LD THE CLASS OF 184 4, HARVARD COLLEGE, PREPARED FOR TfE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR GRADUATION. BY THE CLASS SECRETARY. CAMBRIDGE: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, PEIJITERS TO THE UNIVEKSITT. 1869. m i THE CLASS OF 184 4, HARVARD COLLEGE PREPARED FOR THE 85TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR GRADUATION. BY THE CLASS SECRETARY. CAMBRIDGE: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. 1809. k)j) IK] 1 ? 4- 4 cu PREFACE THIS volume has been prepared in accordance with the fol- lowing vote of the Class, passed at their regular annual meeting on Commencement Day, 1868: — " Voted, That the Class Secretary be requested to address a cir- cular to the members of the Class, requesting them to communicate to him such information as they are willing to give as regards them- selves and their lives since graduation, and also in regard to other members of the Class, and that the same be prepared by him and printed, to be laid before the Class at its twenty-fifth Anniversary." The circular was issued on the 10th of October, 1868. In it the Secretary so far exceeded his instructions as to ask his class- mates for information with regard to their lives prior as well as subsequent to graduation, in order that the work w^hich he was charged with the duty of editing might present a complete history of the Class. He also requested each member to put his com- munication into the form in which he preferred that it should be printed, in order that the proposed work should constitute, as far as possible, a series of autobiographies. Replies to this circular were received from only a small number of the Class, and of this number a portion only furnished the full account of themselves which was desired. It was at first intended to print these replies precisely as they were received, thus carrying out the plan of making a series of strictly autobiographical sketches. But as their number proved in the sequel to be comparatively incon- siderable, and it appearing doubtful, on careful examination, whether more than one or two of them had been prepared by their authors in the form in which they would prefer to have them printed, it was thought best to recast them, at least so far as was necessary to give IV PREFACE. the completed work that air of homogeneousness which was desir- able. As much as possible, however, the words of the originals have been retained. In cases where no reply to the circular was received the Secre- tary has endeavored to supply the omission with such information as he could procure from other sources. Among those of which he has availed himself are " The Class-Book," in which every member who graduated with the Class, with but three exceptions, entered his name, and the date and place of his birth, seven only adding sketches of their early life ; the pamphlet prepared in 1864 by Dr. Slade, together with letters received by him at that time from eight members of the Class, and since preserved with the records ; The Genealogical Register, Dr. Palmer's '' Ne- crology of the Alumni of Harvard College," and other similar works. The Secretary has also been much indebted to relatives and friends of deceased or absent members, and to Mr. Sibley, Librarian of Harvard College, and editor of the Triennial Cata- logue, to whom he owes much information otherwise unattainable, and many valuable suggestions. Of the several memoirs twenty-three were written substantially by the parties themselves ; viz. those of Baldwin, Bradford, Brooks, Codman, Dalton, Faulkner, Fuller (written for the Gene- alogical Register), Gould, Greeley, Hale, Hartwell (letter to Slade), Hoar (letter to Slade), Johnson, Morison, Noyes, Rogers, Sawyer, Sears, Sewall (letters to Slade and to Secretary), F. Smith, Tilton, Walker, E. Wheelwright. Four were written by other persons ; — that of Batchelder by his brother, Samuel Batchelder, Jr. ; Crowell, by P. H. Sears ; Lemmon, by R. M. Bradford ; and Lord, by his father, Melvin Lord. The remainder, thirty-four in number, were compiled by the Secretary ; sixteen of them with some assistance from the par- ties themselves, — viz. Baker (Class-Book), Blair (Class-Book), Capen, Chauncey (Class-Book and letter to Secretary), Dwight (letter to Slade), Francis, Harris, Hunt, Middleton, G. F. Park- man, F. Parkman, Peabody (Class-Book), Prescott, Saltonstall, Slade, Snow; and eighteen vi'iihoni such assistance, — viz. *Cary, Clarke, Dabney, *Davis, Farnsworth, ^Hildreth, *Hinds, Jones, PREFACE. V Lewis, Perry, Sayles, *J. B. Smith, *Stone, Treadwell, Wheat- land, H. B. Wheelwright, Wild. It was the Secretary's design that the memoirs of classmates who have died should, as a rule, occupy more space than the sketches of those who are still living. But he has not been able to carry out fully this intention. He regrets that he was unable to say more of Hildreth and Sayles, and especially that the account of Stone is not more full and complete. The recent date of Mr. Stone's death, and the diflEiculty experienced in obtaining information concerning him, owing to subsequent illness and death in his family, will, it is hoped, excuse this deiSciency. Mr. Fuller's death occurred when the memoir, prepared by himself a few years since for the Genea- logical Register, was already in print, and it was too late to add more than the simple announcement of his death. The memoir of Hinds is by far the longest in the book ; his service and death in the war, it was thought, would justify this distinction. That of Gary, owing to his early death, is naturally filled to a greater extent than any other with details of college life. It is chiefly compiled from " Recollections of George B. Gary, Jr., by Francis Parkman, Jr.," written in 1848 for Mr. Gary's mother, as well as from copies of some of Gary's letters, and information personally furnished by his relatives. The memoir of J. B. Smith is almost entirely derived from a sermon preached soon after his death by Rev. J. H. Hey wood, of Louisville, Ky., who also communicated by letter some additional facts. That of Whitcomb has been made up chiefly from the account of him given by his brother, soon after his death, to R. Godman, then acting as Glass Secretary pro tern. In the preparation of the memoir of Davis the Secretary has been greatly assisted by Judge Devens and by Hon. George T. Davis. The account of Perry has been compiled by the Secretary from the published Diplomatic Gorrespondence of the U. S. Government, and from newspaper articles, especially from those in the New York Evening Post, extending through a series of years. It has been approved by his relatives in this country, who also kindly furnished useful memoranda. That of Middleton, condensed from his reply to the circular, has been revised and approved by his father. It will be observed that several names are given in the biog- raphies in a form difi'erent from that which they have in the VI PREFACE College catalogues and in the Triennial. The change, in every Case, has been made at the request of the parties concerned, or in conformity with their own usage, and is in most instances men- tioned, and the reasons for it stated in the text. The names thus changed are those of Blair, Chauncey, Greeley, Hartwell, Johnson, and Fayette Smith. At the end of the lives some statistics of the Class are given, followed by an account of the Class Fund and the Class Album, and by a list of the Class as it is printed in the Triennial Catalogue for the present year. The volume closes with some Memorials of College Life, which it was thought would prove acceptable. In presenting to the Class this record of the lives of its mem- bers, the Secretary trusts that its perusal will afford them as much pleasure as he has himself found in its compilation ; and that as his endeavor to perform the task assigned him has had the effect of enlarging his sympathies for all his classmates, so its result may serve to renew their acquaintance with each other, and to keep alive the old Class spirit of their college days. EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, Class Secretary, CLASS OFFICKRS IN ISCi) Committee on Class Meetings. GEORGE SILSBEE HALE, BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, AARON CHARLES BALDWIN. Trustees of the Ceass Fund. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, ROBERT CODMAN. Class Secretary. EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT. THE CLASS OF 1844. GEORGE WASHINGTON BAKER. GEORGE WASHINGTON BAKER was born October 10, 1822, in Salisbury Township. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His father, an honest and independent farmer, was of German origin ; his mother was of Scotch descent. At the age of twelve he was sent to a boarding- school at Litiz, in his native county, where he remained two years, after which, being destined for the mercantile profession, he was placed in a wholesale and retail store about thirty miles from home. He remained there only a week ; when, disgusted with the employment, he ran away. From this time until he had reached the age of seventeen he remained on his father's farm, with the exception of six months passed at a school in West Chester. Having now decided to make the law his profession, he set about preparing for college, and accordingly again en- tered an academy, where his severe application, to make up for lost time, brought on an attack of illness. Recov- ering from this at the end of nine months he entered Newark College, in partial connection with the Sophomore class, but at the end of one term was admitted to full standing. Having been again attacked by illness, how- ever, he obtained an honorable dismissal, and returned to his father's farm to regain his health. This being in part accomplished, and thinking the climate of New England 1 10 THE CLASS OF 1844. might be more favorable to liim, he, in September, 1842, entered Harvard College as an University student, attached to the Class of 1845. His health improving, he was able, the next year, by some hard study, to join the Class of 1844, in the second term of the Junior year, and remained with them till they graduated. The above is condensed from his autobiography in the Class-Book, dated April 27, 1844. He has not been heard from directly since graduating, but is reported to be married and to be practising law in San Francisco, California. May, 1869. 11 AAEON CHARLES BALDWIN. AARON CHARLES BALDWIN, son of Aaron and Elizabeth Esther (Marett) Baldwin, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 7, 1824. He was educated at Chauncey Hall School, and entered Harvard College with the Class as a Freshman, without conditions. At the end of the Sophomore year he was obliged to leave college on account of weakness of his eyes. The next year, although still unable to study, he attended the lectures of the Dane Law School. He entered a counting-house in 1845, and was engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1860, at which time he retired from active business. In 1853, on petition of the Class, he received the degree of A. B., and had the great satisfaction of being enrolled in the catalogue with the Class of 1844. April 29, 1869. 12 ^FRANCIS LOWELL BATCHELDER. FRANCIS LOWELL BATCHELDER, son of Samuel and Mary (Montgomery) BatcheMer, was born in that part of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, which is now within the limits of the city of Lowell, April 2, 1825. His father's family is believed to have originated in Dor- setshire, England, whence John Batchelder, yeoman, emi- grated to this country about the year 1640, and settled in Salem. On his maternal side he was of Scotch extraction, — his mother's grandfather, John Montgomery, leaving Glasgow for Philadelphia at the age of twenty, at the in- stance of a brother who was prosperously established in the latter city. It was, perhaps, from this ancestor, or from his mother's father, who bore the same name, and who was in command of the forces at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, during the War of 1812, that he derived his strong and very early developed taste for music, especially for the violin, upon which instrument he became quite a proficient, as his grandfather and great-grandfather had been before him. A few weeks before his sixth birthday his parents re- moved with their seven children, six sons and one daughter, to Saco, Maine, where his father assumed direction of the affairs of the York Manufacturing Company, established there a few years before, rescuing them from a state of feebleness and depression, and conducting them to the state of high prosperity which they still enjoy. Here he received such manner of schooling and preparation for college as was obtainable at the " Thornton Academy," an institution FRANCIS LOWELL BATCHELDER. 13 of some pretensions at that place and time, — now, however, extinct, — enterino; college from this seminary, as a Fresh- man, in 1840. By the removal of his father's family from Saco to Cambridge he found himself at home before the close of the first term of his Junior year, and pleasantly established there, — his father having purchased the house on Brattle street (then called Mount Auburn Road), known as the Yassall house, from having been owned and occupied by Colonel Henry Yassall of ante-revolutionary memory. Upon graduating in 1844, at the early age of nineteen, he gave a full year to general studies, the belles-lettres, mod- ern languages, and, above all, to music, to which he could now devote himself more assiduously than ever. He de- lighted friends and acquaintances with the versatility of his acquirements, — singing with great sweetness and feeling, playing the organ, the piano-forte, and the violin with taste and scientific accuracy, — producing several musical com- positions of merit, familiarizing himself with German and Italian, studying some practical aspects of horticulture and architecture, and acquiring a fair degree of skill at the easel. But the time had now arrived when the cares and re- sponsibilities of manhood were in great measure to sup- plant these recreations and amenities of youth, although the taste for these pursuits and the influence exerted by them on his character were never lost. In the year 1845 he commenced the study of law in the office of Edward Blake, Esq., and in 1848 received the degree of Bachelor of Laws at the Dane Law School. He immediately entered upon the practice of his profession, opening an office in what was known as Minot's Building, directly opposite the Court House, his premises communicating with those of his pre- ceptor, Mr. Blake. After the usual round of miscellaneous practice, his attention became by degrees concentrated upon 14 THE CLASS OF 1844. the business of conveyancing and the management of trusts, to which he finally gave himself almost exclusively. But, though actively engaged in professional duties, he never- theless found time for the indulgence of his artistic tastes, and for taking a prominent and very useful part in the affairs of the parish of Christ Church, Cambridge, of which he was for several years treasurer, and in the municipal concerns of the then but newly organized city of Cambridge, serving in the Common Council and upon various important committees. He married, December 2, 1851, Susan Cabot Foster, youngest child of Charles C. Foster, of Cambridge, and at once began housekeeping in a house planned mainly by himself, and built under his personal supervision, on Phillips Place, Cambridge. Here, in 1852, a daughter, Amy, and, in 1856, a son, Charles Foster, were born to him. His health, which had never been robust, began to fail soon after his marriage, and the insidious advances of consump- tion became gradually more and more apparent. Various courses of remedial treatment having been pursued without success, and scA^eral shorter tours, sojournings at the sea- side, &c., essayed with only moderate and temporary bene- fit, he undertook, in the spring of 1857, a journey to Florida, accompanied by his wife and infant son. Returning in a few months in what seemed like improved health, he re- newed the experiment the succeeding November, only to add another to the long list of consumptives who have left the pleasures, the certain comforts, and the manifold as- sured advantages of home in the profitless search after an illusory phantom of health in distant regions. He died very peacefully at Hibernia, Fleming's Island, Florida, Feb- ruary 9, 1858*! Nearly a year subsequent to his death, at the annual meeting of the Harvard Musical Association, resolutions were adopted and remarks made which are introduced here FRANCIS LOWELL BATCHELDER. 15 as a fitting close to this imperfect sketch, especially as they dwell upon certain points which the writer has left untouched, relative to Mr. Batchelder's connection with tliis society and with the Boston Music Hall Association. The resolu- tions were as follows : — " Whereas, Since the last meeting of the Harvard Musical Asso- ciation, the hand of Death has taken from us one who had been closely identified with its interests and pleasures : " jResolred, That we hold very dear to our hearts the memory of Francis Lowell Batchelder ; that we recall with pleas- ure the recollection of his singularly pure and lovely Christian life and conversation ; that we esteem it a privilege to have known and loved one who was in every way so worthy of affec- tion and esteem, and that here especially, and, on this anniversary which brings to mind the pleasant recollections of college days and college friends, we shall long recall to memory the face, the presence, and the conversation of him who has gone from among us. " Resolved, That we tender to his family our sincere sympathy for the irreparable loss that they have sustained, and rejoice with them in the painless recollections of his blameless life and character, and that these resolves be transmitted to them and entered upon the records of the Association." Before the resolutions were passed Dr. J. B. Upham spoke as follows : — " It is with much hesitation, Mr. President, after the beautiful and touching tribute just rendered to the memory of our departed brother, that I rise and attempt to add a single word. But the re- lations sustained between Batchelder and myself were such and so intimate, while he was living, that I cannot refrain from giving some expression to my sorrow at his early death. " As is known to most present, he was for many years a mem- ber of this Association ; and, whether in the capacity of private fel- lowship, or as one of its most faithful and efficient officers, he had always its best interests at heart. It was here and in this connec- tion, as likewise in his capacity as clerk of the Boston Music Hall 16 THE CLASS OF 1844. Association, where he performed his duty most faithfully and as- siduously, that my acquaintance with him began, — an acquaintance always coupled with esteem and respect, which soon ripened into friendship and ultimately into intimacy and the strongest attach- ment. More particularly, during the last two years of his life, were we drawn together by the bond of sympathy in a common object and topic of interest, having relation, I mean, to that noble struc- ture, — the embodiment both of science and of art, — the Organ, which was his favorite instrument. " I have now in my possession a ruler made from one of the keys of the old organ in Christ Church, in Cambridge, where our friend was accustomed to worship, and where he often officiated as organist in the three or four years preceding his death. This relic he gave me on the morning of my departure for Europe, a couple of years ago. The instrument from which it was taken was, in it- self, a curiosity, and in its day a valuable work, — some of the incidents of whose history are most interesting and remarkable ; it having been built so early as about the year 1760, by the famous John Snetzler of London, robbed, in the Revolutionary War, by the besieging army under Washington, of its six leaden stops (which were then put to a more practical use), and taken down and ex- changed for the present instrument some dozen or fifteen years since, — an event (this last) over which Batchelder, in his gentle and refined taste, never ceased to mourn. I mention this anecdote, Mr. President, otherwise irrelevant, perhaps, at the present time, as indicating, in some sort, the appreciative and artistic tone which pervaded our friend's nature. And this it was, I can add my testi- mony, which characterized his whole life, — a spirit of gentleness and refinement and kindness, and goodness of heart ; a love for the picturesque and beautiful in Nature, and for Art in all its forms, — for music especially. Add to this a cultivated mind, a well-stored intellect, urbanity and affability of* manner and of conversation, and do we wonder it has been said of him, he never had an enemy, he never lost a friend 2 " Mr. Batchelder was by no means demonstrative of his talents or his acquirements. His voice was rarely heard in our meetings, though no one was more constant and punctual in his attendance. So it was elsewhere, whether in the business, the duties, the FRANCIS LOWELL BATCHELDER. 17 rational enjoyments of life. He did much, — he said little. But by a certain something, more easily felt than described, one could not be with him much without acknowledging his excellence and his moral worth. And if we could see, as some believe it will be in our power one day to see, the shadows imprinted on the sur- rounding objects with which we come into proximity in our daily life — both publicly and in retirement — daguerreotyped, photo- graphed, as it were, we should read all around, I am sure, in his case, the record of a beautiful and blameless life. " The last time I saw our lamented brother in health was on the occasion to wdiich I have alluded. On my return home, a few months afterwards, he had gone South to escape the severities of our New England spring. After a few months' sojourn he came back, and I visited him (in company with my friend. Dr. Derby) at his quiet home in Cambridge. AVe found him cheerful and hap- py, and full of hopes of recovery ; for his disease, as you all know, was that rhysterious and insidious one which so simulates health, and steals onward so gradually in its fatal march, and is so almost invariably accompanied by courage and fortitude, and the persistent hoping against hope, that wdien its end comes, which is death, it appears sudden and surprising. Thus, on the occasion of this visit with our friend and brother, he was him- self, as I have said, buoyant and hopeful ; to us, however, his doom, even then, was plainly written in the lineaments of his face. We bade him farewell with well-assumed cheerfulness, but with sorrowing hearts, feeling, knowing, it to be for the last time. " He went a second time to Florida, — like the Ponce de Leon, and innumerable multitudes since, in vain search after the fountain of life, — where, in a couple of months, he died, in such manner and with such surroundings as, it seems to me, most fitting he should die, and as he himself, I believe, could most have desired, — in the genial air of Florida, near the coast, not without the presence of relatives and sympathizing friends, — the winds blowing on him incense from the breathing pines inland, and the voice of the sea which he so much loved speaking to him from the shore, — and, floating all around him, the melody with which that delicious cli- mate seems laden, in all seasons, summer and winter, in the day 18 THE CLASS OF 1844. and in the night, throughout animal and vegetable life, — where, as some poet has beautifully expressed it, even ' The mute, still air, Is Music slumbering on her instrument.' " Thus he died, — died as he had lived, patient and uncomplaining to the last, calm and happy and peaceful and resigned, still trust- ing in God, in the exercise of a Christian faith, and in full hopes of a glorious immortality." 19 THOMAS BLAIR. THOMAS BLAIR was born in Western Pennsylvania November 20, 1825. At the age of twelve he was sent to a boarding-school in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained four years. He then entered the Western Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, situated in Pittsburg, wliere he gradu- ated in 1843. In August of the same year he applied for admission to Harvard College, and joined the Class of 1844 in the beginning of the Senior year. The above is condensed from his autobiography in tlie Class-Book, dated May 1, 1844. He has there entered his name as it is printed above ; but in the Catalogue of Un- dergraduates for 1843-44, the only year in which he was connected with the College, as well as in the Triennial, it is printed Thomas S. Blair. After graduating with the Class he returned to Pennsyl- vania, where he is now reported to be engaged in business at Pittsburg. He has not been heard from directly since graduating. May, 1869. 20 RICHAED MAGEUDER BEADFOED. RICHARD MAGRUDER BRADFORD was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on the 2d day of November, 1825. His father was John Bradford, a merchant of Baltimore, son of AVilliam Bradford, farmer, of Abingdon, Hartford County, Maryland, a major during the War of Independ- ence, and a descendant of Gamaliel Bradford, of Massa- chusetts. His mother, Anna Strieker, was daughter of General John Strieker of Baltimore, who was well known in the annals of Maryland for the active part he took in the defence of Baltimore during the last war with Great Britain. He was captain in the Maryland Line during the Revolutionary War, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and son of Colonel George Strieker, whose father emigrated to this country from Switzerland. Richard M. Bradford was educated and prepared for col- lege by M. R. McXally, Esq., of Baltimore, in company with his classmate Robert Lemmon, and entered college, in the second term of the Sophomore year, in 1842. During their college life he and Lemmon were intimate companions and room-mates. After leaving college he studied law in the office of James Mason Campbell, Esq., of Baltimore, for eighteen months, and in the office of the Hon. Hugh Davy Evans, of Balti- more, for nearly a year, and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1847. About this time he was seized by the military furor which then pervaded the minds of most KICHAED MAGRUDER BRADFORD. 21 young men in Maryland, and accompanied Captain S. H. Walker, of Texan Ranger notoriety, to Mexico, where he participated in many of the battles and hardships of the Mexican War. On his return he entered upon the practice of law with Robert Lemmon ; but after a few months abandoned it for mercantile life, in which he has since remained. Business calling him to California in 1849, he made the journey thither across the Plains, which was, with the exception of the sea voyage around Cape Horn, the only regular route known at that early day. After leaving California he spent some fifteen months in Peru, and returned, by way of Cape Horn, to Baltimore. He went again to South America, and passed several years on the Spanish Main, in Brazil, the West Indies, School, and one year in an office, was admitted to the bar, and has since practised his profession in Fitchburg. In January, 1858, he was married to Eliza Secrest, of South Carolina. They have had four children, of whom the eldest, a boy, died in August, 1862, aged two years and six months. April 29, 1869. \ i 124 =^JOSHUA CLAPP STONE. JOSHUA CLAPP STONE, son of the late Henry B. and Elizabeth (Clapp) Stone, was born in Boston, Massa- chusetts, August 28, 1825. His fatlier was for many years cashier and president of the Suffolk Bank in that city. He resided in Boston until 1838, and was for several years a pupil in the school kept by Mr. T. B. Hayward ; he then went to the academy at Leicester, Massachusetts, to prepare for college, and in 1840 entered Harvard with the Class as a Freshman. He did not seem ambitious of rank in college ; but his classmates recognized in him the ability to attain it, while he won their hearts by his quiet and engaging man- ners, his high sense of honor, his hearty sympathy, and his unvarying good-nature. Immediately after graduating he entered the Dane Law Scliool, and, in 1846, the law ofiice of the late ColonelJ. H. AV. Page, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he com- pleted his legal studies. He was admitted to the bar of •Bristol County in 1849, and was at once associated in prac- tice with Colonel Page. He married, September 17, 1850, Elisabeth Hathaway, daugliter of Nathaniel and Anna Hathaway, of New Bed- ford, where his widow, with four sons and a daughter, is now living. In 1853 he formed a partnership with Judge Brigham, which continued until the latter was appointed to the bench. In the spring of 1859 Mr. Stone removed with his family to Boston, where he remained in the practice of his JOSHUA CLAPP STONE. 125 profession until the spring of 1862, when he returned to New Bedford and became a partner with William W. Crapo, Esq. Tliis connection continued until his death. He was for several years Commissioner of Insolvency ; and when the office of Judge of Insolvency was created, was appointed to that position for Bristol County, holding it until the office was merged in that of Judge of Probate. In the years 1866 and 1867 he was a Representative from the Eleventh Bristol District in the Massachusetts Legisla- ture. He died in New Bedford on the 2d of January, 1869. The obituary notice, of which the following is a part, ap- peared in the New Bedford Mercury a few days after his death : — " This is a simple record ; but the death of the subject of it is a grave and serious loss to our city ; not only a loss to the profession which he adorned, and to the friends who warmly admired and loved him, but to the entire community, upon which such a man, high-minded, honorable, truthful, and courageous, exercises an un- conscious, but most beneficial and elevating influence. " In his profession he had already achieved an enviable reputa- tion, as a sound lawyer, a persuasive, convincing advocate, and a thoroughly honorable practitioner. No man, it seems to us, could have a juster sense of the gravity and dignity of the profession, a more full appreciation of the oath he had taken as a minister of the law, or a more conscientious and resolute determination to regard its solemn sanction. He was ever fair, open, and manly in his practice ; slow to take advantage of an adversary's mistake or neg- lect, and indignant at the least showing of trickery or even disin- genuousness. We know the esteem in which he was held by the judges of the highest court of the State, the respect they entertained for his ability, the confidence they had in his professional integrity and honor, and the pleasure they took in listening to his neat and finished legal arguments. His death is the extinguishment of one of the lights of the profession in this county, — a light that was daily growing in effulgence; for he worked to the last. In his sick- 126 THE CLASS OF 1844. chamber were his law books, and when stricken down he was at work upon an important law argument. " Death has robbed us of more than the promising, growing, ripening lawyer. As a legislator. Judge Stone won marked dis- tinction. His graceful oratory, his choice language, his musical periods, gave him power in the House, — power to command and compel attention. But these alone did not give him the influence which he exerted and the popularity which he enjoyed. His great power was in his integrity, his honesty and sincerity. The House trusted in him as legislators once trusted in Fisher Ames and Roger Sherman ; members })ut faith in his words because they had faith in the man. In all parts of the State men were looking to Mr. Stone as one competent to the duties and worthy the honor of its liighest station ; and in his death a career of extended public distinction and usefulness has been lost." Mav, 18G9. 127 WARREN TILTON. WMRREX TILTOX was born in Newburjport, Mas- sachusetts, August 4, 1824, and is the son ©f Stephen and Priscilla H. (Brown) Tilton. He was fitted for college at the Latin School in Boston, and entered with the Class as a Freshman. After graduation he studied law with Hubbard and Watts, of Boston, and also at the Dane Law School in Cambridge. He was married in Georgetown, D. C, January 28„ 1851, to Sarah A. Ould, daughter of Robert and PauUna (Gayther) Ould. He practises law in Boston and resides in Beverly, Mas- sachusetts. He has been a member of both branches of the Massa- chusetts Legislature. Tiie only trial of great public notoriety in which he has been engaged was the defence of Frank W. Rounds for the murder of Adolph Prager, his employer, in Washing- ton Street, Boston, at noonday. April 13, 1869. 128 JAMES PARKER TREADWELL. JAMES PARKER TREADWELL entered college with the Class as a Freshman. His name disappears from the Catalogue in the Senior year, nor does it occur in the list of graduates at Commencement. It reappears, however, in the Triennial Catalogue, from which it is also learned that he has received the degree of Master of Arts. He made no entry in the Class-Book. He is one of the contributors to the Class Fund, and the Class Secretary has recently received from him, by mail, from San Francisco, California, his photograph for the Class album. He has resided for many years in San Francisco, and is reported to have acquired a large property there. May, 186 9. 129 GEORGE WALKER. C-^ EORGE WALKER, son of John and Hannah (Wood) T Walker, was born in Burlington, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 9, 1820. His father, the son of John Walker, of Burlington, was a farmer in humble circumstances. His mother was the daughter of John Wood, also of Burlington, where several branches of the family are now living. Until he was four years old he lived in his native town. His father then removing to Lovell, Oxford County, in the State of Maine, he lived with him there until 1839. He then went to Cambridge to reside with his father's brother, Professor James Walker, by wdiom he was fitted for college. He entered Harvard as an L^niversity student in 1840, and in the following year joined the Class of 1844, with which he graduated. His chief difficulty in getting an education was the want of money. With assistance, howevei', from Professor Walker^ and from the beneficiary fund of the college, together with what he earned by school-teaching, he was able to complete his college course. After graduating he took charge of the Portland Acad- emy, at Portland, Maine, and at the same time entered his name as a student of law in the office of Howard and She}> ley, resigning, however, the situation of principal in the academy in March, 1846. In December of the same year he was admitted to the bar of Cumberland County, and formed a partnership for the practice of law with Jeremiah Bradbury, under the form of Bradbuiy and Walker, in Calais, Maine. 130 THE CLASS OF J 844. In 1848 he removed to Machias, Maine, where he has since resided in the constant practice of his profession. He has also been engaged, to some extent and with some suc- cess, in land specnlations, lumbering, and navigation. In politics he has always been allied with the Democratic party, but has never sought political honors. He was, how- ever, chosen Treasurer of the County of Washington in 1855, and in 1862 was elected to the Senate of Maine ; but Jiis election being contested, on technical grounds, he was obliged to yield his seat. In 1867 he was elected to the Maine House of Represent- atives by an indisputable majority, and during the session made several speeches relating both to matters of public and of private legislation. He was married in May, 1851, to Henrietta Jones Cliace, daughter of Hon. Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Pope) O'Brien. They have had six cliildren, three of whom are now living. His wife's father was a Representative in the Congress of the United States from the State of Maine during the four terms, or eight years, immediately following its separation from Massachusetts. Her mother was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but came to Massachusetts in early life, and previous to her marriage was a school-teacher in Roxbury. April 2.3, 1868« 131 STEPHEN GOODHUE WHEATLAND. STEPHEN GOODHUE WHEATLAND, eldest son of Ricliard Goodhue (H. C. 1818) and Maiy B. (Rich- ardson) Wheatland, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, August 11, 1824. His father was the second son of Captain Richard Wheat- land, of Salem, Massachusetts ; his mother was the daugh- ter of John Richardson, Esq., of Newton. His early life was passed in Salem, where he was fitted for college at the public Latin School, under Master Oliver Carlton. He entered Harvard with the Class as a Fresh- man, and remained through tlie whole college course. After graduating he studied and practised law in Salem, of wliicli city he has been several times elected mayor. He was also for one year (1862) a member of the House of Representatives in the Massachusetts Legislature. He resides in Salem, and is still unmarried. May, 1869. 132 EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT. EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, eldest son of Lot and Sarali (Blanchard) Wheelwright, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 10, 1824. His father was the son of Lot and Susannah (Wilson) Wheelwright, of Boston, and grandson of John Wheel- wright, of Cohasset. His mother is the daughter of the late Edward and Mary (Cunningham) Blanchard, of Boston, and granddaughter of Edward and Sarah (Lowell) Blanch- ard. His preparatory education was chiefly acquired at the private school kept in Boston by Mr. T. B. Hayward (H. C. 1820), to whose admirable system of instruction he owes, in a great measure, the respectable rank he was able to take in college. He remained at this school seven or eight years ; but the year previous to his going to Cambridge he passed under the instruction of Mr. Charles K. Dillaway. He entered college with the Class as a Freshman, and re- mained through the whole course. The most notable event of his college life was his election to the office of Class Sec- retary. In November, 1844, shortly after graduating, he sailed from Boston in the ship Robin Hood, bound for Valparaiso. He went as a passenger, and had no object in view other than the voyage itself. The ship having met with disaster off the mouth of the Rio La Plata, put into Montevideo for repairs, which detained her there a fortnight ; after which she proceeded on her voyage, and arrived at Valparaiso after a passage from Boston of one hundred and fifteen days. EDWAKD WHEELWRIGHT. 133 He remained six months on tlic west coast of South America, spending some time in Santiago, tlie capital bf Chili, and in Lima, the chief city of Peru ; visited all the principal ports between Valparaiso and Callao, and returned liome, as he had come, in a sailing vessel, by way of Cape Horn. He arrived in Boston in November, 1845, after a j^ear's absence. Soon after liis return he entered his name as a student in the Dane Law School, where he remained one year, and then entered the office of Sohier and Welch, in Boston, wliere he completed the prescribed term of legal study. He was admitted to the bar of Suffolk County on the 17th of April, 1849, but has never practised. In the autumn of 1849 he went to Europe, where he remained tliree years, — spending the winter of 1849 - 50 in Paris, and afterward travelling in Spain, Switzerland, Italy, and France, and visiting England during the great Exliibition of 1851. He was in Paris at the time of tlie coup cTetat^ December 2, 1851, and was an eyewitness of some of the principal features of that event. In September, 1855, he went again to Europe, for the purpose of seeing the Great Exhibition of that year in Paris, and remained hi that city and its neighborhood until his return home in July, 1856, after less than a year's absence. Since his last visit to Europe he lias resided chiefly in Boston, in the house in which he was born, and which has always been his home. During the last two years the ex- traordinary duties imposed upon him as Class Secretary, which lie has cheerfully accepted, and endeavored to the best of his ability to perform, have given him an agreeable and tolerably engrossing employment. He is still unmarried. May, 1869. 134 HENRY BLATCHFORD WHEELWRIGHT. HENRY BLATCHFORD WHEELWRIGHT, son of Eben and Sarah (Boddily) Wheelwright, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 22, 1824. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and entered Harvard with the Class as a Freshman. He was absent during a considerable portion of the college course, on account of ill-health, but graduated with the Class, re- ceiving his degree in the following, year. After graduating he taught school for a while, being for one year, 1844-45, usher in the Boston public Latin School. In 1846 he entered the Medical School of Harvard University. He was married. May 15, 1850, to Abbie S. Hodges, of Taunton, Massachusetts. For several years he was Commissioner of Alien Passen- gers and Foreign Paupers, and afterward General Agent of the Board of State Charities for the State of Massachusetts, which office he has recently resigned on account of ill- heal tli. He now resides at Taunton, Massachusetts. May, 1869. 135 ^CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB. CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB, son of John and Lydia (Hartwell) Wliitcomb, was born in Hancock, New Hampshire, January 21, 1823. He entered college as a Freshman, and graduated with the Class in 1844. He held a high rank for scholarship, and took part in two of the College Exhibitions ; while at Commencement the part assigned him was the Latin Salu- tatory Oration. According to the printed Order of Exercises for Commencement, he had attained high distinction in mathematics, Latin, and philosophy, and a rank above the average in rhetoric and hi-story. After graduating he went with his classmate, Sears, in November or December, 1844, to the South, where he remained during the winter and spring, chiefly in Louisville, Kentucky. In the following summer he returned, with somewhat impaired health, to his home in Han-cock, New Hampshire, where he remained the greater part of the time for several years, seeking to re-establish his health, study- ing, however, for a term or two at the Dane Law School in 1846-47. In August, 1849, h-e returned to the Law School and remained until April, 1850. On the 4th of May following, in company with his brother, Adolphus Carter Whitcomb (H. C. 1847), he left New York for Cali- fornia, via Chagres, and arrived at San Francisco June 20, 1850. There he was admitted to the bar, and after a few Aveeks began the practice of the law with his brother, being also subsequently associated with Hon. A. Ten Eyck, United States Commissioner at the Sandwich Islands- VSb THE CLASS OF 1844. At the great fire which occurred in San Francisco on the night of May 8, 1851, he was so badly burned in escaping from the building of Welles and Company, where he had his office, as to be confined to his bed. At first he was not sup- posed to be in any danger, but his constitution, for a long time impaired, was unable to withstand the terrible shock it had received, and it was soon found that, although his burns were healing, he was daily growing weaker. He lingered until May 20, 1851, when he died without a strug- gle and apparently without pain. His regular physician during his sickness was his classmate, Dr. Morison. He was temporarily buried in the cemetery of Yerba Buena, pre- vious to the removal of his remains to their final resting- place, by the side of those of his family in Hancock, New Hampshire. His age was twenty-eight years. He died unmarried. At a meeting of the Class, shortly after his death, Messrs. Hale and Tilton were appointed a committee to draft a letter, to be sent to the friends of Mr. Whitcomb, expressive of the sympathy of the Class and their respect for the char- acter of the deceased. The letter was as follows : — To John AYhitcomb, Esq., Hancock, New Hampshire. Dear Sir, — At a meeting of the Class of 1844, held at the office of R Codman, Secretary of the Class pro tern., in Boston, on the IGth of August, 1851, the undersigned were directed in behalf of the Class to express to you and the remainder of your family the sincere sympathy felt by them for the recent loss, under cir- cumstances so peculiarly painful, of our classmate, Charles A. "Whitcomb. Our intimate connection with your son had enabled us thor- oughly to appreciate and esteem his many excellent qualities of heart and intellect, and to understand how painful is the afflic- tion which those united to him by the ties of blood have been called upon to suffer. We have felt, too, how great must have been the value of a person of his character in a community like that of CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB. 137 which he had recently become a member, and how great the im- portance, in a new State, of his elevated purposes, unshaken integ- rity, cool judgment, and fixed religious principle, while we know that his friends must equally have esteemed those milder virtues which irradiate the retirement of home. (Siorned) George S. Hale, ) ^ ^ ° ^ ,„ „ ; Committee. Warren Iilton, \ 138 EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD. EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD, son of Charles (H. C. 1814, M. D. 1818) and S«^i'' (Rhodes) Wild, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, November 25, 1825. He entered Harvard College with the Class as a Fresh- man, and after graduating; studied medicine with his father, and also in tlie Medical School of Harvard University and in Philadelphia, where, in 1846, he received his medical degree from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania. He subse- quently attended medical lectures in Paris. He was married, June 12, 1855, to Frances Ellen, daughter of John W. Sullivan. During the Crimean War he went again to Europe, and served as Medical Officer in the Turkish army, receiving, at the end of the war, a medal from the Turkish Government in recognition of the value of his services. On his return home he practised his profession for several years in Brookline, where, on the breaking out of the Re- bellion in 1861, he recruited a company, which was one of the first that enlisted for the war. His company was incor- porated in the First Regiment Massachusetts Yolunteers, and he was commissioned as its Captain May 22, 1861. He served as Captain in that regiment at the first battle of Bull Run and in the Peninsular Campaign under General Mc- Clellan. At the second battle of Fair Oaks he was severely wounded in the right hand. He came home disabled ; but before his wound was healed was commissioned as Major, and soon after as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Thirty-Second Massachusetts Volunteers, and was appointed to the com- EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD. 139 maud of Camp Stanton, near Lynn, Massachusetts. The Thirty-Fifth Regiment was then recruiting there, and on the 11th of August, 1862, he was commissioned as its Colonel. The regiment left the State on the 22d of August with Colonel Wild at its head, with his arm in a sling, and in the first battle in which it was engaged, that of South Mountain, fought September 14, 1862, Colonel Wild was again severely wounded, losing his left arm at the shoulder- On the 23d of April, 1863, he was commissioned as Brigadier-General United States Volunteers, and after assisting in raising the Fifty-Fourth and Fifty-Fifth Mas- sacluiselts Regiments, composed of colored troops, he as- sumed command of the organization known as " Wild's African Brigade." He served under General Foster in North Carolina, and under General Butler in the Army of the James, and in May, 1865, was ordered to report for duty in Georgia under Brevet Major-General Saxton, As- sistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freed- men, and Abandoned Lands. Finally, by an order of the War Department, dated December 28, 1865, he, with one hundred and twenty-two other general officers, was honor- ably mustered out of the service of the United States. Soon after his discharge from the army. General Wild went to Austin, Nevada Territory, as Superintendent of the Diana Mine, and has since remained there, performing the duties of that position and practising his original profession of medicine. May, 1869. STATISTICS. STATISTICS OF THE CLASS. PROFESSIONS. Divinity. — For a long time the Class of 1844 bad in its ranks no representative of the clerical profession, and was the only Class that ever graduated at Harvard that was so distinguished. Since 1867 it has one clergyman, Rev. Robert P. Rogers. Law. — Thirty-four members of the Class studied Law, — Baker, Baldwin, *Batchelder, Bradford, Brooks, *Cary, Clarke, Codman, *Davis, Farnsworth, *Fuller, Hale, Hartwell, Hoar, Johnson, *Lemraon, Lewis, Noyes, G. F. Parkman, F. Parkman, Perry, Prescott, Saltonstall, Sawyer, Sears, Sewall, F. Smith, Snow, *Stone, Tilton, Walker, Wheatland, E. Wheelwright, *Whitcomb. Of these seven have died; six, including two who died, went into business as merchants or manufacturers, as hereafter men- tioned : one of whom, *Davis, finally became an army officer ; two, Clarke and Perry, have held diplomatic employments; one, Hoar, is now a farmer, and one, F. Parkman, an author. Only eleven are now practising the profession : Baker, Brooks, Codman, Hale, Johnson, Noyes, Sears, F. Smith, Snow, Tilton, Walker. Medicine. — Nine members of the Class studied Medicine : *Crowell, Dalton, Faulkner, Francis, Middleton, Morison, Slade, H. B. Wheelwright, Wild. Of these one, Crowell, has died, and five only are now in the profession : Dalton, Faulkner, Francis, Morison, Slade, Wild. Mercantile Pursuits. — Fourteen members of the Class have been engaged in business : Baldwin, Bradford, *Davis, *Lemmon. Prescott, Sevvall, Blair, Chauncey, Dabney, Dwight, Lord, Pea- 144 THE CLASS OF 1844. body, *Sayles, Tread well, of whom the first six had previously studied law. Five : Blair, Bradford, *Lemmon, Sewall, Peabody, have been or are engaged in manufacturing, and Dwight is treas- urer of a manufacturing company. Three have died, and only six are now engaged in active business : Blair, Dabney, Dwight, Pea- body, Sewall, Treadweli. Teachers. — Several of the Cla^^s have been temporarily em- ployed in teaching since graduation, as Gould, Hale, Harris, Hart- well, Hildreth, H. B. Wheelwright, but only four adopted it as a settled profession : Capen, * Hinds, Sawyer, *J. B. Smith (Music). Of these two have died, and only one, Capen, remains in the pro- fession. Planters. — Harris, Jones. Farmer. — Hoar. Author. — F. Parkman. Astronomer. — Gould. Artist. — Hunt. Army Officer. — *Davis, Brevet-Major U. S. A. Diplomatist. — Perry ; also, temporarily, Clarke. SERVED IN THE WAR AGAINST THE REBELLION. Brigadier-General. — Wild. Major. — Dabney. Surgeon. — Dalton. First Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp. — *Davis. Aide-de-Camp without rank. — Hartwell. Privates. — Harris, * Hinds. MARRIAGES. Forty-two members of the Class have been married : Baker, *Batchelder, Brooks, Capen, Chauncey, Codman, Dabney, Dwight, Farnsworth, Faulkner, Francis, *Fuller, Gould, Greeley, Hale, Hartwell, Hoar, Hunt, Johnson, Jones, *Lemmon, Morison, Noyes, STATISTICS OF THE CLASS. 145 F. Parkman, Peabody, Perry, Prescott, Rogers, Saltonstall, Sawyer, *Sayles, Sears, Sewall, Slade, F. Smith, *J. B. Smith, Snow, *Stone, Tilton, Walker, H. B. Wheelwright, Wild ; of whom five have been twice married : Brooks, *Fuller, Greeley, Morison, *J. B. Smith, and six have died. DEATHS. Twelve deaths have occurred in the Class, in the following order : — Gary, 1846 ; Crowell, 1847 ; Whitcomb, 1851 ; Hildreth, 1852; Sayles, 1853; Lemmon, 1856; Batchelder, 1858; J. B. Smith, 1859; Hinds, 1862; Stone, 1869; Davis, 1869; Fuller, 1869. 146 THE CLASS FUND. THE first movement for the establishment of a Class Fund was made at an informal meeting of the Class held in Boston on the 22d February, 1853, but the plan finally agreed upon was adopted at a meeting at the Brattle House in Cambridge on Com- mencement Day, July 30, 1853. Its principal provisions are as follows : — PLAN FOR A CLASS FUND. The Class of 1844 being desirous to create a Fund for the purpose of assisting such of their members as may require assist- ance, of uniting themselves more closely, and strengthening their association as a Class with the College, propose to do it in the fol- lowing manner ; viz. : — Each member of the Class may contribute a sum not less than five dollars, and each so contributing shall bind himself to pay annu- ally the sum of three dollars.* Any member of the Class shall, at any future time, become a contributor by paying the sum of fifteen dollars, together with a sum equal to the amount of the annual payments of any one of the contributors from the time of the establishment of the Fund. A committee, consisting of two contributors, shall be chosen annually on Commencement Day, to hold the Fund in trust for the following purposes ; viz. to invest wiiatever money may be paid to them, according to the foregoing provisions, in the safest and most profitable manner, and also all interest which may accrue on the same, till the P^und shall amount to two thousand dollars ; after which they shall dispose of the interest of said Fund as the Class may, at their annual meeting on Commencement Day, direct, and at the succeeding annual meetings shall render an account of their * The annual assessment of three dollars was discontinued after two years. THE CLASS FUND. 147 receipts, expenditures, and investments in a book or books to be kept for the purpose; being required to exercise no more than ordinary care and 2)rudence in the premises. The Fund shall, after the decease of the contributors, be given to Harvard College, the interest only to be appropriated by the President and Fellows thereof, after it has amounted by accu- mulation or otherwise to Ten Tliousand Dollars, to assisting in- digent students, a regard being had to their merits as scholars, and preference being given in all cases to the descendants of any mem- bers of the Class of 1844. At the same meeting L. Saltonstall and R. Codman were ap- pointed Receivers of the Fund until Trustees should be chosen, and were directed to open subscription lists, which was accord- ingly done. Saltonstall and Codman were subsequently chosen Trustees of the Fund, and, by virtue of successive re-elections, have since continued to act in that capacity. On the 1st of July, 1861, the Fund had reached the sum of Two Thousand Dollars, and, in accordance with one of the above cited provisions, "at a meeting of the Class, Commencement Day, 1861, at Stoughton Hall, No. 1, it was voted unanimously that the Trus- tees be authorized to expend so much of the income of the Fund as may be necessary for a collation, annually, and the balance to add to the Fund, or distribute among the famihes of indigent members of the Class." The invested capital of the Fund on the 25th May, 1869, was valued at about Two Thousand Five [lundi'ed Dollars. 148 THE CLASS ALBUM. AT a meeting of the Class at Cambridge on Commencement Day, 1867, a vote was passed directing the Secretary "to procure a photograph of each member of the Class, and to preserve the same in an album." The Secretary having obeyed his instructions, the result thus far is a collection of forty -four portraits as follows : — Baldwin, *Batchelder, Bradford, *Cary, Chauncey, Clarke, Cod- man, Dabney, Dalton, *Davis, Dvvight, Farnsworth, Faulkner, '^'Fuller, Gould, Greeley, Harris ^Hinds, Hunt, Johnson, *Lem- mon, Lord, Morison, G. F. Parkman, F. Parkman, Peabody, Perry, Prescott, Rogers, Saltonstall, Sawyer, *Sayles, Sewall, Slade, F. Smith, *J. B. Smith, Snow, *Stone, Tilton, Treadwell, Walker, Wheatland, E. Wheelwright, Wild. The album can be seen at all meetings of the Class, and at other feim^es on application to the Class Secretary, THE CLASS OF 1844 IN 1869, Fkom the Tkiennial Catalogue. 1844, Georgius- Washington Baker Aaron-Carolus Baldwin, 1853 *Franciscus-Lowell Batcliel- der, Mr., LL.B. 1848 Thomas - S. Blair, Mr., S.P.A.S. Ricardus - Magruder Brad- ford, 1866 Georgius - Merrick Brooks, LL.B, 1847 Carol us - Jacobus Capen, 1846, Mr. *Georgius-Blankern Gary Henricus-Carolus Chauncej, Mr. Jacobus - Gordon Clarke, LL.B. 1846 Robertus Codman, Mr., LL.B. 1846 *Judah Crowell * Carolus-Guilielmus Dabney Johannes-Call Dalton, M.D. 1847, in Coll. Med. et Chirurg. Urb. Nov. Ebor. Physiol, et Anat. Micro- scop. Prof., M.M.S. et A.A.S. *Henricus-Tallraan Davis Edmundus Dwight Amos-Henricus Farnsworth, LL.B. 1846 Georirius Faulkner, M.D. 1847, M.M.S.S. Tappan-Eustis Francis, M.D. 1847, M.M.S.S. *Ricardus-Fredericus Fuller *i869 Beniamin - Apthorp Gould, Mr., Ph. D. Gotting. 1848, A. A. et S.P.A. et S R. Astron. Lond. et Soc. Reg. Scientt. Gott. Soc. Samuel-Sewall Greele Georgius-Silsbee Hale, S.H.S^ Johannes - Adams Harris, 1866 Shattuck Hartwell, Mr., LL.B. 1846, Tutor "^Horatius-NeL-on Hildreth *i852 "^P^benezer-Pierce Hinds *1862 Edvardus-Sherman Hoar Guilielmus-Morris Hunt, 1868, Mr. 1864 Henricus-Augustinus John- son, Mr. 1848, LL.B. 1848 Robertus-Yates Jones "^ Robert us Lemmon nsse Samuel-Parker Lewis Georgius-Homer Lord Cleland-Kinloch Middleton, M.D. Jacobus Morison, Mr. 1864, 150 THE CLASS OF 1844. M.D. Marise-Terrfe 1846, in Univ. Pacific. Med. Princ. et Prax. et Pathol. Prof. Samuel-Bradley Noyes. 1864 Georgius - Franeiscus Park- man, LL.B. 1846 Franciscus Parkman, LL.B. 1846, S.H. et A.A.S. Joseph us Peabody Horatius-Justus Perry Guilielmus - Gardiner Pi-es- cott, LL.B. 1847 Robertas- Possac Iioge7-s,lS67 Leverett Saltonstall, Mr., LL.B. 1847, S.H.S. Fhkdkricus - Adolphcs Sawyp:r, in Congr. Re- rumpub. Feed. Senator *Franciscus-Willard Sayles *i85a Philip[)us-Ho\ves Sears, Mr., Tutor, LL.B. 1849 , Edmundus-Quincy Sewall Daniel-Denison Slade, M.D. 1848, M.M.S.S. Lafayette Smith *Jo>ephus-Brown Smith Carolus - Henricus - Boylston Snow, LL.B. 1846 *Josua-Clapp Stone Warren Tilton, LL.B. 1847 Jacobus-Parker Treadwell Mr. Georgius Walker Stephan us- Goodhue Wheat- land Edvardus Wheelwright, j\Ir. Henricus-Blatchford Wheel- wright, 1845, Mr. 1848 *Carol lis- Adams Whitcomb ■ Edvardus - Augustus Wild, Mr., M.D. JefF. Penn. 1846, M.M.S.S. 61 MEMORIALS OF COLLEGE LIFE. 1. The Class in each Undergraduate Year. 2. Deturs. 3. The Exhibitions. 4. Commencement. 5. College Societies. 6. Class Officers. 7. Senior's Class Song. THE CLASS AS UA'DERGRADUATES. [Reprinted from the College Catalogues. FRESHMEN NAMES. Baldwin, Aaron Charles, Ballard, George Leavitt, Batchelder, Francis Lowell, Beal, John Brooks, Bemis, Isaac Vose, Brooks, George Merrick, Brown, George Washington, Bullard, Henry Bass, Capen, Charles James, Cary, George Blankern, Codman, Eobert, Crowell, Judah, Dalton, John Call, Davis, Henry Tallman, Denton, William Pitt, Dix, William Giles, Emerson, George Samuel, Farns worth, Henry Amos, Faulkner, George, Francis, Tappan Eustis, Gilman, William Henderson, Glazier, Franklin, Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, Greele, Samuel Sewall, Hale, George Silsbee, Harris, John Adams, Hartwell, Josiali Shattuck, 10 840-41. residence. ROOMS. Boston, St. 19 Boston, Mr. Brooks's Saco, Me. D. 2 Scituate, H. 17 Watertoivn, M. 32 Concord, M. 32 Charlestoivn, H. 22 Neiv Orleans, La. Mrs. Dascomb's Boston, H'y7 Boston, Mrs. Gurnev's Dorchester, St. 1 East Dennis, Mrs. Ford's Lowell, D. 2 Boston, Dr. Ware's, Jr. Boston, St. 18 Cambridge, Mrs. Dix's Boston, H'y 18 Groton, Mrs. Mann's Billerica, Mrs. Gardner's Boston, Mrs. Clarke's Boston, Dr. Ware's, Sen Halloicell, Me. H. 3 Boston, H'y 9 Boston, D. 3 Keene, N. H. St. 20 Roxhury, St. 4 Littleton, St. 17 154 THE CLASS OF 1844. Hildreth, Horatio Nelson, Bolton, St. 2 Howes, George, Salem, H. 5 Hunt, William Morris, Boston, Mrs, Moore's Johnson, Henry Augustinus, Fairhaven, H. 14 Jones, Robert Yates, Petersburg, Va. Mr. R. Torry's Leavitt, David, Boston, H. 32 Lewis, Samuel Parker, Peppere/l, H. 3 Lord, George Homer, Boston, Mrs. Gurney's Middleton, Cleland Kinloch, Charleston, S. C. Mrs. Howe's Parkraan, George Francis, Boston, Mr. R. Morse's Parkman, Francis, Boston, H'y9 Peabody, Joseph, Salem, Mr. T. Stearns's Perry, Horatio Justus, Keene, N. H. Mr. T. Stearns's Prescott, William Gardiner, Boston, Miss Carter's Rogers, Richard Dennison, Salem , Mrs. Phipps's Rogers, Robert Possac, Cambridge, H'y 18 Russell, Walter Hiram, West Cambridge, H. 14 Saltonstall, Leverett, Salem, Dr. Wyman's Sawyer, Frederic Adolphus, Bolton, St. 2 Sayles, Francis Willard, Boston, Mrs. Metcalf's Sears, Philip Howes, East Dennis, Mrs. Ford's Sewall, Edmund Quincy, Watertown, N. Y. H. 31 Slade, Daniel Denison, Boston, Mrs. Gurney's Smith, Lafayette, Warvnck, H. 19 Smith, Joseph Brown, Boston, H'y 7 Snow, Charles Henry Boylston, Fitckburg, St. 20 Stone, Joshua Clapp, Boston, M. 12 Tilton, Warren, Boston, St. 3 Treadwell, James Parker, Boston, H. 4 Ward, William Skinner, Marietta, Ohio, Mr. Danforth's Wheatland, Stephen Goodhue, Salem, Mr. T. Stearns's Wheelwright, Edward, Boston, Miss Carter's Wheelwright, Henry Blatchford, Boxlmry, St. 3 Whitcomb, Charles Adams, Hancock, N. H. St. 17 Wild, Edward Augustus, Brookline, St. 4 155 SOPHOMORES. 1841-42. Arey, Charles, Baldwin, Aaron Charles, Ballard, George Leavitt, Batchelder, Francis Lowell, Bemis, Isaac Vose, Brooks, George Merrick, Brown, George Washington, Billiard, Henry Bass, Capen, Charles James, Gary, George Blankern, Clarke, James Gordon, Codman, Robert, Crowell, Judah, Dabney, Charles William, Dalton, John Call, Davis, Henry Tallman, Dix, William Giles, Dwight, Edmund, Farnsworth, Amos Henry, Faulkner, George, Francis, Tappan Eustis, Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, Greele, Samuel Sewall, Hale, George Silsbee, Hamilton, William Lowndes, Harris, John Adams, Hartwell, Josiah Shattuck, Hildreth, Horatio Nelson, Hoar, Edward Sherman, Howes, George, Johnson, Henry Augustinus, Jones, Robert Yates, Lewis, Samuel Parker, RESIDENCE. SoiUh Wellfleet, Boston, Boston, Saco, Me. Watertown, Concord, Charlestown, Neiv Orleans, La. Boston, Boston, Nashua, N. H. Dorchester, East Dennis, Azores, Lowell, Boston, Cambridge, Boston, Groton, Billerica, Boston, Boston, Boston, Keene, N. H. Charleston, S. C. Boxbury, Littleton, Bolton, Concord, Salem, New Bedford, Petersburg, Va. Pepperell, ROOMS. Mrs. Binney's St. 31 Mr. Brooks's H. 30 M. 15 M. 15 H. 22 Mrs. Metcalf s H'y7 H'y22 Mrs. Pepper's Mr. E. P. Tucker's St. 22 Mrs. Metcalf's H. 30 H. 24 Mrs. Dix's Mr. E. P. Tucker'! H. 14 Mrs. Gardner's C. H. 6 St. 32 H. 14 St. 14 Mr. P. O'Connor's C. H.6 St. .30 St. 10 Mrs. Howe's H'y 12 Mrs. Gardner's Mr. R. Torry's C. H. 9 15 THE CLASS OF 1844. Middleton, Cleland Kinloch, Charleston, S. C. Mr. P. O'Connor's Morison, James, Peterhoro', N. H. M. 14 Noyes, Samuel Bradley, Dedham, Mrs. Binney's Parkman, George Francis, Boston, H'y 22 Parkman, Prancis, Boston, Mrs. Ayers's Peabody, Joseph, Salem, Mr. W. Saunders's Perry, Horatio Justus, Keene, N. H. Mr. T. Stearns's Prescott, William Gardiner, Boston, Miss Carter's Rogers, Robert Possac, Cambridge^ M. 8 Rogers, Richard Dennison, Salem, Mrs. Phipps's Saltonstall, Leverett, Salem, Mr. W. Saunders's Sawyer, Frederic Adolphus, Bolton, St. 10 Sayles, Francis Willard, Boston, Mrs. Metcalf 's Sears, Philip Howes, East Dennis, St. 22 Sewall, Edmund Quincy, Watertown, N. Y. H. 31 Slade, Daniel Denisou, Boston, Mr. Sweetman's Smith, Lafayette, Warwick, H. 22 Smith, Joseph Brown, Boston, St. 10 Snow, Charles Henry Boylston, Fitchhurg, St. 14 Tilton, Warren, Boston, " H. 28 Treadwell, James Parker, Ipswich, H. 6 Ward, William Skinner, Marietta, Ohio, Mr. E. P. Tucker's Wheatland, Stephen Goodhue, Salem, Mr. W. Saunders's Wheelwright, Edward, Boston, Miss Carter's Wheelwright, Henry Blatchford, Boston, H 28 Whitcomb, Charles Adams, Hancock, N. H. St. 30 Wild, Edward Augustus, Brookline, St. 32 Frothingham, Edward, Boston, H'y 8 Tower, James Monroe, Waterville, K Y. H'y 13 Walker, George, Cambridge, Dr. Walker's 157 JUNIOR SOPHISTERS. 1842-43. NAMES. RESIDENCE, EOOMS. Ballard, George Leavitt, Boston, Mr. Brooks's Batchelder, Francis Lowell, Saco, Me. St. 5 Bemis, Isaac Vose, Watertown, M. 10 Bradford, Richard Magruder, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Dix's Brooks, George Merrick, Concord, M. 10 Brown, George Washington, Charlestown, D. 7 Bullard, Henry Bass, Neio Orleans, La. Mr. Saunders's Capen, Charles James, Boston, M. 13 Gary, George Blankern, Boston, St. 6 Chauncey, Henry Charles, Middletown, Ct, Mr, Davis's Clarke, James Gordon, Nashua, N. H. St. 11 Codman, Robert, Dorchester, Mr. E. P. Tucker' Crowell, Judah, East Dennis, St. 8 Dabney, Charles William, Fayal, Azores, Mr. Davis's Dalton, John Call, Lowell, St. 5 Davis, Henry Tallman, Boston, H. 24 Dix, William Giles, Cambridge, Mrs. Dix's Dwight, Edmund, Boston, H. 12 Farnsworth, Amos Henry, Groton, H. 1.5 Faulkner, George, Billerica, M. 31 Francis, Tappan Eustis, Boston, C. H. 6 Fuller, Richard Frederick, Cambridge, St. 13 Gould, Benjamin Aprhorp, Boston, M. 22 Greele, Samuel Sewall, Boston, H. 15 Hale, George Silsbee, Keene, N. H. H. 27 Harris, John Adams, Roxbury, St. 28 Hartwell, Josiah Shattuck, Littleton, St. 29 Hildreth, Horatio Nelson, Boston, St. 10 Hoar, Edward Sherman, ( oncord. M. 28 Hunt, William Morris, Boston, Mrs. Dix's Johnson. Henry Augustinus, New Bedford, St. 31 Jones, Robert Yates, Petprsburg, Va, IVIr. R. Torry's Leavitt, David, Boston, Mr-J. Schutte's 158 THE CLASS OF 1844. Lemmon, Robert, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Dix's Lewis, Samuel Parker, Pepperell, M. 7 Lord, George Homer, Boston, H. 2.5 Middleton, Cleland Kinloch, Charleston, S. C. Mr. R. Torry's Morison, James, Peterborough, N. H. M. 12 Noyes, Samuel Bradley, Dedham, D. 13 Parkman, George Francis, Boston, H. 22 Parkman, Francis, Boston, M. 24 Peabody, Joseph, Salem, Mr. W. Saunders's Perry, Horatio Justus, Keene, N. H. M. 26 Prescott, William Gardiner, Boston, H. 11 Saltonstall, Leverett, Salem, Mr. W. Saunders's Sawyer, Frederic Adolphus, Bolton, H. 29 Sayles, Francis Willard. Boston, Mr. Holden's Sears, Philip Howes, East Dennis, St. 8 Sewall, Edmund Quincy, Walertown, N. Y. St. 1.5 Slade, Daniel Dcnison, Boston, H. 26 Smith, Lafayette, Warwick, H. 29 Smith, Joseph Brown, Boston, St. 10 Snow, Charles Henry Boylston, F^itchburg, M. 11 Stone, Joshua Clapp, Boston, H. 28 Tilton, Warren, Boston, H. 28 Treadwell, James Parker, Ipswich, H. 6 Walker, George, Cambridge, H. 17 Ward, William Skinner, Marietta, Ohio, Mr. E. P. Tucker's Wheatland, Stephen Goodhue, Salem, Mr. W. Saunders's Wheelwright, Edward, Boston, Mrs. Dix's Whitcomb, Charles Adams, Hancock, N. H. St. 29 Wild, Edward Augustus, Brookline, St. 28 Denton, William Pitt, Boston, St. 18 159 SENIOR SOPHISTEES. 1843-44. NAMES. RESIDENCE. ROOMS. Bnkcr, George Washington, Milicood, Pa. Brattle House Ballard, George Leavitr, Bofiton, H. 1.5 Batcholder, Francis Lowell, Saco, Me. Mr, Batchelder's Bemis, Isaac Vose, Watertoivn, H'y 6 Blair, Thomas S. Pittshiu-fjh, Penn. Mrs. Howe's Brooks, George Merrick, Concord, H'y 6 Capen, Charles James, Boxton, H'y 17 Gary, George Blankern, Boston, M.' 13 (^hauncey, Henry Chai'les, yriddle.town, Ct. Mr. Davis's Clarke, James Gordon, Nashua, N. H. St. 11 Codman, Robert, Dorchester, Mr. E. P. Tucker Crowell, Judah, Eaat Dennis, St. 8. Dabney, Cliarles William, Faijnl, Azores, Mr. Davis's Dalton, John Call, Lowed, Mr. Williams's Davis, Henry Tallman, Boston, H. 24 Dwiglit, Edmund, Boston, H. 12 Farnsworth, Amos Henry, Grofon, H'y 2.3 Faulkner, George, Billi-rica, ]\[. 31 Francis, Tappan Eustis, Boston, Mr. Danforth's Fuller, Richard Frederick, Cambridge, St. 14 Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, Boston, M. 2.5 Greele, Samuel Sewall, Boston, H'y 22 Hale, Georo-e Silsbee, Keenp, N. II. M. 9 Hart^yell, Josiah Shattuck, Littleton, H'y 24 Hildreth, Horatio Xelson, Bo'ton, H'y 2 Hinds, Ebenezer Pierce, Pdtston, Me. C. H. 12 Hoar, Edward Sherman, Concord, H'y 13 Hunt, William Morri-:, Boston, Mr. Davis's Johnson, Henry Augustinus, Ntrio Bedford, St. 31 Jones, Robert Yates, Petersburg, Va H'y 12 Lemmon, Robert, Baltimore, Md. i\Irs. Srhutte's Lewis, Samuel Parker, Peppered, H'y 22 Lord, George Homer, Boston, H. 25 160 THE CLASS OF 1844. Middleton, Cleland Kinloch, Morison, James, Parkman, George Francis, Parkman, Francis, Peabody, Joseph, Perry, Horatio Justus, Prescott, "William Gardiner, Saltonstall, Leverett, Sawyer, Frederic Adolphus, Sayles, Francis Willard, Sears, Philip Howes, Sewall, Edmund Quincy, Slade, Daniel Denison, Smith, Lafayette, Smith, Joseph Brown, Snow, Charles Henry Boylston, Stone, Joshua Clapp, Til ton, Warren, Walker, George, Wheatland, Stephen Goodhue, Wheelwright, Edward, Whitcomb, Charles Adams, Wild, Edward Augustus, Charleston, S. C. H'y 12 Peterborough, N. H. H'y 17 Boston, H. 22 Boston, M.21 Salem, Mr. Saunders' Keene, N. H. St. 25 Boston, H. 11 Salem, H'y 14 Bolton, H. 29 Boston, M. 7 East Dennis, St. 8 Watertown, N. Y. H'y 19 Boston, H. 26 Warwick, H. 29 Boston, H'y 2 Fitchhurg, M. 11 Boston, H'y 21 Boston, H'y 21 Cambridge, St. 23 Salem, H'y 14 Boston, Mr. Saunders' Hancock, N. H. H'y 24 BrookUne, H'y 19 161 DETURS The following members Sophomore year : — Bemis. Gary. Crowell. Dabney. Dix. Farns worth. Faulkner. Hale. Harris. Hartwell. Hildreth. Howes. Johnson. Jones. Parkman 1. Parkman 2. Peabody. of the Class received Deturs in the Perry. Prescott. R. D. Rogers. Saltonstall. Sawyer. Sayles. Sears. Sewall. Slade. J. B. Smith. Snow. Treadwell. Wheatland. E. Wheelwright. H. B. Wheelwright. Whitcomb. Wild. The above names are copied from the original list given to the President's Freshman, in the handwriting of President Quincy, and signed by him, — now in the possession of the Class Secretary. 162 THE EXHIBITIONS. (Only the parts assigned to members of the Class of 1844 are here given ; tiie others corresponding to the missing numbers were spoken by members of other classes.) ORDEE OF PERFORMANCES FOR EXHIBITION, Wednesday, July 13, 1842. 2. An English Version. " The True Man of Letters." L'Abbe Thomas. Discours a I'Academie. GEORGE SILSBEE HALE, Keene, N. H. 3. A Latin Dialogue. Extract from Moliere's " Le Mariage Force." Scene VI. JOSEPH PEABODY, Salem. WARREN TILTON, Boston. 5. A Greek Dialogue. Extract from Moliere's " Les Fourberies de Scapin." JOSIAH SHATTUCK HARTWELL, Littleton HENRY AUGUSTINUS JOHNSON, New Bedford. 7. A Latin Version. Extract from " Burke's Vindication of Nat- ural Society." GEORGE HOWES, Salem. 10. An English Version. " S[)eech of an Insurgent Plebeian." Machiavelli, Hist. Florence, L. III. ERANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. 12. A Greek Version. "Address of Brutus to the Romans," Altieri. Brutus, Act I., Scene 2. GEORGE FRANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. 163 ORDER OF PERFORMANCES FOR EXHIBITION, Tuesday, October 18, 1842. 2. An Euglish Version. Extract from Cicero's Oration " Pro Sext. Roscio Amerino." WILLIAM GILES DIX, Cambridge. 4. A Greek Version. " Extract from Daniel Webster's Oration at Plymouth." EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, Boston. 6. A Latin Dialogue. Extract from Moliere's " Scene du Deni- aise." JOHN CALL DALTON, Loicell HORATIO NELSON HILDRETH, Bolton. 10. An English Version. " Speech of Henry, of Brederode, to the Conspirators." Bentivoglio. Delia Guerra di Fiandra. P. I., B. II. GEORGE BLANKERN GARY, Boston. 1 2. A Greek Dialoojue. Extract from Moliere's " Le Mariaore Force." Act I. FREDERIC ADOLPHUS SAWYER, Bolton. EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD, BrooUine. 14. A Latin Version. " Johannis Q. Adams Orationis Pars." PHILIP HOWES SEARS, Dennis. 164 OKDER OF PERFOEMANCES FOR EXHIBITION, Tuesday, May 2, 1843. 2. An English Version. Extract from the Eighth Satire of Boileau. HORATIO JUSTUS PERRY, Keene, N. H, 3. A Latin Dialogue. Extract from Moliere's " Les Fourberies de Scapin." LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, Salem. CHARLES HENRY BOYLSTON SNOW, Fitchhurg. 5. A Latin Ver.-ion. Extract from Macaulay's '' Lays of Ancient Rome." CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB, Hancock, N. H. 8. An P^nglish Version. Extract from the Eulogy upon Racine. By M. de Laharpe. EDMUND D WIGHT, Jk., Boston. 10. A Greek Version. Extract from Edward Everett's Oration at Bloody Brook. " 'H tov ^Aixepimvov ^CK'nTTrov Ivxi" CHARLES WILLIAM DABNEY, Jb., Fayal, Azores. 11. A Greek Version. RICHARD FREDERICK FULLER, Cambridge. 14. A Greek Version, Extract from Boeckh. ^^UepUXrjs^AOrivaios.'" BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, Boston. 165 ORDEE OF PEEFORMANCES FOR EXHIBITION, Wednesday, July 12, 1843. 1. A Latin Oration. " De Ingenio Americano." PHILIP HOWES SEARS, Dennis. 3. A Disquisition. " The Gipsies." GEORGE HOMER LORD, Boston. 5. A Disquisition. " National Monuments." EDMUXD QUINCY SEWALL, Watertown, N. Y. 7. A Disquisition. " Modern Greece." JAMES GORDON CLARKE, Nashua, N. H. 8. A Greek Oration. " 'o rav *A6r)vai(ov Arjfios." EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD, Brookline. 10. A Dissertation. "The Antiquary an Imaginative Man." GEORGE BLANKERN GARY, Boston. 13. A Dissertation. " Is a Man in Advance of the Age fitted for his Age?" PRANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. 14. An English Oration. " Political Intolerance." JOSIAH SHATTUCK HARTWELL, Littleton. 166 ORDER OF PERFORMANCES ; FOR EXHIBITION, Tuesday, October 17, 1843. 1. A Latin Oration. " Quern Locum Americani inter Gentes teneant." HENRY AUGUSTINUS JOHNSON, Fairhaven. 4. A Disquisition. " Peculiarities of American Scenery." EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, Boston. 6. A Poem. " The Grecian Fleet at Aulis." CHARLES H. B. SNOW, Fitchburg. 7. A Dissertation. " The Norman Conquest." GEORGE SILSBEE HALE, Keene, N. H. 9. A Disquisition. " Demosthenes's Vindication of his Political Course." ROBERT CODMAN, Dorchester. 11. A Disquisition. "The British Association for the Advance- ment of Science." BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, Boston. 12. A Disquisition. " Shakspeare's Roman Characters." WARREN TILTON, Boston. 14. A Dissertation. "English Estimates of German Philosophy." CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB, Hancock, N. H. 15. An English Oration. " Washino;ton Allston." GEORGE FRANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. 167 - ORDER OF PERFORMANCES FOR EXHIBITION, Tuesday, May 7, 1844. 1 . A Latin Oration. " De Anglia Nova." HORA'JIO NELSON HILDRETH, Bolton. 4. A Disquisition. Milton's '' Comus." WILLIAM GARDINER PRESCOTT, Boston. 6. A Disquisition. "- Tlie Sentiment of Veneration." LEVEHETT SALTONSTALL, Salem. 7. A Greek Oration. " ArjfxoaSeurjs 'Adrjva7osJ' RICHARD FREDERICK FULLER, Cambridge. 8. A Disquisition. " Ancient Ti-ees in Towns." EDMUND DWIGHT, Boston. 10. A Disquisition. " Plea of Insanity in Courts of Justice." FREDERIC ADOLPHUS SAWYER, Bolton. 12. A Disquisition. "The Importance of Observatories to the Science of a Country." EBENEZER PIERCE HINDS, Pittston, Me. 13. A Dissertation. " Marie Antoinette." CHARLES WILLIAM DABNEY, Fayal, Azores. 15. A Dissertation. " Party Spirit, as affecting the Credibility of Modern History." JOHN CALL D ALTON, Lowell. 1 6. A Dissertation. " The Character of Prometheus, as drawn by ^schylns." HENRY CHARLES CHAUNCEY, New York, N. Y. 17. An English Oration. "The Conquest of Mexico." JOSEPH PEABODY, Salem. COMMENCEMENT 11 Illustrissimo GEORGIO N. BEIGGS, Armigero, GUBERNATORI; Honoratissimo JQHANNI REED, Armigero, VICE- G UBERNA TORI; CONSILIAEIIS ET SENATORIBUS Reipublicse Massachusettensis ; C^TERISQUE UNIVERSITATIS HARVARDIAN^ CURATORIBUS Honorandis atque Reverendis ; Honorando JQSIJ^ QUINCY, Armigero, LL. D, PRMSIDI; Toti S E N A T U I Academieo ; Aliisque omnibus, qui in Rebus Universitatis administrandis versantur ; VENERANDIS ECCLESIARUM PASSIM PASTORIBUS; Universis denique, ubicunque terrarum, Humanitatis Cultoribus, Reique Publicse nostree literarisd Fautoribus ; 172 THE CLASS OF 1844. JUVENES IN ARTIBUS INITIATI, Georgius- Washington Baker Franciscus-Lowell Batchelder Thomas Blair Georgius-Merrick Brooks Carohis-Jacobus Capen Georgius-Blankern Gary Henricus-Carolus Chauncey Jacobus-Gordon Clarke Robertus Codman Judah Crowell Carolus-Gulielmus Dabney Johannes-Call Dalton Henricus-Tallman Davis Edmundus Dwight Amos-Henricus Farnsworth Georgius Faulkner Tappan-Eustis Francis RIcardus-Fredericus Fuller Benjamin- Apthorp Gould Samuel-Sewall Greele Georgius- Silsbee Hale Josias-Shattuck Hartwell Horatius-Nelson Hildreth Ebenezer-Pierce Hinds Edvardus-Sherman Hoar Henricus-Augustinus Johnson Eobertus-Yates Jones Robertus Lemmon Samuel-Parker Lewis Georgius-Homer Lord Cleland-Kinloch Middleton Jacobus Morison Georgius-Franciscus Parkman Franciscus Parkman Josephus Peabody Horatius-Justus Perry Gulielmus-Gardiner Prescott Leverett Saltonstall Frederlcus-Adolphus Sawyer Franciscus-Willard Sayles Philip-Howes Sears Edmundus-Quincy Sewall Daniel-Denison Slade Lafayette Smith Josephus-Brown Smith Carolus-Henricus-Boylston Snow Joshua- Clapp Stone Warren Tilton Georgius Walker Stephanus-Goodhue Wheatland Edvardus Wheelwright Henricus-Blatchford Wheelwright Carolus- Adams Whitcomb Edvardus- Augustus Wild HASGE EXERCITATIONES humillime dedicant. ORDER OF EXERCISES FOR COMMENCEMENT, XXVIir AUGUST, MDCCCXLIV. Exercises of Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. 1. A Salutatory Oration in Latin. Mathematics, Latin, Philosophy. Rhetoric, History. CHARLES ADAMS WHITCOMB, Hancock, N. H. 2. A Disquisition. " The present Estimation of our Puritan Fathers." Latin. EDMUND QUINCY SEWALL, Watertoivn, N. Y. 3. A Disquisition. " Homer, as a Painter of Manners." Greek. AMOS HENRY FARNSWORTH, Groton. 4. A Disquisition. " The Influence of the Legal Profession in the United States." Political Economy. Philosophv. THOMAS S. BLAIR, Pittsburgh, Penn. lj^= A Part at Commencement is assigned to every Senior, who, for general scholarship, is placed in the first half of his class, or who has attained a certain rank in any Department of Study. The names of the Departments, in which a student has attained the required rank, are inserted in the Order of Performances with his name. High distinction in any Dejjartment is indicated by Italics. 174 THE CLASS OF 1844. 5. A Disquisition. " Respect for Custom and Habit in Social Changes." Physics. Rhetoric, History. HORATIO JUSTUS PERRY, Keene, N. H. MUSIC. 6. An English Oration. " Leaving College " Greek, History. Latin, Political Economy. GEORGE ERANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. 7. A Disquisition. " The Influence of Political Economy upon Modern Legislation." Political Economy. Rhetoric, Philosophy. GEORGE FAULKNER, Billerica. 8. A Disquisition. " Clarendon as a Statesman." Greek. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, Salem. 9. A Dissertation. " The Dependence of Science on the Me- chanical Arts." Mathematics, Greek. EBENEZER PIERCE HINDS, Pittston, Me. 10. A Disquisition. " Al fieri." Political Economy. Greek, Latin, Philosophy. WILLIAM GARDINER PRESCOTT, Boston. MUSIC. 1 1 . An English Oration. " The Queen and the Philosopher." Greeic, Latin, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Political Economy. GEORGE SILSBEE HALE, Keene, N. H. 12. A Disquisition. " The Magnetic Telegraph." Political Economy. Mathematics, Philosophy. LAFAYETTE SMITH, Warwick. 13. A Greek Oration. " Ilept 'HpoSoVov rov laTopiKov." (jrT€€rC LcitlTl HENRY CHARLES CHAUNCEY, Middletoiun, Conn. ORDER OF EXERCISES FOR COMMENCEMENT. 175 14. A Disquisition. " Romance in America." Historij. Rhetoric. FRANCIS PARKMAN, Boston. lo. A Dissertation. "The Characters of the Inhabitants of the Mountainous Districts of Europe." Latin. CHARLES WILLIAM DABNEY, Fayal, Azores. MUSIC. 1 6. An English Oration. " The true Man of Action." Mathematics, Greek, Latin. Philosophy. EDWARD AUGUSTUS WILD, BrooUine. 17. A Disquisition. " Milton's Areopagitica." EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, Boston. 18. A Poem. " Little Nell, — Her last Night in London, — Her Flight,— Her Death." Greek. Latin. WARREN TILTON, Boston. 19. A Latin Oration. " De Utilitate et Pretio Literarum Anti- quarum Studii." Greek, Political Economy. Latin. ROBERT CODMAN, Dorchester. 20. A Disquisition. " Vathek and its Author." Rhetoi'ic. GEORGE BLANKERN GARY, Boston. MUSIC. 21. An English Oration. " The Destiny of Literature." Mathematics, Latin, Physics, Political Economy. Rhetoric, Philosophy, History. JOSEPH PEABODY, Salem. 22. A Disquisition. " The Infinite in Mathematics." Mathematics, Physics. BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, Boston. 23. A Dissertation. " An Ancient and a Modern Battle-field." History. Rhetoric. FREDERICK ADOLPHUS SAWYEH, Bolton. 176 THE CLASS OF 1844. 24. A Disquisition. " Harvest Celebrations in different Coun- tries." Latin, Political Economy. Rhetoric, Philosophy. EDMUND DWIGHT, Boston. 25. A Dissertation. " The Agamemnon of ^schylus." Greek, Latin. History. HORATIO NELSON HILDRETH, Bolton. MUSIC. 26. An English Oration. " The Mission of America." Mathematics, Greek, Latin, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Political Economy. Historr. PHILIP HOWES SEARS, East Dennis. 27. A Dissertation. " Quinctilian's Views of Education." Latin, Physics, Political Economy. Rhetoric. JOHN CALL DALTON, Lowell. 28. An English Oration. " The Physical Sciences." Greek, Latin, Philosophy, Physics, Political Economy. Rhetoric. RICHARD FREDERICK FULLER, Cambridge. 29. A Dissertation. " The Moors in Spain." Greek, Latin. Philosophy. HENRY AUGUSTINUS JOHNSON, Neiv Bedford. MUSIC. 30. An English Oration. " The Political Fortunes and Destinies of the Anglo-Saxon Race." Greek, Latin, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Political Economy, History. JOSIAH SHATTUCK HARTWELL, Littleton. Habita in Comitiis Universitatis CANTABRIGI^, MASSACHUSETTENSIS, Die AUGUSTI XXVIII, Anno Salutis M DCCC XLIV, Rerumque Publicarum Fcederatarum AMERICyE Summ.*; Potestatis LXIX. CANTABRIGI.^ : TYPIS METCALF ET SOCIORUM ACADEMI.E TYPOGRAPHOKUM. 177 COLLEGE SOCIETIES. THE INSTITUTE OE 1770. Aaron Charles Baldwin. ^P'rancis Lowell Batchelder. .John Brooks Beal. Richard Magruder Bradford. Charles James Capen. * George Blankern Cary, Pres. Robert Codman. .John Call Dalton. "* Henry Tallman Davis. Amos Henry Farns worth. George Faulkner. Richard Frederic Fuller. Samuel Sewall Greeley. George Silsbee Hale, Sec. Shattuck Hartwell, Pres. ^Horatio Nelson Hildreth, * George Howes. Henry Augustin Johnson. "^Robert Lemraon. Samuel Parker Lewis. George Homer Lord. James Morison. Francis Parkman, Vice-Pres. Joseph Peabody, Sec. Horatio Justus Perry. Robert Po