ECORD Tt[E GLASS OF '41- THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY REUNION TUESDAY, JUNE 9TH, 1 1891. / ^ Record TFfE GLASS OF '4I. THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY REUNION TUESDAY, JUNE 9TH, 1891. ^ ^ V PRINCETON PRESS O. S. ROBINSON & CO., UNIVERSITY PRINTERS. PRINCETON. N J. TRUSTEES. 1837-1841. His Excellency, WILLIAM PENNINGTON, Governor of New Jersey and ex officio President of the Board of Trustees. PvEV. JAMES CARNAHAN, D.D., President of the College and in the absence of the Governor President of the Board. Eev. SAMUEL MILLER, D.D., Princeton, N. J. PvEV. ASA HILLYER, D.D., Orange, N. J. ROBERT LENOX, Esq., New York City, Rev. JOHN McDOWELL, D.D., Philadelphia. Rev. DAVID COMFORT, A.M., Kingston, N. J. Rev. ISAAC V. BROWN, D.D., Lawrenceville, N. J. Hon. SAMUEL L. SOUTHARD, LL.D., .... Jersey City, N. J. Rev. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, D.D., . . . Princeton, N. J. WILLIAM SHIPPEN, M.D., Philadelphia. Rev. WILLIAM W. PHILLIPS, D.D., New York City. JAMES S. GREEN, Esq., Princeton, N. J. Hon. lewis CONDIT, M.D., Morristown, N. J. LUCIUS Q. C. ELMER, Esq., Bridgeton, N. J. Rev. ELI F. COOLEY, A.M., Trenton, N. J. Rev. JOHN BRECKENRIDGE, D.D., Princeton, N. J. Rev. JOSEPH CAMPBELL, D.D., Hackettstown, N. J. JAMES LENOX, Esq., New York City. ROSWELL COLT, Esq., New York City. Rev. DAVID MAGIE, A.M., Elizabeth town, N. J. MATTHEW NEWKIRK, Esq., Philadelphia. ROBERT DONALDSON, Esq., New Y''ork City. WILLIAM B. KINNEY, Esq., Newark, N. J. Rev. JACOB J. JANEWAY, D.D., New Brunswick, N. J. Rev. JOHN JOHNS, D.D., Baltimore, Md. Rev. JOHN JOHNSON, A.M., Newburgh, N. Y. FACULTY. 1837-1841. E^Y. JAMES CAKNAHAN, D.D., President. Eey. JOHK MACLEAN, A.M., Vice-President and Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. Eev. albeet b. dod, A.m., Professor of Mathematics. JOSEPH heney. A.m., Professor of Natural Philosophy. Eey. JAMES W. ALEXANDEE, A.M., Professor of Belles Lettres and Latin. JOHN TOEEEY, M.D., Professor of Chemistry. BENEDICT JAEGEE, A.M., Professor of Modern Languages and Lecturer on Natural History. STEPHEN ALEXANDEE, A.M., Professor of Astronomy and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. EVEET M. TOPPING, A.M., Adjunct Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages. WILLIAM S. COOLEY, A.M., Tutor. JOSEPH OWEN, A.M., Tutor. JAMES C. MOFFAT, A.M., Tutor. CHAELES K. IMBEIE, A.M., Tutor. WILLIAM W. WOODHULL, A.M., Tutor. DANIEL JOHNSON, A.M., Tutor. WILLIAM A. DOD, A.B., Eegister. GRADUATE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF '41. *Kev. Joseph Mayo Atkinson, D.D., '91 Eev. Caleb Cook Baldwin, D.D., Hon. John Craig Biddle, LL.D., *HoN. Francis Preston Blair, Gen. U. S. A., '75 ^Edward H. Bowen, '48 *JoNATHAN T. Brown, ? James Hervey Bruere, ?WiLLiAM Burnet, *HoN. Zachariah S. Claggett, '90 *MoNROE Alonzo J. Gumming, '47 Key. Theodore Ledyard Guyler, D.D., *James Brinkerhoff Dayton, Esq., '86 *Kichard Chambers De Armond, '65 Hon. Amzi Dodd, LL.D., Prof. John T. Duffield, D.D., LL.D., *JoHN P. Dunham, ? *Nathaniel Evans, ? Eev. John Breokenridge Gibson, D.D., *Prof. Frederick S. Giger, M.D., '59 *Prof. George Musgrave Giger, D.D., '65 *Rev. William Mason Giles, ? ?Felix Gorman, *JoHN Oliver Halsted, '59 *William Halsted, Esq., '55 *Samuel Swan Hartwell, Esq., '73 *Prof. Archibald Alexander Hodge, D.D., LL.D., '86 *J0HN N. Huston, '47 *Henry p. Johnson, '47 ■*Thomas Mundell Keerl, Esq., '88 Thomas Talmage Kinney, Esq., ?Samuel Mott Leggett, Hon. John Linn, Francis Minor, Esq., 6 *James p. Miller, '52 ?James Kennedy McCurdy, *HoN. John T. Nixon, LL.D., '89 ^Joseph John Norcott, ? *WiLLiAM B. Olds, '59 ■*jNathan Merritt Owen, '47 *Charles H. Parkin, '62 *WiLLiAM Pv. Phillips, M.D., '64 Prof. Joseph Desha Pickett, Ph. D., . Eev. Ludlow D. Potter, D.D., ?KoBERT Eeade (Crawford), *John Kodgers, Esq., '70 Key. James W. Kogers, *JoHN McDonald Boss, '42 John Warren Koyer, M.D., Hon. Edward "W. Scudder, LL.D Key. William Waterbury Sctjddkr, D.D., *John Sergeant, Esq., '56 *Benjamin C. Snowden, M.D., William C. Sturgeon, ?William Butler Thompson, *Daniel a. Ulrich, M.D., . '79 John Hunn Voorhees, Esq., *HoN. Richard Wilde Walker, '74 William Spencer Ward, M.D., Eli Whitney, Esq.. ■^Joseph Graham Witherspoon, '52 Eugene Lawrence was a member of the Clasp of '41 during the Sophomore and Junior years, and received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. in 189L Charles F. Woodhull, of Monmouth County, N. J., was a member of the Class of '41 during the Sophomore and Junior years, was absent from College for a year and was graduated in '42. Prof. J. S. Schanck, M.D., LL.D., was a member of the Class of '41 during the Sophomore year, and was graduated in '40. NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS, WITH THE CLASS-KOLLS ON WHICH THEIR NAMES APPEAR INDICATED. Charles Baskeryille, Charles Borland, O. Bowne, Stephen P. Brittan, F. R. Colton, John M. Cookus, - Thomas B. Dall, A. P. Dearing, William L. Dewart, ■George H. Dillard, Edward B. Dudley, James S. Galbraith, William Horner, Horatio S. Howell, Thomas Henry, John W. Hutchings, Richard Johns, W. LuNSFORD Long, Thomas McCormick, Robert H. Selby, R. Kennon Smith, R. Lawlon Smith, George H. Todd, W. R. Throckmorton, John Turner, John M. P. Voorhees, Joseph Watkins, Thomas Whaley, William B. Whaley, John Wickham, William M. Wilson, John P. Wkifford, W. R. R. Wyatt, Summary. Graduates of 41 60 Other graduate members 3 Non-graduate members 34 s. J. s. Mecklenburgh Co., Va, — J. s. — Montgomery, N. Y. — s. — Staten Island, N. Y. — s. — Elizabeth, N. J. — — — F. Tarboro, N. C. s. J. s. — Shepardstown, Va. s. J. s. — Washington Co., Md. s. J. — — Athens, Ga. — s. — Sunbury, Pa. — J. s. — Sussex C. H., Va. — J. s. — Wilmington, N. C. — — s. — Steubenville, 0. — J. — — Warrenton, Va. — s. F. Trenton, N. J. — — — F. Charlotte Co., Va. s. J. s. — Murfreesboro, N. 0. — — s. — Baltimore Co., Md. s. J. s. — Halifax, N. C. — — s. — Charleston, Va. — — s. F. Berlin, Md. — — s. — Nottaway Co., Va. s. J. — — Retirement Seat, Miss. s. J. s. F. New York City. — — s. F. Philadelphia. — — — F. Alabama. s. J. s. — Millstone, N. J. — — s. — Mendham, N. J. — J. — — Edisto Island, S. C. s. J. s. — Edisto Island, S. C. — J. — — Hanover Co., Va. s. J. — — Norfolk, Va. s. J. — — Lambertville, N. J. s. J. s. — Big Spring, Ala. 97 CLASS RECORD Joseph Mayo Atkinson wos born in Mansfield, near Petersburg, Va., January 7th, 1820. He was the youngest member of a hirge family, only one of whom now sur- vives, Mrs. Lucy J. Gibson, wife ol' tlie Rev. C. J. Gibson, D.D,, of Petersburg. One of his brothers was the Kev. J. M. P. Atkinson, D.D., for many years President of Hamp- den Sidney College; another, the Rev. Thomas Atkinson, D.I)., Bishop of the Episcopal Church of North Carolina. He prepared for college, and completed the Freshman and Sophomore years at Hampden Sidney, and entered the Junior Class at Princeton in 1839. He entered the Princeton Theo- logical Seminary in 1841, was ordained to the ministry by the Presbytery of Winchester, April 20th, '-I5, was for four years Pastor of the Presbyterian Churches of Shepherdstown and Smithfield, Va., was for six years Pastor at Frederick, Md., for twenty years of the First Presbyterian Church of Raleigh, N. C, for ten years of the Second Church, for a year at Warrenton, N. C, at which place he died suddenly, March 6th, 1891. He was married to Miss Sallie Wellford of Rich- mond, Va., who, with their two daughters, Mrs. Charles H. Scott and Miss Jane P. Atkinson, still survive him. He received the degree of D.D. in 1880. In an obituary notice published in one of the newspapers of Raleigh it is said of him : "A Prince and a great man has fallen to-day in Israel. No man was ever more beloved for his virtues than Dr. Atkinson. He was singularly pure, guileless and consecrated ; a man of unbounded faith in God and in his fellow-men. Gentle as a woman he was impulsive 10 to all good motives. Always fluent in speech and choice in diction, there were many occasions when he was truly elo- quent. An impromptu speech delivered by him at a public meeting on the death of Eobert E. Lee would have done credit to the most brilliant orator of our times. To the close of life he continued genial, gentle and confiding, loving and beloved, defending and upholding the right, condemning the wrong, yet alwaj^s merciful." Caleb Cook Baldwin was born in Bloomfield, N. J., April 1st, 1820. He entered the Junior Class in 1839, and Princeton Theological Seminary at Princeton in '41, was gmduated in '44. ITe was ordained an Evangelist by the Pres- bytery of Newark, May 25th, '47; was married September 28th, '47, to Miss Harriet Fairchild, and they went as mis- sionaries, under care of the American Board, to Foochow, China, in '48, and have continued in that field until the pre- sent time. They have had ten children, four of whom are now living. Four years ago he visited the United States and was in good health, bright, cheerful and full of energy for further missionary work. In a letter to his brother, written March 2d, '91, he says : " We are in pur usual health and busied in our various work. I have resigned to Mr. Hubbard my only country station, and have taken his share of teaching the Theological Class. This, with the work of the Revision of the Bible in our dialect and preaching in Church and Chapel, make the sum of my work. For two or three months the native Pastor of the city Church has been laid aside so that the burden of conducting the Sunday morning service has mainly fallen to me. I begin to feel I am wearing out. The outward man fails — may I always be able to say with confidence, 'the inward man is renewed day by day.' Within the last three years I have been through the revision of the whole Old Testament, and a large part of the New — for the most part independently, though I have two associates in other mission work. This has been a long, 11 heavy task." Referring to the work of his wife and an as- sociate who have charge of all the clay schools he adds, " we are a very busy set of people with hands and hearts full of care and work. But in God's good time the glorious rest will come." He received the degree of D.D. from his Alma Mater in 1871. John Craig Biddle is the youngest son of the late Nicholas Biddle and maternal grandson of John Craig. lie was born in Philadelphia, Jan. 10th, 1823. He entered the Sophomore Class in '38 and after his graduation entered as a student of law the office of John Cadvvalader, Esq., after- wards Judge of the U. S. District Court. He was admitted to the bar Dec. 2, '44. He was an active member of the Whig party and was elected to the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania in '49 and '50. He was afterwards Clerk of the Common Council. At the outbreak of the war he offered his services to the Commonwealth and was commissioned Major on the staff of General Patterson. He served through the three months campaign in the Shenandoah Valley and was then transferred to the stall' of Gov. Curtin. He enlisted as a private in the Gray Reserves during Lee's invasion of Maryland in '63. He was appointed Judge of the Court (if •Common Pleas, January 12th, '75, by Gov. Hartranft, to till a vacancy-. The following June he was elected for the full term, receiving the highest majority on the ticket. At the close of the term he was renominated and elected without opposition November, '85. He has always taken a great in- terest in his farm at Andalusia, a tine country seat that has been in the family for tive generations. He was for ten years President of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, an Honorary Vice President of the Historical Society of Penn- sylvania, one of the Vice-Provosts of the Law Academy, a Director ot the Philadelphia Library Company, and Presi- dent of the Philadelphia Alumni Association of Princeton 12 College. Ill an article in The Saturday Eevkw and Hepublic- on " Philadelphia's Judiciary," it is said of Judge Biddle :. "Naturally gifted with a judicial mind he quickly distin- guishes the crucial points of a case, making his opinions noted for the brevity and clearness with which he disposes- of the questions presented. Not a few of his decisions are now quoted as defining the law upon questions of much, intricacy and doubt. The mantle of an ancestry noted for their bravery and uprightness has fallen upon him, and he ranks with the highest of Philadelphia's Judges as a man. fearless and independent of public sentiment or excitement." He received the degree of LL.D. from Washington and Jefferson College in 1875, and also from his Alma Mater in 1891. He was married July 2d, '51, to Mary Claypoole Rockhill, daughter of Thomas C. Rockhill of Philadelphia. Mrs. Biddle died in May, '52, leaving a daughter who died in infancy. Francis Preston Blair, Jr., was born in Lexington^. Kentucky, February 19th, 1821. He was the son of Francis P. Blair, Sr., and Eliza Gist. His father belonged on one side to the Blairs who were identified with Princeton Col- lege and had in it many distinguished men, and on the other to the Preston family, which counted among its members some of the most eminent men of our countrj^ His mother was the daughter of Nathaniel Gist, the man who went as- General Washington's guide to Fort Duquesne, and who- came of a family dating back to Oliver Cromwell and con- taining many men of distinction as soldiers and civilians. With such an ancestry as this it is not wonderful that " Frank" Blair, as his friends delighted to call him, took rank as one of the foremost men of his time. The first nine years of his life were spent in Kentucky in the neighborhood of Frankfort, where his grandparents resided and where his- father, Francis P. Blair, Sr., first began his career as an editor, afterwards removing to Washington City at the in- 13 stance of General Jackson to take charge of the administra- tion paper, soon to become a power in the land as The Globe. The subject of this sketch spent a few years in Wash- ington City and was then sent to a school in Alexandria, After finishing at this school he was sent to the College of Chapel Hill in North Carolina. He remained there two years and there formed some of the most pleasant friend- ships of his life. From there he went to Princeton ; after being graduated there he studied law in Lexington, Ky., and settled in St. Louis in 1843, having formed a law partnership with his brother Montgomery Blair, afterwards Postmaster General under Mr. Lincoln. He attained some success as a lawyer, but the bent of his mind, combined with the associa- tion of politicians from early youth, turned his attention to politics and he soon became prominent in his own State. In 1845, his health being impaired, he went to New Mexico. While there the Mexican war broke out and he joined Gen. Kearney as an aid and scout. Having become familiar with the country nnd the people, he rendered invaluable service to Kearney's command. He gained reputation as a soldier during this campaign and gave strong evidence during this period of the remarkable military genius which afterwards distinguished him. He returned to Missouri in 1847 and soon became identified with the political movements of the time, as a Free-Soil Democrat and firm adherent of Col. Thomas E. Benton. The position taken by the Democratic party on the subject of slavery placed him out of sympathy with it, and in 1852 he was elected to the Missouri Legislature as a Free-soiler. During this period he frequently contributed editorial articles to the Missouri Democrat. His productions w^ere always brilliant and to the point and exerted a marked effect upon the formation of public opinion. From this time forward, being identified with the Free-Soil party, he had no easy part to play. His enemies were numerous in 14 the slavery party and were aggressive and threatening, for they realized as he did, that tlie struggle against the exten- sion of slavery meant serious work. In the autumn of 1856 Mr. Blair was nominated by the Republicans of St. Louis for Congress and defeated Mr. Kennet, the pro-slavery candidate. He took a prominent position at once in the BLouse, his first speech being in favor of colonizing the slaves in Central America. Although he was an uncompromising adversary of the system of slavery he took the advanced ground that the institution was more injurious to those owning slaves than to the slaves them- selves. Some of his warmest personal friendships were amono; slave-owners, and he never allowed his strono; con- victions to interfere with his friendships. His belief was that the only permanent and peaceful solution of the negro question lay in colonizing them in some other country. He was one of the first and warmest advocates of the construc- tion of a railroad from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, a thing- then thought so impossible as to be almost quixotic. He was returned to Congress in 1858 and again in 1860. About this time the " cloud no bigger than a man's hand " began to betoken the struggle soon to take place between l!Torth and South. He threw himself at once into the cam- paign which elected Mr. Lincoln, giving himself up entirely to the work, realizing that it was vital to the safety of our Government to elect a President who would sacrifice all for the preservation of the Union. In this campaign his coolness in danger, his calmness in argument, won the respect of all who heard his arraignment of the slavery party then in power and his advocacy of the Republican candidate. His life was in hourly danger, and he knew it, but the same calmness and courage which made him one of the ablest generals carried him successfully through one of the bitterest contests on record. He became at once the trusted leader of the Union party, raising the 15 first regiment of Missouri Volunteers and giving his own notes for the price of the clothing necessary to equip them. All personal interests were forgotten and laid aside for the one great motive—the salvation of his State to the Union. Those were days when the lives of all Union men were im- perilled. How much more that of the man who was the avowed leader of the patriots and determined enemy of all who would not support the Government. Through those trying days he bore himself like a hero. The history of his life at that time is the history of the State in its struggle for liberty and Union, and to him more than to any other in- dividual does Missouri owe her life as a Union State. He was a warm supporter of Mr. Lincoln during the first session of the thirty-seventh Congress. At the close of the session he returned to Missouri and occupied himself in raising troops. He attended the second session of this Con- gress, fining with great abiHty the exacting position of chairman of the Military Committee. At the close of this session he was requested by the Secretary of War to raise a brigade of volunteers in his own State, where, owing to his great popularity, he was soon successful. On the 7th of August, 1862, he was commissioned Brigadier General and his brigade attached to General Steele's division, which joined General Sherman's command at Helena. All histories of the war tell of his gallant achievements at Chickasaw Bluffs and in all the battles of the terrible campaigns around Vicksburg. For gallantry in these battles he was promoted to Major General of Volunteers and commanded first the 15th and afterwards the 17th Corps in Sherman's march to the sea and remained with the army, participating in all the great battles, until the close of the w^ar. Brave and gallant soldier as he w'as and uncompromis- ingly hostile as he was to the enemies of his country, when the war was over and the Southern army had laid down their arms, he at once arraved himself against those who 16 were in favor of continuing to treat Southern people as enemies, and with voice and pen constantly urged the adop- tion of a liberal and humane policy. From this time he united with the Democratic party. He had fought for the restoration of the Union and the supremacj^ of the law, not for tlie proscription and destruction of the people of the South. Relentless to the foes of his country, magnanimous to his defeated countrymen, he stood forth as the champion of the South against a tyranny which sought to deprive them of their manhood and independence. He was nominated for the Vice-Presidency on the ticket with Mr. Seymour in 1868. During the same year he served as Government Commissioner on the Union Pacific Rail- wa3^ He was elected to the United States Senate in 1872 to fill the unexpired term of Charles D. Drake, who had been appointed to the judgeship of the Court of Claims. He was one of the Senate Committee appointed to investigate the "Ku-Klux outrages," so-called, and during his stay in the South became more than ever attached to its people, and by his kindly acts became greatly endeared to them. His labors on the Committee were unremitting, and to his clear insight and laborious research the people of the South are indebted for the removal of the stigma which had been cast upon them. Exposure during his four years of active service in the v/ar, during which he suffered with malignant fevers con- tracted in the swamps near Vicksburg and from a severe injury received by the kick of an artillery horse, and the constant strain of ceaseless labor and anxiety during and subsequently to the war, at length undermined a constitution that seemed hard as granite, and in 1873 he was stricken with paralysis. This was the beginning of the end, and after a long and painful illness, borne with matchless forti- tude and patience, he died in July, 1875. 17 He died a poor man, the value of his whole estate at the time of his death being less than $500. He cared not for wealth, and gave what he made freely for his country. The value of his life and services to the State of Missouri are inestimable, and the loving gratitude in which his memory is held by his fellow-citizens of St. Louis and Missouri has been a heritage to those who bear his name more priceless than all the treasures of the world. General Blair was married Sept. 8th, 1847, to Appolline Alexander, grand-daughter of George Madison, the first Governor of Kentucky and a nephew of President James Madison. There were eight children oi' this marriage, six of whom survive : Andrew A. Blair of Philadelphia, eminent as an author and an authority on Analytical Chemistry; Christine B. Graham, wife of Benjamin B. Graham of St. Louis; James L. Blair, Esq., of St. Louis; Francis P. Blair of Chicago; Gary M. Bhxir of Huntsville, Ala.; and William A. Blair of St. Louis. The widow of Gen. Blair is still liv- ing and resides in St. Louis. Edward H. Bowen of Berlin, Md., died in 1848. No further information. Jonathan L. Brown of Elizabeth (then Elizabethtown), N. J., died soon after graduation. No further information. James Hervey Bruere was born in LTpper Freehold^ Monmouth County, N. J., April 13th, 1822, on a farm which had been in the family for several generations, the orig- inal title having been obtained from the Government by one of his ancestors. Prior to the year 1700 his ancestry were French Protestants, whose home was in the town of Chevre, Province of Champagne, France. About the year mentioned they fled from persecution and came to America. His grand- father, Capt. James Bruere, took an active part in the local 18 aiFairs of his neighborhood during; theRevohitionary period, and with his Company formed part of the Coast Guard of New Jerse}^ The famous " Mollie Pitcher," whose name will forever be connected with the battle of Monmouth, was brought up on his grandfather's farm. She was the daughter of John Hanna of Allentown, and wife of John Mahan, the cannonier who was killed in the battle. She died January, 1833, and is buried in the cemetery at Carlisle, I'a. Mr. Bruere's grandfather was one of the founders of the Presby- terian Church of Allentown, one of the oldest in New Jersey, and his father was an Elder in that Church at the time of his death. He was married to Lydia A., daughter of the Rev. Henry Perkins, D.D., for forty years Pastor of the Church at Allentown. Of a family of seven children there are living five sons and one daughter. Two sons were gradu- ated at Princeton, one at Cornell — the others are engaged in agriculture and stock raising in Dakota and Washington. Mr. Bruere studied law in Princeton in the office of James 8. Green, Esq., but finding the confinement of a student's life not favorable to his health he did not enter on the prac- tice of law, but engaged, and has to the present time con- tinued, in active business. In 1863, during the troublous time, of the Civil War, he was a member of the Legislature of New Jersey from Mercer County. In 185G he was or- dained an Elder in the Presbyterian Church of Ewing, N. J., and at the present time is holding the same ofiice in the Westminster Church, Asbury Park. William Burnet of Newark, N. J. No information. Zachary S. Claggett was born in Pleasant Valley, Md., in 1819, on a farm overlooking the valley on the slope of Maryland Heights, which had long been in the Claggett family. His father was Capt. Samuel Claggett, one of the most conspicuous personages in society and in public life of Washington County, Md. His mother was a sister of 19 Dr. Horatio Claggett, a physician, as distinguished for skill in his profession as for benevolence of heart, generosity and integrity. He prepared for college at the Hagerstown Academy, and entered the Junior Class at Princeton in 1839. After his graduation he studied law in the office of the Hon. John Dixon Roman, and was subsequently associated with him in the practice of law, particularly during Mr. Roman's absence in Congress. Mr. Claggett represented Washington County for two terms in the Senate of Maryland, and was conspicuous for his ability and fidelity to duty. In '76 he was appointed Auditor of the court, which office he filled most acceptably and successfully until called from his desk by the disease which terminated in his death, August 5th, 1890. In the Resolutions which were adopted at a meeting of the Bar of Washington County, held as a tribute of re- spect to his memory, it is said : " By his honesty of purpose, his professional learning, his strict integrity, and his accuracy in all the details of business, Mr, Claggett won for himself a name above reproach, and by his life and example estab- lished a high character for professional integrity and honor.'' He was married to Miss Jane Rose Nicholas of Geneva, IST. Y. His wife, six sons and one daughter survive him. Monroe Alonzo I. Cumming of Parish of Rapides, La., died in 1847. No further information. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, D.D.,was born at Aurora, N. Y., on the 10th of January, 1822. He entered the Soph( - more Class at Princeton in 1838, entered the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1843, was graduated in 1846, and after spending a few months preaching in Kingston, Wyo- ming Valley, Pa., he took charge of the Presbyterian Church of Burlington, N. J. He was ordained to the ministry by the Presbytery of West Jersey, May 4th, 1848. In Septem- ber, 1849, he was called to be the first Pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Trenton, N. J. In June, 1853^ 20 he removed to New York City, and became the Pastor of the Market Street Reformed (Dutch) Church. After seven years of successful ministry in ISTew York he became the first Pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presby- terian Church of Brooklyn. Under his ministry there 4,203 persons were received into membership, and for several years it was the largest Presbyterian Church in the United States. He served this Church for thirty years, and then resigned in order to undertake a ministry at-large, the con- gregation bestowing on him a beautiful testimonial and issuing a large "Memorial" volume. Dr. Cuyler received his Doctorate of Divinity from Princeton in 1866. He was married in March, 1853, to Miss Annie E. Mathiot, the daughter of the Hon. Joshua Mathiot of Ohio. He has been the most prolific writer of articles for the religious press in America, having published about 3,800 articles in leading journals and magazines. He- is also the author of the following vcluuies : Stray Arrows, From the Nile to Norway, The Cedar-Christian, God's Light on Dark Clouds, Heart-Life, The Wayside Springs, Pointed Papers, Right to the Point, The Empty Crib, ISTewly Enlisted, and Thought-Hives, How to be a Pastor. He has also published numerous tracts and taken an active part in the Temperance Reform and is President of the National Temperance Society. Nearly all his books have been republished in England, and five of them have been translated into Swedish and one into Dutch. For forty-five years he has been indefatigably active in the pulpit, on the platform and in the press. His brief published papers have had a circulation of over one hundred and fifty millions in all parts of the globe. Dr. Cuyler occupies a prominent place in the front rank of American preachers. He has represented the Pres- 21 byterian Church of the United States in the General Assem- blies of Scotland and of Ireland. During vacation visits to Europe he preaches to crowded houses in London and other localities in Great Britain. He delivered the Historical Dis- course at the Centennial Anniversary of the General Assem- bly in Philadelphia in 1888. James Brinkerhoff Dayton was born at Baskingridge, N. J., January 27th, 1822. His father was Joel Dayton, born September 5th, 1777 ; his mother, Nancy Lewis, bora April 23d, 1787. He studied law in Trenton in the office of his brother, the Hon. William L. Dayton, LL D., Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, Attorney- General, United States Senator, Minister to France, aud Candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the United States. He engaged in the practice of law in Camden, where he continued to reside until his death, March 9th, '86. He was a member of the Council of the City of Camden, was for a time City Treas- urer, and City Solicitor. He w-as a member of the Riparian Commission of the State of New Jersey, a Director of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company, President of the West Jersey Ferry Company, and President of the Camden Safe Deposit and Trust Company. He was married December 19th, '48, to Louisa M. Clarke, daughter of William M. Clarke of Philadelphia. Of this marriage there are two surviving children, William Clarke Dayton and Louisa, wife of Peter Van Voorhees, Esq., of Camden. He was married a second time, April 19th, '59, to Sarah Jane Thompson, daughter of the late Hon. Alexander Thompson of Chambersburg, Pa. Richard Chambers De Armond was born in Harrisburg, Pa., August 25th, 1818. He was the only son of Andrew S. De Armond and Eliza R. Chambers. After his gradu- ation he studied law in Harrisburg, and w^as admitted to the bar in that city in '44. After practicing law for some years 22 he removed to Philadelphia and engaged in business, and was for a time connected with the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. He died in Philadelphia in February, '65. He was married in April, '45, to Eliza Matilda Kellogg ; had nine children, five of whom survive. Amzi Dodd was born in what is now the township of Montclair, then part of the Township of Bloorafield, Essex County, New Jersey, March 2d, 1823. His father, Joseph S. Dodd, was the First-honor man of the class of 1813, studied medicine, and for more than thirty years was a suc- cessful and eminent physician. His mother was Maria, daughter of Rev. Stephen Grover, for fifty years Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Caldwell, New Jersey. Joseph S. Dodd was the son of General John Dodd, who was a lineal descendent of Daniel Dodd, who was born in England, and died in Newark, New Jersey, in 1665. Amzi, the second son of Joseph S., had his early schooling in the Bloomfield Academy, entered Princeton College Sophomore Class half advanced, in the spring of '39, and was graduated with the highest honor, pronounc- ing the Latin Salutatory at Commencement in September, '41. For four years after graduation he was engaged in teaching, at the same time pursuing the study of law and its related subjects. Subsequently he entered the law ofiice of Miller & Whelpley, in Morristown, New Jersey. He was licensed as an attorney in January, 1848, and soon after was connected in legal practice with Mr. Frelinghuysen, the late Secretary of State. Early connection with important corporate and judi- ciary aftairs led him largely into legal departments calling for judicial rather than forensic powers. He delivered oc- casional public addresses before lyceums ; pronounced in '51 the oration in Newark at a general city civic celebra- tion of the 4th of July; later a literary address at Com- mencement in Princeton, and a discourse before the Essex 23 County Bible Society, of which he was the President. He was one of the early promoters of the Republican party, preaidino; and speaking at the first mass meeting in Newark in the early summer of '56, when George William Curtis, Henry J. Raymond and the venerable Ex-Chief Justice Hornblower were speakers. The breaking up of the old Whig party, that summer into the American and Republi- can parties made the election of a Democratic Congressman assured. Mr. Dodd however the more willingly consented to accept the Republican nomination for Congress and re- ceived an enthusiastic support. He gave up his time to the discussion of the exciting questions of the hour in the school houses and elsewhere throughout his district, identifying himself with the strongest opposition to the extension of slavery in the territories. Mr. Dodd was married in '52 to Jane, oldest daughter of William Frame, and resided in Newark till the summer of '60, v.-hen he removed to Bloomfield where he has since lived. He served one term frooi that district in the As- sembly of the State Legislature in the session of '63, de- clining to serve a second term. In the same year he was appointed Mathematician of the Mutual Benefit Life In- surance Company, to succeed Joseph P. Bradley, late Justice of the United States Supreme Court. In 1871 the ofiice of Vice Chancellor was created by the New Jersey Legislature to meet the increasing equity business and Mr. Dodd was nominated by Chancellor Za- briskie and appointed by Governor Randolph to the new office. In the next year he was nominated by Governor Parker and appointed by the Senate one of the Special Judges of the Court of Errors and Appeals. In '78 he was again nominated by Governor McClellan and reap- pointed for the same place, holding it till the spring of '82, when he resigned. In May, '75, he resigned the Vice Chancellorship and in the same year was appointed a mem- 24 ber of the Riparian Coramissiou by the nomination of Gov- ernor Bedle and held that position till April, '87. In '76 he was appointed by the Supreme Court one of the Managers of the JSTew Jersey Soldiers' Home and has been engaged in that service, a gratuitous one, ever since. In April, '81, he again took the office of Vice Chan- cellor at the request of Chancellor Runyon, resigning it early in '82 to become the President of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company — a position he now holds. It is a noticeable circumstance that though of pronounced Repub- lican political views the public offices he has held have been by appointments of Democratic administrations, and were unsolicited. It has been said of Mr, Dodd that " he was a model equity judge, distinguished for his extensive acquaintance with legal principles, his rare wisdom and patience, his wide knowledge of affiiirs, his clear and forcible style, and his remarkable power of unravelling the details of a com- plicated case." To the important office of President of the great Life Insurance Company of which he is now the head he is devoting the qualities and powers, in their maturity, which have distinguished him throughout his professional and judicial life. In 1871 he received the Degree of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey. John Thomas Duffield was born in McConnellsburg, Pa., February 19tb, 1823. The ancestor of the family in America, George Duffield, came from Ballymena, Ireland, in 1740, and settled in Lancaster County, Pa. He was one of the founders and an Elder of the Presbyterian Church of Pequa. His son, George Duffield was graduated at the Col- lege of :N"ew Jersey in 1752, Tutor 1754-6, Trustee 1777-90, was appointed by Gov. Morton of Pennsylvania Chaplain of the Pennsylvania forces, July 6th, 1776, was for a time joint Chaplain with Bishop White of the Continental Con- gress. John T. Duffield prepared for college at Bedford, 25 Pa., at the Academy in charo^e of Rev. Bajnard R. Hall, D.D. He entered the Sophomore Class at Princeton in 1838. After graduation he taught a private school in McConnellsburg for a year, then Mathematics for a year in the Union Academj' Philadelphia, and entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton in '44. In '45 he was elected Tutor in Greek in the College, the other Tutors at the time being his class-mates — Giger, Hodge and Owen. In '47 he was elected Associate Professor of Mathennitics, in '54 Professor of Mathematics, in '62 of Mechanics and Mathematics, and had charge of both departments until the appointment of the present Professor of Physics in '73. He was ordained by the Presbytery of New Brunswick Feb. 5th, '51, and in connection with his duties in college was for two years Stated Supply of the Second Presbyterian Church of Princeton, then recently organized. The same year he published, for the benefit of the Second Church, " The Princeton Pulpit," a volume containing a sermon from each of the Presbyterian ministers of Princeton. At the meeting of the Synod of New Jersey in Princeton in 1865, he was elected Moderator, and at the opening of the Synod in '66 at Elizabeth, he preached a sermori on the Second Advent which was published by request. In 1866 he published an article in thie Evangelical Quarterly Reineic on " the Discovery of the Law of Gravitation," in '67 an article in the Prince., ton Review on " the Philosophy of Mathematics." In 1877 he preached a sermon in the College Chapel on Luke 3: 38, "Adam, which was the son of God," in which he discussed the question, "Whether the origin of man by Evolution is consistent with Biblical Anthropology?" This sermon, somewhat enlarged, was printed by request in the January number of the Princeton Review for 1878. He preached the Discourse at the funeral of President Maclean, August 13th, 1886, which was published by request of the Board of Trustees. 26 For a number of years, until prevented by the state of his health, Prof. DufSeld was largely engaged on the Sab- bath in supplying vacant pulpits in New Jersey and the adjoining cities. For one year he had charge of the pulpit of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Trenton ; for six months, in connection with Dr. Mcllvaine, had charge of the pulpit of the First Church of Morristown, He was married in '52 to Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of George S, Green, of Trenton, N. J., great-great grandson of Jonathan Dickinson and brother of John C. Green, Chan- cellor Henry W. Green, LL.D., and Judge Caleb Smith Green, LL.D. He has four sons and two daughters. His eldest son, of the Class of '73, is Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City. His second son, of the Class of '76, was graduated at the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons of New York City with the Second Honor in a class of one hundred and fifty. His third son, of the Class of '81, is Assistant Treasurer of the Col- lege. His youngest son, of the Class of '92, has commenced the study of law in Newark and is a member of the New York Law School. Three of his four sons represented the Cliosophic Society in Junior Orator contests and received Prize medals. He has been connected with the Board of Education of Princeton since its organization in 1852 and for the last eleven years has been the President of the Board. He received the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1873 and the degree of LL.D, from Lake Forest University in 1890. John P. Dunham of Brooklyn, N. Y., died shortly after graduation. No further information. Nathaniel Evans of Bayou, La. Marked as dead in the General Catalogue of the College. No further informa- tion. 27 John Breckenridgb Gibson was born in Trenton, N. J., June 15th, 1823. His father was the Rev. Robert Gib- son of Charleston, S. C, his mother Margaret Stuyvesant of Albany, N. Y. He entered the General Theological Sem- inary of the Episcopal Church in New York in '41. was graduated in '44, ordained Deacon the same year and Priest in '47. After having had charge of several parishes he was appointed Rector of Burlington in 1860, and College filled that office for six years. For the last twenty-two years he has been Rector of St. John's School, Sing Sing, New York. In 1873 he received the degree of D.D. from St. Stephen's College, N. Y. He was married to Frances P. Wood of New York, in 1847; has had two sons and three daughters of whom one ecu and one daughter are now living. Frederick S. Giger was born in Philadelphia in 1820. Having lost his father in early life his mother and her two sons had their home with her brother, the Rev. George Musgrave, D.D., LL.D., of Baltimore, Md. He entered the Sophomore Class in '38, and after his graduation studied medicine and received the degree of M.D. from the Univer- sity of Maryland in '44. He was subsequently elected Pro- fessor of Surgery in the Baltimore Medical College. He died in '59. George Musgrave Giger was born in Philadelphia June 6th, 1822. He entered the Sophomore Class in '38, the Theological Seminary in '41 and was graduated in '44. He was appointed Tutor in '44, Adjunct Professor of Mathe- matics in '46, Adjunct Professor of Greek in '47, Professor of Latin in '54 and Lecturer on Architecture in '62. He resigned on account of ill health in '65 and was appointed Emeritus Professor of Latin. He was licensed in '44 and ordained in '60 by the Pres- bytery of New Brunswick. For several years, in connection 28 with his duties in College, he had the pastoral charge of the Witherspoon St. Church. At the Commencement in '65 he delivered the Histor- ical Address at the Centennial Anniversary of the Cliosophic Society. He died Oct. 18th, '65, at the residence of his uncle Dr. Musgrave in Philadelphia. The funeral services were conducted by President Maclean and Drs. Atwater and Duffield. He bequeathed his library to the College and made it a residuary legatee of his estate to the amount of 130,000 to found the Giger Professorship of Latin. He received the degree of D.D. from Jefferson College in '61. William Mason Giles entered the ministry of the Episcopal Church, and for a time was rector of a church in Baltimore. Felix Gorman received the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in '44. No further information. John Oliver Halsted was born in the city of ISTew York on September 14th, 1822. His parents were natives of Essex Co., N. J. His father, Oliver Halsted, a law-book publisher and seller, was an uncle of the late Chancellor Halsted. His mother, Sarah, was the daughter of David D. Crane, for many years a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Essex County, After graduation he studied law with Edward Sand- ford, a distinguished lawyer and member of the New York bar, and practised law in New York city until his death which occurred on the 17th of December, 1859. He was stricken with apoplexy while sitting alone in the evening at his table in his apartments, preparing a brief for the argu- ment of a cause in the Court of Appeals, and was found the next morning lying unconscious on the floor. He died in a few hours. He never married. 29 William Halsted was born in Trenton, N. J,, June 4th, 1824. He was the son of the Hon. William Halsted of the Class of 1812, a member of Congress from Kew Jersey? and was grandson of Caleb Halsted of Elizabeth, N. J. His mother was Frances Glensworth. After graduation he studied law in his father's office, was admitted to the bar in July, '45, and engaged in the practice of his profession in Trenton. After a brief career which gave promise of distinction, he died July 30th, '55. Samuel Swan Hartwell was born at Somerville, N, J,, in 1822. His father was Thomas A. Hartwell, Esq., his mother Elizabeth Swan, He studied law and practised his profession at Somerville, where he died in 1872. He mar- ried Miss Caroline I^esbitt, now living in Chicago, 111. He had four children, three of whom survive, — Elizabeth, wife of Dr. James Suydam ; Knox, for a time a student at Prince- ton, now residing in Chicago, and Hugh Nesbitt, residing in Somerville. Archibald Alexander Hodge, eldest son of the Kev. Charles Hodge, D.D., LL.D., was born at Prin.ceton, IS". J., July 18th, 1823. The maiden name of his mother was Sarah Bache, a granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin. He entered the Theological Seminary in '41 and was gradu- ated in '45. He was appointed Tutor in the College of New Jersey in '44, resigned in '46, was ordained as an Evangelist by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in May, '47, sailed in August, '47, as a missionary to India and was stationed at Allahabad, where he remained until the failing health of his wife required his return in May, '50. He shortly after accepted a call to Lower West Nottingham, Md., where he remained until '55 ; was pastor at Fredericksburg, Va., from '55 to '61, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., from '61 to '64, when he was appointed Professor of Theology in the Western Seminary at Allegheny. In connection with 30 his duties in the Seminary he was the stated supply of the First Church of Pittsburg in '65, and of the ISTorth Church, Allegheny, from '66 to '77. In '77 he was elected Associate Professor of Theology in the Seminary at Princeton, and in '78 on the death of his father he was elected Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology, which ofHce he filled until his death. Dr. Plodge was one of the most prolific and highly appreciated writers of the American Presbyterian Church. He published his " Outlines ot Theology " when a pastor at Fredericksburg, in '60. A new and much enlarged edition of this work was published when he entered on the duties of his Professorship in Princeton in '78. This work has been republished in Great Britain and has been translated into Welsh, modern Greek and Hindustani. In '66 he published a work on "The Atonement," an edition of which w^as published in Great Britain in 1868. lie prepared "A Commentary on the Confession of J*^aith," which was pub- lished by the Presbyterian Board of Publication in '69 and a second edition in '85. In '80 he published the " Life of Charles Hodge," of w^hich an edition was published in Great Britain in '81. In '87 he published " Popular Lectures on Theological Themes." He was the author of review articles and tracts on the following subjects : " The Day Changed and the Sabbath Preserved, " " Presbyterian Doctrine Briefly Stated, " " The Doctrine of the Trinity, " " Immortahty Not Conditional, " " Whose Children should be Baptized ? " " Why do I believe Christianity to be a Revelation ? " " Sheol, Hades and the Intermediate State," and in connection with Dr. Warfield an article in the Preshyterian Review on " In- spiration." He delivered the following discourses and ad- dresses which were subsequently published : Four Sermons on Infant Baptism, in '57 ; Funeral Discourse on the death of Wm.H. White, '59; "The Gathering of the People unto Shiloh," a sermon preached in the First Presbyte- 31 rian Church, N'ew York, May 1st, 1864; "The State and Religion," the annual address before the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, May 2d, 1878; "Doc- trines," an address delivered before a synodical institute in Cleveland, Ohio, October, '73; "Adaptation of Presbyteri- anism to the Wants of the Day," an address before the Pan- Presbyterian Council in Edinburg, July 4th, '77; "The Vicarious Sacrifice of Christ as understood by Presbyteri- ans," an address before the Pan-Presbyterian Council in Philadelphia, in '80; "The Authority of the Holy Scrip- tures," an address before the Pan-Presbyterian Council in Belfast, in '83. In JSTevins' Presbyterian JEncyclojxedia it is said of Dr. H. : " He is justly distinguished for his vast and varied scholar- ship. As a preacher he is always listened to with pleasure and profit. His sermons are rich with Bible truth, logically constructed, clothed in captivating language, delivered with solemnity and addressed with earnestness to both the in- tellect and the heart." He was married to Miss Elizabeth Burt Holliday, of Winchester, Va., who died leaving two daughters who still survive. He was married a second time to Mrs. Margaret Woods, widow of Dr. James S. Woods, of New York city, a sister of the Rev. Dr. McLaren, Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Illinois. He received the degree of D.D. from the College of I^ew Jersey in '62 and the degree of LL.D. from Wooster University in '76. John N. Houston died in '47. Henry P. Johnson died in '47. Thomas Mundell Keerl was born in Baltimore in 1823. His paternal grandfather was a native of Bavaria, a physician, who settled in Baltimore in 1782, His father was a merchant of Baltimore, who married a daughter of Thomas Mundell 32 of Prince George's County, Md., a native of Ayrshire, Scot- land. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Balti- more. He married Miss C. Spaight, daughter of Judge John R. Donnell of N'orth Carolina. He died Dec, '88, leaving a widow and one son, Eversficld F. Keerl of Baltimore. Thomas Tallmadge Kinney, is the only son of Hon. Wm. B. Einney, who was a grandson of Hon. Wm. Bur- net, M.D., of the Class of 17-19, a member of the Con- tinental Congress and afterwards Medical Director in the Army of the Revolution. Thomas T. was born in New- ark in 1821, entered the Sophomore Class at Prince- ton in '38, graduated in '41, and immediately became the first law student of Joseph P. Bradley, now a Justice of the IJ. S. Supreme Court. In '44 he was admitted to the bar, but became more actively interested in journalism, first as a reporter on his father's paper, the Newark Daily Advertiser. In '51, his father, who was at the time a member of the Board of Trustees of the College, became U. S. Minister to Sardinia, when his son succeeded him as editor and pro- prietor of the paper, which is still in his possession and under his management. In '60 he was a member of the National Convention at Chicago, which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President. He w^as a delegate to the Philadel- phia Convention which organized the National Board of Trade; was an original member of the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and its President till about '89, when he declined a re-election on account of other duties. He is also a member of the State Board of Geology, and was President of the State Board of Agri- culture from '78 to '82, during which his annual addresses were published by the Board in the English and German languages. He was also a trustee of the State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; is a member of the Board of Pro- prietors of East Jersey; a hereditary member of the Society of the Cincinnati as a descendant of his grandfather who 33 was one of its founders, and is a life member of the N J. Historical Society. Aniong the institutions of Newark, he is president of the Fidelity Title and Deposit Coni[)any and a director in several other institutions, including tlie Na- tional State Bank, the Electric Light and Power Co., the Cit}' Ice Co., and the Stephens & Condit Transportation Co. lie never sought for political office and declined an appointment to a foreign mission tendered to him during President Arthur's administration. In 1863 he married Estelle Condit, daughter of the late Joel W. (^ondit of Newark, and has four children — three daughters. The eldest is the wife of Wm. Campbell Clark, a manager of the extensive Clark Thread Works, oi" Newark. His ou]y son is now a student at Princeton College, with strong tendencies toward natural science and the practical arts. He has already received two patents for his inventions, one of which is an improvement to the pt)stal boxes, for which the de- partment has just authorized the placing of experimental samples in the streets of Washington and Newark. Samuel Mott Leggett. No information. John Linn was born in Sussex Co., N. J., on May loth 1821. At the age of fifteen he engaged in teaching and prepared himself to enter the Junior Class at Princeton in 1839. After graduation he entered the law office of Daniel Haines in Newton, N. J., and remained there for two years when Mr. Haines was elected Governor. He then spent one year in the office of Governor Pennington in Newark, and was admitted to the bar in November, '44. He commenced the practice of his profession in Sussex Co., N. J., first at Deckertown, then at Newton. After twenty years he re- moved to Jersey City, where he now resides. Mr. Linn has been devoted to his profession, has been engaged on many important cases, and his career has been 34 marked by ability, fidelity and success. In 1862, during the darkest hours of the war, he accepted, much against his in- clination, the nomination to Congress by the Republican party. The district was strongly Democratic and he was defeated. Both before and since his candidacy for Congress he has had the ofier of honorable positions in political life which were declined. He was married in 1850 to Hannah Smith, daughter of Coe Smith of Sussex Co., has had two sons, one of whom is still living, a graduate of Princeton of the Class of 1880. Francis Minor. The following communication was received bj^ the Committee from Mr. Minor: St. Louis, Mo., May 14th, 1891. Dear Friends and Classmates : — To add to the interest of our semi-centennial anniversary, you request from each survivor a statement "giving the date and place of birth^ ancestry, course since graduation, if married name of wife, family, academic or other honors, publications, and any other personal matters that may be of interest to classmates." In my case, the statement must be very brief. I was born in Orange County, Virginia, in 1820. The family is of English origin, its first appearance in Virginia being in 1673. After leaving Princeton I began the study of law and was graduated from the Law School of the University of Virginia in 1848. During that year I w^as married to a relative of the same name, Virginia L. Minor, who is living, and who has proved to be a helpmate in the truest sense of the word. In 1846 we made St. Louis our home, and have resided here ever since. To answer the next point, I must make a preliminary statement. Although the question of woman's enfranchise- 35 ment antedated by a considerable period the recent amend- ments of the Federal Constitution, when those changes in the organic law were being considered the whole question ofsuft'rage was brought prominently forward, and the friends of woman sutiVage entertained the hope that a sense of justice would lead men to include all citizens in the scope of those amendments. The addition of the one word " sex " to the fifteenth amendment would have accomplished this result, and the leaders of the Republican party were appealed to, but in vain, to make the addition. The matter is referred to here merely for the purpose of enabling me to say that I was of the number of those who warmly advocated placing the ballot in the hand of woman as the only sure and eifectual means of securing her per- manent elevation and improvement. Anything short of this is fleeting and transitory. What is given to-day may be withdrawn to-morrow. If we build the edifice at all it must have its foundation on the bed-rock of the Constitution. In a republic sufi'rage lies at the base of all that affects humanity. Life, liberty, property, religious freedom, all are dependent upon it; and yet this indispensable right is unjustly with- held from one-half of the people. More than thirty millions of the citizens of the United States are thus held in a condition of subjection and per- petual tutelage. It is impossible for woman to emerge from this condition, for no class of persons can rise above the position in which they are placed by the law. Hence the supreme necessity of suffrage for this disfranchised class. We welcome to our shores the lowest and most degraded types of European manhood and place in their hands the sacred emblem of freedom, the ballot, and at the same time deny it to our wives, mothers, sisters and daughters. It is surprising that we do not see the danger to our institutions which lurks in such a course, yet the majority of men view it with apathy and indifference. 36 Believing that the welfare of men as well as of women would be promoted by extending the ballot to woman — that the principle involved is one of right, not of expediency, and that we could engage in no higher or better work, both Mrs. Minor and I have for more than twenty years labored to bring about such a result. In the Forum for December, 1886, and particularly in the number for April, 1890, I have set forth my views more at length. Finis coronal opus. Sincerely yours, Francis Minor. James P. Miller. Was born in Newark, IST. J., and continued to reside there until his death in 1852. No further information. James Kennedy McCurdy. No information. John Thompson Nixon. The following record of Judge Nixon is extracted from a Memoir read by A. Q. Keasbey Esq., before the New Jersey Historical Society, January 28th, 1890. Judge Nixon was born in the village of Fairton, Cum- berland County, N. J., on the 31st of August, 1820. His father was Jeremiah S. Nixon. During his childhood the family removed to Bridgeton, N. J. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1841. He took a high rank in a class which included a large number who afterwards attained distinction, and was named a;S one of the Junior orators to represent Whig Hall by the unanimous vote of the Society. After leaving college he became tutor in the family of Judge Pennypacker, then the Judge of the United States Court for the Western District of Virginia. He was admit- ted to the bar in that State in 1845, and made arrangements to form a partnership with Judge Pennypacker, who had been elected to the Senate of the United States. The death of the Senator soon after taking his seat changed his plans, 37 and he returned to his native county and entered upon the practice of law in this State in conn -ction with the late Charles E. Elmer, He pursued the practice of law for several years with great ability and success. In 1849 he was elected to the Legislature, in 1850 was re-elected and was made Speaker of the House of Assem- bly, and tilled that office with marked ability. After two terms in the Legislature he devoted himself with new dili- gence to his profession. He married in 1851 Mary H. Elmer, the youngest daughter of the Honorable Lucius Q. C. Elmer, who, as United States District Attorney, com- piler of the laws. Member of Congress and Justice of the Supreme court of New Jersey, occupied during a long life a marked and honorable position in the State. In 1858, in the midst of the confusion of parties that preceded the civil war, Judge Nixon became a candidate for the Congress of the United States. He ran independently of all former political organizations, and was elected by a majority of over two thousand. He was re-elected as a Re- publican in 1860, and thus he occupied a seat in the House of Representatives during the long contest for the Speaker- ship, which resulted in the election of ex-Governor Pen- nington — at the culmination of the strife between the forces of slavery and freedom which led to the civil war, and durino; the earlier stages of that war. His action through- out that long strife for the control of the House had much to do with the result. Indeed, the history of the closing scenes of that contest shows that his influence and vote were controlling in the final choice of Governor Pennington. He was an active member of the Committee on Commerce, and devoted himself with his accustomed diligence and fidelity to the duties then so grave and full of difficulties to the legislator of a Nation involved in a civil war. At the close of his second term he returned to his practice in Bridgeton, and continued the labors he had undertaken in preparing under the provisions of Acts of the Legislature successive editions of the Digest of the Statute Laws of the State. Judge Elraer, his father-in-law, had preceded him in a similar duty, and Elmer's Digest, pub- lished in 1838, was, before Judge Nixon's first edition in 1855, the familiar compilation of the written law of the State. New editions of Nixon's Digest followed in 1861 and 1868, and he published Nixon's Forms, which was also an outgrowth or descendant of the book of Forms published by Judge Elmer. In May, 1870, he was appointed by President Grant Judo;e of the United States District Court. This office he held until his death at Stockbridge, Mass., on the 28th of September, 1889, his term of service covering nearly twenty 3^ears, and his term of life having nearly reached three score and ten. Before speaking of him in his capacity as a judge, allusion should be made to his labors in other lines of duty. He was elected a trustee of the College of New Jersey in 1864, and served for several years on the Committees on Finance and on Library' and Apparatus, and was Chairman of the latter committee. He was frequently chosen to repre- sent the Presbytery in the General Assembly of the Pres- byterian Church and was made one of the Delegates from the United States to the Pan-Presbyterian Council which met at Edinburgh in 1887. While on this mission the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the College of New Jersey. He was also designated by the Assembly in connection with Judge William Strong of the United States Supreme Court, Judge Allison of Phila- delpdiii, Judge Breckenridge of St. Louis, and others, to revise llie Book of Discipline, which, as prepared by this Committee, is now the law of the Presbyterian Church. In 1883 he was appointed a Director of the Theological Seminar\- at Princeton. 39 He was one ot tlie four residuary legatees of the large estate of John C. Green. This bequest was a striking proof of the confidence which the character of Judge Nixon for integrity and prudence had inspired. He was elected a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, May 15th, 1873, was elected First Vice-President of the Society, and was re-elected annually until his death. In January, 1879, he was appointed Chairman of the Committee to enquire as to the history of the exemption of Brotherton Indians from taxation. In January, 1884, he read a paper before the Society on the life and character of Judge L. Q. C. Elmer, and on the 20th of May, 1886, he was appointed a member of the committee on the Centennial of the Inauguration of Washington. As to his character as a Judge — he entered upon its unaccustomed duties with much diffidence, but with his characteristic earnestness of purpose. His training as a lawyer and as a compiler of the Statutes had qualified him fully for the new task devolved upon him, and his experi- ence in the National Legislature during the early stages of the war had enabled him to comprehend clearly the nature and extent of the novel duties imposed upon the Federal Judiciary in the States in consequence of the civil war and its results. Before the war the District Court of the United States in New Jersey had been of little importance, but shortly before the appointment of Judge Nixon several cir- cumstances concurred to create a marked advance in the scope of the powers of the Court and the extent and im- portance of its business. The Bankrupt law was passed in 1867, and the administration of its important and intricate provisions was chiefly entrusted to the District Courts of the United States. About the time of Judge Nixon's acces- sion the machinery of this law had come into full work- ing order, and it became his duty to enter at once upon this novel and difficult branch of judicial administration. During 40 the year preceding his appointment the law establishing the Circuit Courts of the United States was passed, and William McKennan was appointed by President Grant as the Judge of the Third Circuit, embracing Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, The duties of. the Circuit Judge in so large a district, embracing the second city in the Union, made it impossible for him to give full attention to the in- creasing business of the Court of New Jersey, and the result was that year by year more of the Circuit Court business devolved upon the District Judge. The vast Internal Revenue system made necessary by the war was in full operation when Judge Nixon assumed his duties. And the situation of New Jersey between two great cities, and the large extent of her manufactures, from which internal revenue was derived, caused a very large in- crease in both the criminal and civil business of the District Court. The Customs collection district of the City of New York comprised all the shores of New Jersey in the Coun- ties of Bergen and Hudson as far as the mouth of Kill von Kull, and thus a large part of the business arising from that source found its way into the Federal Courts of New Jersey. Besides this, it was soon discovered by suitors in patent cases in the two great States on either side of us that here was a tribunal in which such controversies could receive prompt and intelligent consideration. He was eminently a just and upright judge. There was no room in his court for sharp practice, nor any favor for idle technicality. Although trained especially in the common law these qualities led him to become a wise and capable Chan- cellor, as we understand the name. He took a large view of the questions that came before him and strove to see them on all sides in the light of a strong common sense. He was also endowed in a large degree with that excel- lent judicial gift — patience, not only in investigation but 41 in the hearing of cases. He never failed to listen to counsel with that manifestly interested attention, which is so win- ning and so encouraging to forensic etfort. As a crowning characteristic lie was full of kindness and never-failing courtesy. It may be said of him as was said of the late Charles Chauncey: " [le was conspicuous through life in all relations, at the bar atid everywhere else, for his good will to everybody — distinguished by an habi- tual and unaffected expression of benevolence. It seemed to be a necessity of his nature that lie should not only feel but also show it, and show it to all, in every way, by his looks and words and acts " As a lawyer, citizen, legislator, almoner and judge his work remains — a work wliich re- dounds to the honor of his native State. JosEPn John ISTgrcott of Greenville, N. C. Marked with an asterisk in the General Catalogue, No further in- formation. William B Olds of Newark, N J , went to Buffalo, N. Y., shortly after his graduation, entered the law office of Barker and Sill, was admitted to the bar and engaged in the practice of his profession in Buffalo, and died there in 1869. Nathan Merritt Owen was born in Bedford, N. Y., about 1821. He was the brother of the Rev. Joseph Owen, D.D., of the Class of '35, tutor from '36 to '39, when he went as a missionary to India and was for many years President of the College of Allahal)ad. Nathan M. entered the Theo- logical Seminary at Princeton in 1844, intending when he had completed his studies for the ministry to go to India and engage in missionary work with his brother at Allaha- bad. The same year he was elected a tutor in the College and continued in the tutorship in connection with his duties in the Seminary until '47. A few months after he died of consumption at his home in Bedford, About a fortnight before his death he was married to a lady to whom he had been for some years engaged. 42 Charles H. Parkin, of New York City, died in 1862. No further information. William R. Phillips was born in Lawrenceville, N. J., July 13th, 1823. His father wa'^ Judge Lewis li. Phillips, an elder for many years of the Presbyterian Church at Law- renceville and a Trustee and Director of Princeton Theolog- ical Seminary. His mother was Maria Smith of Philadelphia. He was a pupil of the Lawrenceville High School from 1884 to '38, when he entered the Sophomore Class at Prince- ton. After his graduation he studied medicine at the Uni- versity in Philadelphia and received the degree of M.D. in '44. He commenced the practice of his profession at Bristol, Pa., and became associated with a prominent physician ot Bristol, Dr. John Phillips, whose daughter Anne xMaria he subsequently married. On account of failing health from pulmonary disease he removed to his father's home in Law- rences'ille, where he died in 1864. Joseph Desha Pickett. No communication has been received from Mr. Pickett, except a telegram before the Semi-centennial Reunion expressing regret that he could not be present. He entered the Senior Class at Princeton in 1840, from Kentucky, and was graduated in '41. He was for a time a Professor in the University of Kentucky, and more recently for a number of years was Su|)erintendent of Public Instruction in Kentucky. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the College of New Jerse}' in 1881. Ludlow D. Potter was born January 3d, 1823, at New Providence, N. J., on a farm now partially covered by the town of Summit, the ancestral home of the family for several generations. His ancestors came to this country about 200 years ago — on his father's side from Wales, on his mother's side (maiden name, Pettit) from France, of Huguenot ex- traction, driven out by persecution. Both his grandfathers 43 -were Captains in the Revolutionary Army, his father a Major in the war of 1812. After graduation he taught two years in a boarding school in Plainfield, N. J., spent one year in Union Theo- logical Seminary, two years in the Seminary at Princeton and was there graduated in '46. After spending a year in teaching and studying under the Rev. Dr. Hale, at Penning- ton, N. J., he went to the West in '47, and for six years was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Brookville, Ind. By the appointment of Presbytery, he resigned his pastoral charge to take charge of a Classical Academy in Union County, Ind., and remained there for three years. In '66 he accepted a professorship in the female college at Glen- dale, Ohio; in '65 was made President of the Institution, and has since continued in that position. He has had more than 3,000 pupils under his charge, about 400 of whom were graduated, having completed the required course of study. He was married to Henrietta M. Ketcham, of Penning- ton, jST. J., who died in '67, leaving three sons and two daughters. His oldest son is pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Cedar Falls, Iowa ; his second son, a graduate of Princeton, is in the Brush Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio; his third son, a graduate of Princeton and of the Ohio Medical College, is practicing medicine in Indianapolis ■and is a member of the Faculty of the Indiana Medical Col- lege. His eldest daughter is married and lives in Dalton, Mass., his youngest daughter is a teacher in Glendale Col- lege. He was married in '74 to Ellen Wiley, of Washing- ton, Pa. He received the degree of D.D. from Hanover College in '74. He has published about twenty discourses, chiefly baccalaureate sermons, a few addresses by special request, -and occasional articles in secular and religious papers. Robert Reade entered the Sophomore Class in 1838 from New York City as Robert Reade Crawford and with 44 that name was graduated in '41, Soon after leaving college he dropped the name, Crawford, at the request, as it was understood, of a relative named Reade by whom he was adopted. He accordingly appears as named above in the Triennial Catalogues. He studied law and received the de- gree of LL.B. from Harvard in 1843. Have been unable to obtain any further information. John Rodgers was born August 21st, 1822, at Sandy Hill, Washington County, N. Y. He was the son of Ravaud K. Rodgers, D.D., for forty years pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Bound Brook, N. J., and for thirty-six years stated clerk of the Synod of New Jersey. He was a grand- son of John Richardson Bayard Rodgers, M.I)., surgeon of a Pennsylvania Regiment in the Revolutionar}' Army and for many years an eminent physician and surgeon in New York City and a professor in the Medical College. He was a great-grandson of the Rev. John Rodgers, D.J)., the dis- tinguished pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City and the first Moderator of the General Assembly. He was the great-great-grandson of Thomas Rodgers and his wife Elizabeth Baxter, both Scotch-Irish Presbyterians,, who came from Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in Boston, Mass., in 1721. He was prepared for college at the school of the Rev. J. T. Ilalsey, of Elizabeth, N. J. After his graduation he studied law at Somerville, N. J. in the office of the Hon. George T. Brown, and was admitted to the bar and subse- quently became a Counselor of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He removed to Burlington, where he continued! the practice of his profession and became editor of The Bur- lington Gazette. In '51 he was elected Secretary of the Senate of New Jersey ; in '56 was appointed Cashier of the Bank of Burlington, and in '65 became Secretary of the Morris Canal and Banking Company of Jersey City, which position he held until his death, on Sept. 23d, 1870. 45 (Jncler the pastorate of his friend and classmate, Dr. Ouyler, he connected himself with the Presbyterian Church of Burlington, and became one of its most active and useful members. In 1860 he was elected a ruling elder and served faithfully in this othce until his removal to Jersey City in '65. He took a deep interest in Oddfellowship and Ma- sonry, and was a charter member and first master of the Burlington Lodge, No. 32, F. and A. M. He was married on October 10th, 1850, to Elizabeth Simmons Howell of Philadelphia, and had three children, Ravaud Kearney, Margaret Simmons, and Caroline Thomas who married William Tennent Podgers Miller. His widow and children are still living. He was known and honored as a prompt and eflicient business man, a public-spirited citizen and a courteous Christian gentleman. James W. Pogers. The Committee received from Mr. Rogers the following communication : Parthenon Heights, Bladensburg, Md. April 20th, 1891. Rev. and Dear Sirs, I find that I must forego the happiness I had prom- ised myself of attending your proposed celebration, but pursuant to your request give you the information asked for in the circular. I was born in 1822, at Hillsborough, N. C. Soon after leaving Princeton I was married in Lagrange, Tenn., to Cora A. E. Harris, a lovely woman still living. We have six children living, the eldest of whom is J. Harris Rogers, inventor of the " Pan-Electric System," on which certain Congressmen made the " Pan-Electric" job, but were com- pelled, after a long and expensive lawsuit, to restore the patents. In 1844 I was ordained an Episcopal preacher, and built six churches in and about Memphis, Tenn. I was 46 what is commonly called a " Ritualist," with incense, candles^ &c., but comin^^ to look on these performances as merely a sham mass I abandoned them and became a Roman Catholic. Since that time I have been practicing law in Washington, D. C. I have never achieved anything worth mentioning, but send you herewith two little books, which attracted very little attention — one pretending to be nothing more than doggerel and both thrown ofi" on the spur of the moment. Possibly your genius and learning may see more in them than the public did, I am now engaged on a Quarto-Cen- tennial Poem — Columbus the leading character — and have written about two hundred pages. It is not an Epic but a Psychic Poem, and discusses past, present, and future events. Singularly, part of the dedication, written June 16th, '90, pays a glowing tribute to Dr. Scudder who the day before had preached in the Tabernacle — as reported by the New York Smi next morning. (The preacher referred to was probably Dr. Scudder of Jersey City, the nephew^ of Dr. W. W. Scudder of the Class of '41). l!^othing gratifies me more than to hear of my old class- mates, but lest you should forget me entirely I beg that I may have my name properly inserted in the Catalogue. Mr. Alexander some years ago told me I was dead, and proved it by a star opposite my name in the Catalogue. This mis- take probably arose from some publication of the death of my son Dr. J. W. Rogers. Subsequently J. Harris Rogers was substituted for J. W., but J. Harris as mentioned above, is my eldest son and still living. He was educated in Lon- don and Buloin-sur-mere. I am a little jealous of his fame but hope — as Dr. Scudder would say — to " pass him on the home-stretch." Yours with great regard, J. W. Rogers. 47 John McDonai d Ross was the son of John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee nation. He prepared for College at Law- renceville, N, J,, and died the year after his graduation. J. Warren Rijyer. The following communication was received by the Committee from Dr. Royer : Trappe, Pa., June 3, 1891. Prof. Duffield of Commiitee, Dear Sir: — My professional engagements are of such character that 1 cannot at present writing positively say whether I can be present at the semi-centennial anniversary of our class to be held the present month. I hope to be there, but should I not be with the number that are left of the Class of '41, I hereby transmit a short personal history, humble in its beginning, unassuming in its busy mid-life, and quiet though somewhat aggressive in its still active winding-up. My parents: The Hon. Joseph Royer and Elizabeth Dewees. Time and place of birth: July 21, 1820, at Trappe^ Montgomery Co., Pa., where I have always resided and where I expect after awhile that my body will be laid to rest, having a firm trust in God that the soul, freed from the travails of earth's wayfaring, will wing its way to its Maker and Redeemer, there forever to bask in the sunshine of Eternal Love. My wife : Anna Herbert, daughter of Henry Herbert, Esq., and Cornelia McMaster, of Philadelphia, Pa., and pre- viously of Boston, Mass, Living children : Three sons and two daughters. I graduated from the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Pa., April 1845, and have followed the practice of medicine unremittingly since, and I am still as active in the profession as in the long ago. I have occupied no position of especial honor or trust, political or otherwise. 1 have for the past ten years held 48 and continue to hold by appointment the position of phy- sician and surgeon to the Montgomery Co., Pa., almshouse. The position is both honorable and responsible. I am an active and rather prominent member of St. Luke's Reformed Church of this place, and to end this short but succinct history, I am a firm Republican and a Free- mason. I am, with much respect, my fellow-classmate, Very truly yours, J. Warren Royer. Edward Wallace Scudder was born in the city of Trenton, New Jersey, Aug. 11, 1822, where he has continued to reside until the present time. His parents were natives of Trenton township, now called the township of Ewing, where the families of both have resided since about the year 1700. The Scudders are of Puritan ancestry, having come to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the year 1635, whence this branch removed to Long Island about 1660, and subse- quently to the banks of the Delaware, about 5 miles above Trenton. He was prepared for college at the Trenton Academy and the Lawrenceville High School, and entered the Sophomore class at Princeton in 1338. He stood high in his class, and was honored with an oration at Commence- ment. Immediately after graduating he entered the office of Hon. William L. Dayton as a law student, and was in due course licensed to practice as an attorney and a coun- selor-at-law. He was elected State Senator to represent the County of Mercer in 1863 and served for three years, being chosen President of the Senate for the last year of his term. Until 1869 he successfully practiced his profession, when he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, which office he still holds by successive appoint- ments, the last having been made March 23, 1890, for a term of seven years. As a jurist he has been honored and 49 respected, and his whole time has been exclusively devoted to the responsible duties of his office. Having always been a student he is familiar with the literature of his profession, but patient attention to the hearing of causes and uniform courtesy are the most dis- tinguishing traits of his official character. In recognition of his high position and services, the College of New Jersey conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1881. Following the faith of his fathers he has been an elder and trustee of the Presbyterian Church for many years, and has once represented the Presbytery to which he is attached in the General Assembly. Since 1861 he has been a trustee of the Theological Seminary at Princeton, a regular attend- ant at the meetings of the Board, and has shown great interest in the Institution. He w-as appointed a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Council, which met at Belfast in 1884, but was prevented by official duties from attending. In 1848 he married Mary Louisa Drake, daughter of Hon. George K. Drake, formerly a Justice of the Supreme Court of jSTew Jersey, and a graduate of Princeton College. Two of their sons were graduates of Princeton — Edward D., now deceased, of the class of '70, and George D., now practicing law in Trenton, of the class of '76. Two other sons and two daughters, all married, are living in New Jersey, not far from their parents' home. Their mother died in January, 1890. William Waterbury Scudder was born in Pandite- nipo, Ceylon, Sept. 17, 1823. His father was Rev. John Scudder, M.D., of blessed memory. Graduated in 1841, he spent three years in the Theological Seminary at Princeton — the last year, with the approbation of the Professors, in special studies bearing on Missionary life. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Elizabeth in the Spring of '45 and ordained by the same Presbytery, in the First Presbyterian. 50 Church of Elizabeth, N". J., July 14, '46. He sailed for Ceylon in November, '46, arriving in Feb. '47. He was engaged in Missionary labors in Ceylon, at Batticotta, Mauchy and Chavagacherry till 1851. After a brief visit to America in '51-52, he with two of his brothers began labors in the Ascot District of Southern India, formerly the Ascot Mission of the Reformed (Dutch) Church. Returning to America in 1872 with his famil}', he re- ceived and accepted a call to the First Congregational Church of Glastonbury, Conn., and was installed its pastor Dec. 17, 1873, having first severed his connection with the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church. This step was reluctantly taken in the interest of his family, the education of his children seeming to demand his presence in this country. This object having been in large measure attained, by the invitation of the Board he returned to India to the Ascot Mission with Mrs. Scudder, in Sept. '84 — one of his daughters. Miss M. K., having preceded him in '83, and one of his sons. Rev. Lewis R,, M.D., following him in '88. In '88, a Theological Seminary in the Ascot Mission, with a paid-up endowment of about |50,000, was established by the authority of the General Synod, and in June of the same year Dr. Scudder was elected Professor in the Sem- inary, by the Synod. Since its establishment Dr. Scudder has devoted himself to the work of his Professorship with energy and success. In the early part of the year, 1891, through the great burden of labor resting on him his health failed completely and his life was for weeks despaired of. The Lord has however graciously answered prayer in his behalf and raised him up to health in a most remarkable manner. Dr. Scudder has been thrice married. His first wife was Catharine Ennise Hastings, of New York, to whom he was married, Sept. 24, 1846. She died March 11, 1849. 51 He was married to Elizabeth Olivia Knight, of Newark^ N. J., Sept. 29, 1852. She died Sept. 4, 1854. He was married to Frances Ann Rousseau, of West Troy, N, Y., Aug. 26, 1858, who is now with him in India. Of his four children, two, as already mentioned, are with him on the field in India. Of the others, Rev. W. W. Scudder, Jr., is settled in Alameda, Cal., and the youngest (Frances) is married to Samuel H. Williams, Glastonbury, Conn. He received the degree of D.D. from Union College in '67. John Sergeant, Jr., was born in Philadelphia in July, 1823. He was the son of the Hon. John Sergeant, LL.D., of the Class of 1795, one of the most eminent American lawyers. United States Senator from Pennsylvania and American Ambassador at the Panama Congress. He was grandson of the Hon. Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant of the Class of 1762, a member of Congress and Attorney General of Pennsylvania. He was great-grandson of Jonathan Dickinson, the first President of the College. He studied law with his father, was admitted to the bar, entered on the practice of his profession in Philadelphia, and died July 23d, 1856. Benjamin Clarkson Snowden was born in Berks Co., Pa,, Sept. 14th, 1822. His father was Dr. Isaac C. Snovvden of Philadelphia, a graduate of both the Academic and the Medical Departments of the University of Pennsylvania. His mother was Maria Mearus of Bucks Co. His grand- father was Dr. Isaac Snowden, who married a daughter of Gerardus Clarkson, living near Princeton, N. J. So far back as the family record goes his paternal ancestors were physicians. The Snowden family were among the early settlers of this country. They emigrated from Wales, and originally spelled their name as it is still spelled in Wales — Snowdon. 52 They were noted for their longevity, wealth and strict ad- herence to Presbyterianism. Benjamin C. was graduated with honor at the Jeiferson Medical College in 1844. He married Sarah Throckmorton Wyckoff, Dec. 4th, 1845, and removed to Huntingdon Val- ley. He there practiced his profession for 25 years, having for the greater part of that time the largest country practice in that section of the state. Though naturally of a strong constitution, yet, owing to his extended practice with its constant strain, his health failed and he was obliged to re- tire, to the regret of a large community, and with an emi- nently successful professional record. Dr. Snowden was repeatedly urged to accept political office, but refused on account of his devotion to his profession. Leaving Huntingdon Valley, he removed to Philadel- phia in 1870. The change proved beneficial to his health, and after a time he resumed the practice of his profession in the city and continued it successfully until his last illness. He died Jan, 19th, 1890, from an attack of pneumonia, con- tracted by exposure in professional duties during the pre- valence of the grippe that winter in Philadelphia. Dr. Snowden was a devoted husband, a loving father, and a sympathetic friend. Generous to a fault and preferring to be imposed upon rather than judge any one uncharitably, whilst he did not amass wealth he died esteemed and la- mented by all within the wide circle of his acquaintance. Mrs. Snowden, two daughters and one son are still living. William C. Sturgeon of Hartsville, Pa. At the Re- union no one present was able to give any information in regard to Mr. Sturgeon, but subsequently the Committee learned through Dr. Potter that Mr. S. was living and resided at Nashville, Tenn. A letter addressed to him there brought the following reply : 53 Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 4th, 1891, Prof. John T. Duffield. Dear Sir : With feelings of pleasure commingled with regret I reply to your recent favor. During the long vista of the past I have been in comparative ignorance of the personal history of my beloved classmates of '41. Their recent re- union at their Alma Mater must have been an occasion of very great joy to those who were permitted to participate therein. 1 rejoice that so many of them have risen to high and distinguished honor. As for myself I have not achieved much that is worthy of special note. By reason of par- ticular providence I have occupied minor positions of use- fulness in retired life. Most of my earlier days were em- ployed in teaching. With reference to personal history I can only say in general that for about twenty' years after graduation I was engaged in Public Schools and Academies both in the East and West. My health breaking down, I retired to a farm in Butler County, Ohio. After remaining there for a number of years, we removed to Nashville, Tenn,, where at present I reside. It would have afforded me the utmost pleasure to have greeted those whom I have ever loved as brothers. In memory I revere the honored instructors who gave us the first impulse in Christian life- work. While God grants me life the scenes of Princeton will never fade from ray memory. Had the invitation been re- ceived at the proper time, from unavoidable hindrances it would have been impossible for me to meet you. I desire to utter my sincere regret that I could not greet you all in the spirit of Christian fellowship with a friendly shake of the hand, and trust that the divine blessing may attend those present through life's devious pathway and that in an un- broken band we all may assemble around the eternal throne as humble followers of the blessed Redeemer. 54 I am now in my seventieth year, enjo3nng to a good degree the peace and comfort belonging to the follovA^ers of the Saviour. I would be delighted to have access to any definite in- formation respecting my classmates and their respective spheres of usefulness. Accept my thanks for your kind attention, and believe me, Yours sincerely, W. C. Stukgeon. William Butler Thompson, son of the Hon. Waddy Thompson, a member of Congress from South Carolina. No information. Daniel A. Ulrich was born in Lebanon County, Penn- sylvania, April 10th, 1819. Ills fiither was the Rev. Daniel Ulrich, for more than fifty years an eminent clergyman of the Lutheran Church. His mother was Elizabeth Weidman whose ancestors were prominent in the army of the Revolu- tion. After completing the Freshman and Sophomore years at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, he entered the Junior Class at Princeton in 1839. After his graduation he studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, received the degree of M.D. in 1844, and commenced the practice of his profession at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pa., where he remained for a few years. He then removed to Reading, Pa., where he continued medical practice until his death, January 6th, '79. Dr. Ulrich was married twice — his first wife was Hen- rietta jSTesbitt of Gettysburg, his second Mary Boyd of Read- ing. The latter, who is still living, is a descendant of Col. Weiss of Washington's Army, the discoverer of coal in Pennsylvania, near Weissport, where he resided. Dr. Ulrich left six children. He was highly esteemed for his professional ability and his exemplary Christian character. 55 John Hunn Voorhees. The Committee received from Mr. Voorhees the following communication : Washington, June, 1891. My Dear Prof. Duffielcl : I have received the circular of your committee on be- half of the Class of 1841, requesting my attendance at a <3la8s- reunion, to be held at Princeton on June 9th — the semi-centennial anniversarv of our graduation — and also re- questing a statement of date of my birth, ancestry, marriage and family, etc., independent, as I understand, of the per- sonal questions already propounded by the Superintendent of the National census. First let me thank your committee for the invitation, and I reply that if practicable I propose to meet you and those of our band of '41, who have survived the half century of life's battle, since we listened to the Baccalaureate of dear old Dr. Carnahan and went forth with our parchment shields to our various fields of action. As mortal birth must antedate our second academic ad- vent, I must reply in order of time, and ask you to fancy me as first greeting the light on the banks of the Tombigbee in Alabama, in the midst of that colony of Frenchmen who after the eclipse of Waterloo and the collapse of the Empire sought to beat their swords into pruning-hooks and cultivate the vine and the olive under a congressional grant of public land in the territory, just then — 1819 — emerging into statehood. I need not tell you that the vine and the olive did not flourish at that time under the cultivati