His grandfather was an officer in the Revolution- 
 ary army during two or three of the first years of the war." About 
 1778 he removed to Maine, and became one of the pioneer settlers of 
 Newcastle. Here, in 1802, Asa Dodge was born. His opportunities 
 for learning were few and small. But he early manifested a strong 
 predilection for mental pursuits, and through difficulties and discour- 
 agements, and almost unaided, he found his way to college. " In 
 these struggles he had the sjTiipathy and companionship of his 
 cousin, Joseph Sherman, afterward the president of Columbia Col- 
 lege ; or rather I should say the two young aspirants mutually aided 
 and encouraged each other. . . . During all the first year of his col- 
 legiate course and portions of each succeeding year, he pursued his 
 studies away from the institution, that he might unite with them 
 teaching or other occupation as means of support. Contending thus 
 with difficulties at every step, he yet passed through his course with 
 high success. The part assigned him as a graduating exercise showed 
 his rank to be among the first three or four of his class. He then 
 engaged in the study of medicine, and was admitted to the practice in 
 1830. But before this time his mind had taken a new direction. While 
 passing through his professional studies, he had thought much upon 
 the great problems of human life and destiny. He seemed to have 
 attained that point in man's experience, attained only by the happy 
 few, at which the human spirit looks steadily beyond itself, and is 
 filled with the all-absorbing desire that the reign of God may come. 
 He entered upon the practice of his profession," but feeling that it 
 was not his sphere of duty, he soon engaged in the study of theology. 
 In 1832, before he had completed the ordinary course, he was appointed 
 by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions to the 
 Syrian mission, in the double capacity of missionai'y and phj'sician. 
 In October of the same year, having just before been married to Mar- 
 
366 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 tha M. Merrill of Portland, he sailed with her for Asia. His station 
 was Beirut, and there " he entered on his missionary work with the 
 untiring energy which had before distinguished him. Had he lived 
 to the ordinary age of man, he would undoubtedly have performed 
 much efficient labor in his chosen field of effort. But it was not so to 
 be. In less than two years after his arrival at Beirut he fell a vic- 
 tim to fever, brought on by excessive labor in travelling to attend 
 professionally the sick-bed of a missionary brother. He died at 
 Jerusalem, Jan. 28, 1835, and his remains rest within the walls of the 
 Holy City." 
 
 Joseph Hawlet Dorr was a native of Boston. He gave at his 
 graduation the salutatory address. On leaving college he spent one 
 or two years at the theological school at Cambridge. For a couple of 
 years he was at the University of Gottingen, and he also pursued his 
 studies in Paris. At what point in this academic career he turned- 
 from divinity to medicine, I have not learned. He settled in Phila- 
 delphia, a well-read physician, we may safelj"- say, but with too little 
 health of his own to be of much service in restoring it to others. 
 ", He was a scholar and a gentleman, social and genial in his man- 
 ners. He was a great reader, always cheerful thoiigh almost always suf- 
 fering." He died of consumption in 1855, at the age of forty-seven. 
 He was married in 1847, and his wife survives and laments him. 
 
 Henry Enoch Dummer, born in 1808 and youngest brother of 
 Charles Dummer (see 1814), studied law with his brother and at the 
 Law School in Cambridge, and practised one year at Skowhegan Falls. 
 In 1832 he removed to Springfield, 111., where he lived five years. 
 He then settled in Beardstown, same State, were he had an extensive 
 practice for twenty-six years, met often in his profession with Abra- 
 ham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, and others of that class. He was 
 probate judge for Cass County about five years, and was a member of 
 the convention which met in 1846 to amend the Constitution of the 
 State, and in 1860 was elected to the State Senate ; but his profes- 
 sional engagements, with perhaps a distaste for political life, led him 
 to resign before the expiration of his term. He married in 1840 
 Phebe Van Ness of New Jersey. They have had two sons and three 
 daughters.* 
 
 * In 1864 Judge Dummer removed to Jacksonville, where he continued the prac. 
 tice of his profession. He was a trustee of the Central Hospital for the Insane, and 
 also of Illinois College, and was appointed, under strong recommendations, registrar 
 in bankruptcy. His health requiring relief from care, early in July he repaired to 
 
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GKADUATES. 367 
 
 Alpheus Felch was born in Limerick, September, 1806. Eepeated 
 attempts to obtain particulars of his career since graduation liave 
 failed, and the writer has been compelled to depend on a general 
 
 statement from another source. He studied law and went to Miclii- 
 
 » 
 
 gan, where he has prosecuted his profession at Ann Ajbor. He has 
 held responsible public positions until within a few years, in the 
 Legislature of the State, auditor-general of the State, judge of the 
 Supreme Court, governor. United States senator, and under the 
 United States, commissioner on California land claims. In 1877 he 
 received from the college the degree of LL. D. He has for some 
 time been Tappan professor of law in the University of Michigan. 
 He married and has children. p. 
 
 Henkt CtJMMiNGS Field was born in Belfast, September, 1809. 
 "After graduating he studied law with his father, Bohan P. Field, 
 Esq. In 1830 he establishfed himself in the profession in Lincoln, 
 where he remained in successful practice untU 1848, when he removed 
 to Lee in order to secure for his children the advantages of its acad- 
 emy, then a flourishing and popular institution. He returned to Lin- 
 coln in 1863, and died in 1864. He had an acute mind, and was 
 thoroughly versed in the principles of his profession. Though many 
 opportunities offered he declined ofllce, preferring to devote the time 
 not occupied by his profession to the more congenial pursuits of agri- 
 culture." p. 
 
 Charles Field was of North Yarmouth. The following testimony 
 is from a classmate and chum : " A more kind, honorable, noble fel- 
 low never adorned the halls of Bowdoin College. His rank as a 
 scholar was very good. As a companion and friend, warm-hearted, 
 faithful, and true, he had no superiors. After he graduated he entered 
 the medical class, in which he was highly distinguishe(^. Just as he 
 was entering on his profession he received an injury on a dark night 
 in Boston, by striking his knee against a gate that was hanging across 
 th^ sidewalk. The injury, though deemed slight at first, proved 
 serious in its consequences. Eesort was had to amputation, which 
 was ineffectual and resulted in his death." What a comment this, 
 on the too common but detestable practice of having gates swing out- 
 ward ! Mr. Field suffered for years, but they were years of meek 
 
 Mackinaw, but the change proved to be without effect. He became enfeebled and 
 died of general prostration Aug. 12, 1878, at the age of seventy. He was a member 
 of the Congregational Church, and in the words of hia memorialist, "as lawyer, 
 scholar, man, citizen, Christian, was one of the first and best." p. 
 
368 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 endurance, brightening with hope and faith as they drew near their 
 close. He died early in 1838. 
 
 Franklin Gage was a native of Augusta. He went as a physi- 
 cian to Bangor, and lived there several years ; but h'is habits of mind 
 and life do not seem to have been favorable to permanence and suc- 
 cess. After various wanderings he obtained, through the aid of his 
 classmate John P. Hale, the appointment of surgeon for the Panama 
 Railroad Company. It proved a fatal kindness ; the fever of the 
 tropics soon compelled him to return, and he died shortly after in 
 1851 at the residence of a friend in Brooklyn, N. Y. " He had 
 always maintained a high professional character, and wherever he 
 went his gentlemanly bearing and kind heart won for him a host of 
 friends." (Bangor Mercury.) 
 
 John Parker Haxe was born in 1806 'in Rochester, N. H. His 
 father, John Hale, and his grandfather, Samuel Hale, were both law- 
 yers. His mother was a daughter of Jeremiah O'Brien of Machias, 
 a brave man, who in our Revolutionary struggle was among the- first 
 to meet and vanquish the enemy on the sea. John P. Hale was fitted 
 at Exeter. Of one who has become so famous it is natural to ask 
 what promise he gave in college. A classmate of Hale — now, alas ! 
 no more — wrote^me as follows several years ago: "In most cases 
 the college life corresponded very well with the subsequent career. 
 Hale was to a considerable extent an exception. In college he was 
 recognized as having superior talents, and was by far our most prompt 
 and fertile debater. He had a passion for mock law cases and for 
 making speeches, but he was no student ; and his habits were so care- 
 less and indolent that I think his classmates did not anticipate for him 
 the distinction he has gained.'' Mr. Hale began his law studies at 
 Rochester, and finished them at Dover in the office of Mr. Christie. 
 At the bar he was immediately successful. " His winning manners, 
 his assiduous attention to business, and his energetic pleading soon 
 gained for him, a large practice. In 1882 he entered on public life as a 
 representative in the Legislature. Even then, though an avowed and 
 active Democrat, he occasionally evinced an independence of spirit 
 which showed that he was not likely to obey blindly the edicts of any 
 party. In 1834 he received from President Jackson the appointment 
 of United States attorney for New Hampshire. Reappointed by Van 
 Buren, be held the office until remo;ved by Tj'ler.* In 1843 he was 
 chosen representative of his district in Congress. It was a critical 
 period. Thrown into the midst of the struggle for supremacy between 
 
 * The remainder is from the editor. 
 

GRADUATES. 369 
 
 the tVVo sectloiis of the Uaion, apparently at great personal sacrifice 
 he at once took his stand in decided strenuous opposition to the 
 scheme of annexing Texas. This action on his part was regarded by 
 his party as a departure not to be forgiven, and he failed of a second 
 election. In 1846 he was again sent as representative to the State 
 Legislature ; was chosen Speaker of the House, in which position, by 
 his dignity, urbanity, and independence, he gained a strong hold on the 
 popular sentiment ; and was elected to the Senate of the United States. 
 ' ' When he took his seat in that body he was almost alone and single- 
 handed in conflict with the political giants of those days." Amidst 
 reproach and insult and the well-known arts employed to embarrass and 
 browbeat a political opponent, he could not be intimidated or diverted 
 from what he deemed his duty to his country. With ' ' felicitous 
 humor, pungent retort, or keen sarcasm " he stood his ground. " So 
 high were his aims, so conciliating his manner, that before the close 
 of his senatorial term he had beaten down the barriers of prejudice 
 and conquered sectional discourtesy, not only the standard-bearer, but 
 the pioneer of the North in the Senate. By a second political over- 
 turn, however, in his State he was not re-elected. 
 
 By the urgency of friends he was prevailed upon to open an office 
 for the practice of his profession in New York, although he still re- 
 tained his home in Dover and did not remove his family. A third 
 political change in his State in 1855 returned him again to the Senate 
 of the United States. He was not, as in his former term, to contend 
 against such odds in maintaining principles which he had so earnestly 
 advocated, as he now found himself with a large number, and among 
 them even former opponents in full sympathy with himself. As before, 
 he was conspicuous in debate, fearless, adroit, self-controlled, with 
 keen wit and genial humor, wielding infiuence, and winning respect 
 and esteem even from those arrayed against him. " Mr. Hale," thus 
 writes one, "has long been a favorite in the Senate with men of all 
 parties. Whenever it is known beforehand that he is to speak, no 
 matter what the subject may be, he is sure to gather a crowded audi- 
 ence. He is one of the most popular men in the country,, for his 
 satire has never a spice of cruelty in it. His jolly humor, everlasting 
 good-nature, and natural love of fair play make him friends wherever 
 he is, no matter if he be among his bitterest Southern enemies." 
 
 Mr. Hale was a bold and able advocate of the anti-slavery cause ; 
 in 1851 was counsel in the " Shadrach rescue case" under the fugi- 
 tive slave law ; in 1852 was the candidate of the Free Soil party for 
 the Presidency of the United States, and received a large though 
 unsuccessful vote. In 1865 he was appointed by President Lincoln 
 
 34 
 
370 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 minister to the court of Madrid. After a residence of four or five 
 years he returned home with enfeebled health, and after a prolonged 
 illness, aggravated by the accident of a fall from his carriage, he died 
 in November, 1873. He married Miss Lucy^H. Lambert of Berwick, 
 who with two daughters survives him. 
 
 John Heddle Hilliakd, born in Gorham in 1808, brother of "VVil- 
 liam T. (see 1826), studied law with Josiah Pierce and David Hayes, 
 and settled' at Orono, whence he removed to Oldtown, his present 
 home, and where he is regarded as a good lawyer. His present wife 
 is a daughter of David Hayes of Westbrook ; they have two sons and 
 two daughters * 
 
 John Ho'dgdon was born in Weare, N. H., October, 1800. His 
 parents were of the Society of Friends and were farmers, and this son 
 was bred a farmer until he was nineteen years of age, when a change 
 in his circumstances as will appear led to a change in his life-work. 
 He resolved on a public education, and after a few months at Gilman- 
 ton Academy he went to Phillips Exeter Academy, where under the 
 direction of the distinguished Dr. Abbot he fitted for college. 
 
 Few young men have carried with them to college so peculiar and 
 varied an experience, and have been so fitted to exert influence. The 
 story of this period of his life is quite remarkable. In the fall of 
 1819, by the death of his paternal grandfather, he fell heir to a large 
 tract of land in the wilderness of the District of Maine on its north- 
 eastern border, the conditions of ownership demanding immediate 
 personal attention ; and thus in the midst of his preparatory course 
 he set forth to look after his inheritance, which could be reached only 
 by " water-courses and the paths of trappers and Indians," procured 
 a survej'ing party from the neighboring' province of New Brunswick, 
 laid out his tract in lots, and located settlers to secure Jiis right of 
 possession ; all this being the origin of what is now the township of 
 Hodgdon. He then returned to his academic studies, and through his 
 academic and collegiate course had the general oversight of his estates 
 in the forest ; through trusty agents with his own occasional visits, 
 opening roads, -erecting mills, even " prospecting an adjacent township 
 Tyhich was advertised" for sale, and though without means of his own^ 
 yet with the co-operation of relatives purchasing it and being intrusted 
 with the sole charge and direction of the adventure, — certainly an 
 
 * Mr. Hilliard was a victim of rheumatism, and confined to his house for two or 
 three years. He died in November, 1880. p. 
 
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 2^^ /f-''fp^.:^zi 
 
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 iingrmd frr the Si».:l.-,,n IfjmmM 
 
GRADUATES. 371 
 
 uncommon experience for a student in academy and college, and 
 revealing rare maturity, energy, strength of character, and adminis- 
 trative talent in a rural farmer's son. Hodgdon with all this responsi- 
 bility and care maintained a high standing as a scholar, and graduated 
 with one of the highest assignments made to his class. 
 
 Immediately after graduation and even before the college Commence- 
 ment he proceeded to Bangor, then a flourishing village with which his 
 visits to his distant property on the tributaries of the St. Jobn had 
 made him familiar, and began the study of the law in the office of 
 Allen Oilman, Esq. But, as with his course at the academy and the 
 college, his legal studies suffered intrusion from the demands of his 
 lands. In his own language. " Not yet emancipated from college 
 rules and regulations, he found himself by the force of circumstances 
 a committee of one on wkys. and means to carry on the operations of 
 building roads, organizing surveying parties, erecting mills," etc. His 
 studies were yet further encroached upon bj' the controversies between 
 settlers on both sides of the boundary line, which in a short time cul- 
 minated in what is known as " the Aroostook war." Complaints of 
 the aggrieved were made to young Hodgdon most naturally, as one 
 most interested in the questions involved. He opened a correspond, 
 ence with the delegation in Congress from Maine, whence arose the 
 establishment of a military post at Houlton, and the events which 
 make a chapter in the history of the State. 
 
 Hodgdon was admitted to the bar in Bangor in 1830, opened an 
 office, and soon formed a copartnership with E. Oilman Eawson, 
 Esq., which continued several years. In 1832 he was a delegate to 
 the Baltimore Presidential convention ; was a member of the executive 
 council in 1833 ; in 1834 was appointed land agent for the istate ; at 
 the close of this service of four years resumed his professional labors ; 
 in 1846 was elected to the State Senate, and at the second term was 
 chosen president of that body and re-elected, but resigned his position 
 in prospect of being placed in nomination for governor, although this 
 prospect failed by the success of a rival candidate in the convention. 
 He was appointed on a commission with one from Massachusetts to 
 settle questions of propertj' between the two States in the disputed 
 territory; in 1850 was appointed a bank commissipner ; in 1853 was 
 nominated by President Pierce consul at Rome, but declined. In 1843 
 he had removed from Bangor to Hodgdon upon a large farm, opening at 
 the same time an office at Houlton two miles distant, where his prac- 
 tice was extensive ; as were his farming operations, in which with char- 
 acteristic energy he manifested zeal for improvements in the science 
 and methods of agriculture. 
 
372 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 In 1853 he removed from Maine to Dubuque, Iowa, anticipating a 
 less busy life and with the intention of giving himself to books and 
 literary pursuits ; but the habits of years proved too strong for a spirit 
 like his, and, as he himself confesses, he became immersed in business 
 as before. He retired from the profession in which he had been higlily 
 successful several years since, and has employed himself in his private 
 affairs. He was elected mayor of Dubuque in 1859, has been a trus- 
 tee of the State asylum for the blind, and for some years president of 
 the board of directors of the public schools of the city ; and now 
 at this writing he retains much of the energy and activity of earlier 
 years. 
 
 In 1838 Mr. Hodgdon married Margaret Amelia Leggett of New 
 York City. They have no children. p. 
 
 IcHABOD Goodwin Jordan was born in 1806 in Saco, where his 
 parents still live in extreme age. Mr. Nason fitted him for coUege, 
 taking his pay for board and tuition in work. Judges Shepley and 
 Goodenow directed his law studies. He began in Milton, N. H., but 
 soon moved to Great Falls (same State) where he now lives. In 
 1833 and 1834 he was in the Senate of New Hampshire. In 1833 he 
 married Sarah, daughter of Jeremiah Goodwin of Alfred. Of six 
 children only two daughters remain. 
 
 [Hediedin 1873.— P.J 
 
 Nahdm Jordan. A young man of " moderate talents and scholar- 
 ship." He studied medicine ; graduated M. D. 1830 ; he died the 
 same year. 
 
 Gardiner Kellogg. ' ' Kellogg was a Christian of pure and excel' 
 lent purposes. He was a respectable scholar, a simple-hearted and 
 honest man, but not fitted to cope with or to prosper in the world. 
 He studied theology I think for a time, but afterwards taught school, 
 first at Penn Yan, N. Y., and subsequently for several years in 
 Georgia" (Rev. Dr. Peabody). Mr. "Baldwin informs me that Kel- 
 logg was quite successful as a teacher. He died in 1841. 
 
 James Tufton Leavitt studied law in Norridgewock and settled 
 in the practice. He began moderately, and had been several years at 
 the bar before his real ability was known. His progress though not 
 rapid was sure, and suited to make him very useful to the community 
 as well as to his clients. During the last years of his practice he was 
 known as a highly discreet and safe counsellor, fully adequate to any 
 labor that he undertook to perform. He died in 1857. 
 
GRADUATES. 373 
 
 Caleb Locke came from HoUis, N. H. " He was old when he 
 entered college. He was a respectable scholar, and was possessed of 
 a sturdy, strong-principled uprightness of character. We thought he 
 had more than most of us a talent for practical life." He fell a victim 
 of consumption in 1836. 
 
 "William Preble McLellan was born in Portland, February, 1808. 
 He was an exemplary student in college. He died in Portland in 
 1831. 
 
 Isaiah Preble Moody was born in York in 1804. His father, 
 Samuel Moody, was great-grandson ,of that Samuel Moody so famous 
 in his day as " Faithful Moody." His mother, Lydia. was a daughter 
 of Col. Esaias Preble, and sister of the late distinguished Judge Pre- 
 ble. He went from Exeter to college, and from college to Fryeburg, 
 where he studied law with Stephen Chase. Having practised some 
 two years in Lowell, two years in Hempstead, N. H., and about the 
 same time in his native town, with a fair measure of success and rep- 
 utation, he left the profession for agriculture and teaching, " as more 
 congenial to his feelings and principles." " I have held," he says, 
 " no public oflBces of honor or trust worth recording, nor have I 
 sought for them. I looked at the marked price and thought it far 
 beyond their worth in this gambling age." In 1831 he married 
 Hannah, daughter of Rev. Moses Dow of York. She died in 1847, 
 leaving three daughters and two sons. His second wife, Abby A. 
 Talpey of York, died in 1855, leaving two daughters. 
 
 George Farrae Moulton, born in Bucksport, son of Dr. Jotham 
 Moulton, was prevented by a brain attack from completing his course 
 at Andover. He had charge for several years of a school in Phila- 
 delphia, and still gives lessons in different schools of that city, his 
 residence for the last twenty-four years, always " winning the regard 
 and respect of parents and pupils." He was for some time librarian 
 and superintendent of the Athenaeum in Philadelphia, and enjoyed the 
 confidence and regard of its officers and friends, " under great physi- 
 cal infirmity in his later years exhibiting unvarying patience and 
 gentleness." He was reputed to have been " an amiable Christian 
 gentleman, an accomplished linguist and classical scholar." Mr. 
 Moulton married a Widow Morris of New Jersey. Of three daughters 
 one survives unmarried. 
 
 [He died in 187?. — p.J 
 
374 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 John Owen, born in Portland in 1806, was the son of John and 
 Mercy (Cushman) Owen. He was fitted in Gorham and in Portland 
 Academies. He studied theology in Cambridge and was. duly 
 licensed, but poor health forbade his preaching. From 1834 to 
 1846 he was in the book business at Cambridge, and kept the Uni- 
 versity Bookstore. Unfortunate in that line, he went afterwards 
 into real estate. He has been treasurer of the savings bank, has 
 served on the school committee, has been an advocate of the temper- 
 ance movement, and takes a lively interest in the cause of anti-slavery. 
 He married in 1835 S\-l via Church Sampson of Duxbury, Mass. Of 
 their three daughters two are employed in teaching. Their only son is 
 about to enter college.* ' 
 
 Ephraim Peabody, a native of "Wilton, N. H., born in 1807, re- 
 ceived his school training first at Dummer Academy, Byfield, and 
 afterwards at Exeter. Here, under the gentle yet firm influence of 
 Dr. Abbot, whose nephew he was, he formed excellent habits of 
 attention and application. " In college he pursued the same steady 
 course, and became known for the equanimity and gentleness of dis- 
 position- and the intellectual ability that were characteristic of him 
 from his earliest to his latest days. He was distinguished too for the 
 poetic talent which showed itself in his intellectual character as well 
 as in his verse. 
 
 After graduation he pursued a theological course of study at Cam- 
 bridge, then spent a year at Meadville, Pa., in charge of the Unitarian 
 pulpit, and in 1831 was settled in Cincinnati, where "he began the 
 real toilsome service of a parish minister." Compelled by the state 
 of his lungs to remove to a milder climate, he passed thi winter of 
 1835-36, and from the same cause a second winter, in the South. In 
 1837 he came North, and accepted a call to a parish in New Bedford, 
 where he remained eight years. Receiving an urgent- invitation to 
 
 * The above having been written several years since, the editor supplements the 
 slietch, adding a few statements : — 
 
 Mr. Owen, being a schoolmate of Mr. Longfellow, his contemporary in college, and 
 a resident in Cambridge before Mr. Longfellow himself, the friendship of early life 
 was maintained to the last. Mr. Owen was the publisher of the first volume of Mr. 
 Longfellow's poems, assisted him subsequently as. a proof-reader, and especially in 
 work on the " Poems of Places." He is said to have been active in inducing Mr. 
 Sumner to publish his works in a uniform edition, i^^oticeable by his long, flowing 
 beard and hair white as driven snow, Mr. Owen is a prominent object on public 
 occasions. An interesting and amusing account of his present surroundings on the 
 upper floor of the building he occupies is given in the Boston Herald, and copied in 
 Good Literature, April 8, 1882. p. 
 
GRADUATES. 375 
 
 King's Chapel. Boston, in 1846, he accepted the call and entered upon 
 what proved his last ministry, of eleven years. 
 
 The tendencj' to pulmonic disease which drove him from Cincinnati 
 always attended him and impeded him in his yet manifold labors, 
 and compelled him to seek alleviation in a European tour in 1853, 
 and to spend the last winter of his life in Florida ; but the relentless 
 disease resisted all such means of relief, as weU as the best medical 
 advice and appliances, and terminated his life in 1856. 
 
 It is surprising that with such a weight on his spirit and energies he 
 accomplished so much in the pulpit, in abundant ministerial offices, in 
 lectures and addresses, as editor of and frequent contributor, both in 
 prose and verse, to periodicals. It is not at all surprising that, not- 
 withstanding his delicate constitution and physical infirmity, he won 
 the. highest respect by his ability and culture, and deep and Itender 
 interest and affection in all his fields of labor. He was of untiring 
 industry, fertile and persistent in expedients for the good of the peo- 
 ple under his care and for the community at large. He published in 
 1837, "Charges against Unitarianism " and "Come over and help 
 Us,'' a letter addressed to Rev. George Putnam; in 1839, "Address 
 at the Centennial Celebration of his Native Town," and ".Mj'stery, 
 Eeason, and Faith." A posthumous volume of sermons, published in 
 1857, was a valuable reminder to those who had sat under his minis- 
 try of his admirable gifts as a preacher, a pastor, a friend, and a man. 
 From early life, as has been stated, he had shown a decided poetic 
 taste and temperament. During his college life he delivered a poem 
 in the Spenserian stanza at a college society anniversary, which was 
 thought a remarkable production for an undergraduate ; and a poem 
 was assigned him at Commencement, though his standing as a scholar 
 entitled him to what was regarded a higher position on the class roU. 
 In 1835 he- wrote a poem for the f/>. B. K. Society at the Commence- 
 ment, Harvard, which, in consequence of an attack of hemorrhage 
 preventing him from pronouncing it, was read by his friend Dr. Put- 
 nam, and " the charm of his verse only served to make his friends 
 feel more painfully the danger which threatened him." In 1852 he 
 delivered a poem at the semicentennial celebration of the college, 
 which was received with great applause and added essentially to the 
 interest of a signal occasion in its history. 
 
 In 1848 Ml-. Peabody received from his Alma Mater the degree of 
 D. D. Mr. Peabody married Miss Derby of Salem. He left four 
 children : Ellen, who married Mr. (now President) Eliot, and who 
 has deceased ; Annie, who married Dr. H. W. Bellows of New York ; 
 
76 HISTORY or BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 nd two sons, — Robert, an architect, and Francis, now minister of 
 le Unitarian Church, Cambridge.* 
 
 It maj' not be unfitting to subjoin reminiscences of his college life 
 ommunicated to Mr. Cleaveland, and which the latter, it would seem, 
 itended to introduce. 
 
 Reminiscence. — " Except for more follies, neglects, and misdoings 
 lan I like to think of, my own remembrances of college are most 
 greeable. I have always considered the instruction which we had of 
 le very best quality. The professors were extremely faithful, and 
 ithout exception admirably fitted for their respective offices. I viO' 
 ited college rules enough to try their patience, but I never received 
 nything but kindness, and it gives me pleasure to remember that J 
 ppreciated it then as well as now. President Allen was not popular, 
 ut personally I remember him with respect for his unvarying kind- 
 ess. I think his superficial manners prevented some of the best 
 raits of his character from being known. As I write, the forms, gait, 
 sues, manner of all of them — Profs. Cleaveland, Newman, Pfickard) 
 Imith, Upham, and Abbot — rise before me, as they moved across 
 tie Common or sat in the recitation-room, and my heart warms back 
 3 them. It was as good and faithful a set of men as any college ever 
 ad, and I shall esteem mj'self fortunate if my children ha vie the advan- 
 a,ge of as good instruction." 
 
 The *^ Esoritoir." — "My class, or some six or seven members of 
 b, published in the Senior year a periodical called the Escriloir. It 
 ras strictly anonymous, and all concerned in it were at the time 
 nknown. It gave us great amusement, and was probably of some 
 dvantage in the way of promoting a, habit of composition. It is 
 lore noticeable, perhaps, from its being, so far as I know, the only 
 eriodical of the kind which had ever been published by the Bowdoin 
 tudents, than for its special merits as a literary work." . 
 
 The La/ayette Hoax, 1826 (by Dr Peabody, writing to Mr. Cleave- 
 md). — "Your kinsman John Cleaveland will give you a very amus- 
 ig account of the reception of Lafayette in Brunswick, — a mock 
 eception, in which the town's people were entirely taken in, — in 
 rhich Cleaveland played the part of Lafayette even to the most ten- 
 er salutation of the ladies. It was by far the greatest and most 
 musing hoax I ever knew, and ought to be preserved in the records 
 f the college. Were Cleaveland not near you I would write an 
 ccount of it, beginning with bells ringing ; the circulation of the 
 umor of his coming ; cannon firing ; shutting down of the saw-mills ; 
 
 *The latter portion of the above sketch by the editor. 
 
GRADUATES. 377 
 
 procession formed, headed by such music as could be got ; cheering ; 
 the flocking of the citizens ; the marching down Maine Street and up 
 the other ; the ladies at the windows and in the yards waving their 
 handkerchiefs, and in an agony of enthusiasm ; Cleaveland, in old regi- 
 mentals and with his aid in an open chaise, and actually getting out at 
 one house where a bevy of fair ladies stood at the gate, their eyes dim 
 with excitement and enthusiasm, and kissing them, all wound up with 
 a supper over which the Maine Law did not preside, at which we came 
 near being blown up by a barrel of gunpowder, etc." 
 
 Joseph Beebe Stevens was born in Brookfield, Conn., August, 
 1801. He went to the Theological Seminary, Bangor, and graduated 
 in 1829. He was for a time on a. mission service in Wisconsin. 
 From 1834 to 1840 he was pastor of the Second Congregational 
 Church, Falmouth. Afterwards for twenty years he exercised his 
 ministry at Savannah, Ga. He died in Whitney, Calhoun County, 
 Ga., May, 1860. He was an excellent man, beloved by all that knew, 
 him. p. 
 
 James Higginson Tyng was bom in Boston in 1807. His father, 
 Dudley Atkins Tyng, for many years the law reporter of Massa- 
 chusetts, was a man of distinction in his day. His mother, Lydia, 
 was the daughter of Stephen Higginson of Boston, and grand-daugh- 
 ter of Rev. Aaron Cleveland. He must have been well fitted for col- 
 lege, having been successively under the care of Jared Sparks, George 
 B. Emerson, Rev. Dr. Sanders, and Col. Partridge, to say nothing of 
 the slight finishing touch which he received from me. After a little 
 more than two years at Brunswick (he went in a Sophomore, near the 
 end of the year) he entered on the study of theology for the Episco- 
 pal ministry ■ Here again he was largely favored, beginning under 
 Bishop Brownell and ending under Bishop Griswold. Mr. Tyng has 
 had a varied ministry and no small experience as pastor and teacher ; 
 witness the following list of places in which he has lived as a min- 
 ister or school teachej-, and generally in both capacities : Hopkin- 
 ton, Mass., Martinsburg, Va., Honesdale and Carbondale, Pa., 
 Tallahassee, Fla., Newark and Morristown, N. J. The churches 
 which he has served have for the most part been feeble, " very old 
 or very new, alike and equally poor." It was in fact missionary 
 work to which he was called, although no pensioner of the Mission 
 Board. For sevei'al j^ears he has had a school for boys in New York, 
 coming in daily from Morristown, N. J., where he has a small par- 
 ish. In 1829 he was married to Mahlon Degen. Seven of their 
 
378 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 ten children have been removed by death. Their oldest daughter is 
 the wife of Richard Upjohn, Jr., architect in New York. 
 [He died in 1872.— p.J 
 
 William Manning Vaughan, born in Hallowell in 1807, was a son 
 of Col. William O. Vaughan ; from college went into a store in Boston, 
 then made several voyages to India as supercargo, then was cashier 
 of the Northern Bank in Hallowell, and afterwards took charge of a 
 flour mill in Gardiner. At present he is connected with a large 
 establishment in Boston for the manufacture of brushes. He owns 
 the house in Hallowell once occupied by his distinguished grandfather, 
 Dr. Benjamin Vaughan. He has a wife (daughter of Ebenezer War- 
 ren of Hallowell) and two or three children. 
 
 Richard Woodhull was a son of Capt. Abraham C. WoodhuU of 
 Fairfield, Conn., and was bom there in 1802. . He began a theologi- 
 cal course at Princeton, N. J., was then made principal of a classical 
 school in Bangor froml828 to 1830, at the same time continuing his 
 studies with Prof. Smith, the theological professor in the seminary. 
 He was ordained in 1830 over the Congregatioual Church in Thomas- 
 ton, continued in the ministry there twenty-five years, and was very 
 useful as a teacher of youth and in promoting the interests of educa- 
 tion in the town. He soon after removed to Bangor, and from 1855 
 to 1862 was agent of the American Bible Society for New England, 
 and from 1862 to 1873 was treasurer and general agent of the Bangor 
 Seminary, in which position he rendered important service, and a 
 trustee of the State insane asylum. He was a trustee from 1857, and 
 from 1860 to 1869 was president of the board of trustees of the sem- 
 inary ; was preacher before the General Conference of the Congrega- 
 tional Churches of the State in 1849, and was moderator of that 
 body for three years. For several years he was a member of the 
 Board of Overseers of the college. He was a man to be relied on in 
 every relation of life, earnest in every good work, wise in counsel, 
 respected and honored, and of unusual administrative skill. In 1 829 
 he married at Bangor Sarah Forbes. Of ten children four have 
 deceased. One daughter mamed Eev. W. C. Pond (Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, 1848) ; another married Rev. D. W. Pickard (Bowdoin College, 
 1848). 
 
 1828. 
 
 William Allen of Norridgewock " was remarkable for unblemished . 
 morals and for diligence during his college course. He graduated 
 
GEADUATES. 379 
 
 with the first honors of his class, was connected a short time with the 
 Gardiner Lyceum as teacher, began the study of law, and died in 
 1831. He was a man of much promise." 
 
 Silas Bakee was born in Edgecomb in September, 1807. ■ He pur- 
 sued a theological course at Andover, graduating in 1831 ; for three 
 years was pastor of the Congregational Church, Truro, Mass., and of 
 the Congregational Church in Hampden, 1834-1838. He was " stated 
 supply" at Kennebunkport, Standish, and Buxton from 1838 to 1847. 
 He then devoted himself to teaching until 1856, when in consequence 
 of impaired -health he relinquished ministerial labor and -settled on a 
 farm in Standish where he now resides. April, 1832, he married Eliza 
 Sherman, sister of J. Sherman, Bowdoin College, 1826. They have 
 had four sons and two daughters, of whom one son has died. p. 
 
 John Call Bartlett was born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1808; 
 was fitted for college at Pembroke, N. H. ; after graduating studied 
 medicine with Drs. Townsend and Stedman at the United States 
 Marine Hospital, Chelsea, two years, a third year with Dr. A. R. 
 Thompson of Charlestown ; graduated in medicine. Harvard, 1831, 
 and established himself in this profession in Chelmsford, Mass., where 
 he spent the remainder of his life in good repute as a physician and a 
 citizen. He retired from active practice in his later years, which gave 
 him opportunity to gratify agricultural and horticultural- tastes. He 
 was elected to the Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts. He was 
 liberal in supporting the institutions of religion, was for several years 
 ;director of the church music, and was repeatedly made president of 
 the Middlesex Conference of Unitarian Churches. He was chairman 
 of the trustees of Westford Academy, and trustee of the Five Cents 
 Saving Bank, Lowell. 
 
 In 1834 he married Miss Maria J., daughter of Joel Adams, Esq., 
 of- Chelmsford. He and his wife took lodgings for the winter of 
 1877-8 at the Commonwealth Hotel, Boston. He was seized with a 
 paralytic attack, which in a few weeks terminated in his death, Jan- 
 uary, 1878. He left three sons, of whom the eldest, Charles E. A., is 
 treasurer of the Boston and Lowell Railroad. p. 
 
 Francis E. Bond of Hallowell " was one of the kindest and most 
 genial companions in the class, universally beloved for his amiable 
 disposition and cordial feelings. He was also a fair scholar." He 
 studied law, lived awhile in Lowell, Mass., and afterwards in the 
 State of Georgia. He came back to Maine and died in 1846, at 
 Bangor. 
 
380 HISTORY OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 Charles Botall Bkewster was born in Buxton. His father was 
 Dr. Boyall Brewster, a descendant of Elder Brewster of the Plymouth 
 Colony, and his mother was daughter of Rev. Paul Coffin, well known 
 in the early history of the State, pastor of the Congregational Church 
 in Narragdnsett, No. 1, now Buxton. Brewster prepared for college 
 at Gorham Academy under Rev. Reuben Nason and his assistant, 
 William Smyth, afterwards Prof. Smyth of the college. After gradu- 
 ating he began the study of law in the office of Messrs. Rand & Fiske, 
 Boston. Called to accompany two invalid relatives to South Carolina, 
 he continued his studies with Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin, Esq., of 
 Charleston, was admitted to the bar, opened an office in that city, and 
 has continued the practice from that time ; with little desire or taste 
 for public life, he has devoted himself to his profbssion. He married 
 a lady of Charleston in 1835. They have one child, a daughter, p. 
 
 Merritt Caldwell was a brother of Zenas (1824), and six years 
 his junior. In college he was regarded as " a sound scholar, rather 
 grave and taciturn in manners, but a hearty friend." Just before he 
 graduated he was appointed to succeed his brother as principal of the 
 Readfield Seminary. From this period he devoted himself to the great 
 cause of education. Here he distinguished himself, not only as a 
 successful educator, but as a metaphysician, a philanthropist, and a 
 Christian, Though not a clergyman, he helped to educate many for 
 the sacred profession. During his stay at Readfield no less than 
 seventy men were under his care, who afterwards became preachers in 
 4ifferent. denominations. On the reorganization of Dickinson College 
 in 1834 lender Methodist auspices, Mr. Caldwell was appointed to the 
 profegsorsiip of mathematics. It was a position of much responsibil- 
 ity ; President Durbin was often absent, and then the main burden, both 
 of instructipn. and government, fell on Prof. Caldwell. He filled the 
 post ably and satisfactorily. " A manly dignity, a gentlemanly bear- 
 ing, and an almost imperturbable composure characterized all his inter- 
 course with others. His masculine intellect, his firmness of purpose, 
 his unwavering adherence to principles and rules, taught the young 
 men that they had a man to deal with, whom they were bound both to 
 respect and to love." While at Carlisle he wrote much for the press, 
 and always on topics of interest and value. About 1837 he became 
 very active in speaking and writing for the cause of temt)erance. He 
 published about this time a grammatical treatise and a work called 
 " Sketches of Great Men." In 1840 it became evident that his lungs 
 were diseased, and he retired awhile from college duty ; but on getting 
 somewhat better he went to work again with all his wonted earnest- 
 
GRADtlAtES. 381 
 
 ness. In 1841 an article on " Eloquence " from his pen appeared in the 
 Methodist Quarterly Review. " It is an article," says his biographer, 
 "of rare excellence, and in connection with the work- on ' Elocution' 
 that followed it, has done much to stimulate the young men of the 
 church to the cultivation of oratory." Though his labors were evi- 
 dently too severe for a constitution ah-eady broken down, he continued 
 to work. His text-book on elocution, published in 1845, has passed 
 through several editions and is still highly valued. In 1841 Dr. Dur" 
 bin had an article in the Methodist Quarterly Review on ' ' Tempta- 
 tion." A discussion sprung up: Prof. "Caldwell, from a conviction of 
 its truth, took the side of Dr. Durbin; Rev. A. Stevens, editor of 
 Zion's herald, opposed the theory in the Quarterly Review with much 
 ability and good temper; Caldwell replied with at least equal ability; 
 then came a rejoinder and then a reply. Mr. Caldwell still further 
 pursued the subject in a work (published 1847) on the "Philosophy 
 of Christian Perfection." " Whatever may be thought," says Prof. 
 Vail, " of the doctrines of this work, there has been, so far as we have 
 heard, but one opinion as to the ability displaj-ed in it. For clear 
 thinking and accurate, forcible expression it is a model." In 1846 
 Prof. Caldwell went to London to take part in the proposed movement 
 for a Christian Union, with an appointment also to the World's Tem- 
 perance Convention from the Pennsylvania State Temperance Society. 
 He attended the conferences in London, visited many parts of the 
 United Kingdom, visited also France, Belgium, and Germany, and 
 returned with improved health after an absence of four mouths. In 
 March, 1848, finding himself much reduced, though by no means de- 
 spairing, he went to see his friend and brother-in-law. Dr. Clark of 
 Portland. The end soon followed. He died amid his kindred and 
 dearest friends, an example of triumphant faith and hope. " The 
 intelligence was received with profound sorrow throughout the church 
 in the Northern and Middle States, of which he had been a devoted 
 member for more than twenty years. The friends of Dickinson Col" 
 lege, in whose service Prof. Caldwell had spent the flower of his life, 
 especially had reason to lament his loss." For a full account of this 
 able and excellent man see the memoir of his life by Prof. S. Mount- 
 fort Vail, from which my brief sketch is derived. 
 
 James Bowdoin Cleaveland was Prof. P. Cleaveland's second son. 
 He was a youth of good talents, and in college stood well as a scholar. 
 He chose the law and pursued his professional studies under the direc- 
 tion of Ebenezer Everett x)t Brunswick, of Rufus Choate then of 
 Salem, and of Stephen Longfellow in Portland. He opened an office 
 
3855 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 in Portland, but soon removed to Graj' and thence to Passadumkeag 
 on the Penobscot, where he lived until just before his death. He 
 serve^ one j-ear in the Legislature as representative from this place. 
 In the summer of 1854 he came to his father's in poor health, and died 
 soon after of dysentery. He married while in Gray Lucinda P. Ken- 
 - ney. Of four children a son and daughter survive. Mr. Cleaveland 
 was a man of handsome talents. 
 
 Edwakd Francis Cotter, born in Portland in January, 1810, was 
 brother of William (1821), and youngest son of Levi Cutter, Esq.; 
 well remembered in the social, religious, and municipal life of the city. 
 He was fitted for college at the Portland Academy under Mr. Bezaleel 
 Cushman. During the "last year of Dr. Edward Payson's ministry 
 he was brought to a personal acceptance of the great salvation, and 
 united with the Second Congregational Church on the last Sabbath of 
 Dr. Payson's appearance before his people in the ordinances of the 
 sanctuary." He pursued theological study at Andover, Me., with 
 the class that gra luated in 1831. In 1833 he was ordained pastor of 
 the Congregational Church in Warren, where he remained thirteen 
 years. In 1846 he was installed over the church in Belfast, and after 
 a service of nine or ten years succeeded Bev. Dr. Cummings in the 
 editorship of the Christian Mirror at Portland. In 1857 he removed 
 to Beardstown, III , and for two years was acting pastor of the Con- 
 gregational Church in that city. Returning to Belfast, for some years 
 his health permitted him to preach only occasionally. In 1863 he 
 removed to Rockland, and was acting pastor of the Congregational 
 Church until 1872, when a bronchial affection compelled him to retire 
 from active service. He has since resided in Belfast. 
 
 Mr. Cutter in 1846 published " Pastoral Conversations." Besides 
 his work as editor of the Christian Mirror, his reports as chairman 
 of committees and occasional contributions to the press were valued 
 for their vigor and characteristic piquancy. 
 
 In 1871 his Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of Doctor 
 of Divinity. He had spent a few months in Florida, and on his 
 return, accompanied bj' his wife and daughter, was seized with mala- 
 rial fever and died in Charleston, S. C, March 27, 1880. He mar- 
 ried Mary E. McLellan of Warren. They had four children : a son, 
 now resident in California, and three daughters. p. 
 
 JosiAH Fisher, born in Bluehill, October, 1802, was son of Rev. 
 Jonathan Fisher, an honored name among the pioneers in the ecclesi- 
 astical history of Maine ; a graduate of Harvard, 1792, of varied 
 
GRADUATES. 383 
 
 learning, remarkable energy and perseverance, and marked character. 
 The son after taking his degree pursued the theological course at 
 Andover, Mass., in the class which graduated in 1831. He was or- 
 dained over the Congregational Church, Orono, in 1832. In 1836 he 
 became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Clyde, N. Y. ; in 1841, 
 acting pastor ofthe Congregational Church in Heath, Mass. In 1840 
 he removed to Greenbush, N. Y., for several years taught school, and 
 was assistant pastor of the church with an uncle, Rev. .Samuel Fisher. 
 In 1851 he entered on the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church in 
 Suckasanna, N. J , closing his service in 1863, though he continued to 
 reside in that place until 1871 , when after the death of his wife he 
 removed to Providence, Pa., and spent the remainder of his days with 
 his son. Rev James B. Fisher. Here he continued his work in the 
 ministry in the neighborhood, and was instrumental in building up a 
 good congregation with a house of worship free from embarrassment. 
 He died June, 1875. p. 
 
 Henry Weld Fuller was born in Augusta, January, 1810. His 
 father, Hon. H. W. Fuller, a leading lawyer, was a lineal descendant 
 of Abijah Weld (" Sprague's Anfaals of the American Pulpit"), and 
 his mother was sister of Miss Hannah F. Gould, the poetess. Fuller 
 graduated with the salutatory, and on proceeding M. A. with the 
 Latin valedictory. At Ihe Commencement, 1836, he pronounced the 
 annual oration before the Athenaean Society. He read law with his 
 father, and at the Law School, Cambridge, under Judge Story and Prof. 
 Ashmun. In the fall of 1830, under medical advice, he spent several 
 months in Florida. His legal acquirements and skill soon after his 
 arrival were unexpectedly put to the test in the trial of an Indian 
 chief who had been arrested for an assault, and was about to be im- 
 prisoned, when young Fuller undertook his defence and with marked 
 success. The reputation which this gave him led to his being sum- 
 moned to Tallahassee to assist in the trial of a negro for murder. He 
 was examined by the court, was admitted to the bar, argued the case, 
 procured the acquittal of the prisoner, and as a consequence received 
 retainers suflBcient to meet the expenses of his nine-months' sojourn, 
 and furnish himself with a library. Returning to Augusta, he was 
 admitted to the Kennebec bar, and became partner with his father for 
 ten years. In 1841 he removed to Boston and formed a partnership 
 with Elias Hasket Derby, Esq., which continued thirteen j'ears ; was 
 then appointed clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States for the 
 District of Massachusetts, and held the position eleven years. Re- 
 signing this position, he devoted himself to other duties, and has 
 
iM HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 iCted as trustee and treasurer for different persons and corporations. 
 Vn inherited love of horticulture and agriculture led him, soon after 
 emoving to Boston, to purchase a farm a few miles from the city, 
 fhich in a few years he converted into the Woodlawn Cemetery, 
 rhich has been laid out and managed by "him as treasurer and de- 
 igner. He is now vice-president of the Massachusetts Horticulturak 
 iociety, and chairman of the Society of Arts, Institute of .Technol- 
 igy, Boston. 
 
 In 1835 he married Mary Storer Goddard, daughter of Nathaniel 
 jioddard, Esq., a well-known merchant of Boston. His wife and 
 tree daughters are living. A son of promise (Harvard, ISS&I has 
 led. An older son was a highly respected merchant in Calcutta for 
 everal years, married an English lady, and they with five children, 
 "ebruary, 1876, took passage for home in the " Radiant" ; but no tid- 
 ags of ship, crew, or passengers have reached their friends. "A 
 yclone which swept the Indian Ocean soon after sailing is all they 
 ave to solve the terrible doubt." p. 
 
 Albert G-. Greene of Bath " was remarkable for his gentlemanly 
 lanners, and among those who knew him best for his cordial attach'- 
 lents. He studied law with Judge Ruggles at Thomaston, but died 
 1 1830, before the completion of his professional course." 
 
 Sanford Ag-rt Kingsbury was born in Gardiner, January, 1807. 
 mmediately after graduating he entered upon the study of law with 
 lie distinguished counsellor, Frederic Allen, Esq., LL. D. In 1831 he 
 fas admitted to the bar and formed a partnership in the practice with 
 [on. John Otis, Hallowell. In a few years he removed to China, 
 nd prosecuted his profession ; but his views of life and duty having 
 banged, and having connected himself with the Baptist Church while 
 et in practice, he entered upon a course of theological study, at 
 sngth abandoned the law in 1845, received a license to preach, and 
 as ordained over the Baptist Church #,nd Society in Damariscotta, 
 here he ministered a little more than ten years. The health of a 
 jn requiring a change of situation, in 1855 he removed to the West 
 Qd became pastor of a church in Galesburg, 111. At the opening of 
 le war in 1861 he was commissioned chaplain of the Seventeenth 
 linois Volunteers, and was in the field with them three years. He 
 len resumed the pastoral office successively in Jacksonville, 111 , and 
 [untington, Ind. Here again a question of health in his family com- 
 slling return to New England, he was for a time pastor of the church 
 1 Bath, and is now in the pastorate at Bowdoinham. 
 
GRADUATES. 385 
 
 In 1831 he married a daughter of Gen. I. Robinson of Augusta. 
 They have had two children : a son and a daughter. Mr. Kingsbury 
 received the degree of D. D. from Shurtleff College, 111. p. 
 
 George W. Lane of Readfleld. "He was remarkable in a class 
 ef lean folk for his sturdy form and ruddy health. He was easj' and 
 pleasant of address, and a respectable scholar. He applied himself 
 .to the science and art of dentistry, had completed his course, had set- 
 tled in Boston, and had just brought home his newly married wife, 
 when in 1833 his career was suddenly closed." He had married Jane 
 Lee of Brunswick. 
 
 "William Clark Larrabeb was born in Strong in 1802. After 
 graduation he had the charge of the academy at Alfred for two years. 
 He then instructed the first class of Weslej^an University, Middle- 
 town, Conn. In 1831 he went to Cazenovia, N. Y., and was princi- 
 pal for five years of the first Methodist institution established in that 
 State. Thence returning to his native State, he was invited to take 
 charge of the Wesleyan Seminary at Readfleld. In the fall of 1840 
 he was elected professor of mathematics in the Asbury University, 
 Greencastle, Ind., filled the place to entire acceptance, and for a time 
 was acting president of the institution. Under the new Constitution 
 of the State of Indiana, in 1852 he was elected the first superintend- 
 ent of public instruction for two years, arid elected again in 1856, 
 having meanwhile acted as superintendent of the Asylum for the Blind 
 by appointment of Gov. Wright. He contributed freely to the press, 
 was at one time editor of the Ladies' Repository, and published 
 " Rosabower," " The Scientific Evidences of Christianitj'," used 
 quite extensively as a text-book, and " Asbury and his Coadjutors." 
 This detail shows the energy and activity of a very useful life. He 
 died greatly lamented at Greencastle in 1859. p. 
 
 Joseph Loring was born in what was North Yarmouth, March, 
 1804. After graduating he taught school for a time, although ill 
 health precluded him from active effort for a year. He pursued theo- 
 logical stud}- at Andover Seminary, where he graduated in 1833. He 
 began his ministry in Ohio. In 1835, returning to Maine after labor- 
 ing in several places, he was ordained at Lebanon in 1836, and re- 
 mained there eighteen j-ears ; subsequently was installed over the 
 Congregational Church and Society in Pownal. From 1859 to 1865 he 
 exercised his ministry in different places, and at the latter date settled 
 as stated supply in Edgecomb, where he continued his work nine 
 
386 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 years, and left in 1874. He has since made his home in East Otis- 
 fleld. In the earlier period of his ministry he was active in promot- 
 ing the cause of temperance. He has been a humble, faithful, devoted 
 pastor, and h^s rejoiced in . seeing the fruit of his labors in several 
 places. 
 
 In 1837 he married Miss Susan K. Hancock of Franklin, N. H.^ 
 and has had seven children : three sons and four daughters. p. 
 
 Gilbert F. Maksh of Thomaston, " the pater of the class, was a 
 meek, humble Christian, a good scholar, and a good man. He strug- 
 gled with poverty to secure an education, his health was impaired by 
 his efforts, and his spirits were often depressed." After leaving col- 
 lege he taught for about two yearrs. In 1831, he joined the Andover 
 School of Theologj-, but gradually sank in health, and died the fol- 
 lowing year at home. 
 
 John Usher Parsons was born in Parsonsfield in 1806. His grand- 
 father was Thomas Parsons, Esq., the original proprietor and settler 
 of the town, which was named for him, and a lineal descendant of 
 Joseph Parsons, an original proprietor of the towns of Springfield and 
 Northampton, Mass. He early showed a thirst for knowledge and a 
 capacity for rapid acquisition, perhaps (as he himself thought) unfa- 
 vorable for accurate scholarship ; for having spent a few months in the 
 study of Latin at Effingham, N. H. , he discontinued it for three years, 
 then resumed it at Limerick, and in six or seven months entered col- 
 lege upon Sophomore standing. His taste and strength lay in math- 
 ematics, in which he excelled. Notwithstanding the disadvantages of 
 a hasty and inadequate preparation, he graduated with one of the 
 highest assignments in the class. He entered upon a theological 
 course, graduated at Andover in 1831, and at once began, the work to 
 which he had consecrated himself. With a strong predisposition to 
 pulmonary affection, which repeatedly compelled him to forego the 
 duties of the pulpit and change his residence, he performed a sur- 
 prising amount of labor. From 1831 to 1834 he was a home mission- 
 ary in Indiana, and was instrumental in " organizing several churches 
 as well as encouraging by active effort those just struggling into exist- 
 ence." He was then a stated supply at Westbrook for one j^ear, was 
 settled in Berkley, Mass., from two to three years, and from 1839 
 to 1842 performed missionary service in Wisconsin. Failing health 
 from his constitutional tendency compelled him to intermit active 
 labor, and he spent nine years in Georgia, where on recovery he re- 
 sumed his chosen work with energy and marked success in that State 
 
GRADUATES. 387 
 
 as an evangelist. Disease contracted in that climate drove him from 
 Georgia .in 185.3, and he returned to New England ; was stated supply 
 at Hyannis, Mass., for three years; in 1856 and 1867 was with a 
 colony in Kansas one year ; returning to Maine he exercised his minis- 
 try nine years in New Sharon, Bristol, Sanford, in towns in Hancock 
 CJpunty, and in Canada and New Brunswick, often with manifest suc- 
 cess. He wrote in 1867 that "he had preached in every State west 
 of the Mississippi, four States east of it, in New England, Canada, 
 and New Brunswick." 
 
 Amidst these manifold labors Mr. Parsons was active everywhere 
 in efforts for the cause of education. In Indiana he was engaged 
 with others in establishing a seminary for teachers, of which for 
 a time he was principal, and his personal influence was felt in arous- 
 ing public attention to the subject and leading to a more efficient 
 system of popular instruction. He was active in measures for the 
 establishment of a college in Wisconsin. For a time he had charge of 
 a seminary for ladies in Georgia, and again of a seminary for teachers 
 in Plymouth, N. H. He published elementarj' text-books which were 
 widely circulated. He delivered lectures and published discourses ; 
 contributed to periodicals on topics relating to education and to 
 morals and religion. The American Tract Society published two 
 of his tracts, " The Crisis of the Soul," and a premium tract " Sav- 
 ing a Soul from Death." More important of his works are "A 
 Biblical Analysis," "The Philanthropies and Practical Workings of 
 Christianity," and " The Gospel of Christ the only Gospel of Human-, 
 ity," and he was projecting another on the same general subject when 
 he was suddenly summoned from his earthly labors. 
 
 Through life Mr. Parsons was earnest, energetic, and intelligent in 
 the reformatory efforts of his time in temperance, in the antislavery 
 movement, for which his residence in Georgia a,nd Kansas had fur- 
 nished impulse and argument. He married in, 1831, Harriet U. Nye 
 of Bangor, who lived but a few months ; in 1833, Eosetta Hebard in 
 Madison, Wis., and became again a widower in 1843 ; he again mar- 
 ried Eliza Safford of Kennebunk. He had eleven children, of whom 
 three only survive him. He died from a paralytic attack at Welles - 
 ley, Mass., in 1874. p. 
 
 Horatio Nelson Perkins, son of Eliphalet Perkins and Betsey 
 Stone, was born in Kennebunkport, February, 1807. He read law, 
 and opened an office in Boston which he retained some j-ears. Several 
 years since he took up his residence in Melrose, Mass., having pur- 
 chased real estate in the town which has resulted favorably. He has 
 
388 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 given considerable attention to historical and genealogical inquiry, 
 mostly in relation to his own ancestry. He has lived a bachelor, a 
 man of genial and social temperament. r* 
 
 Ezra B. Pike was bom in Cornish, " a good specimen of the 
 Yankee genius : rough and uncultivated in deportment, a large and 
 ungraceful form but a sturdy mind, with a strong love for mathe- 
 matics in which he was decidedly first. As a scholar he contested 
 the palm with Allen. He received the second part, but did not per- 
 form at Commencement, for he was shy of all public displays. We 
 loved him not only for his quaint, original humor, but as a compan- 
 ion and friend." He died in 1831. 
 
 Luther Dearborn Sawjer is a son of Timothy and Sarah Dear- 
 born Sawyer, and was born in Wakefield, N. H., in 1803. His grand- 
 mother was a daughter of Eev. Dr. Haven, Portsmouth, N. H. He 
 was fitted for college chieflj' at Phillips Exeter Academy, read law in 
 the oflflce of Sawyer & Hobbs (Bowdoin College, 1820), and opened 
 an office in Ossipee, N. H., his residence during a large portion of 
 his professional life. He was United States commissioner and mas- 
 ter in chancery by appointment of Judge Story, solicitor for the 
 county of Carroll, was a member of the State Legislature two terms, 
 but his tastes led him to avoid political life. He was once strongly 
 recommended for a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court, and also 
 for attorney-general, but other influences prevailed. He has enjoyed 
 in the highest degree the confidence and respect of all classes in the 
 community in which he has lived and practised his profession. 
 
 In 1843 he married Lydia Hanson, by whom he had three children, 
 one dying in infancy. She died in 1854 ; and in 1857 he married 
 Mary. B. Chamberlain of Marblehead, who deceased several years 
 since. His two sons by his first wife are now in business in Wake- 
 field. He has lived in his native town a widower on the homestead of 
 his father and mother. p. 
 
 1829. 
 
 William Boyd Adams was born in Wiscasset, October, 1809. His 
 father, a resjJectable physician, removed to Boston about the time of 
 the son's admission. "He was the youngest of the class, small of 
 stature, with pleasing address and on good terms with all. I love to 
 recall his agreeable face, his uniformly amiable spirit, and his gentle 
 manners." He became interested in religion while in college and 
 honored his profession. " From Brunswick he went to the theologi- 
 
GRADUATES. 389 
 
 cal school in Andover. Here his character assumed a more decided 
 and energetic cast. The lovelj- boy became the thoughtful, earnest, 
 manly Christian. During one of his vacations he undertook an agency 
 in Maine for the Sunday-School Union. To this work he devoted 
 himself with the utmost ardor. He spared no fatigue, he shunned no 
 exposure, and thus undoubtedly laid the foundation of the disease 
 which some months later, in 1831, terminated a life that had been one 
 of bright promise . " 
 
 Harrison Otis Apthorp, brother of Leonard F. (1826), was fitted 
 for college by Dr. Fisher, a fine Latin scholar, who had been induced 
 to come from England by a few Boston gentlemen to teach their sons. 
 His school was kept in the basement of Chauney Street Church. 
 After graduation Apthorp spent several years abroad, chieflj' in 
 France. On his return he gave himself to the profession of an elo- 
 cutionist, pursuing with assiduity his preliminarj' studies in Philadel- 
 phia. He prosecuted medical study, not with any thought of entering 
 on the practice of medicine, but with a view to the physiology of the 
 vocal organs, a knowledge of which he deemed essential to one who 
 would be master of the art. ",He was connected with schools and 
 colleges in fitting boys for college, in teaching French, and in lectur- 
 ing on rhetoric and elocution ; once with a medicall institution as lec- 
 turer on the structure and function of the voice, the laws of respiration, 
 physiology of the ear, and the philosophy of sound." His home has 
 been in Northampton, Mass. He married a Miss Clarke and had two 
 children, a son and a daughter, when the above facts of his life were 
 communicated to Mr. Cleaveland. p. 
 
 DnDLET Perkins Bailey was born in North Yarmouth, now Yar- 
 mouth, April, 1805. His father was Isaac H. Bailey, a merchant of 
 the place, and his mother Phebe, daughter of Eev. Abraham Cum- 
 mings, a Baptist clergyman and a graduate of Brown University. He 
 was fitted for college at the academy in his native town. After taking 
 his degree he became principal of the academies at Hampden and 
 Hebron for two or three years, and then entered the ministry in the 
 Baptist communion, which he has exercised in Greene, Wayne, Corn- 
 ville, St. Albans, Monson, and elsewhere. He has been on the 
 superintending school committee in several towns where he has re- 
 sided. He has been twice married, and at the time when he com- 
 municated with Mr. Cleaveland had three children. In reply to 
 inquiries he thus wrote of himself: " I was thrown upon the world at 
 sixteen by the death of my father, the eldest of seven children, and 
 
390 HISTORY OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 have struggled against the disadvantages of ill health and poverty, 
 dependent wholly upon my own resources ; yet not without that rich 
 legacy the promise of God to the fatherless,, literally fulfilled in my 
 own case. My life has been, almost without interruption, what is usual 
 with pastors in quiet villages and retired locations. Success has been 
 too limited to satisfy myself, and yet I enjoy the consciousness of 
 having endeavored to fill the post marked out by Providence." Mr. 
 Bailey enjoyed the love, confidence, and respect of all with whom he 
 came in contact. He died in Hebron, December, 1878. p. 
 
 Phineas Barnes was born in Orland, January, 1811. He was fitted 
 for college at Phillips Andover Academy, and in college sustained the 
 highest rank in scholarship. Through life he cherished a decided 
 taste for literary and especially classical studies. Having been em- 
 ployed in a bookstore in Portland for a time, and then editor of a 
 paper at Bangor, — a position not altogether to his taste, — in 1834 he 
 accepted the professorship of Greek and Latin in Waterville College, 
 and discharged its duties with marked success for five years. He then 
 changed his plan of life, entered upon the stud}' of law in the oflSce of 
 Charles S. Da vies, Esq., of Portland, and established himself in the 
 practice there. He subsequently formed a copartnership with James T. 
 McCobbof the same college class. He tose to be a leading counsellor, 
 was employed in important cases, -was solicitor of the Grand Trunk 
 Eailroad, a director of the Portland Savings Bank, trustee of the 
 Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad sinking fund, of the Maine Gen- 
 eral Hospital, and of the State Agricultural College, and a member of 
 the Board of Overseers of our own college. He was interested in the 
 political movements of the day ; was editor of the Portland Advei-tiser 
 for six years ; was one of the leaders of the Whig party, and a candi- 
 date for governor of the State on the Bell and Everett ticket in 1840. 
 He was ever interested in the cause of popular education, giving 
 personal attention to' the oversight of the city schools, was deeply 
 concerned for the elevation of the colored race and in the cause of 
 colonization. His integrity and firmness of character were never 
 questioned. Suddenly attacked by painful and mortal disease, he 
 was not taken by surprise, made calm preparation for the event, — as 
 he characteristicallj- expressed himself, "facing death very closely," 
 — and died in the peace of the gospel, August, 1871. p. 
 
 Dennis Clark came from Strong. " He was inoflfensive. Studious, 
 and correct." He went to New Orleans and engaged in teaching. He 
 died iu 1833, a victim of the cholera. 
 
GKADUATES. ' 391 
 
 Eltsha Lord Cleaveland, brother of Neliemiah (1813), and John 
 (1826), was bora in Topsfield, April, 1806. He prepared for college 
 at Dummer Academy, Bj-field, Mass., then under the direction of his 
 brother Nehemiah. In his last j'ear in coUege he became interested in 
 religious things, decided to the great joj' of his parents upon the min- 
 istry of the gospel as the work of his life, and made public profession 
 of his faith in the church of his native town. He at once after gradu- 
 ation entered upon a theological course at Andover Theological Sem- 
 inary, graduating in 1832, and, receiving a license to preach, began to 
 exercise his powers in the pulpit. Feeling, however, the need of 
 more extended preparation for his work, he went to New Haven to 
 spend another year in studj^ Being invited to preach soon after his 
 arrival in the Third Congregational Church of the city, then vacant, 
 he at once attracted attention and received a call to the pastoral office, 
 whidh he accepted ; stipulating however that he should not assume 
 the charge until he had completed his plan of study. But his interest 
 in the society and their interest in him overruled what had been his 
 fixed purpose, and he received ordination in July, 1833, and thus 
 entered on a ministry of thirty-three j'ears. 
 
 It was a period in the history of the churches of sharp, at times 
 heated controversy on points touching what may be termed the philos- 
 ophy of fundamental doctrines of Christian faith, tending to division, 
 occasionally even to disruption of ecclesiastical ties. The young min- 
 ister soon found himself in the centre of the conflict. He without 
 hesitation, though not without deliberation, in the fear of God and in 
 love for his truth and for the church of Christ, as admitted by those 
 that were npt in full sympathy with him, took his stand. He en- 
 countered years of trial which tested his firmne(ss, energy. Christian 
 patience and intellectual power, in changes that ensued in his society, 
 in part from the causes referred to : divisions, pecuniary embarrass- 
 ments compelling the society to surrender its property to creditors, 
 and then a remnant repairing to another hired place of sojourn, then 
 occupying for a time a new but incommodious house of worship, and 
 at last undertaking the project of rearing a more fitting temple in a 
 more commanding position,' and by persistent efibrt and gradual 
 growth rising into a prominent and strong society in the city ; through- 
 out guided, sustained, and encouraged by the unfailing courage, 
 steadfastness, deep and earnest devotion, and conspicuous ability of 
 the pastor, and so, as was expressed by Dr. Leonard Bacon in his 
 address at his funeral, becoming " the visible and speaking memorial 
 of his ministry." 
 
 Mr. (now Dr.) Cleaveland bore the reputation of a sound theologian, 
 
f)3Z HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 a faithful, earnest pastor, and an eloquent preacher. He was conserv- 
 ative in politics as in theology, and indeed "obtained," as Dr. Bacon 
 remarked in his funeral address, " for a season the doubtful honor of 
 being commended as a conservative preacher whose gospel had no 
 concern with any social question. He was conservative of the origi- 
 nal foundations and traditions of our government, conservative of jus- 
 tice and of liberty ; and when the flood-gates of agitation and revolu- 
 tion were set open by repealing the old prohibition of slavery in the 
 Territories, when the ancient landmark of freedom was swept away, 
 and the attempt was daringly inaugurated to make slavery national 
 and freedom sectional, men found that his conservatism was some- 
 thing more than a pretence. So when the first battle of treason had 
 been fought at Charleston, and the loyal nation, forgetting all former 
 divisions and controversies, rushed to the rescue of the country, his 
 voice was heard, more impressive and efltective perhaps than any 
 other, in the great assembly of our citizens that was convened to 
 pledge our support to the imperilled government. From that time 
 onward how often did he stimulate, in the very spirit of 1776, the 
 patriotic confidence, the courage, and the self-sacrificing zeal of his 
 own people and of this whole community ! 
 
 "In the autumn of 1864 the opportunity Of passing a few months 
 in foreign travel was unexpectedly' offered, and his grateful people 
 urged him to accept it. While thus absent he was still on one occa- 
 sion and another serving the churches and serving the country. At 
 Paris, in an assembly of Protestant pastors and delegates from all 
 pai'ts of France, he had the privilege of speaking through an inter- 
 preter, to tell what God has wrought for us and what the conflict 
 was from which the ^nation was just then emerging into victory and 
 assured liberty. Afterwards at London, in the great annual assembly 
 of the English Congregational Union last May, he had tte privilege 
 of meeting Englishmen face to face and eye to eye, — some of them 
 men who had spoken bitter things .ngainst us, — ^^and of telling them, as 
 the representative of American Congregationalism, without an inter- 
 preter, what our position was and had been in all the long conflict 
 then just ended, and how marvellous was the deliverance wbich God 
 had wrought for us. In each of these two assemblies, as well as on 
 other occasions, he did a good work for the churches, and for his coun- 
 try. Fit representative, he found fit audience." 
 
 Returning apparently with renewed strength and health, he resumed 
 his loved employment among a loving people. His death, after a short 
 illness of a pneumonic type not severe, was sudden and unlooked-for 
 even by his physician, who at his last visit pronounced him convales- 
 
GKADUATES'i 393 
 
 cent. The termination was so unexpected that he had no time for 
 last farewells to wife and children, or for last messages to friends or 
 flock: He died February, 1866, greatly lamented and honored by the 
 public of New Haven. Mr. Cleaveland received the honoiary degree 
 of Doctor of Divinity from Washington College, Pa., in 1860. 
 
 Dr. Cleaveland married Miss Williams, daughter of Solomon Wil- 
 liams of Connecticut, whose father was one of the signers of the 
 Declaration of Independence. Dr. Cleaveland left a daughter and a 
 son. p. 
 
 George Coffin was from Newburyport, Mass. " I remember 
 him," writes one of his class, " as a consistent Christian all the way 
 through college, a diligent and respectable scholar. He felt the value 
 of time, for he was somewhat advanced, and all his strength was put 
 forth with direct reference to the ministry. For this object he re- 
 deemed every moment, and to it he consecrated every power. At 
 Andover he sustained the same general character as in college. But 
 sj^mptoms of consumption soon appeared. He struggled against it 
 long but vainly. The closing scenes of his life were in full keeping 
 with the sincerity and earnestness of his entire religious character.'' 
 At his death in 1831 he was twenty-eight years old. ^ 
 
 John Qdinby Day was bora in Portland, June, 1809. After leav- 
 in college he went through a course of study at the divinity school at 
 Cambridge, Mass., and "graduated in 1832. He preached for a time, 
 and then retired from public ministrations, and has resided in his 
 native city. 
 
 Asa M. Ditson was from Wilton. From college he went to Vir- 
 ginia. He became a doctor of medicine in 1833, and went to Louisi- 
 ana. He is supposed to have settled at New Carthage in that State, 
 in which place he died in 1835. 
 
 RiCHABD Stuart Evans — the middle name having been inserted 
 by a legislative act, of which the editors of the " Triennial " have 
 never known until recently — entered from Andover, Mass., having 
 been fitted at Phillips Academj- in that town. His standing in his 
 class may be inferred from his assignment to a poem at his gradua- 
 tion, and also when he took his second degree. In the fall of 1829 he 
 went to Washington, D. C, and obtained a position in the Post OfiQce 
 Department, meanwhile engaging in the study of law with a view 
 to the profession of his father, a justice in the Superior Court of New 
 
0»4 HISTORY or J30WD0IN COLIiEUK. 
 
 Hampshire. In 1833 he was admitted to the bar of Rockingham 
 County, N. H., and formed a pai-tnership with Hon. William Clagget 
 in Portsmouth. Subsequently he practised law in other States, and 
 was resident in the city of New York twenty years. He has edited 
 newspapers, and has held other positions than that already mentioned 
 under government. He has never remitted literary work, fruits of 
 which have appeared in contributions from his pen, and in lectures on 
 languages and literature ; has mastered several languages of Europe, 
 and has advertised himself as " translator of foreign literature." At 
 this writing he is in a law firm with a son, having been admitted to 
 practice in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1844. He mar- 
 ried in New York Citj^ Miss Catharine E. Roland. They have had four 
 children ; a son and two daughters now survive. p. 
 
 Alexander Rogers Green was born in Topsham, October, 1808. 
 His father was Nathaniel Green, who was a member of the convention 
 that framed the Constitution of Maine, and subsequently was in the 
 Senp,te from Lincoln. His mother was daughter of Major Alexander 
 Rogers of Topsham. The son was fitted for college mainly at Mon- 
 mouth and Gorham Academies, at the latter under Rev. Mr. Nason. 
 He studied law with Charles Packard,' Esq. (1817), in Brunswick. 
 Early in 1832 he emigrated to Mississippi, was soon admitted to the 
 bar, opened an office, and practised his profession a few j-ears at 
 Holmes ville. He then became a cotton planter, and when he wrote 
 of himself was principal of the Jackson Female Institute. In 1846 
 he was member of the Mississippi Legislature. He married in 1836 
 Louisa S. Perryman of Mississippi, and had five daughters. From a 
 letter to a friend in 1875 we learned that he had three daughters living 
 and six grandchildren. p. 
 
 Allen Haines was born in Leeds, July, 1804. In his childhood 
 his family removed to Topsham, his residence when he entered col- 
 lege. After graduation he studied law, and was admitted to the bar 
 in Bangor, where he practised his profession until his removal in 1845 
 to Portland. He there retired from the bar and engaged in otber 
 business in which he exhibited capacity, becoming a director of the 
 Atlantic Bank then in operation, and subsequently president of the 
 Mechanics' and Second National Banks. He was president of the 
 Portland Horse Railroad Company, of the Androscoggin Railroad 
 and York and Cumberland Railroad, and a director in the Portland 
 and Rutland Railroad. He was a sufferer by the fire of 1866, and in 
 1869 retired from active business. He was a member for several 
 
GRADUATES. 395 
 
 years of the school committee of Portland, was prominent in the 
 Masonic fraternity, and was active in the politics of the Democratic 
 party. In 1874 he removed to Pittsburg, Pa., where he resided with 
 a daughter, and died January, 1878. He married Jane Eaekleff Pu- 
 rinton of Portland, and left a son and daughter. p. 
 
 John Fairfield Hartley was born in Saco in June, 1809. He 
 sustained a very high rank in scholarship, excelled as a debater in his 
 college society, and gave promise of a distinguished career. After 
 graduation he at once engaged in legal studj' in the office of Ether 
 Shepley, Esq., of Saco. He began the practice of his profession in 
 the same town, but soon removed to Portland. Strongly inclined to 
 enter political life, he was connected with the Portland Argus and then 
 with the Standard; gained reputation as a speaker in political meet- 
 ings, and his friends augured favorably regarding his success if he 
 should devote himself to polities. In 1838, however, he received an 
 appointment in the -Treasury Department at Washington, and that 
 became his residence for thirtj'-seven j'ears. For several years he was 
 chief clerk, and for nearly ten years assistant secretarj^. He retired 
 from office in 1875. With the exception of a few months' tour abroad, 
 he has resided in Washington until the close of 1877, when he re- 
 turned with his family to live in the house where he was born. His 
 honorable position for so long a time in the government is proof of 
 faithful, able, and most valuable service. 
 
 Mr. Hartley has been twice married, his first wife being Martha 
 F., daughter of Jonathan King, Esq., of Saco, and his second a 
 sister of the same. He has had four children, three sons and a 
 daughter. 
 
 In 1847 he received the honorary degree of LL. D. from the Nor- 
 wich University, Vt. p. 
 
 Isaac Knight of Waterford, " not eminent," says a classmate, 
 " as a scholar, but one of the kindest hearted men that ever lived ; 
 trulj' good " Another classmate says, " Knight was over thirty years 
 old when he graduated. He was the onlj' man in our class who was 
 born in the last century, and probably the last member of college who 
 had that antiquarian distinction." He was the first minister of Hill 
 (then New Chester), N. H. After seven years' labor there he was 
 settled, 1837, in Franklin of the same State, — a place evermore to 
 be identified with the great name of Webster. In 1848 he took charge 
 of the church in Fisherville, N. H., and there died suddenly July, 
 1850, being five years older than he is rri.ted in the Bowdoin catalogue. 
 
bSe HISTORY OF BOWDOIN OOLLESE. 
 
 His clerical brethren and the people over whom he was successively 
 placed ' ' bore witness to the unsullied purity of his character and the 
 fidelity of his ministry." 
 
 Augustus F. Lash " was a large, dark-complexioned, heavy-browed, 
 deep-voiced, masculine fellow, wh6se generous good-nature made him 
 very acceptable to his classmates. He was a pious man and a good 
 scholar, excelling in mathematics." For eight years after he left col- 
 lege he was the principal of the Newcastle Academy with good repute 
 as a teacher and disciplinarian. He afterwards engaged in trade, still 
 living in Newcastle, where he died in 1848. He was married in 1830 
 to Miss Julia Myrick, and a second time to Miss Abigail Melcher. 
 Of four chQdren one onl3' survives. 
 
 Joseph Cammet Lovejot, son of Rev. Daniel Lovejoy, a useful 
 minister, was born in Albion, July, 1805, and was brother of Elijah 
 P., killed in Alton, 111., in 1837, defending his press against a pro- 
 slavery mob. After graduating he took charge of the academy in 
 Hallowell ; then pursued a theological course of study at the Bangor 
 Seminary, graduating with the class of 1834 ; was ordained over the 
 Congregational Church and Society in Oldtown, and subsequently over 
 one at Cambridgeport. Retiring from the ministry, the last twenty 
 years of his life were devoted to more active pursuits. He engaged 
 in political action, at first inclined to what may be termed radicalism, 
 and at a later period becoming highly conservative. He was a man 
 of extreme views. He held office in the customs, Boston, and was 
 capable of strong influence. He died suddenly in 1871. p. 
 
 Thomas Manning of New Gloucester went from college to German- 
 town, Pa., where he taught school; he subsequently had charge of 
 a seminar}' in Hartsville in the same State. A pulmonairy affection 
 induced him to give up teaching and to accept an agency from the 
 Sunday-School Union, which carried him to Alabama where he again 
 taught, residing at Tuscaloosa. After about three years thus spent 
 he returned to the North, and went on an agency through New York 
 and some of the Western States. At length he settled in Kingsport, 
 East Tennessee. Here he taught 'children, studied medicine, began 
 to practise, raised mulberry-trees, married and had two children, and 
 died in March, 1839. Mr. Manning was a very worthy man, and 
 would have accomplished much more than he did had his health and 
 strength seconded his good intentions. 
 
GRADUATES. 397 
 
 Henrt B. McCobb was grandson of James McCobb, who came in 
 1731 from Londonderry, Ireland, and settled near the mouth of the 
 Kennebec. Two of his sons were with Arnold in his expedition to 
 Quebec, and one of them a colonel in the Revolutionary army. His 
 maternal grandfather was a captain during the war of the Revolution, 
 and was appointed by Washington collector at York. His father, 
 Thomas McCobb, was a merchant and ship-owner in Georgetown. 
 Henry B. was born in Liverpool, when his parents happened to be in 
 England. Growing up among those who were wholly devoted to 
 mercantile pursuits, his mind early inclined in that direction. To 
 gratify his friends he consented to go through a college course. It 
 was however but too manifest that in all this he was working against 
 the grain. He could not give his heart to learning when its affections 
 were already engaged elsewhere. Having graduated at the age of 
 eighteen, he went at once to New York to enter upon what he 
 deemed his proper calling. There "with a glad and determined 
 spirit he took his place in the counting-room of the Messrs. How- 
 land (now Howland & Aspinwall). In that position he continued 
 for about five years. He then with a partner engaged in the com- 
 mission business, their firm being known as Richardson & McCobb. 
 After several successful years Mr. McCobb's health became impaired, 
 and he went to the West Indies and passed a winter. Soon after this 
 he closed up his affairs in New York and bought a sugar plantation 
 in Porto Rico, on which he spent the next ten years. About 1847 he 
 returned to Maine, and thenceforth resided in Portland. Here his 
 enterprising disposition would not permit him to be idlej In 1849 he 
 took the lead in forming a companj' for supplying the city with gas. 
 He was made treasurer and general agent of the company. He spared 
 no pains necessarj- to make himself familiar with the principles of 
 the business, and was soon master of all its practical and mechanical 
 detail. In fact, he was the pioneer of gas-lighting in Maine. Though 
 " not distinguished as a scholar," to which reputation he made no 
 claim, "he was j-et a constant and intelligent reader, a sound, con- 
 servative thinker, and a man of much practical, useful knowledge. 
 As a business man he was ardent, far-seeing, and tenacious of pur- 
 pose. . Faithful in all intrusted interests, he was honorable and lib- 
 eral, kind, courteous, and hearty in his intercourse with others. In 
 the uncertain honors of place and office he sought no share. He was 
 connected wiMi the Flpiscopal Cljurch, which found in him a generous 
 supporter. Soon after his return to Maine, Mr. McCobb was married 
 to Eliza H. Goodwin of Saco. As a husband and father he was more 
 than most men affectionate and'tender, and his friends could not but 
 
398 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 regret that one so well suited to domestic life should so long have 
 denied himself that happiness. The public in his death suffered the 
 loss, which a community always incurs in the departure of a good cit- 
 izen ; to his family it was a calamity of which the public can know 
 but little." He died May, 1855, in his forty-fifth j^ear. 
 
 James Thomas McCobb was born in Phippsburg, January, 1812, a 
 brother of Henry of this class. He was fitted for college at the Port- 
 land Academy under Mr. Bezaleel Cushman, and at Wiscasset under 
 Rev. Dr Packard. He read law under Hon. Ether Shepley, then of 
 Saco, afterwards chief justice of the Supreme Court of Maine ; under 
 Hon. Reuel Williams of Augusta, and also under Fessenden &Deblois, 
 Portland ; was admitted to the bar in 1834, entered upon the practice 
 in Augusta, where he remained ten years. He then removed to Port- 
 land and formed a copartnership with his college classmate Hon. 
 Phineas Barnes, which continued several years. Mr. Cobb has been 
 maj'or of the city of Portland and a member of the Senate of lilaine. 
 For many years he was an active member of the superintending school 
 committee of the city, and chairman of the board. 
 
 In 1838 he married Sarah S. Selden, daughter of Calvin Selden, 
 Esq., of Norridgewock. They have had two children. p. 
 
 Samuel Mcnson at the age of ten was left alone in the world by 
 the death of both parents, who were cut off by an epidemic. The 
 orphan boy soon found friends, and grew to manhood in his native 
 town. New Sharon. At the age of nineteen, warmed with the desire 
 to become a preacher and a missionary, he began his preparation at 
 the Farmington Academy. By occasional occupation in farming and 
 teaching, and with very little aid from other sources, he worked his 
 way through school and college. Somewhat slow in acquiring knowl- 
 edge, he was yet judicious and indefatigable in its pursuit ; mild in 
 temper, he was immovably firm in principle and conduct. During his 
 whole education, both at Brunswick and Andover, he maintained the 
 highest reputation for consistency and piety. After completing his 
 theological course he spent a year in the study of medicine. Thus 
 prepared, he went in 1833 to the East Indies under commission from 
 the American Board. His associate was Henry Lyman, a graduate 
 of Amherst College ; they were accompanied by their wives, Mr. 
 Munson having just before married Miss Abbj' Johnson gf Brunswick. 
 After six months passed at Batavla in studying the Chinese and Malay 
 tongues, they left their wives in that city and set out with the approval 
 of the Dutch authorities on a voj'age of exploration. They had beefl 
 
GKADUATES. 399 
 
 charged by the prudential committee to visit Nyas, an island west of 
 Sumatra, and then to explore if possible the northern part of Sumatra, 
 occupied by the Battas, a populous nation which the narrative of Sir 
 Thomas RafHes had presented to the attention and sympathy of Chris- 
 tians ; the purpose being to ascertain whether these regions were open 
 and eligible for missionary operations. They sailed in a trading ship 
 to Padang, where they hired a small boat manned by Malays. The 
 story of this voyage is graphically told in their journals ; and it is a 
 pleasure to accompany these earnest and noble men as they skirt in 
 that frail skiff those rich tropic shores, keenlj' appreciating their 
 natural wealth and beauty, but far more deeply feeling the moral 
 wants and deformity of the poor inhabitants. As instructed they 
 visited the island of Nyas ; but for the commencement of missionary 
 efforts they recommended in preference the neighboring group of the 
 Batu Islands. They reached Tapanooly, June 17, 1834, and in "a 
 calm, cheerful strain" wrote to their friends and to the board. From 
 this place they proceeded immediatel}' to penetrate the country of the 
 Battas. Accompanied by guides, interpreters, and coolies, and a ret- 
 inue of fourteen men, they travelled for five days by a difficult path 
 through the dense forest, interrupted occasionally by steep precipices 
 and rapid streams On the fifth day toward evening they came sud- 
 denly on a log fort occupied by armed men. Almost immediately the 
 party was surrounded by hundreds of the Battas, who with menacing 
 shouts and looks and brandished weapons rushed upon them. Guides, 
 interpreters, and coolies, with two or three exceptions, instantly fled. 
 Messrs. Lyman and Munson made no resistance ; thej- even gave up 
 the arms which by the advice of friends they had reluctantly carried. 
 Lyman was shot, Munson was stabbed ; their cook was also struck 
 down. Si Ian, a faithful Chinese servant who had come with them 
 from Batavia, and who subsequently reported these sad particulars, 
 slipped into the thicket and finally escaped. How it deepens the 
 horrors of this scene to know that these murderers were also cannibals ! 
 Thus fell those gentle-hearted, those heavenly-minded, those martyr 
 pioneers ! When the tidings reached America they sent a shock to 
 millions of hearts. The friends of missions wept ; the prudent and 
 the timid remonstrated against such reckless waste of life ; the 
 murdered men were accused of infatuation in thus adventuring among 
 ferocious barbarians, whose tender mercies were akin to those of tie 
 wolf and tiger. And for a time It did seem that they had been im- 
 prudent if not rash. The account first received from the Dutch post- 
 holder at Tapanooly stated that they went among the Battas in direct 
 opposition to his advice and entreaty; and also that. they were met 
 
400 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 on the way by certain rajahs who told them that there were dis- 
 turbances among the Battas, and urged them to turn back. Under 
 such circumstances their persistence seemed unaccountable ; but the 
 statements of the post-holder in this regard are not confirmed by 
 those of the devoted Si Ian. The Rev. Mr. Medhurst of the London 
 Missionary Society, who had shown himself a true friend to Messrs. 
 Lj'man and Munson while in Batavia, alluding to the post-holder 
 wrote as follows: "The impression on mj' mind is that he did not 
 use those strong dissuasions which (anxious to exonerate himself 
 from blame) he gives out, but that on the contrary he represented- the 
 journey as comparatively free from danger, though the travelling 
 would be exceedingly difficult." But our best reason for acquitting 
 them of rash folly is derived from the well-known characteristics of 
 the men themselves. Their whole previous course showed that they 
 were not only fearless and persevering, but also discreet and provi- 
 dent. They had just refrained from pushing into the interior of N^-as 
 for the very reason that " travelling was unsafe" ; we must therefore 
 conclude that in their last, ill-fated expedition they acted with good 
 judgment on the facts and probabilities before them. Since that time 
 the Batta country has been fully explored, and we are told by a visitor, 
 the Rev. Mr. Ennis, that " had the people who committed the deed 
 known in what character the brethren came, they would not have been 
 murdered ; but being engaged in hostilities with a neighboring village, 
 and agitated with anger and fear, and seeing two strangers of unusual 
 appearance approach, in the blind, tumultuous passions of war they 
 acted without knowing what they did." However this may have been, 
 to the perpetrators this transaction proved fatal indeed. As soon as it 
 became known among the Battas that these " were good men who had 
 come to do the Batta nation good," the villages around Sacca joined 
 against it in a league of exterminating vengeance. The village was 
 burned, many of the inhabitants were killed, the rest were dispersed, 
 and Sacca, once cultivated and populous, has now relapsed into jungle. 
 From the report of those who knew \).\m intimately, as well as from 
 his own letters and journal, we have formed a high opinion of Mr. 
 Munson's worth. He. was evidentlj' a man of cultivated taste^ of 
 accurate knowledge, of careful observation, and of good judgment. 
 His zeal to benefit his fellow-men and to advance the Christian cause 
 was no wild-fire, but a bright and pure and steady flame. He did 
 not engage in so great a work before he had counted the cost, and 
 there is no reason to believe that he ever for a moment regretted the 
 step. A short passage from Mr. Munson's journal, kept during the 
 boat voyage already mentioned, will bring him more vividly and more 
 
GRADUATES. 401 
 
 interestingly before the reader than would any descriptions or com- 
 ments that I could make:— 
 
 "May 15. — Yesterday we were tossing all day without wind. 
 Mount Ophir, one of the most regular and beautiful as well as highest 
 mountains on Sumatra, was all day in sight. The want of wind com- 
 pelled us to anchor outside in sight of Pulo Fanjang, to which we were 
 next bound. The boat rolled incessantly. After a little troubled 
 sleep I rose and went on deck. The air was cool and refreshing ; the 
 night was calm ; the stillness of death reigned, except the distant roar 
 of waves beating on the shore. At such a time my thoughts naturally 
 turned towards the land and the friends I had left. I thought of the 
 scenes of my boyhood, the causes which had conspired to place me in 
 my present circumstances, and of the objects of my present pursuit. 
 As I thought on the nature of the work that had been assigned me, 
 the extent of the field and the amount of labor to be performed, I felt 
 it impressed upon me that this is to be the theatre of the remainder of 
 my existence. I felt as if bidding adieu to my friends forever ; as if 
 saying to them, FareweU ! we shall meet no more in this world. The 
 days of our intercourse have been many and sweet — but they are 
 past : I shall return to you no more. ... It was a solemn parting, 
 and though only in thought, I have no wish that it should not be real." 
 
 Real it was, — short indeed that ' ' remainder of existence," — quick 
 and shocking the catastrophe which brought it to a close. But those 
 friends to whom be sighed his adieu in that still hour upon the Indian 
 seas, and the great Christian communitj' whose warm heart thrilled 
 at the tale of horror, could still rejoice over a Christian hero who had 
 fallen honorably in the path of duty. I have seen in the cemetery at 
 Northampton, Mass., a neat cenotaph erected by Ms friends to the 
 precious memory of Henry Lyman. I am not aware that any such 
 tribute has been paid to his beloved companion in life and death, 
 the equally worthy Samuel Munson. On whom does the pious duty 
 rest if not on the sons of Bowdoin ? What more suitable place for 
 such a memorial than that burial ground among the pines of Bruns- 
 wick? 
 
 Mrs. Munson came back to her friends in Brunswick ; she now 
 lives in Portland, and her son (born in Java) is fitting himself for a 
 business life. 
 
 Edgar Pike of Calais "stood high in his class, especially as a 
 mathematical scholar. He was a bright youth, a pleasant fiiend." 
 After graduating he went to New Orleans and passed a few months ; 
 thence he removed to Atakapas, where he entered on the study of 
 
402 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 medicine, giving lessons at the same time in the family of his pro 
 fessional instructor. He died in the summer of 1831 of lockjaw 
 induced by some slight injury. 
 
 James Rilet was born in Newry, July, 1803. He was admitted t( 
 the class of 1830, but by diligent effort gained an advance into thi 
 present. He was reported to have gone to Ohio, but we have not sue 
 ceeded in recovering trace of him. p. 
 
 Francis Beown Robie was born in Gorham, July, 1809, son o: 
 Hon. Toppan Robie and Lydia Brown, sister of Rev. Francis Brown 
 president of Dartmouth College, for whom he was named. He wai 
 fitted for college under Rev. Reuben Nason in the academy.- He hac 
 nearly completed a medical course of study under Dr. John Tayloi 
 Oilman of Portland, having attended two courses of lectures at Bow' 
 doin and Boston, when in a chemical experiment in which fulminating 
 silver was emploj^ed, an explosion occurred by which fragments of th( 
 glass vessel were driven into one of his eyes. He had nearty recoverec 
 from the injury, but resuming his studies prematurely, he overtaskec 
 ■ his eye ; inflammation ensued, which resulted in a partial loss of sight 
 He submitted to an operation for artificial pupil without success anc 
 became totally blind. In 1838 he married Martha L. Prince of Yar 
 mouth, and they had three children. Having patiently endured hif 
 sad privation forty -three years, he died of lingering disease (softening 
 of the brain), October, 1876. p. 
 
 Joseph Washbtjkn Sessions was bom in Lunenburg, Vt., June 
 1801. His father was John Sessions, and his mother Lucsnda "Wash- 
 burn of Connecticut. The son was one of seven children, all living 
 when the account of himself was communicated, all professors of reli- 
 gion, and three in the ministry. This son was fitted for college ai 
 Phillips Academy, Andover. He graduated at the Theological' Semi- 
 nary, Andover, in 1832 ; was ordained over the Congregational Churcl 
 and Society in West Needham in 1833 ; in 1842 was installed ovei 
 the church and society in West SuflSield, Conn. , where he remainec 
 ten years, and then in 1854 was installed in West Woodstock, Conn, 
 He married Mary Sewall Dunning of Brunswick in 1833. They hav« 
 had two children, daughters. p. 
 
 Kiah Bailet Sewall was born in Edgecomb, December, 1807, 
 His father was Rev. Samuel Sewall, brother of Gen. Henry Sewall o! 
 Augusta ; of Daniel, for many years clerk of the courts in York County, 
 
GEADUATES. 403 
 
 and Rev. Jotham, remembered as " Father Sewall." He held an hon- 
 orable position in his class, and as one proof of it was president of 
 the Peueinian Society. For the prominent particulars of his subse- 
 quent life I am indebted to the obituary notice of him which appeared' 
 in the Portland press, from the careful and accurate pen of the late 
 Hon. "William WClis : " After graduation he was a teacher for two 
 years in the Gardiner Lyceum, then removed to New York, and after 
 teaching there two years went to St. Louis and travelled over Missouri 
 and Illinois. Eeturning to Portland he engaged in speculation, and in 
 1836 married Miss Day, daughter of Major Fzekiel Day, by whom he 
 has left eight children who survive to lament the very severe dispen- 
 sation which has deprived them of a most faithful and affectionate 
 husband and father. In 1838 Mr. SewaU commenced the study of 
 law in New York, to which he carried mature powers of mind and 
 varied experience. Thus equipped for the practical duties of life, he 
 entered upon the pursuit of his profession in Mobile with ardor and 
 success. He soon acquired a high standing at the bar and prominent 
 official station ; everything was bright and encouraging before him 
 when the Rebellion broke out and dashed his fond hopes and well- 
 founded expectations. 
 
 " Mr. Sewall from his New England education, from his ancestral 
 antecedents, and from his firm Northern principles, could be no other 
 than a Union man. F'or this he has been badgered bj' the fire-eaters 
 among whom he was living, and has been subjected to great pecuniary 
 loss and peril of his life. Even after Mobile surrendered, the expres- 
 sion of loyalty to the United States government was attended with 
 inconvenience if not actual danger. But he, nothing daunted by 
 threatening aspects around him,' persevered to maintain the highest 
 expression of devotion to the Union and its flag. At the meeting of 
 loyal citizens in June last he was appointed chairman of a committee, 
 and reported and advocated resolutions expressive of devotion to the 
 Constitution and laws of the United States, and of a desire on the part 
 of the citizens of Mobile and Baldwin Counties for a reorganization of 
 government under that Constitution. Although these patriotic reso- 
 lutions encountered severe opposition, they were carried by the earnest 
 advocacy of Mr. Sewall and his loyal associates. He did not cease 
 in efforts for the cause of the country and a peaceful submission to its 
 laws up to the time of his departure from the city in the earlj' part of 
 August ; and it was his intention to return immediately to give his 
 effectual aid to the cause of a good, peaceful, and stable government 
 under the old Constitution. 
 
 " The agitation through which he had passed and the imminent 
 
404 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 danger to which it exposed him greatly prostrated his strength, and 
 rendered him more susceptible to the attack of disease. He was con- 
 ducting his wife and children to visit Portland, when he was seized 
 upon his passage up the Mississippi with a severe cold which termi- 
 nated in death in Boston, August, 1865. He had reached that city the 
 previous day in a state of extreme exhaustion." p. 
 
 Moses Sotjle, brother of Gideon L. (1818) and Charles (1821), 
 was born in Freeport, March, 1805. He fitted for college at Phillips 
 Academy, Exeter, N. H. After graduation he began the study of 
 law, but soon relinquished it and devoted himself to what became 
 the chief employment of his life, and for which he had peculiar quali- 
 fications, teaching first as assistant and then principal in a classical 
 academy at Germantown, near Philadelphia. He then opened and 
 kept for six years a private school in the neighboring city for English 
 and classical studies. Removing to Maine he had charge of the acad- 
 emy in Bethel, and in a year or two after in Bridgton, where he re- 
 mained six years. Then removing to Terre Haute, Ind., he was for 
 several years proprietor and editor of the Terre Haute Daily Express. 
 He became a communicant and then ruling eld^r in the Presbyterian 
 Church in that city. In, 1861 he accepted the position of principal of 
 the Western Union College and Military Academy at Fulton, 111., and 
 was commissioned lieutenant-colonel by Governor Yates. The year 
 following he was chosen president of a military college at Quincy, 111., 
 and at the close of the war of the Illinois Soldiers' College. Mr. 
 Soule has shown administrative faculty and superior qualities as a 
 teacher and disciplinarian. 
 
 He has married twice : first in 1836 to Mrs. Eliza Sheppard, nee 
 Chetwood, of Philadelphia, by whom he had a daughter who died in 
 infancy. Mrs. Sotile died in Lyons, Iowa, in 1875. Second in 1876 
 to Mrs. Mary Downs of Lyons, Iowa, of English birth. At this writ- 
 ing (1880) he resides at Lyons, retired from active labor. p. 
 
 David Stutson Stact was born in Wilton, October, 1803. He 
 graduated with an honorable appointment. So far as we learn from 
 facts through his law partner, Alonzo Snyder, Esq., of Louisiana, 
 soon after graduation he emigrated to Louisiana, took charge of an 
 academy, at Baton Rouge, meanwhile studying law ; was admitted to 
 the bar and began practice in partnership with Z. Labauve, Esq., 
 Plaquemine, parish of IberviUe. He subsequently removed to the 
 parish of Concordia, where he remained until his death in 1857. He 
 was early in his practice appointed by the governor of the State, 
 
GRADUATES. 405 
 
 district attorney, and held the position two or three j'ears. He formed 
 a copartnership with Hon. Edward Sparrow which continued ten or 
 twelve 3'ears, then became partner with Alonzo Snyder, Esq. He 
 was in attendance upon the Supreme Court in New Orleans at the 
 time of his- death, March, 1857. In 1849 he married Mary Jane 
 King of Mississippi, who "died in 1853, leaving four daughters and 
 two sons. He had an extensive and lucrative practice. He was, 
 as his partner writes, untiring in his labors, strictly honest, with a 
 clearness of perception of men and things rarely equalled, and a judg- 
 ment clear, penetrating, and profound ; was a great student and of 
 great energy, and ranked at the head of his profession for many 
 3'ears. The utmost confidence was placed in his integrity and opin- 
 ions as a lawyer. He had never taken part in polities, though a firm 
 Whig. As one result of a laborious and honorable career he had 
 accumulated a large estate. p. 
 
 William Wood was bom in Portland, October, 1811. He pur- 
 sued medical study partly in Europe, and graduated in the medical 
 school in 1833. For many years he has been a prominent physician 
 in his native city. In later years, having given up general practice, 
 he has devoted himself to natural science, te which he has been much 
 inclined. He has been an active and prominent member of the Port- 
 land Natural History Society, and has always been studious in his 
 habits. Of a genial temper and manners, he is highly respected and 
 esteenaed. He has been a member of the Board of Overseers and of 
 the medical faculty in the medical school. He married Mrs. Jordan 
 of Cape Elizabeth, and has one son and three daughters. p. 
 
 1830. 
 Ezra Abbot was born in Wilton, N. H. , November, 1805. The year 
 after graduation he taught school in Augusta, and began theological 
 study with Rev. Dr. Benjamin Tappan of that city. In the year fol- 
 lowing he continued his theological course in the Theological School, 
 New Haven, Conn. He then went to Virginia, Farquier County, 
 where he was employed as a teacher, having among his pupils descend- 
 ants of Chief Justice Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. 
 A brother writes that it was supposed to be his purpose to return and 
 complete his course in theology and enter the ministry ; but he was 
 interested in his situation, continued his work, at length purchased a 
 farm, took pupils into his family, and remained twenty years. In 1846 
 he married Miss Sarah Hacker of New York, had a son and daughter. 
 
406 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 'and preferring that his ch^dren should not grow up under the influ 
 ence of slavery even in a mild form, and persuaded what must be th 
 issue of the struggle between the North and the South, he sold hi 
 lands and returned to New England. He taught a year in Rocky Hil 
 Conn., and then in Batavia, 111., and subsequently removed to Min 
 nesota, making St. Anthony his temporary home. With a youngo 
 brother he went to Owatonna, Steele County, bought a_ tract of land 
 surveyed it, laid it out in lots, began improvenients, removed his fam 
 ily, and in a few years his wilderness became a city. After a long aa 
 painful ilUness he died August, 1876. p. 
 
 William Ebenezer Abbot was born in Beverly, Mass., May 
 1810, son of Eev. Dr. Abiel Abbot. After taking his degree he wen 
 through a theological course of study at the Divinity School in Cam 
 bridge and graduated in 1833; received ordination in 1837 over th 
 church inBillerica, Mass., but in consequence of delicate health retire( 
 from the active ministry in 1839. He has since resided on the ances 
 tral estate at Dorchester, Mass. He married in 1837 Ann Susai 
 Wales. . p. 
 
 1 
 
 Dakius Adams was a native of Gilead, a border town of Maine, i: 
 the neighborhood of the White Hills, and was born April, 1805. H 
 was fitted for college for the most part at Gorham Academy under Mi 
 Nason, and entered Sophomore at the same time that his brothc 
 Samuel of the next class entered Freshman. He shared in the strug 
 gles for an education which his brother narrates in the touching stor; 
 of his own early life. To him " belongs the honor," his brother states 
 " of being the first college graduate from Gilead. With him, so fa 
 as I know, originated in our little backwoods town the idea of an( 
 the aspiration for the achievement of a college education. I have ni 
 doubt that his example has been a main influence in determining th 
 course of many who have since graduated from that region. For my 
 self I do not know that I should ever, have seen a college had it no 
 been for him. His unconquerable resolution to acquire an educatio: 
 himself, and also to take me along with him, decided the course of u 
 both. After graduating he taught schools in Brunswick, Guildhall 
 Vt., and Gilmanton, N. H. In the last place he read law, thei 
 removed to Illinois and was admitted to the bar of that State ; bu 
 relinquished the practice, preferring a more active and enterprisinj 
 life, and " devoted himself to the care of his property and the im 
 provement of the town of his adoption, Rockton, of which he was on 
 of the original settlers." The a.fi'ectionate tribute his brother pays ti 
 
GRADUATES. 407 
 
 his generous efforts for him justifies the impression we form of a man 
 of capacity, energy, and great worth. He was never married, and has 
 lived for many years with another emigrant brother in Rockton, 111. 
 He has represented his town in the Legislature. He died in Rockton 
 Nov. 5, 1880. p. 
 
 Gushing Allen of Bath. " I knew him intimately, and was his 
 room-mate the last j'ear. He was quite a good scholar, exceedingly 
 amiable, kind, and upright, and in all that pertained to his social and 
 moral character a model young man." (Rev. N. Munroe.) 
 
 Francis Barbocr came from Gorham, got his degree, and went back 
 to his native town, where, says the venerable Jacob Smith, " He tried 
 law with me for six months, and then physic six months more with 
 Dr. Peabody, but he left them both in disgust, being more inclined to 
 draw a picture than a tooth or a capias." To make himself a painter 
 he visited Boston and New York, but soon returned to pursue his art at 
 home. " He left," says Mr. E. P. Weston, " in his portraits and other 
 paintings, evidences of no common genius." He wooed the Muses 
 also, as the Peucinian catalogue and the " Bowdoin Poets" show. A 
 note in the last-named work paj-s a kindly tribute to Mr. Barbour's 
 talents and virtues. He died in 1839. 
 
 BiON Bradbury was bom in Biddeford, December, 1812. His 
 parents were Jeremiah Bradbury and Mary Langdon Stover. He 
 fitted for college at South Berwick and Gorham Academies. The j-ear 
 after graduation he had charge qf Alfred Academy. He studied law two 
 years with Daniel Goodenow, Esq., afterwards one of the justices in the 
 Supreme Court of the State, and one year under Hon. William Pitt 
 Preble, afterwards also on the bench of the Supreme Court. He opened 
 an office in Calais in 1834, continued there ten years, and then removed 
 to Eastport where he remained fifteen or twenty years. Of late years 
 he has resided and practised his profession in Portland. With an 
 extensive practice he has gained reputation as an able counsellor and 
 advocate, and is president of the Cumberland Bar Association. In 
 1842 he represented the town of Calais, and in 1850 Eastport in the 
 Legislature of the State. In 1844 he was appointed collector of cus- 
 toms for the district of Passamaquoddy, and was reappointed in 1853. 
 In 1842 and 1843 he was placed in nomination by the Democratic 
 part}' for governor of the State. He also received from the same 
 party nomination for representative to Congress. At the time of this 
 writing he is abroad in Europe. 
 
408 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 In 1838 he married Alice Williams, daughter of Col. Johnsor 
 WiUiams of "Waterville. He has now living a son and three daugh 
 ters. p. 
 
 George Washington Cole was a native of Saco, born Jan. 5. 
 1805. At fifteen this well-trained farmer hoy became a merchant's 
 clerk in the village. After four years of faithful service in that 
 capacity he prepared for college, supporting himself while pursuing 
 his studies. In college he was a good scholar, amiable and exem- 
 plary. Though naturally diffident to excess, he never shrank from the 
 assertion of principle or the discharge of duty. At the usual period 
 the Peucinians showed their esteem for him by making him their pres- 
 ident. He left college three months before graduation to teach school 
 in Germantown, Pa., where he spent a year. In 1831 he entered the 
 Protestant Episcopal General Theological Seminary of New York. 
 After graduating there he was professor in Bristol College, Pa., for 
 two yeaj-s. He then took charge of a parish in West Chester, Pa., 
 for a year, and thence removed to Tecumseh, Mich., and four years 
 after to Kalamazoo, where he had scarcely become settled in his work 
 when he died in 1840, leaving a memory to be cherished for conscien- 
 tious fidelity and great loveliness of character. 
 
 John Haekis Converse was born in Durham, December, 1807, son 
 of a physician. He was fitted for college at the Maine Wesleyan 
 Seminary, Beadfield, and at Hebron Academy. After graduation he 
 studied law with Josiah Mitchell, Esq., of Freeport, with Messrs. 
 Wing & Noble, Munroe, Mich., and with Joseph Williamson, Esq., 
 of Belfast ; was admitted to the bar in 1835, and opened an office in 
 Nobleboro', where he remained until 1853. He then removed to the 
 adjoining town, Newcastle, where he still resides. He held the appoint- 
 ment of deputy collector of customs for that district during the admin- 
 istration of Gen. Pierce. Of later years he has been judge of probate 
 for Lincoln County. He died in Newcastle, June, 1880. p. 
 
 James Merrill Cummings was born in Boston in 1810, son of J. A. 
 Cummings (Harvard, 1801), author of school-books, devoted to the 
 interests of popular instruction, and highly respected and esteemed. 
 His mother w«s a daughter of Rev. Giles Merrill of Haverhill, Mass. 
 He was fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy. After grad- 
 uation he pursued medical study under John Barrett, M. D., Portland. 
 He has resided for some years in the Southwest, and in Salem, Mass., 
 
GRADUATES. 409 
 
 and for the last twenty-eight years in Portland, in the practice as a 
 homoeopathic physician. 
 
 He married a Miss Hall of Portland, and has a son and daughter. 
 
 p. 
 
 David Quimbt Ctjshman, born in Wiscasset, December, 1806, was 
 son of Kenelon and Hannah Cushman, his father being a direct de- 
 scendant of Robert Cushman of the Pilgrims. He was fitted for col- 
 lege by Rev. Dr. Hezekiah Packard of Wiscasset. After graduation 
 he entered the Theological Seminary, Andover, and graduated in 
 1834. He exercised his ministry at first in Massachusetts and Maine, 
 performing missionary service for a time at different places, spending 
 two years at Millville, Mass., where he was ordained as an evange- 
 list. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Booth- 
 bay in 1838-43. After a year of service in Richmond he was in- 
 vited to the charge of the First Church and Society in Newcastle, 
 where with occasional labors in Bremen and the Walpole parish, Bris- 
 tol, he remained twelve years. In 1857-63 he was installed over the 
 church and society in Warren. The last ten years he has resided in 
 Bath, ministering in neighboring churches as occasion presented. 
 
 Mr. Cushman has always been active in promoting the interests of 
 education, serving on school committees or as supervisor of schools 
 where he has resided ; was for several years secretary and depositary 
 of the Lincoln County Bible Society. He is somewhat given to his- 
 torical research, of which he has given proof in papers communicated 
 to the Maine Historical Society which have appeared in its collections. 
 He is an associate in that societj', and a member of the New England 
 Historic-G-enealogical Society, Boston. p. 
 
 Thomas Dktjmmond, born in Bristol,' October, 1809, was son of 
 James Drummond, Esq., well known, respected, and of influence as 
 a citizen. His mother was Jane Little, daughter of Henry Little of 
 Newcastle. His paternal grandfather came from Scotland. The sou 
 immediately after graduating left Maine for Philadelphia, where he 
 read law in the office of William T. D wight, Esq., afterwards Rev. 
 Dr. Dwight of Portland. When Mr. Dwight abandoned the law for 
 the ministry, Drummond finished his studies in the office of Thomas 
 Bradford, Jr., Esq., and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia in 
 1833. In 1835 he removed to the West, and opened an office in 
 Galena, 111., where he practised the profession until 1850. In 1854, 
 having received from Gen. Taylor, President of the United States, 
 a judicial appointment for the distri6t of Illinois, he removed to 
 Chicago. 
 
410 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Mr. Drummond has been highly successful and honored in his ea 
 reer. He, with his colleague Mr. Thornton, represented in the Statt 
 Legislature nearly the whole northwestern portion of the State o 
 Illinois, the only political office he has held In 1869 he was appointee 
 by President Grant judge of the seventh judicial circuit of the Unitec 
 States, embracing the States of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin 
 which office he still holds. His name has been repeatedlj"^ proposed 
 to the President by his professional brethren for the bench of th( 
 Supreme Court, United States, and it is said that only political con- 
 siderations not relating to him personally prevented him from bein^ 
 nominated. In 1868 he removed from Chicago to Winfield, where he 
 now resides. 
 
 Judge Drummond married in 1839 Delia A. Sheldon, daughter oi 
 J. P. Sheldon, Esq., of Willow Springs, Wis. They have had twc 
 sons and three daughters. A daughter died in 1869 and his wife in 
 1874. 
 
 Samuel Dana Hubbaed was born in Wiscasset, September, 1807- 
 After teaching in the academy in his native place one year he weni 
 South, and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Montgomery, Ala., with 
 success for several years. He was subsequently elected clerk of the 
 courts, and held that office until 1862. In 1850 he was chosen to a 
 responsible position in a bank of exchange, and conducted its affairs 
 until the second year of the late war. He still lives in Montgomery. 
 In 1838 he married Frances Russell, Springfield, Mass. They have 
 had seven children. p. 
 
 George. Washington Ingbrsoll was born in New Gloucester, 
 August, 1803. He devoted himself to the law, settled in Bangor, 
 and by his energy, ability, and strength of character gained a promi- 
 nent position in the bar of that county. H« had more than ordinary 
 powers, and as testified by a brother in the profession, though he 
 never sought a contest, preferring to» settle a case by advice rather 
 than enter upon a trial in court, yet if called to it he managed a cause 
 with great vigor. A man .of independent views, he was above court- 
 ing popular favor. He was a leading member of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives in 1854-55. In 1860 he was elected by the Legislature 
 attornejr-general of the State, to the general approval of the profes. 
 sion ; but -before he had become established in the duties of his office 
 he was seized by fatal pulmonic disease, and died March, 1860. He 
 married Miss Henrietta Crosby, and left three children : a son Edward 
 
 C. (Bowdoin College, 1864 ; LL. B. Columbia College, Washington, 
 
 D. C.) is a practising attorney in Washington, D. C. p. 
 
GRADUATES. 411 
 
 William Sever Lincoln, son of Hon. Levi Lincoln, governor of 
 Massachusetts, was born in Worcester, November, 1811. He read 
 law in Worcester, and entered upon the practice in Millbury, where 
 he remained several years. He then removed to Illinois and settled 
 in Alton, became prosecuting attorney of the county, a portion of the 
 time gratifying a taste for agricultural pursuits in the neighborhood. 
 In 1845 he returned to Worcester, where he has since lived, devoting 
 himself for the most part to agriculture. He has been president of 
 the agricultural society of the county. He has been a bank director, 
 has held municipal oflSce, and been respected and esteemed as a citi- 
 zen. He entered the public service in the late war, was commissioned 
 successively lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general by bre- 
 vet of volunteers. He was severely wounded in battle, and main- 
 tained the honor of the family name. He has been since inspector of 
 internal revenue of the United States, and a trustee of the Worcester 
 Lunatic Hospital. 
 
 Gen. Lincoln married Miss Elizabeth Turnbull, daughter of George 
 A. Turnbull, Esq., of Worcester. They have had four sons, of whom 
 two now survive. p. 
 
 JoTHAM TiLDEN MouLTON, bom in Bucksport, October, 1808, was 
 brother of George (1827). On leaving college he studied law with 
 Samuel M. Pond, Esq., of Bucksport, and with John G. Deane, Esq., 
 of Ellsworth; was admitted to the bar, and engaged in .practice in 
 Cherryfleld for some years. In 1852 he removed to Chicago , for a 
 time was connected with the Tribune, a newspaper, and engaged in 
 business transactions, but soon resumed his profession. He was ap- 
 pointed United States commissioner and master in chancery for the 
 northern district of Illinois. Of late years he. has retired from active 
 life. He has married twice : first, Ann P. Cooke of Portland in 
 1836, who died in 1846, leaving four children, a son and three daugh- 
 ters ; second, a few years after, Charlotte Fenno of Boston, by whom 
 he has had two sons. He died Dec. 29, 1881. p. 
 
 Nathan Munkoe, born in Minot, now Auburn, March, 1804, was 
 fitted for college at Hebron, but mostly at Gorham Academy. He 
 graduated with the highest honor of his claSs. After leaving college 
 he had charge of the academy at Hallowell two years, and then en- 
 tered upon a theological course at Andover, Mass. In the middle of 
 the second year at the seminary, he was elected principal of Newark 
 College, Del., and accepted the position ; but in a few months, just as 
 he had secured confidence and respect in the office, ill health compelled 
 
412 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 him to resign, and he returned to Andover to complete his theological 
 studies, and graduated in 1835. He received a call to the Congrega- 
 tional Church and Society at Saco, which he declined ; was ordained 
 over the church and society in Bradford, Mass., in 1836, where he 
 remained until 1853, when ill health again caused his retirement from 
 a faithful and successful pastorate. He then became for five years 
 secretary for New England of the American Sunday-School Union. 
 He was next for five years a joint proprietor and editor of the Boston 
 Recorder, which contested with the New York Observer the claim of 
 being the oldest religious paper in the world, but the labor and care 
 of the position proved too great for him. He again sought relief and 
 health, and devoted himself to the interests of the academy in Brad- 
 ford, of which for many years he was an active and influential trustee. 
 He took deep interest in the promotion of popular education, assisted 
 Benjamin Greenleaf in revising his arithmetics and in the 'preparation 
 of his algebra, and wrote for the public press. He was a lover of 
 books, and accumulated a valuable library of more than six thousand 
 volumes. He was ardent, self-sacrificing, of superior powers, de- 
 cided opinions, and at the same time of a humble, quiet, loving spirit; 
 a conscientious, godly man in all the relations of life. His life had 
 been almost throughout a continued conflict with disease and inflrmity. 
 At its close, though he had been unusually feeble for some time, his 
 decease was not anticipated until two or three days before he died in 
 July, 1866. 
 
 Mr. Munroe was married three times, and had had ten children. 
 He left a wife and four children. p. 
 
 Lewis Pennell was born in Brunswick, February, 1803 ; was fitted 
 for college at Yarmouth Academy. He pursued a theological course 
 at Andover, Mass., where he graduated in 1833. The first of his 
 ministerial service was spent as a missionary in Maine, and the next 
 two years in the Western States. He was then ordained pastor of 
 the Congregational Church in Northbridge,,Mass. ; subsequently served 
 as stated supply for five or six years at Weston, Conn. ; then became 
 pastor of the Congregational churches, successively, of New Fairfleld, 
 Conn., and South Southbridge, Mass. For the few last years through 
 inflrmity he has retired from active service. 
 
 He married at Evansville, Ind., Esther Slocum, and in 1847 Mary 
 C. Sherwood of Greenfield, Conn. He had two sons, of whom one 
 died early in life, and the survivor entered Amherst College. This 
 son, in his' Junior year, during the late war entered the army ; returned 
 and graduated with his class, entered the service' again, was commis- 
 sioned lieutenant, and fell in battle at Petersburg, Va. p. 
 
GKADUATES. 413 
 
 Joseph Stockbridge was bom in Yarmouth, July, 1811. His 
 father, William R. Stockbridge, was a descendant in the fifth genera- 
 tion from John Stockbridge who came from England in 1635 in the 
 " Blessing," and his mother a descendant of one of the company in 
 the " Mayflower." This son has had a more than usually varied ex- 
 perience of life. At first he was one year in the military academy at 
 Norwich, Vt. , under Capt. Partridge ; he then fitted for college at the 
 academy in his native town. Immediately after graduation he entered 
 upon legal study under Grenville Mellen, Esq. (Harvard) , and Philip 
 Eastman, Esq. (Bowdoin College, 1820), in the Law School, Harvard, 
 and under Simon Greenleaf, Esq., afterwards Prof. Greenleaf, Har- 
 vard. He was admitted to the bar of Somerset Countj' and engaged 
 in practice until 1838, when he abandoned the profession and pursued 
 a theological course at the seminary, Newton, Mass While a member 
 of that institution he was appointed chaplain in the navy, and was 
 ordered to the flag-ship " Independence," Commodore Stewart. His 
 health failing under the climate of the West India Islands and render- 
 ing his return to the North necessary, he took passage up the Missis- 
 sippi, landed at Fort Snelling near the falls of St. Anthony, passed 
 some time in the hunting grounds of the Dacotahs and the Upper 
 Mississippi, and returned to Maine ; was a patient in a naval hos- 
 pital, and was then ordered for duty and served five years at the Navy 
 Yard, New York, and on the " North Carolina." In September, 1853, 
 he was ordered to join the flag-ship of the Brazil squadron in the La 
 Plata. At Buenos Ayres he supplied the pulpit of the American 
 chapel for a time. While in port at Eio de Janeiro he visited all 
 places of interest in the province. On the " North Carolina " his 
 ministry was favored in an unusual degree, particulars of which were 
 communicated to the New York Observer. On the " Savannah" of 
 the Brazil squadron his ministry was counteracted by a difference be- 
 tween him and the oflBcers regarding the routine of service, the facts 
 of which were made subject of comment in the newspapers and were 
 not creditable to the ship. 
 
 Mr. Stockbridge married in 1845 Miss Julia E. Everett of Portland ; 
 at the time the above facts were communicated they had four children. 
 His home has been for the most part in Ifew York City and Plainfield, 
 N. J. Besides his chaplain service he has preached in fifteen States. 
 Wherever he has had opportunity he has been active in distributing 
 tracts ; has been assistant editor of the New York Recorder, and cor- 
 respondent of the Daily Times, the Tribune, and Christian Reflector, 
 Boston. In 1874-75 Dr. Stockbridge travelled extensively in Europe 
 with his family. In 1868 he received the degree of D. D. from the 
 Western University of Pennsylvania. p. 
 
414 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Fbederic Patson Theobald was born in Wiscasset, June, 1812. 
 His grandfather, a German by birth, as the name indicates, having 
 received his education in his native land came to this country, and was 
 a respectable phj'sician in Dresden. His son. Dr. Philip K. Theobald, 
 practised medicine in Wiscasset, and this son after graduation pursued 
 medical study with his father, and graduated fVom the medical school 
 connected with the college in 1834. He settled in Gardiner, where he 
 remained until his death, a respected and popular physician with a 
 good practice. Under President Pierce he was appointed postmaster 
 of Galrdiner. He married a daughter of Capt. Kimball of Gardiner, 
 who died not long after her husband. They left children. Dr. Theo- 
 bald died in 1856. " p. 
 
 Henet Waldkon was born in Portsmouth, N. H., September, 1807. 
 He fitted for college at Exeter Academy, N. H., and graduated the 
 salutatorian of his class. He studied law with Ichabod Bartlett, 
 Esq., Portsmouth, and at the Law School, Cambridge ; but abandoned 
 the practice, Ms inclinations leading him in a different direction. He 
 engaged in commercial business in Boston, in 1848 removed to New 
 York and became prominent as an importer and manufacturer of glass, 
 chemicals, paints, etc. He is said to have been the first to import 
 chalk, thus raising what had been brought as ballast to a commercial 
 value ; " was among the pioneers of color manufactures. It used to 
 be a boast that the first cable message was sent with his blue vitriol. 
 His inventions and inprovements were many and his factory was con- 
 sidered a model." His character for integrity at home and abroad 
 was as good as a bond. In 1863 he enjoyed and improved the advan- 
 tage of an extensive European toiir. He was of a retiring disposition, 
 cherishing always love for letters and the memory of happy college 
 days Books and reviews were his nearest friends, and he was the 
 centre of a happy home. He married in 1836 Marj' Fisher, daughter 
 of James How, Esq., Haverhill, Mass, He died suddenly of disease 
 of the heart, May, 1876, leaving his wife and seven children. p. 
 
 1831. 
 
 Abiel Abbot was born in Wilton, N. H., May, 1808, brother of 
 Ezra (1830). After graduation he taught ■ school in different places, 
 for some time in Beverly, Mass. He studied theology in the Divinity 
 School, Harvard, where he graduated in 1837, and preached for a time 
 but did not enter the stated ministrj'. In 1842 he went to Virginia 
 and employed himself in teaching until 1847, when after the death of 
 his father he returned to Wilton and took charge of his father's manu- 
 
GRADUATES. 415 
 
 factory of starch. He remained there several years, was appointed 
 justice of the peace, served repeatedly on the school committee of the 
 town, meanwhile taught in Rocky Hill, Conn., where his brother had 
 taught before. In 1876 he removed to Owatonna, Minn., where he 
 still resides. He has never married. p. 
 
 Samuel Adams was born in 1806 in Gilead ; his father, Isaac 
 Adams (from Jaffrey, N. H.), being one of the first settlers of Gilead. 
 His mother, Olive Wight, was of Scotch- Irish descent. Prof. Adams's 
 boyish reminiscences will probably stand, with slight variations, for 
 those of other Bowdoin graduates born in the woods, but who have 
 since got well out of them: "My earliest recollections of my home 
 are of a small, plain, unpainted house, without lath or plaster within ; 
 a substantial barn, thirty or forty acres of cleared land with the 
 charred stumps still standing, and this little spot of sunlight hemmed 
 in on all sides by the primeval forest. Year by year I saw the forest 
 recede, and at length with my brothers bore my part in wielding the 
 woodman's axe." 
 
 It would be interesting to give his story of what, in the remote 
 frontier life with most scanty means and hard work of the household, 
 he encountered in the process of education : " the luxury of a school- 
 house unknown until he was twelve or fourteen years old," and so the 
 summer school for younger children kept in. a barn, and for older ones 
 the winter school in the dwellings of the settlers ; the press of farm 
 wprk sometimes seriously interrupting attendance on the winter schools, 
 the privation lamented, even wept over, but made up afterwards in 
 spare hours and on rainy days. He gives an amusing account of the 
 hardest task ever laid upon his school days, that of learning the alpha- 
 bet : the primitive teacher " setting him three or four letters to learn," 
 and the regular switching four times a day because he failed to learn 
 them ; and of another teacher, more kindly in her way, suddenly dis- 
 covering that he was the best speller in the school although he scarcely 
 knew a letter, his quick, attentive ear having caught the spelling from 
 older classes. " My whole soul," he writes, " was so absorbed with 
 the thousand attractions of out-door life that I felt inexpressible dis- 
 gust in dealing with such trifles as the letters of the alphabet." He 
 taught his first winters school when he was eighteen, and every suc- 
 ceeding winter save one until he graduated. Among later teachers 
 he mentions with respect Elias Grover and William Frye of Bethel. 
 His preparation for college was completed under Mr. Nason, Gorham 
 Academy, and he graduated with the highest honors of his class . ' ' Near 
 the close of his college life his mind became deeply interested in the 
 
416 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 practical relations of the Christian religion to his own life and des- 
 tiny " ; and he embraced its truths and hopes with a decision and fervor 
 which grew in strength with every passing year. After graduation he 
 succeeded his brother in a private school in Brunswick, and then taught 
 the high school in Bucksport for one j'ear ; then spent two j'ears in 
 Palmyra, N. Y., studying medicine with John Delamater, M. D., and 
 attending lectures in the Fairfield Medical School ; afterwards pursued 
 and completed his medical course with Dr. Moulton, Bucksport, and 
 Dr. James McKeen of Topsham. From 1835 to 1837 he was a tutor 
 in the college,, and (Prof. Longfellow having retired from the profes- 
 sorship) teacher of modern languages, continuing at the. same time 
 his medical studies, and took his degree at the medical school of the 
 college in due course. At the close of his tutorship he established 
 himself in Brunswick for medical practice. In about a year he was 
 appointed professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology in Illinois 
 College, then just founded at Jacksonville, the title of the professor- 
 ship however being subsequentlj' modified repeatedly in the growth of 
 the institution. With the hard struggle for existence in which that 
 now prosperous institution was so long engaged, the name of Prof. 
 Adams must be always and honorably connected. Few professors in 
 any college have sustained so heavy a load ; as one after another of 
 his colleagues became discouraged and dropped off, their duties de- 
 volved on him. In addition to the studies of his own department he 
 taught during the whole period French and German, and for years 
 together has carried classes through their text-books in natural and 
 mental philosophy, in rhetoric and logic, and in various branches of 
 the higher mathematics, to say nothing of Latin and Greek occasion- 
 ally taught. That he has accomplished this in a manner highly satis- 
 factory is evidence not only of remarkable capacity and willingness 
 for labor, biit of large and diversified attainments. With a fidelity as 
 commendable as it is rare, he repeatedly declined invitations to sta- 
 tions of greater ease and better reward. Years before this weight cf 
 all-engrossing duty fell upon him, Prof« Adams made valuable contri- 
 butions to periodical literature. To the American Journal of Arts 
 and Sciences he gave an article on " Light." His papers in the Biblical 
 Bepository on the " History of Medical Philosophy," on the " Natural 
 History of Man in his Spiritual Relations," on "Psycho-Physiology," 
 and on the same as connected with the religious emotions, were highly 
 appreciated by men of thought and culture as the productions of no 
 ordinary thinker. No one acquainted with the merit of the^e papers 
 or with the genuine modesty and simplicity of character of the writer 
 can read without emotion, I am sure, the following sentences in his 
 
GRADUATES. 417 
 
 letter to me of several years ago : " la the last ten j^ears I have been 
 unable to do more than to stand up under the burden of teaching that 
 has gradually accumulated upon me. I have thus been doomed to a 
 position of conspicuous obscurity, not a little mortifjdng to a man of 
 sensibility who has an aspiration for an honorable rank among the 
 men of-his own class. ... In this long, dead lift I have exhausted 
 the enthusiasm of youth and wellnigh worn out the strength of ma- 
 ture manhood just as the college is beginning to live. Whether the 
 public will ever hear from me again or not I cannot say." 
 
 Dr. Adams in 1836 married Mary J. Moulton, daughter of his 
 medical instructor at Bucksport. They have had three daughters and 
 a son. 
 
 The public have heard from Dr. Adams since the passage quoted 
 from his letter to Mr. Cleaveland was written. In 1871 he published 
 in the Congregational Review, Chicago, two papers onbarwin's "Origin 
 of Species " ; to the New Englander, 1873, he contributed two articles 
 on " Auguste Comte and Positivism," and in 1875 another on Herbert 
 Spencer's " Reconciliation between Religion and Science," the result 
 of careful and prolonged studj', which are characterized, as were all his 
 papers, by clear, definite statement, marked ability, caution, and candor. 
 He had read thoroughly all the volumes of Comte, and his papers are 
 pronounced by a competent authoritj' " probably the best exposition 
 of the 'Positive Philosophy' in our periodical literature." What is 
 not common with men so given to science. Dr. Adams cultivated a 
 decided taste for poetry ; he delighted in it, read with appreciation, 
 committed to memory choice passages not only in English but other 
 languages, often delighted others with apt quotation,- and at times 
 indulged in poetic effusions of his own. 
 
 The following extract from the obituary notice of him in the Spring- 
 field (111.) Journal is a just tribute to his memory : — 
 
 "Dr. Adams is remembered with respect and genuine affection, 
 we believe, by every student of the college now living, as well as by 
 the whole community in which he lived. To the modesty and purity 
 in character of a woman he added the most thorough and conscientious 
 devotion to science and the duties of his office. The intimate associate 
 and colaborer of such men as Edward Beecher, President Sturtevant, 
 Dr. Post, Prof. Turner, and others, he contributed largely to advance 
 the cause of education in Illinois, and lay the foundation for that 
 reputation which Illinois College has maintained for a generation 
 past. There are more showy men, but few better informed on those 
 subjects which he professed to teach. What he did he did without 
 noise or ostentation, but he has left his impress upon the minds of 
 
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418 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 thousands throughout the Mississippi Valley, who will receive intel 
 ligence of his death with genuine regret." 
 
 Since the above was written, a tribute to the memory of Dr. Adam 
 has been issued containing a sketch of him by President Sturtevant 
 and the brief addresses at the funeral Service, of Rev. Dr. Post c 
 St. Louis and Prof. Turner of Illinois College. p. 
 
 RiCHAED T. Austin from Waldoboro' was known in college a 
 Reuben Seiders. His name underwent this total change by act o 
 the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1832 he taught school in Boston 
 in 1836 he took his degree at the Cambridge Divinity School in th 
 same class with Theodore Parker ; in September of the same year h 
 was ordained at Wayland, Mass., where he stayed fwo years ; in 1881 
 he took charge of one of the public schools in Cambridge. He did no 
 however relinquish preaching, but often supplied vacant pulpits in th 
 neighboring towns. In November, 1843, he began to bleed "at th 
 lungs ; from this tim,e for more than three years his life was a pro 
 longed and fluctuating struggle with that appalling disease. He wa 
 most unwilling to relinquish either teaching or preaching.- Compellei 
 at length to give up the school which he loved so well, he accepted : 
 small pastoral charge in Lunenburg, Mass. , where amid weakness am 
 pain he still labored on. On the 18th of January, 1847, he died whil 
 sitting in his chair. Eight days before he had preached to his people 
 " Mr. Austin's views of a future life were real, and all was brigh 
 before him. He bore his long illness with great calmness ; he wa 
 always cheerful and resigned, and his faith never failed him." He lef 
 a widow, who still lives in Cambridge. 
 
 John Bakee, son of Deacon Azariah Baker of Edgecomb, wa 
 born in 1811. He was principal for a year of the North Yannoutl 
 Academy, and pursued theological study in Andover and Bangor 
 From 1835 to 1839 he was the Congregational minister of Monson 
 For the next seven years he ministered to the South Church at Ker 
 nebunkport. From 1846 to 1849 he was at Elliot. Then for nearl; 
 seven years more he served the First Congregational Church of Ken 
 nebunkport. He is now preaching at Wilton. He niarried in 183. 
 Sarah, daughter of Rev. Daniel Kendrick. Six of their nine childrei 
 stUl live. He died in 18.59. 
 
 Thomas Bakee was born in New Gloucester, November, 1805. H 
 became a teacher of youth in Brunswick and other places, fror 
 1833 to 1838 or 1839 ; in 1840 he was invited to take charge o 
 
GRADUATES. 419 
 
 the Murray Institute, a Universalist institution in Gloucester, Mass. ; 
 soon after he received an appointment In the Bowdoln Grammar 
 School, Boston, and became its master ; in 1849 was Invited to the 
 charge of what became the high school in Gloucester, Mass., and in 
 1850 was elected superintendent of schools in that town. He filled 
 the oflBce to general acceptance for six years, and was energetic in 
 efforts to raise the tone of public instruction. He then removed to 
 Austin, Texas, where he taught a select school ; was subsequently 
 principal of the Blind Asylum, which position he held until health and 
 strength failed. From an attack of softening of the brain he died 
 in October, 1873. p. 
 
 John Ballard was born in Temple, December, 1804. After grad- 
 uating he went to the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass. He 
 soon after emigrated to the Wesi ; was settled in the ministry in 
 Indiana ; continued in ministerial labors for several years in Griggs- 
 ville, Illinois, and in Perry, where he died February, 1857. p. 
 
 Joseph Tyler Huston was born in Bristol, September, 1802. He 
 has been emploj'ed for the most part as a teacher of j'outh in . the 
 academies at Wiscasset, Bath, and Newcastle ; has served in the navy 
 as professor of mathematics on the " Ohio" and the " Constitution." 
 In 1844 he purchased a farm in Bristol and lived on it awhile ; then 
 removed to Bath, bought the Bath Times which he managed a few 
 years. He edited the Journal of Education published in Portland, 
 and at the same time was superintendent of public schools in Bath. 
 He taught a system of mnemonics for a time in Bristol and the neigh- 
 boring towns, had an agency of some sort in Massachusetts, and 
 since, now for several years, has disappeared from the knowledge of 
 his friends. He married Lucy Thompson, and has had three daugh- 
 ters, p. 
 
 William Vaughan Jordan was born in Saco, July, 1804 ; was 
 fitted for college at Thornton Academy in that town. On leaving col- 
 lege he entered on a course of theological study at Andover, Mass., 
 which he completed at Bangor, graduating with the class of 1836. 
 Meanwhile he had charge of the academy in Monmouth two years. 
 Immediately after leaving the seminary he was settled in the ministry 
 over the Congregational Church in Dixfleld, and labored successively 
 in Pownal, Deer Isle, Durham, Mechanic Falls, and Andover, Me., 
 where he remained eight years, and two or three other places. In 
 1871 he removed to Chapman, Kan., a newly settled place, and 
 
420 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 preached the first sermons ever heard in that region. In 1873 he 
 aeturned to Saco, disabled by infirm health, though preaching occa- 
 sionally. 
 
 In 1836 Mr. Jordan married Miss Catharine Osgood Poor, daugh- 
 ter of Ebenezer Poor, M. D., of Andover, Me. They have had four 
 children, of whom three are now living. p. 
 
 EzEKiEL Marsh was from Danvers, Mass. "He was fitted for 
 college at Exeter. At Brunswick he was industrious and faithful. 
 He was a man of good capacity and common-sense, but wanting in 
 vivacity and in that power which invests a subject with genial interest. 
 It happened that at Brunswick and elsewhere he and I were much to- 
 gether. He had an amiable temper, well expressed by his handsome 
 features, and we always lived harmoniously and happily. From An- 
 dover he went to New Haven to put on a finishing touch. In 1835 
 he was settled at the pleasant town-of Ellington in Connecticut, and 
 remained there until his decease in 1844. As a minister he was much 
 respected by his clerical brethren and by the churches. His speaking 
 was somewhat oratorical ; at times perhaps a little overdone. He 
 died greatly lamented by his people." 
 
 John G. O'Brien, son of Hon. Jeremiah O'Brien of Machias, was 
 "a young man of good natural talents, amiable and cheerful in dis- 
 .position. For a while he seemed more given to fun than to study. 
 But the Junior year witnessed a change, marking the step from boy to 
 man. Thenceforth he worked hard, ranked well, and gained the 
 esteem as he before had gained the aflfection of his classmates and 
 acquaintance. He studied law with Mr. Baird of Reading, Pa., and 
 was admitted. After a three-years' residence there, and prior to set- 
 tling in Reading, he started full of pleasurable anticipations on a jour- 
 ney homeward. In Boston he met with his townsman and classmate 
 Talbot, and they took passage together in a schooner bound to East- 
 port. But the ill-fated bark was run by her drunken captain upon 
 the Seal Islands, a cluster of rocks lying twenty miles southeast of 
 Machias Baj^. Three only of the passengers and crew were saved. 
 The bodies of O'Brien and Talbot were recovered, and were buried 
 from their own homes." 
 
 Joseph Packard, brother of Alpheus, born in 1812, was fitted for 
 college at home and in Phillips Academy, Andover. He taught for 
 two years the academies of Walpole, N. H , and Brattleboro', Vt. 
 He had been a year in the Andover Seminary when he was appointed 
 
GRADUATES. 421 
 
 professor of Latin in Bristol College, Pa. He was ordained July, 
 1836, became the professor of sacred literature in the Protestant 
 Episcopal Seminary at Fairfax City, Va., and still occupies that im- 
 portant post with the office of dean of the Faculty. He has pub- 
 lished "several articles in the Hibliotheca Sacra, and occasional ser- 
 mons ; also a commentary on the prophet Malaehi, Vol. XVI. of 
 " Lange's Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures." He is a 
 member of the American committee for the revision of the authorized 
 English version of the Sacred Scriptures. In 1847 he received the 
 degree of D. D. from Kenj-on College, Ohio. For several years he 
 has been a member of the Oriental Society. In 1838 Prof. Packard 
 was married to a daughter of that distinguished lawyer, Walter Jones 
 of Washington. They have had four sons and five daughters. 
 
 John Patch was born in Ipswich, Mass., in 1807. He fitted for 
 coUege at Dummer Academy under Mr. N. Cleaveland, and in Phil- 
 lips Andover Academy under Mr. Clement. After graduation he was 
 a resident graduate at Harvard, where he studied German under Dr. 
 Follen, and read Sophocles and Euripides under Prof. Felton for a 
 year. He then entered upon legal studies in the office of Luther S. 
 Cushing, Esq., Cambridgeport, in the Dane Law School, completed 
 his course in the office of Theophilus Parsons, Esq., was admitted to 
 the bar, and opened an office in Boston: After a year or, two he re- 
 moved to Beverly, Mass., thence in a short time to Nantucket for a 
 year. He undertook to edit and publish the Literary Museum ; but as. 
 it did not prove renumerative, in 1849 pecuniary embarrassment in- 
 duced him to join with others in the adventure of the day and go to 
 California. He spent three years and more in the mining district, 
 again opened an office in San Francisco two or three years more, and 
 then returned to the Ipswich farm and home, where he has resided. 
 In earlier days, as already intimated, he cultivated at intervals literary 
 tastes, contributing to newspapers and the current literature in prose 
 and poetry. A volume of his poetry was published, "The Poet's 
 OflFering." While in Boston he published a treatise on the " Law 
 of Landlord and Tenant." In 1846 he married Margaret Ann 
 Gurley Poor of Portland. They have had one son and two daugh- 
 ters, p. 
 
 John Rand was born in Portland, August, 1811. After graduation 
 he engaged in. the study of law in Portland and at the Law School in 
 Cambridge, Mass ; was admitted to the bar and opened an oflflce in Port- 
 land, where he has since resided. He has devoted himself exclusively 
 
422 HISTORY OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 to his profession, declining all political and judicial office, and has won 
 distinction especiallj- in admiralty law. He married Miss Caroline D. 
 Doane and has had children. One of his sons graduated at Bowdoin 
 College in 1869, and another in the Medical School in 1872. p. 
 
 Charles D. Rice was born in 1810 in New Salem, Franklin County, 
 Mass. His parents soon after removed to Houlton, Me., and nine 
 years later to Woodstock in the province of New Brunswick. He was 
 fitted for college at New Salem. From college he went back to Wood- 
 stock, where he studied medicine with his father and saw his practice. 
 He took his medical degree in Boston after the usual courses, and 
 established himself in the practice at Woodstock. Though successful 
 here and much esteemed, he could not forget his native land, and in 
 1839 he removed to Abington, Mass. He was however soon drawn 
 back to Woodstock by the regrets and solicitations of his friends 
 there. After ten more years of useful labor in that place, he again 
 yielded to his .love of country and of kin and removed to Eastport, 
 where he could be near his parents in their declining years. Herfe he 
 added the practice of dentistry to his other professional cares, having 
 previously given to the art his special attention. He died from inflam- 
 mation of the lungs in February, 1853. Dr. Eice was married in 
 1838. One on whom I rely says he has " always heard him spoken 
 of as a good practitioner and a man of great moral and social worth." 
 
 . Geokgb Eobikson was a native of Augusta. Graduating at the 
 age of eighteen, he read law with Hon. Reuel Williams, and for a time 
 practised his profession in company with Horatio Bridge (now of the 
 United States navy) . At the age of nineteen he became editor of the 
 Age, a paper published in Augusta, and kept the charge until near 
 the time of his death. For four years from 1834 he held the office of 
 register of probate for Kennebec County. In 1839 he was elected 
 clerk of the House of Representatives for Maine. He married in 
 1833 Almira Emery, by whom he had three children, the eldest of 
 whom has recently graduated at BowSoin College. He died of con- 
 sumption, Feb. 25, 1840, after a long and painful illness. A corre- 
 spondent of the Portland Argus wrote upon the evening of his death 
 as follows : " Thus at the early age of twenty-seven has passed away 
 a man of no common mould. He was possessed of a mind of a high 
 order, and a spirit fitted for the noblest purposes. At an early period, 
 before men begin to live for themselves, Mr. Robinson obtained a 
 reputation for native and varied talent that placed him by wUling 
 consent among the foremost of the young men of his age. To talent 
 
GEADUATES. 423 
 
 he united a well-cultivated and refined taste, and the productions of 
 his pen are among the best specimens of a manly, chaste, and vigor- 
 ous style. He early embarked in the career of politics, and his influ-. 
 ence was at once marked and felt in directing the tide of popular 
 opinion. He was an enthusiastic disciple of the Democratic school, 
 and every year was ripening his judgment and adding to the rich 
 stores of his experience. Yet in that strife which calls up so much of 
 excited feeling, he never forgot the respect due to himself and the 
 cause he so earnestly and ably advocated. In private life he was 
 most beloved by those who knew him best His heart was kind and 
 generous, his feelings warm, and his friendship unwavering." 
 
 Stephen P. Talbot, "with good natural abilities, was somewhat 
 indolent and very good-natured. He with O'Brien was just about to 
 enter on the practice of the law, haying studied vrith the Hon. J. A. 
 Lowell of East Machias," wiien he shared in the same calamity 
 
 Peter Thacher was born in Lubec, October, 1810. On leaving 
 college he was employed two j'ears in teaching schools for j'oung ladies 
 in Eastport.and Calais.- He then entered upon the study of law in the 
 oflSce of Hon. Judge Preble and of Messrs. Fessenden & Deblois, and 
 was admitted to the "bar of Cumberland County in 1836. He at once 
 formed a copartnership with the late Eufus Bang Porter, Esq., of 
 Machias, which continued ten years. On the dissolution of this con- 
 nection he practised law alone in Machias until 1854, when he removed 
 to Rockland, where he remained until 1871. In 1842 he was ap- 
 pointed by Judge Ashur Ware, United States district judge for 
 Maine, a commissioner of bankruptcy ; in 1857, by Mr. Justice 
 Curtis, of the United States Supreme Court, commissioner of the United 
 States Circuit Court for the Maine District; in 1867, upon the nom- 
 ination of Chief Justice Chase, of the United States Supreme Court, he 
 was appointed by Judge Fox of the United States District Court of 
 Maine, register in bankruptcy for the fifth congressional district, which 
 position he held until his resignation in 1871, on his removal to West 
 Newton, Alass., where he has since resided, having an office in Boston 
 for professional practice in connection with his son Stephen. In 1876 
 he was elected city solicitor for Newton, and still holds the office by 
 annual election. Mr. Thacher is a member of the Board of Overseers 
 of the college. 
 
 In 1841 he married Margaret Louisa, youngest daughter of Hon. 
 Barrett Potter of Portland. They have four sons and five daughters, 
 all now living. p. 
 
424 HISTORT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Edwaed Henry Thomas, born in Portland, January, 1813, fitted 
 for college under the well-remembered Deacon Joseph Libby ; stud- 
 ied law with the Hon. Stephen Longfellow, and was admitted to 
 practice in the bar of that city. He opened an office in Portland, 
 where, as he writes under date of 1858 with characteristic humor, he 
 " had but one case for some time, and that was his bookcase." He 
 removed to Harrison, where he hoped for cases " not so wooden," and 
 was not wholly disappointed ; where, as he states, he "played the fiute 
 in the singing seats on Sunday, at times putting in considerable exe- 
 cution on the psalmody," as his college friends, recalling his peculiar 
 taste and skill, will readily suppose. Not entirely satisfied with his 
 prospects, he not long after returned to Portland, speculated some- 
 what in wild lands, but "found that such speculations were much 
 more serious in their consequences than metaphj'sical speculations." 
 He set out for the great West in 1838 with a friend, settled in 
 Wapello, Iowa, and practised law until 1851 . In 1844 he was appointed 
 district attorney for the middle district of the then Territory of Iowa, 
 comprising eight counties, and served in the office two years ; as he 
 writes, "sending few convicts to the penitentiary, and not getting all 
 my pay till several years after." In 1851 he returned to Portland and 
 engaged in the land-warrant business, and " made some money which 
 I sank in the late financial storm." In 1853 he visited Europe. In 
 
 1854 returned to Iowa, and engaged in the business of banking. In 
 
 1855 he married, " followingin the line of safe precedents " he declares. 
 Miss Charlotte A. Dubois in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. Thomas has - 
 for some years endured the- calamity of almost total blmdness, but 
 retains his cheerful spirit and characteristic humor. p. 
 
 Lewis Turner was born in Faj'ette. His father's faifiily moved 
 afterwards to Illinois. He attempted to prepare for the ministr}', but 
 was compelled by a pulmonary aflfection to abandon the idea of preach- 
 ing. He then taught the classical school connected with the Bangor 
 Seminary, and still later a young ladies' high school in the same city. 
 For a time also he had charge of the academy in South Berwick, 
 In this capacity he was faithful, able, and successful. " He was a 
 good scholar and an excellent man." Mr. Turner was married about 
 six years before his death, which oc'curred in 1844. 
 
 AuRELius Langdon Wetmodth was born in Newcastle, Septem- 
 ber, 1806, although when he entered college his family had removed 
 to Alna. He studied medicine, and took his degree in the Medical 
 School in 1835. He settled in the practice of dentistry in Boston, 
 
GRADUATES. 425 
 
 where he resided until a few months before his death, which occurred 
 after several months' illness in Medford, Mass , April 22, 1878. He 
 was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He showed 
 his remembrance of his Alma Mater by a liberal contribution to the 
 Memorial Hall. p. 
 
 Franklin Yeaton, born in Newcastle, December, 1808, fitted for 
 college partly with Rev. Samuel Johnson (1817) at Alna, whither 
 his family had removed their residence, and then at the academy in 
 Farmington. He pursued theological stud^' at Bangor Theological 
 Seminary, and graduated in 1836. It was complimentary to his schol- 
 arship that he was at once employed as assistant teacher of Hebrew 
 in the seminary. He then accepted an engagement to supply the 
 Congregational pulpit in Calais for one year ; but at the close of his 
 service was compelled to suspend his work by ill health. In a few 
 months he resumed the labors of the pulpit at Saccarappa, but soon 
 was invited to the position of classical teacher at Gorham Seminary, 
 which he occupied more than three years. He was then ordained over 
 the church in Limington, and after a service of three years in that 
 place removed to St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and was installed over 
 the church in that town, but in a few years was again compelled by 
 the state of his health to give up parochial labors; He opened a fam- 
 ily school for boys at New Gloucester, which was well patronized for 
 six years. After a short interval he opened a similar school for girls, 
 which had become highly successful when his health failed beyond 
 recovery, and he removed to Naples and died in 1864. In 1841 he 
 married Miss Nancy P. Barrows of Fryeburg. They had one son. 
 Mr. Yeaton graduated with high honor, was of superior mental pow- 
 ers and culture. His Commencement performance, the writer remem- 
 bers, attracted special notice from President Lord of Dartmouth, who 
 was present and thought it indicated fine promise. He was of a pecul- 
 iarly sensitive temperament, and sufifered often from nervous prostra- 
 tion. His life was indeed a struggle with the infirmity which such a 
 constitution engenders. p. 
 
 1832. 
 
 Charles Edwards Abbott was born December, 1811, brother of 
 Jacob (1820), of John S. C. (1825), and Gorham (1826). He grad- 
 uated at Andover Theological Seminary in 1837, but never received 
 ordination, and with the tastes and eminent qualifications which have 
 distinguished his brothers, has devoted himself to teaching ; at first 
 
426 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 for a year or two in Boston. When his brothers established the 
 Abbott Institute for Young Ladles in New York, he accompanied 
 them and assisted them for two years. He then opened a boarding 
 school for boys in Norwich, Conn., which he conducted with success 
 ten years. He was induced to transfer the school to Pittsfield, Mass., 
 and was prospered in the enterprise, but regard for his health led him 
 to dispose of his establishment and remove to Hartford, Conn., where 
 he ■opened an English and classical school for boj's in the environs of 
 the city, which has been well sustained until an enfeebled constitution 
 compelled him to relinquish a work which he loved and earnestly pros- 
 ecuted, and which his friends fear he may not be able to resume. The 
 school, however, is still in operation under his son George E., M. D. 
 He married Elizabeth Spaulding, daughter of Dr and Mrs. Spaulding 
 of the Ceylon Mission, whom Mr. John S. C. Abbott had adopted. 
 They have had four children, three sons and a daughter, all now living. 
 [Mr. Abbott died in 1880. — p.J 
 
 George C. Angier was from Belfast, born in 1812. He pursued 
 legal studies at the Cambridge Law School, was admitted to the bar 
 in 1837, practised a short time in Bangor and then returned to Bel- 
 fast, where he remained until a few years before his death. He died in 
 Bridgewater, Mass., in 1852, at the age of forty. 
 
 Joseph C. Ayee was the son of Dr. James Ayer of Newfield. He 
 was a modest j'outh, fond of innocent sport, genial and obliging in 
 disposition, and faithful in his friendships. " As a scholar his pre- 
 tensions were fair, though not particularl}'^ ambitious. He was a 
 general reader with a special fondness for the classics and the modern 
 languages." His medical studies, begun with his father^ were com- 
 pleted in Boston, where soon after he married and settled. " He was 
 fond of medical inquiry in all its departments, but especially so of 
 anatomy and surgery. Ever attentive to the calls of his profession 
 and the impulses of humanity, not only his professional skill but his 
 warmest sj-mpathies were enlisted in behalf of his patients." Dr. Ayer 
 was not merely a medical man. He soon became known as an en- 
 lightened and public-spirited citizen, and his services as- such were 
 claimed. " He held various honorable offices in the gift of the city, 
 and discharged their duties with energy and fidelity." The year before 
 he died he was one of the aldermen of Boston. Dr. Ayer was not 
 without afflictions. His first child, a daughter of much promise, was 
 taken from him. The dispensation was not lost. "Thenceforth 
 higher hopes and a deeper sense of responsibility and duty controlled 
 
GRADUATES. 427 
 
 his entire life. Conscientiousness marked every act, and charity 
 tempered all his judgments of others." In January, 1846, he was 
 seized with pleuritic lung fever which became typhoid, and resulted in 
 his death at the age of thirty-four. During the two weeks' illness, 
 " his sufferings were great, but his spirit was hopeful and calm." His 
 remains lie near the tomb of the Mathers in the ancient burial ground 
 on Copp's Hill. His wife and son and daughter survive him. An 
 obituary sketch of Dr. Ayer written for the Christian Watchman and 
 Beflector, by his pastor Rev. R. H. Neale, is before me. It is a dis- 
 criminating but cordial tribute to his merits as a skilful and kind 
 physician, a useful citizen and public officer, a Christian and a 
 philanthropist. 
 
 Benjamin Fisk Barrett was born in Dresden, June, 1808. On 
 leaving college he was principal of a young ladies' high school in 
 Eastport two years. He then entered upon theological study at Cam- 
 bridge Divinitj' School, and graduated in 1838, but was during that 
 period private tutor one year in a family in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 Having exercised his ministry a year in the Unitarian bodj', having 
 examined the theological system of Emanuel Swedenborg, he em- 
 braced the doctrines of the "New Church," although not, it would 
 seem, in full harmonj' with his brethren on some questions of ecclesi- 
 astical order. Having spent a year in preparatory studj', he was 
 ordained minister of the New Church in 1839, took charge of the 
 First Society of that name in the city of New York, and was its pas- 
 tor eight years. In 1848, being invited to the pastorate of the First 
 New Church Society in Cincinnati, with attractive prospects, he ac- 
 cepted the call ; but the state of his health compelled him to resign 
 the position in 1850, and he removed to Chicago, where he renewed 
 his vigor by mechanical and other pursuits. The question of health 
 of his family led to his leaving that citj', and he then lived in Brook- 
 l^-n, N. Y., and Orange, N. J., ten years until 1864. During these 
 years he edited a monthly journal in the interests of the New Church, 
 published volumes of his writings and pamphlets, preaching for a time 
 to his former people in' New York. He then accepted a call to the 
 First New Church Society in Philadelphia, where he remained seven 
 years, meanwhile continuing his literarj- work in the monthly, assist- 
 ing in a new translation of a portion of Swedenborg's writings, in 
 publishing volumes of his own and several tracts, when overwork 
 compelled him to relinquish public service. He has published several 
 volumes and a large number of tracts and pamphlets, mostly on the 
 Swedenborgian faith and order, and is still busily employed in pre- 
 
428 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 paring new works for the press. He is now, to use his own words, 
 i' not connected with any religious organization." 
 
 In 1840 Mr. Barrett was married to Elizabeth Allen, daughter of 
 Gushing Allen, Bath, Me. They have had seven children, of whom 
 four are living. p. 
 
 CyRTJS Augustus Baetol was born in Freeport, April, 1813. Hav- 
 ing graduated with honor among the first in a class of marked ability, 
 he pursued the theological course at the Divinity School, Harvard Col- 
 lege, and graduated in 1835. His first and only settlement in the 
 ministry was as colleague with Rev. Dr. Charles Lowell, West Church, 
 Boston, in 1837. In 1861 he became and still remains sole pastor, 
 having rendered distinguished service of more than forty j-ears over 
 one of the oldest and most influential societies of the city. Besides 
 the special and abundant labors of the ministry, he has been active in 
 the philanthropic movements of the day, and fruitful in literary work, 
 having given to the press two volumes of sermons, " Pictures of 
 Europe," "Radical Problems," "The Rising Faith," besides pam- 
 phlet discourses and contributions to periodicals, and has now in haud 
 a volume to be entitled " Secular Religion." As a pastor and a man 
 he has the high respect and warm affection of his people and the 
 public. 
 
 In the number of the North American Review, January, 1860, a 
 notice of a discourse on ' ' The Word of the Spirit to the Church " 
 contains the following estimate of Dr. Bartol as a writer. After stat- 
 ing the aim and object of the discourse tho Review adds: "It has 
 more than its author's wonted kaleidoscopic beauty of style. No 
 writer of our day, in our judgment, equals him in the tj'pology by 
 which common scenes and trivial incidents are made impressive sym- 
 bols of great and spiritual truths. His style at first sight may seem 
 redundant in illustration and metaphor ; but every illustration proves a 
 mine of rich thought, every metaphor presents a new phase of the 
 truth under discussion. He abounds in digressions ; but his digres- 
 sions are always forays into a fruitful region, and he comes back with 
 enhanced wealth of argument or motive for the- position he is enfor- 
 cing or the duty he is urging. The page is gorgeous and glittering, 
 yet with no tinsel or false gems, but only with a profusion seldom 
 paralleled of diamonds and precious stones. His method is his own ; 
 we should not like to see it imitated. It is the spontaneous and nat- 
 ural process of exhibition for one who is equally a keen observer and 
 a deep thinker, and who must incorporate with his profoundest thought 
 any image that meets his eye and every suggestion from without that 
 falls upon his ear." 
 
GEADUATES. 429 
 
 He manied in 1838 Elizabeth Howard of Boston. They have had 
 one child, a daughter. p. 
 
 Samttel Beamah was bora in Bridgton, February, 1808. We have 
 had onlj' an indefinite rumor concerning him since his graduation, until 
 while this work was in press the following statement was obtained 
 through a friend from a niece of Mr. Beaman in Massachusetts. He 
 taught school a few years, then entered the ministry, and preached for 
 a time at Lockport, N. Y. While there he published a book, " God's 
 Kingdom at Hand." About the year 1836 he married Mrs. Elitha 
 Bishop, and soon after removed to New York City, where he remained 
 until his death, July 9, 1877. He had three sons and two daughters. 
 He held a position in the customs. New York, several years, and en- 
 gaged in real-estate business and brokerage ; retired from business 
 about 1870, and devoted himself to scientific pursuits, and had nearly 
 completed a work for the press at the time of his death. p. 
 
 Stephen Henet Chase was born in Fryeburg, June, 1813. He 
 devoted himself to the law, and took a course at the Cambridge Law 
 School. He opened an office in his native town, became an active 
 politician, was sent to represent the town in the Legislature, and then 
 his district in the Senate, and was chosen to preside over that body in 
 1846. In 1849 he left the State for California, not long after removed 
 to Nevada, and was elected to the Senate of that Territory. On the 
 organization of Nevada as a State he established his residence at 
 Aurora, and became district judge, which position he held until his 
 death in 1869. He married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. John 
 Dunlap of Portland, formerly of Brunswick. 
 
 Ariel Parish Chute was born in Byfleld, Mass., May, 1809, the 
 home of his ancestors for a century and a half, and fitted for college 
 at Dummer Academy in the same town. He graduated at the Theo- 
 logical Seminary in Andover in 1835, and was ordained over the Con- 
 gregational Church in Oxford, Maine, in the following year. From 1839 
 to 1841 he succeeded the excellent " Father Chapin" in the pastorate 
 at Pownal. He then was principal of Warren Academy, Woburn, 
 Mass., four years, and of the academy at Milton, Mass., one year. 
 He was pastor over the Congregational Church in Harrison nearly 
 three years, and then was principal of Dummer Academy in his native 
 town for three years. He resumed the work of the ministry succes- 
 sively in South Lynnfield and Ware Centre, Mass. Since 1861 he has 
 
430 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 ■been in the service of the government in the United States treasury, 
 Boston, in which he bears the reputation of a skilful and valuable 
 officer. He married in 1836 Miss Sarah M. W. Chandler, daughter 
 of Peleg Chandler, Esq., Bangor. They have had five children, four 
 daughters and one son, all now .living save one daughter. The son 
 was in the service during the late war, and left an honorable record. 
 
 p. 
 
 John Copp was born in Wakefield, N. H., February, 1809. He 
 was master of a high school for young ladies in Eastport for a time, 
 and was successful and respected. Preferring a more active life, he 
 resigned in 1838 and went on a farm in his native town, where he has 
 since lived, cultivating fruit and occasionally contributing articles to 
 the press on this' subject. He did not marry. p. 
 
 Albert Gallatin Dole was born in Alna, September, 1808. He 
 married in the December of graduation Miss Rebecca Cobb Ford, 
 daughter of Elisha J. Ford, M. D., of his native town, and gave him- 
 self to farming for more than thirteen j'ears, meanwhile filling the 
 various offices and responsibilities which a town commits to a trusted 
 and esteemed citizen. In 1847 he removed to Augusta, where he 
 entered on different avenues of business, both public and private. 
 He was mayor and held other positions in the city government, a 
 proof of the confidence reposed in his integrity and capacity ; was a 
 frequent depositary of funds, in which he was scrupulously faithful to 
 the trust committed to him. His life has been one of varied activities. 
 He has taken an interest in whatever concerns the public welfare in 
 education and morals ; has always cherished the associations of col- 
 lege life, maintaining frequent correspondence with his class, and 
 familiar bej^ond any other member with their course of life. A year 
 or two ago Dr. Henry A. True and himself prepared a class circular, 
 with signature and a pleasant expression or motto from each survivor, 
 a copy of which is deposited in the college archives. He has had four 
 children, two sons and two daughters, of whom a son and daughter are 
 still living, and parents and children with their families are residents 
 in Manchester, N. H. p. 
 
 Edwaed G. Fales, born in Boston, " entered college when we 
 were about half through. He was of a joyous, convivial disposition, 
 and possessed some talent for poetry : witness his name among the 
 Athensean bards. He died, as I have understood, in the city of 
 Baltimore." 
 
Engra-Tud "b7 1 C Buttre 
 
 KEY. DidsIIEL R GOOCWIK, D.D. 
 
 FRESmEirT OF TEmiTT COUiBSE,SmTFORD, COim'. 
 LATE PROF OF MODEIUr LANGUAGES WBOVmom COLL. 
 
 ^"o.vad. for 8i^3aKd^ui'}.Le.n 
 
GRADUATES. 431 
 
 Daniel Raynes Goodwin was born in 1811 in Nortli Berwick. 
 His father, Samuel Goodwin, a sensible and good man, was a farmer, 
 who died in 1855 at the age of ninety-two, leaving his excellent wife 
 and their nine children, a family otherwise unbroken. His widow 
 survived him but little more than a year. Their children had but few 
 advantages. Their nearest neighbor lived almost a mile away. The 
 nearest school-house (open only some ten weeks each year) was still 
 farther off. For Daniel these. deficiencies were in part supplied by an 
 elder sister who taught him in the winter evenings. At fifteen he 
 went to the academy in South Berwick, and afterwards attended 
 Limerick Academy. In the class of 1832 he held the first place. 
 He went to Hallowell after he graduated and took charge of the 
 academy. He had been for some time a member of the Theological 
 School of Andover, when called in 1835 to a tutorship at Brunswick. 
 Scarcely had he reached the ground when he was chosen to fill the 
 chair of modern languages vacated by Prof. Longfellow. To qualify 
 himself for this important post he spent nearlj' two years in Europe. 
 
 "In 1837 he entered on the duties of his ofHce, and discharged them 
 with entire success. To a critical knowledge of the most cultivated 
 of the European languages he added extensive study in general and 
 comparative philology. As a teacher and governor he was assiduous, 
 fearless, and most efficient, inculcating by example as well as precept 
 a liberal culture. Possessing a mind singularly active and clear and 
 comprehensive, with great acumen and power of analysis, it is not 
 strange that metaphysical and moral science has largely attracted his 
 regards. 
 
 ' ' Early in his professorship he entered on a course of study with refer- 
 ence to the ministry of the Episcopal Church, and received ordination 
 in that communion. As a preacher he was able, serious, discriminat- 
 ing, and logical. Several articles from his pen in the NoHh Ameri- 
 can Review and in the BibUotheca Sacra have given proof of his 
 ability. 
 
 "Prof. Goodwin's acknowledged talents and acquirements com- 
 manded the high respect of his associates and his pupils, and gave him 
 much influence in the community. When he accepted the invitation to 
 Hartford, there was but one opinion as to the loss thus incurred by 
 Bowdoin College. 
 
 "In the cause of popular education Prof. Goodwin took a warm 
 interest, and Branswick especially is still reaping the benefits of his 
 earnest and enlightened efibrts. As a man he is magnanimous ; as a 
 Christian singularly honest, straightforward, and uncompromising." 
 
 During the last four years he has been at the head of an important 
 
432 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 institution. For such a post his talents and training eminently fit 
 him. As the president of Trinity College and as professor of the 
 ethics and evidences of Christianity his influence will undoubtedly be 
 widely beneficial.* 
 
 Frederick Jordan Goodwin was born in 1812 at South Berwick. 
 After his graduation he taught the academy in Alfred in 1833 and 
 1834. He then joined the institution at Bangor, and while pursuing his 
 own studies took charge of the classical department in the preparatory 
 school connected with that establishment. He was subsequently a 
 member of the Andover Seminary, but concluded his studies in the 
 General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 and was ordained deacon in 1836 and priest in 1837. In 1836-37 
 Mr. Goodwin was professor of Latin in Bristol College, Pennsylvania. 
 In 1837 he held a similar position in the New York University. In 
 1838 he became rector of St. George's Church in Flushing, L. I. 
 Since 1845 he has been rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity in 
 Middletown, Conn. He is also professor of the evidences of Chris- 
 tianity in the Berkeley Divinity School in the same place. In 1854 he 
 received the degree of D. D. from Trinity College. Mr. Goodwin 
 married in 1848 Catharine Bloodgood of Flushing. Of five children 
 but three remain. f 
 
 * Dr. Goodwin resigned the presidency of Trinity and became the provost of the 
 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1860. Having occupied that position 
 with distinguished ability several years, he retired on accepting the professorship of 
 systematic divinity in the Divinity School of the Episcopal Church in the same city, 
 which he still holds with the additional office of Dean of the Faculty. 
 
 Besides sermons, addresses, and memoirs of friends, Dr. Goodwin has contributed 
 to all the leading reviews articles of marked ability and characteristic acumen on the 
 critical and important questions of the time in ethnology, the evidences of Chris- 
 tianity, its ordinances, as also on topics of general literature. He is a member of the 
 Historical Societies of Maine and Pennsylvania, of the American Philosophical Soci- 
 ety, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Oriental Society. 
 In 1853 he received the degree of D. D. from his Alma Mater, and in 1868 of LL. D. 
 from the University of Pennsylvania. 
 
 He married Mary M. Merrick, niece of John Merrick, Esq., formerly of Hallowell. 
 They have had five children, of whom two daughters and a son, a graduate of the 
 University of Pennsylvania, still survive. , p. 
 
 t A son, now an officer in the United States navy, and three daughters. Dr. 
 Goodwin died Feb 12, 1872, suddenly from an attack of pneumonia. A few years 
 before he had a partial paralytic seizure from which he never fully recovered. A 
 friend and classmate writes of him that he had done " a good work for his people 
 and church, leaving the latter in a condition vastly better in every way than that 
 in which he found it, always maintaining a consistent character as a Christian 
 minister." p. 
 
GEADDATES. 433 
 
 John Johnston was from Bristol and was born August, 1806. 
 Traits of character which have been prominent in subsequent life were 
 distinctly marked in college : sober judgment, firm principle, a genial 
 temper, and a strong, clear, discriminating understanding. For his 
 future career, besides intellectual discipline and culture, he received 
 the best preparation by the decision in his Senior year to consecrate 
 himself to Christ and his cause. He then joined the communion of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. From 1832 to 1834 he was a teacher, 
 and in 1835 principal of the Oneida Conference Seminary, Cazenovia, 
 N. Y. From 1835 to 1839 he was assistant professor of mathematics 
 and lecturer on natural science in the Wesleyan University, Middle- 
 town, Conn., then in its early life, and from thence to 1869 filled the 
 chair of natural sciences. Besides the ordinary duties of his office he 
 has published text-books on chemistry and natural philosophy, that on 
 chemistry having been used as a text-book in our own classes. He 
 has published the extensive and elaborate "History of Bristol," his 
 native town, and Bremen, and papers on mineralogical and physical 
 subjects in the earlier volumes of the American Journal of Science. 
 His name is identified more probably than any other with the life of 
 the institution with which he has been so long connected, and deserves 
 to be honored for unwearied labors and steadfast fidelity in its service. 
 In 1850 Prof. Johnston received the degree of LL. D. from McKen- 
 dree College, 111. He was a member of several historical societies 
 and scientific bodies. 
 
 In 1835 Mr. Johnston married in Cazenovia, N. Y., N. Maria 
 Hamilton. They have had five sons, of whom three are living. 
 Advancing years and infirmity have compelled his retirement from 
 active labor for the few last years. He spent the winter of 1876-77, 
 on his own account but more on account of an invalid son, in Ber- 
 muda. He and his wife now reside with a son at Clifton, L. I. He 
 died Dec. 1, 1879. p. 
 
 Enoch Smith Marshall was born in Fayette, May, 1804. He 
 entered college under the name of Smith, the name Marshall being 
 added subsequently by legislative act. In 1836 he graduated LL. B. 
 at the Cambridge Law School, and engaged in the practice of his pro- 
 fession in Mercer. He died in 1856. p. 
 
 Ebenezer Mooke was born in Gardiner, October, 1808. He studied 
 law with Hon. George Evans (1815), and settled in the practice of 
 the profession in Quincy, 111., where he remained several years. He 
 was mayor of the city. Subsequently he removed to Washington, 
 
434 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 D. C, and became principal clerk in tlie oflBce of the registrar of the 
 treasury, which position he held until his death by cholera, October, 
 1866. He married in 1836 Miss Margaret A. Moore of Gardiner, 
 •?(rho died in 1836, leaving one child, a daughter. In 1853 he married 
 Miss Jessie Newlands of Quincy, 111., but -without issue. p. 
 
 Henkt B. Osgood was from Fryeburg. " With superior natural 
 talents he was a dUigent student. He was decided in his opinions, 
 warm in his friendships, devoted to his party, and even then was re- 
 garded as the politician of the class." He was the Peucinian orator 
 in 1831. Having studied law with Judge Dana of Fryeburg, he prac- 
 tised for a short time in Fairfield, and then removing to Portlaild 
 went into partnership with Mr. (now Judge) Howard. In this wider 
 field he soon made himself known as a growing and rising man, whose 
 talents and industry would in due time place him in the foremost rank. 
 In 1842 he represented Portland in the State Legislature, and spoke 
 often during the session with eloquence and effect ; but the labors and 
 exposure of this winter in Augusta were very detrimental to his 
 health. In the summer following it became so much irhpaired that he 
 was induced to seek repose and restoration among his friends, and in 
 the pure air and pleasant scenery of his birthplace. But the kindest 
 attentions, the most healthful surroundings, were of no avail. He 
 died in November. Mr. Osgood left a widow, now the wife of Dan- 
 iel Goodenow, Esq., of Alfred. 
 
 John E. Patten was from Portland. " His natural endowments 
 were superior, and they had been early and well cultivated. In his 
 class he maintained throughout a high rank. After graduating he 
 studied law, was admitted, and then started for the West to find a 
 home there ; but while the steamer in which he was lay in the river 
 near Cincinnati, an explosion took place which killed a number of 
 persons. A minute or two afterwards, when the immediate danger 
 was past, Mr. Patten, though probably uninjured, was seen deliber- 
 ately to plunge into the stream. He undoubtedly meant to swim to 
 the shore, which unfortunately he failed to reach. Had he liVed he 
 would no doubt have been an ornament to his profession." 
 
 Edward Patson was born in Portland, September, 1813 ; a son of 
 the eminent Rev. Dr. Edward Payson. The first thirteen years after 
 graduation were spent in a Southern State, where he studied and prac- 
 tised law and also a part of the time employed himself in teaching. 
 He then returned to his Northern home, renounced a profession to 
 
GRADUATES. • 435 
 
 which he had never been much devoted, and settled on a farm in 
 Westbrook (now Deering), where he has since lived. He has repre- 
 sented his town in the Legislature, has contributed articles to the 
 newspapers, wrote " The Maine Law in the Balance," issued in a 
 pamphlet form, and has published a work of fiction entitled " Doctor 
 Tom." 
 
 He married Penelope Ann Martin, whose parents emigrated from 
 England. Her father was of the first Board of Trustees of the col- 
 lege, and a brother, Edward, graduated at Bowdoin College, 1833. 
 She died several years since. They had two sons, both graduates of 
 the college, 1869, 1874, and both members of the Cumberland bar. 
 
 Erastds Perry, born in 1812 in Limerick, "was a young man of 
 good but not brilliant talents ; gentle in disposition, and but little in- 
 clined to sociality except with intimate friends. With health not 
 very firm, he was rather spare in person and somewhat inclined to 
 melancholy. He took charge after leaving college of the academy in 
 Wolfeboro', N. H. I can trace him no further. He was a man of 
 unimpeachable character." Mr. Perry died in 1835. 
 
 Charles Curtis Porter was born in Peterboro', N. H., March, 
 1813. He studied medicine, took his medical degree in the Medical 
 School in 1836, and received an honorary degree of M. D. from the 
 University of Pennsylvania. He entered on the practice of his pro- 
 fession and an extensive practice at Calais. In 1853-55 he was sur- 
 geon of the Maine Hospital at Lahaina, Sandwich Islands. He was 
 at his death, December, 1875, the oldest resident physician on the St. 
 Croix, and enjoyed a high reputation. p. 
 
 Jabez Cushman Rich was born in North Yarmouth, February, 
 1812. For several years he sei/ved in the United States navy, and 
 was captain of marines. After the destruction of the navy yard, 
 Norfolk, Va., in 1861, he espoused the Southern cause. He died at 
 his father's home in Gorham, March, 1865. 
 
 Manasseh Sevey was born in Wiscasset, October, 1812. In 1833, 
 we learn from a relative, he went to New Orleans, where a brother 
 was in business. Remaining there a short time, he then made his way 
 to Kentucky and taught school for a year or two. "He afterwards 
 served with credit through the Texan war as a private in the First 
 Regiment under Gen. Sam Houston, participated in the battle of 
 
436 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 San Jacinto, April, 1836, and was one of the captors of Santa Anna. 
 On the conclusion of that war he went to Baton Rouge ; for some 
 years was employed as a land surveyor, and subsequently entered the 
 government land office at that place, where he remained several years. 
 At a later period he married Miss Margaret Miller, daughter of the 
 postmaster at Donaldsonville, and had one child, a daughter. On the 
 breaking out of the Rebellion he left the South and returned to his 
 Wiscasset home, where he died, January, 1863. His wife and child 
 survived him but a few years." p. 
 
 Daniel Sevtall was born in Chesterville, November, 1808 ; the 
 youngest son of the venerated Jotham Sewall. He entered at once 
 on a theological course at Bangor Seminary, graduating in 1835. He 
 was pastor successively of churches in Chesterville, Scarboro', Tops- 
 ham, Castine, and South Paris. His last service was as agent of the 
 American Bible Society in Maine, with his residence in Winthrop. In 
 all the scenes of his labors he left the impression of a devoted, g6dly 
 man. A few weeks before his death he fell on the ice, causing what 
 was supposed to be a slight injury of the head, but it developed into 
 disease of the brain which soon terminated fatally at the home of a 
 son in Augusta, April, 1866. 
 
 He married Miss Angeline Brown, sister of Mr. Amos Brown, 
 remembered as principal of Gorham Seminary. He left several 
 children. p. 
 
 Horatio Southgate was born in Portland, July, 1812. After 
 graduating he entered on the theological course at Andover, graduat- 
 ing in 1835. Jn 1836, having been ordained deacon by Bishop Gris- 
 wold in the Protestant Episcopal Church, he was sent out on a tour of 
 exploration among the Mohammedans ' in Tui'key and Persia, one 
 result of which appeared in his " Narrative of a Tour through Arme- 
 nia, Kurdistan, Persia, and Mesopotamia," in 1839. On his return 
 he was ordained priest by Bishop Onderdonk of New York, in 
 1840 went to Constantinople as a missionary of the Episcopal Church, 
 and served in that capacity four years. Returning on a visit to the 
 United States, in 1844 he was consecrated in St. Peter's, Philadelphia, 
 missionary bishop for the dominions and dependencies of the Sultan of 
 Turkey, and continued in the labors of the episcopate until 1849, 
 when he returned, and soon after, in consequence of the death of his 
 wife and the state of his family, resigned the mission. He was soon 
 elected bishop of California, but declined the office. Returning to his 
 native town, he organized the Church of St. Luke and labored in that 
 
GRADUATES. 
 
 437 
 
 service one year. He was called in 1852 to the Church of the Advent 
 in Boston, and after a service of nearly seven years resigned, and in 
 1858 was elected rector of Zion Church of New York, and held that 
 charge thirteen years. He has since been without charge, devoting 
 himself to literary work and the education of his children. 
 
 Besides what has been already mentioned have appeared from his 
 pen, "A Visit to the SjTian Church of Mesopotamia," 1845; "The 
 War in the East," 1856; "Parochial Sermons," 1859; " I>ractical 
 Directions for Lent," 1859 ; "The Cross above the Crescent," 1878 ; 
 and occasional sermons, pamphlets, and contributions to different 
 periodicals. He received the degree of D. D. from Columbia College, 
 New York, in 1846. 
 
 Dr. Southgate married in 1839 Elizabeth, daughter of William 
 Brown, Portland, who died in 1850. They had six children, of whom 
 four now survive. In 1864 he married Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Hiram Hutchinson, New York, by whom he has had seven children, of 
 whom six are now living. p. 
 
 Henbt Gookin Stovee was born in Biddeford, November, 1813. 
 He went through a theological course at the Bangor Seminary, grad- 
 uating in 1836. He exercised his ministry in different places and 
 always with great acceptance. He was for two or three years acting 
 pastor over the church in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and while 
 there received ordination as an evangelist. He resisted repeated and 
 earnest invitations to settle in the pastorate, but always declined on 
 account of his uncertain state of health, which has never allowed 
 much continued labor. With every promise of successful labor in the 
 ministry which he had received, richly endowed with qualities of mind 
 and heart peculiarly adapted to his chosen work, he has been perpet- 
 ually hampered and seriously interrupted in his own wishes and hopes 
 and those of several congregations, until in 1863 he retired from all 
 pulpit effort. He was never married, and Scarboro' has been and is 
 now his residence. p. 
 
 Henrt Ater True was a native of Union, born August, 1812. 
 His father and grandfather were clergymen, the latter a chaplain in 
 the French and Indian war. After taking his academic degree he 
 entered upon the study of medicine, and graduated from the Medical 
 School in 1835. He was physician at the McLean Asylum, Somer- 
 ville, Mass. , and subsequently held a similar position in the city of New 
 York. Thus qualified for his life's work, he removed to Marion, Ohio, 
 where he entered on a good practice and won excellent reputation. 
 
438 HISTORT Of BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 He was more than a physician. " His scientific attainments, with Ms 
 habits of study and thought, led him into channels of life that few fol- 
 lojT. Hence he was almost a solitary worker in some of his pursuits. 
 He directed the studies and readings of young men in the higher 
 branches of study, giving freely such instruction as is only attainable 
 at the best institutions of the country. He was the only citizen 
 among us whose tastes led him to collect through life objects of scien- 
 tific interest. His study and office bore evidence in its surroundings 
 of this, and afforded opportunities for the young student freely of- 
 fered at all times, that could nowhere else be obtained in this place." 
 (From an obituary notice.) Dr. True was a devoted, active, intelli- 
 gent. Christian gentleman. For more than thirty-three years he was 
 a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church, was fond of theological 
 inquiry, and as occasion required not unfrequently discoursed on 
 sacred themes in the church to much edification. He was remarkably 
 modest and retiring in disposition and manner, yet sj'mpathizing in 
 every good enterprise and ready for every good work. He had won 
 universal respect and esteem, and his death caused sincere and general 
 mourning throughout the community. , He had appeared in usual 
 health when, Dec. 14, 1876, on going to his office after dinner, he was 
 seized with a slight pain in his breast which he made little account of. 
 In an hour or two another paroxysm caused alarm, but yielded to 
 remedies ; and then after an interval another, and he soon after ex- 
 pired. Dr. True was a man of a generous public spirit. He was 
 active in promoting the interests of Wooster University, Ohio. 
 
 In November, 1841, Dr. True married Elizabeth Pierce Eeed, and 
 had one son, Henry, now living. p. 
 
 1833. 
 
 Charles Adams was born in Stratham, N. H., January, 1808. He 
 entered college already a preacher in the Methodist communion, and 
 maintained a decided, earnest, consistent character as a Christian man 
 during his course, at the same time being a diligent and most exem- 
 plary student. During his Senior year by invitation of the pastor, Dr. 
 Adams, and not as a mere compliment, he preached in the college 
 church in term time, doubtless a trying ordeal, which he met as a call 
 of duty in his modest, unassuming, self-possessed way. Since grad- 
 uation his life has been ' ' devoted alternately to the ministry and 
 teaching." He was called to the charge of a new Methodist seminary, 
 Newbury, Vt., where he remained five years. Retiring from that 
 position he spent a year in study as resident at Andover Seminary, 
 and then became pastor in Lynn, Mass., and while there accepted an 
 
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GRADUATES. 439 
 
 urgent invitation to take charge of the academy at Wilbraham, Mass., 
 where he remained four years, meanwhile acting as pastor of the 
 Methodist Church in that town. Desirous to give himself more exclu- 
 sively to the work of the ministry, he was stationed ' ' in the Order of 
 the Itinerary," successively in Boston, Concord, N. H., where he as- 
 sisted in the Biblical Institute just established, in Lowell and Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., in Lima, N. Y., and Cincinnati, Ohio. Called to the 
 presidency of Illinois College for Iiadies at Jacksonville, he retained 
 the position ten years. Having now reached the age of sixty years 
 he became a "retired minister"; removed to Washington, D. C, 
 where he has held a position in one of the government departments, 
 exercising at the same time his ministry in his own and other com- 
 munions as opportunity has offered. 
 
 Dr. Adams has published among other minor writings, " Minister 
 for the Times," " New Testament Church Members," "Women of the 
 Bible," " Evangelism in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century," "Earth 
 and its Wonders," some of which have passed through several editions. 
 
 In 1859 he was created D. D. by McKendree College. He married 
 Miss Porter, daughter of Rev. Huntington Porter, Congregational 
 minister. Rye, N. H. They have had four sons and three daughters. 
 Three of the sons served in the late war, and one fell in battle at 
 Jackson, Miss. ; one son graduated at Harvard in 1870. p. 
 
 William Henry Allen, a native of Readfield, was born March, 
 1808. Soon after his graduation he engaged as teacher of Greek and 
 Latin in the Cazenovia Seminary, Madison County, N. Y. In 1836 
 he took charge of the high school in Augusta. Soon after this he was 
 called to Carlisle, Pa., where he became professor of chemistry and 
 natural philosophy in Dickinson College. The duties of this oflflce he 
 discharged for ten years. During the year 1847 he was chemical pro- 
 fessor in the Philadelphia College of Medicine. Again at Carlisle he 
 served as professor of mental philosophy, etc. , and also as temporary 
 president. On the 1st of January, 1850, as president of the Girard 
 College for orphans, he entered on the responsible , duties which he 
 still discharges to great and general acceptance.* 
 
 He held that position thirteen years and then resigned ; for one 
 year w^s president of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. 
 After an interval of three or four years he was persuaded to return to 
 Girard College, and is at this writing in the eleventh year of his second 
 term of service. The provision of the bequest founding the college 
 forbidding the admission of any clergj'man within its precincts — which 
 
 * The remainder of this sketch by the editor. 
 
440 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 led to a celebrated trial before the Supreme Court of the United 
 States, in which Mr. Daniel Webster made one of his ablest argu- 
 ments against the character of the bequest as a charity — made the 
 position of president trj'ing and uncomfortable for the incumbent. 
 But Dr. Allen has proved his Christian character by the religious influ- 
 ence he has exerted without ecclesiastical functions ; this, added to 
 his fidelity, energy, his admirable presence and genial manners, have 
 made that which under a different administration might have proved 
 an evil, to be far otherwise to the city. 
 
 A pleasant and honorable testimony to his weight of character has 
 been borne by his election in 1872 to the presidency of the American 
 Bible Society. 
 
 The published addresses, essaj-s, and reviews on philosophical, 
 literary, and educational topics which have been given to the public by 
 Dr. Adams are numerous. Among them is an elaborate eulogy on 
 Daniel Webster, delivered at the request of the councils and citizens 
 of Philadelphia. 
 
 Dr. Adams has received honorary degrees of M. D. from his own 
 Alma Mater and from the College of Medicine of Philadelphia, and 
 of LL. D. from Union, N. Y., and Emory and Penry (Va.) Colleges. 
 
 Dr. Adams has been married more than once and has had six chil- 
 dren, of whom three are living. p. 
 
 Thomas Paenell Beech was born in Canaan, Vt., May, 1808, and 
 probably owed his name to the admiration of his parents for the gentle 
 author of the *' Hermit.'' He seems to have been a person of peculiar 
 temperament. " His college life was marked rather by zeal in mis- 
 sionarj' labors among the neighboring towns than by 'devotion to his 
 college duties. He ' preached ' a great deal. I believe he was held 
 by his classmates generally as a devout and good but rather weak 
 man ; his scholarship was very low." After leaving college he 
 taught awhile, and then, though he had no regular theological educa- 
 tion, was settled over some church. This was a bad beginning, and 
 ended still worse. He was deposed from the ministry and ran into wild 
 excesses. In the words of another classmate of his, " We charitably 
 hope that his reason was in eclipse, and that his culpable acts were 
 not strictly voluntary." He died in 1846. 
 
 John Morland Cummings, born in Portland, March, 1814, was a 
 brother of Nathan (1817). He studied medicine and graduated from 
 the Medical School in 1836 ; began practice in Portland, and was city 
 physician for a time. For many years he has resided on Richmond 
 Island near Portland, which was his property. He died March, 1878. 
 
 p. 
 
GRADUATES. 441 
 
 Charles Duken was born in Portland, June, 1815. After taking 
 his degree he spent two years in teaching at Wakefield and Wolfeboro', 
 N. H. He studied theology at Bangor, graduating from that seminary 
 in 1839. After preaching in different places he was settled for two or 
 three years in Sangerville and its vicinity. In 1843 he removed to 
 Vermont, which has been his field of labor in several churches until 
 1878, with the exception of four years in Minnesota and Wisconsin. 
 The last four years he has been settled in Granby. 
 
 Mr. Duren has cultivated the habits of a student. What few, it is 
 supposed, of his brethren can testify of themselves, in a note bearing 
 date of September, 1878, he wrote : " Within the five years past I 
 have twice read through the ' Iliad ' and have nearly completed the 
 third reading in course of the Hebrew Bible. Occasionally I am read- 
 ing the Odes of Horace." 
 
 In 1841 Mr. Duren married Serena, daughter of Rev. Silas McKeen, 
 then of Belfast, who died in 1862 leaving three children, of whom but 
 one now is living. In 1864 he married Mrs. Sarah Lyman Atherton, 
 Sheldon, Vt. p. 
 
 Charles Calvin Farrar was born in Waterford, October, 1808. 
 He sustained an honorable rank as a scholar. After graduation he 
 went to New Orleans, and died of pulmonary disease the following 
 year. 
 
 Ezra Bourne Fuller was born in Vassalboro', January, 1807. 
 After he took his degree he went South, and for a few years taught 
 school in Natchez, Miss. ; he then became a teller in a bank in that 
 city. Investments which he made proving unfortunate he lost all he 
 had acquired, and then " became a private banker with no capital but 
 industry, honesty, and the confidence of the community.'' He rapidly 
 recovered more than he had lost. Just before the late war he returned 
 to the North and settled in Trenton, N. J., resuming with success his 
 business as a banker, and " was beneficent in the use of his property." 
 He was an elder in a Presbyterian church. He died in 1874. p. 
 
 John Goddard was born in Portsmouth, N. H., April, 1813, and 
 was well trained by parents of more than common intelligence. His 
 bright talents appeared early. After he was fitted for college his 
 father, fearing to expose him so young to the perils of collegiate life, 
 placed him for a year in the hardware store of John C. Proctor of 
 Boston "In college," wiites one who knew him and roomed with 
 him (Rev. Charles Beecher), " he was convivial and full of genius. I 
 
442 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 always loved and admired him ; I thought him one of the first minds 
 I ever knew. His perceptive faculties were prodigiously developed, 
 and he was in no degree deficient in the reflective. As a mathemati- 
 cian he was unsurpassed, and in the other departments he had the 
 ability to distinguish himself." " In the early part of his course," 
 sa^'s one of his class, " Goddard was rather unstable, much given to 
 novel-reading, a great devourer of nuts and candy, yet social, joyous, 
 inoffensive, and of more than ordinary intellectual ability." Whatever 
 at that time may have been the exuberance of his youthful spirits, it 
 seems to have done him no great harm. He soon became an earnest, 
 thoughtful, working man. In the autumn of 1833 he went to Port- 
 land, united with the church under Rev. Dr. Tyler, and began with 
 him a preparation for the ministry. A year later he accompanied Dr. 
 Tyler to East Windsor, Conn., and was one of the first graduates of 
 the seminary there. As the state of his voice made it doubtful 
 whether he would be able to preach, he accepted the professorship of 
 mathematics and natural philosophy in Jackson College, Tennessee, 
 and held the ofllce three years. He then came back to New England -f 
 married Catharine Tyler, the daughter of his instructor, and settled 
 as pastor of the church in Egremont, Mass., a small town among the 
 Berkshire hills. A ' few months afterward, while on a visit to Ms 
 parents in Roxbury, a brief illness terminated his life. He died Nov. 
 4, 1841, aged twenty-eight, leaving a widow and infant son. "Mr. 
 Goddard," says Dr. Tyler, " was a scholar of unusual attainments, a 
 good linguist, and a very superior mathematician. In his religious 
 character there was great simplicity. No one could be farther from 
 parade and ostentation. In his prayers and in his sermons, after he 
 became a preacher, there was a simplicity of language, a directness 
 and explicitness which no one could fail to notice, and which was 
 peculiarly pleasing to those who could appreciate such excellence. 
 His kindness and affability of manners won the affection of all, so 
 that when he was called away the elders mourned as though they had 
 lost a son, and the youth as though they bad lost a brother." 
 
 Alfred Goldsmith was born in Gardiner, December, 1809. He 
 pursued theological study in the seminary at Andover, Mass., two 
 years, third in a class under the direction of Rev. Dr. Beaman 
 and Mr. Kirk in Troy, N. Y., and a fourth again at Andover. In 
 1837 he was ordained pastor over the Congregational Church, Great 
 Falls,- N. H. Subsequently he exercised his ministry in Little Comp- 
 ton, R. I., Princeton, Mass., Walpole, N. H , South Abington, Mass., 
 and West Avon, Conn. He is now (1878) residing at Unionville, 
 Conn. 
 
GBADUATES. 443 
 
 September, 1839, he married Miss Sarah MeirUl, Haverhill, N. H. 
 They have a son and daughter. p. 
 
 Samuel Harris was born in East Machias, June, 1814. Immedi- 
 ately after graduating he became principal of Limerick Academy, and 
 remained there one year. He was principal of Washington Academy, 
 East Machias, for the same period, and then entered the Theological 
 Seminary, Andover,,Mass., graduating in 1838. Being invited to 
 resume the charge of the academj' at East Machias, he held the posi- 
 tion three years. In 1841 he was ordained pastor of the Congrega- 
 tional Church in Conway, Mass., and after a service of ten years was 
 called to the pastorate of the Congregational Church in Pittsfleld, 
 Mass. From 1855 to 1867 he was professor of systematic theology in 
 the seminary at Bangor. In 1867, on the retirement of -Dr Woods 
 from the presidency of the college. Dr. Harris was elected to succeed 
 him in that office, with the addition of the professorship of mental and 
 moral philosophy. The responsibilities now devolved upon him were 
 discharged with conspicuous ability. Overtures having been made to 
 him from Yale College, he retired from the presidency in 1871, ac- 
 cepted the chair of systematic theology in that institution, and now 
 occupies that position to the great satisfaction of its members and 
 friends. Of singular simplicity and sincerity of character and man- 
 ners, with entire absence of the arts of vanity and self-assertion, he 
 is distinguished for broad culture and wide range of thought, and for 
 the clearness, power, and frequent beauty of his writings. He has 
 admirable power of illustration, possesses uncommon excellence in 
 extemporaneous speech, a gift which he was led to cultivate at an 
 early period of his ministry in consequence of weakness of the eyes, 
 his efforts in this way being as marked by thorough discussion and 
 depth of thought as in any of his more formal written discourses. 
 To his ability as a teacher of theologj' and of moral and intellectual 
 philosophy, those who have experienced it or who have observed it 
 will bear unanimous and cordial testimony. 
 
 Dr. Harris published in a volume in 1874 a course of twelve lec- 
 tures delivered before the students of Andover Seminary, with the 
 title "The Kingdom of Christ on Earth," which has given him a place 
 among the ablest of our writers in the department of Christian liter- 
 ature. He has given to the press several sermons and addresses, and 
 been a frequent and valued contributor to the New Evglander and the 
 Bibliotheca Sacra. A list of his publications in the report made to 
 the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 at Philadelphia of the publications 
 of the presidents and professors of the college, numbers thirty-two. 
 
444 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 His addresses delivered during the late war, while he was connected 
 with the seminary at Bangor, were a power in rousing and sustaining 
 a spirit of loj'alty to the government in its bitter struggle for life. 
 From Williams College he received the honorary degree of D. D. in 
 1855 ; and when he retired from the presidency of the college, the 
 respect and strong regard of his Alma Mater were testified by confer- 
 ring on him the degree of LL. D. Dr. Harris has married twice, but 
 has never had children. p. 
 
 Henkt James Jewett was born in Portland, April, 1813. He was 
 a brother of the late Hon. Jedediah Jewett, mayor of the city and 
 collector of the port. Having graduated with honor he entered upon 
 the study of law, and attended the Law School at Cambridge. Hav- 
 ing completed his course he went to the West, and soon settled in 
 Austin, Texas, where he attracted notice by his genial disposition and 
 professional ability. He held the positions of county attorney and 
 judge of probate. He was on the staff of Governor Houston. In 
 1870, while on a visit to New York, he died. He was married and 
 left children. p. 
 
 John Slemons Lunt, born at Portland, September, 1815, entered 
 the law office of Fessenden & Deblois, and engaged in the practice of 
 the profession. For many years he lived in what is now Deering. 
 He died in 1870, leaving a wife and one child. p. 
 
 Edward Martin, born in Limerick, November, 1814, entered very 
 young, " a boy of pure character and gentle disposition.'' He assisted 
 Mr. S. H. Shepley for a while in the North Yarmouth Academy, and 
 was looking forward to the gospel ministry ; but his health failed, and 
 he died in 1836 at Limerick, his native town. 
 
 James Means, born in Amherst, N. H., April, 1813, was son of 
 Col. David McG-. Means and nephew of Eobert Means (1807). Hav- 
 ing been led during his college course, at a time of religious inter- 
 est, to consecrate himself to his Eedeemer, after a year spent in 
 teaching a school in Ellsworth he pursued theological study first at 
 Bangor and then at Andover, graduating in 1838. He was ordained 
 over the Congregational Church in Concord, Mass., where he remained 
 a few years until, bronchial complaints compelling him to suspend con- 
 stant ministerial labor, he took charge of Lawrence Academy, Groton, 
 Mass., which had been established on a liberal foundation by the 
 munificence of the brothers Lawrence of Boston, natives of the town. 
 
GRADUATES. 445 
 
 He occupied this position with usefulness and reputation until an 
 advantageous offer induced him to make a foreign tour of two years 
 with pupils. On his return he supplied Vacant pulpits in Massachu- 
 setts and Detroit, Mich. ; was agent for the Theological Seminary 
 at Andover in an effort to procure additional endowment. It becom- 
 ing plain that he could not safely resume the pastoral office, he took 
 charge of a j'oung ladies' boarding school in Lebanon, N. H., whence 
 he removed to be associated in the Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, 
 Mass. Earlj' in the civil war, of a truly public spirit, an ardent 
 patriot and of generous sj^^mpathies, he entered the service of his coun- 
 try in 1862 and went out to Newbern, N. C, as chaplain of the 
 Academy Green Hospital. Manifesting deep interest in the instruc- 
 tion of the contrabands, of whom several thousands were congregated 
 at Newbern, and engaging personally and with great success in efforts 
 for this end, he received the appointment from Gen. Foster of "super- 
 intendent of contrabands " ; subsequently from Governor Stanley a 
 commission as captain, under which he built barracks and otherwise 
 provided for his charge. In the midst of abundant and exhausting 
 labors he was stricken down by typhoid fever, and died in 1863 sin- 
 cerely mourned and deeply regretted. In January, 1840, he married 
 Miss Elizabeth P. Johnson, and his wife, three daughters, and a son 
 survive him. The son. Prof. David McGregor Means of Middlebu'y 
 College, has distinguished himself by contributions to the Bibliotheca 
 Sacra. . p. 
 
 Isaac Palmer was born in Fayette, September, 1807. He was a 
 successful teacher during his college days, and also during his profes- 
 sional studies which he completed in the Berkshire Medical Institu- 
 tion, Pittsfleld, Mass., where he graduated in 1837. He engaged in 
 the practice of his profession for a year in Augusta, and then re- 
 moved to North Anson, where he has since lived. At an early period 
 of his practice he visited Europe for professional studj', and had just 
 completed his forty-third year of successful practice when he died Feb. 
 28, 1880, greatly respected in his profession and as a Christian man 
 and citizen. In 1873 he was elected to the Senate of the State, and 
 served in that position two' terms. He married a daughter of Gen. 
 Alden Blossom of Turner, and had two sons and two daughters. 
 The sons graduated at Bowdoin College in 1861. p. 
 
 Ebenezer GRteENLEAP Paksons was born in Westport, May, 1813. 
 During his college life he participated in common with others in the 
 special religious interest which signalized that class. After graduation 
 
446 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 he taught school in Reading, Pa , and then entered the Theological 
 Seminary, Bangor, and graduated in 1837. He was' at once ordained 
 over the Congregational Church in Freeport, where he remained four- 
 teen years. He was then installed over the church in Derry, N. H., 
 and continued eighteen j^ears. Retiring from active service of the 
 pulpit, he became principal of Pinkerton Academy in that town for 
 three years, and then of the ancient Dummer Academy, Byfield, 
 Mass., where he still resides. He has been for several years on the 
 Board of Overseers of the college. In all his fields of usefulness he 
 has been highly respected and esteemed. In 1840 he married Caro- 
 line Mellen Nye, who died in 1862, by whom he had three children, 
 of whom two now are living. In 1865 he married Sarah Dana 
 McMillan. p. 
 
 John Pike was born in Newburyport, Mass., July, 1813, son of 
 Richard Pike and Mary Boardman ; was fitted for college in his native 
 town and at Woburn Academy, Mass. After taking his degree he 
 remained a year at home engaged in private study, and then entered 
 the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass., and graduated in 1837. 
 He was a " stated supply " in North Falmouth, Mass., three years, and 
 in 1840 was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church, Rowley, 
 Mass. On account of partial loss of sight he retired from the pastor- 
 ate in 1868. He still resides in Rowley. He has published several 
 sermons, among which is the annual election sermon before the Legis- 
 lature of Massachusetts in 1857. He has contributed to th6 Oongre- 
 gational Review, and published a volume of essays entitled " Bud, 
 Blossom, and Fruit ; or. Early Piety, Permanent and Progressive." 
 
 Dr. Pike has been several years on the Board of Overseers of the 
 college, and in 1866 received the degree of D. D. 
 
 In 1841 he married Deborah Adams of Newbury. p. 
 
 Waeren Rundlet was from Newcastle, where his father was 
 engaged in navigation. " In college he was easy and jovial. His 
 cheerful countenance and pleasant sayings are still remembered by his 
 classmates. He became a lawyer and obtained considerable influence 
 at the bar." Another of his class, himself an able member of that 
 bar, says of him, " Rundlet had some most excellent traits of charac- 
 ter, and was highly esteemed by the profession as an honest, faith- 
 ful, intelligent lawyer." He died of consumption in 1850. His wife, 
 a daughter of Roger Merrill of Brunswick, and his two children sur- 
 vive him ; the son, Leonard, graduated in 1868. 
 
GRADUATES. 447 
 
 William Thomas Savage was born in Bangor, November, 1812. 
 After taking his degree he taught the academy at Alfred, and then 
 entered on the study of theology at Bangor ; completed his course at 
 Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he enjoyed the instruction of 
 Dr. Lyman Beecher, and graduated in 1837. The year following he 
 assisted Prof. Calvin E. Stowe in teaching Hebrew in the same institu- 
 tion. His first labors in the Christian ministry were in Eobbinstown 
 and Pembroke, where he spent two years "with cheering success." 
 He received ordination as an evangelist at Dennysville in 1838. His 
 first pastorate was in Amherst, N. H., where he was installed in 1841. 
 " A period of conflict followed on account of the prevalent discussion 
 of American slavery, and important members were lost to the church ; 
 but it proved also a day of " the right hand of the Most High," and 
 one of the most fruitful periods in the history of the church. Having 
 been dismissed in 1863, he was for five years pastor of the Congrega- 
 tional Church, Houlton. Then followed a pastorate of twenty-five 
 years in Franklin, N. H., where he was installed in 1849. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Savage with his wife and sifiter travelled extensively 
 in Europe, Egj'pt, and Asia Minor. After his return, and continuing 
 his^work in Franklin for a time, " in obedience to an early impulse 
 he resolved to leave that field of labor, and in 1875 became pastor of 
 the Church of Christ in Monticello, Godfrey, Madison County, 111., 
 with which the Monticello Female Seminary was associated in wor- 
 ship," where he remained two or three years. He has since resided 
 in Quincy, 111. 
 
 Dr. Savage — for he had now been honored with the degree of D. D. 
 from Dartmouth College — has always been active in promoting the 
 interests of popular education. In Houlton he was a member of the 
 State Board of Education for the county. He also originated acade- 
 mies at Houlton and Patten, and secured for them endowments from 
 the State. In Franklin he was on the board in charge of the schools, 
 and was also a member and at one time president of the State 
 Teachers' Association of New Hampshire. He was also on the Board 
 of Overseers of our college. During his foreign tour he contributed 
 " Notes of Travel" from Europe, the Nile, Mt. Sinai, and the Ara- 
 bian Desert, and from Palestine and Asia Minor to the Boston 
 Recorder and the Boston Review. He has published several dis- 
 courses and reviews, all giving evidence of an active, fruitful life. 
 
 In 1851 he married Mary Langdon Bradbury, daughter of Jere- 
 miah Bradbury, Esq., of Alfred. They have had three children, all 
 dying in infancy. His wife died in 1872. p. 
 
448 HISTOET OF BQWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Edwin Seabukt was born in what is now Yarmouth, December, 
 1812. Fond of music and a good singer, he was prominent in the 
 college choir. He graduated at the Theological Seminary, Bangor, 
 and was licensed to preach by the Penobscot Association in 1837. He 
 was employed as a teacher a year or two after leaving the seminary, 
 and in 1840 was ordained over the Congregational Church in New- 
 castle, where he remained seven or eight years. He supplied the pul- 
 pit in Byfleld, Mass., one 3^ear, and then removed to Gloucester, 
 Mass., and supplied the church at LanesvUle five years ; from 1855 to 
 1858 he was acting pastor of the church at Westminster, Vt., and from 
 1858 to 1862 was installed over the church in South Royalston, Mass. 
 He next was stated supply from 1863 to 1869 over the church in East 
 Falmouth, Mass., and from 1870 to 1875 in Berlin, Vt. He was 
 reported of as having " a rich style and an agreeable manner," and as 
 having been often greatly favored in the worls of the ministry. He 
 married Elizabeth Nason of Yarmouth, who died in Berlin, Vt , 1874. 
 They had five children, one dying in infancy. He, died in Walpole, 
 N. H., June, 1879. p. 
 
 Samuel Howard Sheplet was born in Quincy, Mass., March, 
 1810. He was principal of North Academy two years, and of Wash- 
 ington Academjs East Machias, one year. He graduated at Bangor 
 Theological Seminary in 1838, and was soon ordained over the Con- 
 gregational Church, New Gloucester, where he remained nearly nine 
 years. Skilled as a teacher and manager of youth and loving the work, 
 he accepted an invitation to resume the headship of North Yarmouth 
 Academy, which he held three years. In 1850 he accepted an appoint- 
 ment at Steubensville, Pa., in a seminary for ladies, for two years, 
 and then became proprietor of a similar institution at Blairsville in the 
 same State, where he continued thirteen j'ears, all these years exercis- 
 ing his ministry as opportunity offered. Of a gentle, sympathetic 
 temperament, he won confidence, respect, and affection, was of a high 
 tone of character, and ever readj' for any service of his Master. 
 
 After a lingering and severe illness he died greatly lamented in 1874. 
 
 Benjamin Tappan was born in Augusta, June, 1815, son of Rev. 
 Dr. Tappan and Elizabeth Bowdoin-Temple Winthrop, daughter of 
 Hon. T. L. Winthrop of Boston, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts. 
 He prosecuted theological study at Bangor, graduating in 1837, and 
 immediately after became for a time assistant of Prof. Leonard Woods 
 in the department of Hebrew. He was ordained pastor of the Con- 
 
GRADUATES. 449 
 
 gregational Church in Hampden in 1838 ; was installed over the Win- 
 throp Church, Charlestown, Mass., in 1848; and in 1858 over the 
 church in Norridgewock, where he is still in active service, an able 
 minister of the New Testament and a man of culture. 
 
 He contributed in 1837 an article on " Miraculous Powers in the 
 Establishment and Propagation of Christianity," to the Literary and 
 Theological Heview; to the Bibliotheca Sacra, in 1858, on "Dr.- Ar- 
 nold's Theological Opinions" ; and in 1865 to the Congregational Quar- 
 terly a memoir of his father. He has also published two sermons 
 commemorative of deceased ofllcers of the Winthrop Church, Charles- 
 town, Mass. He has been for some years on the Board of Overseers 
 of the college. In 1874 he received the degree of D. D. from the 
 college. 
 
 In 1838 he married Delia, daughter of Judge Williams Emmons of 
 Hallowell. They have had five children. p. 
 
 Charles Coffin Taylor was born in Eowley, Mass., Feb. 16,1805, 
 and was fitted for college at Dummer Academy, Byfleld, under N. 
 Cleaveland (1813) . He is pleasantly remembered by his college con- 
 temporaries for his musical talent and his efficient and welcome leader- 
 ship of the college choir. The organ was placed in the chapel very 
 much through his instrumentality. The second year after graduating 
 he began theplogical study at the seminary in Bangor, where he spent 
 two years. The last year of study was passed with Rev. Dr. Lewis, 
 Marblehead, Mass., subsequently of Brooklyn, N. Y. He received 
 ordination from Bishop Griswold in 1837, and after exercising his 
 ministry for a while in Northampton, Mass., took charge of a church 
 in Amesbury, Mass., for two j-ears, and then in Lonsdale, R. I., four 
 years. The health of his familj- making it expeiiient, and feeling that 
 the West had '' strong claims upon the talent, enterprise, and piety of 
 the church," he removed to Michigan in 1844, and became rector of 
 St. Andrew's Church, Ann Arbor. In 1853 he accepted the chaige 
 of St. Luke's, Kalamazoo, where until his death in 1855 he labored 
 with great acceptance and success. He was in the prime of life. 
 As a preacher he was faithful and eloquent. He became prominent as 
 a clergyman, had long served on the standing committee of the dio- 
 cese, and was repeatedly delegated to represent it in the general con-, 
 vention. He was cultured in mind and manners, was a true counsellor 
 and a true man, with qualities which gave him influence, and " in his 
 death the diocese and the church at large have lost one of their most 
 able and active ministers." 
 
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450 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 In 1838 Mr. Taylor married Miss Henrietta S. T. Smith, daughter 
 of Rev. Phineas Smith of Western New York. They have had three 
 children. He died after a brief illaess,, February, 1855. p. 
 
 George Fkanklin Tewksbuky was born in Oxford, February, 
 1811. After graduation he taught school a year, and then entered 
 upon' a theological course at Andover, graduating in 1837. Early in 
 1838 he was ordained over the Congregational church in Albany, 
 where he remained fifteen year^. He has been acting pastor in his 
 native town five years, in Gorham, N. H., as a pioneer missionary, 
 beginning his work in a school house with no church organization, and 
 after nearly six years' labor, leaving a church with a church edifice, 
 the result largely of his instrumentality. After exercising his minis- 
 try three years in Naples and South Bridgton with Casco, he accepted 
 an invitation to return to his former people in Gorham, and continued 
 with them eight years. In 1876 he became acting pastor of a church 
 in Lyman, where he still resides happy in his work, in full vigor of 
 health and spirits, and in the fortieth year of laborious and useful ser- 
 vice, having received repeated proofs that his work has not been in 
 vain. 
 
 In 1838 Mr. Tewksbury married Sarah Ann Crftter of Yarmouth. 
 They have had five children, a son and four daughters, of whom four 
 are now living. The son was pastor of the West Chapel Church, ■ 
 Portland, several years, and is now in the ninth year of his pastorate 
 over the Church of the Pilgrimage, Plymouth, Mass. p. 
 
 Nathan Weston was born in Augusta, February, 1813, son of the 
 late Nathan Weston, LL. D., chief justice of the State. He studied 
 law in the ofHce of Reuel Williams, Esq. , was admitted to the Ken- 
 nebec bar in 1836, and opened an office in Orono. In 1846 and 
 1847 he was paymaster in the army on the Rio Grande in the Mex- 
 ican war. He representsd Orono in the Legislature of 1848 and 
 1849, and was clerk of the courts of Penobscot County six years, 
 when he removed his residence to Bangor. In 1860 he removed to 
 Needham, Mass., and subsequently to Newton, where he now resides. 
 He married Catherine B. Webster, daughter of Col. Ebenezer Web- 
 ster of Orono. They have three children. p. 
 
 Nathaniel McLellan Whitmore was born in Bowdoinham, Octo- 
 ber, 1812. Immediately after graduating he received the appointment 
 of teacber of mathematics in the navy, and spent a year in the si'r- 
 vice. He then began the study of law in the office of Judge Grotou 
 
GRADUATES. 451 
 
 (1814:) in Bath. In a few months, with straitened means, he took 
 charge for two years of Monmouth Academy, and then for the time of 
 WatMvUIe Institute, meanwhile prosecuting legal study with the late 
 S. P. Benson, Esq., of Winthrpp (1825), and Timothy Boutelle, Esq., 
 of Waterville. He was admitted to the Kennebec bar in 1838, and 
 opened an office in Gardiner, where he has continued in his profession 
 with the reputation of an able, astute lawyer. p. 
 
 1834. ■ 
 
 John Wheelock Allen, son of Rev. Dr. Allen, president of the 
 college, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., November, 1813. After grad- 
 uation he pursued a theological course at Andover in the class of 
 1837. In the following year he received ordination from" the Pres- 
 bytery at Homer, Mich., then returned to the East and preached two 
 years at Trenton Falls, N. Y. In 1841 he was installed over the 
 Congregational Church at Wayland, Mass., where he remained nine 
 years. In 1850 he was commissioned by the American Home Mis- 
 sionary Societj' to labor in Wisconsin, and after a service of five years 
 returned to New England and exercised his ministry in Chesterfield 
 and other places in Connecticut. In 1862 he was commissioned chap- 
 lain of the One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Eegiment New York 
 Volunteers, and served one year. He has since preached in different 
 places in Wisconsin and Connecticut. 
 
 In 1839 he married Ellen Miranda Rice of Bangor, who died in 1855. 
 They had eight children, of whom two survive. In 1857 he married 
 Sarah Miranda Briggs of North Woodstock, Conn. , by whom he has 
 had four children, of whom three are living. p. 
 
 John Appleton was born in Beverly, Mass., February, 1815, but 
 entered college from Portland, whither the family had removed. He 
 studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1837. He at once became 
 an editor of the Portland Argus, and having popular talents soon rose 
 in favor with the Democratic partj\ He was register of probate for 
 some time. In 1845 he became chief clerk in the Navy Department, 
 Washington ; in 1848 he accepted the post of charge d'affaires, 
 Bolivia. Having been superseded on the elevation of Gen. Taylor to 
 the Presidency, he returned to Portland and formed a partnership in 
 the practice of law with Nathan Clifford, Esq., subsequently a justice 
 on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1850 he 
 represented his district in Congress, and in 1855 was appointed sec- 
 retary of legation at London under Mr. Buchanan, United States 
 
452 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 minister at that court, discharging the duties of th9,t position with 
 credit to himself and to the country. On the retirement of Mr. Bu- 
 chanan, at his request Mr. Appleton was appointed charge d'affaires 
 ad interim; but declining the service he returned home. Under Mr. 
 Buchanan's Presidencj' he was appointed minister to Russia, and also 
 assistant secretary of state. In consequence of failing health he 
 returned to Portland, became principal proprietor of the Portland 
 Argus, and was contemplating to become sole proprietor, when his 
 health forbade the care it would, involve. He died, of a lingering pul- 
 monary disease in 1864. 
 
 Mr. Appleton married Miss Dodge, Salem, Mass. They had one 
 son, Eben D. 
 
 Jambs Ayer was born in Newfield in October, 1815. In the fall 
 after graduation he taught in the academy, Wakefield, N. H., and in 
 the year following that in Limerick. He then entered on a course of 
 medical study with Dr. L. I. Ham of his native town, and attended 
 the lectures at Hanover, N. H., and at Brunswick where he received 
 his medical degree in 1839. He began the practice of the profession 
 in Lebanon, but not long after removed to Sandwich, Mass. In 1846, 
 on the death of his brother Joseph C. (1832), he removed to Boston, 
 where he has since lived in honorable and successful practice. He 
 became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1840. 
 
 In 1843 Dr. Ayer married Miss Martha Bourne of Sandwich, who 
 died in 1855 leaving two sons, the elder a physician associated with 
 his father in the profession. In 1862 he married Mrs. M. A. Storms. 
 Dr. Ayer has published medical essays and occasional addresses, p. 
 
 Chaeles Beecher was born in Litchfield, Conn., October, 1815, a son 
 of Rev. Dr. Lyman and Roxana (Foote) Beecher. He became a com- 
 municant in Hanover Street Church, Boston, in 1828. He was fitted 
 for coUege in Boston Latin School and Lawrence Academy, Groton, 
 Mass., then under the charge of his brother George. He prosecuted 
 a theological course at Lane Seminary, Ohio, was licensed by the 
 Presbj^tery, Indianapolis, Ind., and ordained pastor of the Second 
 Presbyterian- Church, Fort Wayne, in 1844. Dismissed in 1851, he 
 became pastor of the First Congregational Church, Newark, N. J., 
 where he remained three years. In 1857 he was installed over the 
 First Congregational Church, Georgetown, Mass. From 1870 to 1877 
 he resided in Florida, where he was for two years State superintendent 
 of public instruction. 
 
 Mr. Beecher has published several volumes, the most noticeable of 
 
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GRADUATES. 453 
 
 which are " The Incarnation," 1846 ; " David and his Throne," 1855 ; 
 " Redeemer and Redeemed," 1864 ; " Autobiography and Correspond- 
 ence of Lyman Beecher," 1864; "Spiritual Manifestations," 1879. 
 A lover of music and an adept, he selected tlie music for the " Plym- 
 outh Collection." 
 
 Mr. Beecher married in 1840 at Jacksonville, 111., Sarah Leland 
 CoflBn, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Porter) Coffin. They have 
 had six children, of whom Frederic Henry (graduated at Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, 1862) was killed by Indians while on a scouting party of United 
 States troops in 1868 ; and Charles McCuUoch, graduated at Bowdoin 
 College, 1866. p. 
 
 Hamilton Moore Call, born in Dresden, 1805, spent several 
 years in the "West in teaching, meanwhile reading law. He opened 
 an oflSce in Dresden for the practice, but does not seem to have done 
 much. His townsmen intrusted him with offices of trust and respon- 
 sibility. He had lived a few years in Lewiston, where he died in 
 1876. He was never married. p. 
 
 Pelbg Whitman Chandler was born in New Gloucester in Maine , 
 April 13, 1816. His paternal grandfather, Peleg Chandler, emigrated 
 from Duxbury in Massachusetts some time during the last century. 
 His maternal grandfather came from Gloucester in the same State. 
 His name was Parsons, and he was related to that grestt lawyer and 
 judge, Theophiliis Parsons. Mr. Chandler's father, Peleg Chandler, 
 was a graduate of Brown University, and a lawyer of fair standing. 
 He was much valued .through life for his good sense, his integrity, 
 and his amiable qualities. 
 
 The subject of our sketch was fitted for Bowdoin College at the 
 classical department of the Bangor Theological Seminary, passed 
 through college with credit to himself, and was graduated in 1834 at 
 the early age of eighteen. He studied law partly with his father, 
 partly at the Law School in Cambridge, and partly in Boston in the 
 office of Theophilus Parsons, Esq., now one of the professors in the 
 Law School at Cambridge. 
 
 In 1836, while yet a student, he became associated with the Boston 
 Daily Advertiser as reporter of legal proceedings, and this connection 
 continued for several years. The reporting of adjudged cases had 
 not previously formed a part of the regular contents of a daily news- 
 paper, and this novel feature added both to the interest and circula- 
 tion of the highly respectable journal in which they appeared. Mr. 
 Chandler's reports were from the first marked by neatness, precision. 
 
454 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 and terseness, and gave proof of a good legal understanding and a 
 native capacity for comprehending legal distinctions. 
 
 In 1837 he was admitted to the bar in Boston. He had a reason- 
 able success from the beginning, but as his business did not occupy 
 all his time, he established in March, 1838, the Law Reporter, a 
 monthly law journal, and conducted it for about ten years. It was an 
 original idea, for there had before been in the country quarterly law 
 journals-, but a monthly periodical of a rather lighter and more popular 
 character was a new thing. It was conducted with ability and judg- 
 ment, and its success was proportionate to its merits. It had a large 
 list of subscribers, nearly every State being represented among them. 
 It is still carried on under the able management of John Lowell, Esq., 
 of the Boston bar. 
 
 In 1841 he published the first volume of a work called " American 
 Criminal Trials," and the second volume in 1844. It was highly cred- 
 itable to his industry and literary faculty, and was well received by 
 the public both in England and America. In 1843 he was chosen a 
 member of the common council of the city of Boston from Ward Six, 
 and in 1844 and 1845 he was its president. In 1845, 1846, and 1847 
 he served as a member of the House of Representatives of Massachu- 
 setts. He showed a ready aptitude for the discharge of public busi- 
 ness, and made friends and gained influence by the ability, decision, 
 and tact which he displayed while in the Legislature and the city gov- 
 ernment. In 1846 he was chosen city solicitor of Boston, and re- 
 chosen by the city council every year till 1853, when he resigned his 
 post. The various and difficult duties of that office were discharged 
 by him to the entire satisfaction of the city government and of the 
 community at large. In 1854 he was a member of the executive 
 council of Massachusetts.. In 1842, when the United States Bank- 
 rupt Act went into operation, he was appointed one of the commis- 
 sioners for Massachusetts, and published a useful edition of the law 
 with notes. In 1844 he pronounced the usual Fourth of July oration 
 before the municipal authorities of the city of Boston, which was a 
 sensible and well-written performance ; and in 1850 he prepared a 
 revision of the ordinances of the city of Boston, a laborious work 
 and thoroughly well done. In the year 1853 he passed some months 
 in Europe, returning with improved health and a mind enlarged and 
 enriched by his observation of nature and art. In 1837 Mr. Chand- 
 ler was married to a daughter of Prof. Cleaveland of Bowdoin College. 
 The surviving children of this marriage are a daughter and two sons. 
 
 Mr. Chandler's professional progress has been uniform and rapid, 
 and his distinguished professional success has been fairly earned by 
 
GRADUATES. 455 
 
 persevering industry, by zealous fidelity to the interests of his clients, 
 by a coui'age that shrinks from no emergenc3% by a presence of mind 
 that is never taken by surpi-ise, and by uncommon discretion and tact 
 in the management of causes. Of late j'ears an infirmity of deafness 
 has compelled him to withdraw in some measure from the conduct of 
 jury trials, but has not impaired his faculty of doing a large and 
 important business as chamber counsel. The patience and gentleness 
 with which this affiiction has been borne have turned to the growth 
 and elevation of his moral nature ; and what he may have lost in a 
 struggle for the prizes of life has been made up to him in what he has 
 gained in a nobler contest, and in those ' ' purer palms " which crown a 
 spiritual victor. Mr. Chandler's influence and position in the com- 
 munity, and his place in the hearts of his friends, are to say the least 
 as high as the rank he holds at the bar ; but as his own eyes might see 
 the record, it would be hardly in good taste to set forth all his claims 
 to the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens and the love of his 
 friends. Long distant may the day be when this feeling of reserve 
 shall be removed, and it shall be permitted to his friends to make full 
 proclamation of his energies, his worth, and his virtues. His success 
 in life has been the work of his own hands, and is an encouraging 
 proof of what may be accomplished by energy, integrity, good sense, 
 good principles, and an amiable temper. 
 
 The. preceding sketch was prepared at Mr. Cleaveland's request by 
 the late Hon. George S. Hillard of Boston. I add that since Prof. 
 Cleaveland's death Mr. Chandler has occupied his house as a summer 
 residence. He received from the college the degree of LL. D. in 
 1867; became a trustee of the college in 1871. The improvements 
 which were made by him in Massachusetts Hall are stated in the his- 
 tory. In November, 1881, Mrs. Chandler died suddenly of pneu- 
 monia in the home of her childhood, greatly lamented. p. 
 
 Henrt Theodoke Cheeveii, born in Hallowell, February, 1814, was 
 a brother of George B. (1825). He was fitted for college at the acad- 
 emy in his native place Two j'ears after leaving college were passed 
 in Louisiana in travel and teaching. He then entered the Theological 
 Seminary, Bangor, and graduated in 1839 ; remained as resident grad- 
 uate, supplying the Congregational Church in Oldtown. A bronchial 
 affection disabling him from pulpit service, in 1842 he sailed on a voy- 
 age to the Pacific, and for three years was correspondent of the New 
 York Evangelist from the South Seas and Sandwich Islands. Return- 
 ing in 1846, he resumed the labors of the pulpit, suppljang the Broad- 
 way Church, Norwich, Conn., several months, was ordained pastor of 
 
456 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 the Congregational Church at Lodi, N. J^, in 1847, and the year fol- 
 lowing was installed over the Chrystie Street Congregational Church, 
 New York, but resigned after a year's seiTice, and then devoted him- 
 self for three years to literary labor. During this period he published 
 " The Whale and his. Captors," " Island World of the Pacific," 
 " Life in the Sandwich Islands," "Life of Capt. Cougar," "Memoir 
 of Nathaniel Cheever, M. D.," " Life and Remains of Walter Col- 
 ton," " Eeel in a Bottle for Jack in the Doldrums." In 1852 he was 
 installed over the Congregational Church, Greenport, L. I., where he 
 remained three years, supplied the church in Westbrook, Conn., a 
 year, and in 1856 became pastor of the Congregational Church, Jew- 
 ett City. About this time he published ' ' The Pulpit and the Pew : 
 Trials and Triumphs of a Year in the Old Parsonage." In 1861 his 
 state of health led to a resignation of his pulpit, and he removed to 
 Worcester, Mass., where after supplying neighboring pulpits for a 
 time, in 1864 the Mission Chapel Church was organized through his 
 instrumentality, and he was its pastor nine years. Subsequently he 
 has resided in Worcester without any charge. 
 
 Mr. Cheever enlisted with characteristic zeal in the antislavery 
 movement, was active in organizing the Church Antislavery Society 
 at Worcester, and was its secretary until it was disbanded in 1865. 
 In furtherance of its objects he published " Waymarks in the Moral 
 War with Slavery." He has also been zealous in the cause of tem- 
 perance in private as well as in public efforts. In 1857 he married 
 Miss Jane Tyler, daughter of Lucius Tyler, M. D., and Olive John- 
 son of Jewett City. They have had five children, daughters. p. 
 
 John Milton Clkment, whose name was changed after he left col- 
 lege to John M. Clement, after studying law and editing a paper in 
 Portland, went to Mississippi and settled in Lexington, Holmes 
 County. Here he married a Miss Dillingham, and engaged success- 
 fully in the practice of his profession, holding at one time the oflSce of 
 district attorney. Asthmatic complaiflts soon induced him to give up 
 the law, and he went upon a plantation in the same county. In 1851 
 he visited Florida in quest of health, returned to Mississippi, arid 
 died early in 1852. 
 
 John H. C. Coffin was born in 1815 at Wiscasset. In 1836 he 
 was appointed a professor of mathematics in the United States navy. 
 On the reduction of this corps in 1848 he was retained as senior pro- 
 fessor. In the discharge of his duties he made several cruises among 
 the West- India Islands, and served for a time in the Norfolk Navy 
 
GRADUATES. 457 
 
 Yard. Upon the organization of the Naval Observatory at Washing- 
 ton he was stationed there, and was placed in charge of the mural 
 circle, and devoted his time to that instrument exclusively until 1851, 
 when his eyes began to suffer from the severe usage to which they had 
 been subjected, and he made but few observations after that time. In 
 1853'he was transferred to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, and had 
 charge of the mathematical department, as also of astronomy, navi- 
 gation, etc., in that important national institution.* 
 
 Albert Cole was a brother of George W. Cole (Bowdoin College, 
 1830). He received his professional training at Bangor, and was 
 soon after settled over a Congregational church in Bluehill. There 
 " he was greatly useful and greatl3' beloved, as he also was wherever 
 known. His pastoral labors were arrested by disease, but so strong 
 was the attachment of his flock that it was not till after one voyage to 
 Europe, and one winter spent at the South, without affording promise 
 of restoration, that they could be brought to surrender him, and con- 
 sent to the dissolution of the connection." The failing strength of 
 his last days was given to the memoir of his brother George. He 
 died March, 1845, at the age of thirty-six. From materials before 
 me it were easy to dilate on the merits of Albert Cole. I prefer to 
 give them as summarily sketched by the pencil of Rev. Dr. Shepard : 
 " Mr. Cole was a most charming man, with a finely constituted mind, 
 and sensitively delicate. He was a chaste, fervid, beautiful writer. 
 His were not the bold qualities, but the winning, the gentle, the per- 
 suasive. He was eminent for his piety, and- ever presented a most 
 admirable type of Christian character." 
 
 Samuel W Dennis of Litchfield. All that I can learn concerning 
 him is that he died at Natchez, Miss., Feb. 21, 1836, aged twenty-two. 
 
 *rrom 1866 to 1877 he was superintendent of the "American Ephemeris and 
 Nautical Almanac," supervising the preparation of the vplumes for I8(!9 to 1881- 
 He is now on the retired list of the navy, still residing in Washington. " Portions 
 of prefaces relating to the mural circle and other parts of the volumes of the Wash, 
 ington observations for 1845 to 1849, as well as a large part of the observations with 
 the circle, were prepared by Mr. CofiBn, and also a text-book on ' Navigation and 
 Nautical Astronomy,' which has been used in the United States Naval Academy for 
 several years.'' He Communicated articles to "Johnson's New Cyclopiedia," 
 Lanman's " Notices of those in the Civil Service," and " Childs's National Alma- 
 nac," 1864. Mr. CoflSn has been made a member of the American Academy, Boston 
 the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, and of the National Academv of 
 Science, Washington. In 1845 he married Louise Harrison of Washington, who 
 died in 1871, leaving two sons and three daughters still living. p. 
 
458 HISTORT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE, 
 
 John Calvin Dodge was born in Newcastle, November, 1810. 
 He studied law in part with Judge Sprague ; was admitted to the bar 
 in Lincoln County, wbere he practised a short time, and then removed 
 to Boston and opened an office in 1842. His practice has been for 
 the most part in the departments of admiralty and marine insurance, 
 in which he has gained reputation and has had a large proportion of 
 the important cases in the Suflfolk District. 
 
 He has represented Cambridge in the House of Representatives and 
 the district in the Senate of Massachusetts, but has avoided public 
 life, devoting himself to the calls of his profession. 
 
 He has been on the Board of Overseers of the college for some 
 3'ears and is now its president. In 1875 he received the degree of 
 LL. D. 
 
 In 1843 he married Miss Lucy Sherman of Edgecomb, sister of 
 Joseph Sherman (1826). They have three sons, all in the practice of 
 law. p. 
 
 Elijah Hedding Downing was born in Lynn, Mass., April, 1810. 
 The j-ear after graduating he was seized with hemorrhage of the lungs, 
 in consequence of which he went to the South, and was for some years 
 in a precarious state of health. From 1838 to 1844 he was for the 
 most part employed as a teacher in South Carolina. During this period 
 his only brother died, and he edited a volume of his "Remains," 
 which was published in New York. In 1845 he was ordained deacon 
 in the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Gadsden, was a mis- 
 sionary and a teacher at Lyndewood, S. C, and in 1848 was admitted 
 to the priesthood. 1847-1851 he was rector of St. Philip's Church, 
 Kirkwood, Miss., and for six years subsequently in mission service in 
 Texas ; 1857-1866 he became again rector of St. Philip's Church, 
 Kirkwood, Miss. He was then rector of S,t. Philip's, Epping, N. H., 
 two years, and December, 1869, became rector of Grace Church, 
 Galena, 111., where he still remains, acceptable and successful in his 
 work. 
 
 Mr. Downing married Miss Mary A. Converse, Salem, Mass. p. 
 
 Calvin Fakrae was born in Waterford, May, 1814. After grad- 
 uating he entered on a theological course at Cambridge, Mass., but 
 it is believed never upon the active ministry. His health was infirm, 
 which interfered with any plans of life he may have formed. He experi- 
 enced so much benefit himself from the " water cure " in Brattleboro", 
 Vt., that he was led to a careful study of that method of treatment, 
 and to the opening of a similar institution in his native town, which. 
 
REV CYRUS HAMLIJSr. D. D. 
 
 ^ngray&d for th& JjCivEoLn, IfemerCaZ. 
 
GRADUATES. 459 
 
 with competent physicians to co-operate with him, proved successful 
 for a few years. 
 
 He was esteemed for social qualities, pure character, and philan- 
 thropic spirit. He was a man of considerable culture, a contributor 
 to the press,' gave lectures on various subjects, was active in the cause 
 of education, and generous to young men in their efforts to secure its 
 advantages, and was zealous in promoting the movement in favor of 
 temperance. The writer is indebted for these statements to one who 
 had opportunities of ascertaining their truth. Mr. Farrar was never 
 married. He died in 1859. p. 
 
 Luther Farbak came from Waterford. He died in 1843 at New 
 Orleans. This is all that I can gather. 
 
 Samuel Clement Fessenden, brother of William Pitt Fessenden 
 (1823), was born in New Gloucester, March, 1815. He pursued the 
 theological course at the seminary in Bangor, graduating in 1837. He 
 was ordained pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Thomas- 
 ton (now Eockland) in the year following, where he remained until 
 failure of health led to his resignation in 1856. He then established 
 the Maine Evangelixt, which advocated antislavery views. In 1858 
 he was admitted to the bar in what was then Lincoln County, engaged 
 in the practice of his new profession in Rockland, and was soon after 
 elected judge of the municipal court in that city. In 1860 he was 
 chosen representative of the district in Congress. In 1865 he removed 
 his residence to Stamford, Conn., and was soon appointed by President 
 Johnson on the Board of Examiners ' in Chief in the Patent Office, 
 Washington. Resigning this position in 1870, he resumed the work of 
 the ministry, supplying as occasion offered vacant pulpits in Connecti- 
 cut, New York, and Maine. 
 
 In 1869 he published a selection from his speeches in Congress and 
 elsewhere, his lectures and sermons. 
 
 In 1838 he married Miss Mary A. G. Abbe of Bangor. They have 
 had four sons and seven daughters. One of his sons is brevet captain. 
 United States army ; another in the practice of law, Stamford, Conn , 
 both having served in the war of the Rebellion ; a third is a lawyer in 
 Chicago, 111. ; and the fourth a machinist. p. 
 
 Ctrus Hamlin was born in Waterford, January, 1811. His father 
 was twin brother of Vice-President Hamlin. He was fitted for college 
 under Rev. Charles Soule"at Bridgton Academy. His memory is 
 fresh among his college contemporaries for strength of character, ver- 
 
460 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 satility of talent, calm energy, unflinching courage, and unquestioned 
 Christian devotion ; and so the youth was remarkably father of the 
 man. He left a memorial of mechanical skill and persistence which is 
 one of the curiosities of the college, — a steam-engine constructed by 
 himself in Portland during a winter vacation instead of keeping school, 
 without his having seen' a complete one (he had seen for a few moments 
 the uppeir works of the "Chancellor Livingstone") except in such 
 drawings as he could find, which he used in a few attempts at lectur- 
 ing in different towns, with the result of more compliments for his 
 ingenuity and perseverance than of money for his purse ; but the en- 
 gine was made one of the college treasures at a price that perhaps was 
 as much as he could have earned by school keeping, and has been used 
 in college lectures. He graduated with high honor in his class. In 
 1837 he graduated from the Theological Seminary in Bangor, was soon 
 appointed on the mission of the American Board of Commissioners 
 for Foreign Missions in Turkey, and after a year's delay in conse- 
 quence .of the financial crisis of that time arrived at Constantinople 
 early in 1839 ; he thus entered on a work which gives him a name to 
 be remembered among the philanthropists and benefactors of his race. 
 By energy, enterprise, and uncommon versatility^ in expedient, in many 
 ways outside of ordinarj' mission work, he has won distinction in the 
 band of American missionaries to whose influence in the dominions of 
 the Sultan the Earl of Beaconsfield has recently borne most emphatic 
 testimony. His adroitness, persistence, and courage in thwarting 
 Jesuit and French inti-igues and the opposition and hostility of more 
 open foes ; his intervention and personal effort in behalf of the sanitary 
 condition of hospital service during the Crimean war ; his energy and 
 mechanical contrivance which furnished wholesome bread for the 
 British army, — an enterprise prompted by the purest benevolence in 
 order to furnish employment for Protestant Armenians thrown out of 
 it by relentless persecution, — by which he was enabled to turn over 
 to the treasury of the missionary board the profit of his bakery to the 
 amount of $25,000 ; and then his last most important enterprise, the 
 establishment of Robert College, the result of years of conflict and 
 diplomacy, — all constitute a rare chapter in the history of missions. 
 He exhibited a remarkable power of organization, and rare forecast 
 and administrative faculty in the establishment of an institution, the 
 buildings and grounds of which on their magnificent site are a con- 
 spicuous object and ornament of the Bosphorus. Mr. Hamlin with 
 his coadjutors has, it is well known, been instrumental in awakening 
 in the Oriental mind a strong regard for the United States, their people 
 and institutions. Dr. Hamlin's connection with the American Board 
 
GRADUATES. 461 
 
 ceased when his efforts for Eobert College began in 1860. He had 
 visited his native land twice in furtherance of this great object, and 
 was engaged in a special effort to increase the endowments of the 
 institution when, " the threatening aspects of the Eastern question " 
 and consequent uncertainties of all things Turkish making further 
 efforts fruitless in that direction, as also the financial condition of our 
 own country, he accepted an invitation to the professorship of system- 
 atic theology in Bangor Theological Seminar}', which he held three 
 years, and then accepted an invitation to the presidency of Middlebury 
 CoUege. 
 
 In 1837 Mr. Hamlin published an article in the Literary and Theo- 
 logical Review, Vol. III., on the "Ancient Limits of Ihe Negro 
 Eace" ; in Vol. IV. one on " The Prospects of Western and Central 
 Africa " ; and a third in the same volume on " Philosophy and Science 
 Auxiliary to Christianity in Pagan Lands." 
 
 Dr. Hamlin has contributed much to the general cause of missions 
 and particularly to his own special work by public addresses in this 
 country and in England. He has the faculty of singularly clear, com- 
 pressed, and yet exhaustive statement, and a manner calm and self- 
 possessed, which, free from the arts of rhetorical embellishment and 
 any studied effort at impression, appeal to the understanding with con- 
 vincing power. His address before a crowded assembly in the Madison 
 Square Church, New York, in 1856, the object of which was to set 
 forth the need and outline of such an institution as Robert College 
 was designed to be, is an admirable specimen of his skill and power 
 in such efforts. In 1854 he received from the college the degree of 
 D. D., and LL. D. in 1880 ; from Harvard, D. D., in 1861 ; and from 
 the University of New York, LL. D. in 1870. 
 
 Dr. Hamlin married Miss Henrietta Ann Loraine Jackson, Dorset, 
 Vt., who died in 1850, leaving five children. He married again Miss 
 Harriette Martha Lovell, Palmyra, N. Y., by whom he had two chil- 
 dren. His third marriage was with Miss Mary E. Tenney of Tokat, 
 Asia Minor, a native of Plymouth, N. H. , by whom he has had five 
 children. Of his children eight now survive. 
 
 Dr. Hamlin is a corresponding member of the American Oriental 
 Society. p. 
 
 William B. Haetwell " was born in Augusta, where his worthy 
 father John H. Hartwell still lives. In his happy and indulgent 
 home William grew up a strong, bright, sportive boy, more fond of 
 boating than of books, of play than of study. Nevertheless he was 
 a fair scholar, and at sixteen entered college, through which he passed 
 
462 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 creditably. He began the study of medicine, but after a while laid it 
 aside for mercantile pursuits. Meeting with some reverses in busi- 
 ness he took the ofHce of assistant secretary'' of state for Maine, and 
 was subsequently made secretary, performing well the duties thus im- 
 posed. In 1845 he was appointed a purser in the United S.tates navy. 
 His first cruise of two and a half years was on the coast of Africa, 
 and he returned from those deadly latitudes in safety and health. 
 After a year of happiness with his family and friends, the call of duty 
 separated him again and finally from them all. He died of apoplexy, 
 July 12, 1849, on board the sloop-of-war ' Falmouth,' and was bur- 
 ied at sea, adding one more to the long list of the young, the brave, 
 and the true who sleep beneath its waves. His sorrowing messmates 
 transmitted to the family their hearty testimony to his merits ; and the 
 surgeon, Dr. Harlan, in a letter to the father, dwelt with earnest- 
 ness on Mr. Hart well's many excellences. He possessed indeed 
 fine social qualities, unchanging cheerfulness, and a most engaging 
 address. His amiability was inexhaustible. Malice was a stranger 
 to his heart, which seemed to have room for the gentlest affections 
 only. It is but just to add that he was a man of unimpeachable integ- 
 rity and of great business capacity, and performed with faithfulness 
 and industry the varied duties of the responsible posts which he 
 held." In 1837 he married Miss Eliza Johnson of the city of New 
 York. They had four children. 
 
 William Buknham Haskell was a native of Gray. He was still 
 young when he joined the church in Essex Street, Boston, then under 
 the charge of Kev. Samuel Green. After duly completing the classi- 
 cal and the theological course, the latter at Andover, he began to 
 preach. For several years, with occasional intervals, he continued to 
 occupy the pulpit in different places ; but " his intellect became clouded, 
 and decisive marks of mental derangement at length appeared. For 
 several years before his death he was unable to preach or engage in 
 any occupation." He died in 1856 in Boston. Before his mental 
 trouble came he is said to have been quite acceptable as a preacher. 
 " His talents and acquisitions, if free from any special embarrass- 
 ment, would have enabled him to command an honorable position of 
 usefulness." 
 
 Bela. Thaxter Hitchcock, born in North Yarmouth, now Yar- 
 mouth, November, 1811, was son of Dr. Gad and Mary C. Hitch- 
 cock. He studied medicine with his father, and then went South and 
 practised the profession for a time in Mississippi. He then renounced 
 
GRADUATES. 463 
 
 medicine and became a teacher for several years. He died in Prince- 
 ton, Dallas County, Ark., in 1876. He married in 1837, and left one 
 child, a daughter. p. 
 
 Theodore Herman Jewett of South Berwick was born March, 
 1815. He studied medicine with Dr. William Perr}', Exeter, N. H., 
 took his medical degree in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 
 and settled in his profession in his native town, where he resided 
 with an extensive practice in that and neighboring towns and with 
 high reputation. He was for three years professor of obstetrics in 
 the Maine Medical School. He died very suddenly at the Crawford 
 House in the White Mountains, September, 1878. Premonitions of 
 his fatal disease had been felt for a year or two. He was a member 
 of the Congregational Church, active and prominent in whatever 
 tended to the welfare of the church and religious society and the com- 
 munity. He was president of the Maine Medical Association, and 
 delivered the address before that body in June, 1878, which has been 
 published, and gives evidence of broad views of the scope, and of 
 his own earnestness, intelligence, conscientioiisness, and ability in the 
 practice, of the profession. He was also a member of the Maine His- 
 torical Society. Few men have enjoyed more universally confidence, 
 respect, esteem, and love, whether in professional ot social life. He 
 married Caroline F. Perfy, daughter of his teacher. Dr. Perry. They 
 have had three children, daughters, one of them well known as an 
 authoress. p. 
 
 Amos Morrill was born in Salisbury, Mass , August, 1809. On 
 leaving college he was employed as a teacher in Tennessee one year, 
 and returned to his native town, where he read law two years with E. 
 Cross, Esq. He began the practice of law in Murfreesboro', Tenn. 
 In 1839 he removed to Clarksville, Texas, opened a law office, and 
 continued in the practice of his profession eighteen years. In 1857 
 he removed to Austin, capital of the State, and remained there until 
 1872. In 1867 he was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court 
 of Texas, and in 1872 was appointed by President Grant district 
 judge for the eastern district of Texas, a position which he still holds, 
 his residence being in Galveston. In 1M43 Judge Morrill married 
 Miss A. Dickson, Clarksville, but has no children. p. 
 
 Eeuben Nasost was born in Gorham,. October, 1816, son of'Eev. 
 Eeuben Nason, the accomplished and well-remembered principal of 
 Gorham Academy. On leaving college he went South and engaged 
 in the work of a teacher for three years in Clarkson, and in Jefferson 
 
464 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 College, near Natchez, Miss ; 1837 and 1838 was editor of a news- 
 paper at Clinton, Hinds County, in the same State. Returning to 
 the work of a teacher three or four years, meanwhile reading law, he 
 was admitted to the bar and opened an office ; but becoming discon- 
 tented with the profession he relinquished the practice in 1843, and 
 again became a teacher for a few years. In 1853 he undertook the 
 enterprise of printing and editing a newspaper at Okalona, Chickasaw 
 County. In 1857 he removed to Mobile, Ala., where he has since 
 resided, having found occupation as an editor of three or four news- 
 papers, one year of the time being in charge of the Clarion, Jackson, 
 Miss. He is a prominent Mason, having ascended through the sev- 
 eral gradations of the craft to the highest. He married, at Aberdeen, 
 Miss., Gabriella Brinker Hansell, a native of South Carolina, who 
 died in 1871, leaving four children, — a son and three daughters, — 
 of whom one has deceased. Another has died since the above was 
 written. p. 
 
 John Okr was born in Topsham, September, 1813, son of Hon- 
 Benjamin Orr, an eminent counsellor and advocate in the courts of 
 Maine, and for many years a trustee of the college. He went through 
 the theological course at Bangor, graduated in 1838, preached for a 
 time in Gouverneur, N. Y., and was then ordained over the Congre- 
 gational Church in Alfred, where he labored nearly thirty years. Of 
 more than ordinary mental capacity and culture, of independent thought 
 and decided opinions, of high moral excellence, illustrating his teach- 
 ings by his life and conversation, he commanded the respect of all 
 that knew him. He retired from the ministry and removed to Mel- 
 rose, Mass., where he proposed to engage in literary pursuits which 
 had a charm for him in earlier life ; but was seized bj^ a paralytic affec- 
 tion, which was repeated and in a few months terminated his life, Jan- 
 uary, 1869. He married Miss Mary Moore of Gardiner. They had 
 four children, two sons and two daughters. The daughters alone are 
 now living. ^ p. 
 
 Charles Henry Peirce was born in Frankfort, now "Winterport, 
 April, 1810. He studied law partly at the Law School, Harvard Col- 
 lege, was admitted to the bar in Boston, and opened an office in his 
 native town where he has since lived. He has been in the employ- 
 ment of the government as collector of the port and in the internal 
 revenue service. He is a member of the Congregational Church. In 
 1837 he married, and has had four children, of whom two are now 
 living, — a son, Rev. W. K. Peirce, and a daughter. 
 
GRADUATES. 465 
 
 Benjamin Proctoh, a native of Kowley, Mass., was bora July, 
 1811. He was fitted under Mr. Cleaveland at Dummer Academy. 
 After leaving coUege he went to Cincinnati to engage in business. 
 He thence removed to Louisville, Ky. The last years of his life were 
 devoted to agricultural pursuits on a large and productive estate in 
 the vicinity of Madison, Wis. He died in 1861. These statements 
 were obtained from notices of his death, and we have not had access 
 to those who might have given a more particular account of him. 
 
 p. 
 
 William Stinson Sewall was born in Sangerville, June, 1807. 
 For some months after taking his degree, he taught in the academy at 
 Limerick. He entered on the theological course of study at the Ban- 
 gor Seminary, graduating in 1838, and at once began his work in the 
 ministry as' a missionary in Clinton and Fairfield. In 1839 he was 
 ordained to the pastorate in Brownville, where he continued his labors 
 (a portion of his time being spent in mission work in neighboring 
 towns) twenty-three years. Receiving a dismission from the church 
 in Brownville in 1862, after supplying the pulpit awhile in Garland 
 he became "stated supply "in St. Albans, where he has continued 
 until the present date (1878), fifteen years. A portion of his labor 
 during this period has been devoted to Kenduskeag, Plymouth, and 
 Athens. In 1840 he married Miriam, daughter of James Purinton, 
 Esq., of Topsham. They have had six children, of whom three sons 
 and a daughter are now living. p. 
 
 John Duguid Smith was born in Gorham. His great-grandfather, 
 the Rev. Thomas Smith of Portland, was an important personage in 
 his day, and is still historically famous. His father was Col. John 
 Tj'ng Smith. John D. Smith graduated with honor, and went soon 
 after to East Windsor, Conn., where he joined the Theological School. 
 He did not stay long ; failing health compelled him to seek a more 
 active pursuit. He applied for a chaplaincy in the navy, but every 
 place was filled. Directing his steps southward he found a resting- 
 place in Alabama. Under milder skies his health for a time seemed 
 to improve. His home was in Livingston, where he became one of 
 the editors and proprietors of the Sumter Gazette . He was begin- 
 ning to make himself favorably known as not only an able writer, but 
 as a man of kindness and true worth, when his disease reappeared 
 and soon cut him down. He died May, 1836, in his twenty-third 
 year. 
 
466 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Henbt Botnton Smith was born in Portland, November, 1815. 
 After graduation he at once entered upon a course of theological 
 study at Bangor, Andover, and then at Halle and Berlin in Germany, 
 his attention being particularly directed to philosophy and church his- 
 tory. A frequent guest at the house of Neander, and in relations 
 with Tholuck and Ulrici especially intimate, he returned home with rare 
 accomplishments for his life's work. He had been a tutor in the col- 
 lege in 1837 ; and in 1840, when the president was absent in Europe, 
 he was invited to the charge of his department of instruction. In 
 1842 he was ordained over the Congregational Church, West Ames- 
 bury, during a part of the period of his pastorate teaching classes in 
 Hebrew in the Andover Seminary. In 1847 he was invited to the 
 professorship of intellectual and moral philosophy in Amherst College, 
 in which position he at once gained highest esteem and respect, and 
 was pronounced by a competent judge " the life of the college." In 
 1850 he was elected to the chair of church history. Union Theological 
 Seminary, New York ; in 1854 was transferred to that of systematic 
 theology, which he filled with eminent success until 1874, when a frail 
 constitution and ill health caused by overwork compelled his retire- 
 ment from its labors, as one declared, " the pride and joy and crown " 
 of the institution. The seminary, which was enjoying the lustre of his 
 name and loath to relinquish entirely its hold on him, made him pro- 
 fessor emeritus, in the hope that less exacting duties might await 
 returning health and strength. Indeed, after an interval of relaxation 
 he began a course of lectures on apologetics ; but his enfeebled strength 
 soon refused the strain put upon it. But no relief from responsibility 
 induced relaxation of mental activity ; one of his ablest articles, that 
 on Strauss, being written at Clifton Springs when he was under the 
 strictest injunction to abgfcain from intellectual labor. He died Febru- 
 ary, 1877. 
 
 Dr. Smith, notwithstanding the frailty of a constitution sensitive to 
 aijy exaction, accomplished a great amount of work demanding the 
 highest exercise of intellectual power. Of his many publications, 
 that which probably cost him most labor is " History of the Church 
 in Chronological Tables," of which a second edition was issued in 
 1861. Besides articles in reviews of which he was associate editor, 
 alwaj's on topics of fundamental importance, he published discourses 
 and addresses, of which that on " Christian Union," which he deliv- 
 ered as the retiring moderator of the general assembly of the Presby- 
 terian Church, New School, was declared to be the keynote of the 
 movement which resulted in the union of both the schools of that 
 church. He translated two church histories with extensive notes. 
 
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GRADUATES. 
 
 467 
 
 and furnished articles for Appleton's Cyclopaedia on Calvin, Hegel, 
 Kant, the Reformed Church, and Schelling. His learning was pro- 
 nounced immense. It was said of him that " Whatever the subject 
 treated he easily penetrated to its central principles. Like an expe- 
 rienced navigator, he passed at once beyond the eddies of the shore 
 and dealt with the main current and tendency of the theme. The 
 rich treasures of his mind were at entire command, and were pre- 
 sented with admirable and equal facility from the professor's chair, 
 the pages of the review, and the columns of the religious journal." 
 Prof. Park of Andover, in a private letter after the death of Dr. 
 Smith, expressing regret that he failed to see him when he visited 
 New York a year or two before, says, "I desired to ask him many 
 questions, some of which he was the only man capable of answering' 
 I have this winter desired to propose some other questions to him, and 
 I do not know any man who can answer them as well as he could. In 
 certain departments of study he had traversed ground which few per- 
 sons in this country have ventured upon." {Congregational Quarterly, 
 October, 1878.) A high authority, Hon. George Bancroft, is said to 
 have pronounced him to be the most accomplished philosophical critic 
 in the country. Of exceedingly active mind, great acumen and ana- 
 lytic power, a devourer of books, with a memory faithful to its trust, 
 aU in union with a most genial temper, respected, beloved, confided in, 
 of childlike simplicity of character and manners, from early manhood 
 he was recognized as one to be a leader among men of thought. He 
 had been appointed to deliver the course of the Ely lectureship, which, 
 as affording an opportunity to avail himself of his studies in apologet- 
 ics, he gladly accepted and had resolved to discuss the materialistic 
 doctrines of the time, for which he was eminently fitted and furnished ; 
 but to the great disappointment and grief of many, his untimely re- 
 moval frustrated that hope. As was once said of anothe?, his mind 
 consumed his body. On the announcement of his death it was the 
 general sentiment that a burning light had gone out, " while yet it 
 would leave a wide track of efinlgence behind it." Testimonials from 
 all sides, from abroad as well as at home, were borne to the great 
 vacuum caused bj^ his death in social and public life alike. Prof. 
 Domer of Berlin testified that he regarded him as among the first, 
 if not the first, of American theologians ; and Prof. Godet of Neu- 
 fchatel, Switzerland, paid a similar tribute to his eminent standing 
 
 A large octavo volume of Dr. Smith's publications, addresses, dis- 
 courses, and reviews has been issued since his death. The British 
 Quarterly of July, 1878, in a notice of this work, remarks: "Dr. 
 Smith was evidently an acute metaphysician as well as profound theo- 
 
468 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 logian, thoroughly versed in the questions and controversies of his 
 time and seeing them at their roots and in their principles." After 
 referring to particular articles illustrating both his metaphysical acu- 
 men and his power in theological discussion, the reviewer adds : " Dr. 
 Smith, though cosmopolitan in culture, was an American, and deeply 
 appreciated the precise elements which America has contributed to 
 theology. He was one of its finest products." 
 
 In 1863 Dr. Smith received the highest honor the Presbyterian 
 Church has at its bestowal, as moderator of its general assembly. In 
 1867 he was chosen a delegate from that body to the evangelical alli- 
 ance a;t Amsterdam, and communicated a paper on " The State of 
 Eeligion in the United States." He received from different colleges 
 the honorary- degrees of D. D. and LL. D. Besides his first resi- 
 dence in Germany, he 'made in later years two extensive tours in 
 Europe, Egypt, and Palestine. He married Elizabeth L., daughter of 
 Eev. Dr. William Allen, president of Bowdoin College. They have 
 had two sons and two daughters. His sepulchre is in the historic 
 churchyard at Northampton, Mass., where were interred not long 
 before the remains of Rev. Dr. Allen, his father-in-law. p. 
 
 Chakles Widgeby Thomas was born in Portland, February, 1816. 
 On leaving college he entered on a course of medical study with Dr. 
 J. T. Oilman of Portland, graduated in the Medical School of Bow- 
 doin College in 1837, and then attended courses of lectures in Pitts, 
 field. Mass , and Philadelphia. He engaged in the practice of his 
 profession in his native citj', where he always lived. During the civil 
 war he was United States surgeon for the congressional district, his 
 duty being to examine persons liable to be~ drafted into military ser- 
 vice, — a duty demanding sagacity and decision, which he discharged 
 conscientiously and efficiently. He w^s city physician for some time, 
 until increasing practice compelled him to relinquish the position. He 
 was rapidly gaining reputation by his devotion to his profession and 
 his skOl and facility, when after a brief illness from blood poison, — 
 contracted it was thought in the surgeon's office, where his labors were 
 often severe and onerous, — he died March, 1866. He had a great 
 fund of humor which often " healeth like a medicine." " The long and 
 doleful faces greeting him on his entrance were often in a broad grin 
 at story or jest of the funny doctor." His sympathetic, benevolent 
 
 spirit won esteem, as was manifested at his burial, when a throng, 
 
 manj', it was noticed, of the poorer class, — unable to gain admit- 
 tance into the crowded house, stood without during the service, and 
 many tears were shed over the remains of the beloved physician. Dr. 
 
GRADUATES. 469 
 
 Thomas had collected a large and valuable medical library, which was 
 destroyed by the great fire of July, 1866. He was never married. 
 
 p. 
 
 Charles Horace Upton was born in Salem, Mass , August, 1812. 
 His father was an active and energetic merchant, and a resident of 
 Belfast when the son entered college. After graduating he was 
 afflicted with a serious trouble in his ej^es for several years, which pre- 
 vented his studying a profession. Notwithstanding this inflrmitj-, he 
 contributed articles for the press and had success as a journalist. 
 In 1835 he removed with the family to Virginia in Fairfax County, 
 near Alexandria, where he resided several years. In 1^<61 at the 
 opefling of the Rebellion he was elected member of Congress from the 
 county, " as a protest against the right of a State to forbid the elec- 
 tion. During the war his property was destroyed, his house sacked, 
 and his family more than once compelled to flee for their lives. He 
 rendered valuable service to the Union cause ; but his health was much 
 impaired. In 1863 he was appointed by President Lincoln consul at 
 Geneva, and held that position at the time of death in 1877. During 
 his service he was repeatedly appointed minister ad interim, and at 
 the time of his death was acting charge d'affaires for Switzerland. 
 He was a benevolent man, with heart and hand ever open to the voice 
 of distress. In his official life he was strictly upright and honorable, 
 always courteous and beloved." May, 1836, Mr. Upton married 
 Martha Ellen Page, daughter of J. - Lee Page, Esq., of Fairfax 
 County, Va. They had four daughters, of whom one is now living. 
 
 p. 
 
 Daniel Coney Weston was born in Augusta, February, 1815, a 
 brother of Nathan (1833). He studied law, was admitted to the bar 
 in 1837, and practised in his native town five years. He then left the 
 profession, and pursued theological study under Bishop Burgess at 
 Gardiner, received ordination in 1851, and became successively rector 
 of Trinit3' Church, Saco ; Calvary Church, Stonington, Conn. ; Christ 
 Church, Stratford, Conn. ; and is now rector of Grace Church, Madi- 
 son, N. J. In 1867 he received the degree of D. D. from Trinity 
 College, Hartford, Conn. He married Mary C. North, daughter of 
 Col. Wm. A. S. North of Duanesburg, N. Y. They have five chil- 
 dren, p. 
 
 George Melville Weston was born in Augusta, August, 1816, 
 brother of Nathan (1833) ^and the preceding. He studied law with 
 J. L. Child, Esq., and with Williams & McCobb, Esqs., Augusta, 
 
470 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 and was admitted to practice in 1837 in his native town, where he 
 remained five years. He was appointed county attorney for Kenne- 
 bec in 1839 and 1842. He edited the Augusta -^ge, the State paper, 
 four years, and was prominent and influential in the politics of the 
 State. In 1856 he was appointed on the commission at "Washington 
 in charge of claims of Maine against the United States, which posi- 
 tion he held several years. While in Washington he edited for some 
 time the Washington Bepublican. He was a leading scholar in his 
 class while in college, and has always shown decided ability. In 
 maturer life, departing from the prevalent doctrines of his party in 
 former years, he engaged in the discussion of the system of slavery, 
 presenting its economical and social aspects with admirable skill and 
 convincing power. In 1878 he published a work on the " Silver 
 Question," pronounced the best argument for silver yet given, — clear, 
 forcible, candid, and exhaustive. 
 
 In 1838 he married Euth Roberts, who died in 1841. He then 
 married Bathsheba H. Moore. They have two children now living ; a 
 son graduated Harvard, 1870. p. 
 
 Albert Thompson Wheelock was born in Eeadfield, December, 
 1813. He took his medical degree at the Medical School of Harvard 
 College in 1838, and settled in his profession at Belfast, where he con- 
 tinued in practice nearly forty years. He was appointed by Governor 
 Anson P. Morrill on the commission from the State of Maine to the 
 Paris Exposition of 1867. He died March, 1876. p. 
 
 Edward Woodford was born in Westbrook, August, 1810. After 
 graduation he entered the Theological Institute, East Windsor Hill, 
 Conn., in order " to obtain some knowledge of theology and the Bible 
 which might be of advantage in the business of teaching." He had a 
 faint hope of being able to enter the ministry, but he soon foand rea- 
 son to abandon such a hope, and left the seminarj' at the close of the 
 second year and opened a private school in the place, which he was 
 compelled to close after two years in consequence of the illness of his 
 wife. He returned to Maine, was employed awhile in the Teachers' 
 Seminary at Gorham, and then his health requiring a change of occupa- 
 tion, he engaged in business pursuits for a few years. He then resumed 
 work as a teacher in the schools of Saeo and Biddeford for a year or 
 two, at last opened a family school for boys in Swampscott, Mass., 
 and had continued in this position thirteen years when the school was 
 broken up by the war of the Rebellion, many of his pupils from the 
 South'being called home, and others entering the Union sen'ice. He 
 
GEADUATES. 471 
 
 was then clerk in the provost-marshal's ofHce, Lawrence, until the 
 close of the war, and since that has been a clerk in the cashier depart- 
 ment of the Pacific Mills, Lawrence. He connected himself with the 
 Eliot Church in that city, and is one, of its deacons. 
 
 He married in 1838 Anna H. Johnson, daughter of Col. Jacob 
 Johnson, Brunswick, who died in 1841, soon after the birth of a 
 daughter. In 1843 he married Elizabeth H. CofBn, daughter of 
 Edmund Coffin, Esq., of Biddeford. They have had four daughters, 
 two of whom now survive. p. 
 
 1835. 
 
 Geokge Washington Adams was born in Limerick, Maj', 1808. 
 After graduation he took the theological course at Bangor, graduating 
 in 1838 ; was settled in the ministry at Brookville, then successively 
 in Hillsboro', N. H., Dracut and Shirley, Mass , in Jaffrey, N. H., 
 and lastly in Eiverpoint, R. I. , where he remained five j'ears and died 
 in 1862. He was a man of energy and directness of purpose. He 
 began his college course at an age when most students are graduating, 
 and entering the ministry mature in character and aims, he gave him- 
 self wholly to the service of his Master ; and what can be said of few, 
 was always in advance of his work, at his death in 1862 having on 
 hand several sermons which he had never preached. Such diligence 
 and fidelitjr were rewarded with success. He suffered long from im- 
 l^aired health, not sparing in his labors when he needed rest, and was 
 borne to his burial with the respect and regard of aU good men that 
 knew him. p. 
 
 Stephen Allen was born in Norridgewock in 1810,> brother of 
 William (1828), and son of William Allen, Esq., a prominent citizen 
 through a long life, who wrote a valuable history of the town, and 
 gave proof of his estimate of a public education by sending three sons 
 to the college ; one of whom, of great promise, died just as he was enter- 
 ing the legal profession, and the others have honored the college and 
 themselves by important service to the State as teachers and ministers 
 o1 the gospel. Stephen after graduation was principal of the High 
 School, Bucksport, one year. He then spent a year in the General 
 Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, New York. In 1837 
 and 1838 was classical teacher in the Wesleyan Seminary at Gouver- 
 neur, N. Y. ; 1839 to 1841 was mathematical instructor in the Troy 
 Conference Academy, West Poultney, Vt. ; and for three years was 
 principal of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Eeadfield. In 1844 he 
 engaged in the work of the ministry and was successively stationed in 
 
472 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 several of the leading towns of the State. From' 1867 to 1864 he was 
 financial agent of the Eeadfleld Seminary, during which period the 
 institution was greatly enlarged in its buildings, in ^he establishment 
 of a collegiate department for girls, and the seminary brought to a 
 substantial financial condition. During the last two years of this 
 period he had also a pastoral charge. During the subsequent years 
 he has exercised 'the pastoral oflBce in several places until 1876, wheh 
 he became superintendent of the industrial school for girls in Hal- 
 lowell. 
 
 Dr. AUen has been a member of the trustee board of the Eeadfield 
 Seminary for thirty-seven years, of the Maine Wesleyan Board of 
 Education from its organization in 1850, and for twenty years on the 
 Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College. He has been repeatedly a 
 delegate from the Maine Conference to the General Conference of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 In 1869 he received the degree of D. D. from the college. 
 
 In 1838 he married Miss Eachel Sturdevant of Cumberland. They 
 have had five daughters, of whom two are living. p. 
 
 Charles Edward Allen was born in Gardiner, November, 1815. 
 He studied law and opened an office in Boston, where he has since 
 resided. 
 
 Edward Welch Bailet was born in Wiscasset, July, 1815, son of 
 Hon. Jeremiah Bailey. He began the study of law in his brother's 
 office, but never engaged in the practice in consequence of a malady 
 which has aflfected his mental faculties, disqualifying him for any 
 employment. p. 
 
 Joseph Blake was born iii Otisfield, son of Dr. Silas Blake, Jan- 
 uary, 1814, and was prepared for college at the academy in North 
 Bridgton. Immediately after graduating he entered on theological 
 study in the Bangor Theological Seminary. His course was inter- 
 rupted by his employment as a teacher for more than a year in Mis- 
 sissippi, but he returned and completed his course with the class of 
 1840. In the earlj- part of the year following he was ordained pastor 
 of the Congregational Church in Cumberland, and .remained there 
 eighteen years. In 1860 he was installed pastor over the church in 
 Gilmanton, N. H. In 1867 he undertook, in connection with his 
 pastoral duties, the office of principal of the academy in the place ; 
 but the work was too much for him, his health failed, and he sought 
 and obtained dismission from his pastoral charge. The needed rest 
 and relief from care renewed his health, and an urgent request from 
 
GRADUATES. 473 
 
 the people induced him to consent to resume his relation to them, and 
 he was reinstalled in 1871. In 1878 he resigned the pastorate, 
 removed to.Andover, Mass., where he now resides. 
 
 Mr. Blake has contributed occasionally to the periodical press. He 
 published a Thanksgiving sermon in 1853. He has cultivated the 
 science of botany, and, though outside of the sacred profession, as him- 
 self aflQrms, he has been, " if not a better, a happier and healthier 
 man because of it." A valuable herbarium, collected by his own 
 hands, through the liberality of his brother Hon. Samuel H. Blake of 
 Bangor, enriches the collections of the college. In 1872 Dr. Blake 
 was made D. D. by his Alma Mater. 
 
 In 1843 Dr. Blake married Hannah Little Clark, daughter of 
 Theodore Clark of Wells, a descendant of Eev. Tristram Gibnan, 
 for many years pastor of the church in what is now Yarmouth. They 
 have had eight children, all but one now living : the eldest, Maurice B. 
 (Amherst, 1866), a lawyer in San Francisco; the second a mer- 
 chant in Bangor ; the third (a graduate of the Technological School, 
 Worcester, Mass.) adjutant professor of chemistry, Lafayette College, 
 Easton, Pa. p. 
 
 George Washington Cresset was a native of Kowley, Mass., 
 born December, 1810, and was fitted for college at Dummer Acad- 
 emy, Byfleld. He took the course in theology at Andover, graduat- 
 ing in 1838 ; was ordained pastor of the Union Church, Kennebunk, 
 where he remained nearly twelve j"^iars, and then became stated supply 
 of the church at Buxton Centre until his death, February, 1867. Hum- 
 ble, modest, self-distrustful, amidst hindrances from inadequate sup- 
 port and infirm health all his days, he maintained the character of 
 a faithful and successful student. He had the entire confidence, 
 respect, and affection of his people. He was of great loveliness and 
 puritj^ of character, and a firm, consistent, devoted Christian. He 
 endured a protracted organic disease with patience and submission, 
 sustained by buoyant hope. 
 
 He was married, and left a son who graduated with honor from 
 Bowdoin College, 1875, and a daughter. p. 
 
 JosiAH Crosby was born in Dover, N. H., November, 1816. He 
 prepared (although as he states, imperfectly) at Foxcroft Academy. 
 The first few years after graduation he suffered from ill health, but 
 notwithstanding studied law with Hon. Alfred Johnson, Belfast, Hon. 
 Frederic Hobbs, Bangor, and Hon. Charles P. Chandler, Dover ; was 
 admitted to the bar of Piscataquis County in 1838, and entered on the 
 
474 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 practice as partner for a time with Mr. Chandler. He then removed 
 to Levant (now Kenduskeag) ; in a short time removed to Exeter, 
 and in 1845 to Dexter where he has since resided, practising in the 
 courts of Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Somerset Counties, and in the 
 United States courts for Maine. 
 
 Mr. Crosby's political relations have been in thp Whig and Repub- 
 lican parties. He represented Dexter and Corinna in the Legislature 
 of 1857, 1863, and 1865, and in 1867 and 1868 was in the Senate 
 from Penobscot County, and president of that body during the last of 
 those years. He was on the judiciary committees of both branches 
 during all his terms of service except the last, took an active part in 
 legislation, and his influence was felt in several important measures. 
 Besides several speeches in legislative debates he has delivered eulogies 
 and addresses which have appeared in the public press. 
 
 But his efforts at the bar have been various before jury and the 
 court, in criminal as well as civil cases. He was largely instrumental, 
 mainly by public addresses, in forwarding the enterprise of the Dexter 
 and Newport Railroad. He has also contributed to newspapers articles 
 on topics of local or more general interest. 
 
 In 1863 he was elected member of the Maine Historical Society. 
 Mr. Crosby has led a busy life, and has won respect and esteem by 
 his ability, energy, and genial temper and manners. 
 
 He has twice married : in 1844 Henrietta Hill, daughter of Henry 
 Hill, Esq., by whom he had two children, both dying in infancj^ aud 
 his wife in 1846. He then married in 1849 Mary Bradbury Foss, 
 daughter of Simon Foss, Dexter, by whom he has had nine children, five 
 sons and four daughters, eight now living. One son is now a member 
 of Bowdoin College ; two have graduated from the State Agricultural 
 College, Orono. 
 
 Mr. Crosby is now president of the (Ii. B. K., vice-president of the 
 Alumni Association, and a member of the Overseer Board. p. 
 
 Chakles Dame was born in Soutb Berwick, September, 1810, but 
 entered college from Acton. He graduated from the Theological 
 Seminary, Andover, in 1838. Having been invited to preach as a 
 candidate to the First Church and people in Falmouth, he began his 
 ministry with them immediately ; was ordained to the pastorate in the 
 following May, and remained there fifteen years. His labor was not 
 without tokens of the Divine favor in promoting union where there had 
 been division, and in accessions to the church. At his own request 
 he was dismissed from that charge, accepted a call from the church in 
 Brentwood, N. H., and was installed in 1854. After a service of 
 
GRADUATES. 475 
 
 nearly three years, in consequence of failing health he discontinued 
 active work of the ministry; removed to Exeter, N. H., and was 
 employed in an agency for a publishing house in Boston until 1870, 
 although preaching occasionally. Near the close of that year he went 
 to Iowa, engaged in active business two years, then with renewed 
 health resumed the work of the ministry in different places four or five 
 years, and at last accepted an invitation from the First Church in 
 West Newbury, Mass., where he still resides at this writing, 1878. 
 
 In 1840 he married Nancy J. Page of Acton. They have had five 
 children. Four — a son Samuel P. (Bowdoin College, 1862) and three 
 daughters all graduates of Mt Holyoke Seminary — are now living. 
 
 Ebenezer Dole of Hallowell had charge of Hebron Academy for 
 one year. The next three years were spent in the seminary at Bangor. 
 He then passed a year in the city of New York and attended lectures 
 in the university ; but with all this preparation he lacked courage for 
 the pulpit, and never preached but once. His health also failed 
 him ; he sought the shelter of home, and there in 1846 he died. 
 One to whom I am much indebted for his friendly, aid in these little 
 memoirs, and who was a classmate of Dole, thus speaks of him : 
 " He was a fine scholar, and something of a poet. If I were to men- 
 tion any peculiarity, I should say he was distinguished for his child 
 like diffidence and unpretending modesty. He was remarkably sensi- 
 tive, had a nice appreciation of the beautiful, and always appeared 
 to me like some delicate house plant, ; — too delicate and frail to be 
 exposed to the storms of every-day life." 
 
 Edmund Flagg was born in Wiscasset, November, 1815. He went 
 .South after graduating, and taught in Louisville, Ky., and St. Louis, 
 Mo. ; then read law with Judge Gamble, St. Louis, and was admitted 
 to the bar of that city and subsequently of other States where he 
 resided. He was reporter of debates in the Constitutional Convention 
 of Missouri in 1846, and of the courts of St. Louis ; was secretary of 
 Hon. M. Hannegan, minister to Berlin, United States consul at 
 Venice, and a fruit of his position was " The City of the Sea," a 
 history of Venice, two volumes ; was in charge of the bureau of sta- 
 tistics, and prepared under Secretary Marcy a report on the relations 
 of the United States with foreign nations, highly commended ; was 
 librarian of copyrights. 
 
 Mr. Flagg has cultivated literary tastes. Besides what has been 
 just referred to he has contributed to the newspaper press, has edited 
 
476 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 several newspapers in the South and West, has published "The Far 
 West," two volumes, most of the letter-press of Myer's "United 
 States Illustrated, West," romances and dramas. 
 
 He married in 1862 at Washington, Kate A., daughter of Sidney 
 S. Gallaher of Virginia, and has had three sons and a daughter who 
 died in infancy. The last twelve years he has spent on a faian at 
 Highland View, near FaUs Church, Va. p. 
 
 William Flye was born in Newcastle, October, 1814. On taking 
 his degree he engaged in teaching one year as principal of St. Alban's 
 Academy, and two years as master of the Young Men's High School 
 at Eastport. From 1838 to 1841 was attached to the United States 
 seventy-four " Ohio," Commodore Isaac Hull, as captain's clerk, on 
 the Mediterranean station, and was then appointed by the commodore 
 acting professor of mathematics. On his return after a three-years' 
 cruise he passed examination, his appointment was confirmed, and 
 thus he was permanently connected with the navy. From 1841 to 
 1857 he served in that capacity in the "John Adams," during a 
 cruise of three years on the coast of Brazil, again for the same time 
 in the "Jamestown" on the west coast of Africa, and then was 
 attached six or seven years to the United States Naval Observatory, 
 Washington. While in Europe in 1855 he took command of a large 
 clipper ship on a voj'age around Cape Horn to the west coast of 
 South America. Eesigning his commission ' in 1857, he connected 
 himself with the merchant marine in command of large-class vessels. 
 
 At the opening of the war he returned to the navy as a volunteer 
 lieutenant, and served in various positions involving at times impor- 
 tant responsibilities, as commander of gunboats and ironclads on the 
 North Carolina coast and the Mississippi. Wrecked on the " R. B. 
 Forbes " on the North Carolina coast, and taken off with officers and 
 men by the frigate " Roanoke," he was on board that frigate when the 
 rebel "Merrimac" sank the United States frigates "Cumberland" 
 and " Congress," and the United Staites " Monitor" to the astonish- 
 ment of friends and foe^ appeared for the rescue. After Capt. Wor- 
 den of the " Monitor" was wounded, Flye was ordered to join her 
 as first lieutenant and executive officer, and served in her several 
 months. Subsequently he served for a time as first lieutenant, United 
 States Navy Yard, Memphis, on the ironclad "Benton," as com- 
 mander of the fifth division of the Mississippi squadron, and again on 
 the gunboat " Lexington " and seventh division- of the same. After 
 the surrender of Gen Lee, sixty-four vessels of that squadron were 
 placed under his command to be dism3,ntled and prepared for sale out 
 
GRADUATES. 477 
 
 of the service. In 1866 he was honorably discharged from the service 
 " with the thanks of the department." Capt. Flye passed through the 
 exposures and perils of such active service unharmed by shot or 
 shell, but was unfortunate in suffering serious injury to his hearing 
 caused by the discharge of heavy guns. From 1866 to 1871 was 
 engaged in business in Georgia, and from 1872 to 1879 has been 
 cashier of the First National Bank, Damariscotta. 
 
 In 1844 he married Mary E. Perkins of Topsham. They have had 
 two children, one of whom is now living. p. 
 
 Peaeson Follaksbee was born in 1808 at Vassalboro'. After grad- 
 uating at Brunswick and Bangor he went to the South and the West. 
 For several years he was employed by the American Tract Societj' as 
 a colporteur in Kentucky. " For this work he was eminently fitted, 
 both by the amiableness of his disposition and his attainments in 
 piety." He died, as was reported of Asiatic cholera, in a deserted 
 hovel near Louisville, Ky., in 1846. 
 
 Luke Hill was born in Minot, June, 1812. He pursued medical 
 study and graduated in medicine in 1841. Most of his profes- 
 sional life was spent in Biddeford, and he was respected as an 
 intelligent, well-read, and successful physician. In obedience to the 
 call of his country he entered the public service as assistant surgeon, 
 and contracted the disease which in a few weeks after his return 
 proved fatal, December, 1863. He was of retired habits and reserved 
 manners, but maintained a consistent Christian character. p. 
 
 Alexander Johnston was born in "Wiscasset, December, 1815, 
 son of a respected and successful merchant. After graduation he 
 followed for a time the example of his family of two generations in the 
 building and ownership of ships, and during his father's life engaged 
 in the business with him. He had a decided turn for construction. 
 During the late war he built two steamers and several yachts. His 
 talent and taste have been made available to others in the erection of 
 buildings. He was active in the enterprise of the bridge connecting 
 Wiscasset and Edgecomb. He made himself an accomplished sur- 
 veyor, and his known accuracy and skill have led to his frequent 
 appointment by courts to run lines which were in controversy. He 
 has a taste for books, especially of a scientific character or treating of 
 agriculture or mechanics. He has of late j-ears given himself some- 
 what to horticultui-e. His ability in whatever attracts his attention 
 and interest is without question, and " his information and knowledo-e 
 of them is in an eminent degree extensive and accurate, even to minut- 
 
478 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. , 
 
 est details. His singular habits of reserve and a retiring disposition 
 
 have probably prevented him from seeking a sphere in which his 
 
 peculiar talent would have found wider scope and freer expansion." 
 
 He married Miss Neal of Wiscasset, but has no children. p. 
 
 Edward Miranda Emerson Keating was according to the college 
 record a native of York (the obituary notice (j'f him from which 
 the facts of his life are derived gives Portland as his birthplace), born 
 August, 1816. He read law with Judge Goodenow of Alfred. In 
 1837 he went West, and established himself in his profession in 
 Alton, 111., which, as the obituary written by his pastor, Rev. J. G. 
 Forman of the Unitarian Church, informs us, he prosecuted with emi- 
 nent ability and success, and was accounted one of the best lawyers 
 in the State. He possessed a clear and logical mind, and always 
 appeared before the highest legal tribunals to the best advantage, 
 arguing his cases with signal ability. He filled offices of public trust 
 as member of the common council, mayor of the city, and a member 
 of the Legislature. He was at one time superintendent of the St. 
 Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad, and was retained as its counsel to 
 the time of his death. The inception and completion of that work 
 were largely due to his energy, capacity, and influence, tie was gen- 
 erous in support of religious institutions, constant in attendance on 
 public worship, and liberal in private benefactions. He cultivated 
 literary tastes, had fine social qualities, and was gifted in conversa- 
 tion. The writer of the obituary deemed it proper to add that he had 
 the common infirmities of our nature, and from his early death may be 
 deriyed a solemn lesson of warning to- the living, teaching us, in the 
 language of sacred writ, " so to number our days that we may apply 
 our hearts unto wisdom." In 1839 he married Miss Hannah Miller 
 Moody, daughter of Capt. George Moody of York. He died in 1^857, 
 leaving a son and two daughters. p. 
 
 Edwin Lei&h was born in South Berwick, September, 1815. His 
 career has been a varied one. After graduation he entered Andover 
 Theological Seminary, and graduated in 1838. He had cherished the 
 desire to become a missionary, and had received an appointment from 
 the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Asia 
 Minor; but the health of his wife compelled a change of his plans. 
 After acting as "stated supply" in Kennebunk and Winchendon, 
 Mass., he was ordained pastor over a Congregational church in Woon- 
 socket (Smithfleld), R. I., but in the following year at his own request 
 was dismissed. He was employed in teaching two years in Bristol, 
 
GRADUATES. 
 
 41\) 
 
 R. I., and then engaged in the study of medicine in the Tremont 
 Medical School, Boston, attended the lectures of Harvard Medical 
 School, and took a medical degree in 1850. A portion of this period 
 he was with Prof. Agassiz, prosecuting studies in natural history. 
 He did not practise the medical profession more than three or four 
 years. He removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he became a teacher of 
 natural history in .the High School, and then was connected with a 
 department in the City University. For several years he has been 
 a zealous advocate of the phonetic system, has published text-books 
 to promote it in primary schools and to facilitate the acquisition 
 of the language by foreigners. His- present residence is Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. P- 
 
 Nathan Longfellow was born in Whitefleld, December, 1804. 
 On leaving college he was employed in teaching nine years, for the 
 most part in Georgia. He then returned to New England and estab- 
 lished himself in Needham, Mass., as a manufacturer of paper, at the 
 same time cultivating a farm. His residence of late years has been 
 Newton Lower Falls, Mass. In 1844 he married Eliza W. Southwick 
 of Vassalboro', and has four children, two sons and two daughters. 
 He has been on superintending school- committees twenty-five years. 
 
 Thomas Newman Lokd was born in Newburyport, Mass., August, 
 1807, but entered college from Winthi-op, where was then his home. 
 He was prepared for college at Farmington and Monmouth. After 
 graduating he pursued theological study with Rev David Thurston of 
 Winthrop, and was ordained over the Congregational Church in Tops- 
 ham in 1837, where he remanied five years. He then entered on a 
 pastorate of nine years over the Second Church, Biddeford. From 
 1851 to 1862 he was pastor over the church in West Auburn. He 
 has since been at two different times pastor over the church in 
 Limerick, and for two years over the church in North Yarmouth. He 
 now (December, 1878) resides at Limerick, but is doing what he 
 regards his last work in the active ministry at Kittery Point. 
 
 Mr. Lord married Mary E., daughter of Dr. James Tupper of 
 Martha's Vineyard, Mass., subsequently of Dresden. They have had 
 one child, a daughter ; but have adopted two sons and a daughter. 
 The eldest son lost a limb in the late war, and is now lieutenant in 
 the United States a^mJ^ The second graduated from Bowdoin Col- 
 lege in 1866, graduated in medicine in Chicago in 1871, was acting 
 surgeon in the war, and was on the staiT of Gen. Custer when the 
 whole force was slain by the Indians in 1876. p. 
 
480 HISTORT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 AsAHEL Moore was born in Gardiner, November, 1811. After 
 graduating he spent a few months teaching in the high school in his 
 native town. In 1836, having connected himself with the Maine con- 
 ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Portland, he was ap- 
 pointed pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Calais. In 1837 
 and 1838 he exercised his ministry in Castine. He was then called to 
 be principal of Clinton and Vassalboro' Academies, and continued in 
 the office two years. He has since received appointments successively 
 in several of the principal towns of the State, was presiding elder of 
 the Bucksport district, was pastor of a church in Newbury, Mass., one 
 year, and then, while on a visit to friends in the West, connected him- 
 self with the Wisconsin conference, with which he still remains in the 
 city of Sheboygan, where he has for the third year received an appoint- 
 ment. In 1837 he married Miss Charlotte A. McAllister of Sfa Ste- 
 phens, N. B. She died in 1874. In 1878 he married Mrs. Williams 
 of Brunswick. p. 
 
 Edwakd St. John Neallet was born in Lee, N. H., December, 
 1811. He did not complete his course, but was subsequently admitted 
 to a degree with his class. He read law with his relative Hon. Jona- 
 than Cilley, Esq. (1825), and practised for a short time; but being 
 appointed by President Van Buren deputy collector of customs at 
 Bath, he relinquished the profession, and continued through successive 
 administrations in the office until his death in 1881, then being the 
 oldest jCoUector in service in the country, ever respected for integrity 
 and ability. He was repeatedly a member of the city government of 
 Bath, and held other positions of responsibility. He married twice : 
 first, in Thomaston in 1836, Lucj' C, daughter of Hezekiah Prince, 
 who died in 1853 ; second, to Sarah A. Pope of Spencer, Mass., who 
 survives him. He had six children. His oldest son graduated at 
 Bowdoin College, 1858, and a younger son is now a member of the 
 college. p. 
 
 Sewall Paine was born in Mercer, November, 1806. He entered 
 on a theological course at Bangor, graduating in 1838 ; began his work 
 at Westminster, Vt. ; was ordained over the Congregational Church in 
 Montgomery, Vt., in 1843, and remained there till 1872 ; was labori- 
 ous, earnest, and faithful, notwithstanding an inllrm constitution. 
 Compelled to relinquish active labor, he gave his later years to the cul- 
 tivation of a small farm, preaching occasionally. Of steadfast faith in 
 God and his truth, of a retiring, humble ^spirit, he was known as a 
 sincere and devoted servant of his Master. No account of his family 
 has come to us. p. 
 
GRADUATES. 481 
 
 Albert "Whitman Pabris was bora February, 1818. He entered 
 college from Portland. After graduation he studied law and was 
 admitted to the bar. He went to Wisconsin, where for a time he was 
 registrar of the land office at Mineral Point. He married and had 
 children. p. 
 
 Henry Vaenum Poor was born iii Andover, Me., December, 1812. 
 Upon leaving college he engaged in the studj- of law at Bangor, was 
 admitted to the bar in 1838, and opened an office in that city, where 
 he remained ten years. He then removed to New York to take charge 
 of the American Railroad Journal, and held that position until 1862. 
 He soon after removed to Brookline, where he has since lived. 
 
 In 1868 he published a "Manual of the Eailroads of the United 
 States," which has been issued yearly. In 1877 he published 
 " Money : Its Laws and Historjs" a large octavo volume, as also a 
 work entitled " Resumption and the Silver Question." Besides these 
 more important works he has been a frequent contributor to the news- 
 papers and periodicals on a great variety of topics, and is now, it is 
 said, engaged on a " History of the United States." 
 
 Mr. Poor has never held political office. In 1841 he married Mary 
 Wild Pierce, daughter of Rev. Dr. John Pierce of Brookline, Mass., 
 and has had seven children, three sons and four daughters, of whom 
 a son and three daughters are now living. • p. 
 
 George Lewis Prentiss was born in Gorham, May, 1816 ; was 
 fitted for college at the academy in that town under Rev. Reuben 
 Nason. The two years after graduation he was Mr. Nason's assistant. 
 From 1839 to 1841 he prosecuted theological study at the universities 
 of Halle and Berlin in Germanj'. In 1845 he was ordained over the 
 South Trinitarian Church in New Bedford, Mass., from whence in 1851 
 he was called to the Mercer Street Presbyterian Church in. New York. 
 In 1858 impaired health lead to his resignation, and he spent two 3-ears 
 in foreign travel. The fact of his anticipated release from his pastor- 
 ate over the Mercer Street Church led to the following testimonial in 
 a leading newspaper : ' ' No man was ever more loved than he ; and 
 nothing has been wanting on the part of his people to retain him in 
 his position, — a long vacation of two years, assistance of every 
 kind, relief in all forms, — but such is his feeble health that he has felt 
 obliged to resist them all." On his return from abroad a new church 
 and congregation were gathered on Murray Hill, city of New York, 
 and he was installed its pastor in 1862. In 1873 he accepted an 
 invitation to the Skinner and McAlpine professorship of pastoral 
 
482 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 theology, church polity, and mission work in the Union Theological 
 Seminar}', which he still holds. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Prentiss received the honorary degree of D. D. from 
 his Alma Mater. Besides being an active, efficient pastor, Dr. Prentiss 
 has given proof of talent and culture in several publications, as in a 
 memoir of his distinguished brother, Hon. Sergeant Smith Prentiss 
 (Bowdoin College, 1826), in two' volumes, 1855, and occasional dis- 
 courses and addresses, among which are a discourse in memory of 
 Thomas Harvey Skinner, D. D., LL. D., and a eulogj' on the life and 
 character of Gen. Zachary Taylor, 1850 ; a sermon in memory of 
 Anson G. Phelps, 1854. An ardent, decided, and eloquent advocate 
 of the Union and its institutions, he published several addresses called 
 forth by our national trial: "A True Christian State: The Present 
 Struggle," before the alumni >of Bowdoin College, 1861 ; "The Provi- 
 dential Events of 1861," and "How to meet the Events of 1862" 
 " The National Crisis," before the (D. B. K., Dartmouth College, 1862 
 " Lessons of Encouragement from the Times of Washington," 1863 
 " The Political Situation," 1866 ; " The Political Crisis," 1866 ; " Our 
 National Bane ; or, The Dry Rot in American Politics : A Hint for the 
 Times touching Civil Service Reform," 1877. 
 
 In 1845 he married Elizabeth Payson, daughter of Rev. Dr. Edward 
 Payson of Portland, whose reputation as a writer is widely extended 
 in this country and in Europe ; most of her works having been repub- 
 lished in England, and some of them having been issued in French 
 and German translations. She died suddenly in 1878. Two sons, 
 members of the College of New Jersey, Princeton, and two daughters 
 are living. p. 
 
 Joseph Peince from Thomaston went after he graduated to 
 Georgia, and for a number of years was principal of a high school in 
 Monroe, Walton County ; he was also a licensed and well-approved 
 preacher of the Baptist persuasion. At the time of his death in 1843 
 he was on the point of entering the medical profession. In the region 
 where he lived Mr. Prince stood high as a man, a scholar, and a 
 Christian. He left a wife and two children. 
 
 George Pdrinton was born in Poland, November, 1809. After 
 taking his degree he engaged for two years in the study of the law in 
 the office of John Neal, Esq., Portland, and then removed to Balti- 
 more. On a visit to Washington he met with a member of the Senate 
 from Illinois who opened to him alluring prospects in the West, and 
 he resolved to try his fortune in that direction, bearing letters from the 
 
GRADUATES. 483 
 
 senator and others. The senator introduced him to the chief justice 
 of the Supreme Court, who gave him emplo3-ment as a private tutor 
 in his family while he continued his legal studies. In due time ad- 
 mitted to practice in the courts of the State, in 1840 he opened an 
 oflBce in Freeport, Stephenson County, where he has since resided. 
 In 1842 and 1843 he was appointed on the council of revision of the 
 laws of Illinois, and in 1848 was elected by the popular voice pre- 
 siding judge for a term of four years of the County Commissioner's 
 Court, with probate jurisdiction. Declining a re-election he retired 
 to private life, though acting frequently as a justice of the peace. 
 
 In 1850 he married Miss Bayer of Lewisburg, Pa. They have had 
 two daughters, now (1878) living. ^ p. 
 
 Augustus Coggswell Robbins was a native of Union, born June, 
 1816. He read law with John Stevens Abbot, Esq., then of Rock- 
 land ; was admitted to the bar and settled in the practice in Thomas- 
 ton. He subsequently removed to Brunswick, where he continued in 
 the practice several years. He became cashier of the bank in the 
 town and was highly reputed for skill and accuracy. He held offices 
 of trust, was commissioner of banks for the State, was a member of 
 the Board of Overseers of the college, and its secretary' ; a man of 
 purest integrity, trusted implicitly by all, a high-minded citizen, and 
 greatly esteemed. He was a member of the Congregational Church 
 and for a time superintendent of its Sabbath school. He is remem- 
 bered for his humor and ready wit. For the last few years he was 
 subject to epileptic attacks, the result as was thought of an injury 
 in childhood, and which caused his death in December, 1868. He 
 married Maria T. Curtis, daughter of a respected ship-master and 
 citizen of the town. The}- had a son Charles Augustus (graduate of 
 Bowdoin College, 1864), and daughter Harriet, wife of Augustus F. 
 Libby (Bowdoin College, 1864). p. 
 
 Frederic Soothgate was a son of Horatio Southgate of Portland. 
 The Rev. Dr. Prentiss thus refers to his college life : " Southgate was 
 mj^ chum for one or two years. He was a most estimable and worthy 
 man in every respect. His intellectual gifts were not brilliant, but 
 they were solid and practical, while his personal qualities were uncom- 
 monly fine. I cherish the most agreeable recollections of him.'' After 
 a year spent in the Theological School at Bangor, Mr. Southgate 
 studied medicine with Dr. Mussey, first in Hanover and then in Cincin- 
 nati ; having taken his degree he went to Texas and practised awhile. 
 In 1841 he settled in Burlington, Iowa Territory ; but a sense of duty 
 
iSA HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 still followed him which could not rest satisfied with what he was 
 doing. He soon after went to Jubilee College, and in 1842 was ad- 
 mitted to deacon's orders by the venerable Bishop Chase. He 
 spent the severe winter of 1842-3 as an itinerant missionary in the 
 southern part of Illinois. In the summer of 1843 he took charge of 
 the Episcopal Church at Edwardsville, near Alton ; but his health, 
 which had long been precarious, soon after broke down. He died Feb- 
 ruary, 1844, in Quincy, 111., at the house of Rev. Dr. Giddings. He 
 had married a few months before Mary, daughter of Ebenezer Moore 
 of Gardiner, Me. Mr. Southgate seems to have been a modest, ami- 
 able, and Excellent man, exemplary in his inner as well as social Ijfe, 
 and devoted to his sacred calling. He died at the age of thirty. 
 
 Albert Gokham Tenhey was born in Newbury, IMass., July, 1814. 
 He has given himself for the most part to journalism. Soon after 
 graduating he went to Baltimore, Md. , where he taught a school for 
 young ladies three years. He there began the special work of his 
 life, in connection with another establishing the Baltimore Tran- 
 script. In 1840, returning to the North, he became connected suc- 
 cessively with different prints, as the Daily Times and others ; was 
 on the staff of the Daily Journal for seven years, and was assistant 
 reporter for it. He was private secretary three years to Commodore 
 John Downes on the "Ohio " receiving ship, and held a position in 
 the custom-house four 3-ears. In 1855 he came to Maine, edited the 
 Bath Daily Tribune until 1857, when he became and still is proprietor 
 of the Brunswick Telegraph. He has served on the school committee 
 of Brunswick, and is a member of the Maine Historical Society. 
 
 He has married twice : in 1836 Frances Ann Estabraok, dajighter 
 of Col. Thomas Estabrook, who died in 1858, leaving a son who died 
 in 1867 ; second, in 1867, Mary Caroline, daughter of Rev. Charles 
 Packard (1817). p. 
 
 William Williams was born in Newburyport, Mass., August, 
 1814. He was fitted for college at Dummer Academy. Soon after 
 he left college he entered upon the study of law in the oflSce of Hon^ 
 Asa W. Wildes, and afterwards in Marblehead, where he also for a 
 time taught the high school. In 1840 he represented that town in. the 
 Legislature, and then removing to Gloucester opened a law office in 
 the same year. He continued the practice of his profession steadily, 
 declining a seat in the governor's council, a nomination to the Senate 
 of the State, and other positions, until 1845, when through the agencj' 
 of Governor Morton he accepted a clerkship in the customs in Boston, 
 
GRADUATES. 485 
 
 which he held until 1877, when the office was discontinued by the 
 government, declining meanwhile repeated offers of the deputy coUec- 
 torship. He then resumed his profession in Gloucester. He has 
 repeatedly served on the school committee, and has been the present 
 year (1878) elected mayor of the city. In 1851 he edited the Ameri- 
 can Cabinet, a literary and scientific paper ; and in 1855 published in 
 Boston a work entitled '' The Unity of Man in Creation and the Uni- 
 verse no Desert, the Earth no Monopoly." 
 
 In 1843 he married Miss Abby K. Brown of Gloucester. They 
 have had four "sons and a daughter, of whom one son and the daugh- 
 ter alone survive. p. 
 
 Timothy Roberts Young is a native of Dover, N. H. In 1838 he 
 went to Illinois and settled as a lawyer at Marshall on the eastern 
 border of the State. His professional career was quite successful. 
 In 1848 he was elected to Congress, " but not finding politics congen- 
 ial to his taste, he retired at the expiration of his term." Since that 
 time, with the exception of two or three years devoted to railroad 
 enterprise, Mr. Young has been principally engaged in farining. In 
 all his pursuits thus far he seems to have been prospered. 
 
 1836. 
 
 Howard Brooks Abbot was born in Sidney, September, 1811. 
 He studied law in Calais and engaged in the practice of his profession 
 iti Columbus, Miss. ; but, affected unfavorably by the Southern climate, 
 after two j-ears' residence he returned to Maine and became partner 
 with his brother Hon. Nehemiah Abbot of Belfast. The purpose 
 which he formed while a student at law, when he was led to embrace 
 with the peculiar intensity of his nature the faith of the gospel, but 
 which was hindered by pecuniary circumstances, he was able to accom- 
 plish in 1847, when, abandoning a lucrative practice, he devoted him- 
 self to the ministrj' in the Methodist communion, in which he labored 
 with characteristic singleness of aim and energy and with marked 
 success. He died in Waterville in 1876. 
 
 In 1850 he married Miss Elizabeth J. Moody, Readville, who sur- 
 vives Mm. They had one child, a son, who died a few years ago. 
 
 p. 
 
 Samuel P. Abbott, a brother of the well-known authors Jacob and 
 John S. C, "as a scholar was distinguished more for industry than 
 brilliancy, yet ranking above the medium. His modesty and urbanity, 
 his elevated sentiments and puritj"^ of character, won the hearts of 
 
486 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGK. 
 
 many, and secured for him, what few can boast, the unqualified re- 
 spect of all. He was a j'outh of ardent but unostentatious piety, and 
 by his cheerfulness of spirit and freedom from austerity he so com- 
 mended it to others that his influence in college was pre-eminently 
 happy. While conscientious in the discharge of every duty, none 
 more than he loved to share with friends in the pleasures of social 
 intercourse and innocent amusement. It is one of the sweetest recol- 
 lections of my college life that I enjoyed largely the confidence and 
 friendship of ' Sam Abbott.'" Mr. Abbott studied at Andover, and 
 was settled at Houlton, where he stayed five or six years, mucli re- 
 spected and beloved. Fnding his physical strength insufficient for 
 this position, he opened a school for boys in Farmington, and was 
 soon known as a very successful teacher. But this task also proved 
 too severe for a constitution naturally feeble. He died in 1849. To 
 the genial tribute given above I must add a few words from another 
 of his classmates: "He had the characteristics of his family, was 
 endowed with very respectable mental powers, and with a great talent 
 for winning his way to the hearts of all. All loved him and spoke 
 well of him. He was a sunny, kind-hearted, useful man. In his 
 Christian experience he never seemed to have anything to do in the 
 deep, dark waters. He was handed gently through life." 
 
 Aakon Chester Adams was born in Bangor, April, 1815, son of 
 Deacon Eliashib Adams and brother of Rev. Dr. George E. Adams, 
 pastor for forty years of the Congregational Church near the college, 
 He entered at once upon theological study at the seminary in his 
 native town, graduating in 1839, and was ordained the same year 
 pastor of the Congregational Church in Gardiner. Subsequently he 
 has been in the pastorate at Gorham, Auburn, and since 1867 or 1868 
 over the church in "Wethersiield, in each field of labor approved as a 
 " workman that needeth not to be ashamed." 
 
 Mr. Adams married Harriet S. Johnson of Brewer. They have four 
 children, two sons and two daughters. p. 
 
 Joseph Bakek was born in Bloomfield, June, 1812. After gradua- 
 tion he taught in the High School in Augusta, and in 1837 began the 
 study of law in the office of Williams & McCobb, completed his prep- 
 aration with Messrs. Vose & Lancaster, was admitted to the Kenne- 
 bec bar in 1839, and has since continued in the practice in Augusta. 
 In 1847 was in the State Senate, and in the House in 1870. In 1856 
 and 1870 was commissioner to revise the statutes of Maine. He was 
 county attorney in 1864. He has been for several years on the Board 
 of Overseers of the college.' 
 
GRADUATES. 
 
 487 
 
 In 1841 he married Frances G. Eogers of Augusta. They have had 
 one child, a son, Orville D., who graduated from the college in 1868. 
 
 p. 
 
 SAjiDFORD K. Ballakd " was in college five years, having entered 
 the class before us. He was a man of decided ability, and of a 
 poetic temperament. [See Athenaean List of Poets.] He practised 
 law for a short time in Gardiner. He was a man of excellent qual- 
 ities, ardent indeed and impulsive, but generous and frank. A true 
 man and a Christian, he was beloved by all." Mr. Ballard died of 
 consumption in 1841. 
 
 Daniel Dole was born in Bloomfield, now Skowhegan, September, 
 1808. He graduated at the Theological Seminary in Bangor in 1839, 
 received ordination at Bloomfield in the following year, and under 
 appointment from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 
 Missions embarked for the Sandwich Islands, arriving in the spring 
 of 1841 . He was made principal of the Punahou School, and when 
 it was incorporated as Oahu College was appointed its president, and 
 held the position until 1855. He then removed to Koloa in the 
 island of Kauai, yet continuing his work as a teacher, in which he 
 was highly successful. His fondness for classical study led him to 
 prepare students for the qplleges of his native land. An associate for 
 many years in the islands writes of him : ' ' Many pupils scattered over 
 the world will learn of his death with unfeigned sorrow. He was a 
 pure-minded, thoughtful, scholarlj', devout Christian missionary, 
 whom we truly loved and who enjo^'ed the esteem of all missionary 
 associates and the respect of the public. He will be remembered not 
 only as a teacher, but as an acceptable preacher. His sermons were 
 thoughtfully and carefully prepared, and enforced by a pure and holy 
 example as a minister of the gospel." 
 
 He revisited his native land two or three years since, and was 
 greeted at the Commencement of the college. 
 
 Mr. Dole married Emily K. Ballard of Gardiner, who died leaving ■ 
 two sons. He subsequently married Mrs. Charlotte Knapp {nee Close) 
 of Stamford, Conn., who died in 1874. Mr. Dole died August, 
 1878. P. 
 
 Nathan Dole was born in Bloomfield. I take the following from 
 a published sketch by his classmate, the Rev. James Drumraond : 
 " He had attained to majority before entering college, and was mature 
 even beyond his years. He was ever doing good by private conversa- 
 
488 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 tions, and above all by being good. He rarely came into collision 
 with students, had a faeully of gliding through the rough passages of 
 college life and getting no blows. No student ever doubted his piety. 
 He early took a high rank in the class, and maintained it to the close. 
 After leaving college he taught the academy at North Yarmouth for 
 two years with good success." Two years more were passed at the 
 Bangor school. Early in 1842 Mr. Dole was settled at Brewer. 
 After eight years of faithful and successful labor there he went to 
 Boston, and took charge of the Journal of Missions and of Youth's 
 Day Spring. These publications he edited much to the satisfaction of 
 ^11 concerned until the close of 1854, when he was attacked with 
 hemorrhage from the lungs. Consumption followed, and he died at 
 Brewer in Ihe following summer.* 
 
 JoTHAM DoNNELL, bom Novenibcr, 1814, came from Alna. He at 
 once entered on medical study, attended lectures of the Medical 
 School of the college, graduating in 1839. I^e has practised his, pro- 
 fession in Houlton with success and reputation, respected as a man. 
 He is a member of the Maine Historical Society. No reply having 
 been received from Dr. Donnell to circulars sent to him, the writer 
 has only this brief notice to give. p. 
 
 James Drummond was born in Bristol, April. 1815. Graduating 
 with distinction, he was for two years principal of Newcastle Acad- 
 emy, which he managed with great success. He then prosecuted 
 theological studies at Bangor, and graduated in 1841. He was set- 
 tled in the ministry over the Congregational Church in Auburn in 
 1842, where, notwithstanding severe and almost constant bronchial 
 affections, he labored with reputation and success nearly fifteen years, 
 when he was induced to listen to a call from the North Church in 
 Springfield, Mass., and to resign his pastorate in 1858. During this 
 period he contributed largely to the Lewiston Journal, and was for a 
 time editor of the Maine Evangelist. He left a people deeply regret- 
 ting his removal, entered with characteristic energy upbn his new 
 field of labor, and had won the respect, confidence, and afftection of a 
 large church and congregation. Mr. Drummond was a student and 
 thinker, fertile and copious in thought and diction ; conversant with 
 men, and readily gaining confidence by his honesty, firmness, quick 
 sympathy, and genial disposition. For a large portion of his active 
 
 * He married and left a son, now Rev. Charles F. Dole, pastor of the Unitarian 
 Church, Jamaica Plain, Mass. p. 
 
GRADUATES. 489 
 
 life he was subject to physical infirmitj'. At the last he was seized 
 with fever, which, though not violent, preyed upon the sources of 
 strength, and after a few weeks, while on a visit to a relative near the 
 coast at Swampscott, Mass., whither he had gone in hope of repairing 
 his wasted energies, ended in death in 1861. A volume of his ser- 
 mons was published after his death. He married Esther Ann Swett, 
 daughter of Edward S., Esq., and Abigail (Mason) Swett, Dedham, 
 Mass. They had one child, a daughter, now wife of Rev. Mr. C. F. 
 Dole of Jamaica Plain, Mass. , p. 
 
 Thomas Paksons Emeeson was born in Parsonsfield, May, 1809. 
 On leaving college he was emploj-ed as a teacher for some time in Vir- 
 ginia. He then pursued theological study in Lane Seminary, Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, when Dr. Lyman Beecher was at its head, and was 
 ordained into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. He held pas- 
 torates for limited periods, but for thirty years labored earnestly and 
 successfully in the service of the Home Missionary Society, a chosen 
 service, though involving toil and self-sacrifice. In his manifold min^ 
 istrations he rode thousands of miles, once declaring that his most 
 effective sermons were " thought out on horseback as he drove from 
 church to church." He thus labored in the States of Michigan, Iowa, 
 Illinois, and Ohio. In 1860 he was appointed delegate from his pres- 
 bytery to the general assembly which met at New Orleans. In 1870, 
 having resigned a pastorate in Mahomet, Champaign County, 111., he 
 was commissioned by the Home Missionary Societj' for service in 
 Kansas ; but soon after reaching his field of labor his health failed, 
 and he returned to the home he had left, and died in November of that 
 j-ear. He bore the reputation, we are informed, of more than ordi- 
 nary ability as a thinker and preacher. His self-lfenying spirit and 
 his earnest devotion, as already stated, led him to choose his field 
 of effort among feeble and destitute churches, thus seeking not his 
 own honor, but the honor of Him whom he served. 
 
 Mr. Emerson married Mrs. Stella Nearing in 1847, and had two 
 sons, neither surviving ; the younger, a member of Cornell University, 
 and intending to follow his father in the ministry, being drowned in 
 1874. , P. 
 
 George Freeman Emery, son of Hon Stephen Emery (1814), 
 was born in Paris, Me., November, 1817. On leaving coUeo-e he 
 entered upon the study of law in the office of his father in his native" 
 town, with whom, on being admitted to the bar, he formed a copartner- 
 ship, was also appointed register of probate for the county, and held 
 
490 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 that office by reappointment until 1846, when he removed to Portland, 
 where he continued in the practice of the profession. In 1848 he 
 received from Judge Woodburj'^ the clerkship of the United States 
 Circuit Court, and held the office until 1876, when he resigned and 
 removed to Boston to take charge of the Boston Post. He had before 
 had experience in his new and responsible work, having edited the 
 Oxford Democrat during the heated canvass pending the senatorial 
 canvass of his brother-in-law, Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, and had subse- 
 quently contributed editorials to the Eastern Argw. Judge Clifford 
 appointed him master ctf chancery in his court, and he had the same 
 position in the Supreme Court of the State. He was once the Demo- 
 cratic candidate for the rnayoralty of Portland ; was pension agent 
 under appointment from President Pierce ; and during the civil war 
 was actuary of the Maine War Claim Association. Mr. Emery, with 
 his wife, united in 1855 with the Free Street Baptist Church, Port- 
 land. In 1841 he married Abby W. Appleton, daughter of John W. 
 Appleton, and sister of John Appleton (1834). They have had six 
 children, four sons and two daughters. One son, George F. (Har- 
 vard College, 1866 ) , has died ; another, Hannibal H. (Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, 1874), studied law, but is associated with his father on the staff" 
 of the Boston Fost. p. 
 
 Ephkaim Wilder Farley was born in Newcastle, August, 1817. 
 After graduation he read law with his relative, William J. Farley, 
 Esq., in Thomaston. and practised the profession a few years in that 
 place. He then removed to his native place, where he has since 
 resided His tastes and independent means led him more into politi- 
 cal than professional life, in which he became prominent and influen- 
 tial. He was most of his life a Whig in politics, but at the dissolu- 
 tion of that partyTiis strong conservatism declined to unite with the 
 Eepublican party, and he fell in with the Democracy. He twice repre- 
 sented his town in the House and his district in the Senate of the State. 
 He was a member of the House of Representatives in the Thirty-third 
 Congress. He was a member of the national Whig convention which 
 nominated Gen. Taylor for the Presidency, and of the national 
 Democratic convention of 1860. Mr. Farley cultivated literary 
 tastes. He was president for some years of the trustees of Lincoln 
 Academy in Newcastle. Our college library bears evidence of his 
 interest, and the Commencement platform every year exhibits a vener- 
 able chair of English oak, his gift, brought from England in 1635, 
 from which the honors of the college are conferred. Mr. Parley was 
 never married, and has occupied until within two or three j'ears the 
 
GRADUATES. 45)1 
 
 paternal mansion, ever ready to show generous hospitality to kindred 
 and friends. His genial temper, liberal disposition, intelligence inde- 
 pendent spirit, and spotless integrity won friendship, affection, and 
 respect. His health was manifestly failing for a year or more, and he 
 died very suddenly at Newcastle, April 12, 1880. A large assem- 
 blage at his funeral testified to the affectionate respect cherished for 
 its first citizen by the community. p. 
 
 Alonzo Garcelon was born in Lewiston, Maj-, 1813. Immediately 
 after taking his degree he took charge ^of the academy at Fryeburg 
 for a year, meanwhile beginning medical study under the advice of 
 Abiel Hall, M. D., of that town. He prosecuted his professional study 
 under Dr. and Prof. Reuben D. Mussey, Hanover, N. H., and attended 
 two courses of medical lectures in Dartmouth College. He accom- 
 panied Dr. Mussey as his demonstrator of surgical anatomj- to the 
 Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated at that institution 
 in 1839. Returning to Maine he established himself in the profession 
 in his native town, where he has won reputation, especially in the 
 department of surgery. 
 
 Dr. Garcelon has led an active life as a professional and public man. 
 He established and conducted for four years the Lewiston Journal; he 
 has represented the city and district in both branches of the Legis- 
 lature ; has been alderman and mayor of the city ; has for several 
 years been president of the Androscoggin Railroad ; was surgeon- 
 general of the State, and rendered very important service in hospi- 
 tals and in the field, repeatedly bringing order out of confusion during 
 most of the late war ; has been secretary of the surgical section of 
 the American Medical Association, and president of the Maine Medi- 
 cal Association ; for several 3^ears has been president of the Andros- 
 coggin Agricultural Society ; has been trustee of literary institutions, 
 and is at this writing governor of the State of Maine. 
 
 Dr. Garcelon married in 1841 Ann Augusta "Waldron, Dover, 
 N. H., who died in 1857, leaving four children, three sons and a 
 daughter. In 1859 he again married Olivia N. Spear, Rockland, by 
 whom he has a daughter. p. 
 
 John Goodenow was born in Paris, February, 1817. After leav- 
 ing college he studied law, was admitted to the bar and engaged in 
 the practice of his profession in Hiram, South Paris, and Auburn, and 
 subsequently in Boston. He had a position .for some time in the cus- 
 toms in the city of New York. In later years he has resided in Balti- 
 more. He has suffered through life from a defective vision. He 
 
4!) 2 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 married Miss Appleton of Portland, sister of Hon. John Appleton 
 (Bowdoin College, 1834) , and has had a son and three daughters. 
 
 Edwin Hall, son of Dr. Abiel Hall of Alfred, for a year after 
 his graduation was private tutor in a family of Albenlarle County, 
 Virginia. His medical studies were completed under Dr. Mussey. 
 He practised several years in Newcastle and then went to Saco. In 
 1845, while making a post-mortem examination, he unwarily took 
 some virus into his cireulatioit through A small puncture in one of his 
 fingers. From the part first afifected the evil gradually spread over 
 the whole frame, and hi^ health became so much impaired that he was 
 often unable to comply with professional calls. He died in 1852 of 
 apoplexy. "He possessed a quiet and amiable disposition; he was 
 enthusiastic in the study afld duties of his calling, and enjoyted a high 
 reputation for one of his age, particularly as a surgeon." 
 
 Thomas Stetson Harlow is a native of Bangor, born November, 
 1812. After graduation he engaged in legal study in the office of 
 Messrs. Kent & Cutting in his native town, a few months of 1838 
 being spent in Dover where he edited the Piscataquis Beradd. In the 
 latter part of that year he went to Louisville, Ky., completed his course 
 of study, Mas admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice in 
 Paducah, where he remained three years. He held for a time the office 
 of police judge. Returning to New England he opened an oflSce in 
 Boston, where he still pirosecutes his profession. In 1848 he married 
 iiucy J. Hall, daughter of Ebenezer Hall of Medford, Mass., which 
 has since been his residence. Thej' have had two daughters and a son. 
 The son died in 1872 on his return voyage from Europe, whither he 
 had gone in quest of health. 
 
 Mr. Harlow has shown his interest in popular education by serving 
 on the school committee in Medford several years. He now has the 
 position of special justice in the Distijct Court of Middlesex County. 
 He has contributed from time to time to the periodical press. p. 
 
 Leonaep Hawes was born in "Weld, December, 1808. Graduating 
 with the respect and esteem of his instructors and his class, he entered 
 the Theological Seminary, Andoter, Mass. His mind became un- 
 settled and incapacitated him for professional life. He returned to 
 his home but never recovered healthy action, and the promise of use- 
 fulness which he had given was irretrievably blasted. He died in 1877. 
 
 p. . 
 
GRADUATES. 493 
 
 Joseph S. Hovey was from Berwick. "After passing through 
 college amiably aud harmlessly," he went to the South. Of his three 
 years there 1 can tell nothing. He died in 1839. 
 
 William Mekrill was born in Portland, September, 1816. After 
 graduation he went to the Southern States, and for more than thirty 
 years devoted himself to the work of teaching. In 1854 he was re- 
 ported of as principal of the College for Young Ladies, Aberdeen, 
 Miss. ; he was regarded as a thorough and accomplished teacher, " of 
 indomitable perseverance and tireless energy," as was testified in an 
 obituary notice in the Daily Clarion, Jackson, Miss., of December, 
 1866, having been principal of the Institution for the Blind -in that 
 city for seven years. " He was a consistent member of the Christian 
 Church." p. 
 
 Albert P. Niokerson " had sufficient ability to have attained a 
 high rank, but his tastes did not incline him to study. He was a true 
 friend to those who shared his confidence, and there was no one in the 
 class whose frankness and generosity I more admired, or whose com- 
 pany in hours of relaxation his associates more enjoyed Though 
 never degraded hj dissipation, he possessed the social qualities in an 
 eminent degree. In the technical language of the days in which I had 
 the good fortune to share his friendship, he enjoyed a ' scrape' infinitely 
 more than he feared a ' screw.' He returned to Belfast, read law a 
 short time with Judge Johnson, and then went into mercantile busi- 
 ness, which he pursued with success until his death in 1848." 
 
 EiCHARD Pike was born in Searsport (formerly Prospect), June, 
 1813. He pursued his preparatory course under difficulties and em- 
 barrassments which nothing but a firm purpose and energy of character 
 coilld have surmounted. Graduating with honor, he bec^jne principal 
 of Belfast Academy, and after two j-ears' service entered the Divinity 
 School at Cambridge, whence at the end of a year he accepted a tutor- 
 ship in the college, which he held two years ; he then received a license 
 to preach, and was settled in the ministry at Dorchester, Mass. , where 
 he labored faithfully twenty years,. He was a ipember of the New 
 England Historical and Genealogical Society. 
 
 Mr. Pike married Frances West Atherton of Portland, apd left four 
 children, three daughters, and a son now professor of engineering, 
 etc., in the Agricultural CoUege at Orono. p. 
 
 Isaac Randall is a native of Wjlton, born February, 1810. After 
 graduation he was the first principal of Gould Academy, Bethel, where 
 
494 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 he taught more than a year. He then studied law in Phillips and 
 Paris, and in 1840 was admitted to the bar and settled in the practice 
 in the pleasant village of Dixfleld, where he has since resided. Besides 
 the labors of his profession, he has given himself to agricultural pur- 
 suits, having acres attached to his residence sufficient to afford health- 
 ful occupation and ample returns for his care and skill, while the 
 village is indebted to him for the beautiful row of trees planted by 
 himself that shade its street. 
 
 He married Mrs. Mellissa Eaton of Topsham, daughter of the late 
 Dr. Joseph K. White, one of the early physicians of Dixfleld. They 
 have one son, now a partner with his father in the law. 
 
 Mr. Kandall has never cherished political ambition. He has been 
 for several years on the superintending school committee of the town 
 and supervisor, and on the board of selectmen, and served one term in 
 the Legislature of the State. p. 
 
 David Brainakd Sew all, son of Rev. Jotham Sewall and grand- 
 son of Rev. Jotham Sewall, well known and honored in his generation 
 as an able and faithful missionary from Maine to Georgia, was born 
 in Newcastle, January, 1817. After graduating he taught Lewiston 
 Falls Academy two years, then entered the Theological Seminary, Ban- 
 gor, and graduated in 1841. He was ordained pastor over the Con- 
 gregational Church in Robbinston, January, 1842, and remained there 
 eighteen years. He then was installed over the church in Fryeburg, 
 December, 1859, and labored in that field fourteen years, when, hav- 
 ing been dismissed at his own request, he became acting pastor over 
 the church'in York, where he now resides. 
 
 Mr. Sewall married Mary Drummond of Bristol, sister*of Thomas 
 (1830), and James Drummond his classmate. They have two daugh- 
 ters and one son. p. 
 
 Stephen Titcomb was born in Farmington, September, 1809. 
 After graduation he taught school foi* a few months in Phillips, and 
 then entered upon the study of law in the office of Hon. Hiram 
 Belcher of his native town, was admitted to the bar of Franklin 
 County in 1839, and engaged in the practice of law in Farmington and 
 East Wnton. After a few years he changed his plan of life and pur- 
 sued theological study at Bangor Seminary, where he graduated in 
 1854. In the year following he was ordained over the Congregational 
 Church in Weld, where he remained twelve years and resigned the 
 pastorate. He has since been employed as a missionar}' in that 
 county until 1871, when a bronchial aflPection compelled him to relin- 
 quish the labors of the pulpit and retire to a farm in his native town. 
 
GRADUATES. 
 
 495 
 
 In 1839 he married Apphia Hobbs, daughter of James Stanley, 
 Esq., of Fannington, who died in 1843. He was married a second 
 time to Harriet, daughter of Rev. IManning Ellis of Brooksville. He 
 has had seven children, three sons and four daughters, two now 
 living. P. 
 
 Cyrus Woodman was born in Buxton, June, 1814, son of Joseph 
 Woodman and Susanna, daughter of Eev. Dr. Paul Coflfln, a clergy- 
 man of note in the earlier part of the century. After graduation he 
 entered on the study of law in the ofHce of Hon. Samuel Hubbard, 
 and then of Hubbard & Watts in^Boston, and after a course in the Har- 
 vard Law School opened an oflSce in partnership with George Bar- 
 stow, Esq. In 1840 he became assistant agent of the Boston and 
 Western Land Company, and resided in Winslow, Stephenson County, 
 111. In 1844 he formed a copartnership of several years' standing at 
 Mineral Point. Wis., with C. C. Washburn, Esq , subsequently mem- 
 ber of Congress and major-general in the late war and governor of 
 Wisconsin. In 1856 he travelled with his family in Europe two or 
 three years, in 1861 was elected representative to the Legislature of 
 Wisconsin, and in 1863 removed to Cambridge, Mass., where he 
 now resides. 
 
 He has published a memoir of Rev. Dr. Paul Coffin in the Maine 
 Historical Collections, and " The Woodmans of Buxton," etc., which 
 does credit to his patience and accuracy. 
 
 In 1842 he married Charlotte, daughter of Ephraim Flint of Bald- 
 win. They have had six children, five sons and one daughter, two of 
 the sons died in infancy. Mr. Woodman is a corresponding mem- 
 ber of the Maine Historical Society, has been on the Board of Over- 
 seers of the college, and is among the benefactors of the college. 
 
 p. 
 
 Jabez Howard Woodman was born in New Gloucester, April, 
 1815. Constitutional infirmity hindered his fulfilling the promise of 
 his college life. For twenty years after graduation he was a teacher 
 most of the time in diflferent towns in the State. New Gloucester has 
 been his home until 1878, when he removed to Boston, where he now 
 resides. He has served on the superintending school committee sev- 
 eral years. For the last twenty years, while doing something in the 
 cultivation of a small farm, he has given attention to classical and 
 Oriental languages and literature, to which he is inclined, but failed to 
 utilize his acquirements. 
 
 He married in 1854 Eosetta Crowell, and has had three children. 
 He died March 15, 1881 , suddenly, of disease of the heart. p. 
 
496 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 1837.* 
 
 John Albion Andrew was born in Windham, May, 1818. The 
 writer is indebted largely to the admirable memoir prepared for the 
 Massachusetts Historical Society by the intimate friend of Governor 
 Andrew, Peleg W. Chandler, LL. D. (1834). He was fitted for col- 
 lege at Gorham Academy under Eev. Eeuben Nason. On leaving 
 college he pursued legal studies in the ofBce of the late Henry W. 
 Fuller, Esq., of Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and settled in 
 the profession in that city, which became his permanent residence. 
 ' ' He was a faithful and painstaking ^aw^'er, looking up his cases with 
 care and industry, and probably never lost a client who had once em- 
 ployed him. No man at the bar studied harder. He tried a case 
 with courage, persistence, spirit, and a dash of old-fashioned but 
 manly temper. Those who have been associated with or opposed to 
 him in the courts know verj' well that he was a dangerous opponent." 
 His college friends were not surprised when he at once showed inter- 
 est in politics and reform movements, entering largely into moral ques- 
 tions of the time with characteristic ardor. Attracted by the ministry 
 of Rev Dr. J. F. Clarke, he was a constant attendant at the meetings 
 and Bible classes of the society ; and, lay preaching being a custom of 
 the church, he sometimes conducted the public service and always to 
 general acceptance. With a generous store of what is termed per- 
 sonal magnetism, abounding in wit and anecdote and of most genial 
 temperament, he had great power of influence. 
 
 His is a conspicuous name in the political annals of Massachusetts. 
 In 1859 he was in the lower house of its Legislature, and at once took 
 prominent position. In 1860 he was elected governor of the State at 
 a critical emergency in State and nation, involving great responsibility 
 and requiring vigorous, prompt action, and by his uncommon execu- 
 tive ability, his administrative faculty controlled hj strong practical 
 sense, by clear foresight of coming events, unflinching courage, and 
 by what seemed strong religious faith, and by his superiority to ordi- 
 nary ways of mere politicians, placed himself in the foremost rank 
 of the governors of States, and by general consent acquired the title 
 of " the great war governor." His official communications, which in 
 the stress of affairs were frequent, commanded great respect, and his 
 address to the Legislature on retiring from office in 1866 '"was worthy 
 of the man and the occasion. In logical acumen, clearness of state- 
 ment, breadth of view, it is as remarkable, as for moderation and flrm- 
 
 * Sketches henceforward by Mr. Cleveland will be indicated by the letter " C." 
 
-^icaL Sscieiyliyr TStTiart 
 
 SEVENTH PRESIDENT OF THE NEW-ENGLAND HISTORJC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 
 
GRADUATES. 497 
 
 ness." Declining various honorable and lucrative offlces, he resumed 
 the practice of law, which became extensive and remunerative ; but 
 his career of profession^ success and honor was drawing to its close. 
 On the evening of the 30th of October, 1867, he was seized with 
 apoplexy while sitting with his famil3^ and survived but a few hours. 
 His remains were interred in Hingham. His death produced a great 
 sensation throughout the country, and was noticed by numerous pub- 
 lic meetings ; that by the Suffolk bar being presided over by H. W. 
 Paine, Esq,, and addressed by Richard H. Dana and George S. Hillard, 
 Esqs., and others. Strong testimonials of respect and regard were 
 rendered to his memory. Governor Andrew left a property too small 
 for the support of his family. On the morning after his decease, at a 
 meeting of gentlemen called in Boston, a fund was raised to be held 
 for the benefit of his sisters and family. A statue of marble has been 
 placed in the State House. The degree of LL D. was conferred on 
 him by Amherst and Harvard Colleges in 1861. He was a member 
 of the historical societies of Maine and Massachusetts. In 1848 he 
 married Eliza Jane, daughter of Charles Hersey of Hingham, and he 
 left two sons and two daughters. 
 
 FoRDYCE Barker was born in Wilton, May, 1818. He entered 
 immediately after graduation on the study of medicine with his father. 
 Dr. John Barker ; the j'ear following with Dr. Henry I. Bowditch 
 and Dr. Charles Stedman of Boston ; attended two courses of lectures 
 in that city and one tourse in the Medical School of the college, grad- 
 uating at the latter in 1841, and settled in the practice in Norwich, 
 Conn. In 1843 he went abroad and spent two j'ears in Paris in 
 study, and received there the degree of M. D. In 1846 he was lec- 
 turer on obstetrics and the diseases of women in the Medical School of 
 the college. Having been elected professor of that department in the 
 New York Medical College in 1850, he removed from Norwich and 
 became henceforward resident in the city of New York. In 1857, on 
 account of a laryngeal trouble, he resigned his position ; but in 1860 
 accepted the professorship in the same . branch in Bellevue Hospital 
 College, which he still holds. 
 
 Dr. Barker has attained eminent reputation and standing ; has been 
 vice-president and president of the New York Academy of Medicine, 
 president of the State Medical Society, first president of the Ameri- 
 can Gynaecological Society, and has been physician or consulting phy- 
 sician of different hospitals in New York. He is a fellow of the 
 Obstetrical Societies of London and Edinburgh, of the London Medi- 
 cal Society, the Harveian Society of London, the Imperial Academy 
 
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498 HISTORY OF BOWUOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 of Medicine of St. Petersburg, the Eoj'al Medical Society of Greece, 
 and of several .State medical societies. In 1878 he received the 
 degree of LL. D. from Columbia College, M Y. He has contributed 
 papers largely on his special subject in medical journals, manj' of 
 them having been collected and translated and published in a volume 
 in Berlin in 1866. A collection of more recent papers has been pub- 
 lished in Genoa in 1879. In 1874 his work on the puerperal diseases 
 was published, of which four editions have been issued. It has beeu 
 published also in England, and versions of it in the leading languages 
 of the Continent, including the Russian. In 1843 Dr. Barker married 
 Elizabeth L. D wight of Norwich, Conn. 
 
 Elias Bond was born in Hallowell, August, 1813. After taking 
 his degree he entered upon a theological course at Bangor Seminary, 
 and graduated in 1840. In November of the same year he set sail 
 for the Sandwich Islands under commission from the American Board 
 of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ; ari-ived at his destination in 
 May, 1841, and being assigned by the mission to the district of Eohala 
 on Hawaii, began his work of nearly forty years. It is due as it is 
 honorable to him to quote a passage from his letter in reply to the cir- 
 cular of inquiry, even though his Ipwlj' spirit may demand an apology 
 forgiving to the reader what was meant for one eye alone : " It has not 
 fallen to my ,lot to seek engagement beyond this circumscribed field 
 of our life-long labor. Here the Master sent us, and here his provi- 
 dence has seemed to hold us, with a single vacation of two months in 
 1869. My life has been one of quiet, steady work ; of some benefit, 
 I would fain hope, to this our own people, yet of no special interest 
 probably to the world beyond us. . . . Invitations and solicitations 
 to other spheres of labor have not been wanting ; but constitutionally 
 averse to frequent change, and ever impressed with the thought that 
 steady effort in one field would afford more satisfactory results than 
 desultory attempts in many, I have always judged it best to hold on 
 here to the end." 
 
 Mr. Bond married September, 1840, Miss Ellen M. Howell of Port- 
 land. They have had ten children, of whom nine still survive. One 
 son has graduated from Yale College. 
 
 Nathaniel Bowman was a native of Bath, born July, 1817 ; was 
 admitted to the bar in New Orleans in 1839. He died in 1847 at St. 
 Francisville, La. In 1842 he married Catharine Ball of New Orleans. 
 He left two children. "Bowman was a man of warm heart, noble 
 impulses, gentlemanly manners, and good intellectual faculties." 
 
 « c. 
 
GRADUATES. 499 
 
 Ammi Ruhamah Bradbury was born in Minot, December, 1810. 
 He was led while in college to consecrate himself to the work of the 
 Christian church. After graduation he entered the Theological Semi- 
 narj- at Bangor, but did not complete the course. "While there he sup- 
 plied the pulpit of the Freewill Baptist Church. In the following 
 year he received ordination. He was emplo3ed as a teacher in the 
 seminary at Parsonsfield, exercising his ministrj' meanwhile two years. 
 He then went to the Yale Theological School, graduated, and was resi- 
 dent a year after. He became associate principal in SmithviUe Semi- 
 narj', E. I., and held that position four years, still preaching as occa- 
 sion presented. In 1849 he served as an evangelist at Springvale, 
 Sanford, and North Berwick, and then became pastor of the Fre"ewill 
 Baptist Church, Portsmouth, N. H., where he labored successfully 
 four years. He then was successively principal of Strafford Semi- 
 nary, N. H., for some years, and pastor for some time of a church in 
 Biddeford. In 1861 he was invited to the charge of a church in 
 Providence, R. I., which under his labors received enlargement and 
 strength, and where he still resides . He has been a member of the 
 Board of Missions and the Education Society of the denomination, 
 and being one of the first to have enjoj-ed the privilege of a collegiate 
 education, he has held a prominent position and has honored his com- 
 munion and his college. 
 
 Mr. Bradbury has published sermons, has contributed hymns to the 
 public press, and will give to the world a volume containing a course 
 of discourses on the Ten Commandments, besides other occasional 
 addresses, and has in hand a volume of ballads and hymns awaiting a 
 favorable opportunity. In 1844 he married Caroline Livermore John- 
 son, daughter of Rev. Mr. Johnson of Farmington, at the head of the 
 female department of SmithviUe Seminary. They have had three sons 
 and a daughter. The sons have graduated from Brown University. 
 
 John Jay Butler was born in Berwick, April, 1814. On leaving 
 college he was iassistant teacher in the seminary in Parsonsfield for 
 some months, principal of the academy in Farmington in 1838 and 
 1839, and of Clinton Seminary, N. Y., in 1841 and 1842. He pros- 
 ecuted theological study at the seminary, Andover, Mass , graduating 
 in 1844. He has maintained high position in the denomination with 
 which he has been connected, having held the professorship of sys- 
 tematic theology in the seminary- at Whitestown, N. Y., ten years, in 
 that at New Hampton, N. H., sixteen j-ears, in Bates College, Lewis- 
 ton, three years, and is now professor of' sacred literature in Hillsdale 
 College, Michigan. 
 
500 HISTORY OF BOWDOIX COLLEGE. 
 
 Dr. Butler received the degree of D. D. from Bowdoiu College in 
 1860. He has been a diligent student and worker, has published a 
 system of theology, commentaries on the gospels, the Acts, on 
 Romans and Corinthians, as also minor works, and has been a fre- 
 quent contributor to the Morning Star, Dover, N. H., for many 
 years. In 1844 he married Elizabeth Everett, who died in 1877, 
 leaving a son and two daughters. The son (Dartmouth College, 1873) 
 is now professor of Latin in Hillsdale College. 
 
 William Henry Clark, born in Hallowell, April, 1819, was son of 
 William Clark (1810) . On leaving college he taught a school in Exe- 
 ter, Me., and a classical school in Philadelphia. He then studied law 
 in Hallowell with his father and in Philadelphia, where he was admitted 
 to the bar. He engaged in the practice in Hallowell a few years, and 
 then took passage in a sailing vessel around Cape- Horn for California, 
 arrived at San Francisco in 1849, and prosecuted his profession for 
 several years. He retired a few years since from the bar, and settled 
 on a farm at San Mateo, not far from San Francisco, engaging in 
 agricultural and kindred pursuits, in which he is reputed to be suc- 
 cessful. While in San Francisco he held the office of judge of the 
 city and county court. He has never married. 
 
 George Washington Cleaveland was born in Salem, Mass.. 
 December, 1815. After graduation he entered upon the course of 
 study at Andover Theological Seminary and graduated in 1841, hav- 
 ing suspended his professional studies one year to teach the academy 
 at Orleans, Mass. He supplied the pulpit of the First Church in 
 Marblehead, Mass., several months during the absence of the pastor. 
 He then exercised the pastoral office for seven j'ears in the Presby- 
 terian Church, Waterford, Erie County, Pa. ; and since 1849 in the 
 Presbyterian Church in Harbor Creek in the same county. In 1843 
 he married Kezia S. Doane, daughter of Capt. Seth Doane of 
 Orleans. They have had seven children, of whom five' are now living.. 
 One of his sons is now in Union Theological Seminary, New York. 
 
 John Reed Coffin was born in Damariscotta, November, 1817. 
 He read law with his father, was admitted to. the bar of Lincoln 
 Count}', and engaged in the practice of the profession. He died 
 October, 1861. 
 
 John Lewis Cutler was born in Farmington, December, 1816. On 
 leaving college he entered upon the study of law in the office of his 
 
GRADUATES. 501 
 
 father, Hon. Nathan Cutler, and his brother-in-law Hon. Robert 
 Goodenow, and at the Harvard Law School under Professors Story 
 and Greenleaf, was admitted to the bar in Franklin County, and 
 began the practice of his profession in his native town. He held the 
 oflSce of county attorney from 1842 to 1849, was elected to the State 
 Senate in 1854, removed to Augusta and formed a partnership in the 
 practice of law with Hon. Joseph H. Williams, and in the manage- 
 ment of the Maine Insurance Company, of which he. was for a time 
 president. He was for several years a trustee of the Maine Insane 
 Asylum. In 1865 and 1866 he travelled in Europe, Egypt, and Pal- 
 estine. On his return from abroad he settled on a cotton plantation 
 in Brooks County, Ga., and in 1848 was a member of the convention 
 for framing a constitution for that State. In 1870 he again went 
 abroad and travelled with his children in Great Britain, Norway, 
 Sweden, and Russia. For the last few 5'ears he has been interested 
 in meteorological observations, communicating monthly with the Smith- 
 sonian Institution or the chief signal office. 
 
 In 1843 he married Abby Dougherty, daughter of Hon. Hiram 
 Belcher of Farmington, who died in the spring of 1847, leaving two 
 sons. In 1848 he married Zelpha Ingraham, daughter of Hon. Reuel 
 WUliams, who died in 1851, leaving two daughters. The oldest son. 
 Col. Nathan, is a lawyer in New York, and the second a phj'sician in 
 Boston. The elder daughter died in Paris, France, 1872, the younger 
 was married to William Allen, son of Prof. H. B. Smith (1834) and 
 Elizabeth L. Allen (nee) , daughter of Dr. William Allen, president of 
 the college. 
 
 Joseph E. F. Dunn was born in Poland, March, 1815, son of 
 Hon. Josiah Dunn, an active, enterprising man of business, and an 
 influential politician, who represented his town in the Legislature of 
 Massachusetts before Maine became a separate State, was high sheriff 
 of Cumberland County some years, and afterwards was a member of 
 the House and Senate of Maine. After taking his degree he entered 
 upon the study of law, took two terms in the Law School at Cam- 
 bridge, was admitted to the bar in Portland in 1839, and formed a 
 copartnership with Hon. Joshua A. Lowell in Machias, Mr. Lowell 
 being at the time a member of Congress. He afterwards practised for 
 a short time in Dixfleld and Hallowell.- He entered with much ear- 
 nestness upon the business of his profession, which during his connec- 
 tion with Mr. Lowell imposed much responsibility on a young man. 
 The care proved too severe for him, and failing health requiring change 
 of employment, he engaged in .business with a brother, demanding less 
 
502 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGK. 
 
 conflnement, which he prosecuted with characteristic energy until the 
 disease which had been lurliing in his system terminated in his death 
 in 1854. 
 
 Honorable mention was made of Mr. Dunn in the papers of the 
 State, and he is remembered by friends •' as a man of energetic and 
 industrious business habits," as singularly affectionate and kind- 
 hearted, and one who had gained a large circle of personal friends. 
 He was just entering political life when his career was suddenly 
 arrested, being in nomination for the State Senate, with the assured 
 prospect of an election. 
 
 In 1839 he married a daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Badger of Bruns- 
 wick, and left one child. 
 
 Andrew Dunning was born in Brunswick, July, 1815. After 
 graduation he entered upon a course of theological study in Bangor 
 Seminary, where he graduated in 1840. He was soon after ordained 
 over a Congregational church and society in Plainfleld, Conn. In 
 1860 he was installed over the church in Thompson, Conn., where he 
 ministerfed until his death in 1872. A man of ability and culture, and 
 a faithful servant of his Master, respected and beloved. He died of 
 lingering and painful disease, a cancerous affection. 
 
 He married twice. His first wife was Miss Euth Coit of Plain- 
 field, Conn. , who died leaving two children ; his second. Miss Annie 
 Ketchum of New York, who died leaving two children. 
 
 Jordan G. Ferguson was born in South Berwick, and was fitted 
 for college in the academy there. He passed the year 1834 at Cam- 
 bridge as a university student. He then entered Bowdoin College. 
 His mind was mature, his tastes refined, his scholarship highly respect- 
 able, while his character commanded respect and love. He studied with 
 Messrs. Fairfield & Haynes in Saco, at the Cambridge Law School, and 
 in New York, where in 1841 he settled. He went at once into active and 
 successful practice, having at one time for his partner the Hon. George 
 Folsom, and still later William P. Lee, Esq. In 1848 a diflflculty in his 
 throat which made speaking painful induced him to seek relief in a sea 
 voyage and in foreign travel. He visited the South of Europe, and saw 
 and enjoyed much amid scenes whose fame and history were familiar to 
 his mind ; but that which he chiefly sought he did not find. He re- 
 turned the evident victim of consumption. The following two winters 
 were spent on the island of St. Thomas, and the summer of 1851 among 
 the hills of Berkshire. The mountain air and the tropic breeze only 
 prolonged awhile and soothed his declining days. " The last few 
 
GRADUATES. 503 
 
 weeks of his life were spent at Middletown, Conn., in the family of 
 his uncle, the Rev. Mr. Goodwin, whei-e he expired on the 30th of 
 October, 1851, in the communion of the church, and as we have rea- 
 son to believe, in the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and holy 
 hope. . . . Though his life was marked by no striking event, he held 
 from the first an enviable position among his competitors at the bar, 
 not only by his abilities, but by his high-toned honor." He was per- 
 haps too diffident for entire success in a profession which requires a 
 good deal of self-reliance, if not of assurance. But this impediment 
 he might in time have got over. Though devoted to his professional 
 duties, he found time to gratify his tastes for general literature. Few 
 men of his age have read so much and so judiciously. Affable man- 
 ners and rare powers of conversation made him a most agreeable com- 
 panion. For still better qualities he was warmly loved and truly 
 mourned. c. 
 
 George "Waeren Field was born in Belfast, December, 1818. 
 He spent some years as a teacher in his native town, in Bangor, and 
 Gorham; then pursued the theological course at Bangor, where he 
 graduated in 1846. He was first ordained over the Congregational 
 Church in Brewer, whence he was called to the pastorate of the 
 Salem,Street Church in Boston, and from thence to the Central Church 
 in Bangor, where he is still in active service. In 1869 he received 
 from the college the doctorate of divinity. Dr. Field is accounted 
 among the most earnest, faithful, and able of the ministry of Maine. 
 He has alwaj's been studious and scholarly in his habits and tastes . 
 An attractive preacher of the Word, singularly free from all disposition 
 for more public efforts, he chooses to confine his labors at- home, and 
 as one result of his retiring disposition he has published few ser- 
 mons, or, as he prefers to express it, " the few have been published 
 for him." 
 
 In 1876 he married Mrs. Lucy Humphrey, and is without children. 
 
 John Ork Fiske was born in Bangor, June, 1818. After gradua- 
 tion he spent two years in Vernon, Miss. , as a private tutor in a familj-. 
 He then pursued a theological course in the seminary in his native 
 town, graduating in 1842. He was ordained pastor of the Congrega- 
 tional Church, Winter Street, Bath, where he still remains in the 
 thirty- sixth year of his service. He has always been a diligent stu- 
 dent, and distinguished for unwearied energy, devotedness, and suc- 
 cess, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. He has been 
 honored bj- his brethren, of which his presidency of the Maine Mis- 
 
504 HISTORY OF BOWnOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 sionarj' Society is the highest proof. In 1868 he received the degree 
 of D. D. from the college, has been from an early period of his minis- 
 try a member of its Board of Overseers or of Trustees, and continu- 
 ously on its examining committees. Dr. Fiske has been a contributor 
 to the public press and has published sermons on various topics.. 
 
 He married Miss Marj- A., daughter of Eev. Dr. Tappan of 
 Augusta. They have had two daughters and a son The eldest 
 daughter died in 1877. The son is a graduate of Amherst College. 
 
 Mark Gould was born in Wilton, December, 1811. After gradua- 
 tion he was emploj'ed for a year or more as principal of the Academj' 
 at Alfred, and of a high school in Canton, Mass. He then took the 
 theological course at Andover, Mass., graduating in 1841. He went 
 to Ohio, engaged ia teaching in Georgetown and in Blendon, where 
 he was principal of the preparatory department of Central College, 
 supplj'ing at the same time the church in that town ; he supplied 
 churches in the Western Reserve at Huntington and Wadswbrth. In 
 1851 he was ordained over the Congregational Church in Andover, 
 Me., and remained there seven j'ears ; he subsequently supplied the 
 churches in Standish, Monmouth, Chichester, and Nelson, N. H , 
 in all nearly ^ eighteen years. His present residence is Ashburn- 
 ham, Mass. In 1872 he published a funeral sermon, and in 1^78 a 
 volume, " Pictures of Zion Terrestrial and Celestial," of which a 
 second edition is soon to be issued ; and has contributed several 
 articles in prose and poetry to the public press. While in service in 
 Maine he was scribe of the Oxford Conference, and has been superin- 
 tendent of schools for several years where he has resided. He has 
 been a faithful, diligent servant of his Master, and his labors have 
 been blessed with repeated tokens of Divine favor. 
 
 Mr. Gould has married twice : first, in 1847, Electa Radly of Jersey, 
 Ohio, who died in 1850 without children ; second, Abigail A. Carter 
 of Bethel in 1852, by whom he has had three daughters, — the eldest 
 a graduate of Glenwood Seminary for Ladies, who died April, 1880. 
 
 Albekt Rutek Hatch was born in Greenland, N. H., October, 
 1817. After graduation he was principal for a year of Bracket Acad- 
 emy in his native town. He then entered on the study of law in the 
 office of Hon. Ichabod Bartlett, Portsmouth, N. H., was admitted 
 to the bar of Rockingham County, and settled at once in that town, 
 where he has been in active practice from that time and prominent in 
 the profession. In 1847-8 he represented the town in the Legislature, 
 was county solicitor and clerk of the United States courts. In 1874, 
 
GRADUATES. 505 
 
 he represented that city in the Legislature of New Hampshire, and 
 was Speaker of the House. He took interest in whatever related to 
 education, and held several positions of responsibility in the city. 
 
 In 1848 he married Mis's Margaret R. Harris of Portsmouth, by 
 whom he had two sons and two daughters. His eldest son is coun- 
 sellor-at-law in Portsmouth, and the second, Francis March (Bowdoin 
 College, 1873), counsellor-at-law in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. 
 
 William Hawes, born in Boston, April, 1817, on leaving college 
 entered on the study of medicine, graduated at the Medical School of 
 Harvard College, and settled in his native city for the practice of his 
 profession. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 
 He died in 1854. • 
 
 Eliphalet Smith Hopkins was born in New Portland, September, 
 1812. After graduating he entered the Theological Seminary, Bangor, 
 graduated in 1840, and was ordained over the Congregational Church 
 in Rumford, where he labored successfully nearly twelve years. Fail- 
 ing health compelled him to resign the pastorate and to retire to a 
 farm in his Dative town, although he still exercised as occasion offered 
 the ministry he had received in that and neighboring towns. After a 
 short and painful illness he died in 1861. He was greatly esteemed 
 and respected in college, and ever gave proof of a sincere, unostenta- 
 tious piety, while his general excellence of character secured for him 
 the confidence and regard of the community. 
 
 George W. Lamb was born May, 1818, son of Rev. George Lamb 
 of Brunswick ; " suffered much during his college course from ill health ; 
 but his talents and perseverance enabled him notwithstanding this 
 drawback to take a high stand as a scholar. After two years in the 
 Cambridge Law School he went to New Orleans and settled. There 
 he gained the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. In the 
 midst of the most favorable prospects and while making himself highly 
 useful by his talents and integrity, he was suddenly cut down by the 
 yellow fever, August, 1853. His remaijis were conveyed to the place 
 of his birth. Resolutions passed soon after his death at a meeting of 
 the New Orleans bar pay a just tribute to his classical scholarship and 
 to his high attainments in modern literature ; and speak of him as one 
 " who though young in years had already obtained an honorable rank 
 at the bar, and whose talents and industry justified the expectatioii 
 that he would in due time rise to eminence." He married Jane Fales| 
 daughter of Stephen Fales, Esq., of Boston, and had a son and 
 daughter both living. c. 
 
506 HISTORY OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 Horace Lunt of York "was a jovial youth, a fluent, constant 
 talker, a joker and a wit. He died at home of fever a few days after 
 our Commencement." He was nineteen years old. c. 
 
 Albert Merrill was born in Frankfort, March, 1812. After 
 graduating he taught school in Bath for a time and then studied law ; 
 was admitted to the bar and engaged in the profession in that city ; 
 subsequently he removed to Portland. He took an active part in poli- 
 tics and edited the Northern Tribune in Bath during the administration 
 of President Fillmore. He fell dead in the streets of Portland, 
 February, 1876. 
 
 Edward F. Mitchell was born in Waldoboro', where his father, 
 ' Rev. D. M. Mitchell, now of Roxbury, Mass., then lived. He was 
 fitted at North Yarmouth Academy and passed honorably and virtu- 
 ously' through his college course. Having consecrated himself to the 
 gospel ministry he went to the Bangor Seminary and stayed awhile. 
 To relieve himself from debt he resolved to engage temporarily in 
 teaching, and for this purpose opened a private school in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. After two successful years thus spent, he entered the Theologi- 
 cal School in Princeton, N. J. But in the spring of 1841 he became 
 alarmingly ill ; he started on a Southern journey, was advised at Phila- 
 delphia that it was too late, returned to Princeton, languished there 
 a few weeks more, and was then conveyed home to die among those 
 who were most dear to him. "Through all his sickness and in the 
 near view of death he was the same calm, resigned, cheerful Chris- 
 tian." This truly pious and promising youth was cut off at the age 
 of twenty-four. o. 
 
 William D. Mokrin was from Quebec, where his father was an 
 eminent physician and also at one time maj'or of the city. From 
 Brunswick he went to Europe and attended medical lectures in Paris, 
 London, and Edinburgh. On his d-eturn his father obtained for him 
 the position of government plp'sician to the blacks (just then emanci- 
 pated) in one of the West India Islands, and there he soon after died. 
 
 c. 
 
 Brtce McLellan Patten was born in Topsham, March, 1814. 
 After graduation he went South and engaged in teaching in Coving- 
 ton, Ky., for two years, and in Louisville from 1839 to 1871. Since 
 the last date he has resided in Bentonsport, Iowa, on a farm, inter- 
 spersing his agricultural pursuits with occasional lectures. His career 
 
GRADUATES. 507 
 
 as a teacher has not been in the usual sphere of such labors. The 
 singular fact that three of his father's family were blind from cataract, 
 it is very probable, excited his sympathies and turned his attention to 
 those who were suffering from that infirmity ; and in 1840 he began 
 to teach a class of blind pupils in Louisville, and with such success 
 that in 1842, when the State Institution for the Education of the 
 Blind was established, he was appointed a trustee and its superintend- 
 ent. He held that position twenty-nine years, and then retired. In 
 1858 the American Printing House for the Blind having been char- 
 tered by the Legislature of Kentucky to print in raised letters for 
 their use, he was appointed on its trustee board and its managing 
 director and secretary. "In this position he edited and printed fables 
 for children, some of Shakespeare's plays, the ^neid of Virgil, and 
 other books . 
 
 Mr. Patten married in 1851 Mary Earle of Brunswick, who died in 
 1856. In 1870 he again married Josephine Burns of Iowa. He has 
 three children, a son and two daughters. 
 
 Thomas Fitch Perlet was born in Bridgton, February, 1816. 
 After graduation he entered on the study of medicine at Portland, 
 under the direction of the well-known and highly esteemed Dr. 
 Timothy Little. He took his medical degree in the Medical School 
 connected with the college in 1841, and settled in his native town for 
 the practice of his profession. In 1843 he married Sarah F. Barrows, 
 daughter of William and Mary P. (Fessenden) Barrows, who died 
 February, 1865, without children. In 1853 Dr. Perley removed to 
 Florida and settled at Hazzard's Bluff, near Jacksonville. In 1861, 
 upon the breaking out of the Rebellion, he left Florida and entered the 
 army of- the Union as a brigade surgeon under Gen. Grant in the 
 Army of the Cumberland. For a year or more during the war he held 
 the position of medical inspector-general, residing in Washington, and 
 did much to rectify abuses in the hospital service. Since the death of 
 his wife and the close of the war he has divided his time when at 
 home between Bridgton, Portland, and Naples, much engaged in 
 microscopy and the study of natural history, particularly of entomol- 
 ogy, but has not practised in his profession except in response to the 
 calls of particular friends and of those who insisted on availing them- 
 selves of his well-known skill and knowledge. Dr. Perley has travelled 
 from time to time in the Southern States, in Europe, and the West 
 Indies. He has been a constant reader, especially of scientific works, 
 in English and other modern languages, but has refrained from pub- 
 lishing anything himself. 
 
508 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Charles E. Pike was born in Calais, April, 1816. After gradua- 
 tion he spent two years in teaching a private school in Machias. He 
 then read law in his native town with the late George Downes, Esq , 
 and Mr. Granger, and at the Law School, Cambridge, Mass. He 
 has devoted himself to the practice of the profession successively in 
 Machias, Boston, and Oshkosh, Wis., where he now resides. He 
 represented his town in the Legislature of Maine in 1847, and the city 
 of Boston in that of Massachusetts in 1856. He was solicitor of inter- 
 nal revenue at Washington in 1865 and 1866. 
 
 Mr. Pike married Mary K. Bowles, daughter of S. J. Bowles, Esq., 
 of Roxbury. They have had seven children, of whom five are now 
 living. 
 
 William Wilberfobce Rand was born in Gorham, December, 1816, 
 son of Rev. Asa Rand, so long pastor of the church in Gorham, who 
 on retiring from that pastorate established the Christian Mirror and 
 afterwards had charge of the Boston Recorder. After graduation he 
 entered on a theological course at Bangor and graduated in 1840, 
 during his course teaching the preparatory classes of that institution. 
 He was ordained into the pastorate of the Dutch Reformed Church 
 in Canastota, N. Y., where he remained three years. He was then 
 stated supply at Richmond and Standish, and supplied some months 
 the pulpit in Bethel during the illness of its pastor. In 1848 he 
 entered upon the service of the American Tract Society in its publish- 
 ing department, as assistant editor of its publications, and at length 
 became secretary for that department, a position of responsibility 
 and constant labor. He preaclies still as occasion requires. Modest 
 and retiring, he is of superior intellectual powers and sterling qualities. 
 
 Mr. Rand married in 1841 Miss Marcia S. Dunning of Brunswick, 
 by whom he has had a son and daughter. He has published a Bible 
 dictionary, " Songs of Zion," and minor publications, besides editing 
 the issues of the society. , 
 
 Charles Alexander Savage was born in Bangor, October, 1814, 
 brother of William T. (1833). After taking his degree he read law 
 in the office of William Abbott, Esq., Bangor, was admitted to the 
 Penobscot bar, at once went to the West and entered on the practice 
 of his profession in Quincy, 111. Having been appointed Illinois 
 agent of the Munn Land Company, New York, he abandoned active 
 practice of law, and engaged in this together with a general land 
 agency. In 1848 with others he established a banking house in 
 Quincy, and prosecuted the enterprise with vigor. With extensive 
 
GRADUATES. 509 
 
 acquaintance with that part of the countrj', with its leading men and 
 its interests, he discerned the capabilities of the Mississippi Valley an^ 
 the importance of railways, and enlisted with energy and public spirit 
 in the new field of enterprise open to his far-seeing eye ; became con- 
 nected officially with the origin, construction, and management «of 
 most of the railways that have contributed largely to the prosperity of 
 Quincy. He was instrumental and efficient in securing the charter 
 of the company which threw at Quincy the first iron bridge that spans 
 the Mississippi. In all the positions he has held " he has acted with 
 uniform integrity and intelligence and with an overruling public spirit." 
 His connection with the railway system of Illinois enabled Mr. Savage 
 to furnish, at a critical period, important facilities for the operations of 
 the government in the Civil War, and his prompt efficiency was con- 
 spicuous. 
 
 Mr. Savage has proved himself a citizen worthy of all honor for active 
 effort in the moral and social welfare of the communit3^ ' ' Long a 
 member of the First Presbyterian Church, he is a Christian gentleman 
 of the noblest type. He has munificently aided the charitable, edu- 
 cational, and religious institutions of our city, and has at all times 
 been the friend of science and art. Of affable address, rare judg- 
 ment, and a sagacious observer, he wields a large infiuence with the 
 leading men of Quincy, and is admired and esteemed by all who know 
 him." (From a history of Quincy.) 
 
 Mr. Savage first married in 1842 Elvey Wells, daughter of Levy 
 Wells. Esq. She died in 1873. He again married in 1875 Mrs. 
 Olivia T. Murphy, daughter of William Thomas, M. D., late of 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 
 John Quincy Ai>ams Scamman was born in Saco, December, 1814. 
 On leaving college he read law in the office of John Shepley, Esq., was 
 admitted to the bar in 1842 and practised law in Saco a few years. 
 He then removed to Bosrton, and again to New York, and subse- 
 quently Philadelphia. Of late years Saco has been his home. 
 
 In 1846 he married Julia, daughter of Thomas and Mary A. Cutts, 
 who died in 1868 leaving five children, three daughters and two sons. 
 
 RuFus King Sewall was born in Edgecomb, January, 1814. He 
 entered the Theological Seminary at Bangor, graduated in 1840, was 
 licensed to preach, and for a year supplied the Third Congregational 
 Church, St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; then supplied some months at East Cam- 
 bridge, Mass., at Burlington, Mass., and also the Eobinson Church, 
 Plymouth, Mass. , to the pastorate of which he was invited as he had 
 
510 HISTOEV OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 been at St. Johnsburj', but weakness of lungs forbade and prevented 
 iis exercising his voice for several months. While thus disabled he 
 prepared a memoir of Joseph Sewall, D. D., pastor of the Old South, 
 Boston, which, with his lectures on "The Holy Spirit and bis Con- 
 verting Power," was published by the Massachusetts Sabbath School 
 Society in 1846. The condition of his health led him to go to St. 
 Augustine, Florida, where he resided five years. During this period, 
 with occasional aid and so far as his health permitted, he sustained 
 services in the Presbyterian Church in that city. He also a part of 
 the time employed himself as a teacher of the children of Gen. Worth, 
 then in command of the post, and of neighboring families. He also 
 wrote " Sketches of St. Augustine, and its Advantages for Invalids," 
 New York, 1848. The uncertainty of health, and the state of his 
 wife's property requiring special care, led him to relinquish ministe- 
 rial Work and to enter upon the study of law with his relative, Kiah 
 B. Sewall, Esq. (1829), in Mobile, Ala. The disturbed condition of 
 affairs at the opening of the war rendering Florida uncomfortable as 
 a residence, he returned North and established himself in the practice 
 of law in Wiscasset, where he has since lived. He has practised in 
 the United States Circuit and Supreme Courts. 
 
 Besides Mr. Sewall's minor publications, as " The Christian Minia- 
 ture," Boston, 1844, an "Address on Temperance at Jacksonville, 
 Fla., July 4, 1848," " Sketches of St. Augustine," before refen-ed to, 
 " History of Lincoln Lodge," his mo^t considerable work is " Ancient 
 Dominions of Maine," Octavo, Bath, 1859. He has contributed to 
 the collections of the Maine Historical Society, of which he is a mem- 
 ber and on its standing and publishing committee, as well as to the 
 local press, articles on questions of our early history. , 
 
 Mr. Sewall has been twice married : in 1843 to Mrs. Anna E. Han- 
 son (nee Whitehust) of St. Augustine, by whom he had two sons and 
 three daughters, and in 1862 to Emeline Matilda Barnes, principal 
 of the female department. No. 12 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 by whom he has had a daughter and a son. 
 
 John Rutledge Shbplet was born in Saco, June, 1817, son of 
 Hon. Ether Shepley, foi-merly chief justice of Maine. Repeated 
 attempts by our circulars to obtain particulars of his career since 
 graduation having failed, the following statements are derived from 
 other sources : He studied law, and has devoted himself to the pro- 
 fession in St. Louis, Mo., where he is a prominent and successful law- 
 yer. He has declined offers of a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court 
 of Missouri, and on that of the United States Circuit Court, as also of 
 
GRADUATES. 511 
 
 political positions. In 1868 he received the degree of LL. D. from 
 the college. 
 
 Samuel Silsbee was born in Alfred. He pursued the study of 
 theology in the Oberlin Institute, Ohio, and in the Bangor Seminary. 
 He wished to be a missionary in the foreign field, and was accepted 
 as such by the Baptist Board. In consequence, however, of some 
 peculiar opinions which he was ascertained to hold, he was pro- 
 nounced ineligible. He then taught school, first in East Machias, 
 then in Calais. He died June, 1842, at Jackson, aged twenty-five. 
 The following charitable estimate is from the pen of Prof. Shepard : 
 
 " I should say the key to Mr. Silsbee's character was excess : excess 
 in labor, sacrifice, goodness. That is, he was an extremist in his doc- 
 trine of attainment, held the perfectionist view, and claimed to have 
 reached the sinless point. I think it was so. He was an eminently 
 good, devoted man." C. 
 
 Gdstavus Adolphds Steward, born in Anson, was fitted l?)r col- 
 lege by Rev. James Hall. His law studies were prosecuted under the 
 Hon David Bronson and in the school at Cambridge. After spend- 
 ing a winter in Cuba for his health, he engaged in business as a part- 
 ner of his late instructor ; but he was too feeble for a profession so 
 arduous, and soon relinquished it. In 1852 he was chosen with great 
 unanimity a member of the State Senate for the county of Somerset. 
 From the winter session which he attended he went home greatly en- 
 feebled, went back to Anson, and died Aug. 2, 1853. He married 
 Nancy Hapgood of Waterford. They had no children. Mr. Steward 
 appears to have been a very popular man, and one who well deserved 
 his popularity. C. 
 
 Ebenezee Stockbkidge was born in Freeport, October, 1807. 
 Soon after taking his degree he went to Connecticut, where for a few 
 months he taught school, and then to Georgia where he was engaged 
 in teaching twelve years. He was embarrassed in his work by what 
 he attributed to sectional prejudice, not unfrequently causing him 
 severe annoyance. With his regular work he combined somewhat 
 miscellaneous reading in law, medicine, and theology, his ultimate 
 object being the last. In 1850 he removed to Tennessee, and took 
 charge of what was called Holston College, and held the position five 
 years, meanwhile continuing his attention to theological reading and 
 Hebrew. During the war of the Rebellion he maintained his alle- 
 giance to the Union, and in consequence himself and family were 
 
512 HISTORY OF BOWDOIX COLLEGE. 
 
 exposed to trial and sometimes danger, and himself was once arrested 
 and thrown into prison. No further particulars have been received 
 from him. 
 
 Lorenzo D. M. Sweat was born in ParsonsBeld, May, 1818. He 
 pursued legal studies after graduation with Hon. Rufiis Mclntire in 
 his native town, attended a course at the Harvard Law School, com- 
 pleted his studies ;in. the office of Howard & Osgood in Portland, and 
 was admitted to the Cumberland bar in 1840. He spent the winter 
 of 1840-41 in the office of Pierre Soule, New Orleans, and prac- 
 tised law a few months in that city. He then removed to Portland, 
 where he has since resided. In 1855 he took a European tour. He 
 has been twice city solicitor of Portland. In 1861 and 1862 he was 
 in the Senate of Maine. In the latter year he was elected to repre- 
 sent his district at Washington, served through the Thirty-eighth Con- 
 gress, and was subsequently twice renominated by the Democratic 
 party, but failed of election. In 1873 and 1874 he travelled abroad 
 again? visiting Europe and Egypt; In 1849 Mr. Sweat married Mar- 
 garet J. Mussey, daughter of John Mussey, Esq , of Portland. Thej' 
 have had no children. 
 
 Moses Erastus Sweat was born in Parsonsfield, January, 1816. 
 He at once began the study of medicine with his father, Dr. Moses 
 Sweat of his native town, and took his degree in the Medical School 
 of the college in 1840. He settled in his profession in Limington 
 and, remained there until 1862, when he removed to Parsonsfield where 
 he still continues in the pradtice. In 1849 he married Eebekah P. 
 Hubbard of Lowell, Mass. ■ They have had five children. Besides 
 town offices he has represented his town in the State Legislature. 
 
 George Foster Talbot was born in East Machias, January, 1819 ; 
 after graduating became assistant teacher in Washington Academy 
 in his native town, at the same time pursuing legal studies in the 
 office of Hon. Joshua A. Lowell, which he completed in that of Hon. 
 J. W. Bradbury of Augusta. He was admitted to the Kennebec bar 
 ^and began practice in Skowhegan in 1840. The year following he 
 removed to East Machias, where and in Machias, the county seat, 
 with the exception of a year in Columbia, he continued practice until 
 in 1864 he removed to Portland, where he has since resided, excepting 
 the interval of a year when he was solicitor of the treasury in Wash- 
 ington. Mr. Talbot has been superintendent of schools and county 
 attorney in his earlier residence, United States attorney for Maine 
 
GRADUATES. 513 
 
 several years, commissioner to investigate what were known as the 
 " paper credits," 1870 and 1871, and to revise the Constitution of the 
 State in 1875. Mr. Talbot contributed articles among other prints to 
 the New York Tribune, which were valued for their vigor and keen- 
 ness. In 1844 he married Elizabeth Leavitt Niel, daughter of John 
 G. Niel, Esq., of Skowhegan, who died in the following year, having 
 given birth to twin daughters of whom one survives. In 1851 he mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Bayliss Lincoln, daughter of Theodore Lincoln, Jr., of 
 Dennysville, a descendant of Gen. Lincoln of Revolutionary fame. 
 By this second marriage he has had four daughters and three sons, 
 of whom two sons and two daughters are living. Mr. Talbot has 
 contributed to magazines and newspapers articles and addresses on 
 literary and economic topics. 
 
 Isaac Winslow Talbot was born in Turner, May, 1813. The 
 circular having failed to reach him, I learn from a source on which I 
 rely that he studied law and practised for a time in Andover ; that he 
 abandoned the profession, removed to the "West, and engaged in some 
 kmd of business. He is not married. 
 
 Francis William Upham, born in Rochester, N. H., September, 
 1817, was brother of Prof. Thomas C. Upham. After graduation he 
 taught the academy in Stratford, N. H., one year. He then read law 
 with Hon. Judge Upham, his uncle, in Concord, N. H., was admitted 
 to the bar of Massachusetts in 1840, but after a few years retired from 
 the practice and removed to the city of New York, where he has since 
 resided. For some years he has been professor and lecturer on phi- 
 losophy at Rutgers College in the city of New York. In 1869 he re- 
 ceived the degree of LL. D. from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
 Prof. Upham has published " The Church and Science," Andover, 
 Mass., 1861, anon\-mous, "The Wise Men," "The Star of our 
 Lord," and " Thoughts on the Holy Gospels," works showing learn- 
 ing, ability, and culture. He has quite recently travelled abroad. He 
 has married twice : Elizabeth Brewer of Taunton, Mass. , and Eliza- 
 beth R. Kendall of the city of New York. 
 
 William Warren was born in Waterford, October, 1806, and was 
 fitted for college for the most part at Phillips Academy, Andover. 
 Entering college much older than is usual, at twenty-seven and of 
 infirm health, he did not graduate with his class but hurried into the 
 Theological Seminary, Andover, and graduated in 1838. His stand- 
 ing subsequently justified the boards of the college in restoring his 
 
514 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 name to his class. In the fall of 1839 he took charge of a high school 
 in Windham, preaching meanwhile as occasion presented. Early in 
 1840 he was ordained to the pastorate in that town and remained nine 
 years'; each fall teaching the same school always with marked success. 
 In 1859 he became pastor of the Congregational Church in Upton, 
 Mass.^ and after a labor of seven years was then employed for a few 
 months in the service of the American Colonization Society. In 1867 
 he was appointed district secretarj' for Northern New England of the 
 American Board of Foreign Missions, and held the position until fid- 
 van cing years and enfeebled health compelled his resignation in 1878, 
 with a record of unwearied, faithful, and efficient service in the three 
 States embraced in his field of labor. At an early period he was 
 afflicted by pulmonary afi'ections with which he struggled through all 
 subsequent life. In the spring of 1878 he suffered an attack of pneu- 
 monia from which his system but partially rallied ; his strength gradu- 
 ally failed until, prostrated by the disease which had so long been doing 
 its fatal work, he died January, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Warren received the degree of D. D. from the college in 1870. 
 He was of strong native powers which he always cultivated ; was 
 addicted to ethical and metaphj'sical inquiries, the fruits of which 
 appeared in occasional contributions to the press which attracted the 
 notice of thinking men. He had a facility in discussing abstruse topics, 
 whether as a preacher of the Word or as advocate of the cause to 
 which he was specially devoted, with clearness and force. Some of 
 his efforts are remembered as excelling in point, energy, and convin- 
 cing power and effect In the interests of education in schools 
 where he resided, or as an overseer for several years of the college, 
 he was active and influential. He was a lover of children, and as is 
 affirmed hy one who knew of what he afllrmed, the Sabbath schools of 
 his whole district in his death lost a friend to be remembered. His 
 quick discernment and acute discrimination of character were shown 
 by sketches of his contemporaries communicated to the public press. 
 A keen observer, he knew as h^was known of men throughout New 
 England, and wherever known was respected as a faithful, laborious, 
 earnest, hopeful servant of his Master ; ready for every good work, 
 efficient and enterprising. Besides being a frequent contributor to 
 the public press, he published "Household Consecration," "The 
 Spirit's Sword," "Twelve Years among the Children," "These for 
 Those." 
 
 Dr. Warren married Mary Hubbard Lamson, Beverly, Mass. ; he 
 had six children, of whom two sons and one daughter survive. 
 
GRADUATES. 515 
 
 Geoege Albert Wheelwright was born in Bangor, December, 
 1818. On leaving college he was employed as a teacher in Hampden 
 and South Carolina. He began the study of law in Fredericksburg, 
 Va., but ill health deranged his plans of professional life. He at- 
 tempted the work of teaching a private school in Portland, but was 
 compelled from the same cause to abandon the undertaking. The 
 last few years he has lived in Wells on a farm. " My life," he writes 
 in a sad, disappointed tone, "' has been much broken up by ill health, 
 at two periods disablingly ; one when I was about commencing busi- 
 ness in the law, and again some years subsequently." He has con- 
 tributed, though anonymously, to the public press. In 1867 he married 
 Miss Katharine McKay. They have no family. 
 
 George Woods was born in North Yarmouth (now Yarmouth), 
 January, 1813. After graduation he was a teacher two years in the 
 seminary in Gorham ; from 1839 to 1841 was professor of mathemat- 
 ics in Jackson College, Columbia, Tenn. ; from 1843 to 1850 was 
 principal of North Yarmouth Academy, and from 1850 to 1854 of the 
 Institute in the same town ; and in 1855 and 1856 he was principal of 
 Lewiston Falls Academy. In 1859 he was elected chancellor of the 
 Western University of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg. Mr. Woods has 
 shown energy, enterprise, and persistence in his successful efforts to 
 raise the institution ' ' from a mere school of thirty-three boys with two 
 professors, no regular classes, whose whole property was not worth 
 850,000," to an institution numerously attended, and with ample 
 means of instruction in the several departments that enter into the 
 American collegiate system. Mr. Woods has published addresses 
 and lectures. In 1863 he received the degree of LL. D. from Jeffer- 
 son College, Pa. 
 
 In 1843 he married Caroline Haynes, daughter of Eev. John Haynes 
 of Livermore, by whom he had five children, of whom three are living. 
 In 1864 he married Ellen C. Crane, daughter of J. A. Crane, Fall 
 River, Mass. They have had three children, who are now living. 
 
 1838. 
 
 Dean Andrews was born in Fryeburg, February, 1808. Imme- 
 diately after graduating he went to the West and taught a school in 
 Marshall, 111., which became his residence ever after. Although he 
 did not take a regular theological course, he was not long after 
 ordained, was in the active ministry, combining with pastoral labors 
 teaching a part of the time. He was largely instrumental in establish- 
 ing an advanced seminary of learning in the town, as well as in organ- 
 
516 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 izing a Congregational church and erecting a house of worship, in which 
 he preached more than twenty years. His classmate Prof. Lane writes 
 that he was indefatigable in benevolent effort in every way and in 
 all directions in Marshall and its vicinity. " His record is on Jiigh, 
 and below in the hearts of all who knew him. His death was sudden. 
 While reading the Scriptures at family prayers he suddenly stopped, 
 fainted, and in the course of an hour ceased to breathe. The news of 
 his death spread rapidly and awakened the deepest sj'mpathy and 
 sorrow. A general meeting was called, and a large number of the 
 citizens of all classes assembled. Eesolutions expressing sympathy 
 for the family and the high regard cherished for him as a man, and 
 admiration and appreciation of his character, enterprise, and useful- 
 ness, were passed." 
 
 Mr. Andrews was twice married. He had four children, two sons 
 and two daughters. 
 
 Amander Barker was born in "Waterford, March, 1810. He 
 entered on theological study partly at the seminary in Bangor. He was 
 settled in the ministry in Vermont for some time when his health faUed, 
 he relinquished the labor of the pulpit, and employed himself in teach- 
 ing in New York and Indiana. He died, as we are informed, some 
 years since. He married Miss Jane Clark. These particulars the 
 writer has obtained from correspondence with friends. 
 
 Elbkidge Geret Bassett was born in Atkinson, N. H., August, 
 1814. His death was first made known to us by a member of 1864 
 as having occurred in 1850, and nothing of his course after graduation 
 has been ascertained. 
 
 Maurice Cart Blake was born in Otisfield, October, 1815. On 
 leaving college he had charge for some months of the academy in 
 Bethel. lie then engaged in the study of law with Charles Wash- 
 burn, Esq., at Harrison, completed his studies with Messrs. William 
 P. Fessenden & Deblois in Portland, was admitted to the bar in 1841 
 and opened an office for the practice of his profession in Camden, 
 where he remained eight years. He represented the town in the Legis- 
 lature in 1846. He then removed to Belfast and was collector of 
 the customs four years. In 1853 he removed to San Francisco, Cal., 
 where he still lives. He has been a member of the Lower House in 
 California, for nearly five years was county judge of the city and 
 county of San Francisco, and then judge of probate four years. Since 
 January, 1872, he hfi,s been presiding judge of the municipal criminal 
 
GRADUATES. 517 
 
 Court of the same county, and is (1881) mayor of the city. " His 
 reputation is that of unspotted 'otegrity." He has never married. 
 
 Edward Augustus Dana was born November, 1818, son of the 
 late Nathaniel Dana, Esq., for several years an oflScer in the Park 
 Street Church, Boston. After graduation he entered upon the study 
 of law in Nashua, N. H , was admitted to the bar in 1841, and opened 
 an office for the practice in that citj'. In 1844 he removed to Boston 
 and continued for some years in the profession, but soon after the 
 breaking out of the war of the Eebellion he retired from active prac- 
 tice of law, and " devoted himself to scientific pursuits relating to 
 ordnance, more particularly the invention of improved projectiles and 
 explosive fuses to be used in rifled cannon." 
 
 In 1862 he married EUza Nye Hathaway of New Bedford, Mass. 
 They have had four children. 
 
 Edward Henry Daveis, son of Charles S. (Bowdoin College, 
 1807), was born in Portland, April, 1818, studied law with his father 
 and at the Cambridge Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 
 1841. He practised law in Portland until 1860. Since that date he 
 has been mariager of the Portland Gas Light Company, and for a time 
 was financial agent of the Portland Company of Locomotive and 
 Marine Engine Builders. He published " Daveis's Reports " and an 
 enlarged edition of " Ware's Reports." He has been commissioner of 
 the United States courts and of the Court of Claims. 
 
 In 1853 he married Susan Williams Bridge of Augusta. They have 
 two daughters. 
 
 Isaac Newton Felch was born in Parsonsfield, December, 1815. 
 He resided in Belfast from 1841 to 1855, at first engaging in commer- 
 cial business, and subsequently studying law and admitted to the bar in 
 1843. For soms years he edited the Progressive Age and Waldo Sig- 
 nal, and afterwards the Portland Evening Courier. While in Belfast 
 he was for a time deputy collector of customs. He was a member of 
 the State Legislature several sessions. His last years were spent in 
 Gorham and in Hollis, where he died in 1870. 
 
 Mr. Felch married Isabella, daughter of Jacob Johnson of Bruns- 
 wick. 
 
 Smith Baktlett Goodenow was born in Providence, R. I., May, 
 1817, entered from Waterville College into the Senior class. After 
 taking his degree he taught a private classical school in Brunswick ; 
 
518 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 from 1840 to 1842 was superintendent of schools in Bath when the 
 graded system was first established, subsequently was employed as an 
 instructor in Iowa College, Grinnell. While in Bath he pursued theo- 
 logical study under the direction of Eev. (now Dr.) Eay Palmer, was 
 licensed to preach by the Lincoln Association, began a varied career 
 in the sacred office in Westerly, R. I., and was in 1844 ordained over 
 the Congregational Church in Milford, Mass. He labored successively 
 at Edgartown, Mass. ; as city missionary under the Presbj-terian or- 
 ganization in Newark, N. J. ; in the pastorate over a Congregational 
 church, Saugerties on the Hudson, and at Rockville, Conn. ; in the 
 service of the American Home Missionary Society in charge of the 
 church in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1862. His health requiring rest from 
 the labors of the pulpit, he spent three years as an editor, maintaining 
 the cause of the country in the war and reconstruction. He was then 
 installed in the pastorate in Earlville, Chandlerville, and lastly in 
 Roseville, 111., where he now resides. 
 
 Mr. Goodenow has been very active as a writer throughout in the 
 ministry of the Word, and in literary labor for the most part closely 
 connected with it. He published in 1843 a " New English Grammar " 
 and a " Book of Elements" in 1848. He has contributed to the New 
 Englander, Congregational Review, and the Quarterly; largely also to 
 the public press, papers and tracts on current topics of interest to 
 the religious public, as premium essays on the Sabbath and on slavery, 
 discussions of church polity, future retribution, etc. A still longer 
 list of treatises on mathematical and astronomical subjects, on the 
 exposition of Scripture, on questions of chronology stUl in debate, as 
 also on immortality and eschatology, are in manuscript awaiting publi- 
 cation " as they may be wanted." 
 
 In 1839 Mr. Goodenow married Miss Sarah Lang of Brunswick, 
 who died in 1851, having been the mother of six children, of whom 
 three survive. In 1853 he married Miss Caroline Russell Yates. 
 They have had two children, a son and a daughter. 
 
 Stephen Hobbs Hates was a native of Industry, born November, 
 1813. After finishing his collegiate course, he was principal of Lin- 
 coln Academy, Newcastle, two years. He then pursued a theological 
 course at Bangor Seminary, graduating in 1843. He at once was 
 engaged to supply the pulpit of the Congregational Church, Frankfort, 
 now Winterport, in a few months was ordained pastor and remained 
 there fifteen or more years. He accepted a call to the Congregational 
 Church in South Weymouth, Mass., and was installed over that peo- 
 ple March, 1858. Here he continued to labor thirteen years and six 
 
GRADUATES. 519 
 
 months, when he was called to the position he now holds, chaplain of 
 the Boston Seaman's Friend Society, and pastor of Salem Street 
 Mariners' Church. Favored with good health, he has rarely during 
 these years of service faUed to supply his own pulpit. He published 
 in 1874 a memorial discourse of the Salem Street Church, has given 
 to the public annual reports of the society of which he is chap- 
 lain, and has been a frequent contributor to the press and a valued 
 correspondent. 
 
 In 1845 he married Elizabeth Bean of Belfast, by whom he had six 
 children, three sons and three daughters. Two of these sons have 
 died, and one is at this writing a Senior in WlUiams College. In 1869 
 he married a second time Miss Elizabeth Cobb of Tinmouth, Vt. 
 They have one daughter. 
 
 Clattde Lewis Hemans, a son of the gifted and renowned English 
 poetess, was born in Dublin. He had been educated in part by his 
 uncle, Sir Thomas Brown, and came to this country under the patron- 
 age of his mother's friend and admirer. Prof. Norton of Cambridge. 
 " In college he exhibited marks of talent, especially in the acquisition 
 of languages. After graduation he spent a year in teaching in the 
 Western States ; he then returned to England, selected the medical 
 profession, went to Edinburgh for the purpose of study, and there 
 soon after died." c. 
 
 James Jeremiah Hill was bom in Phipsburg, May, 1815, young- 
 est son of Hon. Mark Langdon HiU and Mary McCobb. After grad- 
 uating he spent a year or more in the service of the American Tract 
 Society in the northern part of the State, which he always regarded as 
 a valuable experience in preparation for what was the chosen work of 
 his life He pursued a theological course at the Seminary, Andover, 
 Mass., graduating in 1843. He was ordained an evangelist in Bath 
 in the year following, and immediately set forth on a long and weari- 
 some journey of six weeks as one of the "Iowa Band" for his life's 
 work in the West. He first settled in Garnavillo, Clayton County, 
 Iowa, on the northeastern border of that State, where for five years 
 he labored earnestly and successfully, being instrumental in organizing 
 several churches in that region. Thus until the last j'ear of his life he 
 devoted himself to his loved work in different towns in Iowa, Illinois, 
 and Minnesota ; active and energetic in forming churches and stimu- 
 lating the people to erect houses of worship. During the last two 
 years of his active life he was employed as general agent of the 
 American Home Missionary Association for Iowa. 
 
520 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Mr. Hill was deeply interested in the establishment of Iowa College, 
 and actually for that object contributed it is said the first dollar. A 
 member of the Ministers' Association is authority for the statement 
 that when the question was raised in that body, "Shall we have a 
 college in Iowa?" Mr. Hill rose and said, "Yes, we must have a 
 college, for I have a son three weeks old and I want a Christian col- 
 lege to send him to " ; and' he then took out his pocket-book and made 
 the first donation to the object ; and it may be added that his last 
 donation to any object was the same amount for that institution and 
 Chicago Theological Seminary. This incident regarding the college 
 reminds one of a like incident in the foundation of Yale CoUege, in a 
 meeting of clergymen when one of them made the first contribution 
 towards the enterprise. "When Mr. Hill was stricken with death he 
 asked his son to raise him in bed while he wrote to a friend to make 
 sure his donation to the last church edifice he had the privilege of 
 aiding. Mr. HiU espoused the cause of the freedmen in his later 
 years, acting as general agent in their behalf in Iowa, Minnesota, and 
 Nebraska, and making liberal collections for the work in progress 
 among them. His last year was one of infirmity, though not without 
 such efforts as his failing strength allowed in the service of his Master. 
 He died in 1870. 
 
 Mr. Hill married in 1844 Sarah E. Hyde, daughter of Deacon 
 Gershom Hyde of Bath, by whom he had three sons, of whom the 
 youngest died in infancy ; the two older have graduated from Iowa 
 College, of which their father was one of the founders. Mrs. Hyde 
 died in 1^52. He married again Sarah "W. Harriman in the fall of 
 1853, by whom he had six children, two sons and four daughters. 
 The oldest of his sons is now a Junior in Iowa College. 
 
 Joseph Hill " was a native of Buxton, a fair scholar, amiable and 
 irreproachable. After- graduating he engaged in teaching, for which 
 he was admirably adapted. He was preceptor of the academy in 
 Blue Hill. His health failing, he returned home and died of consump- 
 tion in 1842." " c. 
 
 George Jefferds was born in Kennebunkport, May, 1816 ; after 
 graduating became principal for two years of the academy at Alfred, 
 and then for a year or two of the academy in Nashua, N. H. Here 
 he engaged in a course of medical study which he completed in his 
 native town, and took one course of lectures in the Medical School of 
 Harvard University, and two courses in the Medical School in Bruns- 
 wick, where he received a degree in medicine in 1844. He entered on 
 
GRADUATES. 521 
 
 the practice of his profession in his native town, whence after fifteen 
 j-ears of experience he removed to Bangor, where he has since resided 
 in active practice and has been highly respected in his profession and 
 as a Christian man. 
 
 In 1845 Dr. Jefferds married Caroline E. Gay of Nashua. They 
 have had seven children, four daughters and three sons. Two daugh- 
 ters have deceased. Two sons are in mercantile business, and the 
 youngest is in Yale College. He has published clinical reports in 
 medical magazines. He held ofHces of responsibility in Kennebunk- 
 port, was superintendent of schools several years, and in Bangor has 
 been physician of charitable institutions of the city. 
 
 EtDEKKiN EoGER JoHNSON was born in Plainfield, Conn., June, 
 1814. He pursued theological study, received ordination, but the 
 particulars of his pastorate have never been received. 
 
 Thomas Glidden Kimball was born in Monmouth, September, 
 1811. After taking his degree he took charge of the Wat'erville 
 Institute nearly three years, and of HalloweU Academy one year. 
 Uninterrupted labor in his preparatory and collegiate studies, and in 
 teaching throughout those years in intervals of study and in college 
 vacations and during the four years following, caused failure of health 
 which led him under medical advice to abandon teaching and the study 
 of a profession for a more active life. He accordingly engaged in 
 commercial business in Waterville, which proving successful he hag 
 pursued until 1876. He has been a director of the Waterville Bank 
 from its beginning to its close in 1879. He has occasionally contrib- 
 uted articles to the public press. In 1842 he married Hannah Reding- 
 ton Esty, daughter of his partner in business. They have had three 
 sons and a daughter. The sons are still living, and the youngest is 
 now a member of Bowdoin College. He died in Waterville, Decem- 
 ber, 1879. 
 
 Daniel Lane was born in Paris, March, 1813. After graduation 
 he became principal of the department of English and modern lan- 
 guages in North Yarmouth Academy for two years, and then entered 
 the Theological Seminary at Bangor, where he graduated in 1843. He 
 was one of nine j'oung men remembered as the " Iowa Band," who 
 left Boston in the fall of that j'ear for Iowa, as he states " to spend 
 our days in Christian work." The first ten years Mr. Lane was pas- 
 tor of the Congregational Church in Keosauqua, the county seat of 
 Van Buren County, during the last two years there being added to his 
 
522 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 parochial cares the charge of an English and classical school. In 
 1853 he accepted an invitation to the headship of the preparatory 
 department of Iowa College, and after two years was chosen pro- 
 fessor of mental and moral science, but on the removal of the college 
 to Grinnell in 1858 resigned his professorship and resumed for three 
 years the care of the school in Keosauqua. Subsequently he was pas- 
 tor successively of churches in JEddyville, Wapello County, for four 
 years, and Kelle Plaine, Benton County, six years, when on account 
 of impaired hearing he retired from pastoral care. 
 
 Mr. Lane has been also active in the interests of Iowa College as 
 trustee and financial agent, so prominent indeed that he is reckoned 
 one 6f the founders of the institution. He has recently removed 
 from Belle Plaine to Oskaloosa, Mahaska County. In 1843 he mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Jane Staples, daughter of Capt. David Staples of Free- 
 port. 
 
 LoKENZo Maekett was born in Standish, March, 1816 : after 
 leaving college was employed as an instructor in Jackson College, 
 Columbia, Tenn., two years. He then pursued legal study at Har- 
 vard Law School and in the office of Hon. Nathan Dane Appleton 
 (Bowdoin College, 1813). , Admitted to the bar, he opened an office 
 in East Cambridge, Mass., where he has since resided. He married 
 Miss Eliza A. Winsor of Pawtucket, R. I. They have had no chil- 
 dren. He has represented the citj' in the General Court of Massa- 
 chusetts. 
 
 Benjamin Mead was born in Newfleld, studied theology at Bangor, 
 married in 1844 Miss F. Berry of Rochester, N. H., and immediately 
 proceeded West. He preached for a time in Tazewell County, 111., 
 and then accepted a professorship which was tendered to him in Shel- 
 byville College, Kentucky. Ill health soon arrested his labors and 
 plans. He returned to Newfleld the victim of consumption, and died 
 January, 1846. c. 
 
 Benjamin Francis Mitchell was born in North Yarmouth, now 
 Yarmouth, August, 1816. He devoted himself to the profes;sion of 
 teaching in the South ; became professor of moral and intellectual 
 philosophy in Jackson College, Colunibia, Tenn. ; and subsequently 
 president of the institution. In 1858, having resigned that office, he 
 was president of a college for ladies in Springfield, 111. He then 
 removed to Memphis, Tenn., to take charge of a similar institution ; 
 but arriving there August, 1865, he suffered from the malaria of the 
 
GRADUATES. 523 
 
 season, was seized by congestive chills, and died after a brief illness. 
 In 1850 he married Miss Augusta Jones of Pulaski, Tenn., and left a 
 wife and five children. 
 
 Charles Copeland Nutter was born in Hallowell, January, 1820. 
 He studied law, was admitted to practice, and established himself in 
 his profession in Boston, in which he continued several years. For 
 some years his health has failed, and he has been for some time in the 
 insane hospital. 
 
 Gideon Stinson Palmer was born in Gardiner, June, 1813. On 
 leaving college he took charge for nearly two years of what was known 
 as the Gardiner Lyceum, but which under him was changed into a 
 high school. While teaching he began the study of medicine ; then 
 having taken two courses of lectures at the Medical School connected 
 with the college, and one in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 
 phia, graduated in medicine at our college in 184:1. After spending 
 the following winter in travel in the South and West, he settled in his 
 profession in his native town in 1842. He edited and published the 
 Gardiner Ledger one year, at the same time with an increasing prac- 
 tice. At the opening of the Civil War he was commissioned assistant 
 surgeon of volunteers, was promoted surgeon, and then on examina- 
 tion by a board at Washington was advanced brigade surgeon, and by 
 order of the Secretary of War became surgeon of United States 
 Volunteers with rank of major. He served successively as medical 
 director of division, surgeon in charge of Lincoln Hospital, Washing- 
 ton, superintendent of hospitals in the vicinity of St. Louis, medical 
 director of the Eleventh Army Corps, surgeon in charge of St. John's 
 College, Annapolis, and medical officer on the board for the examina- 
 tion of officers for the eastern division of the army. In 1865, having 
 received an honorable discbarge with rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel, 
 he returned to his professional practice in Gardiner, where with other 
 proofs of public confidence and esteem he represented the city in the 
 Legislature of the State in 1868 and 1869. In the latter year he was 
 appointed professor of physiology and hygiene in the medical depart- 
 ment of Howard University. In 1875 was chosen dean of the Faculty 
 and appointed surgeon in chief of the Freedmen's Hospital, which 
 position he now (1879) holds. 
 
 In 1869 Dr. Palmer married Mrs. Susan S. Coolidge of Boston. 
 
 Ammi Larrabee Parker was born in Greene, May, 1813. On 
 leaving college he taught two years in Maryland and six years in Penn- 
 
524 HISTOEY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 sylvania. He studied medicine two years, but did not enter on the 
 practice of the profession. He engaged in the business of lumbering 
 on the Susquehanna two years, and then settled on a farm for several 
 years. The last few years he has lived in Auburn as a contractor for 
 raising, etc., and removing buildings, and had as he testifies a good 
 degree of success. He has acted as supervisor of schools. 
 
 In 18.50 he married Miss E. W. Grover. They have had two sons 
 and a daughter. The oldest son has died. 
 
 Horace Piper was born in Parsonsfield, December, 1810. After 
 graduation he taught the academy in Limerick six years, and then the 
 High School in Biddeford ten years. He read law in Washington, 
 D. C, attended the law department of the National University in that 
 city three years, and received the degree of LL. B. For the most 
 part of twelve years he has been in the service of government. For 
 some time he assisted Salem Town in preparing his series of readers, 
 the elocutionary portion being committed to his charge, and also 
 Benjamin Greenleaf in the revision of his arithmetic. He has con- 
 tributed articles to the government agricultural reports. He was for 
 three years on the Maine Board of Education. 
 
 In 1838 he married Josephine H. Lord of Parsonsfield, and has had 
 two sons and a daughter. 
 
 Enoch Pond, son of Prof. Enoch Pond, was born in Ward, Mass., 
 now Auburn, June, 1820. He pursued a theological course at the 
 ' Bangor Seminary, where he graduated in 1842, and soon after was 
 ordained over the Congregational Church in Georgetown, Mass., col- 
 league of Kev. Dr. Braman. His ministry begun with promise proved 
 a brief one, cat short by pulmonary disease which terminated in his 
 death at Bucksport, December, 1846. 
 
 In Maj', 1843, he married Mary Thurston, daughter of Deacon Bliss 
 Blodgett of Bucksport, and left a daughter who died in 1869. 
 
 ■ David Sawyer Rowe was born in Gloucester, Mass., January, 
 1814. He has devoted himself to the profession of a teacher in which 
 he has been successful, beginning in the fall after graduation with a 
 private school in Salem, Mass., which he kept two years ; and then, 
 after a similar position for three years in Haverhill, Mass., and two 
 in Pittsfield, Mass., he was appointed principal of the State Normal 
 School in Westfleld, Mass., of which when first established in Barrcj 
 Prof. Newman took charge when he left his professorship in the college. 
 After eight years' service in that position he removed to Tarrytown, 
 
GRADUATES. 525 
 
 N. Y., where for twentj^-six years he has been at the head of the Ir- 
 ving Institute, combining preparation for college and for business life. 
 From his training about seven hundred have gone out to teach, and 
 several have graduated from college, some with the highest honors. 
 
 In 1841 Mr. Eowe married Harriet H. Poole of Gloucester, Mass., 
 and has had five children, two now living. 
 
 Nathaniel L. Sawtek was born in Greene. " As a scholar he had 
 no superior in his class. His natural abilities were of a very high 
 character, and enabled him easilj' to excel in every department of 
 college study. As a writer both in prose and poetry he exhibited 
 great originality and strength of thought and vigor of stj-le. As a 
 Iriend and companion his social qualities were admirable. He was 
 admitted to the Kennebec bar and practised a short time in Gardiner, 
 and in this brief period exhibited such devotion to the duties of his 
 vocation, and such capacity to excel in all its various branches, as 
 gave gratifying assurance that had his life been spared, he would have 
 attained to a very eminent rank in his profession." (C. C. Nutter, 
 Esq.) He died in Greene (1845) of consumption. c. 
 
 Joseph Couch Smith was born in Waltham, Mass., July, 1819, but 
 entered college from Kennebunk, whither his family had removed in 
 his childhood. After graduation he spent some mouths in the office 
 of a lawj'er in Kennebunk as a temporary employment, although he 
 had determined on the niinistry, and accordingly entered the Theologi- 
 cal Seminary at Andover, where he spent two years in diligent study. 
 Having been licensed by the Middlesex Association, and the same year 
 been ordained as an evangelist at Portland, he supplied the pulpit of 
 a new society in Frankfort on the Penobscot. He was ordained to the 
 pastorate over the Unitarian Church and Society in Groton, Mass., 
 but failure of health in a short time compelled his resignation and 
 foreign travel. On his return he was installed over the Channing 
 Church, Newton Centre. After four years of service ill health again 
 led to his retirement, and he sailed for the Sandwich Islands in hope 
 of being able to act as an agent of the Unitarian Association ; but he 
 was unequal to the duty, and after a rapid decline he died December, 
 1857. He had won esteem, affection, and respect, '-as an honored 
 friend and pastor." 
 
 Mr. Smith had lost his first wife, had married again, and left a wife 
 and family. 
 
 LoRiNG Blanchaed Tbde was born in Pownal, June, 1810. He 
 had made a profession of his religious faith under the pastorate of 
 
526 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Eev. Perez Chapin of the Congregational Church, with the hope of 
 entering the ministry. After graduation he taught a school in Free- 
 dom. He subsequently went to Washington, where he held a position 
 as pension agent for some years He died in 1864. 
 
 He was twice married. His first wife was Julia, daughter of Capt. 
 Solomon True of Freeport; his second, Lucinda Williams of Freedom. 
 A daughter survives him, Ella, who married Mr. Edward Soule of 
 Freeport. 
 
 Stephen Mountfort Vail was born in Unionvale, Dutchess County, 
 N. Y., January, 1818. He fitted for college at Oneida Conference 
 Seminai-y, New York, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church when he came to college. Having taken his degree he was a 
 teacher in the Amenia Seminary, New York, one year ; studied for 
 the ministry in Union Theological Seminary, New York, where he 
 graduated in 1842 and at once entered upon his work at Fishkill, 
 N. Y., for two years; in Sharon, Conn., two years; Pine Plains, 
 N. Y., one year ; in 1847 became principal of New Jersey Conference 
 Seminary, Pennington ; in 1849 was elected professor of Biblical and 
 Oriental literature in the General Biblical Institute of the Methodist 
 Church in Concord, N. H.,, and held that position twenty years, when 
 failing health compelled his resignation. Having in 1869 been 
 appointed United States consul for Rhenish Bavaria, he held that 
 office four or five years, and then after travel in Egj'pt and Palestine 
 returned and became a resident on Staten Island, N. Y., at Gifford's, 
 Southfleld ; is pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and professor 
 of Hebrew in the School of Languages held in the summer months at 
 Chautauqua, on the lake of that name in Western New York. In 1856 
 he received the degree of D. D. from Genesee College, New York, 
 since removed to Syracuse and now Syracuse University. Dr. Vail 
 has been a diligent student, and has published volumes and discourses 
 and contributed to periodicals ; as, e. g., " On Ministerial Education," 
 " Memoir of Zenas Caldwell" (1824), "The Bible against Slavery," 
 "Essays on Church Polity," " Outlines of Hebrew Grammar," and 
 has in hand works waiting publication. 
 
 In 1842 he married Louisa R. Cushman, New Gloucester. They 
 have had nine children of whom six are living, three sons and three 
 daughters, all communicants in the church. 
 
 Edward Webb was born in Newcastle, November, 1814. On tak- 
 ing his degree he went to Kentucky and took charge of a private 
 academy for two years in Lewisburg, Mason County, and then for the 
 same period of a similar institution in Washington in the same county. 
 
GRADUATES. 527 
 
 He then engaged in the study of law in the latter place, meanwhile 
 teaching pupils in Latin, Greek, and French. He was admitted to the 
 bar, but the state of his health forbidding the confinement of profes- 
 sional practice he travelled in the Southern States, without however 
 regaining health, and then turned his attention to farming in the neigh- 
 borhood of his later residence until in 1857 he removed to St. Paul, 
 Minn., where with renewed health he has since resided in the practice 
 of law and in transactions of real estate. His tastes have disinclined 
 him to seek political office. He married in Washington, Ky., and has 
 had three children, two sons and a daughter. A son and daughter 
 are still living. 
 
 RoBEKT Wtman of Cumberland "was a young man of active and 
 independent mind. He early devoted himself to the missionary work. 
 Having graduated at Bangor in 1841 he married the daughter of Isaqc 
 Weston of Cumberland, and sailed soon after for Ceylon. At the 
 mission he was employed in teaching, and for a time had charge of 
 the Batticotta Seminary. Under his exhausting labors his health 
 failed, and finding no relief in India he sailed for the United States. 
 He had been but a few days at sea when he was attacked with inflam- 
 mation of the brain. He died Jan. 13, 1845, and was buried in the 
 deep." ~ c. 
 
 1839. 
 
 Chaeles Fkedeeic Allen was born in Norridgewock, Januarj^, 
 1816. After graduation he taught in St. Albans Academy one year, 
 and was the second year assistant principal of Maine Wesleyan 
 Seminary at Eeadfleld. In 1843 he was licensed to preach in Maine 
 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church In 1869 he was 
 transferred to East Maine Conference and stationed at Bangor. In 
 1871 he was elected president of the State College of Agriculture and 
 Mechanic Arts at Orono, occupied that position eight years and then 
 returned to the regular work of the ministry. 
 
 He has puTjlished sermons, "baccalaureate" and other addresses 
 before the board of agriculture of which he was a member. In 1872 
 he received the degree of D. D. from Bpwdoin College, and from 
 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. He was chaplain of the 
 House of Representatives in 1869. He has been appointed delegate 
 from Maine to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 He married in 1844 Ruth S. Morse. They have had five children. 
 
528 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Samuel Hazen Ayer was born in Portland, where his father, Dr. 
 Samuel Ayer, an esteemed practitioner of medicine, then lived. 
 Samuel Hazen Aj'er was fitted for college under the able instruction 
 of Lyman Coleman and John Aiken at Burr Seminary in Vermont. 
 In college he is said to have been " impulsive and ardent in no ordi- 
 nary degree ; but his kindly nature more than compensated for any 
 undue vivacity of temper, and he was generally most sincerely be- 
 loved. Having graduated with a good reputation for scholarship and 
 ability, he went into the ofBce of Franklin Pierce at Concord, N. H. 
 In 1842 he commenced practice at Hillsboro', where he succeeded to 
 the business of Albert Baker, whose short life of brilliant promise 
 had just before terminated. Here he found a fair field and entered at 
 once upon a bright career. He was soon known as a zealous and 
 faithful, an able and successful lawyer. No sooner had he reached 
 the age required than the people of Hillsboro' sent him to Concord 
 as their representative. In the Legislature his superiority instantly 
 appeared, enabling him, youth as he was, to take conspicuous place- 
 among the leaders. In the years 1848 and 1849 he was Speaker of 
 the House, presiding not only with efllciency but to the acceptance of 
 all parties. In 1847 he was appointed by the governor solicitor for 
 Hillsboro' County. In 1851 he formed a business connection with C. 
 F. Ayer of Manchester, N. H., and removed to that busy and grow- 
 ing town. "To the firm thus constituted important interests were 
 confided, and a large and increasing business was on their hands." 
 In June, 1852, he was a delegate to the Baltimore Convention and 
 acted as one of its secretaries. To aid in nominating for the Presi- 
 dency his instructor and friend was the last political act of his life. 
 About the same time he was put on a commission for revising the 
 > State laws. To this work he gave during the summer all the time and 
 strength which he could redeem from professional duty ; but " he lacked 
 the physical power that alone could warrant this double service, — a 
 service which unquestionably undermined his health and hastened his 
 exit." With little if any previous jyarning, on the morning of Oct. 4 
 he was found in his bed insensible, and died before night of congestion 
 of the brain. On the fair hopes and large promise which were thus 
 destroyed in a moment it is needless to dwell. Few men at the age 
 of thirty-three attain to a position so commanding. The following 
 extract is from the remarks of Charles G.. Atherton, at a meeting of 
 the Hillsboro' bar. It will be read with interest by those who remem- 
 ber that the distinguished speaker himself a few months afterward, 
 while engaged in a legal argument, received a summons equally sud- 
 den and solemn: "It is even now difficult for us who so recently 
 
GRADUATES. 529 
 
 saw him in the midst of busy life to realize that the spirit so joyous, 
 the aspirations so hopeful, the perceptions so quick and active, the 
 vitality which seemed to endow a somewhat fragile frame with power 
 to defy premature decay, have been quenched in the dull lethargy of a 
 sleep which soon proved to be the sleep of death." A few words of 
 President Pierce must close this notice : ' ' Soon after he left college 
 he became my pupil, afterwards my companion, and continued ever 
 my true and trusted friend. In all our long and intimate intercourse 
 nothing ever occurred to disturb for a moment our delightful relations. 
 His directness of purpose, his courage, and his manhood were always 
 conspicuous wherever those qualities were called for. There will be 
 for him hosts of sincere mourners, but no one can deplore the loss 
 more deeply than myself." Mr. Aj-er was a member of the Athensean 
 Society, and a bequest in his will of 81,000 to its treasury evinced 
 his grateful and lasting attachment. c. 
 
 William Griswold Barrows was born in Bridgton, January, 1821. 
 After graduation he pursued the study of law in the office of Willis & 
 Fessenden (Bowdoin College, 1823) and Fessenden & Deblois in 
 Portland, and afterwards with Hon. John S. Tenney (Bowdoin College, 
 1816) in Norridgewock, teaching private schools at intervals in Camp- 
 ton, N. H., and Norridgewock. He was admitted to the bar of 
 Somerset County in 1842, and settled for the practice of his profes- 
 sion in Brftnswick. He was elected judge of probate for Cumberland 
 County in 1856, and again in 1860. In 1863 he was appointed asso- 
 ciate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and reappointed in 1870 
 and 1877 ; and in these positions has won confidence and respect 
 by his uprightness, prompt diligence, learning, and ability. He has ' 
 always cultivated a taste for letters, of which his judicial opinions in 
 the Maine Reports afford ample proof. He edited the Brunswick 
 Telegraph from 1853 to 1855. 
 
 Judge Barrows married in 1854 Huldah Whitmore, daughter of 
 William D. and Rhoda Woodward Whitmore, who died in 1867. He 
 contracted a second marriage with Mary P. Fessenden, daughter of 
 Thomas Fessenden, Esq., of New York City, in 1872. He has no 
 children. 
 
 Samuel Elliot Benjamin was born in Winthrop, December,. 1818. 
 After taking his degree he spent a j-ear as a classical teacher in Capt. 
 Charles J. Whiting's Military School in Ellsworth. He then entered 
 upon legal study in the office of George Herbert, Esq., of that town, 
 and was admitted to the bar of Hancock County. In 1843 he opened 
 
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530 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 a law office in Patten, where he has since lived in the active practice of 
 his profession. He represented the town in the State Legislature in 
 1853. 
 
 In 1854 he married Miss Ellen M. Fairfield. They have had three 
 children, all sons ; two now living. 
 
 Calvin Chapman was born in Bethel, November, 1814. After 
 graduation he taught during the fall terms of the academy in his native 
 town, and also of that in Alstead, N. H., meanwhile pursuing a theo- 
 logical course in the seminary at Andover, Mass., where he graduated 
 in 1842. He has been settled in the pastorate over the Congrega- 
 tional churches in Epping, N. H., Saccarappa, Foxcroft, West Mid- 
 dleborough, now Lakeville, Mass., and has been acting pastor over 
 churches in Eliot, Andover, Standish, Mannsville, N. Y., and Wind- 
 ham, Vt. He has been supervisor of schools or on school committees 
 repeatedly. In 1842 he married Lucy B. Emerson of Parsonsfield, 
 who died in 1878, leaving two sons and a daughter, all still living. 
 He again married, Sarah A. Ward of Kennebunkport. 
 
 Charles T. Chase of Danville " was in college unusually retiring 
 and reserved, with few intimates, and so averse to everything like dis- 
 play or emulation that bis scholarly attainments were not generally 
 appreciated. He went immediately to Illinois and settled at Dixon, 
 where he studied and practised law. He was for several j-ears clerk 
 of the courts in Lee County, — courteous, popular, and highly 
 esteemed. He died of dysentery, August, 1851, aged thirty-four." 
 
 c. 
 
 Fkanklin Davis was born in Bangor, January, 1816. After grad- 
 uating he was employed as a teacher three years in Mississippi. He 
 then pursued a theological course in the seminary in Bangor, graduat- 
 ing in 1845. Under a commission from the Home Missionary Society 
 he went to Missouri, whence after two years, in consequence of the 
 influence of the climate, he returned to Maine. He was ordained 
 pastor of the Second Congregational Church and Society in Warren in 
 1847. He has since his ministerial labors in that town been acting 
 pastor successively in Orrington, Alton, N. H., Norfolk and Berkeley, 
 Mass., and Newington and Taraworth, N. H., at which place he now 
 resides. 
 
 In 1845 he married Miss Susan A. Merrill, who died in 1848, leav- 
 ing an infant son. He married again in 1849 Miss Eliza J. Sewall, 
 daughter of Deacon Oliver Sewall and granddaughter of " Father 
 
GRADUATES. 531 
 
 Jotham Sewall," who died in 1861. He has since married Miss 
 Amanda M. Ware of Norfolk, Mass. They have had one son. The 
 son by the first marriage died in Colorado in 1876. Mr. Davis has 
 been interested in popular education wherever he has been settled, 
 having served on the school committees. 
 
 John Walton Davis was born in Wellfleet, Mass., Jan. 14, 1817. 
 He entered college from Litchfield on Junior standing, having passed 
 the first two years of college life at Amherst, Mass. After graduat- 
 ing he taught the Gardiner Lyceum some months, then entered upon 
 legal study with« Joseph A. Wood, Esq. (1821), of Ellsworth, and 
 was admitted to the bar of Hancock County in 1842. He began the 
 practice of his profession in Topsham, and in 1849 removed to Well- 
 fleet, Mass., where he remained twenty years. In 1869 he removed 
 to Provincetown, Mass., where he still remains in active practice. 
 He has held different positions in the civil service of Wellfleet and of 
 Barnstable Count}', and in the Revenue Department of the United 
 States. 
 
 In 1842 Mr. Davis married Laura T., daughter of the late Hon 
 Benjamin Orr of Brunswick, and has had six children, two sons and 
 four daughters. Two of the daughters are still living. He died in 
 Provincetown, June, 1880. 
 
 John Dcnlap, son of Gen. Richard T. Dunlap of Brunswick, 
 " took an unquestioned rank among the best scholars of the class, 
 and no member besides commanded so universally a respectful and 
 affectionate regard. He was not only a fine and critical scholar, but 
 a firm friend through good and evil report. As his bodily constitution 
 was too feeble to permit his entering a profession he remained at 
 home, occupjring his time with books and study in a way that gave 
 promise of a harvest in future years. At our graduation we made 
 him, notwithstanding his apparent feebleness of constitution, our 
 class secretar}', presuming as well as hoping that he would outlive the 
 most of us. His duties as such he faithfully performed with a seem- 
 ingly fraternal interest in each one of us down to the time of his 
 death, which took place at his own dear and only home, March 26, 
 1848." c. 
 
 Alfred Fletcher was born in China, August, 1817. On leaving 
 college he devoted himself to the law, engaged in the practice of his 
 profession in his native town, and attained a respectable rank. He 
 represented his town in the House and his district in the Senate of the 
 
532 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 State. In 1862 he received the commission of captain of the Twenty- 
 fourth Maine in the war of the Rebellion, but resigned in the following 
 year. He died in 1868, a victim of pulmonary disease. 
 
 Benjamin, Apthokp Gould Fuller, brother of Henry W. (1828), 
 was born in Augusta, May, 1818. He entered the Freshman class in 
 the second term, and subsequently by extra effort passed into the next 
 higher class, an achievement rarely accomplished. After graduation 
 he read law in his native town with his father, Hon. H. W. Fuller, 
 and his brother, H. W., Jr., and at the Harvard Law School; was 
 admitted to the Kennebec bar ; was in active practice«in Augusta until 
 1855, when for two years he had charge of the Augusta Age. He 
 then was engaged for two years in railway enterprises in the West. 
 Returning to Augusta he was placed in nomination for a seat in Con- 
 gress in 1859, but failed of an election. In 1850 he was appointed 
 by Governor Dana judge of the municipal court of the city, which 
 position he resigned in 1854. In 1856 he represented the city in the 
 Legislature of the State. In 1864 he removed to Cambridge, Mass., 
 opening an office in Boston, and has continued the practice of his pro- 
 fession from that time. 
 
 Mr. Fuller has been treasurer of various corporations. He has 
 occasionally contributed articles to genealogical and other magazines. 
 In 1843 he married Harriet S., daughter of Hon. Daniel Williams of 
 Augusta, and has had five children, a son now a lawyer in Boston and 
 four daughters. 
 
 IcHABOD Goodwin, son of Andrew and Elizabeth Goodwin, was 
 born in South Berwick, July, 1819. After graduating he became an 
 instructor in New York University, and also at Flushing, N. Y., in a 
 school established by Rev. Dr. Hawks. He was appointed to a tutor- 
 ship in the college in 1841 which he held one year. He then entered 
 on the study of law, in due time was admitted to the bar, and prac- 
 tised his profession several years in his native town. Circumstances 
 induced him to abandon his profession and devote himself to civil 
 engineering for some time, we think, in the South. At length he 
 returned to South Berwick, accepted the office of principal of the old- 
 established academy in that town, and held the position for three 
 years. In 1861 he received an appointment under government at 
 Washington, where he remained several years until his health failed. 
 He died in South Berwick, December, 1869, of general paralysis. 
 
 Alpheus Geover was the son of Eli Grover of Bethel. " It was 
 
GRADUATES . 533 
 
 comparatively late in life when he entered college, with the view of 
 fitting for the ministry. Though not distinguished as a scholar, he 
 commanded the respect of his classmates by his Christian walk and 
 conversation. He studied divinity at Bangor, and preached for a 
 short time at Unitjr. He died of a fever at the house of his classmate 
 Weston in Lewiston, having been seized while on his way to visit his 
 friends in Bethel. c. 
 
 Samuel Johnson was born in Jackson, September, 1815. After 
 graduation he taught the academy in Foxcroft two years, and that in 
 East Machias four years. He then returned to his home and gave 
 himself to agricultural pursuits on his father's farm until 1867. In 
 1869 he was appointed superintendent of the college of Agriculture 
 and Mechanic Arts at Orono, and held that position two and a half 
 years. He was secretary of the trustees of that institution five j-ears. 
 He had been a member of the State Board of Agriculture. In 1871, 
 resigning his connection with the college, he removed to California, 
 where he still resides in Bangor of that State, engaged in farming and 
 teaching. Mr. Johnson has been a correspondent of the newspapers. 
 
 He has married thrice : first, Ann Mary Upton, by whom he had 
 one child, a daughter ; second, Abbie A. Cates, their only child dj'ing 
 in infancy ; third, in 1861, Marilla M. Manson, by whom he has had 
 three children, two sons and a daughter, wife and children all living. 
 
 Hiram Kelset was born in Nottingham, N. H., April, 1819. After 
 graduation he taught the High School in Lee, N. H., two years. He 
 then studied law with James Bell, Esq., Exeter, N. H., was admitted 
 to the bar and engaged in the practice in New Liberty, Owen County, 
 Ky. He was a member of the Legislature of that State, and held a 
 prominent position in the countj"^. 
 
 Mr. Kelsey married Susan P. Sandy of New Liberty, and had four 
 children. He died in 1860. 
 
 Israel Kimball was born in Wells, January, 1812. On leaving 
 college he became principal for three years of the academy in Eliot, 
 then taught in Dover, N. H., one year, and thence removed to Ports- 
 mouth, N. H., where he was head master of the High School for boys 
 for nine years, and principal of the academy in that town for ten 
 years. In 1862, on the creation of the Internal Eevenue Department 
 at Washington, he received an appointment under Governor Boutwell, 
 and for seventeen years has been chief of division in that department. 
 ' ' charged with supervising and perfecting rules and regulations for 
 
534 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 collecting the revenue and determining questions arising under the 
 laws of Congress." 
 
 Mr. Kimball has published essays, etc., on internal revenue, and 
 contributed to the annual reports of his department. While resident in 
 Portsmouth he held office in the city government. 
 
 In 1840 he married Clara P. Bragdon of Wells. They have had six 
 children, two sons and four daughters, all now living. His oldest son, 
 George G., graduated from Bowdoin College in 1862. 
 
 Isaiah McMahon was born in Andover, Mass., July, 1808. Dur- 
 ing the year of his graduation he joined the M aine Conference of the 
 Maine Episcopal Church, subsequently transferred his relations to 
 the Genesee Conference, New York, and in 1844 was appointed to 
 Penn Yan, N. Y. He exercised his ministry in different places until 
 1862, with the interruption of four years from 1856 to 1859, when he 
 had charge of Rogersville Union Seminary, South Dansville, N. Y., 
 and of the academic department of the High School, Mount Morris in 
 the same State. He was also (1864 to 1860) in the New York custom- 
 house, and one j-ear (1«73 and 1874) in the New York post-office. 
 
 In 1839 he married Margaret Todd of Brunswick. They have had 
 seven children, three sons and four daughters, of whom five are living. 
 His third son is a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
 India. 
 
 Mr. McMahon published in 1846 " Hebrew without a Master." 
 
 William H. J. Mark was the son of E. P. Marr of Scarboro'. 
 " A certain reserve and apparent haughtiness, which were in truth 
 the effect of over-sensitiveness, and of what the phrenologists call 
 approbativeness, produced at first an unfavorable impression on mak- 
 ing his acquaintance. This, however, gave way before his unaffected 
 good-heartedness, and we could joke him without offence about his 
 descent from the stout old Scotch earl, as accounting for his aristo- 
 cratic demeanpr. The ' Earl of Mar' made warm friends among us, 
 and deservedly stood high as a* scholar." After reading law with 
 Messrs. Fessenden & Deblois in Portland, and at the Cambridge Law 
 School, he went in the autumn of 1842 to Nauvoo, 111., and settled. 
 He died two years later, after a brief illness, at Appanoose in the 
 same State. c. 
 
 Joseph Pennell was born in Brunswick, September, 1812. He 
 became a practical chemist, especially in the application of the science 
 to the processes of photography. He was unassuming, of amiable 
 
GRADUATES. 535 
 
 disposition, and of decided Christian character. He was subjected to 
 prolonged physical suffering which he bore with patience and resigna- 
 tion. He died in 1868. 
 He married a Miss Merriam and had five children. 
 
 Charles J. Perkins, son of Dr. Lafayette Perkins of Farmington, 
 was a young man of respectable talents, and cordially beloved for his 
 guileless and unselfish nature. Having completed in the Jefferson 
 Medical College at Philadelphia his medical course, he began the 
 practice at UpperviUe, Fauquier County, Va., in the year 1840. 
 Here, a little more than two years afterwards, while in the fulness 
 of health and strength, he died suddenly of apoplexy. Short as had 
 been his residence at UpperviUe, he had made there a strong and 
 favorable impression. The citizens met after his death, and expressed 
 in resolutions which were afterwards published their deep sense of 
 his virtues and of their own loss. c. 
 
 Frederick Augustus Pike was born in Calais, December, 1817. 
 He studied law, was admitted to the bar of Washington County in 
 1842, and opened an oflBce for the practice in his native town, which 
 has ever been his residence. He has been active, energetic, and infiu- 
 ential in professional and public life, has been county attorney four 
 years, mayor of the city, has represented his town in the Legislature 
 of the State eight years, and his district in the Congress of the United 
 States eight years . 
 
 In 1846 he married Miss Mary H. Green. 
 
 Henry Lincoln Richardson, born in Bath, November, 1819, was 
 son of Hon. William Richardson. He devoted himself to business, 
 became a member of the firm of Page, Richardson & Co , Boston, 
 and was successful. His home was in Brookline, Mass. He was 
 absent on business in New York when he was seized with hemorrhage 
 from the lungs, and died suddenly March, 1865. He married Fannie, 
 daughter of Henry W. Lincoln, Esq., of Brookline, Mass. He left 
 four children, two sons and two daughters. The younger of the sons 
 died soon after his father ; the elder is now in the Sophomore class-, 
 Harvard. 
 
 Samuel E. Smith, son of Hon. Edwin Smith of Warren, "for 
 several years devoted himself to the profession of law in his native 
 town. He afterwards accepted the place of caiShier in a bank at 
 Thomaston, and held it at the time of his death. His kindness of 
 
536 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 heart, mild, courteous manners, and freedom from selfishness made 
 him a universal favorite in college ; while his good sense, sound judg- 
 ment, excellent scholarship, perfect truthfulness and integritj' won 
 for him the respect of all. These qualities he carried with him 
 through life. We do not think that in his whole career he ever 
 uttered an unkind remark or gave occasion for an unkind feeling 
 toward himself. His ennobling virtues, purity of life, devotion to the 
 highest duties of man, and his affectionate disposition will never fade 
 from the recollection of those who knew him." Mr. Smith married 
 Maria Copeland of Warren in 1845. The fruit of this marriage was 
 five children, three sons and two daughters, of whom two sons and a 
 daughter survive. The j'oungest son, Samuel Emerson, graduated 
 from Bowdoin College in 1878. c. 
 
 John Coffin Talbot was born in East Machias, November, 1816. 
 After leaving college he-studied law in the oflBce of Hon. J. A. LoweU 
 of Machias, and then of Joseph A. Wood, Esq., of Ellsworth, was 
 admitted to the bar, until 1862 practised his profession in Lubec, and 
 from that date in his native town, an able, successful lawyer. He was 
 deputy collector and inspector of customs at Lubec six j'ears, repre- 
 sented several sessions that town in the Legislature, in 1853 was 
 Speaker of the House, was delegate from the State to the Democratic 
 national convention at Cincinnati in 1866, delegate from his district 
 to the- Democratic national convention at Philadelphia in 1867, as also 
 to the Democratic national convention at New York in 1868. He has 
 been on the board of selectmen and town clerk of his native town sev. 
 eral years. Mr. Talbot has sustained a high standing for ability, for 
 uprightness and force of character, and generous sympathy for those 
 in distress or want. He has been, nominated twice by his political 
 friends for governor of the State. He married Miss Clara Antoinette 
 Wass of Addison, who died in 1878. They have had three sons, one 
 of whom has deceased, and three daughters. 
 
 • 
 Augustus H. Titcomb was eldest son of Stephen Titcomb of Farm- 
 ington. "He possessed an understanding solid rather than strong, 
 an equable temperament, and fine social qualities, and in college 
 gained and preserved the cordial respect and good-will of all his 
 acquaintance." After graduating he went to the South and taught 
 for several months. Then he returned to Farmington and began the 
 study of law with the. Hon. H. Belcher; but sickness soon arrested 
 his pursuits, and after several months' illness, borne " with patience 
 
GKADUATES. 537 
 
 and Christian fortitude," he died March, 1842, " the first of our num- 
 ber taken, and one of the best beloved." c. 
 
 Edwaed Payson Weston was born in Cumberland, Januarj', 1819. 
 During his first year after ' graduation, besides other occupation, he 
 published the volume of " Bowdoin Poets." He then took charge of 
 Lewiston Falls Academy, and remained nearly seven years in success- 
 ful and fruitful labor. In. 1847 he was appointed principal of Gorham 
 Academy, which three years after under a new organization became 
 the Maine Female Seminary, the first of that class of institutions in 
 the State. After a service of thirteen years he received the appoint- 
 ment of State superintendent of schools, and a reappointment three 
 years later. While in office he was largely instrumental in the estab- 
 lishment of the normal-school system, and opened the first institu- 
 tion of the kind in Farmington. In 1865 on resigning his office he 
 accepted the charge of the Abbott Family School for boj-^s in Farming- 
 ton, which prospered under his care. In 1869 he was invited to a new 
 seminary for young ladies at Lake Forest, 111., which he conducted 
 seven years with success ; but a difference arising between himself and 
 the trustees as to •' the best methods," they having adopted the plan 
 of incorporating with it a collegiate school for young men, he retired, 
 and in 1876 opened a school for young ladies at Highland Park, near 
 Chicago, chartered under the name of Highland College for Women. 
 Thus by forty years of active effort in the cause of education he has 
 won grateful remembrance. 
 
 Mr. Weston represented the town of Gorham one term in the Legis- 
 lature. Besides what has been referred to he has been a contributor 
 to the Portland Transcript, the Maine Teacher, etc. He has more 
 recently put in electrotype a small volume of poems which awaits pub- 
 lication. Mr. Weston first married a daughter of J. Burbank, Esq., 
 of Bethel, who died in 1868, leaving three children, a son (Bowdoin 
 College, 1870 ; M. D., Chicago, 1872) and two daughters. He again 
 married, a daughter of Kev. John Butler of Yarmouth. 
 
 1840. 
 
 Ezra Abbot, born in Jackson, Me., April, 1819, was son of Ezra 
 Abbot, a farmer. After receiving excellent private instruction from 
 his uncle, Eev. Abiel Abbot of Peterboro', N. H., he completed his 
 preparatory course at Phillips Exeter Academy, N. H.j under Dr. 
 Benjamin Abbot. The first five years after graduation were spent in 
 teaching in Foxcroft and Washington Academies, the latter in East 
 
538 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Machias. In 1847 he removed to Cambridge, Mass., which from that 
 time became his home. His services were found very valuable in the 
 libraries of Harvard and Boston Athenseum, while at the same time 
 he pursued private studies chiefly philological and theological. In 
 1856 he was appointed assistant librarian of Harvard College, with 
 the exclusive charge of cataloguing and classification of books. He 
 resigned this position in 1872 to accept the Bussej'^ professorship of 
 New Testament criticism and interpretation in Cambridge Divinity 
 School, having the year before been appointed by the corporation of 
 the university lecturer on the textual criticism of the New Testament. 
 In 1852 Mr. Abbot was elected member of the American Oriental 
 Society, of which he soon became recording secretary, and in 1861 an 
 associate in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. In 
 1861 he received from Harvard College the honorary degree of A. M., 
 in 1869 from Yale that of LL. D., in 1872 from Harvard that of D. D., 
 though not a clergyman, and in 1879 from this college that of LL. D. 
 Dr. Abbot in 1853 published what he calls a first experiment in 
 bibliography, a "Classed Catalogue of the Cambridge High School," 
 in which he had been a teacher for a time ; in 1860, contributions to 
 the " New Discussion of the Trinity" ; in 1864, "Literature of the 
 Doctrine of a Future Life," an appendix to the Rev. Mr. Alger's 
 "Critical History" of the doctrine, but issued separately in 1871. 
 This work Rev. William Reid of Edinburgh refers to as " the best 
 guide of all, — a catalogue of 5,300 works, and compiled by a gentle- 
 man remarkable for his varied and accurate scholarship.' It would be 
 scarcely possible to excel the completeness of this work ; and no stu- 
 dent however accomplished can consult it without profit." Dr. Charles 
 Hodge also, ini his " Systematic Theology," refers to jt as " a marvel 
 of ability and learning." Mr. Abbot edited with notes, etc., Norton's 
 "Translation of the Gospels " in 1855, and his "Statement of Rea- 
 sons," etc., third edition, 1856 ; Lamson's "Church of the First Three 
 Centuries," secondiedition, 1865 ; and Orme"s " Memoir of the Con- 
 troversy on 1 John v. 7," 1866 ; revised and enlarged the pronoun- 
 cing tables of Greek and Latin proper names and of Scripture 
 proper names for Worcester's large dictionarj'^ of the English lan- 
 guage, 1860 ; assisted Dr. Hackett in the American edition of 
 Smith's "Dictionary of the Bible," 1867-70, Dr. Noyes in his 
 " Translation of the New Testament," 1869, and C. F. Hudson in 
 his " Critical Greek and English Concordance of the New Testa- 
 ment," 1870, 3d edition 1874, editing the two last posthumous works. 
 He has also contributed articles to the Hibliotheca Sacra, the Uni- 
 tarian Beview, the North American Review, the Journal of the Amer- 
 
GRADUATES. 539 
 
 icon Oriental Society, and TJie Nation. It is an evidence of his high 
 reputation that he is a member of the American conjmittee engaged 
 in co-operation with the English committee in the revision of the com- 
 mon English version of the Bible. 
 
 In 1843 Mr. Abbot married Catharine Meder of Jackson, who died 
 July, 1847. In 1854 he married Emily Everett of Cambridge. He 
 has no children. 
 
 Alexander Hamilton Abbot was born in Farmington, September, 
 1822. On leaving college he became principal of the academy in his 
 native town eight years. In 1849, after the death of Samuel P. 
 Abbot (Bowdoin College, 1836), the founder of the school, which was 
 named "Little Blue" from the fancied resemblance of an elevation 
 on the premises to " Old Blue," a mountain not far off, he took 
 charge of the school, soon after purchased the property, and for sev- 
 eral years conducted it with great success. " The object which the 
 institution proposes to itself is the training of boys and young men 
 for college or for business, by no means forgetting that the religious 
 element in education has even higher claims upon its attention than 
 the intellectual." With much in its appointments and surroundings 
 to attract, it has drawn pupils from a wide circuit, and " many are in 
 foreign countries ; not a few of them have received a collegiate educa- 
 tion ; many are prominent business and professional men in Boston, 
 New York, and other cities ; some are professors in colleges, and one 
 at least has been minister to a foreign country ; two or three have 
 been State superintendents of schools." In 1865 Mr. Abbot leased 
 the school to Mr. Edward P. Weston (1839), but resumed his charge 
 in 1876, where he still remains. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Abbot married a daughter of Hon. Hiram Belcher of 
 Farmington. They had one child. In 1864 he married Mrs. Martin 
 of Fort Wayne, Ind. Thej- have had four children. During his 
 retirement from the school he was successively county supervisor of 
 schools and trustee of normal schools. 
 
 William Stinson Blanchard entered from Wilton and Waterville 
 Colleges into Senior standing, and no record of his birth-date was 
 made. He was connected with the Theological Seminary, Andover, 
 Mass., two years, and then took charge of an academy in New Hamp- 
 shire. A third year of theological study he spent in Lan^ Seminary, 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated in 1843. He received ordina- 
 tion into the ministry of the gospel in Knoxville, 111., and was settled 
 over a church in Sheboygan, Wis. , where he remained three years. He 
 
540 HISTORY or BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 then became professor of ancient languages and history in Cleveland 
 University, Cleveland, Ohio. Through a relative we learn that " he 
 married and went to Europe, published a volume of poetry, and was 
 giving himself to literary work." But this was several years since. 
 The impression in "Wilton is that he is not living. 
 
 Edmund ChaDwick was born in Middleton, N. H., January, 1812. 
 He entered on Junior standing. After graduation he was engaged in 
 teaching in Nashville, Tenn., two years. He then pursued theological 
 study at Lane, Cincinnati, and Bangor Seminaries, graduating at the 
 latter in 1845. He was ordained to the Christian ministry^ in Frank- 
 lin, N. H., but infirm health prevented him from prosecuting the pro- 
 fession, and he resumed his work as a teacher in Starkey, N. Y., 
 being principal of the seminary in that place from 1847 to 1867. He 
 now resides in Starkey, although not in active service. He has been 
 president of the county teachers' association, and is loan commis- 
 sioner for the United States Deposit Fund (School Fund) for the 
 State of New York in the county. In 1848 he married Cassandra 
 Deplacey Hobart, who died in 1849. He married again Adaline 
 Ward. They had four sons and three daughters. One of the sons 
 died in iiifancy. 
 
 Benjamin Peakson Chute was born in Byfleld, Mass., May, 1816, 
 brother of Ariel T. (1832) . He has devoted himself for the most part 
 to the work of a teacher. On leaving college he went to Kentucky, 
 Mason County, where he taught nearly two years. He then entered 
 Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, but did not complete- the 
 course, nor did he enter the ministry, resuming the ofHce of teacher 
 in Indiana, Massachusetts, and Maine. Four years were next spent in 
 mercantile pursuits in Newburyport. In 1864 he engaged, under the 
 auspices of an association which had its centre of operations in Phila- 
 delphia, in efforts in behalf of freedmen, having his residence in Nash- 
 ville, where he was at the time of the battle between Gens. Thomas 
 and Hood.' He also superintendfed schools for freedmen at Lynch-: 
 burg, Va. In 1867 he removed to Nebraska, where he remained six 
 years. After two or three years spent in Iowa, he returned to 
 Nebraska, Syracuse, Otoe County, where he now resides, still pursu- 
 ing his occupation as a teacher, with the design of retiring soon to 
 horticultural pursuits. He has never married. 
 
 John Appleton Cleaveland was bprn in Brunswick, March, 1819 
 (brother of Moses P., 1827). He did not study for a profession. 
 
GRADUATES. 541 
 
 He occupied different positions implying the confidence of his em- 
 ployers. For the last ten years of his life was clerk in the United 
 States Treasury, Boston, and was esteemed for fldelitj' and obliging 
 disposition by all who had -transactions of business with him. He 
 died after a brief illness in Newton, Mass. 
 
 He married in 1873 Miss Alexander of Brunswick, and left two 
 daughters. 
 
 Nathan CleavelanDj brother of the preceding, born in Bruns- 
 wick, April, 1821. After graduating he entered upon the study of 
 law, but did not complete it. He has held positions in the Boston 
 custom-house and post-offlce for some years, and also on the editorial 
 corps of the Boston Daily Advertiser. Of late years he has resided 
 in Neponset, Mass. 
 
 In 1861 he married Mary E. D., daughter of Capt. George Bacon 
 of Freeport, and has one daughter. 
 
 AooNraAM JuDsoN CoPELAND was born in Brewer, March, 1814. 
 After graduation he entered the Theological Seminary in Bangor and 
 graduated in 1843. He began his work in the ministry in this State, 
 but removed after a time to Illinois, and was in the pastorate in Como 
 of that State. We have failed to gain more information concerning 
 him. He died in 1855. 
 
 Isaiah Dole was born in Bloomfleld, May, 1819, a brother of 
 Daniel and Nathan (1836) . He has devoted his life for the most part 
 to the work of a teacher. He has been principal of Blue Hill and St. 
 Stephen's (New Brunswick) Academies, was an instructor in the 
 Female Seminary, Gorham, and at this date, 1879, in the Lasell 
 Seminary, Auburndale, Mass. His special department is Latin and 
 Greek, to which his tastes and studies have always strongly inclined. 
 He has for some years been meditating a work which he entitles " A 
 Development of the Elements of Grammar from the Relations of 
 Thought." 
 
 In 1845 he married Elizabeth Pearson of Bloomfleld, who died in 
 1851, leaving a son and daughter both living. 
 
 Thomas, MoCulloch Hates was born in Saco, August, 1819. 
 After graduation he studied law and engaged in the practice of his 
 profession in hi* native town. It is worthy of mention that in col- 
 lege he had an extreme aversion to public speaking, and it requii-ed 
 
542 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLIiEGE. 
 
 special effort of the instructor in charge to persuade him to declaim, if 
 only pro forma, that no formal obstacle should prevent his having an 
 assignment with his class at Commencement ; and all this in one who 
 soon gained distinction as an eloquent, often brilliant advocate, and 
 among the leaders of the bar. After several years of active practice 
 in Saco he removed to Boston, became a member of the Suffolk bar, 
 had entered on lucrative practice, and was rising rapidly in reputation, 
 when he was stricken down by paralysis. The bar bore most honorable 
 testimony to his legal acumen, his quickness of apprehension, forensic 
 eloquence, and especially to the pure, high-toned integrity of his pro- 
 fessional life. He died in Boston, February, 1869, in the assurance 
 of faith and hope which he had cherished several years. 
 
 In 1842 Mr. Haj-es married Sarah, daughter of Capt. Benjamin 
 Smith of Kennebunk, who died in 1858, leaving a son, Francis L. 
 (Bowdoin, 1865), now in the practice of law in Boston. In 1863 
 Mr. Hayes married again Mrs. Mary E. Taylor, who has deceased 
 since the death of her husband, leaving no issue. 
 
 Leonard Fitz-Edwaed Jakvis was born in Surry, August, 1819. 
 The first year after leaving college he was joint principal of a military 
 academ)- which was for a time in operation in Ellsworth. He then 
 studied law in the oflBce of Joshua W. Hathaway (1820) and George 
 F. Shepley, Esqs., in Bangor, was admitted to the bar and practised 
 in Ellsworth six years. He then removed to California and has 
 resided several years in Columbia, Tuolumne County, engaged in agri. 
 cultural pursuits, especially in cultivation of fruit. He was appointed 
 by President Polk deputy collector of the district of Frenchman's Bay, 
 and by Judge Ware assignee in bankruptcy. He has been superin- 
 tendent of public schools for the county of Tuolumne, and one of the 
 supervisors of the county. He was candidate for the office of superior 
 judge, but failed of election. 
 
 In 1856 he married Mary A., daughter of Hon. Thomas Eobinson, 
 Ellsworth. They have had two children, but neither is living. 
 
 Elijah Kellogg was born in Portland, May, 1813, son of the late 
 Rev. Elijah Kellogg. After graduation he entered the Theological 
 .Seminary at Andover, Mass., where he graduated in 1843 and was 
 ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Harpswell. In 1855 
 he became chaplain of the Boston Seaman's Friend Society, and occu- 
 pied that position ten years. Eesigning that oflSce, he has since de- 
 voted himself for the most part to the preparation of juvenile works, 
 of which twenty-six volumes have been published. He has also been 
 
GRADUATES. 543 
 
 a favorite in lyceum lectures, and has read poems at the anniversaries 
 of literary societies in our own and Dartmouth Colleges. His labors 
 in the ministry, not wholly intermitted during these later years, have 
 been fruitful in Harpswell and Rockport, Mass. A sailor before he 
 fitted for college, and cherishing peculiar attachment for the sea and 
 seamen, he had singular qualifications for the work of his chaplaincy. 
 His small farm and pleasant dwelling of his own erection on the east- 
 ern shore of Maquoit Bay has been his residence in the spring and 
 summer months, during which he has ministered to the people of his 
 first charge. Of a lively fancy, ready in expedients, daring in his 
 well-known craft, in the baj' or on the coast, abounding in anecdote 
 and humor, and withal easy of access, a welcome guest at every fire- 
 side, he has a name which will be a tradition where he has lived. 
 
 Mr. Kellogg married a daughter of the late Rev. Thaddeus Pomeroy 
 of Gorham, and has three children. 
 
 Silas Moeton was born in Hebron, October, 1818. After gradua- 
 tion he taught two years, and then entered on a theological course at 
 Bangor, graduating in 1845. He was licensed to preach by the Union 
 Association, and did preach a few times "to the grateful acceptance 
 of his hearers " ; but self-distrust and extreme conscientiousness hin- 
 dered his devoting himself to the sacred oflBce, and he resumed the 
 work of teaching for some years in high schools at Thomaston, 
 Windham, Casco, Mechanic Falls, and Otisfield. In 1851 he settled 
 on a farm in Otisfield, where amidst his farm labor he has cherished 
 love for books. He has for several years been on the superintending 
 school committee of the town, and held other municipal offices. He 
 was a deacon in the Congregational Church. His death was sudden 
 and painful, July, 1879. He fell from his mowing machine, was caught 
 by the scythes, and survived but a few hours, dying in the peace of 
 the believer. 
 
 Mr. Morton mamed in 1851 Sarah Webb of Casco ; one child dj'ing 
 in infancy was the only fruit of his marriage. 
 
 Frederic Perley " was from South Bridgeton. He was designed 
 for the law, but died a few weeks after graduation, of typhus fever. 
 His standing in college was in the first rank. Although I was less 
 intimate with him than with some others of the class, I always had for 
 him a warm personal regard." c. 
 
 Preston Pond was from Wrentham, Mass. "In college he was 
 frank and social, uniting the merits of a good scholar with those of an 
 
544 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 agreeable companion. He graduated in theology at Bangor, and was 
 first settled at Milford, Mass. At the time of his death he was pastor 
 of the Edwards Church in Boston. While journeying for his health 
 he was attacked by erysipelas in the head, which occasioned some 
 indications of insanity. He was removed in consequence to the asy- 
 lum at Somerville, where he died Aug. 5, 1843, at the age of thirty-six. 
 He was a very acceptable preacher and an excellent pastor." c. 
 
 William Pitt Peeble was born in Portland, April, 1819, son of 
 Hon. William Pitt Preble, LL. D. After graduating he read law with 
 his father, and took a course in Harvard Law School, graduating in 
 184a. He has pursued the legal profession in Portland, and has been 
 for some years clerk of the United States District Court of Maine. 
 
 In 1846 he married Harriet T. Mussey, daughter of John Mussey, 
 Ksq. (1809). They have had six children ; three sons are now living. 
 
 Newell Anderson Prince was born in Cumberland, October, 1815. 
 Afber he graduated he was employed as a teacher in Kentucky, in 
 the academies of North Yarmouth and Bluehill, and in Milltown, St. 
 Stephens, New Brunswick, a part of the time while a member of the 
 Theological Seminary at Bangor, where he graduated in 1844 and 
 remained for a time as resident licentiate, having been licensed to 
 preach by the Hancock and Waldo Association. He began his work 
 in the ministry at Castine, where he preached a few months with much 
 acceptance and was invited to the pastorate of the Congregational 
 Church, which however he declined. He also supplied the Congre- 
 gational Church in Bucksport some months. In 1846 and 1847 he 
 was in New York, preaching as occasion offered in the city and vicin- 
 ity. Invited to supply the Congregational Church in New Gloucester 
 for a year, he accepted the call, was offered the pastorate, and was 
 ordained in 1848, where he remained four years. Returning to New 
 York he engaged in business for a few years, although preaching when 
 his services were requested. From 1857 to 1878, having resumed 
 pastoral labors, he labored in the pastorate or as stated supply in 
 churches in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. 
 Mr. Prince has cultivated classical and literary tastes. In 1846 he 
 published " Memoirs and Select Writings" of his brother of the same 
 class, William Reed Prince. He has contributed articles to religious 
 journals, and a sermon. Besides other proofs of ingenuity, he in- 
 vented the Protean Fountain Pen, which has been patented at home 
 and abroad and been favorably received. 
 
 In 1857 he married Mrs. Mary R. Burnham, and has one daughter. 
 
GRADUATES. 515 
 
 William Reed Pkince, in common with most of those who bear 
 the same name in New England, was descended from John Prince, an 
 Oxford scholar who came to Massachusetts in 1633. William Reed 
 Prince was the fourth son of Paul Prince of Cumberland. From the 
 academy in North Yarmouth he went to college, having already shown 
 himself a young man of excellent character and of promising talents. 
 " Notwithstanding many necessary interruptions in his collegiate 
 course, he sustained an honorable rank as a scholar.'' He was inva- 
 riably found on the side of order and of duty, while " all his move- 
 ments and labors as a Christian were characterized by sound judgment 
 tempered by love." His first year as a graduate was spent in St. 
 Stephen's, New Brunswick, where he taught a school very faithfully 
 and successfully with no intermission of his studies. In the autumn 
 of 1841 he joined the Divinity School in Bangor. In 1843 he assumed 
 the charge of a school for young ladies in that city, still retaining his 
 connection with the seminary. As the period approached when he was 
 to enter the ministry, he turned his eyestoward the West as the widest 
 and most inviting field of usefulness then opened. But disease of alarm- 
 ing aspect, checking this and every earthly hope, had already made 
 its appearance in one of his lower limbs. He was however enabled to 
 complete his theological course, and actually preached for several weeks 
 at West Machias . But the disease was making rapid progress, and 
 an operation was deemed necessary. For this purpose, in September, 
 1845, he took leave of a large and sympathizing circle of friends in 
 Bangor and proceeded to New York, under the care of his brother 
 Newell and of his kind physician Dr. Deane. Soon after his arrival 
 his limb was removed by Dr. Mott. He survived the operation but a 
 few hours. Of his disease and its fatal result that eminent surgeon 
 thus wrote: " It was one of those cruel forms of malignant disease 
 of which it has fallen to m^' lot to witness such frequent instances, in 
 the origin and progress of which man's agency and interference are in 
 the great majority of cases of no avail for evil or good. There is 
 therefore no specific remedy for this form of disease, which is known 
 technically as osteocephaloma." After remarking that the further 
 progress of the evil must soon have terminated Mr. Prince's life 
 with terrible suffering, and that mutilation offered the only chance of 
 recovery, the doctor added, "God in his wisdom ordained that your 
 brother's life should not be saved by human means ; and although the 
 operation, terrible in itself, was borne by him with a fortitude sur- 
 passing anything of the kind I ever witnessed, still his vital forces, 
 weakened by confinement and suffering, were not sufflcient to bear the 
 
546 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 shock and repair the injury necessarily inflicted in the removal of the 
 disease." 
 
 Thus suddenly and sadly closed a life which .had given promise of 
 eminent usefulness. The Eev. Prof. Pond, one of his instructors, 
 after alluding to " his manly form, his open, cheerful, intellectual 
 countenance, his kind disposition, his cultivated taste and interesting 
 social powers," proceeds to say : " He possessed not only a capacious 
 mind, but a mind duly balanced and remarkably well proportioned. 
 His iVitellect was acute, vigorous, inquisitive, active ; his sensibilities 
 were suflflciently deep and strong ; while his energy of will, his firmness 
 of purpose, his power of endurance and perseverance, were all but invin- 
 cible. . . . The great purpose of his life was to preach the gospel, and 
 this is a work for which nature and grace had admirably fitted him. 
 His talents as a public speaker were decidedly above the ordinary level. 
 His powerful voice, his almost faultless elocution, the freshness and 
 vigor of his thoughts, set ofl" by the energy of his manner, must have 
 rendered him not only an attractive but an effective preacher." 
 
 Another of his teachers, the Rev. Prof. Shepard, has depicted in 
 his own clear and forcible manner the qualities and capabilities of Mr. 
 Prince as a preacher, and the published writings of the latter appended 
 to the memoir of his life seem to justify the estimate of these masters 
 in the art. " Many," says Dr. Shepard, — " many loved him, all re- 
 spected him, and sincerely lamented that one of so high promise should 
 have been removed so soon." c. 
 
 Joseph C. Richaedson of Baldwin, " for some two or three years 
 before his death in 184.5, was a teacher in Gorham Seminary. He was 
 a man of fair standing, of irreproachable charactqj-, and the mathe- 
 matician of our class. Through the longest and most abstruse dis- 
 cussions in algebra and the application thereof to geometry his mind 
 seemed to wind easily. He was at home in all the depai'tments of 
 mathematics." C. 
 
 Edward Robie was born in Gorham, April, 1821. On receiving 
 his degree he entered on a course of theological study in the seminary, 
 Andover, Mass., graduating in 1843, and in Halle and Berlin, 
 Germany, during the three following j'ears. Returning from abroad 
 he taught ancient and modern languages in the seminary in his native 
 town, and from 1848 to 1851 was assistant teacher of Hebrew in the 
 Theological Seminary, Andover. He was ordained pastor of the 
 Congregational Church, Greenland, N. H., early in 1852, where he 
 has continued the work of the ministry to the present time, 1879. 
 
GRADUATES. 547 
 
 " His character is of the most gentle and lovely type, a St. John 
 among the brethren, by whom he is universally reverenced and beloved. 
 He is authority in all matters of sacred learning, and yet never assumes 
 the place of teacher among us in our associational meetings. Settled 
 in a quiet agricultural village for nearly a quarter of a century, he 
 has done what few ministers under like circumstances could have done, 
 kept up his studies of the original Scriptures as well as of the German 
 and French languages ; and while the most modest of men, has con- 
 stantly exerted an elevating, scholarly influence all through his asso- 
 ciation, making us all love learning the more, that it is conjoined with 
 80 much sweetness and spirituality of character." 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Robie was created D. D. by Dartmouth College. 
 He has contributed articles to the Bibliotheca Sacra. In 1«52 lie 
 married Miss Susan E. Jameson of Gorham, who died in 1878 leav- 
 ing no children. 
 
 Luther Sampson came from Readfleld : " standing good, talents 
 moderate, character that of an Israelite without guile. Through all 
 his college course he suffered from the consequences of an inadequate 
 preparation ; but in pure, unostentatious, hearty goodness I have 
 rarely known his equal. His health had begun to fail before he grad- 
 uated, and remained so feeble as to preclude him from occupation and 
 success." He died in 1842 aged twenty-flve. c. 
 
 Thomas Smith was born in Litchfield, August, 1812. On leaving 
 college he entered the Theological Seminary, Bangor, graduated in 
 1843, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in 
 Brewer. He was a respected and useful minister. He was once em- 
 ployed as agent of the Bible Society for Maine, and during the last 
 year of his Kfe as financial agent of the seminary at Bangor. He 
 died suddenly of disease of the heart in 1861. He married Caroline 
 Webster of Bangor, and left two children, a son and daughter. 
 
 John Babson Lane Soule, brother of Gideon Soule (1818), was 
 born in Freeport, April, 1816. He was fitted for college at Phillips 
 Academy, Exeter, N. H. After graduating he was for two years 
 principal of the academy in Hampton, N. H., and then for two years 
 had charge of a high school in Bucksport. During these years he 
 went through a course of legal study under advice of Messrs. Bell & 
 Tuck, Exeter, N. H., and Judge Emmons, Hallowell, but did not 
 engage in the practice. In 1845 he removed to Terre Haute, Ind., 
 where he opened a classical school for boys, for which he had peculiar 
 
548 HISTOEY OF BOWUOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 qualifications, and remained six j-ears. During this period he aided 
 in drafting the first legislative bill enacting the free-school sj'stem in 
 that State ; he was also licensed to preach the gospel by the Craw- 
 fordsville Presbytery. Eetiring from the school he took the editorial 
 charge for two or three years of the Daily Express of that city, and 
 with such success that he received offers for the same position else- 
 where, but declining he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church in 
 Plymouth, Ind., whence he was called to a Congregational church in 
 Wisconsin, was ordained in 1858 and labored seven years ; he then 
 accepted an invitation to Carlinville, 111., where froili 1865 to 1876, 
 after discharging pastoral work and teaching in the department of 
 languages for three years, he became professor of ancient languages 
 in what had become Blackburn University. In 1878 Mr. Soule took 
 charge of a select family school for bojj's, mainly classical, in High- 
 land Park, 111., near Chicago. He has been a frequent contributor to 
 the public press ; has a volume of poems in hand for publication at 
 no distant date. Mr. Soule received the degree of Ph. D. from the 
 College for "Women in Chicago in 1879, and that of D. D. from 
 Blackburn University, 111., in 1880. 
 
 In 1840 he married Miss Mary I/. Stevens of I-Iallowell, who died 
 in Terre Haute in 1848. They had two children, both dying in 
 infancy. 
 
 In 1849 he married Miss Caroline Gookins of Terre Haute. They 
 have five children : three sons, of whom two have graduated at Black- 
 burn University and the third is a member, and two daughters. 
 
 Cornelius Stone was born in Jay, May, 1817. Daring his last 
 year in college he was led to consecrate himself ■ to the Christian 
 ministry in the communion of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
 pursued a theological course at the seminary at Bangor, graduating 
 in 1843. During his seminary course he taught in the academy at 
 Charleston, and subsequently, while he was engaged in the work of the 
 ministry, in Clinton in the academy at that place. Having exercised 
 his ministry with ability and acceptance in several towns in the State, 
 he was compelled by infirm health to retire from the labors of the 
 pulpit and return to his native town. During the remaining years of 
 his life he represented his town twice in the House and twice in the 
 Senate of the State. Fatal pulmonary disease terminated in his 
 death, April, 1866. 
 
 Mr. Stone married Frances Sylvester of Jay, and had two children, 
 a son and a daughter. 
 
GRADUATES. 549 
 
 Thomas Newcomb Stone was bom in Wellfleet, Mass., May, 1818. 
 He was for a short time member of the Theological Seminaiy at 
 Andover, Mass., but turned his attention to the study of medicine" 
 and graduated from the Medical School at Hano^•er, N. H., in 1844. 
 He settled in the practice of the profession in his native town, and 
 rose to distinction as a physician throughout the Cape. In the midst 
 of extensive practice he found time for reading and culture, once pub- 
 lishing a volume of poems. He was of a public spirit, was member 
 of both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature, was of a genial 
 temper, had a rich vein of humor, and was greatly beloved and deeply 
 lamented at his death, which occurred after a brief illness from pneu- 
 monia. May, 1876. His influence as a Christian man was felt in all 
 benevolent and moral efforts. He was referred to in the address 
 before the Medical Society of Massachusetts the month following his 
 decease as " a brilliant example of the ' country doctor,' one whose 
 loss was irreparable to his townsmen and neighbors." 
 
 Reuben Sweetser was born in Cumberland, August, 1812. He 
 went through the theological course in Bangor, graduating in 1844, 
 but never received ordination. He lived on a farm in his native town, 
 where he died in 1861. 
 
 John K. True was from Montville. " He entered Bowdoin from 
 Waterville at the beginning of the Junior year. He was a good- 
 hearted fellow, and had a mind of strong common-sense. He was for 
 a time principal of the Universalist Seminary at Stevens' Plains, 
 Westbrook." He died in 1847, aged thirty-two. c. 
 
 Albert G. Upham was the youngest child of Hon. Nathaniel 
 Upham of Rochester, N. H., who did not long survive his birth. 
 From early boyhood he showed a singular inclination for natural 
 science. He had his museum of minerals, plants, and birds, collected 
 by his own hand. He made long and solitary journeys along the sea- 
 shore, or rifle in hand, traversed the woods for days together that he 
 might add new specimens to his cabinet. About this time the great 
 Audubon, happening to meet with him, was so charmed with the 
 enthusiastic boy that he made him a present of his works. At the 
 age of thirteen he made the voyage to Liverpool by w^}"^ of New 
 Orleans, thus gratifjing an ardent passion for the sea, which he loved 
 as one of the grandest of God's works. In college he was esteemed 
 for his good qualities, and distinguished for his various attainments. 
 There too " he became an open and ardent professor of religion," 
 and thenceforth he was ' ' a consistent and conscientious Christian." 
 
550 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE.. 
 
 Soon afterwards he began with characteristic ardor the stndj' of 
 medicine under his brother, Dr. Timothy Upham of Waterford, N. Y. 
 He attended medical lectures at Albany, and at Castleton in Vermont. 
 At the close of the course in Castleton be was appointed professor of 
 pathological anatomy in that institution. In the autumn of 1842 he 
 went to Paris, where he spent a year and a half in the almost unre- 
 mitted pursuit of his professional studies. He came back in the autumn 
 of 1844 and settled in Boston. Here " he was gradually obtaining a 
 valuable acquaintance and his merit was beginning to be appreciated, 
 when disease contracted in the discharge of his duty suddenly seized 
 him. He was attacked with the malignant typhus fever communi- 
 cated from a patient whose life he was instrumental in preserving, and 
 died after a brief but violent illness, June 16, 1847, aged twenty- 
 eight." "Dr. Upham was distinguished for his high aims through 
 life, for the enthusiasm that marks the man of genius, for his sim- 
 plicity of character and confiding affection, for his strength of intel- 
 lect, sound judgment, and indomitable perseverance. He was six feet 
 in stature, of commanding appearance, with an ingenuous counte- 
 nance and a heart strung with the finest chords of sj'mpathy and 
 benevolence. Each year of his life gave assurance of a man con- 
 stantly advancing in knowledge and maturing in excellence, to whom 
 nothing within the range of his efibrts seemed unattainable." c. 
 
 James Paktelow Weston was born in Bremen, July, 1815. After, 
 graduation he taught a select school in Eeadfield for a time, and then 
 became principal of the Liberal Institute, a Universalist institu- 
 tion in Waterville. Meanwhile having directed his studies with 
 reference to the ministry, he began to preach whil@ in the Institute, 
 and in 1842 was ordained at the session of the Maine convention of 
 Universalists held in Augusta. In 1843 he accepted a call from the, 
 society of that faith in Gardiner, where he remained until 1850. He 
 then resumed the position he had held in "Waterville until the winter 
 of 1853, when he accepted the charge of the Westbrook Seminary, 
 which by his energetic and personal effort was raised from a depressed 
 condition to one of comparative prosperity. In 1859 he was invited 
 to the presidency of Lombard University, Galesburg, 111. Here again 
 he exhibited, as is reported, marked "executive and financial abili- 
 ties," and was successful during twelve years of service in securing 
 for the institution patronage and relief In 1872, having retired from 
 the presidency, he became principal of Dean Academy, Franklin, 
 Mass., and remained there until 1877, when he retired for needed 
 rest. In 1878 he accepted the presidency of Westbrook Seminary 
 
GRADUATES. 551 
 
 and Female College, which he now holds. Mr. "Weston received the 
 degree of D. D. from Tufts College, Massachusetts, in 1864. He 
 has published his inaugural discourse at Lombard University and bac- 
 calaureate sermons, besides contributing to the " Methodist Cyclopffi- 
 dia'' and the " Cyclopssdia of Education." In 1841 he married 
 Eliza Elden Woodman of South Montville, and has a daughter now 
 living. 
 
 Eli Wight of Bethel ' ' was engaged after he left college as teacher 
 in North Yarmouth Academy, but was obliged to give up on account 
 of ill health. He died of consumption in the autumn of 1841. He 
 had fine natural talents, an affectionate nature, and while in college 
 excelled in extemporaneous debate. He intended to enter the Chris- 
 tian ministry." The memoir of William Reed Prince (pp. 17, 18) 
 makes honorable mention of this young man. c. 
 
 Samuel Lane Young was born in Gloucester, Mass., January, 
 1813. After graduation he taught school in his native town for a 
 time, and then engaged in the study of medicine. He attended 
 courses of medical lectures in the Maine and Harvard Medical 
 Schools, took his medical degree at the latter in 1852, and became a 
 member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He settled in the 
 practice of medicine in Marblehead, Mass , for two or three years. 
 He had a position in the custom-house, Boston, was inspector of 
 Eainsford Island hospital, and physician at the almshouse hospital, 
 Bridgewater, Mass., two years each. In 1843 he married Miss Emily 
 Tarr of Rockport, Mass., who died in 1867, by whom he had one 
 child, a daughter, now living. For several years he has been com- 
 missioned justice of the peace. He now resides at Lanesville, Mass. 
 
 1841. 
 
 Samuel Woodburt Blanchard was born in North Yarmouth 
 (now Yarmouth), April, 1818. On leaving college he was employed 
 for a time as principal of the academy in his native town. He then 
 studied' medicine and took his medical degree at Jefferson College, 
 Philadelphia. He began the practice of his profession in Searsport, 
 where he had secured the respect and confidence of the community, 
 when the urgency of friends induced him to remove to his native 
 town. Dr. Blanchard was greatly respected and beloved, not only in 
 his professional but in all the relations of life. OflSces of responsi- 
 bility were committed to him by his townsmen ; he was a Christian 
 
552 HISTOBY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 man, and superintendent of the Sabbath school several years. He 
 ■was rapidly rising in reputation as a physician and in general influence 
 when he was seized with typhoid fever, which he had successfully com- 
 bated in others but to which he was to fall a victim. His death 
 caused a deep sensation ; the public sorrow demanded a public burial, 
 and every demonstration of widespread sorrow marked the day when 
 he was borne to his rest, December, 1857. 
 
 Dr. Blanchard in 1850 married Clara Benson Thurston, daughter of 
 Rev. Dr. Stephen Thurston of Searsport. They have three daughters, 
 all living. 
 
 Geokge Washington Brown was bom in Bangor, September, 
 1820. He entered at once on the study of law in the oflflce of Messrs. 
 Hill & Appleton, Bangor ; was admitted to the bar, opened an oflBce 
 in the same town, and remained there until 1851, when he removed 
 to St. Louis, Mo., where he still continues in the practice of the 
 profession. 
 
 He married Maria, daughter of Charles H. Pond, Esq , of St Louis, 
 but has no children. 
 
 Joseph Farwbll Clark was born in Andover, Mass., January, 
 1820. He read law in the ofllce of his father, Herbert Clark, Esq., 
 attended- the Law School, Harvard, and engaged in the practice of 
 the profession in Lawrence several j-ears, and subsequently in Boston. 
 His residence in later years was in Cambridge, where he died March, 
 1879. His wife survives him. 
 
 Henry Thornton Ccmmengs, son of Rev. Dr. Asa Cummings, was 
 born in North Yarmouth (now Yarmouth), November, 1823. On 
 leaving college he entered on medical study with Dr. William Wood 
 of Portland, and with Dr. William J. Dale, then of Boston, now sur- 
 geon-general of Massachusetts, and took his degree in medicine in 
 Harvard Medical School in 1844. He has always resided in Portland, 
 during the first few years assisting his father in duties incident to the 
 publication of the Christian Mirror, meanwhile practising his profes- 
 sion especially among the poor of the city. In 1849 he embraced an 
 opportunity to purchase into a drug business, which he prosecuted 
 until 1874, when he sold his interest in the concern and since that date 
 has been without constant occupation, j-et exercising his skill in manu- 
 facture and analysis. He was State assayer several years, and is now 
 commissioner of pharmacy for the State and milk inspector for the 
 city. In 1854 he was chosen first vice-president of the American 
 
GEADUATE8. 553 
 
 Pharmaceutical Association for the year, and for several years has 
 been president of the Maine Pharmaceutical Association. 
 
 Dr. Cummings has occasionally contributed to the public press, and 
 a paper from his pen appeared in the ' ' Proceedings of the American 
 Pharmaceutical Association for 1875." 
 
 Dr. Cummings married Miss Mary A. Rideout of New Gloucester. 
 They have had five children, daughters, two of whom are now living. 
 
 Chakles Davis was born in Bangor, October, 1817. After gradu- 
 ation he was employed as a teacher two years in Madison and 
 Hinds Counties, Miss. He then studied law in Bangor, and in 1846 
 opened an office for the practice of law in Kenduskeag (formerly 
 Levant) , where he remained three years ; he then removed to Bangor, 
 where he has since resided most of the time. For three years he was 
 clerk in the paymaster's office, Washington, D. C. 
 
 He has held for several years the position of public administrator 
 for Penobscot County, under commission from the governor. 
 
 He has never married. 
 
 William Bradfokd Dean was born in Frankfort, January, 1820. 
 He taught school a year in Nottingham, Prince George County, Md. ; 
 he henceforward engaged in mercantile pursuits, residing twenty- 
 eight years on Prince Edward Island in the St. Lawrence, where for 
 several years he was United States consular agent. In 1873 he 
 returned to the United States and has been in business in Boston, 
 his present residence. 
 
 In Prince Edward Island he married Mary Ann Lord, and has had 
 six children, all save one now living. 
 
 Nathan Elden was born in Buxton, July. 1817. He entered on 
 Junior standing from Water viUe College. After graduation, as we 
 learn, he went South and was employed as a teacher for some time in 
 Mississippi. In 1853 he returned to his home in Buxton, and has 
 since lived there on a farm. He is reported to have kept up his read- 
 ing in Greek and French, and as is expressed by our informant, 
 " devours ' Butler's Analogy.' " He married in Buxton. 
 
 James Fogg was born in Berwick, October, 1815. After gradua- 
 tion he taught a high school in Rockland a short time, meanwhile 
 studjing law ; was admitted to the bar in that county, and entered 
 upon the practice of the profession in that town. In 1847 he aban- 
 doned the law and removed to Boston, where he became member of a 
 firm with a brother in that city and another brother in Shanghai in 
 
554 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 the China trade, in which they were successful. " He was very highly 
 esteemed by his dissociates and all who became connected with him for 
 his intelligence, ability, and character.'' He held office in the city 
 government of Charlestown, Mass. The cares of business did not 
 prevent him from literary aims and pursuits, which however failed of 
 accomplishment by his premature death in 1855. He had contem- 
 plated founding a professorship in his Alma Mater, we are informed 
 by a relative. In 1843 he married a daughter of Oliver Tales, Esq., 
 of Rockland, but left no children. 
 
 Joseph Oakland was born in Parsonsfleld, August, 1811. Im- 
 mediately after graduation he entered the Theological Seminary in 
 Bangor, where he graduated in 1844. He began the work of the 
 Christian ministry in the Congregational Church in Woolwich, where 
 he spent three years. In 1848 he was ordained over the Congre- 
 gational Church in Sandwich, Mass After six years' service he 
 removed to Bristol, N. H., where also he remained six years. Sub- 
 sequently he exercised his ministry in Acton, Mass., and Charlestown, 
 N. H. Disease combined with other severe afflictions interrupted his 
 labors for some years, and he retired to a farm in Hampton, N. H. 
 He was at length able to resume the work of his choice in East Hav- 
 erhill, Mass., and with other churches in Vermont. He is now resid- 
 ing in Waterville in that State. Mr. Garland has been active in the 
 cause of education on the committees of schools, or as supervisor 
 where he has lived. He deserves honorable mention for faithful ser- 
 vice in the midst of peculiar and wearisome trials of personal and 
 domestic life. He married in 1844 Clarissa Loring, daughter of Dea- 
 con John Loring of Norridgewock, by whom he has had four children, 
 two of whom died in early childhood. 
 
 Washington Gilbert was born in Turnjer, March, 1816. After 
 graduating he taught a grammar school in Saco about three years. 
 He prosecuted the study of law in the office of Ebenezer Everett, 
 Esq., and by himself; was admitted to the bar and opened an office 
 in Bath in 1847, where he has continued the practice of the profession 
 for the most part from that date. Besides serving the city repeated^ 
 in the board of allermen, he has represented the city in four sessions 
 of the State Legislature. In 1875 he was appointed by the governor 
 on the board of commissioners to revise the Constitution of the State 
 and to devise and frame amendments. In 1872 he was elected judge 
 of probate for the county, and elected a second time in 1876. In 
 1844 he married Miss Jane P. Badger, daughter of Nathaniel Badger 
 
GRADUATES. 555 
 
 of Brunswick. They have had three sons and three daughters. The 
 eldest son, Dr. Charles W., and two daughters are now living. 
 
 Charles Dickinson Herbert was born in Ellsworth, September, 
 1818. He entered the Theological Seminary, Bangor, and graduated 
 in 1844. Having received license to preach from the Hancock Asso- 
 ciation, he began his work in Bui-lington, where he spent a few months 
 during which the first house of public worship was built. In 1845 he 
 went to Missouri, and was ordained by the Lexington presbj'tery early 
 in 1846. After a ministry of three years in Parkville and Osceola, in ' 
 consequence of impaired health he returned to the North, preached at 
 Frankfort more than a year, and was then, having been called to the 
 Congregational Church in Mt. Vernon, installed November, 1850, and 
 again in 1857 over the church in West Newbury, Mass., where he 
 remained nine years. He prepared a history of both of these churches 
 for the volume entitled " New Hampshire Churches "and " Contribu- 
 tions to the Evangelical History of Essex County." In consequence 
 of failure of health he relinquished pulpit labors, studied medicine, 
 took a medical degree in Philadelphia in 1866, and settled in the prac- 
 tice in Eutland, Mass. By the importunity of friends he consented, 
 though in active practice as a phj'sician, to supply the vacant pulpit in 
 that town for some months. Finding that his renewed health per- 
 mitted, he took charge of a pulpit in Lebanon, Conn. ; and then, in 
 order to free himself from calls to medical sei-vice, his heart being in 
 the work of a pastor, he accepted an invitation to the pastorate in 
 Monroe, Conn., where he now resides. He has enjoyed proof of the 
 Divine favor in his work as a minister of the gospel in the enlargement 
 of churches under his care, as well as of the respect and affection of 
 the people among whom he has labored, manifested towards him as a 
 faithful servant in Christ. 
 
 Mr. Herbert married in 1853 Sarah Ann Flanders, daughter of 
 Thomas Flanders, M. D., of Durham, N. H., and has had two sons 
 who graduated at Amherst College in 1876 and 1878. 
 
 Oliver Peery Hinkley was born in Georgetown, December, 1815. 
 A confirmed invalid ever since he left college, he has been unfitted for 
 any active occupation. He has taught school twice, in the summer 
 and fall months of 1869 and 1876. He has visited the college within 
 a year or two, guided by a college classmate, with defective eyesight 
 and faltering steps, but glad to see even dimly the scenes of his earlier 
 days. He writes that he has relieved the wearisome and depressing 
 effect of physical disability by reading the classics, and expresses the 
 
556 HISTORY OF BOWDOm COLLEGE, 
 
 interest and gratification he has felt in more recent issues in that de- 
 partment. He never married. 
 
 Amort Holbrook was born in Eowley, Mass., August, 1820. 
 After graduating he studied law with Hon. Rufus Choate of Boston, 
 and Hon J. C. Perkins of Salem, Mass., and in 1844 was admitted 
 to the bar of Essex County, Mass. He prosecuted his profession 
 for a time in Memphis, Tenn., subsequently in Salem, Mass. In 
 1849 he was appointed by President Taylor attorney of Oregon Ter- 
 ritory; was mayor of Oregon City in 1§54 and 1855. In 1862 he 
 removed to Portland, Oregon, where he resided until his death in 
 1866. He was active and influential in the Masonic fraternity, and 
 was for some years chairman of the committee on foreign correspond- 
 ence. In 1847 Mr. Holbrook married Mary Hooper Broughton of 
 Warblehead, Mass., and had two children: a son who died in 1875, 
 and a daughter now Mrs. G. E. Withingtonof Portland, Or. He died 
 in 1866. 
 
 Edward Howe was born in Portland. March, 1820. After gradu- 
 ation he entered the Union Theological Seminary, city of New York, 
 and remained three years. Then 'relinquishing whatever views he had 
 cherished respecting the ministry, he gave himself to the cultivation 
 of music, to which a decided taste and talent had alwaj'S drawn him. 
 He has accordingly been a teacher of music in the seminary and in the 
 city of New York from the first, and a church organist. He has been 
 the organist in the Church of the Messiah the last twenty-three years. 
 
 He has published pieces of music, contributed anthems and tunes 
 for church service to " The Church and Home," and other similar 
 publications. He married in 1862 and has three sons. 
 
 Henrt Ingalls was born in South Bridgton, March, 1819. Imme- 
 diately after graduating he engaged in legal study in the office of 
 Messrs. Howard & Osgood, Portland, and in 1843 entered upon the 
 practice of law in partnership with Hon. John D. McCrate in Wis- 
 casset. Mr. McCrate having retired, he prosecuted the labors of his 
 profession alone until, pressure of business afltecting his health, he 
 was compelled in 1857 to withdraw from active practice in the courts, 
 though still keeping an open office. The failure of health thus caus- 
 ing a great change in his plans of life, besides what has been demanded 
 by his personal affairs he has occupied various positions as guardian 
 and trustee, and has been president of the National Bank of Wiscasset 
 since its organization. 
 
 In 1849 he married Miss Susan Johnston, daughter of Mr. Alexan- 
 
GRADUATES. 557 
 
 der Johnston of Wiscasset, who died in 1852 leaving a daughter now 
 living. In 1855 he married Miss Mary Farley, daughter of Ebenezer 
 Farley, Esq., of Newcastle, by whom lie has had four children, of 
 whom one only, a daughter, survives. 
 
 Albion W. Knight was born in Falmouth, January, 1822. After 
 graduation he taught for a time in the High School in Bath. In 
 1844 and 1845 he was private tutor in the family of Hon. Thomas B. 
 King of St. Simon's Island, Georgia. In 1848 he graduated from the 
 Maine Medical School, Brunswick, and in the following year settled 
 in the practice at White Springs, Hamilton County, Fla., and dis- 
 c'aarged with his calls as a physician the duties of postmaster for sev- 
 eral years. In 1872 he removed to Jacksonville, where he has continued 
 to practise medicine and for three years has been health oflScer and 
 city physician. 
 
 In 1848 he married Miss Caroline Demere of Glynn County, Ga., 
 who died in 1873, and in 1878 married a second time. He has had 
 eight children, of whom five are now living. 
 
 Francis Dudley Ladd was born in Hallowell, May, 1820, son of 
 Gen. S. G. and Caroline {nee Vinal) Ladd, a niece of the first Presi- 
 dent Adams. After graduating he became private tutor for a year 
 or two in the family of Dr. Robert H. Rose, Silver Lake, Susquehanna 
 County, Pa. He then took a course in theology at Bangor and grad- 
 uated in 1846i was ordained as an evangelist at Farmington by the 
 Congregational Association, and became pastor of the Presbyterian 
 Church at Silver Lake, ministering also to two other churches a few 
 miles distant, a labor which he performed with unwearied punctuality 
 and earnestness. His services were highly prized, and in demand 
 wherever there was special religious interest. In 1851 he was called 
 to the pastorate of the Penn Church, Philadelphia, then in a state of 
 depression and discouragement, but amid the trials that awaited him 
 " he labored faithfully, earnestly, and steadfastly." At one period he 
 thought seriously of devoting himself to the foreign mission work, but 
 was hindered by circumstances bej'ond his control. Having inherited 
 the spirit of genuine love of country and its institutions from those 
 who had been active in establishing them, at the opening of the war 
 of the Rebellion, in obedience to what he regarded to be a call of 
 Christian duty, " he visited the army before Richmond soon afljpr the 
 battle of Fair Oaks. His zeal however carried him too far in his 
 efforts to relieve the sufferings of the sick and wounded. On his return 
 he began writing an appeal to the public in their behalf ; but before it 
 was finished the seeds of disease contracted in the camp revealed 
 
558 HISTORY OP BowDonsr college. 
 
 themselves, and after a short illness he died in his study, July, 1862. 
 His death made a deep impression upon the public, and his funeral was 
 largely attended not only by his church and by the brethren of the 
 presbytery, of which he was one of the original members, but by 
 clergymen of other denominations and a large concourse of citizens." 
 Mr. Ladd married a daughter of Dr. Rose, who had died, as had 
 also their only child, some years before. 
 
 William Henry Lowell was born in Standish, November, 1821. 
 After graduation he read law, was admitted to the bar, and left Stan- 
 dish in 1849 for the distant West, where he has since resided. " He 
 abandoned," as the writer is informed, " the law and connected him- 
 self with large and rich mining interests in Virginia City, Nev.," his 
 present residence (1879). 
 
 GEORaE Feederic Magoun was born in Bath, March, 1821. After 
 taking his degree he entered upon a course of theological study at the 
 seminaries at Andover and Yale College, and finally as resident licen- 
 tiate at Andover, two years of the time having been spent in teaching 
 at Galena, 111., and Platte\ille, Wis. He began his ministry in the 
 service of the Home Missionary Society at ShuUsburg, Wis. , and was 
 successively in the pastorate in Galena, 111., from 1848 to 1851 ; in 
 Davenport, Iowa, from 1855 to 1860 ; and in Lyons, Iowa, from 1860 
 to 1864. Having been elected president of Iowa College and pro- 
 fessor of moral and mental science, he entered on the duties of that 
 office in 1865, and still remains in that position. In 1867 he received 
 the honorary degree of D. D. from Amherst College. 
 
 Dr. Magoun has found time amidst manifold labors to publish arti- 
 cles in our prominent reviews and periodicals, numerous contributions 
 to the religious and secular press at home and in London, besides ser- 
 mons, addresses, and lectures. During the present year he has deliv- 
 ered a course of lectures in the seminary at Andover, thus affording 
 proof of an active and fertile mind and unwearied diligence and 
 energy. The position he holds in the Christian public may be inferred 
 from his appointment to preach the annual sermon before the Ameri- 
 can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 
 
 In 1847 he married Abby Anne Hyde of Bath, by whom he had nine 
 children, of whom four only survive. In 1870 he married Elizabeth 
 Earle, formerly of Brunswick, by whom he has had two children, one 
 now living. 
 
 Asa Cummings Mitchell was born in North Yarmouth, now Yar- 
 mouth, August, 1821. On leaving college he taught a school in Bath 
 
GRADUATES. 559 
 
 for a time, and then during the winter seasons in Wellfleet, Mass., 
 where he also studied medicine with his brother Dr. Jacob Mitchell. 
 Ill health requiring more active business he returned to Maine, and as 
 civil engineer was employed on the Atlantic and St. Lawrence EaU- 
 road for a few years, and subsequently in Kentuck3^ In 1858 he 
 returned to Maine, emploj-ed himself in farming in Auburn for a few 
 years, was mail clerk in the post-office at Portland one year, was 
 engaged in the business of a druggist with liis classmate Henry T. 
 Cummings, until health failing he again, after cultivating a farm in 
 Sudbury, Mass., for a time, accepted positions as resident or chief 
 engineer on the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad until 1877, when 
 he resumed the business of druggist at Bellows Falls, Vt., where he 
 now (1880) resides. 
 
 In 1850 he married Julia M. Vosmus, Danville, and has had four 
 children, three now li^nng. A son, Frank A., graduated from Bow- 
 doin College in 1877. 
 
 William C. Nichols was from Newcastle. " My recollections of 
 Nichols are for the most part very pleasant. He possessed a clear and 
 ready mind, though not remarkable for brilliancy or originality. He 
 acquired knowledge with great ease, and therefore, though the j'oung- 
 est in the class, he at once took a stand in the front ranks as a recita- 
 tion scholar, and maintained it throughout. His part at Commeaee- 
 ment was the Latin salutatory. He was however too ambitious of 
 college distinctions, and too sensitive in regard to his relative position, 
 to be as happy or as amiable as he ought to have been. But he is not 
 the only college student who has made that mistake ! " Nichols died 
 of consumption about six months after his graduation. c. 
 
 John Holbrook Packard was born in Newcastle, Decemjjer, 1814. 
 He was a diligent student in college, and graduated with a high ap- 
 pointment in his class. After graduating, a classmate thinks that he 
 went South, where he died in 1845. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Parsons was born in "Westport, June, 1820. 
 On leaving college he entered on a theological course at New York, 
 Union, and Bangor Seminaries, graduating at the latter in 1846. He 
 was ordained the first minister of the Congregational Church in 
 Watertown, Wis., January, 1847; was installed January, 1847, first 
 pastor of the First Church in Waukegan, 111. ; in the fall of 1848 
 became pastor of the First Congregational Church, Dover, N. H. ; 
 resigning that pastorate in 1853 he was instrumental in organizing a 
 
560 HISTOKT OF BOWDOISr COLLEGE. 
 
 second church of which he became pastor in 1856; in 1861, was in- 
 stalled pastor of Pearl Street Congregational Church, Nashua, N. H., 
 and after six years of service resigned and removed to Derry, where 
 he has since resided without charge, but supplying churches elsewhere 
 as opportunity has offered. At this writing he has been supplying the 
 church in Webster, Mass., for two years. 
 
 In 1846 Mr. Parsons married Miss Sarah Jane Erskine of Wis- 
 casset, who died in 1851 leaving two daughters. In 1853 he again 
 married Miss Mary A. Nesmith, Derry, N. H. They have had five 
 sons and three daughters. 
 
 Nathaniel Smith Partridge was born in Westbrook, March, 1820. 
 After graduation he read law in Bangor, and was admitted to the bar. 
 He engaged in the practice in Bangor, but soon removed to "West 
 Newton, Mass., where he remained a few years; he then went to 
 California, where he remained a short time. On his return to New 
 England he fell a victim to yellow fever in 1853. 
 
 He maiTied Mary, daughter of George Brown, Esq., of Bangor. 
 He left two children ; a son survives. 
 
 Franklin Partridge was born in Westbrook, June, 1821, brother 
 of the preceding. During the last years of his life he was cashier of 
 the Bath National Bank in Bath. He sustained an excellent charac- 
 ter, was a good citizen, and enjoyed the respect and confidence of all 
 who knew him. His health was infirm several years, and at last after 
 lingering pulmonary disease he died in 1865, leaving a son who still 
 survives. He married Susan Foster of Westbrook. 
 
 Henry Everard Peck was born in Rochester, N. Y. , July, 1821, 
 son of one of the earliest and best known citizens of the city, who made 
 valuable contributions to its annals. This son was led by a change in 
 his views of life and duty, near the close of his college life, to con- 
 secrate himself to the Christian' ministry ; studied theology at Lane 
 Seminary, Ohio, at Auburn, N. Y., and at Oberlin, Ohio. He was 
 for a time the earnest and successful pastor of the Congregational 
 Church in Frankfort near Rochester, and then became professor of 
 rhetoric and intellectual philosophy at Oberlin. Of ardent tempera- 
 ment, positive views, and strong convictions, during the agitation 
 caused by the fugitive-slave law in 1858, he was imprisoned ten 
 months by the United States authorities for supposed concern in resist- 
 ing the operation of that law. He was a man of ready powers of 
 mind, great decision of character, an earnest, self-sacrificing spirit, of 
 
GRADUATES. 561 
 
 engaging person, genial, attractive manners, with unusual power of 
 influence. In 1865 he was appointed minister resident at Hayti ; he 
 fell a victim to the fatal malaria and yellow fever prevalent on the 
 island, himself and a daughter dying June, 1867. A French gentle- 
 man of the island declared that no life had ever left such an impres- 
 sion on the people of Hayti. 
 Mr. Peck married, and had seven children, four of whom survive. 
 
 Baerett Edwards Potter, twin brother of the following, born in 
 Augusta, Feb. 22, 1819. On leaving college he pursued medical 
 study, attended lectures in the Medical School connected with the 
 college, but the tendency to diseased action of the heart led him to 
 change his plans of life. For fifteen years he devoted himself to the 
 instruction of private pupils, and has also been a director of the 
 schools in the city of Augusta. He has since been engaged with a 
 brother in the business of banking, or by himself. He has been a 
 pension agent under government. 
 
 Daniel Fox Potter was born in Augusta, Feb. 22, 1819. After 
 graduation he studied law for three years but did not enter upon 
 the practice ; he then pursued a course of theological study in Bangor, 
 graduating in 1848, and spent the following year in the Theological 
 Seminary, Princeton, N. J. ; he then served under a commission from 
 Maine Missionary Society in Houlton and its vicinity, and at Dexter 
 and Newcastle. In 1852 he was ordained over the Congregational 
 Church in Union ; in 1856 he became acting pastor over the Congre- 
 gational Church in Topsham, where he remained nearly twelve years, 
 when in consequence of bronchial trouble he was compelled to sus- 
 pend all labor in the pulpit . He has represented Topsham twice in 
 the Legislature of the State, has served under commission from the 
 governor as supervisor of schools in his county, which position in con- 
 sequence of ill health he resigned after two years' service. Since 1874 
 he has resided in Brunswick. 
 
 In 1854 he married Miss A. A. Cram of Mt. Vernon. They have 
 three children, two daughters and a son Barrett (Bowdoin College, 
 1878). 
 
 John Moor Prince was born in Bangor, June, 1820. Soon after 
 taking his degree he entered upon the theological course at the semi- 
 nary in Bangor, and graduated with the class of 1845. He was or- 
 dained pastor of the Congregational Church in Georgetown, Mass., and 
 gained in an eminent degree the confidence, respect, and affection of 
 
562 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 his people, until after ten or twelve years' faithful and fruitful labors, 
 ill health compelled him to resign his charge. Having after a time 
 regained health sufficiently as was hoped to resume his chosen work, 
 he accepted a call to a church in Bridgewater and was installed. In 
 less than a year, although " long enough to secure a very large place 
 in their a£Feetions,'' while preaching on exchange in a church insuffi- 
 ciently warmed he took a cold, which developed the insidious pulmonary 
 disease which had been lurking in his system and terminated in his 
 death, November, 1858. "He was an assiduous student, carefully 
 prepared himself for the pulpit, was always instructive, often deeply 
 interesting, and sometimes rose to a high degree of power and elo- 
 quence." 
 
 Mr. Prince married Sarah Bartlett Coffin, daughter of Joshua 
 Coffin, Esq., of Newburyport, Mass. They had two children, a son 
 and daughter. 
 
 Damel Thompsok Eichakdson was born in Baldwin, AngusJ, 
 1815. On leaving college he taught schools in different places three 
 or four years, when from failure of health he retired from such labor 
 and lived on a farm until 1850, when he engaged in trade and still con- 
 tinues in that occupation in East Baldwin. He has been on school 
 committees for many years, has held other offices of responsibility 
 in his town, among them that of trial justice. He has been in both 
 branches of the Legislature of the State. 
 
 In 1843 he married Eliza A. Sawyer of Baldwin, and has had 
 eleven children, of whom five sons and three daughters are living. 
 
 Frederick Robie was bom in Gorham, August, 1822. After grad- 
 uation he taught school a year in Florida and Georgia. He then stud- 
 ied medicine, attended a course of lectures in the Medical School con- 
 nected with the college, and two courses in Jefferson Medical Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia, where he took his degree in 1844. He began 
 the practice of his profession ii^ Biddeford, whence he subsequently 
 removed to Waldoboro', where he remained some years. In 1857 he 
 returned to his native town, and on the death of his father to the 
 homestead of his family, and has given himself to mercantile and 
 agricultural pursuits. He has represented his town in the Legislature 
 of the State repeatedly, and was Speaker of the House in 1872 and 
 1877 ; represented his district in the Senate in 1867 and 1868, and in 
 1861 was in the executive council. He served through the war as 
 paymaster in the army, and was honorably discharged in 1866 with 
 rank of lieutenant-colonel by brevet. In 1868 and 1869 he Tyas 
 
GRADUATES. 563 
 
 special agent of the Treasury Department ; in 1871 and 1872 was con- 
 nected with the Portland Daily Press as business manager ; has been 
 for several, years a director of the Portland and Rochester Eailroad 
 Company, and a part of the time its vice-president. He was a dele- 
 gate to the Republican national convention, Philadelphia, 1872. In 
 1878 he was commissioner to the Paris Exposition, and travelled 
 extensively in Europe. He married in 1848 Miss Mary O. Priest of 
 Biddeford. They have had four children, of whom three are now 
 living. 
 
 Benjamin Smith was born in Litchfield, November, 1814, cousin of 
 Thomas t^mith (1840). His father and grandfather were deacons of 
 the Congregational Church in that town, to whom the present genera- 
 tion owe largely the maintenance of religious institutions for many 
 years before that people had a settled ministry. After graduation 
 Mr. Smith opened a private school which subsequently received the 
 charter of an academy, and he always cherished a lively interest in 
 the institution which he planted In consequence of his activity as a 
 member of the church he was urged in 1849 to commence preachings 
 was ordained into the pastorate among his own kindred and people, 
 and served his Master with earnest and faithful diligence until his 
 sudden decease in 1858. He was greatly beloved, and his death was 
 mourned by all the community. Few have received through life more 
 gratifj'ing proofs of confidence, respect, and affection of neighbors, 
 townsmen, and church members in the town where he was born and 
 always lived, thus forming an exception to the saying that " a prophet 
 is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house." 
 
 Mr. Smith married Ellen, daughter of the late Deacon Carr of Win- 
 throp, and died without issue. 
 
 Thomas Davee Sturtetant was born in Hebron, December, 1818. 
 After graduation he entered upon a course in theology in the seminary 
 at Bangor, graduating in 1844. In consequence of his theological 
 views he transferred his relations to the Swedenborgian Church, 
 preached in Portland, and in Providence, R. I. ; but becoming discour- 
 aged in the work he abandoned public service, and left in 1850 for 
 California. He was reported as having died at Sacramento the same 
 year. We ascertained the above facts from a classmate. He married 
 Sarah, daughter of Dr. Josiah Dean of Bangor, and left one child. 
 
 George Albert Thomas was bora in Portland, September, 1819, 
 brother of Edward T. (1831) and Charles W. (1834). He studied 
 law in the office of Judge Howard, Portland, and was admitted to the 
 
564 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 bar, but has not been in active practice. In 1850 he went to Califor- 
 nia, where he spent four of five years for the most part in the mines. 
 Since his return he has been engaged in the superintendence. of estates. 
 He has never married, but has resided in Portland. Of a family of 
 musical tastes, he is known in musical circles. 
 
 Richard B. Thdeston born in Bangor, June, 1819. After taking 
 his degree he was employed in teaching in Friendsville, Pa., for two 
 years, and then pursued theological study at the Bangor Seminary, 
 graduating in 1846. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational 
 Church in Waterville, where he remained nine years ; was acting pas- 
 tor at Chidopee Falls, Mass , three years ; was in the pastorate over 
 the church at Waltham, Mass., six or seven years ; and at Stamford, 
 Conn., nearly ten years. He resided a year or two in New Haven, 
 and has since been acting pastor at Old Saybrook, Conn. 
 
 Mr. Thurston }ias published as a prize essay ' ' The Error and the 
 Duty in Regard to Slavery," several articles in the Presbyterian 
 Review and Congregational Quarterly, besides sermons, etc. He has 
 always been a student steadfast in duty, and "a workman that need- 
 eth not to be ashamed." He married in 1847 Miss Jane M. Pierce of 
 Friendsville, Pa. They have had three daughters, and one son who 
 died in infancy. 
 
 Akno Wiswell was born in Frankfort, August, 1818. He left col- 
 lege before completing his course. Recently by vote of the boards he 
 received a degree " out of course," his name to be inserted in his class 
 of 1841. By mistake his name in the triennial of 1882 appears in the 
 class of 1843. He has resided in his native town in the practice of 
 law until recently, when he removed to his son's, Andrew T. Wiswell, 
 Esq. (1873), at Ellsworth, where he died in 1877 at the age of eighty 
 years. 
 
 1842. 
 
 Jacob Atkinson was bom in'Newburyport, Mass., August, 1817. 
 He studied law and engaged in the practice in Boston. His mind 
 became disordered and he died in the hospital in Somerville, Mass., 
 in 1857. He married and left three children. 
 
 JosiAH Atkinson was twin brother of the preceding. He studied 
 medicine, graduated from the Berkshire Medical Institution, Pittsfield, 
 Mass., and settled in Newburyport in the practice. He became em- 
 barrassed by pecuniary losses, his mind became unsettled, and he died 
 a sad death in 1869. He was married and left three children. 
 
GRADUATES. 565 
 
 Alison Bakboue Baetlett was born in Bethel, July, 1819. He 
 taught a private school in Brunswick the first year after graduating, 
 and the academy in his native town the second year. He had entered 
 upon the studj' of law in the oflSce of William Frye, Esq., in his 
 native town, and was admitted to the bar of Oxford County in 1845. 
 ■ He practised his profession in that county ten years, and then removed 
 to Boston, whence after two years he removed to Kansas in 1857 and 
 continued in active practice nineteen years. In 1876, in consequence 
 of failing health, he removed to Florida, — Georgetown, Putnam 
 County, where he still resides. He has published editorials and arti- 
 cles on current topics. In 1845 he married Sarah Elizabeth Thomp- 
 son, daughter of Gen A. B. Thompson of Brunswick, and has three 
 children, two sons and a daughter. 
 
 Charles Morris Blake was born in Brewer, December, 1819. 
 After taking his degree he went to Philadelphia, and for six years 
 was employed as a teacher of boys, meanwhile pursuing medical stud- 
 ies and attending lectures in Jefferson Medical College, as also theo- 
 logical study under the distinguished Rev. Albert Barnes ; was licensed 
 to preach in 1845, and was subsequently ordained in Valparaiso, Chili, 
 in 1855. In 1849 he arrived in California after a journey of six 
 months through Mexico, where he spent six months in the mines and 
 a year as editor of the Pacific News, the second newspaper estab- 
 Ushed in San Francisco. In 1852 he established at Benicia a colle- 
 giate school for lads, how St. Augustine College, which " surrendered 
 to the financial cyclone of 1854 and 1855." For three years he was 
 pastor and teacher of the Scotch miners at the coal fields in Chili. 
 Returning to Central Pennsylvania in 1857 he exercised the pastorate 
 over Presbyterian churches until 1861, when he was commissioned 
 chaplain in the United States army, which position he now holds 
 (1879). In 1863 and 1864, by order of President Lincoln he assisted 
 iu raising regiments of colored infantry. He was severely wounded 
 in front of Charleston, S. C. ; -was appointed hospital chaplain and 
 stationed at Chattanooga, Tenn. For some years he has been on 
 duty in Arizona at Camp Grant. 
 
 Mr. Blake was for six or seven years correspondent in California of 
 the New York Tribune. For some years he has been preparing a 
 genealogy of the Blake families and their relatives. In 1844 he mar- 
 ried Charlotte A., daughter of Daniel Farrington, Esq., of Brewer, 
 by whom he has had five children, two sons and three daughters, aU 
 iviag exBept the second son, who died in earlj' life. 
 
§66 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Henry Hill Boodt was bom in Jackson, November, 1816. His 
 scholarship and mature age justified his appointment at the Commence- 
 ment when he graduated, to a tutorship, the first and only instance in 
 the previous history of the college. In 1845 he was elected to the 
 chair of rhetoric and oratorj', which he held nine years. Immediately 
 after resigning this position he was elected to the Senate of the State, 
 in which he served one year. Subsequently he represented his town 
 in the House* He was an active member of both bodies, entering 
 frequently into their debates. He was interested and active in fur- 
 thering the formation of the Republican party in the politics of the 
 State, and while in the House was influential in a successful effort to 
 pass an act involving the question of the right of a Legislature to con- 
 trol corporations when public convenience requires its interposition. 
 His political career closed with this last service, notwithstanding the 
 assurance of influential friends that his consent only was needed to 
 secure his nomination for Congress. Mr. Boody had since 1865 been 
 concerned in transactions in Hudson, Northwestern Wisconsin, involv- 
 ing large amounts of property. Since that period he has been con- 
 stantly engaged largely in railroad enterprises with varying, some- 
 times adverse results, in which he has held positions of great respon- 
 sibility, showing the confidence reposed in his energy, ability, and 
 administrative skill by men whose names are a power in the commer- 
 cial world. 
 
 Mr. Boody was from 1864 to 1871 a trustee of the college. In 1845 
 he married Charlotte M., daughter of the late Prof. Newman, who 
 died in 1876. They had a son and daughter, both now deceased. 
 
 William Hammond Browk was born in Bangor,' June, 1822, brother 
 of G. W. of the preceding class. On leaving college he entered 
 on medical study with Dr. John Mason of Bangor, in the Tremont 
 Medical School, Boston, and took a medical degree in the Medical 
 School of Harvard University. He engaged in the practice of medi- 
 cine in 1850 in Bangor, where he Bas "since resided, excepting that in 
 1855 and 1856 he visited Europe and prosecuted study in the schools 
 of Paris, London, and Dublin, and for the three or four following 
 years practised in St. Louis, Mo. He then resumed practice in Ban- 
 gor. Having enjoyed rare opportunities for accomplishment in medi- 
 cal science, and devoting himself assiduously to his profession, he has 
 gained reputation and confidence in the community. He has led an 
 active life, was instrumental in the organization of the Medical Soci- 
 ety of Penobscot County and has been its president, was instructor 
 in the theory and practice of. medicine and pathological anatomy in 
 
V J.C-Buttre fem ELDagieiieotjEe 
 
 HE:NH.T H , BOODT, M.A. 
 
 FSDFSaSOR OFMSETOBIC So ORATOm m BOWDOOr COLLKGfJ 
 
 En^ra^Ed^ for OwBondom/Memerul^ 
 
GRADUATES. 567 
 
 the preparatory school of medicine, St. Louis ; and besides other 
 capacities in both municipal and State relations, has been a member 
 of the city council and on the board of aldermen of Bangor, and now 
 (1879) is mayor of the city. 
 
 Dr. Brown married Ann Eliza, daughter of John Woodcock, Esq , 
 Leicester, Mass., and has two daughters both married, Mrs. E. E. 
 Walker, Bangor, and Mrs. John L. Stoddard, Boston. 
 
 Edmund Alexander Chadwick was born in Frankfort, October, 
 1821. After graduation he read and practised law in Gardiner. He 
 was at one time judge of the municipal court of that city. During 
 the late war he was paymaster on the United States steamer " New 
 London." He died suddenly, April, 1875. 
 
 Paitl Langdon Chandler was born in Fryeburg, July, 1818. On 
 leaving college he taught a year or more in the Waterville Liberal 
 Institute. He then read law with Hon. W3'man B. Moor, Waterville, 
 was admitted to the bar, and became partner with his instructor. In 
 the year following he " bought him out," and continued in the prac- 
 tice until the enticing prospects opened in California allured him 
 thither. This enterprise proved successful in a measure, although he 
 suffered from the dishonest^'^ of agents. Eeturning to his legal prac- 
 tice in Waterville, he lived for some years on a farm in the vicinity. 
 During the war of the Rebellion he served in the quartermaster's 
 department under Gen. Rufus Ingalls in the Peninsular campaign. In 
 1867 he left Waterville and has since resided in Oberlin, Ohio, a few 
 years, where he discharged the duties of the professorship of modem 
 languages in the college. 
 
 Mr. Chandler married Mary M. Dow, daughter of Levi Dow of 
 Waterville, by whom he has had four children, three sons and a daugh- 
 ter, the last dying in infancy. The eldest son, George L. (graduated 
 from Bowdoin College in 1868), has been mathematical tutor and in- 
 structor in natural history in the college, and is now principal of the 
 grammar school, Newton, Mass. In 1874 Mr. Chandler again married 
 Mrs. Almeda P. Kimball of Oberlin, Ohio. 
 
 John Ckaig Clark was born in Portsmouth, N. H., May, 1818. 
 After leaving college he engaged in mercantile business in New York, 
 and was ever esteemed and respected for excellent character and gen- 
 ial disposition. His college associates will recall his proficiency on the 
 flute, which he played with skill and taste as the recreation of later 
 years. He had suffered from a bronchial affection, and died at last 
 
568 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 suddenly in Mont Clair, N. J. , his residence for a few years, Septem- 
 ber, 1873. His remains were interred in Brunswick, Me. He married 
 and Had children. 
 
 George Washington J. Cobb was born in Wakefield, N. H., Jan- 
 uary, 1819, and died April 22, 1864. No particulars concerning him 
 have been -obtained. 
 
 John Makshall Colbt was born in Richmond, January, 1823. 
 The only information we have been able to obtain concerning him is 
 that after teaching the academy in Eichmond he went to Maryland, 
 became president of the Agricultural College of the State, and that he 
 died, as is supposed by his friends, several years ago. 
 
 Egbert Hartley Dhnlap, son of Eichard Dunlap of Brunswick, 
 evinced while in college considerable taste for poetry, and this taste 
 he continued to cultivate as long as he lived. He read law at Cam- 
 bridge, and received at that school the degree of LL. B. He did not 
 however attempt the practice of his profession, but engaged in trade 
 in Boston. Not succeeding in business he returned to his father's, 
 where he died in 1848, aged twenty-six. c. 
 
 Charles Elliot was from Newcastle. " He was a man of mature 
 years, of fine taste, of excellent scholarship, and most amiable dispo- 
 sition. He had a fund of genial humor, and was much endeared to his 
 fellow-students by the possession of many excellent qualities which 
 mark the Christian and worthy man. He died at the age of twenty- 
 eight, a few months after taking his degree." * c. 
 
 George Gannett was born in Belfast, October, 1819. On leaving 
 college he became principal of Strafford Academy, New Hampshire, 
 for two j'ears. He then entered the Theological Seminary at Bangor, 
 and graduated in 1847. Soon aftSr he was settled over the Congre- 
 gational Church at Boothbay Harbor, where he labored with much 
 comfort in his ministry three years, until health failed and compelled 
 his resignation. In 1850 he opened a private school for j'oung ladies 
 in West Cambridge, Mass., whence seven years later he removed to 
 Boston and established a similar school, which for several years has 
 been known as the Gannett Institute for Young Ladies on Chester 
 Square, and has numbered pupils from all parts of the country. Mr. 
 Gannett " has been a constant student and accumulated a large and 
 valuable private library," but has devoted his energy assiduously to 
 
GRADUATES. 569 
 
 the interests of his school, with what success its wide reputation 
 affords abundant proof. In 1847 he married Mary Jane Shaw of 
 Wolfeboro', N. H., who died in 1876. In 1877 he married Georgiana 
 Butterworth of Warren, Mass. 
 
 Frederic Gardiner was born in Gardiner, September, 1822, son 
 of Robert Hallowell Gardiner, Esq. After graduation he pursued theo- 
 logical study at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church in New York, but did not graduate, having been 
 advised by his bishop to spend the last year in a parish After a time 
 spent in Brunswick with President "Woods he undertook the charge of 
 the parish of the Episcopal Church in Saco, and then in Bath ; in 1855 
 he was in Europe, and the year after in Lewiston, rendering parochial 
 service. His course was now interrupted for some years by the duty of 
 assisting his father in the care of his large estate. In 1865 he became 
 professor of the literature and interpretation of the Scriptures in the 
 Theological Seminary, Gambler, Ohio, and in 1867 he removed to 
 Middletown, Conn., where he at first assisted Dr. Frederic Goodwin 
 (1832) in the Berkeley Theological School, who had been disabled by 
 disease, and in 1869 was appointed to a professorship which he still 
 holds. 
 
 Prof. Gardiner has been a diligent student, has published " The 
 Island of Life," an allegory, a commentary on St. Jude, a ''Greek 
 Harmony of the Gospels," and an English one also, and a " Diates. 
 saron" in English, "Principles of Textual Criticism," a corrected 
 edition of an article in the JBibUotheca Sacra, Leviticus in " Lange's 
 Commentary," and has other works in hand. 
 
 In 1869 he received the degree of D. D. from the college. 
 
 Prof. Gardiner married in 1846 Caroline Vaughan, daughter of Col. 
 William Vaughan of Hallowell. They have had five children, of whom 
 a son and two daughters are living. 
 
 William Russell Hunter was born in Strong, October, 1814. 
 After graduation he entered upon the study of medicine, attended the 
 medical course of lectures at Dartmouth College, practised medicine a 
 year and a half, then took another course in Jefferson Medical Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1848. He then was asso- 
 ciated with Dr. Atkinson in the practice in Pembroke until 1857, when 
 on account of his wife's health he removed to St. Cloud, Minn., where 
 he was successful in his profession, won respect and esteem, and was 
 an active member of the Congregational Church. In 1873 he removed 
 to Brownsdale of the same State, with the intention of soon going to 
 
570 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 a Southern region. This purpose was frustrated by sickness resulting 
 in his death early in 1874. 
 
 Dr. Hunter married Susan Dyer of Searsport, who with an only 
 daughter survives. 
 
 William Lyman Htde was born in Bath, December, 1819. For 
 three years after graduating he was employed in teaching in Whiting's 
 Military and Classical School in Ellsworth, and from 1845 to 1848 ia 
 a classical school in Bangor, meanwhile pursuing theological study in 
 the seminary in that place where he graduated in 1848. He was 
 ordained over the Congregational Church and Society in Gardiner in 
 the following year, where he remained seven years. He then resigned 
 his charge and removed to Dunkirk, N. Y., where he was installed 
 and labored six years. Subsequently he was settled for six j'ears in 
 Ripley and three years in Sherman in the same State. From 1874 to 
 1879 he has been principal of Ovid Academy and Union School, New 
 York. He published a history of the One Hundred and Twelfth Regi- 
 ment of New York Volunteers, of which regiment he was chaplain 
 from 1862 to 1865, in constant service, and received an honorable 
 discharge at the close of the war. 
 
 In 1852 he married Frances E. Rice of Wiscasset. They have had 
 three sons. 
 
 Leonard Parker Merrill was born in Brunswick, September, 
 1821. He studied law, opened an office in his native town, and prac- 
 tised law a few years. He suddenly, even to his friends, changed his 
 plans, abandoned his profession, and shipped before the mast at Bath 
 on a voyage around Cape Horn, determined to le^rn seamanship • 
 thoroughly from forecastle to main deck, rapidly rose to the chief 
 command, becoming one of our most intelligent ship-masters, made 
 several voyages successfully, winning the confidence of his employers 
 as an accomplished navigator and man of business. On shipboard in 
 New Orleans he fell a victim of the pest of that city, yellow fever, 
 and after a few days' sickness died, October, 1870. His remains were 
 brought to Brunswick and interred beside those of his famly. 
 
 He married Caroline Kent, daughter of the late Prof. S. P. Newman, 
 and left two sons. 
 
 Samuel Woodbury Mitchell was born in North Yarmouth (now 
 Yarmouth), September, 1819, brother of B. F. Mitchell (1838). After 
 graduation he went South and engaged in teaching ; in 1849 became 
 professor of ancient languages in Jackson College, Columbia, Tenn. , 
 
GRADUATES. 571 
 
 and remained in office until the breaking out of the war of the Kebel- 
 lion, during which the college building was burned and the institution 
 was abandoned. He then entered on the study of theology with Rev. 
 Dr. Mack of Columbia, received a license to preach in 1865, and in 
 the year following became pastor of Zion's Church in the vicinity, 
 where he still exercises his ministry. 
 In 1868 he married Miss Martha Frierson, but has no children. 
 
 James Lewis NtfTTiNG was born in Otisfield, June, 1818. On leav- 
 ing college he studied law in the office of Messrs. Howard & Shepley, 
 Portland, two years. In 1845 he went to Pennsylvania, and after 
 employing himself as a teacher for a time engaged for some years in 
 coal mining and the manufacture of iron ; in later years he has been 
 largely interested in agricultural pursuits and gained the name of the 
 " model farmer,'' his residence being Pine Grove, Schuylkill County. 
 He has led a busy life and risen to prominent position. Iij 1876 he 
 was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of his district and 
 received a decided majority of the votes, but was " counted out, " — 
 a recent phrase the significancy of which has come to be too well 
 understood. He contested for the seat in Congress ; his claim was 
 favorably reported upon, but so late in the session that it was not 
 acted upon. 
 
 Mr. Nutting married Anna B. GraefT; they had three children. 
 His wife and two of the children have died, leaving a daughter. He 
 died in 1880. 
 
 Charles Packard was born in Minot, October, 1818. After 
 graduation he entered the Theological Seminary, Bangor, and grad- 
 uated in 1845. He began his ministry in the Congregational Church 
 and Society in Norway, over which he was ordained in the spring of 
 1846 ; was installed in the pastorate over the church in Harrison, 
 which after three years' service he resigned, the health of his wife 
 requiring a more genial climate, and removed to Atlanta, Georgia, 
 where he taught an academy one year. He then returned to Maine 
 and was settled over the church in New Gloucester, where he remained 
 five or six years. He was subsequent!}' pastor over churches in 
 Limerick, Woolwich, Waldoboro', East Alstead, N. H. ; and at this 
 date, 1879, settled over the Presbyterian Church in Windham, N. H. 
 
 He has published a manual of the church in Alstead, and in 1876 a 
 centennial sermon preached in Windham. For several years he has 
 served on the superintending committees of schools where he has 
 resided, in Windham as supervisor of schools, and has been a trustee 
 of diflferent academies. 
 
572 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Mr. Packard married in 1845 Hannah F., daughter of Uriah Holt 
 of Norway. They have had five children, two of whom died in early 
 childhood ; a son and two daughters are living. Mr. Packard died 
 after a brief sickness, February, 1881. 
 
 Jesse William Page was born in Bath, October, 1820. After 
 graduating he taught a private school in Auburn a few months. He 
 began the study of medicine in Baltimore, but in 1844 and 1845 was 
 private tutor in the family of Hon. John G. Chapman, a wealthy 
 planter and prominent politician in Charles County, Md., and in 
 1847 held a similar position at Merry Hill, Bertie County, N. C, 
 where subsequently, having completed his medical studies and taken 
 a degree in medicine in the University of Maryland, he practised his 
 profession some years. From 1*858 to 1861 he taught classes in 
 natural philosophy, astronomy, and mathematics in Rutgers Female 
 Institute, city of New York. 
 
 During the late civil war he was appointed one of the inspectors on 
 the United States sanitary commission, having charge of its affairs for 
 the military department of North Carolina, for a short time also being 
 detailed to superintend at Harrison's Landing, James River, the em- 
 barkation of the sick and wounded of the army of the Potomac, and 
 again having temporary charge in the department of South Carolina. 
 He also held a staff appointment under Major-Gen. Palmer, who was in 
 command of the department of North Carolina, and was superintend- 
 ent of the affairs of white refugees and of the poor whites of Newbern 
 during and after the ravages of yellow fever, and in the following 
 season was on the board of health of that city. At the close of the 
 war he was appointed by the government of the United States pension 
 agent for North Carolina, and resigned the position in 1867. 
 
 Dr. Page was never married. His residence of late has been in the 
 city of New York. 
 
 William Edwakds Phillips, was born in Newburyport, Mass., 
 October, 1823. After graduating he was employed in teaching in 
 Beverly, Mass., six years, in Newburyport some months, and at inter- 
 vals ever since. He went through a course of theological study at 
 the General Theological Seminary, New York, graduating in 1854. 
 He has been engaged in the work of the ministry at Donaldsonville, 
 Napoleonville, La., Pass Christian, Miss., and Hot Springs, Ark., 
 and is now chaplain of St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, 111. 
 
 He has never married. 
 
GRADUATES. 573 
 
 Oliver Sheppakd Sanfokd was born in Wrentham, Mass., October, 
 
 1819. He entered from Brown University. Every effort to gain 
 access to him has failed. While in college his family resided in 
 Hallowell, but soon after left the State, and the writer has not been 
 able to recover trace of him. 
 
 HosEA HiLDRETH Smith was bom in Deerfleld, N. H., February, 
 
 1820. After graduating he taught school in Bucksport and elsewhere 
 for some years until 1861, when he became professor of mathematics 
 in a German Eeformed Collegiate Institute in Newton, N. C, of 
 which, having been chartered as a college, he became president and 
 held that position three years. In 1857 he was appointed professor 
 of modern languages in the University of North Carolina, and during 
 the civil war he added to bis regular department charge of Greek and 
 mathematics. That institution having been abandoned in 1869, he has 
 since been connected with the public schools in Atlanta, Georgia, 
 Shelbyville, Tenn., and Houston, Texas. At this time (1880) he is 
 at the head of the Sam Houston "Normal Institute, Huntsville, Texas, 
 having been invited to that position by Dr. Sears, agent of the Pea- 
 body fund, — a compliment to his known ability and experience. 
 
 In 1853 he married Mary Brent Hoke of Lincolnton, N. C, daugh- 
 ter of Michael Hoke, Esq , a distinguished lawyer. They have four 
 children, two sons and two daughters ; the oldest son being a promis- 
 ing lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia. He was made LL. D. by the Baylor 
 University, Texas, in 1881. 
 
 Charles Emert Soule was born in Exeter, N. H., July, 1823, son 
 of Gideon L. (1818). On leaving college he entered upon the study 
 of law in the office of Messrs. Bell (James, 1822) & Tuck in his 
 native town, completing his course with Hon H. F. French of Ches- 
 ter, N. H. ; was admitted to the Rockingham bar in 18 J5, and then 
 spent one term in the Harvard College Law School. He began the 
 practice of the profession in Dover, N. H., the following year, as part- 
 ner with Hon. John P. Hale. In 1853 he removed to New York, 
 where he has continued in active practice. In 1848 he married Miss 
 Ariana French of Chester, N. H., who died in 1865, leaving three 
 children all now living. In 1866 he married Miss Eliza A. S. Mur- 
 dock of New York City. He is president of the Bowdoin Alumni 
 Association of New York. 
 
 Thomas Tash was born in New Durham, November, 1819. He 
 has devoted himself with success to the work of a teacher of youth 
 
574: HISTOBr OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 or of supervision of schools. On leaving college he took charge of 
 Foxcroft Academy for six years ; then of the High School in Calais 
 one year ; was principal of Union Academy, Oldtown, three years ; of 
 Hampden Academy five years, and of the High School, Dov.er, N. H., 
 eight years. He taught Greek in Cooperstown Seminary, N. Y. ; was 
 head master of the High School in Lewiston four years ; and superin- 
 tendent of schools for the city six years. In 1877 was elected super- 
 intendent of the public schools of Portland, which position he now 
 holds. In 1848 he married Jerusha Rawson Holmes of Foxcroft. 
 They have one daughter. Mr. Tash has been for some time on the 
 Board of Overseers of the college, and repeatedly on its examining 
 committees. 
 
 Sa-Mdel Teask was horn in Portland, January, 1822. He studied 
 law and pursued the profession for a time in Portland. Of late years 
 he is supposed to have been engaged in commercial business in the 
 South or the West Indies, where he has for the most part lived. He 
 married Mrs. Deering. 
 
 George Wells entered from New York City, but the date of birth 
 is not recorded. We have failed of ascertaining his present residence. 
 Some time since he was engaged in a glass manufactory at or near 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Jonathan Feanklin Woodside : such was his given name as rer 
 corded at his admission, but he has for several years dropped the 
 Jonathan. He entered from Waterville College on Sophomore stand- 
 ing, but no date of birth was recorded. After leaving college he 
 taught school in Bloomfield for a short time. He pursued legal study 
 with J. W. Davis, Esq. (1839), in Topsham, with Samuel Moody, 
 Esq., in Lisbon, and Jacob HiU of Webster, completing his course 
 with John J. Clarke, Esq., of Roxbury, Mass. He was admitted to 
 the bar and opened an office for the practice in Roxbury and then in 
 Boston, where he now resides.. In 1861 he married Helen Frances 
 Winslow of Belfast, who died in 1870. They had three sons, of 
 whom one died in infancy. 
 
 1843. 
 
 IcHABOD Daniel Bartlett was born in Dover, N. H. We are 
 indebted to the newspaper notices of him for all we have learned of 
 his course since graduation. He practised law with success for sev- 
 eral years in Bangor. On a pleasure excursion to Mt. Desert he died 
 suddenly, July, 1861. He married Miss Elizabeth F. Hammat of 
 Bangor, and left a son now in Harvard College, 
 
GRADUATES. 575 
 
 John Coaklet Lettson Booker was born in Bowdoinham, Sep- 
 tember, 1819. He studied law and engaged in the practice in Bath 
 for some j^ears, and was partner with Henry Tallman, Esq. He 
 removed to California two or three j-ears before his death in San 
 Francisco, May, 1862. He married Helen E. Elliot of Bath, and left 
 two children. 
 
 Geokge Augustus Bowman was born in Augusta, December, 1820. 
 He studied for the Christian ministry in the Theological Semlnarj' at 
 Princeton, N. J., two years, and completed his course at Bangor, 
 graduating in 1847. He was ordained August, 1848, over the Con- 
 gregational Church In Kennebunkport, where he remained nearly six 
 years. He then supplied the pulpit of the Fifteenth Street Presbyte- 
 rian Church in the city of New York one year, and that of the Pres- 
 byterian Church In Manchester, N. H., for ten years. In 1866 h6 
 was installed over the Congregational Church in South Windsor, 
 Conn., where he still remains a faithful pastor, always an enthusiastic 
 student, of repute as a man of learning, whose acquisitions in view of 
 friends qualified him for positions which his modest estimate of him- 
 self would have led him to decline. In 1858 he married Ernestine, 
 daughter of Charles A. Lord (1826) of Portland. They have had 
 five children, of whom four are living. ■ 
 
 "William J. BRADBUKr was born in New Gloucester, November, 
 1821. We have been able to ascertain only the following particulars 
 concerning him. In 1849 he went to California and in the following 
 year to Oregon, where he lived more than twenty years, engaged for 
 the most part in the manufacture of flour. The last four years he 
 resided in San Francisco, where he died Nov. 12, 1876. 
 
 AuGusras Hannibal Burbank was born in Yarmouth, January, 
 1823. On leaving college he began the studj' of medicine with his 
 father Eleazer Burbank, M. D , attended lectures in the Medical 
 School connected with the college, and three courses at the Harvard 
 Medical School, where he graduated in 1847. He settled in the prac- 
 tice in Yarmouth, where he has since remained, respected and esteemed 
 as physician, citizen, and consistent Christian man. Skilled in music, 
 he has led the church choir several years. He has twice married ; 
 first, in 1850 Elizabeth R., daughter of Dr. Ellas Banks of Portland, 
 who died in 1868, leaving a daughter; second, in 1871 Alice N., 
 daughter of G. P. Thompson of Yarmouth, by whom he has had 
 four children, two sons and two daughters. The eldest daugbl;er.died 
 in early life. 
 
576 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 William Waener Caldwell was born in Newburyport, Mass., 
 October, 1823. He has followed the business of a druggist in his 
 native city. In 1849 he married Ruth M. Woodcock, and has had 
 five children, two sons and three daughters. 
 
 Mr. Caldwell has cultivated literary tastes, having in 1857 collected 
 and published in Boston a volume of poems, original and translations. 
 A complimentary notice of some of them had previously appeared in 
 Duyckinck's " Cyclopsedia of American Literature." Several poeti- 
 cal contributions have since been published in newspapers. His pro- 
 ductions have been received with favor for " their purity, grace, and 
 tenderness." 
 
 William Stone Chadwell was born in Portland, October, 1821. 
 After graduating he taught in Gardiner, Ellsworth, and Saco with 
 reputation. After a course of theological study he was admitted in 
 1854 to deacon's orders in the Episcopal Church, and in due time to 
 the priesthood. His first parochial charge was in Brunswick, where 
 he remained four years. In 1857 he removed to Eastport, where 
 he established a church and after two years' labor resigned, leaving 
 affectionate remembrances in that town. He received a call to St. 
 Luke's, CatskUl, N. Y., where he remained nine years, and then 
 accepted, in hope of recruiting his strength, the appointment of asso- 
 ciate secretary of the Board of Domestic Missions, which he held a 
 year or two. and then resumed pastoral work in Williamsburg, L. I., 
 where he ministered untU his work was suspended in consequence of 
 prolonged and complicated disease attended by severe suffering, which 
 terminated in his death at the Poland Springs in Maine, July, 1877. 
 ' ' He was generally ranked among the most useful and influential of 
 the clergy," was the testimony of Bishop Littlejohn in his annual 
 address before the convention of the diocese of Long Island, N. Y. 
 
 He married Miss Bradstreet, daughter of Simon Bradstreet, Esq., 
 of Gardiner, and left a son and daughter, the son now assistant min- 
 ister of Holy Trinity Church, Brooklj-n, N. Y. 
 
 * 
 
 George Francis Choate was born in Essex, Mass., February, 
 1822. He taught a private school in his native town two years, and 
 then studied law in the office of Jonathan C. Perkins, Esq., LL. D., 
 of Salem Mass., was admitted to the bar in 1848, and settled in the 
 practice in Salem as partner with William D. Northend, Esq. In 
 1858 he was appointed judge of probate for Essex County, and still 
 holds that ofllce with the entire confidence and respect of the commu- 
 nity. He has published an edition of " Angell on Highways " with 
 notes. 
 
GEADUATES. 577 
 
 Judge Choate has married twice : in 1854 Rebecca W. Greenleaf of 
 Newburyport, by whom he had one son who died in early life ; and in 
 1860 Abby P. Cogswell of Bradford, by whom he has had five sons, 
 four of whom are living. 
 
 William Cothren, son of William and Hannah Cothren, was born 
 in Farmington, November, 1819. He fitted for college at the academy 
 in his native town under Jonas Burnham (1823). Having taken his 
 degree he began the study of law with Hon. Eobert Goodenow in 
 Farmington. He then went to Woodbury, Conn., and taught the 
 academy in that town a year, at the same time pursuing legal study 
 under Hon. Charles B. Phelps ; was admitted to the bar of Litchfield 
 Coimty in 1845, and opened an oflBce in Woodbury, where he has 
 since remained in extensive practice. Besides his professional 
 engagements he has given himself to historical inquiries, having 
 published a "History of Ancient Woodbury" in two large octavo 
 volumes. In 1851 he was elected county commissioner, in 1855 was 
 elected senator of the State, in 1856 was admitted attorney and coun- 
 sellor in the United States Circuit Court. He has been elected cor- 
 responding member of the New England Historical and Geneological 
 Society, Boston ; member of the Connecticut Historical Society, of 
 which he has been for several years one of the vice-presidents ; and 
 corresponding member of the Old Colony Historical Society, of the 
 Historical Societies of Wisconsin, Vermont, and Maine, and of the 
 Rutland County Historical Society, Vermont. He has also published 
 a report of the trial of Edward E. Bradley for murder, in which he was 
 of counsel for the prosecution, and of the proceedings of the bicenten- 
 nial celebration of ancient Woodbury in 1859, of the bicentennial 
 jubilee of the First Congregational Church in that town in 1870, and 
 in 1879 the genealogical statistics of the same town. 
 
 Mr. Cothren married in 1849 Mary Jane, daughter of the late Dr. 
 Samuel Steele, Woodbury, Conn., by whom he had one son who died 
 in early life. In 1868 they adoptee^ the daughter of a soldier who 
 died in the Andersonville prison. 
 
 Wheelock Craig was born in Augusta, July, 1824. After grad- 
 uation he entered the Bangor Theological Seminary. During the 
 course he took charge of one of the public schools, and then of a 
 private classical school in Augusta for nearly a year ; but having con- 
 tinued by private study the course of his class, graduated with them in 
 1847. He accepted an invitation to the charge of the Portland 
 Academy, conducting each of his schools with " marked and eminent 
 
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578 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 success." Early jn 1849 he was ordained pastor of the Congregational 
 Church in Newcastle, and at once by his earnest devotion and unwea- 
 ried labors won the confidence and affection of his people. In 1860 
 he accepted a call to the Trinitarian Church in New Bedford, Mass., 
 where he labored earnestly and with great acceptance. In 1859 he 
 was elected to the professorship of modern languages in the col- 
 lege, which however against urgent solicitation he declined, choos- 
 ing rather pastoral work. Exhausting labors wore upon his health, 
 and in May, 1868, in the hope that all he needed was foreign travel 
 to renew his strength, he sailed from New York and visited Great 
 Britain and the Continent. During the tour he became seriously ill 
 from the malaria of Italy, but by cautious travelling, though not with- 
 out exposure and much fatigue, reached Neufehatel, Switzerland ; and 
 after a short period of languishment, his disease, resisting all appli- 
 ances of science, medical skill, and care, terminated in death, Novem- 
 ber, 1868. He had achieved reputation as a man of scholarly tastes 
 and habits, as an ardent worker, a vigorous thinker, and a favorite 
 preacher of the gospel. 
 
 He married Louisa S., daughter of Dr. Cyrus Briggs of Augusta, 
 and left one child, a daughter. 
 
 The writer has been indebted io drawing the above sketch to a 
 memorial of his brother ascribed to Eev. Henry K. Craig (1844), a 
 faithful and charming portraiture of a marked and lovely character. 
 
 Charles McLaughlan Cumston was born in Monmouth, January, 
 1824. He has given himself to the profession of teaching. Imme- 
 diately after leaving college he taught the High School in Turner. In 
 following years he was principal in two successive seasons of the 
 academy at Alfred, and in winter months taught scHools in Gray and 
 North Eeading, Mass. ; in 1846 the High School in Woburn, Mass. ; 
 and in the year after the grammar school in Salem, Mass. ; from 1848 
 to 1874 he was successively usher, submaster, and at length head 
 master of the English High School, Boston, Mass. He never married. 
 He was made LL. D. by the college in 1870. 
 
 Joseph Dane was born in Kennebunk, February', 1823, son of Hon. 
 Joseph Dane and grandson of the eminent Hon. Nathan Dane, who 
 drafted the ordinance for the government of the Northwest Territory 
 and founded the professorship of law at Harvard which bears his 
 name. Immediately after graduating he entered on the study of law 
 in the ofHce of Judge Edward E. Bourne (1816) of Kennebunk, com- 
 pleted his studies with F. H. Dewey, Esq., now Judge Dewey, of 
 Worcester, Mass., was admitted to the practice of his profession in 
 
GEADUATES. 579 
 
 1846 and settled in his native town, where he has always resided. In 
 1856, by appointment of the governor, he was bank commissioner 
 for the State, and has been president and treasurer of the savings 
 bank and president of the Ocean National Bank of Keunebunk. 
 
 In 1848 he married Louisa, daughter of Capt. Ivory Lord of Ken- 
 nebunk. They have no children living. He is a member of the 
 overseers of the college. 
 
 Joseph Patson Deummond was born in Bristol, September, 1824, 
 brother of Thomas (1830) and James (1836). After graduation he 
 engaged two or three years in instruction at Gorham Academy and at 
 Andover, Mass. ; as assistant under S. H. Taj-lor, LL. D., in Phillips 
 Academy, in each situation with reputation for energy and scholar- 
 ship. He then pursued a theological course in Andover Seminary in 
 the class of 1853, and entered the sacred ministry. He preached for 
 some time at West Cambridge, Mass., and was ordained pastor of the 
 Congregational Church, Newton, Mass., January, 1856, where he 
 labored with acceptance until failing health compelled him to re- 
 linquish his chosen work. Subject for several years to pulmonary 
 disease, repeatedly obliged to suspend his labors, he died at last at 
 his birthplace, November, 1857, in the faith and hope he had faith- 
 fully and earnestly preached. At an early period he had engaged to 
 serve under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- 
 sions, but was advised on account of his infirm constitution not to 
 undertake the service. 
 
 LuTHKK Fitch was born in Portland, September, 1821. He studied 
 medicine, attended the lectures of the Medical School of the college, 
 and graduated in 1846. He has not prosecuted his profession. For 
 some years he has resided on a farm in Naples, and is unmarried. 
 
 Erastus Foote was born in Wiscasset, September, 1821, son of 
 Hon. Erastus Foote, attorney-general of the State for some years, 
 and a trustee of the college. He read law with his father, and opened 
 an office in his native town. For eight years he was register of pro- 
 bate for Lincoln County, and then was collector of customs for the 
 district of "Wiscasset. He was active as a Christian man, and greatly 
 esteemed as a citizen. He was for some time on the Board of Over- 
 seers of the college. In 1868 he removed to Chicago, 111., where he 
 has been engaged in real-estate business. 
 
 In 1847 he married Sarah Page, daughter of the late Wilmot Wood, 
 Esq., of Wiscasset, and has had five children, four of whom are now 
 living. 
 
580 HISTORY OF BOWnOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 William Augustus Goodwin was born in Saco, July, 1822. After 
 graduation he was employed in teaching in Brunswick, Eastville, Va. , 
 and Saco for two years. He then entered upon the study of civil 
 engineering in the field, which has been his constant occupation, and 
 has resided in Portland, Roxbury, and Newton, Mass. In 1870 he 
 returned to Portland, where he'still lives. The positions he has held 
 testifj' to his ability and the repute he has enjoyed. He was assistant 
 engineer on the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad ; the York and 
 Cumberland, Richmond and Danville, Virginia ; chief engineer on the 
 Penobscot ; on surveys of tlie European and North American Railroad 
 from St. John, New Brunswick, to Calais, Me. ; superintendent of 
 construction of the first and second lighthouse districts, coast of 
 Maine ; acting United States engineer of the first and second light- 
 house districts, coast of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. 
 In 1862 and 1863 he served at New Orleans and on the Gulf and South 
 Atlantic coast, under special orders, on lighthouse duty. Since 1870 
 he has been city engineer of Portland. From 1868 to 1869 he was dea- 
 con of the Central Congregational Church, Newton, Mass. Mr. Good- 
 win has been a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly (1864), and to 
 the proceedings of the American Philological Association (1875). 
 
 He married in 1852 Linda, daughter of Tristram Shaw of Exeter, 
 N. H., who deceased in 1861 leaving three sons, of whom two sur- 
 vive. In 1864 he married Annie Grant, daughter of the late Hon. 
 Barnabas Palmer of Kennebunk, by whom he has a daughter. 
 
 Abernetht Gkovee was born in Bethel, February, 1821. On 
 leaving college he taught in the academy in Ms native town a short 
 time. He has always resided in Bethel on a farm, at the same time 
 conducting lumbering operations. In 1850 he represented the town 
 in the Legislature ; in 1856 he was on the executive council ; from 
 1861 to 1865 served as captain and major of the 13th Maine Volun- 
 teers. 
 
 He has married twice : in 184? Mary C. Chapman of Bethel, who 
 died in 1871 without children, and in 1874 Isabel A. Shehan, by whom 
 he had one daughter who died in early life. The mother died in 1878. 
 
 Talleteand Gkover was born in Bethel, August, 1822, brother of 
 the preceding. He had a facility in acquiring languages ; became 
 professor of rhetoric and modern languages in Delaware College, 
 having spent some time in Europe to qualify himself for that position ; 
 he was then transferred to 'the professorship of ancient languages and 
 literature. Earnest desire for higher attainment and accomplishment 
 
GRADUATKS. 581 
 
 prompted him to visit again the North of Europe late in 1858. He 
 was seized with fatal disease at Stockholm, and died June, 1859. 
 Aflfecting proofs of kind, delicate attentions from the hands of 
 strangers both during his illness and at his burial were received by 
 his friends. He died in the faith and hope of the Christian. He was 
 reputed to have been zealously devoted to his work as a teacher of 
 language, and highly successful. 
 
 James Muneoe Hagak was born in "Waltham, Mass., July, 1822. 
 He entered on legal study in the office of his brother Hon. Marshall 
 Hagar in Richmond, and engaged in the practice of the profession in 
 the same town some years. Becoming interested in mercantile busi- 
 ness, he at length abandoned his profession and has become a large 
 ship-owner. He has represented his town in the Legislature of the 
 State, and has been for some time president of the Richmond National 
 Bank. In 1879 he removed his I'esidence to Boston. 
 
 He married Henrietta Lilly of Dresden, and has had seven children. 
 
 Silas Bkiggs Hahn was born in Monmouth, December, 1819. 
 On leaving college he taught the academy in Belfast two years, then 
 read law in Boston ; was admitted to the bar and" practised in that 
 city fifteen years. Since 1865 he has resided in Central City, Col., 
 engaged in his profession and in mining operations. 
 
 He has been in the city government, Boston, in the council of 
 Colorado and its Senate, president of the school board of his city, 
 and superintendent of schools for the county. 
 
 He married Caroline S. Dwight of Vermont, but has no children. 
 
 David Pillsbubt Haheiman was born in Candia, N. H., January, 
 1818. He entered the ministry of the Freewill Baptist communion 
 and exercised his ministry successively in Burrillville, R. I., Daniel- 
 sonville. Conn., South Berwick and Saccarappa, Maine, and Strafford 
 Centre, N. H. He took an intelligent interest in popular education, 
 adding to his pastoral labors at times those of a teacher. He was 
 diligent in working, faithful and respected. He was recording secre- 
 tary of the Foreign Mission Society, and a member of the executive 
 committee some years. He died of pulmonary disease in Strafford, 
 N. H., June, 1864, leaving a wife and six children. 
 
 Nathaniel Hatch entered Sophomore from Bangor. We have 
 failed entirely to obtain information concerning him, although sought 
 in different directions. 
 
582 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Moses Ingalls was born in Bethel, October, 1822. He has spent 
 most of his life since graduating in teaching at Richmond, Muscatine, 
 Iowa, and Chicago, 111. In Iowa he had an agency under the State 
 Teachers' Association, and in that position conducted teachers' insti- 
 tutes and gave lectures on education. He has retired from the work 
 of a teacher and resides in St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 In 1848 he married Susan H. Green of Lebanon, N. H., and has 
 had four children, of whom three survive. 
 
 Samuel Woecestek Johnson was born in Alna, April, 1822. On 
 leaving college he shipped before the mast on a voyage to New 
 Orleans and England. On his return he taught in Gardiner and 
 Winthrop for a year or two, and then began the study of medicine 
 with Gideon S. Palmer, M. D. (1838) ; attended lectures in the Medi- 
 cal School connected with the college, and in that at Dartmouth College 
 where he graduated in 1849 ; he then attended lectures in one of the 
 xnedical institutions in Philadelphia. He began the practice of his 
 profession in Westport, but soon removed to Bristol, where he has 
 resided respected and esteemed as a physician and a citizen. He 
 remains unmarried. 
 
 Feancis a. LiBBEr was born in Portland, and fitted for college in 
 the High School of that city under his father's tuition. In college 
 "he was a youth of steady habits and amiable disposition." He 
 began the studj' of law, but gave it up on account of health and went 
 into the express business, in which he fully won the confidence of the 
 community. He was crushed to death between a tender and ear at 
 the railroad station in Kennebunk, Aug. 14, 1848. c. 
 
 John Dunlap Lincoi-n was born in Brunswick, June, 1821, only 
 son of Dr. Isaac Lincoln and Marcia Scott Dunlap. He followed his 
 father in the medical profession, attended lectures in Philadelphia, 
 New York, and the Medical School connected with the college, gradu- 
 ating from the last in 1846. He commenced practice with his father 
 and in a few years took his place, Ihus leaving a name loved and hon- 
 ored by every class of our graduates for more than seventy years, and 
 gained extensive practice and reputation. He was a member of the 
 medical facultj', and also of the Board of Overseers of the college. 
 His skill and judgment, his kindness of heart, his conscientiousness 
 which regarded the poor even more scrupulously than the rich, his 
 mirthful spirit and humor, won confidence and tender regard ; and over 
 his death, which occurred June, 1877, there was mourning throughout 
 the town. 
 
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 GRADUATES. 583 
 
 Dr. Lincoln married Ellen, daughter of the late Gen. Samuel Fes- 
 senden, and left two sons and a daughter. A panel in the college 
 chapel has been filled and decorated by the contributions of friends 
 with a painting, a copy from " The Baptism of Christ," in memory of 
 Dr. Lincoln. 
 
 George Barker Little was born in Castine, brother of William 
 Avery Little (1824). After graduation he taught in a classical 
 school near the Theological Seminary, Alexandrin, Va., and left a 
 cherished memory in the cultivated circle into which he was intro- 
 duced. While there he " translated and analyzed the most celebrated 
 discourses of the French preachers, made abstracts of them, and thus 
 gained somewhat the vivacity which characterized his own serinons." 
 In college he showed in an unusual degree the elements of what 
 always characterized him, — rare taste and culture. Always a stu- 
 dent, he became ' ' familiar with what is most valuable in English, 
 French, and German literature." He entered college with decided 
 religious character, and with the object of the Christian ministry 
 always in view. His theological course was pursued in the seminary, 
 Andover, Mass., where he graduated in 1849. A classmate. Rev. 
 Prof. Putnam (Dartmouth), in an obituary notice, testified to his 
 being one whom his class ' ' loved and honored as the choicest of their 
 number" ; and Prof. Park said of him : "I examined him for admis- 
 sion, and was delighted with the precise words which he used in trans- 
 lating a few passages in Virgil and Cicero. At all his subsequent 
 recitations he exhibited the truth in definite outline. Nor was he less 
 comprehensive than exact. His aim was to compass the entire science 
 of theology, and to free himself from all narrow and narrowing preju- 
 dice. I feel grateful at every remembrance of his laborious researches, 
 and of the stimulus which his example gave to his associates in study. 
 He enunciated his ideas with rare distinctness, and gave a fine speci- 
 men of that elocution which Dr. Porter loved to commend, and which 
 consists in sending out every word as if it were -a ball of bright 
 silver." 
 
 In 1849 he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Church 
 in Bangor, where he remained eight j^ears until hig health, always deli- 
 cate, and an afieetion of his ej'es, forbidding continuance in a large 
 parish, compelled him to resign and accept a call to a pastorate in 
 West Newton, Mass., where he would find comparative rest. He was 
 installed November, 1857. His hope of relief from the disease which 
 was preying upon his system proved vain. Scarcely two years had 
 passed before he was compelled to suspend his labors, and preached 
 
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 584 HISTORY OF BOWDOESr COLLEGE. 
 
 his last sermon Jan. 1, 1860 In March he sailed from New York for 
 Havre, on his return voyage landed in New York June 8, and July 20 
 died. 
 
 " Mr. Little's attainments in scholarship," wrote Rev. Dr. Samuel 
 Harris, then professor in Bangor Seminary, " were unusual, especially 
 remarkable when it is considered that the weakness of his eyes had 
 for four years hindered and at times entirely suspended his studies. 
 His scholarship procured for him a proposal to occupy a professor- 
 ship in Amherst College, but the weakness of his eyes compelled him 
 to decline an election. As a preacher he was thoughtful, perspicuous, 
 definite, and bold. People knew what he meant and knew that he 
 was in earnest. His power was felt and acknowledged throughout the 
 city. He had in a remarkable degree the love of his own congrega- 
 tion. Their love followed him to the last." Prof. Shepard, also of 
 Bangor Seminary, wrote of him : " He had all the accomplishments of 
 the rarest culture, and he showed a taste of the most tremulous sen- 
 sitiveness ; and yet he was direct, strong, penetrating in address. His 
 sermons were chaste, terse, often powerful. They honored the gos- 
 pel, being replete with its truths, bearing forth to others its exhaust- 
 less riches ; and when he turned his argument against the rationalistic 
 assailants or underminers of Christian doctrines, as he sometimes did, 
 it was with an exposing and even demolishing efficacy. His blade 
 used in these encounters was of the finest metal and the keenest edge. 
 A thorough German scholar, and of extensive German reading when 
 his eyes served him, he understood the subtilties and the fallacies of 
 these unsettling philosophies." 
 
 Mr. Little was an enthusiastic lover of music, a leader of the sing- 
 ing in college and in the seminary ; was a constant attendant while at 
 West Newton upon the Wednesday-afternoon concerts at Music Hall 
 in Boston. When near his end and his wishes in regard to his funeral 
 were asked, and among them, "You would like to have singing?" 
 "Yes, if it is sure to be good," was his answer. 
 
 In 1850 he married Sarah Edwards, daughter of Rev. Elias Corne- 
 lius. He left a widow and children. 
 
 An affecting, delicate, and beautiful memorial published soon after 
 his death portrays tjie character of one of the purest, most richly 
 endowed sons of our Alma Mater. 
 
 Henky Sewall Loking was born in Guilford, February, 1819. 
 After graduating he taught schools in Brownville, Corinna, and Shap- 
 leigh. He prosecuted a course of theological study at the seminary 
 in Bangor, graduating in 1846 ; was settled in the ministry of the 
 
GEADUATE8. 585 
 
 Congregational churches in Amherst and Aurora conjointly, to which 
 he was recalled after an interval of some years, having meanwhile min- 
 istered to churches in Durham, Monmouth, and Monson. Eecently 
 he has been acting pastor in Phipsbnrg. He has always shown his 
 interest in education by services on superintending school committees, 
 or as supervisor of schools, during most of his ministry. In 1848 he 
 married Abby A. Farrington of Holden. They have had seven chil- 
 dren, two sons and five daughters. 
 
 John Oliver Means was born in Augusta, August, 1822. On 
 leaving college he spent a year in the Theological Seminary at An- 
 dover, Mass., and a part of the second year in the seminary at Ban- 
 gor. He was principal for a time of the High School in Augusta. 
 From 1845 to 1848 he was acting purser in the United States navy, 
 and then resumed his theological course at Andover, graduating in 
 1849. He was ordained pastor of the First Church, East Medway, in 
 1851, was dismissed in 1865 and sailed for Europe, where he spent 
 a year in study in Germany. Returning in 1856 he had charge of the 
 Congregational Church in "West Newton, the pastor — his classmate 
 Rev. Joseph P. Drummond — being absent in Florida in search of 
 health. In 1857 he was installed over the Vine Street Church in 
 Koxbury, where he remained twenty years. 
 
 Mr. Means received from the college the degree of D. D. in 1871. 
 He has published articles in the Bibliotlieca Sacra and the public 
 press, especially in the Boston Oongregationalist. In 1866 he was 
 elected corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners 
 for Foreign Missions, of which he became recording secretary. He 
 has been a director for several j-ears of the American Tract Society, 
 Boston, of the Western College Society, of the Congregational Library 
 Association, and chairman of the committee on the library as also of 
 the Boxbury Athenseum, trustee of the Massachusetts Bible Society, 
 and chairman of the executive committee of the board, also of the 
 Massachusetts Colonization Society, and of the Roxbury Latin 
 School, of which he succeeded the late Rev. Dr. Putnam in the presi- 
 dency. He has served several years on the School Board of the city 
 of Boston. In 1870 he was chaplain of the Massachusetts Senate. 
 In 1879 he was sent abroad by the American Board of Commissioners 
 to inquire into the various openings in Africa for mission service, the 
 methods of reaching the interior, and the equipments necessary for 
 the enterprise. In 1853 Dr. Means married Jane Chamberlain Strong 
 of Hardwick, Vt. They are without children. 
 
586 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 James Merrill was born in Portland, May, 1822 . He read and 
 practised law in Portland ; was for some time secretary and treasurer 
 of Portland Savings Bank. He married Jane, daughter of Franklin 
 Tinkham of Portland, who survives her husband who died in 1859. 
 
 John March Mitchell was born in North Yarmouth, October, 
 1820. After graduation he taught a private school six j-ears in Ala- 
 bama. He studied theology under the direction of Rt. Eev. Dr. N- 
 H. Cobbs, bishop (Protestant Episcopal) of Alabama, and was or- 
 dained into the ministry by him. In 1872 he resigned the sacred 
 office. In 1870 he received from William and Mary College, Virginia, 
 the degree of D. D. He has been president of the standing committee 
 of the diocese of Alabama, and member of the standing committee in 
 the diocese of Georgia ; has been thrice deputy to the general conven- 
 tion of the Episcopal Church in the United States from the diocese of 
 Alabama and Georgia, secretary of the House of Clerical and Lay 
 Deputies of the General Council of the Episcopal Church in the Con- 
 federate States, twice assistant secretary of the House of Deputies of 
 the Episcopal Church of the United States, and trustee of the Univer- 
 sitj- of the South for the diocese of. Alabama. In 1851 he married 
 .^usan Elizabeth, daughter of Rt. Rev. Bishop Cobbs, who died in 
 1852, leaving an infant daughter who died in the year following. In 
 1862 he married Martha M., daughter of Hon. John Beverly Christian 
 of Virginia, by whom he has one child. 
 
 George Samuel Mulliken was born in Hallowell, July, 1824 
 He studied law with Hon. James W. Bradbury of Augusta, and began 
 practice in that city. He was judge of the municipalr court. In a 
 few years, in consequence of failing health, he removed to San Anto- 
 nio,' Texas, \yhere ho was agent for a Boston firm in the purchase of 
 hides. But fatal pulmonary disease had fastened itself upon him, and 
 he died April, 1860. He married Miss Owen of Brunswick, and 
 left two sons. » 
 
 William Dummer Northend was born in Newbury, Mass., Feb- 
 ruary, 1823. After graduation he entered upon the study of law in 
 the office of Hon. Asahel Huntington, Salem, Mass., and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1845. He opened an office for the practice of his profes- 
 sion in what is now Peabody, Mass., but removed in a year or two to 
 Salem, where he has since resided. 
 
 He was a member of the Senate of Massachusetts in 1861 and 1862 ; 
 he has published " Speeches and Essays on Political Subjects from 
 
GRADUATES. 587 
 
 1860 to 1869," and several addresses before educational and agricul- 
 tural societies, etc. He has been a member of the Board of Overseers 
 of the college. 
 
 In 1846 he married Miss Susan Stedman Harrod of Newburj'port. 
 They have had four children, three daughters and one son. 
 
 Benjamin Feanklin Parsons was born in Minot, Oct. 18, 1820. 
 He, as a few others have done, has left no trace of himself that we 
 have discovered. A brother informed a friend of whom I made in- 
 quiries that he was within two or three years in Kansas ; but a 
 circular obtained no response. 
 
 George Payson was born in Portland, May, 1824, brother of 
 Edward (1832). On leaving college he taught school and then lived 
 on a farm a few years. In 1849, encouraged by the current reports 
 from the El Dorado of the West, he embarked for California where 
 he spent two years in the mines. Eeturning to his home he published 
 an account of his adventures and two other books ; but his success not 
 enconraging authorship, he entered upon the study of law in the oflSce 
 of Pierrepont Edwards, Esq., New York, and in 1856 removed to Chi- 
 cago, his present residence, where in the active practice of his profes- 
 sion he is also the attorney of the Western Railroad Association. 
 
 In 1857 he married a daughter of Randolph Codman, Esq. (1816), 
 and has a son and daughter. , 
 
 Edmund Pearson was born in Kennebunk, July, 1822. He soon 
 became a resident of Machias, where he lived twenty-three years en- 
 gaged in commercial transactions with success. He was interested in 
 public affairs, was respected for his intelligence and capacity, and 
 represented the town in the Legislature of the State. He travelled 
 in Europe, and died in Vienna, Austria, July, 1873. . 
 
 He was twice married ; first, to Laura U., daughter of Col. William 
 Penniman, who died early ; second, in 1857, to Julia A., daughter of 
 Dana Spaulding, Silver Creek, Chautauqua County, ]^^. Y., who sur- 
 vives him with two children. 
 
 Isaac Perley was born in Gray, March, 1817. Several years after 
 graduating were spent in teaching in Gray and the adjacent towns. 
 He married and removed to Gorham, where he owned a large farm 
 which he cultivated laboring with his own hands fifteen years. He 
 then returned to his native place, where he now lives. He bears the 
 
588 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 reputation of an honest, conscientious, industrious man, a constant 
 reader of books, and much interested in historical and scientific sub- 
 jects. He married Miss Ellen Higgins of Graj'', and has had four 
 children. Two daughters have died and a son and daughter are now 
 living. 
 
 Chaeles Wendell Porter was born in Machias, May, 1823, son 
 of Rufus K. Porter, Esq. (1813) . After graduation he taught a school 
 in Eastport six months, and then entered upon legal studies with his 
 father and his associate Peter Thacher, Esq. (1831), meanwhile 
 attending the courses of Harvard Law School, 1844-46. He practised 
 his profession in Machias from 1847 to 1854 ; he then removed to 
 St. Louis, Mo., where he engaged in mercantile pursuits for three 
 years. Returning to his native town he was clerk of the courts for 
 the county until 1864, when he removed to Batavia, 111., and resumed 
 mercantile pursuits. Since 1878 he has lived in Hudson, Wis., where 
 he is land commissioner of the Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis 
 Railroad Company. 
 
 In 1864 he married Susan E., daughter of Hon. S. D. Lockwood, 
 justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Illinois. They have three 
 daughters. 
 
 William Reed Porter was born in North Yarmouth, May, 1825. 
 He was employed in teaching some years after graduation, at one 
 time as principal of Fryeburg Academy. He has not been in profes- 
 sional life. In 1851 he was in the Senate of Maine and a member for 
 three years for Cumberland County of the State Board of Education ; 
 for four years he was in the custom-house at Portland, Ezra Carter 
 being collector ; he served several years on the superintending school 
 committee of his town. His residence at present is in Cambridge, 
 Mass., his business a banker. 
 
 €n 1846 he married Elizabeth, daughter of James Deering of South 
 Paris, and has four children, threp daughters and a son. 
 
 Daniel Osgood Qdinbt was born in Amesbury, Mass., December, 
 1821. After graduation he engaged in teaching for several years 
 successively in Norwich, Conn., New York City, and Jamaica, N. Y. 
 He then studied law in Gray and Ossipee, N. H. Of late years he 
 has resided in South Boston, and is proprietor of patent medicines. 
 
 In November, 1847, he married Clara Belle Moulton, daughter of 
 Alvah Moulton, M. D., of Ossipee, N. H., and has had a son and 
 four daughters. 
 
GRADUATES. 589 
 
 Charles Parker Robinson was born in Portland, March. 1821. 
 On leaving college he read law in the oflSce of Joseph Adams, Esq , of 
 Portland, then went to Mobile, Ala., was admitted to the bar and 
 practised his profession in that city. He held the office of city attor- 
 ney two years. He died in 1861, unmarried. 
 
 GusTAvus Foss Sargent was born in Yarmouth, December, 1820. 
 After graduation he taught school for a time and then went into busi- 
 ness as an apothecary and druggist in Bangor, where he remained 
 several years. While in Bangor he was on the school committee for 
 several years and its chairman. He then removed to Boston and 
 engaged in business as a wholesale druggist for some time, and then 
 in mining operations. Of late years he has held ft position in the 
 custom-house in Boston. 
 
 George Clinton Swallow was born in Buckfleld, November, 1817. 
 He taught a private school in Brunswick for five years ; was then 
 principal of the academj' in Hampden two years, and in 1850 was 
 elected to the professorship of geology and chemistry in the University 
 of Missouri, which position he held until 1853, when he was appointed 
 State geologist and discharged its duties until 1861. From 1861 to 
 1865 he was State geologist of Kansas. He explored the mines of 
 Montana in 1867, and was superintendent of the Highland Gold 
 Company, built a quartz mill and worked the mines in 1868-69 ; was 
 recalled to the University of Missouri, and has remained there as 
 professor of natural history and dean of the Agricultural College. 
 In 1872 he was elected professor of botany, comparative auatomy, 
 and physiology in the Medical School of Missouri. He had pursued 
 medical studies and attended lectures in the Medical School of Maine, 
 and received a degree in medicine from the Medical College of Mis- 
 souri in 1867. In 1873 he received the degree of LL. D. from the 
 University of Missouri. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Swallow was a member of the State Board of Educa- 
 tion for Penobscot County ; was for four years trustee of Westminster 
 College ; has been repeatedly on the State Board of Agriculture, Mis- 
 souri ; in 1866 was delegate to the general assemblj' of the Presbyte- 
 rian Church ; was president of the geological division of the American 
 Association for the Advancement of Science in 1858, and is a member 
 of several scientific bodies. He has published five geological reports 
 of Missouri and one of Kansas, as also a geological report of what 
 is now the Southern Pacific Railroad, besides pamphlets on scientific 
 topics. 
 
590 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 In 1844 he married Martha A. Hill of Brunswick. They have a 
 daughter ; a son died in 1851. 
 
 Fbancis Loking Talbot was born in East Machias, February, 
 1824. After graduating he engaged in the business of lumbering and 
 navigation in his native town in the well-known firm of P. S. J. Tal- 
 bot & Co. He represented his town in the Legislature of 1867 and 
 his district in the Senate of 1869-70 ; he is on the Board of Overseers 
 of the college. He married Mary C. Badger of Brunswick, daughter 
 of Nathaniel Badger, Esq. They have had three children, all living. 
 Mr. Talbot had suffered from the effects of a severe illness for two 
 years, and died suddenlj' Nov. 10, 1880, leaving a memory respected, 
 and cherishedby the community. 
 
 Samuel E. Thurston of Peru found his way to college unaided. 
 He began at Waterville and finished at Brunswick, where he after- 
 wards studied law and practised awhile. About 1848 he removed to 
 Iowa City, where for a year he edited the Iowa Gazette. He then 
 started for Oregon with an ox-team, which he drove himself and 
 drove through. He settled in Portland City as a lawyer. When 
 Oregon as an organized Territorj' became entitled to a delegate in 
 Congress, the honor was conferred on Mr. Thurston. He had dis- 
 charged with ability his duties in Washington, and was on his return, 
 wlien disease arrested him. He died (1851) on the passage from 
 Panama to San Francisco. "Mr. Thurston was a Democrat of the 
 deepest dye, a man of talent, energy, and iron will. Had he lived he 
 would undoubtedly have become a prominent politician on the Pacific 
 shore." He died at the age of thirty-five, leaving a wife and two chil- 
 dren, c. 
 
 Joseph Titcomb was born in Kennebunk, June, 1822. After grad- 
 uation he studied law a year in the office of Edward E. Bourne, Esq. 
 (1816), of his native town. He<did not however prosecute the pro- 
 fession, but engaged in mercantile business, in building vessels, and 
 in navigation, in which he was for several years successful. He has 
 enjoyed the confidence of the community as member of both branchea 
 of the State Legislature, and more than once has been in nomination 
 for governor of the. State. He has been president of the national and 
 savings banks of Kennebunk, and by appointment of the executive and 
 council bank commissioner. He has been for several years on the 
 Boards of Overseers and Trustees of the college, and for one year its 
 treasurer. He is also a member of the Maine Historical Society. 
 
GRADUATES. 591 
 
 For several years he has been an influential communicant in the Con- 
 gregational Church. 
 
 He snarried Mary A. Wise in 1862. They have had five children, 
 of whom a son and daughter are living. 
 
 George Pbentice Waldron was born in Farmington, N. H., Sep- 
 tember, 1821. After graduation, having taught a school in Acton, 
 Mass., a short time, he studied law in Lowell, Mass , was admitted to 
 the bar and prosecuted the profession in that city until 1854. He 
 then removed to the far West, and now resides in Pierre, Dakota 
 Territory, on the Mississippi, two hundred miles above other settle- 
 ments, engaged in the freighting business between that place and the 
 Black Hills, emploj'ing a large force of men and teams. 
 
 While in Lowell he was city marshal for some years, was subse- 
 quently a member of the Lower House of the Territorial Legislature 
 of Dakota, in 1862 and 1863 was appointed captain and provost-mar- 
 shal of the Territory during the Rebellion, and has held oflBce as 
 United States attorney for Dakota. 
 
 In 1847 he married Miss E. Jones of Lowell, and has had a son and 
 two daughters. 
 
 Joseph Waeren Weston was born in Bloomfield, February, 1818. 
 After graduation he attended a course of lectures in the Medical 
 School of the college, but compelled by ill health to relinquish study 
 he engaged in teaching untU 1861 in Maine, in Philadelphia two years, 
 and six years in Newark, Del., in charge of the preparatory depart- 
 ment of Delaware College. He was four j^ears principal of an acad- 
 emy in Danville, Pa. A trouble of the throat led him to renounce the 
 labor of teaching, and he has since been engaged in mercantile busi- 
 ness in Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pa. 
 
 He has married twice : first, Mary J. Given of Brunswick, who died 
 in 1860 leaving a daughter ; second, in 1862, Lizzie M. Hall of Penn- 
 sylvania. 
 
 1844. 
 
 George Moulton Adams was born in Castine, July, 1824. On leav- 
 ing college he entered on theological study at the seminary in Bangor, 
 where he spent two years. He then taught a high school six months in 
 his native town, and in 1847 went abroad to continue studies in theol- 
 ogy at Halle and Berlin, spending a year at each of their universities, 
 and completed his course at Andover, Mass. , where he graduated in 
 1850. In 1851 he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church 
 
592 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 in Conway, Mass., succeeding Eev. Dr. Harris (1833), where he 
 remained twelve years ; from 1863 to 1871 he was pastor of the North 
 Church, Portsmouth, N. H., and in 1873 became pastor of the church in 
 Holliston, Mass., where he now resides. Eeeently he has been abroad 
 a second time, travelling in Egypt and Palestine; He has contributed 
 to the Bibliotheca Sacra and has published two historical discourses. 
 Mr. Adams has been for some time on the Board of Overseers of the 
 college. 
 
 In 1852 he married Sarah H. Crosby of Bangor, who died in 1859, 
 leaving a daughter Charlotte C. who died in 1876 ; and in 1862 he mar- 
 ried Louisa L. Dana, Brookline, Mass. 
 
 Samuel Jameson Andeksok was bom in Portland, December, 1824. 
 Immediately after leaving college he entered upon the study of law in 
 the Dane Law Schopl, Harvard, went through the regular course of 
 two years and a half, received the degree of LL. B., and engaged in 
 the practice of the profession in Portland, which he prosecuted until 
 1865, at first by himself, then in the firm of Anderson & Harmon, and 
 subsequently in partnership with Nathan Webb, Esq. In 1855 and 
 1856 he served as an alderman of the city. In 1866 he was elected 
 attorney for the county of Cumberland, holding the position three 
 years, and by appointment of the court an additional term, filling a 
 vacancy caused by absence abroad of his successor in office. He was 
 appointed by President Buchanan in 1856 surveyor of the port, and 
 held the office four years. In 1869 he was elected president of Port- 
 land and Ogdensburg Railroad on its organization, and is now in that 
 position. In 1878 he was nominated by the Democratic party for 
 Congress, but failed of an election. For some years he was major- 
 general in the State militia. 
 
 In 1«51 he married Jane W. Dow of Portland, and has three 
 children. 
 
 Joseph Baktlett was born in Qarland, May, 1818. He employed 
 himself in teaching, was in charge for a time of the academy at 
 Hampden. For some years he was register of probate, Penobscot 
 County, resident in Bangor. He was also editor of the Bangor Jeffer- 
 sonian. He became a victim of pulmonary disease and died April, 
 1870. He had not married. 
 
 Albion Keith Parris Bradbury was born in HoUis, October, 
 1821. He had graduated some time when he engaged in the study of 
 medicine, and took his medical degree in the Harvard Medical School 
 
GRADUATES. 593 
 
 in 1854. He settled in his profession in HoUis and was successful. 
 In 1872 he removed to Santa Barbara, Cal.,and continued the prac- 
 tice of his profession, but died June, 1875. 
 
 He married Miss Helen Smith, who survives him with three children, 
 two daughters and a son. 
 
 Henry Knight Bradbdkt was born in HoUis, October, 1827. Soon 
 after graduating he went South, and was for two years private tutor 
 in the familj' of a South Carolina gentleman near Charleston. He 
 then studied law in Charleston, completing his course with Nathan 
 Dane Appleton, Esq., in Alfred. He began the practice in Wilton, 
 but in a year or two removed to Hollis, where he has since resided 
 with the exception of a few years spent in Southern California, Penn- 
 sylvania, and West Virginia. He has held county and town offices, 
 and has represented his town in the Legislature of Maine three terms. 
 Is prominent as a politician in the Democratic party. 
 
 He married in 1868 Emily C. White, daughter of Hon. J. C. White, 
 Arkansas, who died in 1873 leaving one child. 
 
 Charles Harris Coleman was born in Newbury, Mass., February, 
 lfil9. No reply to the circular sent to him. The record of the class is 
 our authority for what we write. After leaving college he employed 
 himself in teaching some years. He then engaged in business as a 
 manufacturer of and dealer in cabinet furniture at Galena, 111. 
 
 He married Miss Deborah L. Dinsmore of Boston, and according to 
 
 latest accounts has two children living, a daughter and a son. 
 
 • 
 
 Henkt Kinsman Craig was born in Augusta, May, 1826, brother 
 of Wheelock C. (1843). On leaving college he pursued theological 
 studies one year in the seminarj' at Bangor. He was then principal 
 of the classical school in Augusta one j'ear, and a tutor in Greek two 
 years in the college. He completed his course intheologj' at Andover, 
 Mass., graduating there in 1852. In January, 1854, he was ordained 
 pastor of the Congregational Church in Bucksport, where he remained 
 twelve years. After serving as acting pastor in Norton, Mass., from 
 1868 to 1871, he was installed over the Congregational Church in 
 Falmouth, Mass , where he still remains, a seholarl}' man, an instruc- 
 tive preacher, and a faithful servant of his Master. He married 
 Harriet P. Tenney in ls61, and has three children. 
 
 Soon after the death of his brother a memorial of the character, 
 work, and closing days of Rev. Wheelock Craig appeared, which for its 
 tenderness, delicacy, and cultured taste deserves mention, and though 
 anonymous was ascribed to the subject of the above sketch. 
 
594 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Isaac Somes Cushman was born in New Gloucester, February, 1823. 
 He studied medicine, attended lectures in, the Medical School, grad- 
 uated in 1847, and practised for some j'ears in Biddeford. He then 
 abandoned the medical profession, entered the Theological Institute 
 of the Methodist Church, Concord, N. H., and was ordained a minis- 
 ter in that communion, and at the time of his death in 1870 was 
 exercising his ministry in "Winchendon, Mass. During the war he 
 was chaplain of the Thirty-third Massachusetts Volunteers, and after- 
 wards assistant surgeon of the same. 
 
 Henry Padelfoed Deane was born in Ellsworth, October, 1823. 
 After graduation he entered upon legal studies, was admitted to prac- 
 tice, and opened an ofHce in Portland, where he ever after resided. 
 In the words of resolutions presented by Nathan Webb, Esq., ex- 
 pressing the sense of the baron occasion of his death, "by his energy, 
 zeal, and talent, as well as by his fidelity to the duties of a counsel- 
 lor and by his courtesy to his professional associates, he deservedly 
 gained an honorable standing." Testimony was borne on the same 
 occasion by another to " his devotion to his profession, his legal 
 attainments, irreproachable morals, and stainless integrity.'' He had 
 been attorney for Cumberland County, had represented his city twice 
 in the Legislature, and surveyor of the port. His health having 
 become seriously impaired, in the winter of 1872-73 he went to 
 Florida for the benefit of the milder climate. Hope of restoration 
 failing, he set out on his return home, reached Boston, and at the 
 Revere House died March, 1873. 
 
 He married Ann, daughter of Major William H. Morse of Bruns- 
 wick, who survives, by whom he had a son who died two years before, 
 and a daughter. 
 
 Samuel Porter Dinsmore was born in Bangor, October, 1823. 
 Having received no reply to the circular of inquiries, we derive our 
 only information from the class record. His residence has been in 
 New York City, where he is publisher and editor of the StocMiolder. 
 He married Harriet N. Bean of that citj' and has three children, two 
 sons and a daughter. The son was in the scientific department of the 
 college, but did not complete his course. 
 
 Samuel Farnham was born in Woolwich, January, 1816. On 
 leaving college he devoted himself for some years to the work of a 
 teacher, first in the High School in Bath, second as principal of the 
 seminary in Whitestown, N. Y. In 1853 he returned to his native 
 town and his ancestral farm. His attainments and character com- 
 
GRADUATES. 595 
 
 manded the respect of his townsmen, and he was made for several 
 years supervisor of their schools, a selectman, town agent, and chair- 
 man of the board of county commissioners. Of late years he has 
 resided in Auburn. He has been a consistent and prominent member 
 in the Freewill Baptist communion. He married Julia Chancy of 
 Whitestown, who was an associate teacher in the seminary. They 
 have had three children, a son and two daughters. 
 
 William Henet Faenham was born in Bangor, March, 1824. He 
 entered Senior from Waterville College, and had the reputation in his 
 class of having talents, of being a great reader, and of having literary 
 tastes. After graduation he entered the law ofHce of A. W. Paine, 
 Esq., was admitted to the bar, but never practised law. He went 
 South, it is reported, and was employed as a tutor in a private family. 
 On the opening of the Mexican war lie enlisted and made a good 
 record as a soldier. He was allured to the gold fields of California 
 when their wealth was reported ; but at the outbreak of the war of 
 the Rebellion enlisted private in the Third California Infantry, and 
 served three years. On the return of peace he returned to Bangor, 
 but soon went again to the South, had fixed his residence in Selma, 
 Ala., and was about engaging in a promising business when he had a 
 sunstroke, and died July, 1872. He is reported of as always bearing 
 a good character, but as wanting fixedness of purpose, and " ever 
 inclined to seek his fortune in new fields." He never married. 
 
 Enoch Peelet Fessenden was born in Fryeburg, June, 1822. He 
 entered the Junior year, soon took high standing as a scholar, and 
 made attainments beyond what is usual in an undergraduate. He 
 studied medicine, attended lectures in the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, New York, graduating in 1853. He settled in Bucksport 
 in practice, gained reputation and respect in that community. He 
 has been somewhat recluse in his habits, has never married, and of 
 late years his health has been seriously impaired and unfitted him for 
 professional duty. 
 
 Edmund Webster Flagg was born in Bangor, June, 1824. He 
 also entered Senior from Waterville College. He studied law, was 
 admitted to the bar of Penobscot County, settled first in practice in 
 Corinth, and subsequently in Bangor for several years. He held offi- 
 cial positions, being clerk of the House of Representatives in 1851 
 and 1«52, and deputy collector of the port under the administration 
 of Gen. Pierce. He was unmarried, and died in January, 1871. 
 
596 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Joseph Garland was born in Hampton, N. H., January, 1822. 
 After graduation he was principal of an academy in South Hampton, 
 N. H., and then of the academy in Atkinson, N. H., where he began 
 the study of medicine. He attended lectures in the Medical School 
 connected with the college and in Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 
 phia, where he graduated in 1849. Meanwhile the summer of 1848 
 was spent in Boston, where he was in attendance at the Massachu- 
 setts General Hospital. He settled at once in his profession in 
 Gloucester, Mass , where he has since been in active practice with 
 reputation and success. He has contributed papers to medical jour- 
 nals, is president of Essex South District Medical Society, and has 
 been ^repeatedly on the board of supervisors of schools. He has the 
 present j-ear (1880) received proof of the public estimation in his elec- 
 tion to the mayoralty of his city at a critical turn in its affairs. 
 
 Dr. Garland has twice married : first, in 1849 Caroline Goodhue of 
 Deerfield, N. H., by whom he had three sons, the eldest a graduate of 
 Harvard University and Medical School, the third of great promise 
 died while a member of our college ; second, Susan D. Knowlton of 
 Concord, N. H , in 1870, by whom he has had four children, two 
 daughters and two sons. 
 
 Sam0el Fkeeman Gibson was born in Denmark, April, 1823. On 
 leaving college he read law in the ofHce of Messrs. Howard & Shep- 
 ley, Portland, and was admitted to the bar of Cumberland County. 
 He began the practice of the profession in Patten, Aroostook County ; 
 but in a year or two, having received the appointment of a clerkship 
 in the quartermaster's department, he left for California, where he 
 remained two or three years. He then returned to Maine and settled 
 in Bethel, which has since been his residence. He was a contractor 
 in the construction of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, and 
 subsequently engaged in trade until 1857, when he resumed his pro- 
 fession, except for six months in the last year of the war, when he 
 held commission as captain and quartermaster of volunteers. He has 
 twice married, having two children by the first and three by the second 
 marriage. 
 
 Charles William Goddard was born in Portland, December, 
 1825. On leaving college he entered upon the studj' of law in the 
 oflSce of Messrs. Howard & Shepley in Portland, and was admitted to 
 the bar, November, 1846. He opened an oflSce in his native town, 
 but in three years removed to.Lewiston Falls, where he was in active 
 practice sixteen years, with the exception of the period 1861 to 1864, 
 
GRADUATES. 597 
 
 when he was consul general of the United States in Constantinople. 
 In 1866 he returned to Portland, which has since been his residence. 
 While in Lewiston he was attorney for Androscoggin County one 
 year, a member of the State Senate 1858 and 1859, and the last year 
 its president. In 1867 he was appointed justice of the Superior 
 Court of Cumberland County, and held that position until 1871, when 
 he became postmaster of the city of Portland and still holds that 
 office. In 1867, by appointment of Governor Chamberlain, he was 
 placed on the commission for the equalization of municipal war debts 
 of the State. 
 
 In 1872 Judge Goddard was appointed by the president and faculty 
 of the Medical School connected with the college to the lectureship on 
 medical jurisprudence, and subsequently was chosen by the boards of 
 the college professor of the same. For some years he has been a 
 director of the American Peace Society, and is a member of the Asso- 
 ciation for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations. 
 
 Judge Goddard has twice married : in 1852 Caroline E. Little, 
 daughter of Hon. Thomas B. Little of Auburn, who died in 1853 
 leaving an infant son that survived but a few weeks ; and in 1857 
 Rowena C. Morrill, daughter of Hon. Anson P. Morrill of Readfleld, 
 by whom he has had three sons, two of whom are members of the 
 college, and three daughters, the youngest dying in infancy. 
 
 James Godfrey was born in October, 1822. He also entered Senior 
 from Waterville College. He spent two years after graduating in 
 Alabama, and then returning to his native town studied law in the 
 office of his father. He began the practice of law in Waldoboro', 
 whence he soon removed to Houlton, and had gained a successful 
 business when he was seized with fatal disease and died, August, 
 1850. " He was of excellent character and stood exceedingly well 
 in his profession." He married in 1848 Mary Carter Wheelwright of 
 Bangor, and left one child, a daughter who died soon after the father. 
 
 John Wallingfoed Goodwin was born in South Berwick, April, 
 1825. No reply to our circular having been received, the class record 
 gives us the following concerning him : He has been a civil engineer, 
 and w_as thus employed on railroads in Massachusetts and Vermont 
 for some time, and then went South and exercised his profession on 
 the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. In 1861 he enlisted in an Alabama 
 regiment and served most of the war, then was placed in charge of 
 the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. In 1874 he was residing at 
 Houston, Texas, in the same profession. In 1862 he married Georgia 
 Smith of Mobile, and at the last date had three daughters and one son. 
 
598 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 James Heevbt Hackleton was born in Bristol, April, 1819. He 
 entered Senior from Waterville College. After taking his degree he 
 went South, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began the 
 practice of the profession in La Grange, Tenn. He in a short time 
 abandoned the law and engaged in the work of a teacher, for which 
 he had peculiar qualifications. He subsequently 'removed to Holly 
 Springs, Miss., where he became principal of a j'oung ladies' semi- 
 nary which was flourishing under his care at the opening of the war 
 in 1861. In the following year the Federal army took possession of 
 the town, his school buildings were occupied by the aimy and his 
 pupils dispersed. He returned North during the war, but at its close 
 returned to the South and settled in Memphis, Tenn., in the business 
 of a merchant and cotton broker. He soon however resumed his work 
 as a teacher ; was principal of a young ladies' seminary in Frederick, 
 Md., and was gaining success and reputation at the time of his death 
 in 1877. 
 
 He had married Miss Nash, an accomplished lady of Hadley, Mass , 
 and left two daughters. 
 
 Abner Ham was born in Farmington, N. H., February, 1820. In 
 college he was retiring, diligent, and successful. He studied medicine, 
 attended lectures in one of the medical schools in the city of New 
 York, where he took his medical degree in 1847. He practised medi- 
 cine for ten years in Eochester, N. H., and gained reputation in 
 Strafford County. Impaired health compelled him to relinquish the 
 active duties of his profession, and he removed to Cambridge, Mass., 
 where he was often visited by patients from his former home. " He 
 was a cautious, accurate observer and reasoner, and was seldom mis- 
 taken in diagnosis or treatment. His love for his profession was 
 intense, and he continued an assiduous medical student to the end 
 of his life." He suffered from pulmonary disease for some years ; he 
 went South in quest of health and died on a plantation near Charles- 
 ton, S. C, August, 1866. He ha'd married Miss Elizabeth F. Pollard 
 of Great Falls, N. H., who survives him. 
 
 David Robinson Hastings was born in Bethel, August, 1823. On 
 leaving college he taught the academy in his native town for a time 
 and then studied law with David R. Straw, Esq., Guilford, and with 
 Appleton (1822) & Allen, Esqs., Bangor, where he was admitted to 
 the bar in 1847. He has pursued his profession in Fryeburg ; was 
 attorney for the county 1853-55 ; at this writing is reporter of decis- 
 ions for the State, and will soon publish the sixty-ninth volume of 
 
GRADUATES. 599 
 
 ' ' Maine Reports ." He is a member of the Board of Overseers of 
 the college. 
 
 In 1850 he married Mary J. Ellis of Cornish, and has two chil- 
 dren, a daughter and a son. 
 
 Horatio Gates Herrick was born in Alfred, October, 1825. He 
 read law with Nathan Dane Appleton, Esq. (1813), of Alfred, and 
 John T. Paine, Esq., of Sanford ; was admitted to the bar and settled 
 in the profession in North Berwick. In 1855, leaving Maine on account 
 of illness of his wife he spent a j'ear in the "West. He then practised 
 law in Boston, residing in Saugus from 1857 to 1862, when he was 
 appointed by Governor Andrew, under a general order of the War 
 Department, draft commissioner for Essex Countj', Mass., and in 1863 
 was commissioned by the Secretary of War captain and provost-mar- 
 shal of the sixth Massachusetts district ; he was elected sheriff of 
 Essex County in 1865 and still holds that office by repeated elections ; 
 he was by appointment of the governor on the prison commission 
 having the oversight of prisons in the Commonwealth. He married 
 Miss Paine, daughter of his teacher in law, who died in 1857 leaving 
 one son now living. Mr. Herrick as secretary of his class has laid 
 the writer under many obligations. 
 
 JosiAH Howes was born in New Sharon, September, 1819. He 
 studied medicine and resided for several years in Burlington, Iowa, 
 where he gained reputation in his profession and much esteem. He 
 married a Miss Parks of Ohio, who has died leaving a daughter, — 
 both mother and daughter, now married, reported of as the comfort 
 and pride of their homes. Dr. Howes on the death of his wife re- 
 moved to Clarinda, Page County, and has resided with his daughter. 
 He died at Clarinda, December, 1881. 
 
 Oliver Peasleb Jevtett was born in North Whitefleld, March, 
 1818. He entered Senior from Waterville. All that we learn of his 
 course since graduation is from the record of his class. " He was 
 a teacher in Illinois ; has been dead many years, and nothing very 
 definite concerning him can be learned." (From a letter from the 
 postmaster of Whitefleld. ) 
 
 David Bancroft Johnson was born in Dresden, December, l'8r7. 
 He graduated with reputation as "the mathematician" of the class. 
 He went to the Southern States and devoted himself to teaching. 
 According to the record of the class, based on a statement from a 
 classmate, also a teacher who knew of what he testified, "he was 
 
600 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 highly respected as a thorough scholar, a successful teacher, and i 
 singularly pure and upright man." At the time of his death, 1857 
 he was president of La Grange College, Tenn., where he had th( 
 promise of great success and usefulness. 
 
 Chables Weston Larrabee was born in Brunswick, June, 1822 
 He read law with Ebenezer Everett, Esq., of Brunswick, and attendee 
 lectures in the Dane Law School, Harvard, where he took the degree 
 of LL. B. in 1847. He opened an office in Boston, where he remained 
 but a short time. He spent a year or more in California, then 
 returned to Maine and settled in Richmond in his profession. Oi 
 late years he has resided in Bath and is reputed an able counsellor. 
 
 He married in Richmond, Lizzie Sophia Smith, and has had four 
 children, of whom two are living, a daughter and a son. 
 
 John Haskell Merrill was born in Falmouth, February, 1817. 
 He made profession of Christian faith before entering college. After 
 graduating he entered the Theological Seminar}', Bangor, and gradu- 
 ated in 1847. He was ordained pastor of a recently organized 
 Congregational church at Sedgwick Village, where he remained three 
 years. While there he was affected with a bronchial difficulty which 
 became a constant source of inconvenience and at last proved fatal. 
 Removing to the interior of New Hampshire he exercised his ministry 
 for a time in Pembroke, and was then installed August, 1853, over a 
 church in Tamworth, where he labored diligently' and successfully five 
 years. His disease then compelled him to abstain from pulpit labor. 
 In the autumn of 1860 he went to Iowa, where he spent the winter, 
 and in the following spring returned towards his New Hampshire 
 home ; while resting for a few days on his journey at HoUis, N. H., 
 he died May 13, 1861. 
 
 John McDonald Morrill was born in Limerick, April, 1825. 
 After graduating he was emploj^ed as a teacher for some years in 
 Napanoek and Sing Sing, N. Y., then in Dresden, Tenn., and in a 
 private family in Madison County. He then read law with Hon. 
 Emerson Etheridge of Dresden, completing his course in Jackson, 
 Madison County, where he settled in the profession. At the outbreak 
 of the Civil War he entered the Confederate service. Exposure in 
 camp brought on a fever, and after a few weeks' illness he died Janu- 
 ary, 1861. He was highly respected as a citizen, and as a lawyer had 
 taken high rank. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church in 
 Jackson. 
 
GRADUATES. 601 
 
 He twice married : in 1855 Miss Georgie Lea, daughter of Eev. 
 Lorenzo Lea, professor of mathematics in the College of Western Ten- 
 nessee at Jackson, who lived but a few months ; and in 1860, Miss 
 Mary McLellan, Madison County, daughter of a respected planter, 
 who survived him two or three years. They had no family. 
 
 Geokge Freeman Notes was born in Eastport, September, 1824. 
 He studied law in the office of Eichard H. Dana, Esq., in Boston, 
 was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and began the practice of his pro- 
 fession in that city. In 1849 he went to California, where with a 
 partner he established an extensive law business, but in a short time 
 returned to the East. At the outbreak of the Civil War at the solici- 
 tation of Gen. Doubledaj- he joined his staff, and afterwards that of 
 Gen. Wadsworth. He was a brave and efficient soldier. He pub- 
 lished " The Bivouac and the Battle-Field ; or. Campaign Sketches in 
 Virginia and Maryland," 1864, written in an easy, attractive style, 
 and showing powers of keen observation. At the close of the war he 
 resumed the labors of the bar, formed a copartnership with J. F. 
 Daley, Esq., New York, and was at once engaged in important 
 political cases. Of scrupulous honor, greatly esteemed for his vir- 
 tues and high promise, with gifts of eloquence, placed also on the 
 executive committee of the Union League, a brilliant prospect was 
 opened before him, when he was seized with violent and fatal disease 
 and died suddenly, January, 1868. He never married. 
 
 John Taylor Page was born in Dover, N. H., May, 1822. He 
 studied medicine and took a degree in medicine in Jefferson Medical 
 College, Philadelphia, in 1848. He practised his profession some 
 years in Winchendon, Mass. In the winter of 1866-67 he was found 
 dead on his bed in his office from the effects of chloroform. He never 
 married. 
 
 Joshua Sears Palmer was born in Kennebunk, November, 1824. 
 He has been in mercantile business in Portland, was treasurer of the 
 city two years, and for several years has been treasurer of the Port- 
 land Glass Company, has travelled in Europe, has also been an insur- 
 ance agent. He has been twice married. His first wife died in 1867. 
 In 1869 he again married Mrs. Nellie S. Bronson of Toledo, Ohio. 
 He has no children. 
 
 JosiAH Little Pickaed was born in Auburn, March, 1824, son of 
 Samuel Pickard, Esq. He has devoted his life to the interests of 
 
602 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COTjLEGB. 
 
 education. After graduation he taught the academy in Conwaj 
 N. H., a year and more ; he then went to Illinois and taught a schoc 
 in Elizabeth, whence near the end of 1846 he removed to Plattville 
 Wis., and took charge of an academy for three years. He the: 
 became superintendent of public instruction for Wisconsin, and wa 
 re-elected twice to that office. In 1864 he accepted the position c 
 superintendent of schools in Chicago, and was annually elected t( 
 that position for thirteen years. Eesigning that situation in which hi 
 had rendered efficient service, after a few months of needed rest h 
 was elected to the presidency of the State University of Iowa, with it 
 five hundred students, in June, 1878. He has published reports, eacj 
 constituting an octavo volume, of the public schools, four in Wiscon 
 sin and thirteen in Chicago, as also a small volume of instructions t< 
 teachers in Chicago which has passed through repeated editions. 
 
 Mr. Picka'rd has received the honorary degree of LL. D. from th( 
 University of Chicago, and from Beloit College, Wisconsin. 
 
 In 1847 he married Cornelia B. C. WoodhuU, daughter of Prof 
 Selah S. WoodhuU, D. D., of Rutgers College, New Jersey. Thej 
 have had three children, two daughters and a son. One of the daugh- 
 ters has died. They have an adopted daughter, now married and 
 resident in Portland. 
 
 Nathaniel Pierce was born in Newburyport, Mass., March, 1823. 
 He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and has ever resided in New- 
 buryport, in the practice of his profession, and has the reputation oi 
 a sound lawyer, though confining himself mostly to office practice, 
 He has been repeatedly mayor of his city, and has represented it in 
 the Legislature. He has never married. Our circular having brought 
 no return, we have depended chiefiy on the record of the class. 
 
 Thomas Jefferson Worcester Peat was born in Somersworth. 
 N. H., September, 1818. After graduation he taught a select school 
 at Great Falls, N. H., nearly tws years. He then studied medicine 
 with Theodore H. Jewett, M. D. (1834), of South Berwicif, attended 
 lectures in the Medical School of Harvard College, graduating in 1848, 
 and settled in the practice in Dover, N. H., where he still resides. 
 He has published several communications to medical journals, in 1849 
 obtained a prize for a paper on " Medical Properties of Sulphur," and 
 other papers on professional topics. He has been on the school com- 
 mittee of the city several years ; school commissioner for the county 
 and on the State Board of Education ; has twice represented Dover 
 in the Legislature of New Hampshire ; has been president of the com- 
 
GRADUATES. 603 
 
 non council of the city, of the District Medical Society, and at this 
 vriting is president of the Medical Society of New Hampshire. In 
 L863 and 1868 he was delegate from the Medical Society of the State 
 » attend the examination of the graduating class at Hanover, and 
 ielivered an address to the class in both cases. 
 
 Dr. Pray has married twice: in 1850 Sarah E., daughter of John 
 H. Wheeler, by whom he had two sons, John W. (1874) and Thomas 
 M. (1878) ; and in 1870 Martha A., daughter of Rev. S. S. Mat- 
 thews, by whom he has had one daughter. 
 
 Elias Haskell Sargent was born in North Yarmouth, now Yar- 
 mouth, April, 1816. On leaving college he went South and taught an 
 academy in Washington, Ark., three years. He then removed to 
 Champagnolle of the same State and engaged in mercantile pursuits 
 for several years. When the war broke out in 1861 he was in busi- 
 Qess in New Orleans. The effect of that event interrupted his plans, 
 smd after some time he returned to his native town, where he has since 
 resided. In 1854 he married Melinda L. Blaisdell of Bangor, and has 
 two daughters. 
 
 Charles Edward Swan was born in Calais, September, 1822. He 
 studied medicine and graduated in the Medical School connected with 
 the college in 1H47. He settled in his native town and has gained 
 tiigh standing in his profession. He has been a member of both 
 overseers and trustees of the college, and ialso of the Maine Historical 
 Society. He married a daughter of George Downs, Esq., of Calais. 
 
 Arthur Swazet was born in Bucksport, June, 1824. After grad- 
 uation he at once entered on the theological course at Bangor Semi- 
 Qary, graduating in 1847 ; was soon ordained over the Congregational 
 Church and Society in Brighton, where he remained nine years. In 
 1856 he accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church in Galena, 
 111. ; in 1860 to the Third Presbyterian Church in Chicago ; and is at 
 this writing (1880) pastor of the Forty-first Presbyterian Church in 
 that city. For three years he edited the Interior, a religious paper in 
 Chicago. He has published sermons, reviews, and articles on profes- 
 sional and scientific topics. In 1870 he received the degree of D. D. 
 from Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. 
 
 In 1847 he married Eliza Ann Weld of Brunswick. They have four 
 children, daughters, two married. 
 
 Winthrop Tappan was born in Augusta, February, 1826, brother 
 3f Benjamin (1833) . On leaving college he entered the Theological 
 
604 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Seminary at Princeton, N. J., where he spent three years, and wa 
 connected with that in Bangor six months. He went abroad, and fo 
 a year and a half pursued theological studies in Germany. He di 
 not enter the Christian ministry, but engaged in teaching private sem 
 inaries in Auburn, N. Y., three years, and in Philadelphia seven. Fo 
 some years he has been with Ms family in Europe. 
 
 In 1855 he married Pauline, daughter of Capt. George Patten c 
 Bath, and has had three daughters all living. 
 
 Thomas Gilbert Thornton was born in Saco, August, 1823. H 
 studied law in Saco, engaged in the practice in Biddeford for a fe' 
 years, and in 1854 removed to Kansas Territory. He participate 
 actively in the early movements which resulted in making Kansas 
 free State. He was president of the Senate of the first free Stat 
 Legislature, which was dispersed by United States authorities in 185( 
 He died at the residence of his brother Col. Thornton in Madisoi 
 Wis., November, 1868, of Bright's disease. At the session of th 
 District Court for Shawnee County, Kan., resolutions were adopte 
 testifying to his " excellent public and private character." He neve 
 married. 
 
 David Ladd Towle was born in Avon, April, 1817. After grac 
 nation he took charge of the academy at Limerick, and two yeai 
 after of one in Goshen, N. Y., for two or three years. He the 
 opened a school to prepare Spanish and Cuban pupils for business < 
 college, which was well patronized. The school being affected unfi 
 vorably by the Civil War, he relinquished it and early in 1863 saile 
 for Central America to engage in the cultivation of cotton. Compelle 
 by the climate to return to his own country, from 1864 to 1867 1 
 resumed the same cultivation at Dirlgo Plantation, parish of St. Lai 
 dry. La. From the bedside of his last white friend on the plantatio 
 over whose remains he read the burial service, he caught the infectic 
 of the prevailing fever, in a few days died, — October, 1867, — ar 
 was buried by the hands of strangers. He married Miss Suss 
 Wright of Portland, who survives him with four children. 
 
 William Wirt Virgin was born in Rumford, September, 182 
 Immediately after graduation he entered upon the study of law wi 
 his father Peter C. Virgin, Esq., was admitted to the bar, and opew 
 an office in Norway, where he was in active practice until 1871, wh 
 he removed to Portland, his present residence. For three yea 
 (1859 to 1861) he was attorney for Oxford County ; was member 
 
GRADUATES. 605 
 
 he State Senate in 1865 and 1866, and president of that body the 
 ast j'ear ; was reporter of decisions from 1866 to 1872, and in 1872 
 ?as elevated to the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court 
 
 He has published 1' Virgin's Digest of Maine Eeports," " Supple- 
 (lental Digest of Maine Eeports," and seven volumes of " Maine 
 leports." 
 
 Judge Virgin married Sarah H. Cole of Norway in 1851, and has 
 me son, Harry R. Virgin. 
 
 Fkedeeic Lockwood Washbden was born in Minot, February, 
 820. He at once began the study of law in Boston, attended the 
 jctures of the Dane Law School, Harvard, and took the degree of 
 jL. B. in 1847. He opened an office in Boston, where he continued 
 he practice of his profession. He died suddenly of congestion of the 
 irain, March, 1860. 
 
 Samuel Martin Weston was born in Bristol, July, 1819, brother 
 if James P (1840). He has devoted himself to the office of a 
 eacher, for which he had decided qualifications and tastes. After 
 ;raduation he was master of the High School, Stoneham, Mass., for a 
 'ear; was employed in the English High School,. Boston, from 1845 
 1852, when he became principal of the English High School for 
 Joys, Roxbury, under charge of trustees, and held that position until 
 860, when he was elected by the Roxbury committee principal of the 
 ligh School for Boys and Girls When Roxbury was incorporated as 
 part of Boston he was retained as head master of the school, and now 
 Lolds that position, residing in Boston Higlilauds. In 1867 he mar- 
 led Frances Erving Valentine of Roxbury, daughter of Mr. Lawson 
 '^alentine of Boston. They have no children. 
 
 HoKATio QoiNCY Wheeler was born in Norridgewock, date not 
 ;iven. He entered Senior from Waterville. No information has 
 leen obtained concerning him, and in failure pf any replj"^ to the cir- 
 ular we are indebted to the class record of 1870. He practised law 
 everal years in Evansville, Ind., and was president of the First 
 ^^ational Bank, Evansville. Of late j-ears he has resided in West- 
 rook. He married, and at the date given had three children, two 
 laughters and one son. 
 
 Horace Williams was born in Augusta, Februarj^ 1824, son of 
 )aniel Williams, Esq. He did not complete his course in college in 
 rder to engage in business, but subsequently a degree was conferred 
 
606 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 on him with his place in the class. Allured by the opening for entj 
 prise on the Pacific he went to California, where he spent sever 
 years, and then returned to Iowa, where he has since resided in Cli 
 ton. He has been concerned in the business of railways, is preside) 
 of the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Eailroad Company, and the Cedi 
 Rapids and Missouri River Railroad Company ; is reputed " a mo 
 honorable, successful, and intelligent gentleman." He has nevi 
 married. 
 
 Geoege Simeon Woodward was born in Gardiner, October, 181! 
 On leaving college he taught in the Episcopal schoo lin "West Cheste 
 Pa., four years, meanwhile pursuing theological study under the dire( 
 tion of Rev. Dr. John Crowell of the Presbyterian Church. He r( 
 ceived a license to preach in 1847 from the^ presbytery of Philade 
 phia, and in 1849 ordination from the presbytery of Missouri, an 
 was settled in the ministry in Parkville, Mo., where he remained foui 
 teen years. From 1863 to 18G8 he was pastor of the First Prei 
 byterian Church, Leavenworth, Kan. An affection of the throa 
 compelled him to suspend pulpit labor and to engage in insuranc 
 business, which he still pursues although preaching occasionally as hi 
 infirmity permits. He has published sermons and addresses. 
 
 Mr. Woodward has married twice: in 1848 Cordelia S. Smith o 
 Readfield, by whom he had two children, one now living : and in 185: 
 Mrs. Eliza Tyler of Weston, Mo., by whom he has had two childrer 
 of whom one survives. 
 
 Henry Augustus Wyman was boi'n in New Sharon, Septembei 
 1820. After graduation he employed himself in teaching in Tennes 
 see two years. He then pursued legal studies in Augusta, was ad 
 mitted to the Kennebec bar in 1848, and began the practice Of law i 
 Skowhegan as partner with S. Coburn, Esq., continuing the connec 
 tion through life. He suffered from infirm health a year or two befor 
 his death, which occurred December, 1867. His partner bore testi 
 mony to his character as " a high-minded, honorable man, as havin; 
 in an uncommon degree the urbanity of a well-bred gentleman, and a 
 having made strong friends." 
 
 He married and left three children, a daughter and two sons. 
 
 1845. 
 
 William Loeing Avert was born in Belfast, October, 1824 
 After graduation he read law but never engaged in practice. Hi 
 published and edited a weekly newspaper in Belfast, The State Signal 
 
GKADUATES. 607 
 
 six years ; in 1854-55 lie was editor of the Troy, N. Y., Daily Times, 
 under the auspices of Hon. William H. Seward ; he was afterwards 
 connected with other New York papers. For some years he held a 
 position in the Department of the Interior, Washington. The last 
 two years of his life were spent in Mechanicsville, Pa., where he edited 
 a paper. He died suddenly of pneumonia, March, 1879. 
 
 He married Mrs. Susan S. Anderson of Peoria, 111., who with a 
 son survives him. 
 
 Alvah Black was born in Limington, December, 1817. On leav- 
 ing college he taught two years in the Female Seminary, Gorham, 
 reading law meanwhile with Hon. Josiah Pierce of Gorham, and after 
 he left the seminary completed his course in the office of Augustus 
 Haines, Esq. ; he was admitted to the bar in 1848, but before entering 
 on the practice of the profession he continued legal study several 
 months with Hon C. R. Ayer of Cornish ; in 1849 he opened an oflBce 
 in Paris as partner with Hon. Charles Andrews, where he still resides 
 in the front rank of the profession ; he was clerk of the courts from 
 1856-58 inclusive ; was president of the Oxford bar, and represented 
 his town in the Legislature of 1860. He died very suddenly Jan. 24, 
 1882. 
 
 In 1855 he married Mrs. Persis S. Andrews, daughter of William 
 Sibley, Esq., of Freedom, by whom he has had one son, Charles A. 
 (Bowdoin College, 1875). 
 
 Moses Morrill Butlee was born in Sanford, March, 1824. 
 Immediatelj' after graduation he taught a high school in Spring Vale, 
 a village of his native town. He then entered on the study of law 
 in the office of Hon. Edward E. Bourne (Bowdoin College, 1816) in 
 Kennebunk ; completed his course in the ofHee of Hon. Samuel Wells, 
 subsequently justice of the Supreme Court in Portland, was admitted 
 to the bar, and opened an office in that city where he still resides. 
 He has formed law partnerships successively with Hon. William P. 
 Fessenden (Bowdoin College, 1823), with his sons James D. Fessen- 
 den (1852) and Francis Fessenden (1858), and at the present time 
 is associated with Charles F. Libby (1864). For a few j-ears ill 
 health caused intermission of active labor, during which he visited 
 Europe. 
 
 Mr. Butler has published occasional speeches and addresses. He 
 has represented the city in the Legislature heretofore and is chosen its 
 representative for 1880 ; for a few years was attorney for the county 
 of Cumberland, and has been twice mayor of Portland. 
 
608 HISTORY or BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 In 1850 he married Olive M., daughter of John Stover, Esq., oi 
 Sanford, and has had three children, one dying in infancy and a sor 
 and daughter survive. Mr. Butler was seized with paralysis while 
 tr^'ing a cause in court which terminated in a few days in his death. 
 Oct. 21, 1879. He was reputed for marked ability as a lawyer and 
 as a useful and devoted citizen. 
 
 James Henry Deering was born in Denmark, July, 1823. On 
 leaving college he became principal of an academy in Lowndes County, 
 Ala., and held the position three years ; he then embarked for Cali- 
 fornia by way of New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Mexico, and Mazatlan, 
 whence he took passage in a brig, which proving unseaworthy he with 
 ten others were landed at the lower extremity of Lower CaUfornia, 
 and amid severe hardships traversed on horseback the entire length 
 of that peninsula, arriving at Sonora, July, 1849. He had read law 
 while in Alabama with the design of pursuing the practice, but having 
 temporarily engaged in placer mining he entered upon a business 
 career. In 1859 he became a resident of San Francisco as a commis- 
 sion merchant and importer. His life, he writes, has been a constant 
 struggle, but withal successful in general. He has been a director of 
 schools in San Francisco, and on the board of aldermen. 
 
 In 1854 Mr. Deering married Mary A. K. Brackett of Denmark, 
 who died in 1873, by whom he had four sons and a daughter, of whom 
 a son died in early life. 
 
 William Gates Donlap- was born in Brunswick, October, 1829, 
 son of Capt. John Dunlap. Soon after leaving college he sailed from 
 New Bedford on a whaling voyage ; he then spent some j'ears in the 
 Sandwich Islands and became connected with a firm transacting busi- 
 ness with Oregon. His last j'ears were spent in Olympia, Washington 
 Territory, where he died in 1862, having established a character as 
 was reported for integrity and energy, and having won the esteem of 
 his fellow-citizens. • 
 
 George Wells Durell was born in Kennebunkport, May, 1843. 
 After graduation he taught four j'ears in the academy at Limerick, 
 and in Virginia. He pursued theological study in the Episcopal 
 Seminary near Alexandria, received ordination at Brunswick in 1860, 
 and was rector of St. Anne's, Calais, for some years. The last four- 
 teen years he has been rector of St. Thomas, Somerville, Mass. 
 
 He married Jane B. Moulton of Topsham, by whom he has had 
 five children. 
 
 Mr. Durell has published sermons, essays, and lectures. 
 
GRADUATES. 609 
 
 Thomas Amort Deblois Fessenden, brother of William Pitt (1823) , 
 md Samuel C. (1834), was born in Portland, January, 1826. He 
 intered immediately after graduation upon the study of law with 
 SVillis & Fessenden, Portland ; in 1848 began the practice at Me- 
 ;hanic Falls, in 1850 removed to Auburn and formed a copartnership 
 frith Judge Morrill, which continued eight years, and then with Wil- 
 iam P. Frye, Esq (1850), Lewiston, which existed ten years. He was 
 Jelegate to the conventions which nominated Gen. Fremont for the 
 Presidency of the United States in 1866, and Gen. Grant in 1868 ; rep- 
 resented Auburn thrice in the Legislature, was attorney for the county 
 n 1861, in 1862 was elected to Congress, and in 1866 was chosen 
 Presidential elector. Possessing a fine person, winning manners, ea,sy 
 iddress, he was well fitted to wield influence over men, was success- 
 M at the bar and in legislative debate. With a character marked 
 by true nobility, scorning intrigue or duplicity, of great purity and 
 integrity, and of a genial humor, he had the confidence of men. For 
 the last six years of his life he was a consistent member of the Con- 
 gregational Church in Auburn. He died after a short illness of 
 Bright's disease, deeply lamented, September, 1868. 
 
 Mr. Fessenden married Elizabeth Rollins Titcomb of Newburyport, 
 Mass., and left a son and two daughters. 
 
 Edward Mann Field was born in Belfast, July, 1822. On leav- 
 ing college he began the study of medicine with Dr. Daniel McRuer of 
 Bangor, attended the medical lectures iu the Medical School connected 
 with the college, then spent a year in the Tremont Medical School, 
 Boston, took a course in Jefferson Medical School, Philadelphia, and 
 graiduated in 1849. He then went abroad and prosecuted his studies 
 in the medical institutions of London, Paris, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and 
 Dublin. Returning, he established himself in his profession in Ban- 
 gor, and is still in active practice there. In 1872 he revisited Europe 
 in the interests of his profession. While in Europe he contributed 
 articles on medical topics, and has continued to do so since, to medical 
 iournals in this country. He has been president of the Penobscot 
 Medical Society. 
 
 In 1852 Dr. Field married Sarah Russ, daughter of Dr. McRuer, 
 a.nd has had two daughters. 
 
 Nathan Lamson Fowler was born in Fairfleld, February, 1821. 
 He entered college on Junior standing from Waterville College. On 
 leaving college he taught schools in his native and neighboring towns, 
 in Groton, N. H., and more recently a year or more in Winslow, N. J. 
 
610 HISTORY or BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 He studied civil engineeriDg in Lowell", Mass., and has of late yean 
 resided in Atlantic City, N. J. He has held several municipal offlcei 
 where he haa lived. • 
 
 In 1847 he married Mary M. Furber, and has had four children 
 daughters. 
 
 Charles Mae|den Freeman was horn in Limerick in 1825, son o: 
 Rev. Charles Freeman (1812). On leaving college he studied law ir 
 the office of Messrs. Howard & Shepley, Portland, was admitted t( 
 the bar and entered on the practice of his profession in Cherryfleld 
 where he remained three years. On the death of his father h< 
 returned to Limerick.' The loss of hearing, discouraged him frorc 
 pursuing his profession and from active business. He has resided ir 
 Limerick, Chelsea, Mass., and Boston, but for the most part ir 
 Baldwin on the homestead of his grandfather, Hon. Mr. Pierce, when 
 he has made himself useful in the care of the farm. He employs him- 
 self with books, maintains his interest in current events and in social 
 life so far as his severe infirmity permits. He has never married. 
 
 Lewis Goodrich was born in Bingham, January, 1817. Imme- 
 diately after graduation he entered on a course of theological studj 
 in the seminary at Bangor, and graduated in 1848. January, 1850, he 
 waS ordained over the Congregational Church in Dedham, its first 
 pastor. He has since exercised his ministry in Pembroke and Strat- 
 nam, N. H., in Wells, West Auburn, Warren, and is at present in 
 Lovell. Scarcely a Sabbath has he been laid aside from his work in 
 his ministry of more than thirty years, a laborious, faithful servant ol 
 his Master. 
 
 In 1848 he married Lucy Ann Baker of Moscow, and has five sons 
 and two daughters. Two of his sons are graduates, one of Harvard 
 and one of Amherst. 
 
 MosES Bradbury Goodwin was born in Buxton, April, 1819. 
 Repeated attempts to obtain information concerning him have been 
 without avail. From a classmate we learn that he was in the public 
 service in Washington some years since, that he resided afterward at 
 Franklin, N. H., and that he was married and had issue. 
 
 John Munroe Goodwin was born in Baldwin, April, 1819. After 
 graduating, he taught a year in Denny sville, and six months in the 
 academy in Alfred. He then read law with Samuel Wells, Esq., 
 of Portland, afterwards a justice of the Supremfe Court and governor 
 
GRADUATES. 611 
 
 3f the state, and Edward Fox, Esq., of Portland, now judge of the 
 United States District Court of Maine. He was admitted to the bar, 
 began practice at Mechanic Falls and then at Portland, and in 1850 
 removed to Biddeford, where he has since been in active practice. 
 He was in the Senate of the State in 1856, and represented his city 
 in the House in 1863-64. He has been president of York County 
 Savings Bank from its incorporation. 
 
 In 1850 he married Harriet P. Herrick, daughter of Benjamin J. 
 Herrick, Esq., of Alfred, and has had five children, four sons and one 
 daughter, all now living. 
 
 Lyman Gould was born in Dixmont, June, 1817. He studied med- 
 icine for a time, but never engaged in the practice. He has devoted 
 himself to the work of teaching in North Carolina and Georgia ; had 
 charge of Gaston Institute, Alabama, four j-ears, and of West Enter- 
 prise Female Seminary, Mississippi, eight years ; from 1864 to 1'880 
 kept a private school in Meridian, Miss. ; and is now president of Hen- 
 derson College, Texas. 
 
 In 1850 he married Ann E. Davis of Knoxville, Ga., and has had 
 three daughters and two sons. 
 
 Francis Pickard Hale was born in Rowley, Mass., September, 
 1819. He fitted for college at Dummer Academy, under N Cleave- 
 land (1813). Directly after graduating he went to Girardtown, Va , 
 where he was employed in teaching two years. He then returned to 
 Massachusetts, became solicitor of patents in Boston, and continued 
 in that business, his residence being in Charlestown. He died sud- 
 denly while on a visit to his native place, September, 1877. 
 
 He married Ann Stickney of Rowley, and had two children, a son 
 and a daughter. 
 
 Richard Lord Hodgdon was born in South Berwick, April, 1825. 
 On leaving college he went South and was employed as a teacher in 
 Glyn County, Ga., three years. He then studied medicine with Dr. 
 Theodore H. Jewett (1834), meanwhile attending lectures in the Har- 
 vard Medical School and in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 
 where he took his medical degree in 1852. After spending a year 
 in the hospital at South Boston, he settled in what is now Arlington, 
 lis present residence. He is a member of Massachusetts Bledical 
 Society, in which he has held official positions. He has published 
 official and professional papers. 
 
612 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 He married Maria E., daughter of Dr. T. Willington, and has had 
 two sons and a daughter, all now living. 
 
 Ealph Waldo Johnson, son of Judge Alfred Johnson (1808), was 
 born in BeKast, December, 1820. He studied law in his father's 
 office, was admitted to the bar, and was in active practice in Belfasi 
 for ten years. He represented his town in the Legislature twice ; 
 twice was nominated for Congress ; was president of the Bank ol 
 Commerce in Belfast. During his later years he was engaged in ex- 
 tensive operations of business in Boston and in the Western States, 
 and largely increased his fortune. July, 1867, he sailed with his wife, 
 daughter of Ex-Governor Crosby, for Europe, and spent a year in 
 travel. At the outset of his voyage by imprudent exposure he con- 
 tracted a disease of the lungs from which he never recovered, and 
 which proved fatal November, 1869, when on his return home from a 
 journey, at St. James Hotel, Boston. He had acquired extensive 
 information, especially on financial and commercial subjects ; was oi 
 active habits and many cares, a discriminating observer, of a kind 
 and genial disposition and generous hospitality Inheriting strong 
 love for his Alma Mater from his grandfather,' one of its active 
 founders, and his father, one of the earliest graduates, an overseei 
 and then a trustee, he contributed to the fund for the Memorial Hall, 
 and in his will founded two scholarships which bear family names. 
 He left no children. 
 
 George Henrt Kingsbury was born in Kennebunk, March, 1827. 
 On leaving college he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and set- 
 tled in his profession in Boston, where he has since resided. He has 
 been deputy collector in the custom-house, Boston. He has married 
 twice : first, Lizzie Watts of Boston, who lived but a short time ; 
 second, Marion Winchester of Boston, by whom he has had five chil- 
 dren, four daughters and a son, of whom the eldest daughter has died, 
 His son is in the practice of law In Boston. 
 
 Javan Knapp Mason was born in Bethel, September, 1817. Aftei 
 graduation he was assistant teacher in the High School in Bath sis 
 months, then principal of St. Albans Academy for about the samt 
 time, and of Lewiston Falls Academy for a term. He pursued theO' 
 logical study in Bangor, graduating in 1848, and was ordained pastoi 
 of the Congregational Church in Hampden, where he remained fifteer 
 years. From 1864 to 1878 he was pastor of the church in Thomas 
 ton, and then became acting pastor over the church in Fryeburg 
 
GRADUATES. 613 
 
 where he still remains. He was trustee of the academy in Hampden, 
 and supervisor of schools of that town several years ; has been on the 
 Board of Overseers of the college for some years, and on its examin- 
 ing and visiting committees ; a trustee of Fryeburg Academy ; cor- 
 responding secretary of the General Conference of Congregational 
 Churches of Maine six years. In 1870 was appointed by the gov- 
 ernor deputy to the national congress on prisons ; was elected director 
 of the National Prison Association, and in 1872 was commissioner 
 from Maine to the International Penitentiary Congress, London ; was 
 elected corresponding member of La Society General des Prisons, and 
 was contributor to its Bulletin. He has published sermons, lectures, 
 and papers relating to poenology in the issues of the National Prison 
 Association and International Prison Congress. 
 
 He married in 1849 Susanna R., daughter of Col. Thaddeus T. 
 Twitchell of Bethel, and has had a son and four daughters. In 1875 
 he received from the college the degree of D. D. 
 
 James Newton, born August, 1811, entered college from Adrain, 
 Mich., and it is supposed returned to the West, where he has labored 
 in the ministry of the gospel. 
 
 Horace Parker was born in Kittery, November, 1817. After 
 graduating he taught the academy in Eliot two years, where he has 
 resided from that time. He has devoted much of his life to the work 
 of teaching, although for some years he was assistant purser in the 
 United States navy yard at Kittery. He has been county commis- 
 sioner of the county, superintendent of schools of his town several 
 years, and for the last few years principal of the Free High School 
 in Eliot. In 1856 he married Abbie L. Fogg, and has had one child, 
 a son. 
 
 Lew;is Leonard Record was born in Minot, September, 1816. 
 He was principal of "Westbrook Seminary two years ; was ordained 
 into the ministry of the Universalist denomination in Gray in 1850 ; 
 was principal of the academy in Houlton and pastor of the Univer- 
 salist Society in that town from 1851 to. 1854. He then removed to 
 West Scituate, Mass., where he had charge of the Universalist Society 
 for five years, and thence to Annisquam, where he remained three 
 years. In 1861, having removed to Stevens' Plains, he entered the 
 service as chaplain of the Twenty-Third Massachusetts Volunteers in 
 the spring of 1864, was at Bermuda Hundred, Cold Harbor, and at 
 Newbern, N. C. Returning from the army he was engaged in secular 
 
614 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE, 
 
 employments, preaching as opportunity presented, but suflfering fron 
 ill health contracted in the public service until 1870, when he removei 
 to Marlboro', N. H., to take charge of the society in that town, when 
 he died December, 1871. 
 
 Mr. Record married twice : in 1845 Cynthia Munroe of Auburn 
 who died in 1848, leaving a daughter ; and in 1852 Irene Stevens o 
 Stevens' Plains, by whom he had two sons, both now deceased. 
 
 Nathaniel Putnam Eichaedson was born in Portland, August 
 1825. On leaving college he began a life of active pursuits as a mai 
 of business, first in Portland, then at Litchfield, Conn., and mor( 
 recently in Geneva, N. Y. He married Mary Woods, daughter o: 
 Rev. Dr. Thomas M. Smith, formerly pastor of the Third Congrega 
 tional Church, Portland, and has had five children, of whom thret 
 now survive. A son, Leonard Woods Richardson, is professor o: 
 modern languages, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Charles Phelps Roberts was born in Bangor, February, 1822 
 He studied law with James S. Rowe, Esq., of Bangor. He engagec 
 in the profession two years in Levant, now Kenduskeag ; becamt 
 editor of a daily newspaper in Bangor, holding that position twelve 
 years ; was superintendent of tlie public schools of the city twelv« 
 years. He has been member of the city council. He now (1879] 
 resides in Boston in connection with the public press. 
 
 In 1861 he married Margaret A. Rich of Winterport, and has a sor 
 and daughter. 
 
 O'Neil Watson Robinson was born in Waterford, July, 1824. Hi 
 studied law, was admitted to the bar, opened an office in Bethel, and 
 secured a good practice. Early in the war of the rebellion he entered 
 the public service, was commissioned captain of the Fourth Maine 
 Battery, afterwards the First Mounted Artillery ; was at one time 
 chief of artillery. Third Corps, *nd promoted major ; was in active 
 service nearly three years when ill health compelled him to returr 
 home to recruit, but without avail, and he died at the home of his 
 father, July, 1864. 
 
 William Henry Seavet was born in Hallowell, March, 1823. He 
 devoted himself to the work of a teacher, for which he had peculiai 
 qualifications. He was for some years at the head of a grammai 
 school for boys in Boston, then twelve years principal of the Girls 
 High and Normal School of the city. He was admirably fitted foi 
 
GRADUATES. 615 
 
 the position both as instructor and governor, acquiring great influence 
 over his pupils. He was of varied accomplishments, loved his work, 
 and contributed to its honor and dignity in a city famed for its system 
 of popular instruction. He had tastes for mathematical and natural 
 science, and excelled in studies pertaining to the philosophy of the 
 intellectual and moral powers. He prepared a text-book of American 
 history which had a wide circulation. He died in Boston, April, 1868. 
 
 John Hannibal Sheppard was born in Wiscasset. He studied 
 medicine, and took M. D. in the Harvard Medical School in 1849. 
 He was for some years in California, whence he returned to Boston, 
 where he' died in 1870. 
 
 John Paekbr Skeei.e was born in Kennebunkport, October, 1821. 
 After teaching two years in Conway, N. H., he entered the Theo- 
 logical Seminary, Bangor, and graduated in 1850. In the autumn of 
 that year he was ordained over the Congregational Church in Hallow- 
 ell, where he labored faithfully and to acceptance until in conse- 
 quence of failing health he resigned the pastorate in 1856. In the 
 following year, he was settled in the ministry in North Wilbraham, 
 Mass., where he remained seven years. He then removed to Hart- 
 ford, Conn., and was in the service of the American Board of Com- 
 missioners for Foreign Missions six years until 1870, when he became 
 pastor of the Congregational Church, Hatfield, Mass , for three years. 
 He then removed to East Bloomfleld, N. Y., where he was acting 
 pastor of the Congregational Church. In April, 1881, he was seized 
 with pneumonia, and died after an illness of six days. 
 
 In 1851 he married Elizabeth Blodgett, daughter of Deacon Blodg- 
 ett of Bucksport. They have had four children, sons, of whom three 
 are living, the second a graduate of Amherst and now in the middle 
 class in Andover Seminary. 
 
 William Bradpokd Snell was born in "Winthrop, July, 1821, son 
 of a prominent physician and surgeon. After graduating he taught 
 Monmouth Academy six years, meanwhile reading law under the 
 advice of Hon. S. P. Benson (1825), and Judge May of Winthrop, 
 and Hon. Manlius S. Clarke of Boston. He was admitted to the bar 
 in 1852 and settled in Fairfield in 1853. While resident there he 
 represented the town twice in the Legislature, was elected attorney for 
 the county in 1857 and again in 1860. On the breaking out of the 
 war of the Rebellion, he gave himself to the service of his country as 
 captain of tl^ Thirteenth Maine, and served three years. In 1867 
 
616 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 he was elected to the State Senate from Kennebec County, and i 
 second time in 1868. In 1870 he was appointed by Presiden 
 Grant judge of the police court in the District of Columbia for si: 
 years, reappointed in 1876, and has proved an able, efficient magis 
 trate. 
 
 In 1847 he married Martha A. Pray of Monmouth. They have ha( 
 three daughters, one only now surviving, Mrs. Dr. F. C. Thayer o 
 Waterville. 
 
 Joseph Merrill True was born in Pownal, March, 1818. Sooi 
 aflfer graduating he became principal of Lee Normal Academy, thei 
 just opened, where he remained more than three years ; was then sue 
 cessively principal of Lincoln and Calais Academies for more than fiv( 
 years. In 1856 he resumed the charge of the institution at Lee 
 where he continued until 1871. Seized with a severe pneumonii 
 attack, he relinquished his position and never regained health. H( 
 was reputed to have been successful in teaching and management 
 devoting himself assiduously to his work ; his highest desire, as on( 
 affirmed, being to do the most for his pupils. He died at Lee, Oct 
 6, 1874, having secured the respect and esteem of all who knew him 
 He married Mary Stubbs of Pownal, and left two sons. 
 
 Isaac Newton Wadsworth was born in Hallowell, the part noTi 
 Manchester, December, 1823. He went to North Carolina to teach 
 but was compelled in a year to return, an invalid from malarial fever, 
 Recovering his health he spent six years on the Pacific coast, engaged 
 in surveying, mining, etc. He has been connected with schools as 
 teacher or supervisor much of his time since 1850, has been chairmai 
 of selectmen, and has represented his town in the Legislature twice. 
 He cultivates a farm in his native town. 
 
 He has married twice : first in 1848 Mary A. Briggs, by whon 
 he had three children ; second in 1866 Charlotte N. Stuart, by whom 
 he has had two children. Four children are now living. 
 
 Ganem Washburn was born in Livermore, October, 1823. On 
 leaving college he read law in the office of Reuel Washburn, Esq., 
 Livermore, and Israel Washburn, Jr., Esq., Orono, and was admitted 
 t(f practice in 1847. He emigrated to the West and settled in Osh- 
 kosb. Wis., where he still resides. He has been a member of the 
 Senate of Wisconsin, judge of Winnebago County and of Tenth 
 Judicial Circuit of the State. In 1850 he married Sarah S. Strickland 
 Qf Livermore, and has four children now living. 
 
GRADUATES. 617 
 
 Milton Welch was born in Monmouth, August, 1819. He gave 
 limself to the work of teaching for several years, and at last was 
 jrineipal of the academy at Houlton. Failing health compelled him 
 » abandon the employment, and he engaged in more active business. 
 Be was popular as a teacher and respected as a man. He died in 
 Houlton, January, 1866. 
 
 Nathaniel Oilman "White was born in Amesbury, Mass., May, 
 1821. After graduation read law in the office of Asahel Huntington, 
 Esq., Salem, Mass., was admitted to the bar of Essex County in 
 1848, and settled in Lawrence, Mass , where he has since resided. 
 He has served in both branches of the city government, and for sev- 
 eral years has held the responsible position of president of the Boston 
 a,nd Maine Railroad. He married in 1862 Mary A. Bell, daughter of 
 Hon. James Bell of Exeter, N. H., senator from New Hampshire, 
 and has had three children. 
 
 'Francis Fenelon Williams was born in Kennebunk, July, 1824. 
 On leaving college he taught two years a private school in Atlanta, 
 Ga., and in the public schools in New Orleans, La., where he was 
 also for a time superintendent of the Orphan Boys' Asylum. He then 
 pursued a theological course at Bangor and East Windsor Semi- 
 naries, graduating in 1851. He was ordained over the Second Con- 
 gregational Church in Manchester, Conn , in 1853, where he remained 
 three years ; was acting pastor four years in Gilead,Conn., Northbridge, 
 Mass., and other towns ; from 1861 to 1868 labored with churches in 
 Seituate and East Marshfield , Mass. ; subsequently in Lacon, 111., 
 Boylston, Mass., and at this writing in Freetown, Mass. Mr. Wil- 
 liams has contributed occasionally to the religious press, and pub- 
 lished a sermon on " Conversation : Our Accountability in It." He 
 lias never married. 
 
 Joshua Young was born in Bangor, September, 1823. After 
 graduating he pursued the course in the Divinity School, Cambridge, 
 graduating in 1848, and the year following was ordained pastor of the 
 New North Church, Hanover Street, Boston. The society, however, 
 having ceased its organization and united with another, in 1853 he 
 was called to the First Congregational Church, Burlington, Vt., where 
 he remained ten years. He then removed to Hingham, Mass., where 
 he exercised his ministry five years. After a tour abroad in Europe, 
 Egypt, and Syria, he accepted a call to Fall River, Mas.s., where he 
 
618 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 remained seven years. At this writing (1879) he has been pastor ( 
 the First Parish Church, Groton, Mass., five j-ears. He has publishe 
 several sermons and contributed to periodicals. He was superintenc 
 ent of schools for eight years in Burlington. 
 
 In 1849 he married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Sylvanus Plimf 
 ton, M. D., Cambridge, Mass. They have five children, three daugl 
 ters and two sons. 
 
 1846. 
 
 Levi Loring Bradbury was born in Auburn, February, 1821 
 From the class record we learn that he taught a year or two afte 
 leaving college in Ehode Island ; he then went to Louisiana and beeam 
 private tutor in a gentleman's family, meanwhile pursuing the stud 
 of law ; he was admitted to the bar and settled in the practice i: 
 Montgomery, Texas ; was successful in his profession, and was re 
 puted to stand at the head of the bar in the county. 
 
 He was married and had children. He died from disease of th 
 heart in 1860. 
 
 Edwin Lee Brown was born in Bangor, March, 1827. He begai 
 the study of law in Bangor, but after two years devoted himself t( 
 the study of architecture in Boston, where he prosecuted that as i 
 profession ten years. He was active in originating the Boston Ar 
 Club. Removing to New York he became a member of a firm in thi 
 manufacture of sidewalk and vault lights. In 1860 he became resi 
 dent in Chicago, where he engaged in a similar manufacture of larg 
 extent in the firm of Brown Brothers, and is now the sole proprietor 
 He has held other positions as president of the " Western Sand Blast' 
 and " Western Seed" Companies, and the gas company at Evanston 
 he has been president of the Young Men's Library Association, Chi 
 cago, and was active in establishing the " Western Lecture Bureau" 
 has been president of the " Interstate Industrial Exposition," th( 
 "Illinois Humane Society," and "International Humane Society' 
 (now the "American Humane Association"), their object being tc 
 prevent cruelty to animals in lines of transportation. 
 
 In 1850 he married Mary E. Babcock of Charlestown, Mass., anc 
 has a daughter and three sons. 
 
 Charles Moody Chamberlain entered college from Lisbon, when 
 he resided at the time with a relative, Samuel Moody, Esq. He 
 read law and was settled in the profession in New Orleans, the 
 
GRADUATES. 619 
 
 ome of his family. His class record states that he was also " en- 
 aged in sugar planting and cotton speculation." In 1852 he was 
 Whig candidate for Congress from a Louisiana district, but failed 
 f an election; he practised law in California some j'ears, and held 
 or one term the oflHce of judge of the District Court of California, 
 'rofessional business having called him to Nevada, he was seized with 
 poplexy and died in Virginia City, September, 1862. He was 
 larried and left a wife and three daughters. 
 
 Charles Stetson Crosby was born in Hampden, October, 1824. 
 le read law, was admitted to the Penobscot bar and settled in 
 }angor ; he had secured a lucrative practice and high promise in the 
 irofesgion, and was county attorney for three years. Early in the 
 rar of the Rebellion he entered the military service and continued in 
 b to the close ; he has since practised law in Manchester, Iowa. He 
 lied very suddenly Jan. 23, 1881. 
 
 He married Evelina Owen of Brunswick, but had no children. 
 
 Frederic Augdstus Deane was born in Ellsworth, September, 
 825, brother of Henry P. Deane (1844). He employed himself in 
 eaching the year after graduating and then entered upon the study 
 f law ; was admitted to the bar, but never engaged in practice ; he 
 pent some years in California, allured there by the prevalent reports 
 f its riches. At the opening of the war of the Rebellion he enlisted 
 iS private in the service in a California regiment, but was soon pro- 
 loted to a lieutenancy ; returned to Portland and enlisted in a Maine 
 egiment, and served through the war with the record of a brave and 
 aithful soldier. His health became seriously impaired under the 
 xposures of military life and he never regained it. In the hope that 
 e might be benefited by a sea voyage he set sail from Portland for 
 lan Francisco, January, 1867 ; but the pulmonary affection against 
 rhich he was struggling rajpidly advanced, and he died on shipboard, 
 larch 16. He was never married. 
 
 Charles Robert Pinckney Dunlap was born in Brunswick, Feb- 
 uary, 1827, son of Governor Robert P. Dunlap (1815). He studied 
 ledicine and received his medical degree from the college in 1849. 
 le pursued his profession for a time in a Western State ; during the 
 ite war was assistant surgeon in the United States Volunteers, and at 
 ne time was post-surgeon, Fort Union, New Mexico. He has never 
 aarried, and resides now in New York City. 
 
620 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Joseph Willaed Ellis was born in Augusta, January, 1825. I 
 studied medicine with Dr. Hill of Augusta, graduated at Jeffers 
 Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1849, and settled in the practice 
 his native town. He had gained reputation as a skilful and successl 
 practitioner when he fell a victim of pulmonary disease, March, 186 
 He was married and left a wife and one son. His teacher. Dr. Hi 
 whose eminence gives weight to his testimony, writing to the cla 
 secretary says of him, " Dr. Ellis was a man of no ordinary menl 
 capacity ; he possessed a keen analyzing intellect, discriminatii 
 judgment ; socially Dr. Ellis was kind, affectionate, and firm in 1 
 attachment to friends ; a man of sterling integrity. Some time befo 
 his death he became an interested member of the Episcopal Church 
 
 Chakles Henry Emerson was born in Parsonsfleld, August, 181 
 On leaving college he taught a school a few months in Saccarapp 
 and then read law in Alfred and Boston ; was admitted to the Suffo 
 bar in 1850 and practised in that city two or three years ; in 18i 
 he abandoned the law and engaged in theological study at Andove 
 Mass. He served as a missionary in Washington County two yea 
 and then was ordained pastor of the Congregational churches 
 Springfield and Lee, adjoining towns in Penobscot County, where 1 
 labored fourteen years. At this writing (1880) he has been eigl 
 years acting pastor of a Congregational church in Creighton, Knc 
 Connty, Neb. In 1858 he maixied Lydia Ricker, and has had sev< 
 children of whom four are now living. The record of his class repr 
 sents Mr. Emerson as having devoted himself with great fidelity to h 
 oflBce and work, and as •' having by his personal efforts in Springfie 
 and Lee built two houses for public worship." 
 
 John Samuel Hill Fogg was born in Eliot, May, 1826. E 
 entered upon the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Theodoi 
 Jewett (1834;)', attending meanwhile the medical course of lectures ( 
 the college, and also of Harvard^ at which school he took his medici 
 degree in 1850. He at once engaged in the practice in South Bostoi 
 where he has since resided. 
 
 In 1850 he married Sarah Frances Gordon, daughter of John Go: 
 don, Esq., of Exeter, N. H., who died in 1871, leaving three sons, ( 
 whom the eldest now survives (Harvard, 1873 ; M. D. 1876). I 
 1872 he married Mary G. Clinch, daughter of Rev. Joseph H. Clincl 
 rector of St. Matthew's, South Boston. 
 
 Dr. Fogg is a member of the Medical Society of Massachusetb 
 and a corresponding member of the Maine Historical Society. H 
 
GRADUATES. 621 
 
 ras in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1855, and was 
 or some years on the school board of the city. For some years Dr. 
 i'ogg has been disabled from active duty, and even confined to his 
 hamber by paralysis. Under this severe visitation and calamity he 
 las maintained in an uncommon degree his genial temper and dispo- 
 ition, and having inherited a taste for genealogical and historical 
 esearches, has found employment and solace in such pursuits. He 
 las rendered valuable aid to others in this direction. The writer has 
 eason to acknowledge his frequent communications of intelligence 
 egarding graduates of the college. He is in the communion of the 
 Congregational Church. 
 
 James William Hanscom was born in Eliot, October, 1827. Hav- 
 ng graduated with high honors, he accepted a position as assistant in 
 ue of the high schools in Portland, which he held a few months and 
 lien took charge of Thornton Academy, Saco, but died after a brief 
 llness, August, 1847. He had made an impression by his oration at 
 is college Commencement, by his repute as a scholar, and his personal 
 learing while in Portland, which led a gentleman of discernment and 
 onversant with men to speak of him as " a singularly gifted young 
 
 John Haskell was bom in New Gloucester, February, 1818. 
 Lfter spending a year in teaching he entered the Theological Semi- 
 ary, Bangor, where he graduated in 1850, and in December of that 
 ear was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church, Dover, 
 lass., where he remained eight years. He was then installed over 
 be church in Raynham, Mass , and labored six years. After three 
 ears in charge of the church in Revere, Mass., he was called to Lis- 
 on, Conn. ; and four years later, induced by the health of his wife, 
 e removed to Maine and ministered to the church in Newcastle, until 
 1 1876 he removed to Billerica, Mass., where he still resides acting 
 astor of the Congregational Church. 
 
 In 1851 Mr. Haskell married Lucy F. Dickey of Bangor, who died 
 1 1872 leaving no children. In 1873 he again married Annie P. 
 'base, who deceased in 1879, leaving a son. Mr. Haskell has shown 
 is interest in popular education by active service on school commit- 
 jfes in towns where he lived. 
 
 Stephen Abbott Holt was born in Norway, February', 1821. 
 mmediately after he took his degree, he entered the Theological 
 eminary, where he graduated in 1849. Early in the following year 
 8 was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in MUton, Vt., 
 
622 HISTORT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 and engaged with earnest zeal in the work of the ministry ; with zei 
 indeed bej'ond his strength, for his health which had not been stron 
 in college broke down, and in two years compelled him to abando 
 the profession of his choice for " employment better suited to his eoi 
 stitution." He found a position in a well-known Boston firm, H. Cui 
 ter & Co. , which happily proved favorable for the restoration of hi 
 health. He became a partner in the firm and eventually continued i 
 the business by himself. He was prospered, but at length suflfere 
 almost finaueial ruin through the iniquity of a trusted agent in th 
 West. He has since in a measure recovered himself through the foi 
 bearance of creditors, his own good name, and patient industry 
 throughout maintaining his character as a Christian man. 
 
 In 1850 he married Nancy W., daughter of Mr. Cutter of the firr 
 above mentioned, and has had seven children of whom four are no^ 
 living. His residence is in Winchester, Mass. 
 
 William Francis Jackson was born in Brunswick, November 
 1824. After graduation he engaged in tlie study of medicine, took ; 
 medical degree in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1849 
 and settled in Gardiner. In 1853, after having turned his attentioi 
 to homoeopathy, he removed to Roxbury, now embraced in the city o 
 Boston, wl^ere he soon secured extensive practice, and won the respec 
 and affection of patients and the community. Notwithstanding i 
 somewhat abrupt bearing, he was " kind, tender-hearted, and gener 
 ous," always ready to respond to a call for sympathy and relief. Hi 
 suffered some months from an attack of paralysis, the effect as was 
 supposed of overwork, and died April, 1879. 
 
 He married in 1850 Abby C. West, and left three sons. 
 
 Fbanklin Lafayette Knight was born in Maine, August, 1824 
 He was engaged in teaching several years, was appointed to the pro 
 fessorship of Greek and Latin in the University of the South ; re 
 ceived the degree of D. D. froi© the University of Maryland ; was 
 ordained in 1853 and exercised his ministry in Maryland for som( 
 time ; in 1859 was invited to be chaplain to the bishop of New Jer 
 sey ; was principal of the Diocesan Training and Theological School 
 Tennessee, for a few years ; returned to Washington and served ii 
 the ministry the remainder of his life as assistant in the Church of the 
 the Epiphany, and also in St. John's. He was of repute as a classica 
 teacher, of blameless life, retiring in disposition, highly esteemed anc 
 respected. He died in Washington, D. C, April, 1876. In 1851 h« 
 married, and left a wife and five sons and two daughters. 
 
GRADUATES. 623 
 
 George Feost Mellen was born in Durham, N. H., February, 
 826. He studied medicine witli Dr. Hall in Saco, and graduated 
 [. D. from Jefferson College, Philadelphia, in 1851. He began medi- 
 d practice in Yazoo Citj', Miss., and soon after removed to Satartia. 
 le is reported to have secured a large practice. He resided in New 
 irleans for several months in 1857 or IS.^S, was with "Walker in his 
 tst expedition to Nicaragua, and was wrecked on the Honduras 
 jast. He served as a soldier in the Confederate army in Virginia, 
 od as hospital surgeon in Georgia. He was a member of the Ma- 
 jnic fraternity, and had attained its highest degree. He died in 
 atartia. Miss., February, 1877. He married in 1852 Caroline Lunt 
 f Augusta, Me., who died the year following. 
 
 DoNATus Merrill was born in March, 1826, and entered college 
 •om Lisbon. He pursued a theological course at Bangor Seminary, 
 raduating in 1850. He at first was employed in the service of the 
 [aine Missionary Societj' and then removed to Illinois, where he was 
 astor of a Congregational church in Hunker Hill, Macoupin County, 
 le died in "Woodburn, 111., July, 1853. He married before leaving 
 laine. 
 
 Moses Leland Morse was born in Wilton, May, 1822. Since he 
 raduated he was most of the time engaged in teaching. For some 
 ears he resided in Stoneham, Mass., where he was superintendent 
 f schools. He had been a teacher several years when in conse- 
 uence of ill health he abandoned that calling, studied law, and was 
 Imitted to the Suffolk bar, but did little in practice, his infirmities 
 jntinuing to harass him until his death by paralysis at Charlestown, 
 [ass., October, 1875. He married twice and left a wife and two 
 )ns. 
 
 Henrt Ore was born in Brunswick, June, 1823. He read law in 
 Ifred, and has been to this time resident in Brunswick in the prac- 
 ce of his profession. He has been for ten years judge of the muni- 
 pal court. He has never married. 
 
 William Osgood was born in North Yarmouth, November, 1826. 
 iter graduation he began his medical studies with his father, Dr. 
 mos Osgood, meanwhile at intervals teaching schools, and with Dr. 
 uel Barrows of Fryeburg, attracted to that place by the anatomical 
 useum formed by the noted Dr. Alexander Ramsay. He attended 
 ree courses at the Medical School of the college, and one course at 
 
624 HiSTOET or bowdoin college. 
 
 the Medical School of Harvard, graduating at the former in 1850 
 He settled in his profession in his native town, where he has been i 
 active practice to the present time. He has held offices of trust i 
 the town,- has been president of Cumberland County Medical Associs 
 tion and vice-president of the State Medical Association, and is no 
 pension examining surgeon. 
 
 He married Sarah E. Gammans of Belfast in 1860, and has tw 
 sons. 
 
 Jatrus Ware Perbt was born in Raj'mond, December, 1821 
 After graduating he studied law with N. Hazen, Esq., of Andovei 
 Mass., and opened an office in that town, but soon removed to Salem 
 where he continued in active practice until the failure of health dis 
 abled him for intellectual effort. He was associated in the professio 
 with Hon. "William C. Endicott, now on the bench of the Suprem 
 Court of Massachusetts, and subsequently in the firm of Perry < 
 Tuckerman. He was a member of ' the City Council some years 
 elected more than once by votes of those opposed to him in polities 
 He was thoroughly devoted to his profession, and won respect fo 
 integrity, sincerity, and ability. He published a "Treatise on tl 
 Law of Trusts, etc.," of which a writer in the Boston Advertise 
 affirmed that it was an " achievement which, if the author should d 
 nothing else, would render his life useful as well as honorable." Lat 
 in 1876, admonished by sj^mptoms of brain disease, he sailed fo 
 Europe, during his tour was stricken with paralj'sis, recovered suffl 
 ciently to return home with hope of resuming his profession ; but i 
 sudden renewed attack terminated his life, August, 1877. He left 
 wife and a son (Bowdoin College, 1878). 
 
 He received the degree from the college of LL. D., and was a mem 
 ber of the Board of Overseers. 
 
 Joseph Coffin Pickard was born in Auburn, September, 1826 
 brother of Josiah L. (1844). His life has been devoted for the mos 
 part to teaching. He first had charge of Gould Academy, Bethel, fo 
 one term, and then for two years of that at Fryeburg. He then wer 
 through the course of the Theological Seminary at Bangor, still wit 
 the expectation of pursuing his original purpose. From 1852 to 186 
 he was tutor in Illinois College, Jacksonville,- 111., and professor ( 
 modern languages in the University of Wisconsin. At the last dat 
 he relinquished teaching for more active pursuits, but yielding to pei 
 suasion of friends resumed the professorship in the Wisconsin Univei 
 sity, from which by the action of the regents he with the rest of th 
 
GRADUATES. 625 
 
 Faculty were removed not long after. In 1873 he became professor of 
 the English language and literature in the Industrial University at 
 Urbana, 111., and still occupies that position. 
 
 In 1853 he married Mary Ann Storer, and has had five children 
 all now living. 
 
 JosiAH Pierce was born in Gorham, June, 1827, son of Josiah 
 (1818). He read law, and entered on the practice in Portland, where 
 he remained until 1855, when he was appointed secretary of legation 
 in St. Petersburg. At the expiration of his term of office he entered 
 into business relations with Messrs. "Winans at St. Petersburg, which 
 still continue. He now resides in London, England. In 1865 he 
 received an order of knighthood from the Emperor of Kussia. He has 
 been elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, of the Zoo- 
 logical Society, and a member of the Royal Institution of Great Brit- 
 ain and of the Society of Arts. He is also corresponding member 
 of the Historical Society of Maine. 
 
 Mr. Pierce has married twice : first, Martha D. Lander of Salem, 
 Mass., who died in 1873, leaving three children, one only now sur- 
 viving, Josiah, Jr., now in Emanuel College, Cambridge, England; 
 second, in 1877, Isabella Millet of Portland, by whom he has no chil- 
 dren. 
 
 William Whitney Rice was born in Buxton, March, 1826. After 
 graduation he was preceptor of the academy, Leicester, Mass., four 
 years. He then studied law with Hon Emory Washburn, Worcester, 
 Mass., was admitted to the bar and settled in the practice in 
 Worcester in 1854, and has since resided there. He has been judge 
 of the Court of Insolvency of the county, mayor of the city, attorney 
 for the Middle District of Massachusetts five years, representative of 
 the city in the Legislature, and of the district in the Forty-fifth and 
 Forty-sixtii Congress. In 1855 he married Cornelia A. Moen of 
 Worcester, who died in 1862 leaving two sons, of whom the elder 
 died in 1864, and the j^ounger is a member of Harvard College. In 
 1875 he married Alice M. Miller of Worcester. 
 
 Fkederic Dummee Sewall was born in Bath, son of Joseph S. 
 (1812), January, 1826. He studied law in Bath, where he settled in 
 the practice, and which is still his legal residence ; although, being in 
 the public service, he has of late years spent much of his time in Wash- 
 ington. In 1861 he entered the military service as assistant adjutant- 
 general under Gen. O. O. Howard. In the following year he was 
 
626 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 commissioned colonel Nineteenth Maine; was in 1863 transferred 
 the Veteran Reserve Corps as major ; was promoted colonel of tl 
 same, and breveted brigadier-general July, 1865, "for meritorioi 
 services during the war"; was inspector under Gen. Howard in tl 
 Freedmen's Bureau, and more recently has been and is now supervise 
 of internal revenue. He has prepared "Internal Revenue Manual. 
 a government publication. Gen. Sewall married in 1849 Eveline Hi 
 Gove of Bath, and has had three children, of whom a son and daughti 
 are living. 
 
 Leonard Downes Shepley was born in Saco, April, 1826, broth( 
 of John R. (1837). He studied law for a time in the office of Messr 
 Howard & Sheplej', Portland, but never entered upon the practio 
 He engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1867, when, the Portlar 
 Water Company having been formed, he became its treasurer, an 
 held that position at the time of his death, which occurred very sue 
 denly from an attack of apoplexy, December, 1878. He left a wii 
 and three children. 
 
 Benjamin Galen Snow was born in Brewer, October, 1818. Afti 
 graduating he entered the Theological Seminary, Bangor, where 1: 
 graduated in 1849, meanwhile teaching, at intervals, high schools i 
 the vicinity to meet indebtedness and expenses. He engaged wii 
 earnestness in mission work in neighboring towns during his sem 
 nary course and afterward. In 1849 and 1851 he supplied churches i 
 Pembroke, Lubec, and Cooper. He then offered himself to the Amer 
 can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and was appointe 
 to a new mission in Micronesia. Having received ordination in Brew« 
 in November, 1851, he sailed with his wife, who was Miss Lydia Vos 
 Buck of Robbinston, for his station, pausing on his way at the Sane 
 wich Islands, for the sailing of the mission schooner " Carolina," an 
 landing October, 1852, on Strong's Island, or, in the native tongui 
 Kusaie. He approved himself ^ faithful, persistent, and valued sei 
 vant of the Board. Besides his strictly pastoral work, he was the firs 
 to reduce the island tongue into written form, and in due time issue 
 successively primers, reading and spelling books, the Gospels, Acts 
 and some of the epistles, hymn-books, and what may be called 
 church manual. Subsequently he performed a similar work for th 
 Marshall Islands, has now on hand other translations not yet in print 
 and had nearly completed one of the Epistles to the Romans, whs 
 he suffered a paralytic seizure, which compelled him to suspend labc 
 and return to the United States, where he now resides with his famil 
 
GRADUATES. 627 
 
 it bis earl^' home, slowly regaining health, with the comforting assur- 
 mce that if active worif has ceased he has not spent his strength for 
 laught. He has two children, born in Kusaie, a daughter and son.* 
 
 Peeez Sodthwokth was bora in Winthrop, August, 1822. He 
 mtered the Theological Seminary, Bangor, but pursued theology 
 subsequently with Rev. David Thurston in his native town. He 
 lyent South and exercised the ministry he had received among desti- 
 ;ute churches in Eastern Tennessee and Western Georgia. The class 
 •ecord states that his name was proposed for the professorship of 
 nathematics in the University of Tennessee, he having distinguished 
 limself while in college by his fondness for that branch. "While trav- 
 elling in that State he was violently seized with cholera, which was 
 prevalent; found shelter in a deserted dwelling by the aid of his 
 ;ra veiling companion ; was visited twice by a physician, but died in a 
 few hours, June, 1849. He was greatly respected by his class for 
 )oth mental and moral excellences. 
 
 Charles Augustds Spofford was born in Deer Isle, January, 1S22. 
 \.fter graduation he taught a school in Castine one year ; he then 
 )egan the study of law in the office of Hon. John Ruggles and A. P. 
 jould, Esqs., in Thomaston ; completed his studies with Hon. Charles 
 r. Abbott, Esq. (1825), Castine, and was admitted to the bar of Han- 
 sock County ; he settled in the practice in his native town. He has 
 epresented the town in the Legislature twice, and during the last 
 ;erm of service in 1857 was Speaker of the House ; from 1850 to 
 .854 was deputy coUeetor of customs in Castine ; in 1855 he was a 
 Qsmber from his district of the Senate of Maine ; from 1871 to 1873 
 ras attorney for the county of Hancock. 
 
 In 1856 he married Lucretia J. Haskell of Deer Isle, and has had 
 hree children, two sons and a daughter, of whom a son and daughter 
 ire living. 
 
 Thomas Hammond Talbot was born in East Machias, July, 1823. 
 Lfter graduation he taught school a winter in Machias, and for two 
 ears taught Latin in the academy in Standish. He began the study 
 f law in East Machias soon after leaving college, and completsd it in 
 be Dane Law School, Harvard, in 1148 ; from 1850 to 1862 he prose- 
 uted his profession in Portland, and since 1872 in Boston. During 
 tie interral just indicated he served in the war of the Rebellion as 
 
 * Mr. Snow died in Brewer, May 1, 1880, the issue of his seizure in the Micronesia 
 Islands. 
 
628 HISTORY OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 lieutenant-colonel of the 18th Maine Volunteers, and after the clos 
 of the war was in the. civil service until 1871 in Washington ; the latt( 
 portion of the time as assistant attorney- general of the Unite 
 States. 
 
 In 1852 he published a discussion on th6 constitutionality of tl 
 fugitive-slave law of 1850, besides contributing to the public press. 
 
 In 1862 Mr. Talbot married Mrs. Mary L. Powers, daughter ( 
 Erastus Richardson, M. D,, of Eastport. They are without childrei 
 
 James Brown Thoknton, brother of Thomas G. Thornton (1844 
 was bom in Saco, July, 1825. On leaving college he pursued a cours 
 of theological studies at Bangor and East Windsor, Conn., seminariei 
 He was settled in the pastorate over Congregational churches in Sea 
 boro' and Milford, Mass , and supplied churches in St. John, N. B 
 and Somersworth, N. H. Failure of health compelled Mm to retii 
 from the pastoral ofHce, and he has of late years resided in Scarborc 
 
 He married Katherine M. Stoughton of East Windsor, Conn., wl 
 died January, 1872, by whom he had five children, three sons and tvt 
 daughters, of whom a son and daughter are now living. 
 
 He again married Clara Small of St. John, N. B. 
 
 George Barnard Upham was born March, 1824. He was a 
 adopted son of Prof. Upham. On leaving college he entered upc 
 the study of medicine with Isaac Lincoln, M. D., of Brunswick; a 
 tended lectures at the New York University, Dartmouth, and Bowdoi 
 Medical Schools, graduating at the last in 1850. He settled in tl 
 practice of his profession in Yonkers, N. Y., where he has since reside( 
 
 He married Sarah B. Richardson o'f Bath, and has had six childrei 
 
 John Anderson Waterman was born in Gorham, June, 182' 
 After graduation he taught the academy in DennysviUe a year, an 
 that in Alfred about two years. Meanwhile he began the stndy ( 
 law with Hon. Nathan Dane Appleton, Esq. (1813), in Alfred, con 
 pleted his studies with Hon. Josiah Pierce (1818) ; was admitted i 
 the bar, and settled in the practice in Gorham, which has always bet 
 his residence. He was treasurer of Cumberland County in 1857-51 
 and has been several years judge of probate for the county, and is c 
 the Board of Overseers of the college. 
 
 In 1853 he married Evelina L , daughter of Hon. Josiah Pierci 
 and has had five children, of whom three are now living. 
 
 Edwin Bonaparte Webb was born in New Castle, January, 182( 
 After graduation he was principal of the High School in Bath for 
 
GRADUATES. 629 
 
 fear. He then entered on a course of theological study in the semi- 
 lary at Bangor, where he graduated in 1850. He then spent a few 
 nonths in the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J. In 1850 he 
 was ordained into the pastorate over the First Congregational Church 
 md Society in Augusta, succeeding the Eev. Dr. Benjamin Tappan in 
 I sphere of great responsibility. After a ministry of ten years he 
 iccepted a call to the pastorate over the Shawmut Congregational 
 Dhurch, Boston, where he still remains in /his nineteenth year of ser- 
 ifice. In 1865 he received the degree of D. D. from Williams College, 
 md in 1877 from his Alma Mater. 
 
 Dr. Webb has published sermons and been a contributor to the 
 public press. 
 
 He married Elizabeth Temple, daughter of Rev. Dr. Tappan of 
 A.ugusta ; has had three daughters, of whom only one survives. 
 
 Samuel Jameson WiTHERBEE<#vas born in Machias, January, 1825. 
 Fhe writer has failed of all efforts to ascertain the particulars of his 
 jourse since graduation, except what the record of the class contains. 
 He was in the Theological Seminary at Bangor, but did not complete 
 ;he course. He subsequently went to Delaware, where it is supposed 
 ie was employed in teaching for a year or two. 
 
 He had married, and had a son and daughter. He died in 1862, 
 liis wife having died two years before. 
 
 1847. 
 
 Walter Bingham Alden was born in Belfast, April, 1827. He 
 studied law and was admitted to the bar of Waldo County iu 1849. 
 He practised law in Belfast in partnership with the late Judge Dicker- 
 son until 1853, when he engaged in mercantile business in New York 
 City. He has of late years resided in Belfast, having retired from 
 ictive business. In 1855 he married Julia C, daughter of Hon. 
 James P. White of Belfast. They have a daughter. 
 
 Charles Woodbury Barrett was born in Portland, November, 
 1826. After graduating he chose the profession of a civil engineer, was 
 employed on the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Eailroad during its con- 
 struction, and then was resident engineer in Portland. He was sub- 
 sequently employed on the Fox and Wisconsin Canal in Wisconsin. 
 He died May, 1866, leaving a wife who was daughter of Eev. Dr. 
 2. D. Westbrook of Kingston, N. Y., and three daughters, of whom 
 bwo are now living. 
 
630 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Samuel Augustus Bickfokd was born in Skowhegan, October 
 1823. He entered Senior from Waterville, studied law in the ofBc 
 of Messrs. Coburn & Wyman of Skowhegan, was admitted to the bar 
 and practised law for a time in Anson. He went to Australia in 1853 
 where he remained several years. Since his return he has resided fo 
 the most part in the place of his birth. 
 
 Alvin Boodt was born in Jackson, July, 1?20, brother of Henr 
 H. (1842). On leaving college he became principal of Lewistoi 
 Falls Academy, Auburn, for some years, and then of Fryeburg Acad 
 emy, in both of which he proved an able and eflicient teacher. Earb 
 in 1856 he removed to Hudson, St. Croix County, Wis., to tak( 
 charge of the large property and business of his brother. He hac 
 been there from two to three j'ears when he was seized with typhoic 
 fever, and died in the fall of 1858. 
 
 He married Miss Sarah Ellen SmaJJ of Auburn, and had one chile 
 dying in early life. " He was a man of excellent judgment, of uncom 
 moh business capacitj', of great gentleness and purity of character 
 combined with invincible firmness and decision." 
 
 Jonathan Greenleaf Eveleth was born in New Gloucester, May. 
 1822. After graduating he was principal of an academy in Norwaj 
 for one year and a half. He then studied law in the ofHce of Messrs, 
 Fessenden & Deblois, Portland, and then took a course in the Dant 
 Law School, Harvard. In 1852 he settled in the profession in Ne\^ 
 York in the law firm of Eveleth & Bissell, until 1859. An enterpris- 
 ing spirit having led them early in their connection to embark in th£ 
 recent discovery of petroleum, and to purchase what they supposed tc 
 be the whole oil territory, and this venture proving successful, thej 
 abandoned the law for the new promise. They sunk the first well foi 
 the product in Titusville, Pa. Mr. Eveleth had good repute in his 
 profession, and also for capacity in business, and was to all appear- 
 ances on the road to great success, when he fell a victim to Bright's 
 disease, and died in 1861. 
 
 In 1852 he married Mary E. Weeks of Bath, and left a wife and 
 son. The son has since died in Tubingen, Germany, a student in the 
 Ober Gj'mnasium. 
 
 Samuel Archer Eveleth was born in Windham, January, 1826. 
 On leaving college besides teaching other schools he had charge of the 
 academy in Patten a year and a half. He studied law with his father 
 John Eveleth, Esq. (1814), and practised his profession in the same 
 
GRADUATES. 631 
 
 town, but died in 1856. He had gained the respect, confidence, and 
 esteem of all classes, as appears from the notice of his death in the 
 Christian Mirror: "The Sabbath school of which he was superin- 
 tendent, the church of which he was a faithful and blameless member, 
 the choir of which he was leader, the pastor who could ever confide in 
 him, all feel the loss. The community too, who loved and respected 
 him as an honorable and virtuous citizen, a thorough scholar, an hon- 
 est lawyer, an amiable and upright man, will mourn the bereavement." 
 In 1855 he married Ellen White of Windham. A daughter was the 
 fruit of this marriage, bora some months after the father's decease. 
 
 Henry Fossett was born in Strong, February, 1824. After grad- 
 uating he studied law with Robert Goodenow, Esq., of Farmington. 
 He then spent two years in teaching in Stanford, Ky. In 1852 he 
 removed to Texas, and eventually established himself in his profes- 
 sion in Meridian of that State. During the last two years of the war 
 he was in the United States service, as major of a battalion of rangers 
 on the frontier. He has been judge of the county, and has held minor 
 offices. 
 
 He married in Texas in 1854, and has four sons and a daughter. 
 
 Samdel Wesley Hatch was born in Bowdoinham, December, 
 1826. On leaving college he taught a school in Winthrop, and the 
 High School in Hallowell. He then went to the South, and took 
 charge of an academy in Jeffersonville, Twiggs County, Ga., four 
 years ; then for the same time in Macdonough, Henry County, and in 
 Augusta, meanwhile reading law, intending, notwithstanding his suc- 
 cess as a teacher, to make that his profession. The war of the Rebel- 
 lion interfering with his plans, he returned to Jeffersonville and re- 
 sumed his former position in the academy, which he occupied until he 
 was laid aside by a bronchial aflfection, which resulted in his death, 
 April, 1864. He had been from his youth a worthy communicant in 
 the Methodist Church. 
 
 He married Melinda M. Decker of Richmond, and left two sons 
 a.nd a daughter. Two children died in early life. One of the sons, 
 William E., graduated from Bowdoin College in 1875. 
 
 Ebenezer Stevens Jordan was born in Raymond, September, 
 1819. On leaving college he became principal of the academj^ in 
 Limerick two years and a half, and for two years more of that at 
 Lewiston Falls, now Auburn. He then entered the Theological Semi- 
 lary at Bangor, graduated in 1855, and began his ministry as resident 
 licentiate in Andover. Early in 1856 he was ordained pastor of the 
 
632 HISTORY or bowdoin college. 
 
 Congregational Church, Wilton, N. H. ; remained until 1859, whei 
 he became acting pastor over the church in Cumberland for ten years 
 After residing a few years in Auburn and Exeter, N. H., in 1874 h( 
 accepted the charge of the Congregational Church in Brownfield 
 where he still remains. He has published two memorial discourses 
 In May, 1849, he married Elizabeth C. Libby of Limerick, who diet 
 in the following year. In 1857 he married Clara Stanton of Lebanon 
 They have one son, now in the Medical School at Harvard. 
 
 John Dennys Kilby was born at Dennysville, August, 1826. He 
 had entered upon the study of medicine in the office of Dr. McEuei 
 of Bangor, when he was siezed With cholera, and died September. 
 1849. 
 
 Edwin Leonard was born in Bangor, November, 1826. He en- 
 tered the Theological Seminary at Bangor, where he graduated in 
 1850. After spending a yearas a resident licentiate he was ordained 
 over the Second Evangelical Congregational Church in Milton, Mass., 
 where he remained eight years, and was then installed in Rochester, 
 Mass., where he spent seven j-ears, and again over the Congregational 
 Church in South Dartmouth, Mass., where he labored seven years. 
 He has been acting pastor over the church in Morris, Conn , since 
 1876. He has married twice : first, in 1853, Harriet A., daughter of 
 Joshua Emerson, Esq., of Milton, who died in 1855, by whom he had 
 a daughter ; second, in 1868, Sarah Gr., daughter of Josiah Fairbanks, 
 Esq., of Milton, by whom he has had three children, of whom two are 
 living. 
 
 William Cqlbuen Marshall was born in Belfas^ August, 1827. 
 On leaving college he studied law in the offices of Solymon Heath 
 and Wopdbury Davis, Esqs. (the latter subsequently a justice of the 
 Supreme Court), and was admitted to the bar. In 1851 he emigrated 
 to the West, and settled in his profession in the city of Eacine, Wis. 
 On the death of his brother early in the late war at Baltimore, where 
 he was stationed, Mr. Marshall returned to Belfast to take charge of 
 his brother's affairs, and has since resided there, occupied in mercan- 
 tile and other business. While in Wisconsin he was nominated for 
 the office of county attorney by the Whig party, but failed of, an elec- 
 tion. He has been thrice mayor of the city of Belfast. In 1879 he 
 was appointed collector of customs for the district, and has been 
 recently reappointed. 
 
 In 1859 he married Lois Rhodes at Cleveland, Ohio, and has had 
 three children, of whom two died in early life. 
 
GRADUATES. 633 
 
 Charles Edward McDougall was born in Charleston, S. C, July, 
 ?30, son of William McDougall (1820). He taught school in We- 
 impka, Ala., two or three years, and one year in Montgomery of 
 lat State. He engaged in medical study in the office of Drs. T. W. 
 ad E. Mason of Wetumpka, a.nd completed his course in the Uiiiver- 
 ity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, graduating in 1853. He settled 
 1 the profession in Milton, Santa Kosa County, Fla , where he con- 
 nued in practice seventeen years. In 1876 he abandoned medical 
 ractice, and received deacon's orders in the Protestant Episcopal 
 ihurch, and has since been in charge of St, Mary's Church, Milton. 
 
 In 1854 he married Sarah E. Thompsoij of "Wetumpka. They have 
 ad six children, four daughters and two sons, all now living except 
 le eldest daughter. 
 
 Geoege Jabvis Means was born Augusta, March, 1827, brother 
 f John O. (1843) . He pursued theological study iu the seminary, 
 indover, Mass., in the class of 1853. He was a missionary of the 
 Lmerican Sunday School Union in Tennessee fqr three years, and for 
 wo years agent of the same in Rochester, N. Y. He was acting pas- 
 Dr a year in Perry Centre, N. Y., and in 1859 was ordained over that 
 hurch, where he remained four years. He had been pastor over a 
 hurch in Howells thirteen years, when he was compelled by failing 
 ealth to retire from active labor in 1877. A victim of disease of the 
 eart and paralysis he came to Augusta, where he died May, 1879. 
 n 1859 he niarried Ellen Sophia, daughter of William and Sally 
 Whitmore) Goodrich of Rocky Hill, Cpim., leaving a son and three 
 laughters. 
 
 Samuel Newell Merrill was bom in Conway, N. H., April, 1819. 
 Lffcer graduation he taught school in Sacparappa, and then in the pub- 
 tcschools in Lowell, Mass., until 1851, when he entered on the study 
 if law with Hon. Tappan Wentworth of Lowell, was admitted to 
 iractice, and prosecuted the profession in that city untU 1862. He 
 hen removed to California, and has continued in active practice at 
 Tehama. He has never married, nor has held public office. 
 
 Franklin Benjamin Merrill was born in Buxton, Februaiy, 1828. 
 )n leaving college he went to Kentucky, and was emploj'ed as a 
 eacher in an academy two years in Garrettsburg, Christian County, 
 le then began the study of medicine with Dr. Metcalf of that State. 
 leturning to Maine he continued his studies with Dr. Edwin Hall 
 ,1836) of Saco, graduated from Jeflerson Medical College, Philadel- 
 
634 HISTORT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 phia, in 1852, and settled in Alfred, where he has since resided i 
 active practice of the profession. He has for some years held tt 
 position of United States examining surgeon. 
 
 He married in 1853 Sarah E.j daughter of Lewis "Wakefield, Esq 
 of Saco, and has had six children, of whom one is not living. 
 
 Charles Benjamin Merrill was born in Portland, April, 182'i 
 He read law in the office of Messrs. Howard & Shepley of Portlan 
 and in Dane Law School, Harvard, where he graduated LL. B. i 
 1849. He pursued the profession until 1862, when he entered th 
 public service, and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Sever 
 teenth Maine. He was frequently in action, was complimented fo 
 " valuable service " at Chancellor ville, and was in the campaign unde 
 Gen. Grant in 1864. On leaving the army he engaged in manufactui 
 ing pursuits in Portland. He has been a member of the city govern 
 ment, and held other municipal offices He is a warden in St. Luke's 
 
 In 1856 he married Abba Isabella, daughter of Hon. Josiah S. Lit 
 tie (1825), and has had eight children. 
 
 Isaac Stevens Metcalf was born in Royalston, Mass., June, 1822 
 He entered from Milo. For a few j-ears after leaving college he wa 
 employed as a civil engineer on railroads in Vermont and Massachu 
 setts and on the Illinois Central Railroad. In 1856 he settled h 
 Elyria, Ohio, and has since lived there, and is reported to have fceei 
 successful in the operations of business. He has held various office; 
 in the town and Presbyterian and Congregational churches. 
 
 He has married twice: first, in 1852, Antoinette B., daughter o 
 Rev. John M. Putnam of Dunbarton, N. H., whQ died in 1875 
 second, in 1878, Harriet Howes of Gatonwood House, England. Hi 
 has had thirteen children, of whom ten are now living. 
 
 Henry Baker Neil was born in Skowhegan, December, 1827 
 He entered Senior from Watejville. Soon after graduation he 
 engaged in business with his father four years ; then went to Aus 
 tralia, where he remained fifteen years in the mines. He returned tc 
 the United States ; was for two years in the mines of Montana ; anc 
 then removed to Tie Siding, Wyoming Territory, where he is em 
 ployed in buying and selling railroad ties, etc. He has never married 
 nor has held office except that of notary public. 
 
 Joseph O'Brien was born in Machias, February, 1828, son of Hon 
 Jeremiah O'Brien. He read law and engaged in the practice of the 
 
GRADUATES. 635 
 
 OTofession a few years in his native town. He then abandoned the 
 aw for mercantile pursuits ; became largely interested in lumbering 
 md navigation, in which he was very successful. He had made him- 
 self an authority in maritime law. He married a Miss Staples, and 
 it his death, October, 1869, left one child, a daughter. 
 
 George St^ivexs Peters was born in Ellsworth, June, 1826. He 
 read law and settled in the practice in Ellsworth, where he has always 
 ived. He has been judge of the Municipal Court. In 1848 he mar- 
 ried Charlotte A. Clark, daughter of William Clark, Esq. (1810), of 
 Hallowell, and has had two daughters. The proceedings of the 
 Supreme Judicial Court, in commemoration of his death, testified to 
 lis honorable position at the bar and his estimable social qualities. 
 
 Samuel John Pike was born April, 1828. He graduated among, 
 the first of his class. Following in the steps of his father Alfred W. 
 Pike (Dartmouth, 1815), ai well-known teacher of his day, he gave 
 dimself to the same calling. He held a tutorship in the college in 
 1852-53, was head master of the High Schools in Lawrence and 
 Somerville, and bore the reputation of a scholarly man and a skilful 
 teacher. He died November, 1861, in Boston. 
 
 George Nelson Richardson was born in Eastport, November, 
 1827. As in college, so through life, he was of admirable qualities, 
 jcholarly, and of superior culture. He pursued a theological course, 
 md exercised a brief ministry in the Unitarian communion. He was 
 resident in Westboro', Mass., but died in Worcester, Mass., Septem- 
 Der, 1870, at the home of a sister. An unsuccessful effort has been 
 nade to ascertain more particulars of one who must have won hearty 
 :espect and esteem . 
 
 John Cotton Smith was born in Andover, Mass., August, 1826, 
 ion of Rev. Dr. Thomas M. Smith, formerly pastor of Third Congre- 
 gational Church, Portland, and more recently professor of theology in 
 ienyon College, Ohio. He entered after graduation upon a theological 
 iourse in the Theological Seminary, Gambler, Ohio. His first parochial 
 sharge was over St. John's Church, Bangor. In 1852 he removed to 
 ioston, where he was assistant in Trinity Church on the Green foun- 
 latlon, and remained in that service eight years. In 1860 he became 
 ector of the Church of the Ascension, New York City, and still occu- 
 )ies that position. In 1862 he received the honoraiy degree of D. D. 
 i'om Columbia College, New York. He was highly reputed as " a 
 
636 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 strong and effective preacher ; widely known as a thinker upon social 
 and religious questions, as a leader and peacemaker ; was a man ol 
 genial and warm affections, and beloved by the people whom he served.' 
 Few public speakers, as testified by the New York Observer, were more 
 fluent and eloquent. His ease and grace, the flow of choice and fli 
 words, and the sincere warmth of his religious feelings, made him pop- 
 ular on the platform and in the pulpit. 
 
 Dr. Smith has given to the world the following publications : " The 
 Church Charitable and True," " Gladstone's Homer and the Homeric 
 Age," "The Suspense and Kestoration of Faith," " The Oxford Es- 
 says and Reviews," "Patriotism," "The Liturgy as a Basis foi 
 Christian Union," "Dante," "The Church's Law of Development," 
 " Evolution and a Personal Creator," ' ' The Church's Mission of Recon- 
 ciliation." 
 
 In 1849 he married Harriette Hooper, daughter of Gen. Appleton 
 of Portland, and has had eight children, of whom two sods and four 
 daughters are living. He died after an illness of several months of 
 Bright's disease, Jan. 9, 1882. 
 
 Albion Pakris Spinney was born in Eliot, July, 1825. No reply 
 has been received to repeated attempts to reach him. What we learn 
 from a mutual friend is, that he read law and is settled in the practice 
 in Ashland, Pa., that he is president of a bank in that place, and also 
 that he married a Mrs. Mary Rigg and has a son and three daughters. 
 
 Anson Gancello Stinchfield was born in Leeds, September, 
 
 1822. He studied law and engaged in the practice in Hallowell for a 
 time, connecting with it some concern in the granite business, which 
 for some years has been prominent among the industries of the city. 
 He subsequently removed to Boston, as is reported, where he no,w 
 resides. 
 
 Charles HeInry Wheeler was born in Salem, Mass., June, 1831, 
 son of Rev. Dr. A. D. Wheeler.'* After graduation he taught West- 
 ford Academy, Massachusetts. He then pursued a theological course 
 of three years in the Divinity School at Cambridge and in Gottingen, 
 Germany. He has been in the pastorate in Peabody, Mass., formerly' 
 South Danvers, and in Winchendon, Mass , where he still resides In 
 1854 he married Miss Ellen G. Gage. They have had one son (Bow- 
 doin College, 1878). Mr. Wlieeler has published occasional sermons. 
 
 Crosby Howard Wheeler was born in Hampden, September, 
 
 1823. On leaving college he was employed for a year or two in teach- 
 
GRADUATES. 637 
 
 ing, and then pursued a course of theological study in the seminary at 
 Bangor, graduating in 1852. Near the close of that year he was 
 ordained over the church and society in Warren. After three years 
 and a half, having received an appointment as a missionary of the 
 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, he was dis- 
 missed from his charge, and was sent to his field at Harpoot, Eastern 
 Turkej', where he has labored with energy and enterprize, besides the 
 ordinary work of the mission having established Armenia College, 
 which promises great usefulness. He has published, with the co-oper- 
 ation of his wife, works illustrating mission work and its fruits, as 
 well as native customs and character. He and his wife have spent a 
 year or two in the United States, to recruit their health and in the 
 interests of his college, and visited extensively the churches in further- 
 ance of the cause and of his special object. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler married Susan A. Brookings of Woolwich. They 
 have children, two at least born on missionary ground. 
 
 Henbt Donald Whitcomb was born in Eastport, February, 1826. 
 He at once entered on life as a civil engineer on the Androscoggin 
 and St. Lawrence Railroad, and afterwards on the Portland and Ken- 
 nebec Railroad. In 1849 he went to Virginia, where he became con- 
 nected with what was the Louisa Railroad in the valley of Virginia, 
 and rose through positions to that of chief engineer and general 
 superintendent ; was chief engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- 
 road. In 1874, resigning that position, he took charge of the improve- 
 ments of James River below Richmond ; was also appointed on the 
 commission to examine the mouths of the Mississippi ; visited with his 
 colleagues Europe and the East to examine works similar to those con- 
 templated ; and on their advice the works at the Mississippi were con- 
 structed. More recently he has been offered the direction of another 
 railroad across the AUeghanies. At present he is president and chief 
 engineer of the Kanawa Company. He has besides been consulting 
 engineer in other enterprises. In 1854 he married Virginia, daughter 
 of Jefferson Kinney, Esq., Staunton, Va., and has had four daughters 
 and a son. 
 
 Jasper Strong Whiting was born in Houlton, April, 1828. After 
 graduation he entered the United States Military Academy, West 
 Point, and received a commission in the army. At the breaking out 
 of the late civil war he entered the Confederate service; became 
 brigadier-general, and died of disease contracted in the service in 
 Richmond, Va., December, .1862. 
 
638 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 1848. 
 
 Augustus Oliver Allen was bora in Gardiner, December, 182'i 
 son of Frederick Allen, Esq., LL. D. After graduation he studie- 
 law, opened an office in Boston, had gained reputation and influence 
 when he was suddenly seized with an aflfection of the brain, precurso 
 as it proved of violent typhoid. He died in Boston, August, 1869 
 He was married the last year of his life. 
 
 Edwin Wallace Bartlett was born in Bethel, September, 1826 
 He gave himself to teaching one tei-m in Phillips, and a year or mor 
 in Woburn, Mass., as principal of the grammar school, and then ii 
 Roxbury, Mass, having been invited to the charge of the ladies 
 department of the Eliot School, where he remained until the fall o 
 1853, when his health compelled him to ask leave of absence. Hi 
 went to Cuba and in a few weeks to New Orleans, for the improve 
 ment of his health. On his return homeward exposure brought on i 
 cold and cough with fever, from the effect of which he never recovered 
 He reached Bethel, June, 1854. He resumed his place at the opening 
 of the school year, but only to occupy it until a successor could bi 
 secured. .He returned to his home and after a long and painful illnesi 
 died February, 1856. He exhibited, we are informed, valuable qual 
 ities as a teacher and manager of schools, and was " a model of untir 
 ing, self-sacrificing faithfulness." 
 
 Adino James Burbank was born in Gilead, July, 1821. He read 
 and practised law in New York. In October, 1872, he fell from i 
 carriage and suffered a severe fracture, which after months of lame 
 ness was followed by a paralytic seizure, which in a day or two ter- 
 minated in death in March, 1873, in Schaghticoke, L. I. He hac 
 embraced the hope of the Gospel with its comfort and peace. He 
 was married but had no children.^ 
 
 Isaac Winslow Case was born in Levant (now Kenduskeag), 
 November, 1822. After graduating he taught schools in Maine anc 
 Ohio. In 1849 he began the study of law in Ohio, but relinquished 
 his plan of a profession from a sense of, filial duty to his father, ther 
 in declining years ; returned to his home and assisted in the care of a 
 large farm, teaching however the high school several months of the 
 year. In 1862 he enlisted in the army, was commissioned captain of 
 the 22d Maine Volunteers, and served under Gen. Banks at Port 
 
GRADUATKS. 639 
 
 ludson on the Mississippi. He in a volunteer storming party raised 
 attack the enemies' batteries was seized with congestive fever, and 
 Q a few hours died, July, 1863. He bore the reputation of a brave 
 oldier and a consistent Christian man. He had held prominent posi- 
 ions in his town, and represented it in I860 in the State Legislature. 
 He married in 1852 Pamelia A. Gilman of Bangor, and left a son 
 md daughter. ^ 
 
 John Diksmorb was born in Madison, April, 1824. He taught 
 ichool a year in Industry, and then entered the Theological seminary, 
 Jangor, graduating in 1852. He accepted a call to the Congregational 
 Dhurch in North Hampton, N. H. ; was ordained November, 1852, 
 ind remained in that pastorate ten years. He then accepted a call to 
 Winslow in this State, where he still remains useful and respected. 
 
 He has married, first, September, 1852, Althea C. Cobb, who died 
 n 1859, leaving no children ; second, in 1861, Katie Cobb, a sister of 
 ;he former, who died in 1872, by whom he had five children^ of whom 
 ;wo now survive, sons ; third, in 1875, Mrs. Sarah E. Cobb, Chapman. 
 ie was supervisor of schools in Winslow two years. 
 
 Henry Edward Eastman was born in Derry, N. H., January, 
 1826. He has been since graduation a man of business; he was a 
 jlerk in Boston in a wholesale store two years, and since has been 
 mgaged in "the general store business" in Derry with var^-ing suc- 
 iess. 
 
 He married and has two sons. 
 
 George Albert Fairfield was born in Saeo, March, 1829. He 
 lid not study for a profession, but soon after graduation he became 
 m assistant in the United States coast and geodetic survey, and is at 
 )resent in that service, having been on duty on the Atlantic coast 
 'rem Maine to Key West, besides three years on that of the Pacific. 
 
 In 1849 he married Henrietta Nichols of Saco, and has had three 
 ions and two daughters ; one daughter has deceased. 
 
 David Fales was born in East Thomaston, June, 1822. After 
 ;raduation he taught the High School in Augusta two years, meanwhile 
 eading law with Richard Hampton Vose, Esq. (1822), and was ad- 
 aitted to the bar of Kennebec County in 1851 ; he pursued his pro- 
 fession in Maine until 1864 when he removed to New York'and h^ 
 >een engaged in commercial pursuits. He has married, but has no 
 ihildren. 
 
640 HISTOEY OI* BOWbOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 ChakLes Stewart DaveiS Fjessenden was born in Portland, Fel 
 ruary, 1828. He studied medicine with Dr. Charles W. Thomas ( 
 Portland ; attended the lectures of the Medical School connected wit 
 the college, graduating in 1851. He was in practice in Portland te 
 years, and then was appointed surgeon in charge of the United State 
 Marine Hospital in that city. In 1879 he was transferred to the charg 
 of the Marine Hospital Service at the city of New York. He has nev« 
 married. 
 
 Feederic Fox was born in Portland, November, 1827. He entere 
 upon the study of law, was admitted to the bar, and settled in th 
 profession in Portland. He has represented the city in the Legish 
 ture. He married a daughter of the late Manasseh Smith, Esq., au 
 has two children. No response having been received from the cii 
 cular, the writer has depended on other sources for such particulars a 
 are here given. 
 
 William Frederic Goodwin was born in Buxton. Sept^mbei 
 1823. After graduation he employed himself for some time in teacl 
 ing in Choctaw County, Miss., and in high schools in Machias, Cot 
 cord, N. H., and in New Bedford, Mass., meanwhile reading la^ 
 He graduated LL. B., Harvard, 1854, and entered upon the practic 
 of his profession in Concord, N. H. ; was admitted to practice in th 
 Supreme Court of United States, 1860, and removed to La Cross( 
 Wis., designing to pursue his profession there, but at the outbreak c 
 the war returned to Maine, offered himself to the service of the countrj 
 and was commissioned first lieutenant. May, 1861 ; Was wounded i 
 Chickamauga, September, 1863 ; was breveted captain but was dif 
 abled from service in the field though employed as recruiting oflicer 
 returned to Concord and resumed his profession. He was inteteste 
 in historical and genealogical inquiries, and edited one number c 
 Dawson's Historical Magazine besides contributing largely to ths 
 periodical. He was a corresponding member of the Maine and men 
 ber of the New Hampshire Historical Society. He died in Concorc 
 N. H., March, 1872. 
 
 Julius Lorenzo Hallbtt was born in Augusta, November, 182J 
 After graduation he studied law with Hon. Richard H. Vose (1822 
 of Augusta, was admitted to the bar in 1851, and opened an office i 
 his native town. His diligence and devotion to his profession prorr 
 i|ed honor and success. But having become connected with a fli 
 company, by over-exertion he ruptured a blood-vessel, causing 
 severe hemorrhage. 
 
GRADUATES. 641 
 
 He left for the South in hope of relief, but died at Mobile, Ala., 
 larch, 1852. 
 
 Dexter Arnold Hawkins was born in Oxford, June, 1825. The 
 rst year after graduation he had charge of the academy in Topsham, 
 ut during the autumn gave lectures on teaching at teachers' insti- 
 iites, having been employed in that service by the State Board of 
 Education. This office of lecturer he held three years, occupying 
 liree months of each year in that service. He then studied law in 
 hs office of Willis & Fessenden in Portland, and in the Harvard Law 
 ichool at Cambridge. In 1852 he visited Europe, not as a mere 
 ourist, but giving attention to the political, industrial, etc., condi- 
 ions of the countries embraced in his tours ; attended law lectures in 
 'aris and the courts in England and on the Continent. In London 
 le received his first fee from American clients, one thousand dollars 
 or his success in a litigation which had been pending thirteen years, 
 leturning to his own country he gave two courses of lectures in Con- 
 lecticut under the direction of its Boai'd of Education. In 1854 he 
 ipened an office in New York, 10 Wall Street, where he still may be 
 bund a copartner with Nathaniel Cothren, Esq. (1849). He has 
 )een an active, strenuous, busy man, not only in his profession but 
 n matters touching the public interests. He has distinguished himself 
 )y persistent energy in exposing the Tweed enormity and the crafty 
 lesigng of Romanism in the city, and has published pamphlets on 
 hose subjects which have rendered important service to the city and 
 iountry. He has also contributed to the public press on kindred sub- 
 ects, besides addresses on different occasions. A paper on compul- 
 lory education from his pen has been widely circulated in this and 
 )ther countries. He has visited Europe twice again. In 1859 he 
 nirried a New York lady and has three children, two sons and a 
 laughter Mr. Hawkins has given a large painting to the Art Gal- 
 ery by a Dutch artist, Wurst, a scene in Northern Norway. 
 
 Simon James Humphrey was born in Derry, N. H., December, 
 1820. Immediately after leaving college he became an assistant in 
 Pinkerton Academy in his native town for one year. He then pur- 
 sued the theological course at Andover Seminary, graduating in 1852, 
 md was ordained into the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church in 
 !^ewark, Ohio, early in 1854. Resigning this position, in 1861 he 
 vas installed over the First Congregational Church in Beloit, Wis. 
 ifter three years' service he was offered and accepted the appoint- 
 nent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 
 
642 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 of district secretary for the Northwest, his office to be in Chicag 
 and is still in that position, active, energetic, and successful. - 
 1879 he received the degree of D. D. from Beloit College. Dr. Hui 
 phrey has published twenty-six numbers of an issue entitled " Mi 
 sionary Papers," besides having been a frequent contributor to tl 
 press. 
 
 In 1854 he married Mrs. Susan E Hutchins (nee Batchelder), wl 
 died in 1861 leaving one child, two having died in infancy, the su 
 viving son graduating at Beloit College in 1879. In 1866 he marri( 
 Elizabeth E. Emerson, daughter of Frof. Ralph Emerson, formerly 
 Andover Theological Seminary, by whom he has had five childre 
 one of whom has died. 
 
 Samuel Fisher Humphrey was born in Londonderry, N. H 
 March, 1822. He immediately took charge for four years of Foxcrc 
 Academy, then engaged in legal study with A. W. Paine, Esq., i 
 Bangor, was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1853, and has conti 
 ued in the profession in Bangor to the present time. He has serv( 
 as judge of the police court of the city eight years ; has represent( 
 the city twice in the Legislature of the State, and been on the boai 
 of aldermen. In 1872 he formed a copartnership with Frederic I 
 Appleton, Esq., which still continues. Since 1872 he has been an e: 
 am'ner of the national banks of the State. He is a member of tl 
 Board of Overseers of the college and of the Maine Historical Soc 
 ' ety. In 1856 he married Cellissa, daughter of S. P. Brown of Dove 
 They have a son and daughter. 
 
 Joseph Christmas Ives was born in New York, December, 182 
 He entered from Yale College into the Senior class. On leaving cc 
 lege he was appointed to the Military Academy, West Point, and ( 
 completing the course joined the army in the engineer corps, w 
 engaged for some time in the survey of Colorado, and the results 
 his work were published by government. On the breaking out of tl 
 war he sympathized with the South, resigned his commission and e 
 Jisted in the Confederate army, was colonel of engineers, and near t 
 close of the war aid to President Davis. The collapse of the can 
 ^as a great blow to him, and probably contributed to his death 
 New York, Noyen^ber, 1869. 
 
 John Jewett was born in Readfleld, September, 1827. He enten 
 Jpnior from Wateryille. After gi-aduating he went to Arkansa 
 tq,ught for one ye^r, and then returned and entered on legal studi 
 with Henry Paine, Esq,, Hallowell. After completing his studies 1 
 
GRADUATES. 643 
 
 engaged in his profession in Appleton, Wis. He was rapidly rising 
 in his profession when at the call of his countrj' he enlisted in 1862, 
 raised a companj' in the Twentj^-first Wisconsin Volunteers in a few 
 daj's, and went into the field. He was soon seized with fever and died 
 in November of the same year. He had a family. 
 
 Charles Fisk Merrick was born in Natchez, Miss., December, 
 
 1827. After graduating he engaged in legal study three or four years, 
 but finding the profession uncongenial, never practised. In 1854 he 
 was elected clerk of his native city, holding that office most of the 
 time for fifteen years, during a considerable portion of that period 
 being also justice of the peace, a position equivalent nearly to that of 
 municipal judge in Northern cities. He has for some years been en- 
 gaged in commercial afl'airs as a cotton broker. At present is depot 
 freight agent of Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad. In 1859 he 
 married Maria L., daughter of Benjamin Wade, and has had one son. 
 
 Edward Watts MoiiTON was born in Kennebunk, August, 1828. 
 After graduating he entered upon the study of medicine with Dr. 
 George Jefl'erds (1838) of Kennebunkport, and in 1856 graduated at 
 the Hahnemann Medical School, Philadelphia, and settled in Kenne- 
 bunk in the practice of his profession. He has enjoyed the respect, 
 esteem, and confidence of his townsmen, as shown by the trusts com- 
 mitted to his hands. He married Olive, daughter of Capt. Ivory Lord 
 of Kennebunk. They have had three daughters, of whom one only 
 survives. 
 
 Guilford Snow Newcomb was bora in Warren, February, 1824. 
 After graduating he taught Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, five years ; 
 the High School in New Bedford, two years ; and that in West New- 
 ton, three j'ears. He has resided in Westboro', Mass., cultivating a 
 farm. He has served on school committees. In 1850 he married and 
 has had eight children. 
 
 Charles Appleton Packard was born in Brunswick, November, 
 
 1828. On leaving college at first with the purpose of becoming a civil 
 engineer, he prosecuted studies for that end in Salem, Mass., and at 
 the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard. He served for some months 
 as an assistant in the engineering of the Portland and Kennebec Rail- 
 foad. He accepted an offer from President Pierce to be librarian in 
 the Department of the Interior, Washington, which he accepted and 
 remained in that service two years or more. He then changed his 
 purpose of life, and began the study of medicine with John D. Lin- 
 
644 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 coin, M. D. (1S43), attended courses of lectures in the Maine Med 
 ical School, and graduated in 1856. He has practised his professio: 
 in Waldoboro', Fordham, N. Y., Deerfield, Mass., and eventuallj' ii 
 Bath, where he has resided the last four years, in all places gainiu] 
 the confidence of the community as a conscientious, able physician 
 In 1879 he published the annual address before the Maine Medics 
 Association of the State. In 1871 he married Caroline E. Payne c 
 Erie, Pa., who died April, 1881, leaving no children. 
 
 Daniel Webster Pickakd was born in Auburn, June, 1830. Th 
 first 3'ear after graduation he taught at Plattsville, Wis., and thei 
 entered the Theological Seminarj' at Bangor, graduating in 1852 
 The 3'ear following he was resident licentiate at Andover, and nea 
 the close was ordained over the Congregational Church, Groveland 
 Mass., where he won the confidence and deep aflfection of his peopl 
 until impaired health compelled him to resign his charge. He went t 
 the West, there exercised his ministry in the vain hope of restoration 
 and returned and spent some time at his early home, preaching as h 
 was able. Lingering pulmonary disease terminated his life, February 
 1860. He died in the triumphs of faith. In 1854 he married Helen 
 daughter of Eev. Eiehard WoodhuU (1827), at Thomaston. Thei 
 only child, a daughter, died a few weeks before her father. 
 
 William Chauncky Pond was born in Bangor, February, 1830 
 brother of Enoch (1838). On leaving college he taught a year ii 
 Thomaston, and then entered the Theological Seminary, Bangor 
 where he graduated in 1852. He immediately received ordination a 
 a missionary to California, sailed in the autumn, and in February 
 1853, landed in San Francisco. Through his instrumentality thi 
 Greenwich Street Church was organized and a church edifice erected 
 and he was its pastor two years and then removed to Downieville 
 Sierra County, where he also organized a church and was pastor tei 
 years. In 1865 resigning his position he went to Petaluma, wheri 
 he exercised his ministry three years, and then returned to San Fran 
 Cisco and became pastor of the Third Congregational Church. Ii 
 1872 be became financial agent of the Pacific Theological Seminary 
 with the hope of resuming the pastoral oflSce when he had completec 
 his agency for the seminary. He became and is now pastor o 
 Bethany Congregational Church. 
 
 In 1852 he married Caroline A., daughter of Eev. Richard Wood 
 bull, then of Thomaston, who died in 1860, leaving a son and daugh 
 ter, two §o»s hm'\ug died before, He subsequently married he 
 
GRADUATES. 645 
 
 sister, widow of his classmate Eev. Daniel W. Pickard, by whom he 
 has had two sons and a daughter. He has been repeatedly superin- 
 tendent of schools for the county. Mr. Pond has visited the Eastern 
 States once since he emigrated to California, and commended himself 
 to the churches by his zeal and ability. 
 
 Thomas Hill Rich was born in Bangor, September, 1822, son of 
 Dr. Rich, a respected physician. After graduating he was occupied 
 for some time by attendance on an invalid friend, but at length en- 
 teted on the theological course in the seminary, graduating in 1852. 
 He was an instructor in the Eastern Maine Conference Seminary at 
 Bucksport three years, and two years in the High School, Portland. 
 He was for sis years assistant instructor in Hebrew in Bangor Sem- 
 inary, and since 1872 has been professor of Hebrew in the theological 
 department of Bates College. In 1879 he published a version of the 
 Hebrew prophet Nahum, under the characteristically modest title " A 
 Study, to indicate Endeavor and its Incomplete Result." Prof. Rich 
 is a member of the American Oriental Society. He married Mrs 
 W. D. Strout, November, 1877. 
 
 John Hodgdon Rogers was born in Bath, August, 1827. He 
 entered college with the preceding class, but at the end of his Sopho- 
 more year a favorable opportunity of travelling in Europe in company 
 with his pastor Rev. Ray Palmer induced him to suspend his college 
 courses and join the next class below. After graduating he studied 
 law and opened an ofHce in Bath, where he enjoyed respect, confi- 
 dence, and warm regard. In a few years his health became impaired, 
 pulmonary disease had fastened upon him and completed its rapid 
 course July, 1861. 
 
 Benjamin Shubtleff Savage was born in Bangor. After grad- 
 uating he began the study of law with James S. Rowe, Esq., of Ban- 
 gor. In the latter part of 1849 he went to Georgia and took charge of 
 an academy in Madison, Morgan County. During the second year of 
 this service he was interrupted by a pulmonary affection, which fast- 
 ened itself on a vigorous frame. At the close of 1850 he was taken to 
 Quincy, 111., where he died at the home of his brother Charles A. Sav- 
 age (1837), October, 1851. " Of a rarely genial and joyful nature, 
 the discipline of life was stern upon him, but his end was peace." 
 
 JoTHAM Bradbubit Sewall was born in Newcastle, October, 1825. 
 After leaving college he taught private schools in Winthrop and Au- 
 gusta, and from 1849 to 1851 in Lewiston Falls Academy. He was 
 
646 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLKGE. 
 
 then tutor in the college a year, pursued theological study at Andov 
 Seminary, and completed his course at Bangor, graduating in 185' 
 He was settled in the pastorate over the Central Congregation 
 Church in Lynn, Mass., February, 1855, where he remained te 
 years. He was then invited to the professorship of rhetoric and on 
 tory, and subsequentl}' of Greek and Latin, in the college, and he. 
 that position until 1877, when he accepted an invitation to the char| 
 of Thayer Academy, a new institution in South Brain tree, Mass. ] 
 1867-68 he visited Europe with his wife. 
 
 He has published "Evenings with the Bible and Science," articL 
 in the Bihliotlieca Sacra and Boston Review, a paper on " The Di 
 tinction between the Subjunctive and Optative Moods " contributed 1 
 the American Philological Association, an appendix to Curtius 
 " Greek Grammar," and a sermon preached in Lynn. 
 
 In 1855 he married Frances L. Swett, daughter of Edward f 
 Swett, Esq., of Dedham, Mass. They have no children. He is c 
 the Board of Overseers of the college. 
 
 Egbert Coffik Smyth was born in Brunswick, August, 1829, sc 
 of Prof. William Smyth. After graduating he taught a school a sho 
 time in Farmington, N. H., and held a tutorship in the college tv( 
 years. He pursued the theological course in the seminary at Bango 
 graduating in 1853, and was resident licentiate at the seminar 
 Andover, Mass., one year. He was professor of rhetoric and ori 
 tory in 1854 to 1856, and of natural and revealed religion from 18' 
 to 1863 in the college, when he was elected to the professorship > 
 ecclesiastical" historj"^ in Andover Theological Seminary, which he sti 
 holds. In 1858 he published three discourses on the religious histoi 
 of the college during the administrations of Presidents McKeei 
 Appleton, and Allen ; has contributed to the Bihliotlieca Sacra ar 
 other periodicals ; has published sermons delivered on special occ 
 sions, addresses, a lecture to the Senior class of the seminarj 
 sketches of the lives and ministry of Rev. Drs. W. T. Dwight ai 
 Sweetser ; a translation, in connection with Rev. C. J. H. Ropes, i 
 Uhlhorn's "Conflict of Christianity with Heathenism" in 1879, ar 
 " The Change from the Sabbath to the Lord's Day," issued bj' tl 
 Congregational Publishing Society in 1880, besides papers contributf 
 to the Boston Congregationalist. 
 
 In 1857 he married Elizabeth B. Dwight, daughter of Rev. E 
 Wm. T. Dwight of Portland, but has no children. 
 
 Benjamin Stanton was born in Lebanon, October, 1817. I 
 devoted his life to the work of teaching, at first as principal of tl 
 
GRADUATES. 647 
 
 Brown High School, Newburyport, Mass. In 1857 he accepted an 
 invitation to be principal of the classical department of the Union 
 School, Schenectady, N. Y., and three years later to be superintend- 
 ent of the same. In 1863 was elected professor of Latin in Union 
 College, New York, and held that position until 1872, when he became 
 principal of the Union Classical Institute in the city. In 1874 he 
 died after long suffering from pulmonary disease. He married Catha- 
 arine P. Coffin of Wolfeboro', N. H., and had four children. The 
 eldest son is pastor of a Presbyterian church in Albany, N. Y. ; the 
 second (graduated at Union College) is in the Harvard Law School ; 
 a daughter is wife of Rev. William E. Griffiths, formerly connected 
 with the Imperial College, Japan, now pastor in Schenectady ; and the 
 5'ounger daughter is in Vassar College. 
 
 Oliver Stevens was born in North Andover, Mass., June, 1825. 
 He engaged immediately after leaving college in legal study in Bos- 
 ton, attended the lectures at Dane Law School, Harvard, and settled 
 in Boston, where he has continued in the practice of his profession. 
 He has been president of the city council two years, and district 
 attorney of Suffolii County since 1874. 
 
 In 1854 he married Catharine Stevens, and has no children. 
 
 Albert Gookin Thornton was born in Saco, December, 1826, 
 brother of James B. (1846). We have been able to ascertain noth- 
 ing about him, excepting that he went into a Western State, where he 
 now resides. 
 
 Richard Henry Tibbitts was born in August, 1827. He was 
 of New England birth, but entered as from Natchez, Miss., where he 
 had lived but a year or two. We have not ascertained the facts of 
 his life since he left college, excepting that he did not return to 
 Natchez but went to California, where he was in 1860. Since that 
 date nothing has been heard of him. by relatives in Natchez. 
 
 William Titcomb was born in Kennebunk, January, 1828, brother 
 of Joseph (1843). Soon after leaving college he began to be troubled 
 with pulmonary difficulties, and made several sea voyages with the 
 hope and not without the appearance of benefit. While his friends 
 were indulging pleasing anticipations of his entire restoration he was 
 attacked with congestion of the brain and paralysis, caused as is sup- 
 posed by a covp de saleil. It proved fatal August, 1851. " He was 
 a young man of noble and generous impulses, and a general favorite 
 
648 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 with his classmates and with all his acquaintances." He engaged a 
 partner with his father and brother in navigation, and his talents an 
 character gave great pTomise. 
 
 Chaeles Ames Washburn was born in Livermore, March, 1822 
 He entered immediately after graduating on the study of law, and wa 
 admitted to practice in Mineral Point, "Wis., in 1849. In the yea 
 following he went to California, and in 1853 settled in San Francisc 
 as editor of a newspaper. Seven or eight years he spent in SoutI 
 America, and then returned to Oakland, Cal. In 1860 he was chosei 
 elector at large for California, and in 1861 was appointed by Presi 
 dent Lincoln commissioner to Paraguay, the oflSee being changed ii 
 1863 to that of minister resident, which he resigned in 1868. Hi 
 present residence is in Morristown, N. J. 
 
 Mr. Washburn has published two works of Action : " Philip Thax 
 ter " in 1860, and " Gomery of Montgomery " in 1865, and in 1870 : 
 " History of Paraguay," two volumes octavo, besides contributions t( 
 periodicals. 
 
 He married in 1865 Sallie C. Cleaveland of Reading, Pa., and hai 
 had three children, all now living. 
 
 1849. 
 
 Zabdiel Botlston Adams was born in Boston, October, 1829 
 He entered into the Senior year ; after graduation he pursued a cours( 
 of medical study, attended lectures in the Medical School, Harvard 
 and graduated in 1853. He settled in the practice of medicine an( 
 surgery in Framingham, Mass., where he has since resided. He hai 
 contribnted papers on medical subjects to" the journals; 
 
 In 1870 he married Frances Ann Kidder, and has had a son Zabdie 
 B. Adams and a daughter Frances B. Adams. 
 
 Augustus Jedediah Bubbank was born in Bethel, March, 1829 
 He taught the academies in St. Albans, Lee, and Dennysville som( 
 years, then engaged in active business in Hartland, Portland, anc 
 Lewiston ; entered the military service as captain in a Maine cavalri 
 regiment, but in a few months resigned from ill health. He employee 
 himself in agricultural and other pursuits for some time in Iowa anc 
 Illinois, and is at present engaged in transactions in real estate ii 
 Chicago. 
 
 He married Harriet E. , daughter of Dr. Calvin Blake of Hartland 
 but has no children. 
 
GEADUATE8. 649 
 
 Charles Cothren was born in Farmington, June, 1822, brother of 
 William Cothren (1843) . He has devoted most of his life to teaching, 
 the first tjvo years after graduation in Connecticut, and then eighteen 
 5'ear3 in New Jersey; subsequently he engaged in business pursuits 
 ten years in the city of New York ; he has since lived a retired life in 
 Bed Bank, N. J. He has twice married : first, Betsey Ann Hinraan, 
 by whom he had three daughters ; second, Alice Eadcliflfe : no issue. 
 
 Nathaniel Cothren, brother of the preceding, was born in Farm- 
 ington, January, 1825. On leaving college he was employed in teach- 
 ing five years ; he then entered on legal studies with Dexter A. 
 Hawkins, Esq. (1848), of New York; was admitted to the bar, and 
 formed a copartnership with Mr. Hawkins, which still continues. He 
 has devoted himself exclusively to his profession. In 1854 he married 
 Miss Corlies of New Jersey, and they have one son. 
 
 Llewellyn Deane was born in Portland, April, 1829, brother of 
 Henry P. Deane (1844). After graduation he entered the law office 
 of his brother Henry P. Deane, Esq., attended the lectures of Dane 
 Law School, Harvard, and having been admitted to the bar began the 
 practice of his profession in Yarmouth, but soon removed to Portland 
 where he became partner with his brother. In 1861 he removed to 
 Washington, where he held a position in the Treasury Department 
 three years, and for nine years was examiner in the Patent Office ; 
 since 1873, having resigned that post, he has resumed the practice of 
 law in Washington. 
 
 Mr. Deane has been a frequent correspondent of the Christian 
 Mirror and other newspapers. While resident in Portland he repre- 
 sented the city in the Legislature. 
 
 In 1871 he married Mrs. Louise E. Eicks. They have had one 
 child, a son, William Wallace Deane. 
 
 Lincoln Fletcher IImerson was born in Kennebunk, September, 
 1829, son of William S. Emerson, M. D. (Harvard College, 1823, 
 and M. D. Bowdoin College, 1827). Having graduated among the 
 first in his class, he was well fitted for what became the work of his life. 
 He taught a year in Standish, and then went to Boston with the expec- 
 tation of following his father and grandfather in the medical profes- 
 sion, but after a year's study he with deliberation decided that the 
 vocation of teaching would be more congenial, and became an assisl;- 
 ant of his uncle George B. Emerson, LL. D. (Harvard College, 
 1818), in his well-known school for young ladies in Boston; in 1854 
 
650 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 he went abroad, spent two years in travel and study, and on his retur 
 his uncle having given up his school, opened a similar one in Bostoi 
 A scholar of varied attainments, fitted by culture as by natural endow 
 ments for the delicate responsibility, he won the respect and affectior 
 of pupils and the confidence of patrons. He loved his work, anc 
 though advised and urged by friends and physicians, scarcely left hi 
 school-room until two or three weeks before his disease (consumption 
 accomplished its work, and he died March, 1864. He had marrie 
 Miss Wairiwright of Boston, but left no child. 
 
 .John Marshall Eveleth was born in "Windham, February, 182J 
 brother of Samuel A. Eveleth (1847) . After graduating he employe 
 himself in teaching schools in different places for a year or two, an 
 then studied medicine with Dr. L. W. Houghton and Prof. E. li 
 Peaslee, attended the lectures of the Maine Medical School and too 
 a medical degree in 1854. After prosecuting professional study o 
 Blackwell's Island, N. Y., one year, he settled in the practice i 
 Poland, where he remained four years and then removed to Windhan 
 induced by the increasing infirmities of his father ; in 1861 he remove 
 to Mechanic Falls, whei'e he was several years in the active -practic 
 of his profession. He has recently removed to Hallowell. 
 
 In 1855 he married Lucy Ellen Douglass, daughter of Rev. John A 
 Douglass (1814) of Waterford. They have three children. 
 
 Charles Franklin Henry Green was born in Athens, April, 182' 
 On leaving college he studied law with his father, was admitted to th 
 bar of Somerset County, and engaged in the profession in partnershi 
 with his father, and after the death of the latter continued in practic 
 through life. He held offices in the affairs of the town. He wa 
 twice married: first, in 1852 Jane M. Morrill, who died Novembei 
 1859, leaving no children ; second, in 1865 Julia M. Kimball, by whoi 
 he had one daughter. 
 
 Eugene Bergin Hinkley was born in Hallowell, March, 1821 
 After graduation he was principal of the High School, Saco, froi 
 whence he was invited to a similar position in Danvers (now Peabody; 
 lyiass., where he remained some years. While in Peabody he rendere 
 valuable service in selecting books for the library of the Peabod 
 Institute, for which his scholarly tastes and habits fitted him. He the 
 studied law with Hon. Peleg Sprague and Hon. Richard H. Dana, an 
 was admitted to the bar ; but infirm health preventing his enterin 
 upon the practice of law, he accepted au invitation from Admin 
 
GRADUATES. 651 
 
 Thatcher, United States Navy, to be his private secretary on a cruise 
 to the Mediterranean for a year or two ; on his return in view of his 
 health he accepted a secretaryship in the Neptune insurance office, 
 Boston, which he still holds. He has been librarian of the Mercantile 
 Library Association. 
 
 He married Helen W. Thayer of Boston and has had three children, 
 of whom two, a daughter and son, are now living. 
 
 William Hobson was born in Standish, October, 1826. He taught 
 the High School in Saco from 1855 to 1862, when he entered the military 
 service, was commissioned captain of the 17th Maine Volunteers, and 
 was promoted successively major and lieutenant-colonel. He was 
 wounded in action at Amelia Springs, Va. Leaving the service he 
 resumed his position in the Saco High School for a time ; in 1867 ad- 
 mitted to the bar, he engaged in the practice, was for two years col- 
 lector of customs for the port of Saco, and subsequently removed to 
 Somerville, Mass., where he now resides. No reply having been 
 received to circulars sent to his address, the writer has gathered infor- 
 mation as he could from other sources. 
 
 Geokge Edwin Baktol Jackson was born in Portland, August, 
 1829. He taught schools after graduating in Cape Elizabeth and 
 North Andover, Mass., a single term each, engaged in legal studies 
 in the office of Fessenden & Deblois, and was admitted to the bar of 
 Cumberland County, October, 1852. He then began the practice in 
 Bath, but in the following j-ear removed to Portland, where he con- 
 tinued in his profession until 1865, when he became treasurer of the 
 Portland EoUing Mills. He resigned that position in 1878, having 
 been elected president of Maine Central Railroad, and still holds that 
 office. He has been for several years on the standing committee of 
 the Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of Maine, and deputy to its 
 convention, as also to the Triennial General Convention. In 1853 he 
 married Cornelia Stuyvesant Ten Broeck, and has had three children, 
 — two daughters, and a son now a member of our college. 
 
 Orville Jennings was born in Leeds, January, 1825. Soon after 
 graduating he removed to Jackson, Tenn., studied law and engaged 
 in the profession in Washington, Ark., rapidly gained reputation, 
 became successively prosecuting, attorney, judge of the Circuit Court, 
 and also represented his town in the Legislature of the State. At the 
 close of the Civil War he removed to Little Eock, where he was 
 appointed attorney for the Eastern District of the State, and held that 
 
652 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 office at the time of his death in 1866. He was reputed to be a good 
 lawyer, an efficient official, and an upright man. 
 
 William Ladd Jones was born in Minot, September, 1827, son of 
 Rev. Elijah Jones of that town. After graduating he taught in the 
 academy in Litchfield a year. He then entered the Theological Sem- 
 inary, Bangor, and graduated in 1853. He served under the Hom6 
 Missionary Society ; was pastor of Congregational churches in Califor- 
 nia from 1855 to 1878. He became principal of the Golden Gate 
 Academy, Oakland, Cal., in 1874, and since 1878 has been president 
 of Oahu College, in the Sandwich Islands. He was for some years 
 superintendent of schools for Humboldt County, Cal. In 1854 he 
 married Ann Louisa Farrington, Brewer, and has had five children. 
 
 Ammi Rdhamah Mitchell was born in Portland, February, 1826, 
 brother of Edward F. (1837). Soon after graduation he entered the' 
 Theological Seminary, Bangor, where he graduated in 1852. He has 
 since been constantly employed in the work of the Christian ministry. 
 He was a stated supply in Glasgow, Iowa, and his present field of 
 labor is Diamond Springs, Morris County, Kan. In 1855 he married 
 Eunicia P. Van Dyke, and has had six children. 
 
 John St. Clare Paine was born in Sanford, August, 1821. He 
 was much esteemed by his class and honored for his talents and char- 
 acter. Failure of health compelled him to leave his studies in the 
 spring term of his Senior year. He did not return, but his degree 
 was given him with his class. His disease, which was of a pulmonary 
 character, resisted the best medical skill. He spent the twd" following 
 winters in Florida, and at last finding his strength rapidly failing, he 
 left for his home ; but while waiting for a passage at Key West died, 
 February, 1851. 
 
 George Augustus Perkins was bom in Farmington, June, 1827. 
 In the autumn after leaving college he entered the Theological Sem- 
 inary, Bangor, and graduated in 1853, meanwhile having been prin- 
 cipal of the Oxford Normal Institute a year and teaching a high 
 school in Norridgewock in the fall of 1851. On leaving the seminary 
 he was assistant teacher of Hebrew in the same institution, and was 
 again called to the same service in • 1860 for a time. He- was by 
 appointment of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 
 Missions a missionary in Turkey from 1854 to 1859, when he re- 
 turned, and on receiving au appointment to the professorship of nat- 
 
GRADUATES. 653 
 
 ural science in Robert College, Constantinople, spent two years or 
 more at Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College, in preparation for 
 his department ; returned to his new field of labor, where he remained 
 two j^ears. From 1866 to 1871 he kept a family school for boys in 
 Gorham. Since that date he has been acting pastor of churches in 
 Pownal, Lunenburg, Vt., and is now in the same service in Raymond, 
 N. H. In 1854 he married Sarah E. Farrington, daughter of Mr. 
 Oliver Farrington, Brewer, and has had three sons, the eldest now a 
 member of the college. 
 
 Geokge Leland Richardson was born in Bath, January, 1829, 
 brother of Henry L. (1839). He devoted himself to commercial 
 business in Boston in the house of Page, Richardson & Co., brokers, 
 etc. He married Anne, daughter of Henry McLellan, Esq., of Bath, 
 and had four children. He had for a few j-ears been successful, and 
 was always held in high esteem in social life and as a Christian man, 
 when seized suddenly and most sadly with disordered mental action, 
 he was placed in the hospital, SomerviUe, Mass., where he still 
 
 George Oliver Robinson was born in Oxford, March, 1821. On 
 leaving college he taught three years, the last two in the Classical 
 Academy at Yarmouth. He then studied law in the office of Messrs. 
 "Willis & Fessenden in Portland. In 1854 he went to Illinois and set- 
 tled in the profession in Bloomington, where he has since resided. 
 ■ In 1854 he married in Cape Elizabeth, Marianne Greene. They 
 have one child, a daughter. 
 
 John Thomas Stanley was born in Farmington, December, 1826. 
 He removed to Texas, was resident in Chapel Hill of that State, and 
 was for a time an associate teacher in a college for young ladies. His 
 last years were given to the practice of law. He was seized with 
 dysentery and died Oct. 23, 1868. He died in the communion of the 
 Methodist Church, and " his end was happy and resigned," as testi- 
 fied by a friend. He never married. 
 
 Robert Richardson Thompson was born in Rumford, December, 
 1822. The only information we have of him is that l*e was resident 
 in StraflTord, N. H., at the opening of the war. He was mustered 
 into service September, 1862, for three years as sergeant in the 
 Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteers; in 1863 was commissioned 
 second lieutenant ; was wounded May, 1864. In July of that year 
 
654 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 was promoted first lieutenant, and was killed in action in September 
 at Fort Harrison, Va. He was reported by his commander as " a 
 brave and meritorious officer," and as " enjoying the highest respect 
 and love of his brother officers and comrades in arms." 
 
 Albert Harris Ware was born in Athens, August, 1827. On 
 leaving college he taught school in Topsham two years, and then 
 began the study of law in Brunswick, prosecuted his studies in the 
 office of Bronson & Sewall in Bath, completed his course with John 
 S. Abbot, Esq., in Norridgewock, and was admitted to the bar of 
 Somerset County in 1853. He settled in North Anson, where he has 
 since continued in the practice of his profession. He has been super- 
 visor of schools, and also register of probate several years. 
 
 He married in 1856 Harriet E., daughter of Dr. Isaac Palmer 
 (1833) of North Anson, and has had six children, of whom three 
 only are now living. 
 
 Spencer Wells was born in West Newbury, Mass., February, 
 1827. He graduated with honor and high promise ; but disease of the 
 brain afflicted him, resulting in a disordered inind and at last in hope- 
 less imbecilitj'. 
 
 Joseph Williamson was born in Belfast, October, 1828, son of 
 Joseph Williamson, Esq. He entered immediately on legal study, 
 was admitted to the bar in 1852, and engaged in the practice of his 
 profession in his native town, where he still resides. Besides the' 
 calls of his profession he has given himself much to historical investi- 
 gations, especially relating to the earlier history of that portion of 
 our State, in which he has shown peculiar aptitude for such inquiries, 
 the fruits of his labors having done credit to himself, his city, and the 
 State. In whatever relates to the early history of Maine he is re- 
 garded a prominent authority. He published in 1852 " The Maine 
 Register and State Eeference Book";*in 1870 "An Address at the 
 Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Belfast"; " History of 
 the City of Belfast to 1875," octavo, nine hundred and fifty-six pages. 
 He has also been a frequent contributor to the collections of the Maine 
 Historical Society, the Historical Magazine, New England Historical 
 and Genealogical Register, American Monthly, etc. He has been for 
 several years on the standing and publishing committees of the Maine 
 Historical. Society, and is an associate of the historical societies of 
 Vermont, Buffalo, N. Y., Wisconsin, and Royal Historical Society of 
 London. 
 
GRADUATES. 655 
 
 Mr. Williamson was for seven years judge of the police court of his 
 city. In 1857 he married at Bangor Ada H , daughter of Waldo T. 
 Pierce, who deceased March, 1872, leaving two daughters and a son. 
 
 1850. 
 
 John Pickens Abbot," a native of Ehode Island, entered college 
 in Senior standing. We have failed in obtaining, in reply to the 
 circular, information concerning his course since graduation. From 
 the record of the class we learn that he entered the navy as purser, 
 that he studied medicine, and in 1869 was in the practice in Warren, 
 R. I. 
 
 Fhancis Adams was born in Topsham, Jul}', 1824. After graduat- 
 ing he taught schools most of the time two or three years in Bruns- 
 wick and Topsham. Meanwhile he began the study of law with 
 Ebenezer Everett, Esq., in Brunswick. Ill health compelled a sus- 
 pension of his studies, and he took charge for some month's of the 
 Institute, Litchfield. He then completed his course in the law in the 
 office of William G. Barrows, Esq. (1839), since a justice in the 
 Supreme Court of the State, was admitted to the b^r in 1860, and 
 engaged in the practice in Topsham and Brunswick until 1869, when 
 he removed to Bath, where he still remains in the active duties of his 
 profession. He has held town offices and been attorney for the county 
 of Sagadahoc ten j'ears. In 1867 he married Clara J. Hildreth of 
 Topsham. They have had five children, one of whom died in infancj-. 
 
 Lemuel Weeks Atherton was born in Castine, Maj', 1828. After 
 graduating he read law in the office of Charles J. Abbot, Esq , and 
 then emigrated to Dixon, 111., where he engaged in the practice of 
 his profession, was successful and held in high esteem. He married 
 Miss Williams, daughter of Hon. Mr. Williams who represented his 
 district in Congress. He died August, 1859, from a;n attack of apo- 
 plexy, leaving two children. 
 
 William Nelson Nailing Bell was born in Dresden, Tenn , July, 
 1828. He studied law in the office of his brother-in-law, Hon. E. 
 Etheridge, was admitted to the bar, and formed a copartnership with 
 his teacher. He died July, 1862, of typhoid fever. He had married. 
 The above particulars were mainly obtained from the record of his 
 class in 1860. 
 
 Samuel Preble Buck, was born in Woolwich, December, 1827. 
 Immediately after leaving college he entered on the study of medicine 
 
656 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 with his father, a respected physician in that town. He attended lec- 
 tures in the Medical School connected with the college, graduated in 
 1S53, and settled in his native town, where he has continued in the 
 exercise of his profession. He has been supervisor of schools for the 
 town, and has been respected and esteemed as a professional man and 
 a citizen. He married Mary J. Webb and has five children. 
 
 John Johnson Bulfinch was born in Waldoboro', May, 1830. 
 After graduating he studied law with his father in Waldoboro', but 
 not finding the profession congenial, entered on theological study at 
 the Bangor Seminary, where he graduated in 185G. Having received 
 ordination he was stated supply from two to three j'ears at Perry and 
 St. vStephens, New Brunswick ; was at Boothbay two years and at 
 Newcastle eight. He was installed in Freeport, 1870, where he 
 remained six years. The last four years his residence has been in 
 Waldoboro', and he has exercised his ministry in the neighboring 
 towns of Washington and Bremen. In March, 1870, he married 
 Emeline D. Thurlow, who died in two years leaving no child. 
 
 Samuel Gushing Burr was born in Boston, February, 1830. He 
 studied law and opened an office in Boston. He died in Lancaster, 
 Mass., January, 1862. 
 
 Charles Edward Butler was born in Hallowell, October, 1825. 
 On leaving college he went South and was engaged in teaching several 
 years in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. His last position 
 as a teacher was the charge of a college for ladies in Gainesville, Ala. 
 His health requiring a change of occupation he returned to Tennessee, 
 and established himself in a firm for merchandise and commission 
 business in Fulton, where he now resides. In 1852 he married a 
 daughter of Dr. W. W. Lea of Trenton, and has five sons and two 
 daughters. 
 
 Gharles Garroll Everett was born in Brunswick, June, 1829. 
 He held a tutorship in the college two years, and then the professor- 
 ship of modern languages two j-ears, through the four years being 
 also librarian of the college. He pursued a theological course in the 
 Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1859. He was pastor over 
 the Independent Gongregational Ghurch in Bangor ten years, and re- 
 signed, having been elected Bussey Professor of Theology in Harvard 
 University. Since 1878 has been dean of the theological Facultj'. 
 The honorary degree of D. D. was conferred on him by the college in 
 
GRADUATES. 657 
 
 1870 and by Harvard in 1874. Dr. Everett has published a work 
 entitled " Science of Thought," besides several pamphlets, reviews, 
 etc., contribqted to the periodical press, and in 1879 a discourse com- 
 memorative of Leonard Woods, D. D., LL. D., late president of the 
 college. 
 
 He married, August, 1859, Sarah Octavia Dwinel of Topsham. 
 They have had one child, a daughter. 
 
 "William Pierce Frte was born in Lewiston, September, 1830. 
 After graduation he began the study of law in the offlee of Lowell 
 & Foster, Eoekland, completed his course with Hon. William Pitt 
 Fessenden (1823) in Portland, was admitted to the bar, and opened 
 an office in Rockland, where he continued the practice two or three 
 years. He then removed to Lewiston, where he has since resided. 
 He has been much in public life, having been in the Legislature of the 
 State in 1861, 1862, and 1867, mayor of the city of Lewiston two 
 years, attorney-general of the State three years, member of the 
 National Republican Executive Committee in 1872 and 1876, and 
 having represented his district in the Fortj'-second to the Forty-sixth 
 Congresses, and in 1>81 his State in the Senate of the United States. 
 He is highly reputed for ability and influence at the bar and in legis- 
 lative debate. 
 
 He married, while in Rockland, Caroline F., daughter of Capt. A. Gr. 
 Spear of that city. They have had three daughters, one of whom is 
 not living. 
 
 William Sewall Gardner was born in Lowell, Mass., October, 
 1828. On leaving college he at once entered upon legal studies with 
 Hon. Nathan Crosby, Esq., of Lowell, and was admitted to the Mid- 
 dlesex bar. After travel in the Southern and Western States he 
 opened an office in Lowell, and not long after formed a copartnership 
 with Theodore H. Sweetser, Esq., at first in Lowell and subsequently 
 in Boston, which continued until 1876, when he was appointed to the 
 bench of the Superior- Court of Massachusetts. He has held munici- 
 pal offices, and has published papers on subjects connected with Free- 
 masonry, in which order he holds high rank and position. In the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church he is one of the standing committee of 
 the Diocese of Massachusetts. 
 
 He has twice married: first in 1868, Mary Thornton Davis, widow 
 of Charles A. Davis, M. D., by whom he had one child, a daughter ; 
 second in 1877, Sarah M. Davis, daughter of Hon. Isaac Davis, 
 LL. D., of Worcester, Mass. 
 
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658 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Geoegb Peabody Goodwin was born in Baldwin, April, 1825, 
 brother of John M. (1845). On leaving college he spent three or 
 four years in teaching in the High School, Augusta, and as private 
 tutor in Woodville, Miss. He then read law in Chicago, was admitted 
 to the bar, and settled in practice in that city, where he remained 
 until on the death of his classmate and friend Atherton in Dixon, lU., 
 in 1859, he removed to that place and formed a copartnership with the 
 surviving partner of his friend. Having accepted the flattering ofier 
 of land commissioner of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, he 
 became resident in Evanston, near Chicago, his ofiSce being in the 
 city. During the last years of his life he suffered from a harassing 
 and incurable disease terminating in his death June, 1878. An offi- 
 cial of the large corporation with which he was connected bore 
 testimony to him as " a skilful, conscientious, incorruptible servant, 
 bringing to the discharge of his duties a well- cultivated mind and an 
 exhaustive knowledge of the law." He married the widow of his 
 friend Atherton, — Lucia, daughter of Hon. Hezekiah Williams of 
 Castine, who represented his district in the Congress of 1829 and 1830, 
 and had four children, all of whom died before their father. 
 
 Henky Fiske Harding was born in Union, March, 1827. After 
 graduation he taught the academy in Limerick nearly a year, was then 
 private tutor in a Louisiana family for a time, and had charge of an 
 academy in, Seabrook, N. H., for a year. He then entered the Theo- 
 logical heminary at Bangor, and graduated in 1856. Soon after he 
 was called to the pastorate over the church and society in Machias,, 
 where he remained sixteen years. . In 1871 he removed to Hallowell, 
 and became the financial agent and secretary of the classical school. 
 He also established the Kennebec Wire Works, and is now connected 
 with that manufactory as treasurer. He married a daughter of the late 
 Hon. Jeremiah O'Brien of Machias, and has five children. A son is 
 now a member of the college. 
 
 Samuel Little Hodgman was born in Warren, December, 1827. 
 Repeated attempts to gain access to him for information having failed, 
 what has been learned concerning him is, that he has devoted himself 
 to affairs of business, has for some years been thus engaged in Boston, 
 his residence being Jamaica Plain . 
 
 Feeeland Salmon Holmes was born in Foxcroft, September, 
 1827. On leaving college he studied medicine partly in Calais with 
 Job Holmes, M. D., attended lectures at Castleton, Vt., and at Co- 
 lumbia College, Washington, D. C, where he graduated in 1854. He 
 
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GRADUATES. 659 
 
 settled in the practice of his profession in Orono and subsequently in 
 Foxcroft. He entered the army in the war of the Kebellion as assist- 
 ant surgeon of the Fourth Maine, became surgeon of the Sixth, and 
 was promoted brigade surgeon just before his death, which occurred in 
 camp in Virginia from diphtheria, June, 1863. In 1857 he married 
 Caroline A., daughter of I. Washburn of Livermore, and left a son 
 and daughter. He was much esteemed and respected • wherever 
 known. 
 
 Oliver Otis Howard was born in Leeds, November, 1830. On 
 leaving college he was appointed to the Military Academy at West 
 Point, where he graduated in 1854, and was commissioned lieutenant 
 of ordinance. Having held positions in the service until 1857, he 
 became instructor in mathematics at West Point for four years. At 
 the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion, resigning his commission as 
 lieutenant he took command of a regiment of Maine volunteers. At 
 the battle of Bull Eun he commanded a brigade, and in September, 
 
 1861, was made brigadier-general of volunteers. Assigned to a bri- 
 gade in the Army of the Potomac, in the battle of Fair Oaks, June, 
 
 1862, he had two horses killed under him, was wounded twice, and 
 lost his right arm. After the battle of Antietam he commanded a 
 division ; at the battle of Chancellors ville, the Eleventh Corps ; at 
 Gettysburg, after the fall of Gen. Reynolds he commanded during the 
 first day of the battle ; November, 1862, was commissioned major-gen- 
 eral of volunteers ; was engaged at Lookout Valley, Chattanooga, and 
 in movements for relief of Knoxville ; July, 1864, took command of 
 the Army of the Tennessee ; was in most of the battles of the Georgia 
 compaign, and commanded the right wing of Sherman's army in the 
 march to the sea; was appointed brigadier-general in the regular 
 army December, 1864, and brevet major-general March, 1865. Sub- 
 sequently he was appointed commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, 
 holding ofHce until the closing of the bureau in 1872 ; was a trustee 
 of Howard University, and president four years. In 1872, being 
 appointed special commissioner to the Indians, he spent several 
 months in that service in New Mexico and Arizona. In 1874 he 
 assumed comnland of the department of the Columbia, and in 1881 
 was appointed superintendent of the United States Militarj' Academy 
 at West Point. Such is a record of eminent service for which Gen. 
 Howard has received testimonials of high approval from the govem- 
 nent and country. He has proved himself not only an accomplished, 
 brilliant, and gallant soldier, but a steadfast, active, and consistent 
 Christian man. 
 
660 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Gen. Howard has contributed to periodical journals, has published 
 a book entitled " Donald's School Da3s," and has now in press 
 another, " Nez Perce Joseph." In 1855 he married Elizabeth A. 
 "Waite of Portland. They have had seven children, five sons and two 
 daughters. 
 
 Daniel Cony Ingraham was born in Augusta, Jul}-, 1830. After 
 a course of theological study in the seminary, Bangor, graduating in 
 1856. he labored for a time as stated supplj' in St. Louis, Mo., but 
 in 1858 received deacon's orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 and exercised his ministry in the parishes of Trinity Church, Saco, and 
 Trinity Church, Lewiston. He was seized with an insidious disease of 
 the brain which disabled him from active labor, and terminated in his 
 death November, 1860. His amiability and personal bearing with 
 his advantages of education gave promise of usefulness. He never 
 married. 
 
 Geokge Follansbee Jackson was born in Pittston, August, 1827. 
 After graduating he taught in an academy in East Pittston nearly two 
 years, and then studied medicine in Gardiner with Dr. G. S. Palmer 
 (1838). He took courses of lectures at the Medical School of the 
 college, and at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he 
 graduated in 1853. He first settled in his profession in Boothbay 
 four years and then removed to New York, where he still lives in the 
 practice. He has been sanitary inspector of the board of health of 
 the city, and surgeon of the metropolitan police, and is a member of 
 the Academy of Medicine of New York City and of the County 
 Medical Society. 
 
 He married Eachel, daughter of Heniy Dearborn of East Pittston, 
 and has a son and daughter. 
 
 John Nelson Jevtett was born in Palmyra, October, 1827. After 
 graduation he taught in North Yarmouth Academy two years, mean- 
 while pursuing legal studies. He completed his course of study in a 
 law office in Madison, "Wis. ; was admitted to the bar and began the 
 practice in Galena, 111., where he remained three years. He then 
 removed to Chicago, where he has since resided. He has never as- 
 pired after political office but has devoted himself to his profession, 
 although in 1870 he was elected to the Senate of Illinois and served 
 two years. 
 
 In 1855 he married Ellen K. Ronntree of Plattsville, "Wis. They 
 have had two sons, of whom the eldest is now a member of the college. 
 
GRADUATES. 661 
 
 Arthur McArthur, son of Arthur McArthur (1810), was born 
 in Limington, September, 1830. He studied law and began the prac- 
 tice in his native town, but subsequently removed to the South. At 
 the opening of the late war of the Eebellion he entered the Confed- 
 erate army, became major of a Louisiana regiment, and died in Eich- 
 mond, Va , of wounds received in the battle of June, 1862, near that 
 city. 
 
 Abnek Morrill was born in Limerick, August, 1827. The first 
 year after graduation he was professor of mathematics and natural 
 science in Middlebury Academy, Wyoming, N. Y. ; in the autumn of 
 1851 went South, and became principal of the English department in 
 the college of West Tennessee, Jackson ; in 1854 took charge of Read 
 Temperance Academj^, recently established in Jackson ; in the year 
 following was associated with Bennet Pike, a college friend, in the 
 Academy for Boys, Bolivar, Tenn., and in 1858 was invited to the 
 headship of an academy for ladies in the same place. This position 
 he resigned for the Christian ministry, to which while in college he 
 had consecrated himself when he united with the Main Street Baptist 
 Church in Brunswick. He was licensed to preach in 1852 in Helena, 
 Ark., and soon after was ordained and has exercised his ministry in 
 Bolivar, and having returned to the North, in Farmington, Turner, 
 Mechanic Falls, Warsaw, N. Y., Arcade, N. Y., and since 1875 in 
 Painted Post, N. Y. 
 
 In 1855 he married Ann M. Hussey, daughter of the late George 
 W. Hussey, Esq., of Kennebunk. They have four daughters, a son 
 having died in early infancy. 
 
 Peleg Stone Perley was born in Livermore, July, 1819. He 
 taught for a time, studied law in Portland, and has engaged in the 
 profession in Henry, Marshall County, 111. , — such was the class 
 record some years ago. Through the postmaster of Dixmont, his 
 native place, we learn that this is still his address, but no response to 
 our circular has been received. 
 
 Trueman Somerfield Perry was born in Oxford, December, 1826. 
 He left college at the beginning of his Junior year, in consequence of 
 weakness of ej'es which for several years prevented their use in read- 
 ing. In 1873 the college boards admitted him to the bachelor's degree 
 and his place in the class. Under this calamity he emploj'ed himself 
 as he could in active pursuits : from 1861 to 1866 he had a clerkship 
 in the United States Senate ; while in Washington he was a corre- 
 spondent of the Portland Press, writing bj- the help of a machine 
 
662 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 which he constructed ; in 1870 he began to preach, was ordained 
 an evangelist in 1873, soon became acting pastor over the Congre- 
 gational Church in Cumberland, and still remains in that position. 
 He has been a frequent contributor to the press. He manifested his 
 regard to his Alma Mater by a generous donation of public documents 
 to the library. 
 
 In 1852 he married Elizabeth Green Hale of Bridgton. 
 
 Geobge Gilmer Poindexter was born in Louisa County, Va., 
 but entered college from Dresden, Tenn. His poem at the Commence- 
 ment of his class is remembered as one of the mosD successful of such 
 performances. After graduating he taught school, meanwhile pursu- 
 ing the study of law, and graduated at a law school, Lebanon, Tenn. 
 Soon after his admission to the bar he was appointed by Governor 
 Brown chief clerk of the Post-Offlce Department, Washington, and 
 held the office until 1858, when having procured an interest in the 
 Union and American, a Democratic print, he became principal editor. 
 His versatile talent, his readiness and vigor as a writer, and his attain- 
 ments, — rare for one in his position, — gave promise of political dis- 
 tinction. He became involved in a violent political controversy, which 
 resulted in his being shot down by his adversary in the public streets 
 of Nashville, November, 1859. 
 
 John Smith Sewall was born in Newcastle, March, 1830. After 
 graduating, having been appointed commander's clerk, he sailed in 
 the United States sloop of war " Saratoga" for the East Indies and 
 China. He was in the saine capacity in the Japan expedition under 
 Commodore Perry, and returned by way of Sandwich Islands and 
 Cape Horn in 1854. After a j^ear spent as a private tutor in a family 
 in Winthrop, he entered the Theological Seminary, Bangor, graduat- 
 ing in 1858. Early in 1859 he was settled in the pastorate over the 
 Congregational Church, Wenham, Mass., where he remained eight 
 years. In 1867 he was elected to the professorship of rhetoric and 
 English literature in our college, and held that position until 1875, 
 when he accepted the professorship of sacred rhetoric in the Theologi- 
 cal Seminary at Bangor. 
 
 Prof. Sewall has published a book for Sabbath schools, religious 
 tracts, and been a frequent and acceptable contributor to the leading 
 reviews, periodicals, and the religious press. 
 
 In 1858 he married Louisa, daughter of Hon. Samuel P. Benson 
 (1825) of Winthrop. They have had two children : a daughter now 
 deceased, and a son now a member of the college. - 
 
GRADUATES. 663 
 
 Thomas Robinson Smith was born in Bath, November, 1830, son 
 of Jacob Smith (1823). Soon after graduating he, went South and 
 took charge of an academy in Bolivar, Tenn., meanwhile pursuing 
 legal studies ; was admitted to the bar and entered upon a prosperous 
 practice, soon taking rank among the ablest of his age. During the 
 war he was in the Confederate service a year or more. At the close 
 of the war he removed to Memphis ; was appointed to the bench of 
 the law court in 1866, but held oflBce a short time and returned to 
 active practice. He was esteemed an able counsellor and advocate, 
 and was rapidly rising to distinction ; was highly esteemed and re- 
 spected by the profession, and an ornament of social life ; was liberal 
 in support of religious institutions, and a friend of young men. As 
 president of the board of visitors he was efficient in promoting the . 
 interests of the free schools of the city. His death, February, 1872, 
 by a sudden attack of pneumonia, was regarded a public calamity. 
 Soon after establishing himself in Bolivar he married Kate, daughter 
 of Pitser MiUer, Esq., and had five children. 
 
 George Habvey Snell was born in Unity, July, 1829. He studied 
 law in Augusta, was admitted to the bar, and pursued bis profession 
 for a time in Maine with success. He then removed to the "West and 
 settled in Prescott, Wis. His health failing he returned to his home 
 in Unity, and died of pulmonarjr disease, March, 1858. 
 
 Samuel Adams Stinson was born in Wiscasset, November, 1831. 
 He studied law in Wiscasset, was admitted to the bar, and for a time 
 engaged in his profession there. He then removed to Janesville, 111., 
 where he was a partner with Governor Baker in the practice ; he 
 then removed to Leavenworth, Kan., and soon became prominent in 
 the profession. Seized with pulmonary disease, he returned to Maine 
 and died in his father's house, February, 1866. He married Miss 
 Page of Hallowell and left one child. 
 
 Eugene Thompson was the son of Charles Thompson, Esq., of 
 Topsham, and was born May 8, 1828. His health did not allow him to 
 go on with his class during the last two terms of the Senior year. He 
 received his degree, however, with his class, and one of the highest 
 parts was assigned him, — somewhat out of the usual course. He 
 died October, 1850, less than a month after Commencement. 
 
 Patrick Henry Townsend was born in Salisbury, N. H., October, 
 1823. He was three years in Kansas during the border troubles. 
 He studied law in Illinois with Hon. E. B. Washburn two years; at 
 
664 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 the opening of the late war was resident in Washington, D. C, and 
 enlisted in the volunteer service for defence of the city ; and held a 
 clerkship in the United States Department of the Interior three years. 
 He was seized with erysipelas and died May, 1864. He never married. 
 
 George Howe Vose was born in Augusta, March, 1829, son of 
 Eufus Chandler Vose and Mary Bridge. Soon after leaving college 
 he emigrated to California and settled on a farm. 
 
 In 1855 he married Kate Le Rose, by whom he has had four chil- 
 dren. His present residence is Oakland, Cal. 
 
 1851. 
 
 Philip Henry Brown was born in Portland, October, 1831. He 
 has always resided in Portland as a member of the banking houses of 
 J. B. Brown & Sons. He has cultivated literary tastes and has 
 accumulated a valuable private library. In 1854 he married Fanny, 
 daughter of Mr. Justice Clifford of the United States Supreme Court, 
 and has had eight children, of whom three sons and three daughters 
 survive. 
 
 John Warren Buttermeld was born in Vassalboro', 1829. He 
 was employed in teaching three or four years after graduation. He 
 then studied law and engaged in the practice. From 1861 to 1876 
 he held a clerkship in the treasury at Washington, and most of that 
 period that of law clerk in the office of the second comptroller. 
 
 He married May V. Fisher of Bangor, but has no children. 
 
 Daniel Lewis Eaton was born in Calais, October, 1825. He 
 studied law in Portland, was admitted to the bar, and opened an 
 office, but afterwards removed to St. Louis ; subsequently edited a 
 newspaper in Pittsburg, Pa., for some years. In the war of the 
 Rebellion he gave himself to the public service ; was paymaster on 
 Gen. Heintzelman's staff, ranking as mlijor ; was brevetted lieutenant- 
 colonel; was appointed actuary of the Freedman's Savings Bank, 
 Washington, D. C, and contributed bj' administrative faculty to its 
 success ; resigning this position, became cashier of the Second 
 National Bank, Washington, and was highly esteemed as an ener- 
 getic man of business and of strictest integrity. When the territo- 
 rial government was organized he was appointed by the President of. 
 the United States a member of the council or senate, was re-elected, 
 and held the office at the time of his death. He was one of the 
 founders of the Congregational Church in Washington, and was ever 
 
GRADUATES. 665 
 
 an active and consistent member, a teacher in the Sabbath school, 
 and a liberal friend of every good work After a long and painful 
 sickness he died, February, 1873, in the peace and hope of the 
 gospel. 
 
 Mr. Eaton married Frances Webster of Cape Elizabeth, and left a 
 son and daughter. 
 
 Joseph Palmer Fessenden was born in Portland, September, 
 1831. He entered soon after graduation upon medical studies, at- 
 tended the lectures of the Medical School, Brunswick, and of the 
 New York Medical College, where he received M. D. in 1854. He 
 settled in practice in Lewiston, where |ie remained until 1871, being 
 eleven j'ears of that period postmaster. After a year or two in Port- 
 land he removed to Salem, Mass., where he now resides in the exer- 
 cise of his profession. While in Lewiston he was superintendent of 
 the city schools, and on the common council and board of aldermen. 
 In Salem he is hospital physician, and medical examiner for pensions 
 for the United States government. In 1858 he married Anna, daugh- 
 ter of Silas and Hannah M. Greenlief , who died in 1872, leaving two 
 sons and two daughters. 
 
 John Samuel Hatch Frink was born in Greenland, N. H., Novem- 
 ber, 1831. On leaving college he studied law with Albert R. Hatch, 
 Esq., of Portsmouth, N. H. ; was admitted to the bar of Eockingham 
 County and practised his profession in Epping, N. H., from 1855 to 
 1861, when he removed to Portsmouth, his residence being in Green- 
 land. He was prosecuting attorney for the county from 1870 to 1875 ; 
 was appointed associate justice of the Circuit Court of New Hamp- 
 shire in 1875, which office he declined, as also that of associate justice 
 of the Supreme Court of the State in 1877, which also he declined. 
 
 He married in 1859 Lucretia Morse Pickering, and has one son now 
 living. 
 
 Parris Gibson entered college from Brownfleld, but the birth-date 
 is omitted. All efforts to reach him have failed. We have ascer- 
 tained through a friend that he has lived several years in Minneapolis, 
 Minn., that his family were residing there, although he was tempora- 
 rily in Bertton, Montana, at the time our information was received. 
 
 Augustus Choate Hamlin was born in Bangor, August, 1829. 
 On leaving college he pursued medical studies at Harvard Medical 
 School and at the University in Paris, France, graduating at Harvard 
 
666 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 in 1855. He established himself in Bangor, where he has since re- 
 sided. During the war he was four years in the service as brigade 
 surgeon, medical director of the Eleventh Corps, and medical in- 
 spector of the regular army. He has been, in two successive years 
 mayor of the city, and general secretary from 1874 to 1878 of the 
 American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a mem- 
 ber of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries. He has published 
 a " History of Andersonville Prison," a work on the " Tourmaline," 
 besides treatises on scientific subjects, and has others in hand, among 
 which is " Leisure Hours among the Gems." 
 
 He married Helen A. Cutting, daughter of Justice Jonas Cutting of 
 the Supreme Court of Maine, ^nd has a daughter and son both living. 
 
 Geoegb Lafayette Hates, son of "Watson Hayes of -Eochester, 
 N. H., was born at Barnstead, N. H., Dec. 5, 1831. He was fitted 
 for college at Phillips Exeter Academj^, and entered in September, 
 1847. Throughout his college course he sustained a high character as 
 a man and a scholar. He left college shortly before the Commence- 
 ment of his class, and went immediately to Winchester, Va., and 
 engaged in teaching and the study of law. In February, 1852, he 
 removed to Georgetown, Scott County, Ky., and remained there teach- 
 ing and studying his profession until December, 1852, when he removed 
 to Russellville, Logan County, Ky. He continued teaching here until 
 within a fortnight of his death, when he was admitted to the bar of 
 that county. He died July 23, 1854, of a disease incident to that 
 region. From resolutions adopted in view of his death at a large 
 meeting of his fellow-citizens, from a eulogy given at his funeral, at 
 their united request, by a lawyer of that bar, and from other unusual 
 marks of affection and respect at his funeral, it may be inferred that 
 his early death disappointed the promise he had already given of 
 uncommon usefulness. 
 
 Hiram Hayes was born in Industry, Maj', 1831, brother of Stephen 
 H. (1838). After graduation, after teaching awhile he studied law, 
 and in 1854 settled in Superior, Wis., in the practice, having been led 
 in that direction partlj' on account of his health, and in connection 
 with a railroad exploring party. In 1860 he held clerkships of a com- 
 mittee of the Senate, and then in the Treasury and Interior Depart- 
 ments in Washington. During the war of the Eebellion was in action 
 at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gett^-sburg, etc. ; was in service the 
 last three years in the quartermaster's department, with rank at one 
 period of lieutenant-colonel, and at last as member of the examining 
 
GRADUATES. 667 
 
 board, the duty being " to overlook the supply service, to examine into 
 the qnaliflcations of officers, and to investigate irregularities." In the 
 fall of 1865 he resigned his post with the reputation of faithful ser- 
 vice, and resumed his profession. He has published the " Minnesota 
 Manual," a guide for county and town officers, having compiled a 
 similar one for Wisconsin. 
 In 1860 he married Mary E. Newton. 
 
 John SroNEY Hurd was born in Fryeburg, December, 1832, son 
 of Eev. Carleton Hurd, pastor of the Congregational Church in that 
 town. Information concerning him has been obtained through friends, 
 no reply having been received to the circular sent to his address. He 
 studied medicine with the late Dr. Barrows of Fryeburg, and attended 
 lectures at the Dartmouth Medical School. In 1855 he went to Iowa 
 and entered upon the practice of the profession. Early in the late 
 war he was instrumental in raising a company of volunteers, promis- 
 ing to go with them as a surgeon, and was for some time stationed at 
 Island No. 10 in the Mississippi ; was subsequently detached to take 
 charge of the transportation department at Paducah, Ky., and at Cairo, 
 and served until the close of the war. He returned to Hampton, Iowa, 
 with impaired health, where he now resides. He never married. 
 
 Elias Osgood Libbet was born in Limerick, August, 1829. He 
 entered on a course of theological study at Andover Seminary, Mass., 
 but abandoned it at the end of his first year for more active pursuits. 
 He commenced commercial business in Boston. He subsequently- re- 
 moved to Texas, whence, in consequence of ill health, he was return- 
 ing home, and died January, 1861. 
 
 William Mabtin Luthek Marshall was born in Hallowell, Octo- 
 ber, 1827. The onlj- information we get concerning him is that he 
 went to Baltimore, engaged in the practice of law, and died there in 
 1863. 
 
 John Cdmmings Merrill was born in Portland, November, 1831, 
 brother of Charles B. (1847). After graduating he engaged in medi- 
 cal study, attended lectures in the medical schools of the college and 
 of New York, receiving his M. D. from the latter in 1854. He has 
 resided in his profession in Portland. During the war of the Rebel- 
 lion he was surgeon in the Confederate army. He has never married. 
 
 William Oliver Otis was born in Hallowell, December, 1830, son 
 of Hon. John 0. (1823). After graduation he removed to Texas 
 
668 HTRTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 and employed himself for the most part in teaching, as was the report 
 of him. Through friends of the family a circular was sent to him, 
 but no return was made. 
 
 William Henry Owen was born in Brookhaven, N. Y., February, 
 1830. On leaving college he employed himself in teaching in Missis- 
 sippi and Tennessee for a time, and then as civil engineer on the 
 Memphis and Charleston, and East Tennessee and Georgia Railroads, 
 and in Minnesota in surveying public lands until 1859, when he en- 
 tered upon legal study in New York and attended lectures in the law 
 department of Columbia College. In the first j'ear of the war he was 
 commissioned first lieutenant of the Third Maine, and served through 
 the war, passing through the different grades to colonel and inspector 
 of the quartermaster's department in the army of the Potomac, in West 
 Virginia, Kansas, and Missouri. From 1865 to 1868 he practised 
 law in Washington, D. C, and then resumed civil engineering on the 
 Northern Pacific Railroad and in Pennsylvania. In 1878, having 
 removed to Texas, for two years he was engaged in farming and 
 stock-raising. He has since been in service in engineering and archi- 
 tectural work for the army at headquarters, department of Texas, 
 San Antonio. 
 
 In 1864 he married Carrie Roser of Savannah, Ga. He has no 
 children . 
 
 William Alfeed Packaed was born in Brunswick, August, 1830, 
 brother of Charles A. (1848). Soon after graduation he became 
 assistant teacher in Phillips Andover Academjj^, Mass , for a year, and 
 for the year following tutor in the college. He pursued a course of 
 theological study in the seminary at Andover, graduating in 1857. 
 While in the seminary he took charge of the classes of Dr. Taj'lor, 
 principal of Phillips Academj"-, during his absence for a few months, in 
 Europe. In 1857 he went abroad and spent two years, mostly in 
 Gcittingen and Berlin. In 1859 he wfts elected professor of modern 
 languages in Dartmouth College, and in 1863 was transferred to the 
 Groek professorship in the same, which he resigned in 1870 on being 
 elected to the professorship of Latin and of the science of language 
 in the college of New Jersey, Princeton, which he now holds. Soon 
 after leaving the seminary he received a license to preach, has been 
 accustomed to render that service, and in his turn preaches before the 
 college at Princeton. In 1868 he received the honorary degree of 
 Doctor of Philosophy from Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., and is 
 a member of the American Oriental Society. He revised an edition 
 
GRADUATES. 669 
 
 of Curtius's " History of Greece," has contributed translations and 
 notices of books to tiie Princeton Review, and recently an article and 
 notices of books to the Presbyterian Bevieio, together with biographi- 
 cal sketches of the presidents of the College of New Jersey in the 
 " Princeton Book." 
 
 In 1861 he married Susan Breese, daughter of Rev. Thomas Gal- 
 lagher of Bloomfleld, N. J. They have one child, a daughter. 
 
 Geokge Adams Pollard was born in Hallowell, August, 1830. 
 After graduating he taught one term each in Mt. Vernon and Seajrs- 
 port. He then pursued the course of theological study at the semi- 
 nary, Bangor, graduating in 1854. He was missionary of the American 
 Board of Commissioners from 1855 to 1867 at Arabkir and Erzroom,- 
 Asia Minor. Since his return from Eastern service he has exercised 
 his ministry in different places in Michigan, and at this writing (1880) 
 resides in Grand Eapids, Mich., preaching in the neighborhood of tiie 
 city. He has been a frequent contributor to the Missionary Herald 
 and to the public press on topics pertaining to his mission or Oriental 
 life. 
 
 In 1855 he married Mai-y Helen Worcester of Salem, Mass. They 
 have had six children, all but one natives of Turkey. Five are now 
 living. 
 
 Charles Wentvtorth Roberts was born in Bangor, date not re- 
 corded. He did not pursue professional study, but has been engaged 
 as a dealer in lumber and as a bank cashier in Bangor. He served 
 in the late war as colonel of the Second Regiment of Maine Volunteers, 
 and was breve tted brigadier-general " for meritorious conduct in the 
 battle of Hanover Court House." He was collector of custopis for the 
 district under President Andrew Johnson, and has been on the board 
 of aldermen and of the common council of the city. In 1870 and 
 1875 he was nominated by the Democratic party for governor of the 
 State, but failed of an election. He married Miss Jane Peirse of 
 Bangor, and has had two daughters. 
 
 William Scott Sodthgate was born in Portland, April, 1631, 
 brother of Robert (1826), Horatio (1832), and Frederic (1835). 
 Soon after graduating he studied for the Christian ministry in the 
 General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 New York, graduating in 1855 ; was ordained deacon at Portland in 
 July of that year, and in the following year priest ; was assistant in 
 the Church of the Advent, Boston, one year ; rector of St. Michael's, 
 
670 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Brattleboro', Vt., from 1856 to 1860; of St. Michael's, Litchfield,. 
 Ct., from 1860 to 1863, when he travelled abroad, and was without 
 charge until 1869, when he became rector of St. Anne's Parish, An- 
 napolis, Md., where he now resides (1880). In 1853 he published a 
 history of Scarboro', which constitutes a considerable portion of volume 
 three of Maine Historical Collections, and has contributed reviews 
 and articles to periodicals. In 1858 he married Harriet Randolph, 
 daughter of Capt. Andrew Talcott, U. S. A., of Glastonbury, Conn., 
 and has had ten children, seven of whom are now living. 
 
 Joseph Ashub Ware was born in Portland, August, 1832, son of 
 the late Hon Judge Ware of the United States District Court. He 
 read law and practised sorae time in Portland. He was subsequently 
 for a time managing editor of Forney's Press, and also assistant editor 
 of the Washington Chronicle. He filled with ability responsible posi- 
 tions under government as solicitor of the Post-Offlce Department ; was 
 sent to Europe on matters of importance in that department ; repre- 
 sented the United States before the Court of Claims in cotton claims. 
 He was " of quick perception, and held a facile, brilliant pen." He 
 Sied in Washington, May, 1874. The above particulars were obtained 
 from Forney's Press of May 28, 1874. 
 
 Henby Willis born in Portland, June, 1831, son of Hon. William 
 Willis, LL. D. He studied law with his father, and began the prac- 
 tice in Portland, where he remained. He was interested in natural 
 history, and was vice-president of the Portland Natural History Society 
 at the time of his death, which occurred March, 1868. 
 
 He married in 1855 Adeline, daughter of Judge Luther Fitch of 
 Portland, and left one child, a daughter. 
 
 Joseph Charles Augustus Wingate was born in Stratham, N. H., 
 November, 1831, son of John Wingate, and grandson of Paine Win- 
 gate, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Soon 
 after leaving college he engaged in legal studies in the oflSce of Messrs. 
 Stickney & Tuck of Exeter, N. H., was admitted to the bar, and 
 opened an oflfice in Chester, N. H., but soon after removed to Con- 
 cord, N. H. In 1858 he became cashier of Merrimac County Bank 
 and held that position four years, when ill health compelled his resig- 
 nation, he having been afflicted with rheumatic fever, which after more 
 than a year's suffering left him a cripple for the rest of his life to the 
 present date (1880). In 1863 he was appointed by President Lincoln 
 consul at bwatow, China, and held that oflSice until his removal by 
 
GRADUATES. 671 
 
 President Grant in 1875. He returned home bearing Mgh. testimo- 
 nials from the officials of other governments, from the English mis- 
 sionaries in that city, and merchants, to his efficiency and worth. He 
 now lives in his ancestral home. He has been recentlj- appointed 
 consul at Foochow, China. 
 
 In 1860 he married Mary, daughter of William Green of Bristol, 
 N. H., who died November, 1876, without children. 
 
 1852. 
 
 Geokgb Franklin Allen was born in Wolfeboro', N. H., June, 
 1828. After graduation he taught school for a time and then pur- 
 sued a course of theological study at Harvard Divinity School, grad- 
 uating in 1855. He was superintendent of the Children's Mission 
 Home for Boys, Boston, where he died early in 1860. 
 
 Jesse Fkanklin Buttekfield was born in Farmington, May, 1825. 
 From 1852 to 1856 he taught the High School in Augusta and the 
 academy in Foxcroft. He then went to Ohio and became principal 
 of the High School in Piqua. He remained four years, when an 
 asthmatic affection, which during most of these years had been slowly 
 developing itself, compelled him to seek a different air, and he re- 
 moved to Minneapolis and opened a private school. He was soon 
 however obliged to yield to the disease, which proved fatal September, 
 1868. " In college and for some time after he was inclined to adopt 
 sceptical views, but renounced them and died in the full faith of the 
 Gospel." May, 1860, he married Sarah M. Powell of St. Anthony, 
 Minn. 
 
 Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born in Brewer, September, 
 1828. After graduation he pursued theological studies at Bangor Sem- 
 inary, graduating in 1855, and received a license to preach, but never 
 assumed the ministerial office, being called to a tutorship in the college. 
 At the close of the year he was elected professor of rhetoric and ora- 
 tory, in the year following instructor in modern languages, and two 
 years after professor of the same department. In 1862, with leave of 
 absence from the trustees and overseers, he offered himself to military 
 service in the Civil War, for which he had probably imbibed a taste, 
 and was in a measure prepared by early training in the military 
 school at Ellsworth. He entered the army with rank of lieutenant- 
 colonel, served to the close of the war with distinction, and ended 
 with the brevet of major-general *nd command of a division, and 
 
672 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 participated in several important battles ; was twice, once severely, 
 wounded, won repeated commendations from his superiors, was 
 once promoted brigadier-general by Gen. Gran* on the field " for 
 gallant conduct in leading his brigade in a charge," was in the ad- 
 vance in the last action of the war, and was designated to receive the 
 formal surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox Court House. . In 
 1865 he returned to his home, resigned his professorship, soon after 
 became governor of Maine, and was thrice re-elected. In 1867 he 
 received the honorary degr.ee of doctor of laws from the college, was 
 chosen a trustee, and in 1871 its president. To the ordinary duties 
 of the presidency had been added, when Dr. Harris assumed the office, 
 the professorship of mental and moral philosophy ; and in the strait- 
 ened resources of the college. President Chamberlain has given in- 
 struction in international law and political economy. In 1876 he was 
 elected major-general of the militia of the State, and although he re- 
 signed the position in 1879 was urged to retain it, — as has been proved, 
 with great advantage to the State, inasmuch as in that position he was 
 able to render important service in the very critical embroilment of 
 political relations which threw a cloud over the opening of the present 
 year (1880). In 1878 he visited Europe, having been appointed by 
 President Hayes on the United States Commission to the Paris Expo- 
 sition of that year, with special view to systems of education. Besides 
 inaugural and annual addresses as govei-nor of the State and president 
 of the college, he has published several others delivered on public 
 occasions, the most elaborate and noticeable of them being that at the 
 Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, published by order of the 
 Legislature of Maine, entitled " Maine: Her Place in History," and 
 his report as commissioner to the Paris Exposition. 
 
 President Chamberlain married in Brunswick, Caroline Frances, 
 daughter of Ashur Adams, Esq., of Boston ; and Emily, daughter of 
 George Wyllys, Hartford, Conn., an adopted daughter of Rev. Dr. 
 G. E. Adams of Brunswick. They have had four children, of whom 
 a son, now a member of the Junior clkss in the college, and a daugh- 
 ter survive. 
 
 Charles Cheslet was born in Wakefield, N. H., April, 1827. 
 After graduation he taught schools in his native town, in Baltimore, 
 Md., and in West Chester, Pa., in the last-named place two j'ears. 
 He began legal study with Hon. John Hickman of West Chester, 
 member of Congress from that district, completing his course with 
 Hon. Charles Doe, Dover, N. H., now chief justice of New Hamp- 
 shire, and settled in Wakefield, which is now his legal residence. For 
 
GRADUATES. 673 
 
 some years he was solicitor for the county of Carroll, N. H., and 
 since 1871 has been solicitor of internal revenue, Washington, D. C. 
 In 1859 he married Sarah E. Twitchell of Wakefield. They have had 
 one son, now a member of Phillips Exeter Academy. 
 
 John White Chickering was born in Portland, September, 1831, 
 son of Rev Dr. Chickering, formerly of Portland After graduating he 
 taught in Bucksport, Foxcroft, and in Ovid, N. Y., until he entered 
 on a theological course in the seminary at Bangor, where he graduated 
 in 1860. He was pastor of the Congi'egational Church in Springfield, 
 Vt., three years, secretarj- of Vermont Bible Society two years, and 
 pastor of one of the Congregational Churches in Exeter, N. H., five 
 years. In 1870 he accepted the chair of natural science in the 
 National Deaf-Mute College, Washington, D C, where he stUl 
 remains. In 1856 he married Luciana, daughter of Rev Mr. Jame- 
 son, formerly of Scarboro', then resident in Gorham, and has three 
 children, a son and two daughters. 
 
 James Deeeing Fessenden was born in Portland, September, 1833. 
 He studied law and settled in the practice in Portland. He entered 
 the United States service in the war of the Rebellion, was commis- 
 sioned captain of the United States Sharpshooters, colonel of the 
 United States colored troops, was on Major-Gen. Hunter's staff, on 
 Major-Gen. Hooker's in the campaign to Atlanta, commanded a bri- 
 gade under Gen. Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, and was bre- 
 vetted major-general "for gallant and distinguished services." He 
 married Miss Fanny Greeley, Topsham, and has had two sons. 
 
 John Holmes Goodenow was born in Alfred, September, 1833, son 
 of the late Hon. Judge Daniel Goodenow and a daughter of the late 
 Hon. John Holmes, conspicuous in the political and civil history of Mas- 
 sachusetts and Maine. After graduation he at once entered upon the 
 study of law with his father, completing his course in the office of 
 Messrs. Fessenden & Butler, Portland, was admitted to the bar in 1855, 
 and practised the profession in Alfred as partner with the late Nathan 
 Dane Appleton (1813). He represented his town in the Legislature 
 of the State in 1859, and his district in the Senate in 1861-62, and was 
 president of that body both years He was appointed by President 
 Lincoln consuli-general to Constantinople in 1864, and in 1873 became 
 secretary of legation in Turkey, and resigned the position in 1875. 
 H^ was three times charge d'affaires during the absence of the minister 
 to Turkey. He was made umpire in a controversy involving a large 
 amount between the British and Egyptian governments. Since his 
 
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674 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 return from the East his residence has been in Saco and Maiden, 
 Mass. He has recently been elected a member of the Board of Over- 
 seers of the college. He has never married. 
 
 Joseph Dana Howard was born in Portland, July, 1833, son of 
 Judge Joseph Howard (1821). He studied law with Messrs. Shepley 
 & Dana, Portland, was admitted to the bar, and removed subse- 
 quently to New York with a view to his profession, but soon resolved 
 to devote himself to literary pursuits as more congenial to his tastes 
 and studies. For several years he gave private instruction to those 
 preparing for college and to J'oung ladies in the higher branches of 
 education. He contributed articles to leading reviews and journals. 
 His papers on ".The Moorish Dominion in Spain," "Christopher 
 North," and the poet Gray are remembered with pleasure. He left 
 manuscripts apparently designed for publication, and was contemplat- 
 ing foreign travel. Not long before his death, apprehending that the 
 sudden attack of pneumonia then upon him might prove fatal, he 
 gave peremptory directions to destroy all his manuscripts in case of 
 his death. He had been invited to professorships, but they were de- 
 clined. He was reputed to have made attainments wide, thorough, 
 and accurate. 
 
 BiON Freeman Kendall was born in Bethel, October, 1827. He 
 studied law, and removing to the far West opened an office for the 
 practice of his profession in Olympia, Washington Territory. He is 
 reported to have exhibited energy with promise of success. In 1861 
 he was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs for the Territory. 
 In a controversy he inflicted, in self-defence as was reported, a severe 
 wound on a man, whose son subsequently entered Mr. Kendall's office 
 and sought a private interview, which being granted, the young man 
 drew a revolver and shot him through the heart, Januarj', 1863. 
 
 John Walker May was born in Winthrop, Januar}', 1828, sou of 
 Hon. Seth May, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Maine. 
 The 3'ear after graduation he was an instructor in Baltimore. Md., in 
 what was styled Newton University. He then pursued legal studies 
 with his father and was admitted to the bar in 1855, and entered upon 
 professional practice in Winthrop. In 1863 he removed to Lewiston, 
 where he has since remained in the exercise of his profession. He 
 has held for the last seven years the office of register in bankruptcj'. 
 
 In 1869 ho married Harriet Blane, daughter of H. L. K. Wiggin of 
 Auburn, and has had two daughters, one now living. 
 
GRADUATES. 675 
 
 Lewis Pikrcb was born in Gorham, April, 1832, brother of Josiah 
 Pierce (1846). After graduating he taught schools for a year or two 
 in Hollis and Dennysville ; he then read law in Portland, took a course 
 in the Dane Law School, Harvard, graduating LL. B. 1855, and^ 
 settled in the profession in Portland, where he still resides. He has 
 represented the citj' in the Legislature, has been public administrator 
 for the county of Cumberland, and has served on the school committee 
 of Portland. He is a member of the Historical Society of Maine. 
 
 He has married twice : first Emily H. Willis, daughter of Hon. 
 William Willis of Portland, by whom he had three children, two only 
 now living ; second, in 1875, Mary Bellows Hill, by whom he has had 
 three sons. 
 
 Dana Boardman Potman was born in Rumford, September, 1825. 
 After graduation he taught the high school in Ipswich, Mass., one 
 term, then went South and became professor of languages in the 
 Southern Military Academy, Fredonia, Ala., for a year, meanwhile 
 prosecuting medical study previouslj'^ began, attended lectures in the 
 Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, from which he received M. D. 
 in 1854, and in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he took 
 a degree in 1855. He began practice in La Grange, Georgia, and 
 remained there until 1868, when he returned to the North and estab- 
 lished himself in Boston. 
 
 He published essays, anniversary addresses, and poetic contribu- 
 tions in the public. press, papers in medical journals, and was collecting 
 materials for a history of the Putnam family. He held official posi- 
 tions in Masonic and kindred associations, and was a member of the 
 New England Historical and Genealogical Society. 
 
 In 1855 he married Huldah J., daughter of Richard Manley of 
 Tallapoosa County, Ala., and had five children, two sons and three 
 daughters. He died from an attack of pneumonia, Feb. 11, 1881, 
 in Boston. 
 
 Albion Qdinct Randall was born in Bowdoinham, February, 
 1828. His life -was devoted to the work of teaching. He was thus 
 employed in Richmond, in the academy at Yarmouth, and for some 
 years in a large school in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. His last service was 
 in Richmond, whither he had returned, and where after a long and 
 painful illness he died, March, 1878. He never married. 
 
 Henry Stone was born in East Machias, August, 1830. He entered 
 the Divinity School at Cambridge, Mass., but before completing the 
 
676 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
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 course removed to Portland, and was editor for three years of The 
 State of Maine, a newspaper. He then accepted a situation on the 
 American Railroad Journal, New York, and afterwards oil the New 
 York Evening Po t, contributing at the time to the American Cyclo- 
 paedia, and other publications. After teaching one term the High School 
 in Bolton, Mass , he returned to Cambridge and spent some months 
 in the Divinity School. At the opening of the civil war he entered 
 the military service as second lieutenant of the First Wisconsin In- 
 fantry. He was successively on the staffs of Major-Gens. Buell, Rose- 
 crans, and George H. Thomas ; he was assistant adjutant-general to 
 the provost marshal-general, "Washington, D. C. December, 1865, 
 he was mustered out with the rank of brevet colonel. He engaged in 
 business in Nashville, Tenn., in 1866, was appointed commissioner of 
 the metropolitan police and judge of the Municipal Court. In 1870 
 he removed to Washington, was for two years in the Census Bureau, 
 and for a time chief clerk ; then removed to New York, and has been 
 editor of Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States. 
 
 Besides what has been mentioned he has contributed reviews, notices 
 of books, etc. , to the Christian Examiner, Atlantic Monthly, Lippin- 
 cott's Magazine, and to the public press. 
 
 He married in 1874 Garaphelia B. Howard, West Bridgewater, Mass. 
 
 George Harwood Thkobald was born in RicShmond, February, 
 1829. After graduation he studied medicine at Richmond, Hanover, 
 N. H., and graduated at the Maine Medical School in 1855. He has 
 not engaged in the practice of the profession, but has been emploj^ed 
 in active business, chiefly in shipbuilding, and is president of Rich- 
 mond National Bank. 
 
 He married Hannah Gray* Winchell in 1863, and has had five 
 children. 
 
 Walter Wells was born in Salisbury, N. H., November, 1832. 
 After graduating he taught the High School in Augusta for some time. 
 He subsequently lectured on scientific subjects, was a lecturer in the 
 Western University of Pennsylvania, and was invited to become lec- 
 turer on physical geography in the scientific department of the college, 
 but declined the appointment. In 1867 he took charge of the hydro- 
 graphic survey of Maine, and as one result of his work published a 
 volume entitled "The Water Power of Maine." He also prepared 
 an elementary physical geography, and contributed papers to the 
 periodical press. In 1869 he became secretarj"- of the National Asso- 
 ciation of Cotton Manufacturers and Planters, its centre of operations 
 
GRADUATES. 677 
 
 being in Boston, and made an exhaustive report on the tariff in rela- 
 tion to the growth and manufacture of cotton in the United States. 
 He was engaged in literary work during his last days, though suf- 
 fering from infirmity and disease which terminated in death April 21, 
 1881. In 1876 he married Mary Sturdivaut of Cumberland, and left 
 a son. 
 
 1853. 
 
 Jonathan Edwards Adams was born in Woolwich, April, 1822. 
 After graduation he had charge of the academy at St. Stephen's, 
 New Brunswick, three years, and then entered the middle class in the 
 seminary at Bangor, where he graduated in 1858. After supplying 
 churches in Boothbay some months, he was ordained pastor of the 
 Congregational Church, New Sharon, October, 1869. In 1863 he was 
 employed by the Christian Commission at Alexandria, Washington, 
 and Gettysburg. In 1864, being dismissed from the church in New 
 ^haron, he was installed over the Congregational Church in Searsport, 
 where he remained eleven years, when he was elected corresponding ' 
 and recording secretary of the Maine Missionary Society, and still 
 holds that office. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1856 Louise Abby Harding of Ban- 
 gor, who died in 1859 ; second, in 1869 Lucy Cushing Adams of Cam- 
 den. He has had five sons, three now living. 
 
 William Caruthers was born in Liverpool, England, July, 1835, 
 son of Eev. Dr. J. J. Caruthers, recently pastor of the Second Church, 
 Portland. He entered the Theological Seminary at Bangor, where he 
 graduated in 1866 ; was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church, 
 Sandwich, Mass., June, 1858 ; in January, 1861, accepted a call to 
 the North Avenue Church, Cambridge, Mass. ; was installed April, 
 1866, over the church in Danvers, Mass. ; and in 1868 over that in 
 Calais, where he remained until November, 1875. His present charge 
 is in Fair Haven, Mass. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1858 Martha Williams Baker of 
 Conway, Mass. ; second, in 1865 Mary Lavina Hayes of Somerville, 
 Mass., by whom he has had a daughter who died in infancy. 
 
 John Leland Crosby was born in Bangor, May, 1834. He en- 
 gaged in mercantile business, which he has since pursued. He has 
 held municipal offices of trust in his native city. In 1855 he married 
 Rosa Margai-et Lunt, and has had three sons and a daughter. One 
 of the sons is now a member of this college. 
 
678 HISTORY OF BOWDOTN COLLEGE. 
 
 Ephkaim Chamberlain Cummings was born in Albany, 1825. His 
 first j'ear was spent in teaching in the academy at Bucksport, and 
 then as principal of the High School, Augusta. In 1854 and 1855 he 
 held a tutorship in the college ; then entered the Theological Seminary, 
 Bangor ; in 1858 was settled in the pastorate over the Congregational 
 Church in Brewer, and in 1860 over the Congregational Church in St. 
 Johnsbury, Vt., where he remained ten years. He served as chaplain 
 in a Vermont regiment more than a year during the war. In 1865 he 
 spent some months in Europe and the East, and a second time two 
 years in Europe. In 1872 and 1873 he was provisional professor 
 of mental, and moral philosophy in the college. * He has published 
 a volume, " Birth and Baptism." 
 
 Mr. Cummings in 1866 married in Portland, Annie Louise Pomeroy, 
 daughter of Rev. Dr. Swan L. Pomeroy. They have no children. 
 
 Henry Richard Downes was born in Calais, September, 1832. 
 He studied law in the Law School, Harvard, and in the office of John 
 Q. A. Griffin, Charlestown, Mass. ; was admitted to the bar and en- 
 tered on the practice in Sioux City, Iowa, but soon removed to 
 Presque Isle, where he still remains. He has been repeatedly elected 
 judge of probate for the county. 
 
 In 1862 he married Vashti Harriet Whidden of Presque Isle, but 
 has no children. 
 
 William Paley Drew was born in Augusta, November, 1829. 
 Soon after graduating was elected professor of ancient languages and 
 classical literature in Tufts College, meanwhile spending a year as 
 resident graduate at Harvard to qualify himself more fully for his 
 duties. Resigning the position in 1867, he engaged with Dr. Joseph 
 E. Worcester as assistant in the preparation of the fourth edition of 
 his dictionary. In 1860 he returned to Augusta, and was private 
 secretary of Governor Israel Washburn for three ^-ears. He then 
 obtained a clerkship in the War Depattment, Washington, and on the 
 Oi-ganization of the Freedmen's Bureau was appointed by Gen. O O. 
 Howard chief of claims, etc., holding that position until the abolition 
 of the bureau. He was afterwards appointed national-bank examiner 
 for East Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In 1855 Mr. Drew married 
 Livonia Perkins Rust of Augusta, and has ha'd a daughter. 
 
 Charles Drdmmond was born in Bangor, July, 1831. He died a 
 few days before his class graduated, and a degree was subsequently 
 voted by the boards. 
 
GRADUATES. 679 
 
 James Wallace Emery was born in Bus=ton, Februaiy, 1829. On 
 leaving college he went to Texas seeking employment as a teacher, 
 and with scanty encouragement was thus employed for a time ; but 
 from failure of health returned North. In 1H56 he took charge of 
 Limington Academy for a few months, then removed to Minnesota 
 and secured a quarter section of prairie land. Disappointed in his 
 hopes he revisited Texas, engaged in teaching, and continued with 
 occasional interruptions and varied — at times trying — experiences 
 until 1873, when he was reported as still teaching in Kaufman. 
 
 In 1860 he married Elizabeth Jane Brown of Bunker Hill, Texas, 
 and has had seven children, all living at the last date given. The 
 writer has been obliged to depend for what he has stated on the 
 admirable class record made by the late William A. Wheeler. 
 
 Makcellus Emery was born in Frankfort, July, 1830. He was 
 principal of the High School in Gardiner two years, and then removed 
 to Woodville, Miss., and was private tutor in a family. He read law 
 with Messrs. Wheeler & Robinson, Evansville, Ind. Returning to 
 Maine he completed studies with Abraham Sanborn, Esq , of Bangor, 
 and was admitted to the bar in 1856, forming a copartnership with 
 Mr. Sanborn. He became editor of the Bangor Daily Union and, 
 also of the Democrat, was active in politics, and during the war sym- 
 pathized with the Southern Confederates In 1872 he established the 
 Bangor Daily Commercial. He was an alderman for one year, was 
 delegate to the Chicago Democratic convention in 1868, was twice 
 nominated candidate of the Democratic party for Congress. Those 
 who best knew him testified that in private life " his gentle manners 
 and simple, temperate habits were in vivid contrast with the bitter- 
 ness of his journalistic and political utterances." Earlj' in 1879 he was 
 afflicted with a malignant carbuncle, which after great suffering ter- 
 minated in death Feb. 22. He was never married. 
 
 Stephen Foss. was born in New Portland, June, 1825. He at- 
 tended lectures in the Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1859, 
 his course being interrupted by a year's residence in Halifax, Nova 
 Scotia, where he practised dentistry. He. began practice in Boston. 
 In 1861 he removed to Cincinnati, and in the j'ear following entered 
 the army as surgeon ; but on failure of health in the service he returned 
 to practice in Cincinnati. In 1871 he removed to St. Mary's, Kan., 
 where he was at last accounts combining medical practice with teach- 
 ing school, as reported in the record of his class. He married in 1867 
 Alice Maria Good of Cincinnati, and has a son. 
 
680 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Melville Weston Fuller was born in Augusta, February, 1833. 
 He read law with George M. Weston, Esq. , Bangor, and in the Cam- 
 bridge Law School. He began the practice as partner with B. A. G. 
 Fuller, Esq., in Augusta, and was an associate editor of The Age. 
 He was president of the common council of the city, and city solicitor ; 
 but soon removed to Chicago, where he has been " sedulously en- 
 gaged in the duties of his profession." In 1861 he was elected to the 
 State constitutional convention, and in the year following to the 
 General Assembly. He was a merhber of the Democratic national 
 convention in 1864, and in 1872 of the Baltimore Democratic con- 
 vention. His defence of Eev. Charles E. Cheney, D. D., in a case 
 involving his standing in the Episcopal Church, brought him into pub- 
 lic and favorable notice. Mr. Fuller has cultivated literary tastes, as 
 shown in lectures and poems before college and other societies. 
 
 He has married twice : first, June, 1858, Calista Ophelia Reynolds 
 of Chicago, who died in 1864 ; second, 1866. Mary Ellen Coolbaeh of 
 Chicago. He had two daughters by his first marriage, and four daugh- 
 ters and a son by the second. 
 
 Henky Clay Goodenow was born in Alfred, June, 1834, brother 
 of John H. (1852). After teaching a high school in Newfield a few 
 months, he engaged in legal study with his father, was admitted to 
 the bar, and began the practice in Biddeford. In 1858 he removed to 
 Lewiston, was partner with Charles W. Goddard, Esq., was member 
 of the common council of the city and of the boai'd of aldermen. In 
 1866 he removed to Bangor, where after a temporary engagement in 
 commercial business he resumed his profession. He has been several 
 terms on the superintending school committee, city solitator, and at 
 the instance of the bar, police judge. 
 
 He married in 1860 Mary Elizabeth Brown, and has had three sons 
 and two daughters. 
 
 George Stone Kimball was born in Gardiner, January, 1833. 
 He studied law with Henry Ingalls,*Esq., Wiscasset, and settled in 
 the practice in Stillwater, Minn. Having returned to Gardiner he 
 entered the army as lieutenant of the First Maine Cavalry in 1861, 
 and fell in a cavalry charge at Aldie, Va., June, 1863. In 1864 he 
 married Elizabeth Ann Potter of Brunswick, and had a daughter. 
 
 Woodbury Fogg Langdon was born in Eumney, N. H. He read 
 law in the office of Baker & Peabody, Concord, N. H. In 1854 he 
 removed to Iowa, and subsequently to Wasioja, Minn., and engaged 
 in the fiour and grain business. In 1870 he returned to Plymouth, 
 
GRADUATES. 681 
 
 N. H., and entered the service of the United States and Canada Ex- 
 press Company. In 1857 he married Annie Esther Merrill of Strat- 
 ham, N. H., and had one child at the date of the class record. 
 
 William Miltimoke McAkthur was born in Limington, July, 
 1832. He studied law with his father Arthur McArthur, Esq. (1810), 
 and was admitted to the bar. At the opening of the war of the Rebel- 
 lion he entered the military service, was commissioned captain in the 
 Eighth Maine, was successively promoted, and at last brevetted brig- 
 adier-general "for meritorious services during the war." He was 
 wounded before Petersburg, Va. He returned to his profession, rep- 
 resented his town in the House of Representatives, and his district in 
 the Senate. He has never married. 
 
 Joseph McKeen was born in Brunswick, son of Joseph McKeen, 
 Esq., October, 1832. He engaged in medical study with his uncle 
 James McKeen, M. D. (1817), attended lectures in the Medical 
 School connected with the college and in New York, graduated iu 
 the former and settled in the profession in Topsbam. In 1.SG2 
 he was stationed in Fairfax County, Va., as surgeon in the general 
 hospital. After three years often of severe suffering from disease 
 of the heart, he died suddenly Jan. 15, 1881. March, 1862, he 
 married Frances Caroline Chase of Topsham, and has a daughter 
 and son. 
 
 Kingman Fogg Page was born in Rochester, N. H., October, 
 1831. On leaving college he taught in York, Pa., Washington, D. C, 
 and in Alexandria. He then studied law under Hon. Caleb Cushing, 
 was admitted to the bar, and was appointed by President Pierce spe- 
 cial attorney for the Department of the Interior. He was two or three 
 years in the pension office, War Department, then resigned that posi- 
 tion and engaged in business in Baltimore and Washington as gov- 
 ernment contractor. In 1866 he removed to New York and was 
 associated with another as a real-estate agent and contractor. 
 
 December, 1856, he married in Washington, Caroline Grace Mar- 
 shall. They have had six children, two sons and, four daughters, of 
 whom a son died in infancy. 
 
 David Marks Place was born in Strafford, N. H., February, 1832. 
 He engaged in business in Boston as a dry-goods merchant. Jn 1861 
 he enlisted in the army, served during the war, and then returned to 
 his business in Boston. In 1871 he became book-keeper. Central 
 Market, Lynn, Mass. He never married. 
 
6S2 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Jeremiah Evaets Pond was born in Cambridgeport, Mass., June, 
 1831 , brother of Enoch Pond (1838) . He pursued theological study at 
 Bangor Seminary, where he graduated in 1856, meanwhile teaching in 
 academies in Lincoln and St. Stephens, New Brunswick. On account 
 of his health he took a voyage during the year following. In 1858 he 
 was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Neenah, Wis., 
 and in 1861 over a church in Platteville, Wis., where he remained in 
 faithful service until 1872, when he was dismissed, and returning to 
 Maine was settled in Hampden, where he remained until 1876. 
 June, 1879, he was installed in the pastorate in Warren. 
 
 In 1»58 he married Jane Wilson Baird, Portsmouth, Ohio, who died 
 in Platteville, Wis., in 1871, by whom he had eight children, of whom 
 five now survive. 
 
 LuTHEK Puffer was born in Sudbury, Mass., September, 1833. 
 He taught the High School for boys in Qorham a term, and in 1854 
 entered on the study of law with J. W. Butterfield, Esq., Andover, 
 N. H. ; but in October of that year died in Grafton, N. H., of virulent 
 small-pox. Thus were blasted brilliant promises. 
 
 Thadbeus Eoberts Simonton was born in Camden, September, 1829 . 
 He at once, after graduation, entered on the study of law with Hon. 
 Nehemiah Abbot, Belfast, was admitted to the bar, and formed a co- 
 partnership with Hon. E. K. Smart of Camden. In 1860 he was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Lot M. Morrill county attorney, and in 1861 was 
 appointed deputy collector of customs for the port. He has been active 
 and influential in politics. In 1856 h6 married Josephine Hall of 
 Topsham, and has had two children, a daughter and a son. 
 
 John Barrett Sodthgate was born in Portland, July, 1833, son 
 of Horatio Southgate, Esq., of Portland In the following year he 
 entered the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church, New York, where he graduated in 1857, was ordained deacon 
 at Portland, and entered on his miuistA-ial life as rector of Trinity Par- 
 ish, Lewiston.. In 1858 he was appointed by the Board of Missions of 
 the Episcopal Church missionary to China, but failing health compelled 
 him to decline ; was ordained into the priesthood in Portland, and had 
 charge of St. John's Church, Wheeling, Va , for six months. For a 
 time he had charge of Trinity Church, Saco, but in the winter of 
 1861-G2 his health and strength failed, and in February of the last 
 year he died of consumption at Scarboro', the home of his father at 
 that time. He was the leading scholar of his class, and of brill- 
 .iant promise. 
 
GRADUATES. 683 
 
 John Franklin Spalding was born in Belgrade, August, 1828. 
 The first year after graduation he had charge of academies in Kast 
 Pittston and Dennysville, and then entered the General Serainarj- of 
 the Episcopal Church in New York, graduating in 1857. He received 
 ordination and was appointed missionary at St, James's, Oldtown, 
 Maine. In 1859 he became rector of St. George's, Lee, Mass., and the 
 next year assistant in Grace Church, Provideiice, R. I. In 1862 he was 
 appointed rector of St. Paul's, Erie, Pa. He was twice member of the 
 General Convention of the Episcopal Church, was active and efficient 
 in his service in the church, and in 1873 was elected bishop of Col- 
 orado and Wyoming, to which was added subsequently provisional 
 charge of New Mexico and Arizona. In the same year he was made 
 D. D. by Trinity College, Connecticut. He has published sermons, 
 pamphlets, reviews, and official charges. June, 1864, he married 
 Lavinia tSpencer of Erie, Pa. , and has had three sons and two daugh- 
 ters. His residence is Denver, Col. 
 
 "William Henry Todd was born in Milltown, New Brunswick, June, 
 1832. On leaving fcollege he went to England, matriculated at tlie 
 University of Edinburgh, where he pursued medical studies, received 
 M. D. in 1857, returned and settled in practice in his native town. 
 In 1862 he removed to St. Stephen, where he has since lived in the 
 successful practice of his profession. In 1867 he was elected to the 
 Board of Overseers of the college. 
 
 He has married twice : November, 1857, Mary Ellen Porter of Mill- 
 town, who died in 1860 leaving an infant daughter ; and May, 1863, 
 Hattie Topliff Houghton, New York. 
 
 William Adolphus Wheeler was born in Leicester, Mass., 
 November, 1833. He taught in Marlboro' and Northfleld, Mass., 
 and was preceptor for a year or two of Partridge Academy, Duxbury, 
 Mass. He then removed to Cambridge, Mass., and assisted Dr. J. E. 
 Worcester in praparing his quarto dictionary. For some yeai;s after 
 he was employed on similar works : a spelling book in conjunction with 
 Mr Bichard Soule, the revision of Webster's Dictionary, with Mr. 
 Soule again in a "Manual. of English Pronunciation and Spelling," 
 assisted Prof. Porter in the final revision of Webster's Dictionary, of 
 which he superintended the press ; in a " Dictionary of Noted Names 
 of Fiction," edited a reprint of Hole's " Brief Biographical Diction- 
 ary," and an abridgment of Webster's Dictionary and revision of the 
 school editions. In 1868 he became connected with the Boston Public 
 Library, and soon became superintendent of the catalogue depart- 
 
684 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 merit. Besides what have been mentioned, he published in 1869 a 
 sumptuous edition of " Mother Goose's Melodies," with antiquarian 
 and philological notes, etc. In 1872 he published a " Dickens Dic- 
 tionary." He was engaged afterwards on a new edition of Webster's 
 quarto, and in collecting materials for a cyclopiedia of Shakespearian 
 literature, and an index to the more noted works of ancient and 
 modern literature, entitled "Who Wrote It?" In lexicography and 
 bibliograjphy he held high rank. As a Shakespearian scholar his rep- 
 utation had extended to England. He was distinguished for accu- 
 racy and thoroughness. The record of his class is a model of 
 completeness. His premature death, which occurred Oct. 28, 1874, 
 was a public loss. 
 
 In 1856 he married Olive Winsor Frazer of Duxbury, Mass., by 
 whom he had two sons and three daughters. 
 
 Francis Eveeett Webb was born in Winthrop, March, 1829. 
 The year after graduation he was tutor of the Sturtevant heirs in 
 Philadelphia. He then accepted a tutorship in the college for a year. 
 He studied law in the office of Judge May -of Winthrop, and was 
 admitted to the bar and entered on the practice in his native town. 
 Interested in popular education, he was for several years supervisor of 
 schools. He twice represented his town in the Legislature, and was 
 elected for a third term, but death intervened and prevented his taking 
 his seat ; was treasurer of the town several years, and for two years 
 in the bank commission ; was elected countj' attorney in 1869, but 
 declined on account of ill health. He died in the following Novem- 
 ber very suddenly of angina pec'toris, highly respected and greatly 
 lamented. In 1858 he married Mary Frances Dwight of Hallowell, 
 and had two daughters. 
 
 1854. 
 
 Geoege Washington Bartlett was born in Litchfield, February, 
 1828. He pursued theological study at the Divinity School, Cam- 
 bridge, and was settled over the Unitarian Church, Augusta. In 1861 
 he entered the military service chaplain of the 14th Maine. His 
 health frilling he resigned and returned Nprth. After regaining health 
 in a degree, he accepted a chaplaincy in a Maine cavalry regiment 
 early in 1864. At Baton Rouge with the spirit of a soldier he 
 shared in the conflict of battle. His regiment having been ordered 
 to Virginia, in action at McGee's Hill, while in the rear in discharge 
 of his duty to the wounded, he was struck by a solid shot and instantly 
 killed. 
 
GRADUATES. 685 
 
 William Morrison Bartley was born in Hampstead, N. H., May, 
 1833 . After graduating he went to the South and taught music for 
 a 3'ear or two in Natchez, Miss. He then engaged in theological 
 study, was ordained into the ministry of the Episcopal Church, and 
 was settled in Alabama. He died la Winchester, Tenn., December, 
 1862. 
 
 David Thaxter Bradford was born in Cumberland, August, 1828- 
 For some years after graduation he taught schools in Pennsylvania, 
 Missouri, and Kansas. Abandoning the work of teaching he settled 
 in Atchison, Kan., as dealer in music and musical instruments. 
 
 He married in 1856 Olivd Maria, daughter of Dr. Seth Fisk of 
 Amherst, Mass., and has had eight children, of whom a son and 
 four daughters are living. 
 
 Henry Purchis Brown was born in Bridgtou, October, 1830. 
 After graduation he was employed in teaching eight or nine years in 
 Cherryfield, Fond du Lac, and other places, and then in mercantile 
 business for nine years. Since the fall of 1872 he has not been in 
 active pursuits, and resides in Fond du Lac, Wis. 
 
 October, 1860, he married Maria H. Hall of Willoughby, Ohio. 
 They have two daughters and a son. Mr Brown has been a member 
 and president of the city council of Fond du Lac, of the school com- 
 mittee, and of the county board of supervisors. 
 
 Charles Peleg Chandler was born in Foxcroft, January, 1835. 
 He studied law, attended a full course at the Law School, Cambridge, 
 Mass., and entered upon the practice in the office of J. A. Andrew, 
 Esq., Boston. Early in 1861 he was chosen lieutenant and then 
 captain in a Rifle Battalion of Massachusetts, was then commissioned 
 major of the First Massachusetts Infantry, served with distinction in 
 the first Bull Run battle, and in every engagement of the Peninsula 
 under Gen. Hooker, and fell in a charge at Glendale, Va. 
 
 John Frederic Deane wd,s bornin Bangor, September, 1834. He 
 was a teacher of the High School, Bangor, for some time, meanwhile 
 pursuing legal study. He removed to Texas where he was employed 
 as a teacher. He at last resided in New Orleans, where he was con- 
 nected with the public schools, was registrar in bankruptcy, and at 
 the time of his death, December, 1«71, was clerk of the Superior 
 Court of Louisiana. During his last two years he was afflicted with 
 a disease of the eyes threatening total blindness, for which he visited 
 
686 HISTOllY OF BOWDOIN COIiLEGE. 
 
 Europe, but in vain. Ttiis calamity, added to the seclusion and in- 
 activity it compelled, prej'ed upon his health and, eventuated in death 
 in 1869. 
 
 John Abbot Dodglass was born in Waterford, Oct. 20, 1829. 
 After graduation he was engaged in teaching in the Putnam Free 
 School, Newburyport, Mass., a year and six months, and in Marble- 
 head, Mass., two years. He entered on a course of medical study, 
 attended lectures in the Medical School of the college, was in the 
 Portland Medical School, then iu the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, New York, where he graduated in 1861, and attended the 
 course in the same the j^ear following. He settled in Waltham, Mass., 
 in 1862, but soon entered the public service as assistant surgeon of 
 the Eleventh Massachusetts, in the following year became surgeon of 
 the same regiment, and continued until the close of the war. He then 
 established himself in Amesbury, Mass., where he still resides. 
 
 In 1862 he married Helen E. Howarth of Salisbury, Mass. They 
 have no children. 
 
 Henry Dunlap was born in Brunswick, November, 18'34, brother 
 of Charles R. Dunlap (1846). He studied law, graduated LL. B. 
 at the Law School, Albany, N. Y., in 1858, and settled in the prac- 
 tice in New York. In 1867 he removed to Washington, D. C, became 
 connected with the Treasury Department, and continues in that posi- 
 tion at the present time. 
 
 In 1876 he married Mary E., daughter of the late James M. Le 
 Compte of Cambridge, Md., and has now living a son and a daughter. 
 
 Ambrose Eastman was born in Saco, April, 1834, son of Philip 
 Eastman, Esq. (1820) ; taught three or four years in Patten, in 
 North Brookfield, "Mass., and Southbridge, Mass., and then studied 
 law with his father and settled in the practice in Boston, where he 
 still lives. He married Charlotte S. Haines of Biddeford, September, 
 1864. They are without children. 
 
 Jambs Bonaparte Farrington was born in Rochester, N. H., 
 January, 1831. He studied law for a time in his native town, and 
 then medicine in Illinois. He engaged in the practice of medicine 
 at first in Tennessee, but eventually in San Jose, Cal., where he now 
 resides. During the war he was in service as assistant surgeon three 
 years. 
 
 He married Clara D. Parker, and has two children. 
 
GRADUATES. 687 
 
 Samdel Frekman was born in Limerick, March, 1830. He studied 
 medicine and graduated at the school connected with the college in 
 1S57. He was an assistant of the port physician of Boston for a 
 time ; has never been settled in the practice ; opened a store as a 
 druggist in Chelsea, Mass., and siill continues in that business. He 
 purchased a farm not far off in Everett, which is his residence. 
 He married in 1864 Annie A. Wilson of Newfield, and has two 
 children . 
 
 Haebison Gray was born in Danvers, Mass., October, 1827. He 
 reacl law in Portland, and Salem, Mass., was admitted to the bar 
 and settled in Danvers, where he died February, 1878. He did not 
 marry. 
 
 Council Greeley was born in Dover, March, 1825. On leaving 
 college he taught a high school in East Eaymond, and in the year 
 following one in Orouo, 1856-57. He was master of the Apprentices' 
 School in Bangor, and of a select school for boys. He then studied 
 law in Dover, went to Quincy, 111., where he settled in the practice 
 and remained until 1872, when he removed to Chicago, where he now 
 resides. He has suffered from ophthalmia for some years and is 
 nearly blind. 
 
 Henry Lewis Hatch was born in New Gloucester, Febi-uary, 1832. 
 He neither taught nor studied a profession. He went South and estab- 
 lished himself in Charleston, S. C, where he was an associate editor 
 of the Charleston Courier. He liad cultivated poetical talent and 
 published poems. He married in 1856 Mary Jane Cushman, and had 
 one child who died in infancy. He fell a victim of yellow fever, 
 September, 1858. 
 
 Charles Melvin Herrin was born in Houlton, November, 1834. 
 He studied law and opened an office in his native town ; was a leading 
 lawyer in the county, with good practice ; was a man of wit and 
 humor. He was found dead in his office, as was supposed from an 
 attack of apoplexy, May, 1876. 
 
 Warren Johnson was born in Farmington, December, 1831. He 
 gave himself to the cause of popular education as a teacher in school 
 and academy ; tutor in the college, in a home school for lads in Tops- 
 ham, as superintendent of the public schools of Maine, and for the 
 last year of his life as supervisor of the schools of Newton, Mass. 
 He was of active mind, energetic and enterprising, entering with 
 
688 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 zeal into Lis work and exerting Wide influence. His death was the 
 result of a violent and distressing disease of several weeks' duration, 
 April, 1877. His remains were interred in Brunswick with testi- 
 monials of respect by the public authorities of Newton, where he had 
 just entered on his position under most flattering auspices, and of our 
 own State, in which he left a name to be remembered. 
 
 He married Eliza Fisher, daughter of Adam Lemont, Esq., of 
 Brunswick. They had no children. 
 
 Edward Sewall Lennox was born in Newcastle, February, 1830. 
 He studied medicine, graduating M. D. at the Medical School of the 
 college in 1859. He has resided in Boston, Chicago, Washington, 
 New York ; is now holding a position in connection with the Wash- 
 burn & Moen Manufacturing Company, Worcester, Mass. In 1855 
 he married Sarah Elizabeth Stanfield of Boston, Mass. 
 
 Daniel Clark Linscott was born in Jefferson, March, 1828. After 
 graduation he taught five years in Chelsea, Mass. He studied law 
 in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and has since resided in 
 that city in the practice of the profession. 
 
 In July, 1855, he married Annie Barron of Topsham, and has had 
 seven children, of whom five are living and a son is a member of the 
 college. 
 
 George Washington MoLellan was born in Monmouth, June, 
 1826. He has been for the' most part engaged in teaching: as prin- 
 cipal of the Liberal Institute, Litchfield, of the academy in Monmouth, 
 of the High School at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., as superintendent of the 
 public schools, and subsequently of a young ladies' seminary in that 
 city. In 1869 he removed to California ; was engaged in lumber 
 manufacturing until 1873, when he became connected with the San 
 Jose Institute and Business College, where, it is supposed by a class- 
 mate to whom I am indebted for information concerning him, he still 
 continues. , • 
 
 Iri 1856 he married Lucretia Hall Potter of Litchfield, and when 
 last heard from, had a daughter. 
 
 Henry Nettleton Merrill was born in Limerick, Maj-, 1827. 
 He did not complete his course ; he studied law and engaged in the 
 practice of the profession in Haverhill, Mass., where he stiU resides 
 "in reputable standing as a lawyer and citizen." He is married and 
 has one child. He was admitted to a degree and to his place in his 
 class in 1879. 
 
GRADUATES. 689 
 
 James Ripley Osgood was born in Fryeburg, February, 1836. He 
 began the study of law with Messrs. Shepley & Dana, Portland, but 
 did not prosecute the profession. Removing to Boston he became 
 associated in the widely known and honored publishing house of Tick- 
 nor, Fields & Co., and their successors for some years. He has more 
 recently established himself at 211 Tremont Street, in a firm styled 
 James R. Osgood & Co. He is largely interested in the Heliotype 
 Printing Company, a distinct organization. In reply to the question 
 of the circular, " If you have published, and what?" the answer came, 
 " Nothing, but other people's books and a great many of them." 
 
 Mr. Osgood has never married. 
 
 John Owen Robinson was born in Thomaston, July, 1832. He 
 taught in the academy at Bluehill one year, and then entered upon the 
 study of law in Thomaston, where he settled in the practice. He has 
 represented the town in the Legislature of the State. In 1854 he 
 married Clementine Yates, and has seven children. 
 
 John Wesley Simonds was born in Franklin, N. H., May, 1829. 
 He has devoted himself to the cause of popular instruction : was princi- 
 pal of the High School, Fisherville, N. H., four years, and for fourteen 
 years was in charge of the New England Christian Institute in Andover. 
 and Wolfeboro', N. H. ; was on the school committee of Franklin, 
 N. H., several years; in 1871 was appointed by the governor and 
 council State superintendent of public instruction for New Hampshire, 
 and held the office five years. His annual reports indicated efficient 
 labor and have won for him reputation. In 1878 and 1879 he was 
 superintendent of schools in Milford, Mass. He was offered a pro- 
 fessorship in Antioch College, Ohio, and was for some time a director 
 of Merrimack County Agricultural Society, and is a member of New 
 Hampshire Historical Society. 
 
 He married Mary Wilkins Clement of Salisbury, N. H., and has 
 had five children, three sons and two daughters ; one of the daugh- 
 ters has died. He resides in Franklin, N. H. 
 
 Henry Hyde Smith was born in Cornish, February, 1832. He 
 was assistant in Fryeburg Academy the fall after graduating, to Alvin 
 Boody (1847) ; the year following was associated with his classmate 
 John G. Stetson in charge of the Grove School, Cedarville, Ohio ; 
 and then was principal of Fryeburg Academj' two years. He read 
 law in the office of Fessenden & Butler, Portland, was in Harvard 
 Law School and graduated LL. B. in 1860, was admitted to the bar 
 of Cumberland. County, and settled in partnership with his classmate 
 
690 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Stetson in Portland, but in a year or two removed to Fryeburg. In 
 1867 he established himself in the practice in Boston, where he still 
 remains, his residence being Hyde Park. 
 
 He married Mary Sherburne, daughter of John Winchester Dana, 
 Esq., of Fryeburg, and has a son. 
 
 m 
 
 Joseph Emerson Smith was born in Wisoasset, March, 1835, son 
 of Hon. Samuel E. Smith. After graduation he studied law in the 
 office, of Henry Ingall$, Esq. (1841), was admitted to the bar, and 
 became partner with Mr. Ingalls until 1869, when he removed to 
 Chicago, lU., where he has since lived in the exercise of his profes- 
 sion. At Wiscasset he was collector of customs. In Chicago he 
 formed a partnership with his relative Melville W. Fuller, Esq. 
 (1853). In 1864 he was sent as delegate to the Democratic con- 
 vention which nominated Gen. McClellan for the Presidency ; in 1877 
 and 1878 was elected to the general assembly of the State, was can- 
 didate for judge of the county court, and is jury commissioner of 
 federal courts for the Northern District of Illinois. 
 
 Mr. Smith has married three times : first, Helen R. Cooper of 
 Pittston, who died in 1860 ; second, 1865, Sarah Stuart Babson of 
 Wiscasset, who died in 1870 ; third, Amelia M. Bowie, by whom he 
 has had a son. Mr. Smith has published '• Oakbridge : An Old-Time 
 Story," the scene laid in Wiscasset and vicinity. 
 
 [Mi. Smith died very suddenly in Chicago of disease of the heart, 
 June, 1881. J 
 
 Chakles WiNSiow SmItth was born in Holderness, N. H., April, 
 1829. After graduation, so far as we have obtained particulars, he 
 went to North Carolina and devoted his short life to the work of 
 teaching. He became connected with a college in Newton for a few 
 years in the departments of languages and mathematics. Leaving 
 that position he established a fitting school for college, meanwhile 
 delivering popular lectures and editing text-books in algebra, etc. 
 He overtaxed his strength, became a victim of typhoid fever, and died 
 after ten days' illness, November, 1865. He married Margaret Harris 
 of Concord, N. C, and left four sons and one daughter. 
 
 Daniel Carlton Stanwood was born in Alna, May, 1829. He 
 died the year after graduating. 
 
 John Glidden Stetson was born in Newcastle, February, 1833. 
 After graduation he taught nearly five years in high schools in Ohio. 
 He pursued legal studies in the Law School of Harvard University, ' 
 
GRADUATES. 691 
 
 where he received the degree of LL. B. in 1860. He opened an office 
 for the practice of law in Portland with his classmate H. H. Smith, 
 and remained there four years. He then removed to Boston, became 
 connected with the clerk's office Circuit Court of the United States for 
 Massachusetts, and in 1866 was appointed clerk. He has been also 
 appointed commissioner and master in chancery in the same court, 
 and now holds these positions. He has published reports in cases 
 referred to him as master in chancery, some quite voluminous. 
 
 In 1865 he married Delia H., daughter of Alpheus Libby, and has 
 had two sons and a daughter, all now living. 
 
 William Law Stmonds was born in Eaymond, April, 1833. He 
 graduated with the highest honors, having been marked by scholarly 
 tastes, maturity, refinement, and pnrity of character. After a year 
 spent as private tutor in the fataily of Robert H. Gardiner, Esq., of 
 Gardiner, he pursued theological study at Cambridge two years, and 
 preached a few months at Chicopee, Mass. ; but most of his remaining 
 years were passed in New York. He became connected with the staff 
 of the " New American Cyclopaedia," devoting himself with untiring 
 labor to the work laid upon him. A detail of his contributions would 
 surprise one by their number and the variety and extensive attain- 
 ments which they involved, having himself, it is said, furnished twenty- 
 six hundred articles, — historical, philosophical, and biographical, — 
 which gave him high reputation for taste, research, and wide acquisi- 
 tions. He was also a contributor to the Atlantic MontJily. the Knick- 
 erbocker, and newspaper press, of papers which attracted attention by 
 original thought and brilliant fancy. His knowledge of books led 
 Dr. Coggswell of the Astor Library to leave that library in his care 
 during the absence of the former in Europe. He was unaffected in 
 manner, of gentle disposition, of elevated tone of mind and character, 
 of peculiar refinement, and of warm affections. He was seized with 
 erysipelas, which, in his fraU and sensitive organization, accomplished 
 its work in three or four days, and thus perished the most brilliant 
 promise and hopes, January, 1862. 
 
 Charles Feederick Todd was born in St. Stephen's, New Bruns- 
 wick, May, 1834, brother of William Henry of the preceding class. 
 He has been constantly engaged in active business as ' ' manufacturer 
 and dealer in lumber," in which he has been successful. Inheriting 
 an enterprising public spirit, he has ever been a ready and liberal 
 co-operator in whatever tends to promote the interests of education 
 and good morals, and to develop the large natural resources of the 
 
692 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 city and eommunity, enjoying the respect and confidence of his asso- 
 ciates and fellow-citizens. 
 
 In 1854 he married Anna M. Porter, and has three sons and a 
 daughter. 
 
 William Packakd Tucker was born in Salem, Mass., Julj^ 1834. 
 On leaving college, with the purpose of fitting himself for the profes- 
 sion of a mechanical engineer, he entered as apprentice a machine 
 shop in Lawrence, and worked untU he had constructed every part of 
 a stationary engine, set it up and run it. He then became a locomo- 
 tive engineer on the Illinois Central Railroad. Impaired sight com- 
 pelled him to relinquish this plan, and he accepted a tutorship in the 
 college, which he filled three years ; he then was appointed instructor 
 in mathematics and held the office two years. He was also librarian 
 of the college, and prepared a catalogue of the library with an index 
 of subjects published in 1863, which took rank among the best works 
 of the kind. He accepted the office of principal of the High School, 
 Portland, for a year.. Having pursued theological study two years 
 with Bishop Burgess at Gardiner, he was ordained deacon in the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church in 1866, and priest in 1867 ; was rector 
 of Grace Church, Bath, three years ; and removed to California, 
 where he was rector of St. John's, Stockton, one year ; and rector of 
 St. Augustine's College, Benicia, five years. Returning to the East 
 iri 1875, he was rector of St. Paul's, Holyoke, Mass., a year; and 
 then of Trinity, Pawtuck.et, R. I., where he now resides. 
 
 In 1869 he married Ellen Delia Fisher of Bath, and has a son and 
 two daughters. 
 
 William Drew Washburn was born in Livermore, January, 1831. 
 He studied law with his brother Hon. Israel Washburn at Orono, and 
 Hon, John A. Peters, Bangor. In 1857 he settled in his profession 
 in Minneapolis, Minn. He was United States survej'or-general of the 
 State. After practising law for a time, he engaged in lumbering and 
 the manufacture of flour, and was agent for several years of the 
 Minneapolis Mill Company, which controlled the water power of the 
 State ; was also concerned in railroad enterprises. At this time (1880) 
 is president of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company. He 
 has been a member of the Legislature two or three terms, and is now 
 a member of the House in Congress. 
 
 In April, 1859, Mr Washburn married Lizzie L. Muzzy of Bangor, 
 and has had eight children, six of whom are living, four sons and two 
 daughters. 
 
GRADUATES. 693 
 
 Nathaniel McLellan Whitmore was born in Richmond, Septem- 
 ber, 1833. He studied law with his uncle Nathaniel McL. Whitmore 
 (1833), Gardiner, and engaged successfully in the practice in Gardi- 
 ner. He was seized with typhoid fever and in a few days died, 
 March, 1871. He had the supervision of the city schools for the last 
 two years of his life. His remains were interred at Brunswick. 
 
 Franklin Augustus Wilson was born in Bangor, November, 1832. 
 He studied law with Hon. John A. Peters, Bangor, and opened an 
 office in that city, where he still resides in active practice. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1859 Mary Elliot Carr, who died in 
 1867 leaving one child ; second, in 1873 Caroline Peirce Stetson, by 
 whom he has had children. 
 
 Henrt Clay Wood was born in Winthrop, May, 1832. From 
 1854 to 1856 he was a clerk in the office of the secretary of state, 
 Maine, during the second year in the engrossing department and chief 
 clerk, meanwhile reading law. He was admitted to the bar in 1856, 
 but did not engage in practice, his inclination having been for the 
 military service. He had been appointed by President Pierce second 
 lieutenant First Regiment of Infantry. He served during the war, 
 and was successively promoted " for gallant and meritorious service," 
 until brevetted brigadier-general. He published a paper on " Young 
 Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians," which was referred to by Gen. 
 Thomas in his annual report as an authority on the matters of which 
 it treated. He is stationed with rank of assistant adjutant-general 
 at headquarters recruiting service, Houston Street, New York. 
 
 He has malrried twice : first, 1860, Fanny Lord, of Standish, who 
 died in 1866 leaving two sons ; second, a daughter of John Ferguson, 
 Esq., of Pennsylvania. 
 
 1855. 
 
 Samuel Sewall Adams was born in Woolwich, August, 1828. 
 The first three years after graduation he was engaged in teaching in 
 Gardiner, Boothbay, and Lincoln. While in the last place he was led 
 to consecrate himself to the Christian ministry, and was preparing 
 to enter the seminary at Bangor when he was seized with severe 
 pneumonia, which resulted in fatal disease that terminated in death 
 in Red Wing, Minn., March, 1858. 
 
 WiLMOT W5oD Brookings was born in Woolwich, October, 1830. 
 He was engaged in teaching in Dixfleld, Litchfield, and Anson for a 
 
694 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 time, and then read law in Bath with Henry Tallman, Esq., and 
 Messrs. W. P. Fessenden and Moses M. Butler in Portland. In 
 May, 1857, was admitted to the bar and settled in practice at Sioux 
 Falls, Dakota. He was appointed the next j'ear district attorney of 
 the county ; was a member of the Legislature of Dakota, 1859-60, and 
 acted as governor of the Territory two years ; in 1861 was elected to 
 the upper house or council ; the next year he removed to Yankton, 
 where he was elected three years successively representative to the 
 lower house and was made Speaker of the body, serving at the same 
 time as district attorney for that county. He was superintendent and 
 disbursing agent of a United States military survey from Minnesota 
 to Montana. In 1867 he was elected to the upper house from his 
 county and became its president. In 1869 Gen. Grant appointed 
 him associate justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota for four years. 
 
 He married in 1869 Clara A. Carney of Dresden, Me., and resides 
 at the present time at Sioux Falls. 
 
 Seth Coenelids Burnham was born in Farmington, March, 1833, 
 son of Rev. Jonas B. (1823). On leaving college he assisted his 
 father in the academy in his native town a year or two, and was em- 
 ployed as a teacher in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania five or six 
 years, meanwhile reading law. He was admitted to the practice in 
 Bosto'n, where he remained some years. Subsequently' he became 
 connected with a banking firm. He at present resides in Farming- 
 ton ; has been chairman of the board of selectmen of the town, and 
 held in 1867-68 a position under government in Mass^iChusetts. 
 
 In 1879 he married Mary J. Wellman of New London, Conn. 
 
 Thomas Henry Clark was born in Bristol, November, 1829. He 
 has devoted himself, and with success, to the office of teaching. ^ 
 Soon after graduating he went to Illinois, and for about sixteen years 
 taught in Ottawa, at first in a " ward school" for a short time and 
 then as principal of the High School. A portion of this period he 
 was superintendent of the city schools and clerk of the Iboard of edu- 
 cation. Since 1871 he has been principal of the High School in 
 Aurora, east division Of that State. 
 
 In 1855 he married Harriet Waterman Lefflngwell of New York, 
 and has had three sons and six daughters, of whom two sons and four 
 daughters are living. 
 
 Samuel Roland Crocker was born in Boston, January, 1837. 
 After graduation he went to South Carolina and became editor of the 
 Standard for three years. Returning North he entered on the study 
 
GRADUATES. 695 
 
 of law, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Fryeburg. In 
 1862 he enlisted in the Twenty-third Maine for the nine months' ser- 
 vice. He then settled in Boston in the profession, but decided literary 
 tastes induced hiui to abandon the law, and in 1865 he became a clerk 
 in the house of Ticknor & Fields ; 1866-1870 was managing editor of 
 the Comme dcd Bulletin, which he conducted with zeal and ability, 
 and during the last year issued the first number of the Literary World. 
 In 1874 he took a position in the publishing house of Little, Brown & 
 Co. For more than eleven years he was a correspondent of the Sac- 
 ramento Daily Union and the Springfield Republican; contributed to 
 other publications ; translated several French works, and completed 
 the elaborate index to the centennial edition of Bancroft's " History of 
 the United States." But the cherished object of his ambition was the 
 Literary World. He succeeded, after a severe struggle and seasons 
 of discouragement, in establishing it as authority in current literature, 
 the judgments of which were received with respect and confidence. 
 Overwork in time produced its effects on a delicate and sensitive 
 organization. Early in 1877 there were indications that fatal dis- 
 ease, a paralysis of the brain, was fastened upon him. He was soon 
 removed to the lunatic hospital. South Boston, where with unfailing 
 hope of restoration he found recreation in books and the pen, his 
 last contribution to the Literary World in the December number of 
 that year being a review of Pierce's ' ' Life and Letters of Charles 
 Sumner." A letter from him to the writer in the following month, 
 full of Christian trust and hope, expressed cheerful confidence that 
 the coming spring would find him ready for work again ; but his kind 
 physician Dr. Walker added in postscript, " Mr. Crocker is very happy, 
 but very deluded. His disease slowly progresses. He can never re- 
 cover. His friends all understand it." He died in August, 1878, 
 leaving a wife and three children. 
 
 Daniel Crosby was born in Hampden, February, 1835. No re- 
 turn having been received from our circular, all we know is that he 
 succeeded his father in the manufacturing of paper, and is still actively 
 prosecuting that business in Hampden. 
 
 Henky Boody Durgin was born in Portland, May, 1834. We 
 have failed to obtain explicit information concerning him. He has 
 been, it is understood, employed in teaching in a Western State. 
 
 Charles Henry Foster was born in Orono, February, 1830. 
 After graduation he taught a school for boys a year in Augusta. 
 Having begun the study of law before entering college, he completed 
 
696 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 his studies with Hon. Israel Washburn in Bangor, and was admitted 
 to the bar. Although tendered a copartnership by Mr. Washburn, 
 he went South and for a time was editor of the Southern Statesman, 
 Norfolk, Va., and of the Day Book. January, 1859, he removed to 
 Murfreesboro', N. C, and took charge of the Citizen, and entered on 
 the practice of law. At the opening of the Rebellion he stood true to 
 the Union and was active in sustaining the Federal authority at the 
 risk of ruin in business and loss of life. Under direction of President 
 Lincoln he raised a regiment of. loyal men and rendered good service 
 in the eastern portion of the State. At the close of hostilities he 
 engaged for a time in mercantile pursuits. His good name, recog- 
 nized by his fellow-citizens, availed to promote his election to repre- 
 sent his district in Congress ; but measures of reconstruction not being 
 accomplished, he was refused a seat He was active in politics, was 
 of repute on the platform, but declined office. He was a frequent 
 contributor to the public press. In 1878 he removed to Philadelphia, 
 was admitted to the bar of the State, still maintaining his interest in 
 journalism and in the following year becoming connected with the 
 Philadelphia Record. 
 
 In 1860 he married Sue Agnes Carter, daughter of a prominent 
 citizen of Murfreesboro', and has had six children, of whom three 
 daughters and a son are living. Mr. Foster died suddenly of pneu- 
 monia, March 14, 1882. 
 
 Benjamin Browne Foster was born in Orono, November, 1831, 
 brother of the preceding. He taught in Baltimore, Md., a year; 
 studied law in Baltimore and Washington ; entered on the practice in 
 Lincoln, Me. During the war he was first lieutenant Eleventh Maine ; 
 'was on Gen. Peck's staff with rank of major; became colonel by 
 brevet and assistant adjutant-general. He has since held positions 
 as register in bankruptcy second district, Virginia ; commonwealth 
 attorney, Norfolk County ; judge of the hustings court, Portsmouth, 
 Va., and of the corporation court, Norfolk ; assistant attorney south- 
 ern district of New York ; and has recently become deputy district 
 attorney for New York County. 
 
 He married in 1863 at Canandaigua, and has had seven children, 
 four sons and a daughter now living. 
 
 Samuel Spking Gardner was born in Brewer, January, 1831. 
 After graduation he taught Bluehill Academy two years, and was for 
 a short time in Mt. Pleasant Military Institution, Sing Sing, N. Y , 
 in the department of history and belles-letters. He pursued theologi- 
 
GRADUATES. 697 
 
 cal study at Bangor Seminary, graduating 1861, and was settled over 
 a Congregational church, Bellows. Falls, Vt. In 1864 he entered the 
 army as chaplain, and remained in the public service until 1872, when 
 he retired and came to Washington, and has since with the exception 
 soon mentioned held a clerkship in the Treasury Department. In 
 1875-76 he was in charge of a district in Alabama as superintendent 
 of freedmen's interests ; was a member 'of the constitutional conven- 
 tion of that State under the reconstruction, and assisted in framing a 
 common-school system favoring the freedmen movement, subsequently 
 under a political change abandoned ; was active in securing a pro- 
 vision against the sale of liquors on election days, which still is in 
 force. He was elected probate judge of the county and held the 
 oflSce two years, encountering trouble from the peculiar Southern pol- 
 icy of the time, being repeatedly assaulted and at last shot by secret 
 assassins and narrowly escaping death. Some months after he 
 resigned his office, and soon returned to Washington and resumed 
 position in the Treasury Department. He is an office bearer in Dr. 
 Rankin's church. 
 
 In 1869 he married Mrs. Adeline Livingston of Greenville, Ala., 
 and has three children. 
 
 Joseph Kingsbttky Gkeene was born in Lewiston, April, 1834. 
 He pursued a course in theology at Union Theological Seminary, New 
 York, where he graduated in 1858. Having been accepted by the 
 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, he sailed in 
 their service for Turkey, January, 1859, and was stationed at Nicome- 
 dia and in 1862 at Brusa. In 1868 he visited his own country, and 
 in 1871, returning to his work, was stationed at Manisa, near Smyrna. 
 In the following year he was called to Constantinople, where he now 
 remains in charge of the weekly papers published by the mission in 
 Armenian, Turkish in the Armenian alphabet, and Turkish in the 
 Greek, which are the organs of the evangelica,l churches of Turkey, 
 are widely circulated, and besides religious topics communicate ideas 
 on education and manners as well as current news. 
 
 In 1857 Mr. Greene married Elizabeth Augusta Davis of Lewiston, 
 and has had five sons and three daughters. The sons only are living, 
 two of them being at school in the United States. 
 
 Edward Hawes was born in Bridgton, October, 1834. He entered 
 after graduation on the theological course at Bangor Seminary and 
 graduated in 1858. In October following he was ordained pastor of 
 the Congregational Church in Waterville, where he remained six years ; 
 
6f)8 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 was then called to the pastorate over the Congregational Church in 
 Philadelphia, and ordained October, 1864. In September, 1873, he 
 became pastor over the North Church, New Haven, Conn., where he 
 still remains. 
 
 He married Sarah Carter Stone of Bridgton, July, 1859, and has 
 had five children, three sons and two daughters. 
 
 Benjamin Francis Hayes was born in Lewiston, March, 1830. He 
 was after graduation employed nearly four years in teaching mathe- 
 matics and German in New Hampton (N. H.) Literary Institution, 
 where he pursued meanwhile theological study ; he then was in the 
 pastorate over a church in Olneyville, North Providence, E. I. , four or 
 five years. In 1865 he became professor of modern languages in Bates 
 College, and subsequently was professor of rhetoric and the English lan- 
 guage, and then of intellectual and moral philosophy, which position he 
 now holds. While in Olneyville he was supervisor of schools for three 
 years. He has published a sermon in a volume entitled "Doctrine 
 and Life," sermons prea,ched by Free- Will Baptist Ministers, Dover, 
 N. H., 1880. 
 
 Mr. Hayes in 1856 married a daughter of Francis Cary, Esq., of 
 Turner, and has had two sons and a daughter. His oldest son (grad- 
 uate of Bates College) is now instructor in Greek, Hillsdale College, 
 Michigan. 
 
 Thomas Albert Henderson was born in Dover, N. H., December, 
 1834 He was principal for some time, and with great success, of 
 Franklin Academj' in his native town. He then studied law, graduated 
 LL. B., Harvard, 1861, gained a prize for an essaj', and was admitted 
 to the Suffolk bar. At the breaking out of the Rebellion he relin- 
 quished flattering prospects, entered on a course of military study at 
 Norwich University, Vermont, was appointed adjutant of a New 
 Hampshire regiment, was promoted major and then lieutenant-colonel, 
 and fell in action near Petersburg, Va, , August, 1864. 
 
 Obadiah Bkown Hewett was born in Hope, September, 1828. 
 He studied law in Chicago, 111., was admitted to the bar, and settled 
 in the practice in Brownville, Neb., in which he has since for the most 
 part been engaged. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the Second 
 Nebraska Cavalry, served two years, and was discharged with the 
 rank of captain. After the experience of farming a few years he 
 resumed his profession in Hastings^ Neb., in the firm of Hewett & 
 Yocum. He has been probate judge, member of the Nebraska Legis- 
 
GRADUATES. 699 
 
 lature, chief clerk of the Senate, and district attorney, first judicial 
 district, from 1868 to 1873. 
 
 October, 1859, he married Mary W. Turner of Brownville, Neb., 
 and has bad two sons and three daughters, of whom two daughters 
 have deceased. 
 
 Thomas BARCLArHooD was born in Halifax, N. S., March, 1826. 
 A classmate writes that for many j-ears he has been lost to his class. 
 The writer on hearing that he was in New Orleans sent our circular 
 to his address, but received no response. 
 
 John Lathrop Hunter was bom in Gardiner, March, 1833. After 
 graduation he engaged in the studj^ of law with Charles Danforth, 
 JEsq., now Judge Danforth, and was admitted to the bar. He settled 
 in the practice in Willimantic, Conn., and still remains there. He 
 has represented the borough in the Legislature of the State, has been 
 four or five years on the school board of the town, and at this writing 
 is attorney for the borough. 
 
 In 1859 he married Anna J. McLellan of Gardiner, and has a 
 daughter. 
 
 Increase Sumner Kimball was born in Lebanon, September, 1834. 
 He entered upon the study of law at Sanford with his father Hon. 
 Increase Sumner Kimball, was admitted to the bar, and began the 
 practice in North Berwick. Meanwhile he had been for a time com- 
 mission clerk in the office of the secretary of state in Augusta ; in 
 1859 he was chosen representative of his town in the State Legisla- 
 ture, the youngest member of the House ; in 1860 he became clerk in 
 the office of the second auditor of the treasury, Washington, and 
 successively passed through the different grades until he became chief 
 clerk, now called deputy auditor; in 1871 he accepted the charge of 
 the revenue marine service, in which he rendered important service ; he 
 was appointed the next year bj' President Grant on the Board of Civil 
 Service Examiners for the Treasury Department. He has been effi- 
 cient in developing the system of life-saving service until in 1878 it 
 was made a distinct bureau with Mr. Kimball its general superintend- 
 ent. He has published annual reports of the United States revenue 
 marine and of the United States saving sei-vice. 
 
 In 1858 Mr. Kimball married Ellen Frothingham Fenno, daughter 
 of Edward Fenno of Augusta, and has one son, now a cadet in the 
 revenue marine service. 
 
700 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Thomas Henry Little was born in Augusta, December, 1832 He 
 had purposed to prepare for the ministry, but a different field of use- 
 fulness was reserved for him. After teaching a year in Gardiner and 
 a second year in Columbus, Ohio, he became connected with the Ohio 
 Institution for the Blind in that city, and was induced by flattering 
 offers to accept a similar situation in the Louisiana Institution for the 
 same object in Baton Rouge. The breaking out of the Rebellion led him 
 to resign his position and return to Columbus, whence he was invited to 
 the charge of the Wisconsin Institution for the Blind at Janesyille in 
 1861, where the remainder of his days were spent. In 1873 he 
 received leave of absence to visit Europe in order to observe the best 
 methods in similar institutions. He had also given attention to the 
 condition of the feeble in intellect, and gave a large amount of infor- 
 mation to the authorities of the State, and urged provision for such 
 unfortunates. He seemed peculiarly endowed for his work, and his 
 short life was eminently one of usefulness to be cherished in the 
 memory of hundreds who have been made happier and better for his 
 having lived. He was a deacon of the Congregational Church in 
 Janesville, and a trustee of Ripon College. In efforts to save a 
 pupil in the burning of the asylum he suffered a severe injur\', and 
 the anxiety and effort consequent on the disaster reduced his strength 
 so that he sank under an attack of pneumonia, February, 1875, greatly 
 respected and loved. 
 
 Mr. Little married Sarah F. Cowles, daughter of Rev. Henry 
 Cowles of Oberlin, and left four daughters. 
 
 John Alexander McIntosh was born in Farmington, January, 
 1831. He devoted himself to the profession of a teacher. He was 
 appointed to a tutorship in the college, which he filled acceptably. 
 He accepted an invitation to take charge of a young ladies' seminary 
 in Berkshire County, Mass. A tendency to pulmonary disease, which 
 threatened his life while in college and had never been subdued, at- 
 tacked him with renewed violence and terminated fatally at Farm- 
 ington, December, 1860. 
 
 He married Harriet, daughter of AdamLemont, Esq., of Brunswick, 
 and left a son. 
 
 Flavius Vespasian Norcross was born in Dixfield, April, 1829. 
 On leaving college he taught a few months in the academy at Mon- 
 mouth. He entered the Theological Seminary at Bangor, graduating 
 in 1858. During his last year in the seminary he supplied the Congre- 
 gational Church in Veazie near by, where his labors were fruitful ; on 
 
GRADUATES. 701 
 
 leaving the seminary he performed missionary service for two years in 
 South Waldoboro' and Brerfcen. In 1860 he was ordained over the 
 Congregational Church in Union, and has since continued there in 
 active service. He has been on the superintending committee or 
 supervision of the schools of the town sixteen years. He was chosen 
 delegate to the National Council at St. Louis in 1880. 
 
 Mr Norcross has married twice : first, in 1858 Martha L. Morrill of 
 Wilt'on, who died in 1865 ; second, in 1878 Sarah B. Little of Chicago, 
 formerly of Bremen. He has no children. 
 
 William Lb Bakon Potman was born in Bath, May, 1835. He 
 studied law in Bath, was admitted to the bar in 1858, and established 
 himself in the profession in Portland, where he has since lived in 
 active and successful practice. He has been mayor of the city, is on 
 the Board of Overseers of the college and its president. 
 
 May, 1862, he married Octavia B. Robinson of Augusta. They 
 have no children. 
 
 EzEKiEL Ross was born in Jefferson, September, 1829. He was 
 reported to be resident in Blue Earth City, Minn., but a circular 
 addressed to him brought no reply. 
 
 John Farnham Shaw was born in Greenville, March, 1829. Soon 
 after graduation he went South and engaged in teaching in ■ South 
 Carolina ; entered the Rebel service during the war, and at last died in 
 a hospital. 
 
 Charles Edwin Shaw was born in Portland, September, 1835. 
 Soon after leaving college he engaged in commercial business in Port- 
 land and subsequently in New York, where' he had charge of a corn- 
 sugar manufactory. He entered the military service as lieutenant- 
 colonel of the Twenty-fifth Maine. On leaving the army he had a 
 mercantile agency and went South, and died in Austin, Texas, March 
 3, 1876. 
 
 George Henrt Shepaed was born in Hallowell, June, 1831, son 
 of Prof. Shepard of the Bangor Seminary. He entered the Theologi- 
 cal Seminary, Bangor, where he graduated in 1858. He was licensed 
 with his class to preach, and had preached in different places. In the 
 following year he went to Winthrop to supply the pulpit, retired 
 apparently in usual health, and was found dead the next morning, hav- 
 ing departed, it was thought, soon after he took his bed and without a 
 struggle. He had experienced what were considered epileptic attacks. 
 
702 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Thomas Brown Sherman was born in Augusta, March, 1834. 
 What we have been able to ascertain coficerniug him (for all direct 
 efforts have failed) is that he read law but did not engage in the 
 practice, that he spent some time in California, and at present is 
 book-keeper for W. L. Richardson & Co., 14 Hanover Street, book- 
 sellers. Lives in West Somerville, Mass. 
 
 Benjamin Poor Snow was born in Westbrook, February, iSSl. 
 He was a respected and successful teacher in Evansville, Ind., as 
 tutor in the college, in the academy at Fryeburg, and in North Brook- 
 field and Wakefield, Mass., meanwhile pursuing theological study in 
 the seminar}' at Bangor, where he graduated in 1861, but was first or- 
 dained into the pastorate in North Yarmouth in 1869. He has been 
 pastor of the Congregational Church in Alfred since August, 1875. 
 From 1872 to 1875 he was employed in editorial work in Portland on 
 the Enquirer and the Christian Mirror, of which he was proprietor. 
 
 In August, 1862, he married Anne Louise Chandler. New Sharon, 
 and has had two daughters, of whom the second survives. 
 
 Levi Wentworth Stanton was born in Lebanon, January, 1827, 
 brother of Benjamin (1848). He became on leaving college an 
 assistant in New Hampton Institute, New Hampshire, and in the year 
 following its principal, continuing two or three years. He was then 
 elected principal of Brown High School, Newburyport, Mass. Thence 
 after two or more years he came to the Maine State Seminary, Lewis- 
 ton, in which, with the exception of a year at Andover Theological 
 Seminary, he taught until that institution grew into Bates College, 
 when he was made its Greek professor. Resigning that position he 
 undertook the charge of Dummer Academy, Byfleld, Mass., but failure 
 of health in 1873 compelled him to seek relief on a farm in Sandwich, 
 N. H. When his brother Benjamin's health in Union College pre- 
 paratory school gave way, he attempted to supply his place, but was 
 soon compelled to relinquish such labor. Of late years he has resided 
 in Sandwich on a farm, with little prospect of resuming his chosen 
 profession. 
 
 He married Anna T., daughter of Thomas A. Burleigh, Esq., of 
 Sandwich, and has three daughters. 
 
 Peleg Tallman was born in Bath, April, 1836, son of Henry Tall- 
 man, Esq. He studied law, removed to the West, and settled in 
 Dubuque, Iowa. He died April, 1863. 
 
 Emery Purinton Thompson was bom in Topsham, August, 1831. 
 
GRADUATES. 703 
 
 Of unexceptionable character, holding high rank as a scholar, he suf- 
 fered from an infirm constitution and delicate temperament, and fell 
 back two years in his course from that cause. He at last died in 
 McLean Asylum, Somerville, Mass., August, 1875, where he had been 
 an inmate fifteen years. 
 
 John Frothingham Tinkham was born in Portland, May, 1833. 
 He entered upon the study of law. "When on a visit to friends in 
 Chicago he was seii;ed with fever which left him with impaired consti- 
 tution. He went to New Orleans in hope of benefit from a sea voyage 
 and the climate. Soon after his arrival he suddenly died, April, 1858, 
 affectionately remembered by teachers and all who knew him. 
 
 , Charles Titcomb was born in Farmington, October, 1835. "Grad- 
 uating with the highest honors, he studied law in New York, and was 
 admitted to the bar in that city. His industry, scholarship, and 
 decided religious character gave promise of great usefulness, but he 
 became a victim of pulmonary disease and died September, 1859. 
 
 Gardiner Chandler Vose was horn in Augusta, August, 1835. He 
 studied law in Augusta with his father Hon. Richard Hampton Vose 
 (1822), was admitted to the bar, and has pursued the practice in that 
 city. He has held itunicipal oflices and represented the city in the 
 Legislature of the State. 
 
 In 1867 he married Carrie A., daughter of Col. Darius Alden of 
 Augusta, and has had a daughter and two sons. 
 
 John Wingate was born in Ossipee, N. H., October, 1831. A 
 classmate informs us that after teaching an academy, Wolfeboro', 
 N. H., he studied law and was admitted to the bar of Carroll County, 
 N. H. Subsequently he held a clerkship in Washington. Event- 
 ually he established himself in the practice of law, St. Louis, Mo. 
 He was prominent in the Masonic fraternity. He died November, 
 1881. 
 
 1856. 
 
 » 
 
 Thomas Ltford Ambrose was born in Ossipee, N. H., June, 1829. 
 He pursued a theological course at Union Theological Seminary, New 
 York, and at Andover, Mass. ; was ordained missionary to the Nes- 
 torians and went to his field of labor, but ill health compelled his 
 return in 1861. With a view to mission service he also studied med- 
 icine. He accepted a chaplaincy. Twelfth New Hampshire, Septem- 
 ber, 1862, was taken prisoner at Chancellorsville, subsequently 
 
704 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 rejoined his regiment, was wounded in action, and after three weeks 
 of suffering died in the hospital, Fortress Monroe. A noble Chris- 
 tian man, of indomitable resolution, courage, and power of endur- 
 ance. OfHcers and men called him the " model chaplain." 
 
 Isaac Denny Balch was born in Newburyport, Mass., April, 1834. 
 Having received no return from circulars sent to him, we rely upon 
 the record of his class furnished by their secretary. He taught after 
 graduation a term in Limington Academy, the year following at Ken- 
 nebunkport, and in 1859 for six months in Plaquemine, La. He then 
 studied law with Caleb Lamson, Esq., Newburyport, Mass., com- 
 pleted study and was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati, Ohio ; en- 
 gaged in the practice in Jersey City, N. J., until 1864, when retiring 
 from tlie profession he entered on mercantile business in New York. 
 From 1868 to 1878 he was employed in the custom-house. New York, 
 and was then appointed deputy or assistant collector of that port. 
 He was for a time in the military service early in the war in a Massa- 
 chusetts regiment. 
 
 He has never married. 
 
 James Olcott Browx was born in Portland, October, 1836, brother 
 of Philip H. (1851). He graduated with honors, had literary tastes 
 and culture, but devoted himself to business in the house of J. B. 
 Brown & Sons. His death in Portland, in 1864, was very sudden 
 from diphtheria, and deeply lamented. 
 
 He married in 1860 Emily Kemble, daughter of Gen. H. K. Oliver 
 of Lawrence, Mass., and left a daughter. 
 
 Ctrus Henry Carlton was born in Sangerville, April, 1832. He 
 taught school in Houlton a year, and then entered the Theological 
 Seminar3', Newton, Mass. He was ordainedover the Baptist Church 
 in Limerick, and remained there two years ; supplied the Baptist 
 churches in New Gloucester and Buckfield some years, and had scarcely 
 finished a year of faithful and earnest work in Foxboro', Mass., when 
 disease, the seeds of which had been lang in his system, was rapidly 
 developed and terminated in death, December, 1868. 
 
 In 1861 he married Annie J. Crane of Fayette, and had two chil- 
 dren who died in infancy. 
 
 Franklin Carsley Davis was born in Farmington, January, 1834. 
 After teaching in Foxcroft and other places for some time, he en- 
 gaged in active business in Maine and Pennsylvania. At the opening 
 
GRADUATES. 705 
 
 of the war he enlisted as private ia Thu-d Pennsj-lvania Cavalry ; was 
 in the first Bull Run battle ; was one of the victims of Libby Prison ; 
 May, 1862, was complimented by Gen. McClellan in general orders 
 for skill and gallantry in the Peninsular Campaign, in the enterprise 
 of opening communications through the enemy's lines with the gun- 
 boats on James River; was assigned to quartermaster's duty, and 
 exhibited capacity for business details ; when mustered out was ap- 
 pointed clerk in the Quartermaster's Department, Washington, and 
 held the position four years. He never recovered from effects of his 
 prison life. After long and severe suffering he died in the hope of a 
 blessed immortality, in Philadelphia, March, 1870. 
 
 Henrt Fakrae was born in Lancaster, N. H., April, 1834. He 
 was assistant teacher in a boarding school for boys at Spring Hill, 
 Sandwich, Mass. ; was principal for a time in an academy, Colebrook, 
 N. H. ; assistant in a boarding school for boys, Great Barrington, 
 Mass. ; and again in a select school in New York. He entered Ban- 
 gor Seminary and graduated in 1862. He received ordination at 
 Dalton, N. H., and has acted as pastor at different places in Maine. 
 He never married. 
 
 Samuel Edwaed Floyd was born in Newmarket, N. H., May, 
 1836. He read law and opened an office in Boston. He died from 
 pulmonary disease at Whitehall, N. Y., May, 1873. In 1858 he mar- 
 ried at Whitehall, N. Y., Harriet Almira, daughter of James Tierney, 
 and had two children who died in infancy. 
 
 William Gaslin was born in Augusta, July, 1827. He taught in 
 Augusta for a time, and then studied law with Samuel Titeomb, Esq., 
 and practised the profession in Augusta until 1868, when he removed 
 to Omaha, Neb. He has resided the last few years in Bloomington, 
 Neb. He was on the superintending school committee, the common 
 council, and board of aldermen in Augusta, and held municipal offices. 
 He has been on the tench of the Fifth Judicial District Court, 
 Nebraska. 
 
 In 1866 he married Catharine P. Perkins of Orono, and has had a 
 child who died in infancy. 
 
 Roland Bailet Howaed was born in Leeds, October, 1833. He 
 at first studied law in Albany, N. Y., two years, and then entered 
 upon a theological course at Bangor Seminary, graduating in 1860. 
 He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church, Farmington, 
 Me., where he remained ten years; he was afterwards pastor in 
 
706 HISTORY or BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Princeton, 111., five years; four years in Orange, N. J., and is now 
 pastor in Roekport, Mass. He lias been associate editor of the 
 Advance since 1875, and was its correspondent in Europe in 1879. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1860 Mary Ellen Patten of Bath, 
 who died in 1871 leaving three children ; second, in 1873 Helen J. 
 Groves of Farmington, by whom he has a daughter and son. 
 
 Thomas Leavitt was born in Hampton, N. H., September, 1832. 
 He taught a few years in his native town and Greenland, then studied 
 law in Bostop and Exeter, where for several years he has been en- 
 gaged in the profession. He has represented his native town and 
 Exeter in the Liegislature, has also been in the Senate of the State, 
 has been register of probate, and in 1876 received the appointment of 
 judge of probate. 
 
 In 1865 he married Fanny Dearborn, daughter of Lewis M. Mitchell, 
 and has had three daughters and two sons, of whom a son and daugh- 
 ter are living. We are indebted to the class record for the items here 
 given. 
 
 Thomas Blanchaed Lenoir was born in Columbia, Miss., Novem- 
 ber, 1828. He did not engage in professional life ; was owner or 
 manager successively of different plantations. He married a daugh- 
 ter of Governor Clark, Mississippi, who in the war of the Rebellion 
 appointed him inspector-general and subsequently adjutant-general of 
 the State troops. At the close of the war he returned to plantation 
 life. Partly in consequence of his wife's health he removed to Thayer, 
 Kan., and established himself in mercantile business. After a brief 
 iUnass from pneumonia, he died leaving a wife and four children,. 
 
 Prentiss Loring was born in Yarmouth, February, 1834. After 
 graduation he was assistant principal for a time in the academy of his 
 native town. He then began the study of law in the oflSee of Messrs. 
 Shepley & Dana in Portland, but infirm health compelled him to seek 
 other occupation, and he at length settled in Portland in the business 
 of fire and 'marine insurance, in which he has continued. He has 
 been on the superintending school committees of Yarmouth and Port- 
 land, and has represented the city in the State Legislature. 
 
 In 1860 he married Helen C. McAllister of Poitland, and has had 
 two children, a daughter and a son. The daughter has died. 
 
 Ends Thompson Luce was born in Wilton, January, 1832. He 
 taught a private school in Wilton, was principal of Lewiston Falls 
 Academy one year, and then engaged in the study of law with Hon. 
 
GRADUATES. 707 
 
 Nathan Clifford, Portland, and Hon. C. W. Walton, Auburn; was 
 admitted to the bar, practised his profession in Auburn and Lewiston 
 for some time, and then removed to Boston, where he now resides. 
 He has been judge of probate, judge of the municipal court, assessor 
 of internal revenue, member of the school committee and of the city 
 council. He served in the late war as lieutenant-colonel of the 
 Twenty-third Maine. He published in 1872 a work on probate law 
 and practice, now in general use in the State. 
 
 He has married twice: first, in 1860 Mrs. Phebe L. Adams of 
 Bowling Green, Ky., who died in 1874 ; and in 1879 Sarah J. Mills, 
 and has two children. 
 
 WooDBUKY LuNT Melcher was born at Meredith Bridge, N. H., 
 October, 1832. He taught the High School, Barrington, N. H., and 
 Guilford Academy tbe first two years. He studied law and settled in 
 the practice in Laconia, N. H. He was for several years register of 
 probate. He has not of later years devoted himself to his profession, 
 having held an agency for insurance companies, and been cashier of 
 the savings bank in Laconia. 
 
 He married Elizabeth H., daughter of Eobert Bowker, Esq., of 
 Brunswick, who died in 1876, leaving three children, of whom two 
 are now living. 
 
 James Francis Miller was born in Hollis, October, 1832. He 
 was after graduating principal of Standish Academy. He studied 
 law and opened an office in Portland in partnership with W. G. Chad- 
 bourne, Esq. At the breaking out of the war he became military 
 secretary of Gov. Israel Washburne ; subsequently was assistant adju- 
 tant-general on Gen. George Shepley's staff; was acting secretary of 
 state, Louisiana, and mayor of New Orleans 1862-64 ; was subse- 
 quently on Gen. Butler's staff. At the close of the war he resumed 
 the practice of law, and was a member of the Legislature 1866-6. 
 He died December, 1873, leaving a wife and two children. He mar- 
 ried Charlotte A., daughter of Nathan Cummings (1817). 
 
 Galen Clapp Moses was born in Bath, August, 1835. His has 
 been the life of an active business man for some years, and then as 
 treasurer of the Worumbo Manufacturing Company. He has resided 
 in Bath, has held positions on the superintending committee and other 
 offices of the city, and as director of the Androscoggin Railroad. 
 
 He married in Charlestown, Mass., Susan Thatcher, daughter of 
 Samuel P. Croswell, Jr. He has been recently elected on the Board 
 of Overseers of the college. 
 
708 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Edwin Beaman Palmer was bom in Belfast, September, 1833. 
 On leaving college he was master of the high and grammar schools, 
 Brunswick, one year, and then entered the Theological Seminary, 
 Bangor, graduating in 1859. He has been ordained pastor over the 
 Congregational churches in Newcastle, Me., Southbridge, Mass., Chic- 
 opee, Mass., and is now pastor over the church in Ipswich, Mass. He 
 served as chaplain of a Maine regiment in the late war. He has been 
 on superintending school committees, and is at present on the Hoard 
 of Overseers of the college. Mr. Palmer has suffered from ill health, 
 often hindering his work. 
 
 September, 1859, he married Thirza M. Field of Brunswick, and 
 has had five children, two sons and three daughters, of whom a son 
 and two daughters now survive. 
 
 Edwin Pond Parker was born in Castine, January, 1836, son 
 of Rev. W. Parker. On leaving college he was employed in teaching 
 as assistant in the academy in Auburn a year, and then entered the 
 Theological Seminary at Bangor, graduating in 1860. He was or- 
 dained pastor of the Second Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn., 
 soon after, and still continues in that responsible position. He has 
 visited Europe repeatedly. In 1870 he received the degree of D. D. 
 from Yale College. He has published the " Book of Praise," the 
 " Christian Hymnal," and "Sunday-School Hymnal." 
 
 In 1860 he married Lucy M. Harris, adopted daughter of Rev. Dr. 
 Harris (l&SS"), and has had eight children, two of whom have died. 
 
 Albert Smith Rice was born in Augusta, April, 1837. "He at 
 once entered on the study of law in the office of Sewall Lancaster, 
 Esq., of Augusta ; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and settled in the 
 profession in Rockland, where he still continues. He has been regis- 
 ter of probate and attorney for Knox County, and has represented 
 the city in the Legislature. 
 
 He married Frances W., daughter of Henry K. Baker, Esq., of 
 Hallowell, and has had six children, "of whom four are living. 
 
 Thomas Sargent Robie was born in Gorham, September, 1835. 
 He entered at once after graduation the Theological Seminary, Ban- 
 gor, and graduated in 1859. He was soon ordained pastor over the 
 Congregational Church in Waldoboro', and remained there three years. 
 He has since supplied churches in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massa- 
 chusetts, and is now ministering to the church and people in South 
 Falmouth, Mass. 
 
 He married Virginia D. Pendleton m 1859, and has four children. 
 
GRADUATES. 709 
 
 George Eobinson was born in Augusta, August, 1834. On leav- 
 ing college he devoted himself for some years to teaching in a private 
 school. Augusta, and was principal of Standish Academy ; went 
 South, and in 1859 was elected to a professorship in Jefferson Col- 
 lege, Louisiana, and filled the ofHce with credit until the institution 
 was broken up by the war, when he became resident at New Orleans 
 and occupied positions under the general government. After the war 
 he was appointed in the department of internal revenue, Monroe, La. 
 He suddenly fell victim to congestive fever, June, 1867. He never 
 married. 
 
 Moses Mason Eobinson was born in Waterford, April, 1835. 
 After graduation he taught the North Anson Academy a short time, 
 and then engaged in the study of law in Portland. In 1861 he en- 
 tered the military service with the commission of captain, Twelfth 
 Maine, and continued in it nearly three years. He then established 
 himself in the profession of law in New York, where he still remains. 
 
 In 1877 he married Susan Edwards Booth of Ballston Spa, N. Y., 
 and has had two children, one of whom has died. 
 
 Edwin Bradbury Smith was born in Kennebunkport, October, 
 1832. The circulars which have been sent him having brought no 
 reply, our dependence has been on the record of the class. He read 
 law in the office of E. E. Bourne, Ksq. (1816), of Kennebunk, and 
 settled in the practice in Limerick for three years and then removed 
 to Saco. He was deputy collector of customs in that place three 
 years, represented the town in the Legislature repeatedly, and was 
 Speaker of the House ; was reporter of decisions of the Supreme 
 Court two years. In 1875 was appointed assistant attorney-general 
 of the United States, and resided for a time in Washington, D. C. 
 He has more recently removed to New York, where he is a member 
 of a law firm. He has never married. 
 
 William Henry Smyth was born in Brunswick, October, 1835, 
 brother of Egbert C. (1848). At first he engaged as a civil engineer 
 in Iowa and Kansas, and was a member of the first Legislature of 
 that State. At the opening of the Civil War he entered the military 
 service in a Kansas regiment, was commissioned first lieutenant of 
 the Sixteenth (U. S. A.) under Gen. Thomas, Army of the Cum- 
 berland ; distinguished himself at the head of his company in action 
 near Murfreesboro', was captured at Chickamauga, was fifteen months 
 in Libby and other prisons, was promoted captain, and brevetted 
 major " for meritorious services at Chickamauga." In 1869 he was 
 
710 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 appointed marshal of Georgia, and in 1876 United States Circuit 
 Court commissioner. Northern District of Georgia. 
 
 He married Maggie A. Poole of Atlanta, Ga., where he resides. 
 They have no children. 
 
 Jonathan Young Stanton was born in Lebanon, June, 1834, 
 brother of Benjamin (1.848), and Levi W. of the preceding class. 
 He studied law in the office of D. C. Christie, Dover, N. H., for a 
 time ; but relinquishing the law, with the exception of two or more 
 years in the seminary at Andover, Mass., has devoted himself to the 
 office of a teacher : two years in the New Hampton Institution, New 
 Hampshire, two years as principal of Pinkerton Academy, Derry, 
 N. H., and for the last sixteen years as professor of Greek and Latin 
 in Bates College, Lewiston, Me. In 1874 he travelled abroad. 
 
 In 1866 he married Harriet P., daughter of the late Jabez C. "Wood- 
 man, Esq., of Portland (1822). 
 
 James Henry Taylor was bom in Ballston Spa, N. Y., January, 
 1829. He was a teacher in a young ladies' boarding school in New 
 York, meanwhile pursuing theological study in Union Theological 
 Seminary, New York, graduating in 1869. He has been in the pas- 
 torate in New Eochelle, N. Y., Orange, N. J., Lake Forest, 111., and 
 now in Rome, N. Y. He was professor of English literature in Lake 
 Forest University, of which he was also a trustee, and held a profesr 
 sorship in Whitesboro' Seminary, New York. 
 
 Besides casual sermons, he has been a contributor to the press. 
 
 In 1879 he received the degree of D. D. from Hamilton College, 
 New York. In 1859 he married at St. Stephens, N. B., Fanny C, 
 daughter of Stephen Hitchings, Esq , and has seven children. 
 
 Samdel William Tennby was born in Norridgewock, March, 1834, 
 son of John S. (1816). He pursued a theological course at Bangor 
 Seminary. He sufliered for several years from defect of vision caused 
 by cataract. Repeated surgical opeuations interfered with study and 
 with the expectation of active service in the ministry. Christian 
 sympathy as well as patriotism led him to give himself to the Christian 
 Commission in the war, and he was intrusted with the conduct of its 
 affairs at Camp Stoneham, Washington, D. C. He was attacked 
 violently by typhoid fever and in three days died, July, 1864. The 
 officers of the commission bore strong testimony to ' ' his sterling 
 qualities, well combined and balanced, to his open-hearted, social, 
 genial character, and to his superior administrative capacity." His 
 religious character from youth was decided and uniform. 
 
GRADUATES. 711 
 
 Edward Williams Thompson was born in Brunswick, February, 
 1836. He read law in the office of Ebenezer Everett, Esq., of Bruns- 
 wick, and completed his course at Kansas City, Mo. ; returning to 
 Maine he was admitted to the bar and began practice in Brunswick. 
 Early in the war he raised a company of infantry, was' in the first Bull 
 Eun battle, distinguished himself "by his cool bravery"; he then 
 raised the First Maine Battery and served in Louisiana, broke down 
 with disease and returned home. In 1865 he raised a company in a 
 Maine regiment, and was commissioned captain ; was mustered out 
 with brevets of major and lieutenant-colonel ; in 1867 was commis- 
 sioned second lieutenant of the Nineteenth United States Infantry ; 
 resigned in 1868 and resumed his profession in Batesville, Ark. In 
 1865 he married, in Portland, Marie Louise I-eProhon and had six 
 children, of whom three survive. He died suddenly of paralysis, 
 December, 1879. 
 
 The above particulars are from the class record. 
 
 Charles Henry True was born in Litchfield, June, 1832. On 
 leaving college he taught in Westbrook Academj-, in Lincoln, and 
 Sparta, N. C. In 1860 he edited the Household Journal in New York ; 
 1861-62 he was in the adjutant-general's office in Augusta, and became 
 secretary of Governors Coburn and Cony. Eemoving to Portland he 
 was associated in the management of the Portland Star. In 1868 he 
 emigrated to Dakota Territorj', established the Dakota Republic m, 
 and held that position until his death. June, 1875, at Vermilion, D. T. 
 In 1862 he married, at Gardiner, Hannah S., daughter of Thomas S. 
 Davis of Hallowell, and left one child. 
 
 John Pillsbdrt Watson was born in Guilford, N. H., November, 
 1826. He taught in Limerick Academy, in Connecticut and Pennsyl- 
 vania several years, although not continuously. He pursued theologi- 
 cal studies at Bangor and Union Theological Seminary. New York, 
 where he graduated in 1861. He has acted as " stated supply " in 
 Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, as just intimated com- 
 bining with his ministerial work in some cases that of teaching. He 
 has in preparation a history of his native town and Union, Conn. In 
 187'^ he travelled abroad. 
 
 He has never married. 
 
 George Augustus Wheeler was born in Standish, July, 1837, 
 brother of Charles H. (1847), and William A. (1853). On leaving 
 college he taught school in Athol, Mass. He studied medicine 
 
712 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN OOLLEGE. 
 
 with James McKeen, M. D. (1817), in Topsham, attending two 
 courses of lectures in the Harvard Medical School, and one in 
 the Medical School in the college, graduating at the latter in 1859. 
 He practised medicine in Orland and Presque Isle for a time. He 
 served in the late war as surgeon ; was in charge of the hospital, Ninth 
 Corps, and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel ; in 1868 was on the board 
 of health, Washington, D. C. After various experiences he at length 
 settled in the profession in Castine, where he now resides. He has 
 been for some years chairman of the school committee of the town. 
 He has cultivated historical tastes, having published a history of Cas- 
 tine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, and in connection with his brother, 
 Mr. Henry Wheeler of Brunswick, a history of Brunswick, Topsham, 
 and Harpswell; He is a member of the Maine Historical Society. 
 
 In 1863 he married Margaret L. Dorsey of Springfield, Md., and 
 has three daughters and three sons. 
 
 George Sidney Whitmore was born in Richmond, July, 1835. 
 His college acquaintances will recollect that he was the victim of that 
 most depressing of human Uls, scrofulous disease : it pursued him to 
 the end. After suffering, often intensely, nearlj' five years, at last a 
 helpless cripple and for nearly two years confined to his room, he died 
 in 1861 sustained by a strong Christian faith and hope. 
 
 George Ralph Williamson was born in Belfast, April, 1836. 
 On leaving college he studied law in Belfast, in the Law School, Har- 
 vard, where he took the degree LL. B. in 1860, was admitted to 
 the bar in Waldo County, and also in New York, and settled there in 
 the practice. In 1863 he went to California, where he remained nearly 
 five years ; was cashier at Sacramento Iron Works and secretary of 
 mining companies ; was in charge of the supplj- depot of Central 
 Railroad Company, Sacramento, when ill health compelled his return 
 to the East ; he has since filled similar positions of responsibility, and 
 at present (1881) is connected with«the United States Electric Light- 
 ing Company. 
 
 He has never married. 
 
 George Campbell Yeaton was born in South Berwick, May, 1836. 
 After graduating he spent a 3'ear in Nebraska editing the Omaha City 
 Times; then studied law in Boston, where he settled in the profession 
 and remained three years ; he then returned to his native place, which 
 has been his residence. He has been attorney of York County. In 
 1856 he married Hattie A., daughter of Joshua Ramsdell of Newton- 
 
GRADUATES. 713 
 
 ville, Mass., and has had one child now not living. In failure of the 
 circulars sent him the above information has been derived from the 
 class record. 
 
 1857. 
 
 Francis Page Adams was born in Newfleld, August, 1835. He 
 devoted himself to mercantile pursuits in his native town and Portland 
 until 1870, and since that date to " the care and management of real 
 estate and general business in Wolfeboro', N. H., and Boston, Mass." 
 
 November, 1867. he married Susan P. Brown of Wolfeboro', and has 
 two sons and a daughter. Their present residence is Cambridge, 
 Mass., in winter, and Wolfeboro' in summer. 
 
 William Heney Anderson was born in Belfast, December, 1835. 
 He taught a year after graduation the academy in Standish, then 
 studied law in Portland, but did not pro>secute the profession. He 
 served as paymaster in the navy for some years, and then became 
 general agent for the State of Maine of the New York Life Insurance' 
 Company, and still holds that position. He was also treasurer of the 
 Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad from 1872 to 1876. 
 
 He married Alice Preble of Portland, and has a daughter. 
 
 Ebenezer Bean was born in Conway, N. H., Julj', 1829 On leav- 
 ing college he became principal of Bridgton Academy from two to 
 three years. He pursued theological study in the seminary, Bangor, 
 graduating in 1861. The year after he was ordained at Dexter. He 
 was in the pastorate over the Congregational Church in Gray eleven 
 years, when he left that charge, for three years ministered to the 
 churches in Camden and Fort Fairfield, and then returned to his for- 
 mer people in Gray, where he is still in active service. 
 
 In 1863 he mamed Mary Hawes of Bridgton, and has had a son 
 and daughter. The daughter is now living. 
 
 Samuel Clifford Belcher was born in Farmington, March, 1839. 
 He taught the academy in Foxcroft three years ; studied law. He 
 entered the army in 1862, captain of the Sixteenth Maine ; was taken 
 prisoner at Gettysburg ; was discharged on account of wounds received 
 in action near Spottsylvania Court House, May, 1''64, and promoted, 
 major. He has prosecuted the legal profession in Farmington ; is 
 married and has a daughter. 
 
 Louis Ormond Brastow was born in Brewer, March, 1834. After 
 teaching in Brewer a short time he entered the Theological Seminary, 
 
714 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Bangor, graduating in 1860. He was ordained pastor of one of the 
 Congregational churches in St. Johnsbury, Vt., whence after some 
 years he accepted a call to the First Church, Burlington, Vt , where 
 he now remains. He served in the late war as chaplain of the Four- 
 teenth Vermont. He has been a contributor to the religious press. 
 In 1880 he received the degree of D. D. from the college. 
 
 He married Martha B. Ladd of Painesville, Ohio, and has two 
 children. 
 
 Charles Henkt Bdebank was born in Limerick, December, 1835. 
 Soon after leaving college he went West, where he died March, 1860, 
 leaving, as we were informed, evidences that he died in the hope and 
 peace of the believer. 
 
 Horace Beriah Chamberlain was born in Brewer, November, 1834, 
 brother of J. L. (1852). He read law, was admitted to the bar, and 
 settled in Bangor, and had opened upon professional life with hope and 
 promise, when seized with a pulmonary affection which terminated in 
 his death, December, 1861. 
 
 He married Mary A. Wheeler of Bangor. 
 
 Edvtabd Thurston Chapman was born in Unity, February, 1833. 
 After graduation he taught the High School, Gardiner, two years. 
 He then entered the navy as assistant adjutant paymaster on the gun- 
 boat " Commodore Jones," and was killed when she was blown up by 
 a torpedo in James River in the summer of 1864. 
 
 Thomas Upham Coe was born in Bangor, December, 1837. He 
 studied medicine and took his degree from the Jefferson Medical Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia, in 1861. He then went abroad and prosecuted 
 further professional studies in Paris two years. In 1863 he estab- 
 lished himself in his profession in Bangor, where he still remains. 
 
 In 1867 he married Sada S. HarthOTn, and has a son. 
 
 Albert Henry Currier was born in Skowhegan, November, 1837. 
 The first year after graduation (je taught in the High School, Chicago, 
 lU., and for some months in the academy in Lincoln. He pursued 
 theological study in the seminary at Andover, graduating in 1862, 
 and was ordained into the pastorate, Ashland, Mass., in December 
 of the same year. He accepted a call to the Central Church, Lynn, 
 Mass., in 1865, where he still remains. He has been a contributor to 
 the Boston Eeview and to the Monday Club sermons from the begin- 
 
GRADUATES. 715 
 
 ning ; bas been chairman of the school board of Lynn, and is on the 
 Board of Overseers of the college. In 18S1 he accepted the profes- 
 sorship of sacred rhetoric and theology at Oberlin. 
 
 In 1862 he married Ellen A. Bartlett of Harmony, Me., and has 
 four children, three sons and a daughter. 
 
 Henry Dame was born in Saco, December, 1836. He has devoted 
 himself to the work of a teacher in the High School, Bangor, and more 
 recently in a classical school at 29 Pemberton Square, Boston ; lives 
 40 Cortes Street. No reply has been received to the circular, and I 
 have obtained my account of him from other sources. 
 
 Walter Enoch Darling was born in St. Stephen's, New Bruns- 
 wick, September, 1836. He entered after graduation the Theological 
 Seminary, Rangor, where he graduated in 1860 ; was settled pastor of 
 the Congregational Church, Dover, subsequently of the Congrega- 
 tional Church, Kennebunk, and at present is acting pastor of that in 
 Farmington, N. H. 
 
 He married Ellen, daughter of Prof. Eev. Dr. Shepard of Bangor, 
 and has had two children. 
 
 Edward Eastman was born in Harrison, April, 1837, brother of 
 Ambrose (1854) . He studied law, was admitted to the bar, settled 
 and still continues in the profession in Saco. He represented his city 
 in the Legislature in 1876. 
 
 In 1860 he married Nellie Chase, daughter of the late Amos Chase, 
 Esq., of Saco, and has a son. 
 
 Hampden Fairfield was born in Saco, December, 1835. After 
 graduating he taught the academy in Alfred for a time, then studied 
 law with Moses Emery (1818) in Saco, was admitted to the bar in 
 1860, and settled in the practice in that town and still resides there. 
 He has been clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in York County, and 
 supervisor of schools. 
 
 In 1859 he married Ellen K. Perkins of Kennebunkport, and has five 
 children. 
 
 John Nelson Fuller was born in Livermore, February, 1831. 
 Immediately after leaving college he was appointed one of the teachers 
 in the Institute of the State of Maine, under the State superintendent. 
 The year following he was principal of Lewiston Falls Academy, 
 Auburn. He read law with Charles W. Goddard, Esq. (1844), of 
 Lewiston ; but being more inclined to the work of teaching, he was 
 
716 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 principal for several years of city schools in Illinois. In 1868 he 
 accepted a professorship of chemistry and natural philosophy in Mar- 
 shall College, Henry, 111. In consequence of impaired health he 
 retired to a farm in Beatrice, Neb. For five years he was superin- 
 tendent of schools in Marshall County, 111. During the late war he 
 served in the Eleventh Illinois under the first call. 
 
 In 1869 he married Elizabeth Van Arsdale of Illinois and has had 
 three daughters, of whom one has died. 
 
 Andrew Goodwin was born in Berwick, February, 1837, brother 
 of Ichabod (1839). He went South and becaine a civil engineer, the 
 only information concerning him we have received. He died in Chicago 
 in 1876. He never married. 
 
 Henry Sidney Hagar was born in Richmond, August, 1837, son 
 of Hon. Marshall Hagar. He studied law but did not prosecute the 
 profession, and engaged in transactions of ship-building and commerce. 
 He was commissioned first lieutenant of the Seventh Maine, and then 
 adjutant, but after brief service resigned. After a lingering sickness 
 he died, March, 1868. 
 
 ■ Charles Hamlin was born in Hampden, September, 1837, son of 
 Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, tie studied law in his father's office, was 
 admitted to practice, and opened an office in Orland, where he re- 
 mained until 1862 ; he then entered the military service in the Civil 
 War as major of the Eighteenth Maine, which was reorganized into 
 the First Maine Heavy Artillery ; he was assistant adjutant-general, 
 assistant inspector of artillery, and was brevetted brigadier-general of 
 volunteers. At the close of the war he resumed his profession in 
 Bangor. He has been city solicitor. United States commissioner, 
 and register in bankruptcy. In 1878 he published " The Insolvent 
 Law J of Maine." 
 
 In 1860 he married Sarah P. Thompson of Topsham, and has four 
 
 John Burgin Haselton was born in Portsmouth, N. H., February, 
 1837. He read law in Portsmouth with 8. H. Goodall, in Pittsburg, 
 Pa , with Hon. H. Hepburn, and in Saco with Hon. Philip Eastman, 
 and was admitted to the bar of York County in 1860. After spend- 
 ing a few months in a law office in New York he began practice in 
 Wiuchendon, Mass. In 1862 he was appointed assistant adjutant 
 paymaster, United States Navy, and was attached to the store ship 
 'J. C. Kuhn," Gulf squadron, under Commodore Farragut. Resign- 
 
GRADUATES. 717 
 
 ing in the fall of 1864, he returned to Portsmouth to attend on his 
 father, who was in declining health. In 1869 he established himself 
 in his profession in Suneook, a village of Pembroke, N. H., and still 
 remains there. He has been for some years judge of the police court 
 of Pembroke, has represented the town in the Legislature of New 
 Hampshire, and been super\'isor of its schools. In 1877 he married, 
 and has had two children, one of whom has died. 
 
 James Tract Hewbs was born in Saco, March, 1836. After teach- 
 ing the High School in Topsham a short time he entered the Divinity 
 School at Cambridge, and graduated in 1861. His first settlement in 
 the ministry was over the Hawes Place Church, South Boston, for two 
 years ; he was subsequently in the pastorate over the Second Unitarian, 
 Portland, four years, the First Church, Salem, seven years, and then 
 as long over the First Parish of Fitchburg. Ill health has caused his 
 resignation recently. 
 
 In 1865 he married Eleanor B. Jewett of Portland, and has three 
 children. 
 
 David Sutherland Hibbard was born in Lisbon, N. H., April, 
 1831. He was principal of Gilmanton Academy a year and then 
 entered the Theological Seminary at Bangor, where he graduated in 
 1860. He received ordination as an evangelist in 1860 and has been 
 in the active ministry to this date, 1881, in Gouldsboro', Amherst, 
 Mt. Desert of this State, and in London and Gilmanton, N. H. ; 
 since 1878 he has been in Eliot 
 
 In 1863 he married Sophia Savory, daughter of Simon T. Pierson 
 of Bangor and an adopted daughter of Rev. Dr. Tenney of Ellsworth, 
 and has had five daughters, of whom four survive. 
 
 Henry Ripley Howard was born in Portland, May, 1838, brother 
 of Joseph D. (1852). He pursued theological study in the Generaj 
 Theological Seminary, New York, and received ordination in 1860. 
 He has exercised his ministry in Hallowell, Sharon, and Milford, 
 Conn., and since 1871 in Potsdam, N. Y., his present residence. 
 
 He received the degree of D. D. from St. Stephen's College, New 
 York ; has been a delegate to the general convention of the Episcopal 
 Church, and is archdeacon. 
 
 He married Eleanor L., daughter of the late Franklin Glazier of 
 Hallowell. 
 
 John Barrett Hubbard was born in Hallowell, Februar3% 1837, 
 son of the late Governor Hubbard. After graduation he was very 
 
718 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 successful as head master of the High School, Lynn, Mass. He en- 
 tered the military service in the war of the Rebellion as first lieutenant 
 of the First Maine Battery, went to Ship Island with the forces under 
 Gen. Butler, served under Gen. Banks, was appointed assistant adju- 
 tant-general under Gen. Weitzel, and proved himself an efficient, gal- 
 lant soldier. While leading a storming party at Port Hudson, May, 
 
 1863, he was killed. 
 
 Thomas Hamlin Hubbard was born in Hallowell, November, 1838, 
 brother of the preceding. After graduation he was principal of 
 Hallowell Academy a year, and of the High School, Salmon Falls, 
 N. H., for a short time. He read law in Hallowell and in the Law 
 School, Albany, N. Y., and settled in the profession in New York. 
 In the late war he was adjutant of the Twenty-fifth Maine, lieutenant- 
 colonel and colonel of the Thirtieth Maine ; served in the department 
 of the Gulf in the Red River campaign, and in the Shenandoah Valley 
 under Gen. Sheridan, and was brevetted in 1865 brigadier-general. 
 He is on the Board of Overseers of the college. He is now in the 
 practice of his profession in New York. 
 
 In 1868 he married Sibyl A. Fahnestock of Harrisburg, Pa., and 
 has had five children, of whom three are living. 
 
 Benjamin Barnes Kingsbury was born in Temple, N. H., May, 
 1837. He was tutor in Latin and Greek in St. Charles , College, 
 Missouri, a year, and two years in St. Paul's College, Palmyra, Mo. ; 
 he then studied law and was admitted to the practice in Boston. In- 
 firm health induced him to emigrate to San Jose, California, where he 
 practised law two years ; returning to St.. Charles, Mo., lie continued 
 in his profession, was appointed circuit attorney and held the position 
 four j'ears, and then in St. Louis, Mo., whence after four years he 
 removed to Defiance, Ohio, and formed a copartnership in law with 
 Henry Newbegin, Esq. He edited a newspaper in St. Charles, Mo., 
 three years. In 1862 he married Samah R., daughter of Rev. Frederic 
 Freeman, Sandwich, Mass. A son died in infancy ; two daughters 
 and a son survive. 
 
 Joshua James Laighton was born in Portsmouth, N. H., October, 
 1837. He pursued a theological course at Harvard Divinity School 
 and graduated in 1861. It does not appear that he entered on the 
 work of the ministry. He was seized with severe mental disturbance 
 of which he had shown indications previously, and died September, 
 
 1864, in the McLean Asylum, Somerville. 
 
GRADUATES. 719 
 
 John Gilbert Langdon was born in Concord, N. H., February, 
 1835. No reply has been made to our circular of inquiries, and no 
 account of him from other sources. 
 
 ■ Malcolm McIntyke was born at Parsonfleld, May, 1835, son of 
 Hon. Rufus Mclntyre. After graduation he was principal of the Par- 
 sonfleld Seminary a year. He then went to Owensboro', Daviess 
 County, Ky., and was a teacher in the academy at that place. The 
 school being disbanded in the war of the Rebellion, he found a posi- 
 tion in the provost-marshal's office, and at the close of hostilities 
 became assistant collector of internal revenue for the county. His 
 health failing he removed to Hartford, Ohio County, of the same 
 State, and opened an academy for boys. He remained until 1880 and 
 returned to Owensboro', and is deputy collector of internal revenue. 
 In 1870 he married Mary Hardin of Daviess County, and has a son. 
 
 Edward Eaglet Merrill was born in New Bedford, Mass., Jan- 
 uary, 1835. He engaged in the study of law in the office of Hon. 
 Wm. "W. Crapo, New Bedford, Mass. ; attended lectures of Harvard 
 Law School ; completed his course in the ofBce of Stanle}' & Langdell, 
 New York ; was admitted to the bar of that city in 1860, and has 
 since prosecuted his profession there. 
 
 In 1861 he married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander and 
 Mary Gibbs of New Bedford, and has one son. 
 
 Thomas Freeman Moses was born in Bath, June, 1836. He en- 
 tered at once on the study of medicine and attended lectures in New 
 York, Philadelphia, Paris, and London, graduating at Jefferson Med- 
 ical College, Philadelphia, in 1860. He entered upon the practice in 
 Hamilton County, . near Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1870 he was elected 
 professor of natural science in Urbana University, Ohio, and holds 
 the position now. He has published an essay on the "Spiritual 
 Nature of Force," a translation of Saigey's " Unitj' of Natural 
 Phenomena," and the Proceedings of the Central Ohio Scientific 
 Association. During the late war he served as assistant surgeon. 
 United States army. 
 
 In 1867 he married Hannah Appleton Crauch, daughter of John 
 Cranch, Washington, D. C, and has had seven children. 
 
 Henry Nevi^begin was born in Pownal, May, 1833. Soon after 
 leaving college he organized ,a school at Bryan, "Williams County, 
 Ohio, and was at its head four years, meanwhile reading law. He 
 
720 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 attended the Albany Law School, and in 1868 began practice in De- 
 fiance, Ohio, where he has since resided. He has been United States 
 Circuit Court commissioner, and is now counsel for Chicago division 
 of the Baltimore and Ohio Eailroad Company. ^ 
 
 He has married twice : 1st, in 18.58 Mrs. Priscilla Alexander of 
 Richmond, Me., who died in 1864 ; 2d, in 1867 Ellen S., daughter of 
 Capt. Ephraim Sturdivant of Cumberland, Me., and by the last mar- 
 riage has three sons. 
 
 Charles Lewis Nichols was born in Starks, July, 1831. He taught 
 in Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, a year and more, then entered the 
 Theological Seminary, Bangor, graduating in 1861, and was soon 
 ordained pastor over the Congregational Church in Princeton ; in 1865 
 over that in Pownal, and in 1871 over that in Brownville, where he 
 now is in the active ministry. During the late war he was four 
 months in the service of the Christian Commission, and has been on 
 the school committee wherever he has resided. 
 
 In 1866 he married Anna Flint of North Anson, and has had three 
 daughters and a son. 
 
 Edward Parker was born in Charlestown, Mass., March, 1838. 
 He has devoted himself to teaching : 1st, in the High School, George- 
 town, Mass., for two years ; 2d, in the High School, Melrose, Mass., 
 for four years. He was principal for seven years of the High School 
 in Biddeford, and since 1871 has been head master of the High School 
 in what is now Brockton, Mass. He is on the board of trustees of 
 the public library and has been for some years its secretary. 
 
 In 1867 he married Lizzie Shaw Cowen, daughter of Capt. Louis 
 A. Cowen of Biddeford, and has a son. 
 
 Charles Weston Pickard was born in Auburn, October, 1836. 
 On leaving college he became assistant principal in the academy, 
 Platteville, Wis., two years. In 1§60 he became resident in Port- 
 land, in the proprietorship of the Portland Transcript, and still occu- 
 pies that position. 
 
 In 1862 he married Henrietta E. Groth, and has had two sons and 
 a daughter, of whom the eldest has deceased. 
 
 George Washington Pierce was born in Gorham, July, 1836, 
 brother of Josiah (1846), and Lewis (1852). He began the study 
 of law, but at length relinquished it for civil engineering, which he 
 has since pursued, residing in Baldwin. He never married. 
 
GRADUATES. 721 
 
 Benjamin Wisneb Pond was boi-n in Bangor, March, 1836, 
 brother of William C. (1848), and Jeremiah E. (1853) . After gradu- 
 ating he taught in Falmouth, Exeter, etc. He pursued theological 
 study in the seminary, Bangor, graduating in 1861, and was settled in 
 the ministry in Barton, Vt. In 1864 he was appointed supervisor of 
 freedmen's schools in Washington, D. C, and in North Carolina, 
 serving two years. In 1867 he became pastor of the church in Char- 
 lemont, Mass. ; subsequently of the First Church in York, remaining 
 there three years, when through failing health compelling a change of 
 occupation he went to Washington, and was successful in obtaining a 
 position in the Patent Office as examiner, for which he has peculiar 
 adaptation, and has been successively promoted until he has become 
 principal examiner. 
 
 In IS 61 he married Mary Austin, daughter of the late Prof. S. 
 P. Newman of the college, and has four children. 
 
 Edward Augustds Eand was born in Portsmouth, N. H., April, 
 1837. After teaching high schools in Gardiner. Rye, N. H., Nor- 
 ridgewoek, and Biddeford, he entered on theological study in Union 
 Theological Seminary, New York, and completed his course in Ban- 
 gor Seminary, where he graduated in 1863. He was ordained over 
 the Congregational Church, Amesbury, Mass , and subsequently over 
 churches in South Boston and Franklin, Mass. In 1879 he took 
 orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and has ministered to the 
 church in Hyde Park, Mass., his residence being Watertown He 
 has published for young readers '' The School and Camp " and " Bark 
 Cabin Series," etc., and been a frequent contributor to the religious 
 press. 
 
 In 1865 he married Mary Frances, daughter of John S. Abbott, 
 Esq. (1827), of Watertown, Mass., and has five children. 
 
 Charles Hene? Reynolds was born in Portland, July, 1835. He 
 engaged in medical study in the Portland school, attended lectures in 
 the Medical School of the college, and in the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, New York, where he graduated in 1861. He settled in his 
 profession in Bay City, Mich , and was examining surgeon during the 
 first draft of the late war. Failing health compelled him to return 
 to New England, December, 1865. He remained awhile in Portland, 
 and then resided in Gorham. He died in Turner, November, 1877.. 
 
 Nathaniel Augustus Robbins was born in Union, August, 1835. 
 He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and settled in the profes- 
 
722 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 sion in Eockland. At the opening of the war he enlisted in the ser- 
 vice as private, was promoted second lieutenant, and at last became 
 quartermaster ; was wounded at Chancellorsville, taken prisoner at Get- 
 tysburg, and was nearly two years in Libby and other prisons, hav- 
 ing repeatedly made his escape and been recaptured. He received a 
 clerkship in the Treasury Department, Washington, after the war, and 
 is still in the public service. 
 
 He married Lsetitia, daughter of Mr Sanford Perkins of Topsham, 
 and has a son. 
 
 JoHK Crockett Sanborn was born in Sanbornton, N. H , August, 
 1833. He taught the North Conway Academy, New Hampshire ; then 
 studied law at Lawrence, Mass., and engaged in the practice in that 
 city, where he now resides. He has been city solicitor, assessor of 
 internal revenue, has represented the city in the Legislature, and at 
 present is on the school board of education. 
 
 In 1861 he married Mary S. Kingsburj' of South Coventry, Conn., 
 and has five children. 
 
 Daniel Freeman Smith was born in Saco, April, 1836. He pur- 
 sued theological study at the General Theological Seminary (Epis- 
 copal), New York; has had ministerial charges at Calais, Camden, 
 Pittsfleld, N. H., Island Pond, Vt., also in Illinois. At present he 
 resides in Chicago, officiating at St. Stephen's Church. He had 
 charge for two or three years of an Episcopal church school in 
 Portland. 
 
 He married Eliza, daughter of Gen. A. B. Thompson of Bruns- 
 wick, and has children. 
 
 Robert McKown Spearing was born in New Orleans, La., Jan- 
 uary, 1838. He was an officer in the Confederate service in the war 
 of the Eebellion, and fell in action at Fredericksburg, December, 1862. 
 
 GusTAVus Augustus Stanley was born in Farmington, June, 1832. 
 He entered the service in the late war as commissary sergeant in an 
 Illinois regiment, became captain in Second Maine Cavalry, serving 
 in the department of the Gulf. Attempts to reach him having failed 
 of a reply, I am indebted to a friend and townsman for the remaining 
 statements. He studied law and has prosecuted the profession in 
 Tallahassee, and more recently I'ensacola, Fla. ; has held a judge- 
 ship, has been successful, and has gained respect and influence. He 
 has not married. 
 
GRADUATES. 723 
 
 Samuel Barrett Stewart was born in Farmington, June, 1839. 
 He was for a year principal of the academy, Francestown, N. H., 
 and then entered the Divinit}' School, Harvard, graduating in 1862. 
 He was ordained minister of the Unitarian Society, Nashua, N. H., in 
 1863. In 1865 he was installed over the Unitarian Church and Soci- 
 ety, Lynn, Mass., where he still remains. He has published " His- 
 torical Address on the Fiftieth Annfpersary of the Parish in Lynn, 
 lft73," and occasional sermons. He has been chairman of the school 
 committee in Lj'nn. 
 
 In 1863 he married Annie 0. Bixby of Surinam, S. A., and has 
 had five children, of whom are living two sons and a daughter. 
 
 Abner Chase Stockin was born in Limington, August, 1831. 
 He taught for some time in the academies at Monmouth and South 
 Berwick, and in New Hampton Literary Institution, New Hampshire. 
 He then settled in Boston, becoming agent for the Harper Brothers in 
 New England, and still holds that position. He has been a member 
 of the House of Eepresentatives in Maine, and on school committee, 
 and a trustee of a library. 
 
 He married Helen M. Towle of Monm^juth, and has two sons and 
 a daughter. 
 
 Ctrus Stone was born in Jay, April, 1837, brother of Cornelius 
 (1«40). He taught the academy in Bridgton two years, and held a 
 tutorship in college the two following years. He pursued theological 
 study in the seminary in Bangor, graduating in 1863. He received 
 ordination into the Methodist Episcopal Church and has exercised Ms 
 ministry in several places in the State, his last appointment being 
 Rockland. Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., conferred on 
 him the degree of D.D. in 1874. 
 
 In 1866 he married Celia M. Cleaves of Bridgton, and has four 
 children, two daughters and two sons. 
 
 Lyman Sawin Strickland was born in Livermore, July, 1833. 
 He taught the academy in Houlton a year, and then read law in the 
 office of John A. Peters, now Judge Peters, Ba^igor. In 1861 he en- 
 tered the military service as first lieutenant, and was promoted captain 
 and brevetted major. In 1866 he settled in the law in Houlton, his 
 present residence. He has been register of probate some years, 
 county treasurer, and is at this writing judge of probate for the 
 county. He has been in the Senate of the State. 
 
 In 1866 he married Jeannie M., daughter of the late Col. John 
 McClusky, and has two children, a son and a daughter. 
 
724 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 James Charles Strout was born in Portland, April, 1834. He 
 entered the preceding class, but his health failing he fell back a year. 
 After graduating he taught school in Warren for a time. In the year 
 following he became a clerk in a Boston firm ; in 1862 enlisted private 
 in a Massachusetts regiment, was in the field at ^ntietam, but fell 
 sick, and early in 1863 was discharged for disability. He held clerk- 
 ships in Boston and Washingto#, D. C, and in 1867 was made assist- 
 ant librarian in the Congressional Library, which position he now 
 holds. Has never married. 
 
 Francis Asbdry Waterhouse was born in Hallowell, Januarj-, 
 
 1835. He has devoted himself very successfully to the work of edu- 
 cation, for which he has marked adaptation. On leaving college he 
 taught school in Natchez, Miss., a year and some months, then be- 
 came principal of Hallowell Academy a year and some months, and 
 principal of the High School in Augusta until the fall of 1868, when 
 he became principal of the High School at Newton Falls, Mass. 
 From this last position be has recently retired, and become head mas- 
 ter of the English High School in Boston. He was trustee of Hal- 
 lowell Academy, and is nqw on the board of visitors of Boston 
 University. He has never married. 
 
 Granville Clifford Waterman was born in Unity, May, 1835. 
 On leaving college he went to Whitestown. N. Y., as teacher of math- 
 ematics in the seminary in that place, and subsequently of ancient 
 languages. In 1860 he became principal of Ames Academy, New 
 York ; then of a seminary in Pike, N. Y. Having thus been occu- 
 pied for several years, he received ordination in the communion of the 
 Free Baptists, and exercised his ministry successively in Lowville', 
 N. Y., Dover, N. H., and at present is pastor of the church in Laco- 
 nia, N. H. He has been a contributor to the religious press. 
 
 He has married twice : first, Julia Mansfield, Waterville, N. Y. ; 
 second, Marietta Stewart of Oneonta, Otsego County, N. Y. He has 
 had four children, of whom two daflghters and a son are 'living. 
 
 1858. 
 
 William Allen Abbot was born in Norridgewockj September, 
 
 1836, son of John Stevens Abbot, Esq. (1827). On leaving college 
 he entered upon the study of law with his father, then resident in 
 Norridgewock, was admitted to practice, and established himself in 
 his profession in New York, where he still resides. 
 
 In 1877 he married Ella Louisa Jacobus, and has two children. 
 
GRADUATES. 725 
 
 Isaac Adams was born in Boston, February, 1836. On leaving 
 college he entered on the study of medicine, graduated at the Har- 
 vard School in 1862, and after spending nearly three years in Europe 
 settled in the practice of the profession in Boston, where he still 
 resides. He had meanwhile pursued study in chemistry and electro- 
 chemistry, and in 1868 abandoning his profession devoted himself 
 to the worli of nickel-plating, and was the inventor of it as a practical 
 art, which soon came into general use in this country and in Europe. 
 He is president of the United Nickel Company. 
 
 He is married and has two children. 
 
 Almarin Ferdinand Badger was born in Wilton, June, 1833. He 
 studied law, graduated LL. B. at Harvard Law School, 1864, engaged 
 in the practice with favorable prospects in Boston in the office with 
 Governor Boutwell, and applied himself with devotion and energy to 
 the profession. He fell a victim to typhoid fever at Medford, June, 
 1867. 
 
 Samuel Ayer Bradley was born in Fryeburg, November, 1836. 
 He taught in Fulton College, 111., two years, was a book-keeper in 
 New York some time, then removed to Chicago to engage iii business, 
 and died June, 1874, at Hyde Park, 111. 
 
 He did not marry. 
 
 Alexander Stuart Bradley was born in Fryeburg, September, 
 1838. He studied law in the office of Fessendeu & Butler, Tortland, 
 was admitted to practice in 1863, and settled in the profession in 
 Chicago, where he still remains. He was for a time register in bank- 
 ruptcy in Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 He married Harriet A. Towle of Fryeburg, and has four children. 
 His present residence is Hyde Park, a suburb of Chicago. 
 
 Samuel Brown was born in Danvers, Mass., February, 1837. Of 
 his course immediately after graduation no statement has been received. 
 He entered the. military service, was commissioned captain in a Con- 
 necticut regiment, and was killed in battle at South Mountain, Md., 
 September, 1862. 
 
 Daniel Coppin Burleigh was born in Sanbornton, N. H., April, 
 1834. On leaving college he became principal of Brunswick High 
 School for a year, and of Hampden Academy and State Normal 
 School two years. He studied medicine and was connected with the 
 Medical Schools of Bellevue Hospital, New York, Harvard, and this 
 
728 HISTOKT OF BOWnOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 college, where he graduated in 1869. Meanwhile he entered the United 
 States navy as assistant surgeon in 1864, and in 1866 was promoted 
 acting passed assistant surgeon ; from It'Gd to 1873 he practised his 
 profession in Franklin, N. H., but at the last date was reappointed 
 acting passed assistant surgeon. United States Navy. In 1879 he was 
 transferred to the regular navy, and placed on the retired list in con- 
 sequence of disability incurred in service. 
 
 May, 1865, he married Annie E. Curtis of Hampden, and has two 
 daughters, his first-born dying in infancy. In September, 1880, he 
 with his family were at Vevey, Switzerland, and were to spend the 
 winter in Italy and the next year in Germany. 
 
 Sewall Chandler Charles was born in Fryeburg, June, 1838. 
 He studied law and was about to enter upon the practice when he en- 
 listed a private in Twelfth Maine. From exposure while in camp at 
 Portland, pulmonic disease, to which he had a tendency, was suddenly 
 developed and terminated in death in a few weeks. 
 
 Samuel Frte Chase was born in Saco, August, 1837. He read 
 law in Saco, was admitted to the bar in 1861, and has lived in Saco. 
 He has been collector of customs, special inspector of customs on the 
 Canadian frontier, special agent of the United States treasury, and 
 is at present municipal judge of the city. 
 
 In 1861 he married Abbie M. Stevenson of Saco, and has three 
 sons and a daughter. 
 
 Jonathan Prince Cillet was born in Thomaston, December, 
 1835, son of Jonathan C. (1825). He studied law in Thomaston 
 with A. P. Gould, Esq., was admitted to the bar of that county in 
 1860, and settled in the practice in that town. At the opening of the 
 late war at the first call for volunteers he enlisted, raising a company 
 for a field battery, but that arm of the service not demanding it he soon 
 after on a call for cavalry did the same ; was commissioned captain, 
 and was in active duty until disablad by a wound in action and made 
 prisoner. He was promoted major, lieutenapt-colonel, and soon bre- 
 vetted brigadier-general for ' ' distinguished services " ; after the war 
 he resumed his profession in Rockland. He has represented his town 
 in the Legislature, has been adjutant-general of the State, deputy 
 collector of customs, and commissioner of the United States Circuit 
 Court. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society. He has 
 published a genealogy of the Cilley family. 
 
 In 1866 he mariied Caroline A. Lazell of Brooklj-n, N. Y., and 
 has a daughter and son. 
 
GEADCATES. 727 
 
 Nathan Cleaves was born in Bridgton, January, 1835. He read 
 law in the office of Messrs. Howard & Strout, Portland, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1860. He began the practice of his profession 
 in Bowdoinham, bnt in 1862 removed to Portland and formed a part- 
 nership with L. D. M. Sweat, Esq., and subsequently with the late 
 Judge Howard. He was elected city solicitor in 1869, and has repre- 
 sented the city twice in the Legislature, and been judge of probate for 
 the county. 
 
 In 1865 he married Caroline, daughter of the late Judge Howard, 
 who died February, 1875. He is now associated with his brother, 
 Henry B. Cleaves, Esq., in the profession. 
 
 Edwakd Card Conant was born in Alfred, April, 1835, son of 
 Joshua and Eebekah C. He taught for a time in a Western State, 
 then studied law with Hon. N. D. Appleton of Alfred, and Eobert C. 
 Pitman, Esq., New Bedford, Mass., and attended lectures at the Har- 
 vard Law School, graduating LL. B. in 1865 ; was admitted to the 
 Suffolk bar, and opened an office in Boston. Earty in 1866 he re- 
 moved to Little Rock, Ark., and engaged in mercantile business, but 
 his plans of life were arrested by severe disease which after thirteen 
 years of suffering terminated in death in the asylum at Providence, 
 R. L, AprU, 1879. 
 
 Rtjfds Washburn Deering was born in Portland, November, 1836. 
 He did not engage in professional life. He was for some years clerk 
 in the National Bank, Portland, then removed to Washington, where 
 he has held a clerkship in one of the departments. 
 
 He has not married. 
 
 Franklin Mellen Drew was born in Linden, July, 1837. In the 
 fall after graduation he taught a high school at Fort Fairfield. He 
 then entered upon the studj' of law in the office of Messrs. Bradbury, 
 Morrill, and Meserve, Augusta ; was admitted to the bar of Kenne- 
 bec County, and settled in Lewiston in practice. He has been clerk 
 of the House of Representatives, secretary of state four terms. United 
 States pension agent at Augusta five years. During the late war he 
 served successively as captain, major, and brevet colonel of the Fif- 
 teenth Maine, and was on dutj- from October, 1861, to 1865. 
 
 He married. 
 
 Robert Ellis was born in Upper Stillwater, now Orono, Septem- 
 ber, 1833. He was an assistant teacher in the High School, Bath, 
 the year after graduation. He read law in the office of John A. 
 
728 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Blanchard, Esq., of Oldtown, was admitted to the bar of Penobscot 
 County in 1861, and practised law in his native town until 1869, when 
 he removed to Oconto, Wis., where he still prosecutes his profession. 
 He was on the board of selectmen and school committee, a trial jus- 
 tice and postmaster in Stillwater, and has been county clerk and city 
 attorney in the city of Oconto. 
 
 In 1863 he married Rebecca A. Manchester, and has a son. 
 
 Francis Fbssenden was born in Portland, March, 1839, brother of 
 Wm. P. (1823). He at once entered on the study of law, attended 
 at the Law School, Harvard, and that in New York, and began prac- 
 tice in that city. At the opening of the war he was commissioned 
 captain of the Nineteenth United States Infantry, and was through 
 the war in active service ; was successively promoted major, lieutenant- 
 colonel, colonel, brigadier and major general, and at last brevetted 
 brigadier-general United States army, " for gallant and meritorious 
 service during the war " ; was retired at his own request, November, 
 1866, with rank of brigadier-general United States army, "for 
 wounds received in action." He had been wounded severely in three 
 battles, losing his right leg in the last. He settled in Portland, but 
 not in the practice of his profession. 
 
 In 1863 he married Ellen "W., daughter of Hon. Edward Fox of 
 Portland, and has a son. In 1876 he was elected mayor of the city, 
 and declined being a candidate for another term. He is a member of 
 the Board of Overseers. 
 
 John Dbnnet Feost was born in Eliot, July, 1831. On leaving 
 college he taught schools in several places. He settled early on a 
 farm in Eliot, varying his agricultural labors by keeping school in 
 winter in Eliot and neighboring towns. For a time he found employ- 
 ment in the navj^ yard art Kittery. He has been on the board of 
 selectmen and superinteudent of schools. 
 
 In 1859 he married Lucy J. Knowjton of Eliot, and has three sons 
 and a daughter. 
 
 Lysander Hill was born in Gushing, July, 1834. After graduat- 
 ing he taught, high schools in Rockland and Thomaston, meanwhile 
 pursuing legal studies with A. P. Gould, Esq. ; was admitted to the 
 bar in 1860 and began practice in Thomaston. He enlisted in the 
 military service with commission of captain in the Twentieth Maine 
 in 1862 and 1863, but was discharged through disability. He settled 
 in his profession in Alexandria, Va., and in 1874 removed to Wash- 
 
GRADUATES. 72P 
 
 ington, where he now resides For some years he was register in 
 bankruptcy, eighth Virginia district, and judge of the Circuit Court of 
 Virginia, 1869 and 1870. 
 
 In 1864 he married Adelaide'R. Cole, and has had two sons and a 
 daughter. 
 
 Charles Knapp Hdtchins was born in Leeds, November, 1834. 
 He entered the military service with commission of captain Sixteenth 
 Maine, and fell in battle at Fredericksburg, Va., December, 1862. 
 
 Osceola Jackson was born in Worcester, Mass., December, 1836. 
 On leaving college he shipped for a voyage before the mast. He has 
 since been engaged for the most part in the trade to the west coast 
 of Africa, making several voyages as supercargo, and at one time 
 spending two years on the G aboon River. Several years he has spent 
 in Portland and Brunswick ; but at this writing, 1881, he is at Logos, 
 West Africa. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1862 Emma Jane Forsaith, Bruns- 
 wick, who died in 1867, by whom he had a son ; second, in 1869 
 Mary Jane Porter of Portland, by whom he has a daughter. 
 
 Albert Jewett was born in Alna, August, 1833. After gradua- 
 tion he went to Knoxville, 111. ; he studied law in the office of Judge 
 Tyler, was admitted to the bar, and engaged in the practice in part- 
 nership with P. H. Sanborn, Esq. He was seized with diphtheria and 
 in a few days died. May 26, 1862. Resolutions tes.tif^ing to his high 
 promise in the profession and of respect and high regard were passed 
 at a meeting of the bar. 
 
 Cteus Jordan was born in East Raymond, June, 1830. He was a 
 tutor in Hillsdale College, Michigan, four years after graduation. He 
 then pursued theological study at Oberlin two years ; was employed 
 among the freedmen in Virginia a year ; was principal of the acad- 
 emy in Lebanon, Me., one year, and another year of the Lapham In- 
 stitute, Rhode Island ; 1867 to 1871 he held a professorship in Hills- 
 dale College, Michigan, when the health of his family induced him to 
 leave the West and he became principal of the academj' at Bridgewater, 
 Mass., for a year. He then accepted the office of principal of the 
 normal department of Maine Central Institute, Pittsfleld, Me., where 
 he now resides. 
 
 He has married twice: first, in 1866 Julia Moore of Peterboro', 
 N. H., who died in 1874; second in, 1876 Linda Vickery of Pitts- 
 fleld, Me., and has a son by the second marriage. 
 
730 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Francis Blunt Knowlton was born in Farmington, January, 
 1833. He taught the High School in Solon, and then studied theol- 
 ogy at the seminaries in Oxford, Pa. , and Bangor, graduating at the 
 latter in 1863. He has exercised his ministry in Waldoboro', in Phil- 
 lips where he was ordained in 1865, in South Paris, in Alstead, and 
 in Orford, N. H , where he now remains. 
 
 In 1866 he married Mrs. Louisa C. Butterfield of Phillips, daugh- 
 ter of Wm. Campbell of Foxcroft, and has had three children, of 
 whom two survive. He has published papers in the public press, and 
 a centennial paper on education in Orford. He has been on superin- 
 tending school committees several years. 
 
 Charles Parkman Loring was born in Danville, July, 1834. He 
 studied medicine, graduated at the Bellevae Medical College, New 
 York, and settled in Providence, R. I., in the profession ; was success- 
 ful and highly respected. He died of diphtheria, January, 1877. 
 
 George Eobinson McInttre was born in "Warren, March, 1835. 
 After leaving college he studied law in the office of A. P. Gould, 
 Esq , Thomaston, and was admitted to the bar of Knox County ; but 
 receiving an appointment to a clerkship in the Treasury Department, 
 Washington, D. C, did not prosecute the profession. He died Nov. 
 16, 1863. 
 
 In 1861 he married Abbie L. Hart of Portland, by whom he had a 
 son who has since deceased. Soon after entering college he made pro- 
 fession of religion in connection with the Baptist Chufch in Warren. 
 
 Edward Bowdoin Nealley was born in Bath, July, 1837. After 
 graduation he went to Burlington, Iowa, and read law in the office of 
 his uncle Senator Grimes, a portion of the time being joint editor of 
 the Burlington Hawkeye. In 1864 he was appointed first United 
 States district attorney for the Territory of Montana, which had just 
 been organized. Impaired health induced his return after a short 
 service to Maine, and he settled in Bangor in mercantile business, in 
 which he still continues. He has published "A Year in Montana" 
 in the Atl'Titic Monthly, " A Gold Hunt in the Yellowstone " in Lip- 
 pincoU's Miigazine, and articles in Our Toung Folks. He delivered 
 the centennial oration at the celebration, Julj' 4, 1876, in Bangor, and 
 orations at the celebration of the incorporation of Thomaston in 1877 
 and of Bath in 1881. He has represented the city of Bangor twice in 
 the Legislature, and his district in the, Senate in 1878. He failed of a 
 second election to the Senate by the Greenback movement. He is 
 
GRADUATES. 731 
 
 on the Board of Overseers of the college. In 1867 he married Mary A. , 
 daughter of Capt. Jacob Drummond of Bangor, who died in 1877 
 leaving a dauiihter. 
 
 John Wyman Phillips was born in Orrington, December, 1829. 
 He taught the High School, Oldtown, a j'ear after graduating, became 
 instructor of Latin and Greek four j'ears in East Maine Conference 
 Seminary, Bucksport ; for two years principal of Hampden Academy, 
 and has taught schools besides. He resides in Orrington on a farm, 
 varying agricultural pursuits with teaching. He has represented his 
 town in the Legislature twice, his district twice in the Senate, and has 
 held for several years offices in the town. In 1869 he married A. A. 
 Cross of Bethel, and has had five sons, two of whom have died. 
 
 Augustus Moses Pulsifer (for so he writes his name) was born 
 in Sullivan, June, 1834. He taught two 3'ears in the academy at 
 Lewiston Falls, meanwhile studying law, and was admitted to the bar 
 of Androscoggin County in 1860. He began practice in Lewiston ; in 
 1868 was elected county attorney and held that position three years. 
 In 1870 he organized the Little "Water Power Company and has since 
 been its treasurer, as also of the Barker Mill connected with it. 
 
 In 1863 he married Harriet L., daughter of the late George W. 
 Chace, Ksq , and has had nine children, of whom four sons and three 
 daughters are living. 
 
 Edwin Reed was born in Bath, October, 1835. After graduation 
 he studied law in Bath, but did not enter upon the practice. He has 
 given himself to commercial and other enterprises, has been a ship- 
 owner, and is president of the American Telegraph Company. He 
 has been superintendent of the public schools of the city, has repre- 
 sented the city in the Legislature two terms and been mayor of the city. 
 
 In 1869 he married Emily P. Fellows of Danvers, Mass., and has 
 seven children. 
 
 William Henry Savage was born in Norridgewock, February, 
 1833. After graduation he became professor of mathematics and 
 natural philosophy in Delaware College. During the Civil War he 
 served as captain of the Seventeenth Maine, resigning on account of 
 impaired health, but re-enlisted as second lieutenant of the Seventh 
 Maine ; was first lieutenant of the First Veteran Volunteers ; was bre- 
 vetted captain " for gallant and meritorous conduct in assault before 
 Petersburg, Va.," April, 1865. After the war he engaged in mercan- 
 tile business in Portland for a short time, and then entered on a 
 
732 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 theological course at Andover, graduating in 1867 ; was settled in No- 
 vember of that year in the ministry at HoUiston, Mass. In 1870 he 
 removed to Jacksonville, 111. Was elected trustee of Illinois College ; 
 was elected president of Northfield College, Minnesota, but declined. 
 He is now settled over the Unitarian Church and Parish, Leominster, 
 Mass. 
 
 He married Georgie T. Butler of Portland, and has two sons and 
 two daughters. 
 
 Fkank Sewaxl was born in Bath, September, 1837, son of Wm. 
 D. Sewall, a prominent merchant of that city. On leaving college he 
 went abroad, was matriculated in the University of TiJbingen, Ger- 
 many, in theology, and in the following year in Berlin with history 
 and philology. He spent some time also in France. He was or- 
 dained into the ministry of the New Church in 1863, and into the pas- 
 torate over the New Church parish, Glendale, near Cincinnati. In 1870 
 he was elected president of Urbana University, Ohio, and still holds 
 that position with the professorship of intellectual and moral science. 
 He has been president of the Ohio Association of the New Church, and 
 chairman of the committee of foreign correspondence of the general 
 convention of the New Church in America. He has published the 
 "Christian Hymnal," a prayer book and hymns for the use of the 
 New Church, "The Pillar of Stone," "The Hem of his Garment," 
 books for boys, addresses, and " The Latin Speaker." 
 
 In 1867 he married Thedia R. Gilchrist, daughter of Wm. Gilchrist, 
 Esq., formerly of New York, and has five daughters. 
 
 Samuel Beagdon Shaplbigh was born in Lebanon Centre, Novem- 
 ber, 1835. Repeated efforts to gain information concerning him have 
 failed. 
 
 Isaiah Pebley Smith was born in North Bridgton, February, 1836. 
 He was principal of South Limington Seminary, and of the High School, 
 Lewiston, a few months each. He pursued theological study in 
 Bangor, graduating in 1861. After teaching two or three years, he 
 received ordination in 1864, and exercised the pastoral office over 
 churches in Maine, New Hampshire, and Nebraska ; October, 1880, 
 was installed over the Congregational Church in Chatham, Mass. 
 
 In 1870 he married Clara R., daughter of Mr. Charles S. Smith, 
 Candia, N. H., and has had four children, of whom one has died. 
 
 Elms Spkar was born in Warren, October, 1834. After gradua- 
 tion he taught four years ; August 1862, entered the army in the late 
 
GEAPUATES. 733 
 
 war as captain of a Maine regiment ; was in active service to the close ; 
 was successively promoted to brigadier-general by brevet ; was for a 
 short time chief of staff under Gen. Chamberlain ; was wounded in 
 action. On leaving the army he became assistant examiner, then 
 assistant commissioner, and in 1876 commissioner of patents ; resign- 
 ing in 187'S he opened an oflHce in Washington as solicitor of patents 
 and counsellor in patent cases, where he still continues. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1863 Susie, daughter of Eev. John 
 WUde, who died in 1874 leaving two children ; second, Mrs. S. F. 
 Keene of Thomaston, by whom he has had two children. 
 
 JoHK Milton Staples was born in Buxton, April, 1830. He read 
 law, was admitted to the practice, and opened an office in Boston. In 
 1863 he removed to New York, continued in the profession until 1868, 
 when his health requiring change of climate, he went South and died 
 early in 186H in New Orleans. 
 
 While in Boston he married and had a child, who died in infancy. 
 
 Solomon Bates Staebird was born in Fairfield, October, 1832. 
 He taught a year in the academy in Cherryfield. In the year follow- 
 ing he engaged in teaching in academies on the Hudson, New York, 
 and spent seven years in that service ; not continuously, for he served 
 with commission of lieutenant in' the late war three years. In 1869 he 
 emigrated to Nebraska, where he acted as civil engineer, having been 
 admitted to the bar as attorney for a railroad company. In 1876 he 
 removed to Colorado, where he has been employed in mining opera- 
 tions. He is married and has two sons. 
 
 John Dokann Stetson was born in Durham, March, 1835. He 
 
 taught in the High School, Lewiston, four years ; studied law with 
 
 T. D. Fessenden and Wm. P. Frye, Esqs., Lewiston; was admitted 
 
 . to the bar and practised in that city until 1877, when he removed to 
 
 Eed Wing, Minn., where he remains still. 
 
 In 1871 he married Maria H. Lyon, but has no children. 
 
 Andrew Jackson Thompson was born in Guilford, N. H., July, 
 1834. He studied medicine and graduated in the Harvard Medical 
 Department, 1862 ; was surgeon in the war in a New Hampshire regi- 
 ment, and medical director on Gen. Davidson's staff. He established 
 himself in his profession in Laconia, N. H., securing an extensive 
 practice. After some years he removed to Salem, Mass., was city 
 physician, and was gaining reputation when he was arrested by physi- 
 
734 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 cal disability, and after a year of suffering died, April, 1879. He was 
 a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, was prominent in his 
 profession and in public affairs. 
 
 He married Miss E. J. Wilson of Topsham, and left two sons. 
 
 George Bacon Towle was bom in Saco, September, 1837. -After 
 a year or two spent in teaching he entered upon the study of law in 
 Boston in the oflSce of Messrs. Eanney & Morse, where he remained 
 nearly three years but did not prosecute the profession. In 1864 he 
 became assistant secretary of the Boston Board of Trade, but soon 
 after engaged in other enterprises of business. He resides in Med- 
 way, Mass., unmarried, but with the devotion of a son and brother is a 
 householder with his mother and two nephews, sons of a deceased 
 sister, whose education he-is superintending. He has been principal 
 of the High School in Medway and is now supervisor of its schools. 
 
 1859. 
 
 John Duguid Anderson was born in Gray, November, 1836, son 
 of Dr. Abraham Anderson. The year after graduation he went to 
 Macon, Ga., with the purpose of teaching, but in consequence of the 
 prevailing political excitement removed to Wisconsin, where he en- 
 tered on the study of law. On the breaking out of the war he entered 
 the military service with the commission of first lieutenant in a Wis- 
 consin regiment, and was in active service. In 1864 returning to 
 Maine he enlisted again as private in a Maine regiment ; was severely 
 wounded in front of Petersburg, Va. . by which he lost the use of an 
 arm ; was commissioned first lieutenant and at last brevetted captain. 
 He resumed the study of law in Portland in the office of Bion Brad- 
 bury, Esq. , was admitted to the bar, and has since been in the prac- 
 tice in Portland. 
 
 In 1869 he married in Portsmouth, N. H., Anne S., daughter of 
 "Warren Thayer, and has had four children. 
 
 Cyrus Fogg Brackett was born in East Parsonfield, June, 1833. 
 He was principal of Limerick Academy the first year after graduation, 
 and the two years following taught mathematics and natural science 
 in New Hampton Seminary, New Hampshire, meanwhile pursuing 
 medical studies. He attended the lectures of the Medical School of 
 Harvard and of that connected with the college, graduating in 1863. 
 The same year he was appointed to a tutorship in the college, and for 
 ten years held professorships of natural science, chemistry, geology, 
 zoology, and physics, and during his last year of service lectured in 
 
GRADUATES. 735 
 
 the Medical School on medical jurisprudence. In 1873 he accepted an 
 invitation to the Henry professorship of physics in the College of New 
 Jersey, Princeton, where he still remains. In connection with Prof. 
 Goodale he conducted the Bowdoin Scientific Review, and is now pre- 
 paring a manual of physics in connection with Prof. W. A. Anthony 
 of Cornell University. He has been a contributor to the scientific 
 periodical press. 
 
 In 1864 he married Alice A. Briggs, but has no children. 
 
 Charles Henry Buttereield was born in Farmington, May, 1833. 
 On leaving college he taught three years in Evansville, Ind., where he 
 also studied law in the office of Hon. Conrad Barker, ex-governor 
 of that State, and settled in the profession. During the war of the 
 Rebellion he served under the commission of major and then lieuten- 
 ant-colonel in an Indiana regiment. He has since held the office of 
 judge Of the Vanderburg County Circuit Court of that State, and 
 of mayor of the citj' of Evansville. 
 
 He married Emily, daughter of Samuel Daggett, Esq. , of Farming- 
 ton, but has no children. 
 
 John Calhoun Chamberlain was born in Brewer, August, 1838, 
 brother of J. L. (1852). He pursued a theological course at Bangor 
 Seminary, graduating in 1864. He was chaplain of the Eleventh 
 Maine, served on the United States Christian Commission, rendering 
 valuable service in the battle of Gettysburg. In 1866 he married 
 Delia F. Jarvis of Castine. His health suffered under exposure in 
 the army, and he died in Castine of pulmonary disease, August, 1867. 
 
 Americus Fuller was born in North Jay, November, 1834. After 
 graduating he entered the seminary at Bangor, and graduated in 1862. 
 He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Hallowell, 
 where he had gained the confidence and affection of his people, but 
 was seized with a bronchial affection which compelled him to resign 
 his position. He removed to the West for change of climate and 
 settled in Rochester, Minn. 
 
 In 1874 he offered himself to the service of the American Board 
 of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and is stationed at Aintab, 
 Turkey. He has taught in the Central Turkey College and has de- 
 clined a professorship in that institution. 
 
 In 1862 he married Amelia D. Gould of Wilton, but has no children. 
 
 George Washington Morgan Hall was born April, 1836. He 
 taught for three years the Maplewood Grammar School, Maiden, 
 
736 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Mass., and has since been teaching in Boston, at the present time 
 being master of the Allston Grammar School. 
 
 In 1879 he married Kate F. Woodburj', and has a daughter. 
 
 ^Mos Harris was born in Turner, August, 1830. After graduat- 
 ing he entered the Theological Seminai-y, Newton, Mass., where he 
 graduated in 1862. He has exercised the ministry of the Word in 
 Medfleld, Arlington, and Weston, Mass. 
 
 December, 1865, he married Lydia G. Woodman. He has no 
 children. 
 
 Charles Edwin Hilton was born in Bridgton, March, 1830. On 
 account of his age, abandoning the hope of professional life he de- 
 voted himself to the work of teaching ; he had charge of Bridgton 
 Academy seven years with credit to himself and the institution. He 
 removed to Pennsylvania, and was principal of a preparatory school 
 for the Polytechnic College, Philadelphia, and afterwards of a soldiers' 
 orphans' home. In 1870 he was appointed to a position in the 
 public schools of Washington, D. C, as principal of a large school, 
 and subsequently as supervisor of the Third Division which he held 
 until 1877, when as the effect of overwork a severe attack of paral- 
 ysis laid him aside for a year. He had gained respect and confi- 
 dence as "one of the foremost teachers." Being restored to a com- 
 fortable degree of health, he opened a private school with good pros- 
 pects. 
 
 In 1862 he married Elizabeth Abbott, Conwaj', N. H., but has had 
 DO children ; they have always had, however, others' children with 
 them " whom they have received as their own." 
 
 Charles Henry Howtard was born in Leeds, August, 1838, brother 
 of Oliver'O. (1850). After teaching a high school in Holden, near 
 Bangor, a short time, he entered the Theological Seminary at Bangor, 
 but at the breaking out of the war he became private secretary of his 
 brother in command of the Third Maine ; afterwards enlisted in the 
 same regiment ; was aide-de-camp in the first Bull Run battle ; served 
 five or six years ; was repeatedly in action ; was twice wounded, and 
 was promoted successively until he ranked brevet brigadier-general. 
 He was placed in charge of a camp of instruction for colored troops. 
 At the close of the war he was placsd in command in South Carolina, 
 the management of the freedmen constituting an important part of 
 his duty ; was inspector of schools for freedmen in South Carolina, 
 Georgia, and Florida. In 1866 he was appointed assistant commis- 
 sioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for the District of Columbia, Mary- 
 
GRADUATES. 737 
 
 land, and Virginia, and held the office two years. In 1868 he left the 
 army and was appointed sewetary of the American Missionary Asso- 
 ciation for the West and Southwest. He then became connected with 
 the Advance, a newspaper, and its editor in chief. He has been a 
 frequent contributor to the public press and periodicals. 
 
 In 1M67 he married Mary Catherine Foster of Bangor, and has five 
 sons and a daughter. 
 
 George "Wilson Howe was born in Lowell, Mass., January, 1833. 
 He entered immediately the Theological Seminary at Andover, and 
 graduated in 1862. His first charge was at Buxton, where he re- 
 mained three years. He became pastor over the Free Baptist Church 
 in Harrison for five years. He acted as agent for one year of the 
 missionary society of that church. After ministering to the church in 
 Limington two years he engaged in teaching as principal of the Col- 
 burn School, Lowell, Mass., where he is at this time. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1862 Annie E. Bean of Sandwich* 
 N. H. ; second, in 1866 Emily E. Hobson of Buxton, and has a son. 
 
 James Albebt Howe was born in Lowell, Mass., October, 1834, 
 brother of the preceding. After graduation he entered at once upon 
 theological study at the seminaries of New Hampton, N. H., and 
 Andover, graduating at the last in 1862. He was settled in the minis- 
 try of the Free Baptist communion at Blackstone, Mass., and Olney- 
 ville, R. I., whence he was called to the professorship of theology in 
 the theological department of Bates College, and holds that position 
 now. Prof. Howe received the degree of D. D. from Hillsdale College, 
 Michigan, in 1876. 
 
 He has married twice : first, Rachel Elizabeth Rogers of Oldtown, 
 who died in 1874 leaving a son and daughter ; second, Julia R. Wood- 
 man of Portland. 
 
 Franklin Freeman Hutchins was born in Fryeburg, September, 
 1835. He studied law for a time but did not prosecute the profession. 
 He has lived on a pleasant farm a few miles out from the village of 
 Fryeburg. He married a Miss Murphy of Parsonfield, and has four 
 children. 
 
 Henry Dearborn Hutchins was born in Frj-eburg, November, 
 1837. . He studied law with D. R. Hastings, Esq., then of Lovell, 
 and practised for a time in Lovell. Through infirm health he removed 
 to a farm in his native town, where he died June, 1880, of meningitis, 
 leaving a wife and three children. In early life he was a successful 
 teacher, and for a time supervisor of schools. 
 
738 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 George Newton Jackson was born in Foxcroft, July, 1833. Soon 
 after leaving college he went West as agent of a publishing house, 
 and at length settled in Chicago in 1864 : was secretary of the pro- 
 jected Chicago, Millington and Western Railroad ; was reported of as 
 a student of political economy, with special reference to the subject 
 of currency ; was active in the bimetallic league, publishing papers on 
 the subject, and was secretary of the association. He died October, 
 1879. 
 
 Samuel Henky King was born in Monmouth, August, 1838. His 
 purpose had been to enter the Christian ministry, but circumstances 
 prevented. He proved himself a successful teacher. At the open- 
 ing of the war he held a clerkship in the adjutant-general's office, 
 Augusta, performing his duties with great assiduity. He was seized 
 with a profuse and fatal hemorrhage from the lungs, caused as was 
 thought by severe application to his work, and died December, 1861, 
 in the faith and hope of a Christian. 
 
 Henry Melville King was born in Portland, September, 1838. 
 Immediately after graduating he entered the Theological Institution, 
 Newton, Mass., where he graduated in 1862. He remained there a 
 year as assistant instructor in Hebrew, and in the year following was 
 settled in the pastorate over the Dudley Street Baptist Church in Eox- 
 bury, Boston. He has declined offers from other fields of labor, and 
 is stiU honored where he is for his work's sake. 
 
 In 1877 he received the degree of D. D. from Colby University. In 
 1878 he was elected professor of homiletics, pastoral duties, and 
 . church polity in Newton Theological Institute, but declined. 
 
 He has published, besides articles in the periodical press, a " His- 
 torical Discourse on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Dudley Street 
 Church, in 1S71," memorial discourses, "Discourse on the Mission of 
 the Baptists," Philadelphia, a paper on " Swedenborg and his Teach- 
 ings," and a review of Dr. H. M..Dexter's " History of Congrega- 
 tionalism." 
 
 In 1862 he married Susan'-E. Fogg of Portland, and has three 
 daughters. 
 
 Horatio Oliver Ladd was born in Hallowell, August, 1839. 
 Since graduation he has held positions as principal of Farmington 
 Academy, 1863-64 ; in Abbott's Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, 
 New York, one year; 1867-69, professor in Olivet College, Olivet, 
 Mich. ; 1873-76, principal of New Hampshire Normal School ; and has 
 
GRADUATES. 739 
 
 recently been elected president of the University of New Mexico at 
 -Santa Fd. He studied tlieology at Yale College in the class of 1863, 
 and has been pastor ove% Congregational churches in Cromwell, 
 Conn., Olivet, Mich., and Hopkinton, Mass., whence he removed to 
 New Mexico. He was for a time in the service of the "West Ed- 
 ucation Commission at Santa P6. He has published a memorial of 
 Rev. John 8. C. Abbott, D. D., and been a contributor to periodicals. 
 He married Harriet V., daughter of Rev. Dr. John S. C. Abbott 
 (1825), and has had four children. 
 
 Oliver Libbey was born in Parsonfield, June, 1835. Soon after 
 graduating he went West and was engaged in teaching at Blooming- 
 ton, 111., and then at Sheboygan, "Wis. Returning to the East he 
 studied law ; again went "West, settled in the profession at Green . 
 Bay, "Wis., and still continues to practise law, holding at the same 
 time an agency in insurance. He has not married. 
 
 Benjamin Fkanklin Manwell was born in North Jay, February, 
 1831. He pursued theological stu3y at Bangor, graduating in 1862, 
 and became pastor of the Congregational Church in South Bridgton, 
 at the same time preaching during the last portion of his remaining 
 there in Denmark. He supplied subsequently the church in Turner, 
 and then ministered to the churches in Mattapoisett and Blandford, 
 Mass. His health requiring a change, he removed to the "West, 
 preached for a time in Flattsmouth, Neb., and then removed to Law- 
 ler, Iowa, where he died of lung fever February, 1879. He was inde- 
 fatigable in Christian work. He left a widow and five children. 
 
 George "Whitney Merrill was born in New Gloucester, June, 
 1834. From the class record we learn that he has been in the prac- 
 tice of law most of the time. He served in the late war as captain of 
 United States colored troops and in command of an Illinois regiment. 
 Of later years he is reported as resident in Nevada. 
 
 Alfred Mitchell was born in Yarmouth, March, 1838. He pur- 
 sued medical studies at the Portland school, and with Charles S. D. 
 Fessenden, M. D. (1848), and graduated in 1865 at the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons, New York. After serving as assistant sur- 
 geon in the war of the Rebellion, he settled and still continues in 
 active practice in Brunswick. He has been lecturer and professor of 
 pathology in the Medical School connected with the college, and at 
 present is professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and chil- 
 
740 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 dren. He is consulting phj'sician of Maine General Hospital, Port- 
 land. 
 
 In 1865 he married Abbie E. Swett *f Brunswick, and iias had 
 five children, four of whom are living. 
 
 George Owen MooDy was born in Lebanon. July, 1833. On leav- 
 ing college he studied medicine with Prof. Dixy Crosby of Hanover, 
 N. H., and graduated at the Medical School of Dartmouth College in 
 1862. He began the practice tn Titusville, Pa., where he remains 
 in the profession. During the civil war he was assistant surgeon. In 
 1871-2 he spent a year abroad in professional study. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1867 Charlotte K., daughter of Rev. 
 Eeuben Tinker, Westfield, ]^. Y., by whom he had a son, — both 
 dying in 1871 ; second, in 1876 Emma, daughter of Nelson Kings- 
 land of Keesville, N. Y., and has had two sons, now living. He has 
 been examining surgeon for pensions. 
 
 William Gkat Nowell was born in Portsmouth, N. H , August, 
 1838. On leaving college he entered the Divinity School, Cambridge, 
 Mass., and took the full course. He preached at Eockport, 111., 
 Ware, Mass., and Calais, but has been for the most part engaged in 
 teaching, having extended his studies into geology with Prof. Agassiz, 
 in Italian with Prof. Lowell, and more recently in German pedagogy. 
 He for ten years taught in high schools in Calais, Maiden, the Eng- 
 lish High School, Boston, Albany (N. Y.) Female Academy, and 
 was superintendent of schools for two years in Weymouth, Mass. 
 He is at present (1880) president of the State Normal University, 
 Delaware. He has been a frequent contributor to the periodical and 
 newspaper press. 
 
 He married Harriet Putnam HiU of Portsmouth, N. H., who has 
 published several books for young people. They have had three 
 children, of whom a son and daughter survive. 
 
 Mark Pitman was born in Williamsburg, October, 1831. He has 
 been a successful teacher most of the time since graduation ; two 
 years as principal of the academy at St. Stephen, New Brunswick, 
 and three years of that at Foxcroft. He then accepted an appoint- 
 ment in the chemical department. Patent OfHce, Washington, but an 
 unexpected event changed his plan, and for five years he was employed 
 as register of probate and in other ways, residing at Dover. In 1870 
 he resumed his work as a teacher,; had charge of the academy at Dur- 
 ham, Conn., two years, and then became principal of the Woolsey 
 
GRADUATES. 741 
 
 Public School in New Haven, whei-e he still remains with a daily at- 
 tendance of fifteen hundred pupils and thirty-three assistants. 
 
 February, 1860, he married Lizzie W. Shepherd of Sebee, who died 
 in 1879, leaving three daughters. 
 
 Franklin Putnam was born in Croydon. N. H., September, 1833. 
 On leaving college he entered on the study of law in the office of 
 Messrs. Bronson & Sewall of Bath, was admitted to the bar, and 
 went to Kansas City, Mo., in the spring of 1861, where he engaged 
 in his profession. Notwithstanding the disturbed condition of affairs 
 in the opening of the Civil War, he secured a good practice and his 
 future was full of promise, when he fell sick and died, November, 
 1865. He had not married. 
 
 Edward Mosset Eand was born in Portland, August, 1839. He 
 engaged in legal study in the office of John Rand, Esq., of Portland, 
 and was admitted to the bar. During the war of the Eebellion he 
 served as adjutant of the Twenty-seventh Maine. He entered on the 
 practice of law in Portland and still continues in the profession. 
 
 He married in 1867 Emily K. Kelley of Newburyport, Mass. 
 
 Howard Malcolm Randlett was born at Stratham, N. H., Feb- 
 ruary, 1837. He was principal of Dearborn Academy, Seabrook, 
 N. H., for a time, and then began the study of medicine ; attended lec- 
 tures in Harvard Medical School and graduated 1864. He served in 
 the war as hospital steward, then as assistant surgeon in a New Yoi-k 
 regiment ; was appointed assistant surgeon United States navy from 
 1865 to 1868 ; he cruised on the flag-ship Powhatan in the Pacific ; 
 was ordered to the Naval Hospital, Philadelphia. 
 
 February, 1869, he married Mrs. Annie D. Sutherland of Phila- 
 delphia, daughter of the , late Major Nicholson of Washington. A 
 classmate informs us that on his return from Key West he died at 
 Annapolis, Md., May 26, 1873. 
 
 Francis Wallingfoed Sabine was born in Bangor, August, 1839. 
 He was pursuing the study of law, but in the autumn of 1861 entered 
 the military service as second lieutenant of the Eleventh Maine ; was 
 promoted first lieutenant and then captain "for gallant conduct." 
 In action at Deep Bottom, Va., he was wounded and died at the Ches- 
 apeake Hospital, September, 1864. A young man of promise. 
 
 Aretas Rowe Sanborn was born in Sanbornton, August, 1834. 
 On leaving college he taught three years in Dan vers, Mass., mean- 
 
742 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 while studying law, and subsequently in Lawrence, Mass. He prac- 
 tised law three j^ears in New York and then removed to Lawrence, 
 where he now remains. 
 
 He married in 1864 Clara P. ^lack of Danvers, Mass., and has had 
 five children. 
 
 Caleb Saundees was born in Lawrence. Mass., September, 1838. 
 On leaving college he studied law ; was admitted to the Essex bar in 
 1868, his studies having been interrupted by his enlistment in the mil- 
 itary service. He was in the regiment the passage of which through 
 Baltimore, April, 1861, was memorable. Subsequently he was first 
 lieutenant of the Fourteenth Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. On 
 return from the army he established himself in his profession in Law- 
 rence, Mass , his present residence. He has been a member of the 
 city council three years, of the board of aldermen, and mayor of 
 the city. 
 
 He manied Carrie F. Stickney, and has a daughter and son. 
 
 David Robinson Straw was born in Guilford, May, 1836. He 
 studied law at once after graduating, and settled in the practice in his 
 native town, his present residence. 
 
 He married Ellen L. Downing of Boston, Mass., in 1873, and has 
 two daughters. 
 
 William Henry Stoart was born in Eichmond, May, 1836. He 
 has been cashier of the National Bank in that town several years. 
 He has held the office of town clerk several years and been on tjie 
 board of selectmen. He has never married. 
 
 George Webster was born in Bangor, August, 1834. He taught 
 a school for a short time after graduation, and then entered the Theo- 
 logical Seminary, Bangor; November, 1861, he entered the army as 
 second lieutenant of the Twelfth Maine ; was promoted major United 
 States colored infantry, and left the service in 1866. He has since 
 been in business in Bangor a part of the time, and at present holds a 
 position in the First National Bank. 
 
 In 1865 he married Fannie W. Bent, and has a daughter. 
 
 John William Weeks was born in Bath, October, 1835. The 
 first few j-ears after graduating he was in New York with views of 
 professional life, but as he states without result. He then removed 
 into Western Pennsylvania, where he has been operating in the oil 
 region. 
 
GRADUATES. 743 
 
 In 1866 he married Margaret Raj- of Oil City, Pa., and has had 
 three sons and two daughters. His present residence is Bradford, 
 McKean County. 
 
 Albert Pukington Whittemore was born in Lisbon, October, 
 1836. He taught in Newcastle a year, in Chicago and Winchester, 
 111. He began the study of law ; in 1862 enlisted in an Illinois regi- 
 ment ; was in the siege of Vicksburg, Miss. ; after its surrender was 
 in Sherman's army; was taken sick at Jackson, Miss., lay sick in a 
 hospital, and died Oct 10, 1863. 
 
 Stephen Jewett Young was born in Pittston, November, 1839. 
 After nearly three j^ears spent in Europe he returned in 1862 and 
 became instructor, and then professor, of modern languages in the col- 
 lege, resigning in 1876. In 1«74 he was chosen treasurer of the college, 
 and became ex officio a trustee, and still holds that position. He is 
 president of the First National Bank, Brunswick, and has thrice 
 represented the town in the Legislature. 
 
 In 1»64 he married -Mary Y. Emerson of Bangor, and has five 
 children. 
 
 1860. 
 
 Amos Lawrence Allen was born in Waterboro', March, 1837. 
 He taught school at difierent times in his native town and other 
 places. He entered the law ofHce of Appleton & Goodenow in Alfred, 
 completed his course in the Columbia Law School, Washington, D. C, 
 and was , admitted to the bar of York County, but has not given 
 himself to the practice of law. He was employed in the court offices 
 in Alfred and clerkship in Washington until 1870, when he was elected 
 clerk of the courts of the county and has been in office most of the time 
 since. 
 
 He married Esther Maddox of Waterboro' and has three children, 
 two sons and a daughter. The eldest son is a member of the college. 
 
 John Francis Appleton was born in Bangor, August, 1835, son 
 of Chief Justice Appleton (,1822) . He entered upon the study of law. 
 He gave himself to the service of his country' in the war ; was com- 
 missioned captain of the Twelfth Maine ; participated in the military 
 operations in Louisiana with credit ; at the si^ge of Port Hudson dis- 
 tinguished himself for gallantry ; was promoted colonel in 1863 ; com- 
 manded a brigade and was bre vetted brigadier-general. On leaving the 
 army he completed his legal studies, was admitted to the bar, was 
 
744 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 rising in his profession with promise of distinction, was nominated by 
 the President and confirmed United States district judge of Eastern 
 Texas, when failing health compelled him to decline the position. 
 Pulmonarj' disease terminated in his death, August, 1870. 
 
 Nicholas Emery Boyd was born in Portland, August, 1837. He 
 was private tutor in a family near Fort Washington, N. Y., a few 
 months, and then assistant in a military school, Tarrytown, N. Y. In 
 1862 he enlisted as private in the Twenty-fifth Maine, serving until the 
 regiment was mustered out ; was detached for service in a survey of 
 the defences of Washington ; was in the custom-house, Portland, some 
 time. He pursued theological study at Meadville, Pa., and Cam- 
 bridge, Mass , was settled in the ministry in Canastota, N. Y., and 
 after some months' service was compelled by ill health to resign and 
 seek change of climate. For some years he has resided in California, 
 and has at this writing a position in the office of the Pacific Press. 
 
 In 1862 he married a daughter of Capt. Andrew Scott, Flushing, 
 L. I., and has had two children, neither now living. 
 
 Samuel Stillman Boyd was born in Portland, May, 1838. He 
 entered at once upon the study of law with Judge Shepley of Portland 
 and settled in the practice in St. Louis, Mo., where he still remains 
 in the profession. 
 
 In 1863 he married E. Churchill of Portland, and has six children, 
 three sons and three daughters. 
 
 Albert Williams Bkadbcky was born in Eastport, January, 1840, 
 son of Bion (1830). He began the study of law, biit enlisted in 
 the army in the year following his graduation as second lieutenant of 
 the first mounted artUlery, and passed bj- promotion through the differ- 
 ent grades of rank to colonel for meritorious service ; was wounded in 
 action in 1863 and served during the war. He resumed the study of 
 law, began practice in Portland and after a time removed to San 
 Francisco, where he still resides in his profession. He is not married. 
 No response having come from the circular, we are indebted for infor- 
 mation from a college acquaintance. 
 
 John Marshall Bqown was born in Portland, January, 1839, 
 brother of Philip Henry (1851 ) . He entered on the study of law with 
 John Band, Esq. (1831), Portland, but did not prosecute the profes- 
 sion. He entered the military service with the commission of adjxi- 
 tant ; was promoted lieutenant-colonel ; was wounded in action, and 
 
GRADUATES. 745 
 
 was brevetted colonel ' ' for gallant and meritorous conduct at Gettys- 
 burg " ; and was brevetted brigadier-general. ' On his return from the 
 army he became a member of the firm of J. B. Brown & Sons, his 
 residence being in Falmouth. He has published' an address on Me- 
 morial Day at Augusta, a paper on Champlain in the coUeptions of the 
 Maine Historical Society, has held office in the city and the State, and 
 is a member of the Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Hamp- 
 shire, etc., Historical Societies, and Eoyal Historical Society of Great 
 Britain, and for some j'ears on the standing committee of the first 
 named ; he is on the Board of Overseers of the college. 
 
 He mairied Alida Caroline, daughter of the late Wm. T. Carroll of 
 Washington, D. C, and has three daughters and a son. 
 
 Harlan Page Brown was born in Bethel, October, 1839. He left 
 a pleasant and lucrative position in a school at Bordentown, N. J., 
 and devoted, as the event proved, his life to the cause of his country ; 
 was commissioned second lieutenant ; was promoted captain ; in the 
 battle of Antietam, as he was cheering on his men, was struck dead. 
 Brave, manly, true in his relations to others, and a sincere, consistent 
 Christian. 
 
 Alvan Felch Bucknam was born in Yarmouth, November, 1838. 
 He taught a term in the academy of his native town, then went to 
 Texas. At the opening of the war, returned and enlisted with the 
 commission of second lieutenant in the Twenty-fifth Maine during 
 the term of service; was assistant surgeon in a Massachusetts cavalry 
 regiment, and served to the close of the war. He graduated M. D. 
 in the Medical School of the college in 1864. He began the practice 
 of his profession in Warren, Jo Daviess County, 111., where he still 
 resides. 
 
 He married Jane Quimby of Monmouth, 111., in 1871, and has two 
 daughters. 
 
 • 
 
 Horace Harmon Buebank was born in Limerick, October, 1838. 
 
 He taught a high school in Newfleld a year and more, and was as- 
 sistant teacher in the Limerick Academy. He entered upon the study 
 of law in Limerick, continued it in the Law School of Harvard, was 
 . admitted to the bar of York County, and for ten years practised in 
 his native town. In the early part of the war he enlisted as private, 
 and was among those who after their time had expired volunteered 
 for the defence of Washington during the invasion of Pennsjdvania 
 by Gen. Lee ; was commissioned captain ; a prisoner seven months ; 
 escaped and joined Sherman's army. He has represented his town in 
 
746 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 the Legislature. Besides offices in the town he has been register of 
 probate some years, bail commissioner, county attorney, city solicitor 
 of Saco where he now resides, and holds prominent positions in Ma- 
 sonry, etc. In 1875 he formed a copartnership with John L. Derby, 
 Esq. (1868), in Saco. 
 
 In 1872 he married Elizabeth T. Thompson of Kennebunk, and 
 has had three children. 
 
 Samuel McIntyre Came was born in Alfred, January, 1838. He 
 taught school in Alfred and Pembroke, meanwhile pursuing legal 
 studies ; was admitted to the bar in 1863 and then attended a course 
 at Harvard Law School. In 1864 he opened an oflSce in his native 
 town, where he still resides. He acted as cashier of the Alfred Bank 
 during its last years. He has been for several years on the superin- 
 tending school committee. He prepared a supplement to Dr. Parsons's 
 " Centennial History of the Town." 
 
 In 1871 he married Clara S. Littlefield of Alfred, and has a son 
 and daughter. 
 
 George Cakt was born in Houlton, August, 1838. In 1861 he 
 was mustered in first lieutenant Maine Cavalry ; was promoted captain 
 December, 1862, and resigned on account of his health. He studied 
 medicine, graduated at the College of Phj'sicians and Surgeons, New 
 York, in 1866, and has prosecuted his profession in Houlton. He 
 has been in the State Senate ; has not married. 
 
 Robert Cash was born at New York Mills, September, 1830. He 
 taught in the Institute and High School in Grass Valley, California, 
 three years. He has since pursued the profession of a metallurgist, 
 his residence being Sansome Street, San Francisco. He has never 
 married. 
 
 Marshall Dixey Chaplin was born in Bridgton, October, 1837. 
 He studied law and opened an office' for the practice in Lewiston, and 
 was gaining reputation. In the communion of the Free Baptist 
 Church in Auburn, superintendent of the Sabbath school, and pres- 
 ident of the Lewiston Young Men's Association, he was greatly 
 esteemed. He occupied an office with a sleeping-room in a building 
 which took Are, was consumed, and his remains in the ruins revealed 
 his dreadful fate. 
 
 Fuller Gove Clifford was born in Edgecorab, August, 1834. 
 He taught school in Edgecomb for a time ; enlisted as private in a 
 
GRADUATES. 747 
 
 Maine regiment in the late war and served a year. He has resided in 
 his native town, where he has led a farmer's life, as he says, " doing 
 many things that a blind man might be supposed doing on a farm." 
 His imperfect vision is remembered by his college acquaintances. He 
 has been supervisor of schools several years. He is unmarried. 
 
 Waterman Thomas Hewett Craig was born in Augusta, June, 
 1840. He went to Petersburg, Va., on leaving college, and had charge 
 of a school some months In 1861 he returned and began the study 
 of law, but the seeds of consumption had germinated in Virginia, and 
 he died May, 1862. 
 
 William Llewellyn Crowell was born in Bath, August, 1836. 
 He began the studj' of law in the office of Hon. George Evans, Port- 
 land. In 1862 he went to California, became assistant editor of the 
 San Francisco Times with some reputation for humor and talent. He 
 died in that city, March, 1867. 
 
 Abner Harrison Davis was born in Farmington, December, 1834. 
 He has been engaged much of the time since graduation in Ifeaching, 
 as classical instructor in the Chapman School, Boston, principal of 
 the High School, South Weymouth, Mass., usher in the Boston Latin 
 School, principal of the High School, Marlboro', Mass. , head master 
 of the High School, Salem, Mass., three years. He was admitted to 
 the bar in Indiana, but after a time resumed the office of a teacher as 
 head master of the High School in Worcester, Mass., and instructor 
 in Greek and English literature several years ; he was college pro- 
 fessor of the Latin language and literature in the college one j-ear. 
 In 1876 he received the appointment of clerk of the United States 
 Circuit Court of Maine from the late Judge George F. Shepley, and 
 still holds the position. 
 
 He has published papers on topics connected with education, and 
 a series of letters to the Worcester Evening Gazette. 
 
 In 1866 he married Marj- Louisa, daughter of Eliphalet H. Merrill, 
 Esq., Portland, who died in 1880 leaving two sons and a daughter. 
 
 Lemcel Grosvenor Downes was bom in Calais, October, 1839. 
 He studied law with his father, George Downes, Esq., and with George 
 F. Talbot, Esq. (1837), Machias ; was admitted to the bar in 1863, 
 and of late years has continued in the profession in Calais. He has 
 been twice in the governor's council, and in 1874 was mayor of Calais. 
 He is on the Board of Overseers of the college. 
 
 In 1866 he married, at Pembroke, Augusta H. Wadsworth, and has 
 had two children. 
 
748 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 George Barrett Emery was born in Gorham, June, 1838. He 
 taught after graduating a winter terra in Kennebunkport ; studied law 
 in the office of Josiah *R. Drummond, Esq , of Portland, and settled 
 in the practice in Gorham, where he stiU remains. He has never 
 married. 
 
 Simeon Adams Evans was born in Fiyeburg, April, 1837. After 
 graduation he studied medicine and graduated at the Medical School 
 of the college in 1865. He had entered the army as hospital steward, 
 became assistant surgeon, and served nearly through the war. He 
 established himself in the profession in Hopkinton, N. H., and three 
 j-ears after removed to Conway, N. H., where he now resides in active 
 practice. 
 
 January, 1866, he married Louisa H. Ilsley, who died in 1868 leav- 
 ing two sons. In 1871 he mairied Susan A. Hill, by whom he has 
 had two sons and a daughter. 
 
 RoscoE Edwin Farnham was born in Woolwich, November, 1835. 
 After teaching two years he went West, gave himself to the work of 
 a civil* engineer, and has been for the most part employed on the 
 Chicago and Northwestern Eailroad. 
 
 In 1871 he married Mary E. Reed, but has no children. 
 
 Seth Chase Farrington was born in Fr3-eburg, December, 1835. 
 He began the study of law ; November, 1861, was mustered in captain 
 of the Twelfth Maine, served on the Mississippi, subsequentlj- was 
 judge advocate on the staff of Gen. Reynolds, and was brevetted 
 lieutenant-colonel. Returning from the arm}' he was an engineer on 
 the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad some time, and subsequently 
 had a position at the office of the same in Portland. He is reported 
 as of late being in Wisconsin, — not married. 
 
 Woodbury George Frost was bom in Brunswick, May, 1838. 
 After teaching schools in Brunswick and Cape Elizabeth he engaged 
 in the study of medicine, and graduated in the Medical School con- 
 nected with the college, in 1866. For a year or two during the war 
 he was acting assistant surgeon of the United States navj'. He settled 
 in his profession in Freeport, but soon after removed to Danversport, 
 Mass., where he continues in the practice. 
 
 In 1865 he married Sophia B. Winslow, and has a son. 
 
 Charles William Gardiner was born in Farmington, May, 1841. 
 He entered the service in the late. war a corporal and rose through the 
 
GEADUATES. 749 
 
 different grades to the captaincy, and was mustered out with rank of 
 brevet major. He held different positions during his term of service ; 
 was wounded at Fair Oaks and taken prisoner in the second Bull Run 
 battle ; on leaving the army he held a clerkship in the Treasury at 
 Washington. Becoming connected with railroad management he at 
 length was made general agent of a railroad in Iowa. He had" 
 suffered for some time from pulmonary disease when he died at Cedar 
 Rapids, April, 1880. 
 
 David Hale was born in Bridgton, March, 1837. After graduating 
 he engaged in teaching in Missouri for a time, but on account of the 
 disturbed condition of the country returned, entered on the study of 
 law in the office of Gen. Fessenden in Portland ; completed his studies 
 with H. P. Deane, Esq., of that city, was admitted to the bar, and 
 opened an office in his' native town. With the promise of a fcommis- 
 sion if he would enlist a certain number of men, he undertook the 
 service ; a long and severe sickness interfered with that purpose. On 
 recovery he eulisted as a private, served a few months, was disabled 
 again by ill health, and was discharged. He resumed practice of law 
 but never regained health, and died December, 1873, highly esteemed 
 and sinc#ely lamented. 
 
 William Dudley Haley was born in Bath, June, 1837. He read 
 law after graduating in 'the offices of Washington Gilbert and Frederic 
 D. Sewall, Esqs., and was admitted to the bar. Early in the war he 
 served a few months as second lieutenant of the Third Maine, and 
 quartermaster. He held for a time a position in the customs at Bath. 
 
 He married in 1866 Julia A. Lawrence, Yarmouth, and had three 
 children ; a son and daughter are now living. He died January, 
 1880. 
 
 Edwin Alphonso Haelow was born in East Hebron, December, 
 1833. After teaching a term at Oxford he entered the Theological 
 Seminary, Bangor, graduating in 1863. He has been actively engaged 
 in the ministry of the gospel, eight j'ears in Kansas, and since 1871 
 in Knightsville, Cape Elizabeth. He has been supervisor of schools 
 and on the superintending school committee in the town. While in 
 Kansas he enlisted a private in the militia to resist Gen. Price's inva- 
 sion, served until the danger was passed, and returned to his mission. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1863 Eliza A. Pritchard, who 
 died leaving three daughters ; second, in 1874 Ellen E. Newell, by 
 whom he has had a son and daughter. 
 
750 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 "William Lewis Haskell was born in Poland, January, 1836. 
 For a year after leaving college he was associate principal of Oak 
 Grove Seminary, Vassalboro'. He was mustered in early in the war, 
 was commissioned first lieutenant, participated in the battles in the 
 Peninsular campaign, was adjutant at Antietam, where he was severely 
 wounded, and died October, 1862, distinguished for courage and gal- 
 lantry. A commission to a captaincy reached him just before death. 
 
 Granville Parker Hawes was born in East Corinth, July, 1838. 
 For a time he was professor of rhetoric in the State Agricultural Col- 
 lege, Maryland. He began the study of law in New York, but entered 
 the army and served to the close of the war, rising to the rank of lieu- 
 tenant-colonel Completing his legal studies, he was admitted to prac- 
 tice in 1867 and established himself in New York. He has published 
 a work on "Assignments." He has been puasident of the trustees of 
 the New York Board of Education, and has been recently elected 
 judge of the Marine Court of the city, under circumstances very 
 . honorable to himself. 
 
 In 1870 he married Euphemia A. Vose, New York, and has two 
 children now living. 
 
 Augustine Jones was t)orn in South China, October, 1836. On 
 leaving college he became for some time principal of Oak Grove Semi- 
 nary, Vassalboro'. He entered on legal studywith Governor John A. 
 Andrew, Boston, graduated in the Law School of Harvard in 1867, was 
 admitted to the bar of Suffolk County, Mass., and practised in Boston 
 two years, when he was appointed principal of the Friends' Boarding 
 School, Providence, E. I. In 1874, at the suggestion of John G. 
 Whittier, he represented the society of Friends in a series of dis- 
 courses on the Universal Church arranged by Rev. James Freeman 
 Clarke, Boston, and his discourse was published. A paper also before 
 the New England Historic-Genealogical Society on Nicholas Upsole 
 appeared in its Register in 1879. ^n 1878 he was in the House of 
 Kepresentatives, Massachusetts. He has been on the school com- 
 mittee of Lynn, Mass. 
 
 In 1867 he married in Dover, N. H., Caroline Alice Osborne, and 
 has a son and daughter. 
 
 Frederic Augustus Kendall was born in Concord, N. H., 
 August, 1838. At the opening of the war he escaped from the South 
 and enlisted a private in an Indiana regiment ; was transferred to a 
 New Hampshire regiment ; was commissioned first lieutenant and pro- 
 
GKADUATES. 751 
 
 moted captain in 1864. In 1865 %as on the stafTof Brig. -Gen. R. H. 
 Jackson in Texas. He is in the regular army with rank of captain ; 
 was professor of military science in Brooks Academy, Cleveland, Ohio, 
 1876-79. Our circular has failed to reach him or has elicited no reply, 
 and we have depended on the class record. 
 
 Levi Randlett LEAViTTwas born in Meredith, N. H., June, 1832. 
 On leaving college he became principal of high schools and academies 
 for twelve years in Illinois, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire Failure 
 of health compelling a change, he has employed himself in more active 
 pursuits. 
 
 In 1877 he married Mary Olive Gibbs and has one child. Since his 
 marriage his home has been in West Sandwich, N. H. 
 
 Benjamin Kingsburt Lovatt was born in Portland, August, 1838. 
 He studied law ; took a course in the Law School at Harvard ; com- 
 pleted his studies in the office of Nehemiah Abbott, Esq., Belfast, 
 where he was admitted to the bar in 1862, and soon after to practice 
 in the United States Circuit Court in Portland. He taught winter 
 schools ; filled a clerkship under government ; was editor of a news- 
 paper until 1866, when he settled in his profession in Fall River, Mass., 
 where he has since resided. In 1874 he was appointed on the bench 
 of the Second District court of Bristol County. He has contributed 
 articles to the New Church press. 
 
 In 1883 he married Harriet J. Gardiner of Lincoln, R I., who has 
 died leaving a son. 
 
 EzEKiEL Robinson Mato was bom in Hampden, January, 1834. 
 He began the study of law while teaching in Dover, N. H. December, 
 1861, he entered the military sei-vice as first lieutenant of the Third 
 Maine Battery, and subsequently was promoted captain in the same. 
 Attempts to reach him have brought no return. The class record 
 states that he was admitted to the bar in Tennessee ; is in practice in 
 Eldred ; that he married and has had three sons, one only now living. 
 
 Charles Sullivan McCobb was born in Boothbay, February, 1837 
 He enlisted early in the war ; was taken prisoner in the first Bull Run 
 battle while administering to the wounded whom he refused to leave, 
 and was several months in the Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. ; was 
 commissioned January, 1863, second lieutenant; at Gettysburg was 
 killed, and his remains were brought and interred in the cemetery of 
 his native town. 
 
752 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Joseph Nicholas Metcalp wasj^orn in Garrettsburg, Ky., Octo- 
 ber, 1837. He pursued medical studies with his father; attended 
 lectures at Nashville, Tena., and the University of Pennsylvania, where 
 he graduated in 1863, and settled in Garrettsburg in the practice, 
 where he still continues. 
 
 He married Edith L. Allen of Montgomery County, Tenn., in 1866 ; 
 has had seven children, of whom two only are living. 
 
 Charles Edwin Morrill was born in Westbrook, May, 1841. 
 He has succeeded his father as a manufacturer of leather. He is a 
 widower with two children. Our information is obtained from a col- 
 lege acquaintance, no reply having been received from the two circu- 
 lars addressed to him. 
 
 James William North was born in Augusta, March, 1838. He 
 entered upon medical studies after graduating with Dr. H. H. Hill of 
 Augusta, continued them in Portland School of Medical Instruction, and 
 took a degree at the Medical School of the college, 1864. After a 
 short period of practice in Gardiner he entered the army as assistant 
 surgeon, but after a brief service was discharged on account of im- 
 paired health and settled in Augusta. In 1863 he removed to Jeffer- 
 son, where he combined practice of liis profession with the care of a 
 farm until 1875, when returning to Augusta he gave himself to agri- 
 cultural pursuits and the raising of Jersey stock, etc. He was city 
 physician of Gardiner and of Augusta and town physician of Jefferson. 
 He has been on the board of aldermen of Augusta. 
 
 In 1865 he married Virginia H. Freer of North Carolina, and has 
 two daughters and a son. 
 
 WiNTHROP Norton was born in Norridgewock, November, 1838. 
 The class record states that he went to Texas and opened a school in 
 Sterling, Robertson County. He was impressed into the rebel army, 
 and a letter from him dated Augugt, 1862, Camp Texas near Eich- 
 mond, stated that he had passed through the battles of the Peninsula 
 unharmed. His friends are persuaded that he was throughout loyal 
 to his country. He fell in the battle of Chiekamauga in 1863. 
 
 Augustus Wyman Oliver was born in Bath, June, 1835. The 
 winter after graduating he taught school in Bath. The next year he 
 went to California. Yielding to the promise of the mines of Nevada 
 he went there. The promise proved vain, but he was appointed pro- 
 bate judge for Humboldt County in that Territory. He soon returned 
 
GRADUATES. 753 
 
 to California and henceforward devoted himself to the interests of 
 education. After teaching a few years he was invited to superintend 
 the public schools of Gilroy with charge of its High School, and 
 remained there eight j-ears. He then accepted an invitation to be 
 superintendent of the high schools of San Jose, and at present (1881) 
 holds that office. He has given' public lectures on the general subject 
 of education, some of which have been published ; has contributed 
 papers to journals on kindred topics ; has devised what is termed a 
 " new departure" in the method of teaching language in the schools. 
 By enthusiastic and efficient labor he has secured honorable position 
 among the educators of the State. A college friend informs us that 
 he married and has four sons. 
 
 Charles Fox Penney was born in New Gloucester, Maj^ 1832. 
 After gradtiation he taught the High School in Gray, and the same 
 year entered the Free Baptist Theological Seminary, New Hampton, 
 N. H., graduating in 1862. In August of that j^ear he became pastor 
 of the Free Baptist Church in Augusta, where he still continues in 
 active, useful, and honored service, — the longest pastorate of the 
 denomination in the State. He has been a frequent contributor to the 
 organ of the denomination, the Morning Star, Dover, N. H., and has 
 published occasional sermons. He has been chaplain of the Insane 
 Asylum, Augusta, thirteen years, and has held responsible positions 
 in the educational and benevolent enterprises of the denomination. 
 
 In 1862 he married Angie Lewis of Boothbay, who died in 1881 
 leaving three children. 
 
 Charles Sumner Perkins was born in Lewiston, October, 1836. 
 On leaving college he taught for a time in Limerick Academy, and 
 then pursued theological studies in the seminar^', Bangor, graduating 
 in 1864. He was settled over a church in the Free Baptist com- 
 munion in Providence, E. I., in 1865, in Portland in 1874, and in 
 Boston in 1879, where he now resides in active service. 
 
 In 1865 he married Mary S. Murray of Brunswick, and has two 
 daughters and a son. 
 
 t 
 James Liddell Phillips was born in India, Januaiy, 1840. The 
 
 son of a missionary in India, he devoted himself to the work of the 
 
 mission in the same country. His health requiring a return to his 
 
 native land, after two or more years in which he was diligent and 
 
 earnest, so far as his strength permitted, in stimulating the churches 
 
 of the Free Baptist communion to higher enterprise and zeal in the 
 
754 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 cause, he returned to his field of labor. Of a strong emotional nature, 
 great sweetness of temper, ardent devotion, quick apprehension, 
 pleasing address, and unusual facility and effectiveness as a public 
 speaker, he is peculiarly qualified for usefulness. In 1878 he received 
 the degree of D. D. from the college. 
 
 Walter Stone Poor was born in Andover, November, 1836. He 
 taught at Sing Sing, N. Y. , a few months after graduation. Early in 
 1861 he entered the military service as private in a New York regi- 
 ment, was promoted successively to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and 
 served through the war. While in the service he was for a time 
 treasury agent, Beaufort, N. C, and provost-marshal at Newbern. 
 He studied law in New York, was admitted to the bar in 1868, and 
 established himself in that city, where he still remains in the profession. 
 
 He has married twice: first, in 1865 Ellen E., daughter of Rev. 
 Dr. F. H. Hedge of Brookline, Mass., who died in 1869 leaving an 
 infant son ; second, in 1874 Ella S. Waller of New York, by whom 
 he has a son and daughter. 
 
 Thomas Brackett Keed was born in Portland, October, 1839. 
 He taught a year in the Portland High School for boys, and a short 
 time in Stockton, Cal. He studied law in Portland and San Jose, 
 Cal., and settled in the profession in Portland. He has represented 
 his city in the Legislature and his district in the Senate, each two 
 terms, has been a member of the House in the Forty-fifth and Forty- 
 sixth and has been elected to the Forty-seventh Congress. 
 
 In 1870 he married and has had two children, the younger dying in 
 infancy. 
 
 Henry Clay Robinson was born in Newcastle, December, 1832. 
 After graduation he taught a year or more the academy at Warren 
 and the High School in Kockport. He read law with John H. Con- 
 verse, Esq., Newcastle (1830), and was admitted to the bar. He 
 was register of probate for Lincoln* County four years. Abandoning 
 the law he received a license to preach by the Lincoln Association, 
 and supplied the Congregational Church in Alna and also in Phips- 
 burg ; was ordained to the ministry, and now is acting pastor over the 
 latter. 
 
 In 1865 he ^lar^ied Jennie A. Stewart of Bristol, and has a son. 
 
 Abram Newell Rowe was born in North Yarmouth, October, 
 1838. He taught for a while, when infirm health compelled him to 
 abandon that service. He enlisted in the late war as corporal, was 
 
GRADUATES. 755 
 
 promoted second and then first lieutenant ; was seized with typhoid 
 fever and died at Winchester, Va. , in 1864. His chaplain testified: 
 " I have lost a Christian officer." He was one of the ablest men of 
 his class. 
 
 Edwin Berger Shertzer. He entered from St. Paul. Minn., and 
 was born December, 1834. The class record, our only source of 
 information concerning him (the circular having failed), states that 
 after teaching for a short time he read law in St. Paul, practised the 
 profession until 1865, and then became clerk to Major S. E. Adams, 
 United States army. From a college contemporary we learn that for 
 some years he has prosecuted his profession in St. Louis, Mo., is 
 married, and has children. 
 
 David Osgood Stetson was born in Durham, October, 1837. 
 From a college acquaintance we learn that he resides in Mason, 111. 
 He went to Texas after graduating, taught awhile, when the political 
 aspect led him to return. At last he engaged in the lumbering busi- 
 ness. He is married and has a son. 
 
 Philip Henry Stubbs was born in Strong, April, 1838. After 
 teaching for a time in Strong and Winthrop he entered on the study 
 of law with his father, and at Harvard Law School, where he grad- 
 uated LL. B. in 1863. He has from that date been a practising attor- 
 ney in his native town. He has held the office of county attorney for 
 some years. 
 
 He married in 1868 Julia Augusta Goff, daughter of Dana GofT, 
 Auburn, Me., and has had two sons and two daughters. 
 
 Joseph "White Stmonds was born in Portland, September, 1841, 
 brother of William L. (1854). After graduating he taught in Port- 
 land in the years 1862 and 1863. He studied law in the offices of S. 
 and D. W. Fessenden, Esqs., and Edward F. Cox, Esq., Portland, 
 and settled there in the profe.ssion. He has been city solicitor, judge 
 of the Superior Court in the city, and is now one of the justices of 
 the Supreme- Court of Maine. An oration before the alumni of the 
 college on Nathaniel Hawthosne at the Commencement of 1878 was 
 received with great favor and published at their request. He has not 
 married. 
 
 William Widgery Thomas was born in Portland, August, 1840. 
 He had entered on the study of law when early in 1862 he was ap- 
 pointed vice-consul-general at Constantinople ; was soon after acting 
 
756 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 consul at Galatz, Moldavia, and received special thanks of the Dei)art- 
 ment of State for his services. Early in 1863 he became consul at 
 Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1865 he returned home, resumed legal 
 studies at Cambridge Law School, was admitted to the bar, and 
 settled in the profession in Portland, where he still remains. In 1869 
 having been appointed ou the commission for the settlement of the 
 public lands of Maine, he suggested by report a plan for founding a 
 Swedish colony, which was adopted by the Legislature ; and as com- 
 missioner of immigi-ation he sailed earlj* in 1870 for Sweden, obtained 
 a colony, and on his return the same year established the colony " New 
 Sweden" in Aroostook County of fifty, which in 1880 numbers 787 
 souls. He represented his city in the Legislature of 1873-75, and 
 was Speaker of the House the last two terms. In 1879 he was a mem- 
 ber of the State Senate, but declined a second nomination. He was 
 a delegate to the National Republican Convention of 1880. 
 
 He translated and published " The Last Athenian," from the Swed- 
 ish of Victor Rydberg. 
 
 Ip 1873 he was appointed lecturer in the college on the Scandi- 
 navian languages and instructor in the Swedish language, but declined ; 
 is a member of Maine Historical Society. 
 
 Jacob Hale Thompson was born in Portsmouth, N. H., April, 
 1837. He has devoted Himself to journalism, which he began in con- 
 nection with the Portsmouth Chronicle, and is now on the staff of the 
 New York Times. The college has found him a readj^ and able assist- 
 ant on repeated occasions, especially during the war, in inquiries con- 
 cerning its graduates. 
 
 Adelbert Burge Twitchell was born in Bethel, December, 1837. 
 He was assistant in the High School, Newark, N. J., for some months. 
 He entered the military service in 1861 ; was appointed quartermaster- 
 sergeant ; was in the first Bull Run battle ; was commissioned second 
 and promoted first lieutenant "for conspicuous bravery" in the 
 mounted artillery ; was wounded in action at Chancellorsville ; pro- 
 moted captain and brevetted major "for meritorious service." Cir- 
 culars have twice failed, but he is reported by a correspondent as 
 resident in Newark as a lumber merchant ; as having been for several 
 years supervisor of schools, and as an eldir in the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 He married Marietta Northrop of Newark in 1867, and has had 
 four children, three now living. 
 
 Francis "Willard Webster was born in Bangor, August, 1836. 
 After graduation he taught school at Kendall's Mills and Vassalboro'. 
 
GRADUATES. 757 
 
 Hs enlisted in the army, served a year in the ranks, was detailed to 
 be clerk in the ofHce of the military commission ; was commissioned 
 captain in 1863 and served in South Carolina and Florida. He re- 
 mained in Florida after the war ; was survejor-general of the State 
 three years, hi 1871 he removed to Wisconsin, and for four years 
 held positions in the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company. At pres- 
 ent he resides in Milwaukee engaged in glass manufacture, and is 
 treasurer of Milwaukee Fuel-saving Company. 
 
 In 1865 he married at Granville, N. Y., Juliet Bulkley, daughter of 
 Hon. George Reed of Wisconsin, and has a daughter. 
 
 1861. 
 
 Chakles Grandison Atkins was born in Augusta, January, 1841. 
 After graduating he taught schools in Ohio and Wisconsin. Since 
 1872 he has been a resident of Bucksport, been assistant with the 
 United States commissioner of fish and fisheries, has published 
 official reports of the Maine commission, and contributed to the reports 
 of the United States commissioner. 
 
 In 1874 he married Nellie H. Moses of Bucksport, but has no 
 children. 
 
 James Ware Bradbury was born in Augusta, .luly, 1839, son of 
 Hon. James W. (1825). He read law with his father and entered on 
 the practice with him ; was United States commissioner, discharging 
 the duties of the office with integrity ; was rising in reputation as a 
 lawyer when be was prostrated by a protracted and fatal disease, 
 September, 1876. 
 
 Theodore Dwight Bradford was born in Auburn, September, 
 1838, son of Richmond Bradford (1825). On leaving college- he 
 became principal of the High School, Cape Elizabeth, and of the 
 Park Street Grammar School for boys, Portland, meanwhile pursuing 
 medical study at Portland School for Medical Instruction. He 
 attended lectures at the Medical School of the college, and at the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, where he graduated 
 1865. The two years following he was house physician of Bellevue 
 Hospital, New York, and since has followed his profession in the city ; 
 has been demonstrator of anatomj', lecturer on diseases of children, 
 clinical instructor in surgery at the '• City " and " Hahnemann " hos- 
 pitals, at each of which he is a visiting surgeon ; is a member of the 
 County Medical Society and Medical Club of New York. 
 
 In 1875 he married Matilda R. Leverich, and has two daughters. 
 
758 HISTOIIT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 James Briarr Cochrane was born in Fayette, March, 1833. After 
 graduating he began the study of medicine with Dr. J. F. Pratt, New 
 Sharon, continued it in the Portland School for Medical Instruction 
 and with Dr. Charles S. D. Fessenden (1848), United States Marine 
 Hospital in that city, and attended lectures of the medical schools of 
 the college and of Albany, N. Y., graduating at the latter in 1864. 
 He began medical practice in Chelsea, Mass. , after two years removed 
 to St. Paul, Minn., and in 1872 to Dover, where he continues in the 
 profession. 
 
 In 1865 he married Elizabeth M. Cochran of Dover, but has no 
 children. 
 
 Nelson Perleit Cram was born in Bridgton, June, 1835. He en- 
 tered the military service immediately after graduating, as sergeant 
 of the Eleventh Maine. In camp at Washington, he was seized with 
 measles, which left him with an affection of the lungs and compelled 
 his return home. The most devoted attention failed to arrest the dis- 
 ease which had fastened itself upon him, and he died October, 1862. 
 
 Wellington Rolvin Cross was born in Albany, March, 1835. On 
 leaving college he took charge of Gould Academy, Bethel, for a j'ear, 
 and then accepted a tutorship in the college. He pursued a theologi- 
 cal course of study in the seminary at Bangor, graduating in 1865, 
 and was ordained pastor over the Congregational Church in New 
 Gloucester in September following. Dismissed from that charge in 
 1873, he was installed over the Congregational Church in Orono, where 
 he remained until 1876, when he removed to the pastorate of the 
 church in Camden, where he still remains. 
 
 In 1865 he married Olive C. Walker of Fryeburg, who died Sep- 
 tember, 1875, leaving an infant son. 
 
 Frank Lambert Dingley was born at Lewiston Falls, February, 
 1840. On leaving college he entered the editorial rooms of the Lew- 
 iston Journal, and has since held ffiiat position. 
 
 In 1862 he married L. M. Greeley, and has had seven children, one 
 of whom has died. 
 
 William Winslow Eaton was born in Brunswick, May, 1836. 
 On leaving college he taught the High School in Bridgton the first 
 year, and then entered on medical study in Brunswick and completed 
 it in the University of New York, graduating in 1864. He entered 
 the public service in the late war, was appointed hospital steward, 
 was commissioned assistant surgeon, and then surgeon. At the close 
 
GRADUATES. 759 
 
 of the war he settled in the profession in South Eeading, Mass., now 
 "Wakefield, and in a year or two removed to Danvers, where he has 
 continued in the practice. 
 
 He has published a history of the physicians of Danvers and a 
 paper on "The Use and Abuse of Alcohol." He has been chairman 
 of the school board of Danvers several years, and of the lecture com- 
 mittee and a trustee of Peabody Institute ; also a councillor of Mas- 
 sachusetts Medical Society. • 
 
 In 1865 he married Agnes H. Magoun of Brunswick, and has had 
 a son now deceased and a daughter who survives. 
 
 Edwin Emery was born in Sanford, September, 1836. When en- 
 gaged in a school in Belfast he enlisted in the war as substitute for a 
 friend, and served two years ; was color sergeant in 1864 ; was twice 
 wounded in the battle of the Wilderness ; was commissioned second 
 lieutenant. He has been engaged in teaching in Maine, New Hamp- 
 shire, and Massachusetts. In 1877 he accepted appointment as 
 instructor of cadets in the United States revenue marine service, sta- 
 tioned at New Bedford, Mass. When teaching at Great Falls, N. H., 
 he was on the school committee, and at Southbridge, Mass., on the 
 library committee of the town five years. 
 
 In 1864 he married Louisa F., daughter of Samuel S. Wing, Esq., 
 of Brunswick, and has had five sons and a daughter, of whom two 
 sons have died. 
 
 LuciLius Alonzo Emeky was born in Hampden, July, 1839. On 
 leaving college he taught in Hampden and Bucksport. He studied 
 law in Bangor and settled in the practice in Ellsworth, where he has 
 since resided. He has held successively the positions of count}' attor- 
 ney, attorney-general of the State, and State senator. 
 
 In 1866 he married Annie S. Crosby of Hampden, and has a 
 daughter and a son. 
 
 LoRiN Farr was born in Manchester, June, 1835. He enlisted 
 sergeant in the late war ; was promoted successively to a captaincj' in 
 a Maine regiment; was wounded severely at Cold Harbor, and re- 
 signed from efifects of the wound. He studied law and at present is 
 practising his profession in Augusta. 
 
 Merritt Caldwell Fernald was born in South Levant, May, 
 1838. He has given himself to the work of teaching in high schools 
 in Levant, Searsport, and Gould Academy, Bethel, and other places. 
 At an early period he delivered a course of lectures on Mental Philos- 
 
760 HISTORY OF EOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 ophy. He spent a year or more in the chemical laboratory, Harvard, 
 in the study of analytical chemistry and mineralogy, and acted as 
 assistant to Prof. Cooke. Jn l'-68 he became professor of mathemat- 
 ics and physics in the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic 
 Arts, was for three yeai's acting president of that institution in addi- 
 tion, and in 1879 was appointed president and professor of physics 
 and mental philosophy, and now occupies that position. He has 
 'published papers in the reports of the State P>oard of Agriculture and 
 in other publications, on various subjects connected with his special 
 studies, besides meteorological and mathematical tables, records of 
 barometrical, geodesic, and astronomical work ; has been supervisor of 
 schools and member of the State Board of Agriculture. 
 
 In 1865 he married Mary Lovejoy Heywood of Bethel, and has a 
 daughter and four sons. 
 
 Samuel Fessenden was born in Portland, January, 1841, son of 
 "William P. (1823). He began the study of law, but entered the 
 military service as second lieutenant Second Maine Mounted Battery ; 
 was promoted first lieutenant; became aid to Brig. -Gen. Tower, July, 
 1863 ; was severely wounded in the second Bull Eun battle, Aug. 30, 
 and died the next morning. He had made a Christian profession in 
 his Senior year, and gave promise of usefulness. 
 
 Sidney Michael Fingee was born in Lincoln County, N. C, May, 
 1837. After the war he was master of Catawba High School, Newton, 
 N. C, eight years. He then settled and still lives in Newton, en- 
 gaged in mercantile and banking business. He has been in the House 
 of Representatives one term, and two in the Senate of the State, and 
 is at this writing (1881) in the latter. 
 
 In 1866 he married Sarah H. Rhyne of North Carolina, but has no 
 children. 
 
 Edmund Eastman Fogg was born in Limerick, June, 1839. Tie 
 studied medicine and graduated M. D. in the Medical School, Har- 
 vard, in 1869. He is settled in the profession at Buxton Centre. We 
 have been obliged to depend on his classmates for our account of him. 
 
 Henry Jewett Fubbee was born in Great Falls, July, 1840. He 
 left college in his Junior year, and by vote of the boards within a few 
 years received bachelor's degree, his name to be inserted in the cata- 
 logue of his class. On leaving college he went to Green Bay, Wis., 
 took charge of the public schools of that city, and held that position 
 two years. He was admitted to the bar and entered on the practice 
 
GRADUATES. 761 
 
 of law. In 1865 he removed to New York and engaged in the busi- 
 ness of insurance until 1879, when he removed to Chicago and re- 
 sumed his profession in the firm of Higgins & Furber, attorneys and 
 counsellors. 
 
 In 1862 he married Elvira Irwin of Green Bay, and has three sons. 
 
 Benjamin Shtjte Grant was born in North Prospect, September, 
 1839. After graduating he taught in Stockton and in Oak Grove 
 Seminary, Vassalboro', two years. He then studied law in the office 
 of James .S. Eowe, Esq. (1826), and was admitted to practice in 1866. 
 In l'<69 he removed to Boston, abandoned the law on account of his 
 health, and engaged in mechanical works. 
 
 In 1875 he married Mary R. Howes of New York, and has a 
 daughter. 
 
 Charles Glidden Haines was born in Biddeford, Januarj-, 1839. 
 On leaving college he entered the service of the Laconia Mills Corpo- 
 ration and continued until 1873, when he remeved to Portland, where 
 he has since resided. He was on the school committee in Biddeford 
 three years, twice represented the city in the Legislature, and was in 
 the common council two years and president of that body. He spent 
 two years in Boston in the business of manufacturers' supplies. At 
 this writing he is not in active business. He is not married. 
 
 Gordon Merrill Hicks was born in Yarmouth, March, 1835. He 
 taught schools at Paris Hill, North Yarmouth, etc., then studied law 
 in Portland and Rockland, where he was admitted to the bar of Knox 
 County and settled in the profession. He has been supervisor of 
 schools for the county, on the school committee of the city and judge 
 of its police court. 
 
 In 1871 he married Marj' H. Fossett of Bristol, and has a son and 
 daughter. 
 
 Frank Orville Libby Hobson was born in Saco, January, 1839. 
 On leaving college he engaged in lumber manufacture with his father 
 in his native place, and continues in the same. He has been on the 
 board of aldermen of the city. • 
 
 In 1867 he married Annette, diaughter of "Wales Hubbard, Esq., of 
 Wiscasset, and has had two daughters. 
 
 Albion Howe was born in Jacksonville, Fla., May, 1840, son of 
 Col. Marshall E. Howe, United States army. After graduation he 
 was employed in clerical labor in Alfred and Boston ; December, 1863, 
 
762 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 was mustered into the Fourteenth New York Artillery as second lieu- 
 tenant. He rose to the rank of major. In 1866 held the same com- 
 mission in the Fourf^i Artillery, United States army ; was promoted 
 first lieutenant and brevetted captain, and was ordnance officer Fort- 
 ress Monroe, where he married a daughter of. Gen. Barry, command- 
 ing. He was slain in a reconnoitring party in the Modoc war, the 
 third alumnus fallen in conflict with the Indians ; the first being Lieut. 
 F. H. Beecher, 1862, and the second G. E. Lord, 1866. 
 
 Charles Oliver Hunt was born in Gorham, April, 1839. On 
 leaving college he served in the army as quartermaster-sergeant ; was 
 promoted second lieutenant and first lieutenant ; was wounded at 
 Gettysburg ; was in the battles of the Wilderness, etc. On leaving the 
 service he prosecuted medical study, attended medical lectures of the 
 college and of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he 
 graduated 1868. Since 1869 he has been teacher of materia medica 
 in the Portland School for Medical Instruction, and at present is resi- 
 dent physician and superintendent of the Maine General Hospital. 
 He has been and is now examining surgeon of pensions and recording 
 secretary of Maine Medical Association. 
 
 In 1871 he married Cornelia Davidson Carson of Lancaster, Pa., 
 and has had two sons and two daughters, of whom a son has deceased. 
 
 Thomas Worcester Hyde was born in Bath, January', 1841, son 
 of the late Zina Hyde, Esq. Early in the war he entered the military 
 service with the commission of captain ; was promoted major ; became 
 inspector-general under Gen. Smith; was on the staffs of Gens. Sedg- 
 wick and Wright ; was promoted successively lieutenant-colonel, colo- 
 nel, commanded a brigade in the last year of the war, and was brevetted 
 brigadier-general and also major-general. He has since been engaged 
 in the business of an iron founder and machinist. He has been in the 
 State Senate and its president in 1876-77, and is at this writing mayor 
 of the city of Bath. He was appointed on the Board of Visitors at 
 West Point in 1877. He published a history of the First Maine Vet- 
 eran Volunteers. 
 
 In 1866 he married Annie, daugWer of Hon. John Hayden of Bath, 
 and has three sons and two daughters 
 
 Albion Henry Johnson was born Augusta, October, 1840. He 
 pursued theological study at Bangor Seminary, where he graduated in 
 1864. He is exercising the ministry of the gospel at Acworth, N. H. 
 Our circular has brought no response. 
 
GRADUATES. 763 
 
 Samuel Jordan was. born in„Poland, February, 1836. He soon 
 after graduation entered the military service ; was appointed acting 
 assistant paymaster United States army on the Vincennes, etc. Pul- 
 monary disease, to which he had been previously subject, was rapidly 
 developed in service ; he returned and died at his home, August, 1865. 
 
 George Beaman Kenniston was born in Boothbay, December, 1836. 
 He entered the service of his country before graduating, but received 
 his degree with his class ; was first lieutenant and was promoted cap- 
 tain and lieutenant-colonel ; was in rebel prisons thirteen months ; 
 was "honorably discharged" for disability contracted in the service. 
 He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1874, and settled in Booth- 
 bay in the profession . He has represented his district in the Legisla- 
 ture ; has been supervisor of schools and at present is inspector of 
 customs at that port. 
 
 In 1864 he married Antoinette Eliza Adams, daughter of Rev. 
 Jonathan Adams, and has six children, two daughters and four sons. 
 
 Edward Payson Loring was born in Norridgewock, March, 1837. 
 After graduating he entered the military' service as first lieutenant 
 of the Thirteenth Maine ; was promoted captain, then major of the 
 United States colored troops, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel. On 
 leaving the army in 1867 he engaged in the study of law with L. D. 
 Lindsey, Esq., of his native town, and graduated at the Law School, 
 Albany, N. Y., in 1868. He settled in Fitchburg, Mass. ; has repre- 
 sented the city in the Legislature of Massachusetts ; is clerk of the 
 police court and president of the common council. 
 
 He married in 1868 Hannah M. Stark of Waterville, but has no 
 children. 
 
 Augustus Nathaniel Lufkin was born in East Orrington, June 2, 
 1837. He entered the military service in the Second Maine in 1862, and 
 served during the war in the army of the Potomac, of the James, and 
 in Texas ; was commissioned captain in a regiment of colored troops. 
 Since the war he has held for six years positions on a division of the 
 Kansas Pacific Railroad, and of later years has been living with his 
 aged parents, occupied in farm work in its season and teaching school 
 in the winter. He has been several years supervisor of schools, and 
 on the school committee of Orrington and on the board of selectmen. 
 
 Stephen Hart Manning was born in Lewiston, July, 1835. At 
 the opening of the war he was mustered into the service as quarter- 
 
764 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 master-sergeant of the First Maine. He continued through the war in 
 that department, by promotion and brevets passing through the differ- 
 ent grades of ranl£ to that of brigadier-general ; was mustered out in 
 1866 and settled in Wilmington, N. C. He has been a member of the 
 State constitutional convention, sheriff of the county three terms and 
 is in nomination for the fourth. 
 
 In 1864 he married Sarah, daughter of T. Walker, Esq., of Rum- 
 ford, but has no children. 
 
 Abeam Maxwell was born in Sweden, December, 1832. After 
 giaduation, after teaching in several places in the State, he entered 
 the Theological Seminary, Bangor, graduating fn 1866. He was or- 
 dained over the Congregational Church in Sumner and subsequently 
 over the churches in Weld and Pownal. In 1871 he entered the ser- 
 vice of the American Home Missionary Society in Nebraska, his last 
 position being at Loup City. 
 
 In 1866 he married Abbie M. Demeritt of Peru, and has two sons 
 and a slaughter. He died of Bright's disease, Jan. 30, 1882, at An- 
 dover, Ohio. 
 
 William Wilson Mokrell was born in East Livermore, Febru- 
 ary, 1836. He began the study of law. In 1862 wis commissioned 
 second lieutenant ; was promoted first lieutenant, then captain, and 
 while leading his company in a charge near Spottsylvania Court 
 House, May, 1864, was killed. He had publicly professed Christian 
 faith in his Senior year ; was of great energy and promise. 
 
 Moses Owen was born in Bath, July, 1838. He published a vol- 
 ume of poemfe a few years before his death, which occurred in the 
 hospital at Augusta, November, 1878. 
 
 Alpheus Spuing Packard, Jr., was born in Brunswick, February, 
 1839. During his Junior year he took a summer voyage to Labrador 
 with the Williams College Greenland expedition under Prof. Chad- 
 bourne, and in his Senior summer vacation led a party of his classmates 
 in a month's scientific trip to the Bay of P'undy. After graduation he 
 entered on a course of scientific study for three years under Prof. L. 
 Agassiz, and was his assistant six months. After graduating M. D. 
 in 1864 at the Medical School of the college, he took a second summer 
 voyage with Wm. Bradford the artist to Northern Labrador, collect- 
 ing materials for papers on the natural history and geology of that 
 region, published in 1867. He served S,s assistant surgeon in the 
 
GRADUATES. 765 
 
 First Maine Veteran Volunteers of the army of the Potomac, the last 
 j'ear of the war. He was then acting custodian and librarian of Boston 
 Natural History Society for a year, 1869-70. He was lecturer in 
 the Agricultural Colleges of Massachusetts and Maine on entomology, 
 and at Bowdoin College on the same with zoology and comparative 
 anatomy ; was one of the curators of the Peabody Academy of Science, 
 Salem, and for a time director of its museum ; spent two summers as 
 an instructor in Prof. Agassiz's Natural History School, Penikese 
 Island, New Bedford, and was for a time dean of the Faculty. In 
 1878 he accepted the professorship of zoology and geology at Brown 
 University, Providence, R. I., and still holds that position. He has 
 been a member of the United States Entomological Commission the 
 five years of its existence, and joint author of its reports and its bul- 
 letins on the Hessian fly and on forest and shade-tree insects ; was at- 
 tached as volunteer assistant in 1861 and 1862 to the Maine Geologicarl 
 Survey' ; to the Geological Survey of Kentucky in 1874, and in 1875 and 
 
 1876 to the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the 
 Territories under F. V. Hayden ; was State entomologist of Massa- 
 chusetts, issuing reports for 1871 to 1873; and in the summeis of 
 
 1877 to 1880 as United States commissioner made extensive tours in 
 the Western and Pacific States and in the Territories. In the win- 
 ter of 1869-70 he made zoological collections on the Florida Eeefs, 
 Beaufort, N. C, and at Charleston, S. C, in 1871, and in Europe 
 studied the glaciers of the Alps and Norway and examined its muse- 
 ums with reference to their arrangement. Besides six volumes on 
 entomologj-, embryology, and zoology, some passing through repeated 
 editions, he has published scientific papers numbering two hundred 
 titles. He was one of the founders of the American Naturalist, and 
 has been editor in chief since its establishment in 1868. He is a 
 member, resident or correspondent, of several scientific bodies at home 
 and abroad. 
 
 In 1867 he married Elizabeth Derby, daughter of the late Hon. 
 Samuel B. Walcott of Salem, and has three daughters and a son. 
 
 Albert Db Forest Palmer was born in North Anson, March, 1839, 
 son of Dr. Isaac Palmer (1833) . He entered at once the Theological 
 Seminary, Newton, Mass., and graduated in 1864. He was settled 
 and still remains in the ministry over the Baptist Church in North 
 Berwick. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1876 Abbie M. Jordan of Foxcroft, 
 who lived scarcely a year ; second, in 1878 Mary J. Spear of Lynn, 
 Mass. He has had four children of whom one has died. 
 
766 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 GusTAVus Steward Palmer was born in North Anson, June, 1841, 
 brother of the preceding. He at once after graduation engaged in 
 medical study with Drs. Pray and Russell, Boston, and established 
 himself as a dentist in Waterville, where he still resides. 
 
 January, 1866, he married Ellen M., daughter of George C. Gatchell, 
 Esq., who died April, 1880, leaving no children. 
 
 George Loring Peikce was born in Kittery, August, 1837. After 
 graduation he taught for a time in Kittery and Eliot, then studied 
 medicine, attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 
 where he graduated, and settled in the practic4 in New York, where 
 he still remains. 
 
 He married Harriet N. Noyes of Boston, and has had a son. 
 
 Lauriston Floyd Purinton was born in Bowdoinham, May, 1835. 
 It is believed that he has lived on his father's farm, but no effort of 
 ours or of his class has availed to elicit a reply. 
 
 Fabius Maximus Ray was born in East Windham, March, 1837. 
 On leaving college he spent a year abroad, chiefly at Heidelberg and 
 Geneva, studying French and German. He then entered upon the 
 study of law, was admitted to the bar, and began the practice at 
 Saccarappa, which has since been his home. In 1867 entertaining 
 the project of abandoning the law, he entered the Senior class of the 
 Divinity School in Cambridge and graduated, but never received 
 ordination , and in a j'ear or two resumed the legal profession in Port- 
 land, which he continues in the firm of Ray & Dyer. 
 
 He represented Westbrook in the Legislature of 1871-72. He 
 published a volume of poems in 1873. He taughta school in Sacca- 
 rappa in 1865 and in the winter of 1869-70, and has had several 
 private pupils in modern languages and the classics. 
 
 In 1863 he married Marj- Muzzey, daughter of Dr. "William Mar- 
 rett of Saccarappa, who died in 1877 leaving a daughter and a son. 
 
 John Rich was born in Farmingdale, March, 1838. He had shown 
 indications of mental disturbance for some time, and in exacerbation 
 of the disease died by his own hand, November, 1863. 
 
 Reuben Augustus Rideout was born in Garland, November, 1854. 
 After graduating he began the work of a teacher, and has continued 
 it to the present date in Maine and Massachusetts. He has of late 
 years been resident in Everett, Mass., and is treasurer of the Congre- 
 gational society. 
 
GRADUATES. 767 
 
 In 1861 he married Celia H. Marson, who died in 1878 leaving two 
 daughters ; December, 1879, he married Gustie L. Marson. 
 
 Charles Bean Rounds was born in Danville, December, 1834. 
 He at once after graduation took charge of the academy, St. Stephen's, 
 N. B., and remained two 3-ears. He then began the study of law, 
 but it being the darkest period of the war, under a sense of duty he 
 enlisted a private ; was soon made quartermaster, and then was pro- 
 moted successively to a captaincy. He participated in the battles 
 under Gen. Grant in Virginia, was wounded in action, and served to 
 the close of the war. Resuming his legal studies at Auburn he was 
 admitted to the bar and settled in Calais, where he still remains in his 
 profession. He has been repeatedly on the city government, also 
 supervisor of schools, and has for some years been attorney for the 
 county. 
 
 In 1865 he married Harriet N , daughter of Hon. George M. Chase 
 of Calais, and has four daughters and a son. 
 
 Edward Simonton was born in Searsport, October, 1839. After 
 graduating he taught in Stockton in the winter and spring, then en- 
 listed in the army as first sergeant and served during the war ; was 
 severely wounded in the assault on Petersburg, Va. ; was commis- 
 sioned second lieutenant and then first lieutenant in the regular army, 
 but resigning studied law, was admitted to the bar of Waldo County, 
 a,nd settled in the profession in St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 He married Annie E. Hilton at Portland in 1866, and has had a 
 son and two daughters, one of the latter now living. 
 
 Edwin Smith was born in Searsport, March, 1836. After gradua- 
 tion he taught East Pittston Academy and the High School in Stetson 
 a year, and then entered the Theological Seminary, Bangor, where he 
 graduated in 1864. He has been in the pastorate over Congregational 
 churches in Lynn, Barre. and South Braintre*, his present residence. 
 He has been on school committees where he has lived, and has occa- 
 sionally contributed articles to the press. 
 
 He married Amanda S. Hanson in 1864, and has four children. 
 
 Henry Sutton Burgess Smith was born in Bridgton, July, 1838. 
 He taught in Brunswick two years, meanwhile attending two courses of 
 lectures in the Medical School connected with the college. In 1864 
 was commissioned assistant surgeon of a Maine regiment and served 
 during the war. He attended the lectures of the Berkshire Medical 
 
768 HISTORY, or bowdoin college. 
 
 School, Pittsfleld, Mass., graduated in 1865, and settled in the profes- 
 sion in Bowdoinham. In 1878 he removed to Middleboro', Mass., 
 where he still remains. 
 
 In 1862 he married Ophelia Riplej- of Brunswick, and has had four 
 children, of whom two are now living. 
 
 Edward Stanwood was born in Augusta, September, 1841. On 
 leaving college he became assistant editor of the Kennebec Journal in 
 Augusta. In 1867 he accepted a position on the editorial staff of the 
 Boston Advertiser, and has continued in that connection. Besides the 
 demands on his pen in his relation to that able journal, he has pub- 
 lished a translation of George Sand's " Cesarina Dietiich," and the 
 first edition of "Boston Illustrated." He has contributed articles 
 to the North American Review, the Bankers' and other magazines, 
 and been a correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial and other 
 journals. 
 
 In 1870 he married Eliza M. ToplLff, has two children, and resides 
 in Brookline, Mass. 
 
 George Eastman Stubbs was born in Strong, December, 1840. 
 He taught the High School in his native town a term. He entered upon 
 the studj' of medicine, attended medical lectures in the college and in 
 Harvard Medical School, where he graduated in 1863. He took a 
 special course preparatory' to entering the army as a surgeon in 1864 ; 
 was brevetted captain in 1866. He spent two years in the hospitals 
 of Vienna, Berlin, and Paris, and returning settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 in 1867 ; two yeai-s later he removed to Philadelphia, where he is still 
 in active practice. 
 
 In 1865 he married Annie, daughter of Martin Bell of Sabbath 
 EesD, I'a., and has fl.ve children, of whom three daughters and a son 
 are living. 
 
 John Warren Thori» was bom in Boothbay, April, 1839. From 
 1861 to 1868 he was associate principal of Oxford Academy, Chenango 
 County, N. Y. He studied medicine, attended lectures in the medi- 
 cal schools of the college and of the University of New York, where 
 he graduated in 1871. He settled in the profession in Oxford, where 
 he has resided. He has been president of the Medical Association of 
 the county, has been deacon for several years of the Associated Pres- 
 byterian Church and superintendent of its Sabbath school. 
 
 In 1867 he married Charlotte M. Brown of Oxford, and has two 
 sons and a daughter. 
 
GRADUATES. 769 
 
 Geenville Mellen Thdrlow was born in Poland, October, 1838. 
 He taught a year in the High School at Bath and then became prin- 
 cipal of Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, and 'has held that position until 
 1879, his pupils sent to college giving proof of eflioient training. He 
 resigned his otHce in the academy to engage in the settlement of the 
 estate of Hon. B. D. Metcalf, whose daughter he married in 1870, by 
 whom he has a daughter. He has been president of the Knox and 
 Lincoln Musical Association, and was conductor of the same in pre- 
 paring for the "World's Peace Jubilee held in Boston. 
 
 Joseph Badger Upham was born in Portsmouth, N. H., December, 
 1840 He began the study of law in Portsmouth, but in 1862 entered 
 the engineer corps. United Stat&s navy ; in 1868 was commissioned 
 past assistant engineer. 
 
 Stlvanus Dexter Waterman was born in Litchfield, September, 
 1841. The year after graduation he entered the army and served in 
 a Massachusetts regiment during the war. In 1864 he went to Louis- 
 ville, Kj'., and taught in the cit^v schools three or four years ; then 
 removed to Indiana, whence after a time in 1870 he went to Califor- 
 nia, and now resides in Stockton, still employed in teaching. 
 
 In 1869 he married Lizzie D. Williamson, but has no children. 
 
 Philanthius Cleaveland Wiley was born in Bethel, Feb. 21, 1840. 
 He studied medicine, attended lectures in the Medical School of the 
 college, graduated in 1864, and entered on the practice in his native 
 town. He gained extensive practice in that and neighboring towns, 
 was confided in and highly esteemed. Returning from a professional 
 visit across Lake Umbagog, by the upsetting of the boat he was 
 drowned April, 1877. He married Mary, daughter of Hon. Ellas M. 
 Carter of Bethel, who survives him. 
 
 1862. 
 
 Frederick Henry Beecher was born in New Orleans, June, 1841. 
 He was mustered into the military service in the war immediately 
 after graduating ; was successively appointed sergeant, second and 
 first lieutenant ; was in the battles of the Army of the Potoujac from 
 Fredericksburg, where he was severely wounded, to Gettysburg, where 
 he was again wounded by a shell and narrowly escaped with life ; 
 was promoted captain, but his wounds disabled him from acting in 
 that capacity. On his recovery, though maimed, he was commissioned 
 first lieutenant Veteran Eeserve Corps; acted as adjutant-general 
 
770 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE, 
 
 under Gen. E. Whittlesey of the, Freedmen's Bureau; was appointed 
 second lieutenant United States army, was stationed on the frontier, 
 and was killed in Kansas on a scouting party by the Indians, Sep- 
 tember, 1868. 
 
 Albion Buebank was born in Limerick, December, 1839. He 
 taught Limerick Academj' two years, and the High School, Kenne- 
 bunk, five. Since 1872 has been principal of the High School, Exe- 
 ter, N. H., and is still in that position. He read law and was admitted 
 to the bar, but practised law only for a short time. 
 
 In 1874 he married Olive E. Thompson of Kennebunk,'and has 
 
 had a son and daughter, the latter alone living. 
 
 • 
 Sylvester Burnham was born in Newburyport, Mass., February, 
 
 1842. In 1863 and 1864 he was professor of mathematics iu Western 
 University, Pittsburg, Pa., and from 1866 to 1869 was principal of the 
 High School, Newburyport, Mass. He pursued theological study in 
 the seminary, Newton, Mass., 1869 to 1873, spending one of the years 
 in Europe in travel and study. In 1875 he accepted the professorship 
 of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis in the Baptist Theological 
 Seminary, Hamilton, N. Y., and was also librarian of Madison Uni- 
 versity of which the seminary is a department, and still occupies that 
 position. 
 
 In 1875 he married Miriam M. Tucker, Amherst, Mass., and has a 
 daughter. 
 
 Joseph Webber Chadwick was born in South China, Maj-, 1837. 
 He was principal of New Hampton Institution, New Hampshire, four 
 years. In 1866 he became usher in Boston Latin School, and suc- 
 cessively sub-master and master, holding the last office at the present 
 time. He has been on the School Board, trustee of the Public Library 
 of Maiden, Mass., his residence, and a director in Gold Hill Mining 
 and Smelting Company of Colorado, and, been active in promoting 
 objects of public good. He was elected to the School Committee of 
 Maiden in 1881. 
 
 In 1863 he married Sarah Ellen Roberts of Maiden, and has a son 
 and two daughters. 
 
 Isaac Bassett Choate was born in Naples, July, 1833. His 
 father emigrated from Essex, Mass., near the close of the last century, 
 to Naples, where he now lives in advanced age. The son after gradu- 
 ation taught successively at Gorham Seminary, Yarmouth and Bridg- 
 ton Academies, and Westbrook Seminary, and from 1875 to 1878 was 
 
GRADUATES. " 771 
 
 professor of Greek and Latin in Buchtell College, Akron, Ohio. He 
 studied law with W. P. Fessenden, Esq., Portland, and was admitted 
 to the bar, October, 1865 ; but he has given himself to the work of a 
 teacher. He has contributed articles to periodicals, one being an 
 account of Hawthorne's home in Eaymond, of which Mr. Field 
 availed himself in his '' Yesterdays with Authors." 
 
 In 1866 he married Sophia P. Thompson, niece and ward of Mr. 
 John Noyes of Yarmouth. They have no children. ' 
 
 Melville Augustus Cochrane was born in Litchfield, Julj', 1836. 
 He entered the army in his Junior year, captain United .States Infantry ; 
 served under Gen. Buell ; was captured at Chickamauga ; was seventeen 
 months in prison, escaping twice and retaken ; was bre vetted major 
 "for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Chickamauga, 
 Ga." A roster was received December, 1881, from him, of the com- 
 missioned officers of the Twelfth United States Infantry, by which it 
 appears that he was then with rank of major commanding the regi- 
 ment and post, Prescott, A. T. 
 
 Samuel Page Dane was born in Falmouth, November, 1840. On 
 leaving college he was employed in teaching seven years in Newbury- 
 port, Mass., and Pittsburg and Sharon, Pa. He studied for a time 
 and settled at Sharon in the business of a druggist, in which he still 
 continues. 
 
 In 1868 he married Mary Irvine, and has a son and daughter. 
 
 William Ellingwood Donnell was born in Portland, October, 
 1841. He was in commercial business in Portland several years. 
 Eecently he has held a position in the office of the New York Tribune. 
 
 Ellis Richmond Drake was born in Woolwich, December, 1840. 
 After graduating he taught in the Academy at Bluehill two years. 
 He then studied law in Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and 
 practised a year in the city. He abandoned the law and entered the 
 ITheological Seminary, Andover, Mass., graduating in 1868. He has 
 exercised his ministry over Congregational churches in Wayland, 
 Middleboro', and now is settled over that in Northfleld, Mass. He 
 has published a fiineral and a memorial discourse. He has not mar- 
 ried. 
 
 Almon' Goodwin was born in Baldwin, March, 1840. He was for 
 two years principal of the Academy at St. Stephen's, New Brunswick. 
 He then entered upon legal study in the office S( John M. Goodwin, 
 
772 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Esq., Biddeford, attended lectures of the Harvard Law School, 
 settled in New York, and became a member of the law firm of Van- 
 derpoel, Green & Co. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1872 Mary M. Wilder of Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., who died in 1874; second, in 1879 Maud "Wilder of Brook- 
 lyn, by whom he has a daughter. 
 
 Thomas Hatden Green was born in Calais, March, 1842. April, 
 1862, he received the comnlission of captain and was placed on the 
 staff of Gen. Prince ; was acting adjutant- general for a time ; at the 
 battle of Cedar Mountain, August, 1862, he was slain, as is supposed, 
 in the attempt to rescue his commander. Gen. Prince, who had been 
 taken prisoner. His degree with his class was conferred subse- 
 quently, as he had nearly completed his course in college. 
 
 Frank Alpine Hill was born in Biddeford, October, 1841 . On 
 leaving college he became principal of the High School, Biddeford, 
 for two years ; was principal of the High School, Milford, Mass., five 
 years, and of that in Chelsea from 1870 to the present time, having 
 declined a similar position in Newton in consequence of the urgency 
 of Chelsea to retain him. He studied law with Hon. John M. Good- 
 win, Biddeford, but never engaged in the practice. He has shown 
 peculiar qualifications for the ofllce of teacher. He has been an occa- 
 sional contributor to the public press, and has delivered popular lec- 
 tures on scientific topics, on the " Mound Builders," etc. 
 
 In 1866 he married Mai'gie S. Brackett, and has three children. 
 
 William Albert Hobbie was born in Garland, October, 1837. 
 The circular failed, probably from entire uncertainty as to his address. 
 A classmate writes that the only item ascertained concerning him is 
 that he wrote from Texas to a classmate in Chicago proposing a proj- 
 ect to obtain for the museum in that city, specimens of certain fauna 
 of Texas. , 
 
 * ^ 
 
 Henry Hastings Hdnt was born in Gorham, July, 1842. Soon 
 after graduation he enlisted in the Fifth Maine Battery ; was appointed 
 hospital steward ; was in action at Gettysburg ; served in Gen. Grant's 
 campaign from the Eapidan to the James, etc. He studied medicine, 
 graduated in the Medical School of the college in 1867, continued 
 study another year in Philadelphia', and settled in Gorham, where he 
 is still in active pra^ice, esteemed and respected. He has never 
 married. 
 
GRADUATES. 773 
 
 Frederic Nickels Huston was born in Damariscotta, October, 
 1839. In September after graduating lie entered the army as second 
 lieutenant Twenty -first Maine ; was promoted first lieutenant ; was cap- 
 tain at the siege of Port Hudson, La. He studied medicine, attended 
 the lectures of the Medical School of the col'ege, graduating M. D. 
 1873, and settled in his profession in Rockland. 
 
 George Gustavus Kimball was born in Portsmouth, N. H., Feb- 
 ruary, 1843, son of Israel K. (1839). He read law, took the degree 
 of LL. B., Columbia College, "Washington, and is now in the practice 
 of law in Boston. 
 
 DoRviLLE LiBBEY was bom in Saco, August, 1837. For one year 
 he was principal of the High School, Saco, and of one of the public 
 schools, Pittsburg, Pa., and then one year professor of mathematics 
 in the Western University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, and two years 
 principal of the Washington School, St. Louis, Mo. He then emi- 
 grated to San Francisco, Cal., where he has been connected with a 
 publishing house. 
 
 In 1866 he married Josephine Sheplar, Pittsburg, and has a son. 
 
 Augustus Newbert Linscott was born in Jefierson, September, 
 1837. He served as captain in a Maine regiment mustered in for 
 nine months. After teaching for a time the High School, Thomaston, 
 he read law with J. H. Drummond, Esq., Portland, went West and 
 settled, and has continued in the profession in Chicago ; has been 
 prosecuting attorney for the city. , 
 
 In 1865 he married Annie G. Walsh of Thoniaston, and has a son 
 now living. 
 
 John Thomas Magkath was born in Gardiner, October, 1842. 
 After graduation he taught in Yarmouth Academy and Gardiner High 
 School. Having pursued theological studies under Bishop Burgess, 
 he became successively rector of Christ Church, Gardiner, St. Paul's, 
 Jackson, Mich., and St. Thomas's, Battle Creek, Mich. Since 1877 
 he has been rector of All Saints (Torresdale), Philadelphia. 
 
 He married Sarah J. Herrick of Gardiner, December, 1863, and 
 has four children. 
 
 Albert George Manson was born in Limington, November, 1836. 
 He was employed as a teacher, Cleveland, Ohio, for a time, and then 
 removed to St. Paul, Minn., where he engaged in real-estate opera- 
 
774 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 tions. He died after a brief illness, November, 1878, — "a man 
 without guile." 
 
 He married Ann Eliza, daughter of Ex-Governor Robert P. Dim- 
 lap of Brunswick. 
 
 Geokge Adams Maek was born in Portland, October, 1837. In 
 the spring of the year following graduation he taught in Limington ; 
 he has since resided in "Washington, the latter portion of the time 
 having been an assistant in the library of Congress. 
 
 In 1868 he married Larangie S. Edson, and has two children. 
 
 Joel Marshall was born in Buxton, May, 1834. Circulars have 
 brought no reply. I learn from a classmate that he read law and has 
 been in the practice in Buxton. 
 
 Charles Portek Mattocks was born in Baldwin, October, 1840. 
 After graduating he entered the military service as first lieutenant, 
 served during the war, rising through the different grades of command 
 to brigadier-general by brevet. He was a prisoner ten months. After 
 his discharge he studied law in Portland and the Law School of Har- 
 vard, graduating LL. B. 1867, and settled in the profession in Port- 
 land. He has been county attorney. He is now colonel of the First 
 Maine Volunteer Militia. 
 
 He maiTied Ella Robinson of Portland, and has two daughters. 
 
 Charles Widgert Millikkk was born in Buxton, March, 1836- 
 He began the study of medicine with Dr. R. G. Dennett of Saco, 
 attended the lectures at the University of Michigan, graduating in 
 1865. He practised medicine successively in Rosetta and Oquawka, 
 111., and Shullsburg, Wis. Early in 1880 while on a visit to Maine 
 he exhibited signs of mental disturbance, which resulted in his death 
 at Limerick in June of that year. 
 
 In 1868 he married Almira C. BarSer of Limerick, and had a son. 
 
 Eugene Putnam Morse was born in Bridgton, December, 1839. 
 He read law and had established himself in the profession in Chicago. 
 At the time of the great fire in that city he was a member of the relief 
 committee, and in his active efforts in the service took the small-pox 
 from clothing sent for sufferers by the fire, and died in 1871. 
 
 Joseph Noble was born in Augusta, October, 1839. He served in 
 the Civil War, was mustered in second lieutenant of a Maine regi- 
 
GRADUATES. 775 
 
 ment, and was promoted successively to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. 
 After the war he spent a year or two at home, and was then appointed 
 to a clerkship in the Treasury, "Washington, which he still holds. 
 
 Edward Newman Packard was born in Lancaster, Mass., Decem- 
 ber, 1841. After graduation he was principal one term of Limerick 
 Academy. He held a tutorship in the coUege, and was instructor in 
 mathematics five years ; he then pursued theological study in Bangor 
 and Andover Seminaries, was ordained pastor over the Congregational 
 Church, Evanston, III., where he remained nine years, and then was 
 Called to the Second Church in Dorchester, Mass., where he still 
 remains. He has published sermons in the volumes of the " Monday 
 Club " and contributed to the periodical press. 
 
 In 1870 he married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Ford of Wi- 
 nona, Minn., and has had five daughters, of whom four are living. 
 
 Samuel Wiggin Pearson was bom in Alna, October, 1836. After 
 graduating he taught in Freeport in the winter of the year and then 
 entered the Theological Seminary, Bangor, where he graduated in 1866. 
 He was settled over the Congregational Church of Limington three 
 years, of Lyman three years, and since 1876 has been pastor over that 
 in Andover. 
 
 In 1«69 he married Mary Jane Alexander of Brunswick, and has 
 two children. 
 
 John Melvin Pease was born in Bridgton, August, 1840. Our 
 circular having failed of a response, our information has been ob- 
 tained from other sources. After graduating he spent a few years in 
 Minnesota recruiting impaired health, and as is supposed in the 
 ministry of Free Baptist churches. He then returned to Maine and 
 has been settled over a church in Otisfleld, and now over the Free 
 Baptist Church in West Buxton at " Moderation Village." 
 
 John Edwin Pierce was born in Monmouth, September, 1839. 
 He taught in Wisconsin a year or two, and was in the military service 
 the last year of the late war. He studied theology at Bangor, grad- 
 uated in 1868, and preached a few months in Princeton, Me. Having 
 been accepted by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 
 Missions, he saUed in 1868 for Turkey; labored nine years in 
 Erzroom, and was then transferred to Ismid (Nicomedia), where he 
 is now stationed. Two or three years since he visited the United 
 States. 
 
776 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Charles Henry Pope was born in Whitneyville, October, 1841. 
 After teaching at Yarmouth a term he entered the seminar^' at Bangor, 
 where he graduated in 1865, on the same day receiving ordination 
 as an evangelist. He went in the service of the Home Missionary 
 Society to California, exercised his ministry in different places, and 
 was principal of a young ladies' seminary in Benicia from 1871 to 1874. 
 He then resumed pastoral work in Oakland, where he remained three 
 years. He left California, and after a few months of mission effort 
 in Nevada came East, delegate to the national council of Congrega- 
 tional churches, and early in 1878 was installed over the Congrega- 
 tional Church in Thomaston. He was a trustee of the Pacific Theo- 
 logical Seminary. 
 
 In 1865 he married in East Machias Elizabeth Leach, daughter of 
 Niran Bates, M. D., and has a son. 
 
 HovTARD Lyman Prince was born in Cumberland, May, 1840. He 
 at once after graduation enlisted in the army and served through the 
 war, from quartermaster-sergeant to captain by brevet for "gallant 
 and meritorious service" ; was wounded at Spottsylvania Court House, 
 and at last was appointed judge-advocate on Gen. Chamberlain's staff. 
 On leaving the army he was assistant principal of the High School, 
 Portland, three years. He studied law at the Columbia Law School, 
 Washington, D. C, graduating in 1876, and was admitted to the Wash- 
 ington bar ; is now clerk of the police court of the District of Columbia. 
 
 In 1874 he married Jennie S. Tew, Oxford, N. Y., and has a son 
 and two daughters. 
 
 Isaac Warren Starbird was born in Litchfield, August, 1839. 
 He entered the army as captain and was promoted colonel of the Nine- 
 teenth Maine ; was wounded at Gett^-sburg and again at High Bridge, 
 April, 1865 : was brevetted brigadier- general " for meritorious ser- 
 vice." On leaving the armj-, he engaged in mercantile' business in 
 Portland for some time ; held a position in the custom-house some 
 years. Studied medicine, graduated, M. D., Dartmouth, 1877, and 
 was medical director of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department 
 of Maine, for 1879. His present residence is Richmond. 
 
 Henry Otis Thayer was born in South Paris, December, 1832. 
 He taught successively in Yarmouth and Limerick Academies nearly a 
 year after graduation, and then entered on a course of theology in the 
 seminary at Bangor and graduated in 1865. Having received ordina- 
 tion, he has exercised his ministry in Solon, Bingham, and since 
 1867 in Woolwich. While in the seminary he served in the Christian 
 
GRADUATES. 777 
 
 Commission in 1864. Besides faithful and successful labors in the 
 ministry he has given himself to investigations into the history of 
 Woolwich, fruit^of which ha,ve appeared in the public press and will 
 probably be given to the public in fuller and more permanent form. 
 He is a member of the Maine Historical Society. 
 
 In 1865 he married Sarah E. Hewett of South Paris, and has had 
 four children, one of whom died in infancy. 
 
 Albion Libby Vaeney was born in Windham, April, 1839. After 
 graduation he entered the military service as first lieutenant of the 
 Thirteenth Maine, December, 1861 ; was promoted captain ; was 
 transferred to the regular army in 1865 with rank of second lieutenant 
 ordnance department, became first lieutenant and then captain, his 
 present rank. His address (1880) is Wateryliet Arsenal, West Troy, 
 N. Y. 
 
 In 1866 he married Hannah Josephine Gibson of Medford, Mass , 
 and has had two children. 
 
 Charles Heney Verrill was born in Auburn, May, 1837. He 
 was for three years principal of East Corinth Academy. He was 
 then appointed mathematical professor in the State Normal School, 
 Mansfield, Pa. He held that position four years and was made 
 principal in 1869. In 1877 he accepted the appointment of principal 
 of Delaware Literary Institute, a boarding and day school in Frank- 
 lin, N. Y. For some years he has been an instructor in teachers' 
 institutes in New York and Pennsylvania. He was mayor of Mans- 
 field one year. 
 
 He has married twice : first, in 1867 Orilla Dexter of East Corinth, 
 who died in 1869 ; second, Emma I. Shattuck, Blossburg, Pa. He 
 has had three children, two now living. 
 
 Daniel Wingate Waldron was born in Augusta, November, 
 1841. He entered the seminary at Bangor and spent the third year 
 of his course at Andover, graduating in 1866. After preaching in 
 several places, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church, 
 East Weymouth, Mass., and continued in that service until 1871, 
 when he was installed over the Maverick Church, East Boston. Since 
 1873 he has been actively and usefully in the service of the City Mis- 
 sionary Society, Boston. He was chaplain of the House of Kepresent- 
 atives, Massachusetts, 1879-80. He preached the election sermon, 
 Massachusetts, in 1880. 
 
 In 1867 he married Mary E. Waite of South Brain tree, who died in 
 1876 leaving a daughter. A child died in infancy. 
 
776 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Marcus "Wight was born July, 1838. He enlisted in the army 
 and was commissioned lieutenant in a cavalry regiment. On leaving 
 the service he taught a school and was appointed by the government 
 superintendent of schools in Louisiana. He was subsequently engaged 
 in the insurance business for some time, and more recently has been 
 agent for I. C. Ayer & Co. in Southern States. 
 
 He married Clara Bates, who has died leaving no children. 
 
 1863. 
 
 Joseph Clement Bates was born in Richmond, July, 1836. On 
 leaving college he taught in San Francisco and Redwood City, Cal , 
 two years. He studied law in Brunswick, Redwood City, and San 
 Francisco, where he was admitted to the bar and settled in a success- 
 ful practice. He has published a work " Forms and Use of Blanks," 
 and a paper entitled " Horace Howes's Will Case." 
 
 In 1868 he married Bertha Comstock, and has had six children,' of 
 whom a son a,nd three daughters are living. 
 
 Charles Upham Bell was born in Exeter, N. H., December, 1843, 
 son of James B. (1822), an^ grandson of Hon. Samuel Bell on 
 whom the college conferred the degree of LL. D. in 1821. He studied 
 law with Hon. Charles H. Bell of Exeter and in the Harvard Law 
 School, and was admitted to practice in 1866 ; practised a few years 
 in Exeter and then removed to Lawrence, Mass., where he now 
 resides in the practice of the profession. During the war he served 
 as private in the Forty-second Massachusetts. In 1874 he published 
 " Massachusetts Statutes,'' a compilation and summary^ of statute law, 
 and in 1876 " Index to Massachusetts Reports, Vols. 103-120." He 
 is president (1880) of the common council of Lawrence. 
 
 In 1872 he married Helen M. Pitman of Laconia, N. H., and has 
 three daughters and a son. 
 
 Thomas Taylor Beverage was'born in Thomaston, August, 1838. 
 Pulmonary disease had fastened itself upon him before his class grad- 
 uated, and he died a few months after, leaving an affectionate remem- 
 brance of his worth and promise. 
 
 Addison Blanchard was born in Cumberland, February, 1840. 
 After graduating he became for a few months teacher of Greek and 
 Latin in the Oneida Seminary, New York. He pursued theological 
 study at Oberlin, Ohio, and Andover, Mass., where he graduated in 
 1868. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church, South 
 
GRADUATES. 779 
 
 Bridgton, and remained there four years ; was then installed over the 
 Warren Congregational Church, Westbrook, December, 1872, and in 
 1880 over the Union Street Congregational Church, St. John, New 
 Brunswick. From 1877 to 1880 he was general missionary for the 
 State, a special service under the Maine Missionary Society. He 
 served two years in the war : first as private in a New York regiment, 
 second as second lieutenant of the Twenty-first United States colored 
 troops. , 
 
 In 1866 he married Lucy M. Sturtevant of North Brookfleld, Mass., 
 but has no children. 
 
 Geoege Edgae Brown was born in Hampden, November, 1841. He 
 was mustered in sergeant of the Twenty-second Maine ; was promoted 
 first lieutenant, served on the Mississippi in Gen. Grover's division ; 
 at Port Hudson he with Capt. Case (1848) volunteered with a few 
 from the regiment to form a storming party. At the close of the war 
 he received an appointment in the Patent Office which he held two 
 years. He afterwards entered on the practice of law in "Washington. 
 Pie died April 29, 1873, of cerebro-spiual meningitis, at Georgetown, 
 D. C. 
 
 HoEACE_ RuNDLETT Chenet was bom in Parsonfield, October, 1844, 
 sou of President Cheney. Bates College. He was tutor in Bates Col- 
 lege a year, then studied law in Boston, where he opened an office and 
 was appointed assistant attorney of Suffolk County. He was of an 
 active mind, devoted to his profession as well as interested in politics, 
 and bade fair to attain distinction. Suffering from a pulmonic aflTection, 
 he went South in unsuccessful search of health and died on his return 
 at Philadelphia, December, 1876. 
 
 He married twice : first, July, 1869, Virginia P., daughter of Col. 
 Joseph K. Wing, of Bloomfield, Ohio, who died in 1871 ; second, in 
 1874 Mary E. Chase, Vallej^ Falls, R. I., by whom he had a daughter. 
 
 Alvah Berton Dearborn was born in Topsham, August, 1842. 
 He emigrated to California on leaving college and taught a year or 
 two. Returning to Maine he studied medicine, attended lectures in 
 the Medical School of the college, and graduated in 1870. He first 
 settled in his profession in Salisbury, Mass. , but before long removed 
 to Newburyport, Mass., where he now continues in the practice In 
 Salisbury he was superintendent of schools and in Newburyport is on 
 its school board. 
 
 In 186 •( he married Mary E. Thomas of Topsham, who died in 
 1876 leaving two children, one of whom died in infancy. 
 
780 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. , 
 
 John Wheeler Duxbury was born in Dover, N. H., October, 
 1844. During the war he was attached to the telegraph corps and 
 since has been connected with the Western Union Telegraph Com- 
 pany, Boston. 
 
 George Addison Emery was born in Saco, November, 1839, son 
 of Moses E. (1818). After graduating he taught in Rockland and 
 Alfred one term each. He read law with his father ; in 1866 was 
 admitted to the bar of York County and settled in his native town. 
 He is justice of the peace, notary public, commissioner for Massachu- 
 setts, judge of the municipal court, and recorder and trial justice. He 
 has represented the city in the Legislature. 
 
 He has not married. 
 
 James Lewis Fogg was born in Windham, December, 1835. In 
 1864-65 he was principal of Waverly Institute, New York, and the 
 following year and a half he taught in Sacramento, Cal. He has since 
 been in an insurance agency, residing in Oakland, Cal. 
 
 He married Mary C, daughter of Winslow Hall, Esq., of Portland, 
 and has two children. 
 
 RoDELPHus Howard Gilmore was born in Leeds, February, 1842. 
 He entered on legal studies with A. M. Pulsifer, Esq., Auburn and in 
 the Law School, Albany, N. Y., where he graduated LL. B. in 1865. 
 He settled in the profession at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, remaining there 
 until 1880, when on account of his wife's health he removed to Golden, 
 Col., his present residence. In 1872 he was elected presidential 
 elector, and in the year following was appointed register in bank- 
 ruptcy. 
 
 In 1866 he married Rosa E. Deane of Leeds, who died in 1876 leav- 
 ing two children, one of whom has since deceased. In 1880 he mar- 
 ried Mary Crandall of Almond, N. Y. 
 
 Thomas Martin Giveen was born in Brunswick, March, 1841 . He 
 studied law with Hon. George Evans (1815) and William LeB. Put- 
 nam (1855), Portland; was admitted to the bar in 1867, and in the 
 year following to practice in the United States Circuit and District 
 Courts. He practised law in Portland a few years and then removed 
 to Brunswick. Besides minor offices he has been commissioner of the 
 Supreme Court of Maine. 
 
 In 1869 he married Eliza A. Purinton of Topsham, and has had 
 five children, four now living. 
 
GRADUATES. 781 
 
 William Ellsworth Greene was born in Newport, November, 
 1837. He emigrated to California on leaving college, and after teach- 
 ing a few months in Stockton he entered upon the study of law, was 
 admitted to the bar and engaged in the practice. In the autumn of 
 1865 he was elected assemblyman, San Joaquin County, for the 
 Legislature ; in the fall of 1867 he was elected judge of the same 
 county, ex officio probate judge of the same county, for a term of 
 four years, and was re-elected. Eesigning this position in 1875 he 
 opened an office in San Francisco, and two years later in Oakland, 
 his present residence, tn 1879 he was elected to the bench of the 
 Superior Court of Alameda County for a term of five years. 
 
 In 1869 he married Isabella Webster of Maiden, Mass., and has 
 had five children, four now living. 
 
 Benjamin Dwight Greene was born in Brunswick, June, 1844. 
 After graduating he was appointed to the Military Academy, West 
 Point, and graduated in 1866. He was commissioned in the United 
 States army, and has continued in it. At present he is in charge of 
 government works at Charleston, S. C, and Savannah, Ga., with 
 rank of captain of engineers. 
 
 In 1869 he married a daughter of Governor McLellan, Detroit, 
 Mich., and has a son and daughter. 
 
 George Augustine Haines was born in Biddeford, August, 1843, 
 brother of Charles G. (1861). It will be remembered that he was 
 seriously embarrassed bj^ a defect in hearing, which however never 
 seemed to interfere with a genial, happy temperament. He had a 
 talent for art, and his hand probably has not forgotten its cunning. 
 After spending two or more years at his home in gaining practical 
 knowledge of cotton manufacturing, he went abroad, visited the man- 
 ufacturing centres of England, and on his return established himself 
 in Boston as a cotton merchant, w^ere he still remainsi. He has not 
 married. 
 
 George Goodwin Harriman was born in Great Falls, N. H., Jan- 
 uary, 1842. Not being able to ascertain his address, we learn from a 
 friend that he pursued a theological course at the Baptist seminary, 
 Eochester, N. Y. ; was ordained over a church in Fisherville, N. H., 
 and afterward in Urbana, and again in another place in Ohio ; that he 
 subsequently became superintendent of the telephone exchange for 
 the State of Ohio, his residence being Cleveland. 
 
I 
 
 782 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 George Lewis Holmes was born in Ellsworth, January, 1843. 
 He studied law in Ellsworth, was admitted to the bar of Hancock 
 County, and began practice with promising prospects in that town for 
 a time, and then removed to California. He returned in a few months 
 with indications of mental disturbance, and was sent to the hospital 
 in Augusta, where he remains in a hopeless condition. 
 
 Thomas Weight Hale Hussey was born in Barrington, N. H., 
 May, 1836. He has devoted himself for the most part to the work 
 of teaching, as principal of high schools i% Salmon Falls, N. H., 
 Saco, Wellesley, Mass , Nashua, N. H., and Methuen, Mass., where 
 he now resides 
 
 He married in 1870 Gertrude K. Pearsons of Nashua, and has two 
 children. 
 
 Heney Irving Joedan was born in Westbrook, January, 1844. 
 He studied medicine and graduated M. D. at the College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons, New York, in 1867. He had recently removed 
 to Stillwater, Minn., where he died of fever, October, 1870. 
 
 Henry Kimball was born in Shapleigh, December, 1833. The 
 winter after graduation he taught a grammar school in Orleans, Mass., 
 and the succeeding winter a similar school in Springvale, Sanford. 
 He had begun legal studies with Hon. Increase S. Kimball, Esq., San- 
 ford, and was admitted to the bar of York Countj'^ in 1866. In 1869 
 he removed to Rochester, N. H., where he continues in the profession. 
 He has been on the superintending .school committee of Rochester 
 most of the time of his residence there. He has never married. 
 
 Gideon Libby was born in Saco, March, 1837. He taught on 
 leaving college two years in Maine. He then pursued theological 
 study at the Garrett Bibliological Institute, Evanston, HI., graduating 
 in 1867, and at once entered on the work of the ministry. He turned 
 aside for a time to serve as mathematical teacher in Rock River Sem- 
 ina,ry, but resumed the pastorate, in which he was " active, conscien-, 
 tious, devoted, and successful." After a sickness of a few weeks he 
 died in Bethel, 111., September, 1879. 
 
 He married May Quigley of Sterling, 111. 
 
 Geoege Manlius Pease was born in Bridgton, December, 1841. 
 Before completing his course he enlisted in the army ; was discharged 
 and resumed his college studies, graduating with his class. He grad- 
 
GRADUATES. 783 
 
 uated M. D, in 1867, and e^red on the practice, first at Saecarappa 
 and then in his native town. Commissioned assistant surgeon United 
 States army, he was stationed at the Cheyenne Agency, Dakota, and 
 at Fort 8nelling, Minn. In the service he contracted fatal pulmonai-y 
 disease, and died a day later than his college friend and townsman 
 Hale, both lamented as a severe loss to the town. 
 
 Adoniram Judson Pickard was born in West Hampden, Decem- 
 ber. 1838. He taught the High School in Rockland two terms, and 
 then entered the army, December, 1863, commissioned first lieutenant 
 and then adjutant of the Second Maine Cavalry. He was subse- 
 quently deputy collector of customs, Penascola, Fla., three years. 
 He then engaged in the study of medicine, attended lectures in the 
 University of Alabama at Mobile, and at the Homoeopathic College, 
 Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1872, and settled in Pensacola, where 
 he has since lived, excepting two years spent in Maine on account of 
 impaired health. He has been county supervisor of schools several 
 years, and in Maine was on a school committee in Carmel. 
 
 In 1867 he married Louise M. Favourite, Pensacola, and has five 
 daughters. 
 
 Frederic William Augustine Pike was born in Cornish, May, 
 1842. He was prevented by ill health from performing his part at 
 Commencement. He died of consumption, January, 1864. 
 
 Evans Samuel Pillsburt was born in Monson, August, 1839. 
 He left college, enlisted in the armj' in 1861, was promoted first 
 lieutenant of the First Maine Cavalry, and discharged for disability. 
 In 1878 he received a degree, his name to be inserted in his class. 
 He has been in the practice of law in San Francisco, and with rising 
 reputation. He is married and has children. 
 
 Nathaniel French Putnam was born in Croydon, N. H., February, 
 1839. On leaving college he entered the General Theological Semi- 
 nary (Episcopal), where he graduated in 1866 ; was ordained into the 
 diaconate, and took charge of St. John's, Poultney, Vt., and was 
 ordained into the priesthood in December of that year. After more 
 than three years' service he removed to St. Albans, Vt., and became 
 rector of St. Luke's. At the request of the bishop he removed to 
 St. Johnsbury in 1876, where he was successful in a new enterprise. 
 He has been on the standing committee of the diocese several years, 
 and of the general convention in New York, 1874, and Boston, 1877. 
 
784 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 He has married twice: first, Isabella graham Farr, Thetford, Vt., 
 who died in 1873 leaving two sons ; second, in 1875 Ella H. Chester, 
 New York, and by her has a daughter. 
 
 Frank Chadbourne Remick was born in Cornish, August, 1842. 
 I have failed to obtain information concerning him. A letter to 
 his address in Chicago, given me by the postmaster of Cornish, 
 brought no response. 
 
 Richard Winfield Robinson was born in Portland, January, 1840. 
 He read laW in the office of Shepley & Dana, Portland at Harvard 
 Law School, and completed his course with Messrs. George Evans 
 and William LeB. Putnam, Portland. After a year's practipe in 
 Yarmouth, and a few 3'ears in Portland, in 1874 he removed to Chi- 
 cago, 111., where he remains in his profession. He has not married. 
 
 Charles Boknham Shackford was born in Harrington, N. H., 
 December, 1840. Soon after graduating he became assistant clerk 
 and then clerk of the House of Representatives, New Hampshire. 
 He studied law and practised seven years in Dover, N. H. In 1876 
 he was appointed' solicitor of Strafford County, and held the office 
 until his death. It was testified of him that he was of irreproach- 
 able character, and had gained respect and confidence in all his 
 relations. 
 
 In 1868 he married Caroline, daughter of Moses A. Cortland of 
 Lee, N. H., and had two sons and a daughter. After a severe illness 
 of some months he died in Dover, January, 1881. 
 
 Andrew Jackson Smith was born in Swan's Island, Penobscot 
 Bay, September, 1836. In 1857, writes one who knew his history, 
 a young man in the garb of a sailor presented himself to him to seek 
 advice about an education, and to the surprise of the writer proposed 
 to study Latin. He at once began his work. In 1858 the young man 
 was led to give himself to Christ; sold a share in a vessel for 1500, 
 and thus securing means resolved to study for the ministry. He held 
 a good rank in college ; but hard study and little exercise broke him 
 down in his Senior year, and he could not perform the part assigned 
 for Commencement. He graduated at Bangor Seminary in 1866, began 
 his work under license at Rockport, then was ordained pastor of a 
 Congregational church in Boothbay. Health failing, he retreated from 
 the seaboard and beCame associate pastor at Waterford. But pul- 
 monary disease was doing its work. He continued to preach under 
 
GRADUATES. 785 
 
 much infirmity until the month before his death, November, 1876. 
 He was of decided, energetic, unquestioned Christian character. He 
 left a wife and two children. 
 
 Benjamin Fuller. Smith was born in Wiscasset, February, 1842, 
 brother of Joseph E. (1854). He studied law with Melville W. 
 Fuller (1853) of Chicago, was admitted to the bar, and entered upon 
 the practice in that city. The health of his family requiring a change 
 he returned in 1871 to his native town, where he still continues in the 
 profession. He was assistant judge advocate on the staff of Gov. 
 Garcelon, and at present is attorney for the county of Lincoln. He 
 has been for several years on the school committee ; has published 
 addresses and poems. 
 
 In 1866 he married Marion Louisa, daughter of Daniel M. and 
 Eliza A. Howard of Bangor, and has four children, two sons and two 
 daughters. 
 
 Andrew Eobinson Giddingb Smith was born in Bridgton, May, 
 1841. He taught in Wiscasset, after graduating, for a time, and then 
 entered on the study df medicine with Dr. John D. Lincoln (1843) of 
 Brunswick, and with Dr. George W. Martin ; attended lectures at the 
 Medical School of the college and at Dartmouth, where he graduated 
 in 1866. He entered the military service as hospital steward, and 
 was promoted assistant surgeon ; has since been United States ex- 
 amining surgeon. He- settled in the profession in Whitefield ; has 
 represented the town in the Legislature, and the district in the Senate 
 two sessions. 
 
 In' 1867 he married Ellen, daughter of Eev. Walter T. Sargent, 
 and .has two sons and a daughter, the older of the sons dying in 
 infancy. 
 
 Newman Smyth (for he has for some years dropped . the Samuel 
 Phillips from his baptismal name) was born in Brunswick, June, 
 1843, brother of Egbert C, 1848. After graduation he began theo- 
 logical study at the Bangor Seminary. He spent a year as teacher 
 in the Naval Academy at Newport, R. I. He then entered the mil- 
 itary service with commission of first lieutenant of a Maine regiment ; 
 was acting quartermaster ; commanded his company in the advance 
 on the Weldon Railroad ; at the close of the war resumed and com- 
 pleted his theological course at Andover Seminary, and for a time had 
 charge of a mission chapel. Providence, R. I. He spent a year in 
 Europe, and in 1870 was ordained over the First Congregational 
 Church in Bangor. In 1875 he accepted a call to the First Presby- 
 
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786 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 terian Church in Quincy, 111. He has published works which have 
 attracted attention: "The Keligious Feeling," " Old Faiths in New 
 Lights," "The Orthodox Theology of To-day," and a sermon on 
 "Religious Principle in American Politics." In 1881 he received 
 the degree of D. D. from the University of New York, and was elected 
 professor of intellectual and moral philosophy in* the college, which 
 he declined. 
 
 In 1871 he married Annie W, Ayer, daughter of Mr. Nathan Ayer 
 of Bangor, and has three children. 
 
 Albion Wesley Stuakt was born in Etna, June, 1839. After 
 graduation he taught two years in the academy at Anson, and a year 
 in Abington, Mass. He has since been engaged in the same work in 
 Iowa, and has been superintendent of schools in Ottumwa, his pres- 
 ent residence. 
 
 In 1868 he married F. A. Brett of Thomaston, and has three 
 children. 
 
 Edwakd Louis Sturtevant was born in "Winthrop, date not on 
 record. He studied medicine, and graduated at the Harvard Medical 
 School in 1866, but did not prosecute the profession. He has devoted 
 himself to agricultural pursuits on a liberal scale, contributing papers 
 to the press and delivering lectures on topics relating to his chosen 
 work .; has given attention to the culture of favorite breeds of dairy 
 cattle in South Framingham, his residence. He has held town oflB- 
 ces. He has recently taken charge, it is reported, of an association 
 in New York formed for experimental scientific farming, and largely 
 under the patronage of the State. 
 
 He married Mary E. Mann in 1864, and has four children. 
 
 Isaiah Trufant was born in Harpswell, December, 1833. Devoting 
 himself to the work of a teacher of youth, he taught the High School, 
 Castine, a year, and the following year Nichols Academy, Dudley, 
 Mass. He then accepted the position of superintendent of schools 
 in Hackettstown, N. J., which he held with acceptance eleven years, 
 and for some years, was on the Board of County Examiners of Teach- 
 ers. He was then invited to the charge of a classical and scientific 
 training school for boys, occupying the buildings of Miami University, 
 Oxford, Ohio, which in consequence of financial embarrassments had 
 been suspended six years. The school prepares pupils for college, as 
 also for the business of life. He has been successful in the positions 
 he has held, and has now opened before him a field of extensive influ- 
 ence. 
 
GRADUATES. 787 
 
 He married Sarah K., daughter of Mr. John S. Gross, Brunswick, 
 and has had six children, three now living. 
 
 CyRus Bede Vakney was born in "Windham, October, 1839. He 
 was a teacher for a year in Waverly Institute, New York ; and for 
 nearly eight years he taught Latin and Greek in Westbrook Seminary. 
 Since 1874 he has taught in Portland, and at present is principal of 
 an English and classical school in that city, his residence being in 
 Deering. He has been on the school committees of Windham and 
 Deering, and is now supervisor of the schools in the latter. 
 
 In 1866 he married Laura J. Bangs of Candor, N. Y. 
 
 Charles Chaplin Watson was born in Guilford, N. H., Septem- 
 ber, 1834. He was private tutor in a family in New York, and suc- 
 cessively was assistant in two private schools in that city, at the same 
 time pursuing theological study in Union Theological Seminary, where 
 he graduated in 1866. He has been pastor over the Belknap Church, 
 Dover, N. H., and First Congregational churches, Hinsdale, N. H., 
 and Wareham, Mass., where he still remains. While in Dover, he 
 was superintendent of public schools. 
 
 In 1866 he married Susan M. Bowman, and has four children. 
 
 James Brackett Webber was born in Freeport, August, 1836. 
 He graduated with honor, having made his way through college amid 
 great discouragements ; was just commencing active life as an assist- 
 ant teacher in Westbrook Seminary when he was seized with typhoid 
 fever, and in a few days died, September following. 
 
 Alexander Drummond Willard was born in North New Portlandj 
 November, 1836. No response has come to the circular sent him. 
 He has held a clerkship at Washington several years, and is now 
 clerk in the second auditor's office. Treasury Department. 
 
 1864. 
 
 Frederic Hunt Appleton was born in Bangor, January, 1844, 
 brother of John F. (1860). He studied law with F. A. Wilson, Esq. 
 (1854), in Bangor, and settled in the practice in Boston with F. W. 
 Sawyer, Esq. In 1872 he returned to Bangor and formed a partner- 
 ship in law with S. F. Humphrey, Esq. (1848), which still continues. 
 He is associated with Harris M. Plaisted, Esq , in preparing a digest 
 of Maine reports. He was city solicitor in 1878-79. 
 
 In 1877 he married Sarah E. Dummer, and has a son. 
 
788 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Charles Bennett was born in Bridgton, March, 1839. He taught 
 the academy in Bridgton, and the IJigh School in Brunswick the 
 second year after graduation. Having aheady begun legal studies in 
 Portland, which he completed in 1867 in Shelbyville, 111., he settled 
 in Mattoon, 111 , in the profession, and still remains there. He has 
 been city attorney three terms, and is a trustee of the Industrial 
 University of that State. 
 
 In 186(5 he married Susan "W. Cleaves, and has three sons and three 
 daughters all living. 
 
 Joseph Bennett came from Sweden, and was born May, 1839. 
 He did not complete his course in college, but in 1881 was admitted 
 to a degree and his place in his class. He studied law, and has 
 pursued the profession in Boston ; has been on the school board in 
 Brighton and Boston ; has been a trial justice in Middlesex County, 
 and special justice in Brighton District Municipal Court. In 1879 he 
 was in the House of Eepresentatives, and the next year in the Senate 
 of Massachusetts. 
 
 In 1866 he married, and has three children. 
 
 Samuel Shannon Caswell was born in Strafford, N. H., March, 
 1840. He was mustered into the First New Hampshire Heavy Artil- 
 lery, August, 1863 ; he returned and finished his collegiate course. 
 November, 1864, he was promoted first lieutenant of the Eighteenth 
 New Hampshire ; became adjutant of the same. He was murdered 
 in Kansas by a Mexican robber, October, 1870. 
 
 Charles Cdrtis was born in Garland, August, 1837. He has 
 devoted himself to the work of teaching; as principal of the High 
 School, Belfast, then successively two years in Morris Academy, 
 Morristown, N. J., as head-master of Union School, Huntington, 
 N. Y., and as principal of the Free Academy, Kingston, on the 
 Hudson, N. Y. He has now a permanent position in the depart- 
 ment of public instruction in the eity of New York. In 1878 he 
 received the degree of Ph. D. from Rutgers College, New Jersey. 
 
 In 1869 he married Julia H. David, Huntington, N. Y., and has a 
 daughter and a son. 
 
 Owen Warren Davis was born in Great Falls, N. H., December 
 1842. He served three months in the war in the Rhode Island cav- 
 alry. He has resided in Bangor, and is manager and proprietor of 
 the Katahdin Iron Works. 
 
 In 1870 he married Abbie A., daughter of A. P. Gould, Esq., of 
 Thomaston, and has four sons and a daughter. 
 
GEADUATES. 789 
 
 John Emery Dow was born ii^ Portland, August, 1842. He 
 studied law, attended the lectures of Harvard Law School, and grad- 
 uated LL. B. in 1866. He settled in his profession in New York, 
 formed a partnership with James McKeen, Esq., a classmate, and 
 was successful and of good repute, when seized with a disease of the 
 brain ; he was removed to the Insane Hospital, Augusta, and died 
 May, 1878. 
 
 He married Mary, daughter of George Dunning, Esq., of BrookljTi, 
 N. Y., and left two children. 
 
 Albert Owen Fellows was born in Fayette, January, 1842. 
 Efforts to ascertain his course since graduation from any other than a 
 cjassmate haye failed. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and 
 settled in the practice in Chicago for a few years. Nothing further 
 is known of him. He married, but his wife has died leaving a child. 
 
 Sanfoed Oscar Frte was born in Bath, December, 1841. Imme- 
 diately after leaving college he entered the naval service as acting 
 paymaster's clerk on a monitor ; was seized with fever, and died at 
 Hilton Head, S. C, December, 1864. 
 
 William: Little Gerrish was born in Portland. August, 1861. 
 He also entered at once the military service of his country as sergeant 
 of the Nineteenth Maine ; was promoted second lieutenant, was made 
 adjutant ; was seized with congestion of the brain and died in a few 
 hours, February, 1865. , 
 
 George Mark Gordon was born in Saco, August, 1843. He had 
 suffered from pulmonarj' disease for some j^ears, which at length ter- 
 minated in his death at Somerville, Mass., February, 1866. 
 
 Napum Wesley Grover was born in Bethel, February, 1835. He 
 at once entered the Theological Seminary, Bangor, and graduated in 
 1867. He has been in the pastorate over Congregational churches 
 in Mantorville, Minn., Topsham, and has recently been called to 
 Colebrook, N. H. 
 
 October, 1867, he married Fannie E. Osgood, Bangor, and has two 
 sons and two daughters. 
 
 John Calvin Haekness was born in Bangor, November, 1839. 
 He read law and attended lectures in Harvard Law School, but did 
 not prosecute the profession. From 1864 to 1866 he was principal 
 of the High School in Camden, Me., and of Angelica Academy, 
 
790 HISTOEY OF EOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Alleghany County, N. Y. ; he was then president for five years of 
 Delaware State Normal University, and from 1871 to 1880 principal 
 and proprietor of the academy bearing his name, Wilmington, Del. 
 He established a magazine which was issued from 1872 to 1877. 
 
 Mtron Munson Hovet was born in "Waldoboro", April, 1839. 
 Nothing definite about him has been ascertained. 
 
 Henkt Nason West JHoyt was bom in Portland, November, 1844. 
 A college acquaintance informs us that he studied law, and began 
 practice in Cincinnati, O. Abandoning the law, he taught schools in 
 Ohio and Pennsylvania, and is now reported to be superintendent of 
 schools in New Brighton, Penn. 
 
 Edwakd Chase Ingeksoix was born in Bangor, April, 1843, son 
 of George W. (1830). After graduating he became principal suc- 
 cessively of a high and grammar school, Amesbury, Mass., and of 
 the high schools in Stoneham and Marlboro', Mass. In 1866 he went 
 to Washington and entered on the study of law, attended the lectures 
 in the Law School, Columbia University, Georgetown, and received, 
 in 1868, the degree of LL. B. ; was admitted to the bar of the Supe- 
 rior Court of the district, and settled in the profession in that citj'. 
 In 1876 he edited an American reprint of Smith's Manual of Com- 
 mon Law, and in 1878 a reprint of the same author's Manual of 
 Equity, now a text-book in leading law schools. • In 1871 he was ap- 
 pointed a commissioner by the chief justice of the Supreme Court, 
 District of Columbia, and the governor of the District, to revise the 
 laws in force of the District. 
 
 In 1872 he married Clara Knode, Hage'rstown, Md., and has had 
 three children, the youngest only surviving. 
 
 Charles Jewkti was born in Bath, September, 1839. On leaving 
 college he was principal of Franklin Academy, Dover, N. H., a year 
 and a half; resigned that po-ition to teach natural science in Coopers- 
 town Seminary, N. Y. ; was subsequently teacher of physical science 
 in the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, L. I., and in 1870 became pro- 
 fessor of the same. He studied medicine in Long Island Medical 
 College Hospital and the College of Physicians, New York, where 
 he graduated M. D. in 1871 and settled in the profession in Brook- 
 lyn. In 1880 he was appointed lecturer on obstetrics in Long Isl- 
 and Medical College Hospital. He became editor in chief of " Annals 
 of the Anatomical and Surgical Society, Brooklyn" ; has been physician 
 and surgeon to the central dispensary, etc., Brooklyn, and physician 
 
GRADUATES. 791 
 
 to the Orphan Asylum ; on the Board of Censors of the Medical Soci- 
 etj-, Kings County, N. Y., its vice-president and president; chairman 
 of the council of the Anatomical and Surgical Society, and demon- 
 strator of histology in its medical school. 
 
 In 1868 he married Abbie E. Flagg, who died in 1873 leaving two 
 children. 
 
 Augustus Frost Libbt was born in Limerick, November, 1841. 
 He has been engaged in New York Citj' in a dry-goods commission 
 business ; his residence of late years being in Summit, N. J. 
 
 In 1866 he married Harriet E., daughter of Augustus C. Robbins, 
 Esq. (1835), and has had four children, two now living. 
 
 Charles Freeman Libbt was born in Limerick, Januaiy, 1844, 
 brother of the preceding. On leaving college he entered the law office 
 of Fessenden & Butler, Portland, completing his course in the Law 
 School of Columbia College, New York. He settled in the profession 
 in Portland. He has been city solicitor, State attorney for Cumber- 
 land County, and on the school committee. 
 
 In 1869 he married Alice WUliams, daughter of Bion Bradbury, 
 Esq., and has had one child, now deceased. 
 
 Franklin Littlefield was born in Saco, 1842. No reply to our 
 
 circular having been received, a college friend informs me that he has 
 
 been successfully engaged as a wholesale and retail grocer. He has 
 not married. 
 
 James Henry Maxwell was born in Saco, November, 1843. He 
 enlisted a private in the Twentieth Maine, and participated in Gen. 
 Grant's last campaign, but the hardships of the service proved too 
 severe for his strength, and after a short illness he died at Washing- 
 ton, D. C, April, 1865. 
 
 James MoKeen was born in Brunswick, December, 1844, brother of 
 Joseph (1853). He began at once the study of law in New York, 
 and was admitted to the bar of that city in 1867. The year follow- 
 ing he spent in Europe, where he attended lectures on jurisprudence 
 and political economy at Paris and Berlin. He then established him- 
 self in the profession in New York, where he continues in the prac- 
 tice. 
 
 In 1871 he married Mary Ellen Lewis, and has had a son who has 
 died, and two daughters now living. 
 
792 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Nathaniel Melcher was born in Topsham, May, 1837. He pur- 
 sued the theological course in the seminary at Rochester, N. Y., 
 graduating in 1868. Much of his time since, he has employed him- 
 self in teaching, besides pastoral work, in Kentucky, New Hamp- 
 shire, and Maine. An affection of the throat forbidding pulpit labor, 
 he acted as professor of pure mathematics in Colby University a year, 
 and two years in academies at Houlton and Monmouth. In later 
 years he has resided in Auburn, in hope of regaining health acting 
 as travelling salesman for Portland parties. 
 
 He married Hattie A., daughter of Rev. L. P. Gurney of Tops- 
 ham, and has had four sons and a daughter, of w'hom one has died. 
 
 Henry Tucker Francis Merrill was born in Portland, August, 
 1842. He studied law, graduating LL. B. in Columbia College, 
 Washington, D. C, and settled in the profession in that city. His 
 death was reported in 1881. 
 
 William Henry Pierson was born in Newburyport, Mass., Janu- 
 ary, 1839. After graduating he entered the Theological Seminary, 
 Princeton, N. J., where he graduated in 1867. He was ordained pas- 
 tor of the South Congregational Church, Ipswich, Mass., January, 
 1868, and in 1872 of the Broadway Congregational Church, Somer- 
 viUe, Mass., where he still remains. He has published four sermons, 
 and has been on school committees. 
 
 He has married twice ; first, 1868,. Annie L. Bailey, Newburyport, 
 who died leaving two children; second, in 1875, Carrie H. Harding, 
 Somerville. 
 
 Charles Augustus Robbins was born in Brunswick, July, 1843, 
 son of Augustus C. (1835). He entered the service as acting assist- 
 ant paymaster, United States navy, on board the monitor " Montauk" 
 until the close of the war. He studied medicine and graduated at the 
 Medical School of the college in 1867^ but has not engaged in the prac- 
 tice. He has been employed as agent of transportation in the city of 
 New York. 
 
 Thomas Herbert White was born in Bangor, October, 1848. In 
 failure of the circular, from a classmate we learn that he is in the 
 employ of the Boston Marino Insurance Company in " a confidential 
 relation." At this writing he is in Europe in the interest of the 
 company. • 
 
 He is married and has four children. 
 
GRADUATES. 793 
 
 Joseph Newell Whitney was born in Eaymond, September, 
 1 837. He enlisted for three months' service in a Rhode Island cavalry 
 regiment, was commissioned second lieutenant, was taken prisoner in 
 the Louisiana campaign and confined in Southern prisons twenty-two 
 months. After the war he was appointed to a clerkship in the treasury-, 
 "Washington, and is now chief clerk in the department of statistics. 
 
 John Green Wight was born in Grorham, N. H., March, 1842. 
 He has devoted himself to the work of teaching, as assistant in 
 Bridgton Academy and in Cooperstown, N. Y., Female Seminary, 
 then as principal of Bridgton Academy. Since 1870 he has been 
 principal of Cooperstown Academy and Union School. 
 
 He married Flora Annetta Stiles, and has a son and daughter. 
 
 Webster Woodbukt was born in Sweden, April, 1841. After 
 graduating he became principal of Oxford Normal Institute, South 
 Paris, two terms, and of Bridgton Academy one term. He then 
 entered Bangor Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1868. 
 He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Ashfleld, Mass., two 
 years ; 1870-18x1, of the Congregational Church, Skowhegan. 
 
 In 1868 he married Hulda Denison of Norway, and has two sons. 
 
 John Harrisok Woods was born in Farmington, August, 1840. 
 On leaving college he taught in Cooperstown Seminary, New York, 
 two years or more He has since devoted himself to musical culture, 
 not probably to the surprise of his college friends, as teacher, com- 
 poser, and publisher. 
 
 He married in 1865 Henrietta Whittier of Farmington, and has had 
 two children, one only now surviving, a daughter. His residence is 
 Boston. ' 
 
 Alonzo Parsons Wright was born in New Vinej'ard, November, 
 1840. After graduating he taught the High School a short time in 
 Strong. He then studied law in the ofHce of Messrs. Fessenden & 
 Butler, Portland, and settled in the practice in Odell, 111. 
 
 In 1867 he married Louisa Farley, but has no children. He has 
 been director of schools, city clerk and attorney, and in 1877 was the 
 Republican candidate for judge, but failed of election. 
 
 1865. 
 
 George William Moshek Adams was born in Wilton, February, 
 183H. Soon after graduating he went West, but pulmonary disease, 
 to which he had been predisposed, disqualified him for active employ- 
 ment, and caused his death, September, 1868. 
 
7-94 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Thomas Davee Anderson was born io Belfast, May, 1839. He 
 entered on the study of law, graduated LL. B., 1868, in the Law 
 School, Columbia College, Washington, D. C, and settled in Wash- 
 ington. In 1878 he was seized with disease of the brain, and died 
 in Portland, October, 1879. He did not marry. 
 
 Charles Robinson Brown was born in Gorham, May, 1838. He 
 taught the High School in Reading, Mass., and was then for five years 
 employed in teaching in Salem, Mass., meanwhile pursuing medical 
 study. He attended three courses of lectures, the last at the Homoeo- 
 pathic Medical College, New York, where he took the degree of M. D. 
 in 1872. After spending a year in a Boston hospital, he settled in his 
 profession in Lynn, Mass., where he still remains. He has lectured 
 on microscopy in the Medical Department, Boston University, and 
 been president of the Essex County HomcBopathic Medical Society. 
 
 In 1877 he married Maggie A. Hoitt of Northwood, N. H., and 
 has a daughter. 
 
 John Bradbury Cotton was born in Lewiston, August, 1842. He 
 prosecuted legal studies with Thomas A. D. Fessenden (1845), and 
 William P. Frye (1850), Esqs., in Lewiston ; was admitted to the bar 
 of Androscoggin County, and settled in practice in that city. On 
 the death of Mr. Fessenden he formed a partnership with Mr. Frj'e, 
 which still continues. He has devoted himself exclusively to his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 In 1867 he married Amanda G. Lowell, and has a daughter. 
 
 Horatio Sumner Dresser was born March, 1841 ; entered Sopho- 
 more from Waterville College. He engaged in the business of a 
 manufacturer in Pennsylvania, we believe ; married Fanny M. Weitzel, 
 Reading, Pa., September, 1871, and died August, 1875, leaving a 
 wife and a daughter. 
 
 James Frederic Dudley was born in Hampden, February, 1841. 
 For a year or two after graduating he taught the High School in 
 Thomaston. He then began the study of law in Thomaston, but soon 
 changed his plans, and engaged in an agency of the Etna Insurance 
 Company of Hartford, Conn., residing in Williamsport, as an adjuster 
 of cases for Pennsylvania. 
 
 In 1869 he married Nettie S. Read of Thomaston, and has a 
 daughter;. 
 
GRADUATES. 795 
 
 David Augustus Easton was born in Yellow Springs, Ohio, August, 
 1842. He studied law for a time, but changing his views of duty, 
 entered the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass., and graduated in 
 1869. He was at once called to the pastorate of the Second Congre- 
 gational Church, Danbury, Conn., where he remained until 1876, 
 when he accepted a call to the Congregational Church in Naugatuck, 
 Conn. In 1879, compelled by his health to retire from the active 
 ministrj^ he engaged in banking in the firm of Boody, McLellan & 
 Co., New York. 
 
 In 1869 he married M. E., daughter of S. T. Corser, Esq. of Port- 
 land, and has a daughter. 
 
 Charles Fish was born in Patten, September, 1832. He with 
 scanty help from others fitted himself for college while he was teach- 
 ing school ; entered Junior, but did not join the class until his Senior 
 year, his examinations for admission being highlj' satisfactory, showing 
 careful and efficient study. After graduating he had charge of Wash- 
 ington Academy, East Machias, five or six j-ears ; was then teacher 
 of mathematics in Hallowell Classical School three years ; has since 
 been principal of the High School, Oldtown, and is now in the same 
 position in Brunswick. 
 
 He married Sarah L. Rogers of Patten, and has a daughter and 
 four sons. 
 
 Charles Fuller was born in Lincoln, June, 1843. He was for a 
 year tutor of Latin and Greek in the Theological Seminary, Mead- 
 ville. Pa. He then entered on the study of medicine, and graduated 
 in 1869 from the Medical School of the college. He began practice 
 in Hampden ; and in 1873 he removed to Lincoln, where he continues 
 in the profession. He is United States examining surgeon for pen- 
 sions. 
 
 In 1867 he married Charlotte W. Rice of Hampden, and has had 
 six children. 
 
 Jeremiah Ellsworth Fullerton was born in Bath, July, 1843. 
 He was employed as a teacher for a year or two in the Academy at 
 Hallowell, and the High School, Bath. He then pursued theological 
 study at Andover, Mass., graduating in 1870. He has been settled 
 in the ministry of the Congregational Church in Southbridge, Mass., 
 and Laeonia, N. H. 
 
 In 1876 he married Sarah L. Otis, Woolwich, and has one child. 
 
796 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Stephen Waiter Hakmon was born in West Buxton, July, 1837. 
 He was principal of the academy, Hampton, N. H., two years, and 
 then studied law in Buxton. He has pursued the profession in Boston. 
 
 He married Mary R. Shaw in 1874, and has a son and daughter. 
 
 Fkank Lord Hayes was born in Baco, July, 1843. Circulars hav- 
 ing received no reply, we have only to state that he studied law, and 
 established himself in the practice in Boston, where he still remains. 
 
 Melvin Joseph Hill was born in Biddeford, December, 1843, 
 brother of Frank A. (1862). He has devoted himself to the work 
 of teaching, as principal of high schools, Blackstone, Mass., eleven 
 years, and Wakefield, Mass At present (1881) he is in charge of 
 the mathematical department in Bryant and Stratton's Commercial 
 School, Boston, his residence being in Wakefield. He has been 
 trustee of the town library and secretary' of the Natural History So- 
 ciety and in other similar positions. 
 
 In 1868 he married Louisa E. Mowry of Rhode Island, and has 
 a son. 
 
 Horatio Bartlett Lawrence was born in Waj'ne, December, 
 1841. For two years after graduating he had charge of the High 
 School in Gardiner. He then pursued a course of theological study 
 in the seminary, Newton, Mass., and graduated in 1870. He how- 
 ever has exercised the Christian ministry only occasionally ; declined 
 a call to settle at Fall River, Mass., and never received ordination. 
 He has been employed for the most part in teaching ; for two years in 
 the High School, Needham, Mass., and for a time in a private school 
 in Boston. He is now principal of the academy, Derby Centre, Vt. 
 
 In 1874 he married Adelia M., daughter of Ethan L. Brown, Esq., 
 West Sutton, Mass. 
 
 JosHPH Alvah Locke was born in Biddeford, December, 1843. 
 He taught the first two years after graduating in the High School, 
 Portland. He then studied law in the office of Messrs. Woodbury 
 Davis and Josiah H. Drummond, Esqs., was admitted to practice in 
 the State courts in 1868, and the year following in the United States 
 Circuit and District Courts. He settled in Portland, formed a copart- 
 nership with a brother, and continues in the profession. He has been 
 on the school committee of the city, on the Board of Trustees of 
 Kent's Hill Seminary, and made its president ; and has represented 
 the city twice in the House, and his district twice in the Senate, of the 
 Legislature in 1880 being its president. 
 
GRADUATES . 797 
 
 In 1873 he married Florence E., daughter of Jos. W. Perley, Esq., 
 of Portland, and has had four children, two now living. 
 
 Edward Jarvis Millat was born in Bowdoinham, June, 1840. 
 He studied law and settled in the profession in his native town, where 
 he still continues. He is at present (1881) attorney for the county 
 of Sagadahoc. 
 
 Joseph Eugene Moore was born in Lisbon, March, 1841. He 
 taught the High School, Thomaston, a year or more, and then studied 
 law with Judge May, Lewiston. and Hon. A. P. Gould, Thomaston ; 
 was admitted to the bar, Knox County, in 1868, and settled in the 
 profession in Thomaston ; soon after entering into partnership with 
 Mr. Gould, which continued some years. He has been superintendent 
 of schools, and has represented the town in the Legislature. In 1878 
 he travelled in Europe. 
 
 He married Ella Maud, daughter of the late Samuel E. Smith 
 (1839), but has no children. 
 
 Moses Cornelius Stone was born in Jay, April, 1842, brother of 
 Cyrus (1857). He studied medicine, graduated in the University of 
 New York, 1868, and began the practice of his profession in Bluehill ; 
 in a few years removed to Saratoga, N. Y., and after some months of 
 further study in New York, to Newburg, N. Y., where he has secured 
 an increasing practice and influence as a physician and citizen. 
 
 He has not married. 
 
 Henry William Swaset was born in Standish, January, 1842, 
 son of Horatio Swasey, Esq. He taught Limerick Academj' in the 
 spring and fall terms of 1866. He read law with his father, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1867. After practising nine j'ears with his 
 father he removed to Portland, and continues in the profession. 
 
 In 1868 he married Caroline, daughter of Jonathan K. Morse, and 
 has had two daughters, one onlj' now living. 
 
 Charles Weeks was born in Damariscotta, January, 1849. He 
 taught the High School in his native town two years ; he then became 
 register of probate for the county, meanwhile studied law, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1877. Having been elected clerk of the courts 
 for the county of Lincoln, he relinquished the practice of law and still 
 holds the clerkship, his residence being in Wiscasset. 
 
798 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 1866. 
 
 Charles McCulloch Beechbr was born in Georgetown, Mass., 
 May, 1845, brother of Frederic H. (1862). He has led a portion of 
 the time an active life as a lumber merchant, having fitted himself by 
 three years in the forests of Canada, three more in Albany, N. Y., 
 and then established himself in Bridgeport, Conn. In 1879 he set on 
 foot a commission business in Brazil between Rio Janeiro and New 
 York, the first house of its kind in that empire. 
 
 In 1873 he married Anna M. Johnson, of Albany, N. Y., and has 
 three sons. 
 
 Charles Augustus Boakdman was born in St. Stephens, N. B., 
 September, 1843. He has devoted himself to business as a lumber 
 merchant for seven years, in Calais, to the management of a tannery 
 in Warren, Pa., for a time, and in the South African trade in Boston. 
 In 1880 he became interested in an extensive railroad in Florida now 
 in progress, being the land agent, his residence at Falatka. He was 
 in the common council of Calais, and its president. 
 
 In 1868 he married Mercie F. Doane of Brookline, Mass., and has 
 a son and daughter. 
 
 Delavan Carleton was born in Portland, June, 1840. He has 
 been employed in teaching in Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan. At pres- 
 ent is a teacher of music, Manistique, Mich. 
 
 In 1869 he married Mary M. Ellis, Cumraington, Mass., and has 
 four children. 
 
 Sylvester Benjamin Carter was born in Newburyport, Mass., 
 June, 1845. He has been employed in an agency for life insurance in 
 Newburyport. He has served on the school committee of the city, 
 and on the common councU and been its president. 
 
 In 1869 he married Margaret M. Orne, but has no children. 
 
 Henry Leland Chapman was born in Portland, July, 1845. He 
 entered on theological study in the seminary at Bangor, and graduated 
 in 1869. He accepted a tutorship in the college immediately after, 
 in 1872 accepted the professorship of Latin, and subsequently was 
 transferred to the chair of rhetoric and oratory, which he still occu- 
 pies. He received a license to preach, and has rendered much accept- 
 able service in that sphere of usefulness. 
 
 He married Kmma C. Smith of Gorham, and has one son. 
 
GRADUATES. 799 
 
 HiHAM Kendall COlby was bom in Topsharn, February, 1845. 
 He served in the late war, leaving college at the close of his Sopho- 
 more year, and returned after a year's service and completed his 
 course. He died of pulmonary consumption, to which he had been 
 predisposed, January, 1869. 
 
 EzEKiEL Hanson Cook was born in Lewiston, December, 1848. 
 Since graduation he has been engaged in teaching for the most part, 
 as principal of an academy, Woodstock, Conn., in charge of the 
 State Normal School, West Chester, Pa. , and for some years of the 
 High School, Columbus, Ohio. Since 1871 he has been concerned in 
 mining operations at Tuscon, Arizona. 
 
 In 1869 he married Clara W. Coburn of Brunswick, and has two 
 sons and a daughter. 
 
 John Allen Chandler Fellows was born in Athens, Maj', 1841. 
 His scholarship, maturity, and character were so marked that he 
 received the rare appointment of tutor in the college immediately 
 after graduation. His success in the delicate and somewhat difficult 
 position justified the confidence reposed in him. He proved an excel- 
 lent instructor, and his scholarly habits and attainments, combined 
 with great loveliness and, at the same time, stability of character 
 and his deep and earnest Christian devotion, made his connection 
 with the college most desirable and caused sincere lamentation at the 
 sudden disappointment of many hopes. He died while in ofl3ce, 
 February, 1869. 
 
 Joseph Geeenleaf Fernald was born in Poland, August, 1843. 
 He was appointed to a tutorship in Bates College on graduating, and 
 fell a victim to 1^-phoid fever November, 1867. He died in the hope 
 
 of the gospel. 
 
 # 
 
 Frederic Henry Gerrish was born in Portland, March, 1845, 
 brother of William L. (1864) . He began immediately the study of 
 medicine in Portland School for Medical Instruction, with which he 
 was connected two years ; studied a year with Prof, and Dr. W. 
 W. Greene, and attended three courses in the Medical School of the 
 college, graduating in 1869. He was for another year private assist- 
 ant with Dr. Greene, and then opened an oflSce in the city and still 
 resides there. He has been since 1869 an instructor in the Portland 
 School in Microscopy, Histology, etc ; physician for three years to the 
 city dispensary ; professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the 
 
800 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Medical School of the college, and lecturer on public health ; lecturer 
 on therapeutics, materia medica, and physiology in the Universitj' of 
 Michigan, and professor of the same ; pathologist to Maine General 
 Hospital, and surgeon ; president of Cumberland County Medical Soci- 
 ety, etc. He has published papers on medical topics, and a small 
 volume on "Prescriptive Writing." 
 
 In 1879 he married Kmily Manning, daughter of F. K. Swan, Esq., 
 of Portland. 
 
 John Parshley Gross was born in Brunswick, May, 1841. He has 
 given himself to the work of a teacher and to the interests of popular 
 instruction, with energj' and success. He was principal of the high 
 and grammar schools of Brunswick, four years, and of the public 
 school, Montclair, N. J., for the same time. Since 1874 he has had 
 the general supervision of the schools in Plainfleld, N. J. He has 
 received the degree of Ph. D , from Rutgers, N. J., and Lafayette, Pa., 
 colleges. In 1878 he was one of the commissioners on education 
 from New Jersey to the World's Fair in Paris. A few years since he 
 had a serious hemorrhage from the lungs from which apparently he 
 never recovered fully. He resumed his work and continued it even at 
 last against advice of friends. He died suddenly, Sept. 30, 1881. 
 
 In 1880 he married Mrs. Clara Baker Holly, daughter of James 
 Baker, Esq., of Virginia. 
 
 John Jacob Herkick was born in Hillsboro', 111., May, 1845. 
 He studied law and engaged in the practice in Chicago, 111., where he 
 remains in the profession with rising reputation. 
 
 Charles King Hinklet was born in Gorham, November, 1844. 
 On leaving college he taught in the " Little Blue Familj' School," 
 Farmington, a year, then entered upon medical studies and attended 
 three courses of lectures i^i the Medical School of the college, gradu- 
 ating in 1870. He established himself in Boston as a wholesale drug- 
 gist, 356 Washington Street. He has not married. 
 
 George Freeland Holmes was born in Oxford, November, 1844. 
 He read law in the office of Messrs. Shepley & Strout, Portland ; was 
 admitted to the bar in 1869. He remained in, the same office as clerk 
 of the firm until early in 1873 when he became junior partner, and has 
 continued in that relation until the present time. He has been justice 
 of the peace and notary public. 
 
 In 1875 he married Josephine Van Antwerp, and has a daughter. 
 
GRADUATES. 801 
 
 William Penn Hussby was born in Newburg, July, 1840. All 
 we learn of him is that he has been for the most part employed in 
 teaching, and is now principal of Oakland Female Institute, Norris- 
 town, Penn. He has not maintained communication with the college 
 or with his class. 
 
 George William Kelly was born in Portland, November, 1844. 
 He at once entered on a theological course of study a,t Bangor Semi- 
 nary and graduated in 1869. He was soon after ordained pastor of 
 the Congregational Church in Eobbinstown, and has since exercised 
 his ministry in Norway, East Machias, and Eastport where he now 
 resides. He has not married. 
 
 HiKAM Baetlett Lawrence was born in Wayne, March, 1840, 
 brother of H. B. Lawrence of the preceding class. He studied law 
 and was admitted to the bar of Kennebec County, but has never 
 practised, having devoted himself to teaching, as principal of the 
 High School, Gardiner, and of Penacook Academy, Fisherville, 
 N. H., and in each fitted students for college. He is now master of 
 a large graded school, Holyoke, Mass. For two years he was super- 
 intendent of the Sabbath school of the Second Congregational Church 
 in Holyoke. 
 
 In 1875 he married Mary I. Day of Holyoke, and has had p, child 
 that died in infancy. 
 
 George Edwin Lord was born in Boston (?), February, 1846. 
 He studied medicine and graduated M. D. in Chicago in 1871. He 
 held a surgeon's post in the army ; was on Gen. Custer's staff in the 
 campaign with the Indians. Although in poor health and advised to 
 join the reserve, he refused as being on the general's staflf, and fell in 
 battle when Gen. Custer and his three hundred were slain, June, 1876. 
 An obituary notice spoke of him as a young man of promise and held 
 in universal esteem. 
 
 Leander Otis Merriam was born in Garland, May, 1843. He 
 entered the class of 1865, but entering the army in his Junior year, he 
 returned after his military sejvice in which he was wounded, and com- 
 pleted his course in the next class. He taught in St. Stephen, N. B.. 
 We can ascertain further concerning him only, that he was in business 
 in the eastern part of New Brunswick, where he married, and has 
 removed to the West. 
 
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802 HTSTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 George Thomas Packahd was born in Lancaster, Mass., Febru- 
 ary, 1844, brother of Edward N. (1862). He entered upon a theo- 
 logical course at Bangor, and completed it at Andover, graduating in 
 1869. Soon after he was candidate for orders in the Episcopal 
 Church in the Diocese of New York, and was ordained October, 1867. 
 Continuing his studies in the city, he had charge of a chapel in the 
 parish of the Holy Trinity ; became assistant minister of St. Ami's, 
 Brooklyn Heights, for three years ; rector for one year of Holy Trinity 
 Church, Jersej' Heights, and then of St. John's, Bangor. On account 
 of impaired health he retired after three years, and has since been dis- 
 abled from any but occasional professional duty. He has contributed 
 to religious and other publications : a chapter on Bowdoin College in 
 the " College Book," and in Scribner's Monthhj, May, 1876 ; an article 
 in the Mw Evglander, March, 1880, on the political crisis in Maine ; 
 sketches of the principal parishes in New York and Brooklyn ; besides 
 articles in the daily press. ' 
 
 In 1874 he married Anna J., daughter of the late Cornelius Sprague 
 of Brooklyn, and has a daughter. 
 
 George True Sumnek was born in Appleton, June, 1844. He 
 taught Gould Academy, Bethel, a year, and then studied law with 
 Enoch Foster, Jr., Esq., Bethel, and at the Law School, Albany, 
 N. Y. He established himself in the profession at Sheboygan, Ohio, 
 where he still remains. He has been district attorney for some years. 
 
 He married in 1872 Dora Marsh, and has a son and daughter. 
 
 Francis Storer Thaohek was born in Eockland, October, 1842. 
 Through failure of our circular, we only state that he pursued theo- 
 logical study in the Divinity School, Harvard, graduating in 1873 ; 
 and that in June, 1880, he was supplying acceptably a congregation 
 in St. John, N. B., with prospect of more permanent settlement. 
 
 Charles Edwin "Webster was born in Portland, February, 1841. 
 On leaving college he began the study of medicine in the Portland 
 School for Medical Instruction, attended lectures in the Medical 
 School of the college and at the School of Physicians and Surgeons, 
 New York, graduating at the former in 1869. He has practised his 
 profession in Portland ; has been attending physician and secretary of 
 the dispensary of the city, and then its treasurer and more recently 
 consulting physician ; he has also beeu city physician and physician 
 to the State Reform School. 
 
 In 1873 he married Sophie Eloise Hart, and has a son. 
 
GRADUATES. 803 
 
 Russell Davis Woodman was born in Searsmont, April, 1844. 
 He taught the high schools at Searsmont and Camden after gradua- 
 tion. He has since been engaged in business agencies, residing at 
 present in South China. 
 
 He married Ada E. Sweetland in 1873, and has had a child not 
 now living. 
 
 1867. 
 
 Melvin Fkanklin Ahey. His work since leaving college has been 
 that of a teacher, as principal of Hampden Academy, of Franklin 
 Academy, Dover, N. H., of East Maine Conference Seminary, Bucks- 
 port, of a private school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and principal of its 
 public schools, and in a similar position in Fort Dodge. 
 
 In 1869 he married Louise H. Smith, Hampden, and has had three 
 children. 
 
 Jotham Franklin Clark was born in Wells, October, 1846. He 
 has been general manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society 
 for Maine and New Hampshire. 
 
 In 1870 he married Marj- A. Wiggin, niece of Hon. Amos Tuck 
 of Jlxeter, N. H., who died in 1873, leaving two children. In 1875 
 he married Martha L. Dresser of Portland, by whom he has a child. 
 
 Oken Cobb was born in Winthrop, September, 1841. He has given 
 himself to teaching in Mt. Pleasant Military Academy, Sing Sing, 
 N. Y. ; at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; and is now in Cornwall on the Hud- 
 son, where he has become owner by purchase of a school property. 
 
 In 1872 he married Adele Bisbee of Poughkeepsie, and has a 
 daughter and a son. 
 
 RoLLO Marble Cole was born in Paris Hill, February, 1844, son 
 of Judge Cole. After taking his degree he taught a school in New 
 Jersey with success. He then began the study of law, and was soon 
 to be admitted to the bar when he was seized with violent typhoid 
 fever and died September, 1868, after a short illness. He was a 
 young man of stability of character and Christian devotion. 
 
 Isaac Sanford Curtis was born in Bath, January, 1839. He 
 taught the academy in Alfred the fall after graduation ; at Danvers, 
 Mass., and Gallipolis, Ohio. He studied medicine in Bath, at the 
 Portland school, and the Medical School of the college, graduating in 
 1872. He settled in Warwick, N. J., and in 1878 removed to East- 
 port, where he now resides. 
 
804 HISTOET OF BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 In 1868 he married Sarah Webster, daughter of Rev. John A. 
 Badger of Brunswick. He has no children. While in Warwick he 
 was on the school committee of the town. 
 
 Usher Ward Cutis was born in Biddeford, April, 1843. He has 
 been employed in teaching or management of schools since gradua- 
 tion, as principal ofFrj'eburg Academy, as assistant in the Chauncy 
 Hall School, Boston, as principal of high schools in Lexington, Mass., 
 and Orange, N. J., and since 1876 as superintendent of public schools 
 in Orange. 
 
 In 1872 he married Mary Ashmun Ward of Fryeburg, but has no 
 children. > 
 
 George Patten Davenport was born in Bath, May, 1849. He 
 has lived in Bath, a ship and real-estate broker and fire^ and marine 
 insurer. He has contributed articles to the public press, and has pre- 
 pared a series of popular lectures which he has delivered in Bath and 
 neighboring towns. He has never married. 
 
 James Payson Dixon was born in West Lebanon, September, 
 1842. After graduation he became principal of the High School, 
 Rochester, N. H., and for more than ten years of that in Great Falls, 
 N. H. At present he is president of Colby Academy, New London, 
 N. H. He was supervisor of schools in his native town. 
 
 In 1872 he married Mary Abby, daughter of Oliver H. Lord of 
 Great Falls, and has had three daughters and a son. 
 
 Benjamin Bhiarlt Eaton was born in Wells, May, 1842. The win- 
 ter after graduation he represented his town in the Legislature, — a 
 rare instance of so early a passage from college to legislative halls. 
 He studied law in Portland, but has not prosecuted the profession. 
 He removed to St. Paul, Minn., and became connected with a- firm of 
 dealers in railroad supplies ; and though he has left that position, is 
 said to be engaged in a similar business. This account of his course 
 has been obtained through a classmate. 
 
 William Elden was born in East Corinth, November, 1842. He 
 left college before graduating, but was, not long after, admitted to a 
 degree and a place in his class. The writer has obtained no account 
 of his course since he left us. 
 
 Napoleon Gray was born in Harrison, Jan. 12, 1843. On leav- 
 ing college he became an assistant in Bridgton Academy for a term. 
 
GRADUATES. 805 
 
 and performed the same service in each of the years 1869 and 1870, 
 meanwhile pursuing legal studies. He was admitted to practice, 
 and opened an office in Norway. In 1873 he was admitted to the 
 Suffolk bar, Boston, where he engaged in, the practice in partnership 
 with C. C. Powers, Esq (Bowdoin College, 1869). Dissatisfied with 
 his prospects, in 1874 he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., and was induced 
 to take charge of a private school in New Jerse}', still prosecuting the 
 study of law. He purposes to resume the profession when circum- 
 stances favor. 
 
 In 1870 he married Mercy Adams, daughter of F. H. Whitman of 
 Harrison. They have no children. 
 
 Stephen Calvin Horr was born in North Waterford, November, 
 1835. After teaching in the autumn at Bowdoinham, he went to 
 JVJichigan, and had charge of high schools in Springport, Eaton Rap- 
 ids, and Maple Rapids. In 1874, through malarial influence, his 
 health became atfeeted. He came to Maine in hope of restoration, and 
 died at Cumberland Mills, April, 1875. Testimonials to his worth as 
 a teacher and a Christian man were borne in places where he had 
 taught. 
 
 He married November, 1867, Priscilla French of Albany, and left 
 three sons. 
 
 "William Sticknet Huse was born in Newburj-port, Mass., March, 
 1846. He was head-master of the Bromfield Street School, Newbury- 
 port, a year, and of a classical school in Connecticut for a time. He 
 then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised a few j'ears. 
 His health had been infirm, and he died suddenly October, 1876. 
 
 WiNFiELD Scott Hutchinson. On leaving college he taught in 
 Farmington three years and a half, and then studied law in the office 
 of Peleg W. Chandler, Esq., LL. D. (1834), of Boston, attended lec- 
 tures of the Dane Law School, Cambridge, and settled in the practice 
 in Boston. 
 
 In 1870 he married Adelaide S. Berry of Brunswick, and has a son. 
 
 John Norris McClintock was born in Winthrop, May, 1846, but 
 entered from Hallowell, whither the family removed in his childhood. 
 He is descended from William McClintock of Londonderry, Scotland, 
 who was present in the famous siege of that city from 1868 to 1869, 
 and emigrated to this country about 1731 and settled a farmer in 
 Medford, Mass. Rev. Dr. Samuel McClintock of Greenland, N. H., 
 
806 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 was of the second generation of the family. The father of our grad- 
 uate, John, was a native of Bristol and' a ship-maSter for fifty years. 
 Immediately after graduation John Norris was appointed aid on the 
 United States coast survey, and in 1871 was promoted sub-assistant. 
 Eesigning in 1875, he settled in Concord, N. H. Besides professional 
 work, he has been editor and proprietor of the Granite Monthly, 
 devoted to the history of the State of New Hampshire, and at 
 present is writing the history of Pembroke, N. H. In 1872 he was 
 invited to instruct in the college in topographical engineering and 
 coast-survey methods, but declined the position. 
 
 In 1870 he married Josephine, daughter of Joseph C. Tilton of, 
 Canaan, N. H., and has two sons and a daughter. 
 
 James Wallace McDonald. He has taught high schools in 
 Abington and Stoneham, Mass. He has contributed somewhat to 
 periodicals, on political economy, etc. 
 
 In 1875 he married Emma F. Prouty of South Abington, Mass., ' 
 and has had a son, who has died. 
 
 EicHARD Greenlbaf Mehkiman was born in Brunswick, March, 
 1846. He taught in Hallowell a year ; then went West and continued 
 to teach for a time. In 1873 he removed to California, but nothing is 
 known by friends here of his occupation or residence. 
 
 Wii.T.iAM Pitt Mudgett was born in Newburg, Jan. 23, 1842. He 
 studied law, graduated LL. B., at Columbia College, N. Y., in 1859, 
 began practice, it is said, in New York; and subsequently removed to 
 Kansas, settled in the profession and has held the position of county 
 attorney. Our circulars having failed, our only resource was to get 
 what we could from classmates. 
 
 Stephen Morrill Newman was born in Falmouth, November, 
 1845. He was principal of the High School, Saco, a year, and then 
 pursued theological studies at Andover, graduating in 1871. Soon 
 after he was ordained pastor over the Trinitarian Congregational 
 Church, Taunton, Mass., where he remained until 1878, when he 
 accepted a call to the Congregational Church, Ripon, Wis. In 1881 
 he accepted the professorship of mathematics and astronomy in the 
 college at that place, still retaining his pastoral relation. He was a 
 member of the Board of Education, Taunton, five years. He con- 
 tributed an article, " America," to an encyclopaedia of history and 
 biography. 
 
GRADUATES. 807 
 
 In 1877 he married Mrs. L. McManus {nee Colburn) of Bruns- 
 wick, and has a daughter. 
 
 Stanley Adelbert Plummer was born in Dexter, Februarj', 1846. 
 After graduating he entered on the study of law in the Law School, 
 Albany, N. Y., and in 1872 began the practice in Bangor. In 
 1869 he was member of the Legislature of the State ; was supervisor 
 of schools for the county in 1870 and 1871. and city solicitor from 
 1873 to 1874. In 1874 he became chief clerk, Department of the 
 Interior, and in 1876 was appointed internal revenue agent, and «till 
 holds that office. 
 
 In 1871 he married Evelyn Barker, who died in the year following 
 without children. 
 
 George Tingey Sewall was born in Oldtown, July, 1844. On 
 leaving college he engaged in the study of law with his father, Hon. 
 George P. Sewall ; was admitted to the bar in 1869 ; and settled and 
 still continues in the profession in his native town. He has never 
 married. 
 
 Joshua Vincent Smith was born in Bridgton, September, 1845, 
 brother of H. S. B. (1861). He studied medicine, and graduated at 
 the Medical School of the college in 1869. He prosecuted his pro- 
 fession three years in Richmond, and then removed to Melrose, Mass., 
 where he still remains. He is married and has a son. 
 
 Frederick King Smyth was born in Brunswick, January, 1846, 
 son of Prof. Wm. Smyth. He taught high schools in Freeport and 
 Bath ; was mathematical tutor in the college ; held a professorship 
 of mathematics and astronomy in Franklin and Marshall College, 
 Lancaster Pa. , for a year or more. He then emigrated to California 
 and settled on a farm near Santa Barbara. 
 
 He married a daughter of Joseph Lee of Calais, and has one 
 (Aild. 
 
 Henry Sewall Webster was born in Augusta, September, 1845. 
 He taught the academy in Hallowell two years after graduation ; in 
 the State Normal School, Mansfield, Pa., a year; and in Dirigo Busi- 
 ness College, Augusta, nearly two years. He studied law in Augusta, 
 and established himself in the practice in Gardiner in 1871. 
 
 In 1876 he married Mary Chase Johnson of Augusta, and has had 
 a daughter who died in early childhood. 
 
808 HISTORT OF BOWDOIN COIiLEGE. 
 
 Joseph Colburn Wilson was born in Orono, March, 1845. He 
 has taught a winter school in Orono two successive" years. He studied 
 law with his father, N. Wilson, Esq. ; was admitted to the bar of Pen- 
 obscot County in 1871, and settled in Orono in the profession. He is 
 a trial justice and a commissioner for enforcing judgments. 
 
 In 1876 he married Mary H., daughter of N. H. Colton of Bangor, 
 and has a daughter. 
 
 1868. 
 
 Okville Dewey Bakeb was born in Augusta, December, 1848,, 
 son of Joseph B., Esq. (1836). On leaving college he read law with 
 his father, and at Harvard Law School where he took the degree of 
 LL. B., 1872. He settled in Augusta, where he now resides in the 
 profession. 
 
 Geokge Madison Bodge was born in Bridgton, February, 1841. 
 He was principal of Gould Academy, Bethel, until 1871 ; was princi- 
 pal of Gorham Seminary- until 1874, when he was appointed principal 
 of the Westbrook Seminary and remained there four years. He 
 graduated at the Harvard Divinity School in 1878, and in September of 
 that year was ordained pastor of the Third Society, Dorchester, Mass. 
 (Unitarian), and still remains there. 
 
 He married Margaret E. Wentworth of Brunswick, and has two 
 children. 
 
 Charles Edwaed Chamberlain was born in Bristol, August, 
 1846. He taught, on leaving college, a year at Cumberland and two 
 years at Wiscasset. He has engaged in mercantile business in his 
 native town with energy and success. 
 
 In 1873 he married Maggie J. Blanchard of Cumberland, and has a 
 son. 
 
 George Langdon Chandler was born in Waterville, January, 
 1849, son of Paul S. (1842). Hincg graduation he has been engaged 
 in teaching most of the time in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Min- 
 nesota. He read law, but soon resumed teaching in Franklin, N. H., 
 where he continued legal study. He held a tutorship of mathematics 
 and was instructor in natural history in the college nearly two years ; 
 then returned to Franklin and was master of the High School. Since 
 1879 he has been master of the Grammar School in Auburndale, 
 Newton, Mass. 
 
 In 1873 he married Emily C, daughter of Rev. Jos. H. Phipps of 
 Kingston, Mass., and has a son and daughter. 
 
GEADtJATES. 809 
 
 Charles Jarvis Chapman was born in Rethel^ January, 1848. He 
 settled in Portland in 1870 in a wholesale commission house in flour 
 and grain He has been a member of the scliool committee, of the 
 common council and its president, and of the board of aldermen. 
 
 In 1875 he married Annie Dow, daughter of Benjamin F. Hinds, 
 Esq., of Portland, and has a daughter and a son. 
 
 Charles Henry Cushman was born in New Gloucester, Julj-, 1845. 
 Soon after graduation he took charge of a school in Ellsworth ; but ill 
 health compelled him to resign the position and he returned to Dover, 
 N. H., which had become the home of the family. His illness devel- 
 oped into typhoid fever which resulted in his death, September, 1868. 
 
 John Satward Derby was born in Alfred, January, 1846. He 
 studied law and settled in the profession in Saco. He was four years 
 judge of the Municipal Court, and is now attorney for the county of 
 York. He is married and has a son. 
 
 Thomas Jefferson Emeuy was born in "West Falmouth, December, 
 1845. He taught Greeley Institute, Cumberland, two years, and Derby 
 Academy, Hingham, Mass., a year or more; in Dwight Grammar 
 School, Boston, a few months, and in the English High School, 
 Boston, four years. He studied law in Boston ; attended lectures of 
 the Boston University Law School, graduating in 1877 ; was admitted 
 to the Suffolk bar and settled in practice in that city. He has been 
 elected to the city council. He has never married. 
 
 Simon Fogg was born in Stetson, August, 1844. He went West 
 with the view of teaching, but infirm health disabled him from active 
 duty. He gradually failed, and at last after two weeks' confinement to 
 his bed died in the hope of a believer. 
 
 George Winslow Foster was born in Bangor, September, 1845. 
 He entered on medical studj', attended the lectures at the Harvard 
 Medical School, and at the Medical School of the college, graduating 
 in 1871. He practised his profession in Bangor seven years, in Le 
 Mars, Iowa, a year or more, and then accepted the position of assist- 
 ant physician in the Government Hospital for the Insane in Washing- 
 ton, D. C, for two years. He was one of the vice-presidents of the 
 Maine Medical Association one year, and on its executive committee 
 another year, and in Iowa a commissioner in lunacy for the county. 
 
 In 1871 he married a daughter of Eev. Aaron C. Adams, and has. 
 two children. 
 
810 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Llewellyn Sprague Ham was born in Wales, January, 1843. 
 He has been engaged in teaching most of the time since leaving 
 college. He was engineer on a division ot the Springfield and Illinois 
 Southeastern Railroad two years. The last few years he has been 
 supervisor of schools and principal of the High School in Pana, 111. 
 
 He married Frankie Tomlinson of Pana, and has three children. 
 
 John Adams Hinckley was born in Gorham, March, 1848. After 
 graduating he taught the academy at Blue Hill a few months, and then 
 settled in his native town in the manufacture of leather. He has 
 been superintendent of the Congregational Sabbath school. He has 
 never married. 
 
 Frank Eastman Hitchcock was born in Damariscotta, March, 
 1847. He was engaged in teaching in Portland two winter terms, 
 meanwhile pursuing medical study with Drs. S. H. Tewksbury and S. 
 C. Gordon, attended the Portland School for Medical Instruction and 
 the lectures of the Medical School of the college, graduating in 1871. 
 He began professional life in Portland, but in a few months removed 
 to Rockland, where he has continued in the profession. He has been 
 citj' physician of Rockland, is surgeon-general on the governor's stafl!' 
 and a member of the American Medical Association and of the Medi- 
 cal Association of Maine. 
 
 'In 1878 he married Emily White, daughter of Hon. John S. Case, 
 Rockland, but has no children. 
 
 Chahles Galen Holyoke was born in Yarmouth, February, 1842. 
 He-entered the military service in the late war as private and was 
 commissioned second lieutenant, but was not mustered in on account 
 of the cessation of hostilities. He taught at Hackettstown, N. J., at 
 Perth Amboy, N. J., and was principal of the Union School, Hunting- 
 ton, L. I. He then entered the Theological Seminary, Bangor, and 
 graduated in 1875. He has been acting pastor of the Congregational 
 Church in Phippsburg since 1879. He has been interrupted in his 
 laoors by infirm health. He has never married. 
 
 Elias Stnclair Mason was born in Bethel, August, 1847. He 
 studied law for a time, but did not enter upon the practice. He has 
 been engaged in the business of a hardware dealer in Norway. He 
 has never married. 
 
 Robert Lawrence Packard was born in Brunswick, November, 
 1847; brother of Charles A. (1848), William A. (1851), and A. S., Jr. 
 
GRADUATES. 811 
 
 (1861). Having spent a year after graduation in private study, he 
 was appointed to a tutorship in the college ; was then elected to the 
 professorship of chemistry in the Agricultural College, Orono ; in 1872 
 became adjunct professor of chemistry applied to the arts in the college, 
 and instructor of French in the same. He has been for some years in 
 the United States Patent Office, Washington, holding at last the posi- 
 tion of first assistant examiner. In 1880 he became connected with 
 the Ethnographical Bureau of the Smithsonian in the survey under 
 Major Powell, detached to the Indian Territory and New Mexico to 
 take the census of the Indians. He is a member of the National 
 Academy of Science, Washington. 
 
 Charles Augustus Ring was born in Portland, February, 1845. 
 He entered on medical study in the Portland School of Medical 
 Instruction ; attended the lectures of the Bowdoin and Harvard Medi- 
 cal Schools, graduating at the former in 1872. He took an additional 
 course in the College of Phj'sicians and Surgeons, New York, where 
 he also received M. D. in 1873. He settled in the profession in Port- 
 land. 
 
 Leonard Warren Rundlett "was born in AIna, September, 1847. 
 He taught a private school two j-ears in St. Paul, Minn., and then 
 devoted himself to the profession of a civil engineer. He received 
 the degree of Sc. G. in 1881, and the same year was elected city engi- 
 neer of St. Paul. 
 
 October, 1881, he married Kitty Barry of Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 William Frank Shepard was born in Bangor, January, 1845 ; 
 brother of George H. (1855). He taught Hampden Academy in the 
 fall after graduation, and was assistant in Fryeburg Academy in 
 the fall of l.'^70. He engaged in medical studies in Bangor, gradu- 
 ated in the Medical School of the college in 1871, and settled in the 
 practice in that city. He has contributed professional papers to medi- 
 cal journals ; was resident physician in the Homoeopathic Hospital, 
 Philadelphia, in the fall and winter of 1871-2, and in 1877-8 by elec- 
 tion city physician of Bangor. 
 
 In 1874 he married Eva Arnold of Bangor, but has no children. 
 
 George Adams Smyth was born in Brunswick, September, 1847; 
 brother of Egbert C. (1848), W. H. (1856), N. (1863), and F. K. 
 (1867). He pursued scientific study in Brunswick two years after 
 graduation; in Germany at Berlin and Heidelburg six years; was 
 
812 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 assistant some months of Prof. Gibbs, Harvard University ; professor 
 of chemistrj' and pli3-sics at the University of Vermont between 
 two and three years; and in 1880 was stationed at Newport, R. I., 
 tb engage with Prof. Raphael Pumpelly of the United States Geologi- 
 cal Survey in investigations in sanitary geology under the National 
 Board of Health. He has published two papers in the German 
 language, an inaugural dissertation for the degree of Ph D., Berlin, 
 March, 1876, and the same year a monograph on certain chemical 
 researches, and less extended papers in scientiSc journals. 
 
 Charles Edgar Webber was bora in Damariscotta, August, 
 1844. He was emplo3-ed for some years as a clerk in an insurance 
 company in New York. At present he resides in Brooklyn, but my 
 informant does not know anything more concerning him. 
 
 William Thom Wells was born in Great Falls, N. H., Septem- 
 ber, 1846. He studied law for a year or two and then engaged in 
 mercantile business in Wakefield, N. H., for some years. In 1879 
 he removed to Townsend, Mass., where he lives on a farm with the 
 purpose of resuming business. 
 
 In 1870 he married and has four qhildren. 
 
 Charles Otis Whitman was born in Woodstock, December, 1842. 
 After graduation he became submaster of the English High School, 
 Boston, three years ; studied zoology two summers at Penikese Island 
 School under Prof. Agassiz, and three j'ears at the University of Leip- 
 sic, Germanj', together with botany and chemistry. On his return 
 from Europe he was again engaged for two years in the English High 
 School, Boston. In 1878 he became professor of zoology in the 
 University of Tokio, Japan. He has published papers on zoological 
 subjects in English and American journals, a paper in a London jour- 
 nal being his dissertation for the degree of Ph. D., Leipsic, in 1878. 
 
 1869. 
 
 Frederic Henry Boardman was bbrn in St. Stephens, N. B., 
 April, 1848. He engaged for a few years in mercantile business in 
 Calais, which he has abandoned. He studied law, and has settled in 
 practice in Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 He married in 1870 Hattie C. Boutelle of Brunswick, and has two 
 daughters. 
 
 Norman Call was born in Newcastle, October, 1844. He entered 
 immediately on the study of medicine, attended courses of lectures in 
 the Medical School of the college, and of the College of Pliysicians 
 
GRADUATES. 813 
 
 and Surgeons, New York, where he graduated in 1872 and settled in 
 Boston in the practice. 
 
 In 1872 he married Florence A. Mitchell of Brunswick, and has 
 a son, not now living. 
 
 Charles Abraham Cole was born in Paris Hill, May, 1847 ; brother 
 of EoUo M. (1867). He was principal of West Needham High 
 School, Wellesley, Mass., for three years, and then head-master of the 
 Military Institute, Weston, Conn., and professor of classics, etc., in 
 the same, until 1880, when he became principal and proprietor of 
 Pleasant View Institute, a home school for boys, in Pawtucket, R. I. 
 
 John Colby Coombs was born in Bowdoinham, March, 1845. He 
 taught one of the public evening schools, Boston, eight winters. He 
 studied law in the office of Easton & Fields, Boston ; attended the 
 lectures of the Law School, Harvard; graduated LL. B., 1872; the 
 same year was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and settled in practice in 
 Boston. He has never married. 
 
 John Colby Cotton was born in Wolfboro', N. H., April, 1844. 
 He was designing a preparatorj- theological course for the sacred min- 
 istrj', and had engaged in teaching for a time. He was thus employed 
 in Ossipee, N. H., when he was seized with hemorrhage from the 
 lungs to which he had been subject, and died December, 1872. He 
 had been a member of the Free Baptist communion several j-ears. 
 
 Oscar Poetek Cunningham was born in Ellsworth, September, 
 1846. No reply having been received to the circular, I can only state 
 that he is in the practice of law in Bucksport, and is married. 
 
 James Dike was born in Bath, June, 1848. He taught in the High 
 School, Bath, in the University, Urbana, Ohio, in Waltham, Mass., 
 and in the Boston Latin School He then removed to Greensboro', 
 N. C, and subsequently to Durham of the same State, where he has 
 engaged in a commercial business. He has been appointed deputy col- 
 lector of stamps. 
 
 He married Nellie Loring of Braintree, Mass., and has a daughter. 
 
 Thomas Henry Eaton was born in Bath, August, 1849. He acted 
 as a teacher of private parties for a time, then removed to the West, 
 and established himself in Ottumwa, Iowa, in the business of banking. 
 
814 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Frederic Augustine Fogg was bom in Portland, July, 1S50. He 
 has devoted himself to the work of a teacher in Orono, Exeter, N. H., 
 Elk River, Minn., and St. Paul, Minn., in the last city nine years. 
 In 1877 he was elected superintendent of schools for the country. 
 
 Oscar Fitz Allen Greene was born in Troy, 1842. He studied 
 law and emigrated to Colorado, where he established himself in Boul- 
 der of that State, and is reported by a relative to be laborious and 
 successful in the profession. He has been attorney for the county. 
 
 Clarence Hale was born in Turner, A^pril, 1848. Immediately 
 after graduating he entered on legal studies in Portland, was admitted 
 to the bar, and settled in, the city. He has been city solicitor the past 
 two years. 
 
 In 1880 he married Margaret, daughter of Hon. F. J. Rollins of 
 Portland. 
 
 George Weeks Hale was born in New Sharon, August, 1847. 
 He immediately after graduation entered on the study of medicine in 
 the Portland School for Medical Instruction, attended the lectures of 
 the Medical School of the college, and of the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons, New York, graduating in 1872. He settled in Sedg- 
 wick and has continued there since, with the exception of a year spent 
 abroad where he prosecuted professional study in Paris. He has not 
 married. 
 
 James Hunter Kennedy was born in Strong, April, 1844. He 
 taught the academy, Wilton, and had charge of the mathematical 
 department in Buffalo Normal School and College, New York. He 
 studied law in Buffalo three years, was admitted to practice and set- 
 tled in the profession in that city in the law firm of Kennedy, Roberts 
 & Meads. 
 
 He married in 1879 Louisa R. Gates of Buffalo. 
 
 David Hunter Knowlton was born in Farmington, December, 
 1844. He settled in his native town and has been in the occupation 
 of a printer and merchant. He has been on the school committee, 
 and county treasurer, and held other positions in the affairs of the 
 community. 
 
 He married Clara A. Hinckley, November, 1875, and has a son and 
 a daughter. 
 
GRADUATES. 815 
 
 Leavitt Lothrop was born in Lisbon, June, 1849. He was en- 
 gaged in the management of a plantation in Louisiana, as was reported, 
 when in company with a young man who was handling a pistol 
 carelessly, it exploded, and Lothrop received a wound which caused 
 his death, September, 1873. 
 
 William Pitt Morgan was bom in North Yarmouth, November, 
 1845. For two years after graduation he was professor of modern 
 languages and elocution in Williston Seminary, Fast Hampton, Mass. 
 He then entered upon the study of law with Josiah H. Drummond. 
 Esq., Portland, and was admitted to the bar. He held the position 
 of principal of Pike Seminary, New York, two years, and by personal 
 eflTort secured an endowment for the institution. He removed to Min- 
 neapolis, Minn., and engaged in the practice of law. In 1879 he 
 visited Great Britain and the Continent, spending nearly a year in 
 Paris where he attended four or five courses of lectures. In the fall 
 of 1881 he returned, and is at present at his early home. He has 
 given lectures on the cities, monuments, etc , of Europe, illustrated by 
 an instrument, new to this country, said to be of unusual power and 
 with brilliant effects. 
 
 George Frank Mosher was born in China, February, 1845. 
 After graduation he entered the office of the Morning Star, Dover, 
 N. H., a print under the control of the Free Baptists, as assistant and 
 subsequently chief editor. He lias been a member a'nd president of 
 the city government, and has twice represented the city in the Legis- 
 lature. He was appointed consul at Nice by President Garfield. 
 
 In 1871 he married Francis Stewart, and has two daughters. 
 
 Edwakd Patson Patson was bom in Westbrook, July, 1849. On 
 leaving college he taught an evening school in Boston in the winter of 
 1870-71, and then in the Portland High School two years. He studied 
 law in the office of Messrs. Symonds (now Judge Symonds) & Libby, 
 Portland ; attended the lectures of the Cambridge Law School, gradu- 
 ating JjL. B., 1872, and settled in the profession in Portland. He 
 has been on the school committee of the city. 
 
 WiLLARD Hdmpheey P'eeley was bom in Portland, October, 1848. 
 He studied law, graduated LL. B., University of Michigan, and 
 settled in the profession in Detroit, Mich. On a return passage to 
 Detroit he was lost in Lake Huron, September, 1873. 
 
816 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Cassius Clat Powers was born in Pittsfield, January, 1846. On 
 leaving college he had charge of the High School, Gardiner, a j-ear 
 and of the High and Grammar Schools, Brunswick, for six months. 
 He studied law with Artemas Libby, Esq., Augusta; was admitted 
 to the bar of Kennebec County, December, 1871, and to the Suffolk 
 bar, Boston, thfe year after, and has since prosecuted the profession in 
 Boston. 
 
 In 1876 he married Annie M., daughter of the late Rev. John Orr 
 (1834) of Alfred, but has no children. 
 
 Henry Bkewer Qdinbt was born in Biddeford, June, 1846. After 
 graduation he studied medicine in the National Medical School, Wash- 
 ington, D. C, graduating in 1880. At present he is stationed in 
 Missouri as special agent of the War Department of the United States. 
 He was aide-de-camp with rank of colonel on the staff of Gov. Straw 
 of New Hampshire. 
 
 In 1879 he married Octavia M. Cole, Lake Village, N. H., and has 
 a son and daughter. 
 
 Frank Whitman Risg was born in Portland, August, 1848. After 
 graduating he became an assistant on the United States Coast Survey 
 for six or seven years, and then engaged in the study of medicine 
 with C. A. Ring, M. D., of the preceding class, graduated at the 
 Medical School of the college in 1878, and continued his studies an- 
 other year in Paris, France. In 1880 he settled in his profession in 
 New York. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 
 
 Charles Roweli. was born in Lebanon, March, 1849. No reply 
 having been received to the circular sent to his address, I learn from 
 another that he has of late years been occupied as a bookkeeper in a 
 firm in West Water ville. 
 
 Charles Asbury Stevens, or as he now writes his name. Ste- 
 phens, was born in Norway, October, 1845. After graduation he 
 taught for a time in the Norway Liberal Institute. Since 1870 he 
 has devoted himself to literary labor, contributing to the periodical 
 press and to the preparation of books for youthful readers, which 
 have received popular favor, with the titles "Camping Out," "Left 
 on Labrador," "Off' to the Geysers," "On the Amazon," "Lynx 
 Hunting," " Fox Hunting," "The Moose Hunters," etc. At present 
 he is one of the ^editors of the Youths' Companion, but has another 
 line of study in view. He'resides in Boston, but spends a portion of 
 the year on his farm in Norway. 
 
GRADUATES. 817 
 
 Hiram Tuell was bora in "West Sumner, March 1844. He has 
 devoted liimslf to the office of a teacher in the high schools at Black- 
 stone, Mass., nearly four j^ears, at Marlboro', Mass., nearly six years, 
 and lastly at Milton, Mass., where he is at the present time (1882). 
 
 He is married and has two children. 
 
 Marshman Edward Wadsworth was born in Liverraore Falls, 
 May, 1847. During four years after graduation he became superin- 
 tendent of graded schools in Spring Valley, Minn., principal of 
 Sharon Normal and Scientific Institute, Wis., and superintendent of 
 graded schools, Mazomanie, "Wis. In 1873 he was elected professor 
 of chemistry in the Dental College, Boston ; since 1874 has been 
 instructor in mathematics and mineralogy, Harvard University, and 
 assistant in geology and lithology in its Museum of Comparative 
 Zoology, holding the last position at the present time. In 1879 he 
 passed examination and received from the University the .degree of 
 Ph. D. He has published papers in scientific journals, on mineralogy, 
 petrography, etc. 
 
 In 1870 he married M. Elizabeth Sweet. 
 
 Harrison Spofford "Whitman was born at Bryant's Pond, Febru- 
 ary, 1844. He taught two years after graduating at Thomaston, and 
 three years in Deen Academy, Franklin, Mass. He then pursued 
 theological study in the Divinity School, Tufts College, Massachusetts, 
 graduating in 1877, and was settled the same year in the ministry of 
 the Universalist denomination in Mechanics' Falls, where he now lives. 
 
 May, 1879, he married Susie F. "Warren. 
 
 Oscar Scott "Williams was born in Durham, Julj', 1844. He 
 has devoted himself to the work of teaching at Presque Isle, Auburn, 
 and Haverhill, Mass., where in 1872 he became submaster of its High 
 School five years, and then principal of a grammar school, and still 
 holds that position. He is now president of Essex County Teachers' 
 Association. 
 
 FiTZ Allen "Woodbdry was born in Auburn, August, 1845. After 
 graduation he studied law in Chicago, 111., Law School, was admitted 
 to practise, and opened an office in that city, his residence being 
 Englewood, just south of the citj'. 
 
 He married* E. S. Moore, formerly of Lewiston, sister of Charles 
 H. (1870). 
 
818 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Albert Woodside was born in "Wales, July, 1847. On leaving 
 college he taught three j'ears in Illinois and Maine ; he then studied 
 medicine with Alonzo Garcelon (1836), M. D., of Lewiston ; grad- 
 uated at the Medical School of the college, in 1874, and settled in the 
 profession at Tennant's Harbor, St. George. He has been supervisor 
 of schools for St. George. 
 
 In 1875 he married Alice Scholfield Hunt of Brunswick, and has 
 two children. 
 
 William Haskell Woodwell was born in Newburyport, Mass., 
 September, 1844. He pursued theological study at Andover, Mass., 
 graduating in 1872. Early in the year following he accepted a call to 
 the First Congregational Church in Wells ; in 1875 he became acting 
 pastor over the Congregational Church, Mt. Vernon, N. H., where he 
 spent more than four years in acceptable labors. In 1881 he accepted 
 an appointment to exercise his ministry over the English-speaking 
 people in Pahala, Sandwich Islands, and to the charge of the English 
 school in that station, which embraced the children of other nation- 
 alities. The removal of the English population causes the suspension 
 of his labors, and he will probably return to the States. 
 
 In 1873 he married Martha Haskell of Dover, N. H., and has two 
 sons and a daughter. 
 
 1870. 
 
 Db Alva Stanwood Alexander was born in Eichmond, Jwly 17, 
 1845. The year after graduation he taught as principal of the schools 
 of Fort Wayne, Ind. In April, 1871, he became editor of the Fort 
 Wayne Daily Gazette, which position he occupied until March, 1874. 
 From that date until January, 1878, he was general Indiana corre- 
 spondent of the Cincinnati Daily Gazette, being also, during the same 
 period, secretary of the Republican State Central Committee, with 
 residence at Indianapolis. In January, 1878, he was admitted to 
 the bar, and has since been in the practice of law at Indianapolis. In 
 the spring of 1881 he was appointed fifth auditor of the Treasury at 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 He married Sept. 14, 1871, Miss Alice Colby of Ohio, and has two 
 children, adopted. 
 
 Charles Edwin Beale was born at Monmouth, Aug. 10, 1845. 
 After graduation he obtained a clerkship in the Department of the 
 Interior at Washington, where he remained until Decembec, 1875, 
 
GRADUATES. 819 
 
 being engaged during the last two years in detective work as special 
 agent of the Pension OflSce. He was graduated from the National 
 University Law School and admitted to practice in the Supreme Court 
 of the District of Columbia in 1872. After leaving Washington he 
 spent some months in the l&,w office of A. P. Gould, Esq., of 
 Thomaston, and in January, 1877, opened an office in Boston. A 
 severe illness in 1878 necessitated the closing of his office, and after 
 he recovered he was employed as principal of the High School and 
 superintendent of the lower grades in Danielsonville, Conn. In the 
 autumn of 1880 he returned to Boston, where he is now settled in the 
 practice of his profession. 
 
 Lbeoy Zuinglius Collins was born at Union, Sept. 23, 1844. 
 Has been engaged in teaching since graduation. In 1871 he received 
 an appointment in the English High School at Boston, Mass., and 
 subsequently removed to Lancaster in the same State. 
 
 He married Miss Annie Davis Melcher of Brunswick. 
 
 Albert James Curtis was born at Bowdoin, Aug. 2, 1846. He 
 attended one course of lectures at the Maine Medical School, and has 
 since been engaged in teaching. He taught for several years at East- 
 port, and is now teaching at Yarmouth. 
 
 He married Miss Hannah Dunning of Bath, and has two children. 
 
 William Edward Frost was born in Norway, Dec 6, 1842. 
 After graduation and until the spring of 1872 he taught the high 
 schools in Norway and in Gardiner. In the spring of 1872 he was 
 elected principal of the Westford Academy at Westford, Mass., and 
 has retained that position to the present time. 
 
 In November, 1871, he married Miss S. Helen Keith of Augusta, 
 and has two sons. 
 
 Charles Franklin Gilman was born at Portland, Feb. 24, 1850, 
 and died at his home in Portland, May 12, 1871. 
 
 " Young Gilman was affiicted with the disease of consumption even 
 while in college, yet during that time he maintained a foremost posi- 
 tion in all the walks of study. It was thought after his graduation 
 that a change of climate and freedom from mental labor would possibly 
 restore him to health, but such proves not to have been the case. The 
 message of his death will touch that chord of memory which will testify 
 to the high qualities of his mind and heart." — Bowdoin Orient, May 
 29, 1871. 
 
820 HISTOKY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 John Henry Gooch was -born at Yarmouth, Sept. 25, 1845. 
 After graduation he engaged in business in Lewiston, devoting some 
 attention also to leading and instructing brass bands. In 187.3 he 
 was a member of the Lewiston City Council. 
 
 He married, March 2, 1873, Miss Lucy M. Quincy of Lewiston. 
 Present occupation and address not reported. 
 
 Oetille Boardman Graist was born at Ellsworth, Sept. 4, 1844. 
 After graduation he taught in various places, being at one time prin- 
 cipal of the High School at DanverS, Mass., and subsequently princi- 
 pal of the Hughes School, Providence, R. I. Present occupation and 
 address not reported. 
 
 Albert Gray, Jr., was born at Naples, May 30, 1847. The two 
 years following graduation he was principal of the Union School in 
 Morris, N. Y. In 1874 he was principal of the Houghton High 
 School in Bolton, Mass. In 1m75 he was elected principal of the 
 High School in Northboro', Mass., a position which he has occupied 
 to the present time (1881). 
 
 He married, in 1873, Miss Mary E. Whitman of Harrison, Me. 
 
 Everett Hammons was born in Cornish, Jan. 10, 1850. During 
 the two years following graduation he taught in Paris and in Hal- 
 lowell. In 1872 he went to Minnesota, teaching at Princeton in 
 that State in the fall of 1872, and studying law at Anoka and St. 
 Paul. In the winter of 1874 and the winter of 1875 he taught in 
 Bethel, and from September, 1877, to the spring of 1880 he was prin- 
 cipal of the Grammar School in Clinton. He was admitted to the 
 Minnesota bar in 1872 and to the Maine bar in 1873, and in July, 
 1879, he opened an office in Clinton, where he has since devoted him- 
 self to the practice of law. 
 
 In February, 1877, he married Miss Lena F. Foster. 
 
 Frederick Ernest Hanson was born at Buxton, March 17, 1850. 
 He taught at the East for a time after graduation. Removing to the 
 West, he was employed for a few months on railroad business at Fort 
 Wayne, Ind.,' and was subsequently appointed to a position in the 
 Ford High School of Lafayette, and in April, 1876, to the principal- 
 ship of the same school, a position which he filled with acceptance till 
 the time of his death, which occurred in Chicago, May 20, 1880. 
 
 George Wheelwright Hobson was born at Buxton, Aug. 18, 1P47. 
 Since graduation he has been engaged in the lumber business in Saeo. 
 
GRADUATES. 821 
 
 He married June 16, 1880, Miss Luise Kettembeil of Hanover, 
 Germany. 
 
 Walter Ebenezer Holmes was born at Oxford, July 31, 1846. 
 The two years following graduation lie taught in Auburn. He then 
 removed to the West, and during the years' 1878 and 1874 he con- 
 ducted a business college in Oshkosh, Wis. Eeturning to Maine, he 
 engaged in business first in Oxford and subsequently in WelchvEle, 
 where he now is. 
 
 LuciEN Howe was born at Standish, Dec. 18, 1849. Immediately 
 after graduation he began the studj^ of medicine, receiving in 1871 
 the degree of M. D. from the Long Island College Hospital, and also 
 from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He then continued his 
 studies in Germany and in England, being elected in 1873 a member 
 of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. On his return to 
 America he settled in Buffalo, N. Y., where he has since been engaged 
 in practice as an oculist and aurist. He is surgeon-in-charge of the 
 Buffalo Eye and Ear Infirmary, lecturer on ophthalmology in the Med- 
 ical Department of the University of Buffalo, and editor of the Buf- 
 falo Medical and Surgical Journal. 
 
 Joseph Wadsworth Keene was born at Bremen, Jan. 23, 1847. 
 After graduation he took charge of the High School at Eichmond. 
 In the spring of 1871 he became principal of the High School in 
 Biddeford, and in the autumn of the same year was elected a sub- 
 master in the English High School of Boston, Mass. This position 
 he resigned in 1873 to begin the study of medicine, graduating at 
 the Medical School of Maine in 1875, and at the Harvard Medi- 
 cal School in 1878. He practised medicine in Boston from 1876 to 
 1878, when he removed to Buffalo, N. Y., where he is at present lo- 
 cated in the practice of his profession. In 1871 he published, in con- 
 nection with A. G. Whitman (1870), a volume entitled "Notes on 
 Mineralogy," and in 1878 he published " Selections for Reading and 
 Elocution." 
 
 He married Nov. 28, 1878, Miss Mary Morse Lothrop of Bruns- 
 wick, and has two daughters. 
 
 Willis Howard Meads was born at South Limington, Feb. 
 22, 1847. From the September following graduation until Jan. 1, 
 1880, he was engaged in teaching in Buffalo, .N. Y. In 1877 he began 
 the study of law, and in January, 1880, was admitted to practice in 
 
822 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 all the courts of New York. He opened an ofHee in -Buflfalo, where he 
 has since been in the active practice of his profession. He has been 
 loan commissioner of Erie County, and in the fall of 1881 was nomi- 
 nated by the Eepublicans for superintendent of education of the city 
 of Buflfalo. 
 He is married and has one child, a daughter. 
 
 BoRDUS Eedfoed Melchek was born in Brunswick, Feb. 7, 1849. 
 After graduation he adopted teaching as a profession, and studied until 
 the fall of 1872 in Berlin, Germany. In December, 1872, he was 
 appointed principal of the High School at Kennebunk, holding the 
 position until 1873, when he was elected instructor in Greek in Bow- 
 doin College. He resigned soon after to become principal of the High 
 School in Saco, a position that he occupied for nine years, resign- 
 ing in 1882 to take a similar position in Maiden, Mass. In Janu- 
 ary, 1879, he was elected corresponding secretary of York Institute, 
 Saco, and re-elected in 1880. He is the author of a " Formula for 
 Parsing Greek," and a " Formula for Parsing Latin." 
 
 He married Aug. 3, 1875, Miss Maggie Fulton Richards, daughter 
 of Dr. L. Richards (M. D., 1840) of Kennebunk, and has two chil- 
 dren, a daughter and a son. 
 
 Charles Henrt Moore was born in Lewiston, Sept. 26, 1850. 
 The year following graduation he taught in the High School, Auburn. 
 In 1871 he was appointed tutor in mathematics and Latin in Bow- 
 doin College; in 1873, instructor in Latin; in 1874 he became in- 
 structor in modern languages, which position he retained until 1876, 
 when he was again elected instructor in Latin. In 1877 he removed 
 to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was for a short time a member of the 
 firm of George C. Tracy & Co., solicitors of patents. He was subse- 
 quently connected with the American Mercantile Agency of Chicago, 
 111., and in February, 1879, he became editor and proprietor of the 
 Clothing, Furnishing and Hat Reporter in Chicago. 
 
 Wallace Kilbdrn Oakes was born in Auburn, Nov. 6, 1851. 
 Immediately after graduation he began the study of medicine at the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Graduating 
 at that institution in 1873, he obtained a situation as interne at the 
 Bellevue Hospital, where he remained a year and a half, resigning his 
 position in the fall of 1874 to enter private practice in Auburn, where 
 he has continued up to the present time. He has been city physician, 
 a member of the school committee of Auburn, and for one year presi- 
 
GRADUATES. 823 
 
 dent of the common council of that city. He is at present secretary 
 of the United States Board of Examining Surgeons for pensions for 
 his distriet. 
 
 In September, 1878, he married Miss Emma E. Dyer of Portland, 
 and has two children, a girl and a boy. 
 
 Caleb Alexander Page was born in Burlington, May 20, 1848. 
 In the autumn following graduation he taught as principal of the 
 Fryeburg Academy at Fryeburg, a position which he occupied for 
 three years. He then became principal of the High School at Calais, 
 where he remained until the spring of 1879, when he was compelled 
 to resign by reason of poor health. He taught subsequently the High 
 School at Groton, Mass., and in 1882 was elected principal of Leices- 
 ter Academy, Leicester, Mass. 
 
 He married in 1874 Miss Susan C. Souther. 
 
 EoLAND Marct Peck was born in Ellsworth, Oct. 21, 1849. In 
 his Senior year he was prostrated by a severe and prolonged disease, 
 from which he has never sufficiently recovered since graduation to 
 admit of his engaging in any active occupation. He lives at Ells- 
 worth. 
 
 John Bakeman Redman was born in Brooksville, June 11, 1848. 
 The year following graduation he was principal of the Bluehill Acad- 
 emy at Bluehill. He then began the study of law with Hon. Arno 
 Wiswell (1843) of Ellsworth, and was admitted to the bar in October, 
 1873 ; he opened an office in Ellsworth, where he has since been 
 engaged in the practice of his profession. He has been a member 
 of the superintending school committee in that city, and was for three 
 years supervisor of schools. He is now one of the trustees of Blue- 
 hill Academy. In April, 1876, he was elected city solicitor, and 
 he was a delegate at large from the State of Maine to the Democratic 
 National Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1880. In May, 1881, he 
 was appointed judge of the Municipal Court of Ellsworth, which 
 position he now holds. 
 
 Erastus Fulton Redman was born in Brooksville, June 10, 1849. 
 Immediately after graduation he became junior member of the firm of 
 E. Redman & Son, dealers in long and short lumber in Ellsworth, 
 where he has since been actively engaged in business. 
 
 James Arthur Roberts was born in Waterboro', March 8, 1847. 
 The year following graduation he taught in Maine ; he then became 
 
824 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 principal of public school No. 20, in Buffalo, N. Y., where he taught 
 five years. During the last three j'ears of his teaching at Buffalo he 
 also studied law, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1875. He 
 settled in Buffalo and immediately began the practice of his profes- 
 sion, becoming a member of the firm of Kennedy (1869), Koberts 
 (1870) & Meads (1870). In 1879 and 1880 he was a member of the 
 New York Assembly. 
 
 In June, 1871, he married Miss Minnie Pineo of Calais, and has 
 two children, a son and a daughter. 
 
 William Edward Spear was born in Eockland, Jan. 2, 1847. 
 Immediately after graduation he entered the Bangor Theological 
 Seminarj', where he pursued the regular course, graduating in 1873. 
 He was for three years pastor of the Congregational Church in Dun- 
 barton, N. H., when he resigned and spent about two j'ears in ti'avel 
 in Europe. On his return he began the study of law ; was admitted 
 to the bar in Maine, and subsequently to the bar of Suffolk County, 
 Mass. He then settled at Boston, Mass., where hfe has since engaged 
 in the practice of law. 
 
 He married in 1879, and had one child which died in 1881. 
 
 Davis True Timbeelake was born in Livermore, Nov. 21, 1844. 
 He adopted the profession of teaching, and has been continuously 
 employed since graduation as principal of high schools and academies 
 at Wilton, Hampden, Clinton, West Waterville, Dexter, and Bethel, 
 and at Colebrook, N. H. 
 
 Charles Turner Toreey was born in North Yarmouth, Dec. 21, 
 1845. Immediately after graduation he entered upon the study of 
 medicine, and in 1873 received the degree of M. D. from the College 
 of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. He settled at Naples and 
 subsequently removed to Yarmouth, where he is engaged in the prac- 
 tice of his profession. 
 
 Edward Burbank Weston was born in Auburn, July 31, 1846. 
 Since graduation he has taught two years : one year at Ferry Hall, 
 Lake Forest, 111., and one year at Highland Hall, Highland Park, III. 
 Adopting the profession of medicine, he studied at the Rush Medical 
 College in Chicago, 111., where he was graduated in 1873. He is now 
 engaged in the practice of medicine in Highland Park. 
 
 He married June 9, 1874, Miss Alice J. Brett of Farmington, and 
 has one daughter. 
 
GRADUATES. 825 
 
 Alonzo Gabcelon Whitman was born in Auburn, Sept. 7, 1842. 
 After graduation he was for four 3'ears a teacher in the Ecglish High 
 School in Boston, Mass. In the spring of 1875 he accepted a tempo- 
 rary appointment as instructor in botany in Bowdoin College. In the 
 autumn of that j^ear he was elected principal of the High School, 
 Melrose, Mass., a position which he has held to the present time. 
 He pursued the study of medicine in the Harvard Medical School, 
 but has never practised. He published in 1872 a volume entitled 
 " Notes on Mineralogy." 
 
 He married Miss Florence Mary Goss in 1878. 
 
 Edwin Cox Woodward was born in Damariscotta, Aug. 1, 1849. 
 He has taught most of the time since graduation, taking meantime 
 in 1876 a special course in chemistry in the laboratory of Bowdoin 
 College. He is now employed as assayer for the sampling works at 
 Sierra City, New Mexico. 
 
 1871. 
 
 Kingsbury Bachelder was born in Prospect, Oct. 27, 1841. 
 After graduation he taught for one year in the High School at Auburn. 
 Continuing his studies for another year, he was elected in 1873 prin- 
 cipal of the Maine Central Institute at Pittsfield, which position he 
 occupied until 1881, when he entered the Theological School of Bates 
 College. 
 
 He married June 27, 1880, Miss M. Augusta Wade of Dover. 
 
 Oscar Lewis Billings was born in Fayette, Feb. 1, 1845. He 
 engaged in teaching after graduation, and was principal of the High 
 School in Skowhegan. Diligent inquiry has failed to discover his 
 present residence and occupation. 
 
 James Franklin Chanet was born in Clinton, Feb. 22, 1845. For 
 a short time after graduation he was engaged in the manufacturing 
 business in Brunswick as a member of the firm of Colbj' & Chaney. 
 He then removed to the West, and is now in business in Leadville, 
 Col., 
 
 Charles Edwin Clark was born in Auburn, July 8, 1850. After 
 graduation studied medicine at the Harvard Medical School, being 
 graduated at that institution in 1877. Is a member of the Massachu- 
 setts Medical Society, and is now settled in Boston in the practice of 
 his profession. 
 
826 HISTORY OF BOWnOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Edmund Chase Cole was born in Milton Plantation, Oct. 5, 1845. 
 Nothing can be reported of him since 1872, when he was principal of 
 the High School in Warren, N. H. 
 
 Newton Freeman Curtis was born in Hampden, July 13,; 1849. 
 After graduation he taught in the High School at Franklin, N. H., 
 from September, 1871, to March, 1872. Studied medicine, at the Med- 
 ical School of Maine, the Portland School for Medical Instruction, and 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, where he 
 was graduated in 1874. He was appointed assistant physician and 
 surgeon to house staff of Charity Hospital, Blackwell's Island, Octo- 
 ber, 1873 ; resident physician and surgeon at the same hospital in 
 April, 1874; and received the hospital diploma in April, 1875. He 
 opened an office for the practice of his profession in New York City, 
 May, 1875, and in July of the same year was appointed visiting physi- 
 cian of the Northwestern Dispensary. He removed to White Plains, 
 N. Y., in May, 1876, where he is now engaged in the practice of 
 medicine. 
 
 He married May 1, 1879, Miss Gertrude J. Prud'homme, and has 
 a son and a daughter. 
 
 Edgar Foster Davis was born in East Machias, April 17, 1851. 
 He was piinuipal of the Thomaston High School from 1871 to 1873 ; 
 taught in the De Garmo Institute, Rhiuebeck, N. Y., 1873 and 1874 ; 
 and at the Central High School, Middletown, Conn., from 1874 to 
 1876. He studied theology at the Yale Theological School from 
 1876 to 1878. Was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in 
 Perry, Aug. 8, 1878, and dismissed by council, June 3, 1879. After 
 supplying the Congregational Church in Calais for September and 
 October, 1879, he was settled over the Congregational Church in St. 
 Stephen, New Brunswick. In 1881 he received a call to the Congre- 
 gational Church in Gardiner, where he is now settled. 
 
 He married in 1874 Miss Elmira S. Talbot, daughter of Hon. S. H. 
 Talbot of East Machias, and has two daughters. 
 
 William Sawyer Dennett was born in Bangor, March 1, 1849. 
 After graduation studied medicine at Bowdoin College and the Har- 
 vard Medical School, graduating at the latter institution in 1874. He 
 is engaged in the practice of his profession in Boston, Mass., devot- 
 ing his attention exclusively to the treatment of diseases of the ej'e. 
 
 Sylvanus Otis Husset was born in South Newburg, July 31, 1844. 
 Taught one term of the High School at East Dixmont, in the fall of 
 
GRADUATES. 827 
 
 1873. He died Dec. 20, 1873, of consumption, the result of a severe 
 cold contracted soon after leaving college 
 
 He was married Aug. 2, 1871, to Miss Agnes M. Whitnej', who sur- 
 vived him only about one j^ear. They had one child, a son. 
 
 Edwin Howaed Lord was born in Springvale, June 1, 1850. The 
 two years following graduation he taught at Richmond as principal of 
 the High School ; during the next seven years was submaster of the 
 High School of Lowell, Mass., and is now master of the High School 
 in Lawrence, Mass. He received the degree of Ph. D. in physics 
 from Harvard University. 
 
 He was married in July, 1873, to Miss Addie M. Decker of Bruns- 
 wick, who died in October of the same year ; in November, 1877, 
 he was married to Miss Julia Swift Bennett of Lowell, and has one 
 daughter. 
 
 William Palmer Melcher was born in Brunswick, April 10, 
 1848. The three years following graduation he taught in Pike, N. Y. 
 He then studied medicine in the University of Pennsylvania at Phila- 
 delphia, receiving the degree of M. D. in 1876. He is now engaged 
 in the practice of his profession at Pemberton, N. J. 
 
 Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, March 24, 18.52. 
 Immediately after graduation he engaged in journalism, and was 
 connected at different times with the Boston Daily Advertiser and 
 the Lewiston Journal; he subsequently removed to New York City 
 and became a member of the editorial corps of the Sun, 
 
 He was married Oct. 29, 1874, to Miss Annie S. Welch of Bath, 
 and has one son. 
 
 Alfred Johnson Monroe was born in Belfast, Oct. 2, 1849. 
 After graduation he entered upon the study of law at Baltimore, Md. 
 He died of consumption on the 3d of January, 1875, at Pau, France, 
 whither he had gone some time before in search of health. 
 
 William Sullivan Pattee was born in Jackson, March 10, 1849. 
 The year following graduation he taught in Brunswick as principal of 
 graded schools, and during the next two years was professor of natu- 
 ral science in Lake Forest University at Lake Forest, 111. ; he then 
 taught four years in Northfleld, Minn., was superintendent of public 
 schools, and began the practice of law in the latter place Juty 1, 
 1878, where he has held the position of city attorney. 
 
828 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 He was married to Miss Julia E. Tuttle, Nov. 30, 1871, and has 
 two children, a son and a daughter. 
 
 Vernon Dana Price was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 7, 1848. 
 Immediately after graduation he settled in Louisville, Ky., where he 
 is a member of the firm of Price & Lucas, manufacturers of and 
 wholesale dealers in cider, cider vinegar, etc. 
 
 He was married Aug. 1, 1877, to Mary E. Cramblilt, of Des Moines, 
 Iowa, and has one child, a daughter. 
 
 Charles Lord Shepard was born in Bangor, Oct. 1, 1847. He 
 is chief clerk in the quartermaster's department, United States army, 
 at Helena, Montana Territory. 
 
 Augustine Simmons was born in Topsham, Feb. 20, 1849. Was 
 principal of Anson Academy four years, of Fryeburg Academy one 
 year, and of Fairfield High School three years ; studied law and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1877, since which time he has been editor of 
 the Fairfield Journal one year and is now practising law in North 
 Anson. 
 
 He was married Nov. 22, 1872, to Miss Alice P. Gahan of North 
 Anson. 
 
 Everett Schbrmerhorn Stackpole was born in Durham, June 1 1 , 
 1860. After graduation taught one year in Washington Academy, 
 East Machias, and three years in the High School at Bloomfield, 
 N. J. ; then entered the theological department of Boston University, 
 where he was graduated in 1878, and at once entered the Maine 
 Methodist Episcopal Conference. He is now settled in Deering. 
 
 He was married Aug. 20, 1878, to Miss Lizzie A. Blake, and has 
 one child, a son. 
 
 Wallace Eovfell White was born in Dixfield, Oct. 17, 1849. 
 He chose the profession of law angl studied at the University of 
 Michigan and at Winthrop, where he subsequently settled and entered 
 upon practice. In the spring of 1881 he was appointed United States 
 district attorney for Washington Territory. 
 
 1872. 
 
 John Getchell Abbot was born in Windsor, April 17, 1848. 
 After graduation he studied law in the ofl3ce of Hon. E. F. Pillsbury, 
 and was admitted to the Kennebec bar in 1873, and in 1876 to the 
 
GRADUATES . ' 829 
 
 Suffolk bar at Boston, Mass., where he has since resided in the prac- 
 tice of his profession. In the winter of 1873-4 he visited Cuba 
 as a newspaper correspondent. In 1874-5 he edited the Maine Dem- 
 ocrat and Daily Ti'iies at Biddeford. In 1874 he published an ex- 
 tended paper on prohibition in Maine, and in 1876 a full account of 
 the Centennial Exhibition. 
 
 James Bigelow Atwood was born in St Albans, Jan. 10, 1846. 
 For seven years after graduation he was constantly engaged in teach- 
 ing, holding in succession the positions of principal of the North 
 Anson Academy at North Anson, of the Derby Academy at Hingham, 
 Mass., and of the high schools of Saugus, Stoughton, and Oxford, all 
 of Massachusetts. During the past three years he has lived in St. 
 Albans, where he has been occupied in farming, teaching, and super- 
 vision of the public schools of that place. 
 
 He married in 1872 Miss Abbie Z. Lord of Skowhegan, and has 
 two children, a daughter and a son. 
 
 Chari.Es Bemis Benson was born at North Paris, Feb. 27, 1846. 
 After completing his college course he began the study of law, was 
 admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of his profession at 
 North Paris. 
 
 Warren Franklin Bickford was born at Newburg, Jan. 30, 
 1842. For a short time after graduation taught at Bristol Mills. 
 He then studied for the ministry in the Bangor Theological Seminary 
 from 1874 to 1876, and in the latter year was settled as pastor of the 
 Congregational Church at Winthrop. In September, 1880, he resigned 
 and entered the service of the American Home Missionary Society, 
 and is now laboring in Breckenridge, Col. 
 
 In 1872 he married Miss Sarah Wilder of Dixmont, and has one 
 daughter. 
 
 Marcellus Coggan was born at Bristol, Sept. 6, 1847. In the 
 autumn after graduation he was elected principal of the Nichols 
 Academy in Dudley, Mass., a position which he continued to fill for 
 seven years, resigning at the close of the school jear in 1879. In the 
 fall of that year he began the study of law in Boston, Mass., and was 
 admitted to the bar of Suffolk County, Mass., Feb. 3, 1881. He has 
 since been engaged in the 'practice of his profession in Boston, with his 
 residence in Maiden, Mass. While in Dudley he was for three years 
 a member of the school board of that town, and at present is chairman 
 of the school board of the city of Maiden. 
 
830 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 He maiTied Nov. 26, 1872, Miss Luella B. Robbins of Bristol, and 
 has one child, a boy. 
 
 George Henry Cummings was born in Portland, April 6, 1850. 
 After graduation lie studied medicine in the Medical School of Maine 
 during the years 1873 and 1874, taking the degree of M. D. in 1875 
 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. He then 
 entered upon the practice of his profession in Portland, and in 1880 
 was chosen city physician. 
 
 He married June 11, 1879, Miss Anda C. Otis of Brunswick. 
 
 Frederick George Dow was born in St. John, New Brunswick, 
 Aug. 24, 1851. After graduation he taught a short time in Norwalk, 
 Conn., and then pursued his professional studies in the Columbia Law 
 School, New York City, from which he was graduated in May, 1875, 
 with the degree of LL. B. Is now engaged in the practice of law 
 in New York. 
 
 He married Oct. 4, 1876, Miss Emily Schlesinger of College Point, 
 Long Island. He has one child, a son. 
 
 John Sumner Frost was born in Springvale, April 7, 1851. After 
 graduation he became principal of the High School at Thomaston, 
 where he remained five years. In the fall of 1877 he was elected 
 principal of the Northbridge High School in Whitinsville, Mass., but 
 was compelled by reason of poor health to resign the position in the 
 spring of 1879. In the fall of 1881 he accepted a temporary appoint- 
 ment as head classical assistant in the High School of Lawrence, 
 Mass., and since the close of his service there he has been teaching in 
 Springvale. 
 
 In the autumn of 1877 he married Miss Althea L. Brackett of 
 Chelsea, Mass. 
 
 Samuel Lane Gross was born in Brunswick, Nov. 18, 1846. For 
 two years after graduation he taught in Norwalk, Conn. He studied 
 law from 1874 to 1876 at the Colunjbia College Law School, from 
 which institution he was graduated with the degree of LL. B. He 
 was admitted to the New York bar in 1876, and has been engaged in 
 the practice of his profession since that time in New York City. 
 
 Herbert Harris was born in East Machias, Dec. 17, 1846. After 
 graduation he adopted the profession of mifeic and studied in Boston, 
 Mass., most of the time until July, 1878. He taught several years in 
 East Machias and in 1880 removed to Boston, where he has since been 
 engaged as organist, composer, and teacher of music. _ 
 
GRADUATES. 831 
 
 Herbert Milton Heath was born in Gardiner, Aug. 27, 1853. 
 For a short time after graduating he taught the Limerick Academy, 
 and from March, 1873, to July, 1876, was principal of the Washington 
 Academj-, East Machias. He was admitted to the bar of Kennebec 
 County in the August term, 1876, and immediately settled in Augusta, 
 where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of law. He 
 was assistant secretary of the Senate of Maine from 1870 to 1873. 
 Sept. 13, 1879, he was elected county attorney of Kennebec County. 
 
 He married Aug. 27, 1876, Miss Laura S. Gardner of East 
 Machias, and has a daughter. 
 
 Walton Olney Hooker was born in Gardiner, April 17, 1849. 
 After completing his college course he entered at once upon his chosen 
 pursuit of a sea-faring life, shipping as a common seaman. Having 
 won the complete confidence of his employers, he rose rapidly, and soon 
 became master of the ship " Henry Moses " of Bath. He was at- 
 tacked by small-pox and died in Rio Janeiro, August, 1878. 
 
 Weston Lewis was born in Pittston, Dec. 26, 1850. The three 
 years following graduation was principal of the High School, Gar- 
 diner. Since that time has been treasurer of the Gardiner Savings 
 Institution, and has held various offices in connection with the city 
 government and the school committee of Gardiner. 
 
 He married Oct. 18, 1876, Miss Eleanor W. Partridge, and has 
 one child. 
 
 Simeon Pease Meads was born in Limington, Jan. 11, 1849. He 
 taught for several years after graduation, and then pursued the study 
 of theology at the Theological School of Bates College. He is estab- 
 lished at Oakland, Cal. 
 
 Jehiel Simmons Richards was born in Bristol, Aug. 1, .1847. 
 The two years following graduation he was principal of the High 
 School at Calais. He then entered the Bangor Theological Seminary, 
 where he pursued the regular course of study and was graduated in 
 the summer of 1877. June 23, 1877, he was ordained and installed 
 pastor of the Congregational Church at Dexter, where he remained 
 until July 12, 1880. On July 22, 18-0, he became acting pastor of 
 the Congregational churches at Waterford and North Waterford, where 
 he is now laboring. Was for two years supervisor of schools at Dex- 
 ter, and at present holds the same office in Waterford. 
 
 He married July 8, 1874, Miss Hattie Otis Barker of Brunswick, 
 and has a son and a daughter. 
 
832 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Freeman Alonzo Ricker was born, in Ossipee, N. H., Oct. 13, 
 1849. Precarious hegilth, from which he suffered during the latter 
 part of his college course, prevented him after graduation from en- 
 gaging actively' and continuously in business. He spent considerable 
 time in the Adirondacks region, seeking to establish his health, but 
 without success. He died at Martin's, N. Y.. Dec. 31, 1877. 
 
 He married Nov 20, 1873, Miss Virginia Houghton of Bath. 
 
 Osgood Wtman Eogers was born in Brunswick, Feb. 8, 1840. 
 During the year following graduation he taught at Bluehill and Hamp- 
 den. In August, 1873, he entered the Baijgor Theological Seminary, 
 graduating in June, 1876. He was settled several years in Farming- 
 ton, and is now pastor of the Congregational Church in Bridgton. 
 
 He married Aug. 1, 1872, Miss M. A. Evans, and has two children. 
 
 George Melville Seiders was born in Union, .Tan. 15, 1*^44. 
 The two years immediately following graduation he was principal of 
 the Greeley Institute, Cumberland Centre. He was then submaster 
 of the High School at Waltham, Mass., for one year, resigning to 
 accept a professorship in the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut at 
 Cheshire, Conn., where he remained one j^ear. In July, 1876, he 
 began the study of law, was admitted to the bar in October, 1878, and , 
 is now engaged in practice in Portland. In 1877 he was elected to 
 represent Yarmouth and North Yarmouth in the Maine Legislature. 
 
 In November, 1874, he married Miss Clarice S. Hayes of North 
 Yarmouth, and has two daughters. 
 
 William Cummings Shannon was born in Loudon, N. H., May 8, 
 1851. He entered immediately upon the study of medicine after 
 leaving college. He studied at the Portland School for Medical 
 Instruction at Bowdoin College, and at the Bellevue Hospital College 
 of New York, from which latter institi^iion he received the degree of 
 M. D. in 1874. He was immediately appointed ambulance surgeon 
 of Bellevue Hospital for one year ; at the expiration of this term of 
 service he passed an examination and received a commission as assist- 
 ant surgeon of the United States army. His army life has been 
 spent at Fort Porter, BuflFalo, N. Y., Fort Clark, Texas (where he 
 remained five years, after which he spent a six-months' leave of ab- 
 sence in the hospitals of New York Citj'), Fort D. A. Russell, 
 Wyoming Territory, and Fort Thornbury, Utah, where he is at 
 present. 
 
GRADUATES. 833 
 
 Frank Wood Spaulding was born in Bingham, April 29, 1844. 
 Immediately after graduation he began the study of medicine, grad- 
 uating from the medical department of the University of the City 
 of New York, Feb. 16, 1875. He was for a few mouths assistant 
 physician in the New York City lunatic asylum for females. He 
 returned to Bingham in June, 1875, where he engaged in the general 
 practice of medicine until October, 1876, when he went to Brattle- 
 boro', Vt., being appointed assistant physician in the insane asylum 
 of that State. He remained there until December, 1877, when he 
 removed to Epping, N. H., where he has since resided, being en- 
 gaged in the general practice of his profession, and also as associate 
 physician to the Rockingham County house of correction, insane asy- 
 lum, and almshouse. 
 
 He married Oct. 20, 1880, Miss Abby T. Stearns of Epping. 
 
 George Webber Stone was born in Livermore Falls, Jan. 7, 1849. 
 After completing his college studies he returned to his native place, 
 where engaged in farming he has continued to reside till the present 
 time. 
 
 ~ George Mason Whitaker was born in Southbridge, Mass., July 
 30, 1851. During his college course he was instrumental in planning 
 and starting the college paper, the Bowdoin Orient. After graduation 
 he became editor of the Southbridge Journal, which paper he subse- 
 quently purchased and of which he is still editor and proprietor. He 
 afterward established the Temple Star, a Temple of Honor journal, 
 which is now in its eighth year. 
 
 He married in 1872 Miss Allie E. Weld of Southbridge, and has 
 two daughters. 
 
 Hakold Wilder was born in Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 24, 1850. 
 He adopted the profession of teaching, studied for some time in Leip- 
 zig, Germany, and is settled at Barre, Mass. 
 
 He is married and has one child. 
 
 1873. 
 
 LoRBN Foster Berry was born in Leeds, March 31, 1847. The 
 year following graduation he was principal of the High School in 
 Brunswick. In the fall of 1874 he entered the Yale Theological 
 School, and on graduating in 1877 he was immediately settled as 
 pastor of the Congregational Church in Plantsville, Conn. 
 
 He married in 1878 Miss S. Louisa Coy, for two years teacher of 
 mathematics in Smith College, and has one child. 
 
834 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 "William Augustine Blake was born in Bangor, July 4, 1851. 
 He chose the profession of law and pursued the studj' at the Boston 
 University, from which he graduated with the degree of LL. B. in the 
 spring of 1875, and shortly after was admitted to the bar in Bangor. 
 After a brief sickness, terminating in inflammation of the bowels, he 
 died at his home in Bangor, Nov. 25, 1875. A Bangor paper in a 
 notice of his death used these words : " He was a young man of few 
 pretensions, but of true merit and solid worth ; and it was the recogni- 
 tion of these characteristics which won for him such universal esteem 
 and friendship." The "William A. Blake" scholarship was estab- 
 lished in ,the college in memory of him by his mother, Mrs. Noah 
 Woods of Bangor. 
 
 Albekt Joel Boardman was born in St. Stephen's, New Bruns- 
 wick, Feb. 6, 1852. He has been engaged in business in the West 
 since graduation, his present residence being Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 James MoLellan Boothbt was born in Newfield, Dec. 7, 1851. 
 After graduation he adopted the medical profession and immediately 
 began the preparatory study, taking one course of lectures in the 
 Medical School of Maine and two years' lectures at the Detroit 
 Medical College, graduating at the latter institution in March, 1876. 
 He then settled in Dubuque, Iowa, where he is engaged in the prac- 
 tice of his profession. 
 
 Hbrvet Wilfred Chapman was born in Bethel, Oct. 15, 1850. 
 He taught one year at Kennebunk and two years at Brunswick, and 
 in 1876 entered upon theological study at the Yale Divinity School. 
 After completing his theological studies the precarious condition of 
 his health prevented his entering upon the active work of the ministry, 
 and he went to California in the hope that his health might be re- 
 established in a more favorable climate. His present address is New- 
 hall, Cal. 
 
 Nathan Dane Appleton Clark was born in Alfred, April 15, 
 1852. After graduation he pursued the study of law in the office of 
 Hon. W. L. Putnam (1855) of Portland until the summer of 1875. 
 Being then admitted to the bar he removed to Lynn, Mass., where he 
 has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. 
 
 Edwin James Cram was born in East Parsonfield, Oct. 17, 1846. 
 He taught for several years after graduation, most of the time as prin- 
 
GRADUATES. 835 
 
 cipal of the High School at Kennebupk. He has recently entered 
 upon the study of law, reading in the office of Strout, Gage & Strout of 
 Portland. 
 
 John Arthur Cram was bom in East Parsonfield, July 10, 1848. 
 He engaged in teaching after graduation. Prostrated by an attack of 
 brain fever, he died at his home in Parsonfield, July, 1874. 
 
 " Cram's college course was characterized by the highest degree of 
 integrity and virtue. He took a prominent part in sporting matters, 
 being one of the best of the last crew Bowdoin sent to the inter- 
 collegiate regatta. The fame which he had gained as a^contortionist 
 rendered him known in all parts of the State, and many who knew 
 him only by his public acts, will be sorry to learn of his decease." — 
 Bowdoin Orient, Oct. 14, 1874. 
 
 Augustus Luther Crocker was born in Paris Hill, May 4, 1850. 
 After graduation he spent a year and a half in a post-graduate course 
 of study in mechanical engineering, at Bowdoin College and the Mas- 
 sachusetts Institute of Technology. He then became connected with 
 the Springfield Iron Company, manufacturers of railroad iron in 
 Springfield, 111. In 1881 he removed to Minneapolis, Minn., where 
 he united in establishing the business house of Crocker & Pell, found- 
 ers and machinists and mechanical engineers. 
 
 Benjamin Tappan Deering was born in Augusta, Nov. 19, 1850. 
 He went to Europe shortly after graduation, studied for two or three 
 years in the University of Berlin, and in 1876 went to France and 
 established himself in Paris, where he has since remained, meeting 
 with success as a teacher of the English language for some time aijd 
 more recently being engaged in business. 
 
 Isaac Luther Elder was born in East Windham, July 27, 1847. 
 For a short time following graduation he taught in the High School at 
 Orrington Corner, and in the spring of 1874 went to Hampden as 
 principal of the Hampden Academy, where he continued through the 
 school year of 1875. In the mean time he had pursued a course of 
 legal study, and was admitted to the bar in Portland at the October 
 term, 1875. On June 1, 1876, he opened an office in Portland, where 
 he has since been engaged in the practice of law. 
 
 He married Oct. 31, 1875, Miss Georgie A. Starbird of Falmouth, 
 and has a dauffhter. 
 
836 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 John Fbederick Elliot was born in Auburn, April 15, 1850. 
 The year after graduation he was teacher of mathematics and sciences 
 in Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass. During the two following 
 years, 1874 to 1876, he was principal of the High School in Win- 
 chendon, Mass., and in 1876 he became principal of the High School 
 in Hyde Park, Mass., which position he still occupies. 
 
 Albert Cushman Fairbanks was born in Augusta, Aug. 21,. 1850. 
 After completing his college course he entered upon a course of pro- 
 fessional study in music at the Boston Conservatory. In 1876 he 
 became a member of the Boston College of Music, but his health 
 failed and he died at his home in Augusta, May 1 7, 1877. A care- 
 fully collected and preserved herbarium, made during his college 
 course, has been presented to the college by his mother. 
 
 William Green Fassett was born in Bath, Sept. 25, 1850 He 
 studied law in the office of Butler (1846) & Libby (1864) of Port- 
 land, and in 1878 was admitted to the Cumberland bar He remained 
 in Portland- one year in the practice of his profession, when he went 
 to Denver, Col., seeking relief from pulmonary trouble, and after re- 
 gaining his health in a measure resumed the practice of his profession 
 in that city. 
 
 Frank Astley Floyd was born in Saco, May 31, 1848. The year 
 after graduation he was principal of the High School in Brewer. In 
 the fall of 1874 he began the study of law in Bangor, and in 1876 
 having been admitted to the bar he opened an office in Bangor, where 
 he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession His resi- 
 dence is in Brewer, where he has been a member of the superintending 
 school committee and subsequently supervisor of schools. 
 
 He was married July 28, 1875, to Miss Laura A. Nason, daughter 
 of Dr. Chas. B. Nason (M. D. Medical School of Maine, 1847), and 
 has two children, a daughter and a son. 
 
 Royal Ebastds Gould was born in Biddeford, Feb. 8, 1851. 
 For some time after graduation taught in free high schools in the 
 State of Connecticut. He studied law in Biddeford during 1874 and 
 1875, and was admitted to the York County bar in 1878. Since 1878 
 he has been principal of the grammar school in Biddeford, and he has 
 also been a member of the superintending school committee of that city. 
 
 Francis March Hatch was born in Portsmouth, N. H., June 7, 
 1852. Immediately after graduation he began the study of law in the 
 
GRADUATES. 837 
 
 office of his father, Hon. Albert R. Hatch (1837), and having been 
 admitted to the Rockingham County bar, removed in 1877 to the 
 Sandwich Islands and opened a law office in Honolulu. 
 
 Addison Emeet Herrick was born in Greenwood, June 24, 1847. 
 The three years following graduation he taught in the Abbott Family 
 School at Farmington. In the autumn of 1877 he was elected princi- 
 pal of the Bluehill Academy at Bluehill, which position he occupied 
 three years. In the mean time he had studied law in Bethel and had 
 been admitted to the Oxford bar at the March term of the Supreme 
 Judicial Court, 1877. In July, 1881, he formed a partnership with 
 Hon. Enoch Foster of Bethel under the firm name of Foster & Herrick, 
 and has since been engaged in the practice of law in that town. ' 
 
 He married in June, 1882, Miss Mary D. Chase of Bluehill. 
 
 « 
 Horace Bakrows Hill was born in Harrison, June 29, 1851. 
 
 After graduation he was associated with Thomas Kneeland (1874) in 
 
 charge of the academy at South Berwick, for two years begtuning in 
 
 the autumn of 1874 ; and during the school year of 1876-77 he was 
 
 principal of the Hampton Academy at Hampton, N. H. He then 
 
 began the studj^ of medicine with his brother. Dr. EH. HUl of Lew- 
 
 iston, continuing his preparation in the Medical School of Maine and 
 
 the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was 
 
 graduated in the class of 1880. April 12, 1881, he was appointed to 
 
 the position of assistant superintendent in the Maine hospital for the 
 
 insane at Augusta. 
 
 George Evans Hdghes was born in Bath, Jan. 19, 1861. He is 
 principal of the High School at Bath, where he has been ever since 
 his graduation. 
 
 Alfred Greeley Ladd was born in Portland, April 2, 1851. He 
 taught for several j-ears after completing his college course, pursuing 
 his medical studies in the mean time at the Bowdoin Medical School, 
 and serving for one year as director of the college gymnasium. He 
 received the degree of M. D. from the college in 1878, and the follow- 
 ing year was house pupil at the Maine General Hospital. He began 
 the practice of his profession at Pepperell, Mass., but after a few 
 months removed to Philadelphia, where he is now settled. 
 
 He married Aug. 1, 1882, Miss Jessie M. Sweat of Brownfield. 
 
 John Nathaniel Lowell was born in South Newburg, Sept. 20, 
 1846. In the autumn of 1873 he entered the Andover Theological 
 
838 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Seminary, where he remained one year. After preaching one year he 
 resumed his theological studies at the Yale Divinity School, and was 
 graduated in 1877. He was ordained Nov. 22, 1877, pastor of the 
 Congregational Church in Milton, N. H., and was installed October, 
 1880, over the West Congregational Chui-ch in Haverhill, Mass., where 
 he is now settled. 
 
 He married July 5, 1877, Miss Hattie B. Richardson of Rowley, 
 Mass. 
 
 Augustus Fkeedom Moulton was born in Jay, May 1, 1848. The 
 year immediatelj^ following graduation he was tutor of mathematics in 
 Bowdoin College. In the summer of 1874 he began the study of 
 law in the office of Hon. W. L. Putnam (1855) in Portland, and was 
 admitted to the bar in October, 1876. He has always retained his 
 residence in Scarboro', but follows the practice of his profession in 
 Portland. He has held various oflBces of responsibility in Scarboro', 
 including those of town agent and member of the superintending 
 school committee, and he was elected by that town in 1878 and re- 
 elected in 1879 as a member of the House of Representatives of the 
 Maine Legislature. 
 
 George Sewall Mower was born in Greene, April 20, 1853. 
 Immediately after graduation he began the study of law at Newberry, 
 S. C, and on April 5, 1878, had been admitted to practise in all the 
 courts of the State and in the district and circuit courts of the United 
 States. He held for two terms the office of warden of the town of 
 Newberry, and for several j^ears has been a member of the county 
 board of school examiners for Newberry County. In 1874 he was a 
 candidate for the House of Representatives of South Carolina. 
 
 He married June 13, 1876, Miss Fannie D. Jones, and has a 
 daughter and a son. 
 
 William Gilmau Reed was born in Dresden, March 31, 1849. 
 He taught, after completing his college course, at South Deerfleld 
 and at Orange, Mass. He pursued his professional studies in the 
 Medical School of the college, where he was graduated in 1878. Be- 
 ginning practice at Martha's Vineyard, he afterwards removed to North 
 Brookfleld and then to Starbridge, Mass., where he is now settled. 
 
 Albert Francis Richardson was born in Sebago, July 2, 1841. 
 After graduation he became principal of the High School in Bridgton, 
 which position he has held uninterruptedly to the present time. For 
 
GRADUATES. 839 
 
 several years he has been a member of the school committee of Se- 
 bago, and also one of the selectmen of the same town ; he is at pres- 
 ent one of the superintending school committee of Bridgton. 
 
 He married Nov. 27, 1873, Miss Emma F. Tolman of Harrison, 
 and has one daughter. 
 
 Daniel Arthur Robinson was born in East Orrington, June 22, 
 1850. 1 The year following graduation he was principal of the High 
 Schools in Orrington and Hampden. From June, 1874, to January, 
 1876, he was principal of the Free High School in Brewer ; and from 
 the latter date to July, 1877, he was principal of the West Side gram- 
 mar schools in Bangor. He was then appointed principal of aU. the 
 grammar schools of Bangor, which position he held until the summer 
 of 1878. In July, 1878, he began the studj' of medicine, and was 
 graduated at the Medical School of Maine, June 2, 1881. Dur- 
 ing the three years of his attendance at the Medical School he was 
 director of the gymnasium in Bowdoin College, and a part of the 
 time was also instructor in mathematics. After his graduation in 
 medicine he settled in Bangor, where he has since practised his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 He married July, 1881, Miss Lettie Harlow of Bangor. 
 
 Franklin Clement Robinson was born in East Orrington, April 
 21, 1852. In 1874, the year following graduation, he was appointed 
 instructor in analytical chemistry and mineralogy in Bowdoin College, 
 which position he occupied until Commencement, 1878, when he was 
 elected to the Josiah Little professorship of natural science. In 1881 
 he was elected to the chair of chemistry and mineralogy, which posi- 
 tion he fills at the present time. Since 187« he has been a member of 
 the superintending school committee of Brunswick. 
 
 He married Aug. 29, 1877, Miss Ella M. Tucker of Brunswick, 
 and has one child, a son. 
 
 Cassander Cart Sampson was born in Harrison, Sept. 2, 1850. 
 In March following graduation he became assistant teacher of the 
 Nichols Academy at Dudley, Mass., where he remained until June, 
 1875. He then entered the Andover Theological Seminary, where he 
 took the usual course of three years and graduated in 1878. During 
 the first year of his ministry he preached in Oilman ton Iron Works, 
 N. H. In October, 1879, he became acting pastor of the Congrega- 
 tional Church in Pembroke, N. H., and was ordained and installed as 
 pastor of that church on May 18, 1881. 
 
840 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 David William Snow was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 10, 1851. 
 On Nov. 1, 1877, he began the study of law in the office of Hon. W. 
 L. Putnam (1855) of Portland, where he continued until September 
 of the following year ; he then entered the Harvard Law School, re- 
 maining one year, and returning to Portland was admitted to the Cum- 
 berland bar in the fall of 1879. He has since been engaged in the 
 practice of his profession in Portland in partnership with Mr. F. C. 
 Payson (1876). 
 
 Clakence Marshall "Walker was born in Wilton, Oct. 11, 1847. 
 He went immediately after graduation to California, and is principal 
 and one of the proprietors of Oak Mound School at Napa City in that 
 State. He was elected in 1879 superintendent of schools. 
 
 Frank Shepakd Waterhouse was born in Portland, Sept. 7, 
 1853. The two years following graduation he studied law in the office 
 of Hon. T. B. Eeed (1860) in Portland. In September, 1875, he en- 
 tered the Harvard Law School, where he was graduated in June, 1876. 
 Since that time he has resided in Portland, and engaged in the prac- 
 tice of his profession. For several j-ears he has been assistant county 
 attorney for Cumberland Coutity. 
 
 Fred Eugene Whitney was born in Farmington^ Nov. 26, 1850. 
 He engaged in teaching after completing his college course, and was 
 for several years connected with the Boston public schools. In 1878 
 he received an appointment as pi-ofessor of English literature in the 
 government school at Tokio, Japan. He remained in Japan for three 
 years, when he returned to this country and entered upon the study 
 of law. 
 
 Frederic Arthur WlLSoN was born in Orono,, April 23, 1852. 
 After graduation he taught for two years (1873-75) as principal of 
 the Fryeburg Academy, and for four years ( 1875-79) as instructor in 
 mathematics and natural sciences in the Hallowell Classical and 
 Scientific Academy, Hallowell. In the fall of 1879 he entered the 
 Bangor Theological Seminary, graduating at that institution in June, 
 1882, and shortly after accepted an invitation to preach at Billerica, 
 Mass. 
 
 Andrew Peters WisweLl was born in EUsWorth, July 11, 1852. 
 Immediately after graduation he begkn the study of law in Ellsworth, 
 and was admitted to the bar at the April term of the Supreme Judicial 
 
GRADUATES. 841 
 
 Court, 1875. He then opened an office in Ellsworth, where he has 
 since been engaged in the practice of his profession, holding also the 
 office of judge of the municipal court for the county of Hancock. 
 He married Miss Emma Greene of Brunswick. 
 
 1874. 
 
 Albion Gilbert Bradstreet was born in North Bridgton, Jan. 30, 
 1852. After graduation he was for more than two years engaged in 
 civil engineering in connection with the Maine Central and Eastern 
 Railroads, and for more than a year was principal of the High School 
 at Gardiner. He then began the studj' of law in Portland, and sub- 
 sequently took a two-years' course at the Harvard Law School. He 
 opened an office for the practice of law in Portland, with a branch 
 office at Bridgton, and in 1879 was elected by Bridgton a representa- 
 tive in the Maine Legislature, and re-elected in 1860. In 1881 he was 
 appointed acting general manager and chief engineer of the Tehuan- 
 tepec Inter-Ocean Railroad Company, a large and important organi- 
 za,tion which is engaged in building a railroad in Mexico across the 
 Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 
 
 Geokge Milton Brock was born in Portland, Nov. 21, 1852. He 
 has been living at his home in Portland since graduation, but his 
 occupation is not reported. 
 
 Samuel Valentine Cole was born in Machiasport, Dec. 29, 1851. 
 The autumn following graduation he was appointed tutor in rhetoric 
 at Bowdoin College, where he remained one year. He then became 
 principal of the classical department of the High School at Bath, 
 which position he continued to hold until the summer of 1877, when 
 he was appointed instructor in Latin in Bowdoin College. He con- 
 tinued as instructor in the college until 1881, in the fall of which year 
 he accepted an appointment as teacher in the Greylock Classical 
 Institute at South Williamstown, Mass. 
 
 He married in April, 1880, Miss Annie Talbot of East Machias. 
 
 Marshall Wheelock Davis was born in Milan, N. H., July 20, 
 1854. After graduation he spent three years (1875-78) in Europe, 
 where he fitted himself for a teacher, and after his return he was for 
 a short time principal of the High School in Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 Hannibal Hamlin Emeet was born in Portland, Jan. 7, 1853. 
 For a short time after graduation he taught at St. Augustine School 
 in Topsham, and then began the study of law in the office of his 
 
842 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 father, Hon. George F. Emery (1836), in Portland. In October, 
 1876, he entered the Boston University Law School, where he re- 
 mained one year, and completing his studies in the oflflce of Hon. W. 
 L, Putnam (1856) of Portland, he was admitted to the bar in April, 
 1878. He did not practise his profession, but having settled in Bos- 
 ton, Mass., became the general business manager of the Boston Post. 
 In 1881 he resigned this position and removed to Portland. 
 
 Elbeidgb GrERRY, Jr. , was born in Portland, Aug 18, 1853. He 
 studied law after graduation and began practice in Portland. He sub- 
 sequently removed to New York and became a member of the law 
 firm of Voorhees, Morrison & Gerry. In 1881 he was appointed by 
 Mayor Grace a member of the elevated-railroad commission of New 
 York City. 
 
 Walter Temple Goodale was born in Saco, Sept. 7, 1851. After 
 graduation he removed to Benicia, Cal., where he became teacher of 
 Latin and Greek in St. Augustine College. He has been continuously 
 connected with that institution to the present time, being appointed in 
 1879 head master. 
 
 Rotheus Augustus Gray was born in Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 5, 
 1851. Mr. Gray had taken a professional course in medicine, and 
 had received the degree of M. D. from the college before becoming a 
 member of the academical department. After graduation he returned 
 to California, his former home, and engaged in the practice of his pro- 
 fession in Burney Valley, Shasta County. 
 
 Frank Warren Hawthorne was born in Bath, July 1, 1852. He 
 has been connected with his father in business at Bath ever since his 
 graduation. In 1881 Governor Plaisted appointed him to a position 
 on his staff. ' 
 
 WiLLARD RoscoB Hemmenway was born in Wellington, March 4, 
 1850. After graduation he was for two years principal of the Greeley 
 Institute at Cumberland Centre, and for one year principal of the 
 High School at Minneapolis, Minn. In 1878 he removed to La 
 Crosse, Wis., where he has been engaged in teaching to the present 
 t me. During the years 1878 to 1881 he also studied law in the leis- 
 ure allowed him by his school work. 
 
 Ernest Sidney Hobbs was born in Saco, Oct. 1, 1850. Soon 
 after graduation he accepted the position of superintendent of Leigh's 
 
GRADUATES. 843 
 
 Mill at Boston Highlands, Mass., where he remained a short time and 
 then removed to Selma, Ala. He has since been engaged in cotton 
 manufacturing at that place. 
 
 Edwaed Otis Howard was born in Winslow, March 11, 1852. 
 He taught after graduatijon, studied law, and settled in the practice of 
 his profession at Kendall's Mills. 
 
 Charles Henkt Hunter was born in Clinton, Feb. 6, 1853. The 
 two years succeeding graduation he was principal of the Limerick 
 Academy at Limerick. He then began the study of medicine in the 
 Portland School for Medical Instruction and in the Medical School of 
 Maine, and graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
 New York City in 1S78. He was then engaged for one year in the 
 practice of medicine at Newport, at the close of which time he went 
 abroad and continued his studies in medicine and surgery for three 
 years, chiefly in Vienna.and Berlin, returning in the spring of 1882. 
 
 He married Feb. 9, 1878, Miss Margaret Orr Stone of Brunswick. 
 
 Henry Johnson was born in Gardiner, June 25, 1855. He studied 
 abroad, for three years after graduation, the Continental European 
 languages, and on his return to this country was appointed in 1«77 
 instructor in modern languages in the college. In 18«1 he was made 
 college professor of modem languages, librarian, and curator of the 
 art collection. Through his efforts a good beginning was made toward 
 a collection of casts of famous pieces of statuary for the college. In 
 1882 he was elected to the Longfellow chair of modern languages, and 
 given a two-years' leave of absence to prosecute further his studies 
 abroad. 
 
 He married in 1881 Miss Fannie M. Robinson of Thomaston. 
 
 Chakles Frederic Kimball was born in Portland, July 31, 1854. 
 The September after graduation he entered the law office of Hon. W. 
 L. Putnam (1855) of Portland, where he remained until October, 
 
 1875. He then removed to New York City and continued his studies 
 in a private oflBce, and also as a student in the Columbia Law School, 
 at which institution he was graduated in May, 1876. From that time 
 until Nov. 31, 1876, he was secretary for the board of judges of the 
 Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, Pa. He then removed to 
 Chicago, 111., which is now his home, and has been since November, 
 
 1876. engaged in the carriage business and one of the firm of C. P. 
 Kimball & Co. 
 
844 , HISTOEY OF EOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Levi Houghton Kimball was born in Bath, Feb. 23, 1853. After 
 graduation he began the study of medicine with Dr. William E. Payne 
 (M. D 1838) of Bath, and from 1875 to 1877 was a member of 
 the Medical School of Boston University in Boston, Mass. At- 
 tended lectures at the New York Ophthalmic Hospital in the winter of 
 1877-78, and was regularly graduated both from that institution and 
 from the Boston University School of Medicine. He then settled in 
 Bath, where he has since remained in the active practice of medi- 
 cine. In 1880 he was elected a member of the city government of 
 Bath. 
 
 He married Sept. 21, 1876, Miss Elizabeth M. Payne of Bath. 
 
 Thomas Kneeland was born in Harrison, June 19, 1851. He 
 taught for several years after graduation, being principal for some 
 time of the academy at South Berwick. He then read law in the 
 office of Hon. W. L. Putnam (1855) of Portland, and removed thence 
 to Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Ira Stephen Locke was born in Biddeford, Feb. 4, 1853. Imme- 
 diately after graduation he began legal studies in the office of his 
 ' brother, Hon. Joseph A. Locke (1865), of Portland, and was ad- 
 mitted to the Cumberland bar at the term of. the Supreme Judicial 
 Court held in October, 1876. Ill-health prevented his entering upon 
 the practice of law until January, 1880, when he formed a copart- 
 nership with his brother and is now activelj' engaged in his profession 
 in Portland. 
 
 Daniel Ozro Smith Lowell was born in Denmark, April 13, 
 1851. The year following graduation he was principal of Gould's 
 Academy at Bethel, and then began the study of medicine, graduating 
 at the Medical School of Maine in June, 1877. In 1878 he became 
 principal of the High School in Ellsworth, where he still continues, 
 intending ultimately to practise medicine. 
 
 He married Dec. 2, 1878, Miss Emma W. Jordan of Skowhegan. 
 
 Edwaed Newton Merrill was born in Harmony, April 11, 1849. 
 He studied law after graduation, and is established in practice at 
 Skowhegan in the firm of Folsom & Merrill. 
 
 He married Nov. 2, 1876, Miss Anna A. Folsom of Skowhegan. 
 One child, a boy, was born June 1, 1881, and died Jan. 26, 1882. 
 
 Harry Vane Moorb was born in Limerick, July 6, 1854. Im the 
 winter following graduation he taught in Elliot; in the fall of 1875 
 
GKABUATES. 845 
 
 the Free High School at Cole's Corner, "Winterport ; and in the school 
 years of 1875-76 and 1876-77 the District High School in the " Upper 
 Village " at Winterport. In the mean time he had studied law in the 
 oflSce of his father at Limerick, and was admitted to the York County 
 bar at the January term of the Supreme Judicial Court, 1878. In 
 January, 1879, he removed to Berwick, where he has since been en- 
 gaged in the practice of his profession. 
 
 He married May 4, 1882, Miss Emma Frances Nason of Great 
 Falls, N. H. 
 
 William Henkt Modlton was born in Portland, March 18, 1852. 
 After graduation he engaged in business in Portland, and in 1875 
 united in establishing the firm of Woodbury & Moulton, bankers and 
 brokers, in that citj', of which firm he is the senior member. 
 
 He married Dec. 15, 1880, Miss Dora A. Deering of Portland. 
 
 Charles James Palmer was born in Kendall's Mills, Nov. 4, 1854. 
 After graduating he entered, in September, 1875, the Protestant 
 Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass., where he remained 
 one year. He then entered the General Theological Seminary in 
 New York City, at which institution he was graduated in June, 1878. 
 For a short time he acted as rector of St. John's Church, Bangor, and 
 is now rector of the Episcopal Church at Lanesboro', Mass. 
 
 He married Jan. 19, 1881, Miss Helen M. Watson of Cambridge, 
 who has since died leaving one child. 
 
 » 
 
 William Martin PArsoN was born in Westbrook, Aug. 18, 1852. 
 
 In the autumn following graduation he began the study of law in the 
 office of Strout & Holmes (1866), Portland, and was admitted to the 
 Cumberland bar at the October term. Supreme Judicial Court, 1876. 
 He then opened an office in Portland for the practice of law, where he 
 has since been engaged in his profession. 
 
 Arthur Lincoln Perry was born in Gardiner, March 10, 1851. 
 Immediately after graduation he began the study of law at Augusta, 
 and was admitted to the Kennebec bar at the August term of the 
 Supreme Judicial Court, 1875. He then opened an office in Gardiner, 
 where he has since been engaged in the practice of law. 
 
 Horace Wiley Philbrook was born in Brunswick, June 24, 1852. 
 After completing his college course he went to California, and has 
 since been engaged in teaching in San Francisco, reading law also in 
 the mean time. 
 
846 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Area Horace Powers was born in Pittsfield, Dec. 8, 1850. He 
 taught awhile after leaving college, studied law, and settled in New- 
 port, where he is engaged in the practice of his profession. 
 
 He married Dec. e, 1878, Miss Frances A. Shaw, and has one 
 child. 
 
 Thomas Charles Simpson was born in Newburyport, Mass., March 
 21, 1852. After graduation he began the study of law and entered 
 the Boston University Law School, at which institution he graduated 
 in 1877 ; since that time he has been engaged in the practice of his 
 profession in Newburyport. During the years 1879 to 1881 he was a 
 member of the school committee of the city of Newburyport, and at 
 present is a member of the board of aldermen of that city. He is 
 also associate justice of the Newburyport police court. 
 
 Chari.es Edwin Smith was born in Monmouth, July 20, 1844. 
 He went West after graduation, and has held the position of superin- 
 tendent of schools in the following places : Bellevue, Iowa, from 1875 
 to 1878; Lyons, Iowa, from 1878 to 1880; Crookston, Minn., since 
 1880. He is also largely engaged in wheat raising. 
 
 He was married in 1878. 
 
 Charles Cheslet Springer was born in Livermore, Nov. 4, 1852. 
 After graduation he studied modern languages and political economy 
 in Paris, France, and at the University of Leipzig, Germany ; return- 
 ipg he held the position of instructor in modern languages at Bowdoin 
 College for one year, 1876-77. He then engaged in the study of law, 
 and in 1879-1880 was elected by the town of Yarmouth a member of 
 the House of Representatives of the Maine Legislature. In 1880 he 
 was secretary of the famous "Hale Investigating Committee," ap- 
 pointed to examine into the alleged attempt to falsify election returns. 
 
 George Bourne Wheeler was born in Kennebunkport, Aug. 1, 
 1853. The year following graduation, he was principal of the High 
 School in Newport, and in 1875-76 he was principal of the High 
 School in DennysvUle. In 1876, in connection with his brother F. K. 
 Wheeler (1874), he became an editor and publisher of the Merrimack 
 Journal at Franklin Falls, N. H., where he remained until 1880, when 
 he removed to Bloomington, 111. ; he has since the latter date been 
 editor of the Bloomington Daily Leader. During 1879 and 1880 he 
 was a member of the board of education in Franklin Falls. 
 
 He married June 1, 1880, Miss Laura E. Crawford of Brunswick, 
 and has one child, a daughter. 
 
GRADUATES. 847 
 
 Fkank Kingsbury Wheeler was born in Kennebunkport, Nov. 23, 
 1854. After graduation he taught for some time in Wells and in 
 Kennebunkport. In 1876, in company with his brother George B. 
 Wheeler (1874) , he purchased the Merrimack Journal, published in 
 Franklin Falls, N. H., of which paper they assumed editorial man- 
 agement on May 1 of that year. After conducting the Journal for 
 some time he removed to Biftomington, 111., where he is now one of 
 the editors and proprietors of the Bloomingtpn Daily Leader. 
 
 Henkt Gardiner White was born in San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 
 24, 1855. The two 3-ears following graduation he was principal of 
 the High School in Gardiner. He then entered the law office of Hon. 
 W. L. Putnam (1855) of Portland, continuing his preparation the 
 next year in the Boston University Law School. In 1878 he began 
 the practice of his profession in Gardiner, where he still remains. In 
 May, 1878, he was appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court a com- 
 missioner of judgments. From 1879 to 1880 he was a member and 
 treasurer of the board of directors of Gardiner High School, and in 
 1880 was elected a member of the city council. 
 
 He married Oct. 24, 1878, Miss Alice Bradstreet, and has a son. 
 
 Henry Kirk White was born in Dresden, Feb. 8, 1849. For two 
 years after graduation he was teacher of mathematics and natural 
 science in the Kast Maine Conference Seminary in Bucksport. During 
 the next three years he was principal of Washington Academy at 
 East Machias, and at the close of that time he returned to his former 
 position in the East Maine Conference Seminary, which he still oc- 
 cupies. 
 
 He married Julj' 8, 1878, Miss Jennie C. Donnell of Alna. 
 
 1875. 
 
 Reuben Richard Baston was born in Bridgton, Feb. 18, 1850. 
 He taught for a short time after graduation, and then entered upon 
 the study of medicine, receiving the degree of M. D. from the Medi- 
 cal School of the college in 1879. He took up his residence and 
 began the practice of his profession in Cape Elizabeth, where he died 
 of diphtheria, September, 1880. 
 
 He married Miss Lucy Ellen Edwards of Monmouth. 
 
 Frederic Orin Baston was born in Bridgton, Jan. 14, 1852. The 
 year of his graduation from college he was superintendent of schools 
 in Hiram, and the year following graduation taught as principal of the 
 
848 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 High School in North Berwick. He then became principal of the 
 High School in Natick, Mass., a position which he has occupied to 
 the present time. 
 
 Charles Alvah Black was born in Paris, July 2, 1856. The 
 first year after graduation he was principal of the academy at Paris 
 Hill, and the second year was prlDcip||^of the Liberal Institute at 
 Norway. He , then studied law in the office of his father, the late 
 Judge Alvah Black (1m45) of Paris Hill, and being admitted to the 
 bar in September, 1878, he practised law with his father until the fall 
 of 1879. He then resumed teaching, and during the years 1879 and 
 1880 was principal of the high schools in Oxford, Lisbon, North 
 Norway, North Berwick, and Springvale. More recently he has 
 taught the High School in Berwick, and the Lincoln Academy, 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Seth May Carter was born in Winthrop, July 25, 1854. In the 
 autumn following graduation he entered upon the study of law in 
 Lewiston, and was admitted to the bar in Februarj', 1877. Since that 
 time he has engaged in the practice of his profession in Lewiston, 
 being connected with the firm of Frye (1850) , Cotton (1865) & "White. 
 
 He married Miss Mary A. Crosby of Auburn, and has two sons. 
 
 Charles Lorenzo Clark was born in Portland, April 16, 1853. 
 The nine months following graduation he passed in Europe in the 
 general study of practical engineering. Afler his return he practised 
 engineering in New York City for a short time. In the fall of 1878 
 he was principal of the grammar school at Gorham, and in the spring 
 of 1879 was a teacher in the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 In 1879 and 1880 he was instructor of mathematics in Cheltenham 
 Academy at Shoemakertown, Pa , a position which he resigned to 
 become, Feb. 1, 1880, an assistant of Mr T. A. Edison at Menlo 
 Park, N. J. He is now superintending the introduction of Edison's 
 electric light in New York City. 
 
 He married Sept. 14, 1881, Miss Helen E. Sparrow of Portland. 
 
 George Croswell Cressey was born' in Buxton, April 1, 1856. 
 During the three years following graduation he was instructor in 
 ancient languages in the High School, Bath, and also in the Alexan- 
 der Institute at White Plains, N. Y. He subsequently pursued the 
 study of Sanskrit and comparative philology for one year in the 
 graduate 'department of Yale College, New Haven, Conn., and for 
 
GRADUATES. 849 
 
 one year in the University of Leipzig, Germany. On his return he 
 was for a time instructor in metaphysics and ancient languages at the 
 Park Institute, Chicago, 111. In 1880 he accepted an appointment as 
 professor of modern languages in Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., 
 where he is teaching at the present time. 
 
 William John Curtis was born in Brunswick, Aug. 28, 1854. 
 The autumn following graduation he became local editor of the Daily 
 Whig and Courier of Bangor, which position he occupied until Novem- 
 ber, 1876, when he resigned to begin the study of law. He was 
 admitted to the bar of Penobscot County, April 28, 1878, and then 
 removed to New York Cit^', where he pursued a further course of studj' 
 in a private office and in the Law School of Columbia College. Since 
 May, 1879, he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in 
 New York. 
 
 He married June 13, 1881, Miss Angeline Sturtevant Riley of 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 William Augustus Deeking was born in Harrison, June 17, 1849. 
 The two years immediately following graduation he taught in the 
 Gilmanton Academy at Gilmanton, N. H. In the fall of 1877 he 
 became principal of the Essex Classical Institute at Essex, Vt., a 
 position which he has filled with success to the present time. 
 
 He married Nov. 21, 1877, Miss Alice Cora Chapman of Bethel, 
 and has a son 
 
 Geohge Newell Dorr was born in Centre Sandwich, N. H., Jan. 
 11, 1848. He is located at his native place, where he has been most 
 of the time since graduation. He has taught at his home and else- 
 where, but his present occupation is not reported. 
 
 Melville Augustus Flotd was born in Portland, Aug. 20, 1852. 
 The September following graduation he entered upon the study of law 
 in Portland, where he continued his studies until his admission to the 
 Cumberland County- bar at the January term of the Supreme Judicial 
 Court, 1878. He then opened an office in Portland, and has since 
 engaged in the practice of his profession. In the spring of 1879 he 
 was chosen a member of the Republican Citj' Committee. 
 
 Edwin Herbert Hall was born in Gorham, Nov. 7, 1856. The 
 first year after graduation he was principal of Gould's Academy in 
 Bethel, and the second year of the High School in Brunswick. He 
 
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850 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 then began the study of physics and chemistry at the Johns Hop- 
 kins University, Baltimore, Md , receiving the degree of Ph. D. from 
 that institution in June, 1880. The ensuing year he was assistant in 
 physics in that university, and in September, 1881, became in- 
 structor in physics in Harvard University. He has published several 
 valuable articles on the action of magnetism on electric currents, in 
 the American Journal of Mathematics and the American Journal of 
 Science and Arts. 
 
 He married Aug. 31, 1882, Miss Carrie E. Bothum of New Haven, 
 Conn. 
 
 "William Edwin Hatch was born in Jefferson ville, Ga., June 8, 
 1852. He has been teaching since graduation, most of the time as 
 principal of the High School at Branford, Conn. He has also been 
 engaged meantime in the study of law, intending ultimately to prac- 
 tise that profession. 
 
 Benjamin Wabeen Hewes was born in Plymouth, Mass^, Aug. 23, 
 1852. He taught for a time after graduation, and in 1876 began the 
 study of law in the office of Humphrey (1848) & Appleton (1864) of 
 Bangor. In 1879 he entered upon the practice of his profession at 
 Danforth, Washington County. 
 
 He was married Aug. 24, 1879. 
 
 Chakles William Hill was born in Biddeford, Sept. 19, 1847. 
 He studied for the Congregational ministry at the Yale Divinity School, 
 was graduated in 1878, and entered upon the pastoral work at Bran- 
 ford, Conn. This position he resigned in a year or two to engage in 
 home-missionary work at the West, and is laboring under the Amer- 
 ican Home Missionary Society at Park City, Utah. 
 
 Walter Hamlin Holmes was born in Calais, June 23, 1853. He 
 began the study of medicine immediately after graduation, studj-inw 
 for one year with Dr. Charles E. Swan (1844) of Calais. In Septem- 
 ber, 1876, he entered the second class of the Harvard Medical Scliool, 
 completing the examinations for the medical degree in the summer of 
 1878, holding the second rank in the class. Having passed success- 
 fully a competitive examination for the position of house officer at the 
 Boston City Hospital, he was connected with that institution for eigh- 
 teen months, — six months as medical externe and one year as house 
 surgeon. He received the degree of M, D. after completing his term 
 of hospital service, June, 1879. He settled in Waterbury, Conn., 
 
GRADUATES. 851 
 
 where a few months later he entered into a medical partnership with 
 Dr. Gideon L. Piatt. He is secretary of the New Haven County 
 Medical Society, and has published a paper on " Fracture of Both 
 Bones of the Leg " in the Annual Report of the Connecticut Medical 
 Society for 1882. 
 He married April 6, 1881, Miss Medora C. Piatt of Waterbury. 
 
 William G. Hunton was born in Eeadfleld, Nov. 13, 1852. He 
 is reported to be settled as a farmer in his native town, and is chron- 
 icled in the Maine State Register as supervisor of schools for the t«wn. 
 
 Seth Leonabd Larrabee was born in Scarboro', Jan. 22, 1855. 
 After graduation he taught one year as instructor of ancient languages 
 in Goddard Seminary, at Barre, Vt. In 1876 he began the study of 
 law in Portland, and having been admitted to the bar, April 10, 1878, 
 he opened an office in Portland, where he is still engaged in the prac- 
 tice of his profession. On Sept. 8, 1879, he was elected register of 
 probate for Cumberland County, to hold office four years from Jan. 1, 
 1880. 
 
 October, 1880, he married Lucretia B., daughter of Josiah Stur- 
 tevant, M. D., of Scarboro', and has a son. 
 
 David Maurice McPherson was born in Montreal, Canada, Feb. 
 11, 1852. The two years immediately following his graduation he 
 was principal of Gould's Academy in Bethel. He was one year prin- 
 cipal of the High School of Meredith, N. H., and two years of the 
 Colebrook Academy, Colebrook, N. H. Since July,. 1880, he has 
 been employed in the railway mail service, and resides at Gorham, 
 N. H. 
 
 He married June 22, 1882, Miss Lizzie E. Southworth of Port- 
 land. 
 
 George Fultok McQuillan was born in Naples, April 18, 1849. 
 During the two years following graduation he taught high schools in 
 various towns in the northern part of Cumberland County. He then 
 began the study of law with Hon. Bion Bradbury (1830) of Portland, 
 and was admitted to the bar, Oct. 26, 1879. He practised his pro- 
 fession one year in Casco, where during- the year 1877-78 he had held 
 the office of town clerk, and during the j'ear 1878-79 that of supervisor 
 of schools. In the fall of 1880 he removed to Portland, where he has 
 since been engaged in the practice of law. On June 4, 1881, he was 
 appointed judge-advocate-general on the staff of Governor Plaisted. 
 
852 HISTOEY OF BOWDOIN COLLKGE. 
 
 Wilson Nevens was born in Brunswick, Dec. 22, 1848. The win- 
 ter after graduation he taught the district school at Lincoln Centre, 
 and in the succeeding spring took charge of the academy at the same 
 place. During the next year he was principal of the academj' at 
 North Bridgton. In May, 1876, he began the study of law in the 
 office of Northend (1843) & Benjamin, in Salem, Mass. ; and in Sep- 
 tember, 1879, be began the practice of his profession in Portland. 
 
 He married May 1, 1880, Miss Josephine S. Stone. 
 
 EUnest Henry Notes was born in Gloucester, Mass., Nov. 21, 1853. 
 During the fall and winter following graduation he was principal of 
 the Barnard High Sthool in Southampton, Mass. In September, 
 1876, he entered the Harvard Medical School, where hei studied until 
 June, 1879, receiving the degree of M. D. from that institution in 
 June, 1880. In July, 1879, he became house officer in the City Hos- 
 pital in Boston, Mass., and in 1880 was promoted to the position of 
 house surgeon in that hospital. ' 
 
 Edward Sherburn Osgood was born in Shelburne, N. H., May 
 18, 1848. After graduation he adopted the profession of journalism, 
 and having taken up his residence in Portland, he became city editor 
 of the Daily Eastern Argus, a position which he still occupies. 
 
 He married Oct. 20, 1878, Miss Etta Haley of Fryeburg, and has 
 one child, a daughter. 
 
 Frederic Blanchard Osgood was born in Fryeburg, Nov. 10, 
 1851. After graduation he was for a time principal of the High 
 School in Lincolnville and the High School in Brownfield. He then 
 began the study of law, and after admission to the bar he entered 
 upon the practice of his profession in North Conway, N. H., where 
 he is now settled. He has been supervisor of schools in North Con- 
 way, and has held various local offices. 
 
 * 
 
 Horace Reed Patten was born in Bath, Feb. 20, 1854. He 
 chose the profession of law, and studied in the office of Hon. W. L. 
 Putnam (1855) of Portland. In the fall of 1,876 he sailed for San 
 Francisco, partly on account of his health. There, however, he was 
 prostrated by a hemorrhage from the lungs, and after a short sickness 
 died on the 28th of October. 
 
 Newland Morse Pettengill was born in Monmouth, March 24, 
 1851. He went to -the West after graduation, and taught in several 
 
GRADUATES. 853 
 
 places, being in 1877 district supervisor of schools in Pleasant Hill, 
 Pike County, III. He studied law, and has established himself in 
 practice in Memphis, Mo. 
 
 Okestes Pierce was born in Biddefoixl, June 5, 1853. After 
 graduation he entered the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., 
 where he remained one year, and during the next two years, 1876-78 
 he continued his studies in Boston, Mass. He was obliged by reaspn 
 of failing health to take an extended trip in California and the West 
 in 1878-79, and also in 1880-81, but is now engaged in the practice 
 of his profession in Boston. 
 
 WooDBDEY PuLsiFER was bom in Auburn, May 13, 1855. After 
 graduation he settled in Lewiston, and was appointed one of the offi- 
 cial stenographers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, a position 
 which he still retains. 
 
 He married May 20, 1879, Miss«Addie C. Pennell, and has one 
 child, a daughter. 
 
 William Edgar Rice was born in Bath, May 12, 1852. He stud- 
 ied medicine at the Columbia University, Washington, D. C, and is 
 settled in the practice of his profession in Bath. In 1880 he was 
 elected to the position of city physician. 
 
 He married Nov. 26, 1879, Miss Kate Houghton o| Bath. 
 
 Lincoln Albion Rogers was born in Topsham. The first year 
 after graduation he was principal of the High School in Topsham, 
 and he was then called to take charge of the High School in Castine, 
 where he remained two years. At the end of that time he removed 
 to Chicago, 111., where he was for two years a teacher in the Dear- 
 born Seminary, and in 1881 he was elected principal of the New 
 Britain Seminary in New Britain, Conn. 
 
 He married June 25, 1879, Margaret, youngest daughter of the 
 late Phineas Barnes (1829) of Portland. 
 
 Dddley Allen ' Sargent was born in Belfast, Sept. 28, 1849. 
 In the autumn following graduation he entered the- Yale Medical 
 School, from which institution he graduated in January, 1878, and 
 then took a special course of six mouths in New York. In the mean 
 time he had been instructor in pliysical culture at Yale College, a posi- 
 tion which he held until September, 1879. In the fall of 1878 he 
 opened a hygienic institute in New York City, which he conducted 
 
854 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 until the fall of 1879, when he accepted a position as professor of 
 phj'sical training, and director of the Hemenway Gymnasium at 
 Harvard University, where he still remains. In August, 1879, he 
 delivered a course of eighteen lectures before the Chautauqua Literary 
 and Scientific Association. 
 
 He married April 17, 1881, Miss Ella Fraser Ledyard of Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 Parker Prince Simmons was born in Kingston, Mass., Oct. 13, 
 1852. During the two years following graduation he was principal 
 of the High School in Mendon, Mass. ; he then accepted the position 
 of submaster of the High School in Lawrence, Mass., where he re- 
 mained two and one half years. At the close of that time he became 
 agent for Ginn & Heath of Boston, Mass., publishers of school and 
 college text-books, and subsequently for Clark & Maynard, New York. 
 
 Mtles Standish was bom in Boston, Mass,, Oct. 17, 1851. He 
 adopted the profession of medicine, and received the degree of M. D. 
 from Harvard University in 1879. The following year he was house 
 physician in the Carney Hospital, 'South Boston. For nearly two 
 years he continued his studies on the Continent at Berlin and Vienna. 
 He is settled in the practice of his profession in Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Robert Given Stanwood was born in Brunswick, July 1, 1854. 
 He taught after graduation, studied medicine in the Medical School of 
 the college, and received the degree of M. D. in 1878. Without en- 
 tering upon the practice of his profession, he accepted a position as 
 principal of the High School at Waterbury, Conn. , where he remained 
 until 1880. Owing to an injury which seriously impaired his health 
 he resigned his position in the High School, and is now engaged in 
 business at Waterbury. 
 
 He married Miss Frances D. Bowker of Brunswick; 
 
 George Eobinson Swasey was born in Standish, Jan. 8, 1854. 
 In November following graduation he began the- study of law in the 
 offlceof his father at Standish. In October, 1879, he entered the 
 Boston University Law School, Boston, Mass., and was graduated 
 from that institution in June, 1878. On April 12, 1878, he was admit- 
 ted to the Maine bar, and in the summer he was appointed tutor in 
 the Boston University Law School, a position which he has held to the 
 present time. In February, 1879, he was admitted to the bar of Suffolk 
 
GRADUATES. 855 
 
 County, Mass., and has since been engaged in practice in Boston. 
 He has assisted in the preparation of an American edition of " Benja- 
 min on Sales." 
 
 William Sylvester Thompson was born in Newburyport, Mass., 
 April 10, 1853. The three years following graduation he taught in 
 South Thomaston, Waldoboro', and Boothbay. In the fall of 1878 
 he entered the . Dartmouth Medical School, subsequently continuing 
 his studies at the Homosopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, Ohio, 
 at which institution he was graduated with the degree of M. D in 
 1879. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of medi- 
 cine in Augusta and Hallowell. 
 
 He was married June 9, 1881. 
 
 Horace Roger True was born in Litchfield, May 21, 1851. He 
 has been much interested in taxidermy, and has been employed in 
 practising that art, and in teaching at Monson and Blanchard, since 
 he left college. He is now residing at Greenville. 
 
 Francis Robbins Upton was born in Peabody, Mass., July 26, 
 1852. The two years following graduation he pursued special studies 
 in the Green Scientific .School at Princeton, N. J., where he received 
 the degree of M. S. He then studied one year under Helmholtz in 
 Berlin, Germany. On his return he became associated with Mr. T. 
 A. Edison in the development of the electric light and other inven- 
 tions, and has since resided at Menlo Park, N. J. 
 
 He married Sept. 16, 1879, Miss Elizabeth F. Perry of Brunswick, 
 and has one child. 
 
 Frank Pierce Virgin was born in Rumford, Oct. 13, 1850. After 
 graduation he studied medicine, received' the degree of M. D., and 
 settled in practice in Rochester, N. H. 
 
 He married Miss Annie Edgcomb of Great Falls, N. H., and has 
 one child a daughter. 
 
 Christopher Henry Wells was born in Great Falls, N. H.', July 
 5, 1856. After graduation he began the study of law in Great Falls, 
 and was admitted to the bar in June, 1878. He then united in form- 
 ing a partnership under the firm name of Wells & Burleigh, and has 
 since been engaged in the practice of his profession in Great Falls. 
 From 1875 to 1879 he was chairman of the school committee of that 
 city, and is at the present time a member of the House of Represent- 
 atives of the New Hampshire Legislature. 
 
856 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Albion Stinson Whitmore was born in Brunswick, Dec. 12, 1852. 
 Immediately after graduation lie entered upon the studj' of medicine, 
 and attended two courses of lectures at the Medical School of Maine 
 and one at Portland School for Medical Instruction. He then entered 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, from 
 which institution he was graduated on March 1, 1878. On May 1, 
 1878, he opened an ofHee in Boston, Mass., where he has since been 
 engaged in the practice of his profession. During the first year of 
 his practice he served as assistant to the surgeon in the out-patient 
 department of the Boston City Hospital. 
 
 Samuel Waeeen Whitmore was born in Bowdoinham, April 21, 
 1853. During the two years following graduation he studied law in 
 Yarmouth. In September, 1877, he entered the Albany Law School 
 at Albany, N. Y., where he finished his preparation for the bar in 
 May, 1878. He then settled in Albany, and has since been engaged 
 in the practice of his profession. 
 
 He married Miss L. M. Melcher of Brunswick. 
 
 Stephen Chalmkes Whitmore was born in Bowdoinham, July 19, 
 1850. He entered upon the study of law after graduation, was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in the autumn of 1876, and is settled in practice in 
 Gardiner, where for two years he has been a member of the city gov- 
 ernment. 
 
 He married Sept. 11, 1879, Miss M. Estelle Guibord of Wilkes- 
 barre, Pa., and has two children, a boy and a girl. 
 
 1876. 
 
 William Alden was born in Portland, Aug. 19, 1865. After 
 graduation. he began the study of medicine, graduating at the Medical 
 School of Maine in June, 1879. 'He then became a partner with Dr. 
 W. W. Greene of Portland, with whom he remained until January, 
 1880, when he opened an office at 666 Congress Street, Portland, 
 where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. 
 
 Charles Sewall Andrews was born in Otisfield, Dec. 19, 185 1. 
 The autumn following graduation he became principal of the High 
 School at Mankato, Minn., where he remained until the spring of 1877, 
 when he removed to San Francisco, Cal. He then began the study of 
 law with Judge M. C. Blake (1838) and in the Hastings College of 
 Law, being ^ member of the first class to graduate at that institution, 
 in 1881. He practised law for a short time in San Francisco, subse- 
 
GRADUATES. 857 
 
 quently becoming clerk to Mayor Blake of that city, which position 
 he occupies at the present time. 
 
 Tascus Atwood was born in Auburn, Feb. 8, 1854. After gradu- 
 ation he taught in Lubec, and in Hammonton, N. J. He then began 
 the study of law in Auburn, and was admitted to the Androscoggin 
 bar in May, 1879. He has since been engaged in the practice of his 
 profession in Auburn. 
 
 He married Aug. 13, 1878, Miss Helen E. Jameson of Lincoln, 
 and has one child, a daughter. 
 
 Arlo Bates was born in East Machias, Dec. 16, 1860. After 
 graduation he removed to Boston, Mass., and engaged in literary 
 work. In January, 1878, he was appointed secretary of the Young 
 Men's Bepublican Committee of Massachusetts, and editor of the 
 Broadside, a fortnightly paper issued by the committee and devoted 
 to civil-service reform. In August, 1880, he became editor in chief 
 of the Boston Courier, which position he still occupies. He is the 
 author of " Patty's Perversities," a novel in the Round Robin series, 
 published in the summer of 1881, and of numerous magazine articles 
 and poems. 
 
 He married Sept. 5, 1882, Miss Harriet L. Vose of Brunswick. 
 
 Collins Grant Burnham was born in Saco, May 9, 1*^54. The 
 autumn following graduation he entered the Bangor Theological Sem- 
 inary, graduating at that Institution in June, 1879. He was ordained 
 Dec. 10, 1879, at Westfield, Vt., where he preached one year. In 
 October, 18«0, he became acting pastor of the Congregational Church 
 at South Freeport, where he is still settled. 
 
 He married June 26, 1880,, Miss S. Elizabeth Cole of Brunswick. 
 
 Charles Herbert Clark was born in Bangor, March 14, 1854. 
 Taught at South Abington, Mass., Doylestown Seminarj^, Pa., and 
 Amsterdam Academy, N. Y. During the year 1877-78 he was a 
 student in the University, of Berlin, Germany. After his return to 
 this country he was for one year a student in the law office of Hon. 
 W. L. Putnam (1855), Portland, and since September, 1881, he has 
 been first assistant in the High School, Bath. 
 
 He married Dec. 31, 1878, Miss Anna L Perry of Brunswick, who 
 died in 1880. He has one child, a daughter. Aug. 2, 1882, he mar- 
 ried Miss Kate West Tallman of Bath. 
 
858 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 OsMAN Chakles Evans was born in Milan, N. H., March 21, 
 1851. The two years following graduation he was principal of the 
 High School at Pembroke. In the fall of 1879 he received an ap- 
 pointment in connection with the schools at Atlantic Citj', N. J., 
 where he remained two j'ears. At the end of that time he accepted a 
 position as teacher of ancient and modern languages in Hillside Sem- 
 inary, Norwalk, Conn. 
 
 He married June 30, 1880, Miss Philena N. Clark of Pembroke. 
 
 Oriville Clark Gordon was born in Chesterville, March, 1845. 
 The winter following graduation he attended lectures at the Medical 
 School of Maine in Brunswick, and was subsequently engaged in tak- 
 ing care of his father's farm and settling up his estate. 
 
 He married Dec. 18, 1879, Miss Louise Farnham of Waterville. 
 He died at Chesterville, Jan. 13, 1880, of typhoid pneumonia, after 
 a sickness of a few daj-s only. 
 
 Howard Elijah Hall was born in Newcastle, Nov. 13, 1853. 
 After graduation he began the study of law, and was admitted to the 
 bar of Lincoln County in the spring of 1880. Since his admission 
 he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Damariscotta. 
 
 Charles Taylor Hawes was born in Bridgton, Aug. 16, 1854. ' 
 After graduating he was principal of the high schools of Pembroke 
 and Hiram, and also of Greeley Institute, Cuniberland Centre. He 
 was then for a time a student in the law office of N. (1858) & H. B. 
 Cleaves, Portland. In September, 1879, he entered the Bangor The- 
 ological Seminary, at which institution he was graduated June 6, 
 1882. 
 
 Jere Merrill Hill was born in Buxton, Oct. 23, 1851. The two 
 years following graduation he was principal of the High School at 
 Limerick ; since that time he has held a similar position at Dexter. 
 
 He married Dec. 2, 1879, Miss Mary jZ!. Cressey of Bath. 
 
 Charles Davis Jameson was born in Bangor, July 2, 1855. For 
 some time after graduation he was engaged in practice as a civil engi- 
 neer in Bangor and in St. Jo^n, New Brunswick. In the winter of 
 1x77-78 he was appointed assistant superintendent of the Memphis 
 and Charleston Kailroad, and removed to Memphis, Tenn. Here he 
 remained until the latter part of 1880, when he accepted the position 
 of civil engineer on the Mexican Central Railroad, with headquarters 
 at the City of Mexico. 
 
GRADUATES. 859 
 
 Edward Hazen Kimball was born in Bath, Aug. 24, 1854. Im- 
 mediately after graduation he began the study of law in the office of 
 C. W. Larrabee (1844) of Bath. After a year spent abroad he was 
 admitted to the Sagadahoc bar in the spring of 1878. In the fall of 
 tha;t year he entered the Boston University Law School, where he was 
 graduated in June, 1879. He then returned to Bath and engaged in 
 the practice of his profession. 
 
 Frank Reed Kimball was bom in Salem, July 10, 1853. After 
 graduation he settled in business in Boston, Mass., where he has been 
 interested in various enterprises. In 1882 he published a book en- 
 titled " Signs of the Times," which set forth the alleged historical 
 and prophetical significance of the Great Pyramid of Egj'pt. 
 
 He married April 24, 1878, Miss Eleanor W. Brodhead of Boston, 
 and has one child, a son. 
 
 John Samuel Leavitt, Jr., was bom in Gorham, June 5, 1852. 
 After graduation he settled in Gorham, where he is now engaged in 
 the coal and hay business. 
 
 He married June 2, 1880, Miss Elizabeth Bertha Moore of Gorham. 
 
 John Gair Libbt was born in Wells, Dec. 7, 1854. During the 
 four "years following graduation he taught in Gould's Academy, Bethel, 
 in the High School, Princeton, in the academy at South Berwick, 
 and in the High School at Richmond, occupying the latter position 
 two- years. In the fall of 1880 he entered the Dartmouth Medical 
 School, but remained a short time only, leaving on account of poor 
 health. He then removed to Auburndale, Mass., where he resumed 
 his medical studies. 
 
 Walter Hastings Marrett was bom in Standish, Oct. 28, 1851. 
 For a few months after graduating he was principal of the High 
 School at Yarmouth. In 1877 he purchased the 'college bookstore 
 in Brunswick, which he carried on, at the same time attending lectures 
 in the Medical School of Maine during 1878 and 1879. He then closed 
 out his business in Brunswick and finished his medical studies in the 
 Dartmouth Medical School. Since leaving the Medical School he has 
 been employed as agent for difierent school-book publishing firms in 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 George Bartol Merbill was born in Cumberland, Nov. 15, 1854. 
 After graduation he was employed as mechanical engineer at the pulp 
 
860 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 mill in Yarmouth, and at the paper mill in Cumberland Mills, until 
 the winter of 1878-79, when he accepted a similar position with the 
 Forest Fibre Company of Berlin Falls, N. H. In the spring of 1881 
 he removed to Waterbury, Conn., and entered the office of Welton & 
 Bennett, city engineers. In June, 1882, he became draughtsman in 
 the employ of the Genesee Valley Canal Railroad Company at Mount 
 Morris, N. Y. 
 
 He married June 27, 1881, Mrs. Vina L. Loring of Freeport, Me. 
 
 John Adams Mobrill was born in Auburn, June 3, 1856. The 
 year succeeding graduation he was assistant in the High School in 
 Auburn. He then began the study of law in Auburn and was ad- 
 mitted to the Androscoggin bar, Feb. 12, 1880. Since that date he 
 has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Auburn, in the 
 firm of N. & J. A. Morrill. 
 
 Erwin Barrett Nkwcomb was born in Zanesville, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1855. 
 The year following graduation he was employed in the shops of the 
 Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad at Chillicothe, Ohio. During the 
 next year he was employed in Lawrenceburg, Ind., and in St. Louis, 
 Mo. ; he then returned to Cumberland Mills, where he has since 
 been engaged as mechanical engineer in the paper mills of S. D. 
 Warren & Co. 
 
 He married June 30, 1881, Miss Nellie S. Pennell of Cumberland 
 Mills. 
 
 Arthur Taylor Parker was born in Chelsea, Mass., June 21, 
 1854. During the first four years following graduation he was in the 
 employ of Parker & Carey, produce commission merchants of Boston, 
 Mass. He was then for one year private secretary to F. R. Kimball 
 (1876), and in the summer of 1882 he again became connected with 
 the firm of Parker & Carey. 
 
 He married June 15, 1881, Miss Grace L. Wilson of Boston. 
 
 George Parsons, Jr., was born in Kennebunk, April 8, 1854. 
 During the fall and winter following graduation he studied in a com- 
 mercial college in Boston, Mass., and was subsequently for several 
 years in the banking house of his uncle in New York City. He is 
 now engaged in business in Cairo, 111. 
 
 John Howard Payne was born in Bath, June 14, 1855. In the 
 fall of 1876 he began the study of medicine in the Medical School of 
 
GRADUATES. 861 
 
 Boston Uniyersity, where he took the full course and graduated in 
 June, 1879. He then began the practice of his profession in Boston, 
 where he is now engaged in practice, making a specialty of diseases 
 of the eye and ear. 
 
 He married Dec. 3, 1879, Miss Ernestine Houghton of Bath. 
 
 Franklin Conant Payson was born in Portland, Sept. 4, 1856. 
 After graduation he began the study of law with Hon. W. L. Putnam 
 (1865) in Portland, and was admitted to the Cumberland bar in April, 
 1878. In October, 1878, he opened an office in Portland for the prac- 
 tice of his profession, and in 1879 formed a partnership with D. W. 
 Snow (1873) under the firm name of Snow & Payson. 
 
 Charles Albert Perry was born in Blanchard, April 11, 1852. 
 He wa^ principal of the High School at Orrington during the fall of 
 1876, and then entered the Bangor Theological Seminary, where he 
 remained until June, 1878 ; the next year he studied in the Andover 
 Theological Seminary, graduating at that institution in June, 1879. 
 He was acting pastor of the Congregational Church in Windham, Vt., 
 for about one j'ear, and subsequently^ entered the Yale Theological 
 Seminarj' for a j'ear of advanced study. 
 
 Georgk Franklin Pratt was born in Bangor, April 5, 1852. The 
 two j-ears following graduation he was principal of the High School 
 in Brewer. He then entered the General Theological Seminary of 
 the Protestant Episcopal Church of America in New York Citj', at 
 which institution he graduated in June, 1881. During the summer of 
 1880 he supplied the pulpit of the Episcopal Church of Bangor, and 
 after completing his theological studies he became rector of Grace - 
 Church, Bath, where he is still settled. 
 
 He married July 27, 1881, Miss Fannie D. Harlow of Brewer. 
 
 George Thomas Prince was born in Woburn, Mass., July 23, 
 1854. Immediatelj' after graduation he was employed as engineer in 
 the Boston Water Works in South Framingham, Mass., where he 
 remained until the completion of the works. He then engaged in 
 the insurance business in Brockton, Mass., until May, 1880, when he 
 received an appointment in connection with the construction of water 
 works in the, towns of Towanda, Pa., and Owego, N. Y. In Jan- 
 uary, 1881, he was placed in charge of the office of the Toledo, Del- 
 phos and Burlington Railroad in Frankfort, Ind. In the fall of that 
 year he was appointed chief , engineer of the Burlington and Ohio 
 Eiver Eailroad Company, with heaglquarters at Carlinsville, 111., but 
 in the spring of 1882 he was obliged by poor health to return East. 
 
862 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 He married Jan. 27, 1879, Miss Carrie A. Mitchell of Brunswick, 
 and has one child, a daughter. 
 
 Walter Augustine RoBiNsr)N was born in East Orrington, Dec. 
 15, 1854. The year following graduation he was principal of Frye- 
 burg Academy, Fryeburg Jn the spring of 1877 he became principal 
 of the High School at Orange, Mass., where he remained three years. 
 In November, 1880, he was appointed principal of Washington Acad- 
 emy in East Machias, and in the summer of 1881 he took charge of 
 the High School in Franklin Falls, N. H., where he is also superin- 
 tendent of schools. 
 
 He married Aug. 9, 1882, Miss Florence L. Warren of Fryeburg. 
 
 Allan Ellington Rogers was born in Ellsworth, April 23, 1855. 
 After graduation he taught in Hampden until the winter of 1879, when 
 he was elected professor of modern languages and militaiy tactics in 
 the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, in 
 Orono. 
 
 He married Nov. 25, 1880, Miss Mary F. Butler of Hampden. 
 
 William Henry Gulliver Rowe was born in Auburn, Feb. 20, 
 1853. After graduation he adopted the profession of medicine, and 
 pursued his preparatory studies in the Medical School of Maine, the 
 Portland School for Medical Instruction, and the College of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons in New York City, at which latter institution 
 he graduated in March, 1880. In October following he began the 
 practice of his profession at Cape Elizabeth Depot, succeeding to the 
 practice of Dr. R. R. Baston (1875). 
 
 Alvah Horton Sabin was born in Norfolk, N. Y., April 9, 1851. 
 In the fall of 1876 he was elected professor of chemistry and natural 
 science in Ripbn College, Ripon, Wis., where he remained untU the 
 spring of 1880, when he resigned. In June, 1880, he was appointed 
 professor of chemistry and physics in the University of Vermont and 
 State Agricultural College, in Burlington, Vt. 
 
 He married July 8, 1878, Miss Julia A. Robinson of Bangor, who 
 died Aug. 28, 1879. In October, 1880, he married Miss Mary Ellen 
 Barden of Portage, Wis. He has one chUd, a son. 
 
 Akpheus Sanford was born in Attleboro', Mass., July 5, 1856. 
 After graduation he began the study of law in Boston, Mass., and 
 was admitted to the Suffolk County bar, Nov. 13, 1880. Since his 
 
GRADUATES. 863 
 
 admission he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in 
 Boston. 
 
 Charles Sakgent was born in Machias, Nov. 21, 1853. After 
 graduation he began the study of law, which he continued in Port- 
 land and in Machias until his admission to the Washington County 
 bar in January, 1879. • Since that date he has practised his profession 
 in Machias. 
 
 He married Dec. 20, 1880, Miss Ada M. Leland of Eastport. 
 
 Hardy Ropes Sewall was born in Newton, Mass., March 18, 
 1856. The fall after graduation he was employed in an engineer's 
 oflSce in Charlestown, Mass., and removed to Albany, N. Y., during 
 the winter of 1877, when he entered the employ of the Atlantic and 
 Pacific Telegraph Company and the American District Telephone 
 Company. He was also employed by the National Associated Press 
 of New York as reporter of legislative proceedings during the annual 
 sessions of the State Legislature. He is now connected with the 
 Commercial Telephone Company of Albany. 
 
 Oliver Crocker Stevens was born in Boston, Mass., June 3, 
 1855. In the fall of 1876 he entered the Boston University Law 
 School, was graduated at that institution in June, 1879, and was 
 admitted to the Suffolk County bar in the same month. He has since 
 been engaged in practice in Boston. 
 
 Fred Mild Stimson was born in Waterville, March 17, 1855. 
 Immediately after graduating he entered the firm of J. Stimson & 
 Son, Auburn, where he remained until January, 1879, when he re- 
 moved to Indianapolis, Ind. , and entered the employ of the Cincin- 
 nati, Indianapolis and Lafayette Railroad as travelling auditor. 
 Early in the spring of 1880 he was appointed agent of the Indian- 
 apolis and Cincinnati elevator of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. 
 Louis and Chicago Railroad, at Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Charles Sumner Taylor was born in Newcastle, March 3, 1855. 
 After graduation he taught for some time in Edgecomb. For the last 
 three years he has been assistant in the High School at Goshen, Elk- 
 hart County, Ind. 
 
 William Gay Waitt was born in Pittston, Feb. 8, 1855. During 
 the winter of 1876-77 he taught in North Boothbay. He had pre- 
 viously begun the study of law in Gardiner, and in January, 1878, he 
 removed to Augusta, where he was admitted to the bar at the March 
 
864 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 term, 1878. He was connected with Baker (1836) and Baker (1868) 
 of Augusta in the practice of law until September, 1880, when he re- 
 moved to Boston, Mass., where he has since practised his profession. 
 
 Charles Gardner Wheeler was born in Peabody, Mass., Sept. 
 21, 1855. After graduation he resided some time in Topsham, and 
 assisted in the preparation of a histpry of Brunswick, Topsham, and 
 Harpswell. He was then for two years principal of the High School 
 at Winchendon, Mass., and has since been engaged in literarj' work 
 at Winchendon. He finished a volume of reference entitled " Who 
 Wrote It ? " an index to the authorship of the more famous works in, 
 ancient and modern literature, begun by his uncle, the late William 
 A. Wheeler (1853) of the Boston Public Librarj'. He has since fin- 
 ished and published "Familiar Allusions," a valuable hand-book of 
 miscellaneous information. 
 
 John Henrt White was born in Bowdoinham, Dec. 30, 1853. Since 
 graduation he has been engaged in teaching, having had charge suc- 
 cessively of schools in China, and in Somerset, Marshpee, and Town- 
 send, Mass. He is now teaching in Townsend, where he is also 
 superintendent of schools. 
 
 He married Nov. 14, 1877, Miss Clara Alma Blethen of Bruns- 
 wick, and has had one child, who died in infancy. 
 
 Charles Augustus Whittemoke was born in Lisbon, Dec. 4, 1850. 
 For a short time after graduating he taught at Deer Isle, and was sub- 
 sequently in the employ i of the Portland Machine Works, Portland. 
 He then went to Mechanic Falls, where he was connected with the 
 Evans Rifle Company until September, 1878, when he removed to 
 Michigan. He was then engaged as a mechanical engineer in differ- 
 ent parts of the State, and in March, 1881, he established himself in 
 business as a machinist at Grand Rapids, Mich. 
 
 BiON Wilson was born in Thomaston, April 21, 1855. After grad- 
 uating he studied law in Augusta in the office of Hon. J. W. Brad- 
 bury (1825), and was admitted to the Kennebec bar in March, 1878. 
 He immediately entered upon the practice of his profession in Au- 
 gusta, where he has since lived: He was a delegate to the Demo- 
 cratic National Convention held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in June, 1880. 
 
 He married June 4, 1879, AJiss Jennie M. Sweat of Brunswick. 
 
 Frank Vernon Weight was born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 13, 1855. 
 The year following graduation he pursued a post-graduate course of 
 
GRADUATES. 865 
 
 study at Bowdoin College. He then began the study of law in Salem, 
 Mass., in the office of Judge G. F. Choate (1843), and was admitted 
 to the Essex bar in October, 1879. Since that time he has been en- 
 gaged in the practice of his profession in Salem. He is also private 
 secretary to Judge Endicott of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. 
 
 1877. 
 
 William Gekrish Bealb was born in Winthrop, Sept. 10, 1854. 
 After graduation he taught for a short time in Indiana, and then 
 became principal of the High School in Hyde Park, 111., which posi- 
 tion he retained until June, 1881. In the mean time he had pursued 
 the study of law in Chicago, 111. , and was admitted to the bar on 
 March 4. 1881. In July of that year he opened an office in Chicago, 
 where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. 
 
 John Eliphaz Chapman was born in Bethel, July 14, 1853. 
 After graduation he spent eight months in European travel, and on 
 returning to this country he entered upon the study of law in the 
 office of Strout & Holmes {'1866) of Portland. He subsequently pur- 
 sued his professional studies for one year, 1880-81, in the Harvard 
 Law School, since which time he has been residing in Boston. 
 
 Charles Edwin Cobb was born in Auburn, Aug. 13, 1856. After 
 graduation he became connected with the firm of J. F. Cobb & Co., 
 shoe manufacturers, of Auburn, and on Dec. 1, 1881, was made a 
 partner in that firm. 
 
 He married Dec. 24, 1878, Miss Annie C. Bradford of Auburn, 
 and has one child, a daughter. 
 
 William Titcomb Cobb was bom in Rockland, July 23, 1857. 
 After graduation he studied two years at the Universities of Leipzig 
 and Berlin, Germany. On his return he entered the Harvard Law 
 School, where he remained until June, 1880. He was admitted to the 
 Knox County bar in December, 1880. He did not practise his pro- 
 fession, but at once entered the partnership of Cobb, Wight & Co. of 
 Rockland, where he has since been engaged in business. 
 
 EuGAB Millard Cousins was born in Southwest Harbor, Sept. 7, 
 1850. In the autumn following graduation he entered the Bangor 
 Theological School, where he pursued the regular course of study and 
 was graduated June 2, 1880. On June 9, 1880, he was ordained 
 
866 HISTORY OF BOWDOIlSr COLLEGE. 
 
 pastor of the Congregational Chuch in Cherryfleld, where he is now 
 settled. 
 
 He married June 10, 1?81, Miss Ella N. Burnham of Cherryfleld, 
 who died Aug. 2, 1882. 
 
 Frank Herbekt Crocker was born in Maehias, Aug. 8, 1851. 
 After graduation he was for some time principal of the Grammar 
 School in Maehias, and in the mean time pursued the study of medicine. 
 In 1881 he entered the Medical School of Maine, at which institution 
 he was graduated in June, 1882. 
 
 Fred Henry Dillingham was born in Bangor, April 7, 1857. 
 Immediately after graduation he began the study of medicine in the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York- City, where he was 
 graduated March 12, 1880. In October of that year he entered the 
 St. Francis Hospital in New York, where he remained until February, 
 1882, filling successively the positions of assistant surgeon, house sur- 
 . geon, and house physician. Since his graduation in medicine he has 
 also been engaged in private practice in New York, and in January, 
 1882, he was appointed assistant sanitary inspector on the board of 
 health of that city. 
 
 David Blin Fuller was born in Albion, January, 1853. The 
 year following graduation he taught in Gorham and in Gray. In the 
 fall of 1878 he became principal of the Greeley Institute at Cumber- 
 land Centre, which position he retained until June, 1881. He then 
 devoted his entire time to the study of law, and was admitted to the 
 Kansas bar on Dec. 14, 1881. He settled in Eureka, Kan., where he 
 is a member of the firm of Clogston & Fuller, attorneys at Jaw. 
 
 He married March 8, 1882, Miss Clara A. "Wilson of Orono. 
 
 Joseph Knight Gkeene was born in Otisfield, Sept. 23, 1852. 
 During the autumn after graduation he was principal of the High' 
 School in Shirley, Mass. ; in Decembe^, 1877, he went to Des Moines, 
 Iowa, where he studied law until August, 1878, when he was admit- 
 ted to the Iowa bar. In December, 1878, he returned to Worcester, 
 Mass., where he continued the study of law ; arid in September, 1879, 
 he opened an office in that city and has since been engaged in the 
 practice of his profession. 
 
 William Chute Greene was born in Otisfield, Sept. 23, 1852. 
 After graduation he taught as principal of the High School at Prince- 
 ton, and then began the study of law in the office of M. T Ludden 
 
GBADUATES. 867 
 
 (A. M., 18S0) of Lewiston. He was admitted to the Iviaine bar in 
 March. 1879, and in May follo\^ing began practice at Mechanic Falls 
 in company with J. A. Roberts (1877). He remained there one year, 
 and in May, 1880, he removed to Boston, Mass., where he is now 
 practising. 
 
 Serope Aemenag GiJRDJiAisr was born in Talass, Csesarea, Asia 
 Minor, Dec. 12, 1847. The year following graduation was passed in 
 study in this country and in lecturing at several places in New Eng- 
 land on the Eastern question. In December, 1878, he sailed for Con- 
 stantinople, Turkey, where he has since been engaged in business. 
 
 Frank Hob art Hakgraves was born in Effingham, N. H., May 
 13, 1854. The year following graduation he was a partner with his 
 father in the manufacture of leather board at North Shapleigh. In 
 the summer of 1879 he became general agent of the Saco River 
 Woollen Company, and has since resided in West Buxton. 
 
 George Arthur Holbrook was born in Portsmouth, N. H., Feb. 
 17, 1858. In the autumn following graduation he entered the Protes- 
 tant Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass., pursued the 
 full course, and was graduated in June, 1880. He was ordained to 
 the diaconate of the Episcopal Church in St. Luke's Cathedral, June 
 27, 1880, and then became assistant minister of St. Paul's Church, 
 Erie, Pa. He remained there until August, 1881, when he became 
 rector of St. Paul's Church, Bellevue, Ohio. 
 
 He married Oct. 11, 1881, Miss Lucia Austin of Erie. 
 
 Charles Egbert Knight was born in Wiscasset, March 16, 1854. 
 After graduation he was assistant in the oflBce of the clerk of courts 
 for Lincoln County, and studied law. After admission to the bar he 
 opened an office in Wiscasset, where he has since been engaged in 
 practice. 
 
 He married June 10, 1880, Miss Carrie B. Dodge of Wiscasset. 
 
 George Thomas Little was born in Auburn, May 14, 1857. 
 After graduation he spent a year in travel and study in Europe. In 
 the fall of 1878 he became assistant teacher in the Thayer Academy, 
 Prof. J. B. Sewall (1848), principal, at Braintree, Mass. He has 
 charge of the Latin department. In the summer of 1881 he was 
 elected a member of the Maine Historical Society, and in 1882 he 
 published a genealogy of the Little family, an octavo volume of over 
 six hundred pages. 
 
868 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN OOLLEdE. 
 
 Frank Josseltn Ltnde was born in Bangor, Oct. 2, lfi55. After 
 graduation he entered the employ of F. T. Meaher & Co. in the 
 apothecary and drug business, Portland, and in September, 1878, he 
 became a member of that firm. On Oct. 4, 18«0, when about return- 
 ing from Old Orchard Beach, where his firm had established a branch 
 store, he attempted to board a moving train, but lost his hold, fell be- 
 tween the cars, and was instantly killed. 
 
 Geoege Henkt Marquis was born in Portland, Jan 1", 1850. In 
 the October following graduation he entered the Boston University 
 Law School, where he remained one j-ear. He then continued the 
 study of law in the office of Clarence Hale, Esq. (1869), of Port- 
 land, and was admitted to the Cumberland bar at the January term, 
 1880. In the June following he opened an office in Portland, where 
 he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. 
 
 Samuel Appleton Melcheb was born in Brunswick. The year 
 after graduation he taught at Greenville, and at Webster, ftlass., and 
 the next year he taught in Boothbay. In January, 1)S81, he became 
 principal of the High School in Oxford, Mass. 
 
 Edward Clarence Metcalp was born in Brunswick, April 11, 
 1857. Graduating from the department of civil engineering, he was 
 shortly after employed as assistant to Col. George E. Waring, Jr., the 
 eminent sanitary engineer of Newport, R. I. He remained in this 
 position two years superintending work at Cumberland Mills, Irving- 
 ton, N. y.. New York City, Long Branch, N. J., Stockbridge, Bev- 
 erly, and South Framingham, Mass., Bridgeport, Conn., and other 
 places. In January, 1880, he went to Memphis, Tenn., as engineer 
 in charge to construct the sewerage works of that city. " The great 
 mental strain attending the supervision of this important work, to- 
 gether with the unfavorable climate, was more than his naturally strong 
 constitution could bear, and he was taken down with malarial fever 
 near the middle of May, just previous /o the closing up of work for 
 the season. Somewhat improved in health, though still weak, he 
 started June 1 for New England by way of the Mississippi Eiver 
 and the Great Lakes. While on his way North he took cold and suf- 
 fered a relapse of the fever, from which he never rallied, but passed 
 away July 8, in less than two weeks after reaching Newport." 
 
 Frank Asa Mitchell was born in Auburn, Oct. 30, 1856. Dur- 
 ing a part of the year following graduation he was principal of the 
 High School at Harwich (Cape t od), Mass. In August, 1878, he en- 
 
GRADUATES. 869 
 
 tered upon business in Bellows Falls, Vt. ; subsequently removing to 
 Glenn's Falls, N. Y., where he is now engaged in the drug and station- 
 ery business. 
 
 He married Jan. 19, 1881, Miss Annie L. Flint of Bellows Falls, Vt. 
 
 Carroll Willie Morrill was born in West Falmouth, July, 
 1853. Immediately after graduation he became principal of the math- 
 ematical department in the High School at Bath, a position which he 
 retained until June, 1H81. In the meantime he had pursued the study 
 of law, and was admitted to the Sagadahoc bar at the April term, 
 1881. In the summer of 1881 he opened an office in Portland, where 
 he has since been engaged in practice. 
 
 Charles Wyman Morse was born in Bath, Oct. 21, 1856. Since 
 graduation he has been engaged in business in Bath and in New York 
 City. 
 
 Charles Lendol Nickeuson was born in Dorchester, Mass., Feb. 
 2, 1854. After graduation he became principal of the High School 
 at Woodford's Corner, Deering, and was subsequentlj'^ for a time 
 engaged in business in Boston, Mass., and in Saco In September, 
 1880, he was elected instructor in mathematics and natural sciences 
 at the Hallowell Classical and Scientific Academy at Hallowell, where 
 he still remains. 
 
 He married Aug. 23, 1881, Miss Ella M. Graves. 
 
 Fremont Manning Palmer was born in Portland, Feb. 29, 1856. 
 After graduation he became book-keeper and general accountant in 
 the boot and shoe store of his father in Portland, where he is engaged 
 at the present time. 
 
 Egbert Edvtin Peary was born in Penns3-lvania, May 6, 1856. 
 The two years following graduation he was engaged as civil engineer 
 and surveyor in Fryeburg. In July, 1879, he was one of eight suc- 
 cessful competitors for a temporary position on the United States 
 Coast Survey, and six months later was one of the four who received 
 permanent appointments in the service. In the fall of 1881, after a 
 very severe and protracted examination, he was one of four candidates 
 who were nominated by the President, confirmed by the Senate, and 
 received their commissions as officers of the engineer corps. United 
 States navy, in November, 1881. His present headquarters are at 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
870 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Curtis Appleton Perky was born ia Dorchester, Mass., Ma^- 6, 
 1854. In August following graduation he sailed for Europe, where 
 he remained four years, devoting the greater portion of the time to 
 the study of art. On his return in August, 1881, he settled in New 
 .York City, where he opened a studio in the spring of 1882. He gives 
 his attention entirely to the painting of figures and portraits. 
 
 William Perky was born in Salem, Mass., July 22, 1857. The 
 year following graduation he studied law in Salem, and in the fall of 
 1878 entered the Harvard Law School. He took a two-years' course, 
 and after graduation from that institution he formed a partnersliip 
 under the firm name of Perry & White, for the practice of law in 
 Salem. He has since been engaged in his profession in Salem. 
 
 Edwin Jddson Pkatt was born in Yarmouth, July 7, 1853. The 
 two years following graduation he was engaged in New York City on 
 literary and clerical work in the preparation of an " Encyelopssdia of 
 Materia Medica." He then attended courses of instruction in the 
 Long Island College Hospital at Brooklyn, N. Y., and in the New 
 York Homoeopathic Medical College, at which latter institution he was 
 graduated in March, 1881. In April following he was appointed 
 resident phj'sician at the Brooktyn Maternity and School for Training 
 Nurses, which position he stiU occupies. 
 
 Lewis Henry Reed was born in Mexico, Jan. 28, 1853. During 
 the year following graduation he taught in Livermore and in West- 
 port, and was subsequently employed in practical engineering in Bos- 
 ton, Mass. In 1880 he returned to Mexico, where he has since 
 engaged quite extensively in farming, and also to some extent in sur- 
 veying and in real-estate business. 
 
 He married Oct. 26, 1880, and has one child, a daughter. 
 
 John Alfred Roberts was born in Gardiner, Sept. 10, 1852. 
 For a few months following graduation he was principal of the High 
 School in Brunswick. In the spring of 1878 he began the study of 
 law in the office of M. T. Ludden, Esq. (A. M., 1880), of Lewiston, 
 and after admission to the bar he opened an office in connection with 
 W. C. Greene (1877), for the practice of law at Mechanic Falls. He 
 remained there until May 1, 1880, when he removed to Norway, 
 where he has since practised his profession. He is a member of the 
 school committee of that town, and in the spring of 1882 was also 
 elected town agent. 
 
 He married Oct. 24, 1881, Miss Carrie A. Pike of Norway. 
 
GRADUATES. 871 
 
 Edwin Albert Sceibnek was born in Topsham, April 18, 1856. 
 After graduation he spent several months in special study with Prof. 
 Carmichael at Brunswick, and in the spring of 1878 he began the 
 study of agricultural chemistry with Dr. G. A. Liebig in Baltimore, 
 Md. He was subsequently engaged in business in Brunswick until 
 January, 1880, when he accepted an appointment as professor of nat- 
 ural science in Ripon College, Eipon, Wis., to succeed Prof. -A. H. 
 Sabin (1876). In June, 1881, he resigned his professorship and 
 became assistant in the laboratory of Edward Weston, electrician to 
 the United States Electric Light Company of Newark, N. J. 
 
 He married August, 1880, Miss Annie E. Thompson of Topsham, 
 and has a daughter. 
 
 Charles Bailey Seabuey was born in Gardiner, Feb. 5, 1857. 
 For a short time after graduation was engaged in business in Gardi- 
 ner. In 1879 he was appointed principal of the Gardiner High 
 School, a position which he retains at the present time. 
 
 He married Aug. 11, 1881, Miss Euth L. Williams of Gardiner, 
 and has one child, a son. 
 
 James Wingate Sewall was born in Oldtown, Nov. 11, 1852. 
 The two 3'ears following graduation he was employed in civil engineer- 
 ing and in making township survej's, mostly in Northern Maine. In 
 the spring of 1880 he was assistant engineer of the sewerage works 
 in Memphis, Tenn., under Col. George E. Waring, Jr., of Newport, 
 R. I. In the summer of 1880 he was appointed by Col. Waring 
 assistant in charge of the sewerage of cities, since which time he has 
 been engineer of sewerage works in Nashua, N. H., Norfolk, Va., 
 and Birmingham, Ala. 
 
 Addison Monroe Sherman was born in Lincoln, Mass., March 30, 
 1855. Immediately after graduation he entered the General Theologi- 
 cal School in New York City, at which institution he graduated in 
 June, 1880. He was ordained to the diaconate of the Episcopal 
 Church in St. Luke's Cathedral, Portland, June 27, 1880, and was 
 then appointed assistant minister of St. Bartholomew's Church in 
 New York, where he is settled at the present time. 
 
 He married June 29, 1880, Miss Kate Louise Luther of New York. 
 
 Lewis Alfred Stanwood was born in Brunswick, April 4, 1862. 
 After graduation he taught as principal of the High School at Bay 
 City, Mich., until the summer of 1878, when he became principal of 
 
872 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 the public schools in West Bead, Wis. : this position he retained until 
 July, 1881. He then entered the law department of the Iowa State 
 University in Iowa City, where he received the degree of LL. B. on 
 June 20, 1882. 
 
 G-EOEGE William Tillson was born in Thomaston, Dec. 18, 1852. 
 The sparing and summer following graduation he was principal of the 
 Grammar School in Thomaston ; during the school year 1878-79 he 
 was assistant principal of the Nichols Academy in Dudley, Mass., 
 and in .the fall and winter of 1879 taught in Rumford. In the spring 
 of 1880 he was engaged in civil engineering in connection with the 
 sewerage system of Memphis, Tenn., and since that time he has 
 planned and constructed sewerage systems in Kalamazoo, Mich., and 
 Omaha, Neb. 
 
 Henkt Dwight Wiggin was born in Auburn, April 30, 1856. 
 The live months immediately following graduation he studied in the 
 Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. ; he then removed to Win- 
 throp, where he settled, and has since been engaged in farming. 
 
 He married June 5, 1878, Miss Sturtevant of Winthrop, and has 
 one child, a son. 
 
 1878. 
 
 Clarence Atwood Baker was born in Newcastle, Jan. 3, 1852. 
 Immediately after graduation he entered the Portland School for 
 Medical Instruction. In the winter of 1879-80 he taught in North 
 Pownal, and since that time he has pursued his medical studies in 
 Portland and in the Medical School of Maine, from which latter insti- 
 tution he was graduated in June, 1882. 
 
 Haktlet Cone Baxter was born in Portland, July 19, 1856. 
 After graduation, he went into the employ of the Portland Packing 
 Company, and on Jan. 1, 1880, became a member of that firm. 
 
 Alfred Edgar Burton was born in Portland, Inarch 24, 1857. 
 During the year following graduation he was civil engineer and land 
 surveyor in Brunswick. In the summer of 1879 he was a successful 
 competitor for a position in the United States Coast Survey at Wash- 
 ington, D. C. ; and six months later, after a severe competitive exami- 
 nation, he received a permanent appointment as topographical draug•ht^ - 
 man in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey at Washington. 
 This position he resigned in 1882 to become instructor in topographi- 
 cal engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
 
GRADUATES. 873 
 
 James Thomas Davidson was born in Oxford, Ohio, July 28, 
 
 1856. After graduation he began the study of law in Lafayette, Ind.) 
 and was admitted to the bar Nov. 1, 1879. He immediately began 
 the practice of his profession in Lafayette, and in the fall of 1880 was 
 elected county attorney of Tippecanoe County, Ind., a position which 
 he now occupies. 
 
 Daniel Henky Felch was born in Groton, Mass. , July 9, 1856. The 
 year following graduation was assistant teacher in the Essex Classical 
 Institute, Essex, Vt. In the fall of 1879 he entered the Harvard Law 
 School at Cambridge, Mass., and he was admitted to the bar at 
 "Worcester, Mass., at the September term, 1881. 
 
 Willis Walton French was born in Portsmouth, N. H., April 
 27, 1857. The fall and winter following graduation he was instructor 
 in chemistry and mechanical drawing in a private school in Ports- 
 mouth. In the spring of 1880 he began the study of medicine, and in 
 September of that year entered upon a three-years' course in the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. 
 
 Philip Lee Paine was born in Portland, Feb. 4, 1857. The year 
 following graduation he taught in Farmington Falls, and during the 
 next year was principal of the Farmington Union School at Farming- 
 ton. He then became an assistant teacher of natural science in the 
 High School in Portland. In the mean time he had pursued the study 
 of law, and was admitted to the bar of Cumberland County at the 
 April term, 1882. 
 
 George Washington Phillips was born in. Lewiston, Nov. 15, 
 
 1857. After graduation he began the study of medicine in Lewiston, 
 and attended lectures at the Medical School of Maine in 1879 and 
 1880. He then entered the Long Island College Hospital, from which 
 institution he was graduated in 1881. 
 
 Barrett Potter was born in Eeadfleld, April 19, 1857. In the' 
 spring following graduation he became principal of the High School 
 in Calais, a position which he retained until 1882, when he resigned to 
 enter upon the study of law. 
 
 Thomas Moses Prat was born in Dover, N. H., March 21, 1857. 
 The year following graduation he studied law in Dover, and in Sep- 
 tember, 1879, entered the Harvard Law School at Cambridge, Mass. 
 In the spring of 1880 he returned to Dover, where he continued his 
 
874 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 legal studies and was admitted to the bar of New Hampshire in the 
 spring of 1882. In the fall of li^80 he was elected a representative 
 in the New Hampshire Legislature from Ward 4 of Dover. 
 
 George Colby Pdrington was born in Embden, June 27, 1848. 
 After graduation he was principal of the High School in Brunswick 
 until the close of the school j'ear in 1881, when he resigned that posi- 
 tion to accept an appointment as principal of the Edward Little Insti- 
 tute in Auburn. 
 
 He married Dec. 26, 1878, Miss Sarah Cummings Bailey, daugh- 
 ter of Rev. D. T?. Bailey (1829), and has one child, a son 
 
 William Edward Sakgent was born in Sanford, May 23, 1857. 
 The two years following graduation he was principal of the High 
 School in Topsham ; he then became principal of the High School in 
 Freeport, which position he still occupies. 
 
 Samuel Emerson Smith was born in Thomaston, June 8, 1856. 
 The year following graduation was spent in travel, and in the fall of 
 1879 he entered the Boston University School of Law. 
 
 John Wentworth Thing was born in Alfred, Oct. 9, 1854. In 
 the autumn following graduation he began the study of law in Port- 
 land, and was admitted to the Cumberland bar at the January term of 
 the Supreme Judicial Court, 1881. 
 
 1879. 
 
 John Warren Achokn was born in Newcastle, Jan. 30, 1857. 
 The year following graduation he was engaged in teachingi in New- 
 castle, where he was also supervisor of schools. In the fall of 1880 
 he was employed by the publishing house of Ivison, Phinnej' & Blake- 
 man as their agent for the State of Maine. 
 
 George William Bodkne was born Jn Kennebunk, Oct. 9, 1857. 
 He studied medicine in the Medical School of the college and the 
 Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, from which latter institu- 
 tion he graduated in March, 1882. He is at present settled in Kenne- 
 bunk. 
 
 Hebek Durgin Bowker was born in Turner, Feb. 11, 1858. He 
 has taught since graduation in the following places : Laconia, N. H., 
 Salem, N. H., State Reform School, Westboro', Mass., and Grove- 
 land, Mass., where he now resides. 
 
GRADUATES. 875 
 
 Frank Melville Byron was born in Freeport, Sept. 20, 1857. 
 He is assistant ticket agent of the Michigan Central Railroad in Chi- 
 cago, 111. 
 
 Henkt Baird Carleton was born in Eockport, Feb. 1, 1858. He 
 studied theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia, 
 and graduated in 1882. 
 
 OzRO Daniel Castner was born in Waldoboro', June 2, 1857. He 
 taught for about two years after graduation, most of the time as prin- 
 cipal of the Boothbay High School. He also read law, and is settled 
 in his profession in Waldoboro'. 
 
 Frank Stanwood Corbt was born in Portland, Jan. 9, 1858. He 
 engaged in business after graduation, and is now connected with the 
 Collins Granite Company in East Bluehill. 
 
 Oscar Sanborn Charles Davies was born in Sidney', Oct. 8, 1855. 
 He taught for a short time after graduation at Windham Centre, after 
 which he began the study of medicine at the Maine Insane Hospital, 
 at the same time acting as dispensary clerk. In the spring of 1882 
 he attended lectures at the Maine Medical School. 
 
 Walter Goodwin Davis Was born in Portland, Jan. 6, 1857. 
 After graduation he became connected with the Portland Packing 
 Company, and has since resided in Portland. 
 
 He married Dec. 8, 1880, Miss Mary H. Wildes of Skowhegan. 
 
 Holmes Boaruman Fifield was born in Mount Vernon, Dec. 22, 
 1855. After graduation he became connected with a jobbing and 
 wholesale house of dry goods and woollens in Portland, where he has 
 since been engaged in business. 
 
 Horace Eben Henderson was born in Wiscasset, Jan. 16, 1859. 
 The school year following graduation he was principal of the Weeks 
 Street Grammar School in Bath. He then became connected with the 
 publishing house of Dresser, McLellan & Co. of Portland, where he 
 remained until the faU of 1881, when he was appointed instructor in 
 mathematics in the Bath High School. 
 
 Henry Augustus Huston was born in Damariscotta, April 20, 
 1858. He was a special student and assistant of Prof. Carmichael at 
 the college the year following graduation, since which time he has 
 been principal of the Ford School, Lafayette, Ind. 
 
876 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Joel Payson Huston was born in Damariscotta, Sept. 22, 1857. 
 He entered upon the study of law after graduation, was admitted to 
 the Lincoln County bar, April, 1882, and is engaged in the practice of 
 his profession in Damariscotta. 
 
 Charles Fletcher Johnson was born in "Winslow. He has been 
 engaged in teaching since graduation, and is at the present time prin- 
 cipal of the High School in Machias. ^ 
 
 He married Aiiss Abbie W. Britton of "Winslow, Dec. 20, 1881. 
 
 George Washington Johnson was born in Bluehill, Feb. 6, 1849. 
 In the autumn following graduation he entered the Bangor Theologi- 
 cal Seminary, where he took the regular course of instruction and 
 was graduated in June, 1882. He immediately received and accepted 
 an invitation to settle as pastor of the Congregational Church at Mil- 
 ford, New Brunswick. 
 
 Frank Kimball was born in Kennebunk, Oct. 16, 1855. He has 
 been engaged in business as a druggist, for a time at Mechanic Falls, 
 and now at Sioux City, Iowa. 
 
 He married Miss Gerrish of Mechanic Falls. 
 
 Ansel Laforest Ltjmbert was born at Ripley, Sept. 3, 1853. 
 He read law with Judge Knowlton of Lewiston, and with A. H. 
 Powers (1874) of Newport. He has been admitted to the bar, and is 
 settled in practice at Houlton. 
 
 Millard Kimball Page was born in Houlton, Oct. 3, 1856. He 
 holds a position in the pension department at Washington, D. C, and 
 was graduated from the Law School of Columbia University in that 
 city in 1881. 
 
 Albert Henrt Pennell was born in Westbrook, Dec. 5, 1853. 
 The year following graduation he was instructor in mathematics and 
 natural sciences in the Hallowell Classical and Scientific Academy at 
 Hallowell. In the fall of 1880 he entered the Yale Theological Sem- 
 inary at New Haven, Conn., where he remained one year, and then 
 entered the middle class at Bangor Theological Seminary. 
 
 Henry Wilson Ring was born in Portland, Feb. 3, 1857. He 
 studied law for a short time after graduation, and then entered upon 
 the insurance business, in which he is now engaged at Portland. 
 
UKAUUATE8. OVV 
 
 Sewakd Smith Steakns was born in Lovell, March 11, 1856. He 
 taught after graduation, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 
 1882. He is engaged in the practice of his profession at Waterford. 
 
 James Cushman Tarbox was born in Phillips, April 10, 1857. He 
 held a clerkship in one of the departments at Washington a short 
 time, read law, and is settled in the practice of his profession at Mon- 
 ticello, Minn. 
 
 It was intended to introduce the sonnet of Prof. Longfellow, 
 referred to on page 26, at the end of the sketch of Prof. Cleaveland, 
 but by an unfortunate oversight it was omitted. The author and the 
 subject alike justify its insertion here. 
 
 PAEKEE CLEAVELAND. 
 
 [Written on revisiting Brunswick in the summer of 1875.] 
 Among the many lives that I have known, 
 None I remember more serene and sweet. 
 More rounded in itself and more complete. 
 Than his who lies beneath this funeral stone. 
 These pines that murmur in low monotone. 
 These walks frequented by scholastic feet. 
 Were all his world; but in this calm retreat 
 For him the teacher's chair became a throne. 
 With fond affection memory loves to dwell 
 On the old days when his example made 
 A pastime of the toil of tongue and pen ; 
 And now, amid the groves he loved so well 
 That naught could lure him from their grateful shade. 
 He sleeps, but wakes elsewhere, for God hath said. Amen! 
 
 Henky W. Lonqpellow. 
 The librarj' has recently received donations of works of current litera- 
 ture from Edward Stanwood (1«61), from the class of 1877, and what 
 is of special importance, a gift of $3,000 from a friend whose name is 
 not yet to be revealed, toward a fund for its increase ; and as the last 
 sheets were in press, $1,000 from Mrs. J. C. Dodge, of Cambridge, 
 Mass., and one hundred and fifty volumes of recent works in classical 
 literature, the donor's name to be withheld. The art gallery has 
 recently received valuable accessions in painting and statuary ; among 
 others, a large painting of a scene in Norway by, Wuest, from Dexter 
 A. Hawkins, Esq. 
 
 The following misprints have been noticed : Page 568, George W. 
 Cobb for G. W. Copp ; page 687, Henry Lewis Hatch for James L. 
 Hatch ; and page 737, James Brackett Webber for Jacob B. Webber. 
 
 It is thought important that the charter of the college should be 
 embraced in the Historj'. 
 
878 
 
 HISTOHY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 ACT OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 College estab. 
 lisbed. 
 
 Persons incor- 
 porated as 
 trustees. 
 
 An Act to establish a College in the Town of Brunswick, In the District 
 of Maine, within this Commonwealth. 
 
 Sectioit 1. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of 
 Sepresentatives, in General Court assembled, and by the au- 
 thority of the same, That there be erected and established in 
 the town of Brunswick, in the district of Maine, a college 
 for the purpose of educating youth, to be called and known 
 by the name of Bowdoin College, to be under the government 
 and regulation 'of two pertain bodies politic and corporate, as 
 hereafter in this Act^^^rovided. 
 
 Sect. 2. And be itjv/rther enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
 That the Eev. Thonfas Brown, Kev. Samuel Dean, D. D., 
 John Frothingham, Esq., Rev. Daniel Little, Kev. Thomas 
 Lancaster, Hon. Josiah Thatcher and David Mitchell, 
 Esquires, Rev. Tristram GUman, Rev. Alden Bradford, 
 Thomas Rice, Esq., and Mr. William Martin, together with 
 the president and treasurer of the said college for the time 
 being, to be chosen as in this Act is hereafter directed, be 
 and hereby are created a body politic and corporate, by the 
 name of The President and Tr-ustees of Bowdoin College, and 
 that they and their successors, and such others as shall be 
 duly elected members of the said corporation, shall be and 
 remain a body politic and corporate by that name forever. 
 
 Sect. 3. And be it further enacted by the auth(^ity aforer 
 Their powers. Said, That for the more orderly conducting the business of the 
 said corporation, the president and trustees shall have full 
 power and authority, from time to time, to elect a vice-pres- 
 ident and secretary of the said corporation, and to declare the 
 tenures and duties of their respective offices, and also to 
 remove any trustee from the same corporation, when, in 
 their judgment, he. shall be rendered incapable by age or 
 otherwise, of discharging the duties of his office, or shall 
 neglect or refuse to perform the same; and to fill up all 
 vacancies in the said corporation, by electing such persons 
 for trustees as they shall judge best: Provided nevertheless, 
 That the number of the said trustees, including the president 
 and treasurer of the said college for the time being, shall 
 never be greater than thirteen, nor less than seven. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
ACT OF INCOEPORATION. »V» 
 
 Sect. 4. And be it further enacted^ That the said corpora- 
 tion may have one common seal, which they may change, 
 break, or renew, at their pleasure; and that all deeds signed ah transactions 
 
 Til intbeir name to 
 
 and delivered by the treasurer, and sealed with their seal, by be legal. 
 order of the president and trustees, shall, when made in tlieir 
 corporate name^ be considered in law as the deeds of the said 
 corporation; and that the said corporation may sue and be 
 sued in all actions, real, personal, or mixed; and may prose- 
 cute and defend the same to final judgment and execution, by 
 the name of The President and Trustees of Bowdoin College; 
 and that the said corporation shall be capable of holding, 
 having and taking in fee Simple, or any less estate, by gift, 
 grant, devise or otherwise, any lands, tenements, or other 
 estate, real or personal: Provided nevertheless, That the an-Proviao. 
 nual clear income of the same shall hot exceed the sum of 
 ten thousand pounds. 
 
 Sect. 5. And be it further enacted hy the authority afore- 
 said, That the said corporation shall have full power and 
 authority to determine at what times and places their meet- Authorized to 
 ings shall be holden, and on the manner of notifying the lugs, offlceis, 
 trustees to convene at such meetings, and also from time to "''°" 
 time to elect a president and treasurer of the said college, and 
 such professors, tutors, instructors, and other officers of the 
 said college as they shall judge most for the interest thereof, 
 and to determine the duties, salaries, emoluments, and ten- 
 ures of their several offices aforesaid (the said president or 
 the time being, when elected and inducted into his office, to 
 be ex officio president of the said corporation) ; and also to 
 purchase or erect and keep in repair such houses and other 
 buildings as they shall judge necessary for the said college ; 
 and also to make and ordain, as occasion may require, reason- 
 able rules, orders, and by-laws, not repugnant to the laws of 
 this Commonwealth, with reasonable penalties, for the good 
 government of said college ; and also to determine and pre- 
 scribe the mode of ascertaining the qualifications of the stu- 
 dents requisite to their admission; and also to confer such 
 degrees as are usually conferred by universities established 
 for the education of youth; and a majority of the members of 
 said corporation, present at any legal meeting, shall decide all 
 questions which may properly come before the said trustees: 
 Provided nevertheless. That no corporate business shall be proviso, 
 transacted at any meeting, unless seven, at least, of the trus- 
 tees are present: And provided further, That the said cor- 
 poration shall confer no degrees other than those of Bache- 
 lor of Arts and Master of Arts, until after Ihe first day of Jan- 
 uary, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 eight hundred and ten. 
 
880 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Appropriation. 
 
 No , Iraneaction 
 of the corpora- 
 tion to have any 
 effect unleBS 
 agreed to by the 
 overBeera. 
 
 Jofiiali Thatch- 
 er. Esq., au- 
 
 Overseers in- 
 corporated ; 
 
 Sect. 6. And he it fwther enacted hy the authority afore- 
 said, That the clear rents, issues, and profits pf all the estate, 
 real and personal, of which the said corporation shall be 
 seized or possessed, shall be appropriated to the endowment 
 of the said college, in such manner as shall most effectually 
 promote virtue and piety, and the knowledge of such of the 
 languages and of the useful and liberal arts and sciences, as 
 shair hereafter be directed, from time to time, by said cor- 
 poration. 
 
 And more effectually to provide for the wise and regular 
 government of said college, and for the prudent administra- 
 tion of the funds belonging to it, by establishing a supervis- 
 ing body with proper powers; 
 
 Sect. 7. Be it further enacted hy the authority aforesaid, 
 That no election made by the said corporation, either of 
 trustees to fill up vacancies, or of president or treasurer of 
 the said college, nor any vote or order of the said corporation 
 to remove any trustee or any officer of the said college, or to 
 purchase or erect any house or other building for the said 
 college, or to determine what oflBcers shall be established for 
 the said college, or the duties, salaries, emoluments, or tenures 
 of such officers, or for the appropriation of any of their funds 
 or moneys, or for the acceptance of any estate, when the 
 donation thereof was made upon condition, or for deter- 
 mining the qualifications for the students requisite to their 
 admission, or for the conferring of any degrees, or for the 
 making, altering, amending, or repealing any rules, orders, or 
 by-laws for the government of the said college, shall have 
 any force, effect, or validity, until the same shall have been 
 agreed to by the overseers of the said Bowdoin College here- 
 after in this Act created. 
 
 Sect. 8. And he it further enacted by the authority afore- 
 said, That the Hon. Josiah Thatchee, Esq., be, and he is 
 hereby authorized and empowered to fix the time and place 
 for holding the first meeting of the said trustees, and to 
 notify each of said trustees thereof in writing. 
 
 And for the estabUshing of the supervising body with 
 proper powers above mentidhed; 
 
 Sect. 9! Be it further, enacted hy the authority aforesaid, 
 That Edward Cutts, Thomas Cutts, Simon Erye, David 
 Sewall and Nathaniel Wells, Esquires, Rev. Moses Hemmen- 
 way, D. D., Eev. Silas Moody, Eev. John Thompson, Rev. 
 Nathaniel Webster, Eev. Paul Coffin, Eev. Benjamin Chad- 
 wick, Eev. Samuel Eaton, Rev. Samuel Foxcroft, Eev. Caleb 
 Jewett, Eev. Alfred Johnson, Eev. EUjah Kellogg, Rev. 
 Ebenezer Williams, Rev. Charles Turner, Daniel Davis, 
 
ACT OF INCOKPOKATION. 881 
 
 Samuel Freeman, Joshua Fabyan, William Gorhain, Stephen 
 Longfellow, Joseph Noyes, Isaac Parsons, Robert Southgate, 
 John Wait, Peleg Wadsworth , and William Widgery , Esquires , 
 Eev. Ezekiel Emerson, Jonathan Ellis, Jonathan Bowman, 
 Edmund Bridge, Daniel Cony, Henry Dearborn, Dummer 
 SewaU, Samuel Thompson, John Dunlap, Francis Winter, 
 Nathaniel Thwing, Alexander Campbell, and Paul Dudley 
 Sargeant, Esquires, together with the president of the college 
 and the secretary of the corporation, first created in this Act, 
 for the time being, be and they are hereby created a body 
 politic and corporate by the name of The Overseers of Bow- 
 doin College; and that they, their successors, and such others 
 as shall be duly elected into the said corporation of overseers, 
 shall be and remain a body politic and corporate by that 
 name forever. 
 
 Sect. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- 
 said, That the members of said corporation of overseers may may have a seal, 
 have one common seal, which they may change, break, and l^d §efen™'^ 
 renew at their pleasure, and that they may sue or be sued, 
 prosecute and defend unto final judgment and execution, by 
 the name of The Overseers of Bowdoin College. 
 
 Sect. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- 
 said, That for the orderly conducting the business of the said Corporation em- 
 last-mentioned corporation, the members thereof shall have ordeXconduct 
 full power from time to time, as they shall determine, to elect iugthc business. 
 a president, vice-president, and secretary, and to fix the ten- 
 ures and duties of their respective oflices; and also to deter- 
 mine at what times and places their meetings shall be holden, 
 and upon the manner of notifying the overseers to convene 
 at such meetings; and also to remove any overseer from the 
 said corporation when in their judgment he shall be rendered 
 incapable by age or otherwise, or shall neglect or refuse to 
 discharge the duties of his office, and also to fill up all vacan- 
 cies in the said corporation of overseers, by electing such per- 
 sons for overseers as they shall judge best qualified therefor; 
 and a majority of the members present at any legal meeting 
 shall decide all questions which may properly come before the 
 said overseers: Provided nevertheless. That the number of Proviso, 
 the said overseers, including the president of the college and 
 the secretary of the corporation last above created, shall never 
 be greater than forty-five, nor less than twenty-five. 
 
 Sect. 12. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- 
 said, That the overseers of said Bowdoin College shaU have h™e pqwer to" 
 power to agree or disagree to any election, vote, order, or act agree or not, re- 
 of the president and trustees of said college, where the agree- transactions of 
 ment of said overseers is made necessary by this Act, to give and'tras'te™. 
 
 56 
 
882 
 
 HISTORY or BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Treasurer to 
 give bond. 
 
 Places of true- 
 tee and over- 
 seer cannot be 
 held together. 
 
 David Sewall, 
 }Dsq., authorized 
 to call first 
 meeting. 
 
 force, effect, and validity to such election, vote, order, or act; 
 and they are hereby directed to notify the said president and 
 trustees of such agreement or disagreement, in convenient time 
 thereafter; and the said overseers are also empowered to call 
 upon any treasurer of the said college, his executors and admin- 
 istrators, to render to them a just and true account of all the 
 doings of such treasurer, in his said oflFice, as often as the said 
 overseers shall direct: Provided nevertheless, That no corpo- 
 rate business shall be transacted at any meeting of the over- 
 seers aforesaid, unless fifteen of them at least are present. 
 
 Sect. 13j And be it further enacted by the authority afore- 
 said, That the treasurer of the said college shall, before he 
 enter upon the execution of the duties of his office, give bond 
 to the said overseers, in such penalty and with such sureties 
 as they shall approve of, conditioned for the faithful discharge 
 of the duties of the said office, and for rendering a just and 
 true account of his doings therein when required, and that all 
 the moneys, securities, and other property of the president 
 and trustees of Bowdoin College, together with all the books in 
 which his accounts and proceedings as treasurer were en- 
 tered and kept, that appertain to his office as treasurer as 
 aforesaid, shall, upon demand made upon him, his executors 
 or administrators, be paid and delivered over to his successor 
 in that office; and all moneys to be recovered by virtue of any 
 suits of law, upon such bond, shall be paid over to the presi- 
 dent and trustees aforesaid, and subjected to the appropria- 
 tions above directed in this Act. 
 
 Sect. 14. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- 
 said. That no trustee of the said college, excepting the presi- 
 dent and secretary, first above mentioned, shall be an over- 
 seer of the said college ; and if any trustee (excepting as afore- 
 said) shall be chosen overseer, he shall cease to be a trustee 
 immediately upon his accepting the place of an overseer; and 
 if any overseer of the said college (excepting as aforesaid) 
 shall hereafter be elected a trustee, he shall cease to be an 
 overseer upon his accepting the place of a trustee. 
 
 Sect. 16. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- 
 said. That the Hon. David Sewall, Esq., be, and he hereby 
 is authorized and empowered to fix the time and place of the 
 first meeting of the overseers of said Bowdoin College, and to 
 notify the said overseers thereof by publishing the same three 
 weeks successively in each of the Portland newspapers; the 
 last publication to be made three weeks, at least, before the 
 time fixed for the said meeting. 
 
 Sect. 16. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- 
 said. That the Legislature of this Commonwealth may grant 
 
ACT OF INCOKPOBATION. iiii'6 
 
 any further powers to, or alter, limit, annul, or restrain any of Legislature -to 
 
 "^ ^ ' 3 7 7 ^ alter or restrain 
 
 the powers by this Act vested in the said corporation, as shall powers of the 
 be judged necessary to promote the best interest of the said""^"'" 
 college. 
 
 Sect. 17. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- 
 said, That there be and hereby is granted five townships of Lands granted 
 land of the contents of six miles square each, to be laid outfot'elt'thdr"^ 
 and assigned from any of the unappropriated lands belonging di^pos*'- 
 to this Commonwealth, in the District of Maine, the same to 
 be vested in the trustees -of Bowdoin. College, and their suc- 
 cessors forever, for the use, benefit, and pui-pose of support- 
 ing the said college, to be by them holden in their corporate 
 capacity, with full power and authority to settle, divide, and 
 manage the same townships, or any part thereof, or to sell, 
 convey, and dispose of the same in such way and manner as 
 shall best promote the welfare of said college, the same to be 
 laid out under the direction of the committee for the sale of 
 Eastern lands, and a plan or plans thereof returned into the 
 secretary's office: Provided, the trustees aforesaid, or their proviso, 
 assigns, shall cause to be settled fifteen families in each of 
 said townships within twelve years from the passing this 
 Act: and provided also, There shall be reserved in each Proviso, 
 township, three lots of three hundred and twenty acres each, 
 for the following uses, viz.: One lot for the first settled 
 minister; one lot for the use of the ministry; and one lot for 
 the use of schools in each of said townships. 
 
 [This Act passed June 24, 1794.] 
 
INDEX OP THE HISTOEY. 
 
 ibbott, Jacob, 76 
 
 \bbott, John, 10, 135 
 
 !ldams, G. E., 80 
 
 idams, S., 26 
 
 Mien, Miss H. F., 30 
 
 Mien, William, 11, 12, 14, 
 15, 87, 99, 117 
 Anderson, K., 109 
 
 ippleton, J., 
 
 9, 10, 11, 16, lU 
 
 ^rt Gallery, 9, 95 
 
 ivery, J., 134 
 
 Sailey, J., 62 
 
 Bailey, Winthrop, 149 
 
 benefactions, 30, 871 
 
 Benson, S. P., 21, 25 
 
 Blackboard introduced, 91 
 
 Slake, J. and S. H., 26 
 
 Bond, T., 59 
 
 Bowdoin College founded, 4 
 
 located, 5 
 
 opened, 8 
 
 and State, 10, 103 
 
 as it appeared in 1812, 85 
 
 "Property Case," 26, 108 
 
 charter of the college,878 
 
 Jowdoin, J., 5, 9, 24,31, 108 
 
 Bowdoin, J. T., 108 
 
 Bradford, A., 7, 33 
 
 Bridge, E., 69 
 
 Bridge, J., 48 
 
 Sriggs, C, 151 
 
 Jrigham, D., ISO 
 
 Srown, F., 42 
 
 Jrown, J., 13, 30 
 
 Jrowne, T., 32 
 
 irunswick. Topography 
 
 of, 1 
 
 Jurge, B., 148 
 
 lampbell. A., 72 
 
 Campus, 26, 92 
 
 'argill, J., 1 6 
 
 laziac, L. V., 136 
 
 !hadbourne, P. A., 13, 134 
 Jhadwick, B., 73 
 
 ihamberlain, J. L., 124 
 
 Ihandler, J., 48 
 
 Ihandler, P. W., 26,110 
 Ihapel, 26, 85 
 
 Ihase, S., 75 
 
 Chesley, J. H., 96 
 
 Childs, H. H., 42 
 
 Cleaveland, N., 24, 26 
 Cleaveland, P., 
 
 8, 13, 26, 85, 86, 126 
 
 Cobb, M., 76 
 
 CofSn, C, 35 
 
 Coffin, P., 73 
 
 Cogswell, J., 148 
 Cominencements, 8, 83, 95 
 
 Commons, 9, 85 
 
 Coney, D., 72 
 
 Crawford, M., 136 
 
 Cummings, A., 65, 87 
 
 Cummings, N., 25 
 
 Cutter, L., 77 
 
 Cutts, T., 68 
 
 Cutts, R., 68 
 
 Cutts, J. M., 68 
 
 Dana, J., 49 
 DaTeis, C. S., 8, 27, 99 
 
 Davis, D., 72 
 
 Deane, S., 32 
 
 Dearborn, H., 70 
 
 " Declaration, The," 20 
 
 Delamater, J., 145 
 
 Dnnlap, J., 72 
 
 Dunning, R. D., .76 
 
 Eaton, S., 73, 96 
 
 EUis, J., 73 
 
 Elton, Mrs. M., 30 
 
 Emerson, E., 73 
 Environs of the College, 93 
 Everett, E., 61, 19, 106 
 
 Fabyan, J., 72 
 
 Fales, S., 150 
 Financial Troubles, 9, 20 
 
 Fletcher, N., 59 
 
 Foote, E., 49 
 
 Foxcroft, S., 73 
 
 Freeman, S., 34 
 
 Frothingham, J., 33 
 
 Frye, S., 68 
 
 Gardiner, R. H., 63, 82 
 
 Gillett, E., 45 
 
 Gilman, T., 33 
 
 Goodale, G. L., 134 
 
 Goodenow, D., 63 
 
 Gorham, W., 68 
 
 Green, S., 151 
 
 Greene, W. W., 147 
 Halls : 
 
 Adams, ^ 26 
 
 Appleton, 93 
 
 Commons, 87 
 Maine, 9, 13, 28 
 Massachusetts, 
 
 13, 26, 85, 95 
 
 Memorial, 25 
 
 Winthrop, 13 
 
 Harris, S., 124 
 
 Hasey, B., 62 
 
 Haskell, H. B., 30 
 
 Hebrew taught, 8 
 
 Hemmenway, M., 73 
 
 Hill, M. L , 50 
 
 Hitchcock, R. D., 25, 134 
 
 Holmes, J., 5f- 
 
 Ilsley, J., 61 
 Jenks, W., 9, 88, 129 
 
 Jewett, C, 73 
 
 Johnson, A., 34 
 
 Jones, J. H., 151 
 
 Kellogg, E., 35 
 
 King, W., 9, 57 
 
 Knox, H., 84, 102 
 
 Ladd, G. T., 136 
 
 Lamson, A., 150 
 
 Lancaster, T., 33 
 
 Lawrence, A., 101 
 
 Lawrence, Mrs. A., 31 
 
 Lee, C. A., 145 
 
 Lee, S., 35 
 Library, 9, 85, 100 
 
 Lincoln, J., 77, 92 
 
 Lincoln, J. D., 25 
 
 Little, D., 33 
 
 Longfellow, H. W., 14, 26 
 Sonnet on Prof. 
 
 Cleaveland, 877 
 
 Longfellow, S., 47 
 
 Loring, C. G., 109 
 
 Lottery proposed, 10 
 McKeen, J., 8, 9, 33, 85, 1 1 1 
 
 Martin, W. 33 
 
 Mason, J., 109 
 
 Medical School, 12 
 
 Melcher, S., 93 
 
 Mellen, P., 40 
 
 Merrick, J., 82, 101 
 
886 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Mitchell, A. R., 
 
 95 
 
 Mitchell, D., 
 
 33 
 
 Moody, S., 
 
 73 
 
 Morse, E. S., 
 
 135 
 
 Mussey, R. D., 
 
 141 
 
 Nason, R., 
 
 77 
 
 Newman, S. P., 13, 18, 89, 130 
 Nichols, J., 46 
 
 Norton, A., 148 
 
 Nourse, A., 146 
 
 Noyes, J., 68 
 
 Oliver, D., 144 
 
 Orr, B., 41 
 
 Orthoepy of Earlier Days, 89 
 Packard, A. S., 13,117 
 
 Pacliard, H., 39 
 
 Parker, J., 36 
 
 Parker, N., 148 
 
 Parria, A. K., 53 
 
 Payson, E., 59 
 
 Peabody, A. P., 90 
 
 Peaslee, E. R., 143 
 
 Perry, W., 143 
 
 Perry, Mrs. W., 25 
 
 Porter, B. J., 9, 36 
 
 Preble, W. P., 54 
 
 Professorships: 
 
 Chemistry and Min- 
 
 eralo£;y, 88 
 
 Civil Engineering, 136 
 Collins, 22 
 
 Comparative, Anat- 
 omy and Zoology, 135 
 Military Science, 136 
 Modern Lancruages, 14 
 Moral Philosophy 
 and Metaphysics, 13 ' 
 
 Professorships : 
 
 Natural Philosophy, 8 
 Natural Science, 135 
 Oriental and Kng- 
 
 lish Langnages, 9 
 Political Economy, 
 
 14, 89 
 Rhetoric and Oratory, 13 
 Theory and Prac- 
 tice and Anat- 
 omy and Surgery, 12 
 Ranking System, 1.8, 1 06 
 Recitation Rooms, 91 
 
 Rice, T., 33 
 
 Robinson, H., 150 
 
 Rockwood, C. G., 135 
 
 Sanger, J., 136 
 
 Sargent, P. D., 72 
 
 Semi-centenniat, 24 
 
 Sewall, D., 68 
 
 Sewall, Dnmmer, 35 
 
 Shepley, E , 62 
 
 Smith, C. H., 135 
 
 Smith, N., 12, 136 
 
 Smyth, W., ' 91 
 
 Southgate, P., 17 
 
 Sprague, W. B., 115 
 
 Stebbins, J., 44 
 
 Stone, Mrs. V. G., 26 
 
 Storer, W., 79 
 
 Sweetser, Wra , 143 
 
 Symmes, W., 76 
 
 Tallman, P., 79 
 
 Tappan,B., 149 
 
 Taylor, J. B., 136 
 
 Teaching, Early Methods, 
 87, 91 
 
 Thacher, G., 
 
 75, 102 
 
 Thatcher, J., 
 
 33 
 
 Thompson, J., 
 
 73 
 
 Thompson, S., 
 
 70 
 
 Trench, Uncle, 
 
 97 
 
 Turner, C, 
 
 34 
 
 Tutors, 
 
 8, 10, 20 
 
 Freshman, 
 
 86 
 
 Twing, N., 
 
 72 
 
 Upham, T. C, 
 
 13,22, 131 
 
 Vaughan, B., 
 
 81, 102 
 
 Vaughan, J. A. 
 
 101 
 
 Vaughan, C, 
 
 82 
 
 Vaughan, S., 
 
 101 
 
 Vose, G. L., 
 
 136 
 
 Wadsvforth, P., 
 
 68 
 
 Walker, T. W., 
 
 25 
 
 Ware, A., 
 
 35 
 
 Webster, N., 
 
 73 
 
 Wells, E., 
 
 146 
 
 Wells, J. D., 
 
 12, 140 
 
 Wells, N., 
 
 72 
 
 Weston, N., 
 
 56 
 
 White, C. A., 
 
 135 
 
 White, J., 
 
 148 
 
 Whitman, N., 
 
 150 
 
 Whittlesey, E., 
 
 134 
 
 Widgery, W., 
 
 69 
 
 Wilde, S., 
 
 37 
 
 WiUard, S., 
 
 8 
 
 Williams, E., 
 
 71 
 
 Williams, R., 
 
 58, 103 
 
 Wingate, J., 
 
 36 
 
 Winship, J., 
 
 36 
 
 Winter, F., 
 
 72 
 
 Woods, L., 
 
 
 17,24, 
 
 26, 120, 129 
 
INDEX OF GKADUATES. 
 
 Abbot (Abbott) 
 
 
 Ambrose 
 
 
 Avery 
 
 
 Abiel, 
 
 41 
 
 Thomas L. 
 
 703 
 
 WUUam L. 
 
 606 
 
 Alexander H. 
 
 6S9 
 
 
 
 
 
 Charles J. 
 Charles E. 
 
 289 
 425 
 
 Anderson 
 
 
 Ayer 
 
 
 Ezra C '30), 
 
 406 
 
 Isaac P. 
 
 198 
 
 James, 
 
 452 
 
 Ezra ('40), 
 
 637 
 
 James, 
 
 237 
 
 Joseph C. 
 
 426 
 
 Gorham D. 
 
 330 
 
 John, 
 
 170 
 
 Samuel H. 
 
 628 
 
 Howard B. 
 
 485 
 
 John D. 
 
 734 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 291 
 
 Jacoh, 
 
 216 
 
 Rufus, 
 
 196 
 
 
 
 John E. 
 JohnG. 
 
 159 
 828 
 
 Samuel J. 
 Thomas D. 
 
 692 
 794 
 
 Bachelder 
 
 
 John P. 
 
 655 
 
 WilUam H. 
 
 713 
 
 George W. 
 
 266 
 
 John S. 
 John S. C. 
 Joseph H. 
 Samuel P. 
 
 360 
 289 
 ,235 
 485 
 
 Andrew 
 
 John A. 
 
 496 
 
 Kingsbury, 
 
 Bacon 
 
 825 
 
 WUUam E. 
 
 406 
 
 
 
 EUsha, 
 
 291 
 
 WilUam A. 
 
 724 
 
 Andrews 
 
 
 
 
 Achorn 
 
 
 Charles S. 
 
 856 
 
 Badger 
 
 
 
 
 Dean, 
 
 615 
 
 Almarln F. 
 
 726 
 
 John W. 
 
 874 
 
 
 
 
 
 Adams 
 
 
 Angler 
 
 
 Bailey 
 
 
 Aaron C. 
 Charles, 
 Charles S. 
 
 486 
 438 
 266 
 
 George C. 
 
 Appleton 
 
 426 
 
 Dudley P. 
 Edward W. 
 Lewis, 
 
 389 
 472 
 362 
 
 Darius, 
 Francis, 
 
 406 
 655 
 
 Frederic H. 
 
 787 
 
 Baker 
 
 
 Francis P. 
 
 713 
 
 John ('22), 
 
 237 
 
 
 
 George M. 
 George W. 
 George W. M. 
 leaac, 
 
 691 
 
 John ('34), 
 
 461 
 
 Clarence A. 
 
 872 
 
 471 
 
 John F. 
 
 743 
 
 John, 
 
 418 
 
 793 
 725 
 
 Nathan D. 
 William, 
 
 171 
 331 
 
 Joseph, 
 OiTille D. 
 
 486 
 803 
 
 Jonathan E. 
 Joseph, 
 
 677 
 ■ 361 
 
 Apthorp 
 
 . 
 
 Silas, 
 Thomas, 
 
 379 
 418 
 
 Samuel, 
 Ramuel 8. 
 William B. 
 
 416 
 693 
 388 
 
 Harrison 0. 
 Leonard F. 
 
 389 
 333 
 
 Balch 
 
 
 Zabdiel B. 
 
 648 
 
 Arey 
 
 Melvin F. 
 
 
 Isaac D. 
 
 704 
 
 Alden 
 
 
 803 
 
 Baldwin 
 
 
 "Walter B. 
 WUliam 
 
 629 
 856 
 
 Atherton 
 
 
 Abraham C. 
 
 362 
 
 Alexander 
 
 
 Lemuel W. 
 
 665 
 
 Ballard 
 
 
 De Alva S. 
 
 818 
 
 Atkins 
 
 Charles G. 
 
 767 
 
 John, 
 Sanford K. 
 
 419 
 487 
 
 Allen 
 
 Ajnos Ij. 
 
 743 
 
 Atkinson 
 
 
 Barbour 
 
 
 Augustus 0. 
 
 638 
 
 Jacob, 
 
 664 
 
 Francis, 
 
 407 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 472 
 
 Josiah, 
 
 664 
 
 
 
 Charles F. 
 
 527 
 
 
 
 Barker 
 
 
 Cushing, 
 
 407 
 
 Atwood 
 
 
 .m-#tAA. tJ^^J a. 
 
 
 George F. 
 
 671 
 
 ^^ V 11 ^J^J\^ 
 
 
 Amander, 
 
 516 
 
 Harrison, 
 
 276 
 
 James B. 
 
 829 
 
 Fordyce, 
 
 497 
 
 Horatio O. 
 
 361 
 
 Tascus, 
 
 857 
 
 
 
 John W. 
 Stephen, 
 
 451 
 471 
 
 Austin 
 
 
 Barnes 
 
 
 William, 
 WilUam H. 
 
 378 
 , 439 
 
 Richard T. 
 
 418 
 
 Fhineas, 
 
 390 
 
888 
 
 HTRTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Barrett 
 
 
 Benjamin 
 
 
 Bourne 
 
 
 Beqjamin F. 
 
 427 
 
 Samuel E. 
 
 529 
 
 Edward E. 
 
 186 
 
 Charles, 
 
 238 
 
 
 
 George W. 
 
 874 
 
 Chai-les W. 
 John, 
 
 629 
 
 224 
 
 Bennett 
 
 Charles, 
 
 783 
 
 Israel W. 
 Thomas P. 
 
 198 
 211 
 
 Barrows 
 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 788 
 
 Bowdoin 
 
 
 William G. 
 
 529 
 
 Benson 
 
 
 James, 
 
 174 
 
 Bartlett 
 
 
 Charles B. 
 Samuel F. 
 
 829 
 291 
 
 Bowker 
 
 
 Alison B. 
 
 666 
 
 
 
 Heber D. 
 
 874 
 
 Edwin W. 
 
 638 
 
 Berry 
 
 
 
 
 George W. 
 
 684 
 
 
 Bowman 
 
 
 Ichahod D. 
 
 674 
 
 Loren F. 
 
 833 
 
 
 
 John C. 
 
 379 
 
 
 
 Edmund B. 
 
 260 
 
 John M. 
 Joseph, 
 
 257 
 692 
 
 Beverage 
 
 Thomas T. 
 
 778 
 
 George A. 
 Nathaniel, 
 
 575 
 498 
 
 Bartley 
 
 William M. 
 
 686 
 
 Bickford 
 
 
 Boyd 
 
 George W. 
 
 160 
 
 
 
 Samuel A. 
 
 630 
 
 John P. 
 
 167 
 
 Bartol 
 
 
 Warren F. 
 
 829 
 
 Nicholas E. 
 
 744 
 
 
 
 
 Samuel S. ('26), 
 
 334 
 
 Cyrus A. 
 
 428 
 
 Billings 
 
 Oscar L. 
 
 
 Samuel S. ("60), 
 
 744 
 
 Bassett 
 
 
 825 
 
 Boynton 
 
 
 Blbridge G. 
 
 616 
 
 
 
 Alden, 
 
 292 
 
 
 
 Black 
 
 
 John, 
 
 241 
 
 Baston 
 
 Frederic 0. 
 
 847 
 
 Alvah, 
 Charles A. 
 
 607 
 848 
 
 Brackett 
 
 
 Keuhen K. 
 
 847 
 
 Blake 
 
 
 Cyrus F. 
 
 734 
 
 Bates 
 
 
 Charles M. 
 
 566 
 
 Bradbury 
 
 
 Arlo, 
 
 857 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 472 
 
 Albert W. 
 
 744 
 
 Joseph C. 
 
 778 
 
 Maurice 0. 
 
 516 
 
 Albion K. P. 
 
 692 
 
 
 
 Samuel H. 
 
 363 
 
 Ammi R. 
 
 499 
 
 Baxter 
 
 
 William A. 
 
 834 
 
 Bion, 
 Henry K. 
 
 407 
 593 
 
 Hartley C. 
 
 872 
 
 Blanchard 
 
 
 James W. ('25), 
 James W. ('61), 
 
 293 
 767 
 
 Beale 
 
 
 Addison, 
 
 778 
 
 Levi L. 
 
 618 
 
 
 
 Samuel W. 
 
 561 
 
 William J. 
 
 576 
 
 Cliarles E. 
 
 818 
 
 William S. 
 
 539 
 
 
 
 WilliamG. 
 
 865 
 
 
 
 Bradford 
 
 
 Beaman 
 
 
 Bbardman 
 
 
 David T. " 
 
 ei^e 
 
 Ranrmpl. 
 
 429 
 
 Albert J. 
 
 834 
 
 Eiohmond, 
 
 294 
 
 kJC*lUl4^A^ 
 
 
 Charles A. 
 
 798 
 
 Theodore D. 
 
 757 
 
 Bean 
 
 Ebeuezer, 
 
 713 
 
 Frederic H. 
 
 Bodge 
 
 812 
 
 Bradley 
 
 Alexander S. 
 
 726 
 
 Beech 
 
 
 George M. 
 
 808 
 
 Samuel, 
 Samuel A. 
 
 217 
 726 
 
 Thomas P. 
 
 440 
 
 Bond 
 
 - 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bradstreet 
 
 
 Beecher 
 
 
 Ellas, ■ 
 
 498 
 
 
 
 J^J\^^j\JaJ.\JM, 
 
 
 Francis E. 
 
 379 
 
 Albion G. 
 
 841 
 
 Charles, 
 
 452 
 
 
 
 
 
 Charles McC. 
 Frederic H. 
 
 798 
 769 
 
 Boody 
 
 
 Bras tow 
 
 
 
 
 Alvin, 
 
 630 
 
 Lewis 0. 
 
 718 
 
 Belcher 
 
 
 Henry H. 
 
 566 
 
 
 
 Samuel C. 
 
 713 
 
 Booker 
 
 
 Brewster 
 
 
 Bell 
 
 
 
 
 Charles K. 
 
 380 
 
 
 John C. L. 
 
 676 
 
 
 
 Charles U. 
 James, 
 Luther V. 
 
 778 
 238 
 267 
 
 Boothby 
 
 
 Bridge 
 
 Edmund T. 
 
 199 
 
 William N. N. 
 
 655 
 
 James McL. 
 
 834 
 
 Horatio, 
 
 294 
 
INDEX OP GRADUATES. 
 
 889 
 
 Bridges 
 
 
 Butler 
 
 
 Chamberlain 
 
 
 OdsL. 
 
 241 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 656 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 808 
 
 Brinsmade 
 
 
 John J. 
 Moses H. 
 
 499 
 607 
 
 Charles M. 
 Horace B, 
 
 618 
 714 
 
 Peter A. 
 
 336 
 
 Butterfleld 
 
 
 JohnC. 
 Joshua L. 
 
 735 
 
 671 
 
 Brock 
 
 
 Charles H. 
 Jesse P. 
 
 736 
 671 
 
 Chandler 
 
 
 Q-eorge M. 
 
 841 
 
 JohnAV. 
 
 661 
 
 Charles P. ('22), 
 
 241 
 
 Brookings 
 
 
 Byron 
 
 
 Charles P. ('54;, 
 George L. 
 
 685 
 808 
 
 Wilmot W. 
 
 693 
 
 Prank M. 
 
 875 
 
 Paul L. 
 Peleg W. 
 
 567 
 453 
 
 Brown 
 
 Charles R. 
 
 794 
 
 Caldwell 
 
 Merritt, 
 
 380 
 
 Chaney 
 
 
 Edwin L. 
 
 618 
 
 William W. 
 
 676 
 
 James F. 
 
 82i 
 
 Enoch B. 
 
 364 
 
 Zenas, 
 
 277 
 
 
 
 Q-eorge E. 
 George W. 
 
 779 
 662 
 
 Call 
 
 
 Chaplin 
 
 
 Harlan P. 
 
 745 
 
 
 
 Marshall D. 
 
 74S 
 
 Henry P. 
 
 685 
 
 Hamilton M. 
 
 453 
 
 
 
 James O, 
 John M. 
 
 704 
 744 
 
 Norman, 
 
 812 
 
 Chapman 
 
 
 PhiUp H. 
 Samuel, 
 
 664 
 725 
 
 Came 
 
 
 Calvin, 
 
 i&Q 
 
 Theodore S. 
 William, 
 
 218 
 260 
 
 Samuel Mol. 
 
 746 
 
 Charles J. 
 Edward T. 
 
 «09 
 
 714 
 
 WilUam H. 
 
 566 
 
 CargiU 
 
 
 Henry L. 
 Henry W. 
 
 798 
 834 
 
 Buck 
 
 
 James, 
 
 176 
 
 JohnE. 
 
 865 
 
 Samuel P. 
 
 655 
 
 Carleton 
 
 
 Charles 
 
 
 Bucknam 
 
 
 Henry B. 
 
 875 
 
 SewaU C. 
 
 J2S 
 
 Alvan P. 
 
 745 
 
 Carlton 
 
 
 Chase 
 
 
 Bulflnch 
 
 
 Cyrus H. 
 
 704 
 
 Charles T. 
 
 530 
 
 
 
 Delavan, 
 
 798 
 
 Plummer, 
 
 226 
 
 John J. 
 
 656 
 
 
 
 Samuel F. 
 
 726 
 
 Burbank 
 
 
 Carruthers 
 
 
 Stephen H. 
 
 429 
 
 Adino J. 
 
 638 
 
 William, 
 
 6! 7 
 
 Cheever 
 
 
 Albion, 
 Augustus H. 
 Augustus J. 
 Charles H. 
 
 770 
 676 
 648 
 714 
 
 Carter 
 
 Seth M. 
 Sylvester B. 
 
 848 
 798 
 
 Ehenezer, 
 George B. 
 Henry T. 
 
 192 
 466 
 
 Horace H. 
 
 745 
 
 Gary 
 
 
 Cheney 
 
 
 Burke 
 
 
 George, 
 
 746 
 
 Horace E. 
 
 779 
 
 Frederic W. 
 
 277 
 
 Case 
 
 
 Chesley 
 
 
 Burleigh 
 
 
 Isaac W. 
 
 638 
 
 Charles, 
 
 672 
 
 Daniel 0. 
 
 725 
 
 Cash 
 
 
 Jonathan H. 
 
 211 
 
 Burnham 
 
 
 Eohert; 
 
 746 
 
 Chickering 
 
 
 Collins G. 
 
 867 
 
 Castner 
 
 
 John W. 
 
 673 
 
 Jonas, 
 Seth C. 
 
 260 
 694 
 
 Ozro D. 
 
 875 
 
 Choate 
 
 
 Sylvester, 
 
 770 
 
 Caswell 
 
 
 George P. 
 
 676 
 
 Burr 
 
 
 Samuel S. 
 
 788 
 
 Isaac B. 
 
 770 
 
 Samuel 0. 
 
 666 
 
 ChadweU 
 
 
 Chute 
 
 
 Burton 
 
 
 William S. 
 
 676 
 
 Ariel P. 
 Benjamin P. 
 
 429 
 540 
 
 Alfred E. 
 "Rncih 
 
 872 
 
 Chadwick 
 
 Edmund, 
 
 640 
 
 Cilley 
 
 
 J3UOJU 
 
 
 Edmund A. 
 
 667 
 
 Jonathan, 
 
 296 
 
 John, 
 
 175 
 
 Joseph W. 
 
 770 
 
 Jonathan P. 
 
 726 
 
890 
 
 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Clark 
 
 Cbarles K. 
 Charles H, 
 iDennis, 
 John 0. 
 Joseph F. 
 Jotbam F. 
 Samuel L. 
 Thoraas H. 
 WiUiara, 
 WiUiam H. 
 
 Clarke 
 
 Charles L. 
 Daniel, 
 Nathan D. A, 
 
 Cleaveland 
 
 !Elisba L. 
 George W. 
 James B. 
 John, 
 John A, 
 John P. 
 Moses P. 
 Nathan S. 
 Nehemiah, 
 
 Cleaves 
 
 Natban, 
 
 Clement 
 
 John M. 
 
 Clifford 
 
 I\iIIer G. 
 
 Cobb 
 
 Cbarles H. 
 Sdwai'd H. 
 Jedediab, 
 Oren, 
 Bichard, 
 ■William T. 
 
 Cochrane 
 
 James B. 
 Melville A. 
 
 Codman 
 
 John, , 
 Randolph A. L, 
 "William H. 
 
 Coe 
 
 Thomas U. 
 
 Coffin 
 
 Egbert B. 
 George, 
 Isaac F. 
 John H. C. 
 John R. 
 
 Coggan 
 
 Marcellns, 
 
 Cogswell 
 
 Charles N. 
 
 826 
 867 
 390 
 667 
 562 
 SOS 
 336 
 6S)4 
 160 
 600 
 
 848 
 226 
 834 
 
 391 
 600 
 381 
 336 
 640 
 226 
 364 
 641 
 171 
 
 866 
 161 
 219 
 803 
 162 
 865 
 
 768 
 l771 
 
 364 
 187 
 278 
 
 162 
 456 
 500 
 
 829 
 
 Colby 
 
 Hiram K. 
 
 799 
 
 George C. 
 
 John M. 
 
 668 
 
 George W. 
 
 Cole 
 
 
 Crocker 
 
 Albert, 
 
 457 
 
 Augustus L. 
 
 Charles A. 
 
 813 
 
 Frank H. 
 
 Edmund 0. 
 
 826 
 
 Samuel R. 
 
 George W. 
 
 408 
 
 
 Rollo M. 
 Samuel V. 
 
 803 
 841 
 
 Crosby 
 
 Charles S. , 
 
 Collins 
 
 
 Daniel, 
 John, 
 
 LeRoy Z. 
 
 819 
 
 John L. 
 Josiah, 
 
 Colman 
 
 
 William G. 
 
 Charles A 
 
 693 
 
 Cross 
 
 Conant 
 
 
 Wellington R 
 
 Kd-ward C. 
 
 727 
 
 Crowell 
 
 Converse 
 
 
 WUliam L. 
 
 JohnH. 
 
 408 
 
 
 Cook 
 
 
 Cummings 
 
 Ephraim C. 
 
 Ezekiel H. 
 
 799 
 
 George H. 
 Henry T. 
 
 Coolidge 
 
 
 James M. 
 John M. 
 
 Cyrus H. 
 
 299 
 
 Nathan, 
 
 Coombs 
 
 
 Cumston 
 
 John 0. 
 
 813 
 
 Charles MoL. 
 
 Copeland 
 
 
 Cunningham 
 
 Adoniram J. 
 
 541 
 
 Oscar p. 
 
 Copp 
 
 
 Currier 
 
 George W. J. 
 
 668 
 
 Albert H. 
 
 John, 
 
 430 
 
 
 Corey 
 
 
 Curtis 
 
 Albert J. 
 
 Franks. 
 
 876 
 
 Charles, 
 Isaac S. 
 
 Cothren 
 
 
 Newtgn F. 
 William J. 
 
 Charles, 
 
 649 
 
 
 Nathaniel, 
 William, 
 
 649 
 677 
 
 Cushing 
 
 Cotton 
 
 
 Rafiis K. 
 
 John B. 
 
 • 794 
 
 Cushman 
 
 JohnC. 
 
 813 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 Cousins 
 
 
 David Q. 
 Isaac S. 
 
 Edgar M. 
 
 866 
 
 Cutler 
 
 Craig 
 
 
 JohnL. 
 
 Hem-y K. 
 
 693 
 
 
 Waterman T. H. 
 
 747 
 
 Cutter 
 
 Wheelock, 
 
 577 
 
 Edward F. 
 
 Cram 
 
 
 William, 
 
 Edwm J. 
 John A. 
 
 834 
 836 
 
 Cutts 
 
 Nelson P. 
 
 758 
 
 Usher W. 
 
 Cressey 
 
 848 
 473 
 
 835 
 
 866 
 694 
 
 619 
 696 
 261 
 677 
 473 
 262 
 
 758 
 
 747 
 
 678 
 88) 
 652 
 408 
 440 
 192 
 
 818 
 
 714 
 
 819 
 788 
 803 
 826 
 849 
 
 22T 
 
 809 
 409 
 
 227 
 
 804 
 
INDEX OF GRADUATES. 
 
 891 
 
 Uame 
 
 
 Dennis 
 
 
 Downing 
 
 
 Charles, 
 Henry, 
 
 474 
 715 
 
 Eodney G. 
 Samuel G. 
 
 187 
 467 
 
 Elijah H. 
 
 458 
 
 Samuel P. 
 
 771 
 
 Dennison 
 
 
 Drake 
 
 
 Dana 
 
 
 Cornelius, 
 
 164 
 
 Ellis E. 
 
 771 
 
 Edward A. 
 
 Dane 
 
 617 
 
 Derby 
 
 John B. 
 
 166 
 
 Dresser 
 
 Horatio S. 
 
 794 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 678 
 
 John S. 
 
 309 
 
 Drew 
 
 
 Darling 
 
 
 Dike 
 
 
 Franklin M. 
 
 727 
 
 Walter E. 
 
 715 
 
 James, 
 
 813 
 
 William P. 
 
 «78 
 
 Daveis 
 
 
 DillingJiam 
 
 
 Drummond 
 
 
 Charles S. 
 
 153 
 
 Frederic H. 
 
 866 
 
 Charles, 
 James, 
 
 «78 
 488 
 
 Edward H. 
 
 Davenport 
 
 George P. 
 
 617 
 804 
 
 Dingley 
 
 Frank L. 
 
 768 
 
 Joseph P. 
 Thomas, 
 
 Dudley 
 
 679 
 409 
 
 
 
 Dinsmore 
 
 
 James F. 
 
 at 794 
 
 Davidson 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 James T. 
 
 873 
 
 John, 
 Samuel P. 
 
 639 
 694 
 
 Dummer 
 
 
 Davies 
 
 
 Ditson 
 
 
 Charles, 
 Henry B. 
 Jeremiah, 
 
 1T7 
 
 see 
 
 299 
 
 Oscar S. C. 
 
 875 
 
 AsaU. 
 
 393 
 
 Kichard W. 
 
 ■263 
 
 Davis 
 
 
 Dixon 
 
 
 Dunlap 
 
 
 Ahner H. 
 
 747 
 
 James P. 
 
 804 
 
 Charles R. P. 
 
 619 
 
 Charles, 
 
 553 
 
 
 
 Henry, 
 
 '686 
 
 Edgar F. 
 
 826 
 
 Dodge 
 
 
 John, 
 
 esi 
 
 Eranklin, 
 
 630 
 
 
 
 Robert H. 
 
 d68 
 
 Franklin 0. 
 
 704 
 
 Asa, 
 
 365 
 
 Robert P. 
 
 181 
 
 John, 
 
 162 
 
 JohuC. 
 
 458 
 
 WilUam G. 
 
 608 
 
 John W. 
 
 531 
 
 
 
 
 
 Marshall W. 
 Owen W. 
 
 841 
 788 
 
 Dole 
 
 
 Dunn 
 
 
 Walter G. 
 
 876 
 
 Albert G. 
 Carlton, 
 
 430 
 200 
 
 Joseph E. F. 
 Nathaniel, 
 
 501 
 300 
 
 Day 
 
 JohnQ. 
 
 
 Daniel, 
 
 487 
 
 
 
 393 
 
 Ebenezer, 
 Isaiah, 
 
 475 
 .641 
 
 Dunning 
 
 
 
 
 Nathan, 
 
 487 
 
 Andrew, 
 
 sm 
 
 Dean 
 
 William B. 
 
 653 
 
 Donnell 
 
 
 DureU 
 
 
 Deane 
 
 
 Jotham, 
 William E. 
 
 488 
 771 
 
 George W. 
 
 eas 
 
 Ebenezer F. 
 
 278 
 
 Dorr 
 
 
 Duren 
 
 
 Frederic A. 
 Gorham, 
 Henry P. 
 John F. 
 
 619 
 
 299 
 594 
 685 
 
 George N. 
 Joseph H. 
 
 Douglass 
 
 849 
 366 
 
 Charles, 
 
 Durgin 
 
 441 
 
 Llewellyn, 
 
 649 
 
 
 Henry B. 
 
 635 
 
 
 
 John A. ('14), 
 
 176 
 
 
 
 Dearborn 
 
 
 John A. ('64), 
 
 686 
 
 Duxbury 
 
 
 Alvah B. 
 
 779 
 
 Dow 
 
 
 John W. 
 
 780 
 
 Deering 
 
 
 Frederic G. 
 John E. 
 
 830 
 789 
 
 Eastman 
 
 
 Benjamin T. 
 
 835 
 
 Dowe 
 
 
 Ambrose, 
 
 686 
 
 James H. 
 
 608 
 
 
 Edward, 
 
 715 
 
 Rufas W. 
 
 727 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 263 
 
 Henry E. 
 
 639 
 
 William A. 
 
 848 
 
 
 PhiUp, 
 
 220 
 
 Dennett 
 
 
 Downes 
 
 Henry E. 
 Lemuel G. 
 
 878 
 
 Easton 
 
 
 William S. 
 
 826 
 
 747 
 
 David A. 
 
 796 
 
892 
 
 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Eaton 
 
 
 Farley 
 
 
 Fish 
 
 
 Benjamin B. 
 
 804 
 
 Bphraim W. 
 
 490 
 
 Charles, 
 
 796 
 
 Daniel L. 
 
 664 
 
 William J. 
 
 220 
 
 
 
 Thomas H. 
 
 8ia 
 
 
 
 Fisher 
 
 
 William W. 
 
 T5& 
 
 Farnham 
 
 
 Josiah, 
 
 382 
 
 Elden 
 
 
 Rosooe E. 
 
 748 
 
 
 
 
 
 Samuel, ' 
 
 694 
 
 Fiske 
 
 
 Nathan, 
 
 653 
 
 William H. 
 
 595 
 
 
 
 William, 
 
 804 
 
 Farr 
 
 
 John 0. 
 
 603 
 
 Elder 
 
 
 Loiin, 
 
 759 
 
 Fitch 
 
 
 Isaac It. 
 
 835 
 
 Farrar 
 
 
 Luther, 
 
 579 
 
 Elliot 
 
 
 Calvin, 
 
 468 
 
 Flagg 
 
 
 Charles, 
 
 568 
 
 Charles C. 
 
 441 
 
 Edmund, 
 
 475 
 
 John F. 
 
 836 
 
 Henry, 
 Luther, 
 
 706 
 459 
 
 Edmund W. 
 
 695 
 
 Ellis 
 
 Joseph W- 
 
 620 
 
 Farrington 
 
 
 Fletcher 
 
 
 Robert, 
 
 727 
 
 James B,- 
 Seth C. 
 
 686 
 748 
 
 Alfred, 
 
 631 
 
 Emergou 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 620. 
 
 Fassett 
 
 
 Floyd 
 
 Erank A. 
 
 836 
 
 Lincoln F. 
 
 649 
 
 William G. 
 
 836 
 
 Melville A. 
 
 849 
 
 Thomas P. 
 
 489 
 
 
 
 Samuel E. 
 
 706 
 
 Emery 
 
 Edwin, 
 
 769 
 
 Feleh 
 
 Alphens, 
 Daniel H. 
 
 36T 
 873 
 
 Flye 
 
 William, 
 
 476 
 
 George A. 
 
 780 
 
 Isaac N. 
 
 617 
 
 
 
 George B. 
 
 748 
 
 
 
 Fogg 
 
 
 Georgu ¥. 
 Hannib .1 H. 
 
 489 
 841 
 
 Fellows 
 
 
 Edmund E. 
 
 760 
 
 James W. 
 
 679 
 
 Albert 0. 
 
 789 
 
 Frederic A, 
 
 814 
 
 Lneiliua A. 
 
 759 
 
 Jeremiah, 
 
 161 
 
 James, 
 
 663 
 
 Marcellus, 
 
 679 
 
 John A. C. 
 
 799 
 
 James L. 
 
 780 
 
 Moses, 
 
 200 
 
 
 
 John S. H. 
 
 630 
 
 Stephen, 
 Thomas J. 
 
 178 
 809 
 
 Ferguson 
 
 
 Simon, 
 
 S09 
 
 
 
 Jordan G. 
 
 502 
 
 FoUansbee 
 
 
 Evans 
 
 Daniel, 
 
 228 
 
 Femald 
 
 
 Pearson, 
 
 477 
 
 George, 
 OsmanC. 
 Kichard S. 
 
 182 
 858 
 393 
 
 Joseph G. 
 MerrittC. 
 
 799 
 769 
 
 Foote 
 
 Erastus, 
 
 679 
 
 Simeon A. 
 
 748 
 
 Fessenden 
 
 
 Foss 
 
 
 Eveleth " 
 
 
 Charles 8. D. 
 
 640 
 
 Stephen, 
 
 679 
 
 John, 
 John U. 
 Jonathan Q. 
 Joseph J. 
 Samuel A. 
 
 178 
 660 
 630 
 300 
 630 
 
 Enoch P. 
 Eranois, 
 James D. 
 Joseph P. ('18), 
 Joseph P. I'il), 
 Samuel, 
 Samuel 0. 
 
 505 
 728 
 673 
 201 
 665 
 760 
 459 
 
 Fossett 
 
 Henry, 
 
 Foster 
 
 631 
 
 Everett 
 
 
 Thomas A. D. 
 William P. 
 
 • 609 
 263 
 
 Benjamin B, 
 Charles H. 
 
 «96 
 695 
 
 Charles 0. 
 
 656 
 
 
 
 David H. 
 
 301 
 
 
 
 Field 
 
 
 George W. 
 
 «09 
 
 Fairbanks 
 
 
 Charles, 
 
 367 
 
 Fowler 
 
 
 Albert C. 
 
 836 
 
 Edward M. 
 George W. 
 
 609 
 503 
 
 Nathan L. 
 
 ■em 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 
 Henry C. 
 
 367 
 
 Fox 
 
 
 George A. 
 
 639 
 
 Fifleld 
 
 
 Erederic, 
 
 '640 
 
 Hampden, 
 
 Fales 
 
 715 
 
 Holmes B. 
 
 876 
 
 Freeman 
 
 Charles, 
 
 167 
 
 
 
 Finger 
 
 
 Charles M. 
 
 ■610 
 
 David, 
 
 639 
 
 
 George, 
 
 168 
 
 Edward G. 
 
 430 
 
 Sidney M. 
 
 760 
 
 Samuel, 
 
 «87 
 
INDEX OF GRADUATES. 
 
 893 
 
 French 
 
 
 Gibson 
 
 
 Gould 
 
 
 Willis W. 
 
 873 
 
 Parris, 
 
 665 
 
 Lyman, 
 
 611 
 
 
 
 Samuel F. 
 
 596 
 
 Mark, 
 
 504 
 
 Frink 
 
 
 
 
 Royal E. 
 
 «36 
 
 John S. H. 
 
 665 
 
 Giddinge 
 
 George P. 
 
 268 
 
 Granger 
 
 
 Frost 
 
 
 Gilbert 
 
 
 Daniel T. 
 
 338 
 
 John D. 
 
 728 
 
 
 
 Grant 
 
 
 John S. 
 
 830 
 
 Washington, 
 
 iU 
 
 \J L uillU 
 
 
 Obadiab E. 
 
 337 
 
 
 
 Benjamin S. 
 
 761 
 
 William E. 
 
 819 
 
 Gilman 
 
 
 OrvUle B. 
 
 «20 
 
 Woodbury G. 
 
 748 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fryc 
 
 
 Charles P. 
 JohnT. 
 
 819 
 337 
 
 Gray 
 
 Albert, 
 
 S20 
 
 Sanford O. 
 William P. 
 
 789 
 657 
 
 Gilmore 
 
 
 Harrison, 
 Napoleon, 
 
 687 
 804 
 
 Fuller 
 
 
 Eodolphus H. 
 
 780 
 
 Eotheus A. 
 
 «42 
 
 Americus, 
 
 735 
 
 Giveen 
 
 
 Greeley 
 
 
 Benjamin A. G. 
 
 532 
 
 
 
 Council, 
 
 687 
 
 Charles, 
 
 795 
 
 Thomas M. 
 
 780 
 
 
 
 David B. 
 Ezra B. 
 Henry W. 
 
 866 
 441 
 383 
 
 Goddard 
 
 
 Green 
 
 Albert G. 
 
 384 
 
 John N. 
 
 715 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 $96 
 
 Alexander- R. 
 
 394 
 
 Melville W. 
 
 680 
 
 John, 
 
 441 
 
 Charles F. H. 
 Thomas H. 
 
 ■650 
 772 
 
 Fullerton 
 
 Jeremiah E. 
 
 795 
 
 Godfrey 
 
 James, 
 
 597 
 
 Greene 
 
 Benjamin D. 
 
 781 
 
 Furber 
 
 
 Goldsmith 
 
 
 Joseph K. ('55), 
 
 697 
 
 
 
 
 Joseph K. ('77), 
 
 866 
 
 Henry J. 
 
 760 
 
 
 
 Oscar F. A. 
 
 814 
 
 
 
 Alfred, 
 
 442 
 
 William C. 
 
 -866 
 
 Gage 
 
 Franklin, 
 
 368 
 
 Gooch 
 
 James, 
 
 •269 
 
 William E. 
 
 Greenleaf 
 
 781 
 
 Gannett 
 
 
 John H. 
 
 S20 
 
 Patrick H. 
 
 301 
 
 George, 
 
 568 
 
 Good ale 
 
 
 Gross 
 
 
 Garcelon 
 
 
 Walter T. 
 
 842 
 
 John P. 
 Samuel L. 
 
 800 
 830 
 
 Alonzo, 
 
 491 
 
 Goodenow 
 
 
 Grosvenor 
 
 
 Gardiner 
 
 
 Henry C. 
 
 680 
 
 Godfrey J. 
 
 22S 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 748 
 
 John, 
 
 491 
 
 
 
 Frederic, 
 
 569 
 
 John H. 
 Smith B. 
 
 «73 
 517 
 
 Groton 
 
 
 Gardner 
 
 
 
 
 Isaac, 
 
 228 
 
 X,^ %MM- %mAMmJl\JJf 
 
 
 Goodrich 
 
 
 Nathaniel, 
 
 179 
 
 Samuel S. 
 
 696 
 
 
 
 
 
 William S. 
 
 657 
 
 Lewis, 
 
 610 
 
 Grover 
 
 
 Garland 
 
 
 Goodwin 
 
 
 Abemethy, 
 AlpbeuB, 
 
 -580 
 532 
 
 Joseph C'41), 
 
 554 
 
 Ahnon, 
 
 771 
 
 Nahum W. 
 
 ■789 
 
 Joseph {'44), 
 
 696 
 
 Andrew, 
 Daniel R. 
 
 716 
 431 
 
 Talleyrand, 
 
 -580 
 
 Gaslin 
 
 
 Frederic J. 
 George P. 
 
 432 
 653 
 
 Giirdjian 
 
 
 William, 
 
 1705 
 
 Ichabod, 
 John M. 
 
 532 
 610 
 
 flerope A, 
 
 •867 
 
 Gerrish 
 
 
 John W. 
 Koses B. 
 William A. 
 
 697 
 610 
 580 
 
 Hackleton 
 
 
 Frederic H. 
 
 799 
 
 William F. 
 
 640 
 
 James H. 
 
 ■893 
 
 WiUiam L. 
 
 789 
 
 Gordon 
 
 
 Hagar 
 
 
 Gerry 
 
 
 George M. 
 
 789 
 
 Henry S. 
 
 716 
 
 Elbridge, 
 
 842 
 
 Oriville C. 
 
 853 
 
 James M, 
 
 ■581 
 
894 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Hahn 
 
 
 Harriman 
 
 
 Heath 
 
 
 Silas B. 
 
 681 
 
 David p. 
 George G. 
 
 581 
 781 
 
 Herbert M. 
 
 831 
 
 Haines 
 
 
 Harris 
 
 
 Hemans 
 
 
 Allen, 
 
 391 
 
 
 Claude L. 
 
 519 
 
 Charles Q. 
 
 761 
 
 Amos, 
 
 736 
 
 
 
 George A. 
 
 781 
 
 Herbert, 
 Samuel, 
 
 830 
 443 
 
 Hemmenway 
 
 
 Hale 
 
 
 
 
 Willard E. 
 
 842 
 
 Benjamin, 
 
 202 
 
 Hartley 
 
 
 Henderson 
 
 
 Clarence, 
 
 814 
 
 JohnF. 
 
 396 
 
 
 
 David. 
 
 749 
 
 
 
 Horace E. 
 
 875 
 
 Prancis P. 
 
 611 
 
 Hartwell 
 
 
 Thomas A. 
 
 698 
 
 George W. 
 
 814 
 
 
 
 
 
 John P. 
 Samuel, 
 
 368 
 179 
 
 William B. 
 
 461 
 
 Herbert 
 
 
 William, 
 
 302 
 
 Haselton 
 
 
 Charles D. 
 
 556 
 
 Haley 
 
 
 John B. 
 
 716 
 
 Herrick 
 
 
 William D. 
 
 749 
 
 Haskell 
 
 
 Addison E. 
 Horatio G. 
 
 837 
 
 599 
 
 Hall 
 
 
 John, 
 William B. 
 
 621 
 462 
 
 John J. 
 
 800 
 
 Edwin, 
 
 492 
 
 William L. 
 
 750 
 
 HeiTin 
 
 
 Edwin H. 
 
 849 
 
 
 
 
 
 George W. M. 
 Howard JS. 
 
 735 
 868 
 
 Haskins 
 
 
 Charles M. 
 
 687 
 
 
 
 Bomulus, 
 
 269 
 
 Hewes 
 
 
 Hallett 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hastings' 
 
 
 Benjamin W. 
 
 860 
 
 Julius L. 
 
 640 
 
 David K. 
 
 598 
 
 James T. 
 
 717 
 
 Ham 
 
 
 Hatch 
 
 
 Hewitt 
 
 
 Abner, 
 
 698 
 
 
 
 Obadiah B. 
 
 «98 
 
 Llewellyn 8. 
 
 810 
 
 Albert E. 
 
 504 
 
 
 
 
 
 Francis M. 
 
 836 
 
 Hibbard 
 
 
 Hamlin 
 
 
 James L. 
 
 687 
 
 .A..& L ^J KJ^M^ \A 
 
 
 
 
 Nathaniel, 
 
 681 
 
 David S. 
 
 717 
 
 Augustus C. 
 
 665 
 
 Samuel W. 
 
 631 
 
 
 
 Cbaorles, 
 
 n6 
 
 William, 
 
 279 
 
 Hicks 
 
 
 Cyrus, 
 
 459 
 
 William E. 
 
 860 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gordon M. 
 
 761 
 
 H amnions 
 
 
 Hathaway 
 
 
 Hill 
 
 
 Everett, 
 
 820 
 
 Joshua W. 
 
 221 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 850 
 
 Hanscom 
 
 
 Hawes 
 
 
 Frank A. 
 Horace B. 
 
 772 
 S37 
 
 James W. 
 
 «31 
 
 Charles T. 
 
 858 
 
 James J. 
 
 619 
 
 
 
 Edward, 
 
 697 
 
 Jere M. 
 
 858 
 
 Hanson 
 
 
 Granville P. 
 Leonard, 
 
 760 
 492 
 
 Joseph, 
 Luke, 
 
 620 
 477 
 
 Frederic E. 
 
 820 
 
 William, 
 
 605 
 
 Lysander, 
 Melvin J. 
 
 728 
 796 
 
 Harding 
 
 
 Hawkins 
 
 
 Hilliard 
 
 
 Charles, 
 
 228 
 
 Dexter A. 
 
 641 
 
 
 
 Henry F. 
 
 688 
 
 Hawthorne 
 
 .!• 
 
 John H. 
 
 William T. 
 
 370 
 339 
 
 Hargraves 
 
 
 Frank W. 
 
 842 
 
 Hilton 
 
 
 Frank H. 
 
 86T 
 
 Nathaniel, 
 
 302 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 738 
 
 Harkness 
 
 
 Hayes 
 
 
 Winthrop, 
 
 179 
 
 JohnC. 
 
 789 
 
 Benjamin F. 
 David 
 
 698 
 212 
 
 Hinkley 
 
 
 
 
 F!-ancis L. 
 
 796 
 
 Charles K. 
 
 SOO 
 
 Harlow 
 
 
 George L. 
 
 666 
 
 Eugene B. 
 
 650 
 
 
 
 Hiram. 
 
 666 
 
 John A. 
 
 810 
 
 Edwin A. 
 Thomas Si. 
 
 749 
 492 
 
 Stephen H. 
 Thomas M. 
 
 518 
 541 
 
 Oliver P. 
 
 655 
 
 Harmon 
 
 
 Haynes 
 
 
 Hitchcock 
 
 Bela T. 
 
 462 
 
 Stephen W. 
 
 796 
 
 Nathaniel, 
 
 269 
 
 Frank E. 
 
 810 
 
INDEX OF GRADUATES. 
 
 895 
 
 Hobbie 
 
 
 Howe 
 
 
 Ingalls 
 
 
 ■William A. 
 
 772 
 
 Albion, 
 
 761 
 
 Henry, 
 
 556 
 
 
 
 Edward, 
 
 666 
 
 Moses, 
 
 582 
 
 Hobbs 
 
 
 George W. 
 
 737 
 
 
 
 Ernest S. 
 
 842 
 
 James A. 
 Lucien, 
 
 737 
 821 
 
 IngersoU 
 
 
 Hiram H. 
 
 271 
 
 
 
 Edward C. 
 
 790 
 
 Josiah a. 
 
 221 
 
 Howes 
 
 
 George W. 
 
 410 
 
 Hobson 
 
 
 Josiah, 
 
 699 
 
 Ingraham 
 
 
 Frank 0. L. 
 
 761 
 
 Hoyt 
 
 
 Daniel C. 
 
 «60 
 
 G-enrge W. 
 
 820 
 
 
 Edward T. 
 
 212 
 
 WilUum, 
 
 651 
 
 Henry N. W. 
 
 790 
 
 Ives 
 
 Joseph C. 
 
 
 Hodgdon 
 
 
 Hubbard 
 
 
 642 
 
 John, 
 
 870 
 
 John B. 
 
 717 
 
 
 
 Eichard L. 
 
 611 
 
 Samuel D. 
 Thomas H. 
 
 410 
 718 
 
 Jackson 
 
 
 Hodgman 
 
 Ramuel L. 
 
 
 
 
 George E. B. 
 
 ■651 
 
 658 
 
 Hughes 
 
 
 Geoi-ge F. 
 George N. 
 
 «60 
 738 
 
 
 
 George E. 
 
 837 
 
 Osceola, 
 
 729 
 
 Holbrook 
 
 
 
 
 William F. 
 
 «22 
 
 Amory, 
 George A. 
 
 566 
 
 Humphrey 
 
 
 
 
 867 ' 
 
 Samuel F. 
 
 642 
 
 Jameson 
 
 
 Holmes 
 
 
 Simon J. 
 
 641 
 
 Charles D. 
 
 «68 
 
 Freeland S. 
 
 658 
 
 Hunt 
 
 
 Jarvis 
 
 
 George F. 
 
 300 
 
 Charles 0. 
 
 762 
 
 
 
 George L. 
 
 782 
 
 Henry H. 
 
 772 
 
 Leonard F. E. 
 
 542 
 
 "Walter E. 
 
 821 
 
 
 
 
 
 Walter H. 
 William B. 
 
 850 
 271 
 
 Hunter 
 
 
 JefFerds 
 
 
 Holt 
 
 
 Charles H. 
 John L. 
 Lithgow, 
 
 843 
 699 
 167 
 
 George, 
 
 520 
 
 Stephen A. 
 
 621 
 
 WilUam R. 
 
 569 
 
 Jennings 
 
 
 Holyoke 
 
 
 Hunton 
 
 
 Orville, 
 
 «61 
 
 Charles G. 
 
 810 
 
 WilUam G. 
 
 851 
 
 Jewett 
 
 
 Hood 
 
 Thomas B. 
 
 699 
 
 Hurd 
 
 John S. 
 
 667 
 
 Albert, 
 Charles, 
 Henry J, 
 John, 
 
 729 
 790 
 444 
 642 
 
 Hook 
 
 Josiah 8. 
 
 271 
 
 Huse 
 
 William S. 
 
 806 
 
 John N. 
 Oliver P. 
 Theodore H. 
 
 ■660 
 699 
 463 
 
 Hooker 
 
 
 Hussey 
 
 
 Johnson 
 
 
 Walton O. 
 
 831 
 
 Svlvanus O. 
 Thomas W. H. 
 
 826 
 782 
 
 Albion H. 
 
 762 
 
 
 
 William P. 
 
 SOI 
 
 Alfred 
 
 166 
 
 Hopkins 
 
 Eliphalet S. 
 
 605 
 
 Huston 
 
 
 Alfred W. 
 Charles F. 
 David B. 
 
 ■612 
 ;S76 
 599 
 
 
 
 Frederic N. 
 
 773 
 
 Elderkin R. 
 
 621 
 
 Horr 
 
 
 'Henry A. 
 
 876 
 
 George W. 
 
 «76 
 
 
 
 Joel P. 
 
 876 
 
 Henry, 
 
 843 
 
 Stephen C. 
 
 805 
 
 Joseph T. 
 
 419 
 
 Samuel ('17), 
 Samuel ('39), 
 
 193 
 633 
 
 Hovey 
 
 
 HutOhins 
 
 
 Samuel W. 
 Warren, 
 
 682 
 ■687 
 
 Joseph S. 
 
 493 
 
 Charles K. 
 
 729 
 
 
 
 Myrou M. 
 
 Howard 
 
 790 
 
 Franklin F. 
 Henry D. 
 
 737 
 737 
 
 Johnston 
 
 Alexander, 
 
 477 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 736 
 
 Hutchinson 
 
 
 John, 
 
 433 
 
 Edward O. 
 
 843 
 
 Winfield 8. 
 
 806 
 
 
 
 Henry R. 
 
 717 
 
 
 
 Jones 
 
 
 Joseph, 
 Joseph D. 
 
 229 
 674 
 
 Hyde 
 
 
 Augustine, 
 
 760 
 
 Oliver 0. 
 
 659 
 
 Thomas W. 
 
 762 
 
 Lot, 
 
 229 
 
 Roland B. 
 
 705 
 
 William L. 
 
 570 
 
 William L. 
 
 «62 
 
896 
 
 HISTOET OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Jordan 
 
 
 Kneeland 
 
 
 Leland 
 
 
 Cyrus,. 
 Ebenezer S. 
 
 729 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 844 
 
 Joseph W. 
 
 339 
 
 631 
 
 
 
 
 
 Henry I- 
 Ichabod G. 
 
 782 
 372 
 
 Knight 
 
 
 Lennox 
 
 
 Nabum, 
 
 372 
 
 Albion W. 
 
 557 
 
 Edwin S. 
 
 «88 
 
 Samnel, 
 
 763 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 867 
 
 
 
 William V. 
 
 419 
 
 Franklin L. 
 Isaac, 
 
 622 
 396 
 
 Lenoir 
 
 
 Keating 
 
 
 Know! ton 
 
 
 Thomas B. 
 
 706 
 
 Xdward M. E. 
 
 478 
 
 David H. 
 
 814 
 
 Leonard 
 
 
 Keene 
 
 
 Francis B. 
 
 730 
 
 Edwin, 
 
 «32 
 
 Joseplt "W. 
 
 821 
 
 Ladd 
 
 
 Lewis 
 
 
 Kellogg 
 
 
 Alfred G. 
 Francis D. 
 
 837 
 557 
 
 Stephen L. 
 Weston, 
 
 187 
 831 
 
 EBjah, 
 
 542 
 
 Horatio 0. 
 
 738 
 
 
 
 Gardiner, 
 
 Kelly 
 
 372 
 
 Laighton 
 
 
 Libbey 
 
 Dorville, 
 
 773 
 
 
 Joshua J. 
 
 718 
 
 Elias 0. 
 
 667 
 
 George "W- , 
 
 801 
 
 
 
 Francis A. 
 
 682 
 
 
 
 Lamb 
 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 231 
 
 Kelsey 
 
 
 George W. 
 
 605 
 
 Oliver, 
 
 739 
 
 Birami, 
 
 633 
 
 Lamsou 
 
 
 Libby 
 
 
 Keneiaill 
 
 
 
 
 Augustus F. 
 
 791 
 
 
 
 George, 
 
 168 
 
 Charles P. 
 
 791 
 
 BionF. 
 
 674 
 
 
 
 Gideon, 
 
 782 
 
 Frederic A. 
 
 760 
 
 Lane 
 
 
 John G. 
 
 859 
 
 Kennedy 
 
 
 Daniel, 
 George W. 
 
 621 
 385 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 
 JFames H. 
 
 S14 
 
 William A. 
 
 271 
 
 Benjamin, 
 John D. 
 
 272 
 682 
 
 Kennistoni 
 
 
 Langdon 
 
 
 William S. 
 
 411 
 
 SeargeB. 
 
 763 
 
 John G. 
 Woodbury F. 
 
 719 
 680 
 
 Linscott 
 
 
 Kil-by 
 
 
 Larrabee 
 
 
 Augustus K. 
 Daniel C. 
 
 773 
 «88 
 
 J/obn D'.. 
 
 632 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 600 
 
 
 
 Kimbal 
 
 
 Seth L. 
 William 0. 
 
 851 
 386 
 
 Little 
 
 
 Charles F. 
 
 843 
 
 
 
 George B. 
 
 583 
 
 Edward H. 
 Frank, 
 
 869 
 876 
 
 Larry 
 
 
 George T. 
 Josiah, 
 
 867 
 165 
 
 Frank R. 
 
 869 
 
 James, 
 
 231 
 
 Joeiab S. 
 
 307 
 
 George G. 
 
 773 
 
 
 
 Thomas H. 
 
 700 
 
 G«orge S. 
 
 680 
 
 Lash 
 
 
 William A. 
 
 279 
 
 Henry, 
 
 782 
 
 
 
 
 
 Increase S^ 
 Israel, 
 
 699 
 533 
 
 Augustus F. 
 
 396 
 
 Littlefield 
 
 
 LeviHL 
 
 844 
 
 Lawrence 
 
 
 Franklin, 
 
 791 
 
 Thomas G- 
 
 621 
 
 Hiram B. 
 
 801 
 
 
 
 King 
 
 
 Horatio B. 
 
 796 
 
 Locke 
 
 
 Elijah, 
 
 180 
 
 Lear 
 
 
 Caleb, 
 Ira S. 
 
 373 
 
 844 
 
 Henry M. 
 Samuel H., 
 
 738 
 738 
 
 Benjamin I.. 
 
 161 
 
 Joseph A. 
 
 796 
 
 William K> 
 
 271 
 
 Learned 
 
 
 Longfellow 
 
 Heni-y W. 
 
 
 King&bery 
 
 
 Edward D. 
 
 339 
 
 309 
 
 Sanford A. 
 
 384 
 
 
 
 Nathan, 
 
 479 
 
 
 
 Leavitt 
 
 
 Stephen, 
 
 308 
 
 Kingsbury 
 
 :^n.jamin B. 
 
 718 
 
 James T. 
 John S. 
 Levi R. 
 
 372 
 869 
 751 
 
 Lord 
 
 
 George H. 
 
 612 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 706 
 
 Charles A. 
 Edwin H. 
 
 340 
 
 827 
 
 Kfaasman 
 
 
 Leigh 
 
 
 George E. 
 Nathan, 
 
 801 
 
 157 
 
 JobnD-.. 
 
 307 
 
 Edwin, 
 
 ,478 
 
 Thomas N. 
 
 479 
 
INDEX OF GRADUATES. 
 
 897 
 
 Loring 
 
 Charles P. 
 Edward P. 
 Henry S. 
 Joseph, 
 Prentiss, 
 Richmond, 
 
 Lothrop 
 
 Leavitt, 
 
 Lovatt 
 
 Benjamin K. 
 
 Lovejoy 
 
 Joseph C. 
 
 Lowell 
 
 Daniel O. S. 
 John S. 
 William H. 
 
 Luce 
 
 Enos T. 
 
 Lufkin 
 
 Augustus N, 
 
 Lumbert 
 
 Ansel L. 
 
 Luut 
 
 Horace, 
 ■ John S. 
 
 Lynda 
 
 Frank J. 
 
 Magoun 
 
 G-eorge F, 
 
 Magrath 
 
 John T. 
 
 Mann 
 
 Perez B. 
 
 Manning 
 
 Stephen H. 
 Thomas, 
 
 Manson 
 
 Albert G. 
 
 Manwell 
 
 Benjamin F. 
 
 Mark 
 
 George A. 
 
 Marquis 
 
 George H. 
 
 730 
 763 
 684 
 885 
 706 
 243 
 
 815 
 
 761 
 
 844 
 837 
 553 
 
 876 
 
 606 
 444 
 
 773 
 
 763 
 396 
 
 773 
 
 774 
 
 Marr 
 
 William H. J. 
 
 Marrett 
 
 Lorenzo, 
 Walter H. 
 
 Marsh 
 
 Ezekiel, 
 Gilbert H. 
 
 Marshall 
 
 Enoch 8. 
 Joel, 
 
 William 0. 
 William M. L. 
 
 Mars ton 
 
 Winthrop G. 
 
 Martin 
 
 Alfred, 
 Edward, 
 
 Mason 
 
 Alfred, 
 Ellas 8. 
 George M. 
 Javan K. 
 William, 
 
 Mattocks 
 
 Charles P. 
 
 Maxwell 
 
 Abram, 
 James Q. 
 
 %y 
 
 John W. 
 
 Mayo 
 
 Ezekiel B. 
 
 McArthur 
 
 Arthur ('10), 
 Arthur ('60), 
 William M. 
 
 McClintoek 
 
 John N. 
 
 McCobb 
 
 Charles S. 
 Henry B. 
 James T. 
 
 McCrate 
 
 John D. 
 
 McDonald 
 
 James W. 
 John, 
 
 622 
 859 
 
 420 
 
 433 
 
 774 
 
 667 
 
 320 
 444 
 
 320 
 810 
 212 
 612 
 280 
 
 774 
 
 764 
 791 
 
 674 
 
 162 
 661 
 
 751 
 397 
 
 806 
 
 274 
 
 McDougal 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 William, 
 
 Mcintosh 
 
 John A. 
 
 Mclntyre 
 
 George R. 
 Malcolm, 
 
 McKeen 
 
 James l'17), 
 James ('61)^ 
 John, 
 Joseph, 
 
 McLellan 
 
 Charles H. P. 
 George W. 
 Isaac, 
 William P. 
 
 M'Mahon 
 
 [saiah, 
 
 McPherson 
 
 David M. 
 
 McQuillan 
 
 George F- 
 
 Mead 
 
 Beqjamia, 
 
 Meads 
 
 '633 
 280 
 222 
 
 700 
 
 730 
 •719 
 
 193 
 791 
 165 
 '681 
 
 244 
 688 
 340 
 373 
 
 634 
 
 861 
 
 Simeon P. 
 WilUs H. 
 
 «31 
 821 
 
 Means 
 
 
 George J. 
 James, 
 John 0. 
 Robert, 
 
 633 
 444 
 685 
 155 
 
 Megquier 
 
 
 John L. 
 
 213 
 
 Melcher 
 
 
 Burdus R. 
 Nathaniel, 
 Samuel A. 
 William P. 
 Woodbury L. 
 
 822 
 792 
 868 
 827 
 707 
 
 Mellen 
 
 
 Fj-ederic, 
 Geol^e F. 
 
 S23 
 623 
 
 Merriam 
 
 
 Jonas, 
 Leander O. 
 
 341 
 801 
 
 57 
 
898 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOIK COLLEGE. 
 
 Merrick 
 
 Charles F. 
 
 Merrill 
 
 Albert, 
 Charles B. 
 Don^tus, 
 Edward B. 
 Edward N. 
 Edos, 
 
 Fianklin B. 
 George B. 
 G-eorge W. 
 Henri T. F. 
 Henry N. 
 James, 
 John, 
 John C. 
 John H. 
 Leonard P. 
 Bamuel N. 
 William, 
 
 Merrlman 
 
 Richard G. 
 
 Metcalf 
 
 Edward C. 
 Isaac S, 
 Joseph N". 
 
 Millay 
 
 Edward J. 
 
 Miller 
 
 James F. 
 
 Millett 
 
 Bamuel, 
 
 Milliken 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 Mitchell 
 
 Alfred, 
 Ammi B. 
 Asa C. 
 Benjamin F. 
 Edward F. 
 Edward P. 
 Frank A. 
 John M. 
 Samuel W^ 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Alfred J. 
 
 Moody 
 
 Benjamin, 
 George O. 
 Isaiah P. 
 Joseph G. 
 Theodore Lv 
 
 Moore 
 
 Asahel, 
 Charles H. 
 Ebenezer, 
 Harry V. 
 Joseph E. 
 
 606 
 
 ma 
 
 719 
 844 
 156 
 633 
 859 
 739 
 792 
 688 
 686 
 166 
 667 
 60(1 
 570 
 
 868 
 634 
 752 
 
 797 
 
 707 
 
 274 
 
 774 
 
 739 
 652 
 558 
 622 
 606 
 827 
 863 
 686 
 670 
 
 341 
 740 
 373 
 194 
 
 480 
 822 
 
 844 
 797 
 
 Morgan 
 
 
 Neil 
 
 
 William P. 
 
 815 
 
 • Henry B. 
 
 634 
 
 Morrell 
 
 
 Nelson 
 
 
 William W. 
 
 764 
 
 Horatio, 
 
 342 
 
 Morrill 
 
 
 Nevins 
 
 
 Abner, 
 
 661 
 
 Wilson, 
 
 852 
 
 Amos. 
 
 463 
 
 
 
 Carroll W. 
 Charles E. 
 
 869 
 752 
 
 Newbegin 
 
 
 John A. 
 
 860 
 
 Henry, 
 
 719 
 
 John M'D. 
 
 600 
 
 
 
 Samuel, 
 
 223 
 
 Newcomb 
 
 
 Morrin 
 
 
 Erwin B. 
 
 860 
 
 
 
 ■Guilford S. 
 
 643 
 
 William D. 
 
 506 
 
 
 
 Morse 
 
 
 Newell 
 
 
 
 
 Israel, 
 
 213 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 869 
 
 
 
 Eugene P. 
 Moses L. 
 
 774 
 623 
 
 Newman ■ 
 
 
 
 
 Mark H. 
 
 323 
 
 Morton 
 
 
 Stephen M. 
 
 806 
 
 Edward W. 
 Bilas, 
 
 643 
 543 
 
 Newton 
 
 
 
 
 James, 
 
 613 
 
 Moses 
 
 
 
 
 Galen C. 
 
 707 
 
 Nichols 
 
 
 Thomas F. 
 
 719 
 
 Charles L. 
 
 720 
 
 
 
 William C. 
 
 559 
 
 Mosher 
 
 
 
 
 George F. 
 
 815 
 
 Nickerson 
 
 
 Moulton 
 
 
 Albert T. 
 Charles L. 
 
 493 
 869 
 
 Augustus F. 
 George F 
 
 838 
 373 
 
 Noble 
 
 
 Jotham T. 
 WUUam H. 
 
 411 
 8|5 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 774 
 
 Mower 
 
 Noreross 
 
 
 George S. 
 
 838 
 
 Flavius V. 
 
 700 
 
 Mudgett 
 
 
 Norris 
 
 
 William P. 
 
 806 
 
 Dudley, 
 
 133 
 
 MuUiken 
 
 
 North 
 
 
 George S. 
 
 686 
 
 James W. 
 
 752 
 
 Mnnroe 
 
 
 Northend 
 
 
 Nathan, 
 
 * 411 
 
 William D. 
 
 886 
 
 Munson 
 
 
 Norton 
 
 
 Samuel, 
 
 398 
 
 Winthrop, 
 
 162 
 
 Mussey 
 
 
 Nowell 
 
 
 John, 
 
 158 
 
 William G. 
 
 740 
 
 Nason 
 
 
 Noyes 
 
 
 Reuben, 
 
 463 
 
 Ernest H. 
 
 852 
 
 
 
 George F. 
 
 601 
 
 Nealley 
 
 
 
 
 Edward B. 
 
 730 
 
 Nutter 
 
 
 Edward St. J. 
 
 480 
 
 Charles C. 
 
 623 
 
INDEX OF GRADUATES. 
 
 899 
 
 Nutting 
 
 James L. 
 
 Oakes 
 
 Wallace K. 
 
 O'Brien 
 
 John G. 
 John M. 
 Joseph, 
 
 Odell 
 
 Lory, 
 
 Oliver 
 
 Augustus W. 
 
 Orne 
 
 Edward, 
 Richard B. 
 
 Orr 
 
 Henry, 
 John, 
 
 Osgood 
 
 Edward S. 
 Frederic B. 
 Henry B. 
 James ti. 
 Wilham, 
 
 Otis 
 
 John, 
 William O. 
 
 Owen 
 
 John, 
 Moses, 
 William H. 
 
 Packard 
 
 AlpheusS. ('16), 
 AlpheusS. ('61), 
 Charles ('17), 
 Charles ('42), 
 Charles A. 
 Edward N". 
 George, 
 George T. 
 Hezekiah, 
 John H. 
 Joseph, 
 Robert L. 
 William A. 
 
 Page 
 
 822 
 
 420 
 152 
 634 
 
 752 
 
 180 
 184 
 
 Caleb A. 
 Caleb F. 
 Frederic B. 
 Jesse W. 
 John T. 
 Kingman F. 
 Millard K. 
 Robert, 
 
 852 
 852 
 434 
 689 
 
 275 
 667 
 
 374 
 
 784 
 66S 
 
 188 
 764 
 195 
 671 
 643 
 775 
 231 
 802 
 324 
 559 
 420 
 810 
 
 823 
 223 
 204 
 572 
 601 
 681 
 876 
 162 
 
 Paine 
 
 John St. 0. 
 Philip L. 
 Sewall, 
 William, 
 
 Palmer 
 
 Albert De F. 
 Charles J. 
 Edwin B. 
 Fremont M. 
 Gideon S. 
 Gustavus B. 
 Isaac, 
 Joshua 8. 
 
 Parish 
 
 Moses P. 
 
 Parker 
 
 Ammi L. 
 Arthur T. 
 Edward, 
 Edwin P. 
 Horace, 
 
 Parris 
 
 Albert W. 
 
 Parsons 
 
 B. Franklin, 
 Benjamin ?. 
 Ebenezer G. 
 George, 
 George L. 
 Isaac, 
 John TJ. 
 
 Partridge 
 
 Franklin, 
 Nathaniel S. 
 
 Patch 
 
 John, 
 
 Pattee 
 
 William S. 
 
 Patten 
 
 Bryce M. 
 Horace R, 
 James, 
 John, 
 John B. 
 
 Paj'ne 
 
 John H. 
 
 Pay 
 
 I'son 
 
 Edward, 
 Edward P. 
 Franklin C. 
 George, 
 William M. 
 
 Peabody 
 
 Bphraim, 
 
 Pearson 
 
 662 
 
 Edmund, 
 
 873 
 
 Samuel W. 
 
 480 
 
 
 342 
 
 Peary 
 
 
 Robert E. 
 
 765 
 
 Pease 
 
 845 
 
 
 708 
 
 George M. 
 
 869 
 
 John M. 
 
 523 
 
 
 766 
 445 
 
 Peck 
 
 601 
 
 Henry E. 
 
 
 Roland M. 
 
 245 
 
 Peirce 
 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 
 George L. 
 
 623 
 860 
 
 Pennell 
 
 720 
 
 Albert H. 
 
 703 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 613 
 
 Lewis, 
 
 
 Penney 
 
 481 
 
 Charles F. 
 
 
 Perkins 
 
 559 
 
 Charles J. 
 
 587 
 
 Charles 8. 
 
 445 
 
 George A. 
 
 860 
 
 Horatio IST. 
 
 275 
 
 Simeon, 
 
 275 
 
 
 386 
 
 Perley 
 
 
 Frederic, 
 
 
 George D. 
 
 560 
 
 Isaac, 
 
 560 
 
 Peleg S. 
 
 
 Thomas F. 
 
 
 Willard H. 
 
 421 
 
 Perry 
 
 
 Arthur L. 
 
 
 Charles A. 
 
 827 
 
 Curtis A. 
 
 
 Erastus, 
 
 
 Jairus W. 
 
 
 Trueman 8. 
 
 506 
 
 William, 
 
 852 
 
 
 276 
 157 
 
 Peters 
 
 434 
 
 George S. 
 
 860 
 
 Pettengill 
 
 Newland M. 
 
 434 
 
 Philbrook 
 
 815 
 
 Horace W. 
 
 861 
 
 
 587 
 845 
 
 Phillips 
 
 
 George W. 
 
 
 James L. 
 
 
 John W. 
 
 374 
 
 WiUiam E. 
 
 687 
 775 
 
 782 
 775 
 
 «60 
 
 464 
 786 
 
 «r6 
 
 534 
 412 
 
 763 
 
 535 
 753 
 «62 
 387 
 346 
 
 643 
 204 
 687 
 «61 
 607 
 816 
 
 -845 
 S6l 
 870 
 435 
 «24 
 661 
 «70 
 
 852 
 
 873 
 753 
 731 
 672 
 
900 
 
 HISTORY OP BOWDOm COLLEGE. 
 
 Pickard 
 
 Poor 
 
 Adoniram J. 
 
 783 
 
 Henry V. 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 7/0 
 
 Walter S. 
 
 Daniel W. 
 
 644 
 
 
 Joseph 0. 
 JoBiah li. 
 
 624 
 6U1 
 
 Pope 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 Pierce 
 
 
 Porter 
 
 Pi-anklio, 
 
 281 
 
 
 Geoi-ge W. ('.25), 
 
 324 
 
 Charles 0. 
 
 George W. ('67),, 
 
 720 
 
 Charles R. 
 
 John B. 
 
 775 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 Josiah ('18), 
 
 204 
 
 Eufus K. 
 
 Josiah ('46), 
 
 626 
 
 William K. 
 
 Lewis, 
 
 675, 
 
 William R. 
 
 Milton, 
 
 246 
 
 
 Nathaniel, 
 
 602 
 
 Potter 
 
 OreBtes, 
 
 853 
 
 Barrett, 
 
 Pierson 
 
 
 Barrett E. 
 
 
 Daniel F. 
 
 ■WUUam. H. 
 
 792 
 
 Powers 
 
 Pike 
 
 
 ArhaH. 
 Cassius C. 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 60? 
 
 
 - Edgar, 
 Ezra B. 
 
 40l 
 38° 
 
 Pratt 
 
 Frederic A. 
 
 53° 
 
 Edwin J. 
 
 m-ederio W- A. 
 
 78^ 
 
 George F. 
 
 John, 
 
 446 
 
 Phineas, 
 
 Richard, 
 
 493 
 
 
 Samuel J. 
 
 635 
 
 Pray 
 
 Pillsbary 
 
 
 Thomas J. W 
 Thomas M. 
 
 Evans S. 
 
 783 
 
 Preble 
 
 Pil&bnry 
 
 
 Edward D. 
 
 William, 
 
 168 
 
 W^illiam P. 
 
 Piper 
 
 
 Prentiss 
 
 Horace, 
 
 624 
 
 George L. 
 Sergeant S. 
 
 Pitman 
 
 
 Price 
 
 Mark, 
 
 740 
 
 Vernon D. 
 
 Place 
 
 
 
 David M. 
 
 681 
 
 Prjnce 
 
 George T. 
 
 Plaisted 
 
 
 Howard L. 
 John M. 
 
 Ichahod, 
 
 232 
 
 Joseph, 
 Kewell A. 
 
 Plummer 
 
 
 William R. 
 
 Stanley A. 
 
 807 
 
 Proctor 
 
 Poindexter 
 
 
 Benjamin, 
 
 George G. 
 
 662 
 
 Puffer 
 
 Pollard 
 
 
 Luther, 
 
 George A. 
 
 669 
 
 Pnlsifer 
 
 Pond 
 
 
 Augustus M. 
 
 Benjamin W. 
 
 721 
 
 Woodhury, 
 
 Enoch, 
 
 624 
 
 
 Jeremiah E. 
 Preston, 
 
 682 
 643 
 
 Purington 
 
 , William C. 
 
 644 
 
 George C. 
 
 
 Purinton 
 
 481 
 764 
 
 George, 
 Laui-iston F. 
 
 
 Putnam 
 
 776 
 
 436 
 190 
 688 
 173 
 180 
 688 
 
 Dana B. 
 Franklin, 
 Nathaniel F 
 William L. 
 
 Quinby 
 
 Daniel 0. 
 Henry B. 
 Moses, 
 
 
 Eand 
 
 873 
 661 
 661 
 
 Edward A. 
 Edward M. 
 John, 
 William W. 
 
 846 
 816 
 
 Randall , 
 
 AlhionQ. 
 Benjamin, 
 . Isaac, 
 
 870 
 861 
 
 Randlett 
 
 195 
 
 Howard M. 
 
 602 
 873 
 
 Bay 
 
 Fahius M. 
 
 
 Read 
 
 327 
 644 
 
 William J. 
 
 Record 
 
 481 
 
 Lewis L. 
 
 342 
 
 Redington 
 
 
 Aea, 
 
 828 
 
 Redman 
 
 861 
 776 
 661 
 482 
 544 
 645 
 
 Erastus F. 
 John B. 
 
 Reed 
 
 Edwin. 
 Lewis H. 
 Thomas B. 
 William G. 
 
 465 
 
 Remick 
 
 
 Frank C. 
 
 682 
 
 Reynolds 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 731 
 853 
 
 Rice 
 
 874 
 
 Alhert S. 
 Charles D. 
 William E. 
 \^ illiam W. 
 
 675 
 741 
 783 
 701 
 
 816 
 153 
 
 721 
 741 
 421 
 608 
 
 875 
 168 
 493 
 
 766 
 
 276 
 
 823 
 823 
 
 731 
 
 870 
 764 
 838 
 
 784 
 
 721 
 
 708 
 &i 
 863 
 625 
 
INDEX OF GRADUATES. 
 
 901 
 
 Rich 
 
 Eoarers 
 
 Jaliez C. 
 
 4:i5 
 
 Allan E. 
 
 862 
 
 Benjamin S. 
 
 645 
 
 John, 
 
 766 
 
 John H. 
 
 645 
 
 Charles A. 
 
 608 
 
 Thomas H. 
 
 645 
 
 Lincoln A. 
 
 863 
 
 William H. 
 
 731 
 
 
 
 Osgood W. 
 
 832 
 
 William T. 
 
 447 
 
 Richards 
 
 
 Ross 
 
 
 Sawtelle 
 
 
 Jehlel S. 
 
 831 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ezekiel, 
 
 701 
 
 CuUen, 
 
 328 
 
 Richardson 
 
 
 Rounds 
 
 
 Sawj'er 
 
 
 Albert F. 
 
 838 
 
 Charles B. 
 
 767 
 
 George Y. 
 
 364 
 
 Daniel T. 
 
 !62 
 
 
 
 Luther D. 
 
 388 
 
 tieorge L. 
 George N. 
 
 653 
 635 
 
 Rowe 
 
 
 Nathaniel L. 
 
 626 
 
 Henry L. 
 Joseph C. 
 
 635 
 646 
 
 Abram N. 
 David S. 
 
 764 
 524 
 
 Scamman 
 
 
 Nathaniel P. 
 
 614 
 
 James S. 
 
 351 
 
 John Q. A. 
 
 509 
 
 William, 
 
 159 
 
 William H. G. 
 
 862 
 
 Scribner 
 
 
 Ricker 
 
 
 Rowell 
 
 
 Edwin A. 
 
 871 
 
 Fi-eeman A. 
 
 832 
 
 Charles, 
 
 816 
 
 
 
 Rideout 
 
 
 Rowland 
 
 
 Seabury 
 
 Charles B. 
 
 871 
 
 Reuben A. 
 
 766 
 
 Jonathan M. 
 
 352 
 
 Edwin, 
 
 448 
 
 Riley 
 
 
 Rundlett 
 
 
 Seavey 
 
 
 
 Leonard W. 
 
 811 
 
 William H. 
 
 614 
 
 James, 
 
 402 
 
 "W^arren, 
 
 446 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Seiders 
 
 
 Ring 
 
 
 Russwurm 
 
 
 George M. 
 
 832 
 
 diaries A. 
 
 8U 
 
 John B. 
 
 362 
 
 Sessions 
 
 
 Frank W. 
 
 816 
 
 Sabin 
 
 
 
 Henry W. 
 
 876 
 
 
 Joseph W. 
 
 402 
 
 
 
 Alvah H. 
 
 862 
 
 
 
 Robbins 
 
 
 
 
 Sevey 
 
 
 AugastuB C. 
 
 483 
 
 Sabine 
 
 
 Manasseh, 
 
 436 
 
 Chandler, 
 
 185 
 
 Fiancis W. 
 
 741 
 
 
 
 Charles A. 
 Nathaniel A. 
 
 792 
 721 
 
 
 
 Sewall 
 
 
 "William H. 
 
 181 
 
 Salter 
 
 
 Daniel, 
 
 436 
 
 Roberts 
 
 
 Benjamin F. 
 
 173 
 
 David B. 
 Frank, 
 Frederic D. 
 
 494 
 732 
 626 
 
 Charles P. 
 
 614 
 
 Sampson 
 
 
 George B. 
 
 205 
 
 Charles W. 
 James A. 
 John A. 
 
 669 
 823 , 
 870 
 
 Cassander C. 
 Luther, 
 
 839 
 647 
 
 George T. 
 Hardy R. 
 James W. 
 John S. 
 
 807 
 863 
 871 
 '62 
 
 Robie 
 
 
 Sanborn 
 
 
 Joseph, 
 Jotham B. 
 
 169 
 645 
 
 
 
 Aretas R. 
 
 741 
 
 Kiah B. 
 
 402 
 
 Edward, 
 
 646 
 
 Benjamin, 
 
 24: 
 
 Rufus K. 
 
 609 
 
 Francis B. 
 
 4ii2 
 
 John C. 
 
 722 
 
 William S. 
 
 465 
 
 Frederic, 
 
 662 
 
 
 
 
 
 Thomas S. 
 
 708 
 
 Sanford 
 
 
 Shackford 
 
 
 Robinson 
 
 
 Alpheus, 
 Oliver S. 
 
 862 
 673 
 
 Charles B. 
 
 784 
 
 Charles P. 
 Daniel A. 
 Franklin C. 
 
 689 
 839 
 839 
 
 Sar^nt 
 
 Charles, 
 
 
 Shannon 
 
 William C. 
 
 832 
 
 George ('31), 
 
 422 
 
 863 
 
 
 
 George ('66), 
 George 0. 
 
 709 
 663 
 
 Dudley A. 
 Elias H. 
 
 853 
 603 
 
 Shapleigh 
 
 
 Henry C. 
 John (). 
 Moses if. 
 
 754 
 689 
 709 
 
 Gustavus F. 
 William E. 
 
 589 
 874 
 
 
 732 
 
 O'Nell W. 
 
 614 
 
 
 
 Shaw 
 
 
 Richard W. 
 
 784 
 
 Saunders 
 
 
 
 
 Silvanus W. 
 
 246 
 
 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 701. 
 
 Walter A. 
 
 862 
 
 Caleb, 
 
 742 
 
 JohnF. 
 
 701 
 
 Savage 
 
902 
 
 HISTORY OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Sl^epard 
 
 Charles L, 
 G-eorge H. 
 WiUiam B. 
 
 Shepley 
 
 David, 
 Joha R. 
 Leonard D. 
 Samuel }I. 
 
 Sheppard 
 
 JohnH. 
 
 Sherman 
 
 J\ddlson M. 
 Joseph, 
 Thomas B. 
 
 Shertzer 
 
 Edwin B. 
 
 Shillaber 
 
 Ebenezer, 
 
 Silsbee 
 
 Samuel, 
 
 Simmons 
 
 Augustine, 
 Pariser P. 
 
 Simonds 
 
 John W. 
 
 Simonton 
 
 Edward, 
 Thaddeus B. 
 
 Simpson 
 
 Thomas 0. 
 
 Skeele 
 
 John p. 
 
 Smith 
 
 Andrew J. 
 Andrew R. G, 
 Benjamin, 
 Benjamin F. 
 Charles B. 
 Daniel F. 
 Edwin, 
 Edwin B. 
 Henry, 
 Henry B. 
 Henry H. 
 Henry S. B. 
 Hosea H. 
 Isaiah P. 
 Jacoh. 
 John C. 
 John D. 
 iJoseph C. 
 Joseph E. ' 
 Joshua V. 
 Manasseh H, 
 
 828 
 701 
 811 
 
 510 
 626 
 448 
 
 871 
 36.> 
 
 702 
 
 611 
 
 828 
 854 
 
 689 
 
 767 
 682 
 
 616 
 
 784 
 785 
 663 
 785 
 846 
 722 
 767 
 709 
 162 
 466 
 689 
 767 
 673 
 732 
 276 
 636 
 466 
 526 
 690 
 •807 
 
 Smith 
 
 Samuel E. ('39), 
 Samuel E. ('78), 
 Seba, 
 Thomas, 
 Thomas R. 
 William T. 
 
 Smyth 
 
 Charles W. 
 Egbert C. 
 Frederic K. 
 G-eorgo A. 
 Newman, 
 "William, 
 William H. 
 
 Snell 
 
 Charles, 
 G-eorge H. 
 William B. 
 
 Snow 
 
 Benjamin G. 
 Benjamiu P. 
 David W. 
 
 Soule 
 
 Charles, 
 Charles E. 
 Gideon L, 
 John B. L. 
 Moses, 
 
 Southgate 
 
 Frederic ('10), 
 Frederic ('36), 
 Horatio, 
 John B. 
 Robert, 
 WilUam S. 
 
 Southworth 
 
 Spaulding 
 
 Frank W. 
 JohnF. 
 
 Spear 
 
 BlUs, 
 William E. 
 
 Spearing 
 
 Robert MoK. 
 
 Spinney 
 
 Albion P. 
 
 Spofford 
 
 Charles A. 
 
 Sprague 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 Springer 
 
 Charles C, 
 
 636 
 874 
 205 
 647 
 663 
 276 
 
 646 
 807 
 811 
 785 
 247 
 709 
 
 329 
 663 
 616 
 
 702 
 840 
 
 233 
 673 
 208 
 647 
 404 
 
 732 
 824 
 
 636 
 
 846 
 
 Stackpole 
 
 Everett S. 
 James, 
 
 Stacy 
 
 Davis S. 
 
 Standish 
 
 Myles, 
 
 Stanley 
 
 Gustavus A. 
 John T. 
 
 Stanton 
 
 Benjamin, 
 Jonathan Y. 
 Levi VV. 
 
 Stanwood 
 
 Daniel C. 
 David, 
 Edward, 
 Lewis A. 
 Robert G. 
 
 Staples 
 
 John M. - 
 Stephen MxL. 
 William A. 
 
 Starbird 
 
 Isaac W. 
 Solomon B. 
 
 Starrett 
 
 David, 
 George, 
 
 Stearns 
 
 Seward S. 
 
 Stetson 
 
 David O. 
 John D. 
 JohnG. 
 
 Stevens 
 
 Charles A. 
 Joseph B. 
 Oliver, 
 Oliver 0. 
 
 Steward 
 
 Gustavus A. 
 
 Stewart 
 
 Samuel B. 
 
 Stimson 
 
 Frederic M. 
 
 Stinch field 
 
 Anson G. 
 
 828 
 214 
 
 404 
 
 864 
 
 722 
 663 
 
 646 
 710 
 
 702 
 
 167 
 
 768 
 
 871 
 
 . 864 
 
 733 
 234 
 191 
 
 778 
 733 
 
 209 
 209 
 
 877 
 
 755 
 733 
 
 816 
 377 
 647 
 
 511 
 
 723 
 
INDEX OF GRADUATES. 
 
 903 
 
 Stinson 
 
 
 Swasey 
 
 
 Thaj'er 
 
 
 Batniiel A. 
 
 663 
 
 George R. 
 
 854 
 
 Heniy 0. 
 
 7T6 
 
 
 
 Henry W. 
 
 797 
 
 Solomon, 
 
 185 
 
 Stockbridge 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ebenezer, 
 
 511 
 
 Swazey 
 
 
 Theobald 
 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 413 
 
 Arthur, 
 
 603 
 
 Frederic P. 
 
 414 
 
 Stocldn 
 
 
 Sweat 
 
 
 George H. 
 
 676 
 
 Abner 0. 
 
 723 
 
 Lorenzo D. M. 
 
 512 
 
 Thing 
 
 
 
 
 Moses E. 
 
 512 
 
 John W. 
 
 874 
 
 Stone 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cornelius, 
 
 548 
 
 Sweetser 
 
 
 Thomas 
 
 
 CyruB, 
 
 723 
 
 Reuben, 
 
 649 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 468 
 
 George "W. 
 
 833 
 
 
 
 Edward H. 
 
 424 
 
 Henry, 
 Moses C. 
 
 675 
 797 
 
 Sj'monds 
 
 
 George A . 
 William W. 
 
 663 
 755 
 
 Thomas N. 
 Thomas T. 
 Timothy W. 
 
 549 
 223 
 249 
 
 Joseph W. 
 WilUam L. 
 
 755 
 691 
 
 Thompson 
 
 
 William, 
 
 329 
 
 Talbot 
 
 
 Andrew J. 
 
 733 
 
 Storer 
 
 
 Francis L. 
 
 690 
 
 Edward W. 
 Emery P. 
 
 711 
 702 
 
 David H. 
 
 249 
 
 George F. 
 Isaac W. 
 
 612 
 613 
 
 Eugene, 
 Jacob H. 
 
 663 
 766 
 
 Henry G. 
 
 437 
 
 John C. 
 
 636 
 
 Robert R. 
 
 653 
 
 John P. B. 
 
 169 
 
 Samuel, 
 
 288 
 
 William A. 
 
 167 
 
 Seth, ^ 
 
 155 
 
 Stephen P. 
 
 423 
 
 WiUiam S. 
 
 855 
 
 
 
 Thomas H. 
 
 627 
 
 
 
 Stowe 
 
 
 
 
 Thorndike 
 
 
 Calvin E. 
 
 287 
 
 Tallman 
 
 
 George, 
 
 163 
 
 Stowell 
 
 
 Peleg, 
 
 702 
 
 Thornton 
 
 
 Levi, 
 
 185 
 
 Tappan 
 
 
 Albert G. 
 
 647 
 
 
 
 Benjamin, 
 
 448 
 
 James B. 
 
 628 
 
 Straw 
 
 
 Daniel D. 
 
 250 
 
 Thomas G. 
 
 604 
 
 David E. 
 
 742 
 
 Winthrop, 
 
 603 
 
 Thorp 
 
 
 Strickland 
 
 
 Tarbox 
 
 James G. 
 
 877 
 
 John W. 
 
 768 
 
 Lyman 8. 
 
 723 
 
 
 
 Thurlow 
 
 
 S trout 
 
 
 Tash 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 573 
 
 Grenville M. 
 
 769 
 
 James C. 
 
 724 
 
 
 
 Thurston 
 
 
 
 
 Taylor 
 
 
 Richard B. 
 
 664 
 
 Stuart 
 
 
 Charles C. 
 
 449 
 
 Samuel R. 
 
 590 
 
 Albion W. 
 William H. 
 
 786 
 742 
 
 Chaiies S. 
 James H. 
 
 863 
 710 
 
 Tibbitts 
 
 
 S'tubbs 
 
 
 Tebbets 
 
 
 Richard H. 
 
 647 
 
 George E. 
 
 768 
 
 Noah, 
 
 250 
 
 Tillson 
 
 
 Philip II. 
 
 766 
 
 Tenney 
 
 
 George W. 
 
 872 
 
 Stnrtevant 
 
 
 Albert G. 'j 
 John S. 
 
 f484 
 191 
 
 Timberlake 
 
 
 Edward L. 
 
 786 
 
 Samuel W. 
 
 710 
 
 Davis T. 
 
 824 
 
 Thomas D. 
 
 663 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sumner 
 
 
 Tewksbury 
 
 George F. 
 
 460 
 
 Tinkham 
 
 John F. 
 
 703 
 
 George T. 
 
 802 
 
 
 
 
 
 Swallow 
 
 George C. 
 
 589 
 
 Thacher 
 
 Francis S. 
 Peter, 
 
 802 
 423 
 
 Titcomb 
 
 Augustus H. 
 
 Benjamin, 
 
 Charles, 
 
 636 
 163 
 703 
 
 Swan 
 
 
 Thatcher 
 
 
 Joseph, 
 Stephen, 
 
 590 
 494 
 
 Charles E. 
 
 603 
 
 Benjamin B. 
 
 356 
 
 WiUiam, 
 
 647 
 
904 
 
 HISTORY OP BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 
 
 Todd 
 
 Charles F. 
 William H. 
 
 Torrey 
 
 Charles T. 
 
 Towle 
 
 David L. 
 George B. 
 
 Town send 
 
 Patrick H. 
 
 Trask 
 
 George, 
 Samuel, 
 
 True 
 
 Charles H, 
 Henry A. 
 Horace R. 
 John K. 
 Joseph M. 
 Loring B. 
 
 Trufant 
 
 Isaiah, 
 
 Tucker 
 
 William P. 
 
 Tuell 
 
 Hiram, 
 
 Turner 
 
 Lewis, 
 
 Twitchell 
 
 Adelbert B. 
 
 Tyng 
 
 James H. 
 
 Upham 
 
 Albert G. 
 Francis W. 
 George B. 
 Joseph B. 
 
 Upton 
 
 Charles H. 
 Francis R. 
 
 Vail 
 
 Stephen M. 
 
 Vance 
 
 James P. 
 
 Varney 
 
 Almon L. 
 Cyrus B. 
 
 Vaughan 
 
 691' 
 683 
 
 John A. 
 William M. 
 
 
 Verrill 
 
 824 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 
 Virgin 
 
 604 
 734 
 
 Frank P. 
 William W. 
 
 
 Vose 
 
 663 
 
 358 
 674 
 
 Edward J. 
 Gardiner 0. 
 George H. 
 Kicbard H. 
 
 Wadsworth 
 
 711 
 437 
 865 
 649 
 616 
 525 
 
 Isaac' N. 
 Marshman E 
 
 Waitt 
 
 William G. 
 
 Waldron 
 
 786 
 
 ■ Daniel W. 
 George P. 
 Henry, 
 
 
 Walker 
 
 692 
 
 Clarence M. 
 Joseph, 
 
 
 Walter 
 
 817 
 
 William B. 
 
 424 
 
 Ware 
 
 Albert H. 
 Joseph A, 
 
 756 
 
 Wai'ren 
 
 
 William, 
 
 377 
 
 Washburn 
 
 649 
 513 
 628 
 763 
 
 Charles A. 
 Ganem, 
 Frederic L. 
 William D. 
 
 Waterhouse 
 
 Francis A. 
 Frank S. 
 
 469 
 
 Waterman 
 
 855 
 
 Granville C. 
 John A. 
 Sylvanue D. 
 
 626 
 
 Watson 
 
 210 
 
 Charles C. 
 John P. 
 
 Webb • 
 
 777 
 787 
 
 Edward, 
 Edwin B. 
 Francis B. 
 
 185 
 
 378 
 
 777 
 
 855 
 604 
 
 703 
 664 
 253 
 
 616 
 817 
 
 777 
 691 
 414 
 
 8'40 
 210 
 
 210 
 
 654 
 670 
 
 513 
 
 648 
 616 
 605 
 692 
 
 724 
 628 
 
 787 
 71J 
 
 526 
 628 
 634 
 
 Webber 
 
 Charles E. 
 Jacob B. 
 
 812 
 
 787 
 
 Webster 
 
 
 Charles B. 
 Francis W. 
 George, 
 Henry S. 
 
 802 
 756 
 742 
 807 
 
 Weeks 
 
 
 Charles, 
 John W. 
 
 797 
 742 
 
 Welch 
 
 
 Milton, 
 
 617 
 
 Weld 
 
 
 ' Eugene, 
 
 330 
 
 Wells 
 
 
 Christopher H. 
 George, 
 Spencer, 
 Walter, 
 William T. 
 
 865 
 674 
 654 
 676 
 812 
 
 Weston 
 
 
 Daniel C. 
 Edward B. 
 Edward P. 
 George M. 
 James, 
 James P. 
 Joseph W. 
 Nathan, 
 Samuel M. 
 
 469 
 824 
 637 
 469 
 164 
 550 
 591 
 460 
 605 
 
 Weymouth 
 
 
 Aurelius L. 
 
 424 
 
 Wheeler 
 
 
 Charles G. 
 Charles H. 
 Crosby H. 
 Frank K. 
 George A, 
 Gi'orge B. 
 Horatio Q. 
 William A. 
 
 864 
 636 
 636 
 
 711 
 
 846 
 605 
 683 
 
 Wheelock 
 
 
 Albert T. 
 
 470 
 
 Wheelwright 
 
 
 George A, 
 Isaac W. 
 
 615 
 284 
 
 Whitaker 
 
 George M. 
 
 833 
 
 Whitcomb 
 
 
 Henry D. 
 
 637 
 
INDEX OF GRADUATES. 
 
 905 
 
 White 
 
 
 Wiley 
 
 
 Woodbury 
 
 
 Henry Q. 
 
 847 
 
 Philenthius C. 
 
 769 
 
 Fitz-AUen, 
 
 817 
 
 Henry K. 
 
 847 
 
 
 
 Webster, 
 
 793 
 
 John H. (■22), 
 
 264 
 
 Willard 
 
 
 
 
 John H. ('76), 
 •Nathaniel 0. 
 
 864 
 617 
 
 Alexander D. 
 
 787 
 
 Woodford 
 
 
 Thomas H. 
 Wallace- B. 
 
 Whiting 
 
 792 
 828 
 
 Willey 
 
 Benjamin G. 
 
 264 
 
 Edward, 
 
 WoodhuU 
 
 470 
 
 Jasper S. 
 
 Whitman 
 
 637 
 
 Williams 
 
 Francis F. 
 
 617 
 
 Richard, 
 
 Woodman 
 
 878 
 
 Alonzo G. 
 Charles 0. 
 Harrison B. 
 
 825 
 812 
 817 
 
 Horace, 
 Oscar S. 
 WUliam, 
 
 605 
 817 
 484 
 
 Cyrus, 
 ,1abez C. 
 Jabez H. 
 Moses E. 
 Russell D. 
 
 496 
 259 
 495 
 380 
 803 
 
 W hitmore 
 
 
 Williamson 
 
 
 
 
 yMbionS. 
 
 856 
 
 George E. 
 
 712 
 
 Woods 
 
 
 George S. 
 Nathaniel McL. ('33), 
 
 712 
 450 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 664 
 
 George, 
 John IT 
 
 816 
 793 
 
 Nathaniel McL. ('54), 
 Samuel W. 
 Stephen C. 
 
 '93 
 856 
 856 
 
 Willis 
 
 Henry, 
 
 670 
 
 Woodside 
 
 
 Whitney 
 
 
 Wilson 
 
 
 Albert, 
 Jonathan F. 
 
 818 
 874 
 
 Frederic E. 
 Joseph N. 
 
 840 
 793 
 
 Adam, 
 
 215 
 
 Woodward 
 
 
 Whittemore 
 
 
 Bion, 
 
 Franklin A. 
 Frederic A. 
 
 864 
 693 
 840 
 
 Edwin C. 
 George S. 
 
 S25 
 606 
 
 Albert P. 
 
 743 
 
 Joseph 0. 
 
 808 
 
 
 
 Charles A. 
 
 864 
 
 
 
 Woodwell 
 
 
 Widgery 
 
 
 Wingate 
 
 
 William H. 
 
 818 
 
 John, 
 
 196 
 
 John, 
 Joseph C. A. 
 
 703 
 670 
 
 Wright 
 
 
 Wiggin 
 
 
 Wise 
 
 
 Alonzo P. 
 Frank V. 
 
 793 
 864 
 
 Henry D. 
 
 Wight 
 
 872 
 
 John, 
 
 Wis well 
 
 164 
 
 Wyman 
 
 Henry A. 
 
 606 
 
 Eli, 
 
 561 
 
 
 
 Robert, 
 
 627 
 
 John G. 
 
 793 
 
 Andrew P. 
 
 840 
 
 Seward, 
 
 330 
 
 Marcus, 
 
 778 
 
 Amo, 
 
 564 
 
 
 
 Wilcox 
 
 
 Witherbee 
 
 
 Yeaton 
 
 Franklin, 
 
 425 
 
 Charles W. C. 
 
 359 
 
 Samuel J. 
 
 629 
 
 George C. 
 
 712 
 
 Wilde 
 
 George C. 
 
 214 
 
 Wood 
 
 
 Young 
 
 
 
 
 Henry C. 
 
 693 
 
 Joshua, 
 
 617 
 
 Wilder 
 
 
 Joseph A. 
 William, 
 
 235 
 
 405 
 
 Samuel L, 
 Stephen J. 
 
 561 
 743 
 
 Harold, 
 
 833 
 
 Wilmot, 
 
 192 
 
 Timothy R. 
 
 485