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 THE' HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CLASS OF 1869 
 
 AMHERST COLLEGE 
 "LIGHT" 
 
 1889 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
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Katonah, N. Y., June 26, 1889. 
 My Dear Classmates : A second edition 
 of the History of the Class of 1869 of Amherst 
 College, covering the entire period of twenty- 
 years since our graduation, is now offered to 
 your kind consideration. It was planned to 
 have it ready for distribution at our reunion 
 at Amherst, July 3d, but a delay of a few 
 days has become necessary. The great 
 majority of the class have responded to the 
 appeal for information with a promptness 
 most delightful, but a few have waited for a 
 second or third prodding, and they must 
 bear a large measure of responsibility for the 
 delay, Our most efficient Secretary, W. 
 Reynolds Brown, gave the undertaking a vig- 
 orous start in the circular letter sent out last 
 March. Since then the pressure of his busi- 
 ness cares has been such that the task of edit- 
 ing the material gathered has devolved upon 
 the undersigned. There have been many 
 pleasant features of this work, and if the 
 result prove of any interest and value to you, 
 and serve to strengthen the bond of class 
 
fellowship, I shall feel amply repaid for the 
 time and trouble it has cost me. The im- 
 portant matter of publishing the history has 
 been under the supervision of Donald, who 
 very kindly assumed that care. 
 
 Errors and omissions cannot of course be 
 avoided with the utmost precaution against 
 them. Your indulgence in this matter is 
 confidently asked, and an early correction 
 will make future work of this kind easier and 
 more complete. 
 
 Five more of our number have won stars 
 in our record since 1879 — E. A. Adams, 
 Emmons, Fuller, Warn, and Chittenden. 
 Adams and Warn died on the same day, 
 January 7, 1882. 
 
 With the exception of L. E. Wells, M.D., 
 everyone, both of the graduate and non- 
 graduate members, has been heard from. 
 
 The pages devoted to statistics with their 
 totals of eighty-seven boys and seventy-four 
 girls are pleasant reading, but the frequent 
 stars upon these pages witness that some of 
 our number have passed through deep waters, 
 and call forth our loving sympathy. 
 
 Only five of our graduate members and 
 
two of the non-graduates remain in a frac- 
 tional condition and refuse to be reduced to 
 unity. Not all of these cases are hopeless, 
 but some we fear are. 
 
 Let all have photographs taken during 
 January, 1894, and then expect a third, illus- 
 trated edition of our history for our quarter 
 centennial. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 John H. Eastman, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF 
 
 GRADUATE MEMBERS OF 
 
 THE CLASS. 
 
 * Edward Austin Adams, son of Austin 
 and Almira (Stearns) Adams, was born May 
 5, 1848, at Lawrence, Mass. He prepared 
 for college at Oakham, Mass., where his 
 parents resided at the time he entered col- 
 lege. During the first three years after 
 graduation he was engaged in teaching at 
 Cummington, Mass., Spring Run, Penn., and 
 Cornwall, N. Y. In October, 1872, he com- 
 menced the study of medicine with D. W. 
 Miner, M.D., of Ware, Mass. His medical 
 studies were subsequently pursued at the 
 Medical Department of the New York Uni- 
 versity, and at the Buffalo Medical College. 
 From the latter institution he received the 
 degree of M. D. in February, 1876, and soon 
 after became Assistant Physician at the State 
 Asylum for the Insane, Kalamazoo, Mich., 
 where he still remains. The institution at 
 present contains 560 patients, of whom 
 Adams has immediate charge of about 120, 
 visiting them twice daily. The nature of his 
 
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 professional work is leading him in his 
 studies to give especial attention to biological 
 science. 
 
 This report of our classmate appeared in 
 our Decennial Record, and we were permitted 
 to greet him at our Reunion in 1879. But 
 when we came together again in 1884, a ten- 
 der and impressive feature of our meeting 
 was the recital of his sad death, given us by 
 his chum, R. M. Woods. The latter has 
 kindly furnished the following sketch in 
 memory of one beloved by us all : — 
 
 At the time of his death, Dr. Adams was 
 Assistant Medical Superintendent of the 
 Michigan Asylum for the Insane in Kala- 
 mazoo. While on his daily round of inspec- 
 tion he was assaulted and stabbed by one of 
 the patients. This assault took place Friday 
 morning, Jan. 6, 1882. Death followed at 
 six o'clock the following morning. This 
 patient had previously threatened Adams' 
 life, and on this account had been carefully 
 searched, but nothing was found in his pos- 
 session of a dangerous character. His enmity 
 was due to a suspicion that the Doctor failed 
 to forward letters he had written. The wound 
 seems at no time to have given much pain. 
 Adams only became aware of it by the appear- 
 ance of blood, and was slow to believe himself 
 
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 seriously hurt. But when examination made 
 evident the nature of the injury, he recog- 
 nized at once what the end would be. Mani- 
 festing no agitation, his feeling found expres- 
 sion only in a few words of sympathy for his 
 friends at home. 
 
 Since graduation Dr. Adams had changed 
 as little as any member of '69. He was " the 
 Doctor " still. In figure, he remained slender. 
 In his movements, he was quick and nervous. 
 There were still frequent indications of that 
 shyness and reserve which characterized him 
 in College. He was as honest and guileless 
 the last day of his life, as he v/as in boyhood. 
 
 It was predicted when Adams was at Am- 
 herst that his shyness and what some call 
 " ignorance of the world " would prove grave, 
 if not insurmountable, obstacles in the way 
 of his success in life. But, if they were ob- 
 stacles, they were nobly mastered. At his 
 death Adams had gained the position and 
 reputation of a rising man in his profession. 
 Always in connection with his regular work, 
 he pursued some independent line of investi- 
 gation. The position which he held, he had 
 gained by repeated promotions in the service 
 of the State. His skill and usefulness as a 
 physician received many marked recognitions. 
 
 The doctor won friends wherever he was 
 
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 known. He was a favorite with the officers 
 and attendants at the institution, and the 
 patients generally were fond of him. Those 
 who remember his aversion to composi- 
 tion will be interested to learn that Adams' 
 letters to the friends of patients in the asylum 
 were particularly admired. They were always 
 so honest and clear in the information they 
 gave, always so kind in spirit. 
 
 It is hardly necessary to dwell at length on 
 Adams' success in college, nor on the affection 
 in which he was held by his classmates. 
 Quick to appreciate fun, even at his own 
 expense, frank and decided in the expression 
 of his opinion, eager and enthusiastic as a 
 student, he entered heartily into every phase 
 of college life. Some who came to him ten 
 minutes before the recitation, and asked him 
 to translate the Greek for the day, can testify 
 to his unselfishness. Those who argued 
 with him, competed with him for honors, or 
 played with him at practical jokes, all knew 
 how free he was from anything that savored 
 of envy, or anger, or malice. 
 
 He left, at his death, a father and mother, 
 two sisters, and a brother, all living in Oakham. 
 He was the oldest of the children — the com- 
 mon object of affection and admiration. His 
 annual visit was the event of the year. His 
 
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 invalid brother lived in anticipation of the 
 doctor's return. His funeral was attended at 
 Oakham, where the services were conducted 
 by his college chum. 
 
 Singularly guileless in spirit, pure in life, 
 chaste in word, to the end he kept himself 
 "unspotted from the world." One of the 
 youngest of the class, his sad end seemed 
 not like the fall of a man, but the striking 
 down of a noble boy. 
 
 Our cause of sorrow must not be measured 
 by his worth, for then '* it had no end." 
 
 The following resolutions will be of interest, 
 as showing the high esteem in which he was 
 held by his professional associates. 
 
 At a meeting of the Trustees of the 
 Michigan Asylum for the Insane, Kalamazoo, 
 held Jan. 26, 1882, the following preamble 
 and resolutions were unanimously adopted: 
 
 Whereas, Our late friend, Dr. Edward A. 
 Adams, the Assistant Medical Superintendent 
 of this Institution, has been suddenly stricken 
 down, while at his post of duty, in the prime 
 of manhood, and in the midst of his useful- 
 ness, and, 
 
 Whereas, The purity of his private life, his 
 unfailing gentleness and sincerity, his refine- 
 ment and courtesy, as well as the zeal, fidelity 
 and intelligence with which he discharged his 
 
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 official duties, render it fitting that we place 
 upon record our high appreciation of his per- 
 sonal character, and his services to suffering 
 humanity ; therefore 
 
 Resolved^ That the untimely death of Dr. 
 Adams is a calamity to the Institution, and 
 an irreparable personal loss to all who knew 
 him. 
 
 Resolved, That we desire to express to his 
 afflicted friends our sense of their loss and 
 our profound sympathy in their bereavement. 
 
 Resolved, That these resolutions be spread 
 upon the minutes of the meeting and a copy 
 of the same be forwarded to the parents of 
 the deceased. 
 
 Charles Herbert Allen was born in 
 Lowell, Mass., April 15, 1848, and prepared 
 for college in the High School of his native 
 city. After graduation he engaged in busi- 
 ness, and since January 1, 1875, has been a 
 member of the firm of Otis Allen & Son, 
 extensive manufacturers of lumber at Lowell. 
 Taking an active part in public affairs, iden- 
 tified with the interests of his city and emin- 
 ently successful in business, he has from time 
 to time been called to a prominent share in 
 the direction of the educational and other 
 public institutions of Lowell. But a wider 
 
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 sphere of public service soon summoned him, 
 and at our class reunion in 1884 we were 
 happy to welcome the Hon. C. H. Allen, 
 who, after two terms (1880-82) in the Mas- 
 sachusetts House of Representatives, had 
 just completed a term in the State Senate, 
 He was also Col. Allen, and we felt proud of 
 our representative upon Gov. Robinson's 
 Staff at that Commencement. We felt that 
 these were but the first upward steps of a 
 rising man, and were not surprised to learn a 
 few months later that our classmate had been 
 chosen to represent the Eighth District of 
 Massachusetts in the Forty-ninth Congress, 
 Two years later he was re-elected and served 
 with distinction in the Fiftieth Congress, his 
 second term ending March 4, 1889. Last 
 autumn, but for his peremptorily declining 
 the honor, he would have received a unani- 
 mous renomination for a third term. 
 
 Allen's career in the service of his State and 
 of the Nation has been a most honorable 
 one, and the Class of '69 heartily joins in the 
 abundant commendation it has received. He 
 was recognized as one of the working mem- 
 bers of Congress, faithful to the interests of 
 his constituents, and taking an intelligent 
 and eloquent part in the discussion of the 
 important questions affecting the welfare of 
 
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 the whole country. It is emphatic but well- 
 merited praise to say that he achieved dis- 
 tinction among the Congressmen of a State 
 whose Representatives have always stood in 
 the first rank of our National Legislators. 
 A member of our class, meeting not long ago 
 a representative of one of Lowell's greatest 
 industries, asked him if he knew Congress- 
 man Allen of his district. *' Know him," he 
 replied, " everybody knows him. He stepped 
 into the shoes of one of the ablest men we 
 have had for years, and while people were 
 wondering how he would manage to get 
 along, he stepped out in advance of his 
 predecessor and has continuously acquitted 
 himself with distinction and honor. Know 
 Charlie Allen ! I rather think I do." 
 
 In the Forty-ninth Congress Allen was a 
 member of the Committee on Indian Affairs, 
 and his maiden speech was delivered March 
 11, 1886, upon a bill affecting some of the 
 Indian tribes. Another noteworthy speech 
 was made January 20, 1887, upon the Inter- 
 State Commerce Bill, and during the same 
 session he was one of the speakers at the 
 service in memory of the Hon. Austin F. 
 Pike, Senator from New Hampshire, who 
 had been an old friend of his father. We 
 find him taking an active part in the great 
 
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 Tariff discussion of 1888, making several 
 speeches, which evince a thorough study of 
 the questions involved, and present them 
 with a wealth of pointed illustration, and 
 frequent play of humor and sarcasm which 
 have given them a charm for your historian 
 not possessed by the ordinary treatise on 
 Political Economy. January 19, 1888, a 
 special service was held in connection with 
 the presentation to the House of portraits of 
 former Speakers, who had been Representa- 
 tives from Massachusetts. Our classmate 
 was the orator chosen to present the portrait 
 of the Hon. Joseph Bradley Varnum, and his 
 speech on that occasion richly merited the 
 praise given it by the leading papers of the 
 country. 
 
 It may be well to state that these facts 
 have been obtained from a careful observa- 
 tion of Allen's Congressional career, the gen- 
 tleman himself in his report for the class 
 history disposing of these four years in as 
 many lines. Though retiring for the present 
 to private life, we confidently expect letters 
 from our sons in the not distant future 
 describing Commencement at old Amherst 
 honored by the presence of Gov. Allen and 
 Staff. 
 
 Allen was married November 10, 1870, at 
 
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 Manchester, N. H., to Miss Harriet Coleman 
 Dean. They have two children, Bertha, born 
 April 2, 1872, and Louise, born February 25, 
 1875. His residence is 411 Middlesex Street, 
 Lowell, Mass. 
 
 William Osborn Ballantine was born 
 at Ahmednagar, India, February 9, 1849. 
 His preparation for college was made at 
 home under the instruction of his father, the 
 Rev. Henry Ballantine, for many years an 
 honored missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. in 
 India. The three years following graduation 
 were spent in New York City, studying medi- 
 cine, and he received the degree of M. D 
 February 21, 1872, from the New York 
 University. During the year 1872 he filled 
 the position of house surgeon in the Colored 
 Home in New York City. In 1873 he 
 removed to Columbus, Ohio, where he prac- 
 ticed his profession for about a year. Called 
 home to Amherst by his mother's death, he 
 soon after received an appointment from the 
 American Board to engage in missionary 
 work in India. January 6, 1875, he was 
 married to Miss Alice Cary Parsons, at East- 
 hampton, Mass., and they embarked for India 
 January 23, 1875. About a month was spent 
 in England and on the Continent, while on 
 
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 their way to India, where they arrived April 
 18. During his residence in India he has 
 combined the work of a physician and a mis- 
 sionary, dividing his time between Ahmed- 
 nagar, a city of 36,000 inhabitants, and 
 Rahuri, twenty-two miles distant. In his 
 latter capacity he has had the superintendency 
 of a station and several out-stations, with a 
 number of native preachers and teachers 
 under his charge. In connection with his 
 medical work he had charge of a dispensary 
 at Ahmednagar, and has met with gratifying 
 success. In 1879 he was employed by the 
 British Government on special duty to report 
 concerning the famine. Mrs. Ballantine died 
 September 9, 1878. In June, 1883, he re- 
 turned to America for a vacation, and 
 remained until October, 1885. He was thus 
 able to be present at the reunion of the class 
 at Amherst in 1884. During his stay in 
 America he took a partial course in theology 
 at Andover Seminary, and was ordained to 
 the work of the ministry, July 8, 1885, by a 
 council held in Pilgrim Church, Dorchester, 
 Mass. 
 
 He was married August 20, 1885, at Fitch- 
 burg, Mass., to Miss Josephine Louise Perkins, 
 and returned to India with his wife soon 
 after their marriage. Since his return he has 
 
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 been stationed chiefly at Rahuri, where he 
 has carried on dispensary and educational 
 work, and has had charge of nearly the same 
 out-stations as formerly. 
 
 A young missionary is in training now in 
 their home, Joseph William Ballantine, born 
 July 30, 1888. A letter has recently been 
 received bearing date, Rahuri, Western India, 
 April 3, 1889, in which Ballantine writes : 
 
 " I wish very much I could be present at 
 the next class reunion. I am hoping to send 
 my wife and child for a six-months' vacation 
 to America, but I must stay by the work 
 here for the present, especially as I feel so 
 well and hearty as I do. You must tell the 
 boys that I will remember them when they 
 meet together again, and shall try to picture 
 to myself much of what will be said and 
 done on that occasion. If all or any one in 
 the class feel disposed to make a donation 
 toward my dispensary work, or toward the 
 building of some new school house in the 
 district, 1 certainly shall be glad to give them 
 the privilege of doing so. The people are 
 beginning more and more to appreciate our 
 work and to clamor for schools and education. 
 
 " The same is the case with regard to the 
 practice of medicine. Each year sees the 
 people appreciate medical work done for 
 
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 them, and large numbers flock to us for 
 treatment," 
 
 William Marsh Benedict was born in 
 the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., November 17, 
 1847. His preparation for college was made 
 at the Polytechnic Institute of that city. 
 After graduation he began the study of law 
 in the office of S. T. Freeman, New York 
 City, where he remained until the following 
 spring. He then entered the office of William 
 L. Gill, of Brooklyn, but after a few months 
 was obliged to discontinue study on account 
 of ill health. 
 
 In September, 1870, he was able to resume 
 his law studies with the firm of Lewis & Mac- 
 Kay, Brooklyn, where he remained until 
 admitted to the bar September 15, 1871. He 
 began the practice of law in Brooklyn, but in 
 February, 1873, was prostrated with a severe 
 nervous illness, confining him to his room 
 until the following May, when he took a trip 
 to Europe, remaining abroad until the Septem- 
 ber following. On his return he resumed his 
 law practice in Brooklyn. In May, 1875, he 
 went abroad again, with an invalid sister. 
 Returning in September he resumed his 
 practice at 367 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, and in 
 New York City. His present office is at 219 
 Montague Street, Brooklyn. 
 
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 He was married October 10, 1878, to Miss 
 Grace Dillingham, of Brooklyn, and a gradu- 
 ate of Vassar College, Class of 74. They 
 reside at 225 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn, 
 and have two children, Melissa M., born 
 August 17, 1879 ; and Susan D,, born May 
 5, 1881. 
 
 Edward Augustine Benner was born at 
 East Pittston, Me., March 31, 1848, and fitted 
 for college at the High School, Lowell, Mass. 
 After graduation he devoted two years to 
 teaching in a preparatory school for boys, at 
 Cornwall, N. Y. In the autumn of 1871 he 
 began his studies at Andover Theological 
 Seminary, graduating in 1874. The following 
 September he accepted the professorship of 
 Mathematics in Drury College, Springfield, 
 Mo. Here he remained for three years until 
 1877, when ill-health from chronic bronchitis 
 obliged him to resign his professorship, and 
 to spend a year in rest at his old home in 
 Lowell, Mass. In 1878 he accepted a pro- 
 fessorship in Colorado College, and was 
 detailed to have charge of an academy at 
 Salt Lake City. This position he still occupies, 
 having the supervision of the New West 
 Education Commissions* work in Utah. 
 Benner simply writes : *' I am still pushing 
 
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 Salt Lake Academy, which has obtained some 
 credit in this region." The fact is, that it is 
 impossible to exaggerate the importance of the 
 work he has been doing in its bearing upon 
 a satisfactory solution of the perplexing 
 Mormon problem. The institution over 
 which he presides has made most encouraging 
 progress under his energetic and wise admin- 
 istration, and occupies a leading position in 
 the educational work which is doing so much 
 to undermine Mormonism. We are glad to 
 know that his health was restored ten years 
 ago when he first came to Zion. 
 
 Benner was married August 31, 1874, at 
 Lowell, Mass., to Miss Mary S. Carter. They 
 have five children, Caroline Frances, born 
 May 26, 1875 ; Burnham Carter, born May 
 6, 1877; Edward Hopkins, born July 12, 1878; 
 Mary Katharine, born February 20, 1884, and 
 Allen, born March 17, 1885. 
 
 Joseph Hegeman Bogart was born at 
 Roslyn, L. I., November 11, 1846, and pre- 
 pared for college at Flushing Institute, 
 Flushing, L. I. 
 
 The autumn of 1869 found him beginning 
 his medical studies at the Dartmouth College 
 Medical School. His second and third 
 courses of lectures were taken at Bellevue 
 
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 Hospital Medical College, New York City, 
 where he received the degree of M.D., March 
 1, 1872. He began practice at once in 
 Roslyn, L. I., his native place, where he still 
 resides, attending so closely to his profession 
 that he has taken a vacation only once in the 
 last ten years. In 1882 he was appointed 
 Visiting Physician to the Queens County 
 Lunatic Asylum, a position which he still 
 holds. His standing among his professional 
 brethren is seen in their making him the 
 President of the Queens County Medical 
 Society. In 1887 he was elected a member 
 of the Holland Society of New York City. 
 
 For fourteen years he has been a member 
 of the Board of Education of Roslyn, and his 
 interest in the welfare of the rising generation 
 is now greatly increased by having two pro- 
 spective pupils in his own home. He was 
 married February 21, 1884, to Miss Ethelena 
 T. Albertson, of Mineola, L. I. Their two 
 children are Jennie, born January 23, 1885, 
 and Ethelena, born June 8, 1888. For the 
 information of classmates who have not seen 
 Dr. Bogart, it may be mentioned that he is 
 much more of a man than in 1869, the per- 
 pendicular measurement the same, but in 
 breadth much increased. 
 
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 Clarence Fuller Boyden was born at 
 Attleboro, Mass., March 5, 1846, and pre- 
 pared for College at the Stoughtonham Insti- 
 tute, Sharon, Mass., his home at the time of 
 entering Amherst. 
 
 A professorship in mathematics at the West 
 was offered him after graduation, but circum- 
 stances requiring his presence near home, he 
 accepted the position of master of the North 
 Providence Grammar School, R. I. Here he 
 remained during the school year of '69 and 
 '70. During the following autumn and winter 
 he was engaged in book-canvassing ; and, 
 while thus employed, began the study of law 
 in the office of Judge Allen, of Salem, N. Y., 
 continuing his studies there until the spring 
 of 1872. Called home by the death of his 
 father, he soon after became sub-master in 
 the high school in Taunton, Mass., a position 
 previously filled by Seabury and also by 
 Chickering. Since that time he has been 
 connected with the public schools of Taun- 
 ton as master of the Weir Grammar School, 
 assistant principal of the High School, and 
 now as master of the Cohannet Street Gram- 
 mar School. 
 
 He was married July 4, 1876, to Isabelle 
 H., daughter of James H. Anthony, of Taun- 
 ton. His present address is 27 Summer St., 
 Taunton, Mass. 
 
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 William Reynolds Brown was born in 
 New York February 15, 1846, and prepared 
 for college in his native city. After gradua- 
 tion two years were spent at Cambridge, 
 Mass., in the study of law. After receiving 
 the degree of LL.B. from Harvard University 
 in 1871, he began at once the practice of his 
 profession in Morrisania, N. Y., in association 
 with Judge S. D. Gifford. Two years later 
 he removed his law office to White Plains, the 
 county seat of Westchester Co. In 1874 the 
 law firm became Brown & Westcott, and in 
 1877 Hall, Brown & Westcott, with offices 
 both in White Plains and New York City. 
 
 This was his status ten years ago. His 
 residence continues in White Plains, but for 
 several years his business has been wholly in 
 New York. In 1882 his partner, Mr. Hall, 
 left the firm to go on the bench of the City 
 Court of New York. He continued the 
 practice of law under the firm name of Brown 
 & Westcott until 1884, and then for one year 
 alone. But in 1885 sedentary office life not 
 agreeing with his health, he decided to give 
 up the practice of law and devote himself to 
 a more active out-of-door life in developing 
 the business of a real estate corporation, at 
 the head of which he had been for several 
 years. As President of the Port Morris Land 
 
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 and Improvement Company and in a general 
 real estate business he still finds congenial and 
 wholesome employment. He has spent num- 
 erous vacations in pleasure and recruiting 
 health in Europe, and during the past year 
 has divided his time almost equally between 
 home and abroad, owing to the temporary 
 residence of his family in Switzerland for 
 educational purposes. He expects to go 
 abroad again June 29, and the coming 
 autumn to bring his family home, and again 
 settle down with White Plains for a summer 
 home at least. 
 
 Aside from holding the position of Presi- 
 dent of the Village of White Plains, from 
 which he resigned after a year's service to go 
 abroad, he has kept out of poUtics in past 
 years. For nine years he served in the Board 
 of Education of the town. He was married 
 May 7, 1872, to Miss Nellie W. Babcock, of 
 Brooklyn, N.Y. Of their children, the " class- 
 cup " boy, Warren Day, born February 5, 
 1873, will be ready to enter Amherst in 1890. 
 Cleveland Hall, born June 11, 1874, died 
 December 8, 1886. Those of us who were 
 permitted to know this dear boy in his own 
 home will not soon forget him. Their 
 youngest son is Donald Winchester, born 
 September 9, 1877, a namesake of our class- 
 
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 mate, Dr. Donald. Office address, 146 
 Broadway, N. V. City. 
 
 Joseph Knowlton Chickering was born 
 in Portland, Maine, July 20, 1846, and pre- 
 pared for college in the High School of his 
 native city. The first year after graduation 
 was spent at his home in Wakefield, Mass., 
 in private study. In September, 1870, he be- 
 came Principal of the Whittenton Grammar 
 School, Taunton, Mass. The next year he 
 was promoted to be Sub-Master of the High 
 School, but in 1872 resigned this position to 
 become Assistant Classical Instructor in the 
 Springfield (Mass.) High School. In 1873 he 
 was called to Amherst College as Instructor 
 in English. On September 9 of that year 
 he was married to Miss Mary E. Conner, at 
 Exeter, N. H. On the 19th of February, 
 1875, a son, Edward Conner, was born, but 
 the happy event was followed by the sad 
 death of Mrs. Chickering, March 12, 1875. 
 
 After four years of successful work in his 
 instructorship, he was made Associate Pro- 
 fessor of English. While occupying this 
 position he edited the Triennial Catalogue of 
 the college in 1878, and for several years 
 prepared the Obituary Record. Resigning 
 his professorship in 1885, after a few months 
 
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 of rest at his father's home in Wakefield, 
 Mass., he accepted a position upon the Edito- 
 rial Staff of the new Century Dictionary, the 
 first numbers of which have just come from 
 the press of the Century Company, New York 
 City. This remarkable work will have added 
 value for us, because of Chickering's labors 
 upon it, which continued from November, 
 1885, to December, 1886. 
 
 The first four months of 1887 were spent 
 in English studies at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
 sity, Baltimore, Md., and the following year 
 was spent largely with his father, the Rev. Dr. 
 J. W. Chickering, in the neighborhood of 
 Boston, Mass., and in the city of Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 October 10, 1888, he entered upon his 
 duties as Professor (pro tempore) of Rhetoric 
 and English Literature in the University of 
 Vermont, Burlington, Vt., where he writes 
 that he is at present ''happily and busily 
 employed." 
 
 James Hobart Childs was born at Gil- 
 mantown, N. H., May 25, 1847, and fitted 
 for college at the High School, Amherst, 
 Mass., where he resided prior to and during 
 his college course. 
 
 The first three years after graduation he 
 
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 was engaged in teaching at Necedah, Wis. 
 During the second year of his residence there 
 he married "one of his best scholars," Miss 
 M. Jennie Bailey, on the 5th of January, 1871. 
 Here also his first child was born, a son, 
 Rufus, September 19, 1871, but dying in 
 infancy. 
 
 In August, 1872, he entered Andover The- 
 ological Seminary, and prosecuted his theo- 
 logical studies there during the regular course 
 of three years. The first Sabbath after grad- 
 uation he took charge of the Congregational 
 Church of South Byfield, Mass., and was 
 ordained and installed pastor of that church 
 October 7, 1875. While here two sons 
 were born, Irving Hobart, born April 21 ^ 
 1876, and J. Richmond, born July 5, 1880. 
 
 After a pastorate there of over five years, 
 he removed to Wenham, Mass., on the Eastern 
 Railroad, near one of the finest beaches on 
 the coast, where he began his labors, January 
 ], 1881. While residing here, Mrs. Childs 
 died, June 27, 1882, of gastric fever. 
 
 His pastorate at Wenham terminated May, 
 1884, and he accepted a call to Northbridge, 
 on the Providence & Worcester Railroad, 
 twelve miles from Worcester. Here he still 
 resides, ministering to two churches, the 
 original church of the town, and a younger 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 29 
 
 organization, an offshoot from the former. 
 The morning service is held at one church 
 and the evening at the other. Northbridge 
 is a manufacturing town, with large French 
 and Irish elements in the population. Childs 
 writes : " My work here has been much more 
 interesting and encouraging than in either of 
 the earlier pastorates, and we are very greatly 
 attached to our people." 
 
 The *' we " includes Mrs. Childs, for he was 
 married at Newburyport, Mass., July 2, 1885, 
 to Miss Susie P. Blake, who spent four years 
 as a missionary of the American Board among 
 the Armenians in Asia Minor. There are 
 several hundred Armenians in the vicinity of 
 their home, and Mrs. Childs is often called 
 upon to act as an interpreter, and last winter 
 conducted an evening school with her hus- 
 band's assistance for the benefit of Armenians 
 in a neighboring place who wished to learn 
 the English language. 
 
 A daughter, Alice, was born May 20, 1888. 
 As a member of the School Board of North- 
 bridge, and as Scribe of the Worcester South 
 Association of Congregational Ministers, our 
 classmate is serving his day and generation as 
 well as in faithful discharge of the duties of 
 his pastorate, happy in his work and in his 
 home. 
 
^O CLASS OF i6 
 
 Herbert J. Cook was born at Hadley, 
 Mass., May 18, 1845. His preparatory studies 
 were pursued at Hopkins Academy, at Hadley, 
 and at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. 
 
 During the first year after graduation he 
 taught in Hopkins Academy, in his native 
 place. In the fall of 1870 he removed to 
 Oxford, Chenango County, N. Y., where he 
 remained as principal of the Oxford Academy 
 for two years. During this time he became 
 a candidate for holy orders in the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church, and began a course of 
 study in divinity, under the direction of 
 Bishop Huntington, of the Diocese of Cen- 
 tral New York. In September, 1872, he went 
 to College Hill, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, 
 as teacher of classics, etc., in the " Ohio 
 Female College." Here he remained one 
 year, and then removed to Pewee Valley, Ky. 
 to fill a similar position in the '' Kentucky 
 College" for young ladies. This institution 
 is located near Louisville, and is patronized 
 largely by that city. 
 
 He was admitted to deacon's orders, June 
 27, 1873, by Bishop Huntington, at St. Luke's 
 Church, Cayuga, N. Y., on the occasion of 
 the consecration of that church. During the 
 following year he served as deacon at St. 
 James' Church, Pewee Valley, in connection 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 31 
 
 with his school duties. He was admitted to 
 priest's orders, June 18, 1874, by Bishop 
 Huntington, at Calvary Church, Utica, N. Y. 
 After two years more of combined college 
 and church work, he accepted a call to the 
 rectorship of St. Mark's Church, Coldwater, 
 Mich,, and entered upon his duties there, 
 June 6, 1875. Here he remained for a little 
 more than ten years. During his ministry 
 the church prospered greatly. In 1876 a 
 fine brick chapel was built. Six years later 
 a handsome church of pressed brick and cut 
 stone, adjoining the chapel on the principal 
 street of the city, was occupied. He also 
 had charge of a Mission at Quincy, six miles 
 rom Coldwater, where a beautiful and com- 
 modious church was built as the result of his 
 labors. In the diocese of Western Michigan 
 he stood in the front rank of the clergy, 
 and was frequently honored with important 
 trusts, representing the diocese as one of 
 the clerical delegates at the General Conven- 
 tion, held at Philadelphia, October, 1883. 
 In addition to his church work, he was iden- 
 tified with the educational interests of the city 
 and county, serving as member and Secre- 
 tary of the Board of School Examiners, and 
 as member and President of the City Board 
 of Education. 
 
32 
 
 CLASS OF /<5 
 
 September 29, 1885, he removed to Chicago, 
 and took charge of St, Bartholomew's Mission 
 at Englewood. This work prospered and the 
 Mission became a self-sustaining parish. 
 May 1, 1887, a call from the large and im- 
 portant parish of Christ Church, Dayton, 
 Ohio, having been accepted, he began 
 work in that city, where he still resides. 
 Here also his ministry has been crowned 
 with encouraging success, to which a Parish 
 Building just completed at a cost of 110,000 
 testifies, as well as many other tokens of 
 material and spiritual advancement. 
 
 Cook was married August 23, 1870, at Gen- 
 eva, N. Y., to Miss Matilda Chapelle Metcalfe. 
 They have two children, both born at Cold- 
 water, Mich.; Edith Matilda, November 27, 
 1876, and Theodora Lyon, July 27, 1879. 
 
 Elijah Winchester Donald was born in 
 Andover, Mass., July 31, 1818, and fitted for 
 college at the Punchard School of his native 
 town. 
 
 For two years after graduation he engaged 
 in teaching, the first year in charge of the 
 High School at Belchertown, Mass., the 
 following year at Newport, R. I. In October 
 1871 he entered the Divinity School of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church at Philadelphia, 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 33 
 
 but after a few months continued his studies 
 at the Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. 
 City, when he graduated May, 1874. During 
 his residence at the Seminary he assisted as 
 lay reader in the Church of the Ascension, 
 Dr. John Cotton Smith, Rector. He was 
 ordained as deacon May 1, 1874, and became 
 assistant minister in the same church. He 
 retained this position until the summer 
 of 1875, when he accepted a call to the 
 Rectorship of the Church of the Intercession, 
 Washington Heights, N. Y. City. He was 
 ordained priest, October 7, 1875. After 
 seven years of successful labor in that parish, 
 he was called in April, 1882, to become 
 Rector of the Church of the Ascension. This 
 call he accepted, and now for seven years he 
 has been meeting all the demands of a large 
 city parish with a success which has placed 
 him in the very front rank of the clergy of 
 his diocese. The Church of the Ascension, 
 located on Fifth Avenue, at the corner of 
 Tenth Street, has been wonderfully developed 
 under his ministry. Donald's voice has had 
 no uncertain sound, whether in his regular 
 ministrations to his own people, or in dis- 
 cussing matters of theology and ecclesiastical 
 polity in the Church Congress, or in arguing 
 before legislative committees on questions of 
 
34 
 
 CLASS OF i6 
 
 public morality. Before the Church Con- 
 gress, which met at Detroit, he read a paper 
 on "The Proposed Parochial Mission," and 
 another at Louisville, Ky., on "Apostolic 
 Succession and the Historic Episcopate." 
 
 Last May he delivered the annual address 
 before the Alumni Association of Union 
 Theological Seminary, taking as his subject 
 " The Need of High Churchmanship to-day.' 
 This address was most admirable, and 
 received wide-spread notice and commenda- 
 tion. 
 
 For two years he was Chairman of the 
 Citizens' High License Committee, and is still 
 a member of it, and of the Joint Committee 
 which drafted the High License bill which 
 came before the Legislature of New York 
 last winter. Undismayed by Governor Hill's 
 vetoes the committee has just decided to 
 draft another bill. Donald has several times 
 served on the committees which have 
 appeared before the Governor on this matter. 
 In 1886 Amherst College conferred the degree 
 of D.D. upon him, and the following year he 
 was chosen as Trustee of the College. He is 
 also a Trustee of the St. John Cathedral, plans 
 for which have been submitted the past year, 
 and Chairman of the Committee on Finance. 
 He is a Trustee of the Home for Incurables, 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 35 
 
 Vice President of St. Johnland, and the Good 
 Samaritan Dispensary, and Director in mani- 
 fold other church and benevolent organiza- 
 tions, too numerous to mention. In 1888 he 
 went abroad, visiting Great Britain and the 
 Continent. 
 
 The shadows of sore bereavement have 
 come upon his own home, and our classmate 
 will have the sincere sympathy of us all. He 
 was married April 25, 1876, to Miss Cornelia 
 Clapp, of Washington Heights, N. Y. City. 
 Of their five children the two eldest and the 
 youngest have been taken from their home 
 here. Alice, born April 2, 1877, died June 
 17, 1882 ; Francis Winchester, born February 
 17, 1879, died October 22, 1879 ; and Alan 
 Stuart, born September 24, 1886, died Novem- 
 ber 29, 1886. Two are living, Agnes, born 
 September 6, 1880, and Graeme, born January 
 27, 1882. Residence 7 West 10th Street, 
 New York City. 
 
 Charles Francis Eastman was born 
 August 1, 1844, at Caldwell, New York. He 
 fitted for college at Windsor Academy, Wind- 
 sor, N. Y. The first two years after gradua- 
 tion were spent in Wilmington, Del., as 
 teacher of Greek and German in a private 
 school presided over by Prof. W. A. Reynolds. 
 
36 CLASS OF iSbq 
 
 In the fall of 1871, he accepted the position 
 of principal of the High School in Beloit, 
 Wis., remaining there for three years until 
 forced, by the state of his health, to resign. 
 At this same time he acted as superintendent 
 of the public schools of Beloit. The next 
 year was spent in Europe attending lectures 
 at Leipsic, giving especial attention to Greek, 
 and travelling in Germany, Italy, Switzer- 
 land, France and England. Returning in 
 1875, he was offered a position in Williston 
 Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., as teacher of 
 classics, which he accepted and filled during 
 the next two years. In the spring of 1877, 
 by the advice of his physician, he was forced 
 to seek a change of employment, and to regain 
 his health, became a farmer, removing to 
 Easton, Md., where he now resides. 
 
 He was married at Wilmington, Del., July 
 12, 1876, to Miss Laura M. Buck ; his 
 brother. Rev. J. H. Eastman, performing the 
 ceremony. They have one child, Francis 
 Buck, born August 27, 1878. 
 
 This was the story told us ten years ago. 
 Easton is still his home. His farm is five 
 miles from the town, which is the most prom- 
 inent place on the eastern shore of Maryland, 
 and is finely located on Miles River, an arm 
 of Chesapeake Bay. The lawn slopes down 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 37 
 
 to the water's edge. The country about is 
 very attractive for all who are fond of water 
 scenery and water sports. His own health has 
 been restored in great measure. Farming has 
 not been the most lucrative business during 
 the last ten years, but while financial results 
 have not been large, the yield of experience 
 has been heavy, and the agricultural circles 
 of Talbot County regard Eastman as their 
 most trustworthy authority. Of late he has 
 been turning his attention to fruit culture, 
 and forty acres of peach, pear, apple and 
 plum trees were most beautiful this spring in 
 their blossoming promise. Terrapin, oysters 
 and canvas-backs are among the attractions 
 he holds out to visiting classmates. 
 
 The one boy of our decennial record has had 
 one sister and five brothers ; Mary Huse, born 
 October 24, 1879 ; Charles Francis, born 
 February 17, 1881 (died August 27, 1881); 
 Charles Francis, born March 26, 1883 ; Lewis 
 Bush, born January 31, 1885 ; John Huse, 
 born February 16, 1887 (died August 8, 1887); 
 and Arthur Bartlett, born August 30, 1888. 
 
 John Huse Eastman was born August 
 23, 1849, at Sandy Hill, N. Y., and fitted for 
 college at Windsor Academy, Windsor, N. Y. 
 
 The first three years after graduation he 
 
38 CLASS OF i8bq 
 
 was connected with Knox College, Galesburg, 
 III., for two years as teacher of Greek and 
 Latin in the Preparatory Department, the 
 third year as acting Professor of Latin in the 
 College. 
 
 September, 1872, he entered Union Theo- 
 logical Semmary, N. Y. City, where he pursued 
 the regular course of three years. After 
 graduating in May, 1875, he accepted a call 
 to become pastor of a Presbyterian church 
 recently organized at Katonah, Westchester 
 Co., forty-three miles from New York, on the 
 Harlem R. R. He was ordained by the 
 Presbytery of Westchester and installed pastor 
 of this church July 8, 1875. Here he still 
 resides. He was married June 11, 1879, to 
 Miss Lucy King, of Binghamton, N. Y., just 
 in time to bring his wife with him to the 
 decennial reunion at Amherst. They have two 
 children, Elizabeth, born August 7, 1880, and 
 Joseph Bartlett, born June 26, 1882. 
 
 He has enjoyed unbroken good health, and 
 during the fourteen years of his pastorate had 
 not been obliged to omit a service on account 
 of illness until last winter, when an attack of 
 mumps kept him in the house for a week. 
 
 In lieu of notable incident in his own 
 career your historian takes space to record 
 this remarkable coincidence in our class. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 39 
 
 Four classmates graduated at Amherst in 
 1869, whose grandfathers graduated at Dart- 
 mouth in 1794. The grandfathers were 
 Joshua Darling, James Hobart and Moses 
 Eastman. The grandsons were W. O. Ballan- 
 tine, J. H. Childs and C. F. and J. H. 
 Eastman. 
 
 * Amzi Babbitt Emmons was born at Ches- 
 ter, N. J., November 9, 1846, the son of Jere- 
 miah Slaight and Esther Ann (Stout) Em- 
 mons. Left an orphan at the age of five 
 years, his early home was with relatives, who 
 could only supply the bare necessities of life, 
 and whose kind care he gratefully requited 
 in subsequent years. He was bent on obtain- 
 ing an education, but was obliged to depend 
 entirely on his own resources, working and 
 studying as best he could. He pursued his 
 preparatory studies partly at Chester Institute 
 and partly with a private teacher, Mr. William 
 Rankin. He entered our class at the begin- 
 ning of Sophomore year, and immediately 
 upon graduation began his theological course 
 at Union Seminary, New York City. The 
 hardships he had undergone in teaching, 
 shorthand reporting and other labors, and in 
 self-denying economy, in order to obtain an 
 education, had undermined his constitution, 
 
40 CLASS OF i86g 
 
 and ill health delayed his graduation from 
 the Theological Seminary until May, 1873. 
 After preaching for a few months in Stratton, 
 Vt., he was ordained to the work of the min- 
 istry at Montclair, N. J., October 28, 1873. 
 Returning to Stratton he was acting pastor 
 of the Congregational Church there until 
 November, 1874. For the next three years 
 until October, 1877, he was acting pastor of 
 the Congregational Church at Jamaica, Vt., 
 serving during a portion of this time as 
 Superintendent of the Town Schools, and for 
 a single year (1876-77) as Scribe of the Ver- 
 mont Convention of Congregational Churches. 
 In the autumn of 1877 he removed to Oxford, 
 Worcester Co., Mass., supplying the Congre- 
 gational Church of that place until October 
 16, 1878, when he was installed as its pastor. 
 From the beginning of this pastorate he gave 
 himself unsparingly to his work, and in his 
 intense anxiety to fulfill his mission, exceeded 
 his strength. Gradually he sank under the 
 strain, the weary brain gave signs of yielding, 
 he preached for the last time on the closing 
 Sabbath of 1881, and then went for rest and 
 medical treatment to his native county in 
 New Jersey. But it was too late ; he con- 
 tinued to droop, congestion of the lungs set 
 in, and death brought him relief and rest, 
 January 18, 1882. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 41 
 
 He was greatly beloved by his people, and 
 after his death his church adopted the follow- 
 ing resolution : 
 
 Resolved^ That we recognize and emulate 
 his wonderful exemplification of the spirit of 
 his Master, his faithful and untiring labors, 
 his cheerful spirit of self-sacrifice, his un- 
 flinching devotion to principle and loyalty 
 to duty. 
 
 On February 2, 1882, a memorial service 
 was held in the church at Oxford, conducted 
 by ministers representing the Worcester Cen- 
 tral Association of Congregational Churches. 
 Several hymns, written by the deceased, were 
 sung at this service, and the warmest tributes 
 paid to his memory by those who had been 
 associated with him in the ministry. 
 
 Emmons was married May 28, 1873, at 
 Chester, N. J., to Miss Melva S. Topping. 
 Of their four children, three are living : Mary 
 Forrester, born June 16, 1874 ; Esther Cra- 
 mer, born Sept. 5, 1879 ; Moses Stone, born 
 June 19, 1881. Floy Bradford, born Nov. 4, 
 1877, died May 26, 1883. Mrs. Emmons 
 resides still in Oxford. 
 
 Henry Kellogg Field was born June 8, 
 1848, in the town of Newfane, Windham Co., 
 Vt., and prepared for college in the Wash- 
 
4-2 CLASS OF iS6g 
 
 ington County Grammar School, at Mont- 
 pelier, Vt. On leaving college he began the 
 study of law with his father, Mr. Charles K. 
 Field, at Brattleboro', and was admitted to 
 the bar, September, 1871. Removing to 
 Montpelier he formed a law partnership 
 January 1, 1872, with C. J. Gleason. For 
 nine years he continued the practice of law 
 in Montpelier, but in September, 1881, 
 accepted the position of General Agent for 
 the Pacific Coast of the New England 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, 
 Mass., with headquarters at San Francisco, 
 and removed at once with his family to that 
 city. There he continues, and writes, *' I 
 am prospering, health is good, and fortune 
 favors me " His residence is at 1850 Central 
 Avenue, Alameda, Cal., but his office and 
 business address are at 324 Montgomery 
 Street, San Francisco. 
 
 He was married November 25, 1872, to 
 Miss Kate L. Daniels, of Hartford, Conn. 
 They have five children, all boys, Charles 
 Kellogg, born September 18, 1873 ; Martin, 
 born February 3, 1875 ; Henry Willard, born 
 May 18, 1877 ; Russell Bunce, born March 
 24, 1880, and Allan Daniels, born October 
 21, 1887. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 43 
 
 * RosELLE Andrew Fuller, the son of 
 Almond and Lois (Thatcher) Fuller, was 
 born at Philadelphia, N. Y., July 16, 1843. 
 He was fitted for college at Genesee Wesleyan 
 Seminary, Lima, N. Y., and entered our class 
 at the beginning of Sophomore year. He 
 studied theology for one year at the Bangor 
 Theological Seminary, and after a year's 
 interval, completed his course at Auburn, 
 N. Y., graduating May 8, 1873. Ordained to 
 the work of the ministry that same year, he 
 was from the autumn of 1873 to the spring 
 of 1874 stated supply of the Presbyterian 
 Church at Shawano, Wis., and for three years 
 from the autumn of 1874 stated supply of the 
 Presbyterian Church at Colby, Wis., and 
 preaching also at various points along the 
 line of the Wisconsin Central R. R. Ill- 
 health compelled his removal to El Paso, 
 Colo., where the remainder of his life was 
 spent, and where he died of consumption, 
 March 20, 1880. 
 
 He was married October 15, 1875, to 
 Miss Flora Louisa, daughter of Walter B. 
 Booth, of Westfield, Wis. Mrs. Fuller died 
 January 17, 1881. They were both buried 
 at Colorado Springs. Mr. Booth writes that 
 their only child, Lois Eliza, born September 
 14, 1876, has a home with her grandparents 
 
44 
 
 CLASS OF li 
 
 in Westfield, Wis., is in good health and well 
 provided for. 
 
 George Merrill Gage was born at 
 Chicago, 111., February 17, 1849, and fitted 
 for college at the Lake Forest Academy. 
 After graduation he returned to his native 
 city, and engaged in an active business life, 
 entering first the employ of the Garden City 
 Insurance Company. Early in 1870 he trans- 
 ferred his services to the State Savings Insti- 
 tution, where he remained for two years, 
 occupying successively the positions of mes- 
 senger, assistant teller, and bookkeeper. In 
 the spring of 1872, he accepted the position 
 of teller in the Fidelity Savings Bank and 
 Safe Depository. The following year he 
 was appointed assistant cashier, and occu- 
 pied this position until the fall of 1877. 
 Early in 1878 he became the financial editor 
 of the Chicago Evening Post. Owing to the 
 death of Mr. Willard, the editor, which 
 occurred soon after, the affairs of the paper 
 were thrown into confusion, the creditors 
 took possession and placed Gage in charge 
 as business manager. July 2, 1878, the paper 
 was absorbed by the Chicago News. Mean- 
 time Gage had been doing the work of half a 
 dozen men, more or less, and as the result of 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 45 
 
 the overwork and anxiety was prostrated by- 
 two severe hemorrhages of the lungs. This 
 necessitated rest, which continued until the 
 spring of 1879, during which time he took a 
 trip to Minnesota. Resuming work he 
 became a member of the firm of Charles J. 
 Haines & Co., engaged in a general real 
 estate and loaning business. In 1880 he 
 went into the employ of A. H. Beardsley & 
 Co., as cashier, and remained with them 
 until 1886, when he was appointed Manager 
 for the Central Livery Company. The fol- 
 lowing winter the state of his health obliged 
 him to seek a milder climate and he went to 
 San Diego, Cal. While there he carried on 
 a real estate loan business as a member of 
 the firm of John H. Ferry & Co. In the 
 Spring of 1888 he removed to Salt Lake City. 
 Last fall he brought his family there and is 
 now living at 252 East 1st Street. He is 
 employed in the U. S. Land Office. 
 
 Gage was married July 17, 1881, to Sarah 
 E. Valentine, daughter of J. Lewis Curtis, of 
 Chicago. 
 
 Richard Goodman, Jr., was born in New 
 York City April 2, 1846, and prepared for col- 
 lege at the Edwards Place School, Stockbridge, 
 Mass. From Amherst he went to Harvard 
 
46 CLASS OF i6 
 
 University to study law, receiving the degree 
 of LL.B., June. 1871. The next six months 
 were spent abroad, in England and on the 
 continent. On his return he resumed his law 
 studies in the office of Hillard, Hyde & 
 Dickinson, Boston, Mass., and was admitted 
 to the bar in 1872. After practicing two 
 years in Boston he removed to New York, 
 remaining for a year in the offices of Sanford, 
 Robinson & Woodruff. Here ends the legal 
 chapter in his history. In 1877, turning his 
 back upon the strifes of courts and the dis- 
 tractions of the metropolis, Goodman sought 
 again the Berkshire Hills, and has since 
 resided at his father's country seat in Lenox. 
 Here he has devoted himself to the breeding 
 of Jersey cattle, to butter-making, and has 
 become an acknowledged authority upon 
 these and kindred topics. He is a valued 
 contributor to the leading agricultural papers 
 of the country, and has gained an enviable 
 reputation as a lecturer upon husbandry. But 
 alas ! he still abides in the positive degree, a 
 Goodman only, and not a better man from 
 lack of adding the better-half. Dwelling in 
 the most attractive village our country can 
 boast, he has been a leader in all matters per- 
 taining to its welfare, sewage, water supply, cir- 
 culating library, social and literary societies. 
 Residence and P. O. address, Lenox, Mass. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 47 
 
 William Penn Hammond was born at 
 Plympton, Mass., September 15, 1843, and 
 fitted for college at Phillips Academy, An- 
 dover, Mass. After leaving college he began 
 at once the study of medicine, entering the 
 medical department of Harvard University, 
 where he remained for two years, and then 
 went as student to the United States Marine 
 Hospital at Chelsea. Subsequently he served 
 as house of&cer at the Boston City Hospital 
 for one year, after which he returned to 
 Harvard, receiving the degree of M. D. from 
 that institution in 1873. He began the prac- 
 tice of his profession at once in the Bunker 
 Hill District of Boston. A year later he 
 accepted the appointment of assistant surgeon 
 of the out-patient department of the hospital, 
 which he filled for one year. Since that time 
 he has continued his private practice, making 
 but one change, from 401 Main St. to 47 
 Monument Square, having possessed himself 
 of a commodious house under the shadow of 
 Bunker Hill Monument. In his own words : 
 " No more history can be written upon my 
 sheet ; no more children, no more honors. I 
 have simply lived the life of an honest, hard- 
 working physician, seeing and knowing little 
 else of this world but pain, suffering and 
 death." A careless reader might infer from 
 
48 
 
 CLASS OF i6 
 
 this that Hammond's patients never get well, 
 but he has omitted to mention how much he 
 has seen and known of relief from pain, con- 
 valescence and full recovery of health, far 
 more than falls to the lot of the ordinary 
 physician. 
 
 September 17, 1873, he was married to 
 Miss Sarah Abbie Harrub. They have one 
 child, Bessie P., born July 9, 1874. 
 
 Myron Oscar Harrington was born 
 January 6, 1844, at Kirby, Vt., and fitted for 
 college at the Caledonia Academy, Peacham, 
 Vt. After graduation he taught for two years 
 in the High School at Medway, Mass. The 
 summer of 1871 was spent at his home in 
 Vermont on account of the illness of his 
 father, and in the autumn he entered Andover 
 Theological Seminary, where he remained 
 until May 6, 1872, when he became principal 
 of the Danvers, Mass., High School. This 
 position he occupied until November 28, 
 1873. During the first three months of 
 1874 he was in Tougaloo University near 
 Jackson, Miss., but returned to Vermont and 
 remained until April, 1875, at St. Johnsbury, 
 recruiting health and studying. He then 
 took charge of the Lycoming County Classi- 
 cal and Normal Institute at Muncy, Pa , but 
 in the autumn resumed his studies at Andover, 
 graduating in July, 1877. He was ordained 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 4'9 
 
 at Danvers, Mass., October 5, 1877, by a 
 Congregational Council, and went at once to 
 Macon, Ga., where he labored as a missionary 
 of the American Missionary Association until 
 August 28, 1878. His next field of labor 
 was Bonne Terre, Mo., from October, 1878, 
 to July, 1879. He was installed as pastor of 
 the Congregational Church at Kidder, Mo., 
 July 19, 1879, where he remained for nearly 
 four years. From May 29, 1883, until June, 
 1884, he preached at Stewartsville, Mo., and 
 from the latter date until September 6, 1886, 
 at Mound City, Kansas. During a portion of 
 his residence in Missouri he was President of 
 the Missouri S. S. Association. Since Sep- 
 tember, 1886, his address has been Topeka^ 
 Kan., where his family resides at 932 Spruce 
 St. He is now supplying the Congregational 
 Church of Russell, a prairie town of 1,000 
 population, about 200 miles west of Topeka. 
 Harrington was married September 28, 
 1877, to Miss Mary E. Smith, of Sunderland, 
 Mass. They have three children ; Mary 
 Elizabeth, born August 27, 1880 (died May 
 19, 1883, of scarlet fever) ; WilHam Murray, 
 born October 23, 1883, and Annie Nellie, 
 born February 24, 1886. 
 
 Waterman Thomas Hewett was born in 
 
50 CLASS OF iSbq 
 
 Miami, Saline County, Missouri, January 10, 
 1846. After the death of his father the 
 family removed to South Paris, Me., and he 
 prepared for college at the Maine State 
 Seminary, now the Nichols Latin School, in 
 Lewiston. He entered Amherst College in 
 September, 1864, as a member of the class of 
 1868. Called home in October, 1867, by the 
 illness of his brother, he did not return to 
 college until the autumn of 1868, when he 
 entered our class, with which he graduated. 
 He then went abroad with Prof. W. S. Tyler, 
 in order to study Modern Greek in Athens, 
 where he attended lectures in the University, 
 and travelled over a considerable portion of 
 Greece. In the spring of 1870 he went to 
 Italy, and finally established himself in 
 Heidelberg, Germany. At the breaking out 
 of the Franco-German War he was travelling 
 in Denmark. His plans being thus inter- 
 rupted, he returned home after a brief resi- 
 dence in Paris. On his return he was elected 
 Assistant Professor of Modern Languages in 
 Iowa State University, and at the same time 
 offered the principalship of the Classical 
 Department of the Whipple Academy, con- 
 nected with Illinois College, but declined 
 both positions. Soon after he accepted the 
 position of Assistant Professor of German in 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 5r 
 
 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., where he 
 has since resided. In 1879 he received the 
 degree of Ph.D. from Cornell University. In 
 1883 he was elected Professor of the German 
 Language and Literature. He has received 
 on two occasions leave of absence, and spent 
 1877-78 in study at the University of Leipzig, 
 and several months in Leiden, studying the 
 literature of the Netherlands. In 1887-88 
 he resided in Berlin and Paris for purposes 
 of study. He is the author of " The Frisian 
 Language and Literature ; an Historical 
 Study," published in 1879 ; and has con- 
 tributed to the Nation, American Journal of 
 Philology, Modei^n Language Notes, Harpers' 
 Monthly, The Atlantic, Science^ The Academy^ 
 The Goethe Jahrbuch, and The London Acad- 
 emy. *' The Life and Genius of Goethe " was 
 published by him in 1886, made up of lectures 
 delivered at the Concord School of Philoso- 
 phy ; in 1887 '' The Poetry and Philosophy 
 of Goethe," lectures delivered before the 
 Milwaukee Literary School. He has also 
 edited the " Transactions of the Modern 
 Language iVssociation," and the '* Proceedings 
 of the University Convocation of the State of 
 New York for 1886." He has lectured also 
 upon Early Christian and Mediaeval Art. 
 For his contributions upon the Frisian Lan- 
 
52 CLASS OF i86g 
 
 guage he was elected member extraordinary 
 of the Frisian Society of History, Antiquities 
 and Philology, and of the Society for the 
 Frisian Language and Literature of Holland. 
 He is a member of the American Philological 
 Society, the Modern Language Association, 
 and the Goethe Society of Weimar. 
 
 He was married June 22, 1880, to Miss 
 Emma McChain, of Ithaca, who died Sep- 
 tember 18, 1883. He has no children. 
 Address 31 East Avenue, Cornell University, 
 Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 William Roscoe Hobbie was born at 
 Unity, Me., December 22, 1848, and fitted 
 for college at the Central High School, Cleve- 
 land, O. For the three years succeeding 
 graduation he was associated with A. J. 
 Johnson, the New York publisher, as general 
 agent. In March, 1872, he organized the 
 Phoenix Paper Company, with H. L. Mowry 
 and L. W. Haskins as partners. The office 
 of the company is at Greenwich, Washing- 
 ton Co., N. Y., and the mill, which was built 
 the following summer, at Battenville. In the 
 fall of 1878, Hobbie bought out the entire 
 business, but after a time became associated 
 again in business with his former partner, H. L. 
 Mowry, and the firm remains as then consti- 
 
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 53 
 
 tuted. Ten years ago the product of their 
 mill was two and a half tons daily. How 
 much that product has since increased we 
 know not, but the paper of the company still 
 stands at the head of the market. Hobbie 
 writes : '' I have passed the years in a quiet, 
 uneventful manner, steadily engaged in my 
 business. I have not had time to engage in 
 political matters, save to attend to my duties 
 as an American citizen, which means a con- 
 stant and comprehensive knowledge of the 
 thoughts and feelings of my townsmen and 
 regular discharge of individual duty. I have 
 felt obliged to decline a larger sphere of 
 action, although I have consented to act as 
 Supervisor of my town, and under pressure 
 of such campaigns as last fall have taken the 
 stump at times." 
 
 Hobbie also draws a most charming picture 
 of himself and family gathered about the 
 fireside of a winter's evening, while he dis- 
 courses eloquently to them of the class of 
 '69, and points to the men who have attained 
 to eminence in church and state. 
 
 He extends a hearty invitation to all to 
 
 visit them in their home. These are his 
 
 words : 
 
 '* Come in the evening, or come in the morning, 
 Come when you're looked for, or come without 
 warning, 
 
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 CLASS OF iSbg 
 
 and you will always find a welcome awaiting 
 you." 
 
 A wife and three children will join in the 
 welcome. Mrs. Hobbie was Miss Phoebe 
 Walsh, of Greenwich, N. Y., to whom he was 
 married June 2, 1880. The three children 
 are Phoebe Elizabeth, born July 12, 1881 ; 
 Edward Walsh, born March 15, 1884 ; and 
 Marian, born August 23, 1888. 
 
 William Jacob Holland was born August 
 16, 1848, at Bethany, a Moravian mission 
 station on the island of Jamaica. His pre- 
 paration for college was begun as a private 
 pupil of Mr. William Meinung, of Salem, 
 N. C, an instructor of considerable note in 
 that part of the South. In 1863, coming 
 North with his parents, he entered, at an 
 advanced standing, the Moravian College and 
 Theological Seminary at Bethlehem, Penn. 
 He remained here nearly four years, during 
 the last year reading theology. After an 
 interval of six months, during which he 
 devoted himself to the study of the art of 
 painting, he entered Amherst College, Janu- 
 ary, 1868. For two years after graduation 
 he was engaged in teaching, first as principal 
 of the High School at Amherst, and afterward 
 occupying a similar position at Westborough, 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 55 
 
 Mass. In the fall of 1871, he entered the 
 Theological Seminary at Princeton, where he 
 remained for the regular course of three 
 years, graduating in 1874. While connected 
 with the seminary he was actively engaged 
 in preaching, both in vacation and term time, 
 supplying the pulpits of the Second and 
 Fourth Moravian Churches in Philadelphia, 
 and subsequently the Presbyterian Church at 
 Chestnut Hill, and the Central Congrega- 
 tional Church in the same city. He was 
 ordained as a deacon in the Moravian Church 
 May 12, 1872, by Bishop William Bigler. 
 Upon graduation from Princeton he severed 
 his connection with the Moravian Church, 
 and accepted a call to the pastorate of the 
 Bellefield Presbyterian Church in the city of 
 Pittsburg, Pa., where he was formally installed 
 June 12, 1874. During his pastorate over 
 550 persons have been added to the church, 
 and its present membership is nearly 400. 
 During the fifteen years in which Holland 
 has ministered to this people they have con- 
 tributed nearly $200,000 to benevolent objects- 
 and are now engaged in building a new audi- 
 ence room, which when completed will cost 
 $55,000. He has visited Europe twice, in 1877 
 as a delegate to the Pan Presbyterian Council, 
 which met in Edinboro', and in 1879 as a dele- 
 
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 gate to the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance 
 at Basle. On both occasions he travelled 
 extensively in Great Britain and on the Con- 
 tinent. In 1887 he went with Prof. David P. 
 Todd, of Amherst College, to Japan as the 
 naturalist of the expedition sent out by the 
 National Academy of Science and the U. S. 
 Navy Department to observe the total eclipse 
 of the sun, which took place August 19 of 
 that year. He travelled over the greater part 
 of the empire and made extensive collections 
 representing the fauna and flora of the 
 islands. The results of this expedition 
 brought Holland so prominently before the 
 Government as a naturalist that he has re- 
 cently been asked to go to Africa for a similar 
 purpose, with the promise of a large salary 
 and efficient assistants, aii offer which he will 
 probably accept. 
 
 During his foreign tours Holland has acted 
 as the special correspondent of a number of 
 the leading papers of the country. He has 
 also published a number of lectures and 
 discourses, and many papers devoted to the 
 natural sciences, illustrating the latter by 
 plates, which he has for the most part him- 
 self drawn and engraved. He is now engaged 
 in writing a book upon Japan, and a history 
 of the Presbyterian Church in Western Penn- 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 57 
 
 sylvania. He was for eight years clerk of 
 the Presbytery of Pittsburgh, and in 1886 
 one of the clerks of the General Assembly of 
 the Presbyterian Church. He has for fifteen 
 years been one of the Trustees of the 
 Pennsylvania Female College, and for twelve 
 years a Trustee of the Western Theological 
 Seminary at Allegheny, and since 1888 
 the Vice-President of the Board. He is a 
 Director of the School of Design for 
 Women in Pittsburgh and President of the 
 Iron City Microscopical Society. He is a 
 member of the Pennsylvania Historical 
 Society, of the American Association for 
 the advancement of Science, of the Academy 
 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, a Fellow 
 of the Entomological Society of London, and 
 one of the Life members of the Entomologi- 
 cal Society of France, beside belonging to 
 half a dozen other historical and literary 
 associations of this country and Europe. 
 
 Prof. C. V. Riley, of the U. S. Department 
 of Agriculture in a recent publication says 
 that " the collection of the butterflies of 
 North America made by Dr. Holland is typi- 
 cally the most perfect in existence." 
 
 The degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon 
 him by Washington and Jefferson College in 
 1886, and that of D.D. by his Alma Mater 
 in 1888. 
 
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 He was married January 23, 1879, to Miss 
 Carrie T. Moorhead, of Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 Their first child, John Moorhead, born Feb- 
 ruary 11, 1881, died February 22, 1881. 
 They have two children living, Moorhead 
 Benezet, born September 3, 1884, and Fran- 
 cis Raymond, born January 10, 1886. 
 
 Clarence Linden Howes was born at 
 Mattapoisett, Mass., March 24, 1848, and 
 fitted for college at Hanover Academy, Han- 
 over, Mass. For two years after graduation 
 he was engaged in teaching in the public 
 school of Pembroke, Mass., Spencertown 
 Academy, Austerlitz, N. Y., and the High 
 School of Rockland, Mass. In the fall of 
 1871, he entered upon a course of study in 
 the higher mathematics and modern lan- 
 guages in the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology at Boston, where he received 
 the degree of S.B. in the C. E. department 
 in 1873. For the next two years, until the 
 close of 1875, he practiced the profession of 
 civil engineer, being employed in the U. S. 
 Harbor and River Survey, the U. S. Coast 
 Survey, on the Troy and Greenfield R. R., in 
 the vicinity of the Hoosac Tunnel, and in 
 land surveying near Boston. In 1876 he 
 began the study of medicine, and while 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 59 
 
 prosecuting his studies taught for a year in the 
 Eliot Grammar and Boston Latin Schools. 
 He took his first course of lectures at the 
 medical school connected with Dartmouth 
 College, in the fall of 1877, and the second at 
 the Long Island College Hospital, where he 
 received the degree of M.D. June, 1878. He 
 at once began the practice of his profession 
 in Hanover, Mass., where he still resides. 
 He was married October 3, 1878, to Miss 
 Mary O. Hapgood, of Worcester. They 
 have two children, Frederick Hapgood, born 
 August 29, 1879, and Caroline Bradford, born 
 July 8, 1883. For the last eight years he has 
 been Chairman of the School Committee of 
 the town. After an absence of eighteen 
 years from Amherst, Howes was present at 
 the recent reunion of the class. He easily 
 captured and carried off the honors of the 
 class supper by his " desultory remarks " and 
 the song he had composed for the occasion. 
 
 William Amasa Keese was born December 
 23, 1846, at Louisville, Miss., and fitted for 
 college at the High School, Lowell, Mass. 
 
 The first year after graduation was spent 
 in teaching in a private school at Stamford, 
 Conn. He then began his theological studies 
 at the Seminary at Newton, Mass. During 
 
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 his Seminary course he filled an important 
 position for several months in the Literary 
 and Scientific Institute of New London, N. 
 H. Graduating at Newton in 1873, he was 
 ordained July 81, of that year, and became 
 pastor of the Baptist church of Ellsworth, 
 Me. After a most successful pastorate of four 
 years he accepted a call, April 1877, to the 
 Calvary Baptist Church, of Salem, Mass. 
 Here he remained until June 1883, when he 
 resigned and spent the summer in travel in 
 Europe. The following autumn he resumed 
 work again as pastor of the Cary Avenue 
 Baptist Church, of Chelsea, Mass. This 
 relationship continued until December, 1888, 
 when he resigned, with a view to a change in 
 his denominational status. In February, 
 1889, he accepted a call to the Trinity Con- 
 gregational Church in Lawrence, Mass., and 
 was installed as pastor, April 11, 1889. 
 
 He has been most happy and successful in 
 his ministry. We never suspected him of 
 anything but cheerfulness, but he writes : 
 *' The effect of a peaceful life, with a 
 reasonable average of health and comfort, 
 and all the appreciation I have deserved, has 
 undermined a certain melancholy which 
 sometimes troubled me, and I believe I am 
 now as serene and cheerful as the majority." 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 6 1 
 
 Keese was married February 15, 1876, to 
 Miss Elizabeth E. Hedge of East Charlotte, 
 Vt. They have three daughters, Marion 
 Ashton, born May 2, 1881 ; Ethel Margaret, 
 born October 25, 1882, and Ruth Esther, 
 born February 18, 1884. 
 
 John Edward Kellogg was born in Am- 
 herst, Mass., July 2, 1845. His preparation for 
 college was begun at the Amherst Academy, 
 continued at the Amherst High School, and 
 completed at the Williston Seminary, East- 
 Hampton, in the class of 1865. 
 
 Since graduation he has devoted himself to 
 journalism. For sixteen months he was 
 connected with the Springfield Republican^ 
 then for eighteen months with the New 
 England Associated Press in New York City. 
 Then for six months he was engaged upon 
 the Taunton Gazette^ Taunton, Mass. 
 
 In February, 1873, he bought an interest in 
 the Sentinel Printing Company, of Fitchburg, 
 Mass., and in May of that year the first 
 number of the Fitchburg Daily Sentinel was 
 issued. Since that time Kellogg has been one- 
 half owner, and editor of the Senti?ieL Of 
 this paper the History of Fitchburg, published 
 in 1887, says : " The Daily Sentinel has been 
 well conducted, and has continued vigorous 
 
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 and healthy to the present time. In October, 
 1881, the paper was enlarged, again in 
 September, 1885, and a third time in October, 
 1886." 
 
 Kellogg has contributed at various times 
 to several of the New York papers, and is 
 the Fitchburg agent of the Associated Press. 
 He has also served as Clerk of the Common 
 Council of Fitchburg. 
 
 Kellogg is wedded to his profession of 
 journalism, but not otherwise, so far as we 
 can learn. 
 
 * Alvah Baylies Kittredge, son of Rev. 
 Charles Baker and Sarah (Brigham) Kittredge, 
 was born at Westborough, Mass., February 3, 
 1845. He began his preparation for college 
 at Groton Academy, of which he was a mem- 
 ber about one year. July 17, 1864, he 
 enlisted in the 6th Regiment Massachusetts 
 Infantry, which was stationed a short time at 
 Arlington Heights, and for the rest of his 
 term of service at Fort Delaware in charge of 
 rebel prisoners. He was regularly discharged 
 October 27, 1864, and then completed his 
 preparation for college with the Rev. James 
 Tufts, of Monson. Immediately upon his 
 graduation he was appointed instructor in 
 gymnastics in Amherst College, a place for 
 
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 which he was well fitted by his service as 
 captain of his class during the whole of the 
 college course. He remained nearly a year 
 in this position, but was compelled to leave 
 Amherst during the month of June on account 
 of pulmonary hemorrhage. He was married 
 October 3, 1870, to Miss Alice W. Gordon, of 
 Auburndale, Mass., and died the following 
 day at his father's residence in Westborough, 
 Mass. His death placed the first star upon 
 the roll of the graduate members of our class. 
 
 Stephen Holmes Larned was born July 
 10, 1847, at Dudley, and fitted for college at 
 Nichols Academy in his native town. For 
 many years after graduation he was engaged 
 as an accountant. The first year was spent 
 with the Messrs. Slater, woolen, cotton, and 
 linen manufacturers at Webster, Mass. Then 
 for three years he was in the employ of N. A. 
 Lombard & Co., manufacturers of machinery 
 at Worcester, Mass. In 1873 he accepted a 
 position with the Sargent Card Clothing Com- 
 pany in the same city, with whom he remained 
 until the autumn of 1884. During these years 
 his position grew to be one of great responsi- 
 bility, involving no little supervision of the 
 entire business in the absence of the members 
 of the firm, and substantial evidence was 
 
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 given of their appreciation of his valuable 
 services. In the latter part of 1884 he 
 engaged in business for himself in the manu- 
 facture of special lines of hardware, building 
 up a large and excellent trade. But the 
 "freezing out" policy of older and stronger 
 competitors made the enterprise unsatisfac- 
 tory, and after two years he disposed of his 
 entire plant in Worcester, and entered a new 
 field, silk manufacturing. Since the autumn 
 of 1886 he has filled the position of general 
 superintendent and manager of the manufac- 
 turing of the Standard Silk Company of New 
 York City, with mills at Paterson and Phillips- 
 burg, N. J., and at Tobyhanna, Pa. He 
 resides at Phillipsburg. He writes that he 
 finds the business both congenial and fascin- 
 ating, that he is not known to fame, never 
 seeking, nor sought, for public honors, but 
 in a quiet round of daily duty trying by 
 honest living to reflect credit upon his Alma 
 Mater. He has recently been elected Vice- 
 President of the Company. 
 
 Larned has been twice married. His first 
 wife v/as Miss Hattie N. Boltwood, of Am- 
 herst, Mass., to whom he was married July 
 20, 1872, and who died May 27, 1873. Their 
 child, a son, died in infancy. 
 
 He was again married, January 5, 1876, to 
 
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 Miss Susie M. Everett, of Worcester, Mass. 
 Of their two children, the elder, Margaret, 
 born June 28, 1884, is living ; but the younger, 
 Helen, born September 2, 1887, was taken 
 from their care August 9, 1888, 
 
 Francis Draper Lewis was born in Bos- 
 ton, Mass., August 29, 1849, and prepared 
 for college at the Academy of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pa. The 
 two years after graduation were spent as a 
 law student at Harvard University, from 
 which he received the degree of LL.B. in 
 June, 1871. The following September he 
 entered the law offices of John C. Bullitt, 
 Esq., one of the leading lawyers of the Phila- 
 delphia bar. After his admission to the bar, 
 May 23, 1872, he remained with Mr. Bullitt 
 until March, 1873, when he formed a law part- 
 nership with Charles E. Morgan, Jr., Esq. 
 
 This partnership still continues with offices 
 at 411 Walnut Street. Much might be said 
 about his success in his profession. It may 
 all be summed up in this, that he has found a 
 place, where it has been said there is always 
 room, at the top. 
 
 The summer of 1887 was spent in Europe. 
 
 Lewis kindly contributes two ''salient 
 points " in his career during the past tea 
 
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 years, upon both of which the class will most 
 heartily congratulate him. He was married 
 April 28, 1887, to Miss Mary Humphreys 
 Chandler, of Germantown, Philadelphia, by 
 the Rev. E. Winchester Donald, D.D. A 
 daughter, Mary Chandler Lewis, was born 
 August 11, 1888. 
 
 Residence, East Washington Lane, Ger- 
 mantown. 
 
 George McCormick was born at Spring 
 Run, Franklin Co., Pa., November 24, 1847, 
 and prepared for college at the academy 
 in his native place, studying for a time 
 also at Shade Gap Academy, and also at 
 Academia, Pa. His theological course of 
 three years was taken at the United Presby- 
 terian Seminary, at Allegheny City, Pa., from 
 which he graduated in March, 1872. During 
 the summer of 1870 he taught in a normal 
 school at Dayton, Pa., and from July to 
 October, 1871, he supplied the United Pres- 
 byterian Church of Centreville, Mich. In 
 the Summer of 1872 he accepted a call to 
 the church in Butler, Pa., beginning work 
 there July 21, and was ordained and installed 
 pastor October 22 of that year. Having 
 visited California in March, 1873, on his 
 return he was released from his pastorate at 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 67 
 
 Butler, and removed in August to Salinas 
 City, Cal,, the county seat of Monterey Co. 
 Here he became pastor of the United Pres- 
 byterian Church, and here he continues after 
 a pastorate of sixteen years, an exceptionally 
 long one for the Pacific Coast. His expecta- 
 tion of doing his life work there seems in a 
 fair way of fulfilment. He has been greatly 
 prospered in his work and his church has 
 grown steadily in number and in strength. 
 He preaches without notes, and last year in 
 his zeal for prohibition took the stump for 
 Fisk and Brooks. 
 
 He visited the Atlantic States in 1883, and 
 in 1886 came as far East as Kansas to attend 
 a family reunion. He is the author of a 
 Normal Course of '^ Hints and Helps to 
 Bible Students." 
 
 He was married to Miss Annie E. Fergu- 
 son, at Dry Run, Pa., April 18, 1872. Their 
 first child, Mary Blythe, born February 7, 
 1873, died December 31, 1876. Another 
 daughter, Annie Elizabeth, was born May 5, 
 1878. 
 
 James McNeill was born September 18, 
 1846, at his present place of abode in the 
 town of Greenport, in the suburbs of the city 
 of Hudson, N, Y. He fitted for college at 
 
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 the Classical Institute, Hudson. After grad- 
 uating he remained at home for several years, 
 devoting himself to literary work, and find- 
 ing health and recreation in the pursuit of 
 agriculture. His attention was drawn to the 
 subject of phrenology, and the result cannot 
 be given better than in his own words. " In- 
 stead of finding a species of fortune-telling, 
 unworthy the attention of a liberally educated 
 man, which is the generally received idea of 
 the subject, I discovered that it was a system 
 of mental philosophy, clear, complete and 
 definite, one giving an exposition of the 
 phenomena of mind eminently rational and 
 practically useful. I took a course of instruc- 
 tion at the Phrenological Institute, New 
 York, and have since devoted myself with 
 considerable zeal to the subject. In the fall 
 of 1874 I took a trip to Nevada and Cali- 
 fornia, where I remained for two years. On 
 my return in November, 1876, I entered into 
 an agreement with the Phrenological Jour?ial 
 to write a series of articles on health and on 
 phrenology as contrasted with the mental 
 philosophies of the schools. This occupied 
 me about a year. On the completion of this 
 task, the editor of the Journal requested me 
 to co-operate with him in the preparation of an 
 elementary work on phrenology which might 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 69 
 
 be used as a text book. I am an earnest 
 advocate of the laws which the Creator has 
 imposed on our physical and mental consti- 
 tutions ; and I have no higher ambition in 
 life than to be considered a successful teacher 
 and promulgator of the principles of physi- 
 ology, hygiene and phrenology." 
 
 This was ten years ago. McNeill now 
 writes that the past ten years have been 
 spent mostly at home, In 1879 the book 
 referred to above was published. It is en- 
 titled "Brain and Mind," and has had a 
 very good sale. A work on metal science 
 founded on phrenology is now in contem- 
 plation. 
 
 In 1880 he became interested in bee cul- 
 ture and has since been extensively engaged 
 in the raising of bees, queens, and honey. 
 But sad to tell, he has no queen for his own 
 hive. 
 
 Henry Martyn Matthews was born at 
 Covington, Wyoming county, N. Y., and fitted 
 for college at Middlebury Academy, N. Y. 
 The first three years of his college course 
 were spent at Union College, and he entered 
 Amherst at the beginning of Junior year. 
 After graduation, he began the study of law 
 in the office of Nichols & Robbins, Buffalo, 
 
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 CLASS OF li 
 
 N. Y., about January 1, 1870. Afterwards he 
 entered the office of Laning, Folsom & Willett, 
 with whom he was studying when admitted to 
 the bar about January 1, 1872. Mr. Folsom, 
 of this firm, was the father of Mrs. Grover 
 Cleveland. Going West in the latter part 
 of 1872, Matthews entered the office of 
 Barker, Wait & Hopkins, Chicago, 111. He 
 was admitted to the bar of Illinois, February 
 25, 1873, and to the U. S. Circuit and District 
 Courts, April 28, of the same year. May 1, 
 1874, he began practice for himself with an 
 office at 88 Washington Street, in 1879 was at 
 152 La Salle Street, but is now located in the 
 Tacoma Building, N. E. corner La Salle and 
 Madison Streets. He is engaged in a general 
 law practice, which has brought him before 
 all the State Courts, and the U. S. Circuit and 
 District Courts, and has built up for himself 
 a lucrative practice and a well-deserved 
 reputation. 
 
 In 1882 he formed a law partnership with 
 Edward A. Dicker, and the firm of Matthews 
 & Dicker this spring moved into new and 
 elegant offices on the eleventh floor of the 
 Tacoma Building, No. 1109. 
 
 In one direction alone is he an unsafe 
 counselor, or, it may be, an unsuccessful 
 advocate. He is still unmarried. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 71 
 
 Marcus Whitman Montgomery was 
 born June 21, 1839, at Prattsburg, N. Y. 
 While yet in his teens he served as a steno- 
 grapher in the legislature of Missouri, and at 
 the age of twenty was editor and proprietor 
 of a newspaper at Portland, Jay County, Ind., 
 even at that early age giving evidence of fine 
 business capacity, making his paper a financial 
 success. At the end of three years, desiring 
 a better education, he sold his paper, and 
 fitted for college in the preparatory depart- 
 ment of Wheaton College, 111. Removing to 
 Amherst he completed his preparation with 
 Prof. C. H. Parkhurst (class of 1866), and 
 entered college in the spring of Freshman 
 year. After graduation he went into business 
 in Cleveland, O., where he remained until 
 1875, making in this time about |25,000. 
 Sudden reverses swept it away, and he took 
 the consequent opportunity of release from 
 business care to complete his preparation for 
 the ministry. His theological course of 
 three years was taken at Yale Theological 
 Seminary, where he graduated May 16, 1878. 
 During his seminary course he prepared a 
 " History of the English Bible," but it is not 
 yet ready for publication. After graduating 
 at Yale Seminary, he was urged to take charge 
 of a Congregational church in Fort Scott, 
 
72 CLASS OF iStq 
 
 Kan., with the special end in view of raising 
 money to pay off a heavy debt resting upon 
 the church. In June he visited the place, 
 undertook the work, and returning to the 
 East, spent the summer in raising the neces- 
 sary funds. The entire indebtedness of 
 |10,000 was canceled. Montgomery was 
 settled as pastor of the church in November, 
 1878. His labors were richly blessed, and a 
 good work done. 
 
 Finding that climate unsuitable, in 1880 he 
 took the New England agency of Washburn 
 College, Topeka, Kan., and removed to 
 Newtonville, Mass., but was hardly settled in 
 his new work, when he was called by the 
 American Home Missionary Society to be its 
 superintendent for Minnesota and Northern 
 Dakota. Accepting the call he removed in 
 1881 to Minneapolis, where he still resides. 
 
 In 1884 he visited Sweden and Norway to 
 investigate the free-church movement in those 
 countries, and on his return wrote the book 
 entitled, *'A Wind from the Holy Spirit in 
 Sweden and Norway." This report made a 
 profound impression among the Congrega- 
 tional churches, and awakened them to the 
 great and pressing need of missionary work 
 among the Scandinavians in our country. 
 Montgomery was desired by the American 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 73 
 
 Home Missionary Society to take the super- 
 intendence of this new work. In this work he 
 has been engaged for the last four years, and 
 has given himself to it with apostolic zeal and 
 devotion. 
 
 In his annual report of last year he states 
 that there were on January 1, 1888, not less 
 than two million Scandinavians in the United 
 States, including nearly one half the present 
 population of Minnesota. That element of 
 her population in Minnesota has doubled 
 within five years. 
 
 At the request of the Secretaries of the 
 Society, Montgomery visited Utah in the 
 autumn of 1887, where the Scandinavian 
 Mormon population is estimated at 40,000. 
 He gives the results of that visit in his report, 
 and the following quotation will be of special 
 interest : 
 
 ''The next step taken was to do what the 
 Lord burdened me to do against the mighty 
 wickedness of Mormonism by seeking to 
 awaken the public conscience to protest 
 against the admission of Utah into the Union 
 as a State. This I did by writing an article 
 for the Congregatlonaltst, by making twenty 
 addresses on Mormonism in various parts of 
 the country, aud by addressing the United 
 States Senate Committee on Territories. To 
 
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 Stem the tide of Scandinavian Mormon con- 
 verts from the Old World, I wrote an article 
 entitled ' Mormonism Unmasked, a Warning 
 to the Scandinavians,' containing some 9,000 
 words specially prepared for the situation 
 among these people, in which it was sought to 
 lay bare the frauds and frightful enormities of 
 this great evil. This article was translated 
 into Swedish, and into Dano- Norwegian. 
 Proof-sheets were sent to all the Scandinavian 
 newspapers in the United States, Denmark, 
 Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland, being 
 nearly 1,000 newspapers. In many of them 
 it has already appeared. By this method it 
 may fairly be said that we have reached 
 about all the Scandinavian people with this 
 exposure of Mormonism, which can scarcely 
 fail to counteract, to some degree at least, 
 the work of the Mormon missionaries among 
 these people." 
 
 He has since written another book which 
 is now passing through the press, entitled 
 ** The Whole Story about the Mormons." 
 
 In March, 1889, he again visited Sweden, 
 and is at present in Stockholm, where he 
 expects to remain several months studying 
 the Scandinavian languages. 
 
 Montgomery was married July 20, 1859, 
 at Pennville, Ind., to Miss Mary R. Votaw. 
 
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 75 
 
 They have four children : Emma B., born 
 October 19, 1862 ; Plymouth G., born 
 March 15, 1866 ; Whitman M., born Sep- 
 tember 8, 1872, and Forest H., born August 
 22, 1874. 
 
 Residence and P. O. address, 408 Nicollet 
 Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Charles Stedman Newhall was born 
 October 4, 1842, at Boston, Mass., and fitted 
 for college at Williston Seminary, Easthamp- 
 ton, Mass. 
 
 In the fall of 1869 he began the study of 
 theology at Union Theological Seminary, 
 New York City, where he graduated in 1872. 
 After travelling for a few months at the 
 South, he became pastor of the Congrega- 
 tional Church in Oriskany Falls, N. Y., where 
 he was ordained December 11, 1872, and 
 where he remained for a year and a half. In 
 1874 he became the acting pastor of a Pres- 
 byterian Church in Oceanic, N. J. This was 
 his field of labor until January, 1879, when 
 he went abroad, going directly to Constanti- 
 nople, and making the tour of Egypt and the 
 Holy Land. 
 
 Soon after his return home he went out to 
 Iowa and spent four years in that State, from 
 1880 to 1882 in charge of the Congregational 
 
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 Church at Postville, and from October, 1882 
 to 1884 at Tipton. Returning East, after a 
 year at Plainfield, N. J., in 1885 he became 
 stated supply of the Presbyterian Church at 
 Keeseville, Essex Co., N. Y., where he re- 
 mained for two years. He is now in charge 
 of the Presbyterian Church at Point Pleas- 
 ant, N. J. 
 
 Literary work has from time to time occu- 
 pied his attention, and he has published 
 several volumes. His *' History of Fall 
 River " has gained him distinction as a local 
 historian, and three books for the Sunday 
 School Library have been widely commended. 
 " Joe and the Howards ; or Armed with 
 Eyes,*' appeared soon after he left college, 
 and was calculated to awaken the interest of 
 children in natural history. ''Harry's Trip 
 to the Orient," published by the American 
 Tract Society, presents the story of eastern 
 travel in a way to fascinate the boys ; and 
 " Ruthie's Story," recently issued by the 
 Presbyterian Board of Publication, gives the 
 story of Jesus as told by one girl to others. 
 
 Newhall has amended his report of ten 
 years ago. He is no longer a bachelor. His 
 marriage to Miss Kitty Harvey, of Oceanic, 
 N. J., occured March 7, 1881. They have 
 three children, Charles A., born March 6, 
 
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 11 
 
 1882; Luther, born February 9, 1884, and 
 Katherine, born October 5, 1886. 
 P. O. address, Point Pleasant, N. J. 
 
 John Adams Page was born in Haverhill, 
 Mass., October 27, 1847, and fitted for 
 college at the High School of his native 
 place. After graduation he taught for two 
 years, first as principal of the academy at 
 Penfield, Monroe Co., N. Y.; afterward as 
 principal of the High School at Ashland, 
 Mass., and finally as assistant in a boys' 
 boarding school at Flatbush, L. I. The next 
 three years were spent in New York city, as 
 cashier and book-keeper for Dodd & Mead, 
 book publishers. 
 
 In 1874 he returned to Haverhill, and in the 
 autumn began the study of law in the office 
 of ex-Mayor J. K. Jennes. Admitted to the 
 bar March 12, 1878, he remained in the 
 same 'office, as the associate of Mr. Jennes, 
 until September, 1879, when he opened an 
 office by himself and soon became estab- 
 lished in a lucrative practice. In 1882 he 
 became the cashier of the Haverhill Co- 
 operative Bank, continuing at the same time 
 his law practice. This arrangement con- 
 tinued for five years, when the strain of 
 double work made itself felt, and in October, 
 
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 1887, his health gave way completely so that 
 he was obliged to resign his position in the 
 bank and close his law office. During the 
 winter and spring of 1888, with his wife 
 (Page was married September 15, 1886, to 
 Miss Annie D. Webb, of Bradford, Mass.) he 
 travelled extensively in the South in search 
 of health, and spent much of the following 
 summer in the British Provinces. Last No- 
 vember he re-opened his office and has been 
 able to do some business, with health partially 
 restored. 
 
 In March, 1889, he writes : " I am very 
 slowly, but steadily, gaining, though still far 
 from being entirely well. It pains me very 
 much to think that I shall not be able to be 
 at the class re-union this summer." 
 
 Address, Daggett Building, Haverhill, Mass. 
 
 Charles Ransom Pratt was born Janu- 
 ary 24, 1847, at Elmira, N. Y., and fitted for 
 college at the Union School, Schenectady, 
 N. Y. Entering Union College in 1865, he 
 took the first three years of his college course 
 in that institution, entering our class at the 
 beginning of Senior year. 
 
 After graduation he studied law in Elmira, 
 N. Y., and was admitted to the bar January, 
 1872. He has resided in Elmira ever since, 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 79 
 
 attending to his law practice, and since Sep- 
 tember, 1879, when he became Cashier of the 
 Second National Bank of Elmira, combining 
 with it banking. He was Cashier until Janu- 
 ary, 1886, and is now Vice-President of the 
 bank. 
 
 Pratt was married April 10, 1879, to Miss 
 Jane E. Carrier, of Cuba, N. Y. They have 
 three children. Ransom, born April 16, 1880 ; 
 Alvord, born November 8, 1881, and Sarah, 
 born February 18, 1886. 
 
 Amos Bancroft Putnam was born Febru- 
 ary 27, 1846, at Groton, Mass., and fitted for 
 college at Lawrence Academy in his native 
 place. 
 
 For a year after graduation he was engaged 
 in teaching at Grantville, in the town of 
 Needham, Mass. In 1870 he engaged in 
 business and for several years was a manufac- 
 turer at Nashua, N. H. In 1878 he removed 
 to Boston, and entered the office of Morss & 
 Whyte, 75 Cornhill, in whose employ he still 
 remains. They are extensive wire manufac- 
 turers. For a time he resided in Cambridge- 
 port, but his home is now at 91 Bowdoin 
 Street. 
 
 He was married January 4, 1873, to Miss 
 Fannie Farnsworth, of Groton, Mass. His 
 wife died in 1887. 
 
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 John William Quinby was born October 
 4, 1833, at Coxsackie, Greene County, N. Y,, 
 and fitted for college at Fairfield Seminary, 
 Herkimer County, N. Y. His studies were 
 interrupted by service in the army during 
 the Rebellion, and he entered Amherst at 
 the beginning of the Junior year. After 
 graduation he spent a year and a half at the 
 Divinity School at Cambridge, Mass., and 
 September 7, 1871, was settled as pastor of 
 the Unitarian Church of East Bridgewater, 
 Mass. Here he still remains. 
 
 Henry Bullard Richardson was born 
 in Franklin, Mass., May 21, 1844. He pre- 
 pared for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, 
 N. H. In September, 1869, he entered upon 
 his duties as Instructor in Latin and Greek, 
 at Amherst College, and occupied that posi- 
 tion until March, 1873, when he went abroad, 
 remaining until September, traveling in 
 France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. 
 The next three years were spent in Spring- 
 field, Mass., as classical teacher in the High 
 School of that city. In the summer of 1876 
 he went a second time to Europe, and studied 
 classical philology for two years in the Uni- 
 versity of Leipsic. During this time he also 
 traveled in Italy, Germany, Holland, and 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 8 1 
 
 Great Britain. On his return, in the autumn 
 of 1888, he again became a member of the 
 faculty of Amherst, this time as Instructor in 
 Latin and German. In 1879 he was made 
 Assistant Professor of Latin and Instructor 
 in German. Since 1882 his title has been 
 Professor of German. Three more summers 
 of travel and study in Europe in 1885, 1886, 
 and 1888, have added to his already rich 
 equipment for the duties of his professorship. 
 He is now a Teuton of the Teutons. He has 
 built for himself a beautiful home in Amherst 
 on "Faculty" Street, where a young son of 
 eight years now receives a share of the train- 
 ing which at the time of our last report was 
 bestowed upon two daughters. 
 
 Prof. Richardson has made several valuable 
 contributions to the literature of both of the 
 departments in which he has given instruc- 
 tion. He assisted Prof. E. P. Crowell in pre- 
 paring an edition of Cicero's " De Senectute " 
 and "DeAmicitia" for Chase and Stuart's 
 series of classical text books. This was pub- 
 lished in 1872. He translated and edited 
 from the German of Bender ''A Brief History 
 of Roman Literature," issued by Ginn & 
 Heath in 1872. In 1887 he prepared a com- 
 plete glossary to Lessing's " Emilia Galotti," 
 and is now engaged upon an annotated edi- 
 
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 tion of the same work. He has also in prepa- 
 ration a " Handbook of German Civilization." 
 Richardson was the first of our class to 
 marry after graduation. The date was July 
 13, 1869, and his wife was Miss Mary E. Lin- 
 coln, of Amherst. The two daughters, men- 
 tioned above, are Mary Lincoln, born Febru- 
 ary 17, 1871, and Carrie Anna, born July 6, 
 1874. The son is Henry Stephen, born Jan- 
 uary 17, 1881. 
 
 John Kendall Richardson was born July 
 11, 1843, at Woburn, Mass., and fitted for 
 college at Warren Academy and the High 
 School of his native town. 
 
 After graduation, he returned to Amherst 
 as Instructor in Mathematics, and occupied 
 this position for three years. During this 
 time he also gave instruction for two terms 
 in the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 
 In the spring of 1872 he accepted the princi- 
 palship of the Amherst High School, but held 
 it only two terms, resigning the following 
 November. On the twenty-third of this 
 month he sailed for Europe, accompanied by 
 his wife. They were about nine months 
 traveling in Great Britain, Germany, Switzer- 
 land, Italy, and France, and studying for 
 three months at Gottingen, and two months 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 83 
 
 at Leipsic. Immediately on his return he 
 became Instructor in Classics in Williston 
 Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and remained 
 there for three years, during the last year 
 having entire charge of all the Latin instruc- 
 tion of the school. Resigning in the summer 
 of 1876, he accepted a thrice-offered position 
 as principal of the classic department of the 
 Chickering Institute, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 Impaired health and an intense desire to 
 return to Eastern customs and standards of 
 classical study, brought him back, at the end 
 of a year, to New England. In the autumn 
 of 1877 he received an appointment in the 
 Boston Latin School as Junior Master. This 
 position he held until 1885, when he became 
 a Master in the same institution, and this 
 position he still occupies. He has published 
 a work on "Ancient America"; also the 
 '' Doings of the Newton Natural History 
 Society." 
 
 In 1879 he had just begun housekeeping at 
 Newton, and here his home remained until 
 last year, when he built a house at Wellesley 
 Hills, a few miles farther out from Boston, 
 on the Boston and Albany Railroad, which 
 he has occupied since November. 
 
 He was married August 18, 1869, to Miss 
 Louisa C. Shepard, of Woburn, Mass. 
 
 P. O. address Wellesley Hills, Mass. 
 
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 * Julius Sanderson, the son of Courtlon 
 and Lydia Hunt (Clapp) Sanderson, was 
 born at Phillipston, Mass., September 15, 
 1846. His preparation for college was made 
 at Phillips Academy, Andover. After gradu- 
 ating at Amherst, he spent a few months with 
 friends in Hudson, N. Y., and early in 1870 
 he became clerk in the Troy House, Troy, 
 N. Y. This position he held until his failing 
 health convinced him that he needed more 
 out-door work, and in March, 3 874, he 
 became travelling agent for E. W. Boughton 
 & Co., dealers in hats and furs in the same 
 city. With them he continued as long as he 
 was able to do any work. The last months of 
 his life were spent at home at Phillipston. His 
 death, which occurred Sunday June 3, 1877, 
 was the result of a bronchial difficulty from 
 which he had long suffered, and which finally 
 ended in consumption. He was never mar- 
 ried. Appreciative tributes to the memory 
 of our classmate by Kellogg and Chickering 
 may be found in the Decennial Record of 
 our class. 
 
 William Russell Scarritt was born at 
 Alton, 111., July 14, 1846, and made his pre- 
 paration for college at St. Louis, Mo., his 
 place of residence at the time of entering 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE gg 
 
 college. The first year of his college course 
 was taken at Yale, and he entered our class 
 at the beginning of sophomore year. 
 
 After graduation he entered Union Theo- 
 logical Seminary, New York City, where he 
 took the full course of three years. In the 
 spring of 1872 he went abroad, traveling 
 through the principal countries of Europe, 
 and returning in the autumn. Upon his 
 return he took up his residence in St. Louis, 
 and continued his theological studies. Re- 
 moving to New York, he pursued his studies 
 privately in that city until 1875, when he 
 entered Union Seminary again, and remained 
 there one year as post-graduate. In 1876 he 
 accepted a call to a Presbyterian Church in 
 Olathe, Kan., where he was ordained and 
 installed pastor in April, 1877. I-Iere he 
 remained until 1880, when he resigned and 
 spent the following year in travel and study. 
 In 1881 he became pastor of the Presbyterian 
 Church at Wamego, Kan. He resigned this 
 charge in 1883, and in the autumn of that 
 year went with his family to reside at 
 Amherst, Mass., where he remained for a 
 year and a half, giving his entire time to 
 philosophical studies, preaching frequently 
 upon the Sabbath. In the spring of 1885 he 
 accepted a call to the Congregational Church 
 
86 CLASS OF iSbq 
 
 of Fayette, Iowa, but in February, 1886, 
 changed his field of labor to Marshalltown, a 
 place of 10,000 people in Central Iowa, on 
 the Northwestern R. R., and also on the Iowa 
 Central R. R. This is his home still. 
 
 He has made several contributions to the 
 periodical press. A recent article, treating 
 of the " new theology," entitled " The Last 
 Appeal in Theology." which appeared in the 
 December, 1888, number of Our Day has 
 attracted wide-spread attention in theological 
 circles. 
 
 The degree of D. D., was conferred upon 
 him in 1880 by Lane University, Kansas. 
 
 Dr. Scarritt says that the health of himself 
 and family is good, and that his interest in 
 our Alma Mater suffers no diminution with 
 years, but rather increases. 
 
 He was married June 5, 1877, at Olathe, 
 Kan., to Miss Lizzie B. Mariner. They have 
 three children, William R., Jr., born June 23, 
 1878 ; Louise Alberta Fuller, born August 
 17, 1880 ; and Enid Mariner, born November 
 28, 1884. 
 
 Joseph Bartlett Seabury was born 
 March 17, 1846, in the city of New Bedford, 
 Mass., and fitted for college under Dr. Taylor, 
 at Phillips Academy, Andover. After gradu- 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 87 
 
 ation two years were spent in teaching, in 
 connection with the High School of Taunton, 
 Mass, Beginning there his preparation for 
 the ministry he took the regular course of 
 three years at Andover Theological Seminary, 
 graduating in June, 1874, The year follow- 
 ing was spent mainly in California, and during 
 six months of this time he preached to a 
 small congregation in the vicinity of San 
 Francisco, near the State University at 
 Berkeley. 
 
 September 8, 1875, he was ordained, and 
 installed pastor of the John St. Congrega- 
 tional Church of Lowell, Mass., where he 
 remained for nearly seven years until May 2, 
 1882. In June, 1882, he sailed for Europe, 
 accompanied by Mrs. Seabury. They made 
 the usual summer round of travel, his wife 
 returning home in the autumn. Seabury 
 remained abroad, visiting Rome, Cairo, the 
 Holy Land, Damascus, Constantinople and 
 Athens, reaching this country on his return 
 June 23, 1883, just one year after sailing 
 from New York, 
 
 February 4, 1885, he was installed pastor of 
 the First Congregational Church at Dedham, 
 Mass., where he still remains, enjoying ''a 
 quiet, but busy pastorate." He writes that 
 he has published nothing beyond several 
 
CLASS OF i8bQ 
 
 sermons of an anniversary and occasional 
 character, and newspaper articles. The 250th 
 anniversary of his church was observed 
 November 18, 1888, and his sermon preached 
 at that time, with other addresses, have been 
 published in a handsome volume. 
 
 Seabury was married September 30, 1874, 
 to Miss Martha Daniels Mason, of Andover, 
 Mass. Two children were reported in 1879, 
 Helena Mason, born February 29, 1876, who 
 died August 15, 1878 ; and Warren Bartlett, 
 born September 17, 1877. Warren has now 
 three brothers, Joseph Stowe, born November 
 28, 1879 ; Mason Hovey, born September 30, 
 1884 ; and Mortimer Ashmead, born July 
 26,1886. 
 
 Sidney Tuthill Skidmore was born 
 August 19, 1844, at Wading River, N. Y., and 
 fitted for college at Fort Edward Institute, 
 N. Y. The first year after graduation was 
 spent in Gallipolis, O., as principal of Gallia 
 Academy. Removing to Norwood, N. J., he 
 became principal of a private school, occupy- 
 ing the position for a year. The next three 
 years he was connected with the Moravian 
 school at Bethlehem, Penn., as teacher of 
 natural science. While at Bethlehem he was 
 licensed to preach by the Conference of the 
 Moravian Church, November 20, 1872. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 89 
 
 Subsequently he studied for four months at 
 the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J., and 
 then gave instruction for six months in the 
 University of Pennsylvania as assistant pro- 
 fessor of physics. 
 
 In 1876, he accepted the professorship of 
 physics and astronomy in the Girls' Normal 
 School of Philadelphia, situated at the corner 
 of Spring Garden and Seventeenth Streets. 
 Here he still remains, and has met with great 
 success as an instructor. 
 
 Skidmore writes: "Our institution is very 
 large, and my professional life has always 
 been a busy one, but excepting a public 
 lecture occasionally, or a few public addresses, 
 I have done nothing to give me distinction in 
 the public eye." 
 
 He is a member of the Wagner Free Insti- 
 tute of Science, and President of the Lehigh 
 Granolithic Company. 
 
 Skidmore has been twice married. His 
 first wife was Miss Mary E. Humphrey, of 
 Providence, R. I., to whom he was married 
 December 30, 1877, and v/ho died November 
 23, 1878, after a brief illness. 
 
 He was again married September 10, 1885, 
 to Miss Sadie D. Atkinson, of Philadelphia. 
 They have a daughter, Louisa Binney, born 
 October 10, 1886. P. O. address, 1706 
 North Eighteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
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 CLASS OF 
 
 WiNFiELD Scott Slocum was born at 
 Grafton, Mass., May 1, 1848, and fitted for 
 college at the high school of his native town. 
 He taught school for three months in the 
 autumn of 18G9, at Holden, Mass., and then 
 began the study of law in the office of Slocum 
 & Staples, in the city of Boston. Here he 
 remained, with the exception of three months 
 in the fall of 1870, also spent in teaching, 
 until admitted to the bar, October 28, 1871. 
 Since then he has been practicing law in con- 
 nection with his father under the firm title of 
 W. F. & W. S. Slocum. Their offices are now 
 at 257 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. For 
 the past twenty years he has been a resident 
 of Newton. In 1874 he was elected as a 
 member of the first school committee of that 
 city, and served for three years. In April 
 1881 he became City Solicitor of Newton, an 
 office he continues to fill. In 1887 and 1888 
 he served as a member of the House of 
 Representatives of Massachusetts. Last win- 
 ter he was defeated for the Speakership of 
 the House by only a few votes, and, if he will 
 consent to remain in public life, a brilliant 
 career lies, no doubt, before him. 
 
 He was married at Newtonville, Mass., 
 October 7, 1873, to Miss Annie A. Pulsifer. 
 Of their three children, the first born, Frederic 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 91 
 
 Pulsifer, born October 25, 1874, died Novem- 
 ber 5, 1874. Two are living, Agnes Elizabeth, 
 born June 6, 1879 ; and Charles Pulsifer, born 
 September 15, 1885. 
 
 Henry Preserved Smith was born October 
 23, 1847, at Troy, O., and fitted for college 
 at the High School of Dayton, O., his place of 
 residence at the time of entering Amherst. 
 The three years following graduation were 
 spent at Lane Theological Seminary, Cin- 
 cinnati, O. In 1872 he went abroad, and 
 spent two years in travel, and in the study of 
 philosophy and theology at the University of 
 Berlin. In the spring of 1873 he visited 
 Palestine. During the seminary year of 1874- 
 1875 he filled the position of instructor in 
 church history in Lane Theological Seminary, 
 and the following year was instructor in 
 Hebrew at the same institution. He was 
 ordained in June 1875. In 1876 he went 
 abroad the second time, remaining a year, 
 spending a portion of it at Paris, but most 
 of the time (two full semesters) studying 
 Hebrew and the cognate languages at the 
 University of Leipsic. Returning in Septem- 
 ber, 1877, he accepted the chair of assistant 
 professor of Hebrew in Lane Theological 
 Seminary. In 1879 he was appointed Pro- 
 
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 CLASS OF i8bq 
 
 fessor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis 
 in the same institution, which position he still 
 occupies. While he has published no book 
 as yet, many valuable articles from his pen 
 have appeared in the reviews. Among them 
 may be mentioned the following : *' In the 
 Presbyterian Review, articles on " Mediaeval 
 Jewish Theology," " The Critical Theories of 
 Julius Wellhausen," " The Revised Version 
 and the Old Testament Text." In the 
 Bibliaiheca Sacra, on "Ancient Bookmaking." 
 \xv Hebraica, on "The Text of Jeremiah," 
 "The Targum to Jeremiah," and "The Text 
 of Micah." 
 
 Besides these he has written a number 
 of minor notes, criticisms and discussions, 
 generally of Old Testament topics. 
 
 From a letter received from Smith we 
 quote : " My life has been an uneventful 
 one. I have a happy home, am located on 
 the grounds of the seminary I serve, con- 
 venient to my work, within the city limits 
 (at Walnut Hills), yet enough retired for a 
 student. My course has been marked out for 
 me without special effort on my part. I enjoy 
 study, as everyone does who gets far enough 
 along really to study, and I enjoy teaching, 
 fitting men for usefulness in the noblest of 
 callings. Though I have not published a 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 93 
 
 book as yet, I have put a good deal of time 
 and labor into literary work. Latterly I have 
 devoted my spare time to investigating the 
 state of the Hebrew text of the Old Testa- 
 ment, and if I should get far enough along to 
 publish anything of permanent value, it will 
 be in that line." 
 
 Your historian can testify to what a happy 
 and charming home our classmate has in that 
 beautiful suburb of Cincinnati, as it was his 
 privilege to be Prof, Smith's guest for ten 
 days during the sessions of the Presbyterian 
 General Assembly in May, 1885. 
 
 In 1887 Smith spent the summer abroad with 
 his family. He has the right now to append 
 D.D. twice to his name, having received the 
 degree from his Alma Mater in 1886, and 
 from Princeton College in 1887. 
 
 He was married December 27, 1877 to Miss 
 Anna Macneale, of Cincinnati. They have 
 four children, but the youngest was called 
 away while yet a babe. Their names are 
 Winifred, born April 4, 1879 ; Preserved, born 
 July 22,1880; Neale Macneale, born February 
 28, 1883, and Donald Mayo, born September 
 5, 1885, died March 14, 1886. 
 
 P. O. address, Lane Theological Seminary, 
 Cincinnati, O. 
 
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 WiNTHROP Smith was born October 22, 
 1846, in Cincinnati, O, and prepared for 
 college at Stockbridge, Mass. Since gradua- 
 tion he has been engaged in banking, and is 
 the senior member of the firm of Winthrop 
 and Percy Smith, Bankers, 324 Chestnut 
 Street, Philadelphia, Pa. He has been 
 fortunate at different times in rescuing 
 thirteen people from drowning. 
 
 His life has been devoted mainly to his 
 business and institutions pertaining to bank- 
 ing, being a director in the Penn National 
 Bank, United Security Life Insurance and 
 Trust Co. and Philadelphia Mortgage and 
 Trust Co. As a private citizen, neither seek- 
 ing nor accepting political office, he has 
 always taken great interest in the politics of 
 the Republican party, and has contributed 
 his share toward its successes. For ten years 
 he has been a director of the Union League 
 Club of Philadelphia, active in its manage- 
 ment and proud of the grand old institution 
 so well known for its war history. 
 
 He was married at Arlington, Mass., 
 November 29, 1871, to Miss M. Florence 
 Chapman. Five sons have come to their 
 home, but of these two have been taken away. 
 Their names are W. Brentwood, born March 
 29, 1873 ; Edward Chapman, born May 15, 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 95 
 
 1875 ; Barteau Sargent, born September 19, 
 1876, died September 25, 1886 ; Harold, born 
 December 29, 1877 ; Hermon Batterson, born 
 October 26, 1879, died December 12, 1879. 
 
 Edwin Charles Stickel was born De- 
 cember 1, 18M, at Lewisberry, Penn. His 
 preparation for college was made in the Pre- 
 paratory Department of Oberlin College, O. 
 At this institution he took the first part of 
 his college course, entering Amherst Junior 
 year. 
 
 For two years after graduation he was 
 principal of the public school of Selma, Ala. 
 In 1871 he entered Andover Theological 
 Seminary, where he took the regular course 
 of three years. The year after graduation at 
 Andover was spent in Talladega, Ala., as 
 instructor in Latin and associate pastor in 
 the college church in Talladega College. He 
 was ordained at Oberlin, O., September 20, 
 1875. For two years afterward he was pastor 
 -of a Congregational church in Montgomery, 
 Ala. His work at the South was under the 
 auspices of the American Missionary Asso- 
 ciation. December 1, 1877, he became 
 acting pastor of a Congregational church at 
 Mazo Manie, Wis., and two years later at 
 Boscobel, Wis. After these four years he 
 
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 was obliged to close his work in Wisconsin 
 on account of trouble with his eyes. A year 
 was spent in Ohio in business life for the 
 sake of rest and change, when he was called 
 again to the work in the South as treasurer, 
 instructor and preacher in Tougaloo Uni- 
 versity, Miss. Two years were spent there, 
 when in 1884 he was transferred by the 
 American Missionary Association to the 
 larger and more responsible position of 
 treasurer and business manager of Fisk Uni- 
 versity, Nashville, Tenn. He writes that he 
 is occupied with the work involved in such a 
 position with the added work of preaching 
 and lecturing in turn with other members of 
 the Faculty to the University church. 
 
 Stickel has been married twice. His first 
 wife. Miss Anna W. Spencer, to whom he was 
 married August 1, 1870, died during the fol- 
 lowing year at Selma, Ala. He was married 
 again August 2, 1874, to Miss Luretta R. 
 Chamberlin, at Oberlin, O. They have one 
 child. Alma Luretta, born August 15, 1877. 
 
 Francis Hovey Stoddard was born 
 April 25, 1847, at Middlebury, Vt., and fitted 
 for college under the instruction of Prof. 
 Josiah Clark of Northampton, Mass. After 
 graduation he taught for two years in a 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE gy 
 
 private school in Westchester, N. Y., then 
 engaged in business, for a time in New York 
 City, but in 1873 became a cotton manufac- 
 turer at Northampton. He was married May 
 14, 1873, to Miss Lucy M. Smith, of Spring- 
 field, Mass.: he has one child, Lucy, born 
 August 15, 1874. 
 
 The above statements, condensed from the 
 first edition of this chronicle, are still true, 
 despite the lapse of years. For a few years 
 more Stoddard continued to give his atten- 
 tion mainly to business, but engaged also in 
 literary work as he had leisure, contributing 
 papers to TAe New Englander and to other 
 Reviews. One of these papers, on " The 
 Modern Novel," published in September, 
 1883, was very widely noticed. In 1884 
 Stoddard sold his manufacturing interests 
 and sailed for England with his family, pro- 
 posing to devote his whole time to literary 
 pursuits. For two years he remained abroad, 
 studying English literature, mainly at the 
 University of Oxford, spending also one 
 half-year in Germany. In the autumn of 
 1886 he was called to the University of Cali- 
 fornia to take the position of instructor in 
 English Literature. In 1888 he was called 
 to the University of the City of New York to 
 take a newly endowed chair under the title of 
 
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 Professor of the English Language and 
 Literature. It may be stated here that he 
 was chosen for this professorship out of 
 seven others who had been recommended to 
 the Board of Directors. 
 
 Since 1884 Stoddard has been a frequent 
 contributor to the literary reviews, one of his 
 later articles being on ''Tolstoi and Matthew 
 Arnold," in the Andover Review for October, 
 1888. He has also published a work on the 
 ** Mysteries and Miracle Plays of the Middle 
 Ages," a second edition of which will soon 
 be issued, and is engaged at the present time 
 upon several works of like character. 
 
 P. O. address. University of the City of 
 New York, N. Y. City. Stoddard expects to 
 spend the summer of 1889 in England. 
 
 Albert Francis Tenney was born July 24, 
 1847, at South Braintree, Mass., and fitted for 
 college at the High School in Salem, Mass. 
 For the first year after graduation he was at 
 the head of the classical department in an 
 Episcopal academy in Philadelphia. In the 
 autumn of 1870 he began the study of 
 theology at Union Theological Seminary, New 
 York City, where he remained for two years. 
 During the school year of 1872 and 1873, he 
 was principal of the Boys' High School, 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 99 
 
 Wilmington, Del. From 1873 to 1882 he was 
 an instructor in St. John's School, Sing Sing, 
 N. Y. After passing the examinations 
 required in the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 he was ordained to the Diaconate, June 4, 
 1882, and was immediately elected rector of 
 All Saints' church at Briar Cliff, near Sing 
 Sing. 
 
 October 1, 1884, he became rector of Grace 
 Church, Madison, N. J., which position he 
 resigned April 2, 1888. After taking charge 
 of St. Philip's Church in Philadelphia from 
 April 29 to August 1, and serving in various 
 other parishes during the summer and fall of 
 that year, he became assistant minister of St. 
 Ann's-on-the-Heights, in the city of Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., where he is now serving. 
 
 He was married August 16, 1876, to Miss 
 Elizabeth Russell Wallace, of Philadelphia, 
 Pa., but we grieve to record her death, which 
 occurred last year, March 31, 1888. He has 
 two children, Albert Francis, Jr., born July 
 15, 1878, and Laura Wallace, born July 
 5, 1880. 
 
 P. O. address, 262 Henry Street, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 Daniel Greenleaf Thompson was born 
 at Montpelier, Vt., February 9, 1850, and his 
 
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 preparation for college was made in the 
 Washington County Grammar School of his 
 native place. In the autumn of 1869 he 
 served his last term as Assistant Secretary of 
 the State of Vermont, after which he removed 
 to New York City, where he gave private 
 instruction, and studied law with G. R. 
 Thompson, Esq., his brother. In April, 1870, 
 he accepted a position as teacher of classics 
 in the Springfield, Mass., High School, where 
 he remained until the summer of 1872. In 
 July of this year he published, from the press 
 of S. C. Griggs & Co., an elementary work, 
 "A First Book in Latin," which met with very 
 favorable notice all over the country. In the 
 autumn of 1872 he resumed the study of law 
 in New York City ; was admitted to the bar 
 December 13 of that year, and has been in 
 practice ever since. For nearly four years he 
 was a law partner of T. L. Stiles (class 
 of 1871), in the firm of Jordan, Stiles & 
 Thompson. 
 
 After this he formed a copartnership with 
 Simon Sterne and Oscar S. Straus, late 
 United States Minister to Turkey, under the 
 firm name of Sterne, Straus & Thompson ; 
 and subsequently, on the retirement of Mr. 
 Straus, under the firm name of Sterne & 
 Thompson. In 1886 he formed a new con- 
 
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 nection, which at present continues at No. 35 
 Wall Street, under the firm name of Thomp- 
 son, Ackley & Kaufman. During all periods 
 since his graduation he has been engaged in 
 systematic literary work. 
 
 It was his intention to follow up his " First 
 Book in Latin " with a series of Latin works, 
 but his change of occupation prevented. In 
 April, 1871, a paper of his on *' Oratory and 
 Vocal Culture," appeared in the Massa- 
 chusetts Teacher^ of Boston. 
 
 In the summer of 1876 he published three 
 articles in the Liberal Christian on " Collyer 
 and Orthodoxy," "Skepticism and Criticism," 
 and ^' The Universality of Christianity and 
 the Church ;" also a sequel to these in the 
 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel on " The True 
 Basis of Church Fellowship." 
 
 He also has been a frequent contributor to 
 Mind, a quarterly review of psychology and 
 philosophy, published in London ; to the 
 Popular Science Monthly, published in New 
 York, and to various other journals and 
 reviews. In 1884 he published through the 
 house of Longmans & Co., in London, ^'A 
 System of Psychology," in two volumes, 8vo. 
 of 600 pages each. This was followed in 
 1886 by '' The Problem of Evil" a continua- 
 tion of his psychological work into the field 
 of Ethics. 
 
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 In 1888 appeared the " Religious Senti- 
 ments of the Human Mind," and in 1889 
 another volume entitled " Social Progress." 
 He has other works in process of completion. 
 He has never held political office in New 
 York City, although he has been identified 
 with various political movements, notably 
 those relating to Civil Service, Revenue, and 
 High License reform. He is at present a 
 Vice-President of the New York Alumni 
 Association of Amherst College. Upon the 
 death of Courtlandt Palmer, Esq., he was 
 elected to the presidency of the 19th Century 
 Club, which position he still holds. His 
 residence is No. 222 West Twenty-Third 
 Street, New York City. 
 
 I^Iarch 31, 1881 he married Henrietta 
 Gallup, of Cleveland, Ohio, but has no 
 children. 
 
 Alfred Edwards Tracy was born July 
 2, 1845, at West Brookfield, Mass., and fitted 
 for college at the Plattsville and Lancaster 
 academies, Wisconsin. In the autumn of 
 1869 he entered Chicago Theological Semi- 
 nary. During the summer vacation, from 
 May until September, 1870, he was engaged 
 in home mission work in Missouri, with head- 
 quarters at Springfield, preaching mostly in 
 
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 Lebanon and Marshfield, and organizing a 
 church in the latter place- The second and 
 third year of his theological course were taken 
 at Andover Seminary, where he graduated 
 June, 1872. It was his intention to go abroad 
 as a foreign missionary, but, prevented by the 
 illness of his wife, he accepted a call to the 
 Congregational church of Harvard, Mass., 
 where he was ordained and installed Septem- 
 ber 4, 1872. Here he remained until June, 
 1874, when he was compelled, on account of 
 the state of Mrs. Tracy's health, to resign, 
 and spent the summer at Clifton Springs, 
 N. Y. In December, 18T4, he accepted a call 
 to become pastor of a Congregational church 
 at Oconomowoc, Waukesha County, Wis., a 
 favorite summer resort for the people of 
 Chicago and St. Louis. Here he remained 
 until November 1, 1878, when he accepted an 
 invitation to supply the Congregational 
 church of North Springfield, Mo., for six 
 months. 
 
 While at Harvard, Mass., he served as 
 Chairman of the Board of Education, and at 
 Oconomowoc as Superintendent of the city 
 schools. In June 1879 he returned East, and 
 in August accepted a call to Wilton, N. H. 
 Here he remained until May 1885, when he 
 removed to Foxboro', Mass., and became 
 
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 pastor of the Congregational Church. In 
 the autumn of 1886 he was a delegate to the 
 National Council of Congregational Churches, 
 held in Chicago. In 1888 the condition of 
 the health of his family, and the advice of 
 physicians turned his thought toward Cali- 
 fornia. Receiving a call to Ontario, CaL, he 
 resigned, and in October left for the Pacific 
 Coast. 
 
 He is now at Ontario, forty miles south of 
 Los Angeles, and has charge of a small church, 
 which is growing rapidly, having more than 
 doubled its members since he went there. 
 The prospects of the place are very fine, and 
 his account of the oranges, etc., growing there 
 is certainly most tantalizing. Tracy is not 
 sure that he wants to make California his 
 home, but for the present finds it very 
 pleasant. 
 
 He was married at Bennington, Vt., July 2, 
 1872, to Miss Kate S. Harwood, of Springfield, 
 Mass. Of their four children, the eldest. 
 Bertha, born July 10, 1873, died November 
 2, 1874. There are living, Ira Edwards, born 
 June 6, 1878 ; Addie Eliza, born July 21, 
 1881 ; and Harwood, born November 22, 
 1883. 
 
 Elihu Hilles Votaw was born June 21, 
 
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 1836, at New Garden, Columbiana County, 
 Ohio. His preparation for college was made 
 at Wheaton College, 111., and by private in- 
 struction, at Amherst, under Prof. C. H. 
 Parkhurst, now of New York City. 
 
 From the time of graduation until May 31, 
 1870, he was engaged in a wholesale lamp 
 business in Springfield, Mass , and New York 
 City. From September 1, 1870, he taught in 
 the Union Free School of Yonkers, N. Y. 
 for two years. Removing to Cleveland, O., 
 he taught in that city from September 1, 1872, 
 until April 17, 1874. May 1, 1874, he com- 
 menced preaching in the Congregational 
 church of Rockport, O. August 28 of that 
 year he was ordained in the Euclid Avenue 
 Church, Cleveland, and the following month 
 began preaching at Brooklyn, O , where he 
 removed March 5, 1875, and where he was 
 installed pastor June 9, 1876. 
 
 July 1, 1877, he left this charge, and entered 
 upon the pastorate of the Congregational 
 church of Berea, O., where he labored until 
 August, 1881. After a sojourn of a few 
 months at Manhattan, Kan., he removed to 
 St. Paul, Minn., and founded the Atlantic 
 Congregational Church of that city, where he 
 labored until October 1, 1885, when he re- 
 moved to Ohio again, and entered upon the 
 
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 pastorate of the First Congregational Church, 
 Geneva, Ohio, where he now resides. His 
 only published works are a sermon on *' The 
 Pillars and Perils of the Republic," Geneva, 
 Ohio, November, 1888 ; and a popular lec- 
 ture entitled ''Dreams and Day-Dreamers," 
 Geneva, 1889. This lecture has made him 
 one of the most popular platform speakers in 
 Ohio. 
 
 Votaw v/as married September 1, 1859, at 
 Liber, Ind., to Miss Hattie Adelaide Webber. 
 They have seven children : Mary Theresa, 
 born August 18, 1861 ; Clyde Webber, born 
 February 6, 1864 ; Martha Eucola, born June 
 8, 1866 ; Eldon Merriam, born October 16, 
 1868 ; Myrtle Enida, born July 25, 1871 ; 
 Harriet Lyravine, born December 28, 1874 ; 
 and Emeline Ruth, born April 19, 1879. 
 Their eldest daughter was married August 
 22, 1888, to Prof. A. W. Brett, of Eureka, 
 Kan. Their eldest son graduated last year 
 from Amherst. Gentlemen of '69, we are 
 growing old. 
 
 * William Hilton Warn, the son of Rich- 
 ard Hilton and Margaret (Gray) Warn, was 
 born at Martin, Mich., April 25, 1845, and 
 was prepared for college at the Union High 
 School, Ann Arbor, Mich. After spending 
 
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 two years in Michigan University, he entered 
 our class in the autumn of 1866. The two 
 years following his graduation were spent in 
 the study of medicine, one at the Medical 
 Department of Michigan University, the 
 other in the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons, New York City, where he received the 
 degree of M.D, in 1871. After practicing 
 for a year in Lowell, Mass., and devoting 
 another year to farther study in the General 
 Hospital at Vienna, Austria, he established 
 himself in December, 1873, in Chicago, 111. 
 Failing health compelled the seeking of a 
 different climate, and after spending a winter 
 in Florida, he removed to Denver, Col., where 
 he remained till his death from consumption, 
 January 7, 1882. Besides holding important 
 positions in several medical societies, Dr. 
 Warn was, at the time of his death, Professor 
 of Gynecology in the recently established 
 Medical College at Denver, and editor and 
 publisher of the Colorado Medical Journal^ 
 the first number of which appeared just 
 before his death. 
 
 He was never married. 
 
 Robert McEwen Woods was born January 
 24, 1847, at Enfield, Mass. His preparation 
 for college was made at the Highland Military 
 
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 Academy, in Worcester, Mass., where he 
 studied three years, and was completed by a 
 year's subsequent study under the instruction 
 of Professor Josiah Clark, of Northampton. 
 In the autumn of 1869 he began the study of 
 theology, spending the first year at the Union 
 Seminary, New York City, and the second 
 year at Andover, Mass. In 1871 he accepted 
 the position of instructor in English at 
 Amherst College, and occupied this position 
 until he went abroad in July, 1873. He was 
 absent from this country fifteen months, 
 visiting the principal countries of Europe, and 
 making a tour through Egypt and Palestine, 
 During the winter of 1874 and 1875, he 
 attended lectures in theology at the Yale 
 Divinity School, and from May 1875 until 
 November, 1876, was at his home in Enfield. 
 The year following he supplied the Congre- 
 gational church at Hatfield, Mass., and was 
 ordained and installed pastor of the church 
 November 21, 1877. Here he still resides. 
 But his record at the end of twenty years ends 
 very differently from that given ten years ago. 
 Let him tell his own story: "I was so 
 chagrined at the statement that I was not 
 married, made in the closing sentence of the 
 notice which was given me in the Decennial 
 Report, that I took immediate steps to get a 
 
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 wife. On October 29, 1879, I was married at 
 Haverhill, Mass., to Anna Fairbank, daughter 
 of the Rev. S. B. Fairbank, D.D., of Ahmed- 
 nagar, India, and a graduate of the class of 
 1879 of Mt. Holyoke Seminary." 
 
 The class will be interested to know that 
 " Bob " has to call Will Ballantine " uncle " 
 now, as Mrs. Woods is a niece of the latter. 
 Before attempting a list of the children, for 
 fear space may fail, let it be stated that our 
 classmate has been for many years a Trustee 
 of Smith College; and that he occupies at 
 Hatfield the house built by Sophia Smith, 
 the founder of the college. In 1882 he was 
 chosen one of the Overseers of the Charitable 
 Fund at Amherst. This gives him the 
 privilege of going in to the Alumni dinner 
 along with the dignitaries, as we learned in 
 1884. In 1886 he was travelling in Europe 
 durinsj July and August. 
 
 Now for the children, Josiah Bridges, born 
 October 16, 1882, (he is the cup-boy of the 
 class of 1879, of Mt. Holyoke Seminary) ; 
 Alan Fairbank, born February 3, 1884 ; 
 Katharine, born October 29, 1885 ; Charlotte, 
 born July 8, 1887, and Margaret, born March 
 18, 1889. A young forest ! 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF 
 
 NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS 
 
 OF THE CLASS. 
 
 Henry Adams was born October 31, 1845, 
 at Middlebury, Vt., and fitted for college 
 at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. 
 After leaving college, in Junior year, he 
 taught for one winter, and then, for nine 
 months in 1868 and 1869, was clerk in a 
 drug store in Brooklyn, N. Y. The two 
 years following he spent in Washington, 
 D. C, as apothecary in the Naval Hospital. 
 Removing to Mount Vernon, N. Y., in 1871, 
 he engaged in the drug business, remaining 
 there a year and a half. Returning to Wash- 
 ington, he was appointed to a clerkship in 
 the Post-Office Department, which he held 
 for three years. While there he received the 
 degree of " Doctor of Pharmacy " at the 
 National College of Pharmacy. In 1876 he 
 engaged in the drug business in Amherst, 
 Mass., where he still resides. He is an Hon- 
 orary Director of the Massachusetts Masonic 
 Mutual Relief Association. 
 
 He was married September 23, 1873, at 
 Waterbury, Conn., to Miss Miranda S. Mor- 
 
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 gan. They have three children, Charles B., 
 born June 30, 1874 ; Mary E., born Decem- 
 ber 6, 1880, and Henry, born June 5, 1883. 
 
 Francis Choate Bacon was born May 
 7, 1850, at Gloucester, Mass., and fitted for 
 college in a private school at Sharon, Mass., 
 his place of residence at the time of entering 
 Amherst. 
 
 Since leaving college in the autumn of 
 1867, he has been engaged in business in 
 Boston. In 1-879 he was with F. Barnard, 
 35 Congress Street. Since 1880 he has been 
 with the firm of Webster & Co., 55 High 
 Street, extensive tanners and curriers of 
 leather, holding the position of confidential 
 and corresponding clerk. The position is 
 one of much responsibility, as the firm is in 
 direct communication with all parts of the 
 world, and the salary is commensurate with 
 the responsibility, so that Bacon writes, 
 '' financially I am doing very well." 
 
 He was married May 26, 1875, to Mrs. 
 Almeda Francis Stone (nee Miller), at 
 Boston. They reside at North Cambridge. 
 
 P. O. Address, Box 2,138, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Alden Edward Bessey was born at 
 Hebron, Me., January 1, 1838. He fitted 
 
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 for college at Hebron Academy, and at 
 the Maine Wesleyan Seminary. He was a 
 member of our class during Sophomore 
 and a part of Junior years. After leav- 
 ing Amherst he studied medicine and re- 
 ceived the degree of M.D. from the Maine 
 Medical School, connected with Bowdoin 
 College, in June, 1870. After practicing 
 in Wayne, Me., six months, he settled in 
 Sidney, Me., and has there devoted himself 
 entirely to his profession. During eighteen 
 years neither vacations nor sickness have 
 taken him from active professional work 
 more than four weeks. He expects to close 
 his business in Sidney during the summer of 
 1889, and, after spending a few months visit- 
 iting the leading hospitals in the United 
 States, resume his profession in Waterville, 
 Maine. 
 
 He married Miss Helen J. Morton, of 
 Paris, Me., May 4, 1863. They had two 
 children, Merton W., born October 31, 1868 ; 
 and Earle E., born January 19, 1871. His 
 wife died June 10, 1873. He was married 
 again to Miss Clara A. Forbes, of Paris, Me., 
 May 28, 1874. They have a daughter, 
 Leonora, born June 11, 1876. P. O. Address, 
 Centre Sidney, Me. 
 
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 113 
 
 * John Randolph Brown, son of Marcus 
 B. and Cynthia A. Brown, was born at 
 Orient, Suffolk Co., N. Y., November 8, 1846. 
 His preparation for college was made at 
 Amenia, N. Y. He left Amherst at the end 
 of Junior year on account of illness. He 
 remained at his home on Long Island for a 
 time, but growing worse went to Danville, 
 N. Y., for treatment. Here he died August 
 12, 1868. 
 
 * Henry Reed Chittenden, son of Nel- 
 son H, Chittenden, was born January 23, 
 1842, at Genesee, Mich. He prepared for 
 college at Oberlin, O., where he passed also 
 the first two years of his college course. He 
 entered Amherst in the autumn of 1867, and 
 was a member of our class during Junior year. 
 Returning to Oberlin Senior year, he gradu- 
 ated there August 4, 1869. For a year he 
 remained at Oberlin, studying theology, and 
 then accepted the principalship of the pre- 
 paratory department of Berea College, Berea, 
 Ky. This position he held for six years, 
 thoroughly organizing the school, which re- 
 ceived pupils of both sexes and without dis- 
 tinction of race. During this time he was 
 also engaged to a considerable extent in 
 mission and Sunday-school work among the 
 
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 mountains of Kentucky. In July, 1876, he 
 accepted the position of Superintendent of 
 the Public Schools of Oberlin, O. He filled 
 this office until December 5, 1878, when 
 failing health compelled him to resign and 
 seek the more favorable climate of California. 
 He spent the winter with a brother among 
 the sheep ranges of the Coast Range moun- 
 tains. We last heard from him in March, 
 1879, when he wrote expressing the hope 
 that with the approach of the dry, warm 
 season, his throat and lung trouble would be 
 relieved. 
 
 But this was not to be. We did not know 
 it at our reunion in 1879, but our former 
 classmate had even then gone to his rest. 
 His death occurred at Cahto, Mendocino 
 Co., Cal , June 24, 1879. 
 
 He was married August 4, 1869, to Miss 
 Ella C. Chamberlin, of Oberlin, O. He left 
 two children, Caroline E., born August 20, 
 1870, and Mary C, born March 18, 1874. 
 
 John Bates Clark was born at Providence, 
 R. I., January 26, 1847, and fitted for college 
 at the High School of his native city. He 
 entered the Class of 1869 at Brown University 
 and remained through Sophomore year. He 
 came to Amherst in 1867 and was a member 
 
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 115 
 
 of our class during Junior year. In 1868 he 
 accompanied his invalid father to Minnesota 
 and resided in Minneapolis till September, 
 
 1870. He entered the Class of 1871 at Am- 
 herst at the beginning of Senior year, but 
 remained only one term, as he was called West 
 again by the more serious illness of his father. 
 After his father's death, which occurred in 
 
 1871, he returned to Amherst and graduated 
 with the class of 1872. Two and a half years 
 were then spent in European travel and study, 
 remaining through four semesters at Heidel- 
 berg, and taking a short course also at 
 Zurich. In September, 1875, he accepted a 
 call to Carleton College at Northfield, Minn., 
 taking temporary charge of the President's 
 classes and teaching Political Economy and 
 History. An attack of typhoid fever that 
 same autumn disabled him so completely 
 that he was able to do little work for two 
 years, filling a vacancy for two terms in the 
 Minnesota State University. In 1877 he 
 returned to Carleton College, and filled the 
 professorship of Political Economy and His- 
 tory there for four years. He was then 
 elected to a similar professorship in Smith 
 College, Northampton, Mass., a position he 
 still occupies. 
 
 A series of articles, which he published in 
 
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 The New Englander, was afterward embodied 
 with other matter in a book called " The 
 Philosophy of Wealth." Another book, 
 entitled "The Modern Distributive Process," 
 has been issued, made up of articles which 
 he published in The Political Science Quar- 
 terly, in combination with articles by F. H. 
 Giddings. A monograph on "Capital and 
 its Earnings," and a fractional monograph on 
 "Wages," are also worthy of mention. He 
 has also written many smaller articles and 
 detached chapters of books. 
 
 He was married September 28, 1875, at 
 Minneapolis, Minn., to Miss Myra A. Smith. 
 They have three sons, Frederick Huntington, 
 born April 13, 1877 ; Alden Hyde, born June 
 26, 1878, and John Maurice, born November 
 30, 1884. Residence, 23 Round Hill, North- 
 ampton, Mass. 
 
 Henry Adolphus Davenport was born 
 in North Stamford, Conn., March 26, 1845, 
 and his preparation for college was made 
 at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 
 where he graduated as salutatorian of his 
 class. He was a member of our class at 
 Amherst during Freshman and a part of 
 Sophomore years, and was then obliged to 
 omit a year on account of the condition of 
 
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 117 
 
 his health. During a portion of this time he 
 taught at Branford, Conn. He then resumed 
 his course in 1867 with the class of 1870, 
 remaining until 1869. In October of that 
 year he entered Union Theological Seminary, 
 New York City, and continued his studies in 
 that institution for four years, graduating 
 May, 1873. This same year he received the 
 degree of A. B. from Amherst College, He 
 was ordained June 18, 1873, by the Fair- 
 field West Consociation of Congregational 
 Churches. From June, 1873, until February, 
 1878, he resided in New York City, having 
 charge of the Alexander Mission Chapel on 
 Kinsj Street, connected with the Fifth Avenue 
 Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. John Hall 
 is pastor. Since February, 1878, he has been 
 pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Bridge- 
 port, Conn. This pastorate has been an emi- 
 nently successful one, and the present tokens 
 of prosperity are abundant. There has been 
 marked growth in every direction, June 5, 
 1889, an elegant and unique Sunday-School 
 building, joining the church, built of stone, 
 and semi-circular in form, was dedicated. 
 The building cost $40,000, and for adaptation 
 to its purpose is without a superior in the 
 country. A new stone manse is now in con- 
 templation. Your historian has been asso- 
 
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 ciated with Davenport for eleven years in 
 the Presbytery of Westchester, and can bear 
 personal testimony to the extent and value 
 of the work he has been permitted to do, 
 and to his steadily growing power as pastor 
 and preacher. 
 
 Davenport was married September 29, 1874, 
 to Miss Lizzie M. Enright, of New York City. 
 Of their four children, Henry, born May 7, 
 1876; William E., born October 11, 1877, 
 and Maria O., born January 11, 1879, are 
 living. The youngest, Lizzie C, born Octo- 
 ber 16, 1881, died at the age of one month. 
 
 Residence, 296 State Street, Bridgeport^ 
 Conn. 
 
 William Aldrich Dudley was born at 
 Providence, R. I., December 7, 1847, and 
 fitted for college in the High School of his 
 native city. The beginning of his college 
 course was spent at Brown University. In 
 the fall of Junior year he entered the class of 
 1869, at Amherst, but, obliged by the state of 
 his health to omit a year, he graduated with 
 the class of 1870. After graduation he 
 engaged in the wholesale dry goods business 
 in Providence, remaining there until 1886, 
 when he removed to Marlboro, Mass., where 
 he now resides. He is the senior member of 
 
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 119 
 
 the firm of William A. Dudley & Co., pro- 
 prietors of the Boston Dry Goods' Store. 
 
 He was married November 19, 1872, to 
 Miss Jennie L. Church, of Providence. 
 They have six children : Charles Eaton, 
 born August 30, 1873 ; Annie Josephine, born 
 Feb. 6, 1875 ; William Clark, born July 12, 
 1876 ; Frank Church, born August 29, 1877 ; 
 Walter Wilmarth, born March 24, 1885 ; and 
 Henry Augustus, born October 21, 1886. 
 
 Jewett Castello Gilson was born at 
 Rockingham, Vt., May 23, 1844, and at the 
 time of entering college was a resident of 
 Cambridgeport, Vt. He entered Amherst in 
 1865, and was a member of our class until 
 the second term of Sophomore year. Since 
 leaving college he has been engaged almost 
 constantly in educational work. For two 
 years he was Principal of the Allegany 
 Institute, at Almond, N. Y. In 1869 he went 
 to California, where he has since resided, and 
 has gained for himself the reputation of 
 being one of the best qualified and ablest 
 educators on the Pacific Coast. For eight 
 years he taught in the public schools of 
 Alameda County, and then was then elected 
 Superintendent of Schools for that county, 
 a position he filled for four years. In 
 
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 1882 he was elected Superintendent of 
 Schools for Oakland City, and held the 
 office for four years. A year was spent in the 
 study of medicine in San Francisco, and since 
 then he has been conducting a private school 
 
 January 9, 1888, he opened a ** Normal 
 and Special Training School," in San Fran- 
 cisco, and in the near future proposes to 
 permanently establish, either in that city or 
 in Oakland, a '' Normal Institute and School 
 of Culture." He has also done a valuable 
 work as Conductor of County Institutes 
 ^through the State. 
 
 Gilson was married July 27, 1872, at 
 Ogden, Utah, to Miss Carrie T. Greene, of 
 Plainfield, N. J. They have three children, 
 Ray Edson, born June 19, 1873 ; Cass Lord, 
 born January 31, 1877 ; and Rosse Mozart, 
 born April 6, 1883. 
 
 Address, Hamilton Hall, Oakland, Cal. 
 
 Don Gleason Hill was born July 12, 1847, 
 at Medway, Mass., and fitted for college at 
 the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. 
 Leaving college just before the close of 
 Sophomore year, he devoted himself to pre- 
 paration for the legal profession. For a 
 time he worked at his trade of carpenter, 
 studying evenings. During the winter of 
 
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 1868-1869 he taught in the Academy at Barre, 
 Vt. Entering the law school at Albany, 
 N. Y., he received the degree of LL.B. 
 from that institution May 10, 1870, and 
 was admitted to the bar of New York the 
 following month. Returning to his native 
 place, he entered, as a student, the law office 
 of Charles M. Deans, Esq. Here he remained 
 until June, 1871, when, removing to Dedham, 
 the shire town of Norfolk County, he entered 
 the office of the Hon. Waldo Colburn. He 
 was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, 
 September 25, 1871, but remained in the 
 same office, as assistant, until June 1875, when 
 Mr. Colburn was appointed, by Governor 
 Gaston, a Judge of the Superior Court. Hill 
 was left in possession of his office, and 
 retained a large portion of his practice. In 
 October, a law partnership, under the firm 
 title of Hill & Mackintosh was formed with 
 Mr. Charles A. Mackintosh, which continued 
 for several years, and was then dissolved. 
 Hill's practice for the past ten years has been 
 chiefly in real estate and probate law, extend- 
 ing throughout the county. He is the attorney 
 for several Savings Banks. For several years 
 he has held the office of Selectman, Assessor, 
 and Overseer of the Poor, and for ten years 
 has been Town Clerk of the ancient town of 
 
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 Dedham, which has just celebrated its 250th 
 anniversary, both of town and church. 
 
 Years of labor in searching old records has 
 developed an antiquarian taste. He is a 
 member of the New England Historic Geneo- 
 logical Society of Boston, and is the President 
 of the Dedham Historical Society. When 
 the County Commissioners decided to 
 transcribe the records in the ancient towns of 
 the County, Hill was chosen to superintend 
 the work. He has edited two volumes, 
 which the town has published. The first 
 volume was issued m 1886, and is " The 
 Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths, etc., 
 in Dedham." It covers the period from 1635 
 to 1845. The second volume, which appeared 
 in 1888, is a memorial volume, giving the 
 Record of Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, Ad- 
 missions to the Churches, and Dismissions 
 therefrom, transcribed from the Church 
 Records in Dedham 1635 to 1845, with the 
 Epitaphs in the ancient burial place. Of 
 these works the N. V. Independent says : " Mr. 
 Hill has done his work with that enthusiastic 
 attention to details and accuracy on which 
 such works depend for their value. It is a 
 collection to provoke enthusiasm, one of the 
 most valuable publications of its kind we 
 have ever seen." 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 23 
 
 Hill was married December 26, 1876, to 
 Miss Carrie Louisa Luce, of Dedham, Mass. 
 They have five children, Carrie Frances, 
 born September 27, 1877 ; Helen Florence, 
 born January 20, 1880 ; Don Gleason, Jr., 
 born August 26, 1883 ; Maria Louisa, born 
 January 11, 1885 ; and Alice Laura, born 
 September 18, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Hill are 
 members of the church of which our class- 
 mate Seabury is pastor. 
 
 * Isaac Henry Hobbs, son of Charles W. 
 and Lydia L. Hobbs, was born August 9, 
 1849, in the town of Berwick, Me., and fitted 
 for college at the South Berwick Academy. 
 On account of illness he left our class at the 
 beginning of Sophomore year, and never 
 regained his health. He was better for a 
 time and went to Exeter in order to prepare 
 to resume his college course. But his health 
 would not permit continued study, and he 
 returned home, where he remained until his 
 death, which occurred July 8, 1870. 
 
 Henry Correll Humphrey was born at 
 East Windsor, Conn., June 10, 1848, and 
 prepared for college at Stamford, Conn. He 
 was a member of our class during Freshman 
 year. In 1866 he went to Europe and the 
 
124 CLASS OF i8bq 
 
 following year returned to Amherst, where he 
 remained for one year as a member of the 
 class of 1870. He then entered the Sheffield 
 Scientific School at New Haven, where he 
 graduated in 1870, receiving the degree of 
 Ph.B. After graduation, two years were 
 spent in Europe, mainly at the University of 
 Berlin, in the study of chemistry. In 1872 
 he became connected with a sugar refinery in 
 Philadelphia as chemist, and in 1874 estab- 
 lished a laboratory, and continued in that 
 city until 1878, when he removed to New 
 York City, making his home for several years 
 in Stamford. At present he is engaged in 
 the real estate business, with an office at 177 
 Broadway, New York City, and residing in 
 Brooklyn. 
 
 He was married in 1870 to Miss Florence 
 Thurston, of Stamford, Conn. A daughter, 
 Mary, was born in 1871, while they were 
 residing in Europe, in the city of Dresden. 
 
 John Boyd Johnston was born April 4, 
 1848, in Hillsborough, O., and fitted for col- 
 lege in the public schools of his native place. 
 He entered Amherst Sophomore year, but 
 remained only one term and graduated from 
 Miami University, Oxford, O. , in 1868. After 
 studying law for a time, he entered Lane 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 125 
 
 Theological Seminary, where he remained 
 one year. The following vacation was spent 
 in the real estate business in Illinois, where 
 he laid out the town of Montrose, now a 
 flourishing little village, on the Vandalia 
 Railroad, between Indianapolis and St. Louis. 
 The winter of 1871 and 1872 was spent at 
 Union Theological Seminary, New York City. 
 He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery 
 of Chilicothe, in the spring of 1873, and 
 December 26 of the same year was ordained 
 and installed pastor of the Presbyterian 
 churches of Hamden and McArthur, O., 
 where he remained until 1875. Then for a 
 time he was without charge, and was looking 
 after landed interests at Montrose, 111. In 
 1877 he was dismissed to the Southern Asso- 
 ciation of Congregational Churches of Illi- 
 nois, and after a short pastorate at Edgewood, 
 February 11, 1878, he became pastor of the 
 Congregational Church of Hillsborough, 111. 
 While there he entered the lecture field, 
 delivering a number of lectures at different 
 points on "Edison and his Inventions." 
 Here he remained until 1881, when, after a 
 few months' residence upon his farm at Mon- 
 trose, he took charge of the Congregational 
 Churches at Thawville and Roberts, 111. In 
 1883 he became pastor of the Storrs Congre- 
 
126 CLASS OF i8bq 
 
 gational Church in Cincinnati, O., where he 
 remained for three years. In 1887, after 
 doing City Missionary work in Cincinnati, 
 he went to Mine La Motte, Mo., where he 
 organized a Congregational Church. In 
 April, 1888, he removed to St. Louis and 
 accepted the pastorate of the Olive Branch 
 Congregational Church of that city, a position 
 he still holds. In 1887 he received the degree 
 of M. A. from Miami University. 
 
 Johnston was married April 22, 1872, at 
 Vandalia, 111., to Miss Nancy E. Wigal. They 
 have three children : John Boyd. Jr., born 
 May 10, 1874 ; Anna Maria, born January 
 24, 1876 ; and James William, born April 22, 
 1879. - 
 
 P. O. address, 2134 Victor Street, St. Louis, 
 Mo. 
 
 Thomas Henry McGraw was born at 
 Dryden, N. Y., July 17, 1846, and prepared 
 for college in his native place. He was a 
 member of our class for two years, and then 
 left to engage in the extensive lumber 
 business of his uncle, John McGraw, of 
 Ithaca, N. Y. For the first three years, from 
 1867 to 1870, he was with another uncle, 
 Thomas McGraw, who had charge of a branch 
 of the business in Albany. Upon the death 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 111 
 
 of this uncle, he was in 1870 placed in charge 
 of the mills at Portsmouth, Mich., where he 
 remained for nearly ten years, at the head of 
 one of largest lumber manufacturing mills in 
 the country. In 1877, after the death of his 
 uncle, John McGraw, he succeeded to his 
 interests in the firm, and in 1880 removed to 
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he still resides. 
 
 In 1881 he received the degree of A.M. 
 from Amherst, and in 1884 was made a 
 Trustee of the College. 
 
 McGraw was married, July 27, 1886, at 
 Philadelphia, Pa., to Miss Pauline T. Uber- 
 hurst. Of their five children, two have died, 
 Louis J., born July 2, 1880, died October 18, 
 1880 ; and Pauline F., born October 10, 1882, 
 died June 22, 1888. Three are living, Thomas 
 H. Jr., born September 18, 1877 ; Frank U., 
 born February 8, 1879 ; and Grace, born 
 June 16, 1887. 
 
 * Lewis Meacham, son of the Rev. James 
 and Mrs. Mary F. Meacham, was born at 
 New Haven, Vt., March 8, 1846. His 
 preparations for college was begun at Farm- 
 ington, Conn., where he remained one year, 
 and completed at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
 Mass. He was a member of our class during 
 a part of Junior year. After leaving Amherst, 
 
128 CLASS OF il 
 
 he was tutor for a few months in Christian 
 College, Indiana. But his inclination leading 
 him strongly to journalism, he went to 
 Chicago, where he obtained a position upon 
 the Tribune, which he filled until after the 
 great fire. He was then appointed by Mayor 
 Medill as private secretary. In 1874, he 
 returned to Vermont, and became local editor 
 of the Rutla7id Herald, but the following year 
 went again to Chicago, to accept a position 
 upon the editorial staff of the Tribune. This 
 position he occupied until his death, October 
 2, 1878. While his death was sudden, it was 
 not unexpected, as he had long suffered from 
 a wound received in the army, and from ill 
 health contracted during the war. While 
 busy at work one morning he was taken sick, 
 and suffered intensely until the next morning, 
 when he died. 
 
 * Joseph Chapman Blanchard Miller, 
 son of Dr. Seth P. and Mrs. Elizabeth C. B. 
 Miller, was born at Worcester, Mass., March 
 11, 1848. His preparatory studies were 
 pursued at the Worcester High School, and 
 he entered Amherst College, September, 
 1865. 
 
 Attacked with typhoid fever near the close 
 of the first term of Sophomore year, he died 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE t2q 
 
 after an illness of three weeks at his home in 
 Worcester, December 11, 1866. A scholarship 
 fund of $1,000 was established in memory of 
 our lamented classmate by his mother. 
 
 * Henry Tyler Morse was born at West- 
 minster, Vt., April 5, 1844. After attending 
 school at the academies in Westminster and 
 Saxton's River, Vt., and in Bernardston, Mass., 
 he completed his preparatory course at the 
 Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. 
 Entering Amherst in 1866, he was a member 
 of our class until the end of the first term of 
 Junior year, when failing health compelled 
 him to leave college. For a time he filled the 
 office of Superintendent of Schools in his 
 native town, but in 1869 resigned and went 
 to Minnesota for his health. He remained a 
 year, returning home July 11, 1870. It was 
 now evident that consumption was doing its 
 fatal work and from this time he failed 
 rapidly until his death, which occurred Sep- 
 tember 18, 1870. 
 
 George Albert Pike was born in New- 
 buryport, Mass., August 34, 1848, and pre- 
 pared for college at the Newburyport High 
 School. His name was enrolled as a member 
 of our class in the fall of 1865, but he was 
 
130 
 
 CLASS OF li 
 
 with us but a very short time. He is a 
 physician, and resides at Bristol, R. I. 
 
 * George Washington Seaver, son of 
 Joseph and Abigail Eveline (Parker) Seaver, 
 was born at Pomfret, Vt., June 1, 1846, and 
 fitted for college at the Kimball Union Acad- 
 emy, Meriden, N. H. He was a member of 
 our class during Freshman year, and was 
 then compelled by a disease of the eyes to 
 leave college for a time. During his absence 
 he taught school at Cavendish, Vt., and at 
 Chester, Mass. Returning to college in 1867 
 he graduated with the class of 1870. After 
 graduation he became an agent for a publish- 
 ing house in New York City. In its employ 
 he sailed for Galveston, Tex., in the steamer 
 "Varuna," which foundered at sea off the 
 coast of Florida, on the night of the 20th of 
 October, 1870, and he was among the lost. 
 
 * William Campbell Stokes, son of Jor- 
 dan Stokes, was born at Lebanon, Tenn., 
 May 16, 1847. He entered Amherst in 1863 
 with the class of 1867, and after absence on 
 account of ill health, resumed his college 
 course with our class during Sophomore 
 year, remaining only two terms. He died 
 February 2, 1869. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 131 
 
 Henry Pitt Warren was born at Wind- 
 ham, Me., March 20, 1846, and fitted for col- 
 lege at Gorham Academy, Me., and at Phillips 
 Academy, Andover, Mass. Leaving college 
 at the end of Freshman year, he went to 
 Yale, where he graduated June, 1870. After 
 graduation, he was master of a grammar 
 school in New Bedford, Mass., until January^ 
 1872, when he became prineipal of the High 
 School of Dover, N. H., filling that position 
 until July, 1875. In the fall of that year he 
 began the study of theology, at Bangor Semi- 
 nary, as a special student. His health failing, 
 he went South, where he remained until the 
 summer of 1877. Returning to Dover, he 
 was made superintendent of schools there, 
 which position he occupied until he resigned, 
 in February, 1879, to accept the principalship 
 of the State Normal School at Plymouth, 
 N. H. In 1883 he was elected English Mas- 
 ter in the Lawrenceville School, Lawrence- 
 ville, N. J. After filling this position for 
 three years he was called in 1886 to the Head 
 Mastership of the Albany Academy, Albany, 
 N. Y. He writes that his health is re-estab- 
 lished and that he is heartily enjoying his 
 work. 
 
 Warren was married in August, 1879, to 
 Miss Annie L. Lyman, of Exeter, N. H. They 
 
132 CLASS OF i$6q 
 
 have three children, Constance, born Novem- 
 ber 5, 1880 ; William, born August 18, 1882 ; 
 and Dorothy L., born January 29, 1888. 
 P. O. address, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 LuciAN Ethalston Wells was born at 
 Athens, Vt., July 28, 1844, and fitted for 
 college at Leland and Grey Seminary, Towns- 
 hend, Vt. He was a member of our class 
 during Freshman year. In 1873 he received 
 the degree of A.M. from Amherst College- 
 After leaving college he studied medicine, 
 received the degree of M.D., and practiced 
 his profession in Michigan and Rhode Island. 
 His last address, so far as can be ascertained, 
 was Brattleboro, Vt. It has been impossible 
 to learn anything farther about him. He was 
 married, January 2, 1881, to Miss Mary F. 
 Webb, of Charlotte, Vt. For these facts we 
 are indebted to the '* Biographical Record of 
 the Alumni and Non-Graduates of Amherst 
 College," edited by Prof. Montague, and 
 published in 1883. 
 
 Harry Williams was born at Lebanon, O. 
 June 12, 1846, and fitted for college ai 
 Hamilton, O., his place of residence at the 
 time he entered Amherst. After leaving 
 college at the end of Sophomore year, he spent 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 133 
 
 one year in the Internal Revenue Collector's 
 office at Charleston, W. Va. In ;july, 1868, 
 he removed to Toledo, O., and engaged in 
 the manufacture of chairs, a business which 
 he still prosecutes under the firm name of 
 Williams & Co., proprietors of the Toledo 
 Chair Factory. But let him speak for 
 himself : " I am still in Toledo, still making 
 chairs, in which occupation I have been 
 modestly successful, still warm in my affection 
 for the boys, and still, at the mature age of 
 forty-three, a forlorn and disconsolate old 
 bachelor ; and I have little doubt that when 
 the grim reaper finally fastens his grip upon 
 me, I shall be found in this same unhappy 
 condition." 
 
 P.O. address, 342 Huron Street, Toledo, O. 
 
 Wallace Winot Williamson was born 
 December 5, 1845, at Malone, N. Y., and 
 prepared for college in his native place. He 
 entered Amherst in 1865, and was a member 
 of our class until Junior year. After leaving 
 college he studied dentistry in Malone, and 
 subsequently practiced with Dr. Nichols, at 
 Potsdam, N. Y. In 1872 he removed to 
 Oswego, N. Y., where he soon built up a large 
 practice. In the autumn of 1878 he attended 
 lectures at the Pennsylvania Dental College 
 
134 CLASS OF li 
 
 in Philadelphia. In 1880 he went to Syracuse, 
 N. Y., desiring to establish himself in a larger 
 city. Two years ago he attended the Tooth 
 Crown College in New York City, which 
 makes a specialty of crown and bridge work. 
 The introduction of this branch of dentistry 
 into his practice has more than doubled his 
 business, rendering it first-class in every 
 respect. He contemplates spending a three 
 months' vacation in Europe the coming 
 summer. 
 
 But in all his practice he has never yet 
 pulled a tooth for his wife. Williamson is a 
 bachelor. 
 
 P. O. address, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS. 
 
 PRESENT ADDRESSES. 
 
 GRADUATES. 
 
 C. H. Allen, 411 Middlesex St., Lowell, Mass. 
 
 Dr. W. O. Ballantine, Rahuri, Western India. 
 
 W. M. Benedict, 219 Montague St., Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. 
 
 Prof. E. A. Benner, Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 Dr. J. H. Bogart, Roslyn, L. L 
 
 Prof. C. F. Boyden, Taunton, Mass. 
 
 W. R. Brown, 146 Broadway, N. Y. City. 
 
 Prof. J. K. Chickering, Burlington, Vt. 
 
 Rev. J, H. Childs, Northbridge, Mass. 
 
 Rev. H. J. Cook, Dayton, O. 
 
 Rev. E. W. Donald, 12 West Eleventh St., N. Y. 
 City. 
 
 C. F. Eastman, Easton, Md. 
 
 Rev. J. H. Eastman, Katonah, N. Y. 
 
 H. K. Field, 324 Montgomery St., San Francisco, 
 Cal. 
 
 G. M. Gage, Box 491, Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 R. Goodman, jun., Lenox, Mass. 
 
 Dr. W. P. Hammond, 47 Monument Square, 
 Charlestown, Mass. 
 
 Rev. M. O. Harrington, Russell, Kan., or 932 
 Spruce St., Topeka, Kan. 
 
136 CLASS OF iSbg 
 
 Prof. W. T. Hewett, Cornell University, Ithaca, 
 N. Y. 
 W. R. Hobbie, Greenwich, N. Y. 
 Rev. W. J. Holland, Pittsburgh, Penn. 
 Dr. C. L. Howes, Hanover, Mass. 
 Rev. W. A. Keese, Lawrence, Mass. 
 J. E. Kellogg, Fitchburg, Mass. 
 S. H. Lamed, Phillipsburg, N. J. 
 F. D. Lewis, 411 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Penn. 
 Rev. Geo. McCormick, Salinas City, Cal. 
 James McNeill, Hudson, N. Y. 
 H. M. Matthews, 1109 Tacoma Building, Chicago, 
 
 in. 
 
 Rev. M. W. Montgomery, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Rev. C. S. Newhall, Point Pleasant, N. J. 
 
 J. A. Page, Haverhill, Mass. 
 
 C. R. Pratt, Elmira, N. Y. 
 
 A. B. Putnam, 31 Bowdoin St., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Rev. J. W. Quinby, East Bridgewater, Mass. 
 
 Prof. H. B. Richardson, Amherst, Mass. 
 
 Prof. J. K. Richardson, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 
 
 Rev. W. R. Scarritt, Marshalltown, Iowa. 
 
 Rev. J. B. Seabury, Dedham, Mass, 
 
 Prof. S. T. Skidmore, 1706 North Eighteenth St., 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 W. S. Slocum, 257 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Prof. H. P. Smith, Lane Theol. Sem., Cincinnati, 
 O. 
 
 Winthrop Smith, 324 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, 
 Pa. 
 
 Rev. E. C. Stickel, Fisk University, Nashville 
 Tenn. 
 
 Prof. F. H. Stoddard, University of the City of 
 New York, N. Y. City. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 137 
 
 Rev. A. F. Tenney, 262 Henry St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 D. G. Thompson, 35 Wall St., N. Y. City. 
 Rev. A. E. Tracy, Ontario, California. 
 Rev. E. H. Votaw, Geneva, O. 
 Rev. R. M. Woods, Hatfield, Mass. 
 
 NON-GRADUATES. 
 
 Henry Adams, Amherst, Mass. 
 
 F. C. Bacon, P. O. Box 2138, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Dr. A. E. Bessey, Center Sidney, Me. 
 
 Prof. J. B. Clark, Smith College, Northampton, 
 Mass. 
 
 Rev. H. A. Davenport, Bridgeport, Conn. 
 
 W. A. Dudley, Marlborough, Mass. 
 
 Prof. J. C. Gilson, Hamilton Hall, Oakland, Cal, 
 
 H. C. Humphrey, 177 Broadway, N. Y. City. 
 
 D. G. Hill, Dedham, Mass. 
 
 Rev. J. B. Johnston, 2134 Victor St., St. Louis, 
 Mo. 
 
 T. H. McGraw, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 
 Prof. H. P. Warren, Albany Academy, Albany, 
 N. Y. 
 
 Dr. L. E. Wells. 
 
 H. Williams, 342 Huron St., Toledo, O. 
 
 Dr. W. W. Williamson, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 MARRIAGES. 
 GRADUATES. 
 
 M. W. Montgomery, to Miss Mary R. Votaw, at 
 Pennville, Ind., July 20th, 1859. 
 
138 CLASS OF fS6g 
 
 E. H. Votaw, to Miss Hattie A. Webber, at Liber, 
 Ind., September 1st, 1859. 
 
 H. B. Richardson, to Miss Mary E. Lincoln, of 
 Amherst, Mass.. July 13th, 1869. 
 
 J, K. Richardson, to Miss Louisa C. Shepard, 
 of Woburn, Mass., August 18th, 1869. 
 
 H. J. Cook, to Miss Matilda C. Metcalfe, at 
 Geneva, N. Y., August 23d, 1870. 
 
 A. B. Kittredge, to Miss Alice W. Gordon, of 
 Auburndale, Mass., October 3d, 1870. 
 
 C. H. Allen, to Miss Harriet C. Dean, of Man- 
 chester, N. H., November 10th, 1870. 
 
 J. H. Childs, to Miss M. Jennie Bailey, of Nece- 
 dah, Wis., January 5th, 1871. 
 
 W. Smith, to Miss M. Florence Chapman, at 
 Arlington, Mass., November 29th, 1871. 
 
 George McCormick, to Miss Annie E. Ferguson, 
 at Spring Run, Penn., April 18th, 1872, 
 
 W. R. Brown, to Miss Nellie W. Babcock, at 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., May 7th. 1872. 
 
 A. E. Tracy, to Miss Kate S. Harwood, of Spring- 
 field, Mo., at Bennington, Vt., July 2d, 1872. 
 
 S. H. Earned, to Miss Hattie N. Boltwood, Of 
 Amherst, Mass., July 20th, 1872. 
 
 H. K. Field, to Miss Kate L. Daniels, of Hart- 
 ford, Conn., at Brattleboro, Vt., November 25th, 
 1872. 
 
 A. B. Putnam, to Miss Fannie Farnsworth, at 
 Groton, Mass., January 4th, 1873. 
 
 F. H. Stoddard, to Miss Lucy M. Smith, of Spring- 
 field, Mass., May 14th, 1873. 
 
 A. B. Emmons, to Miss Melva S. Topping, at 
 Chester, N. J., May 28th, 1873. 
 
 J. K. Chickering, to Miss Mary E. Conner, at 
 Exeter, N. H., September 9th, 1873. 
 
\MHERST COLLEGE 
 
 139 
 
 W. p. Hammond, to Miss Sarah A. Harrub, Sep- 
 tember 17th, 1873. 
 
 W. S. Slocum, to Miss Annie A. Pulsifer, of 
 Newtonville, Mass., October 7th, 1873. 
 
 E. C. Stickel, to Miss Luretta R. Chamberlin, at 
 Oberlin, O., August 2d, 1874. 
 
 E. A. Benner, to Miss Mary S. Carter, of Lowell, 
 Mass., August 31st, 1874. 
 
 J. B. Seabury, to Miss Martha D.Mason, of And- 
 over, Mass., September 30th, 1874. 
 
 W. O. Ballantine, to Miss Alice Gary Parsons, at 
 Easthampton, Mass., January 6th, 1875. 
 
 R. A. Fuller, to Miss Flora L. Booth, at West- 
 field, Wis., October 15th, 1875. 
 
 S. H. Earned, to Miss Susie Maria Everett, of 
 Worcester, Mass., January 5th, 1876. 
 
 W. A. Keese, to Miss Elizabeth E. Hodge, of E. 
 Charlotte, Vt., February 15th, 1876. 
 
 E. W. Donald, to Miss Cornelia Clapp, of Wash- 
 ington Heights, N. Y. City, April 35th, 1876. 
 
 C. F. Boyden, to Miss Isabella H. Anthony, of 
 Taunton, Mass., July 4th, 1876. 
 
 C. F. Eastman, to Miss Laura M. Buck, of 
 Wilmington, Del., July 12th, 1876. 
 
 A. F. Tenney, to Miss Elizabeth R. Wallace, of 
 Philadelphia, Pa., August 16th, 1876. 
 
 W. R. Scarritt, to Miss Lizzie B. Mariner, of 
 Olathe, Kan., June 5th, 1877. 
 
 M. O. Harrington, to Miss Mary E. Smith, at 
 Sunderland, Mass., September 28th, 1877. 
 
 H. P. Smith, to Miss Anna Macneale, of Cincin- 
 nati, O., December 27th, 1877. 
 
 S. T. Skidmore, to Miss Mary E. Humphrey, of 
 Providence, R. L, December 30th, 1877. 
 
I40 CLASS OF i86q 
 
 C. L. Howes, to Miss Mary O. Hapgood, at 
 
 Worcester, Mass., October 3d, 1878. 
 
 W. M. Benedict, to Miss Grace Dillingham, of 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., October 10th, 1878. 
 
 W. J. Holland, to Miss Carrie T. Moorhead, of 
 Pittsburgh, Pa., January 23d, 1879. 
 
 C. R. Pratt, to Miss Jane E. Carrier, of Cuba, N. 
 Y., April 10th, 1879. 
 
 J. H. Eastman, to Miss Lucy King, of Bingham- 
 ton, N. Y., June 11th, 1879. 
 
 R. M. Woods, to Miss Anna Fairbank, at Haver- 
 hill, Mass., October 29th, 1879. 
 
 W, R. Hobbie, to Miss Phoebe Walsh, of Green- 
 wich, N. Y., June 2d, 1880. 
 
 W. T. Hewett, to Miss Emma PvIcChain, of Ithaca, 
 N. Y., June 22d, 1880. 
 
 D. G. Thompson, to Miss Henrietta Gallup, at 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., March 31st, 1881. 
 
 C. S. Newhall, to Miss Kitty Harvey, of Oceanic, 
 N. J., March 7th, 1881. 
 
 G. M. Gage, to Miss Sarah E. Valentine, at 
 Chicago, 111., July 17th, 1881. 
 
 J. H. Bogart, to Miss Ethelena T. Albertson, of 
 Mineola, L. I., February 21st, 1884. 
 
 J. H. Childs, to Miss Susie P. Blake, at Newbury- 
 port, Mass., July 2d, 1885. 
 
 W. O. Ballantine, to Miss Josephine Louise Per- 
 kins, of Fitchburg, Mass., August 2Gth, 1885. 
 
 S. T. Skidmore, to Miss Sadie D. Atkinson, at 
 Philadelphia, Pa., September 10th, 1885. 
 
 J. A. Page, to Miss Annie D. Webb, of Bradford, 
 Mass, September 15th, 1886. 
 
 F. D. Lewis, to Miss Mary H. Chandler, of Ger- 
 mantown, Pa., April 28th, 1887. Married— 48. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 141 
 
 NON-GRADUATES. 
 
 A. E. Bessey, to Miss Helen J. Morton, at Paris, 
 Me., May 4th, 1863. 
 
 H. R. Chittenden, to Miss Ella C. Chamberlin, 
 at Oberlin, O., August 4th, 1869. 
 
 H. C. Humphrey, to Miss Florence Thurston, of 
 Stamford, Conn., in 1870. 
 
 L. E. Wells, to Miss Mary F. Webb, of Charlotte, 
 Vt., January 2d, 1871. 
 
 J. B. Johnston, to Miss Nancy E. Wigal, at Van- 
 dalia, 111., April 22d, 1872. 
 
 J. C. Gilson, at Ogden, Utah, to Miss Carrie T. 
 Greene, of Plainfield, N. J., July 27th, 1872. 
 
 W. A. Dudley, to Miss Jennie L. Church, at 
 Providence, R. I., November 19th, 1872. 
 
 H. Adams, to Miss Miranda S. Morgan, at Water- 
 ford, Conn., September 23d, 1873. 
 
 A. E. Bessey, to Miss Clara A. Forbes, at Paris, 
 Me., May 28th, 1874. 
 
 H. A. Davenport, to Miss Lizzie M. Enright, at 
 New York City, September 29th, 1874. 
 
 F. C. Bacon, to Mrs. Almeda F. Stone, at Boston, 
 Mass., May 26th, 1875. 
 
 J. B. Clark, to Miss Myra A. Smith, at Minne- 
 apolis, Minn., September 25th, 1875. 
 
 T. H. McGraw, to Miss Pauline F. Uberhurst, at 
 Philadelphia, July 27th, 1876. 
 
 D. G. Hill, to Miss Clara Louisa Luce, of Ded- 
 ham, Mass., December 26th, 1876. 
 
 H. P. Warren, to Miss Annie L, L. Lyman, of 
 Exeter, N. H., August, 1879. Married— 14. 
 
142 CLASS OF i86g 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 OF GRADUATES. 
 
 Mary Theresa Votaw, August 18th, 1861. 
 Emma B. Montgomery, October 19th, 1862. 
 Clyde Webber Votaw, February 6th, 1864. 
 Plymouth G. Montgomery, March 15th, 1866. 
 Martha Eucola Votaw, June 8th, 1866. 
 Eldon Merriam Votaw, October 16th, 1868. 
 Mary Lincoln Richardson. February 17th, 1871. 
 Myrtle Enida Votaw, July 25th, 1871. 
 *Rufus Childs, September 19th, 1871. 
 Bertha Allen, April 2d, 1872. 
 
 Whitman M. Montgomery, September 8th, 1872. 
 Warren Day Brown, February 5th, 1873. 
 *Mary Blythe McCormick, February 7th, 1873. 
 Winthrop Brentwood Smith, March 29th, 1873. 
 
 * Lamed (son), May, 1873. 
 
 *Bertha Tracy, July 10th, 1873. 
 
 Charles Kellogg Field, September 18th, 1873. 
 
 *Cleveland Hall Brown, June 11th, 1874. 
 
 Mary Forrester Emmons, June 16th, 1874. 
 
 Bessie P. Hammond, July 9th, 1874. 
 
 Carrie Anna Richardson, July 6th, 1874. 
 
 Lucy Stoddard, August 15th, 1874. 
 
 Forest H. Montgomery, August 22d, 1874. 
 
 ^Frederick Pulsifer Slocum, October 25th, 1874. 
 
 Harriet Lyravine Votaw, December 28th, 1874. 
 
 Martin Field, February 3d, 1875. 
 
 Edward Conner Chickering, February 19th, 1875. 
 
 Louise Allen, February 25th, 1875. 
 
 Edward Chapman Smith, May 15th, 1875. 
 
 Caroline Frances Benner, May 26th, 1875. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 143 
 
 *Helena Mason Seabury, February 29th, 1876. 
 Irving Hobart Childs, April 21st, 1876. 
 Lois Eliza Fuller, September 14th, 1876. 
 *Barteau Sargent Smith, September 19th, 1876. 
 Edith Matilda Cook, November 27th, 1876. 
 *Alice Donald, April 5th, 1877. 
 Burnham Carter Benner, May 6th, 1877. 
 Henry Willard Field, May 18th, 1877. 
 Alma Luretta Stickel, August 15th, 1877. 
 Donald Winchester Brown, September 9th, 1877. 
 Warren Bartlett Seabury, September 17th, 1877. 
 *Floy Bradford Emmons, November 4th, 1877. 
 Harold Smith, December 29th, 1877. 
 Annie Elizabeth McCormick, May 5th, 1878. 
 Ira Edwards Tracy, June 6th, 1878. 
 William R Scarritt, jr., June 23d, 1878. 
 Edward Hopkins Benner, July 12th, 1878. 
 Albert F. Tenney, July 15th, 1878. 
 Francis Buck Eastman, August 27th, 1878. 
 *Francis Winchester Donald, February 17th, 1879. 
 Winifred Smith, April 4th, 1879. 
 Emaline Ruth Votaw, April 19th, 1879. 
 Agnes Elizabeth Slocum, June 6th, 1879. 
 Theodora Lyon Cook, July 27th, 1879. 
 Melissa M. Benedict, August 17th, 1879. 
 Frederic Hapgood Howes, August 29th, 1879. 
 Esther Cramer Emmons, September 5th, 1879. 
 Mary Huse Eastman, October 24th, 1879. 
 *Hermon Batterson Smith, October 26th, 1879. 
 Joseph Stowe Seabury, November 28th, 1879. 
 Russel Bunce Field, March 24th, 1880. 
 Ransom Pratt, April 16th, 1880. 
 J. Richmond Childs, July 5th, 1880. 
 Laura Wallace Tenney, July 5th, 1880. 
 
144 CLASS OF i8bq 
 
 Preserved Smith, July 22d, 1880. 
 
 Elizabeth Eastman, August 7th, 1880. 
 
 Louise Alberta Fuller Scarritt, August 17th, 1880. 
 
 *Mary Elizabeth Harrington, August 27th, 1880. 
 
 Agnes Donald, September 6th, 1880. 
 
 Henry Stephens Richardson, January 17th, 1881. 
 
 *John Moorhead Holland, February 11th, 1881. 
 
 *Charles Francis Eastman, February 17th, 1881. 
 
 Marion Ashton Keese, May 2d, 1881. 
 
 Susan D. Benedict, May 5th, 1881. 
 
 Moses Stone Emmons, June 19th, 1881. 
 
 Phoebe Elizabeth Hobbie, July 12th, 1881. 
 
 Addie Eliza Tracy, July 21st, 1881. 
 
 Alvord Pratt, November 8th, 1881. 
 
 Graeme Donald, January 27th, 1883. 
 
 Charles A. Newhall, March 6th, 1882. 
 
 Joseph Bartlett Eastman, June 26th, 1882. 
 
 Josiah Bridges Woods, October 16th, 1882. 
 
 Ethel Margaret Keese, October 25th, 1882. 
 
 Neale Macneale Smith, February 28th, 1883. 
 
 Charles Francis Eastman, March 26th, 1883. 
 
 Caroline Bradford Howes, July 8th, 1883. 
 
 William Murray Harrington, October 23d, 1883. 
 
 Harwood Tracy, November 22d, 1883. 
 
 Alan Fairbank Woods, February 3, 1884. 
 
 Luther Newhall, February 9th, 1884. 
 
 Ruth Esther Keese, February 18th, 1884. 
 
 Mary Katharine Benner, February 20th, 1884. 
 
 Edward Walsh Hobbie, March 15th, 1884. 
 
 Margaret Earned, June 28th, 1884. 
 
 Moorhead Benezet Holland, September 3d, 1884. 
 
 Mason Hovey Seabury, September 30th, 1884. 
 
 Enid Mariner Scarritt, November 28th, 1884. 
 
 Jennie Bogart, January 23d, 1885. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 
 
 145 
 
 Lewis Bush Eastman, January 31st, 1885, 
 
 Allen Benner, March 17th, 1885. 
 
 *Donald Mayo Smith, September 5th, 1885. 
 
 Charles Pulsifer Slocum, September 15th, 1885. 
 
 Katharine Woods, October 29th, 1885. 
 
 Francis Raymond Holland, January 10th, 1886. 
 
 Sarah Pratt, February 18th, 1886. 
 
 Annie Nellie Harrington, February 24th, 1886. 
 
 Mortimer Ashmead Seabury, July 26th, 1886. 
 
 *Alan Stuart Donald, September 24th, 1886. 
 
 Katherine Newhall, Oetober 5th. 1886. 
 
 Louise Binney Skidmore, October 10th, 1886. 
 
 *John Huse Eastman, February 16th, 1887. 
 
 Charlotte Woods, July 8th, 1887. 
 
 *Helen Larned, September 2d, 1887. 
 
 Allan Daniels Fields, October 21st, 1887. 
 
 Alice Childs, May 20th, 1888. 
 
 Ethelena Bogart, June 8th, 1888. 
 
 Joseph William Ballantine, July 80th, 1888. 
 
 Mary Chandler Lewis, August 11th, 1888. 
 
 Marian Hobbie, August 23d, 1888. 
 
 Arthur Bartlett Eastman, August 30th, 1888. 
 
 Margaret Woods, March 18th, 1889. 
 
 Total, 121. Boys, 64. Girls, 57. 
 
 OF NON-GRADUATES. 
 
 Merton W. Bessey, October 13th, 1868. 
 Caroline E. Chittenden, August 20th, 1870. 
 Earle E. Bessey, January 19th, 1871. 
 May Humphrey, 1871. 
 Ray Edson Gilson, June 19th, 1873. 
 Charles Eaton Dudley, August 30th, 1873. 
 Mary C. Chittenden, March 18th, 1874. 
 
146 CLASS OF i& 
 
 John Boyd Johnston, May 10th, 1874. 
 Charles B. Adams, June 30th, 1874. 
 Annie Josephine Dudley, February 6th, 1875. 
 Anna Maria Johnston, January 24th, 1876. 
 Lenora Bessey, June 11th, 1876. 
 William Clark Dudley, July 12th, 1876. 
 Henry Davenport, May 17th, 1876. 
 Cass Lord Gilson, January 31st, 1877. 
 Frederick Huntington Clark, April 13th, 1877. 
 Frank Church Dudley, August 29th, 1877. 
 Thomas H. McGraw, jr., September 18th, 1877. 
 Carrie Frances Hill, September 27th, 1877. 
 William E. Davenport, October 11th, 1877. 
 Alden Hyde Clark, June 26th, 1878. 
 Maria O. Davenport, January 11th, 1879. 
 Frank U. McGraw, February 8th, 1879. 
 James Williams Johnston, April 22d, 1879. 
 Helen Florence Hill, January 20th, 1880. 
 *Louis J. McGraw, July 2d, 1880. 
 Constance Warren, November 5th, 1880. 
 Mary E. Adams, December 6th, 1880. 
 *Lizzie C. Davenport, October 16th, 1881. 
 William Warren, August 18th, 1882. 
 *Pauline F. McGraw, October 10th, 1882. 
 Rosse Mozart Gilson, April 6th, 1883. 
 Henry Adams, June 5th, 1883. 
 Don Gleason Hill, jr., August 26th, 1883. 
 John Maurice Clark, November 30th, 1884. 
 Maria Louisa Hill, January 11th, 1885. 
 Walter Wilmanh Dudley, March 24th, 1885. 
 Henry Augustus Dudley, October 21st, 1886. 
 Grace McGraw, June 16th, 1887. 
 Dorothy L. Warren, January 29th, 1888. 
 Alice Laura Hill, September 16th, 1888. 
 Total, 41. Boys, 24. Girls, 17. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 147 
 
 PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS. 
 
 GRADUATES. 
 
 iJ/mw/rj/.— Ballantine, (Cong. Medical Mission- 
 ary) ; Childs, (Cong) ; Cook, (Prot. Epis.) ; Donald, 
 (Prot. Epis.) ; J. H. Eastman, (Presb.) ; Harrington, 
 (Cong.) ; Holland, (Presb.) ; Keese, (Cong.) ; Mc- 
 Cormick, (United Presb.) ; Montgomery, (Cong.) ; 
 Newhall, (Presb.); Quinby, (Unit.); Scarritt, 
 (Cong.); Seabury, (Cong.); H. P Smith, (Presb. 
 Prof, in Theo. Sem.) ; Stickel, (Cong.); Tenney, 
 (Prot. Epis.) ; Tracy, (Cong.) ; Votaw, (Cong.) ; 
 Woods, (Cong.). 20. 
 
 Z^w.— Benedict, Lewis, Matthews, Page, Pratt, 
 Slocum, Thompson. 7. 
 Medicine. — Bogart, Hammond, Howes. 3. 
 Journalism. — Kellogg. 1. 
 
 Teaching. — Benner, Boyden, Chickering, Hewett 
 H. B. Richardson, J. K. Richardson, Skidmore, 
 Stoddard. 8. 
 
 Business. — Allen, (lumber manufacturer) ; Brown, 
 (real estate) ; Field, (life insurance) ; Gage, (real 
 estate) ; Hobbie. (paper manufacturer) ; Earned 
 (silk manufacturer) ; Putnam, (wire manufacturer) ; 
 \V. Smith, (banking). 8. 
 Agriculture. — C. F. Eastman ; Goodman. 2. 
 Phrenologist. — McNeill. 1. 
 
 NON-GRADUATES. 
 
 Ministry.— Ti2.v&Xi^^ox\, (Presb,); Johnston, (Cong.). 
 3. 
 Z«w.— Hill. 1. 
 
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 CLASS OF 16 
 
 Medicine. — Bessey ; Wells. 2. 
 
 Dentistry. — Williamson. 1. 
 
 Teaching. — Clark ; Gilson ; Warren. 3. 
 
 Business. — Adams, (druggist) ; Bacon, (confi- 
 dential clerk) ; Dudley, (dry goods) ; Humphrey, 
 (real estate) ; McGraw, (lumber) ; Williams, (chair 
 manufacturer). 6. 
 
 OBITUARY LIST. 
 
 GRADUATES. 
 
 Alvah B. Kittredge, from pulmonary consumption, 
 at Westborough, Mass., October 4th, 1870, aged 25. 
 
 Julius Sanderson, from consumption, at Phillips- 
 ton, Mass., June 3d, 1877, aged 30. 
 
 Roselle A. Fuller, from consumption, at El Paso, 
 Colorado, March 20th, 1880, aged 36. 
 
 Edward A. Adams, killed by a patient at Kalama- 
 zoo, Mich., January 7th, 1882, aged 33. 
 
 William H. Warn, from consumption, at Denver, 
 Col., January 7th, 1882, aged 36. 
 
 Amzi B. Emmons, from congestion of the lungs, 
 at Morristown, N. J., January 18th, 1882, aged 35. 
 
 NON-GRADUATES. 
 
 Joseph C. B. Miller, from typhoid fever, at his 
 home in Worcester, Mass., December 11th, 1866, 
 aged 18. 
 
 John R. Brown, at Danville, N. Y., August 12th, 
 1868, aged 22. 
 
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 William C. Stokes, February 2d, 1869, aged 21. 
 
 Isaac H. Hobbs, at So. Berwick, Me., July 8th, 
 1870, in his 21st year. 
 
 Henry T. Morse, from consumption, at Westmin- 
 ister, Vt., September 18th, 1870, aged 26. 
 
 Lewis Meacham, from biliary colic, at Chicago, 
 III., October 2d, 1878, aged 32. 
 
 Henry R. Chittenden, from consumption, at Cahto, 
 California, June 24th, 1879, aged 37. 
 
 WIVES OF GRADUATES. 
 
 Mrs. Anna Spencer Stickel, at Selma, Ala., in 
 1871. 
 
 Mrs. Hattie Boltwood Larned, at Worcester, 
 Mass., May 27th, 1873. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Conner Chickering, at Exeter, N. H., 
 March 12th, 1875. 
 
 Mrs. Alice Parsons Ballantine, in India, Septem- 
 ber 9th, 1878. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Humphrey Skidmore, at Philadelphia, 
 Pa., November 2od. 1878. 
 
 Mrs. Jennie Bailey Childs, at Wenham, Mass., 
 June 27th, 1882. 
 
 Mrs. Emma McChain Hewett, at Ithaca, N. Y., 
 September 18th, 1883. 
 
 Mrs. Fannie Farnsworth Putnam, at Boston, 
 Mass., in 1887. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace Tenney, at Madison, N. 
 J., March 31st, 1888. 
 
[50 CLASS OF iS 
 
 WIVES OF NON-GRADUATES. 
 
 Mrs. Helen Morton Bessey, at Centre Sidney 
 Me., June 10th, 1873. 
 
 CHILDREN OF GRADUATES. 
 
 Rufus Childs, 1871. 
 
 Lamed, May, 1873. 
 
 Frederick Pulsifer Slocum, November 5th, 1874. 
 Bertha Tracy, November 2d, 1874. 
 Mary Blythe McCormick, December 31st, 1876. 
 Helena Mason Seabury, August 15th, 1878. 
 Francis Winchester Donald, October 22d, 1879. 
 Hermon Batterson Smith, December 12th, 1879. 
 John Moorhead Holland, February 22d, 1881. 
 Charles Francis Eastman, August 27th, 1881. 
 Alice Donald, June 17th, 1882. 
 Mary Elizabeth Harrington, May 19th, 1883. 
 Floy Bradford Emmons, May 2Gth, 1883. 
 Donald Mayo Smith, March 14th, 1886. 
 Barteau Sargent Smith, September 25th, 1886. 
 Alan Stuart Donald, November 29th, 1886. 
 Cleveland Hall Brown, December 8th, 1886. 
 John Huse Eastman, August 8th, 1887. 
 Helen Lamed, August 9th. 1888. 
 
 CHILDREN OF NON-GRADUATES. 
 
 Louis J. McGraw, October 18th, 1880. 
 Lizzie C. Davenport, November, 1881. 
 Pauline F. McGraw, June 22d. 1888. 
 
AMHERST COLLEGE 151 
 
 CLASS RE-UNIONS. 
 
 L— Thursday evening, July 13th, 1871, at Hayne's 
 Hotel, Springfield, Mass. Thirty-one of the class 
 were present. This took the place of a triennial 
 meeting, in view of the celebration that year of the 
 semi-centennial of the college. 
 
 n.— Wednesday evening, July 8th, 1874, at the 
 Round Hill Hotel, Northampton, Mass. Seventeen 
 of the class were present, viz. ; Adams, Ballantine, 
 Brown, Chickering, Childs, Cook, Donald, C. F. 
 Eastman, J. H. Eastman, Gage, Hobbie, Kellogg, 
 Larned, Lewis, H. B. Richardson, Skidmore and 
 Stoddard. At this meeting the class-cup was pre- 
 sented to Warren Day Brown. 
 
 III._Wednesday evening July 2d, 1879, at the 
 Amherst House, Amherst, Mass. Twenty-three of 
 the class were present, viz.: E. A. Adams, H. 
 Adams, Allen, Bogart, Brown, Chickering, Donald, 
 J. H. Eastman, Emmons, Goodman, Hammond, 
 Hewett, Kellogg, Larned, Lewis, Page, H. B. Rich- 
 ardson, J. K. Richardson, Seabury, Skidmore, 
 Slocum, Tracy, and Woods. 
 
 IV.— Wednesday evening, July 2d, 1884, at the 
 Amherst House, Amherst Mass. Twenty-two of the 
 class were present, viz.: H. Adams, Allen, Bacon, 
 Ballantine, Brown, Chickering, Childs, Donald, J. 
 H. Eastman, Hammond, Humphrey, Keese, Kel- 
 logg, Lewis, H. B. Richardson, J. K. Richardson, 
 Skidmore, Slocum, H. P. Smith, Stoddard, Tenney 
 and Woods. 
 
 v.— Wednesday evening, July 3d, 1889, at Am- 
 herst, Mass. Seventeen of the class were present. 
 
152 CLASS OF i86q 
 
 viz. : H. Adams, Bogart, Chickering, Clark, Cook, 
 Donald, J. H. Eastman, Hewett, Howes, Kellogg, 
 Larned, Lewis, H, B. Richardson, J. K. Richard- 
 son, Seabury, Skidmore, and Woods. F. D. Lewis 
 was re-elected President, W. R. Brown, Secretary 
 and Treasurer, and H. B. Richardson, R. M. Woods 
 and J. K. Chickering, Executive Committee. 
 
 J. H. Eastman reported the preparation of a 
 second edition of the class history, covering the 
 entire period of twenty years since graduation. He 
 was directed to send copies to all the graduate and 
 non-graduate members of the class, and the price 
 was fixed at two dollars and a half. 
 
 It was announced that the class-scholarship had 
 now reached the amount decided upon, $1,500, and 
 its income would be available the coming year. 
 Chickering proved a most skillful regulator of the 
 "flow of soul." Dr. Howes with his "desultory 
 remarks " and original song capped the climax. 
 The re-union was most delightful in every way. 
 The absent ones were all remembered, and letters 
 from several brought their greetings and regrets. It 
 was resolved to make special effort to have a larger 
 number present at the next re-union. 
 

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